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ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1953 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 3C WALTER LIPPMANN Uncertain Europe Now Doubts U.S. FTER A YEAR of our own pains of the Eisenhower be born, I was no doubt disorder in the leading after going to Rome, to and to Paris there was no it seemed to me, that for the essential pre- World is whether, when, and how the leading free nations can achieve effective gover me Until then the discussion of the great issues, the taking of decisions, the making of policies Churchill Churchill freupwrestedl0 must be largely an academic exercise. With the exception of Great Britain only, the leading countries of the West are in a constitutional struggle.

For reason I would venture to say the critical question that which the Churchill speech has raised is whether the have been elected, or can be found, who speak with sufficient authority to confer and negotiate on any great matter. The underlying assumption of the Churchill speech is that there exists in the leading countries representatives who could, if they thought it wise and if the Soviet Union agreed to it, confer and negotiate. This assumption is not now valid in at least four of the principal nations of the West. Forces of Time and Change. The democratic process by which the voters consent to the formation of a government that can govern is laboring under grave difficulties.

They are sO grave that they can be described soberly as a constitutional crisis. Until this crisis is overcome, we shall feel- in fact multitudes do -how and feeble is the light and leading of governments and how undrone, the brute forces of time The underlying forces of time change work in all societies and on both sides of the Iron Curtain. A Fundamental Condition. What is more, there are changes in the making in Germany, France and Italy because the new political generation is knocking on' the door. The common, underlying, and controlling element in all these developments is, as we heard last summer, that it is time for a change.

This, besides being a Republican slogan, is also a law of nature. But this change, though unavoidable and necessary, is proving to be inordinately difficult. As we can see only, too well in Washington it is world today no easy matter to bring into being sufficiently governments by popular election. There are, of course, special circumstances in each country. But there is also a common and fundamental condition in the constitutional disorder of Western World.

It is that the legislative assemblies being closest to the voters, are exerting their power to invade and to usurp the prerogatives of the Executive. Since it is impossible for assemblies to govern a country, they exercise their usurped power by preventing the Executive from governing it. In Italy it has been necessary to enact an electoral law which is designed to make it much more difficult to elect opponents, either on the Right or on the Left, than SAMUEL EDISON WOODS DIES IN GERMANY Inherited $5,000,000 Last Year From Mrs. Wilhemina Busch Woods of St. Louis.

Samuel Edison Woods, former American consular official who inherited a $5,000,000 estate from Mrs. Wilhemina Busch Woods of St. Louis last year, died at Munich, Germany, today of a stroke. Woods, who retired last summer to live with his wife in cient castle on Lake 'Starnberg near Munich, was 61 years old. He had held consular posts in Prague, Berlin and Zurich before becoming the American consul at Munich.

They were married in the same castle in February 1948. Mrs. Woods, daughter of Adolphus Busch, founder of Anheuser-Busch, died last November, leaving her entire estate to her husband. Much of it was in stock of the St. Louis brewery.

A native of Texas, Woods was an Army Air Force pilot in World War I and entered the Foreign service in 1929. He died in an Army Hospital after a brief illness. MRS. WILLIAM T. FINDLY DIES; FUNERAL AT LOUISIANA, MO.

Mrs. William T. Findly died yesterday of infirmities at the home of her son, Claude Findly, 2315 Ashby road. She -was 85 years old. Mrs.

Findly, who had lived in years at Louisiana, recentle widow of the former secretary, Victor to Mayors Miller Henry and W. at Kiel time of the Chamber of Commerce. He died in 1943. Funeral services for Mrs. Findly will be tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Collier's undertaking establishment at Louisiana.

U. S. Lines New Commodore. NEW YORK, (AP)-. Capt.

John W. Anderson, skipper of the world's fastest ship, the United States, is the new commodore of the U. S. Lines fleet. Anderson, 54 old, seaman succeeds Commodore Harry Manning, who retired early this month, the line announced last night.

The fleet includes the liners United States and the America and 46 cargo vessels. $50,000 ART EXHIBIT OPENS AT MUSEUM 'Friends' Mark First Birthday With Collection of 20 Gifts. An exhibition of 20 works of art recently given the City. Art Museum by 14 donors St. Louis area opened to the public today in an alcove of Sculpture Court, the museum's large central hall.

The collection, dating from about 2000 B.C. to the present and valued at about $50,000, was first shown last night at a Friends of the City Art Museum reception marking the Friends' first anniversary. Perry T. Rathbone, director of the museum, explained that the figure of $50,000 was obtained by adding actual prices paid for the objects, always choosing the next lower round number. In experts' appraisals, of the pieces already have been assigned values as much as three times as high as the sales price, he said.

Renoir's "Figures in a Landscape," an oil dating from the noted French impressionist's, maturity, has been tion's centerpiece. The picture, painted in 1918, a year before the artist's death, utilizes broken color to suggest vibrating atmosphere in radiating heat of a summer day. The painting is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney M.

Shoenberg 18 Brentmoor park, Clayton. Next to the painting is the 4000-year-old Egyptian faience hippopotamus given Love, the 44 museum Westmoreland place. Balancing the hippo is a a a a a a a a fifthcentury Persian bracelet of gold with a pair of ibexes as decorations. leaping, gift of an anenymous donor. Other art works in the display include a Coptic chasuble; two thirteenth-century Persian ceramic plates and a bowl.

They were presented by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen of Alton. The display also includes a marble relief, "The Adoration of the Shepherds," by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (1447-1522), north Italian architect and sculptor. It donated anonymously.

was. Lionberger is the donor of a Chinese bell, ceremonial urn and figure of a lioness from the Chou dynasty (1027 to 249 B.C.) and an enameled crucifix from early thirteenth France. Vincent Price, St. Louis-born motion picture actor, is represented by a stone head dating from pre-Columbian times in Mexico. A painting by Inez Johnston, contemporary Berkeley (Calif.) artist, was given by Morton D.

May, 12 Brentmoor park, Clayton. From John M. Olin of there is a Chinese tomb relief of the Han dynasty (200 00 B.C. to 200 A.D.), with figures of hunting dogs, ducks, geese and deer clearly delineated. A bronze portrait of a woman by Charles Despiau, contemporary French sculptor, is the gift of Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer 4903 Pershing avenue. Miss Antoinette Dames, 3733 Lindell boulevard, is the donor of a water color painted 1800 Hubert Robert, French romantic, artist. From Mr. Lansing Thoms, 28 Picardy lane, Ladue, there is a three-color Fa Hua ceramic jar from the Ming dynasty of sixteenth-century China.

An Rodin water color of a reclining nude has been given by and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, 6372 Forsyth boulevard. Clayton. only Belbello, leading miniThe, north Italian artist known aturist of the early fifteenth century, is represented by an illuminated manuscript page, the gift of Mr.

Mrs. Joseph Werner. 9625 Ladue road, Ladue. These works of art will remain on exhibition in Sculpture Court through August. GEORGE L.

THORPE FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE TOMORROW Funeral services for George L. Thorpe, former regional manager a Chrysler Corp. Motors subsidiary, will for the Mopar Parts be tomorrow at 10 a.m. at St. Roch's Catholic Church, 6060 Waterman boulevard, with entombment in Mausoleum.

Mr. years Calvary, yesterday of a heart ailment? at his home at 5918 Waterman. He was associated with the Chrysler Corp. for 20 years until his retirement three ago. He had worked for several automobile manufacturers since 1903.

Surviving wife, Mrs. Gertrude C. Thorpe; three daughters, Mrs. Fred R. Ramsen, University City; Mrs.

John C. Henning St. Louis, and Mrs. William F. Callaway, Kansas City; 10 grandchildren and a greatgranddaughter.

SEE THE NEWEST BROADLOOM (Kennard Loop-Lok Broadloom) Kennard Carpet Co. 312 Arcade Bide. Olive at 81h MAin 1900 a Bishop Sheen Predicts Downfall Of Reds and the Rise of Religion BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN standing essay on the Archbishop tion to TYROAN BREITENBACH Home. Alton.

Seated from CHARLES H. HELMSING ARCHBISHOP A plea for tolerance and com-1 passion among the races of the world, was made last night by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Catholic orator and author. Addressing the closing session of the Archbishop Ritter Worldmission Exhibition at Kiel Auditorium, Bishop Sheen employed Bishop Sheen employed the Gospels in a bitter indictment of Communism, which said has "hardened its heart against the miracles of grace." Predicting the eventual downfall of the Soviet regime, he said Communism "was spread on the world in the winter of its discontent, to prepare it for a more glorious springtime. For every Calvary, there is an Easter An estimated 11.000 persons heard the one-hour address, which was telecast in its entirety by Post-Dispatch Station KSD-TV.

Yesterday's crowd of 65.000 visitors to the Worldmission exhibit in Exhibition Hall broke auditorium records for the third successive day. Including the audience at the concluding session, officials of the exhibition estimated total attendance at 280,000 persons. The exhibition, sponsored by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, opened last Sunday with a procession and outdoor mass. Racial Understanding. Speaking on the topic, "One Lord -One World," Bishop Sheen spoke the need for racial understanding.

"There are no inferior peoples in the world." he said. "If there is any inequality, it is between those who are in the state of grace and those who are not." The natives of Africa, he added, exemplify the fact that "there are other bonds than those of the flesh--there are the bonds of the spirit. There is a higher royalty than the royalty of the earth, and for this reason we must pay no attention to races and nations. "It may well be that in 200 WON'T MAR FROM ALCOHOL, GREASE, OIL, ACIDS OR ALKALI! Dare Steelcote hAY-TITE RUBBER MADE ESPECIALLY CONCRETE FLOORS 1'EL. COTE MANUFACTUR.4G CO LOUIS MO PAINT, HARDWARE AND DEALERS CALL GR.

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LOUIS V. Seniors to Be Honored for Outstanding Service at Banquet Sunday. Four St. Louis University seniors will receive the annual Cona clave awards for outstanding service to the university at a bouquet sponsored by the Student Conclave at. Medart's Restaurant, Clayton and Skinker boulevards, Sunday at 6 p.m.

winners, who are nominated selected by Student Conclave, the student governing body, are Thomas Methenitis and Mary Ann Murray, College of Arts and Sciences; Douglas O'Neill, School of Law, and Donald Fogarty, Institute of Technology. Methenitis. Chicago, was vice president of the Arts College Student Council, captain of the "Scratchers." intramural softball team, and vice president of Phi Sigma Iota, honorary romance language fraternity, this year. Miss Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Maurice S. Murray, 7210 Arlington drive, Richmond Heights, was prefect of the Women's Sodality, vice president of Kappa Beta Gamma social sorority and a member of Eta Sigma Phi, national classical fraternity. O'Neill, son of Dr. and Mrs. James F.

O'Neill, 3632 Lafayette avenue. is a member of the Student Bar Association, a member of Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity and founder and officer in charge of the crack drill team of the university's Air Force R.O.T.C. Fogarty, son of Mrs. James T. Fogarty, 5064 Queens avenue, is a member of the Society of Engineers and Society for the Advancement of Management at the university.

Outstanding achievement and service, both scholastically and socially, were the criteria for the awards from which members of Student Conclave and of the Jesuit national honor societies, Alpha Sigma Nu for men and Gamma Pi Epsilon for women, were excluded. described as "the one power that does not believe in God," Bishop Sheen said. "The Lord looks with sorrow on this part of the world." Bishop Sheen, who is national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, was produced, by Auxiliary Bishop Helmsing of St. Louis. A brief talk was given by Archbishop Joseph Ritter following the main address.

The Worldmission Exhibition. illustrated the work of Catholic missions throughout the world, was conducted under auspices of Archbishop Ritter and the bishops of the Belleville and Springfield, Mo. General Chairman of the exhibit was Oliver L. Parks. Awards for essays on the exhibit were presented to 30 students from the St.

Louis area at THOMAS L. STOKES Eisenhower Asserts His Leadership WASHINGTON. election campaign and the labor Administration which is still trying to especially sensitive to the constitucountries of the European continent, lit is to elect supporters of the Government coalition. Yet some such device is in fact necessary because the only native at the present moment is a legislative assembly which would not tolerate a government such as the present which does respect personal liberty and would prefer to practice democracy. The German constitutional problem is not yet fully exposed because the Bonn.

Constitution is a formidable instrument. Problem in Germany. Nevertheless, it is one of the fundamental facts of European situation, and by the way of our own German and European policy, that the Adenauer Government has a narrow majority even in Western Germany, and that it would have very poor prospects in a united Germany. The underlying weakness of the Adenauer Government is plainly evident in the devices it has had to resort to in order to obtain ratification of the European Army This pact abridges the SOVereignty of Germany under a supernational authority and by any standard it is a treaty of the first order of importance. It has obtained ratification in Bonn only by a simple majority of the Lower House and by by-passing, for all practical purposes, the Upper House.

In France the crisis of the Constitution is universally admitted. France is living under the despotism of an assembly which will not tolerate effective and responsible government. Until this crisis is overcome, France is quite unable to play her proper role in the world -be it in Indochina, Europe or North Africa. Loss of Faith in U.S. No one who has been in Europe recently, and has listened and observed, think, fail to report when he comes home that American influence is declining precipitously as the Eisenhower Administration displays its weakness and its indecision.

I am not talking about the but of something signifpopularity of Americans, abroad, icant-of the loss of confidence and respect which has developed among those very people in Europe who wish most to believe in the United States and to work with it. Let no one here be deluded by being told that this loss of confidence and respect is confined to the Communists and their dupes, or to the plainly jealous. I think I know my way around in these countries, and more or less who is who, and there must be no doubt in our minds, no doubt in Washington, none in the White House above all, that it is among the most reliable. the most sincere, the most ancient and tested of our friends, that the dismay is the greatest. What is it that they feel? They feel, to put.

it quite flatly, that President Eisenhower has failed to assert his legitimate authority, and thus to do his duty, which is to defend the balance of the Constitution, the powers of the Execits responsibility and duties in dealing with foreign affairs, the dignity of then Government, and the rights individuals. Not to report this condition of opinion, which may become crucial to the future of our alliance and of the unity of the free world. would be to hide from our people the truth, however disagreeable, that they must not be denied. Tomorrow's Events Annual meeting: Thirty-fourth of League of Women Voters of St. Louis; 'World Trade the program theme; Chase Hotel; sessions at 10 a.m.

and 12 noon. Art demonstration: Miss Margery Dodson, art instructor at John Burroughs School; "Painting; for all age groups; City Art Museum in Forest Park; 2:30 p.m. Annual benefit auction: Southwest Kiwanis Club of St. Louis; proceeds to be used for underprivileged work of club; McMahon Pontiac Gravois avenue and Chippewa street; 4 p.m. Banquet: St.

Louis chapter of Bradley University Alumni Association; Nicholas Nyaradi, professor of economics and political science at the University and former minister of finance of Hungarian government, speaker; Forest Park Hotel; 6:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC AT SALVATION ARMY CITADEL A festival program of sacred music will be presented tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Salvation Army Citadel, 1324 Tower Grove avenue, it was announced today. Commissioner E. I.

Pugmire, national commander, will attend the program, first of a two-day series of meetings of Salvation Army musicians of Missouri and Southern Illinois, sponsored by the divisional band. Salvation Army musicians are members who play instruments or sing at street services and other gatherings as a devotional activity. FUNERAL FOR SISTER ANNA Funeral services for Sister Anna Sexton, a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, will be tomorrow at 9 a.m. at the Maryville College Convent, 2900 Meramec street, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. She was 80 years old and died yesterday at the convent after an illness of three years.

Sister Anna became a member of the order in 1899 and has been in St. Louis since that time. She was in charge of the convent's infirmary for 30 years. Sister Anna was native of Ireland. There are no Immediate survivors.

WO QUESTIONS arose naturally finally, at long last, exerted his the people behind an "austerity" to wit, no quick, substantial tax He and his Administration now have made this official as essentail to maintain our defense at safe level and to effectuate continued aid to our allies. The questions: 1. Why did he wait so long? 2. Did he wait too long? As for the second, it can be pointed out that the President clearly has tremendous reservoir of popular support. If this now can be brought to bear effectively upon Congress, as Franklin D.

Roosevelt was able to achieve that, Mr. Eisenhower may come out of what is now being recognized as a real Eisenhower. dilemma within Eisenhower. his own party with a good deal that he asks, though with possibility of some compromise. It will be a long and hard fight.

As for the first, it may be explained that President Eisenhower has studiously avoided any conflict with Congress in conformity with the policy he adopted when he became President which was to especially kind and nice to Congress. Confusion and Drift. The President sincerely Intended it to be the co-ordinate branch of government. He was determined to have no quarrels with Congress. In fact, he gave orders to his White House staff that they must get along with Congress, must mind their manners, and say "Please" and "Yes, sir." This went to such lengths of open appeasement that it disturbed long-time observers who had never seen that policy work -that is, if a President expected to lead and have a successful Administration.

As some of these forecast, It all resulted in time in the confusion, and "drift," with a lack of sure direction, that began to exhibit itself several days ago, dramatizing itself most pointedly in the mix-up over budget and tax reductions. Simple and Direct. For Congress, of itself, is not able to provide leadership, though it can, in a negative fashion, become a powerful obstructive force -and signs of that were beginning to appear. Significantly enough, but not unusual, the initiative for leadership came from Congress, not from the President. If President Eisenhower possessed the pollitcal wiliness and stratagems of Franklin D.

Roosevelt, it might be suspected that he planned it that way, that he let his party in Congress get itself into a muddle from which he, alone, WASHINGTON. after President Eisenhower leadership in the effort to rally program of the American sort cuts. ent occupant of the White House is a simple and direct person. The distress signals finally went up, we may recall, when both Secretary of Treasury Humphrey and Secretary of Defense Wilson expressed and very publicly, doubts about balancing the budget 'and cutting taxes in near future. This was just too much for Republican members of Congress who had promised so much in their campaigns, and who have been reminded in an increasing stream of letters from back home about these promises and the failure of fulfillment.

Conservative, Isolationist. -By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer, presents an award for an outRitter Worldmission Exhibiof the Catholic Children's left, AUXILIARY BISHOP St. Louis, Bishop Sheen and JOSEPH E. RITTER. and 1300 seminarians." Expanded Program.

years, Africa will be the leading continent of the world. Economically and politically, it may be what the United States is today." Bishop Sheen urged increased missionary activity 1 in areas of world menaced by Communism. In Africa, he said, "there are already five native bishops An missionary program expanded, continued, will be necessary to prevent that nation "from being tempted away by Communism." In Japan, the task of the missionary will be to decrease present emphasis on the material life, Bishop Sheen asserted. 'Among the peoples of the world, those of India are the most spiritual. We in America love luxury we can't be happy without permanent waves and deep freezes.

But the Indians are interested, which only in they achieve communion by suffering, sacrifice, self-discipline and restraint. "The Communists, however, are making inroads in India, trying to tempt India away from the Cross. When we bring India to the faith, we will have a development of theology and spiritual life the like of which the church has not seen in 600 years. "Among the mission lands, Japan the most materialistic, the immitative of the Western World. The great taks the will be to 'dematerialize' missionary, Their leaders took their distress to the President.

He just must get them off the hook and explain why no balanced budget and no tax reduction. So the President was almost literally dragged up to the rostrum to lead. Once there he did a good job--and he seems to like the role. The rest will be up to his party leaders in Congress, to the public--and also to the Democrats. The rest will be needed because a substantial number of Republicans, more in the House proportionately than in the Senate, were not Eisenhower Republicans before the Chicago convention, and are of the old-fashioned, conservative G.O.P.

mould, with strong traces of latent isolationism. These Republicans will become important factors in the battle to extend the Reciprocal Trade Act, for they are high tariff inclined. and the fight over foreign aid, of which they favor very little, as well as in the controversies over budget and taxes. Reed Carries Weight. As to the last they would swing the meat ax on spending of all kinds, and cut taxes immediately.

They are epitomized in big, bluff Representative Reed New York, who for Daniel, them in his periodic blasts at the Administration for failure to live up to its campaign promises, as he puts He carries weight because of his seniority--he has been in the House 34 years--and because he is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee which handies tax and tariff legislation. The irony of this whole situation is the fact that it is Dan Reed who has become the antiEisenhower leader in Congress. No one ever would have forecast that -for he is a stalwart of the stalwarts, a regular of the regulars. Spanish Episcopal Bishop Dies. MADRID, May 22 (AP)-Fer- Cabrera Latorre, bishop of the Spanish Reformed ChurchEpiscopal branch died at his home yesterday.

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