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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
Where the 85th Congress Failed

and without pretense the
Democrats plunged into vast
election-year buying Of voter
groups Of all kinds. Many
Republicans felt they had to
go along or be defeated. Hun
dreds of little projects in
almost every area--legislative
items never heard Of before
except locally--all added up
to billion-dollar OUTLAWS. In
fairness. it must be said that
two Democrats - Senator
Harry Byrd and Representa-
tive Howard Smith of Vir-.
ginia-protested and did
manage to block some of the
bills that meant wasteful
spending.
Legislation designed to
correct Supreme Court deci-
sions has been shrouded in
mystery this session. 1t is
common gossip around the
Senate that Americans for
Democratic Action had
group Of left wing Demo-
Gratis in the Senate lined up
for weeks ready to pounce on
any legislation affecting the
Supreme Court. The same at
titude has been manifested
toward moves to thwart COM
munistic activities. Billions
of dollars were voted for for
eign aid to help fight COM
munism abroad, but subver-
sion and Communist infiltra-
ton at home were neglected.
Organized labor boldly
took possession in the Sen
ate of the movement to re-
write the labor laws and
managed to insert certain
provisions hostile to manage
ment, so that finally all the
major bills were blocked by
both factions favorite way
to bring about the death of
much-wanted legislation in
order that responsibility for
what happened may not be
readily determined. The only
labor bill passed was an in
nocuouS measure to require
the publication of certain
data on employee pension
funds.
1T was largely a self
centered Congress, mainly
concerned with local prof.
ects or the pressure of vot-
ing groups, and evidently Of
the belief that the country
as a whole would never find
out what really happened or
which groups or interests or
their henchmen were re-
SponSible for the debacle."
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BY the Associated Press

A year-long study of Juvenile
delinquency will get underway
next month and the man who
is going to head 1t says, don't
blame the kids, Juvenile de-
linquency is the result Of adult
failings."
The National Education AS
ISOLATION has named DR.. Will
liam C. Kvaraceus of Boston
University to direct the project
1t will be his job to find out
what causes juvenile delin-
quency and how 1t can best be
fought in the schools.
DR.. Kvaraceus, who has
studied the problem for the
last 20 years, warned recently
that the number of Juvenile
delinquents will double within
four years and that more thar
a million youngsters can be
expected in the juvenile courts
Americans, he says, refuse t.
face the facts.
I'VE deny the figures and thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
WLLIAM 5. While
Rockefeller and G. O.P.OId Guard

night become a great power
in the national Republican
Party. He probably would cast
his weight on the side of high
public spending and the like.
The Old Guard has learned
sadly to accept this kind Of
thing in the Democrats. But
this it simply cannot bear in
any public man who calls
himself a Republican.
Moreover, even assuming
that Rockefeller after cleo
ton. day holds the distinc-
ton only of a defeated
@. o. p. nominee, an uncom-
Portable fact will yet re-
main.
This is that the New
York Republicans" far from
showing any reconverSion
toward ancient G. o. p. doc
trine, plainly are moving
farther away from it with
each passing year.
Rockefeller, after all, ran
over a man with a consider
able claim on all wings of
the Republican Party. Leon
ard w. Hall. Len" was and
is a pro, whereas Rockefeller
is an unabaShed amateur.
Hall had ably served
President Eisenhower as
chairman of the Republican
National Committee job
for which he has had, by
the way, no excessive thanks
from the White House. He
was, himself, no beau ideal
of the Old Guard. And If
even he, who had no more
than tolerable connections
with the Old Guard, could
NOT make it in New York
this question is raised: What
possible Republican in any
degree acceptable to them
will be able to make it in the
foreSeeable future?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
DORIS FLEESON

Senator John Sherman
Cooper, Kentucky Republic
can, explains the paradoxes
of the congressional session
Just concluded with the quip
that four parties operated
the S5th Congress; Demo-
Gratis, Republicans. the Sen
ate-House conference and
Lyndon Baines Johnson,
The greatest of these has
been johnson. because the
absence of clear lines Of au-
thority elsewhere, including
the White House, gave him
the chance to practice his
art almost without let or
hindrance. That the Senate
majority leader is an expert
political technician has been
apparent from the day he
operated himself into the
leadership Of his party in
the Senate although a South
erner, rather young in years
and seniority, and obviously
possessed of intense personal
ambition.
He has had and still has
an enormous advantage rec
ognized by all observers here,
though perhaps not by the
general public. 1t is that the
House is firmly managed by
the towering Texan, Speaker
Rayburn, JohnSon's mentor
and friend. Johnson served
IL years under Rayburn in
the House, learning both
Rayburn's technique and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
DORIS FLEEsON
Behind the 85th's Operations

opposite party in the White
House.
This accounts for the big
gest single gap in the 1858
record here: The failure to
deal with imitation. In fact,
both Congress and the adj
ministration aggravated it.
That failure and aggrava-
ton will hit the returning
Congress in the eye next
January, for by that time the
impact of the biggest peace
time budget in history viii
have become apparent.
Already the consumer price
index has reached a new
high. In fact, since March,
1856, the index has risen
every month but three.
The combination Of recess
sion-there are still about
5 million unemployed-and
imitation confused the CLASH
cal economists and clearly
bewildered the politicians.
Political anxietieS were deep
ened by the sure knowledge
that the Soviets are steadily
advancing in military and
economic power.
This falls candidates are
not at all sure how much bad
news they can persuade the
voters to heed. remembering
that prophet without honor,
Adlai Stevenson, in 1856.
One thoughtful Senator. Full
bright of Arkansas, has had
the courage to suggest that
the people must bear q share
Of the blame-but he is not
up this fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25

For years the old-fash-
Toned Republicans over the
country have looked half In
curiosity and half in deep
approval upon the goinss-
I in their party In New
1rk State. They are Q lit
, like the farmer who may
zee visit an East Side night
ub but will go away shak-
g his head and muttering
thanks that no such estab-
lishment operates where he
lives.
To the Old Guard from
the Middlewest Republican
heartland, the phrase "New
York Republicans" means q
breed apart-and q breed
hardly better, really, than
the wretched Democrats.
But the New York Re-
publicans" ever since about
1910 have been the tails that
wag the Elephant. They, with
their Eastern-influenced and
relatively liberal allies. have
dominated five successive ma
tional party conventions.
Five times they have re-
jected the claims of the Old
Guard and nominated PreSi-
dental candidates from
among so-called modern"
Republicans. These candi-
dates have progressively
Joined much Of what they
could not lick-the interna-
tionalist, more-or-less well
fare state notions Of the
Democrats themselves.
This was the process which
so often-and in the eyes Of
the Old Guard so brutally--
denied nomination to one Of
the most revered orthodox
Republican spokesman Of this
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New York State 'Moderns' Have Spurned
Orthodox Wing Five Times Since 1910

century, the late Senator
Robert A. Taft Of Ohio.
Now, history is not merely
repeating itself in New York;
1t is repeating itself at a
highly accelerated pace.
Nelson Rockefeller's appar-
ent success in grasping the
Governors nomination rep
reSents IN some way the most
unrelieved defeat yet suffered
by the Old Guard. Even the
still-young father" of New
York Republicanism, Thomas
E. Dewey, always had at least
some political background
and at least some profess
sional understanding Off
hardly any sympathy toward
the orthodox old-timer.
Rockefeller, however, has
busted himself infinitely more
with international and ma
tional problems than with
the affairs of the Republican
Party. The Old Guard sus-
poets that he knows more
about the plans of the Pandit
Nehru in India than he does
about any Republican court
house.
Most national politicians
in both parties see Rookie
Teller as extremely unlikely
to defeat the sitting Demo-
cratic governor, Averell Har-
riman. They consider this
scion of the great, golden
house of Rockefeller to have
been given mainly the role
of picking up the tab for run
ming a campaign in New York
In a tough, Democratic year.
All the same. the national
Old Guard can flnd no ade-
quate comfort in this. For,
in the first place, Rookie
Teller might Just conceivably
win. II he did, he would over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
Caldwell Film
Opens in Venice

VENICE, Aug. rs (AP).-The
Venice international film festi-
val opened last night with the
movie of Erskine Caldwells
Gods Little Acre" getting q
mixed reception.
A fashionable audience gave
the American movie long APP
plause. Mr.. Caldwell and DE-
rector Anthony Mann were In
the audience.
Gods Little Acre" is one Of
IL Aims selected by an inter-
national jury to compete for
prizes in the two-week festival.
Other films in the competition
come from West Germany,
Russia, Italy. France, Japan.
Czechoslovakia, Sweden and
Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Shipments to Indonesi0 Denounced
While Far East Allies Are Rotioned

The Middle East continues
to keep the attention of most
Of the world even after diplo-
mats finished arguing at the
United Nations. Meanwhile,
in q series Of ominous moves,
the Chinese Communists APP
pear to be preparing q new
crisis in the Far East.
But the United States. as
ifsunaware Of any heightened
tension in the area of the
Formosa Strait. continues to
keep the free worlds de-
lenses in the Far East on
short rations. Not only has
the total strength Of Amer
lean armed forces in the area
been reduced. but military
equipment for our own and
our allied forces has been
kept to q bare minimum. The
Republic of Korea and the
Republic of China have been
complaining for many
months TO no avail.
Yet the United States, at
the same time it restricts the
power of the free world to
defend itself against any new
Red aggression in the Far
East, is sending arms to naq,
where q new government al
lied to- NaSSer has been
thumbing its nose at the
West. and to Indonesia,
where pro-Red President
Sukarno has made no secret
of his enmity to the West
and his distrust Of the
United States.
In the United States SEN
ate, Senator Styles Bridges,
Republican Of New Hamp-
shire, took the floor to de-
scribe the IndoneSian BUSH
ness as shocking" Senator
Bridges pointed out acidly
that Indonesia, an openly
"neutralist" nation, has
many times sided against
the United States in the
United Nations votes. He re-
called Indonesian affection
for Red China and the open
espousal Of socialism by
Sukarno in attacks on "capi-
talism and imperialism.
ut is high time" said the
Senator, that we recognized
the cloak OF neutralisn1 in
many instances for what it
is: A diplomatic device for
playing both sides of the
street and for masking SYM
pathy for Communist goals
and detectives"
Right there Senator
Bridges correctly classified
the peculiar political phe-
nomenon known as neutral
ism. In almost every interna-
tional situation, the neutral
lists can be found on the side
Of the Reds.
The American people ought
to be given a full and frank
explanation Of why United
States taxpayers money is
being used to arm and equip
Indonesis's pro-Red govern
ment while our staunchest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
DAVID LAWRENCE

The Eighty-fifth Congress,
Just adjourned, has by its
inaction and failure to deal
with vitality needed legisla-
ton turned out to be the
worst in a half century.
For the Congress has not
passed any of the proposed
laws to curb Communist in
filtration in the United States
during the "cold war" crisis.
1t has not passed any laws
to punish those who openly
preach the overthrow of our
Government by force-the
Supreme Court having ruled
that existing law does not
cover those individuals who
advocate treason,
1t has not passed any laws
to stop the drift in Federal
finances toward imitation and
bankruptcy.
1t has not passed any laws
to stop racketeering and
gangsterism by q minority OF
powerful labor unions.
1t has not passed any laws
to deal with confessed rapists
now that the Supreme Court
has made it easier for such
criminals to gain their liberty
on technicalities.
1t has not passed any laws
to help the State Department
to withhold passports here
after from American citizens
who are part Of the Com
munist espionage apparatus
and who can sabotage the
policies Of the United States
while travelling abroad.
1t has not passed any laws
to stop the Supreme Court
from ignoring States rights,
a practice severely condemned
in a report approved last
week by the Chief Justices Of
SO StatesAthree quarters Of
the States of the Union
based on the same facts that
were available to the commit
tees of Congress for the past
year.
It has not passed any laws
to curb labor-union monopo-
lies which, by industry-wide
bargaining and coercive
methods, virtually flx prices
and keep the cost Of living
UP so that the purchasing
power Of the dollar Is con-
stantly forced down.
There now will be plenty
of partisan speeches Boosting
of how the 85th Congress has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25
Injection AssoiIed in Fields of Initiation,
Communism, Labor and Supreme Court

passed lots of legislation on a
wide variety Of subjects. But
these bills we're Of financial
benefit LARGELY to special vot-
ing groups and, while some
of the measures were merito-
rious, they do not by any
m e ans OFFSET the major
failures.
What really happene d
behind closed doors in this
Congress is a big news story.
win the people ever get it?
There has been much COM
ment in the press in recent
months about the fright to
know" as various members
of Congress have piously pro-
claimed that they favor the
idea. But ironically the
American people have gotten
far less information this year
than ever before about the
vote-trading. the ''log-roll-
ing" and the Juggling that
went on behind the scenes
in both houses Of Congress.
The large newspapers and
news associations maintain
staff reporters to watch what's
happening all day every day
on Capitol Hill. This cor
respondent has just obtained
a copy of a memorandum
written by one of those re-
porters. Long identified with
a big city newspaper, the
veteran reporter Of many
Congresses writes:
This has been an incredi-
bly, spendthrift Congress.
1T has also refused to face
up to the Communist menace
to American institutions.
1.-THE Democratic leaders in
the Senate have been caught
redhanded in an alliance
with the powerful and mo-
nopolistic labor unions, with
the apparent aim Of winning
the labor vote at the polls.
THE Congress, especially
in the Senate, has been
turned into q vote-trading
operation. Legislative Jug
Cling has managed to kill
important bills by delaying
them to the last minute.
Spending by this Congress
has been fantastic. There has
been nothing like it before
in peacetime. The effects will
be spread out over many,
many years. Spending started
out as q depression cure, but
soon this was thrown aside
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25

friends in Asia are left with
inadequate and obsolete de-
lenses in the face Of an i'm
minent attack.
What irony there is in
these military aid programs"
TO such nations as Indonesia,
where the national currency
is next to worthless and can
not be readily converted into
any Of the sound currencies
Of the world. In effect, the
laid" amounts to an outright
gift. paid for by the Ameri-
can people. to a nation whose
hostility to us and to the free
world is a known quantity.
The State Department, at
first sympathetic to the brave
band Of Indonesian rebels
who protested at least the
pro-Communist trends of the
Sukarno government, has
abruptly switched its policy
and is now aiding Sukarno
and abandoning the rebels to
their fate. The present mill
tary aid, mostly small arms
and light equipment. is sup
posed to be for internal
security" in Indonesia--in
other words. weapons to aid
Sukarno, the pro- Communist,
in suppressing those Indone-
slams who are bold enough to
seek democracy and freedom
rather than Red slavery.
1t is high time, as Senator
Bridges suggested. that we
stop a moment and do a lit
tie cold thinking about our
policies toward the neutral
ists-the fence straddlers-of
the world. Where will they
be when the chips are down?
Where will India and Indo-
nesia be if the free world
comes to a showdown with
the advancing Communist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-25

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went on to graduate school and specialized
in astronomy.
THE hardest thing for me was learn
ing how to budget my time so that made
proper use OF it, and also learning to spend
an appropriate amount of time on the
subjects which were the least attractive
to me.
THE one thing would do differently
1 would place more emphasis on languages.
Today, think it's important for everyone
who can to have facility in one and,
better, two current foreign languages. This
is becoming increasingly important in order
to be able to communicate with people of
other nations; to understand how others
think and what they are really thinking
from f1rSt-hand experience rather than
having to rely on Interpretation by some
third party"
ANNE EMERY
When was in high school, the ques-
ton of whether or not I liked a subject
did not enter into the curriculum, and now
1 know that some of my most important
educational background came from subjects
1 diSliked.
81 never liked science, but had a year
of chemistry in high school and botany in
college. Now, looking back, I know that
the scientific standards of accuracy, of fact
the pros and cons of proving theory and
exploring all sides of a question, are stand
ards which are invaluable to any educated
person. They have a universal meaning in
terms of interpreting today'S problems of
opinion, prejudice, rumor. Propaganda
disliked mathematics and geometry, but
took three years of math in high school
and year in college, and value them now
for the logic and precision and reasoning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24

they taught me. And value very highly
my five years of Latin. For one reason or
another, find myself referring to my Latin
background frequently today, and it gives
me sense of solid understanding of not
only my own English language, but an
underStructure for all the romance Ian
guages: French, Italian and Spanish. 1
didn't like Latin, either, when was study
ing it. But it means more to me now than
it did when I was young, and I value it
most highly
1.-THE hardest thing about my educa-
tonal experience was to learn to study
effectively. took most of the right sub
jectS, but I was not born student, and
got through with as little effort as pos
Sible. And that was a great mistake: All
those years were much too short and gone
much too soon, and got so much less out
OF them than might have.
Il wish I'd studied Greek and German.
1 had solid course of study in both high
school and college. and specifically there
was no time for anything more Actually,
there is always time for anything one really
wants to do. Next time I'd go through the
School OF Music and be a trained pianist
instead of a not-very-good amateur.
"ouAo CdAe HlOTe languages ana DulId Lnem
all up to conversational proficiency. And
1 would certainly study more deeply and
get the maximum out of everything"
HUGH OBRIAN
Il think the most valuable thing I did
was-well, two things actually One was
learning to have an appreciation for other
peoples ideas. though they might be diff
ferent from mine, and understanding that
they have a right to those ideas The
second was the interest took in athletics,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-14
Quemoy Counts Red Shells
By U. S. War Methods

TAIPEI, Sept. l3 (AP).-The
artillery comes raining down on
Quemoy in a thunderous bar
rage.
Inside a bunker a Chinese
Nationalist soldier sits calmly
tallying each nearby explosion
on a piece of paper. Elsewhere
across the battered island the
scene is repeated many times.
These are the counters. At
ter every Chinese Communist
Smelling of the Nationalist
fortress of the Red China coast
they come up with a total that
may make headlines around
the world.
Reds pound Quemoy with
record 1900 rounds" That's
the way it read August % when
the present Formosa crisis
erupted.
On September II it was 49,
3l4 Rounds Fall on Quemoy."
And again on September IL the
total edged to 57.746 shells in
s hours 80 minutes.
How accurate are these
totals? =.
They are based on an &C.
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Negroes in Van Buren,
Baked by Fear and Law

VAN buren,, Ark. Sept. IL
(AP).-The Nations far flung
racial struggle leaves Negro
children in this West Arkansas
town caught in a dilemma
afraid to attend the city's le-
gally integrated schools and
unable to attend nearby segre-
gated ones.
The answer to their problem
lies in what could well be a
long, tedious court case.
In the meantime. the chill
dren-about l6 Of them-gath-
er in small groups to study in
preparation for the day when
they can return to school,
wherever it may be.
"Tough without Teacher"
"It's tough to keep up in my
studies without a teacher, =
said Nathaniel Norwood. II,
"I'll really be glad to get back
in class"
The problem Of Nathaniel and
the other children began on the
second day of this school year
after they attended a full term
Iat Van Buren, High School last
year without any reported Incl
dents.
On the second day, the Is
Negroes at the 635-pupil school
began receiving vague threats
from white students.
The next day all except two
of the Negroes returned home
when faced by a boisterous
group Of snti-integration white
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-14

cepted method and are about as
accurate as you can get without
scientific instruments" says q
United States Defense Com
mand spokesman.
I'VE are getting more and
more experienced" says Rear
Admiral Lib Ho-tu, Nationalist
China's Defense Ministry
spokesman.
The United States used the
same method in World War II
and in the Korean conflict. It
uses and accepts the National
list figures today.
Neither Chinese nor Ameri-
can sources here will disclose
exactly how the system is
worked on Quemoy, but they de-
scribe these general principles:
The company is the normal
reporting unit. 1t may or may
not subdivide the job down to
platoon or even squad level.
Each counter is responsible
for tallying the incoming artil-
lery that falls or explodes in
the air in his assigned area
within a given counting period.