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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Gambling With Security

Beneath the hopeful words Of President
Eisenhower's budget-reduction statement there
turks an unanswered question-how big a
gamble is being taken with the national
security?
The answer will not be found in anything
the President said. On the contrary, there is
a plain indication that General Eisenhower
himself does not know the answer.
r The President said he will ask Congress for
about S1a billion dollars less in new>money than
was called for in the Truman budget of last
January. Because ' of commitments already
made, congressional sources estimated that the
actual reduction in spending during the next
fiscal year will be about "A billion. No break
down of the 88 billion was given by the
President. The indications are, however, that
the reduction will come from cutting the
Pentagon budget by 5 billion, foreign aid
spending by 18 billion, with the rest being
trimmed from atomic projects and general
expenses.
What will be the effect on the security of
the country? The President said emphatically
that there will be more arms build-up in 1854
than would have been the case under the
abandoned Truman program. But he did not
say what will happen after 1854. AS a matter
of fact, he stated that he did not know what
the long-term effect of the new program will be.
This Is anything but reassuring. For 1t
there is to be another world war it will not
necessarily come in 1854. That has been sug
gested as the date when the Russians will be
ready to deliver full-scale atomic attack
against the United States. But they may decide
to launch their attack two, three or five years
hence. In view of this, it is hardly comforting
to learn that the President does not know what
effect the budget cuts will have on our defense
status in, say, 1858.
We do know that the Russian rearmament
program is ahead of our own. They started
sooner and, according to the best available
information, their rate of production Is greater
than ours. If we cut back and the Russians
continue their effort, the gap in relative strength
will be increased instead of diminished.
This, to repeat, is not a reassuring prospect.
If it were not for the confidence reposed in
General Eisenhower, confidence based on his
undoubted awareness of the dangers of mill
tary unreadiness, it would be an utterly dis
maying prospect. Even with this confidence
in the President, however, the decision to cut
back defense spending must be viewed with
misgiving. If the Russians are not going to
attack, well and good. If they should attack,
however, this new program almest certainly
means that we, will have less security on the
day of the fateful test Of ability to survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Psychology of Confidence

Secretary of Commerce Weeks has echoed
in convincing fashion the confident words
spoken a week earlier by Secretary Of the Treas
ury Humphrey on the fundamental strength Of
the American economy.
Mr. Weeks, addressing the United States
Chamber of Commerce, has offered some sound
assurances. Treating, as did his cabinet col
league, with the strange psychology that peace
would do serious injury to the national economic
well-being the Secretary described himself as
out of patience with the idea that I'VE have to
have war or it's counterpart of preparedness on
the scale of garrison state" in order to have
business prosperity. 1t is indeed a defeatiSt
theory that ignores the fact that the very
economic strength which has enabled the
United States to withstand two great wars and
their costly after-effectS' has been built up and
nourished during periods Of peace
AS clearly as words permit, the Secretary
likewise repeated the assurance of other adj
mir1istration spokesman that the country will
not again allow its defense establishment to
wither under the blight of false feelings of
security. Experience prompts u.s." he said,
"to keep our fingers crossed and our powder
dry. &. This duty in itself precludes sudden
nose dive in defense production"
But it was outside the context of war
economy that Mr.. Weeks offered further
promise of economic responsibility. 1.-THE ad-
ministration will not sit twirling its thumbs, +"
he said, "if at some far-off date it should be
confronted by stable economic emergency"
The power of the Federal Government to inter-
vene in an economic emergency, and the effect
which such intervention can have, was demon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01

strated In the depression Of the early 1905
Many Of the economic cushions" which were
tested then have become permanent parts Of
the governmental system and there has been
no indication that the new Republican adj
ninistration intends to destroy them.
No national economy holds to a con-
stantly rising path. Both Mr.. Weeks and Mr..
Humphrey have acknowledged the prospect Of
variations up and down, and the necessity for
adjustments in both private and public enter
prise to meet these variations. 1t is realistic
viewpoint which should relieve some Of the
fearful among the economic prophets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Good Faith, Too. Is Involved

The reasons given by Civil Service Com
mission Chairman Philip Young for repeal Of
the Thomas leave rider are sound and persuasive
as they stand He told Congress that Federal
employees should be permitted to accumulate
annual leave from year to year because Q
such leave serves as partial substitute for
unemployment insurance; (2) it enables over
loaded offices to defer vacations without penal
izng employees by depriving them of unused
leave, and, 60 it permits adjustment of the
length Of vacations to suit the convenience
both of the Government and Of the workers.
But there is still another reason why Congress
should abolish the ban on leave accumulation
one that involves the good faith of Congress
The question of good faith arises because
of promise which Congress made several years
ago when it sharply curtailed leave privileges
of Government employees At that time as
though in apology for reducing the vacation
period, civil servants were given to understand
that they would be permitted to continue the
accumulation Of leave, up to- certain established
limits. The Civil Service Committees had
agreed that this policy of carrying unused leave
over from one year to another was in the public
interest, since Federal workers had no sever
ance-pay rights like those prevailing in private
industry.
But, without consulting the Civil Service
Committees, and despite the implicit pledge to
the employees Congress tackled rider on appro
priation bills requiring civil servants to use
leave due them within a fiscal year or else lose
it completely. The Eisenhower administration
has notified the House Civil Service Committee
that it believes the rider should be repealed
Gin the interests of efficient management and
equitable personnel practice" Congress should
grant the request for those reasons as well as
to fulfill its neglected promise to Federal
employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Letters to The Star .

in serving the great mass of motor
vehicular traffic which must move past
the famed Bladensburg Peace Cross.
There is little or no justification for
an expensive engineering program of
pumping silt and sand out of that
branch of the Anacostia River, for that
area feels the effects of the Potomac
Rivers tides and, indirectly, those of
the Chesapeake Bay.
It appears that certain property
values must be written off or houses
moved under their own power" rather
than have millions upon millions of
hours of valuable time lost to the car
owners of the Nation in times of peace
or God forbidD war.
Walter whitley Hubbard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

turn postage or oy telephonlng SternnR o-IooS.
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Would money received as a we'd
ding gift be included in taxable in
come?-A. S.
A. The Bureau Of Internal Revenue
says that money received as a wedding
gift is not taxable for income tax pur-
poses, nor has a tax ever been imposed
on wedding gifts to the recipient.
@. Were theater tickets for Jenny
Lind concerts ever sold by auction?-
E. E.
A. The tickets for her concerts in
the United States were generally sold
at auction the highest price paid for
one ticket sold in Providence. r. l.. was
$3.50.
@. Which countries besides the United
States use Christmas seals?-M. E. r.
A. In 1852 Christmas seals were
issued in England, Finland, and the
Union of South Africa. also in
Schleswig.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
-AP wirephoto.

Of Soviet ideals. The official COM
munique did not mention this, but
Stain might not have cared for the
opening lines:
"Arise, you priS'ners of starvation
Arise, you tDretched of the EARTH"
And he might not have liked the
sentiment expressed in the next stanza
either:
Eve lDant no condeScending sauiours-
To rule US from judgment hall"
Whichever the case, Stains name
was set to music. Every possible
method and opportunity has been
utilized to familiarize the peoples Of
all nations with the melody and text.
May Day is considered just another
opportunity. It is unlikely that an
other bar will be added to Country
Garden" for Maypole. dancers through
out the democratic world, but it is prob
able that another verse will be added
to the Hymn Of the Soviet Union" for
the Malenkov legend builders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Arthur ]. Moore.
Slow Drivers

There was a little article in The Star
April % about a 58-year- motoriSt
from New York being arrested in Vir-
ginia for driving carefully. He wanted
to drive slowly on Shirley Highway
and that is the safe way for elderly
people to drive.
If every superhighway had parallel
road for drivers who do not like the
suicide pace, and prefer to drive less
than 40 or so miles per hour, then the
persons who prefer to see the country
from their car windows. could take
the slow road and drive in peace. But
when there is but one throughway, all
ages of DRYERS should be respected.
Modern highways do not belong exclu-
sively to the young.
V. ID. L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Give Congress Bod Time


There was a gallant Congressman,
whose name was E. z. Doc, and when
he undertook task he'd die-or see it
through. AS you well know, in Wash
ington when April'S in her prime, there
comes the annual festival of Daylight
Savings Time Then Congressman, for
days and weeks, laugh off their foes
derision, and in their sweet, forgetful
bliss they feast on indecision. Now Doc
did all that he could do to keep his
record straight. To give his clients
DIST he fought both men and fate.
But tempus fugit. Years swept by,
still E. z. kept on trying, until at length
his hoary head prepared itself for dying.
Then finally the festival came to an
end one day; the jewellers on Capitol
Hill had grown too old to play. The
bill was passed; old E. z. Doc could rest
In peaceful slumber; the victory was his
at last, and honorS without number.
=. It was an empty victory. for ere
another morn, there was no need of
DST-Old Gabriel blew his horn!
Rev. C. L. Stillwell.
The annual controversy over Day.
light Saving Time for the District has
again demonstrated the petty thinking
that is typical of the infantile minds
Of the men we SO ridiculously refer to
as Representatives and Senators.
When a question with so obvious an
answer is allowed to occupy men sup
poSedly elected to legislate in a dignified
manner for the good Of our country for
weeks, before they belatedly reach a
decision in accord with other metropol-
itan areas all over the country, it must
become apparent to even the most po-
litically blind that these men are not
capable Of doing the job with which
they have been entrusted.
Arthur ]. Moore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01

'Pen-nGn1eS may be used If letters carry
1OriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-01
Questions and Answers

The Stars readers can get the answer to any
question Of fact by either writing The Evening
Star Information Bureau, 1900 street NV,
WASHINGTON 3, D. c., and inclosing 3 cents re-
turn postage. or BY telephoning Sterling 3-7363
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-10-16

Each time you giOe something In the Name of Our
Lord, you wash your hands of some of your sins.
Each time you sacrifice something in the Name of
Our Cuohed Lord, you te4r your hands with
love, as He kept His scars after the Cncihxion.
On October 18TH you are invited to become
''partaker in the suffering of Chris" throughout
the world by making sacrifice for the more than
1,1o0,00o,oO0 pagans throughout the world
If all these pagans walked in single file. one
each second, day and night, it would take them
thiry-one years to pass your front door!
But the collection box for the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith will take only second
to pass before you If you miss that please do not
miss the grace that comes from aiding the
Society for the Propagation of the Faith which
the Holy Father said is the charity that SUI.
passes all other charities as heaven surpasses
earth, and eternity, time"
Mail your sacrifice to your Diocesan Director.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-10-16

Why does Carmelite Sister keep only a
cross in her cell and not crucihx?
Because she offers herself for re-cruci-
hxion after the example of the Master.
''If we suffer, we shall also reign with
Him" z Timothy 2:12)
When you give, you donate something ap@r
from yourself.
When you sacrifice, you surrender part
of yourself which makes you one with
The Crucihed.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-10-16

Society for the Propagation of the Faith
Evening star., 1953-07-19

BROOKHAVEN, Long Island
T OST IN THE excitement of progress and
IL discovery, an ungamorous unpublicized
work goes on at the Atomic Energy Com
mission laboratories here and elsewhere
that, in the final analysis, is as important
as the atomic experiments themselves.
1t is the disposal of radioactive waste
potentially dangerous solids and liquids
which, for the protection of the workers
and public alike cannot be thrown on the
Junk heap or flushed down the drain
Radioactive waste is the refuse, or
scrap" from atomic experiments or equip
ment that has become radioactive through
exposure to radiation. 1t cannot be merely
tossed aside because of radioactive rays
escaping from it-invisible. noiseless and
OdorleSs rays that could be deadly and
which, in some instances, still will be alive"
1000 years hence
That is why extreme precautions are
taken with it and why much of it now is
sealed in concrete and dumped into the
ocean beyond the continental shelf
Evening star., 1953-07-19

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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02

Mrs. Annie Murphy Miss
Corene Toncy left Sept. Is for
Los Angeles, where she will join
her sister, Miss Milrene Toney .
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02
Carthage
Henrietta Murphy

Mrs, Pearl Oakley, agent for
the Williams Burial association,
attended an agency meeting held
in Fordyce on the 18th. She was
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. AL
lie Watkins and Lucious Smith g.
Rev. and Mrs, Albright are very
lonely since their son, Andrew
left for his home in Memphis
Mrs. Irene Anderson is in the
hospital In Little hook, where
she has Lnew gont an operation,
ard is reported doing fine .
Tom Oakley is yet ON the sick
list and is reported improving
gradually Rev. Williams,
pastor First Baptist church, was
accompanied to a singing eonven-
ton in Camden last Sunday eve
ming by Mesdames Laura Smith,
Pearlie Dobbins, Latonia Robinson
Vela Mae Westbrooks and John
ME Mae CHAIR Mrs. Willie
Hill visited her cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Oakley, ST, Sunday
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02
Mrs. Lee A. Vinson

In observing the Booker Homes
children going TO school, ] can
see that the parents and students
are taking advantage of their OPP
portunity TO attend public and
other schools. There are crowds
boarding the buses from 7;45 til
s:I5 a. m. A special bus at 800
picks up the children going to
Bush and carries them right to
the school. There isn't standing
room left, when all have boarded
this bus. The other two buses af-
ter this one, are crowded to ca
paeity with children going to
Dunbar and Catholic A fine be-
ginning, hope it will continue
thuout the school year The
Girl Scouts, held their meeting
Tuesday and have begun making
Christmas gifts. Miss Roena AL
lisop. is leader. Miss Bessie Ward,
scout director. They are planning
to hive a training course at
Booker Homes social room, soon.
All Interested persons please stop
by the office and see Mrs. Wright
for registration and further in
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02

Church and why have a Day."
Mrs. E. Steward, Jonesboro Mus
ic was rendered by First Baptist
choir Mrs. Lois Holli..,
Chicago spent last week end
with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mitch
ell and family Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernice Mitchell of Forrest City
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
II. Mitchell Those attending
the gala affair in honor of Mrs.
c. L. Branches were; Mr., and
Mrs. l. j. Oates, Mr., and Mrs. B.
Mays, Mr.. and Mrs. N. Stephen
son and family, Mrs. Onnie Reeves,
Mrs. w. Lewis, Mrs. N. A. Mar
tin, Mrs, D. B. Daniels, Mrs. C.
B. Craft, Rev. J. E. Tillman, Miss
Ruel Jackson and Nathaniel YAM
cy. The building was beautiful
and everything was nice &.
Jackson county fair has Just end
ed. We had nice exhibits, which
could have been better if We on
ly had an agent Bethel AME
church observed WPD day Sun
day. The program was made up
of talents from the church and
st. Paul AME church. Those at
tending were Rev. j. E. Tillman,
Mrs. G. D. Mays, district super
visor, Mrs. w. Lewis, Mr. ~r
tina Parrot, district helper; Mrs,
Berry, Mrs. Adams and other
members Melvin Dixon Of
Gary visited Mr. and Mrs. Sulli-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02
Biggers
Monroe ManscO

Monroe ManscO
Mr.. and Mrs. Obey johnson, jrp
went to Nicely Willee, Mo, Fri
day, to attend the birthday party
of Uirnion Hatchs Mrs. Mil
bred Johnson, Coleman Phillips,
Conrad and Monroe Manseo, Mr.,
and Mrs. Obey johnson, jrr Mrs,
Earnestine Garland and Clarence
Stanley, were all in Pocahontas
the past week Rev, William
Davis of Jonesboro, Rev, Melon
aid of Tuckerman, Rev. |. S
Moore, daughter, son in law
and grand daughter, were visitors
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02

in Biggers, Sunday a. Mr., and
Mrs. Monroe Manseo, attended
services in Poeahontas Sunday
Rev. VIM. c.. Davis, was the speak
er Mrs. Mamie Mcconnell,
was in Little Rock last weekend
with her sister, Mrs. Opal Shock
ley, who has been i'll for a
month Mrs. Henry Ethlee
Fields is on the sick list, also
Jessie Bennett of Poeahontas.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02

ar. t Ang and Albert A..
are building a new b.n' ace
On the Washington ro o'ts \
west Of Good Hope s,' %
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02
Good Hope
Bessie l.. SoekWell

Sunday was regular pastoral
day at Good Hope AME church
where Rev. Tom Stith is pastor
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. SockWell
visited Mrs. Annie Murphy. wife
of B. M. Murphy, who is very ill
Mrs. Uden Soekwell spent
Sunday night with her mother,
Mrs. Maggie Alexander Mrs
Pearl Mark of Rockford, Ill,
spent the week with her aunt,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02
:: HIGHLIGHTS OF BOOKER HOMES =

formation Mrs. Emma Thom-
as of st. Louis, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Barnes of "a Gil
lam park road. Mrs. Thomas
formerly known as Emma Wash
inston, is the sister Of Mrs,
Barnes Heartfelt sympathy is
extended to the family of Mrs,
Avery " alton of 269 Granite Mt
circle, who passed suddenly Mon
day moi ming Mr., and Mrs.
William Hooks of 1913 Granite Mt.
circle. have a new arrival, born
September II, boy, Larry DON
ell See you next week,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02

van and Mrs. Georgia Landers
and family Mrs. |. J. Oates
gave a vacation tea for the MYT
of Emory chapel Sunday 3.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Irving have as
their guest Mrs, IrVing's mother
from Pine Bluff.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02

evening Mrs. Evelyn Green
and granddaughter, Kathleen are
back home from Rockford, III.
Marshall Hogans made a flying
trip from Michigan to Arkansas
on special business, where his
daughter, Dora Jene will attend
sCtCtl. J..
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02
Newport
J. A. Smith

J. A. Smith
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross of AMIN
college attended the IL o'clock
services at First Baptist church,
Sunday Morning Star BE
observed Woman's Day. Sunday
afternoon, The theme: Launch
out into the Deep Attempt
Great Thing for God" The guest
speaker was Mrs. E. J. NiCaeu
of Little Rock. Respond by Mrs.
Nora L. Wesley Of Batesville.
Talk: Value of Women in t h e
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1953-10-02
Sweei Home
Cleo Caldwell

Mr.. and Mrs. Theopulus Moore
and daughter, visited Rev Calvin
Atkins and family at Augusta, Rev.
Atkins is the former pastor of AL
len Chapel AME church, Sweet
Home Mr.. and Mrs. Reece
Sharpe and niece are here on a
vacation from Detroit. They are
visiting Mrs. Cleo Caldwell and
family The eighty-sixth ami
versary of the Zion Hill Baptist
church was celebrated last Sun
day. Rev. F. T. Evans preached
the sermon. Money raised was
1925.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

Mr.. Alfred G. Walton, Jr.
DR.. and Mrs. Egbert De Vries
of Washington announce the en-
gagement of their daughter,
Miss Anna Elise Zweede, to Mr..
Alfred Grant Walton, jr., of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Zweede was born in Java,
Indonesia. She attended the
Academy of Arts and Sciences
at The Hague and is a graduate
of the National Art School here.
Her father is the Chief Econom-
ist in the agriculture depart
ment of the International Bank
for Reconstruction and Devel-
opment.
Mr.. Walton is the son of DR..
Walton, minister Of the Flat
BUSH -Tompkins Congregational
Church in Brooklyn, and Mrs.
Walton. He was graduated
from Yale University. where he
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa
from the Harvard Law School.
Mr.. Walton is now a lieutenant
in the Naval Reserve and an at
torney in the legal department
of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. in New York.
The marriage will take place
next spring.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Stuvinq With Parents

Miss Doris Holmes of La Plata
has joined her parents, Col. and
Mrs. j. r. Holmes in Cambridge,
! Md, for the holidays.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Beverley Photo.
MISS CARROLL STUART
Engaged to

NAAs ACAAy Cs NUuQUCSts
DR.. and Mrs. E. Christopher
Stuart. jr., of Winchester, Va,
announce the engagement of
their daughter Carroll Boiling
to Mr.. Henry Fairfax Conquest.
He is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Parker Conquest of Rich
mond.
The bride-elect is a grand
daughter of DIR. and Mrs. EN-
inert C. Stuart of Winchester
and of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
George Carroll Todd of Washing
ton. She is q senior at Stuart
Hall.
Mr.. Conquest is the grandson
of Mrs. Henry Fairfax of Oak
ham, Aldie. Va, and the late
Mr.. Fairfax and of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Pleasanton Laus
Conquest of Richmond. He is
a graduate of Princeton Univer-
sity and is in his senior year at
the Medical School of the Uni
versity of Virginia.
The wedding will take place
in June.