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Evening star., 1960-07-05
Youth Is Regarded as No Handicap
But Experience Is Called Important


will certainly be thinking of
these points and particularly
whether Senator johnson
would make a better impress
sion on the voters on the
score of maturity and ex-
perience" than would Sen
ator Kennedy.
For, whether former Pres
ident Truman realized it or
not, he put his finger on a
vital question that will in
f1uence the judgment of many
voters whether Senator
Kennedy is better equipped
by maturity and experience"
to take possession of the ex-
ecutive branch of the Gov
ernment than is Vice Pres
ident Nixon.
This question of experience
is one that has never really
been thoroughly debated.
America has made many mis-
takes in the past in selecting
for the presidency both
Republicans and Democrats
without experience. These
men have had to get their
presidential education at the
expense of the American peo-
pie. They learned the ropes,
but at what expense!
William Howard Taft,
Republican. was elected Pres
ident in 1908 after having
served in the cabinet as Sec
retary of War. His lack of
knowledge of legislative
processes helped to retard
his progress, and he was not
reelected.
Woodrow Wilson, Demo-
crat, had served a brief term
as Governor of New Jersey
before he was elected in 1912.
His first term was largely
spent in getting familiar with
congressional problems.
Warren Harding, Repub-
lican, elected in 1920, had
served one term as a Senator
but not in a position of lead
ership. He knew little about
the executive end Of govern
ment.
Calvin Coolidge, a former
Governor Of Massachusetts,,
bowed often to the will Of
Congress, about whose proce-
dures and methods he knew
little from actual experience.
Evening star., 1960-07-05

LOS ANGELES. - Former
President Harry S. Truman
and Senator John F. Ken
nedy are quoting history to
their purpose and history
supports them both.
Mr.. Truman is in effect
warning Democrats that they
are setting up a loser at Los
Angeles. He gave them the
same warning in 1852 and
1856 but this was disregard
ed. The convention nomi-
mated and re-nominated
Adlai Stevenson, who was
twice defeated.
Now with the looming al
tentative of Vice President
Richard Nixon in the White
House, Mr.. Truman has
acted even more drastically
and dramatically to avoid a
convention choice he con-
siders a disaster. He has
bluntly addressed himself to
the problem with his usual
glorious defiance Of the
pundits and the armchair
strategists, but who can say
that he did not earn the
right to such defiance in
1948?
The young Senator from
Massachusetts, heard the for
mer President loud and
clear. Senator Kennedy has
stood up for himself with
dignity and matching de-
fiance. He correctly dismissed
the rigging charge, which in
any case was directed at Ma
tional Chairman Paul But
Ter, as the less important and
addressed himself to the real
issue of his youth and politi-
cal appeal.
The rigging charge the ma
Evening star., 1960-06-09
Why Handicap the Police?

Police Chief Murray and his aides
have told the House District Committee
that proposal to end the liquor tax
stamp system here would handicap the
police in their war on crime in Wash
ington. Some persuasive examples Of
cases solved through the tracing of tax
stamp numbers on whisky bottles were
cited by Chief Murray and Deputy Chief
Scott, head of the Detective Bureau.
The question arises as to why system
which aids law enforcement should be
abandoned.
Representatives of the liquor deal
ers testified that it is inconvenient to
take the time and trouble to mark the
required dealers number on each bottle
of liquor to be sold in retail establish
ment They favor new system under
which stamps would be dispensed with
and taxes would be paid on the basis of
the volume of business reported by each
store.
The District Commissioners and
Chief Murray are vigorously opposed to
any such change, however. The Com
m1ssioners assert that the proposed
nonstamp plan would cost the taxpay-
ers more money, in that extra auditors
would nave 10 be employed to keep tab
Evening star., 1960-06-09

on the revenue collections. More i'm
portant, in our opinion, however, is the
objection voiced by police officials at
the committee hearing. Chief Murray
cited one case in which the murderer
of woman was traced and convicted
through the dealers number found on
whisky bottle with which the woman
had been fatally beaten. He said there
are numerous other cases in the files in
which numbered liquor bottles proved
to be important clues. We think that
the catching of criminals is far more
important than catering to the con-
venience of liquor dealers and we hope
that Congress will do nothing to make
things more difficult for the police.
Evening star., 1960-06-09
Hope for the Courts

Belated as it may be, the approval
by the House Judiciary Committee of
bill to add S5 judgeships to the Federal
courts brings hope of much-needed re-
lief for overburdened tribunals, eSpe-
cially in the New York area Apparently
the recently reiterated promise of the
administration to divide the appoint
mentS equally between the two major
political parties helped to break the
measure loose from what had seemed a
dead-center fate in the committee.
The House ought to set a good ex-
ample for the Senate by quickly ap-
proving the judgeship program-in the
interest of speeding up the slowed down
machinery of justice.
Evening star., 1960-06-09
RockefeIIer's Blast

With the Republican convention a
little more than a month away, Gov
ernor Rockefeller's blast against Vice
President Nixon and the Eisenhower
administration is indeed strange per-
formance.
Presumably, the statement is an
avowal of the Governors own candi-
dacy for the G. o. P. nomination. But
there is almost no chance at this late
hour that he will get it, and why should
he? He could have gone into the pri-
maries and demonstrated that he has
some pulling power with Republican
voters. Indeed, he chose to toss in the
sponge last December with a bad
tempered statement to the effect that
the men who will control" the G. o. P.
convention didn't want a contest for
the nomination.
Actually, it was clear then, and it
Is clear now, that a majority of those
who will control the convention, as we'll
as majority of the Republican rank
and-flle, prefer Mr.. Nixon. And the
Rockefeller statement is not going to
change this. But it will furnish the
Democrats with ammunition for use
against the G. o. P. ticket during the
campaign, and Mr.. Rockefeller must
know this
Furthermore his statement is tainted
with a certain disingenuouSness. If he
thinks now that Mr.. Nixon is afraid
to speak out on the issues of the times,
why did he praise the Vice President
only five days ago as a man of great
skill, great discretion and great cour-
age"-a man for whom he proposed to
campaign if nominated? And why does
he criticize Mr.. Nixon in one breath
for not making known his program prior
to the convention, while saying in the
next breath that the Republican party
cannot march to meet the future with
a banner aloft whose only emblem is
question mark? The Governor knows
that this is not valid proposition. He
knows that Mr.. Nixon, as Vice Presi-
dent, is in a position in which he can
hardly differ openly with adminiStra-
tion policies prior to the convention.
And he also knows that Mr.. Nixon,
after the nomination, will have to spell
out his own position on the issues in
debates with the Democratic candidate.
So why all the glib talk about marching
into the future with a question-mark
banner?
There is really but one answer
the bite of the presidential bug and the
infection which follows can do strange
things to man and to his Judgment.
Evening star., 1960-06-09
The Partisan Way

Why is it that the French, in mat
terS of beauty and gracious living, must
always be so far ahead of Americans in
their regard for their Capital City?
The latest example of French supe-
riority in this respect is the news that
they plan to tear down the huge and
ugly "tempos" which for nine years have
marred one of Paris loveliest Spots-the
grounds of the PalaiS de Chaillot These
Sprawling prefabricated structures were
built at cost of So million in 1851 to
house the United Nations General As
sembly, and later were used as the ad-
miniStrative headquarters of NATO.
Now, PariSianS have had enough of
this eyesore, and they will spend $780,
600 to refurbiSh the Palais grounds. In
the words of New York Times writer,
the gardens and fountains will once
more become the domain of children,
nurSemaidS, lovers and strollers and no
unlovely edifice will spoil the view from
the Palais to the Eiffel Tower and be-
yond to the Ecole Militaire"
What pertinent parallel this is to
the ugly tempo shacks which deface our
own lovely Mall between the Lincoln
Memorial and the United States Capitol
and what a difference in our treat
ments! Many of our tempos are not
nine years old, but 40. BY contrast, ours
are much the worse for wear And we
have so many, many more of them.
General Services Administration Of
ficials few days ago noted once again
that these disgraceful wrecks all are
slated to go eventually under the "long-
range" GSA program. The only way for
this program to become "short-range,"
however, is for Congress to authorize
new Federal Office buildingS-thr of
which now are before the Senate APP
propriationS Committee for action. BY
its approval, the committee can take at
least one step toward reclaiming the
beauty of our own Capital.
Evening star., 1960-06-09

and the everyday city man or
woman, or even child, finds
after a block or two that he
is getting some real exercise.
Right at this point, Tenn
pleton Jones says, the desire
to let up always comes to the
fore.
The fine point, he says,
about his system is that one
then naturally gives in to the
urge.
The walker Immediately
stops walking sideways, and
steps right out, as one would
normally.
No forcing ones self to do
anything, in this system.
The forced-feed method Of
taking exercise, Jones says, is
what has made exercise of
any kind leave a bad taste in
the mouth.
Children are urged to stand
up straight, pull the shoul-
ders back, breathe deeply.
This sort of thing goes on
SO long that most boys, by
the time they get into junior
high, take up basketball to
save themselves from it.
In the wonderful game OF
basketball a boy can set his
own pace. if he wants to; he
doesn't have to pay any at
tention to the coach if he
doesn't want to, does he?
(He does. Let's forget it,
%&
Temp Jones says his walk
ing exercise should not be
INDUCED in to the exclusion
of ordinary straight away
walking. Kept up too long
over too long a period of
days, it might twist the
human frame out of focus
or something. Carrying books
under the left arm exclusively,
for instance, will hunch the
left shoulder higher than the
right.
LopSidedneSs must be
avoided, physically as well as
mentally and spiritually. So.
the thing to do, in all depart
ments, is to change around
a bit. Just as one must try
to see all sides of an argu-
ment, and make an honest
attempt to see the good in
all religions, so one must do
exercises in different ways,
so as to exercise the small as
we'll as the large muscles.
Walking down the WASH
ington Monument, for in
stance, calls into play GER
tain muscles in the back OF
the legs that are not used in
walking up. Walking down,
for most persons, will be
much more difficult than
walking UP. Try 1t sometime,
and seel
Evening star., 1960-06-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEWELL

A correspondent had asked
If there was any better way
Of walking than "just plain
walking" and we assured
him there wasn't, but at the
time we forgot Temp Jones
own invention.
Jones took this column to
task about it, too. "Why not
tell them about my system?"
he asked.
The Jones system of every
day walking is a form Of
heel-and-toe walking, much
used at one time by athletes.
You don't hear so much of
it nowadays.
Most people who go in for
walking, as exercise, are con-
tent to just walk, that is,
step out carefully, some so
slowly that they get little
good out of it.
Walking too swiftly takes
too much out of the average
sedentary person. There is no
Surer way to make one give
1t up as sport and exercise.
= y u
Temp Jones system of
daily walking for the average
person calls for turning the
body slightly to the left:
Then, as the left foot goes
forward, push back with the
right foot.
Keeping the body turned,
put the right foot forward.
But do not make a special
push.
When the left foot goes
forward again, push with
the right foot again.
This crablike movement
begins to be fun as one real
ICES that the pace is swifter,
but with little or no extra
effort.
After half a block, the
body is turned slightly to the
right and held there.
Then the pushing move
ment begins with the left
foot as the right goes for
ward.
That is all there is to it, a
monument of simplicity in
walking, Jones says.
AS in all such matters, the
doing is easier than the ex-
PLANTATION.
The beauty Of this outdoor
exercise is that it naturally
suits itself to every users
pace and musculature.
The strong person moves
faster than the less well
muscled.
Everybody does this walk
ing to suit himself, and that
is where the good comes in,
for there is no forcing, yet
the pace naturally becomes
q bit better than usual.
Breathing is increased,
muscles are used q bit more,
Evening star., 1960-06-09
THE POLITICAL MILL
Nixon Makes Good in Home State
BY GOULD LINCOLN

feller of New York for Presi-
dent, are backing Mr.. Nixon.
Evidence that this is true
comes from the large vote
cast for him in Tuesdays
primary. The campaign
which the Rockefeller people
attempted-no votes for Mr..
Nixon-did not pan out.
FavOrite Son Candidate
Gov. Pat Brown is a favor
ite-son candidate for the
Democratic presidential NOM
ination. AS such. he has
campaigned for support as
a friend of all the bona fide
presidential candidates-Sen-
ators Kennedy, johnson,
Symington and Adlai Steven
son. Mr.. McLain, who en-
tered a slate of delegate can
didates in opposition to the
organization slate backing
the Governor, is an old-age
pension advocate, reminiscent
of the old ham and eggs
candidates of past years.
Where the approximately
half-million voters who have
cast their ballots for Mr..
McLain will go in the general
election is anyone's guess.
They could scarcely be rated
supporters of Senators Ken
nedy. johnson, Symington
or Mr.. Stevenson, for whom
Gov. Brown oStensibly was
campaigning. Back in 1852,
Representative Werdel, a con-
servative Republican who had
no use for progressive Repub-
lican Gov. Warren, offered
himself as a supporter of all
the other potential Repub-
lican nominees-Mr. Eisen-
hover, Senator Taft, etc. Gov.
Warren was not nominated
for President. Mr.. Eisen-
hover was, and apparently
the Werdel vote moved over
to the Republican candidates
solidly.
Gov. Warren, at that time,
was a very popular Chief
Executive. He was not a
favorite-son candidate, ready
to cast the California delegate
vote to some other candidate
at the party'S national con-
vention, as is Gov. Brown. He
was a bona fide candidate
for the presidential nominal
ton. The California dele
gates stuck to Gov. Warren
to the end. Gov. Brown, since
he took over as Chief Execu-
tive of the State, seems to
have lost ground with the
voters, which in part explains
his failure to equal or sur
pass the vote cast for Mr..
Nixon. He was able to per-
suade Senators Kennedy,
Humphrey, Johnson and
other candidates for the
De ocratic presidential
nomination not to enter the
California primary on the
theory that such contests
might split the Democrats of
California wide open, with
dire results in the general
election in November. Mr..
McLain seems to have done
the job rather effectually. He
attacked Gov. Brown and the
record of the Brown adminis-
tration. He said that hun.
dreds of thousands of Cali
fornians are disappointed in
the record of the present ad-
miniStration, and that to elect
the Governor to lead the
California delegation to the
Democratic National Conven-
ton would place a danger
GUS weapon in the hands of
cynical and ambitious men.
Evening star., 1960-06-09
Continue the Proqrum

Commissioners will approve sites for five
new public housing projectS-three in
Southeast Washington and two in the
NorthweSt-haS assumed extraordinary
Importance. For, by their vote, the
Commissioners really will be deciding
whether or not an expanded public
housing program is to proceed during
the next few years. If they determine
the program should go ahead, as we
believe they must, they will approve the
sites, for no alternative is available.
Fast action on these sites, further
more, is urgent, since city officials ap-
parently are convinced that the Public
Housing Administration will make good
its threat to withdraw authorization for
additional public housing here unless
specific locations are approved by the
end of this month.
Among the five sites, vigorous op-
position has been raised only against
the three in the Southeast. Basically,
the arguments of Southeast residents
fall into two categories. The first is
that, as matter of broad community
policy, too much public housing already
has been concentrated in the Southeast
and far Northeast, and that further
Saturation would be harmful both to
private property owners and to the pub
lie housing occupants themselves. The
second is that large number of addi-
tional children added to the areas would
severely overcrowd such public facilities
as schools and Fairgrounds.
DiScounting the neighborhood oppo-
sition which arises to public housing
wherever it is proposed, there undoubt-
edly is some validity to the first argu-
ment. Unfortunately, however, the Com
miSSionerS have little choice in the
matter. Housing officials have canvassed
the entire city for sites, not once, but
many times, and the fact is that these
are the only ones available at prices the
National Capital Housing Authority is
permitted by law to pay. Southeast
residents can take heart meanwhile,
that two of the three Southeast projects
are quite small, and that-for change
"a substantial number of units are to
be built this time in the Northwest as
well. In the future, furthermore, it is
expected that land will be made avail
able at write-down prices to NCHA in
the Northwest under urban renewal
programs now being planned there.
AS to the second argument, there is
a considerable difference of opinion as
to the impact on existing community
facilities. The National Capital Planning
Commission, for example, whose business
1t is to analyze such problems, is not
overly concerned. With the designation
of further public housing for the South
east, nevertheless, the Commissioners
must accept responsibility to provide
what facilities are needed. If this means
that new school in the Marshall
Heights area will be required before it
currently is scheduled, then the schedule
should be adjusted.
The need for new low-income houS-
ing is unquestionable, particularly to
accommodate the substantial number of
larger families which will be displaced
by urban renewal and by other city pro-
grams. In addition, the NCHA now has
backlog of 4,700 applicants and, if all
of these cannot be provided for, at least
there are enough cases of urgent hard
ship to Justify the start of the new units
now authorized.
Evening star., 1960-06-09

Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's political prospects
both for the Republican
presidential nomination and
for victory in the election
next November-took a squirt
forward as a result Of Tues
days California presidential
primary returns. One of the
main points of attack on his
presidential candidacy, from
Republican as well as Demo-
cratic sources, has been:
nixon cannot carry his own
home State" For that reason,
the big vote he polled in the
primary, materially surpass-
ing that for Democratic Gov.
Pat Brown, has greatly
heartened Nixon supporters.
The latest available figures
show Mr.. Nixon with 1,173,
004, Gov. Brown with / ,075, ,424
and George McLain, the Gov
ernor's Democratic opponent,
with 506,310..
While it is true the Brown
McLain vote surpassed the
total vote cast for Mr.. Nixon,
this has been the usual thing
in California presidential
primaries in recent years. Tor
example, in 1852 when Gov.
Earl Warren - now Chief
Justice-waS running in the
Republican primary he re-
ceived 1,029,495 votes and
Representative Werdel, his
Republican opponent, 521,I00
"a total of 1,550,595 votes
for the two G. o. P. candi-
dates. On the Democratic
side, Senator Estes Kefauver
OF Tennessee had 1,155,839
votes, and his opponent. At
torney General Pat Brown
now Governor-had 485.578
"a total of 1,641, AIT, a lead
for the Democrats of 90,832
over the total Republican
vote. Even more pronounced
was the Democratic lead in
the presidential primary of
1856. President Eisenhower's
vote that year-he was un-
contested - was 1,354,764.
Adlai Stevenson, on the
Democratic side, had 1,139,-
964 votes to 680,722 for Ke-
fauver. The Democratic total
was 1,820,686 or a Democratic
lead Of 465, 1922. In 1856 Mr..
Eisenhower carried California
by some 100000 votes, and
of course he won the State
also in 1852 by a huge vote.
COP. Wins Out
The Democrats have l.
156,520 more registered voters
in California than the Re-
publicanS-about a 3 to 2
advantage. They had this
same kind of advantage over
the COP. in both 1852 and
1856. There has been a large
swing" vote among the
registered Democrats. 1t is
to that swing vote that Mr..
Nixon must look for victory if
he becomes the Republican
nominee for President.
Except in 1858, the Repub-
licans have been able in re-
cent years to overcome this
Democratic advantage in reg
lStratlon IN Statewide battles
for Governor and Senator
and in the last two presiden-
tial elections. Two years ago,
the Republicans in California
tore themselves wide open,
and Gov. Brown was elected
by more than a million votes,
not quite as large, however,
as one of Mr.. Warren's earlier
victories for Governor. This
year, the Republicans of all
factions, except for a small
number urging the nomina-
tion of Gov. Nelson A. Rookie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Lundon Beats
Friends and
Retains Title
INIERsIAIE A1HIE1Ic cnNErRrNr

". /. W. L.
s'S SiS. P.'o ! ! & s: S 5sS:. !:
Even without high-scoring
Fred Hetzel, temporarily lost
because of grades, Landon still
is the class of the Interstate
Athletic Conference. The Bears
clinched their second straight
conference basketball cham
pionship with a 66-46 victory
over Friends yesterday at Lam
don.
The Bears also won the
championship of the old In
terstate Academic Conference
in 1858. its last year of OPP
Grafton.
The absence of Hetzel, who
will return Tuesday against
Bethesda Chevy Chase, placed
the scoring and rebounding
burden on George Manger, a
6-foot-6 junior, and he came
through with "a points and 81
rebounds. Bill Avery and
Dick Stowell added IL points
apiece.
High man for Friends with
l8 was Steve Bralove. who also
played a fine floor game,
stealing the ball repeatedly.
The Quakers gave it a good
try. but had no one the size
of Manager, and were out-re-
bounded, 5l-27.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
. By BOB HANSON
Star Stan Writer

Already holder of the areas
longest winning streak for a
high school basketball team,
Carroll could finish regular sea-
son play with a string of Al
straight. a record that should
stand unbroken for years.
While a partisan crowd hoot-
ed and shouted for action last
night at Carroll as st. Johns
went in for freezing tactics, .
the Lions calmly sweated it out
for 1920 victory in a Catholic
League game. 1t was their AID
straight.
Only five games remain for
Carroll-Gonzaga. st. Anthony
and DeMatha in the league, the
Navy Plebes at Annapolis and
the Maryland Frosh at home
The Plebes and Little Terps
are the only ones that should
pose any problem, but even
those two should be beaten. On
a comparative season basis, the
Maryland Frosh defeated the
PlebeS, 64-53. early in the sea-
son. Ten days ago, Carroll beat
the Little Terps, 95-72.
In last nights Waltz with
out music" Carroll got the ini-
tial jump ball and seconds later
had a 20 lead as John Thomp-