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2Q Soturdoy, Aug. 2u 954 Qlhp lahprsftclb Qtaltfdrtttatt Peter Edson SWEETIE FIE By NADINE SELTZER James Marlow Congress Acts in Haste Ike Backers Make Movie WASHINGTON (NEA) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby has the principal supporting role with the longest speech and Congress is given only incidental bit parts in the new movie, "The Big Year of Decision," produced by the National Citizens for Eisenhower Committee. This 24-minute film has just been given a premiere showing in Washington before the President, Cabinet members and wives, White House officials and congressmen "who have been working with Citizens for Eisenhower." This kicks of the campaign. From Washington, this film will be shown most widely in the 85 congressional districts which in 1952 were won by a majority of 5 per cent or less and in the 34 states having senatorial races this year. Forty of the House seals are new held by Republicans and 45 by Democrats.

There are 37 Senate seats now held by Republicans and 21 by Democrats. North Carolina has two seats to fill and Nebraska three, the third being for the rest of 1954 only. Hal Boyle Underseas Traffic Snarl PATTERNS PURE these youngsters slinging mud and for the camera fan who took this picture. Why not! Robert J. Chinn, Denver writer, won the 55,000 grand prize in the 1954 "Folks Are Fun" flash contest with it.

Irving Desfor Child Pictures Popular AP Newsfeatures WASHINGTON Con- press acted in haste when both houses passed a bill to deny the Communist party legal privileges and force its members to register with the government. The bill goes now to President Eisenhower to be Signed into law. Because it was whipped together so fast, government law' yers, who will have the task of making it work if the President signs, must think it through to determine exactly what it means and how they shall proceed under it. They cannot say precisely now. In the preamble to this legislation Congress declares the Communist party is part of a conspiracy to overthrow the government by force and therefore "should be outlawed." Nowhere else does Congress say the party is outlawed or that it must cease to exist.

In the dictionary meaning of deprive of the benefit and protection of law" Communist party is outlawed, at least in so far as federal laws are involved. The legislation says the Communist party or its successors under any other name are not entitled to "any of the rights, privileges and immunities attendant upon local bodies. But what rights, privileges and immunities does the party lose? No one available would attempt to give a complete list. Under this bill the party could not put candidates on the ballot in any federal election. And the party could not make contracts where federal laws were involved or sue in federal courts.

That much seems clear. What is less clear is what rights, privileges or immunities might have under state laws. One lawyer, wno followed this legislation closely, said that while Congress could keep the Communist party candidates off federal ballots it could not tell states what parties could appear on their state election ballots. It seems a safe bet the party will fight this legislation all the way up to the Supreme Court, or try to. on the grounds it is unconstitutional.

But if the party loses there and folds and later reappears under another name, will the government have to go through another long court fight to prove it's the same old Communist party? That can't be said now. The party may have to fold Sam Dawson anyway before it ever gets up to the Supreme Court on this legislation of yesterday because, before then, another law, already on the books, the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, may have proved effective in smashing the party. That act requires the officers and members of the Communist party to register with the federal government if the Subversive Activities Control Board, after hearings, decides the party is a Moscow tool. The board, after long hearings, made that finding and ordered registration. As was to be expected, instead of registering the party went to court, protesting that the McCarran Act is unconstitutional and therefore the party members should not have to register.

The Supreme Court is expected to give the final answer on this by next spring. If the court rules against them, it would be a crime for the party leaders and members not to register then. But the leaders already have indicated they would never register. They could be jailed and fined if they didn't. If that fate overtook them while they were fighting yesterday's legislation in the courts, they'd no doubt have to abandon the latter.

So there is plenty of machinery for hampering and hamstringing the party, at least until the Supreme Court speaks. But just what this legislation can do to help the government in dealing with individual Communists is not clear at all. It's doubtful that it adds much. Yesterday's legislation does not make it a crime to be a a member of the party knows its purpose is overthrow of the government. In bringing a Communist to trial under this legislation the government, therefore, would have to prove he knew the party's purpose.

But there is a law already on the books the Smith Act, passed in under which the government can prosecute Communists if it can prove they knew the purpose of their organization was forcible overthrow. The government already has started such action under the Smith Act. But the new legislation, because of certain language it uses, may mess Up the government's use of the Smith Act. Business Mirror NEW YORK infant private, atomic energy industry is ready to take its first steps. They won't be giant steps at once.

But now that the government is relaxing its monopoly a little, businessmen and industrial scientists believe they can speed the peacetime use of the atom with those special tools of American business enterprise and competition. One fine day, they say, will see electric power coming from the atom for commercial use, food preserved by the atom, medical care improved, boats and maybe trains and planes powered by it, and innumerable industrial products made better and more cheaply, thanks to the atom's byproducts. Industrial research and experimentation will be the first to feel the faster tempo and get the first corporate expenditures. The government is going ahead with its tests of five ferent variations on how to produce electrical energy, using nuclear materials as the fuel. The first government-inspired plant is planned near Pittsburgh and others will follow.

Now industrial scientists will get a chance to try out some of their own ideas on their preliminary research can solve enough of the cost problems to convince their boards of directors to permit the use of the heeded funds. Commercially built atomic power plants may get by the blueprint stage in a few years, industrial scientists predict. These first plants may not be as cheap to operate as those using the conventional fuels. But many industrial leaders have held all along that the only way to solve high cost problems is to build and operate atomic power units, experimenting and learning every step of the way. That's a costly method, and one that corporations won't take unless there's a chance to profit in the long This being the political situation the film is intended to deal with, it might be expected that more emphasis would be put on Congress.

But it is 99 per cent Ike in pictures and sound track and only a few minutes of credit are given to Congress. If this is to be the pitch and the theme song of this close- race phase of the campaign, the emphasis will all be on coattail riding. The implication is that the thing to do is to support the candidates who support the Eisenhower program. Here are a few excerpts from the sound-track script on the accomplishments of the Eisenhower administration: "The U.S. has served notice on the Kremlin that any act of aggression will be immediately countered.

(Picture of B-52.) "Time and time again, as at the Berlin conference. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has maneuvered Soviet diplomats into admitting before the world that the Kremlin's intentions are not truly in the interest of peace. (Picture of Dulles.) The U.S. is thriving today as never before in its 178- year history. (Picture of people buying household appliances.) "Inflation has been halted.

(Picture of old folks looking at travel folders.) the American housewife is finding that she can get more for her shopping dollar." (Picture of woman in supermarket.) Congress gets its brief nods after the administration record of $14,000,000,000 cut in government spending and $7,000,000,000 tax cut, accompanied by pictures of House Ways and Means Committee meeting. Again, to go with a film- of the President addressing a joint session of Congress, the script reads: "President Eisenhower his relations with Capitol steadfastly accorded to Congress the respect due the elected representatives of the people. But it remained for Congress to translate the President's program into law. The script says, "President Eisenhower has proposed a federal reinsurance program though Congress turned it down. It also says the President "called for construction of 140,000 public housing units during the next four years." though Congress cut it to 35,000 for this year only.

The appeal is to the presidential program rather than what Congress didn't do about it. Mrs. Hobby, a Texas Democrat who voted for Eisenhower, gets her big role through film clips from her speech to the New York Republican state dinner committee last May, supporting the President's program. "It is a program that brought faith anew to a nation on inauguration day in January, 1953," she says. "And it is the program that gave us fresh hope in the President's messages to Congress during January and February of this year." "Thus, in 1954.

the President looks to the nation's citizens- Republicans, Democrats and Independents elect to Congress Republicans who share Dwight Eisenhower's dedication to America concludes the narrator. This is the only direct political pitch in the' entire production. No Repetition Societies of bell ringers in England engage in "change- ringing" of church bells for as long as 12 hours without repeating the sequence in which the bells are struck, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. The world of children and the field of photography enjoy a unique and rewarding partnership. Probably more people have started snapping pictures because of children than any other single cause.

In return, good children's pictures probably have more universal interest than any other single group. The other day the final results of a national photo contest were tabulated. The theme was "Folks Are Fun" and 1.500 prize winners were announced. One of the officials noticed the preponderance of children's pictures in the winner's ranks. He made a private tally and discovered that they were the subject matter for more than 90 per cent of the prize winners.

If you don't have youngsters of your own, does that deprive you of the chance to focus your camera in the direction of this apparent gold mine? Shucks, no! The grand prize winner in the contest is a 25-year-old bachelor. Robert Chinn of Denver, is $5,000 richer because he saw, through his camera, two children in a mud fight while vacationing on a California beach. There are several lessens we can learn from Chinn's performance: 1. He recognized an amusing and photogenic event even though it involved strangers, and didn't hesitate to shoot. 2.

Technically, he got a better picture by combining flash with sunlight though retaining the outdoor quality. He did this by subduing the flash (a handkerchief over the flashbulb or a diffuser) which lightened the shadow areas without overpowering the daylight look. 3. He got the subjects' address by promising to send them a print. This enabled him to obtain a photo release when the picture turned out to be of contest caliber.

Without this release, he couldn't have collected the $5,000 award. We're all aware that aiming a camera in a child's direction doesn't automatically guarantee a prize winning picture every time though some parents might argue that point where it concerns their own children. Their most lovable qualities are revealed when youngsters are strictly themselves, absorbed in their own play and activities. Far too often, adults rudely barge into that child world and interrupt the proceedings with a command to pay attention to a strange device a camera. No wonder the great mass of average snapshots of children look strained and posed.

They are. For the most successful pictures, a photographer should call least attention to his camera and his mission. The ideal role is that of unseen spectator, carefully watching backgrounds, selecting angles and shooting at the moments of peak action or expression. Since camera stores are not yet selling invisible cloaks, camera fans can be silent spectators, try a bit of indifference and exhibit great patience until they are ignored or forgotten by the quietly shoot. A bit of strategy, often successful, is to bring out a favorite game or introduce a brand new toy to divert children's attention from picture taking itself.

Instead of chasing after the subjects, it is often possible to create conditions for favorable play in a certain area, then be prepared to shoot in that zone. Quite often when pictures of children are to be taken, mother will insist that the occasion calls for primping and fussing. While some semblance of neatness is desirable, there is no necessity for overdoing mother can be overruled. Once again, the watchword is "naturalness!" You'll treasure Junior's picture, and think it more normal, with his hair slightly tousled than all slicked back in geometric perfection. Even if it doesn't win a $5,000 grand prize.

VALLEJO (ff 1 on the Mare Island Navy Yard Centennial: Whales are sometimes a nuisance to not nearly so much of a nuisance as the submarines are to the whales. For some reason whales, used to bossing the ocean depths for centuries, can't get it through their thick skulls that anything is as big and tough as they are. "A whale always thinks he's got the right of way," said Capt. Duncan C. MacMillan, veteran pigboat commander.

"He simply can't believe there is anything beneath the seas that he can't push out of his path." The U.S. Navy policy generally seems to be to allow the whale the right of way when he is entitled to it. But if he tries to hog the road the submarine sticks to its course. "In this type of collision the whale gets the surprise of his life," said Capt. MacMillan.

"Submarines don't bruise easily." Submariner recruits learn on land how to fight at sea. The school only one on the West simulated sections of a real submarine in which the candidates can practice the split-second timing so necessary in these undersea prowlers. "In three weeks we can teach a beginner how to man his station properly for diving and surfacing operations," said MacMillan. The crews learn the art of battle by locating through their periscopes toy models of ships which are moved automatically across, the floor above them. It is a game they play an intense seriousness, and there is no joking among them as they work out the attack problems.

Since submariners have to get along together for long periods in crowded conditions they must have steady temperaments under strain. How do they weed out potential psychiatric cases? One veteran gives this solution: "There's nothing to it. A candidate is simply asked whether, if he were stranded on a desert island, he would prefer to have his mother with Marilyn Monroe. If he picks his mother, we don't pick him. Oh- viously he doesn't belong in a submarine." Some Navy men dislike the term "mothball fleet" and prefer to call it the nation's "insurance fleet." The reserve fleet unit stationed in canned readiness for any future 32 submarines, 4 submarine tenders, and 3 destroyer escorts.

Among them is the USS Sea Cow, which, along with other subsurface raiders, sank 5,320,000 tons of enemy shipping during the last than half the entire Japanese naval and merchant fleet strength. In the event of another war the Sea Cow and her sisters could be manned and put to sea within 30 days. Is it worth the maintenance cost to keep so many idle ships in this state of readiness? The Navy feels it is. It estimates that if the vessels here were scrapped it would take $890,000,000 to replace them. It now would cost $25,000,000 to build an ordinary fleet type submarine.

It takes $1,805,000 a year to maintain the 39 vessels. That includes overhaul and the salaries and upkeep of personnel. The Navy feels this is cheap insurance on $890,000,000 worth of battle property. Syd Kronish Britain Raps 'Stamps' AP Newsfeatures Foreign stamps which appear Chicago, before Bruce Biossat U.S. and Formosa (o have no legitimate status in the phalatelic world are now flooding the U.S.

stamp market. Warning of this situation comes from a British stamp journal, Gibbons Stamp Monthly (July issue). It says that stamps from Free Croatia, Free Albania and South Moluccas are being offered for sale in.large quantities. The journal says: "It is high time that we helped make it clear that they (stamps from these countries) are absolute rubbish. "They have been privately printed in the United States for the so-called free governments of these places.

Even if we assume that these exiled governments exist (and on this point we have no information either way) there are no postal services for which these labels could be legitimately used. Let it be made abundantly clear that these emissions are not postage stamps and that Aug. 26. Two-cent Thomas Jefferson- Postmaster, San Francisco, before Sept. 15.

Four-cent Abraham Lincoln- Postmaster, New York City, before Nov. 19. First day covers of the new four-cent air mail for post cards Three events of recent days have put Formosa back in the news. Premier Chou En-lai of Red China said his government soon would seize the island. President Eisenhower flatly warned that invading Chinese would find the U.S.

Seventh Fleet barring their way. And the British declared they would not suffer Formosa to be included in any Southeast Asia defense alliance. None of these happenings can be classed as startling, but they do de-emphasize certain basic facts about Formosa and our relation to it. First, with its Nationalist Chinese' government, the island is a sharp thorn in Red China's side. So, long as it exists in hostile hands, the Communists can never quite relax the defense of their mainland coast.

Nor can they wipe out the political menace of a rival regime. Threatening noises from China may be expected, though just how seriously they should be taken at this time is a question. The Reds know the U.S. fleet blocks their way. The British made their particular pronouncement because they have recognized Red China and will not place themselves in the position of defending a rival government.

It is viewed as diplomatically inconsistent. But to the Formosa is more than a diplomatic puzzle. It is a defensive bastion, a key link.in the chain of outposts on' the Western Pacific rim. Whether or not we cared to save Chiang Kai-shek, we would feel bound to protect Formosa as an integral part of our vital defense system. That is the real significance of these events.

The British look at Formosa as a bystander would, not feeling their safety or Asia's deeply involved. But to us the Seventh Fleet, is a necessary fact of life. To the Red Chinese it is a hard fact of life that they will forget at their peril. It's Good, The major league baseball season still has a quarter of the way to go, but the two races so far are rather unnerving for those folks who like the status quo. The Yanks and the Dodgers are not walking in.

In the American, Cleveland is dancing along at a pace that has the New Yorkers crazy. The Yanks win and win and win, but- don't gain much. In the National, the frenzied Milwaukee Braves are breathing hot on Giant and Dodger collars, and anything can happen. If Cleveland and Milwaukee should take the pennants, eager New Yorkers will have to shelve their plans for making the World Series a permanent city institution. No doubt they would then sigh: "Oh, well, it's good for the game to have someone else win." And you could almost hear them adding a private mental note: "So long as it doesn't happen too often!" (Distributed by NEA Service) their collecting forms no part of the hobby of stamp collecting." Scott Publications, publishers of the famed catalogues in this country, is in agreement and has refused to list these issues in its editions.

First day cover collectors can obtain first day cancellations of the recently announced U.S. stamps (regular series) by sending their self-addressed envelopes with money order remittances to the following: One-cent George Washington LITTLE L.IX Some men are such steady workers you can't even see them move. will be available Sept. 3 at Philadelphia. Argentina has issued a new one-peso green stamp to commemorate the centenary to the founding of its stock exchange.

Pictured on this adhesive is a cornice of the building. The dates 1854-1954 are also prominent. To honor its 7th National Athletic Games, Colombia has issued four new stamps, reports the New York Stamp Co. Two are airmails and two regulars. The five-centavos blue regular and 15 brown airmail depict the symbolic design of the games.

The 10 orange regular and 20 green airmail show an athlete holding a wreath with the seal of Colombia inside. The Republic of Korea has issued five new airmail stamps. All have the same design but colors and nominations i er. De- i is a four motored passenger plane soaring over Tong Dai Mon, the eastern gate of Seoul. The 25 weun is brown, 35 magenta, 38 blue, 58 Wue and 71 hwan green.

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But they cannot make this stiff and lifeless novel an interesting reading experience." Carvel Collins, New York Times Book Review: "In spite of Fable' is rewarding. It is one of the important works of our major novelist." Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "The most Faulknerian of all Faulkner's novels; Faulkner at his best, though also occasionally at his hermetic worst." Malcolm Cowley, New York Herald Tribune Book Review: Despite "something murky in Faulkner's theology, it is likely to stand above other novels of the year like a cathedral, if an imperfect and unfinished one, above a group of well built cottages." Frederick Babco'ck, Chicago Tribune: "One look at the turgid phraseology, the obscurantism, the long-winded sentences running to nowhere, and the paragraphs three pages long, and I bogged down." Maxwell Geismar, Saturday Review: "Probably, the best novel Faulkner has published in the past decade" but as modern version of the Christ novel fails." And Paul Flowers, of the Memphis (Tenn) Commercial Appeal, noting my unfavorable review, writes me that to him "A Fable" is "dull as a widder woman's axe" and signs himself "A fellow heretic." Ancient Caves The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas are located near Tua- Huang, China. They are cut into solid rock cliffs and nave served as Buddhist shrines for more than 1,500 years. A sealed manuscript chamber was found In the caves in 1900. BUGS BUNNY Aren't Books Grand?.