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Evening star., 1954-01-12
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Republicans battle Ikes farm proposal There's real
operation between Ike
his program-this year Congress will do it for him.
The Democrats they feel terrible about the rise
employment OF they feel awful How suppose
you'd feel donkey trying shed crocodile tears?
Ike asks Congress to provide votes Of union members
before strike Most union votes secret aeadyuuay
nobody but the union boss hears of them.
The Government Pan American and w. r. Grace
Co. of monopozng air travel to Latin America Sepreserva
ton the first law Of nature Republicans want make
they have plenty of escape routes heading south.
The Navy orders officers to swords again. It's the
new look" defense policy The Navy won't around
and gawk at atomic bombers-theyu brandish their
swords at em.
workers in Washington get 60 home early
account Of You can't beat the Government When
it's cold the workers knock off, When it's enough play
golf the boss quits.
John L. Lewis the coal miners boss Ike labor
posas pdding Lewis idea of perfect labor
repeal the TaftFarey law AFL
outlaw all gas and oil furnaces
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Lowell MeHett-

One of President Eisen-
hower'S proposals in his state
of-the-U message seems
likely to produce something
of a political paradox. This
was his statement: For years
our citizens between the ages
of 18 and 81 have. in times Of
peril, been summoned to fight
for America. They should
participate in the political
process that produces this
fateful summons. I urge
Congress to propose to the
States a constitutional amend
ment permitting citizens to
vote when they reach the age
of 49,"
Judging from most Of the
immediate comment the Presi-
dent thereby announced a
popular political issue. The
paradox lies in the fact that
the millions of citizens who
would benefit from the pro-.
posed amendment will not
themselves be able to vote on
it. Ordinarily. in politics, any
proposition with a mass appeal
is aimed at the votes of the
intended beneficiarieS. It goes
without saying that most of
the boys and girls in the 18-
to-21 bracket indorse the
Presidents idea. At that age
young people like to be con-
sidered grown up. Even the
girls prefer to be regarded as
a little older than they really
are. So they would turn out
in a big way to register their
approval of the amendment if
permitted, but, as it is, this
is just one more thing for
which they will have to look
to their elders.
This does not mean, how
ever, that they will be idle
now that the issue has been
made. We can expect in due
time the blossoming Of youth
organizations devoted to per-
suading Congress and State
legislatures that President
Eisenhower's suggestion is
sound. And all existing stu
dent political. organizations
are certain to make it part Of
their platforms.
1t was that way in Georgia,
where by constitutional
amendment in 1914 the voting
age was lowered to 18. The
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Eisenhower Labor Plan Praised
His Proposals Seen as Doing Much to End Confusion
That Exist Because of Toft- Hartley Antiquities

Of time to see II they want to
go back. Both proposals are
designed to give the worker
freedom Of choice without
coercion.
There has been a conflict on
some labor questions between
State and Federal law. Lately a
decision by the Supreme Court
Of the United States has
brought even more confusion.
The proposed amendment
would make clear that the
States still may enjoin picket
ing or disorders involved in
strikes II they so provide in
their laws. Then the State au-
thority would not be set aside
through the National Labor
Relations Board or the Fed
eral courts. Unions originally
wanted the Federal Govern
ment not to exercise any
police power but to leave 1t all
to the States. Today some
unions don't want either the
States or the Federal Govern
ment to exercise any police
power in connection with
physical combat arising over
strikes.
Some of the Eisenhower
amendments will be approved
by the unions and others will
be vehemently opposed. There's
one amendment offered by
Mr.. Eisenhower which would
sanction compulsory unioniza-
ton in seven days after EN-
ployment in the construction.
amusement and maritime in
industries. on the ground that
they have unique problems"
The principle of compulsion.
however. Is anti-liberal at all
times. The price Of a job
should not be thought con-
troll" Men conscientiously op-
posed to membership in trade
unions in free America should
not be compelled to join an
organization tLey do not want
to join. With that exception.
the Eisenhower message is a
forward looking document in
labor management relations.
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and he won't realize what Is
happening or how it was done.
They have no fear of the
White House woodshed or of
being outmaneuvered by the
White House.
All this would work out to
some kind Of a program even
if it didn't bear too much re-
semblance to the Presidents
program If one party or one
philosophy clearly controlled
the Senate and the House.
There Is power enough in the
standing committees to ac-
complish a great deal If any
kind of a majority SO wishes
it. No such clear majority ex-
lists anywhere except in for
eign policy possibly, and even
there the road is not clear.
The President has acquired
by this time plenty of advisers
who understand Capitol Hill
and its operations. In fact, he
has more specialists around
him than his immediate prede-
cessors. Some of them are
very good, too.
What seems to be happen
ing, however. is that they are
being used like military staff
and restricted to their special
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movement in this direction
did not originate with the
young people. 1t seems to
have sprung full blown from
the brow of Georgia's ener-
getic and relatively young
Governor, Ellis Arnall. But
the young people took it up.
Student groups did all they
knew to persuade the voting
population, prominent pub
lie figures and the press that
they we're being denied a right
that should be theirs. They
were successful. even though
Georgia was not stirred to
the point Of swamping the
polls. It was a presidential
election year and the vote was
taken on the regular election
day. AS usual. the Georgians
had expended their principal
political interest on the pri-
mary in which the Democratic
candidates were named. The
vote was small, but it was
;ufficient.
Curiously enough, in the
light Of the friendly recep-
ton given the Presidents
proposal, Gov. Arnall, the
year before his State accepted
his idea. received quite diff
ferent treatment from Con-
gress. He appeared before a
subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee to urge
the submission of such an
amendment to the States. The
subcommittee heard him,
questioned him fairly roughly
and dropped the matter. Some
members seemed to resent
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
enough : to fight argument,
Arnall sought to insist that
this was not the true basis
of his proposal. but the COM
mittee did not find him too
convincing. In any case the
President has not hesitated to
base his appeal on that simple
ground, and it is the one
around which discussion will
revolve now that it is being
made q national issue.
Any Georgian, asked how
the change has affected af-
fairs in his State, is likely to
tell you that he can't tell
any difference. But he will
say it has increased the total
vote. Some high school senior
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Doris FIeeson-

The hard part now begins for
President Eisenhower.
The middle-of-the-road / o.
grams which he is sending to
Congress are not command
decisions like the results of
the military conferences over
which he is accustomed to
preside.
An almost evenly divided
Congress is receiving them in a
mood of deep cynicism which
Is more ominous from the
viewpoint of action than strong
partisanship would be. Mem
bers share this mood who are
ladling out unctuous praise for
President and program-in
public.
None of this difficulty is per-
Sonal to the President as to a
degree the congressional prob
lens of both Roosevelt and
Truman were. What members
do distrust is the political
acumen of Eisenhower, his
staff and his cabinet of busi-
neSsmen.
They think they know bet
ter than he does what is good
politics and good for the coun-
try. They think they can sub
stitute their judgment for his
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are not secondary boycotts"
would be clarified II the Presi-
dents proposals are adopted
by Congress. He also would
cure a technical weakness in
the present law whereby work
ers out on. strike might lose
their right to vote for a bar
gaining representative. This
is a rare occurrence and has
been much exaggerated as
union busting" but it is a de-
feet which can be and, Of
course, should be cured.
Some ambiguity has devel-
oped in the decisions as to
whether either side to a labor
management contract may re-
open it at win under present
law. The proposal now is to
specify by law that a contract
lasts for its duration and can
be reopened only if the con-
tract itself specifically author
ICES a reopening.
The question Of responsible
ity for damage suits is also
dealt with. The theory that
union can be sued for acts of
its members has been a con-
slant cause for controversy.
The President says the normal
rules of agency" under the
common law should be applied.
Then a person directly author
lied to carry out a particular
act could be held liable. along
with the union. The same ap-
plies TO management.
The President thinks that a
secret ballot should be con-
Quoted by governmental
agency to determine whether
workers want to go out on
strike. The difficulty with this
is that, if the leaders urge the
men to vote for the calling of
a strike as a piece Of maneu-
vering to impress management
in a negotiation-that is, as a
psychological act-the workers
will vote for it anyway. Sena-
tor H. Alexander Smith. chair
man of the Labor Committee,
wants to have a secret vote
taken also after the men are
out on strike a certain length
Evening star., 1954-01-12
David Lawrence

President EiSenhower'S mes
sage setting forth his proposals
for the amendment of the
Taft Hartley Act is on the
whole a constructive contribu-
ton to a perennial contro-
verSy.
Basically, the President feels
that the framework of the
present law is sound. His thesis
is that the Wagner Act provi-
Sions still in the law safe
guarded collective bargaining
and that it required in addition
the Taft-Hartley Act to safe
guard the employe from abuses
of power.
But the area in which Mr..
Eisenhower proposes legisla-
tive changes is not confined
either to unions or manage
ment alone. He has come for
ward with remedies for in
equitable situations that have
arisen over the Interpretation
of present law. After all, it
is not the explicit phrases of
the law but what the members
of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board and subsequently
the courts say they mean
which cause the bitterness and
the intensive effort to obtain
amendments from Congress.
Most of the changes being
recommended are technical in
nature and are far more sig
niflcant to lawyers for unions
and management than they
are to the public.
Yet there are some new Sug-
gestions made by the President
which will attract widespread
attention. The injunctive proc
ess in the courts should not,
Mr.. Eisenhower thinks, be
started without some effort at
special mediation. Likewise,
the much-diSputed secondary
boycott" he says, should not
be enjoined in the courts auto
maticaNy, but the Department
of Justice should have discre-
ton and not be obliged to in
tervene. This, too, gives time
for the law of reason to work.
Definitions of what are or
Evening star., 1954-01-12

in Europe and in Asia, the
Congress does not hesitate to
reveal them to the public.
The recent publication of
the findings Of the one-man
subcommittee of Michigan
Senator Charles E. Potter, un.
covering the monstrous mas
sacres of American and Allied
prisoners Of war in North
Korea, may not cause the blood
pressure of our European
allies to rise. But it certainly
proved to the American public
that We are dealing with an
enemy far more ferocious and
contemptuouS Of international
regulations than the Germans
under Hitler.
The British and the French
would want us to shake hands
and make friends with repre-
sentativeS of nations that are
far more guilty of crimes
against humanity than those
we sent to the gallows at the
Nuremberg trials.
Mr.. Dulles himself is said to
have serious misgivings about
entering a four power con-
ference at which the cards
appear stacked against us. At
this time he seems determined
to stand strictly on the unof-
f1cial agenda which provides
that the four foreign ministers
discuss only the questions Of
peace treaties with Germany
and Austria. But he realizes
that these two matters will be
actually Of secondary impor-
tance.
The British and French gov
ernments intend to cover at
the forthcoming Berlin con-
ference the whole water front
from Soviet security in
Europe to the inclusion Of
Red China in the United Ma
tions and the settlement" Of
the IndO-ChineSe war.
Evening star., 1954-01-12

The French appear to have
Softened the British stand re-
garding the rearmament of
Germany. The position Of the
French government is that the
formal decision expressed by
Germany's foes during the war
and at PotSdam, that Germany
shall never be permitted to
rearm, should be now fully
applied. The French are
strongly in favor Of a neutral
Germany" This thesis is fully
accepted by Moscow. Britain
is reported to favor such a
basis for a peace treaty with
Germany in the belief that an
end to the present cold war
would make further rearma-
ment in Europe unnecessary.
Britain and France believe in
keeping the present military
setup of the NATO. But once
a peace treaty with Germany
has been agreed on they dc not
see any necessity to further in
crease the NATO'S fighting
strength by the inclusion Of
Germany's potential military
might.
The main trouble which is
expected to beset us in Berlin
is that our allies-their gov
ernments and their people-be-
lieve it futile to oppose the
Red aims further. They are
anxious to accept the recent
Red protestations of love and
friendship at their face value.
Washington cannot indorse
this point of view. The Ameri-
can people, possibly more than
the Government, are alarmed
at the present worldwide Red
conspiracy aimed principally
at this country. Although there
is a mood on the part of some
high officials of the State De-
partment to soft-pedal the
wanton cruelties of the Reds
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Proctice for the Moon?

SHAWNEE. Okla. (R.-While
her amazed owners watched. a
Holstein COW leaped from a Sec
ond story barn window. got up
and walked contentedly away
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bryant,
owners of a large dairy farm
near here. said the COW dropped
20 feet without apparent injury.
To get to the loft. they the
orized, the animal had to climb
a steep staircase in the barn.
Evening star., 1954-01-12

Sidney Kornelis and Mrs.
Lois May Larson, both of CO.
lumbus. Mont, were married
here Sunday.
Mr.. Kornelis' two sons are
married to Mrs. Larson's two
daughters.
William Kornelis. the oldest
son. is married to Virginia,
oldest daughter of the bride.
They live at Winston-Salem,
N. G.
Thomas Kornelis, the bride
Evening star., 1954-01-12

Internal Revenue director,
yesterday received a bulky en-
velope which contained $50
paid bills and business receipts
plus some street car trans
fers. Postage on the envelope
was 81 cents.
Mr.. Sauber said the man
apparently decided to turn the
job over to the Government.
But Mr.. Sauber returned
the package along with tax
form and q book Of instruc-
tionS.
Evening star., 1954-01-12
Life in the U. S.
It's Warmer
In the Cooler,
Says
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

BROCKTON. Mass, Jan. IL.
Mexican Manuel Medrida. 26,
who recently came here from
across the Rio Grande. yester-
day begged police to arrest him.
AS his entry had not been
cleared through immigration
officials. they were able to oblige.
But they were at a loss to under
stand why Manuel-who speaks
no English-was so eager to get
into Jail.
High School Spanish Teacher
John w. Metcalf, jr., who
acted as interpreter. explained:
Manuel says this may be the
land of opportunity. but it's too
cold. He wants to 60 home to
get away from the snow"
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Miner yesterday her husband.
Jerome, 49, would start pacing
the floor when it was time to
retire. She said when she sug-
gested he go to sleep, Mr.. Gar
necki would beat her and shout:
Nobody can tell me I can't
walk"
Mrs. Czarnecki, who said her
husband struck her on four oc-
casions. was granted the di-
vorce on grounds Of cruelty.
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Puts 1t Up to Uncle Som

CHICAGO. (P). - An uni
Identified taxpayer apparently
became disguised while trying
to figure out his income tax.
Ernest j. Sauber, district
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Relatively Complicated

BILLINGS, Mont. R.-Two
sons-in-law and two daugh-
ters-in-law have become STEP
sons and stepdaughters.
Here's how it happened:
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groom's second son, is married
to Shirley, the brides second
daughter. They live at Huron,
s. Oak.
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Walks Out of His Life

CHICAGO, (R.-A wife di-
vorced a department store floor
walker who, she complained,
paced the floor at night.
Mrs. Margaret Czarnecki, IS,
told Circuit Judge julius H.
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President Produces q Paradox
Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Benefit Millions
Who Will Not BE Able to Vote Their Support

classes now march to the
polls in Q body on registra-
ton day.
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Price Slashed!

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$3.50 PYMTS., INCL. J., p, T.. I.
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ia. 7-1OOO EYES, JE. 3-lS15
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DOUG M. SMILEY, INC.
UN. 4-s260 Cheverly, Md,
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OLD ELMSLEE, IN VIENNA, VA.
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ME. S-4505.
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