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Milford chronicle., 1956-07-20
SOUND STRUCTURES VIOLATED

When Congress authorized tlle post Office
to inaugurate parcel post service, the legis-
lation specified that the rates charged should
be adequate to cover the costs, that the sery-
ice should not compete with private enter
prise in the same field, and that, finally, the
service should supplement, not supersede,
private commercial carriers.
These eminently sound structures have
been violated, to varying degrees, during the
whole history of parcel post
The. Hoover Commission and other au-
thoritative bodies, for instance, have shown
that parcel post has often been operated at
a very heavy loss-and thus has been a tax
subsidized service, paid for by those who do
not use it as well as those who do.
Furthermore, changes In parcel post
rates and practices designed to reduce or
eliminate subsidies have been only partially
successful. The hidden and indirect costs in
volved in parcel post are estimated at many
millions a year. These include contributions
to the Government Retirement Fund, en-
ployees' compensation costs, custodian costs,
depreciation, and other important items.
AS consequence the Hoover Commission
urges that parcel post rates be made to re-
fleet all the costs-including the indirect
costs. Bills to this end have been introduced
in Congress. The sole intent is that the
people who use parcel post pay the proper
charge for what the5' get.
Competition based on subsidy is mani
festly unfair-not only to the taxpaying
private enterprises involved, but to all the
taxpayers
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-20
Expensiye-Not Extrayagant

The recent and rather unusual
spectacle of the Congress seekin g
to press more money bagatelle
nf 900 millions) on a reluctant De-
fense Department suggests some
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-20
LONGER SCHOOL YEAR

Impressive new support for the idea of
lengthening the educational year and short
ening the summer vacation comes from one
of the nations outstanding educators. DR..
Grayson Kirk, president of Columbia Uni
versity, told the graduating class that the
amount of time devoted to an individually s
education has become a national problem of
great Importance.
Dr. Kirk noted that reducing the summer
vacation by month annually would save a
year and a half out of the present 18-year
educational span for students who take post
graduate work.
eff a young man." he said, spends II
years in elementary and secondary schools,
four years in college, two years in military
service and three years in professional
study, he will be nearly 80 years of age be-
fore he is actually launched upon the career
of his choice
AS result, said Dr. Kirk educators
face the question whether society can af-
ford to require a young man to spend al
most as many years in preparation for adult
life as he will have thereafter before he is
obliged to retire"
1t is question to which not only edu-
Gators but also the general public must de-
vote serious thought. Lengthening the
school year may not turn out to be the best
answer, but it is about the only sensible one
offered thus far. The fact that man of Dr.
Kinks stature in the educational world sup
ports this idea is a persuasive argument in
its favor.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-20
ANOTHER THRONE SHAKEN

The English throne is not the only one
to rock over a marriage problem. King Ed
ward WIS romance with Mrs. Wallis War
field Simpson ended in his abdication of the
throne, and subsequent marriage to his fan
Gee. Now the Dutch queen faces marital
crisis.
Queen Juliana in 1887 married Prince
Bernhard, a German. He did not become
king by the marriage, but is merely the
queens consort, as in the case of Queen
Victoria of Great Britain and her husband,
Prince Albert.
Of late the queen has been much impress
ed by a Miss Greet Hofmans, a 61-year-old
Dutch mystic who believes that she has the
power of faith healing. The queen thinks
that Miss Hofmans has helped the eye all
ment from which her youngest daughter suf-
fers. The prince, who does not share his
wife's belief, ordered Miss Hofmans to leave
the palace in 1850, but her friendship with
the queen has continued.
What happens next is anybody's guess.
The Dutch constitution requires government
consent before ruler may marry, but makes
no provision for divorce. If the queen were
divorced, could she remain on the throne?
There the question stands 1t proves
anew that royalty may have advantages, but
also has the drawback that the rulers love
life is not his or her own
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-20
YOU CAN'T CLIP A TV PROGRAMl

Dorothy Kilgallen, the columnist and tel
evison star, recently had something pleasant
to say about newspapers as reading matter.
"You can read on a train crossing the
desert or on plane at $1,000 feet above the
Atlantic-no static, no fading, no blips," says
Miss Kilgallen. "You can read in bathtub
or while hanging onto a pole in a crowded
bus. You can read as much or as little as
you want, as fast or as slowly as you want.
'And if you read something you like, you
can tear it out and save it to read again
some day. | enjoy radio and televison, and
| am gainfully employed by both, but must
admit they have their drawbacks. Did you
ever try to clip television program and
paste it in your scrapbook?"
Here's why the newspaper holds its dom
inant place in the homes and hearts of Amer
leans And here is why-to touch on the
world of commerce from which all of us draw
our livings-the newspaper remains an un-
surpassed means of advertising goods and
services.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-20

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-06

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-06

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area in the world The next time
you sit down to a chicken dinner,
the chances are good that the main
course will have come from Delmarva
The Virginia portion of the penin-
sula also has many historic places.
The courthouse at EaStville, for in
stance, has the oldest continuous
records of any county in America,
going all the way back to 1882.
1t was here that the Northampton
protest tcalled after Northampton
County, was recorded. 1t is the
oldest recorded protest against taxa
Evening star., 1956-11-25

ton without representation in Amer
lea. The wrought-up citizens OBJ
jected to paying a tax on tobacco
without representation in the State
Assembly at jamestown, Va.
Chincoteague, where the annual
roundup of wild ponies is held, is
widely known. Record catches by
rod-and-reel have been made off
Cape Charles. These include 1922
pound sergeant fish and an 83-pound
channel bass. An. interesting sight
at Accomac is the Old Debtors
Prison, which still stands.
, 1956-09-01
CONGRATULATIONS TO GOVERNOR MUNOz

OUR WARMEST congratulations 80 to Governor Luis
Munoz Marin on winning Of the Freedom HOUSE award for
1856. Congratulations are also due the people Of Puerto Rico
for having backed their Governor in his efforts and making
such significant progress in the economic development OF
their island within the framework Of true democracy
FREEDOM HOUSE, ti syear for the first time can
vassed some $4,000 Americans for their opinions. Many re-
concentrations were made, and from these the governing
board Of the House named five candidates who were voted
upon BY the previous winners Of awards. Among these pre-
vious winners were Walter Lippman, Summer Weles, General
George c. Marshall, Bernard N. Baruch, General Lucus p.
Clay, David E. Llienthal, Dean Acheson, Paul G. Hoffman,
James B. Conant, General Matthew B. Rdgeway and Ed
ward R. Murrow.
THE Freedom House winner this year is Pre-
sdent Ramon Magsaysay Of thePhaippines.
GOVERNOR MUNOZ was cited for his dynamic lead
ership an dthe creative techniques which are in q great mea-
sure responsible for the striking progress Of the Puerto Rican
people toward q better life"
10 THOSE WHO have followed this progress the evil
dence is clear and the future encouraging. Factories have
sprung up. better housing IS everywhere IN evidence, and 4
Quiet, though effective, campaign Of high level publicity has
been conducted to present the case Of Puerto Rico to the
American public and the world.
1T is TO BE hoped that these Islands win also take
bold, though constructive moves for our improvement, and
that the time IS not far off when real progress will Be seen.
But first there must be the viii, without which little can b
accomplished,
GOVERNOR MuNoz progress Is q classic example
Of what can happen when there is vision and determination
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
'One-Porty Press

A research organization has made
study OF the 'one-party press" in this
country, and has come up with some
rather interesting findings.
This study, conducted by Press In
telligence, Inc, covered a 30-day period
beginning September IL. It tabulated
10000 front-page headlines appearing in
$50 daily and 1926 Sunday newspapers, rep
presenting "a and 81 per cent of the daily
and Sunday newspaper circulation. Of
these 10000 headlines, covering all news
stories involving the four major candi-
dates, President Eisenhower had A per
cent, Mr.. Stevenson, 38 per cent Mr..
Nixon, IL per cent, and Senator Kefauver,
6 per cent.
Mr.. EiSenhower'S lead results in large
part, If not entirely, from the fact that
he is President of the United States. He
got several hundred headlines, for in
stance, when he received Prime Minister
Menzies OF Australia and announced that
he had sent message to Prime Minister
Nehru. He picked up 1853 more when he
appointed Judge Brennan to the Supreme
Court In other words, Mr.. Eisenhower
often becomes front-page news merely
because he is President-a disadvantage
which could confront any contender for
the Office. With respect to purely politi-
cal news, however, Mr.. Stevenson has
done very well. On Is of the 80 days
covered by the study he won more head
lines than Mr.. Eisenhower, and on the
last three days he ran well ahead-46
to AZ per cent
We do not know why Mr.. Nixon, even
though he is Vice President, would run
so far ahead of Senator Kefauver. Ger
tainly, the Senator has not talked less.
We suspect the answer lies in the fact
that Mr.. Nixon is more controversial
and therefore more newsworthy, figure.
If this is the case, the Democrats must
share the responsibility, for they have
had something to do with the build-up
of Mr.. Nixon.
Actually, of course study of this
sort is much less than conclusive. For
example, it makes no attempt to measure
such things as editorial support of the
candidates, possible "slanting" of news
stories, etc. But it does suggest that there
is certain emptiness to the Democratic
charges of one-party press-at least as
far as front-page news treatment is con-
cerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
A Silly Business

School superintendent Corning has
submitted his list Of children of high
Government officials attending the Dis
trict public schools, and as far as we can
see 1t proves only one thing: that these
children, like other children, have been
assigned to their schools in routine
fashion without any favoritism.
Some are attending integrated
schools, some all-white schools. But in
the case Of the latter, they live in all
white or virtually all-white neighbor-
hoods. There is nothing to indicate that
any child living in mixed neighborhood
has been specially assigned to a nom
integrated school,
Presumably the House subcommittee
investigating indignation in the District
asked for this information In the hope Of
embarrassing some officials But no one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
Campaign Lie

1t sometimes is difficult to know
where distortion ends and the outright
lie begins in the course of a political cam
paign. But this difficulty does not apply
to charge which has been made by six
Harlem politicians.
They said that Representative Adam
Clayton Powell, New York Democrat,
switched his political support to President
Eisenhower because pressure" was APP
piled by the White House in connection
with tax case pending in New York
Federal court against one Of Mr.. Powells
employees.
Mr.. Powell says that this complete
lie" and We do not doubt that he is right.
Tammany Hall may be able to pressure
local judges in Harlem. But our Federal
judges are not amenable to white
House" pressure, and we do not believe
that any President would stoop to
the dishonorable tactics which the Har-
lem politicians have imputed to Mr..
Eisenhower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
Suez Outlook

There still is solid ground for the
hope that ways will be found to work out
peaceful and sound settlement of the
Suez crisis. AS expected, the Soviet Union,
with the support of Yugoslavia. has
vetoed the British-French resolution call
ing for international operation of the
canal. But this action, which has come
as surprise to nobody, does not alter the
baSically encouraging fact that the Krem-
lin has Joined the 10 other members of
the United Nations Security Council in
unanimously indorSing the idea of con-
tinued negotiations on the basis of the
six principles agreed upon by all the main
parties to the dispute
These principles, it is true, are
couched in highly generalized language.
1t is true, too, that there is considerable
amount of pessimiStic Egyptian, British
and French talk (Some of it probably
manufactured for diplomatic bargaining
reasons) about the chances of translating
them into mutually acceptable agree
ment. Yet, vague as they may be in many
particulars, they recognize-among other
thingS-that the canal must not be used
as an instrument of national policy.
Which is another way of saying that
President ,Nasser and his government in
Cairo, or any succeeding government
there, must cooperate in a system of
guarantees inSuring the unimpeded pas
sage of shipping vital to the user nations.
If Egypt has really aSSented to this
principle, then the continuing negotia-
tons advocated by the Security Council
should be productive. President EiSen-
hover, for his own part, has spoken opti-
miStically of the outlook And Secretary
DulleS-who with U. N. Secretary General
Dag HammarSkjold has played an adj
nirable promoting role in this diff
hcult and dangerous situation - has
expressed similarly hopeful view in his
latest comment on the subject. Ger
tainly, assuming that the Nasser govern
ment is willing to act reasonably and in
good faith, a satisfactory compromise
settlements settlement effective enough
to eliminate the understandable fears of
countries like Britain and France-should
be not merely possible but probable
Such compromise, of course, might
fall good deal short of what the British
and French would like to have. But if it
established firm guarantees and COM
mitted Cairo before all the world to join
in insuring just and nondiscriminatory
international use of the great waterway,
it would be sound compromise. And
craftsmanship, through the processes of
quiet negotiation, ought surely to be able
to arrive at an agreement of that kind.
Meanwhile, just to be on the safe side,
the West has reason to continue giving
serious thought to possible ways and
means of effectively bypassing the canal
in case Egypt chooses to be unreasonable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
Democratic Action

The Americans for Democratic Action
is an organization that prides itself on
what 1t regards as its liberalism, which
is word generally considered to be broad
enough to embrace or define a belief in
nonconformity and tolerant attitude
toward dissenting views.
So it is interesting and even a little
instructive, to note that Students for
Democratic Action, the collegiate affiliate
OF the ADA, has cracked down on its
chapter at Columbia University in New
York. And why? Well, it seems that the
nonconforming members of this chapter
have def1ed their parent organization by
refusing to indorse Adlai Stevenson for
the presidency. Apparently they don't
like him and they don't like Mr.. Eisen-
hover, and they have therefore decided
not to support anybody.
This may seem to be a silly college,
boy viewpoint or self-defeating plague
neutrality-suspicious. approach to the
coming Presidential election. But still,
sterile or negative as it may be, it is a
viewpoint that liberals" -theoretically
at least-should be able to tolerate. Yet
the SDA, brainchild and ally of the ADA,
has found the thing so insufferable that
1t has angrily condemned the Columbia
chapter to the outer darkness for stub
bornly declining to back Mr.. Stevenson,
who incidentally cannot be blamed for
such nonsense. Liberalism, what sins are
committed in thy namel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15

c. Gordon Clews, pastor Of
Williamsport, Md, Methodist
Church, writes: "a. I've been
waiting to hear some RESPONSE
bic Catholic attest to unbigoted
Americanism by decrying any
public support for the paro-
chial school system.
! can't see where an opinion
that the Nations private
schools are just as American
as public schools and as de-
serving Of public support as
are the public schools can
fairly be called 'bigoted Amer
icanisn." This is resorting to
questionable tactics to answer
an opponents arguments.
As for some responsible
Catholics" saying no-thanks to
any possibility Of Federal aid
for parochial school construc-
ton and operation, 1 sug-
gest that Rev. Clews will find
a subscription to his areas
Catholic weekly newspaper a
wise investment.
During the past year, the
Catholic press has reported
ordinaries as saying they
would not consider direct pa
rochial school aid from the
Federal Government, though
they naturally support Gas did
the final report Of the White
House Conference on Educa-
tom routine public services
such as schoolbus rides, health
examinations and so on.
Archbishop John F. O'Hara
Of Philadelphia, Archbishop
Richard j. Cushing Of Boston,
Archbishop Edwin v. Byrne Of
Santa Fe and Bishop Albert L.
Fletcher Of Little Rock, Ark,
all have made public state
ments.
Also. it might be worthwhile
to add that the priests who
distributed the leaflet advising
parishioners against contribute
ing to the Lorain, Ohio, United
Appeal charity fund have
withdrawn their objections.
VA officials have struck $40
900 from the appeal. the
amount originally earmarked
to build a Salvation Army
Citadel. The officials also have
explained that the money to
be given the Young Women's
Christian Association is for
maintenance and not for
new building, as originally
claimed. Such VA appeals are
supposed to be for mainten-
ance and not construction
anyway. 30 1t would seem the
whole m after has been
Strengthened out.
John J. DAILY, u.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
InequitobIe Road Formula

Traffic statistics released recently by
the Virginia State Highway Department
support the contention of Arlington and
Fairfax Counties that an unfair formula
is being used in the ALLEGATION of highway
funds to nearby Virginia. The report,
covering traffic density per mile on nearly
5000 miles of rural primary roads, shows
Arlington leading all other parts of the
State in traffic congestion, with Fairfax
in second place. But the formula used
by the State in distributing Federal funds
for such roads does not take traffic loads
into consideration, and this factor is only
one of four weighed in allotting State
money.
Arlington County's primary roads
carried an average of 1890 vehicles
day during the fiscal year ended last
June 80, according to the departments
study. This was far in excess of any
other county. Fairfax County's daily
primary load was 1859. Fairfax led all
counties in vehicle-miles of travel during
a 24-hour period, with 1,3O5,619. Total
for the entire State was 1928, TAB We
hicle-mileS. Secondary roads are similar
ly congested, as any motorist who uses
them knows.
1t was because of such heavy volumes
OF traffic in the nearby counties that
legislators from the area induced the
regular 1856 General Assembly to order
a special review of rehabilitation poll
cies. Under the present plan, which
dates back many years, the roads funds
are apportioned largely according to area,
population and road mileage factors, with
traffic volume relegated to an unimport-
ant role. In the days when the formula
was adopted traffic volume actually was
relatively unimportant. But today road
congestion is all-important in considering
highway mprovements-or it should be.
Virginia ought to bring its outmoded
road-fund formula up to date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
Feels Insecure

The letter, Stevenson Hits
a Bump" is too much for me
to let go without a reply. The
writer Of 1t asks why should
Mr.. Stevenson be anxious
about the welfare Of the aging
people except as a means of
getting votes. Well, there is
one sure way Of finding out.
We know what IKE" won't do,
but we don't know what Adlai
will do, so let's be fair and stop
reading into his speeches
things he would not stoop to
do.
I am a widow nearing 10. 1
have TO be on the go nearly ~
hours a day to make a living.
am not able to collect Social
Security, but have all the bills
to pay, a high amount taken
out for Social Security, Federal
tax. one tax here, another one
there, until it consumes a
day and a fraction Of my pay
every week. And yet Mrs.
Wentz tells us no country in
the world provides for the
aged like the United States.
Well, / either have not begun
to age or have missed out along
the line somewhere. do not
think 1t a cruel thing on Mr..
Stevenson's part to give US
assurance that he will remedy
this: after all. it gives us some
thing to look forward TO, be-
cause while I breathe. I hope.
Calling all widows over 65--
get out and vote
Frances Moore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-15
LETTERS TO THE STAR

vided into sections according
to ability. 1t is impossible for
one teacher to carry several
ability levels in the same
class and really teach any
group adequately.
Even though we cannot in
crease appreciably the number
of teachers, we can increase
the quality of learning of our
students. Janet F. Gray.