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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1953-04-16
ACCIDENT

The American Legion Auxiliary,
No. POS, entertained the ladies
from auxiliary units in Allegany
and Garrett counties on Sunday
afternoon, April -, in the fire hall.
A short business session was held
with Mrs. James Duvall. Frostburg,
presiding. a luncheon followed in
the dining room. Local ladies at
tending were Mesdames Smith
Friend, Edwin Georg, Ernest
Glass, Earl Alexander, A bert
Smith, William f. Carlson, Erwin
Georg, John Shoemaker Claude
Friend, Thomas Custer, William
Harmon. Paul kahl, Lloyd Alex
ander, Harry Nitcz, Misses Rose
Smith and Kathryn Speicher. A
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1953-04-16
SWALLOW FALLS

Those visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Lo-
rem Wotring and daughter. Nancy,
~" Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wotring, of Washington. D. c..
and Mrs. Marguerite Shirley and
Cpl. Robert Shirley and Johnny and
Jean Shirley, of Cresaptown.
Thomas Lewis, who is serving
in the L. S. Navy, is spending a
short furlough with his parents.
Mr., and Mrs. Henry Lewis and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fike and
children were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Sines and family on
Sunday.
Mrs. Ray Maybe and baby, Of
Baltimore, are visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Maybe
this week.
Sandra Skipper, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Weaver Skipper, is con
fined to he, home with the measles.
Joe Whittacre spent the week
end in Baltimore with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Orvi!le Friend.
Eugene Sines, who is serving in
the L. S. air force, has spent the
past few weeks at his home. He is
the son of Perry Sines.
Those visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Whittacre on Sunday were Mr.. and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1953-04-16

teachers in Baltimore ON Saturday.
Merle A. Garlctts and Chancey
Friend Of the Northern High school
faculty attended an open house for
teachers Of industrial arts in Col
lege Park on Friday They were
accompanied by John Dunn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Alexander
and family were recent guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Welch at Gort-
neF.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1953-04-16

work in the district in the past
year.
Dr.. w. S. Patterson, Methodist
minister here, was indicted into
the group by Lewis r. Jones. He
made the 73rd member Of the or
ganizatiun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1953-04-16

Leonard w. Hall, of New York,
ia elected chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1953-04-16

Mrs. Dan Sines, of Cumberland,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Bowman,
Of Underwood.
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Constantine Brown:

In accusing certain "ele-
iments" in the United States
of wanting war on the Commu-
mist regime in China and on
world communism in general,
former Prime Minister Glenn
ent Attlee, the titular head OF
the Labor Party, has shown
Britain's hand more clearly
than did Prime Minister VIM
ston Churchill.
Nobody in Washington was
able to say whether these two
successive speeches might Gre
ate a serious gulf between this
country and orr British
friends.
But in any event, the enemy
knows now where our allies
will stand on issues at the
peace conference which will
follow an armistice in Korea.
The British Prime Minister
and his predecessor are in full
agreement in wanting Commu-
mist China in the United Ma
tionS.
Mr.. Atlee'S utterances caused
even more distress in respon-
sible official quarters in WASH
ington than those of Sir Win
ston. A Senator, who asked
that his name be withheld,
said: "The British leaders
want us to take raw castor oil.
We shall have to hold our
noses while emptying the
bottle"
Prime Minister Churchill is
still the outstanding states
man of our generation. He is
valiant ally in wartime when
the destinies Of his country
are in jeopardy. But he serves
the crown and the empire
with such fanaticism when
Britain is not directly involved
in major military struggles
that he does not mind which
of his dearest friends he may
hurt.
And at the present moment,
Churchill and the vast ma
jority of his countrymen con-
slider the worldwide conflict
created by Moscow as hurting
only Britain's economic inter-
ests. If this could be remedied
even by a phantom peace"
with the U.S.S.R., he is will
ing to chance it in the hope of
restoring at least some of the
past luster to his country's
economic power.
At the same time, Sir VIM
Evening star., 1953-05-13

viousness to beauty, In an age
where everything is scien-
tifically "dissected" from q
flower to a butterfly's wing.
and where art has become so
anarchistic and so distracted
from nature as to represent
and communicate nothing to
any one but the artist himself.
It is due to universal dis
illusion with two world wars.
and the apprehension Of a third.
with little confidence In any
country. in the wisdom or sa-
gacity of leadership.
1t is due to the confusions
which so totally blur the mean
ing of words that war is called
peace" propaganda" and
education" and crushing tax
alton social progress"
If the world is insane, as
many people consciously or un-
consciously believe; if what is
right today proves wrong to-
morrow, and vice versa; If with
all material benefits, there ap-
pears to be mo foundation all
down the line; if the indi-
vidual increasingly counts for
nothing except in his social"
aspects - then despair takes
over. and despair is the parent
of mental arrangement. One
last straw" and the mind
cracks-even the mind Of q
student of psychology.
Evening star., 1953-05-13

friends in Congress. The howl
already is going up. A real
fight is due in Congress to
increase the Air Forces share
of the overall $43 billion
budget for the Defense De-
partment when the appropria-
ton bill gets to the floors of
each house. Instead of the 143
groups projected for the Air
Force, the appropriations pro-
posed would permit only ITO.
Democrats are likely to make
a party issue over the proposed
slash in defense appropria-
tions. Both Democratic floor
leaders, Representative Sam
Rayburn in the House and
Senator Lyndon Johnson, both
from Texas, feel that the cuts
might endanger security.
Secretary Humphrey now
comedies that the budget
cannot be balanced in the
next fiscal year, beginning
July /, which sets off the time
of tax reduction. Uneasy is
the job Of a man Of his stripe
who is earnest about his
party'S mandate and it's duty,
as he sees them. Anyhow.
there is compliment, as well
as ribbing. in the nickname
he has acquired - lizard
Money"
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Van Fleet Enthusiastic
On Eisenhower Choices

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 (P).
President Eisenhower's re-
shuttle of the Defense Depart
ment high command won the
enthusiastic approval of visiting
Gen. James A. Van Fleet here
yesterday.
Wonderful news" declared
the former 9th Army commander
in Korea.
Concerning the selection of
Admiral Arthur w. Radford as
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and Gen. Matthew Ridg-
way as Army chief of staff,
Gen. Van Fleet said:
II think both officers are
eminently> qualified to carry out
their assignments.
1.-THE selection of 1t. Gen.
Alfred Gruenther (as supreme
commander of NATO forces in
Europe) is the finest choice that
could have been made"
Gen. Van Fleet is in San
Francisco en- route to an Alaskan
hunting expedition.
Evening star., 1953-05-13

ston is unwilling to yield on
any matters concerning his
country's colonial power. The
statement made several years
ago that he had not become
his majesty's Prime Minister
to preside over the liquidation
of the empire still holds good.
At the very moment when
Secretary of State John Fos-
ter Dulles was discussing with
Egyptian Premier Naguib ways
and means of settling the Z
year-old British Egyptian dis
pute, Sir Winston warned the
Egyptians that British troops
would defend themselves" If
anybody attempted to force
them from the Suez Canal
Zone.
Sir Winston's statement is
reported to have seriously
cramped Mr.. Dulles efforts to
find a satisfactory solution to
q situation which might cause
violent explosions in the Mid
die East.
Sir Winston knows the val
ue Of strength. He realizes
that regardless of how much
Premier Naguib may thunder
that he will expel the British
troops by force, the weak and
poorly equipped Egyptian army
will have a hard time forcing
out a British army 10000
strong backed by a modern air
force and a strong navy.
The British Premier made a
strong bid for a conference Of
top leaders of America, Brit
ain, the U.S.S.R., and possibly
France. He loves these direct
heart-to-heart talks with lead
ing world figures. The memory
of such talks with President
Roosevelt and Premier Stain
is still vivid in his mind.
It is true that Churchill
burned his fingers at Te-
heran and Yalta where the
Red dictator superseded him
in the esteem of President
Roosevelt. But Stain is
dead and the British Prime
Minister does not believe that
pudgy Malenkov would cut
much of a figure with Presi-
dent Eisenhower. Moreover.
Sir winston wants a partial
settlement of the present world
disputes. He has only an
academic interest in the for
mer free European nations
which are now behind the Iron
Curtain against their will and
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Thon1os L. Stokes:
The Cabinets |Mr. Republican,
Hard Money Humphrey Encounters Some Opposition
In Trying to Make Good 6. O. P. Campaign Pledges

When George M. Humphreys
selection as Secretary Of Treas
ury was announced by Gen.
Eisenhower several weeks be-
fore the Inauguration, it was
revealed by Senator Taft Of
Ohio that he had not been
consulted about this appoint
ment, though Mr.. Humphrey, a
Cleveland induStrialist and
flnancier of many and diverse
interests, was from the Sen
ator's home State.
But the Senator. said that
he approved the choice.
Developments in the EiSen-
hover administration show
why.
For, If the Ohio Senator is
"Mr. Republican" in Congress
at the Capitol. George Hum
phrey is Mr.. Republican" in
the executive branch.
In short, the Treasury head
took the Republican land
slide to mean just what Sena-
tor Taft and his wing of the
G. o. P. took it to mean-a
return to orthodox principles
of finance, a reduction Of Gov
ernment spending, a balance Of
the budget as soon as possible.
and then tax reduction-an
aimed to curb imitation and
bring down the cost of living.
George Humphreys inten-
tions become very important
because he probably has more
influence with President EiSen-
hover than any one else in the
administration. The President,
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Ike Radford chairman OF the Joint Chiefs
of Staff his element at the Pentagon All his
life he's been deep water man.
Former President addresses the Missouri legislature
reawakenng is causing rumble throughout
the thousands of start Logging for the
Canadian border.
British Leader Clement Atee charges that Ike
can't along majority of the Congress- Atee does
much better-s majority all England that he can't get
along with.
Treasury Secretary Humphrey Federal income and
outgo next The heck with this
courtshp stuff Mr. Secretary-When do they get htched?
President Eisenhower names Gen ldgway as cnef OF a
of the Army Rdgway soldiers solderand judging
by him. he's also the head soldiers soldier
Former Gov Hdreth of Maine he won't run cocktail!
parties as Ambassador to Pakstan You don't run cocktail
party Ambassador throw -and trust 10 luck you nt
more enemies than friends.
~
Senate Democrats the Hawaiian statehood
bill This operation igloodedcated to making
the 49h State in time to welcome the next glacier
Evening star., 1953-05-13

pay billions for economic
aid" besides.
The Attlee speech is an
eye-opener. Prime Minister
Churchill disappointed his
many American admirers by
agreeing that Red China is to
be rewarded for her aggression
by admission to the U. N.
So far as a conference be-
tween Malenkov, Churchill and
Eisenhower is concerned, the
speeches in the House of Com
mons would seem to cast the
die. There is no reason now for
President Eisenhower to go to
meet Malenkov. Mr.. Attlee says
he distrusts the American
Constitution. He insults the
United States Senate by say
ing, as he did in his speech.
that our Constitution is OBJ
solete and that the Senate
should have no right to ap-
prove or disapprove Of COM
mitments that Mr.. Eisenhower
might make in a three-power
conference.
The best way to handle the
problem now is for Mr..
Churchill alone to 60 to Mos
cow. hat in hand, and beg for
peace. Whatever agreement he
makes can then be examined
and the President can decide.
after consulting the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
whether any of the provisions
Of the proposed settlement are
acceptable.
II Messrs. Churchill and Att
lee want American boys to
fight again for the so-called
cause of collective security,
the surrender to Soviet Russia
they may arrange now will
hardly stand them in good
stead in the future. It's the
road to isolationism which
Europe has long dreaded but
which her leaders, by their
misguided counsel, now are
opening up.
AS for the mischievous query
Mr.. Attlee raises, with such
bad taste, asking whether
Senator Mccarthy or President
Eisenhower rules in America,
the answer is a simple one.
Both are against communism
and Communist aggression.
The American people rule, and
they said plainly in the last
election they did not want a
surrender either to Soviet
Russia or Communist China.
Reproduction Rishts Reserved).
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Dorothy Thompson:
Why Do Americans Go Crazy?
Education Lacks Moral and intellectual Discipline;
We've Lost SIGHT of Beauty, and Then There's TV

better, we think, concentrate
on what, in our society, is
driving people nuts.
It is not normal economic
insecurity, in a time when the
help wanted columns outnum-
ber situations wanted. 10 to /.
1t is not brooding isolation on
remote farms. in a day when
the poorest farmer has a car.
Broken marriages have caused
suicides and homicides in the
past, and seductions have
caused infanticides, but not
mass killings of all ones
children.
Too many people are sick Of
living. We think it is due.
first, to our current education
which lacks both moral and
intellectual discipline. The
child believes himself the CEN
ter of the universe and re-
ceiveS a rude shock when, in
real life, he finds he is not.
1t is due to the constant
stimulation of desires for un-
necessary material things, be-
yond the capacity of most
people to achieve them, so
that ones income never
catches up with ones desires,
and is perpetually mortgaged.
1t is due to the violence that
pours out of TV sets even in
the children's hours.
It is due to growing imper-
Evening star., 1953-05-13

Mental Health Week." ini-
tiated on May 3, seems to have
come and gone without focus
ing public attention on more
than the initial announce
ment. I suppose it is rather
difficult to conduct a weeks
campaign to tell Americans
how many of them are off their
heads, and what the rest Of
the population ought to do
about it.
At any rate, Mental Health
Week, which apparently
petered out, began by an
nouncing that 100000 people,
half of all the patients in hos
pitfalls, are mental cases; that
one-third of the Nations med
ical expenditures are for such
patients, and that they equal
half the cost of operating the
public schools. The call was
to increase appropriations for
psychiatric research and per-
sonnel and for finding new
ways of prevention and treat
ment.
That is all very well, but we
may be permitted to doubt
whether the formidable in
crease in mental illness is due
to a shortage of psychiatrists.
In recent weeks, a lady who
was preparing herself to be-
come a psychologist killed her
four young children and at
tempted to kill herself with
carbon-monoxide gas; a %
year-old Long Island mother
gaSsed herself and three chill
dren to death in the kitchen
oven; a Massachusetts, boiler
maker killed seven members Of
his family because every one
is against me-; a 13-year-old,
forbidden to go to a neighbor'S
house to watch TV, shot his
aunt and younger Sister-and
went to see TV; and a father
killed his wife and daughter
because the latter had bobbed
her hair-to mention only q
very few cases.
These people weren't In
mental hospitals and appar-
emily nobody even suspected
they were maniacal. So, If re-
search is to be done, it had
Evening star., 1953-05-13

himself no expert on finance,
is willing to let George do it
and George is able and willing
to do it. The new Secretary'S
ability was recognized around
here from the very outset. Now
his influence with the PreSi-
dent has come to be recog-
nized, too.
Consequently, he has become
a target. For the time being he
has succeeded Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
as the chief whipping boy of
the administration. You may
recall that Secretary Benson
hardly was permitted to take
his seat before he began to be
hazed about his farm policies.
On Capitol Hill they are be-
ginning to call the Secretary
Of the Treasury, Hard Money
Humphrey"
Nor Is this altogether be-
cause of the melting episode
the hard money" policy he in
stituted when he increased the
interest rate on a 30-year bill
1ion-dollar Treasury loan to
3A per cent from the 21a per
cent figure paid by the Treas
ury for the last 20 years. That
reacted, as designed. to raise
interest rates all up and down
and across the board-on vet
eranS' home loans, farm loans.
business loans. The complaints
precipitated the Senate debate
over tight money" in which
Senator Sparkman, Democrat.
of Alabama, 1852 Democratic
vice presidential candidate,
Evening star., 1953-05-13

figured most prominently. Over
the week end 20 Democrats in
the House and Senate. deplor-
ing the depressing effect the
interest rate increase has had
on prices of long-term Govern
ment bonds outstanding, joined
in sponsoring q resolution to
ask the Federal Reserve Board
to 60 into the open market and
support the price of bonds and
bring them back to par.
Aside from this "hard
money" incident, Secretary
Humphrey has become identi-
fled generally as the hard man
with a dollar" in the Eisen-
hover entourage.
For instance. it Is he, rath-
er than Secretary Of Defense
Wilson, who Is being credited
with chief influence in Presi-
dent Eisenhower's recent de-
cision to shave some $2.4 bill
lion OF the Defense Depart
ment budget proposed by
President Truman before he
left Office. New appropriations
to be asked by the administra-
ton will actually be IS billion
less. as there are unexpended
balances already appropriated
to be spent this year.
The Air Force will bear the
brunt Of the cuts. as its re-
queSted appropriation will be
SILT billion as compared with
$16.7 billion proposed In the
final Truman budget. or IS
billion less.
The Air Force has many
Evening star., 1953-05-13
A New Boost for |so|otionisnn
Clement AttIees Speech Will Do Much to Revive the Spirit
In This Country of America First and Iniure u. NJ
Dovid Lawrence.

Clement Attlee, leader of the
British Labor Party. did more
in one speech in the British
Parliament to start a revival
of isolationism in America
than any speaker in America
has done in three decades.
For Mr.. Attlee recommended
and Prime Minister Church.
Ill agreed with him-that just
as soon as an armistice is
signed in Korea, the Com
munist regime in China which
is responsible for the greater
part of the $4,000 American
casualties should be rewarded
by a seat in the Security Coun-
Gil of the United Nations.
Mr.. Attlee made some naive
comments, declaring that he
didn't think the Communist
Chinese were puppets of Rus
sia. He said this in the face Of
a speech a few weeks ago by
Soviet Envoy Vishinsky, who
admitted that Moscow has
been supplying arms and
munitions to the Communist
Chinese armies throughout the
Korean war.
The American people here
tofore have been asked to be-
heve that 1t was for the prin-
ciple Of collective security
their boys were sent to Korea.
They believed this when the
Truman Acheson administra-
tion said so. But now it turns
out that American lives were
sacrificed in Korea not to
punish but to reward the ag-
gressor.
The United Nations, by for
NAL resolution, declared Com
munist China an aggressor.
The U. N. command in Korea
has fought against the Com
munist forces since June, 1850.
More than 95 per cent of the
foreign troops have been sup
piled by the United States.
Great Britain has insisted on
sending strategic materials to
Soviet Russia during the Ko-
rean war and American troops
have been left holding the bag.
When an armistice comes in
Korea-if indeed Moscow really
wants one-the American peo-
pie will have to decide whether
they want to remain in a
United Nations organization
which welcomes to its bosom
a government that has been
guilty of aggression and of un-
speakable atrocities in the
Evening star., 1953-05-13

treatment of prisoners Of war.
On this issue opinion will
divide, of course, but the isola-
zionist doctrine of the 1920s
will become logical to many
voters, who will begin to say
that it is time to withdraw all
troops from Europe as well.
For if the government Of Great
Britain is ready to reward the
Reds for aggression in Asia,
maybe the time has come to
withdraw all American troops
from Europe and let the Brit
ish trust Russia not to attack
in Europe either.
For there is no question
about the isolationism OF
Great Britain today. The
British are interested in trade
with the Communists because
that trade will benefit Britain.
Evidently 1t matters little TO
them that such trade has sent
materials to help kill Ameri-
can boys. Britain's doctrine
evidently is Britain first" It
would be only natural now for
Americans to revive the cry of
America first" This would
be a deplorable development,
because a policy of interna-
tional cooperation is the best
way to maintain the strength
Of the free world. But the
British attitude, in wishing to
welcome to their arms the
aggressorS in the Far East
just as soon as the truce is
signed, will shock Americans
and will make them feel that
the game isn't on the level
after all-that it is every coun-
try for itself now, with Britain
taking the lead in that kind Of
self1shnesS.
A political issue Of far
reaching Importance can be
developed out of a demand
that American boys be brought
back at once from Great Brit
ain and all European coun-
tries. Certainly a United States
Navy and Air Force and Army
of present strength is ade-
.quate for the defense of this
country. But it will never be
adequate to defend British
interests in Europe or Asia
or the interests of all other
countries which render lip
service to collective security
and expect Uncle Sam not
only to maintain a draft of
$4,000 to $4,000 boys a month
to go to distant lands but to
Evening star., 1953-05-13
Red tension No Less,
Ridgway Asserts
As Departure Nears
By the Assoeiofed Press

PARIS. May 13.-Gen. Mat
thew Ridgway, newly appointed
United States Army Chief OF
Staff, declared today that from
a soldiers viewpoint there is no
information known to me that
indicates a lesSening OF the
threat" from Russia.
The retiring NATO COM
mander in Europe, speaking at
a news conference at his head
quarters outside Paris, empha-
sized that he was referring to
capabilities, not intentions"
Later, in response to a ques-
tion, he added: 1T have heard
of no indications Of imminent
hostilities."
Gen .Ridgway was accompa-
MED by Gen. Alfred M. Gruen-
ther, who is to succeed him as
the NATO commander. Gen.
Gruenther indicated he was
completely in accord with Gen.
RidgWay'S viewpoints.
Ridgway Leaves Saturday.
Gen. Ridgway leaves Saturday
for the United States to TESTIFY
before Congress in support OF
continued appropriations for for
eign defense aid. He will return
here for a farewell tour OF the IA
NATO nations. The term OF the
present Army chief, Gen. j. Law
ton Collins, ends on August l6.
Gen. Ridgway said he had been
greatly honored by his selection.
mo greater honor could come
tot an American soldier and no
greater privilege could come for
serving" he went on. He said
there was mo change in our
common and fundamental pur-
pose of achieving the peace and
preserving freedom"
Gen. Gruenther said he was
"still floating on the Clouds" be-
cause of his nomination to the