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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-11-17
Good Old Davs?

\ AUCH water has gone over the dam
w since the Society's american Gro
attain Pioneers" Lodge 663 of Cleveland,
Ohio, came into existence twenty-seven
years ago, the good old days"
The year - 1927 - opened with Calvin
Coolidge occupying the White House.
On January the United States sent
600 Marines to Nicaragua to protect Amer
lean interests. Two months later, March 5,
saw 1000 Marines land in China to safe
guard American property endangered by
civil war raging in that country at the time.
Sensationalism was the order of the day
March 20 when nationally prominent art
editor Albert Snyder was found murdered
and his wife, Ruth Brown Snyder, and her
corset-sa1esman paramour Henry Judd
GRAY, were accused of the crime. Both con-
fessed and were executed at Sing Sing
January II, 1923.
Today, it's Cevelands DR.. Samuel H.
(sam) Sheppard against the field.
X
April and May of 1927 found the Miss
issippi River on flood binge. Several hun
dred persons were drowned. thousands
made homeless, millions in property lost
before the waters returned to normal.
Came May 20 and Captain Charles A.
Lindbergh left Roosevelt Field, Long Is
land, New York. alone in a monopane COM
petine for an offer of S25 900 to the first
man to make a nonstop flight between
New York and Paris. He covered the $50
miles between the two points in SO hours,
% minutes, 80 seconds, and returned home
the idol of millions of people the world over.
Today flights across the Atlantic Ocean
are routine to the point of being boring to
those who can afford to make them for
either business or pleasure purposes.
October 6. 1927 saw part-talking pic
lures demonstrated for the first time in
New York City in The Jazz Singer
The same month found the American
League New York Yankees and the Ma
tional League Pittsburgh Pirates involved
in what was billed as the World Series Of
1927 The Yankees manhandled the Pi-
rates in four-straight rout. TWenty-seven
years later, 1854 the New York Giants did
like lob on the Cleveland Indians O tenn
pora O mores
Finally floods in Vermont on Novem-
Der of 1927 claimed 120 lives and the year
bowed out with bitter cold weather the lot
of most of the United States.
X
This, then. was the year which gave the
Croatian Fraternal Union what is today the
dean of it's English Speaking Lodges,
american Croatian Pioneers" Lodge 663,
and ushered in an era destined to "Ameri-
canize" the Society in many respects.
Those were the days when the Society s
old timers were openly critcizing members
of English Speaking Lodges as being moth
ing more, or less, than 'keksari" fighting
word if there ever was one.
But, like all good things, the Pioneers
are still around and doing business twenty
seven years later after surviving more
,arbed jibes than they care to recall.
Which can only lead us to wish then,
many, many happy returns of the day on
this, their 9th Anniversary of affiliation
with the greatest organization of it's kind
on the face of the earth, the multi-million
dollar Croatian Fraternal Union.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-11-17

should know their rights un-
der the Social Security Act
and exercise them accordingly
when the time arises.
Those "hazy' on some
points of the law need only
to contact their nearest So
cial Security Field Office for
information. Your nearest
Field Office is listed in your
phone book. Contact it when
ever in doubt about any
phase of the law in question.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-11-17

EVER ACTIVE - recent lamb roast pro-
vided the photographer with excuse enough
to snap some of the active officers, members
and boosters of the Societys Buffalo, New
York, Lodge 557, shown above. Front, left
to right: Lodge 557 President and Club
Steward Nick Lodick; booster named
Dominic; member Joseph Buzak; erstwhile
Lodge 557 Treasurer George Rok, now lead
ing the Lodges bowling league forces and
among those doing the spadework for the
CFU's 1856 National Tenpin Tourney at Buff
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-11-17
Kay Badovinac, Cleveland, Awaiting
November ~ Statewide Essay Confest
Daughter OF Former CFU Secretary To
Represent Cuyahoga County At Athens

Cleveland Ohio (ZP) = Kay Badovnac member of
CFU Junior Nest No 55 Cleveland and senior at Euclid
Senior High School, her parents her principal and her
school teachers thrill November when she received official
that she adudged of the winners of regional
Contest Ohio History and Government
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-11-17

each winner has been sent
an official invitation to take
part in the final exams which
will be held on the campus
of Ohio University at Athens,
Ohio, over the weekend of
November 10Th and Goth.
Thrill OF A Lifetime
1t will be a thrilling eX-
perience for Kay, the 17-year-
old daughter of brother John
Badovinac, former Supreme
Secretary of the Gu.
She is looking forward to
the trip to Athens, Ohio,
where she will compete with
the other regional winners for
statewide honors. Kay was
the only winner from Cuya-
hoga County, which is Ohio's
most populous county.
During the weekend of her
visit to Ohio u, she and the
other winners will be treat 1
as special guests, with all ex-
penses paid by the Univer-
sitys Scholarship Contest
Committee.
A full program of activity
has been arranged for the
young teen-agers. 1t will in
clude a football sa. e on Sat-
urday afternoon, where the
youngsters will be treated to
the color and ceremony which
is attendant at college foot
ball games.
The History tests will be
held Friday afternoon, No
vember 10th.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-11-17
In Passing

This is a good time for
American labor to take a
searching look at itself in
it's relations with the poll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10
Dorothy Ihompsor-
Why the Bricker Amendment?
Fact Remains That Treaties Negotiated by Executives
Do Have Powerful Beorng on Our Domestic Law

most countries might ratify
them merely as a pious ges-
ture, Supreme Court decisions
indicated that II ratified here
they would supplant existing
laws, including the Bill of
Rights. This column has dis
covered that many advocates
of the U. N. human rights
pact have never carefully read
it.
Their argument in its behalf
is to crow, $50 you don't be-
lieve in human rights!" Ac-
tually, the U. N. proposal, one
of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's
pets. does not reserve one single
freedom unequivocally to the
people, but qualities free
speech. assembly, worship and
press by such escape clauses
as national emergency, secu-
rity, etc., and establishes as
rights" what no government
could implement without COM
plete control Of the economy.
Any totalitarian government
could ratify the U. N. human
rights agreement with all it's
escape clauses and, anyhow, no
other country would be obliged
to enforce it as part of its own
domestic law.
BY and large this column
believes that the protection of
the Nation rests less upon
laws to restrict its freedom of
action than on the vigilance
of public opinion. If we ever
elect an administration and
Congress who, for the sake
Of achieving some mythical
world unity in freedom, are
prepared to give away the
sovereign self-government of
this country, we doubt whether
any constitutional provisions
or amendments will prevent it.
Many executive actions have
been taken in the last 20 years
without being challenged in
the courts, because the great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10
Investigations
Indictments in Ship Deals Point Up the importance
Of Congress- Investigotive Responsibilities
Point Up the Importance

substantial profits by taking
advantage Of the confusion and
mismanagement which marked
the administration Of the sur
plus ship disposal program by
the old Maritime Commission.
Had the commission admins
tered that program In q busi-
nesslike manner and In ac-
cordance with the clear intent
Of the law, it would have been
impossible for the individuals
and firms involved in this in
quiry to have engaged In ac-
tivitieS which violated the
spirit and. in many instances.
the actual letter Of the law"
None Of the so-called Glib
erals" will be found objecting
when the end result is an at
tack on interruptions indi-
viduals in the business cate
CORY but only when the attack
is on individuals who are re-
lated to the Communist con-
troversy. Incidentally. Senator
Lehman Of New York, Demo-
crat, has just felt obliged to
issue a statement Of explana-
ton justifying his vote for a
$214.000 appropriation for the
Mccarthy committee. The
New York Senator says:
IT believe in that power
congressional power to in
,vestigate) and its legitimate
exercise. I do not believe the
proper cure for the disease, in
this case or any other case, is
the paralysis of all the func-
tons of the committee by cut
ting of appropriations"
Mr.. Lehman said he would
continue to press for q reform
in the rules Of investigating
committees. One wonders
whether easing up on those
methods" Of congressional
committees which the Com
munistS and fellow travellers,
among others, criticize so
much isn't going to require
an easing up also on q host
Of other persons whose NAL
practices are regularly UNI
covered by congressional COM
mittees investigating transac-
lions between businessmen and
the Government.
Reproduction Rights ReserveD
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Salute to the Foreign Service
Despite the Many Complaints About Our Diplomats,
They Compare FovorobIy With Any in the World

such chances and join q service
which does not give even the
prestige which diplomacy Of
fered in the past.
Any weakening Of the pres
tige and quality Of our Foreign
Service in the last few years
was due principally to the fact
that at the end Of the war q
number of individuals from
the alphabetic agencies were
transferred to the State De-
partment and later integrated
into the Foreign Service and
some Of its branches. The
quality Of some of these per-
sons was not all that was to
be desired. Only a handful Of
them are doing a creditable
job.
Some regular Foreign Serv-
ice officers. in their anxiety to
get quick promotions by pleas
ing the politicians in Washing
ton, became guilty of a number
of serious "indiscretions" which
brought them before various
investigating committees Of
Congress. These few rotten
apples. however. did not spoil
the others in the barrel. They
remained the selfless. hard
working men who are devoting
their time and energy to a
work which present world
conditions are rendering
thankleSs.
From personal observations
during a 13-week trip abroad,
this reporter has reached the
conclusion that Foreign Service
officers, contrary to what is
being said by well-meaning in
dividuals in this country, are
not afraid to put their views
courageously before their su-
periors. AS a matter Of fact.
the personnel Of an embassy
reports only to the ambassador
under whose signature dis
patches are sent to the State
Department.
AS a rule. an embassy is as
good as the chief of the mis-
sion Is. Ambassadors who owe
their position to campaign
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10

Expectations held on the
Hill regarding Mr.. Cole, If and
when Mr.. Warren should re-
tire. have been jolted by word
from the Republican National
Committee that a faction has
lighted upon a different man
and is pushing his claims. He
Is shrewdly chosen since he is
known to all Senators and
liked universally-Mark Trice,
Secretary Of the Senate.
It would be difficult for any
member Of Congress to vote
against the likeable Mr.. Trice
who has served long and well
on the Hill and was secretary
to the Republican minority
before it achieved power.
Normally. this would be a
matter pretty much to be set
tied among the party in power.
Democrats. however, have
reached the point where they
are not anxious to oblige the
White House by silence or
tacit acquiescence and they
propose to reassert the SUI
premacy Of Congress In this
case.
If they become convinced
that questions of Republican
partisanship are entering into
it. they possibly will put for
ward their own candidate from
congressional ranks. This ma
neuver could be very embar-
RAISING, since they are a nu-
merical majority in the SEN
ate and probably can count on
Independent Morse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Czech afman who craShanded in West Germany decides
to stay side. Give that carton of cgaree-and
$50 million pounds Of butter!
listen the administration experts appears
that the only thing with business is that it's
good next that businessmen taking this OF to
rest up for it.
Russia proposes system Of European security Russias
plan for complete security jail In every town. cell in
family
The Senate expodeS Democratic Senator Humphreys
connection with pneumatic tube contract This
fast What started pneumatic tube threatens up as
q wind tunnel
The Big -Four conference to discuss Austria The
question Of Germany will be laid aside until it's
nothing can be done about Austria either
Democrats complain to Ike that his Republicans are
smearing them What's more If Ike doesn't stop
the Democrats Will all go out and vote Democratic
j. Edgar Hoover 1t takes 10
Communist Oh well things aren't bad FBI may need
10 agents to Redbu Joe Mccarthy only
minutes to uncover another old one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10
,Thonos L. Stokes
Democrats Ready to Strike Back
IT Republicans Continue Attacks Against Minority They
May Face Trouble Getting Patronage Jobs Confirmed

Democrats in Congress real
lie 1t is not enough to get hot
. under the collar-which they
decidedly are-over the Re
publican broadside attack
. against the Democratic Party
> as a whole as reasonable and
. traitorous.
What they need Is q coun-
ter attack.
All about the Capitol party
leaders Of House and Senate,
as well as rank-and-f1le mem
bers, are putting their heads
. together to that end. A check
reveals that when their elder
statesman and Nestor, Repre-
sentative Sam Rayburn of
. Texas, finally issued his warn
ing to President Eisenhower to
call off his Republicans, or
else, he spoke for the entire
party on both sides of the
Capitol. The former Speaker,
present minority leader, is
long-suffering and patient.
But he had had enough-and
so had the rest Of the Demo-
Gratis.
His brief warning in the
House, which was echoed at
greater length at the other
end Of the Capitol by Senator
Stuart Symington, Democrat,
of Missouri. was like the bell
beginning the first round Of a
prize fight. It settled nothing.
Democrats had no expecta-
ton that any appeal to Presi-
dent Eisenhower would have
any effect whatever on the
well-laid plans Of Republican
Party managers to fight the
congressional battle along the
line set by Senator Joe Nc
Carthy in his opening cam
paign tour now under way
under the auspices of the Re-
publican National Committee.
The green light to the Wis
"consin Senator meant that
National Chairman Leonard
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AS for retaliatory steps in
case the Republican treason
traitors" gunf1re persists -
which Democrats expect -
some were talking of the
potentialities IN the 500 post
masters now awaiting conf1r-
nation by the Senate. Not
only these, but other nomi-
nations, might be considered
deliberately and with no hurry.
Democrats have q majority In
the Senate, 48 to AZ Republic
cans, the other being Senator
Wayne Morse, Independent.
Of Oregon. From the latter's
most recent outbursts Demo-
Gratis might expect his vote
every so often to provide
clear majority. If the Repub-
lican attack continues in its
current vitriolic and abusive
manner, Democrats feel they
would be completely justified
IN replying to it. in fact would
feel q reply an obligation to
the party rank and file.
That would mean numerous
speeches in House and Senate.
Perhaps the chief effect
from the Mccarthy type Of
Republican campaign would
be to unity Democrats in
making real issues in Con-
gress. For example. on taxes.
There the approach Is to fight
the developing Republican
program as weighted more
heavily for the coupon clippers
and the well-heeled, a minor
ity. than for the great majority
Of taxpayers. This too, they
argue, Is proposed at a time
when it would seem that the
need for increasing purchas-
Ing power among the masses
to protect the economy Is
much greater than expansion
Of production which the adj
ministration tax program Is
designed to encourage. As for
other issues. the New Deal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10
Dorothy Thompson

Whatever may be the fate
Of the Bricker amendment or
some substitute proposal, the
debate has been useful in
alerting the American people
to the fact that foreign trea-
ties or agreements, negotiated
by the Executive, do have a
powerful bearing on domestic
law and on the Constitution
itself. And the size Of popu-
lar and congressional support
has warned the Chief Execu-
tive to Scrutinize more closely
the foreign treaties and agree
ments he negotiates.
The matter is not trivial
and the questions it involves
were not even initially raised
by Congressman, but by emf
nent constitutional lawyers Of
the American Bar Association.
These expressed concern re-
garding the import of judicial
decisions that established the
power of the Executive to cir
cumvent legislative functions.
constitutionally vested in Con-
gress and State legislatures by
foreign treaties or agreements.
Notable examples are the
court decisions in the Pink
case. on a treaty between
President Roosevelt and the
Soviet government, and the
Missouri VS.. Holland case,
both of which ruled that the
treaties gave Congress the
right to enact legislation in
an area constitutionally re-
served to the States.
Constitutional lawyers be-
came alarmed over the posi-
bility that Congress, under
pressure Of q. N. enthusiasts,
might ratify the so-called hui
man rights and genocide
pactS. Many people have
championed both under mis-
taken notions Of their con-
tents and effects. Whereas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10
Constantine Brown

Arguments about the EN-
ciency--or lack Of efficiency
Of the American Foreign Serv-
ice have been cropping up
in Washington for several
decades.
Before and after World War
I, American diplomats were
fair game for critics in
Congress and in the press.
The appellations Of cookie
pusher or pink tea hounds
were freely given to young men
who Joined the diplomatic
corps.
The fact is that Foreign
Service officers in the last 20
to 80 years have been by and
large men who work hard for
long hours and no longer
enjoy the leisurely advantages
of the world Of the past.
Even when Foreign Service
officers are assigned to diplo-
matte missions considered In
the good old days as juicy
plums. such as London, Paris
and Rome, these posts offer
mostly headaches. The cost Of
living is high. While the
diplomats pay looks big to the
outsider. it actually is just
sufficient to meet the heavy
expense Of those capitals where
foreigners, and especially
Americans, are literally over
charged.
There was q time when only
sons Of the well-to-do people
Joined the diplomatic corps.
Now only a relatively small
number Of rich men and
women choose that career. A
Foreign Service officer may be
assigned to Rome for a couple
Of years. He is certain. how
ever. that at the end Of that
assignment he will be trans
ferred to Jakarta or Taipeh,
or what Is infinitely less COM
Portable and pleasant, to
Bucharest, Prague or Warsaw.
Thus there Is no inducement
for men and women with
ample private means to take
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-10
David Lawrence

Again and again in recent
= months people have asked this
question: "Of what good are
congresSionl Investigations
why can't executive agencies
turn up law violations?"
Perhaps the most conclusive
answer has just come in the
form Of q cauSe-and-effect re-
: lationship between what the
Senate Committee on Govern
ment Operations discovered in
1852 and the announcement in
the last two days that the De-
partment Of Justice had OBJ
tanned indictments by q Fed
''eral grand jury against former
Representative Joseph Casey
and several others in connec-
ton with alleged fraud in the
transfer of Government ships
to private owners.
A subcommittee, headed by
Senator Hoey. Democrat. of
North Carolina, and including
in its membership Senator Nc
"Carthy, now the chairman Of
the same group, conducted a
sweeping investigation with
public hearings which wound
up with this report in May,
1852:
1.-THE subcommittee is of the
opinion that there appears to
be sufficient evidence Of vio-
lationS of the civil provisions
2of the merchant ship sales act
in these tanker transactions to
warrant prompt action by the
Department of Justice. In ad-
dition, the concealment and
Misrepresentation of pertinent
facts by various officers and
Representatives Of the firms in
volved in this inquiry in their
dealings with the Maritime
Commission leads the subcom-
mittee to believe that various
criminal statutes may have
been violated by these individ-
ualS. In view Of the long de-
lay which has already occurred
in making final determinations
In these cases. it is the recon-
mendation Of the Subcommit-
ctee that the Department Of
Justice take prompt and Wig
>orous action to bring these
cases to q logical conclusion.
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majority Of citizens supported
them.
But the argument that the
Constitution has protected us
for 165 years and therefore
needs no amendment leaves
me cold. It has not protected
us without amendments to
meet new situations. The
United States has never before
these times ssum d, and
largely by executive decisions,
such enormous international
commitments as to put the
Nations most fundamental
issue-war or peace-into the
hands of the Executive.
Nor are we moved by the
argument that our allies don't
want anything like the Bricker
amendment passed. Actually,
the powers of the American
President, even under such
restraints as the amendment
would impose. greatly exceed
those Of any other chief Of
state in the free world.
Nor are we shaken by the
argument that the forces be-
hind it are "isolationist." Mil
lions of Americans who do not
dream of withdrawing America
from the rest of the world
have. nevertheless, been effec-
lively disenfranchised by the
reigning Observation-Disclosures
of both parties who have COM
mitted this country to partici-
pate in every war on the
globe as the worlds self
appointed policeman.
Nothing in the Bricker
amendment would change
policies that have majority
support in Congress. But the
fact that it is proposed and
has strong supporters does in
dicate latent inarticulate
opposition that through it has
found almost its only oppor-
tunity to be heard.
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate, 1nc.)
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all expenditures Of the Gov
eminent. Responsible mem
bers want him to be inde-
pendent, tough-minded and
experienced. They also believe
that II the holder Of the Office
cannot be absolutely depended
upon to put country ahead Of
party, no matter who Is in
power, the Office is not worth
filing.
For some time congressional
veterans sof both parties,
aware Of the state of Mr.. War
ren's health. have been cast
ing about for a successor. BY
a kind Of tacit consent, both
Democrats and Republicans
were ready with a candidate
they thought might I'LL the
specifications. Republicans
won in 1852 and their man
automatically moved to the
front rank Of speculation.
He is Representative Ster-
ling Cole Of New York, present
chairman Of the Joint Com
mittee on Atomic Energy. His
supporters believe he would
meet with universal approval
in Congress by reason Of his
character. integrity and firm
ness Of purpose. AS a kind of
special dividend. he was also
the first member of the House
to come out for Eisenhower for
President. In 1851 he made
a poll Of the House which
showed more members for the
then NATO general than for
any other candidate.