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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03

MEEkS, HARRY EARL. On Saturday,
November 90, 1888, at Memorial Hos.
pital, Sarasota, Fla, HARRY EARL
MEEKS,. husband Of Mary. Ann
Mrs. Frances NJ. Taylor and Mrs.
Edna NJ HUMPHREYS, both OF Alex
andria, Va; stepfather Of Edward S,
Rollins Of Los Angeles, Calf, and
grandfather of Richard and John
Rollins Of Los Angeles. Calf. 70.
cember 4, at q:S am, at the Cum
ningham Funeral Home, Cameron and
Alfred sts., Alexandra, Va. Inter-
ment Arlington National Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
DORIS FLEESoN
Kennedy's Trip for the Alliance

Russian investment has
been worthwhile to him as
a "gadfly to divert the at
tention of the United States
from the real dangers and
challenges Of Latin Amer
ica."
This position would once
have provoked some lively
debate, pro and con. But
such is out of fashion. Mem
bers of the Senate and
House today prefer in the
television. age to spread
their views on the screen,
rather than slug on the
floor.
1t took. indeed. some
courage for the freshman
Democrat to lead an argu-
ment in these terms, as his
Republican colleague, Sen
ator Karl Mundt, is among
those who make anti-Com-
munism an end in itself.
Mr.. McGovern suggests that
the American mission Is ito
point the way to a better
life"
Gov. Rockefeller, the
Presidents probable rival
next year, has demonstrated
his belief that the faltering
Alliance is a good political
issue against the admin
istration. If for no other
reason, the President will
not give ground on 1t will
lingly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
DAVID LAWRENCE
Factors for Economic Growth

ments with large areas or
regions embracing several
countries. but also a wider
investment Of American cap
ital abroad.
6. A REORGANIZATION Of the
whole range Of foreign in
vestment so that individual
American companies will be
protected against confisca-
ton or harassment at the
whim of changing regimes,
especially in Latin America.
A formula by which the
United States Government
guarantees a certain portion
Of the investment would
probably achieve this pur-
pose, especially since in times
of default or domestic tur-
bulence the protests Of one
or more private businesses
are futile, whereas the power
and influence Of the Ameri-
can Government is bound to
insure q large measure Of
protection for the investors.
While the growth in
American exports in the last
decade has been consider
able, and imports have In
creased, too. the surface has
hardly been scratched on
what can be done TO enlarge
American sales opportunities
abroad. Not enough time has
been given by Congress to
the study Of how Americas
domestic economy can be
enlarged by production Of
materials and finished goods
needed in other countries to
raise standards Of living for
the people.
These projects could be
financed by foreign govern
ments in cooperation with
American companies that do
business abroad. To blend
the private and public sectors
in foreign-trade projects has
been an objective often ex-
pressed. and some progress
has been made along this
line through various inter-
national financial institu-
tons. But the amounts forth
coming are still negligible,
and the impact on world
trade is infinitesimal COM
pared to what 1t could be.
Permanent measures that
will take the brakes off the
national economy and rid it
Of impediments to progress
are the crying need Of the
times.
(copyriEht. 1889
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
DORIS FLEEsoN
President Will Bolster Hemisphere Plan
In Visit to Costa Rico Next Week

President Kennedy will
take personal command of
the effort to shore up the
shaky Alliance for Progress
program for Latin America
in a visit to Costa RIGA next
week.
This week Senator George
McGovern, South Dakota
Democrat and former direc-
tor Of the Food for Peace
program, undertook to pillow
some ground for him. 1t was
Mr.. McGovern's m alden
speech and combined an at
tack on what he termed "our
Castro fixation" with an APP
peal to Congress to push on
with the tough and painful"
task Of making the Alliance
work.
The Alliance, as with all
foreign aid, is regarded with
unusual sourness by a Con-
gress asked to accept some
unorthodox economics, in
Guiding a tax cut and a heav-
lily unbalanced budget. Its
especial weakness is the fall
ure Of Latin American coun-
tries to seek their own saliva
ton in reform Of the systems
which have impoverished
their people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
Bench Experience
Rutio Urged for
Court Appointees

Half Of all future Appendices,
to the Supreme Court would be
required to have at least 10
years experience on the bench
II a resolution introduced yes
terday by Senator StenniS,
Democrat Of Mississippi. passes.
The Senator said that only
three Of the nine present jus
tees had prior judicial expert
ence, and added, "this is not y
healthy trend"
Senator Stennis said that be-
fore 1882 a majority Of sd
preme Court justices had prior
judicial experience. But from
1892 until now a majority of the
appointees did not.
Senator Stennis Is proposing,
that every other appointnieht
be made from persons with
prior judicial experience. The
Senator mentioned Chief JUS
tice John Marshall, Chief JUS
tice Charles Evans Hughes and
Justice Louis Brandeis as three
examples Of Outstanding" ,
justices who had no prior ex-
perience, and he pointed out
his resolution would still per-
NIT the appointment of some
outstanding lawyers who had
not been judges. .,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
DAVID LAWRENCE

The American people are
being told repeatedly that q
tax cut will bring prosperity.
Yet it's just one Of five or
more major factors that are
essential to the economic
growth of the United States.
II the other incentives are ig-
nored-as is the case today
a depression Of the severest
kind can conceivably confront
this country in the next few
years.
One trouble is that figures
are being given out current
~ TO generate optimism, but
they are not being explained
to the public in true perspec-
tive.
Thus, an announcement this
week from the United States
Department of Commerce
forecasts business expendi-
lures for new plant and
equipment this year at q
record 1891 billion"
But of what good are gen.
eralities about record SPEND
ing" when 1t turns out that
the increase in projects for
plant and equipment In 1868
will be the second smallest
in II years? There have been
increases in l3 out Of the
last II years. 1t is the rate
OF increase, rather than the
total figure, that counts.
Take also the item Of
profits Of corporations. Econ
omists estimate that profits
will total SITS billion in the
fourth quarter Of 1868. This
could be emphasized by the
over-optimistic as equaling
the highest record in history.
But what kind Of record is
1t for corporate profits to
reach $27.5 billion this year,
when they were the same ex-
actly l3 years ago in the last
quarter Of 1902 This hardly
indicates progress.
Furthermore, in 1850 these
profits were 9 per cent Of the
gross national product, but in
1862 they were only AZ per
cent. II the rate Of profit in
terms Of the gross national
product keeps going down and
the total profits make no in
crease over what they were
IL years ago, the word to use
Is not progress" but stag
nation"
President Kennedy is put
ting all his eggs in one bas-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Tx bulletin: Military grousing about Defense
Secretary McNamara iron rule Of the Penagon They say
the only officer promoted recently General Dynamcs
k&HA
Britain censors sarcal stage skit about Queen Eliza
BETH Jackie Kennedy reported thought: Oh be queen
for q day"
The final indignity Of politics: The isolationist who
came down with Asian flu.
Pentagon Spokesman Sylvester says he lies to
Americans only tries to msead the enemy Next time you
hear him making announcement in Russian don't believe
q word Of it.
They've out with new incubation for poison ivy.
Slogan An itch in time nine
Red China invites Russia to summit conference It's
real Communist cliff-hanger. Will Mao Tse-tung
Khrushchev from the brink Of peace2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15

They have come to believe
at last that Congress may be
baking, judging by various
imprisoned public relations
efforts they are making. Ger
tainly. they are necessarily
impressed when a veteran
New Dealer. Senator Ernest
Gruening Of Alaska, spreads
a terse. forceful warning on
the Congressional Record as
he did last week.
Senator McGovern's inter-
est In the historic American
role Of relieving human mis-
cry, as reflected in his exec
utive job, permeated his long
review Of Latin American
sufferings at the hands Of its
own rulers. This was to be
expected; he knows the story
we'll at first hand.
His blunt comments on
Castro fixation" are pos
sibly even more welcome in
the White House, which
shares his view but hesitates
to call Congress to account
on the wisdom of its course.
AS Mr.. McGovern sees it,
Nikita Khrushchev has, by
e m bracing Fidel Castro.
reduced Mr.. Castro's appeal
in this hemisphere. But.
argued the Senator, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
Democrats Have 'Softness' to Fear
On Cuba, G. 0. p. Dodqes War Party

souri,, q 1860 presidential as
pirant, and Russell Of Geor-
gia, perhaps the most influ-
entail single member In Ell
ther house Of Congress. This
faction, while not fairly open
TO the epithet "warhawk," is
not at all satisfied the adj
ministration has gone far
enough In coping with Castro.
Like the Dirksen-H alleck
wing Of the @. o. p. the
Symingtons and Russells
would run more risk than the
President is CHANGING, but
would stop short Of the ex-
IRENE line Of which Chairman
Miller and, say. Senator Barry
Goldwater, are exemplars.
Now. one other point should
be totally understood. Nobody
In these four sets Of earn
estly contending men differs
with anybody else as to the
objective. All most truly want
to see an end Of communism
In this hemisphere. It Is not
differing motives which are
involved here; 1t is differing
judgments.
To this columnist, among
the Republicans the Dirksens
and Hallecks are right, and
among the Democrats the
Russells and Symingtons are
right.
For, finally to adopt the
Miller line the @. o. p. will
attach the war Party" label
to itself, with grave probable
political consequences for
1864, quite apart from the
grave error in substantive
policy that line would in
volve. And If the Ball-Admin-
istration people prevail
among the Democrats, the
Democratic Party will enter
1864 under heavy charge that
it did not fully face up to
communism.
What is needed is a work.
ing concert among the Presi-
dent. the Dirksens, Hallecks,
SymingtOns and Russells, ex-
GLIDING alike the Millers and
Goldwaters and those ADMIN
istration people who cling to
the claim that all Is well as It
stands.
This concert should en-
courage the President, as the
final authority, to set upon a
policy more affirmative than
at present but yet treating
war as the very last resort.
Surely such a policy, for one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
For MoIoise, a Dose of Reality

German phase - presents
itself. For with the right
routes and the right sup
porting cast. the President
can assert anew a string Of
home truths: That the United
States is a great power with
world responsibilities; that by
steady effort over many years
this country has made pos
sible the survival and pros
perity Of the Western world:
that 1t still maintains the
outposts Of freedom, and that
millions Of free men are glad
Of 1t. Set against that kind
Of reality, the national prob
lens take on their proper
perspective. They emerge, not
as pseudo philosophic puz-
zles, but as aspects Of world
leadership - practical chal-
lenges requiring concrete
answers.
To be sure. there are EVIL
dent risks in building UP
the European tour. One is
the danger Of taking on. or
seeming to take on. new COM
mitments that might further
unsettle relations with the
Soviet Union. But nothing in
the Constitution DEGREES
what the President has to
say abroad. West Berlin. In
particular. might be an ideal
forum for a restatement of
the Atlantic partnership
ideal which encompasses this
country's German policy.
Another risk is Gen. de
Gaulle. The recent Franco
German friendship treaty Is
up for ratification by the
Bundestag sometime In late
spring. The general and
Chancellor Adenauer will
want TO celebrate the union
- in s m e Carolingian rit-
ual, no doubt. But ii Gen.
de Gaulle elects to use the
occasion for an invidious
popularity contest, that will
be his choice. not that OF
the President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
Other Incentives Besides Tax Cut
Offered as Anti-Depression Moves

ket. He is depending on q tax
cut alone. The emphasis
seems TO be on stimulating
spending" by means of a tax
cut Of $40 billion spread over
the next three years. Pump
printing" Of this kind, how
ever, has failed again and
again TO bring sound business
conditions and has resulted
instead In a series Of setbacks
every few years. The main
reason is that other factors
have been neglected. Lasting
improvements rather than
temporary palliatives are
needed.
What seems most unfor-
tunate is the complete indif-
ference exhibited here in
Washington to the factors
that could produce a we'll
balanced and sound economy
in the decade ahead. Among
them are the following:
/. Removal of Government
barriers to marketing opera
tons that could increase the
total volume Of sales.
2. An increase In the rate
Of profit per dollar Of sales.
This would involve encour-
agement Of automation and q
general reduction of costs, but
1t also would mean more VOL
ume OF business. The big
telephone companies, for in
stance, employ more people
since they introduced auto
matte phones than before.
Employment is reallocated
due to automation, but the
sum total Of jobs is increased.
3. Legislative action to per-
NIT q system Of fair competi-
ton in which interferences
with marketing are elimi-
mated, and no monopolies by
any company or labor organi-
cation are tolerated.
4. A prohibition against in
dustry-wide bargaining" for
labor agreements, because
they tend to produce monop-
olies by forcing marginal
companies out Of business
through high labor costs and
by bringing about mergers
that reduce or eliminate COM
petition within an industry.
5. An announcement Of
trade with the rest Of the
world by a comprehensive
plan which would include not
merely q system Of reciprocal
tariffs and trade arrange
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
Statement of u. S. Role by President
In Europe Expected to Be Helpful

budget. The Defense Depart
ment has been dragged into
q hunt for q definition Of
something sensible men have
long known to be indefinable
the right relationship be-
tween civilian management,
on the one hand. and the
generals, the Congress and
the press on the other. The
Supreme Court, which has
important business to trans
act In matters Of civil rights
and legislative reapportion-
ment, has to stake its full
majesty on the issue Of
whether 1t is constitutional
for 8-year-olds to read
prayers In school. The Sem
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee-which might be maxi
ing a contribution to Euro
pean issues-is instead beat
ing the old. II not dead, horse
OF improper influence by rep
resentatives Of foreign gov
ernments.
The usual recipe for this
state Of affairs is TO cry
havoc. But no one really ex-
poets q major war. The
Pentagon has not only closed
the missile gap: II is now
coming clean with the EVIL
dence that even in Europe.
Western forces can put UP
quite q respectable fight. Nei-
ther does anyone seriously
believe that q depression is
around the corner. The most
pessimistic forecasts seem TO
rest on the argument that
whereas the last three recov-
cries lasted As. IS, and rs
months respectively. the pres
ent upswing is entering its
25th month "a demonstra-
ton about as Euclidian as
eating soup with a knife.
II is In these circumstances
that the coming European
trip - and notably its West
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
JOSEPH KRAFT

At his last news confer
ence the President observed
that governments, like peo-
pie, have their ups and
downs. But people tend to
make their own breaks, and
II the Government is TO get
q lift, the President viii have
to lend q hand. One impor-
tant opportunity is his COM
ing tour Of Western Europe.
Properly handled. the trip
could administer TO the ma
tional malaise the exact spe-
cific 1t needs-which is q
dose Of reality.
For what has gone wrong
In the past few months Is
not truly expressed by the
pinpricks Of untoward events.
The main trouble is not that
unemployment has passed the
6 per cent mark; or that the
club" still dominates the
Senate; or that the Presi-
dent has had a hard time
rounding UP a public commit
tee for his tax program; or
that Soviet troops are In
Cuba; or that the North At
lantic alliance seems TO be
floundering. The real DIFF
ficulty is that the national
thinking process has been di-
verted into an abstract. logic
chopping debate that Is
about as fruitful as discus
sion Of whether or not life
Is really a fountain. In con-
sequence, there has grown up
between the problems we face
and the issues we argue q re-
lationship Of systematic ir-
relevance.
Serious address 10 domestic
economic problems is hung UP
on a question medieval
schoolmen would have been
proud to invent; whether the
rule of the family budget
should apply 10 the national
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
WILLIAM S. WHITE

Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike are walking over
political minefields now over
Castro Cuba, and Of this their
wisest leaders are poignantly
aware.
The ultimate fear of the
ablest Democrats is that their
party may wind up convicted
Of undue "softness" toward
Communist Cuba. The ulti-
mate fear Of the ablest Re-
publicans is that theirs may
wind up tagged as the war
Party" There is every rea-
son for both concerns.
Rarely in the endlessly
marching world crises of three
decades have both American
parties confronted such subtle
crises OF their own in the
matter Of how to deal with a
foreign danger with strength
and yet with prudence, with
care for national safety and
with care also for party
safety.
In both, the most profound
inner struggles are now going
on. Within the @. o. p. one
set of antagonists is made up
Of the top @. o. p. Congress
sional leaders, notably Sena-
tor Dirksen Of Illinois and
Representative Halleck of In
diana. This set wishes to press
the Kennedy administration
for more action-but not
enough action to accept the
imminent threat Of major
war.
The other set, typified by
Republican National Chair
man william E. Miller, de-
mands far more risky moves
against Castro-for example,
an unrestricted blockade
which in itself would be an
act of war.
Within the Democratic
Party one set Of antagonists
Is made UP primarily of
second-rank but articulate
bureaucrats from the admin
istration. It wishes to halt
substantially all criticism of
the President. These people,
men like Undersecretary Of
State George Ball, really are
demanding. consciously or
not. that the country simply
take all administration deci-
sions on Cuba on faith. and
cease making trouble.
The other Democratic fac
ton is exemplified by Sena-
tors like Symington of Mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15

The Washington Bridge
League will hold its contest at
the Sheraton-Park Hotel, and
the Northern Virginia Bridge
Associations tournament will
be at Park Arlington Hotel, Ar
lington boulevard at North
Court House road. Both will
begin at 8 pm. Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
Fair Skies Expected /,
For Irish Parade n

NEW YORK. Mar. is CAPS. !
The Weather Bureau has
forecast fair skies and milder
temperatures for New York's,
celebration tomorrow Of st.
Patrick's Day with its tradi-
tional Fifth avenue paradepi 10.
The event was scheduled for
Saturday because the great day :
for the Irish falls on Sunday
this year. ~
Some l25,000 persons, m
Guiding 200 or more bands, are /.
expected to march before + O
million spectators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
Dangerous Labels Poised to Roost

thing, should contemplate q
far harder and more open
pressure than is now being
exerted upon our Latin Amer
lean neighbors to see Cuba
as a hemisphere cancer and
TO join with us to cut 1t opt.
one way or another.
Copyright, 1851
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-15
Two Bridge Contests
Slated Next Week

Two Washington area con-
tests will be held next week in
conjunction with the American
Contract Bridge Leagues Ma
tion-wide Spring National
Championships for charity.
Arizona tribune., 1963-12-27

NEW YORK An advertise
ment for the purchase of NAACP
Commemoration Christmas Ger
tificates was rejected by The
Dallas Morning News.
The Texas paper informed the
advertising agency placing the ad
for the NAACP that the text would
have to be approved by the Dali
las police department before the
paper would accept it. Newspaper
spokesmen said this was a re-
quirement for all advertisements
soliciting contributions. The
NAACP refused to seek police
department clearance.
The News Is the Dallas paper
which published a full-page ad-
vertisment on Nov. % directed
against President Kennedy who
was assassinated there.
Arizona tribune., 1963-12-27
MAN LIVES 6 WEEKS
WITH CHIMP KIDNEYS

NEW ORLEANS A "A yr.
old Negro, Jefferson Davis,
dock worker, has lived over six
weeks with a transplant of CHM
panzee Kidneys. The successful
feat was accomplished by sur
geons at Tulane University Hos
pital.
Davis is reported in good con-
dition. he is the second person
ever to receive kidneys from a
chimp or similar animal. He is
the first to recover enough to.
leave the hospital.
Davis had suffered from a
chronic kidney ailment for six
years, and recently he became
worse. Doctors first used an arti-
ficial kidney treatment and finally
the transplant.
The patient agreed to the oper-
alton saying he knew it was a
gamble. Doctors caution they do
not know how long he can survive.
Kidneys we're removed from a
go pound chimpanzee and insert
ed under the skin on Davis right
side. His own kidneys remained
in place. DR.. Keith Reemtsma
said the operation took 80 min
utes.
Arizona tribune., 1963-12-27
DALLAS PAPER REFUSES
NAACP XMAS AID

The NAACP advertisement So
liciting contributions in "lieu of
the traditional Christmas gifts
to adults" was published in 10
daily and IA weekly papers
throughout the country. The GER
tificates are available in denom-
inationa ranging from SIS to
$4,000.
Upon receipt of contributions,
the NAACP mails from its ma
tional office a certificate to the
designated recipient.
"What finer gift," the adver-
tisement asks, "in the true spirit
of Christmas, could one select
or receive--doing honor to both
the sender and the recipient in a
common pledge to work for the
day when Peace on Earth, Good
Will to Men shall prevail for
all7"
Arizona tribune., 1963-12-27

The Snceray Social and Charity Benefit Club
button to the NAACP Freedom Fund this Christmas.
The contribution made Saturday night the home of Mrs.
Barbara Crane, first from
Others attending Mrs. Henrietta Pitts Brooks,
NACP county chapter president Mesdames Oates club
president and Maefaire Alexander, club
INVEST IN YOUR COUNTRY TODAY,
BUY U s. SAVINGS BONDS
Arizona tribune., 1963-12-27
AFRICANS
RIOT IN MOSCOW

MOSCOW-More than 500 angry
African students rioted in the
Soviet capital, protesting the
death of medical student from
Ghana. They pushed past barri-
cades in Red Square shouting
and carrying placards. One read
"Russie was a second Alabama"
Police finally halted the en-
ragged students outside the gate
of the Kremlin and education
minister Vyachselav Yelutin lis
tened to them.
African spokesmen said a
Ghanian Asare Addo, %, was
stabbed to death by a Russian
last Friday. The delegates of the
African students said officials
said Aldo froze to death, but
this was not believed.
There are approximately 1000
students from various African
and Asian nations studying In
Russia, most of them in Mos
COW.