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THE SUN. BALTIMORE. FRIDAY MORNING. DEC EM HER 13. 1937 Government.

They prom Can Peaceably Coexist Belter If YOU Don't Have Any" ly to the financing of the city government and the services which if provides and from which they ised great rewards, welshed on the roiitics and lost their children. benefit. This is not to say that the city should be, or is about to become, a and People East Germany, loo, promised its citizens rewards, but has given them only fear and penury. The young and aile cannot hero listening to relief client of the adjoining counties. But a sound development of I By THOMAS O'NEILL.

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A notion is taking hold that the ains great benefits from, a healthy core. City problems are to a growing things over the border especially sime this piper's tales are true. Two million of them have followed these promises of a better life in the past ten years, a quarter of a mil much abused Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Ezra Taft Benson, Ls en extent county problems as well, and in saying this we mean to include dowed with a great deal more political skill than his critics have ever distribution of the tax burden. lion last year alone.

In the poem Hamelin had only one boy left, one been willing to grant. Mr. Benson Sunpnpers JVorrmbcr Circulation (Daily Monday to Friday) outmaneuvered some of the wiliest who was too lame to make the jour Across Antarctica Recent weather here makes it ap practitioners in the business the ney. It looks as though, at this rate, other day, and the verdict is that ha Morning i4 li iM Cm In jMtmillH IXK.V tHin K'O fiuinlay iZ163 320.541 Los propriate to remember that there are big doings in the Antarctic at East Germany may soon be in the same case. this time of year, the beginning of what passes there for high summer.

Member of (he Associated Press Tim Associated Press Is entitled exclusive-Jy to the use tor republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as ueli aa all AP news dispatches. has saved his job for the foreseeable future against a campaign which appeared close to its goal of driving him from the Cabinet as an election liability to the GOP. His method was a simple declaration that he is staying unless he is fired by President Eisenhower, a gambit which foreclosed against the customary An American group, the Ross Ice Shelf traverse party, which started BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, DEC. 13. 1057 out on October 24, heading toward t'N 'M- VV4 v- A V0.n A' Mount Discovery, about 700 miles from Little America, whither it is resignation" accompanied by an ex change of mutually admiring letters.

Since anything as messy as an out The Weather INap and Commentary nn Pane 4J1 Forecast for Baltimore and Vicinity Funnv thla niormna; pillowed hv increasing cloudiness with slowly nsitm tem-perntuie tixlav. about 33 Not so cold ioniuht with a chance of mi lieht Know. Considerable cloudiness nd wanner tomorrow probably followed hv ram at nifht. Southwesterly wind! (10 to IS miles an hour today. due to return in mid February.

Another traverse party, the Ellsworth, is slowly moving through difficult terrain in search of scientific right dismissal would be embarrassingly at variance with the President's operating procedure, Mr. Ben son seems secure. Yesterday's City Temperatures Meanwhile, Dr. V. E.

Fuchs, Until he spoke up with a boldness 9 10 1 1 3 4i 5 6' leader of the British expedition, is 'IB 1H 1J6 Jji 14 241H IB 19 -2 Intrepid Mr. Benson With the daring young-man-on-the-flying trapeeze flavor which marks so much of his recent policy, Mr. Ezra Taft Benson has now waded briskly into another favorite farm sentimentalism. This is the one about the little farmer, the homesteader or family-farm type, the man who is supposed (by some of the less lucifl politicians) to be the backbone of the nation and who, in fact, is populating an always widening rural poorhouse not to say rural slum. Mr.

Benson wants, in effect, to pay this man to get out of farming. Typically, this is the man on the farm netting less than $2,000 a year in market income, and not because he diverts a handsome margin of his net yield to luxurious living. He is simply on meager land, often with meager know-how. lie has rundown plant, he can't get enough ahead to improve his equipment, including '1 1 A 5- 61 71 8 9 10 1112 I 2 2 Sfi 24 32 21 21 20 IS) .24 1 ton p. unlike a member of the team, the evidence strongly supported the rumors that the Secretary was on his way out.

Frightened Farm Belt politicians were convinced they had succeeded in persuading the White on his way across the continent from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea by land, via the South Pole. It is extremely difficult 'terrain to cross, so pitied with holes and crevasses that the pioneer party sometimes made only half a mile a day, Airport Hiiih, 2B: low, 13. Ol --11)8)1 27: low. 14. WW'hest ot lecord In 1931 70 Loupri nf rproni in 1933 hi Cnj dpurep days fur DttPmber 12 44 Airport dew-ref 1uvR tor Deetonber 12..

45 City tot a 1 d'yn'P days for Frason f'i'T normal (ittrep riavx for j.eaon Aniiort total tit-uipp oavs for season Alport norma) oays for 1249 House staff, the chairman of the Re publican National Committee, and Precipitation (Airport) other Administration political powers that Mr. Benson was a lia but the British hope that in January For 24 hours cn3ed nvdiilk'ht Ppc. 12 t'O At-ciimulatPtl this inonih 1 5j A'cuniuiaicd thi. lnonth 2 tio ArrumuiH'pd dtl'icif-ticy slurp Jan. 1...

9 50 i p' a 1 1 on sinrr January 1 31 1'J the expedition will connect with bility who must be jettisoned without delay to avert a wholesale swing that of Sir Edmund Hillary, of Everest fame, to make the last haul. Humidity And Pressure to the Democrats in the Middle West What, meanwhile, of the Rus sians? Their progress is mysterious. at next year congressional elections. A typical complaint was that of a Republican congressman from Nebraska, Mr. Arthur L.

Miller, himself a farm owner, who reported to Mr. Sherman Adams at the White On October 8, according to Radio a new root on tne nouse ana a Moscow, 27 men left Mirny base on the Indian Ocean for a 470-mile traverse apparently leading to Vos- House that half a dozen GOP seats 17 1117 (A M. i I Nr Try huio tppi pel at are I It I 2.1 'JO, tvpt buD tcin or i at 12 I 21 1H hlitnuHiv .1 75 61 62 fcarometer lfvPll I I'O R5 29 S7 3 11 Temperatures Elsewhere Yesterday Hicli Low Hitrh Low Atlanta 32 12 Mnls -Ft. Paul L'9 4 ltron 1M lfl Nr-ft Orieans 4H IK A New York I 17 tirieston.8 C. 33 20 OUa City so 22 f'hlraao 7 Omaha Hf-t rmfuinati Philadelphia 23 14 Ovpiand.

20 15 Phoenix 71 42 Denver fill 2 Pittsburgh IB .21 Portland. Me. 31 ili'tnn, Va. 20 fi Hlchmond 28 II El Paso Sti 22 St, Louis .33 11 IT rishllrc 13 Salisbury. Md 'JS 15 Jtouston, 3x h0 21 Hall, Lake Clly 27 23 I Anvelea 60 Kan Antonio ft 7 in Mrmolus 39 15 Ban Pranciaco 61 40 Miami 50 34 Wat lie 4 5 39 ould be jeopardized unless there Nuclear Power was a change of faces at the Department of Agriculture.

Farm Belt Letters To The Editor tok II, the projected camp at the Geomagnetic Pole. There has been no more official news either of this expedition, or of the second party which is scheduled to set up a base seats were lost last year even with Progress weather-tight north wall on the barn. But he is the most numerous of farm voters (56 per cent of farms produce 9.2 per cent of marketed farm products), hence the passion with which the political farmers support his cause. It was in behalf of this small farmer that the politicians always said they had designed the price-support plans, though the plans the supporting influence of the Eisen Eyes have come down from the Tlie Study Of Latin To the Editor 'of The Sun Sir: hower landslide. The panic sharpened after the August special Senate election in Wisconsin delivered a at the Pole of Inaccessibility.

The reaches of outer space long enough to observe that the first full-scale Some years ago a young man enter Russian main base is in twice daily nuclear power plant in this country heavy farm vote to Mr. William Prox- Sun rives 7 17 AM. Sets 4 43 M. Moon rirt 0 01 AM. Sels 12.16 P.M.

Last quarter. December 14 ing Balliol College, Oxford, announced his desire to major in contact with Little America, relay actions of any other member or members. Let not the duck hunters forget that our wildfowl is also enjoyed by amateur ornithologists, many of whom would like to see even more constringent hunting regulations. Oliver L. Smith.

LinthicUin, Dec. 9. has now "gone critical," and will shortly start to produce electricity science. ou must not do that, have tended steadily to help the big mire, Democrat, who had campaigned vigorously against the Benson administration of the Department of Agriculture. ing information to the Weather Central.

The rest is silence, perhaps on farmer more. What Mr. Benson suggests is sim the sputnik theory that a success Vice President Nixon was de at Shippingport, Pa. Atomic electricity for peaceful uses has, in small quantities, already been produced in various parts of the United States, but it has been on an experimental scribed as reluctantly siding with ply that farmers of this kind The Tides Watrr Low Wu'er AM. AM.

Fort 11 35 1 1 52 5 35 5 32 t-aiul 10 05 10 22 4 03 4 02 pmt 9 "0 9 37 3 30 3 Covp. Point 6 40 8 57 12 40 12 37 Cape Hi-nry 121J 12 38 6 26 fi 5B A Year Ago Today ft am Hich 63 Low. 3B the complaining politicians, and the invited to come forward and state will be all the more dramatic when it is suddenly announced. Now Franklin Square When a few months ago the Hos word was passed that Mr. Benson basis.

Shippingport is the first nuclear power station which can a figure at which they would con sider getting out of farming alto would soon resign. The Secretary was on a world tour at the time and compare in output with Britain's t'other. This is the soil-bank and pital Council, representing the Calder Hall, which produces at the rate of 65,000 kilowatts of electricity. benignly unaware of what was being arranged for him. and is being stepped up.

Upon his return, Mr. Benson was The goal tentatively set for the Euratom countries is 15 million kilo smiling and undisturbed when asked about an impending resignation. Such reports had been arising, he ob said the authorities, "your school report shows you're too good for science; you must study the classics." The underlying assumption, of course, was that humanistic studies best prepared the elect to lead valuable lives. The human race is many hundreds of thousands of years old, but our written records of its history embrace only a very few thousands. Some of the earliest of these records were written in Latin.

Yet here is Dr. Gairdner Moment, a biologist who presumably, like his fellow scientists, the astronomers and geologists, deals with millions of years of evolution and who would nevertheless deprive us of the chance to study at first hand the language, history and literature of a civilization basic to our own. Perhaps Dr. Moment, like the Balliol authorities, would not deny a study of Latin to the privileged few, since he assumes that educated served, since the first week after he entered the Cabinet nearly five years ago. Soon after he settled bark in soil conservation program pushed to its logical conclusion to the point where not merely surplus farms but surplus farmers would be guided into sounder integration in the general economy.

Cpen to abuse the program would obviously be, even, perhaps, to the point of impracticability. But the trial runs which Mr. Benson is giving this scheme in four states deserve attention and not merely to head off fraud. Oyster I'rices To the Editor or The Sun Sir: I would like to know what has happened to the oyster market? Also the Buy Boats, men that had guts enough to stand up and pay a decent price for oysters to the hard working tonger. rfhe tongers go out at sunrise and try to catch oysters, when weather permits.

Sometime it's almost impossible to stand on the icy washboards of the boat, and when you pull up the rake shaft, they are covered with ice and very slippery. The expense of keeping your boat in condition is terrific, and if you don't make enough money before Christmas, to carry you over in case of a freeze-up, you're just out of luck. They sure can't do anything with $2 per bushel, when probably you're lucky if you get out to tong two days a week. For instance, if a Buy Boat should happen to anchor in the Chop- leading hospitals in the community stated in an interim report that between now and 1965 Baltimore would have to spend from $73 million to $100 million on hospital facilities, the total seemed very high. Yet as individual plans are announced the estimate does not look fur out of line.

The latest plan to be announced is that of the Franklin Square Hospital which has bought a tract of land in Baltimore county to the First Fruits The first returns from the registration of multifamiiy dwellings have upheld the contention of cily officials that they needed the new licensing law in order to locate the former one family residences that have been subdivided into apartments. Opponents had argued that the subdividing was all a matter of public record, but city officials said no, a lot of converted apartments had been created during and immediately after World War II of which they were ignorant. watts by 1977. Britain's target is 6.5 million kilowatts by 1D65 and perhaps 12 to 16 million kilowatts by 1970, according to one set of revised estimates, which means that if all goes according to plan Britain will derive about one fifth of her power from nuclear energy within eight years. Washington, however, Mr.

Benson learned that the new rumors carried a great deal more of menace to bis position than those which had gone before. The information was conveyed to him by strong supporters- By comparison, American targets are more modest, resting on a cur political figures outside the Admin rent estimated output of 1 million kilowatts by 19G2. Commercial re actors now in production or for people should know something of istration, business men who believe that his is the economically sound approach to the snowballing problem of agricultural surpluses, and farmers who have never regarded Government handouts as a solution to Federation? There have been suggestions that if the area-wide problems in metro Registrations to dale reveal that Bbout ten per cent of the listed which construction permits have ancient history, and surely those who been approved will have a capacity teach or write about such a subject must be able to read their sources properties violate zoning regula of nearly 700,000 kilowatts. The Con tank and offer a quarter more than the others, they aren't here for long. solidated Edison Company plant at Indian Point, N.Y., now being built politan Baltimore are to be met properly the political subdivisions affected will have to be brought together undoubtedly through some sort of federation rather than an They disappear.

I wonder what hap pens to make them leave? We need a little more competition around here. and due for completion in 1960 will have a capacity of 163,000 kilo watts. Commonwealth Edison has ob tained a construction permit for i plant at Joliet, 111., which will produce 180,000 kilowatts by I960 nexation. Even now there is a de gree of co-operation between them in the original. However, in a democratic society, who is to determine in advance the qualifications of the privileged few? American educators in the past have always believed in giving students access to both the sciences and the humanities.

Is it not possible that in our present eagerness to imitate the Russian system of education, we may eventually send to the moon men with the wisdom and moral judgment of a Stalin, Molotov or Khrushchev? northeast of the city. Here it proposes to erect a new 300-bed general hospital. The Northeast expressway, the Beltway and Route 40 will enable the new plant to serve a fast growing area stretching from Essex and Dundalk on the east to Towson on the west. The estimated cost is $8 million. This project, plus those already announced for Sinai, Mercy, Women's, South Baltimore and the proposed hospital in north Anne Arundel county, involve a total estimated cost of over $j2 million.

Other hospitals also have building plans that have not been announced. All of this is over and beyond the cost of the renovation of old plants with which the council survey chiefly deals. and they have a joint planning coun About the same time, the Yankee I have gone on the boat, with my son, in sleet and snow and culled the oysters for him. I'm just a poor grandmother, who had nothing else to do, but sit, observe, and wonder what the longer and dredger will be Atomic Electric Company at Ttowe and the Power Reactor De cil. Now another step in this direction has been proposed by Mr.

Joseph Sherbow. What he urges is common action en fiscal problems. He envisions a velopment Company, at Laguna Beach, should start to produce 134,000 and 100,000 kilowatts, re Grace Frank. Baltimore, Dec. 8.

spectively. paid what they so honestly deserve This is a free country. Marcarlt Lowery. Tilghrnan, Dec. 6.

Ahadan Ilolclt To the Editor or The Sun Sir: tions, mostly by housing more families than the law allows. Valid reasons for the violations may be produced in some instances, but it is rpparent that the mere act of registration has uncovered one of the primary causes of unsafe, blighted housing overcrowding. When inspectors begin to look for fire, health and safety violations in the registered properties, they may find a great deal more lhat is wrong. The important first step is to pinpoint the iiretnips and rabbit warrens and then to have their tions recorded by an efficient and thorough inspection system. After that, the cily will be in a position to say that substandard apartments must either be brought up to the mark or vacated.

Whether present officials have sufiicieftt determination to carry out this last step is as jet unknown, but at least the first stage of the new licensing law has proved fruitful. The Atomic Energy Commission regional taxing district and the end of "competition for tax advantages Bailiii Penalties To the Editor of The Sun Sir: as between the city and Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties." has also approved contracts for several other plants. Commercial reactors in the planning stage include installations in Nebraska, Minnesota, In your Saturday issue we again We see an indication of what he Soon after the beginning of the means in the response of the coun Michigan, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Alaska, all of them largely Some weeks ago Tie Sunday Sun carried an article on hotel life in Abadan. written by your Mr. Lee McCardell.

A sister of mine whose husband, Earl W. Pedrick, is an engineer on loan from the Texas year the council hopes to present or entirely financed by industry, as opposed to the Shippingport plant. its final report. Its conclusions are not expected to differ greatly from Company to Anglo-Iranian Oil Com which was largely Government financed. their difficulties.

Mr. Benson was convinced. Whether the countermeasure ha adopted was his own idea or the outcome of consultations with his backers is uncertain, but its effectiveness is undisputed. It was announced that Mr. Benson would hold a news conference, and the correspondents gathered in the anticipation that the resignation was at hand, even though Mr.

Benson had said in September after a meeting with Mr. Eisenhower that he was remaining indefinitely. Even Mr. Benson's appearance suggested that the expected was about to happen. Usually calm and easy mannered, he w'as tense and obviously under considerable strain.

It turned out quickly that the peaceful Mr. Benson was fighting back. A prepared statement he was about to read, he said, was no statement of resignation but of resolution. The resolution was to stay on the job unless kicked out. It was his own statement, made without White House clearance.

The effect of his forthright words was to make it impossible for the White House stafT to produce a Benson letter of resignation to ease him out of office. It has happened that Administration figures were still denying any such intention when such letters were produced. This was the case with Mr. Arthur Larson when he was yanked out of the United States Information Agency, where he had alienated important senators, and stowed away in a psychological warfare berth at the White House. Mr.

Benson will have no part in his own liquidation. He has long been resisting the proposal, often repeated, that he ought to get out for the sake of Republican candidates for public office. His critics have told him that whether his philosophy is good or bad, it is dead wrong politically and that he owes it to his paity. to remove himself. pany, resides in Abadan.

I sent them a tear sheet with the article and I There has been comment to the those of the interim report. A major finding is that 28 per cent of the floor space of existing hospitals is in buildings constructed before read where several duck hunters have been fined for the unsportsman conduct of hunting ducks over a baited area. No such fine of $26.50 is going to stop this practice. Such a sum is merely an incidental hunting expense. The obvious solution is to suspend hunting privileges of those convicted say, for one season for the first offense, two seasons for the second offense and permanent suspension for the third conviction.

For clubs which are found using baited areas the entire membership should have their hunting privileges revoked, for all members of a club should be held responsible for the thought her comment might interest you and Mr. McCardell: effect that this country has been slow in getting off the ground in the commercial reactor field, but the 1910. Then there is the estimate "So happy to have a letter from that by 1965 the population of the Baltimore area will have increased by 300,000. emphasis here has been largely on experimental reactors. It is interesting to note that France, hich still has undeveloped sources of hydro-electricity, also is moving with caution.

Only Britian, spurred on by Dan on Monday, and surely enjoyed that newspaper story about the hotels in Abadan, as have several others to whom I have read it. Seems some of the Iranians have been trying to get the company to do something about decent hotel ties to the big new tax burdens that Mayor D'Alesandro has been heaping on business and industry in the city. The county response has been to ease oil on such burdens and so to increase county attractiveness to business and industry. A more rational tax approach would seek to wipe out this trend toward Balkanization in what is for all intents and purposes a single area. There are other reasons for following up this suggestion.

Baltimore is clearly headed for far worse tax troubles than it has been encountering in recent years. Its population growth has leveled off. Sharp changes in lis relative economic position are to be noticed. Some of its historic and traditional functions as a center of retail trade, for in Shades Of Ilamelin The East German Minister of Justice, announcing the imposition of severe penalties on those who at During the last seventeen years hospital construction has by no means kept pace with the increase in population. A crisis was avoided rapidly growing electricity consump tempt to flee to the West, or who tion, the high cost of imported fuel accommodations, but no luck and this might help! There is absolutely no place for any one to stay, unless oil, dwindling coal reserves and a help anyone to escape from Communist rule, warned the citizens through the introduction of the antibiotics and other medical advances which greatly reduced the average need to cash in on what should soon be a profitable source of export reve they have company authorization for that they must turn deaf ears to the guest house.

I've often wondered nue as nuclear power plants are what that Iran Hotel looked like in needed elsewhere, has plunged into "the pied pipers of the West." Assuming lhat the minister's figure of speech has been correctly stay in hospital. Medical authorities hesitate to trust to that sort of luck side, and now I know. That is in the atomic electricity at breakneck Bazaar, and simply awful to think of country to commit itself to a capital expenditure program of such magnitude. It is questionable whether nuclear power costs can be reduced to anything near conventional power costs within the next decade or two, and meanwhile they prefer the L'nilcd States to experiment and find out which is the safest, the most economical and the most practical typo of reactor. This country, that is, has more time in this field than do some others, though its eventual needs will be as great or greater.

J.S.R. during the next decade. tianslatcd, it was a curious one to any Americans staying there. Almost felt like writing a letter to that TIioupM For The Saon stance have been impaired by dispersal. The city is still the heart Baltimore Sun correspondent, to let him know that his item is going to How many of these vacillating shoppers and tired shop-assistants speed.

Britain is now committed to gas-cooled reactors wh.ch use a crude type of uranium ot low fissile content and relatively low cost, but some American experts in the field wonder if (putting the emergency aside) this is the ideal way far a Use. Those who remember the story cf what happened in Ilamelin (the pre-television version) will recall thst the burgesses of that sad city behaved very much like the East of the metropolitan area, and indeed of a much larger area. These that it was divine event that drew them together? E. M. get to the prosier sources." Danhx L.

Downey, Baltimore, Dec. 8. outer areas do not contribute direct- Fobstlr in "How ard's End.".