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With Sunday Morning Edition
Published by THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER CO.. Washington 3, D. C.
SAMUEL H. KAUFFMANN, Chairman of the Board
CROSBY N. BOYD, President NEWBOLD NOYES, Editor
BENJAMIN M. McKELWAY, Editorial Chairman
A-8
Time Runs Out
Unless there Is some wholly unex
pected reprieve, a reluctant and tim
orous Congress has been left with no
choice except to pass legislation which
will protect this country from a rail
road strike at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday.
If ever there was one, this is a
wholly unnecessary crisis—brought on
by the truly remarkable wrongheaded
ness of the rail unions. There have been
repeated opportunities to settle this dis
pute by submitting the Issues to volun
tary but binding arbitration. Just as
regularly, the railroads agreed and the
unions refused. As recently as Wednes
day night there still was some, though
not much, hope of a settlement without
legislation. Labor Secretary Wirtz made
an eleventh-hour proposal for arbitra
tion. The railroads accepted unreserv
edly. The unions also accepted—but so
hedged their acceptance with qualifi
cations that no one really expected
anything to come of it. And nothing
did. The discussions have been broken
off and the whole matter is back In
the hands of Congress—with less than
a°week to go.
. The appropriate committees, how
ever, have completed their hearings,
and if there is even a minimum of
legislative concern for the public wel
fare legislation to cope with a strike
will be ready in time. And it will have
to provide for some form of compulsory
arbitration.
Plenty of people in both union and
management camps recoil In horror
from the mere mention of compulsory
arbitration. But this is a backward
looking attitude which leaves us un
moved. The time has long passed in
this country when Big Labor and Big
Business can be left free to fight out
their battles at the expense of the public
welfare. We would welcome legislation
which, as a last resort, would require
arbitration of any labor-management
dispute which Imperils the welfare of
the whole country.
Cleaner Anacostia
The filthy, smelly Anacostia River
still has a long way to go before It can
be called really “clean.” It is consoling
to know, however, that the major and
most difficult cause of constant pollu
tion finally has been overcome. Until a
few weeks ago, inadequate sewer lines
through the District were spilling 4 mil
lion gallons of raw sewage from Mary
land Into the Anacostia every day. Now,
with the completion of the last link of
a giant interceptor line to the District
treatment plant, that atrocious situa
tion finally has been corrected. What
remains to be done is to expedite the
long-range Improvements to the Dis
trict’s own system which are needed
to prevent overflows of sewage in times
of heavy rain. Only then will the recrea
tional and esthetic potentials of much
of the Anacostia, which have been
blighted for so long, come fully Into
their own.
Science and the House
The Federal Government now Is
spending in the neighborhood of sl4
pillion a year on scientific research and
development. The outlay Is made chiefly
through contracts or grants worked out
with private Industry and universities.
It is so tremendous, and covers such a
multitude of highly abstruse and highly
practical projects, that It can hardly
fall to have elements of waste and
duplication in it.
It is for this reason that the House
Rules Committee, under Chairman
Smith of Virginia, has been seriously
considering the idea of conducting a
fall-dress investigation of the whole
matter and setting up a special watch
dog group to keep the entire field under
constant surveillance. Along with several
of his similarly conservative colleagues,
Mr. Smith takes a dim view of financing
studies of things like the “biology of
bumblebees.” And he suspects that the
country would be better off If Congress
took over as a sort of policeman, or a
wise parent, ruling against expenditures
on this or that research project.
; In this instance, however, the con
servatives are on no sounder ground
than the liberals who would like to
organize a joint committee to ride herd
oh the Central Intelligence Agency—an
arrangement that would almost certaln
a, and perhaps fatally, inhibit some of
e ClA’s most Important super-secret
operations. Anyhow, as far as research
ajid development are concerned, a
watchdog group—one Imbued with the
idea that It Is silly to study such things
ais the secrets of bumblebees—would
Hardly be conducive to the gathering of
qew knowledge and the further progress
of the human mind.
• We agree with some other chair
men in the House who are against
(treating a watchdog group. They favor,
Instead, an expansion of the staffs—
staffs that could keep an efficient check
on all scientific activities—of key com
mittees (Atomic, Armed Services, etc.)
|hat have been long active and are
highly knowledgeable in this business.
The study of bumblebees may prove
to be important in terms of human
health. A watchdog group might veto
ft- A watchdog group might also have
vetoed Albert Einstein’s supremely ab
stract and incomprehensible studies
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1963
that led In due course, for better or
worse, to the nuclear age.
Change for the Better
When the United Nations General
Assembly convenes next month, India’s
delegation will not be controlled—as it
has been for the past decade—by the
peacock-like V. K. Khrlshna Menon.
Instead, it will be headed by Mrs. Vljaya
Lakshmi Pandit, Prime Minister Nehru’s
sister.
This is a change very much for the
better. Mrs. Pandit, who served for sev
eral years as her country’s ambassador
to the United States, and who was
elected President of the General As
sembly for the 1953 session, is in effect
undertaking a job she has already held
at the highest level. Her qualifications
for It are unimpeachable, and there can
be no question that her presence and
personality In the U. N.» despite those
who have some reservations about her,
will be a vast improvement over Mr.
Menon’s.
Mr. Menon, of course, although he
has been Mr. Nehru’s closest friend, has
fallen a long way from grace. It seems
only yesterday that he was arrogantly
strutting and posturing around the U. N.
as a “neutralist” Insufferably anti-
American and pro-Communlst. But
then, all of a sudden, Red China, which
he had persistently praised in the most
extravagant terms, just as he had
praised the Kremlin, violently turned
against India. And so the roof fell in
on him among his own countrymen.
Thus, as Defense Minister, Mr.
Menon was found to have been gravely
Inept, and he was forced to resign from
the Nehru government. His ouster from
the U. N. follows in logical sequence.
Good riddance to him. Mrs. Pandit is
equipped to operate with much more
charm and common sense. We wish her
well.
Student Demonstrators
Colgate Darden, former president of
the University of Virginia, was right, we
think, in wanting assurances that col
ored school children in Prince Edward
County would not participate in civil
rights demonstrations. He didn’t get
them, but It Is nonetheless a good thing
that he Is staying on as head of the
board of trustees for the free and non
segregated private school system which
is to be established this fall in the
county.
Mr. Darden is remaining reluctantly
because he believes picketing by the
children would be a disruptive educa
tional Influence. Doubtless It would be,
and one might think that the colored
children, having been without schools
for four years, would be too busy with
their books to spend time marching
through the streets.
Representatives of the NAACP in
sisted, however, that the students must
be free to demonstrate as a matter of
principle. Just what principle applies
to the use of school children in these
demonstrations is far from clear to us.
But the chances are that there will be
little student picketing in Prince Ed
ward, as long as the practice is not
forbidden. It will be a shame if the con
trary proves to be the case, with the
result that the educational opportunity
which finally seems to be at hand should
be Impaired if not destroyed.
The Arlandria Flood
Seventy-five thousand gallons of
water per second roaring through a
creek bed accustomed to an average of
100 gallons can be an awesome and
frightening spectacle. It also can be
dangerous and destructive as the citi
zens of the Arlandria section of Alex
andria now know all too well.
A flood of that dimension, the
citizens are told, Is a phenomenon likely
to occur once In 100 years. But that
Is small consolation to one whose busi
ness or home Is submerged In damage
and debt. Os too recent memory Is the
flood of 10 years ago which rolled in
at only 10,000 gallons a second yet
reached a depth only two feet below the
recent crest.
Everyone thought that was the
worst that could happen. Yet the dam
age was trivial compared with this
week’s experience, an experience which
has necessitated speedy loan assistance
by the Small Business Administration.
Looking ahead, the Arlandrians and
others in the flood belt need more than
temporary relief. Since 1953, much has
been done In channel-widening, and
further antl-floodlng measures were
being planned when the torrent struck.
Now It Is more Imperative than ever to
see the program through.
A meeting Tuesday will enlist the
co-operation of Federal, State, county
and municipal Governments In a $500,-
000 project to widen the bridge on
Route 1 near Glebe road. At the same
meeting the Richmond, Fredericksburg
& Potomac Railroad will be asked to
make an expensive but valuable con
tribution by agreeing to widen the
bridge in the Potomac Yards.
No one is claiming that opening this
bottleneck would guarantee complete
security against a "100-year flood," but
It would reduce the Impact of many
flood threats. The time to get the job
done Is now while the water marks are
still high on the walls and the meaning
of flood disaster Is real and personal.
• warn
* O # r
'That's No Way to Plug Leaks!'
LETTERS TO THE STAR
G. O. P. Glamor Boy
As we approach the 1964
election year I would like to
give a little advice to the Re
publican Party.
After the 1960 election
various groups and minorities
claimed that their support
for President Kennedy gave
him the small majority vic
tory. I have read that the
Catholics voted him in, our
Negro friends gave him the
victory, the Jewish commu
nity pushed him over, the
Government workers really
did the trick—everyone ex
cept the Republican minority
group.
I say It was the women!
With President Kennedy’s
boyish good looks and his Ivy
league charm, a great many
of the weaker sex succumbed.
Therefore let’s come up
with one man on the Repub
lican ticket who will make the
ladies sit up and take notice.
I nominate Gov. Mark Hat
field of Oregon. He’s as cute
as a button and loaded with
manly charm. (My private
opinion poll of three women
(not Republicans) indicated
Mark Hatfield polled two to
one over John Kennedy in
looks, personality and abil
ity.) In addition to all this,
the more thinking women
could go for his enormous
ability in handling major
problems (he showed remark
able astuteness at the recent
Governors’ Conference), his
ability to unite all factions,
his fair approach to both do
mestic and foreign Issues and,
of course, his universal ap
peal to both Democrats and
Republicans alike.
I say the Republicans
can’t miss with Mark Hat
field on the ticket.
Humble Homemaker.
Jobs for Peace Corps
How in the world can The
Star fall for so obvious a
piece of press agentry as the
item entitled "Job Openings
Beckon Peace Corps Vet
erans?”
The piece is a phony. For
example, it says that 400
Peace Corps volunteers have
served their two years over
seas, and schools, Govern
ment and industry have
shown a keen interest in hir
ing them. However, It adds
that few of them have come
home as yet because they are
“touring other countries.” How
can there be such keen in
terest if these birdies haven’t
even come home as yet?
The piece adds that “some
industries have in mind jobs
paying $750 a month or
more.” Can that possibly be
true? What industry hires
people that way? Companies
hire people; very few indus-
Earning Police Promotions by Competition
After reading the recent
proposals of some of our
leading citizens to effect the
elevation of a Negro, solely
because he is a Negro, to the
rank of captaincy in the
Metropolitan Police Depart
ment, I felt it obligatory to
express my views. There is no
doubt in my mind that there
should have been captains
and above of the Negro race
long ago. It is also true that
equal opportunities in the
better paying jobs in most
fields were not open en masse
to the man of color.
When I Joined the police
department in 1947 there
were six Negro detective ser
geants and it was, and had
been for many years, an un
written law that until one of
them was either retired, re
signed or discharged, no
other Negro would be elevat
ed to that rank. It was also
true that when one of them
was separated another Negro
would be elevated in his for
mer place. Over the past IS
years all of this has been re
moved and now promotions,
for the most part, are made
according to placement on
the Civil Service register.
This register is established as
a result of a competitive ex
amination every other year.
These examinations, and this
procedure of promotions,
have unequivocally proven a
god-send for the Negro. Once
the register is set up it is as
public as a newspaper. There
are copies in every unit of
Pen names may be used if
letters carry writers’ correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condensa
tion. Those not used will be
returned only when accom
panied by self - addressed,
stamped envelopes.
tries do, except perhaps for
their trade associations.
When the piece gets around
to saying that President Ken
nedy and Edward R. Murrow
would like to see the Govern
ment hire these volunteers,
it sounds like fact. But even
that doesn’t mean much be
cause the piece adds that
62% of them don’t even
want jobs; they want to go
back to school.
About the kindest thing
that can be said for this over
rated boondoggle is that it
doesn’t do too much harm
and gets lots of fuzzy-minded
do-gooders out of the coun
try. I keep remembering
what one cabinet officer of a
foreign country told me. “We
don’t mind having them
here,” he said. “It makes the
Kennedys happy and it
teaches some young Ameri
cans something about our
country, at no cost to us."
Peter Vischer
Port Tobacco, Md.
Era of Cruelty
With the ending of two
global wars, the infernos
have not ceased. Red Cuba,
the Iron Curtain countries,
the Berlin Wall and other
trouble spots are places we of
the free world bear the re
sponsibility of creating,
where every day helpless hu
man beings are sacrificed.
But even here one cannot
disregard m a n’s brutality.
Marguerite Jones, of the
Maryland Animal Welfare
Association, in a recent letter
to the editor, said, “Experi
mental animals are clamped
into observation forms which
hold them immovable for
many weeks.”
It seems more than regret
table to have been bom into
an era where all this cruelty
is practiced. If it were not so
saddening it would be laugh
able when we shout about
liberty and praise our own
righteousness. In a democ
racy Congress is supposed to
reflect the people’s will. But
have we the good intentions
to make our wishes known?
Not only do we owe an obli
gation to whatever traits of
kindness and consideration
remain in us. but we must
account to God. It may be
the atom bomb is the last
step to bring the Biblical
warning to pass—“ ... be
cause thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot. I will
spue thee out of My mouth.”
Juliana M. Corridon
the police department and
one has but to look for his
numerical standing on the
list to ascertain when he will
be promoted dependent upon
vacancies. Except for a very
few instances (merit promo
tions) promotions are made
right down the line.
There are now Negroes in
almost every rank, uniform
and plainclothes, and more
on the current register await
ing vacancies. Even in the
merit promotions (men not
on the list but who possessed
specially needed talents)
there was never evidence that
this was done to circumvent
promoting a Negro.
Many of our most respect
ed authorities in the field of
human relations have stated
the mere fact that a Negro
is denied certain privileges
creates within him a feeling
of Inferiority. I am not quali
fied to contradict this theory,
but I do feel at liberty to say
that if this fact be true, then
this ugly stigma will never
be expunged by accepting
acts of favoritism. The only
way we can make certain
progress in this direc
tion is to know within our
selves that we have earned
our promotions through open
competition. There are Ne
groes who through Civil
Service examinations have
earned advances to the grade
of lieutenant. There is but
one grade higher (captain)
which requires a competitive
examination. There is only
Goldwater's Beliefs
I join heartily in your wish
that Senator Goldwater state
his beliefs in plain language.
I trust that The Star will
scrutinize every politician as
closely as it does the Senator;
that will be fun! Does Rocky
propose Federal aid for bro
ken homes? Does Warren
mean prayer is unconstitu
tional in FHA-financed hous
ing? Does Kennedy think a
glittering campaign issue
comes before his most diligent
devotion to the Nation?
Should the test-ban treaty
ever be ridden as recklessly
as was the missile gap by
other, earlier candidates, your
views would seem less over
drawn. The Senator, I be
lieve, has not yet even com
mitted himself on this issue,
but is only voicing a family of
objections which run some
what deeper than the current
public discussion. If our role
as the world’s defender is to
be reconsidered or laid aside,
whether from weariness, scru
ples or justice, at least let
every man lend his whole
heart to every side of the
question.
Any withdrawal from Eu
rope which sprang from a
nonaggression pact rather
than from basic changes in
Soviet socio-political philos
ophy would simply Involve
round-trip transportation ex
penses for all our troops, with
Turkey, Greece and Italy
taken into captivity during
the voyage. I recoil, sir, with
the Senator!
I consider the alternative
to be at worst an endless cold
war and, at best, a conver
sion of the Soviets to an open
society of free men, in true
respect for self and fellow.
Then the cold war will melt
away with no controversy.
Marquis R. Seidel.
Men on the Moon
Anyone who is inclined to
doubt the wisdom of the ad
ministration’s intention to
place men on the moon must
not overlook the possibility
that this will help move the
economy forward. At present
there is no one on the moon
who can make application
for foreign aid. If we can
land Just two men on the
moon, one can sign the re
quest for aid and the other
can approve it and then we
can build up a highly paid
bureaucracy and extend aid
to underdeveloped planets
Think of all of the fat jobs
that can be handed out to
brothers -in - law and other
hangers-on. As long as the
Government experts know
that the way to be prosper
out is to go broke; as long as
there are plenty of suckers to
vote these spendthrifts into
office, what else can we ex
pect? —J.B.D.
one question we, as Negroes,
need ask ourselves. We are
at the threshold of the sum
mit; do we want to earn the
promotion and reach the pin
nacle with honor or do we
want to back in the door?
Do we want a captain with
an asterisk? To earn the
promotion through open com
petition would be the therapy
needed to rebuild the Negro’s
dignity and self-assurance.
It would destroy the entire
perspective to say we deserve
the prize without running
the race. This is more than
just an individual gain for
one person.
The Marchers of August
28 will have countless ban
ners promulgating “EQUAL
ITY." We cannot strive for
equality and campaign on a
platform of favoritism. True,
partisanship has been shown
the white man in the past;
but isn’t this just what we
are trying to stop? This
would be the most propitious
time for us to show our true
eminence by refusing to be
a participant in acta of fa
voritism.
I am a Negro and one of
the lieutenants mentioned
for the captaincy, and while
I am most grateful for all
our leaders are doing, we
have never had a better op
portunity to display our vir
tue by practicing what we
are preaching. These are my
personal views.
Lieut. Tllmon B. O’Bryant.
Metropolitan Police
Department
THE PASSING SCENE ■
By WILLIAM S. WHITS
U. S. Quandary in South Viet Nam
The area of the nasty and
all-but-forgotten little war in
Southeast Asia is suddenly
turned into a theater of large
crisis for the United States
and for the antl-Communlst
cause all around the world.
The elements of tragedy
and disaster lie now in South
Viet Nam, where 12,000 Amer
ican troops have long been
helping President Ngo Dinh
Diem in resisting Communist
guerrillas by armed force.
In this scene, the United
States Government has just
denounced Mr. Diem —who
has to date been considered
an Indispensable ally with
unexampled harshness for his
severe measures to put down
Buddhist demonstrations
against his regime.
The Buddhists say they are
acting for religious freedom.
Mr. Diem, a Roman Catholic,
says they are in fact using
religion as a cloak for politi
cal action against him. What
ever the truth may otherwise
be, they are undeniably serv
ing Communist interests by
keeping in turmoil a nation
at war with brutal invaders.
Washington, having al
ready said it would not sup
port or condone Mr. Diem's
campaign against the Bud
dhists, now has gone much
farther. If we have not, in
fact, pulled the rug from un
der him, we have come peril
ously close to doing so. But
at the very same moment we
are assuring him—and with
complete sincerity —of all
military support in his cam
paign against the Commun
ist aggressors.
Successful Strategy Imperiled
This, then, is the dreadful
ball of wax now confronting
us in Southeast Asia, the
arena of the most hopeful
military strategy yet devised
in the West to halt creeping
Communist takeover in Asia.
The core of that plan is to
use American specialists in
guerrilla fighting and spe
cialized American arms as
cadres to the masses of local
troops.
If it will work in South
Viet Nam—and working well
it has been—it will work al
most anywhere. If it should
now fail in South Viet Nam.
for reasons having nothing
to do with military problems,
more than simply the col-
A BOOK FOR TODAY
By DONALD MINTZ
A Feminine Monologue of Merit
THE CREATIVE WOMAN by
Dorothy Goldberg. 204 pp.
(Robert B. Luce, >3.95.)
The table of contents of
Dorothy Goldberg’s “T h e
Creative Woman” occupies
3*4 pages. It seems to imply
that here we have a brief but
thoroughly systematic trea
tise on an important matter.
But Mrs. Goldberg knows
better. She remarks that the
book ‘‘may be assembled in
scrapbook fashion and not
always logically.”
As a matter of fact, “The
Creative Woman” is that
great mystery, the feminine
monologue. Its logic and
sometimes even its subject
matter are hard for a man
to find. Women, on the other
hand, seem invariably to un
derstand this sort of thing.
Do not take this as depre
cation. Any detailed descrip
tion of "The Creative Wom
an”—any male description,
at any rate—will have a dep
recatory or even patroniz
ing tone about it. And it will
therefore be false.
MRS. GOLDBERG RAM
BLES HERE AND THERE
among her own thoughts
about the position of women
in today's society, art in gen
eral, and women in art.
Some of these thoughts,
it is true, sound a little like
something out of a self-help
manual, some seem to come
straight from the ladies’
magazines, and some are
pseudo - philosophical non
sense.
But more of them are warm
and wise. And it is the feel
ing of warmth and wisdom
that encompasses the entire
book—including those oc
casional bits that objectively
are scarcely worth the reading
—that make “The Creative
Woman” a fine little volume.
The warmth melts objec
tions to the occasional
cliches and the loose sen
tence structure, and even
objections to the ladies’
magazine notions. Thus:
“Public life, to be sure, re
quires a certain amount of
small talk, because it is not
civil to sit in silence near
somebody one knows without
commenting pleasantly about
the time of day or the
weather at least. Still, to talk
about the weather with one’s
lov6 is an appalling waste of
time—if not an indication of
no love. And yet, even when
one is in love, one cannot
very well pass the potatoes
at dinner while quoting, say,
from *Love's Eternity.’ For
all we know, even Tristan
and Isolde spoke of the
weather, the wind and the
mists of Cornwall with no
misgivings about whether or
not they were communicat
ing on the same wave length.
Surely, it seems unrealistic
to expect high-level dialogue
to be continuous. True dia
logue is conceivable even in
a silence or occurring some
enchanted evening in an ex
change of glances across a
crowded room. Then nothing
more needs to be said.”
THE WIFE OF A SU
PREME COURT JUSTICE,
who is a former Secretary of
Labor, and before that was a
distinguished labor lawyer
lapse of local resistance to
armed communism would be
involved.
Compromised, at the very
least, would be the strategy
itself. It would be a heart
breaking backward step off
the most somber implications
in a part of the globe where ;
Communist China is becom
ing increasingly militant. f
Another Danger ,
Why in all these circum-'
stances was it thought nec- //
essary for this Government*,
to go so far in berating Mr.
Diem? Careful inquiry among <
officials here suggests that
in the end our decision was *'*
based upon intelligence re- ~ ■
porta that his “antl-Bud-;
dhism” was becoming ruin-*
ously harmful to Western in- •
terests elsewhere In Asia and’
most of all in Thailand,
which happens to be the
nearest thing to a major ally fu
we have in that area of the “
world.
If we stayed silent, we-“
risked losing the Thais. If we >
denounced Mr. Diem —as now m
we have done —we risked 1
helping to topple the only'*
man in sight in South Viet*
Nam with the known capacity
to continue effective resist- •“
ance to the Communists.' •
These are the two stones be
tween which we are caught.
How Western interests can
emerge intact from them, no
man can know at this point.' ■
Thus, the administration
from top to bottom is con-' *■
ferring and consulting with ■’
an urgency and gravity not’
seen since the days of the ’
Cuban crisis of last fall. And -
now, as then, both political
parties are giving a display-'
of bipartisanship. The un
enviable job of representing ■ -
American interests on the
spot in South Viet Nam has
gone to a Republican who in*
1960 was on the presidential' l
ticket that challenged John
F. Kennedy Ambassador ”i
Henry Cabot Lodge.
What Mr. Lodge reporta’
from South Viet Nam will go
far toward shaping future -
American policy. His very
presence there, moreover, will
necessarily mute Republican
criticism. It has become now -
not a Democratic problem or
a Republican problem but an
all-American problem.
® 1963
with considerable public ex
posure is perforce a public '
wife.
Whatever notions she and
her family may hold about
the place in society of the
well-educated woman who
also is of necessity always
and forever mother are .
bound to be shaped by some
sort of public consensus.
She must play her public
role, she must play her fam
ily role (if one can tolerate
the implications of that so- ’
ciological phrase), and she 1 '
must safeguard something in »
herself.
Mrs. Goldberg uses the
word “creativity” for that*;
something. In her particular s
case, it has an obvious, pre-.
cise meaning. It refers to her ,
activities as an artist.
It also has a broader t
meaning, a meaning of more
general appeal, and a mean
ing that is very hard to get, r
at. It refers to internal re
sources and the ability to,,
bring them to external ex
pression. This is what dis
tinguishes the human being
from the automaton, and this '
is what Mrs. Goldberg is pas
sionately eager to foster and
develop in others and in her
self.
How? Mrs. Goldberg does”s
not claim to know. Her book,.<■
"merely invites you who may -,
be at a temporary pause and, »
standstill to look two ways:-.,
outward to the world of ac-<
tion and process, and in-.
ward to the world of woman’s
own deep concern and won
der.”
Many women will find
great Inspiration in “The
Creative Woman,” partly be
cause of what it says but
perhaps largely just because'
it is.
Answers to Questions
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Q. When did the "Safety'
First” slogan originate?
—A. H.
A. The Bureau of Mines '
says that the phrase “Safety l
First” became a national
slogan in the year 1911 when
the Bureau of Mines gave a
national safety first demon- -
Stratton at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Previously, the phrase “Safe- - '
ty Is the First Consideration”
had been used on the sta
tionery and among the em
ployes of the H. C. Frick
Coke <fc Steel Co. of Pitts
burgh and the Illinois Steel
Co. of Chicago.
Q. Are the world's deep
est caves in France?—M. G.
A. Os the world's six deep
est known caves, France has
the first, second, fourth, and
sixth. These six caves are:
Gouffre Berger, 3,681 feet,
at Isere, near Grenoble,
France; Gouffre de la Pierre
St. Martin, 2,389 feet, Basses-
Pyrenees, France; Grotta del
la Plagga Bella, 2,261 feet,
near the Piedmont border,,
Italy; Trou de Glaz, 1,980
feet, also at Isere, France;
Antro di Corchla, 1,776 feet,
Tuscany, Italy; Gouffre Pi
erre, 1,772 feet, Haute-Ga
ronne, France.