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Evening star., 1949-06-12

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RICHARD T BRABYN.
JAMES s. JUDGE, President.
HT1wAHn REST Secretary
Evening star., 1949-06-12

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loved brother Of Maurice = Mcpcnnsssn,- ass,
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Evening star., 1949-03-13

are pinned down to the cities and coastal
areas, the countryside being overrun by
the insurgents
In this difficult dilemma, the French
have turned to Bao Dai, the former ruler
of AMMAN, who has been living in exile.
Specializing on his dynastic prestige, the
French government has offered him a
larger measure of autonomy than it did
to Ho Chi Mimi. But there is no assurance
that Wet Nam will acquiesce in the
arrangement, especially now, when the
Communist victory in China holds out
the prospect of aid from that direction
Indeed, the deal with Bao Dai is being
attacked in the French Parliament from
two directions. The French Communists
support Wet Nam in it's claims for fun
independence while the Gaullists condemn
the agreement as betraying French i'm
perial interests.
1t looks, therefore, as though the ar
rangement was not the answer to the
problem of Indo-China
Evening star., 1949-03-13
The Wronq .Wuy

1t would hardly be possible to advance
any single explanation of the defeat which
the administration has suffered in the
Senate in it's effort to tighten the restraints
on filibustering. For too many motives,
good and bad, entered into the voting on
both sides of the proposition. to permit of
easy explanation.
There is one thing, however which
stands out, and which may have been
decisive. That is the feeling, entertained
by number of Senators, that the admin
iStration was trying to do the right thing
in the wrong way.
This aspect of the matter was perSua-
sively argued by Senator Vandenberg, who
is personally In favor of restricting the
freedom to filibuster. But he objected to
doing this by process of Interpretation
which would give to the applicable Senate
rule meaning not justified by the wording
Of the rule. To put it another way, he
would not accept the-end- -justifies- the
means philosophy that was implicit in
Vice President Barkley's ruling that clo-
ture can be invoked to end a f1libuster
against a motion as we'll as against a
measure pending before the Senate And
the indications are that he persuaded
enough Senators to this view to make the
difference between victory and defeat for
the administration.
Other Senators voted against the Bark
ley ruling for different reasons. For those
from the South the ruling was simply an
entering wedge for jamming through the
civil rights program, and in voting against
"a fnay
civil rights. Others may have been inf1u-
enced adversely by the Presidents rash
announcement in favor of invoking cloture
by simple majority vote instead of the
traditional wo-thirds vote. Some Repub-
licans may have seen, or thought they saw,
chance to embarrass the Democrats.
But, whatever the reasons, the result is
clear enough. The administration, at this
stage. cannot muster enough votes to break
the fllibuster. And this raises question
of strategy. Is it better to 60 head with
the attempt to wear out the filibuster at
the possible expense of the rest of the
legislative program? Or should the intra-
party struggle over civil rights be put
aside for the time being so that more
urgent legislation can be acted upon?
This Is something that the administra-
ton will have to decide. The dilemma in
which 1t finds itself is of its own making,
and it cannot expect any one else to lead
the way out. Mr.. Truman and his advisers
will simply have to decide on the things
they want, in the order of their relative
Importance, and then take their chances
OF getting them from a Congress which
has been rather needlessly antagonistic.
Evening star., 1949-03-13
Indo-Chinu Problem

The understanding recently negotiated
between the French government and Bao
Dai, the former Emperor of AMMAN, is
the latest in a series of French attempts
to deal with one of the thorniest problems
In Southeast Asia. France has been striv-
ing desperately to retain some hold over
its colonial empire of -China-the
easternmost segment of the huge peninsula
which lies between China and India and
which is prolonged into the far-flung
archipelago of the Netherlands Indies.
Indo-China is composite of regions
and peoples drawn under French rule
during the empire building era of the
nineteenth century. The center of French
influence and economic development is
Cochin China. rich delta land famous
for it's rice crops. Lying in the extreme
south, it was the earliest French possession
and has been governed as a colony. 1t
and adjacent Cambodia are inhabited by
an easygoing stock akin to the neighbor-
ing Siamese.
Far different in temper is the race which
inhabits the rugged hill country of AMMAN
to the northward. The AnnameSe are a
warlike breed who were spreading their
authority over the whole of what is now
IndoChina when the French intervened
France never wholly subjected Annam
treating it as protectorate with its native
rulers and a measure of local self-gov-
ernment. But AnnameSe resentment at
French tutelage formed the basis of the
nationalist movement which grew up in
Indo- China by the turn of the century.
This movement became tinged with eco
nomic and social radicalism after the
establishment of Soviet Russia, many
nationalist agitators going to Moscow
for indoctrination, including the present
leader of the anti-French uprising, Ho
Chi Mimi, who Is an avowed Communist.
Frances authority and prestige in Indo-
China were drastically undermined during
World War II. The French colonial au-
thorities there allowed the japanese to
occupy the country This gave double
stimulus to the nationalists, who organ
lied resistance movement against both.
When the japanese were compelled to
evacuate Indo-China, the nationalists pro-
claimed an independent, republic known
as Wet Nam or Land of the South"
The Government of Liberated France
refused to recognize this secession, and
when Ho Chi Mini declined French offer
for the grant of local autonomy within
French Imperial Union, large French
forces were sent to Indo-C China to restore
French authority The upshot has been
costly war in which the French have not
| succeeded. Fully 100000 Frenda troops
Evening star., 1949-03-13
Molofop. THhinsky

A group of top-ranking central European
exiles here believes virtually unanimously
that Andrei Vishinsky has been made Rus
sia's foreign minister merely for his nuisance
value. One former foreign minister says:
Mr.. Vishinsky's one job will be to act so
ferocious in international meetings that he
can keep the world stirred up and in fear.
Mr. Molotov former foreign minister) is
not a good speaker. Mr.. Vishinsky is. The
appointment makes one other thing clear
to us. Russia is through trying to get agree
ments with the West. Mr. Vishinsky has no
authority to make agreements. Mr.. Molotov
had"
Evening star., 1949-03-13

Now. in our inventive era. characterized by
expansion and extension. the ropes of the
tent Of material advance have been enor-
mously let out A century ago statesmen
offered to the average man only about 200
different articles. But today with all the
Establishments of modern salesmanship, the
average man is urged to buy 1000 things
But what of the moral and spiritual stakes
to support this vast expanse of canvass?
Who can doubt. in our glittering, gadget-
fascinated day, that the upholding stakes
have been weakened, rather than strength
ened? A blighting belief has crept in that
the future is not with churches, but labora-
tories; not with prophets but scientists; not
with piety, but with efficiency. From the
cornucopia of modern invention have poured
magic things making for comfort and con-
venience. for which we are glad; but the
trouble is that comfort is frequently mis-
taken for civilization. Without proper props
the great weight of mere things break down
life ITSELF
Some time ago in an Eastern city there
was an accident in building occupied by a
5and-10-cent store. The weight of the
amazing number of things to be offered for
sale caused the floor where they were stored
to cave in, while a perfect avalanche of
articles rained down on the people below
This incident may we'll suggest what has
They have been caught in a swirl of things
which have descended upon them, with the
result that the inner life, having no
strengthened stakes, has been f1attened out
That is the danger to which Edna St.
Vincent Millay points with alarm as she sees
the tremendous energy Of this dynamic day
constantly pulling the straining ropes out
to wider expanses. Strengthen the stakes,
she is warning in her lines:
Above the world is stretched the sky,
No higher than the soul is high -.
And he whose soul is fiat, the sky
Will cave in on him, by and BY"
Danish fable tells of spider who once
slid down single filament of web from the
lofty rafters of a barn, and established
himself upon a lower level. There he
fashioned his gossamer home, caught flies,
and grew slick and prosperous. One day,
wandering about his lacy estate, he noticed
the thread that stretched up into the unseen
above him. What is the use of that? he
said, and snapped it. And all his web
collapsed. That is a pertinent parable for
these lenten days. when the Christian world
is thinking of the vital matter of strength
ened spiritual stakes
Evening star., 1949-03-13

material tent Of existence so typical of q
broad section of United States society. AS
the novel Is launched on the sea of reading,
its theme has been summed up in one sem
tence: THE Charlie Grays burn themselves
out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and
creep up on the Burtons; and then find
themselves at the end with no spiritual props
to make life bearable" There in phrase,
is the correct diagnosis underlying the dis
content and disllusionment in the life of
today-"no spiritual props; plenty of ex-
panding canvass, but stakes insufficient to
hold it above ground.
AS with bitter peSsimism and haunting
fear we rush toward the halfway goal post
of the century with supporting stakes bend
ing and breaking. the chief woes of our
tottering civilization grow out of a pathetic
and tragic trust in length without strength,
in goods without good, in political activities
rather than in ethical sanctities. AS John
Dewey has put it, our principal trouble in
America is "externalism"; that is, trust in
the external spread of the tents of power and
profit and pleasure, rather than in the
strengthened stakes of inner integrity and
discipline.
Long ago a wise prophet formulated q
timeless principle. He enunciated a law
which is as valid for our towering sky
scraper age as it was for that ancient no
madic tent-dwelling day. That law of the
tent is. when you lengthen the cords you
must strengthen the stakes. If you neglect
this procedure you are heading for calamity.
catastrophe and collapse. 1t is impossible to
go on maioring in length if you forget the
correSpondingly vital matter of strength
Evening star., 1949-03-13

bility Of the Bible are no longer possible Of
belief among reasoning men" This view,
set forth in The Star on March 8, 1899, was
challenged by certain critics. including the
Rev. P. L. Cuyler. who insisted: II believe
the story Of Jonah ana the whale just as it
is told" But The Star on March 10, con-
tinuing the subject. quoted the Rev. w. r.
Stricken. pastor of Hamline Church, as say
ing: "The Bible Is not treatise on geology.
history or science. 1t is book composed
by men of like passions with ourselves. It
contains the revealed mind and will OF God.
It is to be judged by its object and purpose.
which is not to teach modern science but
to reveal God. If absolute inerrancy means
that it Is to deal in language that is in har-
mony with modern scientific knowledge, We
may not be able to claim much for 1t. II.
however, inerrancy means that 1t has been
so inspired by God that 1t becomes q safe
guide in ,prals and rule Of faith, then thu
Bible Is s.Nerrant."
Evening star., 1949-03-13
No Practical Alternative

There is no disagreement in the House
District Committee over the fact that more
money must be raised to run this city.
The disagreement concerns the method.
The majority recommends a sales tax
and retention of the local income tax with
some changes. One change is to exempt
from the income tax all salaries under
$4,000 on the theory that those so exempted
are least able to pay both the income and
the sales tax Another is to make the
income tax apply to everybody who lives
here for as much as seven months year.
Exempted, however, are elected officials of
the Government (the President and Vice
President and members of Congress-;
CongreSsmen's secretaries who retain legal
residence in the States; appointed officials
Of the Government subject to Senate con-
frmation and retaining legal residence.
These exemptions are wrong. But they
seem to be necessary in practice.
A minority of the District Committee
Is opposed to the sales tax. 1t argues that
the necessary funds should be raised by
increasing the Federal Governments pay
ment; by hiking the income tax rates,
making the tax apply to everybody who
lives here with no exemptions, and by
getting more out of real estate.
The argument is set for debate in the
House tomorrow. 1t ought to be settled.
The uncertainties and delays in raising
the money to balance the District budget
are costly and disruptive. Nothing is
being saved, for the taxpayers or anybody
else, by continued delay. Delay is merely
piling up trouble for the future.
In The Stars opinion, the sales tax is
the only practical method of raising the
money in the circumstances and it should
be approved. For more than ten years
Congress has been trying other methods
to escape the sales tax. They have failed.
In theory the committee minority has a
good argument in opposing the sales tax,
In practice it is utterly unrealistic The
number of direct taxpayers in the District
subject to real estate and local income
taxation Is too small to raise the money.
The only reasonable way to get the needed
revenue Is to increase the number Of direct
taxpayers and to require tax payments
from the extraordinarily large nonresident
population that makes this city unique,
Only the sales tax will do that
i uc SdlcS U1A 1S lluAodI1SC. 4hC OIL
inclusive bill written by the subcommittee
that studied 1t is going to be tough in
more ways than one. 1t contains some
dubious provisions and it makes the bust
ness community assume the burden and
expense of tax collecting without COM
pensation for the costs involved Like all
taxes 1t adds to the cost Of living and 1t
Is going to make lot of people conscious
for the first time of the price they have
to pay for Government.
Other cities and other States are dealing
with the identical problem faced here in
Washington. An increasing number has
gone to the sales tax as the only alter
native. AS far as anybody has been able
to show, there is no attainable alternative
here The subcommittee which studied
this tax bill and are bringing 1t before the
House tomorrow have done an honest job
in facing the facts. The House should
uphold them
Evening star., 1949-03-13
The Gubitchev Case

Although it may yet decide TO release
him for deportation, the United States
appears to be we'll within its rights in
refusing to free Valer1tin A. Gubitchev, the
Russian citizen who was arrested in New
York last week with Judith Coplon.
Justice Department employe, and who has
lust been indicted with her on charges
of espionage.
Through Ambassador Panyushkin, the
Soviet Union has twice protested to the
State Department that Gubitchev, as an
employe of the United Nations; enjoys
diplomatic immunity and that therefore
he cannot rightly be held under arrest.
Secretary Acheson, however, although
holding a final reply in allegiance, has
rejected this contention and made clear
to Mr. Panyushkin that the United States
cannot see where the question of immunity
has any bearing on the case.
In support of his position, Mr.. Acheson
has cited the So-called headquarters
agreement between this country and the
United Nations. The agreement-having
to do with the establishment of the U. MS
permanent home in New York-is specific
on four points applicable to Gubitchevs
arrest and detention. The first point Is
that nothing in the agreement can deprive
the United States of the right to safe
guard It's own security. The second point
is that If an alien U. N. employe abuses
the privileges of his American residence,
he can be deported after an appropriate
hearing The third is that member of
the U. NJ secretariat enjoys immunity
from legal process only as regards what
he does in an official capacity within the
province of his U. N. functions. And the
fourth is that our Government, If it sees
At, can bring any such person to trial for
violation of our law.
These clear provisions in the head
quarters agreement, together with similar
ones in the. U. N. immunities convention
now awaitia congressional approval, leave
Evening star., 1949-03-13
The 'ButterIeqqers'

The dairy interests have come up with
scare word-"b "butterlegger"-in their
effort to prevent or restrict as tightly as
possible the sale of yellow margarine
This is one of two main lines of attack
being pursued by butter spokesman The
other argument is an economic one It is
said that the price of butter would have
to be cut drastically to compete with un-
restricted yellow margarine, and that this
would have seriously depressing effect
on the butter industry and on those seq
ments of the economy allied with 1t.
Perhaps this is true. But if So the
corollary is that the butter industry can
be maintained only vt the price of
depriving consumers of cheaper but
equally nutritious product. And that in
turn, would be the antithesis of economic
progress.
The butterlegger argument comes down
to contention that yellow margarine is
being palmed off on unsuspecting con-
sumers as being butter, the dairy industry
having made survey in Arkansas which
indicates that this is being done in a
substantial number of restaurants in
violation of State law. But if this is true
the proper remedy would seem to lie in
enforcement of the State law, not in for
bidding any sale of yellow margarine
1t certainly is true that many house
wives, given the price differential, would
buy yellow margarine in preference to
butter. Many of them are doing this
today, and what the dairy interests really
fear is not the butterlegger, but the
prospect that with unrestricted sale house
wives would willingly and knowingly buy
yellow margarine on a scale which would
substantially curtail the market for butter
For years they have tried to prevent
this through a penalty tax on colored
margarine. But this device, in addition
to being none too successful has become
rather thoroughly discredited So new
tack has been taken.
Last Wednesday the House Agriculture
Committee approved bill which would
lift all tax on margarine, but forbid
its interstate shipment. An editorial In
Thursdays Star enormously stated that
the effect of this would be to require
housewives in the District and in thirty
five States which do not have their own
manufacturing plants to continue to pay
the old ten-cent tax on each pound of
colored margarine.
Actually the effect would be much worse.
Consumers in the District and the States
lacking manufacturing plants would not
be able to buy the colored product at all.
In other words, to enact this bill would be
to give butter very substantial national
monopoly at the, expense of the consumer.
Needless to say)it should not be passed.