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Evening star., 1954-01-12
ImmoruIity
Warren W. Morse.

congratulate The Star upon pub
lication of Doctor Sorokin's article in
This Week Magazine. It offered historic
and factual proof that mankind's an
cient and ever effective destroyer. i'm
morality has its deadly fangs well i'm
planted in our Nations blood stream
today.
While it is a fact that no nation
has ever survived after being stricken
by this malady, 1 feel sure there is
strong basis for hope if we have free
press willing to meet the challenge.
I say this because in the past the
only physicians available to treat the
patient have been the religious leaders
They failed obviously for several valid
reasons. First their treatment depended
absolutely upon the faith of the patient
and they we're treating many confirmed
skeptics. Secondly their main vocation
was selling a creed and winning souls
for life in the next world rather thar
healing sick minds and preparing them
for a satisfactory life in this world
Today it is different. The scientists
who only few years ago. while search
ing for facts. spent most Of their efforts
III IeeOIS aItGIlpIS 10 pEONe eFOiutlOIl
and attack the bible and religion. have
finally come up with an amazing
amount of scientific facts. Contrary to
their expectations, these facts all prove
conclusively the theory of creation and
the bible as the greatest collection of
facts ever recorded
It Is no longer merely religious be-
lief but recognized scientific fact that
humans were endowed by their creator
with mental capabilities to enable them
to understand and obey the laws laid
down for theif proper living and to con-
troll their beastly physical instincts.
Medical science has made remarkable
progress in many fields but its greatest
discovery lies dormant either because it
is unknown or unheeded. There is ample
evidence in medical research to convince
the informed that it is true that the
sins of the parents are visited on the
children to the third generation.
Here is the challenge to the press. to
search out these facts and educate
men and women so that they may truly
become proud parents rather than the
ignorant yet responsible begetters of a
degenerate generation.
The Sorokin article Is good start on
your part: may you keep it up.
S. B. Hardy.
Evening star., 1954-01-12

as an increase has been Sic, 900, which
would bring congressional salaries up
to $4,000 a year. The Hoover Com
mission also made such q recommenda-
ton in its 1949 report. but nothing
came of it.
The arguments for a raise are per-
suasive. One has it that the legislative
branch is closest to the people because
its membership springs directly from
them and thus is more responsive to
their wishes. Another point frequently
cited is that Congress used to meet for
only three months session. whereas
in recent years the sessions have been
virtually continuous. Still another is
that the activities of a Senator or a
Representative are sometimes COM
parable in scope to those Of a director
of large business enterprise, but that
salaries and emoluments are presently
inconsistent with congressional respon-
SibilitieS.
Aside from the obviously compelling
fact that the cost of living has risen
for Congressman as for every one, pro-
ponents for congressional pay raise
say that, the grave business of Gov
ernment being what it is. salaries ought
to be dignifled and bear some measure
of decent relationship to the response
bilitles On this point they quote
one of the founders Of the Republic:
Salaries should be fixed in the middle
ground where dignity blends with econ
omy"
Not the least effective argument mar
shaled by the pro-payraisers is that
the very reason the legislators were
given the right to establish their own
compensation was to prevent one Con-
gress from fixing the payment of its
successor SC low as to preclude its
sitting at all. When Congress, by the
skin Of its teeth. managed to push
through a pay raise bill back in 1873.
1t did so over the opposition of many
well-heeled Congressman, who smugly
averred that Congress ought to initiate
the puritan simplicity of it's forefathers
Such Government by the wealthy
concept hits at the very foundations
of representative government, the argu-
ment goes.
In spite Of what appears today to
be a cordial atmosphere for a con-
gressional salary adjustment. the very
idea sticks in the craw Of many a con-
stituent of moderate means enmeshed
in the inflationary spiral, as well as
some cantankerous members of Con-
greSS.
Representative Hoffman Republican,
of Michigan thinks pay raise would
blow the lid off increased Federal
Evening star., 1954-01-12
By Charles E. TroceweN
william Carmichael.

The weather man, for instance, says
a strong wind will come UP late in
the afternoon.
But the ladies who work go to Office
in little pumps and light clothing.
When the wind strikes. as they wait
for the crowded bus. they shiver and
shake, and no doubt often come down
with colds the next day.
If only they had provided themselves
with coats, or sweaters, or the like.
But no. they preferred style to health.
This sort of small suffering, multi
piled many times over the year, is
not meeting temperature changes in
the right way The scientists did not
say to suffer needleSsly. Such lack of
protection does not make one hard,
but is part and parcel of the softness,
IN this case softheadednesS.
A little Southern lady was shivering
in light dress and fragile coat while
waiting for the bus. "Oh. this Wash
ington climate is killing mel" she
prettily walled.
Templeton Jones. who was standing
nearby. felt like waltzing up and say
ing. Madam, if you are going to live
in Washington. you will have to wear
thicker clothes than those you have
on" But. of course, he didn't waltz
and he didn't say anything. Temple
ton Jones, being an old Southern gen.
tleman himself, never speaks so TO
any one especially to beautiful lady
to whom he has not been introduced.
Reluctantly he just let's her suffer.
Evening star., 1954-01-12
A Long Way to Go

II the Kremlin is seriously interested in
the Presidents proposal to establish an inter-
national pool of atomic materials for peaceful
purposes, the confidential talks between Soviet
Ambassador Zarubin and Secretary of State
Dulles should succeed in laying the groundwork
for full-dreSs meeting on the subject. But
such a Development although encouraging,
would be at best only a small first step toward
breaking the old and dangerous deadlock over
the issue of controlling and prohibiting A
weapons. the hydrogen bomb and kindred in
StrumentS of mass destruction.
After ALL the objective of the Zarubin-
Dulles talks is strictly limited-namely, to work
out an agreement on the time place and COM
position Of the proposed conference. The con-
ference; as envisioned by the President, would
be held behind closed doors (at least at the
start and it would include the other powers
principally concerned, notably Canada and
Britain. Further, it would have an agenda
broad enough to accommodate the Soviet re-
quest for discussions covering not only the
atomic-pool idea but also the problem of the
nuclear ornaments race. Accordingly since
this request has been acceded to, there seems
to be fair chance that the Kremlin will be
agreeable enough to make the get-together
possible. If so, that will be hopeful sign but
still it will be no more than sign, and its true
significance will not be disclosed until the
meeting itself takes place and the Russians
show whether they are ready to cooperate in
harnessing the atom for peace or whether they
are interested merely in executing another
propaganda maneuver.
1t is worth noting, in any event, that the
Kremlin, while affirming its readiness to take
part in discussions on the Presidents propo-
sal, has vigorously revived it's old demand. for
an immediate and unconditional ban on all
the mass S-deStruction weapons. In other words
it has called again for the unilateral diSarma-
ment of the United States by insisting that
those weapons must be outlawed now-today-
before the establishment of effective policing
machinery in an international system to reduce
and regulate armed forces and arms of every
type. Quite obviously the effect of such pro-
hibition would be to oblige u.s. in exchange for
a paper promise from Moscow, to divest our
selves of our present atomic superiority and let
the Russians, with their huge land armies, en-
Joy great advantage over the free world In
the balance of power. The fact that they still
hold to this totally unacceptable position does
not augur well for a meeting on the peaceful
uses of the atom, and it explains why our own
country-becauSe of well-founded doubts about
the possibility Of getting the Soviet Union to
agree in the forSeeable future to real control
is recognizing its military establishment on
the assumption that national security will de-
pend primarily on nuclear and thermometer
1 ornaments for many years TO come.
Conceivably, of course, II the Zarubin-
Evening star., 1954-01-12
'Sions' of New War in Koreo

Columnists who have the rare priv
ilege of performing a daily public serv-
ice should seriously attempt to empha
size service" to the public in articles
so automatically printed.
Constantine Brown on January finds
reported Chinese radar protection meas
ures a threatening sign of resump-
ton of hostilities in Korea. Peiping and
Tientsin by an around the clock alert.
he says indicate that the Chinese
have some unpleasant trick up their
sleeves" Since when is radar. a purely
defensive device, signal of aggression?
The 24-hour alert is the only new
factor in the present uneasy truce re-
vealed by Brown. Such emphasis does
evoke leading questions: Is China afraid
of bomber attacks? What are the
hints" communicated to Washington,
writes Brown, that fighting might start
afresh after January 22?" What are
Rhee and Chang planning?
CONTIGUOUS.
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Slightly Left of Center

an In his Taft-Hartley recommendations the
President probably was trying to steer course
between two extremes-between those who still
clamor for outright repeal and those who op-
pose any relaxation of the law. The fair ap-
.praisal of the proposals which he has sent to
=, Congress, however, would seem to be that they
fall just little to the left of center.
John L. Lewis may be taken as the spokes-
: man for one extreme. And with respect to the
Presidents message, he says: "A few piddling
amendments won't make a slave law palatabe
ito free-born citizens" At the other extreme
one might put recent statement by the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers, which said
this: Industry, business and an overwhelming
majority of the public want the law strength
ened or left unchanged"
1t is a reasonable assumption that Mr.
Lewis is not competent to speak for the free
born citizens" and that the NAM is equally
unqualified as the Self-appointed spokesman
for IAN overwhelming majority Of the public"
1t is also reasonable assumption, however,
that neither the free-born citizen nor the
overwhelming majority of the public knows or
cares very much about the import of the
changes which President Eisenhower has rec
commended
These changes are not set forth in the
precise form of amendments to the law. They
are merely suggestions, stated in broad terms,
for revisions which the President thinks would
be desirable. On the whole. the effect of the
changes-assuming their adoption-would be
to liberalize the law, to make it little more
favorable from the union point of view. They
do not seem to weaken the sections designed
to protect the public interest.
These revisions will not be written auto
matically into the law, however, simply because
they have been proposed by the President. They
will be subject to the process of hearings and
debate. And if any formal amendments are
adopted after going through that process, their
meaning and effect will be much better under
stood Meanwhile, the President probably viii
have improved his position somewhat with the
rank and file of labor on the strength of their
assumption that he has tried to make the
Taft-Hartley Act little better law from their
point of view. And if those on the other side
of the street diSapprove of these proposed
changes-and they probably will diSapprove of
some of them-the political consequences can
hardly be seriously adverse to the President.
For these dissenters have no other place to 60.
Evening star., 1954-01-12

Dulles talks result In q full-dress conference,
the Russians may surprise everybody by agree
ing to cooperate Fundamentally in the Presi-
dents plan However, even though that would
be most heartening, it would constitute mere
beginning on what needs to be done to put an
end to the threat OF war with A-weapons and
H-bombs Certainly, the world has such a long,
long way to go in that respect that it would be
excessively hopeful to expect an atomic-pool
meeting, no matter how productive, to lead
quickly to decent and enduring peace.
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Should Congress Give Itself q Raise?

spending and that it would accelerate
imitation. Representative Dawson, Re-
publican, Of Utah is on record as
believing present salaries are adequate.
Tax relief, rather than pay raise, is
the recommendation of Representative
Burdick. North Dakota Republican.
Two years ago. Representative Chelf,
Democrat, Of Kentucky reported that
80 members of the House quit. at the
end Of the year, most of them because
Of an inability to get along on the
$15.000-a-year salary. But Represent
ative O'Brien, Democrat, of New York
looked at 1t this way:
II didn't come down here to make
money. My wife always said when /
got raise 1t was just down payment
on a new debt"
Other opponents of the idea point
out that Congressman fare rather well
in terms of fringe, benefits For ex-
ample. they are entitled to free Office
space - including desks, typewriters,
furniture. telephones - free observa-
tional and investigative trips c'jun-
kets'D, and even free hair cuts.
Whether the members of Congress
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Winter Day

This winter day is like child uho
filings
Her arms around each hour and holds
it tight,
Then shouts NTH joy uhile euery
moment sings
A little, Siluer song OF pure detight.
on cool. snop-slippered feet she runs
ahead
OF playful ,Ui,,dS and NTH small
girls face
She tries to troUn but quickly smiles
instead
And sprinkles laughter on each barren
place.
No April mood is younger than this day,
Nor summer noon more beautiful than
this.
When like a child who oives her loue
1tUdy
The winter greetS us uith shoD-sott
kiss.
She leads US on to white, enchanted
lands,
Our fingers cldSped In her sno,U-
mittened hands.
Lolo S. Morgan
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Stonehenqe From Myeenoe

Many British archaeologiSts long have be-
lieved that there is a connection between Stone
henge and various ruins of the Mediterranean
basin, particularly those of Mycenae and Knos-
sos So there is nothing new in the opinion OF
Professor Stuart Piggott of the University Of
Edinburgh that the monolithic circle on Sails
bury plain is in fact derivative from Aegean
builders. What is novel-and exciting-is the
discovery or rediscovery Of axes and daggers on
the sarSenS
Such symbols are common in Crete and not
rare on the coasts of the Middle Sea. H. J. Mas
sngham in his "Downland Man." says: Stone
henge resembles the tomb of Seti nineteenth
dynasty, and the pockmarkings of its trilithons
according to Flinders Petr:e) are like those Of
the Phoenician temple of Lachish, while the
trilithons themselves are exactly like the pos
tern to the Lion gate at Mycenae." Sir Arthur
Evans, meanwhile, suggests that "Stonehenge
is an elaboration of Itinerary monument" and
G. Eliot Smith identifies Algerian and Nubian
stone circles with Egyptian mastaba-tombs, fore
runners of the Pyramids. When James Baikie,
in "The Sea Kings of Crete" adds to these f1nd-
ings his evaluation of the double axe" carved
on the pillars of the Broad Palace at Knossos
as "an emblem of the worship of Zeus," sub
stantial-albeit Observation-Disclosures for
the newly noticed decorations at Stonehenge
is supplied for further speculation by Professor
Piggott and his associates
Laymen naturally will be skeptical until
the case has been proved. They will want to
be assured that the axe and dagger symbols
of Salisbury plain really trace back as far as
the construction Of the stone circle itself
that is, to 184S B. c.. plus or minus 275 years,
as established by the carbon test of Professor
w. F. Libby of the University of Chicago. Among
professional antiquarians, however, there is
likely to be less resistance The trend in archae-
ology is toward lone world" nowadays. Mexico
and Peru, Easter Island, Tahiti and New Zea-
land, Cambodia and Burma India and Ceylon,
even Zimbabwe are much nearer to both Eng
land and the Aegean area than they formerly
were, in time as well as space.
Evening star., 1954-01-12

will vote themselves raise or not
remains to be seen, but it seems fairly
certain that if they do. the criticism
will be predictably softer than that
offered the lawmakers in 1873 by a
Wisconsin newspaper when they de-
cided it was time to improve their lot
Said the newspaper Grossly:
THE miserable thieves were in the
humor to rob a baby of its coral, and
nothing could shame them. What right
have they to raise their wages at the
end of their term, or at any time? They
are public servants. Have other serv-
ants such rights? The whole thing is
so outrageous, so monstrous, that it is
hard to speak Of it with calmness or
moderation"
Evening star., 1954-01-12
By Donald Michoel Rouh

6STHE SENATORS and Representa-
Il tives shall receive compensation
for their services to be ascertained by
law, and paid out Of the Treasury Of
the United States"
In one sentence part Of Article ],
Section s, Of the Constitution n-the
founding fathers neatly disposed Of the
problem of who would be responsible
for establishing congressional salaries.
Who, they reasoned, would be better
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Letters to The Star.

editorialist looks into the case records.
he will see that juvenile delinquents
come from the whipping families and
not the coddling ones.
Warren w. Morse.
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer TO any question
Of fact BY writing The Evening stsI iptorm a
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Evening star., 1954-01-12
By THE HASKINS SERVICE.

@. How tall is Helen Traubel? How
much does she weigh?-M. c. c.
A. The singer is it, 10 in. tall and
weighs about 1875 10.
@. How many candles are used in the
United States in an average year?-
c. w
A. More than quarter OF billion
are used, mostly for decoration or for
religious purposes. Candles for religious
use are usually more than half beeswaX,
for mystical reasons.
Evening star., 1954-01-12

Pen-ndnes may be used il letters carry
Drtters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1954-05-27
Nixon Says Hearings Hide
Vital Issues; Urges End

I attention diverted to more. i'm
portant subjects, "the better it
will be for America"
Mr.. Nixon shared the speaking
platform at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel with Mrs. Oveta Culp
Hobby. Secretary of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare, and Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey.
Gov. Dewey did not announce
whether he would run for a
fourth term this fall, as it had
been expected he might, but de-
livered a campaign-type speech
against Democratic State leaders
and said the voters wanted more
of the Republican administra-
ton.
Mr.. Nixon said the hearings in
Washington distracted attention
from what he called the Eisen-
hover administrations "magnifi-
cent program" to achieve peace
and prosperity.
He said the hearings had
given rise to some concern that
the administration was not deal
ing effectively with the Red
conspiracy.
But he declared the Brownell-
Hoover program was smashing
1t without compromising stand
ards of justice.
Evening star., 1954-05-27
BY the Associated Pres.

NEW YORK, May 27.-vice
President Nixon says the Army
Mccarthy hearings are diverting
attention from more important
issues, and the quicker they end
the better.
He declared last night that
the Eisenhower administration
is smashing the Communist
conspiracy to bits" through ef-
forts of Attorney General
Brownell and FBI Chief j. Edgar
Hoover without compromising
American fair play principles.
Mr.. Nixon, addressing a $780,
a-plate New York State Repub-
lican Committee dinner. did not
mention Senator Mccarthy, Re-
publican, of Wisconsin by name.
But he declared Mr.. Brownell
and Mr.. Hoover are waging an
anti-Red program Of "action and
not talks"
Prefers Professionals.
Referring to the televised
hearings in Washington, he
said:
II prefer professionals to
amateurs on television."
He said the more quickly the
hearings could be concluded and
Evening star., 1954-05-27

the nature Of an improper
means to influence the Army
in the direction of granting
favors to Mr.. Schine or in
any other direction. And each
time under oath Mr.. Adams
said no.
Then he said late, as you
have said even more belatedly,
that he felt, however, that
perhaps in the memoranda
issued on March IL there was
something to incriminate Mr..
Carr. That was not very per-
suasive when Mr.. Adams said
it, Mr.. Welch, nor when you
said it, because I knew and he
knew and you know that at
the time you prepared your
carefully drawn set of specifi-
cations to which you signed
your name, which it was teSti-
fed you prepared after con-
Sultation with the records of
the principals, not one single
mention was made of the
memoranda on which you now
propose to indict Frank Carr.
Nor can I be as much per-
Suaded as I might be about
this new suggestion that per-
hapS you now have found
something which will indict
Frank Carr.
Perhaps there is something
in a monitored telephone call
between Mr.. Adams, who teSti-
fled he found nothing up until
March IL, which would indict
Mr.. Carr in the face of the
testimony of Mr.. Adams that
he found nothing before March
II with which he could quarrel
seriously concerning the proper
conduct record of Mr.. Carr.
I am not too much persuaded
by your expression of the hope
that these calls, when they
are entered, will disclose such
a fact.
But for your solace, Mr..
WEIGH, may I say this: You
are not before a judicial
tribunal. You are before a
committee of the Senate. Any
action that the Senate takes
is reversible. If we make an
error in voting now to dis
Evening star., 1954-05-27

Following is a partial tran
script of yesterdays session OF
the Arnty-McCGrthy hearing
at tDhich Republican members
Uoted to excuse Mccarthy Sub
committee staff Director Fran
els Carr and Assistant Defense
Secretary H. StruUe Hensel as
principals and witnesses in
the case.
Senator DworShak-I now
move that the charges in
volving Mr.. Struve Hensel be
dismissed for lack of any
testimony whatever involving
him or sustaining said
charges, and that he no longer
be considered a party in in
terest in this controversy, and
be dismissed as a witness; and
also that at this time the
charges preferred against Mr..
Frank Carr be dismissed be-
cause the. proof and testi-
mony concerning Mr.. Carr
are wholly insufficient to suS-
tain said charges. I further
move that he no longer be
considered a party in interest
in this controversy. and that
he also be dismissed as a
witness.
Senator Mundt-Is there a
second to the motion?
Senator DirkSen-I second
the motion.
Senator Mundt - Senator
Mcclellan?
Senator Mcclellan - Mr..
Chairman, I trust the Senator
will make his motions sepa-
rately.. The first motion, to
dismiss these charges against
Mr.. HenSel, is manifestly
unfair to those who made the
charges. They have not had
an opportunity to testify
against Mr.. HenSel. Whether
they want to withdraw the
charges, I do not know, but
the charges against Mr..
Hensel were made. by Sena-
tor Mccarthy and Mr.. Cohn,
and Mr.. Carr possibly, and
they have not had a chance
to prove their case against
him.
We have been hearing
charges made by the Army
against the other side. I
insist that that motion is pre-
mature, that it would be
manifeStly unfair to Senator
Mccarthy who made the
charges, and I respectfully
urge the Senator to withdraw
it,