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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. MONDAY, JUNE 24, lSf46 The Washington Mrry - Co - Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By Drew Pearson I Col Robert & Alton oo e t i duty) WASHINGTON General Joseph T. McNar-ney, McNar-ney, who is doing a better job as commander df occupied Germany than most people think, likes to sing. And when he comes up to Berlin for his regular visits with the other allied commanders, he always engages in a song fest with the Russians. Rus-sians. As a result, the Russians have adopted a new song which they virtualy regard as the American national anthem. They sing it on and and all occasions. oc-casions. .They think it brings pride and pleasure to the hearts of Americans: and the Red armv in Berlin, at least, is anxious to please Americans. Actually, the song may bring great pride to general McNarney, but other Americans pri vately are getting a bit weary of it. The Russians ft j Editorial . . . The Challenge of Russia Two authors of widely different political backgrounds and temperaments have recently re-cently and separately reached a common conclusion about Russia. They are Max Eastman, self-styled radical and former admirer ad-mirer and defender of the Soviet system, and John Foster Dulles, Republican, international inter-national lawer, and expert on foreign affairs. af-fairs. Their conclusion is that Russia is embarked upon a long-range policy of world domination. Mr. Dulles, writing in Life magazine, bases his opinion on Russia's domestic policy and her visible course of expansion in the last seven years. Mr. Eastman, in a -f. 4-ViA Qprinno.Wnwarrl npwsnawrs. 8CIICO iw - wx, . - r--t 1 1,,, !,. j ,1 t li-u .. " a. i - u quotes from Prime . Min ster Stalm's bxk !' iin l 1 t T mi " -fwm nfntr irrioTli . . . . ... .... mey sing as me new American national Antnem: "Three cheers for the Sam Jones junior high scnooi tne Dest junior high In Toledo. There are a lot more words to the song, and the Russians apparently not realizing that not all American soldiers have had the benefit of an education in Toledo, Ohio, have carefully learned all the words. The fact that they have done so illustrates a point which some of our top-bracket statesmen don't always realize namely, despite our difficul ties with the Soviet government, we have no Quarrel Quar-rel with the Russian people. Not much has been said about it, but relations between the American Amer-ican and Soviet armies in Berlin have been extraordinarily extra-ordinarily good. At first, the Russian were suspicious, didn't want any fraternization of their troops with ours. But that suspicion has largely disappeared. The Red army is a large, unwieldy badly disciplined, very human cross section of the Russian people, and that part of the Red army which is in Berlin likes Anlericans. However, nobody in the higher brackets in Washington or Moscow, is doing much to bring the Russian and American people together. This column has long maintained that if we had the same U. S.-U.S.S.R. interchange of students stu-dents that wc have with China and England as a result of the Box rebellion and Rhodes scholarships, scholar-ships, our Russian troubles gradually would go up in smoke. "Problems of Leninism," from other boviet writings, and from speeches by Mr. Stalin and other Russian leaders. The approach of each writer differs from that of the other. Mr. Eastman stresses the copious record of Soviet commitment to world revolution. Mr. Dulles feels that today to-day the Kremlin's emphasis is less on revolution revo-lution than on "security." Both seem to agree, out of their mutually broad and intimate experience with Russian thought, that the Soviet Union considers democratic capitalism a dangerous, implacable implaca-ble enemy that must be overcome, and believes be-lieves that the Soviet Union will not be safe until the Soviet political ideal is dominant and unchallenged throughout the world. The logic of both authors seems sound. Their evidence can be read or beheld. Perhaps, Per-haps, then, it is time that the American government and the American people stop generating so much oratorical heat and start facing facts and making concerted, intelligent plans for averting a crisis. The government may at length have decided de-cided where its course lies. But the people have not. And it is up to the United States, as one of the world's two strongest nations, to oppose Russia's world plans. Too many of us waste too much hatred on Russia. We give way to hot, exasperated, exasper-ated, impotent rage at the inconsistencies of Russia's professed democracy and at the inflammatroy actions of Russia's communist commun-ist followers in this country. But fuming and spluttering will get us nowhere. Degenerate I " It 4 W, I lf What Hit OPA BY PETER EDSON controls, there is no question Washington Correspondent which will get the congressman's WASHINGTON, June 24 jvote. The unanswered question in the The third bloc is from the 20 minds of most U. S. consumers western states. They are largely today is. "Why did congress do;agricuiturai RCgardless of party. wnai ii is doing 10 ine SCIENCE. AND BIG BUSINESS President Truman had a significant talk recently re-cently with his old friend Senator Harley Kil-gore Kil-gore of West Virginia regarding the development of scientific experiments and their monopolization by big business. The West Virginia senator had introduced a national science bill which ihc great majority of scientists supported but which the National Association As-sociation of Manufacturers has fought tooth and nail They even induced nice, naive congressman Russian policv is what it is, and we mightl?bur Mills of Arkansas to introduce a counter f ff TToti-1 anA 9nMr micrfci01 1 by which the U. S. government subsidizes as well accept it. Hatred and anger might better be hardened into a determination to face the facts, accept the challenge, and prevent pre-vent the ultimate showdown. Since communism spreads through hunger, hun-ger, discontent, confusion and apathy, the American people need to get together and get going. We must change our selfish thinking, put our house in order, compose industrial in-dustrial strife, and do something about the more glaring inequities of our social' system. If we cannot feed the hungry of other lands through humanitarianism, then we must do it through cold-blooded practicality. Domestic and international problems no longer exist separately. Millionaires. anti-Communist anti-Communist labor leaders, all who cherish American democracy must form a solid front and maintain our moral, economic and military strength. We must prove to the world by example as we are not doing today to-day that our way of life is best. We must be tolerant of Other political systems, but Bush."' lie concluded, referring to the scientist who scientific development, but big business will have a large hand in reaping the patents and the results re-sults of that subsidy. President Truman told Kilkore that he was emphatically opposed to this business control, especially the Arkansas-NAM idea of having $1-a-year men operate the scientific board. "If they try to put a dollar-a-year board in to operate the fuondation." said the president, remembering re-membering $1 -a-man inefficiency he had exposed as head of the Truman committee, "I'll veto the bill. "If they cut out your patent compromise." Truman continued, "I'll see to it that patents developed with federsrt funds are imdr freely available unless congress expressly directs in the bill that none of these patents can be made freely available." Truman also assured Kilgore that he would put the whole administration behind a move to pass the bill at this session of congress. "I'm afraid. v he added, "The National Association Associ-ation of Manufacturers may have muddied the waters so much that we may not be able to come through right away. "I don't know what's got into Vannevar BARBS By HAL COCHRAN A shortage of breakfast cereals ibiU. is in the offing. It looks as if the kids will have to eat what they want to. Your G 1 Rights VETS MUST QUALIFY FOR GIX BENEFITS WASHINGTON, (NEA) A i EVIL INEXACTITUDE group of Osage Indians from Ok lahoma who are veterans recent ly protested that the Veterans Administration had ruled that they weren't eligible for the benefits of the GI bill of rights.! xms cnarge is neara irequentiy from veterans who are members of special groups. One case pointed out by the Ind.'ns concerned a veteran who had tried to get a loan for the purchase of a lot guaranteed and had been turned down. Another case concerned a boy who claimed claim-ed he couldn't get the subsistence due him to go to college. The Veterans Administration points out that Osage Indians are entitled to all the GI benefits. just as are any other veterans. VA claims there is a difference between being eUgible for the GI benefits and being able to qualify under the various sections of the GI bill. Regarding the Indian who was turned down on his application to buy a lot, VA claims that the land the veteran wanted to buy was part of a reservation which which was owned by the tribe as a whole. It was legally impossible for any one man to get title to a specific' lot. If the man had wanted to buy any land which was for sale or open for homesteading. he could have gotten the loan to buy it or would have been able to exercise exer-cise his priority for homesteads. VA says. No Schooling. No Money It was discovered that the Indian who was "unable" to get the subsistence in order to attend at-tend college had not been admitted ad-mitted to a college. Every veteran veter-an must be enrolled in school before be-fore being eligible for subsistence p?vments. His being eligible for the GI benefits is no. guarantee that the VCl Will UC dUT IU fAClCJae all I nis rights under the GI bill. Practically Prac-tically every benefit requires the veteran to have special qualifications. qualifica-tions. This applies to education, loan guarantees, retraining, and al- imost every other provision in the Desk Chat A peasant with a troubled conscience con-science went to a monk for advice. ad-vice. He said he had circulated a vile story about a friend, only to find out that the story was not true. "If you will make peace with your conscience," counseled the monk, "you must fill a bag with goose down, go to every dooryard in the village and drop in each one of them one fluffy down." The peasant did as he was told. Then he came back to the monk and said he had done penance for his folly. "Not yet,' 'replied the monk. "Take the bag, go the rounds again and gather up every down that you have dropped." "But the wind must have blown them all away," exclaimed the peasant. "Yes. my son,' said the monk: "and so it is with your vile words. Words and down are quickly dropped, but try as hard as you will, you can never get them back again." The Arabs judge all religions by the civilization they have produced. pro-duced. oOo The love of money is the root of all evil . . . and politics. Overhead at .the stag party: "Woman was the last thing made by God, and the product shows both his experience and his fatigue." good asso- CONTENTMENT was a word until an advertiser ciated it with cows. every farmer and stockman, grain dealer, feeder and packer in this area sees ahead a great chance to make a killing in meat. The only thing that stands in the way is OPA price control. It shouldn't take a slide rule to figure which way the wind blows in this part of the country, for or against OPA. The stage being set in this fashion, fash-ion, action came easy. Western and southern Democrats could see much in each other's needs. Midwestern Mid-western and eastern Republicans could likewise find, much in common. com-mon. The resulting bills which came out of both houses of congress are just what you'd expect. Everybody Every-body got something just as everyone used to log-roll to get "his" in an old fashioned tariff bill, or a rivers and harbor or public roads bill. The west got metals mining subsidies, in spite of the fact that subsidies on meat and milk are wicked, un-American things. The cattle and grain areas got con- Ohio Swiss cheese pro- x ducers went on strike leaving leav-ing the rest of us in the hole. e Some people do their hardest work before breakfast, says a Getting 'meaning of tne question is mat no one in his right mind can understand un-derstand why the lawmakers faced with continuing scarcities, rising prices spiraling into inflation infla-tion and another tornado of strikes would dare vote against continued price control on the eve of election. Congressmen and the price control con-trol experts who have watched this battle through the war years have a realistic, political answer to this riddle of why OPA is apparently ap-parently being killed by mutila tion instead of being allowed to die a natural death. In simple political lingo. OPA is being crushed under a lot of legs. It is political log-rolling such as has not been seen in Washington since the good old Republican days when sectional blocs made deals that gave everybody every-body something in the way of a high "protective tariff. Price control con-trol renewal bills emerging from both the house and senate have a ia rDrnov.Mr.imvr tariffltrols off meat and dairy prod bill. AH were designed to keep J". The auto dealers got pro- Dj- DQrme FjrG nriccs hiizh and to give the con- Section. The cotton and wool and IXUIiyC I II C sumcrs a good squcczin'. textile people got pro ection. And ffrry irfa i. In tracing the political ma-jthe south "got" Bowles. GLENNS FER Ida. June neuveiine which produced this Everybody should therefore be '? (UR e first b,g range fire of result, one fact stands out. It was politically happy. Excepting, of not entirely Republican opposi-course ,the poor sap consumers, tion that killed off the Demo-jThey don't count cratic administration program to hold down the cost of living for, another year. The Democrats in j congress are just as much to blame for this sabotage as the business college teacher, out of bed? a Grecian women count their ages from the time of ' their marriage about the time American women stop count-ins count-ins them. ? Money doesn't talk as loud as some of the people who have it. Loan Sharks Get Official Warning LOS ANGELES. June 24 (U.RV-"Black (U.RV-"Black Market" money lenders, charging interest rates and fees as high as 260 to 1200 per cent were warned today that the attorney at-torney general may prosecute them. Corporation Commissioner Edwin Ed-win M. Daughterty. in requesting prosecution, said the "hip pocket lenders" operated in violation of the personal property brokers' Being unwilling to learn is a far worse crime than being ignorant. ENVY and HATE are inseparable insepar-able companions. ANY BARBER can tell you what to do with your old razor blades. If there were no, luxuries, there would be no poor. oOo WARNING . . . Girls: if he says, "I got here as soon as I could" instead of, "Gee, it seemed I'd never get here," - watch him . . . your glamour is losing its appeal. Two suburbanites had spent the evening with 'the boys' arriving home in the wee small hours. The next morning as they were waiting for the Inter-City bus, one asked: "Did your wife have much to say when you got home this morning?" "No, not much . . . but that act of 1939, which clears the bor-, didn't keep her from talking for rower of responsibility to pay, two hours." either interest or principal on' oOo illegal loans. j IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT one "Their operations produce economic slaves," he said. The nation's three largest bur-ley bur-ley tobacco warehouses are located lo-cated in Kentucky. of the best 'faith' cures faith in one's own doctor. is Oswald called a hammer, a hammer . . . until he hit his finger with it Crews Extinguish we must be strong enough to insist on tol erance in return For only when a world political policy of! live-and-let-live is established will the United Nations really be able to start functioning func-tioning effectively. Only then will the prospect pros-pect of, lasting peace reall be bright. has been the chief fron for the Manufacturers Association. "Hes getting this bill into the same trouble he got the atomic energy bill into." WARTIME CHICKENS Now You're Talking! Stabilization Director Bowles has proposed pro-posed that labor renew its wartime no-strike pledge until production can get going. Now you're talking, Chester, and saying what some of the rest of us have been suggesting for some time. And if you can get that pledge, Chester, and congress doesn't catch the implicati ins, we wouldn't mind seeing you make another trip to Capitol Hill and arrange a deal with the gentlemen whereby they would retain price controls while labor stuck to the task of turning out all the things that all of us I are needing. You might also drop in at OPA and see about breaking some of those bottleneck regulations which are holding up production. Then we might really be on our way out of this dreary maze of shortages and black markets in which we have been wandering for far too long. j Two-Way Threat Some of the humorous implications of tomorrow's to-morrow's world of "walkie-talkies" and two-way two-way radios for this and that and sundry purposes can be found in the growing preference pre-ference of returned war veterans for the taxicab business. Tf the drivers happen to be ex -Air Force members some of the jargon turned loose when two-way radios are standard taxicab equipment will be difficult to decipher. Here's how Richard G. Kendall, who does a "journeyman's" column of comment for the Gannett papers, pictures the dialogue: "Three, six, one, Five to X-five, one three. Over." "This is X-five, one three. Come in, please." "Look, George, a ZI Ford coming in at 3 o'clock." , ' ' "Roger. Cover me in case I miss his fender." "Wilco. Go in after him." i An interesting election takes place in Maryland Mary-land today which will test people's memories regarding re-garding wartime patriotism. During the war, Maryland state comptroller. Millard Tawcs, received nationwide publicity of a most unpleasant kind when he drove a 12- j cylinder Cadillac all the way to Georgia to attend a wedding. People who were carefully counting their gas coupons at home didn't like it a bit. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, the auto driven by Millard Tawes to Georgia was owned by the state of Maryland. When a Republican editor m Maryland, Rives Matthews, brought out these facts, the Democratic administration in Maryland jumped on him rather than on the gasoline-wasting Tawes. The Repub lican editor was indicted for criminal libel, while the Democratic comptroller merely forfeited some gas coupons. Now. however, the same Millard Tawes is running for governor in the Democratic primary prim-ary with the backing of Democratic Senator Millard Tydingrs. It will be interesting to see what the voters now think of his wedding march to Georgia. Republicans. The trouble began in the solid Democratic south. It began when Chester Bowles as price administrator admin-istrator declared it might be Ogden Soldier, Wife Keeping House in Berlin BERLIN. GERMANY, June 24 (U.R Lieutenant and Mrs. Buster necessary to put a ceiling on raw T Williams of Ogden, are house- Another intersting figure is also running in the Maryland primaries, likeable Gov. Herbert O'Conor, who now aspires to the U. S. senate. At the time of the Tawes gasoline scandal, it was discovered Governor O'Conor's wife had been equally wasteful. She drove a car, also owned by the state of Maryland, all the way to Charleston, S. C, "for her health" when other people stayed stay-ed home and walked. The gasoline which she used on this trip plu3 that used by Millard Tawes on his Georgia joy ride would drive the average Maryland family to church every Sunday for 30 years. Now Mrs. O'Conor's husband is running for the senate and it will be equally interesting to see how easily the voters of Maryland forget. cotton. It was intensified when Bowles put new trading regulations regula-tions on the cotton exchanges. They were intended to curb speculation, spec-ulation, but they had the effect of holding down the price of raw cotton. Political rule number one in the cotton belt is that no candidate candi-date for office can face his voters if he has at any time done anything any-thing to prevent the price of cotton cot-ton from going up. The south may have one-party dominance, but it also has pretty hot competition compe-tition in the primaries. Any congressman con-gressman who had approved OPA after Bowles announced his new cotton policies would have been committing political suicide. The fact that the Bowles motive was to keep down the cost of cotton clothing offered no sop whatever. what-ever. Second bloc in this situation comes from the industrial north and east. Office seekers in this area depend for their campaign expenses on contributions from manufacturers and businessmen. A politician must have campaign money before he can go after votes. If a group of businessmen-j campaign contriDutors ana a group of consumer-voters are waiting in a congressman's outer office to influence him on price RAPIDO RIVER WHITEWASH When Senator Tom Connally returns from Paris, he will probably hit the ceiling when he discovers that the senate military affairs committee com-mittee approved the nomination of Mark Clark io be a permanent major general without hearing from a single "eyeball witness" regarding the Rapido river disaster. Other senators, while not entirely supporting Connally, are glad he made the move. Clark's nomination, pending with those of 35 other general officers, brought Connally before the committee along with Texas members of the badly-mutilated 36th division which tried to storm the swift-flowing Italian river. When committee Chairman Elbert Thomas of Utah promised a full report on the incident from the war department before a vote was taken on Clark's promotion, Senator Connally objected. "You know what you'll get from the war department. A whitewash!" he sneered, "Why don't you call some eyeball witnesses?" Conally proved to be absolutely right. Subse- keeping in Berlin, Germany this year. Mrs. Williams was among the first American wives to join their soldier-husbands in the European occupation army. She was on the first boat carrying dependents to the European continent. The Williams are living in a six-room home provided by the army and Mrs. Williams reported that it is in good condition and far exceeds her expectations. "The clubs and other recreational recrea-tional facilities for Americans in Berlin gives the impression we are living in a miniature American Ameri-can city transplanted over here," Mrs. Williams said. quently. Major General Wilton Persons, legislative liaisdn officer, reported to the military affairs committee on the Rapido crossing, cros-sing, explaining that although a costly operation and not successful success-ful in opening the way to a general gen-eral advance beyond the river, it had actually succeeded in its main purpose namely, drawing German strength from trje Anzio beachead. Were it not for the diversion created by the 36th divsion. Persons Per-sons said, there was grave danger that the Anzio landing might have ended in another "Dunkirk" evacuation. Persons talked also of his own trip over the battlegrounds, remarking re-marking that he hoped American troops will never have to fight in Italy again. "The peninsula Is designed by nature for defense," he said. Through the length of Italy, the defenders have the advantage." Q's and A's Q What is the exchange rate of U. S. and Chinese dollars? A One U. S. for 2200 Chinese subject to change. 4 Q How did Greenland get its name? A Eric the Red, a Norseman exiled from Iceland, settled there in 981 and gave it that name, probably to attract settlers. At one time some 3000 Norsemen lived there. Q Who was the first President of the Soviet Union? A Jacob Sverdlov. He died in 1919 and was succeeded by the late Mikhail I. Kalinin. a Q What new course of training train-ing has been made compulsory for all British naval cadets? A Flying. t In Provo 1S1 West Center St. the season one that burned over 100,000 acres south of here was put out last night after crews battled it for two and one-half days, the grazing service reported today. , A crew was put on patrol of the burn today to make sure fires did not break out again along the ragged edges. The fire was started by lightning light-ning late Friday afternoon and spread out of control Saturday. Rains and cool weather yesterday aided the crews in quelling the blaze. MK IT A MILUOn!" THE ARf.lY GROUND FORCES WILL TEACH YOU A 10S West Center Provo. Utah You may lam any el 200 difioront interesting alalia or trad and prepare pre-pare yourself for a successful, wall paid career either in the Army c civil life if you enlist now in the now Regular Army Ground Forces. Over three-auarters of a million hare Joined up already. MAZE IT A MILLION! All the facts are at your nearest Army Camp or Post, or 17. S. Army Becruiting Station. for the Intermountain Area New FAST Passenger Train Service via Union Pacific Traveling Over Union Pacific Yea Will Ride Much Faster Trains With our connecting lines, extra fast schedules now greatly reduce time between Chicago and the Pacific Coast. In many cases, several hours have been cut from previous running times. 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