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Evening star., 1952-08-10
Point Five
By Bruce Borton

some time back, President Truman
oeilvered himself Of a four-point pro-
gram OF foreign policy. Very few people.
+! discover, can recall anything about
PontS !. 2 and 3. but Point Four
mas received Q lot of advertising.
1t proposed that we should spread
some billions Of our taxpayers money
around in backward" countries. in the
form OF industrial, agricultural. and
medical "know-how." This. saw the One
Worlders. will help increase the food
supplies Of these countries. improve their
health. and produce society so pros
porous and content as to be immune to
communism.
To this program have only one
reservation. None of these well-mean-
ing people faces up to the fundamental
iSsue-that when you eliminate famine
ana disease from stricken society. the
death rate drops so rapidly that even
WIN more food, the number of excess
mouths and stomachs is greater, not
less. than before.
The latest evidence on this point is
in the June, 1852. number of the Popula-
uon Bulletin. and deals with Ceylon.
In that malaria -infested country a
WY SAAR1C Oi1lI1B WAS UUuG-CIlG houses
were sprayed with DDT. The cost was
practically nothing Q2-15 cents per
person.. and no United States funds
were required. But the result was ex-
plosive. In just one year, 1867, the
death rate dropped from 20.3 (per thou
SandD to 14.6. And is now 1875.
Ceylon has very high birth rate-4O
per 1000 people. compared to our "a.
The S million population has become
million and there is only one-half
an arabic acre per person (two acres per
person are regarded as necessary for
a normally healthful diet). If the births
and deaths continue at the present rate,
the population will double by 1875.
What. then. will the people eat? Each
other? Or will they. like the mounting
millions Of Puerto Rico and Japan. be
permanently in the bread line of the
United States?
I propose that we add another point
to our foreign program-Point Five. It
would be addressed to our protege ma
tions as follows:
Friends, we are happy to help you
build up your resources and improve
your health. But when we started this
thing we apparently forgot all our arith-
metic. Now, 1t seems. the more we give
you the more we increase your need
and We just don't see any end to 1t.
This, therefore. is to inform you that
unless you do something In the way Of
population control we shan have 10 quit.
Otherwise, we shall bust ourselves with
out permanently helping you. Friends.
we're sorry, but we've bitten Oh more
than We can chew"
(copyr.sht. 1853. King ysasurss syndicats. fnsJ
Evening star., 1952-08-10

by professionals whose sole aim Is to
completely wrest political control from
the hands Of the people. This achieve
ment is being accomplished by institut-
ing Immoral and degenerative principles
of group thought and action.
Despite the confusion OF the fray, we
must always remain conscious that it is
creative leadership of free enterprise
which opens the avenues of constructive
employment. It is the courage and lead
ership of entrepreneur who creates goods
and organizes services. He therefore,
creates the opportunity for labor to work
at making such goods and at distributing
such services. Regardless of his errors,
this he has done. And by virtue of this
creative action, his has been the power
to command and to lead.
When free leadership is destroyed or
shackled, tyrannic leadership will re-
place it. That leadership will constitute
labor bosses whose title Of power will be
the wholesale denial of free-will and
capture of human rights. The choice of
being an individual bargainer will come
to be general impossibility. The duty
to be individually responsible in thought
and action will be clandestinely dis
solved. Thus will our people come to be
governed instead Of being served. Such
is the way our republic can be destroyed
from within. This is the spirit which
pulls the shades Of darkness over Eng
land, China and Russia today! Is this
worth the trade for few more worthless
dollars?
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

January IL. 1882. and his career ended
March 6, 1885. The tradition he left is
that Of a great liberal, but he also was
a great conservative in the true meaning
of the phrase.
Half century ago the Department
of Agriculture was distributing vegetable
and flower seeds, trees and
Seeds TOR plants to thousands of citi-
Free Zens gratis. The Star for
August l. 1902. reported that
40 million packages of such material
were being prepared for mailing. Seeds
thus circulated were guaranteed to
grow. The ridicule which sometimes
had been showered upon the distribu-
ton, it seems, came mostly from per-
sons who were not interested in trying
to grow anything. Congress appropri-
ated only $270,000 annually for the
seeds and the labor of sending them out.
The custom of distributing seeds was
discontinued by congressional action in
1923.
In The Star of August Is, 1902, the
following poetic language appeared un-
der the head of special
West Point correspondence: For ex-
Described qlisite scenery. where
mountains, sky and river
blend. seek West Point during the sum-
mer encampment of the cadets. The
camp itself. with its tents Of khaki, sur
rounded by noble forest trees, is most
picturesque, not rendered less so by
glimpse through its avenues of passing
cadets in their pleasing uniforms of gray
with brass buttons and gray or white
trousers. At in the morning drills be-
gin. and end at 1890. Infantry, artillery
and cavalry follow each other. full of
interest, color and harmonious move
ments. The spirited horses, finely man
aged by their well-trained riders; order
lies who repeat by bugle calls the orders
of the officers in command; the execut-
ing Of those varied orders by the cadets.
now mounted, again on foot. charging an
imaginary foe, the flashing sabers In the
final drill Of the cavalry. all charm the
onlooker. Each mother and every
maiden finds the one spot Of intensest
interest where her own boy or favored
cavalier Is placed. Hops and concerts
alternate to make the evenings Of each
week q Joy forever
Evening star., 1952-08-10
The Stevenson Team

Governor Stevenson's selection of Stephen
Mitchell Chicago attorney and chief counsel for
the Chelf Committee, as Democratic national
chairman is in keeping with the candidates
evident determination to make up his own team
for the coming presidential campaign
Mr.. Mitchell is described as a long-term
personal friend Of the Governor and has been
associated with him in Chicago and Illinois
politics. In his capacity as national chairman,
he will share with Wilson Wyatt, another per-
sonal friend of the Governor who has been
designated campaign manager, the principal
responsibility for the Democratic Party's success
or failure in the coming presidential race
To the rank and file of the party member
ship it is an important responsibility and one of
Mr.. Mtchell's prime organizational tasks will be
to see that the chain of command is functioning
smoothly from his own top spot all the way
down to the precinct and block workers. This
is the type of fence building usually intrusted to
professional or experienced politician and some
misgivings have been reported within the career
Democratic ranks at turning both of the major
campaign jobs over to relative amateurs" in
the practice of national politics.
While such reaction is fully understandable.
it seems quite clear that of the most effective
lines of Republican attack this fall will be on the
theme that the country needs and wants a
change of faces The very nomination of Gov
ernor Stevenson-relatively new on the national
political scene-was Democratic acknowledge
ment OF this point and the favorable reaction
which greeted his choice confirmed this estimate
of the public temper. Aside from the fact that he
must think highly of Mr. Mitchells abilities, the
Governor is extending this same pattern of
freshness" in selecting him for the party
craftsmanship.
The coincidence of Mr.. Mitchell currently
being chief counsel for the House committee
that has been investigating alleged irregularities
in the Justice Department may also prove to be
a political asset
The charge of corruption in Government,
under Democratic administration, is another
of the certain issues of the campaign. Governor
Stevenson already has Identified himself with
those who are most alert to the political menace
of this accusation and most ready to condemn
such state of affairs. Through his work with
the House committee Mr. Mitchell has been in
position to learn some of the facts of this matter
and to provide useful guidance to the Governor
in meeting campaign attacks on this issue.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
The Major Issue?

After a long conference with them at Denver,
John Foster Dulles has announced that General
Eisenhower and Senator Nixon-the Republican
presidential and vice presidential candidates.
have agreed with him that foreign policy must
be made "the major issue" of the campaign
between now and election day in November.
However, although there is plenty of room for
argument over past actions dating back to Yalta,
and over the execution of the administrators
present international program it is difficult to
see how the subject can become the chief point
of contention, overshadowing all others, in the
great political battle now shaping up.
This is so because the foreign-policy plankS
of the two parties are pretty much as one IN
terms of basic principles and objectives. AS far
as the essentials of future action are concerned,
there is-fortunatey-no important point that
lends itself to superheated debate of sort
that could seriously divide the Nation at a time
when unity is much needed. Thus, apart from
its attack on the administrations course at
Yalta and in the immediate postwar years. the
Republican program differs from that OF the
Democrats principally in matters of detail
method, emphasis and priority of steps to be
taken in coping with the Communist menace
throughout the world. Beyond that, there is
fundamental agreement-a fact that can hardly
be reconciled with the idea of making inter-
national operations "the major issue" Of the
campaign.
But Mr.. Dulles apparently thinks otherwise.
Although he has been identified with some of
the Administrations foreign pohcy-notably In
the case of the Japanese peace treaty-he has
voiced the conviction that the G. o. P. can launch
an all-out offensive in this field with the follow
ing arguments, among others: % That General
Eisenhower is the only man capable OF checking
the trend to war that has been set in motion
bv "blunders" committed under President Tru-
man; (2) that the Republicans will correct one
of the most important of those "bunders" by
establishing "a global balanced policy which VIII
treat the peoples of the Far East, the Middle
East and Africa as equal and first-class members
of the free world and not as second-class expend-
abes" and 81 that I'VE will abandon the policy
of mere containment and will act to develop
hope and a resistance spirit within the captive
peoples" In order to deter the Communists
aggressors and establish an enduring peace
In other words, as he has said on othel
occasions, Mr. Dulles has once again hit at the
Administrators negative" approach. Like tn'
Evening star., 1952-08-10

Republican international plank, which is largely
his own handiwork he is for all such projects
as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but
he wants them backed up with more affirmative"
measures Yet, aside from referring to the de-
velopment of "hope and resistance spirit within
the captive peoples" he has still to spell out just
what he means by those measures, and he there
fore seems very vague and less than convincing
when he says that foreign policy can and must
be made "the major issue" of the campaign.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Propriety of the Voice

May express my appreciation to the
first secretary of the Jordan Legation,
Omar Dajany with whom regrettably I
have no personal acquaintance for his
contribution in the July IS issue to the
discussion of the propriety of broadcast
ing Moslem religious propaganda over
the Voice Of America? It is gratifying
to have Mr.. Dajany's testimony to the
vigor of American moral ideas through
out the world today.
This, Of course, is the point Of my
comments. that the Voice of America as
the voice" of America. should be talk
ing about these ideas and ideals, which
are derived from the Christian Gospel,
rather than talking about Islam. which
is not a part of the fabric of American
culture. believe Mr.. Dajany would un-
derstand my point Of view if he were to
imagine, say. the Mecca radio broadcast
ing Christian sermons. The venture
would be regarded with suspicion, re-
sentiment and perhaps cynicism-and
that, as said in an earlier letter. is the
reaction to MoSlem sermons broadcast
by radio that purports to give. in the
words of the religious consultant to the
voice. balanced picture of religious
life in America" It is the total hypoc-
risy of the idea that have challenged.
I trust also that Mr.. Dajany may
agree with me that it is to the interest
of Jordan and to all small countries. as
it is to the profound interest of Ameri-
cans, that those who govern this mighty
Nation be continually reminded of the
injunction of our Holy Scriptures. ito
love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy
God." and of the command Of our Lord
Jesus Christ when He said. Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you, and pray
for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you" I doubt whether the
Vedas. the Angas, the Avesta. or the
Holy Koran has anything more signifi-
cant to say to this generation than these
words of our Blessed Lord.
believe my references to the appro-
priation of public moneys for the broad
casts of Moslem propaganda were also
misunderstood. for the concern was not
as to the amounts involved (though
many pinhole makes sieve) but as
to the legality of such expenditures un-
der our constitutional system.
With reference to Mr.. Dajanys grati-
fication that there are no Elgin Crosse
closes in Jordan, must report that
while travelling in his country last year
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Incident Thot Swung q Vote

In recent editorial which praised
both Gov. Stevenson and Gen. Eisen-
hover, you said:
1T was cold, cold heart that was
not warmed when the general. imme-
diately upon his nomination. went to
call on Senator Taft in friendship
Evening star., 1952-08-10

Gestures like that are rare in q calling
where mans strength goes more often
to his lungs than to his spirit"
Yours is. I am sure, the reaction which
was contemplated when that gesture was
made by the victorious general. But you
and he might be surprised at the very
different reaction some of us knew.
Several persons who watched it on
television have told me that Senator
Taft still looked dazed from the stun
ming blow which had been dealt him.
Yet he had to go through this dramatic
scene with his conqueror-and. amaz-
ingly, had to carry the weight Of the
scene.
What a cruel thing to do-to build
yourself up as noble. generous victor
by putting the vanquished through an
extra bit Of suffering.
It was this gesture of Gen. EiSenhow-
er's which has convinced me that Of
two evils, Stevenson is the lesser.
Cold Heart.
Evening star., 1952-08-10

put the Democratic house in order as
long as that party remains in power.
No. feel certain that the Democrats
will not win this fall. Perhaps in other
days, under cleaner Democratic state,
Gov. Stevenson could win on his own
merits, but today the American people
are weighing him in the balance against
the past record of the party.
Bill Stately.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
The scribbler.
Source Of Revenue?

A lobbyist has been fined $25 for
punching the nose of a columnist Won
der If this columnist would be interested
in offering better price in larger guam
titles? The District government needs
money and this would be a popular
method Of raising lot of it.
r. r. w.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Objection Noted

The Sunday Star had lengthy article
on the State Departments new passport
appeals board. The writer states that
the revision was undertaken after Sena-
tor Morse criticized practices of the
passport division. Nowhere in the ar
ticle. however, is it stated that three
judge district court here in Washington
on July held that the passport divi-
sion's procedures with respect to revoca-
ton and refusal to renew passports vio-
lated contitutional due process of law.
This would certainly seem to be rele-
want factor.
Observer.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
To Increase Church Membership

To curb moral delinquency let people
join church and be baptized any day.
This is too important to be relegated to
one day week. Joining church is a
personal matter between the person and
God. It does not have to be made into
a public show. Many people are self
conscious about doing things in public
and do not join.
Our ministers are Indifferent to these
people. William r. Sullivan.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
Letters to The Star !.

The Rev Dr. Frederick Brown Harris,
whose article usually occupies this space,
is on vacation.
Evening star., 1952-08-10

with my family made the acquaintance
of several who bore resemblance to me
in this respect. that as they were fol-
lowers Of the Prophet Mohammed and
a follower (if limping, and far behind in
the procession of the Lord Jesus Christ,
I did not expect them to extoll Chris
tianiay. nor did they expect me to extoll
Islam, and we shared common con-
demnation Of hypocrisy in religious
protestations.
Elgin GrOSecl0Se.
Evening star., 1952-08-10
The Labor Bosses


The Democratic Party is now labor
socialist as far as dominant control is
concerned. The implied thesis is that
the businessman Is a monStrous Lucifer
who lives upon the shackled tortures Of
labor's crucifled body. He is painted to be
a vampire who sucks the life blood from
the precious and divine sons Of Drawn.
His risks and burdens Of initiative are
presumed to be the bounden duty of
slave whose function is the maintenance
of temporal survival for material
idolatry.
We admit that Capital has been
guilty Of oppressive practices and of
avarice. But we must also doubly admit
that the holier- -than-thou accuser is now
even more guilty in this the heyday of
his power. The labor bosses are now
creative of social enslavement to the die
tates of mathematical averages and con-
sequential denial of human individuality
that transcends the leveling limitation
of social formulae. UnioniSm has ceased
to be controlled by the rank-and-file
laborer. It is no longer limited to the
confines Of his particular employment
environment. The total control is now
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-02-29
Instruct Workers
In Red Cross at
Meeting Monday

Taking their tip from the key
words for the National Red Cross
1852 Campaign for Funds Con-
viction, 'Coverage, Speed-Madi-
son County Chapters chairmen,
Wallace Nichols, London and
Harold S. Welsh for the Town
ships, have their sub-chairmen
lined up to receive instructions at
a meeting at the Presbyterian
Church, London, Monday night,
March 3.
Chairmen for London are: B. v.
Chesbrough for the business dis
trict; F. E. Kidwell, factories;
Mrs. Carl Thibaut, first ward;
Mrs. M. E. Blackmore, second;
Mrs. Glenn Sponsler and Mrs.
Henry Beathard, third; Miss Dor
othy Brady and Raymond Lin
dig, fourth; Mrs. Henry Coleman,
fifth; Donald Thibaut, sixth; Roy
McNeal, seventh; Mrs. William
Powers, eighth.
Described by National Red
Cross President E. Roland Harri-
man and National Fund Chairman
John Sinclair as one of the most
important drives in Red Cross
History, this years appeal is for
the minimum amount required to
provide vital Red Cross services
in the year ahead For the first
time since before World War II
no reserve funds are available to
apply to the coming years opera
tions, Red Cross officials stated.
"Only through rigid economy in
operations was it possible to hold
the 1852 goal to the $85, 100000
figure" Mr.. Hartman said.
THE organization's Board of
Governors and the leadership in
our 300 chapters have geared
Red Cross budgets to provide in
creased services to men and wom-
Ell in the nations armed forces, to
continue the growth of the life
saving Blood Program for our
fighting men and civilians, to
meet the needs Of victims of fu-
ture disaster emergencies, and to
continue unabated our health and
safety activities for the protection
of American families"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-02-29
Police Hold Man
In Breaking Of
Church Windows

Edgar P. Francis, 81, of Lon
don Route 3, is being held in the
county Jail following arrest Thurs
DAY by Police Chief German
Clark and Deputy Sheriff Bob
Allison in their investigation of
a series of window breakings in
London and West Jefferson.
Francis is TO be charged with
malicious destruction Of property,
according to Chief Clark.
Officers began their investiga-
tion after windows in St. Pat
rick'S Church and Dryers Bro
theirs Hardware Store in London
and SITS. Simon and Jude Church
i'll West Jefferson, were broken
with pieces of concrete which had
been thrown through the win
dowS.
The window Of the West Jeffer-
son Church was broken Tuesday,
Feb. 26, in the same manner in
which the London church and
store windows had been broken
with pieces of concrete.
The pieces of concrete matched
with broken concrete block in
the yard at Francis home on
Route 40, the officers reported.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-02-29
hackett Elected
Bar President

Madison County Bar Associa-
ton elected Edward F. Hackett,
London, president, at a dinner
meeting at the Red Brick Tavern
Wednesday evening. Gerald A.
Baynes, London, was elected vice
president and Gilbert Kirby.
Plain City, secretary-treasurer.
Trustees of the Madison County
Law Library Association, Judge
Roscoe C. Hornbeck, Judge Frank
J. Murray and S. E. Robson,
were continued in office and &C.
raid A. Baynes was retained as
its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Attending Wednesday nights
meeting were: Judge James +.
Bell, retiring president; Edward
F.. Hackett, Judge Roscoe G..
Hornbeck, Judge Maurice Z Beat
hard, Gerald A. Baynes, ]. Robert
Tanner, D. H. Jackman, Charles
Richmond, Wallace V. Nichols,
all of London; Gilbert Kirby,
Plain City; Robert Wright, Mt.
Sterling; William S. Culp and
Robert r. Richards, West Jeffer-
son and Mrs. Nell Peters, court
stenographer, a guest of the as
Sociation members.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-02-29
TANK RAIDERS
HIT kUMS0NG

SEOUL, KOREA, FEB. 29-tR
"A powerful force of allied tank
raiders smashed through the for
mer Red supply base of Kumsong
today and blasted Chinese en-
trenched north of the city.
Another group of raiding U. n.
Tanks fought it out with Chinese
artillery and mortars on the west
ern front.
The big tank strike through
Kumsong on the central front was
supported by eight inch howitZers
and a 155 nm. self-propelled
gun.
The two-pronged strike bat
tered the Reds for more than
three hours.
One prong rum bled right
through Kumsong and, in the
words of one allied officer, "shot
the living hell out of" Chinese
hidden in the hills beyond the
city.
The second prong blasted Chi
nese east and south of the ruined
base.
Some of the Aston General
Patton tanks were damaged. But
others took them in tow and
pulled them back to their bases
when the raiders broke off the
fight this afternoon.
1t was a big strike in the gen.
orally quiet norean war. But GEN.
sorship prevented disclosure of the
number of tanks involved.
Sabre jet pilots reported that
for the second successive day they
did not see single Red jet over
northwest Korea. This left Fifth
Air Force pilots a free hand and
they reported blasted Red rail
lines in 130 spots today, the same
as yesterday.