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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31

on the people He has to listen to the
voice of his countrymen. just like Presi-
dent Eisenhower is dependent on the
public opinion of this country.
Neither MendeS- France nor the size
able German opposition under Ollen-
hauer are basically opposed to COM
mon defense of Europe. But for the
French, it is just as hard to conceive
an army in which former Nazi generals
help to determine the future strategy
as it would have been for General
Grant to share his command with
General Lee in 1865. The Germans on
the other hand are faced with the fact
that 10 million of their countrymen
will be in enemy territory as soon as
edo should become a reality, since it
represents violation of the armistice
of 1945.
There is much hope that Mendes-
France and responsible German poll
ticlans will work out a way to insure
the defense Of Europe since they are
primarily concerned about the defense
of their countries. MendeS- France, in
strengthening France internally, is only
laying the foundation on which Fran
co-German cooperation can be feasible.
The Western World should be grateful
that the French nation founda strong
leader in this hour-instead of trying
to play Germany against her neighbor
across the Rhine.
Klaus G. Wust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31

that substantial new-car buying has been
awaiting the introduction Of models re-
portedly containing major changes In design
and engineering. Continued high rate Of
activity In the construction industry and
some Improvement during the summer IN
sale Of farm implements, both Of. which are
big consumers OF steel, likewise are con-
sidered promising signs.
On the whole, however, most express
sions of optimism are being voiced eau
tiously and conditionally. There are many
Intangible and not easily controllable forces.
in the making Of business trend" The
fact that campaign for control OF Con-
gress is coming up, and that the outcome
is exceedingly difficult to predict, is likely
to have an effect on long term planning
and buying. The recession has not been as
sharp or as prolonged as many feared, but
the revival may be comparably gradual and
unSpectacular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
BY Charles E. TroceweH
Susan Jane Hendershott.

plant under control few will be left in
places where they, In their turn, can
be controlled.
mits, and adds a real touch of beauty
to the watery landscape.
There are other flowers which thrive
as nuisances in the same way.
Control, in other words, should not
mean determination.
Every growing thing has its enemies,
including man, himself.
If we were to listen to every one who
deSpises something that is living. In
time we would have nothing left at all
every living thing would be extermi-
mated.
A country filled with gigantic re-
sources. such as ours is. must be care
full, especially in relation to growing
things. 1t should never, through its
appointed representatives, allow toe
much special pleading. since often this
sort of talk and writing is extremely
prejudiced. all one way. and at times
even completely wrong. At one time
the legislators of New English State
asked to exterminate one of the Ma
tons most harmless and beautiful
songbirds. on the plea that it ate bees
and interferred with agriculture. When
the bird itself was brought into court"
its loneliness compelled the legislators
to refuse to act against it. Subse-
quently, an examination of hundreds
of stomachs Of these birds showed that
all claims against them were false. mere
folklore, and. as 30 much folklore is.
just plain wrong.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
This and That

A fast-growing weed with beautiful
flower. Is the water hyacinth.
Like some other lovely things. it be-
comes pest.
It's marvellous growth mats the tops
Of bayous. streams and waterways and
in time chokes of navigation.
In the meantime. this prolific. beau
tiful plant kills fish and water animals
Incautious owners of home garden
pools have planted it. always to their
later distress.
Yet 1t is such wonderful grower,
this weed of the water. that the honest
observer must pause in admiration be-
fore it.
Introduced into small pool In the
yard. the hyacinth soons crowds out
the water lilies, the sagittaria and tina
cattails.
These, too. are fine growers. but sue
cumb before the rapid inroads Of the
handsome hyacinth.
It is the natural tendency Of all water
plants to grow and TO grow banndantly.
Their very feet stand In water, which
also brings them food and fertilizer.
Drought does not touch them. except
in the most extreme cases.
4
In q dry season. everything on the
banks may be burning up. but the
sturdy water hyacinth wakes and -four
isIes
It soon transforms pretty little
stream into an impossible marsh.
Al Federal study il being made To
zee what can be done about It.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31

Its crime is simply that it grows too
well!
Every owner Of a small garden must
rejoice that something grows well
When he stops to think of the insects,
the molds and the fungi which harass
his flowers and vegetables. he will be
willing to admire something that grows
so fast and so abundantly.
The water hyacinth was introduced
into the South many years ago at
horticultural exhibit.
Its lush growth and beautiful flowers
charmed every one who saw it. But
the plant at once got completely out Of
hand, as we say. it grew and grew and
grew. Fall and winter in the sunny
States of the South did not kill it.
Each spring and summer saw it null
tiply and each year has seen it expand
its territory. until now it has become
both navigational menace and de-
stroyer of fish.
Trappers. hardy men all, throw up
their hands when you mention water
hyacinths.
In the State OF Louisiana alone the
damage it does is estimated at $50
million annually.
Such estimates, it is true. are only
estimates. They must be taken with
several grains of caution, since persons
whose sports and livelihoods are hurt
are very much inclined to oyerestimate
such things.
It Is to be hoped that In any final
steps which viii be taken to bring this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31

policy. When President Eisenhower
succeeded in ending the Korean War
by a. compromise. this fact was hailed
great success and the fulf1lment of
his campaign pledge. Mendes-F France,
who succeeded in ending the Indo-
Chinese War which devoured daily the
lives of Frances best soldiers and
German legionnaires. is at once branded
as an appeaser willing to compromise
with the Communist powers.
The first step in strengthening the
defense Of France in Europe had to be
the end of the war against Viet-Minh
This, Mendes- France achieved against
greatest odds and with the least con-
cessions possible. Now, his government
has had to make q decision on the Eu-
ropean army plan. Mendes-France is
not dictator like Franco and Tito, or
an occupation-sponsored politician like
Adenauer who can simply force his will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Attic Visit

Abandoned treasures. carefully stored
quay
In this old house for sale Ue SAP today
Frail. dusty cobtDebs oUer all are laid,
And sunlight hickers through tattered
shade.
One corner brings to light a broken
chair,
A Dor OF letters, packets tied NTH care
But one is open, and a candlestSck
Is on a tGboret, the TALON thick
And melted dotOn around coryoded
base
A reading glass rests on a packing
Where some one climbed the stairs one
lonely night
TO read letter In the candlelicht.
Kim Worthinsfon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Fronce,s stund on EDO
M. ID.

Catastrophe as Frances detection
from the ranks Of edo countries may
appear at first blush, it Is far better
to learn what her position is now,
rather than when the Community is
put to the test Of fire.
France undoubtedly weighed the ar
guments pro and con EDO in a prac-
tlcal and detached manner. She is
largely an agricultural country, and as
such, presents less attractive target
for an efficient application of the mass
destruction weapons. Further, she has
experienced occupation over consid-
cradle period and emerged with only
superficial wounds. Finally, she real
ICES that relative peace has returned
to the world and there are mouths to
be fed, commodities to be exchanged.
Let us, in like manner, weigh our
arguments. We present more attrac-
tive target to the same weapons which
threaten the EDO countries. but If we
can survive the blow to our economy
and its production, which would follow
the destruction of our concentrated in
dustrial centers, we are endowed with
a natural protection against invasion,
by our contiguous seas and generally
like-minded neighbors to the north and
south.
Without retrogressing to rabid isola-
tionism, let us cut down the flow of
funds devoted to gew-gaws and push
button monstrosities: king-size cannon
for untenable areas; vertical-rising.
power wasting planes for ships which
will decorate the ocean floor by the
hundreds: arms for reluctant warriors
in foreign lands.
Let us keep our powder dry, in the
form Of A and H bombs. interceptors.
bombers and radar. and when it comes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Looking for Economic Signs

An important fortnight, In critical
quarter of the business year, is Just ahead.
For the late summer doldrums are sup
posed to end on September ! and the heart
ening signs of any upturn likely to develop
in the final three months of the year should
begin appearing by mid-September. The
steel industry and one of its biggest custom
ers, the automobile industry, will provide
the most reliable indices on which to fore
cast the business situation for the rest of
the year. And one encouraging aspect In
this picture IS the generally accepted belief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Wooing the Farm Vote

It has been clear for long time tnat
the farm States will provide a major battle
ground for this years political campaign.
And with control of the next Congress at
stake, the fighting is certain to be bitter
and not always within the strict boundaries
of truthfulness Some indication of things
to come has been given during the past
few days.
Before Democratic Farm Belt Meeting
in Sioux Falls, for example, Adlai Steven
son was practicing familiar type Of poll
tics in accusing President Eisenhower and
the Republican Party of bad faith and dis
honesty in. sponsoring the flexible price
support legislation enacted by the recent
session of Congress. In making his charge
against the President, the 1852 Democratic
presidential nominee said he had been
'texcitedly told" at Kasson, Minnesota, that
Mr.. Eisenhower had Endorsed mot only price
supports at 80 per cent Of parity but at 100
per cent" It may be, Of course, that Mr..
Stevenson was "excitedly told" just that,
but the text of the Eisenhower address at
KasSon reads differently.
ss1 On that occasion, national blowing
contest" at which both presidential can
didates spoke, General Eisenhower declared
that he and his party stood behind the
price support laws then on the books and in
effect through 1854. But he made it clear
that the two years then to come were ones
ain which to plan ahead" for farm policy
that would minimize Government control
and protect the farmers independence. He
was convinced, he said, that the farmers
would rather earn their fair share than to
have 1t as Government handout-and that
"a fair share is not merely 90 per cent of
parity-but full parity" These words do
not, of course, contain any Endorsement Of
maintained price supports at
either 80 or 100 per cent of parity and
President Eisenhower's record Of favoring
the flexible price support formula-on ex-
piration Of the present law at the end Of
this year-has been clear and consistent
It has, in fact, been one Of the boldest and
most debated of the positions taken by
the President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.

controversy between the American
Legion and the American Medical AS
ISOLATION over the veteran medical care
program. AS q veteran, I should like
nothing better than to be eligible for
disqualification at Government expense.
AS practicing physician. / should hate
to lose all Of my male patients and
many Of my female patients to the
Government. AS a taxpayer, dread
the drain on my pocketbook.
The sting of the gauntlet thrown
down by Mr.. Connell, national COM
mander of the Legion, was blunted the
same day by news item stating that
j. Norman Lodge, director of informa-
ton for the Veterans Administration,
was hospitalized at Mt. Alto Hospital
for injuries received in Miami auto
accident. / should be greatly surprised
if Mr.. Lodges accident were service
connected: and if he is classified as an
INDECENT, then President Eisenhower
was i'll advised to veto the Government
pay raise bill.
suspect that through relatively in
visible process, the members Of the
Legion are paying their pro rata share
of the cost of Mr.. Lodges hospitaliza-
ton. It might be bit more impressive
if, in this instance Mr.. Connell should
pass the hat at a Legion meeting and
let each member pay his proportionate
share directly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Defying Their Own Regulations

AS a matter of curiosity, The Star in
Quired of the Districts Division OF Inspec-
ton about the obvious violation OF capacity
regulations involved in the American Lee
gion's use of the District Armory for its
convention.
Under these regulations the capacity
Of the armory is 1890 seats, and maxi
mum attendance Of 5,310 persons.
At yesterdays opening session Of the
convention, when President Eisenhower
spoke, there were 6,104 temporary seats
installed In the armory, plus 1900 perma-
nent seats in the north balcony facing the
stage). All these were occupied, plus 800
permanent seats in the south balcony lover
the stage) and 200 seats on the stage itself
Total seats occupied were 8,2O4, and armory
attendants estimated crowd inside the
hall itself of 8,500-not including those who
were damned solid in the entrances
The Star was informed by the Inspec-
tons Division that the regulations at the
armory have not been changed; that If
they are being violated, it is the fault of
the fire inspectors and the police who have
the enforcement responsibilities
That, of course, is poppycock. The Dis
trict Commissioners wink at.their own regu-
lations when it is expedient to do SO, and
the regulations are not enforced. The Com
miSsioners winked at the regulations when
Billy Graham brought $500 persons to the
armory during his evangelical crusade, the
decision being that the religious nature of
the affair made the capacity regulations
unnecessary. The regulations were violated
at the inaugural ball And thew will be
violated in the future, as in the past, be-
cause they are arbitrary and unreasonable.
The Commissioners, who inherited these
regulations from predecessors, should
either amend them realistically or enforce
them. When they ignore them, they
weaken public respect for all regulations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
The StiIl-EIusive Peace

In the strict sense, the President was
right in telling his American Legion audi
tors that he and they could give thanks
that it was possible for them to come to-
gether "at time when the sounds of battle
fields, everywhere in the world, have been
stilled." In the larger sense, however, the
stilled battlefields do not signify peace.
Tomorrow marks the 18th anniversary
of the Nazi blitzkrieg against Poland that
Wanton aggression which heralded the be-
ginning of World War III. In that CHASTITY
struggle, some % million were killed, more
than "a million were wounded and the total
economic loss must be reckoned in terms
of many, many billions Of dollars. Certainly
one would think that men laying claim
to any degree of nationality would shun
another such conflict Yet our Secretary of
State, Mr.. Dulles, takes of today for Manila.
His mission will be to try to unite the free
nations against the threat of Communist
aggression in Asian aggression which, If
new war OF fury and magnitude to dwarf
the conflict which began in 1889.
President Eisenhower very probably had
some of this in mind when he told the
Legion:
ThlS task OF keeping the Tree world STRONG
and healthy is complex and continuous 1t
is indeed difficult to organize world peace. It
calls for steady effort by the free nations to
work patiently together in solving problems
reaching to every corner of the globe. Inev-
itably this process is marked by setbacks as
well as successes. In Europe. for instance,
the progress on EDO has not fulfilled our
hopes. Yet meanwhile, long-standing dis
putes in Egypt and Iran have been settled.
and measures for collective success are going
forward in Southeast Asia Neither the ups
nor downs justify any slackenng of our efforts.
The free world must build its successes and
be spurred to new endeavoy by its setbacks.
This sort of thing has been said so many
times in one form or another that there is
danger of it's becoming tiresome. Unfor-
tunately, however, it reflects one of the
grimmest truths of this uneasy world in
which we live-the truth that only by unre-
hitting toll and effort can we hope to
achieve even that peace which is not really
peace, but is something which stops short
OF active war. The prospect Is not pleas
ant one, but the President has done well to
stress, once again, the distasteful fact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Mendes-Fronce Defended

AS q German who. in his immediate
family, has known the terrors of both
the Fascist and Communist systems, ]
am greatly disturbed by the anti
French sentiment which has lately
been voiced in your editorials and
particularly in the columns Of Constan-
tine Brown. The tendency to picture
the Adenauer regime in Bonn only in
white and the new French government
under. Mendes France in the blacklist
colors betrays the work of those terri
bles mplificateurs' who have always
exerted dangerous influence on public
opinion in the crucial moments OF
recent history.
For the first time since World War II,
France has q government which prom
ises, to be stable enough to take re-
SponSible steps in the field Of foreign
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Rule of Reason

In concert with allied nations, the
United States has now relaxed its ban on
wide variety of items that have hereto
fore been denied export licenses for ship
ment to the Soviet Union and the Commu-
niSt-controlled satellite states of Europe.
But the relaxation, although many may
vigorously object to it, can hardly contrib
ute much of consequence to the Kremlin's
war-making potential. AS for Red China
and North Korea, total American embargo
remains in force-without the slightest
change.
AS announced by the Commerce De-
partment and the Foreign Operations Ad-
ministration, the newly modified program
removes more than 600 items from the old
list of prescribed strategic" goods. These
items-including certain types of ores, In
dustrial equipment, farm machinery, chem
icals, metals, rubber products etc.-may
now be shipped, on license basis, by Ameri-
can exporters seeking to do business with
the Soviet bloc in Europe. However. al
though the change is likely to lead to some
increase in trade between us and that part
of the world, the increase is expected to
be relatively very small at best, and there
is firm official conviction that 1t will be
altogether insignificant in terms Of adding
to the Kremlin's military capacity.
This view is based on two major con-
siderations, among others. First, a big
step-up In American shipments to Russia
and its European satellites seems out of the
question at present because those countries
do not have enough dollars or exportable
goods to pay for large-scale imports from
us. And second, as far as war-making
potential is concerned, the things pruned
from the old list Of forbidden shipments
have been carefully screened, and there is
full agreement that they can be sent over
seas without materially affecting our secu-
rity. Further, even though there has been
a relaxation in that respect. there has also
been tightening up as regards some 80
items not previously prescribed but now
barred from being exported Items that
include special varieties Of steam engines,
factory machinery, chemicals and coal-tar
products.
True enough, since even hammers and
nails can be Of indirect value to the mili-
tary power of an enemy, 1t can be argued
that the United States should ship nothing
whatever to the world behind the IRON
Curtain. But rule of reason must be fol-
lowed in matters Of this sort, especially
when we are not engaged in shooting war
with the European Soviet bloc and when
some of our allies find It economically in
dispensable to carry on measure Of nom
strategic trade with that bloc. Clearly, In
the light of such factors. there is no ground
for challenging the wisdom and common
sense Of the action just taken by the FOA
and the Commerce Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Questions and Answers
By Gould Lincoln

a reader can set the answer to ans question
ton 5. D. @. Please tnclose three ca 'ents for
return hostage
Of fact BY writins The Evening star Infor-
nation Bureau. 1900 Eye St NV. Washing
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. In what poem occurs the line,
"For strife comes with manhood"?--
NJ N.
A. The last line of Sir Walter Scott's
Lullaby Of an Infant Chief" reads:
For strife comes with manhood. and
waking with the day."
@. When an inventor assigns his in
vention to some person who gives him
financial backing. to which one Of them
is the patent issued?--I. K. r.
A. The patent is granted in the name
Of the person to whom 1t is assigned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Leeions 'BrowH With ANA

There is nothing more disgusting
than two fine old gentlemen with dis
tinguished records for patriotism and
civic responsibility, engaged in q no.
holds-barred public brawl. The Amer
lean Medical Association and the Amer
lean Legion have each knocked chips
from each others shoulders. The ANA
opposes Federal care for veterans whose
sickness is not service connected or
seryice-aggravated. The Legion con-
tends veterans medical care IS Fed
eral rather than local responsibility
Therefore the huge empire Of duplicated
veterans facilities which SNOWFALL in
bankrupting cost to all taxpayers each
year after the cease-fire. viii not lead
to socialized medicine. It Is difficult for
us weary taxpayers to understand why
unearned -bonuSeS-for-veterans are not
just as socialistic or as paternalistic as
tax-subsidized surpluses we can't eat or
featherbeddi -for-labor that comes
out Of our pinched pockets.
Il Before this hog-calling contest be-
tween the Legion and the ANA be-
comes official business. let both re-
member their duty and purpose for
being. The AAdA's business is healing.
The Legion's business is preserving and
defending our Nations security and
survival. The Legion has the nobler,
the more difficult task. But both the
Legion and the ANA need to remember
this is the atomic age. Every one. every
where will be mutilated and miserable
veterans of the next war. In seconds,
our world will be. a suicidal shambles,
a no mans land of consummate horror,
terror. agony and hopelessness. Do we
haves time to lobby selfishly for our
selves? Or is it not our common task
to devote our everything to the survival
Of all? This atomic age has made all
of us veterans. Let's act with indivisible
unity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
letters to The Star

maybe it won't be as bad as we thought,
or better. it may be worse.