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Evening star., 1962-08-26
Estes:
Note on Fame

Senator Mcclellan said
Wednesday that apparently one
of the top two Agriculture De-
partment officials tried to help
Billie Sol Estes retain his con-
trOverSial cotton allotments.
Charles S. Murphy, known here
as a man with a passion for
anonymity" may be headed for
the headlines.
Mr.. Murphy, now SO. came to
Washington in the New Deal days
of 1884 and got a job in the
Senate legislative counsel'S office,
later was assigned to the Senate
War Investigating Committee and
wound up as special White House
counsel to President Truman.
Next came the eight Eisenhower
years and the anonymity was
easy. But when John F. Kennedy
entered the White House Mr..
Murphy quickly returned to the
Government-this time as Under
secretary of Agriculture.
Evening star., 1962-08-26

Of hours with President Franklin
Roosevelt at his Hyde Park coun-
try estate. He asked me a hundred
questions about the movement,
and told me that before the cam
paign was over he was coming
out for Production For Use. 1
said, IF you do that, Mr.. Presi-
dent, it will elect me-" And he
answered, well, I'm going to do
it."
P.S.: He did not do it.
I will not describe to you the
earthquake in my soul; for / was
terrified by the idea of becoming
Governor of California!
went to Washington to inter-
view some of RooSevelt's cabinet
members, and get their support
if could. Harry Hopkins promised
us everything in his power If we
got elected. Ickes did the same
the whole United States Treasury,
no less. 1 spent an evening with
Justice Brandeis but he couldn't
promise the whole Supreme Court.
The last two or three weeks OF
the campaign were sort OF a night
mare. A motion picture magnate,
whom I will not name because
he has died since, had his studio
produce horror pictures which were
shown all over the State. They
dressed their actors up as hoboes
and photographed them on freight
cars, quoting them as saying that
they were coming into California
where everything would be free
when Upton Sinclair was elected.
A certain advertising agency
had prepared pamphlets and leaf
let's quoting sentences from my
books-the sentences having been
doctored so as to mean exactly
the opposite of what I said.
AIive-ond Kicking
Well, I was defeated: got
$4,000 votes, but it wasn't quite
enough. 1t was a good thing for
me, for I had neither the ex-
perience nor the strength to serve
as governor of a great State. AS
a matter of fact, Would never
have become governor, because
after the election I learned of a
certain person in Los Angeles,
man who had made his will and
told HE family what he was p0inQ
to do. He had got a loaded re-
volver and gone to the radio studio
where was scheduled to get the
election returns. If I had been
elected he was going TO shoot me.
Twenty eight years have passed
and I am still alive. Another
campaign for Governor is under
way in California and I hope no
one will be shot. I can tell you
without hesitation that California
is a different State as a result Of
that EPIC campaign. We have
hard times now, but nobody is
starving and the whole political
climate Of the State is different
from what 1t was in those days.
This is a free country. and it
has been my pleasure during a
long lifetime to see free institu-
tions meeting the issues which
keep arising; meeting them slowly
but surely and by the method Of
discussion, not Of violence.
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Kennedy and the Democrats in
the November elections?
There are three distinct areas
here-the House, Senate and Gov
ernorshipS. At the moment, the
betting appears to favor the Re-
publicans for a gain in the House,
but not enough IA seatS) to give
them absolute control; slight
Democratic edge in the Senate,
where nine doubtful G. o. P.
seats and only six Democratic ones
are being contested. and a Re-
publican increase in State houses.
Here are the current party
strengths: House-262 Democrats.
174 Republicans and one vacancy;
Senate-64 Democrats, SO Repub-
licans; governorships-35 Demo-
Gratis. IS Republicans.
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until finally I consented to let
them run me in the primary. That
came early in the year and
was quite sure there was no chance
of my getting the nomination. The
campaign might do a good deal
to promote my ideas of Produc-
ton For Use, so I gave way.
devised the name EPIC, mean
ing End Poverty In California.
The name was an immediate hit
and spread across the country.
What had begun as a gentle
breeze very quickly became high
wind, and before it got through
it was a hurricane. I was in the
center of it and there could be
no thought of backing out.
I had one friend who came for
ward at once to help me, a young
man named Richard Otto. He had
some means and had printed and
was distributing Bellamy'S little
pamphlet, The Parable of The
Water Tank" Dick set up his
headquarters in a little cottage
occupied by my secretary. In a
week or two, the old lady had
to move out and give up the
whole cottage to the EPIC head
quarters. In a month or so the
headquarters had to move into a
larger building, and then into a
still larger one. Before the cam
paign was over, it was occupying
a four STORY office building.
Police Escort
On my first campaign trip I
set out alone. I had an elderly
car and on the way to Fresno
something gave out and l was
delayed. I was driving at high
speed in an effort to catch up
when I heard the dread siren
behind me.
I stopped, Of course, and there
came the customary question:
Whats the hurry?" I answered,
very humbly, "officer, I'm sup
posed to speak at a mass meeting
and I've had car trouble and I'm
late" He asked for my drivers
license, and I showed it to him.
He read my name and then said:
Evening star., 1962-08-26
The Estimate

But on Wednesday, President
Kennedy, while not taking specific
exception to his space chiefs pre-
diction, gave what is regarded as
a realistic, unvarniShed estimate
of the relative positions of the
USSR and the United States. He
said:
so we are behind. We're 60
ing to be behind for a while.
But I believe before the end of
this decade is out, the United
States will be ahead they
tthe Russians) started with a
lead; they determined to main
tain it. We started late; we're
trying to overtake them.
But we're in for some further
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Cannon Charge

Senator Cannon charged that
civilian officials of the Depart
ment of Defense" have "specifi-
cally delayed" development of
military space vehicles and as
serted:
THE major emphasis being
placed by present United States
space efforts has been on the
purely scientific exploration of
space and on its civilian applica-
tions, in priority above and in
deed to the detriment of develop
ment of vitality needed military
capabilities in space. If contin-
ued, this could prove to be a fatal
mistake"
Senator Goldwater, who charged
that the civilian "whiz kids" at
the Pentagon were holding up
military space advances, teamed
with Senator Cannon to warn of
Soviet uter-Space- Launched bal
listic missiles. They saw no pres
ent defense against them and
feared that our own ICBM bases
would be even more vulnerable.
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Of hundred. The outcome Of that
fight was that the Southern Cali
fornia Branch Of the American
Civil Liberties Union was founded
and the rights of labor have been
respected ever since.
Then in 1884 came the EPIC
campaign. End Poverty In Cali
fornia, and that is the story 1
am setting out to tell now. We
had in those days what was called
a depression" 1t meant that our
industries had produced more
goods than they could Sell-or.
to put it more clearly, more goods
than the people had money to
pay for.
So the people were told that it
was hard times" and that they
had to go without until the times
grew better. I am not writing
carelessly-on my very first cam
paign trip up through the Central
Valley, I spoke in great hall
III FIcS1lO d1lO IIlC1l NAO"oCd d4OdAlA
me intelligent, clean-cut. edu-
Gated California citizens saying,
Mr.. Sinclair, what in Gods name
are we going to do? We have no
food to feed our families"
Wouldn't Toke No
Early in that year Of 1884
hotel proprietor at the beach
asked me to come and meet a
group of his friends and talk
about the problem. They wanted
me to lay out a program to deal
with the depression, and to register
as a Democrat and let them put
me up as a candidate for governor
on that ticket. told them would
help suggest a program but 1
could not go into politicS-1 had
promised my wife to stay a writer.
But they did not take no for
an answer, and kept after me,
Evening star., 1962-08-26
A Closed Mind

Cursed is he that does not know
when to shut his mind. An open
mind is all very we'll in its way,
but it ought not to be so open that
there is no Keeping anything in or
out of it, 1t should be capable of
hutting its doors sometimes. or it
may be found a little draughty.-
Samuel Butler in The Notebooks.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
BY n. A. STEERS
Contributing Writer

When Prescott Sheldon Bush
retires at the end of this session
as the senior Senator from Con-
necticut. the Republican party will
lose one of its dependable
anchor men.
Although his father was a
Democrat. Mr. Bush has always
voted straight Republican ticket.
with increasing enthusiasm, if
with declining success"
Born in Columbus. Ohio. on
May IS, 1895 Mr.. Bush was raised
in the Midwest but went East
to high school, at St. Georges in
Rhode Island, and to college, at
Yale in Connecticut.
World War I was in full swing
by his senior year at Yale. Having
majored in history, sung second
bass in the Whiffenpoof quartet
and played first base on the
varsity baseball squad, Mr. Bush
left college in April 1917 because
he wanted combat service. He soon
was a captain in the 158th Field
Artillery Brigade and took part
in the famous Meuse-Argonne
offensive.
Returns to Yale
He went back to Yale and re-
ceived his BA. in 1919 and he
went to work as a Sl00 a month
clerk in a st. Louis hardware firm.
Within the next few years he
married Dorothy Walker, failed in
a business venture of his own
and moved East to work for w.
A. Hartman & Co., in which he
became a partner after its merger
with Brown Bros in 1890.
In politics it was the same
darkest before dawn" story.
He began by beating Claire
Booth Luce for the nomination
in his first try for the Senate
in 1850. He lost the general elec-
ton, however, to William Benton
by little more than 1000 votes.
In 1852 he lost even earlier in
the game by failing to get the
nomination. But the death of Sem
ator Brien MacMahon, a Demo-
crat, reopened the door to the
Senate that year and Mr.. Bush
ran against and defeated Abraham
Ribicoff. Mr.. Ribicoff. later gov
ernor of Connecticut and Welfare
secretary is trying again this year
in the Senate.
After this slow start, Mr. Bush
was reelected in 1856, the year
he was chairman of the Resolu-
tions Committee Of the Repubi-
can National Convention. The
130,894 vote plurality by which he
defeated Thomas Dodd, now the
junior Senator from Connecticut,
exceeded all previous totals re-
corded in the State by candidate
for the United States Senate.
Most Dromotic Moment
If he had to single out his most
dramatic moment in the Senate,
he said the other day. it would
be the censure of Senator Joseph
Mccarthy. Speaking in favor of
the motion in December, 1854, Mr..
Bush said: Either you must fol-
low Senator Mccarthy blindly; not
daring to express any doubts or
disagreement about any OF his
actions: or in his eyes you must
be a Communist, a Communist
sympathizer, or fool"
So affected was he by the Army
Mccarthy hearings that Mr.. Bush
introduced a resolution for Fair
Procedures in an attempt to rec
oncile" the right of Congress to
investigate with the right Of in
dividuals called up to testify to
fair treatment.
Before the junior Senator from
Wisconsin died at the Bethesda
Naval Hospital in the summer OF
1855, Mr.. Bush figures he was the
last Republican to be in contact
with him. The day before Mr..
McCarthy's death, Mr.. Bush was
at the hospital for a check-up
and dropped him a note which
Evening star., 1962-08-26
By UPTON SINCLAIR
North American Newspaper Alliance

MONROVIA, Calif.-We were
deep in a red-hot political cam
paign in the State of California,
where I have lived now for Al
years. I have seen many changes
during those years and I am not
speaking idly when I say that I
helped a little in making them.
Early in 1923 I carried on a
campaign for civil liberty in Los
Angeles-when half a thousand
strikers at the harbor were ar
rested for being on the street,
and were crowded into q Jail that
was built to hold only a couple
Evening star., 1962-08-26

Upton Sinclair, who viii be
"a next month and whose stock
yards expose, "The Jungle" ap-
peared In 1906, Il q particularly
interested observer of the cur
rent California campaign for
governor. II was o generation
ago that he, himself, was a
candidate for governor In one
Of the most knockdown cam
paigns the State ever saw. Here
is the way he recalls the famous
campaign.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Name Crops Up

1t is in this post that he has
been drawing public attention,
Nost of it in connection with
the Billie Sol Estes case. Mr..
Murphy's name has come up re-
peatedly during the current Sem
ate Investigating Committees
hearings on Estes. Among other
things, it has been testified that
Mr.. Murphy recommended the ap-
pointment of the since-indicted
West Pecos, Tex, wheeler dealer
as q member of the National
Cotton Advisory Council despite
an Agriculture Investigators re-
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Taps for Foreign Legion
After 130 Glamour Years

ing applications for re-enlistment.
On the other hand, desertionS
continue every week. In the
Legion, this has always been so.
A few days ago an Italian corporal
here. having grown homesick for
his country, what with Sardinia
in constant view from Bonifacio,
tried to run away by swimming
the seven miles to Italy's second
largest island. He did three be-
fore his officers fisheG him out
of the drink.
But that didn't daunt the game
italian. A few days later he and
three buddies hired a cutter and
in the dark of night made their
way safely to Sardinia and free
dom,
Evening star., 1962-09-20
DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: just because
I am q bachelor. / am al
ways elected when someone
needs an escort for q lone
lady. ! have been stuck with
more Of these lemons and
am getting tired of 1t. My
immediate superior Il work
in an insurance office
asked me If I would take his
sister to the charity ball. I
know his sister as I have
been stuck with her before.
She is fat and talkatfve and
. real pill. I can't say I am
going to be out of town as
he knows my schedule.
What other excuse can I use7
EXTRA MAN.
Tell him you are busy on
that evening, and then rec
ommend . friend. Tor bet.
Ter yet-an enemy
=
DEAR ABBY: My wife and
1 separated and q divorce
was filed. I am SO and she is
4S. I started seeing q divorced
woman Of 80. We planned to
marry when I became free.
Ny wife is III and my lawyer
advised me to drop the di-
Evening star., 1962-09-20
By PAUL STEINER

BY PAUL STEINER
North American Newspaper Alliance
It's mighty expensive to
buy garlic on Tahiti, q globe
girdling gourmet has found.
Among papers presented at
q conference in Switzerland
organized by the Parapsy-
chology Foundation. was one
on "the effect of meproba-
mate and dextre-ampheta-
mine sulphate on the
reaction times Of normal
non-hospitalized subjects to
neutral and taboo words"
An old Washington State
law forbade the carrying Of
q concealed weapon over 8
feet long.
Phoenix, Ariz.. is probably
the only city In the world
which has q street named
Mule Train road.
There isn't a single Drunk
listed in the Manhattan tele-
phone directory.
The Netherlands still lack
q national bird. an orni-
thologist notes with regret.
Evening star., 1962-09-20
MASON ON EDUCATION t'r1, r1
Homework Teaches
Child How to Learn

ed typing his themes. editing
them as she went along.
But when Joe became a
senior in high school, his
themes and reports had to be
written in the classroom.
Suddenly he realized that he
was unable to write a salts
factory paper without his
mothers helpl
Joe was lucky to discover
this in his senior year. An
other mother I know gave
her son too much help on
theme writing. She did not
discover her error until her
son was in college. He had
become so dependent, that
they attempted to continue
the collaboration by long dis
tance telephonel The first
month the bill was tremen-
dous. Despite this effort, the
boy flunked out Of college.
Q June was an average
girl. All through elementary
Evening star., 1962-09-20

vorce proceedings, saying it
would be impossible to get a
divorce while she was i'll. It
turns out that my wife has
an incurable disease which
could last for years. I have
doctor bills to pay and must
hire nurses around the clock
as my wife Is helpless. I
asked my girl friend to forget
me and find q nice young
single man. but she phones
constantly and insists upon
seeing me. How can I con-
vince her that there is no
future for her with mel
OBLIGATED.
You have stated your case
as clearly as it can be stated.
Refuse to speak 10 your
girl friend on the phone and
do not see her again. When
repeated efforts to see you
fail she win eventually give
up.
- -
DEAR ABBY: I have been
driving for years and have
never had an accident or .
ticket. I have q friend who
doesn't drive, so I drive her
Evening star., 1962-09-20
By LESLIE J. MASON
Professor Of Education; University
Of Southern California


Many students fail to un-
derstand the importance Of
homework. Some feel it's be-
meath them. Some just do not
know how to do it.
But sooner or later you
come to q point in school
where homework is essential.
The sooner you reach that
point the better. Homework
skills must be developed over
a period of time. They are
not acquired overnight.
Homework is your chance
to train yourself to be q good
student. 1t is your chance to
learn how to learn. You viii
want to continue learning the
rest Of your life. especially in
our changing society,
Here are three approaches
to homework:
. Jack seldom did his
homework. When he did it
was only in the sketchiest
fashion. He thought he didn't
need to do more. After all,
he could work out the prob
lens in his head. In grade
school and high school, he
passed all tests and made
AS.
But at college. Jack found
the problems more complex.
With no practice in working
them out with pencil and pa
per, he failed q math course.
His college career ended in
failure.
o Joe didn't do his hon1e-
work either. His mother did
1t for him. At first she helped
him with his spelling and
suggested rewording some of
his sentences. Then she start
Evening star., 1962-09-20

and high school the eounse-
lors advised her not to attend
college because she Just
missed having the ability to
succeed.
But June did all Of her
homework. She turned her
reports in neatly and COM
pletely done. She wrote
themes with the idea Of try
ing to become a good theme
writer.
June made use Of her
homework to increase her
skill as a student. BY the
time she reached college her
study skills were so well de-
veloped that she had time to
be a leader in campus activi-
ties. She is now teaching
school very successfully.
June Is just one of many
students of average ability
who develop learning skills
through a proper attack on
homework and eventually
outshine brighter students.
II you hare a question,
1Urite to DR.. Mason in care
of The EUeHiHg Star. He
tDiI discuss in his column
those OF most general in
teTest.
Sunday ION School Pose):
Reodinq Problems
Evening star., 1962-09-20
STOP KILLING YOURSELF
You Can Overdo
Togetherness!
-Bx pR. PETER }. sTEINcRoHN

know what he will think. He
won't say 1t. but he will
question my love for him.
please don't laugh this
off. Don't let me get out Of
here without promising you
viii help me. I'm so tired
and nervous for lack Of sleep
I can't go on"
HAVE SEEN too much Of
this to treat it as q joke. /
told her / would ask her hus-
band to come to the office.
He admitted that he had
been worried lately about
her. She seemed rundown.
tired and irritable. He. did
not suspect he was the in
nocent cause.
AS tactfully as I could ex-
plain the problem. BE
thankful" I said. that the
solution is in your hands
and that it's an easy one"
His first reaction was the
usual one: Poor kidd Why
didn't she tell me2 Besides
, I haven't been too comforta-
BILE sleeping myself lately"
Within one week. after the
furniture exchange. our
young lady was again filled
with energy.
I wonder how many read
Evening star., 1962-09-20
FAMOUS FABLES
BY Z. Z. EDGAR

TEST: Electrical genius
Charles p. Steinmetz was for
q number Of years a professor
at Union College. At one
time. during this period. be
was asked to write q series
Of articles on electrical sub
jects.
Steinmetz, with little ex-
.perience as a writer, was
worried that the articles
might be lacking in interest.
So he set up . scientific ex-
pertinent to determine how
interesting they were.
After finishing an article,
he would bring it to class and
read it to his students. If
none Of them fell asleep. he
would let the article stand.
II some of them fell asleep.
he would make revisions.
And If all fell asleep. he
would tear Up the article and
start over from scratch.
Evening star., 1962-09-20

now have-rent 1t out. loan
1t out. close it up. do any,
thing, but be sure you hold
to It.
. Go stick your toe in
the water. Dig. into savings,
sell the car. cash in invest
ments Git may be the wisest
spending you ever did and
60 test what you think you
want.
o Ask yourself honestly II
a different way Of life Is
what you really want. or are
you Just bored2 A 65-year-
old mind and body are pretty
set in their ways.
. Keep quiet. Retired peo-
pie have q habit of talking
too loud about where they're
going and what they'll do.
then find it too embarrass-
ing to back out.
CcopyriEht. lss2. General Features Corp.
The Golden Yson Appeers Thsrsdoy
Evening star., 1962-09-20

ers are in a similar predica-
ment? II so, you can benefit
from the advice I gave this
young couple.
Some say that q double
bed is q guarantee Of mar
ried bliss: that 1t is q sure
bulwark against divorce.
Twin beds. they say are q
psychological - as well as
physical-step toward sep
aration.
I haven't studied the re-
lationship between divorce
and, the sale Of twin beds,
but I doubt that happy huS-
band-wife relations are de-
pendent upon double beds.
It's the people that count.
IF YOU have been tired
and irritable lately. ! sug-
gest that you examine your
sleeping habits closely. Not
only how many hours, you
reserve for sleeping is impor-
tant: also ask yourself about
the need for twin beds.
Do SO now. BY the time
strained relations b etween n
you and your spouse become
q lawyers problem. furniture
rearrangement usually comes
too late. Uncomfortable to
getherness" defeats its own
purpose.