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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Politics and Foreign Policy

from conservative Republic
cans than from the Demo-
Gratis Even here. however.
criticism probably win be
restrained, and deal more
with methods than with sub
stance.
The almost certain results
Of the Senate hearings. when
Joined with the major re-
appraisal OF foreign policy
already under way In the
State Department. win be 10
make the administration's
exercise Of foreign policy
stronger. Coming at this very
important time, especially
when the Soviet propaganda
bid for q summit conference
Is still being pressed, the out
come can be only q gain for
American bargaining points.
and q shot Of confidence for
those Americans who are
dead set against appease-
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Free Wotereote
Ballet Slated

The Washington Civic Ballet
Society will present "An Eve
ming of Ballet" at the Water
gate at $3.50 p. m. next We'd
nesday.
The performance will be
open to the public without
charge. 1t is sponsored by the
District Recreation Depart
ment.
The program will include
Chopin's Les Sylphides,"
Scriabin'S Abstract" and
Khachaturian's "Masquer-
ade." Nicholas Pappas will con-
duct the Washington Civic Or
chestra and $50 singers and
dancers will take part, includ-
ing guest soloists from New
York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Street Litter
Reform Urged :

The Deanwood Civic Asso-
citation last night recommended
better supervision Of streets in
the Northeast area.
Citing Forty-sixth street be-
tween Jay street and Sheriff
road NE, one member described
as terrible and disgraceful"
the Uttered condition of the
neighborhood. Another said
sidewalks were covered by
eroded mud as well as trash
and empty bottles.
The group also recommended
hard-surfacing Of the play
ground area at Forty-ninth and
Nash streets NE.
Mrs. Marie Rogers, vice pres
ident, conducted the meeting in
Carver School, Nottingham
street and Lane place NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Thefen be slight pause 10 disarmament efforts
the holiday week end-whie 40 million take TO the
highways for maneuvers.
Ike turns thumbs down on tax cut It's the gve-and-
take policy Republicans will take the taxes-and give Dick
Nixon something 10 campaign against.
Ideal manufacturers product An item that costs nothing
TO produce be packaged for Nickel sold for dollar
and is habt-forming.
United States atomic submarines stay under water
for month Seamans letter home: Just like you pop
Try would couldn't get my head above water between
pay days."
Resort hotels coe-on slogan to attract businessmens
conventions: you'll enjoy Entertained meals, edible
Observation-Disclosures"
The Democratic Advisory Council says Ike is "unn-
formed Ike doesn't read the Democratic Digest to find
out how thankful Democrats that he can't again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Ormondy Leads
Moscow Concert,
House Packed

MOSCOW, May 20 R.-An
overflow crowd cheered the
Philadelphia Orchestra last
night at its Moscow debut. The
orchestra is touring Western
Russia as part of the new
United States-Soviet cultural
exchange program.
Conductor Eugene Ormandy
was presented with a huge bou-
.quet after a program that
included Pictures From an
Exhibition" by Russian COM
poser Modesto Moussorgsky and
American Aaron Copland's
Quiet City"
Soviet composer Aram
Khatchaturian welcomed the
orchestra on behalf Of Moscow
music lovers and musicians. He
and pianist Emil Gilels paid
glowing tribute to Mr.. Ormandy
and his musicians.
All five concerts in Moscow
are sold out. The orchestra
gave three concerts in Kiev and
will present four in Leningrad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Church Art Show
Winners Named

The winners Of the recent art
show sponsored by the st. Luke
Methodist Church, Wisconsin
and Calvert streets NV, In
oil paintings were:
Mrs. Eugenia woolman, 2Soe
Thirty-eighth street NV. first
prize; Mrs. Mildred s. Bashore.
1889 Harrison street NV, sec
ond; Thomas r. Yanosky, Nc
Lean, Va. third: Lee McClana-
han. 3445 Thirty-eighth street
NV, fourth, and Mrs. Eliza
beth curtis, 50l5 Garfield
street NV, honorable mention.
The winners in water color
painting were Aung Nyunt. 1918
Belmont road NV, first prize;
Roland Snyder, Reservoir road
and Macarthur boulevard NV,
second; Charles Schlager, $500
Westbrook lane, Kensington,
Nd. third; Henry q. Marshall,
1900 Massachusetts, avenue
NV. fourth, and Robert W.
Calvin, 1884 Macarthur boule-
ward NV, honorable mention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
DORIS FLEEsoN
Democrats and the TM-Cut Ban

job Of taking his fellow
Texans with him on this mat
ter, is stalking his case on a
summer upturn. Should May
unemployment figures rise,
after seasonal adjustment,
Mr.. Anderson's stature as O
prophet may fall.
Campaigning De m o Gratis
face the fact that they have
as a party no record Of fight
ing the recession to help their
case next fall. They are be-
ing assured by Speaker Ray
burn and Senator johnson
that the mo leadership"
charge will lie against the
President and his party, not
the Congress. Not all of them
believe 1t; they anticipate
that incumbents of both par
ties will be on the defensive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
WILLIAM s. WHITE
The Lincoln Douglas Debates

wretched monotone, with one
hand on the manuscript, one
eye on the clock and both
eyes on the unwinking red
light which signals that the
television camera is doing its
proper work.
Lincoln and Douglas,
though well prepared for
what they were going to say,
obviously were Of the rear
back-and fire when ready
school that lives in public
affairs now only in memory.
Lincoln had great trouble
even in assembling the news
paper clippings that alone
could tell the story of what
had been said in Illinois.
Nobody had any press agent,
or battalion Of press agents.
Nobody had any manager.
Nobody had any Citizens
Committee for this or even
any Young Republican or
Young Democratic Commit
tee for that.
And neither candidate
seems even to have had cam
paign contributors powerful
enough to make suggestions"
in any very firm tone of
voice.
All these candidates had
we're great learning in what
they were doing-Douglas in
the formal and aristocratic
way and Lincoln in the de-
ceptively simple and awkward
prairie way-and great toll
erance toward each other.
This was the far-distant
yesterday Of politics. 1t was
a day redolent Of hot, wholly
Nnair-conditioned assembly
halls, Of torchlight parades
instead Of television spectacle
lars, Of red-eye whisky for
the audiences instead of mar
TINS for the smooth national
committees.
What price "progress"-and
whose progress has it been
across this political century?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
The Court Rules for q Worker

IL impossible for him. and
others similarly situated. 70
enter the plant"
This Is a familiar story.
II happens usually with the
sanction OF union leaders.
But Chief Justice Warren
isn't preoccupied with what
unions must do 10 discipline
their members and 10 abolish
"goon" tactics. He Is more
concerned that the courts
decision might hurt unions
financially-which. OF course.
should be a deterrent In It.
self. He writes;
by reason OF vicarious
liability for Us members Ill
advised conduct on the picket
lines. the union is 10 be SUBJ
jected 10 q series Of judg-
ments that may and probably
viii reduce II 10 bankruptcy.
or at the very least deprive
II OF the means necessary 20
perform It's role as bargain
ing agent OF the employees Il
represents"
One wonders why the Chief
Justice isn't as concerned
with the plight Of the en-
ployer against whom costly
strikes are inflicted.
There has been quite a
controversy lately about
right 10 work" laws in the
various States. These would
give the individual the right
TO join or not Join a union
and would prevent penalties
being imposed against nom
union workers. Most union
leaders have opposed such
laws, and certain unions to-
day are asking Congress to
legalize a CLOSED shop" mo-
nopoly. The latest Supreme
Court decision would seem
to imply that. even without
right to work" laws, citi-
zens may sue a union for
damages If deprived Of a
job. It's a privilege Of citizen
ship inherent in the Con-
stitution. But in recent years
1t has not even been accorded
the respect Of being termed
a civil right" Times may be
changing.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
NonpOrtisOn Study Seen Strengthening
Administration in It's Actions

Nixon better than ever for
1860. And II they were 10
slash nc the Dulles policies
Of containment and massive
resistance. they would be at
bottom attacking the funda-
mentals OF the Truman
Acheson foreign policy. a
Democratic one.
outside Congress. there
will be Democratic blasts at
the Administrations conduct
OF foreign policy. But here
again the key word Is con-
duct. not the policy itself. Mr..
Acheson, himself, has set the
pace: he has recently at
tackled the leadership OF the
Nations foreign relations,
but not the policies they are
pursuing. He has called Pres
ident Eisenhower's leadership
timid and weak. But he obvi-
ously wants a stronger Dulles
attitude, not a different one.
In the responses OF Mr..
Acheson 10 the public COM
plants OF George +. Ken
nan. once an Acheson policy
adviser. the former Secretary
Of State shows himself TO
be decidedly opposed TO the
get along with the Reds"
ideas that Mr.. KEENAN, ex-
pounds on TO foreign audi
ences. There is no real neu-
tralization or withdrawal, Mr..
Acheson declares, except sur
render and death.
The Democratic Senators
are going to take their cue
from their own former Sec
rotary Of State. In the
course Of the hearings, they
probably will discover many
areas in which American
implementation of foreign
policy could be strengthened.
They will, and so will their
Republican colleagues, find
errors of emphasis, perhaps
serious omissions. in many
quarters of the world.
But any really caustic
criticism of the present for
eign policy Of the Eisen-
hower-Dulles team will be
much more likely to come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
DAVID LAWRENCE

When a picket" line
blocks a worker from enter
ing a factory. his right 10
work Is interfered with and
anyone naturally assumes
that State laws provide a
remedy. Yet. when the SUI
preme Court OF the United
States renders a decision 10
that effect. as II did this
week. II becomes first-page
news and Is a matter OF gen.
eral surprise.
The reason Is that the SUI
preme Court In recent years,
In decision after decision, has
upheld the immunity Of la
Dor unions from punishment
for most Of the abuses which
have caused Nationwide
complaint. Now that the
court has ruled that. when
a worker-even though not
a union member lis pre-
vented from entering the
factory where he has a Job.
he may recover money dam
ages from the union, not
only for lost pay but for any
worries caused thereby, the
pendulum has swung back In
picketing cases 10 where IL
ought TO have been for many
years.
The court decided the case
by a vote Of 8 TO 2, as one
justice didn't participate. The
dissenting opinion, however,
written by Chief Justice War
rem and concurred in by JUS
tice Douglas, really contains
a most interesting revelation.
The Chief Justice says the
man who was kept from
working should not have
been allowed to sue In a State
court and that there is a
very real prospect Of stagger-
ing punitive damages accu-
mulated through successive
actions by parties injured by
members who have sue
cumbed to the emotion that
frequently accompanies con-
certed activities during labor
unrest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Some Members Iritoted With Royburn
And Johnson for Dropping Issue

poets Of the argument-and
it is as hot a debate among
some Republicans as among
many Democrats - Senator
Douglas is going ahead.
He takes the position that
the recession is real and Sc
we're; he is working on the
thesis that the tax cut should
approach six billion. The bill
he is preparing apportions it
almost equally between ex-
cises and personal income.
He includes also a provision
designed to help small busi-
ness by cutting the corporate
tax on the first $4,000 Of
business income from 80 to
20 per cent.
The Douglas view is that
such a cut would increase the
gross national product $l8
billion and help to pay for it
self in increased income tax
revenues.
Not yet determined is the
strategy of the fight. Tax cut
proponents are counting
heavily on the fact that some
kind Of slash in Transports
ton excuses is very widely
acceptable. Once that door is
open they feel they will be
on their way.
Early in March, Senator
Douglas made a stab at tax
cutting in connection with a
tax windfall voted to life in
surance companies. He was
clobbered then rather effort
lesSly by the johnson leader
ship.
1t may be that the fight
will be purposely delayed by
him, if possible, into the sum-
mer. The Treasury Secretary,
who has done such a neat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Orotions of 1858 Are Termed Learned,
Lacking Tricks and Slogans of 1853

This is the centennial of
a great debate Of a kind
that will come no more. The
country perhaps is all at
once too bored and sophisti-
Gated and too full Of juvenile
political rock and roll to
listen to such organ thunders
from the past.
Just a hundred years ago
Abrah a m Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas were
facing in Illinois the stump
dissatisfaction slavery, on
States rights, on the future
expansion of this Nation
that made a fork in the road
for history.
Douglas won the battle but
lost the war. He retained his
seat in the Senate. But the
defeated challenger-Lincoln
rose from these dialogues
in the dusty and sweaty halls
of Illinois to the presidency
of the United States.
Douglas already was ia
nous. Lincoln became vastly
the more famous from this
contest in the West.
What these men said
formed the backdrop to what
neither wanted-a civil war.
But what they said will live
forever as classic major en-
gagements in political war
fare.
The Library of Congress
is publishing a book called
"The Illinois Political Cam
paign of 1853" It is based
on the Alfred Whital Stern
collection of Lincoln papers.
1t is a book made up Of
reproductions of the news
paper texts Of the Lincoln
Douglas debates. Lincoln
himself edited these texts.
And so far as can be seen
he took out nothing except
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28
Wonen's Dissent, Citing Possible Cost
To Labor Unions, Is Criticized

10 Is amazing that the
Chief Justice would be will
ing 10 deny complete relief
10 an injured worker Just be-
cause the precedent might
thereafter be bothersome or
annoying or costly 10 labor
unions. Such solieitude Is
understandable when uttered
by a labor partisan, but Il Is
surprising when Il comes
from a member Of the high
est tribunal. which Is sup
posed 10 be impartial and
primarily concerned with the
law as written and not lis
political or economic conse-
quences.
Curious reasoning Is also
revealed when the Chief
Justice asks: Must we as
sumo that the employer who
resorts 10 a lockout Is also
subject 10 a succession OF
punitive recoveries at the
hands Of his employes7" The
answer Is that every en-
ployer has always been sub
ject 10 damage suits for
violation Of any contract and
win continue 10 be II his
lockout" Is in violation Of a
valid contract with a union.
There Is no doubt that the
majority opinion Of the
Supreme Court win have a
salutary effect on picketing
as 1t lately has been prac-
ticed In America. Here Is
how Justice Burton. who
wrote the courts opinion In
this case, describes what UNI
happily has become common
practice In labor disputes:
such piakets by force
Of numbers, threats OF
bodily harm to Russell and
Of damage to his property,
prevented him from reach
ing the plant gates. At least
one striker took hold Of
Russell's automobile. Some
Of the pickets stood or
walked in front Of his auto
mobile in such a manner as
TO block the street and make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

for parenthetical references
to applause" and the like.
The action of the Library
of Congress is the nearest
thing to an anniversary
memorial to a time long gone
and a controversy long since
settled.
The scene evoked is strange
to a political writer of the
present-strange but far
from unattractiVe. For in
that earlier day of presumed
widespread illiteracy. before
everybody knew so much
about so little, the speeches
Of both Douglas and Lincoln
had something that has gone
quite out of fashion now.
They had an unashamedly
literary-and even a learned
quality that would repel
and horrify the political
ghost writer's Of today. Both
speakers plainly believed that
those who heard them were
grown up. or should be.
There were no trick over
simpliflcations, and there was
no sloganeering. Whatever
slogans were attached to the
great addresses-in Ottawa,
in Freeport, in Charleston, in
Galesburg. in Quincy and in
Alton-arose naturally from
them. They were not pre-
pared to serve as ready-made
jingles.
Present-generation politi-
clans with major speeches in
mind usually must: ID Have
them written, in all or in
part, by others. % Mimeo-
graph them well ahead Of
time and send them out to
other advisers" and then to
the press. 80 Cut down on
what they have TO say and
labor at "socko" ways to say
it. "a Finally, read these
speeches in a tired and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

Democrats in Congress
were not called into caucus or
consultation on the agree
ment Speaker Rayburn and
Senate Leader Lyndon john
SON. made with the admin
iStration not to cut taxes,
and many are bitterly assail-
ing it as a decision made by
"the three wise men from
Texas" The third is, Of
course. Treasury Secretary
Anderson, an Eisenhower
Democrat.
Nor will the dissidents let it
stand without a struggle.
Senator Paul Douglas of Illi-
nois, the only professional
economist in Congress, will
lead the fight. He does not
know how much help he will
get, but that does not affect
his determination.
He will be working in an
extremely fluid situation.
Administration chiefs are
split on business prospects.
So is business. Labor Secre-
tary Mitchell is unhappy and
so, less vocally, is Vice Pres
ident Nixon. Even aides of
Agriculture Secretary Ben
son confided they fear farm
problems will get worse again,
though easing for the pres
ent.
What embitters Democrats
most is the shouldering of
the political risks Speaker
Rayburn and Senator john
son have taken in their be-
half. They cannot see that it
was necessary to help the
President out Of this partic-
ular hole while conceding that
on foreign policy the story is
different.
Whatever the political as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-28

Politics OF the domestic
variety has often affected
the formulation Of foreign
policy. Seldom has the mix
ture been q good one. or even
q safe one. In the past few
years. with the pains and
pressures Of the cold war ever
complicating American rela-
tionships with the rest OF the
world, politics In foreign
policy has been a particularly
dangerous game. Fortunately,
there has been a general and
responsible realization OF this
fact among the leaders Of
both major parties.
The Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee. In begin
ming a thorough study" Of
American foreign policy. has
taken pains TO emphasize
that the investigation win be
nonpolitical. Indeed, the
Senator's do not even wish 10
call their study" anything
else but that; they dislike TO
use the words inquiry or
probe.
Majority Leader Lyndon
johnson spoke for the Demo-
Gratis the other day when he
stated in the Senate that the
forthcoming study by the
Foreign Relations Committee
must be nonpolitical. His
words were needed by his
Democratic colleagues. When
Maryland's Senator John
Marshall Butler, Republican,
charged that a study by the
Latin American Affairs Sub
committee Of the Foreign Re
lations Committee could not
be unbiased so long as Sen
ator Wayne Morse, Oregon
Democrat and a noted par
tisan, was its chairman, Sem
ator Morse promptly offered
to step down. His colleagues
refused to take him up on his
offer, but it demonstrated
plainly that the subject Of
foreign affairs is going to be
as free from politics as is
senatorially possible.
OF course, there is sound
reason why the Democrats
stand to make no political
gain out Of the Nations for.
eign problems. II the Demo-
Gratis in Congress were to
attack the administration on
the Nixon adventures in
South America for example,
they would be Setting UP Mr..
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01

THIS WEEK
In Washington
With Clinton Davidson
The CRISIS IN SCHOOLS

The pressures will become more
severe in the. years ahead, when the
population bulge will press even
more urgently on already over
burdened facilities. The shortage of
both buildings and teachers is
becoming increasingly acute.
Educational Opportunities
Limited
The study predicts that ele-
mentary school enrollments will
rise from about D million today
to about 81 million in the 1960-6l
school year, an increase of over
500 in only three years.
BY 1869 high schools will be
deluged with 500 to 1870 more
students than they can now accom-
modate, and by 1878 our colleges
and universities will face at least
doubling, and in some cases
TRIPPING, Of present enrollments.
Mot only must our educators
handle a huge increase in the
number of Students" the report
emphasizes. "but they must offer
higher quality in education.
''We must not be forced to choose
between educating the few well or
the many poorly. There must be no
limitation placed in educational
opportunities. Our kind of society
calls for the maximum development
of individual potentialities at all
levels"
The report recommends that
local leadership and control over
education be continued and that
state, local and private funds
continue as the major source of
school revenues, and that Federal
funds without controls, be used
only to close the serious gaps in
the total educational system.