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Evening star., 1951-12-24
Laying 1t on the Line

The President in referring the steel dispute
to the Wage Sterilization Board, has not hesi-
tated to call spade spade.
The immediate obligation of the steel COM
panies, MIR. Truman said, is to maintain normal
work and production schedules and to be pre-
pared to present their case to the board. The
immediate obligation Of the steel workers is to
decide to stay on the job while the board con-
siders the case, and to make that decision before
mot after-a strike.
That the steel companies will meet their
obligation is hardly open to question. AS prac-
tical matter, they have no real choice except to
let the Government settle the dispute. There is
considerable doubt, however, that Philip Muir
rays United Steel Workers Of America will meet
their obligation, as that has been defined by the
President
Mr.. Truman stated the obligation in plain
terms. Steel is key material In our entire
defense effort and it is of utmost Importance
that there be no strike-imposed shutdown in
the industry. If day of steel production is lost
it can never be recovered (since the industry is
operating at l04 per cent Of its rated capacity.
The processes Of the Wage Sterilization Board
provide machinery for arriving at "fair" set
tlement Of the dispute, and the President insists
that the union, being composed Of good citizens
and led by distinguished Americans" must live
up to its responsibility to help defend the United
States. ...e,-. ,-s >ra e.
The President could hardly have stated the
matter in clearer or stronger terms. It remains
to be seen however, whether the distinguished
Americans who shape union policy for the steel
workers will do what Mr.. Truman says they
should do .
In an apparent move to anticipate Just such
an appeal as this, Mr.. Murray has cooked up
scheme that is really more transparent than
clever. The strike is scheduled for January /.
But the union Policy Committee, at Mr.. Muir
rays request, has called a special convention of
the union for January 8, with a proviso that
only the convention can call off strike.
This means that strike If called on jan
uary /, will last for about week at BEST and
Mr.. Murray can say that he was powerless to
prevent it-a contention which, if made, should
be taken with very large dose of salt:
This raises a question as to whether the
President should not have invoked the Taft
Hartley Act in anticipation of grave national
emergency. That he should be reluctant to do
this in view of the fact that he has joined forces
with the union leaders in shallow propaganda
attack on the law, is understandable. But unless
the President has received some private assur-
ances from Mr.. Murray, Taft-Hartley injunc-
tion-good only for so days at best-is all that
stands between the national welfare and steel
strike. And the wisdom of not invoking this
thin line of protection, in view of Mr.. Truman's
own description OF the evil consequences of
steel strike is dubious to say the least.
Evening star., 1951-12-24
Our Iceeopudes

This is to express disgust and some
amusement at the clownish performance
of Washington motorists during the
recent storms"
am from North Dakota where snow
and cold weather are more than sug-
gestionS during the winter months. In
conditions such as have recently beset
the District. people out there would
probably be saying mice day."
Instead Of issuing fat lot of new
regulations. the Commissioners could
put out a memorandum to you-all
SouthernerS on what to do when 1t
SHOWS Such as:
l. Don't spin the wheels on the ice
II roadway is extremely slippery. start
out in second gear. accelerate gently
2. Don't try to hurry, and don't get
too close to the car ahead Of you.
8. Select parking places with care.
leaving wide berth to the car ahead Of
you.
4. Relax! So the trafic's rough at
rush hour in a storm. Park, grab some
lunch. phone the wife, and wait till
after the rush.
understand the District will require
all cars to have chains after January
on the main thoroughfares. Trans
planted North Dakotans should be ex-
empted from that order. They will not
be found stuck on your streetcar tracks.
They know the meaning of real storms!
G. j. Barry,
Vice President. North Dakota State
Society Of Washington.
It behooves the people and officials of
Washington to give serious thought to
what would happen If an air raid were
to come uYlannounced to the city, after
the asinine. inexcusable fiasco caused
by little snowfall. It, is very easy to
say. "We were unprepared." Why were
we unprepared? Oh. yes. most Govern
ment personnel were excused between
8 and o'clock-but by that time it had
been showing for several hours, and the
temperature dropping by the minute.
Why didn't Capital Transit have enough
cars and buses on the street by then?
I personally walked blocks to even be
able to mount a loading platform-and
then stood As minutes, with the snow
2 inches deep on my head, before could
board an overcrowded car. Why wasn't
sanding and snow-clearing apparatus
Evening star., 1951-12-24
LoophoIe in the Loyalty Program

The Civil Service Commission has called the
attention Of congressional leaders to a defect
in the Federal loyalty program that ought to be
corrected when Congress reassembles. The COM
mission, in considering the cases of some 10
hearing examiners whose loyalty is in question
has decided that the usual loyalty procedures
cannot be invoked against the suspected en-
ployes. This is because the Administrative Pro-
cedure Act, passed in 1946 before the present
loyalty system was adopted. surrounds examin-
ers with special safeguards against summary
dismissal. These safeguards, well-intenuoned
and reasonable under ordinary circumstances
make it almost impossible" to remove hearing
examiner who is disloyal to the Government
the commission has found.
The law referred to sets up courtlike
system of hearings which must be adhered to
before examiner may be fired "for good
cause" The trouble with the system is that
1T requires the Government to present its full
case at a hearing in which the defendant may
require production of the Governments evidence
against him and may cross-examine witnesses
against him. The procedure, in short, is similar
to that required in court of law. But in loyalty
cases much Of the Governments evidence fire.
quently is from confidential files of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and is not ordinarily
made part Of the record. This protects the
identity of informantS who otherwise would be
reluctant to give vital evidence against suspect.
If the confidential information raises reason
able doubt as to the employees loyalty, he may
be dismissed.
"In this situation" the commission said in
q letter to Senate and House leaders, "the COM
mission is left in dilemma. If the Admins
trative Procedure Act is not followed any ad-
judication of disloyalty is sure TO be reversed
in subsequent proceeding in court. If the act
is followed, the evidence that can be presented
at the hearing is certain to be insufficient to
justify adjudication of disloyalty. It would
appear therefore that as the law now stands
1t will be almost impossible to remove hearing
examiner who is disloyal to the Government Of
the United States"
With derogatory reports concerning approx
mately 10 examiners pending before the Loyalty
Review Hoard the Government should INT be
precludSa from dealing with them Just Us 1t
Evening star., 1951-12-24
Chilled by Editorial

Your December is editorial explana-
ton Of President Truman's mo house
with me" leaves the undersigned a bit
cold. It is easy to understand what
Mr.. Truman meant, or for that matter.
what Harding's "normalcy" meant, or
Franklin Roosevelt's mispronounced
"decadent."
But what is not easy to understand
is your editorial. House" (Truman
style) means acceptance" Your schol-
arly references are to the verb house"
meaning ito dwell" Aren't you crying
over the wrong grave? Finally, why
perorate with a flimsy whimsy about
the Trumans of Virginia, sub, race
whose blood runs deep and strong
strong enough to fertilize a Missouri
cornfeld -four centuries later into
Elizabethan flowers of speech?
James B. Lockwood.
Evening star., 1951-12-24

rier who used to live next door, INCEST
neighbors you could have. Wonder where
they are now? Last we heard the Army
had sent him to teach military science at
the University Of California. What the
war did to Don! He was about to take
over his uncle's store at Conway, N. H.,
in the White Mountain country that In
spires Christmas card designers Instead,
regimental adjutant in the 1st Division
Morocco. Algiers, Sicily and Omaha
Beach. No store for Col. Currier now.
That recalls those immediate postwar
days when Parkfairfax was almost half
military. Keith Ware lived at the other
end Of our building. He was telephone
lineman climbing poles in Colorado in
Evening star., 1951-12-24
Man. Getting Up Ills Christmas Card List

1941. Then he was given the Medal of
Honor for one days work in December,
1914. near the German border when he
and his assault force of IL men must
have been under the impression they
were fighting the whole war by them
selves, He came back to top planning
assignment with the General Staff. Mar
ried the prettiest girl in the Pentagon.
Col Ware is teaching at West Point
today. Must send him card.
And here's one from jeremiah J.
OTeary, jr., then an assistant city editor
Of The Star; now first lieutenant of
Marines at the Korean front. Too late
to get card to him. Maybe an air mail
letter would reach him Christmas week.
Here's homemade card from Glib
Crockett, the cartoonist, and his wife
Florence. He has drawn himself into it
wearing Daniel Boone headgear, Just to
show that he is still the hillbilly that all
his friends know he is.
The ,Forsythes who used to live around
the corner have used q photograph of
their two children for their card. They
must be much taller now. The one from
Corinne and Nathan Poole contains
nice note from Corny. They've had q
baby since.
Noble Mcfarland Of the Old Ivy Inn
at Charlottesville uses q photograph of
his Mandy beating dough in front of
the big kitchen fireplace-and she does
beat beautiful biscuit. Nancy and Jim
Moser have had house built for them
at Orange. Va. moved into 1t and had a
new baby since this card arrived.
The little notes in the Christmas
cards are not always ones Of cheer.
Here's a card and a note from Uncle
Axis family, q granduncle Of Mrs. Ken
nedy. that brings back memories of his
wonderful southern Minnesota farm
with the huge red-roofed barn and 900
acres Of natural loam so rich that
when, from my Virginia experience,
tried to discuss chemical fertilizers Axis
sons didn't know what I was talking
about. They don't have to use them.
The note from Daughter Grace says:
Dad fell six weeks ago and fractured
his right hip" AK died before expert
encing his 91st spring
Evening star., 1951-12-24

deals with loyalty cases Of other Federal en-
ployes. Nor is 1t fair to the, 10 persons under
suspicion to have the charges hanging over
them indefinitely because Of a loophole in the
loyalty program. The Administrative Procedure
Act should be amended to make it clear that
when the loyalty Of an examiner is in question
the Government has the right to investigate
him and to get rid OF him in exactly the same
way that it would get rid OF any other public
servant.
Evening star., 1951-12-24
Unions and Free Speech

There have been a number of letters
published recently in which the writer's
have given anonymous names as union
members and charged that democracy
in the unions is Of a deceptive nature
They intimate that their reason for
withholding their true names is that
they fear disciplinary action. with its
resultant harsh treatment. II there is
truth in their reasoning, then the unions
are indeed guilty of suppressing free
dom Of speech and are in violation of
the Constitution which they have sworn
to uphold. Moreover, they are practic-
ing thought control, devilish device
of the Kremlin.
Fanaticism for the cause of union
ism does not justify union members in
crossing the line which divides loyalty
to union and loyalty to country. When
the point for such decision has ar
rived, 1t Is time for union members to
declare themselves openly and not by
underground" methods.
Are we so rabid that we'd substitute
the union label for the Stars and Stripes?
Then We might as well quit fighting
Communism and adopt the Red flag,
with its hammer and sickle emblem, as
our own.
God save me from tyranny!
William b. Covert.
Evening star., 1951-12-24
Letters to The Star

on the streets? So: much for Capital
Transit.
Where were the police when they
were needed most? Why were they not
taken of up town, beats in the emer-
gency and stationed down town to break
up the traffic jams? Why are laws not
enforced to keep motorists OF street.,
car tracks to allow trolleys to pro-
ceed? I was 5I2 hours getting home
within the city limits. Why does not
the city~have sufficient street-clearing
equipment to cope with such emergen-
cies?
Evening star., 1951-12-24
Trucks on Shirley Hiqhwoy

This committee wishes to thank you
for your fine editorial December IL
condemning the use Of Shirley highway
by through-trucks May we add one
more reason for barring such traffic
from this road?
The area through which it runs has
been zoned as high-grade residential
(houses and apartments) in a county
master plan that is an exceptionally fine
piece Of planning. It is already SO
developed, from the private-house and
country-club neighborhood at the north
to the model garden apartments at Arna
Valley, darlington and Parkfairfax.
These developments and more that are
to come will be destroyed by the presence
Of heavy trucking. A fine residential
neighborhood cannot be maintained
where such traffic passes at the rate of
over 1000 units per day by official count.
AS it decays, the county will lose reve-
nue. Several lots are now vacant whose
owners planned to build until the trucks
made house-building hazardous ven-
ture economically. When it becomes
1ow-grade congeSted or industrial area,
the county will be faced with expensive
and unforeseen public service projects:
Street widenings, sidewalks. sewers,
lights, schools. police and fire protection.
Why should through truck traffic be
allowed to kick local planning and de-
velopment into the ash can?
All your readers who fear for what
heavy trucks on Shirley highway will do
to the southern end of the county should
write to Senator Fenwick and Delegates
Damn and Magruder in support Of the
truck ban that these gentlemen plan to
propose in the State Legislature next
month
Paul LewinsOn,
Chairman. Shirley Highway Committee,
Arlington Ridge Civic Association.
Evening star., 1951-12-24
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

any question Of fact. by either writing Tne
evening star Information Bureau. 1900 street
NV Nv WASHINGTON 5 D. C., and nclosing 3 cents
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By THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Approximately how many books
were destroyed recently in the flood
areas of Kansas?-P. O. B.
A. Preliminary estimates reckon the
loss at more than $4,000 books. A
State Library Relief Committee has
been appointed to serve in the crisis by
the Governor Of Kansas.
Q. What Presidents before Franklin
D. Roosevelt came out publicly for n
third term?-C. D. C.
A. Theodore Roosevelt and Ulysses 8.
Grant. Roosevelt agreed to run as a
candidate OF the Bull Moose" Party
in 1912, but was defeated. Grant was
not nominated
Evening star., 1951-12-24

Pen-nanaes may be used If letters carry
1Driters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22
By ROSCOE FLEMING, In
The Denver Post

Remember the undear, undead days
of 1947, when the Republicans brief
ly took charge of Congress? Senator
Taft was quoted then as opposing any
more regional Developments might
compete with the northeastern finan-
cial-industrial overlordship. And Mr.
Taber, in the House, called resulting
western protests ''only the squeal of
stuck pig" Those days are back.
A cabal of Republicans and southern
Democrats is Sitting the throat of
western development and progress in
the name of economy.
But they are striking at the bone
and muscle of the growing Nation,
rather than at the fat. They are
slicing where blind man could see
that we need to build instead. Their
economy threatens to cost US, our
children and our children's children
dearly.
Take the Vests immense re-
source of water power, for exam
pie. This is a national heritage.
1t should be used for all people as
nearly as possible. This is the
only justification for spending
billions of dollars of the peoples
money on its development.
The laws are now written so that
is benefits must go as directly to the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22
POWER LOBBY STRIKING AT MUSCLE
OF GROWING NATION
New Cabal lmperils Vests Growth Again-Economy
Wave Goes Too Far

ultimate user as possible. That's
right. But the monster private util-
ity corporations that dominate too
many states in the West have never
liked this.
Spending your money and mine in
lobbying against us, they have always
worked to get control by hook or by
crook of the great national rivers of
the West, to divert the benefits into
the private Golfers of the power COM
panies and the profits of their east
ern stockholders, rather than, as now,
having the government use the money
from water power to build the rest of
the great western reclamation pro-
gram.
Water power is the Hercules whose
mighty muscles will build the west
ern economy-if allowed. But if the
cabal has its way, it won't be allow
ed.
Oscar L. Chapman said in Denver,
that if the Heating amend
nent-by a Republican congressman
rom New York-sticks in the SEN
tie, why, reclamation development of
he West is ended. This amendment
would prohibit further public power
development at Bureau of Reclama-
ion dams.
This means that we would build
the dams with our money, but only
the great private power monopo-
lies, one to a region, would get the
power. We would be helpless. We
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22
LhUBACH APPOINTED CROP
HEAD FOR FIVE COUNTIES

ID. r. Larson, state director of the
Christian Rural Overseas Program
for Montana, has announced the ap-
pointment of Harry Laubach of Dut-
ton as District Supervisor for Cas-
cade, Lewis & Clark, Pondera, Teton
and Tole counties.
Laubach will head up the 1851
drive by CROP to obtain donations
of food and other commodities in
rural areas for distribution through
church organizations affiliated with
CROP to the needy in all parts of
the world
The new supervisor is a native of
Iowa, came to Montana in 1910. at
tended schols in Dutton and Spokane,
and Montana State College. He serv-
ed in the 1887 and 1889 legislatures.
is secretary of the Dutton Methodist
church and is past president of the
Dutton Lions club.
CROP, sponsored by Catholic Rur-
al Life, Church World Service and
Lutheran World Relief, is a program
in which every farmer may contrib
ute gifts in kind to the aged, ill. or
phans and destitute overseas through
existing church relief organi-
zations
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22

it; Republican for the West, y
against it.
In the Northeast, out of 40 Demo-
Gratis and II Republicans, 80 Demo-
Gratis supported the West but only
two Republication of II.
In our neighboring great plains
area, 25 out of 81 Democrats sup
ported the West, but 70 out of 76
Republicans helped to cut its throat
in behalf of the private power COM
panies.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22

Even in the West itself, 10 out of
% Democrats supported its develop
ment, but only II out of Al Republi
cans. The latter voted against their
own region.
An all-western earthquake would
be less of a disaster to the West than
the election in 1852 of Mr.. Taft or
any like-minded, parochial, provin-
cial advocate of continuing to use the
West as a colonial adjunct to eastern
overlordship.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22
House Group Makes Tax
Gift of SIS Million

Washington-The tax-drafting House
Ways and Means committee, instead
OF closing existing loopholes, has wild
ened them. Not only did it refuse
to reduce the 271a per cent deple
ton allowance for oil and gas, and
other allowances, but doubled the al
lowance for coal, and added II min
erals to the list. Estimated tax loss
to the treasury: SIS million the year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22

would give our power on their
terms. They would get the profit.
We would hold the sack.
Cong. Wayne Aspinall (Colo.) has
analysed the votes by which the priv
ate power bipartisan cabal put over
this and other false economies. The
results are fascinating, in a morbid
sort of way.
In the South, with 1873 House Dem
ocrats and 10 Republicans, he found
So Democrats for the West, against
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-22
UNIONS ASK DECONTROL OF
WAGES IN EXEMPT INDUSTRIES

Washington = Representatives of
unions in industries, such as printing,
which are exempt from price con-
trolls, have asked the wage stabiliza-
ton board to decontrol wages too, in
those industries.
Evening star., 1951-04-22

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-04
Three Small Children
Overcome By Fumes In
Car Parked On Street

Three small sisters were over
come by carbon monoxide fumes
Saturday noon in a parked car ION
Diamond avenue in Gaithersburg,
Z The Gaithersburg Washington
Grove Rescue Squad, which re-
vived the girls with artificial res
piration and pulmotor, identified
them as Wanda, 2; Louise, 6; and
Joyce, 7, daughters of Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude Tibbs of Germantown.
According to Chief Charles Fox,
the girls had been left in the car
with the motor running while the
parents shopped. A passerby, who
noticed the children slumped
against the doors, opened the car
doors to find what was wrong,
then ran to King Motor Company
and phoned for help.
Nearly a half hour was required
to revive Joyce. Police gave Mr..
and Mrs. Tibbs a ticket for leaving
the motor of the car running un-
attended.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-04
Comparative Statement
By Sandy Spring Bank
Marks Its 50th Year

To mark it's fiftieth anniversary,
the First National Bank of Sandy
Spring has issued a comparative
statement of condition, showing
growth of the bank during the
first part of the century.
Deposits have increased from
$4,000 in 1905 to $l,497,5O0 in
1850; capital, surplus and I'M
divided profits from S33 400 to
$145,700. During the past ten
years deposits have increased from
$478 800 to 81 ,497 500 and capital,
surplus and undivided profits from
100000 to $145,700.
The Statement of condition, as
of September 1, 1850 showed
(Assets); cash and due from
banks, $455, O39.78; U. S. Secur-
tiles, $808,6O0; other bonds $751;
TOO; federal reserve bank stock
$3.50; loans and discounts $780,
042.16; furniture and fixtures
$286.14. (Liabilities): capital stock
$4,000; surplus $4,000; I'M
divided profits $58,221.1S; total
capital funds $149,2 pills; deposits
81 ,621 ,996,9O.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-04

P. ID. Haley of South Adams Street
Mr.. Goodwin returned to Ohio fol.
lowing the Christmas weekend
Mrs. Goodwin is remaining for a
few weeks visit.
Harry Duckworth, a graduate of
Richard Montgomery High School
in the class of 1915, has been made
captain of the soccer team at
Champlain College, Plattsburg, N,
Y.
Miss Mary Mulaney of Mt. Yer
non, N. Y, was a house guest last
weekend of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
H. Myers, Baltimore Road
The home of DR.. and Mrs. Frank
Leslie Campbell, Forest Avenue,
was the scene of lovely party
on Saturday, December 80. A large
group of their friends from Wash
ington and nearby, dropped in for
egg nog and a pleasant visit.
Catherine and Joseph Bride,
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Crescent
J. Bride, were hosts at a Christ
mas party on Wednesday, Deem
Der 81, at their home on Baltimore
Road. A lively group of teen-agers
enjoyed the evening of dancing,
games and other entertainment.