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Show '7 .1 THE BEAVER .mW.W-J.r--:.-. I U. Has Best Opportunity To Enforce Peace in World By Bill Schoentgen, By BAUKIIAGE Analyst and Commentator again we face the high cost of savagery or preventon how you put it. Billions more to run the ing defense government and the world, and to cover a stepped-u- p program. Talk of a 10 per cent increase in the budget for next year seems logical. As one cynic remarked, in the next war perhaps we ought to try to get on the losing side, and let the victors support us for a change. Once details and cost of a selective service and universal military training program has been going on for some time. Sentiment against drafting husbands and G.I.'s seems to be crystallizing. It would seem that G.I.'s might be fairly good material in an emer Value of the gency without having to learn the Little Fish withand over orders again, general out having to reacquire precision in The little ones didn't get away! That is what Secretary of the Inbringing the right hand smartly to the cap brim or lying down within a terior Julius A. Krug is explaining reasonable period before the arrival as he spreads the mesh of one of of a machine gun bullet. nets used by commercial the As to the husbands they aren't fishermen of the New England entirely expendable, of course all of coast. tnern- Probably the f- -' " "Fifteen million baby haddock that most effective thing ,r didn't get away," says Krug, who congress could as interior secretary is likewise rehave done was to for keeping a government sponsible vote immediately on America's fish and wildlife, for immediate reg eye been worth a million istration for every- "would have and a h: If dollars to New England's one. The age brack from March to ets and exemptions, fishermen r. of last year. They were caught could be after all, in ordinary nets, killed and dissettled later. If the carded." arises emergency If the little haddock had manMor even approacniva fan tnllc rip- aged to get away, they probably would have grown up, been caught 31 tails. That is the kind of emergency we face, and no this year and sold by the same fishermen for a million and a half sacrifice would be too great to predollars." vent it. Right now proof of our willingness to act is most Important. This was one of the things I learned aboard the Albatross III, Contrary to the genera! assumponly floating laboratory possessed by tion that all we need Is a few pushbutton experts and professors of the United States, which goes into service this spring. She started out nuclear science, any war that now on would come from might require a more extensive mobilization of civilian as well as soldier than anything which has preceded of the - . rj tt. Meantime, there is a better chance to establish a solid and stable peace than there ever has been. The United States has a better opportunity to enforce peace than any nation ever had. We could, with comparatively small sacrifice, start a pre- paredness program to prevent the "imbalance" of power against us. as they say in diplomatic language. In other words we could, without danger of actual conflict, since there is no power NOW (not tomorrow or next year, but NOW) strong enough to threaten us, establish a Pax Americana. And with the will to peace that exists in the world today, we could use that situation, not rs a the Pax Romana or the Pax was used to create enemies but to build an effective Pax S $i v itH ,vti fAk-A-- v. 'v i Brit-tanic- Uni-vers- a. America, in its strength could well afford to yield sovereignty to an international force. A period of tranquillity, enforced If necessary, Is what the world needs; time to reflect. Rome and Britain did bring a lone peace of sorts; we can establish a longer one-- one long enough, perhaps, to build a permanent one. The principle is simple as a colleague of mine is fond of saying "nobody tries to pick a fight with Joe Lewis." Early statements were made to the effect that it would cost an additional 430 millions over what already has been budgeted for universal military training. We now spend 650 million dollars a year on cosmetics. And the total time used in applying them, according to my private statisticians, divided into manhours of military training, leaves a generous surplus for home-work- . I do not mean to treat lightly the world situation and the idea of a Tax Americana is not an empty one. It Is, in fact, the enly kind of a peace we can be sure of ntil we have time to stabilize world conditions, until tl.are is a fairer division of the bread, and the security in which to earn It and eat 11; a cessation of the fear, suffer-In- ? and anxiety which make men trade their heritage of freedom for the empty promise of protection at any price. I sympathize with the people who oppose militarism in any form; but I do not accept as a valid syllogism: Militarism Is bad; military training in America is militarism; therefore, military training in America is bad. Military training in Germany (the classic example) was the result of militarism, not its cause. Military training in America is no more related to German militarism than a hot dog is brother to a Dachshund. interviews Interior Baukhage Secretary Julius A. Krug aboard the floating fish laboratory "Albatross III" in Boston harbor. regular commercial trawler, drafted, transformed into a member of the coast guard's Atlantic as a was patrol, discharged and now is equipped to do exactly the work commercial fishermen do, plus a lot more (by her crew of scientists) which will help the fishermen do better. One of the tasks of the fish experts is to see if anything can be figured out which will save the wastage created by catching the fish too young and thus preventing them from growing up to be caught and sold another year. The mesh in the net in the picture is four and a half inches instead of meas the standard urement. Experiments have shown that use1 of the larger mesh saves 80 fish, and per cent of the under-sizedoes not reduce the size of the catch of the larger, marketable fish. But the commercial fishermen have to be shown. One of the many tasks of the Albatross III is to prove by actual demonstration that this is true. It is a big job. And the department of the interior has a big man at the head of it. The dwarf in the photograph to whom Krug is talking (according to figures on my White House pass provided by the secret service) is 5 feet, 11 inches tall and I am standing on my two feet, not kneeling. d Few Americans sipping their cofInformation says bureau, know that the berries from which it Is made look a good deal And for that matter, like cherries. few Americans, sipping their. Manhattans, say I, know that the cherries in them look a good deal like coffee berries. fee, BARBS The world's largest herd of dwarf cattle recently reached Chicago five cows and bulls totaling less than the weight of an average steer. Now I know where that steak I got last night came from. Old songs are being revived, but there ctill are a lot of people who would rather hear "Beautiful Ohio" th.m "Missouri Waltz." a by Baukhage The Australian government Is anxious that Australian girls who married American servicemen return to Australia with their husbands. Some of the girls are anxious to return to Australia, period. Farmers say egg prices are too considering the high cost of Which comes first: poultry feed. The chicken, the egg or the feed? low, NEW STAHT: China Congress Approves Foreign Aid; Income Tax Cut Becomes a Reality (EDITOR'S NOTE: Western Newspaper Discussion 'MtVSS As U. S. Mew$ BEAVER, UTAII "ty S. Carries Fight to Communists "flVS I PRES, WNU Staff Writer When (pinions art zprnud in thru eoInmBi, thrj art thase at Union's news analysts and net seeessariry f this aewspapcr.) Who's Mad? FOREIGN AID: In Motion J 8 Chiang Hopelessly lost in the political and economic confusion of China, Genleader eralissimo Chiang of the republic in one capacity or another since 1927, was casting about for a new role in the tragedy of the Far East. Afflicted externally by Communist armies and internally by the venality of black marketeers and corrupt government officials, Chiang has been in the pos.'tion of a man attempting to build a house on a pile of soggy Kai-she- refuse. With President Truman's signature on the $6,098,000,000 foreign aid bill, the massive, potent forces of western capitalism moved into action against Russian communism for ,'- Lie':';-v- the beginning of a titanic, long l v range clash of strength. ttu "V 'if, To observers in the U.S. this interplay of forces had all the ingredients of an epic poem the power of good striving mightily to overcome the power of evil, with the fate of a large segment of mankind depending on outcome of the struggle. There was an epic quality, too, in the manner in which congress, seemNobody seemed to be mad at ingly impelled by a strong sense of anybody when Gov. William M. bill for the raced urgency, through Tuck of Virginia and President final action. The house approved Truman met at convocation exerit with a vote of 318 to 75 after less cises at William and Mary college, 15 minutes of explanation, and than Williamsburg, Va., to receive honthe senate followed up swiftly with orary degrees of doctor of laws. a voice vote. Mr. Truman exchanged a cordial Two days after passage of the handshake with Governor Tuck, measure President Truman meshed vociferous leader of the southern the gears of the global aid program rebellion on the President's states' by ordering the reconstruction ficivil rights program. 1.16 to nance corporation advance billion uuliars at once. That action released U.S. dollars, reconstruction that next year congress, safely supplies and in some cases arms to through the elections, will boost fed15 European nations, as well as Tureral income by reimposing some key, western Germany, Trieste and version of the wartime excess profit China. tax. The overall $6,098,000,000 aid packIn view of these unpretty but inage includes 4.3 billion dollars for escapable realities, the President's the European recovery program, 275 veto of the tax bill simply did not fit million dollars for military assist- the preconceived pattern of political ance to Greece and Turkey, 463 mil- action in an election year. Rather, lion for China and 2 million dollars it looked more like the deliberate for Trieste. All of it is aimed at driving of another nail in his politiareas where communists are sharp- cal coffin. In his veto message, Mr. Truman ening their sword cf aggression. An movement in the contended that increased defense house to include aid to Franco Spain and foreign aid measures might in the bill v.'as defeated before it make it necessary for congress to had time to do much damage to U.S. raise taxes next year. prestige and moral stature abroad. "In the case of the income tax," As the aid started to move, the he said, "nearly 40 per cent of the situation abroad stacked up somereduction would go to individuals with net incomes in excess of $5,000, thing like this: Russia's seizure of Czechoslovakia, who constitute less than 5 per cent its new pact with Finland and presof all taxpayers." sure on Scandinavian nations, the the President Also, continued, Soviets' arbitrary action in Berlin while national income is high every all pointed to the fact that Moscow effort should be made to reduce the was trying to bring about a show- size of the public down in Europe before the Euro- debt. He was, beyond doubt, sincere in pean recovery plan began to work his objections, but they fell on deaf effectively. On the other hand, the rapid pasears in congress. sage of the foreign aid measure, the proposal to return Trieste to Italy APOLOGIA: and the stiffening of American will in Berlin seemed to indicate that From Russia Even as Russia officially exthe U.S., while not forcing a showdown, was, nevertheless, willing to pressed regret over the "unfortuhave it as soon as possible. nate" British-Sovie- t plane crash over Few persons familiar with the Berlin which eost 15 lives, plain situation thought that a showdown people all over the world began to with Russia necessarily meant war. see more clearly how, although no But it did involve acceptance cf a nation is seeking' war now, a war risk of war. U.S. leaders were will- could start accidentally. A pilot of a Russian fighter plane ing to take that risk on the theory that the likelihood of a shooting war had buzzed a British plane, carrying is less now than it might be in the 14 passengers, as it was landing in foreseeable future. Berlin. The transport crashed in the Russian zone where the wreckREDUCTION: age lay for 12 hours before the bodies were permitted to be moved. Tax Measure Tension in Berlin eased somewhat President Truman's veto of the when British officials accepted the Income tax reduction bill was crush-ingl- y Russian apology and canceled plans overridden by both houses of to assign fighter plane escorts to all congress 311 to 88 in the house, 77 air transports coming into Berlin. The official British account of the to 10 in the senate and U.S. citizens sat back to gloat over the first crash quoted eyewitnesses as saying measure passed that the Russian fighter pilot was major "frolicking" when he hit the big in nearly 20 years. In his now characteristic "I'd plane. While the fighter pilot undoubtedly rather be right than be president" not been ordered to harrass the role, Mr. Truman had stubbornly had British plane, it was equally apparhis the to veto affixed bill, protestent that he and his cohorts had not ing that it mainly would benefit persons with incomes of $5,000 or more, been forbidden to do so. Aside from the number of lives encourage further inflation and sap the nation's strength at a time of lost, the disturbing part of the incident is that it was, in a manner of international "danger." Examination of the new tax struc- speaking, an aggressive action, an ture indicated that the President was overt act of deliberate provocation. And is such incidents as that right in his first contention, at least that itworldjustleaders fear might one that the law would be of greater benefit to persons with high incomes day touch off the conflagration. than to those in lower brackets. Reason for that is that 12.6 per cent of $3,000 is considerably less than 5 per cent of a million. (Cuts in tax rates as provided by the new law range from 12.6 per cent in the IN MANILA, P. I Ariston Alma- lowest brackets to 5 per cent in the lel, veteran of Bataan, received an top level.) army back pay check for 49 cents, Most interesting aspect of the tax promptly went insane and died. cut development was the question of IN GOSHEN, Ind. . . . Harold Tins-ley- , fl. wanted to do something for what motivated Mr. Truman to veto the bill. . He was aware that enough underprivileged children overseas, members of both houses were sup- nobly turned over to the Salvation porting tax reduction in this election Army his entire hoard of bubble year to override his veto; hence, that gum 561 sticks. his veto would be a gesture of fu- IN ARTESIA, N. M. . . . Conscientility that would place him on record tious city fathers were trying to as opposing the popular will. figure out a way to keep absent-minde- d citizens from mailing letters Mr, Truman mutt have been aware, also, of the strong possibility In trash cans. f g Headliners Now, however, there was a report out that Chiang had decided to quit But there the presidency of China. also were indications that, far from going into retirement, he would re main as Kuomiotang strong man by becoming premier. A spokesman for the Kuomintang, China's governing party, said that the generalissimo was determined to free himself from the presidency in order to lead a "ho;v war" against the increasingly powerful Chinese communists. According to latest reports, Chiang was urging that Dr. Hu Shih be elected president. Former ambassador to Washington, Hu Shih now is president of Peking university. PALESTINE: Trusteeship Studiously ignoring the groups and individuals who threw up their hands in horror when the U. S. reversed its position on partition of Palestine, this nation went right ahead with its avowed plan for a United Nations trusteeship of the Holy Land. Disclosing some of the details of that plan, Warren R. Austin, American delegate to the U.N., told security council members that the United States favors sending foreign troops to Palestine to keep order, if and when that becomes necessary, under the trusteeship formula. Unmistakably implied, although not stated outright, was U. S. willingness to send American troops to the Holy Land, provided other nations would join the parade also. Another provision was that the number of nations supplying troops be specifically limited. Actually, there was little optimism that the fratricidal strife in Palestine or the causes producing it could be effaced by the expedient of imposing a TJ.N. trusteeship. NUMBER ONE Public Friend Carl C. Countryman again wants to be President of the United States. With true political ebullience he has dubbed himself "American Public Friend Number One" and adopted a monolithic slogan: "Countryman for his countrymen; his countrymen for Countryman." tongue-twistThat this is intended to strike sparks of devotion from the flinty hearts of American voters is apparent in Countryman's frank statement that: "My campaign must be for overwhelming publicity and an appeal to the imagination of the American people. I have a lot of evidence that my slogan, 'Countryman for his 3 , ;i countrymen; his coun- , trymen for Country- - n trick." Countryman is not a He is not a hoax himself, myth. nor is he trying to perpetrate a hoax through his presidency campaign. He is just a man, getting along in years now, who is serving the sincere belief that he could do better in the White House than the political figureheads in vogue. Countryman opposes communism: "I want no part nor dealings with the Communist usurpers, who represent but a small fragment of the great Russian people." Countryman opposes the military draft: "The draft is a subterfuge of incompetence. I favor making universal military training so attractive that it will be universal or approximately so." Countryman's name will appear on no primary election ballots: "The gain inherent in such a course will not justify the necessary expenditure of time and money." Countryman likes John Ericker of Ohio: "If I cannot get the nomination, I am all for Bricker. I should like to have the ticket Countryman and Bricker but if not, then Bricker and Countrymaa" There Is a truism which holds that universally present in the heart of every man is the belief that he could play Hamlet and run a newspaper. Countryman brings that deeply felt human motivation to the height of true nobility. For in his heart is the, crowning belief that he also could be 'a good president. MODERN MOTORCADE Seek Uranium Cars on Road Hit Historic Figure Number of passenger cars on the e road in the U.S. today Is at an high, according to an article In the April edition of "Business bulletin of Northern Comment." Trust company. This Is true despite the fact that no passenger cars were manufactured for private use during the war. that an estimated average of 1.2 all-tim- million passenger cars were scrapped or put Into storage yearly during the same period, and that postwar production has not yet exceeded the best prewar years, the bulletin stated. Latest available figures indicate a total of 27.5 million passenger cars registered In the U.S. on July 1, 1047, the article reported. Uranium that most precious of all metals since advent of the atomic age-- is being sought In Colorado now. Department of the interior has set aside about 40 square miles of public land In the southwestern part of the state for exclusive use of the atomic energy commission, which will conduct an exhaustive investigation there for deposits of uranium, source of atomic energy. Gambling Losses Spur Draftsman To Take His Life FiiUIIIIf Horse Player Gets Sore Heck Mnn AJtmil T... . vu.n After Five Attempts What no gazette hey published pix of To Die in Car om kissing Alabama A deCROSSVILLE, TENN. Wauke-gan- , from spondent 111., abashedly confessed to police that he was unable to kill himself after a fruitless hunt for y death during a bizarre motor tour in his automobile. He told what State Patrolman Charles Johnson called "a fantastic story" of seeking suicide on a cross, country motor tour. "I wanted to make it look like an accident so my wife could collect my insurance," Johnson quoted him. "Four or five times" since he left Waukegan, Hassart said he tried to end his life. He drove recklessly. He speeded on hairpin curves. He passed on hills. He tried to race trains to a dead heat at crossings. Nothing happened. What capped Hassart's failure actually was "more or less of an accident," he said. Slips Off Embankment emHis car slipped off a bankment. The car landed upside down in a tree, with Hassart still in it. He climbed out and to his amazement couldn't find a real scratch on him. Disgusted, he hid in the woods. Meanwhile, authorities sought "the victim" of the car found dangling on the tree, seven miles from here. Hassart went to a farmer's house, slept overnight there and called Crossville police. His decision to commit suicide, he said, stemmed from a number of reasons mostly horses of which he ramblingly spoke. He had been a draftsman, he said, until he was named administrator of the estates of two of his relatives who died about four years ago. cross-countr- 70-fo- Plays ITorses Then he became a horse player, and carried on a stamp collecting business on the side. He did well at horse betting, too for a while. He used what he cal!ed "a comic strip" system. The system collapsed shortly. Also, he said, a friend who owned a stable kept giving him bum tips. Finally, he was down to his last $23. He told his wife he was going on a business trip, Crossville police sent Hassart to uplands sanitorium here. Doctors said he could be released any time Decause his only injury was a pos sible sore neck. Maharoja Embarks on Huge Game HunMor Gem Thief NEW DELHI. INDIA. The Maof Bilkha. who has a reputation for his prowess as a big game hunter, now is trailing his biggest prey yet a thief who stole 400 haraja headdresses. For years the maharaja, Darbar Shree Ravatwala Saheb, has collected bejewelled turbans from Cairo to Singapore He wears six a day in succession one at breakfast, another when dictating, a third at the audience he grants his prime minister, a fourth during his afternoon stroll, a fifth at dinner, and a particularly resplendent sixth on his nocturnal visit to his "chief queen." In his palace he has literally roomfuls of turbans. Some unbelievably reckless Bilka native purloined 400 of these feat about comparable to walking out of Alcatraz Now the heat is on in earnest, and one every of the.mnharaja's 45.000 has been or will be given a subjects searching third degree. Several hundred natives are under arrest as The maharnja. meanwhile, threatens confiscatory taxes unless his prized turbans are returned pronto and intact. head-dresses- sus-pect- lie? i If GJ j ao'fr i! ,round the Vassar huee x 'Sabre Dance." ickiii over Mi. Pacific montbs ih Sunday night broadcast navy didn't reveal the teijtv They kept down the (.i Jh. f to help your insomnia, The Washington Ticket' institute boys privately ja-ed- s end of the "sellers' marker Lice' of They note increasing imaB tjhatf R s flops and growing size ol inventories At Key Mis joint chiefs of staff were ifXndtf '.ak ask for 22 billion extra! TfctJani'-peoplslugged it on the be;! l( tJ U. S. senate is about to taT ktoielf the defense department. leaders inquire: "If the jois A Catted are sure we're not prepared Jaaser became of that 11 billion" MtosJly Repubs also allege the three seleoitf e. "aren't andinn ing appropriations "like Mac4 SUa ' gain hunters". . . Gen. ,l8f?V. Donovan has been so quiet hi crosseJ 1 be very active. mid ... rl-- s The ageless Cong. Sol Blml f.lr N. Y. has a spring to bis d, M, nt and he s 78. In the capitoh yumist said: "You look fat Ne tre m do you do it?" "Women," he said. pM ml "Women?" p01e 1 stay away from 'em." P'i,Jl d : the .'one remsine New York's My Town: KlrfWhes he could you extol the virtue! dt cr.ihe munism las uiey uo hi cuiuma urn r cle) with cops standing mi: In fiieo protect speechmakers in eis temper ... got lost? A man a boy and wounds several sk'about p chums without getting lyncher. dc PimKlAra rin trot au'9f "' fc Ing" hockey, basketball Mdei;gl a gangster iwj edttre games? i m. con AAA ... fimral onrl an can live in a $12.50 Waldorf-'i:'suite on a 563.50 salary: tcer.tlv .; e the pol: cat rat! Too many citizens who dc The Russians don't know "thete'f I :lli tedbmc of war" forget that two Russ pilots made in Jiffl mehtc: from Moscow to S. Cal., (WE: efe In 62 hrs. and 2 mins. We dot'f tiol ai the one in which two Ruistaa siak: forced down at Vancouvn. bold ai from their Siberian basei sf our tip of Alaska, Russian brj Fialan can reach N. Y. and WasW free st The iff is i v considerably less time. " fteelo Norm roie (via the tn Washineton or Nf Genci Eat is less than 3,900 miles. The tellig-- n desip in us jet have passed Soia,; vi M jhn are on equal terms with usi5 nc the'cha ers. "Captured" Eskimos tff Bering Sea (26 milei tl Boi'.'vi Alaskan tip) are doing imply for I building of fortifications sians. Scripps-Howarft! reported that 1W has 100 full divisions. Com latel the 150 from than more own 4 thr tions, excluding their CoiSmt lion troops. non-it- a If- -' najr.e W' sua St! tnnwf a walk-e- n role In e srt " the new hit. A li Vt; ifcioi when too haven't snf t..r another a nn'r cratic i bad scenery. If you sfc .e they'd have to pay T B"J t.jj has a i?,ic,ll .: wals-H !ej.-Anyhow, the a of wtH Br.(i( had to dash out onw" Prifcn do I "Sorry, gotU Arntrlc he rnnrta ." pan"n.nrv tk "Oh. siddown," c,dtd 'I tOflj-- j the table, "What ess Boot . o - for three 3o yon-- get tyn steps?" tm:iv. Mrs. " : tribal war started Men of Chief Siposo's tribe were not pleased when one of their war-nr- s arranged to marry a girl In the rival native village of Chief Mjisitsh ngwe. And the girl's family she was marrying beneath her station. Musitshlngwe's warriors retorted ,rmK ?,f the Cattle hande over bridegroom's dowry were diseased. Siposo's men went back to their axes and f0Ipe8ri- They returned, fired the grass above the wedding villa w-- he traditional Zulu warning of at ack-a- nd advanced upon the vil age. Three hundred men fnUgh for two hours. When drew they apart at sundown 10 were dead. JncludbrthCr' "nd iC0" Ser. Injured seriously. IS science . . . and Ann , . . shj tc U a ,v k M j ' &oxnem .,v.i. 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