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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Another Try

The garage man in East New
Market. Md. had just shaken the
busy hand Of George Perry NAH
oney.
You'd better win this time" he
said. I'm tired of voting for
you"
Like thousands of Mr.. Mahoney's
loyal supporters, the impatient ga
rage man will be voting for his
still-untitled candidate for the fifth
time in six years. One of the things
they like about Mr.. Mahoney is
that he never gives up.
Most people thought he would
quit politics for sure two years
ago after his defeat in the Mary
land Democratic primary for Gov
ernor against DR.. H. c. Byrd, who
went on to lose to Republican Gov.
McKeldin.
Before that Mr.. Mahoney had
lost the same nomination to for
mer Gov. w. Preston Lane in 1850.
And in 1852 he was defeated for
the United States Senate by Re-
publican Senator j. Glenn Beall
after winning the Democratic nom
ination in a primary with Lans-
dale G. Sasscer.
In other words, he entered the
current race for the Democratic
senatorial nomination as three
time loser.
But the thing-aside from his
own driving ambition for high
public office-that keeps bringing
him off the canvas is the fact
that he has never been beaten
deciSively.
He had nearly $4,000 more popu-
lar votes than Gov Lane in 1850,
but lost the nomination because he
failed to get majority of the unit
votes under Marylands unusual
junior electoral college system for
Statewide primaries.
He defeated Mr.. Sasscer by $4,000
popular votes and even in losing
to Senator Beall. he got more votes
than any previous Democrat in
Maryland (406,370).
His defeat by DR.. Byrd was so
close (about 1000 votes, as it
turned OUT that recounts were
necessary in two counties before
it was official.
Politics Is q Business
A tirelesS campaigner, Mr.. Nah
oney regards politics as busi-
ness in which he has made con-
siderable investment in time and
money. He has gone at it with the
same zeal that enabled him to
parlay a secondhand truck and
leased sand and gravel pit into a
half-a million dollar-a-year paving
contract firm in his native Balti-
more.
Now 81 and the proprietor of a
325-acre estate and dairy farm in
Baltimore County's fashionable
Worthington Valley, Mr.. Mahoney
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the letter to House District Com
mittee Chairman John L. McNil-
Ian, Democrat of South. Carolina,
from Budget Bureau Director Per-
cival F. Brundage would recognize
the Board of Elections which is run
ming the Tuesday election.
One interesting feature OF this
proposal is that the three-man
board, now appointed by the Dis
trict Commissioners-with not more
than two members to be of the
same political party-would be APP
pointed by the President for six
year terms without regard to po-
litical affiliation."
Even with an appointed mayor,
the board would have to supervise
election of a city council, a school
board and a nonvoting delegate
in the House.
At present, it concerns itself only
with the election of delegates to
the national political conventions,
their alternates. members of the
political parties national commit
tees and other party officials.
Rough Night Aheod
Even this, while not fraught with
deep meaning. will pose a major
problem of voting Tuesday What's
worse, the problems of counting the
vote Tuesday night and Wednesday
have given severe case of the
filters to board officials and to
newspapers trying to keep up
with it.
There are several built-in diff
culties. In the first place, the bal
lots must be hand-marked, for
there are no voting machines here.
In the second place, slate voting
is not permitted. and supporters of
Kefauver or Stevenson will have to
sort out the names of the delegates
pledged to their candidates, in
marking ballots.
Similarly. the ballots will have
to be unscrambled to make sense
out Of the returns, which promises
to be long and chaotic process.
Also, with $4,000 persons regis
tered, a turnout of only about rs
per cent is being predicted. This
could boom to 80 per cent-more
than 53.000-since the voters regis
tered specifically for this election
and because Of the novelty OF TAX
ing part in the first official voting
here in more than 81 years.
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is, in his own words, comfortably
fixed"
But his beginnings were as
humble as any politician could ask.
The youngest of Baltimore police
patrolman's II children, Mr. NAH
oney quit school and went to work
after the eighth grade His only
other formal schooling was in some
night school engineering courses.
When he is campaigning, which
he has been doing almost con-
stantly since 1948, his attractive
wife Abigail watches over the NAH
oney Bros. contracting firm. They
have two children. a daughter,
Perry, II. and George. jr., 10.
Made Racing Reforms
Mr.. Mahoney broke into public
life in 1910 when then Gov. Her.
bert R. OConor, boyhood friend,
appointed him to the State Racing
Commission. He rose to the chair
manShip and initiated several rae
ing reforms, including the receiv-
ing barn and the saliva tests. The
reforms involved the commission
in heated controversies and he was
fired four months after Gov. Lane
succeeded Gov. O'Conor in Annap-
oils in 1947.
1t was this singing dismissal that
launched the wealthy contractor
into politics. Except for two-year
stint as Democratic National Com
mitteeman for Maryland, from 1850
to 1852, he has worked mostly out
side the regular State organization.
He has built up a large personal
following and boasts today that he
sent out $4,000 Christmas cards last
year.
He banks heavily on the personal,
Misunderstanding type of campaign.
steering clear of controversial issues
wherever possible. When he does
comment on public affairs, he usu-
ally reads from well-written state
mentS ground out in his Baltimore
headquarters.
His main pitch is for "the little
mantle rank and file"
He has promised that if he gets
to Washington. my door will al
ways be open, that there will be no
red tape, no group of secretaries to
keep the people from seeing George
P. Mahorey."
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Steel Wage Talks Garry
Threat of More Initiation

spiral is not confined to this coun-
try but exists in other industrial
countries. ermany's economic
minister, Prof. Erhard, calls atten-
ton to its disquieting development
in that country. But it is Britain,
where the full employment" con-
cept had its birth, that the impli-
cations of that policy are now COM
ing to be realized.
For some years now Britain has
had not only full employment"
but brimful and overfull employ
ment. Jobs are hunting workers.
Workers, their earnings swollen by
overtime pay. are making heavy de-
mands for goods. thereby pushing
prices up. To make the demanded
goods, Britain's imports of raw ma
terials have had to be increased,
exports have suffered and spending
for new plants and equipment has
given another twirl to the spiral.
The Cost Is InfIotion
The British are coming to realize
that full employment" if pursued
willy-nilly. can be maintained only
at the cost of rising prices-i. e., in
flation. And initiation. as economic
history teaches, tends to be carried
to an extreme, producing a collapse.
The British government has tried
by eXhortation to get the labor un-
ions and employers to exercise self
restraint as to upward spiraling
wages and prices. 1t has tried by
raising interest rates to dampen
business and local government
spending for plants and equipment.
1t has submitted to Parliament a
special report, The Economic I'm
plications of Full Employment"
pointing out that I'VE cannot have
this stable money! if we go on
undermining its stability by con-
slant imitation of prices due so
largely to our own lack of restraint"
What this means is that If or
ganized labor takes advantage of
full employment to exact wage
increases and other benefits beyond
the power of an industry to absorb
them. an industrial Nation like
ours cannot have both stable money
and full employment.
Both the unions and the en-
ployers are charged by the British
full-employment report with re-
sponsibility for checking the spiral.
But there is nothing to suggest
that they will do so.
AS Dr. Paul Einzig, British econo-
mist. observes, 1.-THE implied con-
Spiracy between employers and en-
ployes to put up wages. prices and
profits at the expense OF the long
suffering consumer continues un-
absted." Similar criticism may be
heard here when the steel wage
negotiations are completed.
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tary, foreign affairs and atomic
and was undoubtedly one of the
most influential men in Washington
at the time of his forced retire.
ment.
His 1850 defeat at the hands of
a politically unknown Republican
lawyer. Senator John Marshall But
Ter, was an upset of national sig
niflcance.
Campaign Criticized
Senator Buffers campaign was
later described by a Senate sub
committee as a "despicable back
street type" and his campaign man.
ager. Jon M. Jonkel. was fined
$4,000 for failing to report campaign
finances properly and for being
resident of Illinois instead of Mary
land.
Senator Mccarthy, Republican
of Wisconsin, actively aided Mr..
Buffers campaign. The Wiscon-
sinite had clashed with Mr.. Tydings
earlier that year when the Mary
lander headed a subcommittee
which investigated Senator Nc
Carthy's CommuniSts-in-G Govern
ment charges and concluded that
they were a fraud and a hoax"
Senator Mccarthy called the in
veStigation "whitewash."
Senator Tydings has steered clear
in the current primary of all but
the briefest reference to that Butler
campaign. but many of his sup
pcrters have urged voters to right
the wrong" of 1850. Since Sena-
tor Butler is almost certain to be
renominated by the Republicans,
MarylanderS can look forward to
thorough rehaSh of 1850 if Mr.
TydingS is the nominee.
But what must be bothering Mr..
Tydings today is the question of
whether, in terms of voter popu-
larity. he is more like the Tydings
of 1888 or the Tydings of 1850.
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Planners Want National Support
For New Cultural Center Here
BY GEORGE L. WILLIAMS

A new ingredient has been
brought into the latest effort to get
Washington a cultural center
worthy of the Nations capital. It
is a plea to the pride of all Ameri-
cans.
The Auditorium Commission,
undertaking a task that has been
tackled with depressing results al
most since the day Pierre L'Enfant
drew his plan for the Capital City,
has decided that only by awaken
ing national as well as local in
terest can it succeed.
In order to convince people
throughout the Nation of their in
terest in the projected cultural
center here. the Commission is now
forming an Advisory Council of
representatives of national organi-
cations. 1t is hoped they will
stimulate enough national interest
to see the commission through it's
difficult task.
AS it searches for a way to pro-
vide Washington with a suitable
cultural center, the Commission is
aware of long succession of previ-
Gus unsuccessful efforts which have
left one of the most beautiful and
important cities in the world with
out civic auditorium, concert hall,
opera house or adequate public
meeting place.
On several occasions it appeared
that the mission had been accom-
plished, only to have the void re-
appear. After the Civil War, for
example, the Pension Building at
4th and F streets. with its border
Ing frieze of marching soldiers, was
erected by the Government as a
war memorial. President Grants
inaugural ball was held there-but
before long it was converted to
governmental Office use.
One Of the FoiIures
In 1912. an effort was made to
finance 50 million George Wash
ington Memorial Hall, with a seat
Ing capacity of 5000. The build
Ing was designed, but fund col
lections were disappointing and the
money that had been taken in was
given to George Washington Uni
versity.
Then there was the Washington
Auditorium, erected in 1928 at
Nineteenth street and New York
avenue. A private venture, it was
no Showplace, but it had a seating
capacity of 1000 and for several
years it was the citys only hall
for cultural events and conven-
tons. In 1888 the first Roosevelt
inaugural ball was held there and
Immediately afterward the audi
forum was converted to Federal
office space. It is still so used.
In 1929 Washington got the
building that still serves as its
main cultural center-Constituti
Hall, erected by the Daughters of
the American Revolution as an
assembly hall. 1t is building of
great dignity and seats $500, but
its stage is small and there are
no dressing rooms, no curtain. The
OAR has been generous in making
Constitution Hall available for pub
lie events. but if for some internal
reason the organization should de-
eide to reverse this policy, cultural
life in the city would suffer a
shattering blow.
One modest step in the direction
OF a truly public hall was taken in
1885 when Congress permitted the
Library of Congress to accept the
Coolidge auditorium in the library
as a gift to the Nation from Eliza
beth Sprague Coolidge. 1t has been
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VIRGINIA
Mory|onders See Danger
In Plan for Bay Crossing

land until just north of Salisbury"
Mr. Goldstein's suggestion poses
the question of whether Maryland
wouldn't be in even worse position
if it spent millions more on two
additional spans. Would additional
bridges draw traffic off the more
direct north-south route? The
thinking in Virginia is that they
would not.
1t should be borne in mind, how
ever, that Virginia's plans are still
very tentative. The lastASession of
the Virginia General Assembly au-
thorized tunnel commission to
issue bonds first for a study of the
feasibility of the project and then
to construct it if it can pay its way.
Also the study will determine
whether the crossing would be
made over the longer distance
from Cape Henry to Cape Charles
or whether it should be from Cape
Charles to the Hampton Newport
News area north of Hampton Roads.
Project Under Way
Already under construction is a
$50 million bridge-tunnel beneath
Hampton Roads TO connect Nor
folk, on the south side of Hamp-
ton Roads, with Newport News on
the north side. This connection is
scheduled to be open late in 1858.
According TO some planners it
would be more economical to bring
the Delaware-Maryland traffic off
of the Eastern Shore TO Hampton
and Newport News. In this way
the Hampton Roads tunnel would
be the final connecting link to
carry traffic on to the Norfolk side.
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DISTRICT
DISTRICT
Will Rule Bill
Get Support
1t Requires?
BY HECTOR MCLEAN

With the Districts first election
in more than 80 years only two
days off, Washington home rule en-
thusiasts are hoping it will be only
a forerunner of more serious ones
to come.
The greatest boost to their hopes
came only last week, when they
finally persuaded the President to
indorse a specific piece of legisla-
tons. $50, the Senate-passed
"home rule" bill now bottled up in
the House District Committee.
Whether the Endorsement will
produce any more results than the
usual generalized presidential plati-
tudes in favor of District self
government and voting rights re-
mains to be seen.
1t is not likely to unless the PreSi-
dent seriously eXertS on the House
committee all the behind the-scenes
political pressure he would have TO
use on a nationally important bill
in similar position.
Home rule supporters calculate
that only three of the Democrats
on the 25-nlan committee would
support it. They write OIL the rest
of the Democrats as all Southern
ers and all opposed. Thus, they say,
it would only be necessary to get
10 of the II Republicans to vote
for the bill to produce a major
ity of 13.
Lacking real White House pres
sure, though, they are not likely to
even get 10 of the Republican votes.
So far, there has been no sign of
any such pressure.
In indorsing the measure, MIR.
Eisenhower stirred up a one-man
storm in the Senate over his pro-
posed amendments designed to give
greater protection to the Federal
interest in the National Capital.
An Insult Says Morse
Senator Wayne Morse, Democrat
of Oregon, the Senate's champion
f1libusterer, hit the floor of that
chamber the next day to assail as
an insult to the people Of the Dis
trict" the Presidents proposal that
the mayor be appointed by the
President. with consent of the Sem
ate, rather than elected.
The bill had called originally for
an appointed mayor. but an amend
ment by the oregon firebrand had
converted the job into an elective
one before the Senate passed the
measure last June.
Senator Morse insisted that the
proposal TO make the mayors po-
sition an appointive one-and
President Eisenhower's request for
an absolute veto over acts passed
over the mayors veto--would
nullify the home rule concept.
He failed to explore the idea that
the bills provision for a congress
sional veto over acts of the city
council might also nullify the home
rule concept.
Another amendment suggested in
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VIRGINIA
BY ALEX r. PRESTON

NORFOLK, Va.,-Virginia' plans
for a spectacular tunnel and bridge
crossing of the mouth of Chesa-
peake Bay is creating great concern
in Maryland.
The project. which would cost an
estimated 5000 million, would be
one of the engineering wonders of
the world. The distance between
Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore,
and the Norfolk-Cape Henry area,
is about II miles.
Maryland newspaper editors and
State legislators see in it a threat to
their toll revenues needed to pay off
debts on their own elaborate system
of Chesapeake Bay and Potomac
River bridges.
At present, the Virginia crossing
is made by ferry. 1t takes an hour
and half and the charge is nearly
81 for car and driver.
Florida-b bound traffic from the
heavy population centers to the
north now uses Maryland's magni-
f1cent bridges to bypass bottle
neckS at Baltimore and Washing
ton. Much of the traffic Scoots
down the Delaware and Maryland
Eastern Shore, crosses the Chesa-
peake Bay Bridge, takes Route 30l
down to the Potomac River Bridge
at Morgantown. Md, and then
proceeds southwark by way of
Richmond and Petersburg in Vir-
ginia.
Virtual Maryland Byposs
If the Virginia crossing of
Chesapeake Bay materializes, the
traffic coming out of Delaware
would continue south, instead of
veering west into Maryland Route
l3 through Delaware would carry
traffic through only a small por-
ton of Maryland on the Eastern
Shore and then down into Vir-
ginia's shore counties.
The bridge-tunnel crossing of
the Virginia capes would take
only a matter of 20 or IS minutes,
and traffic would be by-passed
around the Norfolk Portsmouth
population center, thus avoiding all
major bottlenecks along the Eastern
seaboard.
State Senator Louis N. Goldstein
of Calvert County, Md, recently
voiced concern over Virginia's
plans. 1t is difficult, however, to
follow his reasoning in his sug-
gested solution, from Marylands
point Of view.
About a week ago, Mr.. Goldstein
met with the Maryland State Roads
Commission and the legislative
council TO suggest that two addi-
tional crossings be built over Ches-
apeake Bay.
He said the additional bridges
are necessary to compete with Vir-
ginia If the Eastern Shore crossing
is built, according to an Associated
Press report. IF Maryland doesn't
do something about it," he was
quoted, south bound traffic from
the north will come over the Della
ware River Bridge, go down U. S. l3
in Delaware and not enter Mary
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HOUSE

On transferring responsibility for
building and operating Potomac
River Bridge at Jones Point from
Interior to Commerce Department.
Passed, 284-8, April %.
FOR. HYDE r. Nd BfoShll tR Va.
Harrison D. Va Smith ID, Va
Not Voting; Landlord %, Md. stnetal
pair
on passing the s5l.5 billion high
way bill.
Ior. HYDE BfoyhlH Harrison. Landlord.
AGAINST. Smith
tconuesslonal ouaTteflyl
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NEARBY VOTES

Votes of nearby Maryland and
Virginia legislators on the major
roll calls in Congress last week:
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MARYLAND
Tydings, Mohoney-Tough Compoieners
RunningHord

I'm like an old horse that would
like to be turned out to pasture"
66-year-old Willard Evelyn Tydings
said of himself the other night in
Baltimore County.
But when I saw the caliber of
the people who were urging me to
run, had to get into this race.
and now I'm running just as hard
as I know how"
Watching him bound up stairs
two and three steps at a time,
one understands what he means.
He has been campaigning at cy-
clone pace since that day in late
February when he decided, upon
the urging of several Democratic
leaders, to try a comeback. Only
few days before the deadline, he
filed for the Democratic senatorial
nomination in the May Z primary,
thus robbing George P. Mahoney
of a virtual free ride.
There was a time in Maryland
when Mr.. TydingS could almost sit
in his Office in Washington and
win Democratic primaries.
He says, of his current campaign,
that he hasn't had to work so hard
in a primary since 1888, when he
blocked President Roosevelt's at
tempt to purge" him by handily
defeating the late Representative
David j. Lewis, the Presidents
hand picked candidate.
He Fought Court Pocking
Mr.. Tydings, who served for "a
years in the Senate, before his de-
feat in 1850, had angered the Pres
ident by leading the fight against
his 1887 attempt to pack" the Su-
preme Court with justices of his
own choice.
Mr.. Tydings first went to Con-
gress as a Representative in 1922,
and served two terms in the House
before being elected to the Senate
for the first time in 1926. He served
for six years in the State Legisla-
ture from his native Hartford County
before moving up to national poll
tics.
His IS consecutive years of public
service began in the Maryland
House of Delegates in 1916, but was
interrupted by the Mexican border
troubles. Before he could resume
his Assembly seat or his budding
law practice, he was on his way to
France in World War I.
He is very proud of his record
with. 29th Division machine gun
unit and emphasizes it in his cur
rent campaign.
He rose from private to lieutenant
colonel during his three years in
the Army and was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal and the
Distinguished Service Cross.
Holder of a bachelor of science
and law degree from the University
of Maryland, Mr.. Tydings still lives
in Hartford County on a 550-acre
dairy farm near Havre de Grace.
He maintains law Offices in Balti-
more (Tydings, Sauerwein, Benson
and Boyd and Washington Davis,
Richberg, Tydings and LANDAU.
During his "a years in the Senate,
Mr.. Tydings was known as a work
horse and a conservative. He en-
trenched himself in three of the
top fields of legislative life-mili-
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SENATE

On amendments to bank hold
ing companies bill to bar banks
from acquiring assets OF any addi-
tional bank located in another State
unless specifically authorized by the
other State. Adopted, 58-l8, April
"a.
For: Byrd ID, Va
Against Beall tR. Md, Butler tR,. Md.
Robertson ID Va
On amendment to bill to revise
definition Of a bank holding COM
pany to apply to companies con-
trolling only one bank instead OF
two. Rejected. 28-5l. April %.
AEainSi; BYRD Robertson
Not Voting. Beall. Butler absent