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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02

weeks gubernatorial vote may amount to
a second setback for these leaders of the
regular" Democrats-and warning that
Texas might bolt the party again in
November.
The second possible effect of the
Daniel victory involves the Senate itself
and its party division after the fall cleo
lions. Mr.. Daniel has said he will resign
from the Senate when his gubernatorial
primary triumph is certified. In that case
his seat will be contested in November,
with the likelihood that one Republican,
nominee will be running against several
Democratic contenders. 1t is a lineup
that could give a bonus assist to the
Republicans and their hopes of picking
up critically important seat in the upper
branch of Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
Roads of Tomorrow

The Highway Departments record
budget request for the 1858 fiscal year is
heartening evidence of progress toward
converting Washington's dreams and
promises of future Superhighways into
reality
Most of the $22.9-million construction
request is earmarked for the expensive
but absolutely essential = modern road
ways needed to prevent the Capital from
strangling in its own traffic. About half
the amount, for example, is for parts of
the inner loop" expressway-perha the
most critically needed of all. Other funds
will start the job of converting damned
arteries, like North Capitol street. and
Rhode Island avenue, into Speedier, safer
divided highways.
Such projects, even with substantial
District funds, are of course possible only
because of the liberal new Federal high
way aid program. The Districts advance
planning is paying off in the city's ability
to take immediate advantage of the new
funds. But money, unfortunately, isn't
the only problem. There are still points
of difference, mainly between city and
Federal agencies, surrounding a number
of the projects. 1t may be necessary for
Congress to iron out some, including those
involved in new Potomac River bridges.
But most can be handled without serious
controversy, if the principals involved
will only settle down to the business Of
trying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
The Limits of Liberty
By DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain of the United States Senate

The glories of being free
are being emphasized as never
before. This is because free
dom shines with new luster
in a world where so many
have had the freedoms they
took for granted snatched
from them, leaving them serfs
of authoritarian regimenta-
ton. The crown jewels of
the kingdom of the unshackled
mind and body blaze like a
cluster Of diamonds contrasted
with the drab utilities, frus-
trations and prohibitions of
police states.
It is a paean of exultant
thanksgiving for freedoms of
which no tyrant can spoil the
music which inspires one to
revel In Americas privilege
in these words: You can't say
what freedom is. You can
only feel it. You can't define
it. Freedom is man lifting
a gate latch at dusk. It's the
violence of an argument out
side an election poll. It's the
uncenSored righteous anger Of
the pulpit. 1t is the paper
boy throwing on your lawn
all the latest news of the
world. 1t is the rush of the
train over the continent and
the unafraid faces looking out
the window. It's the absence
of apprehension at the sound
of approaching footsteps out
side your door. It's your re-
fusal to tell what you do not
want to tell. It's all the things
you feel when you fill your
lungs with air and walk down
the street in the proud COM
pany of your self-respect."
Yes. there is glimpsed some
of the fair fruits CT liberty.
But even, that idyllic picture
does not depict a liberty with
no limits upon it. Even as
we recoil at the thralldom of
coercion, it must be warned
yea. shouted from the house.
tops, and, Of course, from the
pulpits and the schools-that
the serfdom Of a liberty self
ishly misused-a liberty which
def1es limits-can be worse in
its results than a slave realm
where every move is deter
mined by law and spied on by
prying secret agents. There
is nothing more dangerous
than a perverted freedom.
John Greenleaf Whittier calls
that sort Of freedom 1.-THE
prison of the SOUL"
This is an hour for those
outside the Iron Curtain to
listen as our boasted democ-
raey looks even free men
straight in the eye and asks:
you demand freedom. but
for what do you want it?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02

says Go" holds more perils
than the red light which COM
pels one to stop. The stop
light is positive and impera-
tive. The green light puts
the limits of liberty largely
in the hands of the driver.
Amidst all the cries of today,
shouted with the loud una
nimity of a college yell, I'VE
want freedom" the paramount
question is: Freedom for what?
Free America is teeming with
slaves who have never COM
pretended the limits of free
dom. The quintessence of
liberty is that one can never
be free until he is captive
captured by something greater
than himself. Busy people
will throng a great music hall.
enthralled as they listen to one
who is a master because he
was willing to be a slave. He
is there, the one who is a
cynosure of multitudes. be-
cause he has made himself
the prisoner of music. Those
hands. sweeping over the
responsive keys with interpre-
tative touch. are free because
through long hours Of drudgerv
and practice they have been
bound. So it is in every realm
Of art and skill. So it is in
the high levels of the spirit.
A voice from ancient Rome,
that of the sage Epictetus. ut
tered a timeless truth as he
declared. mo bad man is
free" The greatest authority
on liberty in all the world is
the New Testament. whose
burden is: THE truth shall
make you free" 1t is also the
greatest authority regarding
the limits of liberty There is
no more significant sentence
in it regarding liberty than.
All things are lawful. but all
things are not helpful"
The question is always:
What will my liberty. if in
dulged in without limit. do to
me or to others?" Paul, who
boosted of his liberty. de-
clared: IF it harms me. ! will
not indulge" And he added:
IF eating meat-which l am
at full liberty to do-causes
my weaker brother to offend,
I will eat no meat while the
world stands" He knew what
to do with his liberty. So did
George Matheson who, in his
great hymn, has captured in
four lines the secret of the
limits Of liberty:
Make me a cdptive. Lord,
And then I shall be free:
Force me to render up my
StDord,
And / shall conqueror be.
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AppIouds PULPIT

I enjoyed the article in the
religious section Of The Star
August rs. concerning Doing
Much With Little Is Church
Camps Story"
Although ! have never seen
Camp Wamava, ] have at
tended services at the Airing
ton. Va. Church of Christ
and heard their minister. Vir-
gil Bentley, who is referred to
in The Star story as camp di-
rector. deliver his sermons on
Sunday evenings. He is an in
teresting speaker and particu-
larry outstanding in that he
makes so many quotations
from the Bible, which in my
estimation is necessary for real
effective preaching Of the gos-
pei Of Christ.
In addition to his preaching
Mr.. Bentley is greatly inter-
ested in the welfare Of the
young people. and, as a matter
Of fact, the Arlington church
in general seems to be doing
a wonderful work in this field
by sponsoring the work at
Camp Wamava and encourage
ing their young people to at
tend colleges where they will
receive a Christian education.
For some time / have been
interested in the question of
Juvenile delinquency and have
collected considerable material
on this subject. including some
Of the valuable information
furnished the public by J. Ed
gar Hoover. director Of the
Federal Bureau Of Investiga-
ton. And. all things considered.
It appears certain that Chris
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is the use Of demanding free
dom of speech if one has
nothing worthwhile to say?
What is the use of ranting
about freedom of worship If
one really has no God to wor-
ship? A so-called freedom
standing alone, divorced from
the only things that give it
luster-justice. truth, loyalty
honor, brotherhood-may be
but an instrument to degrade
personality or even with which
to commit spiritual suicide.
Two candidates for Office in
one of the States of this land
of the free recently shot each
other dead at the very place
where they both had exercised
the right to vote. Their free
dom to feud was the route to
the cemetery.
What made the "Prodigal
Son" a prodieal? 1t was not
the Recommendation of a dis
ciplined home against which
he rebelled. 1t was the mis-
use of the liberty he de-
manded. 1t was the thrall-
dom of freedom which made
him slave. as, inebriated by
the heady wine of liberty, he
exchanged the salutary re-
Strictions Of a normal home
for a liberty for which he was
not prepared. He went out
on a steep road without
brakes. Disregarding the limits
Of liberty, he wound up in the
far country with swine and
swinish companions. From
the tangled tragedy of his
degradation he was soon pre-
pared to trade his debauched
liberty for security. He was
ready to tell his father, Make
me as one of your hired serv-
ants"
Always the green light which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
Disappointed at Fair

AS a civic-minded resident
Of Montgomery County, took
my family to the county fair
at GaitherSburg last week. !
wish to say that, despite the
fine exhibits. it was a disap-
pointing experience. Human
comforts we're very poorly pro-
vided for. Only one concession
served food-expensive and
delayed. They refused to serve
pop. Restroom facilities were
far below our standards.
Moneywise, the admittance
fees and the cost Of rides were
exorbitant. Where does this
money go?
Fortunately for America,
nowadays. most people have
big families which entails high
monthly bills. such as milk
and food, clothing and all the
utilities that multiply with the
growth Of a family. For the
jubilant small fry" a trip to
the county fair is a big event.
Impressed as they we're with
the livestock exhibits, they
still wanted 70 ride on every
thing at least twice and it was
disappointing indeed to have
to deny them because Of the
high cost.
In a thriving county, such as
Montgomery. let US hope that
next year the County Fair"
will be economically and COM
fortably beamed at the parents
and the little people," who
are the Americans Of tomor-
row and who will happily re-
member the County Fair"
Mrs. J. 7. Hin.
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It is now pretty generally
conceded that the somewhat
comic drop Nixon" campaign
waged by the misguided,
though well meaning, Harold
Stassen actually resulted in
strengthening Mr.. Nixon as a
candidate instead of weaken
ing him. This ought to be con-
selling to Mr.. Stassen in that
he professed all along his only
desire was to aid the Republic
can ticket, which he is now
enthusiastically supporting.
Mr.. Truman likewise is sup
porting the Stevenson-Ke-
fauver team, both of whom
were nominated over his vehe-
ment protest as candidates who
could not be elected.
Nixon Took 1t Well
Thus, each side in the pres
ent contest suffered a some
what similar experience which
at first seemed full of poten-
tial harm but turned out not
to be damaging at all. Be-
fore the Stassen incident is
completely forgotten, per-
haps it may be worth while to
note the reasons it turned out
so well for Mr.. Nixon I'm
doubtedly one was the manner
in which Mr.. Nixon himself
behaved under exceedingly
trying circumstances. He ex-
hibited complete poise. No
bitter word escaped him. He
made no counterattack, did
nothing to embarrass his
friends nor add to the pleasure
of his foes. In this attitude
he was aided by Mr.. EiSen-
hover, who treated Mr.. Stas-
sen exactly right, made no eff
fort to restrain or suppress
him, insisted upon his right as
an individual to protest The
Nixon nomination and person
ally to address the convention
It turned out that all Stassen
wanted to do was second the
Nixon nomination, which he
did with as much grace as
man could who had just made
a fool of himself.
Another reason Mr.. Nixon
benefited rather than wilted
under the experience was that
it focused attention upon the
violent anti-Nixon campaign
which Democratic propagan-
dists have been making for
four years and which ap-
parently they have every in
tention of continuing until
election day. It was a whis-
pering campaign in that there
were no definite charges either
against Mr.. Nixon personally
or against his public record.
The nearest thing to a definite
charge was that Mr. Nixon in
a speech had called Mr.. Tru-
man a traitor" and called
the Democratic Party the
party of treason. This Mr..
Nixon, of course, repeatedly
denied, and the Democratic
publicity agents, challenged to
produce evidence and offered
money to do so, have merely
repeated the charge with NJ
effort to prove it.
Apparently what all this is
based on was that Mr.. Nixon
in the last campaign did refer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
Nixon Grows as They Hack Away at Him

to the Truman administration
as having been soft on the
traitors therein. No one who
recalls the oft-repeated "red-
herring" remark of Mr.. Tru-
mans about Alger Hiss, and
who also recalls the shocking
evidence the FB1 laid before
Mr.. Truman in the late Harry
Dexter White case. would deny
the truth of that allegation.
Soft" was certainly the word
for it. but that is a very diff
ferent thing than calling Mr..
Truman a traitor" and the
Democratic Party the party
of treason" That is an out
rageous charge and is not
true. 1t is true, however, that
If it had not been for Mr..
Nixon's aggressive determi-
nation as a member of the
House Committee on I'm
American Activities. Hiss
would not have been indicted
and would never have gone
to prison. That has been
proven. is well documented in
the recent Nixon biography,
and has not been denied. I'm
deniably, that made Mr.. Nixon
abhorrent to every Commu-
mist in America.
Attacks Are Vague
Aside from this the anti
Nixon campaign has been one
of ir1sinuation and utter
vaguenesS. Yet it has been
cleverly conducted by well-paid
experts aided by a good many
volunteers in the journalistic,
political and radio fields.
Clearly it is intended to reflect
upon the personal integrity of
a completely honest man and
to ruin him personally and
and politically. 1t has been a
dirty campaign and In four
years has certainly had an
effect. and there are a num-
Der (no one knows how many
Of people in the country who
have a feeling that there is
something wrong" with
Nixon.
The extraordinary thing
about this long sustained
smear of Mr. Nixon is that so
few of them can offer a rea-
son for their hostility. Asked
why. the reply is almost al
ways vague and inconsequen-
tial. The Stassen attack
served, for one thing, to en-
phasize this Curious feature.
Mr. Stassen himself gave no
reason for his assertion that
Mr.. Nixon on the Eisenhower
ticket would lose it millions
of votes" Obviously he, like
others, was influenced by the
Democratic whisper campaign.
Just as obviously, Mr.. Eisen-
hover and the convention
delegates we're not so inf1u-
enced. The Democrats will,
Of course. continue to use him
as target, but bis friends be-
lieve he has emerged a
stronger and better man than
he was in 1852. Also, he will
now be able TO talk for him
self and even his worst critics
concede he is an unusually
hard-hitting campaigner. Per-
hapS that was one reason for
the viciousness of the cam
paign against him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE STAR

The Star so years ago put
out an Extra" to report the
results of prize fight between
Champion joe Cans ano the
challenger, Battling Nelson
The story. which covered much
of the papers front page Oh
September 3, 1906. gave a blow
by-blow description Of each Of
the AZ rounds. The descrip-
ton of the 41st round ended
like this: Both wre stle
YEARLY about the ring and ii
was hard to tell which was the
more tired" The d ecidinp
round was described this way
Cans started round with
straight left to face and tha.
clinched. AS the men drew
from clinch, Nelson deliberately
struck Cans low and the col
ored man slowly sank to the
floor The blow was clearly OBJ
served by everyone in the
arena. and there was not a
murmur Of dissent from the
spectators. Fans wins on
foul" Two years later. Bat
Ting Nelson came back to win
the title.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names mdy be used II
letters carry writers correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject TO conden-
sdtion.
tan education. such as is being
sponsored and recommended
by the Arlington church. is the
answer to the question Of
juvenile delinquency Of today.
The wise man Solomon said:
Remember now thy Creator
in the days Of thy youth. while
the evil days come not, nor the
years draw near. when thou
shalt say. / have no pleasure
in them" (Eccles. KILL Sol
ONION also said: Train UP a
child in the way he should go:
and when he is old he will not
depart from it," prov. xxii.6.)
In Ephesians via, we have the
following statement from the
Apostle Paul: And, ye fathers.
provoke not your children to
wrath: but bring them up In
the nurture and admonition Of
the Lord"
So we see that in order to
properly meet the issue Of ju-
venile delinquency we must
make sure that our children
are brought up in the way Of
the Lord by teaching them the
Bible in the home. in the
church, and in every place pos
sible. for whenever and wher-
ever this Is done effectively we
shall see a trend toward higher
standards Of living in all walks
Of life. morally. religiously and
otherwise. ! congratulate the
Church Of Christ at Arlington
for their excellent work along
this line. Bible Student.
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under the auspices OF the
American Federation of Labor.
The organization, which will
be known as the National Fed
Grafton of Post Office Clerks,
is the first national labor unian
N America to be composed eA.
clusively of Government eli
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02

What do you mean to do with
it? Have you faced the vital
matter with regard to the
limits of liberty? Are you
prepared to rightly use your
freedom?" For, after all, what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
New Fuce

The White House was being
.one over literally from top
20 bottom so years ago while
President Roosevelt and his
family Summered at Oyster
Bay. The Star, on August 81,
1906, reported: when the
President and his family re-
turn to the Capital from Oyster
Bay, they will find that the
White House has been over
hauled and renovated from
attic to basement. Under
the direction of Col. Bromwell.
superintendent Of public build
ings and grounds. every defect
inside and outside the Execu-
tive Mansion was carefully
noted. There will be no fur
Their complaints of leakage and
flooding in the upper apart
ments. for a new roof has been
placed in position. the con-
tractors guaranteeing it for at
least 10 years. Before this
Improvement was made there
were numerous complaints
about the damp condition of
the upper rooms. :. Whatever
1t has been possible to accom-
plish with soap and water.
paint and careful attention to
details has been done this
summer. !"
punters
The foot" was being put
back in football so years ago.
On September 2. 1906. The
Star reported: Kicking will
be one Of the features of foot
ball under the new rules. A
long and consistent punter win
be about the most valuable
man on. a team and a man
who can outkick all his rivals
is virtually sure OF a place.
even II he does happen to be
inferior in other respects. To
make certain that this sort OF
game would be properly de-
yeloped. the leading institu-
tons last spring held punting
contests for their players. and
many Of the men we're in
structed to take footballs nome
with them on their summer
vacations and practice punt
ing and drop-kicking. The real
reason for emphasizing this
kicking game is not that good
kicking Is TO be rewarded any
more than 1t ever was. but
merely that the new rule re-
curing the ball to be advanced
ten yards in three downs will
so frequently put a team in
such a plight as to require ac-
curate punting. II Is 10 be
regretted that there are 50
few first-class punters in the
Eastern colleges. The East
has not been able 70 boast Of
any good kicker since the day
Of John Dewitt. the old Prince
ton captain. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
Buv Rum?

The BARRIERS were In the news
for the usual reason--a price
increase-50 years ago. On Au-
gust 30, 1906. The Star re-
ported: zone more day of
peace in the conduct of local
barber shops is assured. and
then may come strife between
the master BARRIERS and Jour-
neymen. September /. Satur-
day next. is the date set by
the master BARRIERS for the GO
ing into effect of the new
schedule Of prices. chief of
which will be a charge Of Is
cents for each shave instead
Of 10 cents. This increase was
determined some time ago.
the reason advanced being that
the requirements Of the Dis
trict Health Departments
new regulations anent barber
shop sanitation made shaves at
10 cents per capita no longer
profitable. Another point
on which the master BARRIERS
and unions don't agree is the
price for shaving over-ripe
boards. The unions would make
such boards a luxury and
would fain impose a tax of
20 cents for removing whiskers
that have grown luxuriously
for more than one week. The
master BARRIERS declare that
shave is a shave and that IS
cents shall be the tariff. ="
Labor
The comparatively new labor
movement took a bold step in
Chicago a half century ago.
On August %. 1906, The Star
reported: President Samuel
Gompers Of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor is organizing
postal employees into labor
unions in defiance OF the Fed
eral Government. That was
the burden Of a dispatch re-
ceiyed by The Star today from
Chicago. It was added that
representative post once
clerks from six cities Of the
West met In Chicago yesterday
and formed . national union
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