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POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Campaign lament Oh, Kennedy lost his voice and Nixon
lost his knee If the counys to be saved it's to me and
thee.
been proved the Democrats couldn't stop Kennedy
Now the question s Can they start him?
did Nixon enter the hospital with bum knee
than 10000 Democrats posed the question: Can the country
stand weakened President?"
Actually Nixon after the womens vote. It's announced
he has a bad case of housemaid's knee.
Jack Kennedy political committee foreign
policy It's truly bi-parsan-represents all shades of Demo-
cratic opinion
Census says 88 per cent of American homes have TV
SETS The other IL cent willing to take faith
that the Indians lost.
Campaign whathey If the election today,
we'd sweep the country The this things going If
the election tomorrow might be "a hours late
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ChivoIry in National Politics

though he has just an
nounced that he will begin
on Friday an 18-day speak
ing tour in II States.
In these days of television
and radio, there isn't as much
need for the candidates to
take extensive campaign trips
in person. The political man
ayers, however, do not agree
with this. They want their
candidate to put in personal
appearances so as to attract
local attention and to afford
an opportunity for street
demonstrations and parades,
all of which presumably stir
up voter enthusiasmS.
The way a candidate looks
and his speaking manner
may seem to be important.
but nobody has ever proved
that they really are. 1t is
rather the impression ere
ated by the party in power
during the previous four or
eight years which causes
many voters to make up their
minds, either affirmatively or
negatively, long before elec-
ton day.
This would seem to furnish
a logical yardstick of meas
urement for the present
campaign. If there is a tide
Of deep discomfort running,
due either to economic ad-
versity or unemployment in
enough areas of the country
to swing a large number Of
electoral votes against the
party in power, then the
opposition party will win by
a landslide. If, on the other
hand, the public is in a state
of relative contentment on
the economic side and does
not want to see a change in
administration because of a
delicate international situa-
ton, then the party in power
will win by a landslide.
Campaign speeches, may
clarity the basic issues for
many citizens, but a decisive
influence one way or the
other doubtless already has
affected a majority of the
voters. The speeches Of the
next two months may not
materially affect the result
at all.
(Copyrisht, 1960)
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Practice of Segregation by Some Viewed
As Putting Christianity on Defensive

The five were L'Eglise
Evangelique de Madagascar.
the London Missionary So
ciety Synod in Madagascar,
L'Eglise Evangelique du To-
goland, the Methodist Church
of Ghana and the Anglican
Church of the Province Of
East Africa.
The others were the Syrian
Orthodox Patriarchate Of
Antioc (where the followers
of Christ were first called
Christians, and the Sudan
ese Christian Church of West
Java, whose 5000 members
are converted Moslems.
The new churches bring
the councils membership TO
l78 church groups Of the
Orthodox, Protestant and
Anglican faiths IN more than
so countries.
The kneel-ins in the South
eastern United States have.
Of course, attracted inter-
national attention. They are
a part Of the testing. Many
persons who accept the fact
that church doors should be
open to any person who comes
to participate in the service
of worship object to the
probing kneel-ins as semi
vaudeville stunts designed to
attract attention. They do
attract attention and they
also identify those churches
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Question Posed Whether His Popularity
In Mississippi Will Help Elsewhere
DORIS FLEESON

Reports that jackson,
Miss. was preparing to give
Vice President Nixon a hero's
welcome coincided with the
news that the Vice President
will spend two weeks in
Walter Reed Hospital with a
knee infection. The Jackson
appearance is within the
delineated time and may
therefore be a casualty of the
infection which has laid Mr..
Nixon low.
Northern Republicans pri-
vately are saying that this
is just as well. They hope
that in the hospital inter-
lude Mr.. Nixon will give
sober second thought to the
question of whether a Miss
issippi hero can also endear
himself to New York, Cali
fornia and the other great
States where presidential
elections are won and lost.
In such areas. Mississippi
has become a symbol of all
that large voting blocs, not
merely Negroes. regard as
wrong with the South's atti-
tude, political, social and
cultural. 1t owes this status
in large part to colorful ex-
tremists who have persona
liZed for the public outside
the South what it complains
about generally.
Other Southern States have
had their Bilbos, Rankins
and Eastlands, but they have
given the country a respite.
sometimes of very long dura-
tion, from the raucous out
cries with which such spokes-
men make themselves ma
tional cartoons. In late years
the Mississippi supply had
seemed inexhaustible.
There is much that is un-
fair in the picture. Senator
Bilbo was succeeded by the
very able and much loved
former judge, Senator STEM
mis-, an ornament to the
Washington scene. Represen-
tative Smith of Mississippi is
a writer of ability and per-
sonal charm who works
quietly at his job. Recent
Governors have been rational
men.
Perhaps it is not germane.
but the last two Miss
Americas have been Missis-
sippians and this years Miss
Mississippi is given a good
. chance also to carry off that
crown.
But the Emmett Till lynch
ing, the vulgar violence of
the Mississippi segregation
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Z Airline Routes
To Ohio Cities
Are Approved

| Lake Central AirIines has
been authorized to fly two new
routes which will connect the
Washington Baltimore area
with Columbus and Cincinnati,
Ohio.
The service will begin about
November 8.
Lake Central does not now
service Washington. The air.
line, owned and operated by
its employees, operates exten-
sively in the Midwest. -
The route to Columbus will
have stopover points at ZaneS-
vile. Ohio, and Wheeling and
Morgantown, w. Va. The Gin
cinnati route will have stop
over points at Portsmouth,
Ohio, ParkerSburg, w. Va,
Marietta, Ohio, and ClarkSburg-
Fairmont and Elkins, w. Va.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
authorized the airline to make
at least two daily round trips
over the routes.
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RALPH McGILL

No person who is even
meagerly sensitive to the
clamorous calamity of events,
both at home and abroad,
can avoid noting that the
Christian church is every
where on trial.
1t also is quite plain that
organized Christianity pres
emily is on the defensive. Its
enemies in Africa are insistN
ing that it is, and has been,
a white mans church. The
Communists long have re-
joiced over the predicament of
the Christian churches. They
have happily and earnestly
told by radio, the printed
word, and by television. the
many stories of segregation in
the Dutch Reform Church,
and, of late. the turning away
of Negro students by some
churches in the American
Southeast.
The World Council of
Churches, through it's CEN
tral committee, meeting in
historic st. Andrews. Scot
land. formally has declared
segregation based on race or
color contrary to the Gospels.
At the same time the coun-
Gil announced seven new
church groups as members,
five from Africa. They rep
resent a total membership of
1,650,000.
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The South and Candidate Nixon

that Senator Goldwater, the
arch-conservative from Ari-
zona. is the South's real hero
currently and some predict
he would have carried Mis-.
sissippi and most of the rest
Of the old Confederacy. Sen
ator Goldwater's trouble lay
elsewhere-in the big States
toward which the Nixon and
Kennedy campaign strategy
is mainly oriented.
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DAVID LAWRENCE

Maybe the age of chivalry
in national politics has
passed. Time was when a
presidential candidate can
celled speaking engagements
when his opponent was in
capacitated.
A dramatic example oc-
Cured 48 years ago when
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey was running for the
presidency on the Demo-
cratic ticket against Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Progressive
Republican, and President
William Howard Taft, regu-
lar Republican. An aSSaSsin's
bullet wounded Mr.. Roose-
velt on the right side of his
body, and he was hospital
lied for a brief period. Mr..
Wilson promptly announced
he would cancel all speaking
engagements. He said:
Mr.. Taft has at no time
taken an active part in the
campaign, and I have no de-
sire to be the single candi-
date on the stump engaged
against no active antagonist"
The shooting episode oc-
CURED in Milwaukee on Mon
day, October IA, and on Tues
day Gov. Wilson said that he
would keep only the speak
ing engagements that had
already been arranged for
Wednesday and Friday of
that week and that he would
not speak again afterwards
until Mr.. Roosevelt was able
to take an active part in the
campaign. Big meetings in
New York and Brooklyn for
that week end were given up
by Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. Roosevelt
appreciated the action but
insisted that Mr.. Wilson con-
tinue speaking. Actually,
"T.R." resumed campaigning
on october 80 with a speech
at Madison Square Garden.
So the recess lasted about 13
dayS-very important days,
too, since they we're in the
latter part of the campaign.
with the election taking place
on November 5.
Mr.. Wilson's attitude was
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lists. build the old image of
the State whose per capita
income is the lowest in the
Union. Why Republican Ma
tional Chairman Morton de-
cided to hold the regional
conference of Southern Re
publican leaders there was
already bothering some
Northerners, even before the
question of Mr.. Nixon's
travels became moot.
The doubters would well
come Southern electoral votes,
of course; they only do not
want segregationist, States
rights cheers for Mr.. Nixon
to nullify the big State image
of him as a liberal which he
and they are trying so hard
to create. They are aware
also, and regard it as poten-
TALLY damaging, that Mr..
Nixon is the beneficiary of
nti-Catholic sentiment in
the South.
That sentiment this year,
unlike 1923, has no place to
hide.
It was possible for the sin
cerely doubtful as we'll as
the bigots to say that they
could not support AL Smith
because he was a wet and
associated with Tammany
Hall. They could complain
of his lack of formal educa-
ton and his East Side &C
cent.
Such excuses are absent in
the case Of Senator Kennedy
who is, besides, a genuine
war hero. always an attrac-
ton to the South.
Southern observers report
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grants. Thus these States can
Government experts
think they will-continue their
present level Of payments but
cut down their share of the
cost as the new Federal money
takes over q bigger portion.
AS to the new program, for
the 10 million persons, the
social security administration
obviously figures it will be
started on an extremely modest
scale in many States.
Thus some States are fig
ured to put up only $4,000 for
this in the beginning year.
The benefits to any one per-
son who is helped by the new
plan will vary widely not only
from State to State but within
each State.
The plan is to be admin
istered under the public assist
ance section of the Social Sc
curity Act. Some States now
make quite liberal monthly
payments to those on old age
assistance under this provision;
others have a low scale.
But within each State, there
also is a big range. Generally
each recipient has a budget tai
lored to his individual needs
and checked by a case worker.
Under the new plan. medical
costs could now be given more
prominence in a budget. 1t is
expected that in most instances
the State would pay the hos
pital, doctor, drugstore or other
supplier directly for the health
services.
Sponsors Of the medical care
plan point out that a State
could contract with a health
insurance organization, such as
the Blue Cross, to provide med
ical services to needy old per-
sons,
They say also a State might
set up plan under which a
person with an income of, say,
$2,400 a year, might be required
to pay the first 5000 of doc
tor bills and $3.50 of hospital
bills in a year with the med
] ical care program taking care
of all costs beyond these.
The bill provides that the
new program for persons not
on old age assistance shall
cover those whose income and
resources are insufficient to
meet" all of their medical bills.
But it leaves it up to the
States to determine just how
this test of need shall be ap-
piled.
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actually Will De nelpeu.
That is because. while the
Federal Government stands
ready to put up hundreds of
millions of dollars for the pro-
gram, it is entirely up to the
States to set up details of the
operations.
The plan is contained in a
compromise social security bill
sent to President Eisenhower
by Congress Monday. He is
considered sure to sign it.
The medical care provisions
could take effect october l un-
der the bill, but this will de-
pend on how fast States move.
Approval Required
The States must obtain the
general approval of the Sec
retary of Health, Education
and Welfare of the way in
which they intend to operate
the new program.
But, based on experience
with the present public as
sistance program, they will
have wide latitude in setting
eligibility standards and in de-
termining the type and amount
of payments.
Under the medical care plan,
the Federal Government will do
two things:
l. 1t will increase substan-
TALLY the amount Of grants it
makes to the States to help
with medical expenses of the
"a million persons now on the
old age assistance relief rolls
2. 1t will join the States with
a liberal matching formula in
paying for a new program OF
meeting medical bills of an
estimated 10 million persons
who are not on relief but whose
incomes are inadequate to take
care of all of their health e2-
penSeS.
For the first part. the Fed.
ersl Government will partici.
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Wilson's Cancellation of Speeches Cited
When Theodore Roosevelt Was Shot

regarded as sportsmanlike
and gallant.
There has always been,
however, some question as to
whether lengthy and contin-
uouS campaigning is ever as
important as the candidates
and their managers think 1t
is. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, in 1896 and 1910
and 1914, followed the STRAIT
egy of letting his opponent
in each campaign do the bulk
of the stumping while he,
himself, concentrated on re-
buttalS in the last two or
three weeks before election
day.
Doubts as to the value Of
stump-speaking have arisen
from time to time. Thus, for
instance, in 1920 Gov. James
NJ. Cox of Ohio, Democrat.
toured the country from
coast to coast while his OPP
ponent, Senator Warren G.
Harding, stayed almost the
entire time on the front
porch of his home in Marion,
Ohio, making a few speeches
there. Senator Harding won
the presidency by the biggest
electoral vote anybody had
ever attained up to that time.
The people voted primarily
against the party in power.
irrespective of the eloquent
and thoughtful speeches of
Gov. Cox.
Looking back still further,
it will be noted that William
Jennings Bryan, Democrat,
was one of the most colorful
orators in American politics.
He was defeated for the pres
idency three times-in 1896,
1900 and 1908. In each cam
paign his opponent made
fewer speeches than he did
and took fewer trips, but won
anyhow.
Maybe Vice President
Nixon, now hospitalized with
an injured knee, will bene-
fit by a two-week recess in
the Stumping excursion.
Maybe Senator Kennedy
would also benefit If he took
a rest for the next fortnight,
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pate in an additional amount
equal to $12 multiplied by the
number of old-age assistance
recipients in each State. The
Federal matching of this sum
would be sc to 80 per cent, with
the biggest share going to
States with lowest per capita
income.
An estimated 100000 of the
persons on old-age assistance
need medical help in any one
year.
For the new program of aid
to persons with incomes high
enough to keep them off the
assistance rolls, the bill au-
thorizes unlimited Federal
funds, again on a SO to 80
per cent matching formula.
Sponsors figure that 100000
to a million of these 10 mil
lion persons might need help
on medical bills in year.
Some legislators say the cost
of both types of payments could
exceed 81 billion in year if
the States took the fullest ad-
Vantape of them.
I However, social security ad-
ministration experts estimated
that the Federal outlay would
be $2o2 million the first year
with the States putting up SCI
million.
S34O Million Cost Seen
By the fifth year, they figure
the Federal cost might be S34C
million. with $3.50 million com.
ing from the States.
However, the plan woulo
work out so that many States
would not have to pay out
anything to get the extra ole
age assistance medical funds
at least at the outset.
That is because they now
are paying medical bills fol
their assistance recipients il
excess of Federal matchinl
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himself for worship will be
admitted.
Meanwhile. there is no
blinking the fact that the
Christian church is being
hurt in the testing time to
which it is being subjected.
America, with its freedom.
does not realize that in other
parts of the world, there ere
aggreSsively competitive reli-
gions, especially MoSlem and
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Buddhist, and they are gain
ing.
The World Council OF
Churches, with it's greatly
enlarged membership. in
Guiding churches in Africa
and Asia, which are in direct
competition with other
faiths, did not speak out of
any lack of experience when
it declared against screening
policies.
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AidDue 12Mi||ion Aged
Depending on States
By the Associated Press

The medical plan for needy persons IS which
cleared designed to aid l24 million Ameri
cans with their health costs
This is 78 per cent the 6 million persons IS in
the Nation Sponsors concede however that the degree of
help may vary widely and there's of knowing how
Evening star., 1960-10-27

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 27
(AP).-The Belgian govern
ment has received a second
letter from United Nations
Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold asking that Belgian
technicians be withdrawn from
the Congo, officials reported to-
day.
The only official comment
has come from Foreign Min
lister Pierre Wigny who said the
first letter offended Belgium
and mo participation in the
United Nations is possible and
useful unless member states are
treated correctly"
Mr.. Wigny told the Foreign
Affairs Committee of the House
of Representatives yesterday
MIR. Hammarskjold's demand
would be rejected and that he
would be told withdrawal of
Belgian technicians would
mean chaos in the Congo.
Mr.. Wigny also indicated
that Belgium would answer
that Belgian technicians were
placed under the orders OF
CongoleSe authorities, that their
replacement by U. N. techni-
clans would put the Congo un-
der U. N. trusteeship and that
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Satellite
Fails to0rbit'

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calf. Oct. q (AP).-
The first attempt to orbit a new
satellite rocket-one planned
as the workhorse Of a series
OF key space tests-fell to fail
ure In the Pacific.
Discoverer XVI blasted of
yesterday with q burst of flame
from its big, Thor booster. Atop
the Thor was something new in
the Discoverer series: A power
full, maneuverable and roomy
new Agena B rocket.
The Thor was supposed to
burn out and drop OF, letting
the Agena push itself into q
polar orbit. But the stages
failed to seperate and the Dis
coverer plunged into the ocean.
Agena B is scheduled to carry
SamoS and Midas spy-satellite
instruments into orbit. It ii
roomy enough to take monkeys
into orbit in tests preliminary
to manned space flights.
Agena A. orbited by earlier
DISCOVERIES. was 10 feet lone
and weighed $500 pounds
fueled. Agena B is 25 feet
long an dweighs $4,000 pounds
fueled.
The entire new rocket was
to go into orbit and then, on
the 18th pass, eject a capsule
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tngs in the "23d Of January"
housing development. Officers
said the buildings in the de-
velopment, which is named for
the 1858 date ON which Die
tator Marcos Perez Jimenez vas
oVerthrown, had been turned
into revolutionary tortresses.
Arms Seized
The military operation in TIC
development continued during
the night. At least 40 persons
were arrested and automatic
rifles and pistols seized.
Sporadic shooting continued
from the hilly. heavily popu-
lated section of the city, known
lately as the Sierra Maestro
after the mountains of Eastern
Cuba where Fidel Castro
launched his revolution.
There also we're disorders in
the Eel Cementerio" housing
project, where rioters turned of
electric power for a time. An
army unit dispersed the rioters.
Snipers were blamed for three
Of the dead and eight of the
wounded.
In a week of clashes, seven
persons have been killed, 76
injured and 139 arrested.
Army troops patrolled the
streets and the army warned
that it had ordered its men to
"act with energy" to keep order.
BetancOurt Statement
The renewed violence came
after President Romulo Betan-
court decalred his confidence
Tuesday night that the armed
forces had crushed revolu-
tioniSts he said were trying TO
impose Cuban methods" or
Venezuela.
Msgr. Humberto Quintero.
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Gray Awarded $500
In Sun Libel Suit

Former Fairfax County Su-
pervisor Thomas S. Gray yes
terday was awarded $500 in "a
libel suit against the Northern
Virginia Sun and a Sun COL
Qmnist. d.
Fairfax Circuit Court Judge
Arthur w. Sinclair made the
award against the Sun and
against Mrs. Mary. Cook Hack
man. Mr.. Gray contended he
was libeled in an article writ
ten by Mrs. Hackmans Defense
attorneys indicated they would
appeal.
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THOMBE ANGRY
OVER SUGGESTION

ELIsABETHVILLE, the
Congo, NOct. % (AP).-Katan-
gas President Noise Tshombe
-angered at a suggestion by
U. N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold that he remove
Belgian technicians-today ac-
cused Mr.. Hammarskjold OF
fragrant interference in the
affairs of Katanga."
Replying to a letter Mr.
Hammarskjold sent to him
October 10, Mr.. TShombe said
measures envisaged by the
U. N. official would impose q
new form of supervision or
Katanga, incompatible with
what the President called its
status as an independent state
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States check tomorrow or
Saturday. Laotian soldiers
have not been paid since Au-
gust. The United States has
Of instruments. The capsule
was to parachute into the sea
near Hawaii, where Air Forces
planes and ships waited for q
recovery try.
Two previous Discoverer cap
suleS have been thus recovered
one by plane and one by ship
The Agena BIS increased ma
neuverability may help in the
election process. Unlike earlier
Agenas, the B-model's engine
can be started and stopped in
flight.
Eventually such stop-and-gc
flying might help Agenas dodge
hostile missiles or satellites.
Evening star., 1960-10-27
MoIoyo Calls on U. S.
To Alter Chino POLICY

Malaga today urged the
United States to revise its
policy against seating Com
munist China in the United
Nations.
Prime Minister Abdul Rah-
man suggested that this coun-
try take the lead in calling a
conference Of friendly nations
with this end in view. At the
same time he said he believed
Nationalist China also is en-
titled to status at the U. N.
Addresses Press Club
The Prime Minister, here on
q state visit which ends tomor-
row, outlined the Malayan posi-
ton in a luncheon address to
the National Press Club.
Many right-thinking ma
tions," he said, consider that
The failure of the United Ma
tionS to recognize Communist
China is provocation likely to
lead to serious conflict. China
will never agree to Russia S
acceptance of any terms for
disarmament,
"China's present position is
that she has all the men she
wants. and in the event of any
war in the Far East she could
supply all the men needed, pro-
'vided she drew arms from
Russia"
Would Reduce Dangers
The Prime Minister said
China. with a population OF
600 million people and one of
the largest armies in the world,
believes in the inevitability OF
war to achieve Communist