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Evening star., 1963-09-27
Assoteoque's Future

The proposals made by the
Interior Department to make
Assateague Island a national
seashore are commendable
but they do not go far
enough.
For II these proposals are
carried out there will always
be the few people who throw
trash on the beaches and
destroy the island in general,
thus running one Of the last
wild game habitats on the
Atlantic Coast.
The only way to keep AS
sateague's animals, beaches,
swamps and forests from
being ruined is to prohibit
camping, concessions and
wandering from set trails
that show some OF the beau
tiful spots on Assateague. Al
though this places restric-
tions on the people who real
ly appreciate the Island and
wouldn't do anything TO
damage it, there are always
those inconsiderate few.
Peter Kevllle.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
THE PASSING SCENE
A New Urgency on Puerto Rico
BY WILLIAM S. WHIT

columnist as an unnecessar1-
ly crude term. Still, crude
term or not, that is what
Puerto Rico is-a showcase
Of the vitality and decency Of
the American system.
AS to the measure for the
Puerto Rican commission,
the issue was long befogged
in Congress by internal
Puerto Rican politics. One
side feared some hidden poll
tical advantage to the other,
and so on. The bill as finally
approved by the Insular AZ
fairs Committee, owever,
seems to have been drawn
with care to reach an even
handed result.
All that now menaces 1t Is
simply the heavy work load
before Congress. Still, If the
House Rules Committee
which normally controls the
flow of legislation to the
floor-will clear this mea-
sure, its ultimate approval by
House and Senate will likely
follow. So the Rules Commit
tee, assuming it is satisfied
that every faction and inter-
est in Puerto Rico is ade-
quately protected, could do a
much worse hours work
than to bring out this bill to
the House floor.
All Free Citizens
For one thing at least is
sure: The people of Puerto
Rico, whatever their domest-
ic political divisions, are not
divided at all on the point
that they are all what they
are: Free citizens of the Unit
ed States of America.
Some here would not per-
haps see any burning neces-
Sity for the Puerto Ricans to
prove what has long been
true-that they wear no
Yankee collar of any size or
kind. But if they want a pie
biScite-and apparently they
do-why should we not
cooperate with them, so
long as it seems clear that in
so doing we will not be med
ding in their affairs? The
charge for good manners is
never high.
No doubt it is true that no
matter what is done or not
done the Communists will 60
on screaming "colontalism."
All the same, it is possible to
reduce their ere edibility
among the credulous. And all
the same, too. we are not
dealing here with some alien
state or people. We are deal
ing with our fellow citizens;
and determination from
our beginning has been our
historic doctrine.
@ 1858
Evening star., 1963-09-27

McClure'S long life extend
ed from 1857 to 1949, and
there is no reason why Mr..
Lyon should not be intensely
partisan about every minute
of it.
But the more partisan q
book. the greater the need
for precise Recommendation.
There are footnotes in Mr..
Lyons book, but almost none
Of them cite sources. In the
end, one is thrown back on
Mr.. Lyons general state
ments in an Authors Note
and photography" at the end
of the volume; details, how
ever, must be taken on faith.
Most Of the disputants are
no longer alive. but doubtless
a partisan will arise here and
there and a great quarrel
will ensue that Mr.. Lyon
might easily have forestalled.
Slides Over UnpIeasantness
Nor does Mr.. Lyon serve
McClure's memory we'll by
sliding over unpleasant epi-
sodes. In 1906, for example,
there was an office revolt;
the upshot was the departure
Of many of McClure's prin-
cipal writer's. AS Mr.. Lyon
tells 1t, Mcclure was being
no more than normally i'm
possible; it is difficult to see
just why his staff attacked
with such extraordinary
bloodlust. The reader can
either assume that four COM
petent. respected people
turned simultaneously vi
cious or that there is more
to 1t than Mr., Lyon tells.
In his later years, Mcclure
got into some foolish scrapes.
His admiration for Musso-
lini was less than becoming,
and his willingness to take a
job (Which happily failed to
materialiSe) with the Dear
born Independent. a paper
Mr.. Lyon describes as "the
most scurrilous journal In the
country" was reprehensible.
The fact remains that Nc
Clure founded a magazine
that in many ways showed
the way for all who followed
In this century. Undertaking
articles. so-called. were one
OF the magazines main at
fractions; they were not SEN
sationalist but skillful and
sometimes austere, carefully
documented and verified, and
sophisticated and balanced in
viewpoint. Mcclure contrib
uted much to society and
Journalism. Mr.. Lyon need
not have been so concerned
about safeguarding (or re-
storing) his reputation. His
work easily overbalances his
gaucheries.
Mcclure was a social force.
Mr.. Lyons excessive affection
cannot diminish the impor-
tance Of this extraordinary
editor.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
Discrimination

1t is good that the Dowdy subcom-
mittee has finally reported out the Dis
trict Of Columbia'S downtown urban
renewal bill. But it is unfortunate that
1t has encountered this measure with a
group of amendments which have no
reason to be there, and which ought to
be stricken forthwith by the full House
District Committee.
Chairman Dowdy says his five
amendments are necessary Safeguards"
against what he considers excessive
urban renewal authority.
But Mr.. Dowdy is confused For
most of the amendments, which reflect
Mr.. Dowdy'S own views of the rights
and wrongs of urban renewal, have
nothing whatever to do with this bill.
Some of them are relatively innocuouS.
Some could severely hamper effective
renewal. They ALL however, single out
the District among all the cities Of the
country for discriminatory treatment.
If the restrictive measures proposed by
Mr.. Dowdy have any merit, they should
be considered by Congress as national
legislation, effective everywhere.
Let us be clear about this. without
the Dowdy amendments, the bill report
ed by the House subcommittee has only
one major purpose: To permit the Dis
trict to conduct urban renewal activity
in commercial areas. In its unamended
form, the bill, H. r. 3189, is identical
to measure already passed by the
Senate. Unless the House concurS, the
job of trying to revitalize the deterior-
ating section of downtown Washington
will be dealt a serious, and very possibly
a fatal, blow.
Every effort was made at public
hearings to persuade the subcommittee
that the powers being sought here are
similar to those already authorized in
most other cities. In order to corrob-
crate its position on this point, the Ma
tional Capital Downtown Committee
sought formal opinion from Federal
Urban Renewal Administrator William
L. Slayton. The pertinent portion of
Mr.. Slayton'S response, dated September
6, follows:
We feel that this authority will be vitally
necessary for the urban renewal program here
in Washington. Our 10 largest cities, aside
from Washington have already been author
lied to carry out urban renewal projects in
non-residential areas, and most of these are
already undertaking such projects We doubt
that a major city such as Washington can
hope to mount a successful overall attack
on deterioration and blight without certain
amount of urban renewal activity in its COM
mercial and industrial areas.
H. r. 3189 would put the District Of
Columbia on substantially the same basis as
other major cities in the country with respect
to authority for the undertaking of the urban
renewal activities, and would not grant to the
District Of Columbia powers in excess Of those
presently available in most States.
What could be clearer than that?
If Mr.. Dowdy feels that H. R. 3189 is
dangerous bill his quarrel is not with
the District, but with urban renewal as
it is practiced throughout the country.
Until Congress draws up a new set of
urban-renewal ground rules for the
Nation as whole, the District should
be permitted to attack downtown blight
on the same basis as everyone else.
Evening star., 1963-09-27

The new shadows Of disor-
der falling over Latin Ameri-
ca in the overthrow of the
Dominican Republics elected
government have m owed a
piece Of unfinished Congress
sional business from the ca
tegory Of the desirable to the
category of the essential.
This unfinished business is
a resolution recently ap-
proved by the House Insular
Affairs Committee to set up
a bipartisan commission to
make a ways-and-means in
quiry leading to a vote by the
people of Puerto Rico to de-
termine for all time the fu-
ture status of that green and
hopeful outpost of American
democracy.
Puerto Rico is not a State
but rather a free American
Commonwealth with its own
constitution, elected officials
and court system. The ulti-
mate choices open to its peo-
pie would be three: To re-
main in Commonwealth sta
tus, with the economic ad-
vantageS in eren t in that
system because of presen t
favorable tax treatment. To
opt. instead, for Statehood,
as State No. 81. Or-and this
is most unlikely in any
event-to become a separate
Nation.
Democratic Showcase"
The principal practic a |
reason for h olding such a
plebiscite is simply that Cas-
tro CO m m u nism has long
been bowling the falsehood
that free Puerto Rico is in
fact a stooge-point for Amer
ican colonialism." Academ-
ically, at least, it long has
been obvious that a clarifica-
tion of Puerto Rico's status,
making clear beyond chemi-
cal trace of doubt that it is
entirely and unarguably a
free area, would make sense.
Proper provision for such a
Qualification now, however,
would do more than make
sense. 1t would make a posi-
tive contribution toward sta
bility in a Latin world to our
south where, to put the thing
at its mildest, we could sure
ly use some stability. Castro
Cuba'S fall to international
communism already had left
free and progressive Puerto
Rico a pearl of very special
price in the Caribbean. Now,
the harsh new difficulties in
the Dominican Republic have
added new problems of un-
known dimensions.
The word Showcase" as
applied to a free area of this
world, has always struck this
Evening star., 1963-09-27
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY.
Halo for an Extraordinary Editor
By DONALD MINTZ

SUCCESS STORY: THE
LIFE AND TIMES OF S. S.
MCCLURE. BY Peter Lyon.
Illus, 433 PIP. (Charles
Scribner's Sons, $500.
Fifty years ago." wrote S.
S. Mcclure in 1910, I'VE were
a nation of independent
farmers and small mer-
chants. Today we are a ma
ton of corporation employees:
directly or indirectly, the cor
poration controls our living.
And. as the corporations grow
greater and greater. fewer
and fewer men control them,
and our individual lives with
them.
I'm politics nearly every
road leads back to this
one point. The revolt against
the change in Europe is the
rising tide Of socialism; in
the United States. the growth
of the so-called insurgent
movement. The dominant
note of the twentieth century
Is unquestionably to be the
struggle for economic free
dom. exactly as the fight for
political freedom was that of
the nineteenth"
This is good economics and
good sociology. The man who
wrote these two. prescient
paragraphs over so years ago
knew what he was about.
Mcclure seems to have felt
things Of this sort rather than
to have reasoned them out.
The basic notions, once
formed. were left to others to
develop in detail.
Stable Of "Muckrakers"
And so 8. 8. Mcclure was
not a writer or thinker-and
still less an academician-
but a magazine and news
syndicate editor: the founder
Of the once celebrated but
long defunct McClure's Mag
azine and Of the newspaper
syndicate that still bears his
name.
Ida Tarbell. Lincoln Stef-
fens, and Ray Stannard
Baker were the most famous
OF the "muckrakers" who
published in McClure's Mag
azine. and, says Peter Lyon
in his new biography OF Nc
Clure, their basic ideas al
most invariably came from
their editor.
This is not the story one
gets from most Of the many
memoirs published by Nc
Clure's group Of writer's and
editorial colleagues. Mr..
Lyons purpose is to straight
en- out what he considers to be
the record.
His knowledge OF that rec
ord is obviously enormous.
He has worked through the
papers left by Mcclure and
his various colleagues. and
he plainly is In q position to
accomplish his task.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
ARA 'BoondoqoIe'

The Area RedeVelopment
Administration. one of tn e
j FIX innovations, has at
tained a reputation in less
than three years of being q
socialistic fiasco. This politi-
cal boondoggle has been real
istically referred to as the
Administration Reelection
Agency.
The original purpose of the
ARA was, in the words of
Sen tor Hugh Scott of
Pennsylvania, to act as "a RI
file that should pinpoint
areas of greatest need" Sen
ator SCOTS present opinion
is that ARA has degraded
into a pork barrel with Con-
gressmen vying to see who
gets to take home the bacon.
A single example of the re-
election function of ARA in
Minnesota cost the American
taxpayers $6.1 million Of
which SO million is an out
right gift. The project was a
new convention center which
will provide % permanent
jobs-at a construction cost
of $277,272 per job. The os-
tensible purpose is to enable
Duluth, Mimi, to better
compete as a convention city
while the taxpayers in the
competing cities are subsidiz-
ing Duluth. BY some strange
coincidence, the good From
tiersm an and ADA angel
from Minnesota, Senator Eu-
gene Mccarthy, is facing
tough opposition In 1864.
Although frugality is sell
dom a virtue found in a Gov
ernme mt bureau, ARA has
spent only $83 million Of the
1894 million authorized in the
1861 budget. However, the
illumined planners are ask
ing for $3.50 million for the
present year. Does this de-
mand indicate a lack of faith
in the JFK-predicted eco
nomic boom or does the ad-
ministration need the funds
to pinpoint and aid those
areas that could have a slim
Republican margin in 1854?
The ARA bill was defeated
In the House, passed in the
Senate, and is presently
stalled In the House Rules
Committee. Southern Demo-
Gratis are now being subject
ed to the arm-twisting tech
niques Of the Kennedy ad-
ministration to force the
ARA bill to the floor. CHAIR
man Of the Rules Committee
is Howard Smith, Democrat
of Virginia.. The new cotton
subsidy bill has cleared the
Rules Committee but is pres
emily tied up on the Speak
er's desk until the ARA bill
is released.
One Of the imperatives for
ARA funds is the air-condi-
tioning Of a convention hall
in Atlantic City at a cost of
81 million. The urgency of
the grant is realized when on
learns that this hall will be
the site Of the 1864 Demo-
cratic Convention.
George H. Miller, jr.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
Likes Us

My respect for The Star is
growing by leaps and bounds
every day. Your recent blist-
ering editorial about Con-
gresswoman Kelly's views on
the Martha Graham dancers
was worthy Of q sta n d in g
ovation. The controversial
columnists-often at odds
with The Stars own editorial
policies-are daily tributes to
your liberality. And the dis
parate and contentious let
ters from your readers are
again testimonials to The
Stars fair-mindeGness.
No newspaper is perfect.
No newspaper treats every
story in the number Of col
umn inches that certain
champions would prefer to
see. But Just in case you're
wondering II anybody out
there likes me" yes, someone
does. And so do thousands Of
others too preoccupied with
matters Of Importance to
write at this time. May I
quote Thomas Jefferson
Were 1t left to me to decide
whether we should have a
government without news
papers or newspapers without
government. I should not
hesitate a moment to prefer
the latter"
Arthur O'Malley.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
Moose Call

AS preSlQenC-elecC OF Che
Council for Exceptional Chill
dren, a branch of the Ma
tional Education Association,
and a professional organiza-
ton for tea C h ers, admin
iStrators, psychologists, an d
others who work with excep-
tional children, part of my
duty is to find suitable
meeting places for our func-
tions. A friend suggested that
I call the Moose Lodge in
Prince Georges County and
request the use of a room for
our October l3 social-benefit
party. I spoke to an official
of the Moose on the phone,
and described our groups
needs. Well, It seemed that
they did have such an ap-
propriate room, but, he
asked. "Is your group all
CaucaSian?"
OF course not. We are a
group concerned with educa-
tion-specifically those
children who are mentally
retarded, brain-damaged,
emotionally disturbe e d, or
who suffer from special
learning problems, blindness,
partial sight, or hearing loss
eS. We serve the Negro and
the white child and we are
composed Of Negro and white
educators.
Our fraternal Moose Man
then proceeded to give a self
conscious historical account
Of how the great Moose
charter was brought across
the Atlantic from England to
America, probably on a white
boat. and that this august
document had a Caucasian
only" clause. CEC die not
plan to join the Moose. only
to use a room for a meeting.
But even this was denied. !
mumbled 1t h a n k-you" and
hung up.
This was a slap in the face
to me and the professional
people whom I represent.
Were we a ladies' bridge club
or a professional organization
offering service to the COM
munity, no m a atter-suc h
discriminatory policies by
such organizations a re an
outrage.
Marilyn b. SchOming,
President-elect. Council for
Exceptional Children. Hy-
attsville. Md.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
Hospital VondoIs

On passing the old Sibley
Hospital on North Capitol
street, one sees poignant evi-
dence Of the deSecration Of
values we once held dear.
When it was decided to
move from the building,
why did not the hospital
authorities move the stained
glass windows from the
lower floors (near M street,
instead of leaving them to
be destroyed by vandals?
True, it would cost money
to move the windows, but
it also cost money to in
dividuals, who no doubt ded-
icated these windows to the
memory of their loved ones.
Perhaps stained glass win
dowS are no longer considered
desirable in a hospital. It
is true that hospitals are
looking more like office
buildings every day.
We apparently have no
use for old values today.
That is why we see so many
OF our youth wandering
left to their own pursuits,
which often lead to SenseleSS
destruction of inane objects
perhaps a way of working off
Illustrations. In the old days,
physical labor was a way of
doing this. Today, no one
will be punished for break
ing stained-glaSs windows.
Perhaps they. like the old
ideals, are no longer neces-
sary today. After all, this is
an age Of progreSs-and prog
resS entails tearing down
the old in order to build the
new. Recriminations can
come later, and they surely
will.
William P. Thomas.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1863

and he may get more, for the Russian
4zation of Cuba remains as an irritant
to good many Americans. 1t is gratify-
ing, however, that the Senate would not
confuse the Cuban threat, such as it
may be, with the possibility, such as it
is, that the Russians may decide to run
the risk of cheating on the test ban.
Evening star., 1963-09-27
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry writerS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condenSa-
ton. Those not used 1DiH be
returned only Dhen accom- :
panied by self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1963-09-27

placing these names on sep
arate ballots which the vot-
ers would cast Simultaneous
ly with their presidential bal
lots In Novem Der. If the
Commissioners would ap-
point the winners in each
area, we would nave an
elected City Council, all
within the framework of ex-
iSting Congressional legisla-
ton. TilfOrd E. Dudley,
Chairman, Citizens Council,
n n GOuoVV1V
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
200 Teen-Aeers
Bottle Police
At RoWdy Purty

About 200 bottle-throwing
teen-agers last night battled
police in the 200 block of
street NE. after a
rowdy party in a vacant third
floor apartment.
Police reported they received
complaints Of q noisy party in
the vacant apartment and
found the party in progress
about II pm.
Police PvtS. John Leonard
and Alfred Cochran of the
ninth precinct said that as they
routed the party-goers out on
to the street, about 200 other
teen-agers gathered and began
throwing bottles at their scout
car. r
Six to eight bottles struck the
automobile, causing dents in
the right rear fender. Two pa
troll wagons responded to a call
for assistance.
Police said the teen-agers
dispersed. but they managed to
take 10 into custody, including
a teen-age girl. The youths
were turned over to juvenile
authorities for further action,
police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
ARRESTS
= Seized in Philadelphia Had Criminal Records

Continued From Page Al
yesterday charged Bruno and
the four other men with con-
spiring to travel between
Pennsylvania and New Jersey
With intent to distribute 1.-The
proceeds Of the crime Of extor-
ton and with intent to COM
nit crimes of violence in furth-
erance of the extortion."
Threats Voiced
The men. according to Mr.
Hoover, threatened several per-
sons associated in a joint VEN
ture to buy the Jewish Com
munity Center at SO Ludlow
street in Philadelphia, which
was bought at public auction
on June "a, 1868. The purchas-
ers had hoped to resell the
property for a quick profit, the
FBI said.
The FBI said Konigsberg had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20

| racketeering. The maximum
penalty is five years inprison-
ment or a $4,000 fine.
The prisoners were to be ar
raigned by the FBI as soon as
possible, with 500, 1000 bond to
be recommended for Konigs-
berg $4,000 bond for Denaro
and Colianni, and SIS, 900 each
for the others.
Sketches Of Suspects
The FBI gave these sketches
Of the suspects:
Bruno, also known as "Ange"
and Russo" was born in Italy
and came to the United States
in 1911, becoming naturalized
in 1880. His arrest record dates
back to 1885 and includes con-
victions for internal revenue
violation and for lottery and
numbers operations. Bruno,
married and the father Of two
children, has been publicly
identified as boss of Cosa
Nostra in Philadelphia but his
ostensible occupation lies in
vending machine companies
and real estate.
Konigsberg, a native of
Bayonne, N. j., is know vari-
ously as ''Kayo," kid Hershy"
and "Hersh." He has been con-
victed as a disorderly person
twice; for robbery in New
Jersey, which brought him a
sentence Of IA to Is years in
the State penitentiary at
Trenton. and for motor vehicle
law violations. FBI agents
arrested Konigsberg for pos
session of stolen goods and he
was sentenced to serve 10
years on July 16, 1858.
Assistant to Boss
Denaro, from Palermo,
Sicily, entered the United
States in 1922 and was ma
turalized in 1858. Married and
the father of three children,
the cafe operator is known to
be Bruno's top assistant as
Cosa Nostra boss in Philadel-
phia.
Juliano, whose Cosa Nostra
name is Joe Casey" is a
native of Newark. who acted
as Konigsberg's strong-arm
man in the "shylocking" rack
ct. His arrest record dates
from 1925 and includes con-
victions for assault and battery,