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Evening star., 1960-05-05
The Death of a Negro Friend

Southerner does care about
the Negro. Talking with many
people from the South, one
finds that they have through
out their lives felt closer to
individual Negroes than is
generally believed. It is true
that this is sometimes
scorned as a maSter-and--
servant relationship. But the
deep-seated feeling, the will
ingness to help when sick
ness and trouble come, the
benevolence that reaches out
long after the worker has
gone to another city or to
another task - this could
hardly be predicated alone
on a master -and-servant
concept.
The other day, when news
came of Jim Taylor's death, q
white lady in the neighbor-
hood, who had known him
for years, burst into tears. !
watched her cry. She had
been born and raised in the
South.
Human friendship knows
no color line. Those who are
striving to see reason rather
than emotion applied to the
maintenance of social Gus
toms and individual rights
and ways Of living have never
allowed their feeling for per-
sons Of q different race to be
marred by the exhibitionists
who want to repeal the
normal laws Of association
and thus unwittingly bring
about more instead of less
friction.
The epitaph of Jim Taylor
in this country churchyard,
as Gray wrote, may "implore
the passing tribute of q sigh"
and could be inscribed in
these words:
Here rests his head upon the
lap of earth
"A man to fortune and to
fame unknown;
Fair Science frown'd not on
his humble birth,
And friendship marked him
for her own.
He gave to Misty all he had,
q tear,
HE gained from heav'n
('twas all he wish'd) o
friend"
Copyright, lssO)
Evening star., 1960-05-05
RALPH McGILL
Fresh Young Faces in Politics

nedy. The concentrated use
OF young ID. r. has been in
the region where most of the
Protestant voters and much
Of the distress are located.
The magic of the Roosevelt
name is great. Most of the
people in the distressed areas
are past middle age. They
remember the distress of
1880. They know it was
F.D.R. who made John L.
Lewis and the mine workers
strong. They recall all the
tremendous reforms of the
New Deal. And to have the
son of the dominant per-
sonality of those days come
and speak to them for SEN
ator Kennedy dulls the edge
OF religious prejudice. Every
reporter who witnessed one
OF these appearances noted
how life flowed into faces
thin. wrinkled and set into
permanent lines of resigna-
tion. Their eyes lighted and
smiles came. Men turned to
one another and remembered
the old days when the New
Deal and hope were young.
This has hurt Hubert
Humphrey. To be fair, one
must admit he has been up
against a well financed State
wide organization. There are
some who resent, as they
phrase it, the fact the Ken
nedys think they can buy the
election. Hubert Humphrey,
somewhat on the defensive,
talks Of the difficulty of run
ming against a pocketbook
which always remains full
no matter how much is taken
from it. Also, the argument
put forth by Franklin Roos-
evelt, jr., that Senator Hum
phrey can't win the nomina-
ton and that a vote for him
is wasted has hurt.
It will be close in West
Virginia.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Military Men Found Doubling Optimism
OF Diplomats Thot Thinqs Will Settle

The optimism of our dip
lomats that everything will
be all right in the peripheric
allied countries after some of
the basic misconceptions of
their governments have been
corrected is not shared in rea
sponsible military quarters.
Military men fear that dur
ing this year we may witness
major upriSings with univer-
sity and high school students
in the forefront in Iran,
South Wet Nam. Japan,
Formosa and the Philippines.
Those who have spent years
studying the changing tao
tics Of international commu-
nism are unable to divorce
these student demonstra-
tions" from Communist action
by inflltration and subver-
sion. Despite statements to
the contrary, the liberation
of South Korea from the die
torial regime of Syngman
Rhee" was carefully prepared
and executed by Communist
infiltration Of the teachers
and student bodies.
In every country where
there are two or more politi-
cal parties the opposition is
always dissatisfied with the
party in ofice-particularly
when the latter has been in
office too long. The planners
in Moscow, headquarters of
international communism, are
relentlessly planning new
moves requiring new pat
terms. The use of enthu-
siastic students is a part Of
one of the new patterns.
The outbreaks in Turkey,
according to reliable reports,
have their origin in Commu-
mist propaganda, although on
the surface they originated
because Of the restrictions
imposed by the government
Of Prime Minister Adnan
Menderes on Republicans
Evening star., 1960-05-05
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Nixon ahead Of Kennedy in Indianas primaries.
But Kennedy claims victory. All Nixon had to do
a nobody, whereas Kennedy beat two nobodies.
Big victory for Hubert Humphrey in the District of
Columbia primary He Adla Stevenson who said he
wasn't running and Wayne Morse who didn't have say it.
Chairman Morton Republicans will agaist Harry
Trumans record 1t won't work. Adlai tried that 1882
It's easy to why Princess Margaret is marrying a
photographer When she's kissed the altar expect
that ageod photographers request more please
Jack Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey debate on TV
Both sailed into the fought dead heat to
the wire-two lengths behind the issues
Ike fights for his foreign aid program The haves must
give to the have-nots it halves the to their
last quarter.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Friendship of White and CoIored Persons
In South Found BeIyinq Rocism ToIk

honest worker. But the Jim
Taylors never make the head
lines.
One preacher told what
it meant to be a Christian.
He said he was riding in his
car the other day when he
noticed someone beckoning on
the side of the road. He
stopped and found an auto
in need of a tow. Though
headed in another direction,
he helped out, and a half
hour later, on his way back
to his original destination.
q tire on his own car went
fiat. He also sought help on
the lonely highway. and some
one came to his aid. This,
he pointed out, was Gods
way of recompenSe to those
who perform good deeds in
His name.
What impressed this writer
was the naturalnesS and sin
cerity of the service. Messages
of sympathy from friends
were read aloud. Spiritual
hymns we're sung. Readings
from the Scriptures were
explained with interpretations
that everyone could under
stand. 1t was more than an
hour of intimate and informal
contact between the pulpit
and the mourners-something
this writer had never before
witnessed.
There were perhaps 20 per-
sons in the little church.
I asked a Southern Senator
on Capitol Hill whether in
the South attendance by
white persons at such services
was frequent. He said it often
happened and that there
a deeper feeling Of friend
ship for individual Negroes
than might be generally sup
posed from reading the
emotional outbursts in the
North in recent months about
the segregation controversy.
What really is this friendly
feeling for the Negro? AS
one reads the incorporate
comments about "racism,"
there comes the dishearten-
ing feeling that many things
are said in anger that are
regrettable.. For the true
Evening star., 1960-05-05
DAVID LAWRENCE

The day Of a Washington
correspondent is not always
the same. It requires no event
of national or international
significance to teach a lesson.
For. as Thomas Gray wrote
in his famous Elegy. Truth is
often to be found "far from
the madding crowds ignoble
strife"
1t took the greater part Of
the day to get there and back
to a little church In the
hills Of Virginia where were
gathered the family and
friends Of Jim Taylor, a Ne
gro who died last Friday at
the age Of "a. Until retire.
ment two years ago, he had
worked for Is years on the
farm where this writer lives
in Virginia. To the outside
world this fine man may be
like millions of others - a
good Christian whose kindli-
ness Of nature and simple
ways earned for him the re-
spect and esteem of all who
knew him.
AS the eulogieS were spoken
by the two Baptist preachers,
who took turns explaining to
the anguished wife and chill
dren what the passing meant,
there came to mind a con-
trast. Only the day before, a
useless man was put to death
in a gas chamber in Cali
fornia. Around the world the
editorials denounced America
and our system Of justice.
BRUSH newspapers particu-
larly complained with a
sc a athing bitterness that
America had been inhumane.
There came to mind, too,
the "inhumane penalty" paid
over the past IL years by the
17-year-old girl sexually as
saulted by Caryl Chessman.
She still is in a mental in
stitution and may spend the
rest Of her life there.
Z The simple words of the
preachers in the Virginia
church expressed nobly the
facts Of life and death as they
concerned a good man, Q use
ful man, q conscientious and
Evening star., 1960-05-05
CONSTANTINE BROWN
More Student RebeIIions Due

was Immediately described as
oppressive. Students, encour-
aged by what had happened
in South Korea. started a
similar move. 1t was pure
coincidence that it happened
at a time when the NATO
foreign ministers, including
Secretary Christian Herter,
were meeting in Istanbul to
discuss strengthening of the
Middle Eastern branch of
Western defenSeS against
Communist military aggres-
sion.
In the meantime there are
reports from Iran, where the
Tudh (pro Communist)
party has been abolished but
still thrives under the finan-
cial support of the Soviet
Embassy in Teheran, that
Iranian students have be-
come Ulthless and intend to
emulate their colleagues in
South Korea and Turkey.
Agitation also has been re-
ported among the intelligent
sia and political opponents
of President Ngo Dinh Diem
of South Wet Nam.
The dust seems to have
settled down, for the time
being at least, in Korea. 1t
seems probable that Men,
dereS will weather the storm
in Turkey. Relying on his
popularity with the .peas-
ant masses, he does not
hesitate to use strong meth
ods.
But the situation may be
much more complex in Iran
and Wet Nam, the next two
countries which are likely to
have student rebellions.
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Idea Gives Appeal to Two Senators
In Primary, With Reservations

CHARLESTON, w. Va
Book shops in West Virginia
cities have crowded their
windows with the new BIZ
ographies of the presidential
candidates. The faces of
Jack Kennedy, Hubert Hum
phrey, Richard Nixon and
Nelson Rockefeller peer out
at one from the displays.
With them also are books by
Adlai Stevenson and maga-
zines with articles about, or
by. Lyndon johnson and his
fellow competitors.
Has the campaign helped
business?" I asked of a nice
lady in one shop.
mot too much. Not as we
had hoped. People talk about
them. But they don't read
much"
How do you feel about
the primary"
We'll, my friends and I
who do read, talk. We rather
like the idea of a fresh
young face in politics. The
old ones have been around
for a long time. There is
an appeal about Kennedy.
But there are a few things
which worry one, and I don't
mean religion. It's money.
He has never had to worry
about money. He says he
doesn't even carry money in
his pockets. This concerns
some Of us who wear holes
in the ends of our pockets
trying to find that last nickel.
A person who has never had
to figure out things on the
basis OF a need for money
may not know how to meet
the needs of people and the
country"
One encounters the young
man thought often.
Il don't know how I'll vote,
but I like the idea Of a young
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Contest Called Effort to Turn Liabilities
Into Assets by Vocal Pyrotechnics

Kennedy describe his pro-
gram for the State. Asked
what she thought Of it, she
murmured:
Eyes, West Virginia, there
is a Santa Claus"
There are. in fact. two
Senators Kennedy and Hum
phrey. That the State needs
and wants help was acknowl-
edged by its Republican Gov
ernor, Cecil Underwood, when
he pressed the panic button
at the White House and got
assurance that the President
will urge all Federal agencies
ito do what they could to
help West Virginia"
The recklessness with
which the young Senators are
trying to turn their liabilities
into assets by sheer vocal py-
rotechnicS is a testament to
their youth, of course, but
1t Is one many party leaders
feel they could do without.
Senator Humphrey exploits
his early hardships and eco
nomic struggle with highly
quotable comments on the
Kennedy wealth and super
organization. Republicans can
quote, too, Of course - and
will, If need be. Senator Ken
nedy has skillfully built an
underdog role upon his mi
nority religious status, which
may have serious repercus-
sions in the party.
1t is in this area that much
OF the pressure on him to
Evening star., 1960-05-05
DORIS FLEESON

CHARLESTON, w. Va
The West Virginia primary
will not tell very much about
the kind Of President most
Americans want, but it is
telling a very great deal about
the kind Of President they
will get should Senator HUI
bert Humphrey or Senator
John Kennedy win the
Democratic nomination and
the election.
The operations Of chance
and the American political
system have combined to put
into fierce opposition here
two ambitious young politi-
clans with similar records who
profess much the same aims.
For reasons which have been
well explored in recent weeks,
the outcome suddenly seems
critical to them.
In their business, as in war,
there is no substitute for
victory. Denied the weapons
Of real difference in political
outlook, they have thrown
themselves and their whole
backgrounds - which are
typically American but very
different one from the other
into the struggle. The
result may not be edifying,
but it Is fascinating.
Both by now are out on
all kinds Of limbs. The best
description Of the particular
one marked west Virginia's
Problems" came from a kind
ly gray-haired schoolteacher
who was listening to Senator
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Kennedy, Humphrey Out on Limb

withdraw, of which Senator
Humphrey complains, is be-
ing generated. 1t comes from
labor leaders who fear to
take sides between the two
candidates for fear of jeop-
ardizing some part Of their
own leadership. Others worry
lest the argument, specially
prolonged as it has been in
this heavily Protestant State,
hurt next November.
The West Virginia test is
also unsatisfactory in that
major political figures here
are neither for Mr.. Kennedy
nor Mr.. Humphrey but for
Senator Lyndon johnson or
Senator Stuart Symington or
Adlai Stevenson. Since Sem
ator Kennedy seemed at once
the most formidable and the
most vulnerable, they tend to
get behind Senator Hum
phrey.
For that reason and others,
the primary means little in
the strictly. political sense.
Few delegates are involved,
and the State is called near
the end of the crucial first
ballot, anyway.
The initiative for the great
debate which is the climax
Of the primary campaign
came from Mr.. Humphrey;
the conditions were virtually
all laid down by Mr.. Ken
nedy. Those conditions were
met by the Minnesotan be-
cause he feared Mr.. Ken
nedy would withdraw If they
were not. Most Democrats
will be glad when 1t is all
over, including the primary.
Evening star., 1960-05-05

who have been In opposition
for 10 long years. What
prompted Menderes to crack
down was propaganda among
villagers, especially in the
eastern portions Of the re-
public, to the effect that the
Turkish government was SELL
ing Turkish women to Ameri-
cans and that American SOL
diers could kill any Turk with
impunity.
OF course, such propagan-
da was not believed by the
educated people. But it be-
gan to have some effect
among the still fanatical
Moslems in the eastern prov
inces. There were indications,
but no proof, that some un-
scrupulous politicians were
exploiting this propaganda,
backed by a distortion of pic
lures of marriages between
Turkish girls and American
GIS.
Menderes asked the Ma
tional Assembly to create a
congressional investigating
committee with far wider
powers than those which are
functioning in Washington.
The Republican Party under
the leadership of Ismet Inonu
one Of the fathers of the
Turkish republic - opposed
this measure strongly, not be-
cause it sympathizes with the
Communists but because it
thought it would be a good
policy.
Inonu, himself, rose on the
floor and used unparliamen-
tary language in regard to
the sponsors of the bill and
others. In the United States
he would have been ordered
TO sit down or have been CEN
sured. The Turkish parlIa-
mentary rules provide expul-
sion Of the offender for a
limited time. The action of
the Menderes administration
Evening star., 1960-05-05

man." said a man who talked
with his wife listening. She
nodded approvingly. Maybe
we have been picking our
horses after they have become
too old. Maybe we need a
three-year- odd"
This sentiment, in varied
form, is commonly met with.
Some of it reflects indirectly
the curious mixture Of feeling
about President Eisenhower.
The people like him. There is
no question about it. But a
great many of those who have
the most affection for him
seemingly feel he has been
more OF a caretaker during
a difficult period and that
while he has done a good Job
in that capacity, the need is
for a younger man.
Here and there one finds
a voter who thinks Senator
Kennedy is too young.
Il think about him sitting
down opposite that Khru-
shchev and it gives me the
shiverS," said one. THAT guy
would salt and pepper him
and swallow him alive"
But in the main, Senator
Kennedy's youth seems to
create little opposition, at
least in West Virginia.
Since victory and the mo-
mentum it would create are
so important to him, he is not
talking much about issues,
save that of relief for the
unemployed. What he is try
ing desperately to do is win
IN a State which is over
whelmingly Protestant. And
So ne bends all to establish
Ing an image of a winner.
A great deal of money is
oelng spent. One of the
shrewdest moves was to bring
In Franklin D. Roosevelt. jr.,
to speak for Senator Ken
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Fellowship Dinner Set

A Fellowship Day dinner for
churchwomen in the Washing
ton area will be held at $50
pm. tomorrow at Mount Ver-
non Methodist Church, 900
Massachusetts, aevnue NV.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-03

b. Zatman will probably write
a review next week of the Hell
lerS' book.
We hope Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, publishers, will have
to have several printings of
this book. This would please
them, Deane and David Heller
and all of their friends here in
Montgomery County.
THE JACK COOPER
SMITHS took a couple of
newspaper people to the Ma
tional Theater to see advise
and Consent, the play taken
from Allen Drury's best-sell-
ing book. This performance
was given to a most receptive
audience. 1t was for the bene-
fit of The Jewish Social Serv-
ice Agency, one of the best of
its type in the country. The
good work done by this organ
ization is highly gratifying to
thousands of persons.
The show was good but not
terrific, according to those at.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-03

to publish authorizing act of
the General Assembly which
was passed in order to allow
a County to contract certain
debts and obligations. The
law now requires the Coun-
ties to publish the act prior
to the next election of mem
bers of the House of Delegates.
The authorizing act also must
be approved by the new Cen
eral Assembly. The process
is costly and time consuming.
None-the-less, scuttling of the
present provisions poses the
question of whether or not the
new approach is an encourage
ment to those who may want
to do public business in pri-
vate. Public notice is a safe
guard of public money and
public interest not to be re-
garded lightly.
Eyes" on Question 16 will re-
suit in Maryland ratification
of the Potomac River Compact
of 1858 with the State of Vir-
ginia. The compact relates to
fishing resources, conservation
and control. The compact sets
up, among other things, a BIZ
State authority for fisheries
conservation and enforcement.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-03

tended. However, it did cause
quite a lot of comment. People
thought about it. They thought
about the United States Sen
ate. And they tried to tie liv-
ing members of the Senate to
various characters in the play.
This would be impossible since
Drury weaved traits from
many Senators, past and pres
ent, in forming his characters
for the book and play.
After the show, the Irving
Bergers gave a reception for
the "Angels" who supported
this benefit in such a hand
some style.
The Bergers have a beautiful
town house on Massachusetts,
Avenue at 18th. There isn't
anything about the home that
isn't in the best taste - the
house itself, the paintings, the
furniture and the accessories.
1t is an ideal setting for such
a gathering.
Mrs. Berger is the petite
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-03
Around the County in Seucn Days

ROY HUNT is one of the
best organizers in politics, bus
mess or duck hunting expedi-
TONS Therefore, it is expected
that he will accomplish some
thing in the way of Democra-
tic politics in the northeast
section of Montgomery Coun-
ty. He is the newly elected
president of the Northeast
Democratic Club. He may be
able to take away some of the
personal animosity that exists
between the precinct chairman
of the LIST district and some of
the more active and effective
workers in that precinct. Hunt
knows that there must be a
maximum of work and a mini
mum of personal feeling
against anyone or any group
within the party if the out
come of an election is to be
successful. Victory at the polls
is the fruit every political or
ganization should strive for
but this can't come about if
leaders allow personalities to
get tangled up in feuds and
fossils. Hunt should and will
put them straight if anyone
can.
DEANE AND DAVID Hell
LER have been highly success.
full as writers and public rela.
tons experts. Not only are
they talented but they lead in.
teresting lives. They enjoy
people and this is the key to
their success.
The Hellers will tell you that
writing is a hard job. And
while 1t is rewarding to see an
advertisement in the New
York Times telling about a
book they have written, John
Foster Dulles, Soldier For
Peace, they remember the six
other books they have written
but not accepted for publica-
ton as yet.
The Times has this to say
about the book soon to be In
local book stores: Our late
Secretary of State--One of the
most controversial and com.
manding figures on the
worlds political stage - Is
brought into full perspective
In this powerful and moving
book. Dulles singleness of
purpose against entrenched Op.
position, his strong leadership
during the Cold Wars most
trying years, his gallant per.
sonal fight against cancer-alI
are part of the remarkable life
recorded In this fulIy.rOunded
biography" They're nice
words. You should read II. l.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-11-03
Area Man to Vie
For IOastmasters
Speaking Title

William F. Purdy, jr., 1913
Oakview dr., Silver Spring, has
been selected as one of seven
finalists to compete in the an
nual humorous speech contest
of the 36th District of Toast
masters international at the
Southern Hotel in Baltimore on
Saturday.
Purdy, a member of Colum-
bia Toastmasters Club S4S,
was one of four winners in Cen.
trail Division competition last
week. At Baltimore, he will
compete with humorists repre-
senting more than Is Toastmas-
ter clubs in Virginia, Maryland
and the District of Columbia.
The speech contest will high.
light the groups fall confer
ence, which will include an all
day program of educational and
training sessions. Some 300
members and their wives are
expected to attend.