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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Congress Asked for 1t

President Eisenhower, in all fairness,
cannot be held responsible for the death of
legislation to raise the pay of Federal en-
ployes His aides repeatedly had warned
Congress that presidential veto could be
expected for any pay bill which (1) failed
to include some means of meeting part of
the cost specifically an increase in postal
rates) and which (2) made no provision
Tor an equitable readjustment of postal sal
aries. Congress invited the veto when it
ignored these warnings. It is too bad that
the pay plan has met this fate, for nearly
every one was agreed that some increase
In Government salaries was justified.
The administration had proposed
pay-raise program that, for postal workers,
would have meant an average per cent
increase under comprehensive reclassih-
cation OF pay and positions It insisted that
any pay bill for postal employees must in
clude legislation to raise postal rates, so
that the enormous annual deficits of the
Post Office Department would not be ma
terially enlarged. When the powerful postal
unions launched a battle for a straight
per cent raise, devoid of Redistribution or
postal rate provisions, the administration
reluctantly agreed to per cent general
raise-but only on condition that reclassifi-
cation and postal increases were voted. The
unions continued their fight, however, and
Congress, mindful of election-year pres
sures, finally capitulated At no time, how
ever, did the administrations stand against
straight pay bill weaken. Meanwhile the
White House pushed through number of
fringe benefits for Federal employees as re-
counted by the President in his pocket-veto
statement.
Disappointing though the Presidents
action will be to Federal employees, the
fact remains that General Eisenhower has
shown commendable courage in upholding
the principles for pay legislation enunciated
In his statement. Those principles are that
any pay raise should be based on sound per-
sonnet management and a sound fiscal
program. The bill rushed through Congress
at the last minute ignored both principles
The President could not in good conscience
become party to such departure from
wise administration policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
A Good Suggestion

President EiSenhoWer'S suggestion, In
signing the juvenile arrests legislation, that
local police maintain separate arrest Books
for juveniles is a good one. The legislation
itself insures that the records, however
kept, will be open to public inspection. BY
separating adult and juvenile arrests, it will
be easier to obtain more complete picture
of youthful vandalism and crime In Wash
ington.
It has been difficult to get full per-
spective in the past because of the secrecy
policy of the Juvenile Court. The secrecy
was designed to protect hayward children
from improper publicity, but unfortunately,
it also has tended to hide the facts about
the grave rise in delinquency, as well as to
protect the court from public scrutiny. On
the theory that the public has right to
know the full extent of the youth-in- crime
problem here, Congress now has seen to it
that the traditional police policy of keeping
books open on all arrests, regardless of age,
will be perpetuated. This action was taken
only after there was increasing agitation
for extension of the secrecy program to the
Police Department.
Police officials have indicated that it
would not be administratively difficult to
keep juvenile records apart from those of
adults. The important consideration Is that
the records always be kept available for
inspection by the press and any other per-
sons or organizations having an interest in
the problem of youthful lawlessness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
The Intervening Years

I Uonder, does the Doman who now
/ dtDeHs
In the old home that once ,Dds wholly
mine,
Feel the rapture, hear the lifting spells
OF children's joy? or do her Dindows
shine
Without the finger prints. the smudpy
trace
OF oroDino youngsters. And does her
heart see
The Uisions time can neuer quite erase
Through all the Intervening years, for
me.
At euenino as she sits beside the fire
And matches quietly the naming
embeTs
Does she, perhaps. share the intense
desire
For perfect peace, Which my DUN
heart remembers.
And then, at night does she retire to
pray
That God delay. for her. departing day'
Mary Byrne Vorney,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
On Breaking Off With Russio

At his news conference on August II, ,
President Eisenhower said 1t would
not serve Americas interests to break
diplomatic relations with Soviet Rus
STA and her satellites. That state
ment wins the prize for vagueness and
ambiguity.
Would the President have the Ameri-
can people believe the opposite? Are
diplomatic ties with Russia and her
satellites serving the best interests Of
America?
Let's take a peek at the record.
First, we must define the word "in-
terest." The dictionary says it Is "ad-
vantage" or benefit" In view Of
the past performances Of the Soviet
Union and her satellites, 1t would re-
quire some devious rationalizing to
conclude that diplomatic alliances with
Russia were ever to this country's adj
vantage or benefit.
Ever since 1888, when recognition
was first granted. Soviet Russia has
insulted us. She has violated her
most solemn pledges. She has woven
web of espionage that has culmi-
mated in the theft of top military
secrets which are vital to the security
Of the United States.
Through the Communist Party, Rus
STA has continually interfered in the
internal affairs Of this country. BY
this means. Russia has striven to align
class against class. She labors to TO-
ment strikes in our industries, with
the ultimate hope that through tur-
MOL and trouble and eventually ,revo-
luton, this country will surrender to
the policies of the Soviet dictatorship.
The blood and suffering Of 10000
casualties in Korea give mute testi-
mony that diplomatic ties with Russia
have not served the best interests of
America.
Through its membership in the
United Nations, America has sought to
preserve and perpetuate a peace with
justice. Since the inception Of the
u N. the wrecking tactics of the Soviet
Union have vitiated this noble program.
On every occasion Russia has sought
to divide and confuse all people who
yearn for international harmony.
Since peace and prosperity among
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24

existence phase is only beginning and
history has still to be made. It may,
therefore, be of profit to your readers
to have a short, clear summary of the
origin and career to date Of the peace
full co-existence" theme.
In 1919 Lenin said, reporting for the
Communist Party:
I'VE are living not merely in state
but in system of states and the ex-
istence of the Soviet Republic side by
side with imperialist states for long
time is unthinkable. One or the other
must triumph in the end. And before
that end supervenes. series Of fright
full collisions between the Soviet Re-
public and the bourgeois states will be
inevitable"
Later Lenin, who was one of the
great realists in the history of politics,
realized that the world revolution was
not going to be instantaneous. Hard
facts forced him to new economic
policy inside the Soviet Union of COM
promise with capitalism and to a new
tactic outside the Soviet Union of pro-
posing peaceful co-existence with the
capitalist states. AS far as can find
he never used the precise phrase peace
full co-existence," though since Stains
death Soviet propagandists have at
tributed it to him. On February 10,
1924. however, he said to an American
newspaper correspondent: I'VE favor
alliance with all countries, excepting
none"
The real architect of the concept
and language of co-existence was the
cunning disciple of Lenin, j. v. Stain.
On December 81, 1927, this able strate
gist, whose star was in the ascendant
but not yet triumphant, made state
ment before the 18th Congress Of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union which is utterly fundamental. If
we master what he said then we have
the key to the next and final Is years
of his life In this period he made many
other statements about co-existence,
most of them dressed up in the gar
ments of plausibility and genially adj
dressed to American correspondents or
other foreigners. But he added nothing
to the matter of this weighty statement:
1--WE cannot forget the saying of
Lenin to the effect that great deal
in the matter of our construction de-
ponds on whether we succeed in delay
ing war with the capitalist countries,
which Is inevitable but which may be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
George Maurice Morris

The death of George Maurice Morris
removes from the Washington scene man
who had distinguished himself in endeavors
ranging far beyond his chosen field of the
law
Mr.. Morris, of course, was not without
distinction in the legal profession. He was
the second Washingtonian-the late Frank
j. Hogan having been the other-to serve
as president of the American Bar ASSocia-
ton. An outstanding authority on Federal
taxation, his writings included Practice
and Procedure Before the United States
Board of Tax Appeals" and Hidden Taxes
in Corporate Organizations. Before his
elevation to the presidency in 1912, Mr..
Morris had served as chairman Of the ABA
Committee on Federal Taxation, as chair
man of the associations General Council,
and as chairman Of the House of Delegates.
Finally, he had served as chairman Of the
finance committee which raised the money
for the American Bar Center in Chicago,
and, just few hours before his death, he
had been awarded the associations medal
"for conspicuous and unself1sh service to
the cause of jurisprudence in America and
throughout the world
Outside the field of the law, Mr.. Morris,
III 101o, oSSCPvC0 t41C VI ola
emergency committee to make plans for
rescuing the surviving Jews of Europe from
extinction by the Nazis. Locally, he was
chairman of the board of trustees of the
Woodlawn Public Foundation, Inc, which
purchased the estate in Alexandria which
George Washington gave to his adopted
daughter, Nellie Gusts, on her wedding day.
Of Mr.. Morris. 1t can be said without
reservation that he has served his profess
sion and his country faithfully and well.
His passing is real loss to the bar and to
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
The KremIin Versus God

You are to be commended for your
editorial. The Kremlin Versus God"
in The Sunday Star of August Is, 1854.
In this you rightly place works" indi-
Gated In Stepped-up Soviet campaign
against religion beside the faith"
claimed in the current drive for peace
full co-existence"
The fact is that the "cold war; has
moved into new and extremely peril
GUS phase. This may be called the
"co-existence phase" and it represents
decisive victory for the ever-continu-
ing attempt of communism to retain
the initiative and keep on the offensive
IN the theological struggle Of this epoch.
This new phase of the cold war;
replaces the stage of awakening and
containment which began somewhere
around the Potsdam Conference in the
summer of 1945 and was heralded and
typified in the public consciousness by
Sir Winston Churchill early in 1946 in
his famous Fulton, Mo-, speech. This
stage in turn replaced the period of
blind cooperation with Communist
strategy and tactics, which began in
the late 1930s with the Communist front
movement that ultimately enrolled in
one organization or another approx
mately 10 million Americans. This ex-
traordinary liberal" faith in commu-
nism survived the Stain Hitler pact
signed on August %, 1889. and toasted
by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotoff
in the notorious words: "Fascism is a.
matter of TASTE" The climax of CO.
operation was reached when President
Roosevelt based American foreign pol
icy solidly on long-term acceptance of
Communist integrity and even at
tempted to play Stain of against
Churchill in planning the world of the
future.
This is history, but the present CO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24

ourselves and with all nations is the
desire of all patriotic Americans. it is
inconceivable how President Eisenhower
deduces that diplomatic relations with
the Soviet Union can serve the best
interests of America.
No nation like Russia with a record
so black in international intrigue,
dishonesty and espionage should ever
command the respect of decent nations
in decent world.
Only the immediate dissolution of
diplomatic ties with Russia and her
satellites, will serve the best interests
of America and enhance her prestige
in the world.
James L. Hogan.
East Syracuse, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.


Q. What kind of plant is the obedi-
ent plant?-V. s. r.
A. This is North American herb of
the mint family. Physostegia virginiana.
The flower has the peculiar charac-
teristic of remaining for time at
whatever angle it may be placed in
reference to the stem.
Q. Why is walnut wood particularly
good for making gunstocks?-J. L. C.
A. The best walnut comes from trees
grown in poor soil and with insufficient
growth and cause the wood f1bers to
become dense and tough. The wood is
easy to work and relatively free from
warp, checks, shakes and splits. The
military prefer black walnut wood for
gunStocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Letters to The Star

delayed either until proletarian revo-
luton ripens in Europe or until colonial
revolutions come to a head. or finally,
until the capitalists fight among them
selves over the division of the colonies.
Therefore. the maintenance Of peaceful
relations with capitalist countries is an
obligatory task for us"
Stain died in March, 1858. One
might say that he virtually expired
uttering pacific words and reiterating
the possibility Of peaceful co-existence.
Already in October, 1852. at the Nine
teenth Party Congress, Malenkov, al
ready designated without doubt as the
heir-apparent, had echoed parrotlike
the phrases of Stain. Let US quote
one sentence:
"The Soviet policy of peace and Sc
curity of peoples arises from the fact
that peaceful cO-exiStence and CO.
operation of capitalism and communism
is wholly possible If there is mutual
desire to cooperate"
Today, less than two years since the
18th party congress this policy has gone
into high gear. Prime Minister Winston
Churchill few over the Atlantic in
June to espouSe in public before Ameri-
can newspapermen the doctrine of
peaceful ce-existence and to advocate
giving it an earnest trial. Chou En-lai
OF Communist China in his comment on
the final declaration Of the Geneva
Conference improved upon the parrot
phrases of Malenkov:
''The armistice in Indo-China once
again testifies that the forces for peace
are irresistible. More and more nations
of the world are coming out for peace
full co-exiStence. No policy of strength
aimed at creating splits and forming
opposing military groups can have the
support of the people. What the peo-
Piles of Asia desire is decidedly not splits
or antagonism. but peace and co-opera-
ton"
The purpose of this letter is to state
facts as background for hard thinking
by Americans. will simply conclude
by saying that our strategy must be as
able and as undefected by emotion as
that of communism and that this
strategy must now give priority to
new and sustained attempt to go on the
offensive ideologically and to take the
initiative in this area away from COM
munism.
Charles w. Lowry,
Chairman, Foundation for Relig-
ious Action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
A Hot TIP

&AA OAiC Va Jul 1OS0A PdPCIo uOJCO hIA
article. Here's the Latest Shorts Story"
with pictures Of Roy Meachum (WTOP)
dressed impeccably in well-tailored
shorts. At the time the thought oc-
CURED to me, Why doesn't the United
States Army Band and the Police
Force as well as other service organi-
cations adopt this sensible, cool method
of dress?
One hot evening I was in the audi
ence at the Capitol steps enjoying the
concert with Capt. Samuel Loboda con-
Quoting. While I was enjoying the
music. catching the breeze in my in
decorous bare shouldered sum m r
dress, am sure neither the conductor
nor any Of the musicians were! Whew
but 1t was hot could see stains of
perspiration coming through the con-
ductor's coat, while all the band was
sweating it out in their traditional garb.
Men do indeed slavishly follow the pat
tern of dress from generation to gen.
eration-and why?
Our summers are torrid and humid
and almost uncomfortable. We should
wear as little as the law enforces and
get all the sunshine we can. The sun
is great healer-why this fetish for
sweaty, smelly raiment? The path of
progress has no end. Surely sensible,
healthful method of dressing would be
progressive note.
Lucille Agniel Gaines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
OF TACT by writint The Evening Star Infor-
nation Bureau, 1900 Eye st NV washing.
ton 5, D c Please lnciose three Is, ents for
return pcstaRe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24

light, as well as militarily, the Fort Belvoir
project clearly holds out a promise Of major
significance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24

Pen-n1nes may be used u letters carry
Uriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-13
Japan Regime Asks
Tighter Import Policy
And Retrenchment
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

TOKYO, July 13.-Japan said
today in an economic white
paper that the teeming island
nation consumed 9 per cent more
imported and domestic goods last
year than in the peak prewar
year. The result is a sharp de-
cline in its cash reserve.
The government called for q
frightened import policy and gen
eral retrenchment, to be fol-
lowed eventually by a period OF
expansion.
The report said 1853 was
ssmarked most clearly by a rise
In the domestic economic level"
Economists both within and
outside the Japanese government
have argued that United States
procurement here spurred by the
Korean war had created a false
prosperity.
The white paper said there was
"no short cut" to the accumula-
ton of capital. Postwar Ger
many. the paper said, adopted q
policy of financial retrenchment
with obvious success. Japan's
present stringent money policy
is a belated step toward re-
trenchment and a sound eco
nomic policy, it added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-13
japan Seeks China Trade
To Bolster Its Economy

TOKYO, July Is P).-Japan
hopes to bolster its sagging econ
omy with non-strategic trade
with Red China-but not at the
expense of "the unity Of the free
world" against communism, q
Foreign Once source said yes
terday.
The source saw no prospect Of
Japan establishing diplomatic
relations with Russia or Red
China in the near future.
These views were the first
semiofficial reaction of the find
ings of Cows. John S. Fine OF
Pennsylvania, Dan Thornton
of Colorado and Allan Shivers
of Texas. who recently surveyed
the Far East for President
Eisenhower.
Findings Held Realistic.
The Governors suggested in
Washington last week that Japan
needs trade with Red China $50
restricted and so regulated that
1t will develop a program Of self
subsistence for Japan and not
build UP Red China's war ma
chine"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-13
S8,4OO in Diamonds
Missing From PIune
Rx the Assesie,ed Press

LONDON, July 13.-British
police said tonight packet OF
rough diamonds valued at So, 400
was missing from a mailbag on
a Quantas airliner which arrived
In London from Ceylon over the
week end.
The diamonds were mailed In
Ceylon to a New York firm.
Police asked a check by au-
thorities in Karachi. Cairo and
Rome, where the plane stopped
en- route to London.
Evening star., 1954-05-09

1900 - as11I.
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Asssssass s.ssssssia-sS aatise
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-02-20
Texas Gas Tax

Austin-A new problem is posed
from the Supreme Court ruling in
validating Texas gas gathering
tax"
A number of companies who paid
the tax without protest now are
confronted with the problem of
whether it gets its money back or
even deduct it as a business loss.
Ell Paso Natural Gas Co. and a
number of other firms paid &c.
207 100 to Texas in ''gas gathering"
taxes without asking a refund. Ell
Paso made the largest uncontested
payment ottaling $2,658,936. Other
payments made without protest in
cluded $1,139,617 from Tennessee
Gas Transmission Co., 81 ,105,218
from United Gas Pipe Line Co.,
$257 ,553 from Northern Natural
Gas Co. and $169,O96 from Dow
Chemical Co.
AS result of the Supreme
Court ruling, more than $25 million
will be refunded. However, the
state has already spent money
which was paid without protest
and the only logical method of re-
covering it would be by a legis-
lative appropriation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-02-20
Mississippi Labor And The
Right To-Work Bill

One of the hottest proposals to reach the State
Legislature in session here is the sOcaled right
tOwork BILL the main feature of which the elimination
of the closed shop The closed shop law being the device
whereby nOn-union workers prevented from working
jobs under union contract.
The proposed law aimed al Mississippi Labor,
rather and specifically at the Mississippi worker
has its chief purpose the creation of instrument
that will make possible the reduction of paid to
workers in the state Despite the fact that they
orally overlooked not included in anything accept the
cursoy reckoning of statistcans the Negro worker is
important part of the Mississippi labor force.
Despite the Importance of Negro workers in the
total labor force of the state the leaders of organized la
Dor in the state have been content to go along with
out organizing the Negro workers of the state except
in few jnl-crow unions where they would be just
well off not organized the leaders of organized labor
in the state being content to few temporary
advantages of employment for white workers by barring
Negro workers from their organizations
What influenced the placing of the so-caled right
towork bill before the legislature than any other
single factor is the vast pool of un-organized Negro
workers of the state barred from Unions for the most
part because of m-crow restrictions who be used
threat to keep the organized white workers in line
upon the enacting of such law.
The position of organized labor in Mississippi will
always be weak and the threat of such legislation al
ways present long the white worker and the Ne
gro worker of the state remain in the position where they
can be played-off one against the other.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-02-20

The Lord has his eyes on every
thing and | have my eyes on some
This world is on a downward road
and Gods will is not being done.
The Lord never sends a leader
out to fight anything but sin. Yet,
Ignorance and Education you see,
are fighting God sent Men.
This class have never been born
again, they are leading the people
by sight, Fighting imagination
every where do you call that lead
ing them right.
Unless we get one one road with
the love of God to guide, you need
not get in to Gods house there is
no place in there to hide.
God see every thing know all
you do. You are fooling yourself
as well you have to born of the
spirit of God or, else you are lead
ing the people to hell.
One know the letter and don't
know Christ the other don't know
neither one, Both are leading the
people to hell because the will of
God is not done.
Wake up my people and turn
around and get on another train,
the train you are on, 1t goes to
hell and your leaders are the blame.
The Holy Bible it will never
change Christ died to fulfill his
fathers will on that rugged cross
we are told on the top of calvery
hill.
Men try to change the word of
God, Ny people stand right still
God will send you leader that
is doing his masters will.
Jesus said | am the way, Be-
lieve his word its right, Mans
way will keep you in a strain,
and the church is all ways in a
fight.