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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Theoter On-the-Rocks

The deplorable condition of the
New York legitimate theater has been
ascribed to number Of things, none
of them connected with drinking. That
being the case, Broadway would seem
to be proceeding with logic in request
ing permission to set up bars in the
playhouSeS. The clear-headed thinking
here is that, since liquor is about the
only thing known not to have hurt
theater, it might even help get show
biz back on its feet.
Economic rather than eSthetic i'm
provement is the immediate goal.
Theater owners will take a chance on
patrons raising the roof in the hope
they will only prop up the overhead.
There are less than IS Broadway thea
tiers today compared with IS in 1921.
Could some of the missing patronage
be lured back by the prospect of bit
of alcoholic fertilization against bore
dom?
Theater bars may help, and can
hardly hurt. Heaven knows they can
not do violence to the present quality
of productions. Indeed, very possibly
all theater-goerS, including the Stimu-
lated critics, will suddenly discover
renaissance. And they deserve one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
The Prisoner

The Illinois parole board is ponder
ing the case Of Richard Honeck. In
1899 Mr.. Honeck was sentenced to life
Imprisonment for the murder of a for
mer school-teacher. He has been in the
state penitentiary ever since. He is now
"a.
He came to public notice in an AP
story reporting he had had no letters
and no visitors since 1904. In a note
worthy example of the always aston
iShing but always unfailing American
response to such news items, he imme-
diately received some 5000 letters,
magazines and small gifts.
He also received news Of a relative
in California, Mrs. Clara Orth, whom
he had not known to be alive Mrs. Orth,
81, was born two years after her uncle
began his term. Yet her immediate re-
Spouse to the news about him was to
offer him a home for his remaining
years should he be released.
That response does Mrs. Orth great
credit, but she can't really know the
extent Of the burden she is so willing
to assume. Mr.. Honeck has spent the
entire goth century separated from that
century. And the goth century more
than any other has broken with the past
and brought into being new world
in some ways good, in some ways bad,
but in no way a new world easy to meet
in full force for the first time at "a.
Mr.. Honeck has said Of his prison,
"This isn't bad place. If you behave
yourself nobody bothers you and they
take care Of you" The old man should
be allowed to stay in what has been his
home for so long.
1t is said sometimes Of prisoners
that they must not be turned loose upon
society. In this case the prisoner de-
serves not to have society turned loose
upon him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Foul Air

Paul Hopes article on
Smog. air pollution, etc. in
The Star of October 80 is not
only sickening but it also
exemplifies utter childish
stupidity on the part of the
Government as q whole in
not taxing a firm stand on
this important issue. While
the inane pickering goes on,
the public continues down the
road to respiratory ills as well
as other physical deteriora-
ton.
The National Institutes of
Health is reputed to be given
more money than it needs.
The installation Is right in
this area. What is wrong
with their taking on this
project?
If this information is cor
rect, then we see yet another
national disgrace. This adj
ministration is so struck with
civil rights and bankrupting
the economy, the health Of
the Nation can just "go hang"
This issue is of such vital
concern, it is unbelievable
that so-called intelligent men
can prove themselves so
juvenile.
M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Inside Liberia

Your columnist, Eric Sew
areid. quotes "a friend long
experienced In East Africa"
who fears there might be In
that area "a kind of dry rot
through Africanization, a
drift downward until a sort
Of Liberia stage is reached
with a small, black, rich oil
garchy S Statistic d with its
Spoils living off a huge sup
pressed black majority"
I must compliment Mr..
Sevareid's correspondent on
the extent of his imagina-
ton because, taking an old
leaf from the usual stories
spun about Liberia, he has
now succeeded in introducing
a new elem emit heretofore
missing. We know Of the old
yarn about the so-called oil
garchy but until today no
one has ever described it as
rich" Our worst critics have
been obliged to applaud the
unification program under
which President Tubman has
succeeded in making all our
citizens look upon themselves
simply as Liberians, nothing
more or or less. They have
also complimented the Presi-
dent for the prosperity reg
istered in recent years, but I
am bound to say that that
prosperity is not yet so
marked that there exists a
class which can properly be
described as rich" nor are
there any spells" with
which anyone pretendS to be
S tisfie d. This Is another
case Of ignorance Of the sit
uation in Liberia.
1t seems that 1t is difficult
for some people to realize that
Africans are entitled to indie
pendence and are determined
more than ever before to Sc
cure this with all of the risks
involved, including those
arising from the complete
eradication Of the indignities
they have suffered for so,
long.
We all pretend to be anx-
iouS to see a practical and
wholesome working relation
ship develop between all peo-
pies. If we can't be objective
in writing about a situation,
we can at least base our cri-
ticisms on facts.
S. Edward Peal,
Ambassador from Liberia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Mystery

Just before the House killed Repre-
sentative Multer'S catch-an bill to re-
wise the Districts liquor laws the other
day, an interesting question was raised
by Representative AuchincloSS of New
Jersey.
at has always been a mystery to
me-" said Mr.. AuchincloSS, why the dis
tinguiShed gentleman from New York
[Mr. Multer], with all his great abilities,
should spend so much time working on
this liquor bill here in the District of
Columbia"
The same question has puzzled us.
AS Mr.. AuchincloSS went on to say, there
has been no criticism of the administra-
ton Of the District laws, no liquor
scandals here-aS there have been else
where. In fact there has been very
little interest in any change in the
regulatory Setup except from certain
elements of the liquor industry itself.
Yet Mr.. Multer says he will be right
back again with the same old campaign
next year. We hope that in reviewing
the reSounding 258-to-98 vote by which
the House killed his latest version, Mr..
Multer will reconsider. If he does per-
siSt in trying to foiSt on the District
revision which is clearly against the
public interest, WaShingtonians can
only hope that such well-informed Con-
greSSmen as Representative Springer of
Illinois and Mr.. Auchincloss will still
be around to lead the fight against it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Douqhboy Pension

Your editorial "Still Grab
bling" is a biased, Snide,
unfair reflection on all vet
Grams.
Your statement "a veterans
group is again presSurizing
Congress for a pension bill"
leads me to ask: Do you know
of any bill in Congress now
or in the past which has
not had a pressure group of
some kind-civic, business,
fraternal, Government agency
or the administration
ting on the pressure for its
passage into law? Are not
foreign governments and
agencies permitted to main
tain Hobbies on Capitol Hill
for the purpose of preSSur-
izing Congress for handouts
of the taxpayers money
many of the handouts for
boondoggles on which no in
telligent business organiza-
ton would risk a dime?
In your zeal to pinpoint
veterans as a pressure group,
you forget two things: First,
that veterans are taxpayers
$50 per cent of my income
goes into Federal, State and
county income or property
taxes, plus an unknown sum
in hidden taxes) and there are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Highway Lobby

Leonard Wares timely COM
mentary in a letter on the
area highway question falls
short in but one respect.
Mr.. Ware should have gone
on to point out just how
cleverly downtown merchants
have been flimflammed by the
highway lobby. Until recent
months these merchants were
being led to believe that the
proposed system of highways,
freeways, and expresSwayS,
were well designed to bring
lost business back to the
central city. Now. however,
since the highway lobby has
found that it has a pro-high-
way Congress anxious to do
its bidding, the lobby has
thrown off all subterfuge and
deception and freely acknowl-
edges that its only interest is
in the movement Of goods and
bus and taxi riders and in the
sale Of automobiles, grease
and gasoline, and, of course,
building highways.
Yes, Mr.. Ware. the multi
billion dollar highway users
lobby is carrying the ball
and the business to the
SuburbS-and it has ampu-
tated both legs of the pro-
posed rapid transit system.
AS the National Capital
Transportation Agency has
learned by bitter experience,
the highway lobby is omni-
potent. Since every auto
mobile salesman, grease
monkey, roadside vendor,
road worker, and junk dealer,
are links in this unbreakable
chain, no member of Con-
greSs can afford to overlook
the bloc of votes these peo-
pie in his district can deliver
to him. And, let us note,
these very links" have been
pressuring their congress-
men to kill off the rapid
transit system and to honey
comb the city with more and
broader and unnecessary
highways. A reluctant witness
once is said to have kissed
his thumb instead of the
Bible, a deception which was
observed by the judge, and
whereupon his honor ex-
claimed: kiss that Bible;
you may fool God Almighty,
but you can't fool this court. |"
The downtown merchants
ought to have made the
highway lobby kiss the book.
John M. Dew. Kyle, II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Progress?

The nter-American Alliance for
Progress seems to be retrogreSSing at a
speed faster than the eye or mind can
follow Two events, among others, point
up the situation with astonishing and
depressing emphasis.
First, down in Sac Paulo, Brazil'S
President Goulart has delivered an
extraordinary welcome to the hemi-
Spheric delegates - including Under
secretary of State Hartman - meeting
there at the alliances second annual
conference. In effect, Mr. Goulart has
Sneered at the alliance. And he has been
almost oStentatiouS in failing to men
ton the aid his country has been re-
ceiving from the United States - aid
that has been Squandered by his gov
ernment'S failure to check initiation and
carry out economic, industrial and
agricultural reforms.
Second, to add to the gloom that
has descended upon the non-progreSS-
ing Alliance for Progress, Mr.. Hartman
apparently has had a poor experience
with President lila of Argentina DR..
lila - a rural-type medical man who
actually knows little about the intri-
cacieS of the issue appears to have
listened intently to some far-left ad-
viSerS. At any rate, he has given Mr..
Hartman the impression that the Ar
gentine government is determined to be
less than fair and less than honest in
cancelling its contracts with American
oil companies.
This, of course, is only part of the
hemisphere picture. But it is enough to
illustrate why the Alliance for Prog
resS is in trouble and why the Congress
-reflecting the views of the American
peoples getting slightly fed up with
the business Of foreign aid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Erront Quote

I am writing with refer
ence to an article that ap-
peared on November 6,
&c. o. P. Upsets Two Fairfax
Veterans. 1t was written by
Walter Wurfel.
A former newSpaperman
myself, I was under the i'm
preston that The Star al
ways printed truthful state
mentS. The article stated, "It
was one of his proteges that
Mrs. wilkins defeated in 1851.
Yesterday Mr.. Clarke's young
law partner, Mr.. Paris,
turned the tables" Then fol-
lows the part of the article
that was untrue. "AS the
crowd ebbed from the tally
ing table at the Democratic
election-n1ght headquarters
early this morning, Mr..
Clarke sat observing the
scene. Did he have any COM
ment on the wilkins defeat,
a reporter asked. No. said
Mr.. Clarke, I don't live in
Mason District
This might have been true
had I been present at Demo-
cratic election-night head
quarters, but the truth is I
was in bed listening to the
returns on the radio.
Andrew w. Clarke.
Editors Note: 1t tDas a case
of mistaken identity. The re-
porter (1Dho should haze
stood" in bed, tool thought
he tUdS talking to Mr.. Clarke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Urban Renewal Evils

Representative William B.
Widnall, in his excellent let
ter to The Star of November
6, called for a closer look at
urban renewal. I agree.
Urban renewal started as
slum clearance; but it has
now become an instrument
by which all types of promo
ton get Federal handouts.
In other cities, urban re-
newal funds have been used,
or will be used, to substitute
the following commercial
projects; a new hotel in COM
petition with four existing
hotels nearby; a tourist pro-
motion development; indus
trial parks in competition
with existing industrial parks.
In one city, the Federal Gov
eminent will substitute a COM
mercial-reSidential develop
ment where there are 80 &C
tive oil wells.
r. V. COrtlandt Herbst.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1858

that it already has received subStan-
tial sums under the program. No such
ceiling, Of course, has been applied to
any other metropolitan area. And the
fact is that Washington's participation
is due only to the willingness Of its
citizens to come up with the con-
siderable funds required to match the
Federal grants. Congress should have
no less a concern for preserving the
appearance Of the National Capital
Area. We hope, as Senator Beall an
ticipateS, that the Senate committee
includes a forceful statement as to
the rights of this region in its own
report, and that the House, in turn,
accepts it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Lift the Ban

Senator Beall of Maryland says
he has been assured by a Senate
Appropriations subcommittee that the
Washington region will not be frozen
out of the national program under
which Federal grants are available to
metropolitan areas to help develop
park and open spaces This is good
news, and the Senator is to be con-
graduated for Strengthening out what
must have been misunderstanding in
the House.
In voting an extension of the open
space" funds, the House Appropria-
tons Committee noted in its report
that Washington should be precluded
from further participation, on grounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Defense of Europe

Reports from the NATO parlia-
mentarianS conference in Paris show
that our European allies still choose
to misunderstood American policies.
Conference reports and speeches ridi-
cule the idea Of a non-nuclear defense
OF Europe and the proposed multi
lateral nuclear force. But our Euro
pean friends are wrong.
The idea of a nuclear defense is
an old one, urged on the alliance by
Europeans and dictated by common
sense. The policy of NATO since the
beginning and the policy of three
American administrations has been
to defend Europe without using nuclear
weapons if possible.
If the Communists deliberately
launch an about assault on Central
Europe the defenders obviously will
have to use nuclear weapons at once.
This is the alliance policy; this is the
American policy. If there is a small
nibble, an accident, miScalculation,
then the past, present and future
agreed-on policy was, is and will be
Only a fool would suggest otherwise.
The parliamentarian also ridi-
culed the pause" concept, as If some
fuzzy-minded Kennedy appointee had
invented it. Actually this concept was
originated and named by General Nor
Stad in 1857 and approved then by
the entire alliance. 1t is not nutty
idea. 1t is simply proposal to attempt
to contain one of those -than-all-
out military actions with conventional
weapons and to induce the enemy to
change his mind before nuclear weap-
ons are used. Would the Europeans
simply like to be moderated?
The Kennedy contribution to a
non-nuclear defense is to pressure our
allies to build the conventional forces
which they say are necessary and which
they promise faithfully each year to
produce. And never do produce.
Instead Of creating the 281s prom
Used divisions (there is now the effec-
tive equivalent of 21) the Allies fret
about control Of nuclear weapons, and
France and Britain build their own mill
tarily useless nuclear forces. The Ken
nedy administration has tried to curb
this tendency by proposing the mill
tarily useless multilateral force - a
Joint European nuclear force controlled
heaven knows how, which would shoot
at targets already destroyed by long
range American weapons. Certainly this
would be a waste, but less waSteful and
far less dangerous than independent
national nuclear forces.
NATO policies may indeed be ready
for changes, but we fail to see either
constructive criticism or increased mill
tary contributions coming from our
most articulate allies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
Mime. Mus Lot

Apparently Florence Ho-
yer in her recent letter, cit
ing Scripture in her criti-
ciSm of Madame Nhu, over
looked another verse from
the same source that exposes
her own error - pure reli-
gion and undefiled before
God and the Father is this,
to visit the fatherless and
widows in their affliction. :"
Madame Nhu is a widow; her
four children are fatherless.
1t is to be hoped our own
first lady, as in previous
years, will be happily united
with her family. But how sad
will be the Christmas season
for Madame Nhu and her
children!
Marie Corridor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
SkooI, Vikinus!

The discovery of a Viking
settlement in Newfoundland,
as reported in your issue of
November 8 In an article en-
titled New Viking Saga" is
extremely interesting as fur
nishing archaeological proof
that the Vikings did indeed
discover America before Col
umbuS.
According to what I have
read, 1t appears that the vi
king settlement in New
foundland is not, In fact, the
correct location of "Leif's
Booths" as mentioned in the
sagas. AS I understand it,
meteorological and other ref
erences in the sagas indicate
a location much farther
southwark.
According to the excellent
research done by Hjalmar
r. Holland and others, it
could well be that the New
foundland settlement was
set up by the royal expedi-
ton led by Poul Knutson.
The expedition left Norway
in 1855 and returned there
in 1363-64. Knutson first
sailed to Greenland and then
to the Narragansett Bay area
looking for the missing
Greenlanders.
One of Knutson's "explo-
ration parties" penetrated,
by way of Hudson's Bay, as
far as northern Minnesota.
The "Kensington Stone"
now in the Smithsonian In
stitution, records that some
members of that party, left
behind to guard their ship
or ships, were surprised and
massacred by Indians.
Personally, I find this
whole subject of pre-Colum-
bian history Of America par
ticularly fascinating. AS for
the location of "Leif's
Booths" and of "Vinland the
Good" I can only refer any
of your readers who may be
interested in the subject to
a fascinating little book en-
titled First White Child
Born in America"
Robert KenilwOrth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13

a lot Of other veterans paying
taxes. Secondly, you forget
that If it were not for the
service of veterans in all our
wars, maintaining free speech
and a free press In our
country, you would not be
publishing some Of your tripe
and rabble rouSing propa-
ganda under the protection
Of the Constitution and our
free Government. You would
have been hung or shot long
ago without benefit of trial.
Clarence S. Creel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13

ment even for those who are
thoroughly tired of DR.. Ward,
Mr.. Profum o, Miss Keller
and all the rest of the unsayo-
ry cast.
For Lord Denning investi-
gated the workings of the
Security Service with pain
stalking rigor; the Service was
(and. isl alleged by many to
have failed.
Denning thinks there were
some minor errors of Co
ordination. He does not think
tn a. any reorganization is
called for. 1--WE are not yet. a
police state, u" he writes, and
ne is not in favor of an inf
mite repression of watchmen
watching watchmen. Z
Dennlng is aware that the
security apparatus is inimical
to the free society it is SUD-
posed to protect. He is aware
too that this dreadful paradox
cannot be resolved but only
balanced. The mature wisdom
OF his views on the nature of
that balance will outlive the
details of the sorry episode
that brought them out. NOD
Another Book ~
Lord Denning's inquiry was
restricted to the most impor-
tant of the subjects immedis
ately at hand. Three British
journalists, Give Irving, Ron
Hall, and Jeremy Wellington.
have r anged a good deal
further in a book called cana
tony of a Scandal (227pp., :
M. S. Mill Co. and William
Morrow and Co., $3.50. @
This work, published in
Great Britain under the less
dispaSSionate title, Scandal
49," tells how the Squalid, lit
tie mess began and something
of the psychology of the prins
cipals including George Wigg,
the Labor M. P. who pursued
Mr.. Profumo with the grea-
t est determination, not be-
cause he is a Scandalmonger,
but because he felt with con-
siderable justification that Mr..
Pr0fumO was a bad and dis
ingenious Minister. .z-
Anatomy of a Scandal,
seems to have been written
before the Denning report was
made public. Yet more of its
conclusions about what ae-
tually happened parallel those
Of the report. There was, in
fact, no security leak; this is
agreed. 80
The journalists, however,
are in favor of some reorgani-
cation of the Security Service
and they show a certain Gag
erness to defend that collee-
ton of atrociOus scandal
sheets that the British persist
in calling "the popular
press" -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13
THE PASSING SCENE .
Showing Some Strength to Lutins

mote their "own" trade and
aid.
If what Is now undeniably
happening in Brazil and the
Argentine will not convince
our reformers at home that
we are on the wrong track IN
Latin Am erica long
have been-surely nothing
will. Four successive Ameri-
can Observation-Disclosures,
velt's. Humans, Eisenhow-
er's and now K ennedy's--
have proceeded on a fatal.
assumption based upon exag--
gerated past American guilt
for a long vanished era of
American gunboat diploma
cy" in that part Of the world.
Because a lifetime ago we
did, indeed, sometimes push
the Latin Americans around,
it has been concluded that
we must pay and pay and
pay for these old sins even
unto the second, the third
and the fourth generation.
Essentially, American policy
has been this: Since Latin
America is poor and back
ward, the United States is
exclusively to blame e. Ergo,
we must shovel out aid and
yet more aid. But we must
never demand much for it in
return, not even a decent
respect from the benefit
aries.
So we have gone on, year
on year, swallowing Latin in
suits and Latin ineptitude;
and, in Cuba, swallowing the
establishment in this very
hemisphere Of an armed and
hostile Communist state.
Why? Because. having tire
less regard to our past sins,
We must never, never Inter
vene in the affairs" of the
countries to the South. z--
Getting Onto Right Road
How. then, do we get off
the wrong road and onto the
right road? Well, we begin by
considering our own inter-
ests, in awarenesS that Latin
liking" for us is vapidly
worthless until it is preceded
by Latin respect for us. we
begin by cracking down on
seizures of American invest
mentS made in good faith.
We proceed by insisting upon
our right and our unavoida-
bic duty to lead this hemis-
phere, not merely to bank
roll it like some soft, indul-
gent good-time Yankee Su-
gar Daddy.
This is the only way that
can end in strength and hon.
orable candor in this hem
isphere. And it is the only
way that could, just possibly,
end at length also in the de-
feat Of the forces of political
disunion and economic chaos
that are playing into Soviet
hands.