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Evening star., 1960-03-17
South Korea Votes

Syngman Rhee and his powerful
Liberal Party remain firmly in political
control of the Republic of Korea. Run
ming unoppoSed for a fourth four-year
term as President (since the opposition
nominee died in mid-February) Mr..
Rhee rolled up record popular vote of
about 8 million in this weeks elections.
Even more impressive, perhaps, was the
better than four-to-one majority polled
by Assembly Speaker Lee Ki-poong, the
Liberal vice presidential candidate, over
incumbent Vice President John M.
Chang. Mr.. Chang, who is head of the
rival Democratic Party, defeated Mr..
Lee in the 1856 elections.
This weeks voting, as feared, was
marked by riots and bloodshed. Mr..
Chang has made charges of widespread
fraud, Stuffing of ballot boxes by
Liberal election workers and illegal dis
qualification of many Democratic voters.
He has announced that legal action will
be taken in an effort to have the out
come invalidated.
There probably are grounds for
many of the Democratic charges, but it
is unlikely that they will serve to have
the election set aside. Lack of respect for
political freedom in the sense in which
it is practiced in more advanced democ-
racieS has been evident in Mr.. Rhee's
Korea, but there is no indication that
this condition will be reversed during
the lifetime of the 84-year-old Strong
man. AS practical matter, the problems
OF South Korea-overpopulated, poor in
natural resources, lacking in heavy in
duStry, under constant military threat
from North Korea and having no real
tradition of lf-government-are such
that semiautocratic rule is almost a
necessity. 1t is role we'll suited to Mr..
Rhee'S qualifications, and it seems evi-
dent that the mass of the Korean people
prefer his leadership to any other.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
DO Not Open UNTIL

News accounts indicate that as many
as $4,000 adult Americans have been
behaving like children in New York City
in recent days. And, for a different
reason than one might think, this exer-
else in childhood revisited" is not open
to public view. The participants are
the manufacturers, wholesalers and
retailers in a $1.6-billion industry that
keeps its best and newest products
strictly secret until just before Christ
mas. 1t is the toy industry, having it's
57th annual fair for the trade only.
The rest of US, young and old, will find
out more about it when half-legible
notes to Santa Claus start appearing
around the house and the junior set
suddenly begins to behave as if it should
be rewarded for good conduct.
Still, just as so much other classified
information makes its way into the
public domain, some of the toy secrets
also leak out. The word is spreading,
for example, that we'll surely have
manned rocket ships landing on the
moon and space fully conquered by a
week before next New Years Day. At
GLle SdIIlC ClIllS, ClleIe VIII Ue llO leJOOWn
in the long struggle between the cowboys
and the Indians, and the grown up rail-
road Bluffs will have even more faScinat-
ing opportunities to entertain them
selves by pretending they are simply
entertaining their small friends. Read
ing about it almost prompts regret there
are so many days left before shopping
days" begin.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
He's q Nixon Man

No one rushed out to stop the
presses and make over the paper when
the President Enthusiastically put the
finger on Richard NJ. Nixon as his choice
for the Republican presidential nominee.
For one thing, there has not been any
real doubt that Mr.. Eisenhower was a
Nixon man. For another, with Governor
Rockefeller blacked out of the picture,
there is no other presidential prospect
anywhere on the G. O. P. horizon.
This is not said with any purpose
Of trying to downgrade the Vice Presi-
dent. He has amply demonstrated his
competence, and from the standpoint
of win or lose, which is what counts in
the political game, he certainly is the
most promising entry for the Repub-
licanS in the November sweepstakes.
Still, as long as the President felt
obliged to back and fill, to bring Mr..
Nixon along while insisting that there
were various other unidentified Republi-
cans who would make good presidential
candidates, he was putting weapons in
the hands Of the Democratic opposition.
These weapons could be and frequently
were used to suggest that the popular
Mr.. Eisenhower had his doubts about
the Vice President, that he might really
prefer someone else, that they did not
see eye to eye, etc.
The effect of the Presidents news
conference remarks, however, is to blunt
these Democratic weapons, if not to
destroy them Clearly, he has put him
self in the Nixon corner, and if we read
his remarks correctly he is willing and
even eager to get out and campaign for
a Republican ticket headed by Mr..
Nixon.
If this is an accurate appraisal, the
Presidents I'm-for- Nixon pronounce
ment does not come any too soon in the
game. At the moment the Democratic
hopefuls are whetting their knives on
each other. Before much more time has
passed, however, they will be rallying
behind one man (it looks now as though
1t will be Senator Kennedy in an an-out
effort to cut down Mr.. Nixon. When that
time comes the G. o. P. will not want the
voters to be in the slightest doubt as to
how Mr.. Eisenhower feels about Mr..
Nixon.
Evening star., 1960-03-17

drive will be used largely for such pur-
poses.
According to late statistics, about
350,000 Jewish refugees in Israel remain
virtually homeless and unabsorbed. Some
10000 have temporary shelter in camp
shackS. An estimated 100000 others
have no livestock or working equipment
for their farms. Nearly 10000 children,
aged persons and the ailing are in urgent
need of help. And new immigrants con-
Stantly are arriving. The Importance Of
raising the Washington area goal of
S2,750,000 is clearly evident.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
Bit of q BruwL

And isn't it a great wonder
to see Hibernian Gerald R.
Mooney come leaping like a
salmon to the defense of holy
Ireland against the attacks
Of Jim Bishop!
Oh. the joy of it!
Oh. the pity Of it!
Oh. the nonsense of it!
Oh, the great bellylaugh
of it!
I'm thinking he'll be need
ing to hear from Mr.. Sean
O'Faolain. another writer, a
Roman Catholic. an Irishman
who lives in Ireland, who
writes on page 80 of his book
"The Irish:
"In practice we owe all the
iegal rights and restrictions
that we enjoy and accept to
the brutal Normans and the
brutal Tudors who are
supposed to be equally re-
sponsible for the seven hun
dred years of slavery about
which our patriots often glib
ly talk without knowing any,
thing much about it. II the
Celtic tradition has given US
anything in this field. what it
has given is an atavistic indi-
vidualism which tends to
make all Irishmen inclined to
respect no laws at all"
Robert E. Reynolds.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
Cemetery SIeddinq

1 am amazed that people
have been writing in indig-
nation that children would
sled on the lawn at Arlington
Cemetery.
1t was only for those who
have lived after Them that
the supreme sacrifices of the
men buried there were made.
They died for our freedom,
that their children and their
children's children could be
free to enjoy life here.
And what could be more
free than a child in utter gIee
sliding down a hill on a sled?
l am sure there is not one
soldier there who would not
want the children to use these
grounds for a safe place to
enjoy this freedom away
from the danger of cars
where so many children have
been hurt or killed because
OF a lack of a safe place to
sled.
Anita NJ. Hooper.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
Aid for Refugees

This years United Jewish Appeal
OF Greater Washington, to be launched
with an advanced gifts dinner" tonight
IN the Mayflower Hotel, has a broader
humanitarian purpose than those which
have been held in the past Heretofore
the fund campaigns were designed pri-
marily to aid in the reSettlement of
Jewish refugees forced from their homes
by oppression and hunger. The resettle-
ment program in Israel has been a
marked SuccesS-so much so, in fact
that the influx has created a serious
relief and rehabilitation problem for the
new state. The money raised in the 1860
Evening star., 1960-03-17
Right on Schedule

The regularity of these March mid
week SnowStorms is getting us down
March weather may be tickle, as dis
enchanted meteorologiStS have COM
mented sadly in the past, but this year
1t is proving to be reliable-in a perverSe
sort of way. Every Wednesday so far
this month Washington has been hit
by SnowStorm, and not just the "trace"
variety, either. These have been real,
full grown traffic TANNERS, school
cloSerS and office-letter-outers.
The funny business began on the
evening of Wednesday, March 2, when
the seasons worst storm up to then-a
near blizzard in our eStimation-patd
an overnight visit, Snarling tranSporta-
tion, giving delighted school children a
Winter OlympicS type of holiday and
making the birds, squirrels and us older
folks miserable. Cold weather continued
and more than six additional inches of
snow struck the city and suburbs exactly
week later ~ again on Wednesday,
There was plenty of that white stuff
still on the ground, especially in sub
urban areas, when yesterdays snow
storm whirled out of the South (of all
places. Fortunately, this time warm
ing trend set in on the heels of the
storm, and early today the snow changed
to rain.
Question Was this Marchs final
midweek blow? II so, can spring be far
behind? The calendar says that spring
will begin officially next Sunday. But
we hate to be reminded that there are
still two more Wednesdays to be reck-
oned with this month.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
'Mr. RedeveIoper'

This cltiZen-Who has at
tended innumerable meetings
and hearings from the Board
Of Trade to the District
Building where Mr.. .Remon
was alertly Neutrality-suspicious.
to add her appreciation to
Mr.. Redeveloper" for his un-
stinting services to his COM
munity.
To replace him is an al
most awesome responsibility
that falls on the Commission
ers who must make the rec
ommendation to the White
House. There are two quail
fed people who come to
mind:
Col. William E. Shepherd
is an architect of distinction
who continues to study new
techniques in planning. He
served the Georgetown COM
munity ably for three years
as president of its Citizens
Association. and yet as a vo-
cal member of the Committee
OF 100 on the Federal City.
is aware not only of the to-
tality of the Districts prob
lens, but the metropolitan
complex in which we func-
ton.
H. Holmes Vogel, of the
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co., has devoted
considerable of his research
trained brain and organiza-
ton disciplined skills to
Washington'S affairs. I re-
gard him, from personal OBJ
servation, as one of the more
thoughtful members of the
Commissioners Urban Re-
neWal Council. With that
vantage point, he may we'll
bring resolution to the COM
plicationS of responsibility
that contribute to the delays
in Washington's Urban Re-
newal Program. He is. too,
a younger man whose years
of anticipated leadership are
longer.
Ruth Dene NeufeId.
Evening star., 1960-03-17

make the most of the time
they have.
Old ladies, especially, seem
to be Unsuitable in this mat
ter of going downtown. You
might think, offhand. that
they would be glad to stay
home, but nothing of the
kind-they seem to want to
go more than ever, bless
them.
Undoubtedly nature has
made them understand, with
out any thought at all on
their part, that to rest is to
rust, as somebody put it.
Keeping ones balance is
actually no simple thing.
1t is easy to find one shoe
holding fast, while the other
slides.
Soft slippers, on rugs. tend
to do this.
Home accidents often oc-
cur, as statistics on accidents
show.
1t is easy to miss ones
footing, and some of the
danger may be averted if one
is able to use the ski exercise
mentioned.
Its use. however. must be
instantaneous, as it were.
In other words, one must
practice it enough, and per-
Slstently, so that it is done
automatically, at the very
time needed.
1t will do no good. of
course, to think of it later.
Here is one occasion in
which hindSight. as it is
Nollcu, Is no gOOQ.
Another ski exercise advo-
Gated is the simplest of all.
1t consists of lust raising the
right leg so that the foot is
of the ground.
sometimes the knee bend
ing is done with back to a
wall, so that the spine is kept
straight and the head UP.
The foot-lift exercise is
good for balance, but an
Older person must not be
fooled by its simplicity. It
is essential that he hold on
to something with one hand.
preferably the left hand, if
he raises the right foot, and
the right hand, if he raises
the left foot.
Even if you never ski. or
never expect to ski, these
simple exercises, if practiced
faithfully, should help you in
case OF a fall on the street,
at home, OF in a bus.
There is just one place
they will not help, and that
is in the bath. You are on
your own there, and heaven
help you if you are careless
or thoughtless at the wrong
moment.
Evening star., 1960-03-17

The recent snowstorms
bring to mind the many loyal
public school engineering and
custodial employees who re-
sponded to duty, providing
heat and clearing walks,
steps. entrances, etc. in the
nearly 200 buildings despite
the announcements TO "stay
on the streets" take annual
leave" etc. Many of these
employees live Is to 20 miles
from their post of duty and
must necessarily travel the
roads and streets in the early
morning hours before signifi-
cant clearing is possible.
know it will be gratifying
TO this group of men for it
TO be recognized that they
put before their own personal
comfort the interests of the
taxpayer. regarding more
than 500 million worth of
buildings and equipment, and
the conveniences needed by
10000 pupils and faculty.
This must also be mem
tloned-the excellent response
OF the D. c. Repair Shop in
these difficult times, without
which our services would not
nave been possible.
The fact that the Board
OF Education and DR.. Han
sen can announce, "All Dis
trlct schools will be open"
is a mark of confidence. Your
cooperation and devotion to
outy is deeply appreciated
Keep up the good work.
o. Bartram.
superintendent of OPERA
tions, D. C. Public Schools.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
Ethics on Hiqh

Your Sunday article.
headed Question of Ethics
of Government Employees"
brings to mind similar articles
which have appeared almost
every time a fat cat politi-
clan is caught in the act.
These articles suggest that
some sort of code is needed
as a conduct guide for Govern
ment employees generally. 1t
seems to me that it has been
the appointees to high Office
that have been the male
factors. The incidence of Off
cial wrongdoing among the
lower echelons in positions Of
trust is so low as to be al
most nonexistent. Where I
work. for instance, the lowest
grade adjudicator would not
accept from a claimant a
50-cent lunch in a Govern
ment cafeteria.
We find in Government
employees generally a nice
balance of character and
intelligence. minus, perhaps,
the drive of an overweening
ego. On the other hand, the
appointee is frequently one
who has clawed his way to
the top; who has quieted the
still. small, God-given voice
with the clamor of rationale
zation and hypocritical plati-
tudes; whose selfishness and
ruthlessness have exalted his
baser nature, the side of us
that God commands us to
inhibit.
God has put into the world
many dilemmas for us to
cope with, and not the least
OF these is that, more often
than not, mankind is led and
governed by vain egotists.
When character and wisdom
are sorely needed to avert
catastrophe, we get men who
are honest. intellectually and
pecuniarily. only when it suits
their purpose. All the arts Of
press agentry, the empty dig
mites and trumperies of Office
are employed to conceal this
unpleasant fact of life. It is
inevitable. that when the
newsprint mask is torn away
Cby some enterprising news
mani and the real man
stands revealed in all the
nakedness Of his mortal
weakness, we are little
shocked. If we would only
accept this fundamental fact
OF human nature, instead of
continually deluding our
selves about the great and
would-be great of this world,
we would develop and retain
a healthy skepticism; where
as too many broken delusions
lead to a hard and barren
cynicism.
While no administration is
eager to Scrutinize closely
some Of the officials to whom
it is beholden for favors, it
can be said of the present
one: it has not covered up.
nor adopted a defiant and
arrogant attitude when these
unfortunate occurrences come
to light.
William NJ. Burdette, Jr.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
Three Shows 400

Over the years, every time
II has showed, I have suf-
Tered along with countless
other igh-taxpaying resi-
dents of Montgomery Coun-
W. Despite the ample warn
ing time, we did not expect
too much from our county
and State highway officials.
police and road crews on
March 3. Even March 4 we
felt like excusing them. How
ever, it does seem that by
March 7 we should have
received some help in max
ing the highways and streets
less hazardous. Perhaps it
would be excusable to have
left the side roads for the
sun to melt, if the highways
had been adequately taken
care OF. But from Saturday
to Monday, March 7, 1 had
yet to see the first highway
crew sanding or Scraping
the traditionally dangerous
places. For example, on
March 5, New Hampshire
avenue in Hillandale, a
heavily Travelled thorough
fare, was treacherous for a
space of about 100 yards due
to ice and packed snow ac-
cumulations. On March 6
1t was no better. On March
7, cars were lined up for
a mile. The passage of two
cars was extremely treach-
erous, but not a bit of sand
had been spread on the ice.
OF course, no police were in
evidence.
During the 30 minutes I
spent negotiating this five
block stretch I wondered: /.
What would an ambulance,
Evening star., 1960-03-17
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL

Those of us who never in
tend to go skiing can safe
guard ourselves, nevertheless.
by learning a few of the pre-
liminary ski exercises.
One Of the fundamental
exercises is so simple that it
is scarcely an exercise at all,
in the usual sense.
BY learning to do this,
inStinctively, as it were. the
average sedentary person has
a chance of mitigating a fall
on winter ice.
This exercise is simply to
bend the kneesA
One bends both knees
straight away for a time,
then bends the knees to the
right, then to the left.
BY mixing up these mo-
tions, one is able to be closer
to the ground, whatever
might be the effects for
future skiing.
\ =
The point is that the closer
to the ground one is, when
falling, the less severe the
strain, and the less chance
of breaking bones.
If one has mastered, let us
say. this knee bend, then he
will be able to use it instantly.
When he realizes that he
is about to slip, he bends the
knees, and sinks down in
orthodox fashion.
This means that when he
falls, he will travel a lessened
distance.
Even a few inches down
might make all the difference
between a slight injury and
a major one.
There is another situation
in which this knee bend is
good.
This is in a bus, especially
when rounding a corner.
If one is forced to stand,
it is a good idea to keep the
knee business in mind, so
that a sudden lurch or stop
finds one prepared.
By sinking down a few
inches, better balance is Sc
cured, so that lurches and
the like find you closer to
the ground, thus making you
less topheavy.
This is an interesting thing
to oldSters, since they tend
to lose their balance easier,
after age so. than they did
in their younger days.
The amount of travel done
by the older people in and
around Washington is an
amazing thing. 1t is almost
as if they realized only too
well that their time to travel
was limited, and they must
Evening star., 1960-03-17
THE POLITICAL MILL
Eisenhower: Nixon His Own Man
By GOULD LINCOLN

by President Eisenhower
that the Republicans will
have to run next November,
The very fact that Vice
President Nixon has been
able to so impress himself
upoi Republicans all over
the country-aS well as upon
the President, Republican
members of Congress and
other high officials of the
Government - writes a new
chapter in political history.
He has done this without
President Eisenhower hav-
ing publicly declared Mr..
Nixon was his choice as sue
cessor in the White House.
He has been able to make
the vice presidential Office a
real springboard for a pres
idential nomination.
Geographical Criterion Ends
The last sitting Vice Presi-
dent who became his party's
presidential nominee was
Martin Van Buren of New
York 128 years ago. Van
Buren, was the choice of
President Andrew Jackson
at the first Democratic Ma
tional Convention ever held,
as we know national conven-
tionS today. Vice-presidential
candidates have been selected
since then, not with the idea
that they would later be the
presidential nominees of their
respective political parties,
but because of geographical
reasonS-an EaSterner to run
With a WeSterner, or a South
erner to run with a North
ener, or some other combina-
tion. Or because they would
appeal to this or that group
of voters.
This picture of the vice
presidency as a kind Of
peaceful resting ground has
been altogether changed by
Mr.. Nixon. True, this has
been done through the will
ingness of President Eisen-
hover to make use of him
really as an executive-as a
goodwill ambassador to many
foreign nations, as chairman
OF important boards, includ-
ing the National Security
Board, and in other capaci-
ties. However, the success Of
Mr.. Nixon in impressing him
self and his abilities upon
the American people in per-
forming these many services
should mean something to
future vice presidential cam
didates. 1t should, indeed,
impress itself, for example.
upon Senator John F. Ken
nedy of Massachusetts, should
he not win the Democratic
presidential nomination and
should he be importuned by
the Democrats to take the
vice presidential nomination.
AND the same goes for Gov.
Rockefeller, if he is pressed
by the Republican National
convention to become Mr..
Nlxon's running mate this
year. Both have declared
themselves unwilling to have
second place on their party
tickets. If Mr.. Kennedy does
not make the presidential
nomination in the Democratic
convention, he undoubt-
edly will be urged by many
leading Democrats to accept
a vice presidential nomina-
ton. His refusal to do so.
under such circumstances,
might well mean the almost
certain defeat of his party's
bid for the presidency
Evening star., 1960-03-17
ItFigures

A recent Rambler column
stated that the year 5000
will be the next one after
1861 that can be turned up
side down and still have the
same year. How about 5000,
61l9, 6699, $3.50 and 1868?
A. Clinton Mccoy.
Wilmington, Ohio.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
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