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Evening star., 1953-12-19

Joseph Garner operates or did operate
small trucking business in Pennsylvania. He
had "a employees four of whom belonged to the
Teamsters Union. The 20 others did not want
to join the union.
The Transfers Union decided, however,
that it would try to compel them to join by
putting pressure on the employer The employer
had not tried to discourage his people from
joining, and there was no labor dispute between
him and the union One day, however, pickets
who were not employees of his appeared at his
place of business: This was disastrous for Gar
ner, since most of his business consisted of
interchange of freight with unionized trucking
concerns. The unionized drivers of the other
concerns refused to cross the picket line and
Garners business soon fell off as much as 95
per cent
He went into lower Pennsylvania court and
obtained an injunction forbidding this picket
ing. The courts theory was that the picketing
was an attempt to coerce the employer into
compelling or influencing his employees to join
the union, and was therefore in violation of the
States labor law.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, with one
judge dissenting, reversed on the ground that
a labor controversy of this sort lay exclusively
within the jurisdiction of the National Labor
Relations Board. Justice Jackson speaking for
a unanimous Supreme Court, has sustained
this ruling, so there can be no question as to it's
legal correctness.
There is considerable question, however, as
to whether the law should be permitted to stand
in this condition. Why should any union be
permitted to ruin a businessman in an attempt
to compel his employees against their own
wishes, to join the union? Under this ruling,
Garner'S only remedy is to invoke the aid of
the Federal agency. Even assuming that his
complaint is merited, however, this might take
week, two weeks, or, if there were many such
cases, much longer time. Meanwhile, 95 per
cent of his business has been destroyed by a
coercive labor tactic. In that situation, why
should the Federal law deny him access to the
courts of his own State, where prompt relief
might be obtained?
It is always possible, of course that Con-
gress, in enacting the Taft-Hartley amend
ments, intended to set up go-Slow procedure,
even in such an aggravated case as this, before
an injunction against picketing could be issued.
But it is hard to understand why and the Eisen-
hover administration, if it is serious in its talk
about returning as much responsibility as pos
sible to the States, should take a good look at
Justice Jacksons suggestion that Congress,
should it wish to do so, could give a man
in Gamers position the right to invoke the
aid of the courts of his home State.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Economic Hypochondriuc'

Your December editorial "Still the
Strongest" discussed speech by David
Lilienthal. You commented on his
choice of the term "hypochondriac" and
quoted from Mr.. Lilienthal's speech as
to the actions of the economic hypo-
chondriac.
On November 13. 1853 Harold B.
Wess, Professor of Business Admins
tration and Retailing at The American
University and retired vice-president
of r H. Macy and Company, delivered
a talk before the Washington Board
OF Trade entitled Are We Becoming
Economic Hypochondriacs?" On page
one OF his text, which was reported in
your paper on Page A-S, Professor Wess
stated, "a hypochondriac constantly
checks his pulse, his temperature, takes
an assortment of colored pills and in
addition, keeps running to his doctor
with imaginary aches and pains. The
economic hypochondriac does exactly
the same thing-he runs to DR.. Uncle
Sam at the first sign of discomfort and,
in addition, becomes the sucker for
quack economic doctors as we'll"
Nathan A. BaiIy, Chairman,
Department of Business Administration
The American University.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Poy Ruise for Congress

In regard to the proposed raise in
salary for members Of Congress, be-
lieve that there are few who deserve
an increase of $4,000 year, but many
do not merit the $4,000 they now le-
ceive. There are some States whose
Governors do not get $4,000 per an
mum. and I think it would be well to
pay Congressman according to their
qualifications, and classify them ac-
cordingly. Isn't that the manner in
which they have determined other Gov
ernment employees shall be paid?
Members of Congress are employed
at SO much per annun; this means II
months, less time for holidays and
leave. Thus they should be governed by
the same laws which govern all annual
employees, and the same ruling should
apply to every Government employe,
from the President down. After all. the
taxpayer is the employer in this case.
l. believe they may possibly expect Con-
gress to abide by the same laws they
have made for others and give a years
work for years pay. Why not?
Herbert r. Davis.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
Il remember last summer you wrote
about the paper books. as they are
called. which seem to be sweeping the
country.
"Since then have read various ar
ticleS in magazines about them, and
thought / would let you know that
now have several hundred of them.
1T seems to me that their best field
is in the novel.
Before I got to earning my own
money. wondered why or how people
could pay as much as So a copy for
a book they would practically throw
away after they read it.
Maybe I am wrong, but I have no
desire ever to read a story again. !
know there are those who say they re-
read Dickens. let us say, over and over
again, but the proposition leaves me
cold.
Nov I am happy, because can
pay IS or 35 cents, occasionally so
cents. and get practically a new book,
at least it is new to me.
What difference does it make
whether a story that is not true, any
way, is read the moment it comes
out or a year later?
Il have number of excellent stories
in this cheap form, and thought the
type is rather on the Smallish side; in
every other way they are just the
same as the hard-cover editions, as
they call them.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
By Charles E. TroceweN

Space has something to do with
it. The average paperbound takes up
between a quarter and half an inch,
whereas the clothbound copy will
require a full inch of shelf space, or
little more.
This question of space is little dis
cussed by book lovers, but the revolu-
ton the paperbackS is making must
take it into account.
Now that some publishers are bring
E ing out originals" not reprints, in
paper formal, the little books, so much
like magazines, take on a new dimen-
sion.
Executive Suite" for instance, pub
lished last year at 35 cents in paper,
was one of the outstanding novels of
the season. 1t is still good story, and
graceS many case in the home.
A good story is good story, no mat
ter the form in which it is printed.
The question of the paperbacks is
more than that of arrangement in the
home. Some publishers and authors
think it will go on to threaten the pub
lication of the novel. whose history
has always been stormy one.
But good novel is at heart. good
story. and the good story, or narrative.
is as old as the human race, almost.
We need the mirror of the novel to
hold ourselves up to nature, and to see
in it such actors as all humans have
it in them to be under the right condi-
tions. The~Story form simply gives the
characters the conditions.
Evening star., 1953-12-19

to meet even greater work norms in
the uranium mines of Mao TSe-tung' S
MarXist democracy,
Only the politically unsophisti-
Gated" will doubt that the hopes and
aspirations to better their miserable
lot will soar to new heights at this
bright prospect of putting atomic en-
ergy to work producing economic elec-
trio power for the lamps of Red China
And. who knows, when the atomic
powered industries of Communist
China really begin to hum, this new
light may make it suddenly clear that
there remains nothing to stand in the
way of seating delegates of Marxist
China. or any other Marxist DOM
mated country, in the United Nations.
Thus, without irritations and mutual
suspicious incident to any attempt to
set up completely acceptable system
of worldwide inspection and control
of atomic weapons. the worlds econ
omy will be profitably improved. Above
all, the conscience of the great
powers" can then relax since there will
be no lands of the free and homes of
the brave" to disturb the minds and
hearts of the common man.
Mentor.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Art by the Handicapped
J. r. Callahan.

The story and layout on our art show,
"Art by the Handicapped" in your
Sunday Pictorial Magazine is another
boost for the program of rehabilitating
the disabled. We appreciate greatly
the accurate and generous handling of
the pictures and the story
You will be glad to know that the
feature has inspired the United States
Information Agency to start immedi-
ately to develop a similar display and
story for inclusion to their 200 overseas
posts in 88 countries around the world.
So we see our joint effort turned to-
ward winning friends for our country
and our belief in the value of the in
dividual. This will be translated into
40 or so languages and should be most
effective since there are so many coun-
tries in which dlSablement means slow
death from neglect or starvation.
This latest display of The Stars con-
structive interest in vocational reha-
bilitation is very heartWarming and
will surely help to convince others of
the potentialitieS of our handicapped
citizens.
Mary Z. Switzer,
Director, Office of Vocational Reha-
bilitation.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Too Many Cars, Too Few Bridges

Why more bridges across the Potomac are
urgently needed in the Washington area was
evident in tabulation contained in the recent
highway conSultantS' report released by Vir-
ginia's Governor Battle. Placed side by side
were figures showing the average daily traffic
counts on. Potomac and Hudson River crossings
for the month of July, 1853 The comparison
showed that 1000 more vehicles cross the
Potomac River here each day than cross the
Hudson in the Manhattan area.
The Fourteenth street twin bridges carry
a greater daily traffic load than either the
George Washington Bridge or the Lincoln Tun-
mel The Fourteenth street bridges accounted
for nearly half of the 218,199 vehicles which
crossed the Potomac on daily average during
last July. The daily average of Hudson River
crossings that month, via one bridge and two
tunnels was 21616O.
To dramatize the problem, the report said
that if all the vehicles crossing the Potomac
daily were put in a single lane, bumper to
bumper, they would form a line over 300 miles
long" Motorists who have experienced frus-
trating bottlenecks during rush hours will not
be inclined to dispute this estimate. In fact,
some of them at times have felt that the line
ahead and behind must stretch to some such
incredible distance.
There is no controversy whatever over the
need for additional bridges, or tunnels even.
The best sites for two more bridges to relieve
the present loads on the bridges is something
else again. 1t is regrettabe that conflict over
bridge sites is delaying plans for affording relief
to victims of the daily traffic congestion along
the Potomac
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Chides Clergyman
ID. Mason.

Many discerning readers were. am
sure, greatly amused by the naive in
consistencies in the letter December
12) of Marion S. Michael. minister, Be-
thesda Methodist Church.
The Reverend DR.. Michael stated: II
oppose the method and tactics of Sen
ator Mccarthy but would refrain from
registering such an opinion with the
White House.
ITO give ones opinion in the manner
suggested by Mccarthy is to put his
name forward yet once more.
Il do not wish to honor the Senator
in this way"
In thus exercising such remarkable
self-restraint in not writing to the
White House, lest he advertise Senator
McCarthy's name and his war against
communism, Dr. Michael overlooked a
nationally recognized fact.
Senator Mccarthy and his efforts to
purge our Government and our country
of Communists need no advertising at
the White House Both the Senator and
his crusade are very we'll known there.
The alternative which DR.. Michael
chose was to write letter to The Star.
The Star has a circulation of around
250,000.
Hence, DR.. Michael multiplied by
some 250,000 the advertising he gave
Senator Mccarthy over what it would
have been if he had mastered his
praiseworthy self-restraint and sent
his letter to the White House.
However, in writing to The Star, the
Reverend DR.. Michael brought his own
name and the name of his church be-
fore 250000 readers of The Star.
Honest readers will ask bluntly: Just
Evening star., 1953-12-19
UNIT Again

The National Security Training Commits
sion has made out a good case for universal
military training in its "Minuteman" report to
President Eisenhower. AS matter of long
range military preparedness and in the interest
of fair apportionment of service responsible
ties among American youth, some such training
system may have to be adopted eventually. The
commission, created by the S2d Congress, has
posed for the country the question: If eventu-
ally, why not now?
That the answer to that question will not
come easily is indicated by reports of offhand
congressional reaction to the commissions
recommendation for starting the training pro-
gram even while the present draft continues.
1t is evident that some legislators who believe
in the training-fo all plan in principle
disposed to shy away from any active support
of it in an election year. UNIT long has been
a political issue, although it should not be.
Congress always has baked at putting full
f1edged UNIT plan on the statute books. Its
nearest approach to legislating on it was the
adoption of the act creating the National Sc
curity Training Commission and authorizing
machinery to place training program in opera
ton at some appropriate time.
The plan outlined by the commission in it's
latest report already has been approved in gen.
eral scope by Congress. 1t provides for induction
become 1S years old. After six months of basic
and specialized training under overall super
vision of the commission the trainees would go
into a reserve corps for seven and half years.
These trained young reServists would form
manpower pool on which the military services
could draw as needed in time of war or national
emergency.
AS the commission pointed out, this plan
would distribute equitably the military duties
which, in the Korean war, fell mainly on vet
erans of World War II. Had there been a
trained non-veteran reserve in existence at that
time, combat veterans Of the other would
not have had to bear the brunt of the fighting
unless they had volunteered for recall. Presi-
dent Eisenhower referred to this unfair double
duty in his letter asking the commission to
study the problem. With an adequate manpoWer
reserve of trained young men always available,
the commission stressed the need for main
tanning large and costly regular army would
be leSSened, with saving in billions of dollars
over the years.
All of these arguments have been heard
before, but, persuasive as they are, they are not
likely to produce favorable action by Congress
to activate the program as long as the present
Selective Service System continues. Indeed, the
manpower experts at the Pentagon have indi-
Gated reluctance to approve training program
until draft requirements ease up. However, the
commission declared the two programs could
be operated simultaneously, with lottery de-
Gliding whether inducteeS would be sent to
training camp or into one of the services. But
with the Defense Department divided on the
question: it is too much to expect any en-
thusiastic RESPONSE at the Capitol to the pro-
poSal for action soch on UNIT.
Evening star., 1953-12-19

pretty frustrating. Every time they build a
dam human engineers come along and blow it
up with dynamite
It's a pity these animals can't rush off
to a psychiatrist when they notice the first
signs of a breakdown in their normal habits.
Perhaps they don't recognize the signs. At any
rate, animal psychiatrists are all too few.
All of these difficulties stem from living in
mans world. The tiger that climbed into a
warm bed had just escaped from a nearby
carnival. The elk have been penned up for
years by man. If there hadn't been man to
eat out of house and home, the Chicago dog
would have had no difficulty.
This all could we'll be an emphatic reac-
ton to the foibes and Illustrations of man.
Until mans world stops spinning so fast, we
can expect tigers and dogs and beavers to get
into trouble.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
This and That . .

II thought you might be interested
in my treatment of these books.
Il do not hide them away, almost
in shame. as some persons do. but
give them place in my bookcases.
"The effect is intriguing.
when arranged in a row. with the
largest ones in the center. tapering
both ways, the colors of the back form
an interesting Sight-that isn't exactly
the way to put it, but I know you get
what ! mean.
$50 many large books have dull
looking covers, and this is often true,
even when the dust jackets are left
on.
Il flnd that my paper books of all
publisherS-and what a number of
publishers there must be-look supris-
ingly well in the cases.
II am thinking of relegating all my
old-fashioned hard-cover books to
the attic. and filling up my cases en-
tirely with paper.
What do you think of the idea?
Sincerely yours. E. D. l."
I don't think it is Q very brilliant
idea, Estelle.
Keep some of both, downstairs.
That is best
We have found that one row of
"old-fashioned books" as you call
them. goes very well With one row of
the paperbound book$
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Living in Mans S World

There is so much tension everywhere that
1t comes as no surprise that all does not seem
right in the world of the so-called lower ami
mails. The other day tiger crawed into bed
with couple of youngsters and was licking the
face of one when the Mortified father shot it..
Three elk at the Zoo leaped to temporary free
dom when Storm-felled tree damaged fence.
Chicago man had to give away his dog
because it was eating him out of house and
home The man he had given it to gave the
animal back because of the same trouble.
Another dog, in Arlington this time, chewed on
the upholstery in the rear seat of an auto and
caeAed an accident. And beavers along Bee
Greek near st. Joseph Missouri must find life
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Destination: Christmas

Nop IN the early tWtItght, the busy city
lifted
From thought: We driUe through the
countryside
TotUdrd the old homestead Where dear
ones UGit,
And speculate perhaps, on the hour Ue
may GrriUe:
Ahead, Just of the highway, a church
appears
And suddenly, aboue it CLEANS the first
star:
"A symbol of Christmas" you say
quietly. TOO often
We Uander and journey dfar, it is time
notU to mark
And to follot0 the road Dhere the WISE
men led"
Our rouing thought centers and stays
on the Child:
The Child wIlose eyes sought the sky,
instead
OF the stall in the stable that measured
His bed:
OF LoUe's Spirit reborn tUith His lo1Cly
birth,
The Spirit He treasured and fed. that
brought men
Closer to God, and notU s,Oeeps ouer the
earth,
That the hungry hare Bread.
4 Grace MereditfN
Evening star., 1953-12-19

you think that our allies would be the
bigger losers? Would they wish to en-
slave themselves just because we ask
them to cooperate with us just little?
We are not asking much. All We want
is for them to unite with us in our fight
against communism, for their benefit
as we'll as ours. Would they want to
commit suicide because we want them
to cooperate?
You call this coercion or dictation,"
and add that we do not want brow
beaten, Inundated and resentful allies.
Neither do we want allies who threaten
to commit suicide every time We ask
them to cooperate with us. Yes. if
they do not cooperate with us and are
taken in by the Soviet, we would lose
some of their assistance. But they
would lose their entire freedom. They
would be like the rest of the satellite
peoples, not only Inundated but their
souls crushed. Why not give them this
side of the picture?
1t seems to me that our foreign policy
always looks into lone side of the pic
ture," Or it is half measure. We are
always scared to speak our minds lest
we offend some one. Sometimes it
seems as if we do not know what we
want, and if we did we don't know how
to say it. I wonder if these allies or
alleged allies like an ally like ourselves.
George Haig.
Your editorial, Trading With Red
China" is a splendid respite from the
emotional claptrap that prevails all
too frequently concerning this issue.
We need more discussion of this as
pect of foreign policy. Suppose we do
threaten and coerce Britain in the
manner Senator Mccarthy proposes?
Will this blockade the coast of China?
What will be the effect of this on the
UN.? Are we going to start debating
then to all the other friendly nations?
There is more to getting along with
our allies than clustering and telling
them You take our advice or else :. :"
hope you and all the press may be
wise enough to rise to this occasion.
Too many people are becoming victims
of Senator McCarthy's potent appeal"
It sounds so simple to blockade China
merely by withholding aid from Britain.
We need many more such editorials.
Observer.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Progress in Montgomery

Montgomery County is really pro-
crossing. Cd They vote for pitiably
small salary increase by which only the
beginning teacher profits while the
teacher starting her third year in the
county rates the very same pay;
whereas. nearby areas have approved a
substantially higher wage scale. C2)
The County Council digs into an
emergency fund to provide $4,000 to
operate new school buses. Zine, but
isn't the teachers need to live de-
Gently an emergency?) go Now the
school board expects $3.5 million to
be spent on new schools. This presents
somewhat of a minor problem: Where
will they get the teachers?
ID. Mason.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
TRADING With Red Chino

Your December II editorial, "Trad-
ing With Red China" tried to give us
a picture of what would happen if We
allies, as suggested by Senator Nc
Carthy. But it gave us only one side
of the picture. It said that if we asked
our allies not to trade with China. they
might refuse and fall into the clutches
of the enemy, and the enemy would be
the one who would gain.
But who would be the loser? Yes, we
would be one of the losers. But dom t
Evening star., 1953-12-19

and despite the fact that the adminis-
tration's contemplated insistence that
the debt limit be raised to assure greater
Government extravagances, more in
flation and. with it, more insecurity
and hardship for all Americans-deSpite
all this Harold E. Stassen. has per-
sonally sent to Europe entirely at the
expense of the American taxpayer, four
teams" (eight people, for the sole
purpose of observing how our Christ
mas handouts are being handed out
to foreigners!
Eugene w. Castle.
Evening star., 1953-12-19
MoryIond's Forgotten Man?

Maryland's football team has been
honored by being named the top team
in the country.
Tatum has been honored by being
named the top coach in the country
But the man who made all this pos
sible has received no honors, no tro-
phies and no reportorial praise from
the ecstatic Washington press.
Let's give a cheer for the man who
made up the Maryland football sched-
ule.
r Callahan
Evening star., 1953-12-19
6. 0. P. SpoiIs His Holiday

Merry Christmas! But, unfortunately
not for the fiscal health and well-being
of the American people!
Treasury Secretary George M. Hum
phrey warns that the United States
deficit for this fiscal year may reach
the astronomical sum of SO billion!
Despite bigger blotcheS OF deep red
ink on Uncle Sans unbalanced Iedgers,
Evening star., 1953-12-19
Letters to The Star.

who was seeking advertising for whom?
Protestant Combat Chaplain,
World War III.
4
With all due respect to the Rev. Mr..
Michael. it has always been my opinion
that ministers should stay out of poll
itics. Mr.. Michael declares that he in
huences the thinking of several thou
sand people. This may be so, but it
would be more becoming on his part to
encourage the members of his congre-
CATION to think for themselves.
Methodist.