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Show March k THE JOURNAL BASEBALL: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Brannan Sees need for New Aids to Farm Price Supports Goal Industry Seeks Strike Peace Says Present System Provides No Answer To Surplus Problem Notti When opinions (Editor's mrs expressed In these colsmns, they re those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Charles Brannan, U.S. secretary of agriculture, was still plumping for adoption of his (Brannan plan) system for farm price supports, arguing that new price aids must be provided now. Pointing out that there Is trouble getting rid of 1948 farm surpluses even as 1949 surpluses are pouring In, Brannan said the disposal problem points to the need of supplementary action on price supports, particularly with respect to more efficient methods than procedures for handling price supports of per- A sensation was caused In full-tim- JOBLESS: Hit New Peak Again Jobless numbers in the United States had catapulted to a new high, and again the federal . over-producti- commerce department appeared unperturbed about it. Unemployment rose to 4,684,000 in February the highest figure since 1941 when the total was on non-commerci- al 5,620,000. DESPITE THE FACT that many industrial and economic leaders professed to see danger in the sit uation toe commerce department came UP with toe usual bland, unconcerned explanation as to the cause of the bifi 3umP in unemploy, ment. As was stated in January when jobless figures appeared alarming, commerce department boss said: "The slight rise in unemploy-bee- n ment between January and ruary (204,000) appears to be due mainly to seasonal increase in the labor force and not to any cutbacks UP, Brannan said: Briefly, the outlook Includes the likelihood of some further contrnc- tion in the total demands for U.S. farm products and points to the need for adjustment in production if a favorable price level is to be SUMMING maintained." The problem Indeed was a grave one and made even more grave by the fact that the administration may be caught in a trap that has long in the making a trap by the fact that having so long experienced the subsidy aid as is, farmers wont like any tarn-in employment." pering with the program. 1 Feb-creat- LEWIS: A Fine Largess John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America a labor union which does not pay its members strike benefits and which subjects them to untold mis- ery and hardship during strike periods was offering a victory-flushe- d loan to the ed lar Asks Red 'Bargain From a surprising source came a pie? for the United States to strike a bargain" with Russia and to spend 150 billion dollars in the next 15 years on the undeveloped areas of the world. THE SOURCE was James Patton, president of the National Farm ers Union. Patton said, Somehow, I believe we will be able to find a way to live in this world with peoples who differ in viewpoint as to type of economy and social sys- ems "Let us try to strike a bargain with those whom we are fighting In the cold war along with peaceful lines," he went on, "so that all of us can lay down our arms. Let us lead out in America by placing at the disposal of the peo-pie of the world an annual credit of 10 billion dollars for the next 15 years for the purpose of build-TVAs on the Danube and the Yangtze, and for building mans in all of the unde- veloped areas of the world. PRESIDENT PATTONS proposal was magnanimous, generous-but withal mostly visionary. It would delight those who operate on the theory that America can buy peace and good with Its dollars. They might even add that Amer- must be the most hated nation in the world, inasmuch as it op pears it has no friends except those who are won and kept with money. wage-welfa- . r rxtVLiOAtK,' strike-emergenc- Taft-Ilartle- g 1 , re car-makin- g. I n refin-productivit- y I spring from the training camps of First, the the baseball legions. mere fact that baseball training has begun is like a tonic to the fans who have suffered through the winter doldrums awaiting only the day when the sports pages will flourish with recitals of the deeds of their favorite performers and the outlook for the current season. Baseballs return is as much a part of the recurrent miracle of spring as the daffodil, the crocus or the first robin. Particularly true and apropos is the sameness, the never-failin- g events, which are part and parcel of resumption of the national pastime. For instance, has there ever been a spring in baseball when word from the training camps didnt carry an overtone of apprehension concerning the physical welfare of this or that player? Haven't colds and fevers and injuries always been on hand to send the more rabid fans into ecstasies of suffering as they sweated out these afflictions with his heroes? And so it was this spring. The same news from the training camps. News that it was unusually chilly" in Florida or California or wherever the players were chasing flies or laying into the horse-hid- e at batting practice, that colds and fever were prevalent. And thats the way it should be, for without the drama of suspense, without the element of threat, without the theme of fate yet to be encountered and conquered, the old, old story of baseball would lose something of its enduring charm and appeal. But the script always turns out all right. The hazards are met and defeated, the team shapes up okay and the long, grind of the big league schedules get underway. There is all the color and pomp of opening day; the white sphere arching against a blue sky as a mighty bat propels it heavenward; a flash of movement as an infielder races to spear a sizzling grounder and the zipping white streak as he hurls ball at baseman. And Mr. Fan relaxes contentedly in his box or bleacher seat, happy that once again a full summer of his favorite sport is all spread out before him. G-ME- seml-indepe- n- h ad-wi- ll a 2 ARCTIC ARMY Large masses of mn Ce could be pitted against each in Alaska, or other Arctic as they were in the last war 5 cording to military experts J led the recent mock warfare i.i Alaska sub-Arcti- c; but couldnt agree on why that J ij One case. reason given wai iV culty of transporting suppliei other was that there simply 'ij enough room. There has been much agite in the U.S. for a of t pow-wo- w em powers with Stalin in an ew to stall off another war. Some) this has been heard in congresi J well as from many influential J Americans. Currently, U.S. attitude high-place- d to r proposal appeared cool, altW the state department had not c? pletely closed the door to any aj parley. State Secretary Dean At? eson wasnt too enthusiastic gD the idea, pointing out and reasj ably so that Russia would aj certainly use it for propaganda." U.N. COST: ! One Dime Each i Each citizen of the United Stats pays less than a dime for his shaa of the basic United Nations ansi I budget. csJ At least three members of gress disagree on whether this c too much, too little, or about rigr according to the first issue d weekly wall newspaper in color, UN GRAM. APPEARING for the first this week, the new publication ports that Sen. Herbert R. O of Maryland, chairman of the ate committee on expenditure! the executive' departments w! recently issued a report a: that the U.N. reduce its e tures for the United xNations its affiliates, thinks that a per capita is too much. Coni woman Helen Gahagan Douf on the other hand, says it is little; while Sen. Estes Kefai is quoted as saying it is al right. The U.N. Gram, which tells scribers about the United Natii in this issue objectively pres each of these three viewpoints. Buttressing Senator OCom 'too much" point, it states: 1)j ternationalism, plus national dM fense, is a luxury. U.N.s budget i.j just the start: each specialized More Power? agency asks more. How can little nations pay?" Should the FBI famed Supporting the too little of the gangster era be given judiof Congresswoman Dough cial as well as investigative pow- proach it says: New York City, M ers? pays more That is a question congress was permanent home,, than G.N.sJ garbage disposal tangling, with. The national science nual cost; its subway deficit foundation bill, which has been run the U.N. for six months. J passed by the house, would require AND BACKING up Sentor V the FBI to make a definite finding fauvers just right" viewpoint! of loyalty to the U.S." before a argues: Upping the U.N. budfj person could be cleared for a job by forcing out poorer menM with the foundation. would make it a rich mans d UP TO NOW, the power of the Our aim," states publisher FBI has been purely Investigative. lace Thorsen, is to get It can check on an individual's thinking and talking about loyalty at the request of govern- United Nations and the job it ment offices, but can only report doing in building the world those findings not rule upon them. munity." The amendment to the science foundation bill which would give Shirley the FBI additional " authority was adopted without opposition by the house, but opponents hope to knock it out when senate and house members meet to settle on a final version of the bill Chief critic of the bill was Representative Holifield (R., Cal.) who declared that This is the first time in American history when the FBI has been charged by the congress to evaluate, report on and certify the loyalty of an individual. This is the OGPU (police state) system of Russia." IT IS LIKELY that the controverIn Germany they r sial amendment never would have Dal paring s i Shir been seriously considered but for Glomblg to America's the current hysteria in high places Temple when the latter child over leakage of important Amerirising to stardom as a i can defense and weapons secrets , Hollywood. Dagmar to Russia. It is a doubtful authority daughter of composer to accord even the excellent FBI. conductor Eberhard Glo Perhaps the FBI, itself, will be and has played in several w heard later on whether it desires man filihs. N: C.I.O. United Autmobile Workers union. THE PURPOSE of the loan But was that the case? Wasn't would be to help the UAW win new it logical to assume that an in crease in the labor force" mean contracts from Chrysler and Gening unemployed but available labor eral Motors. Lewis wrote Walter meant a corresponding lack of Reuther, head of the giant auto employment for that same force. workers union, that IT WAS SIGNIFICANT, many improvements in the coal industry observers felt, that the figure as were fought by money interests reported did not include striking linked with the financial group" workmen, a fact that meant the which dominates He added that this aid is needed unemployment picture was not disso your union may be assured betorted in that sense. yond preadventure, of success in Why was unemployment appar its present struggle. Reuther was ently steadily increasing? How in the midst of a long strike for would the "scasonal turnover" ex at Chrysler corporation. planatlon hold water? 11 there pensions At the time of Lewis' offer, it was were serious threat of widespread estimated UAW workers had lost unemployment In the nation. It 35 million dollars in pay and the seemed the government shoulc 250 million dollars. company ascertain the fact. Help for Reuther was authorized . a jubilant meeting of Lewis with n at ij rnpti-his top union aides, where Lewis U.S. Worried was said to have boasted that he had licked" the y Unlted States high Ievel dlpl y mats had a nev and aggravating injunction provision of the Prblem on their hands: The sud-in- court law, inasmuch as a federal injunction issued under the denly critical Drench-Germasplit law failed to halt the coal strike. over be aar MOST of the big U.S. industrial The situation was complicated concerns feared that Lewis' victory when France and the over the coal operators in the matdent government of the coal-ricter of wage increases and additionSaar signed a pact under which al health welfare benefits France would take the Saars coa would touch and off a series of strikes. or the next 50 years, which the Coal was being mined again and German chancellor resented. industrys wheels were turning, Washington officials frankly but the immediate future mitted deep concern over the sit- - grim and uncertain. The appeared uation. They indicated the objec-ic- seemed to be: When andquestion where tive of American diplomacy in this will the next strike erupt? It Instance would be to try to mini seemed inevitable to even a casual mize the problem in the interes observer that another of round J of European unity. wage-hik- e was in the fights making. such , FARM UNION: . threat had been removed, eaders in the coal Industry began to look farther ahead to examine methods by which a permanent coal peace might be won. Leading mine operators stated they hoped to complete arrangements to have Harry W. Moses, lead of the captive" mine subsidiaries of the United States Steel corporation, to leave big steel and devote all his time to handling the coal industry's dealings with Lewis. APPOINTMENT of Moses as a e representative of the soft coal industry in its relatipns with the UMW is designed as a move to end the chaotic conditions that have existed in the mine fields for years. The move has the support of virtually all the principal operators in the north and west and was expected to win strong favor among southern operators as well. A lasting Industry peace has long been the goal of operators and the public, which is beginning to tire of the almost annual war of nerves between the mine union boss and operators while the nation stands almost helpless without fuel. British political circles when Lord Beaverbrook's conservative London Evening Standard named War Minister John Strachey (above) an avowed Communist." farther it went. Brannan was eminently correct when he admitted that the present price support system programs on one encourage on hand, and the other . . . and to find sufficiently new uses for the surpluses, or to divert them into channels at anything comparable to the support price usually is impossible." e, The most crippling coal strike in the nations history had come to an end. Miners were pouring back nto the pits and allied industries, aced with a threat of total shutdown, were reviving and calling men back to work. John L. Lewis, United Mine Worker chleftian, apparently had won again. He had obtained a raise n pay for the miners along with additional health and welfare benefits. But as the nation relaxed with a sigh of relief that the production-sto- p Communist? ishable commodities' THE agriculture secretary may have had a point there, but the main question was: Would his plan of letting farm products find their own levels on the price market, with subsidies making up the difference provide an adequate solution? Up to this point, he had been unable to convince congress that it would. What luck he would have in the future was wholly problematical. But there was no arguing the point that something needed to be done to clear up the muddled farm price support program. As it was being operated, federal farm policy seemed to be getting worse the under-consumpti- Drafting Procedure Seen as Preventative Of Recurrent Disputes Old, Old Story There is a magic elixir of a sort In the news which comes each C in G-me- n" 1.4 Another power. Released by WNU Features i |