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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U.S. Rejects Stalin Peace Talks; Norway Prefers Western Alliance, Spurns Russian Council Suggestion (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions art. eprMed In the se columns, they are thoi of fVeilern Nevtpaper UnJoa'i wwi analyst and not nrceiiarUy of thlt acwipapcr.) inn 1 ii I.T...H ijii.n.i nmm iinuuu.i i wmwmi'mwmnwmymm iiuwaw.iiiin.nl '' 1 V - X . ' SOVIET "BARKIS" . . . Like the Dickens character, Russia's rremier Josef Stalin was "willing" to meet with President Truman to talk peace. But the question was: how willing? He Is shown above with President Truman when the two met at Potsdam. PENSION BILL: Vefs Must Wait Little possibility was seen by con-gressional leaders for enactment of a veterans' pension bill during the current session. The administration Is openly op-posed to any such measure, being quoted as saying a program already offered "could not be considered in accord with the program of the President." THE PROPOSAL to which the refence was made is veterans' pension bill to give servicemen of the last two wars $C0 monthly pension when they reach age 60, plus disability payments. It is es-timated this would cost almost two billion dollars the first year, with later outlays reaching multi-billio- n dollar levels. Under this measure, sponsored by Mississippi's Rankin, a veteran need only to have served 90 days in either world war to qualify for a pension. The extra disability pay would range from $20 to $120 a month, with no proviso that the disa-bility must have been incurred In service. Veterans administrator Carl R. Gray, Jr., said that while he was neither opposing nor favoring the legislation in his capacity as vet-erans' administrator, its magnitude must be weighed closely now to prevent unwarranted financial out-lays in the future. He pointed out the cost burden might be so great as to endanger the entire veteran-compensati-program. PRESIDENT TRUMAN was on record with this statement: "The necessity for new or extended, bene-fits for veterans without service disabilities should be Judged not solely from the standpoint of ser-vice in our armed forces, but in the light of existing social welfare pro-grams available to all veterans and alike." Mr. Truman also said in his bud-get message: "The program of vet-erans' services and benefits should reflect the fundamental fact that our primary long-ru- n obligation Is to dependents of veterans deceased from service causes, and to vet-erans disabled in the service. At the same time, we should preserve and stress our basic objective of assist-ing the recipients of these benefits to be as nearly as possible self-relia-and members of our society." All of which indicates that vet-erans of both world wars expecting pensions and disability allowances had best be prepared to wait awhile. SATURATION: Claimed for Taxes WANTS OPEN DISCUSSION Truman Won't Talk Behind Iron Curtain It was beginning to look like "Uncle Joe" Stalin and Harry S. Tru-man never would get together for a talk looking toward settlement of U. S. and other western powers' differences with the Soviets. "Meet Stalin behind the iron curtain?" Secretary of State Dean Acheson snorted in disdain, declared in effect that the idea was pre-posterous. Acheson went further. He asserted indirectly that the Russian leader U. N. Facilities Ottered If Truman, Stalin Meet The United Nations stands . ready to aid in any way it can in any East-Wes- t talks, accord-ing to a statement by Trygve Lie, secretary-genera- l of the organization. Lie declared he would be "most happy" to have U. N. facilities used for a conference between Josef Stalin and Presi-dent Truman if the two leaders were to suggest it. Beyond that he would not go in commenting on the inter-view in which Stalin said he would be glad to confer directly with President Truman on a possible Soviet-America- n peace pact. He added that the U. N. has several facilities which might be used advantageously in the event of such a conference. was playing politics with peace -- hopes of millions of people. Anyway, Acheson went on, what might be gained? Hadn't the Rus-sians consistently blocked all efforts in the United Nations looking toward , disarmament, control of the atom bomb and creation of a U.N. police force? BUT THE U.S. couldn't be put In the position of appearing disin-clined even to talk about perce, so ' Acheson left the door open for parley; but there were some Ameri-can conditions this time. The White House, it appeared, would be willing to see Stalin in Washington. Stalin had said he'd be willing to see Truman behind the iron curtain. And there the matter stood. Acheson made a further point. The U.S., in any event, would not discuss with Russia alone any points having a direct interest to other nations. As for a "peace" declaration, Acheson declared be found this puzzling Inasmuch as Russia, the U. Millions of Americans would agree with the premise: Taxes in America have reached the satura-tion point. Former President Herbert Hoover made the assertion to congress. As a remedy, he suggested unsnarling a century of government red tape, a slash in federal spending. FOR ALL HIS earnestness and the force of his figures, Herbert Hoover, "great engineer" of the depression, was a voice crying in the wilder-ness. While President Truman outlined the need for vast federal expendi-tures for world social and economic Improvement, as well as for defense measures, he had said nothing about reduction of government expendi-tures. There was nothing in his an-nounced program relating to any such action. True, there have always been one or two individuals in every congress who have sought to stick a finger in the hole in the dike of federal outlay, but to date the stopper has never approximated the cirmumfer-enc- e of the orifice. Indications were that it would be thus in the 81st congress. HOOVER RECOMMENDED con-solidation of 1,800 bureaus, commis-sions and divisions, but lurking in the background, ready to raise its awesome head at any moment, was patronage. Patronage means votes and votes mean legislative tenure, and with the one fattening off the other, Mr. Hoover's recommenda-tions commanded respect more for their temerity than for any hope of their adoption. chosen to stand with the western nations a decision certain to im-pair Russian prestige and to show the way, in some measure, at least, how other Soviet-threatene- d nations may find the way out of a seeming impasse. PRESS FREEDOM: Losing Ground? Newspapermen and radiocasters from Sauk Center to Gotham would shout "foul!." claim the opposition was hitting below the belt. A Baltimore criminal court Judge held three local radio stations and the news editor of one were guilty of contempt of court because they violated a court rule that restricts publication of crime news. THE JUDGE, John B. Gray, Jr., held, in a two hour verbal opinion that broadcasts of information about a convicted murderer, before his trial last summer, constituted not only a clear and present danger to the fair administration of justice, but "an obstruction to justice" in the accused's right to a fair trial. The court agreed with a defense contention that the nine-yea- r old rule was an "abridgement of the freedom of the press," but asserted such an abridgement "is Justified because it conflicts with an equally potent constitutional right of an accused to a fair trial." NEW SHUTTER: Powerfully Fast A new fluid eyelid for a camera can blink and take a picture in of a millionth of a second. This eyelid is an electrical shutter with S., and all other U. N. members are already pledged "by most solemn treaty commitments not to engage in war with one another." HE ADDED that the hopes of the world's peoples for peace are con-sidered by this nation to be funda-mental, and that the United States would not play politics with these hopes. While it might appear an over-simplification of the problem, many might raise the question that if Acheson is relying on Russia's U N. pledge to keep the peace, why should there be any official U.S. con-cern over the entire Russian rela-tions puzzle? The fact there is grave concern over the puzzle indicates Mr. Ach-eson may have been talking when he should have been thinking. NORWAY: Standing Pat Norway was drawing no cards. Standing pat, she would play the ones she had. IN OTHER WORDS, the Nor-wegians wanted nothing but friend-ship with the Soviets, but if it were ell the same, they would rather de-pend upon security in regional pacts such as the proposed north Atlantic alliance, than upon an alignment with the Soviet union. The position stated by Norway was in answer to a Soviet note ask-ing the nation's clarification of its view on the proposed north Atlantic setup. Norway said the United Nations had failed to provide the world with peace and security, and her own people's "serious concern" for their liberty had convinced the govern- - ment that it was necessary to seek increased security through regional cooperation in the defense field. BUT THE NORWEGIAN govern-ment assured the Russians that it would never agree to foreign bases on its soil "as long as Norway is not attacked or the subject of threats of attack." And the govern-ment pledged itself to support a policy of The decision could be interpreted in no other way than as a definite setback for Soviet expansion-by-intimidatio- n . policies. Norway is a small country and vulnerable to Soviet attack. Nevertheless, it has New Stamp ; .! TERRITORIAL This three-ce- nt Minnesota ter-ritory centennial commemorative postage stamp will be placed on Bale the first time on March S, 1949, at St. Paul, Minn. ATOM RAYS: No Deformities Are victims of atomic bombings likely to product grotesquely de-formed offspring? Many scientists believe that is one of the terrible effects of atomic radiation. There are as many more who disagree. But the U. S. army atomic energy commission has said no evidence of abnormal offspring had yet been found among the Japanese exposed to radiation at Hiroshima and Naga-saki. no moving parts. It's fast enough to see any one of 25 things happen-ing within a millionth of a second. THE SHUTTER Is a murky fluid that blocks light. Two electrical contants are immersed in it. When a current is passed through, the liquid becomes transparent for an instant as if a bottle of ink became water clear. The photographic plate Is exposed to the action in front of the shutter for only the fraction of time when the liquid is clear. The length of exposure is governed by the volt-age applied. The shutter offers a new way of slowing the action. The shutter was announced at the winter meeting of the American Institute of electrical engineers by A. M. Zaren, Stanford research in-stitute, Los Angeles, and F. R. Marshall and F. L. Poole, U. S. naval ordinance test station. AMONG OTHER war-inspire-d de-vices being used in Industry, the "snooper-scope,- " which could "see" a man in the dark a quarter of a mile away, now is being used to find faults in power transmission lines. It spotted the enemy by his body heat as it was supersensible. MORE CLOTHES: British Ration Eased Great Britain has ended eight years of clothes rationing prac-tically, that is. Effective now, any Briton with the money may go into any store and buy a suit of clothes, his wife a dress. And for the first time since January 1, 1940, be won't have to give 28 clothing coupons for the suit, 18 for his wife's dress. Coupons, however, will still be required for many articles of clothing. Army, Navy, Marines Join In Big Caribbean Maneuver By BAUKHAGE titwi Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. About the time these lines are in print, 35,000 American soldiers, sailors, fliers and marines and a hundred ships will be shoving off for the greatest peacetime maneuvers m our history. Providence permitting, your correspondent will be on the scene. A strange and sinister "aggressive force" which will have seized and fortified the Island of Vieques In the Caribbean will be bombarded by sea and air, attacked, and (we trust) captured by a joint marine corps and army expeditionary force landed by navy ships and planes which have fought their way past enemy planes, and submarines. The purpose of this undertaking U officially described as "to ad- - s vance and ensure combat readiness for Fleet Marine Force Atlantic units, and to pro-vid- e amphibious training for Army and Marine Corps units." Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, commander-in-c-hief of the Atlantic fleet will be In over-al- l com-mand. Lieut. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, didn't want and never expected to have with the shadow of tragedy over him. A man who was at first so anxious to reassure the country that there would be no break in the continuity of leadership that he sometimes rushed in where a more experienced man might have feared to tread. There were many remarks with some dis-astrous results. Then came a period when be leaned over backward with caution; after that, the period when his own party seemed to be falling apart and it was no secret that the man in the White House was disappointed and onhappy. Then came a gradual change which even many of his intimates did not realize, a change that grad-ually culminated in the combative confidence which most of his sup-porters failed to share. Washing-ton watched his election campaign with considerable admiration for his fighting spirit but without being convinced that even he, himself ac-tually had the confidence he dis-played. Then came the election upset and two months later, the tremendous turnout at the inauguration. There was evidence for those who could recognize it, in the manner of de-livery of his inauguration speech, that here was still another Truman. At that first press and radio con-ference, it was plain enough. At last he was his own man. He fell he had earned his office. He prob-ably had felt all along that he was fully competent to carry on its re-sponsibilities. But now something had been added: a controlled e. I think Mr. Truman was sin-cere when he told a luncheon meeting of the Democratic party's finance committee that there were a million men in the United States who would make a better President, but it was his Job and he would carry It out. He was simply saying that he realized there were men in the country with great-er ability than he had. He didn't say, nor did he think, that he didn't have enough abil-ity. If events prove that he hasn't, he probably will be the first to admit it. That is my own interpretation BAUKHAufc USMC, will com-mand the Joint mar-ine corps and army expeditionary troops which will be composed of the second marine division and the 65th Infantry, Caribbean command. Many of these men are vet-erans of Pacific landings and the North African operations, but, the experts tell me, there are many things to be learned for great progress has been made In amphibious training since the war. This is the first operation of its kind since the merger of the arm-ed services has been in effect, and nothing approaching it in size has ever been attempted in peacetime. Of course the marine corps was virtually born amphibious and for the past 28 years has perfected the methods which were used in the late war. Now they serve as the Instructors in this particular field of activity for the other branches of the service. Maneuvers which get compara-tively little notice in the press are largely regarded by laymen as a spectacle or as a series of highly technical military problems which are too complicated to follow. As a matter of fact, the actual man-euvers are a small part of the opera-tion compared to the planning which dates back to the days when Caesar took his famous tenth le-gion from small boats onto the soil of ancient Britain, or before. Perhaps the earliest Important Invasion from the sea in modern times was one of the most unsuc-cessful the d Gallipoli bat-tle when the British troops were al-most annihilated in their first at-tempt to invade Turkey in World and is offered for what it is worth. It is an Impression based not only on what Harry Truman has said and done, but largely on the way he has said and done it. If he continues to handle himself in the way he has since the election, the men in government and out, in his own party and out of it, will find him a lot easier to deal with. Like-wise, he is going to be proportion-ately more successful with those with whom he has to deal. Press Conterences Have Changed, Too At a recent White House news conference, an old timer came up to me and remarked that the last few times he had attended these gatherings, all of which had been especially well attended (well over 100 reporters) he couldn't help thinking back to the days of Taft when, as he put it, Robert Small of the Associated Press and perhaps one of two others who used to be sneaked into the back door of the White House for confidential talks with the President, but no other newsmen or women had any access whatever to the Chief Executive. I was not in Washington then but later I came to know Small very well and I know he was known as "the fair haired boy" of the Taft administration. It was the first time I had ever heard the expres-sion. Small was a brilliant news-man and Taft was very fond of him. I well recall the (Taft was then chief justice) com-forting Small's father at Bob's fun- - War I. Intensive study of this de-bacle was made in this coun-try, and the marines had made t strides long before World War II made such train-ing necessary. Very few peo-ple realized this. In fact, many people probably think that the Japs had a special patent on amphibious tactics. As one officer expressed it to me, there Is nothing secret about this method of fighting. It is simply a question of "know-how.- " A vast conglomeration of minute detail which is not used at all in ordinary land fighting. For example, an infantryman takes for granted that he and his rifle are more or less one piece. But the first time he has to go over the side of a ship and into a small craft, he suddenly finds he is faced with a major prob-lem in assuring not only his own arrival on the beach but, what is equally important, the simultan-eous arrival of his gun. If you have ever tried to crawl down a net with no equipment whatever, you realize it requires all the hands you have. But long before thousands of details have been worked out hundreds of miles from the scene of action. As one officer put it, the stack of charts that have to be drawn are a mile high. Beans, bullets, shoelaces all are part of the picture quite as much as radar and range-finders- . The little island of Vieques will be pounded with tons of shells, eral. The former White House re-porter was comparatively young when he died. I do not know how the press corps felt about Small's mate relationship with the White House or the other fortunate ones who were given these ex-clusive privileges but I doubt If it occurred to anyone to sug-gest the possibility of having regular open press confer-ences. Teddy Roosevelt, how-ever, did call in press associ-ation men on occasion. And yet such a situation (no reg ular conference) seems tncredibli today. No President would dan refuse to see newsfolk and stanu up to questions which sometimes are more impertinent that perti-nent. hauled, mauled, captured, and de-serted, and then go back to a sub-tropical siesta. But what happens there on and before March 2 and 3, 1949, may be of vital importance a decade hence.. A New Truman Going to Work As the Ides of March approach, the new administration swings into its stride with a good deal of honey-moon fervor still in the air. From the day of the first White House press and radio conference after the inauguration, it was clear that we had a new President. Washington reporters had be-come used to several Harry Tru-man- s. There was the very grave and not very certain man who was called in 1945 to a job which be Whatnot Shelf MQ Fne Gift fc, EVERYONE - always, need whatnot shelves is a reproduction of those quently in Colonial home or special tools are this shelf. 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Communists wage a relentless war in various forms: Propaganda, treachery, deceit, espionage and in-filtration are all weapons. The battlefield may be a political or social club, a government agency, a labor union or your. mind. A nation's economlo sinews provide the power for its mili-tary fist. That is why Com-munists hover over democra-cies like vultures ready to swoop down as soon as a de-pression strikes. That Is why they're always Instigating labor-managem-unrest ... Amer-icans who beat s drum in the gimme parade play into the dirty paws of Communists. By weakening our economy we give ' strength to Communism . Oddly enough, the mightiest allies of Communists are In-dustrialists who allow inflation to soom or Wall Streeters who put the skids under the market. Such financial finag-ling only profit those whose business consists of destroying democracy. When you spot a weasel in the works of any international machin-ery it's a cinch to be a Communist. They enter such organizations not to solidify global cooperation but to be in a strategic position to whiz monkey-wrenche- s. Andrei's Vishinskying in the UN offers a vivid illustration of that method. Such nefarious maneuvers aren't new: When the Soviet Union ac-cepted membership in a commission created by the League of Nations to study the problem of European union, Pravda bluntly confessed in 1931: "By taking par in the work of the European commission the Soviet Union will wreck the plans of the commission." Like all criminals, Communists make frequent use of aliases. Not only do individual Communists agents switch names but com-munist agencies are often dis-guised ... In Canada the com-munist party is called "Labor Pro-gressive." In Colombia it's tagged "Democratic Socialist." In Panama it's "The Party of the Public." In Bulgaria, "Worker's Party" and in Germany, "Socialist Unity." Communists pose as foes of val mobsters intent on com- - mitting the same crimes rob-bing liberty and murdering de-cency ... It should be remem-bered that Russia fought nazism because it was wantonly attacked. The Soviet Union bad no other choice. When Rus-sia did have a choice it took the side of nazism by inking s friendship pact. It's important to realize that Com-munists rejected morality a long time ago. Lenin said: "When peo-ple talk to us about morality we say: For the Communist, morality consists entirely of compact, united discipline to attain our ends. We do not believe in eternal morality." With that depraved viewpoint as a guide it's simple to savvy why Communists are ready to condone the most despicable crimes to achieve power. Tile extent of Communist lunacy can be guaged by a typical slice of Stalin's lncoherency. In 1924 he declared: "The dictatorship of the proletariat is the new democracy." . . . Imagine! He considers demo-cracy a synonym for dictatorship. Is it any wonder that logic has no effect on Communists? Should any-one be surprised when they break pacts and treaties? . . . Lies are their weapons. That is why Communists call others warmongers while com- - mitting acts of war. That is why they call all others imperialistic while acting like imperialists . . They are ready and willing to use any means to serve their ends from lies to murder. There has never been a more shameful Illustration of hyn-ocra-than the noisy bab-bling of native Communists about their devotion to liberty. Of course they desire freedom until they are powerful enough to destroy it . . . Their embrace of liberty la a shotgun wedding. It's another temporary advan-tage they use to reach their oh Jectlve. If tyranny would serve that purpose, Communists would be devotees of tyranny here. The Rankin-typ- e of wild inspires vodka toasts In the Kremlin. Spreading bigotry and impairing civil liberties only Invite the disunity that communism feeds upon. A united democracy is the most potent antidote against the Bed plague. |