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Evening star., 1960-05-05
AIonq the Wabash

Indiana'S presidential primary this
week may have raised more questions
than it answered
Most interesting, perhaps, is the
fact that large bloc of Democrats,
nearly $4,000, divided their vote between
an America FirSter" and a retired pipe
filter who ran on a platform of doing
away with national political conven-
tionS. Unless to themselves, neither Lar
Daily nor John H. Latham is a candidate
worthy Of serious consideration. Obvi-
ously, the vote for these two was pro
test vote"-nearly 20 per cent of the
Democratic total-againSt Senator Ken
nedy Of Massachusetts,. But what is its
long-range significance?
Does this unusually large protest
percentage label Mr.. Kennedy as a cant
win" candidate? Will it be so inter-
preted by some of the uncommitted big
State Democratic organization bosses
from New York, Pennsylvania, uli-
noiS and California, for example-who
will command great strength in the
nominating convention? And what If
Mr.. Kennedy still goes on to win the
nomination? Does it mean that 20 per
cent of the Democratic registrantS in
key Midwest State would turn to the
Republican ticket? Or in that region
of traditionally intense political emo
tionS will they close ranks enough be-
hind Mr.. Kennedy or any other leading
Democrat to carry a State that now
appears marginal?
NOT Si11pn 1O2c v,haYo
Roosevelt defeated ALI Landon, has
Indiana delivered its electoral vote to
the Democratic presidential ticket. But
the HooSier State Democrats made inn
preSsive gains in the 1858 congressional
elections and their total vote In this
weeks primary exceeded that cast for
the G. o. P. Indiana has thirteen cleo
toral votes, bakers dozen" that will
not be Scorned.
For the Republicans, Tuesdays re-
turns in Indiana were more clear-cut
and definitely more encouraging. With
out campaigning personally, Vice Pres
ident Nixon out-polled Mr.. Kennedy by
nearly $4,000. Furthermore, in rolling
up more than 100000 votes, he also ran
about $4,000 ahead of the total given
President Eisenhower in 1856. Unlike
Mr.. Kennedy, Mr.. Nixon suffered little
at the hands of protest" candidate
who fell short of 10000 votes.
For Mr.. Nixon, the result means
80 Indiana votes at the Republican con-
vention. For Mr.. Kennedy, it means
"a voteS-on the first ballot-at the
Democratic convention But if there
should be more than one ballot at Los
Angeles, as now seems likely, Mr.. Ken
nedy may have been hurt critically by
the America Firster and the retired
pipefitter.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Bored? Well, Hardly

DR.. Earl E. Shepard, professor of
oNhodontics at Washington University
in st. Louis, admits it sounds ridiculous,
but he insists that the primary cause of
crooked teeth is boredom. DR.. Shepard,
attending a meeting here of the Ameri-
can Association of Orthodontists, ex-
planned that the child who is bored with
life sucks his thumbs-and the teeth
thus are pulled out of line. To those
of us who have raised family, this
theory does sound slightly ridiculous
far as the boredom angle is concerned.
Actually, we have yet to see healthy
Evening star., 1960-05-05
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Every Office has one, the
old bum, who hits you for a
cigarette, or a quarter, or
maybe a pass to the ball
game.
A nice fellow. surely, but
when you see him heading
your wsv. you know that he
is after something.
He never fails you.
No matter how offhand he
is about it. he will come to
the point at last.
That is the reason he stops
by your desk. Not to see you,
or to chat with you, or to
accept some gem of ready
everyday wisdom.
At last he gets down to it.
He casually picks up the
pack of smokes, as if it were
some strange new thing in
the world.
He turns it over, and over,
meanwhile looking out the
window. And furthermore,
his whole attitude seems to
say, a smoke is the last thing
in the world that interests
him.
Then he takes one.
He has done it before, he
never fails. but if you were
to say anything, he would
think you a terrible sort of
person, and perhaps you
would be, at that.
~ -
Then he asks for a light.
If only he carried his own
light, it would not be so bad,
but he never does.
The whole process is ac-
tually getting something for
nothing, which the learned
say is impossible, but they
don't know Harry.
1t is in bumming a quarter.
however, that he excels.
The point being, of course,
that he has plenty of money.
He makes more than you
do, however much you draw
down. He has it stacked
away in vaults, according to
popular impressions.
This does not slow him
down in the least. He loves
to extract two bits from all
his friends and acquaint-
anceS. A dollar, or even five
dollars, would be an easier
touch. in this day of plenty
of money.
1t is the shiny 25-cent
piece he wants. Maybe he has
so much maZuma that he ne
elects the lesser coins. Prob
ably no one has ever heard
him ask for a nickel or a
dime.
Not Harry.
He softly speaks:
Evening star., 1960-05-05

How about a quarter,
pal?"
Your first desire is to an
swer, well, how about it?"
but something holds you
back.
Maybe it is because old
Harry really resembles your
favorite uncle. the old fell
low who brought you candy
from Louisville every time he
came down into the coun-
try.
They had big round cakes
of coconut candy, some pink,
some white, that you loved
beyond the fleshpots of
Brown County.
Uncle Jim knew a thing or
two about small boys.
He never failed to regis
ter in their good will.
Here stands old Harry, an
other Uncle Jim if there ever
is to be one, and you do not
dispute his desire.
You reach into your bulg-
ing change pocket and come
up with a quarter, duly
handed over, and accepted
with thanks. Harry is always
courteous.
*&&
AS for the pass to the ball
game, it does not come as
freely these days as in the
past, and it is a real treat to
get one and to lend one.
If Harry borrows it, he
might at least bring it back.
But if any one thought so,
he didn't know old Harry.
He never brings anything
back. Perhaps he borrows the
pass this time from another,
and you only know about it
when he calls you up at mid
night.
He has an important mes
sage for you to take to the
office, he says. If he said he
wanted you to take the pass
back for him, you would have
been glad to render him this
small service, but that is not
his way.
It's an important message.
or something, and you must
be on time to carry it next
day.
You are on time. You fairly
bust your neck, as the ver-
nacular has it, to be on time.
You find it is not a message
at all, but just an old pass.
and you wonder why he didn't
come right out with it, but
that wouldn't be Harry.
He loves intrigue Just a lit
tle better than cigarettes q
quarters.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
In ConnoIe's Behalf
I fail to see how l can

I fail to see how I can, as
a Christian and good citizen,
refrain from expressing my
opinion of the way the White
House has treated William R.
Connole of the Federal Power
Commission.
If it had been decided, as
one of the inscrutable deci-
sions of national power poll
tics, that Mr.. Connole had to
go, the least the so-called
palace guard at the White
House could have done would
have been to give Mr.. Eisen-
hover a better answer to the
question of "Why?" Just a
candid reply of pure poll
tics" would certainly have
been kinder to a professional
man who now has to go out
and earn a living with the
Presidents slap of Il can find
a better man" permanently
Scared into his record.
I was born and raised a
Republican, but I want to
state that after this incident
l am thoroughly ashamed to
admit it.
Ruth N. Slaughter.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Election Mop-Up

by Oil ouuS Ine moSC lively ana de-
ciSive aspect of the District election"
was the complete turnover in control
OF the local Democratic Party organiza-
tion. Indeed, without it, there would
have been little to keep the campaign
fires lighted In this small area, at
least they flared brightly, centering on
the ouSted Democratic leader, A. L.
Wheeler, and opening party wounds that
will be slow to heal.
AS one new member of the Demo-
cratic Central Committee noted, how
ever, the job ahead is to build a new
organization from the precinct level
up" In this effort, now that the shoot
Ing is over, we hope all Democrats will
join. For as minor as their functions
are today, the existence of vigorous
local Democratic and Republican or
ganizationS is good thing, especially
in preparation for the day when national
suffrage will give greater meaning to
elections here,
The overwhelming sweep of the
local Humphrey ticket" was further
strengthened by the somewhat surpris-
ing victory of Frank D. Reeves over ]. C.
Turner for national committeeman in
the elections closest race.
Meanwhile, the Republicans demon
Strated stability of such degree as to
virtually kill any interest in their race.
The sole opposition to the set slate for
the COP. State Central Committee
was Waged by two insurgents, and they
were defeated deciSively.
With nothing left now but to mop
up the remains, the D. C. Board of
Elections should turn its attention with
out delay to the chore of improving
procedures for next time. AS to the
mechanics, observers and officials all
agree that the primary this week showed
some improvement over the sad expert
ence of 1856. But there were only about
half as many votes to be counted and,
even so, the machinery was far from
smooth We think the first step should
be amendment of the city election law.
Among the major changes should be
elimination of the senSelesS controversy
over slate voting and the fiat require
ment OF an earlier deadline on candi-
date registrations.
The shortcomings this year, how
ever, are attributable at least in part to
the fact that this was only the second
official District election in 86 years. So
let us hear no scofing from those more
fortunate outsiders who always have en-
joyed the full rights of national fran
chiSe. When these rights come to the
District, it will be ready to exercise them.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Matter of Survival

After weeks of hemming and haw-
ing, the Russians now have reluctantly
accepted our Governments proposal for
experimental nuclear detonations to
help determine whether an atomic
hydrogen testing ban can be effectively
policed. Grudging though it has been,
this show of Soviet reaSonableneSS has
been hailed in some quarters as bright
evidence that the USSR is sincerely
anxious to join Britain and the United
States in establishing such a ban on
genuinely trustworthy basis, but Skep-
ticiSm is still very much in order.
This is so for number of reasons,
not the least of them being that the
Kremlin continues to belittle the need
for thoroughgoing system of detection.
Under the best of circumstances, of
course, as made clear in recent scientific
testimony before subcommittee of the
Joint Congressional Atomic Committee,
1t is going to be extremely difficult to
work out reliable safeguards against the
possibility of teSt-ban violations and
evaSionS. Indeed, according to some of
our most distinguished experts, at least
several years of developmental effort
will be required to make such safeguards
available to the world, and 1t is quite
conceivable-if not probable-that man
will never be able to police certain types
OF underground or outer-Space nuclear
explosions.
Accordingly, we must reckon with
the enormously disturbing fact that the
present moratorium on nuclear testing
is thing whose dependability is al
together open to question. At this very
moment, for example, the Russians
not to mention the British or ourselves
could be setting off clandeStine under
ground tests of a wholly undetectable
nature, and these tests could be of the
utmost significance in terms of enabling
them to achieve a decisive lead over us
in the field of missile Warheads and
other types of nuclear weapons. It is
Tor this reason that Senator Anderson.
chairman Of the Joint Congressional
Atomic Committee, has warned that we
cannot afford to be truStful simply on
the basis Of verbal pledges voiced by
Moscow, which has already maneuvered
us into an uninspected test ban that
may be doing our country grave harm.
In any event, as the time nears for
the Paris summit meeting, a point we
must keep in mind is that we have
debarred ourselves from nuclear tests
for the past 18 months without real
guarantees against the danger of clan
destine Soviet testing. This amounts to
gamble full of appalling possibilities.
How long can we take it without risking
our survival as free NationP
Evening star., 1960-05-05

In regard to the religious
issue in the coming election,
I feel that it is much ado
about a matter that should
not be mentioned at all, as a
mans religion is his own per-
sonal affair, and if he has a
religion and lives up to it, he
should be respected for so do
ing. But l sometimes wonder
whether this issue was not in
jected into the campaign by
the Kennedy forces them
selves for the publicity to be
gained by so doing. If so, it
has been very effective.
At any rate, a person who
is an intelligent voter will use
his own thoughts in the mat
ter and vote accordingly, and
should have a reason for vot-
ing as he does, and not follow
the party lines of his or her
parents. friends, or anyone
else. Let the record of the
candidates be guide and de-
termiDing factor in your vote;
but, above all else, be sure
to vote.
Herbert r. Davis.
In this country of so-called
freedom of religion, certain
Protes S ant denominations
Chiefly the Baptists and the
Methodists) are attempting
to take away the birthright
of one Catholic, namely, the
right of becoming President
of the United States.
1t used to be that a boy
could grow up thinking that
any natural-born citizen
could become President. This
generation has added a word
to that requirement so that
it now reads any natural
born Protestant citizen.
To me, it seems that SEN
ator Kennedy is right in the
middle of another Reforma-
ton. The Protestants are
trying to turn the voting
population against this very
able young man. They claim
that Senator Kennedy owes
allegiance to the church
above all; but does not the
Protestant also owe alle-
glance to his church? Why
do thick headed ProtestantS
listen to the rot that their
fellow church members are
spreading instead of weighing
the man on his merits rather
than where he goes to church
on Sunday?
The main question now
becomes apparent: What is
freedom of religion? If what
has been exhibited so far can
be classified as religious free
dom. then 1 ask you, What is
freedom?
A Methodist
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Pattern of RevoIts

I heartily congratulate
Constantine Brown and The
Star for the excellent column,
Korea, Americas Response
bility," of April %.
Trouble in Cuba and South
America, our Southern
States, South Africa, Korea
and Turkey have followed too
similar a pattern to be. un-
related. Somewhere in the
background a sinister brain
must have planned these
student" uprisings. The
source may lie either in Mos
COW or Washington, or both,
and they appear eventually
headed for Formosa and our
other Far Eastern friend,
Chang Kai-shek, to whom
treachery is no stranger since
the Marshall sell-out to the
Chinese Communist agra
rians."
Unless there are, as many
suspect, Communist camp
followers directing policy in
our State Department, its
soft policy toward Castro's
Communist regime does not
fit in with our bouncing of
Rhee nor does States frantic
interference in the CheSsman
case. 1t is, however, compat-
ible with these if our purpose
is to replace anti Communist
friends with communistic
substitutes.
In Congress are many who
have a mania for investiga-
tions. Where the purpose is
to inform the public, such in
veStigations serve a useful
purpose. 1t seems to me that
a probing into the activities
of our State and Justice
Departments, the Federal
courts, some racist organiza-
tions and the connections
between them would be of
prime interest and benefit to
the public. Is there no Sena-
tor or Representative with
the courage to delve into
them? Must every investiga-
ton, such as that into the
drug industry, have some in
dividuals or political party's
political aggrandizement as
its motivation?
Let's find out why we pill
loried Rhee, our friend, and
why we pet Castro, our
enemy, and who persuaded
President Eisenhower to ask
for repeal of the Connally
amendment and the lowering
Evening star., 1960-05-05
For oCIeon River

j. Michael Sullivan's letter
to The Star of April 7 ex-
presses the views of the Citi-
zens Council for a Clean Po-
tomac so we'll that it could
have been written up by one
of our members. We are try
ing to awaken the public to
the hard facts" of Potomac
pollution by newsletters, pub
lie meetings, testimony be-
fore congressional commit
tees, writing letters to those
concerned. ETC., and yet the
Potomac is a disgrace to the
Nation.
Bad as things are, they
were worse when we organ
lied five years ago. At that
time the Blue Plains sewage
plant gave only secondary
treatment; now it gives pri-
mary treatment removing 80
per cent of the impurities
from the river.
Also, legislation has been
passed to pipe sewage from
Pimmit Run across the river
under Chain Bridge and on
to Blue Plains, thus eliminat-
ing detergent and other i'm
purities that have long de-
filed the river.
However, with all the in
f1uence we and others here
and throughout the country
could exert the House of Rep
resentativeS has been unable
to override the Presidents
veto of the bill which would
raise grants to municipalities
to build local sewage plants.
The council invites Mr..
Sullivan and those who feel
as he does to join the Citi-
zens Council for a Clean
Potomac. Our protests must
grow in volume until legisla-
tors will be compelled to
listen and do that which only
they can do toward making
the Potomac a clean, health
full river.
Airline d. Hays,
Membership Chairman, Citi-
zens Council for a Clean
Potomac.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Not q 'Beutnik'

hAuoG OdhC OlACLloC dG 1IlC
Stars distorted front-page
treatment of the narcotics
hearing on April %.
I am one of those who at
tended the hearing as a
spectator, along with my wife
and some friends of mine.
I do not consider myself in
any definition of the term a
"beatnik." I am white and of
voting age. I have enough
hope to believe in the prog
ress of man and consider
myself well-informed enough
to substantiate what definite
ideas I do have on our mod
ern world. I will be graduated
from a university with a
degree in literature this June,
and I am a member of both
Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Beta
Kappa scholastic honoraries.
My wife and I both hold
down responsible jobs, as do
most of our friends who are
interested in several of the
cases the hearing involved.
Our families are aw-abiding
and respectable members of
the community.
Our interest in the hear
ing was mainly concerned
with three friends whom we
know to be warm, sensitive
and intelligent human beings
who unfortunately happened
to have been born and
brought up in Negro slums
and exposed to sometimes in
human conditions from an
early age; and, out of this,
our interest is in making
more thinking people see the
necessity of handling those
who are emotionally dis
turbed enough to become in
volved with narcotics with
some sort of psychiatric treat
ment rather than long, pain
ful years in prison, branded
as criminals" where more
antisocial resentment can be
stored up.
I feel that possibly The
Stars exaggeratedly unsym-
pathetic presentation was
based on the fact that we
thought it best, based on the
advice of attorneys, not to
pose for photographers as a
small group, since the pos
sibilities of public enrage-
ment over any inter-racial
situation and the inevitable
association with "beatniks"
and "coffeeshops" might hurt
our three defendants chances
in that we are attempting to
raise money to meet the
various legal fees. Even if
this is not the case, I still
felt I should make some at
tempt to present a less over
simplifled side to the hearing
and the human lives that are
involved in it. r. NJ. G,
Evening star., 1960-05-05

Of immigration bars against
an inundation Of America by
ASiatics.
Let's find out which Of our
public servants are for us
and which against us before
we go to the polls next
November.
Charles W. Carter.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Stevenson's Tour

Thanks to an astonishing
revelation in The Star on
April 90. the readers of Ralph
McGill's column now have
the story Of Adlai Steven
sons recent two months con-
quest of the hearts of Latin
Americans.
No television broadcasts,
no front-page news stories,
not an item in the American
newspapers suggested tn e
sweeping victory for Amer
ican friendship that took
place. In the very cities where
Mr.. Nixon's and even PreSi-
dent Eisenhower's presence
on official tours stirred up
waves Of hostility, the Latin
A m ericans received Mr..
Stevenson with love and af-
fection. The thunderous
shouts Of "uno," meaning the
first or the best, the carry
ing of Mr.. Stevenson on the
shoulders of the crowds
(along with the matadorS)
at the Bogota bull ring-give
evidence that America can
stand high in the sympathies
of South America. Mr..
S tevenson is evidently a
match for Mr.. Khrushchev in
competing for world friend
ship.
I am grateful to The Star
and to Mr.. McGill for this
thrilling account. 1t helps to
restore my faith in Americas
ability to make friends. The
Stars inside" story should
be told to the whole country.
Would it be possible to obtain
film and news accounts of
the Stevenson journey from
the Latin American press and
TV for retelling and reshow-
ing here? Leon Berkowitz.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
THE POLITICAL MILL
Democratic Scene More MuddLed
By GOULD LINCOLN

on the voting in the West
Virginia primary next Tues
day, in which Senator Ken
nedy and Humphrey are
locked in a bitter struggle.
Senator Kennedy's failure to
make a better showing in
Indiana, as compared TO Vice
President Nixon's (they ran
on separate ballots and
Senator Humphreys success
in the D. c. primary may
initiate against the Kennedy
candidacy in West Virginia.
Ohio Delegates for Kennedy
Kennedy receives solace in
Ohio's election of delegates
to the Democratic National
Convention. He will have
them all, whether they be-
long to the Gov. Disable fac
ton or the Ray Miller faction
of the Democratic Party. But
this was all well understood,
as Gov. Disable had promised
to deliver the delegate votes
to Senator Kennedy at the
convention, and Mr.. Miller's
delegate candidates also we're
favorable to the Massachu-
sets Senator. The Ohio pri-
mary took place Tuesday
also. This is one of the bigger
delegations and no mean
prize for the Kennedy camp.
The Ohio delegation to the
Republican National Con-
vention will vote for Mr..
Nixon. The only challenge to
a Nixon delegate came from
former Senator George E.
Bender who was running for
delegate-at-la pledged to
himself. He was swamped in
his effort to stage a political
comeback in his State.
The results in the Indiana
primary, plus a defeat-if it
comes-for Mr.. Kennedy in
West Virginia may scare off
the leaders of many big State
delegations which are going
to the convention uncommit-
ted-for example those Of
New York, Pennsylvania and
California where Gov. Brown
is a favorite son. On the
other hand, a Kennedy VIC
tory in West Virginia would
wipe out some of the fears
of Democratic leaders that
the religious issue may be too
great a load for the party
to carry into the national
election.
The showing made in the
District of Columbia by the
Stevenson supporters-par-
ticularly as Mr.. Stevenson
did not have his name on the
ballots just a straw in the
political wind. 1t indicates,
however, that latent strength
for the two-time Democratic
standard bearer - the man
who has been repeatedly re-
ferred to (by Democrats) as
best qualified to be President
of the United States-is there
and could become dominant
at the convention, even
though former President
Truman again turns his guns
on the former Illinois Cover
nor. as he did in 1856. Many
Democrats are pinning their
hopes to a possible Steven
son-Kennedy ticket, which
they believe would be -
beatable.
And just to increase the
muddled affairs of the party,
Democrats in the Alabama
primary have given victory to
the States Fighters over the
so-called Loyalists, pledged
to go along with the nomi-
nees of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention.