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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-14

those at home equally as we'll
as those bearing arms, it
seems TO me that the press
has a duty transcending any
thing which has heretofore
given it It's privileged position.
Sensational headlines or care
less cliches by headline writer's
nave no place where national
defense is concerned. 1t may
we'll be that one life lost in
training may save a thousand
IN combat. Sad as the loss
OF this one may be. sonly those
who are experienced in such
matters are IN a position to
make that agonizing decision,
without having their motives
lmpugned and confidence in
their Judgment destroyed in
the minds OF the people by
carelessly or negligently word
ed headlines.
The Marine Corps needs no
defense by. me. My protest
IS directed TO the false i'm
plication generated by your
headline which may we'll de-
Stroy the future of a young
man now in the service of his
country, whose only fault
seems to be a misguided effort
10 adequately train those
placed under his guidance.
G. L. HarrisS,
Captain. U. S. Navy Ret
Editors note: The headline
was accurate, The captains
inference was his own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-14
Gambling Tax Flop

A survey by the New York Herald
Tribune has revealed that many thou
sands Of potential taxpayers are defying
the Internal Revenue Service-and get
ting away with it. These tax evaders are
professional gamblers, from bookmakers
TO lottery racketeerS, whose annual "take"
is estimated to be around 81 billion.
Under a law passed in 1851, every gam
bier is supposed to buy a Federal tax
stamp for $50, pay 10 per cent excise
tax and register himself, his employees
and his places of business. But, as many
critics Of the law had predicted, it is not
working. 1t can never be made to work
unless the number of revenue agents is
increased Several-fold. This Congress has
refused to do.
The gambling tax law was recon-
mended by the Kefauver Crime InveSti-
eating Committee 1t was frankly aimed
at the big-time gambling racketeers.
with the idea Of driving many OF them
out of business. Advocates Of the legis-
lation declared that those who complied
with the law would add $500 million a
year to Federal tax revenues, The laws
constitutiOnality was challenged on the
ground that it forced gamblers to in
criminate themselves. II was also at
tackled as a punitive anticrime measure,
rather than revenue act The Supreme
Court, by a fiveto-three majority, re-
iected both contentious. Since then the
Internal Revenue Service repeatedly has
asked Congress, in vain, to appropriate
for at least 1000 additional agents. That
the law is not being adequately enforced
is hardly surprising, for the bureaus reg
ular force Of 1000 agents is hard put to
keep abreast of other tax Investigations.
So far, according to the Herald Trib-
une's story the Treasury has collected
only S33 million in four years, instead Of
the $500 million year forecast by pro-
ponents Of the law. Nor has the regis
tration requirement had any noticeable
effect on the gambling racket operations,
Boobies and numbers raCketeerS continue
to flourish from coast to coast. The
record clearly shows that the law has
been a flop from the beginning. Since
the act is not being, and apparently can
not be, properly enforced, we believe 1t
Is time to consider repeating the law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-14
An Editors Swan Soma

One of the finest and most influen-
tial of all magazines in the English
speaking world is the Economist, the
weekly British journal of opinion And
not the least of the reasons for its inter
national renoWn is the fact that Godfrey
Crowther has been its editor for more
than II years past Certainly, in its own
way, in its lucid and trenchant style and
the common-Sense wisdom of its views,
it has mirrored the man as a dedicated
and eloquent champion of human free
dom and the closest possible Anglo
American friendship.
So it is regrettable that the 49-year-
old Mr. Crowther Che was kind of boy
wonder when he became editor back at
the time of Munich) has decided to quit
being what he calls "a jobber in opin-
ions" But happily, although withdraw
ing from the post in which he has served
with such distinction since 1898, he will
stay on with the Economist as its new
managing director. And that means,
even if he writes little or nothing more
for it, that he will continue to exercise
a good measure of influence on it. Which
those who recognize that the safety of
the entire free world is primarily de-
pendent on whether or not Britain and
the United States hold fast together in
an unbreakable partnership.
Mr. CroWther's views on that score
have been we'll summed up in his farewell
piece in the current issue of the Econ
q 7 ha oil "a
happened to men and nations during his
years of editorShip, he singles out as the
most important of the changes the emer-
gence of the United States as full-time
great power and its willingness to form
and lead Grand Alliance" In his opin-
ion, the Second World War would GER
tainly never have happened had such an
alliance existed in 1888 and its existence
now means that "for the first time in
modern history, the defending powers are
virtually as strong, and as ready, as the
potential aggreSsors." As he sees it, this
reality-the biggest difference between
Munich and today--is the worlds best
assurance of peace"
Accordingly, while deploring foolish
go-it-alone talk on both sides of the
Atlantic, Mr.. CroWther particularly warns
his own countrymen not to belittle or
snipe at their partnership with the
United States ("to which we owe our
liveS'), but to foster it with "all the
loving care that one would lavish on
precious plant now in full flower, but
which might yet wither on the stalk"
Well said But Mr. CroWther has always
said things we'll especially in behalf Of
Anglo-American friendship, and one
Economist carries on in sthe same
tradition
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Cool Greetinq

Generalissimo frances For
cign Minister arrived here
bearing a gift for President E-
Senhower'S 8-year-old grand
son, David, The Star reports.
How much more fitting had
he arrived assuring us that
Spain, zone Of the freedom
loving countries" was going TO
permit religious freedom to its
citizens.
How can the United States
convince colonial peoples that
we stand Tor freedom when we
ally ourselves with dictators
and Justify 1t on the basis that
We need military bases which
they can lend us? Our fore
fathers did not build a great
nation on the foundation of
cXpcdlcncy A superstructure
built on cXpediency will not
endure, even though built to
save ourselves.
q. G. Cromwell,
Minister, Brookland
Methodist Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-14

Inc OLD cry, heard so often
in 1858 and 1854, that the
country should elect Democrats
to Congress to uphold the
hands of President Eisenhower
was, OF course, a phony from
the start. For. whatever reason,
the country did elect enough
Democrats two years ago to
take over control of both the
House and Senate by narrow
margins. And in this election
year the congressional Demo-
Gratis have undertaken to stick
a knife, not only in the Presi-
dents program. but in the
back of the President himself.
1t may turn out an unfortunate
gamble after the voters have
taken a look at the record of
the Bath Congress, as they will
do before the voting begins
next November.
Delays Farm Bill
Instead OF giving aid to the
President III his effort to better
the farm situation, the Demo-
Gratis in control of Congress
stalled and delayed the passage
of a farm bill until it was too
late for the Presidents pro-
posed soil bank to aid a great
number of the farmers this
year--their crops are already
IN. Further, the Democrats in
sisted on writing into the farm
bill restoration of the old rigid
80 per cent of parity farm price
supports, which have caused
the huge price depressing sur
pluseS Of farm products. In ad-
dltion, they wrote into the bill
now before the President other
features which would stimulate
overproduction and guarantee
the farmers Government sub
sides therefor.
The purpose of the Demo-
Gratis, though they may deny
1t, was to present Mr.. Essen
hover with a bill he would
veto, thus enabling the Demo-
Gratis to rush out with state
ments that Eisenhower has no
interest in the welfare of the
farmer. Whether the President
VIII accommodate them re-
mains TO be seen. But whether
the President signs the bill and
thus makes it law. or permits
1t to become law without his
signature, or vetoes the meas
ure, the President will tell the
country the evils inherent in
the bill which the Democrats
finally got through Congress
for political purposes only.
Many farmers, notwithstand-
ing low prices, are not fooled
by tho Democratic move to
restore the rigid and high price
supports. They know that the
great part of the price reduc-
ton Of farm crops has taken
place while those rigid sup
ports we're in effect.
The do-nothing record of
the Democratic 84th Congress
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THE POLITICAL MILL
Democrats May Rue Farm Bill Stall
By GOULD LINCOLN

has already risen up to con-
front the party leaders. The
farm bill is not the only i'm
portant measure on which it
has stalled, or found itself
impotent to deal with. The
schools Of the country have
needed aid, some of them
desperately. But have the
Democrats done anything
about a school bill? They have
not. One reason lies in the
fact that their party is split
devastatingly over the race
issue and the deSegregation
of the public schools as ordered
by the Supreme Court. The
Northern wing of the party has
threatened to place in any
school bill a provision denying
funds to any State or munic-
lpality or town unless de-
segregation has been put into
effect The Southern Demo-
Gratis simply will not let a bill
containing such a provision
come to a vote in the Senate.
So the public schools-like the
farmers-have been denied
help because Of a do-nothing
Democratic Congress.
Some of the Democrats pre-
dict that before the present
session of Congress closes, it
will have written into law i'm
portant measures and made
good record. There are, how
ever, too many Democratic
members who dislike the idea
of putting through the recon-
mendationS of the President
for public health aids, for So
cial security improvements and
for amendments of the Taft
Hartley Labor Act. They have
no wish TO put the President
IN position to tell the country
that these Improvements have
been made during Repub-
lican administration of the
Government.
Seized on Unrest
The Democrats have seized on
unrest among the farmers be-
cause of low prices as a main
issue for the coming campaign
the only real issue they have
been able to find. They for
merly talked of unemployment
and depreSsion--if the Re-
puollcanS were permitted to
run the Government. But
employment, as just disclosed
by Department of Commerce
reports, is higher at this time
OF year than ever before in this
country. The wages and earn
lngS OF the workers are higher
ana greater than ever before.
The votes in the presidential
primaries i'll Minnesota and
Wisconsin have encouraged
the Democrats to believe that
the farm issue will be potent.
They have still, however. to
overcome the peace and pros
perlty issues advanced by
Eisenhower and the Repub-
licanS.
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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

thing constructive at home.
and reading
A good book is the best OF
friends. the same today and
tomorrow.
From a States Rights Viz
gilman,
"a. B. j."
About that old-tashloned,
real family physician:
The last one of them left
this troubled world many years
ago, Templeton Jones SAYS.
He was a dear fellow. small.
Whlte-haired, with the quick
laugh of the New Highlander.
When Jones had the Spanien
flu, as It was called III 1918.
combined with pneumonia and
plcurisy, this good man and
true physician washed our old
friend who was not then so
old with his own hands.
No nurses could be found.
Soldiers at Camp Meade. as
1t was then called, were drop
ping off like flies
They carried the dead out
and laid them in rows.
Dr.. Charles Bliss, for that
was his name. came bounding
up the four flights of steps to
the small Jones apartment.
He had a ready joke on his
lips at all times.
Intense, red-faced, he car
ried his case Of homeopathic
medicines in one hand and held
onto the rail with the other.
He hasn't been bathed vet?
You don't know how? I'll show
YOU"
And this busy physician took
of his coat, rolled up his
sleeves and gave Tcmpleton
Jones a bath.
Maybe a profes sional nurse
might have thought it rather
sketchy. but it cooled a fevered
brow, and left pleasant memo
ries.
Gone are those days. and
with them this type of doctor.
Medical men are all too busy
to do such work. They haven't
time.
Maybe they think it a bit
beneath them. Who knows the
mind of a modern physician,
or where he will go?
But Templeton Jones knows
where Dr.. Bliss went.
He went to the Heaven
where all good men 90, and
is there among the saints and
angels. with a harp in his
hands, instead of a thermom-
cter, and a Joke on his lips as
always. May God keep him in
peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-14

q. Was James Buchanan the
only President who remained
a bachelor all his life? Lib.
A. Yes His engagement to
the beautiful Ann Caroline
Coleman Of Lancaster. PA was
broken of after a series of
Observation-Disclosures and very
soon afterwards the young lady
died in Philadelphia under
somewhat mysterious circum-
stances, To those who later in
life wondered about his con-
tinued bachclorhood, Buchanan
replied that his affections
were buried in the grave. and
the fact that he carefully pre-,
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ALEXANDRIA, Va

d.
Dear Sir:
Your article IN The Evening
Star recently is the best We
have ever read in any news
paper; we agree, Wholeneart-
edly, with the thoughts there
IN expressed.
we have derived great
benefit from your valuable
articles.
They are the first that we
eagerly look for in The Star.
They renew our faith in
humanity and prove that there
are a few individualists left.
with pride to stand on their
feet, with enjoyment of the
true and worth while things
III life, such as love of good
reading, and JOY in the beau
ties of nature.
Very far has the average
person departed these DAYS
from the independence of the
founding fathers, who were
selt-Suftcient unto themselves.
They had too much pride
TO want, or ask for anything,
and abhOrred handouts.
Nov. with very few eXcep-
tons, people do want hand
outs, and they think as the
majority of the voters and the
herd tell them to.
The politician. who is now
sure OF a continuous lob. is the
one who promises the hand
outs
The person who is the most
popular is the one who COM
plies with all requests by the
voters and the aSkerS who are
too lazy and too selfish to do
Tor themselves.
why, only recently a
statesman was cenSured for
speaking out and holding onto
his honest opinion of what was
right for the people.
If only there We're more
Patrick Henrys!
"All pride, initiative and in
dependence of the individual
has been done away with and
Stifled for over 20 years. When
VIII we return to selecting our
personally known needy?
Where has the family ply
Sician, who nurSed, doctorcd
and counScled us, gone?
Where has the working
visiting, old-timc pastor van
iShcd2
Far better than outside
amuSements, is working to
beautify ones own yard and
flower beds. and doing some
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Showdown in Steel

your recent editorial, Show
down IN Steel" clearly points
up the necessity of doing some
thing to protect the public.
Your statement that steel
prices must 80 up if labor costs
are increased" has been proved
over and over again.
You further state, Since
steel costs figure in almost
every other major branch of
manufacturing, the threat of
a broad, upward movement in
many consumer prices is a
clear one"
! am naive enough TO believe
that our Government was set
up under Constitution de-
signed TO establish Justice,
promote the general welfare.
Yet VIC find the Congress of the
United States promoting and
fostering labor monopoly
that can enforce its unjust
wage demands. and throw
an additional infla tionary bur-
den on the rest of the people.
There IS no moral justification
Tor the increased wage de-
mands soon TO be made by the
steel workers union. They have
a tight labor monopoly, pro-
tected by our labor laws, and
they can thumb their noses at
the helpless public. Collective
bargaining has been DESTROYED
by the labor monopoly. Bar
gaining implies give and take.
but to a monopolistic labor
union it's all take and no give.
To the employers it is all give
and no take, That's not collec-
tive bargaining but collective
coercion. You cannot bargain
with a monopoly. 1t is either
submit or face destruction. In
the forthcoming collective
bargaining" Negotiations. . all
that the steel industry can
hope for is to try to soften
somewhat the blow, and then
pass the added costs on to the
public.
1t is high time that our Con-
gress. sworn to protect and up
hold the Constitution. live up
to its constitutional obligation
and do that which will pro-
mote the general and not union
welfare.
=. X. Bauer.
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Boy on q Holiday
Thomas T. Murphy,
Father OF a Deceased Marine.

The boz looks ten and no day
older
Who iDhiStied his hound Il
ms heels
And iriH q pole across ms
HOHldcr
accepts hOW GOOD green
heather jeclS
The place he fishes is a pool,
The poic is lust q UHlo,U
limb,
But thtS day is dicdV from
school
which makes these things
enough for him!
Anobel Armour
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served Ann Coleman's letters
suggests that he never recov-
cred from the crushing blow Of
her death,
Q Is synthetic rubber con-
Sidered to be superior 10
natural rubber in automobile
tires?--F. 4.
A. For paSscngcr-Car tire
trcads, synthetic is preferred
because it cracks less easily.
Heavy trucks and buses still
require natural rubber tires.
Natural trec-erown rubber has
certain properties that with
stand heat better than the
synthetic product.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-14

- aiming So DdNh W hOII NlIlG
about antlvivisection, vegetar-
ian and juvenile delinquency
CrusadeS. The Marines are able
to take care of their own. They
have done so successfully for
1871 years.
Thomas +. Murphy,
Father OF a Deceased Marine.
III defense of Sergt. McKeon.
! would like to suggest a cam
vass Of eX-MarineS. particu-
larry those with more than
three years service. l believe
you will find that the over
Whelmlng majority would ac-
quit the sergeant.
! do not know where Gen.
Pate acquired his training, but
as a veteran and ex-Marine of
over five years service 1888
l943). | can attest that it was
a common but not fearful
dread that ones own platoon
might not measure up in eff
cheney, and consequently dis
Clpline. and be forced to en-
dure Eadlng into the surf with
clean uniforms and equip
mentl, resulting in extra hours
OF rifle cleaning and pressing
uniforms. Ny own platoon
measured up. but not the one
ahead of us nor, l am sure.
many others.
l agree with Gen. Pate in re-
Questlng that the public with
hold Judgment until the whole
story is made public. No one
Will ever enter Paris Island
Ike an Ass from YemaSsee"
nor exit without thinking OF
this place as a hell of sand
fleaS. military discipline and
KIP But neither will man
leave who does not idolizc his
platoon sergeant after first
hating his CUTS
Robert +. Allen. Jr..
CEX-Staf Sergeant.
Tie implication contained
IN your April 10 headline,
Marines March Disciplinary,
Sergeant Says" may raise
such a false impression in the
casual reader that l cannot
accept it without protest.
The word discipline" AS
there used. clearly means pun
iShment. Your words cruelty
the young sergeant as a saw
age, venting his spleen on
those subject to his orders.
Yet, as the facts develop later
in the story, the sergeant says.
My purpose was to teach
them discipline" The gulf
between the implication OF Che
headline and the facts is as
wide as that from Alpha TO
Omega.
To discipline. by punishment
is, by statute and regulation.
limited to certain command
ers, and by the same source it
may not be delegated To
teach discipline--that is, those
fundamentals which the fight
ing man must know for his
own and his comrades sur
vival-.iS an entirely different
matter The latter is mani
festly within the Sergeant'S
province as a drillmaster.
whereas the former is not.
That the young sergeant
may be guilty of bad judg-
ment, or that his superiors
may likewise be guilty for
having placed a relatively in
experienced young man in II
position calling for more ma
tme judgment, are questions
which the court of inquiry
Will probably consider and
resolve.
But in these times. when
our way Of life is challenged
as never before and may we'll
depend on the fortitude OF
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry DrtterS correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
SdttOn.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BY THE HASKIN SERVl


reader to
Ewes N
y pleaEe ncoSe w. -a"N-voo
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that the armchair militaristS
who are presently concerning
themselves with the deplorable
harshneSs of Marine Corps
training 60 back to worrying
about antlvivisection, vegetar-
ian and juvenile delinquency
crusadeS. The Marines are able
to take care of their own. They
have done so successfully for
l8l NearS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30


Chauncey H. Whitner, presi-
dent of the California Society
for Crippled Children. called at
tention to the extremely tardy
understanding of the problems
of the spastic or cerebral-palsied
child. In 1888, he said, the
public was amazingly ignorant
Iof the problem, and the concept
Iof rehabilitation was dismal,
There were no parent groups, NO
means of community effort and
research was practically non
existent. he said. But then a
beginning was made.
Realistic Attitude
DR.. Meyer A. Perlstein of
Northwestern University said
that is years ago the at.
ltitude was one of pessimism. IL
years ago it was optimism ano
now it is realism. But. he went
on. although advances have beer
made in preventing some of the
conditions which produce brain
injuries in children, "cerebra,
palsy is always going to be with
iuS."
DR.. Winthrop M. Phelps, d.
rector of the Children's Re-
Mobilization Center, Reisterstown
Nd, said that in the last 10
years there has been tremen-
douS development in training OF
persons to deal with the motor
problems of children afflicted
with cerebral palsy. He also
listed advances in the admins
tration of drugs which facilitate
treatments. in braces and ap-
paratus and in surgery.
Research Extension
DR.. George G. Beaver of New
York University pleaded fol-
sheltered workshops in which
those who cannot get jobs in
competitive industry can be en-
Iployed even if it is at only ST
"a day. Not more than Is per
cent of those afflicted with cere-
bral palsy. he said, will ever be