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Evening star., 1954-10-27

election prophecies are being
made? There has been no
Nationwide poll made by DR..
Gallup or any one else cover
Ing each congressional dis
trict or each State where
there's a senatorial contest. A
few straW-vote polls of the
old-fashioned type have been
made in scattered areas, but
the history, of the unscientifi-
cally made poll is not one that
compares with the accuracy
Of those taken on a sampling
basis with scientific methods.
DR.. Gallup has released a
poll showing the relative
strength of the Republican
and Democratic parties gen.
orally across the Nation, and
this shows the Republicans
leading. But it doesn't matter
In such q poll whether a heavy
majority In a given Republican
district is down by as much as
SO per cent and there is a
pickup in another district
this type of poll is not con-
elusive in a congressional elec-
ton.
So, since there is no evi-
dence thus far but only hunch
or guess or analysis based on
the behavior of party workers
or the worried look Of this or
that nominee, 1t cannot be
said at this writing that the
outcome of the election Is as
sured either way. While it
doesn't happen often that elec-
tions are swung in the last
week, it does occur, as political
leaders whose side has lost in
the past have acknowledged
when an eleventh-hour drive
beats them.
Republicans are picking up
enthusiasm and courage not
withstanding that they have
been hearing constantly for
several weeks that they were
going to lose. Maybe it is the
fact that President Eisenhower
is campaigning actively which
is bringing a changed morale.
Maybe it is the break which
the Republicans got in Euro
pean developments, which GER
tainly are roster on the side
of peace than at any time
since 1945. For the slogan
peace and prosperity-is be-
ginning to take hold with the
voters as election day ap-
proaches. Another concept
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Dorothy Thompson

Travelling around the coun-
try from Northern New Eng
land to the Middle West and
Northwest I try, of course, to
find out what people are
thinking about the coming
congressional elections. My
contact with voters as I 60
along indicates that there is
relatively little interest in the
elections. Nobody seems to be
worked up about them one way
or another. heated discussions
are rare, people only express
an opinion If you ask for it and
then it is not very strong.
Those whom I have met still
like Ike" and apparently about
as many would vote for him
now as did two years ago.
And I can't find many ex-
cept professional Democrats
who are really hostile to the
SD Congress. That holds for
Midwestern farmers except in
certain pockets. Most of them
think Ezra Benson's reasoning
and policies are right, but small
farmers in the dairy and poul-
try business are complaining.
Milk prices are down, grain
stays high, medium eggs hover
between Is and 80 cents a
dozen, wholesale; live fowl are
selling for IA cents a pound,
and hogs raised by small farm
ers don't return the price of
their feeding. Farmers wives,
Evening star., 1954-10-27

which has caused many voters
to hesitate before voting
against the party In power
when things are going well Is
often expressed by the say
ing. Don't change horses
In midstream."
The Republicans have been
q bit slow in getting their
statistics to the public. But
the figures contain some po-
tent arguments. For they show
that, since the turn of the
century, the Democratic Party
when in power has not been
able in peacetime to equal the
records for per capita income
that have been possible under
Republican administrations.
Only in wartime have the
Democratic administr q tions
been able to get the employ
n1ent figures up to heights
above their Republican oppo-
nentS.
Even converting dollars of
past years into the purchasing
.power of 1858 dollars, so that
all years are on a comparable
basis, the figures show that
the American people in 1858
and 1854 have enjoyed the
highest disposable income per
person that has ever been
recorded.
Likewise, the figures for new
construction this year top any
thing ever known in history.
And what is significant, too.
Is that the rate Of industrial
production in 1853 and 1854
was higher than in any pre-
vious year of peacetime.
So it comes down to an ap-
praisal Of whether the Repub-
lican administration has
brought bad times, as the po-
litical orators of the opposition
claim. and whether the voters
are going to take away from
the Republican Party the ma
jority control of Congress
which Gen. Eisenhower is so
anxious to see maintained in
the interest of teamwork.
Will the stay-at-home Re-
publicans really hand the elec-
tion over by default to the
Democrats? That's the ques-
ton which so far has not been
logically answered and must
be explained somehow if there
is really any national trend
of such proportions as is sup
posed to have developed.
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Evening star., 1954-10-27
Publicity Prejudiced
Capt. Monroe 'sCase,
Attorneys Tell Court

Police officials and prosecuting
attorneys prejudiced the grand
jury considering charges against
suspended police Capt. John B.
Monroe and Detective George
Prather by giving detailed stories
to the newspapers, radio. and
television stations" an attorney
for the policemen charged yester-
day.
This contention was made in a
motion to dismiss gambling con-
spiracy and bribery charges
against Capt. Monroe and MIR.
FARTHER. The motion was filed
in the U. S. District Court for
the District Of Columbia by At
torney Myron G. Ehrlich.
The motion also declared the
indictment is so vague that the
defendants cannot properly pre-
pare their defense"
MOtlOnS also were nled Tor an
indefinite continuance of the
trial date, now listed as Novem-
ber IS, on the ground that the
defendants cannot now get a
fair trial because Of publicity.
Another motion asked leave to
inspect minutes of the grand jury
to determine If the panel was
Improperly infected by the
prejudicial publicity" Attorneys
for two of the 13 gamblers in
dicted along with the policemen,
Albert (Real Estate) Smith and
Othello Washington, filed SINH
lar motions for their clients.
The defendants were indicted
after 10 months of undercover
work by Acting Police Capt. Todd
| ThOman.
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Lamb Probers Hear
Ex-Red Again Today
BY the Associoted Press

Eugene Stoll, former Commu-
mist Party leader in Toledo, Ohio,
resumes his testimony today at
a Federal Communications Com
mission hearing into the back
ground of Publisher -Broadcaster
Edward Lamb.
After testifying he sold Mr..
Lamb q subscription to a Com
munist newspaper In 1884 and
later had several conferences
with him on various matters. Mr..
Stoll was questioned yesterday
by Russell Morton Brown, one
of Mr. Lambs lawyers. The cross
examination continues today.
Mr.. Brown. who expressed be-
lief In Mr.. Stoll's truthfulness,
questioned him closely about the
Communist Party structure and
theories. Mr.. Brown made 1t
clear his purpose was TO show
some previous Government wit
nesses, also self-styled Commu-
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Constontine Brown
.Eogerness for Big 4 Injecting
Our Allies Regord Success Of Paris Conferences
As Curtuin Roiser for Settlement Of Cold Wur

But he used the doctrine OF
freeing the masses" for the
sake of a new type of imperial
ism far more cruel and wide-
spread than known heretofore.
There Is no reason to believe
that Malenkov and his Krem-
lin colleagues have changed
the fundamental policies Of
the founders or those Of
Stain. They are using only
different methods to arrive at
the same result-World domi-
nation by the Soviets. This Is
being overlooked by war-weary
and impoverished Europe.
We have devoted some 500
billion to restoring Europe
and her industrial capabilities.
NeW. modern factories there
are now producing goods which
can compare favorably with
those manufactured In the
United States. But they lack
outlets. With all of Eastern
Europe and the vast territory
of China behind the Iron
Curtain it is impossible for
Western European industrial
lists to find adequate markets.
Exporters can no longer deal,
as they did before the war,
with private importers In
countries dominated by the
U. s. s. r. The private indus
tries must deal with the Red
governments. And no active
trade is possible unless the re-
lationship between the gov
ernments has been established
to the satisfaction Of the die
tators.
High tariffs or quotas such
as exist between the United
States and other free nations
j are not a real hindrance.
These can be solved by give
and take. But to trade on a
large scale with Red countries
1t is necessary to have first
a political agreement and
allow political latitudes to the
Red dictators. This Moscow
and Peiping call co-existence.
So far we are not willing to
swallow that pill. But not SO
our allies, who have just
signed documents of recon-
ciliation with Germany.
To us the Paris agreements
Evening star., 1954-10-27

and Europe-have come here
and tried to arrange for sale
of surpluses to their countries.
They were shuttled around
from here to there, never get
ting anywhere, and finally gave
up. Our failure In this job
Of business organization, sup
posed to be our special talent,
is in sad contrast to the
achievement in the field of
diplomacy, in which we are
not nearly so experienced, SYM
bolized in the new European
military union.
The stakes are just as great,
too.
How great may be illustrated
in one case before us now
where food might be the diff
ference between salvaging part
Of a continent for the free
world and losing it behind the
Red Chinese wall. Vietnam is
the testing ground In Asia.
We encouraged people to leave
the sections of Indo-C China al
lotted to the Communists by
the recent Geneva settlements
and to come to Vietpaf1. They
have come-half q million Of
them. These refugees brought
only what they could carry on
their backs. They have been
quartered temporarily in pup
tent settlements until they can
be assigned land and can raise
rice. They must be fed
meanwhile.
CARE is seeking to get au-
thority from our Government
to operate an airlift to trans
port rice from Burma, which lis
q rice-surplus area. Vietnafa
must be held as o citadel for
the free world. else aIl the rest
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Fletcher knebef-
Potomac Fever

fellow who watched teleyision saws the
last time ne saw that iionaires in
Diamond Jim Bradys funeral
President Eisenhower plans ast-minute aplane barn
storming trip for Republican candidates Republicans win
this election they can thank the Flying Dutchman.
The Government the cost of living
month lot of Democrats have skipping supper to
hungry they
The Chicago election Is thrown into uproar over the
question Of what kind Of marry policemen That's easy
The kind that never get parking tickets
To get on eevision used to Join the actors
unlon' NOW you nave to join the Eisenhower cabinet.
About the only people with open minds on the Joe
Mccarthy issue are those with holes in their heads
Republican Senator Margaret Smith coners with Foreign
Minister Molotov in Moscow Mrs Smith expected fly home
Tor gala Republican confession nv
titled Il Talked to a Communist"
Evening star., 1954-10-27

almost every case were unwill-
ing to use against fellow
toWnsrnen.- The local leaders
have not rebelled publicly but
they are, telling correspondents
their misgivings.
The fact that all the Demo-
cratic candidates involved are
liberals makes it possible to
lump them, despite their many
differences. That one of them,
Glen Taylor of Idaho, ran for
Vice President on the Progress
sive ticket with Henry Wal
lace, is more grist for the
Nixon mill.
The Vice President looked
the ground over and decided
he could raise a crop of Sem
ate seats. He has not hesi-
.tated to use the issue he
thought would serve and to
arouse the deepest partisan
feelings of the opposition.
Such partisans are an in
tegral part OF politics though
they rarely achieve the high
est rewards. It has certainly
been true in all national con-
ventions in late years that
when the push comes to the
shove, the master minds in
the smoke filled rooms fix on
candidates who can appeal to
the Independents.
This is the future risk the
ambitious Nixon is taking. For
the present, he must feel. and
doubtless correctly, that Moth
ing succeeds like success and
it is worth the gamble.
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Dorothy Thompson
Voters Just Don't Seem to Care
But the Democrats Are Favored to Win Because They
Inl l<e Rer Know AoAALt t0Ge UT Tia N0te

at the precinct level. That
party will win, they say. that
gets out the vote, and the
Democrats are the boys ring
ing the doorbells. ~
"The Democrats" explains
one Midwestern editor "a Re-
publican), had 20 years to
build a machine on patronage.
Ike has hardly made q dent in
1t. He hasn't removed more
than S per cent Of previous of
ficeholders, and actually he
can't because Of civil service
laws unless he abolishes and
recreates agencies. But politics
in this country, whether we
like it or not, is based on
patronage. The guys who get
out and work are the ones
hoping for advancement -
Government jobs. Republican
of1ice-seekers are disappointed
and hence apathetic."
I might add that Repub-
licans have never actively gone
after the independent voters
through independents with q
talent for appealing to the
public. The Democrats have
always been far more effec-
tual-and energetic-in this
particular. They have better
and better speakers from OUT
side the party, probably be-
cause they want them and 60
after them. :
So we may see the rather
extraordinary spectacle Of an
electorate repudiating a party
while applauding its leader.
Evening star., 1954-10-27

mean the strengthening of
Western unity to resist mili-
tarily any possible Soviet on-
slaught against Western Eu-
rope.
To our allies the ceremony
at the Quai d'Orsay. to be fol-
lowed by ratification Of the
pacts and agreements. means
principally an opening wedge
to bring about q meeting with
the representatives Of the
U. s. s. r.
The pretext Is the hquida-
ton Of the last war by agree
ing to German and Austrian
peace treaties. The main rea.
son for eagerness Is the eco.
l1omic results of a policy Of
co-existence. This is a definite
danger. Such an ending to the
cold war would open UP @
much larger volume of trade
between the Communists and
Western Europe but it also
would lessen rearmament.
The NATO will be strength
ened by the addition Of IL
German divisions, q military
effort which the German econ
orny can easily sustain. But
neither France nor Britain will
be required under a policy Of
co-existence to burden their
budgets by increasing their
military establishments. -
It must be remembered that
since the colonial powers have
lost or given up their possess
sions in Asia they are COM
cerned only with their FROM
tiers in Europe. These will not
be threatened by the U. s. s. r.
If a co-existence policy Ii
adopted.
We are In q different po.
sition. Our security is threat-
ened more acutely In the Pa
cific than in the Atlantic
Moreover, the Communist
peace dove is alighting only
on the shores Of Europe. The
co-existence deception plan Is
directed exclusively at our Eu-
ropean friends. Hence their
eagerness, kept publicly in the
background after the signing
of the Paris pacts, for a meet
ing early next year with the
Kremlin representatives.
Evening star., 1954-10-27
| Projects 1otaling
|SS5,5O0 Approved
For Prince Georges

improvements totaling $S5, 500
IN the metropolitan area of
Prince Georges today have the
approval of the county COM
missioners.
The projects were authorized
yesterday. after they were rec
commended by the commissioners
advisory committee. Walter r.
Mulligan, secretary to the COM
mittee, presented the list in
Upper Marlboro.
One $4,000 Project.
The largest items are $50, 900
for a storm drainage project in
Bradbury Heights. to be carried
out jointly by the county and
the Washington Suburban Sani-
tary Commission, and $l1,565
improvements to Forty-seventh
avenue, r street and Addison
Chapel road.
The others are a temporary
sidewalk on Landover road from
Cheverly to the Prince Georges
Hospital entrance; sidewalks
from Muskogee street to Edge
wood road and on the property
Of A. j. Fusco. Chillum; q side
walk on Sixty-fifth avenue be-
tween E and Early streets, Seat
Pleasant, and a temporary side
walk on Riggs road from the
recreation center to the ele-
mentary school.
Highway Lighting.
| Highway lighting was author
lied for College. Dartmouth and
Calvert avenues. College Park;
Landover road. from Seventy
third to Seventy-fifth avenue;
Rhode Island avenue between
Greenbelt and Odell roads:
Queensbury. Lafayette avenue
and Riverdale road from Queens
Chapel road to Edmonston road,
Riverdale.
Lighting of entrances was
authorized to Seventy fifth,
Seventy sixth and Prince Georges
avenues, Kentland and improve
ment Of Berkshire drive, Chillum.
Funds for the projects will
come from proceeds of. an as yet
unsold 100000 bond issue au-
thorized by the 1853 Legislature.
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Constonti1e Brown

Most of our European
friends regard the success of
the Western foreign ministers
at Paris as a mere curtain
raiser for q settlement Of the
cold war next year.
And the tone of official Rus
sian utterances indicates Mos
COW does not consider the
Western diplomatic achieve
ments as a defeat for its plans
in. Europe. These can be
summed UP In one word: Co
existence.
In his presentation to the
cabinet and the American
people by way of radio and
teleyision. Secretary Dulles.
spoke only about the progress
in consolidating the relation
ship between the free Western
nations. He did not refer to
the second phase Of this first
major diplomatic victory in q
long time: Next years meet
ing of the Big Four foreign
ministers.
In Europe; however. a meet
ing with the Soyiets Is con-
sidered far more important
than the rearming Of Western
Germany and her delayed re-
turn to sovereignty. Britain.
France, the Benelux countries.
Italy and even Germany con-
slider that relations of the
East and West could easily be
normalized by opening the
trade gates between Western
Europe and the countries be-
hind the Iron Curtain.
At every opportunity the
Communist spokesman in Mos
COW and Peiping are telling the
free world that communism
and capitalism can co-exist
live side by side-without
undue friction. We are still
Doubling Thomases because
we consider communism is a
straitlaced dogma. The faith
ers of communism, Marx
and Lenin, proclaimed that
capitalism, that is free enter
prise, must be destroyed for
the sake of the masses and
for the perpetuation of the
Communist doctrines. Stain
followed the founding fathers.
Evening star., 1954-10-27

operating far. from Washing
ton and merits only the back.
half Of Eastern. newspapers, 1t
is a question just how fully In
formed the busy President is
about the. Nixon line.
The young Vice President
enjoys the deep personal re-
gard of the President. In a
similar situation in the past,
the President seemed a little
annoyed but rather emotion
ally warned reporters against
trying to divide him from his
Vice President.
Republican leaders here claim
Mr.. Nixon is acting on his own.
Putting aside the merits and
moral aspects of his argument
which Democrats view as de-
plorable and about which Re-
publicans are divided-he is
showing himself an intensely
practical politician. an unter-
rified partisan and a gambler
on events and his own future.
He has chosen the one area
in which geography and the
persons of the candidates give
him a chance to pass q mir
acle. Six seats are at stake
there amid wide-open spaces
but relatively few people. A
few thousand votes could turn
the trick.
The geographical area is so
great, the voters of the States
involved will hardly realize
that all Of it is being subjected
by an outsider to a kind of
saturation bombing with an
issue their own local leaders in
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Doris FIeeson-
DorIs FIeesor-
Nixon Candles on His Ambition
kingnokers of the SokeFIed Rooms Rarely Pick Bitter
Porsons, Prefenng Men Who Appeal to Independents

Democrats have been granted
some free telecast time to
compensate for the televised
Eisenhower cabinet meeting
and the Presidents other re-
cent n-political" broadcasts.
Their comments are rather
mild, running to .quips like
'Meet me at the matinee of
the National Security Council"
Presidents traditionally make
use of their prerogatives in the
clinches of a campaign, some
more, some less. The pioneer
Eisenhower TV first is a diff
ference in degree, not in kind.
The last-minute strategem
Of Vice President Nixon is
something else again in the
Democratic book. It is feared
and resented. The fear natu-
rally envenoms the resentment
and insures that it will last a
long time.
Within the last few weeks
In the Mountain States and
upper Middle West, the Vice
President has personally de-
veloped the Red issue against
Democratic Senate candidates.
He brands them members Of
the left wing, ADA branch, of
their party" a charge he skill
fully and tremendously en-
broiders-but always short of
libel.
The Nixon attack cuts across
direct statements by President
Eisenhower that charges of
this kind should not be an
issue in the campaign. Yet
because the Vice President is
Evening star., 1954-10-27
Thomas L. Stokes
Thonos L. Stokes
Surplus Disposal Law Stalled
Bureaucratic JeoIouses Symie Operation of Statute
Which Would tse Food to Build World Friendship

Our Government has helped
TO create a new organization,
including West Germany, for
the common defense of West
ern Europe.
Primarily this Is a military
enterprise, embodying as it
does a pooling of arms and
armies for the common de-
tense.
Our role in its creation is
somewhat new for us. There
Is another role closer to our
experience and our heritage
exemplifying more what we
have meant to other people
throughout our history. This
is the role Of humanitarian
ism which we have filled so
capaply because of another
national attribute. That is our
ability to organize vast hui
manitarian projects on q busi-
ness basis.
Strangely enough, it is in
this latter role that we are
failing today to live up to our
tradition. A present challenge
Is In the huge agricultural sur
pluses piled up In our ware
houses. some $6.5 billion worth.
This is food that we have.
About us Ia other parts Of the
world are millions who need it.
Food is the ammunition of
an offensive which we could
employ to make inroads upon
international communism. We
wouldn't have to fire q single
shot.
This great opportunity was
recognized by President Eisen-
hover and by Congress which,
ct his request. enacted q new
law ct its last session provid-
ing ways and means to distrib-
n
Evening star., 1954-10-27

ute our agricultural surpluses
with proper safeguards. Under
the new law, the Government
itself can dispose of surpluses
directly in two ways-by sale
for local currencies which then
are used to finance various
United States Government en-;
terprises, such as air bases, in
countries that are parties to
such transactions, and for
relief in disasters. Another
means Of disposal Is through
private agencies Of which there
are a number maintained by
religious and other groups, in
cluding CARE. The Govern
ment pays the freight to the
port of export in the United
States. the recipient country
pays the cost from the United
States to its port of entry
and the private organizations
handle the distribution.
The law was broad and
flexible. But doing something
under it has been a discour-
aging story. Immediately It's
operation encountered bureau.
cratic jealousies and rivalries
in five different Government
agencies which bickered about
which should do what part of
the assigned job. Conse-
quently, the first step took 10
weeks after the law was signed
by Gen. Eisenhower. That was
formulation and issuance of an
executive order defining adj
ministrative authority.
But still little Is being done.
The trouble seems to be q COM
bination Of red tape and leth-
argy. In at least three cases,
representatives of other coun-
tries-in Asia, South America