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each and every 1~8-year-old and
put him in uniform for six cruel
flying months when he might other
wise be gulping goldfish.
Think of it: 1t would put the
collegian on an equal or Demo-
cratic footing with the kid who
can't go to college. Perieh forbid!
Naturally, the Mons, the col
leges and many congressman,
needed by the aforesaid Mons
and colleges, are going to delay
passage of the universal military
training bill as long as possible.
Maybe forever. So perhaps we
should not be too down-hearted.
And now, would anyone care to
join me in that fine anthem or
my youth: "Don't send my boy
to Harvard, the dying mother
cried"
Man, man; did Nav know her
stuff in those days!
, 1952-02-13
POLITICAL COM Mt
By MORRIS SIMMONS

Returns from the first recorded
contest for delegates for the Re-
publican presidential nomination,
reveals a surprising Eisenhower
strength, in a state where prior
indications favored Senator Taft.
In Oklahoma where the first run
off was held, Taft and Eisen-
hover each received seven dele
gates, and two we're committed to.
Gen. Macarthur. Eisenhower
hackers hail this as a victory for
their candidate, due to the fact
that they worked in that state
only since the Republican meeting
in San Francisco last month. How
ever, Taft supporters assert hat
the two delegates favoring Mac
Arthur will swing to Taft, when
the General fails to run at the
convention.
The other Republican aspirant,
Harold E. Stassen, who came to
Oklahoma City, to make the Lin
coin day speech, closing out the
convention, did not receive any
at all.
In Ohio, the Republican cam
paign for the governorship got IN
at Toledo, where Charles
P. Taft made a plea for party
which most observers be-
lieve is impossible at this time.
simultaneously at Delphos, Ohio,
Roscoe Walcutt, n of Taft's op-
ponents told his audience that
Taft was nothing more or less
than a "New Dealer" making be-
ieve that he is a Republican.
Meanwhile, Senator Kefauver,
speaking in Chicago, struck out at
corruption in government, empha-
it's affect on the youth of
he nation, and comparing it to
he threat of Communism.
Senator Kefauver's work on the
crime committee last year, is
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Tomorrow Is A Leap
Yeur Valentine S Dav

NEW YORK, Feb. 13. CNS)-
Tomorrow is Valentie's day, when
martial ideas strike at men.
Nineteen hundred. and fifty-two
is leap year, when women do like
wise.
The combination is a formidable
offense against bachelors, a record
number of whom are expected to
be bagged this heart-hunting sea-
son.
Nevertheless, today's Valentine
and leap year tradition is not so
dangerous a thing as the rituals
even laws-that existed between
the 18th and 10th centuries. In
those days, under certain circum-
stances, a male had to give up
good money or similar reputation
if he refused a marital offer.
In 1852, a blush and shake of
the head will exonerate a man.
But this is no reason for girls
to be shy in offering their pro-
posals-according to the National
Association of Greeting car pub
fishers. The publishers say a good
old college try, in the form of a
greeting card of course, might
get results.
To prove to shy young ladies
that a feminine approach is not
only expected but accepted, the
publishers have issued historic
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proofs o fthe legality of leap
year.
Scotland, in 1888 A. D., sort of
got the tradition going by enact
ing a law which declared:
"It is statut and ordaint that
during the rein of hir MAST Blessit
Mageste, for ilk years knowne as
lepe years, ilk hayden ladye of
both highe and lowe estait, shall
haze liberte to despeke We man she
likes.
albeit he refuses to talk her
to be his lawful WYE, he shall be
mulched in We sum ane pundis or
less, as his estait may be, except
and annis gift he can make it ap-
peare that he is detrottit ane
ither woman he then shall be
free"
A similar law was passed by
French solons a few years Latter.
And early in the 18th century,
feminine proposals were legalized
in Florence and Genoa, aftes
which determined damsels every
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blamed by many Democrats for the
loss of a Democratic senate seat
in the election of 1850.
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Have You Registered?
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Assignment -

Continued From Page Two
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Lowell MeHett::
Government by Big Businessmen
Eisenhower Appointments Assure Test of Disputed Theory
That Business Is Good Training for Government Service

With two more important ap-
pointments the President-elect
has given a still deeper big-busi-
ness coloration to the admin
istration he is engaged in form
ing. The head of the Eastman
Kodak Company will be Under
secretary of the Treasury and
the chairman of the executive
committee of the National City
Bank of New York will be spe-
cial Deputy Secretary of the
Treasury. The head of the huge
M. A. Hanna Company of Cleve-
land, named to be Secretary of
the Treasury, should find him
self in congenial company in his
own special bailiwick as well as
in the cabinet where his COL
leagues will include the head of
General Motors, two successful
automobile distributors and q
New England banker-industrial-
iSt.
Never before have students
OF government had an oppor-
tunity to test on such a scale
one of two opposing theories Of
government. Every so often in
the life of every city there is
heard the assertion, What
this city needs is a businessman
for mayor" And in every
State, What this State needs
is a businessman for governor.
Every city and State at one
time or another has expert
mented with the idea. Some
times they have been pleased
with the result and sometimes
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Electors meet in 48 States President
They concede that Stevenson did
public affairshanks to him. the starts out
new plateau Of 1885, 900 votes
The Supreme Court rules convicted under State
laws evidence that's Federal law
The moral of this telephone plain pick up the
recever-uness you have good mouthpiece.
President Truman against attempts suppress liberties
in the United States Harry depoes substitution of force
for locncudng the forced retirement
Democrats.
dozen Republican committees of Congress prepare to in
vesate the outgoing Democrats Republicans spend the first
two years investigating the two putting
into practice what they learned.
Fytwo radios loaned Eisenhower campaign staff mem
bers by CA missing They didn't weigh very heavily on the
aides conscencesince they under the 12pound
limit established by the Democrats
congressional committee radio and TV regulate
their own morals There's law make the
industry realize that the differences between the two
sexes pretty we'll known to both.
g. O. P Inaugural Chairman McCarraghy that Ike
Will De the 34h President by counting
Roosevelt will not be counted
OF his name once is enough to make McGarraghy
Evening star., 1952-12-16

party. 1t developed nothing new.
Efforts will be concentrated on
reorganization of the National
Committee, with special atten-
ton to the research and
publicity staff under Clayton
Fritchey and on payment of the
campaign deficit.
Some anxiety is felt by both
men about resurgent Southern
leadership in the Senate, but it
was agreed that events must
take their course on the Hill for
the present.
Gov. Stevenson is stubbornly
modest about his own part in
the next few years. For one
thing, he is genuinely worried
about whether the defeat was
his own fault and continued to
mention what he had left un-
done. The excellent reception
accorded him here should help
to dissipate that mood. He
made the Democratic speech at
the Gridiron and the President
co-operated by remaining away.
Actually Mr.. Truman was glad
of the excuse; he has grown
weary Of such formal duties.
They'll put you on the pan and
you got to pretend you like it,"
he warned Gov. Stevenson.
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Dorothy Thon1Pson:
The2Revo|utions Of Our World
Revolt of East Against Western Supremacy Is Proving
Far More Promising of Success Than Mor>lsm

and the recollection Of a unified
civilization which once extended
into Europe itself.
If France were merely at
tempting to restrain national
ism in Tunisia, her problem
would be simple. But in battling
Tunisians she is taking on a
segment of a world united, at
least in what it is against, and
a revolution that spreads in
various forms over one Of the
largest contiguous land areas of
the globe.
From this revolt against the
West. initiated by American
theories. the Soviet Union as a
great power stands aloof, follow
ing it's historic policy to inter-
vene only in the final and de-
cisive phase of the conflict. The
Soviet advantage is to let
nature run its course, until, or
unless, her involvement Is COM
PEELED. or promises decisive re-
suits in terms Of power.
The United States, which in
harmony with long tradition
might well have held a similar
policy. has long since COM
promised her freedom Of action.
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Effect Of Eisenhower Statement
Many Foreign Diplomats Have Wrongly Evouoted
GeneroHs Intentions Recording Koreo Deadlock

costly campaign in Morocco and
TuniSia.
Neither can Britain be ex-
pected to do much to assist us
militarily in the Far East. A
spokesman for the Foreign Of
flee stated last week that one
British armored division might
be sent to Korea in the event
that we decide to shorten that
front by advancing to the 40th
Parallel-some $50 miles north
of the present battle line.
Our European allies suspect,
however, that Washington will
ask them to adopt firmer and
more co-ordinated diplomatic
front toward the Reds in Asia.
The fact that Britain still recog-
nizes the Peiping puppets as the
official government of China has
a serious psychological reaction
among the ASiaticS. This is al
most as harmful to the fight
which the United Nations is
waging in Korea as the export of
strategic materials which British
businessmen continue to carry
on from Hong Kong and Singa-
pore.
During the last 18 months,
under prodding by Congress,
the State Department made
some half-hearted representa-
tionS to London. The British
government expects the new ad-
ministration to apply diplomatic
pressure on the Foreign Office
to end this incongruouS Situa-
ton. Tens of thousands of al
lied soldiers, including a few
thousand British and Common
wealth troops, have been killed
by the Red armies while Brit
iSh merchants with the blessing
OF their government are selling
the enemy strategic materials.
Among the deeds" which Eli
senhower is expected to apply
will be a blockade of the Chi
neSe coast. The British govern
ment will be required, if it
wishes to play along in the
grand coalition of the West, to
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Constantine Brown:

Gen. Eisenhower's statement
Sunday that I'VE are facing an
enemy Tin Korea we cannot
hope to impress by words. how
ever eloquent, but only by deeds
executed under circumstances of
our own choosing" has rever-
berated throughout Western
Europe and Asia.
Some foreign diplomats in
Washington seem to have
wrongly evaluated the next
Presidents intentions regarding
the Korean deadlock. They
assumed that after he visited
the battlefront and thus kept a
promise made during the elec-
tion campaign he would continue
the present do-nothing policies
which have enabled the Reds
to protract the war to suit the
Kremlin's purposes.
Eisenhower is not a politician
in the sense that he indulges in
statements to which he intends
to give another meaning eventu-
ally. He had enough skillful
ghost writer's around him on the
trip to the Far East who could
have given him the usual recipes
for double talk.
Our allies on the European
continent are concerned. They
do not expect the American
Government to ask them to in
crease their material contribu-
tion to the Korean campaign
when we adopt deeds executed
under circumstances of our own
choosing" But they fear that
the priority the next admins
tration will give the Korean
war may compel us to slow down
the present aid to Western
Europe.
Nobody expects France, for
instance, to increase her nomi-
nal force in Korea. The war in
Indo-China is draining her f.
nances and manpower to a point
that she cannot make good even
her commitments under the
NATO. In addition she is now
faced with the possibility of a
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Dorothy Thompson:

Two revolutions are stimuli
taneously occurring in the
world: Communism and the
revolt of the East against CEN
turies of Western supremacy.
OF the two, the second promises
to be the more lasting and pro-
found.
AS a movement commanding
the passions and allegiances OF
masses of men, communism has
never been successful. 1t is al
ways the movement of a small
intellectual elite, never captur-
ing power by genuine mass
rising. It's success has been a
by product of international
wars which, in providing arms
to whole populations and to re-
Sistance movements, have en-
abled a small but efficient Com
munist leadership to detach part
of the national armed forces
from the rest and eventually
turn them against the others
under whatever slogans or re-
sediments appealed, at the
time, to the masses-commu-
nism, as an idea, never being
one of them.
In short, the Communist revo-
luton has always required an
external impetus (waD. It's rev.
olution itself has never pre-
ceded, but always followed,
Communist acquisition Of state
power. It is not made by the
people against the state, but by
the state against the people.
Quite different is the revolt
of the Eastern peoples against
Western domination, which in
wolves acknowledgement racial
passions, unrelated to ideolo-
gies; passions which create the
phenomenon of the mob, OF
lynching bees blindly directed
against European foreigners re-
gardless of their place or func-
ton; passions which take no
account of material gains or
losses wide Iran) and which
spread, like fire, from country
to country.
Wilson's formula of "the self
determination of nationalities,"
repeated in the United Nations
Charter, and giving a legal
historical basis for the anti
Western revolt, is thus proving
a far more revolutionary force
than the theories of Karl Marx.
To organize a Communist rev.
olution in the Arab -Moslem
world, for instance. would be
practically impossible. But an
Arab revolt against France or
Britain hardly needs organiza-
ton. It can be set off at any mo-
ment in the streets of Casa
blanca. Cairo. or Bagdad. and
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Truman Is Still Mokinq Policies
Gen. Eisenhower's Trip to Korea Merely Puves Woy
For Him to Take Over Responsibilities Smoothly
Dovid Lawrence:

Teo many people-judging by
letters and commentS-have the
impression that Gen. Eisen-
hover is already operating as
President of the United States.
They know, of course, that he
will not be inaugurated until
January 20. but the trip to
Korea. the announcement of
the names Of all the members
OF the new cabinet and the
actual beginning in Washing
ton Of conferences between out
going and incoming officials
have produced a rather unusual
impression that policies are
being made by the President
elect. This isn't the case.
The hazardous journey to
Korea has been looked upon by
people generally as a move de-
signed to find a solution to the
problems of the Far East, but
there are some critics, who think
that, because the President
elect hasn't announced his solu-
tion or because he says there is
no magic formula, things aren't
a bit different from what they
have been.
The real difference is this:
The Truman administration has
been content to let matters
drift. Gen. Eisenhower, by the
carefully chosen phrases of the
statement he made on his re-
turn, indicates he doesn't in
tend to let matters drift. Nor
does he plan to announce ex-
actly what he has in mind so
that the Communists will know
about it in advance.
There wasn't any question,
despite Mr.. Truman's "sour
grapes" attitude, but that a
: leader with Gen. Eisenhower
background could learn much
from a first-hand look at the
Korean situation. 1t is just the
kind of problem that the man
who led the Normandy expedi-
Evening star., 1952-12-16

Mrs. truman Happy to Leave
She Likes Washington, but Does Not Enjoy Worrying
About Her Husbands Health and Safety in Office

his decision to bow out made
her has long been apparent in
her relaxed and cheerful air.
The President tells his as
sociates he will be in Washing
ton only a few hours after his
inaugural duties are done. He
will go with Mrs. Truman to q
hotel suite to wait for an eve
ming train home and then really
fade away.
Margaret Truman expects to
continue with her career. Ap-
parently she thinks-and hopes
the public will let her pretty
much alone.
Mrs. Truman Is no exception
to the general rule in her feeling
about Washington. Every de-
parting administration leaves a
certain sediment behind of peo-
pie who don't want to go back to
Pocatello. It is not quite clear
yet who and how many the city
will inherit from the Fair Deal;
certainly nothing like a mass ex-
odus is in prospect. Civil service,
of course, protects the tenure of
the great rank and file.
Over the Gridiron week end
the President and Gov. Adlai
Stevenson had still another con-
verSation about the future of the
Evening star., 1952-12-16

suppressed one day, crops up
the next. And it can tie down
an enormously disproportionate
number of troops. to police a
population, using terror and as
sassination in place Of tanks.
The Tunisian nationalists
have the support of the large
and populous Arab world, and
this, in turn, is backed by the
rest of the Moslem peoples,
more territorially vast and pop
ulous than all Europe, yet es-
sential, because of oil, to the
functioning of the West Euro
pean economy.
In a recent trip to the Middle
East. ! encountered representa-
tives of the Tunisian national
lists at the court of Ibn Saud
in Riyadh which is some
thousand miles farther from
Casablanca than Casablanca is
from Norway!
Divided as this Arab world is,
into many states and by greatly
varying degrees of literacy and
progress, it is bound together
by everything that constitutes a
nation: Territorial contiguity,
common language, common re-
ligion. common sense of destiny,
Evening star., 1952-12-16

tor of a newspaper and as q
member of the House and the
Senate, he had occupied him.
self with public problems DUR
ing most of his life, and was
accustomed to working with
other politicians, who neces-
Sarily compose the greater part
of our Government. in all its
branches.
This last consideration is i'm
portant, as Gen. Eisenhower is
likely to discover by painful ex-
perience. Government in our
democracy is largely a matter
of accommodating conflicting
views and interests, a business
of give and take, Intentionally
provided with checks and bal
ances. Congress can hamstring
the best executive efforts. The
executive can Illustrate legisla-
tive directives. The courts can
at times upset both the other
branches.
The men Gen. Eisenhower has
chosen may prove to be just
what the country needs today,
but they start with an early
disadvantage, due to. the manner
of their selection. The general
not only disregarded the desires
of the Senate's long-accepted
Republican leader in the case of
all appointments, but failed in
most instances to consult with
the Senator or Senators from
the home States. That isn't
the way things are done here
abouts.
Evening star., 1952-12-16
Doris FIeeson:

1t turns out that all those
stories about Mrs. Truman not
liking Washington and therefore
influencing her husband not to
run again for the presidency
are only partly correct.
Mrs. Truman does like Wash
ington: in fact she hopes that
after January 20 next she can
continue to spend a lot of time
here, perhaps even live here
sitter the new administration
absorbS all the limelight.
This will please Washington.
5hich has liked Bess and
Margaret Truman fully as much
as it has the family of any
President. Mr.. Truman. a
partisan politician, has evoked
partisanship; his distaff side,
without abating personal loyalty
to the President or his official
family, has managed to avoid
every trace Of it.
What Mrs. Truman hasn't
liked about Washington is being
the wife of the President in it
and so not free to lead her own
life in peace and quiet, with
time for her friends and no
worries about her husbands
health and safety. How happy
Evening star., 1952-12-16

they have not. So the argument,
never settled, as to whether a
business career is good training
for public Office.
It appears reasonable enough,
If a businesslike administration
is wanted, to give the job to a
businessman. When President
Harding named Andrew w.
Mellon to be Secretary of the
Treasury it seemed, to some
people, an inspired choice-that
is. as soon as they learned who
and what he was, for he was
virtually unknown to the public
at the time of his appointment.
Once he was identified as one of
the country's biggest bankers
and reputedly the third richest
man in the world. he was inn
mediately acclaimed "the great
est Secretary of the Treasury
since Alexander Hamilton" He
wasn't that. He probably was
not a good Secretary of the
Treasury at all. His name is
not likely to be bracketed with
Hamilton's down through the
ages. He will be remembered
instead for the great art gallery
and art collection he gave to
the city of Washington.
Melons training had not
been in public service, but in
the service of himself and his
family fortune. BY contrast,
there was the training of Car
ter Glass. generally credited
with being one of our better
Treasury Secretaries. AS edi-
Evening star., 1952-12-16

Soviet Russia Of unmistakable
clarity. It will be noted in
Moscow that Eisenhower isn't
timid and isn't afraid to issue a
warning that any enlargement
of the "cold war" by more Ko-
reas would be a dangerous
thing for Russia to try. The
whole statement, on the other
hand. though full of firmnesS
and resoluteness. is pacific in
its nature, as the general con-
cludes:
"This journey marks not the
end but the beginning of new
effort to conclude honorably
this phase of the global strug-
GLE"
The President-elect is being
twitted by some who misrepre-
sent and distort his campaign
speeches. He didn't promise to
end the Korean war overnight.
But he did promise to do some
thing-to seek and plan a solu-
ton, This he has already
started on-a series of steps cal
culated to bring the Korean
war to an end in the not-far-
distant future. The results of
the Korean trip will be un-
folded from time to time after
January 20. But it is signifi-
cant to note the generals COM
ment that lin the strictly mill
tary sphere. certain problems of
supply have reached rather Sc
rious proportions and require
only correction"
In due time the world will
come to know the meaning of
this veiled reference to a stand
still policy which the enemy
misunderstood as a willingness
to agree to a stalemate. There
is, therefore. distinct progress
already toward an ultimate So
luton of the Korean problem.
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Evening star., 1952-12-16

approve and enforce such a
measure.
Messrs. Churchill and Eden
know that they will be con-
fronted with violent opposition
not only from the Labor Party
in the House of Commons but
also from a number of trade
hungry industrialists and busi-
neSSmen.
The Indian government is
also reported to have become
seriously alarmed at Eisen-
hower's statement. Prime Min
lister Nehru has been playing
both ends against the middle.
India approved the decision Of
the United Nations to inter-
vene in Korea in June, 1850.
Because Mr.. Nehru hates blood
shed he offered only a Red Cross
unit as his country's contribu-
ton in Korea. India'S neighbor,
Pakistan, however, came for
ward with fully armed division
on condition that the New Delhi
government promise that Indian
troops would not "solve" the
Kashmir dispute between the
countries by force while Pakis-
tan soldiers were fighting in
Korea. The Pakistan govern
ment knew that Prime Minister
Nehru's aversion to bloodshed
did not extend so far as to pre-
vent him forcing the Kashmir
issue.
The State Department took
the necessary diplomatic steps
but met with a highly noncom-
initial answer from New Delhi.
The PakiStan division remained
at home at a time when it's in
tervention in Korea could have
been of decisive Importance.
The offer of the Karachi gov
ernment still holds good on the
same terms as when it was
made in July. 1850. The Indian
government is concerned lest
the new Secretary of State,
John Foster Dulles, may press
harder for direct answer than
his predecessor.