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d presidential year. but not
necessarily In an or year. Also
no such campaigning by tele-
vision as has been carried on
this year, especially on local
or regional networks. has ever
occurred before In q congress
sional race. It is q novel and
quick way to reach voters and
one that can be readily UNI
derestimated as to It's effects
by the forecasters.s
The basic factors in every
election-aside from the per-
sonality Of the candidates
tend to revolve around the is
sues Of economic contentment
or discomfort, integrity in Gov
eminent. and the war or peace
outlook.
In this campaign the Re
publicans have had the peace
issue on their side as well as
integrity in Government. AS
for the economic discomfort
issue. It's effects are sometimes
spotty-as is the cast this
year-and can often be over
come by urging more Of the
employed to 60 to the polls or
by stressing the so-called emo
tional issues. Honesty in Gov
eminent, anti-communism and
the peace outlook have been
the emotional issues this time.
Everyone who has been OBJ
serving the campaign first
hand has written about the
apathy" It could be a big
advantage to the Republicans.
For the failure of citizens to
register or to 60 to the polls
is found largely in what the
pollsters call the "leSs edu-
Gated" groups. The better
educated" according to scien-
tif1c polls, are apathetic, too,
but they do vote when aroused
by newspaper or radio or tele-
vision appeals. The Republican
Party has always had a larger
number Of the so-called edu-
Gated millions in its ranks
than the Democratic Party.
This writer has never ven
tured to make a positive fore
cast Of the outcome Of a con-
gressional election in mid-term
Of a President because ma
tional trends are too often
submerged by local or person.
atty issues in each district.
Due to the late efforts of
the Republicans. they will be
able to prevent a sweeping de-
feat on all fronts. The victory
for either party in the Senate
will be by a very narrow
margin. AS for the House, ir-
respective of which party has
organizational control, the
majority to be recorded on
legislative roll calls will be a
Republican, Democratic coali-
ton Of non-radical votes. Any
body who thinks he can point
to a mandate" in this weeks
election will have q hard time
proving It.
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that there are in the White
House files. handy for Presi-
dent Eisenhower's speech writ
ers, back copies Of all Of the
Economic Reports Of Mr..
Truman.
But that might be regarded
as cynical and flip-and this
is an attempt to get away
from the cynicism and pes
simism that a political cam
paign always provokes in any
one who has seen many of
them.
The healthier attitude is
to accept the fact that here
are q Democrat and q Repub-
lican, one an ex-President,
the other now President, who
see alike on the boundless
economic potential Of our peo-
pie and our industrial plant
1.-THE Promise Ahead"-despite
all the sound and fury Of the
last few weeks in our con-
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Constantine Brown
Gonstontne Brown
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS That?
indian Leader Processes to Be Neutral but His Actions
Are Interpreted as Sion He Icons ToMurd Reds

Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru is concluding his lengthy
visit with Mao Tse-tung. Chou
En-lai and the rest Of Red
China's dedicated and deter
mined Communist leadership
and is on his way back to New
Delhi. No doubt he has learned
q great deal: it Is to be ear
nestly hoped that what he has
learned will do something to.
steer him OF the dubious
course he has so far set for
India and Southeast Asia.
Nehru has quite consistently
chung to the notion that the
best If not the only way to
insure the continued independ-
ence and future progress Of
his teeming dominions was to
avoid any close relationship
to either the Communist world
or the free world. In practice.
however. indications have been
many and plain that Mr..
Nehru leans considerably more
in the direction Of the former
than of the latter.
So apparent have his predi-
lections been that India was
by-and-large included with the
Communist side in discussions
on the truce in Korea. Presi-
dent Syngman Rhee Of the
valiant Republic Of Korea was
outspokenly opposed to CLASH
flying India as a neutral" and
even threatened to bar Indian
troops from the Korean penin-
sula by force Of arms, If need
be.
Yet, despite ali the evidence
to the contrary, Mr.. Nehru
continues to insist on his no.
ton Of Indian neutrality as
a healthy balance in Asia, pow
erful enough to prevent the
face-to-face clash Of the two
hostile worlds.
Perhaps, then, we can hope
that his visit to the new China
will show him enough Of the
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Dovid Lowrence

Nearly every congressional
election Is q surprise land
this one will be no exception.
That's because the public gets
q picture which confuses what
happens in q presidential cleo
tion---where there are two can
didates only--with q congress
sional election where there are
this year at least 20 candi-
dates for the Senate and sew
eral hundred candidates for
the House.
Everybody is really guessing
as to the outcome. No polls
have been made in each of the
districts and States that COM
pare at all with the scientific
sampling polls conducted dur
ing a presidential campaign.
The late Franklin D. Roose-
welt used to say to callers that
every congressional election in
the middle of a presidential
term was "local'' and that it
was not based on any ma
tional trend or any yardStick
indicating confidence or lack
of confidence Of the people
in the policies of the Presi-
dent.
This correspondent has
written about eleven such off,
year elections and in not one
Of them did the party man
ayers themselves, in their pri-
vate estimates, predict the
outcome accurately. They
sometimes felt confident of
victory, but it either was mar
rover or larger than they ex-
pected-they had no reliable
means of advance measure
n1ent.
So this writer offers his
own theory, which is that the
congressional election will not
result in the Landslide" for
the Democrats widely pre-
dicted a month ago, but will
be a close election in the sense
that a few seats either way
will decide control Of the Sen
ate and the House of Repre-
sentatives, respectively. The
biggest surprise of all would,
Of course, be the retention Of
control of both Houses by the
Republicans.
How could such an unex-
pected result materialize? The
answer lies in a study of ma
tional trends over the years.
This is q little-noticed phase
of the celebrates behavior
often overlooked, as some OBJ
servers insist on repeating the
fallacy that President Eisen-
hower's feat in running ahead
Of his congressional ticket in
1852 was something unusual
and due only to his popularity.
The fact is that no overall
percentage Of the vote of
either party for congressional
candidates has ever been equal
to that of the winning pres
idential candidate. Separate
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gressional election campaign.
In short, it is possible that
the Nation can survive the
election.
Perhaps it can forget. too.
the silly rantings of one per-
son in particular, Vice Presi-
dent Nixon, about former
President Truman and Adlai
Stevenson, and his claptrap
about Democrats taking the
country into socialism. Presi-
dent Eisenhower seems to
have appropriated for his own
the Truman detectives.
adopted them as sound and
proper. even though he is q
bit more optimistic than the
ex-President and boosted the
Truman forecasts Of our po-
tential 10 years hence.
Maybe, now that the cam
paign is over. we won't hear
so much from our Vice Pres
ident. it
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Few Seats Either Way Seen Deciding Control OF Senate
And House, With No Landslide for the Democrats

ballots or separate columns In
the voting machines or unfa-
miliarity with the candidates
names are the main reasons.
The important thing to
study is the upward or down
ward movement of the long
range trend of each party's
strength. President Roosevelt's
trend, which began in 1882,
rose considerably in 1886. The
unusual happened in the 1884
off-year election when the
Dem ocratic congressional
trend actually went higher
than two years before. This
surprised everybody, include
ing Mr.. Roosevelt.
But 1886 was the peak, and
the Democratic percentage OF
the total vote for Congress
thereafter went steadily down.
ward. This national percent.
age was pushed up somewhat
in presidential years, but was
never restored to its high point
Of 1884.
The long-range trend of the
Republicans started upward in
a substantial way in 1852, and
If the deep-seated resentments
manifested against the Demo-
cratic Party then are still pres
ent, the curve should logically
stay where it is. The main
tenance Of such a trend might
have been assured If the Re-
publicans had reminded the
voters Of the issues which pro-
duced the negative trend
against the Democrats in 1852.
But the Republican high
command, though repeatedly
warned, mistakenly ignored
those tactics until late in the
congressional campaign, when
it finally started talking a good
deal about Communism, cor
ruption and Korea"-the basic
issues which two years ago
brought the anti-Truman YER
dict.
No campaign can be won by
the party in power il the oppo-
sition party takes the offensive
and the incumbents remain
weakly defensive. So the DEM
ocrats made the louder noise
during 1853 and most Of 1854.
That's why the political writ
ers have almost universally as
sumed that the Democrats were
coming back into power.
In less than two weeks, how
ever, the Republicans have
gone on the offensive. Presi-
dent Eisen hover himself
jumped into the fray with
personal appearances on the
stump. Then the various writ
ers and politicians on both
sides began saying frankly that
the Republicans were picking
up" or gaining" Others wrote
that 1t was "too late" or mot
enough" and that the voters
had already made up their
minds. That might be true in
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may play directly into COM
inunist hands. As much If not
more than China. India Is af-
fiicted by poverty in the mass
of her nearly $50 million
people. Human misery is un-
believably intense in the midst
of starvation, disease and
l1opelessness. Yet Mr.. Nehru.
although sponsoring q 6-year
plan Of economic and agricul-
tural rehabilitation, has so far
avoided any "all-out" meas
ures for immediate improve
ments.
He has many times warned
that too-direct assaults on the
causes of midas poverty would
set up authoritarian principles
sure to weaken democracy,
which latter philosophy Of
government he praises. But the
continuation of the peoples
sufferings provides the most
fertile soil possible for COM
munist agitators. and they are
hard at work, with little in
reference from MFR. Nehru's
government.
And while Mr.. Nehru cult.
Yates relations with Red China
in the most cordial manner.
and influences other nations Of
Southeast Asia to follow his
lead, the Chinese Red Army
gathers on the borders Of
Tibet, and in Afghanistan the
Russian embassy numbers
enough people to staff a dozen
countries, whose duties in
Kabul are mysterious, to say
the least.
Mr.. Nehru surely knows
what the Communists and
their world aims are. What Is
the explanation for his atti-
tudes, then? Is he q fatalist,
sure that the Reds must tri.
umph, or does he see some way,
invisible to most Of us, where
by the lion and the lamb can
really live In peace?
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Sale at IdyIwood

The Women's Association Of
the Irwin Memorial Church, Idyl-
wood, Va, will hold an Out
grown Sale" Friday evening and
Saturday morning at the church.
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sy me Assoslaied pre.s

DENVER. Aug. Ills the Air
Force trying to land Felix tDoe,
Blanchard. Army's great full
back Of a decade ago. as football
coach for the new air academy?
The Denver Post posed the
question today. pointing out that
Blanchard is an Air Force officer.
He and Glenn Davis were the
backf1eld stars on West Points
l944-1946 elevens.
Bob Bowie. In q Post story
today. said Blanchard sis sta
toned at West Point, where he
is scheduled to coach the Army
plebe team this fall. Getting
him transferred from the banks
Of the Hudson to the shores Of
Monument Greek Tin Colorado)
apparently win require action at
the secretary level. at least
Bowie said ''it is understood
the Army has served written
notice to the Air Force that it
would frown upon raids on its
personnel at West Point. In
other words. lay OF Blanchard. q
The air academy will be built
close to the mountains north
west of Colorado Springs and
won't be ready for about three
years. However. the academy's
first class will be opened at Dem
ver's Lowry Air Force base next
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By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE
Baltimore Orioles park has
turned out to be the toughest
for major league home run hit
tiers.
For years Washington's Grit
fifth Stadium has been known as
the waterloo" of baseball's most
prolific sluggers.s but a check
shows that. going into last
nights games only So homers
have been hit in Baltimore's Me-
mortal Stadium--three less than
in the Senators park.
The Orioles have accounted
for only II of the circuit blows
hit at Memorial Stadium. The
Yankees and Senators have tlve
apiece there. Chicago has four.
Cleveland three. Boston and
Philadelphia two each and De-
troit one.
In contrast, the historic Polo
Grounds, home Of the Giants.
tops both leagues in number of
home runs with lat. Leo Du-
rocher's pace-setters have wall
Hoped 81 there.
Surprisingly. Forbes Field in
Pittsburgh has been the hard
est nut for National League bat
tiers to crack. Only SO homerS
have been hit there-17 by the
Pirates.
This shiny reputation of
Forbes Field. the scene of 14l
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West Point Browning on Rods
Denver Writer Hints AirForce
Is Seeking Blanchard as Coach

July under direction Of its first
superintendent, 1t. Gen. Hubert
r. Harmon. and its first foot
ball team will open practice in
September. 1855.
The Post story said lit un-
doubtedly would be up to Air
Secretary Harold Talbot to get
Blanchard away from the Army
lii the Air Force wants him
for coach"
Lit. Col. Robert Whitlow, di-
rector Of athletics for the air
academy. sidestepped any spe-
cific mention Of q football
coach before leaving Colorado
Springs Monday for conferences
in Washington.
Whitlow said it viii be about
six years before the academy's
football teams are strong enough
to tackle schedules as tough as
those now played by Army and
Navy.
But he did say in an inter-
view that he hopes eventually
to see West Point and An
napolis play the air academy
elevens in Colorado at least once
every four years.
Whitlow said one of the ques-
tions he is asked most frequently
is: when are we going to play
Notre Dame?"
The only answer now: eve
don't know"
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Bolt FeHs Horses,
Shocks Two Men
At Charles Town
sp.eiufD Dispatch 70 The s,or

CHARLES TOWN. w. Va,
Aug. 1.-THE saying that light
ming never strikes twice in the
same place is not necessarily
true. but Harold Holland. a start
er at the Charles Town race
track. and John Bradford are
putting their faith in it today.
Holland and Bradford escaped
serious injury yesterday when a
bolt came crashing down Just
before the start of the Fairy Pike
purse, the feature race.
Holland was on the starters
stand and had his hand on the
electric switch button, while
Bradford was aboard Bill, the
saddle horse of the team of four
Percheron work horses which-pull
the gate. when the bolt struck.
Bradford's horse and another
were knocked to the ground, the
rider narrowly missing being
crushed.
Both men suffered mild shock.
The horses were unhurt. Less
than Is yards away were the
horses and jockeys waiting to get
of. A few of the animals were
f1.inhfanAl r,A &,sn.l 4. L-YA -
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LITTLE SPORT
Lea Lane Heads Field
Al Washington Park
b. Inc Assoeio,ed Press

q i d + Il
CHICAGO. Aug. IL. Charlton
Clay's Lea Lane, an upset victim
In the Arlington Lassie q month
ago. heads an overnight field Of
II named for today's $40. 900
added Mademoiselle Stakes at
Washington Park.
The Lassie was Lea Lanes
only setback in four starts, She
lost the decision by . head to
Delta.
Clay's Star scored victories by
d total Of 50 lengths in her FIRST
three appearances, which In
cluded the Miss America and
Pollyanna Stakes.
Delta won't be in the Made
moiselle, a six-furlong dash for
2-year-old fillies. but Lea Lane
is expected to get rough COM
petition from such as Hasty
House Farms AlSpal. D. II. Wells
Dusty Blue. Greenacres Stock
Farms Mrs. Mark and Tom
Kirdler's Gambetta. winner Of
six races in nine starts.
Although Alspal hasn't won in
three starts, she finished second
to Mrs. Mark in her first race,
second to Lea Lane in the Polly
anna and third in the LaSSie.
Dusty Blue was a three-time
winner at Arlington.
The other overnight choices
were Dee Dee o, Smart Devil.
Jet Girl. Sweet Josie. Mrs.
Sweenie and Revetmen.
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Six Games Slated Today
In SoftbaII tournament

Six games are scheduled today
and five tomorrow as play con-
tinues in the double-elimination
Washington amateur softball
tournament.
The eventual winner will enter
the regional tournament at Ball
timore September 3 and II VIC
torious there will participate in
the national championship at
Minneapolis later next month.
The schedule today. and to-
morrow:
FBI vs.. American Trucking at Rock
Greek No. /, $40; c. q 2. Telephone
(Hyattsyille) vs.. Bureau OK Personnel aS
Rock Greek No. 2. $50; Club 400
VS.. Southern MARYLAND Seafood Of Ban
nsker No, $40; y. ictory Gr M vs. vs.
s:s ssterc Club ios4 vs.. cafedon at Ban
Yeker No. L, 500: Mount Rainier VS..
Boiling Air Field Generals ut Banneker
No. 2. 500 tomorrow.
Hawks VS.. (FBI or Truckingl ut Rock
Creek No. ], $40: st. aCyprians VS.. Bar
81 at Banneker No. 4 S: ;,l5: 1888 c,S Ss
44(lO at Banneker No. 2, S:1b: AGO
No. 1 VS.. Myron-CoweiI ut Bannsker
No. /, 9:36: 6afeway W. Micnaelson
at Banneker No. Q. 9:35.
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Lunhom Track to Defy
Friday the 18th ink

Undaunted by the Friday-the-
18th superstition, officials at
West Lanham Speedway have
lined UP an imposing list of
drivers for the weekly stock car
feature.
It was three years ago that
Edward L. Mahoney, owner of
the track. objected to Director
Red Crise booking a 400-lap
feature on Friday the 18th on
the grounds that some Of the
drivers might be Superstitiols
about racing on that date. But
II 900 fans showed up to watch
Tony Bonadies win, the feature
as a select field went around
without a miShap.
Headed by Charlie (Pee Wee)
Pobletts, point-scoring leader at
West Lanham, the 25-lap feature
will also include such top drivers
as Ken Marriott, Ray Kable, Ed
Lindsay, Johnny Roberts and
Rex White.
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picture on Page c-1.J
BY The Assoeiuted Press :

WORTHING. England, Aug.
11.-Sir Gordon Richards. pint
sized knight OF the saddle and
the worlds leading jockey, has
decided to give up riding at the
age of SO.
Sir Gordon has been thinking
for a year about hanging up his
saddle. but an injury suffered in
spill a month ago apparently
FASTENED his decision to quit.
Richards said he would become
a trainer next season. although
he has wealth, fame and a lush
country estate. Sir Gordon also
said he would retire to. the life
Of gentleman farmer.
Il shall never ride again in
public. he announced suddenly
yesterday :
After "a years as q jockey.
every minute of which have en-
joyed. it is naturally with no
little regret that ] make this an,
nouncement," said the man who
knew the friendship of kings.
queens and commoners alike. 4
Thrown by Queens Colt.
At Sandown- track July 10 Sir
Gordon was thrown and crushed
at the paddock by Queen Eliza
beth's colt, Abergeldie. The
Queen had just shaken his hand
and wished him luck in the race.
His retirement leaves another
English-born jockey o h n n y
Longden--as the leading active
rider. Longden at A has won
more than 4.400 races, while
Richards retires with 4,870 VIC
tories. Longden, who went to
Alberta, Canada. as a small boy
with his parents. now is an
Anericon rifi1pn ppnorforlIx, =,
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Favorifes Move Ahead
In Rainy Essex Tennis
By he Asseeioteel Pres.

MANCHESTER, Mass, Aug.
11-Shirley Fry of Akron, Ohio;
seeded No. l, leads a field of 80
into the second round of the 9th
annual Essex County Club wom-
ems invitational tennis tourna-
ment today-weather permit
ting.
Rain forced postponement of
the start of the second-round
play yesterday when only three
matches that pared the field
from IS were held on the slip
perry, rain soaked courts. go
In those matches the favor
ties all advanced in straight sets.
Mrs. Betty Rosenquest Pratt of
Jamaica, British West Indies,
the No. 2 domestic seed, defeat
ed Doris Popple of Spokane,
Wash. 6-i, GO. Her foreign
counterpart, Ann Shilcock of
England. downed Mrs. Sylvia
Knowles Simonin of Philadel-
phia, Ga, 60.
Kay Hubbell. Conway, N. H.,
whipped Suzanne Herr, Miami,
Fla. 60, 6-1.
Miss Fry was runnerup to
Maureen Connolly last year.
Maureen is absent this year due
to her recent riding accident in
which she suffered a broken leg.
Doris Hart Of Coral Gables, Fla,
had to withdraw at the last min
ute due to illness in her family.
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Landy Admits Cutting
Left Foot, But Says
Il Didn' Bother Him
By the Associated Pres.

VANCOUVER, British Column
bia, Aug. 11.-John Landy adj
mitted yesterday he accidentally
cut his left foot. the day before
he and DR.. Roger Bannister ran
the miracle mile" and said he
tried to keep the injury secret
SO it could not be construed as
an alibi.
= After day of denying pub
lished reports the Australian
miller reluctantly acknowledged
the stories we're true. He told
reporters he stepped on a photog-
rapher's discarded fash bulb,
inf1icting cut that required
four stitches.
: But he said he didn't want
news of the injury to get out
because sit probably eventually
will be used as an alibi and !
don't want that"
The accident occurred at 8
am. Friday. The next day
Landy and England's Bannister,
the only two men ever to crack
the four minute barrier, did it
again in the miracle mile"
finale Of the British Empire
Games.
A closing squirt put Bannister
over the finish line in front of
Landy in 3:528. Landy was
clicked in 1886.
Landy said yesterday the cut
didn't bother me in the slight
est"
He said it happened when he
got up to walk around outside"
when he couldn't sleep.
When I got back inside there
was blood all over" he said. 81
got the stitches put in about an
hour afterward."
Despite the injury, Landy
paced the field in the mile until
the closing yards when Bannister
spurted past him.
Andy O'Brien Of the Montreal
Star first broke the story of the
injury Monday and it later was
confirmed by two Vancouver
doctors.
Acknowledging the story yes
terday, the Aussie told reporters:
- "The quicker that it's dis
missed the better"
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BeIyoir Opens Series
With Monmouth Today

The Fort Belvoir baseball team,
with a f1ve-game winning streak
and victorious in IL of its last
IA games, takes on Fort Mon
mouth at 8 pm. today at Belvoir
in the first of a two-game series.
Milton Bayne, a southpaw
owned by the Cards, will pitch
for the Engineers. who will at
tempt to avenge an earlier de-
feat by the New Jersey team.