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Evening star., 1960-04-25
Stevenson's Plant to Editors Seen Near
To Prediction of Republican Victory

Mr.. Stevenson had along
side him at the meeting of
the editors Hugh Gaitskell,
who leads the British Labor
Party, and Lester B. Pear
son. who is the leader of the
political opposition to the
Conservatives in Canada. Mr..
Stevenson unwittingly per-
haps was trying to draw a
parallel on the basis of what
has long been known in pol
itics as the doctrine of eco
nomic content or discomfort.
Opposition parties win over
whelmingly when there is
depression or recession. or
when some emotional issue
arises in relation to peace or
war, or when there are
charges of lack of integrity
that seem persuasive to the
electorate. Candidates, how
ever we'll qualified, cannot
successfully buck that tide.
Now Mr.. Stevenson, whose
advisers have doubtless been
taking soundings and polls,
is disturbed because of the
waves of af1uence and the
high tide of consumption"
in America. He says it is diff
ficult for dissenters to be
given a hearing. They don't
seem to be able as yet, at
least, to organize an effective
protest. They have, of course,
tried with such subjects
as the missile gap, Russia's
achievem ent with the
"sputnik" and the supposed
lack of interest in social
welfare legislation by the
Republicans. None of these
arguments has as yet clicked,
and that's what may be read
between the lines of Mr..
Stevenson's speech.
Incidentally, the former
Illinois Governor is smart
ing still over his 1856 defeat
and allowed his emotions to
get the better of his judg-
ment in one part of his
speech last week as he COM
planned that President Els
enhower today is embracing
the very policy on banning
nuclear tests that he, Mr..
Stevenson, was criticized for
proposing at the meeting Of
the American Society OF
Newspaper Editors in April,
Evening star., 1960-04-25
2-Duy Workshop Set
For Church Choirs

The Wesleyan Choir OF
Asbury Methodist Church vii.
present a choir workshop Fri.
day and Saturday at the
church, Eleventh and K streets
NV.
The workshop will begin at
8 pm. Friday and will run from
$50 am. to 4 pm. Saturday.
Church groups from the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia
are eligible to attend.
Evening star., 1960-04-25
Farm Income
Expected to
Equal 1859
BY the Associated PresI

The Agriculture Department
said today frightened condi-
tions point to farm returns this
year about equal to last year.
A 5 per cent rise in farm
prices and prospects of another
year of bountiful production
indicate, the agency said, that
farmers may collect cash from
marketings equal to last years
1923 billion. But should wealth
er conditions be unusually good
to boost acre yields and total
Evening star., 1960-04-25

The census of 1860 is ex-
pected to show us to have
l80.000,000 inhabitants.
We live today within sight
of two world orders-one dy-
ing, one emerging. The old
Evening star., 1960-04-25
Robes Clinics Set

Dog rabies vaccination clinics
will be held in Prince Georges
County evenings May 9 through
May "a. The program Is free
to county residents.
Evening star., 1960-04-25

Wisconsin and Western Branch:
535l WISCONSIN AVENUE, n. W.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Muy 3
AFTERNOON

1900
4-Truth or Consequences.
5-Romper Room. Kids.
I Hour. Connie Bohlin, teacher.
7-RestIess Gun. Western.
9-LoVe of Life. Serial.
1870
Alt Gould Be You. Color.
7-Lovs Thot Bob. Comedy.
S-SeaFeh for Tomorrow. Ser1.
12:45
s-Guidins Light. Serial.
LOO
4-comeo TheoteF. Color.
I Hour. From the Desk Of Mar
aoret Tydino." Maggie Hoyes.
5-The Big Movie.
I Hour. "Nevodo." 1874. Anne
Jeffreys.
7-About Faces.
9-Theoter of Stors. Drama.
my Daughters Husband" Gene
Lockhort.
1870
Tour Miss Brooks. Comedy.
9-As the World Turns. Serl.
ZOO
4-ConeIrod Test. Special.
5-ConeIrod Test. Special.
7-ConeIrod Test. Special.
9-ConeIrod Test. Special.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Mdsummer's Dream

Comparisons may be odiouS. Never
theleSS we have been searching the files
hopefully, riff1ing The Stars sports pages
OF those glorious years, 1924, 1925 and
: 1898. We were looking for some excuse,
no matter how slight, to compare our
surging Senators of today with the
pennant-winning Senators of yeSteryear.
The cold figures in the club stand
ingS that then thrilled us, now chill us.
At this time in "a, when the chant was
"Peck to Harris to Judge" and Johnson
still logged em in, the Senators were
third, just two games out of the lead,
with SIS wins and 43 losses. At July's
end in '25, they were second, 21a games
from the top, with go victories and 35
defeats. And our heroes were leading
the pack at this period in '33, having
won 81 and lost a mere 35.
So what? There may be no real
basis for comparison. But it's midSum-
mer, and we can dream, can't we?
Evening star., 1960-07-31
In Harness to the End

George Rothwell Brown once told
a friend that he was much too old to
retire" and hoped that death would find
him still at work. He was covering
his thirteenth Republican convention on
Thursday when he died suddenly in
Chicago at 80-the unchallenged dean,
in point of length of service, of the
Washington corps of correspondents.
So he went as he would have wished
to go, still at it after very active news
paper career that began before the turn
of the century. He was born here and,
with few exceptions, all his years were
spent in Washington. He loved this city
and as one of it's historians he was an
authority on its past. He had held most
of the jobs, from cub reporter to editor,
that a newspaper city room can offer
and eXcelled in most of them. But he
probably will be remembered best by his
colleagues, not for his craftsmanship
but for his character as a man, forth
right in his opinions, dogmatic in their
expression, proud of his prejudices and
somehow able to tighten his dark pes
SimiSm with charming wit and lofty
Scorn for conformity. He was, withal, a
cultivated and kindly gentleman, living
strictly by somewhat austere code Of
his own making. ~
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Deductions for Charity

There are many people in Washing
ton who believe that the United Givers
Fund will continue to have difficulty
meeting its annual quotas until the
Federal Government authorizes payroll
deductions to handle charitable contri-
buttons by its employees. For that rea-
son, there Is special degree of interest
here in a forthcoming report to the
White House on this question
Certainly the absence of Fed
eral deduction policy places the united
giving campaign here at disadvantage
in comparison with those in many other
cities, where the participation of the
major industry in deduction programs
often has spelled the difference between
success and failure. In Washington, of
course, Government is the major in
duStry, although an inexcuSably poor
example has been set for it by the small
number of private business firms in the
Washington area which have set up
such deduction programs.
In the past, Government objections
to payroll deduction for this purpose
presumably have been based on it's extra
cost, in terms of manpower as well as
money. In addition, there repeatedly
has been fear that this would open
the door to demands for still further
deductions, for such purposes as the
collection of union dues. These are not
substantial grounds for diSapproval, in
our Judgment, and we are glad the en-
tire question is being reviewed. 1t was
revived at the inSistence of delegates
to national conference held here sew
eral months ago by the Presidents Com
mittee on Fund-Raising Within the Fed
eral Service. The full committee referred
the matter to a subcommittee for
recommendation, and the subcommittee
report is expected soon.
Under ruling of the Controller
General, legislation would be required
to authorize the additional Federal de-
duction. That is no insurmountable
barrier, however, and we hope the Pres
ident'S Committee will outline the steps
necessary to accomplish this desirable
change.
Evening star., 1960-07-31

How I laughed when sat
down at my TV set and noted
the seraphic expression on
Richard Nixon's face when he
stated. without a flicker of an
eyelash, that he was con-
Quoting this campaign on a
Evening star., 1960-07-31
FROM THE STAR FILES.

ersham declared that Lee
has come to be regarded as
typifying all that was best
in the cause to which he
gave his services ="
The art world was agog so
years ago over the disap-
pearance of the famous lady
with the enigmatic smile
Mona Lisa. The Star of
July %, 1910, reported from
Paris: "A French news
paper states that Leonardo
da Vinci's 'Giaconda' (bet-
ter known as Mona Lisa)
was stolen from the Louvre
recently through the COM
plicity of a high official in
the museum. A copy of the
painting was put in the place
OF the original, which is
now believed in New York.
The paper says a New
York millionaire collector
has the original. The
most striking feature of the
portrait is the mysterious
smile that turks in the eyes
and lips Of the subject. 1t
took da Vinci five years to
bring out this peculiar ex-
preston. Da Vinci found his
model assumed the peculiar
expression which he wanted
to depict only when at ease
in a certain posture. and
when listening to a certain
strain of music, :"
Evening star., 1960-07-31

podge in which very little of the old
that is left is worth saving. What can
be done, however, is to clear away good
portion of the heterogeneous mixture,
and to replace it with large buildings
that are part of plan which treats the
entire square as single architectural
entity.
In order to accomplish this, Mr.. Eli
Senhower wisely ordered GSA to develop
its plans in the closest possible CO.
ordination with the National Capital
Planning Commission and the Fine Arts
Commission. Fortunately, the Planning
Commission is well prepared to perform
its end of the job. Within a week or so,
the commission will complete a $1,000
architectural model of the square, which
will include precise proposals of location,
height, bulk and means of access and
egreSs for the government buildings.
Fortunately, too, the commission has
the authority under law to approve
or diSapprove GSA plans, an authority
which was given to compensate for the
fact that Federal buildings in the Dis
trict are not subject to coming laws. In
the past, Federal agencies have ridden
roughshod over this power, and the plan
nerS-largely because their own plans
were nadequate-offered little resist
ance. This time, however, the commits
sion is well equipped to make it's voice
heard, and by all means it should do so.
Some direct Intervention by the
President has been needed for a long
time to require more orderly develop
ment of Federal facilities here, and it is
particularly apt that Mr. Eisenhower has
done so in this case. Although he him
self will soon leave his residence on the
Presidents Park" he has performed a
notable service to future occupants of
the White House and to the Capital as
a whole.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
The Presidents Park

Nothing could be more fitting than
the timely and forceful directive by
President Eisenhower that extraordinary
care be taken in the design of the new
Federal buildings on either side of La
fayette Park. This course of action, in
the words of Mr.. Eisenhower, can in
large measure revive the historical and
architectural significance" of Lafayette
Square as the dominant feature in the
setting of the White House.
The key word in this statement is
reuiUe. For, contrary to claims that these
government buildings will irrevocably
lessen the eSthetic value of the square,
this need not be the case Indeed, as we
have pointed out in the past, and as the
President so adequately explained in his
letter to General Services Administra-
tor Floete, the new buildings provide a
unique opportunity to restore at least
a major degree of symmetry and balance
to Lafayette Square.
This does not mean that the noStal-
gic character of the early 10th century,
when the square was surrounded by
stately town houses ever can be recap
tured. That opportunity, no matter how
lamentably, passed long ago. One by one,
those graceful and once-lovely homes
were replaced by Federal and private
structures of various size and appear
ceauntil, today, there exists hodgS-
Evening star., 1960-07-31
100 Years AGO

Bored by these piping
times of dullness in the Fed
eral Metropolis" The Stars
Editor. w. D. Wallach, a CEN
tury ago took off on a tour
to write of what he heard
and saw of interest" On
July %. 1860, The Star
started his series of Sketches
of Summer Travel" mailed
from ION the wing: II left
Washington at $40 am.
bound for the West, on a
well-filled train. Carrying a
stout camp stool, I occupy the
best seat Cor rather positiom
on the train. I sit, pencil and
paper in hand Immediately
adjacent to the hind windows
of the hindmost car. I have
a capital view of the country.
I can never leave Washington
in any direction without being
struck with the new features
OF its ever-varying counte-
nance, its increasing houses,
avenues and streets. . un-
folding the plan of what was
originally designed to be the
most magnificent city of
modern times I remem-
ber Washington we'll when it
had from 5000 to 5000 in
habitants I caught hares
and shot partridges within
100 yards of the present depot
This morning the point
of interest was lexington,
residence of the late Mr..
Joseph Gales (editor of the
National Intelligencer and
Mayor of Washington, 1927
30). His good taste made a
paradise there out of very
rough materials indeed. His
success in reducing the wild
ness of nature to systematic
beauty was but typical of his
success as a philosophical
thinker. The lawns,
groves and avenues of Eek
ington are no more graceful
than was the mind of Mr..
Gales, carefully cultivated as
that was and producing rich
er and ripper fruit than the
mind of any professional con-
temporary. The train has
just passed Annapolis juno
ton. My eyes have been
feasted with beautiful sylvan
views. No where else on
this continent have I seen
agriculture progress more
steadily than on the line of
Evening star., 1960-07-31

this (the B&O) railroad.
Plenty and comfort smiles
not only in the rich fields,
but in the looks and motions
of all living kind to be found.
whether man or beast. I
am now at Relay House, and,
after a comfortable breakfast,
1 feel like a 2-year-old turned
out for the first time, in
spring, into pasture. To
me, Harpers Ferry offers the
loveliest of all views on this
continent, changing with the
rapidity of the kaleidoscope,
each succeeding one extract
ing rapturouS eXclamations
from the lover of exciting
scenery. Here are fantastic
combinations of mountain,
torrent, river-expanSe, bright
fields, froWning rocks and the
unmistakable evidence of the
sway of mans industrial skill
over them all. Harpers Ferry
will repay the voyager the
trouble of his trip over the
Atlantic, as Thomas Jeffer-
son once wrote :"
Evening star., 1960-07-31
rs Years AGO

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
plunged bravely into the
middle of a new controversy
rs years ago as he sought to
limit tax deductions by busi-
ness firms. The Star Of July
"a, 1885. revealed: "The
President today expressed
bitter opposition to a pro-
poSal in a new tax bill that
would permit corporations
to deduct contributions to
organized charity. The Pres
ident disapproves Of the
practice of firms contribut-
ing to various charities, con-
tending that such gifts are
made only to obtain public
good Will. If corporation
gifts to charity are not held
exempt from tax payments,
it will be a tragic blow to
organized charity throughout
the country, according to
spokesmen for the Com
munity Chest and other well
fare agenGies. :" a
Evening star., 1960-07-31
No Safe States Today

There is very good reason for the
announcement by both presidential
candidates that they are planning to
carry their 1860 campaigns into all so
States Of the Union. It is baSically a
recognition that long-Standing commit
mentS of certain States to a one-party
preference have all but vanished in re-
cent years. There are few, if any, that
can be considered "Safe" for either
party.
This is most of all fact of political
life for the Republicans, and presumably
would not be disputed by them. Their
spiritual heartland in the Middle West
has deserted them on other occasions in
modern times and the farm problem"
in that region admittedly has them
worried this year. In the once conserv-
ative Northeast, only Maine and Ver-
mont have remained SteadfaSt in G. O.P.
ranks nationally and both have favored
Democrats in various State and local
contests. This year they will be under
the pressure of regional pride with Sen
ator Kennedy of neighboring MasSachu-
SettS topping the Democratic ticket-a
factor that may or may not be Offset by
the presence of Ambassador Lodge, also
of Massachusetts,, on the Republican
slate. For the Democrats, their long
hold on the South has not been COM
pletely broken but it has been loosened
on several occasions. In every State of
that region the Republican Party today
is more of force than ever before, even
If not winning force.
Many reasons have contributed to
this evolution in American politics. For
one thing, the two parties themselves
have drawn closer together in their basic
interests and objectiveS even though
they differ on methods and approach.
There is no clear liberal VS.. conServ-
ative line between the two parties,
no one-party monopoly on interest in
industry, labor or agriculture. And in
these days of greatly improved commu-
nication, Vice President Nixon made
good point in his Chicago press confer
ence when he said that news does not
stop at State borderS-that what can
didate says and does anywhere is known
and weighed everywhere.
So it is that the candidates them
selves take on greater Importance than
party traditions or even platforms. Mr.
Kennedy has said that no States are
safe for the Republicans, and has added
wisely that he does not know how many
are safe for the Democrats either. In
effect, Mr.. Nixon has said the same
thing in reverse. Both are realiStS
Neither is trying to fool himself or his
followers that electoral votes may be
counted safely before individual votes
are cast. On this premise, the voters
will be offered good look at the candi-
dates and thorough discussion of the
issues in this year of important decision.
The Nation should benefit.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
so Years Ago

The Grand Army of the
Republic lost a post-Civil
War skirmish so years ago,
being sabotaged by the Fed
eral Government. The CARS
New York Department had
fought bitterly to drive a
marble likeness of the South's
top rebel" from the Capt.
tolls Statuary Hall. But The
Star of August /, 1910, said;
President Taft has approved
without comment an opinion
by Attorney General Wicker
sham TO the effect that there
is no provision of law by
which the statue of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, in Confederate
uniform, can be removed
from Statuary Hall. From an
ethical vieWsoint, Mr.. Wick
Evening star., 1960-07-31

to see in the lines a vivid
moving picture of present
conditions. 1t is a land not
ready for freedom. But in the
future it is inevitable that
black hands be at the helm
in that troubled land. In spite
of the Scandalous policies of
King Leopold of Belgium,
and even after the enlight-
ened colonialism which has
followed, with many unques-
toned material benefits,
there are hordes still there in
primitive tribal conditions.
The paramount question is
how to bridge the gulf be-
tween the black centuries and
the Goth.
Red lights are flashing in
the Congo because Commun-
ist strategy aims to make it
the base for their conquest
of all Africa. The whirlwind
which is being reaped now
grows out of what a former
Belgian governor has recent
ly confessed: I'VE Belgians
had exploited the country;
we thought we were bringing
great material advantage.
Our great fault and lack of
vision has been that we did
not take an interest in the
Congolese as individuals -
we did not allow them to be
men. That is where their re-
sentiment comes from"
Before the violent out
break of this year, Barbara
Ward, who has studied the
Congo, with her keen inSights
comes to this conclusion:
"The problem has nothing to
do with racial superiority or
inferiority. 1t has a great
deal to do with the stage in
the human journey a partic-
ular group has reached in
Central Africa"
There side by side are tri-
bal groups living in a world
OF magic and myth, and
twentieth century technology
with its skyscrapers, gadgets,
and mechanization. 1t is
surely a time for patience
and understanding. Only ed
ucation can build a bridge
between the two. Meanwhile.
the new rulers are helpless as
they see the Congo creeping
through the black. When
order is restored somehow
there must be worked out
friendl association and
fruitful partnership void of
any exploitation; and, above
all, there must be the vision
of the coming Congo through
which will not creep any,
thing sinister, but when there
will shine through the black
a future which will plant
there the Garden of the
Lord.
This crucial day for the
Congo, and for all Africa, is
a time for all men Of good
will to join in David Living
stones deathleSs prayer, ut
tered in darkest Africa and
now engraved at his burial
place in the floor of West
minister Abbey: May heav-
ems richest blessing come
down on everyone, Ameri-
can, English, or Turk, who
will help to heal the open
sores of the world"
Evening star., 1960-07-31
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Exploding Africa
By DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chapla TTpited StafeSS

" AASAAf OAA NAACAN Va PNA
fidy. the war lords of preda-
tory Japan struck with trag-
gic fury at Pearl Harbor,
America was organized into
a huge geography class. Maps
were unrolled and names be-
fore but vaguely known
leaped into a new vividness.
Cities and islands which be-
fore could not be spelled,
let alone located, became
current topics of conversa-
ton. Locations in Asia and
Africa, before blurred, came
into sharp focus. AS one in
that vast class in geography
put it
There is Asia on the Avenue,
And Europe in the street.
And Africa goes plodding by
Beneath my tOindoiD seat.
But today it is not plod-
ding Africa but exploding
Africa which is writing our
daily headlines and filling our
hearts with high hope min
gled with deep concern and
fear. The continent we have
known as darkest Africa" is
now af1ame. 1t is the CONT
nent for the redemption of
which one whose name all
Christendom reveres-David
Livingstone-gave his Sacri-
flcial years. That is now long
ago and the world has
changed and Africa has
changed.
The one part of that seeth-
ing continent now mostly in
the news is the vast central
territory known as the Bel
gian Congo-aS big as all
Western Europe. There, at
the present, but a few days
after the natives have been
given their independence all
members of the white race are
imperiled. Missionaries whom
we sent to that land with our
blessing and prayers, and
whose reports we have re-
ceived eagerly across the
years, are fleeing for their
lives. The freedom these At
rican people, so long under
European tutelage, have de-
manded is threatened by the
devil of license because there
the grapes of wrath have
been stored.
A generation ago Vachel
Lindsay wrote a poem called
THE Congo" In it he de-
ScribeS the survival of certain
traits and habits in a primi-
tive group of Negroes in
America whose ancestors had
been captured in Central Al
rica and brought to America
as slaves. He uses such a vivid
figure of speech as "the Con-
go creeping through the
black" Some of his graphic
phrases picture parts of the
Congo as it is today: Tat
tooed cannibals dancing in
files-the boom of the blood
lust song-a thigh-bone beat
ing on a tin pan gong-the
screams of skull-faced, lean,
witch doctors with their voo-
doc rattles." But, as Hal
Luccock was quick to remark
soon after the poem was writ
ten: why pick on the black?
We can see the savage creep
ing through the white just as
Enthusiastically. And through
the red, and the yellow, and
the brown"
Many of our white ances-
tors were SavageS dancing
around campfires. And when
we shudder, as we justly do
at the superstition and
cruelty Of African tribes, let
us not forget that our white
forefathers in Britain used
to put young girls in wicker
baskets and run swords
through them that they
might tell from the way the
blood flowed what the will
of the gods was.
Our only interest now in
the poem on the Congo is