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Evening star., 1948-10-24

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Evening star., 1948-02-01
Society Sponsors
Service to China
Discussion Series
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DR.. Lin Yutang, Chinese scholar
and author of two best sellers, MY
Country and My People" and "The
Importance of Living" will be the
principal speaker at Anderson House,
2118 Massachusetts, avenue, this af-
ternoon at 3:15 at the first in a
series of interesting meetings and
discussions being arranged by United
Service to China. Mr.. Dennis Nc
Evoy, manager of the Far Eastern
Division of Readers Digest, will speak
briefly. Mr.. William l.. Bait will
make the introductions.
The Ambassador of China and
Nine. Koo are honorary sponsors OF
today's meeting. Sponsors are Mrs.
Truxtun Beale, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Bohlen, Gen. and Mrs. Omar N.
Bradley, Representative Frances P.
Bolton, Mrs. John Nicholas Brown,
Mr.. William Bullitt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wayne Chatfield- Taylor, Justice and
Mrs. William o. Douglas, DR.. Paul
F.. Douglass, Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius
Van H. Engert, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Edward Finley. Representative and
Mrs. Christian r. Herter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley K. Hornbeck, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter H. Judd and former
Ambassador to China and Mrs. Mel
son r. johnson.
/ Also Gen. and Mrs. Frank r. Nc
Coy, Senator and Mrs. George Ma
lone, Mrs. George Mesta, Mrs Eugene
Meyer, Mr.. George Hewitt Myers
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Justice anc
Mrs. Stanley Reed, Mr.. and Mrs
Donald Richbsss senatorAnd Mrs
Robert A. Taft, Mr.. and NJ Andre
vinson, Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Wads'
| worth, 1t. Gen. and Mrs. Albert G
Wedemeyer and Gen. and Mrs. Cor
SoY, A vol1np
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To We'd in Nav

Mrs. Frances A. Chandler Of San
Francisco has announced the en-
eagement of her daughter, Miss
Hannah Beatrice Chandler, to Mr..
Donovan Keith Shaffer, son of Mr..
and Mrs. B. G. Shaffer of Great
Falls, Mont, the wedding to take
place May 81.
Miss Chandler attended Ouachita
College, the Washington School for
Secretaries and Benjamin Franklin
University.
Mr.. Shaffer, who served with the
Navy during the war, IS attending
George Washington University.
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A BUNDLE or CHARM.
ANOTHER one OF the babies
at the House OF Mercy Is re-
ceiving a lot OF attention from
Mrs. Sumner T.. w. Kittelle,
(lett) and Mrs. T. Perry Lip
pitt, jr. Mrs. Kittelle IS uice
president OF the Board OF
Trustees and chairman OF the
committee of the phantom
dinner. This annual dinner,
an imaginary meal, is being
launched today. 1t Uas In
augurated some gears ago In
the belief that all gifts OF
money should 90 directly to
the support of the house.
EDery one Is inDtted to sub
scribe to this annual dinner.
Star staff Photos.
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House of Mercy
Continued From Page D-1.)

renee G. Hoes, vice president, Mrs
De Forest Anthony, second vice
president, Mrs. Donald Bingham
third vice president, Mrs. Hannah
Gather Hill, recording secretary,
Mrs. Harold Wild, assistant record
ing secretary, Mrs. Howard Bailey,
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Will
liam Draper Blair, treasurer and
Mrs. Norman l.. Munster, assistant
treasurer.
Board Of Trustees under Bishop
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ENGAGEMENT Told

Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Mildred Corinne
Montgomery, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert G. Montgomery, to Mr..
William L. Hightower, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. G. I. Hightower OF Dis
trict Heights, Md.
Miss Montgomery is a graduate
of the Providence Division OF the
School of Nursing of the Catholic
University of America. Mr.. High
tower served in the Navy during the
war
Evening star., 1948-02-01

Angus DUN are Mrs. William Draper
Blair, Mr.. William Blum, jr.; DR..
Walter Willard Boyd, Mrs. Benia-
min Colby, Mr.. G. Bowdoin Craig
hill, jr.; Capt. ]. II. s. Dessez, Mrs.
Clarence Dodge, jr.: Mrs. Julius
A. Furer, Miss Genrose Gehri, Mr..
John s. Graham, Mrs. I. William
Hill, Mrs. Laurence G. Hoes, Mr..
Richard L. Johnson, Mrs. s. E. w.
Kittelle, the Rev. Canon Albert c.
Lucas, Mrs. Arthur Macarthur, Mr..
Samuel E. Neel, DR.. John Parks,
Miss Gertrude Sawyer and Mr.
Howard Carter WestWood.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Returned Home

Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Sarazen are
back from Texas, where they visited
relatives.
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Bv Dorothy Th0mbs0u

Although I feel strongly that
something should be done about the
American Communists, I do not
quite like the Mundt bill.
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had not been included in the con-
ference nor had Senators Tobey and
Aiken, who also have challenged
publicly the Taft-Millikin leader
ship on domestic issues. Somewhat
embarrassed, Senator Baldwin ex-
planned that the original meeting
was planned to attract people who
wanted to work within the party"
He indicated that several might
shy OF If the outstanding rebels
were included.
Polite but SardOnic.
Senator Morse was equally polite
but also sardonic. He admitted the
Impeachment. Not only did the
trio resist the Taft leadership many
times, he said, but they even voted
against it on that final indelible roll
call He would continue, he said,
to judge a forward look on the basis
Of the roll call.
He recalled that he had worked
vigorously within the party In "A
and As to extend its gains in the
West, a service not too we'll rewarded
when the Republican Congress
organized. He could have added in
cidentally that both Gov. Dewey and
Harold Stassen have requested his
help in their crucial primary fight
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Whatever, q n q nenfy mcLemere.
am just a year or two older than
the first half of an octogenarian,
I realize that my extreme youth
and caIlow immaturity are, for the
present, almost insurmountabl
barriers.
Maybe after I have ripened for
a couple of decades more. finished
the payments on my 50-year endow-
ment policy, and been warned by
the doctors that my arteries are
not as soft and pliable as they used
to be, will buy buggy whip and
a rubber-tired sulky and start
giddy-apping around the Grand
Circuit.
I am not so optimistic as to think
I will be able to start right out as
a full-f1edged senior driver on the
Grand Circuit or even the hitler
circuits. The best I can hope for
Is to break in as kid apprentice.
I can be sure that If I work hard,
keep out Of pool halls, and watch
my diet. I may some day become
as handy a man in a two-wheeled
buggy as Sep Palm. who is a mid
dle-aged 10; Frank Dutton and
George Parker, who can split $50
years between them, or Bill Taylor,
who, on a clear day, can see within
a few months of his Both birthday.
1t could be, If I really bear down
and get few breaks, that along
about 1866 you will be hearing me
referred to as The Boy Wonder
of the Harness Tracks" But that
will take time. A current roster Of
top harness drivers shows Il of
them to be over so and three Of
them over 10. There Is one fellow
listed as 10, which is obviously a
typographical error. Most likely his
age Is 81, and the compositor trans
posed the figures. No infant Of 10
would be permitted on any repu-
table harness track-even with his
parents-and besides, there must be
a Federal law against it.
This mad desire of mine to be-
come professional horse-and-
buggy man springs from visit to
the current meeting Of the West
ern Harness Racing Association at
Santa Anita, plus the discovery
that the meeting features a pair Of
$4,000 races to be run on success
sive Saturdays-one for trotters and
the other for PAGERS.
AS practically every one knows, a
trotter is horse whose feet all run
in different directions at the same
time. while PAGER is one whose
two right feet 60 forward in unison
while its two left feet are running
backward at the very same instant
While that may at first seem q
little confusing and make 1t appear
that a harness horse might have
trouble maintaining q steady COM
pass heading. it must be the cor
rect explanation since it was given
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Platform Straddle
Senators Seeking G. O.P. Forward Look
Warn Against Looking Too Far Forward

in Oregon. Senator Morse refused
both, states publicly that he Is
neutral. Most of his own supporters
are understood to be pro-Stassen.
Joined with Senator Baldwin is
an able group-Senators Ives, Know
land, Smith, 'Saltonstall, Lodge
Thye, Gurrey and Flanders-who
have indeed claims upon the title Of
progressive despite, Senator Morse.
They are especially notable for their
active support of an internationalist
foreign policy. : So
But the Senat II from Oregon has
a point when he bangles the roll
call before their eyes. 49,.
Platform Is Objective.
The mines stated objective is the
party platform which they say they
hope to keep clear Of reactionary
and isolationist implications. The
platform is a hoary national con-
vention institution which always
gets great play in the newspapers
for a few days, depending on the
fight over it. Occasionally that at
tention is merited, as when the
Democrats in 80 kicked over a pro-
hibition straddle in the platform
and emerged wringing wet.
Generally, however, the attempt is
made to arrive at something broad
enough for every voter to stand on.
After that the platform is embalmed
in public documents from which it
is occasionally rescued for more
printers ink battles. In '48 what 1t
says can hardly compete as cam
paign material with the record &C
tually being made by the Republican
Congress.
There is still ample opportunity
for the nine to look forward this
session on tidelands oil, reciprocal
trade agreements, the Atomic Energy
Commission, housing. health, the
Lodge bill to reform the Electoral
College, IVA appropriations, Power
Commission appointment, oleomar-
garine, ETC., etc.
1t won't do much good to hang
progressive clothes on the platform
without first plunging into the deep
waters of such controversies as
these.
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-
Brussels, in the name OF their
French, Belgian, Dutch and Lux
embourg colleagues, who are mus
tering their meager means for
defense of Western Europe along
the Rhine.
The discussions are proceeding on
the general theme Of how long
Western European forces could re-
sist Soviet Army onslaught with
out American equipment, particu-
larly planes, tanks and tank de-
stroyers.
These talks, It is emphasized, do
not envisage any aggressive inten-
tons, not even on the defensive
offensive level. They merely con-
Germ themselves with an exchange
Of information on conditions behind
the iron curtain and the measures
this country could take to help
Western European military forces
to make at least a temporary stand
against Soviet attack.
Exchange Is Profitable.
Both the British and French have
far better and more compre-
hensive intelligence service than we.
While ours is still in its infancy,
the two big Western European
powers have operated in the in
telligence field for centuries and
have means of gathering vital in
formation far beyond our capabil-
tiles.
Our Intelligence agents have
courage and initiative, but our top
officials still consider military in
telligence as simply an interesting
game. The British and French
have far better know-how in this
field than we and operate wide
spread net which reaches, it is re-
ported, we'll inside the iron curtain.
Thus, the exchange Of views be-
tween Washington and London is
highly profitable for our young and
still inexperienced information
gathering organizations, which also
are handicapped by lack of CO.
operation by diplomatic policy
trainers at home and abroad.
While this exchange of intelli-
gence Is highly useful to us in order
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L o m m u lSt Dorotny THOMPSON.
Party, but proposes severe pen
alties for any attempt to establish
a totalitarian dictatorship in the
United States.
That legislation is, I fear, useless.
The Communist Party only would
attempt to establish such a dicta-
torship after it had governmental
power, when 1t would be too late for
the law to operate. According to
Senator Taylor, Democrat, Of Idaho
with whom I spoke the. other night
on the Town Meeting of the Air,
when the new party (Which is
Communist comes to power there
will be SO many secret policemen
looking for honest jobs that we may
have a temporary wave Of unem-
ployment."
Opposes Registration.
I did not have time to ask Sem
ator Taylor to elucidate that inter.
esting statement but, by analogy
with the Polish, Czech and othel
new" party relationships, I take II
We would have a purged police tt
enforce only Communist DEGREES
What good, then, would any
previous law do?
Nor do like the requirement that
Communist political and front
organizations be compelled to regis.
ter with the Attorney General. II
Communist organizations, why not
all political organizations That
party literature should be marked
as such is q good idea; but, why
should not all special pleading car
ry the name of the organizations
that initiate it?
And the Communist Party easily
can change its name. 1t already is
doing SO. in the Wallace move
ment. ~. -. -
1t seems to me that certain &C.
tivities ought to be prohibited tc
American citizens-as the law pro-
vides-and the citizen himself made
responsible under the law for his
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On the Record
Penalties in Mundt Bill for Attempts
To Set Up Dictatorship Held Useless

acts, defined as menacing to the
constitutional order. But it seems
to me the law doesn't 60 far enough
in some particulars.
No citizen, for instance, should be
permitted to hold membership in or
contribute to any organization
which: Cd Receives orders from a
foreign state or from citizens of a
foreign state: 60 is pledged to acts
IN contravention of American law
or ever has consciously infringed
the laws Of the United States: or
90 whose members are pledged to
tender prior loyalty to another state
or to defend any other state in
war, except as in such a war in
which the United States might be
formally allied with another power.
No citizen OF the United States
should hold membership in or
contribute to any organization
whose principles include the objec-
tive of depriving any race or class
of American citizens of their con-
stitutional rights, or which openly
or secretly advocates violence as a
means of attaining its detectives.
Would Affect Fascists.
Such a law could be invoked not
only against Communists and their
associates, but also against certain
FaScists. 1t deprives no one of
freedom to advocate the most rad
ical changes In the social order
provided such changes are not pro-
NOTED under the control and for
the benefit Of another state, and do
not have as their immediate or re-
mote objective the deprivation OF
any American citizen of his con-
stitutional projections.
The object OF a law should not
be to impede social change, but to
defend the liberty of the Nation and
its citizens against international
conspiracies masked as legal ma
tional movements.
1t Communists merely would tel
the truth about their movement, nc
laws would be necessary. But since
lying and conscious deceit are part
of Communist tactics, and there 1,
no way of compelling any person
to be truthful beyond the laws OF
libel, 1t Is neeessary-it seems to me
to carefully define practices which
are incompatible with the existence
and security Of the Republic
whether those practices arise from
communism or from q movemen,
like the happily defunct German.
American Bund. r
Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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This Changing World
Exchange of Military Intelligence
With British Held Advantageous

to evaluate war possibilities, west
ern stan officers are considering
means to resist a Red onslaught,
both in the immediate and the dis
tant future.
Our Forces a Handicap.
AS far as immediate prospects are
concerned, American forces in Ger
many and Austria are a handicap
rather than help. There are about
1000 uniformed Americans in the
occupied territories, but actual mill
tary strength is so small that it is
doubtful that our forces could put
up even serious rearguard action.
In case Russia decides to use
force to establish complete domina-
ton of Western Europe, American
contingents will have to Withdraw
as fast as transport services can
take them to the closest place of
safety.
In event of surprise attack-like
that on Pearl Harbor-it Is not
likely that we would have enough
sea transportation to carry the re-
treating men back to the United
States. The few combat elements
which are now in Germany and
Austria could be added to those Of
the Western European armies.
From the viewpoint of morale, the
French forces are said to be far
better than they were in 1889. But
they need planes, heavy tanks and
tank destroyers-even more than
they did when Hitler attacked them
in 1910.
Seek Heavy Armament.
Top European military men con-
sequently are urging heavy Amer
lean war materials, under system
similar to lend-lease, be shipped
soon to Europe. They point out that
our providing the Western Euro
pean armies with the means to de-
fend themselves should in no way
be interpreted as an aggressive
measure.
They say, on the contrary, that
the present weakness of Western
EuIOpcdIl uClCllSC SlIllpiy hlS11CS d6-
erosion, and that II the Kremlin Is
given to understand that a march
to the English Channel would not
be a pushover-as 1t is today-the
Russian leaders might think twice
before launching any adventure.
The last thing the western ma
lions want is war. But unless their
manpower is provided with weap-
ons, no cohesive defense force can
be organized and the results could
be fatal to all the nations which
fervently desire to avoid another
war.
Western Europe is rapidly recoy-
ering from its postwar mess. Mos
cows plans for creating economic
and political confusion are being
defeated. But Moscow still has in
its hands the possibility Of creating
chaos by military action. Unless we
provide the Western European
armies with arms the gains in other
fields will be lost.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. Kali


to me by none other than Octave
Blake, who is not only president of
the Grand Circuit. but a horseman
Of note, successful New Jersey busi-
nessman, and an old Princeton
grad. He therefore must know what
he's talking about. It Is Just barely
possible, of course, that I have got
ten the facts slightly garbled in
transmission. @
Mr.. Blake also explains with
what is sometimes called "justifi-
able enthusiasm" that harness rae
ing, which always has been q favor
lite sport on the Eastern fair cir
cults. is gaining enormously in pop
ularity everywhere. Being only q
broth OF lad himself-I should
Judge in his late 40s-Mr. Blake is
occasionally permitted to drive his
own horses, but this practice is
frowned on by his elders, who con-
stantly fear he will hurt himself.
I must say, after an afternoon ct
the Western Harness meeting,
which launches the annual Grand
Circuit season. that there Is q con-
siderably different atmosphere than
you hnd ut tracks where the run,
ners are performing. Maybe it's be-
cause the crowds are smaller, but
more likely it's because harness fans
are q completely different group of
people. While they show no fear
about backing their favorites, they
DO 1t more cheerfully and with q
great deal less tension. Some Of
the leading strongholds of the
Grand Circuit, that draw the big
gest crowds, are tracks where bet
ting is not permitted.
Mr.. Blake was unable to explain
how it is that the Western Harness
Associations two top executives.
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Pat Doherty and Bernie Kearney,
who thought up the idea of giving
$4,000 purses for sulky races, were
ever permitted to get into the
business.
Their combined years can't pos.
sibly add up to more than 30.
If the facts were known, they
probably lied about their ages.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Incl
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against looking
too far forward.
A s W o r d
leaked Of their
projected con-
ference, Senator
Morse, the Ore.
gon progressive
who persistently
calls the turn on
his Republican
b r e t h r e n, re-
celyed a per-
sonal visit from
Senator Baldwin
of Connecticut,
one Of the nine.
Ca~o%1~ AE4~.c
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money In 1t is,
Of course, purely
coincidental. AS
my i 6 ion Of
f r / e n DIS a n d
well -wishers will
gladly attest. I
care no more
about m o n e y
than the Collec-
tor Of Internal
Revenue does on
March IS.
But as I only
started to shave
In 1928, have no
e a n d children
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rlgnC now those
talks are more
frequent and ex-
tensive than at
any time in the
last three years.
Moreover, the
British Army,
Navy and Air
officers who take
part in those
convers q tion s
have spoken au-
thorit a lively,
since the sign
ing of the West
e I'm European
iaferco nact AZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-05

1 ALI AFRAID,
for one thing, of
legislation di-
r e c t e d at a
single organi-
zation, especial
ly when such an
organization is
n OF positively
outlawed. The
Mundt bill tries
to get at COM
munlSm as an
org a n / z alton,
but via the back
door. 1t does
not ban tn
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McLemore-
Sees Himself by IS
As Harness Driver
By Henry McLemore

Were I not such a mere slip of
boy, I would think seriously about
becoming harness horse racing
driver.
The fact that there is a lot Of
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Rv Doris F!eeSOn

The nine Senators who say they
are organizing to give the Republi-
can Party a forward look" began
their crusade with precautions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-05
BY Constantine Bropn

American and British general
staff officers have continued to ex-
change views and information ever
since the end of World War II, but