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Evening star., 1960-05-06
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Kennedy Top Campaign Speaker

tainable in a world of real
ity.
All this is not to say
that Senator Humphrey has
looked either inept or ire
sponsible. considering the ad-
vanced liberal views he holds.
1t is not to say that Senator
Kennedy necessarily ought to
win either West Virginia or
the nomination itself. 1t is
not to say that there has
been no rough in-fighting by
the Kennedy people, as by
the Humphrey people.
1t is only to say, in ordi-
nary fairness, that young
Jack Kennedy has grown up,
assuming he needed to grow
up, through these urgent and
bitter weeks in West Virginia.
His opposition endlessly
charges him with running "on
Papa Joe Kennedy's money"
Maybe so, to a point.
But not Papa Joe Ken
nedy" and not any other man
has supplied Senator John
Fitzgerald Kennedy with the
inner personal qualities he
has shown in West Virginia
quits and a striking ability
to talk to people neither up
nor down but with a plain
but genuine eloquence. This
should stand him in good
stead if he should wind up
on the Democratic national
ticket this fall-on either
end.
Evening star., 1960-05-06
Senators Encounter Viewed as Showino
Little but Their Political CIoseness

CHARLESTON, w. Va. -
Senators Hubert Humphrey
and John Kennedy con-
fronted each other here in
what was billed as a debate.
1t proved to be a colloquy
between two liberal Demo-
Gratis who believe that Dwight
Eisenhower is a do-nothing
President and Richard Nixon
q public disaster.
The young Senators are
working hard to win a West
Virginia primary which in
a strictly political sense is
minor league. Both, however,
have invested 1t with a prop
aganda sheen, and they have
been aided by special cir
cumstances. 1t has not suf-
feed to hide the fact of their
real polltlcal cloSeneSS to each
otner, a fact the so-called
debate again illustrated.
Their aides conducted the
negotiations for the face-to-
face encounter. But it was
early evident that both were
viewing it in the same light,
both using it to reassure the
voters about tn selves,
rather than as a weapon of
political contest.
The price of this decision
was tedium. An early check
shows little public reaction,
for the show qualified nei-
ther as stimulating public
dialogue nor political enter
tainment.
Evening star., 1960-05-06
DORIS FLEESON
Humphrey-Kennedy Debate

button on those magic Ian
terms which enable a bored
viewer to turn them of. And
there is very little to support
the belief that the average
American has large appetite
for straight instruction, un-
spiced with humor or pas
sionate belief.
The political trade thinks.
too, that it is most important
to excite ones own side Of the
street and take your chances
on attracting new followers.
Surely no Kennedy or Hum
phrey admirers were stim-
ulated by their conformation
to feel that it was do-or-die
charging up San Juan Hill
with their particular hero.
Possibly this is no longer
so. After the debate, both
camps were conceding that
the detachment of the Sena-
tors made the show dull and
both said they had expected
the questions to open up the
avenues of controversy. The
public which sent in the
questions apparently re-
strained itself as well or
simply did not care to air
its own reservations so pub
licly.
AS the campaign closes,
local experts divide on the
outcome. Some think a
Humphrey victory certain:
others believe Senator Ken
nedy has pulled up. Few ex-
pect any further develop
ments will influence the
voting next Tuesday.
Evening star., 1960-05-06
Problem of PubIic-O Opinion Polls

tented with things as they
are will fail to register or to
vote. Polls taken without
regard to whether q person
is eligible or likely to vote are
faulty.
There is also the factor of
the sample polled. If 1t is
equally divided between those
who in 1856 voted Democratic
and Republican, respectively.
the question arises as to how
they voted in 1852. CLASH
f1cations by party or as in
dependents are not conclu-
sive. 1t is difficult to designate
a voter by party. even though
he claims affiliation with it.
Many who answer the polls
ters didn't vote in the pre-
vious election but remember
the candidate they liked.
Many voters, moreover, tend
to classify themselves for
local purposes with one party,
whereas they vote nationally
for another. All this has to
, be taken into consideration
in constructing the sample.
Then there's the question
Of personality. 1t still is true
that people express them
selves as liking or disliking
a particular candidate but,
when they get in the voting
booth, they may be Influenced
by party considerations or
by a desire not to see a
change. or they will vote
finally for a personality about
whom, months before. their
feelings had been unfavor-
able.
The pollsters cannot, in the
nature of things, get to the
bottom of each individuals
reasons or be sure that even
the things said in answer to
the questions will be domi-
nant in the voters mind on
election day. A safer rule of
prediction is to base it on the
amount of economic content
ment or discomfort that pre-
walls in each State, rather
than on personalities. The
pocketbook motive counts far
more than prejudice for or
against a particular haircut
or mustache and the look of
a candidate.
(copyright, 1e6W
Evening star., 1960-05-06

1t is possible that both
candidates made some prog
ress in the State from the
showing.
Any West Virginians who
had been avoiding Senator
Kennedy and his views be-
cause they assumed they
would not like a Boston Irish
Catholic saw an appealing,
reasonable and thoughtful
man, we'll prepared in gen.
eral and in particular, as a
political executive. They had
to be impressed by his quiet
affirmation of belief in the
separation Of church and
state.
Any West Virginians who
had been dismissing Sena-
tor Humphrey as an over
talkative and too liberal poll
tician, even a demagogue.
must admit they saw on the
magic lantern a we'll in
formed, able public man, in
command Of himself and his
material. He showed a gen.
erous spirit and except in a
brief f1are-up at the end
was treated with generous
courtesy as well by his SEN
ate colleague.
1t was an Illustration of
Adlai Stevenson's contention
that what this country needs
Is some new cliches. All that
was good.
Still it should not be for
gotten that there is a little
Evening star., 1960-05-06
Image os LeveI-Heoded Money Hitter
Believed Developed by Senator
WILLIAM S. WHITE

Senator John F. Kennedy
has now emerged as one of
the Democratic Party's most
effective campaign speakers.
whatever may happen to his
presidential candidacy - in
the West Virginia popularity
contest primary or beyond it.
To an observer this is the
most lasting impression from
his television debate with his
primary antagonist in West
Virginia. Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey.
Senator Kennedy has de-
veloped into a kind of low
pressure nonorator who ought
to go a long way in modern
politics. For politics no longer
prizes the overly robust tub
thumper, the flag -waver, the
eagle-screamer, the man of a
hundred purple phrases and
thousands Of wildly tumbling
words.
Easy does it with Senator
Kennedy - and does it ex-
tremely we'll. Sports writer's
who long have covered ma ior
league baseball rightly regard
themselves as able to tell a
real money" hitter from
what they used to call a
morning glory" This was a
fellow who would smack the
ball heartily in the spring
time but would fold up under
the pressures of the summer.
This correspondent has
spent a good many years
watching the batting form Of
politicians. Rightly or not,
he offers himself as a rea-
sonably competent critic in
this specialized field. And his
verdict, for what it may be
worth, is that Senator Ken
nedy has turned into real
money hitter as a political
speaker-a man capable of
Evening star., 1960-05-06

Turned out the ceremony
was the awarding of prizes
to Scottish girls who had
won a national cooking con-
test. They had been restrict
ed to potatoes and porridge.
the British having more of
these foods than any others
in the severely rationed war
years. We went to a nearby
school. There. in a domes-
tic science classroom were
tables spread with the prize
dishes. There was an aston
ishing variety of them.
The girls, their cheeks pink
with health and excitement,
wore no makeup at all. They
had that vivid, natural look
which is so attractive to see.
Soon came the King and
Queen, accompanied by the
Lord Mayor and dignitarieS
of the city and school system.
The King had a serious,
sad face, which lighted up
beautifully when he smiled,
which was often. The weight
of the war and his position
obviously was heavy upon
him. The Queen was mag
nificent. She might have
been the mother of any of
the girls present, one thought,
looking at her and seeing in
her, somehow, the gentle
ness and sweetness. as we'll
as the strength, which the
real mother has for her chill
dren. She loved them, being
herself a Scot, and their
faces glowed when they
looked at her. And when they
each had dipped in a curtsy,
and had received from her
a prize, their faces were ra-
diant.
The Lord Mayor talked (as
will mayors everywhere). He
presented the King and
Queen a leather-bound copy
Of the prize recipes. And then
he said to the King, Your
Majesty, I believe you are,
sir, the first British King to
Evening star., 1960-05-06
RALPH McGILL
Wedding of Margaret Recalls Incident
With 'UnregoF George vi Durino War

The marriage of Britain's
fun-loving Princess Margaret
to former court photogra-
pher Antony Armstrong
Jones brings to mind one of
the really good books about
kings and queens and prin-
ceSses. 1t is called THE Little
Princesses," and while it may
be out of print now, it ought
to be in all the libraries.
1t is a story of the two
little girls who became, be-
cause of Edward Wits in
ability to stay the course,
Queen Elizabeth II and Prin-
cess Margaret. 1t is a story,
too, of the devoted parents
who brought them up, never
dreaming that one day the
father would be called upon
to sit upon the throne. 1t is
a story OF home, in the full
meaning of the word.
Neither George VI nor his
Scottish Queen looked like
royalty. There was nothing
regal in their appearance.
And this was very, very lucky,
because during the war, when
people stood weeping by the
bodies of their family dead
and the cordite-s thinking
ruins of their bombed homes,
they did not need, or wish,
to look at anything regal"
1t comforted them to have
the tall, thin King, with his
long, serious and nice face,
and the stout, m OF herly
Queen come and stand with
them in their grief.
Once, during the war, I
tucked into an intimate visit
with them. A cold, relentless
rain prevented a scheduled
journey to Edinburgh, Scot
land. A British information
officer said there was a pri-
vate ceremo ony which we
might attend, If we desired.
edward Weeks of the At
lantic Monthly and Larry
Winship Of the Boston Globe
and ! being the "We.")
Evening star., 1960-05-06

hitting the ball when and
where it counts.
This Senator-and again
regardless of where his pres
ent candidacy may ends
no morning-gl That is for
sure.
Indeed, though the West
Virginia primary has been a
hard and divisive and damag-
ing thing for the Democratic
Party generally, it has also
had its uses. 1t has shown
that the front-runner Sena-
tor Kennedy, or the 'front.'
runner at any rate until the
West Virginia ballots are
counted on May 10, can take
it as we'll as dish it out.
The harsh necessities of
the campaign through the
valleys and over the bleak
and brooding hills down
there have rubbed off his face
forever that look of undue
youth which used to be one
of his biggest handicaps. He
has demonstrated that he
can control himself we'll in
cruel and Furnishing personal
situations.
1t is not easy, after all, for
any man to respond with
habitually cheerful poiSe to
the peculiar kind of question
that he alone has had to
answer over and over again:
What about your religion
(as a Catholic) ?"
And he has proved be-
yond doubt, contrary to an
old and fairly wide public
impression, that this is no
nice boy with wind-blown
hair. This is undeniably a
full-groWn man able to keep
his head, and also able to
limit his promises to the
voters to such boons and
blessings from Daddy Wash
ington as are actually at
Evening star., 1960-05-06
Likobleness of Brituin's ROYALTY

take an interest in cooking
since King Alfred" (The leg
end of Alfred and the oat
cakes is a favorite one.)
Soon it was all over. Our
little group broke up.
We went out into the
steady, hard rain, and the
gray skies.
But, somehow in our hearts
there were strength and
warmth from having seen
two fine persons, chosen by
destiny for an arduous Job
and doing 1t magnificently.
Evening star., 1960-05-06
Limitations of Polling and Interpretation
OF Results Believed Basis of Fault

make estimates that gener-
ally are correct within a few
points.
Sampling, therefore, is a
mixture Of prediction and
correlation of current data
with past statistics. The pub
lie, on the other hand, some
times overrates these pre-
dictions. In Indiana. for in
stance, Vice President Nixon
says the advance polls showed
Senator Kennedy as taking
55 to so per cent of the total
vote. Actually, the Vice Pres
ident received more votes
than did the Massachusetts,
Senator. who got about AZ
per cent of the total cast
for all candidates.
This has led Mr.. Nixon to
say that he agrees with for
mer President Truman that
the only poll that counts Is
the one that takes place on
election day"
But the public doesn't want
to wait till election day. 1t
likes to talk about a coming
election and to make guesses
and perhaps bets. So the
pollSters furnish a lot of
significant information on
which anybody can make his
own estimate.
In England, one of the
polling organizations went
wrong last year in predicting
that the Socialist-Laborites
would get a much heavier
vote than they did. The vic
tory by the Conservatives was
a surprise. What really hap
pened? 1t is true there are
more SocialiSt-Labor voters
than Conservatives, but the
pollsters neglected to find out
accurately what proportion
of those they polled intended
to vote on election day. Also,
included in the poll were
many who were not eligible
to vote due to residential or
other requirements of law.
The same thing can hap
pen in the United States this
year. Apathy is a big factor
in national elections. Many
people who are not discon-
Evening star., 1960-05-06
DAVID LAWRENCE

Vice President Nixon says
he was surprised by the big
vote he got on Tuesday in the
Indiana primaries and that
1t shows the unreliability of
public-opinion polls.
The polls themselves are
taken honestly and in ac-
cordance with scientific prin-
ciples of sampling. What's
really wrong is that the cor
rect Interpretation of polls
has sometimes been neg
lected and that the public
hasn't been told the true linn
itations of polling.
Thus, how many people
know that neither DR.. Gallup
nor any other pollster for
that matter, so far as this
writer knows. has ever taken
a State-by-State poll prior to
a presidential election? The
reason is it costs too much.
Also, no polling organiza-
ton has ever made a poll by
congressional districts. This
also is too expensive and
takes too much time.
Yet before both presiden-
tial and congressional elec-
tions there have been many
polls based on percentages Of
population taken as a whole
across the country or by ma
jor regions.
Under our present electoral
system, it wouldn't really
matter if more persons voted
Democratic in an election
for the presidency, as a Re-
publican could still win a ma
jority of the electoral votes.
Thus, there is a preponder-
ance of Democrats in the
country as a whole because
there are so few Republicans
in the South. If merely a per-
centage of the population
nationally is taken, a poll
would always show a Demo-
cratic victory. but the poll
ters introduce compensating
factors based on various
types of samples and on re-
gional groupings. In the end,
they come up with percent
ages from which. on the
basis of past experience, they
Evening star., 1960-05-06
Deer Injuries Driver

ALBANY, N. Y, May 6 (AP).
"A sports car driver was in
jured by a hit-and-run deer
yesterday. Robin Knox, 19, was
driving through Thacher State
Park when a deer leaped over
the car. A trailing hoof struck
him on the head. Mr.. Knox was
hospitalized.
Evening star., 1960-05-06
POTOMAC FEVER
BY Pete Wyms
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Princess Margaret marres She could now be just plain
MRS Jones II 1t weren't for that cad Armstrong shopping
around on the uptown side of the hyphen
Only few cents separates the spending proposals of
Eisenhower and the Democrats this year-gve or take $40
SIS billion. "
Nelson Rockefeller he won't accept the vice pres-
oency The first Republican say that was Teddy Roose-
velt in l900-four months before he was nominated
Republican Chairman Morton demands equal TV debate
time after the Kennedy Humphrey show-obviously for
debate between the new and old Nixon
Prison chaplain: And what you reading my man?"
erature" ~ "pe 4i'-
hhruShcheV announces Russia shot down an American
plane Khrushchevs disarmament text. do unto otbsrs m
you would have others do unto themselves"
Evening star., 1960-01-20
IN OFFICIAL PARTY
japanese Woman Is -
We|-Known Legislator

number Of years reporting
for a leading Japanese news
paper. II didn't earn too
much," she recalled with a
smile.
In 1887 she took a family
inheritance and founded a
.brake-lining factory, which
was a daring venture for a
Japanese woman in those
days.
Asked how her family re-
acted, she said, MY children
were too young to say any
thing and my husband didn't
interfere. e.. If my parents
had been living. I think they
would have opposed it,"
After establishing the fac
tory. she was faced with two
difficulties:
l. The shortage and cost
of asbestos, which at that
time was imported from
Canada by several large
companies. She was deter
mined to supply her own, and
by 1889 had an asbestos
mining company operating.
one of the first in Japan, she
said.
2. A shortage Of workers.
"a woman could not work
without the approval of her
husband" she explained,
"and we did have trouble en-
ploying housewives"
No Strikes
But once I employed
them" she added. smiling, II
worked with them and we
had no labor-management
problems, no strikes"
When Mrs. Yamashita was
elected to the Diet she re-
tired from industry, turning
the mining company over to
the employees and the brake
lining factory over to her
brother. The latter has been
moved from Tokyo and con-
verted to a garment factory
CYamashita Fabric Industry
for which she serves as hon
Evening star., 1960-01-20
By AMELIA YOUNG
star Stan Writer

One hundred thousand
Japanese children from poor
families are now being cared
for in free government nurs-
cry schools throughout that
country.
Each of 10000 such
schools cares for 100 chill
dren from 9 am. to 6 pm,
while the parents work. The
schools supply the young
charges with food as well as
recreation.
These nurseries are one
example of the progress
Japan has made in the field
of social welfare since World
War II.
1t was cited yesterday by
Mrs. Harue Yamashita. a
member of the Japanese
House of Representatives.
Only Woman
She is the only woman in
the large party of dignitaries
accompanying the visiting
Japanese Prime Minister No
busuke Kishi. Her inclusion
in the 7-member parliament
tary delegation which came
here to observe the signing
of the new Japan-United
States security pact is a mark
of her prestige among Japa-
nese legislators.
Mrs. Yamashita has served
as a Representative almost
continuously since 1916 (the
year Japanese women won
the franchise According to
an embassy official, many
women we're elected to the
Japanese Diet that year, but
few were reelected.
Mrs. Yamashita was re-
turned to the House in five Of
the six succeeding elections.
And during the one term
when she was defeated she
served in the House anyway.
as the Liberal Democratic
Party's researcher for the
Evening star., 1960-01-20

Policy-Making Committee.
In the past IS years this
woman legislator has been
concerned chiefly with repa-
triation (she was chairman
Of the Repatriation Commit
tee for some years. and with
problems of social welfare.
The Diet has done a great
deal to improve living condi-
tions for the needy, she said.
but it is still faced with some
acute problemS-chief among
them, juvenile delinquency.
the plight of widows and un-
employment.
The large sums Of money
already allocated by the leg
islature for programs to COM
bat delinquency have not
completely remedied the sit
uation." she said. 1T is most
serious"
Before going into politics.
Mrs. Yamashita had made a
name for herself in industry.
Born about the turn of the
century, she went from col
lege into journalism, spent a
Evening star., 1960-01-20

about TO start their own ca
reers. None Of them has po-
litical aspirations, she said.
They know my business is
very burdensome. They have
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orary president. He runs It.
I don't tell him what to do"
she said.
Her three children - Q
daughter and two sons-are
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no intention Of following me-"
But Mrs. Yamashita said
she hopes to continue in her
"burdensome business" for
many years.
, 1960-03-28
v

8 pm, at which time Mr..
Johnson, a special representa-
tive of the Watchtower Socie-
~, delivered the advertised
discourse, Finding Peace In
A Troubled World" This
climaxed the three day assem-
bly,.
The afternoon and evening
sessions were devoted to talks
and demonstrations highlight-
ing the Importance of teach
ing on Bible studies. Ten es-
sentials to being a teacher on
Bible studies were given, and
the benefits from applying
these demonstrated to the de-
legates. The session closed at
9 pm.
, 1960-03-28

through you, to the members
Of your organization my sin
cere congratulations on the
completion of another mile
stone.
Kindly accept my b e $ t
wishes for continued success
and the richest blessings pf
the Almighty in the years
ahead
, 1960-03-28
end FR-DAy
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Myrna 10y, Dolores Hart
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