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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-19

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
'FCCWeighsBid
ToDefer PdyTv

The Federal Communications
Commission probaly will con-
slider within the next two weeks
a congressional request to CAN
of a broad test Of pay tele-
vision, Chairman John C. Doer-
fer said today.
The House Commerce Com
mittee made the request last
week, urging the FEC to hold
of action on pay TV until Con-
gresS passes legislation approx
ing the idea.
Chances for such congression-
al action are considered dim.
Mail protesting pay TV has
flooded Capitol Hill since re-
cent hearings on the subject by
the Commerce Committee.
The FEC had planned to per-
NIT commercial demonstrations
of pay TV. and has been re-
ceiving applications for action
next month.
Mr.. Doerfer declined to spec
ulate on whether the FEC
would heed the congressional
request. 1t is considered I'm.
likely that the FEC would an
tagonize the Commerce Com.
mittee during the current in
veStigation Of misconduct
charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14

which is sponsoring the Feb
ruary % dinner have been al
lotted a half hour's free time
on television and the same
amount Of time is being given
the Republicans to answer the
Democrats.
Republican leaders had in
tended to air their reply to Mr.
Truman's speech within a day
or two after the Jefferson-Jack-
son Day dinner here. However,
Mr.. Truman has agreed to be q
principal speaker at a non-par-
tisan, national conference on
THE Foreign Aspects Of United
States National Security" to be
held at the Statler Hotel Feb
ruary as. The propriety OF
launching an attack on Mr..
Truman Immediately before he
takes part in this bipartisan
conference on national secur-
ity, set up by President Eisen-
hover. appeared to eliminate
speakers so close to the Presi-
dent as the Vice President or
Mr.: Adams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
AIcorn States N Dinner
For 6. O. P. Lawmakers

Republican members of the
House and Senate will be guests
Of Republican National Chair
man Meade Alcorn at a dinner
March 4 in the Willard Hotel.
The letters of invitation state
that a half-hour of the dinner
period will be given over to- a
national television broadcast
over the Columbia Broadcast
ing System. It is understood
this time will be used to answer
former President Truman's ex-
pected blast at the Eisenhower
administration during the JET
ferSon-Jackson Day Democratic
fund raising dinner here Feb
ruary %.
Final decision regarding the
Republican speaker to answer
Mr.. Truman has not been made,
but 1t is likely to be either Vice
President Nixon or Sherman
Adams. assistant to the Presi-
dent, with Mr.. Adams as the
probable choice.
Mr.. Truman and the Demo-
cratic National Committee,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
HUMPHREY CALLS BUSINESS
LOUSY BUT NOT HAIR-CURLING
By q star stan writer

TOWNSVILLE, Ca, Feb 14.-Former Secretary of
the Treasury George NJ Humphrey his steel business
is lousy" now but that this isn't the curl your hair"
depression he warned ago could be brought on by
continued high Federal spending.
Mr. Humphrey, now board chairman of the National
Steel Corp talked with reporters he waited for Fresi
dent Eisenhowers plane to land yesterday afternoon
Mr.. Humphrey found some ground for optimism in
the economic situation in the fact that his steel business
has stopped getting worse
He said it had been going down for some time but
that orders eveled of about five weeks ago and have
stayed steady since then This indicated hope that the
bottom OF the current recession may have been reached
Asked If this recession is the hair-curng depression
he warned against year ago. Mr. Humphrey laughed and
said it wasn't near that He explained that he had said
such depression would if huge Federal budgets
continued for several and that this only few
months ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
House Group Is Found Consistent
In Doing Things Opposite to Normal

The House Subcommittee
on Legislative Oversight Is
maintaining its unique repu-
tation for doing everything
exactly opposite from &C
cepted methods Of congress
sional investigation.
AS its first move under its
new chairman, Representa-
tive Oren Harris of Arkansas,
the subcommittee undertook
to try for INSTRUMENTATION the
counsel it had already fired,
DR.. Bernard Schwartz. 1t
ended up by accusing another
man, Richard Mack, an
Eisenhower appointee to the
Federal Communications
Commission.
All this happened in the
course OF what Subcommit-
tee members loftily describe
as an effort to protect the
integrity of its files. These
are by now the most Travelled
documents in recent history,
bearing the fingerprints not
only of a large staff and
committee but Of reporters to
whom they have been leaked,
United States Senators and
DR.. Schwartz's wife.
While distracted clerks
sought for the relevant
papers, DR.. Schwartz sud.
denly flowed into the excit-
ing narrative of now Com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
POTOMAC FEYER
FLETCHER KNEBEL.


Democrats push for taxcu guy out Of job says
It's only fair the Government YOU for growing
crops certainly should less out II what you're not
making. rs
Ike vacations in Georgia Ikes slogan for the Nations
morale Shoulders back! Chin up! Head soulful"
One OF the Explorer satellites radios goes on the air.
Until the House investigation Of Federal Communications
Commission cools down?
Texas oil men aren't worried by the Republican Partys
REFUSAL 10 accept 100000 OF their They plan give
it to some equally wen-known charity.
New Soviet Ambassador Menshikov stages fast buddy-
buddy campaign in Washington KhruShchevs latest nruc-
tons: BE bipartisan Smile like e-and shake hands like
Kefauver' ~ '59s
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New Jerseys Senator Case denies Republicans lost
ground because OF Little Rock Well maybe the Republicans
didn't lose any ground in Dixebu they lost
the folks who lease it.
Airman Don Farrell spends week in Texas .space
cabin The idea to see is psychologcally able
travel to the moon with nobody to talk to but Lyndon
johnson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
CONSTANTINE BROWN ig
New Russian Ambassador

macy. The Arabs are condi-
toned in this manner to hate
the United States and regard
us as the cause of all the
evils in the world. We could
reply if we we're so minded
that according to positive in
formation Soviet Moslem ON
GERS and technicians have
been found in the ranks of
the Algerian nationalist fight
ers; that much of the arms
taken by the French from
the guerrillas was manufac.
tured in Czechoslovakia and
the USSR: and finally that
the YugoSlav ship halted
some two weeks ago by
French patrol vessels on
Casablanca contained Amer.
lean military equipment sup.
piled by the American Gov
eminent to Marshal Tito for
self defense" under the
military aid program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
DAVID LAWRENCE

Is the millennium in politics
about to be reached? Are
the appreciation" dinners at
500 a plate really to be
tabooed? For what else. it
might be asked, is meant by
the hullabaloo over the din
ner to which friends Of the
once-vetoed natural gas bill
were invited recently in Texas
to honor House Republican
Leader Joe Martin?
The Republican National
Committeeman from Texas,
H. j. Porter, was certainly
lambasted for writing a letter
urging friends to come to
the appreciation" dinner. He
stressed the yeoman efforts
Of the Republicans in help
ing to pass the gas bill in
previous sessions. But Mr..
Porter made only two mis-
takes-he should have invited
certain prominent Democrats
to the dinner who had also
done yeoman service for the
gas bill. and he should have
never put his thoughts in
writing.
For If appreciation" din
ners at 500 a plate are to
be forsaken, q wonderful
method Of money-raising win
be lost to the politicians Of
both parties.
Who puts up 500 just to
go to a political dinner? Sure
1y the average voter doesn't
have that kind of money to
spare. If the political COM
mittees of both parties, State
and local, were compelled to
publish a list Of all persons
and organizations and COM
panies that bought 500
tickets for these dinners -
and all this comes under the
head Of entertainment" as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14

missioner Mack received $2,-
$50 from an attorney repre-
senting the successful appli-
cant for q Miami television
channel. The Az decision Of
the FEC reversed a recon-
mendation by its own hear
'lg examiner.
Running true to form, the
subcommittee began to cross
examine Counsel Schwartz
about his proof. DIR. Schwartz
produced a check in evidence,
described conversations with
Mr.. Mack, and in a final
thrust offered a miniphone
recording of a staff interview
with Mr.. Mack which con-
tanned admissions damaging
to the commissioner.
The skeptics were not just
subdued, they began to de-
fend themselves. Forgetting
their theme song Of the
rights of the accused with
which they have long be-
labored DR.. Schwartz, they
protested plaintively that
nobody had ever told them
about the miniphone re-
cording. They also appeared
to attach extreme impor-
lance to the question of who
owned the miniphone, going
into a whats my line" in
terrogatory with counsel of
great length. They never
found out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14

SueZ, Tun1Sta, Algeria,
Egypt-Syria, Israel, Jordan
all are part Of a single pic
ture. and no crisis or event
is isolated. Everything moves
with practicable logic - in
volving, for the United
States. painful decisions, but
requiring decisions.
Woodrow wilson pro-
nounced the death sentence
on colonialism in stating as
an aim of World War I:
self : determination Of all
nationalities." OF course, the
allies then we're thinking of
self determination" within
the empires of their enemies,
the German, Austro- Hungar-
ian, Ottoman-not the Brit
ish. French, Italian, Russian,
or the Japanese.
The principle of "self-de-
termination" was applied to
the Baltic states within the
Russian empire when the
revolution broke out and
Russia deserted to a separate
peace. The Austro- Hungarian
empire, dissected into numer-
Gus small states lying be-
tween Russia and Germany,
ceased to be a balancing
force m Europe, and at the
end Of World War II the
states were absorbed into the
Russian orbit while retaining
their titular independence"
Germany's Africa n COLI
onies were lost in the First
World War; Italy's in Africa
and Japan's in Asia in the
Second.
But destroying the colonial
empires of ones en- mies
mines the foundat ions Of
ones own.
If the Arabs Of the Turkish
empire were brought to re-
volt against 1t on the promise
of "self-determination," was
1t not logical. indeed inevi-
table. that they would revolt
against its successors, Britain
and France?
If Arab Libya. because it
had been Italian. could be-
come an independent state,
was It not inevitable that all
the rest Of Arab North Africa
and the Middle East would
seek the same status2 And
that, at the opportune mo-
ment, they would seek it
unitedly?
For the Arab world has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
On Raising Political Funds

rendered q particular cause
or area. The bounty in the
Roosevelt and Truman eras
was rather big.
Federal oficeholders, of
course, are still solicited for
funds to help the party in
power. This has always
been taken for granted in
politics.
But If a millennium is to-
come in the political arena,
there will have to be some
other method of financing
campaigns. 1t was sdggested
by this writer 20 years ago
that all campaign contribu-
tons be limited 10 very small
sums. But. unfortunately. the
cost Of soliciting from a large
number of persons by mail or
in person Is prohihitive, and
nobody has come forward
with an effective plan to lick
that problem.
AS for tokens of "apprecia-
tion." it may be asked where
the line is to be drawn in the
public service. Should a Con-
gresham or Senator take a
fee, together with expenses,
for speaking before q labor
union convention or an en-
ployer association? Should
members of Congress let lob
byists pick up the check for
lunch or dinner? Where does
the conflict Of interest"
begin or end?
Maybe honest people, con-
scientious legislators and off,
Gals, will not need to worry
about such things. But they
will have to worry a lot aoout
those admirers who get up
dinners and make a fuss about.
services rendered or to be
rendered. Appreciation" din
ners will doubtless continue,
but letters of solicitation
hereafter will certainly have
to be more tactfully phrased.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
Post-l91S Principle Found Spreading
And Being Used to Hit Back at Us

learned a lesson. Small, in
dependent states are helpless
in a world of great powers.
Freed from the domination
of one, they fall booty to an
other; or great power rivalries
exploit them against each
other, or buy them into mill
tary alliances, or flatter them
into a false security.
Liberated" East Europe
had but one chance to sur
vive after World War I, and
that was to restore the
Austro- Hungarian unity, ex-
tend it from the Baltic to
the Adriatic, and, as a unity
of a hundred million people,
rely upon themselves and
negotiate as equals with their
powerful neighbors. Germany
and Russia.
Israel is a colonizing prof.
ect. replacing an indigenous
population by an alien one,
created and supported by
the Western powers, includ-
ing the United States. 1t
never could have been born
had not Palestine-under the
) Turks an integral part Of
Syria-been first partitioned
by Great Britain into two
completely artificial COM
plexes. Jordan" under a sub
sidized monarch and British
generated army. and ''Pales-
tine" under direct British
rule in the form of a man.
date. Nor could it have been
created had the Arabs pos
sessed the strength they have
today.
1t was the Jewish colonists,
aided by world zionism, who
drove the British out Of Pal
estine by precisely the type
OF warfare now being waged
against the French in Alge-
ria and against the British in
Cyprus. Did the successful
Jewish fighters against Great
Britain teach no lesson to
the Arabs? Among them an
unknown Egyptian ofiicer.
named Canal Abdel Nasser?
Everything hangs together.
Every effect has q cause.
The real revolutions in the
world today are national
risings initially spanked by
anticolonial America, whose
arms In Jewish hands drove
the British out Of Palestine.
whose guns were later used
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
Menshikov Seen Using Person to Person
Role While Reds at Home Blast u. S.

suited in their being ousted
from ONCE.
In totalitarian countries the
feelings of the people are i'm
material. The dictators keep
themselves in power by force
and do not have to worry
about elections. These are
only make believes in which
the candidates of the one al
lowed party are sure of a
99.8 majority. There are no
Madison Square Gardens and
Hyde Parks in totalitarian
states. Hence, while the gov
ernments Of the free nations
must consider the wishes Of
their people, in relationships
such as the USSR, her satel-
lites and Communist China
the people are voiceless. But
in the present frantic endeav-
ors Of the Soviet rulers to
drag America into a summit
conference in the hope that
1t would be a repetition of
Munich, the people to peo-
pie" cards are being played
for all they are worth.
The American people can
force Cor forbid their rep
resentative government to
act in any way they like.
The enslaved Russian people
have nothing to say about
the conduct of affairs. Even
If travel from one country
to another were liberalized,
the citizens of the USSR could
not turn the policies of their
rulers toward a moderate
course.
At the very time when Am
bassador Menshikov is pre-
pairing to roll out the red
carpet for distinguished
guests representing the nota-
hleS Of Washington, the gov
eminent controlled propa-
ganda organs in Moscow are
inundating the airwaves with
attacks on American i'm
colonialiSts." Secre-
tary of State Dulles is being
charged with. "falsifying facts
in order to show that the
summit meeting cannot pro-
duce positive results" Re-
publican Senate Leader
Knowland is being branded a
villain who is urging Amer
leans to resist the Soviet
peace efforts"
And the Moscow Radio is
blasting the American i'm
perialists" for the foolish
French attack on a Tunisian
border village last Saturday.
The United States. Moscow
declares, provided the French
forces with the planes which
destroyed the village and
caused more than 100 casual
ties. This is the Soviet style
of people to people" diplo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
Texas Dinner Affair Raises Question
OF Money for Political Parties

a deductible expense on the
tax side where companies are
concerned-it would reveal
the extent of the "apprecia-
ton" role in modern politics.
An occasional glance at the
attending epersonnel shows
that in many instances big
contractors on defense prof.
ects and public works are
pulled into appreciation"
dinners. Some may not have
had any favors bestowed
upon them, but they do not
dare to snub these dinners
lest they incur the Ill will Of
the politicians involved.
AS for individuals, ambas-
sailors and former ambas-
sailors, departmental secre-
taries and assistant secre-
taries, former assistants to
this or that high official and
also lawyers whose business
it is to represent large COM
panies in Washington. they
must not fail to fork over
500 for these appreciation"
dinners.
What Mr.. Porter did de-
serves censure," remarks a
New York Times editorial,
but is not very different in
essence from what both
Democratic and Republican
Parties and their respective
candidates do every day-or
whenever the opportunity Of
fers. They solicit and obtain
-p erfec tly legally-large
sums Of money from inter-
ested donors and thereby in
escapably place themselves
under at least tacit obligation
to their benefactors."
There have been many per-
sons who have made big con-
tributions to one or the other
Of the major parties because
Of appreciation" for service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14

Mikhail Menshikov. the
new Soviet Ambassador to
the United States. is losing
no time in launching a cam
paign to ingratiate himself
with the top-level men in
the Government.
After presenting his Gre
dentials to President Eisen-
hover, who conversed with
him for much longer than
is customary on such. purely
formal occasions, the very
reasonable Russian called on
high officials IN the State
Department and later on
Vice President Nixon. He
exuded good will without at
tempting to J. lay 1t on as
thick as his boss, Nikita
Khrushchev, who Is heavy
handed in his demonstra-
tons Of friendship.
Mr.. Menshikov already has
contacted a Der of
prominent members of Con-
gress indicating his desire
to make their personal ac-
quaintanee and discuss as
Informally as he did with
Vice President Nixon ways
and means to improve So
viet-American relations
through people -to-people"
contacts. Before he opens
wide the doors Of his en-
bassy to political and social
figures in Washington he
wants to contact congress
sional leaders such as SEN
ators johnson, Green, Bridges
and Knowland as well as
Speaker Rayburn and Mi
nority Leader Martin in their
own Offices at their conven-
fence.
Ambassador Menshikov was
briefed in Moscow that "peo-
pie to people" diplomacy
originated in America and is
highly popular here. Indeed,
there can be no better way
to establish friendship be-
tween nations than by know
ing and liking each other.
That applies. however, only
to free nations which can,
theoretically at least, dictate
to their governments policies
to be followed. Free peoples
have the means to get rid of
governments which do not
comply With their wishes by
voting them out of office.
The fatal Munich confer
ence was held in 1888 at the
request of the Nazi dictator
who sought a meeting with
the French and British Prime
Ministers to trick them.
Daladier and Chamberlain
went there because they felt
their people wanted peace at
any price and to refuse the
Nazi hand might have re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
Mountain Rescuer
Finds Boy Dead

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf,
Feb. IA (P.-A daring rescuer
inched 800 feet down the jag
ged, crumbling cliff where
others had failed and found
a 13-year-old boy dead on an
icy ledge yesterday.
Donald Burns plunged over
a waterfall during a Lincoln's
Birthday hike with school,
mates. He tumbled 100 feet
down in the waterfall, then
hurtled another 200 feet down
the rough face Of 11,485-foot
San Gorgonio Mountain.
John Matthews of Alhambra
a member of the Sierra Madrt
Search and Rescue Unit
reached him IS hours later.
He signaled that the boy was
dead.
Mr.. Matthews stayed on the
cold perch. A helicopter from
the Ell Toro Marine Corps Ali
Station lowered q litter to the
top Of the cliff. 1t will be lei
over the cliffside to bring ur
the body.
The lad landed in q water.
fall pool and rolled himself
out. He sprawled grotesquely
while snow fell on him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
DORIS FLEEsoN
Embarrassing Investigation

An enraptured audience Of
press and public damned the
big House hearing room. but
the spectacle was denied the
television screens by a House
rule. The consensus was that
it was DR.. Schwartz's day
and they will all be back
when he returns to the bear
pit next week.
It is the subcommittee i'll
luck that its travail is occur
ring during the doldrums
when Republicans are on the
hustings extolling Lincoln,
the President is on vacation
and the Democrats are about
to take to the road with the
glorieS Of Jefferson and Jack
son.
DR.. Schwartz has estab-
lished some records of his
own here. Washington has
seen runaway committees be-
fore but never a runaway
counsel with such talent for
drama. Nor is it customary
for counsel to address mem
bers of Congress as you peo-
pie" whatever his private
opinion of them may be-
The diverting aspects of
the inquiry are presently up
permost here. They do not
hide the prevailing sense of
embarrassment over tn e
manner in which the regu-
latory agencies have been
stated by the administra-
ton and then put under pres
sure from practically every
body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14
DOROTHY THOMPSON
U.S.. and Self Determination

to attack Egypt in Sinai,
whose planes in French hands
are bombing Arab villages in
Algeria. and now in Tunisia
and who nowhere is able to
exercise any political con-
troll whatsoever, because our
Government would not decide
on any logical policy. based
on foresight.
1t is a terrible moment
for the West. For a great deal
more is at stake in France
than the loss Of Algeria. What
is at stake is the French
Republic itself. But that is
another story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-14

Assistance TO taxpayers in
this area win be given each
Monday TO Friday from $3.50
Am. TO 5 pm. II, after
attempting 70 complete your
own Federal tax form, you
have difficulties, then visit
the first floor Of the Internal
Revenue Service Building,
Twelfth street and COnsti-
tuition avenue NV, or tele-
phone Sterling $500 and
ask for taxpayer assistance. "
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-11-27

At one time there were 1000
booklets available to UnsUspecf-
ing buyers. We thought we'd
never unload .em, but now we
have, and we are grieved.
We grieve because we have
had to return money TO people,
and that's the best cause Of
grief we know about.
Of course, we'll run this page
for sometime, not so much as
information, but because we
amt got any ads.
Commercially,
P. D. East
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