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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-27
Nothing to Offer
But Selfish Self!
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

can see you every day in liv-
ing color?
DEAR ABBY: Please tell
that little woman who is upset
because her husband does the
disappearing act just before
dinner that it is a masculine
weakness. l am So years old
and have had two husbands,
one son, two brothers and one
father, and every last one Of
them had to be tracked down
for dinner. The women fused,
of course, and then capitulat-
ed. So let him eat his dinner
cold and 60 on loving him.
The love Of a good man ID
worth more than a hot dinner.
EXPERIENCED"
=
What's on your mind? For
q personal reply, send q self
addressed, stamped envelope
to Abby in care OF The Epe-
ming Star.
For Abby'S booklet, Hon
to Haze a Louely Wedding"
send SOC to Abby, Boz 1865,
Beverly Hills, Calf.
tMcNaught Syndicate, mc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-27
DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: l am "A, a
bachelor, pretty good-looking,
healthy, and in good shape.
I've worked hard all my life
and have nothing to show for
it but a furnished apartment
and a car. I've been in &C.
counting for the past II years,
and should be making a lot
more than l am. What is 500
a week nowadays? l haven't
had a vacation in years. I'm
clean-cut, honest and respec-
table. Abby, l would marry
any woman with plenty of
money in spite Of her age. her
face or her figure. And I'd
give her all the love and at
tention she wanted. Believe
me, l am stating a fact. If
you know Of anyone, please
let me know. We could start
off with a trip to Europe to
get acquainted. Don't print my
name, but keep it on file.
NOTHING UP SLEEVE
II I run into a woman who
wants to buy a man, I'll let
you know. You have nothing
up your sleeve-but your price
tag.
DEAR ABBY: My husband
refuses to carry a picture of
me In his billfold, and here is
why: About three years after
we were married he was still
carrying pictures in his bill
fold of girls he had met in the
service. After tellin G him
about a hundred times that l
wished he would take them
out, I took them out and tore
them up. To this day he has
never carried my picture, and
it's been II years. l had pic
lures of our seven children
made and had to beg him to
carry them. He only did it to
keep me quiet. l gave him
one more (myself) to carry,
but he said it would be too
bulky" and he wouldn't car
ry it. Am l unreasonable to
nag him about this?
HURT
A wife is unreasonable to
mag" her husband about any
thing. What does he need a
picture Of you for when he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-27
THE LAW ON SIR
QUITS SANDHURST

PARIS (NANA).-A voice
that once struck terror into
the hearts Of gentlemen ca
diets at Sandhurst, the Brit
list counterpart Of West
Point, will be heard no more
in the barrack square. For
after 80 years as the guards
regimental sergeant-major,
John Lord has withdrawn to
civilian life.
He was the man who re-
ceived the young Duke Of
Kent as a raw nervous ca
Diet and told him: 81 shall
call you Sir and you will
call me Sir The difference
is that you will mean it,"
Apache drum beat., 1963-08-01
&yk,
Girl Completes
Nurses Truining

I Joann Bulls, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Bulls of Bylas,
will be coming home August 20,
1868. She has completed prac-
tical nurse training at the In
dian School of, Practical Nursing
in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
She has already received job
at the hospital in Whiteriver,
Arizona, where she will be re-
porting September 16.
Apache drum beat., 1963-08-01

Youngsters will be interest
ed to know that Don Jackson
wants to buy scorpions. He
will pay a nickle for large
scorpions and six cents for
every small scorpion. His
address is 1st Ave. Country
Club Drive, Box 458, Clay
pool, Arizona.
Apache drum beat., 1963-08-01

Did you know that the Tribal
Council has appropriated
$4,000 from the Tribal farn
income, to be used to help with
the education of a student in
terested in studying agricuI-
ture?
Apache drum beat., 1963-08-01
Modern Inventor
Uses Rooster

Joe Bulls Of Bylas thinks
that someone should bring the
space age to the hard-labor of
acorn picking. Thinking about
the labor involved in picking
up acorns from the ground, one
by one, Joe made a modern in
vention to tighten the work.
At home, he has three roost-
erS who are too old. They aren't
good to eat or anything, so Joe
started to train them to pick up
acorns. When they had got on to
the idea, he took them to a
veterinary in Globe. There, the
veterinary cut open the craws
and put zippers in.
The other day, Joe claims,
he took his automatic roosters
to Ft. Grant, and they picked
him three gunny sacks full of
acornS, 100 pounds each. When
they fill up inside, he justs un-
zips them and empties the
acorns in the sack. Of course,
the roosters get kind of mad at
him, Joe says, because every
time the rooster is hungry all
over again.
Joe believes his invention will
start a whole new trend to take
away the labor of acorn picking
in keeping with the space
age in which we now live.
The new maid was nervous,
and when she was told to bring
her mistress glass of milk she
came in with the glass tightly
clutched in her hands.
Jane" fumed the lady of the
house, don't ever do that again.
Always bring it in on a tray"
The next evening, Jane ap-
peared with an anxious look on
her face and tray full of milk
in her hands.
Excuse me, ma'am," she said,
"Shall i bring a spoon or will
you just lick it up?"
Husband = "Hurry, dear,
Wen be late for the theatre"
Wife - 'T'm trying my re-
ducing machine, and I'll be
ready in a hundred shakes"
Apache drum beat., 1963-08-01
Managers Hired
For ByIas Shop

The Apache Arts and Crafts
Association has announced that
two part-time managers for
their Bylas shop have been
hired. Their hours are from
$3.50 to 1890 am. every week
day, six days per week. They
are Sylvia Rustin and Geneva
Moline. Volunteers will keep
the shop open after 1890 am.
as usual.
A man was studying the menu
as the waiter came to take his
order.
Diner asked, "Have you frog
legs?" (meaning to eat).
Waiter answered, mo sir, l
believe it's my rheumatism that
makes me walk that way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Cleaner Anocostio

The filthy, smelly AnacoStia River
still has long way to go before it can
be called really clean" It is consoling
to know, however, that the major and
most difficult cause of constant pollu-
ton finally has been overcome. Until
few weeks ago, inadequate sewer lines
through the District were spilling 4 mil
lion gallons of raw sewage from Mary
land into the AnacoStia euery day. Now,
with the completion of the last link of
a giant interceptor line to the District
treatment plant, that atrocious Situa-
ton finally has been corrected. What
remains to be done is to expedite the
long range Improvements to the Dis
trict'S own system which are needed
to prevent overflowS of sewage in times
OF heavy rain. Only then will the recrea-
tional and esthetic potentialS of much
Of the AnacoStia, which have been
blighted for so long, come fully into
their own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Student Demonstrators

Colgate Darden, former president Of
the University of Virginia, was right, we
think, in wanting assurances that col
ored school children in Prince Edward
County would not participate in civil
rights demonstrations. He didn't get
them, but it is nonetheleSs good thing
that he is staying on as head Of the
board of trustees for the free and nom
segregated private school system which
is to be established this fall in the
county.
Mr.. Darden is remaining reluctantly
because he believes picketing by the
children would be disruptive educa-
tional influence. Doubtless it would be,
and one might think that the colored
children, having been without schools
for four years, would be too busy with
their books to spend time marching
through the streets.
Representatives Of the NAACP in
sisted, however, that the students must
be free to demonstrate as matter of
principle. Just what principle applies
to the use of school children in these
demonstrations is far from clear to us.
But the chances are that there will be
little student picketing in Prince Ed
ward, as long as the practice Is not
forbidden. 1t will be shame II the con-
trary proves to be the case, with the
result that the educational opportunity
which finally seems to be at hand should
be impaired If not destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Change for the Better

When the United Nations General
Assembly convenes next month, midas
delegation will not be controlled-as it
has been for the past decade-by the
peacock-like v. K. KhriShna Menon.
Instead, 1t will be headed by Mrs Vijaya
LakShmi Pandit, Prime Minister Nehru'S
sister.
This is change very much for the
better. Mrs. Pandit, who served for sew
eral years as her country's ambassador
to the United States, and who was
elected President of the General As
sembly for the 1858 session, is in effect
undertaking job she has already held
at the highest level Her qualifications
for it are unimpeachable, and there can
be no question that her presence and
personality in the U. NJ, despite those
who have some reservations about her,
will be a vast improvement over Mr..
Menon'S.
Mr.. Menon, Of course, although he
has been Mr.. Nehru'S closest friend, has
fallen long way from grace. It seems
only yesterday that he was arrogantly
Strutting and poSturing around the U. N.
as "neutraliSt" inSufferably anti
American and proc Communist But
then, all Of sudden, Red China, which
he had persiStently praised in the most
extravagant terms, just as he had
praised the Kremlin, violently turned
against India. And so the roof fell in
on him among his own countrymen.
Thus, as Defense Minister, Mr..
Menon was found to have been gravely
inept, and he was forced to resign from
the Nehru government. His custer from
the U. N. follows in logical sequence.
Good radiance to him. Mrs. Pandit is
equipped to operate with much more
charm and common sense. We wish her
well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
The ArIondriu Flood

Seventy-five thousand gallons OF
water per second roaring through a
creek bed accustomed to an average Of
100 gallons can be an awesome and
frightening spectacle. It also can be
dangerous and destructive as the citi-
zens of the Arlandria section Of Alex
andria now know all too we'll
A flood of that dimension, the
citizens are told, is phenomenon likely
to occur once in 100 years. But that
is small consolation to one whose bust
ness or home is submerged in damage
and debt. OF too recent memory is the
flood of 10 years ago which rolled in
at only 10000 gallons a second yet
reached a depth only two feet below the
recent crest.
Everyone thought that was the
worst that could happen. Yet the dam
age was trivial compared with this
weeks experience, an experience which
has necessitated speedy loan assistance
by the Small Business Administration.
Looking ahead, the Arlandrians and
others in the flood belt need more than
temporary relief. Since 1858, much has
been done in Misunderstanding, and
further anti-flooding measures were
being planned when the torrent struck.
Now it is more imperative than ever to
see the program through.
A meeting Tuesday will enlist the
cooperation Of Federal, State, county
and municipal Governments in a $780,
900 project to widen the bridge on
Route near Glebe road. At the same
meeting the Richmond, Fredericksburg
g. Potomac Railroad will be asked to
make an expensive but valuable con-
tribution by agreeing to widen the
bridge in the Potomac Yards.
No one is claiming that opening this
bottleneck would guarantee complete
security against "100-year flood" but
it would reduce the impact Of many
flood threats. The time to get the Job
done is now while the water marks are
still high on the walls and the meaning
Of flood disaster is real and personal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23

tries do, except perhaps for
their trade associations.
When the piece gets around
to saying that President Ken
nedy and Edward r. Murrow
would like to see the Govern
ment hire these volunteers,
1t sounds like fact. But even
that doesn't mean much be-
cause the piece adds that
62% Of them don't even
want jobs; they want to go
back to school.
About the kindest thing
that can be said for this over
rated boondoggle is that it
doesn't do too much harm
and gets lots of fuzzy-minded
do-gooders out of the coun-
try. I keep remembering
what one cabinet officer Of q
foreign country told me. I'VE
don't mind having them
here" he said. 1T makes the
K enn dys happy and it
teaches some young Ameri-
cans something about our
country, at no cost to u.s."
Peter Vischer
Port, Tohaccn Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23

lapse of local resistance to
armed communism would be
involved.
Compromised, at the very r.
least, would be the strategy
itself. 1t would be o heart y
breaking backward step Of 3
the most somber implications Z,
in a part Of the globe where
Communist China Is becom- n
ing increasingly militant. &
n
Another Danger NJ
Why in all these circun- O
stances was it thought nee 7
essary for this Government 8
to go so far in berating MIR. u
Diem? Careful inquiry among
officials here suggests that
in the end our decision was 8
based upon intelligence re- E.
ports that his "anti-Bud- h
dhism" was becoming ruin Q
ously harmful to Western in I
terests elsewhere in Asia and 6
most Of all in Thailand, :.
which happens to be the Q
nearest thing to q major ally Q
we have in that area OF the I
world.
If we stayed silent, we G
risked losing the That's. II we o.
denounced Mr.. Diem-as now y
we have done-we risked I,
helping to topple the only !
man in sight in South Wet
Nam with the known capacity Z
to continue effective resist y
ance to the Communists. n
These are the two stones be-
tween which we are caught. :
How Western interests can
emerge intact from them, no i
man can know at this point. 2
Thus, the administration
from top to bottom is con- =
ferring and consulting with
an urgency and gravity not 8
seen since the days Of the o
Cuban crisis of last fall. And >
now, as then, both political
parties are giving a display =
of bipartisanship. The I'M =
enviable job Of representing !.
American interests on the q
spot in South Wet Nam has
gone to u Republican who inn
1860 was on the presidential :
ticket that challenged John ]
F. Kennedy - Ambassador :
Henry Cabot Lodge.
What Mr.. Lodge reports
from South Wet Nam will go
far toward shaping future
American policy. His very
presence there, moreover, will
necessarily mute Republican,
criticism. It has become now
not a Democratic problem or
a Republican problem but an
all-American problem.
@ 1868
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Science and the House

The Federal Government now is
spending in the neighborhood of $14
billion year on scientific research and
development. The outlay is made chiefly
through contracts or grants worked out
with private industry and universities.
It is so tremendous, and covers such a
multitude of highly abStruse and highly
practical projects, that it can hardly
fail to have elements of waste and
duplication in it.
1t is for this reason that the House
Rules Committee, under Chairman
Smith Of Virginia, has been seriously
considering the idea Of conducting a
full-dress investigation of the whole
matter and setting up special watch
dog group to keep the entire field under
constant surveillance. Along with several
Of his similarly conservative colleagues,
Mr.. Smith takes dim view of financing
studies of things like the biology of
bumblebees." And he suspects that the
country would be better off If Congress
took over as a sort Of policeman, or a
wise parent, ruling against expenditures
on this or that research project.
In this instance, however, the con-
servatives are on no sounder ground
than the liberals who would like to
organize a Joint committee to ride herd
Oh the Central Intelligence Agency-an
arrangement that would almost certain
~, and perhaps fatally, inhibit some Of
the GAS most important super-secret
operations. Anyhow, as far as research
and development are concerned,
watchdog group-one imbued with the
idea that 1t is silly to study such things
as the secrets of umblebees-would
Hardly be conducive to the gathering of
new knowledge and the further progress
Of the human mind.
We agree with some other chair
men in the House who are against
creating watchdog group They favor,
instead, an expansion of the STATS
staffs that could keep an efficient check
on all scientific activities-of key COM
n1ittees (Atomic, Armed Services, etc.
that have been long active and are
highly knowledgeable in this business.
The study of bumblebees may prove
to be important in terms Of human
health. A watchdog group might veto
It. A watchdog group might also have
vetoed Albert Einstein's supremely alb
Stract and incomprehensible studies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Time Runs Out

Unless there is some wholly unex-
pected reprieve, reluctant and tim
orous Congress has been left with no
choice except to pass legislation which
will protect this country from rail-
road strike at 1901 am. on Thursday.
If ever there was one, this is
wholly unnecessary criSiS-brought on
by the truly remarkable wrongheaded-
ness Of the rail unions There have been
repeated opportunities to settle this dis
pute by submitting the issues to volun-
tary but binding arbitration. Just as
regularly, the railroads agreed and the
unions refused. AS recently as Wednes-
day night there still was some, though
not much, hope Of settlement without
legislation. Labor Secretary Writ made
an eleventh-hour proposal for arbitra-
ton. The railroads accepted unreserv-
edly. The unions also accepted-but so
hedged their acceptance with qualifi-
cations that no one really expected
anything to come of it. And nothing
did. The discussions have been broken
Off and the whole matter is back In
the hands Of CongresS-with less than
asweek to go.
The appropriate committees, how
ever, have completed their hearings,
and If there is even a minimum of
legislative concern for the public well
fare legislation to cope with a strike
will be ready in time And 1t will have
to provide for some form of compulsory
arbitration.
Plenty of people in both union and
management camps recoil in horror
from the mere mention of compulsory
arbitration. But this is a backward
looking attitude which leaves us I'M
moved. The time has long passed in
this country when Big Labor and Big
Business can be left free to fight out
their battles at the expense of the public
welfare. We would welcome legislation
which, as a last resort, would require
arbitration of any labor management
dispute which imperils the welfare of
the whole country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23

q. When did the Safety ;
First" slogan originate?
"A. H. 3
A. The Bureau Of Mines
says that the phrase Safety
First" became q national
slogan in the year 1911 when
the Bureau Of Mines gave q
national safety first demon
stration at Pittsburgh, Pa
Previously. the phrase Safe.
ty Is the First Consideration
had been used on the sta
tionery and among the en-
ployes Of the H. c. Prick
Coke a. Steel Co. OF Pitts
burgh and the Illinois Steel
Co. Of Chicago.
q. Are the worlds Deep
est caves In France2-M. q. n
A. OF the worlds six deep
est known caves, France has
the first, second, fourth, and
sixth. These six caves are:
Gouffre Berger, 1851 feet,
at Isere. near Grenoble.
France; Gouffre de Ia Pierre
st. Martin, 1850 feet, Basses-
Pyrenees, France; Grotta dell
la Piagga Bella, 2,261 feet.
near the Piedmont border,
Italy; Trou de Glaz, 1880
feet, also at Isere, France:
Antro di Corchia, Its feet,
Tuscany, Italy: Gouffre Pr.
ere. l.772 feet. Haute-G Ga
rome, France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Era of Cruelty

With the ending Of two
global wars, the infernos
have not ceased. Red Cuba,
the Iron Curtain countries,
the Berlin Wall and other
trouble spots are places we of
the free world bear the re-
Sponsibility of creating,
where every day helpless hui
man beings are sacrificed.
But even here one cannot
disregard m a ms brutality.
Marguerite Jones, of the
Maryland Amin al Welfare
Association, In a recent letter
to the editor, said, Expert
mental animals are clamped
into observation forms which
hold them i'm m ova BILE for
many weeks"
1t seems more than regret
table to have been born into
an era where all this cruelty
is practiced. If 1t were not so
saddening it would be laugh
able when we shout about
liberty and praise our own
Righteousness. In a democ-
racy Congress is supposed to
reflect the peoples will. But
have we the good intentions
to make our wishes known?
Not only do we owe an obi
cation to whatever traits Of
kindness and consideration
remain in us, but we must
account to God. It may be
the atom bomb is the last
step to bring the Biblical
warning to pass" be-
cause thou art lukewar1m, and
neither cold nor hot. I will
spue thee out Of My mouth"
Juliana M. Corridor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Men on the Moon

Anyone who is inclined to
doubt the wisdom of the adj
ministration's intention to
place men on the moon must
not overlook the possibility
that this will help move the
economy forward. At present
there Is no one on the moon
who can make application
for foreign aid. If we can
land just two men on the
moon, one can sign the re-
quest for aid and the other
can approve it and then we
can build up a highly paid
bureaucracy and extend aid
to underdeveloped planets.
Think Of all Of the fat Jobs
that can be handed out to
brothers = in law and other
hangers-on. AS long as the
Government experts know
that the way to be prosper
out Is to 60 broke; as long as
there are plenty of suckers to
vote these Spendthrifts into
office, what else can we ex-
pect? -J.BD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23
Earning Police Promotions by Competition

the police department and
one has but to look for his
numerical standing on the
list to ascertain when he will
be promoted dependent upon
vacancies. Except for q very
few instances (merit promo
tions) promotions are made
right down the line.
There are now Negroes in
almost every rank, uniform
and plainclothes. and more
on the current register await
ing vacancies. Even in the
merit promotions (men not
on the list but who possessed
specially needed talents)
there was never evidence that
this was done to circumvent
promoting q Negro.
Many Of our most respect
ed authorities In the field Of
human relations have stated
the mere fact that q Negro
is denied certain privileges
creates within him a feeling
Of inferiority. / am not quail
fled to contradict this theory,
but I do feel at liberty to say
that II this fact be true, then
this ugly stigma will never
be expunged by accepting
acts Of favoritism. The only
way we can make certain
progress in this direc-
ton is to know within our
selves that we have earned
our promotions through open
competition. There are Ne
groes who through Civil
Service examinations have
earned advances to the grade
Of lieutenant. There Is but
one grade higher (captain)
which requires q competitive
examination. There Is only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-23

How in the world can The
Star fall for so obvious a
piece Of press agentry as the
item entitled Job Openings
Beckon Peace Corps Vet
erans?"
The piece is a phony. For
example, it says that 400
Peace Corps volunteers have
served their two years over
seas, and schools, Govern
ment and in dustry have
shown a keen interest in hir-
ing them. However, 1t adds
that few Of them have come
home as yet because they are
touring other countries" How
can there be such keen in
terest If these brides haven't
even come home as yet?
The piece adds that some
industries have in mind Jobs
paying $3.50 q month or
more" Can that possibly be
true? What industry hires
people that way? Companies
hire people; very few indus