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Evening star., 1954-10-10

senior senator from this great
State talks OF war with China
while his President talks Of CO..
existence with the Communists:
that he didn't get 4 single Re-
publican vote for his foreign
trade policy. that the foreign
tions from the White House,
policy statements and contradic-
from Secretary Dulles, and from
the. part-time secretaries of State,
Nixon and Knowland, have be-
wildered us Democrats, let alone
our friends around the world.
The harsh fact Is that in 90
months Of blun and bluster, con-
fusion and contradiction, we
have lost influence and friends
faster Of, late than at any time
since Warren Harding and the
Republican reputation Of inter-
national cooperation after the
first war. All around the world
American prestige-our good
name and the respect Of both
friend and foe-has suffered and
any pretense to the contrary is
misleading and dangerous.
Are Republicans Needed?
And, finally, I must comment
on the Presidents conclusion.
He said that a Republican Con-
gress is necessary to complete
his great program: that you just
can't have one car with two
drivers and end up any where
but in a ditch. =. No important
legislation passed in the last two
sessions Of Congress without
serious Republican detection
made up by Democratic sup
But the greatest prophet of
gloom and doom is Vice Presi-
dent Nixon. who sees Democratic
victory as the doom of the Re-
publican party - which we've
heard every two years. :.
We shall insist that it is as
important in 1854 as in any
other year that party not be
placed above country; that it is
more important that candidates
for our service be right than that
they be Republican.
What, after all, does the coun-
try want in q government? It
wants government which can
inspire unity at home, which
will provide security abroad and
which will maintain q growing,
prosperous economy.
A Republican Congress cannot
meet those tests, as we now
know. The real question that
the people must decide this fall
is whether the Congress will
function more effectively under
a divided, quarrelsome. squab-
bling Republican regime than it
will under the proved leadership
of the Democratic Party.
That is the real issue this fall,
and it is one which the Demo-
cratic Party confidently sub
mits to the people for decision.
But beyond and beneath to-
days confidence are principles
and great objectives. Our aim is
not the concentration of author
Evening star., 1954-10-10
~ The Asseeisssd prsss

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. s-A
partial tert of AdIGi SteUen-
sons address In H0llyipo0d
B0iDl tonight. after the usual
Y amenities and references to
the California political race.
J toiloiDs:
Unhappily, bitterness and nom
sense have grossly debased our
political debate In these days
when sense and sobriety were
never more important. And in
the extensive catalogue OF Re-
publican sins we might rate In
first place the vindictiveness, the
reckless words, the personal
abuse and the stained and dusty
epithets and accusations which
are not q substitute for discus
sion Of Americas problems.
Well, to all such ugliness, Bit
terness and nonsense ] have no
intention of replying in kind
here or anywhere else. Indeed. ]
am proud of the manner in
which the Democratic Party has
refused to be diverted by irres-
ponsible and incesSant attacks.
I am proud Of the manner IN
which the Democratic Party has
supported the Presidents con-
gressional program whenever
and wherever it has seemed to
be in the public interest. II we
have helped to give the President
a batting average Of which he
cares to brag, while his own team
seemed bent on sending him to
the showers in the first inning,
we can be proud of that toe
for we are Americans first, and
partisans second.
And do you think our Re-
publican friends would do the
same and feel the same about
a Democratic administration?
Well, you'll find your answer in
20 years Of implacable. stubborn
opposition and abuse. and in the
current rash of epithets and
intemperance.
Time for Accounting.
But now after 20 months Of
the great crusade the time has
come for another accounting at
the polls, and speaking from this
platform our President gave us
an accounting which he re-
peated again last night. Now.
while I don't want to appear
captious, there are just a few
comments I should like to make
about a few of President Eisen-
hower's remarks. Besides, he ex-
pressly invited "the most rigid
scrutiny of the record"
I shall not discuss his interest
ing conclusion that by reducing
support prices for farmers from
80 per cent Of parity his program
will enable farmers to receive
100 per cent Of parity in the
market place.
He also stated that there had
been no scandal or corruption
in his administration. We must
assume. I suppose. that he has
forgotten that he hand-picked
a chairman of the great crusade,
a chairman of the Republican
National Committee, from his
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But there are Just q couple Of
other statements that I cannot
overlook. He said, II you can be-
lieve III: FOR the past 20 months
there has been harmony, unpre-
cedented in our time, between
the executive and the Congress. /"
The fact Is that In the squalid
Mccarthy Army spectacle, which
delighted our enemies and re-
VOTED our friends. the Greek ship
deal, the almost daily contradic-
tions Of administration policy by
administration leaders In Con-
I4gress, the generalization of our
far flung foreign service, the
Bricker amendment. the Repub-
lican challenge of the Bohlen
appointment. and many others,
are only the public revelations
Of the extent of the challenge
and the invasion OF the executive
domain and the prerogatives of
the presidency. But what the
political scientists have been
calling the gravest constitutional
crisis in many years President
Eisenhower calls harmony un-
precedented."
And ! was surprised and lit
tie saddened when the President
referred to THE useless shooting
and "the futile sacrifices" in Ko-
'rea. I had not thought that those
were his views Of that greatest
collective effort to halt the Com
munist imperialism. Likewise,
his apparent satisfaction with
the peace in Indo- China per-
plexes me in view Of his earlier
opinion that a truce in Korea
would be fraud If it helped the
Communists to advance else
where, not to mention the fact
that his administration evidently
thought the security of Indo-
China so important that it seri-
ously considered armed interven-
ton.
Extraordinary Claims.
But I've saved for the last, or
almost the last, the most extra
ordinary words of all: "Over the
world We have brought strength
where there was weakness. We
have brought realism where
there was wishful thinking. We
have brought frankness, candor
and force to foreign policy which
at last insists on distinguishing
words from deeds"
wish it were so. And I sus-
pect the President also wishes it
We're SO.
But what they have brought to
our foreign policy is a long pro-
cession of ringing slogans that
lie forlorn but not forgotten. un-
happily, along thes winding path
of the past two years "libera-
tion," "unleashing Chang Kali
Shek," "seizing the initiative, :"
massive retaliation" the new
look" Yet the President talks
proudly and seriously or realism
where there was wishful think
ing. of distinguishing words from
deeds. To be sure it is not his
fault that his party is so sadly
divided on foreign policy that the
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Eisenhower Forgot Speech Asserts

own state Of Kansas who was
hardly installed before q scandal
broke about his head and he
resigned.
We wonder, too, II the Presi-
dent has forgotten already that
one Of the officers of his own
inaugural committee somehow
got involved In an attempted
percentage deal and has been
indicted.
And surely some one must have
told him about the Housing ADJ
ministration Commissioner whom
he appointed and whose resig-
nation was accepted because he
was aware of the scandaious sit
uation In the Housing Admins
tration and did not act.
Dixon Yates Scored.
Nor have we yet heard the end
Of the Dixon-Yates contract
which the President himself or
dered without competitive bid
ding and over the objection Of
both governmental agencies in
volved. But we have heard
enough of this deal to at least
suspect that what's good for
Dixon Yates is not good for the
country.
Aside from ungraciously taking
full credit for tax reductions
previously enacted by the Demo-
Gratis, the President had this
fiscal comment: I'VE fatty reject
the idea that, for America to
stay prosperous the Government
must always spend more than it
has" I don't know whose Idea"
1t is that he is fatty rejecting,
but I can't overlook, as he did.
that Just a week before that ut
terance it was announced in
Washington that the estimated
deficit for this year would be
$40 billion-which recalled some
glib talk I heard a couple of
years ago about balancing the
budget with one hand tied be-
hind their backs.
The President stated a couple
Of other conclusions, also with
out supporting evidence, which
amazed me. He seemed to be
especially happy" to use his
words, about the bi-partisanship
in our foreign problems, when
the facts are that not only have
no Democrats been appointed to
policy making positions in the
State Department and our for
eign activities, but they don't
even want Republicans who
worked for the Democrats.
I hope / don't sound frivolous
when / say that the fact of the
matter is that they haven't even
been able to establish bipartisan
ship within the Republican Party.
and your Senator Knowland, the
Republican leader in the Senate.
takes a pot shot at the Presi-
dents policy every few days. :
I won't comment on the Presi-
dents interesting assertions that
we are somehow stronger for
spending less on defense and
cutting first our Air Force and
then our Army, which, incident
ally, accounts for most Of the
budget savings to which he points
with such nride.
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Ionstontne BroW1--
NotionoIisn: Yeast Of Revolution
IrlqgerHoPpy, Misnomed Putriots Over the World
Are Busy Playing Into Hands of Communists

violent attacks against our
good neighbor policy. which
has become in Communist Ian
guage North American inn
periaiism." The inter-Ameri-
can conference which is now
in progress in Caracas has as
its main objective agreement
on some co-ordinated action
to prevent the furtherance of
Moscow's goals in this hemi-
sphere.
1t SO happens that coun-
tries where the principles of
democracy are deeply rooted
cannot bring themselves to
realize the full import of this
worldwide conspiracy and the
dire need Of combating it with
q heavy hand instead Of words
and sermons. Communist
theories appeal sometimes to
those who deplore the draw
backs Of capitalism. Those
who embrace them in good
faith seldom realize that by
doing SO they become the tool
of a conspiracy far worse and
more dangerous to human lib
critics than all the other "isms"
to which the world has been
subjected since the end of
World War I. Sometimes rough
methods of those who fight
this conspiracy are misunder-
stood and attributed to a de-
sire for personal aggrandize-
ment in public life.
One of the most influential
newspapers in American in
tellectual circles wrote in a
recent editorial discussing the
demotion of Scott Mcleod. the
director Of security in the
State Department: There is
a hypersensitivity about COM
munism and. above all. a
tendency to define subversion
SO broadly that it even COM
prehends frankness, individ-
uality, dissent. originality, lib
eral thinking and similar quail
tiles that provide the true
atmosphere of democracy"
These lines would have been
admirable if written some 80
years ago, when communism
had not yet started moving
toward the subjugation of the
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procedures to avoid such mis-,
takes in the future. ] am COM
pletely confident that Secre-
tary Stevens win be successful
in this effort"
But is this all that's going
to happen? What about the
persons who made the blum
ders? Are they to go scot free?
And would anything like this
have been detected had it not
been for the persistence of the
permanent subcommittee on
Investigations of the Senate
Committee on Government
Operations. of which Senator
Mccarthy happens to be chair
man?
The President discussed
codes Of fair procedure"
which he hopes congressional
committees will establish and
said that ''in opposing COM
munism, we are defeating our
selves If. either by design or
carelesSneSS, we use methods
that do not conform to the
American sense Of justice and
fair play"
What instances in this whole
PereSS record can the President
cite which any code" of pro-
cedure would cure? Major
Peress was before Senator Nc
Carthy's committee and re-
fused to tell whether he had
been engaged in espionage
while in the Army or whether
he had recruited persons in the
Army for the Communist cell
of which he was a member.
He refused to tell who in the
Army aided him in avoiding
overseas duty. He had counsel
at his side at all times during
the hearing. Was he not
treated fairly?
Gen. Zwicker sat through
the hearing at which q New
York policewoman identified
Peress as a Communist, and
he said he learned nothing new
or anything to cause him con-
Germ. He admitted that, de-
spite his knowledge, he did
nothing at all to hold up the
honorable discharge certificate.
But he admitted that. if he
had been told that the night
before q man had stolen $50,
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Life in the u. S.
Life in the u. S.
Aid
Puts Dog Back
In Business
BY the Assoeiosed Press

CHICAGO. Mar. 4. - The
world of interesting sounds has
returned to Silkie Summers
Winter, a 12-year-old spaniel.
His owners. Mr.. and Mrs. Le-
land Winter. knew something
was wrong six months ago when
Silkie, previously an excellent
watch dog, began missing the
door bell"
The Winters took their prob
lem to an animal hospital, and
then to the general manager Of
a hearing aid company.
A model designed to be hid
den in a woman's hair was in
stalled yesterday under a floppy
left ear and once again a de-
lighted Silkie responded to the
door bell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04

didn't arrive. The President
in mild tones read q state
n1ent so general that report
ers hunting leads and head
lines threw the first page away.
This anti-climax will be
hard on the pro-Ike but anti
Mccarthy faction. In their
emotional letdown. they may
grow progressively unkind to
their hero.
/ AS all realistic observers
know. the current uproar over
reform Of Senate procedures is
largely meaningless.
A committee chairman runs
his show and his powers are in
practice almost linitless. The
fact is that Senator Nc
Carthy's committee has one of
the finest sets Of operating
rules in Congress. If he fol-
lowed them all would be we'll.
He doesn't and he has just
repeated that he intends to
spend my time in action" His
witnesses know what that
means.
There can be no doubt that
President Eisenhower, with
genuine patience and In a
spirit of moderation. is trying
to preserve the Republican
Party and keep it in power. It
is his own followers in it who
most question whether his
methods. even II successful.
will keep him in the position of
leading 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04

feel too amiably inclined to-
ward people who make treason
a preoccupation." Bernard
Stanley. the Presidents legal
counsel, said it fatty in a public
speech, declaring Ass sub
versives had been kicked out
of the Government" Gov.
Dewey talked of "spies and
traitors" in the same sentence
in which he said ,456 security
risks were planted in the
Government under Democratic
administrations" The Repub-
lican National Committee is
sued a leaf1et saying the Pres
ident and his team had got
ten rid of $500 Communists,
fellow travellers and their ilk
whom the Trumanites left in
Office"
Now that the Civil Service
Commission has finally been
forced to correct the record,
the country has a right. to ex-
pect similar action by the man
who started it all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Doris FIeeson-

President Eisenhower's state
ment in the Stevens-McC arthy
case was sufficiently general
that it can seem as strong or as
weak as the personal political
predictions of its readers die
tate.
This is doubtless what was
intended. It is thoroughly in
keeping with Mccarthy policy
at the White House as dis
closed in a series of incidents
of which the Senator's run-in
with the Secretary of the Army
is the latest.
The important thing is what
the President wanted the
statement to convey.
At the outset reporters were
cut off from attempts to. find
this out when the President
banned questions regarding it.
The Eisenhower ban also pre-
vented questions about the role
he himself played in the dis
tressing events of last week.
No such difficulties exist with
respect to Senator Mccarthy.
A child can learn what the
Senator did and deduce from
his defiant reply that he in
tends to keep on doing as he
pleaSes.
Normally, such a defiant
reply would mean that the
man replying, whatever others
said, believed he had been
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CAT in Sd Puts Spelling
In Sharp Focus for Children

they recall which convey the
ideas"
So the schools use all the
movies. models, fiat pictures,
sound recorders, charts and car
toons they can afford. More
than / per cent Of the money
spent on a pupil in most big city
schools goes for visual aids.
The Sd development is the
newest and by all odds the most
popular with the youngsters who
are lucky enough to have it,,
The favorite Sd subjects are
geography and animals.
When the time comes to learn
to spell cat. the illustration is
terrific, compared to that old
sketch of Tabby. Putting on
their 3-dimenSional glasses, the
children see a cat stroll across
the screen, purring and meow
ing.
Behind comes her parade of
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and later raised it to 1900. He
need no longer be misinformed.
He has only to read the tes-
timony of Chairman Philip
Young of the Civil Service
Commission. given Tuesday to
a Senate committee.
Chairman Young, an Eisen-
hover appointee. told the COM
mittee that 2.427 persons had
been separated from the pay
roll up to January / under the
security program. OF these it
had been found that 383 had
"derogatory material of a sub
stantial nature" in their files.
He explained. however, that he
could not say that any of the
3S3 were either Communists or
subverSives. And he did not
say to what extent, If at all,
the "derogatory material" had
been proved true.
On December 2 the Presi-
dent made this statement at a
news conference:
II repeat my previously ex-
pressed conviction that fear of
Communists actively under
mining our Government will
not be an issue in the 1854
elections. Long before then,
this administration will have
made such progress in root
ing them out under the SEE
curity order developed by At
torney General Brownell that
this can no longer be consid-
cred a serious menace. As you
already know, about 1900 per-
sons who were security risks
have already been removed"
It is difficult to take that
figure of 1,500-or the 1856
figure earlier given out at the
White HouSe-as referring
principally to anything but
Subversives. Senator McCar-
thy naturally made that as
sumption and loudly pro-
claimed 1t. But, more impor-
family, Postmaster General
Summerfield did the same,
adding righteously, II do not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-04
Constantine Brown

From the banks Of the Po-
tomac to those Of the Nile and
Euphrates trigger-happy ma
tionalists-tools of the Krem-
lin conspiracy-are endeavor-
ing to keep the world in a
continuous turmoil.
Communism as a doctrine
suffered a momentary setback
in Western Europe after the
Berlin conference. But the
ever-active tools of Moscow
continue their efforts in areas
where they can exploit ma
tionalism for their own pur-
poses. The temporary recess
Of communism in France and
Italy is of little import to the
men in the Kremlin. The
seeds have been deeply planted
and can await favorable con-
ditions for the blossom to come
In full strength.
The nationalism in the
politically undeveloped areas
in the Middle East and in the
Far East marches on with
little realization on the part
Of the leaders that their efforts
to shake off what they still
describe as the Western i'm
perialism will lead them to
become Moscow's puppets.
III our own hemisphere the
inroads of the conspiracy have
been greater than appears on
the surface. The fact that only
a handful of excitable individ-
uals form the kernel of the
present movements offers only
slight comfort. We often over
look the fact that a deter
mined minority ready to sac
rif1ce everything, including
their lives, can do much among
masses which espouse the
philosophy. 1T can't happen
here" After all. only a hand
full Of 1917 Bolsheviks. headed
by Nikolai Lenin, were able to
capture Petrograd first and the
rest of the Russian Empire
later. This threat exists def
nitely today in most of the
Latin American republics,
where the work for their polit-
ical and social transforma-
ton as Moscow's puppets was
begun several years ago by
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| Stoddard Estate
| Valued at S725,OOO

The will of Mrs. Lucy Wilson
Stoddard, of Rockville, Md, yes
terday revealed she left personal
property and real estate valued
at more than $725,000.
The will was admitted to pro-
bate in Montgomery County
Orphans Court.
Mrs. Stoddard died January
%. She was the widow of ]. c.
Stoddard. The will left the
estate equally to two sons, Clark,
who died last October. and Jesse
c. Stoddard, of 5311 Locust ave-
nue.. Bethesda.
The living son and Clark Stod-
dard'S two daughters. Mrs. Mar
ian Stoddard Day, of 1912 Mel
vern drive. Bethesda, and Mrs.
Virginia Stoddard Tolson. of
Route 3, Bethesda, agreed to the
naming of the National Savings
d Trust Co. as administrator of
the estate.
Personal property. including
cash and securities, was valued
at $265.000. Real estate located
at TOT to 705 Market space NV.
and 800 to 308 Seventh street
NV. was assessed at $449.1OO.
This is part of the site of Kann's
Department Store which the
store leases from a number of
property owners.
The will also listed a 1.9 acre
tract on Rockville pike in Mont
gomery County valued at $11 500.
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Peress and Arnny's Red Tape
All the Furor Over 'McCurthysrn' Weighed Against
The Fact That the Military Bungled on This Case

he would have been able to
hold up that mans honorable
discharge.
Senator Mccarthy conducted
a cross-examination Of Gen.
wicker which was vigorous.
It was not unusual in congress
sional committee inquiries ex-
cept in one respect. Exasper-
ated and angered by the gen.
erals indifference to the hon.
orable discharge procedure. the
Senator said the general
wasn't At to wear the uniform.
That was a bad mistake on
the Senator's part. But a loss
of temper is one thing and
the right to crosS-examine
penetratingly is something else.
and neither one is going to be
restrained by any "codes of
1alr procedure.
Senators of the liberal"
Democratic side got up on the
floor of the Senate the other
day and called an innocent
man liar and said he wasn't
fit to hold public Office. What
code Of fair procedure" can
restrain the tongue of any
Senator who says what he
pleases on the floor of the
Senate? 1t is distasteful, to be
sure. but 1t is a right inherent
in our system of checks and
balances. For it was Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes who
once wrote that Freedom of
speech is freedom for the
thought we hate"
Condemnation of the loss of.
temper by Senator Mccarthy
for his bitter comment at the
Zwicker hearing is in order,
but this cannot obscure his
vigorous pursuit Of Commu-
nists in Government. Nor can
1t wipe out the simple fact
that, but for the Wisconsin
Senator's crusade against the
tragic indifference of the Army
system toward Communists in
the Army. the new regulations
and corrective measures just
announced would probably
never have been issued. This
at least is a creditable achieve
ment and spells progress.