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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09

After more than nine weeks of So
called collective bargaining, there is
nothing on the record to encourage hopes
that the steel industry will be operating
after midnight next Tuesday. It would,
1t now seems clear, have been shut down
on July 1.-The terminal date of three
year contract-if President Eisenhower
had not appealed for continuation of
the negotiations" and the union had
not agreed to an extension of two weeks.
Much of the intervening time has
been spent "in recess" with no con-
f1rmation of occasional rumors that
something was going on behind the
scenes. Earlier this week, David Nc
Donald, head of the SteelworkerS, ar
ranged meeting with Vice President
Nixon in Pittsburgh. Mr. Mcdonald said
he was not seeking Government inter-
vention, that he was merely informing
Mr.. Nixon of the status of the unproduc-
tive negotiations. Mr. Nixon has said
nothing, at least publicly. R. Conrad
Cooper, top industry negotiator, has con-
tributed to the public information only
some sarcastic comment about Mr.. Nc
Donald'S "wanderluSt" and wasted pre-
ciouS time" At his news conference
yesterday, Mr. Eisenhower spoke again
of the public interest and the merits of
negotiating until we have gotten some
where" Mr.. Mcdonald replied by re-
affirming the Tuesday deadline and
added that the union cannot negotiate
forever" In literal sense, at least, he
is correct.
Perhaps more than ever before, the
current bargaining has gone on in a
stake it or leave it" atmosphere. AS far
as is known, the industry has not budged
from it's wage-freeze terms plus contract
notifications unacceptable to the union.
Mr.. Mcdonald has declined to confirm
reports that the union has offered to
reduce its own package" demands.
There has been evidence that the work.
erS themselves do not want strike, but
that industry management is willing to
make no concessions to avoid one. If
there has been any concern about the
broader public welfare, it has seemingly
been submerged in an almost determined
drift" to shutdown. On May 5, the
day negotiations" began, Mr.. EiSen-
hover appealed for some "buSineSs-labor
craftsmanship" Apparently, the right
people were not listening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
We're Behind in Space

There is little or no reason to doubt
the Kremlin's exultant announcement
that Soviet scientists, using single
stage balliStic missile, have succeeded
in rocketing two dogs and rabbit to
great altitude" and recovering them
afterwards in good health.
Since the announcement lacks pre-
else details as to height and the like,
there is no way of evaluating the event
in relation to our own country'S recent
achievement in sending couple OF mon
keys on a similar safe journey-a long
one that took them up to 300 miles. ALI
of us, however, can be sure of this much:
That such news, whether from the USSR
or the United States, means that the day
is not very distant when man himself
will orbit around the earth, return in
fine fettle, and then proceed to go on
even more fantastic trips deep in space.
1t is anybody'S guess, Of course,
whether our country or the Soviet Union
will be the first in history to send man
on successful round-trip orbital flight
hurting him around the earth at an
enormous height and at speed OF
$4,000 miles an hour. An American, one
of our "aStronautS" in Project Mercury,
is scheduled to undertake the adventure
in 1861, but the possibilities, if not the
probabilities, suggest Russian may beat
him to it. This is so because the USSR.
is at present superior to us in the power
of it's rocket propulsion. The latest
demonstration of this is the Kremlin'S
claim "a believable one) that its dog
and-rabbit experiment involved a one
chamber rocket that sent up payload
of more than 4,4OO pounds, the heaviest
Spatial delivery to date.
Our country is not equipped right
now with such a missile. AS explained
some weeks ago by DR.. T. Keith Glennan,
head of the National AeronauticS and
Space Administration, the Russians are
considerably ahead of us in that respect,
and quite bit of time and effort will
be required for us to catch up with them.
1t will take us about four years, for ex-
ample, to develop and produce single
chamber rocket booster engine with
thrust of is million pounds Such an
engine will enable us to perform ire
mendouS feats in the high heavens, but
1t will be unavailable until 1868. Mean
while, the Kremlin will strive to keep
ahead.
All of which argues powerfully
against any feeling Of American COM
placency. Unfortunately, in this par
ticular field, we are tagging behind the
Russians fact that speaks for itself
as a commentary on the folly of the
recent House decision to cut $68 million
from the money requested by President
Eisenhower for urgent projects in space.
The Senate, let us hope, will act more
wisely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
Beats Drums for Jazz

It is difficult to reply in a
mild manner to the near
hysterical attacks on jazz
which have recently appeared
in The Star. Such attacks
are common in the history of
music and have been directed
by their contemporaries
against most creative artists
from Bach to Bartok. The
artists are remembered and
respected while any mention
of these critics concerns their
ignorance and primitive in
tellects.
AS to the charge that jazz
is "a child of the jungle" it
would be edifying to have
someone pinpoint the jungle
from which came the inStru-
mentation, tonal system,
thematic material, four-bar
construction and four-beat
measure of jazz. Since these
European devices are princi-
pal characteristics of jazz,
that must have been an ad-
vanced tribe that developed
them.
Our national motto is E
Pluribus Unum. From the
many, one. Jazz is exactly
that. Every facet and strata
of this country are represented
in jazz from all of the worlds
cultures, European, African
and Asian, and from the low
est to the highest social. in
tellectual and economic levels.
In this way jazz is truly rep
resentative of our culture in
its highest sense.
Finally, jazz is. for the
most part, an improvised or
ad-lib music which denotes a
freedom that is anathema to
any totalitarian state, be it
Nazi or Communist. Musical
value has nothing to do with
the Russian ban against jazz.
They fear it because it rep
resents freedom and democ-
racy. Thomas E. Lodge, Jr.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
No Spirit of 80

It would appear that the
Spirit of '76" along with the
memories of Washington,
Franklin and Jefferson and
the other greats who mu-
tually pledged their lives and
fortunes and sacred honor
in establishing our independ-
ence as a Nation are nearly
nonexistent. Else, how does
one explain the absence OF
our flag from being displayed
by so many Americans on
July 4? Has our country'S
183d anniversary been so for
gotten that there was not
even a military parade, es-
pecially in our Capital City,
to commemorate the event
that gave hope to all the OPP
pressed and freedom-loving
peoples of the world many
years ago?
We are a Nation Of hero
worshippers. But it seems
to me that we have erred in
our sense of values, by those
whom we have chosen to idol
ize. Our movie stars, our
cowboy heroes and our ath-
letic giants, whose autographs
we are forever seeking, all
may have a niche in hall
of fame corridors, but GER
tainly not in the main en-
tranceways. For these latter
places are, and rightly should
be, reserved in our hearts and
minds for those statesmen
and founding fathers whose
eternal greatness more than
transcendS mere autograph
seeking. To these rightful
heroes do we owe the respect
and duty never to forget
them and the ideals which
they shaped and moulded
and for which they sacrificed
so much in leaving the hertz
age we now share. The
danger to our liberties and
this heritage of freedom does
not come from foreign shores
as much as it stems from
our own complacency and
forgetfulness of those who
made it possible.
Albert A. Rapport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

felicity of the pounce are felt
at their true worth.
X X
Grace is grace, wherever
you find it.
The houSecat is noted for
this quality of physical move
ment. Too often, just plain
people lose all grace of move
ment.
They sag, they bounce, they
jog, they lumber. they do
anything but be graceful.
Something might be done,
we believe, if children were
caught at the proper time,
and told that as strange as
it might seem to them, a time
would come when they would
be graceful no longer.
Therefore, and what a big
therefore" it would be, they
would be well advised to keep
their weight down, their mus
cles timber. and their zest for
living unmarried by business
and other concerns.
x X 4 x
The shrew is a pretty little
animal. Some real animal low
erS will feel sad to think Of
them as caught and eaten.
We have never heard Of
anyone tanning a shrew, de-
spite the play title.
Shrews. the real thing,
are intent on just one thing,
getting enough to eat.
They keep close to the
ground, and shuttle up scores
and maybe hundreds of small
worms. insects and their
eggs daily. Though they are
not built on the exact lines
of their cousins the moles,
and do not, like them, need
to eat every five minutes or
die. shews love to eat, and
manage to put away a great
deal of their special foods
every "a hours.
In doing this, they rem
der a great service to man.
kind, taking many forms of
inimical insects, as we call
those forms we do not like
for one reason or another.
No doubt they are, at least
in part, responsible for the
disappearance of the Japa-
neSe beetles in certain areas.
BY being right there on the
ground, as one might say,
when the beetle grubs appear,
they nip them in the bud,
and yet get no credit for it.
Their reward is to be eaten
by cats, in many cases, but
they are interesting and pic
tureSque small animals, de-
serving of our care and aid.
Just how you can help a
shrew. we don't know. Their
fate is to live unseen, and
if seen, the only comment
they bring is, "Oh, look at the
little mouse!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
ChontiITy's SEWAGE

1t has been said that the
District sewer system is the
greatest contributor to pollu-
ton of the Potomac River. If
this be true, then why con-
tribute to this regrettable con-
dition by addition of the sew
age from the distant Chan
tilly Airport and at a cost of
SIS million to the taxpayers?
If the great area of Fair
fax County and adjoining
Loudoun County, surround
ing or contiguous to the air.
port, are to be prohibited
from providing for the inevi-
table need for local sewage
facilities. however efficient
such facilities may be, then it
is self-evident that the area
will be blighted and future
progress doomed.
With all of the engineer
ing ingenuity of this age
it does not seem that such
a condition of strangulation
could exist, and most espe-
cially in an area adjacent
to the, Nations Capital.
T. Observer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
FALLS CHURCH, Va.

rAA4AAo S11O1ONI1, va
Dear Sir:
There are some funny lit
tie mice or something in the
ivy around our front porch,
and our cat likes to catch
them.
Are they rodents?
Our cat catches two or
three a day, and usually eats
them.
Are they harmful?
They are gray, with rather
short tails. I have seen 'one
OF them rear up on its hind
legs and fight back.
Although I shrink from
mice and the like, especially
rats, I cannot help but ad-
mire the way the thing fought
back.
1T stood on it's hind legs
and tried to fight off the cat,
a thousand times as large.
Il imagine the conflict of
a prehistoric monster and a
man must have looked some
thing like this.
Sincerely. IT II II"
X X
These are not mice, but
shrewS.
They are related to moles.
The cover of ivy just suits
them.
In our own yard we have
hundreds of them. They are
seldom seen, except when
flushed by cats.
Members of the feline
fraternity love to catch
them. They will spend hours,
as at a mouse hole, waiting
for the leaves of ivy to
rustic.
Then there is a pounce,
and up comes the cat with
a shrew.
1t is then that the usual
connotation of the word
"Shrew" comes to the fore.
The cat slapS, the man.
NAL falls, and then rights
itself, splitting at the animal,
so huge by contrast.
ShrewS are said to have
poison sacks, from which
they can inject a small
amount into an angle worm.
There is no chance Of this
poison hurting a cat, even
if it eats the whole animal.
Mostly the cats eat all ex-
cepr the poison sack.
A shrew is regarded by
cats as a very tasty morsel,
evidently. In a yard over
grown with ground ivy the
family cat will spend whole
hours waiting patiently for
the rustic of leaves that
betrays the animal.
The resulting pounce is the
very poetry of motion, es-
pecially If the watcher likes
cats. Then The grace and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09

realizes that some Of his po-
tential opponents have SINH
lar detectives.
Senator Kennedy will seek
and have a bloc Of delegates
from the New England States
and seek to gain delegates
in other Eastern and Sea-
board States. Senator Lyndon
B. johnson of Texas, II he
should become a candidate,
could look to a substantial
bloc of delegates from the
South and the Southwest.
Senator Stuart Symington Of
Missouri will look to delegate
support from the Plains
States and from some Of the
Southern and border States.
Seeks Bloc Of Delegates
Senator Humphreys plans
are to capture convention
delegates in the Northwest
and the Middle West - for
example. in Minnesota, Iowa.
Wisconsin, Montana, oregon,
Washington, Nebraska, Kan
sas, North and South Dakota.
He will campaign after Con-
gress closes in Colorado, Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho and
Utah. He looks toward the
East too. in such States as
West Virginia, where the
labor vote is strong. And
naturally he will hope for
Michigan's vote If and when
Gov. Williams relinquiShes its
delegates.
There is solid sense in the
Humphrey plan to build a
bloc of delegates. He would
like to try for the California
delegation-but realizes that
Gov. Pat Brown, who has
announced himself as a
"favorite son" candidate for
the presidential nomination
but has gone no further, will
have that big delegation in
his pocket. 1t happens that
Senator Humphrey has been
a friend of Gov. Brown for
years-and has helped in the
Governors campaigns.
The Minnesota Senator has
a double problem next year.
He is up for reelection to the
Senate as well as for a presi-
dental nomination - if he
enters the presidential race
as he now seems sure to do.
The only other of the Senate's
four members prominently
mentioned for the Democratic
presidential nomination who
also must come up for re-
election is Senator Johnson
of Texas. Both Humphrey
and Johnson appear shoo-ins
for denomination and re-elec-
ton to the Senate. But both
have to look after their home
fences. Senators Kennedy and
Symington were reelected in
1856. The legislatures in Min
nesota and Texas have ar
ranged the primary laws so
that the problems of Senators
Humphrey and Johnson, so
far as these nominations are
concerned, are easily solved.
Senator Humphrey has
been the strong man of
Democratic politics in Mime
sofa. His first victories at the
polls were his elections for
Mayor of Minneapolis in 1945
and l947. Under his guidance
an amalgamation of the
Democratic and Farmer
Labor Parties was effected
which really meant a rebirth
Of the Democratic Party Of
Minnesota. In 1913, he not
only took a lead in carrying
his State for President Tru-
man but won his own first
election to the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
Alley Porkers

In Washington, as in other
cities, it is unlawful to park
in alleys. Any driver who
doesn't know this fact should
begin to city-break himself at
once. Mongrel dogs can learn
how to behave in houses, and
humans can-with a little
prodding from police-learn
to properly behave in cities.
Owners of the Is cars that
park behind my Capitol Hill
house may be lazy, brazen or
simply unaware that this is
1859, when drivers can no
longer demand free hitching
posts for all. Whatever their
reasons, they are lawbreakers.
The traffic regulations are
specific. and the officers at
Police Headquarters are very
firm (although at the pre-
cinct level there is much in
ertia).
1t is annoying to have ones
alley blocked to the point of
vanished efficiency, but it is
sickening to hear the help
less, infantile walls, But
what can we do-oo-oo?" (Of
course, vaster parking lots
would not help the sufferers,
for who could walk from the
farther reaches? So exhaust
ingD
There are many methods
Of point-to-point travel in
cities. Capitol Hills public
buildings are all in the first
taxi zone; group riding is
lawful; four streetcar lines
pass the doors of the Capitol
group, and buses run nearby;
carpools are useful; ninety
year-old Senator Green puts
one foot in front of the other
"a thing called walking)
Perhaps certain Washington
drivers should be required to
spend a few months in New
York City, there to become
conditioned to some of the
facts of modern urban life.
w r Smith
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
THE POLITICAL MILL
Important Groups Back Humphrey
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Senator Hubert H. Hum
phrey Of Minnesota, 48-year-
old aggressive campaigner
whom his colleagues respect
both as a debater and as a
man with a wide grasp Of
present-day problems, is an
ideal presidential candidate
II the liberal wing Of the
Democratic Party is to prevail
at the party's national con-
vention next July in Los
Angeles. He is strong with
three groups on which the
late President Franklin d.
Roosevelt relied for election
again and again. They are
the organized labor vote, the
farm vote and the Negro vote.
1t was the failure Of Adlai
Stevenson to capture the vote
of these three groups in suf-
ficient number which caused
his defeats in the 1852 and
1856 presidential elections.
1t is the vote necessary for
the election Of a Democratic
President.
Gov. Mennen Williams Of
Michigan may have the
same kind of support-but
his chances for a Democratic
presidential nomination next
year have been dimmed so
far by the financial difficult
ties Of his administration of
the State. 1t is possible that
some of the strength on
which he might have counted
will shift to Senator Hum
phrey, rather than to any Of
the other potential nominees.
There are, of course, other
considerations which will
help to determine the selec-
ton of the 1860 Democratic
presidential candidate. One is
the attitude of the Democrats
of the South and the more
conservative Democrats of
the North. Second, Senator
Humphrey is not as widely
known to the rank-and-file
voters over the country as is,
for example, the widely pub
licized, youthful and attrac-
tive Senator from Massachu-
sets, John F. Kennedy. This
last is a handicap the Mime
sotan is bent on overcoming.
He will campaign vigorously
indeed, he already has be-
gun to do so-in many parts
of the country right up to
and through the presidential
preference primaries, and I'M
til the convention itself. This
is no idle threat. Few candi-
dates have as much vitality
as Senator Humphrey, and
none are more willing to go.
He is prepared to campaign
in a number of the presi-
dental primary States when
the time comes next year
especially in Wisconsin and
Oregon, old battle fields in
which presidential candidates
have been made or elimi-
mated.
Takes Realistic View
Senator Humphrey takes
a practical view of the pres
ent situation. He would be the
first to admit that he is not a
front-runner, so-called, in the
race for a presidential nomi-
nation. But he also is con-
WINGED that no potential
candidate has the nomination
Sewed up. He is also certain
that no candidate will en-
ter the Democratic National
Convention next year with
a majority vote in his
grasp as to be a sure win
ner. That being the case, the
Senator is bent on building
up a substantial bloc of cor
vention delegates favorable
to or pledged to him. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09

thanks go to the American
Legion of the District of
Columbia, the various guest
speakers, Georgetown Uni
versity, and especially to
Ward C. Foulkes, Director,
D. C. Boys State for 1859.
Jim Gildea,
Senior Senator-Elect to
Boys Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
Memorable Week

This is to express my
gratitude to the American
Legion and the others con-
cerned in making the D. C..
Boys State, recently held at
Georgetown University, an
outstanding success.
1 am sure that the other
A boys who participated in
Boys State would agree that
our week together will be
remembered for a long time,
both for its Institutional
value and for the friendly
good feeling. My particular
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-09
Our Moscow Art

AN4oAbAJAANo Va RobA AObAN
Americans completely sup
port the House Un-American
Activities Committees re-
quest to Secretary Herter to
cleanse the American Mos
COW art exhibit from pictures
subverting and undermining
this country. The American
people are sick of being
bound hand and foot and de-
livered to our enemies by
self-named liberals" led by
an alien theology. I speak for
them in urging that the COM
mittee let nothing deter it
from pressing this battle to
victory.
Speaking as an American
whose ancestors go back on
both sides to jamestown and
Williamsburg, who took their
part in the building of this
Nation and its freedom, say
that they would have laughed
to scorn the idea that free
dom means SpineleSSly sit
ting by while enemies through
words or pictures pour poi
son into our minds. Our
founding fathers had too
much respect for the power
Of ideas. They fought for
their beliefs with every weap-
on at their command, of
logic or law, and so must we.
AS to the argument that
Americas best art has been
chosen, Americans will an
swer that in the case of the
% artists with a minimum of
465 Communist connections,
whether their art is good or
bad, it is not American art;
1t represents an alien ideol-
ogy. We would not borrow
communism's ideas expressed
as slave labor camps, "peo-
pies courts" or secret police.
Why should we borrow them
expressed as paintings pro-
noting hatred, bitterness, dis
unity, moral rot?
Whatever the quality of
American art as art, we
should in honesty pick Amer
lean art to show as our own.
Whatever the level of our art,
it will heighten as we catch
fire and begin again to live
Americas great ideas.
Most basic realism is what
William Penn said: Men
must choose to be governed
by God, or they condemn
themselves to be ruled by ty-
rantS"-personally and ma
tionally.
Jacquelin TaliaferrO Smith.
4 4 4
Surely President Eisen-
hover will find thoughtful
Americans everywhere as
deeply disturbed as he is by
"lampoon" paintings to be
shown at the American art
exhibit in Moscow under the
auspices of our own USIA.
Not so incidentally. the House
Un-American Activities Com
mittee has charged that more
than half Of the paintings
were submitted by artists
known to have records of
affiliation with Communist
fronts.
President Eisenhower made
the point that no other Gov
eminent department was in
volved in the selection Of the
artists. 1t was the sole re-
sponsibility Of the USIA,
which. paradoxically, is. as
we understand it, charged
with the responsibility of
irving to sell American de-.
mocracy to the uncommitted
peoples of the woodland is
given billions of dollars of
our tax monies to do it with.
How does it make sense to
substitute members of Com
muniSt fronts" en-
couraging them in their
unhappy activities-by offer
ing prestige to their standing
as artists" when there are
thousands of artists truly
representative of America
Why not give them a hand
instead?
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