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Evening star., 1954-04-29
Russio's S Military Budqet

In terms Of dollars, the newly announced
Soviet budget calls for military outlay of $25
billion, or almost 10 per cent less than the
Kremlin's 1858 allotment for the same purpose.
At first glance, compared to our own defense
expenditures, this may seem to indicate that
we are investing a good deal more in armed
power than the Russians are, but the fact is
that we are not. Far from it.
The Soviet budget, after all, is altogether
different from ours To begin with, it is the
budget of dictatorship that owns and operates
the whole Russian economy, agricultural and
industrial. Further, besides classifying numer-
Gus military items as non-military, it does not
reflect such facts as these: 1J That the Krenl-
lin, not having to reckon with private enterprise
or the profit motive can fix its own prices; 20
that the Russian people-millions of whom are
slave laborers-are poorly paid for what they
produce; and (3) that the Malenkov regime,
since the U. S. S. R, thus has nothing remotely
like our high wage scales and material costs,
can build up and maintain armed strength
both personnel and equipment-at ruble rate
equivalent to perhaps 10 cents or less of every
dollar that the United States spends on its de-
fense establishment.
Accordingly, nothing could be more mis-
leading or mistaken than to read and interpret
the American and Soviet budgets as if they
could be evauated or compared on the basis of
common standards. The thing simply cannot
be done Actually, when allowances are made
for the peculiar nature of the Russian system, it
becomes clear that the Kremlin'S military out
lays are greater than ours-probably much
greater-and we would do well to keep that fact
constantly in mind.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Tariff Plank VS.. Toriff Bill

In your editorial of April "a, entitled
Tariff Showdown Coming" you cor
rectly stated Division within the
Republican Party is nowhere wider or
deeper than over the issue Of tariff and
foreign trade policies"
However, you do not offer any ex-
planation why such a division exists.
There must be reason.
Is not the division due to the sharp
conflict between the Republican plat
form plank on foreign policy. adopted
at Chicago in 1852. and the administra-
ton tariff-reduction bill, H. r. 1850,
recently introduced by Representative
Kean of New Jersey?
The plank on which the Eisenhower
administration stood for election was:
"We favor the expansion of mutually
advantageous world trade. To further
this objective we shall press for the
elimination of discriminatory practices
against our exports such as preferential
tariffs, monetary license restrictions,
and other arbitrary devices. Our re-
ciprocal trade agreements will be en-
tered into and maintained on a basis
of true reciprocity and to safeguard our
domestic enterprises and the payrolls
of our workers against unfair import
competition"
This plank must have appealed to the
majority of Republicans in 1852 in
order to have been adopted. But one
looks in vain for similarity between
this policy plank and H. R. 1850, es-
pecially with respect to safeguards for
our domestic enterprises and the pay
rolls of our workers against unfair i'm
port competition.
Competing against low-paid foreign
competition under tariff level that is
the lowest in United States history and
one of the lowest in the world today,
United States producers and workers
now are being offered by the Repub-
lican administration still lower tariffs
as a panacea against unemployment
and depression. You don't throw water
in the face of drowning man if you
want him to survive, do you?
During 1852. was executive secre-
tary Of trade association of an in
dustry which lost an estimated so per
Evening star., 1954-04-29

Shawl" "Balisand." Swords and Roses" "The
Party Dress" "The Limestone Tree" and "The
Foolscap Rose"-all faithfully executed on the
same model of constructive anecdote embel-
lished with deliberately beautiful style. Mr..
Hergesheimer began his career as painter,
and in effect that is what he remained--a
painter with words and phrases consciously
employed for an artistic impact. He outliyed
the time to which he belonged but, even so,
his influence still is an active force in Amer
lean letters.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Mental Health

deficiency in the health program for Dis
trict school children is being overcome with the
voluntary assistance of a new organization, the
District Mental Health Association The de-
fciency is in the field of mental ailments that
retard learning, disrupt classes and harass
teachers The District has no school psychiat-
ric system to deal with emotionally maladjusted
children The aid of the association, therefore,
is timely and worth while.
Under association auspices, several promi-
nent psychiatrists are giving the teachers guild
ance in the handling of problem children"
With the cooperation Of school authorities,
groups of teachers have attended workshop
sessions at which specific behavior cases have
been discussed by teachers and psychiatrists,
with profit to students and teachers. Three
clinics for the diagnosis and treatment of
mentally retarded or unbalanced children have
been established
All of this has been done at no cost to the
District government. But what has been done
and what is being planned in an expansion pro-
gram will cost money, of course. If no public
funds are to be made available for the service,
it must be supported by private contributions.
This is the reason that the Mental Health AS
Sociation has announced a campaign for funds,
beginning May 2. This will be part Of Nation
wide drive for SIS million by the National Associ-
alton for Mental Health, under the chairman
ship Of Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Most
of the money contributed locally will be used to
carry on the work of the District association
The remainder will go for national research in
mental ills. Contributions may be sent to the
local association at it's headquarters. 1927 M
street Northwest.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
StobiIizinq Career Service

Federal employment would be made more
attractive by enactment of the fringe benefits
bill which the Senate approved yesterday.
Indeed, one provision of the measure is too
important to be classified as fringe" benefit
This is the section which would repeal the
much criticized Whitten rider. Passed as
wartime restraint on overlooking of the career
service with emergency employees who might
become permanent, the rider long since has
outlived its usefulness There can be no salts
factory system of civil service as long as the
war-born curbs on appointments and promo
tionS exist
The easing of leave restrictions, improve
ment of overtime pay regulations, expansion of
incentive awards and other varied benefits
provided in the omnibus bill are in general
line with the administrations program for
strengthening the merit system. But none of
these benefits is as vital to Federal morale and
efficiency as the proposed return to normal
hiring and advancement of Government
workers.
Under the stress of the Korean emergency
1t was proper for Congress to erect bars against
blanketing of hastily recruited employees into
the permanent career service and against pro-
motion inequities that would result from such
expansion of the Federal establishment. The
Whitten rider froze permanent personnel
strength at the pre-Korean war level and
placed all subsequent appointees, with few
exceptions, in temporary-indefnite category.
Promotions of permanent nature also were
drastically limited Yet thousands of these
temporary indefinite employees have earned
permanent status not only by reason of COM
petitive examinations but because their services
are essential to the normal functioning of the
Government
To deprive the so-called TEL employees of
the advantages enjoyed by permanent workers,
to leave them in constant state of uncertainty
as to their future, is patiently unfair to them
and damaging to Federal efficiency. The
House may modify or eliminate certain of the
fringe provisions of the Senate bill, but it
would be serious mistake to leave the Federal
service under the disruptive influences of the
outmoded Whitten emergency rider.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Uprooted

The sad and happy memories.
Become parcel and part
OF one pho builds home and sets
1t firm and deep ioithin his heart.
For time iDiH star its roof icith son0.
Each room mill hold rosary
OF cfildren's laughter and uoice
BeloUed IN days of used-to-be.
When he at last must sell the home
A hand that seems a shaken reed
Win scrdUl his name across page :.
His heart wiH never sign the deed.
lnez Clark ThoSon
Evening star., 1954-04-29
letters to The Star.

cent Of domestic sales that year to
foreign competitors and imitators of
it's products. This association prac-
tically folded up in December, 1852. I
lost my job. See what mean?
Edward r. Place.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

Q. What is meant by Indian file?
r.. c. c.
A. American Indians on an expedi-
ton marched one behind the other, the
one behind carefully stepping in the
footprints Of the one before. phe last
man was supposed to obliterate the
footprints so that no track was left.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to anv question
OF iact by writing The Evening Star Infor-
NATION Bureau, 1900 Eye st. NV Washing
ton .. G Please tnclose three tSl cents for
Evening star., 1954-04-29

Q. What is the total membership Of
the Jockey Club?-A. B. H.
A. From 1893 to late 1853 the club
limited its membership to so, but re-
Gently several members have been
added. The Jockey Club is the author
ity on horse racing rules in the United
States, and the custodian Of the
American Stud Book.
Evening star., 1954-04-29

Pen-n1n1eS may be used If letters cdrry
aDriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-13
NEW YORK

Broadway Beat: Connie
agents in Japan. attempting to
spread dope addiction among
United States troops. are work
ing through Jap women. the type
known to GIs as moose" slang
for "nasuma" ("young girl" In
Japanese. A moose" gives her
victim the needle usually after
he is asleep or has had too many
Ed Sullivan IS on vocotion. His Little
Old New York" column will Be re-
sumed on his return.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-13

sister zsa Zsa at the Venice Film
Festival party.
\ 4 \ 4
Johnnie Ray, who few to Aus
tralia for week Of personal
appearances, may next star in a
musical version Of 1.-THE Trail Of
the Lonesome Pine" story Of
Tennessee mountain folk.
Bill Mccarthy (brother Of Hou-
ston's Glenn Mccarthy seriously
iii in Rome. Walter Slezak,
who'll sing four songs In the
coming Fanny" comes by his
voice naturally. He's the son Of
former Met. star Leo Slezak. (.
Reopening of John Murray
Anderson's Almanac" awaits the
return of producer Michael
Grace. and none of the cast
knows where he is. Ocean
Beach. Fire Island. planning q
regular summer theater season
next year, with professional COM
panies. :. Nice to report that
Betty Clooney. now at the Star
light Roof. has been signed by
Mamie Sachs to q lucrative
RCA-Victor recording contract.
Spike Jones' 10-year-old
niece, Linda Strangis, recording
a number titled II Want Eddie
Fisher for Christmas" with the
Jones musical aggregation.
X n \ +
The Blue Angel begins it's 18th
year with the Jimmy Komacks
martha Davis featured. Martha
went to the Angel for a four
weeks engagement, has been
held over seven times. In
case you care. the first bar Offer
ing color television is located on
48th street. just of Sixth avenue.
:. William Saroyan and George
Abbott comforting on a stage
musical to star Shirley Booth,
with a San Francisco back
ground. :. One bit Of incidental
intelligence dug with MGM in
connection with its remake of
Beau Brummel" is that Clyde
Fitch, the author of that play,
served as secretary to the actor
who originally starred in it. Rich
ard Mansfield. Rosetta High
tower, prima ballerina with the
Marquis de Cuevas troupe, has
taken leave of absence to await
the stork. The Dave Greens
(he's the publicist) to greet the
stork again next spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-13
Hollywood Diary:
New York Neurotics
impress Virqiniu
impress Virgin
By SheiIoh Grohom

HOLLYWOOD.
New York is full of neurotic
WRITER'S" says Virginia Mayo,
who should come to California
ans get rid of their neuroses."
i Hedy Lamar is importing
Maesimo Serato, her leading man
in apple of Venus" to the
United States for a P. A. tour
to sell the Italian-made picture.
She says Massimo is the hand
soonest thing she ever laid eyes
on
Franchot Tone has signed for
o Tv drama series written by a
famous writer every week. F..
Red Shelton asked Johnny Car
son what he wanted for Christ
mas and Johnny replied, "a
winter replacement show on Tv."
Sally Forrest is to star In
"Happy Holiday" in Rome. the
story of an American secretary
who falls for an Italian i'm
presario. Shirley T m pl e
called to say goodbye before
taking of to live In Northern
California. AS she was about to
gos a messenger handed her
three movie scripts and five Tv
shows. Shirley sent them all
back unread-she means it about
loving her role as Mrs. Charles
Black.
While Greer Carson tolls
meath the hot sun of Arizona in
Strange Lady in Town." Hubby
Buddy Fogelson is having a ball
at the Del Mar race track with
his Texas colleagues. The addi-
tions to Greer's house in Bel Air
will set Buddy back as much as
the house cost Greer originally.
Porflrio Rubirosa and his cur
rent girl friend had a big quarrel
q couple of days before they left
for Germany and the Dominican
diplomat got out of her car and
walked home. Pals. are betting
there'll be no marriage.
There were five in Marilyn
Monroe's party when she planned
tor New York last week: Her
coach, Natasha Lytess. Hair
dresser Gladys Rasmussen,
Agent Hugh French. and Make
up Man Alan Synder accompa-
MED the glamorous Marilyn. But
nd Joe Di Maggie.
-
British producer Jimmy Woolf
was trying to persuade a top
Hollywood lady to star in THE
Stbry of Esther Costello" She
wanted big hunks of the script
changed and Jimmy refused. FL
nally she stormed. mo star
viii play it." In that case, re-
piled Woolf sweetly. We'll just
have to get an actress.
Bette Davis sent for hel
mother, in Laguna, to join hei
she's still q bit shaky from the
storm that washed her out Of
her hon. and wrote from South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-13
On Broodwoy::
: By Denton WoIker

sister zsa Zsa at the Venice Film
Festival party.
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| Where and When
Current TheoteE Attractions
And Time Of Showing

$50 ssssS - 0s10 WhHfA ]
Stage.
National All Summer Long,:
$3.50 pm.
Ambassador 'Dragnetn: / 80,
$3.50. 5:35, 7:35 and Gas pm.
Capitol Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers; IL :05 am, LIS,
3:25, 5::35, 7:45 and 9:55 pm.
Colony - 1.-THE yellow Bal
loom: $3.50. $40 and ESQ pm.
Columbia - Gambler From
hatcher; 1855 am, 1885, $40,
$40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Dupont Theater- THE VAN
ishing Prairie: ITO, ESQ, Ass.
6:15ss 8 and $40 pm.
Keith's The Game Mutiny";;
1880 am, 12:45, sos. $40, 7:35
and 9:55 pm.
Little "Angel Street: $3.50,
$40 and $50 pm.
Macarthur - Murder Will
CUT; 6:l5, 8:O5 and 10 pm.
Metropolitan - "Dragnet";;
11:45 am. 1:45. 3:45. $50, 7:5O
and $50 pm.
Ontario Susan Slept Here:
/, 800, 500. T::30 and 9:45 pm.
Palace - Broken Lance; IL
am. Ito. 500. $50, TAO and
$3.50 pm.
Playhouse - Rear Window;
1910 am, ITO. 3:15, $40. 7:25
and 9:35 pm.
Plaza Rome IL O'Clock; IL,
1:40, $40. sos. GAS. $3.50 and
1910 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Man With a Mil
lion": 1920 am, los, $50, 4:4O,
6::35, $40 and 9:55 pm.
Warner-"ThiS Is Cinerama";
$40 pm.
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self this close to Grace Kelly. In
taste.
GOOD NIGHT, JOHN: AS for
John DAILY. usually one Of the
tidiest men. 1t was he who pulled
the gaff Of the evening as Miss
Myerson's co-ceremonial master.
Introducing Miss Meriwether's
talent test drama excerpt to the
television audience. he said she
would do Riders to the Sea-" by
Synge, which he made rhyme
with fringe; instead of Synge.
rhymes with thing-and might
just as well be spelled Sing.
What's my line, indeed!
~ 4
AS FOR LINDA: Miss Weis-
brod, who won the talent tests
Of the pageant, and who went
farther on our chart than on
the Judges. has a job as well as
a scholarship to show for her
beauty and voice. She will
start tonight as the feature star
of the Casino Royals new show.
1t is her first night club APP
pearance.
PAGEANT IN PASSING: Next
to Miss Washington, the girl who
had this departments keenest
sympathy was Miss Florida. J.
There she was, a radiant runner
up to Miss Meriwether as Ameri-
cas- prettiest girl, not "a hours
after being laid low with appar-
emily the same germ we had. !.
Miss South Carolina, another
drama aspirant among the five
flnalists, might do better in poll
tics. -. It was she, Of the quintet,
who thought to throw in a few
creamy words about the charm
of the judges. This sort of
tact might be lost on insensible
drama critics whom the poor.
girl will encounter some day II
she continues her program to
become a playwright. Il. Among
the doWager queens-which is
not at all the right phrase for
former Miss Americas even
though they have given up the
throne-Marian Buford looked
rs If she might provide the hot
;est challenge to the 1854 win
1er. 4. Miss Buford who has
been acting. mostly in foreign
movies, since her reign. is quite
IN un-starlike charmer. She
vas gracious answering M. C.
Bob Smiths questions about her
career. every bit as gracious in
ntimating that it would be nice
20 get on with the show. !. It
vas the first Atlantic City pag-
can't we ever watched on tele-
7ision, shame on us, but If it can
guarantee character as solidly
md amusingly dramatic as Mrs.
Meriwether another year, well
oe back. But. of course, her
kind happens once in lifetime.
So. don't SWIVEL, Atlantic
rityl
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drinks. Magistrate Louis I.
Kaplan, who has been melting
out jail sentences to the hood
lums and Migrants rounded up
in the Times Square area, is re-
commencing q religious revival
to combat teen-age delinquency
and suggests that a police chap
lain be assigned to every station
house. The Knights of
Pythias drive against juvenile
crime goes into high gear today
when Grand Chancellor Jack
Fuchsberg gives a chalk talk to
so deputy grand chancellors at
ceremonies at Pythian Temple,
Manhattan. ~. Marty Snyder,
who was likes mess sergeant in
World War II, battling for the
Republican nomination in Man
hattan's 30th congressional dis
trict, with the backing of the
Eisenhower Independent Citizens
Committee.
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Organized baseball due for a
headline-making policy change
in regard to the minor leagues.
;. More than 40 per cent of the
delegates to the Democratic State
Convention September 21-22 are
members Of the Affiliated Young
Democrats Of New York and
their choice Is Hartman for
Governor. The New School
for Social Research has added
stock market advice to its cur
riculum. =. The New Hope,
Ducks County, Pa set has
created an Oscar" Of it's own,
a 125-pound bell, which will be
awarded Bud Schulberg at to-
nights opening Of his movie, ION
the Waterfront" :. Invitations
to the Barrymore family reunion
on Etheps 18th birthday didn't
include John jr. and Diana. J.
Eva Gabor chose to impersonate
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~--S - ~>OsSsSb NS@AAAN0
on The television, and saw the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT steal the
Mis- America pageant from her
triumphant daughter. :. The
mother of the week. or make 1t
the month. is Mrs. Gregg Meri-
wether of San Francisco. !.
That she is a mother who can
riseto occasions as only moth
ers acan, was dramatically APP
parent when she moved into the
Bess Myerson interview with the
winner, Lee Ann Meriwether on
WMAL's telecast. after the cor
onation. <
Lee Ann, still shattered by
victory, needed a firm hand and
firm voice. Mrs. Meriwether
provided both.
stop sniveling," she said.
what did you say?" Miss N.Y.
erson inquired politely.
= told her to stop sniveling,"
Mrs. Meriwether repeated firmly,
for all the world like a mother
who expected results. :. .,And got
them. Not only from her
daughter who stopped sniveling,
but from a television audience
that must have been delighted to
hear the sanest, calmest voice
Of the entire pageant.
\
WORTHY DAUGHTER: From
q drama departments viewpoint,
Lee Ann took a giant step toward
her beauty crown when, in the
talent test, she chose Synge's
mother character excerpt from
Riders to The Sea" This
Is a reflection Of taste and cour-
age. =. Lee Ann clearly had
them both. ;. What many regard
as the greatest of one-act plays
does not ordinarily make its
appearance on beauty contest
stages.
~ ***
THE JUDGING: We do not
want to be chauyinistic about
this, but one voluntarily retired
beauty contest judge still thinks
Miss Washington, Linda Weis-
brod, should have been one Of
the five finaliStS. Instead
of Miss Michigan, for one; Miss
Pennsylvania, for two. and pos
sibly, Miss South Carolina, for
three. Lee Ann, the winner,
and Ann Daniel. the runner-up
from Florida, we have no quib-
bles about. AS for poor Miss
Michigan, when the master Of
ceremonies asked her about what
she would remember most wildly
about the pageant, one heartleSs
onlooker quipped: Her ulcer, no
doubt" -. More to be pitied, she
was, for being that frightened.
Among the finalists, the retired
beauty contest judge rated them
In exactly the same order as the
Atlantic City jurists.
He felt wonderful to find him
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Portland, Me.D'When the high
est radio tower in Boston fell
down. I knew it was time to get
out"
Eve Arden's baby is due within
two week, and with two daugh-
tiers, Eve and Brooks West are
hoping for boy and they have
the name all picked out--Doug-
las.
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The Posing Show
But Miss Americas Mother
Really Stole That Show
By Joy Cormody

There all dressed Sweetlands supper
soiiee for the IAN Summer Long, the Jefferson
ho when the reasserted itself It's all right be
hollow bore nuisance who drinks only coffee
party But not to be the kind Of typhoid Mary bearing
germs
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tion but will rather bring to you authorities who
qualified to give the latest. tested information
some aspect of your health.
THIS WEEK. with an estimated leadership Of "a
million. has an awesome obligation to be accurate.
When the magazine conceived this column l was
more than pleased that the ANA, through its Bureau
OF Health Education. asked to participate in its
preparation and approval.
I'm sure the readers of THIS WEEK will find much
Of personal interest in the columns, and will be dou
bly, appreciative because THIS WEEK has taken steps
to assure that the advice given is medically accurate
GEORGE :. lull, ND.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-11-19
Miss Richmond
I dlks In Xenia

Miss Louise Richmond, East
High Street, on Tuesday was
guest speaker at meeting of the
Greene County Chapter Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution
in xenia.
Asked to talk on the subject,
Women 1 Have Seen Around the
World" Miss Richmond did not
stay within the confines of the as
signed subject, but chose rather
a broader scope, speaking general
ly on the peoples and customs of
the many countries she has visit
ed.
She, with Mrs. D. D. Slaughter
of Xenia, formerly of London, and
several guests, were entertained
at luncheon by Mrs. Elbert Babb,
on whose invitation Miss Rich
mond addressed the xenia
Daughters. After the program
they were also entertained at tea
by Mrs. G. 0. Rankin.
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