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THE EVENING INDEPENDENT How To Win Friends VICTOR RIESEL ED BECKER Established in 1863 JOHN E. ROWE Publisher, General Manager Published daily, except Sunday, by Earl J. Jones Enterprises, Inc. Telephone TEmple 3-3161 4 Massillon, Ohio, Wednesday, February 3, 1960 Keep Up To Date President Eisenhower has called upon his Committee for a i Safety to redouble its efforts against highway fatalities. He has endorsed its objectives but has suggested that it up-date its program.

The committee's objectives are certainly sound. They are: high standards for laws, enforcement, quality of traffic courts, driver licensing, accident reporting, highway i and maintenance, driver education, and motor vehicle design. Just as the president, disturbed by 38,000 traffic deaths in 1959, properly called for a re-evaluation of national program, so must states recognize that present efforts are not enough to cope with the steadily increasing" volume of traffic. This need to press harder is given added emphasis by the heavy death toll recorded in January. Officials of the national committee point out that American drivers covered a total of 695 billion miles in 1959, an increase over the previous year of 30 billion miles.

With this total to calculate on they disclose that the U. S. highway fatality rate was 5.6 per 100 million miles driven. In 1952 the rate per 100 million miles was 7.7 deaths. While the 1959 rate was lower, the figure of 38,000 deaths in the year still is appalling.

Because the volume of traffic will continue to grow, still more precautions must be taken to increase the protection of those lives it touches. Much of the responsibility rests upon government but the individual cannot escape his duty to contribute to safety on the. highways every way he can. Leap Year Proposals Hoary myth that the custom of proposing marriage is the. exclusive privilege of the male is accompanied by a tradition that during a leap year such as this the female of the species may ask the fateful question without being regarded as brazen.

If the leap year gimmick was practiced in the past, it is now a joke because women of today find resort to GEORGE SOKOLSKH a device unnecessary. But it seems it was not a joke in old Scotland, where a law was enacted in the year 1288 that any maiden lady could ask a man in marriage in leap year. If he spurned her. a fine of one pound was imposed on hm, unless he could prove that he was already betrothed. A similar law was in effect at one time, also in the Italian cities of Genoa and Florence.

The motivation for such laws seemed to be that during one year in four the girls should be given an opportunity to cease being wallflowers. Perhaps such statutes were necessary in a bygone day. New times, new customs--as many a married man can testify. The Tomato May Help Heart attacks and tomatoes hardly appear to be related, but in. seeking the key to a certain type of plant disease, science has discovered amazing similarity between a ailments and heart attacks.

Some fungus attacks upon plants have been found to kill fruit and vegetables by clotting the veins with results similar to those suffered by human victims of strokes. This has an important commercial application, because of the widespread damage by plant wilt. The principal discoverers of the ailment, two University of Wisconsin scientists, are now looking for an elusive resistance mechanism which seems to provide immunity for certain plants. Not yet aware of the reason for some plants being susceptible to the ailment and others not, the scientists have been able to develop from the healthy strains fungus-free plants. They theorize that the secret is in a substance produced by the healthy plants which is i to the crippling fungi.

In the hope that this resistant substance may lead to similar discoveries in heart a i the search continues. Because of the information gained from a tomato, a potato or a berry, medical science tomorrow may have an effective preventative for the most deadly ailment of man. Head On The Pillow WESTBROOK PEGLER spoke a wise line when he said that to understand a political person, it is smart to have a look 31 the other head on the pillow. Optimistically. I assume that Pegler meant a man's wife, although there are always rumors of wicked infiltrations into the lives of the great to corrupt them as Cleopatra corrupted both Caesar and Anthony.

Our presidents, who usually come up from obscurity, appear with families fully formed by the time they reach the nominating-stage. Mrs. Herbert Hoovjr. for instance, was a geologist married to a mining engineer, a lady of great learning who had, in collaboration with her husband, translated from the Latin the first important work on geology and mining. She also familiarity with Chinese, was expert in ceramics and was a brilliant conversationalist, THE QUALITIES of her successor in the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt, are quite known.

She is a politician of great skill who played, and continues to play, an important role in public affairs. Bess Truman, on the other hand, was a retiring lady who never became involved in the affairs'of Washington. She left the White House respected even by her husband's political enemies. Mamie Eisenhower, the present incumbent, does not project herself beyond the social obligations of her position. NOW LET US turn to what are the prospects for the next administration: Patricia Nixon, who is 46 years represents her generation.

She is good to look at, is always well-dressed, is an excellent hostess and supports her husband as a wife should. Unlike Eleanor Roosevelt, she does not compete with her husband: but unlike Bess Truman, she does not hide her light. She seems as trained for the presidency as a member of the- British royal family is to being a queen: In a word, she knows what to do and does it with charm and untiring devotion. Evelyn Symington, age 56, has the bearing of the well-born. Her, father was long in congress as is her husband.

She is accustomed to entertaining. She loves music, is an attractive hostess and should she become the First Lady, the White House would be restored to the gaiety and brilliance of the Roosevelt days. or Franklin take your choice.) JACQUELINE KENNEDY is 30 and beautiful. I quote from "The Insider's been educated at Vassar and the Sorbonne, 'Jackie' speaks French, Italian and Spanish fluently is devoted to literature, jazz and modern art. The Kennedys live quietly, enjoy family get- togethers and don't especially like the social i 1.

If all John's relatives descended on the White at one time, it would be reminiscent of the Roosevelts' 'clan Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, 46 years of age. is a successful business woman who would operate the White House competently. I HAVE NEVER EVEN seen Muriel Humphrey, so I shall quote from "The Insiders Newsletter," assuming that whoever prepared this material knows what he is talking about. He says: "Muriel Humphrey (47): Possessing the quietest and most unassuming personality of all the potential First Ladies, Muriel typifies the American housewife and mother. She also would be most interested in making the White House a home for her children and Hubert.

Although she enjoys going campaigning with her husband, she has a habit of forgetting names, and says Hubert prefers her to remain out of the political spotlight. Quiet family parties, PTA meetings, sewing bees and church functions would most likely be interspersed with the minimum of state functions her official role would demand." THERE CAN BE NO question but that American wives influence their husbands and that they usually are vitally concerned with what their husbands do. Most political wives are accustomed to helping the husband i a career. There are very exceptions. Ours is not a man's world; it is a husband-and- wife world; it is a family world.

No candidate risks travelling about the country during a campaign without his wife. Adlai Stevenson has been divorced and I am sure that that item played its part in his two defeats. However, Thomas E. Dewey, who is happily married, also was twice defeated. So the rule may not be established.

Nevertheless, no bachelor has, in recent run for president or even been as a possibility except Adlai Stevenson who was not accepted by the people. It is interesting to have a sociological view of our candidates. FEARFUL FRIENDLY SHREWD COMRADE NIKITA THE WHICH DOJNG TO THEM MONEY! New Tactics For U. S. Reds DAVID LAWRENCE U.

S. Has Roudi Time Fighting 4 Cold War' ty There arc approximately 2,800 recognized languages in the world today. Alborta comprises about seven per cent of the total area of the Dominion of Canada. WASHINGTON The United States is having a hard time fighting the "cold war" nowadays because, when it does gather secret information as to a potential enemy's intentions or planning, there are members of congress who insist on having it revealed in some form. Allen W.

Dulles, who is director of the Central Intelligence agency, is repeatedly called' before congress to tell what his agents and representatives behind the Iron Curtain have found out. Naturally, the Soviets are interested. For it has an important bearing on their own plans to karn how much America knows about them. What Mr. Dulles behind the closed doors of the congressional committees is, of course, not made public, but as the members go forth they are met by the press.

The members then give their "impressions" of the testimony. These might be partisan interpretations designed to discredit the administration as net being efficient in its planning but the U. S. Central Intelligence, Agency is unable to point out in rebuttal wherein wrong inferences are being drawn. To to tell the Soviets exactly what the Central Intelligence Agency really knows of Soviet planning.

SO THERE IS resort to generalities, and it is in this area that the politically-minded take a a a of the necessarily vague statements that have been made. Allen Dulles, emphasizing some of the difficulties, said in a speech in New York last week: "In our estimates we generally stress capabilities in the early stages of Soviet weapons development, and then, as more hard facts are available, we estimate i probable programming, sometimes referred to as intentions. "The fact that in the later years of development we can crank into our estimates more of the elements of programming and future intentions than we at the beginning does not indicate any change in the intelligence- approach to the problem. "THERE IS NO tendency in the intelligence community to underestimate Soviet sophistication in any phase of the missile field, or the progress they have been making in developing their long-range missile system. We have not downgraded this system this year as contrasted with last year.

"However, it would be just as From Our Files 89 YEARS AGO Death of the Hon. Isaac Hazlet: At his residence, the Hon. Isaac Hazlet, in the 47th year of his age. In writing the necrology of the bar of Stark county, he was the seventh to pass away in the past four years including Judges Bliss and Potter of Columbiana and Wayne counties respectively. Judge Hazlet a native of Canton and always resided there.

66 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McClymonds are at Old Point Comfort, Va.

25 YEARS AGO Louis F. Drouhard, of this city, was re-elected president of the Mansfield Sanitary Pottery, at the sixth annual meeting of stockholders of the concern at Pcrrysville, Tuesday. 10 YEARS AGO Keeley R. Miller of 851 Parkview NE today was appointed a Stark county probation officer, with headquarters in Massillon; by Judge Paul D. VanNoslran of the Stark county court of domestic relations.

wrong to let the Soviet talk the world into believing that the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), powerful as it is. constitutes the only armament with which a country should equip itself. I believe that the Soviets are trying to take advantage of the publicity they have achieved with respect to both missile and space programs in order to make the unsophisticated believe that these achievements mean over-all superiority in the military field, such superiority, in the opinion of more qualified experts than does not exist." YET THE NEWSPAPERS are filled claims which are designed for the American audience, but which nevertheless tell the Soviets that they are superior, that they can destroy us and we can't retaliate effectively, and that the "gap" is a matter of grave danger to our saftey today. secretary of defense, Thomas S. on the other hand, keeps on giving assurances to the country that the United States has effective power to deter a war, but this is promptly called "rosy" by Democratic leaders.

Day after day Gates testifies before different committees and repeats in explicit terms the basis of America's confidence in her deterrent power, but all this is brushed aside as senators or representatives committee sessions telling the world that what they have heard "confirms" their "impressions." Gates, in his latest statement to the senate subcommittee on appropriations on Monday, said: "Our retaliatory forces are cap- JAMES MARLOW able of carrying out their assigned missions. Manned bombers are still, for both ourselves and the USSR, the primary means of delivering heavy nuclear weapons in the volume and with the accuracy needed to strike a decisive blow. In this category the United States far excels the USSR. "ON THE BASIS of all present indications, however, the advantage they (the Soviets) might attain in numbers of long-range missiles would fall far short of providing rational support for a decision to attack. He would simply be inviting his own destruction.

"In short, because of the versatility and. strength of our overall retaliatory capability, the numerical advantage that the Soviet Union may attain in long- range missiles which is likely to be greatest in 1962 will not produce a gap in our deterrent power. This is not my view only; it is the view of our principal military and scientific advisers." GENERAL NATHAN TWINING, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also told the same committee that our military chiefs "do not do strategic planning in an intelligence 'vacuum." But how effective can such statements as long as the partisans think they can gain votes by scaring the American people into a belief that our defenses huve been bungled? It means, to be sure, telling the Soviets that we are weaker than we really are. Partisan politics has reached a new low in American (Copyright, 1960, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Progress In Civil Rights WASHINGTON (AP)--Progress in civil rights may seem snail- slow to southern Negroes who have been denied them. But some progress is being made, in bits and pieces.

Tuesday, the senate, by thirds vote and without a south- ern filibuster, approved a constitutional amendment to outlaw any requirement for payment of a poll tax before a person can vote in federal elections. Only five southern states still have a poll tax. The ban won't become a reality unless -two-thirds of the house, and after that three-fourths of the states, also approve. The states have seven years in which to act. PERHAPS THE LONG delay before the tax can be banned explains in part why southern opposition to it was less than all-out.

The amendment was even sponsored by a southerner, Sen. Spessard Holland (D-Fla). Maybe a better explanation is that the poll tax as an issue has lost of its significance. Negroes are better able to afford such a tax now than they were in the poverty-stricken years of the past. Nowadays southern whites who want to keep Negroes from voting use other means: intimidation or blocking them from registering.

Yet, no longer ago than the 1940's, anti-poll tax proposals were a flaming issue. ACTUALLY, in those days attempts to get through such a measure were the prelude to a political farce in congress. Almost invariably the house would pass a bill but southern Democrats in the senate filibustered it to death. This happened in 1942, 1943, 1945 and 1947. In 1949 the house again approved but the antirpnll tax bill never reached the senate floor.

Of course there was a great difference between anti-poll tax bills which the house approved but the senate blocked and the amendment approved Tuesday. A bill would have become law immediately after a simple majority vote in both houses. IT MAY BE SEVEN YEARS before the states approve the constitutional amendment accepted by the senate, provided two-thirds of the house members also go along. It is still questionable whether the states will approve. But the dam against civil rights progress was broken in 1954 when the U.

S. Supreme Court outlawed public school segregation and made civil rights such a national issue that neither the north or south could ignore it. It is doubtful that congress in 1957 could have passed its first civil rights bill in 82 years -also without a filibuster if the court hadn't broken down the barriers. LATER THIS YEAR there is a strong possibility that another civil rights bill perhaps more meaningful than the extremely mild one of 1957 may get through. The amendment which cleared the senate Tuesday got some southern opposition, largely on the grounds that even a change in the Constitution to forbid the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting is an interference with the rights of states to set up their own voting requirements.

After chasing and capturing an automobilist whom he suspected of driving a stolen -ear, a Los Angeles, patrolman found the car was his own which he had recently parked in a police parking lot. over a month now, the American Communist party has been Khru- sehev-izing itself--by replacing its intellectual leadership with soft-voiced, outwardly good humored men who are, nonetheless, veterans of the riotous street fighting days of the Thirties. Their orders are to train to provoke violence, disruption and costly wildcat strikes by local unions--especially in the steel and automoble industries. Within the past two weeks this strategy was discussed in the party's national headquarters here at 23 W. 26 st.

The Communists' and tough national leaders spent hours listening to their chief, Gus Hall. He, himself, is veteran of years of similar disruption in the Ohio-Illinois-Pennsylvania steel mill strata during the late Thirties. SO HARD HAS HALL been working at the reyamping job that he virtually collapsed from a flu bug invasion. He spent most of the latter days of January hidden in the Manhattan apartment of Communist, party educational director Hyman Lumer. But even from his sickbed, Hall pushed through his program, especially the creation of a hard core leadership of the New York State party--one of the organization's last centers of small, but active membership.

At the head of the New York section, Hall placed the veteran "Daily Worker" editor, Clarence Hathaway. I was knee-high to my Dad when Comrade Hathaway and a husky contingent of Communist gorillas bowled us both over the end of the stage in Madison Square Garden. But we didn't stay down for long. was a hell of a fight. Hathaway and his muscle men of several thousand Communist unionists rushed a labor rally being held in the Garden in honor of men jailed, tortured and shot by Adolph Hitler's Austrian allies.

HATHAWAY AND HIS comrades were using direct action tactics. They wanted the platform. They stormed the Garden. rToday these same men are again in the Communist party's leadership. ED KOTERBA Typical of the returning Communist party veterans who once filled 'big city streets with tens of thousands of militant demonstrators is Louis Weinstock, formerly a Painters union leader.

He now not only holds a high party post but is 'the rosa manager of "The Worker," official voice of the international Communist movement in the U. S. The return of the old trade union Communist cadres means that the party itself will specialize in labor action. For example, during their recent meetings, Gus Hall and the others out that the party's objective must be the disruption of any labor- management united front. THEY SPOKE specifically of the type of summit meeting of union and industry chiefs'sug- gested by AFL-CIO President George Meany to President Eisenhower.

The Communists discussed the proposals of such men as Vice President Nixon, Labor Secretary Mitchell, labor counselor Art "Goldberg and steel union chief Dave McDonald as well as big steel executives for a series of cooperative meetings sides right on the factory, level. The party chiefs said they must convince the Steel Union rank- and-file that the recent strike ended in a bad deal. So party instructions, carefully spelled out. were to attempt te cause unrest at the bottom. This means finding disgruntled men or placing tiny cells in steel union locals to defy the local leaders.

The party's objective is not so much to disrupt steel production as it is to discover where the hold of the steel, union leaders is weakest and follow through with experienced organizing tactics. Thus they hope to build the party membership again. That's their basic aim. Build the party strength.from the 10,000 disciplined members it now has to 50,000 so it can, become a loud, if not effective, echo of Khrushchev's policies. Namely to make it appear that America's workers want the nation to abandon its nuclear weapons.

As the French say, the more things change, the more they are the same. Assignment: Washington WASHINGTON When the congressman's wife was down in Texas to christen the missile ship U.S.S. Galveston in 1958, they asked her to give a little speech. 'Mrs. Clark Thompson was caught unprepared, but she managed to" say a few casual-words.

It was natural that she should bring in the subject of parties, inasmuch as she was fast becoming one of the nation's leading hostesses. She told the ship's crew: ''Now, sometime when you gentlemen get to port, I want to have you over for a party." THOMPSON probably didn't dream they'd ever take her up on it, in view of the fact the crew numbers 1,200 officers and men. Well, they did. The ship's coming to the Galveston home port Feb. 15.

The captain graciously accepted the standing offer. Result is that the Moody Center in Galveston will rock with the greatest "private" party for U. Si sailors in all history. MRS. THOMPSON is handling the details herself from her Washington mansion, a place known as "The Texas Embassy." She's even hand-addressing all the invitations, and they include two bids to 600 Texas girls to keep the boys company for the dance.

This thing got so big that the secretary of the navy is sending a niga official to Galveston for the affair. Mrs. Thompson has had a special song written and is flying" a professional feminine SAM DAWSON singer, Hank' Ford, down from! Washington, to do the warbling. THE PARTY GUESTS already number raope.tb^aZSG^Cost of the shindig "wni'reaclvrwf 11 into five figures, but tnafe of little concern, for Mrs. Thompson is not only one of Washington's top five partygivers, but one of the wealthiest.

Her dad was W. L. Moody, jr, a great philanthropist and one of the richest men ia world. When I talked to her, she was as excited as a little girl launching a big new boat in a bathtub. And, indeed, she's having a model of the missile ship designed to float on a sea of blue flowers.

It'll be made of roses dyed battleship grey. I can see the Texas headlines after the party "Hostess Makes Hit as Missile Ship Missus." WHICH BRINGS ME indirectly to the story of'the closest near- miss of the decade's most embarrassing political headlines. This happened in Chicago at the past week's $100 Eisenhower dinner where Richard Nixon, the devoted husband of 'Pat Nixon, gave the main speech. The theme: "We cannot stand on the Eisenhower record alone We must move ahead." In the composing room of the Chicago Tribune, the make-up editor paled when he saw the page-one streamer ready to go to press. In the nick of time, the headline was ripped out and a new one substituted.

It had read: "Can't Stand Pat --Nixon." Biggest Spending Year NEW YORK. (AP)--The sharp drop in stock prices in January may have shaken some business confidence. "But it hasn't fazed the belief of some Of the professional forecasters that the country will go right on expanding this year. Nor has it deterred govern- men chiefs from increasing their budget requests and expecting to meet this i spending through larger tax collections. It looks like the biggest year ever for total government spending and taxing.

STOCK MARKET sell-offs usually have a double psychological effect. Businessmen wonder if the market is accurately forecasting what business may be six months hence and they turn cautious in their planning. Consumers get doubts about how good and their incomes -may be in the months ahead and they, could "get cautious in their spending, too. Also, shrinkage in the value of stock portfolios cuts down on capital gains which often are used for the purchase of luxury items. BUT SOME professional economists are taking the January stock price decline in stride.

They have just told the joint congressional economic committee that they look for business activity to keep on climbing and perhaps go higher even than President Eisenhower predicted in his budget message. The president asked for more spending the next fiscal year than this. But he said good times should bring in more income tax revenue. Along with sums he wants congress to provide by raising the federal gas tax and'the price of postage stamps. And on that basis he expects a Treasury surplus, and he wants that applied to the federal debt.

AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, the pressure for more spending is often intense. Growing communities need many things, all requiring money. Higher taxes now, or borrowing and higher taxes later, are often the. alternatives. This leads the Tax Foundation, a private research group, to estimate that total federal, state and local government spending in the upcoming fiscal year may reach.

156 billion dollars. The latest available official figure is that of the Census Bureau for fiscal 1958, when the total wai 135 billion dollars. Bible Thought Be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory eome 24:7..