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Show ARTERIAL: Kingly WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS President Hints Controls on Way As Cost of Living Drops Slightly; Western Mutual Aid Pact Prepared Great Britains royal family was keeping well in the forefront of world news. First it was Princess Elizabeths baby, then it was King Georges leg. But while the first was an event of hysterically happy proportions for all Britons, the second most certainly was not. The king, ap.By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Stafl Writer- was in a relatively seritn re parently, these NOTE: flben eotamns, they ere these ef expressed (FDITORS pinions Wesiero Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily ef this newspaper.) ous condition. The royal familys projected trip to Australia and New DILEMA: Zealand next month had to be cancelled. Sharp-Horne- d IT WAS suspected that Perched uncomfortably astride a VI was suffering from a George dilemma having the sharpest horns disease known to doctors as ever to plague a sitter. President obliterans, more easily Truman ponders ways and means referred to as Buergers disease, of getting off. The situation is as an inflamation of the linings of clearly defined as it is bothersome. the arteries. There was some specIN SHORT, the President must ulation, also, to the effect that the work the seemingly impossible king might have diabetes or hardmiracle of knocking prices down ening of the arteries. while keeping wages and farm But the kings doctors werent The five prices up. Mr. Truman is indubicommitting themselves. tably committed to the former, and physicians described his symptom it was a great majority of opinion as an obstruction to the circulathat he could do just that which tion through the arteries of the helped account for his victory. legs. That he will also do the latter is THERE IS no known permanent a campaign pledge he must exert oblitercure for thrombo-angiti- s every effort to keep. ans. Anyone suffering from It might No less a personage than Henry People of the nations of the be expected to live out his normal Ford II has sharpened one of the earth are going to see Christmas span of years if he were careful, horns. The industrialist touched off from an American viewpoint this stayed off his feet and led a sheltb fourth round of wage intered life. year through the medium of typiwith consequent high-pnccreases, cal American Christmas greeting It was pointed out that standing maintenance, when he ancards being sent by the state deand walking for hours at a time, nounced a wage hike for all his which has been part of the kings partment to U. S. embassies and workers. Then, Mr. Ford delivered consulates throughout the world. job as figurehead of the empire, has hipiself of the observation that Here Miss .Frances Kane, state aggravated his condition. Part of wages generally must go up and the treatment will be to cut out this department employee, sits below that prices must do likewise. an enlarged photograph of the important part of his duties and asTHE PATTERN is clear. Induscards. sign the walking and standing pertry raises wages and the cost of formances among other members its products goes up. Wages must of the royal household. increase if these products are to TREATY: Meanwhile, favoring his imbe purchased. Labor comes in to perilled right foot, King George was ask for more money in order to Mutual Aid conducting the business of state The cold freeze being turned on from his bedroom in Buckingham buy these products. And so the circle continues. Russia by the western nations palace. Meanwhile, it is obvious that plummeted several more degrees Americans expect the President when Great Britain, France and and congress to do something the three Benelux nations, after about getting the cost of living long negotiations, agreed on a within reasonable bounds and to mutual assistance pact. do it quick. On the other hand, laTHAT the U. S. is involved in v n ? bor, which backed Mr. Truman at the agreement goes almost without c 1 the polls, and farmeis, who gensaying, for without American sancV tion and at least an implied willingerally supported him, are expectf. ; ing action as swift on legislation ness to help out militarily in the tr favorable to them. event of aggression no western At' V V As administration leaders sought lantic treaty would be worth a a course of action to satisfy all "whereas or even a hereinafter. groups, congress said little for pubPrimary proposal in the plan lic consumption. Methods of price calls for a pledge of mutual armed assistance by the U. S., Canada control, if any have been conand the five western European naceived, have not been discussed. ONE THING, however, is clear. tions in case one or more of them The situation poses the major test should be attacked. of how effective in solving the probSECONDLY, it provides that the eNL-Sj- lem will be the cooperation of pact be left open to membership of t certain other nations. It calls, also, congress and the President. Dr. Frank D. Fackenthal, until From Capitol Hill came persist- - I for the setting up of military and recently acting president of Coent whispering that Mr. Truman's political boards immediately after lumbia university, has been the pacts signature and ratification thumping victory did not necessarnamed as head of Associated Unito make the treaty operate. ily arm him with the equivalent of versities, Inc., which operates a magic wand which he might wave Containing 17 points in all, the Brookhaven national laboratory over congress to bring about leg- program of agreed opinions has at Upton, N. Y. The laboratory islation in any form he may desire. been presented to the U. S. and is financed by the U. S. governCanada for consideration. There ment to provide facilities not Solution? was no immediate reaction from available at universities, but esThen there was a break on the the two governments on the matter, sential to nuclear research. inflation front. Americans who had but it seemed logical to presume come to accept the inevitability of that the idea for such a treaty had WAR RULES: the high cost of living raised their received their prior blessings. in the with deits Although pact present Atomic eyes surprise over the velopment although it amounted form refrains from designating a The need for this sort of thing is to only the merest chink in the fixed period of years for its life, it purely speculative at this point, but a does durarecommend long price barricade. the International Red Cross is pretion. Actually, the five European TWO THINGS happened almost paring to propose a new set of war governments have been thinking rules that would compel nations to simultaneously: in terms of a President Truman ordered adperiod, but establish safety zones to protect ciministration agencies to work out the decision on that is being left vilians in the event of a future a definite program to the last stage of negotiations. atomic war. to be presented to the Democratic RUSSIA as a nation peaceful or THESE zones would be set up In congress in January, and the bubelligerent is scrupulously ignored the rear of combat areas of each reau of labor statistics reported a in the document. Nowhere is any battling nation. Belligerents, thef of 1 per cent in its mention made of the Soviet Union. dip of oretically, would recognize them as index for October. Nevertheless, the treaty itself shelter areas and would spare them The significance of Mr. Trumans offers grim proof of the fact that from atomic attack. proposal for legislathe western democratic nations Treaty conventions outlining this tion was established; it was somehave seen fit to construct the nu- new security zone principle now are thing to look forward to. But how cleus of a great regional defensive being circulated to all nations prior much real importance should be alliance against Russia and the to submission to a general diploattached to the almost infinitesimatic conference in March. of communism. spread mal break in the price line would Red Cross officials say they conremain to be teen. ceived the idea for large shelter PEACEABLE: FOR ONE thing, the price dip areas as a result of their experiunless it grew to miraculous pro- Party Line ences in setting up neutral zones portions would not cancel out any The official line of the Com- in Palestine. measures, such as munist party has gone off on a Three general types of people standby price control and ra- new tangent in a tactic described would be protected upder the Red tioning, which might be imposed. as a peace offensive by U. S. Cross plan: Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of intelligence authorities who reportWOUNDED and sick persons, the Presidents council of economic ed the switch. whether combatant or advisors, opined that a lowering of WORD IS that the Kremlin has prices, washing out the need for ordered peace propaganda CHILDREN under 15, expectant and drastic controls, would be swell. demonstrations of various kinds as mothers or mothers of children unBut he didn't predict it would the official party line for all Com- der seven, and the aged over 65. happen. munist parties, organs and front orPERSONS entrusted with the conAnother top fiscal official said he ganizations. The intelligence boys trol and management of the zones believed inflationary forces still claimed that this ostensible about-fac- e and the care of those in them. had the upper hand. And Chester would become apparent in the Although these proposals cannot Bowles, one time OPA boss, stated near future. be formally binding until after apthat congress Soviet rulers are supposed to be proval by the diplomatic convenunquestionably would act against inflation. tion, officials view them as ao exsetting the stage for a world-widThe precise nature of the propeace maneuver as part of their tremely important that they are gram President Truman will lay cold war strategy to embarrass the urging all countries to abide by before congress in January was United States and its western al- them morally without waiting for no yet known probably not yet lies in the clash over the Berlin sitformal treaty signing. determined. Its general outline uation. In addition to the atomic security probably will be made public when IIow much will this spurious peace zone proposal, other projected war he delivers his State of the offensive mean? Literally nothing, rules would cover treatment of prisLnion message In January. as far as any genuine desire or oners, prohibit kidnapings and the But there was little doubt that effort for peace is concerned. The taking of hostages. Also, the Red a return to more or less stringent Russians havent undergone a Cross wants to outlaw the current economic controls was in the cards change of heart; their aims are Russian practice of living off the for 1949. the same as always. land in occupied areas. throm-bo-angit- is es Atomic Researcher nt ' V S. If one-hal- g n n e KEEP DIGGING: Atlantis Debunked j If you take the word of Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia university, everyone whos been waiting around for the fabled lost continent of Atlantis to show up may now relax. Dr Ewing says he has mapped, photographed, probed, sounded and visited the ocean floor since 19.15, and there Just isn't any evidence of the mysterious contirent. Atlantis was believed to have sunk in a gieat prehistoric cataclysm. j j j ' What, No Tax Cut All hope for an income tax cut January may as well be ruled out now. This is on the authority of Sen. Walter F George D , Ga.) who is returning to chairmanship of the senate finance committee. He has said that increased aid to Eu-- ! in rope and additional funds for na-- i tional defense would bar any reductions. He estimated that ERP would get an additional one or two billion dollars. No Crass? industrialist, who was a brigadier general, has come up with a proposal that military brass hats should divest themselves of insignia, and that West Point and Annapolis should be converted into postgraduate schools open to all ranks. The author of these proposals is Robert Wood Johnson, chairman of the Johnson & Johnson surgical firm. A noted war-tim- e iwaagBSiem i Gay Potholders Are Fine Gift No Future to Presidency, Pension Plan Is Proposed To obtain complete crocheting tnstruc. tions and stitch illustrations for crochet ing and embroidering letters for Pot Luet Holders (Pattern No. 5820) send 2o cent In coin, your name, address and pattern number. circie needlework sewing Kells SL Chicago 7, m. Enclose 20 centa for pattern. 530 South No By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. Harry Truman, President, is going to be measure which probably will come up in the approaching congress with more objectivity than some of his friends thought would be possible. It offers an answer to the question: what to do with WASHINGTON. able to consider one The Idea is not entirely altruistic, although the United States In the shown rather shabby gratitude in tossing aside, without further concern, the man who has served as the republic's head. past has Shift furniture occasionally so Many, if not most, of our former chief executives might provide counsel and advice based on their ex- A Missouri newspaper editor, shortly after Bells resolution was first introduced, claimed in an ediperience which torial that the pension idea was could be most alright, but that the amount of his Herbert pension, $50,000, seemed a little exis an Hoover high. He, like Mr. Taft felt that ample. At pres- $25,000 a year would be a more ent, he Is render- equitable sum. Representative Bell's ing important reply to that objection was that If service as head of congress did fix the figure at $50,000, commission taxes would shortly whittle It down the Pres-ideappointed by to $25,000 anyway. Truman Mr. Truman may have been which has just touched with what was intended as drawm up the plan solicitude on the part of his for the but he did not feel the of governmatter was of Immediate concern. ment departments So far as the of this man which congress will consider at its runneth not to memory the contrary, there next session. have never, in recent years, been Hoover has served in many other more than two useful public capacities since he left the White House. He can afford to. Until the death of President CoolIndeed, he not only spent consideridge in 1933, he and Herbert Hoover able sums out of his private funds were Coolidge had on secretarial and research assistearlier shared that position with ance when he was secretary of Chief Justice Taft until the latters commerce, and later In the White death in 1930. Taft, who lived to House, but he also voluntarily be 73 years old, and turned back a part of his salary as outlived Theodore Roosevelt and President in 1932 when, under the Woodrow Wilson. Economy act, the salaries of all "No office In the world togovernment employees were cut. wrote the English profesday, Franklin Roosevelt also turned sor of economics and political back part of his salary under that science, Harold J. Laski, "carsame act, and later, in 1943, when ries with it greater responsibilihe was advocating a $25,000 ceiling ties than the presidency of the on all salaries, FDR again volunUnited States. to refunded a the treasury tarily No one who has made even a suportion of his own. study of the duties of the perficial But not all presidents are born fails to realize how hard president or with, acquire, sliver spoons. a job it is, hard in the sense of Few could afford the luxury of long hours, nervous strain, and working for nothing and so, physical effort. Since the death of most when they leave office Woodrow Wilson, brought on by his have to look around for a job. herculean efforts during and after former President World War I, much study has been Fortunately, William Howard Taft, in the years given to the problem of lessening before he was called back to Uncle the burden of the chief executive. Barns workbench as chief justice Herbert Hoover has spoken of the of the supreme court, possessed vast and Intolerable labor of the enough of the worlds goods so that man who sits in the White House he could afford to render at least for four years or more. Merriman c services teaching in the Smith in his book: A President Is Harvard law school a position Many Men," commenting on the which a man of slenderer means and burdensome complicated might have had to turn down in quality of the task, makes this pithy favor of a higher salary from some observation: And his job is one purely private enterprise. His son, with no future. Sen. Robert Taft, mentioned this The "ex has a value and the recently when he suggested that problem of finding it can be solved former presidents should receive a easily by congress without the substantial pension, "perhaps $25, knowledge of algebra. 000 a year. also should have U. S. Population the privileges of the senate floor, Studied Growth Taft believes, with the right to What size population do we want speak, but not to vote, on pending legislation. In so honoring them for the United States? Or does it make any difference? the nation would benefit. The question is important enough Coolidge might er might not to merit a continuing study by the have welcomed an opportunity S. commerce department, and U. to take on some governmental the conclusions which have been his after presidenresponsibility reached so far' appear to have an tial term expired. As it was, important bearing on the problem he accepted a lucrative position of securing world peace. with an insurance company and "Whatever the future of world continued his private law practice as well until he died. organization, the relative population of the various nations will be Most presidents leave the White a matter of profound importance House poorer than when they went in the shape of things in. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a to determining come. $2,000 personal check every month That statement was made in a to meet White House expenses, and by the national committee report other recent residents have estimaton immigration policy, headed by ed that hey had to go down into the Earl G. Harrison, which is plumpold sock to the tune of $25,000 a for immigration increases in year over and above what the gov- ing ernment gives them, to meet the this country. In 1923 the commerce departcost of living in the executive manment estimated that a population of sion. at least 200 million and very probably 300 million could be supportWhy Not Provide ed in the U. S. without lowering the For habitually high American standWhen the pollsters were writing ard of living. off Harry Truman as merely an The Harrison group pointed out come January 20, the pro- that even if we accept the lowest ex, ponents of the idea of providing for figure, it is still 35 millions former chiefs of the United States more than the peak which the were pointing out that Harry TruAmerican population will reach in man does not have the private 1990. means that Franklin Roosevelt or These are some of the assertions Herbert Hoover had. the group made in a special report There was some talk that Mr. on Immigration and population Truman might run for representapolicy: tive of his home state as President Population of the U. S. should be John Quincy Adams did. Adams 159 million in 1970. That of Russia served 17 years in the house and. should be 251 million an extremely If anything, increased his prestige sharp Increase. Italy, Spain and by doing so. But Mr. Trumans felcountries back of the iron curtain low Missourian, Rep. C. Jasper also are expected to show populaBell, had another idea In July of tion gains. 1946 during the last session of the For other nations: Population o! 79th congress. Germany, Denmark and Finland He proposed that the house and will remain approximately stationsenate enact a bill to provide an ary, while the population of Engannual pension of $50,000 for men land, France, Sweden and Switzerwho had served as president of the land is expected to hit a downward United States. Bell pointed out that trend. By the end of this century and army officers, congressmen, senators, cabinet members, heads of thats only about 51 years away, rethe population of the government departments, and even member the most humble of federal work-er- s United States will be proportionateare provided with retirement ly smaller In relation to Russia, pay and he couldn't see why the China and India than It ts now. head of the federal government It means that the great, teeming should be discriminated against In population masses of Asia are mov this regard. He felt that in the long ing forward numerically with a run, retirement pay for a chief exforce and Inexorability that is ecutive would be a step toward betbound to exert a profound effect on ter government "the shape of things to come. that legs will not crush rugs in spots. 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