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Evening star., 1953-06-02
Mrs. {. I. Lyddane,
Fourfh-Generation
D. {. Resident, Dies

Mrs. Eugene T. Lyddane, jr..
IS, for many years a member of
the Ladies' Board of Georgetown
Hospital, died Sunday at her
home, 306S @ street NV.
A fourth-generation Washing;
tonian, she was the former
Blanche Stuart. Her maternal
grandfather, Robert Alexander
Waters, had one Of the Oldest
printing establishments in Wash
ington and, according to the
family, he printed the first edi-
ton of the Congressional Record.
Her husband, a merchant at
Wisconsin and o streets NV. for
many years, died more than four
years ago.
Mrs. Lyddane was a member
of the James Mccall Chapter of
the OAR and the House of Good
Shepherd Guild.
Survivors are two sons, DR.. E.
Stuart Lyddane of 1923 Reservoir
road NV. and Eugene T. Lyd-
dane, Sd of the @ street address,
and three daughters, the Misses
Anne w. and Mary Catherine
Lyddane of the home address.
and Mrs. Robert P. Giblon Of
Red Bank, N. j.
Funeral services will be held
at 10 am. tomorrow at Holy
Trinity Church, Thirty sixth and
o streets NV. Burial will be in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-02
r. P. Beaman Dies,
Former President
of Norfolk Bank

Robert Prentis Beaman, 81,
president of the National Bank
of Commerce, Norfolk, Va, from
1881 to 1912, died Saturday at
1917 Rhode Island avenue NV,
where he made his home. He
came to Washington two years
ago.
Mr.. Beaman was born in Nor
folk and was graduated from
Norfolk Academy and from
Washington and Lee University
in 1911. Afterwards he Joined
the National Bank of Commerce,
where his father, Nathaniel Bea-
man, was president.
Mr.. Beaman was overseas in
World War l., He was a captain
when he left the Army in 1919
and became cashier of the Nor
folk bank. He was made vice
president in 1926.
Mr.. Beaman was active in
civic, industrial, political and
religious activities in Norfolk. He
was a director of the Norfolk
Association of Commerce, the
Chesapeake Ferry Corp. Mer-
chants & Planters Bank and
the Norfolk Association of Com
merce. He was a member of the
National Credit Association,
Fifth Federal Reserve District;
the executive committee of the
Industrial Commission, Tax
Equalization Association; the
Hampton Roads Defense Coun-
Gil; Tax Commission of Virginia;
State Chamber of Commerce and
was former commander of the
Norfolk American Legion Post.
In 1941 he was appointed heu-
tenant colonel in the Virginia
State Guard and organized and
commanded the 1st Battalion.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Salome Slingluff Beaman, 5220
Edgewater drive, Norfolk; a
son, Navy 1t. Nathaniel Beaman
III, Raleigh, N. c.; a sister, Miss
Sallie Louis Beaman, Norfolk,
and a grandson.
Funeral services were to be
held today at Fort Myer Chapel
with burial in Arlington Gene
terry.
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shorthand department for Is
years.
She was an authority on the
Gregg shorthand system and one
of the first exponents of the
functional method of shorthand.
Mrs. Miller was known to thou
sands of secretaries here over
the past quarter century. She
also founded the Berkeley
(Calif0 School for Secretaries.
She was graduated from
Plattsburg Teachers College, in
Plattsburg, N. Y.
Mrs. Miller was born in Butte,
Mont. the daughter of Mrs.
Anna M. O'Neill and the late
Philip O'Neill of Burlington, VT.
In addition to her husband
and mother, Mrs. Miller is sur
vived by two sons. They are
Robert Whitley Miller, jr.. and
Richard Fielding Miller, both of
Washington. Others are a sis
ter. Mrs. 3. F. Agee, of Tampa,
Fla; two brothers, Terrence D.
O'Neill. of Burlington and Phil
ip NJ, jr., of Pearl Harbor, T. H.
There also are three grandchil-
dren.
Mass will be sung in St.
Michael's Church. 826 Wayne
avenue, Silver Spring, at $50
am. Thursday. Burial will fol-
low in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-02
George W. Balm, As,
Internal Revenue AGENT

George w. Balm, As, Internal
Revenue Bureau agent, died Fri
day in ASheville, N. c., where
he had been living the last IL
years.
Mr.. Balm was born in Cullman,
Ala. He lived in Washington
from 1929 to 1912 and was active
in affairs at the First Baptist
Church. He was a graduate of
Benjamin Franklin University
here.
A Mason, MI. Balm was Navy
veteran His wife died last year.
Survivors are a son, George
Richard Balm, ASheville; a sister,
Mrs. w. H. Kuhns, Washington;
two brothers, Ira Y. Balm, 4510
Harrison street NV, who re-
tired this year as head of the
personnel department of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, and Fuel
r. Balm, Cullman.
Funeral and burial services
were held Sunday in ASheville.
Evening star., 1953-06-02
Percy 4. Hall, Official
OF Drug Store Chain, Dies

Percy A. Hall, At, assistant
personnel director of Peoples
Drug Stores, died Sunday in
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda.
He lived at 1916 East-West high
way, Silver Spring.
Mr.. Hall had been with
Peoples Stores for IS years,
starting as a clerk in his home
town of York, Pa. Later he man.
aged a York drugstore, coming
to Washington as manager of
a group of Peoples Drug Stores.
He had been assistant personnel
director for about five years.
Mr.. Hall was a member of
Masonic Lodge No. 215 in Silver
Spring and of Woodside Method
ist Church.
Survivors are his widow, Char
lotte; his mother, Mrs. Emma M.
Hall, a sister, Mrs. Howard
Bower and a brother, Charles F.,
all of York.
Funeral services and burial
will be held tomorrow in York.
Evening star., 1953-06-02

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for full loads. Actual tests prove that Maytag
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every load.
Evening star., 1953-06-02
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Evening star., 1953-06-02
Herbert w. HuIIer Dies;
Formerly Aide of NuYy

Herbert w. Haller, 56, who re-
tired recently as head of the
mechanical section of the en-
gineering and architectural de-
sign division of the Navy Bureau
of Yards and Docks. died Sum-
day at his home in Herndon, Va.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at Fort Myer
Chapel. Burial will be in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-02

after a brief
illness.
Mrs. Miller
was the wife
of Ro b ert
Whitley Mil
ler, a retired
Army officer.
She became i'll
W h lie on a
leave of alb
sence from
the Washing
ton Schol of
S ecr e t aries.
where she had
h e a d e d the
Evening star., 1953-06-02
Margaret 0. Miller,
Shorthand Authority

Mrs. Margaret O'Neill Miller,
SO, of 8407 Sixteenth street, Sill
yer Spring, Md, died Sunday in
nearby Maryland hospital
Evening star., 1953-06-02

Three generations believe in Moytas.
Meet typical S-generation Maytag family from
Indiana Grandmother, Mrs. Neva Merritt of
Brownsburg; Mother, Mrs. Earl H. Merritt; and
Granddaughter Mrs Thomas Hadley. Grand.
mother is still using the Maytag she bought in
1923! Only from Maytag such dependabilty.
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fortunately, the observers dis
patched by the u. NJ, while
allowed to work freely in South
Korea. were forbidden at bay
onet point to cross the 38th
Parallel. A puppet government
handpicked by Moscow was
established at Pyongyang. A
strong extensively equipped
Korean army was organized by
the Russians around a hard
core of $4,000 Koreans who hao
sought haven in Siberia in
1910. This army was moved
against the South as soon as
its training had been accom-
plished.
The Kremlin apparently
miscalculated 1.-THE effect of
that aggression on the United
States. The U. N. at our prod
ding, interviewed and the
American forces under the
command of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur inflicted a devas-
tating defeat on the North
Koreans.
The Chinese were ordered by
Moscow to bail the Koreans
out. But the active participa-
ton of the Chinese Commu-
nistS in the war forced them to
abandon their plans to con-
quer Formosa. A new political
agreement to compensate for
that operation had to be
reached between Peiping and
Moscow. And this agreement
conceded Korea to the Peiping
administration. 1t is slated to
become another Chinese prov
ince.
1t has been clear for at least
the last two years that every
move of the So-called North
Korean government was made
on orders from Peiping. The
remnants of the North Korean
army as well as new draftees
became part and parcel of
the Chinese Red army. The
North Korean general staff
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Pope Plus on Peace, Moterio|ism
World Warned That Technology Alone Cannot Saw
1t; Spiritual Values Demand More Emphasis

lem of peace. We are thinking
particularly of those who judge
that the question of peace is
chronological, and consider the
life of individuals and of ma
tionS from a technico-economi-
cal standpoint.
1.-The materialistic idea of
life threatens to become the
rule of conduct of certain busy
peace agents. and the main
spring of their pacif1st policy.
They think that the secret of
the solution lies in bringing
material prosperity to all ma
tionS through constant in
crease in productivity and in
the standard of living. A hun
dred years ago, another SINH
lar formula aroused the abSo-
lutte confidence of statesmen;
with free trade, lasting peace"
The Pope went on to say
that no materialism was ever
an apt means to establish
peace" because peace is above
all an attitude of mind, and
only secondarily an harmoni-
Gus equilibrium of external
forces-so it is an error of prin-
ciple to entrust peace to a
modern materialiSm that cor
rupts the essence of man and
stiles his personal and spirit
ual life"
From the foregoing it could
be inferred that the Pope be-
lieves that peace can come
only by bringing the Soviet
peoples into an attitude of
mind that recognizes the dan
gers of the materialism to
which the present rulers in
Moscow are dedicated. 1t is a
challenging thought.
Just as this writer finished
reading a copy of the cabled
text of the Pope's message.
there came to hand a letter
from an officer on active duty
in the United States Air Force.
He wrote:
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Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson-
A Resolution for the New Year
Protection Urged for NonConormst Suffering at Hands
Of the Despotsm of the Herd and Tyranny of the Few

The changing of the cal
endar every IL months is ac-
companied by a sense of por-
tent. Logically, an adult should
regret the change, which re-
cords that he is a year older.
Yet we do not commiserate
each other with TOO bad" but
ring out the past with con-
siderable hoopla, and usher in
the new with hopeful antici-
patton.
At the new year we make
resolutions and express wishes.
Mine, this year, are less for
myself personally than for us,
for the community and the
civilization which governs our
fateS.
I wish our resolutions for
1854 would include this one:
Tc cease braggadocially to
measure our standards of be-
havior and achievement by
those of others, and to re-
examine ourselves.
We can truthfully say that
here. monolithic despotiSm has
never shaken its Medusa locks
to the terror of all the people.
But is that freedom something
of which to boast? Should one
boast of an inheritance?
And are there not in our So
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ciety many despotisms among
which we thread a somewhat
precarious way?
There is the despotism of
the multitude, of the popular,
ever-pressing to impose upon
all conformity to the prevail
ing opinion.
That opinion shifts and
changes, reacting to events and
to popular leaders as their
influence rises or wanes. 1t is
largely the opinion of emotion,
more easily aroused in these
days of multiple and universal
communication, by the written
word. the picture, the voice.
the face, and the mastery of
the science of craftsmanship.
1t is the despotism of the
herd, Unanswered by those who
best know its mass instincts.
But tyranny is no less
tyranny because it is many
headed, as this Republic was
warned in the infancy of it's
years by men who knew the
dangers as we'll as the poten-
tialities of popular democracy.
He who would cherish free
dom must protect the nom
conformiSt. He who would be
free must risk unpopularity.
There is also the despotism
of the few. who, by organized
political and economic power,
Cypress the many. These are
the oligarchieS. Once the chief
of these was plutocracy. But
ollgarchy has become democ-
ratified. Now we have despotic
oligarchies of labor, who for a
minor demand in a minor
dispute involve the comfort,
convenience, and even the lives
and fortunes of millions of
-non-combatants, while all the
institutions Of the state and
society stand helplessly by.
There are the deSpotic
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BidauIf Forecasts
Biq 4 Talks Jan. Is

PARIS, Dec. 30.-Foreign Min
lister Georges Bidault told the
French cabinet today that
France, the United States and
Great Britain will accept Rus
sia's suggestion that the Big
Four foreign ministers meet
January IS.
He also said that the note
to be sent to Moscow soon would
accept the proposal for a pre-
liminary meeting of the four
high commissioners in Germany
to discuss the exact place Of the
meeting.
Earlier today Mr.. Bidault re-
ported to the National Assembly's
Foreign Affairs Committee on
the Big Three's Bermuda con-
ference and on President Eisen-
hower's atomic proposals.
He told the committee that at
Bermuda British Prime Minister
Churchill had favored integra-
ton of a West German army into
the North Atlantic alliance. but
that he reminded Mr.. Churchill
France holds a veto on new men,
bers in NATO.
He reported also that Gen.
Eisenhower held the opinion that
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Fletcher knebei-
Potomac Fever

Republican Representative Curtis proposes give odage
pensions to million old people This economy
movedeSigned to about 200 Republican congressman
Democratic Senate Leader says Democrats will
embrace Eisenhower proposals that the country
enlightenng statement In fact the figure
out, the more ight-headed you get.
Ike orders defense unemployment
it killing people you'd won
der how the average could live
Film Car Eric Johnston defends the
censor is fellow who admits there many differences
between and thinks movies ought to
concentrate on the uninteresting ones.
Pravda Soviet workers production vic-
tories this The Soviet pleasantly
prisedhe blue ribbons than make
a dress of.
Daughters of Agriculture Secretary model cotton
clothes at fashion show One thing Bensons ob-at
least his family is enjoying it,
The Russians release two Americans
than two years The Reds getting tired holding
foreigners in jail when there's such waiting list
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las, the Democratic liberal
from Illinois. If good notices
in the Nations press were
cash, the Senator would have
no trouble, but they are not.
Even so, Senator Douglas
will run again; he has made
some friends and acquired
newspaper support that was
lacking last time. But he re-
lateS that last which was
also the first time he ran
the Douglases discovered on
the deadline for making print
ing contracts. getting assured
radio time and similar neces-
sites, they had not a red cent
in their campaign treasury.
BY mortgaging everything
they had, they got substantial
bank loans to tide them over
the crisis. Another $4,000
emergency at the end of the
campaign sent them to their
banker again. who fortunately
had a little rambling spirit
himself.
Senator Douglas says frankly
that had he lost he would have
been wiped out. He won-and
human nature being what it
is. the campaign contributions
began to come in. At Sc. this
rather amused him. At e.,
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"As a member of the United
States Air Force, I am very
proud to be a part OF the
strongest material force pre-
venting the Communists from
laying waste our country and
bringing to our homes the mis-
cry that encompasses such a
large percentage of the worlds
population today. However, I
fully realize that our physical
strength is nothing without a
firm moral and spiritual back
ing. and as a plain ordinary
American citizen, ! sometimes
feel quite Inundated at the
way our leaders in Washing
ton are SO afraid to stand up
for moral principles.
1--WE condemn the Soviets
for what they did to Latvia,
Lithuania, and Estonia, but
with tongue in cheek we write
them off as being unfortunates
who happened to live too close
to the Soviet Union.
I'VE condemn the Chinese
Communists and North Ko-
rean Communists for their
brutal massacres of thousands
OF United Nations personnel,
but we do nothing to balance
the scales of justice. I wonder
how proud Capt. Harold Fis-
cher and the other 90O-odd
Americans are of their coun-
trymen who are either too
afraid or too unconcerned over
their dependable lives to act
in the American tradition and
fight for their freedom. Indeed,
we now are starting to get
conditioner to accepting the
Chinese Communists into the
United Nations.
II hope enough of our lead
ers in Washington will realize
what our present soft-pedaling
of principle is doing to our flu
ture generations to do some
thing to correct this unfor-
tunate and tragic situation"
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Doris FIeeson-
Doris Fheeson-
The High Cost Of Public Service
Is Getting Steadily More Difficult to Pay Expenses
For Campaigning From Salaries Congress Pays

Now is the time for all good
men to come to the practical
aid of those members of Con-
gress whom they desire to see
elected next year.
1t is at this season when
they are being most often ad-
jured to forget all about par
tisanship and special interests
that many members must make
hazardous decisions about their
future in politics. The pri-
marles are coming up. print
Ing and other campaign neces-
stiles must be contracted for
now and the prospect lies be-
fore the campaigner of much
extra travel and entertain
ment.
At least two widely respected
Senators up next fall are talk
ing Of giving up the unequal
struggle to be both good SEN
ator and an after hours money
raiser. They will probably be
persuaded in the end to carry
on but the gamble they are
taking must necessarily still
color their thoughts.
One nationally known figure
who doesn't mind admitting
that he CANDLES not with Sc
curity but plain solvency when
he runs is Senator Paul Doug
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the State adopted in 1890 a
constitutional amendment re-
quiring equal and separate ia
cilities for Negro children,
which is just now, nearly 81
years later, being supplemented.
For taking the initiative
now credit is due to Gov.
White. About two years ago
he urged a study of the prob
lem of equalizing Negro schools
and a joint legislative commit
tee made an inquiry. On the
basis of that the Legislature
worked out it's program.
1t will call for a budget of
about $50 million a year which
will go to provide new build
ingS and increased pay for
teachers. both whites and Ne
groes. In it's session after the
holidays the Legislature is ex-
pected to levy new taxes to
help pay part of the cost of
equalizing the Negro schools.
While the equalizing move
represents. in effect, a promise.
there is another move in the
Legislature that constitutes a
threat.
This should pave the way
for a constitutional amend
ment similar to those made
ready in South Carolina and
Georgia which would abolish
public schools" as such if the
Supreme Court upholds segre-
cation and seek to get around
the decision by making them
private schools" though still
financed by grants from the
State.
This is an indication of how
far some Southern political
leaders are prepared to go.
While the Supreme Court is,
theoretically, an ivory tower
sort of body. yet it has in the
past proved itself conscious of
the probabilities and of the
possible effects of this or that
finding affecting customs and
measures. The Southern States
and their lawyers have been
working on the side of that
practical" ear.
How earnestly the court is
trying to find an answer in
this most difficult case of
many. many years is demon
strated by the numerous ques-
tionS from the bench during
the recent reargument of the
segregation cases, which the
court itself had requested in
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David lawrence

Or all the statements,
speeches and declarations that
have come from the statesmen
of the world in the last few
days apropos the holiday
season, none contains a more
poignant message than that
conveyed by Pope Plus XII on
Christmas eve. It's full text
has just been cabled and made
available here by the National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
AS is customary, his holiness
speaks in phrases general and
implicit, but the meaning
sometimes has a direct bearing
on pending governmental poll
cies in various countries as
they relate to world peace.
The Pope condemned the
archaeological spirit" of the
age and decried the material
ism that has swept the world
as a sort of substitute for
spiritual feeling. He said that
present criticisms are not to be
understood as condemnation of
chronological progress in itself,
because the church loves and
favors human progress" He
added:
Nevertheless, it can hardly
be denied that this technology
which in our century has
reached the height of its splen-
dor and fruitfulness is, through
certain circumstances. changed
into a grave spiritual danger.
For it seems to give modern
man. PROSTATE at it's altar, a
sense of Self-suff1ciency and
satisfaction of his boundless
thirst for knowledge and
power.
Our grave fears for Europe
are stirred by the repeated dis
appointments which the sim
cere desire for peace and a re-
Taxation of tension cherished
by these nations has for years
met with; this is also due to a
material approach to the prob