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previous Truman adminisura-
ton. Mr.. Chapman favored
Government development.
Mr.. Mason's opinion is not
necessarily conclusive. Still
due is the recommendation Of
FPC Examiner william j.
Costello. who conducted the
extended hearings, which win
60 to the five-rnember COM
mission for a final decision.
Such a decision could be set
aside by an act of Congress
later.
For this fight the public is
better prepared than a quar-
ter Of q century ago. Not only
are labor and farm organiza-
tons actively enlisted behind
public power expansion, but
also there are many local and
national organizations repre-
senting citizens who are Gus
toners and beneficiaries OF
public power projects and REA
which are ready to go to bat
here against the Eisenhower
administrati lions policy.
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In Congress Senator Gordon
had championed proposed de-
velopment of Hell's Canyon by
the Idaho Power Co. with its
plan for three low dams, while
Senator elect Neuberger sup
ports erection of one high dam
by the Government as the
best means for full utiliza-
ton of the power, reclamation
and navigation potentials OF
the Snake River.
But what Is happening here
now seems contrary to the
Election returns which Mr..
Dooley said were always fol-
lowed by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is, Of
course, not involved in these
matters. at least not vet. But
the administration is pushing
right, ahead with the Dixon
Yates contract as IL there
never had been an election.
The Atomic Energy Commits
sion signed the contract and
Republicans on the Joint
Atomic Energy Committee OF
Congress pushed through It's
approval there by q strict
party vote. The next step is
q hearing before the Securities
and Exchange Commission
here on its financial aspects
beginning December Z.
AS to Hell's Canyon. John
G. Mason. counsel Of the Fed
eral Power Commission, re-
Gently recommended after
exhaustive hearings lasting q
year that the FPC license the
Idaho Power Co. to do the
Hell's Canyon job. This rec
concentration follows admins
tration policy as indicated
early ID the administration
when Interior Secretary Nc
Kay Withdrew d protest
against the Idaho Power Cos
proposal that had been sub
nlitted to the FPC BY Interior
Secretary Chapman II tila
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similar rallies announced tor
Chicago and Los Angeles were
cancelled, it is necessarily sig
nif1cant.
1t supports the conviction OF
many Washington correspond
ents. including this one, that
Senator Mccarthy is. well on
his way to becoming the Ma
tons number one bore.
Senator Mccarthy himself,
who has always been shrewd
politically, Stunned the Garden
rally and Monday morning was
moving in the Senate to cut his
losses. He will be censured in
some form and he knows it and
wants to get it done quickly so
he can play the prejudged
martyr. Actually he preferred
an immediate vote on the
Flanders resolution last sum-
mer, a move the Senate leaders
foiled in obedience to their own
excellent political instincts.
Senator McCarthy's big
trouble is that, like the Com
munists whose tactics he so
often initiates, he is fresh out
of the fellow travellers who are
absolutely essential to- the sue
cess of his operations.
His respectable facade has
faded away in the wake of his
break with President Eisen-
hover. his conduct in the tele-
vised hearings before the
Mundt committee and the re-
port of the bipartisan Wat
kins committee recommending
his censure.
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pugnilg the character, motives
and integrity OF the Wisconsin
Senator. No resolutions TO
censure them have been in
troduced, but an additional
censure count has been filed
by Senator Bennett of Utah
against Senator Mccarthy for
certain things he said in the
debate In defense Of himself.
8. Several Senators, includ-
ing Senator Kefauyer of Ten
nessee and the late Senator
Tobey Of NewHampshire, dur
ing the. famous investigation Of
gambling and vice used bitter
words denouncing witnesses
who declined to cooperate. No
censure resolution was intro
duced.
People who do not keep in
touch with grass-roots politics
in America can say the Me-
Carthy case is different" and
that tits time the Senate
acted" but the millions who
follow him will continue to
think that the Wisconsin Sem
ator has been 'lynched'' by a
majority of the Senate, that
basic rules and precedents
which permit criticism of coli
leagues have been ignored, and
that punishment has been and
will be rneted out only to a
Senator who fights commu-
Ylisfrl.
Some Of the answers viii
come when certain members OF
the Senate are up for re-elec-
ton just two years from now.
For the anti-communiSin issue,
with all its ramifications, is
still the liyeSt issue in Amer
lean political life. Despite var
ious attempts to scoff at its
influence in the last election,
the issue did affect the result
In many States and was indi-
rectly responsible for the loss
of the Senate by the Republic
cans. It has ceased. however,
to be a fight inside one party.
1t now has become an issue in
side both parties primarily
because passion has been al
lowed to supersede basic prin-
ciples of senatorial law and its
precedents Of procedure.
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In that facade were co}1serv-
atives, both Democratic and
Republican, who would walk
across the bridge with the
devil to stop the New Deal.
It included Republicans who
felt any method of defeating
Harry Truman was fair and
Democrats almost as angry at
the former President. Once it
even included Gen. Eisenhower,
who. like all candidates, got
into the frame of mind which
identified his success with the
safety of the country.
It certainly included Vice
President Nixon, who did his
best to achieve a modus yivendi
between Senator Mccarthy and
the White House.
Senator Mccarthy also at
Lfacted many decent people
who had come to fear Conlmu-
mist infiltration in the Gov
eminent as a result of the
Hiss case. They had 10 be
shown that his was a self-serv-
ing battle barren of construc-
tive results. The Tv screen was
probably the best convincer of
this group.
The Mccarthy following now.
consists chiefly Of malcon-
tents and people once in power
who no longer have any one to
order around plus, of course,
the inevitable lunatic fringe.
Those who sincerely followed
him as an important anti
Communist force will shift to
other leaders. .
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Doris Fleeson
Doris FIeeson-
mccarthy Rally Called q Flop
1t Looks Like the Wisconsin Senator Is Now Fresh Out
Of Fellow TroveIers-They Fooled to Sworn on Cue

.. The pro- Carthy rally in
New York's Madison Square
Garden laid an egg. The ia
nous hail which the Commu-
nists have never had any trou-
2 BILE filling was barely two
thirds full and the program
was bereft Of drama.
D Even anti-McC arthy New
Workers seem aggrieved over
what a dud 1t was. The Garden
in fanatical hands, as it often
is, is one Of the fabulous sights
of their fabulous city, and all
New Workers have a certain
local pride in the very AWFUL
ness OF some of the spectacles
; staged there.
New Workers will often
crowd the Garden to watch a
cause promoted in which they
have no interest. because they
!, expect it to be good theater.
Also. Monday nights show was
tree and well advertised.
It is possible that the Nc
Carthyites who staged it, be-
ing amateurs, made some mis-
takes. Any politician kncws
that il you want to fill a hall
seating 10000. you distribute
$4,000 tickets. The retired adj
nirals and generals who ran
the rally talked in terms of
10000 tickets and then fatally
announced all had been taken.
Even so, no cause has ever
had the benefit of so much free
advertising. When the Garden
mop Is added to the fact that
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Ihon1os [. Stokes
Ihomos [. Stokes
Public Power Fight Forecast
lolumnist Sees Bottle in Congress ComporobIe
o Struggle for IVA and REA Under Roosevelt

Rapidly accommodating evil
dence foreshadows a POLITICAL
economic battle over public
power, arising from the Eisen-
hover administrations avowed
purpose to stop its further ex-
= pansion. that will explode
/ dramatically In the new 84th
\ Congress.
u It is expected to rival in
ifscope and emotion a similar
battle q quarter of a century
attlgo when the issue first was
raised In q big way nationally.
1T was then that our people
learned through exposures in
Congress and by the Federal
Trade Commission In the
Hoover administration - the
last Republican administration
before this--that there was no
reason ct all for the high cost
OF electricity for their homes
and businesses exacted by a
few powerful utility monopo-
lies. The latter also refused
TO expand electricity coyerage
TO farms on the scale needed.
The public learned Id the
subsequent Roosevelt admins
: tration. through creation by
Congress of IVA In the Ten
nessee River Valley and the
Rural Identification Admins
tration, that 1t did not have to
depend upon the private util-
ity monopoly but could act for
Itself. Specifically, that pub
JIG projects, Of which IVA was
4 model and forerunner OF 9TH
ers. could harness our rivers
and produce electricity cheap
". as well as providing recla-
/ nation and flood control, and
that groups Of farmers could
organize rural electric coop
eratives and go into the busi-s
ness OF distributing electricity
themselves through long term
loans from the Government
through REA.
In all Of this We have come
. long way In o quarter Of D
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century. Now the Eisenhower
administration would check
our progress.
Luckily for the public the
administration itself has fur
nished two dramatic symbols
for the fight which soon is to
break all over our map.
One is the now familiar
Dixon Yates contract nego-
tiated by the Atomic Energy
Commission. That would call
for a privates power combine
to build a steam plant In Ar
kansas to supply power in the
Memphis area to IVA custom
ers, instead of expanding
Twas own facilities as done
previously. This device is
ostensibly to compensate the
IVA system for power which
would be diverted from 1t at
Paducah, KY, for use Of the
Atomic Energy Commission,
though 1t is recognized as a
clever way to cut private util-
tiles into Twas domain, q Grip
pling maneuver by which IVA.
eventually could be strangled.
The other symbol Id this
brewing fight is the giant
] project at Hell's Canyon on
the Snake River along the
Oregon Idaho boundary.
What makes both these SYM
bols so lively Is their cur
rency. Both were hot issues
in the recent congressional
elections. Dixon Yates was
held up by Democratic CAM
paigners generally as an ex-
ample of what they called
special privilege for powerful
private utilities. Hell's Cam
yOn was an issue in the bit
terly fought senatorial race
In Oregon IN which Richard
i. Neuberger. writer and con-
servatiollist. nosed out Re
publican Senator Guy Gordon
to become the flrst Democrat
elected to the Senate from
Oregon in 40 years.
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Doxid LoMenee
Political Effects Of q Censure
Senators Who Vote for Censure Are Worned Group
Is Being Formed to Gust Them in Future Elections
Dovid I oWrence

80 it#
The vote TO censure Senator
!. Mccarthy win be the Begin
ninu ~ ! nrn,onoad dahata
3. 800. -, 49,.
tilfousliout elie oniteu states.
10 will mean wide cleavages
In both the Republican and
Democratic Parties and the
1 formation not of another no
litical party but Of an indie
pendent bipartisan group Of
I 10 million or more citizens
pledged to vote against every
Senator up for reelection who
refuses to promise to vote. II
elected, TO expunge from the
record the anti Me arthy res
solution adopted this week.
4 III win mean that the Senate
1 win he nIap,,ed now with cen-
/ sure resolutions whenever de-.
! bate ii INSTRUCTED Fnr me of
the charges is anhstr,,ctin, az
I Legislative processes > n co,,ld
I mean the Anal triumph of
I those who want to nut an end
to the t1libustering in the sem
ate long maintained by vari-
Gus Senators as a device
: against the passage Of laws OPP
posed by the South.
It will mean q definite
| quietus on the exposure of
Communist activities in Amer
lea through investioations hv
cnnpress;nnoi con,,rittaos nv.
tho,,oh various Sanators rr -
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Senator Mccarthy Ii being
censured.
For every day that the Sem
ate delays the adoption of CEN
sure resolutions against other
Senators guilty Of the same Of
lenses will mean a reinforce
r1ent of the battle cry Of the
independent group, which win
point to the fact that only d
Senator who fights communism
is punished by the Senate.
The record is replete with
instances OF conduct similar
to that OF Senator Mccarthy,
which the Senate has ignored.
Here are only q few:
/. Senator Byrd OF Virginia
In May, 1916, called the then
Senator from Florida, Claude
Pepper, a skunk in the midst
of debate In the Senate.
Though the Florida Senator
asked that it be expunged from
the Record, this request was
ignored.
2. The elder Senator La Fol-
1ette of Wisconsin. charged
with disloyalty and sedition,
insulted the Subcommittee on
Privileges and Elections and
refused to accept ITS invitation
to testify and never did tes-
tify. He was not censured.
8. Senators last summer de-
layed for two weeks the work
OF the Senate by a filibuster.
It was a designed obstruction
of the legislative process-far
more than failure to accept
an invitation to attend
committee meeting. But no
censure resolution was intro
daced or will be against any
Senator who participated In
that obstruction.
4. Senator Erwin Of North
Carolina, Democrat, on both a
Nationwide television broad
cast and later before the Sem
ate in the last month used the
words mental incompetent"
in referring to Senator Nc
Carthy. No resolution Of CEN
sure was introduced.
5. Many speeches have been
made during the present SEES
sion by Senators Flanders. Full
bright, Lehman and others i'm
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The INSTRUMENTATION spec
tacle in the memory Of persons
connected directly or indi-
rectly with the Senate-the
Mccarthy censure debates
drawing to d close at the Wis
consin SENATOR'S own request.
Present tallies show that
censure will be voted unless
some entirely unexpected event
occurs.
The majority Of the Repub-
licans will vote against the
censure resolution. However,
less than q handful of DEM
ocrats will vote against it de-
spite Senator McCarthy's re-
traction Of some of the harsh
words, but not their meaning.
which he directed at his col
leagues.
It was senator Mccarthy
himself. over the objections of
some Of his protagonists in the
Senate, who insisted on put
ting an end to the protracted
debates which would have con-
tinued until December "a when
the SD Congress expires. A
disguised filibuster would have
hurt him with his millions of
followers.
The curtain is thus falling
on one Of the ugliest phases In
the Senate's existence. The
repeated investigations Of Sen
ator Mccarthy over a period
Of four years have made a
deep impression on the coun-
try and produced a near
schisrn among the American
people. The fault lies not only
with the Senate but also to
some degree with the execu-
tive branch Of the Govern
ment, which this year added
fuel to the fire.
The first two Mccarthy
Investigations were inevitable
because they were prompted
largely by partisanship. The
Tydings inquiry into Senator
McCarthy's accusations that a
number Of Government Of
ficials in sensitive spots were
bad loyalty or security risks
turned into an investigation of
the Senator himself.
The Tydings inquiry cleared
the relatively few names which
Senator Mccarthy was allowed
to present to the committee
dominated by his political OPP
ponents. 1t appeared at the
conclusion Of the hearings that
the man from Wisconsin had
lost the relatively small follow
ing he then had. But sub
sequent inquiries, particularly
by the Internal Security Com
mittee headed by the late
Democratic Senator McCarran
with a majority Of old-line
Democrats proved Senator Nc
Carthy's contention that the
Tydings committee had done,
only a whitewash job.
The first investigation and
other developments made
Senator Mccarthy a focal
figure in the fight against
Communist subversion. A large
proportion Of ordinary Amer
leans, and that is what really
counts. became convinced that
Senator Mccarthy was right
despite his methods"
The second investigation by
the so-called Gillette commit
tee could be ascribed mainly
to party politics. Senator Nc
Carthy had emerged as q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01
By Thomos r. Henry
Seienee Editor of The Ssnr

IN the face of warnings from
some Of the worlds most eminent
geneticists that the human race
may suffer great hereditary loss
from atomic radiations, the
Atomic Energy Commission Is
taking a by no means compla-
cent attitude.
There is room. its biologists
point out, for very considerable
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again. Each male is tagged. All
the offspring of his mate. of
whose genetic constitution
nothing is known, are tagged.
The purpose Is to determine the
effect of the relatively light
radiation on the number. size
and quality Of the offspring.
Effect May Be Good.
Good, as well as bad. may
come from genetic mutations.
Presumably all the improve
ments in all kinds of life on
earth since time began have been
the result. over periods of mill
leniums, of changes in germ
plasm which become fixed in
hereditary lines.
This point has been raised in
respect to possible mutations
which are expected to result
from increase in the earth's re-
sidual radioactivity, combined
with preservation of somewhat
unfit lines due to advances in
medical science. 1t generally is
agreed that at least 90 per cent
Of mutations are bad, but there
is always the possibility that one
good one may outweigh many
bad ones.
There is a relatively new doc
trine in the science of genetics
known as the ''selective advan-
tage of hetrozygotes," DR.. Green
points out. It holds that evolu-
ton tends to favor certain
hereditary changes. The situa-
ton admittedly is quite confused.
The point was raised, for ex-
ample, by DR.. Gordon Allen Of
the New York State Psychiatric
Foundation at a recent confer
ence at the National Institutes
of Health at Bethesda in re-
Spouse to questions raised by
Robert Cook, editor of the Jour-
nal of GeneticS.
Effects Explained.
The effect of the advances in
medicine, DR.. Allen pointed out,
is a relaxation for the time
being. SO far as man is con-
cerned. Of the harsh law Of tooth
and claw. The somewhat unfit no
longer are so vigorously elimi-
mated by nature. A rough an
alogy, he pointed out, might be
made with the pre-eocene period
OF the earth's history which fol-
lowed the extinction of the great
dinosaurs. At the start of this
period mammals were relatively
few. weak. and little differenti-
ated. Iney mad had great diff
Guilty in surviving in competition
with the reptiles. Then they
found themselves without seri-
Gus competition. All sorts of
hereditary factors which previ-
ously would have meant elimina-
ton could operate.
At least partly as a result of
this came a speeding up of evolu-
ton and the appearance of the
remote ancestors of all the mann
NAL species known on earth to-
day. Then came the first dog
like creatures on the way to be-
coming dogs and the first
monkey-like creatures.
Something remotely compar-
able might happen again, DR..
Allen stressed. Development of
previously impossible mechan-
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Hindus Combot Mission
The All-India Hindu Shuddhi
training camp has been opened
in New Delhi to combat the
menace of foreign missionaries. -
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ShodoW Of the Atom
Shadow 81 the Atom
Acc Seeks Focts on Radiation

Commission Supporting Half of the Research in U. S.,
Experiments at Oak Ridge With Effects on Mice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-11-09
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Fomous Fables
Bv {. {. Edqor

RECEPTION - While in
Europe in 1927. movie mag
nate. Harry Warner, was
greatly impressed by a young
director nam ed Michael
CurtiZ.
Sign a contract with me-"
wooed Warner. land III
make you famous.
But I'm we'll known al
ready" said CurtiZ.
Il mean really famous"
said Warner. I'll put on a
publicity campaign that will
make your name a household
word. You'll be the most
celebrated director in the
world"
Curtiz took this with a
grain of salt. but he signed
nevertheless. A few months
later he stepped off the boat
in New York City. He was
met by a crowd of reporters
and photographers. For
more than an hour, he
answered questions and
posed for pictures. Then he
was whisked away in a
chauffeured limousine.
Curtiz was deeply i'm
pressed. But he hadn't seen
anything yet. Flags were out
along the route and thou
sands of spectators lined the
sidewalks. In mid Manhat-
tan, the chauffeur pulled up
to a giant parade-bands
were playing, people every
where were applauding and
cheering.
Curtiz was overwhelmed.
II never expected anything
like this!" he gasped to the
studio man at his side,
Does Warner put on a re-
ception like this for every
director he bring to Amer
ica?"
mo-" was the reply
"Only for those who arrive
on the Fourth of july"
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Our Presidents
By Honore NJ. CotudoI

About SO years ago q
former President attended the
Inauguration of new Univer-
sity president, who later be-
came President of the United
States. Who were they?
(which two Presidents,
before election to that Office.
had served as U. S. Ministers
to Russia?
3-A famous American wrote
1.-THE President has paid dear
for his White House. 1t has
commonly cost him all his
peace" Who wrote this?
ANSWERS on Next Page.)
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