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(the The Day Lincoln Approach To God 4-A Friday, July 29. 19(50 EDITORIALS Minorities Decided Recent Primaries The usual light vote in primaries where statewide offices are not at stake was noted in hist election despite the importance of some of the races. A a 11 those who won Democratic nomination did not win through a decision by a majority of the eligible Democratic voters. They won through majorities of the minority that voted. This is no reflection on the winner.

It is a reflection on that portion of the electorate that stayed home. In the Twin-City area, there were clear- cut decisions in all but one school board race. A runoff will be held. In the 28 North Louisiana parishes of the Third Public Service District, there were two contests, both walkaways. John J.

McKeithen retained his post on the Public Service Commission by a margin of better than 50,000 votes over L. S. Hooper of Shreveport. J. D.

(Joe) Waggonner Jr. of Plain Dealing pushed C. Raymond Heard of Ruston off the State Board of Education by more than 23,000 votes. Since Mr. McKeithen had won easily in his first election to the Public Service Commission over both Mr.

Hooper and the then incumbent, his re-election was expected. The News-Star, of course, is gratified over Mr. victory, not merely because we endorsed him but because we believe that he will make a good member of the State Board, capable of working harmoniously with members from the Fourth. Fifth and Eighth Congressional Districts. He will be the at- large member from the whole Public Service District, with each Congressional District also having a representative on the Board.

Mr. Waggonner carried a substantial number of parishes in both the Fifth and Eighth Districts as well as in the Fourth. He made an intensive campaign, devoid of personalities. It was based entirely on his i the field of education and act impartially in all school iege or lower levels. The News-Star congratulates all of the winners in primaries and commends to consideration of the voters in the August primary those candidates who are in runoffs.

In some instances the final decision will not come until November when some Democratic nominees will face own record on pledges matters at pul opp ution. Captive Nations Week's Message Was Nominated By JIM BISHOP Captive Nations Week the week that Nikita Khrushchev and the Kremlin gang hate and fear, was held recently. In July of 1959, the Congress of the United States unanimously adopted a point resolution designating the third week of July as Captive Nations Week. That resolution read in part: the enslavement of a substantial part of the population makes a mockery of the idea of peaceful coexistence between nations and the imperialistic policies of Communist Russia have led, through direct and indirect aggression, to the subjugation of the national independence of Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Estonia, White Ruthenia, Romania, East Germany, Bulgaria, mainland China, Azerbaijan, Georgia, North Korea, Albania, Idel-Ural, Cossackia, Turkestan, North Viet Nam and others; The President is further authorized and requested to issue a similar proclamation each year until such time as freedom and independence shall have been achieved for all the captive nations of the One of the greatest ironies of history is the fact that at a time when the old imperialist powers have withdrawn from almost all the formerly colonial areas of the world, the Soviets have built up a greater colonial empire in population if not area, than all the colonial territories of the world as of 1939 and are steadily and unwaveringly attempting to subjugate the remainder of mankind. That Khrushchev fears the message of Captive Nations Week was strikingly proven by his outburst in Moscow during his debate with Vice-President Nixon.

There is no issue on which he is more sensitive. For Russia violated nonaggression pacts with most of the European satellites when she enslaved them, and in addition violated other treaties and agreements made during and after the war guaranteeing their independence. The captive nations are Russia's Achilles heel. They hate their brutal masters. They are the allies of the free world.

Truly, as the congressional resolution stated, their enslavement a mockery of the idea of peaceful coexistence between the and there never can be a true settlement of world issues until they are freed, in one way or another. One hundred years ago a political phenomenon occurred in Chicago. A great man who was virtually unknown was nominated by the Republicans for president and went on to election and an illustrious career. CHICAGO, May 17. I860.

At noon today, Abraham Lincoln, a lawyer from Sangamon County, Illinois, was nominated for the office of president of the United States by the new Republican party. He was a dark horse who appeared to be popular only with the ruffians in the gallery, all of whom demonstrated every time his name was mentioned. He won on the third ballot, after some of the most scurrilious horse trading ever seen on a convention floor. THE NEWS was flashed by telegraph to the Springfield Journal. Word received here late today is that the candidate had been out with a friend, looking to play a game of billiards, and had stopped in at the journal office.

When he heard that he had been named as the standard bearer, Mr. Lincoln, a tall, smooth-shaven man of awkward pace, turned from the well-wishers and said: is a Lady over Yonder on eighth who is deeply interetsed in this news; I will carry it to There are some here who wonder whether the right man was picked for' this crisis in history, just as there are others, mostly westerners, who are certain that no one else could lead the union in these times. A short while ago. the Democrats met in convention at Charleston. South Carolina, and.

because Stephen A. Douglas could not get the necessary two thirds votes to win the nomination, he stood by and watched his party split into factions north and south. This should guarantee a Republican victory in November. AT THAT PARLEY, Little Alexander Stephens, of Georgia, had said: will be cutting each other's throats in a little while. In twelve months, we shall be in a war, the bloodiest in history." And here in Illinois, the politicians who plead peace found their spokesman in Dick Yates, Republican candidate for governor, who shouted us hope that the south will not attempt to destroy this union, but, if it should, flaming giants will spring from every cornfield in the state of The favorite at this convention was Senator William H.

Seward of New York. At this time, he is at his home in Auburn, New York, writing his acceptance speech. On the first ballot, which was full of small totals for favorite sons, Mr. Seward had 173 of the 465 total. Mr.

Lincoln had 102. For nomination, Mr. Seward needed 310, and these were assured on the second ballot before the left for Auburn. They had been promised by delegations who had to remain loyal to local favorites for one complimentary ballot. The Seward campagin has been ably handled by Mr.

Thurlow Weed, the New York boss. He has personally buttonholed just about every delegate at the Wigwam and, when he could not win a pledge of support without concessions, he has made them freely sometimes promising the same post to two or three delegates. When, on occasion, he could not win a delegate with promises, he has neutralized these men by winning promisse that they would vote for their favorite sons for at least three ballots. IN SPRINGFIELD, friends told Mr. Lincoln about Mr.

Weed, and tried to frighten him with stories of ruthless tactics. Lincoln was not scared. "Only events can make a he said. A loyal friend of said: all the ugly men in the country vote for' Abe, There is a question of how much of the underhanded politics at this convention, executed in party grumbled about it because Chicago is a rutty city of planked streets and raised sidewalks, a place of 110,000 citizens who slaughter hogs and steers today, and who look to the prairies and mountains of the Indian country for untold riches tomorrow. The people here call it the City of the but it was the odor of a hoyden who has been out all night.

They have their own silver dollar caste system and it is not unusual to see a young girl, hardly 18, at a lavish ball wearing a tiara of pure diamonds in her hair. Last year. Chicago exported 30,000,000 bushels of grain. The credo around the city is is a hog, but 15 or 20 bushels of corn on four There are cattle hands here, riding the streets in leather chaps, monopolizing the hitching rails in front of saloons, drinking the best five cent liquor and telling wild stories of raids by the Sioux and Comanche. There are street fights every night and, when men will not fight, two pigs are goaded to battle, or two cocks, or two dogs.

WOMEN IN BIG bell skirts ride in dark phaetons, and farmers and their families come in from Indiana and southern 111- nois with early produce. The biggest population here is rats. By day, they hide under the wooden- plank sidewalks. At night, they scurry across the bodies of the sodden drunks, enroute to the refuse heaps in the backyards of the restaurants. On the opening day of the convention, the delegates were pleased to see that the ladies of Chicago had dressed the wigwam in patriotic colors, with paper streamers cascading from the ceiling.

Mark Deiahay had watched Thurlow Weed at work and had become faint of heart. He wired Mr. Lincoln and asked if he would accept second place on the party ticket. Lincoln had replied that he would accept the vice presidency if his friends thought it wise. A friend wired: are working.

Keep a good nerve. We are laboring to make you first choice. We are dealing tenderly with delegates, taking them in detail and making no fuss. Be not too expectant, but rely on our discretion. Again 1 say, brace your nerves for any At the Tremont House, friends danced a little jig the day the convention opened, and a reporter asked why.

are going to have Indiana for old Abe one said. the Lord, we promised them everything they THEY PROMISED everything to everybody. Caleb Smith was told he would be secretary of the interior; Bill Cole wanted to be commissioner of Indian affairs, and was promised it. Pennsylvania had 60 votes, and they were all pledged to Simon Cameron. a favorite son.

Dubois wired Lindoln that Pennsylvania could be had if Cameron became secretary of the treasury. Lincoln replied: authorize no bargains and will be bound by Some said that Lincoln was being honest. Others said that his friends understood this to tie his public attitude, but that, in priave, he knew that bargains had to be struck in order for a candidate to win votes. Either way, Cameron got his promise of a cabinet post, and Pennsylvania, in secret, waited with Inidana to ambush Seantor Seward. Davis, one of Mr.

Lincoln's managers, said: ain't here, and know what we have to meet, so we will go ahead as if we had not heard from him, and he must ratify it. Medill said it best: wanted that big Pennsylvania foot brought down on the Another said: want the presidency, and the treasury is not a great stake to pay for On the night before the convention opened, the program listed several speeches in behalf of Se- behalf of Lincoln, has been en- ward. The Lincoln managers ar- dorsed by him. He confounded ranged for a delegate from Pen- the Seward camp by a nsylvania to take the floor, and public note to a delegate in which he said: is the best candidate we could have for the north of Illinois, and the very worst for the south of This was condemnation in faint praise. Mr.

Lincoln also sought the assistance of Mr. Mark Deiahay, of Kansas, who is hard- sad song with an old banjo, work- ly of the respectable element in his party. He used Mr. Deiahay to support him, and used others who have not smelled sweet since infancy. He has, on several occasions, denied aspirations to HOW TO KEEP WELL By Dr.

Theodore R. Van Dellen To ttao Umlt of questions to the pretention of disease will be M-g swered. Personal plies will be when retorn envelope le enclosed. Telephone inquiries- not accepted. Dr.

Van Ilellen will not make diagnoses or prescribe for Indlridnal diseases holesterol and heart attacks Physicians are not sure, after 10 years of research, that fat in the" diet is responsible for hardening of the coronary and other arteries. So many conflicting reports have appeared no one should made radical changes in their eating habits in an attempt to avoid heart attacks and strokes. The exceptions are a low caloric diet for overweight and less salt for hypertensives. Obstruction of a coronary artery is the most common cause of the usual heart attack. Cholesterol is the fatty substance that clogs the blood vessels.

Half of it comes from fat in the diet and the other half is manufactured by the body. In addition, many cardiac victims have a high concentration of cholesterol in the blood. i Incident Shows Up The Hoax That Is Known As Civil Rights Scientists put two and two together and decided that a reduction of the blood cholesterol might prevent heart attacks. But the mystery deepened because lowering the cholesterol level does not always dp what it is supposed to do. This is understandable because other factors play a role in raising the blood cholesterol level and in the development of heart attacks.

In addition, we cannot make the body siop manufacturing cholesterol. By WESTBROOK PEGLER CHICAGO By a mysterious chemical process, a pitcher of tap water was converted into a seething Seidlitz in the centenary convention of the Republicans. Thus only was the great consistory saved from torpor. It is true that Vice President Nixon captivated a sparse and notably adolescent crowd including a wriggling Negro boy of seven with one front tooth conspicuously absent in the scene of his arrival at the airport. This little stooge, handily planted at the microphones and cameras as the Nixons and their two little girls came to earth, might have been hired from a casting bureau or an advertising agency.

He was crowded to the very pores with winsomeness and, on the basis of this debut, might go on to heights of statesmanship in Hollywood or on the Waldorf Roof. Be that as it may, he played straight for character- bit in the first few minutes of the grand charade and served to introduce amiably an issue which soon began to fizz like a dose of hangover wafers on a radio commercial. This is the hoax of civil rights. By any fair judgment the issue belongs to Harry S. Truman and ought to pay him a royalty.

Mr. Truman may not have thought it up, but back in his first presidency he did recognize its sterling quality as political medicine and therefore named a under the nominal and passive authority of Charles E. Wilson, then of General Electric. The held few desultory hearings but when it recommended a concentrate of FEPC, de-segregation, the several anti-lynch resolutions and show boat, the Republicans recalled with a start that they had always had a lamp in the window for Eliza, Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima and even Booker T. Washington.

But now it was too late or almost too late. Some Republicans, wanly hopeful, tried to revive an old superstition that Warren G. purplish hue on his cheek-bones was not from an osage forbear but from a lallygagging passenger on the underground railway up through Ohio. This, however, availed them nothing but now, by a baffling rope-trick they have an enchanting opportunity to win back their alienated proteges from the Roosevelt revolution with full citizenship in Mr. world beyond the horizon.

This is a never- never land first promulgated by Kennedy in his acceptance speech in Los Angeles, but without clear title because already Nixon is claiming sovereignty. It is a land of no nationality with mighty armies of impersonal wraiths, a sort of confederation of nightmare, halluciantion, and the dreamy delight of opium fumes. It has race nor lawful currency, credit rating nor club arrangements and it was projected with quiet nonchalance when Mr. Nixon said, in his massive press conference, that he intended to go beyond the platform. This seemed to be his counter-challenge to quietly fearsome planet in which constitutional Americans apparently would be pickled and preserved in jars of juniper- brine.

Both super-men clearly had been snuffing white flakes off their thumbnails. It will make no difference what their platforms say when both nominees are space-cadets claiming implied mandates to take off for realms millions of light aeons away. Nixon's monopoly had seemed so strong that the Republicans were reduced to unspoken envy of the uncontrollable gift of harmonious malice and strife. Things were just too quiet. The haughty resolve to do things with decorum was beginning to mock the managers with the portent of a turkey.

They wanted no such revivlas of Colonel army as Adlai Stevenson and the first lady of the world had produced in the march of the rabble at the Democratic hoe-down. But this thing was too much like a parent- teachers meeting on a rainy night. Nixon apparently could not be headed and the schedule had been reduced to a few ratification sessions when the vice president picked up a phone and asked Rockefeller to receive him in New York. This tweaked Senator Barry Goldwater, the spiritual custodian of the Constitution. He took off from his launching pad with a whoosh and a glare of cosmic indignation.

However, within 24 hours his consultants noticed that he was veering off his course, whatever that was, so they pressed a button and he settled nicely into a morass of contradictory plat'tudes on a TV quiz. He aid it was an honor to be a member of the same party with Rockefeller and went on so earnestly about boundless of agreement that in 3 minutes he talked himself entirely out of his eariier scorn. It was well for the dramatic appeal of the convention that Barry did not yield the matter of sit-in demonstrations and school segregation to federal jurisdiction. This and union atrocities were his only remaining preserves. On both counts he could, and undoubtedly would, lose with courteous resignation and honor.

So the convention was aroused to a sedate commotion about the difference between ditto marks. Rockefeller achieved historic rank as a petulant charlatan as empty as Wendell Willkie. With no experience outside regime nor any virtue but money and a barony in Venezuela he was elected governor of New York over Averell Harriman. Herbert Lehman and La Boca then accepted him as their substitute and. for extra, Mrs.

Rockefeller admitted to me in writing that for three years she had been a member of David socialist party, now called liberal. Sudden or excessive emotional stress often precedes coronary thrombosis. The sex glands play a role in that female hormones protect women from coronary artery diseases and strokesjup to the time of menopause. Tobacco enters the picture; many physicians believe its role in lung cancer has overshadowed its effect on the heart. High blood pressure and obesity vie with fat as equal contenders in this problem.

The blood cholesterol can be lowered by eating fewer animal fats and incorporating more vegetable oils into the diet. Thyroid extract, large doses of niacin, Triparanol, and certain plant steroids also help. But feel too smug if your cholesterol goes clown because it takes more than this to outwit Father Time. Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self addressed envelope accompanies request.

BUTTERMILK AFTER ANTIBIOTIC M. L. writes: Is it a good idea to take buttermilk every day after an antibiotic has destroyed the friendly bacteria in the intestine? REPLY No harm but it is of questionable value. The normal bacterial flora of the intestine usually return in due time, after stopping the antibiotic. POPEARED N.

A. M. writes: Why do my ears pop whenever I get a bad cold? REPLY Because the swollen membranes at the back of the throat obstruct the openings of the eu- stacian tubes that lead to the ears. The obstruction is not complete and whenever the tubes open momentarily, air rushes in and produces the popping sound. talk Lincoln, and to hold the floor until the session died of fatigue.

When the temporary chairman rapped the gavel in the morning, hundreds of Seward adherents marched to the Wigwam stinging: he a Ward Hill Lamon, who could sing a Rockefeller Hasn Fared Too Well At GOP Convention THE WONDERS OF 113 T. S. writes: Will the new wonder drug, H3, which helps so many chronic illnesses, be of any value in multiple sclerosis? REPLY H3 is a new name for procaine, a local anesthetic that has been used for years to deaden pain. There is no reason why it should lie of value in multiple sclerosis, despite the claims of the group touting the product. BY FULTON LEWIS JR.

BLOATING AND ULCER C. W. writes: Does a persoi with ulcer have lots of gas? REPLY This is not a common com plaint unless the ulcer patient ii constipated or the diet increase: fermentation. ed hard all night. He was signing forged names to convention passes so that the balleries would be filled with Lincoln bully boys.

THESE PEOPLE, with their loud and dismal hooting, main- the presidency, and yet he said to tained a bedlam for the rail split- Senator Lyman Trumbull: taste is in my mouth a Mr. Lincoln sent Jess K. Dubois and Judge David Davis here to the convention to represent his interest and to fight for the nomination. At the same time, he wrote to the Ohio delegation: I think the Illinois delegation will be unanimous for me at the sart; and no other delegation DELAHAY ASKED Lincoln for money, and the Illinois lawyer declined them compromised. you shall be appointed a delegate to he wrote, ter.

Some were sodden with whiskey: some were filled with religious fervor; some hoped for an appointment. No one knows how much they influenced the voting. One thing is certain: They were out of hand and could not be controlled by the Lincoln camp. Norman B. Judd made a short nominating speech: he said solemnly, behalf of the delegation from Illinois, to put in nomination, as a candidate for president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln of That was it.

That was all. A reporter for a local newspaper wrote will furnish one hundred dollars that, if all the hogs ever slaughter- to bear the expenses of the By the time the delegates began to arrive in Chicago last Monday, Mr. Lincoln was anxious to win. am a little too much of a candidate to stay he wrote, not quite enough a candidate to It was Lincoln and his men who had originally fought to have Chicago as the convention city. This was shrewdly done to exploit local Lincoln enthusiasm, and many of the big men of the ed were to squeal together, and be joined by a score of huge steam whistles, it would not equal the hosanna for Mr.

Lincoln. The first ballot was Seward: 173 Lincoln 102; scattered The second ballot, taken at once, was Seward Lincoln 181. This was the ambush. On the third count, Seward had 180; Lincoln had and, with victory in sight, the shrewd publisher Medill whispered to Carter of Ohio: CHICAGO After a week of secret conferences with party leaders and rank-and-file delegates, Nelson Rockefeller has won few friends and influenced even fewer people here at the Republican National convention. Support for the New York governor for president is, of course, virtually nonexistent.

He is unable to hold even his own delegation firm, as vice president Nixon has personal commitments from Empire state delegates. With no 96- vote delegation to build upon, Sen. Barry Goldwater actualy has more presidential delegate support than Rockefeller. What is more, politicians who just weeks ago were pushing the so-called dream ticket of Nixon and Rockefeller, have ceased their efforts. The reason is not insis- you can throw the Ohio delegation to Lincoln, Chase can have anything he Salmon P.

Chase wanted a cabinet post. He got his promise. Carter asked the attention of the chair, and got it. He switched four Ohio votes to Abraham Lincoln. Other delegates, worried and indecisive, stood to ask a change of votes.

When the tally clerk read the totals: Liincoln had 354. This was 44 more than was needed for noniiantion. Knapp sent a wire to Lincoln in Springfield. it read, did it. Glory be tence that he will reject the post.

It is, instead, the realization that place on the GOP ticket would guarantee defeat this fall. What has alienated most delegates here is the Nixon-Rocke- feiler summit meeting in New York, and the extremist views that Rockefeller has attempted to foist upon the platform committee. Members of the platform committee, in the words of an Indiana delegate, are over Reaction from rank-and-file delegates is similar. It has been reported, of course, that the civil rights Subcommittee, chaired by own choice, New York state Senator Joseph Carlino, refused to incorporate the suggestions into its document. What has not been reported is that Rockefeller met an even greater defeat in the education subcommittee headed by Sen.

Gordon Allott. The New has long been a vocal proponent of federal aid to education and it surprised no one when he implored the platform committee to endorse the scheme. The education subcommittee, however, voted 10-1 against federal aid, with only chairman Allott going along for Rockefeller. The feeling toward Rockefeller here is summed up by Gov. liam Stratton, who told a closed- door caucus of his delegation: must not be committee to a platform that has been discussed and approved riding on planes and trains between New York and Stratton went on to lash out at eastern that were trying to seize control of the party.

And fearing that these might try to sneak Rockefeller into the second spot, Stratton pledged that he would nominate Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen for vice president. He declared he would battle Rockefeller tooth and nail. Iowa delegates, also fearing that Rocky might lie placed in nomination for vice president have announced they will nominate Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper Wisconsin is fighting Rockefeller with Thruston Morton. State chairman Harvey Highley flatly calls Rockefeller a in the and warns that his delegation cannot take the New York millionaire.

Rockefeller is entirely unacceptable to the Indiana delegates. They say that his going on the ticket would mean defeat in their state. They favor, for the most pait. Sen. Goldwater for vice president.

So strongly do the South Dakota delegates feel about Rockefeller that they have threatened to back Goldwater for president un- Health Beach regulations are established for your safety. less the vice president disassociates himself from liberal views. Anti Rockefeller feeling is strong throughout the entire agricultural midwest, the west and the south. He has little support, even for the vice presidential spot, from liberal easterners. They are backing Lodge, and Bockefeiler is out in the cold.

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