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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-07

the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket
would be renominated. It was
said also that the President is
now accepted as the leader Of a
political party as well as the
leader Of the Nation.
School was opened promptly
at 9 am. by Mr.. Humphreys. The
first hour was devoted to q forum
on the 1856 campaign, with Mr..
Hall, Senator Goldwater of
Arizona. chairman Of the Re-
publican Senatorial Committee,
and Representative Simpson Of
Pennsylvania, chairman of the
Republican Congressional Com
mittee. as members of the panel
and with George L. Hart, jr.
chairman Of the District of Co
ilumbia Republican Committee
as moderator. State chairmer
were given an opportunity tc
state their views and to ask
Questions.
The days activities for the
State chairmen will wind up with
a reception in their honor, giver
by National Chairman Hall fol
the representatives Of the press
radio and television at tn,
Sheraton Park Hotel, schoo
headquarters.
The school will run through
Friday, and then the Statl
chairmen will be taken in {
chartered plane to Denver. tt
breakfast with Mr.. Eisenhower
at the Brown Palace Hotel, anc
hear a talk by Mr.. Eisenhower
They are hoping for some cleal
indication that Mr.. Eisenhower
] will be their presidential candi.
+idate next year.
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Let There Be Liqht

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. P.--
Light meters are part Of police
equipment here now. The city
council ordered that the once
dimly lit cocktail lounges be kept
light enough for patrons to read
newspapers. Police were given
the meters and told to enforce
the order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
Democratic Chiefs End Efforts
To Force State Roads Probe

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Mar. 80 LP)
Democratic leaders admitted
today they had all but given up
on an attempt to push a bill fol
a legislative probe of the Mary
land Roads Commission through
the Senate.
Majority Leader Turnbull,
Democrat of Baltimore County,
said his finance committee had
reversed itself and voted 8-6
against House measure to set
up a 10-man committee of dele
gates and Senators to conduct
the probe.
The committee earlier this ses-
sion had approved a similar bill
introduced in the Senate but it
failed on three attempts at final
passage after it hit the floor.
Mr.. Turnbull said there was
hardly any" chance that he
and other hackers of the bill
would bring it up again before
the scheduled end of the session
next Monday.
Turn to Budget Measure
With this issue-one of the
most controversial and time con-
Stunning of the 1855 session Of
the legislature-behind them,
they turned full attention to the
$3.50 million budget bill and ways
of raising the money for it.
A batch of amendments greet
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600 was taken from the suggested
half = million dollar cushion
fund" of the Board of Public
Works.
Mr.. Kimble proposed that
nearly all of the $54,588 cut from
proposals be slapped back on.
AS majority leader and chair
man of the finance committee
which agreed on the reductions
with the House Ways and Means
Committee, Senator Turnbull will
draw the assignment of opposing
attempts to restore the cuts.
Will Conduct Hearings
Meanwhile, he also will be con-
Quoting hearings for several more
days on two major plans for pro-
ducing the money to meet the
cost of running the government
for the fiscal year beginning
July /.
One of these, proposed by Gov.
McKeldin. calls for boosting sales
and income taxes and putting the
collection of income taxes on a
Withholding basis at the start of
the fiscal year.
Senator Turnbull and House
Majority Leader Boone came up
with an alternate plan. They
would lower the sales tax base
from items costing at least 81
cents to those down to II cents. |
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Preachers blast Democratic Senator Nicely for crczng
Ikes churchgoing political Nicely threw such terrific
Sunday punch it Tuesday before he realized
hit himself WITH
Even Joe Mccarthy defends against by DEM
ocrac Senator Nicely Joes motto: Don't dare that
fellow in the White House. seen him frst!"
Ousted Russian Premier Maenkov is reported touring
Siberian plants The comrades going
they send to the chair they let him pick
switch.
Ike splits with his military advisers question war
with Red China. Republicans applaud They say few
Presidents get drafted to while running draft.
Churchill the international situation has taken
friendly turn Things cozy that out in Nevada
they explode the A-bombs pairs
Expected from Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson to
Democratic Senator Nicely Application club
rejected Members must always reserve for
future USE"
Military services plan to the number of generals
and admrals while cutting enlisted strength were
ordered to increase efciencyso they're doubling brass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

planned aggression against
Formosa.
A conference Of the Big
Four would bring out much
more positively the immediate
intentions Of the Moscow-Pei-
ping axis. The British govern
ment is said to feel that if the
Communists show at such a
gathering the same turbulence.
duplicity and arrogance as at
previous meetings there may
be an awakening in Britain and
Canada which would make
American-British cooperation
easier.
The same can be said about
Germany, where the increas-
ingly powerful Socialist Party
hopes to bring about a union
with East Germany by agree
ment between the victors of
the last war now that the
Federal Parliament has rati-
fed the Paris agreement.
In France the clamor for q
Big -Four parley has been loud
and the Paris treaties were
finally ratified only after Pre-
mier Edgar Faure gave posi-
tive assurances that the next
step would be meeting of the
Western powers and Russia.
We are in the position Of the
horse that is being taken to
the trough but cannot be
forced to drink unless we find
the water agreeable. But our
leadership hopes that in the
event the conference is mega
tive we can expect a better at
titude from our allies.
The uncomfortable feeling
that nothing good can come
out of a new conference is
heightened by statements in
Moscow by no lesser person
than Marshal Klementi Voro-
shilov. Much was made of
Premier Bulganin's intimation
last week that he now favored
meeting with the West. But
on Saturday the President of
the USSR. who nominally Is
Bulganin's superior, sang an
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Washington and at the reg
ular Governors conference
this summer.
Mr.. Stevenson, in contrast,
is a completely private citizen
whose opportunities must be
made for him by his support
ers. He is also described as
much less sure that it will be
possible to defeat Mr.. Eisen-
hover.
He has in the past described
Mr.. Hartman as 1.-The perfect
public servant" Thus, if he
yielded to him in the end, it
would be with good grace.
In the public eye, Adlai
Stevenson remains the prin-
cipal voice, and the most elo-
quent. of the Democratic Party.
To the young voter in partic-
ular he has immense appeal.
He can have denomination to-
day if he wants it.
But a policy of drift and
lndecision is dangerous to a
Stevenson candidacy when a
New York challenger is in the
wings. The politicians will
want to know where they
stand, and Mr.. DeSapio is in
a much better position to tell
them right now than Mr..
Mitchell Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

They also would tax cigarettes
2 cents a pack and apply the
sales levy to more items. These
would include restaurant meals,
all machinery and industrial
materials bought outside the
State, leased motor vehicles tires
used by taxicab and transit COM
panies, soaps, detergents and
other household items.
Would Double Up Payments
Like Gov McKeldin, they also
would begin collecting the income
tax on a pay-as-you-go basis
starting July /. This actually
would mean doubling up some
collections because some tax
payers still would be paying their
1854 taxes under the old quar-
terly installment plan.
MIR. Boone's Ways and Means
Committee and Mr.. Turnbull's
finance group were scheduled to
hear the State financial officials
give their opinions today on the
withholding plan. High-ranking
members of the controllers staff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
Doubtful Time for Biz 4 Talks
BreostBeotlng Speech by VoroshiIov Further Indicates
Ihot Four-Power Conference Connot Bring Peoce
Constantine Brown

Are we on the threshold of
a new era" of peace and
brotherly love among the peo-
pies of the world now that
another Big Four conference
appears likely? Will the wolf
and lamb become congenial
bedfellows? Will the din of
saber rafting cease as a result
Of a high-level parley?
These questions, and a good
many others. are answered
with a Who knows?" by tired
diplomats and political men
in Washington who have ex-
perienced the travail of inter-
national conferences for many
years.
But these people add that a
meeting-poSsibly the last in
this high tension period
should be held, if for no other
purpose than to strengthen the
weakened fabric of the free
world alliances.
AS things stand now. each
of the major allies in the West
is pulling in a different direc-
ton. The British government,
while understanding our pol
lcies in the Far East and Sc
cretly sympathizing with them,
IS compelled to adopt openly a
different attitude because of
public opinion.
The British people have been
indoctrinated since the end of
the war with the idea of APP
peasement and neutralism,
They believe that their sur
vival depends principally on
prosperous international trade.
And they want their govern
n1ent to break down the bar
riers to what they consider as
prospects for juicy dealings
with the more than 900 million
people behind the Iron Curtain.
The British find "adven-
lures" in Asia distasteful be-
cause OF the possibility of hav-
ing to deal with several sep
arate Chinese governments If
the Peiping regime should run
into an unhappy ending in its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
Dorothy Thompson
0e0I17Z 117C111E7sOT1-
For Propaganda or Settlement?
Four-Power Conference Will Further Widen the Rift
Unless Al! Parties Sincerely Want to Compronise

Whether or not it Is desir-
able to hold another four
power conference at the
highest level" depends en-
tirely on whether the govern
ments of these powers have
anything they wish to discuss.
That seems a self-evident, re-
mark, but as diplomacy is
presently conducted it is by
no means self-evident.
There is only one conceiv-
able purpose in calling a con-
ference during great interna-
tional tension and that is to
try to reach a settlement
which will end or greatly re-
duce the tensions. But this
cannot be achieved unless all
participants earnestly desire
to reach this goal, and each is
willing to give careful and OBJ
jective attention to the views
of the other in the hope of
reaching a solution reasonably
satisfactory to all.
If two sides are represented
and each has already reached
q decision fundamentally in
acceptable to the other, which
neither is willing to reconsider
or modify, a conference be-
comes a verbal battle-ground
directed to convincing world
opinion that one or the other
has the whole right of the
argument-in short it merely
provides a propaganda plat
form. BY such procedures riffs
are deepened, not bridged, and
the cause Of peace cannot be
served.
In the cold war lineup be-
tween the Communist bloc and
the so-called free world, each
represents itself as encompass
ing the forces of light as OPP
posed to the forces of dark
ness. This leaves no room for
discussing such practical mat
tiers as that of war and peace,
and mutual security. The
conflict is. in this view, essen
TALLY theological.
Such view turns politics
(and wars) into crusades for
the achievement of the mil
lenium, and can only lead to
Armageddon no matter how
many military truces may
temporarily be arranged. 1t is
popular with minimizing masses
because it appeals to their
dual instincts of idealism and
aggressiveness. We, however,
happen to think the view is
quite crazy and blasphemous
to boot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

We know of no state or
society which can justly claim
to represent the Kingdom of
God on earth, or to have the
key to the ultimate unfolding
of history. And the view is
not compatible with the fact
of the hydrogen bomb, which,
it seems to me, no statesman,
with the possible exception of
Churchill. has even begun to
grasp fully and Intellectually.
The chief source of tension
in Europe is the future of Ger
many. The Russians have
taken the unequivocal position
that a West Germany armed
as a member of a Western
military alliance including the
United States Is a hostile act.
warlike in its very nature, and
precluding the possibility of
ever reuniting that tragically
divided country.
The United States, reluc-
family followed by Britain and
France. has taken the stand
that West Germany, whether
the country is ever reunited
or not, must produce an army
integrated into the Western
military alliance.
Now, if the United States is
permanently hardened on this
policy which precludes other
possible solutions, nothing can
be accomplished by a confer
ence, since unconditional sur
render is not subject to nego-
tiation. Successful negotiation
demands a mediant idea. And
unless a mediant idea energies,
sooner or later, war is indicated.
The same can be said of
the Formosa crisis, where two
separate issues are involved:
The status of Formosa as a unit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

in American Pacific defense,
and the quite unrelated status
of the Chinese Nationalist gov
eminent. If these issues were
separated, 1t might be possible
to effect a war-avoiding COM
promise. Otherwise, peace de-
ponds entirely on calculations
of risks. Both the United States
and Red China are committed
to taking the risk, and there
fore. unless Red China is bluff
ing or even if she is, a con-
ference is futile, since 1t as
sumes that one or the other
will surrender without the test
of war.
A conference has no value
apart from the only purpose
which justifles it's converting:
A sincere desire on all sides
to compromise differences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
Dofis Feeson-
Hartman Versus Stevenson
DeSopio and Mitchell in Contest to See Which M
Will Provide Portys 1855 Presidential Nominee

deeply wants to be President.
He also says he believes-and
he gives every appearance of
sincerity-that President Eli
senhoWer can be beaten as
readily as any other Republi-
can nominee.
Mr.. Mitchell is again work.
ing with a. reluctant dragon.
1t is simply not in Mr.. Steven
sons character to demand re-
nomination or to act as if it
were his due. He has been
devoting himself to the private
practice of law, and a speech
for the General Federation of
Women's Clubs this spring is
almost the only engagement
his political friends have been
able to induce him to accept.
What he has rejected so
far is a withdrawal in Mr..
Harriman's favor. Yet there
are people here who know
both men well who think that,
by his sheer fervor, Mr.. Har-
riman is pulling ahead of Mr..
Stevenson.
In the New York governor
ship, Mr.. Hartman also has
a launching platform. He will
make the most of 1t at
the conference of Democratic
Governors this spring in
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/ ed the bulky message as it
reached the Senate floor after
clearing the House without pro-
longed discussion. The money
committees of both Houses had
agreed on cuts totalling just a
shade over $1A million, and
the Delegates went along with
these recommendations after
voting down attempts to restore
about one-third of this amount.
But Senators Phoebus, Re-
publican, of Somerset; Good
man, Democrat, of Baltimore,
and Kimble. Republican, of AL
leghany, quickly offered amend
ments in the Senate to put the
measure back into virtually the
same form in which it was SUBJ
mitted by Republican Gov. Nc
Keldin.
Would Restore Health Items
Mr.. Goodman said he was for
restoring nearly everything
they (the committees) cut out of
the Health Department, mental
hygiene and Board of Public
Works" budget items.
The biggest slice of this
$345,572-came from the Depart
ment of Mental Hygiene recon-
mendations. Another $129,224
was clipped off the Health De-
partment proposals. Some $780,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
Dovid lawrence
NeeIy's Criticism of President
Democratic Porty Accused of Trying to Undermine
Confidence of American People in Eisenhower
David Lawrence

The Democratic Party, which
is in control of both Houses
of Congress. may not be aware
of the impression which it is
conveying to the country, but,
now that about three months
of the present session have
elapsed. it is apparent that the
main objective of most of the
Democrats is to undermine
confidence in President Eisen-
hover.
1t is a new experience for
Dwight Eisenhower to be &C
cused by a United States Sen
ator of "parading his reli-
gion."
1t sa new experience for
the man who commanded the
allies armies in Europe to be
made the subject of attempted
ridicule by a United States
Senator who raises an issue
because two or three squirrels
were prevented from running a
putting green that the Presi-
dent uses to get the exercise
which his physician prescribes.
1t is a new experience for
the President to have a Demo-
cratic Party spokesman hint to
audiences that there is some
thing wrong with the health of
Mrs. Eisenhower which might
cause the President not to run
in 1956-as if this, too, were
a proper subject for political
discussion.
But the net effect of it all is
to awaken a suspicion that
maybe the Democratic Party
speakers think they must first
destroy the prestige of the
President and that then they
will carry the next election.
Not long ago the Congress
voted itself an increase in pay,
and it was a deserved increase,
but it will not set well with the
people If members of Congress
give cumulative impression of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

week, but they uncover the
fact that squirrels have been
damaging the putting green.
Mr.. Eisenhower should not be
accused of "parading" these
things. That's the normal
everyday initiative of the press
as it reports on matters of
reader interest.
But for United States Sem
ators to take up these Incl
dents and magnify them for
political purposes is to assume
that the voters will accept such
Misrepresentation.
What Senator Nicely said
tends to bring the United
States Senate into disrepute-
to revive phrase that was
heard last autumn when an
other United States Senator
said some sharp things about
an Army general who refused to
answer questions clearly in a
congressional committee hear
ing. 1t is a safe bet, however.
that no spokesman of Ameri-
cas- left wing" in the Senate
will rise to demand that Sem
ator Nicely be "censured" or
condemned" for his intem-
perate remark. Those things,
aren't suggested when a cleft
wing" Senator begins to swing
wildly against the President of
the United States.
The impression conveyed by
these Democrats is that they
are not seriously concerned
with the business of the Amer
lean people but only with
headline hunting and the tech
niques of ridicule and personal
attack, The voters will not be
misled into accepting this form
of political warfare as a sub
stitute for the service the
Democrats ought to be render
ing to their constituents in the
84th Congress.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
Doris FIeeson-

NEW YORk.-At this point.
the fight for the Democratic
nomination for President next
year is taking place between
two men who are not them
selves candidates.
Tammany Leader Carmine
DeSapio is working every day
In every way to secure first
place on the ticket for Gov.
Averell Hartman. In particu-
lar he is trying to build a bloc
of the big States which carry
so much weight in conventions
of both parties.
Former National Chairman
Stephen Mitchell has begun an
intensive effort to put the
South, Midwest and West be-
hind Adlai Stevenson. 1t takes
a good many of those States to
counteract New York alone;
nonetheless a candidate is
better off who can claim a
geographically widespread &C
ceptance in contrast to the
backing of a few big States
which could lead to the cry of
"bossiSrn."
Mr.. DeSapio has one adj
vantage Mr.. Mitchell lacks.
The New York candidate is
eager and cooperative. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30
can People in Eisenhower

being concerned with personal
attacks on the man in the
White House rather than with
the progress of legislation
needed to advance the Nations
welfare.
1t was Senator Nelly of
West Virginia, Democrat, who
throughout the campaign last
autumn bitterly attacked Mr..
Eisenhower. and now the
Senator selects the convention
of the CLIO union, the United
Auto Workers, as the place to
criticize Mr.. Eisenhower for
having lately joined a church.
Mr.. Nicely, according to an
Associated Press dispatch this
week from Cleveland. said:
Eisenhower never joined a
church until after he became
President. -. Now it has
reached the point that one of
the great papers of the coun-
try every Monday morning
carries a story about Eisen-
hower's attendance at church
the day before -.
ANY man who tries to pa
rade his religion that way be-
fore the public is ungodly. If
that's an unreasonable and
unfair statement, then make
the most of it."
Here was a calculated and
deliberate attack on the per-
sonal side of the President.
Whether he joins church as
a member and whereas a
military man, he has moved
about considerably-is his own
business. Certainly nobody
with the least knowledge about
public life can for a moment
believe that Mr.. Eisenhower or
any other President "parades"
his religion Just because the
newspapermen report where
he goes on Sundays or any
other day. They report not
only on his attendance or nom
attendance at church each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

have already indicated they 40.
prove of 1t.
The ways and means unit also
was reported ready to vote today
on a bill calling for an investi-
CATION of the contract under
which the real estate firm of for
mer Roads Commissioner David
M. Nichols split a ia per cent
fee for acquiring Baltimore Har-
Dor tunnel rights of way. d.
The bill-sponsored by Dele
gate Cannon. Democrat, Of Wi.
comico-would give the attorney
general power to conduct the
probe, complete with subpoena
powers.
Mr.. Nichols is named in the
measure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

other tune. His speech before
the Supreme Soviet Council
was broadcast only to the pro.
vincial press.
Voroshilov said: I'm defend
ing the just cause Of peace, the
Soviet people cannot fail to
take into account that there
exist in the world reactionary
and aggressive forces striving
to unleash a new war. These
forces are headed by American
multimillionaires. It is they
who preach a policy of strength
and impede the easing Of in
ternational tension. It is they
who want to restore German
militarism and wreck Ger
many's unif1cation. They have
occupied Taiwan and other
Chinese islands. giving direct
military support to the Chang
clique. They have set up ag-
gressive blocs in Europe and
Asia and military bases all
over the world"
OF course the ''multimil.
lionaires" who are guilty of
these crimes are the American !,
Government itself, the very
same people with whom Mos
COW expects to deal at the con-
ference table.
After extolling the peace
loving qualities Of the Soviet
people and their government
who by their nature, princi-
pies and ideologies firmly and
immutably stand for peace
the Soviet leader added: I'VE
cannot be intimidated by IA
bleS that in another world war
civilization will perish. We
know that if the imperialists
once more unleash a war it is
not civilization but the CAPT.
talist system-which has al
ready had its day-that will
perish"
These are Illuminating words
which throw a realistic light
on Bulganin's alleged willing
ness to settle the present world
tension at Big Four confer
ence. ~