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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Jersey City Barometer

The results of Democratic family
feud" In Jersey City's Tuesday election
may have far-reaching political effects
this fall-and perhaps in 1858 and 1860.
BY conclusive margin, the Jersey City
Democrats dumped former Mayor John
v. Kenny out OF control Of party organ
ization that not only ran the city but
likewise dominated heavily populated
Hudson County. Mr.. Kenny, once lieu
tenant of the late Frank Hague, drove
the Hague machine out Of power in l949
and had been the high-riding party boss
in the years since. In that capacity he
was one of the original and most effec-
tive sponsors of Robert B. Meyner when
the latter first won election as governor
in 1883 Hudson County supplied about
half of Mr.. Meyner's 150,000-vote state
wide plurality in that year. AS candi-
date for reelection this fall, 1t has been
calculated that he would need proper
tionately the same support from Hudson
County to win his second term.
It Is this calculation that gives the
Jersey City results their broader signih-
canoe. The anti-Kenny Democratic fac
ton has been relatively cool toward Mr..
Meyner because Of his cooperation on
State appointments with the Kenny
organization. Democratic State Senator
James F. Murray, IT,, leader Of the newly
victorious group, has expressed this criti-
cism Of Mr.. Meyner, and prospects OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Over the Brink

Secretary Dulles, for all his skill In
the art of craftsmanship, has taken a
real tumble in his latest tussle with the
question of letting American newsmen
go to Red China.
He began, in response to question,
with discussion Of the meaning of the
free press" provision of the First Amend
ment. The amendment, he said, protects
the right to publish news, not to gather
it. That may be true, but 1t is diver
Sionary maneuver. For we do not think
the true issue is concerned with any real
or imagined constitutional right of re-
porterS to obtain passports to go to Red
China, or anywhere else. The real ques-
ton has to do with sound public policy
or the lack of It.
Mr.. Dulles next said he might agree
to plan to permit limited number
of correspondents to 60 to China If this
could be done consistently with our
foreign policy detectives" In the ensuing
breath he denied he was trying to make
the American press an instrument of
foreign policy.
Somebody then asked whether the
right to publish news was not worthless
If he, the Secretary, was free to choke
of the source of news Not at all, said
Mr.. Dulles. There is no problem All
the American press need do is hire for
eignerS to cover the news in Red China
for them. Mr.. Dulles didn't say so, but
we take that observation to mean that
he doesn't want to see an American re-
rnrfaP fNScod infn Th{pacn AL h,.k
1t is all right with him If that should
happen to an Englishman or a French
man working for an American paper.
Another questioner wanted to know
how Mr.. Dulles suggested willingness to
let some American reporters, but not any
American reporter, go to Red China could
be reconciled with his assertion that it
is "our responsibility to protect Americans
wherever they go, and there is no Ameri-
can that can even waive that right"
This was pretty hard to handle, and
Mr.. Dulles handled 1t candidly but not
very adroitly WELL" he said, some
times you know in life it is not possible
to be absolutely logical in everything
you do" To which. we say: "Amen!"
Mr OuIleS, we Inlnk, mas toppleo over
the brink In this matter and has landed
In dilemma of his own making which
murders logic. American reporters are
perfectly willing to accept the risks
(Which we believe Mr.. Dulles is grossly
exaggerating) in going to Red China
We also think the American people would
rather have Americans, not foreigners,
report the news from China inst az thew
do from Russia. There really is no dilem-
ma here except the dilemma in which
Mr.. Dulles, by his tortured reasoning, has
enmeshed himself. As newspaper which
respects both the man and his motives, we
hope that he will cut his way out OF it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Curbed Commissors

During the Second World War, the
political commissars attached to the
Soviet Army interfered so much with
military commands and decisions that
the Kremlin finally cracked down by
depriving them Of virtually all authority.
But in the years that have since passed,
despite some ups and downs, they have
managed to hang on to their theological
tutoring jobs in Russia's armed forces.
Lately, however, they appear to have
become obstreperous again, and so they
have been subjected to another severe
downgrading
This action has been revealed in
front-page editorials appearing in Red
Star and Soviet Fleet, which are daily
newspapers published by the Defense
Ministry headed by Marshal Zhukov. The
editorials leave little or no room for
doubt that the political commissars are
once more in hot water and that they
are under strict orders at the moment
to limit their activities to Marxist-
feminist lectures of a sort that will In
no way weaken soldierly discipline and
obedience. Thus, besides being criticized
for past inadequacieS, the commissars
have been sternly warned by the Central
Committee Of Russia's Communist Party
that criticism Of orders and decisions
Of commanders must not be permitted
at party meetings" Instead, "a deci-
sive struggle must be maintained
against those who try to undermine the
firmness Of orders and decisions Of the
commanders"
These are words plainly suggesting
that there has been considerable indis-
cipline in the ranks of the Soviet army,
navy and air force, and they are words
reminiscent of earlier attacks on the
political commissars. These officers are
peculiar to Russia's military establish
ment, their Job being to try to make
everybody. from generals on down, hew
to the party line. But Communist ideol-
ogy and martial affairs are sometimes
mutually exclusive, and II the theology
we're allowed to dominate. the lighting
capacity would certainly suffer. Small
wonder, then, that Marshal Zhukov's
ministry has ordered the Marxist-
feminist eggheads to watch their step.
The net effect OF this, unfortunately,
probably will be TO increase the efficiency
Of the Kremlins armed forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16

20. NJ. In a letter attacks
the Supreme Court decision In
the Girard College case. The
basic premises Of his assault on
what he decries as judicial
legislation" are. to say the
least. so questionable as TO
vitiate his own argument.
The FIRST school segregation
decisions" he denounces as
legally wrong because they
overruled "the precedents OF
$50 years." 1t is presumed that
he refers to the decisions be-
ginning with the famous one
Of May. 1854, which outlawed
segregation in the public
schools. But these were not the
first decisions on school segre-
cation. I direct o. Ms atten-
ton to the case Of Berea Col
lege vs.. Kentucky. 1908. in
which a divided court upheld a
compulsory school segregation
law Of Kentucky.
The Constitution Is silent on
segregation. II the court ar
rogated unto itself legislative
power In recent segregation
cases. It likewise did so in the
early segregation cases. A
practice wrong In 1954-ac-
cording to o. Ms reasoning
should likewise have been
wrong so years earlier.
School segregation laws
were not upheld unanimously
II was Justice John Marshall
Harlan Of Kentucky who dis
sented In the Berea College
case. Could not Mr.. Justice
Harlan have been right at that
time. and his colleagues
wrong?
The doctrine Of stare de-.
cisis does not mean that a
court should blindly follow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
A Teomster's Thouqht
I hear the drone Of my motor,

/ hear the drone Of my motor,
a diesel-made thunder:
Before me, the ribbons OF as
phalt and concrete unfold.
/ keep the old crate a-rolling,
and sadly wonder.
AS I listen to radio newscasts,
II I have been rolled.
So / may be certain Of draw
ing my stipend each pay
day.
l always have paid my union
assessments on time.
But even with overtime pay,
at the crest of my heyday,
Come days when q fellow like
me can't lay up q thin
dime.
My wife and my teen-age son.
and my small daughter
Susie
Agree that it's difncult for
them to quite understand
Why ! must chip in on q car
for some officer's floozie.
Well. I can't tell them. and
beeflng most strictly Is
banned.
It inks me, while driving along
on this Smooth-laid ma
cadam.
To think that my money is
being so badly misused
To purchase mink coats and
silk hose for some Oregon
madam.
Or substitute gambling. ] GER
tainly am not amused.
I hooked my gold watch for
cash to buy shoes for my
Molly.
The pawnbroker's charges were
high. but I had them to
pay.
The interest free loans that I
made to the boss? Well.
by golly!
/ never was askedl II I had
been, I hadn't the say.
/ live In q shack. without starv-
ing or really quite freez-
ing,
And pay for Dawes mansion.
1t sure keeps me up on my toes!
I think ! am getting cold feet.
Please excuse me for sneezing
I just can't get rid Of this ring
that he's clamped in my
nose. Cy Mixes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16

Jones gave the address.
The lady froze.
I'VE don't deliver over
there" she said. Remember,
this was 1929
But there are hundreds OF
new families there" protested
our hero.
1t made no difference. The
store didn't and wouldn't, evil
IDENTIFY. deliver away over
there"
This attitude made Temple
ton Jones angry.
THE time will come" he
said. prophetically, as he
stormed out with his big pie,
when you will be glad to de-
liver over there"
He was right. as he usually
is.
Now they-and all the rest.
not only deliver lover there"
but have, in many instances.
brought fine branch stores to
the outlying neighborhoods.
Times change. and bring
changes with them, but what
is happening in our suburbs
is not exactly new, at least
according to Templeton Jones.
Suburbia. or what one
chooses to call it, merely dupli-
Gates that great American in
stitution. the small town.
The suburbs put us all back
home.
Isn't that good?
You bet your life it is, and
that Is the main reason for
the modern growth of DWELL
ings and dwellings and DWELL
ings as far as you can see. or
even ride.
To say that such collections
of homes somehow make MON
a dictator. and dad a stranger,
is pure hokum.
II dad is a stranger here,
he would have been q stranger
in the city or on the farm: and
If mother is now the modern
dictator, she would have beer
a strong-willed lady anywhere
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Creeping InfIotion

President Eisenhower and
others are making a great
argument that national de-
Tense and the United States
foreign information program
and other such activities re-
quire vast spending for the
defense of the country.
agree that we must have
military preparedness and a
good foreign information pro-
gram and all such activities.
But they should be kept in
bounds that protect the ma
tional credit and put an end
to creeping imitation, which is
just as bad as, or worse
than. the creeping socialism"
against which the President
has spoken. Basically. creep
ing imitation is precisely
creeping socialism" Ask the
Germans who experienced it
after World War I.
Is the President not dis
turbed that the national credit
already is in such a posture
that We are having to raise
interest rates in order to float
national debt-refunding issues?
1 am disturbed. and am not
an old-fashioned rugged in
dividualist."
Speaking Of our duty to-
ward the rest Of the world, is
not one Of our biggest respon-
sibilities that Of showing that
a democracy can manage its
fiscal affairs with efficiency
and avoid imitation, which dis
courages capital investment?
A returned foreign aid Of
lcial told me recently that
one of our allies abroad, South
Korea. has undergone imitation
in the past three years
respectively Of so per cent. so
per cent and 20 per cent. How
can democratic capitalism ever
get going against a handicap
like that? Why not give South
Korea and all our other young
allies-and old the example
OF a government that can con-
troll imitation at home? Then
our aid officials might be in
spired to help stop imitation in
countries like Korea.
Carmack Hickman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Ban on Reporters to Red China Disputed

withdrawn altogether. But for
no other reason should a pass
port be invalidated, once the
department makes clear that
the holder travels at his own
risk.
4. The Trading -With-the-
Enemy Act is stretched un-
considerably If applied to
journalists or even to casual
travellers.
S. That Americans have
been jailed in China is warn
ing to consider the risk, but
applicants should decide for
themselves. Foreign correspon-
dents have always taken risks.
6. Many of the Asian coun-
tries we consider free recog-
nize Red China. So does Great
Britain. Why visits of Ameri-
can reporters would increase
the prestige and influence of
Peiping is not mentioned. 1t
might have the opposite effect.
For the State Department to
ban them indicates, rather.
anxiety that they might re-
port too favorably.
Altogether, the State De-
partment is making America
appear like a nation afraid of
contamination by what it is
not even allowed to know.
Opposite Dangers Cited
The dangers are the OPP
posite of those envisioned by
Secretary Dulles.
One is that the Peiping re-
gime will issue visas only to
journalists it considers reliable.
Dulles would do better to rule
that the department will raise
no impediments If the Peiping
regime accepts all journalists
in good standing who apply
for viSaS.
When the department begins
selecting responsible" persons
it endangers those persons. It
creates the presumption that
journalists are agents of
American diplomacy and pos
sibly spies.
This is another facet of gov
eminent interference with the
press.
In the prewar years when I
was q correspondent in Europe.
some Of us encountered diff
culties with foreign govern
ments, resulting in expulsion.
But I cannot remember a sim
gle case where a journalist was
accused of being a spy. nor
any in which a journalist was
imprisoned. Governments, with
whatever wrath they might re-
gard our writings. held us-not
our government - responsible
and knew we we're not agents.
Today they are no longer sure,
and if Dulles Interpretation Of
our function prevails, they will
be less so.
The press and people Of
America should vigorously pro-
test these Entertainments UP.
on freedom Of information.
Day by day. we are becoming
subject to ever-increasing con-
trolls leading here to what we
are struggling against abroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Arlington Politics

In the company Of another
Arlington resident who Is also
interested in civic betterment.
I attended q meeting Of the
Arlington Independent Move
ment held in the Broyhill Au-
ditorium. We hoped to ind
out something about the can
didates and programs Of this
one Of Arlington's splinter
groups. In the past we have
felt singularly uniformed at
election time in regard to such
candidates and programs.
The meeting was open. there
fore. We were q little taken
aback to be questioned as to
whether we were AIM workers.
or supporters of the other
splinter group. Arlington Bet
ter County. Our answer Of
mo" to both questions. parti-
cularly the latter. gained us
admission.
The next episode was a reso-
luton from the floor. that
those who were not AIM sup
porters should leave the hall.
Having voted for the AIM can
didate at the last election. my
friend and I felt qualified as
supporters and kept our seats.
But this was Just the begin
ming Of the parliamentary ma
neuvers.
The chairman next declared
q recess Of several minutes
which he used to pledge us to
secrecy in regard to matters
discussed at the meeting. BY
now. we wondered whether we
were not at q meeting Of the
Ku Klux Khan rather than a
citizens political and civic
group. but we decided TO stick
IL out. We promised secrecy.
The chairman returned to
the rostrum. but the trip back
had apparently been too far
for his sense Of fair play. He
shortly announced from the
chair that the meeting would
not continue until we left.
Naturally we did leave with
our temporary embarrassment
giving way to wonderment as
to what are the plans. motives
and goals Of such q group?
What are the mystery-shroud-
ed projects which change open
meetings into sub rosa ses-
sions when civic minded peo-
pie, who are strangers to the
group. appear?
Can an organization which
conducts meetings In this way
merit the support Of Arling-
ton County citizens. who have
the best interest Of their coun-
ty at heart?
Alyce n. Canaday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Peanut Politics

1t would be interesting to
know what executive officials
like Arthur Larson really think
Of a system Of government
which exposes them. when they
90 UP to Capitol Hill to defend
their budget estimates, to the
contemplate abuse Of peanut
politicians from the provinces.
He has now seen how disagree
able these gentry can be. In a
technical age whose complex
problems elude their lay grasp.
legislators prefer TO spend their
well-paid time running err
rands for the folks back home
and hazing their betters at
committee hearings. thus COM
pensating for their own sense
OF inferiority to executive
officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

Templeton Jones was in
terested to see . flicker in his
yard.
This is q good-sized bird,
one which does q good Job
eating ants.
Ants have always worried
Jones. as millions Of other
human beings. so he cheered
the FIRST flicker Of spring.
The first one he had seen,
that was.
Jones Is just q home bird
watcher. with no desire to
join any society.
He thinks his birds are
enough. and no doubt he is
right-for Jones.
Everybody to his own taste.
Birds. for Temp Jones, are
just moving toys of the air.
They come and 60, as they
please. and their coming and
going pleases T. Jones no
end, as it does most people.
To watch birds is to be
entertained.
Some people must have a
television set to be enter
tanned. They would watch
birds on the screen, but prob
ably pay no attention to them
in the yard.
Jones has been watching
them since 1880. when he
moved to the suburbs.
He was well in the forefront
OF this much-publicized mod
ern movement.
He believes that too much
has been written about it, and
most Of 1t hokum.
Living in the suburbs does
not in any way change human
nature. Nor does 1t bring ur
a great list of new problems
they are still human prob
lens.
Templeton Jones thinks that
living in the suburbs is sym.
bolized by the picture window
so-called.
Just as the picture window
is regarded as something diff.
ferent. but isn't, so the life ir
the suburbs Is held to b,
unique, when actually 1t Il
nothing of the kind.
It has only brought prob.
lens because 1t has taker
people away from what usec
to be called the city proper
and so It has become necessary
to bring products to them.
Jones recalls the day-it
was l923-when he moved :.
Georgetown, west Of Wisconsin
avenue.
He went to an p stree,
place where candy, cake anc
pies were sold.
It had a great reputation
FOR a certain sort Of pie.
Jones could not recall, a
this late date. what the fiavo
was, but he thinks It wa.
pumpkin.
Well. he bought a fine pie
let us say, and thought I,
himself. Nov, can I carry tina
homer"
Carrying q big pie in q bu
Is not easy, as any one know
who has ever tried IL.
Jones asked the lady II sh,
could send 1t.
why. certainly" she smiled
What 10 the address,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16

Secretary of State Dulles
policy Of barring newspaper re-
porters and analysts from Red
China is bolstered by six argu-
ments mentioned in my last
column that will not stand the
test of examination.
/. Nonrecognition of the re-
gime:
2. Existence of a "quasi-state
of war;: :
3. Impossibility of issuing
a passport to it (Red China ;
4. Continued application of
the Trading With the Enemy
Act;
S. Illegal failing of Ameri-
cans already in China:
6. The effect on the free
countries Of Asia and the in
creased prestige and influence
Communist China would win.
These arguments are irrele-
want and immaterial unless
one accepts Secretary Dulles
basic assumption that the
news reporter and analyst is
indirectly q government func-
tionary.
!. -Nonrecognition of a re-
gime has never before caused
the Stale Department to ban
correspondents from unrecog-
nized countries. They merely
Travelled at their own risk.
For more than a decade of
the Russian Soviet regime, it
was unrecognized by the
United States. But American
correspondents were stationed
there; others visited; and from
them the American people and
our Government itself learned
almost all they knew about
the early years Of the Rus
sian Communist revolution.
Dulles has equated nom
recognition with public ignor-
ance.
Compares Other Wars
2. The existence of a quasi
state Of war" is equally ir-
relevant. Journalists report
real wars. and have furnished
many Of their casualties. They
have also sometimes succeeded
in penetrating enemy territory.
and have studied the enemy
press unless access to it has
been made officially impossible.
3. The American Govern
ment does not issue passports
TO" anywhere. A passport is
a certificate Of identity. where
by the Government testifies to
its bearers name, age, place
OF birth. distinguishing ply
steal marks. occupation and
citizenship. Applicants for a
passport must report truth
fully or be subject to penalties.
Thereafter their right to
travel has, until fairly re-
Gently, depended, not upon the
State Department. but upon
the countries which they seek
to enter. A passport does not
secure q visa. But neither
should the State Department
have the right to cancel such
visas by invalidating pass
ports.
There are security laws
under which passports can be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16

@. What composers must,
was said to melt the ice o.
the Delaware River?
A. In Burl Ives Song Bool
is quoted a letter written b.
George Washington to com,
poser Francis Hopkinson O
Philadelphia on February .
1889. in which the following
quotation appears: e. / an
sure that your production
would have had at least virtu
enough in them without tn
aid Of voice or instrument
to melt the ice Of the Delawar
and Potomack. - The let
ter was written in response b
Hopkinson's dedication Of
collection Of seven Of his song
to Washington, his close friene
@. What are the six simple
machines or tools?-G. s.
A. The lever. the wedge, tn
screw. the inclined plane. tn
pulley, and the wheel and axl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Seasoning

Cress puts a dash OF pepper
on the tongue
The crisp, pale stems
Bright leGves Nth crystal
drops.
The sharpness OF a nifty
repGrtee,
A spiced lucidttv that's like
some minds
The tdnOy speech OF valleys in
Vermont.
Cress puts a dash OF pepper
on the tongue.
A ptQudnt taste that flashes
and Is gone,
A Utilization Of emercent
Spring.
Condoes Stevenson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names MAY be used ~
letters carry prtterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
Sdti0n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-16
Siqht to See

S"e ~ SGC
Each year thousands Of
visitors come to Washington
to view the cherry blossoms.
climb the Capitol steps and
tour Government buildings.
But right in the heart of the
city we have a most interesting
building which ought to be
more familiar to Washing
tonians as well as to visitors
the Medical Museum on Inde-
pendence Avenue at 9th st.
S.W.
Those who are alert enough
to explore this vastly absorbing
museum will be well rewarded.
1t features exhibits Of medical
historical interest. such as the
development Of x-ray. the his
tory Of tuberculosis. and a dis
play on the treatment Of war
wounds from the Civil War to
the Korean War.
Since fear and ignorance are
generally based on lack OF
knowledge. a visit to the Med
ical Museum could easily dis
pei those fears. AS this is Ma
tional Hospital Week. 1t might
be a good idea to visit the
Medical Museum.
Grace s. Berman,
Director Of Public Interest
Emergency Hospital