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Show (at PRO VQ, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1948 How About a Probe of Justice Department? While the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss? investigation continues as it apparently appar-ently is going to a side investigation of the Justice Department might be in order. On Dec. -1 officials of the department gave out a statement that they still had possible perjury charges against either of these men "under study," but that there would be no use in going to a grand jury with the evidence they had at present. That evidence, they said, failed to show which one, if either, was lying. "If either," mind, you, after Mr. Chambers had sworn that Mr. Hiss was a prewar Communist agent in Washington, and Mr. Hiss had sworn that he wasn't. .. Also on Dec. 1, two Washington reporters report-ers came out with stories that new and important im-portant evidence in the Hiss-Chambers case had been discovered. Other newspapermen took up this lead and found that there were, to put it mildly, some contradictory ideas among the attorney general's help about the quality of the evidence at hand. Assistant Attorney General Campbell, in charge of the department's criminal division, divi-sion, told a New York Herald Tribune reporter re-porter that he just couldn't comment on stories that depositions had been taken or new documents produced because the Chambers-Hiss case was "too hot." Another reporter from the same newspaper news-paper igot Mr. Chambers, his attorney, and an attorney for Mr. Hiss on the phone and asked each the same five questions regarding regard-ing the reported depositions, what they had contained, and what had Jbeen done with them. All three refused to answer any of the questions. We can conceive of an investigation of alleged Communist activity in government as being "too hot" for preliminary disclosures dis-closures before the investigation' was complete. com-plete. But we cannot see why a Justice Department De-partment attorney should refuse to confirm or deny that depositions had been taken in the Chambers-Hiss libel suit which might have some bearing on his department's perjury per-jury inquiry. And we certainly cannot understand why some department members should imply, in a statement to the press, that this inquiry . was about to die for lack of evidence while, on the same day, others were telling the press that the whole thing was "too hot" to discuss. Some people in the department apparently appar-ently would like the public to. forget the whole thing, while others would like to keep the public in the darki But this is the public's business. And it is scarcely within the province of the Justice Department, which is legal representative of the whole people's government, to cover up for anybody. any-body. The department's concern is with justice, jus-tice, not with whose toes get stepped on. This contradiction should be cleared up. Meanwhile the public has reason to be grateful to the representatives of a press that is enterprising as well as free for un covering what looks at the moment like a rather unpretty situation. 'Hiyah, Chum!' No Cabinet Changes Apparently anyone who expected to see the fur fly in Washington, when the president presi-dent should get around to shaking things up, is to be disappointed. The president Bays his cabinet will not be changed except in the normal course of events, and that would seem to warrant the conclusion that if there is any shaking up to be done, it will not be by Mr. Truman. Some changes would not have caused surprise. A few of the cabinet officers effectively ef-fectively concealed any enthusiasm they may have had for the president's candidacy. Now Mr. Truman seems to be telling the country, and the world, that he chose his cabinet members thoughtfuly, and does not find his opinion about their abilities changed chang-ed by the political events of the fall. This is an attitude which should inspire further public confidence in the administration, admini-stration, and should help to remove any doubts about its solidarity which might still linger in foreign capitals. The president presi-dent has set an excellent example in political poli-tical acumen for his party, and for its opponents. Modern Improvement Judging from testimony in the congressional congres-sional probe of auto-sales practices, the dealers have been doing better with a horseless horse-less carriage than Jesse James did with a horse. There is much false doctrine going around. For example there is the ancient error in the saying: "Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries his trouble begins." It's about time someone explained what a bachelor does with needles and pins. P. S. The Little Woman says that's easy: Sews on his owir buttons and pins his clothes together, of course. The Washington Merry-go-Round Drew Pearson Says Sodium Fluoride Prevents Teeth Decay In Children WASHINGTON Sodium fluorine, the magic chemical that helps prevent tooth decay in children, now is in general use throughout the country. President Truman was informed (his week by officials of the American Dental association. associa-tion. Virtually all dentists are using it to various extents, chiefly on school children. "I'm mighty glad to hear that progress is being made," the president told a delegation led by Dr. Clyde M. Minges of Rocky Mount, N.C., president of the American Dental association. "I've been very interested in sodium fluorine since the public health service first revealed its amazing qualities." Then the president added with a smile: "It would be a wonderful thing if we could shed our teeth when they start bothering ui and grow brand new set." Truman promised to give "serious thought" to a proposal by Dr. Minces and - his colleagues that he proclaim a National Children's Dental Health Day next February to stimulate greater Interest 4n the care of teeth by school children and their parents. Note The Washington Merry-Go-Round on March 5 first reported the amazing progress of the public health service in using sodium fluorine to preserve children's teeth, and gave credit to Congressman Frank Keefc, Wisconsin Republican, Repub-lican, for helping the public health service. It was reported that sodium fluorine would save about 50 per tent of the children's teeth from decay. At that time, the American Dentaf association's associa-tion's journal was critical both of this column and the public health service for publishing this claim, but ADA officials now admit that painting paint-ing children's teeth with sodium fluorine at proper intervals when under the age of 13 will preserve them in about 40 per cent of the cases. ' N O Vv A R " C LAY " Powder-keg-sitting Gen. Lucius Clay expects the' Russians to intensify the cold war. but to stop short of a shooting war. Talking privately to visiting congressmen from the house armed services committee. Clay predicted that the Russians would haunt Europe with the spectre of. war. but would not fight their cause on the open battlefield. Their game is to stir up chaos and fear, as a breeding ground for Communism. The general admitted, however, that a misfire mis-fire in this delicate battle of nerves could easily precipitate a war. , Greatest factor holding Russia back is American air power. Clay said, despite the fart that he Ira ground soldier. "The Russians have more respect for our air power than some of us at home have." he declared. The constant droning of the Berlin airlift in Russian ears has only increased that respect, he. added, and. at the same time, impressed the rest of Europe. It is Clay's belief that Russia wants to test whether the airlift can survive the winter before backing down from the Berlin blockade. Clay told the congressmen that the Communists Com-munists arc going from door to door in Berlin as systematically as magazine-subscription salesmen, sales-men, trying to scare individuals into the Communist Com-munist camp. At night their threat are backed up with kidnappings and acts of terror, hundreds of individualsghave disappeared forever behind the iron curtain. I bWncingobTtlr" i For years controversy has ranged inside the (Copyright. 1948 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) state department regarding the relative merits of the career and the political diplomat. Career diplomats resent the intrusion of ambassadors appointed because they have ponied up during a political campaign and 'this resentment is sometimes justified. So also, political appointees recent the lack of imagination, the routine viewpoint view-point of many career diplomats. One political ambassador who got cuffed around at first is bouncing Bob Butler, the former St. Paul shipbuilder, who became U. S. ambassador to, Australia. Today, however. Butler is ambassador to Cuba and doing an A-l job. Not only does he have the warmth and human quality which some career ca-reer diplomats lack and which Latin Americans Ameri-cans love but he has imagination. It was Butler who conceived the important idea of bringing President Prio of Cuba up to the United Spates on a good-will visit. Good will between the United States and our Latin neighbors is something which needs a lot of working at. Since statesman Sumner Welles got out of the state department it has been woefully woe-fully neglected. But today, energetic, likeable Bob Butler is doing a great job of warming up our good-neighbor policy which is a lot more important than deciding who should sit where at dinner. NOTE Real fact is that career diplomats and political ambassadors frequently supplement each other, filling in the qualities the other lacks. I rORGI VETHEIXIECRATS ?? J Chatting with Rep. Albert TtiomTs ofTexas the other day. President Truman hinted that he might be willing to let bygones be bygones as far as the Dixiecrats and certain Democratic campaign prodigals are concerned. Without mentioning the Dixiecrats or anyone any-one by name, Truman told the tall Texas congressman: con-gressman: "There's been a lot of newsnaper talk and speculation about how I'm going to get even with individual Democrats and groups who were against me before the election. "Well. It's not true," he added. "I'm not mad at anyone and I don't want to p n'sh any individuals or groups within the party. And I'm not mad at any states that went against me. "I just want to weld the Democratic party back together again into the solid organization it used to be in the old days. I'm going to keep right on working toward that end." NOTE Says Ernest Cuneo re Truman's cheek-turning toward the Dixiecrats: "He's like a man whom you tell, 'I've just shot your two brothers in the back,' and he says, 'that's fine, let's all be friends." Minutia The Chopping Block REBUILDING RUHR "I Acting Secretary of State Lovett held some important backstage meetings with the joint congressional "watchdog" committee last week that weren't supposed to get into the press. They were on the vital question of rebuilding re-building the Ruhr. The "watchdog" committee, com-mittee, dominated by old guard Republicans, demands that the state department ignore the wishes of the French and b-gln rebuilding rebuild-ing the Ruhr., In fact, the "watchdog" committee is so determined deter-mined on rebuilding the Ruhr that believe it or not they demanded that the state department depart-ment and Marshall plan administrator Paul Hoffman Hoff-man immediately serve notice on the French that unless they go along with rebuilding German Ger-man industry, all Marshall plan aid to France will be cut off. By FRANK C. ROBERTSON Mr. William J. Baxter, of the Baxter International Economic Research bureau, who advise: such great corporations as E. I Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Para mount Pictures, Inc., Gillette Safety Razor company, Che a-peake a-peake & Ohio railway comnany, Gulf Oil corp., and who will also stoop to advising you and me what to do with that five dollars we saved last week, providing we are able to pay the moc.est fee of eighty dollars per year for te service, has just returned from Europe. Mr. Baxter is the bearer of bad tidings. European countries are overstocked with goods, and that is bad. Bad for American business, that is. You had better, says Mi. Baxter bluntly, heed the warning signals. There are, he savs, clear &nd unmistakable signs of a break in the inflationary cycle. Th-boom, Th-boom, says Baxter, is wearing thin. The message he is underlining under-lining for businessmen to read is this: Don't invest in anything now! I If you think Mr. Baxter is an alarmist, orj a faker of some kind you are mistaken. The corporations corpora-tions I have mentioned, along with hundreds of other firms and individuals don't pay out even eighty bucks a year for the privi-ledge privi-ledge of being m i s - 1 e d. Mr. Baxter is widely wide-ly recognized as a sound economist. econo-mist. In twenty-six year, h i s associates say, he has never been wrong on any major econo ic trend. He was one of the economic propheis who s depression of 1929 coming. He was unheeded then, but this tiire a lot of millionaires are going to hit for the storm cellar. And it will take more than Mr. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer's assurances to bring them forth. Why the alarm when we arc bowling along so merrily, wit'i wages and prices, and everything else, except farm prices going up? This corner has been crying for a long time that when farm prices get out of gear, and farmers have to produce at less than the cost of production that everything else will eventually have to slowdown. slow-down. It's just like a bird trying to fly with a broken wing. B t one trouble with our system ' f free enterprise is that nobody wants to be troubled with the other guy's problems. So long as profits are high business is satisfied. satis-fied. So long as wages are soaring labor is satisfied. So long as there is a scarcity of food products farmers are pleased. Few take the trouble to realize that it is all part of a machine that won't function after even the smallest part is worn out. That is where economists like Baxter come in. Unfortunately, his warnings are pretty much reserved re-served for a single class. Since Americans are incurable optimists, opti-mists, and much prefer to ignore an unpleasant truth, panics and depressions always catch them by surprise. Why, we thought business busi-ness was wonderful, they always say. When a bankrupt businessman business-man jumps out of his window BARBS they say, why, we thought he was going great. Here are a few of Baxters reasons for predicting a depression depres-sion in the not far distant future. Pronounced slumps have occurred in many industries. Large chains have cut the price of men's clothing as much as 20 Business Busi-ness failure are 50 higher than a year ago, and sterdily increasing. increas-ing. The decline in consumer purchasing pur-chasing power has reached the sta;;e where it cannot be overcome over-come by a new round of wage increases. The security market is uncertain, uncer-tain, because thousands upon thousands of investors (I am quoting quot-ing Baxter's exact words now) do not hold the "blue chip" stocks, but secondary holdings that have declined in value. Banks and savings and loan associations are willing to pay more interest for your money. This is not too apparent now, but the signs are definite. The Marshall plan, says Mr. Baxter, and many of us have guessed it for a long time, has become a military program. That seems to mean, if it means anything any-thing at all, everything going outj and nothing coming In. The mere titles of some of Mr. Baxter's recent bulletins are en- lightening. The People's Depies-i sion. A survey of the "totterln' Pacific Coast. Why the oil sto-ks; should be sold. Why we favori sr-Hint: real estate. Will deflation be of long or short duration? Managing a Family Estate during the American Break-down. Do you see anything in any of those titles to make you think business is going to keep on! booming? Yes, says Mr. Baxter,! it is later than you think. Those tin the know will- profit, but the crowd will be led to the slaughter ' as it was in '29. BY HAL COCHRAN Highways Play Havoc With Cross Country Trucks new. item. Business of getting even. A whistle was removed from the throat of a Massachusetts Massa-chusetts boy. And he might have wanted to be a traffic cop. It won't be long until sleds will be popular aain from coast to coast. In crossing the street when the light is green a pedestrian Is right. But too often dead right. A writer ays a politician is at a disadvantage in talking into a "mike" instead of directly to an audience. Still, microphones can't throw. By RUTH LOUISE PARTRIDGE I have been gathering myself a magnificent goat-feather this last week. (Not that I need goatfeath-era goatfeath-era for I don't.) I have enough goat-feathers now to stock a wholesale house, but that is one of the awful things about goats-feathera. goats-feathera. They are good for nothing, noth-ing, except to make people look like a goat. Ruthie looks exactly like a goat already.) Where were we? Oh yeA-well I have been going up to Salt Lake City to attend at-tend rehearsals of the Missa Solemnis, the first presentation of which will be tonight (Friday). The chorus is made up of U. of U. students, but I got around that by giving out that I was taking a correspondence course in animal husbandry. There is one thing about this whole business that I do not understand, and no one has been able to explain it to my satisfaction and that is: Why isn't this great work being presented in the Salt Lake tabernacle? It is quite obvious that Kingsbury hall was not built for such monumental monumen-tal endeavors as the Missa Solemnis Solem-nis with a full orchestra, huge chorus and how we miss the new tabernacle organ! What in tunket is the use in having the tabernacle with its marvelous acoustics, its ample room, its fine organ, and then leave it sit vacant while we shake the very foundations of a small hall? As I say, I am just a dumb country girl, but these things puzzle me. Could It bo that someone should read over ence more the Articles of Faith of the L.D.S. Church, particularly number thirteen which says, and I quote: "... If there is anything any-thing virtuous, lovely, or of good leport or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." The Missa Solemnis just fits this descrip tion. Why then oh, never mind.f If you attend either the Friday or the Sunday performance, youj will know exactly what I meari. Have had several offers of help for the Training School at American Ameri-can Fork for Christmas, which only bears out my contention that people just don't know how things are. and need only to be tnld. I suggest that any other liberal souls who wish to aid, call Mary Erekson. Her name is in the phone book, and she is the one who contacted me in the first place. And more power to you. -s. Had quite an experience yes terday. Rode the bus to Salt Lake. It was very crowded. Another.!' woman and I took the last two seats. She was a lady, with a capital "L". She got on before fe I did, and it Just happened that 5 1 he two vacant seats were directly direct-ly across the aisle from each., ether. She looked them over. In t rie of them a man was asleep. As she would obviously have to speak to him In order to get to; the seat, she chose the other,"; which had to be shared with ,f well, we'll say an Oriental, young, good looking, extremely clean and well-behaved young fellow. As our gracious "lady" sat herself down she said to me ti (though I didn't encourage her i conversation) she said so loud that the Oriental and half the , bus could hear, "There isn't x' much choice." I thought to my--s, self, dear. Christian lady, if hf , can put up with you, you should have no trouble in putting up with him, for his manners and general deportment are fr,: superior to yours. All the way to Salt Lake, madame sat as, far away from her seat partner aa is possible in a bus. She hung so ' far into the aisle, that I was "x airaid (?) she'd break in two, and she kept trying to catch my eye, but I would have none of her, It so happened that my seat part-nt-r was not only sleepy, he was 1 drunk, and I envied madam her. nice, clean, well-mannered little Oriental boy. Some people have & all the luck. , , In Salt Lake I was asked by a : man for the price of a meal, yes'i I was, dearie, right in front of Z.C.M.I. I gave it to him and a , good lecture for free. It is impossible im-possible these days fo hire a man , iit any price to do the odd jobs . that have to be done, and I told him so. He started to whine, and said he was a veteran and began to list the places he had been, "-and "-and 1 said, "So you got into the service did you? Well good for you. They wouldn't take 'me because be-cause I had small children!" That stopped him in his tracks. Oh, I'm a hard-hearted old witch, I am. What I am trying to figure out is why he should pick me lor a touch (and get it). Me in my fifteen-year old coat, for heaven's sake! If I look rich in a fifteen year old coat, think what I could do with a modern wardrobe! ward-robe! So long, folks. - Radio Programs, Sunday, Dec. 12 FOOD MAGNATE CLAIMS PRICES GOING DOWN WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U.R) A major food manufacturer said today that many food prices art on their way down, and will go lower. ! Board Chairman Clarence Francis Fran-cis of General Foods Corp. saic that so far as his company s products prod-ucts are concerned, "the trend of upward prices" has stopped. 1 a b m. 1 KTM ' few ne RAILROAD EXECUTIVE DIES IN OMAHA OMAHA. Neb. Dec. 11 (U.R) A widely known eastern railroad executive, 74-year-old Frank W. Robinson, former vice president in charge of traffic for the Union Pacific, died in Omaha today after a long illness. Robinson joined the railroad in 1889 when he was only 15 years old and served continuously until his retirement re-tirement two years ago. HUNGARY EXPELS AMERICAN REPORTER i NEW YORK. Dec. 11 (U.R) jThe New York Herald Tribune 'reported today that Homer Big-jart. Big-jart. its roving foreign corre-jspondent. corre-jspondent. has been ordered by I police to leave Hungary by midnight. -- CUcUU Roto-Rootci rOI CL066CD StWlftS AN MAMS ra 872-J PROMPT SERVICE Qeitkry, technically Vnth 0biww0 flt)lFfc ROTO-ROOTI wer cleaning service. N mvfvtt Strvkamtn DON U WISSMILLER PHONE S72-J ! Ad,rlMl In IJ(. AnMrinu Horn. 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