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Evening star., 1954-12-10
Constantine Brown

The din Of the Mccarthy
controversies has ohscured
constructive criticism of the
administrations lavish expend-
itures which viii keep the Ma
tion in deficit spending for at
least another year.
Senator Harry Byrd sound
ed the alarm Tuesday. In
commenting on Secretary Of
the Treasury Humphreys
warning that there is no pros
pect Of balancing the next
fiscal budget he said: "If we
continue to play Santa Claus
to our people at home and
half the world abroad, We can
expect nothing but collapse Of
our currency, with all its ter
rible consequences"
Senator Byrd is recognized
as the ablest man in Congress
when it comes to fiscal matters.
He never plays politics with
these questions. He lambasted
his own Democratic Party for
it's reckless fiscal policies. Now
he is expected to do the same
to the Republican administra-
ton. And this may threaten
the ''progressive-moderat Re-
publicans. as President Eisen-
hover recently described his
COP followers. more than any
split in the party or the Nc
Carthy rumpus.
Senator Byrd always speaks
with ample facts and figures
to support him. We have
given away $40 billion to Eu-
rope and the tendency in ad-
ministration circles is to con-
tinue a dollar diplomacy" for
some time to come. The phi
losophy behind this policy is
to pit our dollars against the
Red encroachments backed by
military force. This diplomacy
is described by its forgers in
the executive branch as COM
natifive co-eyistance The
critics describe it as a half
wolf and half dachshund mon
grel.
The European nations from
the Elbe to the British Isles are
enjoying an unprecedented era
of prosperity which in most of
these countries exceeds that
of the balmy prewar days.
Factories are working over
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Doris FIeeson-

A fascinating sideshoW OF
: the next Congress will be the
struggle for power between the
two young Californians, Vice
President Nixon and Senate
Leader Knowland. The prize
for which they fight is the 1856
presidential nomination il
President Eisenhower does not
run again.
Seldom have such young
men attained such high places
so fast. To their youthful vigor
is added a background of State
politics in which party lines
are largely ignored and the
'erratic rather than the tradi-
tional is the norm.
In California, rules and his
torical precedents are out the
window. Charles Evans Hughes,
who is thought to have lost
the presidency by snubbing
Senator Hiram johnson. is the
classic example; but there has
&. scarcely been a President or
national chairman who has
not burned his fingers at
tempting to pull national irons
out of the States fire.
The Nixon-Knowland feUd is
important to Gen. Eisenhower
. because they both hold key
positions and because Cali
fornia is now the second
State. If he were more subtle
and flexible, he might play one
off against the other, but this
type of manipulation is not in
/. his character.
+. In the past two years it has
. been the Vice President who
! sought standing with the Nc
Carthy -Dirksen faction in the
Evening star., 1954-12-10

Senate by acting as the White
House go-between. In the spe-
cial session, Senator KnoWland
undercut him there by voting
against the Mccarthy censure.
In the McCarthy-Dirksen
faction, too, are the natural
allies for Senator Knowland's
effort to enforce a tougher
policy in Asia on Gen. Eisen-
hover. The G. o. P. Senators
who voted against Senator
Mccarthy can be expected to
stand with the President in
foreign affairs.
The conflicting ambitions of
the Vice President and Senate
leader are ambrosia to the
Democrats. 1t will be difficult
for either one to get any help
from the new majority in Con-
gress.
Democrats purely hate the
Vice President because of his
campaign last fall accusing
them of softness toward COM
munism. At the national
committee meeting in New
Orleans they set up smear
chamber" largely devoted to
what Mr.. Nixon did and said,
especially in the West.
They like Senator Knowland
personally and trust him, but
he lacks that stature with
the Southern conservatives OF
which his predecessor, Senator
Taft, made such effective use.
Also, the South is interna-
tionalist. It was on economic
and social questions that it
made alliance with Senator
Taft; Senator Knowland's pre-
occupation is foreign policy.
The question of whether
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Heads Red Cross Drive

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Dec. 10
(SpeciaD. - Alvin r. Clements
will be chairman of the 1855
American Red Cross fund drive
to be conducted here in March
by the Charlottesville and Abe
marie chapter of the national
organization. An alumnus Of
the University of Virginia, Mr..
Clements is a cashier at the Cit
izens Bank 6S Trust Co.
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Prison Won't Pass This

FOLSOM, Calf, Dec. 10 (P).
Editors of the Folsom Prison
Observer conducted a survey
on how to make Folsom a bet
ter place to live.
One inmate suggested week.
end passes to a destination Of
the prisoners choice. If an in
mate failed to return he'd get
a black mark-and no more
passes.
Evening star., 1954-12-10

the Virginia State Corp. asking
that the Virginia Gas Transmits
sion Co. and the Shenandoah
Gas Co.. a distributing system.
furnish natural gas to consumers
in Woodstock.
Evening star., 1954-12-10
DootTY I1o01Psor- -
A Bows OId-Foshioned Escopode
Some Hints to Youngsters on How to Slip Out Nights
And Find Exotic Adventure in the BIockness

to my bedroom. People came
in and even If they were reg
ular day-neighbors they were
different at night. always
laughing. playing the piano,
and eating-not bread-and-
butter but fancy sandwiches
and cake. You were always
being told, Don't touch that
cake, it's for tonight" Next
day leftover sandwiches were
stale, and if you got cake the
plate was crumhy and the
frosting tattered.
Grownups were always go
ing places at night. Daytlmes
Mama in ar apron busted,
mopped. cooked and sewed.
But at night she wore pretty
dresses. She'd hear your
prayers and say. Go right to
sleep. We're going out, but
Auntie will be here" And
when she kissed you she smelt
wonderful.
Night was mysteriously beau
tiful. When you stole out
everything was magically diff
ferent from day. The sky had
a thousand sparkling eyes,
the maple tree was a huge
shadowy mass bigger than life.
and all the neighbors' windows
We're alight like a Christmas
tree. Christmas eve was when
you could stay up and light
the tree and get presents.
Night was Christmas. All the
year round for grownups.
So don't ask why Joseph
got up to go places at night.
down to the trains that are
always going somewhere. some
where one has never been.
What early-to- -bedder has not?
Surely he got q sound scolding
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Proposal Grounded

F.. BOYNE CITY. Mich, Dec. 10
P.-Lovelorn Aviator Carl Dem
Ter, 40. who proposed to the lady
of his choice via a banner in
the sky. didn't get a Eyes"
Instead, he got a mo from
Mrs. Evelyn Brandt, a divorcee,
who told newsmen: And that's
definite"
This upstate Michigan city of
3,028 got excited yesterday as a
plane circ1ed for Is minutes,
trailing a huge banner which
read: Evelyn I love you. Marry
me. Carl"
Every one was thrilled but
me-" said Mrs. Brandt. Hes
already had his answer-in priv
ate"
Mr.. Demler is a professional
aerial crop duSter.
Evening star., 1954-12-10

he was put. And furthermore
he was sent to school after
his night out, but had to go
to bed upon his return at 3
pm. All this is familiarly
nostalgia to a grownup who
once, as a child. was given
to running away from a low
ing home.
The reporter commented,
"How he got out of the house
and why he decided on the
subway safari were mysteries"
Mysteries?
There are numerous ways
of leaving home unnoticed. A
veranda outside ones bed
room window is the roof-way
out and return by the same
route not insuperable at that
age. Usually. however, the
young night wanderer exits
less venturesomely by the
front door, the whereabouts
of adults being established by
their chatter and a chlld's
superior hearing. If appre-
hended, also, one can always
be wanting a drink of water
or a cookie. But why does a
good early-to-bed child want
to go out into the night alone?
Don't you remember?
Night is reserved for those
strange adults who say, You
can stay UP when you're
older"
Nights are times when
grownups, who are otherwise
always working. play. What
do they play at? They revel.
Even in a Methodist parson-
age. where ! lived at Joseph's
age, sounds of revelry-if I
knew the word - came up
through the hot-air register
Evening star., 1954-12-10

which has been 81 per cent in
favor of.the Eisenhower legis-
lative proposals-one of the
best in Congress-there was
published in a large Eastern
newspaper an editorial coming
the word "Knowlandisn1." )" In
O few days there were edi-
toria1s in other newspapers
which removed the quotation
marks and characterized the
Knowland point of view as an
ism" or as a right wing"
pronouncement. Yet, If any
body deserves the title Of
.'progressive-m d crate" as
Gen. Eisenhower phrases it,
Senator Knowland does. When
a few days afterward the
California Senator lined up
against the censure resolution,
it was promptly asserted by
some Eisenhower supporters
In the press that "Knowland-
ism" and ''McCarthyism' were
the same thing. Conversely,
one look at the roll call for CEN
sure will reveal, however, the
name of Senator Watkins,
whose 'isolationist" point of
view would hardly entitle him
to be classified as "left-
winger" or "internationalist"
just becaue he fought the Wis
consin Senator.
Such tactics are not going
to help Gen. Eisenhower re-
store harmony in his party and
he, of course, isn't responsible
for the mistakes being made
by his overzealous supporters.
For, if Senator Knowland.
who represents the second most
populous State in the Union,
is to be deprived of the right
to express the viewpoint of his
constituents on public ques-
tions unless he conforms to a
pattern, then indeed an era of
intolerance has arrived on
the American scene-far more
serious than the Wisconsin
Senator's tactics in handling
witnesses In congressional COM
mittees.
The late Senator Taft pub
licly differed on foreign policy
with the Eisenhower admin
istration in May, 1858. but
nobody called it "Taftism" and
there was no demand from the
White House coterie that he
resign as majority leader. II
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Dovid Lawrence

How can harmony be
achieved In the Republican
Party by President Eisen-
hower's leadership?
This is the $64 question in
= American politics today. It
lis not less important because
the Democratic Party faces an
equally serious cleavage over
the civil rights issue.
The Republican Party is torn
with a factionalisn1 based on
issues which are really not at
all insurmountable. This fac
r tionalism is intensified by a
fundamentally mistaken point
of view among some OF the
Presidents closest advisers who
seem to think the way to po-
litical progress Is to keep the
Republican factions fighting
each other.
In many respects President
Eisenhower is a political para
dox. He has proved himself to
be an aggressive partisan in
side the Republican Party but
no partisan at all in fighting
the Democratic Party.
Many of the supporters of
the President use rather loose
terms in describing the fac
tions of the Republican Party.
They refer nowadays to the
"'right wing" and the hard
core of the right wing" Does
this mean that the opposite
faction hereafter can be prop
erly described as the ''left
wing" or the "hard core Of
the left wing? Such terms
will not enhance the prestige
OF the Republican Party Or
bring unity to it's ranks.
Another example of the care
Z less use of terms occurred in
the last two weeks when Sena-
tor Knowland of California,
majority leader. made state
ment urging that a naval
blockade might be used to
compel the release of the II
airmen held captive by the
Red Chinese. The idea was
+ worth exploring-or at least
2 discussing in a land of free
4 speech. 1t was advantageous
to let the Red Chinese know
that members of Congress here
were at least thinking of these
things.
Without looking up Senator
Knowland's voting record.
Evening star., 1954-12-10
DonviIIe Educator Will Head
u. of Va. Scholarship Program

master Of arts degree from the
University of Virginia in 1949.
rendered his resignation to the
Danville school authorities last
night. He is expected to take
over his new duties in February.
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Loses Her Patience

DENVER, Dec. 10 tP).-Mrs.
Alice Johnson's patience finally
wore thin.
She was granted an inter-
locutory divorce yesterday from
Edward F. johnson of Mata-
wan. N. j.. on grounds of de.
sertion. She told Superior
Court Judge Mitchell B. Johns
her husband left her AZ years
apO
Evening star., 1954-12-10

from his concerned parents
and promised not to do 1t
again. and we hope he won't.
But he had the adventure.
He met a wonderful policeman
who was no agent of wrath
but offered him cake--in the
middle of the night. He got
his picture in the paper and
thus for a moment was fa-
nous. That's something to
remember when you're nine,
and almost always good as
gold.
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Giont Christmas Card

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (P.-
Lights were turned on last night
on one of the Nations biggest
Christmas cards on the Mer-
chandise Mart. the worlds larg-
est commercial building.
Nearly 1000 light bulbs have
been used to form three giant
bells, each six stories high, two
huge Christmas trees, each Is
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Cos Service SOUGHT

WOODSTOCK, Va, Dec. 10
(SpeciaD Mayor Dan F. Burn
er has asked the town council
to join with him in a petition to
Evening star., 1954-09-10
Bills, Bills. Bills
Cool Navy Wife Gains Bandit,
Talks Him Into Meek Arrest

with 1t. Gardner, briefed on the
strange circumstances.
How about giving me that
gun, buddy?" the husband said,
and straightway was given it.
Then they waited for police-it
was as simple as that.
At a Municipal Court hearing
today, Lester Albert Rocker. 80,
of Phoenixville, Pa, said he had
larceny in his heart when he
entered the car-"but I just
couldn't go through with it-she
was SO nice"
"Bills. Bills, Bills"
Asked why he had turned to
crime, Rocker threw his arms
into the air and shouted: Bills,
bills, bills"
He was sent to District Cen
eral Hospital for 30-day mental
observation and charges of as
sault and carrying a deadly
weapon continued.
1t. and Mrs. Gardner told
Assistant United States Attorney
Alfred Burka they would like to
visit Rocker at the hospital and
offer any assistance possible.
Evening star., 1954-09-10
Howard Lets Contract
For New Law School

The Joseph A. Velpe Con-
struction Co. of Washington has
been awarded the contract TO
build Howard University's new
law school at a cost of 1892 .845.
Ground will be broken in Oc-
| tober for the fireproof brick and
/ limestone structure, the univer-
sity disclosed today. 1t will be
ready for occupancy in Septem-
Der, 1856.
The three-story building au-
thorized by Congress will contain
SO, 900 square feet and will ac-
commodate up to 200 students.
Howard now has law school
enrolment of about 100. The
students use part of the univer-
sity library building.
The new law school will be
built at the southwest corner of
Sixth street and Howard place
NV. In addition to classrooms.
administrative offices and three
libraries, it will have a practice
courtroom, with seating capacity
of 200.
1t is estimated 125, 900 volumes
can be placed in the Libraries.
one for law students. one for the
faculty and one general in ma
ture. With equipment, total cost
of the project will be STATS, 900.
Architects for the building are
the washington firm Of Juste-
ment, Elam & Darby. a
Evening star., 1954-09-10
Aufo-Driving Permits
Held by 0ne-Eighth
or D. c. PopuIace

That Washingtonians still pre-
fer driving to walking is attested
by the fact that about one
eighth of the local populace held
operators permits during fiscal
1854.
The total figure was nearly
118, 900, including new issuances
and renewals. This was an in
crease of 1929 over the previous
fiscal year. Nearly $4,000 aspir-
ing drivers took written exam
nations for knowledge of traffic
regulations. a 35 per cent in
crease over fiscal 1858.
The 203,7 ,795 motor vehicle reg
istration was slightly higher than
1853 as well.
And so was the number of re-
jections of vehicles submitted to
first inspection for road safety.
More than one-half of the We
hicles driven in for first check
were turned back as unsatisfac-
tory. In all, 324,552 inspections
were made at the city's two in
spection stations.
The District Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency last year helped
promote creation of $500 addi-
tional off-street parking spaces
by private enterprise. The agency
now is readying its first free
fringe parking lot at South Capt.
tol street and Firth Sterling ave-
nue.. Scheduled to open later this
month.
The Highway Department in
a highly generalized report for
the year pointed merely to such
accomplishments as the begin
ming of construction of the city's
first pre-stressed concrete bridge
at Atlantic street Sc. over
Oxon Run, steady progress in
the construction of East Capitol
Street Bridge over the Anacostia
River and the New York-South
Dakota avenues development as
link with the Baltimore
Washington Parkway nearing
completion.
Evening star., 1954-09-10
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Evening star., 1954-09-10
Backyard Carnival
Brings $57 for
March of Dimes

Four proud little boys plan to
present a big box of cash to
James Martin, co-ordinator of
the District March of Dimes.
In the box will be $57.76, the
results of their efforts IN staging
a gala carnival last night in the
backyard of Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man E. Dill, 1881 Fourteenth
street NV, to give their fellow
youngsters felled by polio q
boost on the way to recovery.
MaSterminds of the undertak-
ing, which required 10 days to
plan, were Norman and Alvin
Jeweler. 9 and is respectively,
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Max
Jeweler. TAOS Fourteenth street
NV, and Chris and Johnny Dill,
8 and 8 respectively, sons of Mr..
and Mrs. Dill.
Between go and 20 children
attended the affair-some from
as far away as Silver Spring
in addition to at least SO parents.
Every one seemed to have a
wonderful time" Mrs. Jeweler
said. land this gave us as much
pleasure as the knowledge that
we were working to help fight
polio.
Food and prizes for the color
fully decorated carnival were do
mated by neighborhood stores
and the childrens' parents.
Evening star., 1954-09-10
New Ferry TO Reopen
Crossing Of Potomac

The General Jubal Early, a
new-type ferry is expected to
arrive today at Whites Ferry
in Montgomery County and Loua
doun County, va. It is scheduled
to be in operation by Sunday.
The all-metal ferry can carry
six cars or a tractor-trailer truck
with a 25-ton capacity on tbs
two tenths of a mile river trip.
It operates by water-jet pro-
pulsion.
The old ferry, condemned for
safety reasons, has not operated
for the last eight months. The
ferry provides the only crossing
of the Potomac between Chain
Bridge in the District and Point
of Rocks.
The crossing saves motorists
% miles of travel between Mont
gomery County points and Lees
burg, Loudoun County and the
valley of Virginia. according to
r. Edwin Brown, part-owner of
the ferry. The fare is rs cents
for car and its passengers.
The new ferry is named for
the Confederate general who in
vaded Maryland, extracted
100000 from the city of Fred
efick as a tribute, marched on
Washington, then retreated back
to Montgomery County. He
engineered an ambush across the
river from Whites Ferry, where
he routed Union forces.
Evening star., 1954-09-10
Board Members View
DOUGLASS School Job

An inspection of the third
floor addition to the Douglass
Junior High School. Pomeroy
and Douglass streets Sc, was
made today by the Board CT
Education's buildings, grounds
and equipment committee.
Informally, committee MEM
bers said that the construction
is satisfactory, but a formal re-
port will be submitted later to
the school board.
Miss Mary H. Parker and Col.
West A. Hamilton, board MEM
bers, conducted the inspection.
The chairman, Mrs. Arcadia N.
Phillips was i'll.
A provision was made in the
original building, constructed in
1852, for the third floor addi-
ton. The new floor contract.
costing $213,850, was carried
out by the building firm of
Young g. Cary, Inc, Hillside,
Md. Is
The addition was made neces-
sary by the increased population
in the area served by the school.
The new addition will give the
school a capacity of 1896 stu
dents. It's old capacity was 750.
1t will be mainly for colored
pupils as no white students have
yet been registered.
Evening star., 1954-09-10
Two Post S125 Collateral.
In Plumbing Code Cases

Two men posted SIPS collat-
eral each on plumbing code vio-
lations yesterday. police re-
ported as the District continued
it's drive against illegal plumb
ing services. s
Charles F. Welsh, 80. of Rock
vile, and John r. Richardson,
81, of the 100 block of @ street
S.W.. were charged with plumb
ing without a license and a per-.
NIT. failing to obtain inspection
of.work done and cutting in on
a water line. They posted collat-
eral at the 18th precinct.
Two others forfeited collateral
in Municipal Court Yesterday
also charged with plumbing vio-
lations.
The Sol Investment Co.. of the
TOO block of Maryland avenue
NE, forfeited 500 on charge
of employing an unlicensed
plumber knowingly and James
Tillery. of the 800 block OF
Tenth street NE. forfeited 500
collateral on a count of doing
unlicensed plumbing. ~
Evening star., 1954-09-10
Names Of 50 ParoIees
Released in Maryland
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 10-The
Department of Parole and Pro-
baton has released the names of
so persons paroled from Mary
land penal institutions during the
month of August.
They included:
Edward M. Jolley, jr., Mont
gomery County, 3 years. burglary
housebreaking and larceny, jan
uary, 1858.
Thomas C. Warren, Mont
gomery County. 312 years,
housebreaking and larceny, April,
1858.
Gene John Woods, Prince
Georges County, 3 years. larceny,
Nav. 1853.