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Evening star., 1953-03-27
That Old Team Spirit in Politics
President Feels He Shouldn't Tackle His Own PIoyers
But He's UnoWore They Have Already Tripped Him

believe he thinks Of himself as
a leader who doesn't take
Sides"
His native Kansas breeds a
Republicanism as intense as
the Democratic faith of the
South. Perhaps some of that
has come out in the President
since he plunged into politics.
Feeling as he does that the
commanders or captains role
involves Cancellation, Gen. Eli
Senhower is known also to have
been critical of former Presi-
dent Truman's scrappiness. Mr..
Truman never backed away
from a quarrel, he sometimes
seemed to invite them and he
always gave the impression Of
enjoying them. He could not
see any one bluff without call
ing him.
The President saw his prede-
ceSsor get into a lot of trouble.
He may not be aware how
many successes Mr.. Truman
scored because opponents knew
they were in for it if they
crossed him.
Meanwhile, the Democrats
are enjoying the spectacle of
McCarthyism being turned
against Republicans who don't
seem to like it any better than
Democrats do. G. o. P. out
cries about their honor being
impugned are music to the
minority side Of the aisle.
Evening star., 1953-03-27

est in the successor to Mr..
Wickard who has not yet been
named, as well as whether
other officials eventually will
be weeded out to make places
for political appointees.
Consumer and small buSi-
ness interest of a broad kind
is lodged in another agency.
the Federal Trade Commission
created by Woodrow Wilson to
prevent monopoly and enforce
the Clayton Antitrust Act
and later the Robinson-Pat-
man Fair Trade Act, among
others. The latter is designed
to protect retail business from
monopolistic practices by big
corporations. Only in 1947, un-
der pressure from independent
tire dealers and the House
Small Business Committee, did
the Federal Trade Commission
finally invoke for the first time
a section of the RobinSon-Pat-
man Act enacted in 1896 re-
quiring it to determine guam
tity discounts. It fixed such
discounts on complaints from
independent tire dealers that
they we're being Disseminated
against by big rubber compa-
nies in discounts.
The big four rubber compa-
nies challenged the FTC order
in the courts. The new chair
man of the commission, Ed
ward F. Howrey, a Washington
lawyer, who was confirmed
this week by the Senate with
Evening star., 1953-03-27

crease his offensive potential
in the last year. During the
winter, despite bad weather,
ne has brought to the front
line and Immediately behind
the front important quantities
of ammunition and substantial
troop reinforcements. Even the
thousands of sortieS of the
allied air forces have not
interfered seriously with these
concentrations of manpower
and firepower.
The recent revelations that
the American and allied forces
lacked adequate supplies of
ammunition for their artillery
and small weapons may have
spurred the determination of
the enemy commanders to see
what the actual situation was.
All they could lose is thousands
of lives and life is the cheap
est commodity in China.
We have now been assured
that our forces have sufficient
ammunition for defensive pur-
poses. Whether this was the
case in the operation on Old
Baldy-a mountaintop we are
determined to hold-will be
ascertained some time later.
The aggressive potential of
the Reds is not being mini
mized by the commanders in
Korea. They are not con-
sidered capable of throwing us
far back behind the 38th
Parallel, but they can give us
some very severe headaches
and cost us lives and war ma
terials which would paralyze
any allied plan for an offensive
to reach at least the 40th
Parallel and thus shorten the
front lines about so miles.
The Pentagon is discussing
the advisability of skeletonizing
a number of divisions stationed
at home. This means that in
the event of a serious situation
either in Europe or in Korea
we may not have reinforce
ments ready for immediate
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Thomas L. Stokes:

Gradually the pattern of
"the change" promised by Re
publicanS is beginning to as
sumo form here. It devolves
upon the reporter to fit the
pieces together to give them
meaning. so that whether you
happen to like the nature Of
the change or not, you may
be able to understand some
things that will occur hence
forth to affect you in your
daily living and your business.
AS forecast here before the
new administration took ofIice,
it is now revising the personnel
of various commissions and
special agencies that have been
created by Congress through
the years to protect the public
interest in important ways. It
is thus reshaping their policies
to create what is known around
here as "a more favorable cli-
mate" for business, though this,
as will be shown, does not nee
esSarily mean small business.
Nor. above all. does it mean
the consumer.
Take. for example, public
housing. Fifteen years ago
Congress established a purpose
Of eliminating slum areas, both
Evening star., 1953-03-27

While several Senators are
demanding the retention of Gen.
James A. Van Fleet on active
duty, the Army today went
ahead with plans for his retire.
ment parade at $50 pm. Tues
day at Fort Lesley j. McNair.
At least five Senators who
have heard the four-star former
commander of the 9th Army
in Korea testify have stated the
Army should retain him two
more years. He is retiring under
the law which requires his de-
parture because of 81 years ac-
tive service and five years in the
permanent grade of major gen.
eral. However, the Secretary of
the Army could retain him two
more years if he desired. The
general is so years old.
A reception will follow the
review of more than 1000 troops
and the Army Band. Gen. j.
Lawton Collins, Army Chief of
Staff, and Mrs. Collins will be
hosts to Gen. and Mrs. Van
Fleet.
Gems. Van Fleet and Col
lins. have disagreed-at one
point heatedly, according to
Evening star., 1953-03-27
New Regime Has Lot to Learn
Republicans Must Learn to Talk Things Over Quietly
And Thrash Out Their Little Differences Privately
David Lowrence:

Politically speaking, the
Eisenhower administration
hasn't learned the ropes yet
or it would not have allowed
a serious factionalism to crop
up in Congress and threaten
party solidarity.
Aided and abetted by an
alert and resourceful left
wing" which is ready to de-
stroy Eisenhower politically
after it has disposed Of Sena-
tor Mccarthy, the movement
to sabotage the entire attack
on communistic activity inside
America has gained ground as
a consequence of the unneces-
sary controversy over Charles
E. Bohlen, Ambassador -des-
ignate to Russia. To drive
a wedge between Senators
Mccarthy, Bridges, McCar-
ran and the White House
is a deliberate aim of the left
wing"
There were times when the
Republican Party knew how to
talk things over quietly ahead
of time and to thresh out diff
ferences privately. It was only
the Democrats who subjected
themselves to the publicity of
open friction. Now things have
changed. It's the Republicans
who show signs of inexperience
and ineptitude in managing
their own affairs.
For party solidarity is
of the utmost Importance to
an administration which has a
narrow majority in Congress,
and the way to retain that
solidarity is not to become in
volved in QuarrelS that are
superfluous.
The wisest thing that has
been said to keep the friction
from spreading further must
be credited to President Eisen-
hover himself, who refused at
his press conference yesterday
to be goaded into making
an issue of the fact that con-
greSsional Investigations Of
executive agencies to root out
SubverSiveS are continuing.
The President showed a
proper respect for the legis-
lative branch Of the Govern
ment-much more than some
Of the critics are doing with
their efforts to make it appear
mandatory for the Senate to
confirm Immediately or auto
matically anybody a President
appoints to an ambassador
ship.
The specious cry was raised
among some shortsighted sup
porters of Eisenhower that to
oppose Bohlen was to show
lack of confidence in the judg-
ment or the integrity of the
President and the Secretary
of State. who made the nomi-
nation. The controversy was
hailed as an "acid test" Of
executive responsibility.
But 1t wasn't that way when
the shoe was on the other foot.
Thus, when Charles Evans
Evening star., 1953-03-27

Hughes was nominated in
February, 1880. to be Chief
Justice of the United States
and the so-called liberals" "
led by the late Senator Norris.
Republican, of Nebraska, de-
clared he should not be con-
f1rn1ed because Of his past
connections" with law clients,
nobody in the cleft wing" of
those days rose up to defend
the nomination on the ground
that to oppose it was a smear
or an attack on the judgment
and integrity of President
Hoover. who made the nomi-
nation.
Likewise, when in April, 1880,
Judge John j. Parker of the
United States Circuit Court
Of Appeals was named by
President Hoover to be Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme
Court Of the United States,
union labor rose up through
the "McCarthys" on the floor
Of the Senate to cry that a
Parker decision in a case on
the yellow dog" union con-
tract made him a bad security
risk for labor. Nobody on the
left wing" side was hesitant
to smear the integrity of one
Of the finest judges America
has ever had-and a man
who many labor leaders since
have admitted should have
been confirmed.
Then there was the case Of
Charles B. Warren of Micfi-
gan, who was named to be
Attorney General by President
Coolidge. His confirmation
was defeated by one vote in
the Senate because critics
thought his past connections"
in business would make him a
bad security risk for the left
wing" in America. Nobody on
the so-called progressive side
in the Senate at that time said
the Executives appointment of
a cabinet officer was Sacro-
sanct and that anybody a
President wanted in his cabi-
net should automatically be
confirmed.
When President Truman in
January, 1916. nominated
Edwin Pauley Of California
to be Undersecretary of the
Navy, with the idea that he
would later become head Of
the Navy after Forrestal was
elevated to the Secretaryship
of Defense. the late Harold
1ckes. Secretary of the In
terror, opposed the nomination
because of Pauley'S oil connec-
tions. Ickes resigned from the
cabinet in protest, and his
views as given to Congress
raised such a fuss that Pauley's
name was withdrawn two
months later. Nobody at that
time in the cleft wing" de-
tended Pauley from attack on
the ground that it was a lack
OF confidence in the judgment
or Integrity Of Mr.. Truman,
who made the appointment.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
What Are the China Reds u . To?
Military Worried After Allied Defeat on Old BoIdy
Fear 1t Might Have Whetted Enemy's Appetite
Constantine Brown:

There is growing concern in
military Quarters over the Red
objectiveS in Korea.
The attacks which started a
few days ago against Old
Baldy. one Of the key stra-
tegic positions controlling the
invasion route to Seoul, were
considered at first as probing
operations to enable the Reds
to test the defenses of the al
lies. In spite of desperate eff
forts by units of the 7th Di-
vision and the air support they
received, the enemy succeeded
in capturing that important
height.
The first reports from the
front indicated that the Reds
attacked with a regimental
combat team (some $500
men). But the fact that the
battle continued through sew.
eral days, and our troops must
have received reinforcements,
leads to the conclusion that
the Chinese Reds brought up
superior forces when the
probing" operation developed
into something bigger.
The question which worries
some military men is whether
after the beating we have
taken - the worst in five
months-the appetite Of the
enemy may have been whetted.
He may now attempt a number
of important strikes on SINH
larly important positions.
The consensus Of some mill
tary men is that the Chinese
are now undertaking offensive
defensive operations to pull the
rug from under our feet if
Washington should decide to
try to terminate the war in
Korea militarily. Others sus-
pect that the present moves
presage a spring offensive long
planned by the top Strategists
in Peiping and Moscow.
From available information,
it appears that the enemy has
made serious efforts to in
Evening star., 1953-03-27

city and rural. and replacing
them with clean, decent abodes
at reasonable rentals by a
measure of financial assistance
to local communities.
The new head of the Hous-
ing and Home Finance Ad-
ministration is Albert M. Cole.
lame duck Republican Con-
gresham from Kansas. who
devoted himself in the House
Of Representatives to fighting
bitterly the housing acts that
he now is administering. His
appointment was loudly pro-
tested in the Senate, but he
was confirmed with only Is
votes against him. He pledged
himself to carry out the laws.
opposed as he is to their whole
philosophy. His administra-
ton naturally will be watched
with interest.
Another agency in which
millions all over the country
now have a stake is the Rural
Electrification Administration
in the Department Of Agricul-
ture through which, by means
of loans to co-operatives, the
benefits Of electricity have
been spread far and wide to
Americas farms.
The REA Act specifically for.
Evening star., 1953-03-27

out a single dissent, repre-
sented the Firestone Rubber
Company in that case. Now
he is head of the commission
supposed to enforce the act
which he fought not only in
the tire case, but also in an
other case involving candy
vending machines.
While the FTC won in the
lower Federal court, the case
is now on appeal. The FTC
order never has been put
into effect, pending litigation.
Whether there might now be
interminable delay was a queS-
ton raised by George j. Bur-
ger, vice president of the
National Federation of Inde-
pendent Business, himself an
independent tire dealer, when
he appeared to oppose the
nomination of Mr.. Howrey on
behalf of small business before
the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee. He also ex-
pressed concern about the Wig
lance of the FTC henceforth
in protecting small business.
and asked bluntly: els 1t pos
sible a gentleman going into
this high position in the Fed
eral Trade Commission can in
reality serve two masters?"
These examples serve to
denote the nature Of the
change" going on here. Other
developments in the pattern
will be reported from time to
time.
Evening star., 1953-03-27

the fact that some of the
players are attacking the cap
tain and not strictly accord
ing to the rules has not regis
tered.
The President is fanatically
devoted to "the team" concep-
ton, as those reporters can
testify who covered his cam
paign, It is the basis of his
order to his administration
that they must get along with
Congress.
Apparently he doesn't want
any Democrats on his team
either. He has been cleaning
them out very thoroughly in
the executive branch where he
had the power to move and
he agreed to shake up the
civil service to keep the good
work going.
On matters like the Bohlen
nomination, he can count on
more than enough Democratic
votes to carry him over the
line. Democrats have already
noted, however. that pleasant
as he is to them personally,
he thinks Of them as on the
other side permanently.
War correspondents recall
that. as supreme commander,
Gen. Eisenhower stood aloof
from quarreling generals in
much the same way that he
does above Senators. They
Evening star., 1953-03-27

transportation across the
oceans.
Industry is nowhere near
geared for a major campaign.
Some of the shortages de-
scribed in Korea and Europe
are due to the slow motion OF
our factories, which do not
know whether the administra-
ton will require a large out
put or whether it will cut
down even the present produc-
ton.
The Chinese, in the mean
time, are keeping their arms
factories in Manchuria on a
24-hour-a-day basis and ad-
ditional supplies reach them
from the U. S. S. r. in a steady
stream either by the trans
Siberian Railway or by sea.
Sea transportation is particu-
larly used for raw materials.
The unpleasant defeat we
suffered this week may wake
up some optimistS who still
think of the Korean campaign
in terms of a police action"
Also it may serve as an OBJ
ject lesson to speed up instead
of slow down our military pre-
paredneSS.
The possibility of more in
tensive action by the Red air
force, which has been engaged
so far only in combat against
our bombers and their Sabre
Jet escorts, gives us real con-
Germ.
We know that the enemy
has a number of bomber
planes which have not been
in action yet. Moscow can offer
the Chinese additional re-
Inducements.
And our Air Force, which
has been so highly successful
in air combat against the
MICS. has not enough air
wings to meet a serious threat
in Korea and at the same time
cope with the renewed needs
for modern pursuit planes in
Western Europe.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Doris FIeeson::

With his magnificent de-
tense Of Charles e. Bohlen,
President Eisenhower stood
poised on the brink of an at
tack on Senator Mccarthy.
Senator Mccarthy has not
just contended that Mr.. Boh-
len was unfit, or a better Am
bassador to the Soviet Union
could be found. The Senator
has limited that the Presidents
choice is depraved and treach-
erous. He has said Secretary
of State Dulles deceived the
Senate.
With these facts in mind,
reporters invited the President
to take the plunge. He
wouldn't.
The President, of course, is
not afraid of Senator McCar-
thy. Politically he has nothing
to lose, thanks to the way
Majority Leader Taft and the
whip. Senator Knowland, have
stood up in the Bohlen debate
against Mccarthy. The Presi-
dent has said repeatedly in
private that he dislikeS Nc
Carthy.
The best guess of those WHO
have studied him most closely
as a public figure is that Gen.
Eisenhower can't get it out of
his head that he is captain OF
a team and so cannot attack
the other players. Apparently
Evening star., 1953-03-27

The row was all supposed to be
in the public interest.
When former Mayor
ODwyer of New York. Demo-
crat. was named by President
Truman in August, 1850, to
be Ambassador to Mexico,
Senator Ives of New York
made a futile effort to hold it
up till O'Dwyer's alleged past
connections with gambling
and racketeering interests
could be probed. Even though
the nomination was plainly
being made to take care Of a
Democratic Party situation in
New York, from which
O'Dwyer as a political factor
was to be eliminated, there
was no real investigation made
before confirmation in the
Senate. Was this in the public
interest as the record stands
today?
The members of the Senate
have a solemn duty to per-
form in weighing the qualif1-
cations and personal history
OF every man who Is nomi-
mated for high Office and who
is subject to confirmation "by
and with the advice and con-
sent Of the Senate" In times
like the present. the man who
goes to Moscow as the Ameri-
can Ambassador should be,
like Caesars wife, above all
suspicion-and, in this case
particularly, above political
suspicion. For anybody who
reads last weeks testimony by
Mr.. Bohlen as he so adroitly
defended what happened at
Yalta cannot but be convinced
that he is an apologist for ex-
pediency and acquiescence in
modern diplomacy and that
he is scared by Soviet Russia.
He evidently feels about the
Com m uniSt government at
Moscow as so many of the
Truman Acheson appointees
did - namely, that nothing
could have been done to pre-
vent the enslavement of Po-
land, for example. in the face
OF Russia's open violation of
the principles of the Atlantic
Charter.
The Bohlen episode was a
political defeat for the Repub-
lican Party and for the cause
OF moral principle which was
tragically abandoned at Yalta.
BY seeming to accept Bohlen's
views on Yalta, the Republican
Party has yielded to expedi-
ency, too, and the moral case
for liberation" in Europe has
been damaged. Maybe some
day the Republicans will learn
how to stay united when they
win power. but they will not
do SO unless they first sit down
together to iron out their diff
ferences among themselves in
stead Of leaping into situations
which breed open controversy
and only make political capital
for their opponents.
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Churchill Kin Can Ski

Winston Churchill, 12-year -old
grandson Of Britain's Prime Min.
lister, twice has negotiated the
famed CreSta ski run at st. Mo-
ritz, Switzerland.
Evening star., 1953-01-28
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Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-08-20
Health Group
Meet at
.CoreyS Farm :

The Executive Committee of
the Geauga County Tubercu-
losis and Health Association and
their guests met at Corey's Cot
tage on August 18th for pic
mic supper followed by a brief
business meeting. Attending the
social gathering we're Mr..
and Mrs. B. A. Broughton, Mr..
and Mrs. F. R. Schofield, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Fenwick, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Law, Mr.. and
Mrs. l. M. Cavanagh, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Barnes, Mr.. James
DinSmore, Mr.. Robert Walsh,
Miss Mary Goodmanson, Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Hensel, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Williams, Mrs. Wal
ter Corey and Mrs. Myrtle
Rodgers.
Mr.. Walsh, Rehabilitation
Program Chairman, reported on
the sale of patients handicraft
at Auburn Community Fair and
that plans were being made to
sponsor sales booths at Middle
field Homecoming on August
10Th and Geauga County Fair.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-08-20
Neal league
Is Named to
Farm Loan Boarc

The appointment of Neal G..
league, Newbury, to serve on
the Farmers Home Administra-
ton County Committee is being
announced by Hugh K. Clifton,
County Supervisor at Jefferson,
Ohio. Mr.. league was ap-
pointed for a three year term
and succeeds Howard McNish,
Burton, whose term expired
June 80, 1858. Other members
of the Geauga' County Commit
tee are Vaughn F. Arnold,
Huntsburg, and Donald r. May,
Mantua.
The Farmers Home Admin
stration is an agency of the
u. S. Department of Agricul-
ture and makes chattel, farm
ownership and farm housing
loans to eligible and qualified
farm families who are unable
to secure credit from private
lending sources. 1t is the duty
of the committee members to
certify the eligibility and quail
fications of families and the
value of farms. No loan can be
made without the approval of
the local committee.
The FHA Office serving Ge-
auga County is located in Jeff
erSon.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-08-20
Organize Civil Defense
Group at Huntsburg

HUNTSBURG - An organi-
alton of the state under Civil
Defense is getting started in
Huntsburg. The group met last
Wednesday at George Kilko's S
house where the following were
picked for the squad: George
Kilko, Mike Horvath, Joe Hum
mel, Gene Rose, Harry Reese,
Chick Reiter, George Pilarczyk,
Ben Pilarczyk, John Sudyk and
George Frank. Ed Pilarczyk
was nominated as a substitute
with Gene Rose as assistant
squad leader and Chick Reiter
as squad leader. All men, in
Guiding others who attended,
will take schooling in Paines-
vile starting the End Tuesday
in September. After schooling,
two men will be assigned as
bumpers and the others as fire
men. They will be on call "a
hours a day.