Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS US steel accepts Tr proposal averting strike stae CONEY ISLAND dr robert M hutchins chancellor of the university of chicago demanded that man kinds expanding knowledge be turned toward achievement instead of tion and formation of a huge coney island he spoke at the goethe bicentennial convocation at aspen colo he said that world catastrophe is inevitable if the tribal self adoration which goes under the name of patriotism continues unchecked he asked for a world union of men of good will and said that world government is a step in the right direction to avert global suicide he argued that communication with russia is possible if other nations were sincerely willing to try A moral intellectual and spiritual revolution is the only thing that will turn the world from a downward course he argued he attacked the purposelessness of contemporary living made more so by technology and declared that new gained leisure has been used for meaningless recreations reat ions of atomic energy in peace and war he said if we have war we shall be blown to bits it if we have peace we shall be bored to death hutchins compared civilization liza tion with the fears and hopes expressed by the century humanist goethe the theme of his speech was goethe and world unity goetges Go ethes dream tor for the world was that it should be a world of friends hutchins said he advocated goetges Go ethes civilization of dialogue SCIENCE turbine aircraft research on gas turbine engines at mcgill university montreal may bring about improved flying A turbine engine is a scientific version of the mill wheel it has many small blades instead of a few big ones and instead of water hot gas is used to push the blades THE HOT GAS is produced by a blowtorch in which fuel is burned with the aid of air scooped from the atmosphere and compressed the turbulent burning particles particle s of gas may be controlled as long as the plane is on the ground but at high altitudes air pressures and oxygen deficiencies make c 0 n trolled strolled burning necessary the blowtorch heat is used twice to heat gas driving the turbine and to heat the incoming air and fuel to make sure it will burn fast enough FAR EAST new china policy state department officials pre dieter dieted two developments in united states relations with china andl eating cating early emergence of a nem china policy A white paper on american chinese relations including th report will be pub dished in a few weeks after release of the white paper information concerning what the united state is going to do about china may bi b available P 1 responsible informants empei that the white paper will place th blame of the chinese nation nationalist alisi collapse upon the chiang kai sheli shel government there Is a division 0 opinion upon how the defense against communism should s h 0 u I 1 d b c erected ONE VIEW Is that military and anc economic assistance s should h 0 u I 1 d b e given to anti communists still hold ing out another view is that aid be restricted to strictly civilian assistance si now being proffered ba b ECA meanwhile in nearby japan general douglas mcarthur s sale a I 1 d russian charges of labor sion and police brutality in japan were false the russians through sofij sovi 19 N ambassador before tl tj far eastern commission said that the japanese government and mcarthur have launched a brutal campaign to suppress democracy mcarthur said they t the h e charges plainly stem from soviet frustration in its nefarious plot to absorb japan into the soviet orbit of influence and from disappointment in the hope that through the introduction even though by only a small minority of disorder and violence it might turn the progressive gres sive tide of democracy here in favor of its own concept PAY ROLL TAX increase coming A plan to permit payroll pay roll taxes to treble in the next 15 years and to bring about 12 million more people under linder old age insurance provisions is reported to have been agreed upon by congressmen drafting new social security laws while no definite decisions had been made the house ways and means committee was understood to have drawn a rough draft ol of legislation that would let payroll pay roll taxes now 1 per cent against employees pay and employers payrolls pay rolls alike increase january 1 1950 to 1 per cent each and on january 1 1952 to 2 per cent this is now provided by law the new proposal would add provisions for an increase to 2 per cent in 1960 and to 3 per cent on each in 1965 add 12 million to the approximately 30 million persons already covered by old age insurance BOOST BENEFITS under the insurance program probably by more than 50 per cent to meet increased living costs provide new disability insurance payments meaning that insured persons who become permanently and totally disabled would arsi benefits just as though they ha reached retirement age it was indicated that the bill containing these provisions might be sent to congress soon but its opponents conceded there was little prospect that it would be acted upon before next year social security expansion was one of the major points in pres president Tr program and the republican platform also called for broadening of benefits MONOPOLY CHARGE bridges crossed Longshore mens union president harry bridges wants congress to hear charges that big bic five companies are trying t to 0 11 maintain monopolistic control of the islands economy A he asked for a hearing before th house judiciary committee chairman celler said he would have to give the matter a little thought the senate labor committee is trying to end the hawaii strike Relea serl hv r features ENGLAND more austerity sir stafford cripps chancellor ot of the exchequer has placed a new austerity program before the british people he announced that britain will reduce her spending in the united states and canada b by or one fourth in the thy current fiscal year THE BRITISH financial situation is more serious than secretary of state acheson has made it appear however it is not insoluble british difficulties cannot be attributed to the american slump the british will benefit from declining prices here of raw materials and food inflated war prices are blamed to for r the rapid consumption of americas 1946 loan to england there is taking place in england according to a recent poll of the british institute of public opinion a shift of political sentiment toward the right A general election now might turn te t e labor party out of office editors note when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of 0 western newspaper uni unions ns news ne s a analysts and not nee essa rily of this newspaper FIRESIDE CHAT selfish interests president truman charged in a fireside chat to the nation that selfish interests are making budget cut requests which threaten to blunder the nation into depression in his economic report truman assured the nation that it is not in a depression despite business decline political reasons lead some people to want depression he said he added that depression can be avoided he blamed selfish interests for the tax cut that congress passed over his veto and for the denial of anti inflation curbs he requested HE FEARED a third great blunder and warned that to slash government expenditures n now ow would add to the downward trend he defended his budget for government spending the next 12 months he said it if we follow the wrong budget policy at this time and slash our expenditures we will decrease employment cut down investment weaken our defenses and injure oui our efforts for peace his speech was seen as a movement to line up popular support for a showdown fight with the economy bloc in congress which is demanding that government spending be cut to income he criticized those who say we are in a depression |