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Evening star., 1954-02-05

which Congress has so far de-
clined to disturb.
This question is of great
Importance to all concerned
with the regulation of the
natural gas industry in inter-
state commerce. It is of great
Importance to the owners of
common stocks Of natural gas
companies holding leases on
reserves of natural gas, for q
reversal by this commission Of
its heretofore expressed. pol
icy would mean literally bill
lions Of additional profits to
such stockholders over the life
Of the gas reserves. It is Of
great Importance to most Of
the consumers Of natural gas
in the United States who will
pay higher rates should the
commission heed Panhandle's
voice."
The attempt to substitute
the field price" basis harks
back six or seven years ago.
That was proposed. among
other changes, in the so-called
Rizley-Moore natural gas bill
sponsored by two Oklahoma
Republicans, Senator Ed H.
Moore and Representative
Ross Ridley. neither in Con-
greSS today. It was slipped
through the House in a hurry
one afternoon in 1947 in the
Republican 80th Congress, but
was pigeonholed by Senate
Republican leaders who feared
that If enacted it might be-
come a damaging issue in the
1948 election because Of the
public outcry it provoked.
Subsequently another measure,
the Kerr natural gas bill,
which weakened FPC regula-
tory authority but not to the
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Dovid Lowrence-

Avoidance Of a decision now
on the basic issues growing out
Of the debate over the Bricker
amendment to the Constitu-
ton would be detrimental to
the Republican Party at the
polls next November. Perhaps
that's the reason Senator
Knowland, Republican leader,
has been striving so hard to
get a compromise, and per-
haps it's the reason why vari-
Gus Democrats in the Senate
are so eager to see the issue
buried by sending the measure
back to committee for further
study
Like many deep-seated is
sues. the widespread impact of
which does not always appear
on the surface. the Bricker
amendment is far more than q
controversy over Legal tech
nicalities. Hence, the impa-
thence of those who say it's
too important to be acted on
now and needs further study
simply plays into the hands of
those forces which want to pile
up troubles for the Republican
Party this year.
The fundamental problem
involved in the Bricker amend
ment is far better understood
generally than 1t is by some
Of the lawyers here who are
arguing against its phraseol-
ogy. It is no accident that the
Bricker amendment has come
up for consideration at this
time. and furthermore it was
not proposed suddenly. 1t has
been debated before such or
ganizations as the American
Bar Association for the last
several years. and approval
was specifically given the
Bricker amendment by the as
sociation after considerable
study.
The controversy Is reminiS-
cent of how the debate started
on the famous Article x in
the League of Nations cove
nant when 1t was proposed by
President Wilson back in 1919.
At first, it seemed q highly
technical affair when oppo-
nents argued that the proposed
treaty would require the
United States to go to war to
protect the independence and
Evening star., 1954-02-05
DORIS FIeeSon D
BrowneII Now wUnderHeovyS Sieqe
Senators of Both Parties Described as Disappointed
In Him; He May Be Next Man to Leave Cabinet

The judge promptly threw the
case out with scathing words
for the Department of Justice.
Commented one veteran Sena-
tor: ANY hornbook lawyer
could have known he would:
criminal statutes are always
conServatively construed with
respect to the accused and no
responsible prosecutor would
attempt to do otherwise"
The Senate is extremely
conscious Of the conflict Of in
terests law to which Secretary
Of Defense Wilson was forced
to bow in a famous dust-up.
It is presently at issue in the
nomination Of Albert c. Bee
son to the National Labor
Relations Board. 1t may not
always seem so to appointees
but Senators are aware Of the
laws hardships and are con-
scientious to a degree about it.
It is the understanding of
Senators that Mr.. Bergson
was to have been only the be-
ginning Of a drive against for
mer Government lawyers. Mr..
Brownell now says he wants
the law amended. He can be
certain that when and as
amended. 1t will apply with BIZ
partisanship.
Democrats are not the only
members who did not admir-,
the Attorney Generals oblique
attack on Mr.. Truman in the
Harry Dexter White case. They
find the same lack Of candor
in his handling Of the famous
security risk numbers matter
which is still very much at
issue in the Capital.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
President Host 10 Royal
And Is Others at Dinner
Dy the Assoeiotsd Prsss


President Eisenhower invited
Kenneth c. Royal. Secretary OF
War in the Truman administra-
ton, and Is other guests to q
stag dinner ut the White House
tonight.
Others invited were:
Walker Gentry Buckner of New
York, an investment banker with
Reynolds & Co.; Justin Dart,
president Of Rexall Drug, Inc.
Robert j. Donovan. president OF
the White House Correspondents
Association; Jerome A. Frank
lin. a retired busienss executive;
Walter Hoving, q department
executive; Kevin McCann. a
White House aide on leave as
president Of the Defiance Col
lege: Ebert P. Peabody, presi-
dent of the First National Bank
g. Trust Co. of Augusta. Ca;
Earle Chesney of the White
House staff; George Murphy
screen actor.
Also Julian H. Roberts Of the
Roberts Motor Co. of Augusta.
Ga: Williams P. Rogers, Deputy
Attorney General: Murray Sny-
der. assistant White House press
secretary; Theodore c. Streibert.
director Of the United States In
formation Agency; Thomas J
Watson. board chairman of In
ternational Business Machine
Corp; Arthur K. Watson, vice
president and general manager
Of the IBM World Trade Corp,
and Thomas ]. Watson, jr.,
president of the IBM Corp.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Mexican Seniors BuIk
At New University
BY the Assoeioted Press

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5.-The
senior class of 300 at the Ma
tional University Law School has
refused to go to the new $40
million university city to study.
They said yesterday the new
university is too far from the
city. is not properly furnished.
lacks communications and is not
ready for use. The huge new
campus on lava plain IL miles
from the downtown district is
the pride of Mexican archi-
lecture. Its modernistic build
ings. complete with murals by
leading Mexican painters. have
not yet been occupied.
Evening star., 1954-02-05

gols or Turkomen are gar.
risoned in the Ukraine or
Byelo-Russia while contingents
from these western Soviet
states are sent to the east,
where they feel themselves
as in a conquered foreign land.
China ir also composed Of
peoples Of many different races
and creeds who speak different
languages. The Peiping regime
is using troops from the north
In southern China and vice
versa, this making sure that
there will be no disaffection in
their ranks because of the SOL
diers' sympathy for their kin.
All the same, Mao and his
associates in Peiping are wor-
ried. Communist China has
some five million men under
arms. Nearly / million are in
and near Korea. About 200, 900
are on the borders of Indo-
China and similar number
on the frontiers of Burma and
India awaiting developments.
These are the best trained and
equipped Chinese contingents.
The rest are less we'll trained.
Their inferior arms are suffi-
cient to deal with a population
which has been deprived Of
even pistols. Yet the Peiping
rulers are worried that they
may not be able to control
more than $50 million people,
diSarmed as they are, with only
three and one-half million SOL
diers and less than one million
secret police.
The presence of some 80
trained Nationalist divisions on
Formosa is equally irksome to
the men in Peiping. On paper,
and according to strategic and
tactical theories, these Nation
alist forces would not be capa-
BILE of successfully invading
the mainland. But when mil
lions of Chinese in the south
are starving and are aroused
against the present oppressive
regime the possibilities of in
cursions across the Formosan
straits, causing serious trouble
to the Peiping government, are
not being ignored by the Com
muniSt leaders.
Evening star., 1954-02-05

extent of the Rizley-Moore
bill. was passed by Congress
but vetoed by President Tru-
man.
The Rizley-Moore bill was
vigorously fought by two FPC
m e m berS, Commissioners
Claude L. Draper. still a mem
Der, and Leland Olds, who was
subsequently refused conflrma-
tion by the Senate after 10
years service in a bitter fight
inspired by the big oil compa-
nieS. Commissioner Olds SUBJ
mitted a report prepared by
FPC experts showing that the
field price" valuation would
cost natural gas consumers
$50 million a year. The report
likewise showed that the Is
corporations, mostly big oil
companies, which owned n
per cent of the 5.6-million-
acre reserves in the Hugoton
and Texas Panhandle fields.
would profit handsomely. Al
per cent increase in price,
for example, would mean
$1.616,450,000 fora the Is
companies over the life Of the
reserves. which is estimated at
40 years.
It is assumed that Commis-
sioner Draper will fight again,
as he did six and seven years
ago, against any such plunder
at the expense of the public
and the public domain. He
carries quite q burden and
quite a responsibility, espe-
cially for one of his years, in
view Of the changes on the
commission. He has served
on the flve-member commits
sion since its creation in 1880.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Dorothy thompson

Many past historical truths"
and rationalizations regarding
the causes of the rise of Hitler
and World War II are being
inferred in Berlin.
Mr.. Dulles devoted much of
one speech to denouncing the
idea of the Treaty of Ver-
sailleS being a direct contri-
button to World War II. He
compared Versailles with Yal-
ta's provisions for German dis
memberment, de-industrializa-
ton. and forced labor. both
being animated, he said, by
the spirit of hatred and ven-
geance. Gle rather passed over
Yalta-So much worse than
Versailles Of Versailles he
said, Such restrictions :.
merely incite a people of vigor
and courage to strive to break
the bonds imposed upon them
and thereby demonstrate their
sovereign equality" 1t is too
bad allied leaders did not dis
cover this earlier.
This thesis is one we have
held during our lifetime as a
reporter and analyst.
Other factors contributed to
NaziiSm-the economic COL
lapse of 1880. the proletarian-
izing of the middle classes by
imitation. hordes of unem-
ployed, and the strength and
fear of Soviet-inspired COM
munism.
Hitler came to power stimuli
taneously with Franklin D.
Roosevelt's revolutionary New
Deal.
But the constant factor sup
porting militant German ma
tionalism was precisely what
Mr.. Dulles admits: The deter
mination of the Germans to
achieve sovereign equality.
After World War l, Soviet
and German Communists ex-
plotted this. The first German
party to denounce Versailles as
a capitalist conspiracy" was
the CommuniSt-as a measure
to communize Germany. They
contributed. instead. to pro-
ducing an anti-Communist and
anti-French revolution.
But Mr.. Dulles present in
depreciation was almost uni
versally rejected during, be-
tween and after the two world
wars. All developments were
attributed to chronic propen-
stiles of the German character,
described as congenitally mil
itaristic." To demonstrate
this, European history was
falSif1ed to depict Germans as
initiators of every European
war, though they had initiated
fewer than any other leading
power.
The purpose of the Versailles
system was to keep Germany
down by surrounding her on
all fronts with military alli-
ances-of France with Poland,
with the Little Entente"
(CzechSlovakia, Romania,
Evening star., 1954-02-05

Yugoslavia) and, eventually,
with the Soviet Union, with
whom Pierre Laval negotiated
a mutual assistance treaty in
1885
This system broke down
through the unwillingness of
France-or the Soviets-to i'm
plement it's alliances at the
cost of embroiling itself in war.
Austria and Czechoslovakia
were absorbed, and the Ger
man Rhineland refortified
without military action.
Russia, overlooking her
treaty with France. negotiated
pact with Germany, defining
mutual spheres of influence.
Britain in the hope of pre-
venting war. gave a defense
pact to Poland.
But German and Russian
armies simultaneously march
ed against that unhappy land
and partitioned it. Then. after
the failure of various peace
overtures addressed by Berlin
to London. Germany attacked
France through the Low
Countries. France folded and
Stain fulsomely congratu-
lated Hitler upon his entrance
into Paris.
A year later Hitler's armies
attacked Russia. America en-
tered the war. And when
Germany fell, Stain crowed
over the demise of the ugly
offspring of the Treaty of
Versailles"
In 1945 Russia hoped. as in
1919. speedily to communize an
utterly Frustrated Germany,
add her to the Russian bloc
and thus take Europe without
war, the eastern Gordon of
the Versailles alliances being
all under Russian control.
That failed. Western Ger
many-accorded some free
dom-came back startlingly.
Whereas a Russian alliance
with a weak Germany would
be favorable. one with strong
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Doris Fleeson-

The member Of President
Eisenhower cabinet who is
currently coming under the
heaviest fire on Capitol Hill is
Attorney General Brownell.
Just how and when the feeling
against him will erupt publicly
depends somewhat on the leg
fslative. and appointive sched-
ule the administration puts be-
fore Congress, but its existence
is a major topic Of converse
ton in informed circles.
This is so much the fact that
many members of Congress are
making book that Mr.. Brownell
will be the next to leave the
cabinet, survived even by the
embattled Secretary Of Agri-
culture, Mr.. Benson, and Secre-
tary of State Dulles, who ex
off1cio always hangs suspended
between frying pan and fire.
The verdict being privately
rendered on the Attorney
General is a harsh one, the
more surprising because he
arrived so favorably heralded.
In his previous political career,
too, he had seemed amiable
and sensible.
Now conservatives and lib
erals. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, are saying that he has
been behaving as a narrow
partisan, devoted more to fac
tion than to party, and that
he is showing q lamentable
lack of broad wisdom and
vision in the execution of his
important duties.
Such views Of the Govern
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Let's Not Be Husty

McALESTER, Okla, Feb. S
R1.-A 1907 marriage certificate
finally turned up at the court
clerks office for registration, Al
years late.
The document was issued April
Il, 1907. to Calvin c. Paxson
and Miss Mary Ethel Reese, both
OF Calvin, Okla. and they were
married the next day, Clerk Jack
E. Dale explained.
A note was still pinned to the
certificate Of marriage reminding
the couple they were liable to a
500 fine unless it was returned
within so days.
I'VE don't intend to collect"
Mr.. Dale said.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Thonos [. Stokes

Not all "give-aways" are
done openly in Congress as in
the case Of the onshore oil
grab last session.
In fact, few are. There's a
slicker scheme that has been
pointed out here repeatedly
over the years. This is through
rulings and decisions by one or
another Of the regulatory COM
missions by which laws passed
by Congress to protect the pub
lie interest. which the commits
sionS administer, are weakened
and occasionally nullified. The
climate for that is very favor
able around here now, since
these commissions have been
packed" with new members
with. a sympathetic attitude"
toward interests to be regu-
lated.
Among others, that has hap.
pened with the Federal Power
Commission. which is charged
with regulation Of electric and
natural gas utilities
Just how far the FPC may
take us back under the new
regime is on test right now in
a case pending before it. Con-
sumers Of natural gas could be
nicked millions of dollars in
increased rates, while at the
same time big oil companies
which own most of the natural
gas industry could get a tre-
mendouS windfall, If the FPC
should reverse the position it
has always taken previously on
q big issue at stake
The case affects the Pan
handle Eastern Pipe Line Com
pany Of Kansas City and af1ili-
ates and involves q rate in
crease previously ordered but
still under bond. This rate in
Evening star., 1954-02-05

ment's first lawyer are -poten-
TALLY perilous for the President
as well as for that lawyer
personally.
The steps by which Mr..
Brownell descended in con-
gresSional esteem are fairly
clear.
The latest is his conduct
during the touchy negotiations
with respect to the Bricker
amendment. Senators CT both
parties worked hard to COM
pose a matter so important to
the 60-odd members who at
first backed Senator Bricker
and about which genuine mis-
givings existed. They tell their
colleagues they could at no
point discover the principle on
which Mr.. Brownell took his
stand. They assert further
that his knowledge Of consti-
tutional law approached zero.
The Attorney General could
not possibly have pleased them
all. but he could have i'm
pressed them. This he failed
to do.
The negotiations in part
broke down for that reason
and the various factions,
united on little else, are united
in a generally dim view of the
Attorney General.
Another Brownell move lately
astounding the 50-odd law
yers Of the Senate was his
effort to convict a former As
sistant Attorney General, Her
bert Bergson, by demanding
that the criminal provisions
Of the conflict of interests
statute be literally construed.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Life in the u. S.
|Wfe's Retort
Puts Chill on
|Gov. Shivers
Life in the u. S.
BY the Asseeiated Press

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, Feb. s.
He told it on himself at an ap-
pearance before a women's club
group here the other day.
Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas
looked up from a magazine arti-
Gle a moment and asked Mrs.
Shivers, do you know how many
really great people there are in
the United States?"
mo-" replied the Governors
pretty lady. but it's one less
than you think"
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Dorothy Ihon1Pson-
An Old ShibboIeth Is Laid LoW
Dulles Denounces the Old Wives Tale Which Holds Treaty
Of Versailles Was Direct Contribution to World War II

Germany might be disastrous
AS Stain learned.
So now Malenkov is propos-
ing in essence the revival Of
Versailles. He holds the former
anti-German eastern Gordon
plus more. He appeals to
France to close it in the west.
He does not mention how the
Soviets implemented the 1885
defense pact.
But the fate of Europe still
depends on Germany. If there
is to be peace, the Germans
alone can be its watchdogs
for both East and West. No
formal alliances will decide
the outcome. as 30 years have
demonstrated.
And thus the destiny Of
human civilization is in, the
hands of those whom the
world has described as "chron-
ically,' "congenitally," and
"psychopathically" tainted.
Among whom was never this
columniSt.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Ihonos L Stokes
Some 'Give-Awoys' Covered U1
Peo by Big Natural Gas Company for Changes in Bosis
For Fixing Rates Aims at Millions More in Profits

crease. estimated to yield $2l
million annually, is being chal-
lenged by three Michigan
cities, Port Huron, Marysville
and st. Clair, and two Michi-
gan gas companies.
The big issue Of principle is
involved in an attempt by
Panhandle to change the rate
base always used by the FPC.
Hitherto the commission has
refused even 10 entertain pro-
posals for such a change as
that sought now by Panhan-
die. This Is to substitute for
the cost-of-production basis
in fixing rates the field price"
for natural gas. The latter
would be higher and would be
reflected in higher prices to
the consumer. In making Its
decision, the FPC has before
it an examiners report Of last
August which finds the rate
schedules now under bond are
unjust. unreasonable, and ex-
cessive" and which says of the
proposed rate basis change:
Panhandle requests the
commission to discard It's
long established, judicially ap-
proved cost method of rate
regulation and to find that
the value method of regulation
for natural gas company pro-
duced gas Is just and reason
able. Panhandle Is seeking in
this case a reversal Of basic
regulatory authority; a philos-
ophy to which the commits
sion has steadfastly adhered
in numerous cases; a philos-
ophy which has been sane
toned by the courts, including
the United States Supreme
Court; and a philosophy
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Pink Snow. Red Faces

RENSSELAER,. N. Y, Feb. 5
R.-There was pink snow in
Rensselaer, yesterday and faces
were pinker at the General AMI
line Dye Works.
The pastel mantle covered a
220-yard-wide area. Roofs, yards
and automobile tops sported the
brightest casts.
Curtis L. Collision, personnel
director. explained that red dye
had boiled over from a kettle and
the froth was sucked into the
ventilating system. Atmospheric
conditions conspired to spread
the dye. used on textile and pa
pers. over the fresh snow.
The dye probably will not
cause permanent staining.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Concealed Assets

CHICAGO, Feb. S (P).-De-
tectives found $3.083 in cur
rency stuffed in the pockets and
one shoe of a 6O-year-old man
they arrested last night for
stealing two articles valued at
$1.98 from a Loop store.
Don't let my wife know about
this money" Orval Schlatter of
nearby Whiting. Ind, told Sergt.
James Fitzgerald. Il want to
buy an automobile"
Evening star., 1954-02-05
All Is Forgiven

DETROIT. Feb. 5 (R.-
Alabama Deputy Sheriffs John
E. Pitts and John H. Franklin,
here to take home a robbery
suspect, got a swift taste of
Detroit police efficiency. They
were tagged for illegal park
ing in front Of the jail. After
explanations they were for
given.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Christiun Educators Meet

CINCINNATI. Feb. 5 (R.-The
National Association Of Directors
Of Christian Education Of the
Presbyterian Church opens a
three-day convention here today.
Speakers include Frank T. Will
son, dean Of the School of Re-
ligion at Howard University,
Washington, D. C..
Evening star., 1954-02-05
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Szadi1t9e@ PoUenz4

Leave it to the level headed farmers TO make bulls
eye shot the weakness Of socazed farm programs Ac
Of speeches delivered Farm Bureau
meeting last week provide comforting outlook The
speakers put their stamp Of firm dsapprova any sched
ue to regiment farmers
Wilson Heaps reelected president of the Farm Bureau
for the sixth time, called farmers take the initiative
in solving their problems rather than relying po
clans and reminded them that prosperity could not be egs
lated to any group.
This free economy theme also echoed by an Amer
Farm Bureau legislative director who pictured too
people having bad Of satchelitis
problem arises pack grip and head for Washington
This is the who also made the statement that
should be accomplished all down the line Continuation of
the present high rigid price support will eventually
stabilized poverty to American farmers"
The farm people the who realize that you can't
something for nothing They realize that prosperity must
be earned through high productivity The farm people of
Maryland deplored the tactics of handful of individuals
calling themselves caemen who tried to create panic
in agriculture last
That phrase, Stabilized poverty is mighty good
phrase keep in mind whenever the planners try to tell
the people what they grow how much they grow
how much land they for crops and how much for
pasture and woodland That sociaized planning will bring
everybody level-thats for Things will be stab
ized But you bet that the level will be low Miss
ing will be any form of private enterprise industrious
activity Everyone will have equal ncomeand nobody will
have anything.