Show SCANNING THE WEEKS WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Truman Relieves lien Gen MacArthur From All Commands in the Far East MACARTHUR RELIEVED RELIEVED To To millions of small towners towners across the nation to whom Gen Cen Douglas MacArthur hat has become something of ofa a legend his removal from all aU of his commands by President Truman was wu a shock not easily understood The action pointed Up the seriousness serious serious- seriousness ness of the break between the general the White House and UN statesmen states men which had raged for weeks over tho the conduct of the Korean Jorean war According to grim stubborn MacArthur he was fighting Europe's war with arms In Asia while Europe's Europea diplomats continued to fight communism com corn with words In his Ws blunt barbed way war he wrote Joseph W. W Martin Jr house majority leader It n seems strangely difficult difficult dif dif- for some to realize reaUze that here in Asia Is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conf con con- f quest That statement struck at the administrations administration's administration administrations administration's m very basis of how to defeat communism com com- It threw European diplomats Into a tizzy It brought demands in congress that a special bipartisan committee be besent Grim-Faced Grim MacArthur l sent tent to Tokyo to hear the generals general's foreign policy views It brought rumors of the For Por him th the war endl crackdown on MacArthur which the people people peo peo- pie on Main Street could not believe would ever happen The action has produced a shock that may have serious conse conse- I In the next few weeks congress may possibly be involved In bitter debate as liS the generals general's cause Is championed by the Republican party But Dut above all aU it ft has caused confusion and uneasiness In the mind of the average Main Street citizen whose common sense tells him there is no end In sight for the Korean conflict It does docs not answer the the question In the minds of millions of people in the home towns How flow are we going to get our sons and brothers and husbands free of the blood and filth futh of Korea GRAPES OF WRATH WRATH- The people In the big cities of the nation I know little about the so vividly described in John Steinbeck's novel of the depression The Grapes of Wrath But Dut to the people in the small towns and rural sections of ot the nation they have long been a problem problem and and a necessity There are millions of them In the United States working from tram the south toward the north as the crops ripen for harvest And as the harvest nears they are welcomed and just as anxiously the community awaits their leaving They are poor often under underfed ed and inadequately housed They present a problem on the home town level that the tho individual community community com come is unable to solve At last much to the relief relict of millions of home towners the federal government has stepped In and made a survey of their problems The committee that made the survey has recommended legislation on migratory migra t tory rY farm 1 labor that may solve wage problems establish labor camps extend social security public health and education programs with the aid of states and local communities Of all aU the problems that faced the home towns of the nation that of the migratory worker was one of ot the most serious Its solution will willbe willbe willbe be welcomed ATOMIC SPIES SPIES SPIES-In In what was probably proba bly one of the most dramatic and moving scenes in a federal court in the history of this country Judge Irving l Kaufman aufman sentenced sen r Julius and Ethel Rosenberg husband husband hus band and wife wile atomic spy team to die for treason Said handsome 41 year old year old Kaufman one of the youngest judges on the federal bench I have searched my conscience to find some reason for mercy It is not Julius Rosenberg In my power to forgive you Only the Lord can find mercy for tor what you have done Never before in a civil court of tha United States had native-born native spies been sentenced to death Morton 34 fellow conspirator was sentenced to 30 years In prison The t fourth member of the conspiracy Mrs Rosenberg's brother David Greenglass t 29 was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thus ended another episode In the constant battle to keep the home towns of America free Ethel thel Rosenberg KEEP EM ON THE The FARM FARM FARM- The d question of how haw are you go goin In to keep em down on the farm showed up again in preliminary figures from the 1950 census censul of agriculture The census bureau announced that the tentative count of the number num num- number ber of farms in the country came to a real drop of at least for the first five live postwar years and at least or or about 8 per cent for cent for the last decade The bureau put forth three major reasons 1 A trend toward combining small farms to form large ones This was most pronounced west of the Mississippi 2 A trend away from production of food for home use or sale lale 3 Rural people taking Jobs In nearby city industries and dropping production of food THE LEVELING OFF OFF OFF- Michael V V. V DiSalle price director said In la his latest statement that his ceilings have brought some stability Into view but that higher taxes and tightening of money and credit supply are needed The question In the minds of home town housewives was whether or not the line will hold or whether there will be another upward spiral In late summer lummer as predicted by many economists In defense of controls DiSalle said We had to start price controls con con- It was a psychological move to combat the factors factor that were driving us toward a serious In Inflation 0 r rt t F Labor Policy Polley Committee Al At Tunu Im i libor bor to 10 Ih tbt lb V Bond DROPPED The DROPPED The house armed services committee dropped efforts to write a universal military training program that would have retched reached Into the home borne of every family In the nation The senate bad had previously approved establishment of a program in connection with pending draft legislation The committee adopted an amendment by which congress congre agrees to t consider recommendations to be made later by a man five UrIT commission Legislators who approved of ot said laid the they believed universal military training will be enacted within a user nAP |