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Nations Steel Strike Damage

tually must be arbitrated or
else submitted TO some kind
Of joint committee with power
to make adjustments that
both sides will show q willing
ness 10 adopt In some form.
The pressure on the COM
panies with old equipment
to modernize Is greater than
ever. Yet. the union is insist
ing on uniform rules for both
those with new and old
machinery. Certainly some
workers will be forced out Of
their present jobs but sensible
plans to absorb them in other
divisions OF the industry
would seem to be possible.
For the situation is not very
different from that which
faces workers when plant
operations are curtailed be-
cause Of economic conditions.
Auto workers, for instance.
who are innocent bystanders.
are already being laid of due
to shortage Of steel.
Then there is the problem
Of mergers. The Federal Gov
eminent, adhering strictly to
antitrust statutes, acts to
prevent mergers. 1t is fight-
ing the proposed merger be-
tween Bethlehem Steel and
youngstown Steel. It doesn't
make sense for the Federal
Government, on the one
hand, to frown on employers
who insist that unions must
agree to changes in working
rules, and at the same time
discourage the companies
from making consultations
which could cut their costs
and improve their efficiency.
Antitrust laws are essen
tial to the American system
of free competition, but they
can hardly be maintained If
big unions are allowed to OPP
crate monopolies that con-
troll labor costs.
The current steel strike has
raised some fundamental is
sues that are not going to be
solved merely by q compro-
mise on wage rates. The con-
flict Is broader and there will
only be more and more strikes
until the equities are clearly
established and new machin-
cry in factory operations Is
accepted for what it is-a
means Of cutting costs and
assuring savings to the pub
lie as O whole.
(Copyright, 1882
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Hundreds of Millions in Taxes
Only Part OF Loss to Country

strike again as advantage Is
taken by the union to press
later for further concessions.
Collective bargaining"
nowadays means that any
thing granted in a previous
year is permanent and not
subject to change.
So far as the public is con-
cerned, IL can hardly bring
its influence to bear except
through Government and
this, too, leads to settlements
Of strikes that are likely In
the long run to do more harm
than good. In fact. today's
strike in steel is largely the
result of the mishandling OF
labor-management relations
in the past with too much
Government pressure Of the
political sort that forced un-
sound settlements in order
to get a resumption of prod
uction at almost any cost
Today's impasse between
the steel companies and the
unions will not be solved
overnight. The Taft-Hartley
Act injunction when imposed
will not necessarily bring a
cooling-off period or even a
disposition toward concila-
tory moves on either side.
The fact is that no ma
chinery for settlement exists
today in which both sides can
have confidence. The spokes-
men talk vaguely to each
other but they know all along
what are the basic issues and
what must be done to get a
settlement.
One thing that has to
happen is an acceptance by
the union leaders of the con-
cept Of change in working
rules In the steel industry,
just as they have had to be
changed in other industries
to meet the new conditions
brought about by new ma
chinery and equipment. The
subject is far too complex to
be settled in the usual negotia-
tons. The employers have
already gone a big distance
in their offer to submit the
issues to impartial arbitrators.
This is a sensible approach.
The mystery is why the union
turned down this very signi-
f1cant concession.
For the working rules even
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Cuban Leader Seen Attacking Us
To Cover Up Conditions at Home
S. WHITE

Fidel Castro of Cuba Is
putting the United States
Government into an increas-
ingly uncomfortable position.
This bearded mouse is not
merely annoying the Yankee
lion. He is also causing Sc
rious anxiety here about the
already far-from- stable areas
Of the Caribbean.
His may be only a tin-pot
demonstration of hostility
against us; but 1t can have
unpleasant echoes, all the
same.
Responsible men in our
Government hope Castro can
be dealt with impersonally
and in a collective way
through the Organization of
American States. We have no
wish to be forced to take
steps alone that would per-
NIT him to below still louder
about United States "impe-
rialism."
So, Washington will try its
best to canalize his alleged
diScontents into the Inter-
American Peace Committees
jurisdiction. We are perfectly
willing to submit to the YER
dict Of that Pan-American
agency as to whether we are
mistreating Cuba-or whether
Cuba is becoming a common
nuisance in the Pan-Ameri-
can world.
The big question is: But
will Castro himself accept
the referee?
That he is acting like a
dictator is surprising only to
one group, since he is a die
tatpr and always was. These
are the misty-eyed reformers
who only a few weeks ago
were bowling hosannas to
Fidel Castro as a latter
day Abraham Lincoln. They
sprang gladly and automat-
ically to his side.
They did so because they
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see all public affairs. foreign
or domestic. with great SIM
plicity. Every politician is
either a translucent Glib
eral") angel or the black
est of c"reactionary") devils.
Naturally, they did not wait
to see whether even on Fidel
CaStro's halo there might be
a bit Of tarnish.
For Castro'S predecessor,
Fulgencio Batista, was a very
bad man, as they reasoned
and correctly so, as far as
that goes. Castro was fight
ing this very bad man. Thus.
Castro obviously was a very
good man. (True. there was
the inconvenient fact that
his firing squads were killing
people quite as dead as Ba-
tista's had done-but these,
Of course, were bad people.)
The reformers were en-
titled under the guarantee of
free speech to take up this
extraordinary view. Still, it
really is a pity they did, in
evitable though it was. For
much uniformed opinion was
created, in this hemisphere
and everywhere, that the
good young Castro had
brought only democracy"
where the bad old Batista
had worked such i'll.
All this, however, seriously
hampered the United States
in dealing realistically and
factually with the Castro
problem. And the big buildup
now helps him to insult the
United States in comparative
safety-and with an imperti-
hence of distortion that is
very able propaganda.
The fact is that his regime
could not survive six months
II the United States really
retaliated. Cuba's economy
rests on the United States.
AS a good friend of Latin
America, Senator Gorge
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status, it would require a
candidate who could appeal
to the majority Of independ-
ent voters plus a fair share
of Democrats to win. They
believed Mr.. Nixon's sharp
partisanship rendered this
unlikely.
The emergence of Nelson
Rockefeller as a leading polit-
ical personality has changed
all this. Democratic polite
ians may be in error in their
assessment of Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's chances for the Repub-
lican nomination, but he is
the man they fear.
Today the Democratic can
didates are being measured,
not against Mr.. Nixon, but
against Mr.. Rockefeller.
This does not mean that
they are not aware Of q
change in Mr.. Nixon's stature.
Whether he had much to do
with the change in the tenn
perature of the cold war as
exemplifled by the Khru-
shchev visit, they know that
much of the public gives him
credit for it. They know that
the assiduity with which Mr..
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Democrats Say It's Rockefeller

Nixon keeps himself before
the public via TV and the
headlines cannot help but be
effective.
Nevertheless they believe
that the Republican conven-
ton is more responsive to
manipulation than its Demo-
cratic counterpart. They truly
believe that somewhere, and
the setting they envision is
usually in some paneled board
room in Wall street, a group
of rich and powerful Repub-
licanS will sit down before the
convention and decide who
the convention will vote for.
They are convinced that the
first Eisenhower nomination
came about in just about
that way.
They profess to believe that
while Mr.. Rockefeller's mod
ernism may not appeal to the
old Taft wing of the Repub-
lican Party, if it ever comes
to the question Of winning
with Mr.. Rockefeller or
CHANGING losing with Mr.. Nix
on, the choice will logically
go to the New York Cover
nor.
The Democratic view may
be wide Of the mark as events
actually unfold. But it leads
to the question that is keep
ing most of the perspiring list
Of Democratic hopefuls from
moving far from taw. Hes
NICE" the Democrats say
about most of their candi-
dates, "but can he beat Rock
efeller?"
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POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Jim Farley says Adai Stevenson will be nominated only
in Of deadlock The the program looks now that
will come Immediately after the invocation.
According to Einsteins theory kind of folds
ITSELF it's comforting to Know that the further ahead
the Russians get the further behind us they fall.
You can't blame Cubas Castro for roasting the United
States Government He's the kind of who likes to have
to pick on-and his is always out to lunch
E't.f -
The Aim "Khrushchev in America" is smash hit in
Moscow AS for the stars performance reviews mixed in
the Russian press-ine, excellent and perfect
Harold Stassen makes his final bid for Mayor Of Phila
dephia He's who take defeat in srde-down
rlng at time
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Behind Costro's Goodinq of u. S.

Smathers Of Florida. points
out, Cuba would not last long
II we went elsewhere for
sugar.
But of course we do not
contemplate sanctions against
Castro. Nor do our leaders lie
awake in fear that Latin
America will explode because
OF him. Nor do they accept
the second of the two extreme
opinions Of Castro-that per-
haps he is some powerful
force for international COM
munism.
How, then, is he actually
seen by those in our Govern
ment who must work out this
sticky little problem? First,
he is one of the worlds ir-
responsibles, the fellows who
are agents not of communism
but only of ineptitude and
disorder. Second, he has
picked the United States to
attack because he needs a
foreign devil to beat at to
divert attention from hap
penings in Cuba, itself.
While he is still in control.
his revolution is faltering
here and there. Some pa
triotic Cubans originally
driven to him by Batista's
long excuses are beginning to
part company with Castro.
This is his business and his
alone. We are not anti
Castro. We are against one
thing only: We are opposed
to chaotic government any
where in the Caribbean be-
cause we want peace and
order to prevail there.
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Changing Season Strs Hunt for Words
To Capture Nostalgia of Then and Now

Autumn is no sudden thing,
even though one day one feels
the first cold in the wind and
says, Fall has come"
From the time all the
celestial bodies have formed
into line and the equinox
line has been crossed, the
great magnet Of the sun
begins to pull everything
toward winter. But 1t comes
slowly. There are a number
of things that forewarn.
There is that first night the
crickets cease to sound their
squeaky. scratchy notes, and
one looks up and listens,
realizing they are gone, and
feels a fleeting sadness be-
cause Of 1t. A man has too
little time to send out his
silent thanks to the crickets
on the warm nights Of Sep
TENDER when the sound Of
their myriad fiddles about
the house is comforting and
fits into the moods.
Then there is the first night
when the elemental winds
blow through the streets or
the suburbs, making the
frantic leaves sound as If rain
were falling in them. It is a
time when the second-genera-
ton city dweller leaves his
chair to see If it isn't raining,
forgetting that if it were, the
sweet, wet smell of the rain
would be in his room and in
his nose.
The first of the migrating
birds begin to appear. The
clouds look thinner and the
skies Of night seem clearer
and the stars nearer. Leaves
begin to fall and there is
color in the tulip leaves, and
the big red, purple, saffron,
yellow, blue and pink flowers,
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RALPH McGILL
Autumn Creeps Around Us

light and darkness, when the
light seems to pause for a
moment, the city man whose
roots go back to the farm
will stand on his small lawn
and feel himself very close
to the mystery Of the hush
and the standstill light.
Something seems to be try
ing to speak to him, some
message crying out from his
childhood when there were
no confinements, and no
limitations to his vision.
But it Is quickly gone. The
door opens and someone calls
to him. Neighbors pass. Chill
dren run aloSlg the walk.
Traffic, released by the green
turning light at the corner,
hurries by and the burnt
oil smell comes on the air.
The moment is gone.
For those town-bred, there
is also a sort Of magic in the
fall. but 1t Is one Of early
dark and the quick lights In
tall buildings; the shine Of
neon on black wet pave
ment: the sheen of the light
rays across city streets when
the rain is blowing through
them. and the buses are
crowded, and smell Of wet
wool, and men curse the rain
and the wetness. with no
compromising memory Of rain
in fields or on a quiet farm
roof.
In the days before there
were great cities, when man
was an agrarian and nomadic
animal, he knew how to eel
citrate and he felt the deep
meaning Of October-the best
month Of all. It was q time
Of harvest and festival and Of
rejoicing that food was in
cellars and barns and winter
was thereby thWarted,
They knew in those days
autumn was no sudden
thing :. and that October
was the magic month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-30

United States Steel Corpor-
alton lost $3l million In the
third quarter OF this year.
Bethlehem Steel Corpora
ton, the next largest, lost
$3S million in the third
quarter.
Jones a. Laughlin, the
fourth largest steel producer
reported a loss Of SIC million.
Inland Steel reported a net
loss of SIS million.
Wheeling Steel reported q
net loss of $4,263,000.
Lukens Steel reported a net
loss Of 90 million.
Those are the figures just
announced and they add up
to about 500 million-but
they do not tell the whole
story.
For the Government Of the
United States lost taxes equal
to these amounts and for
goes as well the taxes on
profits that would have been
at least $500 million. Also.
the Treasury lost far more
in tax receipts usually col
lected from the many in
dustries indirectly affected
by the steel strike.
But the losses in wages to
the workers are even larger
than the deficits of the cor
porations involved in the
strike. This, too, means q
loss Of taxes.
So the American people
must continue to pay more
taxes to meet these deficien-
cies and thus the hoped for
day of a reduction in tax
rates is postponed.
Nobody gains by a strike
and yet struggles arise Pc
riodically that are eventually
ended by negotiation after
which euphemistic statements
are issued about victories
won. The truth is that every
big strike is due to the failure
of the processes Of reason and
a breakdown in the commu-
nication system between
adversaries.
Sometimes union politics
keeps a leader from making
an agreement that he fears
will make him unpopular with
his constituency. Sometimes
management hesitates to
make a concession for fear
that next year 1t will face q
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coarser than the delicate ones
Of summer, all say that fall
is here long before the first
cold wind blows.
When man speaks to man
Of the swift passage Of time
he does not do it well, but
awkwardly, and in stilted,
shopworn phrases. There is
something in him which will
not let the words come
through. It is in the autumn
that a man often pauseS
and looks at his life. When
he does, his childhood seems
to rush forward to meet him,
and he stands at one with his
adult problems and the men,
cries Of his childhood-the
little things of no Importance,
the look Of a face not seen
in years, the play at school,
the fragment Of a CONVERSE
ton, some emotional moment
with his parents. It is almost
as If his grownupneSs and
his childhood were being
pushed together like an ac-
Gordon. It is a confused mo-
ment with the sound of time
passing through 1t.
The city man with the
rural background is stirred
by old memories in October.
He remembers harvest, the
smell Of warm stables in the
cold mornings, the dry, dusty
smell of the corn pulled into
fodder, the rich, clean aroma
Of fresh milk, the smell Of
the fall earth and things
pulled from it. pumpkins.
late-dug potatoes, and field
peas in their long pods, some
yet green, some golden or dry
brown, with the wind making
them sing in tiny, muted
voices.
In that moment between
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New Snowman Hunt

TOKYO, Oct. 80 (AP).-A
six man Japanese team Of
scholars, Alpinists and camera
men leaves by plane November
9 for Nepal to search for the
ever-elusive Accountable Snow
man (YetD of the Himalayas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-30

Doris FIeeson will be on vocetion
during November. This is her lest
column until she resumes writing
on December | next.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Open House

The Columbia University
Club of Washington will hold
an open house on Tuesday
from S to 7 pm. in the south
room Of the Shoreham Hotel.
This occasion is to welcome
to Washington the many
Columbia University alumni
and alumnae attending the
meetings of the American
Statistical Association.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
TENNIS, ANYONE?
She Has VANISHED Job
Mrs. Tom KiIIefer Heads Foundation

age of 76," she chuckled, be
cause his children couldn't
beat him, his grandchildren
couldn't beat him and his
great-grandchildren couldn't
either!"
Mr.. Killefer shares the
Clothiers' interest in the
sport and three of the four
young Killefers already are
learning the game. (Three-
year-old Anne is still q little
too small to swing a racket
Mrs. Killefer, who has been
playing as long as she can
remember, says that nothing
in her life has enriched it
more than tennis, from her
school days, through college
and since.
Not only does she enjoy 1t
as a sport but for the friends
she's made on the courts and
for the places she's visited
that she might never have
seen otherwise.
An example was the expert
ence she and her husband
shared when Mr.. Killefer was
on the staff of the United
States High Commission for
Germany under John J. Nc
Cloy shortly after World
War II.
In those days it was difi-
cult for Americans to get to
know the Germans, who were
still feeling pretty bitter, she
recalled. But not for the
Killefers. once they had
Joined the tennis club at
Bad Homburg, we'll known
spa near Frankfurt where
they were living.
we were invited to play on
the teams and that meant
going to different towns all
over West Germany" she re-
called. "On a typical week
Evening star., 1959-12-27

be more tennis and finally
the drive home through the
German countryside"
Insight
Not only did their favorite
sport provide an insight into
the German way of thinking,
but for Mrs. Killefer 1t meant
picking up a new language,
too. Since the club members
didn't speak English, she
learned German, thus adding
one more dimension to the
pleasure she has derived from
her beloved tennis.
The game also was the
basis of many friendships
she made while serving in the
Marine Corps in World War
II. (She went in as a private
and came out as q second
lieutenantO
A part of her job was or
ganizing recreation for the
men and women on her base
and naturally tennis figured
prominently in her program
Mrs. Killefer has found
that her own enthusiasm for
the game is matched by that
of Washington area young
sters enrolled in the weekly
tennis clinics conducted by
Russ Cooley under auspices Of
the Tennis Patrons.
"On the hottest days you
find them waiting for Russ
and his two assistants" she
said. They won't even know
it's hot"
Altogether, the summer
tennis clinics IN 1859 enrolled
a total Of 539 youngsters at
IA Fairgrounds, including
two IN Virginia.
The school clinic program
for the year, covering six
schools each in the District
and Montgomery County, en-
rolled a total Of 1917.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
BY FRANCES LIDE
star Srah Writer

49, - 80 "
Tennis has topped the list
Of her favorite pastimes since
Mrs. Tom Killefer was knee
high to net.
Now, from being primarily
a summer pursuit, 1t is be-
coming a year-round absorp-
tion for the daughter of for
mer tennis champion William
j. Clothier who held the ma
tional singles title in 1906.
Mans Organization
Her recent election as presi-
dent of the Washington Area
Tennis Patrons Foundation
has given Carolyn Killefer a
man. sized job in what is pri-
marily a mans organization.
(Only 5 Of the 80 members
are women.)
when I go to sleep I even
dream about tennis" she
confessed the other day.
But it's all for a good
cause - promotion of the
welfare Of Washington area
youth through the sport Of
tennis"
Founded in 1855. the or
ganization's aim was to offer
a new approach to the prob
lem of juvenile delinquency.
TITS summed up in our slo-
gan-Keep them on the ten
mis- courts and out Of the
Juvenile courts" Mrs. Kille-
fer noted.
The foundations program
ranges from providing tennis
clinics at area schools and
public Fairgrounds to bring
ing tennis personalities to
Washington.
And all this, of course,
takes planning-and money.
First Event
The first fund-raising
event for 1860 will be a re-
peat in February of last
years highly successful buf-
fet dinner at the Statler pre-
ceding the opening of the
professional tennis matches
staged by Jack Kramer and
his group at the Uline Arena.
In taking over the presi-
dency Of the Washington
Area Patrons-the first wom-
an to be so honored, Mrs.
Killefer is following in the
footsteps Of her brother,
William J. Clothier, jr., who
has headed the Tennis Pa
irons of Philadelphia for a
number Of years.
Like his father, the son is
a tennis enthusiast and the
two held the national father
and son championship for
several years in the '30s.
As young man, the senior
Mr.. Clothier played on the
Davis Cup team for two years
and his son is now being
mentioned as the possible
captain Of the Davis Cup
team next year.
- Family Champion
Her father is still the
champion in the family, how
ever, Mrs. Killefer reported,
though he retired from the
game two years ago.
He gave up tennis at the
Evening star., 1959-12-27

talking tennis-and mutual
problems-over fine German
wine.
Then on Sunday there'd
Evening star., 1959-12-27

end we'd go out with five or
six other couples, play all
day Saturday and then in
the evening we'd sit around
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Family Champion

Her father is still the
champion in the family, how
ever. Mrs. Killefer reported,
though he retired from the
game two years ago.
He gave up tennis at the
Evening star., 1959-11-03
British Bill Would LegoIize
Licensed Betting Offices

an account with a licensed
bookie, place your bet by tele-
phone and pick up your win
nings a few days later.
The government bill aims at
stamping out all the illegal sys-
TENS that have given the po-
lice a humping headache and
at making cash betting as So
cially acceptable as ordering
the weeks groceries.
No mention was made in the
bill of taxes that may be levied
on gambling.
Local magistrates would is
sue licenses for the betting
shops only after carefully in
vestigating the applicant. All
bookmakers would be called on
to pay $3.50 for a permit.
People under 18 would not be
allowed in the betting shops
Television and radio sets would
be banned from the premises
The bookie would not be al
lowed to encourage" prospec-
tive bettors.