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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
Sensational y pturn Forecast
February Construction Figures Soon to Be Revealed
Called Highest in History; Record New Business Seen

tions for building permits in
city and State government bu-
reaus and Offices transcend
anything of the kind that has
ever been recorded in private
construction
All this does not take into
account the expansion that is
+. coming in highway construc-
ton. When this gains the
momentum expected, it is
likely the entire boom will
prove that the politicians in
Washington had an unneces-
sary case of filters. The Demo-
Gratis in Congress who have
been using the word "depres-
sion" so often in their speeches
and a few Republicans who
have grown timid and have
called for tax exemptions in
order to increase purchasing
power will have red faces when
all the facts become known
about the increases in con-
struction.
1t could happen, of course.
that a political minded Con-
gress. by slashing the Govern
ment's tax revenues recklessly.
might do untold harm to the
economy and bring on the very
recession that it intended to
cure. Before acting on some
of the pending tax proposals
for deep cuts in revenue. Con-
gress might better study the
figures on new construction and
back up Secretary Humphrey
in his fight to save the Ameri-
can dollar from being reduced
drastically in pure asing
power. This collapse could
come about if the Federal
budget were unbalanced by
many billions of dollars in the
ensuing year. For an unbal-
anced budget can destroy the
confidence of the public and
kill off plans for business ex-
panslon, whereas the American
economy can go on to record
heights of prosperity if Con-
gress doesn't pass hampering
laws.
The stage is set for an end
to the business readjustment
that began when the fighting
stopped in Korea. An era Of
sound expansion now is in
sight.
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found clues leading to a Com
muniSt cell which used their
fanaticism. The attack by the
three men and one woman is
regarded as q preview of what
could be done in the event
Moscow intended to strike.
The japanese introduced the
sneak attack in defiance Of
international law which pro-
vides for a declaration of war
before a nation engages in
military operations. They were
successful in their attack on
Port Arthur in the Russo
Japanese war of 1904 and re-
peated the strategy at Pearl
Harbor in 1941.
There is a possibility that
the Moscovites may go be-
yond what was described at
the turn Of the century as an
"unheard-of defiance of in
ternational law" Judging the
men in the Kremlin and their
Peiping associates by past per-
formances in handling prison.
ers Of war, diplomats and or
binary citizens, it would not
be rash to believe that mass
murder Of their prospective
enemy might precede military
operations.
The Muscovites follow their
own international law" which
is based on principles Of in
discriminate lawleSSnesS. Al
though the war with Germany
and Japan ended in 1915, the
Soviet government still holds
hundreds of thousands of Ger
man and Japanese soldiers.
Although a peace treaty with
Italy was signed in 1916, there
still are repeatedly tens of
thousands Of Italian troops in
Soviet prison stockades and
labor camps.
Although the U. S. S. r. is
officially at peace with the
United States and is q fellow
member in the United Nations,
an undetermined number Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08

Senator Mccarthy. as have
previously said. is not a con-
sentative and is no proper rep
resentative Of, or spokesman
for, a conservative government
or party. He is a radical right
wing demagogue.
A conservative, by definition.
Is a traditionaliSt. This does
not mean that he fails to rec
ognize that change Is inherent
in all life and all institutions.
The conservative, however, does
not advocate change for the
sake Of change. or believe
that long established institu-
tons should be lightly en-
croached upon or abolished.
Even the revolutionary Decla-
ration of independence recog-
nized this, in advocating the
radical step of severing all ties
with the British government:
Prudence indeed will dictate
that governments long estab-
lished should not be changed
for light and transient causes:
and accordingly all experience
hath shown that mankind are
more disposed to suffer. while
evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are
accustomed ;"
This passage precedes the
long list of grievances and
tyrannical abuses, which are
given as the causes why the
ties with Great Britain should
be dissolved. and which are
set forth with "a decent re-
spect to the opinions of man
kind"
The conservative is also the
upholder of standards, in gov
eminent. and in public and
private life.
Now, nothing in American
political life is more traditional
and nothing more firmly re-
garded by the majority Of
Americans as not subject to
change than the constitu-
tional rights of the individual
citizen and the safeguards pro-
vided by the common law,
which we inherited from our
Anglo-Saxon forebears. There
fore, a conservative govern
ment must be jealous to up
hold these rights and safe
guards, to restore them where
they have been infringed, and
to insist on standards of cour-
tesy, decorum, and objectivity
in congressional Investigations
and elsewhere.
am not writing this from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
ThO1dS e otOKeS-
Citizens forTVA' and Their Goal
Folks in the Valley Organize to Counterfeit What is Called
A Hostile Attitude Toward the Big Power Project

Baker. The trio saw Sherman
Adams. the Presidents admin
istrative assistant, to urge ap-
pointment of Harry c. Car
baugh. Chattanooga business
man, formerly chairman of the
State Republican Finance
Committee and still a member.
Among powerful hackers of
Mr.. Carbaugh, it is reported,
is Secretary of Commerce Sin
clair Weeks. himself a bust
nesSman and for many years
active in raising campaign
funds for the Republican
Party. both as treasurer of
the National Committee and
in its national finance COM
mittee. He has been con-
tinually alert in promoting a
sympathetic attitude toward
business by the Eisenhower
administration, rowing, in fact,
far beyond his own depart
ment.
: In the face of the threat of
business-politico appoint
ment as chairman, the Citi-
Zens for iva has intensified
its efforts on behalf of Gordon
Clapp. A petition now being
circulated already has more
than $4,000 names. and this
is expected to reach 100000.
The organization asked last
week for an appointment with
President Eisenhower to pre-
sent the petition. The Presi-
dent, meanwhile, is getting let
tiers indorsing Mr.. Clapp's re-
appointment from Eisenhower
Republicans in Tennessee
which the President carried in
1862. a
What we are seeing is some
thing Of a phenomenon, though
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
Dovid Lowrence

There's something dynamic
happening to the American
economy right now. It looks
as if the business upturn has
started. It may result in max
ing 1854 one of the best bust
ness years on record.
The facts are that the
latest statistics on construc-
ton are sensational in their
revelation of an unprece-
denied building boom. They
show that the combined fig
ures for January and Febru-
airy are the highest in all his
tory; Americas purchasing
power is being increased by
more than 81 billion in only
two months.
The details of the figures
are to be announced within
the next 48 hours by the F. w.
Dodge Corporation, whose Ma
ton wide organization is re-
lied upon by the Government
and by many industries for
the authoritative compilation
of construction mits
throughout the United States
the most extensive report
ing service of its kind in the
world.
It looks now as if the COM
bined January and February
figures will exceed $2.1 billion
for construction and this is
a substantial increase over
1858. Indeed, when the multi
plying factor of four is used.
as is customary when esti-
mating the resultant purchas-
ing power, the months of jan
uary and February will rep
resent about SO billion in pur-
chasing power. Compared to
last year this is more than a
10 per cent gain
The F. w. Dodge figures are
always based on reports from
81 States, but past experience
by the Department of Com
merce which estimates them
for the other IL States show
that the trend revealed in the
81 States usually materializes
In the others.
What this means is that
lumber, steel. and other ma
terials used in construction
will be in greater demand and
employment will begin to show
a marked increase as permits
are translated into operating
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
New Archdiocesan
Home for Aged Only
Start, Society Hears

The Most Rev. Patrick A.
O'Boyle, Archbishop of Washing
ton, said yesterday that the pro-
posed new archdioceSan home
for the aged was only the begin
ming of what must be done"
The prelate told members of
the st. Vincent de Paul Society
of Washington at Holy Trinity
High School the new home would
accommodate $50 aged men and
women.
According to the statement
made by Archbishop O'Boyle
when he announced the SO million
ArchdioceSan Development Pro-
gram last week. the home is the
first major item to be built.
1t will be the first of several
planned to take care of the in
creasing number of old people
who want to live in homes for
the aged conducted under Cath
ollc auspices, ne explained.
Two former officers of the
st. Vincent de Paul Society
Harry j. Kirk. former president,
and John Mahoney, former sec
rotary were presented with
scrolls honoring them for their
long service to the society. The
Rev. Leo j. Coady, spiritual di-
rector of the organization, made
the presentations.
Edward j. Heffron, Federal
Civil Defense official and promi-
nent Catholic layman, told the
gathering that Communists
would go to any length to achieve
their ends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08

really it is nothing more than
a demonstration Of democracy
in action. That should not be
surprising, but evidently it is
to some people. President
Eisenhower never has seemed
to understand iva at all.
Maybe he could not be ex-
pected to. He never was close
to the great human story of
IVA. He did not live with it,
as did the folks in the valley,
from way back in the early
1920S when a Senator from
Nebraska with vision, the late
George w. Norris. saw that
Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals,
a First World War white ele-
phant," might be utilized by
the Government to produce
nitrates for cheap fertilizer
and low-cost electricity for
the people. After his bill was
vetoed by President Calvin
Coolidge and got nowhere I'M
der President Herbert Hoover,
1t was espoused and expanded
into the great iva by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The people are proud of it.
1t is theirs. They own it. If
you understand. you can see
why they so bitterly resent
the slogan creeping social
ISM"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Deputy Defense Boss Roger Kyes quits You
must be goodo Of es administrators hustng
to check on it,
Democratic leaders in Miami deplore McCarthysm
Gratis get brave about fighting Mccarthy Washington
after they get 1000 miles away.
Ada Stevenson blasts Republicans $10Oa plate Demo-
cratic banquet you don't think Republicans have
nessy going into the business Of charging 500 to hear
Democrat speak.
The United States that Latin
to keep out communism We prefer South
American revolutions that anybody
that happen just for the hell of it.
Republican politician in Deweys thoroughbred
administration in New York is to be fired on
loyalty charges-the went to the dogs.
Democratic Senator Lehman nobody Eisenhower
team has the to tackle Mccarthy
afraid Hardly day that they don't
something about it,
They Governor Tom Dewey of New thinking of
resignng and running for district attorney aga-o up
the in Albany
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08

American civilians are held in
Soviet prisons and concentra-
ton camps for no known rea-
sons.
These fragrant violations of
international and humane laws
and concepts make our in
ternal security officials uneasy.
They wonder whether the men
in the Kremlin who control.
to the knowledge of our au-
thorities, several thousands Of
goons in this country might
attempt on the eve Of a sneak
military attack to first throw
the Government into confu-
sion by mass assassinations Of
our top officials. And members
Of Congress would be their
easiest mark, as shown in last
weeks attempt by the Puerto
Ricans.
The security services in
w a S h ing ON are seriously
studying the matter and what
can be done to forestall such a
Red action. Up to this time. for
instance, each door leading
from the corridors of the
House and Senate to the floor
itself is guarded by one or
two unarmed elderly door,
keepers. Their main job is to
allow only members of both
houses to enter. It would not
be impossible for a determined
bunch of murderers to force
their way to the floor and
spray 1t with bullets from con-
cealed weapons. This is one
of the possibilities which can
not be ignored now.
In these days of violence
when a ruthless enemy has
fanatics at his service, our old
democratic ways of life may
have to be changed. Hence
forth. we may see armed
guards in uniform and civilian
clothes watching carefully the
thousands who mill every day
in corridors, galleries and
hearing rooms on Capitol Hill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
Dorothy Thompson
BuI|yingCon't FightReds
Senator Mccarthy Loaded Questions and Greed for Headlines
Insult Human Dignity Make Personal Asset of Communism

the viewpoint of the left-wing
anti anti Communist "hber-
ais" who are themselves re-
sponsible for much that they
presently deplore. 1t is con-
venient for them to forget that
the Un-American Activities
Committee was set up under
the Roosevelt regime; that
some of the worst abuses
by congressional investigating
committees occurred under the
New Deal; that as long as iso-
lationiSts we're being branded
as crypto-Fascists. people sus-
pected Of Nazi sympathies be-
ing bounded, and every one
with a high income dragged
before the public as an eco
nomic royaliSt, they were not
concerned about civil rights.
With that type of mind it all
depends on whose OK is being
gored.
This column has contended
that Mccarthy is a result and
not a cause. He has traded on
a real and not unjustified pub
lie knowledge and apprehen-
sion that persons hostile to
everything American means,
including civil liberties, had
reached important places in
American life. and were not
dislodged by the previous ad-
ministration or dominant
people.
And the job had to be done.
It should have been, and could
be done by this administra-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08

contracts this year. Businesses
engaged in furnishing homes
and equipping plants and
buildings and Offices should
naturally benefit. too.
Mortgage money is begin
ming ITO flow freely and prof.
ects which were delayed last
year are being approved every
day nov with plenty of A.
nancing available from the in
surance companies and other
lending instrumentalities.
The significant evidence is
that an expanding economy
which is feeling every year the
effects of an increase i'm popu-
lation and financial sinews
cannot be interrupted for long.
What the American people
are doing is spending more
money for new homes. The
figures for new residence con-
struction just compiled for
February are way ahead OF
January, 1854. and way ahead
of February. 1853 So also are
the figures for non-residential
construction which are far
ahead of the same two months
a year ago.
It is indicated now that Feb
ruary. 1854 figures will show
the biggest February ever re-
ported in the country for new
construction of all kinds. In
cidentally. the figures for util-
tiles and public works show
marked gain over the first two
months of last year SO that
the advance is not merely in
residential and non-residential
construction. Yet the utility
and public works construction
is only a small percentage of
the total amount OF building
being done.
Many of the steel companies
which are appraising the con-
struction to be done in the
next few months already are
aware of what the latest sta
tistics for January and Febru-
airy, 1854, show and they are
making plans to meet the new
demands. The main impact of
the new construction will come
in the spring and summer
months as construction goes
into its stride with improved
weather. But the planning 60
ing on now and the applica-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
BY the As.eeioted Press

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. Mar
"a Mount Holyoke College
philosophy professor today dis
played his thinking machine
which he says lis to logic what
an adding machine is to arith-
metic
Prof Roger w. Holmes built
his machine for about $3.50 plus
labor"
He says the thinking machine
can solve practically any prob
lem in a book on fundamental
symbolic logic.
The machine, about the size
of an old-fashioned table model
radio has a complex system of
electrical relays which flashes
lights on a control board.
II a proposition is valid a
green light will flash. If it is
invalid, a red light shows.
The professor sets up the ques-
tons with a series of symbols
He says the machine can't per-
form any function which a
human operator couldn't do for
himself with pencil and paper.
But he claims the thinking
machine can tackle complex
processes of reasoning with
greater speed and accuracy.
Prof. Holmes claims the device
can test the validity of the basic
laws of logic. 1t also can ex-
plore the field for new prin-
ciples. he says. And it can test
whatever specific arguments are
given it for examination.
The inventor of the thinking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08

minlStrator has virtually given
his life to iva, for he has
served it for 20 years in vari-
Gus capacities, including di-
rector of personnel and general
manager, before he succeeded
David Lilienthal as chairman
in 1916.
He is, in short, Mister
iva" for the folks in the val
ley. They want to keep him.
They fear he may be replaced
by some one unsympathetic
with iva who would acquiesce
in its Gripping. or even de-
struction. The odds are against
them in this battle to keep
Gordon Clapp, the folks realize.
for there are politicians eager
to get their hands on this key
post. even though political ap-
pointments are barred in the
iva Act which says:
I'm the appointment of Of
ficials and the selection of en-
ployes for said Corporation
(TVA). and in the promotion
of any such employees or Of
flcials. no political test or
qualification shall be permitted
or given consideration, but all
such appointments and pro-
motions shall be given and
made on the basis of merit and
efficiency"
A prediction that Mr.. Clapp
would not be reappointed was
made by Guy L. Smith, editor
of the Knoxville Journal and
chairman of Tennessee's State
Republican Executive Commit
tee. after a White House visit
on February S. He was accom-
panied by Tennessee's two
Republican House members.
Representatives Reece and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08

the paths Of peace and recti-
tude. is common to many of
the newcomers.
In a sense they are the vic
Tins of their campaign myth
ology. They also thought
that Senator Mccarthy, while
he played rough. only wanted
good government and a few
headlines and would quiet
down when the Republican
President sent a first team in
to play.
They have found out that
while Washington could do
with a new broom after 20
years Of continuous Demo-
cratic rule, the great problems
of the postwar world remain
and admit Of no easy solution.
They discovered that hosts of
honest. able people had been
working hard on these prob
lens with the outlook being
that decades of effort, not
year or two or three, will be
required. They know now that
government today is plain
hard work.
The Presidents business re-
cruits also have had a rough
introduction to politics: that
it is chiefly due to a Repub-
lican. has not made it any
easier to take. Many of them
are gunshy of the coming
election when the partisan
fight will get really torrid
1t is felt here that more res
ignations below the cabinet
level will be coming along,
though the cabinet itself will
probably feel it must stand
by at least until after the
election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
Doris Feeson-
Mcneil Successor to Kyes?
Assistant Secretary Of Defense Believed Inside Track
To Become No. 2 Man; Yields Influence at Pentooon

past ten days. These quarters.
knowing that Army Secretary
Stevens was held in high re-
gard at the White House, had
marked him for Deputy Sec
rotary when Mr.. Kyes carried
out his own intention of re-
signing after a year. Mr. Stew
ems failure to cope with Sena-
tor Mccarthy has instead con-
WINGED many that his days
here are numbered.
Mr.. Kyes' departure is not
the result of any incident or
special problem but is sympto-
matte of attitudes and trends
in the Eisenhower administra-
ton.
1t is true he has consistently
had a bad press, which for
some time he did little to al
leviate Instead, he seemed to
think merely amusing his title
of wilson's Ratchet man" and
to be trying, specifically at
least. to deserve it. Later. he
ceased to be amused and has
rather Stunned social Wash
lngton. This is described as
due in part to Mrs. Kyes who
resented what was happening
and refused to bring her fam
lily here to live.
But Mr.. Kyes had never
planned to stay long. Like
others of the Eisenhower team,
he seemed to feel that a slight
interlude of true Republican
efficiency would straighten out
1.-The mess" and then he could
return home with a clear con-
science. This image of a Wash
ington needing only to have
its face washed and clothes
mended, after which. suitably
chastised, it would continue in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-08
Thomas L. Stokes

President Eisenhower is be-
ginning to feel the hot breath
of a grass roots, homegrown
revolution that he stirred up
in the Tennessee River Valley.
and which now has spread far
beyond that, by his casual ref
erence to iva as an example
of creeping socialism"
That was many weeks ago.
1t sent a shiver through the
folks in the valley. Since then
it has been followed by other
indications of a hostile atti-
tude in the Eisenhower adj
ministration toward iva, even
the possibility that it would
be turned over to the private
utilities eventually. IVA ex-
pansion was checked in the
budget. Slowly the revolution
has spread.
Like another many, many
years ago, it also has its coun-
terpart of the Committee of
Correspondence. This is Cit
liens for iva, organized a few
months ago. 1t now has chap
tiers or units in IS counties in
four States. Up to January 81
it had raised $43,057 of a
100000 goal for its campaign
to save iva. There were TO-
600 individual contributions
from 1853 counties in iva
States and IA outside the VAL
ley It has distributed a mil
lion pieces of literature.
just now it is concentrating
on a symbol. a slender. quiet.
efficient gentleman, originally
from Wisconsin. This is Cor
don r. Clapp, chairman Of
Twas three-member board,
whose seven-year term expires
May Is. This most able adj