Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-03
Stop Calling Names,
Work on Atom Curbs,
Stevenson UrgesU.S.

CHARLOTTE. N. c., April s.
Adlai Stevenson said last night
the Eisenhower administration
should stop calling names" and
concentrate on international con-
troll Of "the unknown demons
that Turk in the atom"
In a 45-minute, 5.000-word adj
dress to more than $500 North
Carolina Democrats, the 1852
presidential candidate said the
Indo-China war, growing unem-
ployment, and the threat Of
atomic war were grave problems
facing the Nation.
Mr.. Stevenson termed what he
called "the Illustration Of the
&C. o. P) legislative program,
the division. the feuding, the
name-calling, the timidity and
the impotence" a "distasteful
spectacle" and added:
1T is not just the fate of the
Eisenhower administration that
is at stake it Is the fate Of
all of US.
"A year ago tonight I was In
1ndo-China and every day the
peril increases there. Every
month more Americans lose their
jobs.
Need for Atom Control.
1.-THE CHASTITY (thermonuclear)
explosions in the Pacific have
pointed up the imperative neces-
sity for new and desperate in
ternational efforts to control the
unknown demons that Turk in
the atom.
And yet for weeks and weeks
our national life is preoccupied
with Republicans quarreling over
the discharge of a dentist CDR.
Irving Peress) by the Army :.
and we wait from day to day to
decide who is lying about what"
Asserting the Eisenhower adj
miniStration has reSorted to slo-
gans and sales campaigns, he said
that the Nation has not been
getting straight talk from our
leaders,"
The former Illinois Governor
said the administration has used
"this merchandising technique"
to get headlines over the an
nounced withdrawal of the 7th
fleet from Formosa, over "how-
ling about the secret sell-out of
Yalta and Potsdam" and over
talk about a bold, new dy-
manic foreign policy of 'liber-
alton for" Eastern Europe. Yet,
he asserted, all these programs
came to naught.
Takes Stab at Mccarthy.
Government by slogan and
deception" he declared, leads
all too quickly to government by
SANDER and smear" He said
Senator Mccarthy makes "a full
time occupation out of the same
politics of misbranding and mis-
representation"
Mccarthy" Mr.. Stevenson
said. lis a scoundrel if he at
tacks Republicans. but a patriot
when he attacks ordinary peo-
pie or calls men like Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry Truman
the patrons Of traitors.
In short, politics first and
principle second: I would recon-
mend that the Republican lead |
ers read what Abraham Lincoln |
said about that"
President Eisenhower, Mr..
Stevenson said, will have to
make his choice between unit
ing his party and uniting his
nation. So long as his party is
constituted as it is at present,
he cannot do BOTH"
He noted the division within
his own party in 1852 and said
more and more southern Dem
ocrats" are returning to the
party latter a taste of govern
ment by men whose chief quail
f1cation for Office seems to be
the accumulation of large for
tunes during times of Demo-
cratic prosperity"
Welcomes PrOdigaIS Back.
''For my part" he went on,
"the lost sheep are welcome
back" He said he respected the
motives of those who strayed-I
both going and coming. But I
hope the South won't get the
habit of issuing round-trip
tickets"
Mr.. Stevenson's address was
arranged by Democrats launch
ing a campaign to GUST the
States only Republican Con-
gresham, Representative Charles
Raper Jonas, who picked up
Democratic votes while Mr.. Eli
senhower was carrying Charlotte
and the 10th district.
Turning to the Republican tax
program. Mr.. Stevenson said
Congressional Democrats want