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Maryland Area Used
Record Amount Of
Wafer Wednesday

The washington s burb an
Sanitary Commission said that
Wednesdays record 100 : degree
heat brought q record-smashing
57-million- gallon use Of water by
its patrons In nearby Maryland.
Harry B. Shaw. the commits
sion's chief engineer, said the
record water consumption was 4
million gallons greater than the
previous record, set last summer.
The commission serves some
425 900 water users in portions
Of both Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties.
The commissions water sys-
tenn was rather hard put to take
care OF the demand Mr.. Shaw
said. We've been able to meet
the demand on the system SO far.
but that doesn't mean that we
have unlimited water" Less than
a million gallons was used in air.
conditioning systems, Mr.. Shaw
estimated.
Water users In the Prince
Georges community of Hillcrest
Heights reported low pressure
Wednesday for five or six hours
due to the heavy demand. A
commission spokesman said this
would be relieved by completion
of q new pumping station at Hill
Reservoir, now under construc-
ton.
The commissioners voted to
make a survey Of charitable in
stitutions In the two counties
after Arthur c. Keefer. then
counsel, said that such institu-
lions are using q great deal Of
free water. Institutions such al
| orphanages and homes for the
aged receive 100 gallons Of water
per day for each person from
Prince Georges or Montgomery
Counties under their care. The
survey will determine the exact
number of persons qualified TX
receive the free water service.
/ Rockville town attorney Davit
Belts will meet with the commits.
sioners at 2 pm. Tuesday to dis
cuss indignation of sewer con
| struction projects with the SAM
tary agency's own sewer prof
! ect plans.
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Notes on Governors Meeting
Trucking Industry Pressure Got Nowhere in Ldusehe Attack;
Gov Dewey Shns Photographers Muy Be Sick of Politics

generous. Let the Governors OF
the poor States speak up. he
adjured them, and Nebraska
would consider what charity
it could proffer.
Not a single Governor would
take the pauper'S oath.
incidentally, another Me-
braskan said Nebraska only
began to break even when
World War II started. Skid
ding farm prices and a general
depression, he opined, would
alter Gov. CroSby's tune.
y NAA
Why didn't Vice President
Nixon pick UP a telephone to
the White House and straight
en- out that misunderstanding
on the Presidents highway
message? Governors now adj
nit they warned Mr.. Nixon IL
would go over like a lead ball
loon in view of the Governors
past attitudes and recent de-
bate. But Mr.. Nixon went OF
to the golf course with Gov.
Dewey.
That night he delivered Gen.
Eisenhower's notes almost ver-
batirl, only adding a Commu-
mist lecture he has made re-
peatedly. This left him in the
clear on the highway business
but left the President In the
soup.
- ~
Reporters agree that the
only presidential hay made at
the conference was made by
Gov. Lausche Of Ohio.
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only on atomic power, but also
in utilization In other fields
that radiate from the atom
medical science, agriculture,
processing Of food. and so on.
We, the taxpayers. already
have invested $11 billions in
atomic development. mostly for
military purposes. We have.
therefore. quite a stake. It be-
longs to us. The terms by
which we permit private In
terests to de yelop atomic pow
er for peace-time uses become
consequently the overriding
consideration before Congress
and with us.
There win likely be more
noise and clamor about other
issues in the atomic act revi-
sion bill.
One Of these issues concerns
how much we shall tell our
allies about military use Of
atomic power. Another has to
do with the recent order by
President Eisenhower to the
Atomic Energy Commission to
purchase power from q plant
to be built by q private Syndi-
cate, instead of having IVA
which has been the supplier Of
power for Acc. build q steam
plant and add to It's own ca
pacity. Supporters OF IVA in
Congress see this Arrangement
as not only bad business for
the Government and costly to-
it and the consumer but also
as an entering wedge to ham-
string Twas usefulness as q
yardstick. They are seeking to
stop execution Of the contract
by amending the atomic en-.
ergy bin.
These two matters are ex-
tremely important In thenl-
selves, and Of considerable
public import and interest.
But the public should Be ca.l-
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The long faces of the Dewey
associates indicated they be-
lieve he has decided to quit.
But, unused shrewd William
Pearson of the WATERFOWL,
N. Y, Daily Times:
81 can't quite figure out
where he'll do better. The
salary Of the New York Gov
erlaor has been doubled $780,
900 next year. He gets housing,
service of all kinds, including
secretarial, domestic and the.
State Troopers. He has great
power, which Dewey enjoys
and knows how to use. Dewey
is SO thoroughly on top of the
job, It's no longer hard"
But at this conference, Gov.
Dewey waved away pretty Life
photographer Lisa Larsen with
an ungallant:: I'm sick of pic
lures" He obviously has lost
his taste for politics.
x 4 y
Republicans have unques-
tionably kidnapped the States
rights issue. Their Governors
at the conference did every
thing but raise the Confeder-
ate flag over the Sycamore
Hotel. while the Democrats
kept silent.
= + ~
Gov. Robert Crosby of Me-
braska, a newcomer, produced
the conferences most unfor-
tunate moment. Boosting that
Nebraska was rich and wanted
no Federal aid. he assured his
colleagues that his State was
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AS I read Sir Winston
Churchill's report to the House
of Commons on his Washing
ton visit, / thought, first. that
our system of Government is
deficient in that under the
division Of powers it makes no
provision for such reports from
the Executive to the Congress.
But even If it did. the present
temper Of the American Con-
greSs is seemingly unreceptive
to the spirit of reasonable
elaboration to which Sir VIM
Ston appealed.
The speech by the aged
British statesm a n, though
notably lacking in the aphor-
isns and purple passages
which he customarily COM
mands, was, I think, one Of
] the greatest addresses of his
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G inc Brown

Prime Minister Churchill.
despite his deep-seated aver
sion to communism. is now
cr,isading for persistence
between the slave and the
free world. He believes ap-
parently that IL the Russian
people could begin to get one
enjoyment out Of life perhaps
playing golf and the ponies
the present repressive dicta-
torship might be sOftened.
Thus q happy people could
lead to a more liberal gov
eminent.
A few Russians not more
than one In every half million
Of the Soviet population have
succeeded in escaping from the
tolls of the Krernlin masters.
Most Of them tell us that the
Russian people are tired Of
their rulers after 81 years Of
Communist dictatorship end
may soon overthrow the Red
regime.
But both Sir Winston and
the refugee Russians should be
listened to with skepticism.
For the unacceptable facts are
that. q whole new generation
has come Of >age In Russia
since the Bolshevik revolution.
and that generation knows Of
nothing but the Communist
way Of life. What they hear
of the outside world comes to
them from the necessarily
blaring Red loudspeakers on
every Soviet street corner. And
all those loudspeakers ever re-
peat is the distorted version OF
world events put out by the
masters Of the Kremlin, the
dreary recital Of the latest pro-
duction figures In the factories
and on the collective farms.
the diplomatic and military
victories Of the Communist
bigWigs.
If we stop to realize the cold
truth THAT a people subjected
to nothing but q steady diet
Of Communist propaganda for
an entire lifetime can hardly
be expected to revolt in favor
Of something unknown to them
we viii hardly place too
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Doris Fleeson-

NEW YORK. - Washington
visitors to Bolton Landing felt
that the incest part of the
recently concluded Governors
conference was the man who
wasn't there-the junior SEN
ator from Wisconsin. He was
almost never mentioned. Peace,
it's wonderful.
The most pressing and most
specific reality dealt with by
the conference was how to
meet the virulent attack by
trucking interests on the right
OF the States to tax them for
the use of the highways. About
40 States levy truck taxes in
some form for an estimated
800 million return.
The truckers have been try
ing to make an example Of
Gov. Frank j. Lausche and his
rich industrial State of Ohio,
which imposes on them an
axle-mile tax. They sent lobby
lists to Bolton Landing in the
apparent hope of isolating the
Ohio Governor from his peers.
Gov. Lausche took the of
fensive and was supported by
leading Governors. including
Dewey Of New York. 50 that
the truckers never got of the
ground. Gov. Dewey declared
bitingly that apparently q
capitalist industry was adopt
ing from the Kremlin the
technique Of enlightenment and
that New York, so far let alone.
would help its allies and be
ready.
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career. Admittedly compelled
to omit certain details for Sc
cdrity and diplomatic reasons.
he nevertheless embraced the
whole field Of British foreign
policy. His words were not
addressed to partisans. but. as
Alexander Hamilton wrote:
neither to blind appro-
baton nor blind disapproba-
ton but to that critical and
candid consid eration which the
magnitude of the question de-
serves" He was. in short, con-
scious that a policy ito be
right must be reasonable, !"
assuming that even politicians
are reasonable animals - the
assumption, incidentally, on
which representative democ-
racy rests.
It occurred to me that since
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that the utilities are now en-
gagged In 3 campaign to break
these preferences down and.
In fact, are On the point Of
success In various areas at
Niagara Falls, ut Clarke's Hill
along the Savannah River in
Georgia and South Carolina,
and In some projects being
planned for the Pacific North
west. among others.
If the utilities could prevent
preferences for public bodies
aid co-ops In the atomic
energy law, IL would be quite
b victory at the very outset.
They,n1ay get away with Il. Of
eotirse. They have their highly
paid lobbyists right here, 1t
the ear cf your representa-
tives. and you. the public, are
always i long ways on.
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Dovid Lowrence

Charles e. Wilson. Secre-
tary Of Defense, is q man Of
candor. He has just made q
statement to the Senate
Armed Services Committee
which tells more than all the
days Of the television hearings
In the Mccarthy Stevens feud
ever did about the dangers OF
Communist inf1ltration that
face all the armed services and
defense plants.
Evidently American public
opinion has not yet been suf-.
ficiently aroused on this issue
and there has not been enough
pointing UP Of the whole situa-
ton in defense plants by con-
gressional committee investi-
cations because Senator LANCER
Of the Senate judiciary Com.
mittee has not yet felt obli-
gated to report to the Senate
q bill that Is aimed at sub
versives in the defense plants.
And Secretary Wilson says q
law of that kind Is badly
needed.
Mr.. Wilson says, with refer
ence to Communists who are
working in defense plants,
that, while those engaged in
secret work can be fired, there
is no way to enable private
contractors to prevent them
from working In other parts
of the same plant and MAIN
tanning personal contacts with
those who do work on secret
projects. The head OF the De-
partment of Defense says in
his prepared statement:
SIN our opinion We do not
have sufficient legal authority
to fully protect all industries
vital to national defense from
the danger Of subversives and
security risks. We hope that
the legislation that has been
proposed to take care of an
important part Of this problem
will receive the consideration
we are sure 1t deserves"
Senator Saltonstall, chair
man Of the Armed Services
Committee, told Secretary
Wilson at might be proper"
for Mr.. Wilson to urge Senator
LANCER to get the Judiciary
Committee Of the Senate to
act speedily on it.
When Assistant General
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.S0lsIa1lIIIE DOW
'Co-Existence' Called Pipe Dream
New Generation Of Russiuns Knows Nothing Of Better
Life, and So Remains Unaware Of Any HIGHER GooIs

When the inevitable COLI
lapse Of the Czarist regime
came In 1917 Ia the wake Of
military disasters on the East-
ern front. the Communists
were ready. Kerensky's demo-
cratic republic never had .
chance when the armies dis
integrated. Late In 1917 this
reporter was q war corresponds
ent assigned to the Russian
armies on the Carpathian
front. When word came Of the
downfall Of KerenSky, the
troops lnysteriously began to
leave the trenches in droves.
Ofiicers were stripped Of their
insignia. Those who tried to
restore some semblance Of
order were shot down In cold
blood. When . Russian pri-
vate was asked by this re-
porter why he was deserving
his post. he replied. Father
Gear has taken q new wife
named Republika and Is giv-
ing away the land to the
peasants. We're In q hurry 70
60 home and get our share
This was the extent Of the
simple socialism" pervading
the overwhelmingly peasant
armies Of Russia.
Then as now, the Russian
''moujik" lthe, Reds have re-
moved that word from the
dictionaries) knew nothing Of
the outside world. Today, his
conception of the world and
its institutions Is limited pre-
cisely to what his Soviet
masters have taught him.
"Co-exiStence" based on
hopes that the Russian peo-
pie will provide the means to
prod their leaders into q less
conspiratorial attitude Is q
pipe dream. Relations be-
tween the free world and the
Soviet Union must today. as
In the past. be conducted with
the men who WELD power. The
free world must recognize the
reality: That we must deal
with the dedicated Communist
leaders In the Kremlin whose
objective Is world domination.
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Thonnos [. Stokes

It may sound somewhat
melodramatic to say that Con-
gress Is on the eve of one Of
the great legislative decisions
of its long history.
But that hardly seems an
exaggeration as to what 1t
does about the bill to revise
the Atomic Energy Act that is
now before the Senate.
Unless the bill as 1t was pre-
scented to the Senate from the
Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy Is amended to protect
the public against the monop-
oily that some experts believe
is inherent in It's patent and
other provisions, then future
generations may be in for .
lot of headaches.
There Is q background OF
experience to warn us. That Is
the way we permitted our ear.
lier source of energy electro
city developed from water
power and steam power--to be
exploited by private combines
that got bigger and bigger and
more and more powerful, took
higher and higher tolls from
the consuming public, and A.
nally invaded and polluted our
politics until the Government,
moving under the impulse Of
public wrath, finally stepped
in to straighten 1t all out. That
wasn't so long ago. in fact Is
still clear In the memory Of
many OF us.
Out Of that we developed
regulatory laws that offer .
pattern to guide us In develop
ment Of atomic power.
We start fresh now with
atOEnic energy. with all that
experience behind US. We will
indeed be negligent-as well
as fools-if again we let power.
fas and selfish private inter-
ests get D monopoly grip not
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Counsel Stempler Of the De-
tense Department. who also
testified before the Armed
Services Committee, was asked
about this lack of authority.
he said that "a fairly large
number Of subversives are
known to be working In de-
tense plants. But nothing can
be done about It until q new
law is obtained.
So it is apparent now that,
after all, the "iet the FBI do
it" doctrine doesn't cover cases
like this at all.
incidentally, this is pre-
cisely the point that Senator
Mccarthy has been making
namely, that his congressional
committee was exposing the
presence Of such subversives
and making an issue Of it
before the American people
when some one In the admin
istration with less sense than
emotion succeeded In forcing
a suspension of the regular
work OF the committee In or
der to deal with the charges
about q loyal American. an
anti-C Communist who happened
to be drafted. for Army service
and who. like thousands OF
others in past years, had some
one on Capitol Fill try to get
him a commission in the Army.
Speaking of commissions, the
Secretary of Defense in his
formal statement has con-
coded that Mai. Peress should
never have been commissioned
and that the case was badly
handled. He says:
"a study Of the tPeress case
indicated. among other things,
that the undesirable results
were due, in part at least. to
lack of correlation Of infor-
nation In security cases"
Mr.. Wilson tells of q new
order, issued by him on April
8. 1854, which requires that
personnel records and all
investigative records in re-
gard to the security Of person.
mel not now effectively corre-
lated shall be correlated with
out delay in each Of the mill
tary departments to insure
that full facts are available
for prompt and fair admins
tration Of all personnel mat
ters."
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much trust in the success Of
Z co-existence. or in the likeli-
hood Of any revolt In Russia.
It has been popular for his
torians and political observers
to assume that the Bolshevik
coup IN 1917 was the work OF
q handful Of determined men,
from dozen to q thousand,
perhaps. They see the over
throw of the Kerensky demo-
cratic government that re-
placed the Gar as d Stealthy
stroke by q tiny clique Of OPP
portllnists acting In q crisis
without special advance prep
aration. They explain the de-
feat Of the organized counter
revolution led by Generals
Denikin. Yudenitc h, and
Wrangel and Admiral Koichak
In terms of the incompetence
Of these leaders.
The truth. however, is some
thing else again. For years be-
fore the Communist revolu-
ton the Russian government
had been infiltrated by Boil
sheviks, often nasquerading as
democratic socialists. When
the German general staff. in
g masterpiece OF monumental
stupidity, arranged to, trans
port Lenin to Petrograd. the
basis for the Red coup had
long been laid.
Bolsheviks, their fellow
travellers. and '.non-violent"
socialists ready to join the Boil
sheviki, infested the huge
Czarist bureaucracy, even in
GLIDING the dreaded Ochrana,
the Cars secret police and di-
rect forbear Of today's MVn.
They, together with the in-
credible ineptitude Of the
Cars generals and the court
favorites in charge Of sup
plying the armed forces.
worked successfully to destroy
the morale Of the Russian ar
mics in the field. Russian
troops in World War ! fought
with as much bravery and
self-sacrifice as did the Red
army Of World War II at
Stalingrad and elsewhere. But
their efforts were in vain.
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Dorothy Thompson 81.
ChurchilI's Address to Reason
SWinston Is Statesman Old Enough to Recognize That
Civilization Means Living With Not Solving, All Problems

he came into office, President
Eisenhower has not made one
speech similarly comprehensive
of his whole international
policy, or similarly addressed
purely to reason and realism.
The Churchill speech can
not adequately be reviewed in
q short column. We shall
therefore refer only to Its be-
ginning and end.
His visit to Washington. he
revealed, was occasioned by his
learning Of the results Of the
thermonuclear tests on Eniwe-
tok Atoll, from the pages Of
the Manchester Guardian.
(That the closest American
ally was dependent on journal
lists for the most critical infor-
nation is, itself, a comment on
the conduct Of our foreign af-
fairS.)
Sir Winston knew that the
demonstration Of the H-bomb
changes the whole pattern OF
warfare and therefore Of poll
tics and diplomacy. The con-
cept Of massive retaliation"
and Of "forcibly extirpating
Communist fallacy and here
sy," becomes a recommends
ton for mutual suicide.
This entirely logical deduc-
ton works both ways. Since
Karl Marx wrote 1.-THE Com
munist Manifesto" Commu.
nistS have believed in the "his-
toric inevitability" Of the tri.
umph Of communism by for.
chile means But even in the
Manifesto Marx, setting forth
its categorical thesis. 1.-THE his
tory Of all hitherto existing
society is the history Of class
struggles" ending in "the revo-
lutionary reconstruction Of So
ciety at large" also admitted
an alternative-or "the COM
mon ruin of the contending
parties"
Marx ,(like Thomas Jeffer-
son and all the other ideologi-
cal eminences who have con-
tributed to form modern
SocietieS) was pre- Einstein.
Common ruin" as q possible
outcome of an theological Ar.
mageddon is no longer q pos
sibility. 1t is a certainty. And
that leaves only one alterna-
tive, some kind Of "co-exist-
ence," however icily restrained
by the fearfulness OF no exist
ence.
The end of the Churchill
speech is, therefore. implicit
In its beginning. And apropos
dwelling side by side with
Communist states" the "dan-
gers and difficulties" Of which
he did not diminish, he made
one remark to which this col.
umn gives strong assent:
Indeed, ] believe that the
widespread acceptance Of this
policy may, In the passage of
the years, lead to the problems
which divide the world being
solved Or solving themselves.
as 80 many problems do"
Actually. great and funda-
/, mental problems are never
solved" Every thesis has an
antithesis. and they resolve
themselves twhen they dol In
some new synthesis. as life,
ver-changing and unfolding.
produces new situations to
which all previous dogmas
must adjust themselves or risk
common ruin. In fact q book
could tand shouldD be written
about the woes visited upon
mankind by even highly ideal
istic attempts TO solve" what,
at the time, Is insoIuble.
Civilization, Hike life. con-
sists rather ia living with prob-
lens, than IN solving them
once and for allevery prob
lem. for that matter, giving
birth to . new one in HE for-
chile parturiHCn.
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