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I A visitor to the school finds. | surprisingly, an easy atmosphere | maintained by seven staff mem | bers. If there ia any fear of | the boys, no one shows it. Most of the boys tower over Mrs. Hazel Wentworth, who teaches remedial reading and who somehow manages to smile and pass calmly among the boys, one of whom is always shadow boxing or going through a kind of shuffling movement ended by flopping down in a chair. The other day she was patiently hearing the troubles of one boy—he was lying on the window sill, his legs propped against the wall and his hands dabbling with the loose end of the string on the window shade. Mrs. Wentworth is 49. Typing Fascinates Them William Ulrich, 37, teaches social studies, math and typing. Candid and serious, he admits he's not sure he’s been able to get anywhere with the boys. He discovered they are fascinated by typing and got one boy up to 20 words a minute. It is one of the few things they’ll stay at, punching away at the machines in deadly earnestness. It is questionable whether the school can keep Mr. Ulrich. The rewards are few and far between. One day he sees a light in the eyes of one boy, the next day the same boy refuses to try anything. His interest wanes overnight. As Mrs. Wentworth puts it, "they just can't sit still." To provide some outlet for this nervousness, she introduced painting which helps now and then, but hardly enhances remedial reading. Some of the boys read on first, or second grade levels. Alone, they'll read for her. With the other boys—some of whom read quite well—they clam up. The staff says these things about the boys: They are far from stupid. They are sensitive. They need individual attention and if they don't get it, will stage a fight for it. They know exactly why they are there. They know why everybody else is there. There is some chance of "rehabilitating" each boy, but the chance diminshes with the coming of a new pupil. For the new pupil, or pupils, the new element in the group, is always the competition in the surge for attention or some recognition. The rules of the school, set up by Dr. Bennetta Washington, principal, are far from rigid. The boys come in any time between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. Sometimes, the staff will let a boy off early. He just has to get out of the building. "Some of these boys," Dr. Washington explains, "seem to reach a point where they can't take even the relatively easy direction they get here. I've got to let them leave the school." No ugly incidents yet. This approach to the boys has apparently paid off. There have been no ugly incidents yet—though members of the staff smile and cross their fingers when relating this. While it is still too early to tell if the school is accomplishing anything in the way of rehabilitation, there has been one significant development. Starting off with a few boys in October, and adding a few more each week, it has demonstrated a holding power, a definite attraction. As one youngster told a while back: "It's not here, except you don't find any girls to talk to." Critics of the plans for such a roll call at Boys Junior-Senior High School, compiled by principals, teachers and psychiatrists, show: Age 18—Expelled from school; record of and evidence in present school of carrying a razor knife; use of strong and abusive language; lack of any inner control. Age 13—Maladaptive behavior has shown from early childhood; shows strong psychopathic tendencies as well as schizoid distortion; effeminacy; psychiatric treatment started at the age of nine. Age 15—Temporary suspension from school; psychical evaluation; “prognosis unfavorable unless there is complete removal of student from the home environment; anti-social behavior is likely to develop into criminal behavior within the school." Age 15—Reported as hostile, belligerent, truant, threatening to teachers and students; in need of psychiatric evaluation. Age 15—Juvenile Court Case; excluded from school for reason of behavior; reported as dangerous and deliberately vicious; under psychiatric therapy since the age of eight. Age 15—Dropped from school in October of 1957; Juvenile Court case; disruptive behavior problem in two former junior high schools; withdrawn, recommended for psychiatric study. Age 13—Effeminacy, exposure, deep-seated emotional turmoil, frightening relationship with father might lead to homosexual behavior and a paranoid pattern; seriously in need of psychiatric treatment. Age 14—Juvenile Court case; he assumes very little responsibility for his behavior and the consequences... seems to have no feelings of guilt about his anti-social behavior... seems to identify and to be intrigued with behavior that is violent, destructive, and anti-social. Age 15—Juvenile Court case; immature, hyperactive, tendency towards explosiveness: unable to contain himself. Age 14—Hyperactive; extremely demanding, with anxiety and neurotic conflicts: need for warmth and affection. Age 15—Severe maladjustment; hostile feelings which he is unable to handle: believed to be “psychopathic,” no conscious guilt feelings, difficulty in relating to others; reported as potentially dangerous to self and others. Age 15—Admitted to Boys’ School upon recommendation of Juvenile Court; on probation after fight with a teacher; reported demonstration of inability to control temper and a belligerent attitude; undergoing psychiatric evaluation. A school said it could never enforce attendance. But Dr. Washington reports absences are as normal as those experienced in the regular schools. She is somewhat concerned, however, over the approach of Spring. Balmy weather and truancy go hand in hand, any place. Spring, then, will be a critical period for the school and for a variety of reasons. If the boys fail to show, the school can show little reason for existing. Meanwhile, more boys must be added, perhaps as many as 30, to meet the original blue print of the school—and to “justify” it for those who control the purse strings of the school system. But each new boy will make it that much more difficult for the staff of the school to do, a salvage job on another boy. Each boy can disturb a class, particularly one set up for disturbing boys. And unless some boys are salvaged, the school will become nothing more than a PARTY TODAY CELEBRATES REPEAL OF PROHIBITION Ever look back optimistically on the days of the raccoon coat, speakeasy and blanched? Washington liquor dealers don’t. They're so glad prohibition days are gone, they’re going to have a 25th anniversary party today for repeal. Instead of looking back on the era of “Twenty-three skidoo,” “Oh, you kid” and bathtub gin, they'll reminisce about the big blowout here on March 1, 1934, the day the Volstead Act died. The old-timers will recall that at midnight police cars swung out of precinct stations to deliver 200 liquor licenses. To some, the police siren never sounded so good. Thousands lined up early at bars for their first drink and stayed long. It had been a long dry spell—17 years. But if truth will out, there was considerable hedging on the sale of factory-made squeezing. Bibbers report they bought corn in the bottle a week or so before repeal — at drugstores—and there were no arrests. Washington—a city which now consumes about three times more liquor per person than the national average—strove mightily, but unsuccessfully, to eliminate the saloon atmosphere. The barkeep was required to mix drinks inside a little booth at the end of the bar. After the drink was mixed, the almost invisible barkeep would shove the drink out a little window or door. The attempt to maintain the illusion that barrooms weren't barrooms failed, the regulation was soon laughed off the books and the bartender looked his patrons in the eye while serving "red eye." The Washington Retail Liquor Dealers Association will toast the death of prohibition in appropriate fashion for such a group—with a cocktail party beginning at 2 pm in the Continental Room of the Sheraton-Park Hotel. All expelled from other schools—can keep attention on is typing. They have a harder time in other subjects. —Star Staff Photo. Dumping ground—despite the advantage to the rest of the school system and its pupils. School officials and members of the Board of Education are determined not to let this happen. It may—and this is one of the elements of the gamble —be too much to ask. It could be done, Dr. Washington feels, if the system was ready to pour money into the school, increasing its staff and facilities. No such plans are in the wind as yet. Ironically, the school today finds itself somewhat in the position of those schools which three years ago searched for some way to get the bad boys out. For years, principals had been expelling the incorrigible, quietly, until a member of the Board of Education thought it. would be wise to make it legal. There were attempts to loosen the compulsory attendance law. But the cry went up. “You can’t turn these boys out on the streets.” Milk Dealers Ask Handling Law Change The Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers Association yesterday urged its members to “sit tight” during the current battle two District dairies are waging to get a change in milk sanitation regulations that could affect the entire market. W. B. Hooper, general manager of the dairymen’s group, described a move by Chestnut Farms (Sealtest) Dairy as an attempt to get “greater profits at the producers’ expense.” Chestnut Farms, a part of the National Dairy Products Corp., has asked the District Commissioners to revise what Sealtest officials call “anti-quated” sanitation regulations. A more dangerous move in so far as the milk producers association is concerned was Sealtest’s announcement that it would buy directly from farmers instead of through their cooperative which controls 90 per cent of Washington area milk. Sealtest has asked the farmers to sell their milk individually to the dairy. It is the association’s largest customer, buying 50 per cent of its total production. Mr. Hooper declared in a letter to the co-operative's 1,800 members yesterday that this move “leaves little doubt that the National Dairy Products Corp. has decided to try to break the producer’s price in the Washington market.” Sealtest, which up to now has bought exclusively through the Co-operative, expects to begin buying directly from the farmers this week—at least from as many of them as will sell. Mr. Hooper accused the dairy of taking advantage of the wedge the independents have driven into the market. Sealist has said the price it must pay the co-operative for fluid milk is "abnormally high” and should be reduced to meet competitive prices. Arlington Firm Grosses $750,000 Producing Little Else But Ideas By JOHN BARRON Stir Stiff Writer A small Arlington Arm did $750,000 worth of business last year by selling little more than ideas. Using books and brains as its principal production tools. Psychological Research Associates made money by manufacturing solutions to problems. Freud never dreamed of. The Arm's psychologists and “hard scientists” have used their uncommon sense to equip the armed forces with answers to questions such as these: What psychological factors make people in a Soviet-torated country rebel and see? How many men and weapons make the most efficiently murderous infantry squads? How can you best teach Aiers to live on their wits if downed in a hostile wilderness? What makes clothes for a soldier good or bad? Rough Research To discover these and other answers, some of the scientists bounced around aboard bucking destroyers, blacked out in military jets, staggered over mountains trailing haggard plots and organized their own infantry company. Although the psychologists may have shed some of their scholarly dignity in the mud through which they crawled with the Infantrymen, they were practicing in a respected and burgeoning new Aeld of American science—called human engineering. Most of the data they compiled remains in the something the Russians would like - D.C. Officials Are Opposed To Tax Rise McLaughlin Joins Karrick in fears Exodus May Result District Commissioners Rob ert E. McLaughlin and David B. Karrick yesterday took a stand against any Immediate District tax increase. The two city officials voiced fear that a tax rise now would encourage a further exodus to the suburbs. "We have to be careful not to defeat the purpose of a tax increase by driving out the source of the tax," Mr. Karrick told a panel of television interviewers. Mr. McLaughlin, referring to the same danger, said that a tax increase now would put the District's taxes on a plateau above those of the suburbs and that this would hurt the District, including the city’s business interests. Cites Increases Mr. McLaughlin specifically opposed increases now in the individual income and real estate levies. He noted that realty assessments are being raised to produce some $4 million more this year and that the individual income tax was increased substantially two years ago. The District's realty tax was criticized by two members of the District Appropriations Subcommittee in House public hearings last week. Representative Rhodes, Republican of Arizona, said the District should perhaps be looking to its own resources instead of seeking a higher Federal payment to bolster its budget for the next fiscal year. Mr. McLaughlin, on the WTOP City Side program yesterday, said he felt the city, however, must look to Congress for additional help. He referred specifically to a supplemental $9 million Federal grant which the Commissioners are seeking for the present fiscal year to help cover recent pay increases voted for city employees by Congress. The Federal payment for the current year so far has been $20 million. For next year, as well as for this year, $20 million. The District is asking $32 million, which was authorized for both years by the last Congress. The Commissioners a year ago urged Congress to adopt a policy of keeping District taxes in line with those in suburban communities. Congress, however, did not commit itself on this score. Mr. Rhodes and Representative Santangelo, Democrat of New York, said at last week's hearing that they thought real estate taxes were higher in their home communities than in the District. Mr. Karrick said he didn’t know whether this was true or not, but he pointed out that the District has no annexation power under which the city can be expanded as its taxpayers move out and that this poses a special problem here. Consider Payroll Levy Commissioner McLaughlin also called attention to the fact that Congress members frequently have criticized the city for inadequate welfare, health, school, and other facilities and that the District has been trying to meet these complaints. Asked whether he would favor a payroll tax, which has been proposed in the past as a way of not only increasing District revenue but recapturing some of the earnings taken out of the District by suburban residents, Mr. McLaughlin said: "The Commissioners are scheduled to present a broad review of the city's problems, including a plea for more Federal help, at a special session of the Senate and House District Committees at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. A similar report was presented a year ago." To-know category, but the approach the psychological research associates employed to determine the optimum composition of an infantry squad indicates methods sometimes used in human engineering. Judging a Squad Dr Harry J. Older, co-found er of the Arm and its director of research, says that his sci entists Arst chose criteria for iudging the performance of a squad. Among them were the number of rounds it expended to hit targets during a Are Aght, how many times it lost communications during a bat tle period and how well it could stay intact during night Aght ing. The scientists then trooped into an Army training center and commandeered an infan try company for testing. They systematically altered the size of its squads and re-allocated its weapons under a variety of combat conditions. After com parison and analysis of each squad's performance, they were able to suggest the ideal com position of an infantry unit. More often, however, the Ar lington scientists are involved in attempts to shape the new machines of war and automa tion to At the thinking and capacity of their operators. Modern Errors Costly Dr Older explains that in use of today's military equip ment, "You simply can’t toler ate the errors which once were I permissible.” For instance, an operator who presses the wrong button could cost the country a multi Glover-Archbold Park To Get 4-Lane Road By JAMES G. DEANE BUr Staff Wrtt*r The District has completed tentative plana for a dual, four lane roadway through Olover- Archbold Park, which extends from the Potomac River to Upton street N.W. ■ west of Georgetown.» The projected parkway has been given top priority as t link between the planned Po tomac freeway, Virginia high ways and upper Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues. It also may serve as the western end of a proposed District inter mediate loop highway. And there is a possibility it may point directly to a new Po tomac bridge. Pint construction is planned this summer. The parkway may not be ready for motorists, however, before late 1983. Development Opposed Glover-Archbold Park now has only footpaths. Conservationists and nature groups long have opposed its use for any roads, contending this would destroy a valuable natural stream valley and wildlife refuge. The park, slightly over 2½ miles long and from about 800 to about 1,300 feet wide, follows Foundry branch, a meandering brook. It is still wild enough to harbor foxes and other small animals rarely seen within the city limits. Most of the park land was donated in 1924 by Mrs. Anne Archbold, a wealthy Washington resident, and the late Charles C. Glover, banker. The District formally agreed to restrict the donated land to park use, but retained a 100-foot street right-of-way which existed legally prior to the gifts. Congress authorized transfer of the right-of-way to the park system in 1932, but the transfer was never carried out. Mrs. Archbold has opposed putting any road in the park. Two Roadways Planned Plans called for two 26-foot roadways running generally along the center of the park, with access roads at various crossing streets. The roads have been designed for a 50-mile speed limit. Much of the stream will be relocated. The roads probably will be on opposite sides of the stream. At the upper end the parkway may connect eventually Arlington Street Tower Removal Is Expected By BAM EASTMAN Star Stiff Writer Civil Defense officials apparently will remove an Air raid Siren tower from the grounds of an Arlington elementary school because of protests over its location. Construction of the 85-foot tower at the John Marshall School, Twenty-fifth Street and North Glebe Road, set off objections from resident, civic groups and officials of the nearby St. Mark’s Evangelical United Brethren Church. Yesterday, the Arlington School Board voted to ask the Office of Civil Defense to remove the tower structure from the school property. The board was told by Supt. Ray E. Reid that, according to his information, civil defense officials had promised to grant such a request within 30 days after it was submitted. Requesting Change "In light of the objections of various people," Mr. Reid told the board, "he was recommending that civil defense authorities be asked to find another location for the siren." Mr. Reid said later that he had a million dollar missile, not to mention setting off its hydrogen bomb. Thus, after scientific scrutiny of a missile system and the type of personnel likely to operate it, Dr. Older and his colleagues recently recommended a control panel to reduce this possibility. And they concentrate most of their ruminations on similar efforts to develop ideas of how to train men and arrange machines so that their relationship will be effective and untroubled by disaster. The hunger of the military and of industry for such things is re-effected in the growth of the research corporation. Fast Growth When Dr. Older and his partner, Frank E. Manning, established it in 1952, it consisted of five people. Today it employs 60. In addition to its hatchery of ideas at 507 South Eighteenth street in Arlington, it has organized a branch of the Aeld in California. Dr. Older reports that the city of scientists imposes the major limitation on expansion by his and comparable arms. The personnel situation is just terrible, he says. “This field has gone wild in the last couple of years.” He said that last week he spent almost an entire day and $200 making telephone calls to all parts of the country vainly trying to recruit two psychologists. “But the demand is so great they don’t even ask you what you're paying any more.” HOT with a tunnel under Tenley; Circle and a possible roadway along Wisconsin avenue to the Maryland line. But plans north of Upton street are not yet firm. The intermediate loop, if it is built, presumably will connect with Military road and circle along a line of Civil War fort sites toward Anacostia. There was once an “Arizona avenue” on the city map, following Foundry branch. The land was deeded to the city by property owners, according to conservationists, only to allow a sewer in the valley, however. A footpath now runs above the sewer line. Park officials are expected to ask for some changes in the road plans. Some parking cuts and picnic facilities are also being considered. Critics Outspoken Road critics charged two years ago that a parkway would invite loiterers, endanger children who use the park for recreation and ruin the park's natural features. They predicted it would also be adverse to neighboring homes. The parkway was being considered then as a link with Route 240 in Maryland. It might still become such a link, officials said. But it would be barred to trucks under existing legal agreements. Funds are in the District budget now pending in Congress for the first construction. Bridges on Reservoir road and New Mexico avenue are the probable first projects, officials said. The total parkway cost probably will be about $5 million. Had approved what appeared to him to be a routine request for permission to put up a warning siren at the school, "It didn't occur to me that we needed to see the plans," he said. All other sirens on county school property are located on top of the buildings or on light poles, he said. The tower, enclosed by a 10-foot fence, is needed for this type of siren which is powered by gasoline rather than electricity. One as $1 The structure is one of 21 being installed in Maryland and Virginia suburban areas. The siren can be heard over three times as great an area as the electrically powered type, and it may be activated by a radio impulse in case the electric power is knocked out. School administration officials yesterday emphasized that they were anxious to cooperate with civil defense officials on the warning network but in this case felt that another location. The action should be found. Protests over the location were based on claims that the tower was an eyesore, that there had been no notice given residents that it was being built and that it was a possible hazard to the school children. School Hearing Set The Arlington School Board will hold a public hearing on its tentative $12.7 million spending proposals for the coming fiscal year at 8 p.m. Thursday at Stratford Junior High School. AWARDED STAR TROPHY-John A. Remon, treasurer, receives The Evening Star trophy for outstanding civic work from John W. Thompson, associate editor of The Star, at the annual dinner of the Federation of Citizens Associations.—Star Staff Photo. THE SUNDAY STAR Walking ton, D.C. Sunday, March 1, 1959 Hartke Sees Home Rule In Offing Star Trophy Award Highlights Annual Federation Dinner Expressing confidence that the District will be self-governed soon. Senator Hartke, Democrat of Indiana, last night gave the Federation of Citizens Associations some tips on how to run their city. Speaking at an annual dinner at the Mayflower before 630 members of the group, Senator Hartke advised citizens to attack Juvenile delinquency by pushing forward recreational plans for youngsters. Highlight of the program was the presentation of the Evening Star trophy for civic achievement to John A. Remon, chairman of the Redevelopment Land Agency. The trophy was given by John W. Thompson, Jr., associate editor of The Star. I I Hartke Gives Warning Senator Hartke, a member of the Senate District Committee, came to the gathering from a Democratic dinner, just in time to deliver his speech, Speaking as a former mayor of Evansville, Ind., he warned civic leaders against substituting their own organization for the central administration. “I believe we can secure through Congress in this session some self-government for the District. Once this is accomplished, the time may not be far off when you will be voting in Congressional and Presidential elections as well.” he declared. A territorial government may seem unglamourous, but it would be an improvement over the present system of presidential appointed commissioners, the Senator continued. Under home rule, Senator Hartke said he hoped Federation members would concentrate on recreation. “It costs less to build a park or a swimming pool than to build or maintain a home for delinquents.” he said. “I know that recreation is not a cure-all. But it is a cure-some.” Playgrounds Urged In his home town, he added. A civic group donated funds to equip vacant lots throughout the city as playgrounds. Swings, slides, sandboxes, and jungle jums were installed, creating popular and inexpensive playgrounds. “I would like to suggest to you that this project, which has proven extremely valuable in my home city, be pushed forward in Washington.” he said. “Actually, the term 'home rule’ is wrong.” the Senator said. "For a fresh approach. I would suggest that you talk about representation rather than home rule. It has an entirely different meaning to people outside the District, and such a term has a much better chance of being accepted by Congress.” The chief reason that he favors self-government for Washington, he continued, is that he is "convinced that you people know more about how to run your city than the elected representatives from other States.” Concerning juvenile delinquency, the Senator said: "Let's be honest. Washington is marked as one of the black spots of the United States.” The Senator is chairman of a District subcommittee considering legislation to authorize appointment of a second Juvenile Court judge. The burdensome case load could be lightened, he indicated, if citizens averted delinquency through sponsorship of healthy activities for children. A-13. 