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itaflomern Sealteel 4 Cy M. Campbell, Publisher Robert L. Ramey, Executive Vice President Byron Sedgwick, Editor Kathy Leary, Associate Editor Eilly Bradley, Associate Editor Roy O. McCoy, Advertising Director Established 1855 by Matthew Fields MEMBER MARYLAND PRESS ASSOCIATION AFFILIATE MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC SENTINEL PUBLISHING CO., INC. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION GUARANTEED PAID CIRCULATION Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 215 East Montgomery Avenue by the Sentinel Publishing Co., Inc., Cy M. Campbell, president . GA. 4-77Q0 Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Rock ville, Maryland, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail in Maryland and the District of Columbia One Year $6.50 Political Fever The eagerness with which aspirants for various elective offices are putting up their filing fees promises to make this a near record year as far as the number of candidates is concerned. The top year, according to election records, was 1946, when a grand total of 143 candidates ran for nominations to local offices. So far this year, 70 candidates have filed. Just why this is so is not readily apparent. Per haps the intense interest, which embraces a variety of political opinions, can be ascribed, at least in part, to a desire by some candidates to see to it that the county’s growth is guided along lines in accordance with their economic beliefs. This is the group which wants more government controls, particularly in the field of land planning. Then there are those whose candidacies are pre dicated on an intense dislike of big government and a determination to institute drastic economies. So far, we have found few, if any, “middle of the road” candidates whose actions are based more on compromise than on extremes. All of this is politically healthy. It gives the voters a wide range of persons for whom they can cast their ballots and should promote citizen interest and participation in governmental operations. We hope this interest extends to the voting booth. In a sense, primary elections are more important than general elections; for it is in the primaries that candi dates are selected. And too often, only a small per centage of the eligible voters actually go to the polls. This means that the candidates are chosen by a min ority vote; and obviously, such a procedure opens the way for organized pressure groups to take over. Thus, if the vast majority of the voters discover to their dis may that they have no choice in the general election —that the candidates who have emerged from the primaries do not represent the best that could have been obtained—they have no one to blame but them selves. In the 1958 general election, 70 per cent of the eligible voters turned out. This figure compares with 44 per cent of the eligible Democrats and a bare 32 per cent of the eligible Republicans in the primaries in 1960. This is an extremely disheartening compari son. In effect, those who failed to vote in the primaries deliberately ignored their duty to select the best can didate for the general election. The right to vote is precious. Our forefathers died for it. Millions of oppressed peoples throughout the world envy us this pi*ivilege of choosing those w ho we want to govern us. Surely the citizens of Montgomery County are literate and intelligent enough to select their candi dates themselves, instead of leaving it to a small mi nority. Letters The Public Forum Urban Affairs A recent article by William S. White made the point that while “politics” is not against the Constitution, it is danger ous and divisive to involve our country in an enterprise such as President Kennedy’s plan to create a new Cabinet-rank “Department of Urban Af fairs” mostly for the prize of gaining the minority and big city vote. We agree . . . and we won der just how far our political leaders mean to go in courting the votes of “minority” groups at the expense of the rest of us. Surely it was made crys tal clear in the last presiden tial election that such voices had a wholly disproportionate power. To set up a depart ment which would gather the dozens of economic, social, re ligious and racial groups into one immeasurably powerful pressure group—with billions of dollars of our tax-money at its disposal—is to seriously and cynically discriminate against the great body of Americans who do not “organ ize” to demand special favors. Saturday, February 24, 1962 I Sadly enough, the usual “lib eral" innuendo is being used; that those who oppose this pro posed socialistic monstrosity only do so because of the fact that a “Negro” may head it. When will such thinkers rea lize that some of us would feel far more content to have a good sound conservative Ne gro head an important govern ment post than the most lily white leftist seeking to manip ulate both the Negro and the White. IJIa D. Sonne.niann Altnuinn Files For Convention Robert C. Altmann, an ac countant, has filed as a candi date for Republican delegate to the State convention. A resident of Montgomery County for the past five years Altmann is a member of the Young Republican Club, chair man of Its Speech Club, mem ber of Its executive committee and Is a precinct co-chairman. He attended school and col lege in the Washington area, is married and has three children. ■'S'' - IHKgk IHk" IraRL. MEETING PRINCIPALS Chatting after a meeting of the Rock Creek Republican Club are (left to right) David Scull, GOP candidate for Governor of Maryland; Mrs. Potomac By Cissy Morgan, Sentinel Correspondent A Valentine For Nortons Ann and Ray Norton pre sented their two older sons, Glenn and Hugh, with a real Valentine on February 14, when they announced that Bruce Charles Norton had ar rived at 3:06 a.m. at George Washington Hospital. He weighed seven pounds and eleven ounces. The Shearers Announce Babby and Stan Shearer have announced the arrival of Katherine Shearer on Febru ary 9, at the Frederick Me morial Hospital. The little Miss weighed five pounds and eight ounces on her arrival at 9 p.m. Babby is the daughter of Mrs. Virginia Rogers, a former Glen rd. resident now living in Florida, and Stan’s mother is Mrs. Russell Shearer of Stoney Creek rd. Katherine has an older sis ter, Beth. P-TA Dance The Potomac P-TA sponsored B The American Medical Association has been the whipping boy for leftist editors and union jingoes for the last decade. It is al ways handy to develop an ogre to destroy so that it appears the constituency is being saved. So the socialists have set out to dis credit the A.M.A.. and latterly the whole medi cal profession including individual physicians- Indeed so much has been attributed to the A.M.A. by these light-weights that one can hardly recognize this venerable organization for what it actually is. The American Medical Association was founded In 1847 with the primary goals of establishing and maintaining professional standards, and for “the betterment of public health.” This latter goal was cited nearly one hundred years before the professional savers came on the scene. The membership consists of 185,000 physi cians which yis 70 percent of the quarter mil lion physicians in the United States. The A.M.A. does not represent all physicians, nor do all of its members agree with the political position of the vast majority. Nevertheless, the dissenting physician is not silenced, nor is he required to pay dues to support policies he cannot uphold. The dues were instituted in 1949 and are limited to $25 per annum, and there is no excessive initiation fee to exclude new members. His delegates are elected by the member ship of the state societies. His officers do not hold lifetime jobs, nor are they paid for their services—something no union bureaucrat has been heard to do. Union job holders on the hustings are at pains to question the internal democracy of the A.M.A. Tlie criticism seems capricious in light of standard union practices. Merely having a secret ballot on an issue is not the final nor the only test of honest representa tion. The ultra-liberals envision the A.M.A. as a monolithic political machine because they cannot imagine an effective organization not modelled after their own closed-shop, closed mind mechanics. For Instance the A.M.A. is not served by that great democratic process —the dues check-off system. A member can be expelled only for failure to pay his dues, or for violation of the ethics he subscribed to upon becoming a physician. And—what happens to the dissenting union member if he takes his case to the public in opposition to union policies? Is it logical to believe that there could be such consistent unanimity amongst the millions the unions claim to represent? The A.M.A. is described by socialists as expending limitless funds to lobby in Wash ington. The total annual budget of the A.M.A. is sl6 million. How does this compare to funds for political action available to un ions to spend in political campaigns through out the land? No A M.A. funds were contrib Earle Bernard Steele, Club president; and Rep. Walter Judd of Minnesota, guest speaker at the meeting. their annual Valentine dance on February 16. Prior to the dance there were innumerable parties and gatherings around the area. The Tom Colemans invited friends in for a cock tail party, but were unable to attend the dance because of their daughter Wendy’s last minute flu. The Tom Beers gave a dinner party for a num ber of their friends and host ing different cocktail parties were the Abbott Marshes, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hawkens, the Edward Wielands on Harring ton dr. and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lane. Following the dance at the Bethesda County Club Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harris hosted a breakfast party for a number of stay-up laters. I’ve Heard That . . . The Kelso Shipes entertained their Burbank dr. neighbors prior to the Bethesda Kiwanis Club dinner-dance at the Co The A.M.A. uted to elect a single politician in the United States, yet the AFL-CIO was able to purchase one million dollars worth of television expos ure for the current incumbent during the last week of the recent persidential election cam paign. VVliat does the A.M.A. do with its funds? It publishes II medical journals monthly. The Council on Drugs provides the medical profes sion with early information on new drugs. The AM A watches over new forms of treat ment and acts as an information center for current research. Its Department of Inves tigation alerts physicians and public agencies to charlatans and quacks when they set up shop. The A.M.A. sets the standards for medical education and post-graduate training in the United States. It inspects the medical colleges periodically. The A.M.A. sets the standards of medical ethics to which all physicians subscribe. These standards are based on the antique Hippocrat ic Oath and protect the public from the occa sional renegade. This is the organization the radicals want to destroy. So often one hears the socialist politician reminding the physician of his ethics. Indeed it would be nice if the union leadership had similar high standards and then practiced them. The A.M.A. is not a political organization. However, the Council on Legislative Activities has a duty to analyze legislation pertaining to health and medicine in both state and fed eral governments. Through its reports, it ad vises the membership what is being proposed. The physician has been backed into a political fight he did not seek to preserve per sonal integrity and the mode of medical prac tice now current in the United States. He also suspects that if successful in taking over the medical profession, the socialists proceed to law. teaching, and finally to safety pins and steam shovels. The great majority of physicians are op posed to federal medical programs for pro pound philosophical reasons. They believe medical practice In the United States is unique and superior to that of the rest of the world. Practice in the United States has a greater element of personal relationship between the physician and his patient than is found any where In the world where government bureau cracy intervenes. This latter is a familiar experience to those of us who have had the choice between medical rare in the Armed Services as opposed to civilian practice. The majority seem to prefer the latter form when they have a choice. Bureaucratic medicine has the tendency to reduce the physician to an administrator or a technician. Tills Is the basic fear of the American physician, for he believes that he has something more to offer than mere science- lumbia Country Club on Feb ruary 16 . . . Madeline and Ray Little in vited 50 of their teen-age friends to a party at their South Glen rd. home on Feb ruary 16 . . . Stretch and Claire Harting are vacationing at Pompano Beach, Fla . . . The Leßoy Trunnells are Florida bound for a two-week vacation . . . Fuzzy Pownall celebrated her tenth on February 16 . . . Dr. Tom Blackwood is home from a dental seminar in Florida , . . Dorothy Mohr was Vionored at a farewell “Coffee” given by her Fox Meadow neighbor, Pat Martin. The Mohrs are mov ing to California . . . The Men of St. Francis are sponsoring a Madi Gras Cos tume Ball at the Potomac Hunt Club on March 2 . . . Pres King is home from a Chicago business trip. CANDIDA Wick Byron's Column The Democratic Ticket Many of the rank and file in the liberal movement in Montgomery County do not understand why Ray Murphy, Margaret Carpenter, Dick Abell and others sold Peggy Schweinhaut down the river, so to speak. Or did they? They remember well how Ray Murphy, Rose Kramer, Margaret Carpenter and others fought so hard to get Peggy Schwein haut appointed to the State Senate last Fall when Senator Edward Northrop was sworn In as a Federal Judge. Many Democratic leaders thought Blair Lee, head of the Dele gation to the House of Delegates, should have been appointed. But he wasn’t mainly due to the in-fighting spearheaded by Ray Murphy. It was assumed by the rank and file of the liberal movement that Murphy, Carpen ter, Kramer, Abell and company would in sist that any Democratic ticket they joined must have Peggy Schweinhaut as the head of it In the position of State Senator. And now that this did not come about, the lib eral movement, whether Ray Murphy would admit it or not, is very seriously split- Many of the rank and file liberals in the county now see Ray Murphy as the personally am bitious dictator that he has always been. They now know also that he is willing to use political figures as long as It suits his purpose. And when he decides they are no longer needed for his plans, he has no feel ings about dumping them. The liberal movement in Montgomery County has had strength because it was a solid well-discdplined group. No one got out of line. It was a truly one-for-all and all-for-one movement. Now it is not. It is doubtful at this point that the Democratic voters in the county will have the opportunity to recognize liberals, or moderates by the individual tickets now be ing formed. However, it is our guess that there will be a concentrated effort on the part of Democratic precinct leaders, official or otherwise, to inform the Democrats in their precincts who is who and why. There is one firm Democratic ticket that has been made public. There are two others in the forming! stages. In order that you may know what is going on, it might be wise to give you the names of the firm slate once again and also the names of those being considered for the other two Democratic slates. The Mahoney-Lee-Barrick slate consists of the following: For State Senate: William Hickey. Members of the House of Delegates would include Mrs. Marit Thorsen (extreme lib eral), Edna Cook (moderate),- Richard Abell (an extremely liberal school teacher), Walter Hansen (extreme liberal), Donald Clagett (moderate) and Eugene F. Peters (moder ate). Chosen for the County Council for this slate are Mrs. Stella Werner (liberal-mod erate), Jerry Williams (moderate), Grover Walker (moderate>, Frank Bliss (moderate), Rose Kramer (extremist of liberals) and Ed Collier (moderate). The Democratic State Central Committee (the ruling force of the Party> would be composed of William B. Wheeler (moderate!, Frank L. Hewitt (moderate), Mrs. Peggy Mann (liberal-moderate), Mrs. Doris Solo mon (liberal), Ray Murphy (extreme lib eral) and Mrs. Margaret Carpenter (extreme liberal). This is the ticket that has upset many of Blair Lee’s friends. However, most of them might slice up the ticket but they won’t forsake Blair who is by far the best candidate for the United States Senate. Another ticket that is being formed will not endorse candidates for Governor or United States Senator. Those forming this A Few Words Out of Proportion By Ed Long The group of people who will suffer from Maryland’s savings and loan scandal grows much larger than those of the depositors whose funds are tied up. No one can deny the depositors are hard est hit, but the thing now encompasses us all, as voters in the Free Stale during an impor tant election year. For the scandal has achieved such propor tions that many of the candidates, for state wide office, especially, can hide behind that issue in their campaigning. It looks as if politics between now and the May 15 primary will revolve around sav ings and loan, with charges and counter charges among factions taking all the head lines. Just what the individual candidates really stand for will be hidden In a morass of ' verbiage. Settling the mess, of course, is important to the State, but is it important enough to be come the be-all and end-all of 1962 campaign ing? There’s no getting around the fact that one issue, inflated out of all proportion, can work to the advantage of the candidates who have the least to offer the voters. With continued statements of a sensation al nature, they can keep their names before ■ -188 m ' fe ; jlfßß ticket believe the Democratic voters should have a choice without any embarrassing in cidents. But it can be said that most of them will vote for Blair Lee, the hometown man, for U. S. Senate. This ticket will be headed by State Sen ator Peggy Schweinhaut. She will seek re election. The following are being considered for the House of Delegates: David Cahoon (mod erate-liberal), Graham Walker (moderate liberal), Ted Miller (liberal), Lawrence Wiser (moderate), Edna Cook (moderate) and Sam Sterrett. For the County Council, the following are in the discussion stages: Sam Riggs (moderate), Grover Walker (moderate), (no one as yet for the third district), Stella Werner (moderate-liberal), Eugene Zander, Stanley Frosh (liberal), and William E. Sher. The classifications for some of these candidates have not been given at this time. But they will be at a later date. Slated for the State Central Committee on this ticket are Ann Brown (moderate liberal), Alice Hostetler (moderate-liberal), Willard Morris (moderate), Gilbert Lessenco (liberal! and Irving Levine (liberal). (liberal! and Irving Levine (liberal). Others will be decided upon today. This group meets this aftarnoon at 4 p.m. and it is expected that a final decision will be made at this time. Still another Democratic slate now In the works could he along the following lines: For State Senate: Alger Y. Barbee (moderate). But more likely, Peggy Schein haut. For the House of Delegates: Wiley Bar row (moderate), Warren Tyddngs (moder ate), James McAuliffe (moderate). Ed Brown (moderate), Ted Foster (moderate), and Victor Crawford (moderate), Alger Barbee, and Edna Cook. Council candidates might be the follow ing: Sam Riggs or Jerry Williams (both moderates), Grover Walker (moderate), B. G. Ballman (moderate against Mrs. Stella Werner, perhaps), Robert Tucker (moder ate). William E. Sher (moderate), and Rob ert Romero (moderate). This may end up with Stella Werner and Stan Frosh both en dorsed. Being considered by this group, known as the Casbarian-Buscher slate, for the Dem ocratic committee are Ann Brown (moderate liberal), Tom Amutucci (moderate), In gram Medley (conservative). Charlie Jami son (moderate), Alice Hostetler (moderate liberal), Shell Hoye and James Bull You will note that members of f.*w flb eral movement aren’t being given sucn con sideration by the leaders forming this Tawes ticket. And we understand this ticket will definitely come out for Tawes, Flnan and Goldstein. They will not endorse the U. S. Senatorial candidate on the Tawes ticket. Most of them feel that Blair Lee should have smooth sailing in Montgomery County. There you have It. There is quite an assortment of Democrats. Many of them are known to a good many people. Others are not known to many at all. There is a new and stimulating angle to all of this ticket forming. We'll go into that next week. We believe sqme of the boys have been fooled. What the final outcome of this Impor tant Democratic primary will be is anyone’s guess. However, one thing is sure: The reg istered Democrats in Montgomery County should make it their business to know as much as possible about every single candi date regardless of the ticket he is on. It will be difficult but every Democratic voter in the county must assume the responsibility of providing the best possible slate of Demo cratic candidates for the voters in November. the public, while at the same time keep the other candidates busy answering their charges. In that way, the entire campaign can be run by men destitute of real contributions for the State and its voters and when the time comes for the voter to step behind the voting booth curtain he will have made up his mind on the candidates only as far as their adroit ness in either fanning the flames or trying to put them out. The people of Maryland deserve more than that—from all party factions and from both parties. Promises, of course, often mean nothing, but the candidates should be put into positions of stating their beliefs and their intended ac tion on a number of important aspects of State government. With just one issue, however, election is almost tantamount to carte blanche for the winners. They cannot be held responsible for their actions in other fields if they have not taken positions in those fields. The voters need to know, and the only way they can come anywhere close to know ing is from the candidates themselves. The Free State will be in a pretty sorry mess if the election is decided upon the basis of just one issue.