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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
DORIS FLEEsON
Senator'S Price for Accord

Sena tie Republicans have
now felt obligated to come to
the aid of Secretary Dulles.
Senator Wiley. the ranking
Republican on the Foreign Re-
lationS Committee, has accused
some unnamed Democrats of
using attacks on the Secretary
OF State as a means of i'm
proving their stature as pres
idential timber. This kind of
defense is not likely to help
Dulles much. There is no Ques-
ton that the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee is an attrac-
tive place to build senatorial
regulations and several young
committee members have this
fully in mind. Yet for another
Senator to accuse them of it
is more likely to produce more
attacks on Dulles than to
diminish them.
Within a few weeks Chris
tan Herter. who has now been
formally nominated by the
President as Undersecretary of
State, will be on hand to take
over some Of the burdens of
liaison with Congress. A polite.
gracious, gentlemanly person.
Herter has the advantage of
having congressional expe-
rience of his own. 1t will stand
him in good stead. Following
his unpleasant experiences in
trying to sell the Middle East
program, Dulles probably will
shift as much testimony be-
fore congressional committees
to Herter as he is able. But
Dulles, not Herter. will be the
quarry of the Democratic Sem
ators, and they will not be
anxious to accept a substitute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
6. 0. P. Leaders Fear Some Democrats
May Make Political Football of Issue
CONSTANTINE BROWN

Republican leaders in Con-
gress are seriously concerned
that President Eisenhower's
programs, from the Middle
East defense plans to the
budget and school building
projects, will encounter very
severe resistance in both
houses.
There has seldom been a
shorter honeymoon between
the legislative and executive
branches of the Government
than that which followed
Eisenhower's second Inaugural
ton.
About 80 per cent of the
"scrupulous scrutiny" Of the
legislation already sent or to
be sent in the next few weeks
is ascribed to politics. The
campaign for 1858 mid-term
elections is already in full
swing and there are strong in
dications that positions are
being taken at this very
moment for the 1860 presiden-
tial year.
The most important legisla-
ton before Congress is the
request of the Chief Executive
to use the armed forces of the
United States at his discretion
in the event Of international
Communist aggression in the
Middle East. When this pro-
posal was first presented it
looked as if it would go through
quickly without trouble. There
was a precedent for this
optimistic estimate: A SIMILAR
request, made of Congress in
1854 concerning the defense of
Formosa and the offshore
islands, passed in less than
a week with only three dis
senting votes in the House and
a similar number in the Senate.
The situation in 1854 was
more dramatic. The Chinese
Communists were on a ram
page. they were pounding the
offshore islands every day and
a Red Chinese force was con-
centrated in Fukien Province
repeatedly ready to move
against Quemoy and MatSu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29

No such indications exist to-
day in the Middle East-or at
least none has been made
public by Secretary of State
Dulles who is plotting the
Middle East doctrine before
Congress.
Because of somewhat nebu-
lous testimony. full of gen.
eralities, and with rare specific
indications of the acute
dangers in that oil-rich area,
Dulles has given a golden
opportunity to some of his
Democratic opponents to
make a political football of
the Middle East plan.
Not only gregarious Sena-
tors such as Morse, Humphrey
and Fulbrig h t have taken
advantage of the clumsy
presentation and testimony of
Dulles, but even such Senators
as Byrd, Russell and Mans
field, who don't believe in
kicking the ball when inter-
national affairs are concerned.
have been highly critical of
the project as explained by
the Secretary in long hours of
cross-examination.
Not even those who want to
make political hay out of the
issue oppose the military
aspects of the Eisenhower re-
quest. They are all willing to
go ahead and back the Com
mander in Chiefs demand to
use our armed forces in any
area in which he deems inter-
vention necessary. The Consti-
tuition is not quite clear wheth-
er he has that right anyhow,
although Dulles asserted on
April 8, 1856, that "the United
States forces might be utilized
in the Middle East without
congressional authority in the
event Of an EN- ergency."
Whether the Secretary's con-
tention is accurate or not is
immaterial. The legislators do
not think that this is the mo-
ment to bubble and are willing
almost unanimously to give the
President their backing by
passing a joint resolution to
make clear to the Russians
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
Board of Education Is Reported Failing
Of Full Compliance With Court Ruling

ing its conscience. A commits
sion on indignation. with vari-
GUS subcommiSsions. has been
at work for the board Of edu-
cation.
THE board did not, for the
most part, have to deal with
the problem found in parts of
the South, where there is
settled public opinion against
indignation. It had to cope
with the more subtle forms of
segregation that create. as if
by accident, school almost
wholly white, Puerto Rican or
Negro in its student body.
The good intention to inte-
CRATE is not enough. Real
physical difficulties exist, as in
the case of a school drawing
its student body from a resi-
Dental area almost wholly of
one race. Inertia, some pref
udice that must be admitted,
and other obstacles too numer-
Gus to recount stand in the
way of instant solution. even
granted the best of good will.
Nov the board of education
stands at the critical point
where mere paying lip service
to fine moral principles will
not suffice to move us forward,
and where the sacrifices by
which high principles are
translated into action must be
assumed"
This will come as news to
many people outside New York,
especially in the South. For
evidently there are no "citi-
Gems councils" in New York
which have brought about this
situation. 1t will be a comfort
to the Southerners to learn,
however. that the problem can
not soon be solved, "even
granted the best of good will"
because obstacles too numer-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
DAVID LAWRENCE

News that seems on its face
to be confined to a locality
and hence gets little attention
nationally can on occasion be
Of far-reaching importance in
the life of a nation. A good
example is the failure as yet
of New York City'S Board of
Education to obey the Supreme
Court of the United States in
what lately has been empha-
sized as "the law of the land"
1t will be surprising to many
people to learn that "integra-
ton" in the school system has
not been solved in the me-
tropolis of America where So
called liberalism" is very vocal.
There loud voices of accusa-
ton recently have been heard
denouncing the South as
backward" or as "undermin-
ing respect for the Supreme
Court" or as contemptuous of
the Constitution.
One can hardly believe that
it is in the Northern citadel
of civil rights" where public
attention is being gividly
drawn to the tendency of
human beings to segregate &C.
cording to color. With a COM
mendable sense of realism in
assessing the weaknesses of
human nature, the New York
Times, in an editorial entitled
The Beam in Our Own Eye"
spoke out a few days ago as
follows:
Ever since the Supreme
Court in 1854 concluded that
in the field of education the
doctrine of separate but equal
had no place. and that racial
segregation deprived children
of a minority group of equal
educational opportunities, New
York City has been re-examin-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
THOMAS [. STOKES

Federal aid for construction
of sorely needed public schools,
which President Eisenhower is
urging anew, offers a real test
of the leadership of Democrats
in this Congress which they
control and manage. For the
Republicans it offers a test of
the modern Republicanism"
to which the President beckons
his party.
The problem, as demon
strated in the previous Con-
gress. is to produce a majority
for school construction meas
ure out of the badly split
forces in each party. That will
take the finest gifts of COM
promise, especially in the
House of Representatives.
That is as far as the meas
ure got in the last Congress.
There it was defeated, you will
recall, by a combination of
groups drawn from both
parties who were opposed to
one or another feature or. as
with the case of some. do not
approve of the principle of
Federal aid for schools of any
kind.
The public, along with the
President. expects better of
Congress this go-round .or, as
Eisenhower pointed out in his
message this week, the shortage
OF classrooms is. of all educa-
ton problems, the most criti-
CAL Nor has 1t diminished
any; rather the contrary. since
Congress flunked its JOB last
year.
Because of this loss Of a
year, the President explained.
he now proposes a program to
accomplish in four years what
last years would have done
in five. Therefore he is asking
a $1.3-billion program, 1925
million a year for four years,
for school construction, as we'll
as other Federal assistance of
various sorts Of nearly 81 bill
lion more. For school con-
struction the Democrats are
seeking a larger amount in n
bill introduced by Representa-
tive Augustine Kelley OF Penn
sylvania, sponsor of last years
Democratic bill. which would
authorize SO billion over six
years.
In his message, the President
recognized the controversies
that wrecked school construc-
ton aid last year by citing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-29
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike asks a big Federal school building program. Only
man on close terms with the Republican Party for
years can know the peris of too little education
King Saud of Arabia should be popular here. All
America loves family and Sauds family is so big
he has to have four wives to look after it.
The House prepares to approve Kes Middle East
doctrine Under this doctrine it will be illegal for
and Israeis to others until they've taken
non-Communist oaths.
Vice President Nixon buys 21-room house. It's
drought relief millions of people wept
small mortgage in So think of the 1860 downpour
mortgage!
Democrats there's vital flaw in Constitution
It prevents Ike from running again-but Adai Steven
Money is tight in this country that to decent
loan have to to foreign country that's
ing TO go Communist
More congressman oppose American visit by Yugo-
savas Marshal Tito. This fellow Communist
and prefer dictators straight.
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17
GIVING AND GETTING

can finish the job is by system
attic GIVING and GETTING:
We must GIVE to the 1857
March Of Dimes to supply fuel
for the work that still needs to
be done-the research, the pa
tients who still desperately need
our aid, the specialized train
ing of badly needed polio ex-
pertS;
And we mus GET ourselves
and our families fully protected
against polio with three properly
spaced shots of Salk vaccine.
Let's finish the polio job this
January by giving generously
and by getting vaccinated. Let's
finish the job the way it was
started-together. GIVE to the
March of Dimes-GET vaccinat-
ed.
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17
WADE HAMMOND - A LIFE OF SERVICE

In gentle musician named Wade
Hammond amazing as an Army Bano
Master and to make home for hmsei ana ms We IN
Phoenix Phoenix quite been the same
southern culture breeding
classical education and discipline OF the mis-
Sionary schools.
Scores probably hundreds with another kind OF
them They have sat In
his living his front porch and poured out to him,
troubles that the gamut Of earthly
Those who knew him his warm and kindly
feared and disked him for the influence
their difficulties and others who
sought problems
too big to be carried alone faced them.
Whatever he friendship advice acumen,
personal influence he freely and without restrictions
to find employment Many he helped to hold
they danger of losing them by unfair
the path which have walked into
better fe Quietly effectively with powerful convnc
logic and obvious sincerity he has chamoned the rights
all other citizens the good fife developing here in this Land
OF The
To white community his gateway
understanding of the poentialeS hopes and ambitions
way has found
his their friendships their
his friendly convictng philosophy of
his white friends have had their to the obligations
of of good will.
To all who have felt his influence
advisor and tower of strength
Much of his ability help others
who knew him knew that he had selfish motive his
He neither sought profit
those had the fortune him
sonay perhaps the most beautiful gentle part
life his love his wife, his
which Fitzgerald prominent
faltered but meowed through the golden Tuesday
January 15 when he did not
failed her the quiet had come
between them
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17

A child born the same day the
March of Dimes officially came
into being would be one day less
than 19 years old when the 1857
campaign for polio funds opened
Jan. 2. In that relatively brief
span, a way of preventing polio
the Salk vaccine = has been
made possible by the generosity
of the American people, and in
a little more than the last year
and half of this time over A
million children and adults have
been vaccinated.
But the irony is that the teen
ager mentioned above probably
will have reached his 18th birth
day still unvaccinated. For the
truth is that considerably less
than half of the nations teen
ayers have taken advantage of
the Salk vaccine.
No invention of science can
force people to avail themselves
of the blessed protection of the
polio vaccine-only a vigorous,
cooperative educational program
can extend a true umbrella of
protection over Americas young
Sters and young adults. And,
for another thing, no method
now known can fully undo the
ravages caused by polio of the
past and, for that matter, of
the present
No, polio is not licked yet, un-
fortunately. The only way we
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17

Annual income queStionnaires
have been mailed to more than
100000 veterans and widows
and children of deceased veter-
ans who are receiving pension,
VA announced today.
VA urged those who received
the questionnaires to fill them
in completely and return them
Immediately to the VA office
shown on the form.
Unless completed question
naires are returned to VA with
in 80 days, pension payments
will be stopped, VA stressed.
QueStionnaireS are mailed out
yearly because disability and
death pensions are subject to
annual income limitations. The
current questionnaires request
data on 1856 income and anti
cipated 1857 income.
The questionnaires have been
sent to 100000 veterans and
$4,000 widows and children Of
deceased veterans.
Pensions are payable to GER
tin eligible veterans of World
War I, World War II, and the
Korean conflict period who are
permanently and totally dis
abled from causes not connect
ted with their service in the
armed forces, and to certain
widows and children of veterans
of these wars who die of non
service-connected causes. In
both cases, the annual income
of those receiving pension must
not exceed $1,4O0, without de-
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17
VETERANS NEWS

pendents, or $2,7OO with de-
pendents.
VA said the only dependents
allowed for a living veteran for
pension purposes are wife and
minor children, and for a widow,
only minor children.
For income purposes, pay
mentS from VA for disability or
death, including the proceeds
of CT insurance, need not be
reported.
However, all other payments,
including gifts, income from
employment, payments fr o m
commercial life insurance, Social
Security, annuities, and retire
ment benefits must be reported
on the questionnaires.
Those receiving pensions
should report Immediately any
increase in income which raises
his annual income above the
statutory limit, payments Will
be discontinued retroactively to
the first of the year.
This creates an overpayment,
VA said, and is subject to re-
covery by the Government.
If the person promtly notifies
VA of such an increase, pay
ments will be discontinued as
of the date the last yapment
was made and no overpayment
will result.
Pension rates for a veteran
who is permanently and totally
disabled is $66.15 a month. After
the veteran has received the
Continued on page 81
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17

1IlG miracle O1 CGl0VASlO11 4Ado
made it possible for the ordinary
citizen to be present when the
president of the nation makes
his report to Congress on the
State Of The Nation. This year
many of us saw and heard Pres
ident Eisenhower present this
important report and witnessed
the reaction of Congress to the
various parts of the address.
The whole nation knows that
the President was addressing
Congress at time when two
great struggles for freedom are
going on in the world. One is
here in America where the CEN
tury old struggle of the freed
men and their descendants has
finally been given it's first nudge
of encouragement by the his
toric decisions of the Supreme
Court against various kinds of
legal segregation and diScrimi-
nation against them. These dis
criminatory practices have linn
tied the economic, educational,
and social progress of millions
of American citizens and have
humiliated them whenever they
have lifted their sights to any
status above that of virtual
Serfdom
In the struggle to survive the
great majority of these people
have been forced to do the hard
est, the most menial, and the
filthieSt tasks of making Ameri-
ca a great industrial nation, at
the same time receiving the low
est pay for their work. If this
a true description Of the plight
of the American Negroes, it
sounds remarkably like the kind
of life the communist tyrantS
have forced upon those in their
subject nations who have dared
to rebel against the imposition
of communist theology.
The other great struggle for
freedom in today's world is the
open rebellion of people in the
communist satellite nations typ
flied by the desperate rebellion
in Hungary and the flight from
death, carnage and oppression
of tens of thounSandS of de-
Spairing and hopeless people.
All America and the world wait
ed to hear what the President
of the United States would say
to Congress about the impact
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17
FACING THE FACTS
w. A. Robinson

Of these two desperate social
struggles upon America and
Americans.
TT was evident that the deS-
peration of peoples under COM
munist domination had a power
full and dramatic champion in
President Eisenhower. All Amer
leans, T am sure, listened with
pride and compassion as he
called upon Congress and the
American people to help gener-
ouSly. The welfare of the Suf--
fering any where in the world
is a proper concern for the rich
est and most powerful nation
in the world.
The desperation of American
citizens Of African descent, on
the other hand, was CLOSED over
by the President in few state
mentS that lacked both deep
conviction and moral urgency. No
asylum is conceived or requested
for those whose homes and
churches are being bombed out.
Except for the kind request that
everyone be reasonable in the
struggle against segregation, the
level at which some millions of
Americans are seeking freedom
and independence at the cost of
great personal hazard and sa-
crifice, there was little more in
the Presidents report to Con-
greSS but a vague promise Of
some civil rights" legislation to
be offered to the Congress by
the president. What is this rea-
sonableness which the PreSi-
dent requests? Is it a rea-
Sonable attempt by the forces
of law to apprehend and bring
to justice those who murder and
MAIN the helpless who offer
themselves on . the altar of
American freedom? Is it an ap-
peal to southern jurieS to con-
vict the criminals whose crimes
are well known? Or is it an ap-
peal to those, who are paying
great price for freedom, to
weaken in the struggle they are
making with little help from
the forces of government?
So far as the President is
concerned the desperation of the
American Negroes is only great
and perplexing problems" for
the solution of which he offers
little more than an appeal to
reaSonableneSS.
Arizona sun., 1957-01-17
w a TCH
on the
POTOMAC
ARIZONA SUN
BY Robert G. Spivack

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
When was a yOungSter and
studied civics, I was told that
seniority" was the most sacred
tradition in Congress. If a man
could just stay around long
enough, he would automatically
be elevated to the most power
full committees and might even
one day become a committee
chairman.
If it turned out that he was
a demagogue, or came from
some one-party state, well, that
was just too bad. The system"
had to be preserved.
Seniority was one thing no
political leader would dare tam
per with, if he expected to re-
tain the loyalty of his fellow
politicians. Or, SO we were
taught.
Now Lyndon Johnson, the
Senate Democratic leader, has
flouted that tradition. He did it
in the case of Sen. Estes Ke-
fauver of Tennessee. Involved
was a highly desirable seat on
the Senate Foreign Relations
committee. Kefauver had four
years seniority over Sen. John
Kennedy Of Massachusetts,. But
Johnson handpicked Kennedy
for the honor.
Kefauver, Of course, has been
guilty Of some heinous Grimes"
in the eyes Of Johnson and 9TH
ers who don't like all this talk
about the New South. What
were these Grimes?
Well, Kefauver broke with his
Dixie colleagues to vote in favor
of curbing the filibuSter. He ex-
posed the Dixon Yates contract,
despite some close ties between
certain Democrats and the giant
utility companies. He even dared
to run for vice president, when
everyone could see that John
son had his heart set on run
ing. What's worse than all this
Kefauver does not regard john
son as all-wiSe in his capacity
as Senate leader.
For all these things, Johnson
chose to punish" Kefauver.
Now some observers wonder if
the supposedly shrewd Johnson,
in his pique, really wasn't in
flicting a graver injury upon
himself than upon Kefauver. BY
ignoring seniority precedents he
may have opened a "Pandora's
box".
Civil rights advocates will
find it hard ever to accept john
sons explanation now that he
had to redesignate Sen. East
land of Mississippi as chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee on the grounds Of senior
ity.
A EUROPEAN LOOKS AT
AMERICA The following en-
bittered letter signed by Janina
Rabaczynska of New York has
been circulating around the Ca
pitol. We pass it on only with
the comment that it's a sharp
reminder of how lucky we are
to live in America,
Dear Sir:
ct read many letters about the
mistreatment of Negroes here.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1957-10-25
1858 Seufuir
Festivities
On Aug. Ito

The 1858 Seattle Seafair Cele-
bration will be held from August
1 through August 10, Walter A.
Van Camp, Managing Director of
Greater Seattle, Inc, announced.
The Seafair entertainment high
light, Aqua Follies" will be staged
here at the Aqua Theatre in-an all
new version nightly from July 81
through August II.
Sunday, August 10 will be the
date for the championship heats
of the 1858 Gold Cup Race on
Lake Washington.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1957-10-25
MoSonS Elect
Grand Officers
During Confob

Lucio r. Magno, grand master of
the Regional Philippine Grand
Lodge in America, No. 1, was re-
elected at the organizations re-
cent convention held here October
1913.
Other officers elected were:
Guido c. Almanzor, deputy grand
master; Adolfo v. Santos, grand
orator; e. c. Tabloid, grand SEN
Tor warden; Kenneth Rallojay,
grand junior warden; Teodoro
Dumpit, grand secretary; Qurino
Vicente, grand treasurer; Casim-
lro Obra, grand lecturer.
The Regional Philippine Grand
Lodge is affiliated to the Sove-
reign Grand Lodge of the Philip
pine Archipelago, member of the
International Masonic Association
and Universal League of Free
masons.