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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-05-28
Joins Innumerable Caravan

The untmely death of Gideon Seymour executive editor aud
vceprsdent Of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune papers
Upper Midwest.
This newspaper joins the weekly and daily and the
many institutions and individuals which Mr. Scymours life
work touched, in sincere regret for his passing
He close reader of this newspaper and did many
things encourage it, carry the work of providing both
Negroes and whites with medium of expression wherein the
interests of community and nation discussed from the
viewpoint of both Negro and white and their inter
ests.
There many things left unsaid by his friends to Gid
Seymour that many wish they had voiced before he died
He until his sudden illness three months ago such
destuctb nfagable nowspaperman that few thought of
him in connection with death
Now he is gone and the many viii miss HMM our Twin
City community and nation God his soul
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Editor wish TO take this opportunity OF thanking your Tor the
exceptionally being extended housing
clarity the statements in last weeks
misleading Of readers
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scqant with the that this project
feasible respect DESTROYS and practical thorough
acknowledged that homeses
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cooperate degree.
attention readers
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Minneapolis building project that the VA and FILA
uneooperave the delays
development of this
nat - Sincerely n. Is, 1854
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Three OF A Kind

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Supreme Court decision outawng school segregation Ac
cording reports the Soviet Russian press has
single line of regarding the decision.
In country Governor James Byrnes Of South Carolina
shocked at the Supreme Court decision and Georgia
Gov Tamadge defed the ruling Russia expresses it's dis
pleasure by silence its press Byrnes shocked and Tamadge
defics the law. This makes them three Of kind
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PLEASED BY SUPREME COURT RULING

Editor wanted to share real pleasure with someone
schools been ruled out by the Supreme
happy view Of your
behalf Of just causeyery truly Raymond
Marquette Minneapolis MIMI May 10, 1854
Evening star., 1954-10-29

President, II he is a shrewd
manipulation and very much on
the ball. also can sometimes
create situations Of advantage
to candidates he favors.. Even
more significant, he can often
stop, things happening, both
general and specific, which
aren't.
President Eisenhower began
with complete acceptance OF
these propositions. When he
allowed himself to be talked
out Of them, it was only by fits
and starts. For example the
long vacation In Denver Is in
striking contrast to the last
minute hustle around four ma
jor airports.
The truth is he can hardly
be said to have a fixed politi-
cal viewpoint and his worst
friends are those who have
been talking him into positions
of glaring inconsistency. It
may be hard on the Republi-
can Party that he cannot lead
it in the Roosevelt Truman
manner as they seem to want
when they are in trouble but it
is something they must recog-
nize.
And he is giving them other
assets in the admiration. the
liking and the respect Of the
people that the Democrats
would give their eyeteeth for.
However the election turns
Evening star., 1954-10-29

answer will not come for
months. Meanwhile. the So
Wet government viii be watch
ing for opportunities to throw
monkey wrenches into Ameri-
can diplomacy and. behind
the scenes, may find ways and
means of adding TO the fric-
ton.
The foregoing set of possible
consequences can be 50 dam.
aging to the prestige Of the
United States that one wonders
how sincere have been the
professions of highly ,1laced
Democrats in their concern
about the standing of America
abroad. For If these protesta-
tions mean anything, then
logically leading Democrats
should be urging their fellow
citizens not to reduce that
prestige but to prevent q
divided government by voting
for the Republican candidates
for Congress.
Some Europeans will feel,
on the other hand. tnat maybe
Gen. Eisenhower should resign
and either Mr.. Truman or Mr..
Stevenson be nameo to the
presidency. They think that
If the electorate in a tree cour-
try elects one party TO control
Of the Parliament, that same
party should have the right to
select the Chief Executive, too.
If a majority of the voters
and the stay-at-homes mean
by their attitude to repudiate
and show a lack Of confidence
in Gen. Eisenhower and his
foreign policies. then they
should be aware that this is
what most persons abroad will
construe the election Of a
Democratic Congress to mean.
Conversely, retention Of the
Republican Congress will be
construed abroad as vote cf
confidence in the Eisenhower
foreign policy at a time of the
greatest success the United
States has achieved since the
close Of World War II.
It's up to the 40 million
voters who have registered to
say what they do mean next
Tuesday. and Europeans will
then put their own interpreta-
ton on the result. Next weeks
dispatches from Europe should
indeed be interesting.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Dons Feeson-
Pre-Mortenns on the Elections
IF the Democrats Win, Eisenhower Will Be Blamed
For Not Giving Something He Never Possessed

out, Republicans can still form
q partye around Gen. Eisen-
: hover but they are going to
have to furnish a united and
determined political leader
ship. To blame him, as many
will do, Is not only stupid from
a practical point Of view. but
unfair. He cannot give them
what he has not got to give.
Even If they win Congress.
the Democrats are not so for
midable. They have not come
up with new ideas. What they
do have, generally speaking,
are better candidates.
This is a place where the
hackers of the G. o. P. come
in. Too often they have been
content with terrible medioc-
rites they wouldn't have in
their businesses, Just because
they were stamped Republi-
can. They should understand
that If their principal politi-
clans are partnership caliber,
not errand boys. the growing
body of independents will vote
for them, but not otherwise.
Democrats, through mex
orable time, may soon lose
some of their countervailing
conservative forces, elderly
Senators such as George of
Georgia, who command SO
much respect. It will tend to
weaken them as will the al
ready evident presidential
drives of their leaders.
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Fletcher Knebei-
Potomac Fever

arhops States in behalf of Republican candidates
Republicans want to their proudest exhibit
q man who's going to vote Republican twice in
fellow has figured out that If the Democrats fail
election he'll $100 be-and $500 in taxes
President tells Is time call spade
spade" almost election eve-and time
call Democrat Communist.
Republicans claim Democrat Avere Hartman is ineligible
New York he voted Washnson
Republicans figure that they can't beat Hartman they
deport him.
administration teltae coored stripes income
tax envelopes they win Democrats have simpler
them check.
Democrats Republicans argue about how many OF
have job The thing about the job today that
the expects at least half time working
Ike he hopes for great outpouing Of votes eec-
ton day. Or to rephrase Louis Xvs famous remark Before
me-the deluge"
Evening star., 1954-10-29
US. Pays Out Dollars
To Koreans Despite
Black Market Peril
BY the Assoeiossd Press

SEOUL, Oct. 29.-The United
States Army today began carry
ing out its threat to pay Korean
employees in dollars and South
Korean police promptly launched
breakdown on dollar black
marketers.
An Army spokesman said
greenbacks. at 81 for every 500
Korean Hwan owed in wages for
the first half Of October, were
being distributed to some 10000
Korean workers in Pusan. 1nchon
and Taegu.
The dollar payment was de-
cided on after South Korea cut
off hwan loans in an exchange
rate dispute. The Army, reluc-
tant to let the greenbacks fall
into Communist hands, appar-
emily decided to spend them
first in deep South Korea, hoping
for a last minute settlement.
One report said police already
had nabbed a few dozen money
merchants at Pusan. The move
undoubtedly was aimed at dis
couraging the Koreans from sell
ing their dollars in illegal chan
nels, where they can buy from
$50 to 800 hwan for 81, compared
to 180 to 81 at the Bank Of
Korea.
The Army spokesman said en-
ployes could either accept dollars
1 now or wait until hwan is again
available to the United States
forces. .-.
The ROK government has pro-
tested that the United Nations
command was 'in effect" black
marketing United States off,
cials said the employees could
change their dollars at the Bank
of Korea.
Under ROK currency regula-
1 tions the Korean employees are
required to change greenbacks at
the Bank of Korea at the ROK
rate of 180 to 81 or deposit the
money there.
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Thomas L. Stokes
Thon7os l. Stokes
Publicity for a Vote|ess City
Very Few Persons in the District if Any, Ever Took
1882 Primary Here as Seriously as Gov. Dewey

Our voteless National Capt.
tai should be grateful for small
favors, especially in an elec-
ton year when everybody else
in this great democracy can
vote but us.
We are grateful. Thank
you!
The small favor referred to
is the publicity now given our
voteless plight unwittingly and
also in q roundabout fashion
by the subject being dragged
into the hot Harriman-Ives
governorship race In New
York. We hope that means
national publicity in at least
a small degree; but anyhow
here's a try at national pub
licity.
For a brief fill-in if you
missed the big news. Gov.
Dewey Of New York, who seems
to be doing most Of the think
ing and talking for his hand
picked candidate for Governor
Senator Irving M. Ives
comes along now to say and
depose:
That Averell Hartman, the
Democratic candidate. Is not
eligible to become Governor of
New York because he voted
here in a preferential presiden-
tial primary in 1852 and signed
a paper saying he resided in
Washington, which he did for
a fact, being administrator Of
the Marshall Plan. Gov.
Dewey cites the New York
Constitutions requirement for
five years residence In New
York as qualification for hold
ing ofiice there.
Very few persons here, II
any, ever took the 1852 pri-
mary here as seriously az Gov.
Dewey. But now maybe We
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Doris Fieeson-

Even in the emotional busi-
ness of politics, rarely have so
many autopsies been pro-
nounced on a patient who can
not possibly expire until the
polls close next Tuesday.
Various interested parties
are passionately explaining al
ready why it happened. One
authority has solemnly warned
that this will be the most mis-
understood election in history.
The returns. Of course, con-
ceivably could throw a little
light on the situation. Usually
the campaigners themselves
once it is all over-are the best
interpreters of what happened
in their States and Districts
as shown by the indisputable
figures.
Whatever happens, upsets
and all, there are some facts
which should be borne in mind
as the returns come in.
One is that the party in
power has always lost congress
sional seats in the midterm
elections. Thus the Republi-
cans were in a real sense fight
ing history when they under
took to say that the voters
owed them gains in House and
Senate.
Another is that politicians.
no matter how glamorous. can
do little to elect other politi-
clans. They can create interest
in the elections, no more. A
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Doyid Lowrence

II the prediction forecasts
are to be believed-and none.
of course; has been made on
the basis Of any scientific poll
Of the 435 districts In the
House and the 35 States where
there are elections for the
Senate-then American pres
tige abroad may drop consid-
erably. For that's what would
happen If q divided govern
ment comes into being.
The spectacle of the Amer
ican Government doing some-
thing which in Europe would
be regarded as fantastic
putting Churchill in. for ex-
ample, to head the cabinet
while Attlee and the British
Labor Party run the Parlia-
ment-would be bound to
create throughout the world
an unfavorable impression
about the constitutional sys-
tenn of this country.
For many months Adlai
Stevenson and a number of
other Democrats have been
saying that American prestige
has dropped because the gov
ernments abroad didn't know
whether they had better deal
with a certain Senator or with
the Eisenhower-Dulles branch
Of the Government.
But what will happen now
If the Democratic Party takes
control Of both houses of Con-
gress? win foreign govern
ments feel they should send
ambassadors or ministers or
special ENJOYS to negotiate
with the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee and the
House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee? viii Democrats. like
Mr.. Stevenson, who have been
crying out that America
doesn't have a single spokes-
man on foreign policy now,
say that it is all right to have
two spokesmen-the Depart
ment Of State and the con-
gressional committees on for
eign affairs? Is a drop in
prestige for America all right
If the Democrats bring it
about, and is it okeh for the
Democratic Party. on taking
control Of Congress. to run the
foreign policy of the Nation?
Europeans were shocked
when the American people in
Evening star., 1954-10-29

A number Of White House
and State Department aides
are somewhat crestfallen that
the public was not more i'm
pressed with last Mondays
televised cabinet meeting.
In that dramatic presenta-
tion Secretary Of State Dulles
brought the good tidings that
the West had entered a new
path for unity. Yet the reac-
ton Of viewers seemed to be
generally apathetic.
Similarly. statements from
Republican dignitaries, in
cluding President Eisenhower,
expressing their belief that
we have better reasons to hope
for peace today than In the
past do not seem to be ade-
quate campaign material.
Some Of the Republican
politicians are at a loss to
understand the American
public's apathy to these ex-
cellent reports OF progress in
the peace cause.
The answer Is not difiicult
to find. The rark-and-file
voters have been so frequently
frustrated in their hopes for
q lasting peace that they have
become skeptical Of "diplo-
matte successes" They have
been fed reports that every
thing is going to be all right
ever since the end Of World
War II. And they discovered
on the heels Of such spectacu-
larly presented information
that the world was being
plunged into further troubles
by Communist greed. Not only
did these cost American lives
but the voters had to dig
deeper into their pockets to
help foreigners which they
frequently considered un-
worthy.
The voters have heard for
nearly 10 years the tune
that peace is finally within
our reach only to discover that
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Harry Trunon-
Protecting Executive Powers
Former President Asserts Democrats Soved Eisenhower
From Own Porty Cites Bricker Plan and Mccarthy

President and his Secretary Of
State in the handling OF
delicate international negotia-
tions. The Democratic Sena-
tors on the Foreign Relations
Committee have long expe-
rience. a fine grasp Of foreign
affairs, and an excellent under
standing of the proper furac-
tions of the President and the
Congress in this field. 2
The second major attack on
the presidency in this last
Congress came over the man
agement of the executive
branch. Seldom In our his
tory, and never since the
administration Of Andrew
johnson, has the Congress
invaded the legitimate affairs
Of the executive branch to
such q dangerous degree. Re-
publican committee chairmen,
including Senator Mccarthy
and his two little helpers, Cohn
and Schine. were actually
running important parts Of
the State Department and the
Army, telling cabinet officers
whom to hire and fire. and
what to say, while the White
House said nothing and looked
the other way.
While all this was going on,
/ pointed out that the Presi-
dent is responsible for the ad-
ministration of his Office, and
that unless this principle is
observed, orderly government
will be impossible.
This challenge to our form
of government was met, not by
the Republicans nor by the
administration, but, in the first
instance, by the Democratic
Senators on the Mundt sub
committee of the Government
Operations Committee. For
over a month the television
public OF the country saw Sen.
ators Mcclellan, Symington
and jackson fighting to pre-
serve the powers of the Pres
ident and the integrity of the
executive branch against the
Mccarthy underground and its
Republican supporters.
That fight discredited Nc
Carthy in the eyes of the peo-
pie, and the censure moves
started. But 1t was the DEM
ocrats who stepped into the
fray and turned the tide. be-
fore it had become popular
do so.
! do not have space here to
mention the various other
ways In which the Democrats
in this last Congress have
served their country by de-
Tending the authority and the
prestige Of the presidential Of
fee. But I would suggest to
the thinking citizen that one
very good reason for voting
Democratic this November is
that a Democratic Congress
will continue the fight and will
preserve the office Of the presi-
dency from the wild assaults
Of our latter-day radical Re-
publicans."
Evening star., 1954-10-29

should. Maybe we should back
up Tom Dewey. team up with
him, and become amicus
,curiae, or whatever the term is.
in legal steps to keep Averell
Hartman out of the Gov
ernor's chair in New York.
That will make us feel really
important and remove our per-
petual inferiority complex.
It seems safe to predict MIR
Harriman's election. at least
that's a natural inference
from the worry of Tom Dewey
and his candidate. They ap-
parently resorted to the Dem
ocratic primary here in the
National Capital as a last des-
perate device. Their series Of
previous charges against Mr..
Hartman, heavily dramatized
over radio and television, did
not seem to take with the
voters, for the polls continued
. to show Mr.. Hartman well
ahead.
The 1852 primary here was
entirely unofficial. It was
largely worked UP by Mr.. Har-
riman and his supporters for
the 1852 Democratic presiden-
tial nomination. They then
hustled around and got him
enough votes, some l4.075, to
snow under his chief rival
here, Senator Estes Kefauver
Of Tennessee. who got only 81
TIT, with a few scattering
votes to Senator Alben w.
Barkley of Kentucky, Adlai
Stevenson. and Gen. Eisen-
hover.
Republicans had themselves
q primary. too. and rather
warmly contested. The late
Senator Taft won that over
Gen. Eisenhower.
We were not able to coin .
Evening star., 1954-10-29

slogan "As the District of Co
lumbia goes, so go the national
conventions" Because neither
Senator Taft nor Averell Har-
riman made it, and Senator
Kefauver got a lot more votes
in the convention, itself, than
did Mr.. Hartman. Our folks
here really meant no harm to
anybody by putting on a little
practice voting in the so-called
primaries. For a few days it
made them feel as if they lived
in the United States.
It was so innocent, a strictly
by-proxy affair. All people
could vote for were delegates
who then went to the conven-
ton and voted for candidates
for President and Vice Presi-
dent--six votes out of over l.
600 at each convention. No
body here, Of course, could vote
in November for the men who
were nominated at that con-
vention, unless they were
eligible to vote back in some
State or other. We residents
here have no vote--for Presi-
dent, for member of Congress,
not even for our city govern
rnent.
1t did look as II the unofiicial,
practice primary In 1852 might
lead to a legal and recognized
primary, so that at least peo-
pie here could vote for dele
gates who would then have a
$1,000 voice in voting for a
presidential ca didate for
whom no residents here then
could vote In the regular elec-
tion, even If he were nomi-
mated. Congress passed a bill
at its last session authorizing
a preferential primary for each
party. But President Eisen-
hover vetoed 1t on the ground
Evening star., 1954-10-29
DoNd Lawrence
Danger Of Divided Leadership
American Prestige Throughout World Expected to Drop
If Voters Permit Democrats to Control Congress

November, 1918-before World
War I had ended elected an
opposition Congress and then
the Senate began to tie the
hands of President Wilson,
Democrat. Even before he
went to Paris to negotiate q
peace treaty, nearly q ma
jority In the Senate signed q
round-robir outlining what
kind Of treaty they would ac-
cept or reject.
Promises Of cooperation
between the executive and the
legislative branches will be
regarded by Europeans now
as adding to the confusion,
because in their eyes there can
be only one majority party
next January, and that's the
one in control Of the National
Legislature.
The Europeans understand
a coalition government when
established at a time of ma
tional emergency. but this
means two parties actually
share the executive response
bility. This Is not possible
under the American system.
What the Europeans will
like about q Democratic VIC
tory in Congress. however. Is
the possibility that it will
mean more money for them.
Some feel that the Eisenhower
administration pinches PEN
nies too much. The foreign
governments know. Of course,
that Americas foreign policy
is closely related to funds ap-
propriated for aid of a mill
tary and economic character
abroad and that Congress holds
the purse SCrluSS.
Informal contacts are some
times made by foreign gov
ernments with members Of
Congress. especially with the
chairmen of important COM
mittees. If the Democrats come
into power. it will not be pos
sible to know clearly just what
Americas foreign policy Is to
be because appropriations pro-
posed by the Executive may
be altered by the Congress and
an era Of contest and confu-
sion is bound to arise.
The whole world will Won
der. too. about President Ell
senhower's leadership. Will
Congress back him up? The
Evening star., 1954-10-29
spaak Visits U. n. Today;
Coming Here Nov. 10
By N. A..oeia..d Pres.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Paul
Henri spaak, foreign minister Of
Belgium. plans to visit the Unit
ed Nations today to see the Cen
eral Assembly In action. \
That is the main purpose OF
his three-week visit here, a
spokesman for the Belgian dele
CATION said. He arrived three
days ago and has been making
q round of luncheons and din
ners with U. N. officials, and
others.
Last night he attended . din
ner at the waldorf Astoria
hotel given BY the Hennepin So-
ciety. q Belgian- American ffiend-
ship group. Secretary Of : State
Evening star., 1954-10-29
constontine Brown
Little Enthusiasm for Peace
News Of Successful Diplomacy Fails to impress Voters
Who Have Heord Some Reports Again and Again

this attitude by the bulk Of
the public. the Republican,
campaigners gave up early In
the campaign extolling the
blessings Of the Korean ar.
mistice which permitted thou
sands Of GIs to come home.
The audiences just yawned
and looked bored.