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Evening star., 1960-07-24
Platform Compromise
Involved 4 Big Issues

CHICAGO, July % (AP).-
Areas Of compromise between
Vice President Nixon and Gov.
Rockefeller of New York on a
platform for the Republicans
appear to be confined largely
to national defense, foreign
policy, civil rights and a meth
cd of financing medical care
for the aged.
On defense the New Yorker
appeared to have gained in his
insistence that the Govern
ment step up its spending for
a new effort to meet the Com
munist thrust. Mr.. Nixon had
indicated support for Eisen-
hover administration defense
programs, although he had
promised to build upon the
whole record of the outgoing
administration and keep de-
fense under month-to-month
review.
On foreign affairs, Gov.
Rockefeller gained inclusion of
a pet plan-which he called the
grand design"-for uniting
free world efforts in broad fields
under a system of regional con-
federationS. While Mr.. Nixon
had not spoken publicly on this
proposal. top leaders of the
Platform Committee said it had
been rejected on recommended
ton of the Nixon camp.
On civil rights, it was diff
cult to spell out the degree of
compromise because Mr.. Nixon
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had not outlined his position
in detail. Gov. Rockefeller had
insisted on a bold approach.
emphasizing Federal action to
end racial discrimination in
many fields, including voting,
education, jobs, housing and,
as the New Yorker had put it,
"all areas of national life"
The Eisenhower administra-
ton had placed emphasis
rather on ending discrimination
at the voting place, holding
that equality there would bring
corrections in other areas. Mr..
Nixon, of course, has been
identified with the Eisenhower
position. The Vice President
said in a speech last month
that racial equality could not
be legislated.
In the area of medical care
for the aged, Gov. Rockefeller
had called for a plan indorsed
by the Democrats-the financ-
ing of such care by social Sc
curity taxes. The Nixon posi-
ton had been identified with
that of Mr.. Eisenhower, which
would limit Federal participa-
ton to financial grants to
States for carrying on such
programs as the latter might
devise.
The compromise called for
an insurance program ION a
sound basis" financed through
a contributory system under
which the aged would have the
option of purchasing private
health insurance.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Is HospituIized

NEW YORK, July % (AP).-
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce re-
mained in Doctors Hospital
today for treatment of a mild
gastro-intestinal disturbance,
her physician reported.
DR.. Michael A. Rosenbluth,
the physician, said Mrs. Luce,
former United States Ambassa-
dor to Italy, would not be hos
pitalized long. She entered the
hospital two days ago.
Her husband is publisher
Henry Luce. editor-in-chief of
Time-Life Inc.
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aid for school construction pri-
marily on the basis of financial
needs. under an equalization
formula. and with matching
funds by the States-including
these further measures for
higher education - grants-in-
aid for such buildings as class
rooms and laboratories, an ex-
.panded loan program for dor
mitories. expanded student
loan and graduate fellowship
programs and Inauguration of
a program Of Federal scholar
ships for the most able under
graduates.
These constitute the basic
positions for which I have
been fighting.
If they are embodied in the
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The Vice President and met
toasy at my home in New York
City.
The meeting took place at
the Vice Presidents request.
The purpose Of the meeting
was 10 discuss the platform of
the Republican Party. During
the course of the meeting we
discussed our views with Chair
man Percy and other members
of the Platform Committee by
telephone.
The Vice President and ]
reached agreement on the fol-
lowing specific and basic posi-
tionS on foreign policy and ma
tional defense:
/. The growing vigor and ag-
gressiveness of communism de-
mands new and profound effort
and action in all areas Of
American life.
2. The vital need Of our for
eign policy is new political
creativity-leading and inspir-
ing the formation, in all great
regions of the free world, of
considerations, large enough
and strong enough to meet
modern problems and chal-
lengeS. We should promptly
lead toward the formation OF
such considerations in the
North Atlantic community ano
III the Western Hemisphere.
Disarmament Issue
8. In the field of disarma-
ment we shall:
A. Intensity the quest for
better detection methods.
B. Discontinue nuclear weap-
on tests m the atmosphere.
c. Discontinue other tests as
detection methods make pos
sible, and
D. Resume Immediately un-
derground nuclear testing for
purposes of improving methods
of detection.
4. In national defense. the
swiftness of the chronological
revolution - and the warning
signs of Soviet aggressiveness
makes clear that new ef-
forts are necessary, for the
facts of our survival in the
1950S give no assurance OF
such survival, in the same
military posture, in the 1960s
S. The two imperatives of
national security in the 1960s
are:
A. A powerful second-strike
capacity-a nuclear retaliatory
power capable of surviving
surprise attack to inflict dev-
astating punishment on any
aggressor, and
B. A modern flexible and
balanced military establish
ment with forces capable OF
deterring or meeting any local
aggression.
/ More BOmberS Needed
6. These imperatives require
More and improved bombers
airborne alert, speeded produc-
ton of missiles and Polaris SUBJ
marines, accelerated dispersal
and hardening of bases, full
modernization of the equipment
of our ground forces, and an
intensified program for civil
defense.
7. The United States can af-
ford and must provide the in
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creased expenditures to imple-
ment fully this necessary pro-
gram for strengthening our de-
fense posture. There must be
no price ceiling on Americas
security.
The Vice President and I also
reached agreement on the fol-
lowing specific positions on
domestic affairs:
l. Our Government must be
reorganized-especially in sup
| porting the President in the
crucial decision-making process
to cope effectively with mod
ern problems and challenges.
Specifically, this calls for:
A. Creation of post to assist
the President in the whole area
of national security and inter-
national affairs.
B. Creation of a post to assist
in planning and management
of domestic affairs, and
c. Reorganization of defense
planning and command to
achieve, under the President,
unified doctrine and unified
direction of forces.
2. The rate of our economic
growth must, as promptly as
possible, be accelerated by
policies and programs stimulat-
ing our free enterprise system
Ito allow us to meet the de-
mands of national defense and
the growing social needs and a
higher standard of living for
our growing population. AS the
Vice President pointed out in
a speech in 1858, the achieve
ment of a 5 per cent rate of
growth would produce an addi-
tional $40 billion of tax reve-
nue. in 1862.
8. Our farm programs must
be realistically reoriented by:
A. Finding and encouraging
ways for'our low income farm
ers to become more productive
members of our growing
economy.
B. At least doubling of the
conservation reserve.
G. Use of price supports at
level best-f1tted to specific COM
modify in order to widen mar
kets, ease production controls
and help achieve equitable farm
income.
D. Faster disposal of sur
pluseS through an expanded
food for peace" program and
ALLEGATION of some surplus to a
stock pile for civil defense.
Civil Rights
4. Our program for civil
rights must assure aggressive
action to remove the remaining
vestiges of segregation or dis
elimination in all areas of ma
tional life-voting and housing
schools and jobs. 1t will ex-
press support for the objectives
of the sit-in demonstrators and
will commend the action oi
those businessmen who have
abandoned the practice of re-
fuSing to serve food at their
lunch counters to their Negro
customers and will urge all
others to follow their example
! 5. Our program for health
insurance for the aged shall
provide insurance on a sound
fiscal basis through a contrib
utory system under which ben
ef1ciaries have the option OF
purchasing private health in
Surance.
6. Our program for labor,
while reaffirming our efforts
to support and strengthen the
processes Of free collective bar
gaining, shall provide for i'm
proved procedures for the reso-
luton of disputes endsngering
the national welfare.
7. Our program for educa-
ton will meet our urgent ed
ucational needs by calling for
prompt and substantial grant
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Republican Party platform, as
adopted by the convention,
they will constitute a platform
that I can support with pride
and vigor.
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Trustee at Institute

c. Carney Smith, Washing
ton general agent for the Mu-
tual Benefit Life Insurance Co.
has been named to the board
of trustees of the Detroit In
stitute of Technology.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
TEXT OF STATEMENT
Rockefeller IIsofMeetinq

NEW YORK July 20 (AP).-The folloDng is the tert
OF Co.. Nelson A. RocketeerS statement pertaining to
his meeting last night and early today NTH Vice President
Niron:
Evening star., 1960-06-17

major highways be planned or built
in the extreme Northwest section Of the
District until subway system has been
completed and put into operation.
The joint group felt that subways
should come first, so that new freewayS
could be better co-ordinated with the
transit system, and because some of
the freewayS might not then be needed.
But to delay further freeway construc-
ton until SubwayS are fact would be
to halt the highway program for per-
hapS IS or 20 years. Meanwhile, traffic
conditions would be growing worse and
worse, without hope of immediate re-
lief. There is no reason why freeways
and transit lines could not be planned
and built simultaneously, following
pattern for coordination worked out
by transportation experts. Congress
ought to make sure that both systems
of moving people from one place to
another are given the green signal
when the proposed rapid transit pro-
gram for the Metropolitan Area is ap-
proved.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
The Public Is Fed Up, Too

A spokesman for Eastern Air Lines
pilots who are on strike against Fed
eral Aviation Agency safety-inSpection
order was quoted in Miami as declaring:
"The men are not about to 60 back
They're fed up by the company's trying
to get the men cited for contempt of
court"
We think the public is getting fed
up, too-over the fragrant defiance of a
Federal court injunction against the So
called wildcat" strike. And the public
is beginning to wonder why the court
defying pilots can continue to escape
citation for contempt.
A Federal judge in Miami ordered
the striking pilots to return to their
planes, but, at the same time, he refused
an Eastern Air Lines request that two
pilots who had refused to obey tempo
rary restraining order be cited for con-
tempt of court. The pilots have re-
ported "Sick" or have given various
other excuses for staying away from
their jobs. The Air Line Pilots Associa-
tion, which is the pilots union, has dis
claimed responsibility for the strike and
asserts it has urged its members to re-
turn to work. Judging by the response
to it's request, however, the union has
little control over its members.
The strike, which is said to be cost
ing the air line about SIS million day,
does not concern wages or hours or the
other usual issues in labor dispute. 1t
is directed against an FAA safety order
requiring FAA inspectors to sit directly
behind the chief pilot in all passenger
aircraft. We think this is an outrageous
abuse of the strike weapon and that it
is high time that those who are flouting
the courts injunction were called to
account and punished.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
In Defense of Peace

On Tuesday, January 10, 1860, Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Premier KiShi of
Japan signed in the White House new
United States-JapaneSe security treaty
designed to replace one that has been
in effect since 1851. The new agreement,
initially requested by Japan, was care
fully negotiated over approximately a
16-month period.
In brief, the treaty continues Amer
ican military base rights in Japan for
the purpose Of contributing to Japanese
security and maintaining peace in the
Far East, recognizes that an armed at
tack against either party in Japanese
territory would be dangerous to both and
pledges action through constitutional
process to meet such common danger"
In several respects, it was interpreted
here and in Japan-aS giving greater
status to Japan in the bilateral partner
ship. Ratified on May 20 by the lower
house of the Japanese Diet, it is now
pending before the upper branch of that
legislature. In Japan, it will become
law automatically on Sunday-or sooner
If the upper house of the Diet should
vote approval before then-unleSS Prem
ier Kishi is forced to dissolve his parlia-
ment before the Sunday deadline. In
that event, ratification by the lower
house would be nullif1ed.
Here, the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has approved the treaty and
Majority Leader Johnson has announced
that it will be brought before the Senate
as soon as certain pending matters are
disposed of. At that time, the Senate
should ratify the treaty-aS evidence Of
our own good faith, of our respect and
interest toward the security Of a valued
ally, and of our determination to con-
tinue to help guard the peace Of the Far
Pacific area. Certainly, neither the
American people nor the majority Of the
Japanese people could wish it otherwise.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Il have made a ceaseless
effort" wrote the great Spi-
noza, mot to ridicule, not to
bewail, nor to scorn human
actions, but to understand
them"
Well and good, but
At times it is impossible
not to ridicule, not to bewail,
nor to scorn human actions.
In fact, a very good case
might be made out for more
ridicule, more bewailing, more
Scorn of many human &C
tions, Just as a way of under
standing.
There is, in truth, much in
human actions that deserves
ridiculing, bewailing, and
scorning.
1t is easy to see what the
philosopher meant.
His attitude, however, is
only a part Of living, think
ing, being.
The other part, as repre-
Sented by the cynic is inn
portant, too.
The cynic has had a bat
terry of criticism leveled
against him through the CEN
turies. Proverbs of all ma
tions castigate him. He has
no faith, no honesty, no
common sense; the cynic is a
dog, which is what his name
means.
The poor cynic, if he is
thin-skinned, gets to be al
together on the defensive,
whereas the very giSt of his
Delng is TO lead the attack.
Wise men have always
valued the doubter and his
cynical aSides.
Many graduates can recall
when the president of their
college, in a moment of can
dor, instructed them in the
uses Of cynicism.
He did not tell them to be
cynics. but he admitted, as
between man and man, that
there is some good in good
honest doubt, at least now
and then.
Doubling something, or al
most anything, is the be-
ginning Of caution.
Caution is common sense,
especially in a world of
whirling atoms.
The doubter is he who
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looks and wonders if all is as
he has been told.
He is not easily taken in,
and because others listen to
him, they, too in their turn,
are not as easily led as be-
fore.
This is the great gain the
doubter, the cynic, has to
bring us.
At times it may seem that
he is is also a brake on prog
ress.
He does not belong to the
Whoop-hooray school of
American conduct.
He is the man in the back
row who timidly, perhaps,
brings up a question at the
end of the address.
HopertS Rules OF Order"
cannot Squelch him.
He knows that something
is wrong, at least he thinks
so, and he is willing to rise
on his hind legs with his
doubt for all to see.
Let us take off our collective
hat. then, to him and his
doubts.
He keeps us on an even
keel when the enthusiast
tries to rock the boat.
If we are not afraid of
doubters, then we need not
fear the enthusiasts, but If
we let the ebullient ones run
the show. then we are in
mortal. danger of being
swept away.
&%& -
1t boilS down to taking
Spinoza's statement with a
grain of salt.
Let us, too, make an effort
not to ridicule, not to bewail
too much, nor to scorn hu-
man actions. all the time.
We, too. Mr.. Spinoza, want
to understand peoplel
Desperately, at times, we
want to understand.
The need for understand
ing is greater today than
ever, as backward nations,
so called, spring to freedom.
Everywhere men are eras-
ing color lines, trying their
best to understand them
selves.
Understanding is the task
Of the world.
1t is now as it always has
been
Unless we understand, we
perish.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Foreign Trade PoIicy's Impact on U. S. Industry

in spreading sweatshop con-
ditionS here it has, by the
reciprocal trade treaty pro-
gram, and the way that pro-
gram has been administered,
given sweatshop employers in
other countries an advantage
which even our loweSt-wage
area manufacturers cannot
overcome. Owners of mills
and plants where the ma
tional minimum wage has
become the maximum wage
have good reason to feel that
our Government, by enact
ing wage legislation, is dis
eliminating against them, in
favor of the foreign produc-
ers. There may be some jus
tification for this feeling.
After all, as between foreign
SweatShopS and domestic,
perhaps our Government
should give preference to the
domestic.
The present situation is
the inevitable result Of our
foreign trade policies. While
domestic producers have
been given an escape
clause" in the Reciprocal
Trade Treaty Act, which in
practice has proven worth
less, those producers who
have the resources are set
ting up, as you point out,
operations abroad. They
really have an escape. The
list, as you say, is long and
growing longer. Those on
this list are competing sue
ceSsfully with firms here
which are trying to maintain
decent living standards and
comply with our minimum
wage laws. The firms moving
to other countries are doing
to the domestic industry, in
Guiding that part of it which
is located in the South, what
the Southern textile mill in
dustry once did to the New
England mill owners. But
with this difference: in the
case of domestic competition
the Government tried to nit
igate the impact; but in the
case of foreign competition
our Government is doing all
that it can to encourage such
competition.
Mr.. Dubinsky's proposal
may be novel, but it is no
less novel than a Govern
ment policy which builds up
foreign industries at the ex-
pense of American.
Marx Lewis.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

NO, It's not so deep as q t0eH,
Nor so tDide as q church door;
But tits enough; 'tt0iH SerUe.
We shall get around to giving credit
to individuals who made it possible.
But we reserve this bright moment
to hail, with singular satisfaction, the
historic action of Congress completed
by the Senate last night.
After more than a century and a
half of its residence at the seat Of gov
ernment, Congress has at last sent to
the so States of our Union, for their
ratification, the Twenty-third Amend
ment of the Constitution.
When at least three fourthS of them
have approved it, as they surely will,
citizens of Washington will be permitted
to vote in the choice of President and
Vice President Of the United States.
There is-not much sense in the lin
itations placed by the House version of
the amendment on the degree of partic-
ipation in the Electoral College permit
ted the District of Columbia in relation
to the States. We regret that the amend
ment leaves untouched the question of
voting representation for the people of
this Capital in the Congress, which, I'M
der the Constitution, is exclusively re-
sponsible for their government.
But we recognize that compromise
is an inevitable part of the legislative
process and few things are won without
it; that compromise, in this case, was
far preferable to another defeat in the
long and earnest efforts by earnest men
and women of this city, over many gen.
erations, in behalf of the principle now
vindicated by act of Congress.
We are proud that this newspaper
has consistently championed that prin-
ciple for more than a century. And we
are confident that an older generation
of Star readers will join us now in trib-
ute to the late Theodore w. Noyes, editor
Of The Star from 1908 to his death in
1946, who devoted so conspicuous a part
of his useful life as journalist to the
cause whose delayed victory we now
salute.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Three of q Kind

Many people must have
noticed the striking Similari-
ties between Hitler, Khru-
shchev, and Castro. Besides
the self-evident inferiority
complex which looks like an
air of superiority, there is the
marathon speech common to
all despotS. I am wondering
if this has its cause in
some psychological disturb
ance such as sadism. Perhaps
it is diabolism. Will some of
the psychologists who read
this column contribute an
expert opinion? I believe that
the marathon speech derives
from a guilt complex. Blood
is thick on each hand.
Matthew A. McKavitt.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

trouS consequences which
flowed therefrom. New Eng
land mills which settled in
North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, and Georgia obtained
workers in those States for
a fraction of what they paid
for labor in New England.
Those who preferred, for
either humanitarian or
other reasons, to remain in
New England, had to follow
suit. or perish. Most Of them
followed suit. Some Of them
are perishing anyway. be-
cause cheap labor in the
Southern States is not suff1-
cient to enable the Southern
mill owners to compete with
importationS, mainly from
Japan, but also from Hong
Kong, India, etc.
In an effort to prevent
the complete destruction Of
the higher standards which
had been established in
places where wages we're
higher, and to restrict COM
petition based exclusively on
cheap labor, our Government
introduced minimum wage
legislation, so that even in
low wage areas there was a
certain floor below which
wages could not go. This
legislation restricted, even
though it did not abolish, the
gap in labor costs within
our own country, and limited
the injurious effects of
SWeatShop conditions.
But while our Government
has intervened to prevent
domestic sweatShop employ
ers from having a free hand
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been. During his visit to Fair
fax, he performed, I under
stand, in the Office of the
Commonwealth's Attorney. A
few days later, seeing that I
was now in fashion, I tele-
phoned the Commemorative
Attorney to offer my services
and, in effect, got into a s.
way conversation-the Com
monwealth'S Attorney, Mr..
Herkos and myself - even
though Mr.. HerkoS had been
gone two or three days. Now
how do you explain that?
But I can't pick up DR..
Riesenman; the man from st.
Elizabeths who sponsored Mr..
Herkos. I was puzzled by this
until 1 learned that DR.. Rie-
seminar is reputed to have a
good, thick skull.
I don't understand your
attitude. I know you have a
good reporter in Fairfax,
Jack KelSoe, I think. You
ought to tell him to keep his
eyes and ears and head open
and to stay up nights.
Judge Lynch.
y - =
It seems to me that you
were way of base in your
editorial criticizing the meth
DDS used to detect the possible
murderer of the Jackson
family-not in your desire to
protect the rights Of this man,
but in your obvious Scorn and
derision Of clairvoyance as a
valid means Of obtaining such
information. Much research
conducted on a scientific
level, mainly. I believe. at
Duke University, has proved,
at least beyond the point
where it can be refuted on a
statistical basis, that there
definitely is something to
clairvoyance and other ferns
Of extra-sensory perception.
Apparently you have not
looked very far into this mat
ter. I do not claim that at
tempts in this field are al
ways correct, nor do I claim
that the man singled out by
Mr.. Herkos is guilty Of the
murders-it remains for fur