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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Risk in Anti-Recession Moves

The manufacturers were
forced to borrow at high rates
to pay bills the Government
customarily paid while the
work was in process.
This weakness has now
been remedied. and the Gov
eminent is readjusting its
method of handling defense
contracts. 1t is speeding up
the ALLEGATION of orders, too.
Defense spending is now esti-
mated by Secretary McElroy
at SILT billion for the first
six months Of 1858. as COM
pared with half that amount
for the last six months Of
1857. There also are to be
noted some marked increases
in spending. not only by the
Federal but by State and
local governments, for i'm
portant projects previously
put aside.
There are signs. too, that
retail sales have held fairly
well throughout the country.
The Federal Reserve Bank Of
Chicago. in its latest report,
says the decline in employ
ment is basically due to in
ventory reductions and de-
creaSes in durable goods as
well as defense hardware.
These factors can be helped
by the unspectacular steps
already taken in the Defense
Department and in purchases
which were authorized for
the Government to make but
were delayed during the
economy" wave of last year.
The present ession
wasn't planned" as some
Democratic Senator's are say
ing, but it is in part the
direct result Of the drive
made early last year by some
Of the same Democrats to
curtail d Tense appropria-
tons. A change came when
the first Soviet "Sputnik"
was launched late in 1857.
The biggest economizers Of
last year in Congress are
among those who would spend
extravagantly this year and
also would deprive the Treas
ury of billions Of tax revenue.
If politicians instead of econ
omists are needed, the rem
edy" indeed may prove worse
than the disease.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
RED A. notwithstanding for Stokes
Statehood for Alaska and Hawaii

The record is crystal clear
on this point.
The proposed Alaskan con-
stitution was ratified in 1856
by an overwhelming vote.
Moreover, the last three ter
ritorial legislatures passed
memorials urging statehood.
My own travels in Alaska
as Secretary of the Interior
have confirmed and strength
ened my earlier view, ex-
pressed as a member of the
United States Senate in 1852,
that Alaska is ready for ad-
mission to the Union and
that rile, majority of its peo-
pie earnestly want statehood
at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
Many of the arguments
against the admission Of
Alaska have a familiar ring.
When admission to the Union
was sought for my home
State of Nebraska in 1867
(the year the United States
purchased Stewards so-called
Alaskan ''icebox" for $7.2
Million, objections were
made that the Nebraska pop
ulation was insufficient to
support statehood and that
the burden of State govern
ment was being forced upon
the residents of the territory
against their will.
If such SpeciouS arguments,
now raised in the Alaska de-
bate, had been accepted in
1867, one can only imagine
In what stage the develop
ment Of the West-and in
deed the United States as .
whole-would be today.
The arguments for admis-
sion Of Hawaii are equally
persuasive: the objections are
equally time-worn. From the
standpoint Of population,
wealth and economic develop
ment, Hawaii has met every
test for statehood. Its peo-
pie have been loyal citizens
Of the United States for more
than half q century.
This is the year to end the
long Illustration Of their
hopes. With their fellow
Americans in Alaska, they
are ready to take on the full
rights and responsibilities Of
citizenship. Both Alaska and
Hawaii are more than able
to pay their way as full
fiedged members Of the I'm
ion. AS never before. we have
reason to expect they will
soon be able to do 50, as
citizens Of the 49th and 50th
American States.
(copyright. 1858. BY United Featul
Syndicate, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14

election year is forgetting
John @. Voter who probably
will get into the pot for an
increase in his basic exemp-
ton.
What no one seems to
know, and few appear to care.
is what the actual budgetary
situation will be even without
the tax cut. Military appro-
priations will be up. There
will be at least some increase
in public works expenditures.
Some kind Of housing bill will
be passed.
No one really believes the
optimistic figures on income
and outgo estimated in the
Presidents budget message.
Income now appears less and
outgo higher than estimated
Yet deficit estimates range
anywhere from a few hun
dred million by the most OPP
timistic to as high as $40 bill
lion on the part Of the doubt
Grand this without taking
into account a tax cut.
There is concern among
some serious thinkers that a
big tax cpt now may send
prices up again on their mer-
ny way. Yet there is no mis-
taking the symptoms WASH
ington has tax cut fever and
1t will get worse as Novem-
Der nearS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Society to Study
.Cuncer in Family

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Mar.
IA @.-The American Cancer
Society said today that a
pioneer study would be made
to find out whether cancer
occurs more frequently in some
families than in others.
The project will be directed
by DR.. Merton s. Honeyman of
the United States Public Health
Service under an $11.970 grant
from the cancer society's Con-
necticut division. The study
was described as the first of
its kind undertaken in the
United States.
Using records in the central
cancer registry of the Con-
necticut State Health Depart
ment, researchers will attempt
to determine the relationship,
If any, between heridity and
cancer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Dedication of the New IsrueIis

by our standards). Others
are engaged In trade and
business. More than 100 who
had not yet acquired Israeli
nationality and resisted the
temptation to vote at the
last election, thus not for
feiting their United States
citizenship, are returning to
America. About $50 left last
week.
The most surprising new
citizens are the Indians from
Cochin-some 5000 Of them.
At a control post on the
Jordan border I noticed a
swarthy young corporal. I
thought he was an Arab
(there are still some 10000
left in the country. He told
me that his homeland had
been India where his an
cestors had migrated from
Judea some 40 years after
Christ's crucif1xion, after the
Romans had destroyed the
temple. These Indian jews
had come here five wears ago.
I asked him whether they
had had enough of Nehru.
He merely answered: I'VE
heard that the Hebrew state
was reborn and came over"
He did not have time to re-
ply whether he spoke Hebrew.
before his officer engaged him
in conversation in that Lam
guage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Senator Byrd's Lone Warning Of Deficit
Cited as Tax Reduction Plans Mount
DORIS FLEEsON

Employment figures at the
end Of March will determine
both the extent and direction
Of the tax cut which has now
been made almost inevitable
by the hopes raised by adj
ministration spokesman.
If employment takes its
normal upward turn with the
beginning Of spring, the ad-
ministration may trim its
expected tax cut proposals.
If the unemployment total
decreases by less than the
hoped-for 100000 a larger
and wider cut is in prospect.
The Eisenhower admins
tration apparently has made
q definite decision that q tax
cut rather than pump-prim-
ing public works is the answer
to the business recession. 1t
has supporters among some
Democrats who feel that, ex-
cept for housing, works pro-
grams are too slow in affect
ing the economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14

Tax cut talk from some Of
the administrations major
figures. notably Vice Presi-
dent Nixon and Labor Sec
rotary Mitchell, has stirred
UP a brush fire Of such pro-
portions as to be an embar-
rassment. Mr.. Nixon can
hardly be stepped on by such
publiciSts as White House
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty, but Mr.. Mitchell
was so ruthlessly slapped
down that 1t made reporters
vince. There will be no more
administration tax cut talk
now until the figures are in.
Democrats are loath to let
the administration have the
credit for tax cutting efforts,
but they have come up with
no bill which can be officially
labeled Democratic. Senator
Paul Douglas, the Illinois
liberal, has sought to step in
to the vacuum with a hodge,
podge bill which includes ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
DAVID LAWRENCE

There's an old saying that
"the remedy could be worse
than the disease" and that's
what might happen If all or
even some of the various
antirecession measures be-
ing proposed in Congress
were put into effect.
Senator Harry Byrd, DEM
ocrat of Virginia, chairman
Of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, gives an inkling of
what might occur when he
says that if two pending bills.
each providing IS billion or
more in tax reduction. are
adopted, this might throw
the Federal Treasury $40 bill
lion to SIS billion into the
red.
There are about So mil
lion persons now out of work.
but if America embarks on
what could result in a run
away imitation, the eventual
"bust" could bring about an
unemployment many times
that figure.
The Eisenhower admin
istration is not allowing it
self to be stampeded by pres
sure for tax reduction and,
when it comes up with a
plan, it will be one that
takes into account the long
range as well as the short
range aspects.
The Government would
surely face a serious situa-
ton from a fiscal point Of
view If, without waiting to
get a clear picture Of just
what has been happening
in the national economy, it
interjected an unbalancing
factor in the way of a sharp
reduction in tax receipts.
The psychological effect,
in other words, of a deficit OF
$40 billion to SIS billion might
tend to bring such a pessi-
mistic outlook for the long
range future as to discourage
the very sentiment needed
now for business recovery.
The stock market would be
one Of the first institutions
to reflect the coming Of an
inflationary spiral. For. if the
50-cent dollar Of today were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
BY FRED A. SEATON
Secretary Of the Interior

It Is q rare privilege to
author q guest column for
my longtime friend, Thomas
L. Stokes, although I gen.
timely regret the circum-
stances which give rise to
this opportunity to address
his thousands Of readers.
The subject I'd like to
bring to your attention today
is the proposal that the Ter
ritories Of Alaska and Hawaii
be granted statehood in the
current session Of the Con-
gresS. The Eisenhower adj
ministration Is wholeheart-
edly supporting statehood for
both territories, and I very
much hope that we can
marshal SUFFICIENT bipartisan
support in the Congress to
achieve our objective.
Although the battle for
statehood for Alaska and Ha-
wall has been going on for
many years. it does appear
that prospects for success are
brighter now than they have
ever been. There is increased
public understanding in the
United States of the true
facts concerning the two ter
ritories and a consequent
increased public demand that
both be admitted to state
hood.
While the decision is one
solely within the power of
Congress to make, I devoutly
hope the statehood bills will
be kept separate so that each
OF the territories can be
judged on its own merits by
each member Of the Con-
gress.
This year the congressional
leadership apparently believes
that the case of Alaska
should be considered first.
While I have no objection to
that, I do believe that it is
both desirable and fair that
the leadership give public
assurance that Hawaiian
statehood will be brought up
for a vote in both houses
Immediately following consid-
Grafton of the Alaska bill.
Fear that Alaska would not
be considered was one of the
considerations which prompt
ed the Senate to vote to join
the two bills in 1854. That
action tolled the death knell
for any hope for statehood in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Courses on Purenthood

A course on Building Par
enthood Skills" will begin Tues
day in Arlington and another
on Marriage and Family Liv-
ing Today" on Wednesday. Both
classes will meet weekly from
Z to 8 pm. for 10 weeks at
Washington-Lee High School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Seriousness of Jews From Many Lands
In Building Nation Found Impressive

TEL AVN, Israel (By Air
mail) From the moment a
person steps out Of the plane
at Lydia airport he realizes
that he is in a land of sur
prises.
A British sergeant major
with waxed mouStachios banks
orders to underlings (this
includes passengers in q
harsh language which even
experienced travellers have
seldom heard before. Upon
investigation you find out
that it is Hebrew.
els he q native Of Israeli"
! asked the man sent to meet
me.
Not at all. he has spent
most Of his life in the British
Army and came to Israel
seven years ago." was the
answer. Everybody speaks
Hebrew in this country. It
Is q difficult tongue, but we
all learned it because it is
essential for the unification
Of the country"
I tool this with a grain Of
salt, But when an official of
the press bureau who was
born in Glasgow and a
Foreign ONCE functionary
whose Partisan accent was
impeccable jabbered in the
same language I realized that
nobody was pulling my leg.
without pressure from any
official quarters these men
who have come from all
corners of the world to help
create q new Israeli nation
decided that regardless OF
how difficult it might be they
must have a national tongue.
Hebrew was revived not only
on government stationery,
but in fact. Men whose
mother tongue has been Ger
man, Czech. Polish, English,
Bulgarian, Hindu and Arabic
learned to read and write
Hebrew to avoid Israel
being known as a modern
Tower Of Babel.
1t is strange to discover
when you talk to a taxi driv-
er, a waiter or q salesman in
the unbelievably expensive
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem stores
the variety of nationalities
and professions to which
these people belong. Some
were lawyers or accountants
in Central or Eastern Europe
who were driven from their
homelands by prosecutions.
Others came because they
felt that regardless of posi-
ton and honor in their ma
tive country they were still
minorities. They wanted to
become real citizens of a new
state-their own.
Those who came seeking a
country Of their own are now
in all government levels and
earning in most cases less
than one-fifth what they
earned before becoming Is
raelis. A fairly low official
who guided me through parts
Of the Negeb desert had been
a movie director in England
where he earned as much in
one week as he received here
in one year. Another. a young
newspaper photographer. ar
rived 10 months ago from
Norway. He was born in Har-
danger where his family had
lived for at least eight genera
tons. The director Of the
press bureau. q man in his
early SOS. was born at Dur
ban. South Africa. and
studied at an English univer-
sity where he married o
gentle.
1 asked all these men the
same question: What made
you abandon the land of
your birth to come to this
arid country where life is
difficult and may soon be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Possibility Of Starting Runowoy InfIutiol
Seen From Sharp Tax Reduction

to be headed down toward
a ascent value in the next
few years, obviously prices
of stocks would tend to rise
commensurately. This would
be an artificial upsurge that
could in the end bring on
q smash.
It is no surprise, therefore.
that words Of caution came
from Secretary of the Treas
ury Anderson on Wednesday
after his conference with
President Eisenhower and his
economic advisers.
There is need, Of course,
for tax revision, but it should
be undertaken on a gradually
changing rate basis and not
just as a means of distribute
ing purchasing power to in
dividuals. It should include a
method Of stimulating the
heavy-goods industries so
that manufacturing corpora
tionS can begin to plan for
new equipment and plants.
If it were merely a case
of giving cash to the public
generally. it would cost far
less to aid certain distressed
areas on a local basis. For
most of the tax proposals
would give a tax reduction to
those who already have jobs
and savings enough to con-
tinue a high velocity of pur-
chasing. The unemployed. on
the other hand, would not
benefit by q tax reduction to
individuals. Business itself
would have to be encouraged
somehow by corporate-tax re-
auctions 70 create more en-
ployment. This would have
an impact on industrial con-
ditions generally.
Last year. when this corre-
spondent was almost alone in
defending the $71.8 billion
budget of the President, there
was a widespread pressure
in Congress for reducing the
spending. 1t resulted in an
artificial restraint on the flow
Of defense expenditures. The
sudden cuts and the modifi-
cation Of the system of Gov
eminent financing Of defense
contracts by advance pay
ments threw many a business
into an embarrassing position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14

LTOuOteu Mtnute EGSLJ
~>---~---~-
come dangerous again?" I
pointed out that anti-Se-
mitic feeling in South Africa.
England, France and Norway
is negligible. I said I could
understand those who left
Central Europe, the Balkans
or Germany, but not them.
The answers were always
the same. The ancient coun-
try of the Hebrews has been
reborn and I'VE must do our
best to help it survive"
The number of Western
Jews who have become
Israelis is small-about 5000
from Britain and slightly
fewer from the United States.
There are few Americans in
the government. Some are
working at the Weizmann
Institute "a highly important
scientific research organiza-
ton which is doing among
other things some secret work
on electronics for the United
States Navy and Air Force.
Others are in various liberal
professions mot remunerative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14

s~SeN~s0 sss1
the $50 session Of the Con-
gress.
To combine the bills in this
session probably would have
the same undesirable effect.
Yet it is understandable that
unless the friends of Hawai-
ian statehood are assured of
consideration for their bill
soon after Alaska, history
may repeat itself.
In this years budget mes
sage. the President again
voiced his complete support
for statehood for both terri
tories. In action consistent
with the Presidents request
and the platforms of both
major political parties, the
Department of the Interior
has done everything it can
to further the cause of state
hood for both Alaska and
Hawaii. Statehood for either,
! firmly believe. should be a
nonpartisan subject. Parti-
sanship in this area Of debate
serves no good purpose; it
can only cloud the real issues
and hinder constructive eff
forts to deal with them.
Simple justice demands
that both territories be admit
ted to the Union now.
AS for myself, I haven't the
slightest concern about who.
or which political party, gets
the credit for Hawaiian or
Alaskan statehood. Whether
Republicans or Democrats,
the people of both terri
tories are Americans. and
they are entitled to full citi-
zenship. I know of nothing
in the Constitution Of the
United States which gives
preference to one political
party or the other or, more
Importantly, sets up political
party affiliation as a test Of
fitness for statehood.
Among the valid tests is
this one: Do most Of the res
idents of the territory under
consideration favor state
hood?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Hope Flying to Russia
To Film 2 ~ Shows

NEW YORK. Mar. IL Dr.
Comedian Bob Hope is of to
Russia to film two television
shows during q six-day stay.
Hope left by plane yesterday
en- route to Moscow. Last Feb
ruary 2 he went to London,
expecting to continue on the
Soviet Union. but a snag de-
veloped on his Russian visa. He
returned to this country and
acquired the necessary travel
clearance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
Simple Justice Cited as Fovoring Move,
With Both Fulfilling All Requirements

EDITORS NOTE: Here is
another OF the "StGtesmen's
Series" columns by distin-
Cuished personG0es in Co..
eminent. business. national
affairs and the military tDho
tDiH turtle guest columns for
Thomas I. Stokes, iuho is Sc
rioHsly tH.J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14

This Is the first dispatch
from Mr.. Brown on a tour of
Israel. question mark OF the
troubled Middle EGst.J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-28
$1,000 Fire Blamed
On Bow, Matches

A fire. believed started by a
boy playing with matches
caused an estimated $4,000
damage to a Silver Spring area
home yesterday and sent one
fireman to the hospital.
The blaze shortly after noon
occurred in the home of Mrs.
Ethel Brosh. 1906 Albania
street in the Harmony Hills
subdivision.
Fire Inspector Daniel Kars-
'ner said a 4-year-old boy visit
ing at the house apparently
started the fire in a bedroom
closet.
Richard Dement,, 26, of 8101
Tahona drive, Silver Spring, a
member of the Kensington
Volunteer Fire Department,
was hospitalized at Washing
ton Sanitorium- after suffering
smoke inhalation.
Mrs. Brosh, a widow. also
was taken to the hospital for
shock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-28
|Lemoy Honored
In New ZeuIund

WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
Mar. 20 R.-Gen. Curtis Le-
may. leading American advo-
cate Of long-range strategic
bombing, conferred with COM
monwealth air officers and
lunched with government on
Gals today after a nonstop
flight from Castle Air Force
Base, Calf.
Showing no signs of fatigue
after spending much of the Is
hour flight at the controls of
the KC-135 jet tanker, the
United States Air Force vice
chief Of staff arrived yesterday
and spent the evening at a re-
ception given by United States
Ambassador Francis H. Russell.
Gen. Lemay's wife accom-
panied him.
Gen. Lemay came to attend
the 21St anniversary of the
Royal New Zealand Air Force,
being celebrated tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-28
Probers to Turn Next
To Perfect Circle Strike

When the Senate Rackets
Committee ends its hearings,
probably today, on the Kohler
labor fight. it will turn to an
other incident in what Senator
Goldwater. Republican Of Ari-
iona, has called a pattern of
violence"
The new inquiry, into the
Perfect Circle strike staged by
the United Auto Workers in
three Indiana towns in 1855, is
not expected to cause the ex-
plosive controversy that has
characterized the Kohler hear
ings. But conservatives on the
committee are anxious to shine
the spotlight on JAW activities
in the labor dispute.
AS in the case of Kohler,
neither side is expected to
emerge blameless. There has
been much criticism of both
management and labor in the
Perfect Circle affair, and a GER
tain cause-and-effect relation
ship has been noted between
two events Of the fall of 1855.
Event No. l was violence at
Perfect Circle on October S, In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-28

Iplause from spectators, who
had obviously expected Q great
deal more violence than that
from the two adversaries.
Every time Senator Gold
water asked a question, Mr.
Reuther at the first syllable
would race OF to the point OF
reply and would have q bivouac
set. up. a fire going and the
soup on by the time his ques-
toner arrived
Mr.. Re''ther is agile because
he is travelling light. He comes
into the Caucus Room under
no charge Of using union funds
for high living, of keeping low
company, or robbing widows
and orphans. No one has even
ever accused him Of talking too
much, although yesterday 1t
looked as though someone
might-if the Senators could
have got a word in edgewise.