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DC. Budget

Recent budget discussions
between the District Commits
sioners and the Board of Edu-
cation regarding a borrowing
plan to finance the much
needed program of school
construction are meritorious
in purpose if not tangential to
the fundamental problem of
budget and finance.
Inherent in the efforts is
talk Of balancing the budget.
For example. the District
Budget ONCE recommended to
the Commissioners a cut-back
Of $7,461 $50 in needed school
construction, as a budget
balancing requirement. mas
much as no budget is balanced
until Congress does so by Fed
eral contribution, why should
the budget officers or the
Commissioners speculate as to
what this figure might be?
Perhaps 1t is time for the
Commissioners to outline in
full our municipal needs and
tell Congress how much It
ought to give.
Under this approach, the
modus operandi would be to
determine the Districts needs
and the Districts income other
than the Federal contribution
and the balancing figure to
make UP the deficit would be
the requested Federal contri-
button.
There was. in the past. fear
that budget increases would
result in congressional pres
sure 70 increase local taxes.
Now the Commissioners can
make a good case for limiting
further tax increases because
additional tax sources have
reached the diminishing point.
Further. Congress. within It's
paternal prerogative. has re-
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uses of the atom for the benefit OF men
everywhere-a genuinely historic event
full of great promise for tomorrow's
world.
The new agency, whose permanent
headquarters probably will be located in
Vienna, will make an operating reality
of one of the most important features Of
President EiSenhowers atomS-for-peace
program. Under the terms of the draft
statute creating it, it will carry out I'M
precedented work Of great significance
in association with the U. N. It's chief
responsibility will be to speed up nuclear
progress throughout the world, with
special emphasis on industrial power,
agriculture and health. To that end,
among other things, it will Systematically
encourage the spread of nonmilitary
atomic knowledge and serve as bank
or pool for fashionable material to be con-
tributed by the United States, Russia and
all other countries producing uranium
235. The material, in turn, will be care
fully supervised and used solely for
various kinds of beneficent projects in
every part of the globe.
This undertaking, Of course, cannot
be expected to achieve great wonders in
a hurry But there can be no doubt that
its elaborate international administrative
organization, assuming vigor of action
and continuing unanimity, will slowly
but surely be able to bring about a great
Improvement in the well-being of all
nations. In that sense it certainly prom
Uses to promote a happier and more
peaceful world than we know now.
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By DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United States Senate

in bronze. He carved beneath
his creation the one word
yet" There it stands by a
sanctuary door. And those
who hear the echo of that
sermon in that work of art
and love, if they have eyes to
see. glimpse Job with health
and family and property
snatched from his grasp ex-
claiming: Though he slay me,
yet will / trust him." They see
Habakkuk uttering in words
Daniel Webster deemed among
the most sublime in literature,
Though the fig tree do not
blossom nor fruit be on the
vines, the produce of the olive
fail and the fields yield no
food, the flock be caught off
from the field and there be no
herd in the stall, yet will I
rejoice in the Lord. I will
JOY in the God Of my saliva
ton" yet" is Jesus of Naz-
areth in Gethsemane's shad-
owed garden facing the prob
ability of an agonizing and
shameful death on a GRIM
mails cross if He persisted in
following the path of His
starry ideals and His fixed
principles still praying: If it
be possible let this cup pass
from Me, yet not My will but
Thine be done" On the point
of that little word hangs the
worlds salvation and re-
demption. Before He ended
His ministry, that Herald of
the Passion whose pleading
tones lifted a monument at
his church's door, urged His
friends Don't leave Yet of
my graveStone. Fling me on
not what I have been. That
humbles me in repentant APP
peal for pardon, but what I
shall be makes me leap to my
feet even across the grave"
yet" is the eternal tonic of
religion. The loved hymn,
Nearer My Cod to Thee" is
a monument close to the door
Of faiths hottest shrine. 1t
sings and sobs and signs. It
says Though heart and flesh
may faint and fail, there is
yet-God." Deep cut on its
eternal granite is one word
yet" Listen
Darkness be ouer me
M rest a stone
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer Ny God to Thee
Yet all my song shall be
Nearer NY God to Thee
Nearer to Thee.
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fused to commit itself to a
fair-share formula. On the
contrary, it has set the pat
tern Of permitting no surplus
and has appropriated only a
sufficient amount to make up
the deficit. II this is a for
mula Of deficits. set by Con-
gress itself. the Commissioners
should take cognizance
thereof.
The Commissioners can rem
der an outstanding service to
this community and do them
selves honor by putting the
needs-all Of them--before
Congress without trying to
outguess it. Initiative and
leadership Of this type, backed
by a vocal community, will
clarity a now-muddled munich
pal impaSse. II there is any
short-changing, 1t viii be clear
to the community and the
Nation that the people Of
Washington and their Com
missioners pleaded their need
but we're denied their due.
Milton A. MandeI.
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seems to be the good Adlai's
prize blunder. For one thing,
the weight of scientific. mill
tary and popular opinion
seemed distinctly adverse to
the idea: For another, some
Of Mr.. Stevenson's chief sup
porters with whom he obvi-
ously did not consult (partic-
ularly Mr.. Truman) failed to
support him. For another,
his running mate, Senator
Kefauver, went even farther
than Mr.. Stevenson in criticism
Of his country's foreign policy
at a critical period in our
foreign relations and with q
dangerous potential enemy
clearly apparent.
Unpleasant Position
Then came the note Of
Premier Bulganin, indorsing
the Stevenson hydrogen pro-
posal and, in effect, indorsing
Stevenson. This threw Mr.. Ste
venson, temporarily at least,
into a state Of painful confu-
sion. His first reaction was to
asSail Mr.. EiSenhower's prompt
and Arm reply to Bulganin as
unfortunate" His not too
bright running mate called it
"peevish." Hardly had he thus
labeled it than Mr.. Stevenson
changed his mind and declared
that he thoroughly agreed with
the Presidents reply, thus
leaving the unhappy coonskin
candidate out on a limb.
Despite his Madison Square
Garden speech a few days ago.
what the ultimate position Of
Mr.. Stevenson on the bomb
tests and the draft will be no
one now can tell-not even his
closest associates. He dis
agreed with some of his top
advisers before he took his
stand. He has disagreed with
Mr.. Truman after he made his
first announcement and since.
He has disagreed with himself
and in the Judgment of most
objective observers has dam
aged his election prospects, en-
HANGED those of the President
and put the Stevenson Kefau-
yer ticket in an unpleasant as
well as improbable position.
Considering the great popu-
larity of the President and
the appeal of the Republican
Party'S slogan-"Peace, Pros
perity. Progress" it is not sur
prising that Mr.. Stevenson
has found the going pretty
tough. But this hardly excuses
the lengths to which the Ste
venson-Kefauver campaign has
gone in deliberate misrepre-
sentation, distortion of the
facts and cheap sneers at ex-
President Herbert Hoover by
the candidate himself. ANY
thing to win" seems to be the
Democratic spirit of this cam
paign to a greater extent than
in 1852. Perhaps, desperation
and the 4-to-1 odds excuse it.
Or perhaps. it is the pressure
of Walter Reuther, without
whose AFL-CIO support, it is
conceded Mr.. Stevenson would
not have a chance. Neither is
a pleasant thought.
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SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
YET

spite of present circumstance
Or consequence. yet" is
Churchill, soothing at an arro-
CANT dictator, announcing the
Date he would capture London
and with yet" breaking
through the frozen paralysis of
a nation and standing it upon
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FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE STAR

settlement. AS I cannot may I
thru you extend my heartiest
good wishes to the boys and
girls in the settlement? That
they may thoroly enjoy them
selves while young and grow
into useful men and women
and true American citizens is
the earnest wish of their
friend, Theodore Roosevelt"
Commented Mr.. Riis: II wrote
the President that I thought
his letter was fine and his
spelling vile"
Better Babies
There was some startling
news out of the Agriculture
Department so years ago. On
October 30. 1906, The Star
said: People may look out
for the time when the Govern
ment seriously takes up the
breeding of babies as it has
already done that of plants
and animals. 1t will then be
necessary for couples to get
the wise of the Secretary Of
Agriculture or some other off,
cial on their marriage certifi-
cate and to pass worse than a
civil service examination be-
fore their banns are pro-
claimed. The examination, to
be thorough. will have to
cover not only their mental,
moral and physical charac-
teristics. but their genealogy
as we'll 1t may take more time
than the Department OF Agri-
culture can devote to the mat
ter and the Importance OF the
subject may lead to the in
stitution Of a marriage censor
ship commission. similar TO
the present Interstate Com
merce Commission. or possibly
it may be made into a sepa-
rate department, under a
secretary, with a seat at the
cabinet table. The sub
tect has been seriously taken
up by the scientists Of the
Department OF Agriculture
and a committee has been
appointed II includes
Prof Alexander Graham Bell
Of Washington :. and Rev. J.
E. Gilbert Of Washington. !. )"
New York and Boston bank
ers had been biting their An
gernails for a week before this
news item appeared in The
Star on October 30, 1905:
"The treasure ship Arabistan,
a week overdue. arrived this
morning with S2.725. 900 In
specie She sailed from Monte
video September Is. BY some
error her arrival at st. Lucia,
where she touched October IL.
was not cabled. and after the
destructive Caribbean hurri-
cane Of October IL, fears for
her we're felt. On october 20.
she appeared safely in Ha-
vana. She was tossed by the
hurricane. The gold is in $40
eagles and was taken 10 the
subtreasury. II Is consigned
to Boston and New York
bankers, An express company
and banking firms had charge
OF the transfer. A number OF
Pinkerton detectives and q
squad OF police were on hand
II IL the largest gold ship
ment ever brought here from
South America
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Captive Audience

Recently the papers have
carried indignant protests
from members Of the Nations
radio and television captive"
audience. They resent the
high-handed assumption Of
the networks that the SIG
nincant sirborne preliminaries
TO a presidential election are
Of more concern to every
American citizen than Is the
resulting blaekout Of his or
her fayorite soap opera, foot
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THE GAME OF POLITICS
IStevenson's Campaign Gets Desperate
By FRANK R. KENT

OF course, long shots some
times win and the 1948 cleo
ton of Mr.. Truman is one not
soon to be forgotten. Never
theless, it is the expected that
nearly always happens in poll
tics and certainly the current
odds of 4-to-1. daily published
in New York newspapers, are
not encouraging to Adlai Ste
venson. Paul Butler, Arthur
Schlesinger, jr., and others Of
his more ardent aides and
advisers.
Probably these account for
the desperation of the Steven
son campaign in the last few
weeks. Desperation certainly
is the only word that ade-
quately describes it. Ever since
his denomination in early Au-
gust, Mr.. Stevenson has almost
frantically sought an effective
issue against Mr.. Eisenhower
and has failed to find one.
Primarily, they (Mr. Stevenson
and his friends) have tried to
convince the people that the
President is for the rich and
powerful and they (Mr. Ste
venson and his friends are for
the little fellow" the poor,
the weak, the worker, the
farmer
Sometimes Works
This has been the technique
of demagogues for literally
centuries. Sometimes it has
worked - here and in other
countries. This time, although
quite the falsest of all the
charges made against the ad-
ministration. it is the only one
the Stevenson StrategiSts have
consistently chung to and with
which they have made some
impression.
Nothing else has. The
"health" issue has shriveled
against the robust and vigor-
Gus appearance and perform
ance of Mr.. Eisenhower. The
charge that he has delegated
the running of the Govern
ment to his aides dropped of
its own weight. The TRADES
Of Senator Kefauver and
Chairman Butler seem sim
gularly Intellectual and dis
gracefully low grade. Finally,
Mr.. Stevenson. himself, has
injected into politics things
that there is almost unan-
imous agreement should be
kept out of politics-to wit,
our foreign policy. His sug-
gestion that if elected he could
be depended upon to abolish
the military draft more quickly
than the President was a braz-
en- and reckless attempt to
get votes regardless of the
national security about which
he pretends to be so deeply
concerned. From his stand
point the reaction to this was
not favorable but it was dis
tinctly better than the reac-
ton to his advocacy of end
ing the hydrogen bomb tests
without the essential stipula-
tons the President had pre-
viously made when he proposed
the same thing.
To date, at any rate, this
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For O Better World

Not all the news is news OF violence
Meeting at the United Nations in New
York, the representatives OF no fewer
than 81 countries. including Russia, have
voted unanimously TO establish an inter-
national agency to promote the peaceful
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry writers' correct
names and addresses. An
letters are subject to conden-
sntion.
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Polar exploration captured
the imagination so years ago,
in the days before proven air.
craft and when every step to-
ward the goal had to be made
afoot. On November 8, 1906.
The Star reported that Comdr.
Robert E. Peary had come
closer to the longs sought North
Pole. cutting the distance by
another 40 miles and bringing
the farthest North record to
the United States. Capt. Roald
Amundsen. another polar ex-
plorer and discoverer of the
magnetic pole, commented,
"Ah. gentlemen, 1 tell you this
is fine, very fine. 1t means a
step nearer to the goal. Comdr.
Peary has performed a splen-
did deed. He has cut down
the distance to the pole by
about forty miles and every
step counts in that great test.
-. Since 1876 the search for
the pole has been pushed for
ward more than $50 miles. 1t is
now more certain than ever
that the goal soon will be
reached. :"
Indiuns
A band Of between 200 and
300 disgruntled Ute Indians
left their reservation in Utah
so years ago and headed north
in search of better homes.
The cavalry set of after them,
and on October "a, 1906. The
Star printed this story: "A
telegram was received at the
War Department today from
Mai. Gen. Greely at Omaha,
Nebr.. giving some interesting
details Of the efforts of the
Federal troops to capture the
dissatisfied Utes. Gen.
Greedy states: -. "A blizzard
of unprecedented duration yet
continues. Train delayed two
days and telegraph lines pros
trated in all directions. Grier-
son, with two troops 10th CAL
vary. reached Gillette at mid
night 21st and remains there
pending further information.
While computations vary, Capt.
johnson places strength Of
Utes at 300, about one half
being fighting men. Have
telegraphed Governor Of Wy
oming in answer to his dispatch
to these headquarters october
20 which reported 1000 Utes.
disposition sullen and defiant.
moving northward and without
supplies. )" Other re-
ports we're that the Utes took
along with them sufficient cat
tie and supplies for a long
journey.
.SpeIIer
Reformed spelling was all
the rage so years ago. after
an order by President Roose-
welt to put it into effect in
White House papers. But 1t
did not always 90 down well.
Fifty years ago, a Roosevelt
gymnasium was dedicated al
the Jacob A. Riis neighborhood
settlement, and the President
sent a letter. The Star. on
October q. said the letter
stated: my Dear Riis-May
/ thru you send q very warm
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The Sidney herald., 1956-11-01
Highway Building
Progress Under
Aronson Cited

Helena More, better and
cheaper highways were cited by
Gov. J. Hugo Aronson as one
Of the principal accomplish
ments" of his administration and
the governor called attention to
his Democrat opponents "ignor-
ance of the basic laws governing
our highway department"
Aronson, who learned the con-
tracing business in Montana's pi-
oneer oil fields, credited legisla-
tive cooperation and support for
the Aronson administrations hi
way program with achieving these
results: double the mileage of
highways built annually during
his administration compared with
the annual mileage before that
time. A drop of 5000 a mile in
the cost of building highways de-
spite increases in labor and ma
terial costs and roads with wider
surfaces, deeper subbases and
other structural Improvements.
He listed these highway sta