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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23

The effects Of the visit of the
Soviet leaders Nikita Khrush-
chev and Premier Bulganin
to Afghanistan were imme-
diately apparent here. Secre-
tary of State Dulles promptly
let it be known that earlier
hints of an impending cut in
foreign aid appropriations were
all an unfortunate "misunder-
standing" and that the real
intention was to seek a flex-
ible money reserve to be used
at the discretion of the Presi-
dent whenever the needs Of
free world diplomacy indicated
an emergency.
Afghanistan was a critical
area for world peace back in
the days of Alexander the
Great. All the major foreign
invasions of India have come
through the historic Khyber
Pass, the only gateway Of ne
gotiable size through the lofty
Himalayas to the great sub
continent. In the great days Of
the Moguls the Khyber was all
important. And in the 18th
century, when the British En-
pire made good its boast about
the sun never setting on the
Union Jack, the British Raj in
Delhi kept a strong and wary
eye on the misty Khyber far
to the north.
The British watch on the
Khyber Pass was only incl
dentally a watch on the rest
less tribes of the border noun
tains. Although crack regi-
ments of the British army
patrolled, skirmished and
fought almost endlessly with
the warlike hillmen, whose
fierce independence would not
be quelled, the real menace Of
the Khyber was the Russian
bear to the north. Rudyard
Kipling's brawny verse has
made the history of the region
as colorful as any in the
world, and Kipling makes the
identity of the potential enemy
plain.
The Russia Of the cars, in
| its expansionist policy. was
/ basically motivated by the need
for warm-water ports. st.
Petersburg, since the time OF
Peter the Great, knew that to
! be a world power meant the
/ control of access to the sea.
Russia was hemmed in every
where by hostile nations. po-
+ tential enemies and winter ice.
Russian domination and con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23

Hugh Gaitskell, who has won
the contest to head the British
Labor Party, was one of the
men saw in England at the
beginning of the trip on which
I have been reporting.
Mr.. Gaitskell's choice as
leader of the British Socialists
will not please Moscow at all.
While I was there. the So
Wet Press was discussing why
the British Labor Party had
suffered such a setback in the
last elections, accrediting this
to the loss Of its revolutionary
elan.
Mr.. Gaitskell does not agree
with the Russian diagnosis.
which is also that Of sAneurins
Bevan, the Labor I Party's
Welsh left-winger., MIR, Gait
skell thinks Bevan greatly con-
tributed to the Labor Party'S
defeat, by completely misesti-
mating the mood Of the British
people, which is not at all
revolutionary. Unlike the for
mer leader. Mr.. Attlee, who has
done his mild best to reconcile
the two party factions. Mr..
Gaitskell is intransigent
against Bevan, who, he OBJ
viously thinks, has a bigger
mouth than brain. Mr.. Gait
skell has a very good brain in
deed.
Unlike Mr.. Bevan he is not
anti-American. He has many
personal friends among Amer
lean liberals, and even thinks
kindly of a few American Re-
publicans.
He did blow up land blow
of in a New York Times Mag
azine article during the Nc
Carthy epoch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
DAVID LAWRENCE

They can enlarge that slo-
gan now to read: whats
good for Ford and General
Motors is good for the coun-
try!"
The Democrats have been
using it as taunt-but the
Republicans themselves now
may cash in on it politically.
For it turns out that if
everybody in America could
receive the wages paid by the
big motorcar manufacturers
and if all the executives of
other companies could fare as
well in their compensation, the
United States would become
an economic paradise.
Revelation of the details of
the Ford Company's progress
from the days when Henry
Ford pioneered in 1909 with
the low priced automobile, is
a story of free enterprise I'M
paralleled anywhere in the
world. Few people today real
lie that automobiles were be-
ing purchased only by the
well-to-do when Ford came
along with an auto that sold
for less than $500. 1t opened
up automotive transportation
to millions of persons. The
dollar is worth far less today
in purchasing power than it
was then, and the low
priced" automobile costs sew
eral times $500 now. But
wages and incomes are also
correspondingly higher.
The narrative of the Ford
Company's growth. from a
small business that had very
little outside capital and
plowed back its earnings every
year to build a bigger and
bigger plant with a larger and
larger capacity to produce
cars, is in reality the story of
American enterprise as a
whole in the last few genera
tons.
There were low taxes in the
'20s, so earnings didn't have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
Choice as Leader of Socialists
Won't Please Moscow at All

Mr.. Gaitskell believes that
what returned the Conserva-
tives to power was British
prosperity, which British
workers have shared, to say
the least. The common man"
in Britain has never had 1t
so good" as during the time
since the Conservatives return
to power, with three jobs open
for every seeker, wages at an
all-time high, plentiful cush-
ions of social security, and the
end of rationing and queues.
But Britain has problems
that Mr.. Gaitskell does not
believe win be solved by the
Congergativess rneaps OF deal
ing FifIAthern-or, as he would
say. of not dealing with them
but allowing much laisser
faire to operate.
Were his party in power, he
would recommend more vigor-
Gus intervention to check in
f1ation and the perennial prob
lem of deficits in the balance
of external payments. one
measure being a reduction Of
imports.
He asked me more questions
tabout America) than / was
able to ask him. He admires
Averell Hartman and Adlai
Stevenson, whom. of course. he
knows.
He sees room for more social
reform in Britain, but is cold
on further naturalization. He
finds, still, much privilege"
within the welfare state, thinks
the nation still too class con-
scious, and the workers too in
clined to admire their bet
terS." If so. he would appear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
DOROTHY THOMPSON
GoitskeIrs Victory Appraised

to be a beneficiary Of the
prejudice. for he. who is any,
thing but "proletarian," is the
party Leadership choice of the
trade unions. and did not, like
Aneurin Bevan, the late Ernest
Bevin, or Herbert Morrison.
come up from the ranks of
workingmen, nor, as other
privileged Britons, become a
Socialist by performing social
work in British slums.
His family was well-to-do;
he, himself. was educated,
among upper-class boys at
Winchester College. and at
oxford. and he is a university
professor of economics--defi-
nitely an egg head"
He lives in a largish home
with a nice garden, in Hamp-
stead, a pleasant London sub
urb, and although. I believe,
Mrs. Gaitskell does most of her
own housework, so do many
British women today whose
mothers were never maidless.
She is a sister-in-law Of Peter
Townsend. who has certainly
moved in lofty circles!
Recently the Conservative
government has had a poor
press, not surprising consider
ing the foreign crises in which
1t is involved-in Cyprus, the
Arab-Israel conflict, repercus-
sions from the Baghdad pact
and the domestic problems
essentially arising from heavy
demands upon inadequate pro-
duction. The shift of cabinet
posts this week may reflect
this realization.
1t may be that British opin-
ion is heading for another
swing, though it is not likely to
be radical.
No more radical, say, than
Mr.. Gaitskell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
G. o. p. Moy Cash in Politically
On Tount Used by Democrats

to be shared with the Govern
ment in such large proportions
as today. Now a corporation
must pay So cents out of every
dollar of profit to the Govern
ment. The remaining 48 cents
has to take care of payments
to investors. as well as sums
to be put into surplus" for
future expansion. 1t is ques-
tionable VIII e t her anybody
could build a big motor-car
company today the same way
that Henry Ford did.
The principle. however. re-
mains the same-if individual
initiative and inventive genius
are permitted full sway, pri-
vate capital is forthcoming to
build new businesses.
What is disturbing to Amer
lean businessmen nowadays
is the possibility of a radical
administration being elected
in 1856 which might discour-
age investors. Thus, already
there are Democratic leaders
who are proposing the repeal
of a provision in the tax law
enacted in 1854 which makes
a portion of the dividends re-
ceived by an investor exempt
from double taxation. The
campaign behind the move is
based on the same class war;
fare that has enabled So
cialists to keep many other
countries from prospecting
Lots of people today do not
know that, up till 1854, after
a corporation paid in taxes 81
cents out of every dollar of
profit. the individual owners
had to pay another tax to the
Federal Government on what
ever money they got out of
the other 48 cents. 1t was a
double penalty which no other
group Of taxpayers had to
bear. It is the possibility of
more and more such policies.
threatening confiscation of
earnings, which is making the
Democratic Party appear to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23

been announced by Gov. Mar
land.
He succeeds James Blaine Nc
Laughlin, who served as Com
missioner of Agriculture since
1882 until his death November 20
Mr.. Johnson, who owns ESQ
acre farm near WilliamstoWn,
is a charter member of Wood
County Farm Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
DORIS FLEESON

Democrats welcome the
decision OF Gov. Frank Lausche
Of Ohio to run for the Senate
for the simplest and best rea-
son in politics-they think he
can win. Minus Lausche. they
had expected the superior Ohio
Republican organization to
re-elect the G.. o. P. incum-
bent, George Bender.
In other States where they
think the Republican incum-
bent is ripe for picking-Mary-
land, Indiana, Illinois, Cali
fornia, Idaho, Wise sin
Democrats so far have failed to
develop Senate candidates of
wide voter appeal and prestige.
They are also going to lose
two Senators by voluntary
retirement on whose votes
Majority Leader johnson had
been able to count. One is
Senator Bible of Nevada. the
quiet successor to the late
scrappy Pat McCarran. The
other is Johnson's Texas col
league, Price Daniel. who has
told friends he intends to re-
sign and run for Governor.
Senator Bibles public ex-
PLANTATION is that he just didn't
develop a taste for Washing
ton. Senator Daniel frankly
prefers to be a big frog in
Texas to existing here in the
shadow Of the Rayburn-
johnson leadership.
The national committee Is
making it's own survey of the
Nevada situation and hoping
Bible can be induced to
change his mind. Johnson.
who had developed a great
liking for the Nevada junior,
will also put on some pressure.
Washington is assured that
Gov. Shivers does not want
the Daniel seat, for which the
national party is grateful since
his relations with it are SO
controversial. They are about
to get acquainted with another
possibility, 1t. Gov. Ben Ram
sey, who has just been made
national committeeman in q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
Khyber Pass and Then Some
,npalatable to the Reds.

unpalatable to the Reds.
Thus the Russian visit to
Afghanistan and the offer Of a
loan of 500 million in return
for Afghan neutrality in the
cold war was of crucial i'm
portance to the Kremlin's de-
signs. The Afghanistan from.
tier must be maintained as
a potential threat to India
and to all of Southeast Asia at
all costs. The Khyber Pass
must remain a focal point Of
Russian diplomacy.
And the West must main
tain its watchfulness there,
just as in the days Of Kipling,
lest the bear, approach too
close.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
Gov. Murlond Names
Johnson to Farm Post

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Dec.
% ,SpeciaD The appointment
of John T. Johnson. SO. farmer.
of Williamstown, Wood County,
as State Commissioner of Agri-
culture for the unexpired term
ending January 10, 1857, has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23

In the article of two days
ago on the Australian elections,
it was stated that 40 Commu-
nists lost their seats in Parlia-
ment." The correct statement
is that 40 Communists lost
their deposits for seats" Ac-
tually, no Communist has held
seat in the Australian Par
lament. but under Australian
law a candidate must obtain
a certain percentage of votes
or forfeit a financial deposit.
(Reproduction Rights ReserYedl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-23
Good for General Motors and Ford

voters as destructive rather
than constructive.
The Eisenhower administra-
tons strength with the voters
today, on the other hand. is
due to the fact that it has
created a climate in which
Observation-Disclosures and Ia
bor-can prosper.
The answer to bigness as
such is competition. The mem
bers of Congress who inveSti-
gate monopoly" spend most
of their time pointing to the
size of the companies rather
than to investment conditions
that prevent competitors from
becoming financially strong
enough to challenge the larger
units. The Democratic Party's
policies on taxation from 1888
to 1858 did more to promote
monopoly and bigness in bust
ness than any other single
factor.
It is interesting to note that
not one of the contestants for
the Democratic presidential
nomination as yet has an
nounced whether his program
on taxes will be moderate or
"immoderate." Yet the future
prices of stocks and the OPP
portunities of new businesses
to raise money from investors
depend on just those political
factors. 1t isn't like the good
old days when Henry Ford
started in and neither political
party wanted to weaken or
destroy private enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Potomac Hunt Cards
3 Races Tomorrow
Special oispoieh 10 The Sior

POTOMAC. Md, Mar. u.s.
Members of the Potomac Hunt
and their families will turn out
here at 2::30 pm. tomorrow to
try their hunting mounts over
a point-to-point course at Sam
uel Bogley's Hobby Hill Farm,
opposite the hunt kennels near
Travilah.
Three races are on the card,
all of them confined to the active
hunt subscribers or members of
their families. The first event
will be a fiat race for ponies
under l42 hands. the second a
junior point-to-point for riders
under 18 and the third the
Potomac Hunt Point to-Point
Perpetual Trophy competition for
senior riders.
In order to give spectators a
view of every Jump the course
has been laid out in a tight
loop this year so that riders
encircle it three times. On the
last turn they reverse order on
five of the jumps. There are
18 fences in all.
In the event of rain at race
time the meet will be postponed
until the following Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Tougher Scholarship
Regulations 70 Have
Little Effect on Terps
Speeiol oispofch 10 The Siar

BALTIMORE, Mar. New
and sitter sch olarship and
grants-in-aid standards for the
University of Maryland will go
into effect next fall after being
approved by the Board of Re-
gents yesterday.
The standards match those
already adopted for the athletic
department. The Board of Re-
gents emphasized at yesterdays
meeting that the new standards
apply to athletes and non-ath-
leteS alike.
Students must average at least
B grades in high school and stay
in the upper half of their classes
in college to earn scholarships.
Grants-in-aid candidates must
have c averages in high school.
Formerly both types of aid
were considered under the gen.
eral term of scholarships" and
generally c average was needed
for out-of- State students, and a
D average for Maryland State
students.
In the athletic department
roughly IS per cent of those get
ting help receive grants-in-aid.
the rest scholarships. School
officials estimate that the new
higher standards will eliminate
about three or four athletic pros
poets a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
NCAA Members Vote
Compromise Plan on
College Football N
BY the Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mar. 25. -
Television viewers will receive
their college football games next
fall on both a regional and
national basis.
Member schools of the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic ASso-
citation voted, 1913 to 81, for
compromise plan which provides
for intra district telecasts.
There were no provisions last
year for the regional, or district,
telecaStS. The gameS-13 in all
were telecast nationally with a
team being limited to one TV
appearance during the season.
Here's the new setup:
Eight national games-of the
week during a 13-week period.
Five Saturdays during the
same period devoted to intra-
district telecasting of games.
A team may participate in one
national and one intra district
telecast. or in two intra district
dates if the national appearance
is relinquished.
Under the NCAA the country
is divided into eight geographical
districts and these districts are
expected to prevail for television.
Walter Byers, executive direc-
tor of the NCAA, announced re-
suits of the TV mail referendum
yesterday.
The Pacific Coast and Big Ten
conferences had been leaders in
a fight for a regional program
and free negotiations in obtain
ing TV sponsors for games. The
compromise plan grew out of
these demands.
The NCAA TV Committee will
handle negotiations with spon-
sors for the eight national games.
But participating schools can sell
their own intra district TV
games.
ByerS said the TV Committee
will meet in New York City today
and tomorrow to consider pro-
posals for telecasting the ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
BY the Associated Press

OXFORD, Ohio, Mar. 25.-
Two more stars of Ohio States
defending champions tonight
will try to emulate last nights
successful opening title defense
by Ford Konno as the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
swimming meet churns into full
speed.
Konno, 5-foot-8, 147-pound
senior from Honolulu, launched
Ohio States quest for a ninth
NCAA crown at Miami Univer-
sity by picking up seven points
with his easy repeat as 1900
meter champion.
Konno. now holding three
$500 NCAA titles, won in the
fast time of 1851 by a POOLS
length over George Breen of
Cortland IN. " State.
The 1.500-meter was the only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Unbeaten Andrews Goes
To AT Tourney Tomorrow

Andrews Air Force Bases un-
beaten basketball team leaves By
plane tomorrow morning for Or
lando, Fla, and the worldly ide
Air Force Base double eli.nina-
ton basketball tournament start
ing Monday. The tourney will
run through next Saturday.
The Andrews team, winner OF
so straight this season, is de-
Tending champion. Other teams
in the tournament are Sheppard
runnerup the last three years;
Keesler, Warren, Hill, Lock-
bourne, Parks, EielSon of Alaska
Goose Bay from Labrador, Fuer-
stenfeldbruck from Germany and
Nagoya from Japan.
A banquet will be held for the
Andrews team Sunday afternoon
in Orlando with Manager Chuck
Dresser of the Senator's and
some of the team as guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
BY Lewis F. Atchison

If a colt by the name of
Nance's Lad should win tomor-
rows 3:.10,000-added Florida
Derby at Gulfstream Park, it
would come as no great surprise
to Chester H. Caithness, Be-
thesda automobile dealer, who
owns a half-interest in the
promising 3-year-old son of
Slide Rule-Nance's Ace.
A silver haired gentleman
whose blue eyes fairly sparkle
when he talks about Nance's Lad
Caithness was loath to boast
about the colt yesterday before
departing for Florida to see the
race, but he's sure Nance'S Lad
is much better than most people
suspect.
I'm betting he'll be in the
money" Caithness said, land
with a little luck he might win
it all. Native Dancer lost race,
you know, and while Nashua is
certain to be the favorite in this
one he could get beat"
Dabson His Partner
Hilton (Rabbit) Dabson, for
mer Maryland Jockey who bred
and now trains Nance's Lad, is
Caithness' partner in the stable.
The two met about Is years ago
while living in the same hotel
in Baltimore. where Caithness
then was selling autos. They
struck up friendship bowling in
a group that included Johnny
Gilbert and other horsemen who
lived at the same hotel.
When Dabson, now in his early
40's, was called for military
service, CaithnesS. 81, and a
World War I veteran, bought an
interest in Rabbits modest sta
BILE to keep the horses together.
Getting involved in racing was
the last thought in his head.
Why" he said yesterday, "if
anybody told me two years ago
that I'd have an interest in a
horse as good as Nance's Lad I
would have laughed at him"
Speed Natural
Nance's Lad. with two straight
victories at Gulfstream, one in
track record time for 612 fur
longs. is a late blooming 3-year-
old and Dabson thinks he has
improved with every start. The
colt comes by his speed naturally,
for his dam still holds the worlds
record of 1895 for 5l2 furlongS,
set at Tropical Park in 1914. His
grandsire, Case Ace, also is a
record-holder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Philadelphia Man Named
REGIONAL Greens Director

Charles K. Hallowell of Phila-
delphia has been appointed
regional director of the USGA's
greens section, effective April /,
the USGA announced yesterday.
This will make the Regional
Turf Service of the USGA avail
able to member clubs in Della
ware, Maryland, Virginia, Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and the
District. Headquarters will be
Beltsville, where William H. Ben
geyfield is on the staff as agro-
tloniiSt.
Hallowell will be introduced to
this section at an April / meet
ing at Columbia Country Club.
Joe Day. jr., USGA executive
director. will accompany Halo
well. Rear Admiral John Phil
lips, the District Golf Associa-
ton president. will preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Senior Golf Title Match
May Repeat Last Year
BY The Associated Press

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Mar.
25.-If Judd l.. Brumley of
Greenville, Tenn. and Ed Ran
dali of Rochester. N. Y, win to-
days semifinalS in the Ameri-
can Seniors Golf Association
tournament, tomorrow's title
match will be a repetition of
last year.
Brumley, who beat Randall for
the title in 1854, first must get
by Mike Hall of Rochester, N. Y.
And in Randall's path is Carl
S. Herrud of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
In an cratic match yesterday.
Brumley beat Clark Espie of
Indianapolis in 10 holes. They
halved only four holes and
Brumley had two double bogies
but he birdied the 18th to win.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Weak Defense Hurts
CeItics as Syracuse
Boosts PIayoff Edge
BY the Associated Press

The Boston Celtics have Easy
Ed Macauley. Bob Cousy and Bill
Sharman. But they don't have
much defense and as a result the
Syracuse Nationals have a 20
lead in their best-of-flve playoff
for the Eastern championship of
the National Basketball Associa-
ton.
Sharman scored 80 points for
the Celtics last night. but the
Mats stayed in there during a
late Boston rally to pull it out,
116-1l0. Syracuse, the defending
Eastern Division champion,
could wrap it up tomorrow after
noon in Boston.
The Western Division playoff
is marking time. Fort Wayne
leads Minneapolis, FL. The
fourth game is scheduled for
Minneapolis Sunday.
Syracuse didn't have anyone
close to Sharman in the scoring,
but the Mats had a fine balanced
attack that paid off in the end.
After a rapid-fire second period,
in which the two clubs scored II
points, Syracuse claimed a 1854
halftime lead and it wasn't until
late in the third period that the
Celtics got moving.
Boston outscored the Mats 1871
In one stretch for a 96-93 lead
with 812 minutes left. But then
Syracuse came on again with
three straight field goals by
Wally tOX) Osterkorn.
Macauley pitched in with 81
points to help Sharman, with
Cousy adding Is and setting
record with Is assists. Dolph
Schayes scored 90 and Red Rocha
u for Syracuse.