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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 18, 1957 PAGE 16 obligation to Insist on the letter of pro-Western, but this li only part of "It's Just A Little Domestic Drama -1 Think" the congressional contract: a tea THE rfgra SUN Fubllshtd Stmt WmI Df way maintained, operated and paid for by tolls, which Is to tay by the THE A. S. ABELL COMPANY Wouam T. fcMincx, Si, Pimbimt SJottrsd tht Port Offlr BslUmors stcond-cltss mU mstisr Katei by Mail Outside Baltimore Morning Ivsnlng dundsy 1 1130 130 He month tM 14 70 1 yssx $1173 $11.74 $840 Editorial 0lce BlUraor, Cltrt Street Washington, 4 Nstlonsl Ptui Building London, B.C.

4 85 Fleet Street Bonn 370 Koblensentruse 8dovy Bamotechntya, 1224 Rome Vl del Plebiscite 112 Circulation of Sunpapers in August (Daily Monday to Friday hit story. Sarit'i attitude ii uncertain. He said Immediately upon bli assumption of power that Siam's foreign policy would remain unchanged and its treaty obligations met, and that be wished to bave SEATO beadquarteri retained in Bangkok. Perhaps it would be well to await development! before branding bim too easily. While Siam is by no means uninvolved in the great world struggle, the fact remains that Pibul was first of all pro-Pibul, and Sarit is first of all pro-Sarit.

Beyond that, both are mainly pro-Siamese. The occurrence in, Bangkok has international overtones, but it is mostly Siamese. Reserve And Executive users and immediate beneficiaries. Doctors' Dilemma Maryland doctors have expressed themselves as overwhelmingly against accepting Federal money In part payment for their services in the State'i medical care program. They are afraid might result eventually in some Federal control over private practice of medicine.

Many people have the same feeling abont the use of Federal money in local projects whether it be road building, urban redevelopment, public education or any of the many other local activities in which today the Federal Government offers a helping hand or would like to do so. Their objection is based on the sound theory that "he who pays the piper calls the tune." However, this money so generously bestowed by the Federal Gov Horning 198.538 195.128 Osln 3.410 Evening 212.438 211.147 Gain 1,291 Sunday 314.138 318.578 Loss 4.442 Member of tht Associated Press The Associated Press 1 entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local new printed In thl newspaper ai well a all AP newt dispatches. Probably the best thing about the new plan for regular consultation between Federal Reserve officials and the President and his economic Coup d'Etat In Tolerant Bangkok Almost from the moment that Field Marshal Plaek Pibul Song-gram seized control of Siam In a bloodless coup d'itat in November of 1947, new struggle for power developed. One of its principals was Luang Kach Songgram," an engineer of Pibul's coup. Another faction was led by two generals, Phin Chunhawan, head of tht army, and his son-in-law Phao Sri Yanondh, head of the national police, a force approximately matching the army.

Luang Kach was the struggle's first victim. Suspected of taking hand in an attempt in 1951 to push Pibul from power, he was divested of his rank as deputy commander in chief of the army, and banished. Shortly thereafter Phln, who was aging, began to fade. Meanwhile a smaller faction under Gen. Sarit Thanarat, commander of the 1st Siamese Army area, gained strength, and the alignment that prevailed until Pibul's overthrow on Monday in time emerged: Pibul, Phao and Sarit, outwardly working together until only a few days ago, actually engaged In an Intense and ceaseless contest for dominance.

It has been a curious contest, waged in several fields of endeavor, particularly in politics and In busi-ness. Politics in Siam, whose young monarch, KlngPhumlphon Aduldet, stands above faction, is a matter of personal followlngs. Siam has political parties, but they are not like political parties in some other countries. No party to date in Siam has become a popular movement. Individual men possess their personal adherents, and the adherents go where the men go BALTIMORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT.

18, 1957 The Weather Map and Commentary on Page 39 Forecast for Baltimore and Vicinity- advisers is what an unnamed Re serve man told a newspaper cor Considerable cloudiness but with sunshine today, A little warmer with the highest temperature near 80 degrees. respondent: "There is less' in this than meets the eye Certainly it Some cloudiness tonlRht with the low ernment comes from the localities in the first place in the form of would be too bad if the new arrange est temperatures mostly In the 80 s. Partly cloudy and warmer tomorrow. Yesterday' City Temperature (ED. ST.

used in ill tsblfM ment, proposed by the incoming taxes. If the localities refuse to take their share they will be sub I 11 3 31 41 Si 6i 7i tt 10 UiU AM Secretary of the Treasury, should Temp I70 75 jecting themselves to a( double in compromise in any way the statu I II 2i 31 51 81 71 81 8101112 PM Temp. 174 75 74 78 7 75 74 74 73 73 72 72 demnity. The insidious thing about tory independence of the Federal Reserve System. And the reasons this system of Federal participa Airport High.

74: low, 85. City High. 78; low, 70. Klshmt of record In 1941 3 Loweitt of record In 11)23 48 tion is'that once it has been estab are clear. Precipitation (Airport) There is an historic and inherent lished in a particular field and become the law of the land even those For 24 hours ended midnight liept.

17. .68 Accumulated exceia this month 3 57 Accumulated thin month 5 60 Accumulated deficiency since Jan. 1... 8 37 Total precipitation unce January 1 23 51 difference in interest as between the Government and the central who have been most strongly Pollen Count bank. The Government is an actual Yesterday's pollen count from Johns Hopkins Allergy Clinic wa same date lat year, 15 Humidity And Pressure against it feel compelled to stifle their objections and go along.

The Maryland doctors' solution of this dilemma is not the one that most prospective recipients have followed. 8 P.M. A.M. I P.M. 68 76 30.15 fifl 68 98 30,07 72 70 92 30.13 jVy temperature Wet bulb temperature hnative humidity Barometer (sea-level) or a prospective debtor and will always want to borrow money cheap.

The function of the central bank is to see that natural market factors are reflected in the money rate, whether that means costly Government borrowing or not. During the war years the supervening emergency reduced the Reserve System to a mere appendage of the Temperature Elsewhere Yesterday High Low Where the men go depends often Atlanta Northwest Passage The 400-year-old dream of a 84 72 75 68 70 52 upon considerations outside the duties of official position. It Is tra High Low Paul 74 54 New 76 ffl New York 72 65 Okie. 67 Omaha. 79 58 Philadelphia.

75 66 Phoenix. 64 Pittsburgh 76 58 Portland. 75 62 71 67 8t. Louln. 80 S3 fiallhbury.

Md. 74 69 Rait Lake City 84' 56 San Antonio 6S Ban Francisco 75 82 Seattle 63 57 Northwest Passage through Arctic waters from the Atlantic to the Pacific is one more of the explorers' dreams which have been realized in 86 76 70 55 78 55 71 51 85 53 70 49 72 66 94 64 75 66 89 70 Ronton Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati. Cleveland. Denver Detroit. El Paso Harrinburg.

Houston Los Memphis. Miami Treasury: it used its powers not to Letters To The Editor reflect the natural market but to 76 61 83 63 assure the Government credit at 85 BO ditional in Siam that the leaders of the country shall during their periods of leadership enrich themselves in commerce. Phao for one has done so: having now failed to come out on top he is blithely en route to Switzerland, where he says fie thinks he will take things easy for two or three years. No one supposes that he will run out of money in so short a time as that. this century.

Three Coast Guard ships, led by the Canadian icebreaker Labrador, have completed a deep water passage from the Delinquency Commission To the Editor or The Sun Sir: read with amazement your edi Bun risen 6 50 AM. Bets 7.10 P.M. Moon seta 3 25 P.M. Rises 0 50 A.M. New moon.

September 23. unnaturally low rates. This arrangement was broken up in 1951 under pressure from Congress (whose Instrument the Federal Reserve is, in the theory of the kid torial "Regular Remedy" which In no way reflected your usual concern with important public issues. It is The Tide reach the peak it attained recently in Philadelphia and New York? The Commission for the Prevention and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency wants to tackle the problem now. Why do you fight it? Gertrude Rosenthal.

Baltimore, Sept. 15. 9 Mr. Tawes Replies To the Editor or The Sun Sir: Apparently the writer of your edi Arctic Ocean to Baffin Bay. The passage will be open for sixteen weeks of the summer, as far as the seamen can telL The first pressure to explore these Sarit too has been engaged in underlying legislation).

The break Low Water AM. P.M. Water P.M. High A.M. 8 19 6 4 came, incidentally, only after consultations (which the contemporary Ill 12 41 11 56 9.18 3 45 9 10 7 40 6 55 4 15 9 12 2 26 12 12 11 9 31 3.04 Port McHenry.

Bandy Point Thomas Point. Cov Point Cape Henry 6 04 324 10 14 businesses in many businesses. Some of his ventures were competitive to some of Phao's. In other enterprises they were partners. It is suggested in Bangkok that this week's climax in the power struggle consultants will want to keep in Inhospitable waters came from the need for a trade route to Asia.

A A Year Ago Today evident from your comments that you did not acquaint yourself with the serious work of the Maryland Commission for the Prevention and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency which you shrug off as worthless proposals. It is true that people "interested mind) between White House and .67 Partly Cloudy. Hlsh 88 Low. Reserve people which broke up in long list of men whose names sound 1 like a roll of drums in the annals torial of September 14 did not read my letter to President Eisenhower was detonated by a decision by Pibul one of the liveliest quarrels in re that official corruption in Siam had very carefully. of seamanship Frobisher, Davis, Franklin, Hudson and many more- cent Washington history over what had actually been decided.

Far from urging increased spend in the field work their heads off." However, they themselves, profes ing by the Federal Government as once more, as has happened often in the past, got out of hand, and that this time the un-Siamese step of for- bidding officials to engage in business was called for. Of course there is present reas Harpers Ferry Looks Up Harpers Ferry is looking better. downtown "section remains a sagging and rotted ghost town, but it no longer has the depressing appearance of a place about which nobody cares, nobody at all. The hillside huddle of ancient buildings, overlooking the spectacular gorge where two rivers, three states and a lot of American history come together, has in the last year been under the care of the National Park Service. With only $59,000 as a starting fund, the Park Service has not been able to do much as yet, but a little effort has gone a long way toward removing the aura of decay that has shocked visitors in recent years.

The Park Service is now working to "stabilize" the lower end of the town. The debris inside and around the old buildings has been carted off. Rqofs have been covered and windows replaced to prevent further exposure to harsh Some walls on the verge of collapse have been shored up. Cobwebby store fronts" have been cleaned out and now display some relics of Harpers Ferry's past pitifully few relics, actually, but more pleasing to passer-by than the former evidences of rat infestation. The ancient army-paymaster's house has become the Park Service's administration building and information bureau.

A walking tour up the history-worn steps to "Thomas searched for the passage, and many of them died in the attempt. your editorial writer implied, I was primarily objecting to the transfer The first one-season passage was surance in the fact that the Eisenhower Administration up to now has maintained a sturdy support of from Maryland of governmental ac If that is the true story, the events made in 1944 by the little schooner tivities which would then be carried on in other states at an even greater expense. central bank independence and so of the past few days indicate that Siam, or the powerful people in Siam, cannot yet accept measures so drastic as all that. Pibul is out. St.

Roch, and its crew of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who followed the course laid out between Furthermore, included In my over Israel's Lesser Evil Today, in the Middle East, the focus is on friction between semi-satellite Syria and her anti-Russian Arab neighbors. For the moment, Israel lies in a shadow. What do we see If the spotlight is brought back on Israel? We see that the chronic conflict between Israel and her Arab neighbors has quieted down a good bit. We see a liveandlet-live situation In the Gaza area, where nightly raids were the rule a year ago. We note that several ships bound for Israeli ports have actually gone through the Suez Canal.

We see another liveandlet-live situation in sionals as well as civic leaders, felt the need to inform the various communities and ask for their active support. Children in Maryland are still being detained in jails together with adult criminals. For lack of other resources, boys and girls, 8, 9, 10 years of age are still committed to training schools, the programs of which are not geared to the young child. Emotionally sick children are still in mental institutions for adults or in training schools for delinquents. Maryland does not have enough foster homes or institutions for the difficult, upset child who Sarit, having earlier succeeded 1903 and 1906 by Amundsen.

Ten is hardly to be suspected of any design to curtail it in the new plan for consultations. And it goes without saying that consultations as such can be useful. all estimate of $125,000,000 loss to the State, was the continued lack of utilization of Friendship Airport. In years later the Labrador, a scientific my letter to the President I cited the fact that the use of Friendship Phin in control of the army, is in. Once more a coup has been accomplished without immediate bloodshed; as is normal with coups in Siam.

(The country was shocked in ship of the Royal Canadian Navy, sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Esquimault, British Columbia, and continued through the Panama would be infinitely less expensive for the taxpayer than building a Good Beginning Public hearings in preparation of 1949 when in the course of what new airport in Virginia. The largest single element in my needs care away from his own home. seemed to be an attempted cxp, but was officially described the next day as a "misunderstanding," a good Canal back to Halifax to become the first ship to circumnavigate North America. Resources for these children are the fixing of tolls for the use of the St. Lawrence Seaway are off to -a most promising but in some ways unexpected start.

The sponsors of a low-toll, if not an entirely toll- the Gulf of Aqaba with passage of estimate was the loss that the State would suffer through the ending of recruit training at Bainbridge. In addition to the fact that these same recruits would still have to be sadly inadequate. Improvements can only be brought about with the sup deal of confused fighting broke out, and some 50 people lost their lives.) Now that the route has been of merchant ships to and from the new port of well-informed communities Israel port of Elait. On the other ficially opened by a convoy, succeeding summers should see traffic on it which are aware of the potential Despite its setting in gay and busy trained elsewhere, we are also deal free, seaway have been sharply chastised by none other than Mr. increasing rapidly.

That is not ing here with the very real possi bility of the creation of a critical Lewis G. Castle, administrator of Arab-Israel borders, though alertness is the rule, there are no signs of imminent trouble. Within Israel we see much preoccupation with material developments, such as the Jefferson's rock" and Harper's graveyard has been laid out, with signs along the way to tell tourists what they are seeing. the St. Lawrence Seaway Develop unemployment problem in Harford and Cecil counties.

Bangkok, with the Shangri-La precincts of the Royal Palace grounds as a focal point, the Siamese turnover is not altogether comic opera. The general populace, it is true, goes calmly about its business while coups are in progress, unpolitical because merchant venturers want cargoes of silks and spices from far Cathay, but because ships must carry supplies to the men manning I bow to no one as a believer in ment Corporation. In July Mr. Castle had suggested dangers and are willing to plan for better conditions. Your paper has been eager to publish sensational stories about offenses committed by juveniles, but seems reluctant to point out the basic issues at stake.

Doesn't it seem better to find remedial resources now which can bring to a halt juvenile delinquency in Maryland than to lament later when it may Lake Hula project described on this the reduction of Federal and state Hard hit in the past by floods, page yesterday. a toll low enough to attract traffic, not to repel it. The inference could loss of industry and the construction of highway bridges that cut it off the Distant Early Warning line of radar stations in the Arctic. These ships are not searching for a "Great and better-fed than any Other people in Asia. And it is true that the Nor, despite the strengthening of Syrian arms from Russia and some from the main stream of commerce, be drawn that he had departed, in Khan" but helping to keep one away.

part, from the basic plan to have Harpers Ferry cannot hope to revive its economy. But with the help of the Park Service It can capitalize on its past, which is as old as the the seaway self-amortizing and this Asian nation that takes most easily to the superficialties of Western culture, is in fact a profoundly Asian shipments from this country to Jordan, have we heard anxious appeals from Israel for arms. within a specific number of years. Governor Faubus On Record place where accommodation, both pioneering efforts of early Ameri Either the inference was without foundation or Mr, Castle has cans to breaK througn tne fliue internally and in relation with other countries, is an established system. effects that could come from the Supreme Court's decision.

No doubt all this is temporary, a lull rather than a real or permanent relaxation of the old hostility. The Arabs are no more reconciled to Ridge Mountains into the plains changed his mind in the meantime. hSiam has a considerable body of In March, 1956, Governor Faubus beyond. Washington, Jefferson, Lee, Jackson and John Brown all played proverbs the gist of which is that announced that his five-man com mittee had decided to Initiate two acts interposition and pupil assign parts in Harpers Ferry history, along with the railroads and the At a public hearing in Chicago a few days ago Mr. Castle said that the opponents of tolls were guilty of "a breach of good faith." He pointed out that the seaway was onfe mustn't try to swim upstream.

Not trying to swim upstream is one reason for its never having been under foreign rule. O. Canal. spending wherever and whenever possible, but I think a careful rereading of my letter to the President will reinforce my original point that in the cases I cited Maryland Is being made to suffer disproportionately through the cumulative effect of a combination of certain Federal spending policies. These policies taken together will not save the Federal Government money, and will cost Maryland dearly.

J. Millard Tawes. Baltimore, Sept. 17. Lowly Red Man To the Editor or The Sun Sir: In reference to Mrs.

Pocahontas Hagy'g letter in The Sun of September 13, If there has been written any better or more clearly intelligent summary of America's treatment of the real natives of this continent. It certainly has not been overly publicized, so that more of us "European invaders" could have had the opportunity to read it Mrs. Hagy's letter should be copied in many more newspapers. Israel than they ever were. And no doubt these additions to the Arab armament increase the burden on Israel's resources.

Still, if given a choice between Arabs united and ment (devices to delay or avoid admission of Negroes to white schools). Already the town is perking up Governor Orval Faubus has recently and repeatedly said that he is r.ot opposed to school Integration and that his sole reason for calling out the Arkansas Guard in the Little Rock school dispute was to prevent violence. To keep the record straight, Governor Faubus on January 28, 1956, released his first written statement on the subject of Integration since assuming office nearly thirteen months previously. In this statement he reported a poll showing that 85 a bit. Overnight tourist accommoda conceived as a self-supporting im tions have been repaired, and a The following month he approved the acts as written and made provement, that Congress had ap Arabs divided, the latter must al restaurant remodeled.

An effort is being made also to reopen Storer plans with his committee to obtain ways seem the lesser of two evils College, a small private Negro in to the Israeli. the more than 26,000 signatures needed to place the measures on the stitution that 'went into financial decline when West Virginia ad Mostly Siamese A turnover in Siam, or Thailand, mitted colored students to formerly white public colleges and cut off November ballots. Also that month he filed as a candidate for a second two-year term. Campaigning in June, 1956, Gov per cent of the people of his State were opposed to school integration has ousted Premier Pibul Song the State aid for Storer. and said: gram, sent Gen.

Thao Sri Yanondh The Park Service's plans for ernor Faubus said that his Inter Harpers Ferry are not yet final In off to well-heeled residence in Switr general, the program calls for pre erland and put Field Marshal Sarit position and pupil-assignment proposals would "align Arkansas solidly with the Solid In opposition to the Supreme Court decision. Yet Siam is, after all, in the world, and the modern world is not quite like the world in which Siam, tolerant and happy and corrupt, has managed to exist for so long in independence. Pibul, whose own history is not unmarked by periods of opportunism as a Japanese puppet in World War II he declared war on Slam's behalf on Britain and the United States, though the United States did not reciprocate), seemed to have come to see that Or, if he did not quite perceive the new kind of danger that threatened Siam from the Chinese north, he at least decided that it was the West with which his nation should in this phase of history accommodate. Pibul seemed to see that communism was a thing that might upset the traditional Siamese diplomatic method of playing off sides against each other. How Sarit intends to handle the affairs of the country remains to be fully disclosed.

Paic Dat. The logic is unassailable! "Poor Justice," Indeed, "has been the red serving as many buildings along Shenandoah street as possible and restoring the store fronts in 1860 Thanarat into power in Bangkok. The background situation, which is discussed elsewhere on this page, proved it in this form and that there is "a moral obligation" to carry the financing through as planned. He took a straightforward stand against subsidies to lower the toll. None of this will be to the liking of the Great Lakes ports.

The seaway will make it possible for them to compete with the old established Atlantic Coast ports for foreign commerce. Obviously, their competitive position would be enhanced if the tolls were eliminated or kept down through subsidy. In fighting against low tolls, or no tolls, the Atlantic Coast ports will be charger! with a desire only to protect themselves. This they will have to take. But they certainly have the right and the "When the measures are voted In style.

The development of a visitors' law," he said, "no school board will be forced to mix the races while I am Governor." He added at that is complex. It is much more com center is considered likely, and the Park Service wishes, if possible, to return John Brown's fort to Its It should be obvious that centuries-old customs, and regional traditions, cannot be changed overnight even by court edict I cannot be a party to any attempt to force acceptance of a change to which the people are so overwhelmingly opposed. On February 25, 1958, Governor Faubus released a report on a study which he had asked a five-man committee to make of Virginia's efforts to prevent racial mixing. The Governor the time; Every effort must be made to protect the rights and the inclination of the vast majority of the people of Arkansas and the South In the prevention of the ill plex than many recent news dispatches from the Siamese capital xnight suggest. These dispatches time: I am convinced that the surest man's portion." Mary G.

Klepinska. Baltimore, Sept. 13. Thought For Today The seal for a comprehensive highway system should never obscure the fact that it is only one facet of a total transportation problem: Rail, air, water and motor original setting. way to safeguard our public school system at present for all have spoken of Sarit as "anti-West Harpers Ferry is part ct "Mission 66," a ten-year program of improvements in 182 national park areas citizens both white and Negro em" and "anti SEATO," and of Pi is to preserve our segregated that began in 1956 and will reach schools.

vehicles. Charles H. DitriNDORf, Tht two proposals were Indorsed its culmination when the Park Service celebrates its fiftieth anniversary bul as "pro-Western." In relation to Siam, the identifications are too glib by far. It Is true that Pibul has been by the voters of Arkansas, as was chairman of the New York State Planning Commission, in I960. E.L.J.

Governor Faubus himself. i iSn 0 r-i AsVA-A-SV-A AM MM A.