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Evening star., 1954-08-20
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Ike the Democrats guilty of crooked fence
tics Republicans prefer straight
Congress approves compromise Humphrey bill outlawing
the Communist Party History of communism 848 invented by
Karl Marx 1850 surrounded by Mccarthy 1854 discovered
by Hubert Humphrey.
Chief Justice Warren says world ideas"
We're lucky That's kind of q be
able to survive without a scratch.
General Electric wages an hour The Ike
administration is eated This proves Republican theory
that mark time long enough in
bound to overtake you
New York Democratic leaders claim they'll
congressional seats in the State Democrats
grievances will be long-and their memories short
Coffee prices in some places drop 10 cents pound. The
Treasury worried coffee much lower housewives
start caShing defense bonds to buy
British Laborite Clement Atee praises his Chinese
mist hosts in Peipng The British Laboes obviously
sighted statesmen They overlook
prisoners in Red China jais
Evening star., 1954-08-20

powers, Under the leadership
of the mercurial Premier
ndes-France, the French
aim to reorganize their eco
nomic structure to compete
with the spectacular progress
of West Germany.
The French have accepted
with customary resignation
their defeat in Asia and the
evaporation of their empire.
They regard the present world
situation as entirely different
from what it was in 1850 when
the NATO was created. At
that time they had some
limited concern over the possi-
bility that Russia might un-
leash a war in Western Eu-
rope. They also. desperately
needed the American dollars
which were pouring into their
country through the foreign
aid program.
The situation has changed
radically of late. There is not
a single man in political life
in France who thinks that Rus
STA will attack Western Eu-
rope-except under direct prov
ocation. Hence the increased
lukewarmness for rearmament
under NATO. Too, the need for
dollars has lessened France
and the rest of Europe need
foreign markets. Russia and
China are both offering tempt
ing trade carrots"
We are q nation Of idealists.
We fought our last three wars
for principles and not for prof
it. We still believe in inter-
national friendships based on
sentiment rather than selfish
interests.
- We helped g the Western
democracies against Dictator
ships and wanton aggression
in the two world wars. We
ransacked the taxpayers pock-
cts after the war to speed
the recovery of friend and foe
alike. 1t is only natural then
that our people. and especially
our policy makers, do not real
Evening star., 1954-08-20

chosen by a party majority for
chairmanShipS-he is entitled
to go before the voters as q
Republican and to express his
views on any issues that he
wishes.
This does not mean that Mr..
Case necessarily can win the
election. because he is up
against the problem of per-
suading Republican voters to
east their ballots for him, and
no voter is bound by his party
under the American system.
He can change parties at will.
But.Mr. Cases chances of win
ming the support of regular
Republicans will be improved
if he indicates an intention to
remain loyal to the Republican
Party and to accept the judg-
ment of the party conference
in the Senate on matters Of
committee control.
Senator Morse Of Oregon,
who classifies himself as an
independent, but who was
nominated in the Republican
primaries and elected in 1850,
has a different concept of his
responsibility to the Republi-
can constituency which elected
him. He feels that next year.
if the Democrats win control,
he can vote with them. This
could mean that perhaps he
does not intend to be a candi-
date in the Republican pri-
maries again.
But the important point is
that Gen. Eisenhower is taking
the truly liberal position when
he says that he will support
the Republican nominees and
will not try to impose any
thought control" or "con-
formity of thought" on the
nominees of the Republican
Party. He would be obliged
under this doctrine to support
Senator Morse if the latter
were renominated by the Re-
publican Party next time.
It's really a liberal view-
point, and it is unfortunate
that the Democratic leadership
under Mr.. Stevenson is still
sticking to the reactionary
concept that a clique of men
can disregard the choice Of the
voters for members Of Con-
gress in the Democratic Party
primaries.
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Evening star., 1954-08-20

Illinois has assumed a sig
nif1cant place in this years
national political battle.
This was signif1ed by no
less a circumstance than the
appearance in the State on
successive days this week, in
honored roles, Of the two men
who ran against each other
for the presidency in 1852
President Eisenhower and Ad-
.lai Stevenson, former Governor
of Illinois.
It could be said appropri-
ately that Illinois can lay
claim as the locale of the
opening Of the 1854 campaign
for control of CongresS-but
more than that, If you want
to get into the realm of.spec-
ulation, as the place where
the 1856 presidential contest
began.
The particular mission OF
the leaders of our two major
parties was to exert their re-
spective prestige and influence
on behalf of a seat in the
United States Senate for their
party-that now held by
Democrat, Senator Paul H.
Douglas - which Joseph T.
Meek, business lobbyist and
Republican candidate, is try
ing to wreSt from him.
This impressive political dis
play of top talent in the inter-
est of a single Senate seat
indicates the Importance
which both parties-and their
leaders-attach to the control
Of Congress for the next two
years in advance of the 1856
presidential election. It in
dicates as well the close fight
expected by each party-and
its leadefs-in this November's
election.
Evening star., 1954-08-20
P. Becomes Liberal Porty
Eisenhower Recognizes Thot the Voters Themselves
Shall Decide Who Is Entitled to Wear Party Label

leader who helps q congress
sional nominee get elected has
a better chance of winning
his support in congressional
votes next time than If the
nominee wins the election de-
spite the. leaders open opposi-
ton.
But the fundamental prin-
ciple involved is that the party
nominees cannot justly be re-
pudiated by a President and
that, once the people have
chosen the party nominees,
the President is in duty bound
TO support them.
But what about the regular
Republican voters? What is
their responsibility? There's
an interesting situation in
New Jersey, for example, where
former Representative Clifford
Case won the Republican SEN
atorial nomination in the pri-
maries. He is facing rebel
lion OF Republican voters pe-
cause of his record in the
House of Represen nta-
tiveS, which it is charged re-
sembled the New Deal. In
addition to this, he made
foolish statement after his
nomination this year about his
intention, if elected, to vote
against the selection of Sena-
tor Mccarthy for a committee
Craftsmanship next January if
the Republicans win control of
the Senate. What he might
have with propriety said was
that he would vote against
Senator Mccarthy in the Re-
publican conference, where a
slate Of chairmen Is usually
prepared in advance of a for
NAL vote by the Senate. Had
he done so. he would have been
expressing his convictions
and he has as much right to
his views as any other Republi-
can-but he would not then be
saying, in effect, that he would
cast a vote to put the Demo-
Gratis in control of the Senate
if by chance one vote would
decide the issue of control.
Mr. Case still has an oppor-
tunity to clarity his position,
as his original statement was
vague on that point. Once he
agrees to accept the obligations
of a Republican nominee
elected to the Senate-which
includes voting for the slate
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Union Will Continue
Supporting Unitypo
BY the Associated Press

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Aug. 90
The International Typographical
Union will continue backing
Unitypo, Inc. a subsidiary which
publishes newspapers in cities
where printers are striking.
This was decided by a shouting
voice vote last night after Presi-
dent Woodruff Randolph of ITU
termed Unitypo "the only ef-
fective defense effort we have
devised"
Opponents of the subsidiary
called for submission of the
question of Unitypo's continu-
anoe to a general union referen-
dunn, But Mr.. Randolph said
"the membership does not have
the knowledge to determine
such detailed strategy" .
Calling Unitypo's opponents
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Doris FIeeson-
Doris FIeeson-
Parties Whist|ing in the Dark
Neither Republicans Nor Democrats Confident
Of Mid-Term Elections. Despite Brave Iolk

Despite the oceans of brave
talk that will be heard between
now and November, neither
Republicans nor Democrats are
deeply confident they will win
the mid-term elections.
The hardened professionals
show a remarkable unanimity
of opinion on this score. For
one thing, since they don't
really know. they are playing
safe by not claiming too much.
They have another trick to
disguise their inner confusion.
It consists Of explaining how
this is one election that will be
decided on local issues. It is
said-again on both sides
that for the first time in years
the President will not be an
issue, nor will a war, nor will
some striking innovation in
domestic policy.
It is not surprising that
Democrats talk in this vein.
They very much want it to be
so. Also, when they say that
while President Eisenhower is
a fine, honest man, he is not
going to be a great President.
they are telling only what they
truly believe personally. When
they go on to say, however,
that the people are disap-
pointed so that Democrats need
not fear the President on the
hustings, it is an assumption.
The real surprise is that
Republicans are not more con-
. f1dent. Most Of the big guns
are on their side and, as a
veteran reporter once put it,
''the race may not be to
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Errors Help Polio Fund

CHICAGO P).-Workers at
the Lion Manufacturing Co. have
q novel method of raising funds
to fight polio. They've raised
$50 already through mistakes" :"
The employee sealed a card
board box, cut a coin slit in the
top and pledged to "pay up"
every time they made a mistake
either in work or grammatical
errors in speech. Mrs. Martha
Russell said she and five inspec-
tors in the pinball machine plant
started the game" but 35 work.
ers in the soldering department
soon joined in.
Evening star., 1954-08-20

dacy for the Democratic pres
idential nomination If his
party could begin a me-back
in Illinois with reelection Of
Senator Douglas. Republicans
now control the State, with a
Republican Governor ruling
from the seat once occupied by
Mr.. Stevenson, and with the
other United States Senate
seat held by q Republican,
Everett Dirksen.
So Mr.. Stevenson is going
all-out for Paul Douglas who.
it may be recalled, promoted
the candidacy of Senator Estes
Kefauver Of Tennessee for the
1852 Democratic presidential
nomination while then Gov.
Stevenson still was shy
ing away from it. Adlai Ste
venson, you will remember, A.
nally stepped in at the elev-
enth hour with President Tru-
mans backing and broke a
deadlock and snatched away
the prize. Though there was
for a time GOODNESS between
the 1852 presidential candidate
and Senator Douglas. each now
needs the other and it seems
to be you-for-me and me-for-
you.
President Eisenhower was
privately not too happy about
the political chore that took
him to Illinois. Mr.. Meek is
against nearly everything that
the President is for, and for a
lot of things that the President
is against. This incongruity of
political philosophy was cap
italized by Adlai Stevenson in
his own speech at the State
Fair the day before the Presi-
dent arrived to throw his arm
around the Republican candi-
date. Mr.. Stevenson accused
Evening star., 1954-08-20
David Lawrence

The Republican Party is
emerging as the liberal party
of the Nation, and President
Eisenhower as the truly lib
eral leader.
This is because, under the
acid test of what is or is not
liberalism, the Republican Par
tvs leadership has taken the
position that it will not punish
its minority for dissenting
views but will embrace within
the fold the nominees Of the
Republican Party as chosen
by the people in their respec-
tive State primaries. Freedom
of thought is the basic prin-
ciple of liberalism.
All such things as "purges"
of party nominees by the Pres
ident are taboo. Gen. Eisen-
hover has been variously rep
resented as adopting the Tru-
man-Roosevelt view OF party
leadership" which is really
a form Of dictatorship. That
same view was adopted by Ad-
lai Stevenson in the campaign
of 1852 and has just been re-
iterated by him.
Gen. Eisenhower, on the
other hand, feels that Republi-
cans can differ conscientiously
and that some of the men who
did not vote for certain parts
of his legislative program did
so in the honest belief that
they were voting as their con-
stituents wanted them to vote.
The support Of Gen. Eisen-
hover in the coming campaign
for those Of his party who
differed with him not only is
liberalism and tolerance at its
best, but it recognizes the very
important liberal principle that
the voters themselves, through
their freedom of choice in the
primaries, shall decide who is
entitled to wear the party Ia
bel in campaign.
This has a direct bearing on
the appearance just made by
Gen. Eisenhower at the Illinois
State fair, where he was on
the same platform with Joseph
Meek, the Republican sena-
torial nominee in Illinois who
previously had expressed diff
ferent views from the Pres
1dent on various national is
sues. From a practical polit-
tcal standpoint. it has always
been argued that the party
Evening star., 1954-08-20

the swift nor the battle to the
strong, but that is the way to
bet" On the basis of the
political balance sheet, Repub-
licans should be enormously
cheerful. With q few excep-
tions-Speaker Joseph w. Mar
tin is sincerely confident-they
aren't.
Their assets are obvious: A
popular President and the vast
power Of the presidency to help
its friends and hurt its enc
mics: most Of the money; most
of the newspapers: tax cuts,
and above all, no war and no
depression. And they are
loaded with experts in radio
and television to help put over
their story.
The Democrats don't have to
worry about money quite as
much as they claim, but they
are desperately up against it
for big checks right now with
which to reserve costly radio
and T'V time that must be pre-
empted well in advance. They
have no one striking issue for
the whole country. They still
are on the defensive on the
Communists in Government
issue, despite Senator Joseph
McCarthy's slippage.
Also, there Is yet no plan to
utilize Adlai Stevenson's tai
ents to the full. Anyway, he
is only one man, with a tiny
staff; what he does must come
out of his bone and sinew,
including all the planning,
travel arrangements. service.
etc. In contrast, everything
Evening star., 1954-08-20

Is done for the President at
the White House, where every
detail has an experienced hand
watching it.
Foreign policy Is an emo
tional issue, but the Democrats
can't do much with it because
they, like the President. are
internationalist. Even If they
were disposed to turn the ques-
ton Of who lost Indo- -China?"
back on the Republicans in
payment for past scores, it is
probable that it was more
popular to lose it than to send
American troops there.
The Democrats have some
advantages. They have better
candidates, on the whole, and
a strong bloc of junior Sena-
tors, attractive and vigorous,
who will go out and help those
candidates. The Stevenson
picked national chairman, Ste
phen Mitchell, has redeemed
that office; his standards have
seemed to some in the party
almost too antiseptic. Their
human qualities win them
friends among working stiffs"
everywhere that many Repub-
licans find it hard to attract.
They think the drop in farm
prices also will help them.
And they hope for the breaks
from mistakes the rather hui
morlesS Republicans may make.
They think Attorney General
Brownell. jr., might easily
everyday his hand in seeking
election year indictments.
Finally, a Democrat Is q
natural optimist. Until the
Roosevelt era, he had to be.
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Constantine Brown
'Contoinnnent Policy Revived
Allies Are Expected to Leave America in the Lurch
Unless We Follow Their Policies ToMord Russio

ize that in international affairs
the statement of q Victorian
statesman that Britain knows
no friendships. no enmities,
but only interests" is more
true now than in those days.
That Victorian slogan has
become the watchword not
only of our British cousins but
of many other nations. Craft
tude can be found only rarely
even among individuals. 1t
lust does not exist In dealings
between nations.
We based the conduct OF
our foreign policies on the
premise that the friends we
have helped unstintingly
would show their, gratefulness
by returning the favor In our
time of difficulties. In this We
made a grievous error. Our
allies are interested primarily
in themselves. So long as their
interests conceded with ours
they dovetailed their policies
with ours. But when their In
terests diverge so do their
policies turn away from ours.
We believe that the Com
munist governments in the
U.S.S.R. and China are more
dangerous and more aggres-
sive than the Central Powers
and the Axis were in the two
world wars. Our allies lull
themselves in the belief that
the Communist leopards can
change their spots and be
made into housebroken pets
merely by ignoring the real
intentions of Moscow and
Peiping.
The administration has re-
ceived sufficient indications, II
it wants to read between the
lines Of the diplomatic COM
munications, that our allies
will leave us in the lurch un-
less we follow them in their
new policies toward Russia and
China. This, it is said, neces-
states the revival of the doc
trine of "resolute contain
ment."
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Life in the u. S.
Life in the U. S.
Bank Coshes
Outsize Stub
On Pay Check
BY the Associated Press

PASADENA, Calf, Aug. 90
This city's new pay checks,
which have a stub similar in size
and shape to the check itself,
caused CONSERVATION in local
bank.
City Controller o. A. Dietrich
told the city staff session yester-
day he had received a hurried
call from q bank. An official
asked him to send an employe
back to the bank.
1--WE find we have cashed his
Stub" Mr.. Dietrich quoted the
Official,
Evening star., 1954-08-20

from Virginia. and many of the
purchasers are in the New York
City area, Mr.. Goodrich said.
Mail order buyers must, under
State law, pay the Scent tax
within "a hours after receiving
untaxed cigarettes. Penalties
range up to so per cent of the
tax, plus l per cent for each
month of delinquency after the
first month.
Mr.. Goodrich said the penal
ties would be waived if payment
were prompt.
The State already has COL
lected $1,000 after sending no.
tices to 2la per cent of the mail
order buyers on its list, Mr..
Goodrich said.
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Mail Order Buyers
OF Cigarettes Taxed
By the Associated Press

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 90
Thousands of persons buying
mail-order cigarettes from other
States are being billed by the
State Tax Commission for the
3-cent-a-pack New York levy on
cigarettes.
Allen j. Goodrich, commission
president, said notices were be-
ing sent to individuals getting
smokes from States that do not
tax them.
Federal law requires mail Or
der houses to report monthly to
the New York commission the
name and address of each pur-
chaser, with the quantity and
date of sale. Licensed dealers
are excepted.
Most of the cigarettes come
Evening star., 1954-08-20

"obStructionists," Mr. Randolph
said they were embracing a plat
form of doing nothing, paying
nothing and killing off the
union"
Unitypo still operates a num-
ber of newspapers but union Of
f1cials have closed down some
that were Improbable after
members rejected a plan for in
creased defense" assessments.
Earlier yesterday, delegates
voted a @pension plan which
would give ITU officers and en-
ployes UP to half their salaries
on retirement.
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Girls Tactic Boomerunqs

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (P).
An 11-year-old girl sum-
moned police to come and ar
rest her mother. She COM
planned she had been spanked.
Police said the girl went into
o temper tantrum when she
was told they could do nothing
about 1t.
The police left, recommend
ing that she get another
spanking,
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Constantine Brown

There are indications that
our foreign policy is once more
in a state Of fiux. The old
guard left behind by the pre-
yious administration in the
State Department is again adj
vocating a policy of contain
ment." Only this time, to make
the doctrine more palatable,
the word 'resolute" has been
added.
This revival has made only a
limited impression on Secre-
.tary of State Dulles. But it
has met with much more sue
cess in the National Security
Council where the world sit
uation is being reviewed and
guiding" reports made for
President Eisenhower and the
Secretaries Of State, Defense
and Treasury.
1t is noteworthy that nobody
even whispers any longer
about liberation of enslaved
satellites by all means short
of war. as set forth in the Re-
publican platform in 1852.
Moscow and Peiping began
to release peace doves after
their smashing victory at Ge-
neva. These birds are alighting
everywhere in the world ex-
cept in America.
The entire structure which
we built at enormous cost to
arrest Communist imperialism
is faltering. The visit of the
top British Labor Party lead
ers to Peiping is not merely an
irresponsible act of the opposi-
ton. In foreign policy matters
responsible British politicians
do not act independently.
Clement Attlee unquestion-
ably had Sir Winston Church.
ills blessing when he agreed to
head the Labor parliamentary
delegation on its feasting and
toasting pilgrimage to Peiping.
In France there is a definite
trend toward a new under
standing with the Communist
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Cots Durken Homes

YONKERS. N. Y. R.-Two
cats on a transformer caused a
brief blackout yesterday in 5000
local homes and 1,100 street
lights.
Tracing the cause Of the power
failure, Consolidated Edison Co.
officials found one dead cat at
transformer of the Habirshaw
Gable &Z Wire Co.
A Habirshaw employe said two
cats had been on the line, with
one getting killed by $4,000 volts
and the other leaping to safety.
Evening star., 1954-08-20
Wild Bours Visit City

TUCSON, Ariz. (P.-Five
wild boars have been cap
tured roaming city streets this
week.
The boars, or javelinas, were
roped and hog tied by alert
employees of the city animal
shelter.
Then they were taken back
into the mountains from which
they had roamed, and turned
loose.
Evening star., 1954-08-20

the President of putting party
expediency" ahead of his own
views of the national interest.
But the President went
through his party duty with a
smile. Every Republican is
needed this year.
Evening star., 1954-08-20
$4,000 Mice Fly Tonight

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 20 (P).
A chartered plane will fly H.
900 mice from Chicago to Hous-
ton tonight. They will be used
in research at Baylor University
College of Medicine. IS
Evening star., 1954-09-25
BY Frances Lide
A Republican women's uni

A Republican women's unit
in every precinct.
That is the goal set by Mrs.
Carroll D. Kearns. president of
the National Federation of Re-
publican Women. 10 her next
tWo-year term of Office.
The wife of the Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania's Gath
district was reelected at the
federation's eighth biennial con-
vention in Los Angeles this week.
MY hope" she said, "is for
club representation in every
precinct.
But where it is impossible
to have a fully organized club,
we should set up a unit of vol
unteers to help Republican can
didates, inform the voters on
issues and policies. see that
prospective voters are registered,
help get them to the polls by
prOVlulng transportation ana
baby sitting services and other
wise perform all of the jobs
that need to be done on the
precinct level to help insure
victory on election day"
Mrs. Kearns' emphasis on
precinct work is in line with
the designation of October 8 as
Republican National Precinct
Day"
Starting with precinct pow
vows" the all-day observance
will be climaxed by a Nation
wide Nv and radio broadcast by
President Eisenhower and Vice
President Nixon.
Initiated by the federation, the