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Show VEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Congress Beats Off EOP Fund Cert; kssia Winning Cold War in East; Personal Incomes Rise in Hation (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are thoseof Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily or mis v.. & TIV ' x N y SALUTE TO ISTANBUL . . . The U. S. sixth task fleet arrived ar-rived in Istanbul recently for a five-day visit. One of the ships, the USS Fargo, a cruiser-and flagship of the group, is shown firing fir-ing a salute to Istanbul city. In middle background can be seen the aircraft carrier Coral Sea. POLITICS: GOP Seeks Unity The one thing it did not have in 1948 and the one thing it seeks most ' in 195- s the one thing the Republi. 1 can party seems most unlikely to ! find and that is unity. ' IT is characteristic of the Amer. ican voter that when things are go. ' ing fairly smooth at home, there ' is little disposition to change ad. ministrations. The long tenure of ' the Republicans and the even long, er tenure of the Democrats with Roosevelt and Truman point Up that fact. ; Therefore, if the GOP failed to attain unity in the 1952 presiden-'j tial' race, how could the party ever ; hope to win? There was an outside chance that, under a unified cam- ! paign, the party might win in '52. j That chance lies in the fact that a lot of Republicans have been vot. I ' ing with the Democrats simply be- J cause they were at odds with their own party's candidate and fed up I with the "me, too" policies of j twice-contender Thomas E. Dewey. j BUT the chance for any real harmony within the party was , 1 slim. This was indicated by the 'r bitter split in factions when Guy George Gabrielson of New Jersey 1 was selected to replace Hugh D. I Scott, Jr., of Pennsylvania, as the i party's national chairman. j The changeover served merely to j stir up new party turmoil and to j pose the more immediate problem of unity in the congressional races j now just 15 months away. Whether I Gabrielson can bring this about is, . 1 of course, wholly conjectural; but j " it should be remembered that if the GOP would not run hitched to- ; gether when the White House was ! the desired destination, there is j little reason to expect them to hold. j tight in congressional contests. GHOST STORY: . I Boy Is 'Haunted' , Because of the myriad uncertainties uncertain-ties which beset his existence, man always has been fascinated by the macabre, the supernatural, the weird beliefs and stories concerning concern-ing ghosts and spirtual manifesta- tions. THIS is evidenced by the fact that the prominent part played by spirits of the dead in the lives of the living has been recounted and extolled since the days of the most ancient tribal existence. And through most of the scoffing which greets such tales in this enlightened en-lightened century there runs if the truth were ascertainable a tiny thread of credulity. It's rather I like the old classic remark of the man who said that while he didn't believe in ghosts, he certainly had. no desire to encounter one. So the story of the Washington, D. C. boy "haunted" by "midnight "mid-night manifestations" would bring the same scoffing, elicit the same-secret same-secret thought, however fleeting, the same .hidden wonder: "Could, it be so?" A local clergyman said it was so. This pastor told the Society for Parapsychology that he had the-boy the-boy spend a night at his home. The- minister said that during the night, the bed on which the boy slept shook so violently he could not; sleep. The boy moved to a heavy chair. The pastor said that while-he while-he stood over the chair it fell over, throwing the lad on the floor. The minister then put some bedding on the floor, told the boy to lie on it. Soon after the boy fell asleep, the j minister saw the bedding and the j boy slide slowly across the floor and under the bed. , Shakespeare said there are more- I things 'twixt heaven and earth; .than are dreamed of in our philosophy. philoso-phy. Beauty Abroad ERP FUND: 5.75 Billions More The European recovery program appeared set for another year. The senate, by a vote of 63 to 7, voted a 5.75 billion dollar appropriation to take care of European recovery needs and pay U. S. occupation costs abroad. Final action came after two weeks of debate. THE SENATE voted a full 12-month 12-month program, with no authority of the spending agency to expend the money in a shorter period. At the same time, it approved an outlay out-lay of $344,000 for a congressional watchdog committee to keep a check on foreign spending. The upper chamber of congress gave tacit approval to nationalization nationaliza-tion of industries in England, that is by knocking down an amendment amend-ment which would have withheld recovery funds from any nation which in the future nationalized an industry. This was aimed directly at Great Britain. The bill provided: One hundred and fifty million dollars for ECA loans to Europe. A billion, 740 million dollars for ECA's May-June operations. NINE HUNDRED MILLION for army occupation costs in Germany, Ger-many, Austria, Japan and the Ryukyu islands. Forty-five billion for Greece and Turkey. In its struggle with the bill, the senate beat off efforts to earmark 500 million dollars for a loan to Spain and to require the ECA and the army to earmark two billion dollars for surplus U. S. farm products. prod-ucts. CHINA: Lost Cause Accusations, name-calling, recriminations re-criminations did nothing to distort the picture if the United States was winning the cold war in the West, she was losing it in the East. The United State's "white paper" pap-er" on what had happened in China and why charged vigorously that Communist victory over the Chinese Chin-ese and the disintegration of the Nationalist government were all the fault of Nationalist Generalissimo Generalissi-mo Chiang Kai-Shek. SAID DEAN ACHESON, U. S. secretary of state: "Full blame for the ominous result of the Chinese civil war accrues to Chiang Kai-shek Kai-shek and other Nationalist leaders because they lost no battle as the result of a lack of American aid." In obvious contrast to the firm policy in dealing with Russia on problems affecting the West, Ache-son Ache-son said of China's future and U. S. aims in that direction: "Future U. S. policy must concentrate on relieving China of the Moscow-inspired foreign yoke of Communism." Commu-nism." That appeared easier said than done, however. There was no pact and no arms program to warn off the Reds, and, anyway, the Communists Com-munists were on the ground and in control. Even the most optimistic among the diplomats in Washington Washing-ton would realize that throwing the Communists out of China would be a long, hard fight. A FORMER AMBASSADOR to China, Major Pat Hurley, was quick to charge that the state department's de-partment's "white paper" was nothing but an alibi for U. S. failure to stem the Communist tide in China. Radio Jam According to reliable reports, Moscow's jamming of radio programs pro-grams has tuned down the "Voice of America" to a mere whisper of its former self. THESE REPORTS declare that Russian interference with programs pro-grams beamed to the Soviet has been so effective as to cut to 10 per cent the American broadcasts which now permeate the region around Moscow. Two official American protests against these jamming tactics were 'made last year, but in each case Moscow disclaimed any knowledge know-ledge of such interference. The Kremlin aim is obvious. Russian Rus-sian leaders are making every effort ef-fort to isolate the Soviet people more completely from the west. Reception of American-originated broadcasts would have no place in that objective. U.S. INCOMES: Higher Than Ever The status of consumer buying power in the nation was good. In fact, personal incomes, which are the mainspring of such buying, increased in-creased in June, according to reports re-ports of the federal department of commerce. THE RISE helped push incomes for the first six months of 1949 to a level 2.6 per cent higher than the first half of boom-time 1948. The report estimated that the flow of personal income from all sources reached an annual rate of 213.5 billion dollars in June. The commerce department's study showed the upturn had been continuing con-tinuing for three months, April through June, and that the gain accelerated ac-celerated as it continued. An increase in farm income was cited by the department as the main cause of the June increase in personal income. THE DEPARTMENT regarded as more magnificent, however, the fact that factory payrolls were credited with a slight increase in June after having declined steadily since last September. COMIC BOOKS: New Approach The impact of so-called "comic books" on juvenile minds and their influence for good or evil has recently re-cently been a subject of widespread wide-spread controversy in these United States. Some municipalities banned sale of the more objectionable books, others contented themselves with talking; but San Diego, it appears, ap-pears, has come up with a most sensible approach. That southern California city has started what it calls a "comic book of the month club." It's purpose is to "put the fun back into funny books," from whence it has been conspicuously absent all these years. The movement was launched after aft-er many San Diego families became be-came disturbed about the subject matter of many of the comic books. THE project depends upon cooperation co-operation of the comic-book pub-Ushers. pub-Ushers. If that can be obtained, publishers would submit the books to a board of review in advance of publication. Books that were approved ap-proved would be mailed to club subscribers, who would be divided into different age groups. ' '''' ; ' j Bebe Shopp, America's 18- year old first lady of beauty, is shown leaving the Savoy hotel in London for a tour of the British Brit-ish capital. A tour of London, Paris and Rome was a part of i her prizes as winner in the "Miss America" contest of 1948. 1 BABIES: May Sleep More Parents who pace the floor with their infants during the night hours can now look with hope to a new re- I search project at the University of Chicago. Scientists there are engaged en-gaged in a study of the sleeping. I habits of babies. These gentlemen will seek to learn what part diet plays in the- ! slumber habits of babies through. i test feedings of proteins and especially-prepared meats. 1 |