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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Atlantic Pact Galled Truman Decries Economic Gloom; Committee Slashes Funds for EHP War-Qreed- er; Western Newspaper Inioni news analysts and notin necessarily of this newspaper.) these columns, they are those of (EDITOR'S NOTE) When opinions art expressed REUTHER: LAWN MOWER WITH Still on Top fiery Walter the With Reuther still at the helm, United Auto Workers union, numbering some million members, could be expected to hold firm in any demands made for wage Increases or social benefits. BRUSHING aside token opposition from UAWs left wing elements, Reuther was elected to a third term as UAW president by a majority. The voting which reelected Reuther was a new triumph for the right-win- g forces in the union which catapulted him into office in 1946 and rewarded him with control of the other international offices and the board at the 1947 convention. His new term will expire in April, 1951. UAW DELEGATES moved Into the election of top officers after hearing Leon Keyserling, of President Trumans council of economic advisers, tell them that as a general proposition the kind of wage policy which will help maintain full employment in this country, and which will maintain our economy on stable levels is one which adds to consumer purchasing power from year to year because we have the capacity to produce more goods from year to year. The auto workers unions big fight was with Ford motor company which, in opposing proposed wage rates, offered to peg wages at present levels for a given period, regardless of what developments brought about. FORD contended the cost of living has gone down and there was no justification for pay raises, basing the argument on the UAW contract which called for pay hikes as the increased. Reuther opposed that line of reasoning, contending that the unions economists have proved, by a surcan vey, that most industries afford wage increases now. top-hea- TOKYO ROSE TRIAL FIGURES . . . These figures gave the trial of Tokyo Rose, accused of treason, a new angle when Mark L. Streeter (left) declared that Shlgetsugu TsuneishI (shown at right) was guilty of war atrocities. TsuneishI, a prosecution witness, assertedly commanded a prison camp on the outskirts of Tokyo where Streeter was a prisoner. PEACE PACT: Wrong Job? Avenue to War? y As he did in the repeal fight. Sen. Robert Taft R., Ohio) would lead the opposition to senate ratification of the Atlantic pact. That is the treaty in which America joins its western allies in an agreement that an attack on any signatory is an attack upon all and that a signatory nation may take any reprisal steps it deems fit. IN HIS SPEECH to the senate, Taft declared the pact was inextricably linked to the rearming of Europe, insisted this would lead to an armament race and pointed out that armament races lead to war. Thus did a highly effective senator most coherently raise the question of whether the pact really means peace or war. Taft was not without support in his conception of the pacts potentialities. Five senators jumped to their feet to applaud his remarks, and some 12 or 15 senators were applauding at the end. This was construed by some observers as indicating the extent of the opposition. Taft was not wholly against the pact, despite his ringing denunciation. He asserted that, even now, he would be willing to change his mind if a reservation could be incorporated into ratification making plain that the treaty did not bind America to furnish arms. Said Taft: There is no question that the arms program and the treaty were negotiated together. There is no question in my mind that foreign nations which signed the treaty regarded the providing of arms as an essential part of it if we ratify the pact and fail to furnish the military aid, I believe we will at once be accused of repudiation, and the pact will be completely discredited. Taft-Hartle- ... ERP FUNDS: Slash Voted There appeared to be a change aid to of sentiment regarding Marshall plan countries. The senate appropriations committee had voted to slash 10 per cent from second-year funds asked for the activity. The committee also tied up 50 million dollars of what was left in order to cut Spain in on the European recovery program should the administration see fit. The program would get something more than 3.75 billions. President Truman had asked approximately 4.20 billions. A committee member disclosed that one group within the to had attempted membership chop 19 per cent off the requested appropriation. Chairman McKellar (D Tenn.) estimated that the committee cut approximately 749 million dollars from President Trumans budget estimates for actual appropriations in foreign spending, which includes other programs besides the Marshall plan. The sum voted for the Marshall plan would be spread over the 12 months ending June 30, 1950. This was nearly 210 million more than the house had voted but the house bill would have permitted expenditure of the fund in 10 Vi months if necessary. A committee aide explained to Washington newsmen that unless the loan is made to Spain, the withheld 50 million dollars could not be used for any other purpose. You may be happy in your work and pleased with your occupational niche, but the fellow at the desk or machine next to you may not be. It is the opinion of Robert C. Wocllner, Chicago university professor, that at least half of all adults definitely are misplaced, or could have been better placed if modern vocational methods had been available during their formative years. Wocllner attributes much of the present social unrest, high divorce rate, and high Incidence of mental illness In the United States to the many unfortunate occupational choices of its workers. U.S. ECONOMY: Concedes there was some measure of contradiction in concept, President Truman, in his message to congress on the economic state of the nation had conceded that recession forces were alive. However, in a neat bit of linguhe declared istic maneuvering, the current situation one in which the national economy was in orderly retreat from a serious inflation. At the same time, however paradoxical the warning might seem, he declared that there could be than no greater economic folly an attempt to balance the federal declining national budget in a economy. Pie highlighted the contradiction by adding that such a move would the recession only aggravate forces against which his new policy was directed. OF CHIEF INTEREST in his report was his abandonment of an earlier plan to demand four billion dollars in additional taxes. He lightly dismissed this former No policy with the statement: major increase in taxes should be undertaken at this time. Instead, he proposed liberalization of allowances for past losses in computing income taxes and increasing estate and gift taxes. The Presidents obvious reversal of policy was held to be little less pronounced than the findings of his council of economic advisors on whose report the Presidents message was based. They found that since January the forces threatening stability had become and deflationary predominantly that the weakening of maikets had become general. Truman While cost-of-livi- g By H. I. PHILLIPS A. There are said to be 234,-5mower with a pack of 10 blades. We his first hairs on the back of an forget his last name, but Q. Miss Sapho Hosley, Cos Cob, name is Esau. Old lawn mower adult bee, provided it has never Conn., writes in to find out if there blades should be thrown off a bad dandruff. Drones part their is such a thing as a lawn mower bridge, never put in a medicine hair in the middle. Busy bees with extra blades, cabinet. have no time to bother about and, if so, where she should throw such things. Q. Edgar Woofbaum of Delathe old ones. ware Water Gap asks, How many A. An engineer in Cleveland hairs are there on the back of a Q. A lady in Minneapolis asks: Ohio, is said to have invented a bee, and is it true a bee likes them How many turns does a waltzing lawn parted in the middle? mouse make per minute, and is food a factor?" the last A. According to quarterly report of the Waltzing Mice Research Bureau, these creatures average three turns per second. This is sometimes slowed down by mice cutting in during the waltz. A pastry diet Is bad, too. Q. A mother in Hoboken, N.J., asks: Is it true that tattooed that the Christ is risen, women are barred from Miss America contests? with the darkness gone. A. No, but there seems to be road lies out before us, no demand for them. The rules Upward, and on and on. are, however, very broad. A woman in Derby, Conn., dyed her skin red, white and blue, and only lost the There are His sandal footprints. victory in a Miss Barber Pole of 1948 contest by three lengths. is There His form ahead. Q. A seamstress from Tallahassee, Fla., writes to ask: Can corn-sil- k Straight and Strong and compelling, be used to stuff a sofa? The Christ that they left as dead. A. Yes, cornsilk can be used, and it is good fun, too. Short lengths of cornsilk make it more exciting. Nothing can dim His glory. Golden Bantam corn is best. Some Nothing can Stay His feet. people have done wonders stuffing And countless are they who follow sofas with lint collected from black pants. Him down eac.. lane and 82 ANSWER MAN self-ejecti- THE mm WAY NOW v( Street; ( And I would be one among them, Along the Glory Way; I would arise and follow The risen Christ today. Grace Noll Crowell Under Fire As an aftermath of the involved legal proceedings in the trial of Alger Hiss on a perjury charge growing out of spy investigations. Presiding Judge Samuel II. Kaufman, shown here, is under congressional fire. The senator was reported considering a probe of the conduct of the trial. BIG STEEL: Strike Pledged There was trouble looming In big According to recent dispatches trols as amended by the new fed- steel. CIO President Fhilip Murray had declared after fruitless gov-- 1 out of Washington, rental dwell- eral law. peace talks that a ings have been coming off the conAs of June 30, these officials cuunent-eallesteclwoikers would be trol list at an average rate of 9,300 added, 551 defense rental areas, a day since the new rent law went so designated in wartime, were called out on strike at an early Into operation on April first. completely or partly covered by date. After conferences with federal Rent officials said, however, that controls in 1,047 counties with a director Cyrus S. few of the decontrol actions had population In excess of 95 million conciliation affected any large metropolitan people. But if the current rate of Ching, the CIO chieftian reported areas, and that some 14 million decontrol continued during the a "complete deadlock. The situation was critical. units still remained under the con- - year, it would delight critics. Average 9300 Units Being Freed Daily d half-millio- n TF PROFESSOR AARON CHES- wick was famous he was not aware of this fact. He was too busy with his experiments in the field of chemistry, with teaching the undergraduates of Mapleridge College the rudiments of BY INEZ GERHARD ALTHOUGH she now has three programs on the air, Kate Smith ("Kate Smith Sings, Speaks," both on Mutual, and her two-hoKate Smiths Music science, with Room on ABC,) Miss Smith can papers writing sit down and talk with you as if in and books she were just a comfortable, he which set homey woman who knew a lot forth (in an almost apologetic stjle) about cooking and housekeeping. the results of his experiments, and with reading avidly the works of such great scientists as Mons. Oliver Davillier and Senor Alfredo Valle Indan, both of whom had long ago won his respect and admiration. He was an unpretentious looking little man, this Professor Cheswick, with pale blue eyes and hornrimmed glasses and a pasty complexion. He wasnt one to attract attention or to assert himself. He went about with a perpetual faraway look in his eyes. There came a time when a problem presented itself that challenged his skill and knowledge. He labored over it for days. The days became weeks and the weeks months. At last, worn and haggard, the little man was ready to admit defeat. KATE SMITH Time after time he returned Unlike many of radios women to it, only to find himself 'destars, she is not so obsessed by her feated. He visited every library own career that an absent-minde- d within miles, read every book look comes .Into her eyes whenever by Davillier and Indan, as well anything else is mentioned. Peras other great scientists that haps it is that warm, human quality was available, but without findthat makes her the most listened-t- o ing the answer. woman on the air. In the end Profesor Cheswick had an idea. It was summer. He When selecting The Ten Out- needed a vacation. Why not take standing Voices in the World the a month off, visit Europe and perNational Academy of Vocal Arts haps call on Davillier and Indan named Ben Grauers as the Most and ask them personally to clear up Authoritative and Dan Seymours the matter that so burdened his as the because of mind? Friendliest, its warmth and complete naturalA week later Professor Cheswick ness." sailed for France. The little school teacher was a lonely figure. He Production halted momentarily struck up a few acquaintances. He when Jean Dean walked onto the wasnt the type to attract people. Angels in Disguise set at Mono- But he enjoyed the trip. This was gram for her featured role in this something he had never done belatest of the Bowery Boys series. fore. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and the He wa i glad when the boat crew could hardly take their eyes off the gorgeous who was docked. Eagerly he looked ahead to the original Varga girl model his meeting with Mons. Davillier. But alasl The next day Professor Formerly under contract at MGM, she plays the feminine lead in Cheswick learned that Mons. Davil-be- r had gone to America for his Angels. summer holiday and was not expected to return for another month. Realizing during their travels The that the traffic situation is becom- and little scientist was depressed His time was disappointed. worse the March ing everywhere, of Time editors decided to do some- short. Madrid, where lived Senor Indan was a long way off. Yet it thing about it. They consulted ex- could be reached, he thought sudsolutions recomand perts, got mendations and Stop Heavy Traf- denly and excitedly, by plane In a fic is the result. It shovts how bad very short while. traffic can be. and the methods TTE WAS DELIGHTED to learn used by some towns to work out that Senor Indan was In Madrid. the problem. Yes, It was difficult to obtain an elementary red-hea- A. Pm glad she asked that question. The curator of the InterMuseum and national Clamrake Oyster Fork Institute says it was designed by an Englishman named Zilch, patented by two Frenchmen and built by a Canadian clam trapper. This makes it a Russian (Send in your question to our answer man and get the important facts of life cleared up so you can go on about your duties.) UNREST ON CRUSOE'S ISLAND (Unrest is reported sweeping Robinson Crusoes island in the News item.) South Pacific. Crusoe Friday, you dont seem today. Whats wrong? Friday Ive been Friday long enough. I wanna be Thursday. Crusoe Why? Friday It shortens the week. Crusoe Come, come, you must be joking. Friday Not at all. I may even want to make it seem shorter by changed to having my name Wednesday. Crusoe Were the only two men on this island. Weve been getting along famously. Youve been my right-hanman. Friday Yes, but I feel a pull to the left. d Not here, surely. Crusoe Weve been very happy together, have we not? Friday There must be a capitalistic plot behind it somehow. Im so happy it must be wrong, one way. or another. Q. A man in Baltimore, Md., asks: Will- - a halibut live in captivity, and where can halibut bowls be bought? A. A man named Krossshie-movitezosk-y in Butte, Mont., once kept a male halibut in the bathtub of his home for seven months under the impression it was a salmon. The barracuda is preferred as a house pet if wbat you want is adventure. Q. A young woman in Houston, Tex., wants to know who invented the clamrake? Crusoe Now run along and fetch me some coconuts. Friday There you go exploiting mel Crusoe Look, we are both in the same boat How could one exploit the other? Friday If I had a copy of the Dally Worker I could tell you. This island is so remote I dont even get ' Pravda. interview with the great man. He was constantly being pressed for interviews. What was it the American wanted to see him about? A problem? Ah, yes, Senor Indan was requested to solve so many problems. It was very, very doubtful if he would grant an interview for such a slight matter. However, if the American would care to take his chances, Senor Indan was to appear at a reception on Tuesday night. Possibly there would be an opportunity to ask his question . . . Professor Cheswick attended the reception. He stood in line for hours, a quiet, unassuming, unimportant looking little man, waiting for his chance to speak to the great Senor Indan. It came at last. At last the Mapleridge school teacher and scientist stood before the man he respected more than anyone else in the world. He was so overcome by awe that for a moment he just stared. Senor Indan frowned impatiently and Professor Cheswick found his voice. He stated his question. The Senors brows arched in surprise. An unusual question, Senor, ,r he said. Frankly, I cannot answer it. There is only one man in with enough knowledge and! learning to find the answer. He iti one of your own countrymen. My good friend Mons. Davillier is atj this moment in America seeking ani interview with this wizard whom' the whole scientific world respect and admires, yet who is so ab-- j sorbed in his work that it is diffl- -i cult to persuade him to appear fan public. I refer to Professor Aaron! Cheswick of Mapleridge college. al A Denial RENT CONTROLS . . . BLADES PRESENTS NEW PROBLEMS Clark Agitated KRUG: Drew Pearson was in hot water again. Generally accused of partial responsibility in the siucidal death of former defense secretary James Forrestal, the newspaper and radio columnist had reported the U. S. interior secretary Krug was very ill with "athletes heart. In a letter to Pearson, Krugs physician, Dr. R. Lyman Sexton, asserted Krug is completely well and able to do twice the work of the average person. Wherever one stood on the propriety of Pearsons discussion of the health of top government officials, it would be remembered that several of his reports on the condition of Forreslals health originally denied by the navy werd later admitted. . . . G Minneapolis Lady Asks About Waltzing Mouse MONOPOLY: While President Truman was delighting business generally with his abandonment of any proposals, U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark was agitated over the growth of big business and urging curbs on concentration of economic power. CLARK APPEARED very much disturbed by the situation and let go both barrels in his shots at big business as he testified in a investigation into monopolistic practices. He termed business monoply an economic blackjack and urged that the federal government get busy doing something about it. He told a house judiciary subcommittee that most people were victims of three erroneous assumptions. He listed them as: 1. Assumption that competition continues to thrive as long as there are at least two or three or four in the field. 2. Assumption that the bigger the producer the better the quality of the goods and the cheaper the price to the public. 3. Assumption that companies be-- j come big because they deserve to be big in other words, that they outdistance their competitors because they do a better job, render! a greater service, or furnish better goods. CLARK DECLARED he did not share any of these assumptions. Continuing his testimony before the committee, he said: The fundamental issue is whether the economy of this country is to remain free and competitive,, or whether it is to be subjected to private regimentation through monopoly control. SELF-EJECTIN- CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. 5. 9. 10. Plausibly fluent Expression of sorrow Infrequent Famous German composer Egress 11. 12. Chills and fever 13. Music note 14. Dry, said of wine 16. Spigot 18. Tree 20. Light cavalry soldiers 23. 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