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4 rm LffVCOLM STAR Bdttorial Pajgg Saturday. July 11. 1953 Another Russian Mystery Some men will do anything: or itiop at nothing to irain over their fellow men. Others believing that riches spell power in our world will do anything to win riches, and with the riches, the power that wealth brings to the individual. Men of uncontrollable greed always have striven for power and riches.

Shortly after death, millions of words appeared in the magazines and newspapers seeking to tell the reputed story of rise to power over the cold forms of his rivals in Russia. Some of the accounts were written by Russians in exile, particularly two which later will appear in book form. It need not be said that the story of a turbulent nation out over much of this present century is stranger than fiction. All of the threats which form the fabric of Russia leave impression upon hundreds of millions outside Russia. The struggle for pow-er both beyond dnd within its borders is so grotesque, so fantastic, so outside the realm of normal human behaviour that it defies understanding.

We can brush it aside with the statement that the battle within the Kremlin is logical and inevitable. We can name the chief and Molotov, and until the startling news that the head of the Russian secret police, Beria, had been deposed and charged wdth treachery, he was one of the trio ruling Russia. What does of this mean to us outside Russia, admittedly deeply affected as we Wc read of mounting rebellion and uprising in satellite countries. We are told millions of enslaved peoples have reached the limit of human endurance. We are given to understand that animal hunger itself transformed submission in East Germany to open defiance.

It Is suggested that Mao is breaking away from the new gang in the Kremlin. And finally there comes the news that one man who possessed great power as head of the Russian secret police Is in disgrace and shorn of his authority if not actually stripped of his life. What does it all mean? Actually it means anything that we see fit to read into it. In America we would like to believe that in much of the world today, the physical requirements of men have brought them to the point where they reassert the normal intellectual craving which is a part of the free mind. We would like to think much more that in the.se haptxmings in remote sections of the world we again see the natural and intellectual a-pirations of men are reasserting themselves.

But Rcria out could mean only that one man in Russia is closer to the goal of one unchallenged power. There will be no successor to Stalin in Russia until such a time as one man gathers In his hands all the power held by Stalin. One For Two This Week For the last seven days. Sen. Joseph R.

McCarthy is batting .500, or one hit and one at the plate. He struck out in his latest example of arrogance when he accepted the resignation of his committee staff director, J. B. Matthews, after initially asserting that he had the right to hire and fire anyone he pleased. Matthews, who had written in a magazine article that single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the United States today is composed of Prote.stant has a long record of similar outbursts, and his a.s.so- ciations of the past are listed in some detail by Drew Pearson in his column on this page today.

Sen. hit was scored against Dr. Robert L. Johnson, president of Temple University on leave, who resigned as director of the Eisenhower overseas information program. The reported rea.son for his resignation was his health, although there is considerable suspicion that he was made sick by the spectacle of the last few weeks in which the w'hole over.seas information program was subjected to a barrage of ridiculous directive.s It Be Told By The Winds Of Men And Things They do come of these men of stout heart aad iron determination.

We were looking over a biographical sent out by one of the wire services early in 1949 following a traffic accident which nearly cost the bantam of the fairway.s, Ben Hogan, his life. He won the British Open Golf Tournament near the close of this 1953 July week-end, and in winning he took apart literally what is described as the most difficult course in the world with a record score of 68. Mr. Hogan is not only a perfectionist in golf, it this nerveless little man of the links appears to possess a sense of dramatic timing that is the heart of enduring literature. He saves the best for the last.

He never hauls out his punch line in the opening chapters. In winning the British Open championship, one of the few glistening laurels of golfdom upon which he had his heart it was the last round of that doggedly grim test Carnoustie provides that broke the heart of all his competitors. One would be brash to say Hogan never played better. But to look at his card was to be confronted with the fact that here was a human machine performing better than it is expected to function on a course where the winds sweep in from the restless and the rain squalls' chuckle mirthlessly at frustration. Editorial Of The Day Norrle Saw ilia First Comeback To get back to Mr.

Hogan 135 pounds of Van Horn, on the second day of February in 1949, the automobile In which he and his wife were riding, homeward bound, smacked head-on into a huge bus. Hogan as at the wheel. When they picked him up after he had tried to spare his wife by ing himself In front of her (she was only slightly hurt), it was found that Hogan suffered 39 broken bones and two severed muscles. Then began first the desperate battle to lire and later the struggle for complete physical convalescence. Norrie Anderson, the talented sports editor of The Lincoln Star, was in the huge gallery that followed Ben Hogan in the course of a west- coast first tournament appearance after the automobile accident that nearly cost him his life.

Hogan faced more hazard.s than any other man in the tournament that day. He was confronted with the same traps, the same bunkers, the same greedy rough, and the waterholes that reached out to grab each player. And then Hogan still bearing the scari; of the accident walked only with difficulty, and at times with the assistance of his rival professional golfers. A grand bunch, these men of the links, playing the game for keeps and yet playing it in the highest traditions of sportsmanship. The Scots had installed Ben Hogan as their favorite to win this 1953 British Open championship.

There where the game was where the atmosphere is hallowed by the love of silent people, reserved and undemonstrative, become loquacious and look the little man from Texas into their arms and lo, these long months ahead, what he did on a certain July Friday on a British seaside golf course will talked about until late in the night. it We think the waves will like it. When they come sweeping In from out of the fug and the mist and the eternal mysteries of the deep waters, It will be In salute to a champion. And the brief rainstorms which come from out of nowhere to drench Carnoustie will talk to them- aelves about a slight man who earned a place iMonc golf's immortals. DREW PEARSON THOUGHT FOR THE SABBATH McCarthy, Matthews Stir Religious Conflict Stories Art Thou Of Famous Weary, Art Thou Hymns Languid? Art thou weary, art thou languid, Alt thou sore disfrcssed? "Come to me," saifh One, "and coming.

Be at rest." Hath he marks to lead me to him, he be my "in his feet and hands are wound'prints. And his side." li I iind him. if I follow. What his guerdon here? "Many a sorrow, many Many a tear." a labor, If I still hold closely to him. What hath he al fast? "Sorrow vanquished, labor ended, Jordan passed." WASHINGTON Chief trag- man's te.stimony lo Ihe contrary, cdy of the Senate dispute over J.

However, Matthew.s’ letter to Rus- B. Matthews and his charges Turner, assistant to Fulton largest single group support- Lewis really put him on the ihg the Communist apparatus are Protestant is the, arc the photostats, to- (ieavage it has caused between! aether with a memorandum on and Catholics. I the Communist organizations Unfortunately Matthew.s’ back- with which A. R. (Anna Rosen- ground, plus his support from berg) has, according to the pub- Christian Front and lie records, been groups, plus the vigorous support! Matthews xVrote on Nov.

27, is one of the oldest hymns of Christen- given McCarthy by these samej 1950 dom. Written more than 11 centuries ago i factions, has aroused bittcrne.ss in question of whether by St. Stephen the monk w'ho ithe Prole.stant world at a time, the A. R. of these docu- in a hewn out stone cell in the mon- when relations between the twoj ments i.s the A.

I can report astery of St. Sabas near Bethlehem, great church groups appeared on there is not the slightest doubt, the Dead Sea, it was trans- to the way to greater harmony. have made exhaustive in- jlated in 1862 by John Ma.son Neale, Eng- contents background is so quiries and Investigations, as a lish churchman, and today is sung at wor- brook riDnl If I ask him to receive me Will he say me nay? "Not till earth and not HlI heaven Pass away." Finding, following, keeping, struggling. Is he sure to bless? "Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs. Answer, Yes." By HORACE B.

POWELL Thou Weary, Art Thou well known that McCarthy must have realized what religious bitterness he would stir up when he hired him to direct his eommittee activities. Even if Matthews had not made his anti-Protestant charge in the Amerlran Merenry, it was obvious that Matthews would have aroused Protestant and resentment. Among other things, Matthews was given credit in Senate testi- nifiny for leading the unfair and quiries result of which I have established beyond any pirsslbility of dispute that there had been only one Anna Rosenberg sufficiently known in public life to be listed with the well-known names In these doeuments ship services throughout the world, Stephen entered the as the monastery was called, when a lad of 10, holding to the hand of his uncle, John of Damascus, Uncle and nephew left a sjilendid palace to enter the monastery. The Christian family to which they be- The fact that the Senate unani- longed had immense wealth and great po- mously reversed Matthews in re- sition. Time after time, the wealth had gard to Mrs.

Ro.senberg and sent a been used to purchase freedom for boat spt'cial report to the Justice De- loads of Christians, captives of the Sara- partment suggesting possible pros- cens. Hut all the sacrifiges did not seem to Arabs were near. Looking up Stephen ecution of witnesses for perjury lessen the numbers of Christians tortured should have been enough to stop or slain. The unde fell to monastery chapel sounded and the monks gathered for prayers. Twice each night the lad hurried from his ceil to the chape! to join in the chanting.

On the hills to the south of the monastery grazed the camels owned by the monks. It was duty to watch over them. At sunrise each day, too, it was his task to take a basket the monastery down 500 feet to W'here the brook rippled and where wolves and jackals paced back and forth wailing for the food which they knew the monks would provide. But in the convent, life was not all peace. The monks had to keep watch marauding bands of Arabs.

Once when Stephen was a young man, he was emptying his basket of bread, leaiung far over the cliff to look dowm on the brook below'. Suddenly, the lookout over the convent gate gave the signal which told that as the State Department tried lo find line to follow. Although the situation is anyttiing but funny, a cartoon by Herbt'rt Block of the ington Post puts a final touch on the events of this It a State Department man frantically leaping from behind his desk as he reads a newspaper headline, Staff Direc'tor Attacks the He shouts to hi.s assistants: the Bible off the agu newspaper, officially recommended develop the fact that many think- by the Nazi before Pearl Harbor. He has had the hacking of Allan Zol! of Ameri- saw' the far-off cloud of dust raised by the hoofs of the approaching hor.ses. The Arabs would be upon them a few' the faithful camels were prayed in the desert accomplished more grazing outside the gate.

Stephen ran out, untastoned the tethers, and led the camels inside, just as a shower of arrows fell about. Then, because it was the hour for prayers, he InltM'view's with Catholic leaders Uie laura and beg hurrieil to the belfry to ring the bells, as attack nti Assistant Spcrc- McCarthy from hiring him. itary of Defense Anna Rosenberg Thiq fart that record i w'hi'n W'as erroneously branded vcas well known is w'hat has'lived and ,1 Communist. He is a friend of aroused Protestant bitterness, accomplished rnort Kamp, to jail niade many feel that McCarlhvism who occupied themselves refusing to regarding ps developing into a Catholic at- righteous acts. So John oi Darnascus his Constitutional Educational tack on other religions.

a i Iris.gue, He w'ns a contributor to nephew' walked through the rie.sert to the monks to receive them. When Fate Intervenes Quirks of difference sornetlines be- twet'n life and death. Take the story of a Nebraskan in the Far There was A-3e Thomas Erwin Murray of getting ready to board a giant C-124 Globemaster going from Japan to Korea. One of his clearance papers in order. He get on the plane.

Only a few minutes later the Globemaster a crumpled wreck, 129 pas.scnger.s and crew members dead. wrote Erwin Murray to his father in never was so lucky in my A happy ending to a story is w'orthy of note in these times, when all tix) few stories have a fortunate climax. frequently death or disaster are averteri by a seemingly trivial incident is something beyond the ken of mortal man. Why Do They Write? A Washington corresptuident writes that books have become a continuing headache for the administration, has got to the point he reports, the administration is cheeking on high-level appointees to see whether they have written any books and what they wrote. do so many of them have to put their ideas into one White House official moaned after being informed that a prospective apixiintee had written a book involving a controversial Of course, the government could get along without men who have their ideas into one step remov'ed from the men who have no ideas whatsoever.

Then, if we were lucky, the day might come when we would have no books which require situation which would draw lusty cheers from some ters. can Patriots, listed by the Justice Department as siibver.sive, also of rabble rouser Merwin K. Hart. fr fr The American Mercury, in tides by Father Richard Ginder which anti-Protestant vigorously supporting McCarthy article appeared, is now owned with publication of Ru.ssell Maguire, once close to the Ithe Matthews charges against the Christian Front and backer of the Protestant clergy, recent anti-Semitic Unfortunately these helped to Iron Curtain Over overshadow the fact that A gala dinner given in honor organ of the Jesuits, differed of Matthews at the Waldorf, Feb. w'ith McCarthy over Adlai Steven- 1.3, gives some idea of his sup- son last fall and that portcrs.

Cof)ies of the American Catholic lay weekly, pub- Merciiry were on every table. Sen. lished a stirring statement by McCarthy was the chief speaker. Father Ix'on Sullivan, once im- George Sokolsky was prisoned by Chinese Communists, A message was read w'hich read: from Vice President Nixon. would rather return to my The guest list Included: Allan Chinese Communist prison cell was his custom.

As the chimes rang out ing Catholics are dead oppo.sed to The boy lived at the monastery for 59 over the desert, the Saracens turned and McCarthy, like the fact that his death. In time, the stone fled, frightened by what they thought he has never married, or the fact cells became more natural to him than the was a signal for help. Obedient to the that as a judge he granted quickie great palace w'ith its golden pillars. The bells, the old monks came from their cells, divorces. ripple of the brook, Kedron, took the As they repeated their prayers, Stephen On the other hand, Sun- place of the palace fountains which in day largest circulating Damascus had splashed on a hundred Catholic published tw-o ar- colored mosaic.

Five times every day the bells in the saw the w'eariness vanish from their faces. Tradition says that on that morning he wTote the first verse of his much-loved hymn. Zoll. Merwin K. Hart, Kamp, Westbrook Peg 1er, Alfred Kohllierg of the C'hina I.obbv, FYederiek Carwright, financial agent of Sir Oswald Moseley, leader of the British rnion of Fascists; Dr.

Ruth Fischer, sister of Hans F.isler; T. FIvnn, Roy roun- sel to McCarthy; Mary of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation. Walter Winrhell bought a ticket but did not Matthews once testified: it not immodest, but for a period of years I was prol)ably more closely a.ssociated with the Communist party's United Front movements than any other individual in this This has been greatest (daim to fame. He has cashed in on his mistakes in a people could cash in on rectitude. After his erroneous information regarding Anna Rosenberg began to backfire.

Matthews tried to out of all responsibility. He denied giving information to Benjamin Freedman, despite Freed- than avail myself of He i.s as great, if not a greater threat to American freedom than the military might of the Kremlin, and believe me I do not underestimate either the might or its cleverness. missionary career in China ended in a Communist court in which accusations were taken as facts, charges as proofs, and in which the police announced that is not necessary: we never make a mistake; when we arrest your guilty; a defense is only necessary in eorrupt bourgeois society where they have corrupt a result of that continued Father van, cling desperately to a principle that Is one of the foundation stones of our democratic way of life, the principle that a man is innocent until he is proven guilty. God help all of us if we ever abandon that principle. you must betray demoo- raey in order to save it, why 10.12, by BtH Syndicate, Inc.) ARCH DONOVAN Calling All Doctors! From the Racine (Wis.) Journal-Times Milwaukee doctors who hookey" from their prat'liee to go to ball will be the of having that fact made known to 20,000 or 30,000 The Milwaukee County Medical Soeieiy announeed that it has assigned a number to eat membtn doi tor, and at public gatherings when a doctor mu: be called away for an emergency, he will be paged as or etc.

Officers of the medical society, anncuncing the new system, dispensed with any t' talk alxiut efficiency and frankly admiltf that the purpose Is to unnecesr.ary embarrassment on the dotdor's p.irt We have always sin.pectcd that manv doctors, especially the young ones strukKlinc to i tablish a practice, were not exactly opi cd to being paged by name in cnjwd Tta American Medical Association is tufty about in any form on the it of it members. Rut the AM A or the local me'-: cal society could hardly argue if the public lia system at the ball park or local theuU heuti'd the young doctor's name a few- tinu Of of got a phtnomenal nurib; of callwhile a hal' imc or movie, but who coui I 'iint a tin, 1 Milwaukee has changt 1 al! thi.s. N- tor can go out to W'atch the Bravt Toti. .1 a sport shirt and anonymitv, rt pondm, or ly to a number, Progre.ss marches on! II I I. I A II In I.inciHn, -a- elMi mall, for tranamliiflon throuirh thr wrekriay morntnji by Journsl-Btar Printing Co of Lincoln Nrbruka.

Al.TKB W. WHITK, PI Hl.ISliy JSMRS K. UIWHLNtL, KlliroH In Step With The Sower with ED FITZHUGH Alcohol i.s the downfall of some people, and drugs the vice of others, but if my destruction comes from anything but natural causes, a bowd of salted peanuts ill be to blame, Almonds I can take or leave alone, and Brazil nuts exercise no unnatural lure for me. Potato chips I treat with moderation, and even olivei; can remain before me for relatively long periods of time an without risking complete disappearance. Not so with salted peanuts.

Hostesses who place a bowl of salted peanuts in my vicinity are tefiipting me! If the bow is a small one there is no real danger, because when taken in reasonable quantities, you even tell that had a peanut. eyes are still clear, my tongue unimpeded and my carriage erect. It IS the hostess who is trying to impress someone in the peanut and so loads a groaning table a whole kettle full of the vicious little goobers, who is in dire peril of having a large dump of peanut butter namely her hands when everyone ielse departs. I know when to stop. fr fr fr to consume of the stenographers is getting hitched, Tim, and we're taking up a little office collection ITH Douglas County officials knowing that the Sow- apparently fouling up the tax mw groceries are prepared by 1 do not set out throughout the and an active League member and that the whole supply, w'hich was more cnliciran of the Legislature for he has been greatly interested in likelv intended by the hostess as a th.

50 per cent as.ses.sment law improvement- in of dusplay piece, and designed to last many place.s, Clerk Hugo Srb sug- institutions made by the board, through at least five spells of hav- ts that maybe the is inquired we had not carried ing company. For that matter, 1 niuie wajinen in public office. home the information regarding ant not conscious half the time A S'Jution to the tax problem appointment of the control board, that my groping hand has again Was offered Srb by a Mrs. Martin It cau.sed us to make a quick fixeii itseU abiiut a fistful or of Omaha. She advocates a tax on examination of the nut.s.

It just does. Ana Iran "F.Vi*iylx)dy to rai.se a You Know them tci my mouth. And I p. bushel of she comments. We can report back to the state the first 15 minutes its operas al night? Mrs.

Martin copying the information the women prepared. 'HE Sower cannot vouch for DENNEY, acimiiiistrative 1 thi, Mo.y, but Wf ur.at I vai Crosby, hovers and clucks like a ufiden.i^ in tlu repouing abil- chicks during the daily a ui-wspapernian, Art conferenci's of the governor c.aiomi of die rete News. He exiieiiinie of commit a political patrolman giving a His blood pres.sqie went up, his P-lls Ih. a licen.t lam nt rui.a blame the goobers. After that first quarter of an hour, howver, a close observer would notice a distinct similarity between my shape and that of a distorted peanut, with the large half at the bottom.

I begin to feel like one of tliese roly-poly, round-bottomed llt- lle figures that bob upright again every time you press them down. Another five minutes, and the I- colored a bright red and his nntired where (in iur til IV mg tc.st drove bobbed rapidly from side to having noticed wnert eovfrnor the peanuts were going, begins to govtincir with horrible suspicion on wim a wide grin on his luce pre- wtv ofs a reu ierulcd not to the Iraatic gW- guests. le patrol- iuie.s, I become sly, passing the bowl to PKAXh II. TlllttMU', l'I Hl.lSlIKIt, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATI!) PRESS Prer; tu UM fot rtpubllratloi) of all locai nawa In thti and to all newi dUpatchea noi utbarwUa craditad to U. All rlghta of rapublica Uon of apaclal dUpatehaa ara atau rtaa.vrd.

till di a ltd ligiil without notic- recently while with a wide grin on his face latly, what tit hf.hl tht annh mail politely inquired. C'rpsby had the and palmmg a goo Quick as a flash, she an.svvered, schtxil teacher role that was com- ors into my cuffs each time. mori under his predetes.sor, Gov. She p.i,-.,-,ed the exam of the Peterson. He was attempting to When the hour comes to de- grade the a.ssessment reptirls from part, I must ari.se with care, for various counties and witu of a shifting cargo.

Now FUKI state -uoenntendent eomes the There are u.su- 1 with a couple of counties remain- jdly at least five peanut.s the to Why educa- until the others are at the door, and my fingers dart the guveiuor suggested out. Hastily 1 secrete one peanut IS puzza ii-ave no coniidenca of ihtir jon. Kxten; Jon sei of in the that the two counties might under each ton.sil there is no Vfi-ity oi as a lub proj- cia.s.sed as room left farther one (H for tai 'n vvomen uvulatefl a Denney gurgled a hoarse, jn each cheek, and the prob- as to ttie makeup of ('rosby started to explain lem of the one remaining nut. Just Lite ak iii ()m mernbi-r, to Denney shrugged and re- then the s.s turns, and her MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES (WtUtln Nauraakft and Northern Katuaa) tfaar Dally Without Munday 3 26 Dally With Munday KJ.OO 8.26 Sunday e.oo 4.76 Dally Only for Dally and Sunday for To othar states and Canada Sunday. 16c a waak; dally mk a waak; dally wUo Sunday 46c a of hi-r huts, mailed it naarked, are in up to your eyes firui me.

BY CARRIER IN UNCOLN (or to Vacation Addraaal Dally 60c waek, Sunday waek Bundaya to Decker in provide the answers, neck now, I guess you might as Noting that It gave misinforma- bo over your Thraa a.s to organization of the worry about what I am calling them demaruiing in assessments. Max," elective of appointive of- jhe giivernor said. one will 1.60 ker the source blame me for carrying out the 'I' udoi-ration. 1 to t'nforce the law. 'Die i- did not And the law a.ssehr.numt.s tuin to div; in the Uni- shall be 50 per cent of actual vv Deparlmenl of Political 'Iliere is noiliing for It now but to tin peanut In my mouth and chew.

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