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Evening star., 1955-07-10
Dulles on Soviet Power

In his June 10 appearance before
House Appropriations subcommittee, Sec
retary of State Dulles gave great deal
Of testimony in support Of the admins
tration's foreign aid bill. But only a
portion Of that testimony appears in the
heavily censored report since published
by the subcommittee, and 1t is portion
in which Mr.. Dulles seems to have over
stated the case in describing the weak
nesSes of the Soviet economy. Yet,
judging from what the Russians them
selves have admitted, there can be little
doubt that such internal industrial and
agricultural weaknesses do exist. And
in some respects-especially as regards
farming and the output of consumer
goods-they may well amount to what
"capitalistic" Americans would regard as
critical productive failure approximate
ing collapse.
To say this, however, is not the same
as to say that the Soviet Union is MILL
tdrtly flabby. Certainly Mr.. Dulles-who
has repeatedly emphasized the contrary
has not said that Accordingly, as the
White House has declared, his testimony
before the House group can be readily
reconciled with what the President told
the press last Wednesday-namely that
the United States recognizes the Krem-
Inns great armed power and that no re-
sponsible American official thinks that
the Russians will have to negotiate from
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

fabulous sum Of $75 a month,
some even more.
All these people rode the
streetcars and there was no
cry of an exorbitant fare. To-
day with all the increases
granted, the transit company
iS getting IS cents more car
fare fer faster and better serv-
ice than the prevailing fare
SIS years ago, whereas the en-
rloyes are getting $1.95 per
hour instead Of IS cents. All
tie politicians on the Hill and
District officials know or should
have known the financial con-
dition of Capital Transit, and
that the present strike was
shaping up months ago. What
was done about 1t? Now they
are barking up a tree where
there is no opossum.
Instead Of tarring and
feathering Mr.. Wolfson, I am
in favor Of persuading him to
use a little of his brains to
straighten this mess out Who
started the strike anyway?
I have no interest in the
Capital Transit Co whatso-
ever, and think 1t should be
given q substantial increase in
fare to meet additional oper-
ating costs and 1t win still be,
In most instances, far cheaper,
more convenient and safer in
getting to any point Of desti-
nation than by any other means
of transportation. including
ones own car.
Robert Z. Dove.
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SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Signals From a Spire
BY REV. FREDERICK BROWN HARI
Chaplain. United States Senate

Every spire proclaims q
creed. A steeple is constantly
broadcasting two words, II
believe Never was a spire or
steeple lifted against the sky
but faith raised it.
It is significant that the Dec
laration Of Independence was
signed under a steeple. The
first crimson payment Of the
agonizing cost of that immor-
tai document was laid down
on Liberty's altar the day fol-
lowing a signal from a steeple.
That Boston church steeple
ever since has belonged to the
Nation. It has been the SYM
Dol Of a faith which exploded
in the shot at Concord Bridge,
heard round the world.
It is Of more than passing
interest and significance that
this very month is witnessing
the costly erection of a new
spire to replace the old, his
toric landmark demolished by
Hurricane Carol almost a year
ago. That gap against the
blue marred the skyline not
only Of one great city. but of
the Nation. Since that memo
rable night when Paul Revere
galloped OF as the steeple
spoke, that pinnacle Of Old
North Church has watched,
unchanging the changing
years, as the infant Colonies
have expanded into the might
lest national force on earth.
The eager dollars to rebuild
the storied steeple came not
from the New England metrop-
oils alone, but from q Nation
WIDE response to an appeal
which ignored State lines. The
window from which the Ian
terms flashed their message to
the waiting, defiant horseman,
as he dashed forth on his mid
night ride to arouse the Mid
dlesex farmers, has been SAL
vaged and given its lofty place
in the restored spire.
The new steeple is a re-
minder that the Republics
liberty symbols speak not of
fossils, but of a living faith.
Alwaysthere must be growing
new fiber to restore old
steeples. And so, long, long
before the short span of life
began for any person reading
these words a small white oak
sprang from a little acorn to
take root in New England soil.
That tree had seen at least
10 summers and winters when
the North Church signal lights
sent the alert messenger on his
momentous way. Up to the
present that tree has gone on
growing. And so wood nour-
ished by the good earth for
at least $50 years is furnish
ing the lumber for the work of
restoration.
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who occupies a seat should pay
a full fare. It is disappointing
to adults, who pay 20 cents
fare. to have to stand while a
three-cent school fare occupies
a seat.
Further. I agree with the
CTC that passes should be
abolished. Passes are most
likely lent to others and the
privilege often abused. A
straight cash fare and a spe-
cial rate for tokens are fair
to all, and provide no oppor-
tunities for abuse.
James M. Covington.
Fifty-fi years ago the
streetcar fare in Washington
was 5 cents cash or six tickets
for IS cents. The conductors
and motormen we're getting
rs cents an hour; those with
seniority slightly more. Wages
for common labor averaged
$i.25 a day: drivers of horse
drawn vehicles got So to So
per week; first-class building
mechanics % per day; bundle
wrappers in department stores
81 to So per week; clerks in
department stores S. to SO per
week. and some Government
employees were getting the
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Strike Reaction

The franchise Of Capital
Transit should be revoked and
streetcars should be removed
from the streets of Washing
ton They are outmoded. If
tie space occupied by the car
tracks were used for low-cost
parking and buses substituted
for streetcars, the problem of
downtown parking would be
solved Unless it is solved,
business will continually seek
the suburbs. At present it costs
more to park downtown to
attend a movie than the cost
Of admission to the movie.
F. G. Campbell.
The recent raises in wages
granted the steel and auto
mobile industries, and Fed
eral employees, make employees
Of Capital Transit feel that
they, too, should be given in
creases. However, the situa-
ton Of Capital Transit is diff
ferent--it cannot arbitrarily
pass on the increased labor
costs to the consumer and
taxpayers.
There Is no reason why
Capital Transit and/or its
patrons should be required to
subsidize transportation Of the
District school children. That
is clearly O responsibility Of
the District government. Any
rider Of public transportation
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that morality cannot survive
its divorce from religion for
more than three generations.
Many Of the graces and virtues
which still seem to adorn the
secularized life Of today are
fast fading because they are
cut flowers-they have no
roots.
AS perhaps nothing else, a
spire is the symbol Of a
righteous and loving God over
all. It speaks Of human rights
which come alone from that
God. These are what the
founding fathers called Sin
alienable rights" that no
earthly power can confer or
deny-human dignity that no
tyrant can permanently def1le
or degrade. No wonder, in
speaking of the spiritual foun-
dations Of America, q keen
student Of our history declares
that the early settlers, in rails
ing their spires, broke loose
skyward" in a conscious as
sertion Of their indefeasible
rights as the sons Of God. The
one damning thing about
totalitarianism is that it is
bound to the ground: its fatal
limitation is that it fails to
break loose skyward. It takes
its signals from things mum
dane. Happy are the people
who take the signals for their
action from spires that rise
above the ground.
The fundamental difference
between the twisted and per-
verted doctrine of communism,
and the creed which the free
world so imperfectly exempli-
f1es, is God. The titanic
struggle of the day is not pri-
marily a power contest be-
tween two political giants. The
contest is the hammer and
sickle versus the spires; the
difference is God.
II America should ever fail
to take her signals from the
spires, then no political or
economic device can prevent
some future historian from
writing "The Rise and Fall of
the American Republic" Then
her epitaph would be: "She
failed to heed what her spires
were saying"
Just before life's end, Wood
row Wilson's eyes were upon
his Nations spires, reading
their signals, when he gave as
his valedictory to his country
men this declaration of his
faith: Our civilization can
never be redeemed materially
until it is redeemed spiritually.
It must be saturated with the
spirit of Jesus Christ" Amer
lea, America-with a living
faith in the unseen and Eternal
watch your spires!
Evening star., 1955-07-10
THE GAME OF POLITICS
He Conf Fail on This
BY FRANK R. KENT

recalled It has been hailed
as such by press and public
from one end Of the country
to the other. To believe that
Mr. Eisenhower at this time
is suddenly to grow hstless In
his support just does not make
sense. More quickly than any
thing else 1t would destroy the
trust Of the people In him as
the most sincere man elected
President since 1928. To per-
NIT, through sheer inertia. the
reports Of this great commits
sion to die on the dusty shelves
Of Congress would be O ma
tional disgrace that no first
class citizen cares to con-
template.
Lure Of Spending
Everybody knows that the
reason we keep sliding further
Into insolvency Is because the
spend. spend. spend policies
of former administrations
have such q tremendous allure
for the voters that once
started they are extremely
difficult to stop. They are L.
logical, unfounded In fact and
injurious to rich. poor, every
body. Yet. such Is their at
traction that once established
they are not easy to discon-
tinue or change. The only
way to change them Is through
the roads mapped out by the
Hoover Commissioner before
it by Senator Byrd.
From whatever angle they
are viewed. balancing the
budget and reducing taxes are
not only the right things to do
but the expedient things. That
the President Is going to give
his opponents an opportunity
to charge him with failing
them on this issue does not
make sense. Neither the
Hoover Commission reports
nor the Byrd recommendations
can 60 through without active
presidential support. That
they will get that sort Of sup.
port before this session ends,
or at least early next year, is
the belief Of every informed
man. It is worth again point
ing out that both the Hoover
report and Senator Byrd's
blueprints are emphatic on the
point that the economies they
propose will not affect any
vital function of the Govern
ment or in any way weaken
our defense. On the contrary,
an unshakable solvency Of the
Nation Is the best and surest
way of strengthening its de-
tense. Few things could be
more unfortunate than q rift
on the economy issue between
the President and Senator
Byrd. It is true the latter does
not have the vast RESPONSE
bility the other bears. But
their goal is the same and, to
attain it. it is essential that
they should work together.
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A continuing effort is being
made by the Democrats to put
President Eisenhower In the
position Of not supporting the
Hoover Commissions recon-
mendations. This they regard
as smart because II success
full 1t would give them q really
sound issue for 1856. They
could assert and prove =
that, although the way was
shown him. Mr.. Eisenhower
failed to carry out his party's
and his own pledge to balance
tho budget and reduce taxes.
This is q silly notion and
will come to nothing. In the
first place. to cherish 1t Is, In
effect. to consider the Presi-
dent either q liar or q boob.
No sane man, however embit-
tered. really regards him as
either. In the second place,
it is literally impossible to as
sign a credible reason for so
contemplate a change in at
titude. This was the pledge
he made more often and more
earnestly than any other. The
country might understand him
weakening on any other prom
ise but not on that. Leaving
aside the personal degradation
Of breaking his word, he would
lose the support, among many
others, Of Senator Harry Byrd
Of Virginia, who is worth con-
siderably more than one vote
In the Senate and q great
many In Congress.
Tribute to Mr.. Hoover
Certainly he would create
intense resentment among the
millions who admire Herbert
Hoover and who win remember
the words Of James A. Farley,
who, in presenting to him a
resolution Of appreciation from
the whole committee, called
him "a truly great American
and a great patriot" Consid-
ering that Mr.. Farley was
probably more responsible for
Mr.. Hoover's defeat in 1882
than anyone else, and is ore of
the strongest of Democrats.
this is a rare tribute, not only
from a member Of the COM
mittee but from an individual.
That M Farley could bring
himself to so handsomely eulo-
gize Mr.. Hoover is one of the
most warming things that has
happened in our politics in a
long time. Another is that
Young Senator John Kennedy,
Democrat Of Massachusetts,,
whose father. Joseph p. Ken
pedy, former Ambassador to
England was a member of the
Hoover Commission, has spon-
sored more than a score of
bills in the Senate to carry
out its recommendations.
AL Of which means that
this commission has been more
objective and less political
than any other that can be
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stone or steeple, but on the
new life which is nourished
by each generation. The men
of Lexington and Concord
could not guarantee the per-
petuity Of their ideals. The
living faith Of each new day
must be available to keep
intact even the symbols of the
revered yesterdays. Otherwise
some uncontrolled hurricane,
sweeping In devastation across
the Nation, may wreck the
faith as well as its historic
emblems. Trees, whose roots
are deep in the Nations life.
must always be kept growing to
repair the ravages of the years.
The todays must always re-
store the yesterdays.
Then, again, the restored
steeple shouts its warning
that any nation failing to take
its signals from spires is
doomed. The prosecuted faith
that found a refuge on the
shores Of the New World spoke
with eloquent voice in the
vocal spires Of worship which
hallowed the new land. Amid
the glitter and gadgets of our
mammon-mad Goth century,
so rich in things and poor in
soul, we know in our highest
hours that the strength of
America in this day Of world
destiny is not in its wheels
and wings, but in the religious
aspirations which, from the
beginning. have reared her
affairs and raised the white
steeples of her faith against
the expanding horizon of a
continent.
Democracy, as we interpret
1t, is doomed without the guild
ing fingers which point above
the ground. History declares
Evening star., 1955-07-10
FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE STAR

and her two Smokestacks are
in tandem. Her armament con-
sists of six 6-inch rifles, 9
six-pounders, 6 machine guns
and four torpedo tubes. i.
The Dogali was built at Els
wick, England, in 1885 and was
first named the Satanvina. i.
She has on board a crew of
about 275 officers and men,"
Ambulance Driving
Quoting from the Phila-
delphia Telegraph. The Star
for June 26, 1905, said: when
an ambulance answers q hur-
ry call with such speed as to
create havoc for street traffic,
smashes into other vehicles,
mains pedestrians and pas
sengers and sometimes kills
them-as happened recently in
Chester-the public naturally
reasons that instead Of being a
humanitarian institution it is
a dire evil. In that town, as
the result Of the violent i'm
pact of ambulance and delivery
wagon, a doctor had his neck
broken, a passerby was in
jured and the man who tried
suicide and was the object Of
the hurry call shows every in
dication that his efforts will be
rewarded with success. The
system Of hospital response to
urgent summons is, we are glad
to say. better ordered in Phila-
delphia. and yet there are oc-
casional infractions Of the
rule as to speed and care. It
is always important to keep in
mind that the enthusiasm of
effort to save some human
beings should not be at the ex-
pense Of the life or limb of
other human beings. The
reckless driver is not wanted
anywhere. and particularly he
is not wanted on an am
bulance."
Greason Acquitted
A telegram from Reading,
Pa. to The Star for June I6.
1905, said Samuel 0reason'
colored. was today acquitted Of
the murder Of John Edwards.
Mrs. Kate Edwards, wife Of
the murdered man, whose tes-
timony convicted Greason over
three years ago, today COM
pletely exonerated him. Ed.
wards was murdered nearly
four years ago, and Greason
was arrested several months
later. His death warrant was
issued 10 times, and his case
has developed into one of the
most remarkable murder trials
IN this State. Mrs. Edwards
-. Is under sentence Of
death. and 1t is expected that
the governor will fix the date
for her execution within a
short time. 1t was postponed
several months ago so that she
could be Used as q witness at
Greason's trial"
Almas Patrol Wins
At Niagara Falls. N. Y. on
June 81, 1905, the Arab Patrol
Of Almas Temple, Order Of the
Mystic Shrine, won the prize
for the best showing in the
annual convention parade,
and The Star Of the next day
contained a detailed account
Of the Washington contingent's
victory. The report was
adorned with q portrait Of
Capt. Samuel C.. Redman in
full dress uniform with en-
broidered fez and FURNISHED
steel saber.
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q position Of weakness at the Big Four
summit" meeting. After all, regardless
of the strains. In its internal economy,
the USSR has in being, in combat readi-
ness, great fleets Of submarines, huge
air force and by far the worlds biggest
army. Mr.. Dulles, like Mr.. Eisenhower,
is well aware Of that, and it undoubtedly
looms large in his mind as the Geneva
Conference approaches.
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What SOLDERING thoughts that
operation suggests. New wood
for falling steeples speaks Of
new life for old creeps. What
has been going on in Boston,
town is q parable that the
very life Of democracy de-
pends not on past deeds which
may be commemorated by
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Bloodshed i'm Poland


A telegraph-cable report
from Lodz, published by The
Star on June "a, 1905, report
ed: Yesterday, Black Friday
In Lodz surpassed all the hor-
rors of Red Sunday in st.
Petersburg. While it is not yet
possible to ascertain the exact
number of victims, estimates
place the killed and wounded
as high as 1000. There was a
renewal of the bloodshed this
morning. A regiment If dra-
goons and one of infantry have
been ordered here from War
saw. The troubles here were
initiated by the Social Demo-
Gratis and Jewish Bund, who
determined to avenge their
comrades killed in the rioting
Wednesday. Thursday, the
feast Of Corpus Christi, passed
of quietly. but during the
night workmen attacked the
patrols. In this fighting two
officers and seven Cossacks
were killed. One of the latter
was shot by a girl Of 13 years.
At dawn Friday commenced
a day of terror; The city was
given up to bloodshed. An
archy and street fighting pre-
vailed all day. Barricades were
hurriedly constructed. Men
climbed to the roofs of houses,
cutting telegraph and tele-
phone wires to use for entan-
clements in the streets, while
others cut down telegraph
poles and used tn EN- in
strengthening the barricades
which already had been con-
structed and in building others.
Early in the day two bombs
were thrown from the crowd
into the barracks, killing or
wounding 20 soldiers. This
started the shedding of blood,
which continued until after
nightfall. At II o'clock all the
factory hands struck and
hocked into the streets. Cos
sacks, dragons and infantry
charged the dense. surging
mobs time after time, firing
volley after volley into the SER
ried masses. The rioters later
replied with revolvers, while
their comrades on roofs aid in
windows Joined In the fusilade.
Some dashed vitriol from
points of vantage upon the
troopers in the Streets below.
The burning fluid drove. its
victims into a frenzy and led
to scenes of terrible char
acter."
Italian Ship Arrives
THE second-class cruiser
Dogali of the Italian royal
navy is paying this port a
visit" said The Star Of June
~, 1905, "but owing to the fact
that she cannot come into the
harbor, she has anchored in
the stream of Alexandria, and
visits of her officers and men
here are to be made either by
launches of the ship or by rail
from Alexandria AS yet
no one has been permitted to
visit the ship. but it is expected
that she will be thrown open
to visitors before she leaves
these waters. She Is a twin
screw vessel, $50 feet long. 81
feet beam and IA feet 8 inches
mean draft. Her displacement
is 2,088 tons. The vessel has
two masts with military tops
In which are rapid-f1re guns,
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letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
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