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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
Men in the News

Mr.. Adenauer was much in the
headlines for reasons other than
his expressed views on the West
ern position in the coming nego-
tiationS.
On Tuesday he surprised the
world-even his own close associ-
ates-by agreeing to relinquish
the chancellery and run for Pres
ident of the German Federal Re-
public. Since the latter Office,
now held by President Theodor
Heuss, is constitutionally one of
little actual power. the reaction
of most of the world to the start
ling decision was Immediately that
Der Alte" was taking himself out
of active politics, to assume the
role of an advisory elder states
man and a ceremonial head-of-
state while younger men took over
the tiller and the chartroom.
What, asked the punditS. was
going to become of the rigid"
stand long taken by the West in
its dealings with the Soviet bloc?
With American Secretary of State
Dulles forced out of active policy
making by abdominal cancer, and
Mr.. Adenauer, in effect, retiring
to the sidelines, who was going to
carry the ball for firmness in
standing against Soviet demands?
But as the week ended the APP
praiserS had to begin reappraisal.
There were two reasons:
First, Mr.. Adenauer. in a speech
broadcast Thursday night, assured
the world that he was by no
means going to turn himself out to
pasture. with all emphasis" he
declared. "the position, the task,
and the work of the Federal Pres
ident is underestimate, both by
the German public and the world
at large" And he added signifi-
cantly that "the attitude of the
Federal government in foreign
policy questions will not change
by one iota either during the pres
ent period of conferences or during
the coming few years."
Second, there were increasing
indications last week that the
determination Of Mr.. Dulles to
keep his hand and head in the
formulation of Western policy
toward the Communist world
might yet bring him to the con-
ference table, at least through
the Geneva meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
Johnson's Speech

The johnson move was in
terpreted as an answer to the
latest attacks from fellow Demo-
Gratis on his leadership tactics in
the Senate. Senator Mcnamara.
Democrat of Michigan, had &C
cused the Majority Leader of fall
ing to support effective legislation
to deal with the unemployment
problem.
Senator johnson let the charge
go unanswered at the time but
there was an implied reply in his
speech before the labor rally,
where he declared:
II do not pretend to be salts
fled with the emergency. stop-gap
unemployment compensa i o n
measure that Congress has passed.
1t did not nearly begin to meet
the needs"
Congress is considering legisla-
ton which would fix Federal
standards for unemployment BEN
efits, now administered by the
States. A plan proposed by the
AFL-CIO would require States to
provide 80 weeks of benefits at so
per cent of the unemployed work.
er'S previous wage. The maximum
length of payments now ranges
from 16 weeks in Florida to 80 in
Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

"In the preparation Of a con-
ference of allies 1t is difhcult
to agree on all points from the
beginning. A large number Of
questions must be gone into and
clarified in order. That is neces-
sary, and it must be done very
carefully. in order to operate as
a negotiating partner against a
dictator who, according to his own
personal judgment. decides what
he says, what he does, and what
he leaves alone"
Thus did West Germany's rugged
Chancellor Adenauer last Thurs
day describe the Vests problems
on the eve of top-level negotia-
tons with the Soviet Union. And
in describing the problem Of
achieving some unity Of approach
between the Western allies in their
dealings with Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev, Mr.. Adenauer
did not pretend that such unity
nau YET peen acnleVeQ.
a.. so far as NATO is con-
cerned there is absolute agreement
on fundamentals. In less i'm
portant, detailed questions, and
perhaps in questions of procedure,
complete agreement has not yet
been achieved"
The octogenarian German leader
was undertaking the case, as he
himself went on to prove in Subse-
quent remarks. The developments
on the international stage during
the week, particularly with ref
erence to the preparatory talks
in advance of the coming Foreign
Ministers meeting at Geneva on
May IL, combined to reveal a
wide cleavage between the points
of view of the Western allies as to
proper policy toward the Soviet
demands on the status Of West
Berlin, European security, and
military disengagement in central
Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
BY WILLIAM s. WHITE
Contributing Writer

The tall bell tower on the Cap
itol grounds that is to be dedicated
Tuesday to the late Senator Rob-
ert A. Taft of Ohio will comment
crate more than this extraordinar-
lily gifted, this majestically wrong
headed, this wilfully unpopular
politician who was in private life
so deeply loved.
1t may be said to be also shaft
of enduring recognition to one
man as a representative of all
those superior men everywhere
who never quite made it" in life
never quite reached the goals
they had set, and the goals more
over which by ordinary measure
they had actually earned.
Already. the dread word "con-
troversial" is being applied to this
rather gaunt and forthrightly
functional structure. All this is
entirely as it should be. For this
memorial controversially chal-
lenges by its very location, as Taft
himself with his fiat and nasal
and massive tactlessnesS so often
had challenged, some of our most
widely held cliches.
There is the crude cliche of the
junior-grade cynics that nothing
succeeds like success. Taft glow
ingly proved its bankruptcy. For
it was most of all in his last and
greatest failure, his failure to
reach the presidency, that most
of all he succeeded. Then, there
is the meSsily sentimental cliche
that it is much better, and indeed
somehow more truly American, to
be a common man" than any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
The Compromise Plan

In the role Of peacemaker and
mediator. the United States last
week was offering a tentative COM
promise. In effect, the plan calls
for very gradual, de facto re-
unif1cation Of Germany by starting
with minor contacts and working
up to larger ones. AS each stage
was accomplished. some definite
disarmament step would be taken.
so that the successful completion
Of the program would find Ger
many reunited and without means
for aggressive warfare. The whole
program would be guaranteed by
East-West treaties pledging united
action against any violator.
But even if the United States
proposals were to be ultimately
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12


whether he is eligible to draw an
other IS weeks Of Federal bene-
fits.
His wife is working part time
as a secretary, and his family is
not going hungry. From Govern1
ment-owned agricultural surpluses
they are allotted a monthly ration
Of S pounds Of butter, S pounds
of corn meal. 8 pounds Of rice and
20 pounds Of flour.
Weiser's spirit is not broken
and he hopes that the resurging
national economy will bring bet
ter times to Oil City. He does
not wear the look of hopeless
ness" that distinguishes some Of
his fellows in the ranks of the
unemployed.
He is not an embittered man,
though it rankles him that his
age has disqualified him for some
of the sparse job opportunities in
the area of Oil City. He was
turned down recently as a truck
driver because, at 81, he was re-
garded as too old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
Politics.:
Play Boil!

William Howard Taft was the
first occupant of the White House
to serve as an opening-day pitcher
for the Washington Senators. He
threw out the first ball in 1910 and
inaugurated a tradition that few
Presidents since have dared defy.
Short of war or national dis
aster and regardless of his Senti-
ments toward the perenially I'M
inspired aggregation of players
who carry the banner of the Ma
tional Capital in the American
League. the Chief Executive is
expected to be on hand on opening
day in Griffith Stadium.
Mr.. Eisenhower tested the tenn
per of tradition in 1858, his first
spring in the White House, when
the opening day ceremonies in
terfered with his plans for a Geor-
Continued on Page CA
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The Taft Tower Is q Memorial
To All Who Never Quite Made 1t

puerile. He believed, and on the
whole so conducted himself, that
the proper concern of a public
man was nothing less than to
guard the whole relationship Of
the private citizen to the state.
He believed. and on the whole
so conducted himself, that the
highest single quality for a pub
lie man was defined in the word
responsibility. Thus, even while
he was actively running for Pres
ident-as he did of and on from
1910 through 1952-he was Ca
pable Of the most deeply respon-
sible and courageous, if ill-timed
and self-damaging, acts. He would
go to the heart of the farm belt
and coolly announce to his as
Sembled farm audience that price
supports were too high already.
He would stand during the height
of the Western worlds wholly I'M
derstandable desire to punish the
Nazi war bandits and declare that
it was not good Western law. not
good Western justice, to try men
for crimes that had been defined
as crimes after their commission.
Needless of Outcries
He would set out with glacial
determination, as he did in Mr..
Truman's worst" 80th Congress,
to put shackles of iron upon the
labor movement. But as he studied
the facts, as he learned what was
to him the then entirely novel
union side Of the thing, he would
moderate his own bill, on his own
motion and quite needless of the
outraged cries of the manage
Continued on Page CA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

collective sigh of relief that was
breathed in London and to a
quieter extent in Washington.
With Mr.. Adenauer'S stern, I'M
yielding visage removed from the
scene, it was thought, the way
would be clear for some accommo-
dalton with the Soviet Union in
the impending talks. Little effort
has been expended since the visit
of British Prime Minister Mac
milan to Washington to hide the
fact that there still remains a
wide and serious gulf between the
German and British attitudes
toward what adjustments" are
possible in Berlin, on the German
problem, and on general European
security questions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

elsewhere. Such a freeze, Mr..
Adenauer fears, would mean an
end to German rearmament. now
just beginning to be realized. 1t
would also mean the denial of
nuclear weapons to the German
armed forces and a naturalization.
the Chancellor believes. of NATO's
strength as a deterrent to Com
muniSt aggression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

other sort Of man. For Taft was
distinctly uncommon, without try
ing, and that is one of the rea-
sons why he is the only man, of
the 10000 men who have served
in Congress, whose memory is cast
in stone upon the Hill of Congress.
A Product Of the Senote
His uncommonness, his ap-
proach to uniqueness, did not
spring from being right" He was
often very wrong, in the eyes even
OF many who admired him most,
and he was if anything over-full
OF the exasperating and endearing
quality Of human cussedness. His
special quality came instead from
the fact that he was, to a special
degree, the distilled product of a
unique institution. the United
States Senate. This is the last
place in Government that knows
how to appreciate extraordinary
men.
Every public quality he had was.
for good or for i'll, a quality of
that institution. expanded in his
case to more than life-size. He
was, for illustration, fundamen-
tally a big man interested in big
issues and bored to the point Of
ill-mannered sulkiness and testy
contempt by the petty and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
Business Is Better

AS. Secretary of Commerce
Lewis L. Strauss noted, business
in the first quarter of 1859 has
been much better than was an
ticipated at the start of the year."
The employment pickup be-
tween February and March was
the sharpest since 1851. Mr..
Meany aScribed it chiefly to a
normal seasonal rise, though in
fact it was about twice as large
as the seasonal norm.
The improving picture in March
did not, however, erase the con-
tinuing seriousness of the uneln-
ployment problem. 1t reduced the
number of jobleSs to 4,360,0 a
figure that is still far out of tune
with an economy that is climbing
toward new peaks of prosperity.
To Mr.. Meany and other labor
leaders assembled for the unem-
ployment conference, the March
statistics did not add up to any
"appreciable improvement" in the
overall picture.
Despite the ballyhoo that &C
companied today's announcement
of unemployment figures" said
Mr.. Meany. "the hard fact re-
mains that unemployment in
March was higher than in any
other March since the end CT
World War II, except a year ago
when we were in the depths of
the recession"
In a statement issued in advance
Of the March figure, the Demo-
cratic Advisory Council had used
even stronger language. Directing
itself to the issue that has already
taken on major political implica-
tons. it charged:
THE principal reason for the
diSgracefully high amount of I'M
employment is the failure of the
Republican administration to use
the great power of our Govern
ment as an instrument of eco
nomic growth"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
U. S. as Mediator

When the signs Of relief proved
almost certainly premature, the
diplomats went back to their task
Of achieving a united front. The
United States. in this task, has
been playing something Of a
mediator's role. France, under
President de Gaulle. has openly
sided with the position Of Mr..
Adenauer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

announced his plan to introduce
a resolution setting up a joint
legislative-executive commission to
recommend Federal action to COM
bat unemployment.
The commission, as proposed
by the Texas Democrat, would be
given 80 days to taste. smell. feel
and hear the despair Of those parts
of the country where men and
women cannot find work"
Acting with unusual speed, the
Senate voted unanimously Friday
to create the l1-member commits
sion. House approval is expected
early this week
The group will make on-the-
scene investigations in areas of
high unemployment and submit
recommendations for action with
in go days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
A Labor Demonstration

Raymond Weiser was among
5000 AFL-CIO members who
descended on Washington last
week in what had originally been
conceived by Walter Reuther as
q march of the unemployed"
George Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO had argued that more
could be accomplished by an ''un-
employment conference" pointing
up labor's legislative aims.
What developed was an orderly
assemblage of labor leaders and
jobless workers, whose expenses
for the trip to Washington from
such cities as Boston, Chicago
and Detroit-and Oil City-were
underwritten by their unions.
There was no parade, no riotous
demonstrations and no ION to
Augusta" movement, despite the
placards carried by some Of the
unemployed unionists.
The edge had been taken OF
the rally by the Governments
cheering announcement the day
before that the number of I'M
employed workers declined by
387 900 in March. Total employ
ment rose at the same time by
1,106,000, to 63.828,000.
The statistics were impressive.
They were gratifying and of
great interest to all Americans, ;"
as President Eisenhower, through
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty.
had said in advance that they
would be.
They were accompanied by
other encouraging economic signs.
Gross national product, the total
output of goods and services, rose
to an annual rate of Sass billion
in the first quarter of 1859. The
auto industry, jolted badly in last
years recession, turned out 80
per cent more new cars in the
first three months of this year
than in the same period of 1858.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Improving Picture
For Our Economy

weer Quietspoken S7yearod father of six who
has lived most his life in OIL City, Pa.
1857 skilled machine operator earning
oil well supply He had been employed
there for is
that became the 1858 recession hit Oil City
w and several hundred Of his fellow workers were laid of
unemployed for Is months He has exhausted
his State unemployment benefits and there question OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

WiIIiom S. White, author Of this op-
proisol Of Senator loft, won the
Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1855
with THE Toft Story" His column
oppeors on the opposite editorial
pose Of The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-08
RAMBLER IS

RAMBLER '55
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FORD 1857 convertible coupe; r,
and h., auto, trans, power steer
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7sOo Wis, Ave- Bethesda Nd
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SAFE


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RAMBLER 1852 2-dr., 6-passenger
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T.RIRn ,57
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

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NEGRO GIRL REIGNS AS QUEEN
OF NY. GUILD FRONT PAGE BALI
~ Josrru wrnslmA In The New York Post

will the historian perhapa 10 record that Therene
Warrington Newspaper Guilds
bali the first Negro 70 win that title in The
Guilds 20 years.
that other Negro have beauty contests this
noted by the American evidence that 1889 Is
mott anath q
moving the historic 20 the immediate newspaper photo
graphefs Miss Washington q those
the traditional giamnr
oheeaecaxo, poses bathing suit pictures out
says blouse
without alacvca"
Washington exceedingly shy girl who
Guild beauty place
fame excitement in the
than She could expected
native Cumberland Md months
I'm atl waiting for the full Impact 70 reach me she
smile which undoubtedly eaptiyaed
Judges who cosc her Miss Page One 50
for newspapers Crhefe
hoogtyphios associated modern
beauty this they inches 15
pounds, and "a 2taa