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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH GRANDMAS WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Gen. Clay Out as Oerlin Chief; New Rent Curb Formula Attacked; Bill Wins in Test Taft-Sfartl- ey (FDITORS NOTE: When pinions sre expressed In these columns, they ore those Western Newspaper Union! news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) BERLIN: Clay Is Done Gen. Lucius D. Clay, stormy petrel ol American administration in Berlin, was relieved of his post as military commander in Germany. The action was taken at the generals own request. CLAY, who has been widely criticized for his apparent soft attitude toward German war criminals, notably in the case of Elsa Koch, the witch of Buchenwald, frequently asked to be relieved of notorious German horror camp, had his command. He said he wanted to return to his home in Marietta, Ga., and go catfishing. Clays leaving would open the way for appointment of the first for civilian high commissioner Germany, something the army has been wanting for a long time. PRESIDENT TRUMAN, in making the announcement Clay was to leave, said the general deserved the thanks of the American people for his execution "of one of the toughest tasks and accomplishments of American history. It was no secret that the President and Dean Acheson, secretary of state, were trying to persuade John J. McCloy to take the assignment in Berlin. McCloy is now head of the international bank for reconstruction and development, a position which carries a $30,000, tax-fre- e annual salary. Pending the appointment of a civilian commissioner, President Truman announced military government deputies and two generals would carry on Clays work. The United States, Britain and France have agreed to arrangements for turning over civilian control to the Germans when a provisional government is established for the western zones. Meanwhile, hope continued for r an end, through negotiations, of the Berlin blockade by the Russians. four-powe- Radio actress Mrs. Ted Steele Is shown just after she was chosen as Miss Loyalty of 1949 In ceremonies on the steps of the U.S. subtreasury building in New York. LABOR LAW: Rough Going If a big league scout were reporting on Harry Trumans performance congressional against moundsmen, he would have to say: The President simply cant hit fast ball pitching. And that certainly appeared to be the case. Mr. Truman had been to bat twice already. In his turn during the Mon. C. Walgren appointment to head the national security resources board, he had struck out. Next up with his civil rights program for a bat, he struck out again. Now, with his espousal of repeal of the labor law, he was at the plate again and, with the house of representatives pitching, there were two strikes on him. FOR THE HOUSE, by a vote of approved the Wood bill which retained most of the features of the law. Administration forces were plunged into gloom. But a coalition of southern Democrats and northern Republicans were jubilant. They were bent on retaining the law largely intact, and at the moment they were victorious. The Wood bill would repeal the law on paper, but would most of its important features. For instance, it would retain the injunction in national emergency strikes. It would keep the present oath requirements, but would apply them to company officers as well as union officers. conIt would ban closed-shotracts, but permit them in any state which took affirmative action to permit them by state law. SPEAKER SAM RAYBURN had made a plea to the house for a compromise bill he put forward in an effort to salvage part of the administrations program, but his speech was in vain. Whatever else congress might be doing, and whatever good or ill might result, lawmakers were serving notice on presidential candidates that campaign promises to enact or repeal this or that law ought to be conditioned, with the candidate making such pledges adding a word to the effect that those pledges would be kept provided congress cooperates. Taft-Hartle- y 217-20- 3 Taft-Hartle- y HOUSING: Nobody Pleased The government, it appeared, couldnt please anyone in its efforts to implement the newly-enacte- d rent control bill. Scores of landlords and tenants in New York turned out in angry confusion after Federal Housing Chief Tighe Woods announced a program for putting the new law into operation. Woods had come up with a plan which he hoped would provide owners of rental property with a fair net operatThis was one .thing ing income. the new law said should be done. BUT WOODS, in a personal appearance in the nations largest city, stepped personally into a hotbed of landlords inquiries. Landlords assailed the Woods formula as giving inadequate reto lief property owners. The formula was confusing because it contained so many indeterminate factors. It was intended to produce a net operating income of 25 to 30 per cent of gross income on some 14 million dwellings throughout the nation still under federal rent control. As Woods expressed belief both landlords and tenants would be happiei under the new formula, a of laughter murmur surprised swept the audience which overWoods hall. flowed the dashed from the meeting, where he answered some 50 questions, to a conference with New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer. WOODS SAID the new formula goes right down the middle, protecting landlords against rents that would deny them a fair profit, and protecting tenants against being charged a higher rent than the fair net operating income allows." Meanwhile both property owners and tenants seethed, each fearing they were being put upon by the Woods formula; landlords obviously resentful that specific rent informula which they feared held nothing but bad news for themselves. One most probable result of the formula was that local governmental units would be disposed to let existing conditions alone without petitioning their governors or state legislatures for lifting of rent controls in their respective areas. NEW DRUG DISCOVERED hard-presse- Loyalty Queen d Taft-Hartle- y , Taft-Hartle- y y p Enough's Enough Grandma was getting fed up. Enough was enough. And she was becoming vocal about it. Mrs. Lyn Greene, president of the New York chapter of the National was the Grandmothers club, spokesman for the grandmas, the spearhead of a drive to make grandma a respected member of every family. MRS. GREENE and all the other grandmas were up in arms against all the corny gags about grandmas too. They were and mothers-in-lain a crusade to ban such alleged humor from the face of the earth forever. And they held some powerful weapons in their arsenaL For instance, if the jokes aren't banned, the grandmas said, there no would be no more baby-sittinmore crocheting, no more cookies and cakes. That was the grandmas ultimatum. Also knitting needles would stop, not one lullaby would be hummed, and daughters going home to mother after a tiff with their husbands would have to find hotel rooms, instead. THE GRANNIES were tired of being made to appear as jabbering, ridiculous troublemakers. But the grandmas were fair about the whole thing. In return for a new status as a sweet, lovable old dear they would agree to mind their own knitting. Mrs. Greene, a professional artist, philanthropist, mother of two sons and grandmother of four small children, believes she Is just the person to take the giggles out of references to grandmas. THERE ARE STILL a few rocking-chair grandmas, bridge-tabl- e grandmas, and drudge grandmas who need to be reformed, she said, but contends this reformation will never come about through silly radio and movie jokes and sillier cartoons. Eventually Mrs. Greene and the thousands of other grannies in the national organization hope to win so much respect that October 10 will be proclaimed as national Grandmothers day. Stop Worrying Have a lot of headaches? Well, stop worrying. That, according to a Columbia university headache study will cure your noggin knocks. THE STUDY was conducted with 531 men and women as subjects.' These sufferers were given three kinds of treatment. One made use of drugs supposed to help headmake believe" aches; another drugs, and a third a technique in which doctors spent quite some time talking to patients about their worries. In the first two treatments, the make believe potions worked almost as well as medicines designed especially for aching heads. The patients never knew which kind of drugs they were taking. It was learned in the study that best results came from combining drugs with conversation about worof treatries. The conversation-typ- e ment is known as psycho-therapIts purpose is to discover emotional and mental conflicts. In many cases the sufferer does not realize he has these conflicts and is likely to get better when he learns about them. HOWEVER, mere knowledge of the conflicts isn't sufficient. The patient needs faith in his doctor to make this knowledge work. Sometimes this relief depends on how often the doctor sees the patient Anti-Allerg- suf- ferers. An industrial physician reported that an drug has been found effective in controllmg commanti-allerg- symptoms. Dr. Halstead G. Murray said that 75 per cent of 494 persons treated during early stages of colds reported "they were cured or had their symptoms alleviated." on-cold Disliking the common life, exiled King Leopold III of Belgium h.as PRAYER FOR U.N. CHAPEL (The United Nations is to provide a chapel in its new home where men of all nations may pray." News Item) In this small room will be the cathedral, the mosque, the synagogue, the temple and the parish chapel. I. PHILLIPS Within these four walls will be ever God they worship. the prayer-rooof the world. Here the representatives of To this place let the white man all peoples shall come humbly and the black man, the Christian and devoutly In their separate and the Jew, the yellow man and faiths and reach understandthe brown man, the Hindu, the ings that will save a stricken world. Moslem and the Buddhist men of all races and creeds gather to Here let them kneel separately hear the still, small voice of what and at a time of their own choosing and ask their God or gods that their words and actions may never make a mockery of the precepts of whatever religion they observe and cherish. m Guide them as they Invoke You. their minds clear and make their decisions just; rid them of suspicions, fears and hatreds. Let them never lose sight of the belief that the Supreme Being of their own faith and of all faiths loathes war and holds peace and the brotherhood of man foremost. Keep M of peoples from the four comers of the earth been in a more dif- spot; rarely have human faced tasks more colossal; have their decisions meant death, joy or misery; laughtears to so many millions. Grant that they may not quibble over the details of this room, its appointments or its ficult beings never life or ter or mood. Good Friend President Truman had some bet The drug, pyribenzamine hydroter friends than he thought. David chloride, was administered in 50 S. Wright, 84, proprietor of a feed inmilligram tablets at four-hou- r store in Dunkirk, N. Y., offered tc tervals at the onset of a cold. The advance cash to President Trumar drug is used extensively in the on his salary check. treatment of hay fever. It is classed Reports had said Truman reas an antihistamine because it ceived only part of one month'! neutralizes histamine, an irritant cheek because of a congressiona substance released by the body in deadlock over a deficiency appro allergic reactions. Checking results, prution bill. teslcis found: Wrisht wired the President. prayer. Here may no man forget that to every faith a man of any other faith may find the essence of his own faith: The belief in divine guidance. Prayer is universaL' How strange that until now those who have come together from aH parts of the earth to face the most complicated problems of recorded time have failed to provide a common meeting place in which to seek guidance! Of all moments in history when men of every race, color and creed needed divine council, this is desperate. How barren and hopeless have been these edifices of world peace without recognition of a God above! How futile in council chambers of 100 rooms without one room for a Creator! May this quiet room be hallowed! Here there is no publicity; here no photographers, no newsreels, no microphones, tensions. Here he may sit not as an important statesman, harassed diplomat or instructed agent, worried? over the reactions at home, but: rather as a child reaching for dn which he has confidence,, pleading for the light, believing, that nothing matters more than a, cause be just the-mos- t s the-han- ... e the-moo- ami-wisdo- ill. man to be more wholeheartedly disliked than Henry Spafford. The reason for it is his braggartly qualities, his oversearing sense of importance. We tolerate him because we like his wife, Madge, but even so our toleration is a chore. The other night I was over to the Spaffords and sat through an hour of Henrys bragging. It seems that the big boss in New York Henry is employed by the Jason Reid Steamship Company called up the Philadelphia office where Henry works and Henry answered the phone. "Jays a great guy, Henry told me, referring to the incident. Hes asked me to run up to New York to see him a couple of times. I must remember to do that. Whos Jay? I asked. T HAVE NEVER known a STAGECSCREEN, By INEZ GERnARD LITTLE over two years ago two young men, a singer and a comedian, decided to form the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Today they are considered top entertainers, switching .from night clubs to radio to movies with the greatest of ease. There is no definite format for their NBC program on Sunday' nights, except that they can be expected to show up on A Jay? Why, Jason Reid, owns the line, of course." Oh, I said. Kirk Douglas is back in later. by the use of a common meeting place for meditation and Help them realize that if men can fight and die as allies, they can worship and live as allies; that men who serve together in the This room shall be no device of same armies and navies and in the architects, blueprinters and consame cause can worship in the struction crews, its value to ber same cloister and in the same hope! measured in dollars; this shall be a room dedicated in the spirit of 7T a hushed chamber-wherHere let all men find that if all faiths every man may find there is to be one world there must of his own temple. be one brotherhood, one depth of devotion, one abiding confidence in Within these walls may the United a Supreme Being. Nations see the universal altar and find that guidance, inspiration Make them understand that without which there can be-nif a man is not contaminated in the use of another mans lasting peace and no brotherhood of man. council chambers, routines and customs in daily considerations, Here at last there is room in the1 he can never be contaminated inn! Holly- wood after a New York visit that People whose feet have ever hurt them will feel a twinge of sympathy for mailman William E. Lilly, Jr., of the Los Angeles post office who took 5.000 letters home with him. Lilly was jailed despite assertions he meant all the time to deliver the letter have the representatives Seldom doing! TRUMAN: Medicine Battles Colds y There was new hope for cold By H. MARTIN. AND LEWIS time. They have just completed a Paramount picture, My Friend Irma; Martin is Jane's romantic interest in the movie version of the radio show, and Jerry, an orange-juic- e salesman is his side-kicGive them another two years and theres no telling what theyll be LEOPOLD: ex-ki- . . . THEY CAN WORSHIP AND LIVE AS ALLIES So Tired Wants Throne r. All Races to Have One Place to Pray for Peace HEADACHES: 8G9-se- made it clear he wants to return to the throne of his country. THIS was made known in a letter to his brother, Prince Charles, Belgian regent, in which Leopold said: I am convinced you are sharing my views that the time has come for a return to constitutional norThat would mean, of malcy. course, an end to the regency and return to kingly rule. HOWEVER, the outlook for any such development appeared dim. the Belgian Leopold surrendered forces to the Germans early in the war and became a prisoner-of-waHis action in that respect was criticized by many Belgians. The has not returned to his country since the war. He has been living in exile in Switzerland. IF MEN CAN FIGHT AND DIE AS ALLIES Have you heard about Henry? I asked when we were seated. I guess, answer. I grinned, thats the. And it was. Henry and Madge-wer- e Hal nodded, avoiding my eyes. over three days later. I un"I met the poor devil on the street this morning. I dont mind saying derstand youve got a new job? i: remarked to Henry. that it was an ordeaL" "Yes, he said with a bored look' I thoughtfully lighted a cigaret. on his face. Bob Taylor called upi I said, think of Madge. Hal, soon as he heard that I was free,, Isnt there something we can do? as and asked if Id consider a position said Hal, Ive been Well, with him. Well, you know when a man offers you more money wondering, too. Poor Madge. He coughed. I called Bob TayI glanced at Betty. There was a. lor of the Taylor Lines this faint smile on her face. I suppose morning. Bob says that he might she was amused. I hope so. Bebe able to do something for cause an hour later, with Henry-stilHenry on our blowing, I was mad enough to choke him, and almost did. l CROSSWORD PUZZLE who The way to get along in any business, Henry went on, is to let the boss know right off he can depend on you. Thats the way I am with Jay. ACROSS 1 5 9 I left the Spafford borne an hour later, furious, that I had stayed so long, pitying Madge and disliking Henry with a renewed sense of disgust. Something, I told Betty, my wife, "ought to be done about that punk. Now hes calling Old Man Reid, Jay. 10 The thing to do, Betty smiled, is to be' amused at his ravings, not annoyed. He doesnt hurt any one, and theres always Madge to 17 was strictly business; he covered the swing cafes, getting background material for his first starring role, in Warner Bros. "Young think of." Even Madge, I replied, wont Man With a Horn." keep me from hitting that guy one of these days. Something," I reThe famous coach in which King George V made his cereought to be done about peated, monial drive at the Royal him. Ascot race meeting will be Whether or not my thinking about used in a sequence in Alfred it had anything to do with what Hitchcocks "Under Capricorn. happened a couple of days later I will never know. Henry was fired. Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton and Michael Wilding star. Without warning or explanation he was given a couple of weeks pay Lucille Ball, of the movies and and was bounced out on his ear. CBS My Favorite Husband, My first reaction when Betty told may be a glamorous star to other me about it was one of exuberance, people, but to her bandleader hus- a fiendish desire to rush overUJiere band, Desi Arnaz, she's "Johnny. and gloat, to sneer: "I told you so! He gave her the nickname because, dont you call up your friend. around their ranch, she looks like Why wise Jay, guy?" But this feeling a tomboy. 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