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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
THE POLITICAL MILL
By GOULD LINCOLN
Democratic Contest Briqhtens Up

Gov. Freeman. The Tennessee
Senator is thinking seriously
Of entering his name and a
slate of delegate candidates
there-even though the cards
seem stacked against him. II
he made a good showing, even
though he were defeated,
against such odds, he would
not be much hurt. If he won,
his stock would soar, indeed.
If he won some district dele
gates, Kefauver could claim q
victory.
Up to date, Stevenson and
Kefauver have each an
nounced entry into four presi'
Dental primaries-but in only
two States will they meet head
on. Florida and California.
Kefauver won the California
primary in 1852 against a slate
pledged to a favorite-son can
didate. He lost the Florida pri-
mary to Senator Russell Of
Georgia. Later, however, Ste
venson lost Florida to Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
Gov. Hartman of New York
so far is not proving much of
a threat to the fast-flying
Stevenson. Indeed, even in
New York. Hartman seems to
be having real trouble. An Or
ganization of leading DEM
ocrats-in favor of Steven
sons nomination-has been
formally launched. The Ste
venson committee is headed by
Thomas K. Finletter, former
Secretary of the Air Force.
Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, for
mer Assistant Secretary Of
Defense, is coleader of the
committee. Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Francis w. H.
Adams, former New York City
police commissioner, are hon.
orary chairmen. Senator Len-
man and Mayor Robert F.
Wagner, jr., of New York have
lined up for Stevenson in the
past. On the Hartman side.
however. are Carmine G. De
Sapio, Tammany leader, and
Democratic State Chairman
Michael F. Prendergast. It
looks like a real battle.
Proven Vote Getters
In the Midwest, two favorite-
son candidates, Gov. Williams
of Michigan and Gov. Lausche
of Ohio, may complicate things
for the Stevenson band wagon.
Both have proved themselves
great voter-getterS in two big
Republican States. Williams is
a left-wing Democrat. and
Lausche can be described only
as a conservative Democrat.
He is a candidate for the
senatorial nomination to run
against Republican Senator
George Bender. In a Meet the
Press" television show, Lausche
forcibly expressed himself on
many issues. in way which
may elect him Senator, but
which undoubtedly will make
it difficult for him to win a
place on the Democratic ma
tional ticket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

A male reader wants an
article on the way the ladies
swing at you with these big.
black. brass-bound pocket
books.
He says one woman on the
bus the other day tried to MUIR
der him, and was very angry
when he resented her efforts.
why. that handbag weighed
10 pounds. if it weighed an
ouncei" he said. And the
more / lodged, the closer she
followed me.
she poked the right-hand
corner at my left eye, and then
the left-hand corner at my
right eye.
BY this time I was deter
mined to save my sight, and
did so, but soon saw that it
was my very life she was after.
Il tried a right end run
through the aisles, but was
blocked by four determined
women, one armed with a red
pocketbook, the second with a
white one, the third with a
brown handbag, and the fourth
with the old reliable black"
X
Just what there is about the
black bag that makes it the
universal favorite, he said he
did not know. but he was con-
WINGED the thing is absolutely
lethal.
ANY guy that gets hit
squarely on the jaw with that
one" he moaned, will take
the count of 10. and probably
never come up"
The brass corners, he
averred, are something new.
II know" he continued, be
cause ! have been lodging
these things for years. and up
until the last year, they had no
brass corners.
Nov. the favorites of the
sweetest ladies are those with
the hard corners. the better to
poke you in the eye with,
grandpa.
THE thrust comes just at
the right level for the eye" he
went on, Il am seated, see.
and the fat lady comes along
and sees me.
Maybe she is mad because I
won't get up, but you know
how it is, nowadays. Nobody
gets up. Everybody who gets
in first keeps the seat he has
paid for. and the transit COM
pany takes others money and
they stand.
We'll, there she is standing,
and she is mad about it. Her
feet hurt, or something.
"She looks at me, and ! look
at her, because she is blocking
the way and there isn't any
thing else for me to look at.
she has that CLINT In her
eye which a lady gets when she
wears Tigress perfume. or
maybe My Sin, or Aphrodisia.
But she isn't smelling me,
she is looking at me. and what
can l do?
II can't even move"
Il
The man sighed.
That is the worst part Of
modern transit; once aboard
the lugger, you can't even
move.
You have to stay put and
take 1t.
THE lady edged a quarter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
Luncheon for AZ

Up to a point, it is sensible thing,
politically speaking, to hold a one-big-
family luncheon for Senate Republicans
after the party leaders have had their
weekly meeting with the President.
In the past, the % Senators on the
G. O. P. Policy Committee have been
having lunch together after the session
between the leaders and the President.
This has been rather intimate affair
in which there was free discussion Of
what the leaders said to the President
and what the President said to them.
But there are "a Republican Senators who
are not members Of the policy committee,
and most Of them belong to the Eisen-
hover wing of the party They are said
to have felt somewhat like Senators on
the outside looking In, and they have not
been very happy about it.
So from now on there will be Al
instead of % plates on the table. If
this serves to keep the "a Senators better
informed, and in better spirits, it should
help to produce that party unity which
the Republicans are going to need In
getting favorable action on the Presi-
dents legislative program.
1t is difficult, however, to swallow the
theory that this come-one, ome-all
luncheon affair will be of much help in
holding the Senate Republicans together,
If and when the President announces
that he will not be a candidate for re-
election. This theory, so far, is COM
pounded Of speculation. No Republican
leader has publicly advanced 1t. But If
any such hope or expectation underlies
the expanded luncheon, it will be short
lived. II the President decides-and an
nounces-that he is not going to run
again, Republican unity in the Senate
will collapse like the one-hoss shay. And
there is hardly Republican alive who
doesn't know that this Is so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12

I offer my compliments to
your writer, Sylvia Porter, for
her indictment of the Eisen-
hover administration in The
Star of January 4.
She laments the fact that
the President now proposes to
scuttle American tradition and
to permanently saddle the tax
payers with a defense and
foreign-aid program of colos-
sal proportions. AS she so per-
tinently asks: Would you
have believed only a few years
ago that a Republican admins
tration would be asking defense
and foreign aid budgets of this
magnitude-and implying the
budgets would go on indefi-
nitely?"
1t is refreshing to read the
comments of one whose views
on the political scene are not
colored by sentiment.
Old Reactionary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
UNIVERSAL Library

The annual report of the Librarian
OF Congress, L. Quincy Mumford, pro-
vides additional evidence of the impor-
tant background role which the Library
Of Congress plays in the making Of Fed
eral laws and the conduct of other con-
gressional affairs. The report shows that
during the past fiscal year the library
broke all records in its primary mission"
OF serving members of Congress. These
services included an enormous amount
OF research and reference work which,
presumably, helped to shape legislation
and guide committees in their diverse
activities
All the while the Library continued
to serve the general public to an ever
increasing degree. More than three
quarters Of a million persons used the
institutions facilities last year-70,000
more than in the previous fiscal period.
And thousands of other libraries and or
CARNATIONS benefited from the vast array
OF information contained in its files All
OF this was done with the limited staff
and funds available. Librarian Num-
ford's revealing report on the upward
trend OF, the library's responsibilities in
dicates that it's financial resources should
be increased commensurately.
Meanwhile, faced with the very prac-
tical problem of trying to accommodate
itself to the never-ending influx of new
materials from all directions, in this
country as well as abroad, the library has
launched what may be fateful survey
AS Mr.. Mumford stressed in his report,
even a library universal in scope, ma
tional in service" faced by a seemingly
endless "proliferation of the record of
mans thoughts and Deeds" cannot hope
to collect everything. The survey is de-
signed to aid in reappraising and rede-
filming policies governing acceptance Of
new material line must be drawn
somewhere, lest the Library's burdens
become unmanageable from the admin
istrative as well as the economic angle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12

While Republicans continue
to hope President Eisenhower
will run-and fear he won't
the Democratic side of the 1856
presidential candidacy contest
brightens up. The safety first"
advisers of front-running Ad-
lai Stevenson apparently pre-
vailed upon Mr.. Stevenson not
to stick his neck out in New
Hampshire's presidential pri-
mary. So Mr.. Stevenson has
turned down a proposal to put
his name and Stevenson-for-
President delegation in this
first test of popular sentiment,
set for March 10. Senator
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
who startled the Democratic
politicians in 1852 by defeating
the then President Harry S.
Truman in the New Hampshire
primary, has already entered
this primary again.
Why Run the Risk?
The Stevenson people believe
their candidate is far out in
front-and they aim to keep
him there. Why, they ask.
should Mr.. Stevenson run the
risk of defeat in New Hamp-
shire's primary-any risk, at
all? So Mr. Stevenson notified
Prof. Herbert w. Hill of Dart
mouth College that he would
not accept Prof. Hills offer to
put him in the primary and
line up a Stevenson slate of
delegate candidates. The other
side of the argument was, of
course. that if Stevenson en-
tered the New Hampshire pri-
mary and smacked Senator
Kefauyer's delegates down, the
Tennessee Senator would no
longer be the slightest threat.
1t was a chance-and the Ste
venson group ducked 1t.
Mr.. Stevenson said that he
had already agreed to enter
the Minnesota presidential pri-
mary-he announced that last
fall-and since the Minnesota
primary came only a week
later than the New Hampshire
event. he would not be able to
do what he thought was nee
essary in both States Ito make
the primary elections mean
ingful." KefauEer will be left,
it Is expected. in a position to
take the New Hampshire pri-
mary with little opposition. 1t
is true that State Representa-
tive Albert N. Dion announced
he would run as a pro-Steven-
son candidate for delegate at
large. whether Adlai gave his
assent or not. But with Steven
son bowling out of the contest,
it would look as though Mr..
Dion would not get very far.
With the New Hampshire
primary problem settled, SEN
ator kefauver now has to
come to grips with the Ques-
ton of his entering the Min
nesota primary, which Mr..
Stevenson has already entered,
with the backing Of the
Farmer-Labor- Democrat State
Central Committee and of Sen
ator Hubert Humphrey and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12

Of an inch closer, and saw
her clutch that big bag.
you see, I been watching
'em so long ! know all the sig
mails.
u have a few tricks up my
sleeve, too. ! edged up my
right elbow an eighth Of an
inch.
Don't ask me how such a
small movement can get such
results.
THE fat guy next to me
turns his neck like a big tur-
tie. and I say, Excuse me.
please but it is the lady I
am keeping my eye on.
MY slight movement has
stopped her cold. but only for
a second.
"She now advances the right
hand lower corner. brass
bound all the way round.
She can't fool me.
II have been at this game
too long I know she is aiming
at my left eye. so throw up
my guard, and pretend 1 am
scratching my head.
She draws back, and I let
her have it. stepped lightly
on her big fat toe. and you
should have heard her yelp.
''She looks at a neighbor
lady, with a red handbag. and
says something about there
being no gentlemen left in
Washington.
What she is really mad
about is not that there aren't
any gentlemen. but that the
gentlemen have gotten onto
her, at last.
THE gentlemen can't be
fooled any more by the ladies
with those big heavy bags.
They know they are not sub
Stitutes for gentlemen's pock-
cts, but are really deadly
weapons.
THE modern woman's
handbag has taken the place
of the old hatpin, the weapon
of the gay nineties.
THE handbag isn't quite as
sharp. but it hurts more when
the corner pokes you in the
eye. The hatpin at least made
a clean incision."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
His Serene Hiqhness

Prince Rainier III is not the
first ruler Of Monaco to visit
the United States.
In THE University Club Of
Washington" the history pub
lished upon the occasion Of
the clubs 50th birthday in
1854. appears this paragraph:
"A minute recording APP
proval by the Board (of Gov
ernors) Of "a bill Of SIS for
music at the reception to the
Prince of Monaco, at its No
vember 20, 1918. meeting, re-
calls a memorable event thus
contemporaneously reported in
The Star"
The Stars report follows:
His serene highness, Al
bert. Prince of Monaco, Due
de Valentinois land a dozen
other titles) is prouder of be-
ing able to write after his
name Member of the Institute
of France than all of these
titles. This was stated at the
University Club last night.
where the Prince of Monaco
was q guest at a reception q
short time after his arrival in
Washington from the West.
The Prince is the first reign
ing sovereign to visit WASH
ington in many years. The
Prince, in whose domain is
Monte Carlo, was accorded
the reception by the Univer-
sity Club in recognition of his
achievements as a scientist,
which includes researches in
oceanography, meteorology
and anthropology."
Cecil ]. Wilkinson,
Historian Of the University
Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12

@. Where is Big Bend Ma
tional Park, and how did it get
its name?-H. M.
A. Situated in the extreme
southwest of Texas, Big Bend
National Park comprises about
100000 acres. The park takes
its name from a portion of the
Rio Grande River which dips
south, then north, to form the
Big Bend between Texas and
Mexico.
@. What is done with Fed
eral Government checks after
they have been cashed?-
E. M.
A. Checks that have been
cashed by banks are sent to
the Treasury Department for
payment. Here they are filed
for a limited time until a
record 10 made, then sent to
the General Accounting Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
Alexandra Hospital

AS a lifelong. native Alex
andrian. l am elated over the
fact that, under the civic
minded Alexandria Hospital
Corporation, Alexandria will
soon have a modern 300-bed
hospital.
l rejoice more, however, over
the fact that the new hospital
will not segregate its facilities
or permit discrimination on
account of race, creed or color.
The new hospital. l UNDER
stand. will be constructed I'M
der the Halliburton Act of
1916, which provides for Fed
eral aid on a matching basis.
And section 622dD of the
ill-Burton Act. or the Hos
pital Survey and Construction
Act Of 1916. provides THAT
the State (hospitaD plan shall
provide for adequate hospital
facilities for the people resid-
ing in a State. without dis
elimination on account Of
race, creed or color, and shall
provide for adequate hospital
facilities for persons unable to
pay therefor"
To my reasoning, under this
act. which is really an amend
ment to the Public Health
Service Act of 1914: Cd There
will be no segregation and dis
elimination in the hospital IA
cilities whatsoever, 90 there
will be no barring of private
doctors in the hospital because
of race. 90 should there be
a nursing school, it will not
bar applicants because of
race. "a internes and traineeS
will not be barred because of
race. and 80 the staff will be
fully desegregated.
I cannot conceive of the Sit
uation being otherwise. The
United States Supreme Court
has ruled out segregation and
discrimination in the use of
public funds, and Federal aid
will be used to construct this
hospital.
Leonard SittOn Brown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
No Puppet in Pulpit

The Star Of January 5 re-
ported q speech made by for
mer Virginia Governor Battle to
q Loudoun County audience. In
the article the following state
ment was made: Referring to
recent statements by ministers
throughout the State. Mr.. Bat
tie said he resents ministers
and ministerial associations in
terfering in civil affairs of the
Commonwealth"
In one sense this is q sur
prising statement from a po-
litical figure in a democracy
where one Of the most funda-
mental assumptions and most
obvious truisms is that every
one has the right to speak. to
express his views. and to seek
to influence public opinion. 1t
is something new in democracy
that there should be alleged
to exist a whole class, of citi-
Zens who are deprived of the
elemental right to speak on
public affairs. Since all pub
lie affairs ultimately involve
ethical issues, and since there
is q consensus among the lead
ing thinkers Of all religious
groups that segregation is I'M
ethical (this is not a new dis
oovery but a truth which has
been proclaimed for many
years.. it is surprising that a
group of citizens who are by
vocation devoted to making
clear the ethical implications
Of all issues, private or public,
should have their right to do
so questioned. That others
have the right to disagree with
their conclusions Ii freely con-
coded. but there ought to be
agreement from everyone that
the right to free expression is
q fundamental right Of all
persons and all groups. We
may differ as to conclusions
reached, but not as to the
inherent right to free speech
without intimidation.
From another standpoint.
the former Governors posi-
ton is not surprising. Rulers
of this world have always
wanted their views Endorsed
and sanctioned by religious
leaders. In history one of the
most familiar and pathetic fig
ures is the court chaplain
whose tenure in Office depended
on his agreeing with the king
and giving the sanctity of re-
ligion to the decisions Of the
ruler, He was a rubber-stamp
indorser who met the need Of
the ruling class for divine sane
ton for their enterprises. how
ever dubious they may have
been on occasion. In defer
ence to the court chaplain, the
court jester was a more he
roic and courageous figure who
in his jests often shot q barb
at the kings pretensions and
injustices. AS the saying goes.
Many a truth Is spoken in
jest"
1t is significant that political
figures never complain about
chaplains as long as they are
compliant, truckle before them,
and adjust their theology to
coincide with the prevailing
views of the ruling class. But
when they refuse to allow the
truth to be bent in such a way
as to serve the prejudices Of
the rulers they are dismissed
as "meddlers" or have their
heads served on a platter, like
John the Baptist, to please
some worldly Herod.
Paul L. Stagg,
Minister, First Baptist
Church.
Front P0val Va
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Inc man signed.
That is the worst part Of
modern transit; once aboard
the lugger, you can't even
move.
You have to stay put and
take It.
THE lady edged a quarter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-12
Grist for the Mill

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