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Show 4 . Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1947; DAILY HERALD Turkey Starts on the Path vTbvard True Democracy B MENNO DUERKSEN . United Press Staff Correspondent . - ISTANBUL; Dec 24 0U9 In - Turkey, the police still can grab you, slap you in Jail ana noia you as long: as they like without telling you why, filing charges or notify ing your family. . - But the Turkish parliament is about to oass a law stopping those tactics. That Is democracy coming to Turkey.- o ' ; , . Lea vine the self-confessed dic tatorship of Ataturk, the Turks -are being fed democracy so fast and in such large chunks they are . having trouble swallowing. But they are trying, and they like it They are clamoring for more. . America's fighting war-time GIs probably never dreamed they t were having a hand in the matter, but most political observers here agree that they did. When the American army helped knock Hit- lers cloud castles apart in Europe, it helped bring the Bill of Bights to 19,000,000 Turks. Backed Wronr Horse . : It happened this way: Everyone Jcnows that Turkey played footie with the Germans during the war. When the Nazi swastika was riding rid-ing high it looked as If Turkey would aim her guns' at the western west-ern allies. Germany had the material ma-terial and' know-how Turkey needed. But when the high-lying Nazi eagle started getting his. tail feathers feath-ers tangled in radar-directed ack-ack, ack-ack, the Turks decided they had backed the wrong team. They aimed their guns the wrong way. There never was any question of the Turks going to bed with the Russians. The Turks had fought too many wars kicking ambitious Russian territory-grabbers off their land. It used to be the Czars and now it was the commissars. f But they still are Russians and we don't like them," say most Turks. t i tm w ft swing: Aowmruu. ov That left the western allies, and America was top-dog in this camp. Turkish political leaders saw what was happening in other nations in the Russian sphere and .decided the only way to keep the -small Turkish nation independent and free was td make friends with the United States. .America was a land which took her democracy" seriously. Turkey, with a one-party system, was practically a dictatorship. Some of her laws still were a hangover from the days of the sultans. President Ismet Inonu decided that had to be changed. He began, in June, - 1945, by suddenly announcing.' that from then on, all political parties, pro vided they had no foreign connections con-nections like the Communists, were legal. It caught the Turks like a . thunderbolt, but in six months they had organized, . the opposition Democratic party! -;. : , Once the new party was, born, U grew like a-ram-drencbea. Texas thistle, l iny, unknown a weekly newspapers which backed the new party grew almost overnight into powerful dailies. Big, powerful papers backing the old, one-party system, began to fade out. The Democrats prepared for the next general elections . scheduled for early in 1947 and . were sensation ally . successful, . : Leaders of the ' old ePople's Re publican party, gasped, although they managed to remain' In power. Inonu Acts Again . Almost everyone agreed that the president was on the side of the young progressives! Fearing the possibility of a government unset, he made another bid for public popularity by startling his nation once more. Last August, he announced that he was ready to resign as head of the party and to serve his county as a non-parti san president. The Democrats had demanded that police powers be curbed. The People's party hammered out i a police-curb law. It is sure to be passed. i The Democrats demanded com plete freedom of the press. Actually, Actu-ally, pressure of events of the past two years has practically freed the press already; A newspaper suu can be closed by court action -for "unreasonable criticism" of the government but, in face of bellig erent public opinion, the govern ment would dare use this power only In an extreme ease. The newspapers criticize their govern ment daily and freely. And that is why Rep. Karl Mundt of the U. S. house of representatives, rep-resentatives, during his" recent visit to Istanbul, said: Turkey is the most democratic country. I have found in Europe." Senator's Meals Cost 65 Cents The senate took a long look at its figures this year and promptly went out of the restaur ant business. -. Things had been alarming enough in the preceding five years when operating losses in senate restaurants totaled over $200,000. But when the. fiscal year 1947 added $68,000 more to the red side of the ledger, something some-thing had to be done. Capitol architect David Lynn was shelved as chief restaurateur last Aug. 1: The senate rules committee com-mittee hired a Chicago concern to manage the restaurants, bought more than $10,000 worth of streamlined equipment. The patrons pa-trons say the food today is better, bet-ter, hotter service is faster and they can get the "best dollar meal in town for 65 cents." The new management believes losses will be cut by 35 per cent in 1948. Even so, taxpayers will pick up a senate dining check running well over $44,000. 7 - - -1 - X - f - ; . . t Holiday Glitter f i v"" mat -i. i f I I J 5 I if 4 satin ... ana rar eon. tribute' to splendor! oi ensemble (above). i Saving: Associations Increase Assets f CHICVAGO (UJ0 Officials of the. United States Savings 'and Loan League announced that 148 savings associations In the United states now list assets of $10,000.- OOQ or more. That is an increase of 21 asso ciations in the top bracket class over 1948. The largest association which is a -member of the league is the Perpetual Building Association of Washington, D. C, with assets of $88,388,788. . IT TOOK FOUR TEARS t CNYDER, Okla. CLI.R) Local football fans hoped a Jinx had been broken when Snyder high school beat Grahdfield 21-12. It Wallace U Run for President NEW "YORK; Dee. 24 (bM&ror mer Sent Elmer' A. Benmm of Minnesota today urged Henry Wallace to run for nresidenf aiwf predicted he would receive the nomination or the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party next spring. . Benson, also a former governor, gover-nor, wired Wallace and said; h Joined "the millions who call, pa you o ieaa weir xignt in Novem ber of '4S Wallace has "transformed "trans-formed the 1948 camnaien Intn great crusade to return the gov ernment to the hands of the people," peo-ple," he said. . . was the first victory for Snyder m lour years. . Bx tfPSlti KINARD NEA Fashion Editor NEW YORK (NEA) Gleaming Gleam-ing satin dresses and glitter-lit woolen suits will help the New Look cut a swathe at Christmas parties. Many designers use jeweled touches to accent new silhouette features of woolen suits. Anna Miller, for example, puts multi color stquin enwooery on the pockets of a hip-rounding wool jacket This jacket tops a wraparound wrap-around black wool skirt that closes at the back with a flying drape. Other designers use fur instead of fireworks to whoop up the mid-season mid-season look of splendod. One of the most luxuriant ensembles combines wool, satin and fur. To a clack dre&k wiui -a 'flaring wool skirt and torso-sheathing satin bodice, designer Maurice Rentner adds a cape of gold-colored wool, hooded and lined with black seal fur. The shimmer of the satin dress is highlighted this year by rich color. A top favorite 1 fold-toned beige, called "Carthusian brown" after the Flemish Renaissance' paintings which" inspired It. Designer De-signer Brownie uses the new color for a monk-styled satin cocktail dress. She concentrates fullness at the back of its skirt, ties the dress at the waist with a silk cord, and dramatizes the over-all silhouette with a monastic cowl which does double duty as a colorful hood or a decorative collar. I: m 7 i Congressional Agriculture Committee to Start Work Next Month on Long-Range Program SUCH PRICES NO MORE BETHANY.'. Mo. (U.R) How'd you like to buy a fat hen for 26 centsa Jien turkey for 79 cents, a duclc for: 15 cents or a goose for 50 cents? Well, you lived 50 years too: late. Those prices are from the farm ledger of ihe late Joseph A. Brentonl'' WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U.R) 1 Chairman Clifford R. Hope of the house agriculture committee said today there is "only a 50-50 chance" congress will approve a ltng-range farm program in the forthcoming regular session. The Kansas Republican said a good many congressmen now seem convinced that farmers will not face any serious price problems prob-lems for some time. They believe shipments to Europe for the emergency aid program approved by the special session will keep up the demand and prevent a price collapse. "If a long-range aid program for Europe is approved in the next session, I suspect this feel ing will become even stronger. Hope said. "Under these circumstances circum-stances there's only a 50-50 chance congress will pass long-range long-range farm legislation." He said the "agriculture committee will start work on the long-range farm program soon after congress returns , next month anyway. Hope said congress "unquestionably" "unques-tionably" will continue the present pres-ent wartime farm price support program for another year. This program obligates the government govern-ment to support most farm prices at 90 per cent of parity. Parity is a measure of how much goods a farmer can buy with the income from what be grows. The price support program was set up by congress to assure farmers a fair price for their products when wartime demands tapered off. Hope is said to feel that the srpport price program should be overhauled next session perhaps on a sliding scale ranging from 70 to 90 per cent parity. Under this kind of program, pro-gram, the government, by eutting. the support price, could discourage production of certain crops when they threatened to spill over into surpluses. If more abundant production were needed, the support level could be boosted. Some critics of the present pro gram claim mat the support level ia.uo nign. iney say it encour ages over-proouction of crops luce potatoes which can be pro duced inexpensively under mod em production methods. Congress next session also will I a m . It '.:.' . Jit?''- . : r no" A V J X mfl 0 y A a -. Our greetings go out to you for the merriest Christmas ever. May yours be a holiday overflowing with happiness and good cheer. With our Yuletide greetings and best wishes for a happy New Year go our heart-felt thanks for your kind patronage of the past for your continued patronage in the future. SHRIVER'S L be confronted with renewed demands de-mands to overhaul the parity formula itself to include the cost of farm labor. Experts believe this would hike the ' cost of the support program, from 10 to 30 per cent. Supporters of the idea contend, however, that labor is a legiti mate part of the farmer's production pro-duction costs and should be included in-cluded in the parity formula. The formula now includes everything from the farmer s food basket to his automobile. B-29 Sets Up New Distance Record SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 24 (U.R) A new long distance flight record rec-ord for combat equipped super-forts super-forts has been set by a Spokane army air field based B-29, the commanding officer of the 92nd wing of the 15th airforce announced an-nounced here today. The superfortress took off from Denver the afternoon of Dec. 17 and flew a distance of 4539 miles in 22 hours and 50 minutes before be-fore returning, CoL Albert J. Shower said. The previous B-29 record, set by the 8th air force in early November, No-vember, was 4410 miles in 42 hours, 15 minutes. a. V May this Christmas bring you gladness and a full measure of contentment. And may J the New Year v. open up new vistas of happiness!! Utah Timber fr Coal ' Co. 164 WEST 5TH NORTH -.Mt-:- : Ms? Cti msTtnAs W 1 - H is r - V r ? - v 1 S v V Xv . 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