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Evening star., 1953-11-08
Strategic Plans

After Republican panic had sub
sided, national leaders came up
with formulas for broadening the
appeal of their party. In most
cases, the recipe was just a larger
dose of the same political nostrum
the individual always had been
selling.
Representative Daniel A. Reed,
Republican chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee, said
the elections proved that Repub-
licans should cut taxes quickly
just as he has been advocating
since January. Senator Mccarthy
said more Republicans would have
won if they had drup1med on the
Communist infiltration theme
Representative Clarence Brown,
Ohio Republican, said the public
wanted more of the changes he
and other Republicans promised
them last year.
Presidents View
President Eisenhower himself
said quite naturally, he waS not
completely pleased and happy NTH
some results in some places, but
he told you, as he told you before,
he believed the job OF the adntiniS-
tration in Washington t0aS to pro-
Uide dynamic and tor10ard- look
ing program for the United States
They 1Dere going to continue to do
it, and believed that in the long
run it l0ould 1Uin; and one other
point-he had lost SkirmiSheS
before.
The President did not intend to
change that program. He believed
the farm programs, the tar pro-
grams, the foreign aid program,
the expenditure programs, the pro-
grams OF cleaning up government,
getting honesty, decency, efficiency
and good management, he believed
all OF them 1Uere going tor1DGrd,
they 1pere SlotU. of course, but they
aDere coming fortUard, and tchen
they iuere exposed in the full per-
torrance to the American people
he had eUerg confidence that they
loould approve OF them.
The Net Result
So the result of the weeks elec-
tions seemed to be this: The Re
pubncans were not confident of
victory In 1854, but they also were
Evening star., 1953-11-08

ing of the Executives Club, Brown
ell charged that former President
Truman promoted the late Harry
Dexter White to an important Gov
ernment monetary post month
after he received an FSI report
that White was Communist spy.
The report, Mr.. Brownell said,
was transmitted to the President
in December, 1945, through his
military aide, Maj. Gen. Harry
Vaughan. On January %, 1916,
Mr.. Truman nominated Mr.. White,
then an assistant secretary of the
Treasury, to be executive director
for the United States in the Inter-
national Monetary Fund.
White, named by Whitaker
Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley
as a Communist agent, died under
mysterious circumstances IN New
Hampshire in 1949, a week after
he denied Red ties before the
House Un American Activities
Committee His death officially was
attributed to heart attack, but
rumorS of suicide persisted
Trumon's Denial
The Brownell charge brought
an immediate denial from Mr..
Truman when The Star reached
him for comment at his Kansas
City, Mo-, Office.
CAS- soon as we found out that
White was wrong" the ex-Presi-
dent said, I'VE fired him. There's
no use making any comment.
don't know what they're talking
about. No such thing happened.
"All the lies they can tell and all
the headlines they can get won't
cover up what happened in Wis
consin and New Jersey"
To the Republicans, however,
such characteristic Truman de-
lenses were not enough. Senator
Jenner of Indiana, chairman of
the Senate Internal Security SUBJ
committee, promptly announced
to the newspapers that Gen.
Vaughan has been subpoenaed to
appear next Thursday, and White
House Press Secretary James c.
Hagerty announced that White
House files were being searched
for the FBI report on White. It
was also disclosed that President
Eisenhower had personally urged
BroWnell to make the disclosure.
Mccarthy Probe
Meanwhile, Senator Mccarthy
OF Wisconsin was preparing to
open up TO the public his investi-
cation of war and postwar radar
espionage at Fort Monmouth, N. J.
Inc investigation had been GO
ing on for two weeks behind closed
doors. More than IS witnesses had
been questioned, and 20 persons
had been suspended from their
jobs by the Fort Monmouth COM
mander. Senator Mccarthy, who
first told reporters there was evil
dence of a ring led by executed
atom spy Julius Rosenberg, and
then withdrew this comment, was
now prepared to state what he
thought the public hearings would
show:
There will be considerable evi-
dence of the operation of an espi-
onage ring at Fort Monmouth for
a considerable period after the
war"
Evening star., 1953-11-08


upsets l0-yeor Republican regime.
people and this administration.
As people, Ue should continue to
be ready to discuss any issue 1uith
the SoDiet under conditions Uhich
proOided clear and dependable
basis for agreement.
Much the same reaction came
from London.
1T is hard to find any sign,"
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
told Commons, "that the Soviet
government has modified its fun
damental hostility to the Western
nations" The Soviet attitude, he
added, gave the West mo option
but to persevere with our defense
arrangements, on which our very
life depends"
Door Left Open
Like the President, Mr.. Eden
left the door open-so wide that
some critics might have called it
appeaSement had it not been gen.
orally understood in London that
it was largely gesture for the
record.
'The House," he said, will see
that despite the diSappointments
our broad purpose remains un-
changed. If others choose to slam
their doors and barricade them,
ours will remain open. Talks at
any level remain our objective, for
our work is work for peace which
we shall not abandon"
This statement, added to con-
ciliatory but disilluSioned speeches
in Parliament on Monday by the
Queen and Prime Minister Church.
i'll, seemed to nail down the Brit
ish position for the time being
London is only slightly less dis
mayed than Washington at the
Soviet refusal to negotiate, al
though its hope for an eventual
Soviet agreement may be little
stronger.
Where this leaves the world, the
Western leaders did not venture
to predict. If their Interpretation
of the Russian position was correct,
however, the future seemed bleak
indeed.
And although Soviet President
Voroshilov and Defense Minister
Bulganin stressed the needs of the
Russian domestic economy in
speeches hailing the 36th ami
versary of the Bolshevik revolu-
tion, they still took pains to warn
that their armed forces were in
state of preparedness for whatever
might occur.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Subversion

A TTORNEY GENERAL Brownell
N launched Republican coun-
terattack against growing Demo-
cratic successes last week which
may have set the pattern for next
years congressional elections.
Speaking In Chicago to q meet
Evening star., 1953-11-08

than ever before against the Byrd
organization.
Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, a
State Senator, lost, 10000 to 225,-
600, to Thomas B. Stanley, former
Democratic Congressman. It was
a colorless campaign, but neither
OF the two conservative candidates
attempted to run against President
Eisenhower or the national Re-
publican program.
The Republicans campaigned for
a two-party State, and (for Vir-
ginia) they came fairly close to
their goal. The large G. o. P. vote
was warning that the Democrats
could no longer take victory for
granted in contests for Statewide
Offices.
Arlington Races
Arlington County showed once
again that it is a fruitful source
of votes for Republican candidates
in spite of the fact that 1t is full
of supposedly "disgruntled" civil
servants. 1t went for Dalton,
10,904 to 8,406. Republican can
didates for the House of Delegates
did not fare so we'll, however. The
Democrats won the three contests
by wide margins.
Most interesting Arlington races
were for two seats on the county
school board. No Democratic or
Republican tags were used, but
one faction accused the other of
being at least a bunch of socialists
and possibly lot worse. The &C
cuSerS, in turn, were labeled jun
iorAgrade McCarthyites by the
other side. Victory by about 5000
votes in each case went to the
candidates representing "progres-
sive education" in Arlington.
Empire State
Ne1U York. The city of New York
chose a Mayor, and, to no ones
surprise, he turned out to be a lib
eral Democrat, Robert F. Wagner,
jr., son of the former New Deal
Senator. His opponents were Har-
old Riegelman, Republican, and
Rudolph HALEY, Liberal-Independ
ent.
Mr.. Wagner was supported by
the liberal Democrats and Tam
many. He promised a more gener-
Gus and effective administration
of city affairs; while Mr.. Riegel-
man promised a more conservative
and effective administration. The
heavily Democratic city did as was
expected and chose Mr.. Wagner
(1,021, ,488) over Mr.. Riegelman
(661,410) and Mr.. HALEY t468, 1922.
Needed: A LoGuordio
There was little for the national
Republicans to deduce in New York
except that to beat a Democrat
they would have to find an accept
able fusion candidate of the Flo
relic La Guardia type.
More significant was the outlook
for the liberal Democratic wing in
New York. The group, led by
Mayor-elect Wagner, Representa-
tive Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., and
former Mutual Security Director
w. Averell Hartman, were given
a chance to wrest the governorShip
away from the G. o. P. next year
if Roosevelt is their candidate
And last weeks election was
thought to signal the end of the
influence of the conservative wing
Democrats, led by Jim Farley.
Elsewhere
Other elections. There was a
wide variety Of local contests last
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
AGRICULTURAL POWER

Few realize how deeply the roots of agri-
culture are embedded in our life. George
Washington was acclaimed the "first farmer
of the land" Thomas Jefferson devoted much
of his time to agricultural experiments,
studying seeds, soils, fertilization and crop
rotation, and was among the first to use
contour blowing. That great early Ameri-
can statesman Daniel Webster operated
model farm at Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Andrew jackson, seventh president of the
u. S., was plantation owner and took great
pride in the fact that the reaping machine
was invented during his administration. And
Lincoln as, every school child knows, exper-
fenced in full measure hard work on the land.
He signed the Homestead Law of 1862, that
gave thousands of American families the
chance to settle on public domain land
With this background and our great in
duStrial development it is small wonder that
with only seven per cent of the worlds peO-
pie and six per cent of it's land, America is
able to produce much more food per capita
than other parts of the world. American in
dustrial development has meant high pro-
ductiOn per farm worker through the use of
modern farm equipment. In fact the history
of farm mechanizatiOn is the history of
Americas brilliant victory over famine. If
farmers everywhere could be blessed with
the knowledge, the freedom and the machines
so typical of America, the hunger and fam
inc which have stalked mankind since time
began would be only hazy memory.
Our fOrefatherS who loved the soil were
wiser than they knew when they founded a
sytem of government that inspired in the
breast Of the individual the will to attempt
to achieve the impossible.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
N1OO&
FIRST REQUIREMENT

In the view of Senator Byrd of Virginia,
who is one of the few real students of gov
ernment finances in Congress, "The first re-
qUirement of our leadership in the world is
the preservation of the free enterprise sys-
TEN. The lifeblOod of this system is sound
fiscal policies"
That is scarcely deniable-we cannot
hope to check and defeat the forces of COM
munism if we follow communist doctrines
ourselves, and we cannot maintain our
strength if we allow prodigal government to
squander our wherewithal. Yet we have
blindly followed false prophets down one
dead-end road after another.
Our efforts to deal with initiation are out
standing examples of this. The primary
cause of imitation is extravagant govern
ment, which takes and spends more and more
of our money, creates more and more credit
and currency, and runs more and more de-
ficits. Drunken-sailor fiscal policies are the
disease, and high prices are just symptom.
But we have, so far, done nothing at all
about treating the disease and have dealt
only with the symptom. We have tried so
called price controls, which place a costly
burden on every producer and retailer in the
land and in the long run work to the grave
disadvantage of the consumer as well. We
have tried to supplant the free market with
a politically-bOssed market. AS any ecOnO-
mist or businessman will tell you, the con.
trolls have been failure-SO great fail ire
indeed, that even a prO-contrOl AdminiStra.
tiOn has had to abandon many of them anC
relax others. In spite of that, political agi
tation for continuing the bankrupt cOntro
idea continues.
A great change in government thinking
is expected January 90 It's time!
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
BACK TO THE FREE MARKET
Earlv in JanuaY,v +hn Honco ofcPen

Early in January the House OfdRepresen-
tatives' Small Business Committee issued its
final report. This report, which was given
the unanimous approval of the full commit
tee, dealt extensively with price and wage
control. 1t observed that one Of the worst
faults of the price control program is that it
has been especially damaging to small bust
ness. Then it said:
''In the past year infatiOnary pressures
have decreased substantially. Many prices
have fallen far below their ceilings and many
more are of such fixed nature that they are
unlikely to rise should ceilings be removed.
These factors point to the feasibility of de-
control especially if they are insured by ap-
propriate tax, expenditure and credit poll
cies.
"A program for decontrol should be de-
vised which would permit a smooth transi-
tion back to free competition. Some prOvis-
ion should be made to permit the President
to impose a limited price freeze should an
other emergency arise Such a plan would
save valuable time in establishing an emer-
gency stabilization agency to cope with the
details if imitation and would fOrestall any
runaway rise in prices against which a new
agency would be severely handicapped"
In other Words this committee, after
thorough study, believes that price control
should be jettisOned now and that the cOun-
try should return to the free market. That
position is eminently SOund-and it is as
sound for the consumer as it is for business.
The controls are costly and burdensOme to
the manufacturer, the retailer and all other
forms of enterprise-and when that is the
caEa the interests of allOfIS; cannot help but
be harmed.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Sheep Raisers Get
Advice On Lambs

Sheep raisers were advised to-
day that extra precautions taken
now against pregnancy disease will
pay big dividends at spring lamb
ing time.
The American Foundation for
Animal Health urged that bred
ewes receive good ratiOns and
exercise during the winter. Neglect
on that score now could mean loss
of ewes and lambs in the spring,
the Foundation said.
Pregnancy disease is a toxic
condition resulting from the extra
demands on the ewes system dur
ing CESSATION" says the Founda-
tion's report. "It usually results
from faulty diet or lack Of exer-
else, which allows waste products
to build up in TIE body. Ewes car
rying twins or triplets are espe-
cially susceptible.
First sign of pregnancy disease
usually is noted a few days before
lambing, when some ewes start
tagging behind the flock as it is
driven. Affected ewes often grind
their teeth, appear dull and weak
and tremble when exercised, ano
go down."
The Foundation emphasized thai
prevention is the best way to avoid
pregnancy disease losses. Although
veterinarians can save ewes in some
cases, pregnancy disease has a higl
mortality rate, and the lambs usu
ally are lost, too.
Sugar solutions injected into tn,
blOOdstream are most commonly
used to treat the stricken ewes.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
N0ONG
THEY ASKED DIVINE AID

The United States was founded on the
belief that Divine Providence shapes our
destiny. Our greatest leaders always have
appealed for Divine help in national emer-
gencies.
The Declaration of independence recog-
nizes the Creator ALI of us remember the
story of Washington praying as he knelt in
the snow at Valley Forge. Lincoln's great
speeches have biblical rhythmy, as when
he prayer at Gettysburg that "this nation,
UNDER God, shall have a new birth of free
dOm-and that government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth. And, in the year 1858, our
new President Eisenhower, before beginning
his inaugural address asked the aid of God
as he undertook his great duties.
While we, as a people, following the ex-
ample Of these great leaders, our nation will
be safe. The godlessness of World Commun-
ism shall not prevail against it.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
5000
You CAN'T EAT TAXES, BUT

You can't eat taxes. You can't wear taxes.
But you must pay more for taxes that
you do for food and clothing combined!
In 1851, total federal, state and local
taxes, direct and hidden, came to $84,6O0,-
000,000 In the same year total food and
clothing purchases added up to $81, 1,O00,-
100000.
We have reached the point where the tax
burden is the largest single item of expense
to millions of American families. Many Of
us haven't yet realized this for the reason
that substantial part of all taxes are paid
indirectly-that is, they are part Of the price
we pay for an automobile or loaf of bread
or pair of shoes or a ticket to show. But
we pay the full bill just the same-whether
the money is handed over directly to some
tax=cOllecting agency, or whether it is con-
cealed in the cost of goods and services.
1t is generally believed that the danger
point to a nations strength and vigOr is
reached when taxes account for 25 per cent
of the national income. Our taxes have left
that figure far behind-about SO per cent of
the national income goes for taxes. And no
one should be foolish enough to still believe
that we can pay the tax bill by soaking the
rich. If we took 100 per cent of the incomes
of the rich it would pay the cost of govern
ment for only a few weeks out of the year.
You-the average man and wOman-pay
the tax bill. You will be the gamers if and
when the cost of government is cut
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06

conception of liberalism which can accept
with equanimity such intrusion of govern
ment into the basic rights of American citi-
ZenS.
Even under the pressure of the grimmest
war emergency when certain controls are
unavoidable they should never be recognized
as anything but evil expedients, the anti
thesis of liberalism. And this is the way
they will be recognized in the future if the
political play on words is eliminated.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
TN TIE AIR FORCE"
p EIoIne ToWnsend Dlekerson

apologize when / asked anyone out
TO partake Of one Of my dinnerss
AS it happened, and it always does.
that night Hayes had to study tor
a major test the following day 50
unless Craig ate dinner with us we
would hardly have any visit with
him at all. The only change i saw
lin Craig was that he was baider
He seems quite happy with his life
in the ar Force too, even though
he is expecting to be called. mo-
mentarily, to Korea.
Out here on the West coast we
haven't had many Delaware yisiA
tors. Pat Palmer Crist and her
family visited us last month, Craig
this month and we hope In March,
lif plans materialize, to see Mr.. and
Mrs. Milton Dill on their trip out
West Sally's neice, JOY Grier, is
in the Waves and is stationed nears
San Diego, their primary reason
for their westward trip is to seei
her.
In May we are looking forward
to having two guests from Mafy-
land for a two weeks visit. HayesF
sister-in-law, Mrs. James o. Dicka
erson and Miss Jean Dennis, both
from Salisbury, Nd, are flying out.
/ to Sacramento to see some Of the
West coast with us. May is a coed
time to see Yosemite National Park
/ (redwOOd trees) Lake Tahoe, Reno,
Virginia. and Carson City and of
course San Francisco, which are
all within a few hours drive from
here.
{ 7 guess by now you know that
we love having Delaware visitors
or, as far as that goes, we like
lanything pertaining to our East
coast. Recently I was appointed
cO-editOr Of the wOman's club base
paper here at Mather and / can
promise you a lot of girls viii hear
more about that next to the small
est state than they have ever heard
: before. Being cO-editor Of a paper
} is new to me. / had hoped the 9TH
| er eO-editor would be an old timer
J in the newspaper game, but 1t de-
velOps she had hoped the same OF
/ me. Thank heavens its only a
/ four page paper. Should be fun
2 shouldn't it?
Until next Friday. Always,
2. 7. ID.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
Farmers See Price
Squeeze

December was the fourth con-
secutive month in which the price
OF farm products has declined.
Now prices received by farmers
are eight percent below that Of a
year ago. Last month, for the first
time in more than two years. the
parity ratio dropped below 100.
Delaware farmers Jared slight
~ better than the average" says
W. T. McAllister, extension market
ing specialist "Here, prices paid
and prices received remained the
same as in November. Grains,
fruits, and truck crops were up in
price while chickens, eggs, meat
animals, and dairy products were
down"
Chicken prices averaged slight
ly over % cents a pound, and
while this was down cents from
NOvember's price, McAllister says,
it was the highest December price
for chickens since 1914. Egg prices
decreased seasonally to 81 cents
per dOzen-a 6 cent decline 1.-The
greatest mid-NOvember to mid
December drop in price since 1880.
While milk was cents a hundred
weight lower, the dollar price
in mid-December was the highest
December price on record.
"Even though Delaware farmers
did not experience as much Of the
price drops as farmers elsewhere, .
McAllister points out, 'the Della
ware parity ratio at 81 still IS not
as favorable as that Of the United
States. where the average parity
ratio is So. In Delaware. where the
bulk Of the agriculture consists Of
/ poultry and dairy, the parity ra-
ito has been consistently below
that Of states where grain and
meat animals account for much 81
the agriculture.
Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that we're mar
keted throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK
Veal Calves
Choice: $500 to $4,000, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to Good: S28.OO to SS4.5O,
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Rough and Common: $500 to
$25.0O, mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Cows
Slaughter: Medium to Good,
$19.25 to $16.75, mostly SLABS per
cwt.
Common: $11.75 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters: $1,000 to
S11.50, mostly $11.00 per cwt.
Steers
Light Steers: $11.0O to $24OO,
mostly $500 per cwt.
Feeder Heifers
Dairy Type: $11.0O to $500,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Bulls
over 1000 lbs.
Medium to Gooi: S15.75 to $17.75,
mostly SIPS per cwt.
500 to 1000 lbs.
Medium to Good: $12.25 to $19.75,
mostly $15O0 per cwt.
Hogs
Straight logs Cgood quality) +:
12O to 40 lbs, $14.50 to $500
mostly $170O per cwt.; 10 to 24C
lbs, $16.75 to $3.50, mostly $500
per cwt.; 24O to $50 lbs, $15.25 to
$17.OO, mostly $16.75 per cwt.
SOWs
(gOOd quality
200 to 300 lbs, $500 to S17.OO
mostly STATS per cwt.; 800 to 400
lbs, $1,000 to $14.5O, mostly S14.2g