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a mediating and possibly q
decisive force in candidate
choosing.
In short, 1t is becoming
very clear that whoever wins
the Republican Presidential
nomination next year may
need Mr.. Nixon quite as much
as Mr.. Eisenhower needed
Mr.. Dewey more than a de-.
cade ago. The present 'front.'
runner, Gov. Nelson Rockefel-
Ter Of New York is suffering
nationally from local tax and
budget troubles. 1t is now
highly unlikely that he can
get home TO the nomination
strictly on his own power;
he will be looking for power
full allies.
Senator Barry Goldwater
Of Arizona is a less remote
possibility than he used to
be; he will undoubtedly be a
strong force at the conven-
ton. Gov. George Romney Of
Michigan has got to be con-
sidered, for there are persis-
tent rumors among national
Republicans that former
President Eisenhower has a
friendly eye upon him. Gov.
William Scranton of Penn
sylvania is for the moment
the most reserved of the 1864
possibilities; but in the i'm
portant factor Of instructive
political savvy he is near
the top among the four.
Into all this mixed scene
Mr.. Nixon is moving with
great care and forethought.
In the understatement Of re-
cent months he has said he
hopes to have "a voice" in
the 1864 G. o. P. conven-
ton. In this coming fall,
long before the convention of
next summer, he will make
some appearances around the
Nation" His role he describes
as Ito help to get the party
united"
This was exactly Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11
Joan Fontuine Loses
$50. Purse in D. G. Cob

Actress Joan Fontaine lost
$50 in bills, $3.50 worth Of
travellers checks. a ruby-en-
crusted gold cigarette case and
a pair of opera glasses when
she left her handbag in a Dis
trict taxicab yesterday after
noon. The items were still
missing today.
Miss Fontaine told police she
left the gray lizard-skin purse
in the cab when she got out
at the University Club, l135
Sixteenth street, after a ride
from the White House. The
pocketbook also contained some
credit cards and the actresses
California drivers license, she
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11

visiting the henhouse. It's
time we put romance and
courage and excitement and
some frank moral indoctri-
nation before our children in
their most impressionable
years.
We don't have to go back
to McGuffey.
There's plenty of good
writing. But let's give our
children some literary taste,
some ethical calories' and
patriotic vitamins.
To hell with these sawdust
sandwiches
(Copyright, 1859
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11

lslsesTREEr NV .THURs, 9to9. CHARGE PRIVILEGES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11
Return to Standards of Old Is Urged;
Patriotism, Heroism, Moral Teaching

II we can ever cure the
asininities of the 'look-say"
method Of teaching reading,
which has condemned many
hundreds of thousands of
young Americans to word
guessing, it will be time to
start in on the content of
grade school textbooks.
These beautifully printed
and illustrated books include
texts so remarkable for their
dullness that it is little won
der Young America can
hardly wait to get back to
the TV. Most of them have
been steamcleaned of every
vestige of excitement, Of in
spiration and romance.
There Is no reference to
God or religion. This is re-
garded as controversial.
There is no story Of war. If
we don't think about it,
maybe it will go away. There
is nothing that would give
rise to patriotism. How old
fashioned!
! have before me a fifth
grade reader, Days and
Deeds" published last year
by Scott, Foresman & Co.
and standard in many hum
dreds Of American school
systems.
With a puerile vocabulary
1t discusses such things as
Uncle LENS new cupboard
motor, Johns lawn-mowing
business. and how Wally, the
bloodhound, helped Jerry, the
police dog. find his missing
bone.
/ have also before me a re-
print Of McGuffey's Fifth
Eclectic Reader published in
1879. Let's skip through the
list of contents:
The Relief Of Lucknow.
London Times. Battle of Blen-
helm by Southey. Sands Of
Dee by Charles Kingsley. An
Old-Fashioned Girl by Lou
lisa May Alcott. An account
Of a riot in the MassachU-
sets State Prison. Supposed
speech of John Adams by
Daniel Webster. Excerpts
from the Virginians by
Thackeray and from Ham
let. Dissertation on Roast
Pig by Charles Lamb. A Frig-
ate Chase in the English
Channel by James Fenimore
Cooper. The Boston Massacre
by Bancroft. No Excellence
without Labor by william
Writ. Religion. the Only
Basis of Society by William
Claiming.
Blood and thunder Plenty
OF It. Heroism2 OF course.
Moral homilies? In profusion.
Religious preachmentsp IN
ashamed. Patriotism? With
pride. And in addition tough
words and involved sentences
that would flabbergast the
fifth-grader who has been
brought up on the thin con-
somme Of today's Days and
Deeds" series.
On June 20. 1861, DR.. Max
Rafferty,, school superin-
tendent Of La Canada. Calf,
made q speech that caused a
sensation and resulted In
his election last fall as Cali
fornia Superintendent Of
Public Instruction over the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Will Nixon Be Another Dewey?

Dewey's role in 1851; to get
the party united" - but
united behind the man Mr..
Dewey would ultimately sup
port.
How much Mr.. Nixon may
be able to control the way
the big California delegation
itself votes at the Republic
can national convention is
surely not yet practicable.
The big point, however is
that regardless Of his posi-
ton there, he retains an i'm
mense influence among many
and in some States most
of the prospective delegates
from all the other 40 States,
So, for the G. o. p. now
the proper salutation is:
Farewell Nixon-and hall"
(copyright 19o3)
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dead bodies of the progress
sive educators. He asked:
What happened to patrio-
tism?" and 1 quote:
1--WE have been so busy edu-
eating for life adjustment"
that we forgot to educate
for survival. Words that
America had treasured as a
rich legacy, that had sound
ed like trumpet calls above
the clash of arms and the
fury Of debate, we allowed to
fade from the classrooms.
Liberty and Union, now
and forever. one and insep-
arabic :"
I'VE have met the enemy
and they are ours -"
Millions for defense, but
not one cent for tribute"
Search for these towering
phrases in vain today in too
many of our schools. The
golden words are gone. Pa
triotism feeds on hero-wor-
ship and we decided to abol-
iSh heroes.
The quest for the Golden
Fleece has been crowded out
by the visit of Tom and Su-
30 81" ANe ZOO. The deeds of
before Troy are
.- 1 the peregri-
n sicc, u. ,al milkman
as he wends asa. ray among
the stodgy street t Bla h
City have taken o.sr. Bobby
and Betty pursue this in
sipid goal of a ride in the
district garbage truck while
the deathless ride of Paul
Revere goes unsung.
For Roland at Roncesvalles
we have substituted Muk-
Muk the Eskimo boy. It Is, I
think, significant, that edu-
cation during the past three
decades has deliberately de-
bunked the hero to make
room for the jerk!
No wonder these hero-less
American kids often broke
down before the Red BRAIN
washers in the Korean pris-
on camps. They had no
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Diplomats Who Rule Out on Uprising
Held UnreuIistic in Liqht of History

The same western diplo-
mats"-who were given as
the source of the informa-
ton that Soviet technicians
had trained the Castro army
and furnished them with the
latest weapons - made the
further point that secret
police methods prevalent in
Russia had been introduced
in Cuba and made unlikely
any subversion.
This theory, however, is
negated by experience inside
dictatorship countries in the
past. Who, for instance, had
a better secret police than
the car Of Russia, or a more
efficient army? And what
army was considered more
loyal to its monarch than
the cars troops prior TO the
revolt in 1918? Yet 1t was in
the middle of World War I
that this same czarist army
went over suddenly and al
most in its entirety to the
revolutionary cause, and the
car was put to death.
Internal revolutions with
out organized fighting have
occurred in the Middle East
and in the Far East and
have overthrown govern
ments. Latin America, how
ever, furnishes the most
dramatic example Of how
changes at the top of gov
eminent are made in what
are called "bloodless revo-
buttons" In recent years in
Brazil, in Argentina. in VEN
ezuela. in Peru and in Santo
Domingo there have been
some instances of armed
conflict, but these have usu-
ally been engineered by high
ranking officers of the army,
navy or air force who Or
ganize successful plots to
force out the incumbent
rulers.
The last persons in the
world to know anything about
an incipient revolution are
the resident diplomats of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11
DAVID LAWRENCE

Many people who lately
have cherished hopes for an
early liberation of Cuba must
have had a sinking feeling
when they read a news dis
patch from Santo Domingo
the other day stating that
some Western diplomats"
arriving from Havana saw
little chance Of a revolution
against Castro. They re-
ported, moreover, that the
Soviets had effectively
trained the Castro army TO
squelch any uprising.
But this is an unrealistic
view. 1t is not borne out by
the facts of history. For out
Of the hundred or more rev.
olutions in Latin America in
the last half century, rarely
indeed has an uprising in
volved large military forces
on both sides.
It is probably true there is
today no armed force in Cuba
secretly organized which
could GUST Castro. But a look
at past revolutions, not only
in this hemisphere but in
other parts Of the world, will
remind us that the most sue
cessful revolution" is the one
that arises from within and
is usually described by the
French phrase coup d'etat."
The dictionary defines 1t as
"a sudden decisive exercise Of
force whereby the existing
government is subverted."
The word revolution" usu-
ally suggests a war between
two armies inside a country.
But in modern times, even in
q country Of vast area, it is
seldom possible to establish
a military organization of any
size without running the risk
of defeat in the initial stages.
A coup d'etat," however,
Is different. Inside the army.
or the navy or the air force.
there gradually develops a
revolutionary underground"
1t stays loyal on the surface
but waits for the propitious
moment to strike.
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can't read the classics as they
did in the days of McGuffey2
Could it be that the bank
ruptcy Of the look-say meth
cd and the stubborn refusal
of many school administra-
tons to admit the error have
required them to pretend
that there is special virtue
in extending kindergarten
style reading to the upper
grades?
It's time America got a
new set of textbooks. It's
time we quit boring bright
students to death with the
banalities Of John and Jane
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THE WASHINGTON STAR. MARCH 81. 1888
Evening star., 1963-05-08
IT'S A DATE
FRIDAY

FRIDAY
Karen Ames Of College
Park fashions; Hahn's shoes
of Prince Georges Place;
Novel hairStyleS and Merle
Norman makeup Of Prince
Georges Plaza, all will be fea-
tured at the Homemakers
Club Of Berwyn Heights, Md.
annual Fashion Show at 8
pm. ct the Berwyn Heights
Elementary School on Pom
tiac street. A Nancy Parks
art show will also be featured.
Springfield HOT SHOPPES
from 1880 to 1880 pm. In
formal modelling by Cappa
Chell model. Helen Harvelle
with fashions from London
CasualS. Joseph Of Mclean
hairdos.
Erlebacher's will present
Jewelbox fashions for the
Editorial Cartoonists As
sociation luncheon In The
Diplomat Room Of the Inter-
national Inn, 1890 pm.
Hahn shoe stores will show
new midheels and straws in
the summer winds. A Models
Guild show with Eleni Of
The Star doing the guest
commentary.
Julius Garfinckel & Co.
presents the fashion show at
the Tea Of the Mary Neville
Guild of the Upperville Epis-
copal Church saluting the
50th anniversary Of Fox
croft School at 8 pm. Mrs.
Paul Llewellyn of Middle
burg, Va. Is the Chairman
Of the event to take place In
the Foxcroft School Gardens.
In the event of rain the
fashion show tea will be held
in the School Auditorium.
Lansburgh's will have an
SPIN. fashion show Of sports
wear at their Shirlington
store featuring Witty Cox.
Peg Cannon will do the COM
mentary.
JeIleff's presents Cotton
Of The Americas" honoring
Miss Shelby Smith, the '63
Maid Of Cotton In a fashion
show staged by Miss Sue
Boteler in the Mayflower
Hotel Ball Room for the
benefit Of the Florence Crit
tenton Home and Hospital.
Evening star., 1963-05-08
WHY GROW OLD7
Steak
For the
Diet
BY JOSEPHINE LOWMAN
(Regiater and Tribune SyndicAtel

Women write to me from
all over the country to tell
me that my 9-Day Reducing
Diet seems to be as true q
harbinger Of spring as the
first robin is. In order to
get ready for summer each
year, they use 1t to lose the
few pounds they gained dur
ing the winter.
While the ideal procedure
is to change our eating hab-
its so that we keep the same
perfect weight during our
lifetime, few Of us achieve
this state. Therefore, 1t is
important to 60 after that
first 5 to 10 pounds be-
fore they multiply.
Here are the menus for
Thursday:
Breakfast
One poached egg on toast
Black coffee
Luncheon
One medium hamburger cake
Cooked without butter
and made Of lean meat)
Celery sticks
One glass SKINNED milk
Two raw carrots
Dinner
Small lean steak
One-half cup cauliflower
One baked potato (no but
ter. Medium -sized potato
has only about 80 calories)
One orange
One glass SKINNED milk
before bedtime
IS Rh
II you hove missed some Of the
menus which have been printed in
this newspaper, OF would like TO
hove the complete "S-Doy Dier
booklet, send 10 cents and
stamped, seIf-oddFesssd envelope
with your request for Il to josephine
Lowmon in core Of The Stor.
Tomorrow: "You Look Better
Without Those Extro Ten Pounds. "
Evening star., 1963-05-08
Fund-Roising
Show Scheduled

Brooke Manor Country
Club will be the site Of the
annual Embarrassing lunch
eon-fashion show to be held
by the Woman's Club Of
Rockville May 16.
Summer fashions by Jel-
leff's will be featured.
Proceeds from the affair
will be used to support the
clubs welfare projects.
Members will meet at 1890
pm. at the club on Georgia
avenue extended, Norbeck.
Md.
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Annual Highway
Dinner May 9th

U. S. Rep. Harris 3. Nc
Dowell, Jr. will be principal
speaker at Delaware's eighth
annual Highway Day Dinner,
Monday evening, May 27, in VIII
mington.
James Julian, general chair
man, said that Mcdowell is ex-
pected to bring up-to-date in
formation on the national high
way program in his address,
"Every Day is Highway Day."
The all-day meeting begins In
Hotel dupont with a coffee hour
at $3.50 am.
Sponsors are the Associated
General Contractors of Della
ware and Delaware Safety Coun-
ell who first fostered the pro-
gram in 1856. It was the fore
runner Of National Highway
Week which is now marked an
nually the last week in May.
Gov. Ebert N. Carvel had
words Of praise for the pro-
Continued on page A6)
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Chronicle
Out Early
Week
Paper Will Be Placed
In The Mail On We'd
nesday Instead Of
Thursday.

The publishers Of the Milford
Chronicle plan TO come out a
day earlier next week because
Of the Memorial Day holiday.
According to present plans,
the Chronicle, Delaware's
largest weekly, both as to size
and circulation, will be placed
In the mails next Wednesday,
instead of the usual Thursday.
To accomplish this, the
Chronicle staff Is depending on
the cooperation Of their many
faithful contributors and cor
respondents. Advertisers have
also been alerted and In all in
stances have promised their CO.
operation.
II is especially important that
the paper comes out earlier next
week also because Of June Day,
which Is slated for Saturday,
June 1st.
Persons with classified ad-
vertisements must have same
In the office by 1:c0 Pm. on
Tuesday. This will also be the
dsadline for all news copy.
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Buddy Poppy
AreDue
May 23-24-25
COlOrful Little Flow
ers Of Rem e m :
brance" Will Be Of
fered By The Blue
Hen Post.

Buddy Poppy Days are being
observed here In Milford this
weekend with the colorful "little
flowers Of remembrance" being
offered on the streets and In
many Of the stores Of this city.
Offering Buddy Poppies in re-
turn for contributions to the
V.F.W. Relief and Rehabilitation
Fund are members Of Blue Hen
Post #6483 and affiliated organi-
cations.
The local Buddy Poppy Cam
paign was opened with sale Of
the first Poppy to Mayor A. E.
Humes. Making the "initia1
sale" was Miss Jacqueline
Jones, president of the Blue Hen
Chicks, Delaware's only V.F.W.
junior girls unit. Accompanying
Miss Jones In her visit to City
Hall were James S. Christopher,
commander of Post #6483; VIM.
Stevens, Blue Hen Post service
officer and 1868 Poppy Chair
man; and David S. Hugg, public
relations officer for the local
V.F.W. unit.
Mayor Humes also presented
Miss Jones with a signed copy
OF his proclamation designating
May %, "a, and 25 as "Buddy
Poppy Days" In Milford.
The full text Of Mayor Humes'
Continued on page A6)
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Boy, Ii,
Dies Despite
Heart Rub
Kenneth Passwaters,
Of N e ar Milford,
w as Drowned In
Clendaniel's Pond ,
Near Lincoln.

Msssaging his heart failed to
save the LIE Of q seventh grade
Lincoln school pupil who
drowned last Sunday In Glen
daniels Pond.
Kenneth Passwaters, Is, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Pass
waters, near Milford, was pro-
nounced dead at Milford Me-
mortal HOSPITAL after DR.. Man
usl Garcia, a resident physician,
and DR.. Philip Porter, an anes-
thesiologist, worked for two
hours trying to sustain Life using
spsn chest heart massage.
State police said the VIC
(continnsd on page A5)
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Senator John Gets
Soil Bank Action

More than $1,000, 900 worth
Of improper soil bank payments
have been cancelled by the De-
partment Of Agriculture as q
result Of an investigation
launched nearly two years ago
by U. s. Senator John J.
williams Or. Del.)
The contracts involved two
large tracts OF land In Hidalgo
County, Texas, which had been
split UP into 36 individual farm
units. Under soil bank regula-
tions, there is an annual pay
msnt limit Of 5000 for each
producer.
Senator williams called the
matter to the attention OF
Comptroller General Joseph
Campbell In July, 1861, and an
investigation was Immediately
started by the General Account :
ting Office and the Department
of Agriculture.
According to Campbell, the
Continued on page A5)
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Cancer Society
Discusses Smoking

Arguments advanced by to-
bacco industry spokesmsn In the
smoking lung cancer contro-
versy have been answered BY the
Delaware Division Of the Amari-
can Cancer Society.
In pamphlet now available for
general distribution, the socisty
answers point by point the tate
ments made by the industry aAd
a few scientists who question or
refuse TO accept the svidsncs
linking cigarettes and lung can
Ger.
Peter Van Wyck, ehalnrnan of
Confined an pess EE
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24

Easton, becomes superintendent
of the Dover District succeed
ing the Rev. DR.. Roy L. Tawes,
who, in turn, will take over
at st. Marks.
The Rev. DR.. Howard M.
Amoss, pastor of Bethesda
Church, Salisbury, Is the new
Easten District superintendent, !,
succeeding the Rev. DR.. J. Leas
Green, who retired after AZ
years In the ministry.
There were 55 changes an
nounced by Bishop John Wesley
Lord, including the two super
intsndents, 40 minister trans
fers and five special as
signments.
DR.. Chandler Is q trustee OF
the Methodist Country House at
Wilmington and Of Wesley Col
lege at Dover. He Is chairman
Of the Board Of Hospitals and
Homes and vice chairman OF
the Board Of Child Care for the
Peninsula Conference.
Continued on page A5)
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Two Killed
Three Hurt
In Snash-up
Dust Cloud Believed To
Have Been Factor In
Head-On Crash Near
Killen's Pond.

A head-on automobile COL
1ision near Harrington, on Mon-
day, killed a Dover airman and
his wife and injured three other
persons. The accident occurred
two miles south OF Killens Pond.
The victims were: Airman 2/c
Leonard c. Butler, IS, and his
wife, Patricia, %, Of Genesee,
Pa. They were killed when their
car struck one operated by Den
nard Griffith, 22, Of FELTON,, on
Route 384.
Griffith was reported in fair
condition at Milford Memorial
Hospital.
Also injured were Airman 2/c
Norman E. Porter, Dover Air
Base, and Delbert Glandon, Is,
Of FELTON,.
State police said that dust
raised by wind off a roadside
field could have been a factor in
the collision. The accident
brings Delaware's highway death
toll to "A. Last year 33 persons
died during the same period.
The accident took place as
Griffith was driving Porter to
the Milford hospital for treat
ment of a foot injury received
in a boating accident at Nllens
Pond.
Porter was listed in "not
critical" condition at the Dover
Air Base Hospital where he was
taken after an ambulance took
him to the Milford hospital.
Glandon, also a passenger In
the Griffith car, was listed in
fair condition at the Milford
hospital.
Butler and Porter are mem
bers of the Dover Bases 16o7th
Organizational Squadron, a base
onicial said. The Buffers live
in Harrington.
The accident took place about
sos pm. and the couple was
dead at Milford Me-
Continued on page AS
Milford chronicle., 1963-05-24
Kiwanians Hear
Exchange Students

At their weekly dinner meet
ing on May IA, also Ladies'
Night, Milford Kiwanis Club
played host TO two exchange stu
dents who have been attending
school In Milford this year
under the auspices OF the
American Field Services. The
students were introduced by the
Program Chairman, Mr.. Irwin
Bowman.
Miss Eftichia Salvari of
Greece has been living with her
American parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Leland j. Achorn, 4o6 Lake
Wood Drive, Milford. She gave
an interesting comparison Of her
life In Greece to her life here.
She closed her part OF the pro-
gram by singing two songs In
her native tongue.
Mr.. Arm ando Jimsnex
Urena OF Costa Rica, has bsen
residing with his American par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth D.
Headley, 507 N. Walnut Street,
Milford. He told In detail the
extreme differences In our
school system as compared with
those In his homeland. He also
gave an account of the occu-
pations and living conditions In
Costa Rica.
MIR. Everett Bennett, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Crerar Bennett,
Confined On page A5)