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Evening star., 1960-01-12
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Khrushchev sends Ike goodwill message Since Ike has
become world traveller Mr. K figures they might as well
team up and take advantage of the group rates
Senator Humphrey the Republicans dynamic
apathy Nothing aggressive Democrat as
good, red ~bloode6 American yawn.
Liberal Democrats are fighting mad at Dick Nixon Every
day he calls the Senate to order just when they're drawing
lots to who'll turn Lyndon Johnsons picture to the wall
Q-Whats leading industry? A-Hair If they ever
stop trying to dye pluck scrap saghten grease
bleach. curl or stamp it out well have depression.
Democrats asSal the missile gap" Democrats want to
awaken to the spirit of put Mnueman in every
back yard.
Pioneer housewife descended from hardy stock
who knows how fix electric dishwasher drers
toasterS
Senator Symington admits he'd like to be President He
prefers the fortnight chasing Humphrey
and Kennedy around a bunch of primaries.
Evening star., 1960-01-12
State Primaries Merry-Go-Round

give them all his blessing
and wave them on. 1t is
doubtful that the Minnesota
Senator, famous as a cham
pion of civil rights, would
care to enter a Southern
State, but he has still to say
no, positively.
In early February, Senator
Kennedy will attend a West
ern State conference of
Democrats in Albuquerque. A
persistent rumor is that his
major effort there will be an
attempt to persuade Gov.
Brown of California that the
Ohto-DiSalle pattern is best
for Gov. Brown and Califor-
mia. Gov. Brown has openly
posted mo treSpaSsing
signs" but the weakness of
his position is that he clings
to his pose of favorite son,
refusing to admit he may be
a serious candidate.
Evening star., 1960-01-12
Moscow-Peiping Friction q Fake

the rest Of the West lost its
political interests in the Far
East. Yet we appear to be los
ing the space battle to the
Communists.
In Africa the Russian
Chinese collaboration to con-
vert especially the recently
freed and politically imma-
ture African republics into
satellites is going strong. All
reports show that the Com
muntst efforts are fruitful.
We are thus witnessing a
two-fold operation on the
part of international COM
munism-a holding operation
by the Soviet Union which
gives the impression to the
gullible and peace-hungry
Western people that peace
and coexistence with the
Soviet Union is around the
corner; and continuing ag-
greSsive operations in con-
nivance by Moscow and the
Peiping government.
The objectives of both are
the same-the destruction of
Western civilization and the
hegemony of international
communism.
Evening star., 1960-01-12
FBI Officer to Talk
To Reserve Group

FBI Inspector William c..
Sullivan will address an assem-
bly, Of 1000 area armed forces
reserve officers on Internal
Security of the United States"
at 8 pm. Thursday in the In
terror Department Auditorium,
Nineteenth and c streets NV.
The meeting, sponsored by
the Joint Armed Forces Re-
serve Training Assembly Com
mittee. also will include films
and a talk on Operation North
west Passage" by Coast Guard
Capt. Harold L. Wood, who
commanded Coast Guard cut
ter on an historic voyage
through the Arctic.
A concert at 7:30 pm. by
the Army Band will precede the
meeting.
Evening star., 1960-01-12
Double 7 ak on Rights
Is Charged to HoIIeck

charged "a political payoff" by
Republicans to Southern Demo-
Gratis is delaying action on the
bill.
The political payof," said
Representatives Celler of New
York and Roosevelt of Cali
fornia, is the Republicans COM
pensation for help in enacting
a new labor law last year.
219 SignerS Needed
Mr.. Halleck has denied exist
ence of such a coalition.
THE Republicans simply are
holding back" Mr.. Celler told
the Associated Press. Charlie
Halleck simply hasn't given
them the green light. This ap-
parently is the political payoff
for Southern support for up
holding vetoes and for support
ing the labor bill last year. This
is the unholy alliance.
Mr.. Roosevelt, agreeing, said
there simply aren't enough
Northern Democrats to provide
2l9 signers of the petition. I'VE
just must have some Republi-
can votes and We should get
Evening star., 1960-01-12

Diplomatic Simple Simons
in Washington, London and
Paris have accepted as truth
the innuendoes from Moscow
that there is a strain between
Moscow and Peiping.
These reports emanated at
first from sources at Moscow
cocktail parties attended by
Western diplomats. They
gained more credence when
Deputy Premier Mikoyan and
later Premier Khrushchev
himself limited during the
Camp David talks at Chinese
Russian riffs.
Responsible Western lead
ers jumped to the conclusion
that the Soviet Union was
fundamentally scared by the
Chinese Communist progress
and feared an eventual ag-
gression because of the rap
idly increasing Chinese popu-
lation. Even the realistic Gen.
de Gaulle confirmed this be-
lief when he stated recently
that, after all. the Soviet
Union was a power which his
torically has always been in
the Western camp.
These notwithstanding the
ories appear groundless when
facts instead of fantasy are
examined. From all positive
indications, the Soviet-Chi-
nese collaboration intending
to replace Western civiliza-
ton is increasing instead of
diminishing.
The Chinese Communists
were assigned the principal
role of creating havoc in
Latin America and they are
working with increasing sue
cess. While we are debating,
they are acting. We are Offer
ing palliatiyes such as in
creased economic assistance.
The Communists are working
in a fertile soil in that area
vital to us by exploiting the
ever increasing corruption
and graft through the South
ern Hemisphere.
The fantasy of frictions be-
tween the USSR and the
Chinese Peoples Republic is
belied by the reliable reports
gathered by American and
other Western intelligence
services that the Soviet Union
is actively working by pro-
viding technical know-how
and other necessities to de-
velop the Chinese space pro-
gram. In two years, accord
ing to these reports, China
will, thanks to Russian as
sistance, be able to launch
an earth satellite.
Last week the Soviet Union
announced that it will con-
duct missiles tests in the
Central Pacific. This move
cannot be described by any
stretch of imagination as
designed TO intimidate China.
Evening star., 1960-01-12

House Republican Leader
Halleck today charged Demo-
Gratis with political doubletalk "
in trying to shift to Republic
cans responsibility for getting
a civil rights bill to a vote in
the House.
Mr.. Halleck noted that DEM
ocratS have a majority of 8
to 4 on the House Rules Com
mittee and said: Whats the
pitch-with that big a majority.
can't they run the Congress?"
House Democratic Leader
Mccormack yesterday urged
Republicans to join in signing
a discharge petition to bypass
the Rules Committee and bring
a civil rights measure Endorsed
by President Eisenhower to the
House floor for a vote.
Other Democrats have ac-
cused Republican leaders Of
joining with Southern Demo-
Gratis to help keep the measure
from a vote in order to WOO
Southern Democratic votes On
other issues.
Political BaIOney"
Talking with reporters after
he and other Republican con-
gressional leaders conferred
with President Eisenhower at
the White House. Mr.. Halleck
said there has been a lot OF
political baloney that is not
going to stand up"
He said he wants the civil
rights bill. approved by the
Judiciary Committee but now
blocked in the rules groups. to
come to vote and has SO in
formed Republicans on the
Rules Committee.
But I do not believe in the
discharge petition rot" Mr..
Halleck said. There are other
ways to get that bill to the
floor" He mentioned that one
way would be suspension of the
rules.
While he said he would not
sign a discharge petition, Mr.
Halleck said he would not try
to influence others on the
matter.
Dirksen Voices Confidence
Senate Republican Leader
Dirksen said he was confident
a possible filibuster could be
beaten to pass a civil rights
bill in the Senate this session
Meanwhile, prospects for early
House action depend to a great
extent on the outcome of a
closed meeting of all Republi-
can members.
AS they gathered this after
noon for their first party con-
ference in the new session,
G. o. P. leaders and members
generally proclaimed their past
record of votes and present
support for such legislation.
But two House Democrats
Evening star., 1960-01-12
DAVID LAWRENCE

To most people imitation"
or monopoly" or govern
mental intervention" as in
a steel strike. are merely
words that have little per-
sonal meaning to them. Yet
what has just happened in
the settlement of the steel
strike will start another wave
of price increases in most
things the consumer will buy
in the next few years. It's an
open question how long it will
take for the people to dis
cover how they are being
cheated by the gradual down.
ward push in the purchasing
power of the dollar.
Two and a half years ago a
prominent executive in the
steel business was explaining
what occurred in the 1856
steel strike. His was a re-
Elective view. given at a time
when there was no dispute 60
ing on. What he said, however,
might have been spoken yes
terday.
Joseph L. Block of Chicago
is the executive whose proph-
ecieS have been borne out
bv contemporaneouS events.
He has been in the steel
business 81 years and is to-
day head of the Inland
Steel Co.. about eighth in the
rank OF large steel producers
IN this country. Mr.. Block
gave his views in a copy
righted interview in U. S.
News & World Report in
June, 1857. Asked about the
steel strike of 1856, he said:
The industry had no choice
when the final chips were
down" but to settle after a
costly strike of several weeks.
He mentioned the behind
the scenes influences" of
government as an important
factor in the negotiations.
Wasn't the administration
urging the steel industry and
unions not to raise wages
and prices?" he was asked,
Evening star., 1960-01-12
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Red Collaboration in Conspiracy
Against Free World Seen GROWING

It is intended, according to
the Interpretation of the
most knowledgeable Ameri-
can sources, to have a
psychological impact on our
allies in the Far East. The
Muscovites are now showing
the world that they are
moving into the open ocean
areas which affect South
Korea, Formosa, South Wet
Nam, Australia and New
Zealand.
The Red navy, which has
confined its activities in the
past to sending submarines
surreptitiously into the Pa
cif1c seas, will show the flag
this spring in the South Pa
cific.
There are serious appre-
tensions in many quarters in
Washington that this spring,
while the Western leaders
meet Mr.. Khrushchev to
debate such generalities as
disarmament and world
peace, there will be renewed
aggression in the Far East.
Whether China will strike
again at India or will move
toward Burma, Formosa or
South Korea is unpredictable.
But theresare definite indica-
tionS that the Chinese forces
do intend to move once more.
The free Asian people feel
their only hope for survival
is Americas strength and
interest in their areas, since
Evening star., 1960-01-12
Federal Hundin the Steel Strikes

"I do not think anyone
would go into the steel busi-
ness on a big scale and build,
say, a million-ton plant. You
have heard a lot of talk about
it, but you haven't seen it
happen, because the eeonom-
les do not justify it."
Thus does a ell-informed
and experienced man in the
steel business tell why Just
a few companies have what
has sometimes been called an
"oligopoly" in a single in
dustry. This situation tends
to force smaller units into
larger combinations. The
Government. Of course, by
the use Of antitrust laws,
frowns on certain mergers,
but it must accept much of
the responsibility for en-
couraging those who remain
in the upper ten in an in
dustry to achieve virtually
a monopoly status as a group.
This happens largely be-
cause the companies them
selves do not fix wage costs.
The unions, with complete
power over all workers in an
industry, fix the wage costs
for all the companies at the
same time. A labor monopoly
thereby fosters a monopolistic
position for the companies.
Hence, free competition is
tending to vanish from the
American economic system.
In Europe they favor legal
lied cartels or monopolies,
though sometimes there is a
crusade to nationalize an in
duStry under government
control. What has evolved
abroad is a partnership be-
tween vernmen and
special privilege groups, and
that's what's developing in
this country, subject only to
the vehement protests that
someday may be made at the
polls by the voters as they
come finally to realize they
are being robbed of their
savings through a devalued
dollar.
CCopyriEht, 1e60)
Evening star., 1960-01-12

State verdict can ruin an
aspirant as Wisconsin did
Wendell Willkie in 1914. But
because many voters are emo
tionally convinced that pri-
maries are fairer and more
democratic, few elected off,
cialS will attack them pub
licly.
What they have quietly
done is to prevent the ex-
tension of the system. And
it is noticeable that Cover
nors Of States holding pri-
marieS are not very free with
come one. come all, invita-
tions to presidential rivals to
intrude.
Few men have taken the
primary route with as much
cold calculation and deter
mination as has Senator
Kennedy of Massachusetts.
His well-financed effort is
just getting into high gear
with the yielding to him of
the Ohio delegation by a
Governor, Mike Disable, who
frankly did not care to risk
a popularity contest with
him.
The Senator is now work.
ing hard on Florida, his
special target being his old
friend, Senator Smathers,
who expects to be Florida's
favorite son. Thus far Sen
ator S m a t h ers is standing
pat and he has firmly de-
clared that Florida will not
yield in the Ohio manner to
the threat of a race by Sena-
tor Kennedy alone.
Should other candidates
Senator Humphrey, for ex-
ample-decide to make Flor
ida a battle-ground, Senator
smathers apparently would
Evening star., 1960-01-12
The South and the Rights Proqrom

result is that proponents Of
a much stronger legislative
program are greatly assisted
by what is an untenable posi-
ton on the part of some Of
the Southern political leader
ship. 1t plays into the hand
OF extremists on the other
side. Citizens in other regions.
who certainly know the mod
est administration measures
are neither a dagger in the
heart Of Dixie nor destruc-
tive Of any Southern way Of
life, are persuaded by such
arguments to accept the
worst stereotypes of the
South. Those who want to
understand and assist with
patience are unable to do so
in the face Of what is often
obvious political posturing.
At any rate, the civil rights
measures will be called up
in mid-February. There will
be a long debate, perhaps
even a fllibuster. Those who
seek stronger legislation will
be offering new bills or
amendments. The admins
tration's position will. there
fore, be Of critical Importance.
Senator Lyndon johnson,
who is painfully aware of
the absurdities in the more
extreme opposition to Mr.
Eisenhower's modest set of
proposals, will do all he can
to prevent a filibuster. He
knows that il attempted it
would be broken. The pres
tige Of the Senate would suf-
fer and much of the South
would be stamped, by its own
leadership, with the old stere-
otype so assiduously culti-
waited by its more extreme
opponents.
The media of information.
radio, television and press,
has an opportunity to put
the issue in accurate per-
spective and remove the Pres
ident's bill from the field Of
lnvective and distortion.
Evening star., 1960-01-12
DORIS FLEESON
Candidates on This Track Seen Focinq
Pitfalls and Unable to Turn Back

Candidates who try to win
a presidential nomination by
the State primary route fol-
low an almost predestined
course. Once they start on
this anything but primrose
path it is difficult to stop and
almost impossible to turn
back.
The story is currently be-
ing acted out by Senators
Kennedy and H u m p hrey.
Both are announcing heavy
winter schedules, chiefly di-
rected at the same targets.
The toll on their energy. time
and money will be enormous.
They confront pitfalls dug
as often by friends as by
enemies.
But they are committed.
They have said that nobody
is for them but the people
and they have set out to
prove it. The catch is that
they can't prove it once and
relax but are under pressure
to prove it in virtually all
States holding primaries.
Such candidates look to
the primaries because they
must. They begin without
the sustaining base of a big
rich State or a great national
reputation or the support Of
powerful party leaders. They
have certain limitations
based on considerations with
an emotional impact. These
limitations may be geograph-
ical, racial or religious or
some combination of all three.
What working politicians
actually think Of presidential
primaries is no secret; they
are CLANCY and expensive
In every sense. One adverse
Evening star., 1960-01-12
Pressure on Industry by Government
Called Same in I56 and '5o Disputes

Doesn't Government al
ways?" was the reply. But
that's a paradox. I don't
think it makes any difference
if we have a Republican or a
Democratic administration.
They seem always to talk one
way before the strike and an
other way during the strike.
Before the strike, all the
pressure is on. Don't put up
wages and don't put up
prices. and think of the pub
lie and so on. Then when
you have the strike, all the
pressure is on: Settle it and
get it over with. Compromise.
Get back to work."
Give them a raise, in other
wordS?" Mr.. Block was asked.
How else do you settle it?"
he commented in reply.
Mr.. Block was asked
whether the steady rise in
wage costs tends to entrench
the existing companies in
their position and to keep
out new companies from COM
petition. This was his an
SWer:
Il think that's right, and
it is an interesting commen-
tary, because here you have
Government putting pressure
on to hold down prices. and
so on, which is the very thing
that stops new people from
getting into business. Thus,
Government is, in a sense,
fostering monopoly.
Now, there are all kinds
OF circumstances. There is
plenty Of room for a speciality
operator - can think of a
few, in stainless steel or some
other speciality - but when
you talk about an integrated
carbon-Steel producer max
ing the popular products like
sheets, structural shapes,
plates and bars and so on, in
large volume, it Just can't be
done from the ground up
today.
Evening star., 1960-01-12
RALPH McGILL

A failure Of a large seq
ment of the South's public
leadership and its media to
inform seems indicated in
the matter of the Presidents
civil rights proposals They
are relatively modest and
moderate. That they should
excite vituperative attack
and sometimes frenzied de-
scription as a force bill is
past understanding. Leader
ship Of a good half of the
Southern States plans no
real fight against the ad-
ministration bill.
Mr.. Eisenhower is known
to find the extremist attitude
beyond comprehension. Sen
ator Lyndon johnson, Senate
majority leader is almost
certainly going to assist in
passing the administration
measures.
Yet, the Deep South States
are hearing that the Presi-
dents bill strikes a dagger in
the heart of the South. The
average Deep South South
erner has never seen the
moderate presidential pro-
poSals in print. They were
approved by the House Ju-
dietary Committee last sum-
mer and are now in the Rules
Committee. The House bill
would do these four things
and no more:
/. Permit inspection of
State voting records by the
Justice Department and re-
quire preservation of the
records for two years.
2. Make it a Federal crime
to interfere with court school
desegregation orders by
violence or threats.
8. Make it a Federal crime
to cross State lines in flight
from prosecution for bomb
ing or burning any building.
4. Aut h orize Federal
Evening star., 1960-01-12
Presidents Proposals Called Moderate
And Not Deserving of Extremist Attack

schooling for children of
military personnel in COM
munities where schools have
been closed in avoid integra-
ton.
Now, surely, no person,
however belligerently opposed
to any measure in the field
Of civil rights, can seriously
describe this as a gag, a
dagger in the heart Of Dixie,
and so on. To do so does
very real harm to the South's
position and prestige. More
than half the traditional IA
Southern States know this.
1t is not "the South" which
so distorts the picture and
the problem, but a portion of
it.
II the people had, a year
ago, been told the real con-
tents Of Mr.. Eisenhower's
moderate proposals, they
would not have become agi-
tated. They are not fools.
No thoughtful Southerner
any longer believes it is pos
sible to deny the right to
vote. This is one civil right
which cannot be opposed.
And certainly if a Federal
court order is defied it needs
the protection Of Federal law.
What Southern tradition is
being upset by making it a
Federal crime to flee across
State lines to escape prosecu-
tion for bombing or burning
a church, school or home? It
is prepoSterous to say this
in the slightest disturbs the
sleep Of the Confederate
veterans or causes the Stars
and Bars to droop.
The plain truth is that too
few Southerners in the Deep
South have been permitted
a reasonable discussion of
Mr.. EiSenhower's administra-
ton bills in this field. The
Evening star., 1960-01-12
Packers Lifts Costly

CHICAGO. - United States
packers of canned, dry, frozen
and glaSsed foods annually
spend $1,000, 900 for materials
handling equipment. About $5,-
100000 of this goes for con-
veyors and at least S1,500,000
for fork-lift trucks. >
Evening star., 1960-01-12

them If they are sincere in
what they preach" he said.
This discharge petition needs
at least PIG names. When the
House adjourned yesterday aft
ernoon the total was about l40
and included only a handful of
Republican signatures, accord
ing to informed sources.
Arizona sun., 1960-08-18
NAACP Urges Probe
OF Realtors

NEW YORK-NeW York State At
torney General Louis ]. Lefkowitz
has been urged to expand his probe
into "block-busting' tactics of certain
real estate brokers to- embrace an
investigation of the racially diScrimin-
atory praticeS of certain other real
estate operators.
In identical letters, dated Aug. l.,
to Mr.. Lefkowitz and Mrs. Caroline
K. Simon, Secretary of the State of
New York, Jack E. Wood, Jr.,
NAACP special assistant for housing,
calls the block busting" probe "a
proper and welcome indication of
state concern"
However, he points out, the states
interest in the ethical and democratic
operations of its licensees should not
be restricted to only one phase of a
number of practices known to be
discriminatory
Mr.. Wood filed a complaint with
the Attorney General and Secretary
of State and asked that prompt and
positive action" be taken against a
Queens real estate firm whose agents
are accused of seeking to prevent the
sale of a home in a white neighbOr-
hood to any Negro buyer. The owner
of the residence had reported to Mr.
Wood that the company was putting
pressure on her not to sell to Negro
family.
Mr.. Lefkowitz'S office has been
conducting a probe into 'block-bust
ing"
Arizona sun., 1960-08-18

Colored People. 1t followed NAACP
negotiations with representatives of
the oil industry.
John McFerren, a leader of the
registration drive in the county and
owner of a grocery store and service
station in Somerville, reported to the
NAACP national office that he had
received $4,000 gallons of gasoline
and had been assured of a shipment
of oil.
Because of the economic squeeze,
designed to keep Negroes from reg
istering, McFerren had not been able
to purchase gasoline and oil for his
station from local distributors of any
of the major oil companies since he
took over the business last spring.
Not only McFerren, but Negro
farmers and other colored consumers
who had registered were. blacklisted
and denied gas and oil at local service
stations.
In an effort to end this economic
freeze, Mr.. Wilkins, on July E, sent
a memorandum to all NAACP units
asking them to refrain from purchas-
ing gasoline and oil from the offend
ing companies. He listed Texaco,
Gulf, ESQ, Amoco, Delta and two
regional concerns, Lion Gas and
Southern Oil Refining Company.
Negotiations with representatives of
the oil industry in July led to the
termination of this phase of the