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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
A Topic for Campaign Debate

alliances across the Atlantic
and Pacific. Thus NATO and
SEATO arose. If the British
and French remaining colonial
empires were to 60 down the
drain, there is no question that
these pillars Of the NATO
would be so weakened that
the coalition would fall apart
and neutraliSm in both coun-
tries would revive with much
greater impetus than in recent
years. Moreover. America
would be pointed at as the
cause Of the loss of empires, to
the great benefit Of Moscow
and Peiping.
These are apparently too
painful and worrisome subjects
to be raised in the present po-
lite and almost nonpartisan
campaign. Slogans are catch
ing in America. Thus the
Democrats are unwilling to
challenge the peace and pros
perity" slogan of the Repuh-
licans except in showing with
distorted statistics that there
is no prosperity when it actu-
ally exists.
Because the Stevenson
Kefauver team, judged by
past statements Of the two
candidates, intends to move
actively into the co-existence
trap, should it win the cleo
ton, it is not willing to discuss
the international situation ex-
cept on the highest intellectual
level.
Gov. Stevenson, for instance.
indicated last August in an in
formal and little-publicized
question and answer colloquoy
in Nevada that he would favor
under certain conditions the
recognition of Red China and
its admission to the United
States.
1t is unfortunate that the
Republican contenders do not
wish to force a discussion on
such an issue which would re-
veal the whole concept of the
two Democratic candidates as
to our relationship, not only
with Peiping but with the
whole Communist world.
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Stevenson Statements on Red China
And Possible Entry to u. N. Cited

The Republican and Demo-
cratic parties contending for
the top prize on Ncrember 6
are more or less living up to
the gentlemen's agreement to
inject neither communism in
Government nor foreign affairs
into the campaign.
Yet these issues, and es-
pecially foreign affairs, have
in the past and are now af-
fecting our national life, pos
sibly more than most domestic
matters.
The vast sums which still
are being spent on defense
and on the manifold foreign
aid programs come from the
taxpayers pockets. If the adj
ministrations which have sue
ceeded each other since the
end of World War II and the
Korean police action" have
not been able to make any
sizeable cuts in our direct and
indirect taxes, the reason can
be found in the fact that 10
cents of the income tax dol
lar goes into these two chan
nels.
This is pointed out. not in
a spirit of criticism. but mere
ly to show how our role Of
leader of free nations and our
job of erecting a wall against
communism is affecting the
life, and pocketbook of every
member of the American fam
lily.
In the 1852 campaign the
Republicans took a positive
stand when they promised to
solve the Korean situation. roll
back the Muscovites from their
ill-gained control of the coun-
tries in central, eastern and
southeastern Europe and clean
up all Communists and sub
versiveS in government. These
were dramatic issues which
unquestionably helped garner
the large majority which gave
the Republicans the White
House and control of the
House and Senate.
Although the fighting has
ceased in Korea and the
Russians and their new SYM
pathizers have adopted a
smiling policy, the interna-
tional situation has. if any
thing, deteriorated. The Com
munist bloc has set foot solidly
in the Middle East and is
about to become the protect
ing power" of the Moslems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
Joe Smith Gag in the Campaign

pit it sounds like a mockery
of all the welfare programs of
the modern state in recent
years.
DR.. Davies spoke of Joe
Smith" as having been re-
garded sometimes as "a sta
tistic" or consumer" and said
that Joe Smith feels, some
times strongly, sometimes in
mild bewilderment, that he is
being left out-or that he is
being too much taken in"
The minister might better
have told of the many Joe
Smiths who have risen from
poverty and humble surround
ings in free America to make
the grade. He could have
pointed to several persons
eminent in American life-in
the churches, in the press,
in the colleges, in the world
of business and labor leader
Ship-who have risen to fame
with the name, Joe Smith. He
could have pointed to the Joe
Smiths who have laid down
their lives for their country in
World War l. in World War
II and in the Korean War.
There is no reason to classify
all the Joe Smiths as having
the same outlook on life or
attitude toward public ques-
tions-as the politicians like to
picture them-in a standard
lied category of citizens be-
cause they have the same
name.
What the American people
would like in this season to
hear on Sundays from the
teachers Of truth is something
that the parishioners can take
to heart on all days of the
week-something that pro-
claims how the Christian ethic
and philosophy is violated
nowadays by the politicians
who sacrifice principle and
truth just to get elected.
There might even have been
a scriptural quotation cited as
advice to present-day candi-
dates: What is a man pro-
fitted if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?"
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SAirIines0K
Pact 10 End Bias

NEW YORK. Oct. 2 R.-I
Eighteen airlines have agreed
to a statement saying they will
intensity efforts to carry out
their announced policy against
racial or. other discrimination
in employment.
No Negroes are now employed
as pilots or other flight crewmenI
on any scheduled passenger
planes in the country.
Final agreement on the state
ment was announced yesterday
by Charles Abrams, chairman
of the New York State Commits
sion Against Discrimination.
Mr.. Abrams said the state
Iment, agreed to by the commits
sion as we'll as by the airlines,
resulted from conferences be-
tween representatives of the
commission and the airlines
which started last May.
The statement covers all 49,
airlines serving New York State.
and that includes almost all the
big ones in the Nation.
The statement reiterated"
the airlines' announced policy
lof judging job applicants and
upgrading employees ION the basis
of merit and without regard to-
race. creed. color or national
origin"
The statement also said:
"AS a direct by-product Of that
policy, the airlines indicated
there would be no solicitation Of
Applicants from employment
agencies, training schools or
other sources which discriminate
in the referral Of job candidates.
THE educational program all
ready under way in New York
State whereby airline personnel
are acquainted with this policy
will be intensified and expand
ed. II was recognized that
because Of the Nationwide and
international scope Of airline
service. certain operational prob
lens remain to be solved, but
positive steps were being taken
which should lead to further
progress in widening the base Of
employment opportunities"
The airlines subscribing to the
policy statement are: Allegheny,
American, Braniff, Capital. Delta,
Eastern. Flying Tigers. Mohawk,
National, New York, Northeast,
Northwest, Pan American, Rid
IDLE, Seaboard and Western. Slick.
Trans-World and United.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02

1t is true that the present
tragedy stems from the Teher-
an. Yalta and Potsdam under
standings concluded behind
the back of the Senate as
executive agreements" by the
previous Democratic admins
trations. But it is equally true
that the Truman doctrine,
which stopped Russia from
making inroads in the eastern
Mediterranean. is now threat
ened by the new Russian
moves which have, for the
time being, by-passed Greece
and Turkey.
The situation in the Pacific
has worsened since the French
were compelled to surrender
northern Wet Nam. Pro-Red
Chinese neutralism has spread
in the last two years in most
of the Asiatic countries. All
these factors affect the tax
payers pocketbooks. and con-
ceivably American lives. There
is no question that the make
shift solution in the Suez
Canal dispute forced on the
British and French by our
Government has prevented a
military campaign in Egypt by
these two allies. But the ques-
ton that London and Paris
are asking now is whether it
has not helped the Russian
cause in the Middle East and
also on the African continent.
1t may be asked what Africa
and British and French colo
nialism have to do with farm
prices, Is it not a blessing that
there is no shooting in earnest
anywhere in the world?
Since the overwhelming
majority of the American
people have rejected the con-
cept of fortress America"
suggested at one time by such
conservative Republicans as
the late Robert Taft and
former President Herbert
Hoover. we must base our
security on a system. of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02

Negroes at Juanlinn. No Negroes
are registered at Stanley.
The school district is operated
on a voluntary indignation basis
in the first three grades.
Two brothers, c. L. and Shelby
Bats, said they plan to with
draw their children from the
school until the situation is
remedied." Earlier, a group of
10 parents met with Supt. c. o.
Chandler and expressed the
same opinion.
A hearing by which the NAACP
tried to integrate the sprawling
Dallas school system was reset
for November IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
DORIS FLEEsON
Democratic Efforts in Illinois

Green's conduct in Office was
a 500.000-plus plurality for
Adlai Stevenson for Governor
in 1948.
A Federal grand jury in the
State capital. Springfield, and
a Senate committee are help
ing to underline the million
dollar State scandals on which
Democrats heavily rely. Chair
man j. William Fulbright of
the Senate Banking Committee
has announced he will bring
the convicted trio. including
Auditor Hodge. from their
prison cells to testify in Chi
cago October 8.
They had pleaded guilty, so
the full story of their gaudy
swindles with false State war
rants was not spread upon
court records-and in head
lines-in long trials. Obviously
Fulbright is not averse to rem
edying that omission.
Stengel has transformed
long and hard in his native
downstate. He believes he will
do well there. helped by the
scandals. farm discomfort,
farm implement depression
and tight money. He has just
begun to tackle Chicago. He
is taking a straight Stevenson
line.
Stevenson's candidacy has
Siphoned so much Illinois
money from the party that
both Stengel and Austin are
suffering. Stengel does not
even have a campaign man.
ager and much of his help
comes from young volunteers
who passionately loathe Dirk
sen.
Hence the vital Importance
OF Mayor Days ability to back
his party direction with party
majorities.
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scene told himsthe Negroes were
pushed and showed and hustled
of the campus"
Police said the Negro students,
whose names were not learned,
were not injured.
In other Texas indignation &C.
tons. II white parents appeared
before the school board at Vic
toria. Tex, yesterday and threat
ened a boycott of an elementary
school in protest of transfer of
their children to a school with
Negro children.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People laid plans at Dallas to
use Federal courts to stop Texas
newest drive against school
SEGREGATION suits.
Police hurried to the Lamar
campus and two Negro students
attending classes were escorted
of campus. They were advised
to go home and they did.
Some 100 white persons. rang
ing in age from 30 to so, arrived
at the campus about 7 pm. and
set up a picket line. They car
ried placards with slogans such
as rebels with a cause" and
keep our education system
white"
Students swelled the crowd to
about 500 during the evening.
Some 80 police patrolled the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02

campus but made no effort to
'disperse the pickets. The crowd
began to dwindle at about $3.50
pm.
The four-year college was or
dered to admit Negro students
this year by a Federal District
Court. 1t has en- enrolment of
about 5000 day students and
300 night students. There are
|26 Negroes enrolled in day
classes and 7 in night classes.
Parents at Victoria said they
objected to the transfer of their
children from Stanley Elemen-
tary School to Juanlinn Elemen-
tary because of the presence of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
Minister Criticized for Failure to
Denounce 'Trickery' in Politics

the floor. It was a device to
fool the chairman and the con-
vention. 1t was a sphony
stunt. 1t should be denounced
from every pulpit as the decep-
ton which it patiently was.
Instead, today the Demo-
cratic campaigners, including
Adlai Stevenson, have latched
onto the Joe Smith" episode
because they think it some
how embarrasSeS the Republic
cans. The Democrats have
tried to put over the far
fetched and false idea that
anyone with the name of Joe
Smith couldn't be placed in
nomination at a Republican
convention.
This kind of distortion is
natural with some politicians,
but the Nation is getting
tired of wisecracks and flip
pant comments on serious
issues.
Trickery and misrepresenta-
ton, of course, are expected of
politicians, and this time
campaign oratory" has sunk
to a new low level. But a
minister Of the Gospel, with
out involving himself in per-
sonalities, can appeal for truth
in campaigning.
There are many ministers In
America who preach sermons
about truth and sincerity and
who manage to do it without
seeming to take part in polit-
ical campaigns. There are
some, to be sure, who are OBJ
viously political or partisan.
and their listeners are we'll
aware of it.
But DR.. Davies, who under
took to preach a sermon about
a phase of today'S political
conference.-the Joe Smith"
episode at the Republican Ma
tional Convention-made it
appear that the common
man" is being neglected. On
the stump this would be for
given as partisan, but in a pull
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
DAVID LAWRENCE

When a presidential NOM
inee goes to church to hear a
sermon, must the minister
grow so conscious Of his
presence as to feel called upon
to articulate political bunkum?
Or is 1t a good opportunity to
call for truth and an end to
the tricks of deception that
plague modern politics?
DR.. A. Powell Davies, Uni
tartan minister here, had Adlai
Stevenson in his congregation
last Sunday and used the
occasion, not to expose the
fraud and trickery involved in
the so-called joke about Joe
Smith," but to glorify that in
dividual in the role of the
forgotten man." as the Dem
ocratic campaigners did in
New Deal days.
The Joe Smith" gag is
supposed to be funny. Yet 1t
is grimly analogous to the kind
Of parliamentary tactic-based
on false premises-which is
used in the filibusters in the
Senate when. by, a ruse, a
minority of one gets the floor,
talks on imaginary and irrele-
want issues and blocks the will
OF others Senators who want
to vote on a pending question.
For what really happened
at the Republican National
Convention has never been put
in its true light by the Demo-
cratic campaigners. A dele
gate wanted to get the floor
to make a nomination for Vice
President. He favored a GER
tain candidate who had written
a letter to the chairman ask
ing that his name not be pre-
sented. When the chairman
of the convention asked the
delegate the name of the man
he did want to nominate, the
answer came: Joe Smith,"
1t was a trick by q delegate
lin a meeting operating under
parliamentary rules-to get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike the Democrats talking wicked nonsense
Ike thinks they ought to stick given by the
White House.
Stevenson criticism Of his hlmor fills him with suen
indignation There's question whether Adai would rather
have people alive and voting hmor dying laughter
Politicians glossary Egghead-A of COM
is best illustrated his membership the other
party.
The stock market sag After following the
campaign promises both Sides decided to
sell out-and go into farming.
Shining example of the high level campaign: Both Ike
and Adlai kidding in public about their bald heads
Labor Secretary Mitchell says four-day week is sure to
come This administration be antaboralways schening
how to give us less time to rest from the week
What this country needs gadget to trap the heat lost
from all the houses where the guests spend the
doorway saying goodbye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
Democrat Seeking Electoral Votes
In Area Where Eisenhower Is Stronq

In State and local elections
they replaced Republican Gov
errors with Democratic Gov
ernors in New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and New York, and
recaptured all sorts Of county
and municipal officers in these
and other States. They have,
in short, much strength at the
grass roots.
In fact. the party organiza-
ton is in better shape in the
East than in any other area.
1t is Adlai Stevenson's task
to capitalize on Democratic
control Of political Offices and
patronage at the State and
local level and translate 1t into
votes for the national ticket.
1t is known that his campaign
manager. James Finnegan, is
feeling encouraged about the
East. and especially about his
own State-Pennsylvania.
You may recall that Jim
Finnegan had lot to do with
the Democratic revival in his
home State. He organized and
directed the successful drives
that uprooted the long-en-
trenched Republican organ
ization in Philadelphia.
The Democrat installed at
the head Of city government,
former Mayor Joseph s. Clark.
now is running for the United
States Senate against the Re
publican incumbent, Senator
James H. DUFF. one OF the
original promoters OF the
Eisenhower nomination for
President. In Jim Finnegan's
opinion, the Democrats have
a good chance Of picking UP
this Republican seat.
Two other Senatorial seats
are at stake in the six States
being visited this week by
Adlai Stevenson. Both are now
occupied by Democrats. One is
the New York seat from which
Senator Herbert II. Lehman is
retiring. II is being fought
over by Mayor Robert p.
Wagner OF New York City,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-02
THOMAS L. STOKES
Stevenson Invodes the East

Dem ocrat. and Republican
Jacob X. Javits. Attorney Gen.
eral of New York and formerly
a member Of the House of
Representatives here. The
other seat is in West Virginia.
Democrats are feeling opti-
mistic about the East, as
about other areas, because of
Republican signs Of alarm.
These they note in the
stepped-up campaign of Presi-
dent Eisenhower and in the
way. the President. under
Democratic goading, has finally
come out swinging his arms
and Singing harsh invectives
all around.
They realize there's a long
way to go yet. Nor are they
unaware Of probable good DO
lltical effects in the East in
the Presidents appointment
to the Supreme Court Just on
the eve Of Adlai Stevensons
departure for New Jersey to
begin his Eastern campaign.
The man named by the Presi-
dent, Judge William J. Bren-
nan, jr., Of the New Jersey
Supreme Court. is a Democrat
and a Catholic. He is to fill
the vacancy created by the
retirement Of Justice Sherman
Minton, a Democrat, the mid
die Of this month.
Adlai Stevenson resumed his
second try for the White House
under two handicaps that are
to some extent responsible for
the whirlwind type Of cam
paign he is conducting, with
out let-up. 1t is because Of
these handicaps that he is
trying to see and be seen and
heard by as many people as
possible before election day.
One is his meager newspaper
support. though the 3Is to /
edge that President Eisenhower
has over him In the press is a
little less than in 1852. The
other handicap is the big
bulge Republicans have in
campaign funds. They are
now spending at a rate four
times that OF Democrats.
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DORIS FLEEsoN
Their Candidate Against Senator Dnksen
Is Second Cousin of Casey StengeI

CH1CAGO.-Illinois Demo-
Gratis have put stark contrast
into the race against Senator
Everett M. Dirksen, the melli-
fluous orator from Pekin who
embraces President Eisenhower
now with the same ardors he
expended so dramatically upon
the Taft cause at the 1852
G. o. P. convention.
Their nominee, Richard
Stengel, is a younger second
cousin of baseball's redoubtable
Casey Stengel. Like Casey,
he is in looks and action a
rugged character, plain-Spoken
and determined.
His consistent performance
in four terms in the State
Senate, where he resisted
pressures on all sides, won him
ell kinds of non-partisan APP
plause. He is not, however,
well-known in Chicago, and
much is being made of his
lack of broad experience by
his Republican opposition.
What happens to him will
depend in large part on what
Mayor Daily gets out of the
Democratic wards Of Cook
County. The Chicago mayor
currently is the ranking Demo-
cratic offlce-holder in the
State-the distinguished Sena-
ator Paul Douglas being con-
sidered an ornament in terms
of ward politics.
DAILY has insisted upon ex-
ercising his prerogatives to the
utmost possible extent in the
best whim -of-iron manner.
Many people say he is a good
mayor. with which Democrats
gladly agree. but his political
activities occasionally leave
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EN- ROUTE WITH STEVEN
SON, october 2.-Adlai Ste
venson must shake the grip
that President Eisenhower got
on the East in 1852 and pick up
some electoral votes here. That
is, If he expects to put to-
gether a winning combination
with what he hopes to recover
in the South and pry loose in
the disaffected farm States.
That is exactly the chore on
which he is engaged this week
in an old-fashioned whistle
stop" campaign. It will en-
ploy that now antique and
out-rnoded medium for polit-
ical campaigning, the railroad
train. as we'll as airplane and
motorcade. His Eastern cam
paign. which opened Tuesday
in New Jersey, called for
busy schedule the rest Of the
week in Pennsylvania and West
Virginia's distressed coal re-
gions, in New York City, and in
Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land.
During the triumphant
Franklin d. Roosevelt years.
Democrats held the East lin
fee" to borrow part Of a famous
line. 1t began to crumble
and fan away in l948 when
President Truman lost both
New York and Pennsylvania In
his close victory over Governor
Thomas Z. Dewey. Four years
later, in 1852, the whole East
was swept away from tthe
Democrats and Adlai Steven
son in the Eisenhower Landslide,
that is. except for West Vir-
ginia, II we include that in the
East.
The President still is strong
in the East. though he clearly
has lost some ground.
What boosts Democratic
hopes this year in their ad-
mittedly uphill battle is the
psrty's remarkable come back
In the East, as elsewhere, In the
nearly four years since the
1852 Eisenhower earthquake.
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party workers somewhat con-
fused.
Days was the principal
voice in choosing Stengel to
oppose Dirksen and in the
nomination of a Cook County
official, Herbert Paschen, for
Governor. 1t was a slate of
new names and half of it dis
appeared from public view
fairly soon after Paschen had
to answer questions about the
management of a flower fund"
in his Office.
This, it was realized, was no
way to capitalize on the Re-
publican State administration
scandals which have landed
three men. including the de-
posed state auditor, Orville
Hodge. in the jailhouse. Pas
chen quit the race. Again DAILY
held out, as before, against
former National Chairman
Stephen Mitchell, who was not
only well-known but we'll
known for his aggressive
honesty.
Days choice was a Judge
and former prosecutor, Richard
Austin of Chicago, whose rep
utation for force and integ-
rity is good. Austin has begun
a whirlwind campaign down.
state against Republican
scandals, while Republicans
are hopefully combing the
Cook County records and the
Kefauver hearings to see what
they can develop on him.
Some Democrats are not too
happy over the fact that Austin
was formerly the law partner
of former Gov. Dwight Green.
The Illinois judgment on