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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-05-26

The public installation of Off
GERS of Windermere Assembly No.
Z, Order of Rainbow for Girls,
will be held Friday, May 9th, at
Windermere Methodist Church at
500 p. m.
Ann Schuff, the incoming
Worthy Advisor, is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A Schuff of
l841 Grasmere.
The installing officers are:
Worthy Advisors, Martha Muel-
Ter and Janet Vyse; Chaplain,
Christine Beach; Marshals, Sandy
Mellen and Jean Witter; Recorder,
Charlotte Wormald; Soloist, Carol
Bandy; Pianist, Janet Stillinger.
Elected officers are; Worthy
Associate Advisor, Linda Yannet-
ia; Charity, Phyllis Smith; Hope,
Marilyn Sahan; Faith, Donna
Graham; Treasurer, Andrea Allen;
Recorder, Barbara Hook.
The appointed officers are:
Chaplain, Linda Parker; Drill
Leader, Nancy Hobby; Flag Bear
er, Carol Brown; Banner Bearer,
Barb Fuluer; Historian,
Sister of Love. Leslie Farms
worth; Religion, Lois Restal;
Nature, Roberta Eccleston; I'M
mortality, Gail Howell; Fidelity,
Joan McGimpsey; Patriotism,
Mary Cumming; Service, Jane
Parker.
Confidential Observer, Carol
Kuznik; Outer Observer, Carol
Kennedy; Musician, Janice Rick;
Choir Director, Carol Steimele.
Choir: Janet Allsopp, Sue Ar
mold, Nancy Beach, Tama Sue
Cahow, Anita Davies, Marjorie
Graves, Donna Harris, Joan Has
kell, Rosalie Hoffman, Janet Kret-
ger, Yvonne Kovach, Barbara Low
miller, Sharon Lapka, Joan Dillen,
and Elizabeth Rein.
The Mother Advisor is Mrs.
Rae Weiss.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-05-26

It's a boy for Staff Sgt. and
Mrs. George Whiteman. Named
Mark Alan, the baby was born
May 10TH, weighing in at 7lb., 10
ozs. The family is residing at
1910 Seventh ave., Bloomington,
CAL, while Staff Sgt Whiteman is
stationed at March Air Force Base,
Riverside, Cal. George, who ex-
poets to be discharged about July
25th, is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
X. S. Whiteman, 13909 Strath-
more ave.
Items for this column may be
sent to Elsa c. Berg or phoned
to Pc. 1-337s. Deadline 5 pm.
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred A. Hanel
and children of 1880 Lake Front
ave. spent the weekend visiting
relatives in Columbus.
Mrs. Daniel Grossman Of Third
ave. spent the week with friends
in Dayton, Ohio.
Mrs. Jennie Kailor and Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Cargill of 1884
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-05-26
Personals

The Rev. and Mrs. S. F. Porter,
1879 Alvason I'd. are home from
Philadelphia, Pa, where they at
tended the convention Of the
Christian and Missionary Alliance
as delegates from the local church.
Memorial weekend visitors at
the st. Elmo, Chautauqua, N. Y,
will include Miss Louise Baker.
Miss Elsa and Pauline Berg and
Miss Emma Timpe.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-05-26
To Boost Business
ALONG Route 70

Restaurant owners, motel pro-
prietors and gas station operators,
ect., have formed a new organi-
cation to be known as route 20
Association. It's objective will be
to induce traffic to use Route 20,
rather than other roads in coming
into and passing through the met
ropolitan area.
The East Cleyeland Business As
sociation has given its stamp of
approval to the new association as
an aid to business along the route.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-05-26

young men and women) "Words
and Music"
The musical comedy is being
presented at the new Lakewood
Civic Auditorium on Saturday
and Sunday evenings, May 1929,
ia $3.50 p. m.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Nehru Stops in ItoIy
|On Moscow Flight

ROME, June 6 R.-India S
Prime Minister Nehru stopped
off briefly in Rome today en-
route for a months visit to
Moscow and Communist East
Europe.
The Premier arrived here from
Cairo. He declined to comment
on his forthcoming visit with
the Kremlin leaders.
Mr.. Nehru was accompanied
by his daughter, Mrs. Indira
Gandhi, several government off,
cials and IL Indian newsmen
He is travelling aboard an Air
India plane to- Prague, where he
will continue aboard q special
Russian plane for Moscow.
Mr.. Nehru's schedule calls for
his arrival in the Soviet capital
tomorrow and his departure
June 23 for Warsaw. From the
Polish capital he will go to
Vienna on June ~ and then to
Belgrade on June 80.
Mr.. Nehru told newsmen in
Carlo the friendship he enjoys
with both East and West might
help relax Asian tensions. The
Premier said he had nothing
definite to discuss with Soviet
leaders, but he voiced hope the
Forthcoming Big -Four summit
parley would clear the general
latmoSnhere.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Warren Speaks
'On Democracy

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass, June
Is (P)-Chief Justice Warren told
a graduating class yesterday that
"of all the known forms of gov
ernment democracy is the most
difficult to achieve, to practice
and to preserve"
He told the 1l8th commence
ment of Mount Holyoke College
that:
Democracy is not so much a
form of government as it is the
spirit of the people. Its form is
easily counterfeited, but its spirit
either lives or dies according to
existing standards of civil in
telligence and social morality.
The key to all progress is cit
izenship."
He said that on the Office of
citizenship ARE predicated all
the hopes and ambitions we have
for our country and ourselves"
In presenting an honorary
doctor of laws degree to the
Chief Justice, Mount Holyoke
President Roswell G. Ham said !:
yours has been a life devoted
to the whole citizenship with
out regard to variations or creed
with many more years of
distinguished service ahead you
have already gained the pro-
found respect of a nation in
the performance of your pres
ent high Office"
An honorary doctor Of laws
degree also was conferred on
CHS News Analyst Edward r.
Murrow.
Evening star., 1955-06-06
DORIS FLEESON

Early this week the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy
will start taking a long, hard
look at President Eisenhower's
newest appointee to the
Atomic Energy Commission,
Allen Whitfield of Des Moines,
Iowa.
Mr.. Whitfield is "a lawyer
and a director and major
stockholder of the Valley Bank
of Des Moines, The commit
tees investigation will focus
on the history of the Valley
Bank and Mr.. Whitf1eld's con-
nection with it.
Their investigators have re-
ported that he was originally
counsel to a principal owner
of the bank and on the owners
death became one of the trus-
tees of his estate. According
to their report, the trust prop
erty of that estate. Valley
Bank stock being the major
item, was purchased indirectly
by the trustees through a cor
poration which they con-
trolled.
What the committee pro-
poses to do is to trace Mr..
Whitefild's precise relation
ship to all the transactions
which took place with respect
to this trust property.
1t is a long and complex
story but fully documented by
court records. The Des Moines
Register and Tribune, which
reviewed it subsequent to Mr.
Whitf1eld's appointment, found
that it took about five COL
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Joint Committee to Take Long, Hard Look
At Whitfield Appointment to Acc

umns to explain. The news
paper drew no conclusions nor
has the Joint Committee.
It is however the intention
of Chairman Clinton Ander-
son to hold public hearings
and thoroughly ventilate the
situation.
Detailed hearings were in
prospect for the Whitfield
nomination from the very be-
ginning because it possesses a
unique distinction. 1t is the
first nomination to that most
sensitive agency Of govern
ment of a man deeply involved
in partisan politics.
Mr.. Whitfield is a big wheel
in the Iowa Republican organi-
zation. The State Central Com
mittee of which he is a mem
ber named him counsel to the
party. He is chairman of one
of the district groups and for
merly headed the Iowa Young
Republican Club.
He seems to possess no ex-
pert knowledge of the atomic
field to compensate for his in
tensely politica. complexion.
He is counsel for the atomic
installation at Iowa State Col
lege and so has the top clear
ance-Q clearance it is called
but his work in that connec-
ton was distinctly minor.
Very noticeably, the knowl-
edgeable Iowan who is ranking
Republican on, the Join
mic Committee, Senator
Hickenlooper. chooses his
words carefully when asked
about the Whitfield appoint
Evening star., 1955-06-06
U.N. Has Much to Answer for

countries which want all the
advantages Of independence
without any of the expensive
obligations of defense that
logically must be assumed by
any independent, sovereign
state.
Most people in the world
are very little aware of the
present condition Of the is
lands which used to appear on
the map as the Dutch East
Indies, and where valuable oil
and rubber are to be found.
After the United States and
Soviet Russia, this is the rich
est area in the world in nat
ural resources. Most people,
moreover, do not know why
Soviet Russia and Communist
China look with such covetous
eyes on these islands. But the
truth is that, by the process
of infiltration and internal
conspiracy which is the famil-
lar pattern of the "cold war"
the Communists are eager to
secure the complete conquest
of the Indonesians.
The only light on the hori-
zon is the fact that America,
Britain, France and many
other powers at last have
awakened to the menace Of
the Indonesian dictator in his
attempt to grab Dutch New
Guinea and set up a colonial
ism Of his own. This island
territory, which is $500 miles
from the Indonesian capital,
no more belongs to 1ndonesia
than Guam does to Japan.
Dutch New Guinea is a strate-
gic gateway to Australia. II
Indo-C China comes under the
yoke of communism along with
Indonesia, the peoples of the
former colonial areas in south
east Asia will have lost any
chance for real freedom and
real independence.
The glib orators and easily
pressured statesmen Of the
West may continue to prate
about the "evils Of colonial
ISM" but they will be hard
put to it now to find ways Of
encouraging investors to build
up these undeveloped coun-
tries if the Communists are to
move in any day with their
policies of confiscation - as
they have done in Indonesia.
Communist colonialism. with
its disorders and tyranny in
the Netherlands East Indies,
has supplanted Dutch coloni-
alism, with its liberty and eco
nomic stability. The United
Nations has a great deal on its
conscience to answer for. It
did help to sell the Indonesian
people into bondage.
panpndurtion Rirhtx Reseryed.1
Evening star., 1955-06-06
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Soviet Sure to Keep Pledge to Yugoslovio;
Turkish Way WeT-Known in Belgrade

Asia Minor and it seemed for
a while that his efforts would
be doomed to failure.
The newlyborn Bolshevik
government in Moscow came
to his rescue. 1t offered arms.
supplies and about $50 million
in gold. A treaty Of friendship
was signed between Moscow
and Ankara. With the Russian
help and the determination OF
his men Kemal won the battle.
He then settled down to make
Turkey into a modern republic.
But the greedy men in the
Kremlin began to move in. at
tempting to destroy the bud
ding democracy. Lenin had
solemnly pledged not to inter-
fere in the internal affairs
of Turkey. Nevertheless his
agents started working among
the desperately poor peasants.
They plotted against Kemal
and tried to gain converts in
his army and government.
The Ankara government
quickly ordered the arrest of
all known subversive agents in
Anatolia. They numbered less
than 1000. They were put on
a vessel at the Black Sea port
of Samsoun to be deported to
Russia. The ship was not par
ticularly seaworthy, according
to the official version. Within a
few hours after leaving port
she foundered. The Turkish
crew took to the boats but the
Russians below decks were
unfortunately" drowned. That
ended the active Communist
subversion in Turkey and also
the cordial" relations between
the countries.
There are even now the
usual attempts by Red agents
to penetrate Turkey. But large
scale endeavors to subvert the
government and the people
have ceased despite the wide
spread belief that poverty
breeds communism. The Turk
ish masses are still very poor;
yet they reject communism
and its attending atheism vi
gorously.
We don't do things the
Turkish way" Our Govern
Evening star., 1955-06-06
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The allies invite Russia Big Four conference July IL in
Geneva Footnote to bring
own aeenda pal. bars close at midnight.
arplanss show how far this "do-it
yourself" gone Now Ike building his air force
Harry Truman he won't campaign next unless
asked 1t isn't Harry campaign that worries Ada
Stevenson, but how to get him to stop.
Bostonian Robert Cutler is named White House
stant 1t Of to drive the White House
squirrels They danger of being ramped to death
the crush Of consultants.
President Nixon differs with Secretary Dulles the
Importance Of the Big Four talks Just slight language diff
Guilty see, Dulles speaks Engsh-while Nixon speaks
Republican.
West Point for his 40th class reunion Just in
time too They there not be any old soldier
reunions-he those fellows down in Washington cutting
the Army.
Evening star., 1955-06-06

One Soviet pledge likely to
be kept is that given to Yugo-
slavia not to interfere in its in
ternal affairs - meaning that
Russia will not try to over
throw Tito by the usual con-
spiracies Of Soviet agents.
The reason is that Tito is a
former NKVD man himself
and knows how to handle the
Russian agents.
The Kremlin always gives.
such pledges when it is anx-
ious to renew friendly rela-
tions" with a foreign country.
But it keeps them only when it
encounters ruthless opposition.
The Russians made no head
way in Turkey when Musta-
pha Kemal was struggling to
organize the new republic. The
Turkish government took stern
steps. But Moscow developed
important espionage and sub
versive activities in this coun-
try despite the commitments
made to President Roosevelt
when he decided to recognize
the Red regime in 1888. The
Turks. like the YugoSlavs,
were tough. We were soft.
Even today, when we finally
recognize the Communist con-
spiracy. our Government deals
gingerly with the Kremlin.
The story of how the Turks
fought of the Red conspiracy
at q time when they were not
yet sure that they would sur
vive as an independent state
is worth telling. In 1919 Kemal
Pasha broke with the Con-
stantinople government. He
decided to save his country
from the dismemberment to-
ward which it was headed. He
had at his command tens OF
thousands of trained soldiers
but lacked military equipment,
ammunition and transporta-
ton to oppose the Greek ar
mics which the World War l
allies had launched against
him. The British, French and
Italians had effectively blocked
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Tito Is an NKVD Man Himself

ment is complacent in the
realm of ideas. Before the ink
on the 1888 treaty was dry
Moscow rushed agents into
this country. They managed
to organize cells" among
American citizens in some Of
the highest places in the Gov
ernment. They worked hard
and with a degree Of success
among some of our intellec-
tuals who felt frustrated after
the 1890 depression.
In l942 the Russians became
our trusted and valiant allies"
in the struggle against the
Nazi totalitarianism. The Red
soldiers bravery against the
Hitler legions stirred the adj
miration of the American peo-
pie. Warnings of a handful OF
men, especially in Washington,
who knew that many of our
Government agencies and de-
fense plants were infested with
Red subversives, were not only
unheeded but were stilled by
higher-ups who did not want
to endanger our final victory
by offending our valiant Mus.
covite allies.
Russian spies. caught red
handed by American security
officers were not put ION a boat
which foundered." They were
ordered released Immediately
and allowed to proceed to their
destination with their baggage
intact. Security agents who
proved too diligent were trans
ferred to unimportant jobs.
This softness toward Moscow
agents who had q 20-year field
day in subverting our citizens
and stealing our secret weapons
has had an impact on our pres.
ent situation. It is impossible
and would be foolish to try to
prevent Communist doctrines
penetrating any country. But
it was and Is possible to pre-
vent the damage of subversive
agents who conSpire against q
country.
OF course it is easier to check
subversion in small countries
such as Turkey or Yugoslavia.
But if our Government had not
been so soft on the USSR, the
Red infiltration could have
been stamped out as easily as
that of the NaziS.
Evening star., 1955-06-06

In my last column. I re-
marked that the two-power
world of 1945-55 has dissolved,
and that the fact accounts
for most of the present ire
appraisals."
I also would remark an
other change of significance,
namely the decline Of faith in
socialism, of which commu-
nism is merely the most radi-
cal expression.
Since 1945 communist So
cialism has expanded over
half the world. But this ex-
pansion has not been the re-
suit of spontaneous revolution.
In eastern Europe it was i'm
posed by foreign armies. In
Yugoslavia and China it was
imposed by military factions
originally armed for a quite
different national purpose.
To turn a national war into
a civil war always has been a
prescribed Communist tactic,
but the success of a tactic
under exceptional conditions
does not constitute a popular
revolution.
The Russian revolution OF
1917, although accomplished
in much the same way, was
hailed by humane spirits
everywhere as the dawn of
q new age of progress, the cul-
mination of what half a CEN
tury had been waiting and
heading for. It is well to re-
member this. In my early
youth nearly every liberal and
enlightened mind accepted
Evening star., 1955-06-06
THY THOMPSON
Problems Now Complicated, Not Simple
And Permit No Theoretical Solution

one or another form of social
ism as the wave of the fu-
ture."
Belief in a scientifically
planned economy directed by
a benevolent state in behalf
of the masses" or common
man" was cherished by nearly
all who were sensitively aware
of the injustices, iniquities,
and inhumanities of 10TH
century capitalism.
They saw in socialism the
only means of overcoming the
tragic cycle Of boom and
bust" chronic unemployment.
want in the midst of plenty,
and universal economic in
security.
Leaders of thought-sociol-
ogists. poets, novelists, play
wrights - were rebelliouS
against existing circumstances,
but had unbounded optimism
in a solution for human woes
along the lines of democratic
evolutionary, or Tadical-rev-
olutionary socialism.
Their optimism led to an
enormous oversimplification Of
the problems of man and So
ciety. But they were eager,
gifted, lovable and deeply hu-
name. those early socialists.
Today most of them are
deeply disillusioned, and. more
Importantly, they have no sue
cessors Of the same type. The
reasons, it. seems to me, are
dual.
First, capitalism" is not re-
motely what it was so. or even
Evening star., 1955-06-06

prises-has been superseded by
Communist colonialism.
Today there is no such thing
as human liberty in a demo-
cratic sense in Indonesia. Some
of the finest Dutch business
men-seventy of them-have
been thrown into jail on
trunped-up charges of con-
spiracy and have been denied
the right to choose their own
counsel to defend themselves.
None of the so-called wicked"
colonial governments Of Eu-
rope would have dared to do
anything of this sort.
The record of Soviet in
f1uence in the setting up of
the Indonesian republic is
known to everybody in official
circles familiar with what
happened when the Dutch
were forced out by diplomatic
coercion. In a pamphlet
which, after being printed in
l949, was suppressed here in
order not to create further
complications in the relations
with the Indonesians. the
Netherlands Government says:
THE course of all negotia-
tions with the republic of In
donesia for a final political
overall agreement, from the
very first phase up to the re-
cent breakdown, has been
deeply affected by Communist
influence and undercover ac-
ton in the republic and its
government"
More than a billion dollars
is still invested in 1ndonesia
by the Dutch. The government
here is doing all it can to
protect those investments and
hence nobody advocates a re-
turn of Dutch rule. There is
deep concern over the pros
poets. For, although the
United Nations helped to
create the Indonesian republic.
it appears to have abandoned
the people to a dictatorship.
Despite its own intervention
just after World War II, the
the United Nations organiza- -
ton does nothing now to safe
guard the rights of the mil
lions of people who. against
their will. were stripped of the
protection of the Netherlands
government.
Obviously Indonesia cannot
protect itself against military
attack. 1t cannot ask the
Netherlands government to
fight future invaders. This is
the plight of those smaller
Evening star., 1955-06-06
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Socialist of Today Is an Old Bogey

30 years ago. The gap between
rich and. poor has diminished
in all industrial countries. A
more or less advanced form Of
the welfare state" prevails
in all Western nations without
socialism. Ways nave been
found to temper the opera
tions Of the business cycle,
which no longer appears as
the inevitable" accompani-
ment of Capitalism"
The most productive and
prosperous economies. with the
widest distribution Of material
benefits are all mixed" COM
binations Of public and private
investment and integrated e d
public and private planning.
Secondly, socialism, whether
of the Fabian-Democratic or
Radical Communist variety
has demonstrated no capacity
to fulfill its promise of univer-
sal abundance. It's contribu-
tion has been to produce. at
best. fair shares Of scarcity
bureaucratically dist ributed,
and at worst to produce what
approximates a slave society.
Communism. has, indeed.
solved the problem Of Chronic
unemployment" There is never
unemployment in any society
that can compel people to
work for any wage, under any
conditions, or starve or go to
jail.
The socialist today is there
fore on the defensive. He is,
to tell the truth, an old bogey.
The problems that engage
humane minds are compli-
Gated, but practical. permit
ting of no simple, theoretical
solution, to be achieved by the
Evening star., 1955-06-06
Plight of People in Republic Of Indonesio
BIomed on Phony Cry of Anti-C CoIoniolism
DAVID LAWRENCE

THE HAGUE, Holland, June
6.-The pnony cry Of anti
colonialism, to which many
persons in the free world
have so blindly succumbed.
has much to answer for in
the terrible plight of the peo-
pie of the so-called republic
of Indonesia.
Since the East Indies were
governed peaceably by the
Netherlands government for a
long time, the facts available
here show a nation torn by
revolution, menaced by the
steady exodus Of foreign cap
ital and ruled by a Communist
inspired dictator. IndoneSia
has 80 million people. but pro-
Communist forces rule the
government and prevent elec-
tions from being held.
Holland was pressured by
the governments Of Britain
and the United States to give
up its colonies and grant
complete independence to In
donesia. But the new spon-
sors today have abandoned
the islands. A dictatorship
government there continues to
defy and spurn a report from
the United Nations Commits
sion made in October, 1850
which sought to carry through
its mission of peaceful recon-
struction.
The Dutch government is
saddened, and SO are the peo-
pie of this country of all par
ties. that the free world has
allowed such a tragedy to hap
pen. Worst of all is the con-
tinued indifference of the
United Nations to the plight
of the republic of the South
Moluccas, which was granted
autonomy under the historic
agreement of 1949 as a men,
ber of the new federation COM
priSing the United States of
1ndonesia. But the Soekarno
dictatorship has since torn the
federal unions constitution to
pieces and seized much of the
territory of the Moluccas. The
people there are still fighting
for liberty and independence
under frightful conditions of
blockade and economic isola-
ton which are abetted by for
eign. shipowners in league with
the Indonesian dictatorship.
Enlightened colonialism-for
the Dutch have undoubtedly
been the best of modern ad-
ministrators and the Staunch
builders of economic enter