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Evening star., 1959-10-25
Rickshuws Banned

KARACHI, Oct. "a (AP).-
Karachi's $4,000 cycle rickshaws
will be banned as of April /
because the Pakistan govern
ment feels rickshaw pulling sis
inhuman and the government
cannot allow a profession re-
pugnant to human dignity"
Evening star., 1959-10-25
Eisenhower
P|ays36Ho|es

AUGUSTA, Ga. Oct. "a
(AP). President Eisenhower
finally got some sunshine to-
day and it was so welcome, he
played twice as much golf as
Iusual-36 holes.
It was the kind of weather
tonic Mr.. Eisenhower had been
seeking for the chronic bron-
chitis he says he has developed.
But intermittent rain marred
the 69-year-old Presidents
first 18-hole round at the Au-
gusta National course during
the morning.
However, before he completed
that tour, the sun came out
brief1y-for the first. time since
Mr.. Eisenhower arrived from
Washington last Wednesday.
After lunch and Mr.. Eisen-
hower'S usual midday nap, the
skies cleared completely and
there was plenty of sunshine
for which the President had
such a long wait. The wind
was brisk and the temperature
about 10 degrees.
So the President played an
other 18-hole round. AS usual,
he travelled between shots in
an electric golf cart.
So far as newsmen know, the
last time Mr.. Eisenhower played
as many as So holes in a single
day was during an Augusta
visit last spring.
Tomorrow afternoon the
President will pack up and fly
back to the Capital.
In advance of golf today Mr..
Eisenhower prodded again for
settlement of the steel strike
with the shutdown in the 102d
day.
Evening star., 1959-10-25
Benson Enters
Walter Reed :


Secretary Of Agriculture Ben
son was admitted to Walter
Reed Army Hospital yesterday
for treatment Of an abdominal
ailment.
His temperature. pulse and
respiration were described as
normal and his condition salts
factory.
Mr.. Benson had not been well
since returning from a recent
To-day goodwill and trade tour
Of Northern Europe and Soviet
Russia.
Evening star., 1959-10-25
Truman Link Charged
LOST

BRACELET, silver, grandmother's
charm; 5 charms; lost about l week.
Reward WO. 6-1915.
Oaklawn, in Camp Springs. Reward.
CHI. S-S649.
DOG, cocker, black male with white
vest, belly and socks, weight about
30 lbs, green collar; name "Toggy";
vic. Layhill l-Norbeck. Md; $50 re-
ward. Call WA. 3-1319 or EN-.
2-S000, Ext. 524.
DOG. springer spaniel, brown and
white; name Mack; vic. Chillum.
WA. 7-7696
BOXER, brindle. right rear leg lame;
Shepherd Park vicinity: answers to
Rudy; reward ia. 9-5200, "a
Evening star., 1959-10-25
Johnson's Vote Race
Has Presidential Hum

JOHNSON CITY, Tex, Oct.
"a (AP).-Senator Lyndon B.
johnson, Democrat of Texas,
is not an avowed presidential
candidate but he acts like one.
The Senate majority leader
is making two to four speeches
a day underlining national is
sues. His whirlwind 63-date
speaking schedule the next two
months has all the earmarks Of
a drive for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
In the dozen Texas appear
ances this week, the lanky,
politically-astute Senator has
been called a man of destiny"
and "the next President of the
United States" Johnson-for-
President clubs are springing
up all over the State.
His Offices Buzz
Publicly and privately Sen
ator johnson says he is only a
candidate for reelection.
But his busy Austin (Tex0
Office, even his ranch head
quarters on the placid Peder-
males River near here and his
Washington office, appear
geared to more than a State
wide campaign for reelection.
Senator Johnson'S augmented
publicity staff steadily pour
advance copies of his speeches,
and statements into. national.
ste and local news outlets.
He rests between speeches at
his ranch. entertaining nota-
bles, or attending private par
ties studded with politically
significant guests.
Texas politicians consider
Senator Johnson's senatorial
position virtually impregnable.
Only two voices have been
raised against Senator Johnson
since the launching of a trial
presidential balloon in his be-
half last week by House
Speaker Rayburn, Democrat of
Texas.
Truman Link Charged
One came from the State
Republican Organization. It
said that Senator johnson "has
finally elected to cast his lot
publicly with the Truman wing
of the Democratic Party which
he intends to serve" The
G. o. P. leaders said the timing
of the Rayburn announcement
with former President Truman's
Dallas appearances placed it in
"a sorid atmosphere designed
to curry favor with the
Trumar-ADA (Americans for
Democratic Action Demo-
Gratis"
Evening star., 1959-10-25
RRINDLE BOXER

Reward. Has a stiff right hind leg,
ANSWERS to the name Of Rudy"
Call ia. 9-O995.
BROOCH, round, containing hair un-
der glass, surrounded by pearls; sen:
timental value; Thurs. Reward. Call
DOG, Chihuahua, fawn, male: vic.
Wilson blvd. N. Illinois. in Arling-
ton, Reward ia. 4-1553.
DOG, boxer, fawn color. female, Fri
day, vicinity Alta Vista and NH.
Phone OIL. 2-94O0.
DOG, poodle, blue, miniature. female.
lost White Oak, Md, VIC; reward.
MA. 2-0SS1.
fem: ans. to fluffy; has only i eye:
1900 blk. Webster me-. tag No. 5167.
Reward LA. 6-2934
DOG. boxer. fawn. male. very short
vic Boryhill Park, Arl blvd. Graham
rd.; last seen Oct l3: reward. JE.
2-0495. after pm.
PARAKEET, pale blue: repeats his
phone number. SPRUCE 3-1632;
vic. Cheverly. Reward.
PARAKEET. blue and gray, with white
head; vic. of 59th place and Ed
monston rd., Hyatts. AP. 7s60S0.
LA. 6-1717.
SIAMESE CAT, female, name "Tonki'' /;
vic. NV. Reward. RA. 1886.
WALLET, mans, brown, containing
money and Identification; somewhere
between Sth and D SITS. NV. and
Dupont Circle area. Reward 8or
return Of identification papers. AK
9-9297.
Evening star., 1959-10-25
FOUND

DOG, little Boston terrier. male, black
and white; found Oct. 2l, vic. JEFF
Davis hwy. and Evans lane. Potomac
Yard. Alex, Va. XII. S-9072.
KITTEN. gray and white; $500 blk.
Wisconsin ave. NV. EN-. 2-S232.
PUPPY. mixed, female, black: vic,
Cameron ST., Alex; owner call XII.
9-3959.
WRIST WATCH, lady's, gold; inscrip-
ton, Nom and Dad to Babs June
So" Daleview 5-SS91.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
DORIS FLEEsoN
Trek Into Midwest, Southwest and South
To Put New Yorker Under Scrutiny

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
will do his Christmas shop
ping next week in the Mid
west, Southwest and South
where his party normally
puts in its showcase the type
of wares he does not choose
to buy.
Gov. Rockefeller is an in
ternationalist and ready to
pay the costs of a vigorous
internationalist policy even
when the guns aren't firing.
He will encounter important
Republicans identified with
isolationism. Though many
of these now call themselves
nationalists, they still dislike
foreign aid and especially its
high cost.
Gov. Rockefeller raised
taxes in New York State to
meet the costs of welfare
state ent. That
wasn't popular even among
the recipients Of the welfare.
Republicans he will see in
Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas
and Florida equate high
taxes with original sin.
Gov. Rockefeller is identi-
fed with a broad liberalism
which expresses itself in
public service, philanthropy,
academic interests, urban
renewal and civil rights. The
candidates preferred by the
Republicans he goes to meet
Evening star., 1959-12-11

have been identified with
agriculture and business.
They are much more often
drawn from the farm and
the small towns than from
the cities.
He need not worry per-
sonally about being q city
fellow. That open visage and
broad smile, the big shoulders
and warm handclasp, suit
the small-town drugstore as
well as they do the pizza
counter and the rainbow
room.
Nor does he need to worry
about being a Rockefeller
any more than he did in New
York. Many communities
will doubtless be fiattered to
have this famously rich man
come jobhunting among them.
eager to win their favor and
communicate his views.
He will find also that there
are more foreign policy as
sociationS, more museums,
more colleges, more rampant
individualism, where he goes
than the parochial East has
any idea Of. Some leading
newspapers of the area will
welcome his liberal voice in
Republican councils, though
some won't. The important
weekly press Of the area in
particular reflects the more
conservative point Of view
except in agriculture.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Those Vulnerable Liberals

them on any single point is
necessarily unfit for public
service.
4. He has thought, and said,
that a party with some unity
is more likely to win than q
party with no unity at all
and armed only with the
glowing true faith Of the
knee-jerk liberals.
But in leaping upon Mr..
Truman for these truly in
famous observations the knee
jerk liberals have made q
big mistake. Those hereto
fore consigned by them to
outer darkness were easy
marks-demonstrably evil
fellows like Southerners, and
all non-knee jerk Northern
Democratic bosses" like
Carmine De Sapio Of New
York.
But it will not be easy to
convince the Democratic
Party at large that Harry S.
Truman is an overly con-
servative chap. So the knee
jerks, to twist a muscular
metaphor a bit, have at last
dangerously over reached
themselves.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Theme song Of the coverage of Ikes Asian trip:
"And the prose came up like thunder .
Food and Drug it's proved that coestero causes
heart failures Oh no Ever try to spell the thng2
Senator Eender predicts 1t will be Symngton Rookie
feler in 1850 With Mr. Defense running against Mr. Civil
Defense wen either wind up unform-or bomb shelter
Everybodys telling the FEC what's wrong with TV Well
all TV asks that people continue lots Of sleep over It
Rule Of thumb for business Christmas gs If the pack
age grges, dnk in hurry It may be evidence of payoa
Miracle pill: sO-caled because every time customer
swallows one. the companys stock jumps 10 points.
QHow does Ike like to be addressed as President or
General? A-Lately he prefers the simple prefix "ahama
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Douglas Gets
Deputy Post
Defense

Secretary Of the Air Force
James H. Douglas has been
moved up by President Eisen-
hover to be Deputy Secretary
Of Defense.
The recess appointment of
Mr.. Douglas to succeed Thomas
s. Gates, jr., who recently be-
came Secretary Of Defense, was
announced at the White House
late yesterday.
At the same time, the Presi-
dent promoted Dudley C. Sharp,
who has been Undersecretary Of
the Air Force since last August,
to succeed Mr.. Douglas as Sec
retary.
Mr.. Douglas, so, a Chicago
lawyer before entering Govern
ment service. has been Air
Force Secretary since 1857. For
four years previously he was
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Georgia Negro Educator Is Facing
Challenge as USIA Aide in Nigeria

the more dismal colonial
failures.
That the United States
should be moving to send into
the new nation trained, able
men to act as information
and public affairs representa-
tives is indicative Of an
increasingly alert State De-
partment policy. Mr.. Gordon,
who recently spent a year in
Africa on an Ogden Reid
fellowship. practically was
drafted for the job because
Of his success on his tour Of
some IA African countries. A
part of this was covering the
All-African Peoples Confer
ence in Accra, Ghana. He is
the second Negro to be named
to what is an important post
in the great political ferment
which is Africa.
Born of farm tenant par
ents in Arkansas 38 years ago,
educated in Memphis and New
York, Mr.. Gordon chose to go
back to the South. He worked
on a small weekly in Mem
phis, and then on the Atlanta
Daily World in Atlanta. There
his calm, deliberate evalua-
ton of problems and his
quiet, honest presentation Of
them earned him a Nieman
fellowship at Harvard. Pro-
gressive, responsible, he soon
had made a national reputa-
ton which, if modest, was
nonethelesS sound.
The probe IS Of $he new
government, Of those who
serve 1t, ana OF the United
States officials who will rep
resent this country there are
easily demonstrated. Nigeria,
on the west coast of Africa,
has been the largest British
dependent territory. In area,
it is four times the size of
the United Kingdom.
There are in Nigeria ESQ
different tribal groups, with
as many languages. Neces-
sity made English the official
language. It's history is typ
ical. Portuguese Sd orS first
Evening star., 1959-12-11
RALPH MeGILL
An Appointment to Nigeria

saw it about 1472. 20 years
before Columbus sailed on
his voyage of discovery. The
British were there by 1851.
The slave trade was a long,
cruel chapter.
By 1893 the British had
established a form of admin
istrative government. Today
there is a rail line with
some 1000 route miles. 1t is
being extended. There are
free public schools, with more
than 2 million children in
classes. Roads are being ex-
panded. Civil aviation is rel
atively well advanced.
Foreign investment is in
vited. There are vast min
eral resources and some oil.
Cocoa, coffee, bananas, tim
ber and cattle are the major
agricultural crops.
There are a few hospitals
and nursing homes, a univer-
sity teaching hospital, two
small colleges, three tech
nical schools. Tribal divisions
and cultures enormously COM
plicate the task of progress.
Africa is the one great re-
naming political frontier. It
is a great frontier for ac-
complishment or failure. To
be young and to be posted
there to represent ones coun-
try is. without question, a
great thrill which the young
Southerner, William Gordon,
his wife and children fully
comprehend.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
DORIS FLEEsoN
Rockefeller Tours Dangerously
(copyrisht, 1881

1t Is a fact he must face
that a major bulwark Of the
conservative coalition in Con-
gress comes from just the
areas he visits next week.
They furnish the Republican
votes in the Senate and House
to put across the position of
the Southern Democrats in
civil rights, fiscal matters,
labor law and social legis-
lation. Gov. Rockefeller has
taken a very different stand
on most of these matters in
New York State and it would
be fatal at home for him to
temporize elsewhere.
The big single issue about
to be confronted by the New
York Governor is falling in
come on the farm. Farm
profits are now expected to
slump is per cent below
1858. The prices farmers re-
ceive in relation to the prices
they pay are at a l9-year
low. In an effort to get cash,
farmers have increased their
yields by every possible
method, so the wheat glut
threatens to be worse.
It could be that the farm
State Republican machines,
menaced by the Democrats
who blame President E,sen-
hover and Agriculture Secre-
tary Benson for this state
Of affairs, are looking for a
havior. But the advance
word is that they are largely
committed to Vice President
Nixon.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
DAVID LAWRENCE
Ideal and IdeuIistic Tourist

promise settlement was
reached that unhappily
sowed the seeds Of World
War II by failing to deal
sensibly with the problems
created by dividing up Ger
man territory.
Mr.. Eisenhower, on the
other hand. has the good
fortune today not to be bur-
dened by any mission that
calls for concrete settlement
Of any disputes between ma
tions'' though he has had
ample opportunity to become
entangled in the relations
between India and Pakistan
and between India and Red
China.
Mr.. Eisenhower's decision
to devote the remaining
months of his administration
to personal diplomacy is
born Of a flrst-hand knowl-
edge Of the destructiveness
of a So-called conventional"
war as well as a familiarity
with the potential power Of
nuclear weapons.
The President has bene-
fitted by the fact that he did
receive Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev in the United States
last September and promised
to go to the. Soviet Union
next spring. Under the cir
cumStanceS. the Communist
propagandistS, who under
other circumstances would
have stirred up hostile DEM
onstrations with their yam
kee Go Home" signs, have
outwardly at least been con-
forming to the spirit Of the
occasion as their party fol-
lowers perfunctorily join in
the applause.
The psychological effects
Of the Eisenhower trip are
incalculable. Americans can
well be proud that q man
Of Dwight Eisenhower's win
ming personality happens to
be President of the United
States. His all-important
quest for the solidarity Of
peoples is aptly epitomized
in the phrase he repeats day
after day: Peace and friend
ship-in freedom"
(copyright, 1851
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Eisenhower Achieving Triumph
For Himself and United States

for bold and imaginative
ideas" or policies that will
look forward" as If the exist
ing administration has not
been face to face with the
realities Of world problems
ever since it took office.
There cannot have been q
bolder or more imaginative
idea than President Eisen-
hower's decision to 60 to II
countries in Europe, Asia and
Africa, subjecting himself to
the strains and hazards Of
an overseas journey covering
$4,000 miles in less than three
weeks.
Mr.. Eisenhower's tour is
unprecedented in scope and
circumstance, but it is to
some extent comparable to
the mission of President
Woodrow Wilson in 1919
when. IN connection with his
attendance at the Paris Peace
Conference at the end Of
World War I. he made side
trips to England, Belgium,
Italy and the Vatican. This
correspondent recalls the
dramatic ride Of Mr.. Wilson
Gown the Champs Elysees
in Paris and the cheering
throngs whose emotions were
expressed in the phrase, "the
coming Of the savior of
Europe" The gratitude Of
the French people was un-
mistakable. They hailed Mr..
Wilson as the living symbol
OF American sacrifice in their
behalf. In England there was
less demonstration but q
marked cordiality. In Italy
the crowds were somewhat
restrained. Already there were
fears expressed that America
might not side with the ex-
isting italian government in
its desire for some Of the
spoils Of the war.
All in all. the great ap-
plause that greeted Mr.. Will
son at the outset faded away
in the weeks thereafter as
pickering among the Big
-Four ensued. After months
Of vexing negotiations, q COM
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Democratic Critics Face Prospect
OF Finding Their Influence MI in 80

knee-jerk liberals make a
career Of denouncing other
peoples prejudice.
And now it has come to
pass that the name Truman"
jerks the knee in disapproval.
So does the name "Acheson"
Dean Acheson, Mr.. Tru-
mans Secretary Of State.
Mr.. Truman got himself
into this dire position by the
following grave offense
against knee-jerkism:
l. He is not instantly ready
to end all testing Of atomic
weapons. He has persisted in
seeing this: Even assuming a
good-faith Soviet agreement,
a simple nuclear standoff with
the Russians might not be
wise in the absence of an
actual and large reduction in
Soviet conventional military
force. That force now OUT
numbers the Western conven-
tionsl force by maybe six
to one.
2. He has refuses to pro-
mote the alleged tissue" of
Federal assistance to other
countries for birth control.
He has insisted on accept
ing three facts Of life: That
the birthrate Of foreign coun-
tries is intimately their own
affair; that no sensible ad-
ministration would try to
make it anything else; and
that this kind of an tissue"
would hopelessly divide the
Democratic Party.
3. He has refused to 60
along with a conviction Of the
knee-jerk liberals that any
Democrat disagreeing with
Evening star., 1959-12-11
WILLIAM S. WHITE

The knee-jerk variety Of
Democratic liberals are paint
ing themselves into a very
small corner by their con-
tinuing attacks on that we'll
known "ultraconservative,"
Harry S. Truman.
This is bracing news for
the presidential year. For
1t suggests that the knee-jerk
liberals who are proving
their own most devastating
critics-may well talk them
selves right out of any real
influence in the 1860 cam
paign.
Mr.. Truman's recent blast
at the New York Democratic
gathering against the intol-
erance of the "hothouse"
liberals still raises a kissing
sound wherever the earnest
knee-jerks gather, from coast
to coast.
A knee-jerk liberal may be
thus described: He usually
runs with a coterie called
Americans for Democratic
Action. Most of his kind have
never won-or even impor-
family campaigned in-an
election. But they have long
since nominated themselves
to run the Democratic Party.
And, regrettably, they are
able to trade on a handful of
famous names, including that
Of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
The knee-jerk liberal re-
spends in an automatically
predictable way to the stimu-
lus Of any of the slogans of
his set. He is like a patient
who will raise his leg in a
predictable way when his
kneecap is tapped with a
physicians rubber hammer.
Say "nuclear disarmament"
and the knee jerks in ap-
proval. Say "South"-any-
body's South, moderate or
conservative-and the knee
Jerks in disapproval. Say
negotiate with the Russians"
and the knee jerks in ap-
proval. Say compromise
any kind of compromise for
any reason-and the knee
jerks in disapproval.
Say tradition" and the
knee jerks in disapproval.
Say Catholic" and in most
but not all cases the knee
jerks (if rather furtively) in
disapproval though the
Evening star., 1959-12-11
RALPH McGILL

An able young newspaper
man and teacher from Geor-
gia, William Gordon, has
been named Public Affairs
Ofhcer for the United States
Information Agency in East
ern Nigeria.
Why is he not posted sim
ply to Nigeria?
The answer is a part of
the picture of the awakening
Africa, complex yet persist
ent, primitive and modern,
insistent on independence
though the mechanisms to
organize and direct it as Or
derly government are almost
always meager and untested.
There are roughly 35 mil
lions NigerianS. 1t is a coun-
try larger than any in West
ern Europe. They live in three
great divisions. Polling this
month will determine the
Federal Parliament which
will meet in January to pre-
pare for independence Octo-
ber l, 1860.
In North Nigeria, which
has 18 million of the total
population, this will be the
f1rst democratic balloting in
history. This region has been
Isolated and is still dominated
by Muslin feudalism. It was
grapted internal self-govern-
ment last March, and the
experiment Of it has been
heady and brief. Because Is
lam does not grant full rights
TO women, only men may
vote.
In Eastern and Western
Nigeria self-government has
been in effect for two years.
They are much further along
and the beginnings of a
bureaucracy have developed.
This is a British colony, and
once again we see that the
English, as is their custom,
have put down the basis for
local government in marked
contrast to the Dutch in
1nd9nesia and the Frg9ch in
altnea, to name but two Of
Evening star., 1959-12-11

Who could better have
represented the United States
on a goodwill trip to Asia
than Dwight Eisenhower!
The man who commanded,
in behalf Of Western democ-
racy. the biggest armed force
in history in a triumphant
war against autocracy is
known today as a man of
peace. He is dedicated to a
cause that grips the hearts
Of men and women through
out the world-the cause of
peaceful settlement Of dis
putes lest nuclear war deci-
mate mankind.
The unprecedented cheers
and applause given to Presi-
dent Eisenhower are a tribute
to American motives and
ideals. His magnetic person.
ality is known, of course. to
the officials and diplomats Of
governmental circles every
where but hardly to the mill
lions who give vent to spon-
taneous demonstrations of
approval as they crowd
around his car in country
after country.
So, while it is q personal
achievement for Mr.. EiSen-
hover, it is at the same time
an even greater achievement
for the United States. 1t is
proof that the Eisenhower
doctrines of peace and good
will have been widely pub
licized.
For many months now the
stories have been current that
Americans abroad are dis
liked, that America itself
fosters 1naterialism and is
not the idealistic country it
claims to be. Much of this
is propaganda promoted by
the Communists, but not a
little Of it has been poured
into the American press by
those politicians who seem to
think political capital can
be made by disparaging what
Q Republican administration
has tried to do abroad. Calls
have been repeatedly made
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Pope's Message Set
For 6 AM. Dec. q

VATICAN CITY, Dec. II
(AP)-Pope John XIII will
give his annual Christmas mes
sage at noon (6 am. EST), De-
cember %, the Vatican press
ofHce announced yesterday.
The pontiff's address will be
broadcast by Vatican radio in
hookup with the Italian radio
network. Translations win be
broadcast in more than a score
of languages.