Evening star., 1953-09-19

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Federal Government.
II found in the department a
strong belief that the Federal
Government had the exclusive
right to develop the country's
water resources. That to my
mind is a monopolistic viewpoint.
One of the most dangerous ele-
ments of this viewpoint is the
necessity it has brought to shovel
out tons of propaganda, that the
Federal Government only was
authorized, competent and able
to build a hydro-electric plant
on any or all of the rivers in the
United States.
I'm fact, the mimeograph ma
chimes of the Reclamation Bu-
reau, in some cases, were buster
than bulldozers on the projects.
| We have changed that"
Summerfield Speaks.
Postmaster General Summer
field was the principal speaker
at the Republican women's BAN
quet last night. He told the
women:
president Eisenhower is our
greatest natural resource. He is
our greatest deterrent to World
War III. His expert and init
mate knowledge of our friends
and our opponents abroad serves
us in magnificent fashion in our
determination to maintain an
honorable peace.
"The next 20 years may well
be the decisive era in the history
of the Nation and of our civiliza-
ton of which we must be the
caretakers. In that time, if we
keep the faith, we can build a
Nation of 200 million human be-
ings-a nation of free institu-
tions where men will work out
their own economic destinies un-
bridled by extortionate taxes and
unhampered by the uncertainties
which everywhere beset them"
Women's Role Praised.
The Postmaster General con-
graduated the women on the
ever greater part they are play
ing in public affairs and Govern
ment.
He said that under the Eisen-
hover administration American
women "are really beginning to
take their rightful place in the
management of the Nation" He
pointed as proof to Mrs. Oveta
Culp Hobby, a member of the
cabinet, and to many other
women now employed in all de-
partments and agencies.
"I welcome this change" he
said, 81 feel it will result in
permanent improvement of the
moral climate in Washington" /"
Mr.. Summerfield criticized the
Roosevelt-Truma administra-
tions for calling for economy and
then spending more billions of
dollars than any Government
of men had ever spent" He
said they had fostered industrial
war-not peace; that they had
talked of the invasionS Of civil
rights, but done nothing about
them; that they had prided
themselves on a global foreign
policy, land by majestic over
sight, ignored the continent Of
Asia"
The Eisenhower promises, he
continued, have been kept, and
added:
1--WE have seen an end to the
hoStilities in Korea. The slaugh-
ter has been stopped. The prison.
ers are coming hCme. ,
Turning to the recent Demo-
cratic gathering here Mr.. Sum-
merfield said:
They made a pathetic at
tempt to close their tatte- ed
ranks in order to present the
false illusion of united front.
Their distinguished leaders-Mr.
Truman and Mr.. Stevenson
divided their duties according to
their long standing agreement.
Mr.. Truman lectured the scpho-
moreS, while Mr.. Stevenson gave
the postgraduate course"
Campaign Aid Urged.
Two Republican women men,
bers of the 83d Congress-Miss
Ruth Thompson of Michigan
and Mrs. Marguerite S. Church
of Illinois. urged the Republican
women to give the same efficient
help in the coming congressional
campaign they gave TO President
Eisenhower in the election of
1852.
A drive for signatures to a
petition calling for the adoption
of the Bricker constitutional
amendment providing that no
treaty or executive agreement
should abrogate in an way
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