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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
Soviet Dam Tour
Stirs Senate Plea
For Water Plan
By the Associated Press


An accelerated water re-
source development program 10
recommended in a 174-page re-
port by a Senate Interior and
Public Works Subcommittee.
The report, made after q
month-long subcommittee tour
Of Soviet dams, includes dis
cussions of water resource de-
velopment in this country and
Russia.
Particular emphasis, yester7
days report said, should be
placed on use of water now
wasting into the seas for pro-
duction of hydroelectric power"
The 12,500-mile Russian
tour was made by Democratic
Senators Moss Of Utah, sub
committee chairman; Gruening
of Alaska and Muskie of Maine.
The Senators said their rec.
concentrations were based on
"the benefits such actions will
bring to the American people"
and in view Of our economic
competition with the Soviet
Union, which is making great
progress" in electric power de-
velopment. to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
How to Nominate a President

in the cabinet or In the
making Of executive policies.
Presumably, too, q candi-
date should be able to deal
with Congress. The Consti-
tuition gives the President q
part in making laws, and,
If he has the benefit Of a
party majority in Congress,
he becomes the leader Of his
party in both houses.
What test shall be applied
to the various candidates?
Shall they be considered
qualified because they have
taken trips abroad and
visited with foreign digni-
taries? Have they made any
outstanding speeches that
give an indication Of how
they would deal with for
eign policy? What training
they had in the many intri-
cate matters of legislative
policy and particularly in
leading their own party on
national or international
issues?
The delegates who partici-
pate in the National conven-
tons don't weigh these mat
tiers carefully. They are
guided by what they think is
the vote-getting capacity Of
a prominent man. He may be
a crooner or q television
idol, or he may be a man
with a contagious smile and
inexhaustible strength as a
handshaker. If he looks like
a man who can attract votes,
he usually gets delegate
strength. What a clumsy way
to pick a President!
Finally, when two names
are before the voter and he
doesn't like either one, he
has only the doubtful salts
faction of staying at home
on election day. The get-out-
the-vote movement in each
election campaign has a
commendable purpose, but
lots of times the people who
stay at home are voting, too.
They are. in effect, exercis-
ing their vote of protest
against both nominees or
they acquiesce because they
feel it doesn't matter who
Is elected.
Copyright, 1e6O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
RALPH McGILL
Virgil on the Rotation of Crops

that so years before Christ
a poet, who was himself o
successful farmer, was writ
ing a book on farm practices
and recommending lupine
and vetch and peas and
we today are holding blue
lupine festivals and celebrat-
ing the virtues Of vetch and
Austrian peas.
Virgil's Georges" are O
treatise on the farm practices
and on agriculture and the
livestock of his time. He was
a good farmer who could not
sleep If his stock was not fed
and housed. He knew the
vagaries of weather and the
winds that blew sometimes
warm from the Mediterra.
mean, and sometimes cold
and freezing from the Alps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
Spurning of I'd Place Seen as Demand
For an End to Protestant Requirement

hibition and his Tammany
background also we're major
elements in his defeat.
No such drawbacks are
present in Kennedy's case.
He is well educated; he has
demonstrated great physical
courage, and he has shown
capacity for growth. He has
an attractive family, and the
appeal of his personality ex-
tends far beyond his native
New England.
What he lacks are some
assets Smith had in great
abundance: they led to his
nomination and won him a
following which still cherish
es his memory. Smith had
proved that he was a great
administrator of the biggest
State in the Union; he had
shown a clear understanding
of people and of the means
by which the American politi-
cal system is made effective.
The danger to the Demo-
cratic Party today is that
opposition to Kennedy will be
equated with anti-Catholi-
cism. Yet there are Catholics
and non-Catholics who be-
lieve that Kennedy, who has
had no administrative exper-
fence, is not yet ready for the
greatest executive job in the
world. Nor has he had any
experience in foreign affairs,
other than that of being an
observer, which today is
crucial to the conduct of the
presidency.
The politicians of the party
believe that Kennedy and his
aides are trying to isolate his
opposition by tagging it as
based on religion and there
fore the act Of bigots. This
group includes c. It h Ollie
Senators and Governors who
see themselves menaced by
the raising Of the issue in
this form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
RALPH McGHL

He came by the office TO
talk about Secretary Ben
sons farm plan.
whats the name Of that
book you read from that
time down at our new COM
munity house the poet
fellow who wrote about
farming a long time ago?"
Virgil" I said, and re-
membered standing in the
SIN all community's new
building. temporarily light
ed BY lamps, reading from
the old poet and thinking
how he, dead almost 1000
years, would be pleased if,
from some celestial height,
he were looking down on us.
Poets always have liked
the farm. But few have
bothered with its sweat, its
toll, its disappointments and
its realities.
Yet, one of the greatest
did-Publius Virgillius Marc
himself-Virgil, the master
of his time. He wrote his
Georges" as an encourage
ment to the farmers of his
period.
Virgil died some 10 years
before the coming of the
Nazarene.
I have found no more fas-
cinating story than his ire
mendous epic poem on farm
ing, which begins:
What makes cornfields
happy under what con-
stellation
It's best to turn the soil, my
friend, and train the
vine
On the elm; the care of cat
tie, the management Of
flocks,
The knowledge you need for
keeping frugal bees
all this
I'll now begin to relate :"
1t is In four books, and the
wisdom of it is astonishing.
We think, for example, that
we have achieved something
new in the planting Of vetches
or rotating with the Austrian
pea. And blue Lupine-well,
Of course. that is something
but lately come out Of the pa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
2,000-Yeor-OId Georges Prove Romans
Knew q Lot About Modern Formino

tient researches in Florida.
You think so?
Let us turn to Book One,
IN the translation of the old
Roman poet, written about
80 Be:
a.. Now TO business:
AS soon as the first months of
the year begin, your
strong bulls
Should turn the fertile loan
and leave the clods lying
For the full suns of spring to
break into a fine dust
See. too. that your arabic lies
fallow in rotation,
And leave the idle field alone
to recoup its strength;
Or else, changing the seasons,
put down to yellow grain
A field where before you raised
the pea with its rafting
pods
Or the small-seeded vetch
Or the brittle stalk and rustling
stems Of the bitter lupine.
For by rotation of crops you
tighten your labor, only
Scruple not to enrich the dried
UP soil with dung
And scatter filthy ashes on
fields that are exhausted.
So too are fields rested by q
rotation of crops,
And unploughed land in the
meanwhile promises to
repay you"
There it all is-the rota-
ton Of crops, the planting
Of grain in fields where be-
fore there had been peas or
vetch or bitter lupine, which
is the same as blue lupine,
so bitter that cattle cannot
eat it.
There, too, is the putting
Of lime on the fields, in ashes.
And the promise Of repay
ment by the fields left idle.
The facts seem to be the
Romans had made great
advances in farming and
had acquired great know
ledge. But, all this was lost
in the collapse Of the Empire
and the overrunning of it by
the barbarian, nomadic
tribes.
How thoroughly it was lost
may be noted by the fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04

Vice President Richard M.
Nixon has now become the
operating head of the Repub-
lican Party, and as such he
is moving coolly to take
charge of its affairs as tact
fully as possible.
President Eisenhower is
not only in his last months
in office. He has also, in fact
If not in form, turned party
direction over to his now I'M
challenged Republican heir,
Mr.. Nixon.
The first task Of Nixon in
his new status. q task on
which he already is engaged,
Is this: To repair the real, II
not easily measurable, dam
age to party morale resulting
from the forced retirement
of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of
New York as mis- one poten-
tial rival for the presidential
nomination.
Nixon leaves nothing to
chance. and never deludes
himself. His instinct is to
err in only one way in
reckoning danger or latent
danger. He will always
overestimate If this is the
alternative to the peril Of
Understanding.
He knows there is a clear
risk that the cry of "bossisrn"
will go up against him.
Rockefeller's bitter comment
that those who will con-
troll" the G. o. P. convention
told him plainly not to con-
test for the nomination-has
seen to that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Jack Kennedy announces for President After running
Tor three years. he figured he ought pause long enough to
mention it. 80 e ~
Ike opens the year by inspecting the Federal budget
After one look he decided what this Government needs is
credit card
We-heeed leading Democratic candidates etch the new
PRONE OF the common mans party: Kennedy (Haryard)
Symington Yale) and Stevenson Prnceton).
Q. Where does the word "payola" come from? II
was coined by unemployed French disc iockey-PavS
Oh-la-lal" N' "'
with Kennedy and Humphrey out for President the
Democrats become the iceberg party the candidates
remain submerged.
Inhnity-The last end Of nothing whitfield down 10 a
point ~ 0"N !"
one delegate vows to Republican convention
with an open mind He something about that convention
ought to be open. ~ ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
Candidate, to Avoid Hint of Bossisn,,
Leaves No. 7 Choice to Convention

The word controllers" as
applied to the Republican
leaders about the country, is
only a thin shade removed
from the blunter word
bosses" And Nixon. in COM
mon with the whole Of the
regular G. o. P. organization,
well remembers that it was
in part the exploitation Of
the cry Of ''bossism" against
the Democrats that enabled
Rockefeller to defeat the
Democratic New York Gov
ernor in 1858, Averell Harri-
man.
The Vice President and his
advisers are practical men.
They know nothing much can
be done to wipe out Rookie
feller'S complaint. The lead
ers did tell the Governor
they would not tolerate the
disunity of a convention fight.
That is the plain truth.
But 1t is felt that some
thing can be done to prevent
an expansion Of the incident
into an important Democratic
weapon. And something can
be done, too, on a connected
problem: the possibility that
Mr.. Nixon's early lookup Of
the nomination might re-
duce public interest in the
@. o. P. convention almost to
zero.
The Vice Presidents initial
steps have been taken with
all this in mind. First his
comment on Rockefeller'S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Nixon Taking Charge ToctfuIIy

withdrawal was restrained
and highly complimentary to
the Governor. Second, he has
refused to show any exulta-
ton or even to concede that
he himself is now as good as
nominated.
More Importantly, the
Nixon people have let it be
known that he is considering
leaving it to the Republican
convention to select the 1860
vice presidential nominee
within limits. The purpose Of
this strategy Is perfectly
clear. Nixon knows that
political tradition allows any
presidential nominee to have
the last and the only impor-
tant word on who will be his
running mate.
The present circumstances,
however. make 1t unwise for
him even to indicate an in
tention Of availing himself
of this privilege. There is the
necessity to avoid where
possible any new suggestion
Of "bossism." And there is
the necessity not to close up
the whole show in advance
by identifying the man who
is going to get the vice pres
idential nomination.
All the same, Nixon does
not literally mean that the
convention will be free TO
choose any running mate.
What he means to accom-.
plish is to avoid totally fore
closing the second place, and
to allow the convention q
free choice" 50 long as the
name is one Of those on q
list Of acceptables which
Nixon will carry to the con-
vention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
Kennedy Puts Party Unity to Test

This is one reason they
have not flocked to the
Kennedy standard, but they
have other reasons important
to them.
They do not like the in
wardness Of the Kennedy
campaign, in which the reins
are closely held by members
of the large Kennedy clan.
This gives them the feeling
that they are outside and
likely to remain so. a feel
ing to which politicians are
VIGOROUSLY allergic.
Many of them. especially
among the participants Of
earlier party wars, take a
dim view of the Senator's
formidable father, Joseph
P. Kennedy. They know him
as an immensely wealthy
man, fiercely ambitious for
his children. Since his break
with President Franklin
Roosevelt over World War II
policy Joe Kennedy has re-
coded from the public eye,
but such political connections
as he has maintained-in-
Guiding his appreciation Of
the late Senator Mccarthy
do not reassure Democratic
leaders.
Kennedy's intention now is
to set such a pace in the
presidential primaries that
he will either overwhelm or
belittle his opposition. With
out question, If he comes to
the convention with a power
full bloc of votes, won on his
terms from the voting public,
his position will be formid-
able.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
Federal Government Experience Held
Better Standard Than Hondshokinq

operations Of Congress and
of the policies of the Execu-
tive Branch gained as an un-
official member of the Presi-
dents cabinet for eight years.
Somehow, in the past, pre-
ference has been given to
Governors over members Of
Congress in choosing presi-
Dental nominees. And yet
members Of Congress, partic-
ularly those who have had
leadership experience, know
far more about the Federal
Government than do the men
who have served only in
State or local Offices.
The lack Of Federal expe-
rience is a handicap to any
President-elect, no matter
how able he is in other ways.
The difficulty with Cover
nors is that, If elected to the
presidency, they must spend
the first two or three years
learning the Federal Govern
ment's operations and espe-
cially how to deal with MEM
bers Of Congress.
Logically, as is the case in
parliamentary governments
in Canada, Great Britain and
other countries. the man who
becomes the highest elected
officer must already have
won his spurs in the legisla-
tive branch.
What kind Of man should
be President Of the United
States, and what experience
should he have had to qualify
for the highest Office in the
land?
Presumably he should be
familiar with the operations
of the Federal Government.
While he may learn much
from a State Office, it is not
the same as Federal expert
ence.
Presumably, also. q would
be candidate ought to know
something about Federal
administration. But it rarely
happens that a President
comes to the White House
with any executive training
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
DAVID LAWRENCE

The ONCE Of President of
the United States is perhaps
more important today than
1t ever has been in the his
tory Of the country. Yet the
process Of selecting a new
President is as inefficient as
IL has always been. and the
American people by the pres
ent system could be con-
fronted in some campaigns
in the future, as in the past,
with a choice between two
mediocrities - men without
any experience in Federal
Government affairs at all.
This year is somewhat of
an exception. At least five
of the six able men being
prominently mentioned for
the presidential nomination
in both parties have been
identified with the legisla-
tive operations of Congress.
The Republicans have Vice
President Nixon, who has
served as a Representative
for two terms and as q Sen
ator, while the Democrats
have Senators Kennedy,
Humphrey, Johnson and
Symington. Only Adlai Ste
venson, a former Governor
Of Illinois, has not served in
Congress.
Dealing with Congress is
the most important of the
domestic responsibilities con-
fronting a President, yet it
is to be noted that in the last
sixty years nobody has been
nominated for the presi-
dency who was the leader Of
either party in the House or
the Senate. This time SEN
ator Lyndon Johnson, the
Democratic leader of the
Senate. is the only man men,
toned for the presidential
nomination on the Demo-
cratic side who has had
leadership experience. Vice
President Nixon has been
acting on Capitol Hill virtu-
ally as leader of his party and
haiSon with the White House
and, If elected, would bene-
1T by his knowledge Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
DORIS FLEESON

The presidential candidacy
Of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
is much more than the test
ing Of the appeal of an at
tractive political personality.
1t is the testing Of the cohe-
siveness of the country's only
truly national party.
That cohesiveness by its
very nature is always subject
to stress and strain. Every
presidential election to great
er or less degree represents a
challenge to the Democratic
Party's com m on purpose,
which Is to control the White
House and so take the coun-
try in a generally liberal and
internationalist direction.
The young Catholic Sen
ator's record indicates that
he, too, would take the coun-
try in that direction. His an
nouncement that he would
not under any circumstances
accept second place on the
ticket is in effect a demand
that his party break with the
tradition that the President
must be q white Protestant
male.
Since the Civil War that
tradition has been expanded
to include the condition that
the President also must live
outside the Old South. 1t is
interesting - and another
source Of Democratic stress
and strain-that this year a
Southerner. Senator Lyndon
johnson Of Texas, is hoping
that the anti-South rule will
be broken in his favor.
Senator Kennedy believes
that times have changed
since 1928, when his party
tried unsuccessfully to make
Gov. Alfred E. Smith Of New
York the first Catholic Presi-
dent. Many share the Ken
nedy view that Smiths then
unpopular stand against pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-04
Meat Consumption

CHICAGO. - An average
United States man in a lifetime
consumes 80 hogs, 10 lambs,
eight steers and four veal calves,
according to present meat
eating rates.
Evening star., 1960-09-25
FOR ADVENTURE
VIEWERS TO
By BERNIE HARRISON
D
ETTER dust off
YOUR R a n d =
McNally; you'll

McNally; you'll
be needing it this season.
The ABC -TV networks
Westward Ho splurge with
the "77 Sunset Strip" for
mula-a success last season
in transplantings to Hawaii
and Michener's South Pacific
takes the next inevitable
turn to Hong Kong and the
tabled Spice Islands.
This is the year of the Far
Eastern emphasis.
Hopeful ABC will try to
prove it with two new hour
action series.
First stop, Wednesday
night, Hong Kong" with
Australian-born Rod Taylor
as an adventurous corre-
spondent.
AS Glenn Evans, an Ameri-
can newsman stationed in
Hong Kong" Taylor is no
wonder worker in his pro-
fession, according to the
scripters of the series who
chart his activities in the
British crown colony.
"He works hard, shrewdly
and mainly alone. He is not
highly paid, lives simply and
drinks moderately and is
cynical about the chances of
Hong Kong escaping the en-
circling influences of Red
China. That's Glenn Evans
foreign correspondent.
Maybe you saw Taylor in
the movie, ASK Any Girl
but do you know what is
Evening star., 1960-03-06

realistically. After all, they're just young
sters. Sue. for instance, will be up against
Chris VonSaltza, who won the nationals last
year with los for the 100 meters. Sue can't
quite do that time, but she's getting there
She's the only free styler I've coached who is
consistently timed at 58.1 or 58.3 for 100 yards
"Robyn has Caren Cone ahead of her in
the backStroke, and Caren is every bit as
formidable as VonSaltza. don't think there's
a girl in this country who can beat Caren, and
maybe no foreign girls can, either. She won
the nationals last year with lO4,3 for the
1O0yard backstroke, but Robyns time is
improving all along. She'll be close"
Tinkham, a crack swimmer in his own
right when he attended the University of
North Carolina, had been playing it coy with
Sue Johnson Last November, in the sixth
annual National Capital Swimming AssOcia-
ton meet at the Northern Virginia Aquatic
Club on Lee highway, Sue won the butterfly
and free style in the 1914 age group In the
Tournament of Champions at York on January
q, however, Tinkham entered Sue only in the
butterfly and individual medley, both ofwhich
she won.
Why, Tinkham was asked, didn't she swim
the free style, Ostensibly her best stroke?
II didn't want everybody to know that
nao GOT tnat klnO OIL Tree Styler al the time,
Stan grinned.
There is a bright future, too, for Chris,
who in the same Mesa meet won the butterfly
and backstroke titles in the 1l-l2 age group.
All together, the johnson kids entered six
individual events and won six first prizes in
that meet, which drew hundreds of COM
petitorS.
Chris can't miss being ranked nationally
in the senior division in few years." Tink-
ham says. Hes got real nice stroke. He's
doing fine now in the sprints, but his best
distance later may be at a middle distance"
You might say the athletic ability Of the
Johnson children is hereditary. Comdr.
johnson was a foursport star at La Jolla
High School, California, before entering the
Navy. He captained the football and swimming
teams and starred at track and basketball.
While serving aboard the battleship USS
Evening star., 1960-03-06
OIympics Beckon Sisters

West Virginia he won the Navy backstrOke
championship. Mrs. johnson, who comes from
Perth, Australia, won recognition as track
star, specializing in running.
Robyns mother, however did not coach
her 14year-old daughter to high jump, nor
did her dad. obviously, it was done by her gym
instructor at Stafford" Comdr. johnson says.
The children took various physical tests and
the high jump was one of these. Robyn ap-
parently had some aptitude for jumping to
clear 40 because she never was taught by
real track coach"
The Virginia club, which opened July II,
1883, hit the jackpot from the start. July
was the month that not only the Johnsons
arrived from Hawaii, but total of IL swim
mers all service youngsters who had repre-
sented the Dolphin Swimming Club of Homo
lulu, came to this area. All are swimming
under Tinkham.
"All these youngsters, including the
Johnsons, had the advantage of swimming
under Tom Miles, who coached the Dolphin
Club" Tinkham says Tom is very good
coach"
Sue, Robyn and Chris agree. In Hawaii,
Chris set IA records with the Dolphins. Robyn
estimates she established about IA marks,
too. Sue lost track. But she says, and Robyn
anu SnLAS dBIcC.
Since we returned to Washington there
had been a previous tour of duty for Comdr.
Johnson), we've all cut our times way down
under Mr.. Tinkham."
The coach's recently accelerated training
program for Sue and Robyn as he points for
the Nationals and Olympics will make grown
ups shudder. Because of the early hour that
some Arlington schools begin (Sue goes to
Washington-Lee High the girls report to the
pool at $50 am Sometimes, they swim two
miles or as many as four, before classes.
They usually walk from their home at
26l7 Military road, distance of a couple of
miles, work out, then walk to school After
school, they trudge back to the pool and work
out from about $50 to $50, then walk home.
They don't mind it," Tinkham says. In
fact, they we're pestering me to start the
accelerated program before l did"