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Evening star., 1951-02-14

merely laugh at that; they do
wish he would relax.
AS they review the RFC situ-
alton in private conversations
they reach one sad conclusion:
1t didn't need to happen.
This is not a case of the Presi-
dent protecting an agency Con-
gress hates. Congress dotes on
this lending outfit to which 1t
can send eager borrowers from
the 48 States; RFC has attained
almost the private patronage
status of the Army Engineers,
the number one sacred cow on
Capitol Hill.
On balance RFC probably
makes more friends and fewer
headaches for Senators and
Representatives than for the
White House. The one big de-
preston potion compounded by
Herbert Hoover, Congress never
let it die during the country's
palmiest days. Senator Full
bright was warned fatty by
congressional veterans that no
matter what he proved, he
couldn't pass bill to abolish it.
The White House had ample
warning.
The investigating subcommit-
tee-Chairman Fulbright, an
administration Democrat; Sen
ator Douglas, a Fair Dealer, and
Senator Tobey, a liberal Repub-
lican-took their case person.
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Constantine Brown:

Gen. Macarthur is said to
have warned Washington once
more that the campaign 10
Korea will remain costly and
fruitless see-saw battle unless
permission is granted for: Cd
Allied air forces to bomb the
enemy's lines Of communication
and industrial installations In
Manchuria, and (2) the Chinese
Nationalists in Formosa to Gre
ate a second front" by means
of raids in force on South
China.
Until these two factors are
drawn into the picture our
forces cannot possibly win a
final victory. but neither can the
enemy dislodge us from South
Korea.
Last summer we traded space
for time. We needed time to
bring sufficient troops from the
United States to smash up the
Korean Communists. The land
ings at Inchon and the subse-.
quent operations accomplished
this purpose. Then suddenly we
were confronted with an over
whelming and well-trained Chi
nese Communist mass estimated
at nearly / million men.
Withdrawal was necessary
and the war entered a new
phase. Only one strategy was
possible under these new cir
cumstances: Trade space to gain
time and save lives. This is
being done now.
We have killed an unbeliev-
able number Of enemy troops.
But with unhampered communi-
cations between Manchuria and
Korea more Chinese are coming.
A young officer who has been
in battle in Korea since last
July wrote very recently: 'It's
all right to kill tens Of thou
sands of Reds. But we have to
pay a price for it ourselves. We
destroy whole battalions in one
fell swoop. But more are COM
ing all the time. There are 480
million Chinks in the world and
even we Marines do not claim
to be able to finish them up In
the foreseeable future"
The fact is that we are
people Of only $50 million, yet
we have assumed global COM
mitments. In the near future
we must meet the obligations
assumed by our Government on
the other side Of the Atlantic.
For the present we do not have
sufficient ground forces to fight
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Henry McLenore:

If my bump of wisdom was as
large as the bump on the back
of my head phrenologists would
pay me to allow them to run
their fingers over my head like
a kid learning the scales on the
piano.
Not only that, Barney Baruch
would set up park bench in
my living room just in the hope
of hearing the sage remarks
that might come from my Gu
pid's bow lips.
How come this monstrous
bump on the back Of my head?
I'll tell you. If I don't tell you
there'll be no column.
I got it trying to learn to ice
skate.
You see, we're going over to
Holland in a few days and kim,
with whom we are flying, said
that we would have more fun
If we knew how to ice skate.
Jean, having more sense and
being less daring and sporty
type than I am, refused to take
skating lessons. She apparent
ly values her life above fun.
But not daredevil Henry, who
has now finished his third ice
skating lesson. I have one con-
ISOLATION, namely. there are more
dents in the ice than there are
in me. I am giving it back a
little better than it gives to me.
I may look foolish when I leave
the rink. but the rink looks
more foolish.
I cannot possibly give any
pointers to youngsters taking up
Ice skating. but I am a limping
authority for those A years old
or better.
First thing to do is borrow q
pair of ankles from a 19-year-
old boy. Yours won't do. At
A you might just as well have
egg whites Tor ankles.
While you're borrowing the
boys ankles you might just as
we'll borrow his balance. A man
doesn't have any idea of how
that mystic juice in his ears has
dried up until he puts on ice
skates. At real good middle age
1t is as dry as pepper.
Choose soft ice for your les
sons. It breaks when various
parts Of your anatomy hit it,
whereas hard ice snarls at you,
puts up its dukes, and fights
back.
Take your first lesson In your
refrigerator. The ice cube trays
Evening star., 1951-02-14

/. Mr.. Steelman was not as
signed to the railroad dispute by
the White House but became in
volved in it at the special re-
quest of the four union presi-
dents. He agreed to call meet
ings but with the understand
ing that the railway mediation
board would participate in the
discussions.
2. When, on December 81. a
memorandum agreement was
signed in full by the four presi-
dents of the railroad unions as
well as by the representatives Of
the railroads, the document set
forth the understanding of both
parties. It was not in legal Ian
guage but it recited unequivo-
cally the basic points of agree
ment in the form of a summary.
3. It was fully understood by
both sides that the points in
this memorandum would be put
into, legal language later. There
was a provision which said that
If the parties could not agree on
the "details" before writing the
actual agreement itself, John
Steelman was to make the final
decision.
4. This service to be rendered
by Mr.. Steelman was to end as
soon as the agreement was
drawn up in legal language and
hence his part was to be tenn
porary-probably for a few days.
5. There was an understand
ing at the time that a blank
3 space was to be left on one of
the points dealing with the price
for coupling or uncoupling hose
but, once the final agreement on
this rule was reached, Mr.. Steel
man was no longer to arbitrate
anything.
6. An understanding was
reached also that after July /,
1852, the parties would go to Mr..
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Gov. Dewey Shows Prophetic Political Insigh
And q Knock of Copitozng on Same

ice. There he stated eloquently
the issues that face the Nation
and his party. He called for
boldness in our leadership of the
free peoples of the world. He
advocated a full measure Of aid
to our Western Europe allies.
He bespoke confidence in our
ultimate success worthy of Our
best tradition. All of this con-
trasted sharply with the counsel
of timidity and withdrawal
of Senator Taft and Herbert
Hoover.
How right Tom Dewey was in
his diagnosis of last summer,
when he decided to act, is clear
in the sequence Of events after
the election. Senator Taft re-
turned here to concentrate still
further his power in Congress
and thereupon assumed his
party's leadership in foreign
policy in Congress. Thus equip
ped. he then drew the quibbling,
frustrating issue over military
aid to Europe. He succeeded. in
effect, in reviving the latent
forces of isolationism. The re-
cent debate resolved the issue
finally into terms almost that
simple.
The Senator found an added
starter in Herbert Hoover which
hardly could have been FORE
seen by Tom Dewey. The for
midable character of the Taft
Hoover team is manifest in the
way the New York Governor
has seized every possible occa-
sion to combat it's philosophy.
He has hammered away inces-
sanity.
He found an ally, too. He
attached himself to Gen. Eisen-
hover. Months ago, during the
heat of his New York campaign.
he espoused the candidacy of
the general for the 1852 Re
publican presidential nomina-
ton. What an effective secret
weapon" the general has turned
out to be for him-and also the
Truman administration - was
plainly revealed in the triumph
that the general enjoyed here
on his return from Europe.
Gen. Ike is a fine symbol for
the fight Tom Dewey is making
in the party and, if the gen.
eral decides the presidency is
not his diet, it still will be help
full to have been for him. That
is, if Tom Dewey still has 1852
ambitions of his own.
The lines are being drawn
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Democratic Chiefs Worried
Hope Truman Will Take Holiday in Key We
To Quiet Outbursts of Political Temper

ally to the President. When
they perceived they had not
altered his purely politics" at
titude, they enlisted his friend.
Senator Clinton Anderson, to
warn him his RFC nominees
could not be confirmed.
When that failed. they begged
his personal aide, Charles S.
Murphy, Clark Clifford's sue
cessor and an alumnus Of Con-
gressional committees. to look
over their material and report
back. Mr.. Murphy ducked.
Aides Donald Dawson and Ma
tional Chairman Boyle were
being named; apparently Mr..
Murphy preferred to take no
risks of vendettas within the
White House walls. Still an
other Democrat on good terms
with the President took hand;
he prefers not to be named.
But Senator Fulbright, a
foreign policy stalwart and one
of the rare Democrats on the
honor roll of Acheson defend
ers, had suggested President
Truman abdicate in '46. Peo-
pie were mentioning Senator
Douglas as a Presidential pos
sibility.
"Just politics." instilled into
the President at the White
House. graduated through "asi-
ninity" at a press conference
into an open row on the hill.
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Doris FIeeson:

The best news congressional
Democratic leaders could get
would be that President Truman
was about to take off for a lazy
holiday in the Key West sun
shine.
They are not panicked by his
recent outbursts; they side with
him largely on the questions of
principle in the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. fight. the railroad
strike, etc. But when he gives
free rein to temper on per-
sonalities and thereby makes
one political mistake after an
other, they worry.
Harry Truman is not the
Machiavellian politician Harold
Stassen said he was, but he
hung something of a record for
political effectiveness against
overwhelming odds. 1t is not in
character for him to insult his
own side and add to the heavy
burdens of his friends, the
Speaker of the House and Ma
jority Leader Mcfarland, who
on every issue practically must
depend upon coalition support.
Some Of the more hysterical
predicters here suggest that Mr..
Truman has either blown his
top or is deliberately planning
to make his own 82d Congress
a whipping boy in 80 as he did
the G. o. P. 80th in '48. Demo-
Gratis In close touch with him
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Henry McLen1ore:
Values Fun Above Life;
Takes Ice Skating Lesson

know you, will be lenient with
your efforts. and If you shut the
door of the refrigerator when
you go in, you can't possibly fall
more than a few inches.
Even If it nearly kills me, I am
going to learn to skate before
leave. When we were in Holland
last summer, admiring the f1ow-
ers, gasping at the windmills, OH
ing and ahing over the quaint
costumes Of the children. we
were told by Dutch friends about
winter in Holland.
In winter all the canals are
frozen over and the Hollanders
skate all over the country visit
ing friends and relatives. Hun
dreds of them take off for a tour
Of almost the entire country.
That I aim to do. From Am
sterdam I intend to link my arm
in the arm Of a Dutch friend and
swing. head down to the wind. to
The Hague, to Delft, to Rotter-
dam (still my favorite city in
Holland).
I may be sliding when pass
those cities, feet in air, lungs
yelling for help, but I must
do it. Skating in Holland in
wintertime gives one the pink
est cheeks, I hear. It's a cinch
I'll have pink ones.
You'll hear more about this
later. If live, you understand.
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Evening star., 1951-02-14

Steelman again In connection
with wage stabilization but only
to set in motion machinery
whereby the President of the
United States would appoint a
referee to determine whether
further wage increases were JUS
titled under Government policy.
The foregoing sets forth the
actual connection of Mr.. Steel
man with the entire affair. and
yet for some odd reason there
has been an effort to make it
appear that somehow the Presi-
dents assistant was setting
himself up for some special job
Of a permanent nature out of
which presumably he was to
derive a benefit.
This type of unfair attack
could only have been started as
a reprisal against Mr.. Steel
man because he stood his ground
and so did the President-in
insisting that the original
memorandum Of points signed
on December 81 was binding and
that the four union presidents
who signed it should in good
faith have recommended it to
their organizations for ratif1ca-
ton instead Of backing down
on it.
Mr.. Steelman has been the
center of controversy before
when he settled the coal miners
dispute in 1941 as a special
arbitrator appointed by the late
President Roosevelt but he was
attacked then as too friendly to
the unions. Plainly the lot of a
mediator is a hard, hard lot, but
John Steelman's record for fair
ness isn't going to be tarnished
by insidious propaganda from
rail unions which played "sick"
and recently caused hundreds Of
millions of dollars in losses to
the American people.
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Evening star., 1951-02-14

Calfskins, Plain and Medal
lion Wingtips, Straight Tips.
Not all sizes in every style,
but all sizes in group. Ex-
clusively ours in Washington.
Evening star., 1951-02-14
New Macarthur Wurninq
Korea Campaign to Remain Costly See-Sow
Without Second Front and Monchuro Bombing

Korea. While we have knocked
out at least 100000 enemy
troops. we have suffered so far
some $4,000 casualties. The
Chinese are said to have about
300 divisions under arms; we
have only per cent Of that
number.
An offended" Peiping gov
ernment cannot do much more
than it is doing now. Some dip
lomats say that direct action
against Red China might bring
Russia into the Pacific war. But
If Moscow has decided to wage
war on the free world this year.
it makes no difference what pre-
text it uses. It is immaterial
whether it strikes in the Pacific
or in Europe.
Official spokesmen say that il
the Nationalists are defeated on
the mainland we would have to
assume the defense Of Formosa
with American ground forces, OF
which we have none to spare.
The answer of the military in
Tokyo Is that nobody contem-
plates the whole Nationalist
army-about 100000 men in
such an action. In its original
phases the Nationalists would
send strong combat teams to
make contact with the guerril-
las and compel the Chinese
Communists by such major
raids to withdraw some of their
best troops from the Korean
front.
Gen. Macarthur is said to
have pointed out forcibly to
Washington that unless these
two conditions are met, the see
saw battle in Korea may con-
tinue for an indefinite time.
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Thomas L. Stokes:

Among his other qualities.
Gov. Dewey must be credited
with prophetic insight and a
knack of capitalizing on it.
Many months ago, after he
had announced his retirement
from politics, he came to see
the impending struggle within
his party over its attitude as to
Americas position in the world.
He recognized that a victory
for Senator Taft in Ohio would
reinvigorate the forces Of ma
tionalism-the "little America"
viewpoint-and that the party
might very easily be showed back
toward the isolationism from
which he and the late Wendell
L. Willkie had rescued it. 1t
was plain that Senator Taft,
again back in his pre-eminent
role in Congress and even
stronger, would be in a strategic
position Of great party in
f1uence.
The Ohio Senator and his
wing of the party would, in
effect, win by default. That
must not happen. So Tom
Dewey and leaders Of like mind
in the party decided. 1t took
some rearranging, very clum-
silly and somewhat callously
done, to get Tom Dewey back
into the picture. 1t. Gov. Joe
Hanley. who already had re-
ceived Mr.. Dewey's blessing as
his successor, was kicked up
stairs to United States Sena-
tor nomination. Gov. Dewey
was conveniently drafted"
again and rode back into Al
bany. still titular leader Of his
party and with the forum that
the governorship offered.
The promptness with which
he availed himself of that forum
it is recalled that his inaugu-
raj address was largely devoted
to foreign policy-and the effec-
tive way he has kept at it since
is sufficient proof Of the COM
pelling motive behind his re-
entry into politics at almost the
eleventh hour months ago. It
was a needed service for the
Nation and his party in this
crisis, however much motives OF
personal ambition also might be
involved, however cynical was
the reaction from some quarters
to the argument that the ma
tional crisis required him to
continue as Governor.
The voice of his Lincoln Day
address demonstrates his serv-
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Attack on Stee|n0on Unfair
Efforts Made to Make President Assistant
Appear to Have Set Himself Up as q Labor Cor
Dovid Lawrence:

The railroads and the labor
unions are getting closer to-
ward a peace treaty. But there
are some mysterious circum-
stances being revealed which
show why the task of mediation
at the White House has been
made doubly difficult.
A controversy has developed
over the part played by John
r. Steelman, special assistant
to the President. For several
days now efforts have been
made from labor sources to dis
credit Mr.. Steelman's role. and
this has been done partly by
the dissemination of a report
that he had set himself up as
a sort Of GEAR" or "three-year
arbitrator"
This report is wholly untrue
but the reason for spreading it
would appear to be to try to
weaken Mr.. Steelman's influence
at the Presidents side. Actu-
ally John Steelman is one of
the ace mediators In the coun-
try. For seven years he was
the head of the United States
Cancellation Service and was
involved in the handling of
more than 10000 strikes or
threatened strikes and more
than 10000 labor disputes of all
types. Mr.. Steelman is not as
signed exclusively to labor mat
ters at the White House but
assists in general administrative
tasks and gets into labor prob
lens only when they are suffi-
GENTLY acute to require the at
tention of the President himself.
In the face of the long and
efficient record of Mr.. Steelman
as a mediator, 1t came as a sur
prise to find the unions charg-
ing that he had set himself up
as a "three-year arbitrator"
The facts with reference to Mr..
Steelman's part in the recent ne
gotiations are these:
Evening star., 1951-02-14

a full war in Korea and at the
same time take necessary pre-
cautionary measures, not orily
in Western Europe but also in
Iceland and Greenland, two
vitality important but unde-
Tended strategic islands. The
United Nations members are
unwilling and incapable Of in
creasing substantially the token
forces they now have in Korea.
These are facts which are
said to have prompted Gen.
Macarthur to ask Washington
to let loose on the enemy his
strategic Air Force and the Ma
tionalist troops.
Until last November. when
the Chinese Communists off,
cially entered the war. the
United Nations rejected both
these possibilities, because it
hoped that by refraining from
anything "rash" the Chinese
Communists might be kept out
of the war. However well
founded this policy may have
been then, it no longer corre-
spends to today's realities.
The Chinese are throwing at
us the best troops they have.
They can do this with impu-
nifty. since they are not worried
about a second front. The dip
lomats' speculations that if we
kept out of Mao Tse-tung's
. hair we would avert his inter-
vention have completely mis-
fired.
The use of the air force and
the Nationalist troops cannot by
any stretch Of the imagination
make the situation worse. But
it can improve our position in
Evening star., 1951-02-14
Thomas [. Stokes
Lines Drawn for COP. Rule

for a real battle at the 1852
convention for control of the
party between the Taft-Hoover
viewpoint on one hand and the
Dewey Eisenhower viewpoint on
the other. The outcome will
determine the candidates. But
the fight Is more important
than personalities-for the Re-
publican Party and for the
Nation.
Evening star., 1951-09-27
Bell Cites Benefits
OF Tax Situation for
Chest-US0 Donors

Certain aspects of the tax sit
uation may enable people to give
more generously to the forthcom-
ing Community Chest -USO cam
paign than they have in past
years it was pointed out last
night by Daniel w. Bell, president
of the American Security and
Trust Co.
He madt this statement at a
lpre-campaign dinner of the ad-
vance gifts unit, attended by 500
persons in the Hotel Statler. The
Campaign, which starts october
Is, has a goal here of $3.50, 900
for the more than 100 local agen-
cies of the six-member Commu-
nifty Chests and disqualification
FInS. It seeks an additional
$320.OO0 for the USO and other
United Defense Fund services to
members of the armed forces and
their families.
. Presents Figures.
Mr.. Bell gave some figures
which. he said, may furnish some
food for thought for prospective
givers,"
If your gift in 1949 was 1000.
wheil combined corporate tax
rates were 38 per cent, your gift
had tne effect Of reducing your
net earnings by $500" Mr.. Bell
explained There is a bill pend
ing in Congress today. under
which, if it becomes a law-and
lit is almost certain to be passed
your combined corporate normal
and surtax rates will be So per
cent, so that a $1,000 gift this
year would reduce your net earn
ings by $3.50, instead of $500.
so you can, therefore. If not
in excess profits tax bracket. in
crease your gift to the Community
Chest in 1852 to $1,000. and it
would have no more effect on
your net earnings than your 1949
gift had"
Costs Only $3.50.
In respect to the excess profits
tax situation, Mr.. Bell suggested
again using the $1,000 gift and
1949 costs as a base. He said that
this year, with the excess profits
tax rates indicated in the pend
ing bill, that 81 900 gift will only
cost you $3.50 instead of the $500"
."You could, therefore, make a
Chest-USO gift of more than S.
500 this coming year, and it would
cost you just about the same in
net earnings as your $1,000 gift
cost you in 1949," he said. There
are other approaches to this prob
lem from tax angle, but your
own accountant should figure
those out for your guidance"
Eric Johnston, administrator of
the Office of Price Sterilization,
pointed up the fact that America
today is "in a fishbowl," with the
rest of the world looking to this
Nation for guidance. He decried
the fact that some countries think
of the United States as too ma
terialistic, with "our culture tied
to our purse strings and not to our
heart strings"
Mr.. Johnston said support of the
Community Chest and the USO
Evening star., 1951-09-27

represent good opportunity to
show that this Nation practices a
love of humanity.
Gen. j. Lawton Collins, Army
Chief of Staff, said problems Of
both morale and morals will ex-
ist if additional USOs are not
provided both here and overseas.
He praised the camp shows now in
existence through USO.
Thornton w. Owen, general
chairman. also stressed the ad-
vantages of the tax situation, with
special reference to corporations.
In an attempt to see how this
would work, he said he made a
test check of firms who gave
gifts last year and that he found
they will increase their gifts this
year. because of the favorable tax
situation.
Hugh K. Duffield, head of the
Chest Federation. presided at the
dinner. A reception was given
earlier by IS business firms.