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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI. UTAH RED FACES: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Dutch Forces Overrun Indonesia; rfl Inaugurations ferhriostly Circumstantial In Pentagon Peace Feeler Offered China Reds; U. S. Stand Settled If War Conies eolamna. ther mrm lhan of tiannH and net Beeesaarily f this newanaper.) EDITOR'S NOTE! When opinions ar Western Newspaper Union's news analyata By BAUKHAGE In theao News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. "The King is dead, long live the King." Thus tWanHent rite Droclaimed a new sovereign who by the grace of God" must take up the scepter. At once a hundred pairs of hands are busy preparing for the coronation. Courtiers and commoners, the noble masters and mistresses of ceremony, seamstresses and workmen, knights and stable boys, each trained to his task begin their work for the great event. Form and program may differ, but where kings and emperors reign, the ceremony, according to the stern law ot tradition, seldom varies in any v " i. m v m 5--- - --e -- amsaiiwa joeiAKAat. ara j Ty-JaAaAiV52?22 "".cy; Y; but the smallest degree. a3 Onlv a cataclysm can effect change. I heard about my first cor-onati- cases of death In office. Five times taken the oath without the usual ceremony for this reason. President William Henry Harrison came into office as a hardy military hero, and, scorning a carto the Capriage, rode itol on horseback. A month later he John Tyler was died. in Williamsburg and did not reach Washington until two days after the appointed date. Tyler took the oath on April 6, 1841, In Brown's hotel in the presence of members of the cabinet. The next emergency installation took place when Andrew Johnson took the oath in the Kirkwooc? hotel a few hours after Abraham Lincoln had died from an assassin's bullet. The first time that a President was sworn in away from Washington since it had become the nation's capital was when Chester Arthur took the oath in his own home in New York City shortly after the news came of President James Garfield's death at Long Beach. When President William McKin-le- y was shot at the Theodore exposition, Roosevelt hurried to Buffalo in time to take the oath in the home of Ans-le- y Wilcox on the same day the when I a President has was 12 years old. I remember it for two reasons, one being the fact that it almost didn't come off. On the very eve of the ceremonial day, the heir to the throne fell ill. All celebration was called off. And then on the day after the event was to have taken place, as the naBAUKHAGE tion waited anxi- iously to hear the fate of its sovereign-to-be, a shocking and ludicrous thing occurred. One of the country's leading news- papers came out with a report of the coronation, mentioning even minor details just as if it occurred (and Just as it did occur later). was This Journalistic faux-pa- s forgotten by most people outside of the profession, but I was to be reminded of it when I went to work on a rival newspaper in London many years later and heard the tale retold as a grim warning to nalists. pressmen and Jour- bare-heade- d Vice-Preside- President expired. And most of us are familiar with the scene in the The editor of the erring Journal little Northampton home where by didn't think he was taking much lamplight a father, as the witnessiof a chance. He knew thecoronatng notary, took the oath of his ion program never varied from the son. and Calvin Coolidge succeeJ-e- d of one sovereign another. reign Warren Harding who had passed Up until that time, I suppose, no away a few hours before in a San English king had ever been rash Francisco hotel. enough to become ill and change When Franklin Roosevelt died the program. at Warm Springs in 1945, Ilarrj As a matter of fact, I didn't take Truman took the oath in the the warning seriously. Later I was White House executive wing. auie to insert much color in my This was "public" in the sense report of thm wedding of a royal that the door to the !ittle office German process by the simple ex- was open, and photographers Sf a of the $fe&ittif translating story and newsmen, this one among nuptial ceremonies .of her brother them, looked over each other's which had ippeared in a Berlin ' heads from the crowded cornewspaper some years before. ridors. But no one could attempt to write up the inauguration of an American Some Variations President from the account of a Took Place previous ceremony. A mere two Another circumstance has affectcenturies is short enough In a naed the procedure of the accession to tion's history, to be sure, but many office. Because of the variability of changes have taken place in our the calendar. March fourth has four habits and customs since George times fallen on Sunday. Until Wood' Washington took over the presidenrow Wilson took the oath on Sun tial oath of office. day, March 4, 1917. n the Presi dent's room in the Capitol, no Presi It Is sair that George Wasn-Inctnever considered himself dent had ventured to keep the law and violate the Sabbath. America's first President, never President Monroe on succeeding re erred to himself or was rehimself had announced simply that ferred to by his contemporaries he would take the oath on Monday, as such, since others served beMarch 5. In 1849. the same thing fore him under the first constioccurred in the case of President tution. The United Stales was Zachary Taylor. But for some reaalready a nation, recognized as son, President Rutherford Hayes acsuch by the presence of foreign ambassadors on tually became President before his pril 30, 1789, time. He was secretly sworn in on the day Washington took the oath of office. Saturday, the third, the ceremony being repeated on the fifth in public. The position of the previous For some years It has been was "presidents" largely honorary considered necessary for an oat-goiand not filled by popular vote, and President, if there Is one, when the day came to Invest Washto take part In the ceremony. ington with the new powers, there Ilisy-esenchas been as much was no precedent, no set of rules expected In the carriage or autto follow. omobile which carries both New York was the capital, and men to the Capitol as the General Washington set out from This was not always Mount Vernon to New York on the so, and both the Adamses made long Journey which turned out to It a point to absent themselves, be a spontaneous tour of triumph the former leaving the city bea with reception at every city along fore the ceremony, and the oththe way. er taking a horseback ride at There was no dearth of ideas as the moment when the guns to the social program. A boomed eut the salute to his barge, accompanied by a bitterly-hate- d opponent. whole flotilla of private craft, carPresident-Electhe Inaugural across t the Perhaps ried the day first Hudson, and he was wined and began to take on its present com dined and welcomed with plexion with the advent of Presi Madison. Ptopl guards of honor sur- dent James thronged Into the capital and th rounding him. first inaugural ball was held Presi But when it came to the actual deadlock occurred. dent Monroe, who followed him ceremony, the The senate argued for an hour as to gave us another precedent whether it should receive the new presence of the marin band But it chief executive seated or whether was left to Martin Van Buren to the members should rise. Indeed, bear a unique honor. He was th citizen to hold they might be talking still If the first American-borhouse of representatives had not that office. Up until his time the Presidents were all former Brits Washington suddenly appeared. then entered the building with due subjects Because of the war and a desire pomp and finally wa led to an outdoor bBlcony where the crowds of to emphasize the "fourth term" a Broad street witnessed his oath. little as possible, the 1945 inaugura D tion ceremonies of Franklin That part of the ceremony Roosevelt look place on the White the taking of the oath out of House portico Instead of on a pla is now an established duors form on the east front of the Capitol eiprecedent, although It was building which is now accepted ther forgotten or Ignored until the usual location. James Monroe's day. The chamNo outgoing President will rid ber of the senate or the hnue vith Harry Truman this year, b where It took place until Monone ex President may attend th roe's time was, boever, ouU fee-li- t ceremonies. The warm ly open to as many of the pubwhich exists between the forme lic as could find room. m small town boy from Miismirt Circumstance has contributed to the wealthy retired ena rieer will variations rf the program. Besides undoubtedly assure Herbert Hoover the moving of the capital In the a place of honor if he wishes to early days, there have been the accept it nn e Presi-dent-Ele- flower-bedecke- d gaily-bedizen- n . . . Describing the offensive as "police action" against Indonesian terrorists, the Dutch government managed to invade the Indonesian republie by land, sea and air in time to enable Dutch troops to spend Christmas on Java. The capital city, Jogjakarta (I), was captured in the first hours of fighting, and the Netherlands forces moved easily through Indonesia in an almost bloodless WAR IN INDONESIA occupation. DUTCH PUSH: nto Indonesia PEACE FEELER: The young Indonesian republic as fallen on evil days. Dutch troops raced through Java and Sumatra in a bloodless occupation, threatening the remaining important centers of the republic. DUTCH MARINES had forged to the outskirts of the Republican army's only oil center on Java. Other Netherlands forces, in a lightning thrust through western Sumatra, were within 40 miles of the chief Republican city on that island. Decrying charges of war and in vasion, the uutcn termed ineir activities "police action.-- Well ahead of their time-tablthe Dutch had effected advances with practically no bloodshed. International diplomats turned eyes toward Washington where the United States had been formally asked to grant "political and economic" support to the tiny republic. The Indonesian minister had further asked serious consideration of U. S. cutting off of Marshall- plan aid to the Netherlands because of the Dutch action in the East Indies. The Dutch announcement on the outbreak of hostilities said: "FOLLOWING a breakdown of informal talks with the republic after its failure to comply with its truce obligations or to reply to the last Dutch note asking for a binding declaration on four essential points, the Netherlands government reluctantly finds itself obliged to take military action against terrorist activities and undisciplined elements in the republic who render any constructive policy impossible."' The Indonesians had some sup port. An American member of the United Nations good offices com mittee charged the Dutch had vio lated the Indonesian truce agree ment signed last January after the first abortive war in Java had ended. " e, There were red faces in the Pentagon building, seat of army, bureaucracy. A citizens' committee had declared flatly that the nation's, military establishment is "cumbersome and costly" despite reported unification. The members speculated that Russia might be trying to achieve 'victory by bankruptcy" in forcing the United States into constantly increasing military expansion. THAT APPRAISAL came from a committee of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government, established by the last congress. Former President Herbert Hoover heads ths whole commission, Ferdinand Eber-stad- t. New York financier, is chairman of the unit reporting on national security. Other members include educators, newspapermen andi business executives. The committee said that "while unification had made the United States far better prepared, the cost were of defense preparations alarmingly high in terms of money. manpower and drain on resources." It cited mistakes it said bad been made by the armed forces, hence the red faces in the Pentagon. It added that President Truman might well have asked for com plete mobilization if he had followed the estimate that "an immediate military effort rather than an To China Reds Time really was running out for the Nationalist government of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yatsen, revered "father of the Chinese republic," was at the helm as premier and had put together a new cabinet. "We have to fight on," he told the cabinet, until we can secure an honorable peace" with the Communists. THUS WAS the cat IP was afoot abroad, intensification of the cold war." The agency making the mistake was not identified in the report, but there was speculation it stemmed from the air force. It appeared, too. that the army had somehow lost track of 9,000 of its tanks. TAFT: Main Event "I CAN ASSURE Sun added: you that we will not surrender outright . . Such a surrender, he said, would mean "scuttling" the nist front and "China would be come a second Poland or Czecho slovakia which I am trying to pre vent." Failure of any enthusiastic recep tion to Madame Chiang's "help, please" visit to Washington and of the .nationalist armies to stem the to Communist hordes combined dim any hope for survival of the present nationalist regime. u test." Taft was only admitting what all Ohio politicians have known and all labor people are saying. To them, the only question remaining is who his Democratic opponent will be. TAFT RECALLED that he had 'read some place that labor has three-milli- on dollars to spend, and they probably will spend one million in Ohio." Standing firm on issues which may ultimately drive him out no-of the senate, Taft served definite tice of his unyielding opposition to any administration move to repeal law outright the Taft-Hartle- y GOOD NEWS: FARMERS: About Food A 6, 1949 If the water is hard add a tablespoon of baking soda before washing your hair with your favorite shampoo. It will soften the water and help dissolve the aceuhiula-tioof dust, leaving your hair will again soft and clean. Reporter Some G hosts'. Cross-Examin- ns Dr. Hjalmar Schacbt go to trial in a few weeks. He was convicted of being a top Nazi and Blanching or scalding vege sentenced to 10 tears. The Vpper tables immediately before quick Court reverse4 this decision and set freezing prevents loss of flavor tint free. The Final Court bas re- and color and makes certain that, Court and ordered versed the the vegetables keep their food him brought back to trial. If report- value during storage. . ers were allowed to and ghosts could be subpoenaed, extra and to make good Easy this is something you'd be likely to for fruit salads is a dressing of tee: lemon juice and honey. Blend equal parts or vary to taste. Question: What is your name? . . . Answer: Adolf Hitler. Blackened copper utensils can Q: Was Hjalmar Schacht a top be with a mixture of Nazi? . . . Hitler: When I lost tablebrightened lemon juice, hinse and salt beeven 1932 elections, the July, in lukewarm water. fore I took over, Schacht wrote me: "But what you could perhaps do, Driftwood, if you cart get it, is with In these days is a word of eood to use in the fireplace, since Your most sincere sympathy. the salts in it make pretty colored movement is carried by so strong . . that victory cannot flames. a truth . elude you for long. You can always from Wflshnhlf vomnv mainf Ta count on me as your reliable asoff fresh paint anrf fabric, scrape sistant" wash in warm suds. If stain has dried, soften first with vaseline, Q: Did Schacht ever raise money then with turpentine. sponge for you? . . . Hitler: By the milWash in warm suds. lions of marks. That was bow I won the March, 1933, elections. If your family likes the flavor of Q: Did he know what the money try sprinkling carrotot and garlic I was for? . . . Hitler: Yes, bluntly a dash gartold the industrialists Schacht had celery sticks with lic salt before serving. brought to the meeting that I intended to destroy the parliamentary system in Germany, crush all Fantastic Story-Tellin- g internal opposition by force, build Children up the Wehrmacht and gain my Is Normal objectives outside of Germany by the use of force. "Mom, there's an elephant im the back yard and he's eight feet Q: And what was Schacht's re . Hitler: He collected action? high! I just saw him and several million marks for me on smiled right at me!" Ridiculous Of course. But what an Idea for the spot, following my speech. Q: Is there any official record of story the next time Jimmy this? . . . Hitler: United States teacher calls for Documents, Nazi Aggression, Vol riod. ume 2, Chapter 16, Page 741. Don't worry if your suddenly begins telling stories. It Q: Herr Goebbeis, did yon will shock you at first, but imagi- consider Hjalmar Schacht a top nation is a good thing if it is di- Nazi? . . . Goebbeis: As early rected in proper channels, It's as Nov. 21, 1932, I made the your job to give tall tales the em- following entry in my diary: phasis due them, and give direc"In a conversation with Dr. tion to that imagination. Schacht, I assured myself that our he absolutely represents point of view. He is one of the few who accepts the Fuehrer entirely." Schacht himself admits this. Indeed, on Schacht's MISCELLANEOUS sixtieth fics. mammoth prunes. 5 lb. birthday, I ordered Diiti. one S2.10 postpaid. 3 cartons carton any the Voelkischer Beobachter, one assonea or o.du, express prepuiu. any H. tier's official paper, to exnuts, olives available. Other fruits, shelled CAL1FBL1T taiimeu, laiuam to Dr. press Hitler's debt Schacht. It did in this language: "In the critical period Planning for the Future? Schacht never before 1933, failed to point at Adolf Hitler Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! as the only possible leader of These questions, the Reich," Mr. Prosecutor, are silly. They are established as war crimes S. and E. C. exhibits (2409-499). Do Americans not read their own reci ds? Upfr in Ohio's U. S. Sen. Robert A. Taft, out of the bag. longtime big wheel in Republican Indications were plain that if noth- party affairs, conceded in a talk ing could be worked out with with capital newsmen that he faces Chiang in the saddle, he might be a fight for his political life in 1950. .unhorsed and peace brought to TO ONE newsman who asked if troubled China by other hands. he had any ideas of seeking the Sun's statement, which could be presidency in 1952, Taft replied,'"! viewed as a peace feeler toward am going to run for the senate two the Reds, came as the Commu years from now. Frankly, my eyes nists tightened their squeeze on the can't see a thing beyond November 2, 1950 or whatever the date big northern city of Tientsin. After his comment about an is. It's going to be a major con "honorable peace," Thursday, January .'. story-tellin- !1 g Classified Department rnr Out of the welter of news of bad No Croesus Contrary to a supposition among things that might happen, came good news of food among them re- many citizens, farmers were not port of prospects of lower prices getting rich on "boom time" prices. during 1949. THE NATIONAL Planning asso ""OR INSTANCE, various food au ciation found this out when it raised Q: Yours was so bad. Dr. Goeb thorities predicted that increased the Question: Should farmers use beis, that it turned their stomachs farm prices food supplies would reduce to some profits from record-higU. S. DECISION: the first few pages and they extent the cost of setting the na to buy more indoor plumbing, give in couldn't finish it. That is all. Next tion's tables in the coming 12 their children better educations, or witness. All Settled . . . Herr Goering, where should to or to this effect a take Europe? trip If it comes to war with Russia, months. Comments did you get the money to rebuild more land and expand where will the United States stand? were forthcoming from the annual they buy German army? . . . Answer: issue of the their farms in the hope of making the Dr. Diplomatic informants had no Schacht arranged it He stole doubt as to the answer. Their National Grocers' bulletin, a publi more money? the savings of the German people Associated of Association National the staid, The cation competent ODinion was firm and immediate: merely lending them to Hitler. Press sampled farmer opinion on by The United States is prepared, even of Retail Grocers. Schacbt himself testified that he inResults: Many these questions. Too, various indexes of wholesale in advance of a formal military vented a system which "enabled e level farmers denied they had made any the Reichsbank to lend by a subteralliance, to coordinate its military prices showed the that "boom time" profits, claiming forces in Europe with those of the declining. to what it government the fuge catmust have been the western western European powers in the In the grocers bulletin, Agricul ittlemen who normally or legally could not do." wheatand growers Ruswith conflict event of open This Is documented in the war ture Secretary Brannan said: the money. a. The United States has entered made allcontended, trials (3728 P. S.). Not only that that generally, They IF SHOOTING ever starts, these the door of the year of plenty. Schacht boasted that he forced the and of farm labor the high price officials said. American forces of Hitler to build his opponents FOOD RETAILERS added rosy machinery the ate profits. up would come under the general operarmaments by loaning their dewith the obser to the tints picture ational control of the western Eu- v a tion that posits to the Nazis. These are silly prices, besides declining ropean commander, Field Marshal slightly, would be more stable in Your own documents questions. Britain. ot Viscount Montgomery, 1949 than they have been in the prove them. But if that Isn't enough of the Montgomery is chairman why call our ghosts to the stand v postwar years. y military staff committee of the when Or. Schacht is alive? householders and Breadwinners western European union. Both news the warmly. 1 But these sources added that greeted Q: Why do yon sourest that? . . . f9sat f could stand a lot of price slashing there is no reason now more than as an ease in such other aggravat Goering: As on of the greatest criminals of all time, my record there ever has been to consider as automobile and would not be complete unless 1 that war with Russia is close at ing problems dollar dwindling shortages, housing hand or unavoidable. In fact, it was value in other fields, drafting of the ratted on my accomp'lces, I think said top officials have great hope nation's the Nazis presented the most magand threats to peace that the building up of real power aboard. youth nificent panorama of depravity in in the western world by devices the world's history ss they cused such as the military arrangement each other from the DOPE: for western Europe will discourage witness stand. P. h WILD. DOIT a A, i. food-pric- V'-- Prince Charlie jT Tit, in just 7 days ... in one ihort week . . a group of people who changed from llitir old dentifrices to Cslox Tooth Powder iver aged 387 briehtrr teeth by scientific test. U'hy not change lo Calox yourself? Buy Cslox today . so your teeth can start looking brithter tomorrow! 5fts. tss counter-ac- the Russians from committing any Fett er Addicts overt act. Federal narcotic agents could HIE COUNTRIES in the western a breather there were fewer take union. Belgium, Britain, European addicts in the United States Luxand dope Netherlands France, the Three experts, writing in the embourg are negotiating now with Journal of the American Medical the United States on more permadeclared there are nent military arrangements. Their Association, embassies are working with U. S only 48,000 narcotic addicts in the state department officials to draft nation now. and most of them are Atlantic region security men. These experts declared tha a north alliance by which the United States the number of drug users ha would be committed to help any dwindled from between 150.000 to member nations if any of them .200,000 In 1914 to about 48.000 the last count. were attacked. Smiling happily as only s young mother can. Princess Elizabeth poses with her baby after the royal Infant had been christened Prince Charles Philip Arthur George of Edinburgh. The prince took all the pomp and circumstance with tongue In cheek and thumb in mouth. Drug addiction Is a symptom of Can't Stay There a basic underlying personality malto the exaccording adjustment, Mr. Truman Housing remained critical. In Deperts, and victims fall into five If there is anything to the adage general classes. These are, in the troit, four families with a total of about he who laughs last laughs order of their numerical Importance: 13 children, faced eviction from best. Htrry S. Truman should be THOSE WHO become accidentalliving quarters they had set up in families, all chuckling fit to kill himself. ly addicted while taking drugs for voting booths. The rent, were allowed to the polHe not only Illness; those who take drugs to ante to payvacant wooden polling lsters with his election victory but, relieve psychoneurotic symptoms; use the persons who learn shacks when they were unable to snatching a hair from the dog that psychopathic find other housing. bit them, he turned up as the "most through association with other adAn otTicial ordered the children admired man" in the world, as far dicts; persons with renl mental ilas Americans are concerned. And lness who feel better while takinn tfiken to hospitals or children's he did it in a poll Dr George Gal drutfS. and a minor group with "be lKiint'9. and gave the parents more tune to find Quarters havior nr rhnretr- ' lup's poll. In fact. POLL-TOPPER- S: pole-axe- d "r-te- Will the Court call Dr. Q: Schacht? . . . Dr. Schsrht, please answer yes or no to the following questions: At the Leipzig Fair, on March 4. 1935, did you say in a public speech: "1 assure you that all I am doing and saying enjoys the absolute approval of the Fuehrer and that I would never do or say anything that does not have . . Schacht: It Is his approval"? public document. In your own archives. No. EC 803. . Q: Did economic you tell the Pomeranian chamber in Stettin on POWDER TOOTH McKewon A Rabbin Ioc, BriJ'port,Ci W VVNU High-Scho- 01- Graduates ol CHOOSE YOUR CAREER IN A GROWING 193(1: "In Germanr there is fortunately only one policy, to work with Hitler, for his goalf re the highest satisfaction fot every member of the people's com munity? . . . Schacht: Ja. January 49, Q: Did bnt at yoo the unveil Hitler's D Rrlehthank July 31, Ifl35. and did yon say: "(irrmany stays or falls with the success of the policy of the , . Srhacht: Jm. 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