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THI NASHVILH TtNNISSIAN, Monety Morning. MmK 7. I960 flj Side Glances By Galbraith i Filibuster Plays nto Nixon Hands Cash Changed Powell's Mind Man Who Paid Was the Boss Of Tamanny, Carmine de Sapio The Southerners have shrewdly organized their filibuster ao that the strain falls on the Northerners. What hey say as they drone on hour after hour matters very little, although there la a kind of sardonic humor in the repeated invocation of "the Southern way of life." The nostalgic oratory rings all the changes as though the romantic South of moonlight and magnolia, the darkies strumming their guitars, had not been blown sky high long since. A generation of Southern writers, among them America's most-distinguished novelist, the Mis-sissippian, William Faulkner, have stripped away the last shreds of that tired illusion.

While they have erred on the ether extreme, tending to populate the region with hardly recognizable sub-human types, the moonlight and magnolia will not revive. There have been shockers as when that other Mississippian, Senator James Eastland, spoke of the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court aa "crap." Think of what Senator Eastland, as chairman of. the eenate Internal security subcommittee, would have done with a suspected Communist or fellow-traveler who denounced one of the three separate and equal branches of the federal government in gutter language. In the Eastland lexicon that would plainly be as subversive as the Communist manifesto.

Nor docs it much matter In the context of the world picture what the political consequences of this spectacle here at home may be. It Is damaging to the presidential ambition of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. For all his astuteness and his knowledge of the senate, Johnson seems to have underestimated the bitterness of the By MARQUIS CHILOS WASHINGTON You can take the filibuster, as certain cynical senators do, as a kind of cozy, interior joke. Some of the boys in the "club" are cutting up a bit, doing it right smartly too, but it will all come out okay in the end. After all, there have been other filibusters and the nation has survived them.

National Affairs In this cozy a ere it might be 1890 or 1927 or even the era of the roaring, leather-lunged Huey Ixmg in the early Thirties when the United States was still alone nnd what the senate did mat tered little except to us here on this continent This filibuster Is unique In its setting in the nation and the world. It conies as a revolution reaching Its crest the revolution of color in every corner of the earth, from Alabama to Afghanistan. Because there ii no stopping this long pent-up tide, even if It were desirable to stop or check it, the sit-down strike of the Southern senators has the look of a weird anachronism. The greatest dellverative body In the world, so-called, has tied Itself up for days on end over what? Over the right of a citizen to vote as was guaranteed in the Constitution nearly 200 year ago. There Is The Damage That is the damage this filibuster has done.

It ia an advertisement that American democracy Is restricted and that at times it breaks down altogether. VI e- 1M0 NM. ha. TJl hf. UJ.

Prt. "We're washing cars to cam money for eur club, but ws'd rather tell your fortune or give you a dancing leiion!" Genesco Challenges Foreign Competition By SYLVIA PORTER NEW YORK Last year, when imports of foreign shoes to our country registered a towering 1000 per cent increase over 1948, one of America's largest manufacturers of footwear entered negotiations with the powerful Tang family of Hong Kong for a partnership deal on a shoe plant in that exotic city By DREW PEARSON NEW YORK When a runaway grand jury on May 8, 1953. finally 1 1 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell of Harlem for tax evasion despite attempts by the powers-that-be in Washington to protect him, he used the steps of the Federal Merry Go-Round building in New York to launch a drive for funds for his legal defense. Posing for the newareels, he accepted a $500 check from Dr. McKlnlev Wiles, a Harlem physician.

And speaking from the pulpit of the Zion Baptist church in Brooklyn, where more money was collected, Powell said: "What a men our government has got into with Adam Powell, and for the tremendous turn of $1,600." And following the announcement by Tammany's leaders in Harlem that he would not be renominated for congress as a Democrat, Powell announced: "Thank God I got rid of Tammany Hall. I'm going to fight them as a Democrat. I'm goings to run candidates in every area where there is a concentration of Negroes and Puerto Rlcans In all five boroughs." Tammany's decision to dump him. Powell said, meant that "I cannot support any candidate running on the Democratic ticket." "Even Governor Harriman?" someone asked from the audience. "Yes," he replied, "even Harriman." But time and the offer of expense money from Tammany' Carmine de Sapio changed bis mind.

The Double-Cross When word of this got back to Harold Burton, Republican leader of Harlem who had agreed to put Powell on tha Republican ticket, he was furious. And when Powell refused to see him, Bur-ton staged a giant outdoor rally around the corner from the congressman's Abyssinian Baptist church, at which he accused Powell of a double-cros and called upon the congregation to renounce him as unworthy to be their pastor. Earlier that day, Oct. 7, the mercurial congressman from Harlem had proceeded to fulfill his promise to de Sapio that he would call a press conference and issue a statement previously OK'd by both de Sapio and Gov. Harriman.

Carmine had stipulated that this must be done before he would deliver any of the promised expense money. So after Powell issued his Religion Today statement and after Harriman and de Sapio issued one in return appointing him co-chairman, with former secretary of the air force Tom Finletter, of the Harrlman-Hogan campaign, Acy Lennon was sent to de Sapio's hotel Biltmore headquarters to collect the $50,000. A lot of $50 Bills He brought the money back to Powell, all In $50 denomination. The remaining $50,000 was to be paid at the rate of $100 a week over 10 years. Shortly thereafter, the congressman told hi church congregation how Charlie Willis, former assistant to Eisenhower, had offered him $50,000 of Republican money.

Nl told Powell shouted, "that no man can buy Adam Powell. I belong to my people." The congregation stamped their feet, clapped, and waved their handkerchiefs. What he didn't tell them was that he had taken $50,000 from Willis in 1956 and a $100,000 package from Tammany Democrats in 1958. And on almost any Friday if you're down at the Biltmore hotel in the late afternoon you'll see Acy Lennon, convicted secretary to Congressman Powell, coming down to Carmine dp Sapio's headquarters to collect that $100 a week which is part of the $100,000 deal and is still being paid. So' They Say Today the rhythm of our life la too quick.

In the immensity of the sea alone in a small boat you meet again your personality You understand the valor, the pain and the happiness of the human being. Micro Tapavica, who tailed an 18-foot boat from Buenos Airet to Miami. Modern man will grow fatter and fatter In his western societies unless he becomes more active. Creeping obesity is bred by a highly mechanized life. Dr.

Jean Mayer, Harvard University nutritionist. I wanted a new material that would be different, and I found it in paper a noble material. Anybody can wear a hat of satin, but It takes a woman of culture and audacity to wear a paper hat. Paris hat designer Albouy. Tongue Neuberger Walks Shall We Talk Like The Girls? It Happened Last Night By EARL WILSON NEW YORK In my racket, I have to listen to my Beautiful Wife and a lot of other B.W.'s) gushing about each other's hairdosand I've been wondering how it would sound if men gush-ed the same way And threw the little zing in, too, while gushing So let's have a go at it, shall we? GROUCH MARXt "Earl dar-r-r-llng, I just LOVE your hair that way! Which new hade is that: Passing Pink or Dandruff Drab?" "EARL: "Oh, Groucho, I waa just going to ask where you had your mustache done.

It has such a nice dark sheen. Is it one of those new rinses or something you ate?" Groucho: "Do you know, EarL darling, I was just telling Harry Ruby yesterday, I said, 'Earl's so youthful-looking, he still has hla boyish By boyish, complexion, I meant you have pimples. By the way, aren't you wearing your hair shorter? That is hair, isn't it?" EARL: "I go to this cute littla 7-foot barber out by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and he wanted me to look like his hero, Yul Tuesdey Weld Apartment for mom Brynner. He said you already looked like him. I'll bet you'd look just yummy in one of those new wigs from Paris." Groucho: "They're not new.

George Jewel's worn them since he was 8, and has about 200, including one that fits. You look so-o-o-o-o young, Earl, darling, but don't you think 65 Is a little too old for anybody to wear a crewcut?" EARL: "It does something to the girls. Groucho: "It does something to the boys, too. At least it does something to this boy it makes him sick at his stomach. Well, so long, now, I have to toddle off to my hairdresser.

He gets awufully cross if I'm late and don't bring him a new story. It was just divine seeing you. You've never looked any better!" EARL: "Oh, thank you, Groucho!" Groucho: "And you never will, either." Steve Alien and NBC have begun negotiating his deal for next year; he wants to do three shows out of four a month Hugh Downs had to continue making the "Eiverboat" TV'er in L.A his wife flew to Chicago where a relative's desperately ill. Joanne Woodward, her son and his nurse are due here en-route to Israel and "Exodus" Victor Borge got $40,000 for a three-day weekend show in the Philippines EARL'S PEARLS: A bach-elor is a guy looking or a reason to get married. An old maid is a girt looking fot an excuse.

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH Jimmy Rodgers doesn't approve of those sheer, frilly aprons. He figures they make a man look silly. WISH I'D SAID THATi Soma people think knowing hew to drink mesns not spilling a drop. Jan Murray told the radio-TV correspondents' di that Vice President Nixon's confident of winning the presidency: "Dur ing a rainstorm he called Mamie at the White House and told her to please close the That's earl, brother. Walls Plaster student at Hume-Fogg, said she thought Americans would still "go for Elvis," but added that he wouldn't be the same without eldeburns.

The army has made a better man out of him, ehe said. Mitt Dorothy Harrit, 21, of 2217 Bandywood drive, eaid Presley had been away ee long that everyone would be anxioue to hear him again. "He may be even more popular than when he left," said Mary Seagravcs, 13, of Cameron junior high school. "I'm looking forward to hearing him again." But Robert Weill, 19, of 133 Piedmont said he figured Elvis Presley had lost his punch. "Americans are tired ef him," he said.

Tommy Platter, a sales representative for American airlines, said the public would welcome the singer back stronger than ever. "He's acquired an overseas foU lowing blRKer now thaa before he left," Plaster said, Discipline The crat, too," he explained, "they console themselves with the thought that Morse has bitterly Sen. Richard Neuberger No competition attacked Neuberger, too, so Neuberger must be all right." Democrats are certain that the virulence of Morse's offensive against Neuberger has helped the younger senator In conservative quarters of both parties. Neu-berger's record has done some of the job, toot he wss heralded by 1954 Republican campaigners, including Vice President Richard Nixon, as dangerously liberal) his votes In the senate have blunted that attack. His courageous fight against r-mm igj I Lil i Southerners and their determination to have it out.

They Aren't Disturbed Coming at this moment in the setting of the revolution of color, the consequences are almost as damaging for the Democratic party and for whomever the party may ultimately choose as its presidential nominee. There are times when it begins to look as though this were one of those years when the Democratic party decides to commit suicide. The Southerners can take this with equanimity, since they will continue to keep their rank in the powerful committees. Almost the ony beneficiary Is Richard Nixon. Without saying anything or doing anything, simply maneuvering quietly in the background, he turne thie to his advantage.

The Republicans could move cloture undertaking to shut off debate and they could probably get enough Northern Democrats for the necessary two-thirds. But this would forego their advantage and, moreover, it is true that cloture is a two-edged weapon the sin-ate is extremely reluctant to use. The real sufferers in all this are the moderates in the South who are in a sense victims ground between the upper and the nether millstone. Aa in the instance of Brooks Hays of Arkansas, who tried so hard to avert the tragedy of Little Rock, they are either driven out or reduced to silence and seclusion. MfB of good will in the senate comfort themselves with the conviction that it is just another filibuster, that it will end and that when it ends the senate will at the very least vote additional safeguards, to help insure the right of the Negro to vote in the Deep South.

They say that after all, changes cannot come overnight. Those answers may have been valid for the past For today they simply will not do. 1 cancer was the kind, too, which creates sympathy and a kind of emotional rapport with people generally. His convalescence from surgery has been somewhat retarded by a series of virus infections from which he is now recuperating in Oregon, but he expects to return to Washington this month. Sure of Victory Neuberger aids believe it would be hard for any reasonably liberal Republican to mount a campaign against the senator on the issues.

No other kind of candidate, they are sure, could even come close to defeating him. Among Neuberger's campaign weapons ie a letter of appreciation from Secretary of State Christian Herter for the senator's help with the Eisenhower foreign policy. This is the sort of thing which aroutee Morse's ire, as the President is probably the biggest of the many Morse haters. Governor Hatfield has until next Friday to change his mind about' I960, Republicans here know of no pressure on him to change it They do aee that the young governor has been disappointed in his hope of giving a geographical balance to a national ticket this year headed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York.

The two governors have much in common, including the fact that their victories were about the only Republican solace from the 1958 election. There eeems to be no prospects that the vice president a Californian, is interested in having the Oregonian as his second man. Nixon is looking for a vice president who is a hero to the big industrial states. I It Is a fact unpleasant to many, and for others it is a cause of anger. But if we are to live under the lawe of our country It Is necessary to understand that In any ease where the etate law conflicts with the Federal, the national law le supreme.

The Interpretations of the Constitution by the U.S. Supreme Court, when they become part of a court order, are In fact the law of the land. And In no ease can a state law, In conflict with a federal statute, have primacy. It may be painful, but these facts are necessary to understanding the problem. Dennis the Menace "Pretty good horn for By REV.

FRED CLOUD Methodist Board of Education, Nashville James placed a high value upon discipline of the tongue. His statements on this subject in his letter are dramatic and sweeping: "If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue this man's religion is vain." "How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is fire." "Every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and tea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind, but no human being can tame the tongue." Here is a man who saw how devastating gossip, snide comments, and backbiting can be. And he makes it abundsntly clear that the quality of the Christian's conversation should be on a high plane. It's difficult to imagine how many millions poured forth in conversation every of talk ranges, on the one hand, Cloud day in America from meaningless chatter to of words are This flood quences may be far-reaching and bitter. On the other hand, some conversations open for hearers new worlds of information and insight: some lead to new depths of self-understanding and Painful Truth The aim of the U.S.

corpora- tion was obvious: It figured that if it could use the enormous supply of low-cost labor available in Hong Kong, It could produce low priced Your Pocketbook women flats there which would compete with the flood of t- priced imports from such countries as Japan and, possibly, India and Italy. The anxiety of the U.S. company was equally obvious: It feared that it coulBn't make competitively priced, comparable shoes in its Mississippi plants with employes getting hourly wages more than 10 times the Hong Kong level, and thus, it decided it was wiser to Join than to fight the competition. But plana for the shoe plant have been abandoned. Genesco the U.S.

company which distributes over 30 million pairs of shoes annually under such famed brand names at Del-man, I. Miller, Mademoiselle, Johnston Murphy, Jarman Flagg Brothers and the Tang family have concluded that despite the huge spread in wage costs, Genesco: streamlined plants in Mississippi can turn out attractive, durable shoes so cheaply that Japan and Hong Kong can't compete. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Genesco headquarters is in Nashville, and several plants are located in this area.) Inspiring Story This is a wondrously inspiring story with a vital message at this moment when scare talk continues to spread that America's higher wage level will price us out of the world's markets and invite any low-wage nation to beat our Industrialists on our own home grounds. Know-how, Imagination, advanced technology and techniques, hard silling these are the weapons with which Genesco it ture it not only can meet but alto discourage cut-throat competition from foreign producers. With these weapons and not with any retreat in our living standards just about any American Industry can compete suo cessfully In the broadening global markets of this new epoch.

No Illusions Let us have no illusion's about the upsurge in foreign shoe sales here and the mounting protests of both shoe manufacturers and unionized shoe employes against the imports. Imports of footwear (other than rubber) from producers in Canada, Britain, Spain, Italy and West Germany totaled almost 22.3 million pairs last year, up 18 per cent over 1958 and comparing with next to zero a few years By Hank Kehham little car, huh, back. Imports from Japan alone totaled almost 8.9 million pairs on top of 12 million pairs the year before. And this has been in the faca of tariffs ranging from to 20 per cent As chilling as any statistics are the comparisons in costs: The average price per imported pair of shoes is 47 cents from Japan, 62 cents from Hong Kong, less than $2 from all countries. The average US.

factory price per pair is 3.78. But new comet Genesee's cold decision that its new, efficient shoemakinpj mach i ry, techniques and factory eetup at its Fulton, plants have made it more than competitive with budg-et-prieed imports. And the company claims that there have been layoffs dua to automation workers simply have been transferred to new jobs st equal or better pay. In view of the conditions which make this tale top news, it is a pleasure to pass on the comment of Genesco I chairman, Maxey Jarman, of Nashville, that "this is an I lcation of how determination and Ingenuity can reduce labor costs here so that in spite of our far higher hourly wage rates, foreigners find it difficult to com- Jarman pete with us Surely any de- featlst about our nation's ability to compete with cheap-labor im ports should ponder this mes sage well! Barbs Interest In government bonds is high enough that you'll be richer buy and buy. It's nice to look up to your friends, unless they look down on you.

No matter what your children do wrong your neighbors knew they would. When a person constantly complains about not getting ahead, maybe a wishbone Is where the backbone ought to be. Will Elvis Elvis Presley, rock'n'roll giant before his 18 months as a soldier in Germany, will hold an equally high rating on the entertainment score card in the near future. At least that's the thinking bf seven of 10 persons questioned during a sur Public Opinion vey downtown last week. Some say he may wiggle his way Into an even brighter spot.

Three persons, however, point out that his future may be ill-starred because "somebody else has taken his place" or "a comeback is tough" or "Americans are tired of Presley." The Question This is the question asked the 10 persons: Will Elvis havs lest his punch after 18 months as a soldier In Frladberg, Germany? Or do Ameriesns long to hear him again? These are their replies: "They'll still go for him," said Mrs. Nina Hendrlc of 205 Htndrick f7 jW Dtins new heights of commitment to God's purposes. Speech is a great gift to humanity. By talking with one another we may let down drawbridges across our moats of isolation and welcome friends into the secret places of our minds and hearts, and in turn discover the wonder of another personality. Abused, this gift may become a curse; for reputations can be damaged, feelings hurt, friendships destroyed, and positive misinformation disseminated by thoughtless talk.

The discipline that should characterize the Christian's life includes the control of the tongue. By DORIS FLEESON WASHINGTON Washington has been startled to hear that the sleeper of the 1954 campaign, fcen. Richard Neuberger of Ore-ton, may get a virtually free pass for an- i berger rams up from behind to trounce "Jhe veteran Incumbent, Guy Cordon, and become the state's firet lected Democratic senator in 40 He ha now filed for reelection and so far faces only opposition that Republican strategists here say candidly is not formidable: in fact, they cannot recall the name of any potential IVeuberger rival. There Is one "if In the picture. Gov.

Mark Hatfield could suddenly contradict himself and decide to give Neuberger a race. But Hatfield has said that he in-fends to run for re-election In 1962, and he has personally told a Democratie senator from another Wee tern state that he would net run against Neuberger. In 196J Sen. Wayne Morse, the maverick liberal, will also be Keeking re-election. Some of the tate'a politicians suggest that Morse would be an easier target for the governor than Neuberger and that Hatfield certainly would attract plentiful campaign funds for an anti-Moree effort.

They Hate Morse One informed Oregonlan insists that Oregon Republicans hate Morse so much that they rave practically forgotten about ieuDerger. wnen iney oo remember that Dick is a Demo By RALPH McGILL ATLANTA Deep South senators, in their filibuster against civil rights measures, including those protecting the right to Vote, have about their neck the symbolic albatross made famous 1n the Ancient Mariner. These senators do not dare peak In behalf of denying the ngni 10 vote. And in their efforts to insist that state laws protect those rights. Speaking 1 1 Personally they are greatly embarrassed by 1 a record which officially refutes 'them.

True, only four or five counties in the Deep South have publicly brought the issues to the 1 fore. But these have been eo un-i eonsclonable and eo flagrantly discriminatory as to make a nockery of the state laws. Chief among them, and setting 'a pattern for such thumbing of noses at state laws, is the Ala- bama case where a defiant board Jbf registrars ruled Tuskegee university professors, holding doc-ters and masters degrees, to be 'too Illiterate to vote. This set a 'eort of pattern and In ether statu public school teachers t'were excluded. It ia well known that privately 1 the more responsible Deep South I aenators have spoken harshly of I this, and other such grossly etu-I pld actions by registrars.

But 1 auch is the polltlcs'of their times and their states; they have not done so publicly. Hence, they are 1 vulnerable in debate and can only say that such flagrant abuses have been reported in only four or five "counties. But that there are counties in which it is neither wise nor healthy to make protest cannot be denied. Assail Federal Courts Nor ii this all. In the Deep South states there have been tate Judge who, even though there waa no case before them, smoke out defiantly against the I U.S.

Supreme Court decisions in the ichoel and civil rights Is-. ftuat, openly declaring they, as The Still Rule the Roost? malicious gossip; and the conse- Harris Seagravet tioned at Fort Campbell, said he had heard rumors that Elvis was to appear at Fort Campbell and everyone thcr seemed happy in anticipation of the event. "I think he will go over pretty big," he added. "The army might help his appeal with tho women some." Mrs. Delmer Holland, of Dickson, said the singer would probably be better than ever.

"I think the young people In Dickson have missed him," she said. nearly all play his records," "I waa talking about Presley this morning," said Irwin Ross of 108 Mockingbird road. "I don't think he'll have. the prestige he had before he left, or be at big a drawing card. "Of course he'll make headlines for a while.

'But It's hard to make a comeback once you've been out of circulation for so long." Won't Be The Same Mlts Norma 17, a state judges, would Ignore the U.S. Some of these judges have spoken from the bench in inflammatory terms, in assailing the federal court, Presumably they do so to strengthen their local political feneee. But that they also thereby depreciate and cheapen state law, do damage to the prestige of state courts, and weaken the position of their congressional delegations ii Inescapable, The senators supporting civil rights legislation have not overlooked these incidents. They have been presented on the floor, and those Southern senators in opposition to the legislation have thereby been greviously handicapped, a fact which they privately and ruefully acknowledge. Local discrimination, by creating martyrs, has given emotional support to the civil rights legislation.

That discriminations, so flagrant as that in the Tuskegee case, have created a demand for such legislation is undented. Nor can this pressure be dismissed as politics in an election year. The folly of registrars In barring well educated, college and public school teachers as too illiterate to vote has assured the passage of some sort of civil rights legislation which will be strongest in its support of the 15th amendment guarantee of the right to vote. State Sovereignty a Myth On the day the filibuster began in the senate, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overruled a Georgia district court In a case charging discrimination by state registrars.

The decision, based on the unequivocal provisions of the 15th amendment again pointed up the damage done by those persons who blinded the eyes Of the Southern people seeking earnestly to know their true situation, by proclaiming state sovereignty. Some called It interposition. Many persons, honestly dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision, have been persuaded by those proclaiming the myth of state sovereignty to extreme words and actions. Rott Sttlllngs Raleigh apartments. "The army won't make a bit of difference.

"He loved his mother and that means more than anything. He's a fine boy." But little Sandra Deans, 11, a student at Guild school, disagreed. "Presley will probably go down," ehe said. "He's been gone and other psople havs come in to take hit place. People like Frankie Avalon." Pfe.

Raymond Ritter, 18, sta- Ritter Holland a i.