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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
DORIS FLEEsON
U. 5. Is Expected to Take a Hand
II Labor and Companies Clash

A long and ugly steel strike
Is very much a prospect for
summer. Both the steel in
dustry and steel labor are in
a truculent mood. Both are
demanding that the White
House and the Congress keep
hands of while the gladiators
battle to a decision. Neither
Is apt to have its way in this:
rarely has the public inter-
est been more closely at stake
in an impending strike from
the standpoint Of both infla-
ton and defense.
President Eisenhower has
announced that there will be
a third party-the public
welfare-sitting in on the ne
gotiations. He declared that
the result of the new nego-
tiations must not result in a
further price-rise package
deal. Such a deal, involving
an increase in the price of so
basic a commodity as steel,
would act like a shot of ad-
renalin on prices everywhere.
The Presidents f1rmness
was especially noteworthy
since the steel industry has
made it known to the White
House that it wanted no in
reference in a strike which
the industry has expectations
will be long enough and hard
enough to make the Steel
workers knuckle under.
Senator Kefauver, chair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27

man Of the Senate Subcom-
mittee on Antitrust and
Monopoly. who, because OF
his threats of investigation,
possibly halved last years
steel price increase, has been
warned by steel labor in turn
to keep his hands of. David
Mcdonald, the union presi-
dent. bluntly told Senator
Kefauver to keep your nose
out of my business"
Industry has been expect
ing a long steel strike for
months now. Steel production
lately has been at near rec
ord levels. This has not been
due to a fast recovery from
the recession, but to stock
piling. The automobile indus
try, steel'S biggest customer,
already has enough steel on
hand to carry it through the
present model year and the
start Of the next. Any extra
money and any vacant lots
owned by the automobile in
dustry have now been put to
work hedging against the
strike. This process has been
echoed by lesser customers.
The steel industry has been
a favorite example of those
economists who have been
talking about administered
prices. These are prices which
can be set in industries DOM
mated by a few producers
powerful enough to raise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
DAVID LAWRENCE

The news dispatches are
full Of comments from all
over the world about the pro-
posed summit conference
yet the big mystery seems
somehow to go unsolved. For
what Is still unexplained Is
Khrushchev's real reason for
wanting such q meeting.
Everybody knows that at q
weeks conference at the
summit virtually under
klieg lights, and with scores
Of aides, stenographers and
language interpreters around
there isn't much chance for
intimate conversation by the
heads Of the four govern
ments concerned. Everybody
knows also that, II the Soviet
government really has some
thing to say about q proposal
1t wants to accept or reject,
there is no need for q sum-
NIT conference to be held just
to get It on the record. This
can be done any time through
foreign ministers conferences
or through an exchange Of
written notes at the various
foreign offices. The press will
always give the widest pub
licity to any important pro-
nouncement.
what. then. is the motiva-
ton behind Khrushchev's
passion for. Q summit con-
ference? This very question
has puzzled high officials in
the Western governments.
and they have talked about it
recently among themselves.
Perhaps it is oversimpli-
fication to say that Khru-
shchev's egoism and desire
for the limelight in the role
Of big boss Of the Soviet
Union may have been the
basic influence behind the
pressure for a summit meet
ing. But. as one observer
put it, Khrushchev would
like more than anything else
in the world eventually to be
invited to sleep at the White
House. One of Stains men
--Molotov-did it during the
Truman administration, and
the story goes that he slept
in Lincoln's bed.
Those newSmen who have
been in Moscow say Khru-
shchev is ELUSIVE. ostentati-
Gus and vigorous, and does a
lot Of talking-moSt Of it
tough. He has been stimu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Why Democrats Race 'SoftIy'

to walk into the White House
on inauguration day and
embrace the failure of his
administration on the door
step.
This. then. is the nature Of
the special nature of the diffi-
Guilty confronted by the Dem
ocrats in the 1860 presidential
test. The Republicans, though
certainly not without their
own problems. have none of
equivalent delicacy. Their
congressional party simply
has no power Of which any
G. o. p. presidential candi-
date need be afraid.
All this is why the precon-
vention contest on the Demo-
cratic side can accurately be
called a soft pursuit. All pres
ent candidates and hidden
candidates are aware that 1t
would be a hollow triumph to
gain the nomination and even
the election at the cost of
mortal breaks with the con.
gresSional party. The SEN
ators who are in the race
or, like Senator johnson, will
be in 1t before the thing is
over-have not served in the
Senate for nothing.
And Mr.. Stevenson, him.
self, Is already so aware,
though he never spent a day
in the Senate. because he I'M
derstands the true base OF
power in the Democratic
Party. This is no doubt one
OF the reasons why he has
so far resisted all pressures
to move from about the CEN
ter Of the party over to the
identifiable left.
True. a man may refuse to
accept these realities and may
conceivably still be both
nominated and elected as a
Democrat. He will not, how
ever. win real power in the
White House; it will be to
him a costly victory, indeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

York offers $550000 for the Republican convention
Chairman Alcorn had idea the city had such interest
in archaeology.
Macmillan's summit ballad "Hi-ho Hi-ho It's up the
peak CO. I'll the hike adraggn Ike Hi-ho. Hi-ho"
Negro Representative Powell backs Texas Lyndon Johnson
for President They're calling johnson the Abe Lincoln Of
the Alamo
Fidel Castro will visit Washington in mid April. One
host is ready-to ionize the beard In his den
Chairman Butler says Democrat has the 1860 NOM
nation ewed up The only thing sewed the mouths Of
the candidates who won't admit they're running
Democratic Representative Moss got to pull in
our belts It's nice know that after taking shirts
the Democrats apparently mean to leave pants
Speaker Rayburn says Democrats have proved they
aren't reckless spender Hardly dime of payros wasted
outside the immediate family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
Uniting Of Western Europe by De GouIIe
Believed Worrying Kremlin Bosses
CONSTANTINE BROWN

spirit Of hostility to the
United States but from the
fact that most of the West
European countries we have
helped are now In a position
to help each other.
Continental Europe wishes
also to proclaim its diplo-
matte independence from the
English-speaking countries.
To be honest with ourselves,
we must admit that we have
failed automatically in Eu-
rope. We have had a hot
cold policy toward the Soviet
Union which resulted in the
feeling among our continental
friends and allies that while
we made much noise about
the threat to the free world
OF international communism,
we were actually trying to
placate 1t. Thus the Neither
lands government had much
to complain about our atti-
tude toward Indonesia. The
French complain bitterly
about our position in regard
to North Africa in general
and Algeria in particular.
BY and large, most of the
old continental European
countries, while recognizing
the enormous part we have
played in their recovery, are
convinced that we have only
a juvenile diplomacy when
1t comes to dealing with the
unprecedentedly complex
problems Of the present pc
riod.
This does not mean that
the third force" (continen-
tai European countries which
are about to get together
around the German-French
axis intend to renege on
their commitments to NATO.
Militarily, they will remain
faithful to their alliance with
the United States. We are
faced militarily with a COM
mon risk from international
communism and America also
happens still to have the most
powerful fighting establish
ment in the world. But dip
lomatically and economically,
the nations Of Western Eu-
rope. which include not only
the smaller states but also
Italy and Spain. seem intent
on helping Bonn and Paris
accomplish what is consid-
cred these days as their new
historical mission.
All this Is, of course, pleas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
Khrushchev's Reason for Summit

ence is about the last place
in the world for any negotia-
ton Of the give-and-take va
riety to be carried on. II the
head Of any government
wants to make a concession.
he would hardly like to do
so In the limelight. Plainly.
Khrushchev has no intention
Of making any public SUR
render on positions he has
taken. Also, with the many
vital questions at stake. q
week is a brief time in which
to accomplish anything. On
this point. the following ex-
tract from Mr.. Eisenhower's
latest press conference Is
enlightening:
%. Mr.. President. what do
you think Of the idea of a
series Of summit conferences
where the world leaders could
get of in some secluded spot
and discuss informally the
problems Of the world?
"a. Well, it is rather diff
flcult to visualize sllch n
thing. II you meet with a
group Of world leaders, 1t is
rather hard to keep the spot
light of Of 1t. And II you are
going to talk, doing this in
formally, 1t would be with
batteries of interpreters and
recorders and all that sort
Of thing. It would almost in
evitably change. I think, into
something rather formal"
So what is the purpose.
after all, Of something
rather formal? Several
newspapers in Britain regard
the summit as enveloped with
an aura Of miracles, and they
resent Mr.. Eisenhower's
tendency to be realistic. In
deed. the peoples Of the free
world are being urged to be-
lieve that a summit confer
ence is a meeting where mag
ic can bring about a sudden
transition from the tensions
OF q cold war to the easy and
comfortable existence Of a
world without tension.
All this. moreover, is to be
done in a single weeks meet
ing as millions Of words are
poured out endeavoring to
prove that neither side is be-
ing defeated and that each
side is winning a notable VIC
tory. What a travesty on
common sense. and what a
concession to the devices Of
modern propaganda battles
and. above all else, to the con-
summate egoism Of q dicta-
tor!
Copyright. 1850
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
CoIcIouqh to Get
PutentUnitHonor

Oswald S. Colclough, acting
president Of George Washing
ton University and director of
the Patent. Trademark and
Copyright Foundation. is to re-
ceive the jefferson Medal of
the New Jersey Patent Law AS
ISOLATION, the association an
nounced yesterday.
Mr.. Colclough will be given
the medal May 7 at a dinner
in Newark, N. ]. 1t is given
annually to a person who has
made notable contributions to
the American patent system.
Mr.. Colclough has been d.
rector of the foundation, which
is connected with George
Washington University, since
its inception.
Appointed acting president
of the university on January
% of this year, Mr.. Colclough
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27

understanding Of this last
and greatest necessity pre-
cisely because so many Of
the field Of possibles are
members of the Senate. And
as 1t happens. the fifth and
non-senatorial member of
the field, Adlai E. Stevenson,
is himself wholly savvy in
this matter. He made as
much clear to some Of his
campaign associates when he
was running in 1856 as the
Democratic nominee.
The fundamental and I'M
alterable reality is this: Any
Democrat nominated this
time must face the fact that
a middle-road Democratic
regency is deeply lodged in
control Of Congress. This
regency cannot conceivably
be overturned in the Senate
short Of four more years and
Is unlikely to be overturned
in the House in any lesser
time. This regency. in a word,
has now and will long main
tain so much power that it
could paralyze and break any
Democratic administration
before it had been three
months in office.
BY winning three consecu-
tive congressional elections
while the party was losing
two successive presidential
elections the Democratic con-
gressional wing has reached
a uniquely dominant place
in that party.
Thus, whatever Democrat
is nominated for President,
assuming his election, will. be
under unavoidable necessity
to seek and keep some form
OF peace and partnership
with that regency. His only
possible alternative would be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27

had been dean Of the faculty
since that post was created in
1883. Previously he was asso-
ciated with the CIV Law School
and was named dean Of 1t in
1919. He is a retired Navy
vice admiral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-27
Curdozo Alumni Fete

Cardozo High School alumni
will hold a 30th anniversary
celebration at the school, Thir-
tenth and Clifton streets NV,
at 7 pm. April "a.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
ELEvATING THE EGGHEAD

With school beginning, the
comment of Prof. Richard La
Piere of Stanford in a remark
able new book, THE FREUDIAN
ETHIC, AN ANALYSIS OF THE
SUBVERSION OF AMERICAN
CHARTER (Duell, Sloan &
Pearce) is worth noticing.
What present-day education
has come to do, he says, sis
strive to prevent any individual
from rising above the intellectual
mediocrity of the majority"
And yet there are signs OF
hope A recent panel of students
noted 'a definite shift from
knocking the guy who makes
good grades" Learning and
scholarship, these young people
themselves aver, are acquiring
new status in our schools.
The change is being brought
about, they declared, because
competition for college is keener,
teachers are trying harder, and
the climate of opinion outside
the schools is giving Learning
new prestige.
If this is so, let us cheer! Still
more, let's encourage it! Never
has time of history held a
greater need for greatness, for
competence and excellence, for
the vision and character of peo-
pie who are willing and able to
stand above the crowd.
In no way can we show finer
respect for "the common man.
than by holding up the ideal
that he can become an UNcom-
mon man.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05

Domestic employees should
make sure their earnings are re-
ported correctly. Housewives
who employ domestics have done
a good job, as a rule, in filing
the required quarterly reports,
according to Mr.. Robert B. YOU
mans, district social security
manager. However, the ratio of
incorrect and unreported items is
still high and could lead to un-
fortunate results for the domestic
employee. Mr.. Youmans stressed
that unreported or incorrectly
reported items such as name,
social security account number,
or amount of earnings, might
bar the individual from the full
protection that social security
could give him:
Ali employees, but especially
domestics, should keep a record
Of their wages. At least once
every three years, they should
check their social security re-
cords to assure that all cash
wages have been correctly re-
ported. They can do this by con-
tacting their local social security
office and asking for the post
card designed for this purpose.
Mr.. Youmans also advised the
domestics to check with their
employers periodically and make
sure the items named above are
being reported correctly. 1t was
also suggested by the district
manager that any household en-
ployers who have any questions
should contact the local social
security office He cautioned
housewives that they should re-
port the earnings of any of their
employees who earn $50 or more
cash wages in a calendar quarter.
AS an example, employment for
July, August and September,
should be reported no later than
October 81.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
THE AMERICAN VA Y

that its state-regulated tariff for
electricity would make the cost
$15,858 a year. The REA coop
quoted $500 less.
But here's the rub. The coop
had to borrow 100000 from the
REA at two percent to adjust its
substation and build a power
line. Uncle Sam will have to bor-
row that 100000 at not less than
three percent. So federal tax
payers start out losing $4,000 per
year in interest to save $500 on
an electric bill.
And worse. The investor own
ed company would have paid
$4,000 in income taxes and $4,000
in property taxes per year had it
obtained the business. The coop
pays either.
So the sum of $4,000 per year
is lost to federal, state and local
governments to save (?) $500.
No further comment! The pros
ecution rests.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
IneomeTux Hints
for
Noble

Nathaniel LOCKER, director of
Internal Revenue for the Colum-
bus district, announced today
that the service is changing its
method of distributing to en-
ployers, Forms W-3, Reconcilia-
ton of Income Tax Withheld
from Wages.
Forms W-3 for 1859 will be
mailed out with Forms GAL, Re-
port of Wages Taxable Under the
Federal Insurance Contributions
Act, for the last calendar quarter
of this year instead of as part
of a package booklet, Publication
1893, as in prior years.
Publication 1893, minus Forms
W-3, will be sent in October to
all employers of records. 1t con-
tains supplies of the several
forms employers need to comply
with the laws relating to income
tax withholding and oldage and
survivors insurance (Social Sc
curity) taxes. 1t also contains an
order blank for requesting ad-
ditional forms.
LOCKER explained that this
change in procedure was made
at the request of many employers
to assure that their supply of
Forms VS. was not overlooked as
sometimes was the case previ-
ously. "This now mailing system
should eliminate any difficult
ties employers may have had in
the past in keeping track of their
supply of Forms VS." Mr.. Look
er said. They will now receive
the Forms W-3 at the end of the
year with the Forms GAL when
they are ready tc use the Forms
VIZ"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
FREEDOM FOR WHAT?

l came upon a searching medi-
tation that says what needs so
much to be said. In all too much
of our talk about freedom, we
speak of it as an undisciplined
freedom to do what we please.
Indeed, this is a valid concept
when set against the tyranny of
having our lives run by others
who think they can manage our
affairs better than we ourselves.
But between this kind of tyranny
and the barren freedom that is
license is third alternative.
"The first of duties," says the
meditation, SIS to become free,
because freedom is the antece-
dent condition for the fulfilment
of every other duty, the only
element in which a reasonable
soul can exist"
Yet, what is our freedom for?
Without freedom "it is impossible
for a man to offer up volun-
tary and reasonable sacrifice of
himself" There can be no giving
without something to give and
the freedom to give it. Com
pulsory sharing is theft.
Nevertheless, sacrifice and CIV
ing and sharing are among the
chief goals of life. "Whosoever
will be great" says Scripture,
"let him be a minister; and
whosoever will be chief, let him
be servant
There is the key! Freedom is
for service! That is what it meant
by Freedom under God" Be
tween the Scylla of slavery and
the Charybdis of chaos lies the
difficult but only course of free
passage in obedience to the winds
of wisdom and the tide of Gods
moral law!
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
Q0au4e @, RQRlectlon

Germ for the good of the nation,
including laboring people them
selveSi
Because this column is too
short, let me refer again to my
56-page booklet, THE INTIMI-
DATED SOCIETY, which you
may have for 25c by writing to
Box 877, San Jacinto, California
Here are some lines from it:
''The demands of many labor
unions for wages, benefits, and
prerogatives for themselves, to
the exclusion of concern for the
remainder of the community,
must be brought under judgment
When a segment of society,
aided by political privilege and
monopolistic power, seeks such
benefits for itself alone, a grave
inequity is imposed by the very
organization which claims that
its primary purpose is economic
justice! -"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
The Good of the Nation

When twice in a week the
President had to invoke Taft
Hartley for the sake of national
welfare, he was saying, in effect,
what needs to be repeated until
something is done about it.
He was recognizing that strikes
are no longer-if ever-against
employers alone. They are
against the whole community!
When union power gets big
enough to threaten the entire
economy, that is simply too much
power! There is no other name
for it except monopoly, yet
unions are notoriously exempt
from anti-monopely laws. The
steel and longshoremen strikes
are all we need to scout union
leader claims to benevolent con-
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
AN SOTH BIRTHDAY

October q, 1859, marks the
Both birthday of the incandescent
electric light. On October q,
1879, an inventor, Thomas A.
Edison, and his associates kept
watch over a glowing filament
made of carbonized sewing
thread, inside a glass bulb in
which a high vacuum had been
painstakingly developed. 1t burn
ed for forty tense hours and then
Edison stepped up the voltage
until the bulb completed its
career in a blaze of glory.
Edison's invention of a prac-
tical incandescent electric light
was the opening wedge for the
development of today's great
electric power industry.
After the successful expert
ment, Edison was asked about
the exact cost of the new light.
He was quoted as saying: after
the electric light goes into gen
eral use, none but the extracva-
CANT will burn tallow candles"
Well, what kind of prophet was
Edison? Edison's original custo-
mers paid about 25 cents kilo-
watt-hour for their service-in
1858, the average price per kilo
watt-hour of electricity used in
the home had gone down to 2.53
cents, just about one-tenth of
the price at the start Of the in
dustry. AS predicted by Edison,
none but the extravagant" are
burning tallow candles today.
AS matter of fact, today, when
an affluent hostess wishes to
"put-on-the-dog,' she illumin-
ates CD her dining table with
those expensive candles. History
does not record that Thomas
Edison foresaw this particular
continued use of the candle.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-11-05
DIVIDED WE STAND!

The first in the new "Ameri-
can Heritage" television series,
leaving something to be desired
artistically, nevertheless opens
areas of fruitful pause for re-
Election. Entitled Divided We
Stand,' it presented the historic
clash between Hamilton and
Jefferson on George Washing
tons Cabinet.
Hamilton wanted strong, cen
tralized, one-party government
in which the people should be
ruled by "their betters." Jeffer'
son wanted a decentralized, two
party system of popular sell
government.
In his time, by virtue of be-
coming President, jefferson won
But in our own time, does II
not appear that Hamilton is
winning?
For, what do we have but in
creasing centrallZatlon OF govern
ment in which there is not even
the claim of rule by our bet
ters," but by bureaucracy. Ano
the division by which rival par
ties afford vital choices has
paled into one-party me
tooism," with Hamiltonian auto
cracy being represented as lib
eralism."
Hence the unhappy plight OF
thoughtful conVersatives anc
libertarians, who are the truel
Jeffersonian liberals. When, we
wonder, will the ballot present
again Jeffersonian choice
against the high-riding Hamil
tons? When will people see that
our freedom is at stake in it?