Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 18

THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abifrae Trial Iwulaj Maniac Jut IA WASHINGTON SCENE United Front Against Subversion is Needed Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine continue im them: for in doing tkii thou shell both miw thyself end them that hear thee Timothy 4:16 Meditation ia thr longue of the aoul and the language of our Jrirmjr Tit lor session with many professional groups especially theorists Newspapers are not perfect far from it but we know of no media of information and entertainment in this country which is more conscious of its responsibilities to its clientele than the press The wordy war over comic books does rot apply to newspapers they carry none of the smut and pornography on their comic pages that characterize the comic books No newspaper even if it cared to would dare to carry the unexpurgated text of the book Here to which has recently been made into a popular movie and the same goes for literally hundreds of novels that have appeared in recent years Personally we nave read only one of these four-lettered books Naked and the and we felt the need of a bath when we'd finished Yet young people do read them Children do read so-called books which would chill the blood of a Frankenstein If newspapers sometimes go too far in depicting half-clothed women it is no more than can be seen any day on bathing beaches or in the pages pf the slick magazines or on television and motion picture screens and the discretion of the whole Executive branch of the government President Elsenhower hat accepted this responsibility explicitly end I believe that moot Americans re gnixa that he is discharging it rigorously Gen Eisenhower couldn't coddle a Communist if it were hie own grandmother The record of his removal of possible security risks among whom some few subversives were found is substantial and mounting He has created a new assistant attorney generalship to handle Internal security cases exclusively He Is asking Congress for additional legislative tools to strengthen security protection Up To Coegrrsa Second Responsibility Congress has the second responsibility see that the President enforces the laws It has the right and the duty to investigate any failure! or any suspected failures of the President to do his job If there were reason to believe that the President was neglecting to deal with attempted subversion Congress most certainly ought to investigate to the hilt But when the President is demonstrating vigorous alertness to toe problem then constant Congressional harassment is unnecessary is hurtful and contributes to a disunity which barms nearly everybody and helps hardly unless it be the Democrats Investigative Reforms Four members of the McCarthy subcommittee including Republican Sen Charles Potter of Michigan have stated that the subcommittee staff must be before anything further is done There is growing support for new committee rules to insure fairness including an end to one-man investigation unpublicized executive hearings before charges are brought against people and other reforms The Communists want nothing as badly as getting the United States irreparably quarreling over fighting the Communists Since the American people ar overwhelmingly united against attempted subversion most Americans will reasonably think it possible for the government to deal with the problem without dividing and lacerating the country The dividers hurt America more than they hurt the subversive (New York Herald Tribune Inc By ROSCOE DRUMMOND WASHINGTON In the brief breathing space between the end of the Army-McCarthy hearings and whatever next lire ahead it would bo useful to examine se arching ly one ironic development On the objective of combing the subversives out of positions of public trust in the United States the American people are overwhelmingly united regardless of party regardless of religion regardless of who is affected This ia a hurtful dangerous disabling disunity I am quite certain that Sen McCarthy has not wanted to produce this disunity this division not within the Catholic Church but within the membership of the Catholic Church this alienation of millions of Protestants over the reek-feu undocumented Matthews charges this deep breach within the Republican party this feuding between the McCarthy committee and the Executive branch of the government But these divisions these lacerations within the government within the Republican party and within the minds and emotions of the whole people have widened and deepened during the past year and a half No Easy Answer There may be a simple but there Is no easy answer to this dilemma But one step toward resolving it Is to state It faithfully and frankly When the American people ar overwhelmingly united on the objective of freeing government from attempted subversion we ought to be able to find a way to serve that objective without becoming overwhelmingly disunited The tong painful Army-McCar-thy hearings have helped to expose the tactics and investigative methods which have produced so much division and it is possible that in the wake of the hearings there may well be increasing support for actions which would help restore unity to the ranks of tho anti-communists which include about 159925000 Americana First Responsibility The direct principal primary responsibility for dealing with attempted subversion in the government is the President' It is his Constitutional right and his Constitutional duty to do the job to do it faithfully and to do it effectively The President must police too loyalty a From Weakness Disaster As this is written it looked as if the Red-wheeling government of Guatemala might crush the current rebellion of anti-Red forces throw out the invaders and take a firmer grip than ever on the country If so that would be a diplomatic setback for the United States of the first magnitude It would not only leave a government inimical to the US in power stronger than ever but would represent a severe loss of face for us in all Latin America Worse still it would enable all the organs of Communist propaganda the world around to pull out all the stops citing the US as having received a jarring backset in its own backyard For the Communists have charged the invasion of Guatemala to US scheming falsely of and a failure to oust the party-lining Arbenz government would prove a propaganda bonanza to Moscow We lost the argument even in the United Nations as became apparent when the US delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr current president of the Security Council first refused then had to accede to a Latin American demand for a Council hearing of the Guatemalan affair Regardless of what action the Council takes it will be difficult if not impossible to salvage anything from the general wreckage that would restore US prestige in the premises Short of intervening in Guatemala directly which would alienate our Latin American friends beyond hope of recovery there seems little we can do by way of getting rid of a government there openly hostile to us and more evidently under the influence of Moscow Let us face it In Europe in Asia and here in our own hemisphere we have suffered one diplomatic defeat after another Even with our friends our affairs are in bad shape It is anybody's guess what caused our present plight Our guess is that it traces directly to the decision to cut down hamstring and deemphasize our military power a process that unhappily continues In a world in ferment you can't enforce diplomatic demands with a peashooter In whittling down our armed might we have lost the only argument our enemies fear and our friends depend upon Someone Is Looking Over Your Shoulder ROBERT ALLEN REPORTS Russian Side Play Blocked Case of Phenix City Pbenix City Alabama has been described as a complacent community of 23000 where gambling liquor and prostitution were the most flourishing industries In 1952 the city collected $649 679 in taxes and in one way or another gambling and its kindred vices contributed almost one half Today Phenix City is in trouble faced with the necessity of finding new sources of revenue The liquor and gambling dens have been closed tight and the prostitutes have been run out of town National Guardsmen patrol the town and the place is off limits to soldiers from Fort Benning across the river in Columbus Ga a principal source of patronage It took a murder to close up the vice dens of Phenix City and perhaps to spell the deathknell permanently to that community as a purveyor of vice and corruption An unknown gunman shot and killed racket-busting A Patterson just before he was to take office as attorney general of Alabama pledged to clean up Phenix City The slayer is as yet unknown If any of the vice lords know his identity they are keeping it to themselves In any case the heat is on and Governor Gordon Persons of Alabama vows Phenix City will be closed tighter than a jug as long as he is in office his term expires in January After that who knows? Phenix City has been closed before only to flourish again Are there enough conscientious people in Phenix City to insure its reformation? Allen Foster secretary of the Chamber of Commerce quit in angry protest when Patterson was murdered He said the clean-up order will ruin the community financially if it remains in force but added: would be the best thine that could happen Even if it means the city has to go into receivership again (it went bust in the depression) it wul he worth the sacrifice if a healthy new community can grow up in its Virtue is its own reward Any community that fattens its larder bv tolerating rice does not deserve to iive LOOKING BACKWARD items That Were Published Here 25 and 40 Years Ago action on the matter: and the Air Force is leaving it up to individual commanding officers Neikiag Doing President Eisenhower is still firmly opposed to a conference He has not changed his mtnd one iota on this long-cherished Churchill plan and will tell him so if he brings it up during the Washington talks That's what the President has told Republican congressional leaders The matter came up during a discussion of Sir Winston's visit The President told the GOP chiefs the British Prime Minister proposed toe trip on the ground it would help him politically The President added he personally welcomed the meeting as a means of improving relations between the two countries He emphasized he considers this extremely important particularly at this time when the Reds are making every effort to create dissension between the and iu allies The President indicated he anticipates Churchill will bring up a parley my mind is made up fully oo that" said the President as much against it now as I ever was Nothing has happened to change my view in any way in fact everything that bas happened has convinced me all tbe more that I am right Of course I'll talk over anything that Churchill brings up but that's as far as I'll go on conference If ha thought it would any but he doesn't He cited the recent unproductive efforts to get a Russian agreement on his widely-acclaimed plan for an inte national uranium pool for peaceful purposes as a graphic instance of the futility of dealing with the Soviets Note: In Churchill's volume of war memoirs titled The he says on page 345 American friends were comforted in their obstinacy by the reply that 'At any rate we have stopped Churchill from entangling us in too Balkans' Tbe Ladies Mrs Robert Low Bacon widow of the New York Republican Representative- and the recognized GOP social leader of Washington has organized a new club It's called the -Order" Club and the avowed purpose is to oppose Senator McCarthy inside the Republican party Damara Bolte daughter of General Charles Bolte Vice Chief of Staff of tho Army is majoring in animal husbandry and has a job for the summer on a farm at Woodstock Md Miss Bolte also is a sculptress specializing in animal figure Dr Carlos Davila new Secretary-General of the Organization of American States brings to his job three lovely young ladies Two of them are his daughters Lux and Paz and the third is his second wife She is the former Frances Adams an American-born writer who met Davila when he was editor of La Nacion Previously ho had been Chilean Ambassador to Washington and president of Chile iPost-Hail Syndicate Inc) Who's to Blame? A speaker before the American Medical Association convention the other day reported the increasing number of unwed there were 88000 illigiti-mate live births in 1838 142000 in 1950 due partly to in American society Dr Goodrich Schauffler of Portland Ore said many influences are at work producing emotional shambles which fosters many of the deviations and denatured biological trends which are common among our young Modern customs which precipitate precocious sex of young people are one cause he said Young people he went on are more aware of sex and ed by the sex hysteria which is a calculated instrument of modern journalism and so-called entertainment We do not know what prompted the doctor to single out journalism as a special target except that cussing the press seems to be an occupational ob OTHER VIEWPOINTS Foreign Service Training The President explained he would be willing to participate in a WASHINGTON BEAT Strenuous Closing Days Take Congressional Toll From the 1929 fifes of Tho Abilene Daily Reporter: General construction bids oo to Wooten Hotel and the adjoining theater were to be opened in the office of David Castle Company architects and engineers on both buildings Contractors were to submit two bids one on a 16-story and the other on a 16-story building The Dent Theaters Inc were to take a long-time lease oa the theater building A new captain arrived here to take charge of the Salvation Army work He was Captain Wade Farrior Accompanying him waa Mrs Farrior Departing from duly here with the organisation was Ensign and Mrs George Lambert He was transferred to Dallas Capt and Mrs Farrior moved here from Hattiesburg Mist A forge number of Boy Scouts turned out for a court of honor in Cobb Park City Judge Lee York was chairman of the Abilene honor court while Ed Shum-way was scout executive Robert Cray flutist entertained Simmons University students with a musical program at the school's regular chapel program Cray was the son of Robert Cray Sr who was employed here by the Texas and Pacific Railroad Accompanying young Cray on the piano was Miss Jessie Ellen Peden Member of the summer school senior class at Abilene High School held a picnic at the Presbyterian encampment grounds at Buffalo Gap Attending were Supt and Mra Green Dudley principal Leon Arnold class president Garnett Yoder vice president Lafon Derrick secretary-treasurer Kathryn Craig Opal Creighton Munette Cocks Clara Mae Jones Rowena Justice Brooks McKinney Gladys Lee Hodge Lazette Kunkel Buel Condon Pete Shackelford Vivian Neely Elsye Brennan Lennia Baker Fred McKinzie Leslie Ilall Glenn Parris Hale Kincaid Wesley Akins Miss Madge Mor- rlson Miss Lottie Roe Green Gordon Stone end Rupert Black Announcement was nude that the old George Finberg property at North Third and Beech Sts had been purchased by a group of five doctors for the purpose of erecting a clinic building The doctor buying the site were Pickard Grady Shytles Grubbs Erie Sellers and Jo Kennedy Heavy rains hit West Texas especially in far west Texas where three inches fell at Pecos No rain had fallen here and the third driest June up until 1929 was recorded Only 12 of an inch of rain fell in Abilene during the month of June 49 Years Age From the 1914 files of The AM-kne Daily Reporter: It was announced by Fred Wood general manager of the Central West Texas Fair and Fat Stock Show that carpenters working on the buildings for the fair would donate 40 cents of their earnings toward the fair Scale here for Union carpenters was 64 per day A few local briefs A Robertson left for Fort Worth In addition he was to make a two-month business trip through tho northern section of Texas Edgar McCall left for Crowell where ho was to spend the next few days visiting friends and relatives Miss Ruth Peebles who had beea visiting the Rev and Mrs Harrison here fefl to return to her home at Baird The Abilene Daily Reporter came out with a special anniversary edition oa Sunday Juno 26 The edition consisted of numerous ads and pictures of tho city Pictures of local reaidencri fat-eluded Judge Henry Sayfes Alto Vista addition Judge Le-Rett and Hon Wagstaff College Heights Addition a By ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON June 26 -Russia was preparing to send a large military mission to Guatemala It was being dona at the of toe Red-tainted Arbens regime The Guatemalan dictator also had that toe mission be transported on Soviet cruiser The Kremlin was considering this The has positive information of this sinister scheme The documentary evidence including Arbenz' own message came from anti -Communist sources inside Guatemala This secret plan was the reason for Ambassador Lodge's grim warning to Russia's UN Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin to out of the Western Hemisphere don't fry to start any of your conspiracies It is also tbs reason why Russia used its veto power at the Security Council meeting to kill tbe S-supported proposal to lay the Guatemalan issue before the Organization of American States Consideration by this strictly Western Hemisphere agency would have meant speedy exposure of the Communist plot The Red scheme is aimed squarely at the Guatemala has had American military missions for more than 23 years At present they consist of a six-member Army group headed by Colonel Thomas Hanford and an eight-member Air Force unit commanded by Colonel Earl Batten Under a 1945 treaty Guatemala cannot replace these missions sj long as they remain there The appearance of a Russian military mission would have been a deliberate violation of this pact and a direct challenge to the That was the obvious intent of the Kremlin and its Guatemalan puppets Note: Colonel Armando Velazquez Honduran Chief of Staff will arrive in Washington next week for several days of Pentagon conferences followed by a tour of military installations The visit was arranged long before toe outbreak of toe Guatemalan revolt Flashes The American military in Indochina is being enlarged Sixty Army and Airforce personnel including a public relations officer are being added Major General asked for 10M more servicemen but the request was turned down Th Joint Congressional Atomic Committee which ia keeping a -Me check on the pragma of the sensational Oppenheimer security case is evincing particular interest ia the absence of three names from the list of witnesses who testified before the Gray Board The missing authorities are former Defense Secretory Robert Lovett former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter and Robert Baron Assistant Defense Secretary for Atomic Energy Although they know a lot about Oppenheimer and the H-bomb controversy the Gray Board did not seek their expert information and opinions The War Claims Commission has approved payments of more than 1130500000 for damages and fosses to World War II prisoners of war and American civilians Tbe money for these claims was derived from the confiscated property ef enemy aliens The military services era in somewhat of a snafu over to resumption ef off-poet saluting The Army has ordered that be done again starting September 1: the Navy and Marine Corps are taking ne formal McLeod after be bad been deprived of one of bio poets that of personnel chief Mr Sahman if the Senate confirms him will have hard sledding now ia regaining control His predecessor Donald Lourie was run by McLeod whose dynamism of course derives from the sponsorship of Messrs McCarthy and Bridges Less arguable is the suggestion in the Wria-ton report that the foreign service and other State Department personnel be integrated into a single administrative system Tbe foreign service it is sometimes said should be an elite corps But the separate position of toe service in the State Department has promoted neither efficiency nor harmony and it has certainly been the bane ef administrative management At this crucial state of its history toe country needs a unified service divorced from overprofesaionaljzation as well as from polities Washington Post And Tiraot-Herald: Legislative invasion at the executive branch el Government might be encouraged rather than discouraged bjr one ef the recommend-twos ef the Wristoo Committee which Secretary Dulles has accepted The committee which has surveyed the State Department personnel system recommends a scholarship training prog ran for the foreign service The idea as under the Naval Reserve officer train-big corps system is te enlist promising candidates in a two-year training program at the end of the sophomore year ef college "Tbe weight ef the says the report congressional appointment to the majority of these This proposal in tbe circumstances of the time could be tbe entering wedge of total congressional nomination of tbe departmental personneL Tbe fear of such a move has been lurticg hi the background since Scott McLeod became security officer in behalf ef the Republican diebards ft would be much better it aeema to a to have a system ef epee examinations ia toe colleges for toe diplomatic service This ie the system in vogue elsewhere The system came originally from Chine where to toe great days ef tbe monarchy the best brains of toe country found their way to old Peking from toe smallest village and toe poorest family Nobody asked candidates their political affiliations They were not selected for examination because they had relatives ar friends who bad contributed money or influence te toe political boss or representative ie the vicinity Similarly- toe system in the State Department should be epee to the talent on a broad basis The Wrists Committee has met here long enough to mine that the great danger to toe career service is the drive te paiaiett it One of toe committee members former Assistant Secretory ef Slate Charles is bow pul up for the post ef Undersecretary for Arimmat ratine Secretory Duties has accepted the specific recommendation ef the risten Committee that the appointee should take ever toe inspectorate functions These have to da with the eupervisHSi ef personnel foreign nations Job taken ew by Mr By LESLIE AND ELIZABETH CARPENTER Reporter-News Washington Berean WASHINGTON June 26-The Old Grim Reaper himself is reminding Capitol Hill again that Congress should stop so much timetaking extraneous activity and get the legislative work done earlier and in a more orderly fashion The Capitol HiU pace as Congress buckles down in a great last-minute rush attempt to adjourn la again a man-killing tempo literally This year it has already cost the lives of three members within a short time Sen Clyde Hoey D-NCf and Joseph Farrington the longtime delegate from Hawaii have died and Sen Lester Hunt (D-Wyo) emotionally depressed over an illness and an overworked man took his own life Last year three Senators died to June and July Charles Tohey (R-Mli Willis Smith D-NC and Robert A Taft (R-Ohio) Also three House members died shortly before that Reps Merlon Hall (R-Wis) Garrett Withers (D-Kyl and Joseph Bryson (D-SCi Congress is famous for attempting to delay and delay the heavy legislative toad of a session as long as possible As a result all tbe hard work piles up in the months of June July and August when there is great pressure to adjourn Relatively little legislation at consequence is token up in toe early months of the year This annually takes a toll on older members at Congress The Congressional reorganization act of 1946 said that Congress will adjourn at feast by July SI unless Congress itself provides for quitting later The goal has never been met because there is always such a last-minute fog-jam The work is so heavy and the weather in Washington so hot in July and August that tempers are on edge at the Capitol It caused Rep Leslie A rends (R-Illi to remark the other day: considering introducing a resolution to do away with the last two weeks of Wash lag! Sidelights Sen Theodore Francis Green D-RI) who is perhaps the natn's most energetic octogenarian has announced he will run for another six-year Senate term this fall Green who will be 7 in October and is a bachelor faithfully takes his morning exercises in the gymnasium of the club where he lives other club member report privately that he has given up high diving in the pool (although he still swims regularly) A multimillionaire he rides street cars back and forth to work and often rides them to fancy embassy parties where he is a great arena-stealer especially on the dance floor where he never seems to tire Alice Roosevelt Longworth delights in telling a story about her 6-year-old granddaughter Johan na who along with her mother was recently converted to Catholicism Johanna confessed to her grandmother Aliev that she was a little confused about church customs hope that on our Johanna Mid you will give me a calendar marking the fish days and the fast days but please mark them with smiling fish and grinning THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS roillll Twin D-Oy dm infer tf IM earoniae riouMiinii to mu am-m i CIHCUtATIOM Ths A krpirlti-llavi la linn 1 "'un" JErsi ssr Pony Express Revived Deseret News Salt Lake City: Tbe moldering bones el Haslam Cody Howard Egan and others of the or so valiant youngsters who rode toe Pony Express route through the western wildemess more than years ago must have stirred uneasily at the report that their speed record bas been bettered by members of tbe Weber County Mounted Sheriffs Pessc Tbe modern day Mercuries scoring an average speed at IS miles per hour against the pioneer riders 106 performed their feat ia a contest with a troop of Kansas horsemen in connection with toe annual Junior Chamber of Commerce convention in Colorado Springs Tbe Utah riders galloping hi relays covered too 604 miles from Ogden to toe convention city in hours end ii minutes while their Kansas rivals members of the Wyandrte County Sheriffs Posse racing a slightly shader distance westward from their home base bogged down 40 miles short at the finish fine and completed their journey in the Ignominious luxiny at can trucks end traders infer AbUrt' Munuos nS infer KtiS iMfer as (ML Momaf ns Inwi ns suMUf mk ouar I Wwvt Ttvaa IfantiM mn4 Imdif am ynMn ini luaAaf 11 tmmsK rJESaSSr hliahof moro MM I un ZmZ 11A1 mfelMl Trv 'toe UMMMNmMMIi -a MMMkSWM.