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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Match for Morse

The verbal clash between Oregon'S
Senator Morse and WiSconSin'S Senator
Proxmire brings together two Demo-
Gratis with undeniable talents in the
tooth-and-eye school of political debate.
Each man is well able to take care of
himself without help from the byStand-
ers. In this instance, however, we would
like to be counted among those in the
Proxmire corner.
It began earlier this month when
Senator Morse, addressing labor get
together in Milwaukee, said some pretty
nasty things about Senators who voted
for the labor reform bill in the last Ses-
sion of Congress. The Oregonian paid his
respects to the "phony liberals" in gen.
eral, and to Senator Kennedy in particu-
lar, whom he accused Of playing preSi-
Dental politics" Only Senators Morse
and LANCER were recorded as voting
against the bill.
Now it happens that Milwaukee is in
Senator Proxmire'S bailiwick, and he was
not at all happy with the Morse excur-
sion into his State. The Oregon Senator,
he has suggested, is a political spokes-
man for labor bosses, and, beyond that,
has been guilty of unbalanced, arrogant
extremism." Furthermore, Senator Prox-
mire says in effect, Senator Morse
doesn't know what he is talking about.
Mr.. ProXmire also had word or
two for Senator MorSe's hosts. "The
willingness of some Wisconsin labor
leaders to join in the Morse criticism"
he declared, suggests that these men
have to learn all over again that Sena-
tors and Congressman are elected to
represent all the people of our State and
not union off1cialdom. If the day ever
comes when the Democratic Party serves
labor before the public interest that is
the day leave it,"
This is pretty strong stuff, coming
from Senator in whose State the labor
vote is not insignificant, and it is too bad
that more Senators are not equally out
spoken. OF course, this kind of thing
may give some aid and comfort to the
political opposition. But what of that?
It also provides breather for Senator
Lyndon Johnson, whose performance as
majority leader was jumped on by both
Senators Proxmire and Morse during the
recent Senate session. We suspect that
Senator johnson would rather have
them jumping on each other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Scholar From Africa

The sometimes painful but none
theleSs determined march of the peoples
of Africa toward political independence
recorded one of its most dramatic chap
tiers little bit more than a year ago
when French Guinea voted overwhelm-
ingly to sever all formal ties with the
French Union. In doing so, it was the
only one among Frances overseas pos
sessions to make this choice among the
several alternatives provided by the new
French constitution. And it did so with
full knowledge that it's vote meant an
interruption to all the benefits, particu-
larly economic, contained in its associa-
ton with the French community.
To major degree, the decision was
that of Sekou Toure, political leader of
the West African colony and now the first
president of the independent Republic
of Guinea. President Toure, currently
an official guest of our Government in
an American tour that began here yes
terday, personif1es the new type of "Afri-
can personality" that has emerged in
the continents postwar drive for re-
lease from colonial rule. Mr.. Toure, like
others on the African stage, is student
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Formula for Defeat?

Both Gould Lincoln's and
William Whites recent col
umns appraising the prospec-
tive nominees of the Demo-
cratic Party for President
missed the mark farther than
some of the Cape Canaveral
missiles! BY a wishful process
of naturalization, both would
like to have the Democrats
nominate some nice COM
Portable candidate who
wouldn't come to grips with
the basic issues of our day.
With a few def strokes, both
write off the prospects of a
really liberal candidate in the
name of party unity"
If White and Lincoln have
their way, it will be the sur
est formula for party defeat
and perhaps that is really
their wish. AS F.D.R. stated
long ago-if the people of the
United States want a con-
sentative candidate they will
turn to the Republican Party,
and they will elect a Demo-
crat only if a clear choice is
presented in the form of a
candidate who truly repre-
sents the liberal tradition of
the party.
The time is long past when
any real Democrat can hon.
estly espouse the aspirations
of small business, farmers
and working people and mi
nority groups and at the
same time compromise him
self with the Faubuses and
the Southern conservatives
who really belong with the
Republicans.
ChaS. Sfnddard-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Prods Planners

Do we really have to go
through all of that Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge squabble
again? For ten long years we
have listened to the opinions
of all and sundry, ad inf1ni-
tum and ad nauSeum. The
net result has been a long
and costly delay.
Perhaps our Fine Arts
Commission-and the Ma
tional Park Service-should
stop looking over their shoul-
ders and direct their atten-
ton toward removal of the
temporary structures that
line the rejecting pool. Sure
ly they would find a SYM
pathetic audience, and may
be a few helping hands,
among the gentlemen who
are now in the process of
spending over a hundred
million dollars to improve
the appearance of Capitol
Hill.
Angus Sinclair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Boosts McGH

This is to tell you how
much I am enjoying Ralph
McGill's articles in your fine
paper. I have had the priv
ilege and honor of knowing
this great man and his family
since 1943, so reading his
articles are like chats with
a very dear friend. And an
extremely warm. informed
and sensitive person who feels
so close to his neighbor no
matter who he may be. as
Mr.. McGill does, certainly
does not deserve the label Of
"Soviet softener" as a recent
writer indicated.
Mr.. McGill does not dash off
words to fill space. He writes
with deep perception and
awarenesS about actual eX-
perienceS, impressions and
thoughts gained from extern
sive travels throughout the
world. His articles on Vice
President Nixon's recent trip
to Russia were to me ex-
tremely interesting and GER
tainly helped to make the
visit of Mr.. Khrushchev more
Understandable.
Mr.. McGill's recent article
on where Does Our Free
dom Show?" should jolt every
truly thinking person to
pause to reflect on the many
freedoms that we take for
granted.
Bette C. Starr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Our TRUMP Cards.

WaShington'S dynamic" plan for
the 1864 Worlds Fair (the adjective is
that used by the chairman Of the
presidential commission) apparently has
created as deep an impression in New
York as it did on members Of the COM
mission. The New York reaction, as de-
scribed by Russell Baker in Sundays
New York Times, was one of bewilder-
ment at the trump cards" which the
city'S boosters revealed dramatically at
last Fridays hearing. The article warned
that Washington'S bid for the fair is
mot to be dismissed casually"
The trump cards" cited in the
Times article are:
First, the signing up Of So Senators
in support of the selection OF the
Nations Capital for the exposition.
Second, despite Washington's lack
of an industrial and financial community
comparable to New York's," the exist
ence of "a highly professional Board of
Trade as expert as any in the world at
fostering the tourist industry"
Third, the local proposal that the
fair buildings be used as the nucleus Of
permanent international trade center
a plan that would be highly appealing
to an economy-minded Congress that
regularly complains about the loss of
Government investment in temporary
fair structures around the world"
Fourth, and most important of all, a
sentiment in the Government for dram
atizing and enhancing the prestige of
the National Capital"
Since New York City is WaShington's
closest contender for the opportunity to
play host to the fair, the appraisal Of
the local presentation constitutes an
unexpected and unusual tribute to the
vision and careful planning of those be-
hind the Washington plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
P. O.'s AirIift

For some time now, COM
mercial air lines have been
carrying part of the first
class mail to certain points
in the United States, under
an agreement with the Post
ONCE Department to fill in
otherwise empty cargo space
for a stipulated sum. This
was agreed to by Congress
on a temporary experiment
tai basis" An attempt by
the Post Office Department
to get a bill authorizing the
carrying of all mail by air
at a S cent rate was turned
down by Congress, and since
then the department has not
tried to get any further single
rate for the two types of mail
despite the fact that they
wish to carry all mail possible
by air.
A recent item in The Star
mentioned that the Civil
Aeronautics Board had made
the air lines a proposal to
carry regular mail by air at
one-half the regular rate,
and that the air lines were
expected to accept. That will
mean that Congress has been
by-pasSed in an important
decision involving carrying of
the mails, and which has al
ready had over three years
of experimental" operation.
This has already had two bad
moral effects upon the coun-
try: % That a part of the
first-claSS mail is deliberate
ly given air service without
paying for it, and without
a decision from the people of
the country as a whole, and
CO hundreds of longtime
Government employees en-
gagged in transportation of
mail by rail or highways will
be displaced in their jobs.
OF course, in the latter cate
CORY, it is no longer a secret
that the Post Office Depart
ment is engaged, and has been
for some time engaged, in
a program to eliminate the
Postal Transportation Service
completely Involving thou
sands Of employes) so that
no mail will be worked en-
route by any mode of trans
portation.
At one time this kind of
maneuvering on the part of
the Government would have
been greeted by a great public
outcry and demand for re-
form. In this "age of apathy"
however, anything goes.
William P. Thomas, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27

I agree with The Star that
it is a mistake to ref1ght the
Civil War, even in pageantry.
When memories are revived
old hatreds also are aroused.
That war was brought on
largely by extremists whose
banner was the abolition of
slavery. Although recognized
as legal by our Constitution,
men of conscience, both
North and South, knew that
human slavery was wrong.
This evil had existed since
the appearance of man upon
the EARTH but given time it
would have disappeared from
the American scene without
the bloodshed and devasta-
ton of a war in which
brother fought brother and
father killed son.
But unlike Christ in whose
name they marched, the
John Browns of a century
ago were an impatient and
intolerant lot. They demand
ed the slaves be freed imme-
diately and completely with
out regard for any other
factors. The Yields and the
Garrisons of that day organ
lied the American Anti
Slavery Society whose propa-
ganda helped inflame Har-
riet Beecher Stowe to write
Uncle Toms Cabin. This
woman had little f1rst-hand
knowledge Of conditions in
the South, yet the impression
her book made upon the
Northern population endures
to this day.
AS the abolitionistS of
yesterday agitated for imme-
diate and compulsory eman-
cipation, so are integration-
lists today clamoring for i'm
mediate race mixing. not only
in the schools but in every
walk of life. If force be nee
esSary, then they want it
used. The Spingarns have re-
placed the Garrisons, and the
NAACP the AASS, but they
continue to march-noble
crusaders swept to the fray
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
LIVINGSTON STREET.
"Dear Sir:

LII 41NAI0 AO4N ~ 4eA1 -
"Dear Sir:
81 think you're a living
doll. I've enjoyed your de-
lightful column in The Star
for a long time now and I've
always talked back to you as
I read it; sometimes I've dis
agreed and argued with you
and more often I've said to
myself, Hes a living doll
Notice I'm double spacing
this because I really care that
the print is getting smaller.
I'm sort of getting on my
self, but with me it's far
sightedness-the print gets
bigger and I'm beginning to
hold things at arms length,
but the occuliSt says, nom
sense, you don't need glasses,
as though I accused him Of
something, but your recent
column about the white
spider moved me to the I'M
precedented extent of writ
ing and telling you how much
I liked it.
Nov, listen. Yesterday,
having fully embarked on fall
housekeeping now that it's
cool. I was polishing under
meath the desk of one of my
daughters, and came upon a
nest of spiders.
white ones!
"They scattered, all those
flashing tiny things, and I
wished I had a microscope.
I could see a fantastic grace
but not much else. I could
find the web, right there
under the leg of the desk,
and it looked intact. My
polishing cloth had scattered
them but their home was
safe.
$50, coward that I am, I
left the whole web right
where it was. That room is
beautiful now, the curtains
starched on the polished
windows, and the mattress
vacuumed and the floor
shiny-waxed. and nobody but
me-and now you-knows
that there's a spider web
under the off foreleg Of the
desk.
do you think they'll come
back to the web, or do you
think I've finished them for
good? And do you think I'm
a bad housekeeper?
Sincerely, ELLEN F."
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Mrs. F'S housekeeping and
kindness of heart rate Al in
our book.
The spiders may or may
not return to the nest, but it
is a safe bet that if they do
not return, they will manage
to survive.
These white ones seem to
be completely harmless. and,
for spiders. almost have a
sense of humor, if that Is
possible, which it probably
isn't. Anyway, spiders are
spiders, and the milk-white
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27

by fanaticism and by reli-
gious fervor.
Harvey H. Hewitt.
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Mailing a misquotation or
fantasy before it becomes
embedded in the folklore is
a duty and I invite your as
sistance in correcting E. B.
Henderson'S anecdote DIETER
of October 22) according to
which President Lincoln said
to Harriet Beecher Stowe.
$50, this is the lady whose
song started a great war"
The true facts about Mrs.
Stoves composition of the
words of the "Battle-Hymn
of The Republic" were given
in The Star several years
ago. The Civil War had been
underway for some time and
there had been held near
Bailey's Crossroads, east of
Falls Church, a review Of
Federal troops at which Mrs.
Stowe was present in the
Presidents party. She COM
posed her poem, according to
this account, after the return
to Wizards Hotel where she
was living while her husband
was an official in the Govern
ment. Mrs. Stowe was the
daughter of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, renowned
Brooklyn preacher. These
facts indicate that her poem
had nothing whatever to do
with starting the Civil War,
On the other hand, her father,
the Reverand Beecher, was,
I believe, an abolitioniSt, act
i've in inflaming the Northern
public, along with Editor
Horace Greeley, Lecturer EN-
erson, Poet Whittier, Pamph-
letter Garrison, and those
who organized the more than
5000 abolitionist societies in
the Northern States.
After the Civil War, the
conquered and despoiled
South was too poor to main
tain a propaganda system,
consequently the Northern
version of events got into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27

Of our own progress to independence in
the 18th century. He is also well in
formed on the 20th-century transforma-
ton in Russia.
The future course of Africa, CONT
nent of tremendous resources and Of
increasing Importance in world events,
is being shaped today by such youthful
native leaders as President Toure. His
impressions of our country, and our
helpful interest in his, could play large
part in that future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27

most of the history books and
we of today have had to dig
to get a true picture of what
went on in those crucial
decades. Among popular
misunderstanding is the
idea that the Civil War was
waged to abolish Negro slav-
cry in the United States and
that Mr.. Lincoln set out to
do this, and did actually &C
complish it. The true facts
are just the opposite. First,
Lincoln went to war to hold
the nation together in one
piece and to avoid the loss of
a rich agricultural section
whose cotton was necessary
to the New England cotton
mills. Second, Lincoln'S
Emancipation Proclamation
was a military and diplomatic
expedient, designed to create
a fifth column behind the
Confederate lines, and at the
same time Offset the possibili-
ty that Queen Victoria'S Eng
lish government in spite of
Midlands' abolitionist sympa-
thies, would recognize the
Confederate States of Amer
lea as regular belligerents
with full statehood status I'M
der international law. Third,
Lincoln could not have won
the Civil War and, after four
years of trying, it might have
been given up, had it not
been for one factor, a Middle
Westerner with ''know-how,"
namely, a tough hombre
named Grant, christened Hi
ram but carried on the rolls
as U. S. Grant. The Con-
federacy had all the military
technique until Grants sue
cesses in the West brought
him into overall command
of all Federal forces in the
Spring of 1864. The military
techniques were then evenly
matched and the North won
only because of superior sup
plies. Therefore, who freed
the slaves? Answer: Ulysses
Simpson (Hiram) Grant,
later President Grant.
Richard L. Feldman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
THIS AND THAT
Bv CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

ones are pretty to look at
and, as far as we know,
harmless.
They like to drop a line
down from the lamp shade
and dangle themselves below
the lamp bulb, at the oldest
times, just when one is read
ing about international poll
tics, or something.
international politics is just
a little worse than national
or local politics.
Aristotle defined a human
being as a political animal"
a definition surprisingly COM
plete for its day and age. It
is difficult to do much better
now.
Politics, after all, bears the
burden of collective living,
and in achieving this end it
also manages to create much
woe, misery and loss of life,
as in wars. Evidently we
can't get along with politics,
or without it.
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The small milky spiders
offer much amusement to the
type of mind that manages
to find sermons in stones,
etc.
These spiders do not seem
as spidery, let us say, as the
big black ones, or the big
yellow, ones in the garden.
Fall housekeeping time is
the time of entry for spiders.
that is, they seek the warmth
of the human house, if they
can get in.
Sometimes even the fero-
cious black widow enters in
autumn, and takes up resi-
dence in the basement, where
it can be near water, such as
the laundry tubs.
The infamous black widow
spider should be extermi-
mated. since its bite is
venomous, especially to chill
dren; their smaller bodies
have to bear the burden Of
the same venom the creature
would put into the larger
adult body.
There are, in many base
ments, some other black
spiders, but most of us will be
unable to tell the difference.
The best plan is to extermi-
nate them on sight.
After all, even the greatest
nature lover has to draw the
line somewhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27

bers Of the House. The Farm
Belt Of the Middle West,
strongly Republican in tbs
past, turned on the COP.
Kansas and Iowa both have
Democratic Governors. New
Jersey has a Democratic
Governor and a Democratic
Senator.
The Republican Senators
who must stand for re-elec-
ton are Senators Allott of
Colorado, Bridges Of New
Hampshire, Case of New Jer-
sey. Cooper of Kentucky,
Curtis of Nebraska, Dworshak
of Idaho, Martin of Iowa,
Mundt of South Dakota,
Saltonstall of Massachusetts,
Schoeppel Of Kansas, and
Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith
Of Maine. Few Of them can
be considered safe" Sena-
tor Saltonstall of Massachu-
sets has vigorous young
Democratic Governor breath
ing down the back of his
neck.
See Shift to G. O.P.
Some Republican leaders
profess their ability to see a
change in the political atmos-
phere in favor of the G.O.P.
They insist the country is
becoming more conservative
as did Senator Bridges
recently in Chicago. They
took hope from the elections
last summer in Hawaii, when
a Republican Governor and
a Republican Senator won
out over their Democratic
opponents, in the first State
elections in the islands. And
last week the Republicans
elected a member of the Cali
fornia State Legislature in a
district that has been con-
sidered even politically as
between the two major
parties.
The Republicans believe,
too, that the issues of peace
and prosperity will bring
them another presidential
election and help elect Re-
publican members of the
House and Senate. They are
tenuous issues, however, with
peace largely depending on
Premier Khrushchev of Rus
STA and the Red Chinese, and
prosperity jeopardized by
major wars between industry
and labor in this country.
The Importance, therefore,
of selecting the strongest
candidate for President rests
on the shoulders of the Repub-
licans. AS of today, only two
choices are at hand-Vice
President Nixon and Cover
nor Rockefeller of New York.
1t is clear that a winning
candidate must draw votes
not only from the Republican
Party ranks, but also many
independents and a portion
of the Democratic rank and
file. Mr.. Nixon is now riding
high, with strong support of,
the Republican organization
leaders and many of the rank.
and file. If the Eisenhower
administration. viewer.
should receive a hard jolt in
the coming months, either on
the peace front or the pros
perity front, Mr.. Nixon's
fortunes could lag, and Gov.
Rockefeller's could mount.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Uninsured Autos

How strange the District
is so careful to see that auto
mobiles pass inspection and
yet does not insist that driv-
ers carry automobile insur-
ance. An inspection assures
that the car is mechanically
safe to handle, but the driver
can go at will, with no safe
guard towards people he may
injure or cars he may dam
age. Our system is at fault
when an irresponsible driver
cannot be held liable for
damages except through
court action. Billie Benson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-27
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKINS SERVICE

@. How big are Canada's
petroleum reserves?-V. K.
A. Although less than hah
of Canada'S potential oil
producing area has been sub
jected to preliminary exam
ination, proved reserves are
now in excess of 3 billion
barrels. This represents less
than 2 per cent Of the world
total.