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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-02-14
Three Apprehended For
Motor Law Violations

Only three cases we're on record
this week in the motor vehicle
file in the office of Trial Magis-
trate Robert M Maroney
Michael Dennis Kelly, Cumbcr-
and, forfeited collateral of $40
and costs for operating a motor
vehicle at a speed too great for
road conditions.
Russell Lee johnson, Oakland,
entered a plea of guilty to a
charge of a resident displaying
foreign plates and was fined $40
and costs.
Harland Franklin Bowman, star
route, Oakland. forfeited collateral
of $40 and costs on charge of
failing to obey State Roads
commission sign.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-02-14

II you believe various makes of trucks are pretty
much alike, you aren't doing justice to your pocket
book. There are differences.
A Chevrolet truck welcomes comparison. Look at
the little things it-atches, hinges, stitching in
the upholstery Notice how strong the tagate is the
rubber encased chains that keep it from sagging.
The body floor is made Of select wood to eliminate
the problem and give you better footing The lower
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-02-14

side panels are double walled; you might dent the
inside but it won't show through.
Chevrolet designs suspension systems to fit your
need. The light-duty type is strong comfort.
Another kind for heavier trucks stifens up you
increase your load and vice versa Make sense?
If you are going to need truck this year,
you should look at the quality Chevrolet has to Offer
May we bring over new '63 so you examine it?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868

to be Soviet satellite, occupied by Rus
sian troops, than a free ally of the
United States. The hungry and terror
lied Cuban people, however, know better
than that, and the performances put on
by FidePs American visitors" must
surely have Sickened and appalled, them.
The reports Of their trip leave no
room for doubt that these Americans"
with perhaps couple of exceptions
have lent themselves intellectually to
the Kremlin- Serving tyranny in Havana.
They have done so, apparently, even to
the point of openly applauding virulent
attacks on the United States and volun-
teering remarks of their own libeling
and reviling our homeland.
These Students up largely
of beatnik types, diSSident Black Mus
Inns and characters with the smell Of
communism all about them - have
Shamed the United States. Let us hope
their fellow Americans manage also to
make them feel at least a little bit
ashamed of themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Rescue at HozIeton

For drama and suspense, there has
been nothing quite like the Hazleton
(Pa.) underground rescue since the
Floyd Collins tragedy nearly 40 years
ago. For six days, from January 81 to
February S, 1925, rescuers inched toward
the young explorer trapped under a
boulder in Kentucky's Crystal Cave. On
the sixth day there was cave-in, block
ing the passage supplying him with food,
and Floyd Collins voice was never heard
again. Eleven days later, when the
reScuerS reached him, he was dead.
Contrasting with the let-down on
that day, the shouts of triumph at
Hazleton told the Nation that David
Fellin and Henry Throne had reached
the surface alive after two weeks of
entombment 800 feet below ground. BY
all odds, 1t was the climax Of one of
the most resourceful rescue operations
of all time-a combination Of luck, skill
an indomitable courage and persever-
ance on the part of both rescuers and
rescued.
1t was on the sixth day-the day
when disaster overlook Floyd Collins
that the first miracle of Hazleton re-
vealed that the miners had survived the
cave-in. 1t was million-to-one shot,
one mine official said, that the rescue
drill reached the miners on It's first
tortuous entry into the earth and rock.
From that time on 1t was an eight-day
test of stamina, nerves and skill.
There were no faint-hearted men
at Hazleton, either below or above
ground. To those of us far away, watch
ing television, reading the newspapers,
there had to be new appreciation of
the stuff such men are made of when
the chips are down. In addition to a
sense Of relief and thankfulness, there
had to be feeling of admiration and
pride for men whose devotion to one
another knows no bounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28

While the wilderness Bill languishes
In House committee, the need for its
protective provisions is ever more evil
dent. From the High Sierra Primitive
Area comes vivid illustration Of how
some primitive territory is mistreated.
1t took As city residents and a mule
train week to clear away three tons
Of cans, glass and other rubbish which
careless campers (aptly called "strew-
balls") had dumped on CALIFORNIA;
l1,000-foot Humphreys Basin in the
Sierra and lingo national forests. To
restore the territory to its native beauty,
the volunteers gave up week of their
vacations.
BY permanently setting aside some
40 million acres for man to enjoy but
not destroy, the bill would prevent the
kind Of littering which offends every
lover Of our country's natural beauty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Enforcing the Codes

There is only one right way to deal
with repeated and fragrant disregard
for the city codes which are designed to
protect the public health and safety.
Judge Mildred E. Reeves found the way
the other day when she sentenced a
particularly recalcitrant real estate
dealer to go days in jail and $500 fine
for failing to clean up the filth and
refuse on three empty lots in Northeast
Washington
The complaint in this case came
from incensed neighborhood citizen
groups. Repeated Health Department
orders to remove the nuisance were
ignored. In court on August %, Judge
Reeves gave the property owner one last
chance to get off the hook. When this
too was ignored, the Judge, noting
long history of previous actions against
the individual, imposed the sentence
the stiffest for this kind of violation in
the memory Of city housing officials
Good for Judge Reeves! This is the
kind OF language, and the only kind,
that is likely to be needed in such cases.
The basic problem confronting city
officials in regard to municipal codes is
the general knowledge that in the past
the compliance machinery has been slow
and rusty. Judge Reeves has set a pat
tern Of action, however, which could
become an effective persuader in the
future. For it is remarkable, in all areas
of public protection, what the expecta-
ton Of punishment-swift and sure
will do to discourage wrongdoing and
contempt for the rights of others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Kef0uVeY and Unions

l was amazed to read In the
August 10 Sunday Star Gin
an article by Charles Bart
lett that Senator Estes Ke-
fauver before his death
planned an extensive investi-
CATION into labor unions as
an antimonopoly force. In
credibly enough, the article
pointed out that Senator Ke-
fauver had undergone a dra-
m a tic reversal Of thinking
about labor unions, and that
this reversal and plans for
the investigation were kept
secret from Kefauver's asso-
ciates and staff. Apparently
he could not trust them.
Only a Chicago lawyer, ac-
cording to the article, was
privy to the Senator's radical
switch and carefully laid
plans.
No reference is made in
the article to any document
or correspondence or objec-
tive evidence which even by
innuendo demonstrates that
Senator Kefauver had any
sympathy for those forces
which seek to harass and
weaken labor unions through
imposition of antitrust laws
on labor union activity.
Senator Kefauver we'll I'M
derstood the essential differ
ence between business activi-
ty properly subject to anti
trust regulations and human
labor, which he ardently re-
cognized was not a fit subject
for regulation or restraint
under the antitrust laws. In
deed, as recently as June 81,
Senator Kefauver. speaking
at the convention OF Retail
Clerks international Associa-
ton in Chicago, articulated
his deeply rooted views on
the application Of antitrust
laws TO labor. He said:
There has been an effort
for quite a long time to put
the labor people and organi-
cations under the antitrust
laws. 1t sounds simple, easy,
and extremely reasonable to
say that we will Just put the
unions under the antitrust
laws and there are some bills
before the Judiciary Com
mittee for the purpose. I
don't think that the public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Meeting a Strike Threat

The burst of speed with which the
Senate put through its bill to deal
with the threatened rail strike must
have set some kind of record. But it
was the sort of record we like to see
established.
Senators Morse and Javits offered
substitutes, but these were showed
under. And there was no evidence of
delaying tactics on anyone's part. Sen
ator Morse, who might have filibustered,
surprised the Senate by saying that the
rail unions had been dead wrong" in
the way they handled the situation, and
that the carriers had "acted in good
faith on every procedural STEP" This,
coming from one Of labor's staunchest
friends, was strong medicine. But it
needed saying.
After adopting an amendment by
Senator MCGEE to bring the bill into
line with measure pending in the
House, the Senate enacted the proposal,
which calls for compulsory arbitration
of the two key issues, by vote of 80
to 2. All that remains is for the House
to make one minor change IN its bill,
pass it, and send the final product along
to the White House for signature.
This can be done and doubtless will
be done promptly-thereby averting a
railroad strike at 1901 am. tomorrow.
This is profoundly gratifying on many
counts, not the least of these being that
it will avoid the stranding of any of
the marchers who came to Washington
tOdoV nv train
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Folly in Wet Nam

Our policy" in South Wet Nam,
If it can be called policy, goes beyond
suggesting that the left hand does not
know what the right hand is doing. 1t
indicates that neither hand has the
fainteSt notion of what sort of bungling
the other is engaged in.
This is subject to one reservation.
Our Government may be embarked on
a project to get rid Of President Diem
in favor of the military. If this is the
case, and if it is possible to install
military regime capable of doing a
better job of waging the war against
the Wet Cong, then the strange events
Of the past few days would make a
certain amount of sense. But without
this they make no sense at all. And
the latest report from Saigon Is hardly
says that VietnameSe military leaders,
in comment interpreted as a rebuke
to the State Department, have taken
full responsibility for the recent crack
down on the Buddhist monks If this
Is true, 1t makes the State Departments
criticism last week of President Diem
look silly, and hardly encourages hope
that more acceptable leadership will be
found among the military.
Our Governments cardinal blunder,
1t seems to us, consists of trying to work
both sides of the Vietnamese street.
On the one hand, we are deeply COM
mitted to the successful conduct of the
cruel and bitter war with the Wet Cong.
On the other, we seem to be ,trying to
give the impression that we are fighting
to make Wet Nam safe for democracy,
which, in the context Of the facts of
life in that country, is nonsense. The
two simply will not mix.
Last week, with the Presidents
approval, the State Department de-
nounced the Diem government for in
voking "repreSSive actions" against the
Buddhist leaders. OF course they were
repreSSive. But they were directed
toward thwarting political drive by
the BuddhiStS to overthrow Diem. This
was camouflaged as a religious protest.
But the great preponderance Of the
evidence shows that the activity Of the
BuddhiStS was political in character.
What did President Kennedy and the
State Department think Mr.. Diem should
do? Let his government be undermined
and perhaps toppled in the midst Of a
bitter war by fanatical faction which
could not possibly be expected to con-
duct successful fight against the
Communists?
The United States, it is said, gives
top priority to winning the war in Wet
Man, If this is the case, and it certainly
should be with more than $4,000 Ameri-
can soldiers committed to the struggle,
sorting out of our official thinking
is overdue. Again assuming that we are
not covertly engineering military coup,
it is time to stop Sniping at the Diem
government. Whatever its shortcomings
by our standards, the Diem regime ap-
pears to offer the best and perhaps the
only hope of asserting the authority
necessary to successful conduct of the
war. Since we are in this war up to
our ears, we had better swallow our
theological qualmS and stop trying to
pull the rug from under Diem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
The Atheists Arrive

The left-handed compli-
ment to Mrs. Madelyn Muir
ray in your editorial of Au-
gust 10 ("The Atheists Ar
rive"). was indeed refresh
ing. Truth-seeking questions
can be annoying at times.
Because of beliefs and ego
tism, we deal today in half
truths, cliches and slogans.
We permit indoctrination Of
our unsuspecting youth by the
ubiquitous priests. ministers
and rabbis. We never en-
courage them to think: our
method Of instruction is by
memorizing, from parents,
school teachers. neighbors
and religious leaders. Our
business life Is corrupt be-
cause the truth-seekers, the
men OF integrity, and the
non-believers are ridiculed.
Please remember that with
just a little juxtaposition, the
people today are the same
guys who conducted the In
QUESTION. burned the witches,
permitted slavery and peon-
age. Today, they're the guys
who indulge in racial dis
elimination, nonchalantly
prepare for the extinction OF
the human race, and indulge
in that greatest Of stupidi-
ties, the pursuit Of happiness
via egotistical expression.
Philip r. Cherp,
Member, Other Americans,
Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
THE PASSING SCENE
Strange Currents in Political Sea
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

A strange, sad Separation
in American politics. kind
Of movement Of political Sc
cession and counter-secession
as though this were not one
country but rather a mass of
hostile sections and classes
lis now at work.
Its competing symbols are
President Kennedy for the
Democrats and Senator Bar
ry Goldwater for the Repub-
licans. Senator Goldwater is
today the front-runner for
the 1864 Republican presi-
dental nomination. Mr.. Ken
nedy is. Of course. the front
and also the back and mid
die and sole and only runner
for the Democratic nominal
ton. 1t is in his hands al
ready but for certain ritual
istic matters which must be
run through at next sum-
mer's Democratic National
Convention in Atlantic City,
N. j.
The actual present state of
affairs is not pretty and must
be deeply worrisome to all
those who value ultimate
national unity above all dis
putes over issues and parties.
Most of President Ken
nedy'S closest advisers, If not
the President himself all the
time and all the way, are act
ing as though he is prepared
already to throw away large
areas Of the country on the
assumption that their aliena-
ton and loss will be neither
regretted nor damaging. The
basic notion seems to be that
the South and the Border
States and most Of the Mid
die West and all Of the
Mountain States can go hang.
The vast industrial States of
heavy minority-bloc voting
power in the North and East
along, say, with California
and Michigan-will anyhow
faithfully return the Presi-
dent to office.
GOldwater Attitude
Many of Senator Gold
waters advisers, If not Sena-
tor Goldwater himself all the
time and all the way, are
acting as though he could
throw away the tee ming
urban centers Of North and
East in confidence that their
loss will be neither deplored
nor fatal. Here, the basic
idea seems to be that New
York and Pennsylvania and
New England can go hang
because the South, the
Southwest, the West and
Middle West will surely put
the Senator into that same
presidential office.
Both sets Of assumptions
have one thing in common.
This is the unspoken sup
position that the racial issue,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
degrading Schools
In regard to Representative

In regard to Representative
John L. McMillan's opinion
Of the lacking elements in
our Washington schools, it
is unfortunate that the Dis
trict of Columbia school sys-
tenn is constantly failed with
the paddle Of Thanksgiving
Day at D. C. Stadium" APP
parently undue national pub
licity has been given this cpl
Sode. There is little help in
constantly re-stating the
problem-the need lies in
solving the problem. Criticism
should never be destructive
unless there is presentation
of a constructive solution.
Many people fallaciously
use the word discipline as a
euphemiSm for punishment.
Discipline should be thought
of in a positive respect-as
guidance that draws upon re-
sources within the child him
self and is not merely i'm
posed upon him from the out
side.
Child development special
lists have found that uncon-
trolled misbehavior stems
from an adults unwilling
ness or inability to accept
children as they are, imper-
fections and all. James L.
Hymes states that better
discipline will not come from
heavier hands or from gent
Ter tongues-it win come with
clearer thinking"
Sure there are disciplinary
cases in the DC. public
schools-but there are disci-
plinary cases in all schools.
Washington. DC. has no
monopoly.
I agree with Representative
Mcmillan, we should increase
emphasis upon vocational
training, but not with a
"sneer down the nose" atti-
tude. It is time for upgrading
vocational education. Since
we are living in the age Of
automation, analysis Of our
future manpower needs is
imperative, and every citizen
has the responsibility Of a
Job to do.
We do need more money to
help keep our educational
system current. Our admins
trative system from the
Board Of Education on down"
does not possess the magical
creative ability Of transform
ing adverse criticism into
greenbacks.
1t is demoralizing TO note
that our problems receive
the most ventilation. What
happens to the publicity Of
creditable Jobs our schools
are doing9 Ouida v. MaedeI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Antibiotic RuIino

The newspapers have re-
ported that the Food and
Drug Administration has
proposed a ban on common
cold preparations which con-
tain bacteria-killing drugs.
This decision is said to have
been based on the report Of a
panel of experts who stated:
There Is no acceptable evi-
dence that any antimicrobial
agent is Of any value In the
treatment Of the com m on
cold or Of any other upper
respiratory viral agent"
one newspaper reported:
"The FDA first permitted
antibiotics to be combined
with other drugs for use
against colds in 1852. The
agency's only basis for the
decision under the law then
in effect was VIII ether the
drug would be safe or not"
It was a well known and
widely accepted fact in 1852
that an antibiotic, which was
not efficacious and could
cause serious reactions, was
not safe. 1t was also q well
known and accepted fact at
that time that antibiotics
were not effective a gainst
the virus Of the com m on
cold. The II years which have
passed since 1852 have not
altered that fact.
One wonders who made
the original decision In 1852
and why a panel Of experts
was not consulted at tn at
time before Pandora's box
was opened? One wonders
who was asleep at the switch,
SO to speak, then and played
Rip Van Wrinkle for the next
II years, a period during
which the decision could
have been reversed on the
basis Of lack Of safety at any
time? One further wonders
whether the same individuals
are still In the position to
make similar bad decisions?
Doctor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Those Students in Cuba

Tomorrow, II all goes as planned,
some 50-odd American students" will
arrive in New York after having spent
weeks in Cuba as Fidel Castro's guests"
They deserve to be welcomed home with
nothing but contemplated Of course,
with the legal penalties that they have
defiantly invited.
For these students" (the word is
used loosely have put on an altogether
disloyal show calculated to sell the cap
tive Cubans on the idea that 1t is better
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28
Rebukes u. S.

To one conditioned by
years Of official "non-inter-
vention" SIN ugness on the
part Of a d ministration
spokesman, the denunciation
of the Diem government for
breaking its vow" regarding
Buddhist repression, or
rather non-represSion, comes
as something Of a startler.
Meritorious as the rebuke
may be, it is, surely, interven-
ton in the internal affairs of
a friendly ally, and from this
the administration h as re-
Trained on previous occasions
where matters of perhaps
even more significant princi-
pie were involved.
For example, no ringing
denunciation came from our
ambassador in Moscow when
Jews were jailed and NAL
tire tie d for baking matzoh
and otherwise celebrating the
high holy days in the Soviet
Union. The reported execu-
ton of some rs Cuban citizens
in Eastern Cuba in recent
weeks brought forth no audi
BILE ON m e n t from admin
1stration spokesman. and so
on.
One can speculate that the
administration protests only
when 1t feels its protest has a
reasonable chance of altering
the course of events. In that
case the rebuke to Saigon
becomes understandable: We
hold the purse strings, the
continuance of the anti
Communist war in Wet Nam
is In our national interest,
and our protest isn't likely to
provoke menacing responses
from powerful allies of
Diem-for the simple reason
that he hasn't any.
My personal assessment is
that as a nation we no longer
act in accordance with a set
OF principles: Barbecuing
BONES In Saigon evokes our
wrath, but shooting Jewish
bakers in the USSR is toler-
able, and no protest is heard.
Now, If religious repression is
bad in one country it is
equally bad in all. Or are
some countries more equal
than others?
Walter JOhansen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-28

generally ecognizes what
that would mean.
"The antitrust laws were
not made to apply to a mans
labor. A mans labor, his &C
ttvity and work, Is not q
comma dity In commerce
That has always been the
history and the attitude that
we have taken.
Furthermore. If you sim
ply applied the antitrust laws
to labor, that would mean
two people could not get to-
gether in a concert of action
for the purpose of trying to
get better wages. I don't
want any part of that insofar
as I am concerned. The labor
movement is not going to be
destroyed by placing it under
the Sherman or Clayton anti
trust laws"
Surely this fortnight pub
lie statement is q convincing
and devastating refutation Of
the accusations found In the
article.
Now we are confronted
with a callous effort follow
ing the Senator's death to
destroy his image as a friend
OF labor and an opponent of
those who seek to destroy the
effectiveness of labor unions.
The scheme is plain. If Sena-
tor Kefauver, a distinguished
champion of labor, were to
favor the application Of the
a antitrust laws to labor
unions, this movement would
attain impetus. It is aston
ishing, however, that Bart
lett was sold such q bill Of
goods. Kefauver's alleged dis
enchantment with labor
unions Is now brande d as
false, and there Is an obliga-
ton to root out the source of
this defamation. Senator Ke-
fauver's friends do not have
to be treasured. However, the
article received wide circula-
ton and serious harm has
already been done, especially
since d malls issued by
Charles A. Caldwell, Admin
iStrative Assistant to the late
Senator Kefauver, have been
disregarded by the press, in
GLIDING The Star.
The real story lies not in
the discredited effort to ma
lign the late Senator Kefau-
yer and distort his public i'm
age as a champion Of liberal
causes and a friend of labor,
but the extent to which some
unprincipled persons and
groups will go to furthe r
their S selfish interests and
pernicious cause, even to the
extent Of using a deceased
Senator who cannot speak
for himself.
s. G. Lippman.
General Counsel,
Retail Clerks
International Association