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Show PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1946 Editorial... Fatal Endorsement If Henry Wallace, private citizen, has more success promoting his concept of American foreign policy than did Henry Wallace, secretary secre-tary of commerce, it won't be the fault of the American Communist party. For the domestic do-mestic Reds, never embarrassed by incon-Ristpnrv- managed to flout and contradict J the Wallace policy in the course of endors ing it. Mr. Wallace, in the speech that led to his hinet deDarture. said. "We should recog nize that we have no more business in the 1 political affairs of eastern curope man "Rnssia has in the political affairs of Latin i nr..iam Piirnna onH thp United .rtiucuva, utow-iu - States." But anvone who reads knows that Russia has long made a business of meddling dis- ruptively in the poltical affairs of Mortn ana South America and Western Europe through resident Communist Parties, which follow Russian policy and party line as faithfully as a dog follows its master. But just in case that practice had been forgotten, William Z. Foster, national Communist Com-munist chairman, recalled it by attacking the President and American foreign policy in the same speech in which he endorsed Sir. Wallace. He echoed recent Moscow attacks on our policy by telling an audience of 16,000 in Madison Square Garden (where Mr. Wallace had spoken just a week before) that the Truman administration was supporting an "ill-fated project of establishing capitalist domination over the war-wracked world," and that Americans were being propagandized propagan-dized for war by a "drunken spree of Soviet-baiting." Soviet-baiting." The Communist leader clearly displayed the Soviet finger in our political pie. But of course he would never admit the propriety of America's inserting a similar finger in the pastry of Russian politics. All of which served to re-emphasize the unsoundness of Mr. Wallace's principal thesis on international interna-tional politics which Mr. Foster professes to support. The weakness of the Wallace policy seems to be its assumption that American aggressiveness aggres-siveness is largely to blame for Soviet-American Soviet-American misunderstandings, and that if we would stop being tough with Russia and try to understand her, most of the misunderstandings misunder-standings would vanish. Under ideal conditions the Wallace prescription pre-scription would be easy to follow. But the Russian government has taken almost no initiative toward better relations with us. It has thwarted mutual understanding by forbidding its citizens free intercourse and exchange of ideas with citizens of western lands. It accuses us of "imperialism," and exhorts its people to greater industrial output out-put as protection against "capitalist encirclement" encir-clement" and "inevitable war." Our gravest problem of foreign policy is how to persuade Russia to stop being tough and try to understand us. And it cannot be solved either by being adamant, or by giving in to every Soviet demand. Perhaps the most an American policy can hope to do at present is create an atmosphere, atmos-phere, through a balance of firmness and compromise, in which the Kremlin will find it expedient to abandon plans of worldwide communism and meet us halfway on the road to peace in a world of live and let live. That, it seems to us, is what present American policy, with all its imperfections, rather than Mr. Wallace's policy, with all its idealism, is trying to do. The Washington Mrry-Co - Round A Daily Picture of What's y Jgy pgbS5 Going On in National Affairs s. a 1 1 n on etlv. duty) WASHINGTON With the stock' market "acting up" more than at any time in five years, no move has been made by President Truman or Secretary of the Treasury Snyder to brine the Securities and Exchange Commission back from Philadelphia. Created by Roosevelt to protect the public from Wall Street, the SEC is still being caretully kept out of Washington and certain interests hope it remains in exile. Meanwhile, had Secretary Snyder consulted the SEC before making his ambiguous am-biguous statement on the slump, he would have found a significant report regarding the entire stock market. Here are some of the inside facts shown in the SEC report: 1. Several weeks before the market nose dive, new issues of airplane and auto stocks failed to arouse public buying, so that the underwriting houses, stuck with the bonds, had to raise cash to pay for them. This meant they had to unload government bonds and blue-chip stocks such as Du Ponts and American Tel and Tel to get the cash. This was the first selling wave to sag the market. 2. Simultaneously, investment houses got wind of a new fear psychology. The public was afraid the long upward climb of the market was at an end. They wanted to sell before the downward down-ward trend started. Telltale sign was the fact that Congressional defeat of OPA should have sent the market soaring, but didn't. 3. Later the Commerce Department issued a report that 18 billions in inventories had piled up on factory shelves, and that inventories were increasing at the rate of half a billion per month faster than goods are being consumed. This was a storm warning that the peak of the boom was passed. 4. The high employment rate (57 million in July) is due partly to the fact that the government govern-ment fs still spending 18 billions a year on armaments, arma-ments, almost three times the entire national budget in peacetimes. NOTE On the other hand, the U. S. popula tion increase plus the tremendous buying power still in tne hands of the public, plus the continued scarcity of many consumers goods, should offset some of these downward factors. The country, according to Washington economists, is basically sound. NAPOLEON JOHN L. LEWIS Atomic Highball A method has been announced whereby the potency of Vitamin A is increased eight times by mixing it with water. It is undoubtedly just as well for the human race that no one has devised a formula for making whisky react in a similar sim-ilar manner. Bad to Worse "Palestine Parley Nearing Deadlock" Readline. We thought that was where it had been all this time. Practical Psychology A farmer once walked into the office of William F. Hallstead, general manager of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railway, and asked for a free pass to New York and return. re-turn. Mr. Hallstead reasoned with the old fellow as follows: "Now, look here: Suppose I would drop in on you some time and ask you to hitch up and drive me to Scranton and back, what you think of me?" "I'd think you were awfully cheeky," replied re-plied the farmer. "But, Mr. Hallstead, if I was driving to Scranton anyway and you asked me for a ride, what would you think of me if I refused ?" He got the pass. So They Say Our collaboration with the American Union and with the United Nations is sincere sin-cere and frank and will be fulfilled in proportion pro-portion as the various branches of our democratic dem-ocratic organization resolves the affairs submitted sub-mitted to our democratic organization. Dr. Oscar Ivanissevich, Argentine ambassador ambas-sador to the U. S. John L. Lewis, the most powerful man in the American Federation of Labor, is now comparing nimseii to Napoleon. Lunching with a friend who complimented him on his tremendous labor victories, Lewis swelled with pride as the friend recalled how John L. had bludgeoned more out of the White House for his miners than any other labor leader, had helped master-mind the AFL Seamen's strike and had even been praised by Robert U. Wason, president of the National Association of Manu facturers. "Don't you feel elated over alL these vic tories?' asked the friend. "No, not particularly , replied Lewis. "I guess Napoleon didn't feel particularly elated when he won a campaign he had planned for months. RUSSIA'S IRON CURTAIN At a time when US-USSR relations are the most delicate in history, the State Department's program to sell the Russian people on American friendship has hit another snag. This time it is the army. It took roost of last spring and summer for tne state Department to sell Congress on the tm portance of using propaganda to penetrate the "iron curtain." Finally, however. Congressmen realized that the Russian people were being fed a barrage of anti-American poison and that some thing should be done to counteract it. So funds were voted to send U. S. radio propaganda abroad. Shortly after this, the French, under pressure from Communist Inside their government, ordered the State Department Depart-ment to quit broadcasting from its powerful power-ful Algiers station. Of necessity, the State Department has now turned to Germany. We have ample radio facilities in Germany and expect to retain them for a long time. But believe it or not the U. S. Army objects. Chief objector is conscientious Lieut. Gen. Lucius Clay, top administrator of the military government in the U. S. zone. General Clay, who has his problems, prob-lems, points out that propaganda broadcasts from the U. S. zone would be contrary to the Potsdam agreement unless the Russians are given the privilege priv-ilege of censoring American radio programs. The State Department counters with the reminder re-minder that the Russians have violated all sorts of agreements in their zone and there is no reason why we should continue to let Stalin get away with the claim, now taught by Moscow to the Russians and their satellite peoples, that the Red army alone defeated Japan. NOTE! The State Department is now trying to overrule Clay, may win out in the end. WHITE HOUSE HUMOR The public has heard a lot about feuds in the Truman administration, but one it hasn't heard about is the first-class battle raging between Gen. Harry Vaughan. Truman's military aide, and George Allen. RFC director. While it's a friendly feud, these two characters lone have been trying to outdo each other cracking jokes for the benefit oi Uieir chief. When they are together in Truman's presence, it's like a minstrel show. Friends even accuse them of subscribing to joke libraries. Though Allen has gained the reputation as the chief White House jester, Vaughan tells a pretty mean joke himself. In fact his humor is biting and satirical. trequently on tne Rabelaisian side. Examples of Vaughan's sarcastic wit: "The cockroaches in Gallinger hospital should have service stripes, because they have been there since the Civil War." . . . Apropos of efforts to settle recent strikes: "The nation is going to hell in a handbasket." . . . Asked how he felt while seasick en route to Bermuda, Vaughan replied: "Fin' What tko hall 4 to.tl i.,.t ing up as it did going down." George Allen, on the other hand, specializes spe-cializes in rollicking, parlor humor, usually usu-ally telling pokes on himself. One of them is about his college days a a footballer when his team was trailing by a lopsided score and one of his teammates fumbled the ball. "Pick ud the ball and run with it " yelled at Allen. Pick it UD VOUrself Allon vIIm4 KskV You're closer to it." NOTE Those arnnnri fVio Whif vrn... one reason Bob Hahnegan isn't as close to Tru man as ne used 10 De is because he s too serious. He's aluavn talWino in tha nrsii4n ....... and means of improving the administration. vopyngm. imo, oy tne Ben syndicate. Inc.) It is imperative to th urran n tion system that labor have not only its constitutional constitu-tional ritfht of harpainino rv-illcwii-ol.. ...iu - -o . HllU illdll- asement concerning waarex hmm on4 conditions, but clso that the law 'assure the continued con-tinued ehiovment of that rirM c r.m.. Mead, of New York. 'How About Cookin ' Up a Good Hair-Restorer?' Washington News Notebook By PETER ED SON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept. 27 There is no record that Henry Wallace as secretary of commerce ever met with the president of the U. s. cnamoer oi commerce William K Jackson, or the cresi- dent of the National Association of Manufacturers, Robert R. Wason. Wa-son. Though the secretary of commerce com-merce is supposed to promote the welfare of business, ne apparem-lv apparem-lv mad no attempt to consult these two heads of the big business busi-ness organizations, and they never nev-er marie anv attemnt to consult him. In all fairness, the NAM case mav not be as bad as n sounds, for the NAM president usually tours the country and spends little time in Washington. With NAM unairman ira mosner Wallace had conferred and with Jackson's predecessor as head of the U. S. chamber of commerce, Erlck Johnson, Wallace had served serv-ed on the labor management conference con-ference a year 'ago. In all the excitement about not being able to get along with the Russians," state and war department de-partment officials like to point out that the United States is deal ing with the Russians every day and on a wide variety of problems prob-lems in Berlin, Vienna. Tokyo, Seoul, Washington. Moscow, Paris and the United Nations headquarters head-quarters at Lake Success, N. Y. If the negotiations seem long- winded and get no place, army officers sum it up by saying. "As long as they keep talking, it's all right. It's when they stop talking that we begin to worry. m m m Desoite organized labor's op position to the Hobbs anti- racketeering act, ana tneir aaims that it would put labor in a trit-iarket onlv three com plaints have been filed with the department of justice for investigation investi-gation of alleged Hobbs act violations. viola-tions. None has been considered worthy of prosecution. Senator Robert H. Taft of Ohio has become champion of the Nazi war criminals tried at Nuernberg. In a Republican convention keynote key-note speech criticizing the democratic demo-cratic administration for eign policy. Taft said. "I doubt if we can teach respect for principles of justice by trying men for crimes, many of which were not crimes when they were commit ted, contrary to all the principles of our law which outlaws ex-poet ex-poet facto condemnation." Big loophole in the congres sional lobbying registration act is that it doesn't cover the lobbyists lob-byists who work on the executive, administrative and regulatory branches of the government. Lob bying for or -against legislation before congress is only a small part of the pressure boys' work in Washington. Far more lobby ing is done before the govern ment agencies which issue regulations reg-ulations and orders. Broadening the law to force registration of lobbyists who work down town, as well as on Capitol hill, is being suggested to catch more fish Congressional lobbyists have un til Oct. 10 to register with the secretary of the senate and clerk of the house, but they're coming in slowly. It wasn't reported in the U. S. press, but Henry Wallace caus ed the state department no little concern by a press conference slip during his recent good-will visit to Mexico City. Wallace had been coached to say nothing about Soviet Russian propaganda in Latin America, but his adviser neglected to tell him that the Argentina was a forbidden sub ject too. When Wallace was asked a question about Argentine affairs, the embassy staff heaved a big sigh of relief when he began by saying, "I refuse to discuss matters concerning the Argen tine," but then they almost went through the floor wen he finished with, "or the affairs of any other dictatorship." The last word just isn't applied in doplomatic circles to any government south of the Rio Grande. Latin Americans are still complaining. Field Marshal M ontgomery, British imperial chief of staff, re vealed a curious mixture of British Brit-ish and American slang on his visit to Washington. West Point, he said, was "geting stuff over" to the cadets "jolly good." He had a little difficulty understand ing what was meant by the "caste system" of officer-enlisted man relations, but once it reg istered he said that caste "cut no ice" in the British army. He said armored forces were "pepped up" all through the war. Infantry used to be the queen of battle, but now, "the old girl's crown has begun to slip a bit." He quoted President Lincoln's letter to Gen eral Hooker. It was a "nawsty" letter that told him he "didn't think he was a very nice chap," and also told him "where to get off." What interested some of the U. S. officers present on Montgomery's Mont-gomery's visit to the Pentagon was that in spite of his reputation reputa-tion for spit and polish and his eight rows of campaign ribbons. two of the pockets on his tunic were unbuttoned. The love charm of the Maori people of New Zealand, known as 'hei tiki," usually is carved of nephyrite. Pickets Struggle in Third Studio Tieup Your Gl Rights VETS BENEFIT FROM FHA LOAN LAW CHANGE WASHINGTON, (NEA) "Veterans "Vet-erans are" now able to buy houses on which the Federal Housing Administration will insure mortgage mort-gage loans up to a total of 90 per cent of the cost, including land. This is the result of a re cent change in the law aimed at making it easier for veterans to buy houses. An insured mortgage loan on a single-family house under exceptional ex-ceptional circumstances may go as high as $8100. On two-family dwellings the amount may be raised from $7500 to $12,000. on three-family units from $9500 to $15,750, and on four-family houses from $12,000 to $18,000. FHA will try to protect veter ans from the danger of getting stuck with home of inferior qual ity in short-lived neighborhoods. The agency will adhere to the same minimum standards on construction con-struction and property that it always al-ways has in approving loan guarantees. guar-antees. Mortgage interest rates are .set at a maximum of 4 per cent annually. an-nually. In addition, there is an cent on the declining balance of FHA insurance charge of per the mortgage principal. The houses are to be built by private builders and financed with loans made by private lending institutions, institu-tions, and insured by FHA. Current Costs Considered In approving a loan guarantee, the new law says that FHA must use as a standard the "necessary "nec-essary current cost." This includes in-cludes FHA's estimate of the typical costs of construction and of land, a reasonable allowance for builders' overhead and profit. and maximum allowable fees, such as appraisal and inspection fees and initial service charges. A veteran can act as a contractor con-tractor in building his own house. or he can supervise the building himself. The maximum FHA loans will be permitted only where they are needed to insure the veteran a substantial house. The new law gives the FHA administrator the right to raise the maximums of the former law in order to assure a good home under inflationary conditions. Q My husband was seriously Injured a month ago. He was just retting started In his own business. busi-ness. It is likely to collapse unless he gets someone to take his place. Will the government pay for a replacement? . A The government will pay a veteran enough to guarantee him $100 a month profit from a business busi-ness he is just starting. If the cost of hiring another man reduces the profit below this, the government will make up the difference. Or, if he doesn't try to keep up his business, he is entitled to a $20 weekly unemployment benefit. Lack Of Trained Specialists Proves Botteneclc In Fight Against Cancer By PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Science Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 27 UJf The lack of trained specialists is one of the serious bottlenecks in the fight against cancer. Research is going forward, but more cancer centers such as the Memorial Hospital and Cancer Center here, are needed. In this center, cancer is detected, treated, studied in the laboratory, and young doctors trained to fight the disease. Experts who have set the pattern pat-tern here believe that if similar centers could be set up in other parts of the country, and throughout through-out the world, one of the biggest obstacles in the way of solving the mystery of cancer might be overcome. This cancer center itself is pushed for room and an extensive program of expansion, including new buildings, is now underway but improvement of this center alone will not solve the problem. The need, cancer scientists agree, ag-ree, is for more and more integrated inte-grated cancer centers. The demand for treatment or examination at Memorial is terrific. ter-rific. The supposedly-well person going there for prevention exam ination must wait several months for his turn. He knows, however, that results are obtained tn this hospital if the cancer is caught in time. No such long delays occur in those cases of known or suspected sus-pected cases. The same results could be obtained ob-tained in all parts of the country if similar facilities' were available, avail-able, medical men say. They believe that when more such centers are operating and there is a better distribution of trained specialists that cancer will be on the run: at least, its days may be numbered. At Memorial Hospital, the teaching is conducted under a fellowship plan in which young doctors may take a three-year course in cancer specialization! Many come from foreign lands to take the course. The value of the cancer specialist spe-cialist is not limited to diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The specialists, because of their training train-ing in the observance of cancer patients are in position to prepare and publish for the benefit of other cancer specialists and for the medical profession generally, material which should contribute to the general fight against cancer. Desk Chat, Editorial Column Answering Curious Cynic . . . ... a man's voice is a sure index to his character. ... the young man who knows his onions is the one who does not eat them just before a date with his favorite frail. . . . Most "self-made" men should have given the job to an expert ex-pert in the first place. . . . if a man could be aroused as easily as his suspicions, we'd have less need for alarm clocks. Acquired Wisdom Older men and wiser men Than you have told me so I must not venture down the road Where the winds of autumn blow! But I hear voices calling, I know someone waits for me Just a short way down the road By the gnarled old apple tree "Dad, what are ancestors?" "Why, son. I'm one of your ancestors and your grandfather is another." "Then why do people brag about them?'.' If you wish to remain cheerful, avoid the companionship of the cynical. In Memory I dream of you as I used to do When you were really here, Not in the starry night A star of eternal light. I dream of you in shades of blue As I gaze at the summer sky. And then I softly sigh, (You always did fly high) I dream of you in all I do Our love will never die. Though you are not here, I feel you near. And years pass swiftly by. Springville Girl. From these older men and wiser men I have learned this: That there is always a hidden promise In every clandestine kiss. For the kiss that is given secretly whatever be its worth Is one of the greatest thrills For maid or man that can be shared on earth. A gag you'll soon hear on your favorite radio program: BARBS By HAL COCHRAN Sometimes the golden wedding anniversary is the day set aside for celebrating the last payment on the wedding ring. m m m Looking down on everybody doesn't help anybody get up. This is the season for the baby contests that give judges a grand chance to be very popular with one mother! Dreams have a habit of not coming true when you spend all your time dreaming. Most girls do a clever job of making up yet young fellows think the paint on their cheeks needs retouching. (Questions will be answered only In this space not by mail.) WE STILL NEED 2 OR 3 WOMEN WORKERS TROY LAUNDRY 375 W. Center Phone 164 The lucky people who have just paid their last quarterly income tax started early in life to tax their brains. Indubitably "Through the medium of the radio, the unlearned are afforded an acquaintance with the best liturgical music and are afforded the opportunity of learning its polyphonic texture and its adequacy ade-quacy as well as its potent rep-turosity." rep-turosity." ... The writer of that blurb probably meant well, but his meaning is obscure. A gag you'll soon hear on your favorite radio program: "There are just two things men thirst after." "Yes?" "Potato chips and pretzels. Students Learn Fire Discipline Mounting interest of Provo school children in fire prevention activities led Fire Chief Lloyd B. Dickson this week to an obvious but interesting conclusion If parents would take the same interest in-terest at home, and practice the same methods their children are taught at school, U -S. fire losses . would undergo a huge decline. Fire drills, for example, com pulsory in an schools, might be used very advantageously in the home. Chief Dickson pointed out. Each member Vhould know exactly ex-actly what to dp if fire breaks out in the house Fire discipline means that each Yn ember of the family have an asligned task and regular drills wil decide who stands by the fire, extinguisher, who closes doors against updrafts, who runs to the nearest fire alarm box to summon the fire depart ment and who la rejrjonsibla for getting the smaller children out of the house. Regular fire drills in the home can be a game, if timed in each instance, but it can be a gam that may save the bouse and even the lives of the family. School fire extinguishers are placed prominently in accessible ; places, Chief Dickson sard, and this practice can be followed profitably by the householder. They should be inspected regu larly and refilled when necessfery. ' Preparing for National lure Prevention week. October 6 to 12. several Provo grades have visited 1 the fire station recently and re ceived fire prevention lectures. Approximately 30.000,000 cubic. feet of natural gas were produced! - by Arkansas during 1944. ELECTRIC SERVICE For expert motor and appliance appli-ance repair see: CHAPMAN ELECTRIC SERVICE 160 East 2nd South Tiff3 V ' -Hl v ,Jr IT', y 3 - (NEA Tlk4) Police attempt to hold back kicking pickets at Warner Bros, studios, Bur-sank, Bur-sank, Calif, aa zumstrlklng worker drives his car through picket Unes irown around studio after long-stand ing Jurisdictional dispute erupted. This Is third tieup of the studio in a year. Truly Marvelous 4 Your Watch Th balance wheel on your watch turns 432,000 times a day or 20X00 revolutions more than the drivo wheel on a locomotive traveling at 60 miles per hour. CHECK YOUR WATCH TODAY AT PENNEY'S WATCH REPAIR 7-Day Service Crystals Fit While You Wait |