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Evening star., 1955-07-04
DORIS FLEESON
Groundwork Laid for Presidential Boom
For Senator Johnson Comes to Nouqht

The doctors at the Naval
Medical Center say that they
are going to keep Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon
johnson in their custody for
ian unknown period" Wheth-
er they can keep him away
from visitors and the tele-
phone remains to be seen. His
wife seldom could when he has
been i'll. ~
The Senate fortunately is
over the hump Of its years
work. A few days ago Senator
johnson announced that the
leaders were putting pressure
on committee chairmen to
complete major bills. He indi-
Gated that once these were
disposed of, they would not
hold Congress in session. ADJ
journment, he thought. might
come by July 80.
Democrats expect to adhere
to that schedule. A !. few
sticky" matters remain-the
reserve bill, for instance-but
most really controversial is
sues will be, If possible, post
poned.
The immediate political cas-
ualty Of Senator Johnson's
heart attack is personal. It is
the johnson boom for Presi-
dent which was doing fine.
The situation regarding it Is
Evening star., 1955-07-04

Turkey, our staunchest and
most reliable ally, Is In serious
financial trouble. Not only Is
It's budget unbalanced - a
situation by no means un-
familiar to us-but It cannot
meet Its payments abroad.
Turkey has serious imitation.
It's pound. ofiicially pegged at
2.85 to the dollar. sells in the
black market In Istanbul at
between 8 and 9 and at an
even lower rate In Switzerland.
The Turkish government had
asked Washington for q loan
Of $500 million. After many
months Of discussion 1t was
granted 10 per cent Of the
amount. And "Rich Uncle
Sam" lectured his Turkish
nephew" that he has not been
careful In handling his A.
nances and that q number Of
tax resources. such as the pros
porous farmers, have not been
sufficiently tapped.
The nephew" replied that
he Is spending much more
than Americas other pro-
teges for military prepared
ness and is maintaining q
combat force ready for action
considerably larger than that
of any other individual mem
Der Of the NATO. This re-
markable military force can
be considered by America ac-
tually as q United States army
because Of It's willingness to
fight wherever necessary.
Turkey also pointed out
that it has to pay sizable
amounts (for that impover-
ished government) as pensions
to families Of thousands of
casualties in the Korean war.
Our officials recognize the
heavy burdens on the Ankara
treasury but continue to main
tain. that it has husbanded its
resources poorly and needed
none of the fatherly counsels
Of the FOA representatives.
It is very true the Turks
have not been careful house,
keepers. But neither have the
French whose taxation system
may be modern but whose coll
lections are even more sporadic
and political" than in Turkey.
Yet we have never denied any
thing to our French allies
who are far less than co-opera-
tive in the international mill
tary and political fields. Last
year we helped the French in
Indo-C China alone to the tune
Of 81 billion. Most Of that
amount went down the drain.
Only a few days ago Con.
gress authorized the expendi-
ture of $3.2 billion for foreign
military and economic assist
ance. For high policy reasons
and against their better judg-
ment the Senate and House
approved about $3.50 million
in economic assistance to In.
dia and Yugoslavia. The heads
OF both republics, Messrs
Nehru and Tito, are definitely
cuddling up to Moscow ano
have indorsed unreservedly the
Kremlin's foreign policie.
aimed against us. Many Sen.
ators and Representatives de.
clared privately that they hele
their noses when they votet
for those authorizations. But
Evening star., 1955-07-04

a perfect illustration Of the
accidental nature of politics.
The groundwork laid for it
was not accidental at all. In
1852. the Senator from Texas
deliberately sought the leader
ship job which had proved q
jinx to his immediate prede-
cessors, Ernest Mcfarland and
Scott Lucas. In a foretaste Of
his methods he had the votes
before the Senator'S even re-
turned to Washington.
Since then he has skillfuAy
built a Democratic center party
in the Senate. His masterpiece
was persuading senior Demo-
Gratis to forego their seniority
claims in part so that every
Democrat, including freshmen,
got q major committee. On
that foundation he has built
his impressive displays Of
unity. In 1854 he won re-elec-
ton easily.
Senator johnson is, Of
course, a natural candidate for
President on the record he has
so greatly influenced. His boom
has been coming along on
schedule and was given a push
last week when he engaged
President Eisenhower in a
partisan skirmish. Suddenly.
he must retire from active duty
Evening star., 1955-07-04
DAVID LAWRENCE

What constitutes Q good po-
ntical issue-and which party
Is right In appraising the mood
Of the American people? This
question has Just been crystal
lized In the attitude taken by
political leaders of both parties
toward the problem Of Govern
ment ownership Of all electric
power facilities.
In Britain the public owner
ship fever, known as nation
alization Of industry" has
about run its course as the
Conservatives found out In
their recent election victory.
But in the United States there
are evidently leaders Of the
Democratic Party who think
they can strike pay dirt" in
the issue Of public power. SEN
ator Kefauver, Democrat, Of
Tennessee, is the leader Of the
public power side and Senator
Knowland, Of California. Re-
publican, is asserting that the
American people would never
approve Government owner
ship Of electric power as q ma
tional policy.
This Is not q new contro-
versy-for it was Senator Nor
ris Of Nebraska, Independent.
and originally a progressive
Republican, who a few decades
ago insisted that the Federal
Government appropriate funds
to improve navigation and
effectuate a system of food
control on the Tennessee river.
It was argued then that this
was a legitimate Federal pur-
pose and that the by-product--
electric power-was incidental.
The issue went to the Supreme
Court of the United States
which decided that the Fed
eral Government had the ar-
thority to construct such prof.
ects as flood control and i'm
proyement Of navigation.
But as the years have gone
by, what was incidental at the
beginning-the generation Of
electric power-has become
primary now. The advocates Of
Government ownership of elec-
trio power when faced a few
years ago in the Tennessee
river with a seasonal short
age of water for electrical
power purposes. began to urge
Evening star., 1955-07-04
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Areas of Free Will Diminish

1t requires personal decisions.
For there is no freedom with
out free will: there Is no will
without decision, and there Is
no free decision that Is not di-
rected by conscience and in
telligence. No free decision re-
suits from external pressures
or temptations.
Freedom, q grace like faith
and love, demands courage,
which is a virtue. It demands
generosity, liberality. largeness
Of spirit. Bigotry uuenches it.
It burns brightest In austerity
for, like love. 1t demands re-
nunciations. It is akin to light
and. therefore to candor. The
free man Is marked by forth
rightness and courtesy. Sloth
Is its enemy. The torch is held
aloft only by spiritual muscle.
Freedom demands confidence
in itself, and inspires conf
dence. It is no grace Of the
mistrustful, who peer into
dirty corners because they
cannot endure light.
Freedom promises no ma
terial rewards. It starts as q
gift; it Is retained as an earned
title Of nobility.
No man or nation can give
another freedom. They can
only stand out of their broth
ers' light. For freedom is q
torch to enlighten. not as q
fire to destroy. It does not
spread by force. but by light.
Yet light itself is O force and
power, transmitting all things,
The men and societies that
most fully grasp and live up to
the meaning and requirements
Of freedom will create the fu-
ture. They will be the most
virile, manly. self-reliant.
II the torch diminishes to
the light Of a candle, 1t is still
stronger than darkness.
The free can be calm.
Evening star., 1955-07-04
Turkey, In Serious FinoncioI Trouble,
Gets Only 10% of Loan Sought in u. S.

they fell into line 50 as not to
cause trouble to the admins
tration in its handling Of for
eign affairs.
The stand taken by the
White House and State De-
partment Is that we must give
wholeheartedly to everybody.
regardless Of what the present
policies Of the governments Of
the needy nations may be. By
the same token, it Is not inn
possible (the matter Is now
being discussed in middle
echelons In the adminiStra-.
tion) to see q request that We
send wheat from our vast sur
pluses to the Chinese Com
munists. The argument Is that
the helpless people themselves
must not be punished because
Of their governments.
The Turks are not asking
the United States for q
grant" or a loan without In
terest repayable at some un-
certain distant time. They
have presented sheets Of facts
and figures which. they main
tain. should amply prove they
want only an accommodation
loan and viii repay it with
interest.
The past demonstrates that
the Ankara government means
what it says. It paid to the
last cent in gold the old Otto
man debt-the vast amount
borrowed and spent by the cor
rupt and inefficient Sultans on
their own luxuries. The re-
public which replaced the Sui
tanate could have easily re-
Evening star., 1955-07-04

It is impossible to think Of
the birth of our Nation except
as an action for human free
dom. American patriotic lit
erature, our national hymns
and anthems. the remembered
addresses of statesmen, the
inscriptions on monuments
and public buildings avow, as
do those Of no other country.
that ours is the land Of the
free.
The Declaration Of Inde-
pendence, stepping beyond the
presentation Of q bill Of griev-
ances to justify the sepafa-
ton of the American colonies
from the British Crown, pro-
claimed q universal axiom. ap-
plicable to all men in all time:
All men are born equal and
are endowed with liberty and
the right to seek happiness.
The national beginnings de-
veloped q sense of universal
mission--the mission to ex-
tend the frontiers Of freedom
to embrace all mankind. The
Nation was conceived in lib
erty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
created equal" - and equality
meant the equal right to free
dom. American liberty holds
aloft q torch Ito enlighten the
world" Visitors to the Plym-
outh Rock monument are ex-
horted not to rest until reli-
gious liberty is established
throughout the earth"
National liberty is trans
lated as elected, representa-
tive government, and free
dom from alien rule. Having
proclaimed the most world re-
sounding revolt from q colonial
status In such all-embracing
terms, we committed the COL
lectivity of our Nation. once
and for all. against colonialism,
But we also conceived free
dom as a legacy to every sep
arate person. We were to be
self-governed, members Of
republican state. submissive
1nly to laws made by elected
Evening star., 1955-07-04
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Lectured by Rich Uncle

neged on these loans as did, for
instance. the Communists altar
the overthrow Of the Czars.
Yet Ankara assumed the obli-
cations Of the old regime. II
appears that the Turkish gov
ernment's pleas were ignored
In Washington when q paltry
$50 million was offered to meet
the present situation.
On repeated occasions gov
ernment spokesnen have told
members Of Congress when
they pressed for further bill
lions for foreign nations: mo
country can bs militarily sound
while 1t Is In economic DIM
culties." That applies today
more than ever In regard to
Americas outpost In the Near
East right on the borders Of
our potential enemy, the
USSR. Turkey spends more
than go per cent Of its budget
on military preparedness to
keep ready for action 81 COM
bat divisions and q small but
effective air force.
It Is conceivable, say some
American military observers
who are impressed with the
value of the Turkish army,
that in order to solve its finan-
cial problems the Ankara gov.
eminent may be compelled to
cut down its military forces.
And this would be a blow not
only to the NATO's security
In the area but also to Amer
ica's influence in the whole
Near and Middle East. It,
would be said that the Turks.
Americas loyal and unflinch-
ing allies, to whom neutralism
is completely unknown, have
been abandoned by the United
States.
Evening star., 1955-07-04
Leaders of Both Parties Weigh Politics
OF Government Ownership Of Utilities

the appropriation Of Govern
ment money to build steam
plants to generate electricity.
Thus in time the Government
ownership supporters have
made no bones about their
original deception and have
come out boldly for federal
construction Of electric plants
Of all kinds.
Certainly the Government
can furnish electric power
more cheaply than private
companies If the latter are not
relieved Of taxes. The Govern
ment can sell anything to the
consumer more cheaply than
private enterprise If it wishes
to subsidize the projects. In
the case Of the Tennessee
Valley Authority. the Federal
Government Is collecting tax
money from taxpayers In every
part Of the country and using,
it to benefit the Tennessee
area alone. Some Of the textile
mills in the north have been
forced to shut down because
certain New England busi-
nesses have felt they could get
cheaper power near the TVA
In the south. That win hardly
make votes for the Democrats
in New England If they con-
stitute themselves the Gov
ernment ownership party.
But the issue goes deeper.
Why stop with electric power?
II thee Government can pro-
vide cheaper electric power for
certain areas and hide the
costs through nationally inn
posed taxes. why isn't it
logical to apply the principle
of Government ownership to
steel, to automobiles, to alum
mum, to airplanes, to rail-
roads, to farming and to food
distribution?
In Russia they have collec-
tive farms but the farmers
don't like the system. They
do manage to cut out profits
for the middleman. II the OBJ
ject is merely to have the Gov
ernment own everything then,
Of course, labor unions be-
come unnecessary, or at least
they become subject to Gov
ernment control and regula-
ton as well.
From a political viewpoint
Evening star., 1955-07-04
Denial Authorized

The Air Force has authorized
Republic Aviation Corp. to Is
sue a denial that the F-10S
fighter program has been drop
|ped" or that the F-84 program
will be "cut back" as stated In
the July 4 issue Of Time Maya
lzit1s.
Evening star., 1955-07-04
Freedom Is Costly and Continuing Burden;
Its Price Sometimes Has Been Mortyrdom

officials. with an executive ap-
pointed by, an elected Presi-
dent. courts responsible 10 no
person or party but to the law
itself, and with the right Of all
parties, interests, and ideas, to
contend for public support.
But in wide areas of public
and private life, we resisted,
and still resist, being exter-
nally governed at all. No nerve
in the American political body
has been more painfully sensi-
tive than the nerve Of civil Ii
berties-the liberties reserved
to the individual human per-
son. Our society changes and
develops. becomes increasingly
organized. interdependent. and
collectivist, especially in its
work processes; the individ-
ual becomes in many respects
de-personalized, a cog in q
corporate function.
The areas In which he can
exercise free will diminish. We
see the apparent paradox that
as national freedoms proclaim
themselves around the globe.
even among jungle savages,
personal freedoms retreat in
the most developed civiliza-
tions. and are suppressed even
in the name Of freedom. So we
are put to 1t to define the very
meaning Of freedom.
II we ponder this. do we not
find that we cannot set free
dom apart from other graces,
nor separate it from compul-
sorry virtues? II we are born
free, 1t does not follow that we
shall remain free, either as
individuals or q nation. Free
dom Is costly; its defense and
exercise is q continuing bur-
den: II without 1t the human
soul strangles for air. its price
has sometimes been martyr
dom.
The paradox In freedom is
that it includes freedom TO
abandon freedom. It is q birth
right that can be sold and
often has been.
Tat every point, In every life.
Evening star., 1955-07-04
Bus Crosh Kills Six

MEXICO CITY. July 4 R.-
six persons were killed and three
others seriously injured yester-
day in a bus accident near Apat-
zingan in the state Of Michoa-
can. officials said the speeding
bus crashed into a bridge and
some of the victims were hurled
into q river.
Evening star., 1955-07-04

SAIGON. South Wet Nam,
July 4 (R.-Wolf Ladejinsky de-
clared yesterday that Agricul-
ture Secretary Benson's action
in clearing him as o security
risk is q "belated but happy vim
dication Of the principles Of JUS
Itice and fair play on which
American democracy rests
Mr.. Ladejinsky is the Russian
born land reform expert whose
firing last December by the Ag-I
Iriculture Department as q secur-
Iity risk and subsequent rehring
Iby the Foreign Operations Ad-
ministration touched OF q po-
|litical furore over the security
system of the Eisenhower ad-I
|ministration.
Mr.. Ladejinsky, who was hired
|by the FOA In January to aid
the land reform program Wet
Nam, was visibly moved when
he learned Of MIR. Benson's ac-
Ition.
He had just returned from a
three-day trip with Wet Mans
lagrarian reform minister to the
south, where he observed the
start Of program which the
lViet Nam government hopes will
help defeat the Communists In
this part Of Asia. !
Hopes to Restore Morale
"I am extremely gratified at
Secretary Benson's action" he
said. II am naturally affected
by this episode in q personal
lway. but above all ! hope that
the lessons derived from it will
help restore the morale Of the
civil service and bring about a
security system which jealously
guards the fundamental rights
lof its citizens as well as the in
terests Of the state.
Il wish to thank the Amer
ican press and other media OF
public opinion for illuminating
and upholding the larger issues
which far transcend the ordeal
of q single individual. I have
q special debt of gratitude to
Clark Mollenhoff. reporter OF
the Des Moines Register, who
brought my case to public at
tention and continued untiring-
ly to cover 1t in the highest
traditions Of his profession.
II am equally indebted to
Congressman Walter Judd, who
FIRST saw the fundamental issues
Involved and defended them un-
lswervingly; to Senator Hubert
Humphrey for his staunch sup
port and to Harold Stassen fol
the confidence he placed In me
at a difficult time"
Fired In December
Mr.. Ladejinsky was fired by
Mr.. Benson as agricultural at.
tache In Japan last December
The Agriculture Department is.
sued q news release saying Mr.
Ladejinsky held membership ir
two Communist front organiza.
tions.
Mr.. Ladejinsky denied the al.
legations against him, and thu
Foreign Operations Adn,inistra.
ton headed by Mr.. Stassen CAV.
Mr.. Ladejinsky security clear.
|ance and hired him to assisI
land reform In Indo- China. TIL,
FOA Is now out Of existence anc
Its functions have been taker
over by the international Co.
operation Administration, which
Is under State Department con.
ltrol.
MIR. Mollenhoff, q correspond
ent In Washington for the De
Moines Register and Tribune
brought up the Ladejinsky cas-
at an Eisenhower news confer
ence last February 23. The re
porter was challenged by tn
President to submit any evidenc
Of "wrongdoing" by the admin
ID istration. Mr.. Mollenhoff re
s. sponded Immediately with q let
)3 ter saying Mr.. Benson had mad
j. charges against Mr.. Ladejinsk
m with no evidence"
In Mr.. Mollenhoff checked per
l. sistently at the White House fc
a reply. Finally he received
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L. qniiezda broi 81

UniontoWn, Pa. - y vezi
piknika Pomlatka broj 80
HBZ., koii Sc je odrzao u ne
djelju, %. augusta 0, G. u
Dicks Grove, ovime sc kao
upraviteljica zelim zahvaliti
bratu Mike Cindricu, pred
sjedniku odsjeka broj II H
BZ. i njegovu radnom odbo-
ru, kao Mr.. Paul (Agatha)
Mavracic "a izvrsni posao ko-
:jeg je ucinila "a mas. Ona je
ispekla "a mas kolace, pa iako
je bolesna ma noge. Svima
hvala ma pozrtvovnom radu,
kao i ma velikom zauzimaniu
"a clanove naseg gnijezda
Pomlatka, "a koje Sc je oval
piknik i odrzao, da imaju sto
bolji ljepsi Christmas Party.
JOS jednom molim roditelje
clanova naseg gnijezda Pom
latka, koji su citali mole pi-
smo odnoseci Sc ma placanje
clanarine "a svoju djecu, da
Ipotplate dugovinu svoje djece
cim prize tako, da mozem
knjige prirediti ciste j bez
stare dugovine "a novu godi-
nu, do koje ie jos samo ne
koliko mjeseci.
Godisnje uplate "a djecu,
koja su osigurana u Pomlat-
! ku samo do 18 godina jesu
vrlo malene, te nevidim nj
kakova opravdanog razloga,
da upravitelji moraju stalno
opominjati roditelje, da pla-
caju ovako male pristojbe "a
svoju djecu. Meni nije milo
suspendirati bilo koje dijete
il naseg gnijezda Pomlatka,
ali kakvi izbor ia imam da
uzmem ako vi ne placate "a
svoju djecu, vi mi to sami
recite?
Stoga vas molim, da dodje-
te ma nasu iducu mjesecnu
sjednicu, ako vam je to ikako
moguce, i da ma istoj Platte
zaostalu clanarinu "a svoju
djecu, iii pax ako ne mozete
I! doci ma sjednicu, da clanarinu
posaljete putem poste. Time
cete olaksati meni posao, a
takodjer i neugodnost, ako bi
bilo koje dijete morala sus-
pendirati radi dugovine.
Ia gnijezdo broj 81,
Catherine M. Francis, uprav.
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kom pogledu pomazu mas od-
sick, narcotic kod piknika i
zabava. Stoga pisac ovih re-
daka je uvijek zelio, da oval
mladi par pristupi u redove
naseg odsjeka, sto ie uz malo
napora i uspio. | ovime je mas
odsjek dobio diva vrlo dobra
clana, te drzim da &c sada jos
bolje raditi "a napredak svo-
ga odsjeka i HBZ., te biti ma
ponos svima mama i hrvats-
kom narodu. U oval mladi
par mogli bi Sc mnogi ugle-
dati, osobito u brata Pavla,
koji je odmah i svoju supru-
gu zaclanio. Mi imamo mno-
go dobrih clanova u nasoj
Zajednici, docim njihove SUI
pruge SUI izvan nasih redova.
Brat Paul Jankovic je rod
.ien u staroj domovini, u ma
sem lijepom zumberku, Hr-
vatska, cd roditelja Petra
Ane Jankovic. u ovu zemlju
je doSao kao mladi decko Cd
ii godina sa svojom mladjom
sestrom i majkom k svojen
ocu u ovo mjesto godint
1888, gdje su Sc nastanili ns
farmi. u staroj domovini je
polazio Skolu te lijepo govor
i pise hrvatski. Godine 1858
sc je tn zaljubio sa djevoj.
kom, S kojom Sc ie iste godine
| i vjencao. Svoj zivot sproVo'
de u lijapoj slozi i ljubavi, te
marljivim radon postavljaju
81 sve cvrsci temelj svojem
skromnom domu. Njegova SUI
pruga je njemackog porijekla
i dosla je IL Njemacke godine
1852. Ali Sto Sc tice njezine
narodnosti, ona je toliko usko
povezana S naSim narodom u
drustvenom i crkvenom radu,
da joj zaista sluzi ma cast
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srpska je Vlada do zadnjeg
casa, a poslije NIGGA, pod
uzimala sve, da osnutak Jugo-
slavic sprijeci.
Medjutim, protujugosloven-
ski rad srpske Wade urodic
je jugoslovenskim posljedica-
ma, proti njene wolfe i ma
mjere, a zasluga "a to ide
srpskom vojniku, a ne srp-
skoj Vladi, Prema tomu srp-
ski je vojnik doprinio osnut-
ku Jugoslavije, a sto je do
PRIMO, kako zasto, objasniti
cemo u nekom drugom clan
ku.
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priznanje. Samo sestro tako
radi unaprijed, pa ces biti
cd velike koristi "a mas od-
sick kojeg 81 sada clanica. Da
ie ovo jedna vrijedna obitelj
to nam pokazuje cinjenica, da
do danas imademo Sest cla-
nova u redovima naSe HBz.
Tebe brate Pavle tvoju
suprugu neka pratt svaka do
bra sreca u vasem zivotu, pa
da dao gospodin Bog da i vi
povecate kroz vrijeme mas od-
sick sa kojim clanom Cd svo-
jeg roda. Dobro nam dosli u
nase redove, te da ste sretni
veseli i twill mnogo godina
u ljubavi i slozi.
John Simecki, tajnik.
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0dsjek q3b povetan
Sa diva mlada CIana

Boutwell,, Ont, Can. - Cd
sick 936 HBZ. i opet moze sa
ponosom reel, da je svoje re-
dove povecao sa diva mIada
Glana i to sa bratom Pavlom
Jankovicem i njegovom su-
prugom, ciju sliku ovdje do
nosimo, da III nasa braca upo-
znaju diljem Kanade i Anne
|rike.
Ne mogu mimoiti a da ne
recem par rijeci o nasem Paw
lu i njegovoj suprugi, jer oni
to zasluzuju da sc iznese Mi
hova lijepa strana, posto su
uviiek bill spremni da Il sva-