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although the figures had gone up to
34.6 million and 1876 million.
BY 1910. however. the margin by
which men outnumbered women in
the voting population had dropped
to 100000. Census officials figure
that sometime after the close of
World War II a balance between the
sexes IN total population was reached.
l948 Estimote
The census is taken only at 10
year intervals, but in 1948, the last
presidential election year, officials
estimated that women had taken the
lead in adult population. The esti-
mates on July l of that year were
46.4 million men and 47.9 million
women.
Miss Bertha Adkins of Maryland,
executive director of women's activi-
ties for the Republican National Com
mittee, believes the increase in the
female adult population will have
definite effect on the 1852 campaign
She believes some of the issues in
this campaign are of a nature to
stir the interest of women. The Re-
publicans are striving to have a
woman precinct worker in every vot-
ing precinct. and are again conduct
ing a school of politics. as they did
in the 1850 congressional campaign.
Senator Smith does not believe
women vote as a block. She expects
them to divide on major issues as
men do. She thinks that the grow
ing interest of women in public af-
fairs will. however. increase the total
vote cast.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
By J. A. o'Leory

pressure on the Democrats, meeting
two weeks later, to do likewise.
If that happened, whatever advan-
tage accrued to one party or the
other would depend on the relative
drawing power of the two woman
candidates. But if the Republicans
follow precedent with an all-male
ticket, the Democrats, meeting last.
would have an opportunity to be the
first party to put a woman on their
ticket.
One drawback to the nomination
of q woman for Vice President, aside
from the reluctance of either party
to try an uncharted course, is the
fact that the conventions seldom
have a free hand in filling second
place on the ticket. Usually the nomi-
nee for President is permitted to say
who will be on the ticket with him.
Sometimes second place goes to a
State which gave its votes to the
winning presidential candidate at a
psychological moment.
1850 Census
The 1850 census figures on popula-
ton 81 years and over were divided
as follows: Women, 49,419. 900, and
men, Al, ,499, 900. These figures include
2.500.000 aliens who cannot vote. and
exclude members of the armed forces
outside of the United States.
Assuming the aliens are about
evenly divided between men and
women, there would remain 48.219.-
600 women and 46. 300, 900 men. This
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might be forced to take on specific
controversies?
Perhaps they had some lingering
doubts, but if so, they we're putting
up a brave front indeed. Here, in
the words of Pennsylvania Senator
Duff, is the basic reason why the
general is coming home: "The inn
preston of Gen. Eisenhower's per-
sonality will be tremendous" It's as
simple as that.
Senator Duff and some of the other
Eisenhower mentors hint that the
general still doesn't plan to answer
any more questions than he has to.
He will be the architect of his own
procedures" says the Pennsylvania.
He certainly won't let his foes set
the procedure"
Senator Duff speaks with full
knowledge that the Taft camp has a
procedure planned-smoke out the
general on specific subjects, especially
the complex ones where he will make
somebody angry regardless of what
he says Already, Senator Dirksen
has started an attack along these
lines. In a telegram to the Eisen-
hover camp. the Illinois Republican
has demanded that the general give
an "unequivocal statement" about
eight controversial problems. More
needing efforts to smoke out Gen.
Eisenhower are sure to follow.
But the Eisenhower campaigners
are banking frankly on the generals
smiles, rather than his sayings. In
way, they are expecting something
similar to the late Wendell L. Will
kies successful drive for the Repub-
lican nomination in 1910.
WiIIkie BIitzed loft
Mr.. Willkie. another personality
boy from the Midwest, blitzed the
1910 convention, winning the NOM
ination on the fifth ballot as the
galleries at Philadelphia Conven-
ton Hall chanted his name.
Then as now. the opposition was
Senator Taft. Taft had gone to the
convention with lot of delegates in
his pocket. He faded fast when the
chanting began. The delegates de-
cided they must have a candidate
with vote appeal.
Gen. Eisenhower's camp likes to
think Senator Taft still can't stand
the pressure of personality. They
are anything but downhearted. Right
now, the Ohioan has big edge in
pledged delegates to the nominate
convention. But Kansas is giving
most of its delegates to Kansas-boln
Gen. Eisenhower, and New Jersey
voters are expected to back the gen.
eral in this weeks primary.
And even if, when all the delegates
gather in Chicago July for the
nominating convention, Senator Taft
still leads among the professionals,
the Eisenhower forces don't thirk
they will be helpless. For, they fig
ure, they will get lot of help from
the triumphal return of their hero,
a military hero with personality pl's
"a hero. above ALL who knows to
hit the enemy where he's weakest.
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Eisenhower
As Politician, He'll Rely on the Military Maxim
Of Hitting the Opponent Where He's Weakest
By james E. Roper

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in
turning politician, plans to stick to
basic military strategy: Hit the en-
emy where he's weakest.
The generals main rival for the
Republican Presidential nomination,
of course, is Senator Taft of Ohio.
Taft is an energetic and intelli-
gent campaigner. He knows the de-
tails of all major issues, and usually
speaks out. But he has reputation
for failing to project his personality.
That's the point Gen. EisenhoWer's
hackers are counting on him
to hit. They think the Eisenhower
grin and the Eisenhower modesty are
sure-f1re vote-getters. That is one
reason they have been urging the
general to come home to campaign.
The decision was agonizing to
make. In the beginning, Eisenhower
supporters we're of the almost unani-
nous opinion that he must come
home and campaign. But then this
man licked the veteran Senator Taft
IN the opening conteSt-the New
Hampshire primary. He piled up a
tremendous write-in vote in the
Minnesota primary. Senator Taft
tried to withdraw from the New
Jersey primary.
Privileged Sanctuary
1t was no wonder that many of
the generals enthusiasts began to
think maybe he sould stay overseas
after all. He was doing fine. And
Taft hackers grumbled that Eisen-
hover had a privileged sanctuary"
away from the political brick-bats
that hit their candidate.
Senator Taft himself said he fig
ured in February that he had made
all the enemies he was going to make.
On March 9, he told a television au-
dience: Il don't say Eisenhower can't
win (the presidency if he is nomi-
nated). say think Eisenhower can
win.
But think it's very dubious
whether he would be as strong
candidate by the time he gets through
stating his position on lot of con-
troversial issues which will very much
weaken his present popularity, what
ever it might be-"
That was the way things stood
when the tide began to turn a couple
of weeks ago. Senator Taft scored
in Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illinois.
In Illinois last week. he SWamped
Harold E. Stassen in the popular
vote by 862 900 to 145 900. An Eisen-
hover write-in campaign failed to
get up steam. Taft won 48 out of
so delegates to the convention.
Re- -Turnobout
Soon afterwards, by strange COIN
cidence, came word that Gen.
Eisenhower wanted to resign as
commander of the North Atlantic
Treaty armies in Western Europe. He
would come home to fight for the
nomination.
Were Eisenhower boosters still wor-
ried that their candidate might hurt
himself in campaigning? Were they
losing any sleep over the stand he
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principal countries would mean
disaster for the entire world. Signifl-
cantly. he referred to the military
capacity of his own country, with
the implication that it has greater
value in the anti-Soviet front than
does that of Italy.
Direct Negotiation Prospect
The reply of Italy's Premier De
Gasperi, delivered in speech before
the Italian Senate, was more mod
crate in tone and addressed more di-
rectly to the Marshal's suggestion
that resolution of the problem be
sought in direct negotiation.
Such negotiation, in fact, has been
suggested previously on each side
and has even been attempted. There
has not as yet, however. been con-
vincing evidence that either side is
willing to compromise in sufficient
degree to obtain agreement.
The problem of Western diplomacy
today is to create a genuine temper
for agreement in both Belgrade and
Rome, and to exert every effort to
bring the parties face to face for
such purpose. Continued presence
of a British-American occupation
garrison in Zone A probably would
suffice to avert actual warfare be-
tween Yugoslav and Italian forces.
If Tito's threatened disaster" is
averted by this means alone. it is
possible that his warning that there
would be loss of sympathy by his
people for the West would come to
pass.
But 1t does not seem likely that
Tito would OF could rejoin the Rus
sian camp. In any event, the Free
Territory, these days, packs large
diplomatic headache in it's small
area.
Evening star., 1952-04-13
(Groft Hunters Shun Controller Worrens Recommendations

lively. A book publisher. w. w. Nor
ton, impressed with the Controller
Generals choice of words as we'll as
his zeal in protecting the public purse,
wrote Warren two years ago and
asked him to write a book about his
work in behalf of the taxpayers. War
rem took the somewhat unusual posi-
tion-for a man in high Federal
Office these days. at leaSt-that 1t
would not be fitting and proper for
him to write book about his public
duties while he was still performing
theh.
This refreshing attitude stimulated
the publisher more than ever, who
then gathered all of Warren'S reports
to Congress and started looking
around for an author to write about
waste in the Government and
what is and is not being done about
it. Publisher Norton selected Blair
Bolles to write the book, which. under
the title of How to Get Rich in
Washington" is fast becoming local
best seller. Publisher and author
alike credit Warren as being the man
who inspired the book-not by getting
rich but in doing his best to keep
others from getting rich at Govern
ment expense.
Practices Whot He Preoches
In addition to riding herd on care
less or fraudulent spenders of Uncle
Sans money. Lindsay Warren sets an
unparalleled example for Government
ri 1Icfr f01 I1n OF al
years, in fact since the GAO peak
workload of World War II. Warren
absolutely without congressional
prodding year has trimmed
down his own agency budget and
personnel requirements. From top
of $4,000 GAO employees about five
years ago, he has reduced his staff
to level of $500.
His performance within his own
agency and his efforts 10 keep others
in line naturally bring praise from
Congress. Only the other day, Rep
resentative Albert Thomas, Democrat,
of Texas, chairman of the subcom-
mittee on Independent Office Appro-
priatiOns, said that Warren is per-
forming difficult task with courage
and ability and the American people
are fortunate in having such a ca
pable leader to keep check on Federal
expenditures and to see to it that ap-
preparations are expended in accord
ance with law"
Former Congressman
Congress is Lindsay Warren'S boss.
Only COngresS-and not the PreSi-
dent-has the right to remove him
from office, and then only through
Impeachment. Warren himself served
eight terms in Congress as Demo-
cratic Representative from North
Carolina. A native of Washington,
N. c., Warren represented in Con-
gress the hardy Carolinians from the
region around stormy Cape HatteraS
and Roanoke Island, the site of the
first and Inflated English settlement
in the United States.
Congress welcomes Warren'S peri
odic reports and personal testimony
before its committees. Its members
follow up frequently his reports of
malfeasance in Government. But Con-
gress so far has not seen fit to follow
up on his recommendations. designed
to get at the causes of the troubles
Mr.. Morris had come to town to
WreStle with.
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the United States Government. This
requirement, in Warren's view,
would help detect and punish con-
nivance between Government en-
ployes and contractors for future
employment"
Anti-Bribery Measures
Warren has advocated hard and
long the strengthening of criminal
laws on bribery of Government Of
ficials and employees.
In testimony last summer before
the congressional committee study
ing ethics in Government, Warren
recommended that a compulsory and
thoroughgoing course on "the
American taxpayer" should be given
wherever the United States bears the
cost of educating or training officers
or employees for the Government. He
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would leave women in the majority
among potential voters by about
1.9 million. This figure would be re-
duced by whatever number of men
overseas cast absentee ballots, which
is an unknown quantity.
When the woman suffrage amend
ment took effect in 1920 the poten-
tial voting population consisted of
%, 100. 900 men and q. 100000 women
In the 1880 census men maintained
this majority of about one million.
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recreation department wage and
safety boards and the various exam
ining boards. Others would remain
outside the Commissioners range. for
example, the School Board, the public
utilities and zonlng commissions, and
of course, the Federal and judicial
agencies. All of these have special
status.
Citizen Advisors
Another important part of the
Commissioners plan is the establish
ment of a citizens advisory council
which would serve as a sounding
board for the Commissioners. In all
there would be II basic departments
under the Commissioners direct adj
miniStrative control.
Policy decisions which do not fall
in the legislative field would be de-
cided by the Commissioners acting as
board, as they now do.
In contrast to this setup, the
Budget Bureau blueprint contem-
plates policy-making board of from
five to nine councilmen-or commits
sioners' s''-appointed by the President
as the three Commissioners are at
present.
This bigger council would in turn
appoint city manager, who would
be in sole charge of administering
the councils policies in about 10 de-
partments.
High-Priced Manager
Bureau officials have in mind a
$4,000 to $4,000 per year salary for
the manager, and about $4,000 an
nual compensation to the Councilmen.
The latter would serve part time
possibly only one or two days each
week and three or four hours each
day. These members would be
public-spirited and capable citizens.
in the view of the Budget Bureau.
They should also represent a cross
section of city life.
Being reduced to 10 departments.
the city government visualized by the
Budget Bureau would also mean an
. organization considerably telescoped
from the present unwieldy size. If
adopted, the Bureau plan would be
frozen" under its own terms for up
to 18 months. This would preclude
any afterthought tinkering until the
plan had an ample test in it's orig
inal form.
Trumon Pulling Strings?
Both the Commissioners and bud
get officials will get together soon
again with President Truman to fol-
low up their joint conference at the
White House last Wednesday. The
President told both parties then that
he wanted them to thresh out both
plans Jointly and report back. MI.
Truman added he still has an open
mind on the subject.
But District officials are wondering.
Speculation has it that the President
may have dropped a casual remark
about his acquaintance with the
manager-council government of Kan
sas City. Mo. This could have been
the Stimulant that activated the
Budget Bureau plan.
The city heads are certain of one
thing as they sit dismayed in the
District Building. Says Gen. Robin
son: IF we can't get the commits
Sioner form of reorganization, We
don't want any change at ALL"
Evening star., 1952-04-13
By John c. Henry

Of course. and was credited with
playing an important part in the
eventual anti-Communist election
victory.
Hardly had it been spoken, how
ever. when Titos Belgrade govern
ment broke with Moscow. A period of
watchful waiting by the West led to
the conclusion that the split was
real one and Western efforts began
to WOO Tito into collaboration with
the anti-Soviet powers. These efforts
have had considerable success, at
least in the circumstances short of
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at great expense to the taxpayers.
The RFC built the plant in 1914 at
cost of So million. A couple of
years ago the RFC accepted a bid of
$756.000 and transferred the plant to
private ownership. Then, within a
few months, the RFC leased the
plant back again for 100000 a year
and spent $25 million rehabilitating
the establishment, which is still
privately owned.
His postwar assaults on mislead-
ing accounting of the old United
States Maritime Commission leo to
its abolishment. Recent disclosures
of fraud in grair storage for the Agri-
culture Department resulted from
WarrenS reports challenging the ac-
curacy of official bookkeeping.
Waren's caustic language makes
his reports. written or oral, rather
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out reference to any particular indi-
vidual, that the party which first
puts woman on it's ticket will Ger
tainly win.
The Republicans. of course, would
have the first chance, because they
hold their national convention first
1t is more than likely, however. thai
if the Republicans took the plunge
by giving woman second place or
their ticket, there would be strona
Evening star., 1952-04-13
By jones and Ann CottreII Free

AS any one in Washington can
plainly see, this is open season on
SpendthriftS and bribe-takers in Gov
ernment. But open as the season
may be, it is curious that none of the
highly touted hunters show any in
clination to seek or heed the advice
of the country's elder statesman
among corruption hunters. Control
Ter General Lindsay C. Warren.
Newbold Morris, for instance, did
not get around to seeking Warren'S
advice on ways and means of locating
and minimizing corruption. Nor have
the President or the Congress recog-
nized the existence of Warren's oft
repeated counsel on how to get at the
root of the eVil-doing at taxpayers
expense.
Lindsay Warren has been called
the conscience of Government" and
the peoples advocate" He has dedi-
Gated his General Accounting Office
to the exposure of fiscal finagling
with remarkable results. In IL years,
this unique and relatively unsung
bureaucrat has rescued almost $500
million of taxpayers money-more
than a million dollars a week-from
the drains and cutters of dishonesty,
inefficiency and just plain waste.
His GAO double-checks contracts
and bookkeeping of Federal depart
ments and agencies. When his au-
diting sleuths find something askew
in Federal spending, Warren not only
reports it to Congress, but goes ahead
and tries to recapture miSspent
money.
Undoubtedly, as recent scandal ex-
poses indicate, many millions have
still escaped, but the blame cannot
be placed at Warren'S door. He goes
as far as he can legally in recovering
lost. strayed or stolen Governmnt
funds.
Suggestions Little Needed
-three-year-o Warren fits
into the current cleanup ''to-do'' by
his persistent, but little-heeded, rec
concentrations for basic permanent
reforms, rather than temporary ones.
If his proposals had been enacted
into law, there would be less need
for f1urrieS of reform with special
missionaries and imported investi-
gators.
Since so many troubles have
stemmed from business employ
ment of former Government officials
with whom they were doing business,
Warren has suggested a remedy for
this many times. He believes Con-
gress should restore to full vigor a
de-fanged 1872 statute. That law
banned former Government officers
and employees for two years after
leaving the service from acting as
counsel, attorney or agent to prose-
cute any claim against the United
States pending in their department
before they left.
AS a corollary he has suggested
consideration of law disqualifying
persons coming into Government
from. handling any Government
business with firms that had en-
ployed them within the past two
years.
An even more stringent proposal
made by Warren in the past year
would require the filing of reports by
Government employees, who leave to
accept jobs with firms dealing with
Evening star., 1952-04-13
D. c. Reorgonizotion-
Budget Bureau, City Heads Set for Showdown
InAreunent Over Changing Government Here
By John w. Stepp

District residents soon will be watch
ing the climax of the tug of war be-
tween the Federal Budget Bureau and
the District Commissioners, contest
ing the means of reorganizing the
city'S government.
The Commissioners, who proffered
their plan to the public last Novem-
about two weeks ago. But at that
point the Budget Bureau-to which
the Commissioners plan had been
referred for Study-stepped out with
a scheme of its own.
It became Immediately apparent
that one could never be reconciled
with the other. For the city heads
want to streamline the municipal op-
Grafton within the existing three
commissioner framework. The Fed
eral planners propose an entire re-
juggling of the present setup with the
substitution of a councll-manager
form.
EorIy Decision Needed
President Truman must decide be-
tween the tWo-and soon. The Re-
organization Act of 1949, under which
both blueprintS are presented, re-
quireS that such plan must lie be-
fore Congress for go days before go
ing into effect. And for a 60-day
period to elapse, with the political
conventions coming up in July. one of
the two reorganization plans must be
submitted to Congress by May for
any reasonable expectancy of adop-
ton.
OF course, either side of Congress
can block any reorganization pro-
posal by majority vote-218 Repre-
sentatives OF 49 Senators.
What has the President to choose
from? On the one hand, the con-
tinuing commissioner form authored
by Engineer Commissioner Bernard
L. Robinson. Gen. Robinson offered
his plan as the result of a Commits
sioners order of 1949 that depart
ment heads look into methods Of
improving city administration by
reorganization.
More Direct Control
On the theory that the commission
form best meets the current needs of
non-elective District government, the
Engineer Commissioner concluded
that the three member board should
not only stand but should exert more
direct control over the various de-
partment heads.
Each Commissioner, under Gen.
RobinSon'S scheme, would head one
CT three overall departments: Public
welfare, public safety and public
works. Under these divisions. exist
ing departments would be console
dated and new ones established. For
example, under welfare, a hospital
department would be created, Sepa-
rate from the health department.
Under safety, brandneW depart
ment OF commerce and labor would
be set up, and public works would
get new agency known as equip
ment management.
The result would be to reduce the
number of separate agencies con-
nected with the municipal operation
from more than 100 to about 80
Some quasi-independent and inde-
pendent agencies would be shifted to
full Commissioner control-like the
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undoubtedly would include West
Point and Annapolis.
Warren's particular aversion has
been, and is, the plus -f1xed-fee
contract. This he calls the greatest
device ever invented for pumping out
the Treasury"
He has assailed the poor account
ing practices of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. and many other agen-
cies. In last years hubbub over the
RFC, it was forgotten that back in
1916 Warren said that the agency's
bookkeeping was so muddled that it
had lost audit control of about So
billion.
Texas ButyIene PIont
And not long ago, Warren told
Congress about the RIGS fumbling
a Texas butylene plant transaction
Kodiak mirror., 1952-02-09

spectacle and action, but with the thoughts as we'll as the deeds of men in combat.
 Wldmark portrays a Ma rine lieutenant. The story con- cerns the men of Company B, 3rd Battalion, U. s. Marines, as they splash ashore on a Japanese held island in the
Kodiak mirror., 1952-02-09

Homeier, Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Neville Brand, Bert Freed and Jack Webb.
 Tuesday, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer. and Dennis o. Keefe have the leading roles in The Company She Keeps.
 Wednesday and Thursday the film I'll Ocean Drive is