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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Setback to Health Plans

Recommittal of the administrations
health reinsurance bill in the House may be
considered political setback for President
Eisenhower. Taken out of the political con-
text, however, the House action-aS the
President told his news conferences much
more defeat to the interests Of the Amer
lean people. For this modest proposal to eS-
tablish $25-million fund for the reinsur-
ance Of voluntary private health insurance
plans was intended only to encourage the
establishment or expansion OF, such nom
governmental projects permitting broad
ening Of their coverage in some cases, in
creased protection or lower rates in others
Secretary Hobby of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare estimates
that 90 million Americans already are COW
cred by private plans but that better pro-
lection is needed, particularly against long
term illness.
It was an unusual lineup of Democrats
and Republicans that supported the recon-
initial motion. Although President Eisen-
hover repeatedly has stated his opposition
to socialized medicine and Mrs. Hobby
specifically emphasized in a Nationwide
television address that this particular plan
rejects socialized medicine" one bloc Of
House opponents, mostly Republican, ap-
peared to be basing its entire opposition on
the belief the measure represented an
opening wedge" to socialized medicine At
the other extreme, it was argued mostly by
Democrats-that the bill did not go far
enough, that it would provide greater help
to private insurance companies than to the
s. million Americans now lacking health
insurance.
The President has called this only
temporary defeat for his program to
provide improved medical care for the
American people. AS far as this Congress is
concerned, however, Majority Leader Hal
leck put the House membership squarely on
notice when he warned that recommittal
would mean killing this particular bill
"Those who vote to recommit it will have to
take. that responsibility" he said. On that
basis, 1862 Democrats have the major re-
sponsibility-aided by rs Republicans who
deserted the administration leadership, and
one independent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Good Side of Fruternities

My family subscribes to The Star,
and hava much respect for all the
aspects of the paper, especially the
neutrality-suspicious. of the news.
About one year ago there was quite a
bit of scandal concerning high school
fraternity initiation. and in all news
papers were brought out the bad facts
of high school fraternity. In every
editorial section was presented the
negative aspect and argument against
high school fraternities. / am mem
Der of high school fraternity, Mu
Sigma Omicron, and it seems to me
only fair to present the good points Of
an organization right along with its
faults. We speaking in terms of all
high school fraternities) got lot of
bad publicity after the much played-up
initiation and stag party. but the COM
munity service that we render and the
constructive things that we do are
never heard of.
For instance. some time ago Cap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
BY Charles E. Trocewen

stick closely to the place of their birth
until the parents force them on their
own.
But even before that, they tend to
branch out, as humans say, and go
farther afield.
The squirrels stick to their tree in
which they are born until they are
about two months old. The wild rabbit
remains in the garden Of its birth until
it is about month old.
Then, though it would be safer there.
it moves on, seeking not only fresh
fields of grass and clover, but also adj
venture.
The small turtle. as it is one Of the
oldest of living things, also is the least
fitted for adventure in modern streets.
Its lack of speed, for one thing. but
above all, an inner unfitness for mod
ern conditions.
In this, many a human will be stirred
to instant sympathy. Not every person
is suited to the modern hustle and
hassle. There are thousands, perhaps
millions, who would have done better
alive hundred years ago.
Think what it must be. then, for a
turtle. with hundred centuries behind
him, to find himself suddenly con-
fronted by q stream of motor cars.
May each such small creature, head
ing into modernity. find an understand
ing spirit behind the wheel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
'Co-existence'

Talk Of "co-existence" and negotia-
ton with the Red imperialists ignores
the last decade, and more. Have we not
been "co-existing" and negotiating?
How sensible is a policy of progressive
compromise and surrender? AS the
camel pushes his way farther into our
tent, we can continue such co-existence
until the day when we are forced out!
Have those who call for negotiation any
thought of the need for good faith?
Or is it their idea that, starting from
a situation of co-exiStence, foreign 'vol-
unteers" may attack. take over a ter
ritory, and then negotiate more CO.
existence. but with different bound
aries; then, such new co-existence es-
tablished either by agreement or stale
mate, successive adventures are to be
embarked upon, all to be settled by
negotiation? Surely, do not have to
identify the examples cited.
A straw man is set up and promptly
knocked down as we are told that we
can't close our eyes to the fact that
the Communists are in control in
China. But recognition Of such a fact
is quite different from formal diplo-
matte recognition Confusion Of the two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Atomic Submarine

Another striking measure OF the great
potentialities of the U. S. S. Nautilus, the
worlds first nuclear submarine, can be
found in the report just submitted to the
Senate and House by the Joint Congress
sional Committee on Atomic Energy.
The report, recommending a series Of
changes in the Atomic Energy Act of 1916,
does not deal at length with the Nautilus
itself. But 1t says enough about the land
based prototype of the vessels nuclear en-
CINE to make clear that our Navy is acquir-
ing truly formidable and unprecedented new
strength for undersea warfare offensive
and defensive.
For the prototype, according to the re-
port, "haS already produced more than
enough power to send an atomic submarine
around the world, fully submerged and at
full speed" This means that the engine in
stalled in the NautiluS-which was launched
some months aegean do the same thing.
It means, in short, the advent Of a type Of
submersible that has never existed before
one that can travel very fast for thousands
of miles on relatively little fuel, and all the
while stay hidden beneath the sea, without
having to surface periodically to recharge
batteries or take in fresh air.
So the Navy, when it has the Nautilus in
full operation (and the Nautilus is to be
supplemented in time with the Sea Wolf
and other atomic submarines), viii have
additional striking power of a unique kind
extraordinarily swift and elusive, and far in
advance of what can be unleashed by con-
ventional submersibles.
AS a result, our Nation will be that
much more secure. For the Soviet Union
has not yet equipped itself with anything
like the Nautilus. and it may not be able to
do so for long time to come. To that ex-
tent, therefore, we have a superiority that
should stand us in good stead against the
threat of the Kremlin's hundreds Of conven-
tional submarines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Tenth District Primary

The results of the Democratic primary
In Virginia's new Tenth District seem to
justify one Arm conclusion: The Supreme
Courts school segregation decision is not
an important issue in that area.
Candidate J. Walter White Of Fairfax
campaigned vigorously and forthrightly on
a platform calling for continued segrega-
ton in the public schools. But he received
only little better than 10 per cent Of the
total vote.
The winner, with 1896 votes of the
10,415 total, was John c. Webb, Fairfax
attorney. He is a relatively conservative
Democrat and had the backing Of most Of
district. Even so, he nosed out the so-called
liberal candidate, Dean Brundage, by the
comparatively narrow margin of 955 votes
Perhaps the most striking thing about
the primary was the small vote. Two years
ago about $4,000 voters turned out. This
time approximately third as many went
to the polls.
Mr.. Webb suggests that Federal en-
ployeS living in the district were afraid, in
a Republican administration, to enter a
Democratic primary. If there is basis for
this, 1t does not reflect credit on the polit-
ical courage of the voters who stayed away.
Republican incumbent Joel Broyhill coun-
tiers with the claim that many normally
Democratic voters stayed out of the pri-
mary because they intend to vote for him
in December. Again, it is hard to know how
accurate the claim is. Considering the
small Democratic vote, however, it is safe
to say that Mr. Broyhills November chances
look pretty good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
odd Procedure on the Hill

Counsel for the Carnegie Corporation
employed an apt smile in referring to the
"odd" procedure of the Reece committee
in suddenly cancelling further open hear
ings in its investigation of tax-exempt
foundations It is, he said, similar to a
judge and jury hearing plaintiffs case at
length "only to desert the courtroom as
soon as the defendants appeared"
For Chairman Reece Of this special
House committee made it sufficiently clear
in initiating the inquiry that the founda-
tions were defendants" in what he con-
sidered "diabolical conspiracy" to further
socialism in the United States. In open
hearings, his committee heard nearly a
dozen witnesses who tended to support this
point of view. Then, with the foundations
scheduled to present their rebuttals, Chair
man Reece announced that the committee
had voted against further public hearings
but would accept briefs or sworn state
ments for the record.
Nearly 1000 taX-eXempt trusts and
foundations with resources of about SIS
billion are functioning in the United States
today. Their impact upon American So
ciety is a great one and their activities are
legitimate subjects for congressional in
spection. Such an inquiry was made, how
ever, during the SD Congress-with a
good bill of health given to the philan-
thropic organizations. Mr.. Reece, If he
wishes, is entitled to think differently. It
is disgraceful, however, that he and his
committee should resort to this un-Amer-
lean procedural device to stifie full and
honest inquiry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
| etters to he Star !.

proximately two monthsl our members
went out to Children's Village for four
consecutive Saturdays to help clean.
paint and bring out cans Of food. The
majority of our dances are held with
the entire proceeds going to fight can
Ger or some other worthwhile cause.
Mu Sigma fraternity presently has q
summer-long book campaign on for
hospitals around town pocket books.
comic books. and magazinesl. Many
of our members are going door to door
for books for our veterans in the vari-
Gus metropolitan hospitals.
Robert Katz,
Corresponding Secretary, Mu Sig
ma Omicron Fraternity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

is a sign of unclear thinking) and adj
mission Of the Red government into
the u. N.
Let us remember that Secretary
Dulles is no isolationiSt. Senator
Knowland has been called an inter-
Enthusiastically he is no iSola-
ZIONIST. Nor is Senator Lyndon john
son. Any refusal to go along with the
latest French or British actions or
proposals, even withdrawal from the
U. NJ, reflects not only our disappoint-
ment but the apparent change in
character were Red China admitted:
From an agency for peaceful co-exist-
ence to one of appeasement Of a
branded aggressor.
Lloyd Buchanan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Soviet Diplomatic RepriisoI

The Krenlin has resorted to rather
obvious form of retaliation in forcing the
recall of our military and aviation attaches
in Moscow. In effect, the custer of these two
men-one an Air Force major and the other
an Army lieutenant colonel-represents
nothing but a delayed-action response to
our Governments earlier expulsion Of three
comparable Soviet representatives.
All three of these representatives were
ordered out of the United States after hav-
ing been exposed as espionage agents. Two
of them were expelled as long ago as last
February, and the third received his walk
ing papers in May. AS Henry Suydam OF
the State Department has put 1t, I'VE got
the goods on them, and out they went" But
all this was done on the quiet, through dip
lomatic channels, without any publicity
whatever-in the hope that the Kremlin
would not retaliate with cooked-up charges
against people in our Moscow Embassy. The
hope, however, was a futile one. For in
March the Soviet newspaper Trud published
lurid story about how Russian railroad
conductor saw a couple Of our attaches
looking out train window, taking notes
and otherwise Spying" during a trip to
Siberia. These are the Americans who have
now been declared persona non grata," and
presumably another will soon be named to
even up the scores to 3.
On it's face, this does not seem to
amount to much more than rather ridic-
ulous incident in which the Kremlin has
tried to give tit for tat by expelling nom
spying Americans in reprisal for our expell-
ing spying Russians. In that sense, the whole
business may be dismissed as something of
comedy Unfortunately however It also
serves as bleak reminder that our rela-
lions with the Soviet Union are continuing
to deteriorate and that they are likely to get
worse before they get better-if they ever
get better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
On Admitting Red Chino

Senator Knowland in his youth must
have been the kind of boy who would
take his bat and ball home as soon as
the game was not going his way. We
used to call his type "one-way guy"
If Red China were to be accepted
into the q. N. that would not signal
the end of the world. But if we were
to leave the United Nations 1t might
mean just that.
This is not the time to turn our backs
on the U. N. but to strengthen it so
that we can beat our adversaries at
their own parliamentary game.
Mrs. M. G. CarbOne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
AG Greater Dream

The men 1Dl1o make America
understand the plotD,
understand the heat of sun,
and hay aUtthin the moto.
The men t0llo make America
knotD the shaft and tunnel.
knoD the boiler and the gun,
and the smoking funnel.
The men tDIto make America
comprehend the penny.
the UdmpuB1, and the store of gold
and the lack OF any.
No Deapon they hare found controlled
the desperate extreme
except the tpiH OF men 1rllo hold
and lire greater dream.
Helen Harrington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

but what we have to be thankful for,
notably now our sound and strong
economy. belongs to the present adj
ministration. (The preceding admin
istrations had nothing to do with it
since it is automatic that New Deal and
Fair Deal are synonyms for ruin)
1.-THE evil men do lives after them; the
good is oft inferred with their bones. !"
Sidney K0retz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

pages produced BY such chroniclers as
Granny" Rice.
Most obituary stories on Mr.. Rice quoted
his own verse on chow you played the
game" It would be better world II all Of
us played 1t as he did.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer 70 any question
Of fact by writing The Evening Star Infor-
ina Soy p sys u thrss ceta ior
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15

@. What is the difference between
owl shift and lobster shift2-G. N. G.
A. There is none. Owl shift, lobster
shift, and graveyard trick are different,
commonly used names for the third
work shift.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. Why is porcelain often referred
to as china?--W. r.
A. Porcelain is often called china
ware or china because it was formerly
obtained from China, where it was
originally produced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Political Formula

It's q sure-fire political formula.
All our troubles. notably now the
Indo-C China mess. are part of the in
heritance Of preceding administrations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15

/ torials and articles have insisted
there should be no admins
trative" measures taken against
the churches and that the Com
munists must rely on patient
explanation
However, Soviet ideas on what
constitutes patient explanation
do not jibe with those Of most
Westerners.
The Communists admit that
the growing influence Of the
churches in Russia is the prin-
cipal reason for the current
campaign.
The Stavropolskaya Pravda
acknowledged this in complains
ing that church attendance was
increasing in the Russian Re-
public. the most important Of
the Is republics making up the
Soviet Union.
Most Of the attacks on religion
have been made against Russian
Orthodox beliefs, but the Roman
Catholic and Moslem faiths also
have been criticized. Much Of
the campaign is directed at
young people.
Little New in Complaints.
There is little new in the sub
stance Of Soviet complaints about
religion. It is being attacked as
a remnant of the capitalistic
past, whose "reactionary essence"
is harmful to the development of
the perfect Communist state.
But the Communists are using
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15

various approaches to the sub
ject.
The observance of religious
feasts is pictured as delaying the
vital harvest in agricultural
areas. The Literary Gazette
charged that some Of these cele-
brationS. while ostensibly relig-
ious. were in fact only excuses for
excessive drinking.
Stavtopolskaya Pravda assert
ed that religious fasting IS caus-
ing many workers TO become
weak.
Standard In the Communist
war on religion is an attempt to
link the Vatican with United
States "warmongers."
Moscow Radio broadcast q
violent attack on Pope Plus All,
charging him with having en-
couraged the birth Of Nazi Ger
many and promoted Fascism
with the aid Of the United
States.
The Odessa and Kiev radio
stations broadcast repeatedly 4
charge that in the U. s. 80 900
Catholic priests. monks and
nuns daily preach to the work.
ers and farmers that Gods
kingdom is not Of this world
and tell them this is the reason
they should gladly suffer the
misery and privation they have
to endure on earth"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15
The Week in Religion
Reds Push Propaganda Drive
Against Churches in Russia

Of Sciences. housed in the former
Kazan Cathedral at Leningrad,
soon would be enlarged.
Additions will include two new
departments, one on the origins
Of religion, the other on the
origin of Christianity. The mu-
scum already contains some
800. 900 exhibits and $50, 900
books.
The propaganda drive, which
was launched almost imme-
diately after the Indo- China
truce had been concluded, OBJ
viously had been in preparation
for some time, since three books
dealing with the problem of re-
ligion were published during
the campaigns second week.
Thus far the drive has been
kept strictly on the propaganda
level. In its first editorial, Pravda
emphasized that an attempt
should be made to show believers
the error Of their ways without
insulting the feelings Of be-
levers"
Since then, virtually all edi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15
The Week in Religion
By Religious News Service

Communist leaders in Moscow
have been stepping up the
tempo Of their big new propa-
ganda drive against religion.
The campaign. touched of by
an editorial in Pravda, official
Communist Party organ. late in
July, has spread to all parts of
the Soviet Union.
Newspapers, magazines and
radio stations are hammering
away at the faith of Russia's be-
levers, proclaiming the need for
more effective "atheistic and
scientific" education of the
workers and denouncing local
Communist organizations for
slackness in the battle against
religious superstition"
Museum to Be Enlarged.
The Moscow Radio reported
that mobile anti-religious exhi-
billions we're touring the Soviet
Union. It said the anti-religious
museum Of the Soviet Academy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15
Knock Becomes Boost

MANCHESTER. Tenn. (R.-
Effectively hidden to westbound
traffic by a huge billboard adj
vertising a competitor across the
highway, a roadside restaurant
here has countered with a sign
a few miles up the road pro-
claiming its location as "Just
Behind the Largest Sign in
Tennessee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15
Smoke Is All Wet

CONWAY. s. c.. R-J. w.
Hewitt saw smoke rise from his
roof after an airplane new by.
He grabbed a garden hose but
found the water produced only
more smoke. He soon discovered
dry ice on the roof. He realized
then than rainmaker was at
work. There was . good rain
that night.
Evening star., 1954-11-21
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