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RALPH McGLLL
Nixon and the G. O. P. Image

1862 off-year elections when
the 1860 census figures will
have added congressional
seats in that region.
If the Vice President does
win the nomination and elec-
ton, he will be the first real
Westerner so to do. Iowa
born Herbert Hoover was an
internationalist who had lived
all over the world before he
came home to be picked up
by the Republicans who
wanted his name and fame
as a great engineer and hu-
manitarian who had done
jobs in Australia, Asia, Africa
and Europe. and fed the poor
and needy in China, Russia
and Europe. AS a boy he had
grown up in Indian territory
and in Oregon, and gradu-
ated from Stanford. But he
was not a Westerner in the
accepted meaning of the
word.
Richard Nixon is Califor-
nia-born and reared. He is a
product Of its political proc
esses. He was an apprentice
boy and then journeyman
practitioner of the craft. He
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The Steel Pact in Gray Area

painted the picture of the
Kaiser settlement as being
more favorable than the in
dustry settlement. This is not
true. The Kaiser settlement
cost about 5 per cent per an
mum as compared with 3.75
per cent for the industry set
tlement. The Kaiser wage
increase becomes effective
July / as compared with De-
cember for the industry.
Furthermore, the industry
has an Offset against the g.
cent cost-of Living clause in
excess insurance costs; Kai-
ser has no such offset. In ad-
dition, the industry is settled
for an extra year which is in
itself an advantage. A set
tlement which was better
than the Kaiser, CAN indus
try, aluminium or copper set
Elements also was quite a re-
markable achievement.
so what am I saying?
Simply that this deal was
not all black nor all white
1t was in the gray area. If
those who believe in this
cause keep at it, additional
progress can be made with
the hope that intelligent peo-
pie can truly arrest imitation
over a reasonable period Of
time"
Both the foregoing express
sionS from executives of two
important steel companies
were spontaneously made, in
dependently of one another,
in an informal review Of the
controversy. 1t is conceded
that, while the industry paid
a heavy price in the cost of
work interruption, the draw
ing Of public attention to the
basic issue of work rules was
a gain in a long range sense
for management.
Just what the political
gains or losses will be re-
main yet to be determined.
The administrations posi-
ton is that it acted as an
informal mediator and that
it made no promises about
future legislation and gave
no sanction to any agree
ment on prices. The steel
men say privately that each
company will have to decide
for itself whether or not to
increase prices and when
such prices would go into
effect.
(Copyrisht, 1960l
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POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Democrats becoming brave. They're boldly predict
ing that if it weren't for the fact that can't run again.
he might make mess Of the next four years.
Asian flu is back We may never recognize Red China
but it's bit difficult not to be-achoo!-aware of her.
1kes new budget has surplus Democrats deplore this
annoying tendency of the Republicans to frter away the
taxpayers dollar on thrift.
Federal glossary Central Intelligence Agency-Te outfit
that tell you what's going happen anywhere on the
globe-and why we can't do anything about it,
The Air Force plans to fire missiles from railroad cars
It's hard to keep with the Air they steal the
letter carriers uniforms and they recruiting brake
men and conductors.
Vice President Nixon campaigns Florida Dicks travel
ballad for Ike: Anywhere you can CO. can 20 further"
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flnanciers, industrialists and
special privileges must be
eliminated.
Had he not so believed he
would not have played SO well
the role of mediator in the
steel strike.
He sees that the mighty
coalition which Franklin D.
Roosevelt forged-of minority
groups, labor, Southern con-
servatives and independents,
has come unstuck.
A part of the present
political picture which the
doctrinaire Democrats have
yet to See-or to admit If
they do see-is that none Of
the avowed candidates has
the slightest chance to put
the old FDR coalition back
together again.
One reason is that Mr..
Nixon and his aides are busily
putting together one of their
own.
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Nixon's Defense of Eisenhower
Is Viewed as Campaign Strategy

ed that the President place
himself in the thick Of the
fight care passionately
about the fate Of the people
he leads ). be willing to serve
them at the risk Of their mo-
mentary displeasure." On the
lighter side he managed by
the adept use Of quotation to
make Mr.. Eisenhower sound
much more like Republican
Presidents Coolidge, Harding
and Grant than like Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
To Mr.. Nixon this appar-
emily demanded instant and
all-embracing answer, which
is always his reaction to any
real challenge. How very
hard he is trying to keep to
the high road was shown by
his Characterization of Sen
ator Kennedy as "a very Sc
rious student Of public af-
fairs" and a bouquet for, Of
all people, Harry Truman,
who will not appear in public
with Mr.. Nixon.
The political strategy in
volved in the Nixon bows
toward Senator Kennedy is OF
course obvious. His admira-
ton Of Senator Kennedy can
be expected to mount in direct
ratio to Senator Kennedy's
reverses as the Democratic
candidate, the good-conduct
prize in this instance being
reversion of a resen tful
Catholic vote to Mr.. Nixon.
Democrats have not yet
come up with their answer on
how to mount their attack on
Mr.. Nixon. Leaders of the
party are discussing it with
their brain trusters and writ
ers; they understand that the
Vice President is formidable
opposition and they are eager
to get started.
The President poses a more
difficult problem. He has
called for no partisanship in
defense. yet he demands to
be considered the last word
and his Secretaries Of De-
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Vice President Expected to Give West
New Strength in Republican Party

had control that year bent to
the popular will and allowed
Wendell Willkie to be nomi-
mated. 1t was again true in
1852 when Eastern influence
coldly, If regretfully, turned
down Senator Robert A. Taft
and determined on Gen.
Eisenhower, though those in
power were even then being
more and more considerate
of Western wishes.
1t was this party machin-
cry which Gov. Rockefeller
had most in mind when he
said, in withdrawing as a
potential candidate for the
nomination, that those who
controlled the party did not
wish a convention fight.
Western political power
has been growing steadily. In
deed. in California it has been
booming. Mr.. Nixon knows,
as does the Eastern group,
that the best chance to gain
congressional strength lies in
the West, particularly in the
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RALPH McGILL

Since, barring an act OF
God, Vice President Nixon
will be his party's nominee,
one wonders If, and how, he
will attempt to remake the
G. o. P. nearer to his hearts
desire.
In the years Of its earlier
dominance, the Republican
Party existed as an interlock-
ing alliance between Eastern
financiers and industrialists.
The tail to this kite was the
support of Western farmers,
small business and
bankers.
The Western group had a
voice in the Congress because
it formed an alliance with
the agricultural bloc of the
Southern Democratic Con-
gressmen.
But in all the long years Of
its power the party machin-
cry was entirely in the hands
of the Eastern industrialists
and f1nanciers. This was true
as late as 1910. Those who
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different areas Of the coun-
try. Presumably they will
defend his policies.
Former President Truman
came up with an idea to pro-
mote bipartisanship in for
eign policy this election year.
He would have gotten more
smiles from Mr.. Eisenhower
had he been Mr.. Khrushchev.
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was Congressman, Senator
and Vice President.

and Vice President.
1t is one of those paradoxes
Of the inexact science of poll
tics that he presently is in
trouble on his native heath.
The bitter and ruthless in
fighting, which was a prelude
to nominating 6 ,or
knowland as the G. o. P.'s
tll-starred gubernatorial
choice, left both Mr.. Nixon
and his party with deep,
slow-to-heal wounds.
But he is a Westerner and
free of one Of the liabilities
Of the administration. 1t has
been known for a long time
that he has not seen eye-to-
eye with Ezra Taft Benson,
Secretary of Agriculture. If
elected there will be a new
Secretary of Agriculture.
II Mr.. Nixon does become
the first President since Mar
tin Van Buren, to move by
election from that office to
the presidency, he will seek
to raise the West to political
parity with the East.
What he would like to do
with the Republican Party is,
like so many things about
Richard M. Nixon, not well
known. But he does have
more precise ideas about
what Mr.. Eisenhower called
IN odern Republicanism"
than does the President. He
almost certainly agrees that
the vestiges Of the old image
Of the party as one Of
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World Tensions Are Seen Demanding
Adult, Reasoning Decisions by Voters

however, that the determin-
ing consideration should not
be party af1iliation or shop
worn labels like liberal" or
conservative" Whether we
are Republican" or Demo-
cratic" or liberal" or Con-
servative" will be meaning
less if the Russians are able
to cast us into the position of
a second-class power.
The decision should be
solely on this question: Who
among the aspirants could
best represent the United
States and keep it strong in
a tough and Infinitely peril
GUS world growing ever more
peri'ous? The first necessary
step Is to get rid of a series
Of prejudices against almost
every leading presidential
possibility so that they may
be judged only on adult and
relevant standards. For ex-
amples:
Vice President Rich ar d
Nixon is constantly under at
tack on such vague grounds"
as Il don't like him" II don't
like his face" And so on.
Senator John F. Kennedy
of Massachusetts, is constant
ly under attack because he
happens to be a Catholic.
Senator Lyndon B. john
son is ditto because he hap
pens to be from Texas.
Adlai E. Stevenson is ditto
because he has twice been
defeated for the Presidency.
Accusations" such as these
are totally irrelevant to to-
days realities. And they are
little-boy stuff, too. Whatever
is right and whatever is
wrong with each of these
candidates is in no way af-
fected by such nonsense.
The fact that Mr.. Steven
son didn't win before has
nothing to do with whether
he would be a good President
now. Ditto that Senator Ken
nedy is a Catholic. Ditto that
Senator johnson is a Texan.
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Vice President Nixon has
opened his campaign for the
presidency with the claim
that Dwight D. Eisenhower is
a strong President. Mr.. Nixon
is contradicting the Presi-
dents own concept Of his
high Office, often expressed
and tenaciously adhered to.
The President has opened
his final year in Office by
insisting that he knows more
about defense than almost
anybody" This constitutes
a claim to be THE expert in
a kind of warfare which was
just coming into being when
Mr.. Eisenhower left the Pen
tagon and one whose from
tiers are expanding daily In
ways the ordinary imagina-
ton cannot even grasp.
Furthermore the solid rea-
son for the President S far
flung travels Is that the
defense of this country, in
deed of freedom, has moved
largely into the social and
economic realm. The high
standing he now enjoys after
several passive years shows
that Americans under nd
this fact and as usua are
probably ahead Of the politi-
clans in Washington.
Perhaps the Vice Presi-
dents remarks are what Wen
dell Willkie airily shrugged
of as just campaign oratory.
Also he is obliged to pay a
certain amount of obeisance
to Mr.. Eisenhower, although
he has begun to use that
heady phrase, IF I were
President"
What he was doing. none
theless, was letting Senator
Kennedy of Massachusetts
set the terms of the election
dialogue, though Senator
Kennedy is not yet the Dem
ocratic candidate against Mr..
Nixon. Last Thursday Sen
ator Kennedy, in a tough and
striking speech, declared that
the central issue of the next
campaign is the presidency
Melf.
Senator Kennedy Demand
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Executives of 2 Major Firms Agree
Strike Settlement Was not All Black

and to the whole country.
We would have had a diff
cult time ever getting repeal
of the drastic, ill-considered
legislation that would have
been passed"
The head of another steel
company believes the adverse
nature of the settlement has
been overemphasized. He
says:
mo one, of course, could
ever say this settlement was
a victory for the steel indus
try, for we did not accom-
plish our main objectives Of
a noninflationary settlement
and change in work rules
which would promote eff
cheney. Nevertheless. as Mr..
Blough of U. S. Steel pointed
out, we did reduce the rate
of increase in employment
costs to about 334 per cent as
compared with an average
of 8 per cent throughout the
postwar period. This is no
mean accomplishment. In
addition, we alerted the pub
lie, including the steelwork-
ers, to the Importance Of the
work-rule issues, and one
may hope that this could
bring some fruitful results as
time goes along.
Some writer's contended,
for one thing, that if the in
dustry had settled on the
union offer Of is cents an
hour prior to the strike, this
would have meant 371a cents
for a 30-month period as
compared with Al cents in
the actual settlement. The
kind of 15-cent-an-hour Of
fer made by the union prior
to the strike was the same as
the 1856 settlement which
resulted in an employment
cost of 81 cents an hour for
the three-year period. This
is exactly what would have
happened had we accepted
the original so-called IS
cent offer. The union never
counts the related costs Of
wage increases-for overtime,
holiday pay. vacation pay,
etc.-nor did they at that
time look with favor at any
limitation of the cost-of-liv-
ing clause.
In addition. some writers
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There is mounting evidence
that both political parties
and the voters, too, will owe
a terribly high duty to their
country to put on their long
pants in this presidential
election year.
The Soviet Unions power
to turn cold war negotiations
to its favor is undeniably
growing. Whether or not its
actual strength is rising, its
propaganda strength certain
ly is. The Vests chance to
win, in a summit meeting
and beyond, is declining.
There will be no chance at
all unless the West can be
drawn together in adult unity
and unless the core of the
alliance, the United States,
can get through the cam
paign at home without tear
ing itself apart. We must not
weaken the ability Of the in
coming administration-who-
ever may head ito act
decisively and with heavy
public support in a pro-
foundly dangerous world.
All these facts are anx-
iously known to the most
responsible men in both par
ties. Much more than this is
needed, however, if the coun-
try is, indeed, going to wear
it's long pants-to take a
grownup view of the world
of 1860.
No one supposes the cam
paign can be run off without
some unwise emotionalism.
But it does not seem too much
to hope for less automatic
and trivial partisanship; less
personal like and dislike as
governing factors in voting;
fewer voting decisions based
on petty personal prejudice.
The grave Russian challenge
will not be subject to wasting
weakness of this kind.
Surely the national prob
lem can thus be fairly stated:
There is special necessity not
to choose a President on the
basis of two-bit politics or
mere pressure group inter-
ests, however decent these
interests may be in them
selves-or on the basis OF
simple personal prejudice.
The country manifestly
will need a powerful and able
leader; it is not really i'm
portant whether all of us like
him, or how he combs his
hair.
This correspondent does not
presume to say who should
be elected. He does contend,
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DAVID LAWRENCE

Executives Of the various
steel companies have been
reviewing what really hap
pened in the settlement of
the steel strike, and most Of
them have come to the con-
clusion that maybe the final
agreement reached was not
as bad for them as 1t has
been painted.
There is a tendency to
agree with what President
Eisenhower said about the
pressure of circumstances"
rather than the pressure Of
Government, as the para
mount influence in bringing
about the settlement.
The head of one company
put it this way:
I'VE have been in this
wage-price spiral for 20-odd
years. You can't stop a great
wave of that kind dead in its
tracks all at one crack. We've
made a great effort in the
steel business to try to stop
it. We made some mistakes
as we went along but, by and
large, we tried our best to
slow the thing down.
Nov, the settlement, as
actually made, gives an ad-
vance of about half in the
next three years of what
we've had in the past three
years. That's a pretty fair
step forward. The thing that
really ended the matter
really what finally made us
capitulate-waS the politi-
clans in Congress.
THE real pressure that de-
veloped was the fear of a
Democratic Congress and
what they would do if they
had to meet an emergency.
If there was a threat of a re-
sumption of the strike, Con-
gresS would be proposing all
kinds of laws to prevent it,
and these laws would not be
the kind that would be care
fully considered or thought
fully discussed. They would
be emergency laws passed in
order to force a settlement Of
the strike. 1t was the fear
of that kind of law, as we'll
as the threat Of the steel
strike being resumed. which
most of us thought would do
a lasting damage to our
employer employe relations
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WILLIAM S. WHITE
No Time for Party Discord

Ditto that some people don't
like" Mr.. Nixon-usually for
reasons both underlined and
undefinable. Judge them all
with a cold-blooded, adult
mind.
Most of all, the presidency
simply requires competence
and strength. And we shall
never have had greater room
for those qualities than in
the four years ahead.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
DORIS FLEEsON
The Presidential Concept

fense. Army, Navy and Air
Force are scheduled to ad-
dress Republican Embarrassing
dinners January 81 in four
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day in the home Of Mrs. John
e. Westgate in Arlington. Va.
Yearbooks listing the forth
coming events Of the chapter
win be distributed by Miss
Audrey OTTAWA. Program as
signments on the theme,
Festival Of Life. will be made
by the program chairman,
Mrs. w. H. Zimmerman.
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There was a kind of June
in-September air about the
party given last evening by
Air Force Col. and Mrs. VIII
fred James Smith to present
their daughter. Mary Anne
Duff. to their friends.
The lovely debutante's fa-
vorite color is pink, so the
rose, traditional flower OF
June, was used effectively in
decorations throughout the
Smiths Seminary Road home
in Alexandria. Completing
the effect were late blooming
climbers around the patio
where Erwin Howard Devron
and his orchestra played for
dancing.
For her debut, Anne wore a
creamy white cotton organza
dress over a pale pink under
skirt, the delicate color COM
plemented again in matching
pink satin shoes, sash and
pink ribbon streamers that
fell from the nosegay of tiny
pink sweetheart roses she
carried.
The debutante received
with her mother, who wore
for the occasion a cocktail
length gown of aqua lace.
A group of Mrs. Smiths
friends alternated at the
punch bowl in the dining
room and assisted with in
Productions.
The debutante attended
st. Agnes School in Alex
andria and Chatham Hall in
Chatham, Va. her mothers
alma mater. She will enter
her sophomore year at Pine
Manor Junior College later
this month.
Anne also spent three sum-
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Miss Hale Wed
InVermont
Ceremony

Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Southland Hale Of Middlebury,
VT. announce the marriage
of their daughter Marguerite
10 Ann to DR.. David Alan
Hills, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Gordon Hills of
Chevy Chase, Md. The we'd
ding took place August 20 at
the Middlebury Congrega-
tional Church.
The bride is a graduate of
the Mary A. Burnham School
for Girls and attended the
University of Vermont.
DR.. Hills is a graduate of
Dewitt Preparatory School,
st. Lawrence University and
Georgetown University Den
tai College.
The couple will live in
Chevy Chase, Md.
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Mary Anne Smith
Is q Debutonte

mers in Europe while her
father served a tour Of duty
in Morocco as assistant chief
Of staff for intelligence for
the 18th Air Force.
Col. and Mrs. Smith will
entertain again for their
debutante daughter on De-
cember 20, their wedding
anniversary. at a tea dance
at the Fort McNair Offlcers
Club. Anne will also be
presented at the 18th an
nual Debutante Cotillion and
Thanksgiving Ball on Novem-
Der "a at the Sheraton-Park
Hotel.
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50th anniversary at a meet
ing at $3.50 pm. Wednesday
in the synagogue. Mrs. Ha-
rold Goldin, president Of the
Sisterhood, will preside.
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Sorority Opens
Fall Program

The XII Alpha M Chapter
of Beta Sigma Phi irterna-
tional sorority will begin its
fall program Of activities
when the members meet for
the first regular bi-monthly
meeting at S:lS pm. Tues
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Antelope Handbags
Imported from Spain

Soft and sumptuous in rich
dressy black lovely of line,
simple in their elegance
:. the master touch of continental
quality in every small detail.
$500 and 1875 plus tax
AT ALL HAHN STORES
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Observance Set

The Sisterhood Of the Ke-
sher Israel Congregation will
celebrate the Congregations
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WHEATON PLAZA
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Cubs Sign Three.
1o Now in Fold

CHICAGO. Jan. II CAP).-
The Chicago Cubs received
three more signed contracts to-
day and now have l9 players
in line for 1860.
The new additions are Pitch
ers Bob Anderson and Dick
Ellsworth and Infielder Tony
Taylor.
Anderson. "a, had a 1918
record for the Cubs last year
Ellsworth, 19-year-old south
paw, was 1914 with Fort
Worth, compiling 152 strikeouts
in 1877 innings and 2.60 era.
Taylor, "a, batted .280 in
$50 games with the Cubs. He
currently is playing with AL
mendares in the Cuban Winter
League.
The Cubs yesterday received
signed contracts from Pitchers
Glen Hobbie and Joe Schaffer-
moth.
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40Are Nominated
For HiuIeuh's S
Hibiscus Stakes

! MIAMI, Fla, Jan. II (AP) -
Leonard D. Fruchtman's we'll
regarded Bally Ache and IS
other 3-year-olds have beer
nominated for the 25th running
of the $4,000 Hibiscus Stakes
at Hialeah January 20.
Thirty of the eligibles for the
6-furlong event also are eligible
for the 100000 Flamingo
February 81.
Other top entries for the
Hibiscus include William G
Helis jr.'s. Sky Clipper, Mrs
Adele L. Rand's Bourbon Prince
April Fool Farms April Skies,
S. I. Crews Cuvier Relic, Mrs.
Wallace Gilroy's Greek Page
and j. E. McAuliffe's Jamipego
Calument Farm was the big
gest nominator. with Pied dor
Hillsborough, Rum Punch and
Winter Park, all also entered in
the Flamingo.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Knee Surgery
Set for Walton

Joe Walton, Redskins end,
will undergo an operation at
Doctors Hospital tomorrow for
the removal of a torn cartilage
in his right knee.
A former All-American end
at Pittsburgh, Walton was
counted on for a big season as
a pass receiver in SO, after
leading the team in that de-
partment the year before. But
he was injured against the
Chicago Cardinals in the third
game Of the campaign and
limped through the rest of the
l2-game schedule. Even then
he finished as runnerup to Bill
Anderson among the Redskins
pass receivers, with 81 recep-
tions for 3l2 yards and three
touchdoWns.
DR.. George ReSta, team ply
Sician, will perform the opera
ton.