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Evening star., 1959-11-16
Credit Women to Hear
Two Hecht Guest Speakers

Joseph w. Welch and Robert
L. Martin, both of The Hecht
Co.'S Central Credit Office Col
lection Department, will be
guest speakers at the regular
monthly meeting of the Credit
Women's Breakfast Club of the
Nations Capital. This will be
held Wednesday in the Cabinet
Room of the Willard Hotel.
The speakers subject will be
Better Collections" Mrs. Mar
garet P. Boykin. president, will
preside. The educational part
of the program will be con-
Quoted by Mrs. Pauline Grim
mel, second vice president and
educational chairman.
Acacia Quarter Century Club
Schedules Dinner Meeting
The annual dinner meeting
OF the nearly $50 members of
the Acacia Mutual Life In
surance Co.'S Quarter Century
Club will be held tomorrow at
the Columbia Country Club.
Making plans for the event
are: Frank Schroeder, Charles
Belts, Hilbert Browne, Frances
Cleary, all of the Dinner Com
mittee, and William Daniel,
vice chairman of the Quarter
Century Club, and these club
officials: Viola Creamer. chair
man; Margaret Collins. secre-
tary, and Laurine Rees, his
torian.
Evening star., 1959-11-16
Four Braniff Officials
Attending Dallas Meeting

Four Washington officials of
Braniff Airways are attending
the annual international sales
meeting in Dallas, Tex. start
ing today. They are: Charles
South, vice president; Col. Jess
Bennett, executive representa-
tive; w. H. Seitz, district sales
manager, and R. H. Carr, sta
ton manager. The meeting will
continue through Wednesday
and the 1860 sales program will
be discussed.
Braniff plans to inaugurate
the Boeing 707-227, with en-
gines 20 to 40 per cent more
powerful than current jets,
next month, officials said.
Evening star., 1959-11-16

The monthly meeting of the
Eighteenth and Columbia Road
Business Association will be
held at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Northwest Branch of the Riggs
National Bank at Eighteenth
street and Columbia road NV.
President Sidney S. Faber will
preside.
Evening star., 1959-11-16

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Evening star., 1959-11-17
Club to Observe
Anniversary

The 44th anniversary Of
the Woman'S Club of Six
teenth Street Highlands will
be observed at an open house
for members and their guests
at 2:30 pm. tomorrow at
the home Of Mrs. John r.
Kennedy, 1909 Kennedy place
NV.
Mrs. Robert Y. Kerr, a
board member Of the Wash
ington YWCA, will be the
guest speaker. A tea hour will
follow the meeting.
Evening star., 1959-11-17
Dance PIonned

A Thanksgiving Square
Dance is on the agenda Of
the PTA of Rocking Horse
Road School for Saturday
9=om $3.50 to IL pm. at the
school. Mrs. Irene Stewart
is chairman of the event,
and Mrs. Louise Gustafson
will be calling the do-si-doS.
Evening star., 1959-11-17
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Truman Charges
6. o. P. Lays on
Helping Aged
BY the Associated Press

Former President Truman
says the Eisenhower admins
tration has diSregarded its own
findings and findings of the
Truman-appointed health COM
mission on Government-sup-
ported health benefits for the
aged.
1t is up to Congress to take
the initiative. he wrote Repre-
sentative Forand. Democrat of
Rhode Island. who made Mr..
Truman's letter public yester-
day.
Mr.. Truman wrote in support
of Mr.. Forand's bill calling for
hospital, nursing home and
surgical benefits for social Sc
curity pensioners, paid out of
social security taxes. Hearings
were held last week but no fur
Their congressional action is ex-
pected this session.
Mr.. Truman noted that he
appointed a commission on
health needs in 1851 and its
report was completed in 1852
just before Mr.. Eisenhower took
Office.
He said the report recon-
mended measures ito meet the
shocking deficiencies" it found.
One proposal was Government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Since Khrushchev loves proverbs Dick Nixon is taking
him several Sample: when Russian wofhound dimes with
Chinese dragon. hound liable up on next menu as
chow mein."
Frederick Mueller is named Secretary Of Commerce He's
200 per cent Eisenhower man-pays both golf and bridge
Senator Morse he won't for President or Vice
President One Democratic delegate is dmayed Now who's
he going to vote against at the convention?
One thing about art exhibit at the Moscow fair
Well be lucky the Russians don't regard the stuff as an
act Of war
The Air Force finally fires long-range Atlas missile
1t was threestage rocket: l. Alas q Alas g. At last
Loafers: Shoes worn by the who has to work all
summer that at least his feet feel like they're on vacation
Ike throws background dinner for newsnen Since he
couldn't be quoted directly the English translation of his
remarks had quite impact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
DAVID LAWRENCE
Labor Threat to Constitution

Some States, moreover, re-
quire literacy or intelligence
tests. One State permits 10
year-olds to vote. The Con-
stitution says in Article i:
THE House of Represent
atives shall be composed Of
members chosen every second
year by the people Of the
several States, and the cleo
tors in each State shall have
the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most nu-
merous branch of the State
legislature"
Another section of the same
article of the Constitution
says:
THE times, places and
manners Of holding elections
for Senators and Represent
atives shall be prescribed in
each State by the legislature
thereof; but the Congress
may at any time by law make
or alter such regulations, ex-
cept as to the places of
choosing Senator's"
Clearly the phrase IMAM
ner of holding elections" has
to do with the arrangements
for the elections themselves
and not with the qualifica-
tons Of voters. Otherwise,
the writer's of the ConStitu-
ton would not have found it
necessary to specify at all
that the qualifications of the
"electors"-the persons who
do the voting-Should be pre-
Scribed by the State legisla-
lures.
In support of this point, the
Seventeenth Amendment pro-
claimed in May. 1913, spe-
officially says with respect to
the election of United States
Senators by popular vote:
THE electors in each State
shall have the qualifications
requisite for electors of the
most numerous branch of the
State legislatures"
If Congress could at any
time prescribe voter qualifi-
cations merely by the passage
of new laws. there would
have been no necessity for
the trainers of the Seven
teenth Amendment to have
repeated the language used
by the founding fathers when
they gave the States the ex-
elusive right to prescribe the
qualifications of voters.
Copyright, 1851
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Three Bills Called Move to Give Unions
Hold Over Voting in Several States

members Of the Senate that
they intend TO purge. Two
OF those members live in
States that have poll taxes.
and the other eight in States
which have rather strict
educational requirements for
registration. Needless to say,
II they can get Congress to
take charge of that situa-
ton for them at this session,
they could either win or Gre
ate much confusion in con-
tested elections in all Of the
ten States in question.
mo one in Congress has
ever challenged the fact that
Section 2 Of Article I Of the
Constitution leaves to the
States exclusive Jurisdiction
over the qualifications of
voters. But Section 4 of the
same article authorizes Con-
gresS to legislate concerning
the time, place and manner
of holding elections, and all
three Of the pending bills
express the pious fraud that
they are dealing with the
manner of holding cleo
tons
"Of course, if the Senate
passes any of these bills, it
means that the States here
after - barring relief from
the Federal courts, which is
not too likely-would be sub
ject to the temporary whim
OF a labor dominated Con-
greSS on what restrictions,
If any, a State could put
upon the election of State
and local officials as we'll as
Federal officials, because it is
impractical to have two sets
Of qualifications. In other
words, We are confronted
with a very serious threat to
constitutional government, as
we'll as to the future oppor-
tunity of any State to be
represented in the Senate by
those who are unwilling to
wear the yoke Of organized
labor"
Key to the problem is the
qualification of voters. Some
States have a poll tax"
which means that every
voter must pay a small regis
tration fee to help defray
the expenses Of government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
President Louded as Own Chief of Staff;
Seen Ranking as Good Chief Executive

is particularly noticeable. AS
long as the old, trusted and
reliable John Foster Dulles
was alive. there was little, II
any, initiative from the White
House. Mr.. Dulles formulated
policies. He submitted and
discussed them with the
Chief Executive, who almost
invariably approved them.
The President seldom went
against the judgment of his
Secretary Of State who, he
knew, had unmatched expert
ence in his field. The death
of Mr., Dulles was a blow to
Mr.. Eisenhower, not only be-
cause of the loss Of a deeply
devoted friend, but because
1t meant that henceforth he
would have to take the
initiative and set the trend
OF international policy with
only little help from advisers.
Despite current reports that
he is not particularly enthu-
siastic over his selection of
Mr.. Dulles replacement, he
likes Secretary of State
Christian Herter. But Mr..
Herter is a new broom who
from the very first day of his
taking Office has been thrust
into the most difficult nego-
tiations with the Russians.
Secretary Herter is we'll
meaning and enterprising,
and judging by his reported
performances at Geneva, is
doing a creditable job. But
he lacks the experience to
handle the complexities of
our international involve
ments. He came face to face
with tough problems that
besieged us only after he
became UnderSecretary of
State. Mr.. Dulles was ham
ding everything himself in the
State Department. Thus the
UnderSecretary had only a
slim opportunity to acquaint
himself with our troubles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
DORIS FLEEsON
The Nixon Show Is on the Road

eign policy can safely be en-
trusted to his hands.
For this is the major gap
in Mr.. Nixon'S experience as
in that of nearly all the
visible candidates to succeed
the passing generation of men
who directed World War II
and its cold war aftermath.
There are, in fact, painfully
few experts on Russia, which
is of course the reason why
Secretary of State Herter
proposes to bring Charles E.
Bohlen back to policy-making
here.
The big gamble of Mr..
Nixon's trip is the simple
fact that the real newsmaker
today is Russia's Khrushchev
and to call him unpredictable
is an understatement. The
Vice President has said he
realizes this is so but be-
lieves the worst he could get
out of the situation would be
a sympathy vote at home
should Khrushchev behave
badly toward him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Democratic Crisis Growino

and thus create tissues" for
1860 but no legislation in
1853?
Gov. Browns own COM
ment on this basic question
"a comment never men,
toned by Mr.. Butler in
proclaiming that he had a
Brown ally-waS this: Il
believe, for example, we must
build actual houses, not just
prefabricated issues" This is
almost word for word what
Senator johnson and many
other congressional chiefs
had already been saying to
Chairman Butler.
The first responsibility of
a Democratic national chair
man is to raise funds for the
party. The present commit
tee is 100000 in the red.
But Mr.. Butler has so far
always turned discussions
away from such affairs, and
onto himself. Specifically, as
liberal committee members
from the North have pri-
vately said, he has answered
objective criticism of his
work by suggesting that it
all must be a Southern"
or a "pro-Johnson" plot
even when the critics have
been non-Southern and anti
johnson.
His presumed aim in all
this is to force the 1860 con-
vention to choose a presiden-
tial candidate who is ade-
quately liberal" in his per-
Sonal definition. But the
effect of what he is doing is
to hit at far more than the
deSpiSed "moderateS." 1t is
to hit at the essential unity
of all his party. And his
methods can hardly be called,
in any definition, very
liberal methods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
DORIS FLEESON

Vice President Nixon's mis-
sion to Moscow may not prove
to be the best show on earth,
but it is the biggest of its
kind. A harried State Depart
ment official. still coping with
added starters at the last
minute, said his list showed
So in Mr.. Nixon's plane and
so in the press plane.
Whether this can be trans
muted into a serious exercise
in statecraft is an open ques-
ton.
Its size would be a prob
lem. even in channels worn
smooth by practice. 1t enters
a police state where practi-
cally everything is an I'M
known quantity. including for
the vast majority the Ian
guage.
What has happened is that
the Vice President apparently
found it impossible to say no
to any one whose present or
potential support might prove
helpful to him in his race for
the presidency. The result
was to stretch the rules nor
mally governing such expedi-
tons so that the party is de-
cidedly a mixed bag.
The press group includes
writer's who haven't spoken
to each other for years. Two
Nixon biographers are aboard.
Jinx Falkeuberg represents
her husbands public rela-
tons firm. There are wom-
en- reporters to cover Mrs.
Nixon and the fashion show
at the trade fair. Fewer than
a third are what reporters
themselves call working stiffs,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22

body in the party knows that
to fire Mr.. Butler would be a
messy affair, probably bene-
fetal to the Republicans. But
things have reached such a
pass that some believe he
must go anyhow, lest he sim
ply wreck the party.
For Mr.. Butler has now
been shown to have adopted
a technique of distortion
quite similar in principle to
that used by a few violent
right-wing Republicans in the
past. This sort of thing was
repudiated by the bulk of the
Republicans, specifically in
1850. Mr.. Buffers use of it
is being repudiated now by
the bulk of the Democrats.
Mr.. Butler is revealed to
have wholly misrepresented
Gov. Edmund (Pat) Brown
of California as a Butler
hacker in his long denuncia-
ton of Senator Lyndon B.
johnson and the rest of the
congressional leadership.
The full text of a Brown
statement, angrily hurried
here by the Governor to put
the record straight, shows
that on the central issue be-
tween Senator johnson and
Chairman Butler, the Gov
ernor supported Senator
johnson instead of Mr.. Butler.
This has been the john
son-Butler argument: Should
Congress get such half-loaf
liberal legislation-on hous-
ing. for instance-as it can,
rather than invite presiden-
tial vetoes and get nothing?
Or should Congress simply
invite a series of such vetoeS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Eisenhower Runs Ship of State

and tribulations in the four
corners Of the world. Mr..
Herter is acquainted with the
conditions in Europe but has
only a perfunctory knowl-
edge Of the Far East, the
Middle East and particularly
Latin America, where our
position is becoming danger
ously sensitive and may soon
require a firm and positive
stand.
Thus, President Eisenhow-
err was compelled to take a
direct hand in the actual
conduct Of our foreign deal
ings. He is reported To be
in daily touch by cable and
telephone with Geneva and
advises Mr.. Herter about the
next steps as much as Gen.
de Gaulle instructs his own
foreign minister, Couve de
Murville.
His usual optimism is now
considerably tempered by
the facts of international
life and, despite the pres
sures to which he is subject
ed from so many interested
quarters, he now takes a
DINNER look than in the
past about the chances Of
reaching even a vaguely sat-
isfactory agreement with the
men in the Kremlin.
Mr.. Eisenhower expressed
his feelings to one of his
congressional advisers by
saying that II the Russian
leaders do not realize by now
his dedication and sincerity
toward the goal of establish
ing genuine world peace,
there is nothing we can do
about it. We have offered
them every conceivable proof
of our good and honorable
intentions, Mr.. Eisenhower
said. But if Soviet Premier
Khrushchev believe he can
bring us to our knees by his
eXtravagant demands and
policies, he has another
guess coming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Possibility Is Seen That Size of Party
Visiting Russia May Raise Problems

obliged to meet daily dead
lines and to concentrate on
the political and foreign
policy aspects.
Veteran observers have been
reminded of the Wendell
Willkie campaign train, an
all-time high for interesting
confusion. Mr.. Willkie
thought everybody was his
friend and welcomed them
aboard; most people who &C
cepted were his friends, but
they were by no means all
friendly with one another,
especially when the travel IA
cilitieS proved inadequate or
uncomfortable.
The Vice President person.
ally briefed the party on
the arrangements and enter
tanned it in his home here
prior to departure. The State
Department has amply sup
piled him with escort officers
for members of the PreSi-
dents committee on the trade
fair who will be in his imme-
date encourage. He has with
him his Marine and Air Force
aides and Rear Admiral Rick
over, the Nays atomic ex-
pert, who was invited on the
thesis that Mr.. Nixon would
be inspecting Soviet atomic
developments.
President Eisenhower in
sistS that this all adds up to
a ceremonial" journey. 1t is
accepted here as the launch
ing Of Mr.. Nixon'S campaign
for the presidency, a major
effort to convince the coun-
try that the conduct of for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22

Politicians and others whU
have the opportunity to see
President Eisenhower every
week and who sometimes in
the past have been critical Of
him say now that the Chief
Executive, after his term Of
Office is over, will be recog-
nized as one of the good
Presidents Of the United
States.
Since the departure Of
Sherman Adams, the Gin
dispenSable" man in the
White House, there has been
no more clearing of major
problems with anybody ex-
cept Mr.. Eisenhower himself.
Ike" said one of the Re-
publican leaders in Congress,
sis now doing his homework
all by himself. 1t took him a
long time, probably longer
than most Of his predecessors,
but he is now doing a d.
good job of it,"
The President has become
his own chief of staff and has
learned to discern between
the advice given by those
with selfish interests and
those who have in mind only
the future of the Nation. He
understands better than dur
ing the first term the intri-
cacies of politics. This, &C
cording to those in close
touch with him, explains his
present lukewarmneSs to-
ward modern Republicanism,
which he had Endorsed so en-
Enthusiastically at one time.
The sad experience of the
Republicans at the elections
last November has convinced
him that it is not good to
offer the electorate an "er-
satz." For example, he has
rejected modern Republican,
ism as a near-substitute for
the New Deal.
1t is in the field Of foreign
relations, however, that the
Presidents strong leadership
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Buffers Attacks Believed Involving
Party Members Outside Conqress

The amazing venom of
Democratic National Chair
man Paul Buffers continued
campaign against the Demo-
cratic congressional leader
ship is raising a crisis within
his party.
For the fire upon his own
party troops. which he had
heretofore centered upon
that leadership, has now
fallen upon other powerful,
and noncongreSSionial, Dem
ocrats. Some of these are
those whose help he had
most sought.
In a word, his behavior
has become unexampled in
national politics. The Demo-
Gratis thus for the first time
are being reluctantly forced
to consider an ugly and de-
structive washing of their
own linen in public only a
year ahead Of a climactic
national convention.
In spite of recent Butler
intimations to the contrary,
no faction-leaSt Of all the
moderate faction he has
been discrediting - has
wished thus far to move for
his custer. If for no other
reason, none wanted to give
him opportunity to play
again his consistent role of
a querulous martyr.
Now, however, Mr.. Buffers
dismissal is being demanded
by some voices quite outside
the ranks of the moderates.
These, instead, are within
the liberal group whose IA
vor he has particularly at
tempted to court.
The point is this: Every
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22

Efforts are being made by
certain members Of Congress
to ignore specific provisions
Of the Constitution by trying
to enact laws that would
take away from the States
their exclusive right to de-
termine the qualifications Of
voters.
The change. Of course.
could give the uninformed
voters-including those who
cannot read or write - the
opportunity to override the
wishes Of the intelligent vo-
tiers. Sometimes. in close
elections for the House and
Senate. a small number Of
voterS-influenced by groups
able to spend lots of money
to miSlead the uniformed
citizenS-can swing the re-
suit.
Already there is talk of
big money contributions in
the coming campaign. James
Hoffa. head of the Team
sters Union, is reported to
be getting ready to have
about So million a year COL
lected from his organization,
whose membership is the
largest in the country. He is
quoted as saying:
We've got to stop those
guys from passing laws to
destroy the American labor
movement"
To raise SO million a year
is something unheard of in
American politics, though in
the 1858 campaign the ALL
CLIO is reported to have spent
many millions-far more
than the regular Republican
or Democratic campaign
committees. Much of this
was contributed directly to
State committees, and hence
does not appear in the ma
tional totals formally dis
closed by Congress. A promi-
nent Democratic Senator
sizes up the situation this
way:
Labor leaders are flushed
with the victory they won in
q number Of States last fall
and plan to expand their &C
tivities next year. They have
specifically indicated 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Chinese Reds Claim
Control of Locusts

TOKYO, July % (AP).-The
Chinese Communists said today
they have almost licked China'S
traditional locust problem with
the help of aerial spraying.
mot a single big locust mi
grafton has taken place since
liberation d949)," said a New
China News Agency dispatch
broadcast from Peiping. There
were 300 locust plaques in the
previous 1900 years"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22

payment Of health benefits for
persons who cannot afford VOL
untary health insurance pre-
miums.
The Eisenhower adminiStra-
ton has disregarded the COM
missions findings" Mr.. Tru-
man wrote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-21

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