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Evening star., 1957-12-27
Wilt, Rodgers,
Baylor Pace
Tourney Play
~ the Associated Press

Texas Tech furnished the
big surprise last night as coll
lege basketball got back into
the swing Of holiday tourna-
ment play. but such familiar
figures as wilt Chamberlain Of
Kansas. Elgin Baylor Of Seat
tie and Guy Rodgers Of Temple
continued TO do business at the
same old stand.
Texas Tech, q newcomer to
the Southwest Conference. stole
the show in the conference
tournament at Houston by
knocking on defending cham
pion Southern Methodist. 72-I
10, in overtime after blowing q
l9-point lead.
A field goal by Pat Noakes-I
his only points Of the game
put 1t in the bag for Tech with
eight seconds left after the Red
Raiders. ahead $3.50 at the
half. managed only 10 points In
the second half.
Tech. now TO and the only
unbeaten club in the tourna-
ment. goes against Texas Chris
tian in tonight's semifinals.
TCU advanced with a 65-54
triumph over Texas AIM. Rice
beat Baylor. 62-52, and meets
Arkansas. 1857 victor over
Texas.
Wiit Hits for IL
Kansas, rated No. 2 in this
weeks Associated Press poll,
had some trouble with Okla
homa's ball-control tactics. but
Chamberlain went on a Al
point spree that topped the
Sooners. $3.50. in first-round
play in the Big Eight tourna-
ment at Kansas City.
Iowa State. one OF three
clubs to beat Kansas last year
tOklahoma AIM and North
Carolina were the others. gets
another crack at the Jayhawks
in tomorrow's semifinals after
whipping Colorado. sl-43. last
night. Kansas State. No. 3 in
the poll, meets Missouri and
Nebraska faces guest Princeton
in other first-round games
tonight.
Baylor and Rodgers turned
IN the outstanding perform
ances in first-round action in
the Holiday Festival in Madi-
son Square Garden.
Baylor scored "a points. two
on free throws after the final
buzzer. as Seattle put down a
Connecticut rally for an s7-83
victory. Two free throws by
Don Oeorek broke an 1898 tie
with 30 seconds left. Baylor.
held to 10 points in the first
half, scored Is In the FIRST 10
minutes after intermission and
saved the victory by blocking
a Connecticut shot with five
seconds remaining. He also
grabbed ~ rebounds and
assisted on three baskets.
Rodgers Makes Owls Click
Rodgers scored only IL points
as Temple defeated Pitt. 1911.
but was the guy who made the
Owls click. His eight assists
helped Bill Kennedy take scor-
ing honors with % points.
Teammate Jay Norman had 81.
Pitts Don Hennon. who had
been averaging better than 80
points a game. wound UP with
lls.
An odd bracket Arrangement
puts Seattle against Temple in
tomorrow's semiflnals while
California plays Dayton. Cali
fornia, after losing to San
Francisco. Kansas and Kansas
State in its last three games,
had a ball in beating New York
University. 96-65. Dayton
ousted Manhattan. the defend
ing champion. 59-5l.
North Carolina. Jared loose
See BASKETBALL. Page Ara
Evening star., 1957-12-27
BY BILL FUCHS
star star Correspondent

DALLAS. Tex. Dec. 2T.-Ed-
die Erdelatz. habitually ar
optimistic football coach. pre-
pared to put his Navy player:
through their first post Christ
mas practice today.
About the only question puz-
ding Erdelatz. whose team
must take on Rice. the South
west Conference champion
Wednesday in the Cotton Bowl
concerned conditioning. Navy
was q sluggish outfit the FIRST
few days after the holidays In
practice for the Sugar Bow
game three years ago.
Bad weather ruined the Mid
dies pre-Christmas schedule
this year; they haven't played
q game since November 30, and
yesterday they arrived here
from scattered points after en-
joying a week Of Christmas
leave. That combination OF fac
tors alone could promote appre-
hension In any coach. But
there's another factor and II
has Erdelatz thinking his squad
will be ready to 90 New Years
Day.
ITS the players, themselves. .
Erdelatz said today while send
ing his squad through a posed
workout for benefit Of the press
The first serious practice was
set for later today.
Evening star., 1957-12-27
Individual Workouts

They took their football
shoes on leave with them"
Erdelatz continued. Nobody
asked them TO. Tom Forrestal
(the quarterback told me he
worked out five days at home.
I think most Of them did.
These boys are all business
when they have TO be. I have
confidence in them. I believe
they know we're UP against II.
And so I'm sure they're all in
real good condition"
BY up against It," Erdelatz
insisted he was not making any
alibi because Of the weather
that hampered practice imme-
diately before Christmas. The
weather here is and has been
ideal and consequently the Owls
have had that much more work.
Evening star., 1957-12-27

1--WE said II before that this
squad loves 10 play football. .
Erdelatz continued. Il have
never seen q team enjoy II
more. It's a pleasure TO them
Just TO 90 TO the locker room. ="
Rice resumed practice in
Abilene, 1870 miles west Of here.
yesterday. Coach Jess Neely
was satisfied with the condition
Of his players.
II ran them hard and they
weren't blowing much after all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
BY HOWARD BENEDICT

A mlddle-aged man walked into
a New Jersey newsstand and asked
for a paper-bound copy Of the
Ernest Hemingway novel, ITO Have
and Have Not"
I'm sorry, we don't carry that
book" said the dealer. Its on the
list"
If the man had asked for certain
works of William Faulkner, John
Masters, John O'Hara, John Dos
Passos. Emile lola. d. H. Lawrence
and some other prominent writer's,
the answer would have been the
same:
Its on the list"
He would have found the same
situation in parts of Massachusetts,.
Michigan. Oregon, Wisconsin and
in many other areas where the Ma
tional Organization for Decent
Literature is successful in keeping
what it considers Objectionable lit
erature out of the hands of chill
dren and teenagers.
The books on the list are not
diSapproved for adults. but because
of the list many Older persons-like
the man in the New Jersey news
stand--have dificulty buying GER
tain books.
The NODL and its list have
created the biggest book censorship
Juror in America since an anti
vice crusader named Anthony Com
stock Influenced Congress to pass
the conntry's first postal obscenity
legislation in 1872.
The controversy comes at time
when many writer's and publishers
are emphasizing sex in their nov
els-a time when many books have
climbed to the top Of the best-seller
lists primarily on their sexual
content.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27

companies operating under varied
laws, regulations and supervision.
A Heovy Aeendo
1t will need to study, too, the
numerous Federal financial agencies
which today play so large a role
in our lives: Federal Reserve banks,
Federal Land banks, Federal Home
Loan banks, FILA and VA. as well as
Treasury debt operations, savings
bonds, postal savings, the impact
of international financial institu-
tons and policies on our money
structure.
The consequences of tax-free
treatment OF mutual institutions
will come up for REORGANIZATION,
where such organizations compete
with taxed credit institutions. The
adequacy Of the Federal Reserve
Boards powers will be studied, with
reference to the areas now escaping
its direct influence.
The employment Of the boards
present powers, notably open-mar-
ket operations in United States
securities, will be gone over. Gen.
eral monetary controls will be COM
pared with direct controls like those
over consumer credit. which were
dropped in 1852. Bankers, labor
unions. farmers. home builders and
other groups will want to be heard.
The United States is moving in
the direction Of more control over
the economy by Washington. A
question for the commission is:
What form will it take?
President Franklin d. Roosevelt
in 1888 announced that the United
States seeks the kind of dollar
which generation hence will have
the same purchasing and debt-pay-
ing power as the dollar value we
hope to attain in the near future
A generation later stable dollat
still is the hope. It's pursuit win
be the principle goal OF the COM
mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Study Of Our Money System Is on the Way

policies, and only last year a study
Of the banking laws was begun in
the Senate.
But there has been no really COM
prehensive examination of our
financial machinery-its structure.
functioning. aims and effectiveness
since the famous National None
tary Commission created by the
Congress following the money
panic" of 1907.
That commission made q four
year study which sent economists
junketing around the world. In
1912, while the Pujo Committee
was investigating the money trust"
the NMC made its report. recon-
mending creation Of a national re-
serve association" In 1918 the
Congress passed the Federal Re-
serve Act.
Vast and Complex Problem
Since 1913. Of course, the money
problem has grown vastly In size
and completely. New financial in
situations and methods have de-
veloped. Our public debt has bal
looned, much Of it being held by
commercial banks among their as
sets.
Management Of the public debt
by the Treasury, with its effects on
the cost Of money to all borrowers,
has become a matter of direct in
terest to savers and borrowers every
where and to all who are affected
by imitation and deflation-in other
words, everyone.
The Government itself in this
45-year interval has become an i'm
portant lender and guarantor Of
private loans. The dollar has been
devalued. Poor Richards advice
has been relegated to limbo and
consumer debt has become as
normal as savings bank account
indeed more SO.
In 1912, savings and loan asso-
Citations. mutual funds, pension
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
BY HERBERT BRATTER

The past nine years have seen
many proposals for a thorough
going, soul-searching study Of the
workings of the Nations money
system. This year, it appears, will
see the beginning of such study.
President Eisenhower in his
state-of-the-Union and economic
messages has asked Congress to
authorize a Presidential National
Monetary and Financial Commits
sion," and Senator Homer E. Cape
hart, who on behalf Of the eight
Republican members of the Bank
ing and Currency Committee has
introduced bill for this purpose,
says it is inconceivable that the
Congress will deny the Presidents
request.
No one in Congress objects to q
study. But there is sharp disagree
ment on whether Congressman or
presidential appointees should make
the study. There is strong House
backing for the proposal by Repre-
sentative Wright Patman, Texas
Democrat, that the House Banking
and Currency Committee do the
probing. If the House passes Mr..
Patmans resolution to that effect,
the President may not get the COM
mission he seeks.
Long Stonding Issue
The money question" has pune
tuated American politics and his
tory since colonial times in one
form or another. During the Eisen-
hover administration it has come
up again in the form of the sound
dollar" and tight money. contro-
versies.
During the Truman regime the
Congressional Joint Economic Com
mittee. which has no legislative
authority, twice prohed into Fed
eral Reserve and Treasury financial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27

Of business, other than through
bankruptcy proceedings, without
paying OF all unredeemed stamps
in cash.
These are questions which may
have to be settled in extended court
battles. How the courts may decide
is anybody's guess. but it seems sig
niflcant that in two of the major
Federal cases decided to date, there
is little comfort for the promoters
Of the stamp business.
One Of these cases arose 40 years
ago. but 1t is important because it
was decided by the Supreme Court
of the United States.
At the time the State of WASH
ington had imposed an extremely
high license tax on the distributors
of trading STAMPS. A hardware
dealer refused to pay the tax, argyll
ing that it was unconstitutional.
In unfolding the State, the SUI
preme Court branded stamp plans
as appeals to cupidity. The court
discussed what it considered to be
the possible "deleterious conse-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27

quences" Of such pans, and 1t sug-
gested that those buyers who saved
stamps under the impression that
they were getting something for
nothing were being duped. The
premiums given away" it was
noted, were inevitably paid for
through higher prices.
Another case in point was
decided only several months ago
in Federal district court in Boston.
In that one. the Colgate Palm
olive company brought q suit to
enjoin a cut-rate drugstore from
selling its products at less than
the fair-trade rate. The drugstore
defended itself on the ground that
since the producer acquiesced to
trading stamp plans, there was no
reason why other stores should be
forced to maintain fixed price.
The court ruled that trading
stamps violated fair-trade agree
ments and that manufacturers
agreeing to their use on price-fixed
items were not entitled to judicial
enforcement of their fair trade
contracts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27

funds, trust funds, GI-loans, FILA,
Federal Deposit Insurance, Federal
Savings AMID Loan insurance, W
loans, Small Business Administra-
ton. Farm Credit Administration,
Farmers Home Administration,
United States Savings Bonds, credit
unions and the like were terms that
either had never been dreamed of
or meant very little.
Now they mean much, but no one
is sure just how much. One may
see today the Treasury and Federal
Reserve authorities apparently NOV
ing in one direction and FILA in
another in the matter of interest
rates. One sees commercial banks,
supervised by three different Fed
eral agencies and State authorities,
subjected to one set Of rules and
taxes. while competing financial
institutions operate under much
easier conditions without CORE
spending regulation. Insurance
companies, credit unions and de-
parment stores today have become
important money lenders only in
directly affected by Federal Re-
serve policies.
The problems that q National
Monetary and Financial Commits
sion will face in sharpening UP our
monetary and credit policy objec-
tives and perfecting our financial
machinery and monetary and CEN
trail banking systems will be seen
in miniature in the banking study"
already under way in the Senate
and in the House investigation pro-
vided for in the Patman proposal
approved last week by the House
Banking and Currency Committee.
The commission will have to adj
dress itself to the conflicts Of in
terest, inconsistencies and inequities
presented by commercial and saw
ings banks, savings and loan asso-
Citations. insurance companies. pen
sion, mutual and trust funds, A.
nance companies and mortgage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27

more heavily on his brother, DR..
Milton Eisenhower, for advice on
agricultural matters than on Mr..
Benson.
The selection last week of H.
Meade Alcorn. jr., as chairman of
the Republican National Commit
tee was evidence of the change that
is taking place in the councils of
the party. There were other can
didateS for the post who repre-
scented just about every shade in
the Republican spectrum. But the
man that was chosen, with not
little help from Mr.. Eisenhower
himself. had no peer among them
as an exponent of the New Repub-
licanism.
AS for programs and policies,
there have been significant changes
in Mr.. Eisenhower's approach to
many areas Of government.
Concern Over Educotion
The Presidents increasing inter-
est in a Federal aid program for
education epitomizes his ever
broadening thinking about Uncle
Sans proper role in public welfare.
In his first message on the state
Of the Union four years ago, aid
to education was brushed of with
the advice that such aid should be
made available only where the need
was clear and local aid impossible.
He asked for no legislation.
A year later, after increasing ag-
itation for q program. he asked
for 81 million to pay for the White
House Conference on Education
to be held many months after
ward.
In 1855, he backed a complicated
plan originating with Mrs. Hobby
which called for the Federal pur-
chase of school bonds that were not
saleable on the open market.
Last year, he asked for a vast aid
program envisioning expenditure of
SLIPS billion. mostly in grants, in
five years. It was defeated, partly
because Of an indignation amend
ment."
Finally, this year Mr.. Eisenhower
has renewed the 1856 request, urg-
ing that the program be accelerated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
ON THE LIBERAL ROAD
Presidents Course is Firmly Set

again has asked for retention
Of these taxes at that Korean war
time rate.
The change of emphasis in his
attitude toward taxes was evidenced
by his observation in 1955--and
later repeated-that any tax cut
would stimulate the economy by
enabling citizens to buy more.
There has been little basic change
in Mr.. Eisenhower's foreign policy.
which all along has been interna-
tionalist. But here, too, there are
notable differences in approach.
The "old" Eisenhower, speaking
OF foreign aid, said: e.. Foreign
aid has one purpose only. It Is
part OF our security program .
the actual foreign aid is where
could we get the most security for
q few dollars. That is the only
way we should approach it."
But this Is the new" Eisenhower
delivering his second inaugural adj
dress: I'VE cherish our friendship
with all nations that are or would
be free z. and when, in time Of
want or peril, they ask our help.
they may honorably receive it,
The Presidents messages from
1858 to 1857, especially those after
1854. have been progressively
pitched in more liberal key. Gone
are the frequent references to the
burden OF our inheritance of debt"
the tax burden that stiles initia.
tive" and Oppressive Govern
ment." Gone also is the concern
about States rights and free enter
prise. In their place are requests
Tor spending ito advance the every
day well-being Of our people,"
More Interest in Porty
The Presidents attitude toward
his party and the whole structure
OF party politics has been widely
altered while all the other changes
were taking place.
At first. he seemed to abhor the
part of his job that his predecessor
had so enjoyed-the business of
leading a party. He had little use
for professional politicians and
cared even less for the demands of
practical politics. One of his first
headaches was patronage, which
he seemed to feel was an unneces-
sary bother.
But frou this he progressed to a
pledge only last November to work
industriously and necessarily" for
some change in the understanding
that the public has of the Repub-
lican Party"
The Republican Party to which
he had reference was one that, if
it has not been rebuilt by him,
has. it is generally conceded, been
drastically remodeled by his hand.
The effect of what some writer's
have labeled this Eisenhower
counter-revolution has been to
enlarge the political center" in the
country at the expense of both the
right and the left. The expansion
Of the center puts the liberal Demo-
Gratis in the same boat with the
Old Guard Republicans: both are
left with waning influence and
smaller followings.
1t is this development, many OBJ
servers believe. that gives the
changing direction of the Essen
hover administration its greatest
significance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27

Washington area Catholic on
Gals report that the National
Organization for Decent Litera-
ture operates here through MEM
beers of the Sodality Unions,
groups Of Catholic laywomen.
Members receive NODL lists
and use their discretion in the
manner In which they use them.
Generally, the officials said, So
dality members only keep their
eyes open and call to the atten-
ton Of neighbOrh0Od news deal
ers or druggists any material the
women consider Objectionable"
The District Of Columbia
Pharmaceutical Association, Inc,
receives the NODL list at the as
sOciation's request, the officials
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Catholic Decent Literature Campaign
Raises New Censorship Controversy

NODL list includes such works as
Dos Passos' 1919" Faulkner's
Sanctuary" O'Hara's "a Rage to
Live" zola's Mana" Masters
"Bhowani Junction" and Law
rence's 1.-The First Lady Chatterley."
all of which are available in paper
bound editions for about IS cents.
Pressure Charged
The fact that some well-known
books are on the list has provided
the ABPC with its heaviest am
munition in its fight to halt what
it calls the NODL use of extra
legal pressures on news dealers to
enforce censorship"
The NODL insists that If adults
want to read the banned books they
can buy them in bookstores.
Publishers say this means a per-
son has to pay 10 to 20 times the
price for a book and in many cases
is discouraged from buying it.
I'm other words" the council
adds, If you can afford to pay
$3.50 for a novel your morals don't
need protection"
Peter Jennison, assistant manag-
ing director of the council, says the
NODL applies pressure" on news.
dealers in this manner: p
Local parish committees armed
with the NODL list visit news deal
ers in their neighborhoods and ask
them to remove blacklisted books
and magazines from sale. If they
agree, they are given q certificate
Of cooperation that is renewed
monthly. The list Of cooperating
stores is read or posted in the
churches and parishioners are told
to patronize only the stores display
ing the seal of approval"
The NODL director, most Rev.
John F. Dearden. bishop Of Pitts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27

in order to be completed in four
years instead Of five years.
There have been interesting de-
velopments. too. in the Presidents
attitude on development of water
resources.
In 1858 the President, in answer
to a question. remarked that the
Tennessee Valley Authority was
good example of creeping social
ISM" But in his state-of the Union
message this month he urged that
leach Of our great river valleys be
considered as a WHOLE" and added
that "piecemeal operations" can be
self-defeating and expensive. Fur
ther, his budget message asked for
STAT million In new funds for IVA
for fiscal 1858. compared to the $5.3
million being spent this year.
In earlier pleas in behalf of his
partnership policy" Mr.. Eisenhow-
.er has described the arrangement
as comprising "the States and local
communities, private citizens and
the Federal Government, all work.
ing together" This year, his mes
sages have omitted from the part
nership private citizens" which
had been taken to mean private
business.
Natural resource funds for 1858
were budgeted at SIS billion, an
increase of $167 million over this
years figure.
The Budget Grows
Mr.. Eisenhower came to the
White House determined to re-
trench on Government spending.
He Topped $40 billion off the fiscal
1854 budget proposed by President
Truman. which greatly pleased adj
vocates of economy in Congress.
Getting control of the budget"
he said, requires that State
and local governments and inter-
ested groups of citizens restrain
themselves in their demands upon
the Congress that the Federal
Treasury spend more and more
money for all types of projects"
This was in 1858. But since then,
budget expenditures have started
climbing again and the 1853 bud
get is just under the trimmed 1854
Truman budget. And much of the
increase has gone for more SPEND
ing for State and local govern
ments and interested groups of
citizens" The Wall Street Journal
recently said editorially that the
1858 budget showed "the resolve
itself ITO cut spendingl is no longer
in evidence"
In 1854, Mr.. Eisenhower spoke
out against "rigid Federal control
of farmland, fearing that controls
might eventually put every pro-
Queer under the dominion and
control of the Federal Govern
ment." Two years later, almost to
the day, he proposed the soil bank.
which Mr.. Benson previously had
opposed as Recommendation"
Tex Emphasis Chonges
In 1852 and 1858, the Presidents
concern over the tax load empha-
sized the tax burden borne by
business. He deplored taxes that
are only a little below the con-
fiscatory level" Leaders of busi-
ness and industry have used
similar words to describe the high
rate of corporation taxes (52 per
cent?. Nevertheless, Mr.. Eisenhower