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Evening star., 1952-10-21
Registration of Reds Far off

Although panel of the SubverSive Activities
Control Board has reached the logical conclusion
that the American Communist Party is pup
pet" of Moscow and hence must register with the
Department of Justice, actual registration is
long way of. Just as they fought vigorously to
forestall the boards ruling, the Communists may
be expected to contest the ruling to the Supreme
Court if necessary. It has taken year and a
half of hearings-often of the tumultuouS variety
for q panel Of the board to reach decision.
The board itself must hear exceptions before
making up its own mind. If, as is expected, the
board concurs with the finding of its panel. the
party can appeal direct to the United States Court
Of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court. The
Reds will stretch out "due process of law" to
the limit-for If they lose this fight their whole
scheme of operation in this country will be
shattered.
The panels decision hurts because it exposes
to pose as legitimate American political organi-
cation. The panel painstakingly delved into the
history OF the party and traced clearly its sub
servience to its Soviet masters "Nurtured by
the Soviet Union" the report said, ut (the party)
strives necessarily to make the United States a
Soviet America" If the full board sustains this
finding, the party will be called upon to register
as foreign-controled action group'-and all
members of the party must register, too. Further
more, the party must disclose the names OF Its
financial supporters and the amounts they have
contributed All Communist propaganda must be
plainly labeled as such.
It is obvious from this why the Communists
have decided to wage a last-ditch fight against
the registration law. They will not be able to
make q circus of this legal battle by engaging
in the sort of picketing and other disgraceful
tactics which marked the New York trial of Com
munist leaders under the Smith Act. The regis
tration law expressly forbids picketing of courts
or Judges But the law does assure the party Of
full hearings before the board with rights similar
to those of defendant in court-including ap
peal to the highest tribunal. That its attorneys
will take advantage of every legal avenue pro-
vided in their attempt to defeat the purposes Of
the act is certain.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Mr.. Trumon's AHbi

Faced with an adverse reaction to a derna-
gogic statement President Truman now claims
he neither said nor meant that General Eisen-
hover is anti-Jewish or anti-Catholic.
This denial, however, is just as disingenuous
as was Mr.. Truman's original statement in his
message to the conference Of the National
Jewish Welfare Board.
The President contends that his remarks
have been deliberately distorted" by Republican
leaders Among those who have publicly pro-
tested the vicious implication of Mr. Truman's
statement, however, have been such noted Jewish
leaders as DR.. Abba Hillel Silver and Bernard
Baruch. Are they included with the Republican
leaders mentioned by the President?
The simple truth of this matter is that Mr.
Truman did give the implication which has been
charged to him. With reference to General
Eisenhower's Endorsement of Republican Senators
who voted to override his veto of the McCarran
immigration bill, Mr.. Truman said "He has had
an attack of moral blindness, for today he is
willing to accept the very practices that identi-
ned the so-called master race although he took
leading part in Hberating Europe from their
domination
It is too late now for Mr. Truman to say that
this does not impute anti-Jewish sentiments to
the Republican candidate for of course it does.
And very few people will doubt that this was
precisely the impression he intended to convey
In his message to the Jewish group.
The President has not been candid in either
Of his recent statements on the McCarran bill.
He has tried to give the false impression that
the measure was passed over his veto by the
Republicans, aided by a "few" Democrats. The
truth iS however, that well over half the DEM
ocrats in the Senate voted to override the veto,
and many Of them are out now working in
behalf Of Governor Stevenson.
BY misrepresenting and concealing facts, it
may be possible for the President to drum up
some votes among the uninformed. But it is a
type Of campaigning which can only serve to
disgust any one who knows the truth. Perhaps
Mr. Truman, however belatedly, is beginning to
fnd this out. There may be some hope for
better things If he is beginning to realize that
what he is doing. in addition to disgracing his
Office, is also bad partisan politics.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Mr.. ChurchHFs Peace Hope

Speaking to an Anglo-American audience In
London, Prime Minister Churchill has given
voice to somberly optimistic assessment Of the
chances for peace. Like a number of other
thinking people, he has brooded over the horrors
implicit In the new weapons of mass destruction
and he has concluded-because Of those very
horrors+that another all-out world war IL
unlikely.
This may be q wiShful view but Mr.
Churchills reasoning is nonetheless impressive
To begin with, he believes that all nations-in
the Soviet world and in the free world-fear such
war because 'it would be entirely different in
certain vital aspects from any other war that has
ever taken place." Further than that, Both
sides know that 1t would begin with horrors of a
kind and on a scale never dreamed of before by
human beings. It would begin by both sides in
Europe suffering in the very t1rst stages exactly
what they dreaded most"-a fact that can
hardly fail to serve as q restraint on govern
ments, including the aggressive minded men Of
the Kremlin
In addition, in Mr.. Churchilrs opinion, the
main decisions of such a war would probably
come in the first month even in the first week.
The quarrel might continue for an indefinite
period, but after the first month it would be
broken-back war In which no great armies could
be moved over long distances by land"-a con-
sideration that must loom especially large in the
military thinking Of the Soviets. Above all, one
Of the most important factors working in favor
Of peace is the universal awareness that in
another total conflict the "torments which would
fall In increasing measure upon the whole
civilian population of the globe would be
indescribable."
AS MIR. Churchill has suggested, this aware
ness since it exists in the mass Of people every
where, is bound to have restraining influence
on governments The same view Is shared by
many other outstanding students Of the subject,
among them General Macarthur. The simple
truth is that war today threatens terrible disaster
for victors and vanquished alike Accordingly,
If sanity is preserved, If the free world builds
up to a genuinely strong position in the balance
of power vis-a-vis Russia, and II some catastro-
phic blunder does not set off an explosion,
reasonably good peace-in due course-may be
not only possible but inevitable. In any event.
mankind has reason to feel frightened enough
to keep on working arduously for such
peace regardless of present setbacks and
discouragements.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Threat of Reprisol

Democratic National Chairman Mitchells
statement that he is certainly going TO remem-
Der" the Democrats who are supporting General
Eisenhower in this campaign was not an empty
threat. For in event of Democratic victory he
will be in q position to make the Eisenhower
Democrats suffer for what Governor Stevenson
calls their apostasy.
This system Of rewards and punishments is
more or less inherent in our political system.
And to a considerable extent. at least. it Is
essential as means Of maintaining party disci-
pine.
Nevertheless. it has blighting effect on any
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Defends Hurley

would like to point out the fallacy Of
the points suggested by Kathryn ONeill
on Policy toward China" in your paper
last week. She suggests that the villain
in the piece is Patrick ]. Hurley. That is
almost like accusing Lincoln Of being
responsible for slavery in the United
States.
She must not have been reading the
papers at the time, If she doesn't know
why Hurley got out Of the ambassador
business. He resigned in alarm and dis
gust rather than carry out the instruc-
tions the State Department was sending
him. When he returned from China he
complained bitterly and vociferously to
everybody who would listen against the
policy which lost China. He debated
this subject with Mrs. Roosevelt over
q television network so vigorously that
viewers thought he was going to pull
her hair out. Mr.. Hurley's position in
this matter Is clearly delineated in q
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Letters to The Star

book which came out In 1949 titled
"Russia's Race for Asia" by George
Creel.
The Congressional committee in
vestigating the Institute of Pacific Re-
lations pretty well fixed responsibility
for "our outrageous policy toward China,
resulting in the loss of that nation to
Russia" or at least indicated how the
State Department came to adopt it. The
IPR successfully sold this policy to the
State Department and to some extent
the American people. This committee
was composed of more Democrats than
Republicans yet it's findings were unani-
NOUS The committee report is on sale at
the Government Printing Office cheap.
A. b. Garbade.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Clue in Lincoln Debate

was very interested in the article in
The Star october Is illustrated with the
Brady Civil War photograph which his
torians believe may be the only picture
of Lincoln en- route to deliver the Gettys-
burg address.
In trying to determine whether the
photograph was made at Hanover juno
ton. Va. or in Pennsylvania. one fact
has been overlooked by the debaters:
The locomotive in the picture Is quite
Evening star., 1952-10-21


obviously an old Pennsylvania Railroad
straight-stacked coal-burner; whereas in
Civil War times the railroads Of the
South used balloon-stacked or diamond
stacked wood-burners for the most part.
The cow-catcher on the front Of the
locomotive has the typical Pennsylvania
Railroad horizontal bars, whereas vir-
tually all other railroads used cow
catchers with vertical bars.
The gingerbread" architecture Of the
old station building in the Brady picture
is typical of Pennsylvania in Civil War
days.
believe that Miss Josephine Cobb Of
Archives and John Lppi of Gettysburg
are correct in believing the picture was
made in Pennsylvania.
Robert A. Mullen.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
'Offshore Wealth

In your editorial OF October Is, on
"Offshore Wealth." you state that g.
despite a popular misconception to the
contrary, the Courts decisions did not
impair, do not now impair. and can
never impair the power Of Congress to
enact quit-claim legislation :"
Apart from the doubtful wisdom of
policy which seeks to vest in q few
coastal States the rights to our offshore
resources. which the highest tribunal
in the land has declared belong to all
the States, wish to note an exception
to your sweeping conclusion. A fair read
ing of the Supreme Courts reasoning in
the three submerged lands decisions
would indicate at least strong element
of doubt as to the power of Congress to
enact quit-claim legislation for the
marginal sea (the Smile belt seaward
of low-water mark on the open COAST.
am fully mindful of the reference in
the California decision to Article w. Sec
ton 8, Clause Of the Constitution,
which vests in Congress Power to dis
pose of .. Property belonging to the
United States" and that the Court said
"the constitutional power Of Congress
in this respect is without limitation" It
must be remembered, however, that the
Court made this statement, not in con-
sideration of the question whether Con-
gress has the power to dispose of the
Federal Governments rights in the
marginal sea, but rather on the >ol-
lateral issue raised by California that
the Court should dismiss this action on
the ground that the Attorney General
has not been granted power either to
file or to maintain it." This is far cry
from the Court passing judgment on the
power of Congress to enact quit-claim
legislation in this area. On the con-
trary. everything that the Court said in
discussing the merits Of the controversy
would seem to negate the conclusion
reached by The Star. I cite two ex-
amples in support Of this:
In the Louisiana case. the Court held:
"The marginal sea is a national, not q
State concern. National interests, ma
tional responsibilities, national concerns
are involved. The problems of commerce.
national defense, relations with other
powers, war and peace focus there. Ma
tional rights must therefore be para
mount in that area" And even more
pertinent is the Courts answer to the
contention made by Texas that Federal
sovereignty over the marginal sea "can
be complete and unimpaired. no matter
If Texas owns the oil underlying it." But
the Court said that "once low-water
mark is passed. the international domain
is reached. Property rights must then
be so subordinated to political rights as
in substance to coalesce and unite in the
national sovereign"
The question Of the power Of Congress
to enact quit-claim legislation in the
marginal belt does not appear, therefore.
to be an open-and-shut case. And what
The Star today thinks is - popular
misconception" may prove to be per-
fectly valid conception in the end.
A. L. 8.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
'Perpetuoting GobbIedyqook'

The Star editorial Of october IL. per
petuating Gobbledygook." on the ex-
animation for freshmen diplomats. is
reminiscent of the following description
of the defense efforts by top mobiliza-
ton official:
"We are peaking our program philo-
sophically, but 1t is naive to assume the
allotment program as an equity program
unless the allotments are so abysmally
low that they permit the agency to
relax and allow market determination
at percentage of base period, side-track-
ing military return with adjustments.
This Is based on use levels, proportion
ately and is In the market test sense. We
now have q quantitative framework with
marginal qualitative reallocations to
formalize the procedure for the further
refining and implementing Of our OBJ
jectiveS."
It is not generally known that such
top officials. as experts in non-informa-
tive composition, are assigned to "Oper-
alton Bamegab." The examination for
this position is really stiff and final
qualifying test must compare favorably
with the following classic definition:
"Badlegab is multiloquence charac-
terized by conSummate interfusion of
circumlocution or periphasis, inscruta-
bility, incognizability and other familiar
manifestations of abstruse expatiation
commonly utilized for PRONUNCIATION
implementing procrustean determina-
tions of governmental bodies"
M. c. Lyddane.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Talks Turkey to Bronnun

My senses have been numbed by tax
and vote scandals, expense funds in our
political parties and countless shocking
events which in other years would have
outraged my conscience. But The Star
story on the Government turkey-buying
escapade, to raise the holiday prices, is
the jab that burst the pent-up indigna-
ton I, and I daresay others. must feel.
Yes. 1t looked as though the Thanks
giving turkey had Debated. But wait,
Secretary Brannan. who enjoys his
crocodile tears over the high meat prices
that must be Sternly controlled, orders
the Agriculture Department to step in
and buy 1.6 million pounds of fowl, and
this is only the beginning, folks.
The good Secretary advances his usual
planned economy arguments for his ac-
tions which, stripped of all mumbo
jumbo, will benefit a few turkey pro-
ducers and cause millions of consumers
to pick up the tab twice-once in higher
prices and again in greater taxes But
Of course. this is not special privilege,
this is "stabilizing the economy"
How long will we tolerate this eternal
squeeze play Of support buying for rails
ing some meat prices and control exer-
cising for lowering other meat prices, to
the detriment of the long suffering
consumer? Frank w. Ford. Jr.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Nixon's 'Drumutics'

How specious can one get, yet be q
candidate for the vice presidency?
Nixon proves" Stevenson's sympathy
with communism by the following syl-
logistic method: John Foster Dulles, as
chairman Of the Carnegie Foundation
for Peace, selected Alger Hiss as execu-
tive secretary Of the organizations; Hiss
was subsequently found to have been a
Communist spy; ergo. John Foster Dulles
is q Communist symphatizer.
John r. Walker.
When Senator Nixon was chosen as
the Republican vice presidential candi-
date he looked like q knight In shining
armor astride white horse. On closer
range it turns out to be great big white
albatross and the shining armor was the
chain that now hangs it around the
generals neck.
The type Of reasoning Senator Nixon
has been using on various topics does
not seem to be vice presidential caliber.
His attacks on Gov. Stevenson for the
statement regarding Hiss are ridiculous.
The only thing the Governor can be ac-
cused Of is giving an honest answer as
he saw it to q question. That Is indeed
more than the Senator can boast Of in
his Tv production, poor Richard"
= FIR. L.
Senator Nixon's one-man dramatiza-
ton Of ''The Hiss Case" would be laugh
able If the accusations weren't so de-
plorably false. Is the Senator running
for the vice presidency or does he pre-
sent his phony melodramas with the
ardent hope that the talent scouts are
watching? His short road to accidental
national prominence seems to have gone
to his head and he insists on playing the
leading role. Even though 22 nationally
prominent attorneyS-some Democrat
and some Republican-indorSed Steven
sons action in the Hiss case and ex-
planned it clearly. Senator Nixon was re-
ported campaigning with the same accu-
sations. If the Senator cannot accept
the validity of the legal Endorsement Of
Gov. Stevenson's action. how can he ex-
pect us to accept the legal Endorsement
Of his 5000 fund? Could it be that the
difference in method" Of which Ike
spoke has disappeared and that McCar-
thy's witch hunt" tactics have not only
been accepted but extended by Nixon to
include accusing q man even after he Is
proven innocent?
II Senator Nixon must dramatize. at
least let it be honest. His continued air
of piety in his obvious glass house Is
most obnoxious and unbecoming for a
man running for the second highest
Office in the Nation. Let him make his
own record "as clean as hounds tooth"
before he starts casting stones so care
1essly. Dorothy A. Stamford.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Objects to Lawrence

Some one who knows David Lawrence
told me that Mr.. Lawrence considers
himself highly objective and strictly
nonpartisan as far as politics are con-
cerned. While once true, and admirably
SO, his recent columns have so degen-
Grated in partisan denunciation (mildly
disguiSed that he Is now mockery Of
his former self.
On October IA Mr.. Lawrence says, in
commenting on a speech of Stevenson's:
After. describing the 1882 depression
which he attributed not to worldwide
causes, as disinterested testimony has
since proved, but to the Republican ad-
ministration in Washington :" Mr..
Lawrence righteously refers to "disin-
terested testimony" and worldwide
causes" when appraising Democratic
claim. Let him use the same rigid stand
ards in judging the Republican line, and
indeed, let him appraise his own words
in the light of disinterested testimony.
Let him present some disinterested tes-
timony to back up what he so glibly calls
Gov. Stevenson's soft approach to the
Connie ISSUE"
At the same time, since he seems to be
falling for the Republican line that calls
Korea 'Truman's War;" let him consider
the worldwide causes which are the
true explanation Of the war in Korea.
In the process Of jumping on the Re
publican bandwagon, Mr.. Lawrence has
lowered his previously high standards.
Perhaps the fault lies in the bandwagon.
Diane Moser.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer to
any question OF fact by either writing The
NV, Washington 8. D. c., and inclosing cents
return postage or By telephoning ST. 1858.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
Trumon Helping Ike?

Back in the days when Eisenhower
was wearing the uniform of his coun-
try. Harry Truman was all for helping
him toward the Presidency, provided Of
course Ike chose the Democratic label.
Evening star., 1952-10-21
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

return postage or By telephoning ST. 1868.
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Was the great airplane built by
Howard Hughes ever put into service?
w. w. T.
A. The Flying Boat" designed pri-
marily for cargo or service. ship. has
never flown except for test fights, ac-
cording to the Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration. It was built by Hughes
under q grant of money by the Fed
eral Government, and is owned by the
Government.
@. Is there an association Of rattle
snake hunters?--C. w.
A. The people who take part in the
Rattlesnake Roundup at Okeene. Okla.
each year are members of the Interna-
tional Association Of Rattlesnake Hunt
ers. The membership is divided into
Executives (who actually hunt snakes).
Socials (who 60 along and carry snake
bite medicine), and Spirituals (who stay
at home and pray).
Evening star., 1952-03-16

apart Eachof these massive buildings contains
a prosecutors Office, an auditor, public
health department, a uniformed police bureau,
treasurer, clerical force. an engineering
agency and full panel of commissioners.
The duties of many Of these people over
lap to such degree that they have hard
time keeping out of each others way. Juris-
dictional strife is frequent, with deputies Of
the county sheriff repeating raids and patrols
of city police. The citizen pays for all this.
ss.eeo. 80 savias
lHAT'S why we are demanding city county
consolidation in Portland, Ore. one admin
istrative unit to replace the two which our
property levies now support. A special COM
mittee was appointed by the Oregon Legis-
lature to analyze the project. This movement
for city-county uniication is nationwide. 1t
has speeded up since the Hoover Conn
mission commenced exposing extrava-
gance in the federal government.
Members of the Citizens League Of Cleve-
land want consolidation of their city. and
Cuyahoga County. Twenty five hundred miles
westward. the Municipal League of Seattle
has suggested that $3, ,OOO. 900 might be saved
by combining the Northwest's largest city
with King County. In Birmingham, in Dali
Las, in Miami, voters are seeking to end the
costly duplication.
Wherever the tax pinch is felt - and there
are few places that it isn't - groups Of men
and women are studying the contention of
the National Municipal League that 'gener-
ally speaking, merger of city and county
activities under single set of municipal
Continued on page 20
Evening star., 1952-03-16

TINE sum total of city, state and federal
Il taxes has become backbreaking load for
the American citizen, and he's sick of it. Par
ticularly no doubt, at this moment, when he's
just finished struggling with his federal in
cone-tax form.
But there is one sure way to cut down our
overall tax load. It is one that is seldom
brought up by our politicians, although it
can save the taxpayer as much as $50 a year.
This Is to eliminate altogether the coun-
ty layer of government. It has already
been done substantially by cutting out sep
arate county governments in such cities as
Baltimore, st. Louis, Denver, New Orleans,
Philadelphia, San Francisco. New York,
Boston, Atlanta and Providence.
Briefly, our county governments are weigh
ing down the American taxpayer, and often
this load is as unnecessary as it is burdensome.
Covered -Wagon Sysssm
Mosr of these counties date from the era
of the covered wagon, when it took nearly
"a hours to jolt to county seat SO miles
away. They continue to eat up tax funds
today when the same distance can be Travelled
in an hour or less.
Transportation has been streamlined, but
grass-roots government has not. AS a result.
we are bearing the cost of at least four or
five times as many counties as are actually
needed.
Professor Walter Lincoln Whittlesey of
Princeton University once estimated that
eft 80, Richard NeMbergsr, Of Portland, is an
Oregon State Senator, author Of three books and
vell-knosUn newspaper and magazine Writer.