davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1954-10-14

make q better life for this
group.
QUESTION: Is the. farm
program q partisan issue?
ANSWER: Definitely not.
Flexible price supports were
enacted in 1948 and 1949 on a
non-partisan basis even though
they never went into effect.
There was a good deal of BIZ
partisan support for the pro-
gram approved this year-also
some Republican opposition.
A few people are now attempt
ing to put a political label on
the program, but even the titu-
lar head of the Democratic
Party recently called the old
rigid supports far from perfect.
We must recognize that our
farm economy is too important
to be treated as q political
football. ! think the Repub-
lican Party will be stronger at
the polls this November as q
result OF the farm legislation.
Along with the President, ] be-
lieve what is right is good
politics. / do not think the
farm vote is for sale to the
highest bidder. Farmers know
their best interests lie in a
sound program. The admin
istration's program Of flexible
supports was supported by the
country's foremost farm lead
ers and by many Of the ablest
members Of the Congress.
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Fletcher KnebeL--
Potomac Fever

neurological unemployment increasing Now Democratic
headquarters plans all their speech writer-and sign
Charlie Wilson to a lifetime contract instead
(.
Democrats the Alaska election. It's getting these
days can't find decent glacier to hide under
White ad: "Wanted-Lengthy field trials
champion dog kennel-fed spaniel
tive suite replacement at Pentagon."
Republican candidates say that what this needs
is blsinessmen-in business. I'D
Marine Corps Commandant Shepherd four-page
directive slice cake New Marine recruiting slogan
Join the Marines. Recommended by Duncan Hines
Republicans rap Adlai Stevenson for telling funny story
about The only safe tell funny story
about woman is to whisper it to- her husband
claim they'll reform if they win control OF
This time they won't premise balance the
budget.
Evening star., 1954-10-14
@9--@--- --
9. 9. ?. Takes the Defensive
Republicans Moy Learn on Election Doy the Folly
Of Spending Campaign Explaining Things AWoy

somewhat modified recently.
But it is felt by the Republi-
can workers that 1t is too
late in the game to revive the
appeal to the voter sufficiently.
AS far as corruption in the
Government is concerned, and
its cure, on which the admin
istration has started on the
right foot, that issue actually
pales In the face Of the farm
and unemployment problems.
which are being skillfully ex-
plotted by the Democrats.
These two problems, say Re-
publican leaders. are not par
ticularly serious. But the
Democrats have taken the in
itiative on a grand scale and
are using the official available
figures to their utmost advErl-
tage.
A New England Republican
leader told this reporter of a
conversation he had recently
with the porter of a parlor
car between Boston and Wash
ington. He had known the
porter for many years and
they usually discussed every
thing under the sun. This
time the Republican bigwig
praised the achievements of
his administration. Knowing
that the porter had a son in
the Army, he said: Sam. I
figure your boy is now back
from Korea" Sam said: Yes.
sir, Senator. but SO are my
two boys who worked in De-
troit."
There is nothing, the Re-
publicans say. to cause any
concern in regard to the en-
ployment situation. But poll
ticians do not always look at
realities and they use every
error by opponents as good po-
litical ammunition. The un-
fortunate remarks about bird
dogs and kennel dogs in De-
troit by Defense Secretary
Wilson, when closely exam
ined, contain no intent to
offend labor. Yet it is feared
Evening star., 1954-10-14

on the defensive and must
constantly explain. Mr.. Wilson
away.
1t Is being suggested that
Gov. Stratton has presiden-
tial aspirations of his own
and is therefore eager to dis
associate himself from atti-
tudes he thinks are unpopular.
Democrats nationally can be
expected not to neglect the
Alaska story even amid the
embarrassment of riches hand
ed them by Mr.. Wilson. They
argue that Alaska is supplant-
ing Maine as the Nations best
barometer because Maine has
so consistently voted Republi-
can in late years while Alaska
has truly paralleled later
trends nationally.
Local leaders are almost as
pleased about the Daily News
poll. Here as elsewhere the
New Deal enriched city Demo-
Gratis to the point where they
could move their families to
the suburbs. The $64 question
has been: Do these Democrats.
acquire the suburban habit of
voting Republican? It is
agreed that they had much
to do with the Eisenhower
victory in 1852. Early an
swers to the present poll in
dicate that the switch is at
least not yet a habit.
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Wilson'S Faux Pas Defended
Democrats, and Some Republicans, Are Accused
Of Distorting Secretorys Bird Dog Analogy

as indeed It is In the Commu-
list world-that the persons
who have acquired property
are villains whose success is
due only to their mastery Of
the art of exploitation of the
poor. The CIO talks that way
all the time. Glass warfare is
its stock in trade. The usual
contention. moreover, is that
the successful must part with
sizahle percentages OF their
incomes to pay for the mis-
takes OF the unsuccessful. Mo-
body with an ounce Of charity
in his system objects to paying
large taxes for relief. But dur
ing the sos the iliade-work on
relief projects OF WPA proved
fruitless. In the end, only when
the war boom came was the
Nation able by q heavy-soods
program to give the unei1a-
ployed the jobs they needed.
There is q right way and q
wrong way to relieve unem-
ployment, and the Eisenhower
program is based on sound
principles.
Certainly it is most unfortu-
nate for anybody to be without
a job and nothing that Charles
Wilson said could have been
properly construed as a lack
of sympathy for a person who
has lost his job through no
fault of his own, or Of dis
paragement of any one who
hasn't been able to get = job
despite every effort. The
administrations program cf
economic help for the so-called
distress areas" raegates any
charges of neglect on that
score.
But this is not what the
Democratic Party demagogues
have been saying or will be
saying about the Wilson COM
ment. They will make political
capital out of distortion be-
cause many voters will never
hear the rebuttal. Its q good
example of how distortion sue
ceeds because men Of ability
and good education in the
leadership of the Democratic
Party. selfishly seeking votes
at any price,, know now to play
on the emotions of the un-
informed.
Reproduction Rights Reservedl
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Doris FIeeson

CHICAGO. Democrats all
but danced in the streets here
today when they looked at
the afternoon editions of the
Chicago Daily News. The front
page told them that:
/. A Republican fund-rais-
ing committee was standing
pat on its invitation to De-
fense Secretary Wilson to ad-
dress a $100-a-plate dinner de-
spite the suggestion of G. o. P.
Gov. William Stratton that the
Wilson talk be cancelled.
2. The Wilson press confer
ence in Detroit was tape-re-
corded and he really did say:
i've always liked bird dogs
better than kennel-fed dogs
: myself. You know. one who'll
get out and hunt for food
rather than sit on his fanny
and YELL"
+. 3. Alaska, for 80 years a
reliable barometer of political
trends. has swung over over
whelmingly to the Democrats.
The Democrats had been
knocked out of office in a SINH
lar landslide two years ago
which was accurately reflected
in the Eisenhower victory.
4. Suburban voters inter-
viewed by the Daily News still
like Ike but reject guilt by
association" They are not
being influenced by Ike's plea
Evening star., 1954-10-14
us. DrawsUpLeases
For 0ffshore Land
BY the Asseelesed Press

Interior Department officials
tackled today the preparation Of
leases for l02 tracts of submerged
land off Louisiana on which high
bidders yesterday offered cash
bonuses of some $129,962,126.
The offers were made for the
right to produce Oil and gas and
sulphur in this first Federal Gov
ernment leasing OF offshore sub
merged lands It also was the
largest single Federal offering of
oil and gas leases. and the cash
bonus bids exceeded by consid-
eraly more than 500 million
any previous total for one sale.
All receipts from the offshore
leases will go into the Federal
treasury. as will rents and roy
alties from production.
Lewis e. Hoffman. minerals
staff officer for the Bureau OF
Land Management, told news
men he estimated the Govern
ment over the years would re-
ceive three times as much again
in royalties and rental as the
total of the cash bonus bids.
Bidders submitted 326 pro-
posals on 81 tracts offered fol-
oil and gas production, with the
high bids totaling $128,728.626
Department officials said it ap-
peared all of yesterdays high
bidders could qualify to meet the
requirements for the offshore
leases.
Evening star., 1954-10-14

that they Will be made q
Democratic battle cry.
The Secretary Of Defense
has placed his party workers
once more on the defensive.
They have to explain what he
meant by that unfortunate
parallel. and that he meant
nothing derogatory to the
working men. Denials and ex-
plantations are not effective
weapons in a political CAM
paign. particularly when the
odds appear already to be
against the Republican candi-
dates.
Mr.. Wilson, say Republican
leaders. is an excellent Secre-
tary of Defense. He is an able
man. He is not, however,
campaign material" He
should stay in Washington
and take care of the complex
affairs of his huge department,
as Secretary of State Dulles
does. and leave campaigning
to the professionals who know
when and where to say what
they should say.
There are grum blings
amongst those who indulge al
ready in post mortems about
the campaign aloofness Of
Gen. Eisenhower. To proclaim
that he wants a Republican
Congress to continue his ad-
ministration's work does not
seem sufficient. The Demo-
cratic candidates tell the elec-
tors that they should be sent
to Washington to help the pro-
gram of the Chief Executive.
who has proved that he is
able to work with progress
sive Democrats. in Congress.
These Republican critics. who
express their discomfort at
present only quietly and of the
record. believe that a number
of Republican Senate seats
now in danger could have been
saved by an active campaign
of the President in the threat
ened areas. 1t is pointed out
that in September, 1852. after
Gen. Eisenhower, then flag
bearer of the Republican Party.
returned from Denver, he
started a slugging. offensive
campaign which contributed
greatly to the Republican VIC
tory. In 1854 the President and
his associates are fighting a
purely defensive battle. And
the adage "You can't win on
the defensive" applies to po-
litical as well as military bat
ties.
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Dovid LoWrence

Demasoguery knows no
party line, and anybody who
has been angered in recent
months over the extremes OF
political denunciation IN
speeches by certain United
States Senators on the Re-
publican side is invited in all
fairness now to wax indignant
over the palpable distortions
by the Democrats.
Thus, there is more than
meets the eye in the alleged
faux pas made by Charles E.
Wilson, Secretary of Defense.
when he spoke some blunt
words about the indoient and
the lazy and uttered words Of
praise for those who react to
unemployment by diligently
trying to find a new job.
Hardly had this off-the-cuff
interview been reported In abb
breviated fashion in the press
dispatches when the mimeo-
graph machines at Democratic
headquarters began to be oiled
up as statement after state
ment of shocked surprise was
drafted to be issued under the
name of this or that Democra-
tic Senator who happened to
be handy to sponsor them.
: Today the Nation is being
told, in effect, that Mr.. Wilson
compares the unemployed to
dogs, or that he is a business
man without a heart. OF that
the Republican administration
hasn't any humanitarianism in
it. What Mr.. Wilson actually
said about the zeal of bird
dog as compared with the
kennel-fed dog hasn't been
fairly interpreted at all, but
the customary twist of misin-
+. depreciation is given which 20
years of demagoguery under
the Democratic administration
. has made commonplace. Even
some Republicans fell for the
misinterpretation and hastened
to criticize Secretary Wilson
instead of emphasizing the
real point.
The word bird -dogging" is
established today in our voca-
bulary as a mark of merit in
searching out the answers to
unsolved problems. But if the
Democratic Party comments
on the Wilson statement are
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Steam Pipe Error in Nautilus
Found Also in Land Model

doing in the Acc announcement
last night.
The Acc said the Electric Boat
Division of the General Dynamics
Corp.-builder of both the Maui
titus and the West Milton proto-
type-"has accepted the respon-
sibility for the error" in the land
model and is now replacing the
piping at its own expense. Navy
authorities have said an inquiry
underway into the Nautilus case
will decide who was responsible
| there. ~
In neither case did the defec-
tive tubing harm the nuclear part
of the plant, officials said.
Evening star., 1954-10-14

accepted, 1t is politically ull-
wise today to say that q man
who loses one Job is expected
to try to find another. He isn't
supposed to 'fbird dog" his way
out, but to sit on his hauncnes
and wait for someone to come
and feed him. It is considered
politically wise to say only that
the Government owes every
man a job. whether he de-
serves it or not. It is considered
proper, moreover, to say that
unemployment compensation
isn't enough and that the tax
payers who are employed must
be taxed to subsidize those who
will not work.
There are, of course, tlneIll-
ployed persons who can't find
jobs in their own area or in
the occupation in which they
are trained. Many of them will
not leave their homes to find
Jobs elsewhere but prefer to
wait till things get better in
their own localities. This Is
their prerogative but in any
overall survey Of unemploy-
ment these varying factors
have to be taken into account
and the want ads in the news
papers of many cities every day
are pleading for persons to
come to work.
Mr.. Wilson is naive enough
to believe that you can discuss
all phases of the unemploy-
ment problem frankly. He
didn't know that he couldn't
speak with affection about
four-legged animals without
offending the two-legged. He
apparently overestimated the
dog-lover vote in this country.
He might have known that in
free America anybody is free
to twist and distcrt and play
the demagogue.
Politics has been considered
heretofore to permit the saying
of almost anything. Hence the
wise candidate says as little as
possible of a definite nature
lest his words be distorted by
his opponent. Mr.. Wilson is
one of those honest-minded in
dividuals who says what he
thinks, which, of course. in
politics, is a mistake. Hypocrisy
evidently pays off better.
For 20 years now the phi
losophy has been preached
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Mrs. Pondit Visits
DAUGHTER in Tokyo
By the Asseeioted Press

TOKYO, Oct. 14.-Mrs. Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit of India, former
president of the United Nations
General Assembly, arrived by
air today on three-week un-
official visit while en- route home.
Her daughter Rita, married to
Avtar K. Oar. charge d'affaires
at the Indian Embassy here, was
at the airport with her husband.
/ Mrs. Pandit left Immediately for
the Oar home to see her first
grandson, 3-month-old Kopal.
Mrs, Pandit will see the En-
peror and Empress next Monday
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Constantine Brown

The centuries-old adage
that you can't win on the
defensive" seems to be ignored
by the top hierarchy Of the
Republican Party. 1t was fully
applied by Gen. Eisenhower
when he was supreme COM
mander in Europe In the last
war and later when he headed
the 1852 crusade" which
brought him and the Repub-
lican Party to Office. But in
the present campaign the "de-
fensive" spirit prevails from,
the high command down TO
precinct workers. From the
start the Republican candi-
dates and the National COM
mittee h ave been running
scared" But nobody imagined
that they would run SO scared
that the offensive spirit which
characterized their campaign
two years ago would complete
ly vanish.
A number Of leading Repub-
lican figures who are passing
through Washington on the
way to or from the electoral
backgrounds are already en-
gagged in post mortems.
In the 1862 campaign. they
say, the Republicans had the
appealing slogan communism,
corruption and Korea" OF
these, Korea is no longer a
battle cry, since the fighting
has ceased. It cannot be used
as a campaign cry. 1t would
be hazardous for the admins
tration to proclaim that there
is no longer any danger that
fostilities will not be resumed.
since Peiping and Moscow still
have the final word.
On instruction from the
White House the issue OF
Communist subversiveness has
been played down by the
campaign speakers. President
Eisenhower had urged at the
outset that communism should
not be an issue in the present
electoral battle. This has been
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Ezro lott Benson
Benson Calls for Farm Freedom
Secretary of Agriculture Outlines Administration
Policy of Flexible Price Supports

know that the principal factors
in farm prices, as in all others,
are supply and demand. The
new program will cut down the
supply. 1t will increase the de-
mand- through expansion of
markets. Therefore, it is in
evitable that farm prices will
be more stable than under the
old surplus program. A third
factor in farm income is price
support. Under the new act,
supports will be just as high as
before as long as farmers gear
their production to our needs.
Therefore, it is simple arith-
metic that prices can be just as
high, or higher, under the new
act as the old. Price alone,
however is a false gauge of
farm prosperity. It is income
that is important. This is made
up of price multiplied by vol
ume. The new act will increase
volume.
QUESTION: What does the
general public stand to gain
through a system of flexible
price supports? ANSWER:
Primarily the assurance of a
continuing and abundant
supply of food and fiber at
reasonable prices. Production
will be maintained in better
balance with demand through
flexible supports which move
upward when additional output
is needed and downward when
supplies become excessive. This
will discourage the accumula-
ton of huge surpluses which
are costing taxpayers large
sums to acquire and store. To-
day Commodity Credit Cor
poration has more than $6.5
billion invested in farm price
support operations. It costs
$700, 900 each day-one quarter
Of a billion dollars year-just
to store the CCC inventory.
In addition, this agency's
actual financial losses in dis
posing Of surpluses are heavy.
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Library Of Congress
Gets Handy Studio
Photo Collection

A Photographic collection re-
flecting much of the Districts
history for nearly a century has
been acquired by the Library Of
Congress from the owners of the
L. c. Handy Studios, 494 Mary
land avenue S.W.
The owners, Mrs. Mary H.
Evans and Mrs. Alice H. Cox,
have turned over to the library
much of the work of their father,
the late Levin C.. Handy. WASH
ington photographer in the lat
ter part of the 18th and early
20th centuries. Much of the col
lection includes the work Of
Mathew B. Brady. the Civil War
photographer. from whom Mr..
Handy learned the Photographic
craft.
The work of both men is rep
resented in the negatives, prints
and daguerreotypes from the
studios that belonged first to
Mr.. Brady, then to his nephew,
apprentice, and understudy. Mr..
Handy. The Library is now Or
ganizing this material and will
make it available as soon as pos
sible.
OF significance in the collec-
ton is a large group Of portraits
of past members of Congress
whom Mr.. Brady photographed
during the Civil War and post
war years. Negatives Of Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln, members of
Lincoln's cabinet, Justices Of the
Supreme Court, military leaders
of the North and South, actors
and actresses, and other celeb
rites are included.
Mr.. Brady's daguerreotypes
portray. among others, Edwin
Booth, william Cullen Bryant
Stephen A. Douglas. Albert Gal
latin, Jenny Lind, Daniel Web
ster and Brigham Young; one
| portrait of an elderly woman IL
identified as Dolly Madison al
the age Of 10.
Mr.. Handy started working
with his uncle at the age of IL
BY the time he was Is, Mr.
Handy was operating a camera
| in his uncle's studio. When Mr.
Brady died in 1896. his nephew
inherited the contents of the
studio and moved the business
! from 627 Pennsylvania avenue
| NV. to its present location. Mr.
Handy died in 1882.
Evening star., 1954-10-14

Flexible price supports will save
tax dollars.
QUESTION: Will flexible
price supports mean greater
freedom for farmers to make
their own management de-
cisions? ANSWER: In the
long run, very definitely. For
the immediate future, however,
the supplies accumulated under
the old program make it neceS-
sary to continue production
controls on such crops as wheat
and cotton. 1t must be remem-
bered, too, that flexible price
supports do not become effec-
tive until next years crops are
harvested. BY encouraging
farmers to produce for the
market, rather than for storage
in Government warehouses, we
can bring down to size some
Of the price-depressing sur
pluses which were built up
through wartime price sup
ports continued long after the
emergency had ended. These
excessive supplies have. been
accumulating over a period OF
years. It is also likely to take
several years to work them of
in domestic and foreign mar
kets. Our goal is greater free
dom for farmers in planning
tomorrow's operations.
QUESTION: How does the
small farmer At into the pic
ture? ANSWER: He received
scarcely any help from the old
program. In many instances
the small farmer paid out more
in taxes for support of the
program than he received in
benefits. Under the new act
he will share In the general
expansion of our agricultural
economy as well as receive
about the same level Of price
support. The President and ]
are vitally interested In the
welfare or small farmers. The
Department of Agriculture al
ready has q study under way
to see what can be done tc
Evening star., 1954-10-14
Ezro Toft Benson

(This Is the SeUenth in q
series of articles By top erecu-
tires in the Eisenhower admin
istratton, designed as niidternl
reports to the American people
on the administrations dc-
complishmentS and plans. The
Stars use OF the article is
made possible by the courtesy OF
the NeU York Herald Tribune.)
In the extended discussion
of farm policy this year. many
key questions were raised.
They ranged from the effect
of the administration program
on the Nations economy to
what influence it might have
on this falls congressional
elections
The answers were sometimes
lost in the smoke of conflict.
Because of this I would like
to take up a few of the ques-
tions now to facilitate an i'm
partial evaluation of the pro-
gram.
QUESTION: Why did the
administration undertake a
revision of farm policy in an
election year? ANSWER: The
existing program of rigid price
supports was not working and
was heading toward in
evitable collapse. It was dis
torting our agricultural econo-
my. piling up unnecessary sur
pluses, restricting our markets,
Tightening Government con-
trolls on farmers and failing to
maintain farm income. To
/ have permitted this situation
to continue would have been
: dereliction Of duty. Something
had to be done. The Presi-
dent had the courage and
foresight to do 1t.
QUESTION: What effect
will the program have on farm
prices? ANSWER: It is inn
possible to tell exactly. We do
: know that the old program
failed to prevent a serious de-
cline in farm prices. We also
Evening star., 1954-10-14
African Coal Reserves Vast

PRETORIA. South Africa
South Africa's proved coal re-
serves are conservatively esti-
mated by the Geological Survey
once of the Department OF
Mines at rs billion tons.