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Buckle, Buckle

Secretary Of Defense McNamara's
vigorous program of unification for
military belt buckles is a failure-and
we're glad We have nothing against a
single buckle for the Army, Navy, Air
Force and Marine Corps and nothing
really against Mr.. Mcnamara and all of
his efficiency. It's just that he is so eff
cient and gets so much praise that
good, documented but inexpensive -
failure is relief.
And this belt-buckle fiasco is out
standing. Look at the record: Mr.. Nc
Namara came into office two and one
half years ago vowing to cut costs by
unifying everything, including belt
buckles. He ordered the services to get
cracking on buckle commonality. The
services said, Eyes sir" as they always
they usually do. Members of the belt
buckle unification committee quickly
became deadlocked, naturally, along
service lines.
The Army and the Navy represent
atives voted for flat, brass buckle; the
flashy Air Force officers insisted on a
sllver-colored buckle while the elite
Marines held out for their traditional
square brass frame with little teeth to
hold the belt in place.
The problem was turned over to the
new Defense Supply Agency. The head
Of that unified bureau announced at a
press conference in December 1891 that
since the services had failed, the Defense
Department would dictate choice. The
services would have to take a black
buckle and like It.
This directive was turned over to
the Quartermaster Research Center at
Natick, Massachusetts,, for implementa-
ton. A research, development, test and
evaluation team went to work on ex-
perimental buckles made of oxidized
enamel, anodized aluminium and plas-
tic. They were beautiful. But they all
scratched, nicked or Clipped.
While the scientists went back to
their laboratories, Defense officials, in
GLIDING Mr.. Mcnamara, began to boast
in public about the New Frontiers alert
and economical handling Of belt buck
les. We recall particularly that Mr..
Mcnamara told the American Society
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Stand on Rights

I am writing with the
thought that our Washing
ton community may be in
terested in the viewpoint in
regard to civil rights. Of a
group with a broad social,
economic, and political base.
The National Council of
Jewish Women is a nom
partisan organization which
is dedicated to community
welfare and justice for the
individual. We've long de-
plored discrimination based
on color or creed. Our pub
LEGATION, Council Platform,
states: Councils program
in the coming year will be
an intensified effort to re-
move in every area of Ameri-
can living, the injustices of
racial discrimination. BY sup
port Of needed legislative and
administrative actions on
all levels of government, and
especially by direct person.
al action, council WON n
will help their communities
move with longer and faster
steps toward the full practice
of equal opportunity"
Mrs. James LObred,
President, Washington, D. c.
Section, National Council Of
Jewish Women.
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THE PASSING SCENE
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE
Pros and Cons for Kennedy

The most active and the
most unreliable political
summer in memory is spin
ming out toward oncoming
autumn.
Ordinarily, little national
politics is made between July
4 and Labor Day. It usually
is q time Of relaxed political
movement.
This year, however, there
have been developments Of
deeper political significance
than in all the 20-odd other
months Of the Kennedy Ad-
ministration.
Movements Of vast poten-
TALLY are stirring below the
surface among American
voters. OF this there can be
no doubt. OF what they will
portend for President Ken
nedy's reelection campaign
Of next year, however, there
can be no certainty what
ever.
Never has an administra-
ton approached the end of
Its term with so obvious a
rise In its strength among
some population groups &C.
companied by so dramati-
cally clear a fall among other
groups. In Mr.. Kennedy's case
the rise has been with the
Negroes and to a less clear
extent with other minority
groups. And 1t has precisely
followed the curve of his
hardening civil rights stand.
Emotional Crest"
Every form Of poll, every
form Of intuitive sense and
smell among professional po-
liticians, indicates tina I
among American Negroes the
President has attained an
emotional crest Of popularity
never remotely attained by
any other chief executive. BY
every sign, it towers above
the peaks reached by Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and Harry s
Truman.
At the same time, the same
indicators show Mr.. Kennedy
has lost immense grounC
within the great central
stream made UP Of political
inoderates. These, of course
are essentially white moder-
ates, as was most clearly
shown in a recent Gallup Pol
reporting that 81 per cent Of
American whites thought ir
July that the President was
pushing racial indignation
too fast as against only Al
per cent who had thought
so In May. Even more signifi.
cantly, AZ per cent of North.
ern whites - leaving the
South entirely out of it.
said too fast" in July al
against only "a per cent ir
May.
There is no doubt thai
this shift in Northern opin.
ion-which had been vaguely
sympathetic to Negro de-
mands so long as it all wa
seen as mainly q Southern
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Riuhts Not Inherited

This is relative to q letter
by Mr.. Ordway Of Rehoboth,
Del, August IA, titled; Dis
eliminates"
People are Judged rather
severely according to their
tastes, generally referred to
as discriminating tastes"
whether one is rich or poor
has nothing whatever to do
with the application Of this
term. Employment-wise, le-
gality is the improper term
to be used regarding the
choice Of an employer seek
ing one to represent him be-
fore the public, in or out Of
his store or place of business.
If the owner Of this business
feels that those Of his own
race will afford him more in
ner sense of comfort and Sc
curity, who is qualified to
reprimand him for a natural
act or decision, especially
when the objector is busy
doing the same thing with
equal zeal? Certain types of
jobs or positions not requir-
ing advanced training or edu-
cation are customarily given
to those who are naturally
fitted for them, with no in
tent to belittle them.
What type Of person one
turns out to be depends
largely upon the parents.
their character, background
and method Of teaching their
children how to recognize the
good in others; also how to
overcome some of the basic
shortcomings they may be
born with, regardless Of race.
AS the child grows, in a low
ing atmosphere, he becomes
increasingly conscious Of his
surroundings or environment
and does not go about find
ing fault with them. The
friends he or she makes are,
to an amazing degree, de-
pendent upon himself, his
ability to adjust to the like
and dislikes Climate discrim-
inations) Of those he wishes
as friends, they likewise con-
forming to his.
Rights are not inherited.
Rights must be deserved first
by a definite demonstration
of worthiness, self-respect,
dignity and above all, a full
and constant sense of respon-
sibility to God, and next. to
your fellow-man. Birth does
not mysteriously endow one
with the ability to Judge
character and thus vote intel
diligently! Considerably more
than a sixth grade education
is required to so judge an
other. Maturity in every sense
of the word is a must to
Judge and be judged fairly;
often we find that 81 years
of age is not sufficient to
qualify the label of maturity.
So, what shall it be-: abuse
Of undeserved rights" and
consequently national "rites?"
Q ~ VHJaIVs-
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ABCs Of READING

Having returned to my
own country after living
abroad for many years, / mo-
tice with mounting distress
the difficulty many Of our
children now experience in
learning the simple art Of
reading, and on delving
deeper into existing condi-
tions, I find to my horror
that about IS per cent of our
youth are seriously retarded
in reading and 40 per cent
deficient in it.
It takes a Chinese scholar
who reads by symbols many
years to acquire a stable
vocabulary, whereas under
our old system of learning
the alphabet, which can be
done in a few weeks, a child
can quickly go from strength
to strength as we older ones
did, till by the age of eight
or ten the whole world of lit
erature, history, science and
adventure is open to him as
he grows old enough to alb
sorb it.
The configurationa ii
method Of learning to read
which Is still stubbornly
hanging on in many schools,
was first started in the West
ern Hemisphere about 40
years ago with the idea of
sparing our children the eff
fort of learning the alphabet.
This matter was brought
home to me not long ago in
England, when I found a
small relative of about six in
tears because, although he
had been working hard for
almost a year st his symbol
reading, when he picked up a
book of Boy Scouts adven-
ture he could make neither
head nor tail of it. His
mother, who had been teach
ing him the symbol system,
paused for a few moments,
and then said: II know a
way that will show you how
to read anything and every
thing in a few days" She
then took him through his
alphabet and explained the
simple technique of trans
lating letters into sounds,
these sounds making up
words that were familiar to
him. In a few days he said
to his mother a little re-
proachfully: Mummy, why
didn't you tell me this at the
beginning?"
Cannot the forward look
ing authorities in charge of
our educational system
everywhere, enable our chill
dren to learn to read once
more as we of the older gen.
erations did, without incur
ring any of the lasting i'll
effects that symbol reading
often leaves behind it? Let
us wake up and join the cru
SADIE that is sweeping us back
to our Heaven-Sent alphabet.
and open the doors of learn
ing and the excitement Of
our endless heritage for cur
children, so that, as they
grow to maturity, they will
not fail us.
Olivia Fell VanS-Agnew.
Warrenton, Va.
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Having read Endre Nor
tons interpretative report,
Reds Honor Some Treaties"
still remain semi-informed,
as to how many formal
treaties, and "shadowy" &C
cords mot provided with
seals) one can break and
still to be considered honor
able, reliable, and acting in
good faith.
I wonder also whether the
range of international agree
ments listed by the author
should not be complemented
by such kind Of treatie S
which had been broken even
prior to their signing. Spe-
officially, from September to
october 1899 the Soviet
Union signed in Moscow
pacts of mutual assistance
with the Baltic States. Es-
tonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
It was not known then that
one month earlier. on August
%, 1899. Molotov and Nazi
Foreign Secretary Ribben-
trop had already signed a
secret protocol effecting the
absorption OF Estonia, Lat
via and Lithuana by Russia.
AS q matter Of fact, in June,
1910 Soviet armed forces oc-
cupied the three Baltic re-
publics, thus extlnguishing
their independence. In the
first days Of August, 1910,
these states In an act Of
legal mockery were incorpo-
rated "by the will Of the peo-
pie" into the Soviet Union.
Karlls KalnIns.
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A BOOK FOR TODAY
Crossing of Columbus Re-enocted
By DONALD MINTZ

Nina II even in the state Of
subway rush-hour passengers,
there must have been some
thing obviously and seriously
wrong.
Yet Carlos" writes Mr..
Marx, "even insisted that the
shipwrights use hand tools.
Metalsmiths forged iron
fittings by hand. Carpenters
joined planks with wooden
bowels"
For all that, the Nina II,
as Mr.. Marx makes perfectly
clear, was a bad imitation Of
a 18th century boat. The use
of the word replica" on the
dust jacket Of his book is I'M
justified. The Nina II was
too small. and more impor-
tant, she sailed very badly
indeed. g.:
For men who have made
their way through old ar
chives, MeSSrS. Marx and
Etayo sailed as badly as the
boat. They put in at the
Canary Islands, as did Co.
lumbus, and remained there
some days, but it never &C.
Cured to them to get the
Nina II out of the water,
and scraped and recaulked,
whether automatically or not.
AND THEY RAN A LOOSE
SHIP for any century. 1t is
not surprising that a few
men crammed in q tiny ship
in constant danger had their
share Of quarrels and con-
flicts. 1t is very surprising
that there was no clear line
of command.
Mr.. Marx Is concerned lest
the authenticity of the voy-
age be doubted because the
United States Navy dropped
a few supplies and the Nina
II used a number Of solar
evaporation plants in the late
stages Of the voyage.
There Is no need for con-
Germ. The authenticity was
gone before the Nina II left
port, and the Nays aid was
Of no great moment in any
case.
The notion Of authenticity,
however sincerely held at
the beginning Of the project,
became nothing more than o
gimmick.
BY insisting on IL, MT.
Marx damages his book be-
yond repair. The facts are
that the men who sailed on
the Nina II are, amazingly
brave, that they are true adj
venturers in the best sense
Of the word, and that their
experiences are exciting and
ennobling, even when mar
rated In Mr.. Marx style.
Their voyage was longer,
longer by far than Column
bus. and II was hard. They
endured and they succeeded.
Had conditions been more
authentic. they would have
had an easier time. Why
then insist on this spurious
authepticity9 -
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problem and before negro
demonstrations came TO the
North-explains the spectar-
ular leap by Senator Berry
Goldwater in the Republican
presidential sweepstakes. For
Goldwater is a moderate.
Norma ally, the national
Democratic Party habitualIy
aligns its policies very closely
with the aspirations OF
minority groups. The as
sumption, ordinarily correct,
is that the power of the
huge electoral States Of the
North will more than COM
pensate for whatever disaf-
lection such policies may
cause elsewhere. Under the
normal reckoning, the Presi-
dent could now assume q
comfortable plus for his civil
rights line.
A Possible "SIeeper"
The great question, how
ever, is whether this normal
pattern can now apply. This
columnist's opinion. first
put forward as a prediction
two months ago, is that this
time the pattern does not
apply. For never before have
moderate Northern in
terests-in private property
and in the maintenance of
public order - been funda-
mentally engaged. The
spread of violent demonstra-
tons from South to North
Is Tie reason.
1t therefore may be seen
that the very fact of Mr..
Kennedy's unexampled back
ing among Negores could be-
come a great minus, rather
than a plus, among the far
numerically dominant
whites.
Still, there are other COM
plicationS. Few politicians in
either party, whatever their
own views Of the soundnesS
Of the venture, question pri-
vately that President Ken
nedy has scored heavily
with American women in the
partial nuclear test ban
with the Soviet Union. On
the assumption that women
will cast at least as many
and probably more votes
than men in 1864, this fac
tor could become the great
sleeper"
It could certainly become
that sleeper" if one adopts
the further assumption that
"the peace issue" will be
more controlling with women
than any and all others.
Still, If public disillusion
should yet follow. this ac-
commodation with the Rus
slams who have broken SO
many agreements in the past
all bets would be off and
with any luck and any wis
dom in choosing their presi-
Dental candidate, the Re-
publicans would move from
underdogs to favorites.
g 1868
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THE VOYAGE OF THE
NINA III nv Rnhert p Mary

THE VO Y A q L OF THE
NINA ii by Robert F. Marx.
Endpaper map, illus, 249
PIP. (The World Publishing
Co., $4.95O
Sailing small boats on the
high seas is a traditional form
Of adventure. High adven-
ture itself is senselesS accord
ing to the dry. more or less
rational, standards Of the
work-a-day world.
So the adventures are not
content to tell their stories
just like that, pure and SIM
pie. They seek justification,
more justification than they
find in the obvious fact that
whatever element it Is in
their characters that causes
them to live as they do is
present to a lesser extent in
the souls Of others. The
others. after all, buy the ad-
venturers' books, and some Of
them feel stronger and per-
haps more masculine for their
reading.
A justification in the form
Of a mystique can be built on
that alone. Some try; think
Of st. -Exupry.
But it is difficult. The line
between poetry and nonsense
is pale and hard to see at
best; think again Of the
French aviator.
BUT THEN THERE is
SCHOLARSHIP. Let us re-
peat the famous voyage Of
So-and-so, and do everything
as he did. Then they will not
say we are a pack Of fools.
For obviously, no one who
prepares for adventure by
reading old manuscripts can
be a fool.
This scholarly line - and
perhaps we had better put
quotation marks around
"scholarly"-is taken In Rob-
ert Marks THE Voyage Of the
Nina H." Mr.. Marx Is ad-
venture editor Of the Satur-
day Evening Post, and refers
to himself occasionally as q
professional spear fisherman.
Like many others, he is
fascinated by Columbus. Like
a few others, he has spent a
good deal Of time in archives
trying TO reconstruct the
techniques and the feel Of the
famous voyage of 1892.
In the course OF some work
in Spain. Mr.. Marx came In
contact with one Carlos Eta
70, q man determined To
make a replica Of Columbus
smallest ship, the Nina, and
sail 1t to San Salvador. Etayo
had some heterodox ideas
about the size and design Of
the boat; he disagreed con-
slderably with the recognized
experts. II Is always nice TO
vanquish experts In their own
specialties. But considering
that there were far more men
aboard the Nina I than could
possibly have gotten on the
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry iDriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSG~
ton. Those not used iDiu be
returned only tohen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped enDelopes.
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their novels were burned to
the ground.
This is merely to remind
you that no administration
whether in sympathy or
not-is forced to sit idly by
when a mob gathers.
Let's hope our Congress
today does not pay this
political blackmail.
C. ID. S. ClarksOI
Iiohlandc NC
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Soviet Treaties

S. C. williams.
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Irish Version of Suburbia
Brings CIashing Of Gears

brass doorknobs and knockers
stirred an cutlery.
As the need for more national
revenue increases, members Of
the Dali have debated levying
q turnover tax. This Is q lace
curtain term for q sales tax.
The government also tries to
keep Gaelic alive, and every
street has both an English and
Gaelic name. The Abbey Thea
ter players names are also
listed on the program in both
forms.
The Abbey produces its shows
In the Queens Theater, pend
ing rebuilding of its burned
stage. For a time it used the
theater at the Guinness Brew
cry, erected as part of that
concerns paternahstic policy
toward its 5000 workers.
Guinness, in addition, has a
recreation hall with swimming
pool, issues generous sick bene-
fits and grants scholarships
and other material help to
orphaned children of its en-
ployes.
AS If this were not enough,
each man in the 60-acre plant
is entitled to drink two bottles
of stout daily, or he may col
lect 2 pence instead. The brew
ery's petty cash drawer doesn't
seem to suffer from the drain.
The brewery, larger than any
in Europe, ranks high among
Dublin's points of interest.
Also on the list are Nelson's
Pillar; the General Post
Office and the Customs House,
both of which have suffered
combat scars; Trinity College
library, which contains the Book
of Kells; the National Gallery;
the Municipal Gallery of Mod
ern Art; the National Museum,
the Civic Museum and many.
many more.
At the top Of Grafton street
lies st. Stephens Green, a pic
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s Mediterranean Festival Cruises


Nv Cristoforo Colombo from NY. Oct. Is
to Tenerife, Gibraltar, Palermo, Naples,
Genoa, Cannes, Barcelona, Palma, New York
First Class. 500 up-cabin Glass, S470 up.
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BY FRANK BLACKBOARD
Star Special Writer

VIRGINIA BEACH. - This
resort city, which has long
wanted a sports fishing marina
with direct access to the At
lantic Ocean, put up SOS, 900 as
the first step in acquiring one
last May 81.
City council loaned this
amount to the Rudee Inlet
Authority to purchase options
on property needed for the SIS
million marina just south of
the Borough Of Virginia Beach.
| In 1860, the Virginia General
Assembly approved a special
authority with powers to issue
bonds and develop Rudee Inlet
as a boating haven.
Eventually, the marina will
have a 138-slip marina, a stone
jetty reaching 500 feet into the
Atlantic and a high level bridge
over part Of the project.
The Gulf Stream is go miles
offshore from Virginia Beach
and fishermen heading there
often have to leave as early as
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BY JOSEPH O'KEEFE
Star Staff Writer


DUBLIN, Ireland.-Once the
Cat and Cage tavern was o dis
tinctive landmark at Dublin's
city limits, but now 1t has been
engulfed by suburban sprawl.
Hundreds Of neat brick homes
have risen in the fields beyond
the city's boundaries where
once only a few thatched-roof
cottages stood.
This development reflects
Dubhn's quickened pace since
the jet age brought America
and Europe within a few hours
flying range. More and more
tourists are arriving to buy
linens and woolens, and ogle
lions in Phoenix Park Zoo.
Buoyed by all this activity,
the nation in general and its
capital in particular try to
mesh the gears of the old and
the new. One of the major
bumps was smoothed out with
settlement Of the bus drivers
strike Of several weeks dura-
ton.
During this period, traffic
often skirted chaos. Nonethe-
less there was q school of
thought, especially among Wis
itors, that the Grafton street
spectacle of scores of girls on
motorbikes, wearing white crash
helmets that flattered their
wind-kissed compilations, was
infinitely preferable to the
grinding and roaring of heavy
buses.
But under the best of cir
cumstances, hundreds of small
cars, bicycles, motorbikeS and
an occasional brougham can
jam Kildare or Dawson streets
to saturation. If a rse-drawn
dray tarries too long unloading
a half ton of mossback nut
coal In one of the older, mar
rover thoroughfares, the
backed-up column of traffic
strangles all movement for
blocks.
Even the men who dig up
the streets while wearing coats,
vests, white shirts and neckties
are interrupted in their work.
The Electric Utility Board also
touched off some crossness by
deciding to erect q new build
ing In Lower Fitzwilliam street.
The proposal to rae several
18th century Georgian style
residences with their shiny
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Old ShriVer Home
Open for Season

UNION MILLS, Md.-The old
Shriver Homestead, one Of
Maryland's original historic
homes, will open here for the
summer season tomorrw.
The 166-year-old mansion is
on U. s. 140 between Westmin-
ster and Gettysburg. New dis
plays of Civil War relics and
weapons will be exhibited In
the old brick Mill Museum.
An unusual addition to the
museum exhibits is the origi-
nal wood-paneled interior Of
the historic Forney House. built
in 1881 in nearby Hanover.
The Homestead and Museum
are open daily and Sunday
from 10 am. to 5 pm.