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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
Judicial Family Rift

One of the more serious criticisms
Of the Supreme Courts performance at
its recent session has come from the
chief justices of the States-a group
which can hardly be accused Of partisan
or sectional carping.
Meeting in New York few days
ago, the State chief justices expressed
deep concern over the trend of Supreme
Court decisions in matters bearing upon
the relations between the States and the
Federal establishment. In particular,
the State judicial officers were per-
turbed by two Supreme Court rulings
which reversed the highest courts OF
New Mexico and California in cases in
volving the eligibility of applicants to
practice law in those States. The queS-
ton was referred to a committee COM
posed of the chief justices of Maine,
Massachusetts,, Arizona, South Carolina,
Puerto Rico, Ohio and Wisconsin. This
committee, in turn, proposed that the
conference state its q. profound con-
Germ for the retention and exercise Of
the constitutional powers Of State gov
ernments," and recommended the APP
pointment Of a special committee ito
examine the role of the judiciary as it
affects the distribution of powers be-
tween the States and the Federal Gov
eminent /. -" Thirty-two of the AZ chief
Justices present Endorsed this proposal.
Criticism of this sort, coming from
chief justices representing all sections
OF the country, is not something to be
brushed aside. For the highest judicial
officers of the States would not indulge
lightly or capriciously in criticism of the
highest judicial officers of the Federal
system. The report Of this special COM
mittee. If it follows the line Of discus
sion at the New York meeting, may we'll
exercise substantial restraining infiu-
ence on the tendency of the Supreme
Court to white down. in decision after
decision, the powers which had been
thought to reside in the States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
Silly World

There are so many silly things going
on in this world that sometimes it seems
pointless, or bootless. to take note Of
them. Still, let us consider for a mo-
ment the extraordinary, the exquisite
absurdity currently agitating New York,
where strange and ridiculous happen
ings are by no means infrequent. To be
blunt about the matter, this particular
absurdity involves the deplorable human
tendency to be greedy, and also the de-
plorable tendency of officialdom not to
care a fig for the taxpayers money.
Thus, in New York, many thousands
of individuals have filed claims for I'M
employment insurance covering periods
in which they are enjoying fully paid
vacations. They work for companies
which suspend operations for a while
during the summer, but which still
compensate their employees for time out
throughout the shutdown. These en-
ployeS, however, have been told by some
geniuseS on a State board Of appeals
that they are just receiving a bonus
for past services" that they are techni-
cally out of work (although they aren't,
really. and that they are therefore en-
titled to collect the dement's that have
been established for the genuinely job
less, ranging up to $50 week. SO natu-
rally, Of course, the collecting process
Is on, even though the shrewd little
collectors seem to be doing a morally
reprehenSible thing, or atleast overstep-
ping the bounds of civic virtue-with
the encouragement, let us add, Of the
States authorities.
But perhaps, here in the District Of
Columbia, we ought not to be too quick
to scoff at the monumental eccentric
tiles Of New York. After all, let us re-
member what has been written about
the mote in one mans eye and the beam
in another's. More specifically, let US
remember, with some decent show Of
humility, that we can be ridiculous in
this city, too-as witness, for example,
the massive absurdity Of congressional
action favoring an automatic four-lane
tunnel bottleneck under the Potomac.
What, could be sillier than that2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
Appeal for Burke

The Presidents appeal for $35 mil
lion to build supplemental airport for
Washington on the Burke site has been
received with the same old Handwriting
ing.
Senator Butler, devoted as ever to
the dollar interests of his Maryland
constituents, deplores the Burke "boon-
doggle." He is against supplemental
airport for Washington, hoping to drive
this lucrative business to Baltimore's
Friendship Airport His colleague, Sena-
tor Beall, identifies himself as a strong
supporter of the Presidents economy
program, and shrinks from spending this
$35 million. The fact that seven years
Of stalling on the Burke project has
added heavily to its cost, and that fur
ther stalling will add more, makes no
impression. on this economy conscious
Senator.
We can understand the antics of the
Maryland Senators, however, since, po-
litically speaking, they are doing what
comes naturally. But we find it bit
difficult to understand the position of
Representative Joel Broyhill, who repre-
oCAlOo CA1C 4CAlOll 4AoIxACb, III WAlACLl Dull NC
Is located.
For two days The Star tried unSuc-
cessfully to get statement from Mr..
Broyhill, who yields to no man in his
support of the President. We wanted
to know how Mr. Broyhill felt about the
Presidents request for funds to go ahead
with the Burke project, which Mr.. Broy-
hill has effectively opposed in the past.
The response from his Office was that
Mr.. Broyhill was unavailable. We finally
reached Mr.. Broyhill today, however,
and he still is against Burke. The $35
million request, he said, really emanated
from the Department of Commerce and
the Bureau of the Budget, not from
Mr.. Eisenhower. He also said he regrets
that the administration" ignores the
will of the people.
Be that as 1t may, we hope very much
that the Presidents request will get the
Burke business of dead center. This
unconscionable Stalling has been going
on too long as 1t is, and the pressing
need of this community for another
airport cannot wait much longer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27

AS a former officer of the
Women's Board Of the Epis-
copal Home for Children, l
want to thank The Star and
Betty Miles for the story on
the change in service at the
home. AS a recently rotated
out" member of the execu-
tive committee, cabinet and
board Of trustees of United
Community Services and cur
rently board member of
two other Chest-supported
agencies, may I correct the
impression given Miss Miles
that UCS pressures anyone?
Many persons. even board
members Of Chest-supported
agencies. do not realize that
membership and requests for
funds are voluntary and not
solicited. Those citizens who
serve at UCS soon learn the
deep moral responsibility
they have to the community
in accounting for every
penny which they allocate.
In the last few years the
Hebrew Home for Children.
the Washington Orphanage
and more recently st. Johns
Orph anage, recognizing
changing community needs,
have closed and are now
offering needed services. This
is a national and not a local
problem.
Hannah Hunt Stokes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
Union Stotion

The July 81 issue of The
Sunday Star carried an ar
ticle, with picture. on the
Union Station in Washington
and plans to mark its 50th
anniversary.
Daniel H. Burnham & Co.
Of Chicago is listed as the de-
signer of the building and
Maurice H. Lingenfelter as its
present general manager.
In this 50th anniversary,
I want to bring to your at
tention a man who played a
most important part m the
creation of the Union Sta
tion-Mr. c. H. Spencer,
who was the engineer in
charge of building this won
derful structure. Mr.. Spencer
recently passed his Goth
birthday and is living with
his devoted son and daugh-
ter-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth w. Spencer, 6Sl2
Sixth street NV.
Helen G. Wingate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27

This political civil rights
football being kicked around
In Congress is the worst
piece Of legislation in its
original form ever concocted.
The ones responsible for
framing this political piece
OF junk are vote-conscious
politicians who would trade
their birthrights, their state
rights and their social rights
for a vote.
Americans are hypocritical
and sickening when It comes
to screaming about equal
rights for all Of our citizens.
Whenever some citizens get
what they demand. others. at
the same time. are deprived
OF their state. social and
equal rights. We condemn
the Russian and German
forms Of government and
boast about our constitu-
tional form Of free govern
ment. yet today, in this So
called free land Of ours, mill
tary troops in some instances
can be called out against citi-
Gems to enforce an order Of q
judge. whose ruling Is based
on Supreme Court DEGREES
instead Of laws enacted by
Congress.
Nish Showers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
K&B to Germany

1t may be taken for granted that
the peregrinating Nikita Khrushchev
and Nicolai Bulganin are not going to
East Germany just for the fun of trav-
cling. Their impending trip to the Red
sector of Berlin will be the first of its
kind ever undertaken by Soviet leaders
of their rank, and that in itself sug-
gests that the detectives of the mission,
propagandistic and otherwise, must be
OF special Importance to the Kremlin.
OF course, in intramural Communist
maneuverS of this sort, outsiders can do
little more than make guesses. But it
seems reasonable to assume that one
purpose of the Observation-Disclosures
German junket will be. to put on show
designed to dramatic the fiction that
the puppet Red regime is really "sov-.
ereign" and independent" and that
Moscow deals with it as an equal.
Among other things, from the Soviet
viewpoint, such show would serve to
emphasize with exceptional force the
Kremlin'S repeated assertion that there
can be no progress toward Germany's
reunif1cation until Chancellor Ade-
nauer's genuinely free government at
Bonn negotiates with its fraudulent
counterpart in East Berlin.
More important still, a major aim
of the K&B visit to East Germany may
be to unleash propaganda barrages of
a type calculated to affect the outcome
OF the nationwide West German cleo
ton in September. At any rate, the
visit itself has been timed to take place
just about a month before the old
Chancellor and his followers face this
test at the polls, and the Russian Pre-
miers latest long-winded letter to Brit
ish Prime Minister Macmillan indicates
lively Soviet interest in that coming
event. In the circumstances, nobody
should be surprised if the KhruShchev-
Bulganin duet gives voice to resounding
policy statements = including possibly
some threats and some seemingly en-
ticir1g remarks on reuniflcation-aimed
at complicating DR.. Adenauer's position
and influencing the vote against him.
Needless to say, the Kremlin would like
nothing better than to see his govern
ment defeated.
However, regardless of what the
K&B team may say or do, the people
OF West Germany-whether they vote
for or against the Adenauer government
are not likely to be hoodwinked by
empty Soviet propaganda. Besides hav-
ing been profoundly shocked by the
Kremlin'S crime against Hungary, they
know only too we'll what Red totali-
tarianism has meant for their eastern
compatriots, and so there is little chance
that their anti-Communist feelings will
be in any sense softened by the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vaudeville act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27

alton Of Citizens Associations
and have spent hundreds of
hours in public service for
the benefit Of transit riders.
Here's hoping that for a long
time to come we will have
streetcars and buses.
Arthur b. McNerney,
Retired Examiner, Inter-
state Commerce Com
mission.
Up. 81 am not a transit
company stakeholder, just an
ordinary Joe trying to find
peace and comfort. now that
I am retired from the Gov
ernment.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
Commends VIVA

At the close of the meeting
season Of 1956-1957, I should
like to commend the officers
and staff Of the Washington
Housing Association for the
consistently fine series of
public meetings they have
conducted over the past year.
Conceived carefully and with
imagination and boldness of
spirit, they have brought to
the residents Of this voteless
city some splendid oppor-
tunities to hear; and often TO
question, the leaders who are
attempting to provide for all
who live within the area
good houses in good neigh
borhoods."
Mrs. r. ID. Neufeld.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
THE POLITICAL MILL
Republicans Seen at Fault in Defeats
BY GOULD LINCOLN

with the Negro voters of the
North or South by these
tactics, they must believe
them mighty stupid.
And fourth, in the face Of
the strong opposition Of the
President and his admins
tration. the House went
ahead and supported strongly
a bill to give the postal en-
ployes - some 100000 in
number-a 1914 per cent In
crease in pay. If such a
measure becomes law, 1t will
increase Government costs
by $279 million annually.
Further. such action is en-
couraging to those who are
supporting a general increase
for l million civil service en-
ployes. which would cost a
great deal more.
Voted to Cut Foreign Aid
Economy doesn't run, APP
parently. a straight course in
some congressional minds.
These same members of Con-
gress had voted, in the main,
for a $2.S billion cut in the
national defense appropria-
tons asked by the President,
not to mention the costs in
the foreign aid bill. It is true
that President Eisenhower
can. and is expected to, veto
the bill or bills increasing
Federal pay at this time. But
he has to take the cuts in ma
tional defense and foreign
aid. or run the risk Of getting
even less.
With an election coming
up, however. Congressman
will have made their record
in support Of the increase in
postal and other Federal sal
aries. Good politics, per-
haps-they let the President
save the money of the voters
in this instance, while at
the same time they ingrati-
ated themselves with the
Federal employees who vote.
The fight in the Senate
over the proposed jury trial
amendment to Section w of
the civil rights bill may result
in very close vote. It's adop-
ton, supporters of the bill
insist, would result in nulli-
fication in some of the States
of the deep South; they con-
tend a jury trial in Missis-
sippi, Alabama and Georgia,
for example. where feeling
runs strong would result in
variably in acquittal. thereby
injuring chances for assur-
ing more Negroes the full
franchise in those areas.
The supporters of the jury
trial amendment, on the
other hand. not only insist
that denial of jury trials is
un-American, but now point
to the conviction in Knox
vile of seven defendants in a
case involving criminal con-
tempt of a Federal court
which had ordered desegre-
cation in a Clinton (Tenn.)
school. They say this convic-
ton shows that an all-white
jury in the South will con-
vict when justified. yam
That part of Tennessee,
however. is strongly Repub-
lican and always has been
since the days Of the Civil
War. It is no criterion, so
far as juries in other South
ern areas are concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27
Wages and InfIotion

If we wish to bring about
further imitation we should
just keep on doing what we
are now doing so effectively.
The wages Of Government
workers do not seem to quite
compare with those paid by
industry. and good Govern
ment workers are lost to in
dustry so let's increase Gov
eminent salaries. OF course,
industry will then pay even
more for the workers they
want and correspondingly in
crease prices of their prod
uctS. The only result is
further imitation.
At a recent meeting Of
agricultural leaders in /. a
Midwestern State they be-
moaned the loss of so many
scientists and other special
lists from agricultural and
engineering colleges to in
dustries which offer higher
salaries. They voted to use
their influence to get higher
salaries for college scientists.
OF course. if colleges increase
salaries. industries will con-
tinue to get the workers they
think they need by increas-
ing their own wage scale. The
reSult-more imitation and a
continuing shortage of good
college science instructors
and research men.
Two corporations in which
my wife and l own a few
shares of stock voted retire
ment pay to top officials, one
at $4,000 a year and the
other $4,000. 1t Is a good
guess that both Of these men
already have more than ade-
quate financial security and
also that at least for the past
10 years of their tenure of
office much Of their work has
been carried by younger men
so no large retirement is
needed nor is it due them.
The officers in our industries
vote large salaries and big
retirements for each other.
Since they are the ones who
own or control large blocks of
stock. the protests of the
owners of small amounts of
stock are futile. Much of the
effect Of this on imitation re-
suits from the fact that when
highly organized labor asks
for their annual increase Of
wages and fringe benefits, the
officers who have been so free
to help themselves are in no
condition to resist union de-
mands. They don't have
clean hands, so wages, SAL
aries. retirements and fringe
BENEFITS continue to go up and
we have more imitation. Is
there any remedy?
The President is on the
right track when he opposes
increase in wages for Gov
eminent workers and urges
unions and industry to keep
wages and prices at present
level. Even this is quite in
sufficient. If we all could
unite in this fight to prevent
ruinous imitation by agreeing
that the way to equalize
wages is to make no wage
scale increases anywhere but
to work to bring those down
which are out Of line and use
the utmost discrimination in
our buying. The attitude Of
the consumer who pays for
this imitation, II he expresses
himself with enough force
and unity, could end this vi
cious imitation spiral.
]. Blaine GWin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27

DR.. r. H. Rigdon of the
University Of Texas has pro-
posed that ''hopelessly i'll
mental patients be used for
experimentation In studies Of
cancer causes"
1t would seem to me that
DR.. Rigdon has done him
self and the scientific COM
munity a grave disservice. AS
far as the scientific COM
munity goes. the popular i'm
preston Is now that most
scientists are a little mad
This proposal certainly will
reinforce this impression. II
DR.. Rigdon's scheme is adopt
ed he might find himself as
one OF his own first guinea
pigs. I wonder how he would
like that. Curious.
So -
A proposal, by a doctor, to
use mental incurables" for
cancer experimentation. re-
ported to be under study by
a congressional committee.
further emphasizes this coun-
try's callous attitude toward
the mentally III. When dogs,
cats or rabbits are used for
this purpose many voices are
raised In protest.
The half-million or more
citizens imprisoned in mental
institutions throughout this
country are people. even as
you and /. Many are veterans
and each one is Somebody
father. brother. sister. mother
son or daughter. They are
not wild beasts, domestic cat
tie or experimental animals
and they are not dependable
Unless doctors are infallible
some Of these patients are
sane. and who is TO say which
are incurable7
Let US not become so de.
PRAYED as TO approve any
kind Of medical experimental
ton on our fellow men, with
out their consent. ever
though they may have beer
pronounced incurable.
r. I. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27

ThlS mas not been q good
week for the Eisenhower pro-
gram in Congress. And in
more than one case it has
been the Republicans in Sen
ate or House who have been
largely responsible for ditch
ing the Presidents proposals.
Take a look at the record.
First OF. Republican Sena-
tors abandoned Section III
Of the civil rights bill. strik-
ing out all provisions of this
measure relating to enforce
ment Of desegregation in the
public schools-in the South.
particularly--and other rights
than that of voting.
Further. the Republicans
in the Senate are now hesi-
tating over q Democratic
sponsored amendment which
would force jury trials in
cases involving contempt of
court orders relating to reg
istering and voting. If enough
Of them support the jury trail
amendment or amendments,
the victory for the Southern
Democrats will be almost
complete in this latest tussle
over civil rights legislation.
Then, in the name Of econ
omy. the House. with plenty
of Republican aid, cut some
$700 million out of the pro-
gram for foreign aid-aid
which President Eisenhower
has contended again and
again is vital for overall ma
tional defense.
School Aid Bill Killed
Third, the Presidents
school bill. designed to aid
the States in building vitality
needed schoolhouses, was de-
feated in the House, and here
again the COP. members
were clearly responsible in
great measure. The vote
was extremely close-208 to
203. And what did the Re-
publicans do? One hundred
and eleven Of them supported
the motion of Democratic
Representative Howard w.
Smith of Virginia 70 strike
out the enacting clause.
which meant. sudden death
for the measure. Voting
against the Smith amend
ment were only n Repub-
licans. 1t is sufficient TO
note that 126 Democrats
voted to keep the bill alive,
while only 81 of them sup
ported the Smith motion.
This measure would have
authorized the expenditure
of SIS billion for school
construction. to have been
used where that aid is par
ticularly needed. 1t is true
the bill was not helped by
adoption of an amendment
offered by Representative
Wainwright, Republican of
New York. designed to deny
school aid in any local dis
trict where schools operated
in violation of the Supreme
Courts decision outlawing
segregated schools. But most
of these same Republicans
then turned and voted for
the Smith motion which
killed the bill. Among them
we're two of the principal Re-
publican leaders in the House
-Halleck of Indiana and
Arends of Illinois. If the Re-
publicans in the House felt
they were making any hay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-27

The story Of the fly and
the toad is instructive.
In the old days. there were
millions of f1ies-and thou
sands of toads.
Then man got in his dead
ly work. and today there are
only hundreds of flies
And no toads.
Certainly the obnoxious
insects were favorite foods of
hoptoads. and now that there
are few flies, there are few
toads.
1t is as simple as that.
The city and suburban
world misses something. with
its flyless-toadless world.
Both flies and toads added
something to life. If no more
than something to talk about.
How people used to love to
be angry about fliesl
Life is partly being angry
at something. isn't it? 1t is
so easy to be nice, you would
think more people would try
1t. But so few DO. any more.
Maybe they only seemed to.
yesterday.
Now the toads are gone,
following the concerted on
slaught on flies. Pretty soon
other living things will 60.
too, and mankind will be as
SNUG as always, thinking it
a good thing.
1t will do no good TO won
der what has become of the
toads, once the flies are gone.
Surviving toads have hop
ped. let us hope. TO the farm
ing districts, and can still be
found in numbers by cool
stones, where flies will come
to get their dinner.
The last toad we saw was
q nat sort Of thing inhabiting
a bricked-in ditch in a rear
yard.
The bricks we're cool and
damp. just the things toads
love.
The thing cast a disdainful
eye on the pet cats regard
ing it with deep suspicion.
Cats have a reputation for
being mysterious. and in
nothing are they more so
than in the way they greet
other forms OF life.
They resent dogs. as every
body knows. but like TO prowl
along a few feet behind an
opossum. The latter pretends
he doesn't know the cat is
there.
A tortoise is another crea-
ture cats hold in deep re-
spect. They win sit and look
at one for minutes. occasion
ally pokfng out q tentative
paw. only TO draw back as
the serpentlike head goes
back In its shell.
Usually. after a few min
utes OF quiet contemplation.
Q house cat will turn away