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Evening star., 1951-04-12
Everybody Should Be Outraged

Senator Tobey is outraged over the overtureS
of David Niles, White House functionary, in
behalf of Donald Dawson, another White House
functionary. Through mutual friend, ex-
Senator Wheeler, Mr.. Niles expressed the hope
that Senator Tobey would "go easy" on Mr.
Dawson AS nobody has done anything else but
"go easy" on Mr.. Dawson, Mr. Niles concern
seems to have been unnecessary.
President Truman is also outraged, but for
another reason. He is outraged over Senator
Tobey's use without telling the President about
1t at the time) of telephone gadget to record
the Presidents personal conversations with Sen
ator Tobey. Until Senator Tobey plays the
records, however, we have only Senator Tobey's
version of precisely what the President said to
him.
The public probably takes dim view of the
outraged sensibilities of these two gentlemen
For the public is. pretty well outraged on its own
account. And there are good reasons for the
public to harbor such sentiments.
Why has Donald Dawson, with what appears
to be the Presidents tacit approval, ignored the
RFC committees invitation for him to appear
and testify-as other witnesses mentioned in the
RFC mess have been forced to do?
What is the truth about what the letters
from members of Congress to the RF'C, in behalf
of loan applications really say? Why are these
letters not being put in the record? According
to the outraged Mr.. Tobey, the President told
him that he "had before him at least 300 letters
from Senators and members of the House, push
ing special loans and he also had good informa-
ton that a great many of those got fees for
what they did"
Later according to Senator Tobey, the
President seems to have changed his mind about
making this evidence" available to the Senator.
He did not want to give it to Senator Tobey,
first, because he believed it would reflect ON
Congress and would only make many existing
preiudices stronger" But later, the President
again according to Mr. Tobey-said he did not
have the evidence of fee acceptance.
The letters are available to the Senate COM
nittee. Why not put them in the record? They
should be put there and made available for
public examination Mr. Niles is available to
the Senate committee. He should be brought
before the committee and asked to explain his
interest in having Mr.. Tobey "go easy" on Mr.
Dawson. Mr. Dawson has been available to the
Senate committee all along The committee
now should abandon its Ego easy policy with
respect to Mr.. Dawson and request his appear
ance If this is ignored, like the invitation,
he should be ordered before the committee.
The Star was inclined to agree with Chairman
Fulbright, at one time, that his committee had
completed it's mission. And today the Senate is
debating the future of RFC. But Senator Tooey's
revelations indicate that the mission is far
from complete. There are some ugly loose ends
that need tying up.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Premature Rejoicing

Those people in the United Nations and IN
foreign capitals who have been applauding the
dismissal of General Macarthur may discover
that their rejoicing is a bit premature. For
there is a possibility very dangerous posi-
bility-that the firing of General Macarthur
may serve as the spark to set of serious re-
vival of isolationist sentiment in this country.
The United Nations is held in something
less than high esteem by great many Ameri-
cans. They feel and not without reason, that
our principal Allies have let us down in the
Korean war They realize that the United States
had to carry the brunt of that war, but the con-
viction is deeply held that our associates could
have contributed great deal more than they
have This is especially true of the attitude OF
the u N after the Chinese Communists at
tackled Those nations that were willing to light
little war began to look for way out when
1t became bigger war, and public sentiment
in this country has been swinging toward the
conclusion that we cannot count on Allies when
the chips are down and the going is tough.
This trend is apt to be accelerated by the
report that "a general sigh Of relief arose at
the U. NJ" when the Macarthur custer was an
nounced. The same is true of the report that
the British have asked that the japanese peace
treaty be revised to give Formosa and voice in
the treaty negotiations to the Chinese Commu-
nists. The Associated Press report OF foreign
reaction to the Macarthur news quotes rank
ing British Commonwealth diplomat: "Good
old Harry He always comes up when nobody
expects him to-" italian Foreign Minister Sforza
SAYS that "only policy of the United Nations
is possible in the Far East" A French Foreign
Office spokesman asserts that Mr.. Truman acted
in the best interests of the United States and
the United Nations.
It is hard to see how the President could
have retained General Macarthur in command,
and the foreign statesmen who have been gun
ming for him may have reason for qualification
at the custer. But the American public, or that
segment of the public which sides with General
Macarthur, is not going to welcome this applause
from Lake Success and abroad The people
know that Mr.. Truman has been under pressure
from foreign governments to fire General Mac
Arthur, and anything which feeds the suspicion
that this, and not nsubordination, was the real
reason for the custer can have disastrous
consequences.
1t has been no easy task to organize Ameri-
car opinion behind the assumption by the United
Evening star., 1951-04-12
By George Kennedy

"Oyez, oyez, oyez! The Senate OF
the United States is now convened as
a court to try President Harry S. Tru-
man who has been impeached by the
House of Representatives for high crimes
and misdemeanors.
Il Sounds fantastic?
1t is.
But apparently Mr.. Truman's firing
Gen. Macarthur has caused the idea to
grow apace that anything CAM happen
Ranking Republican Senators meet
in the Office of House Minority Leader
Martin and issue statement that all
agree Congress should investigate the
conduct of military and foreign policy
They add:
"The question of possible impeach-
ments was discussed"
Subsequently. of course, the legisla-
tors also agree that impeachment Is
hardly serious possibility in this case
For the House of Representatives to
impeach a President, which is roughly
the equivalent of grand jury indicting.
an ordinary citizen, majority must be
of the opinion that there is evidence of
his committing crime on which he
should be tried before the Senator.
as in the one case where a President
was inpeached. feel so strongly that he
should no longer be President that he
should be tried anyway.
To carry on the fantasy Of the trial
of the President being announced in the
Senate, there would be one change in
the makeup of that body that would be
apparent to every one. The presiding
officer would not be Alben Barkley but
Fred M. Vinson. for the Constitution
DEGREES that when a President is tried
the Chief Justice of the United States
shall preside.
And precedent, which is almost an ab-
solute dictator in matters of law, estao-
fishes circumstance which would be
disappointing to the galleries, as it was
in 1868 when President Andrew john
son was tried-the defendant would not
appear before the parliamentary court,
because he didn't then.
The Houses vote to impeach Andrew
johnson in 1868 was overwhelming. The
vote was taken on February "a, and the
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Herman Morton.
Rosenberes' Sentence

Federal Judge Irving r. kaufman. in
his statement preceding the sentencing
to death for espionage of Julius and
Edith Rosenberg, according to The Star
of April 6, said:
II have deliberated for hours, days
and nights have searched the
records have searched my conscience
to find some reason for mercy; for It
is only human to be merciful, and 1t is
natural to try to spare lives =. -
Whilst there is no doubt that Judge
Kaufman reached his decision after the
most careful consideration and in
accordance with his conscience, still, in
my opinion, there are SOME reasons for
mercy.
First though it is true that the Rosen-
bergs committed their crime in wartime,
now there is no longer war on This
does not alter the legal aspect of the
case. but it could be used in favor of the
defendants in considering sentence.
Secondly. the law which says that
punishment for espionage in wartime
can be death obviously means espio-
mage to the benefit Of the enemy But
when the Rosenbergs spied against the
United States, Russia was not an enemy,
but an ally. This, too, could be used in
favor Of the defendants.
Third, nobody, as far as I can see.
suspects that the Rosenbergs did what
they did out Of purely selfish interests,
for money. They did it out of con-
viction. in the service of an idea-how-
ever disastrously wrong the idea and
how foolish the conviction. They Ger
tainly betrayed the allegiance they owed
to this country, but they might have
felt that higher allegiance bound them
to Communism. In receiving punish
ment for crime, criminal who acts
under misguided idealism should, If
possible, be treated differently from one
who follows his selfish desires, as for
instance murderer who kills person
in order to rob him.
If Judge kaufman had taken these
facts into consideration. he might have
been able to give the Rosenbergs, instead
of death. the alternative penalty, 80
years imprisonment
It seems to me. therefore. that this
death sentence should not be carried
out, but should be commuted. by COM
petent authority, into imprisonment for
life.
Moritz Goldstein.
Evening star., 1951-04-12

tally was 1876 to AZ. There was no
American precedent for the action ex-
cept the provision in the Constitution.
The House used the historic language of
the British House of Commons. Presi-
dent johnson was charged with high
crimes and misdemeanors." The House
then added a phrase more in keeping
with its dispute with the Executive. 1t
charged the President with "usurpation
of power"
Ten counts of the impeachment were
based on Johnsons firing Secretary of
War Edwin M. Stanton. One was
catch-all indictment written by Thad-
deus Stevens of Pennsylvania which
called the President traitor" "usurper," !"
"tyrant," "apostate," "drunkard," "mur-
derer." Nero" and "Torquemada"
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase pre-
sided when the trial opened before the
Senate on March 5. The President, who
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Broken Exile

In Northern pines the breath of Sprino
is spice
That fills trnpper's cabin; and the
stream, s.
No longer sfackled By a bridge of ice,
Is beauty tDhere the laughing rifles
gleam. -
The pelts are baled. the grim traps
cached GtDGy, -t
And damn iDin see an old man setting
forth
To steer his burdened raft through leap
ing spray,
Breaking at last his erile in the North:
Lining the dream, he held tphen silence
stark
Hung like pail across this aointered
land
Where Wild things padded, soundless,
through the dark
Until the traps But nolu, the long
months Spdnned,
An exile, thrilled By songs the rapids sing
Is hon1e,Dard bound, paroled By break
ing Spring.
Cliff Walters
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Anti-Antihistomine

Your editorial of April 3 on antihis-
tamines should, believe, illuminate for
readers the danger in the use OF such
drugs.
The warning which the committee of
the New York Academy of Medicine has
issued to the public of the hazards Of
the use of antihistamine preparations in
the treatment of the common cold may
serve the purpose of changing the law
so as to prohibit the sale of such dam
gerous drugs and their indiscriminate
use without physicians advice.
In my own pharmacy, have seen
people buying these antihistamineS and
Evening star., 1951-04-12

States Of its painful responsibilities as the lead
ing power in the coalition against communism.
Progress, really amazing progress, has been made.
But any one who is not deaf, dumb and blind
will realize that the line between world leader
ship and isolation is thin one It would not
take much of push to break down the support
Of majority public opinion for our foreign poll
cies. It is true that this country cannot pull
back behind its own boundaries without serious
injury to our best national interests. But the
interests of our associates, if they wish to remain
free, would suffer even greater injury and they
would be well advised not to forget it.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Antarctic Claims

Apparently the State Department has
reversed its policy in regard to the Ant
arctic. And all to the good According
to The Sunday Star of April /, the
peace treaty with Japan will include pro-
visions that Japan renounce rights,
claims and title to Antarctic areas. Here
tofore, our policy in regard to the Ant
arctic has been that the United States
recognizes the claims of no other ma
tions, nor does this country make any
territorial claims itself on that nearly
million-square- mile continent. But
it would seem in order for us to ask
Japan, in a formal treaty, to renounce
her claims, that we would have to
recognize that Japan had claims.
These are, no doubt, of no great ex-
tent, consisting probably of reports made
by few whalers who have landed and
named mountains or bays. It is officially
stated that the Japanese government has
not made the claims. but that private ex-
petitions have. Possibly some technical
point might be made of that fact. But
still it lboks like reversal Of policy.
This reversal on the part of the State
Department brings forward the ques-
ton, then, of the possibility Of the ac-
ceptance on the part of the United
States of mineral royalties or grants OF
land in Antarctica as partial payment
for some of the aid which our taxpayers
have been giving to various countries
throughout the world which have ex-
tensive Antarctic claims. Several pa
triotic societies in the past few years
have been urging the Congress to study
this suggestion.
1t would seem that in reversing part
of the outmoded policy in regard to the
Antarctic. the State Department might
well go all the way and discard The
apathetic ideasof not claiming any Ant
arctic territory for the United States.
Numerous other nations are much
interested in the resources and scientific
data to be obtained from the Antartic
continent. Taxpayers may well wonder
exactly why the United States does not
claim one single pebble down there.
Elizabeth A. Kendall.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Speaking Of This Impeachment Business

remained in the White House, was rep
resented by six lawyers, headed by the
Attorney General. 65-year-old Henry
Stanberry.
Ben Butler Of Massachusetts,, as
prosecutor, showed the strength of a
bull and total lack of inhibitions.
The Chief Justice established prece-
dents which would make the defense
of President in any period of intense
emotion the more difficult. Gen. w. T.
Sherman was called by the defense. He
was asked questions which, If answered.
might have refuted Buffers opening
statement that the President had sought
to get control of the Army by seizing the
Department of War in order to over
throw Congress. The prosecution OBJ
jected to the questions. The Chief
Justice left the admissibility to vote
Of the chamber. which at length voted
not to allow the general to answer.
The last great impeachment trial in
history had been that of Warren Hast
ings in London. made memorable by the
eloquence Of Burke. The Senate rang
with references to this and to parlia-
mentary trials in the days of the Stuarts
and the TudorS, for American lawyers
then had great learning in the prece-
dents Of England's revolutionary and
medieval periods.
Benjamin r. Curtis of Massachusetts,
and William M. Evarts Of New York
were the. stars Of the defense. Mr..
Evarts' summation took IA hours and
continued over portions of four days.
Until the very end, few thought the
President had chance. The vote was
taken four times, on four of the IL
counts. In each case it was IS guilty,
10 not guilty. A two-thirds vote, or
36 to Is, was necessary for conviction.
On May 26, after almost three months,
the attempt to convict was abandoned.
President johnson was saved by seven
Republican Senators who deserted the
party line to vote for acquittal.
One of them was Henderson of
Missouri, whose "castle" remained on
Sixteenth street almost to the present
day. Fessenden Of Maine, still IA
miliar name because 1t is the terminal
street Of busline, was another.
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later complaining Of strange after-ef-
fects. such as drowsinesS, headache and
upset stomach. attribute the reaction
to such drugs to the fact that certain
people cannot tolerate the use Of any
antihistamine at all.
Antihistamines may be Of value to
some people who suffer from some sort
of allergy or idiosyncracy. But who is
to determine the need? Certainly not
a magazine article of high-powered
direct or indirect advertising. The
physician alone, after a careful exami-
nation Of the patient, can determine the
need for such a strange and dangerous
drug.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Illustration

The Government has advertised Tor
statistical clerks. also stenographic
clerks The ads are published in all
papers. People far and near have
vision OF coming to the Capital City
and getting a nice position. They take
the examination and soon are notified
to report. When they arrive at the
Office, they are given long form to
fill .out with the same questions and
answers they have filed before.
Half of the day is gone. Then they
are assigned to section chief who
gives them lecture on the Importance
of their job After an hour Of talk. a
table 38 by 26 inches, made of white
pine unfinished boards. is assigned to
each of them. There is no place to put
a pocketbook or personal belongings, and
ladies must have some things that can
not be kept on the floor.
The tables are rough. They tear your
hose, prick your skirt and sometimes
get splinters in your hands. In the halls,
you see desks-as many as 20 stacked,
on top of each other-not in use. Why
aren't these clerks given one? You have
no room to work. you feel such let
down after working in nice office.
After sitting at your table for while
you are assigned lot of schedules to
count. They have already been counted
two or three times, to be sure there's
100 in the lot.
Then, after passing the stenographic
examination. this is what you do: Assert.
assemble and file, hour after hour. All
the while the personnel is still calling
for stenographers. Some Of the clerks
have been private stenographers for
large firms. but thought it would be
nice to change to the Government. But
they put them to filing.
Very few mature ladies have been
assigned to the position they applied for,
as the majority want young girls in
their offices. And now the Government
is training girls for stenographers. There
are many in the offices now who are
doing everything except what they were
trained for. Mothers and fathers sacri-
Evening star., 1951-04-12
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Will the new U. N. headquarters in
New York City have room for prayer
and meditation?-G. S. S.
A. Plans for the Permanent Head
quarters of the u N. include a room to
be set aside for prayer or meditation
similar to the one at Lake Success. It
is to be located in the conference area,
construction of which will not be COM
pleted until sometime in 1852.
@. When travelling abroad would 10
or Is per cent of the bill be considered
an adequate tip in hotels or restau-
rantS?-J. S.
A. A is per cent tip is considered
good. When service charge has already
been added to the bill no further tip
is necessary unless unusual services have
been rendered.
@. How many different games of soli-
taire are there?-W. H. H.
A. There are about one thousand
varieties of the game. Most are for
play by one person but there are SINH
lar games which two or more may play.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Holmes Chronology

suppose this is one of a deluge OF
letters you are receiving because of the
apparently erroneous date of Holmes
and Watson taking lodgings in Baker
Street-1878-in your editorial, "221-B
Baker Street." on April Z.
"In the year 1873 took my degree of
Doctor of Medicine of the University of
London" says Watson at the beginning
of "a Study in Scarlet" Although the
date of Watson's meeting Holmes is
somewhat obscure, it is highly unlikely
that it was 1878.
MycrOft Holmes.
Editors Note: The Stars reading
of the opening pages of "A Study In
Scarlet" leads to the conclusion that
the period between Watson's taking
his degree and his meeting with
Holmes is a matter of a few months.
The Star does not know whether New
Years Day intervened; at any rate.
the date almost certainly is 1878
or 1879
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Letters to The Star

flee to send their children to school and
then they are put in such positions. They
do not have the opportunity to use their
education. Now they are in the Govern
ment. sitting at unfinished pine tables,
wondering how much longer it will be.
Taxpayer.
Evening star., 1951-04-12
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer to
aI,,s any question @ Of fact BY either wrttins The
NV Washington D c.. and inclosing cents
return postage By telephoning ST. 1868.
Evening star., 1951-04-12

Our first awareness of the starting was
Evening star., 1951-09-24

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