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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Proud Texan

I, as a Dallasite, also de-
plore the reception given
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
on his recent visit to my
home town. However, I feel
Or. Henry M. Weber's COM
ments on Texas are without
sound foundation.
What State is DR.. Weber
from that he doesn't see lit
ter, billb ards, and auto
junkyards? This is q disease
of America not Just Texas.
Three are many beautiful
parts Of Texas, and treeless
West Texas Is no exception.
The lack Of trees does not
denote a lack of civic pride,
but a deficiency of nature.
But, drive through this area
at dusk when as far as the
eye can see the plains are
painted purple and gold-it
is breathtaking.
Perhaps If DR.. Weber had
bothered to investigate, his
opinion of the cultural level
of Texas would not be so
harsh. The establishment of
countless art museums,
theaters, local opera and bal
let companies, as well as the
hosting Of national and in
ternational artistic groups,
does not indicate q cultural
desert.
Elizabeth A, MOize,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Urban Renewal

Commissioner Tobriner's
recent admission that he and
his colleagues did not know
all the important facts when
they approved the Columbia
Plaza project dramatizes the
sheer recklessness of WASH
ington's urban renewal pro-
gram.
The recklessness, 1 believe,
stems from the lack Of &C.
countability. Responsibility
for the urban renewal pro-
gram is so diffused that
the individual citizen, even
though he is the one to be
bulldozed out Of his home, is
no match for the tightly Or
ganized spectators who build
profitable apartment houses
on his land.
Imagine the anguish of the
citizen as he is sent from the
planning commission, to the
Redevelopment Land Agency,
to the Ditrict Building, to
Congress as he demands to
talk to the man in charge.
And often, as in the case of
the Columbia Plaza project,
the executive directors Of the
planning commission and
RIA who are primarily re-
sponsible are no longer in
town. They have hitch-hiked
their way to higher paying
jobs.
Unfortunately. the maze of
urban renewal a gencies is
not a refining process. AS one
who covered these agencies
for more than q year as a
reporter, I can testify that
seldom do any of these board
members ask a penetrating
question-at least in public
hearings-about q proposed
urban renewal project. They
depend aim st entirely Oh
staff. The result Is this late
awakening on Columbia Pla-
za-well after h ONE have
been destroyed.
The city's newspapers
could be expected to fill this
vacuum Of accountability.
But here the tendency is to
write yards and yards Of
copy about urban renewal
but seldom make a Judgment.
Both major newspapers
played a direct role in get
ting urban renewal started
for the well being of Wash
ington. william Zeckendorf
has said his newspaper
support is better in Washing
ton than in any other city.
But now that urban re-
newal is no longer an infant
but a giant In Washington,
isn't 1t time to try to control
it? Where, for example, is
the low or middle incom e
housing urban renewal is
supposed to foster? Who's in
charge here, anyway?
George C. Wilson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Ladies, Please!

I am fed up with the chur-
lish drivel of those unhappy
and ill-mannered "old wo-
men" who have used your
columns to chew their sour
grapes about Mrs. Kennedy,
her convalescence, and even
her "tousled head!"
How great a part does
envy play, I wonder, in let
tiers of the type written by
these frustrated women, the
borders of whose min d S
probably extend no farther
than the boundaries marked
off by the fences of their res
pective backwards? Is it too
difficult a thing for them to
recognize that Mrs. Kennedy
is not an "avera ge Mrs.
Smith,"
More power to Mrs. Ken
nedy, and to her children,
and to her husband. I wish
them health and happiness.
Lorraine M. Rinehark
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Answers to Questions
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. What is q most IA
vored nation" trade agree
ment?-N. r.
A. This is a trade agree
ment between two countries
whereby they agree to extend
to each other the benefit of
any future concession either
country makes to a third
country. If the contracting
countries agree to grant each
other these future conces-
sions automatically, the
agreement is termed "uncon-
ditional." A Conditional"
agreement provides that a
contracting country will re-
ceive the same concession
made to a third country only
if it is willing to grant terms
similar to those given by the
third country.
@. What is space plasma?
k. w.
A. Space plaSma is a form
of electrically charged mat
ter that compoSes SO per
cent of all matter in the
universe. The visible stars,
sun, huge clouds of hydrogen
in space, and much of the
earth'S atmosphere are plas-
ma. PlaSma can disturb and
interrupt radio waves and
thus cut off communica-
ton between space ships
and ground stations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Protection

Representative Multer's revised, 60
page Washington liquor-control bill has
been cleared by the House District Com
mittee as protective legislation. But
who is being protected?
Surely it is not the bargain hunting
liquor consumer. For while the present
bill is an improvement over earlier YER
SionS in this respect, Mr.. Multer is still
back at the old stand-throwing boul-
derS in the path of bargain-sale adver-
tiSementS.
Surely it is not the public interest.
For the proposal to remove the Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board, with all
the presSureS from the liquor industry
which buffet that agency, from any
supervisory control by the District Com
misSionerS would be dangerous and
totally unnecessary step backward.
Since Congress wisely gave the Commits
Sioners this overseer authority II years
ago, there have been no signs of any
inhibiting effects on the industry. On
the other hand, however, this sensible
arrangement has provided an additional
check on the regulatory process which
certainly should be preserved.
Mr.. Multer's masterpiece contains
great deal of fuzzy language which Sug-
geStS need to strengthen safeguards
against false advertising. What false
advertising? No one seems to say. The
fact is, of course, that ample provisions
exist under present law to clamp down
on such offenSeS as they may arise.
1t is the height of irony that just
day before this bill sailed through the
District Committee, a commission in
New York City, whence Mr.. Multer
halls, strongly urged the repeal of that
city's liquor price-setting laws. In its
report, the commission cited the great
difference between liquor prices in New
York and Washington, holding up the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05

The Star in an editorial
Great Lakes Shocker" on
October % made very serious
statements concerning the
Seafarers International
Union. It has, without any
proof, without any arrest or
conviction stated that the
STU is guilty of strong-arm
measures and the dynamit-
ing of steamships.
Where does The Star get
it's information? Certainly
not from the facts. The AFL-
CLIO Maritime Trades De-
partment, Of which the STU
is a m m b e r. condemned
the bombing incident and
offered a reward of 81 900 for
apprehension and conviction
of the guilty parties. There
has been no claim for the re-
ward nor has the FBI an
nounced any arrests.
It is the height of newspa-
per responsibility tn at it
can find a party guilty with
out arrest and trial in its
editorial p a ges and in the
same colum ms make piouS
pleas for justice and states
manship.
There is considerably more
to this entire matter than
The Star would indicate
more which demands righ-
teous outra ge. First, the
Canadian Upper Lakes Ship
ping Company sponsored a
company" union as a device
to replace the STU, with
which it had a contractual
rela tion hip of 10 years
standing. This ly-created
union did not exist two years
ago; it has one contract, that
with Upper L kes, and its
members are those who were
recruited by the private de-
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tective agencies hired by the
company at a cost of nearly
one-half million dollars. In
the parlance of the water
front this is a "fink" union.
The more than 300 regu-
larly-e mployed seamen of
Upper Lakes were locked out
of their jobs, and the STU
as would any genuine trade
union-fought to regain jobs
for its m e m berS and the
right to represent them by
contract.
It is not beyond the realm
of possibility that in view of
this background-and tn e
fact that for five months the
company had fought unsuc-
cessfully in the Chicago
courts to free its ship that
some bright individual might
dream up the idea of bomb
ing the vessel to arouse pub
lie opinion-and the Canadi-
an parliament-against the
STU. It has been done before,
as any student of history
knows.
And thus, after more than
two years of dispute, the
Canadian government rides
to the rescue of a thoroughly
discredited company by i'm
posing a truSteeship on the
entire STU in Canada, whose
members are covered by con-
tracts with steamship COM
panies totally unaffected by
this dispute. By one sweep,
the STU m EN- bers are
stripped of their democratic
rights to function within a
free, democratic trade union.
Remember, no one has been
charged, arrested or convict
ed of any crime in this entire
matter.
IF such an act took place in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
A BOOK FOR TODAY
Two Books About Words
BY DONALD MINTZ

how less direct Latinities
which, in polite usage, sup
planted them"
Book About CIiches
Mr.. Adams also takes a
rather tolerant attitude
towards cliches, many of
which like change of heart"
he thinks we simply could not
do without.
Joseph W. Valentine, "a AZ
year-old securities salesman
who counts among his bless
ings a wife and three sons"
is not merely tolerant of the
poor old phrases. He collects
them.
Some Of the results of his
scavenging are revealed in "a
Book Of Cliches" illustrated
by James L. Mackey; Van
guard Press, $500.
Mr.. Valentines introduction
and the formal of the book
are cute as a button, which
considering that a book is not
a button is unfortunate.
But Mr.. Valentine has had
the fine idea of arranging his
cliches in reverse chronology
ical order. So we can read
that ''It is a sad choice, Fry
ing or Fire" appears in Thorn
as Fuller's "GnomOologia"
(17S2). Directly under that
we find that in Pilgrims
Progress (1684), Bunyan
wrote: Some of the ditch shy
are, yet camille tumbling in
the mire: Some, though they
shun the frying pan, do leap
into the fire."
But we can 60 back further
to John Heywood's ''Prov-
cribs" (1546). Said Haywood:
From Suspicion to knowlage
of yll, forsOothe, Gould make
We dooe, but as the founder
doOthe, ILeape out Of the fry
ing pan into the tyre, /And
chaunge from yl peyn to
w1rs is worth small hyre."
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Elizabeth A. MOize.

any other country, we would
be screaming dictatorship.
Even in Canada there are
many who are deeply con-
cerned over this ominous
move into the dark reaches
Of State-controlled unionism.
Let The Star be reminded
again that not one individual
has been formally charged or
found guilty in this entire
affair. Further, If such a
course were pursued in the
United States we would know
democracy is dead. Where,
but under the most question
able circumstances, could a
company terminate a con-
tract, lock out its workers,
hire ScabS and then enlist the
federal government to seize
and muzzle the legitimate
union that rose in protest?
The Star owes every
Canadian seaman and every
STU member an apology for
its reckless and unfounded
statements.
Paul Hall, President.
Peter NJ. McGavin,
Executive Secretary Treasurer,
Maritime Trades Department,
AFL-CIO.
Editors Note: Since this
letter t0GS tDritten, Hal C.
Banks, American president of
the SeGtGrerS International
Union of Canada, has been
charged By the Canadian Co..
eminent NTH a criminal con-
Sptrdcy in connection NTH
the beating of a riUGI union
official in 1857. Justice Min
lister Lionel CheUrier told the
Canadian House of Commons
on Thursday that other
charges being considered
against Mr.. Banks include
activities in connection NTH
the recent STU tDnlkout.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05

Inconsistency is the cross
upon which Senator B AIRY
Goldwater's opponents will
try to hang him in the
months ahead and the Sena-
tor is now being consistent at
the risk of Inconsistency on
water resources.
He has long been resolute
against the Tennessee Valley
Authority and he said last
week that he would not keep
quiet about his desire to sell
it simply because he may be-
come a presidential candi-
date.
The Senator said in 1861
that the iva should be
turned over to free enterprise
even If the Government
could only get 81 for it" and
in 1857 that "the people Of
Arizona are not interested one
whit in supplying the hun
dreds of millions Of dollars
necessary for the expansion
of the iva area through
cheap electricity"
He has been equally reso-
Lutte in advocating the FEEDER
al construction of the Gen.
trail Arizona Project, a plan
conceived over 20 years ago
to provide water and hydro
electricity by constructing a
series of dams and aqueducts
along the Colorado River at
a cost of approximately 81
billion.
CandOr q Departure
As q private citizen in l949
Goldwater urged Congress to
develop the river in Arizona's
behalf and again four weeks
ago, he Endorsed the project
as a matter "of vital impor-
lance to my State"
The candor of Goldwater's
opposition to the IVA is a
departure from the tradition
of past Republican presiden-
tial candidates, who sought
to restrain their commit
ments on the agency to SIM
pie promises that they would
not destroy it.
This caution derived large
ly from an awareness Of the
Twas national acceptance.
An extensive poll taken by
the private utilities in 1949,
when the issue was more
alive than it Is today. discov-
cred that the agency had the
approval of So per cent of
the people, SIS per cent of
Republicans, IS per cent of
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSa-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only Dhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
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Districts system, by implication at least,
as a model to be followed.
This is no time to hack away at that
model. The House should consign Mr..
Multer's catch-an bill to its logical rest
ing place-a waStebaSket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05

~ oCCAlo AO1SCA DuS u OOhl-
aid Adams has been speaking
about books on the second
page of the New York Times
Book Review for only 20
years. Some passages Of his
new book, 'The Magic and
Mystery Of Words" (Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, $3.50
come from his column, but
most Of the essays are en-
tirely new.
Mr.. Adams has been attack
ing new criticism and avant
garde-ism in most Of It's guiseS
for SO long that for some he
has become the ideal Philis-
tine. BY the same token, he
has become for others, the
guardian of all that is tried
and true.
His real position is some
where in between, but to tell
the. truth, he is rather closer
to the PhilistineS than one
would want. After all, it is
hardly timely to attack
Joyce's punctuation.
Mr.. Adams critics oppose
his logged defense of the
Sh0pwOrn. But this is not
what strikes one as the real
trouble with ''The Magic and
Mystery of Words"
The use - or misuse - Of
magic" and mystery" is it.
self a clue, or perhaps a SYM
boil. The words are employed
here, it seems, not in their
dictionary sense but in their
advertising copy sense. They
mean ''that which strikes you
as remarkable or unexplain-
able, you poor fool" And the
sensitive reader may properly
resent being addressed in
such terms.
Or, if Mr.. Adams is I'M
aware that he is so address
ing us, we may just as prop
erly resent that unawarenesS.
Words and Their Sounds
Moreover, Mr.. Adams does
not always see where he is
going. He insists that words
sound like what they represent
because of something in
herent in the sound itself, and
he implies that this apprO-
priateness is universally rec
ognized. He proves the con-
tention by showing Similarities
in a number Of different
languages. A nice point, well
made. Except that all the
languages cited are Indo-
European, and what Mr..
Adams has, in fact, shown is
that they are related.
Here is the cocky anti-in-
tellectualism that has so In
furiated the anti-Adams group
over the years, and there is
too much of it in this book.
Yet there are occasions
when Mr.. Adams stout COM
mon sense should delight all,
including his most Steadfast
opponents.
"The Magic and Mystery OF
Words" contains for example
a delightful essay in praise of
four-letter words, particularly
the Big Six" not one of
which can be printed here.
"There are things to be said
in favor of even the coarsest
of the four-letter words" pro
claims Mr.. Adams. ''They are
fortnight and vigorous, and
for that reason preferable to
the more pOnderouS and some
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Shocked by Great Lakes Shocker|

Lorraine M. Rinehart
Smyrna times., 1963-04-25
2zlZ1 !. Il ,

very Ill.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. Rich Holland
of Baltimore, Md, spent the
weekend with Mrs. Alice M.
Reed.
MIR. John Gray, Ocean Grove,
NJ, is the guest of his aunt,
Miss Emma Payne, during the
Easter vacation.
Mrs. Loretta Niles is the
guest of DR.. Norbert Rock at
Pittsburg, Pa.
Miss Alice Johnson of Cliff
ton Springs. NY, is spending
few weeks at The Wayside
Inn.
Ensign Betty McPhail of New
York City was a recent guest
of Mrs. Herman Wallace and
Miss Nellie Wallace.
Mrs. Robert Talbot and Ro-
bert Talbot, Jr.. joined Lieut..
John Talbot on a motor trip
to Texas where Lieut.. Talbot
will be stationed.
Miss Ree-Ree FAIRIES, med
ical technician at Temple Hos
pital, Philadelphia, underwent
an emergency operation for ap-
pendicits Monday afternoon.
Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph G. FAIRIES visited her on
Tuesday.
MIR. and Mrs. Ralston Nc
Causland and daughter Jean of
Somers Point. NJ, were guests
over the weekend of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Homer Smith.
Mrs. RID. Hoffecker was a
guest over the weekend of MIR.
and Mrs. Samuel M. Hoffecker
OF Germantown, Pa.
DR.. R.F. Corley and Mrs.
Bertha B. Clifton we're guests
over Sunday of MIR. and Mrs.
Charles Owens at Lansdowne,
Pa. Mrs. Corley, who had been
spending a week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Owens, returned home
with them.
Mrs. Hervey P. Hall is spend
ing several weeks at The Way
side Inn.
Charles w. Cole, son ofMrs.
Charles Cole of Leipsic, has
passed his entrance examina =
tion for the Naval Air Corps
and was sworn In last week.
Dickie, as he is known TO his
school friends, Is a senior In
the John Bassett Moore High
School and will finish his cour-
Sc for graduation.
Smyrna times., 1963-04-25

given by Rev. ]. S. Short, pas
tor of the Kenton Methodist
church. The children of the
Kenton school sang.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Stel-
ler of Taylor's Bridge enter
tanned a few children on Sat-
urday afternoon In honor of
their son Billy's tenth birth
day. The afternoon was spent
by playing games and later
refreshments we're served.
Billy received some very pretty
and useful presents. His friends
departed wishing him many
more birthdays. Those pres
ent were Lena Newman, En-
ma Daniels. Jane and Doris
Dukes, Virginia, Elsie and
Pauline Shockley, Marie Stel-
ler, Virginia McClain, Shirley
and Mary Lou Reynolds, Car
olyn Shetzler, Jimmie and Son
ny McClain, Samuel Sweeunan,
Roland, Louis and Frank Dan
iels, Carl Francis, Johnnie
Shetzler, and Jackie Steller.
On Sunday, April 18th Mrs.
Edgar Moore of near Smyrna
was attacked on their farm by
a bull from another farm which
had wandered away. Mrs. Moore
was knocked down and had pre-
sence of mind to crawl under
a nearby wagon. MIR. Moore
hearing the screams ran to her
resuce and with a rifle killed
the animal, which the owner
claimed.
MIR. and Mrs. Leroy Cole,
of Smyrna, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter,
Miss Fay Marie Cole, to Mr..
Frank ]. Harvath, son of MIR.
and Mrs. Stephen Harvath, of
Hartly. No date has been set
for the wedding. Miss Cole is
a graudate of the John Bassett
Moore School here.
A representative of the State
Income Tax Department will sit
at The National Bank of Smyr-
ma next Thursday, April 29th,
to assist those who have not
already paid their State Income
Tax.
Mrs. Gertrude S. Stewart of
Lansdowne, Pa, has been the
guest for a week, of her sister,
Mrs. Charles G. Harmonson.
MIR. william M. Doughen Is a
patient at Kent General Hospital
In Dover where he Is reported
Smyrna times., 1963-04-25

and Capt. Miller are both old
time Virginia gentlemen who
served under General Robert
E. Lee. These TWO old heroes
have started out on their pres
ent campaign with banjoes un-
der their arms instead of with
muskets on their shoulders,
and they are capturing every
body they meet. They tell some
very humorous stories of the
old times In the south, play the
old familiar tunes. Then they
rurn loose that quartette of
earthquakes, those four Virgin
la negroes, who as one critic
has said ''look like farm hands
and sing like Caruso's, such
songs as "Old Dan Tucker"
"Southin Moaners, "''The Hue
heberry Picnic", to say no
thing of ''Dear Old DiMe"sung
In a way which fairly thrills
the blood. Every old Confed-
crate or Union soldier within
miles of Smyrna are invited
to be on hand for this per-
formance. You could not keep
them away. School children will
be on hand In abundance for this
entertainment that appeals to
both young and old. Those who
fail to attend will miss a never
to be forgotten treat. Reserved
seats are on sale at Clifton &
Jones Drug Store. Civil War
Veterans will be admitted free.
Reserved seats, 50f; general
admission, $50; children. 25f.
Friday night while on his
way to Blackbird to meet his
daughter Miss Minnie Roth
we'll, teacher of the school of
that place, his horse took fright
at a telegraph pole and In pull
ling him around the wheel of
his carriage came off, throw
ing Mr.. Rothwell out of his
carriage. The latter held on
the reins until his horse COM
ing In contact with a telegraph
pole tore his harness off. Two
women driving in the opposite
direction came to his rescue.
MIR. Rothwell sustained a bruis-
ed face and leg. The carriage
was badly damaged. He was
within a mile and a half of
Blackbird when the accident
happened.
A strong sentiment prevails
among members of Council to
go ahead and brick the whole
of Commerce street to the De-
pot. Members are investigating
plans already.
william D. Boyles, fireman
at the Light Plant. who recent
ly shot his wife, was arraigned
before Kent County Court,
yesterday and paroled for TWO
years. His wife and scores of
friends had appealed to the
Court for leanency.
The Smyrna contingent Del
aware Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution have returned
from the OAR. Continental
Congress at Washington. happy
In the victory of Mrs. william
Cumming Story, whom all Del
aware Daughters have supported
during three successive cleo