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Evening star., 1954-10-26
For the Record
Political Folly Of the Non-Voter
OnseruPulous Politicians Often Take Over Reins Because
People Think OF Government in Terms of Third Person

the day after election. Con-
slider the case of maverick
Morse, the Senator from Ore
gon, elected on a Republican
ticket, but a self-proclaimed
independent ranging all over
the political map wherever his
whims and fancies take him.
With both parties so often
straddling all issues, and can
didates knocking themselves
out to avoid taking a stand,
the voter is coming more and
more to an "Oh, nuts!" policy
toward all candidates.
So the undemocratic control
OF the two parties by the bosses
and hacks and chiselers goes
on Neither party sufficiently
reflects the will of the people
any more; neither party knows
what it is, where it's going or
where it's been. What's more,
the party leaders don't seem
to care.
In New Jersey, for instance.
lots Of people don't like either
the Democratic or the Republic
can candidate for the United
States Senate. Most Of the reg
ulars won't cross party lines.
And on election day they won't
even cross the street to vote.
In New York, the two candi-
dates for Governor are so color
less and dull they reflect the
complete indifference of Demo-
cratic and Republican bosses
to everything but putting q
couple Of names on the ballot.
And on the Republican side,
running for attorney general
Is q Congressman whose record
and views place him more prop
erly in the Democratic Party's
most liberal wing. Running
opposite him. on the Demo-
cratic ticket, is an undistin-
guished young man whose only
possible claim to this high and
responsible office Is the fact
that his name Is Roosevelt.
And In California. one Of his
older brothers is running for
office, too, despite the fact his
candidacy was repudiated by
Steve Mitchell, the Democratic
Evening star., 1954-10-26

have got to be Democrats in
order to make their weight
count.
The Presidents record in
cludes ending segregation in
the Army and the District of
Columbia, expansion of the So
cial Security Act which meant
so much to all low-paid work.
ers, and appointment of many
Negroes to Government posts
which their race had not
hitherto held. Mr.. Washing
ton said that Gen. Eisenhower
himself forbade the party to
list the Supreme Court decision
ending segregation as an ad-
ministration achievement.
If the Negro vote is not a
sleeper in the election-that is,
a hidden issue which will af-
feet the. outcome in key posts
can any other be looked for?
Both parties answer no. They
believe that the emotions gen.
Grated by war among racial
groups have died down. There
Is some evidence that Jews do
not like the Dulles policy of
arms for the Middle East but
not that it means a shift of
votes thought to be safely Re-
publican. The farmers who
surprised everybody in 1948
are already out in the open
with their complaints.
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Constantine Brown

Vienna has been tentatively
selected for the meeting OF the
Big Four Foreign Ministers ex-
pected to be held early next
year after the treaties signed
at Paris last Saturday are rati-
fed by the various parliaments.
Some of the more impatient
foreign ministers Of the new
alliance suggested that a meet
ing including the q. S. s. r.
be held earlier. But this was
firmly opposed by John Foster
Dulles with the backing of Sir
Anthony Eden.
Mr.. Dulles maintains that
the men in the Kremlin must
fully realize that the Western
alliance. including the reborn
military power Of Western
Germany. is an accomplished
fact before the Western free
nations can sit at the green
table and discuss political diff
ferences with the Muscovites.
He pointed out that the West
waited SO long that a further
delay of a few months would
not affect the ultimate goal.
For the first time in two and
a half years there is we'll
founded optimism that the
West has achieved something
tangible. The NATO in it's orig
inal form, without the Coop
Grafton Of Germany, was like
an automobile with one fiat
and three good tires.
Chancellor Adenauer's great
success at home was that he
changed the "ohne uns" with
out us) mentality Of the Ger
man people into one favoring
rearmament without first OBJ
tanning the unif1cation of Ger
many. Until four years ago
the rank-and-file Germans
were convinced that no good
would come to them If Ger
many rearmed and took q side
in the East-West conflict. They
mistrusted the French almost
as much as they did the Rus
slams, and the British rated
not far behind.
It would be foolhardy to say
that because of the treaties
and agreements signed in Paris
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

The Eisenhower cabinet special meeting on televson
enjoy this show the hopes you'll send box
top to nearest Republican precinct capan-and
trip to the polls
The big Republican in the last days campaign
is to find enough problems to Montgomery
to have President Ike look relaxed about
Democrats committee chairmanhips for the next
Congress Democrats they're going win they've
already got an albi ready for the 1855 deficit.
The Census Bureau America people
About half Of these ratio of
House Republican Whip Arends says politics
II the Democrats win He here be uproar
ing much happening except by accident Repub-
lcans win, nothing much will be happening purpose
The Navy plans to cut down the number of
likes girl in por-not lady officer porthole
Both Democratic and Republican candidates Senate
in Massachusetts there
are enough things to about in this without
quarrelng something people interested
Evening star., 1954-10-26

to be made the basis for q
sharp interrogation Of the
Churchill government by the
Laborites. who are demanding
that Britain not become q party
to the baltimore case. This is
absurd on its face. but it makes
excellent propaganda for the
Reds and gives the impression
that the United States is per-
scouting a man for his beliefs
when the truth is the case
turns on whether baltimore did
or did not lie when he an
sWered certain questions before
the Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee when it was
headed by the late Senator Pat
McCarran Of Nevada, Demo-
crat.
Who Is behind the effort
to stir up the baltimore case
in the House of Commons?
All that the Department of
Justice wanted actually was
some facts about the books
published in Britain by Latti-
more and their distribution in
other countries. For one OF
the issues at stake in the trial
is whether he was telling the
truth when he denied he was
a promoter of Communist
causes. The net result Of a re-
fusal to Cooperate in a rou-
tine matter can only be to in
Jure Anglo-American relations.
The whole affair is being
trumped up in Britain to make
1t appear that the United
States is not willing to safe
guard freedom of speech in
America. It is apparent that
somebody is master-minding
the kind Of questions that are
being given publicity in Brit
ain in connection with "be-
liefs" as contrasted with acts.
Indeed, in the House of Com
mons on October 81. a British
government Minister gave re-
assurance that the British
civil workers would not be
dismissed from the service
merely because they hold
Marxist views unless there is
reason to suppose that they
will take action deleterious to
Evening star., 1954-10-26

the country or are on excep-
tionally confidential work"
But when does the clear
and present danger" arise, as
a famous American jurist ex-
pressed it in a court opinion?
Does a nation wait for the
conspiracy to be consummated
before acting? No more real
istic exposition Of the whole
problem has been made than
in a dispatch about the in
ternal troubles of Italy writ
ten on October 81 from Rome
by Walter Lippmann, who said:
In principle it is clear, it
seems to me, that democracies
cannot permit totalitarian
parties to enjoy civil rights
and to win elections and then,
having taken over power, to
abolish elections and civil
rights. II the Italian demo-
cratic parties have really de-
cided not to surrender the
state. they have in principle
taken the right decision
"The question of principle is
whether a free and democratic
state has the right to allow
institutions to be used by to-
talitarian parties to destroy
freedom and democracy"
That is the burden of the
very argument which has been
made in the last few years by
many Americans. They have
felt that Congress was right
in outlawing the Communist
Party. For it never has been
a political party. It has al
ways been the instrument of a
foreign government. It has
abused American institutions
and preyed on the gullibility
OF the earnest but misguided
groups who have thought of
the Communists as mere poll
ticianS welded to a different
philosophy of economic or So
cial life. Instead, the Com
muniSts have been and are an
active, fanatical organization
controlled by a foreign gov
ernment which has already
directly and indirectly taken a
huge toll Of lives in the free
world.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Spell of Honesty

ATLANTA (R.-Anne War
rem is only the second best
speller in Georgia because of
her honesty.
The seventh grader at Mon
ticello, Ga, was declared win
ner of the State spelling con-
test at the recent Southeast
ern Fair here.
But when the papers were
returned" said State School
Supt. M. D. Collins yesterday,
Anne pointed out two words
she had missed and which the
judges had not detected.
"She said she knew it would
knock her out Of first place
but she wanted to be honest"
Her admission gave the
championship to Stephen
johnson, high school student
at West Point.
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Dog Saves Boy, 7

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (P.-Lit-
tie Tom Gambill hadn't been
caught in the chimney long be-
fore his Irish terrier, Mike,
brought help. but it took fire.
men 2k hours to get him out
The 7-year-old boy became
wedged in the chimney of an
outdoor grill yesterday.
Not long afterward the woman
who is caring for the three Gam
bill children while Mr.. and Mrs
Ben s. Gambill are on q business
trip in Hershey. Pa. called for
him to come in for q reading
lesson.
Mike attracted her attention
by whining and led her to the
grill. Then both flremen and
policemen were called and res
cued the boy.
Evening star., 1954-10-26
For the Record
By Irene corboIIy Kuhn

Political pouting on a ma
tional scale will be the dis
tinguishing feature of the 1854
elections. Never before, at
least not in recent years, have
so many citizens Of both ma
1or political parties been so
disinterested in the candidates
running for Office in national.
State and local elections. The
professional politicians are
railing against this condition
with real or simulated indig-
nation. They call it voters
apathy" They would be max
ing a more accurate diagnosis
Of this disturbing phenomenon
OF non-voting If they'd recog-
nize 1t as q positive force, not
o negative one, and face it
squarely for what it is-pro-
test, not apathy.
Believers in the two-party
system of government, as well
as the independent voter who
insists he votes for the man,
not the party. find themselves
frustrated and furious when
the party conventions choose
candidates not to their liking.
Rightly or wrongly. then, peo-
pie have no other really salts
factory way of expressing their
distaste than by staying away
from the polls on election day
and not voting for anybody.
The candidates who get elected
can never be sure they won
on merit or by default; and
the parties boss-men can con-
tinue to blame their failures on
voters apathy" and cynically
and successfully resist giving
an accounting and reforming.
The political pollsters and
dopesters can only indulge in
. guessing game after election
day. No one can know for
sure whether the political
winds which blow one man in
and blast another one out are
real or phony, because a voter
can't always tell from the
party label q man wears
whether it's q fast color or q
cheap dye that will wash out
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Life in the u. S.
Life in the U. S.
|HisFoIse Teeth
|Gone,MonPuts
Bite eonCounty
BY the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26.-
Harry j. Upset says the last
time he saw his false teeth was
just before he underwent a sur
gical operation at Los Angeles
General Hospital last July q.
He filed a claim against the
County Board of Supervisors
yesterday for $5,450 and said
persistent questioning of hos
pital personnel while he was
convalescing failed to disclose
any clue to the teeth.
The county counsel said Mr..
Upset can't put the bite on the
county, however, because State
laws have no teeth governing
such claims.
Evening star., 1954-10-26

first to go when jobs fall of.
The recent CIO poll showed,
too, that the relatively few
Negroes who had gone over to
the Republicans in late years
were coming home. CIO
spokesmen expect no defec-
tions from Democrats by Negro
members of their unions.
It is conceded by Mr.. WASH
ington that many Republican
candidates are not too well
known to Negroes generally,
while in all industrial areas
Democrats are well known.
Nevertheless, he feels that
his campaign literature
mostly reprints from the Negro
press describing what Gen.
Eisenhower has done-is max
ing a real impression on bet
ter-educated and professional
Negroes. Thus he says the
G. 0. p. will be helped in cities
like Louisville, KY, Harris
burg, Pa, and South Bend,
Ind. where excellent Negro
neighborhoods flourish.
About 2 million Negroes vote
outside the solid South, and
even there the big cities are
showing a significant Negro
vote. Outside the South about
three Negroes vote Democratic
to one Republican. In the
South they copy the white pat
tern, apparently feeling they
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Reds Dupe Many Honest People
Manchester Guardians Opinion Cited as Proof Thut
Sincere Persons Are Falling Prey to Glib Line
Dovid Lowrence

The Communist pretense that
Its activities are purely politi-
cal and constitute merely the
expression Of beliefs rather
than the doing of things aimed
at fomenting conspiracieS to
injure free governments is un-
fortunately gaining in accept
ance. This is largely due to
the fact that many well-mean-
ing people in the democracies
Of the world are being duped.
No better example of this
can be cited than what is hap
pening this very week in Great
Britain over the case Of Owen
baltimore, recently indicted
here for perjury. The Manches-
ter Guardian, whose liberalism
in bygone days has won wide
renown. has come out with an
editorial denouncing the Amer
ican Embassy because it asked
the British authorities for per-
mission to gather some evi-
dence needed by the United
States Department of Justice
in the baltimore case. Such a
request for cooperation is a
matter of routine normally and
the American Government re-
ciprocates often when the Brit
ish want data from American
sources for use in aiding the
judicial arm of their govern
ment.
But the Guardian ignores
that custom and claims that
the British government is be-
ing dragged into participation
in the Republican campaign in
the United States" In the first
place, the baltimore prosecu-
ton was initiated under the
Truman administration. In the
second place, the baltimore
trial doesn't begin until Janu-
ary 10. when the political
campaign will be over. In the
third place, the information
was not intended for public
use, because the Government
doesn't argue such cases in the
press. but before a trial Judge.
Yet the editorial in the
Guardian, according to world
wide broadcast on the radio, is
Evening star., 1954-10-26

Party's national chairman, who
served notice no campaign
funds would be earmarked for
Jimmy.
In other States are similar
anomalies and cynical affronts
to the citizenry but the people
have only themselves to blame
II they get rocked. They are
basically at fault for thinking
In terms Of "they" instead Of
I'VE" when they think about
politics at all, as though gov
ernment was some impersonal
force run by robots. This lazy
assumption that 'they" will
run things, and I'VE" don't
have to bother, Is what enables
the unscrupulous politician to
take over. and to run things,
true; but often to run a party
into the ground and, eventually.
to run q country into the
ground, too. and wreck it.
It should be made easier for
voters who cannot conscien-
tiously vote for the candidates
their party has chosen at con-
vention to write In the names
Of their own candidates. But
affirmative protest like this is
not enough. The man who can
sound of in q barroom the
week before election should do
1t earlier in neighborhood
meetings. Women certainly
have fallen down on the Job.
too. When they were yelling
and screaming for equal suf-
frage they promised to make
their votes count. Instead
they've just swept the politi-
cal dirt under the rugs, as
usual. and let the spoilers and
the cynics track In more.
In q free country people get
the kind Of government they
deserve. In q totalitarian state
they just get government -
and plenty Of 1t. Enough to
kill them, In fact.
tCopyright, 1e64.)
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Northeast Springfield School
over the week end and did it.
Toad Ends Long Doze

GAINESVILLE, Ohio. P.-Rir
Van Winkle slept for 20 years
but how long was Tom the Toad
buried in a seven-ton sandstone
block /?
Tom was released Monday
from a tiny pocket in the block
when Thomas Scott was break
ing up stone for a new driveway
here.
Mr.. Scott said Tom was "flat
as a dime and as big around as
a half dollar" Fresh air or
something swelled Tom up again.
He returned to normal size and
began to hop around.
DR.. Edward Thomas, curator
of natural history at Ohio State
Archaeological Institute at Co
lumbus, said Tom might have
"hibernated" for lone to three
years."
Evening star., 1954-10-26

troublesome problem to the
Soviet general staff. An allied
force Of 26 combat-ready divi-
sions-as is expected to exist
early in 1956--is more than
capable of taking care Of tho
numerically superior Soviet
force in Eastern Germany and
Poland.
There are very few in the
Western camp who believe
the u. 8. 8. r. will risk q war
now to prevent the substantial
strengthening Of the NATO.
The Red diplomatic and
military strategists are aiming
at the isolation of the United
States. particularly in Asia.
The consensus of Western
leaders is that the Kremlin
will use peaceful means" in
its efforts to nullify the NATO.
1t matters little to the Red
dictators If the Western ma
tions spend huge sums In
military preparedness so long
as they know that the coali-
ton forces won't ever be used
aggressively.
The Red leaders believe that
sweetness" from Moscow can
undermine the Western win
to resist Soviet plans for world
domination. The idea Of CO.
existence so successfully ex.
plotted by the Muscovites def
nitely appeals to the Western
nations. They are convinced
that it contains vast opportu-
mites for their merchants and
industrialists to fill their
pockets.
Hence the Soviet leaders
are likely to try even harder
to lull the West into a feeling
Of security. Mr.. Molotov may
try to disrupt ratification Of
the Paris treaties by the
French and Bonn parliaments.
In the likely event that he
fails he probably will try to
recoup the first major Soviet
setback in five years by an
advantageous agreement at
the Vienna Conference. Red
diplomacy's main objective
now Is to split Western Europe
and the United States with
the doctrine of co-existence.
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Explosives Use Sours

NEW YORK.-American in
dustry set of about 757 million
pounds Of high explosives in
1858, roughly $120 million worth.
Most Of this was dynamite. This
amount was about so per cent
above the 425 million-odd pounds
Industry used each year during
World War TT
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Ticketed for Trouble

PONTIAC, Mich. R.-There
are 500 meal tickets that won't
provide a meal. Burglars stole
them from Mrs. William F.
Davis restaurant. They also got
$13 in cash. Mrs. Davis says she
has q way of telling which
tickets were stolen.
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Cancer Cause Suspected

Increased chemical additions
to food in the form of colorings,
preservatives and flavors may be
a cause Of cancer, says DR.. r. M.
Cunningham Of Sydney. Austria
liza.
Evening star., 1954-10-26
Public Benefuctor?

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. R.-
When you were a kid did you
ever wish you could destroy all
the report cards?
Well, some one broke into
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refused to return to the United
States when offered his free
dom.
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HOUSES FOR sALE-N.w

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TOWN HOUSE

Big 14-room town house west Of
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rec. rEa.: Colonial front porch; Gas
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j.. LIE D0NNELLY q SON