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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
New Construction
In Seasonal Dip
By the Associated Press

Spending for new construc-
ton declined seasonally in oc-
tober to s4.i26.0oO.0o0. the Com
merce and Labor Departments
reported jointly today. The
September figure was s4,250.-
600. 900.
Despite the decline. OUTLAWS
still were slightly above the
previous October high OF S4,037, :
100000 set in 1855.
The departments said most
major construction categories
except far private housing con-
tinued strong.
Expenditures for private In
dustrial plants. highways, public
utilities. ONCE buildings. sewer
and water facilities, churches
and public schools were at a
record October high. The value
Of October work on new private
housing declined more than
seasonaIly to q level "a per cent
below the October record in 1856.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
DAVID LAWRENCE
Defeat for the Radical Wing

there were candidates Of both
parties in the field, the Repub.
licans won more of the con-
tests than did the Democrats.
Thus. there were 70 seats in
the House mostly in the
South-won under the Demo-
cratic label in districts where
there was no Republican Party
opposition. There were five
Republican seats not contested
this year. Leaving out these
uncontested seats. the Repub-
licans won 1877 seats and the
Democrats i54. Also, outside
OF the South. the Republicans
won II and the Democrats IL
seats in the Senate. There
we're six "unopposed' seats in
the South where the Repub-
leans made no contest. These
facts disprove the claim that
the Republicans are a minority
party in the North today.
The mixed results In the
congressional election show it
to have been fought out on
local issues and to have been
decided on the basis of the
popularity or unpopularity Of
local candidates and on the
influence Of local conditions.
The incumbents-the veterans
in campaigning Ibid better
generally than did the chal-
lengers.
So divided government-ir-
responsible government-con-
tinues. The partisan fight con-
tinueS, too. The Democrats in
the main will not cooperate
with the President to pass any
measures except those de-
manded by a Nationwide pub
lie opinion. This means that,
on many important but less
understood issues. the Demo-
Gratis will block any legisla-
ton that can help the Repub-
licans-just as has been the
case the last two years.
The campaign between the
parties, therefore, goes on, and
a responsible system Of gov
eminent "a parliamentary
system that is more suitable
to America in an atomic age
than the present horse-and-
buggy models still far from
being considered. One of these
days an International crisis
will reveal the shocking need
of a Congress and presidency
in a single party responsible
together to the people and re-
movable only in elections held
when the people want them
held.
Reproduction Rishts Reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Different Situation Seen for Next 2 Years
Though Divided Government Continues

Gratis naturally hope that the
party feuding which let Rever-
comb in will have ended by
then so they can reassert
their normal West Virginia
inajorities.
The Eisenhower Republican
score in the Senate Is a mixed
affair.
He gained two pillars Of
strength 49, John Sherman
Cooper in Kentucky and Jacob
X. Javits in New York. Both
are able and articulate. But
Revercomb is strictly q minus
one in that area and the loss Of
Senator Dun Of Pennsylvania
is still another.
Duff's conqueror, Joseph Sill
Clark, can be expected gener-
ally to support an interna-
tionalist foreign policy as Duff
did and be more liberal in
domestic affairs. He Is q bright
particular star in fact Of the
Democratic Senate victory,
being one of the intellectuals
with practical experience to
whom they so often look for
leadership.
Clark has a further advan-
tage. Pennsylvania is one Of
the big States that normally
make or unmake Presidents.
The President came up very
much minus in his efforts to
promote Eisenhower Repub-
licanism by getting personal
friends and one Of his cabinet
into the Senate. Former Sec
rotary Of Interior Douglas
Mckay, Gov. Arthur Langlie
and former Gov. Dan Thorn
ton, who ran at his request in
Oregon, washington and Colo
RADIO, respectively, were beaten.
Only Cooper among the Presi-
dents personal draftees sur
vived.
Two new Senators, both
Democrats - Gov. Frank
Lausche Of Ohio and former
Gov. Herman Talmadge of
Georgia--are unpredictable.
Lausche was q conservative
Governor. but he has a habit
of surprising people. Talmadee
made noises in Georgia like
an isolationist and reactionary
but he, as was his late father,
is VIGOROUSLY practical in his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
THOMAS 1. STOKES
Eisenhower and the Vote

big cities that once gave
Franklin D. Roosevelt such
handsome majorities. He broke
through tradition by carrying
two great urban centers once
firmly under control of power
full Democratic bosses-Cook
County, in which Chicago is
located, and Jersey City. which
strayed from the old Boss
Frank Hague custom of auto
matte Democratic majorities
and went Republican for the
first time in many years.
AS the East crumbled before
the IKE" onslaught, so did the
old "solid South. The Presi-
dent broke that again, the first
Republican President to do
that twice in succession, and
this time bigger than in 1862.
This year he added Louisiana
to the 1852 string of Florida.
Virginia, Tennessee and Texas,
along with border Kentucky
and West Virginia, both Of
which he lost four years ago,
as well as Oklahoma, which he
carried in 1852. Adlai Steven
son and his embattled Demo-
Gratis were hemmed into a
small section embracing six
States Of the old Confederacy
in the Southeast, with a single
outpost in Missouri, but with
no bridge between.
AS amazing as anything that
happened Tuesday was the way
the President seemingly was
able to satisfy both segrega-
tionists in the deep South and
Negroes in big cities in the
North-for he made inroads
into the latter. judging from
the returns. He again carried
Texas despite the two out
standing Democrats who are
supposed to have influence
there. These two-Representa-
tive Sam Rayburn and Senator
Lyndon Johnson--happen also
to be the top bosses Of their
party in Congress, the former
as Speaker of the House. the
latter as Senate Majority
Leader. The Presidents proven
popularity in his native State
with constituents Of Messrs.
Rayburn and johnson should
be helpful in his dealings with
the two Texas bosses of Con-
gresS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
DORIS FLEEsoN

The general ran against the
Democratic Party and both are
feeling fine, thanks.
The general defeated Adlai
Stevenson in q near-record
landslide. The Democrats set
a record Of their own by deny
ing him in that landslide con-
troll Of the Senate and House.
Just such q divided Govern
ment has meant stalemate at
or near the theological center
during l955-56 when 1t has
also existed. For all practical
purposes. control Of congress
sional machinery will again
rest with the conservative CO.
alition. Of Southern Democrats
and Midwest Republicans.
The situation will be some
what different during the next
two years. The fast and dam
geTous pace Of world events
will force some far-reaching
decisions in foreign policy. It
will be difficult for the Presi-
dent still to avoid action in
some fields at home. like farm
policy. civil rights. education
and health.
Also the Constitution now
commands the end Of the
Eisenhower tenure in 1860. Its
end thus in sight. the yeast
of ambition will do its fer
menting work in senatorial
breasts on both sides Of the
aisle. Any number Of presi-
Dental campaigns will begin
when the gavel falls January 8
next.
Liberals appear to have
made q net gain Of one In the
Senate.
This comes about through
two "sleepers"-John Carroll
Of Colorado and Frank Church
Of Idaho, both Democrats.
They displaced authentic
right wing Republicans-Sena
tor Eugene Millikin, whose
health forced him to retire,
and Senator Herman Welker,
respectively.
But an equally authentic
r. w. R.-Chapman Rever-
comb-won the Senate seat
left vacant in West Virginia by
the death of the late liberal
Democrat. Harley Kilgore.
Only two years remain Of
Kilgore's term, however. Demo-
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D. c. Bar to Hear
TuIk on Suez CunuI

A talk by Robert Valeur, coun-
selor Of the French Embassy, on
the legal and political aspects Of
the Suez Canal issue is on the
program of the District Bar AS
ISOLATION meeting at 8 pm.
Tuesday at the Mayfiower Hotel.
Thomas M. Raysor. association
president, announced the talk as
a feature Of the international
law night meetings. The pro-
gram is under the direction Of
Ernest Schein, chairman of the
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international Law
Committee. and AL Philip Kane,
program chairman.
Also on the program are talks
by members Of the Foreign
Claims Settlement Commission,
Commissioners Whitney Gill;
land. chairman; Pearl Carter
Pace and Henry J. Clay.
Harry Leroy Jones, chief
hearing officer of the Alien Prop
erty ONCE, and c. Murray Bern
hardt, a commissioner of the
United States Court Of Claims,
will speak on The Practical
Aspects Of Taking Evidence
Abroad"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
Conservative Coalition Of Democrats
And Republicans to Run Congress

a presidential candidate him
self.
But the Democratic no
minee's lack Of good Judgment
was apparent on other phases
Of the campaign. too, through
out the critical weeks Of Octo-
Der. He tried to scare the
American people by alarming
statements about the effects
Of "fallout" from hydrogen
bomb tests. He was, willing to
risk an end to H-bomb tests.
He implied all sorts of things
were happening already to
milk being fed children, or
would happen to bone forma-
tions of children Of the future
even though all this had
been denied by competent
scientists Of the highest rank.
Many voters turned away
from Stevenson in the critical
weeks Of october. They we're
indignant over the attacks
made by Stevenson against Eli
senhower as q man who al
legedly had been-even before
his illness--a "part-tim Presi-
dent" An examination of the
election returns in many States
shows that, where Ike in
creased his majority, the total
vote in many States didn't 60
UP much. Yet the switch from
Stevenson was very large. in
deed. Many people just didn't
like Stevenson's attack on a
popular idol - a man whom
they trusted and believed to
be honest and one who had
served his country too long to
shirk his duty when elected
President Of the United States.
The international crisis, Of
course. helped to re-elect the
President. but long before the
Egypt-Israel war broke out,
the public-opinion polls showed
Ike running far ahead Of Ste
venson, anyway. The American
people just didn't want a
change. They were, generally
speaking, satisfied with eco
nomic conditions and the in
cumbent administrations poll
cies.
AS for Congress. it is being
said now that the Democrats
are the majority party" be-
cause they won control of both
houses even though by a
narrow margin. But it is also
a fact that in the districts and
States in the North where
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The American people have
again voted conservative"
They have given the executive
branch Of the Government to
a nonradical. conservative
minded Republican President
and the Congress to a coalition
of conservative-minded Re-
publicans and Democrats. Incl
dentally, Eisenhower describes
himself as a dynamic con-
servative"-he certainly is not
a radical.
The radical wing Of the
Democratic Party. on the other
hand, has suffered It's worst
defeat since the New Deal was
born in 1888.
The people-who have q
habit Of voting against
things"-cast their ballots
against Adlai Stevenson, who
made a campaign that COM
pletely fumbled the main
issues. He conferred his attack
on a personal questionable
life span of his opponent.
Stevenson publicly predicted
that Eisenhower proba bly,
would die during his second
term and that Nixon would be-
come President. Thus, Steven
son, discussing what he called
the central truth" of the
campaign. said in a Nation
wide teIecast from Boston last
Monday night:
II must say bluntly that
every piece of scientific EVIL
dence we have. every lesson Of
history and experience indi-
Gates that q Republican VIC
tory tomorrow would mean
that Richard NJ. Nixon prob
ably would be President Of this
country within the next four
years"
Stevenson then aSsailed
Vice President Nixon, as he
did repeatedly in the cam
paign, as a man who couldn't
be trusted" The innuendo
was resented by millions who
knew that Eisenhower does
trust the Vice President COM
pletely.
While minor spokesman in
past campaigns have made
reckless statements. nothing
in the history of American
politics reveals anything in
such bad taste and so ill-al-
vised coming from the lips of
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Result Called First Loss of Congress
In Presidential Election Since T840

the Senate before and was in
duced by the President to give
up his post as Ambassador to
India to run again. These two
men of progressive inclinations
will be relied on by the Presi-
dent among the Republican
minority in the Senate. Once
again. as you know. the Presi-
dent must share management
Of the Government with a
Democratic Congress, as has
been the case In THE last two
years = though the times now
and Immediately ahead seem
more difficult. s
1t was, in fact, the outbreak
of trouble in the Middle East
and in Eastern Europe that
undoubtedly brought increased
support to the President in the
final week Of the campaign to
swell his popular and electoral
vote avalanche over Adlai
Stevenson. Crises naturally
turn our people toward the
man in the White House. This
one obviously had that effect
all over the country, and prob
ably with special influence in
the Farm Belt. where peace is
so strong an issue. The war
threat probably was a factor in
the Presidents favor in win
ming Iowa, where a Democrat
was elected Governor, and in
carrying Minnesota. where q
Democrat-Farmer-Labor Gov
ernor was reelected, though
his farm vote was reduced in
both States from 1852.
In Tuesdays election we
may be seeing the evolution of
new political patterns.
Impressive we're the Presi-
dents staggering majorities in
New York and New Jersey,
and his victories generally
through the East, once a
Democratic stronghold. Pros
Gritty and newly created Re-
publicans in suburban home
Developments that have sprung
up so thickly in this area
are contributing factors. He
changed the old pattern by pill
ing up a surprising vote in
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The tumultuous sweep of the
personal victory of President
Eisenhower in our national
election dramatizes, by con-
trast. the increasing weakness
of his party which finds so
little favor with the public
that it again lost Congress.
That is twice in a row. Far
behind their leader the party
trailed---a disorganized mob.
What happened was the
triumph of a personality for
the presidency on one hand
and, on the other, the triumph
of the other party-the Demo-
cratic Party-which demon
strated amazing vigor and
health at the grass roots by
withstanding the ike" hur-
ricane to capture Congress, as
well as hold its own in State
Governors.
How much of a phenomenon
this election was in that
respect may be seen by delv-
ing back into history. You
have to 60 back 108 years to
find a parallel. Not since l848,
when Zachary Taylor, another
general. Wing by party
utilization. won the White
House while the Democrats
won Congress. has a party won
the White House and lost both
branches of Congress in a
presidential election. That
election was the dying gasp Of
the Wings.
But the story Of the Republic
can Party told Tuesday is even
m o r e disillusioning for
thoughtful party leaders. Pres
ident Eisenhower's avowed aim
Of doing something about the
party, Of making it over into
what some call the "Eisenhow-
er image" suffered a setback.
One after another the voters
moved down men preferred
by the President who were
running for the Senate.
Down to defeat went two
who had been drafted person.
ally by the PreSident--Gov. Ar
thur Langlie of Washington,
the victim of Senator Warren
Magnuson, the Democratic in
cumbent; and, also in that
same Pacific Northwest region,
Douglas Mckay. former Secre-
tary of the Interior, at the
hands Of Senator Wayne
Morse. now a Democrat, once a
Republican.
In Colorado, the Presidents
adopted State, former Gov.
Dan Thornton lost out to John
Carroll, Democrat, former
member Of the House and
White House aide in the Tru-
man administration. In Ohio.
Senator George Bender was
defeated by that great Demo-
cratic vote-getter, Gov. Frank
Lausche. In Pennsylvania, Sem
ator James Dun lost his seat to
Joseph Clark. former reform
mayor Of Philadelphia, who
incidentally Is attracting at
tention as a possible contender
for the 1860 Democratic presi-
dental nomination.
Jim Duff was one OF the
earliest prom o tiers OF the
Eisenhower for President
movement, and Arthur Langlie
and Dan Thornton, whom you
may recall as very active in
the Eisenhower nomination
four years ago at Chicago, were
often held up by the President
as the type Of Republicans
needed to revitalize the party.
The President could find
some compensation in the cleo
ton TO the Senate OF Jacob
Jayits, State attorney general
Of New York and former House
member. and IN the election in
Kentucky Of John Sherman
Cooper, who has twice been In
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troops to maintain their domi-
nation Of the country.
Then. clearly meaning the So
Wet Union. Mr.. Adenauer said
one world power had used tanks
and machine guns to "crush the
voice of freedom in q foreign
country" while posing as the
champion Of freedom in the
Middle East conflict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-08
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Now that has another on the White House, the
big question Whom will he sublet it to this term
Il
Adla Stevenson decided settle being grand
faher-there being titles open at the moment
Politicians glossary placed on
w-abding people by the wicked opposition
New Democratic slogan As Maine goes so goes Alaska
The height of azness the fellow wakes his wife up
and makes her tune out his pet peeye on televscn.
s
Stevenson behind the Republican Party
cratic Party Socialist Party the
Prohihitionsts and the Vegetarians.
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had already been created, but Gra-
hams coming integrated the Tell
Scotland movement"
Poris Appraisal
In Paris two top Protestant
leaders praised Billy Grahams APP
pearances there and insisted they
had good permanent effects. Nearly
all the Protestant groups supported
the evangelist's campaign.
BILLY Graham was very much
appreciated by the churches here"
Paul Conord, general secretary of
the French Reformed Church, said.
He brought closer to each other a
great number of splinter groups. 1t
brought them closer to the church
because they saw the cooperation
and its effect"
Mr.. Conord noted that about
four-fifths of those the American
preached to were already church
members.
out of 1000 who gave their
AiaAAAIo az IiiC CAAd VI bilC ulCCbltlSSl
1900 were already attached to
Protestant churches" he explained.
only 500 were unknown to our
churches"
But the Rev. Pierre Boerge, presi-
dent Of the Conseil National de
lEglise reformee de France, observed
the Graham crusade has given a
stimulus to the local churches TO
work on a similar type of program
at the local level"
1.-THE idea OF appealing TO a group
while not active in the group is a
new one" DR.. Boerge said. 1T is
new in Professionalism not only in
France and Europe but all over
the world"
While these are but samplings
from only two countries, they come
from people in a position 70 know.
The overall verdict seems to be
that although many did not agree
with Graham's theology or his
methods, "he was doing what was
needed"
He seems to have been successful
in increasing interest in religion.
The next step. making that interest
q permanent one. is UP 70 the local
churchesA
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Mr.. Eisenhower. taken on an almost
indiStinguishable samenesS.
In foreign policy, for instance,
there is no way to tell which party
is isolationist and which is inter-
nationalist. Senator George is a
Democrat, but so is Texas Senator
Daniel. The Republicans have Sem
ator Wiley. but they also have Sem
ator Welker. AS for foreign policy
itself, where is the voter who can
explain the fundamental differences
between the Democratic policy and
the Republican policy?
There was a weekS-long legiSla-
tive struggle over a farm program,
but there are few farmers even
who can say who won it. The soil
bank, a Democratic idea, was
espoused by the Republican Presi-
dent. And though the Democratic
farm bill was vetoed, the Republic
can measure that finally emerged
and the steps taken by the admin
istration since then included many
features identified with Democratic
farm thinking for years. However,
it may be prices and not policies
that determine mostly which way
the farm vote will go. Farmers,
more than any other group. tend
to vote their pocketbooks, and in
the past. price levels of farm prod
ucts in the month Immediately pre-
ceding election day have lured the
farm votes one way or the other
to the "ins" if prices are good; to
the "outs" if prices are bad.
Resources Issue Is Regional
Natural resources, conservation
and power is another of the sub
ordinate issues that are purely re-
gional in their appeal. 1t should
have its usual impact in the North
west and in the Tennessee Valley
area, but there are few voters in
Hackensack, N. j., who can get
their dander up over Hells Canyon.
Also the Democratic charges of re-
source "giveaways" have been
blunted by the position taken by
Democratic congressional leader
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Mr.. Tucker is lawyer in the Federal
service and o writer on public law sub
jeets.
situations and laws that schools be
segregated. But the question re-
mains: Did it leave sufficient discre-
ton to the States and their locali-
ties SO that segregated schooling
can be maintained in practice?
A Possible Approach
What would happen if the South
ern States were to delete from their
constitutions and laws all refer
ences to segregated schools, and
were to give their local school
boards discretion to assign children
to school lin the public INTEREST,""
There is legal basis for supposing
that the following situation In
relation to the equal protection
clause of the Fourteenth Amend
ment would prevail:
4 The States could not be stopped
IL from placing in the hands of
local school boards the discretion to
assign pupils. SO long as the State
is not by any outward manifestation
requiring segregated and hence I'M
equal treatment of Negroes, there is
no bar in the Federal Constitution
to its putting an absolute discretion
in the hands of local school adj
ministration bodies.
= The local school boards would
IL probably be held to be immune
from any judicial review of their
assignment of pupils. Even if they
followed an arbitrary color standard
by assigning Negro children to one
school and white children to an
other school, it is doubtful if they
could be questioned in the courts.
Once an absolute discretion has
been validly conferred upon an
administrative body to carry out