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Evening star., 1952-04-15
Whot the New Deal Means

Representative Katharine st. George,
Republican, Of New York, is quoted by
Ruth Dean in The Star of April 8 as
saying: There are plenty Of New
Dealers in the Republican Party"
That is no doubt true and the reason
not far to seek. Despite the double talk
INDUCED in from time to time, the
American voters know what Republicans
mean when they refer to the New Deal.
They all know that the New Deal means
minimum wage, bank deposit guarantee.
social security, Federal housing, Secur-
ity and Exchange Act, antitrust legiS-
lation, old age assistance, price support
for agricultural commodities, soil con-
servation programs, rural electrification,
Federal land banks, production credit
associations. and public power. All in
all, the greatest and most successful
program of legislation enacted in this
or any other country.
Republicans hate it because it has
been so successful; because it has raised
the per capita income Of non-farm peo-
pie from $464 in 1884 to $1,563 in 1850;
and has raised the per capita income
of farm people from $146 in 1894 to
1929 in 1850. All voters know, both Re-
publican and Democrats, that under the
so-called New Deal they have infinitely
more Of the good things of life than
ever before and no amount of Republi-
can propaganda will induce majority
Of them to vote for q party that seeks
Evening star., 1952-04-15
BY Charles E. TroceweN

marked peanut butter sandwich. with
cheese.
He grabbed the big lever, and jammed
it down.
Absolutely nothing happened.
No cakes came out-and neither did
his coin.
Jones saw that Jenny was getting
impatient.
He ratified the handle vigorously.
thinking maybe his cakes or coin were
lodged somewhere in the mysterious in
ner workings of the machine.
Still nothing happened.
Course it." said Jones, "now Jenny
will leave"
Jenny looked up. gave a last hirt Of
her tail, and left.
IT knew it." sighed Jones. Come back.
Jenny"
But Jenny was flying over some trees
a block away by this time.
You'll get no more nickels out of
me-" grated Templeton Jones. address,
ing the silent, implacable machine.
Hereafter" he continues, with q ges-
ture. "I'u buy Jenny's cookies down.
town."
Which is exactly what he is doing,
much to the pigeons satisfaction. They
got an unearned nickel out Of me,
Jenny" explained Jones. the next day,
exactly on the hour. "but they won't
get any more, not red cent. And it will
serve them right"
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Eisenhower's Position

Senator Lodge was interviewed on
televiSion the day he returned from his
junket Ito brief" (his Words Gen. Eisen-
hover on his political campaign. The
interviewer asked the Senator relevant
ously and evasively.
The Senator was obviously in favor
of keeping Gen. Eisenhower in Europe
until just before the Republican Con-
vention. Why? Could it be that he feared
that his candidate might give the wrong
answers TO questions on his domestic
and foreign policy? We, the people. have
the right to know where our candidate
stands on all the complex problems fac
ing us before we select our candidate.
There has never been any doubt as to
where Senator Taft stands on all ques-
tions today and even though we may
not always agree with him his integ-
rity and sincerity is unquestioned, even
by his enemies and we do know that we
are not buying pig in poke.
How does Senator Lodge account for
the communion of spirit between EiSen-
hover, Roosevelt and Truman? Presi-
dent Truman has heralded his friend
ship for Ike on many occasions and this
is the same President who called Stain
Good old joe"
Republicans, wake up! ! have heard
it said that Eisenhower is the only can
didate who can win the election, but I
prefer to go down fighting for what
know is right than to compromise my
conscience for expediency's sake. Do you
remember the Eisenhower statement
that no military man should be Presi-
dent of the United States?
Evening star., 1952-04-15

have been unable to get at our bombers
ranging up to the Yalu. or 60 south for
strafing runs on u. N. ground forces.
The fact that MICS have been supplied
to Russia's satellites in quantity in
dicates the Soviets are arming their
home team with better aircraft.
Meanwhile, our own advanced jets are
getting into limited production. The first
assembly line model of the F-86F series
was delivered to the Air Force two weeks
ago. 1t has thrust of $500 pounds as
compared with $500 pounds in the
older F-86S.
The early Sabres are about equal to
the MICS in power. They share ap-
proximately the same degree of swept
back wings and tail surfaces and the air
intakes Of both are in the nose of the
fuselage. Their level fight and diving
speeds are fairly equal.
The jets have done away with the old
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Our Jets Throw Their Weiqht Around
By W. H. Shippen

A IL reports to the contrary, the
L n Sabre jet-fgfter wearing Americas
colors must be acclaimed at this point
the handicap champion of the race for
air supremacy in Korea.
The odds have all been in favor of the
Reds in the more recent months of the
air war, so the fact that Russian-built
MIG-15s are taking licking on course
of their own choosing is adding insult to
injury.
BY sticking close to their home bases
near the Yalu River, the MICS take off
with a minimum of fuel-not encum-
bered like the heavily loaded Sabres,
fight and get back.
The Sabres fly a round trip of 400
miles-sometimes more-to engage the
MICS. On the other hand, losing Red
pilot can tumble nine miles out of the
sky and still hobble to safety across the
Yaiu. The light fuel load also enables
the MIG to climb faster and adds to it's
maneuverability.
All of which makes the record of the
Sabre to date slightly sensational in its
battle with plane so similar that the
two might have rolled off the same
dSScuIuly 14IlC. n ICCCuI 1OOh dG tIlC
scoreboard showed % Sabres downed to
226 MICS.
Further comparison reveals the Sabre
must not only carry more fuel. but more
equipment for pilot survival. for COM
putting the range of the six .50-caliber
guns. and for operating the fight con-
trolls at very high speeds.
The MIG is more highly specialized.
With its two 23-mm. and one 30-mm.
cannon. relative lightness and high rate
of climb, the plane obviously was de-
signed to intercept bombers rather than
to escort them or engage in doghghts
with other aircraft.
Because they cannot live in the air
against the Sabres. however, the MICS
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Honeymoon With Russia

Constantine Brown writes that Owen
baltimore urged William Bullitt, our
ambassador to the U. s. s. r., to recon-
mend to the State Department the rec
ognition of the Soviet province (Outer
Mongolia) and described it as q free
country. Mr.. Bullitt testified, last Tues
day, that the recommendation amazed
him because he had definite information
that Mongolia had been completely
SovietiZed" If Mr.. Bullitt was so
amazed by Lattimore's recommended
ton, why didn't Mr.. Bullitt do some
thing about it then. rather than wait
to testify against the professor Is years
later with the advantage of hindsight?
Nor did Mr.. Brown bother to press
upon his readers. the fact that the rec
ommendatfon was made in 1866
years ago and even IL years before the
cold war. ..s.s -.g -
From 1885 to 1914 the honeymoon be-
tween Russia and America was definitely
on. It permeated every aspect Of life.
People ate in the popular Russian res
taurants found in every American city.
They usually ordered Bortsch as they
listened to the Russian folk tune Ozark
Eyes," and later watched Cossacks dance
in leather boots. On Broadway, revi-
val of Chekov's 1.-THE Cherry Orchard"
played to full houses and people viewed
the works of contemporary Russian
artists in the galleries. The New York
Times wrote that we could do business
with Stain, while Gen. Macarthur not
only praised our gallant ally" Soviet
Russia but he also sent cables to Wash
irot0n urging the entry of Russia into
the Pacific war. In such climate as
this, why should Bullitt be so amazed at
Lattimore's request? Is it treason? Or
even subverSive?
wonder if those Senator'S who are in
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Union Shop
Kathryn O'Neill.

Controversy over the closed shop is
not ended. AS in many other disputes.
the extremists are the combatants and
they recognize no intervening ground.
It is heartening to know that some are
independent enough not to join the labor
unions. It is refreshing to realize that
there are still workers who hold their
heads high.
The labor boss and Burns MAN Of
Independent Mind" are of the same
stock. But the labor boss is in position
to tyrannize, and it also is still true
that the price Of liberty is eternal vigil
ance. We cannot have our liberty pro-
famed by compulsory unionization of
the workman. Moreover, servility is the
happy hunting ground of Communism.
But where unions have spent money
and effort to achieve higher wages. is
it right that non-union workmen should
reap the harvest? That, of course, is q
sore point with the union man.
We cannot blame the independent
workman for refusing to enrich the
Golfers of over-paid, over-fed union
officials. But the non union man ought
to pay for the benefits he would not
otherwise receive, pay an equitable pro-
portion of the expense. If this is done.
a major grievance Of the unions must
disappear.
Coram Nobis.
Evening star., 1952-04-15
The Soviet Siren Soma

The latest Soviet note on Germany repre-
sents no departure from the original Russian
proposals of March TO- In holding to this form,
however, the Russian position still contains
for German consumption the strong superficial
appeal of plan for national unity and per-
missive rearmament. 1t is a program which
probably will give the western powers more
diplomatic and political trouble before it gives
them less -a..
AS practical matter these two broad
points are the ones on which Western resistance
is most logical but on which they may have,
over an extended period, the greatest difficulty
in juStifying their position to the German peo-
pie. The Germans want unity and they want
to rearm at least defensively. The Western pow
ers-in this instance, United States, Britain and
France-approve these objectives but they do
not approve the conditions under which Soviet
Russia proposes bringing them about.
AS step toward unity, both the Big Three
and Soviet Russia favor nationwide elections.
But the Big Three insist that circumstances
favorable to truly free election must be dem
onstrated, and they suggest that a United Ma
tions commission already in being should be
permitted to explore the setting in Soviet-con-
trolled East Germany The commission already
has made such a study in West Germany but
it has been refused admission to the Soviet
area. Moscow proposes that the elections be
supervised by a>fOur-natlOn control body, made
up of representatives of the four occupying
powers. On the record of previous efforts at
collaboration among these particular four pow
ers, it is obvious that no real agreement on
procedures could be constructed and no real
foundation for truly free election be estab-
lshed
With regard to German rearmament, Mos.
cow reveals its basic position by a collateral
proposal that newly unified and rearmed Ger
many should then be prohibited from entering
into "any kind of coalition or military alliance"
Such restriction is clearly aimed at blocking
further German cooperation with the NATO
or with any other West European defense plan.
If accepted, the Russian plan would permit Ger
many to become military power in political
vacuum The next Soviet step undoubtedly would
be to disregard the alliance prohibition and to
attempt-while claiming major credit for "free-
ing" Germany-to seduce it into closer asso-
citation with Russia.
The present Federal German Government
Of Chancellor Adenauer is thoroughly COM
mitted to the West Earlier this month the
Bonn Bundestag upheld the chancellors plan,
and the priority he is giving to it, for "peace
contract with the West as a prerequisite to
national unity. The speedy formalizing of this
contract, and the new atmosphere and benefits
which should result from it, would be strong
bulwark against the Soviet seduction efforts.
The time element is important fact which GER
tainly is well known in the Big Three capitals.
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Why Make Us a Guinea Piq?

One of the Budget Bureaus main arguments
for adoption of the council-manager form of
government for the District of Columbia is
subject to challenge for the reason that it is
misleading. 1t is certainly misleading for the
bureau to say. as it did in the opening paragraph
of its reorganization statement: This plan is
generally modelled on the council manager form
of organization now used in many of the better
governed cities of the country" and further on:
THE proportion of cities over 10000 population
having the council-manager plan increased from
per cent in 1917 to SO per cent in 1857
What the Budget Bureau neglected to say
was that no city in the country comparable in
size to Washington has the council manager
plan and that the only large city which has ever
given it a try, Cleveland, dropped it by demand
of the voters in referendum. The three largest
cities using the manager form are Cincinnati,
Kansas City MissourD and Dallas-none of
which has governmental burdens of the size and
complexity of those of the Nations Capital.
Cincinnati's population is less than two-thirds
that of Washington, Kansas City's about 81 per
cent and Dallas 54 per cent. Cincinnati and
Kansas City have only about one-quarter the
number of municipal employees and Dallas less
than third. Revenues and disbursements run
far below those involved in operating the Seat
of Government. A survey shows as matter of
fact, that only of the Nations 80 cities having
a population of 250,000 or more are on the
council-manager plan. OF the remainder % have
the usual mayor-counci form and the COM
mission form.
The Budget Bureau said that experts on
municipal government "are generally agreed
that the council-manager form of organization
is the soundest and most effective type of city
government, though some prefer the mayor
council plan for very large cities" The mayor
council plan has no place in the present
controversy because it could not be effected here
through any executive plan proposed under
authority of the Federal Reorganization Act Of
1949., And while municipal experts generally
look with favor on the manager plan, some OF
them do not think it would work well in the
larger cities. Several are known to oppose its
adoption here, because Of the peculiar Federal
District relationships prevailing in the District.
Under the present setup, for example, Washing
ton has the unique advantage Of having an Army
Engineer Commissioner who is also q member
of the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the Zoning Commission This
makes for good teamwork on the part Of Federal
and District authorities-and good teamwork is
essential to the orderly development of the
Capital
The Budget Bureau will have to produce
better arguments than those contained in its
reorganization statement if it wants to win local
support for its surprise-package plan. 1t has
materially weakened its own case by proposing
for Washington system which was discarded by
the only other large city which ever tested it.
Why make Washington guinea pig for munich
pal experimentation when its present government
has stood up so well under so many years of
testing?
Evening star., 1952-04-15

to take from them the good things they
have and at the same time offer abso-
lutely no program to take its place.
Republicans hate the New Deal be-
cause they did not think of it them
selves and put 1t into operation in the
1920s. They realize now that had they
done so the debacle of 1882 would have
been avoided and the people of the
United States would never have known
what a Democratic administration was.
The fact remains, however, that they
missed the boat-they lost their golden
opportunity. Now the Republicans are
afraid they can't win unless they nomi-
nate Gen. Eisenhower and I don't be-
lieve they can win even though they do
give Gen. like" the nomination. If Gen.
like" receives the Republican nomina-
ton the Truman foreign policy ceases
to be an issue because the general will
not repudiate foreign policy he has
helped formulate and in which he has
served for so long and tireleSsly.
The Mccarthy program Of slander and
character assassination will be tossed
out the window because Gen. Eisen-
hover will not engage in that sort of
campaign nor allow it to be done in his
name. So it is quite apparent that if
Gen. "Ike" got the nomination, the
Republican old guard would have to
swallow some doses that would be al
most as bitter as another defeat. Their
only other alternative is to nominate
Senator Taft and that will assure q
Democratic victory in 1852. The Repub-
lican Party cannot win by being against
the programs that have brought the
greatest prosperity the people have ever
known and at the same time being for
absolutely nothing. This course has led
them to defeat in four consecutive cam
pa1gns and am wondering if they are
ever going to learn.
George HI. CHRISTOPHER.
Evening star., 1952-04-15
LincoIn's Lost Hours

Compassion, kindltness and rugged
strength
His loved face aliDGys shotced. Tran.
guilty
Came only a. the last nights dreadful
length
Dragged on. He met the challenging
decree
OF death with neaD-born serenity.
While Mary Lincoln shivered IN the
cold
OF the poor room chosen. pertorce. to
see
His final breath. ,Uhae Stanton ,prote
and told
The Nation HON he Jared from. how -
hour,
He lay in peace. Forgotten noU his men
Upon the battlefield; all dreams OF
poicer
Are gone, no slight can brrise his heart
again,
For he has only one task left to do,
To die as braUely as he liUed his hte
So that the coming ages may renew
Our knowledge that he brought peace
out OF strife.
Borboro PoImer
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Our u. N. Assessment

One of the least reasonable features of the
recent House slash in funds requested for the
State Department is the provision that the
United States must not pay more than 1913
per cent Of the costs Of running the United
Nations in the current year.
The State Department has asked for
$15,4S9,894 to cover the American share of those
costs in the U. Ms 1852 budget. This figure
represents $500 per cent of the total to be con-
tributed by all the member countries, whose
assessments are based on capacity -to-pay fac
tors like productivity and national income.
However, by deciding that our part of the total
must not exceed one-third, the House-acting
contrary to recommendation of it's own Appro-
priationS Committee-haS in effect cut SIP
million off the sum fixed for our country in the
financing arrangements agreed upon at the
last session of the General Assembly.
Both the Senate and House. of course, have
for long time displayed strong sentiment in
favor Of putting the 331 70 per cent ceiling our
American contribution, but up to now they have
been generally satisfied with the U. MS assessing
policy Under that policy practically all the
members except the Soviet bloc have recognized
that the cost apportioned to the United States
should be steadily reduced until it amounts to
no more than third of the total. In fact de-
spite the East-West dispute over applicants still
waiting to be admitted into the organization
admissions that would open up additional sources
of revenue to meet operating expenses-the re-
ducing process has been going on for the past
few years.
Thus, in the u. Ms 1851 budget, our coun-
try's share of the costs was 1892 per cent which
was itself lower than what we had to pay in
the 1859 budget. AS for our 1852 assessment
(36.90 per cent of the total, it represents
drop of about 81 million from our contribution
last year. This reduction, incidentally, has been
Offset by an increase in the levies imposed upon
the Soviet bloc, which in the General Assembly's
last session bitterly opposed any decrease for
the United States. Moreover, it is worth noting
that during that session our representatives tried
hard to get an agreement on the one-third
ceiling and gave up trying only after having
been convinced by a friendly majority that the
higher figure was financially essential.
Viewed against this background, the House
action seems to be altogether unwarranted, the
more so because the United States-through its
delegation at the Assembly meeting in Paris
has already agreed to accept the U. MS assess
ment of $500 per cent of the total costs. If a
congressional decision should now force cut
back to 33ls per cent, only the relatively small
sum of $12 million would be saved. Certainly,
that would be poor kind of economizing, for
it would not merely upset the United Nations
budget but also give the Soviet propagandists
splendid opportunity to accuse us of reneging
on our obligations.
In the circumstances, it must be hoped that
the Senate, when it gets around to dealing with
the ISSUE will reverse what the House has done
and that the House ll accept such correction.
Evening star., 1952-04-15
-AP Wirephoto.

time dogfight in which pilots maneu-
vered and spared within visual and
gunnery range of each other for a long
time. A jet fight is over in less than
10 minutes.
A MIG can develop from speck in
the sky to a head-on menace in about
six seconds. Fighters on collision courses
close the range at around twice the
speed of sound.
It's the first bounce" or pass which
pays off, the pilots say. After that the
fighters may be in different countries.
Red pilots. sticking close to home base,
can be over Korea or Manchuria when
they bail out and still land among
friends.
For the Americans a crash landing or
Jump means capture by an enemy who
has rejected the efforts of the civilized
world to insure equal treatment for
prisoners of war.
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Foreign Policy
George H. Christopher.

have long wondered why Secretary
AcheSon was never able to bring him.
self to be generous with military aid
Tor China's Chang or Korea's Rhee
when 1t would have enhanced American
security and interests in those postwar
years. Yet when it comes to begging
for aid to Europe he spares neither
rhetoric nor the tagging patience of the
peoples representatives. Ostensibly his
case for Europe involves our security
and interest as well as building an anti
Communist bulwark.
In studying the short and disastrous
Acheson China policy, one unsavory fact
stands out and explains perhaps why
Europe gets every consideration and why
Chang and Rhee were abandoned even
tually to the Communists.
The fact is that both men refused to
''believe that broadening of the gov
ernment's political base would enable it
to play a more effective part in achiev-
ing unification." Broadening of course
meant the inclusion Of Communists in
the government, collaboration in other
words.
There are plenty of doubts that So
cialist Europe will ever be an asset to
American security. EuropeS Christian
faith is on the wane as Socialist mate
rialism advances. Her past greatness
and strength has been frittered away for
a standard of living she cannot afford.
Socialism is simply too expensive a
scheme for any country. 1t ends usually
in shameful degradation and succumbS
to the autocratic discipline Of total COM
munism.
NJ ~
Evening star., 1952-04-15
Letters to The Star
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vestigating baltimore now for his opin-
ions expressed then during the honey
moon period Of 1936-44 saw the hand
writing on the wall. And if they did,
what did they do to warn us? Only q
farsighted few showed concern for the
Russian menace in early 1945-notably
Averel Hartman, James Forrestal and
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Time works strange magic on events
and human beings. It was only yester-
day that some ferocious patriots wanted
to cut down all the Japanese cherry
trees.
Kathryn O,NeiIl.
Evening star., 1952-04-15
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