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Evening star., 1960-12-19
Kennedy's AN-NotionoI Cabinet

are unwisely liberal" The
fact is that Ribicoff of Con-
necticut is a thoroughly prac-
tical moderate. And Arthur
Goldberg, Notwithstanding his
old connection as a CIO law
yer, will not be found by man
agement to be any enemy.
A liberal cliche has been
that all good liberals had
better shun those chaps from
the dreadful Deep South.
Well, Secretary Of State-des-
ignate Dean Rusk was born
in Georgia-and this terrible
fact has not frightened Mr..
Kennedy.
What the President-elect
has, tried to do, in short, is to
balance his political obliga-
tions with his necessity to
put a truly all-national group
at work in the Cabinet.
If it works, it will provide
a point Of national reconcile
ation-where religion and
place and circumstances Of
birth are only private mat
ters-in the public service Of
a mixed country that can
surely stand all the unity It
can find.
Evening star., 1960-12-19
POTOMAC FEVER
By Pete Wyms
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

WhiSzer White, all American Colorado quarterback will
play Deputy Attorney General under Bob Kennedy Harvard
end Football players will call the Department Of Injustice
At least cabinet ofncal is miracle Arthur
Goldberg Steeworers Union lawyer named Secretary
Labo-and u s. Steel stock promptly jumped two points
New Jerseys Senator says his fellow Republicans
must become liberal Senator Goldwater won't mind
slight liberal tan in the "a convention but he'd to
them make Federal Case out of it.
There many Phi Beta Kappas on the Kennedy
team, they'll be calling the cabinet the Key Club
a big expense account is fellow in top-tip
shape.
You won't catch this administration loahng around
golf in Georgia. not when it playing water
polo at Palm Beach
Bobby Kennedy Attorney General is not Of
nepotism. The Kennedys competitive family Jack
wants Bobby around where he keep eye him.
Evening star., 1960-12-19
Senator Anderson
Leaves Hospital

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex,
Dec. 10 (AP).-A hospital here
has dismissed Senator Ander-
son, Democrat of New Mexico,
and tests indicated that gall
stones had contributed to the
Senator's illness.
His physician described the
Senator's ailment as CASTRO
intestinal upset with q slight
cardiac condition caused by
gallstones." There was no indi-,
cation as to whether surgery
will be required.
He became sick in Denver
last Thursday and returned 70
Albuquerque that night to enter
the hospital. He was released
yesterday.
Evening star., 1960-12-19
Political Factors in the Cabinet

bipartisanship. If, indeed,
there had been any real desire
to retain the experience Of a
valuable man in q predeces-
Sor administration, it would
have been better to have kept
Secretary of the Treasury
Anderson on the job. Incl
dentally, he himself was q
Democrat selected by Presi-
dent Eisenhower because, as
a Texan Of prominence, Mr..
Anderson was expected to get
and did have the co-opera-
ton of House Speaker Sam
Rayburn and Senate Ma
jority Leader Lyndon john
son.
When President RooSe-
welt, during World War II.
put Frank Knox, vice presi-
Dental nominee in 1886 on
the Republican ticket, into
the cabinet as Secretary Of
the Navy, and Henry L.
Stimson, onetime Republican
candidate for Governor Of
New York, in the post Of
Secretary Of War, the Re-
publicans at that time did
not feel. any more than they
do today. that they had q
representative Of their point
of view in the Presidents
councils.
The cabinet as q whole is
accountable not TO either
political party, but to the
President alone. The heads
Of the departments are his
obedient assistants. That's
the present system. 1t is
autocratic rather than Dem
ocratic. Until it is changed
and the whole cabinet. along
with the Chief Executive, is
directly responsible to the
people, as it Is in Canada and
other English-speaking coun-
tries, there will be a tendency
to continue to let a President
pick anybody he chooses for
his cabinet either to pay
political debts or to placate
political factions.
(Copyright, le60)
Evening star., 1960-12-19
Main Street and Farm Absent in Group;
Described as Strangely Mixed MeIonge'

besmirch their own country?
People of this sort said of
the South that of course it
was dreadfully "anti- -Catho-
lic." But it was precisely the
moderate South which, in
spite Of understandable anx-
iety at parts Of the Demo-
cratic platform. supplied the
critical votes for Mr.. Ken
nedy, who happens to be a
Catholic.
Others said "the Catholics"
would now take over. But
the new Kennedy Cabinet has
surely not gone overheard
there. It has the absolute
minimum representation of
that faith-a single Catho-
lie in Attorney General-des-
ignate Robert Kennedy, the
PreSident-elect's brother.
What the President-elect
has really rewarded" is a
strangely mixed melange. It
is in part made up Of the So
called "Anglo-Saxon" South,
a South now typified not by
plantation owners but by
businessman types like the
Secretary Of Commercials
ignate, Luther Hodges of
North Carolina. And it is in
part made up of the Jewish
community of this country
which, like the South, provid-
ed so much of Mr.. Kennedy's
support in November.
Republican Wall Street"
is powerfully in the Cabinet,
too-in Douglas Dillon, to be
Secretary Of the Treasury.
More-or-less Republican big
industry has a seat, this to be
held by Robert Mcnamara,
the retiring president Of the
Ford Motor Co.. as Secretary
Of Defense.
One must avoid the tired
cliches to understand the ac-
Qualities Of the new admins
tration. A conservative cliche
has been that Jewish leaders
Evening star., 1960-12-19
IndustriuIist's Bold Voice

to find new and better
methods. The company did
it. A camera which sold be-
fore the second World War
for $49.95 when the hourly
wage averaged 40 cents, now
sells at $47.95 when the wage
rate Is five times as much.
With labor costs the most
important factor in the COM
pany's cost structure, the
company successfully is COM
peting with foreign manu-
facturers. This comes chiefly
from Germany, Japan. Eng
land. Switzerland. Austria
and Belgium. Mr.. Percy con-
fldently predicts his company
will obtain an increasing
share Of the overseas mar
kets.
1t Is astonishing to learn
the Percy company exports
lenses. The value of a lens
Is almost entirely in its work.
manship. In q lens selling for
$87, the value of the glass
and metal is only 43 cents.
The remaining cost repre-
sentS labor. Yet, by develop
ing techniques. made neceS-
sary by competition, the COM
pany reversed the lens trade
and exports.
Foreign competition will
increase.
The genius of America is
know w-how"-ingenuity and
imagination. Our industry,
Mr.. Percy says, did not be-
come great by being shell
tered. Huge expenditures for
research and development,
new and imaginative ideas in
manufacturing and mer-
chandising will. he believes,
keep Am erican industry
vigorous.
There will be dissent. But
his argument is positive. not
negative.
Evening star., 1960-12-19
WILLIAM S. WHITE

The Kennedy Cabinet is
an almost perfect mirror of
the changed face of the
America of the 1960s, as well
as a clear reflection of the
forces which elected John F.
Kennedy in the first place.
Our galloping urbanization
The accelerating decline
Of the rural areas in political
power The settling at last
of the rich and varied strains
Of the old melting pot" into
one identiflably common type
Of new American" All stand
forth in the personnel Of the
new Cabinet.
It is. on the whole, a Cab
met Of young, postwar men.
But it is most Of all a
Cabinet Of city men. Main
Street and the farm are to
be absent from the top levels
Of government. True, the new
Secretary Of Agriculture, Or
vile Freeman, is from Min
nesota. But his home was
urban MinneapoliS-a long
way from the hay NOV.
The legend Of the log cabin
as the beginning place is
passing now, in favor of the
city home - or tenement
house, or corporation board
Of directors. For the first
time in our history, two men
Of a single minority group"
the Jewish faith, will sit in
the Cabinet Of the United
States-Abraham Ribicof of
Connecticut as Secretary of
Health, Education and We'll
fare, and Arthur Goldberg of
Illinois as Secretary of Labor.
In all the century and
three-quarters that had gone
before, a total of three men
Of that faith had been NOM
mated to the Cabinet.
Those who dleSsly
scream. at home and abroad,
that we are a Nation of un-
fair discrimination - where
will they now turn for spuri-
Gus charges with which to
Evening star., 1960-12-19
Bob Kennedy's Task Seen Heightened
For Hoving to Live Down Nepotism Tag

pacity for. detachment in
personal and political situa-
tions. The wag who said
that whenever any Kennedy
asked your opinion of an
other Kennedy, the only safe
reply was terrific" was more
than half in earnest.
Roberts hesitations were
no doubt sincerely felt, for
he is an honest man. His task
of proving himself is all the
heavier for it.
What the PreSident-elect
has done to himself Is to
give his opposition a hand
hold on an otherwise we'll
rounded job Of selection.
They will charge nepotism.
They will point to Roberts
relative inexperience and
talk Of the need for distinc-
ton in so vital q post.
1t Is unanswerable that dis
tinction is Q good thing, but 1t
speaks for itself that Harlan
Fiske Stone is generally cited
as the perfect Attorney Gen.
eral. The late Chief Justice
was indeed q man to match
the highest mountain, but he
goes back to the '20s and was
appointed then by President
Coolidge only after nauseous
public scandals had made
necessary the choice Of an
Attorney General whom the
public could trust to clean
out the legal stables.
Robert Kennedy's expert
ence actually closely paral-
lelS that Of his immediate
predecessor. William P. Rog-
ers. Rogers had been briefly
an assistant district attorney
in New York County with
Thomas E. Dewey before he
came here to serve a Senate
investigating subcommittee
in much the same role the
Evening star., 1960-12-19
DORIS FLEEsoN
Risks of New Attorney General

younger Kennedy recently
played with the Senate Rack
cts Committee.
Rogers rapid elevation in
the Eisenhower administra-
ton waSclearly political pay
ola. In 1852, for Eisenhower,
he staged the Southern dele
gate drama featuring the
thou shalt not steal"
charges against the late Sem
ator Taft. A few months
later he was the impresario
Of the famous Checkers tele-
cast Of Vice President Nixon.
But Rogers has done a
good job. an achievement
from which Robert Kennedy
can take heart.
The legal background Of
Rogers own predecessor,
Herbert Brownell. also was
iptertwined with politics,
State and national. Brownell
left here with the reputation
Of having conducted the de-
partment along thoroughly
political and partisan lines.
The personal risk Robert
Kennedy assumes is that he
may have been put to work
for which he is not really
suited. There is much the
Justice Department does out
side its purely legal chores.
It sets the tone of the whole
judicial establishment by
reason Of its role in the Sc
lection Of Federal judges. 1t
influences the business clim-
ate through its antitrust di-
vision. It has q heavy respon-
sibility for curbing the un-
derworld Of crime, even
though police work is largely
q local function.
Many men more mature
than the Attorney General
designate have left Wash
ington with lesser repute
than they enjoyed on arrival
because their reach of high
office exceeded their grasp.
Evening star., 1960-12-19
PerIzweig Fears
Anti-Semitic Drive

NEW YORK, Dec. l9 (AP)
"A member Of the World Jew
ish Congress predicts a new
global wave Of anti-Semitic
incidents unless preventive ac-
ton is taken.
DR.. Maurice L. Perlzweig
said yesterday before his de-
parture for a series of meet
ings in Europe and Israel that
the "Nazi International
comprised Of a hard core Of
war criminals and fugitives-
has aided those guilty of anti
Semitic outbreaks.
DR.. Perlzweig. head Of the
Congress international Affairs
Department and its permanent
Evening star., 1960-12-19
President-EIect's List, in this Respect,
Called Throwbock to Mckinley Days

Gus Of the past as they so
often boasted during the re-
cent campaign. For the truth
of the matter is that a presi-
Dental nominee does incur
obligations when he seeks
electoral votes, and he knows
that people generally gloss
over charges Of conflict Of
interest" afterwards as he
pays of his political debts at
the expense Of TIE public
interest.
1t isn't always a campaign
contribution or a special piece
If political service by q par
ticular individual that causes
politics to be given preference
over efficiency and ability.
Often it is the big contribu-
tors or their friends or the
politicians themselves who
put up names for the Presi-
dent-elect to choose from.
and he doesn't like to turn
down the loyal friends who
recommend someone to him.
Sometimes q President
picks q cabinet oficer or two
from the opposite political
party. This is hailed as "bi-
partisan" But it is Q piece
of political hokum. Actually,
those selected for the cabinet
aren't the ones who were
prominent in the defeated
party-individuals who cam
paigned before the people
and expressed themselves on
current issues. Usually men
picked for the cabinet from
the opposing party are Of
the flexible kind - they go
along with the new Chief
Executive even though some
times mourning the hostility
Of members Of their own
party.
The idea, to be sure, in pick
ing q couple Of cabinet mem
bers from the opposite party
is to give the appearance Of
Evening star., 1960-12-19
DAVID LAWRENCE

PoIitics-with its subtle,
and sometimes not so subtle,
obligations-is responsible for
the selection of eight out Of
ten Of the cabinet of Presi-
dent-elect Kennedy. This
proportion is a throwback to
the days Of Mckinley. though
every President in this CEN
tury has chosen some mem
bers Of his cabinet with due
difference to political factors.
So far as the country is
concerned. it can ask itself
whether in the entire Ma
tion-or in the Democratic
Party itself-there wasn't
someone so outstanding and
experienced in his field that
he might better have been
picked than the announced
selection for Attorney Cen
eral or for the post of Secre-
tary of Health, Education
and Welfare. or for the Sec
retaryship of the Treasury.
or for Postmaster General. or
for the top posts in the De-
partments of Labor and Com
merce, respectively.
AS for the Departments Of
Agriculture and Interior, 1t Is
customary, Of course. to nom
mate men who will satisfy
political interests in the Mid,
die West and Far West. The
public, however, has the i'm
preston, when a presidential
nominee promises during his
campaign to select the best
men in the land-a minis
try Of the best available tall
ent"-that the pledge will be
kept after election.
Senator Kennedy may not
be blamed so much perhaps
for following political prece-
dent, because it can be argued
in justification that this is
what has been done in the
past. On that point, at least,
the new liberals" in COM
mand aren't so contemptu-
Evening star., 1960-12-19
DORIS FLEESON

The brothers Kennedy are
taking certain clear risks in
the decision Of Robert to be
Attorney General in Johns
cabinet. For the President
elect they are mainly politi-
cal; for the Attorney Cen
eral-designate they are both
political and personal.
The President-elect went
far to conciliate public opin-
ion and inspire confidence
when he chose his cabinet.
He took much time and con-
suited many people, only
some Of whom were Demo-
cratic politicians. He sought
brains and stamina: he ex-
acted pledges that his NOM
inees would stay the hard
course of the next four years.
He included two Republi.
cans in the top three posi-
tions.
It was always apparent
that he was reserving the
Justice Department for his
younger brother and cam
paign manager. Others who
mentioned q preference for
the post speedily grasped the
point and resignedly took
other jobs offered them.
Some thought the prospect
unwise, but q rare few re-
sented it, knowing Roberts
services to his brother. AL
recognized in the President
elect a whim Of iron likely
to become fairly famous in
the coming years.
The close Kennedy FAM
lily tie needs no further ad-
vertising. Like Mount Ever
est. it is there for all to see.
It presents a problem for
members Of the new admin
istration, for it is we'll out
side the President-elect's
otherwise extraordinary ca
Evening star., 1960-12-19
Percy Fovors Free Trade Competition,
Opposes Hiqher u. S. Tariff Protection

duce that particular product
as economically as a foreign
competitor"
This bold, seldom heard
statement will cause some
Of those on the American in
dustrial horizon to vince and
cry aloud. But Charles Percy
gives them no comfort. His
own belief in free competi-
ton is not a theory, but one
born Of a severe test.
Just before the second
World War, his company de-
cided to enter the high
priced 35mm. still camera
field. 1t was a fine product.
1t could not be mass pro-
duced because 1t required
many hand operations.
In competition with for
eign manufacturers, his
company lost $l,250,000. The
camera was withdrawn. This
led. he says, to an appraisal
OF the company attitude to-
ward our national foreign
trade policy. The temptation
to seek higher tariff protecs
ton was great. He and his
board asked: "Shall national
interests be subordinate to
special interests?"
The answer was No.
Their thinking was inter-
esting, and significant.
Mr.. Percy and his staff
knew that If they competed
in handcraft methods they
could not meet foreign labor
rates. The true criterion they
determined, was not dollars
or cents per hour Of labor,
but rather total labor costs
per unit produced. In map
ping q future program, the
staff assumed an ever-in-
creasing hourly rate.
This cost, plus foreign
competition, forced a search
Evening star., 1960-12-19
RALPH McGILL

At a time when many
American industries are call
ing for a barrier Of tariffs to
protect American industry,
an eloquent and important
voice says mo,
There Is no more competi-
tive market than lenses and
cameras. It is as fierce as
that In textiles. Yet, the elo-
quent voice Of Charles j.
Percy Of Bell and Howell
says, In effect. Bring on the
competition"
Mr.. Percy was chairman of
the Republican convention
platform committee. He
properly may be classified as
an exponent Of modern Re-
publicanism. He believes that
the tremendous productive
capacity Of this country
should be used-not restrict
ed. In a recent article, he laid
down this thesis:
why should we refuse TO
trade with the free world
and tariff and customs bar
riers are in practice q re-
fusal-when trade serves our
own self-interest? Ultimate
ly, this refusal would isolate
US from the free world and
the friendship of free ma
tions. as 1t would surely aid
the cause Of communism.
And why, again, are there
cries Of protest when some
one suggests a reciprocal
lowering of trade barriers?
-. The American consumer
can see no reason why he
should be forbidden to buy
imports because they COM
pete with the products of
American manufacturers, or
why, if he buys an imported
product, he should pay a
premium in the form Of a
tariff because an American
manufacturer cannot pro-
Evening star., 1960-12-19

United Nations representative
said the Congress had sug-
gested to the U. N. that Inter-
pol, the international police
organization, help coordinate
available evidence to be used
as a basis for preventive action
The Nome nugget., 1960-04-13
Young Desperate
Loses Fight With
State Police
BY JACK WHITE

PULASKI, Va, Up - The 30
hour stand of teen-age desper-
ado, who swore he'd ego out in
blaze of glory in tie and white
shirt with blood on it," ended
Tuesday night. Police dragged
him shrieking from the home
where he had held his young
sister-in-law hostage.
The plucky 10-year-old girl, I'M
harmed, said afterwards, ct was
MT scared"
A barrage of tear gas shells
flushed Hairless Hardin Jackie
Jennings from the trim brick
bungalow of his in-laws at 1890
pm. after a day that saw the
siege range from terrifying to al
most ridiculous.
Jennings came out firing wild
ly but Intellectually with shot
gun. pushing Barbara Butts out
the door ahead of him.
Duck, Barbara" officers called
an instant before they snatched
her aside. Then Jennings, an 1S-
year-old unemployed mill hand,
was overpowered, knocked down
and pulled screaming down the
walk to state police car that
whisked him to mental hospital.
Barbara, examined at local
hospital, showed no signs of in
juries and seemed unruffled by
her ordeal that began at Ais pm.
Monday.
That was when Jennings grab
bed her after escaping from po-
lice as he was being taken to Jail
for unauthorized use of his father
in-laW's car.
The Nome nugget., 1960-04-13
Little Chance Seen For
us: Proposals At World
Maritime Conference

GENEVA, R-The main COM
mittee of the World Maritime
Conference today approved a
Canadian U. S. proposal for ex-
tending the worlds territorial
waters from three to six miles.
The vote was far short, how
ever, of the two thirds majority
needed for approval later by the
full conference.
The proposal would give coastal
states exclusive fishing rights up
to II miles offshore after 1872.
The committee narrowly re-
jected proposal to extend terri
torial waters to a maximum of IL
miles.
The proposal was sponsored by
18 African-Asian and Latin Am
erican nations and had the full
support of the Soviet bloc.
The rejection bars the proposal
from further discussion at con-
ference plenary session.
Soviet delegate Gregori Tunkin
threw cold water on prospects for
any kind of agreement by insist
ing there can be no compromise
on limit of territorial waters
below IL miles.
Tunkin is the main spokesman
for the Communist, Afro Asian
and Latin American countries ia
voring 12-mile wide sea border.
He said the Western plans
real motive is to enable their
Warships to come closer to coasts
of foreign countries which they
want to put under pressure"
The Nome nugget., 1960-04-13
Grandson of French
Auto Maker Kidnapped
And Held For Ransom

PARIS, tR-Police today hunted
dark-haired man they said
darted into group of children
at play and snatched up the
grandson of millionaire auto man
ufacturer Jean-Pierre Peugeot for
100000 ransom.
The kidnaper dropped note
as he fled, warning especially
do not warn the police. In 48
hours I will give you instruc-
tons"
Police said the note also threat
ened death to the child If the
kidnaper's demands were not met.
The parents of the 415-year-old
boy, Eric Peugeot, said man
called them just before midnight
demanding the ransom.
The Peugeot Auto Works is one
of Frances three largest.
The Nome nugget., 1960-04-13
Democrats OutvOte
Republicans In
Illinois Primary
by The Associated Pressj

Some bitter, Democratic barbs
have come at the Eisenhower adj
ministration one after another.
Frozen in the ice of it's own
Indifference" was the description
Sen. John Kennedy tagged on the
administration Tuesday.
The cause of "this period of
leaderless lassitude" was the &C
cusation made Tuesday night by
Adlai Stevenson.
In the Illinois primary, Vice
President Nixon, who stands
largely on the administration re-
cord but did not campaign in the
state, received far smaller vote
than President Eisenhower rolled
up four years ago.
On the whole, Democrats out
voted Republicans in the light
turnout. The Republicans nomin-
ated Gov. William G.. Stratton for
a third term. The Democrats
named Otto Kerner to oppose
him.
Sem Paul H. Douglas was I'M
opposed on the Democratic ballot
for nomination to third term.
Incomplete returns gave him a
larger complimentary vote than
Nixon received.
Stevenson, who has denied he
is candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, acted
very much like one as he ad-
dressed a crowd in the gymna-
SUM of the University of Vir-
ginia at Charlottesville.
"Too often our leadership has
been hesitant and half-hearted,
and had concealed from us the ma
ture and dimensions of the crisis"
he said.
Kennedy made his attack on the
administration in a speech to the
International Union of Operating
Engineers in Miami.
The economy of the Soviet I'm
ion is expanding seven times as
fast as that of the United States,
he said, and the Eisenhower ad-
ministration does nothing about
it.