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i mm PAGE 18 (of Baltimore) Governor United "Congratulations! This Is Bier Than Both Of Us" TOE SUN WW The Great Game of Politics By FRANK R. KENT the pioneering spirit, In the old sense of men and women workinj for themselves to create a better, brighter life though in a new-style wilderness of blight, an asphalt jungle. Without that spirit of self-help and individual initiative, the whole expensive machinery of urban renewal may grind away for years without changing more than fublUhld Ir Bund THE A. S. ABELL COMPANY WUXUM r.

SCHMU'K, 6., PlIUIDINT Inird It Pout OITI- at Baltlmora aecond-Uaa null matitr Bates by Mail Outside Baltimore Morning Evtnlng Sunday 1 month 1 30 11 30 8te mnntht 50 50 14 70 1 yew 11175 IU 18 50 Editorial Offices i i iH fatvert fitreet wbingwn. 4 Nation) PrM Buiidins London. C. 4 8S Fleet btreel Bonn 270 Koblenzerstraaie Sadovaya bumotechnaya. 12 24 Rom Via del Plebtaclto 112 Circulation of Sunpapcrs in September (Daily Monday to Friday) 1957 Mornlne 109,232 378 Gain 3,854 Fventng 214.B31 2I3.97 Ciain M4 Sunday 18,158 324,110 Loss 5.952 Af ember of the Associated Press The Aasoclated Presa la entitled exclusively to the use (or republication of all the local newt printed In thla newspaper all aa all AP newa dlapatchea.

BALTIMORE. SUNDAY. OCT. 6. 1957 The Weather Map and Commentary On Page 40.

Sports Section Forecast for Baltimore and Virtnltv Cloudv, windy and cool today with llRlit rain In afternoon and night. High about 7 degrees. Continued cloudy and cool tonight. Tomorrow rather cloudy and continued cool. Northenat winds (15 to 25 miles per hour! today with some r.trongcr gusts to 30 miles per hour at times.

Yesterday's City Temperatures x) II 0 IO a tJ 0 -P a -v, II Os AM I 1' 2' 3 41 5' 6' 7i 8 9 10 11 12 1mp. 65 55 5S 54 54 54 54 55 5T60 61 S2 I 1' 1 3i 4' 5 6 7' 8 9 10 11 12 Temp. 64 64 64 64 64 64 63 63 62 fil 82 SO Airport High. 63; low. 50.

City Hiih. 65. low. 54. Highest of record In 1941 "7 of record Id 1935 40 City degree ria for October 5 5 Airport degree dav for October 8 City total degree days for season 50 City normal degree days for season Airport total degree days for seanon 91 Airport normal degree days for season ih Precipitation (Airport) For 24 hours ended midnight Oct.

4. 00 Accumulated deficiency thla month. 0 52 Accumulated this month 00 Accumulated deficiency since Jan. 1... 10 29 Total precipitation since January 1 23 54 Humidity And Pressure I am I pm I PM Jy bulb temperature 53 62 60 Wet bulb temperature 49 53 54 Relative humidity 77 55 67 Farnmeter sea-lfvel' 30 24 30 20 1 30.17 A Letter From Britain States Senator.

Few men have gone so far toward the triple crown as has Mr. McKel-din. In the middle of the last century Thomas Swann won the crown but refused to wear it; he had been mayor and, while serving as governor, was elected to the Senate (by the Legislature) but decided to stay in Annapolis. Later in the century William Pinkney Whyte won and wore the crown. What has been said here Is not to suggest that Mr.

McKeldin is am bitious. Nor is it to Impute any un due weight to Senator Beall's "if." All that is intended is a passing comment on a fluid political pic ture that will not crystallize until next spring when the lists of those seeking public office are beyond alteration. Between now and then anything can happen. Fair Iloffa Words Bystanders aware of the possi bilities of human redemption will read one passage of Mr. Jimmy Holla's inaugural address with special care.

This is the way it goes: "If you're dissatisfied with any thing that is being done, or in the way this Team.stersl union is being run, I want to hear from you. beficre in good honest trade unionism. I believe in the welfare of our members. This union will practice democracy in its fullest form, our enemies. Now there is nothing inherently improbable In a supposition that Mr.

Holla meant what he was say ing. It is not altogether out of the range of possibility that he will tailor his future actions to these words. A man who has come up the hard way in a hard union may pos sibly be excused some of the corner-cutting and the ethical free-wheeling which his critics impute to Jimmy Hoffa. No one would cheer louder than the critics the honest critics if Hoffa, now his own man in the lofty cab of the teamster juggernaut, should pull it in out of the gutter and run it henceforward down a straighter if not narrower way. There are undeniable pressures in that direction, some of them of the pragmatic nature which always appeals to men of Mr.

Hoffa's prac tical turn of mind. It will not be good for the teamsters to get tossed out of the AFL-CIO. True, Hoffa could get together with some other excommunicates, patch up a league of rogue unions, with the left-wing longshoremen of the West Coast and the corruption-ridden long shoremen of the East Coast going along. This would equip him with an outward show of puissance. But there would remain the Congress of the United States and the United States judiciary, the law which the one enacts and the other enforces not negligible factors, any of them.

And over and above these worldly considerations, there could at least conceivably be an earnest union man's earnest wish to put his union at long last in the ethical clear and eliminate the stench which it now constitutes in the nostrils of its members' fellow citizens. It would be a grand thing if Jimmy Hoffa could make this shift. Not many seasoned observers would bet on it, but they would applaud if it happened. Why Not Leave Them? After reading a recent series of articles In The Evening Sun about the shortage of trees and woods in Baltimore county's newly developed areas, the county director of public works has proposed that the county hire an arborist, or tree man, to plant trees in these deserts of con crete and brand-new turf. Everyone agrees that trees keep the sun and wind off houses, that they purify the air and that they add to the ele gance (and of course the value) of property.

Then why not just leave them, in the first place? Some contractors have protested that the trees interfere with sewers and power lines and that they generally die even when elaborate precautions are taken to protect them. Can this really be so? In other parts of the country, even of the State, there are laws which say trees have to be left on building sites to prevent erosion, and so on. Developers in Virginia, in Pennsylvania and else where have made fine old trees a feature of new residential areas, diverting roads and sewers around them and building retaining walls to keep them in place. Well-wooded real estate, it has been shown over and over again, retains its value better than the scraped and re planted variety. Letters To The Editor Critical Of Councilman To the Editor of The Sun Sir: Unlike Harry J.

Larkins, chief observer of the Baltimore Ground Observer Corps observation post, I would be reluctant to enroll Councilman Byrd as a civil defense volunteer at the Baltimore Filter Center. Even though there is a desperate need for more volunteers, we select only those with sound judgment and good mental balance. Rather than concentrate on taking calls from observation posts, evaluating the in formation and passing it on to radar, his mind would be preoccupied with methods for "blowing up" the filter center. Why shouldn't a city councilman be admitted to the main control center, after proper identification? In criticizing the civil defense or ganization, he took advantage of a courtesy extended to him because of his position. It seems to me he could make better use of his time than criticizing an organization that is doing such an outstanding job in Baltimore.

Dorothy E. Smyth, Administrative Supervisor, Baltimore Filter Center. Baltimore, Oct. 4. Morally On The Brink' To the Editor of The Sun Sir: When I was in Baltimore recently, I read in a local newspaper that a boy-killer in Philadelphia, Master Isaiah Green, aged 15 years, is to be executed after being found guilty of a charge of murder.

If this child barely out of short trousers in countries where children are sensibly dressed, are permitted to grow up at their own speed as nature in her wisdom decreed and who are not subjected to the whims of "child psychiatrists' who themselves are sometimes a trifle is sent to the electric chair, American "justice" must stand trial at the bar of history as being barbaric and almost sadistic. Reasons for such "thug-like" behavior of your children are not difficult to find. A casual glance at cinema, radio and television program listings is almost enough. The contents of the great majority of bookstands would cause a Port Said trader to hide his head in shame. Vice, sex, brutality, filth, violence, perversion and murder are glorified.

Parental and school chastisement appears to be near the zero mark, while statistics tend to prove that marriage in the United States would certainly be more accurately described as legal prostitution. When a child, little more than a baby, puts into practice that which is continually before it throughout its life, it is treated with a barbarous ferocity hitherto undreamed in supposedly civilized countries. The truth of the matter is that America as a nation, though the financially richest in the world at the present time and good luck to the country in this respect morally is on the brink of bankruptcy. Norman Yarrow, Radio Officer, S.S. Andros Seaman.

London, England, Sept. 30. fc A V' Sure, It's In Politics Washington, Oct. 5, It Is an ugly and awful thing that In a great country such as this a little demagogue from a relatively unimportant State, who broke faith with the President of the United States after a conference on a grave matter, should have been able single-handedly to raise the lid off the most explosive issue that almost anyone now living can recall, and which once raised cannot easily be controlled. Yet that seems exactly what Governor Faubus of Arkansas has done.

Quite clearly now, this Issue will figure in the short session of this Congress which, begins in January. With equal clarity it will be an issue In the congressional campaign of next year and also in the presidential campaign of I960. There is no way to stop it. Discussion cannot be choked off. This is not a question upon which "reasonable" men on both sides can "get together" and reach a mutually satisfactory solution.

It is a question upon which the northerners and the northwestern-crs, who have never lived in the South, where the Negro population Is largely concentrated, can never really understand the intensity with which the southerner approaches it. Nor can the true southerner ever really comprehend or condone the hypocrisy with which particularly in politics the white politicians of the North and West for so many years dealt and still are dealing with this problem. Of course, the Franklin D. Roosevelt family did not originate this hypocrisy, but it must be admitted that Mr. and Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt did more to promote and increase that hypocrisy than any others. It is not worth while to repeat here the details of the Roose- velt-Farley-Guffey-Hopkins deal of 1936. when the Negroes were trans posed from a basic Republican asset into a Democratic asset though it is a true story and stamped the Democratic party with an even great er degree of hypocrisy than had previously been exhibited by the Republicans which was very great, indeed. Perhaps, however, it is worth while to repeat an often told story about a well known woman Democratic leader of the North and the Negroes.

Some years ago asked by a friend who did not agree with her on this issue how she would feel if one of her children married a Negro, this lady, it was reported, thought for a moment and then, with a benign smile, replied: "Well, if they were truly in love, I would feel it was all right." This may not be a true story and certainly this writer does not vouch for its truth. But, if it is not true it ought to be au thoritatively denied. For it is a story often told and quite widely credited. Also, it embodies the real fear be hind the South's implacable resistance to the school integration provision in the Civil Rights Act. It isn't that in the South, given time, they could not and would not assimilate and eventually co-operate in that idea.

The real basis of South ern resistance is that they feel in the South that co-educational integration inevitably tends toward, the abolition of all social barriers, particularly of intermarrying, between the races. That is a thought deeply repugnant to white men and women of the South. They revolt violently from the idea. And yet that is the root of the whole business and that is why it is so horrible that the racial question should get into politics. Yet no one can deny that it has now been injected completely into politicsthat both parties are "out for the Negro vote," willing to go the limn: to get it, clearly understanding that that vote is more or less decisive in many states.

In this space it was said last week that many politicians and political observers were speculating and prophesying as to the effect of the Little Rock tragedy upon the vote in 1958 and 1960 but that no one really knew. In the past few days these speculations have increased in number but not in substance. For example, Senator Potter, Republican, of Michigan, who knows little about the South, burst forth with a statement that the Negroes would now vote Republican, having discovered how false was their Democratic friendship. Mr. George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO.

is Inclined to think that they will vote Democratic as usual. Mr. Meany is a friend of the ex-convict, Mr. Joe Fay. Now he is almost ministerial in his purity and is strongly against the evil Hoffa.

Many others are speculating about the Negro vote in the forthcoming elections. But no one knows not even Senator Wayne Morse, who knows a very great deal about everything. All that is certain about it is that there will be a most strenuous struggle by both party machines to get it which is a pity a very great pity. the external appearances of slum housing. Given that spirit, there is much that neighborhoods can do to improve conditions without waiting for professional planners, governmental action and Federal subsidy.

First Up Somewhere above us that baby moon is coursing along at great speed, beeping its whereabouts and sending back such information as it was equipped to send back. Placing it out there was a masterly engineering achievement, a sensational breakthrough not only of space but of the boundaries of knowledge. One could wish that the home team had done it first while still admiring and applauding the men under Russian sponsorship the physical theoreticians, the designers, the technical specialists in a hundred heias ana tnc crattsmen who carried this through. Here is evidence once again of the tremendous drive that can be directed to a narrow oDiecuve unaer me com munist way of doing things. And here is evidence, if any more were needed, that Russian scientific resources are in no way inferior to those of the West.

The belief that science can flourish only in an at mosphere of freedom, made fre quently in the past by American men of science but less frequently of late, simply won't hold up against evidence like this. Nor will the belief hold up that the diffusion of basic scientific discoveries can long be held back by security programs. For it is perfectly clear that our satellite and rocket experts are working from the same body of general physical knowledge and theory as are the Russians. It doesn't matter a great deal whether the Rus sians or the Americans got their thing launched first, any more than it matters which of the several his toric claimants was "first" with the telephone, the steam engine, the mechanical reaper or the promul gation of this or that scientific law, What happens is that, at a given point, the sum of scientific knowl edge leads inexorably to the next discovery or development. The his tory of discovery and invention is studded with parallels to prove this.

The order of priority in the launching of satellites is consider ably less significant than the perfect certainty which has long prevailed that the scientific communities on both sides of the Iron Curtain which in fact are but elements in one world-wide scientific community had the requisite knowledge and technical resources to do it. Setting The Stage Political maneuvering for position in advance of a primary and election is an intriguing thing to watch from the sidelines. Take the case of Senator Beall: Yesterday he let it be known with certainty that, if he seeks re-election next year, he will have Governor McKeldin's support "to the hilt." The Governor has assured him of this support, said the Senator. Now the question is: Weren't the Senator's statements superfluous? After all, hadn't Mr. McKeldin assured all and sundry in August, following his return from Europe, that "under no condition" would he run against Senator Beall next year for the Senate seat and that, when his gubernatorial term ended in January, 1959, he would either practice law or try to be re-elected Mayor of Baltimore in the Spring of 1959? Another point.

What of Senator Beall's qualifying phrase, "if" he seeks? The possibility of a senator not seeking re-election in the Maryland Free State is almost unthinkable; certainly in the past Mr. Herbert R. O'Conor stands almost alone in that he did not go after a second senatorial term in 1952. Whether Mr. O'Conor foresaw the handwriting on the wall the Republican sweep of Maryland in 1952 is be side the point.

Normally a senator wants to stay in the Senate. Now forget Senator Beall's "if" and turn to Mr. McKeldin. Here we have a man who is the first Repub- licen ever to be twice elected Governor of Maryland. And here we have a man who already holds two legs on the State's triple crown: Mayor Temperatures Elsewhere Yesterday High Low High Low Paul 72 46 New Orleans 77 64 New York 66 54 Oklahoma City 8.1 61 Omaha 73 50 Philadelphia 65 53 Phoenix 89 70 Pittsburgh 62 44 Portland.

Me. 68 35 Richmond 63 50 St Louis 70 45 Salisbury, Md 62 52 Atlanta 69 Boston fil Bultalo 62 Char ston.S C. 72 Chicago 59 Cincinnati f8 Cleveland 67 Denver 74 Detroit .63 68 F1 Paso 65 Marrisburg 65 Houston. Tex. 85 Angeles 76 Memphis 76 Miami 86 Salt Lake City 70 33 San Anionin 85 61 San Francisco 67 56 Seattle 54 42 Sun rises 7 06 AM.

Sets 6 41 Moon rises 6 28 P.M. Sets 5 A.M. Full moon, October 7. The Tides HUh Water AM. P.M.

Low Water A.M. PM Fort McHenry. Sandy Point Thomas Cove Point Cupe Henry 6 01 4 31 3 48 1 06 7.15 6 30 5 00 4 15 1 36 7.28 12 27 10 47 10.02 7.22 1 02 12 39 11.09 10 24 7 44 1 25 A Year Ago Today Bain. High. Low.

.54 Form And Focus Certain refusals to testify and the Immediate suspension of two high police officials give form and focus to the current investigation of conditions in the Baltimore Police Department. Coming within a few days cf the suicide of a Vice Squad sergeant, they suggest the gravity of the matters under investigation. The details are still vague and there is nothing necessarily wrong with that, since investigators cannot always disclose what they uncover from day to day. But enough is now known to intensify the public demand for the fullest disclosure as soon as possible and the sternest and most expeditious punishment cf such misbehavior as is proven. Urban Pioneers Urban renewal has been de scribed as the new American frontier.

Coming in the wake of a tremendous shift of population from rural to urban areas, it is a process by which cities that are largely the product of the Nineteenth Century ere to be rebuilt for Twentieth-Century living. What has been happening in Johannsen street, in the narrow vblock between Dolphin and Lanvale, is an example of urban renewal. Houses have been repaired and then repainted in the Tyson street style of pastel hues. A backyard play area has been created, flowers planted, and the children have painte outdoor murals. Trash has been removed, sanitary practices established, and a good start made on riddi: the block of rats.

If, as urban renewal is the new frontier, then tit resi dents of Johannsen street are among the early pioneers. They have shown what can be done with paint brushes, mops, spades and elbow grease. In their work they have had help from the near-by school and police station, from the Depart ment of Recreation and Parks and from understanding landlords and the Citizens Planning and Housing Association. These are community resources available to any neighbor hood that wants to help itself. The 590 block of Johannsen street is by no means all there is to urban renewal.

But it is an example of WINSTEIt a drawback to TV advertisements they cannot be "played back" whereas one can always turn back to a magazine to see what an advertisement said. In his opinion subthought adver tisements- were only effective for known products. The president of the Newspaper Society refused to blame TV for the death of certain newspapers. He believed that the death of these weaker brethren removed a malaise and that the health of the press was thereby improved. In the long run there would not be a weakening of the strength of the provincial and local press.

Local newspaper owners were in good heart and ready to meet the challenge of TV which, he thought, streised the value of local advertising since nothing could replace the printed word. Readership Newspaper proprietors have been neglectful in not furnishing hard facts and figures to advertisers, the president of the newspaper society felt. However, the society was initiating the most searching program of readership research ever attempted in Britain. The aim. was to show how readership of the provincial and local press compared with other media and so demonstrate, "the particular, unique qualities of newspaper advertising." The managing director of two London newspapers, the News Chronicle and Star, neither of them doing very well, found the disappearance of the provincial and local newspaper and the smaller magazines, "deplorable and very dangerous." It was not due to TV but with the release of newsprint in quantity the mammoth circulation newspapers had been able to increase their size and so had attracted advertising.

"The advertiser must bear some responsibility," said the speaker. "He is continuously demanding a lower rate a thousands readers and to get a mass sale quickly you must indulge in some form of sensationalism. The same Influence may come to bear upon commercial TV. The demand will be for more and more viewers and the tendency will be to depreciate the value of the service offered. That would not be in the national interest." The director general of the Independent TV Authority anticipates that commercial TV will be available for 90 per cent of the population by 1959 and for 98 per cent by 1960.

"This is probably as high as we can get." As TV adver tising became more powerful there would be moves toward using TV for ppinion advertising but the Television Act forbids advertising directed toward a political end or toward influencing opinion on an important matter of public interest. The act also lays down that advertising must be plainly recognizable as such. This seems to be the answer to subliminal advertising. As a personal opinion I regard such advertising as an intrusion upon my privacy; I don't want anyone playing cbout with my subconscious mind. The idea smacks of George Orwell's "1984" and could be used as an instrument of thought control.

By LORD London. The Institute of Contemporary Art is holding an exhibition of paintings b.y two chimpanzee artists Congo of London, and Betsy of Bal timore. The exnibition lends itself to wisecracks about modern art but it is not claimed that the paintings have an affinity with the much discussed "action painting." Betsy paints with her fingers and with them achieves now and again a design of considerable attraction. Congo paints wtih brushes handed to him ready loaded with colors. It is uncertain therefore if he has a sense of color a most important point.

For the most part Congo's work is infantile but at its best it is rather fascinating and he manages pleasant, bright effects. One thing I should very much like to know is if Congo decides when a picture is finished. It may be going rather far to claim that in them can be traced the origins of human art. Nor do I think it is a case of nature imitating art. In fact, the paintings are not art at all and although the exhibition is sponsored by an art society it is to be considered more as a scientific experiment to determine if the chimpanzees make progress.

Art is, of course, at its most interesting when spontaneous and unpremeditated, which is an argument in favor of those who regard Betsy and Congo as artists. Do the paintings possibly show an impulse to representation? In any case, what is achieved is not the unassisted effort of the chimpanzees but represents co-operation between men and monkeys. And if we are to say that Betsy and Congo have produced something which is interesting but not art the same goes for many film magnates. Subliminal The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers have been meeting in conference. An interesting discussion was upon the effects of subliminal advertising.

This is, to my mind, at any rate, a mysterious business whereby an advertisement is flashed on the screen in a cinema or TV show but for such a minute portion of a second that the eye does not convey it to the conscious mind. It sinks however into the subcon scious mind and rises into the conscious mind when the eye sees a press advertisement to the same effect. Without such published ad vertisements the subliminal adver tisement would be without effect. There was unanimous agreernent as to this among representatives of the published word and of business firms spending large sums on TV advertising. One of them, em phasizing that such advertising must be followed up In print said, "many people feel It is only an appetite-whetter." Every so often we read that a newspaper or a magazine or journal has gone out of existence but from the advertisers point of view there is no lack of publications in which to advertise.

Expenditure on British pressadver-tising for the April-June quarter was two per cent up on the same period last year. TV advertising for the same period at over 7 million was 2Vi million up'on last year. The president of the Periodical Proprietors Association pointed out.