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Evening star., 1953-12-18
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy IhonPson-
Christianity and Communism
Reds Now Admit They Are as Incompatible as Freedom
And Slavery Truth and Lying, Light and Darkness

In June. 1947, I participated
in a debate on the Town Hall
Of the Air, on the question
"Are Communism and Christi
anity Incompatible" Jerome
Davis, an ordained Congrega-
tional minister, and the Rev.
William H. Melish, then asso-
ciate rector of the Episcopal
Church of the Holy Trinity in
Brooklyn, said they were not
incompatible; that the Russian
Communist regime did not dis
courage religion; that Russian
ethics are rooted in jewish
Christian tradition; and that
Russia is fulfilling Christian
social requirements.
Father Edward v. Cardinal
of Chicago contradicted, insist
ing that MARKHAM communism
was militantly atheistic, and
attempted to show that pro-
found differences in world out
look juxtapoSe Christianity and
communism in such contradic-
tion that neither can survive
the triumph of the other, even
though communism may tenn
porarily permit the church to
function on the social periph-
cry, Shorn of all power to con-
tribute to the molding of polit-
ical and social behavior.
I recall the discussion be-
cause of a report from Berlin
that the truce between the
East German Communist gov
ernment and the churches.
concluded last June, has not
been kept by the government,
which is circulating a booklet
declaring religion to be pro
foundly immoral" based on
"fairy tales" and stating
Communist morals are dia-.
metrically opposed to religious
morals. The two are as incom-
patible as freedom and slavery,
truth and lying, light and
darkness"
Evening star., 1953-12-18

much concerned with the scar
city OF patronage and felt it
exacerbated the Presidents re-
lationships with Congress.
What he finally came up
with was an executive order,
signed by the President last
June, removing civil service
protection from some thou
sands of Federal jobs listed in
what is known as Schedules A
and c. The Civil Service Com
mission, which actually drafted
the order. apparently thought
they had included various pro-
tections for classified employees.
The Justice Department,
however, began firing Sched-
ule A employees and one of
them, Leo A. Roth, an attor-
ney, sued in Federal court to
retain his job. The Attorney
General contended he had the
right to fire Mr.. Roth and
Judge Keech sustained him in
sweeping language.
The judge, incidentally, is a
former administrative assist
ant to Harry S. Truman. Mr..
Truman appointed him to the
Federal court, where he has
won the praise of the local bar
for his industry and honesty.
Some of them are ready to bet,
too. that he is right about the
law.
If they are correct, the Eisen-
hover administration will be
in an interesting position with
respect to the civil service.
And Gen. Eisenhower will find
job pressures on him multiply
ing by geometrical progression.
Evening star., 1953-12-18
No Appeals for the Kidnopers
ButWen the Rosenbergs Were About to Die for Worse
Crime, Many Voices Cried Against Capital Punishment
Dovid Lawrence

For many weeks now the
American people have known
that Carl Austin Hall and Mrs.
Bonnie Brown Heady were con-
demned to die for kidnapping
and killing Bobby Greenlease.
Yet. strangely enough, not a
plea has come from any min
listers Of the gospel or from
committees Of citizens or from
organizations anywhere in the
world pleading for clemency
and arguing that capital pun
iShment is wrong.
Not so long ago the RoSen-
bergs, convicted Of being Com
muniSt spies, were condemned
to die, and there were all sorts
of petitions filed at the White
House and the Department Of
Justice deploring capital pun
iShment and urging a commu-
tation Of sentence.
In London and Paris and
Rome, as well as in New York.
the Communist newspapers
day after day kept up a con-
slant agitation, and many a
well-meaning person who had
not the slightest connection
with communism was duped
int pleading for clemency on
the ground that capital pun
1Shment was too severe.
There were no such COM
mittees in evidence to save
the slayerS of Bobby Green
lease and no public demon
strations or picketing of the
White House. Even the Su-
preme Court wasn't impor-
tuned to do something about
1t. All this seems to happen
only when persons accused of
aiding Soviet Russia with in
formation on atomic secrets
are caught and condemned to
death. Thus the hollowness of
the claim is demonstrated.
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Thomas L. Stokes
Thonnos [. Stokes
The President Steps Out Front
Eisenhower May Find Success by Trying Extend His Own
Personal Appeal With the Rank and File Of His Party

1t was the Eisenhower trade
mark that carried the Repub-
lican Party to its tremendous
victory little over year ago.
Everybody will agree that
was a personal triumph which
reached the proportions it did
because of the attraction that
the Eisenhower personality had
for Democrats and independ-
ents as well as Republicans.
The President ran far ahead
Of Republican candidates for
Congress who, in fact, could
marshal only a razor-thin
majority on each side Of the
Capitol, which now has dis
appeared in the Senate.
But, once elected, the Presi-
dent did not capitalize upon
his power and prestige. In
stead, he gradually relin-
quished leadership to Congress.
at least to a considerable de-
gree. That was the practical
result of the manner in which
he bent over backward in his
inSistence upon partnership
and cooperation with Con-
greSs, and at the same time,
his failure to attempt to call
to his side the public support
he had when his party, on its
part. reneged on the partner
ship relationship. as it did
quite often.
Now the President is barking
back to the lesson Of the cam
paign and, simultaneously, he
is drawing upon the experience
of another dominant and mag
netic personality who always
stood out above his party, a
Democrat, the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
It has become very clear
this week how ready and eager
the President is now to exert
his own personal appeal with
the rank and file of the party
and his rank-and-flle support
among Democrats and inde-
pendentS to wiring from the
forthcoming session Of Con-
greSs q program that will pos
Sess substance and be worthy
Evening star., 1953-12-18
WhOoping Cranes Return
To Refuge in Texas
By the Associated Prs,s

CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex. Dec.
ia Three whooping cranes,
long overdue on their migration
from far Northern Canada, were
feeding contentedly on the
Arkansas Wildlife Refuge near
here today.
Julian A. Howard, manager of
the United States Fish and Wild
life Service refuge on Blackjack
Peninsula, said a thorough count
Of the whooper population was
made. Of1cials criss-crossed the
refuge in a plane three times.
They found "a whoopers.
Previous counts had shown
only 21. At one time the num-
ber was as low as IA.
The whoopers here are the
only known ones in the world.
Evening star., 1953-12-18

of weapons. 1t is in this line,
that we are more than a match
for the 'Muscovites and their
satellites. Technology has
never been a strong point with
our Red enemies. In past wars
they have relied on masses of
manpower. In their INTEL
lectual endeavors they have
excelled in music, literature
and painting. The Russian I.
mind goes more to the con-
templative than the practical.
It is true that the Russians
have developed an atom bomb
and in all likelihood a hydro
gen bomb. They are, however,
reported to be well behind US
in the application of nuclear
developments to other types Of i.
weapons which we have now
perfected and probably put
into production.
The Russian success in the
nuclear field was due, how
ever, principally to the treason
able acts of scientists who
worked on these projects in
America, Canada and Britain
rather than to the skill Of
Russian laboratory workers. 1t
is also true that the Soviet
"nuclear arSenals" which are
spread over the immense land
mass extending from Russia
proper to the Sinkiang Prov
ince of China have received
extensive help from many
German scientists whom we
allowed the Kremlin to "confis-
cate" Immediately after the
war. But how reliable these
men will be in the future and
how many are still alive is a
question which cannot be an
-sWered at present.
Thus while we are forced to
concede to our enemy superior
ity in manpower and in i'm
mediate availability of a
larger quantity of ordnance
and planes, we do have an
unquestionable superiority in.
chronological know-how. And
this cannot be measured in
terms of what we have on hand
Immediately but in our ability
to produce after M day.
Evening star., 1953-12-18

human soul and its immor-
tality; on the reconciliation
of men and classes in mutual
charity, and in service to God
and to each other; of the
limitations of state power in q
Difference to higher eternal
standards, simply cannot be
digested by MARKHAM COM
muniSm.
The differences far tram
scend the formal organization
of one or another economic
system.
And were Christian con-
cepts ablaze in society, as it's
central creative force, there
would, in my belief, be no
Communist menace. j.
They are not ablaze. They
hardly shoulder. We are
aware Of it with the approach
of Christmas, which has all
but become a pagan holiday.
The world is given over to
hatred and fear, of which
communism is but one mani
feStation.
Yet in investing itself with
the aura of a secular religion,
communism pays unwilling
tribute to the religious instinct.
which perpetually inquiries why.
we were born, for what pur-
pose we live. what ends we
serve, and whittier we are
going; the instinct which
yearnS for life and a society
harmonious because founded
in love.
Communists cannot compro-
mise with this instinct. II
they did they would cease to-
be Communists. But they
have millions of non-Com-
muniSt allies working to de-
stroy the instinct and the
ideal of society it engenders.
These are the sixth column.
They are doing their work only
too we'll. a
Evening star., 1953-12-18

discuss what his administra-
ton has accomplished thus far
and what are its plans for
Congress. This is in advance
of. and in addition to, the
regular messages which a
President always submits to
Congress at it's opening-three
in number. From time to time
also, whenever it is felt appro-
pirate and helpful, there will
be radio-television broadcasts
of news conferences afterward
from the tape, as was done at
night after his news conference
this week.
What the President is un-
dertaking is quite a test for
him and will be watched with
interest. He has q divided
party in Congress, as he well
knows. and divided on some
basic parts of his program.
Because of his disinclination
to lead during the first ses-
sion, the opposition has been
able to fortify itself. In short,
he lost an advantage by not
striking early, to borrow a
military term. However, the
President still retains great
personal popularity in the
country, according to reports,
which gives him a deep reser-
voir Of public support upon
which to draw to try to influ-
ence Congress.
Whether he is ready to go to
the length of an open fight
with Congress if it dilly-dal-
lies, which would mean a con-
test with his own leaders, still
seems doubtful. For, on every
occasion, he insists upon the
rights and prerogatives of
Congress and his intention not
to interfere.
There is a way to abide very
clearly with this division of
powers and nevertheless exer-
else the prestige of the presi-
dency to bring the, force of
public opinion to bear upon
Congress SO that, exercising
its rights, 1t yet adopts the
course desired by the Presi-
dent.
We shall see if the President
possesses this skill.
Evening star., 1953-12-18

For the slayers of the Kan
sas City boy committed a crime
that, while heinous and de-
plorable, meant the loss of one
life, while the Rosenbergs were
plotting to aid Soviet Russia to
develop atomic weapons to help
kill tens Of thousands of Amer
leans.
The Daily Worker in New
York was the Communist
Spearhead Of the movement to
save the Rosenbergs, but, so
far as an examination of the
last 40 issues reveals, that
newspaper hasn't taken the
slightest interest in this con-
Spicuous case Of capital pun
iShment In a Missouri gas
chamber. It merely accentu-
ateS the nature Of the things in
which the Daily Worker is in
terested-efforts to undermine
morale in America and to pro-
duce friction in our midst.
The Daily Worker, for in
stance, which was one of the
first publications to use the
term McCarthyism," has kept
on using that word day in and
day out for several years. The
agents Of the Communist Party
who read the Daily Worker
have been spreading that word
wherever they could. and now
many well-meaning persons
use it in the belief that they
are describing something diff
ferent from the methods of
many congressional commit
tee in the last so years. Actu-
ally, Senator McCarthy's right
to speak on the floor of the
Senate and to make charges
against evils as he sees them
is something that many a Sen
ator in the past has under
taken to do, without, however,
encountering the kind of per-
sonal vilif1cation directed at
the Wisconsin Senator.
Evening star., 1953-12-18

Now the Communist press
has started a new crusade
"Brownellism." 1t is being TAX
en- up by left-wingers. and pro-
Truman speakers and others
who have not examined the
facts in the Harry Dexter
White case or Mr.. Brownell'S
testimony but who think it is
more important to castigate
the man who makes charges
than to be concerned about
the charges themselves. No
body who has ever attacked
the Communists in America
beginning WITH Martin Dies,
the first chairman of the
House Committee on I'm
American Activities nearly 20
years ago-has been able to
escape the TRADES of personal
abuse that have come from the
left-wingers and from those
who consider any attack on
Communists in America as a
political maneuver. Unfor-
tunately, instead of uniting
in condemning the Commu-
nists and focusing attention on
how they fooled President Tru-
man and some of the members
of his administration who
brushed of as a 'red herring
congressional efforts to expose
the Communists, there is a
tendency to minimize the whole
pattern Of Communist eSpio-
mage. This only stimulates the
anti-Communist elements in
this country to redouble their
crusade. The issue, of course,
can be taken out of partisan
politics, as President Eisen-
hover advocates. but this will
never happen if the Democrats
and officials of the CIO. too
insist on their Mccarthy
ism" issue and start talking,
as they are now doing, about
'BroWnellism."
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Study Group Named
For $4,000 Claimed
By Visiting Nurses

The Commissioners have
taken steps to settle a long
standing dispute between the
newly named Visiting Nurse AS
sociation and the District Health
Department.
The wrangle first started when
Congress appropriated $25,000 to
the Health Department 1858
fiscal budget to be turned over
to the Visiting Nurse Association.
The association was to aid the
Health Department in the home
care of INDECENT patients.
It was not until June of this
year that a contract was signed
between the association and the
Health Department. The con-
tract was badly drawn, a District
official said, and under it, the
association can be awarded only
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Beria Trial 10 Be Private
And He Won't Be Present
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 18. The
treason trial of Lavrenti Beria
and six alleged henchmen prob
ably will be held in private, with
the accused themselves absent,
according to legal experts.
Observers came to this con-
clusion after studying special
law of December /, 1894, under
which Soviet newspapers an
nounced the former police boss
and his co-defendants will be
tried on charges of plotting
against the state.
The law provides, among other
things, that the trial shall take
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Doris FIeeson-
judge Keech Creates Problems
government Executives Robbed of AIibs by Decision
Outlining Presidents Right to Fire Any w. S. Worker

A serious-minded, exceed
tngly conscientious, bachelor
judge named Richmond B
Keech has unnerved this great
center of Government with q
decision that the President of
the United States may fire any
Federal worker at any time for
any reason. He ruled further
that the President can dele
gate that firing authority to
his agency chiefs.
With a truly singular lack
of imagination, Judge Keech, q
native WaShingtonian, handed
down his far-reaching decision
on the eve of Christmas. The
effect on this already rather
Subdued Capital is atomic.
The human side of the story
is naturally to the fore during
that holiday season which is
especially devoted to the fam
lily side of life. It also carries
a heavy charge of political
INT, as President Eisenhower
will soon find out from patron
age-hungry Republicans if the
Keech decision should be sus-
tanned.
For it will. of course, be
appealed and cannot take full
effect until the appeal is de-
cided. Meanwhile, supporters
of the civil service will rally
their friends in Congress with
an eye to action should the
decision on the appeal be ad-
verse.
1t is not impossible that
when the White House realizes
the potential impact of the
Evening star., 1953-12-18

Keech ruling, it, too, will de-
eide the situation requires
amendment.
Civil service protection for
Government employees is also,
in practice, protection for Gov
ernment employers who come
under heavy pressure from po-
litical parties. Nothing is so
helpful to an important ex-
ecutive in any administration
as the ability to murmur,
"Old boy, I'd love to help you
but you know that civil serv-
ice."
The Keech decision murders
that useful alibi. And it comes
at time when Gen. Eisen-
hover is known to be both
hard-pressed to pass out jobs
and irritated by presSures put
on him.
Remote during his long mil
itary career from that type Of
problem, he has been annoyed
and amazed by the Spate of
demands for a place in the
Government. He had not ex-
pected it to persist in anything
like the present measure once
he had filled the top policy
making jobs with his own Sc
lectionS.
The fertile brain of Attor-
ney General Brownell set in
motion the chain of events
which eliminated in Mr..
Keeoh'S courtroom. Mr.. Brow
nell is for all practical pur-,
poses the political operating
head of the Eisenhower ad-
miniStration. He has been
Evening star., 1953-12-18

of the reputation he hitherto
has established in another field
than politics and government.
And, incidentally, that will be
enough to win next years con-
gressional elections.
The Presidents determina-
ton was apparent Immediately
in his series Of conferences,
running for three days, with
his party leaders in Congress.
This approach, though not
exactly unprecedented as to
method, was yet quite extraor-
dinary in its scope. 1t
was magnif1ed beyond any
thing of the sort before, first
by it's publicity build-up and,
second. by its all-inclusiveness.
Embraced in it were all party
leaders and chafrmen, as well
as cabinet officers, with whom
the President covered every
important legislative problem
to come before the session be-
ginning in January. One key
ch a irm n. Representative
Reed Of New York, Ways and
Means Committee head, was
unable to attend, being away
on a cruise.
A little thing, but important,
was the fact that the President
himself assumed the task of
announcing the results Of each
days session. Hitherto, in all
conferences Of this sort, such
announcements were left to
the congressional leaders.
His intention to assume di-
rection and to step out in front
of the parade, manifest in this
small gesture, was indicated
further by another decision
reached by himself and his ad-
visers. This is for him to take
often to radio and television
to talk to the people directly
and simply about his aims and
his program. In that he is bor-
rowing the technique that
Franklin D. Roosevelt used so
successfully in his "fireside
chats"
The first will be q radio
television appearance on Janu-
ary 4, just ahead Of the OPEN
ing Of Congress, when he will
Evening star., 1953-12-18

place without the presence Of
the parties"
1t also specifies the court must
wind up its investigation of evil
dence within 10 days, convic-
ton carries the death penalty,
and there shall be no appeal.
If Beria and his co-defendants
are to be tried secretly in alb
Sentia. the outside world ap-
parently will have no proof that
the former police boss may not
in fact already be dead.
Evening star., 1953-12-18
$4,000. The association claims
1t is due the $4,000.

$4,000. The association claims
1t is due the $4,000.
Another appropriation of
$500 was added to the Health
Departments budget for the
present fiscal year. Signing of
a second contract has been held
up and the association has not
received any of the funds al
lotted for fiscal 1854.
To study the dispute. the Com
miSSioners yesterday appointed
a committee consisting of Ar
thur r. Pilkerton, accounting Of
ficer of the District; q represen-
tative Of the corporation coun-
sells office; and William Bow
man, jr., executive officer of the
Health Department. The Com
misSionerS instructed the COM
mittee to come up with a con-
tract as soon as possible.
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Virqiniu Zionists to Meet

Chain Yaari of the Israeli
Embassy will address a break
fast meeting of the Northern
Virginia Zionist District at 10
am. Sunday at 1925 Prince
street. Alexandria.
Evening star., 1953-12-18
Woodmoor Christmas Purty

The Woodmoor Citizens Asso-
ciaition of Silver Spring, will
present a Christmas program
from 3 to pm. Sunday at
Woodmoor circle.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-12-11
FULTON NAMES Committeeman
FOR KIWANIS CLUBS new YEAR

Howard Fulton, president-elect
of the Kiwanis Club, has announc-
ed his committee assignments for
1854. Other officers are Dr. Rich
ard Semon, vice president, and
Supt. D. D. Sims, reelected secre-
tary-treasurer. William Brown.
Lakeside, is the retiring president.
Directors are Albert Davids,
John Faris, Frank Putnam, James
Wolf, Sam Christensen, John Zet-
ger and Atty. John Morton.
Boys and Girls Committee,
James Wolf, chairman, Stensen
Petersen, Albert Davids, Carl Quis-
no, Adair WILDER, DR.. James
Rhiel, Atty. John Morton, Emery
Gielow.
Underprivileged Child: DR.. Cy-
rus Wood, chairman, DR.. E. E.
Braithwaite, Willard Granger
Atty. Lawrence Rupp, Atty. James
Thierry.
House: Atty. Adair WILDER
chairman, William Zeis, ]. G.
Kolesar. Finance and Auditing:
WILDER Gill. chairman, John Nor.
ton, John Black. Public Relations
Louis Warner, chairman, Willis
Misch, Robert Carroll.
Kiwanis Education and Fellow
ship: George Schade, chairman,
Louis Smith, Clifford Mcfarland,
DR.. ]. R. Merrick, Louis Hetrick
Support of Churches: Frank Quis'
no, chairman, C. E. Williamson,
Charles Dewitt, Rev. j. V. Bige-
low.
Music: DR.. Richard Semon,
chairman; Rev. L. G. Miller, A. S.
Pitman, Leroy Bracken, Billie Mil
Ter. Inter-Club Relations: William
Timblin, chairman, William Brown,
George Schade.
Attendance: Atty. John Morton.
chairman; John Sunderland, DR.
James Rhiel, Frank Putnam, Rob.
ert Kirk. Membership, Classifica
ton: A. T. Emmett, chairman; Al
bert Holzhauer, James Wolf, DR.
w. w. Van Malta, Olan Gardner.
Reception: Donald Sanders
chairman, Sam Christensen, John
Faris, Frederick Hendricks, Char
les Dewitt. Achievement Reports:
DR.. Richard Semon, chairman
Supt. D. D. Sims.
New Club Building: Raymond
Boiler, chairman, James Peltier
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-12-11

Harry Karshner. Lester Everett
Tom Semon. Public and Business
Affairs, Francis Mekus, chairman
Henry Cowgirl, R. A. Rice, ]. C
Heckler, Carl Biro and Robert
Gardner.
Program: Lyle Mayhem, chair
man, Olaf Rasmussen, D. D. Sims
Harry Karshner, Kenneth Miller
John Black, William Smith, Ralph
Forster, John Belknap, William
Timblin, Rev. J. " Bigelow, Char
les Dewitt, Clarence Muggy.
Agriculture and Conservation
Werner Jeschke, chairman; Rich
ard Wiechel, Roy Oman, Leroy
Bracken, Sam Amato, Dalton De
Lor, Robert Kyle, Clifford Steph
enson, John Zetzer, and Franz
Manley.