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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26
THE POLITICAL MILL
Stage Set-Condidotes Conino Up
BY GOULD LINCOLN

dates Is large, there Is no talk
OF standing aside. None Of
these potential candidates
has made a public statement:
II am a candidate for my
party's presidential nomina-
ton" Also. none Of them has
said: Il will not accept a
nomination" Believing, as
the Democrats do, that they
can win the presidency next
year, none Of these candidates
is anxious to wait for 1864
or any other future date.
Time for Seriousness Nearing
Some day in the not too
distant future this after you,
my dear Alphonse" attitude
on the part of these poten-
tial candidates will vanish.
Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts has jokingly
admitted that he has been too
busy thinking about whom
the Democrats will nominate
for President to give any time
to considering who will be the
Republican nominee. Gov.
Pat Brown. CALIFORNIA; Dem
ocratic hope. on a recent visit
here and In a similar vein.
commented: II, too, have
said I'm not a candidate (for
the presidential nomination..
II that doesn't put me in the
race, nothing can"
The question now is, which
one Of these Democratic
hopefuls will take the plunge
first and publicly announce
he is candidate.
Back in the Franklin D.
Roosevelt days-from 1888 to
l945-the Democrats did not
have to worry about who was
to be their presidential can
didate-except for a brief
period in 1910, when F. d. r.
was waiting for a draft" to
break the two-term tradition.
Nor was there any particular
worry in 1913, when Harry
5. Truman was President,
although some Democrats
talked Of throwing MI. Tru-
man overheard before the
party's national convention
actually met that year. But
in 1852, when a conviction
was growing that Mr.. Tru-
man would not run again.
Senator Estes Kefauver of
tennessee, who had been
chairman Of the Senate
Crime Investigating Commit
tee, got into the race early
and as a result went to the
n a tion al convention with
more delegates committed 10
him in some way than any
other candidate. He lost
eventually to the reluctant
Gov. Stevenson. In 1856.
it was Gov. Stevenson who
realized he must fight for
a second nomination if he
wanted one. who set the pace
with an early announce
ment. This time he went
after the nomination and won
after bitter primary contests.
Today. in all probability, po-
tential nominees, like Sena-
tors Kennedy of Massachu-
sets and Humphrey Of Min
nesota. will have to fight
openly for the presidential
nomination. showing strength
in preference primaries as
well as in public opinion
polls. Even Senator johnson
OF Texas, Democratic leader
OF the Senate. may have to
show that he has popular
appeal, if he is to have a real
chance. In a deadlock con-
vention, if it occurs. Mr.. Ste
venson may be the choice or
Senator Symington of Mis-
And it could take a
smoke-filled room to settle
the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26

@AS AsSPubAACuil INdJlOLldl
Committee. meeting here
April 10 and IL, will Ak place
and date Of the 1860 Repub-
lican National Convention.
Chicago. 1t is expected, will
be the convention site. The
date, in all probability, Au-
gust or August 8. The Dem
ocrats have already decided
to hold their national con-
vention In Los Angeles, OPEN
ing July IL. The Republic
cans have q site committee
still working on a place for
their convention, with New
York, Philadelphia and Mi
ami bidding. as well as
Chicago. New York, like
California. has a potential
candidate for the @. o. p.
presidential nomination -
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
This, 1t is held, puts New
York out Of the picture for
the national convention. Just
as the fact that Vice Presi.
dent Richard M. Nixon is a
leading candidate for that
nomination eliminates either
San Francisco or Los
Angeles.
Neither Vice President
Nixon nor Gov. Rockefeller
has said he is a candidate for
the presidential nomination.
But few political observers
have any doubt that both will
be hard-running candidates
when the time comes. Mr..
Nixon's candidacy has been
recognized for a long time.
All he has said is that he
VIII not again be a candidate
for Vice President. Gov.
Rockefeller has said he in
tends to be the best possible
Governor Of New York that
he can be. There has been
considerable talk about Mr..
Rockefeller standing aside in
1860. on the theory that it
might be a strong Democratic
year, and waiting to try his
wings in 1864. If there should
be a real demand for a
Rockefeller nomination next
year, no such waiting opera
ton will be possible.
Basis for Suspicion
History does not show that
a man can turn his party
down when it wants him for
a presidential nominee and
hope to get such a nomina-
ton later. With a war on in
1914 and President Franklin
D. Roosevelt in the White
House and the obvious choice
OF the Democrats for re-
election, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, Republican, did not
step aside, although the odds
against a victory at the polls
appeared slight. indeed. Ad-
lai Stevenson. then Governor
OF Illinois and intent on seek
ing a second term, strove hard
to avoid a Democratic presi-
dental nomination in 1852,
but he had to go along with
his party'S demandS-though
he believed that Mr.. Essen
hover would be the Republic
can nominee and as he frank
ly told intimates: Nobody
can beat Eisenhower"
Also. there is a Shrewd SUE
picion-with a pretty solid
base that Gov. Rockefel-
Ter has an ambition to be
P President of the United
States. He had, indeed. an
to become Governor
OF New York. But he kept his
well under cover in
l958-until a real demand for
him arose among many New
York Republicans.
On the Democratic side of
the fence, where the field of
potential presidential candi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26
Our Public Debt

According to Gould Lin
coin March 49,, Senator
Byrd has produced an
alarming array Of figures and
facts which show that the
Federal Government is being
rapidly showed into a state
of insolvency" Luckily this
SANDER of the credit of the
United States persisted in by
some very respectable people
is without basis in fact.
The total gross Federal
debt went from $269.4 billion
at the end Of the fiscal year
1916 to $270.5 at the end of
fiscal 1857. This. however. in
cludes debt held by Govern
ment accounts. that is what
one part of the Government
owes another part. This
makes the Federal debt look
bigger than it actually is and
a more scarifying figure
handy for those who want to
brighten us with hobgoblins,
more appropriate for the
Halloween season than for
spring. II we deduct the part
which the Governm emit
owes" itself, we find the net
Federal debt declined from
$240.3 billion at the end of
fiscal 1916 to $2l4.9 bill
lion at the end of fiscal 1857.
(Since then the debt has gone
up, but I don't have at hand
what the net debt Isl
Between 1916 and 1857
the Federal debt was cut in
half. or more, when measured
as a proportion of the annual
national income.
We can have more con-
f1dence in the credit Of our
Government than in that of
those. worshipping at the al
tar of a balanced budget"
whose own accounts are so
unbalanced that they only
point to what will establish
a preconceived case.
In its Business in Brief"
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1858,
the Chase Manhattan Bank
said: Current problems of
public debt management
should not obscure the fact
that the real burden of serv-
icing that debt has been re-
duced during the postwar
years. At the end of World
War II, the public debt was so
per cent of all debt and more
than equalled the total out
put of the economy for a
year. Currently. the debt is
two-thirds of the gross ma
tional product, and one-third
OF the total debt Of the coun-
try. Partly because of a rising
trend in interest rates over
the past decade, the annual
interest charge has increased
from $5l2 to Sta billion. But
interest is now a significantly
smaller percentage of the
Federal budget and of ma
tional income than in l948."
I suggest we listen to the
bankers rather than to the
moSSback politicians in this
matter.
Sidney Koretz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26
Summit Meetino

simple truth that the So
viets ask only for the things
they are interested in? The
summit meeting is the thing
most ardently desired by
Khrushchev. He needs this
meeting in order to bolster
his waning prestige by a
spectacular propaganda sue
cess.
Khrushchev has to fight
not only the mounting oppo-
sition within the Soviet en-
pire but also economic diff
ficulties. 1t is against the
interest Of the free world to
help Khrushchev overcome
his difficulties.
AS a tyrant with absolute
power Khrushchev can end
anv crisis provoked by him
without any conference.
either on higher or lower
level. And If Khrushchey
were to decide to have war.
no conferences, no negotia-
tons would prevent him from
starting such war. Now is the
time to act first and to talk
afterwards.
Karlis Kalnins.
I am hoping that America
Will back out of the proposed
summit" conference, realiz-
ing that Is another weapon in
the Communist program of
world conquest. On Septem-
sbek Tls55. Khrushchev as
sured us: If anyone thinks
that our smiles mean the
abandonment Of the teach
lngs Of Marx. Engels, and
Lenin, he is deceiving himself
cruelty Those who expect
THIS tO@happen might Just as
well wait for a shrimp to
learn how to whistle" And
Lenin has said: Promises
are like pie crusts-made to
be broken" Furthermore.
Stain has said: Words must
have no relation to action
otherwise what kind OF diplo-
macy is it? Words are one
thing, actions another. Good
words are a mask for con-
cealment Of bad deeds. Sim
cere diplomacy is no more
possible than dry water or
iron wood"
Another fear I have of the
conference is that 1t may be
the occasion for launching
the most spectacular Com
munist peace" movement on
record. The Communist Dmi-
tri Manuilski has said:
There will be electrifying
overtures and upheard-of
concessions. The capitalistic
countries. stupid and deca-
dent. will rejoice to CO.
operate in their own destruc-
ton. They will leap at an
other chance to be friends.
AS soon as their guard is
down, we shall smash them
with our clenched fist"
I believe our leaders by
now are well aware Of the
futility Of negotiating with
the Communists. but want to
negotiate anyhow in order
to demonstrate to the world
Americas good intentions.
In my opinion. good inten-
tionS are not enough to turn
the tide of Communist en-
slavement. We must be pre-
pared with a long range plan
Of action, designed to ad-
minister q fatal or gripping
blow to world communism,
whenever the aston
presents itself.
J. Francis Heath.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26
Aid for Tibet

What are the free people OF
the United States doing to
help the embattled Tibetans
throw of the yoke of Com
munist oppression in this
their hour Of desperate
need? I trust we are doing
more than We did to help our
Hungarian friends.
News reports state that the
Tibetans obtained their arms
and ammunition by raiding a
Communist arsenal. Obvious
~ they cannot hold out very
long with Just those weapons.
They should not have to do
so. Surely the billions of dol
lars the United States has
spent for foreign aid in the
past several years should
have included provision for
just such developments as the
present one in Tibet and the
1856 uprising in Hungary,
otherwise the aid is falling
to reach the areas of crucial
need.
The manner in which our
aid could reach the desper-
ate Tibetans is very simple.
Among the items of military
aid which we have sent the
Nationalist Chinese surely are
the type Of weapons which
could be used by the Tibet
ans, such as hand grenades,
rifles and other small arms,
bazookaS, etc. and the neces-
sary ammunition. A. few Jet
bombers could deliver this
materiel to the anti-Commu-
nists in Tibet by parachute
drop. Those people now have
the will to fight communism.
Let us give them the means
to fight communism. Let us
not leave them to be slaugh-
tered by Macs machine guns
and dive bomberS with only
clubs, Anticipated muskets
and their bare hands to de-
fend themselves.
Formosa has been built I'D,
with our aid, as a bastion of
freedom from Communist
tyranny in Asia. Now is the
time to use it. We cannot af-
ford to let the fighters for
freedom down, or they will
lose their will to resist. EN-
lightened self-interest" die
tates that we hit the Red
menace hard while we vet
have the chance.
Ethel M. Morse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26

Pen names may be used II
letters carry Driters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26

home. I am not a prude, nor
urattractive. nor over 30.
The physicians letter is alb
solutely true except for one
point. He did not mention
comments made by his own
countrymen, but covered
those Of a foreign visitor.
Believe me. John O. Public,
American men and women,
visitors to this city and many
local residents as well. are
appalled, at the sight of in
decently dressed women in
Washington and suburban
areas during the summer
inontiS }.4t.tytsf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-26
fmmodest Clothing

J. Francis Heath.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29
DIR. Astin Says:
Bureau of Standards
Still Moving Here
DR.. Astin Says:

The National Bureau of
Standards will come to Mont
gomery County as planned in
spite of rumbles of dissatis-
faction in the Atomic Energy
Commission over locating in
a rural area.
This was made very clear last
week by DR.. Allen v. Astin,
NBS director who with five
staff members met the County
Council, the Montgomery County
Planning Board, the mayors and
town councils of Gaithersburg
and Washington Grove.
DIR. Astin explained that
NBS criteria were different
from Aces not only from
production point of view but
from housekeeping aspects as
well.
Studies by NBS revealed, DR..
Astin said, that the preponder-
ance of the bureaus senior"
personnel live in Montgomery
County and the center of gravity
of NBS total staff is located
around the site of the existing
headquarters, Connecticut ave.
and Van Ness st. in Washington.
Acc, on the other hand, is
beset with transporting many of
its workers to and from as far
away as Arlington, Alexandria
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29
S ENTlNEL- G co1STe:G @5
thursday January ~, l959-A :

mail from folks in the Burtons-
vile area who object to the State
Welfare Departments proposal to
locate the Southern Regional De-
tention Center on the new dual
highway between Burtonsville
and Falkland.
1t is indeed an unfortunate site
selection = on the crest of
Knoll overlooking several hand
some new subdivisions. "Deten.
ton center" is euphonious term
in the modern style for such
things. 1t is still a Jail.
have discussed this matter
with Delegate Nichols ID, Prince
Georges), who says he would like
to have the center located in
LAUREL where the District of Co
lumbia already has a somewhat
similar institution.
His suggestion makes sense.
and | think a satisfactory solu-
ton can be worked out. The i'm
portant thing, however, is to get
the matter settled before Wei.
fares capital budget has its hear
ing on March Is. Nobody wants
to delay construction of this bad.
ly needed facility.
Advance Taking
The State Roads Commission
and Baltimore City already have
the power to move in on land in
volved in a condemnation case
after putting up the estimated
cost and securing any additional
award that may be made, but
without awaiting the actual trial
and award.
Comes now Baltimore County
with a sensational amendment
that will give it the same pow.
ers. Our County Council wants
1t too. So we may amend the Bal
timore County bill to include
Montgomery.
Budget Hearings
Budget hearing dates for major
departments are as follows; Feb
ruary Is, University of Maryland;
February 10, State Roads Com
mission; February "a, Health;
February Is, Mental Hygiene;
March a, Education; March 5,
Correction; March Is, Public Wei
fare.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

and Southeast Washington.
And since work at NBS is de-
voted almost exclusively to
physical research, on the spot,
bureau personnel will not be
faced with the necessity of fire.
quent trips to Washington for
conferences with city-based top
brass" as are top Acc aides.
NBS owns a 550iacre tract off
us. 240 Immediately west of
GaitherSburg. Use and coming of
surrounding land was the causa-
tive factor of the joint meeting
last week.
I'VE know" said DR.. Astin,
that Montgomery County is
trying to attract light industry
to the county. And certainly" he
continued, Montgomery County
has the opportunity of becoming
national science center because
of Acc, NBS, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda Naval Hos
pital, Vitro Laboratories, Johns
Hopkins Laboratories in Silver
Spring and Howard County.
But what bothers us is
your Interpretation of light
industry. What is 1ight'?" he
asked.
He explained that the delicate
measurements made by his
bureau require near total absence
of vibration, electrical interior
ence, air pollution, changes in
temperature all of which could
be caused by some kinds of in
dustry.
He was treasured by Gathers
burg Mayor Merton F. Duvall
that, so far as his city was con-
cerned, no Objectionable indus
try would be allowed to locate
near the government installa-
ton.
Donald Gingery, Planning
Board member, told Astin that
the county and the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission are refining a
set of industrial performance
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

pointment to office because of a
basic or general conflict of in
tereSt.
Believe me, we're not getting
into that hassle. The Councils
group is welcome to it.
Auto Inspection
Once again l find myself chair
man of subcommittee assigned
the job of handling an automo-
bile inspection bill.
Fl. B. 25, introduced by Dele
gates Tydings and Hess Cd, Har-
ford), is said to be virtually the
same bill that passed the House
in the 1855, 1856 and 1857 SEES
sions and on each occasion failed
by a narrow margin in the SEN
ate.
1t provides for annual, inspec-
ton of vehicles in private garages
under strict supervision of the
Maryland State Police and is mod
eled on the law now in force in
Pennsylvania.
Most observers agree that the
ideal inspection plan is the New
Jersey "a nd d. CO system of
State-operated inspection stations.
The cost of duplicating the New
Jersey system in Maryland was
checked out by a subcommittee
in 1855 and was found to be Elk.
cessive, even if the number of
stations were limited to one in
the small counties and not over
three in the largest counties.
The Pennsylvania system is in
finitely more convenient to the
motorist, and the bill provides for
spot checks and heavy penalties
TO keep the station operators from
INDUCING in favoritism or dis
elimination.
over thelaSt four years ! have
asked literally hundreds of pres
ent or former residents of Penn
sylvania about that system. Most,
but not all, of them have said
that il, works very well there.
Detention Center
have received quite a bit of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

Our bills simply address them.
selves to the self-evident fact that
members of the commissions
should make known any personal
interest they may have in a pend.
ing matter and should disqualify
themselves from voting on it.
Frankly, 1 would take for
granted that they already do ex-
actly that, but it should be made
a matter of law anyway. The
Maryland Constitution already
blankets the judiciary under the
following prohibition:
mo Judge shall sit in any case
wherein he may be interested, or
where either of the parties may
be connected with him, by affin-
lty or consanguinity, within such
degrees as now are, or may here
after be prescribed by Law, or
where he shall have been of coun.
sci in the case" Cart. ", sec. ~
assume that they, being
judges, know just what is meant
by affinity or consanguinity"
The Councils commission will
have to tackle much deeper and
more complicated aspects of con.
flict of interest, including the ex-
tremely difficult question of pos
sible disqualification from APP
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29
LIS Bus Line
Is Extended

ID. c. Transit Systems L-8,
Connecticut ave. line, will be ex-
tended February 2 to provide
service between the Chevy Chase
circle and Silver Spring shopping
district.
The route will be operated
weekdays and Saturdays from
Rock Creek Forest via Wash
ington ave-, East-West hwy,
Sixteenth St, Colesville rd., Fen
ton ST., and will loop via Wayne
ave. and Pershing DIR.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

voiced a fe a /
that they might
obstruct or IAN
t icipa t e" the
findings of t h c
commission that
is to be appoint.
ed by the Coun-
ty Council on
this question.
There are n,
real grounds TO.
any such appre,
henSion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

full cooperation to NBS in work
ing on a master plan affecting
the NBS site.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29
Inside Annapolis
By Blair Lee iii

AS mentioned several weeks ago. have before at
Annapolis two little conflict of interest blsone for each
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

In this vein, Gingery and
Grover K. Walker, president pro
tenn of the Council, offered their
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

l call them little because they
are short in length and narrow
in scope. Several readers have
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-29

standards that could have great
application to Objectionable in
stallations at the NDS site.
The Sidney herald., 1959-09-23
Over Sixty Students
Leave For Colleges

Young people from Sidney ano
surrounding rural area, left the
past week for colleges throughout
Montana and neighboring states
Possibly the largest number will
attend Montana State University in
Missoula, including Betty Hall,
Ronald Quilting, ack Martin, De-
Ann Atchison, Joyce Christensen,
Lorna Mikelson, Jon Petersen,
Shirley Palmer, Leroy Anderson,
Eddie Dotson, Roberta Gladowski,
Robert Campbell, Margaret Strom
and Richard Pribnow.
The Eastern Montana College of
Education in Billings, and Mon
tana State College in Bozeman
will receive two groups about
equal in numbers. Attending
Eastern will be Milton DeVries,
Sharon Daniels, Kathy Petersen,
Audrey Dombrosky, Ruth Brown
ing, Barbara Kappel, Mary Lou
Volk, Craig Price, Judy Hagen,
Robert McWilliams, and Helena
Anderson. Those enrolling at
Bozeman will include Norma Jean
Foss, Mary Marie Foss, Don Franz,
Robert Franz, Julianne H~oversten,
Dale Winter, Keith Winter, Gus
tave Pribnow, Bruce Kennedy,
Conrad Hansen, and Gary Brac-
ken.
Registering at Rocky Mountain
College in Billings will be Kay
Roath, Tom Quilting, jeanette
Scheetz, Patty Badt, and Judy
Sundquist.
David Little will return to
Havre, and Lynn Nelson will at
tend Carroll College in Helena.
Out of state schools will also
receive some local students. At
Concordia College in Moorhead,
Mimi, will be Judy johnson,
Sharon Anderson, Lorenzo Simon
and jeanne Ness, while Dana
College in Blair, Nebraska will
have Betty and James Joslin
and Shirley Dige. Attending
Dickinson State Teachers College
N Dickinson, N. Oak, will be Fred
Ford and Dale Dotson. Rita
Anderson and Elaine Wick will 90
the Northwest Medical Institute
o. Technology in Minneapolis.