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Regards Second Place as Prize
For Man With Own Political Appeal
WILLIAM S. WHITE

Vice President Richard
Nixon is determined that the
vice presidential nomination
is to be treated as a really
serious prize in next years
Republican convention
where he himself, of course,
expects the presidential des-
ignation.
Strongly aided by circum-
stance, Mr.. Nixon in seven
years has built up the Sec
ondary Office to a prestige it
never had before in our his
tory. The willingness of his
chief, President Eisenhower,
to turn over such unusual
power to the vice presidency
has been the first factor. But
Mr.. Nixon's eager readiness
to use that power has been
equally important.
Now, Mr.. Nixon is already
planning so that the Office he
has elevated will not return,
after 1860, to its old status
as a kind of sour political
joke. Traditionally, the vice
presidency has been seen by
politicians as a job for a face
less stand-in whose only i'm
portance lay in his being
around to take over in case
Of the death of his President.
A vice presidential candi-
date is usually selected by
the presidential nominee
himself, after some consul
tation with advisers. But if
Mr.. Nixon gets the top nomi-
nation next year, two things
may be put down as certain:
/. Richard M. Nixon alone
will decide who is to run on
the ticket with him. What
ever caucus" is held on this
subject will be held, really,
in Mr.. Nixons hat.
2. Whoever is chosen will
be chosen on new standards.
To begin with, Mr.. Nixon is
not impressed by the old
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POTOMAC FEVER
By Pete Wyme
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

experts say We'll lose prestige if don't fire at
the again Well it's cheaper lose the prestige
than the rocket.
Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Candidates
protests the slaughter of presidential hopefus by lining
them and shooting them down with questions the birth
control ISSUE
Ike will travel 1870 miles his 1-naton trip His
crones that he's been in the White House this
his longest trip of fairway.
You may have missed it, but Russian clowns went
strike in Moscow They desperate. Who wants to fol-
low act like Khrushchev's?
Postmaster General Summerfeld says mail early this
Christmas Just take last years Christmas card list and
out every other That way you'll get fewer
reprisalS.
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Thinks Americans Will Be Stirred
If Industry Inherits Atomic Eneroy

world. But they are not angry
about anything.
The American people, "
said one graying Democrat
who recalled the zest and
zeal of the New Deal days,
do not now act as if they
know this is their country.
So long as it is a comfort
able place to live they don't
care what the new owners
do with it,"
1t almost seemed at the
Young Democratic Conven-
ton that bouncy, confident
Harry S. Truman was the
only really young Democrat
there. He had ideas, angers,
and opinions and was ready
to reveal and justify them
abby faith and testament.
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This is second Of three articles on
Americas current and future
oir-nucieor deterrent power by
the Secretary Of the Air Force
from 1850 to 1853 and the
choirmon Of the Presidents Air
Policy Commission in l947-58.
Evening star., 1959-11-30

This is second OF three orticleS on
Americas current and future
oir-nucieor deterrent power by
the Secretary Of the Air Force
from 1850 to 1853 and the
choirmon Of the Presidents Air
Policy Commission in l947-58.
effort in missiles that we
have.
These facts, coupled with
many public statements by
United States officials, justi-
fly the estimate that the mis-
sile gap in the years 1860
through 1868 will be such as
to make a successful attack
by the Russians on our deter
rent force a real possibility.
During the period 1960-63
our deterrent force as now
planned will be vulnerable. 1t
will consist mostly of manned
bomberS, plus a few ballistic
missiles. Except for our sub
marines with their Polaris-
type missiles and a few
manned aircraft in the air,
we do not have as yet a mo-
bile striking force.
Our manned bombers will
be mostly on fields, and
therefore open to Russian
ICBM attack. To defend
against this we need a long
warning time-to disperse
the bomberS to other fields
or get them and their ac-
companying tankerS in the
air, get the bombs into the
bomb bays, and so on.
We would not have much
warning of a Russian ICBM
attack. Even with a COM
pleted ballistic missile early
warning system, which we do
not now have, we would get
something like Is minutes
warning. Our bases and in
stallations in the United
States could be destroyed or
immobilized by a one-mega-
ton weapon, decorating as
far away as five miles.
DiSarming attack on our
deterrent force in the conti-
mental United States would
therefore need only some
thing like 300 or 400 Rus
sian ICBM'S, depending on
their reliability, accuracy of
guidance and size of nuclear
warhead. 1t is a conservative
estimate that the Russians
can have this number Of
ICBM's, and more, within
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DAVID LAWRENCE
OueYinq Candidates on Birth Control
AS Foreign Policy Called Irrelevant

Did the Episcopal bishop
Of San Francisco, the Rt.
Rev. James A. Pike, advance
or retard the cause Of toll
erance in American politics
when he publicly injected
the Catholic-Protestant is
sue into the forthcoming
presidential campaign? He
was quoted last week as de-
manding to know whether a
pronouncement by the Cath
olic bishops of America op-
posing certain forms of birth
control is binding on Ro-
man Catholic candidates for
public office"
Senator Kennedy of Mas
sachusetts and Gov. Brown
of California, who are Cath
olics, promptly responded
with their views, and so did
some of the non-Catholics
who happen to be promi-
nently mentioned for the
presidential nomination of
the Democratic party.
The answers given by the
candidates generally say
they will be guided by what
is best for America. But the
topic itself, insofar as it re-
lates to any governmental
policy, is largely irrelevant.
For the United States Gov
ernment is not trying to i'm
pose any views on other ma
tons on the subject of birth
control. and the issue Of
population congestion in
the world isn't going to be
settled by the action OF any
President of the United
States in the next decade or
more,
The real objection, more
over, isn't to birth control
as such. What the Catholic
bishops oppose emphatically
is any form of artificial"
birth control, and they say
plainly that there are other
methods of control that are
morally permissible" The
bishops in their statement
didn't ask candidates to de-
clare themselves on the issue
nor was any reference at all
made to party politics. Here
are the exact words of the
key sections of the statement:
The perennial teaching of
the Catholic Church has dis
tinguished artificial birth pre-
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idea of geographical bal
ance"-if the presidential
nominee is from the East, for
example, the vice presidential
nominee must be from the
West, and so on.
His set of qualifications for
second place on the ticket
may be authoritatively de-
scribed as follows: The sec
ond man must first of all be
in total sympathy with the
policies of the top man. Next,
he must have genuine politi-
cal appeal in his own right.
He must be able actually to
assist the top nominee in
stead of just going on along
for the ride.
Then, he must be young
and vigorous enough to take
on much foreign travelling.
(Mr. Nixon himself has done
just such far wandering for
Mr.. Eisenhower. But if he
were President today he
would not be setting off on
the kind of 1l-nation jour-
ney Mr.. Eisenhower is TAX
ing. Mr.. Nixon would send
his VP, unsteady
Finally, Mr.. Nixon is far
from committed to another
kind of ticket balancing"
though his mind cannot
wholly be made up until next
year. 1t appears that the
Democrats are likely to put
a Catholic on their ticket,
in one place or the other.
Mr.. Nixon. for his part, may
well simply ignore the So
called religious aspect.
Many believe that if one
party offers a candidate from
among a religious minority
the other party is bound to
do likewise. Mr.. Nixon is by
no means so convinced. In
deed, his people reckon, on
the contrary, that in some
eventualitieS the political
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vention, which is a frustra-
ton of the marital act, from
other forms of control of
birth which are morally per-
missible. Method alone, how
ever. is not the only question
involved. Equally important
is the sincere and objective
examination of the motives
and intentions of the couples
involved. in view Of the ma
ture of the marriage contract
itself. AS long as due recog-
milton is not given to these
fundamental questions, there
can be no genuine under
standing of them. =.
United States Catholics
believe that the promotion of
artificial birth prevention is
a morally. humanity, psyche
ogically and politically disas-
trous approach to the popu-
lation problem. Not only is
such an approach ineffective
in its own aims, but it spurns
the basis of the real solution,
sustained effort in a sense of
human solidarity.
Catholics are prepared to
dedicate themselves to this
effort, already so promisingly
initiated in national and in
ternational circles. They will
not, however, support any
public assistance, either at
home or abroad, to promote
artificial birth prevention,
abortion or sterilization,
whether through direct aid
or by means of international
organizations"
Church bodies often express
their Views on public ques-
tions. Not long ago a national
Protestant group urged that
our Government extend dip
lomatic recognition to Red
China. No Catholic clergy
man thereupon demanded to
know whether the candidates
being mentioned for the
Republican or Democratic
nomination felt bound as
ProteStants to support such
a policy.
Actually, the statement Of
the Catholic bishops last week
was prompted by recent dis
cussions about the need for
some kind Of population
control in India and other
countries. These discussions
Evening star., 1959-11-30
RALPH McGILL

Some $25 billion has been
extracted from American tax
payers and spent on the de-
velopment of atomic energy.
Shall this investment of
public money be turned over
to private enterprise, utility
companies which will charge
the public for use of the new
energy?
Is this q major domestic
issue?
Former President Harry S.
Truman thinks so. He be-
lieves the American people
will be indignant if they un-
derstand this to be in the
thinking of the Eisenhower
administration and Of Repub-
licans in general.
This was one Of his points
made before the recently con-
cluded national convention
Of Young Democrats.
He spoke with great heat
Of the giveaway of the great
est water potential in the
Northwest, of the persistent
efforts to destroy or render
static the TVA-the Tennes-
see Valley Authority.
He reviewed the "giveaway"
of tideland oil rights, some
reaching out as far as 100
miles and containing oil re-
serves needed for the Ma
tion's reserve supply in de-
fense and war. This was an
issue in 1852. Adlai Steven
son fought for it boldly,
standing against the Repub-
lican campaign promise to
give it to the States for lease
to private exploitation. He
made a point of being on rec
ord in Louisiana and Texas,
where State desire for the
tidal oil supply was great.
There seemed no great STIR
ring of public debate on the
part of the voters. They were
then interested in peace in
Korea and, to a lesser degree,
in an end to waste and lower
taxes. They were promised an
end to the slow bleeding in
Korea, where no end seemed
in sight. And as for economy
and taxes, it was merely a
matter of getting some of the
Nations best brains in Wash
ington.
And today-almoSt eight
years later?
Harry Truman is a conf1d-
ent man.
1T is simply a matter of
getting the facts to the
people," he said, in his Toll
edo appearance. Mr.. Truman
is sure they do not want
their national resources loot
ed and their country's expan-
sion and progress slowed
down to please some Republi-
can financial interests and
the budget worshipers who
prefer a balance even though
the Russian output grows and
threatens our future.
But the questions asked
him in a press conference
were not likely to assist de-
bate. They dealt largely with
trivia such as whether he
was hurt at not being asked
to accompany President Els
enhower, did he write any
more letters to music critics,
why he rode trains more
than planes, what was the
health of his grandchildren,
and who was his choice for
the Democratic nomination?
1t was not inspiring.
There are no signs, al
though to be sure it is yet
early, that the American
people are interested in any,
thing really, save to have
things go along without any
crises. They want peace, as
% all the peoples OF the
Evening star., 1959-11-30
CAN AMERICA DEFEND ITSELF?
Quick Steps Needed
To Plug Missile Gap
BY THOMAS X. FINLETTER

BY THOMAS X. FINLETTEE
North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK, Nov. 3d.
In a previous article I point
ed out that if the Russians
get a large supply of inter-
continental ballistic missiles
before we build up our de-
fenses against them, they
may be able to disarm us in
a surprise attack.
We must believe that as Of
now the Russian offense is
not strong enough to do this.
They apparently do not yet
have enough ICBMs. But
they soon will have.
To forestall them, we must
Immediately harden the
shelters for our aircraft and
ICBMs; disperse our bomb
ers on numerous fields and
in the air; speed up the pro-
duction and quality of our
bombers and ICBMs, of our
PolariS type missiles
Launched from submarines)
and of air-to-surface mis-
siles for the bomber fleet;
and as a stopgap build a sat-
uration attack by Shark, our
slow air-breathing intercon-
tinental missile. We need, in
short, an urgent program to
stop up the missile gap.
We have not been told off,
cially how serious the gap is.
We do know that the Rus
slams have the two essentials
of intercontinental ballistic
miSSileS-rocket engines of
great power and good guild
ance techniques. Their rocket
engines are more powerful
than ours and their shots to
outer space are proof enough
of the quality of their guid-
ance.
Reds Shift to Missiles
The Russians are not like
ly to pass up the opportunity
to build a force of intercon-
tinental ballistic missiles
which would give them the
jump over the United States.
They have been concentrat-
ing heavily on missiles in the
past few years. Until about
five years ago they were en-
phasizing t h cir manned
bomber fleet. Then they
shifted the emphasis to mis-
siles, and it has been reliably
reported that recently they
have been making twice the
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Tolson with wonderful brie
The piece is q semi-serious
charmer, alternately sober and
sardonic, and one Of my par
ticular favorites in the gifted
Russian composers output
Charles Gallagher's saucy
trumpet added just the right
amount Of salt and pepper.
Bringing UP the rear was
Otto Luening's TX tuck y
concerto, a work which appears
to be a favorite with Mr.. Bales
He has programmed it, If I am
not mistaken, at least three
times in the last few seasons
This would be a heavy bur-
den even for a Beethoven SYM
phony, and Mr.. Luening, who
these days busies himself writ
ing electronic music, plainly IL
no Beethoven.
The Kentucky" concerto is
what I would have called in my
younger days a genuine crumh
bun, the very epitome Of the
musical cliche. But it does have
one thing-if you should be I'M
fortunate enough to hear it
that vulgar little calliope tune
in the last movement will haunt
you without mercy. Mary Reyn-
olds played the piano obbligato
part with appropriate Ken
tuckian brio.
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big divot, He reared: What
the hell's the matter with you?'
-. The niblick-swinger replied
"Y'know, l think / must be
dropping my left shoulder"
PET: DIR. Bella Schick, the
famed discoverer of the Schick
Test, was given an Irish setter
which, he now claims, is the
most educated dog in the world
DR.. Schick first sent the dog Ia
Blanche Saunders school, then
to Canine College, and now Ia
a postgraduate course in
NYUs animal division. 1T cost
us $50 a week-more than for
a humans education" said DR.,
Schick, but nobody's been able
to stop it from barking when
passing another dog"
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THE LYONS DEN
By LEONARD LYONS

Of customers for tickets to
Take Me Along" Everything
was set for the opening, he
said: II even hired Ella Kazan
to direct TOOts ShOr in the
audience - when to stand UP
and holler va crum. va and
when to below You're great,
great"
He smiled at the news that
the Guggenheim Museum, de-
signed by Frank Lloyd Wright,
was also opening last week {:
Its a round Joint, like my
round house in Peekskill. Wright
would have liked it," He
switched the talk to TV, the
quizzes and the artificialities.
II never used canned laughter
on my shows. because I couldn't
stand getting a laugh that
belonged to somebody else"
Gleason insisted he'd have no
problem giving his all, eight
shows a week, for a long, long
run. "Tell you why" he said.
In his early years he worked
at Kaliner's Little Rathskeller
in Philadelphia. I'VE used to
give Saturday matinees for
women shoppers" One day he
met a girl to whom he men
toned his job at the Raths-
keller. She said: "Oh, I saw you
at a matinee. Awful" From
then on, Il never sloughed off
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son" mass at st. Thomas Apos-
tie Church last night.
The seldom-heard MASTER
piece was a fine choice for
which director James Walsh
S h o.u Id be congratulated.
Added to the fact that the
mass is well worth more atten-
ton than 1t has received in
his country. its complexities,
though notable, are not so
great as to Illustrate the hard
working amateur chorus.
1t was evident from begin
ming to end that Mr.. Walsh's
outfit had worked hard and
learned its lesson well. The
music was well under control
and the singers gave it a de-
lightfully enthusiastic vigor
which more experienced cho-
ruses often lack. The very few
times when the chorus and
chamber orchestra began to
seek separate ways they quickly
were brought into alignment,
with scarcely a noticeable mis-
hap.
The quartet of soloiSts, which
Haydn keeps busy through most
of the mass, did a very credit
able job for itself and, in the
BenedictuS and Agnus Del,
achieved some real tonal beauty.
Soprano Carolyn Knight dis
tinguished herself, especially
in the superb ct Incarnatus
section of the Creed.
1t was an altogether laudable
undertaking, handsomely real
lied.
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HOLLY Cd
By SHELAH GRAHAM
Liz, Eddie Have Words

/ when he is charged with MUIR
der: Things are going so bad
for me here, that I may hire
Perry Mason"
Ava Gardner went into hiding
during her two days stay in
London. Par for the course.
Ann SOthern's leading lad in
her television show this season
and last, Jack Mullaney, goes
to Broadway in January to CO.
star with Estelle WinwOOd in
Birds of Summer"
The James MaSons' POrty
will be II years old November
Is. Porty, now starring with her
parents in Murder in the Red
Barn." has shed her baby fat,
and looks quite gorgeous. She
reminds me Of a young Patricia
Neal.
Ray DantOn, who won the
role Of Legs Diamond in the
gangster's life story at Warmers,
partly because of his broken
nose, will undergo surgery to
correct it when the film is
finished. He will also sue the
driver who smashed into his
car, and caused the injury, &C
cording to Ray.
When Paul Newman and JO-
anne Woodward return to Hol-
lywood on January 2 from his
Sweet Bird Of Youth" play in
New York, they will stay here
only two and a half weeks be-
fore taking off for Israel. I
read that 20th-Fox wants Jo-
anne for ION the Terrace" but
if it conflicts with Paul's date
for Exodus" in Israel, I'll be
surprised If Mrs. Newman re-
mains here to make 1t.
Victor BOrge, at the Sahara
in Las Vegas, was discussing his
430-acre farm for Cornish rock
hens in Connecticut. And Vic
tor explained: cts the perfect
alternative to peddling picture
frames in my old age" Borge
is rather cautious about money.
Has an obsession against pow
erty.
Bling Crosby and Bob Hope
start their Road to the Moon"
in February. It's Bob's next
film. They haven't yet decided
who the lady will be. But I
hope they will decide to include
their old Road" girl friend,
Dorothy LamOur.
Jean Simmons three-year-
old Tracy visited her on the
set Of Elmer Gantry." She
didn't recognize Burt Lancas-
ter, but flew into the arms Of
Patti Page whom she watches
on television.
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a performance" She was q
pretty girl. he remembered.
His next project will be a
series Of TV spectaculars, THE
Eight Faces Of Gleason" He'll
do "The Bakers Wife," THE
Prisoner" a Nero Wolfe mys-
tery-writing his own music
for them all. THE only thing
I'm interested in now is proving
points," said Jackie Gleason
as he returned to Broadway. 81
got the cabbage. l got the
laughs. I just want to prove
some points"
GOLFER: Gilbert Miller, CO.
producer of Golden Fleeing, 4"
tells of the tyrannical golf club
secretary who was shocked at
seeing a man taking practice
swings with a niblick on the
18th green. He rushed towards
the man in time to be hit by a
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NEW YORK. Jackie Glea-
son, back from the pre-Broad
way tour. beamed at the prison
bars and number painted on
his dressing-room door at the
Shubert. "I'll get a postage
stamp for a carpet" he said,
complaining Of the size of his
dressing quarters. I'm also
having this shower taken out
and a bar installed. What's
more important-a bath or a
drink"
Did he ever dream this would
happen, when he was a comic
at the 10 Club. "Of course, I
knew I was a riot when I first
left Brooklyn. I remember call
ing back. I'm a riot. Y'hear? A
riot" He glanced at the line
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NEWS OF MUSIC
Dozen Strings Prove
Fine for Old and New

lied music in honor Of United
Nations Day.
After a stirring but rather
rough performance Of the Bee
thoven Egmont Overture,
which for some reason seemed
psychologically ideal for the
occasion, Mr.. Bales and his
men turned their attention to
the evenings novelty, a SYM
phony by the Japanese COM
poser Komei Abe which was
receiving its American pre-
miere.
One would never guess from
this music, unless one knew the
fact beforehand, that Mr.. Abe,
a Hiroshiman now teaching at
Kyoto University, was a Japa-
nese composer. He has done a
pretty good job Of absorbing
Western music-I understand
that the Japanese are greater
enthusiasts for our musical
products than we are-but ]
am afraid that that is not
enough to make him a COM
poser.
While 1t is true that Mr.. Abe
shows a mild musical talent,
the symphony is so amateur
ishly put together and so lack
ing in substance that I doubt
that the performance, which,
according to Mr.. Bales an
nouncement, will be broadcast
throughout the world by the
Voice of America, will do much
to enhance his reputation.
After the intermission came
Dmitri Shostakovich's COM
pletely delightful little concerto
for piano. trumpet and strings,
played by pianist Margaret