Evening star., 1952-10-16
Eisenhower Advisers
Pleased by Reception
On His 2O-State Trip
By J. A. O'Leor
Sfar Staff Correspondent

Star Sfotf Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-Gen.
Eisenhower's aides were we'll
pleased today with the reception
he received on his 20-State tour
of the West and South, which
ended in Tennessee last night.
AS the Republican nominee took
his crusade into New Jersey today,
his advisers had their hopes built
up by the crowds he drew on the
West Coast and in several key
spots in the deep South.
After motoring through Hack
ensack and Paterson, N. j., this
afternoon. Gen. Eisenhower will
speak tonight at the AL Smith
Memorial Foundation dinner at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, an an
nual Catholic charity event.
Before Gen. Eisenhower went
into the deep South some of his
campaign assistants were Skepti-
cal of the wisdom of doing so.
But today they had no regrets.
$4,000 Greet Him at Memphis.
The highlight of his final day
below the Mason and Dixon Line
came at Memphis yesterday aft
ernoon, where more than $4,000
persons gathered on the natural
slope of wide thoroughfare
leading down to the Mississippi
and cheered the Republican NOM
inee.
The crowd included delegations
from Arkansas and Mississippi,
but it indicated that Gen. EiSen-
hover has more friends in the
South than Republican candidates
for President usually muster.
Earlier in the day $4,000 per-
sons gathered on the airport at
Shreveport, La. as the general
made his second stop of the week
in Louisiana.
In Memphis Gen. Eisenhower
called the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority great experiment in re-
source development and gave as
surance that he has no DISPOSE
tion to impair its effective oper-
alton.
Points Out His Position.
He added. however, that the
Government should not look on
iva "as a rigid pattern for such
development in other regions.
In the Missouri Valley, for exam
pie, he said, many citizens are
considering a partnership ar
rangement between State and
Federal agencies. He said this is
the system he favors, in general,
for new projects. He took the
position that the Federal Govern
ment's goal should be to work out
river basin developments in the
way the people of each region
want it done.
When Gen. Eisenhower arrived
IN Knoxville later in the evening
he said he had been handed a
newspaper advertisement which
pictured him watching a IVA dam
being dynamited.
The ad was sponsored by the
Nashville Tennessean, of which
Sllilman Evans is publisher, and
appeared as full-page ad in the
Knoxville News-Sentinel. A car
toon was accompanied by a re-
print of an editorial from the
Tennessean.
The News-Sentinel also ran an
editorial, explaining that it dis
agreed 100 per cent with the claim
that the fate of iva hinges on
the election of Gov. Stevenson
over Gen. Eisenhower. The Knox
vile paper said it was printing
the Nashville Tennessean ad in
the interest Of free press and the
presentation of all sides of con-
troversey.
Gen. Eisenhower repeated in
Knoxville the assurance he had
given in Memphis that he would
do nothing to hamper the opera
ton of iva.
Gen. Eisenhower drew applause
In Memphis when he described
Gov. Stevenson as the hand-picked
candidate of President Truman.
The general said both of his op-
ponents have charged that in
July, 1949. Republicans in Con-
gress voted 40 to against a plan