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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Mr.. Stossen's Straw Hat

Back in 1913, shortly before the cleo
ton that was supposed to be in the bag
for Governor Dewey, the New York
Herald Tribune published cartoon show
ing grim-faced Harry Truman perched
atop an iceberg with straw hat on his
head. The caption was: still Wearing
His Straw Hat"
But the Herald Tribune'S cartooniSt,
along with good many other people, was
soon to be COMPOUNDED, and MIR. Tru-
mans optimism was to receive its rich
reward. The same thing may turn out
to be true this year of Harold StaSSen,
who is wearing kind of straw hat of his
own. At the moment, however, it doesn't
look as though political miracle is going
to come to the rescue of the Presidents
assistant in charge of disarmament.
Mr.. StaSsen is standing his ground
Just as Sturdily as Mr.. Truman ever stood
his. He appeared on a televiSion show
yesterday morning to indicate that every
thing was fine and that nothing had
changed as far as he was concerned since
he flrSt embarked on his Inflated cam
paign to toss Mr.. Nixon to the wolves.
He has two more public appearances
scheduled, and, just for good measure, he
got in whack at Republican Chairman
Len Hall. 1t seems that Mr.. StasSen
doesn't like the way Mr.. Hall has been
trying to push Mr.. Nixon down the Threats
of the G. o. P. conventioneerS.
Meanwhile, it looks as though Mr..
stassen'S stop-Nixon band wagon has just
about run out of gas. Governor Herter
of Massachusetts,, the StaSSen choice, is
having no part, thank you, of the StaSsen
project. In fact-a rather crushing fact
Governor Herter, who wasn't consulted
in advance by Mr.. StaSsen, is going to
put Mr.. Nixon in nomination. Governor
Herter says he considers it "a privilege
to make the nominating speech for this
valuable member of the Eisenhower
team" On top of this comes a Trendex
poll which shows that S35 per cent of the
voters who favor President Eisenhower
would rather have Nixon as his running
mate than Herter Evidently this was
not the private poll which convinced
Mr.. Stassen that the ticket would be 6
per cent stronger with Governor Herter
in the No. 2 spot.
There are some other discourage
mentS to the StasSen project. The White
House remains coolly distant. None of
those other Republicans who according
to Mr. StaSSen, were in on this deal with
him has come forward to lend the slight
est support. And Mr. Nixon, the intended
victim, has been model of political recti-
tude through it all. If anything, he has
managed to strengthen his position
instead of losing ground.
All in all, this adds up to one of the
strangeSt political f1aScos in the memory
of man. Some day, perhaps. Mr.. Stassen
will tell the whole story of the origin of
this misdirected project. Meanwhile, he,
and apparently he alone, is stuck with it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Correcting Aswon Record

It is understandable that Egyptian
senSitivitieS have been injured by with
drawal of the American offer to aid in
financing the ASwan Dam project. 1t is
unfortunate, however, that President
Nasser has turned to bitter and mislead-
ing Interpretation of the State Depart
ment's official explanation for it's decision.
From the earliest consideration Of
this $1.S-billion undertaking, one of the
major questions has been the ability of
Egypt'S internal economy to adjust itself
to such vast public works project.
Demands upon Egyptian labor and upon
its own currency, plus the entry of the
great amount of foreign capital required,
combined to pose real threat of initiation
to an economy that is at least limited In
its strength. In its statement last week
announcing withdrawal Of the American
offer sin present circumstances" the
State Department re-emphaSized that an
important consideration from the begin
ming had been Egypt's willingness and
ability to concentrate its economic re-
sources upon this vast reconstruction
program" In the past seven months, the
department added, "the ability of Egypt
to devote adequate resources has become
more uncertain" At the same time, 1t
concluded, our own Government remains
ready to assist Egypt in other efforts to
improve the country's economy.
This is not the same, of course, as
President Nasser's Interpretation that the
State Department was declaring the
Egyptian economy unSound or was at
tempting to discredit it. And it is even
further from fact for him to suggest that
the United States is attempting to domi-
nate the Egyptian economy or has some
sort Of imperialist design on that free
country. Mr.. Nasser made the decision
todivert some of Egypt's capital resources
into the purchase of arms from Czecho-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
THE POLITICAL MILL
Health Issue an Attempt to Confuse
By GOULD LINCOLN

on the day Of his Inauguration.
and died.
Health Is . gamble. Wood
row Wilson, who seemed sound
enough, was stricken during
his second term in the White
House and was incapacitated
for q considerable period, al
though he finished out that
term.
The other health charge
made by the Democrats
against President Eisenhower
is that he will be only . part
time Chief Executive. That
is not the Presidents concep-
ton. He would not seek re-
election If he believed he could
not serve effectively and fully.
He himself believes that he will
be able to carry on.
An Effort to Confuse People
In recent days, it has been
charged by Senator Mcnamara
Of Michigan. Democrat, that
the President has been pushed
by Republicans into running
again, and that the true state
Of his health is being con-
cealed from the people. 1t Is
q charge, as Senator Know
land, Republican leader Of the
Senate, has said, against the
personal integrity Of President
Eisenhower. Both during and
after the Presidents heart
attack last September the
country was kept fully in
formed about the condition Of
the President. The Presidents
press secretary, James c.
Hagerty, saw to it. Members
Of the press, assigned to cover
the President, knew it. When
President Eisenhower, having
fully recovered from the heart
attack, was stricken with an
intestinal illness, there was no
hesitancy on the part Of the
White House and Hagerty to
give all the facts regarding
the Presidents condition as
they developed. It is so today.
as the President has made
good progress during his con-
valescence.
Opponents Of the President
have charged, too, that his
physicians have been mott
waited by politics in their state
ments regarding the Presi-
dents condition. Where the
politics has entered, it has
come from those who make
these charges. Their purpose
obviously has been to confuse
and to deceive the voters, to
convince them that reelection
Of the President would be a
disservice to the President and
to the country. The concern
for President Eisenhower, ex-
pressed ut the same time by
critics, has q mighty hollow
sound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26

IN passing a DOCK store on
Wisconsin avenue, certain
newspaper clippings and pho
tographS in the shop window
drew my attention. A photo
graph picturing colored men
sssociating with white women
had for a caption: What
don't you like about this pic
ture?" The purpose Of this
tragic and cheap display was
unmistakable.
1t is unfortunate that there
are among us those who wish
to arouse racial prejudice and
who seek to undo the progress
made in racial relations over
the past century. This shame
ful exhibit made by people that
occupy influential positions in
a community is inconsistent
with the American ideals which
we are attempting to sell to
the rest Of the world. Three
wars in the past 40 years have
demonstrated to some of us
that it is not very important
to note the color of the skin
Of a man fighting by your
side.
To many people visiting this
city from abroad, Washington
represents the entire Ameri-
can way Of life. Demonstra-
tons Of the type in question
will certainly not make us
many friends. 1t is the duty
OF every American to close the
wounds which in the past have
divided this great country. We
must show patience and UNDER
standing in our civil rights
legislation and work constantly
towards better relations. II we
cannot obtain harmony at
home, how can we possibly
hope to gain the confidence
of those abroadP It is my sim
cere hope that the people who
reside in the community mem
TONED view this matter in nv
perspective and will not let
themselves be taken in by ir-
responsible citizens.
r. A. b.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26

Democratic leaders assert
with considerable flnality that
President EiSenhower's health
is to be q major issue in the
coming political presidential
campaign. Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Paul M. But
Ter still insiStS-as he has for
two years-"there is q great
possibility that President Els
enhower will not be on the Re-
publican ticket" in November.
OF course, If this halfway
prediction Of Buffers should
be correct, the Presidents
health would cease to be q
campaign issue. On the other
hand, if Eisenhower remains
on the ticket, as he now ex-
poets to do, and his health is
good, the health issue is likely
to dwindle away. The Presi-
dent has said his recent alb
dominal operation has done
him good-not harm. His ply
Sicians say he should be in
better shape than before that
operation.
EverybOdy's Health . Gamble
Democrats argue that the
President may become seri-
ously Ill again. To re-elect
him for another four-year term
would be q gamble. To elect
any man President for q four
year term is q gamble-so far
as his health is concerned.
To take a recent example, had
the late Senator Taft of Ohio
been elected President in 1852,
instead of Eisenhower, the
country would have found it
self without a President and
relying on a Vice President to
carry on within the first year
of a Taft term. Yet from a
health point of view, Senator
Taft had appeared indestruc-
tible.
In 1914, the country gam
bled on the health Of the late
President Franklin D. Roose-
welt and reelected him. Yet
within three months Of the
beginning of his new term he
was dead. On the other hand,
when it was proposed to nomi-
mate Roosevelt for President
in 1892, there arose q clamor
that he could not survive q
four-year term in the White
House; that the infantile pa
ralysis with which he suffered
would carry him of. Medical
experts FLASHED violently over
this suggestion. Yet RooSe-
welt served three full terms in
the White House and was
elected for a fourth. In the
last century, a tough old war
rior, William Henry Harrison,
was elected President. He
became i'll, due to exposure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26

Max Karant'S recent letter
seemed to be an unfunny effort
to laugh off the ever-increas-
ing possibility of mid-air coll
lisions in our high density
terminal areas.
His group, the private pilots,
have always been opposed to
any regulation which would
require private pilots to install
in their aircraft two-way radio
for communication with the
control towers. They have
always been unreasonably OPP
posed to any regulation change
to raise the weather minimums
for flying by visual means.
Such a change would require
the private pilot to fly in bet
ter weather conditions or
otherwise equip his airplane
with blind flying instruments
and obtain the necessary
training to use them. Under
the present regulations private
pilots can land when the
weather is zero-zero and
needn't have the required in
strumentation or training to
fly in such conditions. For
tunately, his pilots are usually
prudent enough to realize their
own limitations. Nevertheless,
there have been plenty Of in
cidentS where the private
pilot hasn't been too prudent
or has got himself caught by
the weather. If such q situa-
ton occurred say in New York
or Washington, with controlled
instrument flying regulated
trafic operating in the area.
the possibility Of a mid-air
collision is very good indeed.
Despite Mr.. Karant'S state
ments to the contrary, the
tower and en- route frequen-
cies are crowded, particularly
the latter. I thought Charles
Yarbrough's series in The Star
was excellent and very ably
and accurately described the
overall trafilc problem.
Mr.. Karant says, what if
the airports are busy? It's
not even remotely the kind of
traffic volume we have on our
highways. :" This is no
comparison. Everyone on the
highway has only two dimen-
sions to worry about, whereas
flying a modern airplane on
our present airways under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Sossinq Stossen

Now that Harold Stassen has
Joined the New Deal dissi-
pators in sniping at Vice Presi-
dent Nixon, will everyone who
believes that Mr.. StaSSen is one
per cent sincere in promoting
the vice presidential nominal
ton of Gov. Herter please
stand on their heads while re-
citing THE Shooting Of Dan
McGrew."
Mr.. StaSSen is hollering
wolf" right now against
Richard Nixon, while trying to
stampede the Republican Party
into hollering wahoo for Mr..
Stassen. Just what kind of
a Vice President would Mr..
Stassen make anyhow? Well
never know.
A. C. narrower.
4 4 4 4
1t seems to me there are one
or two Republicans besides the
President who haven't much
strength but keep on going
namely, Thomas E. Dewey and
Harold StaSSen. The latter
claims his poll finds the Eli
senhower-Herter combination
would be 6 per cent stronger
than the Eisenhower Nixon
ticket. According to my own
personal poll. I find the whole
Republican Party would have
q much greater than 6 per cent
increased appeal to voters If
Mr.. Stassen were eliminated
completely from any and all
policy-making circles of the
administration.
Wavering Republican.
StaSSen, because he isn't
thought of as a vice preSiden-
tial possibility, takes this un-
demanded method to drop
Nixon for Herter. This con-
firms the poor opinion I have
had regarding Stassen.
G. W.
4 4 \ \
You fret too much about
what Stassen might do to us
Republicans. The worst he
could do would be to put a
curse on Herter. And I can't
see a stronger. better. or more
virile character in the ranks
than Nixon. Ethical, too. Only
political butchers. the frus-
trated and the vain, want to
get him out Of their way.
E. L. ShutZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26

Templeton Jones Is always
. bit late learning what every
body else seems to know by in
Stinct.
He has just discovered the
young ladies' secret for sun
tanning.
For many months. years
even, he had wondered how
come that q young woman
working in an ONCE, safely
screened from the outdoors,
could suddenly appear over the
week end as tanned as If she
had been to the seashore for
two weeks.
Now Jones has found out,
The formula:
Four drops of tincture of
iodine in S ounces Of baby oil.
This potent mixture is sup
posed to give you the tan of a
lifetime, and quick.
X \ \
Mixing the brew, Jones was
charmed to find that it turned
the colorless baby oil q nice
pink.
At first he had some trouble
getting the dark iodine into
the bottle.
These bottles have very little
openings, so as not to inun-
date baby.
Tincture of iodine COM
monty comes in a small bottle
as the world knows, with a
plunger type. rod of glass.
One is supposed to tip the
drop on the rod onto the skin
and smear it arounda
+ 4 X
Jones' drops simply wouldn't
go down.
He hunted up an old eve
dropper, and did better.
The dark iodine settled on
the top of the oil, and re-
NAMED there in an unpleasant
looking blob.
What to do now?
Temp had received no direc-
tons from his pretty in
formant.
Past experience led him to
shake.
At first there seemed to be
change.
Jones shook harder.
A faint pinkish tinge APP
peared.
Its getting pink" he roared.
Now he shook the bottle for
dear life.
The mixture became pinker
and pinker.
One Of the wonders Of mod
ern chemistry was coming to
life before his very eyes.
E%E
So this pink liquid was the
reason Washington is 20 full Of
tanned ladies!
Not that there are not
scores Of suntan lions, oils and
creams on the market, along
with q sprinkling Of spray
cans. too.
Anyone who wants to tan
without burning can do 20
nowadays.
Modern chemistry has seen
to 1t that you tan, but do not
peel, and itch very little.
But If you do itch, or even
burn slightly. chemistry has
some pleasant burn lotions,
too.
1t is impossible, nowadays,
to get ahead Of the phar-
m a ecu t ical manufacturers.
They know what yod want
long before you do.
y 4 4 4
Temp Jones verdict on his
newly found Suntan oil?
We'll. maybe" said Jones.
We pointed out to him that
there was no maybe about it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Prefers Quaker Way

I feel deeply grateful to you
for printing on July 20 the
letter from Henry j. Cadburg,
chairman of the American
Friends Service Committee.
The Quaker beliefs which he
expresses so clearly, if under
stood and followed, would lead
us from a feeling Of fear and
disaster which is much en-
couraged by Civil Defense ac-
tivities. For God hath not
given us the spirit of fear, but
OF power and Of love and OF a
sound mind"
Mrs. Harold b. Stabler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES (. TRACEWELL

that all the thousands Of we'll
tanned ladies could not be mis-
taken, could they?
Well. said Jones, perhaps
they are right, but they never
had the in-an-out sun he had
to contend with.
No sooner would he get
himself all nicely smeared,
baby fashion, than the sun
would 60 in.
If it didn't 60 clear in, 1t
would go almost in, in the ir-
ritating way the sun has OF
doing this season.
Even hardened sun exposers,
such as he and the young
ladies. have had o difncult
time of it this summer, what
with dull cloudy days, and
cloudy weather in general.
Jones said he longed for the
steady suns Of the seaShores
and the mountain resorts.
He remembered things he
had read about Africa, and
how Guy de Maupassant went
there every spring to soak UP
the sunshine. He had to have
1t. just as some men claim they
have to have. liquor. He even
wrote a book about it.
So We will have to wait
awhile, apparently, for Tenn
pleton Jones final verdict on
the iodized Suntan lotion.
In the meantime, the city is
full of well-tanned people, for
whom the sun does the work
OF tanning, but the suntan To-
ton gets the credit. We told
you that pharmaceutical man
ufacturerS are very clever
people.
Il can't see what the iodine
can do that the sun can't"
grumbled Templeton Jones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Rose Down

Hon. loUely the picture
OF soft coral pink,
Floi0tng and streaming
Ouer misty blue-Oray.
HeGUen the caHUGS.
Beauty the paint,
The brush IN Gods hand,
At the dcDninO OF day.
Marie WikstFom ovrevik
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26

Q. What is the name of the
little animal recently imported
from South America which
lives and breeds in ponds.
and eats aquatic plants?-V.W.
A. This is the Myocastor
coypu, or coypu, now better
known as the nutria. The
coypu was first imported
from the Argentine in 1887. A
queer-looking, fur-b caring
animal somewhat resembling
q beaver or muskrat, the nu-
tria has proved valuable in
some respects and q nuisance
in others. 1t is vicious when
trapped or cornered. These
animals usually live in groups,
and in southern swamps-but
in 1852 a large one was en-
countered in q barn in west
ern Pennsylvania and killed
when 1t attacked the farmer
who discovered it. Completely
unknown in the area, it was
identified after 1t had been
mounted by q taxidermist.
@. How are the natural
wakes classified as to origin
Is montan wax q natural wax?
@. N.
A. The natural WAKES are
divided in three groups. de-
pending on their origin and
occurrence: animal (including
insect, mineral and vege-
table. Montan wax. ozokerite
and the parafnn hydrocar-
bons are mineral WAKES.
These wakes are not mineral
by strict definition Of the term
but are so classified because
Of their geological occurrence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Questions u. S. POLICY

Who's running this country
Americans? II Americans are
running it-then why are we
shipping $50 jet airplanes to
Tito Of Communist Yugoslavia?
Ed. Batzner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry 1DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
SGti0n.
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Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

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IActuai question by writing Tha
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Racial Prejudice

Mrs. Harold B. Stabler
, 1956-02-08
Jehovuh Witnesses
to Hold Three-Duy
Assembly in C'sted

The Watchtower Bible and
Tract Society will sponsor a
three-day assembly Of Jeho-
vah's witnesses in Christian
sted, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, February 10 to IL.
The assembly will be held in
Pelton's Hall spokesman for
the group announced today.
The theme of the assembly
will be Overcoming Fear.
This theme is very appro-
pirate, they said, even in de-
mocratic lands where there is
much fear, one type being
that mentioned by Chief JUS
tice Warren when he said: eff
a man is free only to be what
his neighber wishes, he is not
truly free"
The only way to conquer
such fear of neighbor, as well
as all the other fears that
Continued on page a.
, 1956-02-08

Now it is my fullest pleasure and privilege to introduce
to you, someone that needs no introduction, because in the
few short months that he and his wife has been with us,
they have come to know us and we have come to know
them; and SO to introduce them to you this morning would
be the same as if l tried to introduce to you a member of
your family. Without any more it is my pleasure and great
privilege to introduce to you Governor Walter Gordon
(Heavy applause)..
GOVERNOR GORDON INTRODUCES CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN
Governor Gordon: Thank you Judge. Ladies and Gentlemen.
Again we are happy to be on the Island of St. Croix. / shall not
forget your admonHion to M when we came in October of last
year about visiting ST. Croix / haven't forgotten.
About three weeks ago, while in Washington, we had the OPP
portunfy to visit with the Chief Justice of the United States
and learned from him that he wanted to visit the Virgin Islands in
the early part of February. He anticipated visiting all three islands
but he was not able to arrange his schedule so that he could visit
ST. John. A few of the people Of st. John were able to see him in
ST. Thomas yesterday. You have him today.
don't know of a privilege that / enjoy more than that Of intro
ducing the Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United
States. He has been a devoted public servant all of his adult life.
He has distinguished himself as district attorney and as an attorney
general and then as the Governor of the State of California. Our
President elevated him tothe high position he now holds. That ele-
walton was to be expected because of the qualities of the man
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