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DITOISIIIL 1 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Editorial Page Daily Cartoon ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1956 PAGES 1 10B PART TWO U.S. Not a Nation oi 'Softies' -CHILDS 'White House Office9 Carries Heavy Bur den And Exercises Vast Power Murray Again Urges U.S. to Build Reactors He Differs With Strauss Over Relying Only on Private Power Firms.

Democrats' Line Likely to Be Sympathy for a President Being Pressured Into Staying in Race Critics Are Wary of Health Issue Backfiring, and G.O.P. Counts on It Too But Dispute Over Eisenhower's Fit-! ness Will Go On and On. But It Could Be, Nixon Wains Participation Is Aim in Physical Fitness Program, He Tells Conference on Well Being of Youth. By LEONARD BUDER The Nrw Y.irk TlmM Nw (fcrvirr. (Copyright, 1056, by Th New York Time! Co.) ANNAPOLIS, Md June 19.

VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON told the President' conference on fitness of American youth that, contrary to the pessimism often expressed, "we are not a nation of softies." He warned, however, that the nation could becom soft, "if proper attention is not given to the trend of the time, which is toward the invention of all sorts of gadgetry to make life easy, and in so doing to reduce the opportunity for normal By MARQUIS W. CHILDS A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. (Copyright 1956, The Fulltser Publishing Co.) WASHINGTON, June 19. THE issue of President Eisenhower's health will not be ruled out no matter how optimistic the assurances of his doctors and his associates. As a candidate for a second term, it will confront him until election day.

tn th President I far as to suEEest. strictly in SHERMAN ADAMS WILTON PERSONS JAMES HAGERTY 1 In (ha lonct i i ik. ln.t proiess to ue uui CTUn.r concerned at Ulls prospect, mcj concer fv- n.i re confident mat. vne n- cue twiuv me i. Mnn.ni frnm his oocra lit-11 ICW'viJ tion and his own optimistic temperament will answer any and all insinuations about his capacity to serve for another four years.

Moreover, they say that any effort to exploit the health issue is certain to backfire and build up sympathy for Mr. Eisenhower. There are indications that the Democrats, too, are afraid any effort to capitalize on the President's illnesses will bring a sentimental reaction on the part of many people who will want to show him that they are sorry for him and they believe in him no matter what has happened. The Democratic line is likely therefore to be also one of sympathy sympathy for a gallant soldier pressured by self-seeking politicians into the Intolerable ordeal of another four years In the White House when he should be allowed to retire to well-earned peace and quiet. Cynicism Developing.

But health will be uppermost In the minds of many politicians in both parties. Photostats are being widely circulated in Washington of a news story from the Milwaukee Journal headed "Ike Had 'Wrong Philadelphia Surgeon Says." This was based on an interview with Dr. Robert B. Laucks of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine, who said that the by-passing operation would not relieve the President's symptoms of pain and discomfort although it did get around the intestinal obstruction. Another University of Pennsylvania specialist, Dr.

Isidor Bavdin, was one of the team of surgeons present at the time of the President's operation. Dr. Ravdin, who joined with the other doctors in the optimistic report the President would recover sufficiently to run for reelection, has stayed at Walter Reed Hospital virtually all the time since the emergency oper- U7QO TlPrfnrmpd. If the wide range of medical reports has not confused the public i has at any rate evoked a great deal of cynicism about tne mea- leal profession ana pomics. Some Democrats nave gone au i PEARSON Advertisements Keep Up Inter By ANTHONY LEWIS Th Nf orlc Time Nw Strvlw.

(Copyright, 15. by llw New York TimM Co-) WASHINGTON, June 19. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSIONER THOMAS E. MURRAY made another ur gent appeal yesterday for Government construction of large atomic power reactors in this country. He thus sharpened his longstanding dispute with AEC Chairman Lewis L.

Strauss and the other commissioners. The official AEC peacetime atomic program calls for government construction of only small test power reactors, leaving industrial-scale reactors to private firms. "The present prospect of getting any substantial quantity of industrial atomic power in this country by 1960 is very gloomy and getting more gloomy every day," Murray said in a statement to the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Major Assertions. He made these major assertions: 1.

"The Government has prematurely abdicated to private industry the primary responsibility for building large power reactors." 2. The major types of reactors now envisaged have each been "staked out by individual companies or groups," and development work is being left to them. These firms have made no promises as to when they might actually build their reactors. 3. The Government should build "several large power reactors." They should be placed at AEC production plants, to supply electricity there, "thus eliminating the issue of public versus private power." Murrav conceded that there may be no economic demand for I itnmip nnupr in this COUIltrV.

but he said an lmmeaiate construction program is necessary to give the United states worm leadership in the peaceful atom. "It Is a tragic mistake for this nation to base its atomic power program primarily on its own economic interests," Murray said. "To do this li to fail to recognize the vast political and humanitarian implications of atomic energy throughout the world. Unwarranted Fear. "The fact that we are taking thi rnursp is the result of fear fear by private industry that Continued on Page 9, Column 7.

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Qtranca) fnrpign economic DOli- cy (Joseph M. Dodge), public works (Gen. Jonn s. uragaoni has raised questions of conflict (hp Ktatntnrv authoritv of the heads of the established de partments and agencies of tne Government. For example, Stassen has reacted in one way to the Soviet icarmampnt and arms-cut pro posals, and Secretary ot state Dulles in another.

Less Controversy. In general, however, there has been far less controversy between this White House staff and the departments than existed in previous administrations when powerful secretaries and White House favorites, such as the late Harry L. Hopkins, were at odds with the established Cabinet officials. Tho main rriticism of the White House staff is simply that it is not as good as it couia De nnoht tn'hiv It Is eenerallv agreed the staff is loyal, tech-1 nically efficient, ana inaus; trious, but not Tt rnmnarps Well With anv previous White House staff, but whether that is gooa enougn today is a question which Wash- tnatnn rtrpnrpnnipd with the President and indifferent to the presidency, seldom raises. physical, neaun-giving exercise.

Nixon spoke at the opening session of the White House-sponsored conference at the Naval Academy here yesterday. The Vice President Is serving as chairman of the program, which is being attended by 150 presidents of national organizations and others cdhcerned with the well-being of youth. Nixon extended to the conference the greetings of President Eisenhower, who had originally planned to attend, and added: "I saw him this morning and can tell from the reports of the doctors, and his great spirit confirms the opinion, that he will soon be out of the hospital and be physically fit to carry out the hardest job in the world." Cites Lack of Facilities. In his keynote address, Nixon called attention to following statements, which, he said, should be a matter of concern to all Americans: Less than 50 per cent of the boys and girls in high schools have physical education. Ninety-one per cent of the nation's 150,000 elementary schools have no Ninety per cent of the elementary schools have less than the recommended five acres of land necessary for essential play areas.

Only 1200 of the 17,000 communities in the United States have full-time recreation leadership. Less than 5 per cent of the nation's youth have had the opportunity to enjoy the experience of camping and outdoor living. Forty per cent of those who pnlpi-pH thp armpri fnrrps dur ing World War 11 were unable I to swim as far as 50 feet. (Drownings between the ages of 4 and 44 are second only to motor venieies in accidental death, he noted.) Participation Is Objective. Pointing up the need for greater fitness, the Vice President declared that "the ob- ipptivp nf an arlpnnatp nhvKiral fitnesa program can be summed ud In one word participation participation on the part of steel SECRETARIAL CHAIRS Foam rubfatr Mat on bach peitur adjust Madarn fUsIa High quality CbMPLETE LINE Deiki, Chain, Fil.i.

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40" F. i Its Chief, Adams, Accountable Only to President Beyond Scrutiny of Congress. By JAMES RESTON The New York Times Newe Vrvlrr I Copyright, lose, by th New York Times Co. WASHINGTON, June 19. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER is on a restricted diet of wnrlr hilt "the White House office," which car-ripe thn main wnrk-lnad nf the presidency, is busier than Times Square on a Saturday nigni.

For example: 1. More than 2100 letters poured into the White House mail room yesterday for the President. 2. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss sent his monthly report on the neareful uses of atomic energy to the President.

It was put in his folder for today. 3. William H. Jackson, special ass ictant to the President on foreign affairs, delivered a re- nnrl in thn Whitff HmicP On the Operations Co-ordinating Board. 4.

A group 01 local ana state officials met in the White House and was addressed by the assistant to the President, Sher man Adams. 5. There were staff discussions with the Bureau of the Budget the over funds to fi nance a research atomic reac tor for a foreign country, and mnra rilcpuGfiinns ahnut when thn Prpclripnt'B nlane would be available to bring visiting offi cials to the United states, among them Prime Minister Nehru of India. Numerous Odds and Ends. 6.

In addition and this was only a small part of the day work, the President's staff sec retary, Andrew J. Goodpaster, had to route from the White Hniise tn the various deDart- ments and agencies a vast num ber of communications on an kinds of things a complaint from a citizen against allied acts of violence in the Mediter ranean; an appeal from a feed manufacturer in Chicago for drouth relief in Iowa; a complaint from a citizen that he couldn't get a federal job, and a proposal to send a high school band and chorus overseas on a goodwill tour. Anyone who studies the flow in Mrhp Whitp House of fice" will soon understand what President Wilson meant by saying "the office (of the presidency) is so much greater than any man could honestly imagine himself to be that the most he can do is to look grave enough and self-possessed enough to seem to fill it." In the first of these articles, the work that cannot be -dele gated to the President's staff was enumerated, but in addition there is a mountain of work that can and does go on, regardless of the President's absence from the White House. 56 Agencies, Departments. The duties and responsibili ties of the presidency have grown as vigorously as the growth of the nation itself.

In 1790. under President Wash ington, there were nine execu tivp dptiflrtments. each doin nine cai Lii- each doing fairiv simple duties. This had grown to only 11 under President Lincoln in 1864. Today, President Eisenhower is responsible for 56 agencies and departments, many of them much larger than the whole federal executive establishment in the nineteenth century.

In 1789, President Washington approved 27 laws and three executive orders; in 1955, Mr. Eisenhower signed 390 public laws, 490 private laws, 65 executive orders and 42 proclamations. Similarly, In 1789, Washington transmitted 20 military and 65 civilian nominations to the Senate, while last year, Mr. Eisenhower sent up 37,467 military and 3219 civilian nominations. The civilian personnel of the Federal Government in 1789 was 1000, the military 1300.

Today the civilian personnel is about 2,371,421, and the military 2,935,107. rw Serrrtarv for Washlnrton. President Washington had one full-time secretary, Lawrence Lewis, his nephew. Todey, the "White House office" as distinguished from the executive office of the President, which includes the Bureau of the Budget, and several other large "arms of the presidency" numbers 398 persons with an annual budget of Who runs this vast establishment? Where did they come from? And how good are they? The central figure in the coordination and direction of "the office" is Adams. His principal assistants are Gen.

Wilton B. Persons, who as Adams's deputy, worries primarily about legislation; the three major "secretaries," Bernard Shanley, who keeps the appointments and directs the flow of people in and out of the President's office; James C. Hagerty, who deals with the press, and Good-paster, who keeps the right papers going to their proper destination. The core of this White House staff moved right in with the President from his campaign train in 1952. This was true of Adams, Persons, Shanley and Hagerty.

It was also true of two of the President's main administrative assistants, Gabriel Hauge, a magazine writer who wrote speeches in the 1952 campaign, and Fred Seaton, a Nebraska newspaper publisher, who recently moved from the White House to be Secretary of the Interior. Others on the campaign train every boy and girl in America in some form of healthy recre- allnnnl nnH nhvsipfll apttvitv "The super athlete Is not our primary concern," he continued. "He will take care of himself. It is the bo or girl with ordU nary physical abilities who should receive the major share of our attention." Nixon added that the development of physical fitness in I. If -I I 1 1 iibeit buuuiu uui uc mc pit- mary concern.

The person who is physically fit, he said, "en- joys a healthy mental outlook and a general feeling of bodily well-being." Marion B. Folsom, secretary (II HlC XCHill 11IIC1IV VI 41CUMIf Education and Welfare, told tho group that "we as a people are now beginning to break through some of the traditional notions of fitness for living." More Than Getting By. "We are beginning to per- cieve that true fitness is more than the absence of he said. "It is more than being able to stay out of bed and do one's daily work. It la mora than just getting by." The new concept of well-being, he asserted, involves not only physical prowess "but the whole of man's capacity for expression." The need for greater efforti to raise the level of the nation's fitness was also under scored by Joseph Prendergast, executive director of the Na tional Recreation Association.

Althnuch htllinns nf hnnr. nf adult time and millions of dol lars oi volunteer money are spent annually for recreation activities, he said, there is a growing need for greater citizen action. I Prendergast suggested that a tablished In every community ot duuu or more population, to "make sure that community recreation programs have professional leadership, adequate facilities, consistent organiza-tion and lound financing." ACU: Iniulls indoors or out: naa no water; connecla to lurnaoe ducts. Compart These Features: Uses no water saves on cost, installing, and mnintenmce. Installs Indoors or out; easy occasions! maintenance checks.

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nn the fttnacc nf tho Preei. Honf ie ijl rrtr Tf anvthini dent is in order. If anything lilrrs this wprp niihllrlv nrnnnsed before the President's convalescence it would certainly be resented by everyone. Wilson Incident Recalled. The unhappy precedent is being recalled of the Republican Senators who invaded the sick room of the ailing President Woodrow Wilson, ostensibly on a matter of state, actually to see what condition he was in.

One of them, the late Senator Albert Fall, who was later disgraced in the Teapot Dome case, is said to have suddenly pulled back the covers on the bed to determine if Wilson were paralyzed. of the noted specialists attending Wilson declared that he was "organically sound, able-minded and able-bodied." Mark Sullivan in "Our Times" notes that this went "as far in minimizing Wilson's condition as a natural wish for allaying public concern could temper scien tific accuracy." There was then no question of a presidential race, since wiicnn uas in his second term and the two-term tradition had not yet been violated. Wilson was ahlp in his last months in fhi white House to function only fitfully. Stricken on Sept. 26, 1919, he died in retirement on Feb.

3, 1924. Another and less sensational proposal, still in the idea stage, is for a commission to inquire into the office of the presidency and whether it should be diminished or whether the effort to delegate certain powers is a of the nature of the American government which makes tne i'resiaeru mc suit unifying force under the federal system. This would, as now discussed, be a "bi-partisan" commission on which medical experts, political scientists and others would serve. Whether with the conventions and the campaign so close it is possible to take this whole subject, so vital to the future of America not for just one campaign or one election, out of ---gT an(j down. fs doPubtfui.

But the realm ot speculation, iumv hat lt shouid ane by Contractors Service Feuds much magazine advertising ior themselves. UNIDENTIFIED ACCUSERS Two hundred and fifty American prisoners of war in Korea, some of them with decorations, are being given the McCarthy treatment when" it comes to collecting, compensation for the time they spent in prison camps. They are being denied $2.50 a day because of alleged collaboration. At the same time, they are not permitted to face those accusing them. As a recnlt Congressman Tom Ashley, Ohio Democrat, and other congressmen are investigating the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.

Typical case is that of Joseph Hammond of Toledo who holds the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, yet was found ineligible for the $2507 which he had coming as a result of 33 months in a North Korean prison. "The commission, by refusing to authorize the money, implies that I'm a traitor to my country," said Hammond. "If this is true, why was I given an honorable discharge and all my accumulated Army pay?" "No answer to that question, gentlemen, none whatsoever," noted Congressman Ashley, "but in the mind of everybody who read that story and of the men working alongside of him, he lc a "I hope equal publicity Is given to the statement you have made here this morning," commented Representative Wolver-ton New Jersey. "I want to say that I believe the commission should come forward with some answers to these questions and let this committee know," concluded Percy Priest of Tennessee, chairman of the House Interstate Commerce Committee. Alaska Homestead Bill Voted.

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Congressman Pat Patterson, a House Armed Services Committee member, has dug up statistics showing that defense contractors spend millions in advertising for the separate BERNARD SHANLEY who are now In the White House are Kevin McCann, a 1952 sneech writer who is doing the same job as a special assistant; the military aide to the President, Col, Robert L. Schulz, who was with Gen. Eisenhower in Paris and at Columbia University, and Maxwell M. Rabb, a Boston lawyer, who worked with Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. on the campaign train and is now secretary to tne Eisenhower Cabinet.

Tho turn innnvntlnns Prpsl. dent Eisenhower has brought to the functioning of the "White House of lice are (l) a mucn clearer line of authority and delegation of authority to and through Adams, ana (2) me in troduction of a corps ot special accictnnt: trt thp Prpsirlpnt on special subjects (disarmament. foreign atlairs, loreign economic policy, vtC.) Both are still controversial, nrnhnhlv hprause thpv are new. Tfiora ic 0pnprnl iiffrppmpnt that A ri a has nroducpd a tidier and more efficient administra tion of the White House staff, and during the President's i)l-npeeps hp has-hppri hoth a rally ing point and a source of con tinuity for the whole administration. Has Vast Powers, Even his critics in this politi cal community, who are numerous, agree that he is a diligent, clear-headed man of character.

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