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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
The World and Mr.. Ford

Henry Ford II has said a number Of
sensible and timely things in his speech
to the National Automobile Dealers Asso-
citation. His views are those of business
man who has looked at our profoundly
changed world and seen in it, rightly so,
situation full of both immense oppor-
tunitieS and immense perilS for America.
AS he has put it, it is situation in
which we are confronted with such a
great and immediate Soviet challenge
that I'VE are going to have to come of
age fast in international affairs-aS a
Nation, as Government, as a people
and act with uncommon sanity, wisdom
and unity"
The challenge, which is global in
scale and which is particularly grave at
the moment in the Middle East, is not
simply military, but political and eco
nonic as WELL And to meet it, in Mr..
Ford's words, we must TASK the hard
questions, and find the hard answers, not
next year or the year after, but starting
right now. Vacillation !. (. can only lead
from one disaster to another. We can
no longer afford to take passive stand
and merely react to things after they
happen, in a sort of fire-alarm diplo-
macy. We've got to get out ahead Of
events and try to lead and shape them
to the best of our ability. There is no
lodging the fact that the United States
Is the natural leader Of the free world"
and we must therefore carry out the
heavy responsibility of playing that role
to the full if we do not want the Kremlin
to win everything by default.
Although he has not minimized the
need for maintaining a strong American
military posture, Mr.. Ford has put special
emphasis on the threat of Soviet political
and economic penetration. Accordingly,
striking out against high-tariff protec-
tionism and inadequate or narrow forms
of assistance with too many strings at
tached he has called for realistic and
long-term" programs of trade, aid and
technical cooperation in the Middle East
and elsewhere. AT the same time, warn
ing against too rigid or negative an at
titude toward the possibility of doing
business with Communist satellite coun-
tries or even Red China, he has had this
to say:
We should be on guard against hypocrisy
In determining whether or not we will deal
with certain nations on the basis OF mo-
rality The experience OF the past two
decades certainly ought to have taught
us that there can be few absolutes in inter
national affairs. Yesterdays implacable
enemies are today's friends. Too often
todays heroes are tomorrow'S villains.
Things do constantl" change and there's
no sense in swearing that we will never
take UP arms in certain cause or do bust
ness with a certain country or system
because tomorrow may MAKE liars OF US.
Such point Of view may be displeas-
ms toEnany among US. vt u adds UP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
Good First Step

The District Auditorium Commits
Sion's report on a cultural center for
Washington is an admirable first step. to
which Congress should give every encour-
agement, toward filling a long-neglected
gap in the development of the Nations
Capital. That it is only the first step
the commission itself fully recognized.
Among the steps yet to be worked out are
such things as the ambitious proposal
that up to $40 million in construction
money be raised through private subscrip-
ton and the request that Congress pro-
vide funds for site.
The commission also recognized that
the most immediate problem-selection
Of specific location for the center-re-
quireS more study Developments of the
last Few days have demonstrated that
there are serious complications in the
commissions three site proposals, in the
Southwest redevelopment area as we'll as
In Foggy Bottom. Congress, of course,
must determine the eventual site if it
agrees to provide funds for the land.
The problems are of such complex ma
ture, however, that Congress should in
S1St upon the closest possible cooperation
OF District and Federal agencies, private
developers and the Auditorium Commits
sion itself. Such study group might
well be considered at forthcoming joint
session Of the House and Senate District
Committees on the project.
Important as they are, however, these
problems should not cause anyone to
overlook the major emphasis of the COM
missions report-the need for a monu-
mental national setting in which both
the Capitals historic ceremonies and the
best in American musical arts can be
presented. AS the commission noted, the
United States can feel "only embarrass-
ment" at its failure to match the cultural
facilities which adorn the capitals of
other nations and several of our own
cities,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
Justice Reed Retires

In his ID years on the Supreme Court,
Stanley Forman Reed has not been the
beneficiary (perhaps one should say the
victim) of many headlines. And this, in
its way, is rather odd.
For Stanley Reed moved up to the
bench from his role as Solicitor General
as the man whose duty it was to fight
the New Deals legal battles before the
court One might have expected that this
background as an advocate would lead to
some spectacular clashes with his more
conservative brethren on the bench. But
this was not the case.
His performance on the court has
been largely that of the legal crafts
man, the meticulous technician. We
cannot recall any occasion on which
he let himself become involved in the
aciditieS which from time to time have
tempted some of his colleagues beyond
their strength. When he has seen fit to
dissent, as in the McCollum church and
state" case, he has spoken out strongly
and perSuaSively. But no one can point
to single phrase of Justice Reeds which
can be said to have impaired respect for
the institution he served.
1t is true that the former New Deal
advocate has come to be regarded as
member Of, if not the leader of, the con-
sentative wing of the court. But the
meaning of such terms as conservative
and liberal is relative, and certainly their
meanings change with the times. Years
ago, Justice Reed said this: "Regretfully
but inevitably we must adjust our lives
and our Government to modern needs
and find in a Constitution written for a
simpler era, guidance for the problems
of our present age" Justice Reeds ca
reer on the court has been entirely con-
sistent with this sentiment The change"
OF which some speak has been, rather,
personal adjustment, within the limits Of
the Constitution as he understands it, to
the new problems of different age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02

some call him. the Vir-
ginia mockingbird, others say.
but wherever ne is. he is a
beauty, gentle in winter. mean
in summer when protecting
his nest.
The mocker is no fatter in
winter than at any other time,
but he puffs out his feathers
in the cold and looks so.
The bush he eats from. with
its tempting berries, is the
barberry.
Wintering Knockers can be
kept close at hand all winter
by raislns, placed for them
several times a day.
They soon get to looking for
them. and expecting them.
If food is not Forthcoming,
they give several sharp chirps,
and may fly to a railing or sill
where they look into door or
window.
x
The bird which seems to
say purity. purity. purity" is
a cardinal. often called the
redbird. on account of the
color of the male.
He. too, likes raisins. and
so does she. The female of
this species is palmer, as if
dressed in a Paisley shawl.
Cardinal, and mockingbird.
and where in the world can
one find prettier birds. or more
interesting?
The wonder is that they
come to every garden and help
add to the beauty of life. You
do not have to go across seas,
or the far places of the earth
to see them.
Seeing them is only part
or the picture.
You may actually help them.
and invite them into your life,
If you will.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
Artifuct

The niohts are tall where the
desert sleeps
And the wandering minds
run alone. run alone,
And a child can cry ,uhile his
mother WcepS
on the silent stone.
And The ycdrs'cdn stretch from
need to need
And The bumper quest Uherc
the snake has lain,
But a mar UH sou Nth his
heart fer seed
and MS SWeat 70, rain.
on the potent fingers, tfc
patient hands,
Ana The grasses shape In the
burning dGy
With G Ddttern CANT as the
barren lands
and the streams 81 clay.
Joseph Broyley
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
Fashions in ModeIinu

The reSourcefulness of American in
dustry has been demonstrated in many
ways over the years-but perhaps never
as attractively as now. For it seems that
virtually every product-from automo-
biles to electronic computers, from ma
chine tools to catsup-iS being "sod"
these days by pretty girls, chic and sleek
models whose faces and figures are be-
coming more widely known than those
of the movie stars of yesteryear Hardly
a new car rolls across the television
screens any more without benefit of a
glamorous driver explaining the no.
torque, no-dip, upswept beauty Of its
engineering perfection-along with its
high-styling. And petrochemicals appar-
emily were invented largely for the pur-
pose of providing employment for sultry
number who is amazingly familiar with
all the intricacies of the modern research
laboratories
This is not, of course, by way Of
complaining. The respected Wall Street
Journal, which is always making fasci-
mating surveys Of contemporary phenom-
ena, estimates that the manufacturing
industry paid out million dollars last
year in fees to fashion models who were
modelling virtually everything but fash
ions. Ten years ago, the Journal recalls
Industry was doing no such thing II
there is really trend here, perhaps it
may be called modern industrialism."
1t is an idea that might be expanded sue
cessfully into Selling" other modern
"isms" as well 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
Displaying the FIoq

l should like to protest
publicly the improper use of
the flag of the Nation in street
decorations for the visit of
King SauG. The flags were
put up in wet weather on lamp
posts on Pennsylvania avenue,
left out overnight. and dis
played in an improper posi-
ton. The flag code indicates
that When a number OF flags
of States or cities or pennants
OF societies are grouped and
displayed from stats with our
national flag, the latter should
be at the center or at the
highest point of the group"
AS viewed from the street. in
the display for the King, the
American flag was on the left.
the flag of Arabia in the
center. the highest position,
and the District of Columbia
flag on the right. This is not
a proper display of the flag.
There is no reason or excuse
for this procedure. and steps
should be taken by the Dis
trict Commissioners to make
certain that in the future. if
the flag is to be displayed. it
should be placed in a position
of honor, and not relegated to
a position secondary TO the
flag Of foreign country.
James r. Harding, Jr.,
c h arm a n, Americauism
Committee, Department
of Justice Post No. Al,
American Legion.
Editors note: The quoted
usage is correct when no for
eign flag is included in the
group. However. according to
THE Flag" by Col. James A.
Moss. late president general
OF the United States Flag AS
ISOLATION when the United
States flag and FLAGS OF other
nations, states or cities. or
pennants Of societies. are
flown from adjacent stats, the
United States flag is on the
right of the line--that is. on
the observers left.w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
Murray S. WOhlfart
Cheap Money

So the building industry is
putting on a mpaig to
force down money rates again.
They and the monopolistic
labor unions and land specu-
lators have fattened for so
many years at the expense of
small savers in this country
that they have come to look
upon the subsidy of cheap
money as their right.
The money rate is the living
standard for millions of our
people. II determines the in
come available from annuities,
life insurance policies. savings
bank deposits and other de-
vices used by thrifty people
who make an effort to remain
independent in their declining
years There is nothing quite
so tragic in the monetary his
tory of this country as the
deliberate and successful
measures taken by the New
and Fair Deals to liquidate the
aged and retired groups trying
to subsist on the returns from
savings put by in their active
years. For the first time in a
quarter-century builders are
having to pay a fair rate for
the money they hire with
which to build houses. So they
are squealing for a return to
a subsidized cheap money
again.
Labor can and does drive its
wages up year after year, and
that's considered a fine thing.
The higher the wages and the
costs of building materials. the
wider the profit margins of
builders. as they operate on
percentage basis. But let the
small savers demand a fair
return on the capital they pro-
vide to sustain active building
and howls go up all over the
place.
The basic trouble with the
building industry is the ter
rife initiation in costs. When
speculation in land prices is
dried up, builders accept mod
crate dollar return for their eff
forts, and labor abandons ex-
tcrtionate wage policies, plenty
OF homes can be built, and SOLD
In attacking money rates
builders arc straining at gnats
and swallowing camels.
OBSERVE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
A Cleaner Potomac

The Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin has cause to be
gratifled over the progress made in clean
ing up the river which 1t was created to
protect. A report by David Aud at the
winter meeting of the jurisdiction
group predicted that within two years the
Potomac will be rid of some Of it's main
pollution sources in the Washington Met
ropolitan Area. That is encouraging news
for all who live along the river or who
use 1t for recreational purposes. But the
cleanup job will be far from completed in
two years-Or longer. The commission
and the governmental authorities in the
Potomac basin still have long. hard road
to travel in their joint efforts to reduce
contamination to tolerable levels.
Mr.. Aud, director of sanitary engi-
neering for the District, cited four major
steps being taken toward abatement of
the sewage nuisance in the river. These
are the building of advanced treatment
facilities for District sewage at Blue
Plains, the agreement under which sew
age from nearby Maryland counties is to
be processed at the District plant, the
recent arrangement for Rockville's sew
age to be similarly procesSed and the
completion by Alexandria of sewage col
lection and treatment facilities at Hunt
ing Creek. All Of these Improvements
will reduce substantially the amounts Of
raw or improperly treated sewage enter
ing the Potomac in the Washington area.
Optimism over this fine progress is
tempered, however, by the disturbing fact
that, even when the present program is
completed, the river still will be subject
to raw sewage contamination from the
city's combination storm water domestic
sewage system. This joint system serves
both purposes adequately under normal
conditions, but whenever there are heavy
rains the polluted overflow enters the
Potomac at numerous points along our
waterfront. The cost of separating the
two systems is regarded as prohibtive.
The alternative is an interceptor sewer
along the shore to collect the overflow
and conduct it to Blue Plains for treat
ment. This, too, would be costly. Until
some such remedy is adopted, however,
our river cannot truly be said to be free
from the threat of dangerous pollution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
On Counting Noses

Many times during the past
couple of years have attended
segregation and indignation
meetings. and later, on reading
about them in the newspapers,
have been amaze ed at the
inaccuracy of estimated at
tendance. If the estimates
were even close, l could dismiss
my doubts with a realization
that my own nose counts
could we'll be in error. But
when estimates by the press
are consistently 200 to 300 per
cent below my own estimates
and of others attending pro-
segregation meetings. and al
ways quite accurate or above
my own calculations of pro-
integratlon meetings. then
say that the disparity is more
than just a coincidence. 1t is
part Of a determined effort on
the part of the press in gen.
eral, including the Washington
papers, to manipulate public
support away from segregation
and toward indignation. Your
paper reached the heights of
lnaccuracy on January 80 with
a report that 100 people con-
verged on Annapolis to urge
the enactment of legislation
against forced indignation of
the public schools.
Actually, there were more
than 100 people from Mont
gomery County alone, because
we overfowed one of the gall
leries and because this time
a very careful nose count was
made. And furthermore, all
of the other galleries were
Jampacked with people wear
ing lapel cards marked: Sup
port Separate Schools" And
the crowd spilled out into the
corridors. too. Estimates ran as
high as 1900, and while ad-
mittedly this could be off even
as much as a few hundred,
certainly there were ten times
the number estimated by the
press. Why, there were more
than a hundred people getting
of two chartered buses as l
arrived. So. l suggest that. if
you insist on playing down
integration resistance. for the
sake of some semblance of I'M
biased reporting. hereafter you
try to make your estimates at
least within the realm of
credibility.
Murray S. WOhIfarth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
Toxpoyer's Lament

When I read of the proposed
S72 billion-plus Federal budget
for 1857. l was so scared that
went into a coma. and had
a vision. This is what l saw:
A vast eXpanSe of ocean,
Where. the chronicler re-
lates.
Was once a land of glory,
The great United States,
And the people were so happy,
Until, as many feared,
The taxes got so heavy,
That it sank, and disap-
peared
Giralda Forbes.
nnctnV1 AHnee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
THE POLITICAL MILL
By GOULD LINCOLN
The Changing Supreme Court

Herbert Brownell, jr., into the
limelight, as likely appointee.
He is just becoming SO, and
has made a good record. Some
Democratic Senators, it is
suggested, would fight his con-
firmation because a few years
ago he charged that former
President Truman promoted
the late Harry Dexter White
although he had been in
formed by the FBI that White
was under suspicion of work.
ing in the interest of Soviet
Russia.
Former Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York also is
mentioned as a potential APP
pointee. Dewey, since his re-
tirement as Governor, is re-
ported to be making a mint Of
money in private law practice
in New York. Whether he
would care to go on the bench
is not known. If he did, the
Republican national ticket of
1948 would be completely
represented in the Court
Dewey and Warren. Chief JUS
'ice Warren was the vice presi-
dental nominee to run with
Dewey that year.
Could Effect Senate Control
If President Eisenhower
wished, he is in position to
turn control of the United
States Senate over to the Re-
publicans, provided he could
persuade Senator Frank
Lausche of Ohio, Democrat, to
go along with him. All he has
to do is to appoint Lausche to
the Supreme Court, and when
he is confirmed in that Office
the Republican Governor of
Ohio would send a Republican
Senator to Washington, max
ing the membership Of the
Senate 4S Republicans and 48
Democrats. and giving Vice
President Nixon the deciding
vote in the organization of that
body. Lausche is a conservative
Democrat, lawyer. a former
Mayor o. Cleveland and five
times Governor of his State.
Judicial appointments have
in the past appeared to be di-
rected toward political gains.
For example. former President
Truman appointed Luther
Wallace Youngdahl. three
times elected Governor II
Minnesota and called the
strongest Republican vote
getter in the State, to the Fed
eral bench, in September,
1851. This removed Judge
Youngdahl as a potential
nominee for the Senate the
following year. to run against
Democratic senator Hum
phrey. Another case was the
appointment of Senator Bald
win. Connecticut Republican.
to be a member of the States
highest court, by the then
Democratic Governor Chester
Bowles. Judge Baldwin at the
time was the strongest Repub-
mean in the Nutmeg State.
President Eisenhower, how
ever. has never given any in
dication he would play politics
with an appointment to the
Supreme Court. Also, the great
area between Ohio and Cali
fornia is at present without a
representative on the court
except in the case of Justice
Clark, a Texan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-02
By GOULD [

The old order changeth-in-
Guiding the New Deal-Fair Deal
Supreme Court. The retire
ment of Associate Justice
Stanley Forman Reed, effec-
tive February Is. will leave
three members of the court
who were appointed by the late
President Franklin D. RooSe-
velt-AsSoclate Justices Black,
Frankfurter and Douglas-and
two members appointed by
former President Harry S.
Truman - Associate Justices
Burton and Clark. President
Eisenhower, when he fills the
Reed vacancy, will have named
four members of the court,
With his term in the White
House extending another four
years. it is presumed he will
appoint others. especially as
two of the sitting members are
past the voluntary retirement
age-70 years-Associate JUS
tices Hugo Black and Felix
Frankfurter. Roosevelt ap-
pointed eight members of the
Supreme Court. and elevated
one Associate Justice to Chief
Justice. Truman named four
members. including the late
Chief Justice Frederick Vinson.
Speculation regarding Presi-
dent Eisenhower's probable
selection to fill the Reed
vacancy already runs far
afield. He will have plenty of
advice-and he will seek that
of the Department of Justice
on possible appointees. At
present there are five Demo-
Gratis on the Supreme Court
and three Republicans. So far
Presi d ent Eisenhower has
named two Republicans and
one Democrat to the court
Chief Justice Earl Warren and
Associate Justice John M.
Harlan, Republicans. and As
sociate Justice William j.
Brennan, jr., Democrat. who is
serving under a recess appoint
ment 1t is reasonable to be-
lieve he will pick Republican
While he has made no hard
and fast rule regarding age
It is understood the President
regards g. years as the limit.
This would seem to rule out
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles who is 66-even if the
President has not made it
extraordinarily clear he was
sticking to Dulles as his chief
foreign policy officer in the
face Of the Democratic attacks
on Dulles.
Five Attorneys General Named
It's an old habit to think
first, when a Supreme Court
vacancy occurs. of the Attor-
ney General of the United
States. There is reason for it.
Five Attorneys General have
been appointed to the court in
the last 43 years. The first
was James G. McReynolds.
appointed by Woodrow VIII
son: then came Harlan Fiske
Stone. appointed by Calvin
Coolidge: Frank Murphy and
Robert Jackson. appointed by
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
Tom c. Clark. appointed by
Harry S. Truman. Mr.. Justice
Reed. now retiring, was Solicit
tor General of the United
States when appointed to the
court by Roosevelt. All of this
pitchforks Attorney General