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Evening star., 1960-05-27

The FomiIy Council consists Of
Judge, q psyehiotrist. three clergy
men, three editors and O women's
editor. Eoeh orticle is summary
Of on octuol eose history. The
council reports on problems thot
have been deoIt with BY respon-
sible eeencies and counselcrS.
Evening star., 1960-07-18
ChevyChose Man
Receives Award

r. Byron Bird, professor Of
chemical engineering at the
University of Wisconsin, has
received the $1,000 George
Westinghouse Award for 1860.
The annual award is presented
to young engineering teachers
OF outstanding ability.
Mr.. Bird is a graduate of old
Central High School and at
tended the University of Mary
land for three years before
completing his studies at the
Universities of Illinois, Wis
consin and Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.
He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Byron Bird of 620l Ken
nedy drive, Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1960-07-18
7ravesty' of Convention System

ly by each party and the
privilege of voting therein
given only to those who had
formally registered before
hand in a particular party
thus disqualifying them from
participating in the opposite
party's primary-there would
be q chance to count the total
number throughout the Ma
tion in a particular party. The
candidate who carried the
popular vote Of the whole
country in his party would
become the presidential NOM
inee. and the second highest
would be the party'S vice.
presidential nominee. If the
plurality were too narrow, a
run-off could be prescribed,
just as is done in State pri-
maries.
1t will be said that this is
a lot of bother" But so is
a dictatorship easier" It is
one of the necessary costs of
democracy to give the people
a chance to rule. For surely
no effort should be spared to
enable the people themselves
to select the man who is to
be President of the United
States, and also the No. 2
man who is to succeed him
if the President becomes dis
abled or dies.
These reflections are not
new. They have been ex-
pressed by this writer again
and again as he has watched
% national conventions
since 1916.
When will the public be-
come fully aware of the dis
grace of the convention sys-
tenn, and begin to realize that
the world cannot listen to
our protestations of democ-
racy without a feeling that
our system of government is
afflicted with the disease of
hypocrisy? 1t makes even
the dictators smile as they
smugly contend that in their
system. too, the end juStifies
the means.
The remedy. of course, can
be readily applied through an
act of Congress. For the Con-
stitution gives full power to
Congress to regulate every
phase of the Federal election
process.
Copyright, 1860
Evening star., 1960-07-18
RALPH McGILL
odd Pros Hell ped Pick Johnson

would not generally approve.
Sam Rayburn was reluctant.
But he, too, is a practical
man. 1t is reported that john
sons health has been a family
worry for the last year. He
showed the strain Of the long
round-the-clock fight he led
to pass a civil rights bill.
Lyndon" Dave Lawrence
Is reported to have said, you
will kill yourself If you keep
on. Take this. You will still
be an influence. If you don't
come on the party will lose
and we'll have to work un-
der a Republican again. If
we can put Jack in the White
House we'll all be better off,
you and Texas included"
This, 1t is said, was the
giSt of 1t. johnson also was
told. Of course, of all that
Daley, Wagner and DeSapio
had said. There is no more
practical man than Lyndon
johnson. He has made a sue
ceSsful career out of doing
and selling the practical.
Politics is the science Of
the possible. Lyndon John
sons choice fits this axiom.
The logic of it was powerful.
With him the party would be
the favorite to win in Novem-
ber. Rockefeller has cut up
Nixon in New York. In Cali
fornia Nixon faces a heavy
Democratic registration, far
in excess of the Republicans.
So, while it is possible to
call the decision cynical, it
was enormously practical. We
may expect even those who
were hurt by it, and who feel
Kennedy deceived them, to
learn to live with it. The
scent Of victory Is sweet and
a balm to political hurts.
Evening star., 1960-07-18
Both Seen as Young and Hord-Drving
But Lacking in FociIe Good Fellowship

to the campaign crowds, de-
spite the mop hair and slim
figure.
Warmth and the power to
communicate emotion may
indeed be his greatest prob
lem. OF the facile good-fel-
lowship of an Eisenhower,
who means well feebly, Ken
nedy has none.
Fortunately for the Ken
nedy candidacy, Nixon really
has none. either-despite all
his efforts. Nixon's colleagues
know him as a lone wolf and
find only comedy in his grim
attempt to achieve the light
touch and a suitable Steven
sonian quip.
Because they have some
temperamental qualities in
common. because they are
both young, ambitious and
have driven so hard and fast
toward their goals, because
there is much that is equiv
alent in their legislative rec
ords. some observers class
them together. Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller has permitted
himself, in a bitter moment.
to call Kennedy "a Demo-
cratic Nixon"
1t could be that such re-
semblances helped to drive
former President Harry S.
Truman into his black mood
over the Kennedy nomina-
tion, for Truman considers
Nixon a Mccarthy in a white
shirt. Truman Of course had
other reasons: He thinks
Kennedy too young and he
fears the United States will
Evening star., 1960-07-18
Foreign Policy and the Election

our military posture is rela-
lively good. Russia knows
this, and Khrushchev is not
more inclined to risk thns
catastrophe than we are.
Because of his fears of in
slant retaliation he is en-
gagged in efforts to deprive
us Of our air bases on the
rim of the huge international
Communist empire.
From what can be gathered
in Washington the Demo-
cratic campaign will be pred
icated less on the welfare
sta tie platform formulated
and approved in Los Angeles
than on the tired blood" of
the Republican administra-
ton, particularly in the last
IL months, when the edifice
built by the American people
at a cost of hundreds of
thousands of casualties and
untold billions of dollars be-
gan to crumple.
Evening star., 1960-07-18
DORIS FLEESON
Kennedy and Nixon Cool Cat.

not elect Catholic President.
But there are important
differences, too. Kennedy
talks with intellectuals and
not merely to them for the
purpose Of picking their
brains Of usable nuggets. At
%, Kennedy was writing a
sober book-"While England
Slept"-on why democracies
fail to develop better leaders
and what this means in a
contest with the totalitarian
states.
Out of that study came his
deep conviction that the pres
idency can and must be a
mighty constitutional office.
Repeatedly he has said that
the presidency was the key to
this country'S present diff
culties. He has been willing
to accept big government as
the necessary corollary Of
that thesis: he has never
pretended that it could be
otherwise. He can be expected
to consolidate power at the
White House and he emphat-
ically will not leave any of it
lying around loose for a
erman Adams or Jim
Hagerty to pre-empt.
He is not. however. fanati-
cal, but realistic and. above
all, pragmatic. Like Franklin
Roosevelt. he knows where
he wants to go, but will be
flexible about the routes he
takes. playing each situation
by ear as it arises.
Under Kennedy, Congress
would be expected to legis-
late while he governs. 1t could
be that Senator Lyndon B.
johnson sensed this and
decided to get into the policy
making if he could.
Evening star., 1960-07-18

there is "a terrific need" for
decent housing for the aged
and promised an energetic ef-
fort to get projects under con-
struction in the next six
months.
Congress, in approving the
direct loan program, provided
a $40 million appropriation for
a test of the plan and directed
Mr.. Mason to have a report
ready for submission to the
new Congress in January.
The HHFA will lend 80 per
cent of the cost of rental prof.
ects designed specifically for
the elderly. The loans will be
made only to private, non
profit sponsoring corporations
usually church or fraternal
groups, but also new civic
bodies organized for the pur-
pose.
Elaborate, or extravagant
projects are barred. but some
are expected to cost 50 million
or So million each.
Evening star., 1960-07-18
Nationwide Primary Urged in Which
2Top Candidates Would Be Nominated
DAVID LAWRENCE

LOS ANGELES. "A trav-
esty and tragedy, a spec
tacle that should cause the
American people to hang
their heads in shame-this is
the convention system of to-
day whereby the major po-
litical parties choose nomi-
nees for the presidency and
vice presidency of the United
States.
The majority of the voters
in each party in America
have little or nothing to say
about the selection of their
President, except to choose
between two candidates, nei-
ther Of whom was picked by
the electorate as a whole.
This is not a democratic
process. To hear the phrase
civil rights" nowadays as
meaning "the right to vote"
gives one a feeling of sad
ness, AS long as the present
convention system is retained,
nobody should use that term
again without a sense of
guilt. Members of each party
everywhere in the country
should have the right to Sc
lect their nominees, and
should not be handed the
two nominees chosen by any
political cliqueS, viewer
powerful or well financed
they may be.
Just Al years ago-a month
before being inaugurated
President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson wrote a
letter to the Democratic ma
jority leader of the House
of Representatives saying:
There ought never to be
another presidential nomi-
mating convention, and there
need never be another"
What Mr.. Wilson outlined
was a plan to hold preSiden-
tial preference primaries
throughout the Nation. The
proposal was not accepted by
either party. Indeed, many
States which had the pri-
mary system began gradually
abandoning it as a means of
making nominations for the
presidency, though in many
instances retaining primary
elections for other offices.
Evening star., 1960-07-18
POTOMAC FEVER
By Pete Wyms
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Jack Kennedy calls the people for sacrifices He
got in the spirit Of the thing early by sacrificing Soapy
Williams and Walter Reuther to Texas
Lyndon johnson had an easy time analyzing Kennedy
IN his acceptance speech He merely deeted the and
ins from such formerly observed qualities as immature
inexperienced immoderate incapable and ndgestibe
No man in the party has had experience at it,
Candidate Kennedy summons the Nation to the new
frontier. Either it's restaurant Kennedy plans
to establish the winter White House in Las Vegas
Now that the Democrats have nominated good Repub-
hcan ticket OF Kennedy and Johnson Republicans may give
good Democratic ticket of Rockefeller and Nxonand
we all play musical chairs
Federal glossary: Bureaucrat-A fellow who can put
his relatives on the payroll without running for office
Cube: square who went to college
Evening star., 1960-07-18
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Mild Reaction to Soviet Provocotions
Seen G. O. P.'s Worst Handicap in Race

worded notes have been sent
to Moscow to respect the
Monroe Doctrine. But words
are meaningless in these
days when dealing with in
ternational communism.
This deterioration of our
position in the world can
be traced back to the time
soon after the death of Sec
retary John Foster Dulles.
Despite the criticism of
craftsmanship" directed at
his strong policies, he kept
American prestige high and
we lost but little ground to
the Communist conspiracy.
The ground lost was in the
Middle East, where we
muffed the ball in Egypt,
Lebanon and 1raq.
But since his death, blum
der has followed blunder.
particularly in Latin Amer
lea, where the administra-
ton adopted an inconceiv-
ably weak policy which
brought Fidel Castro and in
ternational communism to
the Caribbean and a number
Of Central American repub-
lies and there is a real dan
ger of its spreading further
south.
Similar weak policies de-
vised by the lower echelons
of the State Department and
adopted by the policy makers
have caused the present state
OF confusion in a number of
Far Eastern countries such
as Korea and Japan. The
contention of the Democrats
that the Republican admin
istration "is tired" and in
capable Of dealing with the
grave problems which face
this country and the free
world can be proven on the
ground we have lost the ad-
vantage to the Reds in the
Western Hemisphere as well
as by the loss Of prestige and
active leadership among our
Western European allies.
The lame explanation that
we could not act with greater
toughnesS unless we were
willing to face the conse-
quences Of a nuclear war does
not hold water. Despite loud
criticism from the Demo-
cratic spokesmen in Congress,
Evening star., 1960-07-18
DORIS FLEEsoN

LOS ANGELES.-A cam
paign between two real cool
cats.
This, in the vernacular, Is
the prospect for the presi-
Dental contest between Sena-
tor John F. Kennedy and, al
most certainly, Vice PreSi-
dent Richard M. Nixon.
The new Democratic star
had a Harvard education
which acquainted him with
the life of the mind and
polished his public manner.
He is even, like Adlai Steven
son, a writer; he will COM
ment quite as often on a re-
porter's writing style as on
what he writes.
But in the process, as his
smaShingly successful fight
for the nomination proved,
he has lost nothing of the po-
litical gifts of his maternal
grandfather, former Mayor
Honey" Fitzgerald of Bos-
ton, and his tycoon father,
Joseph P. Kennedy. Joe Ken
nedy all his life has meshed
business and politics with
phenomenal success despite
his tendency. so common to
those of Irish blood. to take
sides in controversial mat
terS.
Nominee Jack Kennedy has
a more wary temperament
which has served him well,
for he has known for a long
time where he wanted to go.
Almost visibly he has tough
ened and hardened amid the
vicissitudes of presidential
politics. 1t will not really be
a young face that now turns
Evening star., 1960-07-18
Looms to Aid
Housing for
Aged Pushed
BY the Associated Press

Housing Administrator Nor
man P. Mason today ordered a
fast start on the new Federal
program of direct loans for
housing for the aged, signed
into law by President Eisen-
hover last week.
Mr.. Mason announced es-
tablishment of a new division
in his Housing and Home FL
nance Agency and named the
man to head it-Daniel G..
Minto, former director Of the
San Francisco Office of the
Federal Housing Administra-
ton.
Mr.. Mimic took his oath of
Office today. He told neWsmen
Evening star., 1960-07-18

1t is not the strength of
the Kennedy-Johnson ticket
or the far-reaching Demo-
cratic platform promising
everything to everybody from
the cradle to the grave that
is likely to defeat the Repub-
licans in November.
1t is the little and late"
foreign policy Of the admin
iStration that may ALLEVIATE
many voters to whom all the
provisions of the far-to-the-
left platform approved in Los
Angeles are, to say the least,
distasteful.
Since May, when Premier
Khrushchev brutally wrecked
the summit meeting, it has
become obvious that he in
tended to do his utmost with
tactics barely short of war
to make the election of an
other Republican administra-
ton headed by the progress
sive and conservative Nixon
as difficult as possible.
1t is not the conservatism
Of Nixon that worries Khru-
shchev, but his toughness and
purpose and his determina-
ton to halt - If elected -
the inroads Of international
communism in all parts of
the world.
Not a week passes now
that Khrushchev does not
produce another crisis which
finds us unprepared or un-
willing to react in a man
ner which may assure our
people and those of the rest
OF the free world that we
won't tolerate being be-
smirched and Inundated. He
has chosen at this time to
make Latin America and
Central America his main
scene Of operations. For
good measure he throws in
our reconnaissance planes.
as was the case recently
when he shot down an
RB-47 outside Soviet air.
space.
To all these insults and
provocations the administra-
ton is reacting only mildly.
1t gives the impression to
Americans as well as
our allies that it is tired and
unable to take a firm stand.
1t is true that in the last
few days some strongly
Evening star., 1960-07-18
RALPH McGILL
Reasoned He Could Bring Back South,
Win Acceptance by Negroes and Labor

Once nominated, young
Jack Kennedy moved un-
hesitatingly toward a choice
which may not have appealed
to him personally, but one
which produces every pros
pect of giving him the key
to the White House.
He consulted top profess
sionals. Yet it would be a
mistake to say the old pros
finally ran the show. He
talked with Dave Lawrence
Of Pennsylvania and with
Richard Daley of Chicago.
They, in turn, brought in
Wagner and DeSapio of New
York.
Kennedy alone, they felt,
could not carry the ticket.
Johnson could also take
Texas from Nixon. He would
rescue Florida, Virginia and
Kentucky from strong Nixon
sentiment. He would bring
back most, perhaps all the
South, which knows it no
longer has its old strength
and is looking for some face
saving escape. With john
son the electoral vote total
would boom.
There was another power
t:.l argument for expediency
or practically. Kennedy is
not too popular with Negro
voters. But johnson did pro-
duce a civil rights bill. And
with johnson as Vice Presi-
dent he would be out as Sen
ate majority leader and
would have to support the
platform, which promises
more advances In human
rights legislation. This was
Evening star., 1960-07-18

There is nothing wrong
with two separate elections
one to nominate a candidate
in each party. and one to
elect the President. Certain
ly this would be expensive.
but so are many things in
the democratic way Of life.
1t often is said in opposition
that primaries by States in
volve extensive campaigning
by the candidates. But tele-
vision answers that argu-
ment. It is urged. also, that
such Nationwide campaigns
cost a lot of money and that
only a rich man or a man
with rich friends can run.
But the American people will
gladly raise the funds to help
candidates who have been
given substantial indorse-
ment in their respective
States.
A plan can surely be de-
viSed to take care of the A.
nanceS, even if the Federal
Government itself has to
foot the bill. For, after all,
what's a few millions Of dol
lars to insure democracy,
when we spend billions
abroad to preach that same
gospel?
The real defect Of the con-
vention system is that it is
undemocratic. unfair and, in
some respects, fraudulent.
Manipulation and rigging"
are possible under it. and the
whole thing reeks of hy-
pocrisy, as promises made
repe a tie dly in campaign
speeches and platform
pledges are blatantly disre-
garded.
When will Americans be-
gin to realize they are being
bamboozled? Delegation after
delegation went home from
the Democratic convention
here with a feeling of bewil-
derment and helplessness. It
was a feeling that someone
else had decreed what they
were to do and that their
role as delegates was one of
puppetry.
If a observation-disclosures
primary were held national
Evening star., 1960-07-18

an argument to be used with
the Negro voters. Kennedy,
not Texas, would dominate
Congress.
Also, the Negro voters in
Chicago, Philadelphia and
New York are disciplined
organization voters. Con-
gresham Dawson, veteran
Negro Representative from
Chicago and a native of AL
bany, Ga, seconded the
johnson nomination. In New
York. Representative Adam
Clayton Powell enthusiastic
ally Endorsed the choice. So
did Negro leadership in Phil
adelphia.
All of these long have want
ed Senator johnson removed
as majority leader. They now
have a platform which is
regarded as adequate. They
know that young Kennedy
will stand on it. With john
son out the South will be
even less strong in the Sem
ate. If Kennedy wins, he will
name his own leadership.
The johnson selection was
not popular with labor. Nor
did liberal groups approve.
But any loss of votes here will
be more than recovered by the
heavy Catholic vote. Repub-
lican Catholics are expected
to give young Kennedy a
heavy total in the large East
ern industrial States.
So, as Kennedy and the
leadership of these States
looked at the choice, it had
to be johnson. Dave Law
renee went to see the Texan,
who was not enthusiastic. He
knew that the people at home
Evening star., 1960-07-18
Khuchuturiun Opera

MOSCOW. July 10 (AP).-
Soviet composer Aram Khacha-
turian expects to complete his
first opera soon. 1t is about
the favorite poet of the Cau-
caSas, Sayatnov. The opera
will be premiered by the Ar
menian Opera House in Erevan.
Evening star., 1960-10-30

Sunday AN.
"RustIers on Horseback" 1850. Allen Lane.
1900
SUNDAY P.M.
"FEing 6euces." 1899. Laurel and Hardy.
1905
Voice Of BugIe Ann" 1885. Lionel Barrymore
1850
"The Eternal Sea-" 1854 Sterling Hayden.
Equal Justice" Dane Clark. 2:oo-4
"Sund0Mn Jim" 1912. Jim Kimbroush. ROO
"AIiee In Wonderland" 1851. Carol Marsh.
800
"Stolen Face" 1852. Paul Henreid. 4:oo-5.
dangerous Moonlight" 1871. Anton Wabrook.
e:00-5
"crapes Of Wrath" 1870 Henry Fonda. Ills
"The Feminine Touch" 1871. ROsaIInd RUSSELL
ll:ls-9
Mondov AM.
"soeiety Lawyer" 1889. Walter pid0eon.
300
Momdoy P.M.
while New York Sleeps" 1888. Michael
WhaIen. 1900
Chamber Of Horrors" 1871. Lii Palmer.
500
primrose PATH" 1910. Ginger Rogers. 1905
centennial Summer" 1916. Linda Darnell.
ll:l5-o
"objeetlve Burma" ls45. ErroI Flynn 1851
Tuesdoy AN.
"Harrigan's Kid" 1e43 William earsan.
300
Tuesd0y P.M.
Wake Mine Laughs" 1e4e. Ray BoIger. 1905
"Design for Scandal" 1871. RosaIind Russell.
500
"NoctuFne" 1916 Lynn Bari. l1:00-5
Voc Smith. American" 1912. Robert Young.
11.l6-o
Evening star., 1960-10-30
AN.
Wednesday Al
"0n Borrowed Time" 1889. Lionel 6arrym,

9:oo-o
Wednesday PM.
Passport to Destiny" ls43 Elsa Lanehester
1905
Somewhere In the Night" ls4e John Kodiak
500
"Road House." 1913. Ida Lupino. s:oo-5
~ Was an Adventures" 1910. Zorna. l1:0o-5
"The Cowboy and the Blond" 1871. Mary Beth
Hughes. 11:15-9
Security Risk" 1854 John Ireland. ll:,o-7
ThwVsdoy AN.
woe and Ethel Turp Call on the President"
1882 Walter Brennan 1900
ThuEsdGy P.M.
"Piay Girl" 1891. Kay Francis. 1905
"FinSers at the Window" 1912. Lew Ayres
500
Montana Belle" 1852 Jane Russell. 1l:oo--5
TOO Hot to Handle" 1888. Myrna 10y. Ills
Massacre" 1856. Dane CLARK. ll:3o-7
Friday AN.
Tough Guy" 1886 Jackie Cooper. 300
Friday P.M.
"having a Wonderful Time" 1888. Ginger
Rogers. 1:0o|5
"The 0x-B0w Incident" 1e43 Henry Fonda
500
"The Great Man Votes" 1889. John Barrymore.
e:oo-5
None But the Lonely Heart" 1914. Ethel
Barrymore. ll:0O-9
"Beau ceste" 1889. Gary Cooper. ll:15-S
"Footsteps In the DARK" 1891. Enol Flynn
1851
"Ten Cents a Dance" 1915. Jimmy Lloyd
l:30-9
ioshinoton, D. c., October 30, 1850