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Rights if Legislation To
Washington (CQ) President
Eisenhower can push his civil
rights program through the in
coming 85th Congress if he puts
enough steam behind the effort.
. That, at least, is the opinion
of the lawmakers and lobbyists
surveyed by the Congressional
Quarterly in its rundown on
1957. legislative prospects.
The prediction itself is news
worthy. Not since the post-Civil
war decade has Congress written
a major civil rights statute into
the books.
Aided by Senate rules permit
ting virtually unlimited debate,
southern Democrats have used
their committee chairmanships,
their parliamentary skill and, ul
timately, their lung power to de
lay or prevent votes on civil
rights legislation.
They are in a position to do so
again in 1957. But backers of
civil rights bills think their own
position is stronger in the new
Congress than it has been for
many years.
Election Returns Cited
The reasons: President Eisen
hower and the November elec
tion returns.
Those returns were an eye
opener. In city after city across
the country, large numbers of
Negro voters switched to the
Republican column.
Politicians of both parties are
convinced the "Negro vote,"
which Lincoln captured for the
GOP and Roosevelt seized for
the Democrates, is up for grabs
again.
Northern Democrats, who ac
Is That So?
Concerning birds. The great
conqueror of Asia, Kublai Khan,
kept 10,000 hunting birds
gyrfalcons, peregrines, and
eagles, each with its own falcon
er. For hours on end, so the great
traveler Marco Polo reports, the
great Khan would relish the
sport of having his favorite birds
pursue cranes and other heavy
birds, overcoming them after
long, violent midair struggles.
Sociable weaver birds of
southern Africa, working to
gether, have been known to
build huge 30-room apartments
of straw and grass about 10 feet
in diameter and eight feet high
in the thorny branches of an
acacia.
America's only parasitic bird is
the cowbird. During her egg-
laying season, the hen seeks out
the nest of a smaller bird often
a song sparrow, ovenbird, yel
low warbler or vireo. Shortly
after dawn she usually removes
one of the eggs of her victim by
puncturing it with her bill and
carrying it off. Then she lays
one of her own eggs. As a rule,
she seeks another nest for the
next egg.
The victimized bird usually
does not object to the strange
egg and incubates it with her
own. The young cowbird is al
most always bigger than its nest
mates and with greedy insistence
usually monopolizes the food
brought by the overworked little
parents. The upshot, often
enough, is that the foster par
ent's true young cowbird, feed
ing it even though it may be
twice their own size.
The tailorbird of the Philip
pines using an in-and-out stitch
carefully sews together the edges
of several large leaves with
strands of grass and thus forms
a pocket in which it places its
nest.
Song Repeated
The house wren, commonly
called the Jenny wren, has been
counted to repeat its song 6,000
times a day.
When the huge-billed toucan
beds down for the night, it folds
up: he turns his head backward
and lays the bill sideways on
the top of the back, and then
at
cented pleas to avoid a party-
splitting civil rights showdown
before the 1956 election, now
rejects counsels of caution. Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.)
Aug. 12 said patience was essen
tial in the fight to wipe out ra
cial prejudice. On Nov. 9 three
days after the election he said,
"Democrats are digging their
own grave by inacuun in mc
field of civil rights."
One Republican, long a sup
porter of civil rights legislation,
describes the change in his party
this way: "In the past, many Re
publicans who have no reason
to oppose civil rights bills have
not been notably active in sup
porting them. They had no de
sire to interrupt their pleasant
working relationship with the
southern Democrats who run
Congress.
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"Also, they saw no possible
political advantage in espousing
civil rights. When all the Negro
votes were going to Democrats,
Republicans were inclined to
say, 'Let the Democrats work
for civil rights.' This election
changed all that."
The atmosphere is ripe for a
bipartisan civil rights drive.
Some 50 groups, organized as
the Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights, are ready to push
for action in 1957. All that is
needed, they feel, is leadership
from the top from President
Eisenhower.
Mr. Eisenhower endorsed a
legislative civil rights program
for the first time in 1956. He
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
spreads his fan-like tail and folds
that over the gaudy bill and
back.
The smallest warm-blooded
animal in the world is the bee
hummingbird. It is slightly over
two inches long but more than
half of this consists of bill and
tail.
The robin-sized mockingbird
is without doubt America's best
natural-born vocalist: not only
does it have a set of haunting
songs of its own which it pours
out from a high perch but it
also includes in its repertoire
with equal ease the mimicked
songs of every other bird and
frog in the neighborhood , in
cluding the sparrow's chirping,
the swallow's twittering, the
frog's bellow, and the hawk's
scream.
Secures Egg To Nest
The tree swift not only glues
her small cup-shaped nest to its
anchorage on the side of a limb
high on a tree with sticky saliva
but it also secures her single egg
to the inside of the nest.
Hummingbirds make the most
efficient mothers in the bird
world usually taking on the
entire role of nest-building, in
cubating and caring for the
young. One in fact, the black
chinned hummingbird, has been
observed building a second nest
and laying eggs in it while still
feeding the first pair in the nest!
The woodpecker's usual court
ing song is a drumming produced
by a rapid tapping on a resonant
dead limb or even a tin-sheathed
eve-trough. It drums so rapidly
that one's eye cannot follow the
movement nor the ear separate
the rolling notes.
To give the bill extra driving
strength, the bird has powerful
neck mucles and some of the
bones in its head are fused to
resist the constant hammer to
which it is subjected.
To get food out of the tiny
holes, the tongue is extra long
and the tip has little barbs on
it to help pull the grubs out.
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ForrestalTo Head
For Mediterranean
Norfolk, Va. U.R The su
percarrier Forrestal will head
toward the Mediterranean Jan.
21, the Navy here said today.
The 60,000 ton warship will
leave from Mayport, Fla., for
duty with the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
A spokesman said it is the first
time that a ship of the 60,000
ton class has joined American
naval forces on foreign stations.
The Forrestal's sister ship, the
Saratoga-, is slated for the Medi
terranean later next year.
Atlantic Fleet Headquarters
said the. Forrestal will arrive in
the Mediterranean early in Feb
ruary to relieve the 45,000 ton
carrier Coral Sea, which is slat
ed for transfer to the West
Coast.
Civil
Pass
called for a bipartisan commis
sion to investigate civil rights
problems, a separate civil rights
division in the Department of
Justice, and most important
strengthened civil laws to pre
vent and punish violations of
civil rights, particularly the
right to vote.
The program delayed by the
House Rules committee finally
was approved by the House by a
lopsided 279-126 vote. But it
reached the Senate so late July
23 the President's advisors told
him there was no chance for
action.
Mr. Eisenhower is expected
to push the same program in
1957, and House passage again
seems assured. The real struggle
will come, as it always has, in
the" Senate.
First Round Early
The first round in the Senate
battle will be fought opening
day, Jan. 3, when a small, bipar
tison group attempts to change
the Senate rules and make it
easier to cut off filibusters.
Odds are heavily against their
succes. A similar effort failed,
70-21, in 1953. Presidential inter
vention could be decisive, but it
is not really esxpected.
In 1952 Mr. Eisenhower was
quoted as favoring a curb on fili
busters, but during the 195a de
bate on a rules change, Senate
GOP Leader William F. Know
land (Calif.) said Mr. Eisenhower
"clearly understands the . . .
rules of the Senate are for the
Senate of the United States
alone" to decide.
Sen. Charles E. Potter (R.
Mich.) backing the rules revision
Dec. 11 said "I would hope"
the President favors the move
but added he had no plans to
enlist White House support.
Decisive Test Later
A more decisive test of Presi
dential leadership will come la
ter, when the Administration's
civil rights bills actually reach
the Senate. Civil rights advo
cates claim at least eight of the
15 votes on the Judiciary com
mittee enough, they say, to
overcome opposition to the
measures by Chairman James
O. Eastland (D.-Miss.).
If they can blast the bills out
of Eastland's committee, a fili
buster almost certainly will en
sue. Under existing Senate rules,
64 votes will be needed to im
pose cloture and cut off the de
bate. Democrats say they can fur
nish about 24 of the votes. That
means 40 of the 47 Senate Re
publicans would have to be
swung into line.
Only one man can do that,
and at that stage all eyes will
turn to the White House.
(Copyright 1956
Congressional Quarterly)
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Another Good Year in
Business Forecast by
General Motors Head
(Editor's note: This is one of m
series of 10 anicle, written for the
t'nited Press by leaders In as many
fields, giving their forecasts as to the
outlook for 1957 in their specialties.)
BY HARLOW H. CURTICE
President, General Motors
Written For United Press
The automotive industry will
be a leader in a steadily expand
ing national economy during
1957, providing, of course, that
world peace can be maintained.
Our industry should produce
and sell domestically approxim
ately 6.5 million automobiles and
900.000 trucks. This is about 10
per cent over 1956 for passenger
cars. Total production, including
Canada and export to other
markets, should approximate 8.3
million cars and trucks.
Business Trend Up
This market growth will be
in line with a further upward
trend in general business activ
ity. Our national gross product
for 1957 should be somewhere
in the neighborhood of $435 bil
lion, with disposable income
reaching possibly S300 billion as
against $287 billion in 1956.
We also can look forward to
another year of substantially full
employment. On this basis, and
with a prevailing confidence in
our economy, personal consump
tion expeditures should also con
tinue to increase from current
levels.
Although it has been histor
ically proven that prosperity and
pro'gress are not based on war
or peak level defense expendi
tures, we can look forward to
somewhat higher spending in
that area, too. This should be in
British Soldiers
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Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R)
Gunmen shot down two British
soldiers early today when' they
called at The Times of Cyprus
office to pick up newspapers for
their unit.
The men were killed by a
blast of sten gun fire a few hours
after the government released
25 prominent Cypriots held un
der the island's emergency reg
ulations. British troops sealed off the
old walled inner city of Nicosia
and a search was begun for the
assassins.
Thousands of workers were
held outside the city walls by
barbed wire and troops with
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Housing Steady
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which set new highs in each of
the last four years, should also
continue its upward trend.
Housing starts should remain
steady with more emphasis on
non-residential building.
With the new highway pro
gram just getting underway,
spending for highways should be
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or a total of around S8.5 billion.
The tremendous demand for
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in 1957 and expenditures are
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