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Show Contradictions LoavoUcAIIConfucod Is It Hot Enough for You? . Assorted pundits have .been telling us for years that we are living in an age of doubt and confusion.' They were probably right all along. But certainly the last week or so has compounded standard doubt and everyday every-day confusion to- a point where people can be forgiven for double-checking their own names, ' , . It's bad enough to ait around gnawing your f ingefhails over the Berlin crisis, and the difficulty of putting meat on your table. But wken you'add to these imponderables imponder-ables some of th past days' extra contradictions, contra-dictions, you're likely to find yourself looking look-ing over your shoulder for the little people who aren't there. " Take the budget, for inetance. President Truman came up with a, revised estimate and said that, thanks to the tax-cutting Republican congress, we'd wind up the fiscal' year with a deficit of $1,500,000,000. Nonsense, said some Republican congressmen! congress-men! If the president would stop counting some appropriation chickens that congress won't hatch and take $3,000,000,000 for foreign aid out of last year's surplus, he'd find that we are going to wind up the year with a surplus of $1,500,000,000. Then of course there are Messrs. Whit-taker Whit-taker Chambers and Alger Hiss. Mr. Chambers Cham-bers told the Thomas committee that Mr. Hiss was a busy borer from within the prewar pre-war "Communist underground," and that he had Visited Mr. Hiss and pleaded with him to break away from the Communist party. Mr. Hiss told the Thomas committee that he had known Mr. Chambers some 13 years ago as a Mr. Crosley and had sublet him an apartment. There is a similar confusion surrounding the testimony of Elizabeth T. Bentley before be-fore the same committee. She put the finger fin-ger on various government employes who, she said, had (riven her secret and valuable information for the Soviets. Some of the accused also said they didn't know Miss Bentley and had never seen her. Others said they would stand on their constitutional rights and say nothing. Likewise we have the case of Mrs. Kosen- kina, the Soviet school teacher. This is the prize bloom in our bouquet of confusion. There were, at last count, three different "official" Soviet versions of the unfortunate unfortun-ate woman's leap. The only point of simi-larit simi-larit in them is that Mrs. Kosenkina did drop from a third-floor window to the courtyard court-yard below. ; There may be some comfort, though little enlightenment, in the thought that the S resident and congress may be making onest mistakes in billion-dollar bookkeep-ing.'And bookkeep-ing.'And there may be enlightment, though little comfort, in the knowledge that Soviet policy often cuts the facts, to fit the propaganda propa-ganda pattern. But it is something else again when two intelligent and educated men like Mr. Chambers and Mr. Hist, both holding positions of distinction and responsibility, respon-sibility, tell stories that brand on or the other of them as an unmitigated Mar. Life, we feel, was a lot pleasanter in the earlier era of this age of doubt and confusion con-fusion when the government's whole budget bud-get wasn't much bigger than the disputed surplus or deficit, and when the fear of eternal hellf ire and brimstone hung over the head of anyone who lied under oath. Gains In California California, the census bureau estimates, is now the third state in population, passing Illinois and Ohio. This will probably increase in-crease the number of Californians on future party tickets, especially if California maintains main-tains its present character as a doubtful state politically. The ready swinging of their state from party to party is the reason rea-son why so many New Yorkers have run for presidency, while dwellers in -more strictly partisan states like Illinois and Pennsylvania are passed by. The rise of California may also mark the decline in the number of Ohioans to make the national tickets. Of all the sons of Ohio who have become president, none has been ountstanding. A disinterested outsider, out-sider, the British ambassador James Bryce, whose "American Commonwealth" is one of the most penetrating studies of the United States ever made, spoke in a letter of "the familiar Ohio type of president and he did not mean to, be complimentary. Ohio may do better in the future. Meanwhile Mean-while other states may have their chance. Luxury, Yet! x . Sometimes terminology hurts even more than taxes. For example you go and buy an alarm clock to jangle intrusively upon your sweet slumber and tear you all too soon from a warm bed to cold realitJeAnd what do you pay in addition to the list price ? Twenty per cent worth of "luxury" taxi If medical science wants to make a really significant contribution to society some-timey some-timey how about a sure cure for hiccups? The Washington Merry-go-Round ' Robert S. Allen Saygj (Copynjht. ims b, n. Beu syndic", imo ADA Will Go Through Motions SS2rJL!r& SETSS't'SSS n OUPPUrnnir narry iruman A" remit, Uruguay's president Berres will (Editor's Note While Drew Pearson ts i on a. brief vacation, the Washington Merry-1 Merry-1 Go-Round is being written by his old partner, Robert S. Allen.) '' WASHINGTON The U. S. is still shipping viial war material to countries behind the iron 'curtain. ) I And these shipments are still being made with the approval of the commerce department's .office of international trade. This is the' agency of which William Remington, leading figure in the Russian "spy" disclosures of the house un-American activities committee, was formerly ..... l .fi..Jn1 i This astounding trade is still going on despite the administration's announced policy ' of banning It, despite the warlike aggressions ' and provocations of Russia, and also despite . ! the world-wide furor over the congressional revelations and their attending fantastic ramifications. ' This column has definitely established the ; following facts regarding the continued export of war potential to Communist-ruled countries: i ' ' The OIT has secretly issued a license for the export of a large quantity of ball bearings and steel balls '(for the manufacture of bearings) to Czechoslovakia. This license was issued to the - Overseas Mercantile Co., N. Y. Satellite Czechoslovakia is today one of Russia's Rus-sia's major muntions producers. The great Skoda plant has been converted entirely to military out- t put. ' Further, ball bearings are a key essential in 5 the making of war goods. Two of the most costly fialr- force raids into Germany during the recent .. war were for the purpose of knocking out ball bearing plants. I An official of the Overseas Mercantile Co. S admitted to this column that the ball bearings beting be-ting shipped to Czechoslovakia could be used in war production. The concern's export license was signed by i both Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer and, ? Francis Mclntyre, acting OIT head. Neither, how-! how-! ever, would admit this when questioned about the 'matter. t Sawyer refused to talk at all. He sent ' back word through a press aide that information informa-tion regarding export licenses Is "confidential." "confiden-tial." Mclntyre gave the same answer, plus the claim that he "couldn't remember" this particular case. "Isn't it odd that you can't remember a thing like that?" he was asked. l "Well. I'd have to consult the files and they are not available at this time," Mclntyre replied. "It's late in the day and most of our people have i gone 'home. Besides, as I said, those files are : confidential." have the spotlight all to himself in glamorous Rio. WAR ECHO I Former Sen. Burt Wheeler had an unusual experience at a recent dinner in Paris. One of the guests was Eduard Daladier, premier pre-mier of France at the outbreak of the war. He made it a special point to talk to the tall Mon-tanan. Mon-tanan. "When the Germans threw me. into prison,"-Daladier prison,"-Daladier said, "they would occasionally let me read magazines. In one of them, an American publication, I read an article by you that gave me the feeling that as far as you were concerned I could remain in prison the rest of my life. Never did I dream that some day I would be breaking bread at the same table with you." I SURPRISE High ranking officers are in for a surprise when the report of the advisory commission on service pay is published. The commission will recommend increases in-creases for enlisted men and junior officers, but none for the top grades, in fact, they may actually face a pay cut in th recommended elimination of tax deductions and certain allowances. al-lowances. The commission was set up by Defense Secretary Sec-retary Forrestal to make a comprehensive study of service pay schedules. The body consists of Charles R. Hook, former head of the American Rolling Mills Co.; Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, president presi-dent of the University of Notra Dame; Keith S. McHugh, vice president, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., and Lawrence E. Whiting, head of the American Furniture Mart Building Co., Chicago. A previous committee of generals and admirals ad-mirals had recommended pay boosts for all ranks, with the top echelons getting the biggest increases. in-creases. Forrestal didn't even bother to send this report to congress. Instead, he appointed the civilian commission to make a new report. One of its recommendations will be the elimination eli-mination .of the temporary system of family allowances al-lowances for enlisted men. This amounts to $175,-1 $175,-1 000,000 a year. Another recommendation will be a drastic curtailment of allowances for flying and overseas duty. x . . Important to Everybody" EDITOR'S NOTE: Babe Ruth died of cancer after years of a conspiracy of silence by his friends' and family. His passing foetuses interest on the secrecy which time and custom have wrapped around the deadly killer. Three days before Ruth died. another man sat down to his typewriter In Cleveland. O.. and treed a message to his friends and townsmen which he captioned "Strictly Personal But Important to Everybody. In that message, carried in the Cleveland Press editorial columns for which he wrote, Carl Matson said that he had cancer. Because the editors of NEA Service andj this newspaper believe that his message IS "important to everybody" every-body" as a courageous step in the battle against cancer, we present it as carried on the editorial page of the press. L By CARL MATSON I've decided to write a piece which will be quite shocking to some people. But it shouldn't be I write it not just to be shock ing, although I'm willing to be that in a good cause. I'm writing it because I think it's time that some history be made by being as frank as I'm going to be here today. Anything anybody can do to free the human race from terri fying and crippling bondage to ancient fears, should be done. To that end I am to make my con tribution. I was told the other day that the back injury which has been bothering me for months, in volves a malignancy. In plain language, my friends, that of course means cancer. This wasn't a complete surprise to me, by any means, but neither was it good news. It was staggeringly bad news, and would be to anyone. But I didn t lose any time lying on the floor. I made arrangements arrange-ments to get the best treatment could. There's plenty of won derful treatment available in this country ... But let s skip the therapy, be cause this isn't a case discussion of the writer's back ailment. I'll work that out with the doctors. . What I want to do is to strike a blow against this mysterious, paralyzing hush-hush that surrounds sur-rounds every case of cancer. I don't want anybody having to ask about me, "Does he know wjhat he's got? Has he been told?" Yes, I've been told and I know. TRUMAN SUPPORTERS MIFFED I Argentina's thin-skinned dictator, Juan Per- 6n, is in a huff at Brazil. The grand-standing ex-colonel is so furious ' : that Brazilian newspapers should have dared to j criticize him that he has angrily cancelled plans ; to visit beauteous Rio de Janeiro. . The Brazilian government Invited Peron and President Berres of Uruguay to be guests of . honor at Its gay Independence week.. : Both accepted. But, now. Peron ha reneged." . He is very wroth t what the free Braiillan . press has been saying about him. The dictatorial Argentinian isn't used to a sree press. He has virtually suppressed it in his The executive board of Americans for democratic demo-cratic action will plump for 'President Truman at its forthcoming meeting in Chicago. The new dealers are still only lukewarm toward to-ward him. They are no more enthusiastic about the president than they were' before the Philadelphia Philadel-phia convention when they clamored for either General Eisenhower or Supreme Court Justice Douglas. But, now, they have no other place to go. They like Dewey even less than Truman. Scf at their meeting, the ADA leaders will go through the motions of endorsing Truman. But in the campaign, they will concentrate their funds and efforts on congressional and state contests. Also I don't want good friends of mine feeling cautious and ap prehensive about talking to me about anything and everything, including cancer. If my life on earth must be foreshortened as certainly seems possible at this moment I want every particle that's left of it wide open and uninhibited to the freest -intercourse I know with all good souls. I think these "whispering cam paigns " about cases of .cancer friendly and considerate as they may be intended: are deadly de stroyers of the human ;' spirit. They make the hard fact of can cer doubly hard. I want none of them. What I'm doing here today, has been a matter of resolution ever since I've thought about this subject. sub-ject. And repeated cases, where fine people have been put behind the "iron curtain" long before their time, . have hardened my resolution. ' For instance, I have thought about a husband .and wife, very close and dear to each other, who nevertheless lived together for six months throughout the death thfoes of her cancer, without the consolation of simple candor They kept a desolate silence between be-tween them about her illness, secretly se-cretly asking, each about the other, "Does she know? Does he know?" What tragic nonsense! I will have none of it, and I want my friends to have none of it. If they want to think of me from time to time as a man with a cancer, OK. The doctors might fool them, at that,, but it's the fact, subject to further notice, and let's face up to it. Meanwhile, there s so much to be done in this world, so much to think about, write about, and talk about, that it's an infernal nuisance to be laid up for repairs even for a short time. What a world it is: It's full of 'cause for worry, to be sure, but it's 'also place where its actually diffi cult to be bored. Remember, we have a "pros perity" that couldn't stand one Q 's and A's Q What is the mythical, celes Ual lineage of the emperors of Japan? .-. AThe imperial line traces its ancestry directly back to the first Emperor Jimmu Tenno, who is supposed to have founded the empire em-pire in 660 B. C. Jimmu himself is supposed to have been the di rect descendant of the Sun God dess. e wnen were xsngiisn spar- rows brought to ' the United States? A The first English sparrows were brought to this country in the year 18S0 and given their freedom in Brooklyn, New York. Many other shipments followed Q Who said: "Don't give uo the ship?" A James Lawrence, an Amer ican naval officer. He was in com mand of the frigate Chesapeake when she fought with the British frigate Shannon, and during the bloody fight was wounded and the ship captured. When being carried car-ried away, he uttered the famous words, "Don't give up the ship." www Q What three presidents of the United States have died on the Fourth of July? A John Adams, Thomas Jef son and James Monroe. ,r Q Which country was the first to recognize the United States? A France, on February 8, 1778 "washing." Under its soft sur face anybody can discern the mortal symptoms of inflation. We have on our hands the dangerous business of a cold war. We re in the midst of a political campaign that looks like a circus, but is trademarked by destiny. We've made for ourselves the Atomic Age, and now we don't know what to do with it. We have all the gadgets to make the world a constellation of shining opportunities oppor-tunities for everybody, beyond the utmost outer boundary of the most gifted imagination. Yet in the midst of it we sit, scared to death. ' So, you see, I don't want to mi&3 anything I can help missing. God willing, for a long time I shall be writing in this column on many subjects, among them, can cer. Ephraim Chapel Gets Curb, Gutter EPHRAIM Construction of curbs and gutters around the Ephraim North ward chapel grounds is in its final stages, and cement will be poured within the next two weeks, according to Bishop Leslie Madsen. Most of the labor, which in cluded tree felling, removal of debris and trucking jobs, was done by volunteer workers. Those who have contributed labor are Bishop Leslie Madsen,. Dan Mad sen, H. E. Jensen, Hyrum Paulsen, J. Andrew Olsen, T. L. Thomson, R. Ali Olsen, T. S. Thomson, G Edwin Jensen and some members of the Aaronic priesthood. Once News v NovJHistory From the Files of The Provo Herald' 20 Year 8 Ago AUG. Z, 1928 " Germany was the first nation k -sign the Kellog anti-war pact at Paris, representatives of 13 other nations taking their turns E. S. Hinckley, secretary of the chamber of commerce, returned from Palo Alto, Cal. where he attended at-tended a secretaries' school De Vere Child, . former Provo junior high teacher, suffered concussion con-cussion and a fractured , skull when he was struck by the whirl ing blades of an airplane propel- lor ' a Payson gravel pit yielded parts of a skeleton of a prehistoric monster, probably a pleistocene elephant or mastodon. The gravel pit was owned by Isaac Hansen and R. L. Wilson . Lloyd Vance, 12, climbed down the almost perpendicular east face of Mt. Timpanogos from the 12,- 000-foot summit to the glacier 1,900 feet below, considered an almost impossible feat. His first words upon reaching the frightened fright-ened members of his party , who didn't knpw he had attempted the foolhardy stunt was "Gosh, I waa dumb." 10 Years Ago . AUG. 26, 1938 ' The BYU concluded the largest summer school ever held at the Aspen Grove campus in the 17 years of its history W. Monroe Mon-roe Paxman and Wilford Duke at tended the Red and White convention con-vention at Portland . Ralph Hayward groomed his American Saddler mare River Rose for en try in the county fair horse show Cordell Hull, secretary of state, warned Mexico that diplomatic diplo-matic relations between the two countries were strained due to the policy of confiscating property of Americans south of the border Hitler announced he was ready to support the Sudeten Ger mans in Czechoslovakia and move in Chester Olsen was honored hon-ored prior to his departure for the Norwegian mission. Today's best ocean crossing, England to New .York, it five days. In that time U. S. airlines fly half way around the world. OFF TO ANOTHER PORT ROCK ISLAND, 111. (U.R The officer on desk duty at the police station couldn't make change and it cost a motorist $20. E. J. Burch gave a hitch-hiking sailor $20 to step into the station and pay a $2 parking fine. 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