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Evening star., 1954-11-18
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
The Tariff on Watches

me makers OF inexpensive watches in
this country have presented an interesting
case against the present tariff rates on inn
ported watch movements matter now
awaiting decision by the White House.
These tariffs were cut in 1885. Since that
time, as rising wages and prices made the
tariff an even smaller percentage of the
cost of an imported watch movement, i'm
ports have scared.
j. Lehmkuhl, president of United States
Time Corporation, one of the Nations larg-
est manufacturers of inexpensive watches,
has said his company faces extinction be-
cause Of foreign competition. Since the
tariff cuts were made, that firms competi-
tors from abroad have jumped their sales
here tenfold
Another assertion is that the Govern
ment has cancelled it's contracts in this
country for mechanical time fuses, supplied
principally by the watch manufacturers,
and has taken it's fuse contracts abroad,
where cheaper labor is available. The cam
collation. of the contracts here, plus the
civilian market loss to foreign competitors,
is forcing United States Time to fire 1000
workers. The effect of the loss of such
technical skills, in the event of war which
might cut off all this Nations imports, could
be quiet serious.
It would take long time to train tech
nicians If 1t became necessary once more
to produce such fuses here.
A recommendation by the Tariff Com
mission two years ago that the 1885 tariffs
be restored was rejected by former PreSi-
dent Truman. Now, Mr.. Lehmkuhl says,
the commission has made similar recon-
mendation to President Eisenhower. Neither
the Tariff Commission nor the White House
will confirm, deny or discuss whether such
recommendation has been made. But I'm
official reports are that the commission has
in fact proposed an increase in the duties
on watch movements.
Serious consideration should be given
to the arguments of the watch manufac-
turers. And it is surprising that a curtain
of secrecy, meantime, has been drawn
around the Tariff Commissions recon-
mendation.
It's getting so the track coach greets
his athlete who runs the mile In four min
utes with a curt. well. what kept your"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Interesting the Voters

have long thought the lack of in
terest at the polls on election day is the
only weakness in the American way of
life. also believe that any loss of our
freedom will be due to the voters non
interest rather than invading armies.
In other words, the penalty people pay
for indifference to public affairs is to
+. be ruled by evil men.
The idea am going to try and de-
scribe briefly may help the above de-
scribed indifference to voting.
The general election day held in most
States every two years could be de-
clared a national holiday and all men
and women over Is years or older. re-
quired to appear at their precincts
where they would be checked on the
books. There would be no requirement
that they must vote, the vote would be
there If they wanted to cast one and
had registered. I believe a very high
percentage would make themselves ELI
gible to vote and knowing they would
have to appear would find out about
the proposed candidates and cast good
vote.
The mechanics of this plan could be
worked out by those who would safe
guard our rights.
William C. Austin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
''TAKoMA PARK.

eTAKOMA PARK.
Dear Sir:
isn't there any way to get cat
out Of tree except to use ladder?
1--WE have had such q time in our
family with cats. They always climb
high but never seem to be able to
come down.
Then we have to get ladders, and
climb, and get clawed: once we even
kill the poor thing.
1T swung down at the end Of the
rope, and II it hadn't been for thick
shrub, 1t would have dashed its brains
out on the ground.
"Since that experience, we have been
looking for some magic, guess. but We
haven't found any.
Can you tell me why cats that can
go up, can't come down?
ut seems rather absurd Of them.
They can climb well, all Of them, and
some of them can come down just as
easily as they went up.
Why can't the others? What has
happened to them that, despite their
admirable claws and sturdy legs. they
can't manage the downward slide?
81 will look forward to your reply.
as everybody In this house is getting
tired of this cat business. Pet cats are
nice, but do they always have to be so
much trouble?
Sincerely yours. ]. I. D."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
This and That

There is, indeed, no magic, in this or
any other matter.
The world has been searching for
magic ever since man began.
The moment, the first man climbed
down out of the trees or maybe even
before. he tapped on wood, or refused
to walk under a branch that hung
down.
He was superStitious, as we say today.
What he said is unknown, at this late
date, but If it is possible to guess, it
simply is this, that he was trying to ap-'
pease evil spirits by magic.
He had never seen the evil spirits, of
course, but he had heard about them.
That old monkey on the other limb had
told him about theml He never stopped
10 ask how the old monkey knew. The
old monkey said it very positively. and
even today what old monkeys say very
positively often has the ring of truth.
The black magic of getting cat to
come down out of tree is this:
Place wide platter of canned salmon
at the base of the tree.
Then get all the children and adults
out of the yard.
The second part of this magic is as
important as the first.
The cat (often a kitten) viii not come
down before an audience.
It is the human audience, in many
cases. that keeps 1t aloft.
The feline psychology Is based on
stubbornnesS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Lote-But Welcome

The unanimous vote of the Senate Re-
publican Policy Committee to recommend
its own code of conduct in congressional
investigations is good and healthful thing.
It is late in coming. Last March the
committee proposed somewhat milder
code, but at that time the code was put
forward merely as a recommendation to the
respective committee chairmen. Now the
policy committee is urging that the Senate
formally approve the tougher code, and if
this is done the recommendations will be-
come binding on committee chairmen.
There is no good reason why the Senate
should not act, and act favorably, at this
session. Abuses by congressional commit
tees are not new. For long time these
agencies, to greater or lesser degree, have
been trampling on the rights of citizens.
But all of these past performances have
been outdone by the abuses of the Mccarthy
committee which, at long last have
served to arouse both the public and the
Senate leadership If the result is the adop-
ton, even the belated adoption, of code
of fair procedures, there certainly will have
been gain of more than nominal Signif-
canoe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
'MoIfeosunce and Moral Turpitude'

1t is a shameful story of greed venality
and plain dishonesty that is being UNI
folded before the Senate committee in
vestigating the Federal housing scandals.
For in what seems to have been a twilight
zone of legality, sharpshooting spectators
and Government officials of easy virtue or
of cynical disregard for the public interest
elaborated in the creation and distribu-
ton of hundreds of millions of dollars Of
'prof1ts" acquired with little investment or
risk.
The fact that so much of this appar-
emily was done by taking advantage of loop
holes in the Federal housing law may save
some of the prof1teers from any prosecution
but it does not make them honorable men.
One witness before the Senate investigating
committee said that "the hoodlum, the
racketeer and the bunko man" had been
among those sharing in the windfall profits.
If otherwise respectable individuals chose
TO operate in this questionable area it is not
unfair to Judge them by the company they
kept. AS for the Federal officials who knew
of this situation-whether or not they
Shared in the profits-their lack of charac-
ter or of competence Is an obvious disquali-
Acation for public service.
The combination Of a loosely drawn
Jaw, poor administration and pnscrupulous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
By Charles E. TroceweN
Taxpayer.

To do what human being wants
it to do, oh, no!
Cats operate on the Mary, Mary
Quite Contrary principle.
You hold the door open to one that
desires to go outdoors, he draws back.
Close the door again. and immedi-
ately he wants to go out.
The cat UP the tree is as contrary as
the rest of his tribe, and vastly more
scared than most of them.
He may come down, once he gets
that salmon smell in his nostrils, if
he thinks nobody is watching him. So
the smart thing to do is not to watch
him.
Cats that cannot climb down where
they went up easily are victims Of lack
of parental training.
Their mothers failed to show them
how to come down backward. so that
their claws engaged in the bark on the
downward trip just as they did on
the upward.
Cats up trees that can't come down
are trying to do it head-down, just as
they went up head-up. 1t is perfectly
natural for them to do it. since ones
head mostly goes on ahead, but in this
case what they needed was some prior
training in how to handle trees. Mother
here, as elsewhere, is usually right-n
she does what she ought to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06

dealings fully justifies the comment Of Sem
ator Byrd, Virginia Democrat. that "the
whole Federal housing program constitutes
the greatest invitation to malfeasance and
moral turpitude perpetrated by the Fed
eral Government in recent times" The
Capehart committee has made good start
at exposing the unwholesome mess and the
Senate already has passed bill to extend
from three to five years the statute of lin
itations on Government prosecution. The
Department Of Justice should study the
record of this inquiry with the greatest care
and take any action it can to punish viola
lions of the law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Advice From Demosthenes

In his recent Los Angeles speech to the
American Red Cross, Admiral Arthur Rad
ford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff,
drew grimly convincing picture of the
immensely of the Communist menace
throughout the world, with particular en-
phasis on Asia. But he made clear at
the same time that it is menace that can
be countered successfully If the free ma.
tions, instead of drifting apart, pull together
now-right away, without delay-in united
and resolute defense against it. And in
making this point, in warning against doing
too little too late, in calling for genuinely
strong and determined interallied collective
action, he went back into ancient history
to offer. the following apt advice from
Demosthenes:
It is shameful to say afterwards "Who
would have thought that this could happen?
We really ought to have done this or that,
and not done the other" The people of
Olynthus could mention plenty of things
today, which, if they had foreseen in the past.
would have saved them from destruction.
So could all the other peoples who have been
eliminated. But what is the use? While the
boat is unchanged. then is the time for sailor
and helmsman and all on board to show
unceasng vigilance and prevent any one from
upsetting it, either purposely or accidentally.
But when the sea has overwhelmed it, all ef-
fort is in van
These words were spoken in 348 BE-,
after Philip of Macedon had wiped out the
city-state of Olynthus in his drive to domi-
nate Greece. But they are as meaningful
now as they were then. Indeed, as never
before in history-because of the unique
nature of both our chronological age and
the Communist threat-it is imperative for
all on board the ship of freedom to work
together to keep it afloat and bring it
through the storm to safe harbor. In any
event, as Admiral Radford has said, this is
surely not a time for the United States and
like-minded nations Ito do nothing. Nor
should we go jogging along, just hoping for
something better to turn up. :. We shall
not find the pathways to peace by retreat
ing from danger. Danger must be faced
boldly, courageously and unitedly before it
explodes into a world conf1agration."
Demosthenes, If he were here today, would
undoubtedly agree, and so would the people
Of Olynthus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Old Wagon

HON. many years d,Ddy the farmhouse
stands
or 10Itere the tired old horses rest, /
neCeT
Shall be sure. Yet here the Wagon quit
To rot upon this tDhedthtll's arm, for
eDer
To be old, forever to oroD less.
No change OF moon or sudden burst OF
rain
or out OF season heat can make It neD
Or make it more or turn its t0heels
again;
And no amount of nurture. faith or
prayer
Can euer mend the splintered driper's
seat.
But I kno1o weH hoU Just such daily
things
Can lift to life ,odstinU field OF iDhedt.
]. Florence Boutwell,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
BIomine the Operators

During the electrical blackout the
night of June Is, and the ensuing rush
Of calls to the Pepco switchboard
(Which put it temporarily out of serv-'
ice) the telephone operators of this area
took violent and undeserved beating.
From the loud and often abusive
trades of some of the "lightless" GUS
toners. one might have thought that
some Of us personally went out and
tore down all the power lines.
None of them seemed to think for
minute that most of us on duty that
night, working as fast as we were able
to answer the increasing volume of calls,
had left families, freezers, refrigera-
tors, ETC., in our own homes in the
same powerless predicament as every
one else.
Why must "the voice." which we
don't know and can't see, always be
the recipient of the public's outraged
abuse?
May I ask some of the people who
were so impolite and abusive that night
Just what good their verbal explosions
did to restore electrical service? One
thing do know that these people did,
they surely tied up and slowed down
telephone service for the majority of
our more thoughtful customers.
Telephone Operator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Decentrolized Government

The encroachment upon the States
and local governments should and must
be halted by the Federal Government.
In 1880, 20 per cent Of the taxes went
to the Federal Government and 80 per
cent to the State and local governments
In 1854, the Federal Government will
use about 80 per cent>and the States
and local governments 20 per cent.
It is high time we reverse this trend
from centralized federalism. The citi-
zens of this Nation would have more say
in the amount spent and for whom it's
to be spent on if it were left to the
States and local governments.
New York State has population of
1877 million, while Nevada has only
about 100000, yet both States have the
same number of Senators in the United
States Senate. Since we are not repre-
sented in proportion to our population
in the Senate, the Federal Government
should be decentralized to large degree
back to the. States and local govern
ments wherever possible.
There Is an even more important
reason for the return to the State and
local governments. think President
ElSenhoWer'S statement back in 1949
Is correct and shows wisdom and far
sightedness. If we allow this constant
drift toward central government to
continue. ownership of property will
gradually drift into that central gov
eminent, and, finally, we shall have to
have dictatorship as the only means
OF operating such a huge organization.
Is this actually happening? Today
the Federal Government owns nearly
one-fourth of the entire land area of
this country. More than one-sixth the
land now owned by the Federal Gov
eminent has been acquired by it in
the past 10 years.
Wherever Federal Government func-
tons can be undertaken by State and
local governments we should allow
them to so administrate.
j. w. S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Letters to The Star.

Americanism well known. In spite Of
this. however. out of voters sup
ported my program Of Americanism.
which is significant when 1t is remem-
bered Mrs. Smith defeated two Gov
ernors in 1948 who were well known
and who spent large sums of money.
Finally, I believe the Republican Ma
tional Committee and members Of Con-
gress standing for reelection this year
win err If they believe Cd that McCar-
: thyism was tested and defeated in the
Maine primaries, or (2) that Senator
McCarthy's popularity is on the down.
grade. Both, In my judgment. are COM
pletely false, and after all was the
candidate.
Robert L. Jones.
Portland, Me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
ChurchiII's Visit

What was the real reason for Church.
Ills visit: OStensibly to set up defense
plan against Communist aggression in
Southeast Asia.
Is Churchill really sincere when he
says he wishes to cooperate with the
United States in stopping further ag-
gression in Southeast Asia? Or is VIM
ME playing another shrewd diplomatic
game to get the United States to rec
ognize Red China by so-called Lo-
carno pact with the Chinese Reds.
1t has been said that Churchill be-
Heves it's jolly well all right to make
pacts with the Reds. Britain Joined
hands with Communist China in 1850
for economic reasons and then sent
her sons to Korea to bleed and die for
his majesty's government in q futile
war against the Chinese Reds.
Nothing has been accomplished at
the recent Geneva Conference which
would indicate that the Communists
have changed their tactics or detectives
Churchill and Eden should know that
better than any one.
Churchill is extremely naive if he be-
lieves the free world can do business
astute in the international game he is
playing. His goal is the recognition of
Red China by the United States and
a seat in the U.N. for her.
If Churchill succeeds in getting us to
agree to pact with Red China, that
is tantamount to diplomatic recogni-
ton. If Churchill wins that round it
will be small step to seat in the
U.N. for Red China.
The British made mistake in 1776
They lost the United States. Some one
said the British recovered it when
they taught the American State De-
partment to wear striped pants in the
am. and white ties in the pm.
Let America beware of the pedagogy
that has British stamp on it.
James L. Hogan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Loser AnoIyzes Maine Primary

While the national press corps was
quick to assert last February, when
announced my candidacy, that Maine
would see the first real test Of McCar-
thyism in 1854. nothing could have
been further from the truth. Other
assertions that was backed by Texas
oil millionaires and that Senator Nc
Carthy planted" me in Maine were
equally ridiculous. On the contrary,
had wished to make McCarthyism the
issue. or indeed, had wanted to make
my opponents Declaration of Con-
science" the issue, could have easily,
and possibly probably, done so. How
ever, drew the issue on Americanism
versus internationalism, and irrespec-
tive Of what any persons or groups may
report to the contrary, this was the
only issue Of the campaign.
Had wished to engage in person.
alities, might well have pointed out
my opponents testimony under oath
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Adenouer to France

interview calling upon France to stop drag.
ging its feet and ratify the European De-
Tense Community treaty in it's present form
without any new effort to modify it with
amendments or reservations.
In taking this position, DR.. Adenauer
has moved to head off maneuvers in Paris
to effect number of changes in the treaty
before ratification. Pierre Mendes-France,
the new French Premier, has indicated that
he is in favor of such changes in order to
make the EDC pa1atable to some of its bit
terest foes in the National Assembly. But
the West German leader has left no room
for doubt that his government is vigorously
opposed to any action along that line.
There is good reason why DR.. Adenauer
should feel this way. After all, the EDO
has already been ratified by four Of the six
signatory poWerS-his own country, plus
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
To become an operating reality, the project
now needs only French and Italian parlia-
mentary approval, and if France-the orig
inator of the idea-acts aff1rmatively, Italy
will almost certainly follow suit However,
If the National Assembly in Paris votes for
amendments at this stage, the treaty will
be subject to protracted renegotiation of
kind that could make it thoroughly dead
letter.
Accordingly, with the support of Bel
GUM, the Netherlands and Luxembourg,
West speaking through DR.. Ade-
nauer-haS appealed to France to avoid
notifications now and to lose no more time
in ratifying the pact as it stands. In the
ChancellorS words it would be completely
unthinkable" to expose the project to pos
Sible extinction through French revisionS
that would require the reopening of exhauS-
tive Six-nation negotiations. AS he has put
1t, the imperative thing is to complete rati-
f1cation without further delay, leaving pro-
posed changes to be discussed and acted
upon later.
It may be that the French will turn
deaf ear to all this, but they have had
fair warning from DR.. Adenauer. For he
has made clear that the West Germans are
going to insist upon becoming fully SOW
ereign and independent, at an early date,
either as partners in the EDO and it's supra
national army or as non-memberS of that
organization free people who would in
the latter case inevitably have to develop
the kind of national military establishment
which France processes to fear but which
would not exist If the European Defense
Community were brought into being.
In these circumstances, especially be-
cause both Britain and the United States
endorse DR.. Adenauer's view, the French
would be well-advised to ratify the EDO
this summer. Certainly, If they fail to do
so, if they insist instead on basic changes
requiring renegotiation, our own country
will be obliged to reappraise, and recast it's
policy in way that will hardly enhance
Frances position vis-a-vis West Germany
that clearly deserves to become independent
as a strong and essential ally of the free
Atlantic world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Getting U. S. Out of the Red

The July l issue of The Star re-
ported that the United States would
wind up the fical year $3.75 billion in
the red. That is rather disgraceful
state of affairs for this Nation, but
it seems there is one good way out
of it, one which would also curb another
disgrace. Just a few days ago the adj
ministration stated it would have to
ask Congress for something like So
billion to raise to $40 billion the
amount of money available for crop
SURPRISES. Now that So billion would
just about cancel the red figure in
the budget, and would also be splendid
way to cut down the amount of surplus
stocks, for, if you don't have the money
to buy. you just don't buy. Or at least
that was the fine thrifty policy followed
by our forefathers, one which built
sturdy fiber into the Nation as a whole
and into the backbones of the people
individually.
Taxpayer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
Fighting Delinquency

Compliments are certainly in order
for the many neighborhood merchants
who sponsor teams in the Walter john
son Baseball League which play in our
city Fairgrounds. They probably charge
it up to advertising, but it could also go
under fighting juvenile delinquency"
In either event, think it's money well
spent.
D. c. Recreation manages these
teams through their playground direc-
tors, who do their usual fine job.
E, H. w,