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Evening star., 1953-12-07

not be as much as the Treasury
needs. 1t has also been ap-
parent that the day has gone
past when Budget Director
Dodge can do what he did last
year, which is order the De-
fense Secretary Wilson to make
across-the-board slashes.
Last year Mr.. Wilson was
inexperienced. annoyed gen.
orally with Washington and
not inclined to rely on the
advisers who had also served
the Truman administration.
Admiral Radford and his COL
leagues are, however Mr.. Will
sons team. At the Pentagon.
the Secretary has been seen
increasingly to take their part
and give weight to their views.
The result is to isolate
Treasury Secretary Humphrey,
who has had some experience
of his own in dealing with the
hard facts of the times. Mr..
Humphrey too is not as sure
as he once was that his theo-
ries fit the conditions he finds
now that the responsibility is
his.
What comes out of the pres
ent pulling and hauling, which
has been pretty successfully
kept within the Eisenhower
official family. must be laid
before congressional leaders
when they confer with the
President December 16 and
II next. That conference was
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Thomas L. Stokes
KnoWIQnds Situation TypicQI
Senate Leaders Visit With Folks Back Home
illustrates Pressures Now on G 0 Foures
G. O. P. Figures

methods" that are annoying
our allies.
Two headlines on the front
page of a local newspaper. the
next morning tell the story
graphically: one stretching
three columns on the right
hand side of the page saying
Dulles Raps Mccarthy on
Foreign Policy Talk" the other
down about the middle of the
page saying Senator Know
land Lauds Mccarthy in
Speech Here"
All that the administration
leader said was to describe
Senator Mccarthy as "a sin
cere and devoted American
trying to clean out a Commu-
mist mess; and this was in
answer to a question not in
the speech itself. But the tim
ing was unfortunate and en-
barrassing; that is, if any one
is so much of a stickler as to
ask for consistency in politics.
For, in the next two days, the
administration continued it's
obvious attempt to isolate
Senator Mccarthy first with
the statement by the President
himself backing up his Secre-
tary of State which was fol-
lowed by the broad and sweep
ing declaration by the chair
man of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, Leonard w.
Hall, after a conference with
the President. that all party
leaders are backing the PreSi-
dent and Secretary of State.
Senator Knowland neces-
sarily has to consider Senator
Mccarthy and his influence
and vote in the Senate as a
practical aspect of his some
what precariouS task of di-
recting the Republican Party
in the Senate. Beyond that
there is Senator Knowland's
own constituency here upon
which he must depend for
continuation IN Office and in
politics.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
BY the Associoted Press

INDIAN HEAD, Md. The
seniors in the Problems of
Democracy" class at Lackey
High School have taken another
poll.
This time, 40 per cent of the
adults they talked to said they
hadn't heard of the truce in
Korea.
And "a per cent could not
tell us what the dangers of the
American-Trieste situation are
Also SO per cent said the Com
munist Party is unconstitutional.
The students decided they were
justified in a contention they
had stated in advance: THE
average American adult does not
have an extensive knowledge of
communism or international
affairs"
After all, they said, "the ques-
tions we asked we're familiar to
the members of our class"
The poll was a class project.
The pupils divided the COM
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Hot Rod Drag Strip
Sought for Youths
By County Group

A drag strip" where teen-agers
can stage supervised hot rod
competition is being sought by
the newly formed Prince Georges
Automotive Safety Association.
The group is seeking a fiat, clear
area where youngsters could
compete with their cars.
The project has the incorse-
ment of Representative Small,
Republican, of Maryland Chair
man of the association is State
Senator John Raymond Fletcher.
The vice chairman is a county
policeman, Pfc. Emmett F. G.
Gray.
The association includes Of
f1cials and citizens and two dele
gates from each of five hot rod
clubs.
The county police department
has announced that it's traffic
safety school being set up to be-
gin December II will be limited
to members of the aSsocia tior.
New members are welcomed by
the group. Mr.. Gray said.
The association also is PLAN
ming to teach auto mechanics.
and will sponsor a safety rodeo,
Mr.. Gray said.
Among the county leaders who
have given support to the pro-
gram are Delegates John F. Lii
lard. jr. and Perry Wilkinson,
Judge Theodore Miazga, Assist
ant States Attorney Grover L.
Small. Mayor Jesse Baggett of
HyattSville, Woodrow Shriver,
and Mayor Herbert Reichelt Of
Mount Rainier.
The association, formed to help
youngsters enjoy themselves
without giving trouble on the
highways. has scheduled meet
ingS on the third Wednesday of
each month in the new county
police station at Seat Pleasant.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Poll Backs Students Belief:
Adults Are Poorly Informed

munity. in and around the Navy's
proving grounds here, into seq
ments and sought answers from
all types of adults.
The conclusions were stated
for the class by its public rela-
tionS chairman. Jerome S. Myers,
in a letter to the weekly Leaf at
nearby Waldorf.
The pupils taking Senior
Problems of Democracy" made
their first poll when something
about teachers salaries came up
last fall.
They wrote to the 40 seniors
who graduated at Lackey Senior
High in the spring of 1858.
They got answers from 80.
Many of the boys were in the
military service. Three or four
of the girls had married.
Those who had gone to work
were already making an average
of $2,950 a year-moSt of them
in clerical jobs.
Miss Ellen Mcclellan, who is
their instructor, has been teach
ing seven years and makes $4,000
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in the Senate why should a
Republican President, it is
asked, antagonize any minor
ity in his party? The Tru-
man-Stevenson press in Wash
lngton has been needing Mr..
Eisenhower to split his party
on the Mccarthy issue. The
President presumably believes
the problem involves on his
part merely like or dislike
for one Senator. He seems to
have fallen for the specious
argument that he must assert
leadership" over both parties
and get catch-all majority
It's fallacious theory because
the opposition party will not
give solid support to a Repub-
lican Presidents program just
before an election.
What has happened is that
the President has gained the
applause of Stevenson Truman
Democrats throughout the
country who wouldn't vote
Republican anyhow next time
and he has lost enough of the
Republican vote to assure a
Democratic victory in both
1854 and 1856 unless by some
miracle he can learn the fun
damentals of party leadership
between now and the next
elections. For in the coming
Congress the Democrats will
vote solidly against him any,
how on most issues and if a
handful of disaffected Repub-
licans don't vote at all the
Eisenhower legislative program
is as good as dead now.
The late William Howard
Taft made a blunder on the
tariff in midterm that cost his
party both houses of Congress
in 1910 and it begins to look as
if history is repeating itself
on an issue of even graver i'm
portance-American indiffer-
ence to trade between the al
lies and the Communists at a
time when 100000 American
casualties were being incurred
IN Korea. Truman permitted
it, but Eisenhower is apologize
ing for and defending the
policy.
Reproduction Right Reserved).
Evening star., 1953-12-07

Here in the Los Angeles area
another pet project of the
isolationist corps is the conSti-
tutional amendment proposed
by Senator Bricker. Republi-
can, of Ohio, which is criti-
cized on the ground it would
restrict the present freedom
OF operation in conducting
foreign policy. Senator Know
land, who has proposed some
revision in the Ohio Senator's
amendment. said, in an inter-
view here, that he would urge
early consideration of the
Bricker proposal when the
Senate convenes; and Secre-
tary Dulles is most skeptical
of this whole enterprise though
he has co-operated in trying
to modify its provisions.
In speech to the State
Chamber of Commerce, in its
sessions here, Senator Knowi-
and questioned the wisdom of
a peace pact with Russia. in
sisting that the Soviets first
must withdraw from Eastern
Europe and permit free elec-
tlonS in its satellite nations
While there is nothing immi-
nent about such a peace pao-.
So-called, the Senator did. in
deed, strike a popular note in
this section, even though his
speech was timed with the
opening of the Bermuda big
Three conference at which
there will be discussion OF a
prospective Big Four" confer
ence to include Russia.
Here we see in the case of
one Senator, though a most
important one. the pressures
from the home folks and how
their representative accommo-
dates himself to them.
Every other member of Sen
ate and House is also subject
to preSSureS which vary in sub
ject. They add up to a pattern
We see woven in Congress.
often shot through with con-
f1ictS with the White House,
Evening star., 1953-12-07

postponed from an earlier
date, the reason now given
being that December Is is the
deadline for agreement on the
size of the defense budget.
1t does not take crystal
ball to discern the possibilities
for struggle and strife when
the Congress is asked to &C
cept the situation and make
the best possible compromise
as between new taxes and the
mounting deficit. Actually the
President will need all the
men of good will in both par
ties but the responsibility of
leading his own is all his.
Some such sober thoughts
and an appeal for a change in
perspective are said to have
been put by the President be-
fore National Chairman Len
Hall last week. following the
Mccarthy telecast and the
Eisenhower-Dulles replies. Mr..
Hall backed the President. So
did the faithful Speaker of
the House, Joe Martin. who
never needs to be told of the
proportions of a political dan
ger.
The Arabs have a proverb:
"The dogs bark but the car
nival goes on They are count
ing the White House mail in
the anteroom. but the struggle
to attain botn fiscal stability
and national security is the
issue in the administrations
inner Sanctums.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
CIeQvoqe in @. O. P. Recalls 1910
McCorthy-DuIIes- Eisenhower Feud Loid to Bungline
By the Administration Of On Emotional issue
David Lawrence

Is the Eisenhower admin
istration committing political
suicide? Judging by the dole
full comments made privately
to this correspondent in the
last few days by Republican
members of Congress of both
wings of the party, the Nc
Carthy-E -Eisenhower-DulleS feud
is about the most serious
cleavage that has happened
since the Republican Party
split of 1910 which caused the
loss of the presidential elec-
tion of 1912 to the Democrats.
One Republican Senator
who has regularly supported
the administration on every
thing and will continue to do
so put it this way:
why do they want to split
the Republicans in my State?
My people are taking this as
an emotional issue and that
doesn't do our party any good"
Irrespective of who is re-
Sponsible for the start of the
row. the fact is that the ad-
ministration bungled it badly
from the very beginning. When
anything so important as a
fight inside the Republican
Party is about to be precipi-
tated, it would seem that the
matter would be of such i'm
portance as to command
consideration by the President
along with members of his
cabinet. Nobody in the cabinet
outside the Secretary of State
was consulted before the state
ment was issued by Mr.. Dulles,
who was anxious to please the
British by showing that the
administration was not as
critical of the British trade
with the Communists during
the Korean war as is Senator
Mccarthy. Yet the subject had
in it most far-reaching impli-
cations on the domestic side.
It will not do any good to
count kilograms for or against
Senator Mccarthy, or letters
either. No matter what the
proportion, even if it is only
a minority of 25 per cent,
that's enough when carried
Evening star., 1953-12-07

enough to advance westward.
That implies to fight with the
means suited to our geographic
and manpower situation and
industrial assets, namely air
power, and from bases that
we can assuredly defend and
control.
If our military says that no
war can be won by air power
alone, they are doubtless cor
rect. But the object is not to
win but to prevent a war. And
it is equally true that no war
can be won against absolute
superiority in the air.
For the sake of the EDO we
have been giving away Amer
lean freedom of action, while
preventing any conceivable
settlement with the Soviet
Union. We are hoping to face
the Soviets at the forthcoming
four power conference from a
position of strength" based
on an asset we do not possess.
For while Britain and France
insist that the conference be
held, France will not ratify the
treaty before it occurs.
Britain and France are de-
termined to explore the possi-
bility of a settlement with the
Sovlets, possibly without Amer
lean participation, in the
knowledge that all settlements
will involve bargaining. They
do not see the conference as a
propaganda platform, and fear
the rigidity of the American
position, which is, indeed, in
compatible with negotiations.
The weakness of American
foreign policy lies in it's un-
WillingneSs-or incapacity-to
consider alternative courses Of
action. This leaves our OPP
ponentS the whole field for
political maneuver.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Thomas L. Stokes

LOS ANGELES, Dec. T.
The frustrating pressures un-
der which the Republican
Party will operate in the COM
ing critical session of Congress
are illustrated in a series of
episodes involving an impor-
tant figure who is himself the
Eisenhower administrators
leader in the United States
Senate
Senator William F. Know
land returned to his native
State. He spent a few days in
the Los Angeles area making
speeches and giving interviews
to the newspapers after the
custom of members who come
back periodically to check in
with the folks.
The Senator's home is in
Oakland in the northern part
of the State. But this southern
area is part of his constitu-
ency, very much so. though its
immediate political overload is
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon.
In this community, which is
important politically because
of its big voting population,
there is a hotbed of isolation
iSm-antagoniSm to the United
Nations-and what someone
here has called 1000 per cent
Americanism" that is fired up
by various rabble rouSerS and
looks to Senator Joe Mccarthy
as its champion.
1t was only natural that SEN
ator Knowland should be asked
about his Wisconsin colleague,
Senator Mccarthy, as he was
at the first opportunity when
he opened up his initial meet
ing here to questions, after his
speech.
That happened to be the
very same day that Secretary
of State Dulles, in Washing
ton. issued his statement as
sailing the Wisconsin Senator's
meddling in foreign policy with
clustering and domineering
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Cathedral Gates Dedicated
In Memory Of Mrs. Suter

The Suter Memorial Gates at
the Garfield street entrance to
the close of Washington Cathe-
dral were dedicated yesterday by
the Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Bishop of Washington.
The gates are a memorial to
the late Mrs. John w. Suter,
wife of a former cathedral dean
who is now with st. Paul's
School, Concord, N. H. DR.. Suter
preached at services in the
cathedral Yesterday.
More than so persons attend
ed the dedication in a pouring
rain.
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Issue

through the electorate to lose
both houses of Congress to the
Democrats by the simple ma
neuyer of Republicans staying
away from the polls. This hap
pened recently in both the
Wisconsin and New Jersey Spe-
cial elections for Congress. For
even though the issues were
different in these two contests
the fact that a majority of the
Republicans who voted for
Congressman in 1852 stayed
away in 1858 was enough to
give the Democrats their VIC
tory.
The issue which Senator Nc
Carthy has made is so clear
cut that it is incredible that
someone in the administration
should not have been able to
advise the President and Sec
retary Dulles how to write a
statement different from the
one they put out which virtu-
ally apologiZed for the failure
of the allies to honor their
commitments when they sent
Stategic materials to Soviet
Russia while American boys
were dying in Korea.
On that issue alone no ad-
ministration can win if it per-
sists in making a stand in de-
fense of allied policy. Last
Saturday, for example, at one
of the largest movie houses in
New York City, the audience
didn't applaud either Mr.. Dull
les or President Eisenhower
when they appeared in a news
reel. But when Senator Nc
Carthy came on Immediately
afterward there was a loud
roar of approval even before
he started to speak and, ac-
cording to a friend who was
present and reported it to this
writer, the applause was deaf
ening when the Senator fin
ished speaking.
This merely confirms that
emotional issues are highly
dangerous in politics. One of
the oldest rules in politics is
never create an unnecessary
controversy inside your own
party"
With a majority of only one
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Gen. Marshall in Paris
On Way 10 Nobel Event
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS, Dec. Cen. George
C.. Marshall arrived here yester-
day en- route to Oslo, where he
will receive the Nobel Peace Prize
Thursday. Before leaving Paris
he will visit Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther, supreme allied COM
mander in Europe.
Gen. Marshall reached Naples
aboard the Italian liner Andrea
Doria and took a Navy plane on
to Paris. He told reporters in
Naples he thought "the world sit
uation is better now. 1t certainly
is better than in 1947, when it
seemed simply desperate"
He was Secretary of State from
1947 to 1949. during which the
Marshall plan for economic aid
was conceived and put into effect
Evening star., 1953-12-07
By Harry Lever

A research project which may
effect interplanetary flight was
disclosed today in Philadelphia.
1t is a supersensitive elec-
tronic device which enables SCI
entiStS to probe the phenomena
of electrical currents that exist
between the earth and the upper
stratoSphere.
The Air Research and Develop
ment Command of the Air Force,
and the Minneapolis Honeywell
Regulator Co. described the de-
vice as one that also will be
highly important to long-range
communications. Air Force SCI
entiStS said that there exists be-
tween the earth and at least as
high as the ionosphere (the layer
of air just above the strato-
sphere) an electrical potential of
tremendous value-upWards of
100000 volts.
The scientists said that until
now, they have been able to COL
lect data on this atmospheric
electricity only by means of in
strumentS carried by airplanes
up to attitudes of $4,000 feet.
Balloons operating as high as
100000 feet will carry aloft the
new aerial electrometer." The
tests are being conducted at the
Holloman Air Development Cen
ter. Alamagordo, N. Mex.
Project Part of Study.
The Air Force said the project
is part of a continuing study be-
ing made of the terrestrial elec-
trical field" This exists between
the earth and ionosphere which
begins between so and 80 miles
above the earth. The strato-
sphere begins at miles above
Lne earCh.
The large mass of information
on this subject is being analyzed
by scientists at the GeophySics
Research Directorate of the Air
Force at its Cambridge (Mass.)
Research Center. They predict
that data obtained from the
phase of the program now under
way will be of great value in un-
derstanding the current of 1900
amperes constantly flowing to-
ward the earth. For more than
so years science has been trying
to discover the source of this tre-
mendouS amount of current.
The Nuclear Engineering Lab
oratory of Honeywell's Industrial
Division in Philadelphia designed
and developed the sensitive. elec-
tronic device to be used in the
experiment.
It weighs only 612 pounds and
is about the size of a portable
radio. 1t is powered by batteries
Evening star., 1953-12-07
Girl Believed Kidnapped
By Robber in Canada
BY the Associuted Press

TORONTO, Dec. Police in
suburban Scarboro township said
a 19-year-old youth reported he
was knocked unconscious and
robbed early today by "a masked
bandit who apparently kidnapped
the young mans 17-year-old girl
friend.
officers said the girl, Marion
Joan MacDowell. was still miss
ing nearly eight hours later.
The youth, James Wilson, was
treated for head injuries.
Evening star., 1953-12-07

whoever sits there, but which,
at this time, outlines the
particular problem of the Re-
publican Party, since it is
managing the Government.
Evening star., 1953-12-13

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novel skirt pocket. Aqua. blue
ond brown in sizes IA to 20.
40 TO AZ. l417 to 24N2.
b. Cosuol cotton with button
front. action sleeves, inside
pocket. Red, blue ond green
coIors in sizes Is to 20. 40 TO
AZ. 1874 to 24H7.
{. Upper dress with orrow
trim. Novy, block or grey oil
with maize in sizes II 70 20.
1oN2 10 24N2. 40 to "A
Sizes as TO 81. 3.29
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LESSONS IN ENGLISH

plural soldiers" Say, "a COM
pany of soldiers aOas captured"
Do not say, "After having read
the book, returned it to it's owner"
Say, Having read the book" or,
"After reading the book"
WORDS OFTEN
MISPRONOUNCED-
Prolocutor. Pronounce pro-lok-u-
ter, first as in no, second as
in lock, II as in use, accent second
sllable.
Coup d'etat "a sudden decisive
exercise of force whereby the ex-
listing government is subverted)
Pronounce koo-da-tah, 90 as in
loot, first a as in day, second a as
in dh, accent last syllable.
Coadjutor. Pronounce ko-a-joo-
ter, o as in cone, a as in at mistress
ed, 90 as in boot, and accent on sec
ond syllable preferred.
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Give to THE March Of Dimes

ing skin and seeds, then put sugar
into it and allow to stand for an
hour or so.
Q. Is it proper to write notes
of coincidence on the typewriter?
A. No. This type of note will
express more thoughtfulness and
sympathy if it is written by hand.
@. How does a house wedding
differ from a church wedding?
A. The bride and bridegroom do
not take single step together. He
meets her at the point where the
service is to be read, and after the
ceremony there is no occasional.
The clergyman withdraws, an usher
removes the prayer bench, and the
bride and bridegroom merely turn
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By w. L. Gordon

each day. Words for this lesson
IMPERIoUs; haughy, arrogant ;
overbearing. "The dictator was an
imperious tyrant."
DEPICT; to represent by pic
ture, or portray in words. "The
story was realistically depicted"
IMPETUS; impulse; momentum.
"This action will lend impetus to
the completion of the task"
EXToRTION; act of Wrestling
by force, or any undue or illegal
power or ingenuity. ale was ar
rested on charge of extortion."
PERUSAL; act of reading care
fully. "He made a perusal of many
biographies"
CoPI0US; abundant; multiple;
ample; plentiful. pronounce the
0 as in cope). "Copious catches Of
fish were reported by local anglers"
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BY Roberta Lee

him to do?
A. Telephone his host or hostess
Immediately, explain, and request
that they do not wait for him.
@. What refreshments would be
appropriate following a home we'd
ding?
A. This is more a matter of
choice than of etiquette. Ginger
ale, fruit juice, punch, or coffee,
wedding cake, and a few sand
witches would be all right.
Q. If there is no host in the
house at the time, and a hostess
is seeing a couple off, should she
help both of them with their coats,
OF just the woman?
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where they stand and receive the
congratulations of their guests.
Q. Is it necessary for a hostess
to proved new cards for her guests
at bridge party?
A. Usually, yes. She may use
old cards only if they are spotless
and shiny.
Q. What is the fee a woman is
usually supposed to give the maid
who helps her in a public dressing
room?
A. Usually twenty-five cents.
@. If a man has been invited
to dinner in someone's home, and
suddenly finds it will be impossible
for him to arrive at the appointed
hour, what is the best thing for