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FOUR EVENING TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1952 Phone 4600 for a WANT AD Taker Evening Sunday Times The Timid Soul Every Afternoon (except Sunday) and Sunday Morning. Published by The Times and AllccanUn Company South Mechanic Street. Cumberland, Md. as second class mail matter at Maryland under the act or March 3, 1879 Member of the Audit Bureau Circulation Member of The Associated Preii Phone 4600 Weekly subscription rats by One week only 30c; Evening Times per copy 5c; Bun. Times 40c per week: Sunday Times only, lOc per copy.

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At least he didn't in so many words. What he said was: "I am confident there is a clear and definite solution to the Korean conflict. A present solution involves basic decisions which I recognize as improper for public disclosure or discussion." He didn't even say there that he himself has a solution. He said "there is" a solution. That he expressed himself as he did, instead of saying flatly he has a solution or plan, may be only a matter of literary composition.

But MacArthur is credited with real consciousness of the language and the fact that he used the phrases he did, and in the way he did, may have some significance for the future. Since Gen. Eisenhower listened to Sen. TafUs recommendations for his cabinet and then rejected them, it would seem he's willing to listen but determined to make up his own mind, no matter who likes it. EISENHOWER and MacArthur have now agreed to meet.

The very language MacArthur used should save him from any feeling of loss of face as Eisenhower listens to him, as he did to Taft, and then goes his own way, anyway. MaeArthur talking with Eisenhower about some of his views on a claiming in so many words that he has the not quite the same as MacArthur saying flatly he has a plan and then seeing it rejected. Eisenhower, of course, may feel that MacArthur has a real remedy, for MacArthur apparently is not thinking of precisely the same remedy he offered in the spring of 1951: Bombing Chinese bases in Manchuria: blockading the China coast: and using Chiang Kai-Shek's Formosan troops on the Asia mainland against China. It was that plan, or rather his outspoken espousal of it, that cost MacArthur his job in 1951 when President Truman relieved him of his command. MacArthur indicated he was thinking of something different when he first mentioned the word "solution" in a recent speech in New York before the National Association of Manufacturers.

Whatever It Is that MacArthur has in mind, If Eisenhower accepted it and it ended the war, MacArthur could feel he had ended his military career on a plane of vindication after his embarrassment in 1951. THERE WERE ABOUT four ways in which he could have obtained attention hls views: Inform President Truman who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces from which, a Pentagon official pointed out last week, MacArthur still draws his $18.000 a year five-star general's pay. But relations between Truman and MacArthur have been rather chilly. Inform the joint chiefs of staff who run the armed forces. But his relations with them may have been chilly since- they didn't see eye-to-eye with him, either, on his 1951 plan.

Tell Eisenhower, whose announced decision to go to Korea in search of a solution for ending the war had been known for a month. But relations between Eisenhower and MacArthur haven't been exactly warm. Or say publicly he had. some ideas on winning in Korea. Which he did, at the NAM meeting.

MacArthur had been out of the spotlight since he made the keynote address at the Republican convention last July. If MacArthur had chosen any other day but the one he did to talk of a solution, he probably would have made front pages everywhere. As it was, he landed on the inside pages. The night on which he spoke was the night when stories were pouring In from the Pacific, telling of Eisenhower's visit to Korea and quoting the President-elect as saying he had no panaceas. Fitting And Proper THE FEDERAL parole board which denied a parole to Alger Hiss, the former State Department official convicted of lying about his Communist association, presumably felt that the gravity of his offense precluded consideration of his plea.

The board chairman announced that the unanimous board action followed a careful study of the official record of the Hiss case. Tills included a report written by the chairman after a personal hearing he granted to days ago. The board might well have concluded that Hi.ss should serve as an example to other men of similar background and training who might be tempted, a.s he apparently was, to play with the fate of nations by giving away his country's secrets. This i.s no matter to be tossed off lightly with a brief two years in prison. Hi.ss, of course, maintains his innocence and declares he will bo vindicated.

There is always that remote chance. But as the official record so plainly shows, a good part of his behavior before and dining his'lwo trials doc.s not pattern of an innocent man. He has great deal of explaining to do. Meanwhile, it i.s proper that he have been denied parole. Thr element of doubt in his c.r*e is not so great that he ought to have its benefits.

i A jn 3 At HOws AIR.MILQUETOAST; MA HURRY FOR HIS CAR, WAITS UMTIL TffE CRAP GAME IS OVER PEFORE ASKING THE MECHANICS flfEPAIReP IT Nnr HnM Trifcm IK. By EL T. WEBSTER Whitney Bolton Looking Sideways Thomas A. Stokes Race Problem Again Confronts Supreme Court 14th Amendment, now at issue in the public- school segregation cases before the Supreme Court, is perhaps the most-tortured section of our Constitution, Both legally and in practice, Figuratively, there is blood in it blood of Negro slaves; the blood of hundreds of thousands of white men, North and South, who fought a war over human slavery, and, during one long period of our history, the blood also of white slaves in our early mills and factories who were exploited through interpretations of it, as shall be developed here later. Slowly the 14th Amendment has emerged from the shadows.

Slowly it is beginning to come into the sunlight of its original purpose when it was framed back in 1865. It and the 13th Amendment that preceded it and the 15th which followed it. known as the "Reconstruction Amendments" freed Negro slaves and guaranteed to them the lull rights of citizenship. our natipnal capital. Tjie present cases, brought on behelf of four states and the national capital, constitute an attack on segregation in public schools wherever it exists.

ONE OF THE 14th Amendment's five paragraphs still is in eclipse and shadowy as to interpretation. It, the first, reads in part: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or propery without due process of law, nor deny to any person its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." On this seemingly plain and simple statement, opponents of segregation in our public schools base their case that Negro children should be admitted to public schools with white children. That now is forbidden, either in a blanket ban or with qualifications, in 17 states and the District of Columbia. THE Supreme Court has before it a decision by an earlier court back in a case involving segregation in public transportation. That lays down the principle that the "equal protection" guaranteed by the 14th Amendment may be elected by "separate but equal" facilities.

So far as public schools go. those who uphold existing segregation contend that "separate but equal" schools meet the constitutional test. Will the Supreme Court overthrow this 56-year-old interpretation in the case of public schools, as it did two years ago in a unanimous decision applying specifically to graduate-college students in two cases, in which it held that Negroes must be admitted. It is, indeed, a grave issue, for it involves customs and deep-seated feelings among a far wider range of society. Will this "equal protection" of the 14th Amendment finally be clarified and emerge from the shadows? part of the 14th Amendment is emerging- from the shadows.

There is another. For many years, during the latter half of the 19th Century and well into this, the provision in that first section about depriving a citizen of property without due process was strained and tortured by the Supreme Court in favor of corporations. "Property" was given a broad meaning that included workers and permitted various forms of exploitation, even including child labor. That is Hard to imagine now. That attitude has disappeared.

Human rights are being recognized. OFTEN overlooked is another section of the 14lh Amendment that says, in effect, that if any state abridges the right of any of its citizens to vote then its representation in Congres shall be reduced proportionate to the disfranchisement. Repeatedly in the past that has been called to the attention of Congress and its enforcement demanded in the case of Southern states which, in one way or another, prevented Negroes from voting. Now the right to vote has been gradually extended in the South, so that this SUCH exploitation of workers existed in the North, and primarily there early in the machine age, but later in the South, too. So we.

as representing our forebears, are all guilty on that count, as on the bigger and broader count now before the Supreme Court. As to the latter, nothing testifies so graphically perhaps as the prelude to that moving tragic of our Civil Brown's which Stephen Vincent Benet described the rough old New England sea captain conning his Bible in his cabin to the swaying lamp of a turbulent sea while his ship carried, in its dirty and filthy hold below, a cargo of black human beings from Africa to be sold into slavery in "the land of the free." We are, surely, all guilty, and the great problem rests on our souls as it docs on those of the nine men on the Supreme Court. We can only pray that whatever their wisdom brings forth and their decision will be pondered long and shall, in a tolerant spirit, white and black, try to follow as best we can. It is truly one of the great decisions of our history. (United Feature Syndicate.

Inc. 1 Douglas Larsen Election Fund Too Big, Say Scholar, Politician There's now complete agreement between the political scientists and the practical politicians on the subject of excess campaign expenditures. Too much money is spent over and above the present limit. It's not all spent properly and efficiently. And there's not much that present law can do about it.

Furthermore, the laws will probably not be changed to correct the situation. This agreement was reached in testimony before the House committee investigating the matter. Dr. James K. Pollock of the University of Michigan spoke for the political scientists.

And the practical politician's point of view was advanced by Thomas E. Whitten, sheriff of Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh. POLLOCK didn't mince words when it came to predicting that the committee' was probably wasting its time and his. He said: "I have found in looking over the books I wrote on the subject some 20 years ago, and in my previous testimony before congressional committees, that the situation has not changed very much. One finds a constant repetition of the same ideas and recommendations, arrived at by various committees at various times and then never acted upon by Congress." He went on to say that he had developed a "geologic sense of time" about corrective election legislation, meaning at he thought of the subject in terms of periods of thousands of years.

Sheriff Whitten withheld comment until after he left the hearing room. "After all. I'm a politician and- he's a professor," he said. "Professors can get away with things like that before congress- ional committees. But he's right about nothing being done." History From The Times Files TEN YEARS AGO December 13, 1942 Thirty-one local women complcta 80-hour.

Red Cross nurses aide course in Allegany and Memorial hospitals. Lloyd Ganoe, 31, of Romncy, dies in auto crash near Romney. Allied planes batter at Shrinking Axis footholds in Africa: Buna falls to MacArthur's forces in New Guinea. TWENTY YEARS AGO December 15, 1932 Program features Cumberland and its industrial advantages broadcast from two Pittsburgh ra- riia stations. H.

Loren Elliott installed most illustrious grand master. Grand Council o( Hoyal and Select Masons of Maryland. Potomac Ediron Company honors Thomas W. TciCiS with dinner. THIRTY YEARS AGO December 15, 1922 Death of Justice Jacob B.

Humbird, 78. Assassination of Gabriel Naru- towitcz. first president of Poland. Charles J. Cumiskcy, water commissioner, appeals to residents to conserve water as supply at Lake Gordon drops to 21 feet below spillway.

WHEN Pollock got through telling off the committee he said he'd have to go back to the report of a similar committee presented to Congress two years ago: "I still feel that the most important point requiring attention is the fixing of responsibility for political campaign expenditures. Furthermore, I still believe that the second most important point is to provide adequate publicity of campaign expenditures. Third, I think close attention must be given to a provision for more effective enforcement of all the laws regulating campaign expenditures." The committee then asked Whitten what he thought of Pollock's views. He replied: "It's not easy to fix responsibility, but it absolutely should be done if possible. The state chairman could probably do that job best.

Trouble is, when somebody gives a lot of money he also wants to tell you how to spend it." FORTY YEARS AGO December 15, Death of Mrs. Cornelius S. Murphy, of Lonaconing. Jacob Reed, car inspector, kilied in Keyser yards. Work begins on encasing Mill Race sewer in tile tube under Baltimore Strort towards South Mechanic Street.

POLLOCK also told the committee that the amount of money spent was not as important as where it came from. Sheriff Whitten was most eager to sustain that point: "If the law is changed it Should make it so you get money only from individuals, and not- from groups or corporations. In my opinion a lot of 50-ccnt or dollar contributions arc better than the big lump sum from some outfit. With eacli 50-cent contribution you know you've also got a vote. And that's what you're really after anyway." As far as Whitten is concerned.

Pollock is also dead right on publicity and campaign funds. He says: "All you have to have are a couple of newspaper stories on A LADY of the theater I have known fof 15 years is back in the Manhattan that loves her after three years of setting the British drama afire, including a proposal from, an incredibly wealthy gentleman who seemed a little perplexed when Jessie Royce Landis, my long and acutely personal notion of a darling, said "No." I suspect that other 'ladies of Broadway theater have set London afire. Indeed I know they have, but Miss Landis is the first, it is certain, who wound up there by deliberately taking a loss of $4,950 in salary. WE SAT IN the Algonquin lobby the other afternoon and for two hours I learned that it is an exciting and wonderful thing when an actress goes to a strange city in a foreign land and, nursing and cursing an infortuitous sprained ankle complicated by a broken bone in her foot, walks out on the stage and in four flat minutes knows that she is among new but adoring friends. The British are reserved.

Her entrance was to a spatter of polite applause. She expected no more. She expected they would say, in effect: "All right, American actress, show us." She must have shown them because for three years everyone I saw from London described the shattering triumph of her First Night at the-Duke of York's Theater. And they gave me excerpts from the customarily restrained critics. Such as "An American bombshell hit the West End last night.

Jessie Royce Landis won every heart." Another, a man noted for describing even Shakespeare as "a good writer," wrote: "Delirious reception" and added that "her. performance is magnetic, one of abounding technique." drama critics of Los Angeles heard the news of what was happening at Leguna. They drove down one by one and saw her and went back to write raves. Someone in Los Angeles, Miss Landis does not know who, sent these notices to London and in a few days she received a cable asking her to play the show there. She followed with "Come Live With Me," another comedy, and even did a musical, something no manager on Broadway ever had been able to con her into doing although before becoming an actress she had studied for opera and could and can sing.

Lee Shubert, voyaging through London during the run of the musical, called backstage to scold her. "For the British you'll sing," he complained. "For us you have to 'act." THE OTHERS were the same. This ovation was for her work in Guy Bolton's dramatization of Willie Maugham's novel, "Theater." The play was called "Larger Than Life" and it happened on the West End because she played it for S50 in a tiny summer theater at Laguna Beach, California, when she had refused S5.000 for playing a role in a Hollywood movie. It took five days before the NOW SHE IS back because.

British Equity, after a fancy set of rules concerning "alien artists" and giving her work permits long after they were' legal or to be expected, that she'd better go back home and play on Broadway and then return to London after a cool-off period. We have the same or much the same rules: a British player, having closed in a legitimate-play in America, cannot appear in another play in the United States until six months have passed. We rarely break the rule. The British, for Jessie, did so. Which is either a commentary on British softness or Miss Landis' enormous and blazing charm.

I choose to accept the latter, never having been one to believe the British were soft about anything. It is a wonderful thing to talk to an actress who has had a unique and powerful triumph. Other triumphs of other kinds come to other women, but the spectacle of an actress aglow with having conquered audiences is a special and lovely thing to look upon. And I know no other actress, save one, to whom I'd rather see it happen. The truth is that I have had a real.and abiding affection for Jessie Rbyce Landis for a long time and I rejoice in her presence in this world.

fMcNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Marquis Childs Hear Washington Calling The outlook in general calls for blizzards and I believe you'd better join the Reo Motor Co. and me by our fireside for some comfortable reflections upon the snow plow of the future. This gasoline-powered widget painted pastel green chuffs through the drifts outside in the cold while you, the operator, sit in the living room by the window in your carpet slippers, guiding it down the path by remote control. Such a magnificent boon to mankind is not on the market; the management isn't even considering such a thing yet. But an old friend of mine who is connected with this progressive firm happened through town, noticed my puny efforts with a snow shovel, and told me this heart-warming tale of industrial research.

news about transistors, which their firm seems to have originated. The way they explained it, a transistor is a tiny piece of metal about the size of a match head that'll do all the work of a vacuum. tube. It uses hardly any power, never gets hot, seldom wears out, and laughs at bumps. As of now, the Army and Navy arc using all the transistors that can be made, but production is starting to boom and they see the day not far off when the wrist-watch radio and the tiny TV sets will be realities.

They've already built laboratory models of radios smaller than cigarette packages, while RCA a couple of weeks ago announced its first television set powered exclusively by transistors. THE REO people are leading manufacturers, among things, of power iawnmowcrs. For these they make a kind of vacuum cleaner attachment for sucking up snow and spewing it over to the side. One of their engineers added the electronic equipment to a lest model. On his plow is a small receiving set.

In his living room is the tiny broadcasting "Union that sends the impulses that guide the machine around the begonia bushes and stop when the job is done. Even now he is experimenting with this equipment in New England where, like no other snow shoveler for miles around, he prays between blizzards for more snow. MY MAN SAID the trouble with this arrangement now is its delicacy. Let the operator inside take his hand.off the dial for an instant and outside there's likely to be a collision between snow and an elm tree. This is hard on the vacuum tubes.

Inclined to jolt 'em out of action. No prospective customer, he continued, would favor tinkering with the radio when the thermometer was 20 below. He'd be wearing gloves, anyhow, and probably make a real mess of it. Furthermore, he said, the first electronic snowplow costs like sin. He didn't know the exact price, but he guessed about SI.500.

SO I PUT up to these gents the idea of the remote-control lawnmower snowplow. You should have seen their eyes light up. They said such equipment was relatively simple to make, that transistors would make it practical for hard use, and that volume production would cut the costs drastically. Reo Motors, meet Western Electric. Mr.

Western, shake hands with Mr Ppn r'vo rione my good deed for the day and now I can hardly wait until you fellows get together. I'm hoping against hope it doesn't snow again until you do. (United Feature Syndicate) So They Say The responsibility of winning the cold war and returning the world to a stable economic level falls squarely on the shoulders of the American farmer. Rossitcr, Point Four program official. Women who are received by.men want to marry them, and that's the best kind of revenge.

University debater George Smith. A month of this (Korean fighting) will put you in a strait jacket. Frederick J. Kling. FAIR ENOUGH.

I tried to put it out of mind as a dream that never would come true. Then 1 met a couple of gents from the Western Electric which manufactures the stuff that goes into telephones. They were bubbling, literally, with some smelly contribution and that's the end of it." Here in the United States, more people are faced with sterility problems than suffer from our six most widespread diseases combined. Dr. Walter Williams.

Two Texas boys hitch hiked all the way to Illinois in an airplane. That's really getting a lift. WHITTEN is more liberal than the chairman of the committee. Rep. Hale Boggs on the subject of how much each party should be permitted to spend on elections.

Whitien thinks that each party should be limited to spending 000.000 for a national campaign. "If you're careful and don't waste the money that'll pay for plenty of television and everything," the sheriff claims. Boggs would make a limit of a little less than half that. He thinks 510,000,000 is enough. They both agree, a.s does Pollock, that the present $3,000,000 iimit is unreal.

Any person whose job can depend on him usually can depend on his job. This is a swell season for tho married man who is a grouch. Think of all the Christmas shopping he may have to do. An insect is any husband who has the nerve to claim he is next at a bargain counter. Hal Boyle AP Reporter's Notebook NEW are many ways to look at Christmas.

Christmas is an industry for some people, a holiday for others, just another day in thfi year to a bitter few. But for most of us Christmas is a time of spiritual thaw, a period when we melt the barnacles off our heart with the warmth of loving-kindness. However anyone looks at Christmas, cynically or sentimentally, I respect his view of it. Except in one case. I simply cannot understand anyone who treats Christmas like a surgical operation.

These are the people who, as the G. phrase goes, "already got it made." They don't fret about the last-minute shopping expedition for the friend, they forgot to remember, because they just don't forget anything. They're the careful type who organize Christmas like a scientist conducting an experiment. THEY BOUGHT their Christmas cards sometime last January, addressed them during their summer vacation, and mailed them the day after Thanksgiving. The Christmas presents they plan to give this month were purchased at last spring bargain sales and were' trundled to the postoffice by the first of December.

"You mean you haven't even begun your Christmas shopping?" they say now contemptuously to friends. Somehow this attitude riles me. I don't feel these people even know what Christmas is, and certainly I doubt that they have any real belief in Santa Claus. To them Christmas is a calculated thing, and their biggest satisfaction is that of knowing they have done everything that could be reasonably expected of them in an -exactly proper manner. that Christmas? "Not to my mind.

Christmas must have a kindling spontaneity to it or it isn't Christmas at all. A guy who doesn't have to buck the shopping crowds an hour before the department stores close misses half the fun. What's wrong with suddenly deciding at the last minute that there is still one more person you'd like to buy a gift for? NOBODY OUGHT to have his friendships indexed and priced like items in a mail order catalog. The person who over-organizes Christmas is embarrassed if he receives a card from someone he overlooked, so he promptly mails him a Happy New Year card, and then feels smugly virtuous. But that isn't the spirit of is simply trading.

Essentially, I suppose, these people who order their Christmas trees on the Fourth of July are a sad lot. too. joylessly precise ever to feel the deep tidal pull that sweeps most hearts at this season. Give me the little guy who goes home in a bus on Christmas Eve loaded with bundles bought at the last possible moment. He may be a bit thoughtless, but in his eyes glows a true Christmas happiness.

He at least bought his presents because he wanted to. not becauss he felt he had to, and there is no icicle in his soul. (Associated Press) George Dixon The Washington Scene Di Salic returned his likable roly-poly self to Washington after a losing fight with John Brickcr for the Ohio Senatorship. He was here to serv as special consultant to Roger Putnam, tht economic stabilizer, but cronies wisecfacked that he just wanted to be at the deathbed of his old love, the Office of Price Stabilization. OPS and its works must have filled Mikt with bittersweet nostalgia.

Even with the death gurgles in its throat it is still being weird and wonderful. It has removed the 'price ceilings on inedible grass. A while back it exempted clay pigeons. It's too bad OPS can't dig up Gertrude Stein and have her poeticize: "Clay pigeons on the inedible grass, alas." ANOTHER federal irritant is also due to go the way of OPS. I refer to the Secretary of Agriculture, my beloved Baldy Brannan.

But they won't let Baldy serve his last moments in peace. Somebody is always doing something to make him tear his hair. (I have just applied for a poetic license.) A short time ago a very annoying expose took place. It was revealed that a number of flour proccssers had been accepting subsidy payments from Baldy so that they could miil and export flour at the bargain prices we have set for other parts of the world. The idea, of course, was that they were to use American wheat.

Somebody gabbed too much, however, and word got out that they were buying low-grade Canadian wheat and adding it to their product. They beat the import tax in bringing the wheat in from Canada by having it listed as animal feed. Nevertheless everything might have remained relatively peaceful for Baldy except that a couple of the culprits got the wind up their backs and refunded their subsidy payments to him. Now Baldy has this conscience money and doesn't know what to do with it. It represents too drastic a reversal of form for him to cope with it.

He's put in his cabinet career paying money out. He doesn't know what to do when money comes in. THE UPCOMING 83rd Congress will bring back a man who defies the proudest congressional tradition. He won't talk. The silent fellow is Rep.

William R. Williams, of Cassville. N. who represents Oneida and Oswego counties in the windy halls of Congress, but insists upon doing it with his trap tightly shut. He served all through the gusty 82nd Congress and did not make one single speech nor introduce a bill.

This 67-year-old phenomenon doesn't look like a Congressman cither. He looks like the cincrna version of a grizzled old sheriff. Fact is he was a sheriff. That's what he did in Oneida county for seven years before getting elected to Congress in 1950. "Potato Bill" they call the silent one up home.

He used to be the largest potato grow 'in his bailiwick, which may explain conversational lack because what can you say about a potato that can't be said in a' coupla of pithy sentences Martin P. Durkin, named as the new Secretary of Labor, once was a plumber. We've heard of leaks in Washington. "POTATO BILL" hardly opened his mouth in handling his most exciting case as sheriff. Word was flashed to him that a larga farmhand had gotten drunk and was ing the countryside.

Sheriff Williams immediately formed a posse of one and went on the hunt, forgetting as usual to take a Rim. The terrorist betrayed his whereabouts by bouncing a rock off the sheriff's head. But "Potato Bill" has a good head. He merely shook it to clear his vision and subdued the ruffian. The fellow went down and never got up again.

The coroner- said he passed on from a skinful of bad hootch. i Features,.