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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-18
Saturday afternoon

Saturday afternoon -.
In the corner of what once was the
living room of comfortable, roomy house,
a record player screecheS out the two-beat
tunes of Fats Domino.
Behind the din can be heard the faint
tap-tap-tap of a ping-pong game, and
from other rooms-the strains of guitar
and the thump of a piano.
Bedlam? Not at all. Just regular
session of the Teen Club at the Dawson
Recreation Center in Arlington, one of the
sand the list is still growing teen-age
clubs in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
On this recent afternoon, Rita john
son, tall, 1.-the 17-year-old, moved casually
through the rooms rolling with teen-agers-
THE club has been wonderful" she
said. at gets together the kids who
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Evening star., 1956-08-29
DORIS FLEEsON
Colifornio's Gov. Knight Says He'll HeIp
Elect Eisenhower-Nixon Ticket

SACRAMENTO, Calf. = 81
will do everything I can to
elect the Eisenhower Nixon
ticket"
With this assurance. Gov
Goodwin j. Knight signaled a
pause in his long effort to
convince Republicans nation
ally that Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon is vulnerable in
their home State. Knight was
relaxed and cheerful as he
chatted about election pros
poets in his airy Office in the
State capitol.
1t is only a pause in the
famous vendetta. Knight gives
every sign of preparing to run
again in 1858. Here, where
party ties are worn loosely in
State and local elections. he
has made friends with impor-
tant segments of Democratic
strength, such as labor and
minorities.
He has good reason. For a
long time Democratic regis
tration figures have been much
larger than Republican-the
ratio is about 3 to Q now-and
seemed to mean nothing. But
within the last three years,
Democrats have won eight of
nine special elections FOR the
Legislature.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
Personalities and Independents

unwieldy to reach by the
usual methods of organiza-
ton. Some intensive and ex-
tensive efforts through pre-
cinct workers still are made,
but the total number of voters
really convinced by personal
canvass of some kind-includ-
ing the telephones, on the
whole, small.
What then influences the
voters? The other evening this
writer heard a so-called ex-
pert interviewed on the radio
who said that in the present
campaign personalities would
count far more than issues
in fact. he thought issues
would not be of much impor-
tance.
To anyone who has studied
many campaigns. this is a sur
prising statement. For very
few voters. relatively speak
ing. get to know the candidates
or their personalities.
Cox was much the better
man in 1920. He made a
coast-to-coast campaign, while
Harding spoke from his front
porch in Ohio and made less
than q half-dozen speeches
away from his home. John w.
Davis was a better man than
Coolidge in 1924. Again and
again the more capable man or
the more colorful personality
as, for example, William Jen-
nings Bryan versus William
Howard Taft in 1908-made a
better campaign but lost.
Issues are paramount and
they have to be down-to-earth
or elemental issues to affect
go million voters. The voters
get the feel" of things and
often rationalize their con-
clusions from a pocketbook
standpoint-whether times are
good or bad. They are affected
also by emotional issues such
as communism in government.
or crookedness in high places.
or the question of peace and
war.
Political trends are best
gathered in the factory, on the
farm, in the homes in town
and country, and anyone who
has himself made a personal
canvass Of individual senti-
ment in different sections of
the country, in campaign after
campaign. will find that basic
issues-affirmative or negative
rather than personalities
constitute the major influence
in swinging elections.
tRepriduction Rishts Reserved
Evening star., 1956-08-29

One of these triumphs was
in Orange County, which had
not elected a Democrat in IS
years and has no Democratic
newspaper. Long a citadel of
Republican conservatism, it in
cludes Anaheim. home of Sena-
tor Tom Kuchel, who is up this
fall.
Santa Barbara. a synonym
for chic, elected a Democratic
farmer to the State Senate
over a Republican incumbent
who served creditably for four
years.
The Nixon forces say they
wall not make trouble for
Knight if he behaves. He smiles
at that and also at the evident
ambition of Democrat Pat
Brown, the popular attorney
general. to be Governor. Brown
has tied himself strongly to
Adlai Stevenson's kite, is be-
SIDE him virtually every mo-
ment Stevenson spends here.
knight contends he behaved
consistently throughout the
preconvention struggle. He
said he would be for the Pres
ident and he was.
The Vice President and SEN
ate Minority Leader william
K. Knowland weren't taking
Evening star., 1956-08-29

muniSts. Winning a cold war
is inconceivable. A cold war
can be intelligently compre-
hended only as a prelude to
real war. the time during
which each possible belligerent
builds strength to strike and
defeat the other or frighten
the other into retreat. This is
an ancient diplomatic pattern.
but what makes it strangely
unreal is the scientific-techno-
logical revolution as it affects
war: BY bringing war to such
perfection of destruction that
no power dares to wage it.
War has always been the
court of last appeal in dis
agreements between states.
Mankind has not yet adjusted
itself to the fact that with this
court closed. no substitute has
been found to insure and en-
force equity and justice.
One sees this dilemma in
the Suez Canal crisis. Egypt.
a weak state, without power
ful or certain allies, defies
states that singly, let alone in
combination, could, rs years
ago have forced compliance by
the mere movements Of a few
warships and troops. Egypt
dares because she is convinced
Evening star., 1956-08-29
Alternative to the Suez Canal

Nasser thus is already hav-
ing serious troubles in his
canal venture. He can't very
gracefully back down now, but
if he discovers that he has
seized a white elephant in
stead of a gold mine, he'll wish
the old company were back in
control again, and soon. AL
ready the world is seeing a
spectacle that testifies plainly
to Egypt's lack of capacity.
That is hardly the impression
NaSser wants to make. He,
dreams of an Egypt leading az
revived Arab empire. But his
dreams and Egypt's present
poverty and weakness are far,
far apart e@3.ara. !
/ MN Egyptian strong man
could conceivably wind d,aPr
With ufitisputed' possession Of
a silt-lsden abandone0'Ndter-
way. -.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike returns to Washington plan campaign strategy Ike
believes that Indispensable the people must be
warned against blind faith in all his beliefs
Stevenson and Kefauver fly $500 miles in 18 hours
Democrats are taking chances losing voteso these
two fellows won't let each other of their sight.
Experts automobiles may soon have four headlights
Too many pedestrians are escaping every night.
Egypt's Nasser agrees to with a fve-naon com
mtee the Suez Canal decided to think twice
before committing Suez-cide.
Senator Joe Mccarthy against Republican Sweet
ness and light campaign denounce the Demo-
Gratis for being almost soft communism Ike is
HeiresS Gloria Vanderbilt marries director Taking
the marriage for the third time you'd think girl could
get along without teleprompter.
The Constitution Party nominates candidate for Presi-
dent This party to the right of cenes candidate would
rather be right than President.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Politics and the New America

that no great power will 90
to war with the weapons that
would insure quick victory and
that any other war would re-
duce itself to primitive, drawn
out guerrilla fighting with the
advantage to the Egyptians.
After attacking the ad-
ministration's foreign policies,
Senator Kefauver gave an in
terview putting himself firmly
behind Secretary Dulles in the
Suez Canal issue. Yet, at that
moment, Dulles and the West
were falling because they had
taken a position whose ulti-
mate logic required willingness
to wage war.
I recently spoke of the egg
heads as the makers of history.
But today's history is being
MADE by new kinds OF egg
heads. The men who are re-
making the social structure Of
America and the world are
rarely prominent at conven-
tions. They are not speech
makers or speech-writers for
the multitude. Their degrees
are not in the arts, in law, or
social and political sciences,
but in the natural sciences. In
the laboratories of universities,
foundations, and industries
they are reshaping the future
faster than the politicians can
keep abreast.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
Pause in the Anti-Nixon Vendetta

any chances, however. They
enforced conformity on the
big California delegation BY
combining to impose the unit
rule on 1t. The Governors es-
innate is that % anti-Nixon
votes were silenced by this
maneuver.
In past tests of strength.
Knowland had combined with
Knight. In this instance.
knowland was doing what he
knew President Eisenhower
wanted. The potential cost to
his own ambitions is great.
Nor did he owe the President
much; the Senator has often
not had due consideration
from the White House. has
been by-passed on important
matters.
Knowland's home State
fences are many and strong.
Knight is too old-65-to
challenge him nationally, but
the Overlapping Nixon is an
other story.
One question to which
Knight could never get an
answer at San Francisco was
what will the party do If
mischance strikes the Presi-
dent again or the hearings
scheduled on the influence
activities Of Murray Chotiner.
Nixon's former campaign man
ager. get very sticky. These
topics he found were abso-
lutely tabu.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
cubo Loys Claim :: {:
To. Struteqic Island.

HAVANA. Cuba, Aug. 20 (P1.-
The Cuban Ministry of State
said in a statement last night
it is studying the status of Said
Cay, a tiny island off the north
coast of Cuba.
The island came into the newSi
last week when Havana Alder7A
man Agustin Navarro said it.
should rightfully belong to,
Cuba. That brought on a state1j
ment from the British Embassy
asserting Britain's claim to it. IA
In the latest statement on
Salt Cay, Cuban Minister Of,
State Gonzalo Guell said he had
conferred with President Full
gencio Batista and the ministrys
is studying antecedents to take
whatever action is necessary TO-,
safeguard the rights of Cuba. -
Mr.. Guell said steps are being
taken to prevent Salt Cay FROM
becoming a base for revolutions
ary operations against Cuba, I'M
view Of the fact that some arms,
had been seized there. This APP.
parently referred to a seizure or
arms reported some time ago b5s
the Cuban Navy. lIa
Evening star., 1956-08-29

where he is making arrange
mentS for the handling of a
substantially increased volume
of sea traffic around the cape.
British, Norwegian, and Swed-
ish shipping companies are
busily consulting on routes and
ports, figuring costs, and map
ping new schedules and sailing
plans. Out Of their calcula-
tions inevitably will come al
ternateS TO the tSuez route that
will continue, to, be used long
after the Sdez crisis has sub
sided. And NaSser will flndnto
his dismay that ships that
avoid the canal don't add to
Egyptian revenues.
Adding to the worries Of
the shipowners has been the
substantial showdown in the
canal operations since Nasser's
abrupt action in July. The big
waterway. like all canals, de-
pends on skilled pilots for
navigating ships through the
ditch. The canal pilots are an
elite corps of master mariners,
highly paid and much re-
Spected. Since Nasser'ssseizure,
a lot of them have decided to
go on vacation and not come
back.
The result has been a re-
duction in the capacity of the
canal to handle shipping. In
stead of two long conveys a
day. there is now only one.
And there have been reports
of other personnel problems
in the canal operation, with
many of the best foreign tech
nicianS deciding that Egypt is
not for them.
Last week the pilot shortage
was dramatically proved by
reports from West Germany.
There, agents of the Egyptian
government are said to be
busily recruiting pilots from
the Kiel Canal for service at
Suez. The Egyptians are re-
ported offering huge bonuses
and salaries over $4,000 a
year to those German pilots
willing to make the switch.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Extra Big Tonkers Deliver Oil Cheaper
Around Cape Than by Nosser's Ditch

Egypt's President Canal Alb
del Nasser may be realizing
by now that his hopes for
making huge profits from the
operation of the Suez Canal
are not so bright as they
seemed. Col. Nasser spoke en-
Enthusiastically of "a hundred
million dollars a year" from
the canal revenues for use in
building the huge Aswan High
Dam on the Nile, Egypt's most
hopeful project.
But actual net profits from
the canal last year were only
about $32 million, and this
year they are likely to be far
less. True, canal trafic could
normally be expected to con-
tinue the steady increase it
has shown over the postwar
years. But by seizing the
canal company and NATIONAL
izing the waterways opera
tions, Nasser has cut down on
the canals revenues.
Even before naturalization
on July 26, oil companies sup
plying Western Europe with
Middle East petroleum were
beginning to find ways of saw
ing the cost Of using the Suez
Canal. New, larger tankers
were found capable of trans
porting huge cargoes of oil
from the Persian Gulf to Brit
ain by going around the Cape
of Good Hope, and the total
cost of the much longer voy-
age was found to be less than
the cost of hauling a smaller
oil cargo through the Suez
link. And ,tankers voyaging
from the Persian Gulf to South
America, or to the United
States. can make the cape trip
even more cheaply.
Now, with tension over the
canal seizure gripping the
Middle East and the pos
sibility of a shooting war by
no means disappearing, ship
pers are casting about for sub
stitutes for Suez. Britain has
sent an official of the Ministry
of Transport to South Africa,
Evening star., 1956-08-29
Political Leaders Speak of New Era,
But Science and Technology Create IL

At both conventions l sensed
a certain remoteness from the
real situation of our times. In
accepting the Democratic NOM
ination Adlai Stevenson spoke
eloquently of the American
future. "History's headlong
course" he said. has brought
us to the threshold of a new
America" in which he antici-
pated that great ideals and
noble visions" would be real
lied. But he deplored the fact
that certain segments Of the
economy are not prospering
and that we "are not winning
the cold war"
We are, indeed, we'll within
the threshold of a new Amer
ica and a new world. But
these have not been created by
political or social theories. but
by men who have known how
to call down fire from heaven.
The scientific technological
revolution they have created
dwarfs in significance any
thing spoken by the politicians.
Many economic groups are in
trouble. but they are not in
trouble because Of anything
done or not done in Washing
ton. They are victims of the
'headlong course OF history"
The scientific-technological
revolution is bringing about
structural changes in every
advanced society. not except
ing the Soviet Union. The
changes there are due to the
necessity Of adjusting social
and political theory and prac-
tice to the dynamics Of a world
which neither Marx nor Lenin
ever imagined. It is as silly
10 think that these changes are
induced by American policies
as That the changes here are
induced by Soviet policies.
Ihey each can be traced to the
neadlong course Of the SCI
entif1c-technological revolu-
ton.
We are not winning the cold
war, but neither are The Com
Evening star., 1956-08-29

Some strange things are
being written, or said over the
radio. these days about ma
tional pilitics. They seem
strange to anyone who has
followed politics at the grass
roots in contrast 10 those
theorists-most of them college
professors who sit in
cloistered places and rational
ize modern political behavior
to suit their own preconceived
ideas of what the pattern has
been or should be.
There is, for instance, the
constant use of the word "in-
dependents" The picture usu-
ally given is Of a voter who
reads all that is written on
politics, listens to all the cam
paign speeches, keeps up with
national and international
affairs every day and finally
renders a profound judgment
at the polls as If he were some
sort Of judge handing down a
decision from the bench.
There are tens Of millions
Of independents and they are
not q minority of the electo-
rate by any means. There are
probably in the Northern
States more independents than
there are "nonindependents,
if by the latter term is meant
those who vote regularly for
all the candidates of one
political party or the other.
For the true definition of an
independent" is a person
capable of voting in secret for
candidates who express his
own ideas regardless of how
some political organization has
told him or urged him to vote.
In Britain they call it a
switch" when persons who
voted for one party in a pre-
vious election shift to the
other party. An independent"
really is one who in the past
has switched, or is ready now
to go from one party to the
other.
The fact. however, that a
voter finds in one party for a
considerable period of time an
expression of his basic convic-
tons on public affairs doesn't
make him less of an 'independ-
ent" than one who shifts from
time to time. Very often there
is a switch at the State or local
level. and not at the national
level, or vice versa.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
Non-Porty Line Voter Seen Influenced
BY Issues More Than individuals

This writer, for example,
considers himself an independ-
ent because he has voted for
the Democratic candidates for
Governor and for Congress in
Virginia in the last 10 years,
but out of the last eleven NOM
inees for the presidency, has
preferred Democrats in five
elections and Republicans in
the other six.
The switch" in voting in
America-the rise in the use
Of the term independent
really dates from the time sew
eral States began to use the
split ballot. Up to that time
a voter had to vote the straight
ticket for all candidates in one
party or the other-he had
little chance to choose. The in
PRODUCTION of voting machines
in many cities has helped ma
terially to encourage split-bal-
loting or switch-voting. In the
rural districts the use of the
separate ballot for State and
national Offices and, indeed.
for the presidency and vice
presidency as differentiated
from candidates for Congress.
has done more than anything
else to foster the switch" idea.
What probably accounts for
the greater preponderance of
independents" or switch"
voters today over those who
vote straight tickets all along
the line is the numerical in
crease in the voting popula-
ton itself. Perhaps the biggest
single factor in this was woman
suffrage. which was intro
duced in a national election
for the first time in the Hard
lng-Cox campaign of 1920.
In that year, despite the huge
increase in the number of
potential voters, only A per
cent of those eligible to vote
participated at the polls in
contrast to 62.7 per cent in
the 1852 presidential election.
Yet Harding won by the big
gest landslide of electoral
votes ever recorded up to that
time.
1t is also to be noted that,
with the growth in the cleo
torate. political organizations
as such have lost much of
their influence and power.
This is because the total num-
Der of voters. except in the
smaller cities. has become too
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-27

SAMPLES REQUESTED-A young limped up to Mrs
George Humphrey last week at the White House garden party
for wounded veterans and said Hey lady point some
the big shots to will your The Treasury Secetarys wife
celebrities Finally the young asked name Geo. he
said. Wish you'd brought me along samples"
SIGNS OF THE TIMES-Roy LeHen tells the story about
who sitting the of Fifth Fifty
fourth street in plush Cadillac convertible youngSter
passed by him. stupid what question did YOU
mss?'
DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGE-At a recent party at the In
donesian Embassy American diplomat
AS he looked the beed bjeweIed against the
ornate setting of the Embassy which Walsh
House, he said: You know this is un-American."
PARTY'S OVER-One Washington host has the right idea
for terminating party and sending his merry
Shut down the bar he advises
stipulated hours and you'll quickly the party
Anyone Will it's imposition the
guests to y long after the set time but happens
again Could be embarrassing they planning
guests or going to late dinner themselves
POETIC GESTURE-Clinton R Hamilton 89-year-o old vet
cram OF the Indian Wars who already
poet laureate of the United Soldiers Home here is
the SIS third for poetry in the national spring
Theta Sigma Phi-sponSored HoSpalzed Writing
ject But he wouldn't keep the prize money many
have his result of the contest explained
Bronson to use the award she fit Mrs has
turned it back to the HVWP for a contest.
HISTORY REPEATS TTSELF-In 1897 the American
Magazines section Americas Interesting People"
story Mrs Helen the List
carries story Mrs. Hagner daughter
olyn Hagner Shaw odays publisher of the famed list
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Women Not Taking Over,
Representative Bolton SAYS

vital part in the lives of the
nations of the world" the
CongresSwoman said.
Everywhere you go, every
where you look. everywhere
you read tells of her con-
seriousness of the fact that she
can no longer just sit at home
and expect her menfolk to
carry the load.
"She realizes more and more
that tomorrow'S world-that
is being built today-must and
will be built by men and
women together. side by side,
each performing the duties for
which he or she is best quail
fed" Representative Bolton
said.
Life is an involved process.
And you cannot blame either
men or women for the fact
that there are comparatively
few women in places of po-
litical responsibility. But it is
unfortunate that men persist
in making so difficult a
woman's assumption of addi-
tional responsibilities as a full
citizen of our free and
not adequately responsible
country" she added.
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Tomorrow's world will be
built by men and women side
by side. performing duties for
which each is best qualified.
But first women must accept
a greater share of RESPONSE
. bility for today's civic and po-
litical affairs and men must
understand I'VE are not trying
to take their world away from
them"
This was the theme Of an
address Representative Frances
Bolton of Ohio delivered yes
terday to the annual conven-
ton of the Ohio Federation Of
Business and Professional
Women's Clubs in Toledo.
I'VE women have a tremen-
douS responsibility on our
shoulders - responsibility no
just for ourselves, but really
for the world, because women
everywhere are playing a more