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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. UTAn . . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS q U. S. Defense Setup Challenged; Progress Reported in ECA Field; Truman Signs Crop Increase Act (EDITOR' NOTK: Whrn opinion! ir cxprciurd In Ihcao rolamnn, thrv r thou of Western Newopaper Union' new ftnalyoU and not netnnarllr of thl newspaper.) I 'Hot' Shirt SECURITY: A Denial U.S. State Secretary Dean Acne son branded as falsehoods state-ments by Sen. Joseph McCarthy that Owen Lattimore whom Mc- Carthy has called a Soviet agent was the actual director of Ameri-can policy in the Far East. An-swering questions at a press con-ference, Acheson added that: 1. Lattimore never was em-ployed by the state department. 2. He (Acheson) Isn't sure he ever met Lattimore. 3. Lattimore's contacts with the state department have been limit-ed to a few occasions. 4. According to his Information, Lattimore never had a desk at the state department. Lattimore, a Far Eastern expert and a professor at John Hopkins university, had reached London from Afghanistan, from whence he was returning to answer Mc- Carthy's charges. In London, Lat-timore branded the McCarthy charges as "unmitigated lies." McCarthy, meanwhile, was In a hospital after a four-hou- r senate speech in which he said he would produce a witness who would swear Lattimore was a member of the Communist party. He told the senate he has documents to prove that Lattimore was a Soviet agent who was Retting instructions from Moscow as long ago as 1936. Lattimore was most important to McCarthy, for the senator had declared he would rest his entire case of Communist leanings in the state department on the outcome of his charges against Lattimore. And, unless the senator could produce his witness and his docu- - f V" 1 ' ",' DEFENSE: Charges Hurled Charges that the government has been "ragging its feet" in organ-izing civil defense against an attack and in telling Ameri-cans how to protect themselves have been hurled by four big-cit- y officials. MAYOR Elmer E. Robinson of San Francisco minced no words in asserting that federal authorities have "fum,bled the ball" of civilian defense. He urged thnt a policy of total defense be inaugurated imme-diately by the federal government. Federal planners have said that local officials will have to assume primary responsibility for civilian defense against atomic warfare, the government's role being that of coordinator. THAT MUST have seemed an odd stand to take to officials who have no knowledge of atomic bomb ef-fects or of the first steps to take toward protection if such bombings occur. Surely public leaders were within the bonds of reason and logic when they demanded that the gov-ernment channel to them more in-formation on how to provide pro-tection against atomic warfare Defense Secretary Louis John-son (right) talks "cold war" In a "hot" shirt as he and President Truman discuss de-fense strategy and activities at the "little White House" In Key West, Fla. Secretary Johnson's shirt recalls the "Solomon-in-all-h- ls glory" quotation, but even It was topped by one the Presi-dent frequently donned for pictures. CROP BOOST: A Compromise ments, the case boiled down to one of the senator's word against that of Acheson and Lattimore, with the public deciding as it pleased about who was right. FLYING DISKS: Navy Says 'No' If there are, or were, any flying saucers whirring through space, the United States navy hm nothing to do with them and knows nothing about them. The air force said the same thing. THE SERVICES also denied that they are developing secret planes, guided missiles or anything else that could be mistaken for flying saucers. These denials were issued after two published reports traced the saucers to navy and air force "se-cret" projects. An air force spokesman declared that "the armed forces are not do-ing anything that could be traced to being the basis of reports of fly-ing saucers." He said the air force position was the same as it was last December when it announced after investi-gating 375 reports of flying saucers that they were "misinterpreta-tions of various conventional ob-jects, a mild form of mass hysteria or hoaxes." In other words "there information which only the lederai government possesses, if anyone or any group does possess it. The government's attitude seemed a callous one and hard to reconcile with all the scare techniques prev-alent in connection with the possi-bility of another war in which the or' the would be the most frightful weapons. FOREIGN AID: Some Progress As the economic cooperation ad-ministration started its third year of operations, Marshall plan coun-tries were being urged to take two steps of paramount importance to make themselves independent of extraordinary outside aid by the time ECA ends In June of 1952. COUNTRIES participating in the Marshall plan were to be told that they should intensify efforts to sell more products to the United States and other hard-currenc- y areas. ECA pointed to that as one means of closing the dollar gap. In that connection, the agency continued, the U.S. could assist by following Increasingly liberal Im-port policies and commercial pol-ci-generally so that trade bar-riers do not prevent European countries from increasing dollar earnings in this country. AS to European economic unifi- - In any manner likely to affect the farm vote with the congres-sional elections not so many months away President Truman showed an unwonted disposition to compromise, rather than come out fighting against anything he didn't like, as he has done so frequently in the past. THE PRESIDENT compromised on an agricultural bill raising ac-reage limitations on cotton and peanuts for 1950 and modifying price supports for Irish potatoes next year. In signing the measure after long study, the President noted, according to the presidential press secretary, Charles G. Ross, that "the good foatures outweighed the undesirable features." And with that profound utterance, the bill was signed into law. The President acted after under-going heavy pressure from groups urging approval or veto of the joint resolution. The section affecting potatoes knocks out price supports for po-tatoes in 1951 unless marketing quotas are then in effect. Addi-tional legislation would be needed, however, to put such quotas into operation in 1951. THE MEASURE as approved authorized an increase of 1.5 mil-lion acres in cotton acreage this ain't no such thing" as a flying saucer. A NAVY SPOKESMAN denied with equal vigor that the navy Is developing super-spee- d planes that have been spotted as "saucers." Said he: 'The navy is not ex-perimenting with, or doing research on, any type of plane or guided missile that resembles in any way a flying saucer." So, that should be that. However, it would be difficult to convince many Americans that there are no flying saucers, and if a troubled citizen, seeking, subconsciously or not, a momentary relief from his woes and burdens, thinks an object in the sky is a flying saucer, no particular harm has been done. In fact it may do him some good. year and a 50 per cent increase in acreage of peanuts planted for oil production. The previous cotton al-lowance was 27 million acres. It would permit peanut growers principally in Texas and Ala-bama 100,000 more acres and would permit excess peanuts to be grown for oil without penalties on certain conditions. JAPAN: Bible vs. Marx Believing that Christianity and the Bible are the dykes that are holding up the flood of communism in Japan, the American Bible So-ciety is beginning a campaign to send Bibles to Japan Bibles printed in the Japanese language. Already the society has dis- - cation, ECA stated its belief that the establishment of an effective European payments union Is of great Importance. Elimination of public and private trade restric-tions also were said to be a con-tributing factor to economic unifi-cation. As a result of increased produc-tion and financial and political stabilization, ECA said, commu-nism has been placed on the de-fensive in all participating coun-tries. HOGS: No Props For the first time within the past eight years, hogs were being bought and sold at major U.S. markets without any price supports and tnbuted a total of 2.789,956 Bibles among the Japanese, but it is felt and this sentiment is shared by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, that isn't enough. GENERAL MacARTHUR isn't alone in that opinion. He has asked for millions more. And Dr. Shiro Murata, an officer of the Japan Bible Society, said: "The eyes of Japan are fixed on two books. One is Das Kapital by Karl Marx. The other is the Holy Bible. Japan is at the crossroads." To usher in its program of Bibles for the Japanese, the American Bible Society this month is spon-soring a huge signature book of donors for the purpose of raising funds with which to purchase and send the Bibles. Every person who contributes one dollar or more to the project will be asked to sign the donor book. WHEN the campaign comes to dealers admitted it was difficult to note any difference. PRICES were steady to 25 cents higher. What did that mean? Was it an indication that federal agri-cultural planners could have been wrong all these years? If that were the case, there probably would be no admission of it. In fact, one U.S. department of agriculture spokesman hailed the event as a "normal market." It was "just a matter of supply and demand," he said, as If the de-partment had been aware of and had considered that venerable law ever since the government went into the farming business. FARMERS and traders, however, held varying opinions as to what might happen when the markets opened for the first time since hog price supports were allowed to die. Some felt growers would become panicky and flood the market with hogs. But, as was reportea, notning happened. Anti-suppo- rt adherents, never-theless, could draw little consola-tion from the evident, for farm leaders had made it clear vigorous efforts would be made to restore hog price props. SUBMARINES: But Whose? Cloaked with all the color and trappings of mystery and suspense was the report that a naval officer had made instrument contact with "one or more" unidentified sub-marines about 17 miles off the Cali-fornia coast. OFFICIALLY, the western sea frontier, which ordered the hunt, reported "results and comment negative." It added the search had been discontinued. an end, probaDly this fall, the huge book, bearing the signature of ev-ery donor, will be forwarded to Japan where it will be displayed in the offices of the Japan Bible Society as a token of friendship from the people of America to the people of Japan. Adam's Daughter? Did Adam have a daughter, no mention of whom is in the Bible? Dr. Guido Kisch, noted scholar, has declared that a Latin manuscript claims that Ad-am had a daughter whose name was never mentioned in any ver-sion of the Old Testament. Dr. Kisch said the manuscript, oldest and most accurate version known as "Biblical Antiquities," men-tioned a daughter named Noaba. GERMANY: Crisis Impends According to U. 3. German High Commissioner John J. McCloy. a "real crisis" appears inevitable in Germany. McCloy uttered the warning in a talk before a con-gress subcommittee. He told a house group that Soviet pressure is a result of confidence, rather than any "sense of inferiority or fear of attack" by western forces. "The Russians feel their strength," he said. Chain Reacii, Bruising I B Will BerN, Should Statement il Be Token With A man went banW haled into cou t b7? had had $5,000 In Z" days before--but cW street," he related money in a satchel. . for a street car, I hap down and I noticed that; fallen off-- and I was k the handle! Since the b where to be seen, I thru handle and went hone there was no way to & story, the judee dM. didn't believe it and e man to "find" the IS.or The judge figured thi; the story was told mci was too incredible to be ; out a grain of salt. Does the Low Recognia The Principle of "Cause and Effect?" This famous case, whit the year 1770, laid down that Is still considered ti legal system. Mr. A, be chief, threw a giant to lighted into a crowds: place. It landed at the i B, who snatched it and! flung It away. This tiro tering thing landed m who also threw it awr himself. The firecracker beside Mr. D, and exploc was injured, and sued! damages. Mr. A protes:-ha-thrown the firecraci B, not at Mr. D. Bat held him responsible it judge said that Mr. A b an involuntary chain m: thus was responsible for quences. 0 Is a Theater Responsible Volunteer From the Aw Gets Hurt in a VauderiiM A 14 - year old boy i vaudeville matinee, tad vited onto the stage by 6 of ceremonies. There he tioned on a sort of tread wag told to start trotttoi er the boy trotted, the! treadmill whirled At the the stunt, he was suppes thrown from the machiw waiting arms of an ittea fortunately, the attendant and the boy dropped stage floor. Painfully br later sued the theater damages. The latter prot the stunt was "all In to court was not amused. 1 said that, in staging an at as this one. the theater of the responsibility for to safety. 0 0 May You Strike SomeW For "Sassing" You? A newsboy took a Ilvel? a storekeeper, and on ae sions he made facei at One day the boy tried W1 once too often. The mercto an umbrella that wai smacked his tormentor J Arrested on a charge oi " 1 battery, the man insil action was justified M i constant "sassing. J court disagreed and to 1 ty as charged. The Ju takes more than Justify an attack of thu ; o A certain town set i dance hall in a resident The music, which pW : A.M. every night. dancers but hellish w , ; borsl Soon the matter court, where the judge & tlently to the pleas of & finally decided that the"' continue but only explaining how the la compromises, he al ; dom to swing my a1,- i the other fellow's ns J "GEORGE RICHARDS, LOOM WHAT Y00 DONE!" RICHARDS! What a GEORGE he made to Amer-ica! How history was changed by "wha-hoppen- " to him! Consider him well, George Richards, aged 45. residence Chicago, business strictly soap. He died too soon. Lived only three paragraphs. But, brother, if he had only lasted! The Republican party wouldn't be behind the eight ball, businessmen wouldn't be talking in their sleep and the life story of every man, woman and child in the U.S.A. id have been altered, and how! O 0 Critic or glorificr of Franklin I). Roosevelt, you can't "in-rlu- George out" from now on. George was just a char-acter In a novel begun by Roosevelt as a young man. F.D.R. created him, put him Into literary shape and then let him die, after 250 words, never to take him up again. Through that decision fate al-tered the course of history. Franklin D. Roosevelt might have become a novelist Instead of President! Dropping "Soapy" Richards was a de-velopment which, had It been appreciated, would have sent the G.O.P. fleeing across the open spaces screaming, "To the hills, men!" The page of manuscript reveal-ing Roosevelt's ambition to be a novelist begins: "In Chicago in the late eighties anybody would tell you that George Richards was a most able and suc-cessful business leader. Ten years before, his little soap shop had seemed a small thing. But now he had become soap king of Amer-ica .. , " 0 0 There you have it! George might have put Franklin D. Roosevelt in the field of book writing. But as things turned out he, as much as Lou Howe and Jim Farley, put him in the White House. Georgie the Soapman threw the switch that sent Franklin off the literary rails and onto the tracks to Washington. By such events is the course of his-tory changed! ooo We can fancy F.D.R., the author, building George np as a soap tycoon, finding him very rich and meditating, "What would this guy probably do next. Get elected to the Union league house committee and then join the REPUBLICAN CLUB!" (Exit George Rich-- ards, Chicago and soap; Enter the Indlspensible Man, Wash-ington and the New Deal!) 0 0 0 Yes. Churchill, Willkie, Stalin, Howe. Farley, Hopkins, kings, queens and emperors figure in those Hyde Park papers, but Georgie Richards tops them. Critic or booster of Roosevelt, thousands will think of George and murmur, "Boy, if you had lasted a few more pages!" and wonder how it would have seemed to have heard of F.D.R. only through a squib, "F.D. Roosevelt, author of 'Rich-ard- s Sees It Through' or 'Upward and Onward in the Soap Mines' is at work on a new book. The author, while not widely known, has a de-voted following among lovers of whodunits."!!! 00 Under O'Dwyer Things won't be dryer. Wallace C. Howell Wrings a celeUial towel. If your weather's too hectic, Blame General Electric! o o The first thing Harry Truman did as he stepped ashore after that rough ocean trip was to sign the oleomargarine law. After a voyage like that he was for anything that would stay down. 00 A new drive on drunken auto-Is- ts is under way. After this Is attended to. there may be time to get around to the sober ones who seem even more dancer-ous- . 0 A jetliner carrying 16 people has flown from London to Rome in two hours The rest of the day was spent by all hands wondering what to do to kill time. 0 o Police airmen will be used to spray clouds with dry ice in the New York rain-makin- g ments. We experi hope no wMlt confused to a point where he rid- dles a cloud with bullets and drops dry ice on a bandit. 0 Examination of high-scho- papers test reveal that students gave these answers: "Two French ex P'orers of the Mississippi were Romeo and Juliet." . syrup is rna.e by sterilizing sap" " by' morons "Lake Qty W" Sw1tAchE CHAR,T --Cnitlin Ink " ' ' rUnner: Platinum II ' ;,;r,d l00k,r: Ga? Rev"- - . ' okay n" y !rt: Kxtiher - - spurts; and Spats . "as the foot. " DREAM COMES TRUE Boy Given Clown Role MILWAUKEE, WIS. Once upor, a time there was a boy who want-ed to be a circus clown. And sud-denly he was. That's no fairy story it actually happened right here In Milwaukee The bey was James Miller, nine years old. His mother knew circus man Omar Kenyon, so when the circus came to town for the Shrine benefit performance, she asked Kenyon how about Jimmy becom-ing a clown in the circus. It was okay, the man said. Jimmy's father took him out to eat and then they went to the Aud-itorium. Jimmy had known that he was going to be a clown since the night before. He didn't sleep much. The Millers went up to clown alley, a dressing room above the Aud-itorium stage, and there they met the clowns. There was Sa-S- the boss clown, who was born in the Ringling Brothers circus, started to be a clown at 13 and has been at it for 37 years. There was Billy Rice and Billy Hudson, who don't know how old they are, exept it's over 65. Charles Lewis and his son, Earl, who is only 21. Roy and Joy Lewis, a married couple. And Slim Col-lins, long, lean and sad. Puts on Clown White Up in clown alley, Jimmy's fath-er helped pull on a clown suit that was too big for him and a pair of artificial bare feet that were even bigger. Then Sa-S- o put clown white-z- inc oxide on Jimmy's face. He peppered Jimmy's face with a powder sock. He made lines on Jimmy's cheeks and above his eyes with grease paint. "It's the first time I ever made up anybody but myself," said the putty nosed clown. "Can I look at myself?" Jimmy kept asking. A ruffle around Jimmy's neck and a red, stringy wig and sailor cap on Jimmy's head, and he was a full fledged clown. Herman Miller suggested that the funny feet were too big for Jimmy to walk in. "I want to wear 'em," Jimmy said. Jimmy crouched in front of a mirror, looked at himself, and made bappy sounds. The other clowns gathered for a peek, too. Trick Explained Sa-S- o explained a trick he want-ed Jimmy to help him do a trick in which colors are put into a tube and come out as an American flag. Someone suggested a rehearsal. "The first time'i sufficient," said the boss clown. "Come on now. You can't stay up here. You've got work to do." Sa-S- o and Jimmy, the clown, went down the steps and into the audience. "They've got a new clown," said a circus hand. "It's a midget, a circus fan ex-plained knowingly. Jimmy made a couple of .turns around the arena. He shook hand.v with children and patted bald head-ed men on their pates. He and Sa-S- o did their flag trick and it went off without a hitch. The other clowns got into the act and finally they got into one of the rings with Sa-S- o and Jimmy. Sa-S- o , worked the audience for applause, going from one side to the other and cupping his ears. All the clowns trot down on thplr knees and salaamed to the side of the audience that made the most noise. Jimmy the clown got the idea, and he salaamed, too. Truffles Sows Are 'Bloodhounds' PARIS, FRANCE. There is a group of living creatures which has never had the rewards for its service to humanity properly standardized. These creatures are females of the pig family which, in bloodhound fashion, locate that delicacy of luxury-lade- n tables the truffle. The truffle a sort of under-nourished mushroom used chief-ly for a garnishing or a dress-ing, but of such superb odor and inspiring taste that it throws diners into ecstasies-belo- ngs to the region of France east of Bordeaux and known as Perigord. Farmers in sabots go out with their skilled sows to hunt for truffles. A highly sensitive pig, it is said, when brought to a woods where youngish oak trees are growing, will march, sraight as an arrow, to a spot in the leaf mold above the clay, apply its snout to the work of excava-tion and in a little less than no time reward the wooden shoed owner with a succulent truffle. Never does a well trained pig make any effort to consume the delicacy it has brought from the earth. It simply lays the treasure at the master's feet. And now comes the reward. We find in a French reader for children that the master gives the pig a piece of bread for each truffle. In an encyclopedia we read that the reward is a piece of cheese, and in a garden book, that the pig's master gives it an acorn or a chestnut. Is such a wage for highly skilled labor sufficient? In case you doubt that this prospecting for truffles is "highly skilled labor," remember that there are said to be a very few hu-man beings, say one in 10,000,-00- who are also endowed with such sensitive nostrils as to de-tect the odor of a truffle below the ground. In England, terriers are trained for the duty, and In Sardinia, goats. Only One in Five Df Bus Passengers Found Truly Honest MILWAUKEE, WIS. How hon-est is the average bus rider? To find out, two psychology stu-dents at the University of Wiscon-sin in Milwaukee "planted" wal-lets 100 times in city busses. The pocketbooks contained no money but carried personal papers and full identification of the owner. Here's what happened: Wallet taken to bus driver 59 times. Wallet brought to owner's home eight times. Wallet kept 19 times. Wallet inspected, then put back on seat 14 times. The student experimenters did the work as part of the sophomore psychology class requirements. The objective was not so much re-sults as learning the methods of psychological research. The experimenters, with the knowledge of the bus driver, placed wallets surreptitiously on seats, as if they had been dropped, when the buses were nearly empty. Then they waited in the back of the bus to see what would happen. Their report contained two gen-eralizations: Boys from 16 years old down tended to keep the wallets, not re-turn them. Persons traveling in groups were more apt to take the wallets th. driver than persons traveling alone. The students attributed this to force of group opinion, not nec-essarily to individual honesty. Well dressed and poorly dressed persons seemed to have about the same ratio of honesty, the students found. They did not experiment with purses containing money. Bus driv-ers told them the chances of get-ting money back would be slim. Most wallets taken to the bus driv-ers contain little or no cash, the students were told. Boy of The Year vff t. TV J David Russo, who was se-lected "Boy of The Year" of the Boys Clubs of America, holds the plaque awarded him and gets a kiss from his moth-er after arriving in Hollywood for a three-da- y tour of film and radio studios. 'Letting off Steam' Held Good for Person's Nerves MILWAUKEE, WIS. Doctors are just about agreed that it is good for the average individual to "blow his top" every now and then for by so doing he lets off emotional steam which does him no good if kept tightly bottled up. Doctors, according to many re-ports, are much concerned with ten-sionits causes, results and relief. Psychiatrists offices are filled with people who have been driven to ill-ness by the problems and chal-lenges of modern living. "How can ordinary men and wom-en who do not need psychiatrists, wno oniy occasional find them-selves in a state of nerves' regain their serenity?" one writer asks. Doctors advise them to learn to blow their tops. They do not advo-cate a complete and continual lack of l. Instead they believe there is a time and place for such healing outbursts. "On the debit side of the ledger." she continues, "are the examples concerning the wrong time. There are the people who have 'told off the boss' and lost good jobs in the process. There are the ones who sassed the cop who arrested them for speeding and wound up in jail. "Modern mental hospitals have installed punching bagj and other equipment for violent exercise for their patients' use. Science now knows that discharging tension through bodily activity is good men-tal hygiene. Liking for People Seen Success Hint for Girls WASHINGTON, D. C. - What's wrong with girls? What's holding them back? "Plenty." says a wom-an who ought to know. Men call her one of the most suc-cessful and most attractive to hit the Washington official scene in many a year. She's worked with girls back home in her native Kan- sas and right here in the nation's capital where she u the new cus-todian of Uncle Sam's money bigs Now the first woman to be treas- urer of the United States. Georgia Neese Clark likes women. She likes to work with them, toeand so by perfect right, the soap box was all hers from there on In. She confesses she likes men. too and likes to work with them. And do men like her! Bernard Baruch the elder statesman of Wall street and the atom bomb, had met her at a party and the first thing next day dispatehed an admiring note to her Baruch assured her that it was refreshing to find a woman of her brain, with her charm and good looks in public life. "She's got what it takes." man said. |