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Show UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE, WEEKLY President Wants to Get Palestine Jews Proclaim New State Of Israel, Attacked by Arab Armies; Talks-Every- one And U.S. Victim of Russian Propaganda on the Act in .By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer. (EDITORS NOTE: Whe Minion Newspaper Unions new Wur By BAUKIIAGE Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON. The colonel was talking to the general It was obvious that the general was as bored as his secretary looked, her interrupted dictation on her crossed knee, which she uncrossed as the generals eye wandered. The colonel wa the armys No. 1 specialist on the which was about to revolutionize warfare, as the colonel could (and super-gadg- would, if he got a chance) tell you. gadgets its ment from o crude semi stage when, primitive as it caused was, ) it the entire of the tactics of the knights under Otto the great, first King of the Germans. He trace its could gis-tm- 1 The colonel knew the history of the develop-- ; evolution down through the days of delicate interplay when it broke up the Empire of Charlemagne, and on down to the fall of Stalingrad. The colonel had brought the gen- eral about up to the third Punic war and the secretary was wiggling. The general himself had begun to fumble with form The colonel realized that he was rapidly losing his audience, So he raised his voice so that file clerks in the next office stopped filing (their fingernails) and looked up. he By the way, General, Did remarked confidentially, yon know that Im writing the Presidents next speech? The one he delivers to the association? The generals secretary perked up . . . the general raised an eyethe colonel smiled . brow At about the same hour, over in the Metropolitan club, a very dapper young man from the divi slon of the Far, Near and Middle East and expert in was sipping a thin a which his chief had just ordered. His chief was bored. By the way, Chief, he said in a whisper so loud that even the waiters stopped looking respectful and listened: Im w'riting the President's next speech at the Interconferassociations planetary ence. In four other places, four other young experts were telling their bosses the same thing. All were perfectly honest, all were believed, and in 20 minutes or so, stenographers, clerks, messengers, waiters and cab drivers were pointing out the guy who writes the Presidents speeches." AU this has been going on, I suppose, in world capitals since before somebody else thought he bad codified the code of Hammurabi. What really happens is this: The President calls in one of his more literary secretaries all of them are literate, but not all literary (some those whose duties are conversing with politicians, dont have to be too literate). The President says to the literary one: Bill, in this speech I have to conwrite for the ference, Im going to mention the and I want to touch super-gadge- t, on the current economic and social situation in Beluria, also there are some erosion statistics I need, and some data on the problems which arose as a result of the Whiskey Rebellion. Okeh, Chief, says the literary secretary, and on his way back to his office, he begins classifying, according to departments, the people he thinks may have the facts or the people who will know who knows somebody who has the facts. He either phones or dictates a brief memo to these people, requesting not more than one page from each on the subjects indicated. Highly-please- d and old young men, on receipt of the memo or phone call, begin leafing through their research libraries and dictating to their secretaries. In two days, a number of large packages are delivered to the White House via special messengers. The literary secretary curses and sets to thesis work boiling down a e on the progression of from the Sanskrit et elia to a sentence and a half which he has his stenographer type into the rough draft of the speech which the President has dictated and sent to him for the purpose. Franklin Roosevelt became angered because columnists persisted in revealing' which confidential adviser wrote the last speech he delivered, whatever it was, that he once showed us the actual draft of a speech he had dictated and writas was his ten, and custom. In fact, the revising of Roosevelts Interlined manuscripts often went on while newshounds growled in the outer office and mimeographers stood by sheets to handle the finally-okaye- d in takes. Inter-Planeta- ry ... economic-ethic-patholog- scotch-and-sod- Inter-Planetar- y tau-mut- last-minu- NEWS ANALYSIS President Truman got a little peeved recently over the same line of columnar chatter and began to let it be knowm that he could write himself. Of course, all presidents get advice, counsel, assistance and Inspiration from many men of many minds. Of course, there are humanitarians and grammarians, stylists and Carlyle-lst- s, lexicographers and economists and geographers, agronomists, Russians, Prussians and Persians upon whom he can call if the need arises. And somehow or other, each and all, if they but contribute one jot or tittle to the sacred paper, think they wrote the whole or at least the stenographer who had to take down all the stuff hopefully offered for possible presidential use thinks and tells her friends about it confidentially. The problem of presidential speeches is much to the fore these days for this reason: President Truman and his advisers, despite the rebel yells, the wails of the defeatists, the triumphant roar of s the elephant and the ominous of the polls as they Gallup downhill, still believe he has a fighting chance to return in November to the White House, and he intends to fight for it. The President is going on a of speaking tour of the West course, it isnt a campaign, that would be undignified and immodest before the convention has asked He will speak under no political sponsorship. But he will speak and he is going to ad lib, as we say in the trade. Even if we hadnt had our ears conditioned for 12 long years by the golden voice that breathed over the firesides, the oratory of Harry Truman when he reads a speech, be it ever so humble, never would be mistaken for the vox humana or the angels chorus. But when Harry Truman gets up and talks, hes very human, very sensible, and not altogether So from now on, hes going to speak extemporaneously, no matter how mnch preparation it takes. He showed what he could do without notes or manuscript (and without learning by rote) when he addressed the newspaper publishers and the Gridiron club in April, and again in May when he talked to the national conference on family life in Washington. And since such speeches aren't written, nobody can say he wrot them for him. so, hoof-beat- nr expressed In thM ceasarily analysts and net WINDFALL: Impulse to Zion hisfos- Arnold Toynbee, British torian, types the Jews as a silised remnant of an extinct civilization. He meant that because of their faultless devotion to the religion of Moses and their strict adherence to ancestral customs, the Jews, descending through history as a compact group, have retained most of the original characteristics which marked them when first they emerged as part of the Syriac civilization thousands of years before Christ. They are recognised today as being in but not of the societies in which they appear on every alportion of the globe. They most invariably form a minority group, and as such they have been targets for endless persecusingle-minde- d, tion. Socially, world Jewry has been of two minds concerning the most desirable end It could achieve for itself. Those two conflicting trains of thought are represented by the sionists and the dispersionlsts. The dispersionlsts have advocated that Jews should mingle freely with whatever people they have chosen to live among and graduaUy be assimilated by that people. Zionists, of course, favor of a national establishment an Indestructible homeland ideal ever since Moses led the exodus to Canaan. Since the war, with Nazi attempts to obliterate German Jews completely and subsequent displacement of millions of European Jews, slonism has been given a tremendous impetus. That Impulse to Zion has been distilled into what the world has come to know as the Palestine More recently it problem. crystallized even further In the actual establishment of a Jewish In Palesstate called Israel of the homeland ancient tine, era Jews. an ISRAEL: In Palestine Events moved with the swiftness of time itself in the Holy Land. Ritualizing the expiration of mandate Great Britains rule oyer Palestine, Sir Alan Cunningham, British high commissioner, hauled down his personal flag in Jerusalem and flew to Haifa where he boarded a cruiser. That was that. Britannia no longer ruled the Palestinians. Then the Jews, who had been denied a legally partitioned state, proclaimed the existence of a new. tion. Meanwhile Winston Churchill is hammering steadily at his purpose of building a United States of Europe. Although the Attlee government has not approved the idea, the prime minister himself has spoken words of encouragement regarding the formation of a real federalization of the western union. Attlee even went so far as to say that Britain was willing to sacrifice her sovereignty in part to bring it about, although he qualified the promise by saying the time was not yet ripe for such a step. But Churchill wants to strike now. He received considerable support from the unofficial gathering in the Hague a forum, they called it composed of representatives of the Marshall plan countries, plus exiled leaders. Churchill's proposals and the Grinnell conference are both part of the tremendous will to peace that currently is finding expression. Perhaps eventually we will learn that great lesson of history to yield the sovereignty that causes wars to the kind of sovereignty that allows not only the other freedoms to the individual but which, also will give him freedom from the FEAR of war. Just as the federalization of the separate colonies made the citizen of the state of New York free from the fear of war with the state of Pennsylvania situation possible because both recognize a higher sovereignty the United States government. i Ambassador Walter Bedell Smiths formal and completely routine statement to Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, the Russians thought they had a propaganda bonanza. It was cleverly done. Smiths otherwise tough statement, which S. simply repeated the basic U. foreign policy with regard to Russia, contained one sentence that Moscow took as a loophole: As far as the United States is concerned, the door is always wide open for In full discussion and the composing of our differences. Molotov seized upon that sentence and the announcement was broadcast to the world that Russia accepted the American offer to ne- gotiate. It looked like a propaganda victory of major proportions for the Soviets. Briefly, it put them in the position of being able to point with pride to their manifest willingness to settle the bitter differences which have kept the world unnerved for so long. If the U. S. refused to talk, that would be fine with the Russians who would capitalize on that fact wtih a vengeance. If a peace conference did develop as a result of the original trick, the old and familiar Soviet obstructionist tactics would be brought into play to do the usual job of sabotage. That was about the way it stacked up to the high officials in Both President TruWashington. man and Secretary of State George Marshall made it clear that there would be no conference, that there was no logical basis for one and that such a conference could not possibly succeed at this time because neither the U. S. nor Russia had altered or modified its position in any way. In addition to the propaganda value of the Russian move, it might also have been calculated to throw some sand into the gears of the incipient U. S. defense program. If the Soviets, suddenly assuming a peaceful mien, were able to hypnotize the American people into feeling falsely secure, congress in an election year might be coerced into wasting a lot of time in preparing such items of the defense program air force bill and as the the draft bill. That wasted time could, in the light of possible future events, turn out to be incalculably precious. Sequel Second episode of the affair of the Russian peace overture was a pass Stalin-to-Wallac- e that went over the head of the U. S. govern- ment. Russian vantage of an Henry Wallace him demanding premier took adopen letter which had addressed to an open showdown between the two nations. Wallace's proposals, as summarized by Stalin, included: General reduction of armaments and prohibition of atomic 1. JERUSALEM . . . Jew or Arab? . . . Independent republic in Palestine which was to be called Israel. Before Israel was 20 minutes old it had received formal diplomatic recognition from the United States, first nation to extend such recognition. And while Israel was yet only hours old it was already at war. The newborn state was invaded from the north by regular army forces of Lebanon and Syria and from the south by Egyptian troops. It was shelled from the east by s Arab Legion and from bombed and machine-gunnethe air by Arab planes. Haganah, the principal Jewish fighting force, rushed troops, seasoned by months of guerrilla warfare, to all fronts and the fighting settled down to the pattern with which every adult in the world has become familiar. During the initial furor, Israels provisional council of state managed to find time to elect Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a scientist and elder statesman of Zionism, first president of the nation. Most momentous news connected with establishment of Israel was the agonizingly prompt U. S. diplomatic recognition of the state. Trans-Jordan- d CRISIS: Supersonic There is a crisis developing In military aviation, says Cmdr. Lynn S. Beals Jr., navy doctor, because it is not yet known how to keep human beings healthy when they fly faster than sound. Main trouble is from vertical vimotion bration the that comes as a plane reaches 'the speed of sound. This vibration is so fast that it equals five to six times the pull of gravitation. To shore up his sinking political tor prestige in his campaign pro- President Truman farm four-poiposed to congress a he claimed is eswhich program sential to a productive, prosperous S. agriculture in the U. were these his message of Burden recommendations:' flexi-1- of permanent system ble price supports for agricultural commodities. "Full support to the A Han About Totem Western Union soon will begin a new fire warning nstalling levice in leading hotels. It s the nvention of a Georgia farmer, loss of 121 leeply shaken by the hotel ives in Atlantas Winecoffthermo-itaa t He designed lolocaust. which can be attached to phone vires to ring the switchboard when oom temperatures get near fire inevel . . Deeply religious and in lives; saving vested only levertheless Western Union made lim rich. His reward being (it says here) in a deal patent swung by a Washington . . Propaganda The JERUSALEM Will to Peace Finds Expression Next month a national conference for the prevention of World War III will be held on the campus of Grinnell college in Iowa. The purpose is to present a definite, concrete working plan to prevent a third world war; methods which can be presented to the two national political conventions at Philadelphia. The roster of speakers will include representatives of many of the organizations now working for a single sovereign, world organiza' ( Uia aewspape Build It Fi FARM FLAN : Truman s weapons. 2. Conclusion of peace treaties with Germany and Japan. 3. Evacuation of troops from China and Korea. Respect for the sovereignty countries and noninterference in their domestic affairs. 5. World development of international trade. I don't know whether the United States government approves Mr. Wallace's program Stalin said, making it starkly clear that he was talking, not to the government, but to the American people. He applauded the Wallace letter as the most important document of recent times, and declared, As far as the government of the USSR is concerned, it considers that Mr. Wallace's program could serve as a good and fruitful basis for an agreement. Apparently a Russian attempt to bring about a showdown in the East-Westruggle before an au4. of Individual ... dience of world public opinion, Stalins bombshell statement renewed the question of whether the new Soviet tactics are merely propaganda or a genuine effort for peace. Either way the U. S. was in a difficult position. If the Russian appeal is taken at face value it cuts the ground from under the tough American cold war strategy. If it is propaganda it undoubtedly will serve to put the U. S. in a bad light. Well, Not Exactly A. C. Hudson of Portsmouth, N. H., head of a committee of fire protection experts who examined the White House recently, said he wouldn't exactly call the President's home a firetrap, but still and all there are plenty of hazards existing at the Pennsylvania avenue edifice. There is nothing wrong with the White House that a lot of won't fix. he said, but it needs a lot of monev. ance and expansion of our of soil conservation. to Legislation by procontinue and strengthen consumpgrams to assure adequate tion of agricultural products. other We need to consider 4- - means for assisting farmers to meet their special problems. For and proexample, we must support congress proposals, and they car- ITALY: Vox Pop is to Luigi Einaudi, 74, a banker, be president of the Italian republic for the next seven years. He was elected at a joint session of both houses of parliament on the fourth ballot after the Comwho had supporting Enrico de Nicola, threw their votes to him. On three ballots none of the presi- dential prospects had been able to command the sec: bef fashin readly obtain, everywhere11! re- majority quired because of the Communist bloc. An of communism, opponent Einaudi also was a foe of Mussolinis brand of fascism. He is an known writer on internationally public finance and economic history. Einaudis first task as president of the republic was to designate a premier and instruct him to form a cabinet. There was no doubt i, that he would name Alcide de premier of the provisional government, to continue in that capacity on a permanent basis. Gas-per- DISPLACED: Bill Pending Although the desperate problem Europes displaced persons has not been attracting much headline attention lately, congress has been busy working out legislation to admit quotas of DPs into the U. S. Latest report was that an informal poll showed that a majority of the senate would vote for a bill to admit 200,000 displaced persons into this country during the next two years. The actual bill being considered by the senate judiciary committee sets the figure at 100,000 DP immigrants for the next two years, but several senators have introduced amendments to raise that total to 200.000 and to remove some restrictions imposed by the committee. One senate source said the poll indicated that at least 55 senators were ready to vote for the less restrictive version. The house judiciary committee already has approved a similar measure to admit 200.000 DPs in the next two years. of s. Ju id tha job. 0. a" Ph U :nt e in if ju r fur J Bunding the table of lawn furniture nomical solution to , equipment proble two article, can Me of opi lav lie than one costs read,! saving money, vides hour, 01 This is the columns idea of an inoffensive Mefoofsky quip . . . Mefoofsky and a pinochle player lamed Bromowitz got into a big a game . . . argument fter tempers exploded (and they jailed each other names), BromoMefoofsky to a witz challenged duel with pistols in the park at iawn. agreed Mefoof. Dots a dill! Ill be dare! Bromowitz and his seconds were at the appointed place on time, but Mefoofsky was nowhere in sight. Mter waiting an hour, Bromowitz sent one of his seconds to phone the doyty coward! Tell him not to get so exI got cited, said Mafoofsky. tied opp. Ill be dare in twenty tell him to start minutes shooting. President enters public halls for a speech the band strikes At up Hail to the Chief! Mrs. P. Mestas private affair for him, his entrance cued the orchestra to go into: Im Just Wild . . . Jimmy Savo, the About Harry When the ar iw, during been previous direction, desired. All t a During a recent Intermission critic George Jean Nathan was told that Chicagos dean, Ashton Stevens, was ill. Do you know, said a reviewer that Ashtons been a drama critic for over 50 years out there? What! said Nathan. And he just got sick? unmistakable ring of a year bid for the farmers attention. munists, ived !irm. tect farm cooperatives. We must sound continue to work toward a insurance. of crop system There was nothing very startling about the ried the campaign favorable w Pattern sugg?8 tt Provide, ... star, was robbed of pocket money oy stickups after an engagement at a swank spot. The bandits didnt get $2,500 he hid in his wooden leg . . Fifth avenue bus firms will lire you only if you cant drive. Break you in their own way. Once youve espeE down satisfaction turn into usefd " lawn chair, you rJ1 , come It one yourself Send of, huge t, w Table Pattern No, a Pattern Company k Super-Luxur- y Being Built ting the Snack steward opes. Pleasantvttle, N, bars, rat service and, arent usually connect, but all of them wan, new y to start on the m the nation. The first regular new coaches will be super-luxur- extra-far- e express zb York, SUi from New cago. Although const) passenger chassis ca new model Is reduced: order to provide space! room and the buffet give more legroom seats. The snackbar: the the forward driver. end of S Roosevelt White Hopkins and House files for his documentation . . . One New Dealer is writing a oook on Jim Farley not to be published until after Farley has so that he cant gone to Heaven defend himself! . . . Newsweek quotes Colliers chief editor, W. v Q r ch he Ui him out I igton case. M swe my ousl on in ew rapt as to Constipali jus h HD luld D TVasThis -! daily.- It your diet ;ectic J. v :me dis re burth anim lacks bulk for no- out rmal elimination, eat an ounce o! KELLOGGS ALLBRAN i Fr, if n C R get Turner, Indianapdii Robert Sherwood, intimate of Harry Hopkins top authority on FDR (capable of writing a book about ihem) will unveil his biography via Harper. He had the enormous aight iver Howe all-bra- Story TeUers: fh. B next, then the only and the r lores m to with ball elect 1 would go from ok! take t bu Thats over now tbit li Taft says hes still in the running. They went THAT way! ore, werat jtd . Item: bu tor irty a enthu 25c for 0. not jng( t co day every nr milk and drink plenty of water. If not satisfied after 10 days, send empty j carton to Kellogg : I Ca-- Mich., and Eet DOCSl BACK. Get KELLOGG r. 13 r: he cut e ,sagr y $10 d on cals 'as e efore Davenport, as saying an editor is "one who knows precisely what he wants but is not sure what it is . . We like the old definition bet-!e"An editor is a dead ebat it a of i nd fi r: an i: a fe ATOM RACE: 0,000 al Official Governments of the world never have been farther from outlawing the use of atomic weapons. In fact, the atomic armament race is just settling down to a long, straight away dash. It is a contest involving astronomical costs, with horrible disaster if not ultimate destruction possibly lurking just beyond the horizon. So far the U. S. is well in the lead, as indicated by the recent announcement of the development and successful testing of three new atomic weapons which are said to supersede the original atom bomb in destructive power. The United Nations atomic energy commission made the race official when, after two years of fruitless effort to work out some kind of international atomic control. It finally voted to suspend negotiations. Other developments followed swiftly to prove that the U. S. is deadly serious about developing a powerful and diversified atomic arsenal: David E. Lllienthal, chairman of the atomic energy commission, reported that the "present of the commissions tests of stage atomic weapons is concluded." President Truman then the author-ize- d commission to take "steps at once for further development based on Information gained from the tests. What Russia was doing about atomic weapons remained much of a mystery, at least pretty as far as the American public was con- Itnwas an accepted fact that the Russians knew how to make an atom bomb. Whether they had the industrial facilities to do so still remained a matter of consid-erabl- e conjecture. ... Wallace Still Is Leading the Presi-lentiPreference Poll (conducted ay the five Embassy Newsreel dieaters) with 3,799 . . . Stassen is lecond with 3,224 and Eisenhower is third with 2,389 . . . Arthur Murray thinks its funny to see Arline fudge calling off her planned marriage. Arline usually calls things ff AFTER the wedding . . . The lo sirens on the New York police irowl cars isnt funny to the cops, some of them managed to catch a atickup, anyway, after trailing him through midtown heavy traffic, all the stops they were forced to make at corners. e coi Mooi iathy Onucph aolitt i wop toilet of fctiv tOMCtt1. OSNCA NiWW ( Vignette: Agent Paul Small met a ham in Lindys. How do you feel? Paul asked . . . Broke the record In Baltimore, was the answer . . . 1 hear your wifes been ill, said Paul I killed em in Boston, was the retort . . . Well, Small I g h e d, whats new? Broke the record In too, said Our Hero . . . do you go from here? , Paul I go to Chicago, said the bore . . . Yes, wai the squelcher, I hear the trains sold out! ... ( m tb lelieves DistrtaL !ij Scandal over at the united Nations concerns one of Mr. stalms top comrades. He has fal--n for a very "decadent American custom. He is buying the most capitalistic doodads and gems for keptive on Central Park South. A outhern belle H the courts lecide that the movie and theater business must be divorced Paramount Is expected to sell its pro- - ... theaters interest w.cst Quip and retain 016 a the Trumans: Porchy and Bess." d at to 12 fo ve fi plai gave BiiJM Also Helps Do fun female eg 01 an mW J TJ nervous, lrrlt2rt!5l his try thre Lydia B. relieve zuch Tablet, build up red blow Pinkba1 Lydia E. 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