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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, May 11, 1954
EDITORIALS
... if we desire to secure peace ... it must be
known that we are at all times ready for war.
George Washington to Congress, 1793
THOMAS L STOKES
Inquiry to Continue
Toward Bitter End
wAL u Kin longed dry spell—or several lessons.
West Must Move rOSt The cities have learned to put aside all
. - ordinary concepts of an adequate water
According to a Radio Vietminh broad- supply, and to view the problem for what
cast heard in Hong Kong, the French it 1ne calling for big thinking and big
Union forces lost almost 10,000 captives doing. Our climate is not apt to change
to the Reds at Dien Bien Phu. The Reds materially for decades to come; we are
claimed to have captured 1,896 com- a semiarid region, and we must expect
missioned and warrant officers along periodic drouths.
with 8,000 troops. French observation Agriculture has re-learned an old les-
planes have spotted several groups of son well, too It must adapt its practices
prisoners on the march toward concen- the prevailing weather pattern of the
tration camps to the north. Southwest. It must meet special pro-
According to the broadcast heard in blems. It must learn to roll with the
Hong Kong, General de Castries, the punches.
French commander, was among the cap- Happily this is not a hopeless task,
lives. There have been other reports of On the contrary, it has been demonstrat-
his survival, but the outside world pro- ed that correct practices, while they can-
bably won’t place much credence in not avert periodic drouth, can reduce
them until the general is heard from the damage materially, and prevent total
directly, paralysis in times of stress. The program
First and last, French sources esti- is plainly spelled out: soil conservation,
mate the Vietminh brought around maximum use of whatever rainfall
70,000 troops to bear on the stubborn comes, drouth-resistant crops, proper
garrison st Dien Bien Phu. Estimates cultivation, crop rotation, cover crops,
of Red losses run as high as 36,000, but avoidance of overgrazing and so on.
General Navarre, the French command- How we use the lessons learned will
er in Indochina, thinks half that num- be the measure of our intelligence and
her would be about right. success.
In either case, the Reds sustained
heavy losses, and this may serve to pre- A e • :
vent any further serious military enter- In Our ram City
prises on their part for some months. . .
The rainy season also interferes with All Abilene is proud of the standout
operations victory of its high school athletes at
Meantime U S. aid is pouring into Austin. In rolling up 47 points and win-
Indochina to sustain the French Union ning the state championship in the In-
forces. The bulk of the French Union terscholastic League contests our boys
force is intact, and the training program smashed two existing records and
now under way under forced draft, and brought glory to the black and gold on
the continued buildup of arms and a scale not witnessed in many a year,
materiel from the U. S. and from metro- Congratulations to the coaches and the
politan France strengthens the hope athletes. Happy days are here again. Old
that the military situation there is not Abilene High School, once a perennial
as gloomy as the loss of Dien Bien Phu champion, is on the athletic warpath
would indicate. again..
If the Big Three—the U. S., France In the 13-county Abilene Highway
and Britain—can get together on a plan Patrol district from January through
to save Indochina by building up the April, 29 persons died in traffic acci-
native anti-Red military forces, and by dents. That is a shocking 222 percent
a French promise to grant the natives increase over the same period in 1953.
self-rule by a definite date, there is still Taylor and Jones Counties led the grisly
hope of staving off a Communist triumph
in that vital region.
But the West will have to move swiftly
and decisively to repair the military and
prestige damage of Dien Bien Phu. The
latter is more serious than the former.
The West needs to move fast and fur-
iously to retrieve that situation and save
Southeast Asia.
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WASHINGTON - Developments whole proceedings and expressed
Indicate that the Elsenhower ad- - desire that thevee sndie
ministration has concluded that it 22*2“ Ms news conference
I is better politically in the long run last week. He still wants the hear-
to go through with the Senator Joe ing completed as soon as pos-
| MeCarthy-Army public hearings un- sible, but not until the committee
| til the full story is on the record, has secured all the answers need-
| Between that and the alternative ed. Earnestly and seriously he ex-
of cutting them short, as was tried pressed his opinion that our pres-
unsuccessfully Inst week, is of tiee abroad and our national self-
course only a choice of two evils, respect had suffered, but he cou-
1 For it is accepted now that the pea with this the hope that we
spectacle is damaging to the Re- may in the end, derive comparable
publican party, whether short or "eantares
long. That was conceded by Presi- "that last, of course, might be
dent Eisenhower, himself, when he iespreted diferently. But there
spoke at this week’s news confer- wo a feeling that the President
ence on the effect on our prestige WAS that Senator McCar
abroad and our national self re- y a ionine mpuene w a me.
* decision to take tional figure, that such is very
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to the same full treatment that duration. .__
has been given to the Adminis- Tending to confirm this attitude
tration’s own representative in the wee his renewal of his 100 percent
controversy. Secretary of the Army backing for Secretary Stevens.
Stevens. w Stevens’Fate
2. The view, which is shared in What the Secretary’s ultimate
the Administration, that Senator fate will be is the subject of much
McCarthy to hurting himself by speculation here. He has impress-
he his own continued exposure to the ed observers of his gruelling or-
• public and consequently that he is deal as a conscientious and sin.
1 likely to come out of the investi- cere public administrator, if inex-
| gation with his political following perienced in the rough sort of poli-
and power diminished. Therefore, ties that Senator McCarthy plays,
if that theory is sound, a continua- He has been criticized for the over-
tion of the investigation would com- anxiety, as it might be called, to
pound the damage to the Senator please the senator and his aides,
politically. It is natural for department heads
. nr e .. It’s • Gamble to be as amiable end amenable as
The Agrarian Reformer Tills the Soil So. weighing these factors, the possible to Congress, and especial-
____________g Administration decided on the ly in this administration of a Pres-
---------------------long march rather than the quick ident who insists constantly on the
ROBERT ALLEN REPORTS tome this course is a gamble, as responsibility ends author OLCeE
----------------------------------would have been the shorter one. * Tse and his
D me et touthor : Zmemistretion to cooperate wita it.
Ike’s Program Cut to Bone HFTE =-=
Ohea/ie,Two Minesses the pliant attitude toward Senator Me-
Secretary Benson’s violently con- In a scrappy speech to the Young secretary and the senator, eliminate Carthy and is So 3
ing the other "principals on both in fart. was administration poug
sides.” But Democrats on the com- The Secretary saw it. before his
would not consent to that, eyes in the way the State Depart-
So the compromise blew up, as ment, early in the administration,
the Administration did not went to genuflected before the senator His
risk the isolation of its Republi- own boss, Secretary of Defense Wil-
can members in a position where son, was very polite also. The ad-
they would be abandoning their ministration, from the President
earlier and solemn pledge to get down, was sure it could “get
“all the facts" and be fair to every- along" with the senator
body involved. That proved illusory. Now, fl-
Failure of the short-cut move nally, the challenge has been ac-
did seem to clear the air The cepted. It is not a pretty scrap.
President who, the week before in- But it has to go on to the finish.-
dicatod bis utter disgust of the (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
WASHINGTON, May 11 - Pres-
ident Eisenhower’s widely - ac-
claimed legislative program has
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parade, with 6 fatalities each. Captain five “musts” for the remainder of
G. L. Morahan, in charge of the district, this session by Republican lead-
listed speeding and drinking as prime ers of Congress.
causes of smash-ups. Says the captain: The secret plan aims at adjourn-
“Human failure is responsible for just ment around August 1.
about 95 percent of the accidents.” This was disclosed by Senate
Contests in driving skill under the Leader William Knowland, Calif.,
Jaycee-sponsored Road-E-O at the old at a GOP conference attended by
municipal airport Sunday turned up a most of the major committee chair-
champion: 16-year old Edward R. Wheel- men. He said the “musts tS
er of Abilene who scored high with 344 loaders. Also, that the President
points out of a possible 400 He will knows about it, but his attitude
compete for top honors in regional con- was not indicated by Knowland.
tests to be held at Stamford later this The President- has repeatedly
month. Strikes us this Jaycee promotion voiced strong desire for the enact-
is an outstanding contribution to saner ment of his entire extensive legis-
Official forecasts for Monday, Mon-
day night and Tuesday were for con-
tinued cloudiness, scattered showers and - — ------- ,- -
thunderstorms in every nook and living. These were high school students, lative program.,
cranny of Texas. Seldom is such unani- and their example should shame older The secret “must list is as fol-
mity seen for Texas—especially on the persons into acting more like grown-
wet side of the weather.----ken *.--‘ hala “ * etaarine
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Stevens’ Fate
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troversial flexible farm price-sup- Democrats of Kansas City he
port legislation, (2) foreign tradedemanded they re-elect Represent-
program, including renewal of ative Richard Bolling “because he’s
th. Reciprocal Trade Act which ------a T c
expires June 12, and (3) statehood one of the best men la Congress
for Hawaii and Alaska, passed by and if he isn't re elected, you'll
the Senate but stalled in the House, hear from me and it won’t be fun-
Senator Knowland told the Ito- ny."... Senator Pat McCarron is
publican conference that the Ad- putting on a big show in Nevada
mowr-ena mmpRE E CM St Deine s loyal Demesne and
tied farm bill. He pointed out that wanting party unity. But that didn’t
if this measure is sidetracked and keep him from going to New Hamp-
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supports expire on December it. the re-election of Republican Sen-
that Benson’s flexible support plan ator givles Bridges and the GOP
mil qutemataeally go into etteat nomination orwasity Poual mema
Senator Styles Bridges (R-NY), of Bridges, who is running for the
chairman of the Appropriations unexpired term of the late Sen-
Committee, defended the "bobtail- ator Tobey. ...The White House
ing” of the President’s legislative has been told that Senator Mar-
program on the ground that is what garet Chase Smith (R-Me) will win
the public wants. renomination next month by a big
“The people are tired of Con- margin. According to this inside
gress’ constantly enacting a lot of word, her opponent, an ardent ad-
new laws,” argued Bridges. “They mirer of Senator McCarthy, is
would welcome a breathing spell getting nowhere... .Friends of
and have Congress just let things Democratic National Chairman
alone for a while. If well concen- Steve Mitchell say he is planning
trate on these five measures well to run for Governor of Illinois in
have a good enough record to im- 1956.
press the voters next fall."
There was no challenge of the
“must” list at the conference.
Notes: Senator Eugene Millikin
(R-Colo), chairman of the Finance
Committee, told Knowland the big
tax recodification bill will be re-
HENRY McLEMORE
lows:
ups when they get hold of a steering
wheel. . s . is now pending in the Senate Fi-
In any case, our kids are setting some nance committee. A highlight of
good examples for their elders on the this measure is the tax cut on
playing fields and on the highways, dividends.
thanks to high school instructions. That Extension of social security bene-
doesn’t sound like juvenile delinquency fits to another 10,000,000 indivi-
duals.
Continuation of the housing pro-
gram, including the scandal-shaken
Federal Housing Administration
Foreign military and economic
aid The President recommended
$3,500,000,000 for this purpose, but
Congress is awaiting outcome of
the Geneva Conference before act- ported out this week.... Neither the
ing on the amount: w m T House nor Senate has yet held
— Gracious God, give us strength to nhanees Et," note: The Sen- hearings 00 the President’s foreign
master our pride. May we be as was Jesus, measure trade program, although it was sent
humble in every sense of the word. As we ate virtualiyed to Congress more than a month
humble ourselves before Thee, give us the de- after this article was "rhten.41, ago... Speaker Joe Martin fa-
sire to seek Thy will for us this day and courage other pmenaeresx ctuaX vors reconvening Congress in Nov.
- thsepending on develop, ember if the GOP wins the elec-
ments. aepeno g tion; otherwise he is against it.
SO A DITA I con 11 BAM They are: (1) The long-stalled Politicals ' JANE EADS
CAPITAL COLUMN increase in the national debt limit President Eisenhower will do a
--------------- to $290,000,000,000, and (2) the vol- lot more electioneering this fall
c 1/TY 1 A . untary health reinsurance propos- than he originally planned The
4A IT R ova 1 5 tarv 1 i cm mh PH T al. Decision on the former will be tentative schedule as drawn up by
DC IL-IO VIC LU A V 11 V made in July on the basis of the National Chairman Leonard Hall
• deficit outlook at the start of the calls for the President’s campaign-
_____Jnew fiscal year: and on the latter ing virtually across the country via
By FETER EDSON draw tins question, but he got it on the record on what happens at a forthcom- airplane. This program is subject
NEA Washington Correspondent and on the air.) ing White House conference be- to change, but it now contemplates
WASHINGTON L(NEA) - Millions of Amer- tween the President and congress- a Labor Day speech in California,
leans with eyes and ears glued to television (THE SENATOR’S USE of sarcasm and ex- ionol leaders who are seeking followed by one-day sorties in
and radio are getting a day in and day-out Im- aggeration was revealed when Secretary Ste-, changes in, the health plan,
pression of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wis-vens testified that David Schine himself sug- *"-
consin at work. gested that he be made a special assistant in
They are getting a first-hand picture of the the secretary’s office or to the Chief of Army
man that is more effective than any of the Intelligence.)
millions of words written about him. Senator McCarthy — “A point of order, Mr.
Odd Beliefs Take
Hold of Most Folk
The official weather map for Texas
for May calls for heavy precipitation for
the whole of Texas with the exception
% of a slice lying west of a line running
roughly from Del Rio to the New Mexico
line near Clovis. Temperatures for the
period will be-below normal in pretty
- much the same region.
If this forecast pans out, the great
drouth may well be on the way to ex-
tinction. i
to us. . .
The Prayer For Today
(From the Upper Room)
Every one who exalts himself will be
humbled, and he who humbles himself
will be exalted. (Luke 14:11 R.S.V.)
Read Lahe 19:1-10.
There is a feeling among many people,
including this writer, that we are now
entering a wet phase, when it may rain
as easy as the sun shone for so many
rainless months, and it may come to Prayer _
pass that complaints of drouth may r
turn to complaints of too much rain. .
However it turns out, West Texas has sire to seek Thy will for us this day and courage
been taught another lesson by the pro- to be obedientto Thee. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
was Jesus,
Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Mich-
Igan, Minnesota, Iowa, Idaho and
Ths President’s top measures Colorado... .Ex-President Tro-
omitted from this secret ‘must" man also intends to b" the ballot
list are as significant as those in- trail He, too, r'
cluded. of states. Trumr
Foremost among them are: (1) od bis return to
Printed below are a number of highlights Chairman. I wonder if the Secretary would
from the transcript of the Senate committee make the record clear as to whether I asked
inquiry into the Private G. David Schine ease, for an assistant secretaryship or an undersecre-
Them.aro.rutrtamu.em the Matement and taryahip for Mr. Schiner"
ION OPENING DAY, Senator McCarthy —
objected at the outset to having the specifica- (When others are asking questions. Senator
tions by Secretary of the Army Robert T. McCarthy insists oa meticulous accuracy of
Stevens presented as Tiled by the Depart- phrasing.)
"sohmnod" secure - "I do not Taw any Senator McCarthy- "Mr. Chairman, # coun-
respect for the civilians in the Pentagon who sel in asking these questions will say. Have
have been working night and day to attempt you learned that it was charged, instead of
to shift an investigation of communism—Com- saying, ‘Have you learned that men were
munist infiltration — into an investigation of crowded like cattle in the back end of a truck.’
one private in the Army” I don’t think the Inspector General — let me
*_ finish, please — I don’t think the Inspector
(Cross-examining the first witness, Maj.-Gen. General has reported that young men, were:
Miles Reber, the senator tried to ascribe a crowded into the back end of a track like
motive for the general’s testimony and le inti- cattle. I think counsel should rephrase the ques-
mate rite Th wecoLE ton"
eZ David Schine and McCar (Sample of the senator’s questioning of See-
thy Committee Counsel Roy M. Cohn made rotary Stevens.)
investigation in Europe0 Senator McCarthy — “Bob, don’t give me
Senator McCarthy — “Are you aware of that. You know that the (Fort Monmouth) hear
the fact that your brother was allowed tore ings were suspended the day you or someone
sigh when charges that he was a bad security else filed your charges against Mr. Cohn, Mr.
risk were made against him as a result of a Carr and myself. You know that, don’t you?
the investigation of this committee?” Let’s not be coy...”
(On objection of Committee Counsel Ray H. (Shortly afterward) "Let's be a little more
Jenkins, Senator McCarthy was forced to with- honest here . . . "
Los Darkest Moment
HAWIHAW!
DEAR DIARY:
TODAY I MET
MY CREAM (
MAN!
Give ME ,
THAT Book!
a wiirm CAMSC
If you remember the old Ameri- A newspaper to the bort thing
can Mercury of Mencken and Nath- with which to dry washed windows,
an you will recall that occasionally Al cab drivers are philosophers
they covered a page or two with and wits.
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miss list of things that Americans make an unforgettable salad.
. believed in. come h---or high wa- ice trays never come out easily.
Going Str.. . ter, whether they had tested them Mart husbands are grumpy until
Western Germany is enjoying a or not etc they have read the paper and swal-
high state of prosperity. or not, etc. lowed one or more cups of coffee.
Industrial production in greater A few days ago I was reminded Wives keep their eyes oa the
than before the war, tha curren- of this Mercury page when a gen- clock so they can be bright, fresh,
cy is stable, unemployment is low, tieman in Tallahassee, Fla., sent and all dressed up whan their hue-
end the business outlook is excel- me a letter asking “What do you bands get home from work,
lent. , . Husbands and wives always
Thais the glowing report James believe? quarrel st bridge
Conant, U. S. High Commissioner That’s a pretty large order and A silver fork left in a jar of
to Germany, gave a group of sen- a serious request. Then I figured mayonnaise will poison a whole
ators at a private meeting during - I would answer the Floridian (who county.
his recent trip to Washington. — is close enough to the Georgia line To mix his drinks will make a
(Post-Hall, Inc.) to merit a response) with a list man very ill.
of some of the things I believe. All dentists and doctors have old
but believe only because I have magazines on their waiting room
heard that they were true. tables.
For example, I believe: Every woman falls in love with
Waelinaton I That when you see a man her obstetrician.
wI OSnington Letter stretched out in a hammock-end Certain people have “green.
WASHINGTON An „, , he must be a little Mt fat—reading thumbs” and cm make a broom-
WASHINGTON An al day meet a book, you are seeing a com- stick grow in a desert
ing the gardens of two Pro fortable man, one who wouldn’t Dogs CM toll when people don’t
scantt, to O/n/7 200/0202707 Mr Fap PASH: M’s prines: like mem. o ant me .
serving the Savannah Ga birth- That high cheekbones are a sign People who don’t like dogs are
pince and girlhood home or J of loveliness in a woman. alwoxsto be gurestioned OATHCE:
liette Gordon Low, founder of the That a foreign accent is charm- as Md *
Girl Scout movement in the United ing and devastating, even though ony southerners know now
States. the owner of the accent has lived frchickepines in a gourmet.
Mrs. Bruce Meintosh of Miami, im America 4 years. A lent m the house win keep
Fla., chairman, and other members burglars
of the restoration committee met the Girl Scouts national convention All owls boot.
first at the Georgetown home of at Cincinnati last year. All football tackles are dumb,
Frederick H. Brooke, wife of The handsome ante-bellum man- st uttering, large hulks of blob.
a retired Waahington architect A sion in Georgia was about to be One must be reverent at funerals,
former national president of the sold to settle M estate when the the opera, and openings of DeMille
Girl Scouts, Mrs. Brooke is hon- Girl Scouts swung into action to pictures.
orary vice president and chairman raise funds to purchase the prop- Mothers always cry at tha wed-
of the national advisory council. erty. The Gordon house, as it is dings of their daughters.
Luncheon was held in the gar- known, was built between 1819 and People who own so much as one
den of the coach house on the for- 1821 and was originally owned by horns are generally considered to
mer Robert Todd Lincoln estate James N. Wayne, who was ap be rich, gracious, familiar with
across the street. WHih Mrs. Ar pointed to the Supreme Court by Europe, end the owners of a fat,
thus woods has converted into one Andrew Jackson female child,
of the area’s moot handsome resi-
dences. Toe woo served Ister et ------------------------------------------------------------
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UTTLE BROTHER
red descendant of Alexander
Hamilton, has distinguished herself
in many fields. A former WAC
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the Ford Foundation, she has mere
recently been active as a trustee
of the National Trust in the re-
storation of Woodlawn Plantation,
the nearby Virginia estate which
George Washington gave to Nellie
Custis as a wedding present. The
purpose of the National Trust is to
preserve homes of historic interest.
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tional Board of Directors of the
Girl Scouts, Mrs. Woods is espe-
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