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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- PEACE: - Korea Military Picture Improved; Senate Passes Mobilization Bill; Nation's Farmers in Tine Shape' There GOOD CITIZEN Is Still Hope The belief that there Is still hope for peace, perhaps for only a short time, but still respite from worldwide war, is growing in many quarters. The hope is not one for permanent peace, but one of time, based on the belief in high diplomatic circles that the Russians are not ready for war at the moment. Diplomatic circles call it the "calculated risk" of war or peace. It is based on three major assumptions: (1) Russia fears the effects of American atom bomb attacks. (2) Russia does not possess an adequate stock pile of atomic aU-o- (KDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these column, they are those ef Western Newspaper Union's news noulvifti and not necessarily of this newspaper.) KOREA: Victories Picture Changes As the Korean war went into the third month military observers were inclined to comment "the picture has changed." And from available information it seemed the Communists had lost the power to mount great offensives involving thousands of men. North Koreans launched one attack in force, its objective the city of Taegu, temporary capital of the South Korean republic and supply terminal for U. N. forces. It failed. In some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, U. S. and South Korean troops smashed the offensive, held Taegu, and then proceeded to smash bulges all along their lines. One of the most spectacular operations of the Korean battle was the concentrated air attack on an assembly area at Waegwan, involving 98 each loaded with 40 all purpose bombs. The load was dropped in a rectangle 7 miles long and 3 miles wide. General MacArthur, commander of United Nations forces, in a report to the security council said: 'The ground fighting continues to be of a most savage character." Our outnumbered forces face an enemy with "almost fanatical determination. The whole operation has assumed the character of a major campaign." He went on to ask for troops from other members of the United Nations. To date the number accepted for action in Korea included Thailand 4,000, the Philippines 5,000, Turkey 4,500, and the United Kingdom It will be several weeks before they can be brought to battle. Military observers agreed that the picture had changed, but added that it will be "a long, and hard winter in Korea." VS. KOREA bombs. (3) Russia's industrial potential is still too weak in comparison with that of the western allies to risk a . 's 0. FARMERS: In Fine Shape In a major speech at Carlisle, Indiana, Secretary of Agriculture Brannan asserted that the nation's farmers are in "fine shape" and took the opportunity to put in another plug for his farm plan. Said the secretary: "Even allowing for increases in military food requirements we expect to have enough food so that civilians can continue consuming as much as in the past two years." Farmers worried about possible economic controls of agriculture were reassured when the secretary said there are grounds for hope that such controls can be postponed for a considerable time or perhaps avoided entirely "unless the emergency becomes much worse." Talking up the Brannan plan, the secretary said we need a program which "solidly protects farm prices in case of a sudden slackening of demand" yet "puts an abundance of milk, egss, and other perishables in the hands of consumers at attractive prices." Brannan added that the present program of sliding-scalprice supports fail to assure support on some of the most important commodities and offers no incentive for necessary production shifts. e WHEAT: Highest Level The agricultural department has fixed price supports for 1951 wheat at the same level as the 1950 crop 91 per cent of parity. The department said 72.800.000 acres of wheat may be planted. If yields are average, this acreage would produce 1,150,000,000 bushels. This year's crop is estimated at 995.000.000 bushels. In fixing the wheat support at the highest possible level. Secretary of Agriculture Brannan said: "In view of the world situation, it is imperative that our supply of bread grains be maintained in strong position. Ample supplies will be a major factor in assuring reasonable food prices to consumers and our ability to meet our international food obligations. "We believe the and programs have been developed to protect the interests of both producers and consumers." The price support announcement had been expected, since Brannan Is required by law to announce supports in advance of planting; winter wheat planting starts this month. Only farmers who keep within acreage-allotmelimits can get price supports. wheat-productio- n price-suppo- Thursday,' September 7, 1950 THE TIMES-- NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH PAGE TWO rt U.S. troops won victories on in Korea during the eighth week of the conflict. The big Communist push (1) on Taegu from the north was driven back; South Korean troops recaptured Pohang and Kigy (2) ; another bridgehead across the Naktong was (3) beaten back; American forces flattened the bridgehead (4) in the Yongsan area, nearly all fronts HOME-FRON- T: Com-ir.unis- ts RAILROADS: Strikes Close Steel The brotherhood of railroad trainmen and order of railway conductors went on strike against three terminal railroads, disrupting several of the country's steel arteries in the midst of the Korean war. However, with the steel industry pressed to capacity to meet the needs of the stepped-u- p munitions program and the booming civilian economy, many sources predicted that President Truman would seize the lines. The unions singled out key terminals in Louisville, St. Paul and Chicago and Republic Steel's switching terminal at Cleveland for the first display of pressure. About 1,000 men walked out for five days. Approximately 30,000 workers, including steelworkers, were made idle. Negotiations between management and union representatives, with presidential assistant John R. Steelman taking part, produced no progress in the first 24 hours. Observers believed the government would take drastic action before the situation deteriorated and crippled the nation's vital steel production. Mobilization Bill The senate, by a vote of 85 to 3, mobilization passed a home-fron- t bill which would President give Truman power to invoke controls and other curbs at any time. The bill then went to a senate-hous- e conference for the ironing out of differences between the senate measure and the bill passed earlier by the house. In one point the bill was a defeat for the administration since it directed the President to put wage and price controls into effect simultaneously and virtually across the board if he invoked them at all. The President has maintained he sees no need of wage-pric- e curbs or rationing at this time. Further, the administration requested authority to control commodity speculation, but neither the house or senate versions contain such authority. Both bills contain an provision prohibiting the accumulation of excessive supplies of goods designed as scarce. The administration suffered another setback in that its plea for retention of the provision which INTELLIGENCE: would let the President fix controls Headed by Smith on selected commodities meat, for Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, example in advance of any general former ambassador to Moscow, controls program, was defeated. was named by President Truman as director of central intelligence. He AMERICA: will succeed Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter around the end of Angry People September.' Americans have never liked the The agency's job is to gather and evasive tactics and double-tal- k used analyze reports from diplomatic, by diplomats. That such a dislike military and all other sources. still persists in the minds of av- Some members of congress were erage Americans was indicated by not surprised by Smith's appointthe increasing number of letters to ment. national leaders and members of There had been demands in conthe United Nations demanding that gress for a shake-u- p of the agency Soviet delegate Jacob Malik be since the Korean war. Some legisthrown out of the security council. lators contended the United States The letters asked why prolong the was caught by the inarguments in the security council? vasion of South Korea by Communist troops. Why not expel the Soviet delegate, the people in the small towns of General Smith, now 54, has had a long military career, which inAmerica wanted to know? In answer to these questions War- cludes service as chief of staff to ren Austin, U.S. chief delegate to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in World War II. Later he became ambasthe United Nations, made the folsador at Moscow. lowing statement: "Our objective Is peace. We do not find peace by throwing out the person with whom we must make peace. "We must be firm in our principles. We must be strong. But we must also be patient. "In the United Nations, we must keep trying to convince Mr. Malik and his government of their errors and of our peaceful intentions. Through the United Nations we can reach the peoples of the Soviet ft i Union and of other countries. "It is not the people, it is the 'ruling circles' that we encounter mt-J V 1 here. That creates a force of public opinion, backed by moral authority that opposes aggression Defense Secretary Louis Johnand even the Soviet dictatorship son (right), confers with Sen. cannot ignore such a force. Tom Connally, chairman of the "It is a strain for us to listen relations committee. to the deceit that the Russian foreign Johnson has been tinder Inspokesman has poured out. But creased attack by foes of the truth will prevail. Meanwhile, it is administration and some Dembetter for diplomats to get nervous ocrats for the way he handled to men for than young Indigestion his office during the year beget shot." fore the outbreak of fighting In was Americans That, agreed, Korea. straight talk and to their liking. anti-inflati- g flat-foote- d Johnson n At ;VX3"' --- CASUALTIES Toll It Heavy The shattering realities of the Korean conflict reached into many American homes as the conflict went into its third month. More than 2.600 families in the cities and small towns and on the farms of the nation have been notified of or servicemen killed, wounded missing in action. Vt the same time, a military spokesman said that Korean had lost 50,000 killed. major conflict. The first two of the assumptions are, of course, mere guess work. But there are statistics to back up the third. For instance, America's steel production for 1950 is expected to exceed 71 million tons. Great Britain will produce around 16 million tons and the rest of western Europe 24 million tons. approximately Thus, the allies will produce a total of 111 million tons, compared with Russia's 22 million. Russia also lags in the production of oil, another of the top essentials for war. On these assumptions western Europe is planning a three-yea- r rearming program. If the program is successful peace may be prolonged, but the world will be divided into two great armed camps. Suspect No. 8 American stocky electrical engineer, who fled to Mexico when the F.B.I, began nabbing suspects in the Klaus Fuchs spy ring, had been arrested and charged with passing defense secrets to Russia. Identified as Morton Sobell. he was the eighth American rounded up and charged with passing defense secrets to Russia. F.B.I, officials said he is a radar expert. A POLITICS: Election Crossfire The American political picture cleared somewhat with one definite trend in the spotlight: the voter faces a furious election year partisan crossfire. The issue will be U.S. foreign policy. The bipartisanship in foreign policy as existed before the Korean war is a thing of the past. From now on voters will hear charges and rges on U. S. foreign policy by congressional candidates. counter-cha- Principles of Good Citizenship Must Be Practiced in Own Home This ths last f a series ef IS articles from the booklet "Good Citizen' psblished by The American concerning the HeritageandFoundation duties of an American. rights Is The ninth promise of a good citizen: I will practice and teach the principles of good citizenship right in my own home. Our country, when you come right down to it, is just a lot of families. In the family are cradled the cardinal virtues that enable good to families add up to a great nation standards of 4$ conduct, res- rights and of pect for the property others, loyalty, health, tolerance, cooperation, self-reliance, good breeding and a sense of the fitness of things. f KAAiMiiiii IAST SSWDHD PUZZLE CAUIU By INEZ GERHARD LEWIS appears regularly ABBYfour NBC shows "Road of Life," "Eternal Light," "The Big "Storyteller's PlayStory" and ' house," portrays cooks, crooks, young girls and old women with equal ease. She sometimes does two very different characters on In principle, the family must be the keystone, the microcosm, the of our republic. Democracy must be based on homes where the interests of man, woman and child receive equal consideration. Whether in a crowded rooming house or on the farm, the answer must come from men and women of intelligence and good will who look on the successful maintenance of a family as one of the greatest acts of good citizenship. Just as democracy starts in the home as an obligation, it ends there as a reward. To the degree that all the other duties of citizenship have been fulfilled, your home will be your castle, secure from the threat of confiscation, and those in it safe from detention camps and firing squads. OTIS WIESE, editor of McCall's Magazine, said in an article, "The home, we all agree, is the foundation of the social structure. And women are the bed rock under that foundation. who Any woman achieves success as a mother has a more pervasive influence over the next generation than any cell of Communists. And her mother's mite certainly outweighs in social significance the manufacture of millions of can openers. 'The home, in effect, is the transmission belt of our culture, for it is there that the child learns its first lessons. It is the place where our social health is either insured or undermined insidiously . . ." IN CONCLUDING this series of articles, one way to measure the results of our system is to add up our physical and cultural gains in everything from bathtubs to symphony orchestras. Although it has only 6 per cent of the world's popu- lation and less than 6 per cent of the world's land area, the United States has: Seventy-tw- o per cent of the world's motor vehicles, one for every four people. 286,000 miles of paved roads. 231,481 places of worship, representing 55 religions or denominations. More than 61 per cent ot the world's telephones, one for every ACROSS 1 Pant 5 Begone! 9. Verbal 10. Glass part of a window 11 Reptile 12 Solitary ' 14, Public . s notice 15 Organ of hearing 17. River CGer.) 18. Sailor (slang) 20. Conceal 22. 24. Pen-nam- e, Charles Lamb Hawaiian . food 25. 27. Covered with sand Great masses L L e J 6 E L iHco 2c II 11a. "5117 N rjl e n A Ntff "koiopr vklN o vb e fj&ai. y I l O nfft "Liu E a surel rinEs jT v i jr. i 0 i V e n s K 1 NO. 67 37. The thunder god (Ger.) 41. Walk back ' and forth 44. Cushion. 46. Man's name between seats I' h n r r VA m iiiiiiiiii d rail 34. Expected 38, Apron top 39. One who inherits 40. Swablike implement 42. Any powerful deity 43. Province, NE India 45. Artless 47. Girl's name 48. Measure of land 49 Pause CO. Peruse "ZiMizzmmm 2l aZt u2t 1-- 1 DOWN I" " 1L1 Kind of boat (Venice) THE MO tion 35. River (Eur.) 36. Passageway fabric Storage place 21. Black gull Encountered Short-bille- o 34. Exclama- 19. I 6 cm fur 32. Evening sun god (Egypt.) 8. Doctrine 11. Wise men 13. Before 16. Twilled of ice 31. 33. highest rank 6 26. Still 28. Steal 29. Mourned 30. Valuable 7Positive ' terminal m . glA e oo '.23. Naval officers of Macaw' Japanese wine 4. Excuses 5. Mineral spring 6. Thermal units 2. 3. WEEK'S ANSWER I 1 H" I rri FICTION STRANGE SPECTACLES CORKER By Richard H. Wilkinson THE MORNING of Aug 4th. Hunter glanced through her bedroom window and saw a Between the strange spectacle. great white house and the street was a wide expanse of lawn, and this lawn was at present occupied by a young man pushing a ON lawn-mowe- Sandra 3 didn't what to Minute know FlCtlOn remembered make of it. She ' that her mother people. and father were away for the week208,235 public schools, 1,720 colend and that the servants were in schools for the rear of the house. leges and universities nearly everybody. By the time she had dressed and Forty-eigper cent of the ventured outdoors, the young man world's 'radios, one for every 214 had finished his mowing and was people. resting in the shade of the veranda. Ninety-tw- o "Will you kindly explain what this per cent of the world's bathtubs, one for every six people. is all about?" said Sandra. 6,511 public hospitals. "I just mowed your lawn as It Eighty-fiv- e per cent of the world's should be mowed." commercial air traffic. "Should be mowed?" Sandra 258,465 miles of railroad trackage, puckered up her brow. "What more than all Europe, including do yon mean, 'should be Russia in Asia. mowed'? Who are you? And Sixty - four major museums of where is Rufus, our gardener?" art, science and history. Twenty-thre- e "I'm Jerry Leonard. I bribed your ' symphony orchestras. 650 gardener this morning to let me music societies. mow your lawn. You see, I have to 31,015,000 homes wired for elecdrive by your house every morning on my way to work, and every morntricity. 12,578 newspapers and magazines. ing I've noticed that Rufus cuts the lawn unevenly." Nearly 2,000 radio stations. "Well of all things!" Fifty million savings accounts; 200 million life insurance policies. "Besides, I've been wanting to meet you since last June." This article Is Chapter and the last of a series of ten from the "Meet me?" booklet "Good Citiien" prodnred "Yes. My mother and I moved by The American Heritage Foundation, sponsors of the freedom train. into the old Saunders place last A complete book may be obtained by June and, the day after, I saw sending 25 cents to The American Heritage Foundation, 25 West 45lh you and decided I had to meet you. Street, New York. N. Y. 4 ABBY LEWIS same air show. Abby gives the the credit for this ability to her father, who was a preacher and missionary in New Mexico when she was a child. She often tagged along on his missionary trips, and afterward impersonated the people she'd met that day. "The Goldbergs." which has al- ready been on radio, television and the stage, and is now being made into a picture by Paramount, will crop up next as a novel. Gertrude Berg, its author and star, will write the book. "Information Please," granddad-d- y of the quiz shows, might better have remained in retirement, if the programs heard since its return to the air are an indication of what we may expect. That painful, futile effort to be funny gets pretty tiresome. In comparison with shows like NBC's "Who Said That?" and "Cliche American Broadcasting's Club" it comes out badly. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Uncle Charlie's Luck Is Bad, Bandit Crosses Him Up By BILLY ROSE Last Friday night on the way home from his weekly pinochle session, my Uncle Charlie was held up a few blocks from his home on Allen Street and a wallet containing $13 was taken from him. This misadventure, strangely enough, has made my Aunt Frieda very happy, and with your leave and license, I'd like to tell you whyTo. . . begin with, to hear my uncle tell it, Frieda is crazy like a fox about most things, but when it comes to fortune telling and allied superstitions she's crazy like a crazy. This, of course, in Charlie's own words, "drives him to destruction," particularly when my aunt shells out good hairs and pieces money for such charms and amulets as lucky horse-tai- l of string with seven magic knots. I can t understand," I once heard him tell her, "how a distinct anteed to make a party healthy, - century wealthy and wise, and also rich." Charlie examined the brass obtype like you could tin ject. "To me it looks like potsky around with herring," he said. "Where is living such superstitions." twenty "Century, schmen-tury,- " Frieda answered. "What was good enough by my grandmother good me." enough Is by "So why didn't you marry your Billy Rose grandfather?" "So when I look at you, that's who I'm thinking I married.'- THE MATTER CAME to crisis when Charlie arrived home from the shop and Frieda asked him for 10 dollars. "Only last week I am giving you 10 dollars," he exploded. "What you making, a down payment oo a Cadillac?" "A catalogue I am not needing," Frieda sassed back. 'Today I am purchasing from a certain Gypsy a brass fish with the sign from Zoroaster which Is absolute guar last Friday this Gypsy?" "In lb bach of Hon on Suffolk ttreel, and ber I am trusting tomplttt," laid Frieda, "f'rimtanct, tubtn Mri. fnteU ton was expecting, the Cypty told ber to tew up the tlufed derma with black thread for a thread for m boy and whit girl, and when the used th black, you taw ubat happened a boy." "It occasional takes place," said my uncle patiently, "that a boy comes In the world without black thread in the stuffed derma." The upshot of the argument was a decision to put the magical fish to a practical test, and when Charlie went out that night for hi weekly pinochle session, the good-luccharm was In his wallet. If he lost. It was agreed Frieda would stop patronizing Gypsy establishments; if he made a killing, however, he was to have more faith In ber theories. k WELL, AS IT turned out, my uncle won ten dollars which, added to the three he started out with, total of thirgave him a take-hom- e teen. Reluctant to face gloating Frieda, he took a roundabout way home. A few doors from a drugstore on Rivington Street, a hoodlum stepped out of an alley and stuck him up. "Could you return, please, the pocketbook?" said Charlie "Is genuine alligator leather." man, "Scram," said the hold-u"or I'll bust In your head." "A pleasure," said my uncle pop litely. "Cherry-ho.- " When Charlie got home, Frieda was considerably shaken by the and was story ot the stick-up- , forced to admit that the brass gee-gawas a flop. But the next morning she gave my uncle the horse laugh when the mailman dropped off a small parcel with the wallet In It, its contents intact There was also an unsigned note. "Dear Mister When I tea you got the fish of Zoroaster, I decide to send everything back because I hare dealing! with tuch fisbet before and don't want no part of them. Besides, when I count up the money I find 13 dollars exactly, i knotf when I'm licked." "See?" said my aunt. "On account of the brass fish, everything is turning out hunky-totsy"Maybe," said my uncle, "but to me It still smells from herring. .' "I've been hoping you'd speak to me for ever so long," Sandra said, "but you gave the impression of being rather high bat." I noticed your lawn and thought of the idea of bribing Rufus. It was like killing two birds with one stone." He grinned. "I knew your father and mother were going to be awav." "Why, the very Ideal I I can't believe you're serious." Jerry Leonard scratched his head. "I was never more serious in my life. Shucks! I'm sorry if you feel the way you look." "The way I look!" Sandra began to wonder how she did look. A dozen retorts came to mind but they all seemed flat and inadequate, almost sillv. She hesitated for an instant longer and then turned abruptly and strode back to the house. Jerry Leonard watched her go and into his face there came a look of disappointment. pHROUGHOUT the day Jerry was conscious of a forlorn misery. All his carefully formed plans had At S o'clock he proved fruitless. drove home via a route that did not take him past the Hunter estate. Leaving his coupe outside in the drive he entered the cottage by the rear door and found a note on the kitchen table, left there by his mother, which advised him that she had gone to a church supper and that if he didn't want to come too he'd find some warmed-ove- r things in the oven. Jerry moodily ate the warmed-ove- r things and afterward stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. He was about to ease himself comfortably onto the doorstep when he chanced to glance toward the drive. He blinked, rubbed his eyes, swallowed. "What the devil!" he said. As be approached, the girl who had been washing the automobile's wheels straightened up and stood off to survey her work. II was Sandra Hunter. "What the dickens," said Jerrr, "are you up to?" "Oh," she said. "Hello." She gestured toward the coupe. "Dirty wheels. Been getting on my nerves for weeks." "Wha what?" said Jerry. "I've noticed you driving by every day from my bedroom window. Rest of the car looks fine, but you always seem to forget the wheels. Very annoying." Jerry puckered up his brow. He peered at the girl very intently. His face was grave. He said. "Is that all?" "No," said Sandra. Tve been hoping you'd peak to me for ever so long, but you gave the Impression of being well, rather high hat This seemed like a logical method to promote friendly relations," she grinned. "You see, I knew your mother was away." |