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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-08

This is the week when
members Of the House and
Senate are supposed to be in
their respective home COM
munities trying to find out
what people think about the
recession.
Presumably governmental
policy will be shaped when
the opinions Of the people
are analysed. It's a strange
way to run the economy-to
try to gauge public policy on
so complex a subject by
counting noses. And 1t would
not be surprising next week
to hear the members Of Con-
gress saying precisely what
they said before. they went
away from here.
To the Democrats. there's
q recession" which will help
them win the autumn cleo
ton. To the Republicans.
there's a reimbursement"
which will be well under con-
troll by next November.
To the unemployed. it's a
bewildering puzzle-and there
are no answers till job OPP
portunities become real.
To many businessmen, it's
a disappointing thing to see
the decline in volume Of sales
as they wonder when NOR
NAL conditions" are coming
back.
There's no key to the
puzzle by trying to figure out
how the curve Of unemploy-
ment statistics is running.
Nor can the average man say
much about the recession"
unless he is unemployed. For
the unemployed represent a
small per cent Of the total
working population.
The truth is that-as the
Chase Manhattan Bank, in
its recent survey, said-there
is a tendency to get an exag-
gerated impression from the
statistics telling Of the 10 per
cent decline in industrial pro-
duction. Yet national output
has fallen by less than 3 per
cent and overall employ
ment is less than 2 per cent
below a year ago. and per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-08
Result Called Sign That Conodions
Want to Be Tied Less CIoseIy to Us

Only q very few Of the
newspapers I read seem to me
to have paid adequate atten-
ton to the Progressive-Con-
sentative landslide in Canada.
The tendency has been to
play down the probable eff
fects on the United States.
This follows the general ten
dency to minimize discon-
certing news.
1t would go too far to say
that the elections that have
swept the Liberals from their
38-year-long stronghold in
Quebec: eradicated the splin-
ter parties-the Social Cred
itors and Cooperative Com
monwealthers; given the Pro-
gressive-C Conservatives an 80
per cent majority in Parlia-
ment; and made John F.
Diefenbaker the undisputed
master Of the nation for the
next five years. reflected anti
Americanism. Canada can
not afford a showdown with
its powerful southern neigh
Dor and no influential Cana
dian, including Mr.. Diefen-
baker. wants one.
But 1t does reflect a revolt
among Canadian business
men who heavily financed
the Diefenbaker campaign
and Canadian farmers and
other primary producers
against being tied as closely
as they have been to United
States apron strings. AS such
1t registers undertow currents
observable throughout the
Western bloc. which require
new adjustments.
The phrase I'VE are tired
Of being third-class Ameri-
cans" has often been uttered
by Mr.. Diefenbaker's sup.
porters.
1t was essentially a VIC
tory for Canadian national
ism. as contrasted with
Pan-Americanism and good
neighborism, in which rela-
tion Canadians Of all classes
think they have been getting
the shorter end. Mr.. Diefen-
baker, q man Of exceptional
vigor and eloquence. has
Systematically projected the
vision Of a great Canada"
IN which Canadian raw ma
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Nations Economy Held Too Complex
To Gauge Policy by Surveying Voters

sonal income is only / per
cent below the peak reached
last August"
Labor Secretary Mitchell
draws a distinction between
the small increase in the I'M
employed and the simultane-
Gus increase in the number
absorbed from those new
workers who have Just Joined
the labor force of the Nation.
What they are all trying to
say here in the administra-
ton is that there is nothing
to get panicky about and that
Congress. when 1t comes back,
had better not try to put
through a lot of unnecessary
legislation involving huge
sums and promote 1t as "anti-
recession" measures. Lots of
money could be wasted that
way without improving the
economy as a whole.
What makes the present
situation difficult is the fact
that the industries which are
hard hit are concentrated in
a few areas. but the impact
Of their shutdowns does pen
citrate other areas here and
there throughout the coun-
try. So it is possible for some
Congressman to come back
here and say that they didn't
find recession" conditions In
their districts.
There has been a great deal
Of talk about a tax reduction
as a means of stimulating
purchases. The theory is that
the money saved on taxes
will instantly be spent. But
now the belief is growing
that, even II taxes are cut,
the new funds will not be
spent but will largely be put
into savings until fear van
ishes. It's q psychological
situation the Government
faces as it tries hard to reas-
sure the people that the re-
adjustment is a natural de-
velopment and that correc-
tive movements are periodi-
cally inevitable. The Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, Robert
B. Anderson, who has kept
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pro. Mard1ch learned and reported here last
week Aug. 13 issue, English Section), to
bury whatever differences kept them apart
in the past - as in the case of our two
Lodges in Port Arthur, Ont - and CO.
Which is as it should be.
Bro. Mandich isn't the only CFU Off
cial who is running across this desire
demand = for organizational peace.
We have come to learn as much during
this Summer of 1858 which has seen us
happily covering the busiest speaking and
master-of ceremonies circuit since our ar
rival on the English Sections editorial scene
back in the year of 1948.
We sensed this new spirit as we ad-
dressed our members in Toronto, Ont;
Cokeburg, Pa; Greater Pittsburgh (as
Master of Ceremonies during Testimonial
Banquet honoring Croatian Section Editor
of The Zajednicar bro. Philip Vukelich)
Monessen, Pa; Detroit, Mich, Central Ed
ucational Committee Annual Outing);
again Greater Pittsburgh, this time as NC
MIA United Lodges 18th Annual CF'U Day
Program; Mahoning Valley youngstown,
Campbell and Struthers), Ohio, during that
areas United Lodges 10th Annual CFU
Day; and Uniontown Pa, which hosted the
United 4-County (Fayette, Greene, Wash
ington and Westmoreand) Lodges 4th An
nual CFU Day of Aug. II.
Eight opportunities - in Canada Penn
sylvania, Ohio, and Michigan - to learn at
first hand that our members everywhere
want nothing more than peace in their
ranks and in their minds.
And they want it now.
Now = today - when all of us stand
but hop, skip and jump from the con-
vening at Detroit in September of 1859 of
the Society's 10th Natl Quadrennial Con-
vention and remember pre-Convention mud
singing of the past.
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Canada Through North Dakota % Wyoming
Covering The Natl CFUBeat
BY v. l. Mandich
Supreme President

IN OUR TRAVELLING by
automobile from Pit S.
burgh to Canada, and through
a part Of Canada and north
western states of the Union,
possibly the most interesting
part of the journey was that
from Port Arthur, Canada, to
Rock Springs, Wyoming.
1t took three days travel
ing, and in those three days
we saw so many expansive,
rich sections Of Canada and
the United States, that I think
| it will not be amiss if I make
note Of some of the points
of interest.
On the way from Duluth
to Port Arthur we stopped
at the mouth of the Cas-
cade River, which flows in
to Lake Superior near the
city of Grand Marais.
This river flows through
some of the most inaccessible
sections of northeastern Min
nesota. The last twenty miles
of it's journey is over rocky
gorges and waterfalls so swift
and precipitous that it brings
vari-colored rocks, ground
smooth, to the very lake it.
self. Tourists stopping at the
mouth of the river frequently
find pieces Of precious ore or
odd-shaped stones, VIII c h
they take home as souvenirs.
Rock Garden Complete
Our house in Pittsburgh is
built on an incline.
I My wife, as most of our
women, takes delight in her
flower garden, and the slope
of our lot is ideal for a rock
garden. Whenever we are
away from home by automo-
bile, we generally bring back
with us stone or rock.
We have thus already
collected granite from the
Adirondacks in New York,
lovely slabs from the Pro-
vince of Quebec in Canada,
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1858


WYE ARE PLEASED to note that the So
w ciety's Western Penna United Lodges
are strictly non partisan politically.
On July II, 1858, they invited Pitts
burgh's Democratic Mayor David L. Law
renee to be the principal speaker on the
occasion of their 18th Annual CFU Day at
the Croatian Center Millvale.
He accepted and up went the obvious
cry of Democratic Party Rallyn'
Be that as it may, the United Lodges
principal speaker on Sunday, Aug. "a, 1858,
at their 4th Annual Croatian Center Day
will be United States Congressman Robert
J. Corbett, Pittsburgh, Rep, 29th District,
Pennsylvania.
Republican Party Rally?
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Social Security
Datum Available
Pitt Office Has
Booklets On Hand

PITTSBURGH - Do YOU
know what Social Security
protection you and your fam
lily have under the Federal
Old-Age and Survivors Insur-
ance System?
Oral A. Ernst, District
Manager of the East Liberty
pittsburgh Social Security
office, asks this all-important
question.
As a public service, the
Social Security office will
furnish free of charge
booklets which help explain
your rights under the lar
gest insurance system in
the world.
These booklets will answer
Social Security questions such
as: How much will I get; who
gets it; how long do I have
to work; can I receive disa-
bility benefits?
/ The answers to these ques-
tions should be familiar to ev-
cry Croatian Fraternal Union
member who has a stake in
Social Security.
If you are interested in
knowing more about the
protection Social Security
gives to you and your fam
lily, fill in the coupon else
where on this page and
mail it to the address
shown.
The booklets you check will
be sent free of charge.
The East Liberty Social Sc
curity office, located in the
Highland Building, will be
glad to answer any questions;
the office is open from 9 am.
to 5 pm, Monday through
Friday. Telephone - Emer-
son 10000.
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additional $6 billion, 81 mil
lion dollars went to hundreds
of other firms throughout
the country during the three
year period ending June 1857.
For the first eight months
of the fiscal year 1858 this
type of purchase provided
$941 million more in con-
tracts to domestic business.
More than 81 billion dollars
of foreign aid funds have gone
to buy produce from Amer
lean farms in the last nine
years.
Current Technical Service
contracts with US. universi-
ties, land grant colleges, en-
gineering firms and other
professional services, as of
May 81, 1858, total more than
1929 million.
Peace And Prosperity
1t may seem like a paradox
but there is no doubt now
that the program that many
Congressman and o. tn e r s
backed because they believed
it essential to meet Americas
world responsibilities a 8 o
turns out to be of direct ben
eft to the people at home,
particularly in a time of re-
cession.
Even in a time of economic
uncertainty with these bene-
fits in mind, most Congress
men put the need for military
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-08-20
No. Escanaba 335 Now
English Speaking Unit

N. ESCANABA, Mich. -
On June Is, 1858 Croatian
Fraternal Union Lodge 1886
was converted from a Croa-
tian to an English Speaking
Lodge and new officers were
elected.
So that all our CFU men,
bers may bring their Lodge
Directory up to date, we take
this opportunity of listing the
names and addresses of our
new lodge officials.
President: Donald Marie.
1914 No. 18th St., Escanaba.
Vice-President: Steve Sa-
Der, 1412 No. 10Th. St., Es-
canada.
Secretary: Mary Jean
Crnich (Miss), 20 High
land Ave., Wells, Mich.
| Recorder: Leona Erickson
(Mrs), 14O7 No. 10th St., Es-
canada.
Treasurer: Mary Sivola
(Mrs). Route No. /, Escana-
ba.
Pres. Sick Committee: John
Kobasic, R.R. 1, Escanaba.
!. Pres. Board Of Trustees:
Steve Saber, 1412 No. 18th
St., Escanaba.
Manager, Nest 270: Mary
Marvic (Mrs.), 1914 No. 18th
st., Escanaba.
Physicians: DR.. Loui,
Groos, 1015 So. LIST Ave., Els.
canaba, and DR.. James Deb.
lin, 8 South 18th, Gladstone
mich.
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Total All Commodities ::$ll,s3s, 10000

security and the quest for a
just peace ahead of domestic
benefits as reasons for back
ing foreign aid.
But, as one OF them put
it: It's awfully nice to know
that the two goals most of
us seek "a peaceful world
and a prosperous America
- 60 hand-in-hand as far
as the Mutual Security
Program is concerned.
How is that possible, real
ly? How can a program that
is concerned with supplying
military strength to our al
lies and economic help to our
friends abroad turn out to be
of direct benefit to American
taxpayers?
The answer is easy, if you
keep one big fact in mind!
Mutual Security $$$
Between 76 and 80 per cent
Of the foreign aid money Con-
gress votes each year never
leaves the United States.
It is spent right here in this
country. The Defense Depart
ment estimates 81 percent of
it's MSP funds for the coming
year will be spent with US.
business.
Official figures show the U.
S. spent about $34.7 billion
on the Mutual Security Pro-
gram from 1948 through
(Facts Behind : p. 10)
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Fourth Estate

NEWSPAPER editors, reporters and al
y lied others may be dime dozen in the
minds of many, but we'll go along with Bob
Considines respect for the profession.
Said this nationally known, widely read
Hearst newspapers columnist: - I'm my
mind, there's no higher estate than that of
a reporter Not even the clergy or the med
ical profession - and certainly not the
legal"
Which is precisely our outlook on our
duties as the English Editor of The Za-
iednicar during the past decade.
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Our Global Program The Facts Betind 1t
CAM t Give Away American SIS

WASHINGTON - Did you
ever suspect you were on the
receiving end of the U. S.
Foreign Aid Program?
Well, you are!
For more than a decade, an
articulate minority has criti-
cized the foreign aid program
as a "give away of American
dollars.
But recent analyses of
what really becomes of those
"give-away" dollars have re-
vealed some striking and sur
prising facts. Here are the
outstanding figures on how
"foreign aid" spending af-
fects you:
Some 715,000 jobs in 1857
were directly attributable to
foreign aid expenditures.
5,581 u. S. firms in 8O8
cities in AZ states shared
over two billion dollars In
non-military contracts from
Mutual Security funds In
the three and q half year
period ending June 1857.
Military procurement con-
tracts from Mutual Security
funds in the amount Of an
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yer gained an advantage from war. Except
that we added some territory in the Indian
wars, most of the additions to our terri
tory were by purchase and consent rather
than by war. Texas came into the Union
neither by purchase nor by war, but by ac-
cession of the Lone Star Republic. The prin-
cipal market for the produce of our farms
and factories remains the United States,
both exports and imports being a small
phase Of our economy.
- George e. Sokolsky
ALIMONY IS paying for subscription
to magazine that isn't being published any
more. - Howard Duff
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limestone from the excava-
tiOns of the st. Lawrence
River Canal, and now have
added several souvenirs of
our trip to Canada and
mort hives stern United
States.
When we visited Schuma-
cher, Ontario, Canada, for the
first time some ten years ago,
our people there took us on
a tour Of a gold mine about
/ 200 feet into the bowels of
the earth, where we were per-
mitted to take with us a small
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piece of gold ore.
It is understood that we did
not place this rock in our
rock garden, but have it dis
played within our home as a
reminder of our gold miners
in the northernmost part of
Canada.
Gigantic Paper Mills
l have stated earlier that
I am always interested to
learn the manner in which our
people live and earn their live
Port Arthur p. 1O)
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breaking through barriers
of language, culture, GUS
toms, ETC., in order to ar
rive at basic areas of un-
derstanding.
We are glad to oblige
for many reasons, not the
least of which revolves
around the fact that the
Croatian Fraternal Union
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Road To Peace

PRESIDENT Eisenhower's People-To-
T People Program, designed to bring peo-
pie closer to people on a non-government
level. is back on the editorial desk of every
newspaper in the United States, including
The Zajednicar.
This time with an urgent plea from the
heads of the project for an all-out drive to
acouaint the man-in-the-street with the
absolute necessity of getting to know his
neighbor on the international level and
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only password in their
ranks, be that here in
america or across the
border in Canada.
Thev are ready, as
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Easy Does It

cUPREME PRESIDENT bro. V. l. Man.
- dichs current coverage on this page of
his recent visits with the Society's mem
bers in Canada and Western States of the
Union points up one significant fact.
1t is simply this: Our members every
where are determined to make peace the
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&:E':,M:sM1
HOrsimg I
Around
, With The Editor u.

Q Said we in "HOrsing
Around" of 8-13-5S: The st.
Lawrence River, which is
1915 miles in length and
flows into the Gulf of Mexico,
has it's source in the State of
Minnesota.
Argues Peter Sprajcar,
Clarion, Pa, Lodge .248
member and Notary Public:
"When did you change the
course of the st. Lawrence
River? My impression is 100
miles - Ontario to the sea
eastern Canada)."
So, we goofed; but only on
the flow end. Correction: Gulf
of st. Lawrence. The rest
stands as is.
Proof: Natl Geographic
Society, which says that "the
source of the St. Lawrence
River is in the State of Min
nesota. The St. Lawrence is
viewed as a part of the
Great Lakes Waterway and
it's source is considered the
head of the St. Louis River
which feeds into Lake Super
ior. The st. Louis River rises
in Minnesota"
Two runs, two hits, one
error!
Lapidarys Say So
. The pearl, often a gem
'of great value, is not a pre-
cious stone.
The term precious stones
actually applies only to dia-
monds, rubies, sapphires and
emeralds. All others are
|semi-precious.
NOT Much 10 1t
. Closeup of Jordan, just
one of the worlds many head
aches of the moment:
Two areas comprise the
country - Western Jordan,
fertile but eroded; and East
ern Jordan (Amirate), part
fertile, part arid and steppe.
Jordan is largely desert.
Worth going to war over?
Feel Indispensable?
. Anytime you feel indis-
pensable just take a stroll
through your local cemetery
and read some of the head
stones. Some of the boys you
probably knew well were pref
ty hot stuff, too.
4
Bully For Florida
. Agriculture is Florida's
biggest steady pursuit, but
hotel statistics point to it's
chief fame - resort and tour
ist business.
Oranges and grapefruit top
F1orida's crop list; then come
tomatoes, tobacco, beans, Gel
! cry, potatoes and peanuts.
Truck farming, commercial
fishing and cattle are the
States leading industries.
X
It's Here To Stay
. Andorra, the 191-mile au-
tonomous and semi-indepen-
dent state on the Franco-Spa-
nish border, has been under
the joint suzerainty of the
French State and the Spanish
Bishops of Urgel since 1878.
X
Law And Kegling
. About a century ago tho
bowling game of nine-pins was
flourishing in the United
States, but it became so cor
rupted by gambling ON match
es that it was barred by law
in New York and Connecticut.
Since the law specifically
barred "nine-pins," it was
eventually evaded by adding
a pin, thus making it a new
i and legal - game, now
ten pins.
4
Live And Learn
. The Basilica of The Sa-
vior (known as St. John La
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Also for an even better reason: - We
are heart and soul for anything which will
take the day-by-day fate Of this world out
of the hands of the conniving political few
and give the people a chance to outlaw the
one thing none of them want any part of
- another global war.
The People To- People Program began
back in September of 1856 when President
Eisenhower called a meeting at the White
House of Americas foremost leaders in
many fields of activities to set in motion
plans for drives to bring people closer to
people the world over
The result of that conference was the
organization of Al separate committees
representing among others - such
great forces in American life as religion, ma
tionality groups, business, labor, the fine
arts, education, communication, etc., which
are now carrying out through groups or in
dividuals multitude of projects aimed at
bettering inter-country understanding and
arriving at peaceful solutions of common
international problems.
AAN'oAA
hover demanded back in 1856 - on non
governmental level. In other words, no one
can argue that this is another "Operation
Politics, U.S.A." in design or, worse yet, in
disguise.
Hence the. Croatian Fraternal Unions
wholehearted moral and material endorse
ment of the Presidents People-To-People
Program and our editorial faith in it.
X X X
What great good can be accomplished
along the lines now part Of President
Esenhowers Program can best be demon
strated by the historic visit in 1856 of 130
American and Canadian CFU members to
Yugoslavia.
During that group tour - which is to be
many parts Of Yugoslavia learned that we
Americans and Canadians, their counter
parts in another part of the world, are not
imperialists, war-mongers, aggressors, cap
italists, sadists, and SO on, but down-to-
earth men and women anxious to live and
let live in friendship
Significantly, that visit in 1856 came to
pass U6lOIt NIL ElSCIL1OWOl Su1AA1l1OA1Cu CAAS
White House meeting which gave birth to
his People-To-People Program.
So what? Just this!
If 13O Americans and Canadians of Yu-
goslav descent could accomplish what they
did in 1856 - and will further embellish in
1860 - why can't it be done by millions Of
others in this Nation with ties in other parts
of the world?
Mr. Eisenhower believes that it can and
must be done around the clock.
So do we following our experience as
the head of one of the two CF'U groups
which visited Yugoslavia two years ago.
EOrrfh Ecfofo
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In Passing

\V/HAT THE Uni
" ted States has
consistently sought
in it's foreign policy
is a road to peace.
This country has ne
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Famous Last Words
. He has achieved success
who has lived well, laughed
often, loved much.
- Bessie AndersOn
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incoming Around

MOOnlnS ArOunQ
. Although the moon re-
wolves around the earth in ap-
proximately 271s days, it is,
on the average, a matter of
1912 days go days, IL hr.,
A min, 2.78 sec.) from one
new moon to the other:
Reason: The earth is NOV
ing around the sun while the
moon is moving around the
earth to make the "new
moon" dependent upon the
relative positions of the three
bodies.
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Leading commodities purchased in US. Apf ). lslS.
June 30. 1857 with on.MiIitafy Assistance Funds.