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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22
THE POLITICAL MILL
G. O. P.'s 1858 Farm Hopes Rise
By GOULD LINCOLF

The farmer remains still the
political problem child-over
whom the Republicans and the
Democrats will battle in the
coming session of Congress. 1t
is true that President Eisen-
hover carried all the big farm
States in the recent election
except Missouri. But it is
equally true that west of the
Mississippi River these States
went for the President by
a smaller margin than they
did in 1852. Also, Republican
congressional losses were
scored in that area--for ex-
ample in Kansas, Colorado,
Oregon and California. And
these losses might have been
more severe had not the issue
of peace and national security
with Eisenhower as the SYM
boil of both--come to the aid
of the G. o. P.
1t is expected, therefore,
that the Democrats, in control
of Congress-particularly the
Housewife renew their at
tacks upon the Eisenhower
farm program. singing out the
so-called flexible system of
farm price supports and de-
manding q return to the rigid
80 per cent Of parity supports
for basic crops. If the Demo-
Gratis stick together-and some
of the Western Republicans
join them-they may be able
to pass a bill through the
House. But whether they do
or not. and even should the
Senate go along. a presidential
veto would be just as effective
in the new Congress, in all
probability, as it was in the
84th Congress.
Farm improvements Expected
Republican leaders are look
ing forward to improvements
in the economic condition of
the farmers In 1857. They be-
lieve that downgrade has been
effectually ended, and that
farm income will increase. If
they are correct, they believe
their chances for carrying the
congressional election of 1858
will improve. The Department
of Agriculture has just pub
lished its Agricultural outlook
Digest which claims that a
four-year decline in farm in
come has been halted, and that
the net farm income for 1856
will be $l1 billion, or an in
crease Of $400 million over
1855. Another gain in 1857 is
likely" the agricultural econo-
mistS say.
The Eisenhower administra-
ton is determined to work eff
fectively to bring farm econ
omy up to the level of the gen.
eral economy of the country
which has been high. Already
the soil bank program has
been effective. and will be
more so, the administration
believes, in 1857. Its special
export program-particularly
in relation to cotton-is help
ing reduce the huge SURPRISES
which have been built up
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under the farm price support
programs. These surpluses hit
a peak last February. The
Commodity Credit Corporation
owned SIS, 762. 000, 900 in surplus
products, and had outstanding
loans amounting to $780,
100000 on other products
total of $3.50, 900, 900. BY the
end of September this total
was down about q billion dol
lars, to $7.89S. 100000. These
surpluses have operated to de-
press farm prices year after
year.
Sweep in North Dakota
On the political front, the
Republicans really cleaned up
in one of the big agricultural
States of the Northwest
North Dakota. The Democrats
early in the year believed they
could trim the G. o. P. in that
State. The leaders of the Nom
Partisan League, a political
factor in North Dakota moved
over openly to the Democratic
Party. The election results,
however. indicated they did
not take the rank-and-fil
members along with them.
Senator Milton r. Young, Re-
publican, was reelected by an
estimated margin Of 10000 to
$4,000 votes; two Republican
members of the House won:
a Republican Governor was
elected, and the Republicans
increased their maJorities in
both houses of the Legislature.
Senator Young's margin Of
victory will exceed that given
President Eisenhower in the
State.
Senator Young, in his cam
paign, stressed two issues.
First, that national security
and peace required the re-
election Of Eisenhower. Sec
ond, that the Republican farm
program was really helping the
farmers-though he did not
agree with the flexible price
support program and stood for
a return to the rigid 90 per
cent of parity for wheat and
other crops. Young has fought
the flexible system consist
emily. He probably will sup
port the rigid high support
program again if the Demo-
Gratis bring it up.
Senator Young's stand ex-
emplif1es the problem of the
administration. The admins
tration's hope, however, is that
the farm economy will improve
materially in the coming year,
demonstrating clearly that the
rigid, high price supports are
not needed and, indeed, would
merely start a new and harm
full chain reaction.
Republicans in the farm
States are watching with in
terest what may happen re-
garding Secretary Of Agri-
culture Ezra Taft Benson.
Whether they like Benson or
not. some Of them frankly say
a new head Of the department.
would bolster party chances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22
Ever Thankful

II am thankful to God that
I am an American, and. too,
that I am living in America
again."
Those words were spoken by
one of our forgotten men"
One of the many thousands
found in veterans hospitals
throughout our country today.
He was young, a veteran Of
the Korean war who has for
gotten what it was like to have
legs. What it is like to play
baseball and football. What
it was like to bowl, or to dance.
Despite what is to him a
temporary handicap, there was
no room in his heart for hatred
or bitterness. No room for
Self-pity.
He still loves his country and
his flag. Above all he still
believes in his country and his
fellowmen.
He is typical Of the thor
oughbred who can take what
ever might befall him, be it
good, bad. pick up the pieces,
find his place in society and
live and laugh again.
He has no patience with the
"grlpers." No patience with
the do nothings" who tell you
what should be done. No pa
thence with laziness or COM
placency. "SmugneSS leads to
disaster" he said.
This young soldier is CRATE
full to God every day for His
magnificent blessings. Crate
full to God for his glorious
heritage.
He knows that he is his
brothers keeper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22
THIS AND THAT
Nv CHARLES TPATEWEII
Do you ever read in bed?

Do you ever read in bed?
There are all sorts of fancy
little pillows one can get now
adays to bolster both a flag
ging morale and a sagging
back.
Templeton Jones purchased
one with high hopes.
Asked about it later, he
said: mo, I don't use it, but
it is not the pillows fault. 1t
Is my blamed neck"
The neck plays a very i'm
portant part in reading.
Nothing was ever said about
this in the old time physiology
classes in school.
Teacher was young, too, and
she didn't know, any more
than the children she taught,
that one reads with the neck
as well as with the eyes.
In fact, the neck may give
out long before the eyes.
Then the on1nivorous reader
has what is known as ten
sion neck"
There are, of course, other
things beside reading that
make for tensions.
We are a Nation Of tense
people. We are told endlessly
in articles in medical and lay
magazines.
We are so tense we need
millions and millions OF sleep
ing pills. happiness pills" and
other connections to relax US.
Trsnquilizers, they are called.
There is no pill, however,
which will relieve the plain
ache in a neck that has been
stretched forward too much
and for too long a time.
1t takes about so years.
more or less. for those small
neck muscles to get tensed.
Now. half a century is a long
time in anybody's life.
Cause and effect are so far
apart perhaps nobody Is to be
blamed If he fails to connect
them. Thousands Of persons
go through life never once
realizing that too much read
ing may be what is the matter
with their neck and shoulders.
Oh. yes, the shoulders come
into the picture. too. II one
has been so unfortunate as
10 get bursitis in a shoulder
the picture is complicated.
The doctor may cure. as he
says, but the bursitis may
also make a comeback IS
years later TO plague both the
shoulder and neck and Az
points in between.
49,
Temp Jones once leaned
forward at his ONCE 10 pick
up a pencil which had rolled
onto the floor.
Pencils have a way Of doing
( that.
Jones went down very neatly,
but when he came UP. he
rammed his right shoulder
into the corner Of an associ-
ate's desk.
Another reason. no doubt,
for giving plenty Of room be-
tween desks. instead Of cram
ming and tanning them close
together. as Is the common
practice.
A. the time. Jones didn {
much mind the hurt. though
II panied very much for a few
seconds.
He forgot all about It, and
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thought no more Of it until a
full month later, when it began
to hurt.
Three days Of treatment
seemed to bring it under con-
troll. and again he forgot all
about it, this time for Is years
or so.
Then it hurt, vaguely, just
enough to be annoying.
BY this time, he had item
sion neck" and the shoulder
was now just a part Of the
general picture.
X
The point is. not that some
body named Templeton Jones
has read too much. and was
unfortunate enough to ram
his shoulder into a desk cor
ner, but that maybe others
might profit from his pains.
Young readers might try
stretching their heads up and
back, after every Is minutes
Of reading time.
At first it might prove a
nuisance. but in time it might
be habitual. and cause no
more trouble than stopping to
look out the window. now and
then; a very good thing for
the eyes. by the way.
Posture exercises. tending to
create an erect carriage. might
be taken. too, with a definite
idea that they would relax
neck muscles stretched TOO
much by the forward pose Of
reading.
This is the word Of wisdom
speaking. young readersl Fifty
years may seem a long time.
but Jones neck has not for
gotten how 1t has been abused,
and your blamed neck will 20
the same way. unless you listen
TO him.
Try to hold the book so that
the neck is not bent so far
forward.
Raise the head. every now
and then. and deliberately
stretch backward.
Keep your living posture in
trim by backing up to a wall
at least twice a day and
making the back Of the head,
neck and small Of the back.
and the heels. in a line all the
way down and up.
Straighven up and read
right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22

@. DO the managers Of
drive-in movie theaters make
more money from sale Of
food. soft drinks. etc. than
from movie admissions?-F.M.
A. Some Of them make as
much profit from concessions
as from admissions. and some
make even more. II a conces-
sion operator handles the sale
Of food and drink. the ex-
hibitor usually gets IS per
cent Of the gross income.
When driye.in owners handle
these sales. their average net
profit comes 20 50 per cent OF
the gross amount sold. The
average ticket buyer At a drive
IN spends so cents for food
Or drink, according 70 the
business Newspaper Flm Daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22

Clarkson j. Beall, in a letter
expresses justified horror at
the massacre in Hungary. The
world shall not soon forget the
courage and heroism of the
freedom fighters in their gall
liant struggle for independence
from foreign domination.
Mr.. Beall goes on to say,
however, that in the Middle
East, Britain. France, and
Israel. after patiently waiting
for eight years justifiably
called the bluff Of the would
be dictator of the Moham-
medan world" Perhaps Mr..
Beall does not know that Mr..
Nasser has not been the presi-
dent of Egypt during this
eight-year period and that he
is not the cause" but the
result" Of this long period Of
tension. which the great pow
ers have had no small hand
in keeping alive; neither is
Nasser the "would-be dictator"
of the Mohammedan world.
The Arabs number only 80
million Of the worlds 900 mil
lion Moslems. I am sure that
the millions of Moslems Of In
donesia. India, Pakistan. At
ghanistan. Iran and Turkey
would dispute his facts.
Christians the world over
stand in horror Of the massa-
ere Of their brethren in Hun
gary. but do they not realize
that Christians are suffering
and dying in the Middle East
as we'll? Do they know that
many thousands Of the Arab
refugees from Palestine are
Christians that Israel not only
refuses to repatriate but even
to offer PREPARATIONS and COM
pensation? Do they know that
there are many more thou
sands of Christians in Egypt
than there are Jews in Israel?
That half the population Of
Lebanon is Christian, and a
great mass Of Syrians, too? If
Mr.. Beall prefers to base
his argument on Christianity
where can he draw the line?
A Christian in Egypt is no less
a Christian than a Christian
in Hungary. Is he suggesting
that Christianity should Justify
the doctrine of preventive war
in the Middle East? Does he
condone the massacre by the
French. "the great defenders
Of Christianity" of the great
masses Of Algerians who also
seek independence?
The stark reality that the
West must face is the fact that
in Hungary there is nothing
we can do to relieve the suf-
fering. except to offer food,
medicine and moral support,
unless it is to invite disaster
and World War III. In Egypt,
however. the fate Of all man
kind hangs in the balance and
the next step depends on the
West-not only on Britain,
France and Israel. the agrees
sorS but also the United
States. In Hungary, the massa-
ere has ended; in Egypt, and
even perhaps in the rest of the
world, it may only have begun.
Ellen c. Chatti.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22
MoIotov-Up or Down?

one mans guess is as good as an
others when it comes to trying to figure
out the precise implications of Soviet
Deputy Premier Molotov'S new job 1t
could mean victory of sorts for the
Stalinist faction in the Kremlin. Or it
could mean another defeat.
In any event, certain things are rea-
sonably clear. One is that Mr.. Molotov
is BolShevik of the old school. Another
is, as suggested by Marshal Tito Of Yugo-
Slavia in his recent remarkable speech at
Pula, that the former Soviet Foreign
Minister is almost certainly the leader
of the Stalinist wing Of the Communist
Party in Russia. This means, if it is as
true as 1t seems to be, that he ardently
favors a tough" policy at home and
Abroad fact that would appear to place
him in direct conflict with Nikita Khru-
Shchev, Premier Bulganin and other So
called anti-Stalinists who have at least
paid lip service to the relatively soft"
doctrine of liberalization" and "democ-
ratization" for both the satellites and
the USSR.
If such conflict really exists, then
anything can happen during the weeks
ahead in terms of changes in the Soviet
high command. There can be little doubt
that events in Poland and Hungary
especially in Hungary - have deeply
shaken Russia'S collective leaders" and
thrown them off balance. And to the
extent that some of those leaders blame
the situation on the Discrimination pro-
gram carried out by Mr.. KhruShchev'S
faction, the Kremlin has the makingS Of
what could be an extremely bitter and
explosive showdown within itself, a show
down that conceivably could lead even to
the physical liquidation Of one or another
OF the warning groups. Indeed, as far as
possibilities go, the politicoS in Moscow
might become so embattled with each
other as to make the Red army move in
to establish military dictatorship under
Marshal Zhukov.
But all this is nothing but Specula-
ton. Actually, the strong probability is
that the men of the Kremlin-even if
seriously divided at the moment-will
attempt to stick together at least until
they get off the Hungarian hook. Mean
while, in his new post, which has been
relatively insignificant in the recent past
but which could offer potential road
ways to great power in the Soviet Union,
Mr.. Molotov may try to do things cal
culated to make Stalinism working and
effective force again both inside and out
side the USSR. This could mean, for
example, an intensification of regimenta-
ton for the Russian people and measures
designed to crack down on the inde-
pendence- minded Polish Communists.
And it could mean, also, general and
dangerous heightening of international
tension.
With that said, however, basic queS-
ton remains. Regardless of Mr.. Molo-
TOYS formidable talents, is it now possible
for anybody in the Kremlin to revive any,
thing but pallid form of the old brand
of Stalinism? Can such an evil be re-
stored to effectiveness after having been
thoroughly deglorifled by the highest
Soviet authorities? Judging from what
has happened in Poland and Hungary,
not to mention the theological diSen-
chantment of Communist parties around
the world, the answer would seem to
be no.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22
Fairfax Zoninq

A recent article by Mary Lou
Werner told Of a suit fled by
property owners against re-
strictive coming in Fairfax
County. The National Capital
Planning Commission and a
member of the staff of the
Mass Transportation Survey
are cited as authorities for
land-use plans which would
stifie suburban development
except in a few favored loca-
tons in Fairfax and Mont
gomery Counties.
1t may be that other parts
Of the United States would
be better locations for Gov
eminent activities than WASH
ington. But if growth of the
Metropolitan Area requires adj
ditional room, adequate con-
sideration should be given to
how and where people want to
live.
One indication Of desires of
the population is the STABILITY
OF houses and lots in subdivi-
sions. If houses and lots can
not be sold. subdivision win
soon come to an end without
restrictions.
Present thinking Of local
planning boards seems to be
that it is or will be impossible
to provide public improve
ments except in certain loca-
tons. But planning based on
supposed inability to supply
public improvements is a con-
fession Of defeat. 1t may be
that our methods of spreading
the costs Of such improvements
Is in need Of revision. Perhaps
more Of the real costs should
be borne by the subdivider and
the prospective homeowner in
stead Of the public. But until
II becomes economically i'm
possible to supply the neces-
sary streets. schools, electric
ity. gas. water, telephones and
sewers to the locations where
people want 70 live. subdivision
should be permitted.
Costs Of providing many OF
such facilities are in direct
proportion to the size of lots
subdivision which takes the
form Of scattered two-acre lots
throughout a countryside is
waSteful Of roads. ultimately
causes traffic congestion. and
Is more expensive per capita
for schools and all the other
necessities Of modern life. It
IS a forced reversion to the one
time prevalent practice Of sub
dividing large areas. selling
lots, and hoping they would
eventually be built upon. In
the past many such subdivi-
sions near some Of our largest
cities. with a goodly proportion
OF lots unimproved. practically
reverted 70 jungle.
II is hoped that the court
which is TO hear the Fairfax
County suit will give consider
alton 10 the constitutional
rights Of the many owners OF
unSubdivided lands Of Fairfax
County. and 70 the rights Of
the thousands Of prospective
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legalistic manner, some tiny percentage
Of the Hungarians to be let in may prove
in time to be undesirable. But that is at
most only very negligible risk which we
can well afford to take in giving succor
to these victims of inhumanity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22

owners Of homes on these lands.
The problems Of water supply
and sewers for the Metropoli-
tan Area can be solved with
out discriminatory and arbi-
trary coming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-22
LETTERS TO TIE STAR

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letters carry WrjterS correct
names and addresses. An
letters are subject to conden-
Sdtion.
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Questions and Answers
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The Trouble Spots

Mark TayntOn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-15
METROPOLITAN Problems

Washington and its neighboring COM
munities are not alone in facing the
problem of interjurisdictional conflict and
confusion. A recent study of metropoli-
tan area development in many parts of
the country by the Council of State Gov
ernmentS revealed that most big cities
have encountered governmental difficult
ties similar to our own in the Washington
area review of the councils findings
IS printed in the Editorial Feature Section
Of todays Star
1t is clear from the councils report
that We have problem even more COM
plicated than that Of most other metro
poltan areas because Of the unique
/ dcral-DiStrict relationship Whereas
other urban centers have brought about
coordination BY annexng adjacent COM
runitieS, Washington is restricted BY the
Constitution TO the fixed boundaries OF
the District Of Columbia Our only hope
OF working out better NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
relations is through interstate pacts and
other agreements. Several steps toward
regional teamwork already have been
taken. The District and a portion Of
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He Likes Ike

A few days ago the Senate Republic
can Policy Committee came out with some
nonsense to the effect that the Commu-
nists were pulling for Democratic
victory at the polls this November This
was supposed to prod the voters into
marking their ballots for the Republican
ticket, thereby saving the country from
this Communist plot.
But the Communists can be pretty
conSpiratorial when they want to. There
IS just no telling what they will do next
Now it appears that Jacob Malik Russia's
Ambassador to London, is an Eisenhower
man When he learned that Senator
Knowland had said that the President
was going to run again, Mr. Malik de-
clared. This is fine news. I'm for
Eisenhower"
We do not know what the Senate
Republican Policy Committee is going to
do about this. II it wants to be logical
and consistent it ought to call upon the
voters to put Mr.. Malik in his place by
voting against Mr. Eisenhower But that
is asking a good deal 1t will be enough
If the committee will gather up and burn
all those memoS telling about the Com
munist scheme to elect the Democrats.