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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-11-23
Calumet Members VIII
Elect Officers Dec. 4

nual meeting and election of
officers of st. Joseph's Lodge
9O3, C.F.U. will be held Sun
day afternoon, December 4,
in st. Joseph's Church Hall,
9Th St., Calumet. The regular
meeting will start at 2 Pm.
and Immediately after the
election of officers will be
held.
AS usual there will be a
party after the meeting, at
which lunch and refresh
ments will be served. We will
have a chance to exchange a
few friendly anecdotes as we
have in the past and spend
a few delightful hours to-
gether.
We likewise do not want
to forget our youth, members
of our Junior Nest. They are
also invited to the party,
where they will be served
sandwiches, sweets and pop.
Members, who have children
in the Nest, are asked to
bring them along when they
come to meeting, or tell them
to come after the meeting. 1t
is our wish they all come and
participate in this annual
gathering and party.
We do not think it is ne
cessary to emphasize the fact
that the annual meeting of
every lodge is the most i'm
portant of the year. 1t is es-
sential that you elect good
set of officers, who will steer
the lodge in the coming year
and give their efforts to the
growth and welfare of the
society and the C.F.U.
Therefore you are all most
urgently asked not to miss
the next meeting and to turn
out 1909. We especially in
vite the women members of
the LODGE who rarely attend
the meetings during the year,
but who should show them
selves at least once a year at
the annual meeting.
We will also need you to
prepare the lunch and help
serve it. We know that with
out women we can not expect
the service and friendly atti-
tude necessary at such gath
erings.
Therefore, do not make any
other appointments, but re-
serve Sunday, Dec. 4th, for
the annual meeting of st.
Joseph's lodge and do not let
anything else hold you back.
We want to see each and ev-
cry one of you.
At this time we also want
to thank the members for
their cooperation during the
year and hope that you will
give the same cooperation to
the new officers. Without
your help they can't accom-
plish much, if anything.
And since the year is draw
ing to a close, we wish the
Supreme Board, the Editorial
staff and all members of G..
r. U. a Very Merry Xmas.
John Kastelic, Pres.
John Lakner. Sec'y.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-11-23

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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-11-23

. National injustice is the
surest road to national down.
fall. - William Gladstone
Evening star., 1955-07-20
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Scientists, Free and EnsIoved

yet faced the condition that
war may conceivably end or
drastically modify human life
on this planet, it has not
faced up to the necessity, not
of abolishing this or that
weapon but of abolishing war
itself.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur put
the case quite as clearly and
forcefully as the scientists in
his speech in Los Angeles on
January 26.
No disarmament promises
the abolition of war that is
not total and universal.
Whatever weapons are en-
ployed are welded by men, by
soldiers, who in all countries
are subject to blind obedience
under threat of execution.
So if the statesmen of the
world really wanted to abolish
war, they would first abolish
general stats. war colleges,
officers corps. volunteer
armies. and every form of con-
scription.
This column is waiting for
the representatives of the
great powers to propose just
this. But we think they won't.
This they will postpone to the
millennium, which according to
the prophets will occur only
on the other side Of the de-
struction of this world-after
one more war to end war.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
By the Associated Press

Robert T. Stevens, stepping
out after az years as secretary
of the Army, said today. "I feel
can leave with my chin up"
"And that gives a fellow a
good feeling" he added in an in
terview in advance of a farewell
salute from the Army and an
unusual tribute from the Navy
The former textile industry
executive has stayed in Office far
longer than his critics and many
of his supporters had antici-
pated. particularly after his bit
ter row last year with Senator
Mccarthy over the Senator's ac-
cusation that the Army was
"coddling" Communists.
Mr.. Stevens said that since
his resignation was announced,
he has received many letters
of best wishes from Congress
men. both Democrats and Re-
Ipublicans."
He spoke with pride also of the
distinguished public service
award which he receives today
from Secretary Of the Navy
Charles S. Thomas. The Navy
said the presentation to an Army
secretary was unprecedented. "
From the Air Force, too, there
was a tribute. Mr.. Stevens dis
played a certificate and a pair of
star-tipped silver wings of an
honorary command pilot of the
Air Force.
The Army arranged a fare
well parade and review late
today.
Mr.. Stevens will turn over
his post tomorrow to WILDER
Brucker who has been general
counsel of the Defense Depart
ment. Both Mr.. Stevens and MIR.
Brucker are Republicans.
AS for his future, Mr.. Stevens
Evening star., 1955-07-20
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike gives Gen. zhukovs daughter portable radio
ocrats are outraged They claim it's unAmercan for Pres
dent to give away anything smaller than a network
House Democratic Leader Mccormack the Democratic
presidential nomination wide open Wide open
Ike running again. it's practically bottomless pit
Ike, shopping in Geneva buys Swiss for his
children The Swiss hope Soviet Boss Khrushchev
start thinking about his grandchildren he might take
Switzerland.
The Big -Four give top priority to uncaon Germany
Diplomats figure strong Germany
American relations We need something common to be
afraid of.
Howard Hughes sells RKO Pictures $25 million cash.
Expected tax from Hughes Treasury Secretary Hum
phrey: Enjoy yourself but don't spend all in
Democrats speed legislation to expand od-age
again. Democrats lot to the old Demo-
Gratis in power, everybody ages faster
The Commerce Department the is con-
tinuing Republicans tire of reminding how
you're working to the taxes they can't balance the budget
with either
Evening star., 1955-07-20
DORIS FLEESON
Certain Humor in the Chambers
Brave and Cheerful Geneva Stand

A certain humor attaches to
the United States Senate being
,- brave and determinedly cheer
full while President Eisenhower
negotiates at the summit. No
Senate ever really enjoys
watching a President exercise
fully his constitutional powers
over foreign policy under cir
acumstances which rem d r
academic the advice and con-
y sent" of the Senate.
No such cabal exists or is
forming like that which in the
enc humbled the last Ameri-
can President to go abroad
Aon a peace mission and enjoy
the acclaim of foreign nations.
The reasons are various and
the strongest of all is, as Mr..
& Eisenhower himself said, the
desire of the American people
for peace.
1t would be bad politics, if
nothing else. to oppose it now.
The fact that Senator Nc
Carthy could get only four
votes including his own for his
move to hamper the President
at Geneva proves what politi-
cal opinion is on that score.
Senator Mccarthy and his
shrunken forces have given up
for the time being, having pre-
pared their Il told you so"
ground. He is cooperative in
his various committees, includ-
/, ing Appropriations, and seems
Indifferent to the way in which
Evening star., 1955-07-20
Moral Force of World at Geneva

to be placed again in the po-
sition Of obstructionists.
What is going on at Geneva
is a dramatic example of moral
force in operation. 1t means
that all the world is pressing
intensely for a sincere dis
cussion- 1t means that past
prejudices are recognized as
existent but not as insur-
mountable. But. to be realistic.
it is necessary to understand
that what is said at Geneva
will take a long while 10 sink
in and that the argument and
debate over the most delicate
of issues cannot but have a
powerful influence on future
conferences when the subjects
are discussed further either in
similar meetings or at ses-
sions of the foreign ministers.
The world is fearful of a
nuclear war. Soviet Russia
knows it cannot precipitate a
big war without risking de-
truction, and Mr.. Eisen-
hower's emphatic statement
that America will never start
an aggressive war may pos
sibly be accepted in princi-
Pile by the Russians because
they do have faith in him.
But mostly they can accept 1t
because they know that the
freely elected American Con-
gress has to vote on war and
never would sanction an ag-
gresSive war.
1t is fair to ask, however,
what assurances the Soviet
Union can give against ag-
gression That's the crux of
the problem and, when the
Russians can offer a convinc-
ing answer on that point, they
will not need to worry about
an attack from any quarter
not even from a rearmed
Germany. For, as Mr.. Eisen-
hover pointed out, the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
can protect Soviet Russia,
too, from any future aggres-
sion by any member of that
union, which now includes
West Germany and should
some day include East Ger
many as well.
The Geneva debate isn't
conclusive. but it is health
full and will help to clear the
air even in Moscow.
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Evening star., 1955-07-20
While Physicists From the West Petition
For Peace, Those in Russia Are Silent

less free world, a difference
which causes in the West the
greatest queasiness. Here in
dividual persons and groups
can plead a cause before do
mestic and world opinion re-
gardless of the position of
their governments, and asso-
ciate themselves freely with
like-minded men and women
the world round. In the Soviet
Union they can associate
themselves only on order from
and in harmony with the
policy of the state, as deter
mined in very limited coun-
sells. What that policy may be
on any matter, including war
or peace, nobody can predict.
Whatever it may be nobody
can reveal or oppose it unless
he gets out of a Communist
country first.
The Soviet government
wants peace today.
But If a successor govern
ment changes its mind in a
near or more distant future
there will be no Russian con-
scientious objectors to war.
This lack of candid, open
communication between in
dividual persons permitting
concerted action constitutes
the real Iron Curtain.
The Western scientists draw
the logical conclusion from
the perfection of modern war.
They do not doubt that if a
war between great powers oc-
ours, the most lethal weapons
will be employed. Despite
whatever international con-
trolls may initially exist, these
will dissolve in the event of
war.
If thermonuclear weapons
have been outlawed, or the
stockpiles abolished, they will
be remanufactured in the event
Of war. and the obvious ad-
vantage will lie with the side
that first uses them.
Since mankind has never
Evening star., 1955-07-20
India Now Claims
1t Has Rice for Export

NEW DELHI, July 20 (P).-
India, which five years ago was
fighting q severe famine, today
claims an exportable surplus Of
food.
The nations food and agri-
culture minister. Ait Prasad
Jain, announced at nearby Luck
now that except for a few old
commitments India would i'm
port no more food grains this
year.
Instead, he said, it planned to
have 100000 tons of rice avail
able for export-if a buyer can
be found,
Evening star., 1955-07-20

adjournment is being handled.
Senator Knowland can't
bring himself to pretend he
is happy about Geneva, but
at least he is refusing COM
ment. Actually a rather con-
siderable bone has been thrown
to him in the shape of the
official announcement that we
will not discuss Far Eastern
problems at the summit.
1t is an obvious area of ten
sion and, barring war, inevita-
bly, will be a matter of negotia-
ton. The stalemate now exist
ing is in fact a kind of ne
gotiation in itself. Yet, the
administration barred the
topic at Geneva on Senator
Knowland's account; no other
force it is necessary to consider
would have complained.
The Democrats are fully as
united and sincere as they
seem in their present applause
for the summit talks, They
still remain realistic politi-
clans and they know very we'll
that what they have to look
forward to after perhaps a few
kind words, is a ringing Eisen-
hover call for the election of
a Republican Congress next
year.
Their attitude may be
roughly summed up in the old
gag that some days you just
can't make a dollar.
A few have persuaded them
Evening star., 1955-07-20
Velvet Glove Covers an Iron Fist

they still definitely oppose
German rearmament within
the North Atlantic Pact. Since
the BundeStag has approved
the Paris pacts, the only way
to counteract its decision is
to demand that the Reich's
unity shall be preceded by an
agreement for a German
neutrality.
The French representatives.
Prime Minister Faure and
Foreign Minister Pinay, ap-
pear to lean towards the So
Wet point of view. They are
not particularly interested in
what happens to German
unity But if this becomes
unavoidable they are impress
ing our delegates as strongly
favoring the Soviet idea of
a neutral and if possible un-
armed Germany. Prime Min
lister Sir Anthony Eden,
according to reports received
in Washington early this week,
has a number of compromise
suggestions which has led
some American observers at
Geneva to remark that he is
trying to play both ends
against the middle. The test
case of the Kremlin's real in
tentions for a complete re-
taxation of the international
tension will be made clear
when they propose discus
sions for the reduction of the
war threat in the Far East.
That they will make some
proposition seems to our dele
gates inevitable. They have
made definite pledges to their
Peiping allies. But the tenor
of their propositions and the
degree of stubbornness they
will display will show, at least
to us. their real intentions and
the purpose of their outwardly
changed attitude.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
BROWN
Bulgonin Pleo to Freeze Vests Forces
Is Aimed at Killing German military

Since the Russians at Ge-
neva are no longer morose or
scowling. everything appears
to go on wheels at the sum-
NIT conference-on the sur
face at least.
The Russians are doing an
excellent public relations job,
which contrasts somewhat
sadly with that of our own
people.
The goons who in the past
accompanied the Kremlin lead
ers are no longer in sight. The
villa occupied by Premier Bull
ganin and his associates in the
heart of the town is laxly
guarded compared with that
Of President Eisenhower on the
outskirts of Geneva. The top
Soviet leaders are being driven
in open cars while our Presi-
dent is being rushed through
the streets at high speed in a
limousine preceded and fol-
lowed by a number of the so
Secret Service men and sharp
shooting Marines in civilian
clothes who accompanied the
American delegation abroad.
This is an unpleasant contrast
for the foremost democratic
republic in the world and
might eventually substantiate
Communist propaganda in
Western Europe that real de-
mocracy does not exist in
America; otherwise, they will
say, the American Chief Ex-
ecutive would not be living in
an ivory tower.
All this is not President Eli
senhoWer's fault, but that of
his guardians and of his public
relations staff. In so far as
it is known in responsible
quarters in Washington there
has been not even a whisper
from the Swiss authorities that
there was any possible threat
to the Presidents security.
And the Swiss Police Judiciaire
tSecret Service) stands on a
par with our FBI in vigilance
and efficiency.
But while everything ap-
pears on the surface to 60 bet
ter than had been expected
among the Big -Four, reports
=, received in Washington from
the Secretary of State still
warn against optimism.
The Bulganin plan for
freezing" the Western forces
at their present level is a
poorly disguised plan to pre-
vent German rearmament. If
the European military forces
are thus limited to their pres
ent strength-as a preliminary
for the Eden-Faure progress
sive" plan for limitation OF
arms--the 500,000-man force
promised by the Bonn govern
ment as a part and parcel of
the NATO will never come into
being. The freezing" pro-
posed will preclude German
armament. The immediate
consequences will be that the
Western coalition will be more
of a paper organization-with
many generals but few COM
bat-ready troops-than 1t is
today.
Both Mr.. Eisenhower and
Secretary Dulles saw in Mar
Evening star., 1955-07-20
Senate Peers Down at the Summit

selves-or say they have-that
the President has changed
since 1852 when he was in
duced to embrace two foremost
radicals OF the right, Senators
Mccarthy and Jenner. The
new Eisenhower, they say, will
find some way of avoiding
Endorsements for three out
standing members of the Nc
Carthy faction who are up
next year: Senators Butler of
Maryland. Dirksen of Illinois
and Welker of Idaho.
This opinion is not widely
held. AS of now most Demo-
cratic strategists think that no
matter how much they sup
port the President or how many
foreign policy rescue opera
tionS they perform, he will
proclaim the burning neces-
sity of electing Republicans to
Congress up and down the line.
Senate Democrats inciden-
tally are losing their effective
1854 Senate Campaign Com
mittee chairman. Clements of
Kentucky, who is up himself
next year. If his old enemy,
Happy Chandler. is elected
Governor of Kentucky this fall,
Senator Clements will be more
than busy with his own cam
paign and some hardened
cynics suggest it will be a
wasted effort even then.
The job is hard work, and
Senators are tapped for it, they
don't seek it. Possible sue
cessors to Senator Clements
include Senators Symington,
Gore and Kerr.
Evening star., 1955-07-20

cold war;" said the newspaper
after quoting a plea made by
Pope Plus XII in his 1854
Christmas message for an end
to tensions. 1t added:
"A living together, without
easing of tensions. in its turn
is cold peace :. neither the one
nor the other is peace. 1t is an
Iarmistice-an armistice given
time and opportunity to multiply
arms. That is world suicide.
But humanity invokes and awaits
Ia rebirth, a resurrection for
this an easing of world tension
lis necessary"
Evening star., 1955-07-20
DAVID LAWRENCE

/. Sensational developments
may come soon to emphasize
a the ed-of new
spirit" which the Soviet Un-
ion is anxious to show to the
world.
, The Cominform Communist
Information Bureau which
was set up in 1947 to CO.
ordinate the activities of the
: Communist Party in Bull
garia. Czechoslovakia. Yugo-
slavia. Hungary. Poland. Ro-
mania, Italy and France with
those in the Soviet Union may
be dissolved.
This would be a first step
by the Soviets toward fulfilling
the cry for deeds. not words"
5 But it would merely mean that
q the coordination will go "un-
derground." For, when the
6 Conintern Communist Inter.
nationaD, the predecessor or
ganization established in 1919,
was ordered dissolved in 1943.
the work was continued in
much the same way.
But Prime Minister Nehru
of India, who was a recent
visitor to Moscow, considers
the forthcoming dissolution of
" the cominform logical now
as a corollary to peaceful CO.
existence" The Soviets. of
course. will argue that the
move is an answer to the allied
demand that their activities of
a subversive and infiltrating
nature be abandoned. 1t could
be a spectacular stunt, with
propaganda possibilities for the
Soviets.
The Soviet tactics in ham
ding the Big Four meeting at
d Geneva In other respects have
become crystal clear. First of
all. the Russians agree to dis
cuss anything that comes up
but they are careful not to set
tie anything.
Thus, reunification of Ger
many is delicate question and
the world was surprised that
Foreign Minister Molotov
agreed so readily to put it first
on the agenda. The Soviets saw
no harm in discussing every
thing provided they didn't
have to reach any conclusion.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
The Crux of the Problem Is: con Russia
Assure Us Thot She Won't Start War?

So Bulganin discussed German
reunification all right, but
said conditions were not ripe
yet and that other things had
to come first. such as the need
for closer commercial relations
and exchanges of diplomatic
delegations.
What Bulganin meant, of
course, was that the Russians
want to talk with Chancellor
Adenauer of West Germany
when he goes to Moscow, and
they prefer to bargain with
Adenauer rather than with the
three Western governments at
Geneva.
AS for alderman elections,
Bulganin said this was all
right, too. but "at the appro-
pirate time"
President Eisenhower and
French Premier Faure can
argue all they like against de-
lay-as, indeed. they did with
Bulganin-but the Soviets
have already made up their
minds to bargain first with
Adenauer after the Big Four
meeting So it is natural for
the conference to switch to
other subjects on the agenda,
and before the Geneva meet
ing is over they will have
talked about everything from
the emancipation Of the sat-
elite states, as desired by the
Western ENJOYS to Geneva, to
the liberation" of Formosa,
as demanded by the Russians.
Each side will make its po-
sition clear and let it go at
that, But it would be a grave
mistake to write off the &C.
leVa conference as just a LalK-
fest. 1t is easy to underesti-
mate the Importance of what
is going on in the Swiss city
where the top men of the four
major powers are gathered.
The pressure for peace
which is coming from all parts
Of the world is tremendous. It
is certain that the impact of
world opinion is fully compre-
hended by the Soviet spokes-
men. for they have lately
shown a keen awareness of
the trends of public thought
everywhere. They do not want
Evening star., 1955-07-20

AS the Geneva conference
opened, two appeals came from
the worlds leading physicists
and chemists to abolish wal in
the interest of human sur
vival. Eighteen Nobel Prize
winners were the second group
to issue warnings, from Bonn,
Germany, the first having
. come from London through
Lord (Bertrand) Russell.
The signers included famous
German nuclear physicists,
who during World War II en-
ergetically competed against
their colleagues in Britain and
America to discover the atomic
weapon.
Albert Einstein before his
death had put his signature
to one petition.
The two groups included
citizens of nearly every West
European country, America
and Japan.
But one group of scientists
was not represented. The So
Wet Union has eminent nu-
clear physicists and chemists,
some of them German. 1t has
tested and exploded A and H
bombs. Russian laboratories,
like our own, are working on
other forms of mass-extermi-
=, nation weapons. But no Rus
. sian scientists Joined their
Western colleagues.
They must have had pre-
knowledge of the move. The
fact that it was being pre-
pared by world scientists was
known when Prof. Einstein
died. At least one scientist,
Prof. Linus Carl Pauling Of the
California Institute of Tech
nology, cabled Lord Russell un-
solicited to associate himself
with the declaration. But no
individuals cabled from Russia.
1t is a small matter, per-
haps, but 1t illustrates the
great difference between the
Communist and the more or
Evening star., 1955-07-20

shal BulganinS speech the old
trick Of preventing Germany's
rearmament on the side of the
Western allies.
Mr.. Eisenhower more than
anybody else knows that the
Russians are possibly more
worried over the German
bayonet" than the A-bomb.
Back in 1850. as supreme COM
mander of the NATO forces,
he became one of the first
strong advocates of German re-
armament and its inclusion in
the NATO.
The Muscovites did not sue
ceed in wrecking the plan Of
inclusion of potential German
forces in the Western alliance
by threats. Since early this
year they have attempted to
achleve this job by cajollng the
Germans themselves. Before
the Kremlin team got to Ge-
neva, it suggested to the Ger
mans that a full unity of the
former Reich might be possible
provided the reunited country
remains neutral-or a buffer
state-between East and West.
Despite the conciliatory
speeches OF the Soviet delegates
at Geneva; despite their
friendly attitude in their per-
sonal relations with Mr.. Eisen-
hover and Secretary Dulles.
both men feel strongly that
their opposite Soviet numbers
are merely encasing the iron
fist in velvet gloves. Funda-
mentally the USSR is no
longer opposed to the reunifi-
cation of the two Germanys.
arbitrarily separated under
the pntSAann apraernente Put