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dent and mean the nomination of Il
second or third string candidate.
Not to run again woul leave un-
finished a lot Of things he wants
to do. Unless his health breaks
down, not to run again would be
unthmkable. He not only cannot re-
sist the pressure but he does not
want to. At least, such is the con-
viction Of those in best position TO
know.
As to that first point-the abili-
ty Of the Democrats to damage
General Ike" very badly in the
next twenty months, that is diff
ferent. For one thing, he may get
some bad breaks in both the ma
tional and the international stu
ations. For another, he may make
some bad blunders. He has not, 50
far, made any that have injured
him much, either personally on po-
litically. But there is always the
chance and his enemies will con-
trive as many pitfalls and traps
for him as they cam He may fall
into one or two and get really hurt.
On the other hand, the last two
years have taught the President a
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Hner, Is, Dellslow, W. Va.
Robert Ewing Watson, 60, miner,
and Bertha Alberta Anders, So,
both neGl Uniontown, Pa.
Charles Harry Paugh, y, as
sembler, and Lee Anna Dunithan.
Is, both Elk Garden, ". Va.
Licenses Recently Issued
Henry Wilson Ragland, 24, Y
ray technician, and Louise Ann
Paslian, "a. both Pittsburgh, Pa.
Vaughn David pirlo, q, laborer,
near Gleer. ". Va, and Helen Viz
ginia Metheny, Il (parent's con-
senU. Morgantown, W. Va.
Richard Kenneth Steadman, %,
stock boy. and Martha Ellen Trim
Bic, -. (parent's consentl beth Of
Grafton, W. Va.
Clayton Thomas Smith, 81,
trucker near Greensburg, Pa, and
Mary Catherine Bryner, -, Con-
nellsville. Pa.
Hayward Altman, 20. parent's
CONSENT unemployed, and Ora
Jean Richards, 20, both Owings,
w. Va.
Ralph Emil Hay, p, farmer. and
Meredith Marie May, 10, both Mill
Run. Pa.
Harry Carl Kisnor. %, trucker
Corinth. W. Va. and Rachel Stacey
Loughry. Is, near Terra Alta, w
Va.
Dwight Leroy Frestone, %, L
S Army, and klaiu Ruth Burn
worth, 20, both Mill Run. Pa.
Frenchy Wilfold Greer, %, l
S. Navy, New York City, n Y.
and Mildred Phyllis Price, IS, Nan
Gerald Dean Pyle, 20. laborer
near Somerset, Pa, and Loretta
Kathleen Liston, Is. near Mil
Run, Pa.
Stephen jefferson Shaffer, ST.,
46. laborer. Terra Alta, W. Va.
and Fleda Loretta Mcpherson, 45
Tunnelton, ". Va.
Joseph Albert Gmitter, %, stu
dent, McKees Rocks, Pa, and Glen
da jackson Faircloth, 10, Fayette
vile, n. c.
Clifton Eldon Rogers, 81, truck
er, Burlington, w. Va, and Shirley
Susan Berg, 20, Maysyille, ". Va
Ralph Benjamin Tesla. p, stee
worker, Aliquippa, Pa, and Aniti
Jane Erwin, 10, South Heights, Pa
Donald Ray Hart, 81, body man
and Betty June Nanscoy, p, botE
Elkins. w. Va.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1855
Congressional
Viewpoint
Sen, John Marshall Butler

Several years ago, recall read
ing a study devoted to the subject
Of international trade which opened
by asking questions much in this
vein-"Must the United States con-
tinue to grant aid to other coun-
tries of the free world? Why is
aid necessary? What steps can be
taken to balance or equalize world
trade? Why are these steps not
taken? What is the best tariff
policy for the United States? For
the entire world?"
In 1889, the Congress passed the
first tariff bill as means Of
gaining revenue. Since then, the
answers to the questions as posed
above have been sought periodical
ly, and have resulted in varying
higher and lower tariffs (tariffs
are imposed barriers to an inter
change of trade between nations).
These questions assume a timely
significance with the commence
ment of hearings today concerned
with President Eisenhower's pro-
posals to extend primarily the Re
ciprocal Trade Agreements Act for
another three years.
The Reciprocal Trade Agree
ments Act, originally adopted in
1894, reflects a new concept for
tariff considerations. It authorizes
the President to engage in pacts
with other nations for the mutual
reduction of tariffs. Earlier, the
Congress had set the rate Of tariff
for any item coming into this
country. The Trade Agreements
Act is intended to pattern a policy
of gradually decreasing tariffs,
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Sunday morning worship service
and Sunday school at Fairview
were cancelled due to snow-blocked
roads. Council meeting will be held
Thursday evening, January 20, at
1870 o'clock.
Sunday dinner guests at the
Frank Blamble home were Mr.. and
Mrs. William Bittinger. sons Carl
and Harold. and Rayetta Hanlin.
Claud Simmons is patient in
the veterans hospital in Martins
burg, due to a broken elbow re-
ceived i'm a fall on ice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lacy White were
Sunday dinner guests Of the Homer
Knots.
Rev and Mrs. Ross Speicher and
Mrs. Twila Clark were business
visitors in Cumberland one day
last week.
Howard Henline is i'll at the
home Of his daughter, Mrs. Homer
Knots.
Sunday visitors Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Childs were Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Gnegy, Mr.. and Mrs Edwin
Childs and Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
Childs.
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie File an
nounce the birth of son, Gary Al
len, in the Garrett County Me-
mortal hospital, Sunday, January
IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Harvey were
Sunday evening callers of the
Luther Cosner family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Childs have
moved into the Clinton Shaffer
residence, near Red House.
Arlie Fike, of near Aurora, re-
ceived a broken shoulder in a fall
at his home last Saturday.
Frank Blamble spent Tuesday
with his parents. His father has
been i'll at his home for some time.
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cent illness.
MIR. and Mrs. Lester Moon and
family have returned to Canton,
O.. after visiting relatives here.
Robert Ford has enlisted in the
U. S. Army and is stationed at Ft.
jackson, S. c.
George Wheeler has been i'll at
the home of his son-in-law and
daughter, Rev. and Mrs. w. c.
Rogers.
Mrs. Homer Liston was hostess
to members of the 500 club at her
home last Thursday evening.
Prizes went to Mrs. Francis Fau-
Der and Mrs. Alvey Richie.
Kitty Gnegy has returned from
New jersey to spend a few months
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clyde Gnegy.
Sunday guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-01-20

A program of highway building
costing Federal and state govern
ments over 101 billions in ten years
won presidential backing.
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In fact, the Democratic situation.
at what is practically the opening
Of the 1856 campaign, is anything
but happy. The unchallenged popu-
larity Of the President is such that
Democratic politicians privately adj
NIT that no one in their party could
beat MIN if the election were held
now. The Eisenhower writer's
are obviously wearing themselves
a little thin and the divergence be-
tween Democratic spokesmen, who,
like their recent recruit, the gar
rulous and venomous Wayne Morse
Of Oregon, picture the President
as a flop, fake and failure, and
Senator Sparkman of Alabama,
who asserts that he would be a
splendid President if only he were
a Democrat is somewhat ridicu-
lous. 1t is made more so by those
who charge that General Ike" is
moving more toward the Roosevelt
Truman policies and those who al
lege that he is really the captive
of the Old Guard Taft element.
This would seem to sustain the
Presidents own definition that he
is a progressive moderate"
Evening star., 1955-06-19
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Backward Step

Under impetus of the first Hoover
Commission, the Post Office Department
has been making good progress in Kidding
the postal service of politics. Patronage
opportunities have been reduced, al
though much remains to be done, as the
new commission pointed out in recent
report. Congress would be taking back
ward step, therefore. If it adopted a
patronage proposal just voted by the
Senate Civil Service Committee.
Under the Johnston bill approved by
the committee, approximately 10 jobs
created under recent reorganization of
the postal service would be removed from
the merit system and included in the
political patronage setup. The Offices
involved are in the field Appointments
up to now have been made by promotion
OF career employees in the civil service.
The new plan would force these officials
out In 80 days unless they were nomi-
mated by the President and confirmed by
the Senate. This is the patronage -domi-
mated system for postmasters criticized
by the Hoover Commission in two reports.
The Johnston bill ought to be killed If 1t
ever reaches the floor.
Evening star., 1955-06-19
Dixon-Yotes Victory

The Eisenhower administration has
won a significant and possibly decisive
victory in the long fight over the Dixon
Yates power project This came in the
198-to-169 vote by which the House re-
versed its Appropriations Committee and,
in effect, restored $6.5-million appro-
priation to build transmission lines which
will carry Dixon-Yates power into the
iva system. This power would replace
IVA electricity used elsewhere by Atomic
Energy Commission projects.
Actually, this controversy comes
down to a private VS.. public power debate
The President thinks the job should be
done by the private power industry. But
Dixon-Yates opponents want the power
produced by iva, even though this would
necessitate the building of new steam
plant at Fulton, Tenn. This, according
to Dixon-Yates hackers, would project
iva activity 100 miles outside the area
designated in the iva law.
The favorite cry of the Presidents
opponents is that the Dixon Yates con-
tract will dismember and destroy IVA.
This has an emotional appeal, but it is
the Sheerest nonsense. And those men,
bers of the House who, by their votes,
rejected any such contention are to be
congratulated.
Evening star., 1955-06-19
Stock Market Report

A bipartisan majority Of the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee has
produced moderate and constructive
report on the committees recent inquiry
into the behavior and operation of the
Nations security markets. Described by
Chairman Fulbright as friendly study"
when it was launched, the conduct of the
open hearings and the conclusions later
reached have provided little support for
q minority Republican charge that the
whole undertaking has been a deliberate
attempt to disturb the economy. For
even the behavior of the markets during
this period of study, and since, has re-
flected no serious apprehension that a
witch-hunting expedition was under way
or that damagingly restrictive legislation
would result.
At the same time, there is an abun-
dance of statistical evidence-not so
much in the rise of security prices as in
the type and quantity of buying-to con-
Arm the committee majority's feeling
that potentially dangerous speculative
movement had started to develop in late
1854. This being so. more good than
harm should result from bringing this
fact to public notice and proposing fur
ther study of possible abuses and manip-
ulations in the trading of securities.
Some of these further lines of inquiry
into proxy battles, influence of floor
traders, impact of institutional buying
and selling, for example-may, or may
not, warrant regulatory changes
Meanwhile, the committee majority
has made several proposals which seem
to be in the best interests Of investors
and of the markets themselves. One is
that stocks traded "over-the- e-counter"
should be required to comply with the
same Federal laws and regulations as
those listed on exchanges. Another is
that the Securities and Exchange Com
mission should exercise even Stricter po-
licing of the marketing of the so-called
penny stocks"-so many of which are
sold by high-pressure methods in which
a get-rich-quick appeal is emphasized A
third is that efforts should be increased,
particularly with Canadian authorities,
to check the sale to United States citi-
zens Of worthless foreign stocks. It has
been estimated that Canadian conf
dence men" have sold as much as $50
million of worthless stocks in the United
States in single year.
AS for the level Of market prices, by
some measurements at an all-time high,
the committee majority did not challenge
Evening star., 1955-06-19
Fewer Drives Preferred

Retiring President Herbert c. Blunck
Of the Community Chest Federation is
right in declaring that the people Of the
Washington area prefer a united charity
campaign to multiple drives. The Gre
alton OF the Community Chest resulted
from public demand for orce-for-an
solicitation system. Since the organiza-
ton Of the Chest more than quarter
Of century ago the number of agencies
Joining in the one-shot drive has in
creased, year by year. But, unfortu-
nately, the number of drives outside the
Chest also has increased. This multi
plicity Of appeals has been resented by
the public, by business firms and by Gov
ernment officials. It Is to Mr.. Blunck's
credit that he has waged tireless fight
for a reduction in the number of drives
through adoption here of the united fund
plan used in several hundred other
communities.
What has been lacking in Washing
ton is enthusiastic leadership for a
united fund from some source not di-
rectly connected with the Community
Chest or other parties at interest. In
commendable effort to meet this made
quacy, the Board of Trade has volun-
teered to undertake to arouse community
sentiment for a united fund that would
include present Chest agencies, the Red,
Cross and as many of the health-research
organizations as possible. John A. Reilly
has been named chairman Of special
committee to consult with major fund
raising groups on the plan.
An important angle that should not
be overlooked by the committee Is the
vital role of payroll deductions in con-
so1idated solicitation. Detroit and other
large cities where the united fund idea
has succeeded have found that avail
ability Of the easy-payment payroll plan
is basic consideration. Many private
employers in Washington already have
adopted the plan for the convenience Of
their employees. But legislation is needed
to permit Federal agencies to make such
deductions. The Board of Trade will
have rendered the Metropolitan Area
memorable service if it helps to eliminate
present obstacles to united fund
through the Reilly committees welcome
missionary work.
Evening star., 1955-06-19

with no censor he broadcasts
what is in his mind.
It was said by an admirer
of William Morris Hunt that
he lighted up everything he
touched. Blessed is the man
who lights up everything he
touches-whose casual words
are winged with wholesome
ness and hope and whose very
presence is an elixir to jaded
souls who are fainting by the
way. Long before the days Of
radio and television Phillips
Brooks was broadcasting. Lis
ten to what a great Boston
newspaper said about that
towering preacher: "It was a
dark and lowering day yes
terday, drizzling chill rain all
day long. But Phillips Brooks
walked down Newspaper Row,
bowling and smiling to his
many friends. and the day was
all sunshine"
Matthew Arnold's father,
when headmaster at the ia
nous Rugby School, did not
realize that the boys there
were listening to his broad
cast. But his son did and,
remembering gratefully what
it meant to him and the other
lads to have upon them the
image and superscription Of
that great character. made out
an lou in his own name
and in the name of his fellow
students, in his noble poem
Rugby Chapel:
Beacons of hope ye appeari
at your uoice,
Panic, despair. flee GUay.
Ye nloUe through the ranks,
recall
The strdgglers, refresh the
ontiDorn,
Praise, re-inSpire the brGDe!
order, courage, return.
Eyes rekindling, and prayers
FollotD your steps as ye 90.
What an inspiring program
was that broadcast across the
student years!
And so, day by day, hour by
hour, each Of us is on the air.
Sometimes the static of what
we are browns, out. alas, what
we say. But waves and vibra-
tions do go out from us con-
stantly. and life Is bigger and
brighter and more beautiful
because of them-or else a
more hopeless and difficult
place for somebody every day.
Through Station YOU you
are on the air either to light
or to blight.
Evening star., 1955-06-19

the quoted values. There are, Of course.
many factors responsible for stock prices
some of them new or so completely
different from the influences which
caused previous record highs that COM
parisons between 1885 and 1929, for ex-
ample, can be thoroughly misleading.
Leaving political partisanship aside,
there is indeed a broad public confidence
today In the national economy and its
future prospects. There are many rea-
sons to feel this confidence is well
founded and that, on the whole, the
strong action of the markets has sound
basis.
Evening star., 1955-06-19
Not q Defeotist

It is easy to make a persuasive case
for the proposition that the Russians are
not to be trusted. And Senator Nc
Carthy, In calling the roll Of So treaty
violations by the SovietS in five years,
has made an effective arguments far
as 1t goes-against another negotiated
settlement in the forthcoming meeting
at "the summit"
The trouble is that the Senator does
not go far enough. He stops short of
proposing anything that can be called an
alternative-except war. And he fails to
explore the implications of one of his own
statements-that the Soviet government
has an unblemished record of not keep
ing single agreement that it was to its
advantage to break"
It would be naive to suppose that the
Russians will live up to a new agreement
If 1t should become to their advantage to
break 1t. But it may be-and this is the
point which Senator Mccarthy ignores
that there has been such change in the
world situation that the Russians now
may find 1t to their advantage to make
and keep-a new agreement.
There is, for example, the growing
strength of the free world This, coupled
with the aweSome aspects Of atomic war,
may well have persuaded the men in the
Kremlin that their day of easy conquests,
either open or covert, has passed. Then
there are the hints that all is not we'll
within RuSsia-the struggle within the
Kremlin, the agricultural problem, the
shortage OF consumer goods, etc. Finally,
some weight should be given to the rising
star OF Red CHINA development which,
in the long view, may be giving birth to
some misgiving in Moscow.
It may be said that all this is wishful
speculation, and perhaps that is so. But
the only way to find out is to explore the
opportunity. And this is what the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Dulles propose to do at
Geneva.
1t is childish to contend that our
representatives will go into the confer
ence like lambs being led to the slaughter,
that for some unStated reason they nee
esSarily will be incapable either Of recog-
nizing Russian duplicity or of under
standing and safeguarding the interests
Of the United States.
Senator Knowland expressed the
only rational view when he said he was
not willing to take "the defeatist posi-
tion' that the Geneva Conference newt
ably will turn out to be another Yalta,
Teheran or Potsdam. He added, and
rightly so, that the Geneva Conference
may offer great opportunities, and we
must not be afraid to explore them, and
to act upon them as occasion may arise
1t must be gratifying to the President,
as he prepares to 60 to Geneva, to know
that he has the support of Senator
Knowland, and, indeed, of the Senate
except for the fragment that remains of
the G. o. P. extreme right wing.
Evening star., 1955-06-19

What's on the air2 What
is the program for today on
radio and television? This
question colors the picture
daily and nightly in millions
of American homes. It is the
the crowning miracle Of this
astounding age. The scenes.
the news, the personalities, the
dramatic talents of actors and
entertainers are all focused, in
palace and cottage, on that
little white screen. 1t Is all
there, the teeming, seething
life of the globe, as fully and
wildly enacted for the miner
as for the millionaire. And it
Is all a parable of life itself. 3
Every single personality is a
broadcasting station. 1t truly
can be said of each and every
individual, YOU'RE on the
air!" Your life is recording
screen at which others are
looking, to which others are
listening. For no man liveth
to himself. What you do.
what you say and, above all,
what you are has an unseen
and often unsupported audi
ence.
The broadcasting station in
which YOU are the chief actor
is YOU. That is a station
that never breaks contact and
never signs off. The most i'm
portant thing that any indi-
vidual can contemplate is what
that privately owned and
operated station is saying to
Others. The Station YOU
controls influence waves whose
lines 60 out to the end of the
earth.
When we least expect it,
other lives are tuning in to
our wave-length. We may
vainly imagine that in any
situation what we do. how we
act, what we say. is our own
concern. But, no. Always
there is an audience tuning in
on our lives. We assume that
we are singing or sobbing to
ourselves, but, in reality, we
are singing or sobbing to an
unseen audience. We are on
the air. It does make a tre-
mendous difference what kind
Of program we are sending out.
We sob, and we broadcast
sobs-that is, we literally put
sobs into the very air. We
sing, and we broadcast songs
we put songs into the air.
We are cynical, and we be-
come broadcasting stations for
cynicism, which is a poison
Evening star., 1955-06-19

that halfway measures are
worse than none, especially so
in this connection?
As far as evacuation is con-
cerned, 1t is the Commissioners
who should be fired for indulg-
ing in fantasies-not q man
endowed with good common
sense who has both Of his feet
on the ground and would like
to keep them there.
william d. Garvey.
The Pentagon brass reached
a new high In its constant at
tempt to keep the fear and
spirit Of war perpetually in the
American mind, when it so
enthusiastically participated in
the mock H-bomb raid on
June Is.
It is becoming more obvious
that the Pentagon hierarchy,
with its tremendous war po-
tential, is growing bored. so
bored that it has taken to
playing pretend war;" Un-
doubtedly by evacuating $4,000
people, including the Presi-
dent himself, to secret hide
aways they played the biggest
game in history, and probably
one of the costliest.
1t appears that the United
States cannot enjoy freedom
from the war scare which has
plagued It for 10 years until
the military and its civilian
side-kicks are denoted TO the
positions they traditionally
held In American life before
World War II. 8. G. II.