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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-15

W7ASHINCTON savings and loan associations
w have participated in nationwide growth Of
their industry BY increasing their assets 14old In
the last - years They have also contributed impor
family 70 its national leadership.
Record assets OF 81 7sl 743 600 were listed BY a
member associations Of the District Savings and
Loan League on June 50 in contrast 70 el28 10000
reported BY members on the comparable 1888 date
Illustrating the impact Of the associations
growth In the Washington area. they had Silt mill
lion Of mortgage loans outstanding and STA 10000
Of savings - years ago. Now they have invested
9l508 .SoSO00 In mortgage loans and hold nearly
SIS billion Of invested savings.
They have boosted their reserves from $3.50
600 in 1888 10 Sill $4,000 ON June 80 this year
Over long period Of years. the Washington as
sociatiOns have taken leading paFt in the United
States Savings and Loan League, the National
League Of Insured Savings Associations the Ameri.
can Savings and Loan Institute and in more recent
years the Savings and Loan Foundation.
=. c. Baltz. president Of Perpetual Building As
sOeiatiOn. and the late Clinton James ofJefferson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
Strictly Limited

1t begins to look as though another
limited Soviet American agreement may
be in the making, this one having to
do with measures to guard against the
danger of surprise attack.
Thus Ambassador STEELE, chief United
States representative at the Geneva
disarmament talks, has announced that
our Government is ready to go along
with Premier Khrushchev'S recent pro-
posal for the stationing Of ground OBJ
Servation teams on both sides of the
Iron Curtain. And Soviet Ambassador
Tsarapkin has responded with a eau
tiously optimistic speech suggesting
that meeting of minds on the subject
should be possible
In point of fact, the KhruShchev
proposal-under which the observers
would be posted at key ports, airfields,
railway functions, etc.-is a greatly
watered-down version of the far-reach-
ing and unprecedented "open-skieS"
plan President Eisenhower presented
at the 1855 Geneva summit conference.
Among other things, that plan called
for Q) an exchange of military blue
prints on troop and bomber deploy-
ment in America and the USSR; (2)
continuous reciprocal aerial inspection
over the two countries, and (3) an
elaborate system of mobile observation
groups to keep constant watch on
strategic centers and the movement of
military forces and equipment.
BY comparison, the Khrushchev
idea-which would permit only sta
tionary observers, not mobile ones, and
which would rule out any surveillance
Of missile sites-iS at best very minor
and hating step toward "open skies"
Still, 1t has some promise in it, and
that is why Mr.. STEELE, while asking
the Kremlin to explain In detail the
extent of the observation it is willing
to permit, has been instructed by Wash
ington to say that the United States
is prepared to accept the proposal with
out insisting on the other safeguards
contained In the Eisenhower plan The
thought behind this, presumably, is
that even a little progress toward
mutual inspection is better than none.
In any case, as Secretary of State
Rusk has just indicated, an agreement
In this area would be welcome next
step" toward easing tensions between
the Kremlin and the West. Certainly,
coupled with the nuclear test-ban pact
and plans for Soviet-American CO.
operation in number of space prof.
ects, it could help to thaw the cold
war at least little bit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
Physician, Heal Thyself

The American Medical Association
could not have illustrated the impor-
lance Of preventive medicine more
wildly than by the revealing tests
made on its own physician members.
Acting as guinea pigs at their Atlantic
City convention in June, 1854 doctors
took broad series OF tests still in the
experimental stage. They are intended
to detect changes in body chemistry
which could warn Of impending disease.
Although physicians are aware Of
the frequency Of these danger signals,
1t is doubtful whether more than 1000
Of those tested were prepared for what
could be bad news for themselves Four
out of five were warned they should
see a doctor.
Dr. Thomas NJ Perry Of the George
Washington University School Of Medi-
cine, who headed the experiment re-
ported the most prevalent danger signal
was elevated cholesterol, found In 80
per cent of those tested good diet,
we have been told, can control this
harbinger of trouble. other doctors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18

Up in New York they have some
thing called the Condon-W adlin Law,
which forbids public employees to strike.
But they also have the United Fedora
ton of Teachers, which for years past,
under the leadership of Charles Cogen,
has been thumbing its nose at that law
and thriving in the process.
Mr.. Cogen and the UFT have been
doing this since 1850. They have re-
peatedly gone on strike against the
public schools Of New York City, and
each time they have done so, they have
gotten away with It, The laws penalties
have Studiously not been imposed upon
them. Instead, Mayor Wagner and his
minions have compromised, and compro-
missed, and compromised. And now they
presumably will do so once more.
At any rate, Mr.. Cogen's UFT-its
appetite whetted by the city'S repeated
submission to It's demands despite the
laws clear letter and spirits threat
ening to strike once again. And this
time Mr.. Cogen, in postcard campaign,
has even gone so far as to call upon all
the citys parents to joint the picket line
with him. The response, despite many
reflections, has been gratifying to him,
and presumably, unless Mr.. Wagner
caves in as usual, New York's teachers
will stage another Of their strikes next
month.
It does no good, Of course, to gnash
ones teeth over such prospect. II
New York's officialdom lacks the intes-
final fortitude to invoke the law and
crack down hard on Mr. Cogen and the
UFT, there's not much left for outlanders
TO do.
What seems remarkable beyond all
this, is the fact that many New York
parents-even II a minority in Mr..
Cogen's postcard appeal-are ready to
picket with him against the law, against
order, against the opening Of schools
for their children. How liberal" can
mothers and fathers get2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
Small Ray of Hope

Railroad management has accepted
without reservation proposal by Labor
Secretary Wirtz for binding arbitration
of the work rules dispute The unions
have announced a conditional accept
ance.
In this, there is some hope and
perhaps some progress. For the unions
until now have refused to accept arbi-
tration in any form and have threat
ened to strike if management, as it
clearly has right to do, puts new
work rules into effect. But, before the
cheering starts, it should be noted that
the acceptance" by the unions is
very iffy thing.
Secretary Writ said the unions
had advised him that they accept his
proposal provided a satisfactory arbi-
tration agreement can be concluded
with the carriers which, among other
things, will provide specific definitions
Of the issues to be arbitrated and salts
factory procedural disposition of the
ther-than-manning issues"
The opportunities which this offers
for stalling are as monumental as they
are Self-evident. We hope that Stalling
will not materialize, for an arbitrated
settlement is to be preferred to an i'm
posed settlement. If an early agree
ment is not reached, however, we as
sumo that the railroads on March 90
will establish the new work rules which
a presidential commission has held to
be reasonable and which the Supreme
Court has declared lawful. In this
event, a strike presumably will be called.
Then 1t will become necessary for Con-
gress to stop playing the reluctant
dragon and enact a law which will
force settlement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
FROM THE STAR FILES. .

them. and then burned the
building. The fiends stood
on the banks Of the river and
fired into the people. killing
and wounding scores. The
bandits took all the money
they could find in the pockets
or houses Of citizens, and
stole all the ladies jewelry,
even to the rings on their
fingers Quantrill is now
retreating towards Missouri,
burning everything on his
route. The loss at Lawrence
was not less than 100000.
Two banks were robbed Of
every dollar, and the third
escaped only because the heat
was so great that the rebels
could not get the vaults open.
:" DisSension eventually
broke out and Quantrill's out
fit split up in small units.
Quantrill was killed on q
raid into Kentucky in the
spring of 1865, when he was
surprised by a Federal force
also irregulars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18

had possible signs Of approaching dia-
beteS, govt, kidney disease and diges-
tive trouble.
1t is presumed that the physicians,
profiting by the tips, will take proper
precautionary steps through follow-up
tests AS 1t is, they have done we'll to
help dramatic new approach to
preventive medicine which may in time
give the potential patient big Jump
on disease. If the long-range benefits
are yet to come, there can be early
dividends to those who heed the Biblical
advice: physician, heal myself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
We Are LibeIed Aqoin

The popular pastime Of libeling
Washington has taken a turn which
should arouse the indignation of all our
citizens The latest defamation is not
from some magazine hack out to make
a quick buck, or diSenchanted politi-
clan, but from-of all places-the Amer
lean Library Association
Without bothering to consult with
those most intimately concerned, the
ALA has sponsored and permitted dis
tribution Of New York research firms
report on racial indignation in public
libraries throughout the country.
Somehow the analysts, who make
large claims to thoroughness, have man
aged to thoroughly distort the true
character Of the District Public Library
system and has shown a disgraceful
disregard for facts. Hopping mad, Lii
brarian Harry N. Peterson has chal-
lenged the reports accuracy, answering
twisted statements with facts as he
knows them:
STATEMENT: The greatest racial
inequality occurs in Birmingham, Ala,
and in Washington, D. c., where libraries
in predominantly white neighborhoods
exceed those in highly non-white areas
by ratio of more than three to one.
FACT: The Districts libraries never
have been segregated. No branch library
Is placed in given area because 1t is
predominantly white or colored, but
each is part Of a pattern designed for
geographical and population equality
BY its arbitrary white VS.. colored neigh
borhood comparison, the report ignored
library services given to 207, 1000 Negroes
living in mixed neighborhoods, or more
than so per cent Of the Negro population.
STATEMENT: Branches in Wash
ington'S heavily white areas have on the
average twice as many volumes as those
IN predominantly non-white sections.
FACT: Nine agencies in predomi-
nantly Negro areas have 776,117 volumes.
Five branches in predominantly white
areas have 215,2O7 volumes. Four
branches in mixed areas have 1851
volumes.
STATEMENT: Not a single Wash
ington library branch is situated in
low income neighborhood.
FACT: Most families Of the lowest
income group (under $4,000 are served
by the Central Library with book stock
of 100000 volumes.
UNDERSTANDABLE, Mr.. Peterson is dis
tressed by an irresponsible STUDY" in
which he was never interviewed, COM
pounded by the American Library As
Sociations witless acceptance and dis
tribution Of the damning document.
Here, in fact, is horrible example
of the reckless performances that boil
ster the "sick Washington" myth. Mr..
Peterson, we are happy to see, is fight
ing librarian who is demanding a re-
traction of this latest fabrication He
deserves the gratitude and support of
every Washingtonian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
so Years Ago

The makers OF Germany's
fine wines and beers we're
distressed SO years ago to
learn they could no longer
count the Kaiser among their
customers. The Star Of Au-
gust %, 1918, revealed En-
peror Wilhelm has Joined
the ranks OF teetotalers" and
has taken TO lemonade with
a dash of orange Juice" His
decision was based on a sta
tistical study Of bad effects
OF alcohol. While the En-
peror said he was not Fore
ing his opinion upon his
friends. he requested that
army officers drinking toasts
TO him do so with water.
The automobile passed q
gruelling test with flying coll
ors so years ago in delivering
The Sunday Star to Harpers
Ferry, w. Va, where the
D. C. National Guard was en-
camped. Convinced 1t could do
better than by train (Which
It's competitors used) this pa
per loaded a 1914 King tour
ing car with hot-off-the-
press editions at 2:08 am.
Sunday, August 10, 1918. The
66-mile run was made In 3
hours and as minutes-with
20 minutes spent changing a
flat" The train bearing the
rival sheets" arrived three
hours later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
100 Years AGO

The Confederate and Union
Armies. like all fighting
forces before and since, were
composed Of all sorts of men.
There were gentle, we'll bred.
intellectual types, middle
class, unpublished individuals
who were nevertheless sturdy,
respectable and independent,
and thugs and desperadoes
who were scooped up and
tossed in the mixing pot for
better or worse. Some of the
most undesirable elements
operated as irregulars, just
beyond the fringe OF mill
tary authority with its dis
ciplines and CHI e C k-reins.
Probably the most notorious
Of the bands Of guerrillas, or
bushwackers, was that led by
William Clarke Quantrill,
who wrote his name in blood
on history's darkest pages Of
that era. Quantrill was born
at Canal Dover, Ohio, in
July, 1887. He had enough
book-learning himself TO
teach school before he was
20. Restless, he moved to
Kansas in 1857 and tried
farming. Then he became a
gambler under the name Of
Charley Hart. He was in
volved In gunfights and hold
ups and was arrested In
Kansas for stealing a horse,
but he escaped TO Missouri.
Before the war actually
started he was an abolition
list; then he became pro-
slavery. He fought with the
Confederate army at Lex
ington, Mo-, but soon formed
his own guerrilla cavalry.
They swooped through Mis-
souri, and Kansas. robbing
mail coaches, looting and
burning communities and
farms occupied by Union
sympathizers. Federal au-
thorities formally branded
Quantrill and his men as
outlaws. But that didn't stop
them from being part Of a
Confederate force that cap
tured independence, Mo-. in
August, 1862. Quantrill's
troop at that time was reg
ularly mustered into the
Confederate service. and he
was given the rank Of cap
tain. However, they con-
tinued TO act more like out
laws than cavalry abiding by
the unwritten rules Of war.
Quantrill's bloodiest raid was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18

made at dawn on August 81,
1863 when he rode into Law
renee, Kans., with his heavily
armed men. They killed,
plundered and b urned indis-
criminately. The Star OF Au-
gust %, 1868, reported:
"Leavenworth, August 2l-
Last evening, Quantrill, with
a force 800 strong, crossed
from Missouri into Kansas,
near the town of Gardner,
sixty miles below here, and
Immediately started for Law
renee, arriving before that
town at 4 o'clock this morn
ing. He posted a guard all
around the city so that the
citizens could not escape. and
commenced pillaging the
stores, shooting citizens and
firing houses. A gentlemen
who managed to escape. on
reaching the bluffs on this
side, had a plain view Of the
town, which was then a sheet
Of flames. :" A follow-up
story in this paper on Au-
gust "a, 1868, said: THE list
Of killed and wounded num-
bers above 1870. a majority OF
whom were killed instantly.
The houses that remain
standing are filled with killed
and wounded Of all classes.
The charred remains OF VIC
tins are being taken from
the ruins OF burned houses.
But one hotel is left stand
ing, Quantrill having spared
this in consequence OF his
having made his home there
some years since without ex-
pense; It's proprietor. how
ever, was shot. A large num-
Der Of prominent citizens
were killed instantly. most OF
them In their homes, with
wives and children clinging to
them, while the murderers
placed pistols TO their bodies
and shot them. In one case
the guerrillas drove twelve
men into q house and shot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
Critic to Critic

Since Sunday. August II,
two disparate fictional re-
marks have been jostling
each other In my mind. One
is the caption Of a celebrated
New Yorker" cartoon by
James Thurber, in which A,
obviously at the end Of a long
and deadlocked argumen t
with B, says to B: II assume
that you are omniscient; II I
am wrong. please correct
me-" The other is a remark
I've forgotten in what con-
nection made by Sherlock
Holmes to Watson: 1T is sin
lister, my dear Watson, in the
highest degree sinister"
In The Sunday Star for
August IL. the review OF a
book, "rhey Fought Alone"
began with the following
paragraph: "rhe United
States, which muddled along
for more than three years
before finally crushing japan
in World War II, botched
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
Tito's Title

Your Technology in refer
ence to various European
dictators is interesting. In
your August IA edition, you
refer on page l to "Yugoslav
President Tito's" visit to
Mexico and other South
American countries, while on
page 2 you report on "Dicta-
tor Antonio de Oliveira Sal
azar's" accusations Of the
United Nations. Do you not
believe that the same epithet
applied to Portuguese Premier
Salazar should also be applied
to Yugoslavia's "President?"
Or are you willing to see evil
only on the extreme right in
Europe and not on the ex-
IRENE left? Tito's dictator
ship Is a much more thorough
and bloody one than Sala-
Ears ever was or could be.
No one can match a Commu-
mist in his ability to prosecute
and destroy all political OPP
position-and this is what
dictatorship actually is.
I would not have written
this letter had I not noticed
the large amount Of space
and good press which you
seem to be devoting to the
Yugoslav Communist regime
lately. On the other hand,
you totally neglect to men,
ton many OF Tito's state
ments which would strike
your readers unfavorably.
One such notable one was his
two-hour speech on May 10
In which Tito openly stated
that -. we are an indis-
pensable part Of the Interna-
tional Communist and pro-
gressive movement" After
all, a newspaper has the duty
not only to propaganda its
editorial line, but also to in
form the public effectively.
1t seems TO me that some
measure TO your enthusiasm
for Tito is long overdue, along
with more balanced reporting
on Yugoslav affairs.
NJ. A. Cowper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
NettIes to Blame?

Much has been said and
written about the current
problem Of dead fish in the
Chesapeake Bay and the Po-
tomac River. Your recent
editorial august 14) aptly
points out the problem and
the need for solution. How
ever, we have not heard or
seen any suggestion that the
jelly fish may be a causative
factor in this phenomenon.
AS is we'll known, the jelly
fish are more numerous this
year than they have ever
been. In some areas Of the
Bay, at times they constitute
almost a solid mass. 1t seems
possible that these animals
may be directly or indirectly
responsible for the death of
the fish. First, because of
their hgue number they could
use up the oxygen supply
needed by the edible fish.
Secondly, it could be that the
jelly fish are ingesting food
materials which ordinarily
would have gone to the edible
fish. Thirdly, and to me most
likely, is the fact that the
jelly fish may, because of the
toxic nature Of the substance
in their stingers, be killing
the fish directly.
It is known that the ten
tacles Of the jelly fish will
adhere to and will paralyze
almost any organism, provid-
ed that its surface can be
penetrated by the poisonous
threads shot out from the
tentacles. In fact, because Of
the astronomical number Of
jelly fish present in the wa
ter, it seems likely that many
species Of fish would be bound
to come into close contact
with them. 1t may be that
the white perch's scales are
thinner and could be pene-
trated. This the fish experts
should be able to determine
by study.
Beach Property Owner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18

The 81 decision Of the
Circuit Court OF Appeals,
which refused to reopen the
Prince Edward County
schools is a classic in legal
and logical miscarriage.
1t quotes the philosophic
humor Of Anatole France,
1.-THE law in its majestic
equality forbids the rich as
well as the poor to sleep I'M
der bridges, to beg in the
streets and to steal bread"
Obviously, the inequity of
options does not confer a Ii
cense or even a right to
equalize the options. Is the
Negro asking for criminal
options2 There is a difference
between the option to eat
cake or bread and the option
to eat bread or nothing.
Necessity calls for justice
and justice is a necessity. Is
education a frosting or is it a
necessity? Perhaps in the fu-
ture the same judges will rule
that Prince Edward County
Negroes are not entitled to cit
izenship rights because they
are illiterate, unemployed,
welfare dependent and vast
rels.
Omitting considerations Of
spitework or legal evasion. is
there a majestic posture here
OF simulated legality, fairness
and justice?
There are two sides to the
problem but 1t must not de-
generate into a pattern Of
willful tripping and then a
declaration of a fallen" sta
tus quo.
In effect, has the court
come up with a LET them
eat cake!" decision.
Milton A, MandeI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18
Private Business

The proposed civil rights
legislation probably arouses
the greatest degree Of antag-
onism among those who feel
that the Government would
thereby interfere intolerably
with the rights of private
business. I propose a simple
solution for this and all SINH
lar problems.
Let any business which
wishes declare itself to be
totally and completely pri-
vate. 1t would be excluded
from the operation Of all
Government restrictions and
likewise, of course, from the
operation Of all Government
benefits. Such a totally pri-
vate business would:
a. Not use the courts to
collect debts due it, to sue
trespaSsers, or prose t e
thieves or robbers.
b. Not expect the protec-
ton Of the police and fire
departments.
c. Not employ people edu-
Gated in the public schools.
d. Not use the public roads,
mails, etc.
The fact Is. like 1t or not,
we are inextricably bound up
in the complex machinery of
government without which
no large group Of people can
live and work together in
close contact. 1t involves both
obligations and benefits. 1t
is perfectly proper to argue
for or against any obligation
or any benefit as we see fit.
but we cannot say that any
activity which is largely de-
pen d emit on Government
functions for its existence is
so private in nature as not to
be subject to obligations
which are Economically de-
termined to be in the public
interest.
David n. ScIII