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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Thonos L. Stokes
1honos [. Stokes
Gas Consumers Face Trouble
Cabinet Committee Proposes to Exempt Producers
From FPC Regulation, Despite High Court Ruling

Now a cabinet committee
appointed by President Eisen-
hover recommends that nat
ural gas producers be ex-
empted from regulation by the
Federal Power Commission. al
though the Supreme Court
held recently that it was the
duty of the FPC to regulate
them under the 1888 Natural
Gas Act.
This brings TO a full circle
the intriguing story of how
your Government is being re-
shaped to favor politically
powerful economic interests
which have chafed under regu-
latory agencies created by
Congress to protect the public
and have long sought to shake
off such regulation.
First, the FPC was packed
at the top with persons bust
ness-minded" in viewpoint SO
far as opportunity was per-
mitted. Shifts in the commits
sion, itself, we're brought about
through the Presidents APP
pointive power. Second, a re-
cent reorganization" of the
staff weeded out veteran ex-
perts in electric utility and
natural gas rate-making who
had established regulations for
standing firm for the public
and consumer interests. What
has happened in the FPC
has happened in other regu-
latory agencies.
Now, as for the FPC and
natural gas. the administration
has revealed its purpose openly
so that, finally, we can place
responsibility for this change
in Government where it be-
longs-at the top. This final
maneuver is a big green light
to giant oil companies that
own the bulk of natural gas
and natural gas reserves to
step up their present drive to
get Congress to exempt them
from regulation. In their prop
uganda campaign they are
spending a million and a half
dollars. according to an esti-
mate in a recent dispatch from
Houston, Tex. to the Wall
Street Journal.
There are some very inter-
esting aspects In this inter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Russia and World Opinion
Hearst Interview of High Soviet Officials Indicates
kremIin Does Core Whot Rest of World Thinks
David Lowrence-

When William Randolph
Hearst. jr., editor Of the Hearst
group Of newspapers, spoke
before q big audience Of news
writer's at the National Press
Club about his recent visit to
Soviet Russia. the most i'm
portant single question asked
him could not be answered.
It was why the Communists
chose to permit the head of a
newspaper group-known for
Its perennial antagonism to
everything communistic - to
come to Moscow and interview
the highest officials of the
Soviet government on current
problems. For several years
many American publications
have had on file requests to
allow correspondents to go to
Moscow but less than a half
dozen press representatives are
on duty there regularly.
Mr.. Hearst and his editorial
associates who accompanied
him hazarded guesses as to
what the Soviets had in mind.
but none could be sure. The
significant fact remains that
the Moscow government did
permit interviews which lasted
for several hours and In which
almost every phase Of the
present world situation was
discussed.
Fortunately, Kingsb bury
Smith, European manager of
the International News Service,
which is owned by the Hearst
interests. is a shorthand re-
porter and took down what was
said. Later on, the Soviet
government. which was given
this stenographic record, made
public an abbreviated version
and gave it to the Soviet press.
1t was an accurate transcript
and, much to the surprise of
everyone in the Hearst party.
the criticisms which had been
voiced by Mr.. Hearst and his
associates about Russia were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Constantine Brown

Ratification Of the Paris
agreements by the German
Bundestag has been hailed, in
these times Of political frus-
trations and rapidly recurring
international crises, as the first
good omen for the Western
world.
The German Parliament
proved itself well disciplined.
Although the general impress
sion Of observers in Germany
recently is that there was no
enthusiasm for rearmament.
the Bundestag felt compelled
to honor Chancellor Adenauer's
promise to the West.
There will be much talk
about when and how Germany
will supply the 100000 men in
tended for her own defense
and strengthening Of the
Western coalition. All such dis
cussions can serve no real
purpose for the time being.
What is Of real Importance is
whether last Sundays vote will
bring greater unity in Ger
many and whether 1t will help
lessen the tension, not between
the Paris and Bonn govern
nents. but between the French
and German people.
The answer on the question
of unity is apparently mega
tive. Until the EDO was killed
Chancellor Adenauer had
brought his country a degree
of unity unparalleled in many
years. The Socialists opposed
him on a number of domestic
matters. But on international
affairs he had solid backing
from all free Germans and
from many in the Soviet
occupied areas.
The Germans considered the
edo as the cornerstone for a
confederation of Europe. I'm
der such a setup French
German rivalry was expected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

OF Senator Robert M. La Fol-
lette. the elder. of Wisconsin
was a constitutional amend
ment giving Congress power
to override Supreme Court de-
cisions by a two-tlirds vote.
The Senator was too meticu-
lous about legal procedure.
Now. it turns out, you need no
constitutional amendment and
the trick can be done by a
simple majority, and is being
done under pressure of con-
sentative interests which once
shuddered and held up their
hands in holy horror over Sen
ator La Toilette. How times
change!
Ironic. too, is the great hue
and cry about the poor, in
dependent producers who are
used in the propaganda cam
paign. There are, to be sure,
some 400 producers who sell
gas to pipe line companies.
But seven companies-big oil.
of course-supply a third of
the total. and 100 producers
provide more than IS per cent
of the total natural gas for
pipe lines. Nearly 10 per cent of
the producers are very small.
Those have wells only in the
Appalachian area and supply
less than three-tenths of one
per cent of the total gas sold to
interstate pipe line companies.
Natural gas is a monopoly
business. 1t was because of
ownership by a relatively few
giant corporations and because
there is only one practicable
means of transportation. pipe
lines, that Congress felt the
natural gas industry was af-
fected with a public interest
and should therefore be regu-
lated by the Federal Govern
ment. Hence the 1888 Natural
Gas Act which the present
administration seems willing to
see emasculated.
A case might be made for
exempting the really small pro-
ducers and retaining regulation
over the few giants which own
IS per cent of the industry.
But 1t is the latter who are
making the big drive to repeal
the Supreme Court decision
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

Eisenhower in the closing pc
Rod Of the European war
This b u'sky. fortnight
military man commanded the
defense of Moscow, prepared
the Soviet stand at Stalin-
grad. and led the Red Army
to victory against Germany.
He gave me the impression of
being sincere in his expressed
hope for improved relations
with the United States and
the warm sentiments he voiced
about President Eisenhower.
II felt almost a sense of
relief later when heard that
he had been moved up to the
post of Defense Minister. Not
because he would hesitate to
do everything in his power to
defeat us in the event of war
between our two countries,
but because believe that SOL
diers like the President and
Zhukov know all too well the
horrors of war and want to
avoid it. The presence Of
Zhukov in the high councils
Of the Soviet regime might be
q conservative, perhaps even
restraining influence on reck-
lessness.
Mr.. Hearst came away con-
WINGED that American policy is
right and that, in the absence
Of a clear-cut manifestation
of peaceful purposes on which
the world can rely. there is no
other course but to build up
the necessary armament to
deter a Soviet attack.
But 1t Is interesting to note
that the Soviet rulers are
aware of the apprehensions
voiced in America. Still they
do not seem to realize, on the
other hand, that it is their
unrelenting quest for world
domination by Communist i'm
perialism which constitutes a
threat the Western world
cannot ignore.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

vention by the administration
in the field of regulatory COM
missions through this particu-
lar cabinet commission. Its
chairman is Arthur S. Flem-
ming, director of the Office of
Defense Mobilization, and its
members are heads of seven
departments-State, Treasury,
Defense, Justice, Interior,
Commerce. Labor.
What it asks is that Con-
gress nullify, or repeal, the
recent Supreme Court decision.
upholding regulation of pro-
ducers. This is another ex-
ample Of a new technique de-
veloped here in recent years
whereby the Supreme Court is
relegated on certain economic
issues to a sort of wayside de-
batting society and is no longer
the revered court Of last re-
sort. You will recall in this
connection how, after the Su-
preme Court had held that the
Government had paramount"
interest in offshore coastal
lands. Congress repealed this
decision by a law vesting own
ership in the States with the
blessing and encouragement of
the present President of the
United States who had prom
ised his support for State con-
troll in his campaign for the
White House.
Big oil, of course. was back
Of that overturn Of the Su-
preme Court. 1t was back also
Of the Kerr bill by which Con-
gress once before exempted
natural gas producers from
FPC regulation. President Tru-
man vetoed that bill. But big
oil stands assured therell be
no veto from Mr.. Eisenhower.
The Flemming commission
guarantees that.
This new type OF nullifica-
ton of the Supreme Court at
the behest of conservative eco
nomic interests has an ironic
aspect, If you know our history.
You may recall how back in
the 1920s and l930s political
progressives, aroused over the
"reactionary" attitude as they
called it Of the Supreme Court
on social legislation. suggested
various reforms to curb the
courts powers. The proposal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Doris FIeeson-

Senate Democrats are play
ing by ear on the $20-for-
everybody tax cut they have
inherited from the Rayburn
leadership of the House.
Their leader, Senator Lyn-
don johnson, is back at the
Mayo hospital in Minnesota,
having tried to do too much
too fast when they let him
come home after his operation
: for kidney stones. Now he has
an infection and may not be
here again this month.
Senator johnson is the tao
tical expert who after wetting
his finger to the prevailing
winds in his majority, can in
duce the elder statesman like
Senator George of Georgia to
come. to the aid Of the party.
Lacking that pressure, Senator
Georges conservative instincts
have prevailed and he has APP
parently killed the $40 cut
within the Finance Commit
tee.
Democrats are unhappy
about q split with their fellows
in the House but they are not
agreed on what ought to be
done. The present plan is for
the policy committee to thresh
it out after the Finance Com
mittee vote is taken.
Much depends on that vote.
If other Democrats on the
Finance Committee buck the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

not entirely excluded from
print.
Could it be that the Soviet
government, knowing that a
change in the premiership was
about to occur, took advantage
of the presence Of Mr.. Hearst
to soften the adverse impact
that it was feared might ensue
around the world when the
news Of Malenkov's downfall
was announced? Certainly Mr..
Hearst didn't come at the in
vitation Of the Soviet govern
ment. because he took the ini-
tiative in applying for a visa
and was surprised when it was
granted. Also the timing for
the visit was that of Mr..
Hearst, who need not have
come at that historic moment.
So, all in all. it appears that
the Soviet government is sem
sitive to world opinion. Mr..
Hearst hazarded the guess that
the Soviet leaders were some
what disturbed by the impress
sions in America Of purposeful
belligerency and that it was
deemed desirable to ameliorate
the effects of some of the
speeches by the leaders made
for consumption inside Soviet
Russia.
Curiously enough, the most
favorable impression that Mr..
Hearst and his associates
formed about the Soviet rulers
was centered in the personality
of Marshal Zhukov. President
Eisenhower's friend OF war
days.
"Of all the four top men,"
said Mr.. Hearst. with whom
we talked. Marshal zhukov
was the most pleasant. He
received us alone except for our
interpreter guide. He greeted
us warmly when we arrived in
his Office at the National De-
tense Ministry. Here was the
old soldier who had been on
such friendly terms with Gen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Sheriff Gets His Man

SIDNEY, Neb. (P).-Sheriff
Bill Schulz has good memory
and keen eye.
Last June Dean Darling Of
Denver was given a ticket for
speeding in his truck. But he
ignored it.
Last weekend Sheriff
Schulz saw Darling in Sidney.
He MARCHED him over to
County Court where Darling
paid SIS and costs after plead
ing guilty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
7 Picked Up Bai|ing Out.
OF C-119, but One Dies
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, March /. - The
United States Air Force said a
twin-engined clio Flying Box
car crashed tonight, 10 miles
north of Ashiya Air Base on
Kyushu Island.
A spokesman said all seven
men aboard bailed out over
water and were picked up by
rescue crews. One man died
later. @
The spokesman said he did not
know If any Of those aboard
were passengers. or whether all
were crew members.
Names we're withheld.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Snow Brings ChuckIes

ELY. New. (P.-Workers dug
for hours Sunday night to free a
big truck snowbound by bliz-
card on Murray Summit south of
here. But they chuckled as they
| worked.
The truck was loaded with
$500 pounds of artificial snow
en- route to Sun Valley, Idaho,
for a movie snow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Arthritis Kills Giraffe

OKLAHOMA CITY Up
The Lincoln Park Zoos $4,000
giraffe died yesterday of a
combination of Gripping ar
Thrills and a broken shoulder
cap.
The 2-year-old female.
shipped from Africa, was treat
ed with cortisone but failed
to respond. Zoo Director
Julian Frazier had fashioned
a special hoist to suspend the
giraffe in the air to ease the
pain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Juror Nailed Up

PITTSBURGH (P.-A Juror
in a murder trial was excused
from further duty yesterday be-
cause he accidentally swallowed
a lathe nail.
Chester A. McKibben, a plas-
terer, told the court he Swal-
lowed the nail last week end
while court was in recess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

and who are financing the
propaganda campaign.
Those who are familiar with
natural gas and Its economics
forecast a rough time for the
consumer If dig oil gets away
with this one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
ice Appoints JeIsmo
As Statistical Chief
BY the Associated Press

The Interstate Commerce
Commission has announced the
appointment of Edward r. Jels-
ma. 80, as the new director Of
ICES Bureau of Transport Eco
Monies and Statistics.
Mr.. Jelsma has been the trans
portation specialist for the Sem
ate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee since 1949. At ICC. he
will succeed DR.. w. H. S. Stevens,
who retired as statistical director
yesterday after 80 years of Gov
eminent service.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-07-01

country, there seemed to be wide
spread conviction that even though
the anti-Peron revolt had collapsed,
it had been at least successful in
serving as a sharp warning to the
Peron regime that he was tread
ing on dangerous ground in setting
himself in opposition to the Church
to which the great majority of the
people belong.
Peace oserturex Seen
There have already been some
indications that the government is
making peace overtures toward
the Church. The first step was re-
ported to have been an invitation
to Archbishop Mario Zanin, Papal
Nuncio to Argentina, to confer with
Foreign Minister Jeronimo Remor-
ino at the latter's private residence
here.
In the meantime, the peronist
press called halt to its attacks
on the Church and it was announc-
ed that all the priests arrested
since November for "disrespect"
toward the regime had been set
free.
One of the most recent actions of
the Argentine Congress had been
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-07-01
Executive Urges
Industry to Aid
Private Schools

MILWAUKEE-(NC) - I'VE rec
ognize the great contributions of
the large tax supported universe
ties but we do not believe that
education is primarily matter for
the state nor that it can be safely
left to the state" John L. McCaff-
rey, president of International Har-
vester Company, said here Monday.
Mr.. McCaffrey spoke at testi-
monial civic dinner given by the
Milwaukee Association of Com
merce in honor of Marquette Uni.
versity's 18th anniversary celebra-
ton.
Admirable as the unsupported
universities may be, it is absolute
ly essential that a vigorous and
flourishing system of independent
colleges and universities be main.
tanned" he said.
Private schools must have fhe
help of industry If they are TO
meet the rising costs of edUea.
tion, Mr.. Mecaffrey added. Tui-
fion increases, averaging 70 per
cent since 1910, have not provid-
ed sufficient income, and stu
dents have been diverted TO tax
supported schools through eco.
nomie necessity.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-07-01
Pope Defends
Labor's Right
To Organize

VATICAN CITY - NC) -
Catholic social teaching fully
supports the right of workers
to organize unions to defend
their just claims and improve
their standard of living.
His Holiness Pope Plus XII
told this to 10000 railroad
men at an audience in St.
Peters BaSilica.
In his speech the Holy Father
hailed the increasing strength of
the Italian Catholic labor move
ment.
He warned against the danger of
overemphasizing material life and
ignoring the soul.
He urged Christian workers to
help their misled and non-Chris-
tian brothers to speak to them
"with the strength of your convic-
tion and example"
Regarding the workers right to
organize, the Pope said:
mo true Christian can find
fault IL you unite in strong or
sanizstions TO defend your rights
while remaining aware of your
dufies-snd 10 arrive at the i'm.
provement of your living eondi-
tions.
ION the contrary, precisely be-
cause of the harmonious action OF
all groups in the state is Chris
tian duty, no individual citizen
ought to become a victim of ar
arbitrary act or the tyranny Of
others. You are therefore acting il
full conformity with the Church''
social teaching when by all means
morally permissible you vindicat'
your just rights"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-07-01

and representing 2,000,00 citizens,
could take heart in the fact that
the Legislature passed several i'm
portant bills, including one which
provides for an intensified mental
health program At the same time,
there were some major setbacks-
the most important of which was
the Legislatures failure to enact a
law requiring prior censorship Of
motion pictures.
In q move to modernize and
enlarge ohio's mental hospitals,
the Assembly authorized an cleo
tion on q S150-miIlion bond issue,
half of which will be used for
building program for mental
and correctional insfit Vt ions.
This issue will be voted upon in
the November election.
In addition, the solons allocated
$10-miIlion which for two years
will provide increased salaries for
staff members of these institutions,
and will provide funds for hiring
additional specialists.
The "open shop" or "right-to-
work bill" which the OCWC had
opposed, died in a Senate Commit
tee. The bishops had opposed the
measure in behalf of the laboring
man, because the bill, although
aimed at checking the abuses of
labor organizations, might also un-
dermine the collective bargaining
principle.
Catholics throughout the state
could be heartened by the passage
of a bill which gives county COM
missioners the right to enter into
contracts with private hospital cor
porations in order to float bond
issues for the construction of hos
pitals. Another measure, pleasing
to all churches, regulates charita-
BILE solicitations in order to prevent
possible fraud.
The Steam Boiler Bill, which
would have cost Catholic schools
and churches in the state an esti-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-07-01

The sermon at the Solemn Mass
commemorating the signing of the
UN Charter here ten years ago was
preached by Father Joseph d. Mu-
nier, professor of Catholic Social
Principles at St. Patrick's Semi
nary, Menlo Park, Cal.
Father Mvnier said, mo senv-
inc Catholic can be either a pi.
Gus individUa!ist or righteous
isoIationist, because such per-
son, whether he intends il or
not, is an international anareh.
isf who has lost faith in the fun
damentsl Christian doct ines
which underlie international or
ganization. namely, the doctrines
of the unity of the human race
and the brotherhood of man."
In his sermon, Father Munier
traced the teachings of the Popes
that international organization is
oneNof the prime requisites for
world peace, and pointed out that
the present Holy Father has ac-
cepted the UN as a partial recog-
milton of an international commun-
ity.
Father Munier went on to say:
Besides co-exiStence in truth,
Catholic teaching insists that the
corporal works of mercy are indis'
pensable to unity and peace in the
world community. The Holy Father
says that the relief of tensions
caused by hunger, sickness and
poverty must be the immediate
aim of the Christian will to peace. y
1T might be we'll for some peo-
pile to wake up TO the fact that
communism is not the only OBJ
strucfion between mankind and q
secure peace. II all the commun-
lists of every race were miraeu.
Iously converted or eliminated
during this coming week. the
! world revolution for liberation
from misery would not stop. The
hungry, sick and desperate mil
lions Of the world would still dis
tUrb our peace and with every
right"
Father Munier suggested five re
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-07-01

housing IS children. On the first
floor are dining and study areas,
living room, kitchen, Isvsfory and
closets, and a sheltered play
area. The second floor has five
bedrooms with three beds in
each room and one large bath.
A bedroom for the house mother
with connecting bath 10 the
adjoining unit is also provided.
Storage, work ard play areas are
located on the ground floor.
The south wing will have two
units or apartments, each housing
is children, ranging in age from
two TO six years old. The units
will contain living, play, and din.
ing areas, kitchen, kindergarten,
a room for the house mother. and
dressing space for the youngsters.
The ground floor will house the
central laundry, sewing room, lin
en- and clothing storage.
Construction of the north wing
will proceed first without disturb
ing the existing plant. This will
provide housing for the children
and part of the staff. Details of fu-
ture dlsmantling and construction
have not yet been determined.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-07-01
Wednesday Is
Camp Night
At Jet Stadium,

The fifth annual Catholic
Camp Night will be held at Jet
Stadium, Wednesday, July 6,
when the Columbus Jets meet
the Rochester Red Wings. Game
time is 8:l5 p. m. Proceeds from
the sale of all tickets will bene-
fit the diocesan youth program.
A preliminary game starting
at 500 p. m. will take place be-
tween the championship st.
Agatha elementary club and an
all-star team composed of play
ers from top teams in other ele-
mentary leagues.
Tickets may be obtained from
all Holy Name Society members
or they may be purchased at the
stadium the night of the game.