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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-05
Benson Seen
Confident He'll
Defeat Foes

Agriculture Secretary Benson
acts as confident as ever that
he will defeat his foes in both
parties.
He displayed his self-assur-
ance at yesterdays press con-
ference by reiterating his de-
termination to stay in the cab
met and to keep fighting for
his controversial program.
A group Of Midwestern Re-
publicans. worried about a
farmer revolt against the COP.
in this years election, has been
urging Mr.. Benson to resign for
the good Of the party.
MY resignation is always on
the Presidents desk" the Sec
rotary observed yesterday. Cab
met officers additionally give
the President undated letters
Of resignation for use at his
pleasure.
Sees No Change
Mr.. Benson made 1t clear he
does not expect Mr.. Eisenhower
to let him quit.
There is nothing to change
the situation in my relations
with the President" he told re-
porters. The President has
backed his farm chief consist
emily.
AS for his legislative pro-
gram. Mr.. Benson gave no sign
of backing down in the face Of
stiff congressional opposition.
He wants power to cut price
supports on crops below exist
ing legal minimums.
In a flank attack on this
program, the Secretary's OPP
ponents are considering a stop
gap bill to freeze 1858 price
supports at no less than 1857
levels.
Mr.. Benson's comment in re-
jecting this idea: There is
always a tendency on the part
of some people to refuse to
face up to realities. Freezing
support levels is certainly not
going to help farmers make
needed adjustments"
No Dairy Price Shift
Carrying his no-compromise
attitude to another hot issue.
Mr.. Benson told reporters he
has not changed his mind
about cutting dairy price sup
ports at the start of the new
marketing year next month.
He also attacked as ''loose
and untrue" recent criticism of
increased spending by the Agri-
culture Department. His COM
ments obviously were a reply
to Mondays column by Drew
Pearson. IF my critics are
saying we are doing too much
for farmers, / must take issue"
Mr.. Benson said.
The Secretary said it is true
that more money is being spent
now for farm programs than
under the previous administra-
ton. Some Of the increases. he
said, reflect desirable expan-
sions in programs for agricul-
ltural research, conservation.
watershed and forestry devel-
opmentS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-05

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Surouk 3xl0s purchased from Fruminshum Estote SAAA
Good Original III new" cost $1,000 Now AX2
kermcn le4xoe purchased from Oyster Boy Es IN
tote Good Original II new" cost s., 500 Now A3X
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tote Fair. Original if new" cost 500 Now Ivy
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15

9-News. Weather. Sports.
Mudd. Douglas. Doniels.
Il:10
4-FeatuFe Festival. Movie.
! Hour, so Min. "5ol Toborin.
1852. A singer implicated 10 O
murder flees TO Poris. Mufiel Low
renee, WiIliam Ching.
11:l5
o-The Late Show. Movie.
Z Hours. THE Seoreh." l94S.
A war orphan is found in the
ruins Of postwar Europe. Mont
oomery Cliff, AIins MoeMohon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15

OQeSI. jim REEVES.
Stop DolIor. Quiz.
300
4-Splke Jones Show. Variety.
Featuring Helen Groyco
5-Don Owens JomboFee.
7-Ldwrenee Welk. Variety.
Hour. Featuring Lawrence Week
and his Champagne Music Max
ess. from HOLLYWOOD
9-Oh! Susonno. Comedy.
When the SIS oceon Queen docks
at New Orleans during Mordi
Sras Susonno and her friends
have dull time OF the Mordi
Gros until blind dotes show up.
Cole Storm stors.
$50
4-Turnins Point. Drama.
TOO Good With O Gun" A re-
formed ounfiohter must revert to
killing TO soVe on innocent man.
Robert Cummings, Michoel Lon-
don.
Shove Gun, viii Travel.
Polodin trocks down an outflow
who believes "a man hos to die
like mon at the honds OF O
mon." Richard Boone, Charles
Bronson, Grant Withers, lRepeot)
1000
4-Amateur Hour Ted Mack.
5-ShevIock Holmes. Crime.
7-Mike Wallace Interviews.
Guest: Adloi Stevenson.
9.GunSmoke. Western.
Dillon feels the terror known only
by man morked for death.
James Arness, Amanda bloke,
Dennis WeoVer.
1880
4-Joseph Gotten Show. Dr'mo.
we Who Love Her" A woman
Iaorns that her secret criminal
record will block the adoption OF
her niece. Alexis Smith, Kelvin
MeCerthy tRspeatl
S-Gions Playhouse. Movie.
IN Hours. "Once Upon q
tioneynoon. 1912. An Anneri-
Gun reporter trolls O Gestopo
uoent's wife. Ginger Rogers, Cory
Grant.
7-Saiewey Theoter. Movie.
IA heurs. Highway West.
I94l. A nice girl tries 10 get
owoy from her oonoster husband.
erendo Marshall.
s-The Grey Ghost. Adventure.
"Seefet and Urgent" Tod An
dreWS stars.
100
4.Nawa. Sprooue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
Background Remarks and Ethics

press has obligations also
and that the right to know"
doctrine does not include the
right TO break a confidence
agreement made with high
officials. The candid and
aboveboard way for anyone
who disagrees with that con-
cept is not to accept con-
fidences from high officials in
the first place, II 1t Is the In
tention surTeptitiously TO act
as an informant for the poll
ticians of the opposing politi-
cal party.
The situation in the Far
East is touch and go. Prin-
ciples of transcendent inn
portance are at stake. Yet
the needing Of the Govern
ment here for information Of
a military nature with respect
to American defense planning
in the Far East goes on
steadily. Both the Moscow
and Peiping regimes, with
their listening posts on radio
broadcasts, are delighted with
the cooperation they get
nowadays through those
American press dispatches
which tell In detail, without
authorization, what is being
planned and what is likely
to be done in a military OPP
Grafton by American forces.
Secretary Dulles has ex-
planned many times why 1t is
necessary not to advise the
enemy exactly what the
United States will do in case
of an attack on Quemoy. His
reason is that it is hard to
tell when a military move by
Red China may be merely in
tended to capture that island
and go no further, or whether
it is part of an attack on
Formosa itself, which the
United States is committed by
treaty to defend. 1t will be
recalled that Formosa is the
base from which Gen. Mac
Arthur's forces on the Philip
pines were bombed by the
Japanese on the same day
that Pearl Harbor was at
tackled. The Philippines-an
integral part of the free
world-are vulnerable to at
tack from Formosa.
AS Mr.. Dulles says, the
whole situation with respect
to the offshore islands is
interviewer with the problem
Of security of Americas allies
In the Far East.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
Unknown Newsm0n and Acheson Hit
For Locking Dulles Conference

conference as made public by
the State Department:
%. Mr.. Secretary, were you
the high official at Newport
preted the Presidents state
the other day who inter-
ment after 1t was released?
mfr. Dulles: ! had what was
supposed TO be, under the
rules that were laid down
when l had a meeting, a
background conference there.
realize now that you cannot
always have a background
conference with compliance
with the rules.
%. So you were the official,
sir?
"A. I was"
This was but a polite way
Of saying that some Of the
reporters who cover the news
Of the Chief Executive and
the Secretary Of State per-
haps cannot be trusted. or
that someone in their home
Offices violated a confidence
in transmitting to Mr.. Ache
son the source Of the news
dispatches.
But even II this informa-
ton had been impaired to
the former Secretary Of State
by some newsman, why did
this high official Of the Tru-
man administration feel that
he could disregard the ethical
position Of the correspondents
who received the informa-
ton? He must have known
1t was one Of the background
conferences such as he him.
self held when he was con-
Quoting the foreign policy Of
the United States in many
similar cases.
An argument can be made
that background" confer
ences should never be held
anyway and that everything
should be on the record. But
in delicate situations involv-
ing possible military action,
the press for years has re-
spected the condolences of
Government officials. Recent
ly organizations Of editors
have set up special commit
tees investigating secrecy in
government" and demanding,
under the fright to know"
principle, that more informa-
ton be made public. viii
they concern themselves with
the responsibilities of the
press?
1t would seem that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Guided Democracy for France

popular and able executive.
Luis Munoz Marin, runs his
little island efficiently with
immense support and APP
proval from his electorate.
Two world wars, a world
wide economic depression,
and the pressures Of fascism
and communism have oper-
ated together to bring about
the guided democracy in those
nations able to avoid the
disaster Of dictatorship. II
these nations had chung to
the idealistic but wholly inn
practical democratic proc
esses Of yesteryear, they
would almost surely have
collapsed into the waiting
steel arms Of militant totali-
tarianiSm.
Curiously. democratic prin-
ciples suffer little II at all in
the practice Of guided democ-
racy. In effect, a new phase
Of democratic government
has developed, and its future
looks promising.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
DAVID LAWRENCE

At q critical time-when
at any moment a miscalcula-
ton as to American resolute-
ness and firmness can cause
an enemy to take a chance
and start a military action
which could lead TO a big war
1t may be asked whether all
the reporters who cover the
news of the top officials Of
our Government are facing
up to the obligations Of a
responsible press. Also, are
the selfish politicians putting
partisanship and the pursuit
Of party advantage above pa
triotism?
These questions are asked
because of a breakdown in
ethics, particularly in q re-
cent press conference with
the Secretary of State. Mr..
Dulles had conferred last
week with the President at
Newport, r. l., on the sit
uation in the Formosa area
and had issued a prepared
statement. Mr.. Dulles also
had given, for diplomatic
reasons, in confidence to the
reporters some background
information, with the under
standing that what he said
was not to be attributed to
the Secretary Of State. Some
reporter at the press confer
ence felt free nevertheless to
ignore the established custom
that the condolences of public
officials are never broken, and
evidently informed former
Secretary of State Dean
Acheson about it. The latter
who is head of the commit
tee on foreign policy Of the
Democratic Party's National
Advisory CounciI-issued a
statement last Saturday in
which he publicly identified
Secretary Dulles as the source
Of the information to the
press. Yet Mr.. Acheson must
have known what the rules Of
the State Department have
always been in relation to
these informal conferences
with the press.
The question of ethics
came up sharply at the public
session which Secretary Of
State Dulles had with news
men on Tuesday of this week.
Here is an extract from the
ofhcial transcript Of that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
Gulf Long in Politics,
AFL-CIO Unit Says

contribution records also show
that Gulf Oil executives and
wives contributed $58,755 in
1852 and $87 $50 in 1856, prac-
tically all to Republican candi-
dates and committees. Mr.. Nc
Dewitt said in view Of this 1t
comes with poor grace for Mr..
Gray to say labor swings over
whelming political power.
The United States Chamber
Of Commerce, asked for COM
ment on Mr.. Gray's announce
ment, said it always has en-
couraged businessmen to be
more active politically. Cham
Der President William A. Nc
Donnell said in a st. Louis
speech Monday that if business
wants friendly public officials
it had better roll up its sleeves
and get busy in precinct and
ward politics.
Dan A. Kimball, former Sec
Rotary of the Navy and presi-
dent of the Aerojet General
Corp, announced a campaign
last week to solicit voluntary
contributions from his firms
$4,000 employees for the party
of their choice. The campaign
seeks also to get widest possible
voting registration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11

to that center of school inte-
grafton difficulties.
The chairman said members
Of the commission have been
briefed on the Virginia and
Little Rock school situations
but he added, such controversies
are pretty much outside the
authority" of the commission.
The commission was set up
by Congress last year to sur
vey the field of civil rights,
with emphasis on voting rights.
It is empowered to Subpoena
witnesses and conduct hearings
for the purpose of compiling
reports suggesting possible leg
islation to the President and the
Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
WHY WORK WHEN
YOU GET MORE
WITHOUT A JOB?

LONDON apt
doesn't pay Dennis Fox to
work in this welfare state
Of Britain.
The 32-year-old laborer
has no job but still man
ages to take home the
equivalent Of $3.50 each
week in family allowances
for his six children, I'M
employment pay and spe-
cial national assistance.
"The money is more than
he is likely to earn If he
finds a job" Probation Offi-
Ger John Kirkhope told a
HudderSf1eld court yester-
day
Mr.. Fox was hauled in
because he had failed to
pay 10 cents a week to a
former employer from
whom he emhezzled S66.
Action was deferred after
Mr.. Fox agreed to make the
weekly payments.
Otherwise the welfare
board will provide his bed
and board-in jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
CIothesSouq|1t
For Children

The Salvation Army has is
sued an appeal for children's
school clothing and shoes be-
cause Of an unusually high"
demand this year.
The Army's supply of disable
children's wear diminishes
every day. said 1t. Col. william
Range, divisional commander
for the National Capital area.
He said the organization was
receiving 800 requests a week
from the District and nearby
Virginia and Maryland.
These requests have been
coming since before the start
of school," Col. Range reported.
I'VE simply do not have enough
clothing to meet the need.
That's why we're coming to
the public to appeal for good,
disable children's clothing and
Shoes"
He urged the public to search
closets and storage chests and
bring their contributions to one
Of the following Salvation Army
locations:
In the District, 500 E street
NV; First and F streets NV;
lots Thomas Jefferson street
NV; 1911 G street Sc; 1918
Ninth street NV; 909 I
street NV.
In Maryland, 5000 Forty
first avenue, Colmar Manor.
In Virginia, 316 King street,
Alexandria; 1888 Wilson boule-
ward, Arlington; 929 West Broad
street. Falls Church.
Anyone who can't bring q
contribution to one of these
points is asked to telephone Dis
trict 7-8023 and arrange for a
Salvation Army truck to pick
it up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11

saving for itself only the right
to say: I'VE will do the same
things. but we can do them
better" This is hardly a
convincing political argument,
unless the times are so bad
that a change seems prefer
able.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's
long years in Office established
guided democracy in the
United States with a VEN
geance. Republicans at first
attacked the principles of the
New Deal directly; successive
and massive defeats revealed
the hopelessness of that
tactic. Then the modern
Republicans" espoused prac-
tically every reform Of the
halcyon days Of the New
Deal, and the Eisenhower
administration is bu. a mod
crate continuation Of the
guided democracy established
by Mr.. Roosevelt.
De Gaulle will have a strong
guided democracy under his
new constitution for France.
Nehru in India, Sukarno in
Indonesia, most of the Scan
dinavian countries to vary
ing degrees operate under the
guided democracy practices.
In our own hemisphere, an
excellent example of the
guided democracy may be
seen in Puerto Rico, where a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
Rights Group to Probe
Charges in 3 Stotes

The Civil Rights Commission
is opening full field investiga-
tons in Alabama, Mississippi
and Florida of charges that
Negroes illegally have been
denied voting rights.
Announcement of the inquiry
was made yesterday by DR..
John Hannah, chairman of the
commission and president of
Michigan State University.
The complaints, one from
each State, involve a number Of
persons. he said. He indicated
public hearings might be held
in the affected areas. depending
on what the investigation pro-
duces. He said he hopes investi-
gators will have turned in some
reports by the time the COM
mission meets again on Octo-
Der %,
The commission has been
meeting at its headquarters,
726 jackson place, NV, for
two days.
DR.. Hannah said he person.
ally favors turning over to the
Justice Department any infor-
nation obtained by the inves-
tigators which clearly indicates
a violation Of Federal law. But.
he said, this question is one
to be decided by the full COM
mission in each individual case.
Staff Director Gordon M.
Tiffany said that so far there
has been no refusal to cooper
ate on the part of State au-
thorities, but he added, II have
to say that it is pretty early to
say whether there is going to
be any,"
Replying to questions at a
press conference, DR.. Hannah
said the commission has not
had observers in Little Rock
and does not plan to send any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
FEVER
Harry Hanan
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Supreme Court meets the indignation Chief
Justice Warren has Ike squarely behind him-and in
hurry to catch up
The Maine story: There a fellow named Muskie
whose future was dim not dusky But Senator Payne,
the Goldfine did rain-and suddenly Muskie husky
Ike will visit restored ruins Of Fort Lgonier Pa Well
that's better than hanging around Republican headquarters
with all the unrestored ruins.
Adlai Stevenson calls e foreign policy clumsy cratic
sefrighteous" Is Adla bettnor giving the clue to No.
Vertical in a crossword puzzle?
Question Box Q--who coined the phrase "eeghead" in
politics? A-The poultry lobby.
The worrywart's creed Never put of until tomorrow
what you rue today.
No wonder Presidents Of the United States have
dncuy finding themselves The streets thanking the White
House change their names four times in four blocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
By the Associated Press

+, Word that the Gulf Oil Corp
plans a company-wide cam
paign to battle organized labor
In politics brings a ho-hum re-
Spouse from labor that Gull
executives already are veterans
in politics.
James L. McDevitt, director
Of the AFL-CIO Committee on
Political Education, said yester-
day Gulf Oils executives and
their wives have been pouring
money for years into political
campaigns, mostly Republican
Archie D. Gray, Cuffs senior
vice president. urged the firm
$4,000 employees, stockholders
and dealers in a letter yesterday
to plunge into local politics. He
said business, whether it wants
to or not, is up to its ears in
politics and had better start
swimming or drown.
IF we are to survive" Mr.
Gray's letter said, "labor's po-
litical power must now be OPP
posed by matching force, and
there is no place in the United
States where such force can be
generated except among cor
porations that make up Ameri-
can business"
Mr.. McDevitt said a dozen
wealthy American families con-
tributed considerably more in
the 1856 campaign than did the
AFL-CIO with its is million
workers. He said one of these
was the Mellon family, which
he said contributed more than
100000, and which Mr.. Nc
Dewitt said controls Gulf Oil.
The labor political CHIEF
added that Senate campaign
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
LATIN AMERICAN NOTES
Argentine Is Warned
To Gust Extremists

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. II
(AP).-The leader Of the pro-
visional government which
turned over its powers to Presi-
dent Frondizi May l has warned
his successor to clean the ex-
tremists out Of his government
or face disaster.
In probably his sternest
speech since taking over after
Dictator Juan Peron was ousted
in 1855, former Provisional
President Pedro Aramburu said
last night that the people Of
Argentina do not want a new
revolution" but that the From
dizi government is pursuing a
dangerous course.
He urged Mr.. Frondizl to
make drastic changes in the
governments program and re-
place officials with men Of
clear republican and demo-
cratic militancy."
Gen. Aramburu said APP
parently 'the nation has lost
its route; the ship does not
have a helmsman; shipwreck is
imminent.
The Frondizi government has
come under increasing attacks
from critics who denounce its
leftist and PeroniSt influences.
Rumors of plots to overthrow
the government have circulated
In recent weeks. Gen. Aram-
buru, a leader in getting the
military out of politics, is known
to have been a restraining in
huence on the plotters.
Gen. Aramburu's spec CHI
marked the end Of a four
month public silence. 1t is
bound to have a profound i'm
pact on grumbling military
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
De GouIIe's Plan Seen Resembling
Rule in Turkey, India and Even u. S.

The De Gaulle constitution
"a charter for the new Fifth
Republic-will be voted on by
the people Of the French
Union this month. There is
little doubt that 1t will be
approved, although the OPP
position in French po-
litical parties is strong. With
its approval. France will pro-
coed to join the growing
ranks Of guided democra-
cieS" in the world.
The guided democracy"
concept has taken root not
because Of a theory or a po-
itical school, but because
events and developments
have shaped 1t as a conse-
quence Of necessity. What is
1t. in outline2 It is easier, in
attempting to describe this
political phenomenon, to say
what 1t is not than what it
is, for the structures Of the
existing guided democracies
vary widely, to suit the needs
of the particular nation or
region employing 1t.
Guided democracy, for ex-
ample. is not dictatorship, it
is not socialism, it is not oil
garchy. Neither IL 1t Jeffer-
sonian democracy, or even the
kind of representative democ-
racy that prevailed in the
United States 80 years ago.
What 1t comes closest to
being is a self-perpetuating
board Of directors, headed by
a chairman who has very
extensive powers and who
occupies his post chiefly be-
cause he possesses, or did
possess at the beginning, the
confidence of a large major
ity Of his countrymen. The
chairman is highly unlikely to
be repudiated by his electo-
rate, If indeed he even has to
face an electorate personally
to be reconflrmed in his Of
fee.
Probably the greatest single
factor in world politics max
ing for the practice of guided
democracy is the absence of
major issues dividing political
parties Of the majority. Thus
in the United States, for ex-
ample, there is no great gulf
between the principles and
practices Of the Democratic
and the Republican Parties.
In India, the Congress Party
is almost identifiable with the
nation; opposition parties
with real differences, such as
the Communists, amount to
almost nothing in the scheme
of things.
Turkey, under Premier
Adnan Menderes, is an ex-
cellent example of a very
successful guided democracy.
There is a near-unanimity
Of political opinion support
ing Mr.. Menderes, chiefly be-
cause the opposition. under
Inonu, can offer almost Moth
ing that the Menderes party
does not already have. In
such cases, the opposition is
reduced to agreeing with the
policies Of the party in power,