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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Man of COURAGE

Spring seems to be, coming a bit
early this year for Ezra Taft Benson.
At any rate the chilling winds which
have been blowing over the Secretary of
Agriculture are being tempered bit by
warming political climate.
For one thing, farm prices were up
2 per cent in February-a total increase
OF 3 per cent over year ago. For an
other, more and more Congressman are
beginning to speak out in Mr.. Benson's
behalf.
OF course, a determined band of
MidweStern Republicans are still after
Mr.. Benson'S scalp. They say, and they
may be correct, that Mr. Benson and
the Benson program will cost the c. o. P.
from 20 to 80 House seats in November.
Even If they are right, however, a lost
battle does not mean the loss of war.
1t looks as though Mr.. Benson may be
winning the war;
Farm prices are improving The
President is backing him to the hilt.
And his supporters in Congress are be-
ginning to rally around. Representative
Bass of New Hampshire has just made
an excellent statement of the case for
Mr.. Benson-a speech which was warmly
Endorsed by surprising number of his
colleagues. 1t is too bad, from the point
. Of view Of the taxpayer, that Mr. Bass
remarks cannot be published in full.
9 They should be read. The heart of the
speech, however, is in these two para
graphs:
When our taxpayers realize what
farm price support programs are cost
ing and what the costs mean to them
individually; when they realize that they
(the support programS) are a failure
and will not solve the farm problem, then
they will be strong for Benson's proposals
Secretary Benson has courageously
proposed way out of this nightmare of
economic nonsense 1t is the way of more
flexible and lower agricultural price sup
ports. It is the only way that leads
toward an ultimate solution.
. For our part, we welcome this bud
ding support for Mr.. Benson. We well
come 1t because we believe that the
Benson program will be proved right in
the long run-right for the farmer and
right for the consumer. We also well
come it because Mr.. Benson is something
OF rarity in public life, and it would be
a shame if he were to be sacrificed on
the altar of political expediency.
He is man of courage. More sig
nifcantly, he is man of principle and
integrity. AS the election draws nearer
every demagogue in the land will be
yelling for his head. But this will not
divert Mr.. Benson from his chosen
course. He firmly believes that he is
right, and that in the end he will be
proven right. Considerations of polit-
ical expediency (Short-range expediency
in our judgment) will not move him.
This makes him something Of an I'M
common man on our political scene.
Our country needs more like him, not
fewer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Badge of Honor

"a Badge of Honor" to DR..
Frederick Brown Harris for
his article February 16 under
that title.
Honor Bright" as set
forth by DR.. Harris, is the
right mode of living. It was
the mode of living of our
forefathers. as I know, hav-
ing lived with my grandpar-
ents for a few years. I can
appreciate how right and
honorable they lived in every
way. In fact. so did the whole
community in and around a
small, beautiful town in
northern Illinois.
Honor Blight" which DR..
Harris analyses as deceit,
concealment and trickery,
which our forefathers never
thought of and did not have,
is the mode of living of our
present generation.
E. E. Still.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Lfe-Soving Blood

Blood, not dollars, will be the goal
of Metropolitan Area chapters of the
Red Cross during March, the traditional
month for Nationwide campaign for
funds. The fund drive will be held as
usual in cities and towns outside the
Metropolitan Area, but here, thanks to
participation of the Red Cross in the
United Givers Fund, a drive for blood
donations is being substituted. This is
a life-Saving and health building cam
paign of vital Importance. For the blood
that is donated may save the lives Of
the donors or of their relatives and
friends.
The blood campaign throughout the
UGF region has been organized along
the lines of a regular Red Cross fund
drive, with volunteers canvassing the
various communities in quest of pros
pective donors. At least one pint of
blood is being sought from every signer
of pledge card. The donation, it is
suggested, may be made on the giver's
birthday, thus distributing the contri-
buttons throughout the next IL months.
This plan is expected to eliminate
emergency appeals which have had to
be made during the past year. There
has been a serious shortage of blood for
local hospitals in recent months. Red
Cross blood is free to hospitals and free
to patients-although hospitals may
make charge for TRANSMISSION services.
The Red Cross blood drive deserves
the wholehearted support of the whole
community. And communities outside
the UGF area not only should give gen.
erously of their blood but of their funds
as well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Panied by Labor

The gigantic labor unions
have pushed wage demands
UP so high that they have
brought business expansion
down. So some wage-earners,
instead Of finding more take
home pay, find themselves
unemployed. In other words,
when the unions try to
pull the wage-payers down
through increased wage pres
sures, the manufacturers are
compelled to pass on the adj
ditional costs to the con-
sumner. When the outpriced
consumer starts to spend less,
the wheels Of production
start to slow to a halt.
Thus, the unemployment
Of many wage-earners ironi-
cally has been caused by their
own organizations irrefus-
able demands. Unlike their
cousins, the monopolies Of
business, the monopolies Of
labor unions are immune
from antitrust laws. They
are so powerful that the mere
threat Of strike forces key in
dustries to accept all Of their
considerable demands.
If the Government wants
to correct the instability Of
employment for the wage
Garner, the solution is not the
deadening palliatives Of ex-
orbitant make-work schemes,
but legislation to control
unions. What the wage
Garner and consumer need is
another Clayton antitrust
act for unions.
James Calhoun Humes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Sunday Sales

! have read that recently
a Sunday Observance Com
mittee," made up Of repre-
sentatives Of the Protestant
Council Of Churches and the
Catholic Churches Of the
Archdiocese of Washington
and dioceSes Of Richmond,
has been formed to combat
the growing tendency toward
unnecessary Sunday sales.
This business Of Sunday buy
ing has started a stir from
both sides Of the counter, so
to speak, and / think at last
we should have it out.
Characterization of Sum-
day is merely another door
opened by the greedy. to
break convention. to live a
materialistic life which knows
no law above the ring Of the
cash register; everything is
quantity, more, more. more"
Quality, satisfaction in work
well done, have disappeared
from the American horizon.
Most of America, includ-
ing American business, has
always recognized Sunday as
Gods day, a day Of rest. But
before this was possible.
America recognized God as
mans Creator, and because
of Whom man gained dignity.
1t hardly need be said that
If every store were open on
Sunday, the self-seeking few
I have referred to would be
the first to close their doors.
Only when he sees his COM
petitor home, resting. enjoy
ing life with his family on
Sunday, does the money
hungry merchant find his
chance ito make a killing"
None Of this, of course, is
meant to refer to the Sunday
purchase of absolute necessi-
ties or customary Sunday
sales. Some small items
themselves add to the pleas
ure of a Sunday rest. How
ever, by a little clear-headed
advance planning. most items
will take care Of themselves
and avoid the necessity of
buying on Sunday.
Not all of the publicity
born of this affair has been
unfavorable. One admirable
salesman caught my atten-
ton with a sign hanging in
his auto display window
which said: CLOSED on Sun
day. Let's all go to church.
This degrading of Sunday is a
crisis on the stage Of Ameri-
can democracy. If we citi-
zens fail to resist it, we
will aid the destruction of the
American principle of free
dom for the pursuit of hap
piness.
Richard E. FITZGERALD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Toward the Summit?

The Kremlin now appears to have
reversed itself in a way that could con-
ceivahly lead to a heads-of-government
summit conference before the year ends.
At any rate, up to point at least, the
reversal may be regarded as promising
retreat from the past Soviet position
demanding that such meeting be held
without meaningful advance prepara-
ton, either by the foreign ministers or
through normal diplomatic channels.
But now, as it has set forth in its
latest notes to the Western powers, the
Kremlin has agreed to the idea of hold
ing foreign ministers get-together
to decide on the participants and the
agenda for summit conference. This
still seems to fall considerably short of
the kind Of preparatory procedure that
the United States and its allies have
advocated, but it nevertheless encour-
ages the hope that ways may yet be
found to insure in advance that the
headS-of-government meeting - when
and If held will produce something
more substantial than a mere display
of good fellowship.
In any event, our own country and
the West as whole still hold to the
view-aS expressed by President EiSen-
hover in his last letter to Premier Bull
ganin-that there must be some prior
assurance that gathering at the sum-
NIT would in fact hold good hope Of
advancing the cause Of peace and JUS
tice in the world" In other words, our
side deems it essential that the pre-
liminary work develop a reasonable
promise that the heads of government
would be able to agree on at least few
f1rst-step measures, even If only small
ones, designed to reduce international
tension and promote progress toward a
trustworthy settlement of the grave and
complex issues that divide mankind.
1t is because of this need for adj
vance assurances that some serious
reservations are in order as regards the
changed Soviet position. Apparently
what the Kremlin wants now is a meet
ing of as many as 81 foreign ministers
whose job would consist merely of deter
mining what nations would be repre-
Sented at the summit and what subjects
WOU4O VIC o44C0 l WI 0OuOOo
mediately arise. The first suggests that
preparatory meeting as big as the one
proposed might be too populouS and too
unwieldy to be sound. And the second
suggests that simple listing of agenda
items, with no prior discussion as to the
possibility of agreement, would hardly
be thorough enough to promote pro-
ductive top-level conference.
Despite all such doubts and reserva-
tons, however, it is a hopeful sign
that RuSsia's leaders now seem to have
moved a good deal closer toward the
western position regarding pre-summit
preparations. The gap between them
and us may still be wide, but it is not too
wide to be bridged if they are genuinely
sincere when they say that they are
anxious and ready to cooperate for
peace at the highest level of negotiation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Impressive Sermon

1t seems to me that The
Star made an erroneous in
depreciation of the meaning
Of the sermon of the acting
minister Of All Souls Uni
tartan Church.
I heard the sermon, and
my impression was that,
while the Rev. Mr.. Stutzman
considered Jesus as one of
the greatest religious teach
ers Of this planet, he might
doubt the validity of naming
the religion started by him,
Christian" Because Christ"
was not his real name, but
was the designation reserved
for the Messiah who was
expected by the Jews.
Unitarians accept the
teachings Of Jesus and fol-
low them. but some Of them
do not accept his divine orr
gin. Also, unlike orthodox
Christians, many members Of
this church seem to doubt
the doctrine Of original sin"
This doctrine teaches that
because Eve disobeyed God,
we are, therefore. all doomed
to everlasting punishment,
unless her sin is atoned for
by the sacrifice of Gods son.
Unitarian Is are broad
minded. tolerent people with
no set creed. Their aims are
humanistic and their beliefs
are dynamic and based on
the evidence Of historical
and scientific facts. Their
moral codes are those of
Jesus and other great teach
ers.
william Owen.
Editors Note: The re-
porter spoke to the Rev.
Ralph w. Stutzman before
writing the article and got
the minister's Interpretation
Of his sermon. He has since
spoken TO the minister, who
said the presentation in The
Star was a fair statement q
his views.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Housewives Lobby?

Here Is one gal who is so
fed up with the struggle of
trying to feed her family
balanced meals at today's
food prices that she is about
to explode. It's a shame that
we housewives can't have a
lobbyist in Washington like
other big businesses - and,
believe me. housewives con-
stitute big business. Without
them and the huge amounts
of money they spend, there
wouldn't be enough profit
from other so-called big bust
nesses to send even one man
to lobby for them in WASH
ington.
The farmers are screaming
because they don't make any
money farming-the Govern
ment has to buy food from
them to give them a guaran-
teed income. If this is so,
then either the retail stores
or the wholesalers must have
a mighty close-knit organ
ization (monoply?) to be able
to mark the price Of food up
so high that a large percent
age of the people in the
United States are having to
scratch to get enough to eat
properly. And from every
thing I've read, it's the
wholesaler who is getting fat
at the expense of the con-
sumner. and it appears to me
that this would be a fertile
field for some of our illus
trious Congressman to in
vestigate.
We need a little common
sense in this fiasco. It has
reached a point where, in all
fairness to the American
people who support it, the
Government should place a
retroactive price ceiling on
whic hever food outlet is
grabbing the largest percent
age of the Nations income
or stop creating false food
shortages that keep prices
going higher and higher.
I wish every family in this
country would start raising
victory gardens again, and
can and freeze enough food
to last the whole year. A
beef, a pig and chickens
raised by a farmer probably
would make the farmer and
the consumer happier.
W Y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

ficult to describe a ball given
by the Postmaster General.
He said: What can be said
in detail of so general and so
magnificent an array of fair
women and brave men? 1t
may well be said that Wash
ington, in her bright array,
contributed her beauty and
her chivalry. and the pen of
the writer needs to have been
dipped in the orient hues Of
light and his heart bathed
in the crimson of sunset to
portray the light and glory Of
this happy scene. -"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
Puzzled Professor

Recently. I heard that
m ost Of the flrst-rate SCI
entists who created the
Explorer, upon which a great
part of our world prestige
and power now rests, are
paid ABOUT $4,000 per year.
Recently, I also heard that
first-rate advertising men,
who think of ways to sell
their sponsors bubble gum,
ETC., get $25,000 per year.
Can you tell me why this
is?
John ON. BOckris,
Professor of Chemistry, Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

friend of mine had been
trying to mobilize the good
ness in his great parish to
shoulder arms and march
against entrenched vileness
within sight of the lovely
church where crowds came
each Sunday to hear him
preach. One day, after hear
ing the militant hymns lifted
Justify by the great audience,
later in the quietness of his
study, surrendering momen-
tarily to an attack of minis
terial cynicism, he wrote: Il
confess to a desire to laugh
when I hear a churchill Of
Christians sing Stand Up,
Stand Up for Jesus. and then
stick so tight in their seats
that you couldn't get them
up with a derrick. l confess
to a smile when a row of
comfortable, conservative,
self-contained gentlemen and
ladies stand up and sing
rapturously, Onward Chris
tan soldiers, marching as to
war; when I know they are
going home to loll in their
luxurious living rooms while
hell yawns at their very
DOORS" You see that disil-
lusioned prophet under the
juniper tree was fronting the
question what good are the
good?"
Let us admit 1t: The chief
hindrance to the coming Of
the radiant kingdom for
which we pray is not the
violently bad. but the pas
sively good. The Kingdoms
chief foes are not the vi
ciously bad, but those who
are not aggressively good.
The temptation of the pro-
digiously pious is to be good
for nothing, to belong to
what a poet has called "the
vacillating inconsistent
good" The challenge to 1.-THE
Faith" of the West in this
fear-haunted day is not so
much from blatant, material
iStic atheism as it is from q
tame, tepid, timid Christian
ity-good enough to be de-
cent but not enough to be
dynamic-good enough to
recoil from the grosser forms
Of sin but not enough to
make spiritual crusaders.
Each day at our altar of
devotion a prayer to the God
of all good should be lifted,
God make me good" But
always to that petition must
be linked another: God
make me good for something.
Save me from sealed lips
when silence is not golden,
but craven. Keep me from a
do-nothing neutrality and
from a tolerant patience that
condones evil and chloro-
forms convictions" Marquee
rite Wilkinson is frankly
troubled by the haunting
question, What good is my
goodness?" in her searching
lines entitled Guilty:
/ neuer cut my neighbours
throat;
Ny neighbours gold ! neUer
stole;
/ neuer spoiled his house and
land;
But God hare mercy on my
soul!
For / am haunted night and
day
By all the deeds / hdUe not
done,
o uninterrupted loneliness,
o costly UdIor neDer tDon!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
FROM THE STARS FILES

one dollars worth Of good
stamps and postcards and
received in exchange only
a variegated assortment Of
near-money, ranging all the
way from lead slugs to bogus
pennies and dimes. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
rs Years Ago

The Nation was entering a
new era-the era of the New
Deals years ago with the
Inauguration of President
Roosevelt on March 4. 1888.
Reporting his speech that
day, The Star said: "The
President called for the ut
most candor and the greatest
courage in dealing with the
problems which confront the
American people. He de-
clared his firm belief that
the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself-nameless, un-
reasoning, unjustif1ed ter
ror, which paralyzes needed
effort to convert retreat into
advance >" More than
100000 thronged to the Capt.
tol to hear the inaugural adj
dress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

A public transportation
company that was destined
to last nearly Is years was
being formed a quarter of a
century ago. On February
8. 1888, The Star said: 1.-THE
Joint committee of the
Boards Of Directors Of the
Capital Traction and Wash
ington Railway Electric COM
panies held its first meeting
today to discuss details Of the
corporate merger to be &C
complished under authority
Of the merger act signed by
the President January 10 4.
Within six months, the COM
panies, in order to merge,
must come TO an agreement
as to the relative value of
their physical assets, and the
amount and kind Of securi-
ties to be issued initially by
the Capital Transit Company.
as the merged railway will
be called. !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry iDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
sdtton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
100 Years Ago

The Star Of a century ago
had some acid comment to
offer on speeches made by the
Representatives in the House.
A story, on March 2, 1858,
said: "An observing friend
has called our attention to
the marked difference in the
popular influence at this time
Of the speeches in the House
and Senate - his opinion
being that the country looks
to the Senate with absorbing
interest. We agree with him
and attribute it to the fact
that the Senate legitimately
debates the great questions
that agitate the country,
while the House contents it
self with the delivery of abb
stract essays (under the
name of speeches) upon
questions not even nomi-
nally being considered by
them. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

The White House was
more a center for Washing
ton society 100 years ago
than 1t is today. One regu-
lar event there was a weekly
opening Of the greenhouse.
The Star, on March 8, 1858.
reported, ION Saturday
afternoon from / O'Clock to
8 o'clock, the greenhouse at
tached to the Executive
Mansion is open to the pub
lie, a privilege which is made
much Of. The visitors having
paid their respects to Miss
Lane, at her afternoon re-
ception, file to the west and
to the greenhouse as inevi-
tably as on Levee' night
(Tuesdays) they head east
erly. Then imagine, dear
reader, the long lanes Of
fiower-spangled verdure in
this magnificent conserva-
tory, chinked in to the fullest
with the beauty of the me-
tropolis, the Nation, the
world, :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02
so Years Ago

Half a century ago. Rock
Creek Park was about to get
another 100 acres. extending
it to the Observatory grounds.
On March 6, 1908. The Star
reported: THE Gallinger bill
providing for an addition to
Rock Greek Park. comprising
about 100 acres and reaching
to the National Observatory
grounds, was favorably re-
ported from the Senate Com
mittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds by Senator
Warren of6Wyoming. 1t was
adopted without amendment.
Accompanying the bill was a
report urging its early pas
sage and stating that the
fault Of municipalities with
reference to public parks is
usually that they do not pur-
chase land for parks soon
enough, but wait until values
are greatly increased by
growth of the cities. -"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

1t Is short-sighted not to make the most
of this offer-which may not always be
extended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

Stamp vending machines
didn't talk back so years ago,
and they were gullible. too.
On March 4. 1908, The Star
reported: -Four Of the new
stamp vending machines
standing in front Of the Post
ONCE Department, which the
Government is trying at the
inventors expense we're con-
victed this morning of TAX
ing counterfeit money. The
machines yielded more than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-02

A writer In The Star on
March 2, 1853, found 1t DIFF
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