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Show f EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS I. S. Presidents Respect Members of Fourth Estate News Analyst end Commentator. calm which has In this WASHINGTON. settled over the domestic political scene, many a vest, shirt, blouse, or slip in the capital conceals a palpitating heart. What about my government job after the glad (?) New Year? to post-electi- i I on fear. They The regular classified civil servants havent much can't be fired without cause, and no matter how thorough a new administrations housecleamng may be. most of the furniture lands right back where it was before, although here and there, you may at first fail to recognize an old friend in a new slipcover. Long ago most 100 per cent in high places displayed the New-Dealer- wisdom which they felt was the better part of va- valor and moosed. Others assumed new colors. Some who had not been too careful previously to keep the right band from knowing what the left hand was ing gradually began to grow ambidextrous and soon were able to write the lesson on the blackboard without exposing the wedding-rinfinger. There is however one class of permanent Washingtonians which goes on like the brook. But even individuals in this class may find the nature of their daily tasks differing slightly as administrations change. I refer, of course, to the Fourth Estate which now includes commentators (since radio newsmen as well as newspapermen are eligible to the National Press club), thus establishing at least a minido-r'-- m I s g mum standard of merit. Naturally we who cover the White House always wonder what manner of man we are going to have to handle. While a new incumbent is learning the art of getting his name favorably Inserted into a Washington dispatch or broadcast we have a chance to learn the care and feeding of the source of news which feeds the news to ns. be the public relations secretary in the White House. The other was a man who probably wont be in Washington at all Deweys veteran political adviser, Edwin Jaeckle. There was no conflict between the two, a rare situation indeed. Jaeckle supplemented Hagerty. This would seem to contradict the sharp charges of Warren Moscow, author of Politics in the Empire State" which came out this fall. Moscow, one of New York Citys k political reporters, who also covered Albany, claims that Dewey shut down news sources during his governorship in an attempt to thwart any criticism. That he even tried to lay down a press conference rule that a question was thus covering up off the record, the fact that an answer had been given not to be made public or had been refused. Moscow asserts that Dewey wanted to be the oracle, the one and only, the sole source of what should be reported. If that was true earlier in Deweys career, the dapper New Yorker of late who has been widely-toutefor being able to take advice and for being able to pick people who know how to advise, has had some good advice. If he should revert to methods such as Moscow describes, two things would happen: first, he would suffer; second, he would fail in his attempt, and the effects of the effort might be permanently disastrous. - Some presidents have tried to conduct government by dischecks and balturbing the ances. It never works long and the freedom of the press is one of the checks a principle that is part and parcel of the American concept of government. A notable example of how the very weight of the news, legitimate news, breaks through any wall, was the case of the financial conference called by President Hoover just before the end of his regime 1931', to be exact. Hoover had no intention whatever of deceiving the public. He simply didnt understand that you couldnt have a gathering like without making an adequate I that ex planatl0n of some kind. At any rate just a bare announcement wa' issued. top-ran- d Once Dewey had a bad reputation in this yegard. But then, most candidates are suspect before they start, since it is taken for granted that they all are subject to the disease of presidentitis which affects victims differently. Coolidge, for instance, was perhaps least afflicted with this malady that attacks the strongest individd ual when he walks under the portico of 1600 Pennsylvania avenue to stay for at least four years. And Coolidge was about . as rich in front page material of his own making as the dam he sought to emulate. I remember a remark William Free Press Is Hard, now an editor of Readers Best Check to once me: made Digest, The next day at the White House Cal never seemed to suffer from (Hard invented the news conference. Hoover said he presidentitis he is the only would not comment on the meeting word, I believe) occupant of the White House I know (though the notice had appeared of who, when he lay down to take in the papers), and that he considhis daily siesta, didnt think when ered it the duty of the press not to he awoke that the world had gone print anything which was only parto pieces." tially true, or else incomplete. Richard Oulihan of the New York No newsman, except toward Times, one of the most bethe last, could complain about loved and respected correspondents - Franklin Roosevelt's news conwho ever covered Washington, and of ferences. what Regardless an outstanding leader, made a typone might think of his views, ically dignified, but very emphatic his news was always printable. protest then and there. He said it It will be hard to produce anwas out of the question to ask the other such. reporters not to get as complete a The heavy majority of those who story as they could. It was pointed traveled with Dewey on his cam- out by another reporter paign trips had nothing but praise. that the press would have to have But a few of those who had ex- the story, and the reporters would perienced his press conferences, have to get it, regardless of the and had enjoyed or otherwise his Presidents wishes. press relations in earlier days were The President refused at first, but cynical. the reporters insisted. Finally he until the agreed to give out an official stateWait, they said, honeymoon is over. ment after the conference. I found it hard to get concrete I have known other examples predictions. I myself had seen a of short-live- d gag rules. One vast improvement in Deweys press of the Treaswhich Secretary relations over the years since his tried to estabMorgenthau ury reaAnd no first campaign. I see lish on the treasury. He issued son why a person cant and doesn't an order that none of the treaslearn. officials could talk with ury On the train, wherever he could newsmen. lie might as well (and that is the way most of the have told reporters not to read it described correspondents the market quotations. It failed. not "would), could. Dewey Legitimate news continued to be went into the press car attached reported as it always had been. to his train, chatted individually Franklin Roosevelt had, at one with the fellows, learned to connect names with new faces, answered time, at least 80 per cent of the He against" him. questions, and at least appeared to newspapers be frank and free with his "off the knew he couldnt change their edirecord" remarks concerning Re- torial views by giving out news to publican doubts and fears, real, im- their representatives. He also knew agined, or assumed. He sometimes that if he tried to withhold news, took time for a game of chess the American people would be far less likely to support him. And bewith the boys. cause he understood the meaning There was, however, much of the freedom of the press,' he less Informality In the atmoswouldn't have thought of trying. his entourage than phere of And he knew how to make it appear there was in Trumans. The as favorable as possible. Dewey affair moved so smoothThe most effective check in a ly that a creak or two would is not the first, second democracy have been welcome. Like the or third, but the fourth estate. An so In even the poem farmer unenlightened public conceivably ran his course of life the neighmight elect a totally bad president bors thought it odd. and a totally bad congress which There was one man who made would establish a totally bad supress relations on the Dewey campreme court, but unless the press is paign train a Joy well, two men. gagged, the public in a democracy One was Jim Hagerty, trained re- cannot be democratically porter himself, who is expected to white-pillare- well-know- t i V? 1 1 t U. N. Says Cease Fire in Palestine; Russia continues not only to have great and grievous trouble with Truman Asks More Defense Funds; U. S. Atom Control Plan Approved By Bill Schoentgen, By BAUKHAGE SQUABBLE: Yugoslavia up-sta- rl WNU Staff Writer IEDITOB9 NOTE: Wfcea ttelaa art tiprtMeA la theM Itau, they ara titaaa af mat aaaaarUy al tkia awpptr. Vteatara Ntwipoer Caiaa'a aawa aaalysla a4 George Polk CEASE FIRE: Holy Land Almost before anyone knew what was happening fierce fighting between Israeli and Egyptian forces had flared into bloom in the Negev, southern Palestine desert area. ISRAELI government spokesmen said the purpose of the Israeli attack was to smash open the road to Jewish settlements in the Negev. Blocked transportation lines bad prevented the Jews from running supply convoys to isolated settlements in the district But Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine mediator for the U. N., in his report to the security council, told a different story. Blame for the eruption of fighting in the Negev, he said, was not a "question of black and white. EACH side has soiled its hands in the grim business of trying to win a war through the instrumentality of a forced truce, was his version of the conflict. By the time the battle had proceeded savagely for six days the harassed U. N. security council had had enough. It commanded both Arabs and Jews to issue immediate cease-fir- e orders. Earlier, Bunche had attempted o truce in the promote a three-da- y fighting, with each side holding the positions it then was occupying. The effort fell through, however, when Israel rejected the proposaL EVEN as the security council acted the fighting was spreading from the Negev to other fronts in the Holy Land along the Jerusalem-Te- l Aviv highway, where Transjordan forces were grouped, and northeast of Tel Aviv in areas held by other Arab forces. Results of the security council order, at the outset, at least, were disappointing. Each side tried to shift the blame to the other; neither appeared willing to hold the battle. Palestine truce observers informed the United Nations that the Israeli forces generally appeared to be the attackers in .the new fighting that had developed outside the southern front in the Negev. CONTROL PLAN: For Atoms the United States and differences o! opinion with most of the membei countries of the United Nations, bul her political rift with the satellite also Is growing worse instead of better. THE TROUBLE originally began within the framework of the Comin-for(Communist Information Bureau), the master organization through which Russia controls her satellites, when Marshall Tito said his nation would not bow to the Cominform edict ordering Yugoslavia to make itself a precise model of Soviet Russia In all political and economic aspects. And In recent weeks the heresy of Tito and the central committee of the Yugoslav Communist party has become more absolute and more determined than ever. THAT holds true despite the fact that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj has been displaying firm adherence to the position of the Russian bloc in the United Nations general assembly arguments. CBS was taken out on Last May, George Polk, correspondent, Salonika bay in a boat where he was blindfolded, bound hand and foot and shot through the head. His murderers: Communists. Their motive: Simply to produce a murder, the blame for which might be pinned on the rightist Greek government In order to defame it abroad. Gregory Stakto-pouloCommunist Salonika newspaperman, confessed he had witnessed the slaying and implicated three other Greek Communists. s. DEFENSE: Big Budget World tension had slacked off slightly, but according to President Trumans estimate on next years defense budget the U. S. doesnt intend to relax its vjgilance on that account. THE MILITARY budget for 1949 will be a neat 14.4 billion dollars that is, if Mr. Trumans current request doesnt get trimmed. It represents an outlay about two billion dollars higher than the figure at which defense spending Is running now. (It doesnt make any difference whether President Truman won or lost the election. He still was required to prepare budget estimates for the congress convening next January.) Lady Astors son and dancing atai Katherine Dunham have Londoner! g behind the backs ol their handsl . . . Ambassador tc Egypt Stanton Griffis son, Nixon,and Martha Hughes (the New Ca- I naan sculptor) are now Renotables. . . Emily Hahn, the beautiful novso that from rushed England elist, the new image (due any split-sec- ond) will be a Yankee Doodler. Th blessed event arrives at George- I town Univ. Hosp. . . . The Rex Har- risons want friends to know they are more in love than anybody. . . Ed- - j die Cantors dghtr, Marilyn, and socialite thrush Hugh Shannon ol Le Perroquet are on key. . . . Do the Marcus (novelist) Goodriches (Olivia DeHaviland) know that his Helens been a secret bride since j Aug? Shes Mrs. H. McEldowney oi Pittsburgh's Lorgnette Set. . . . The WALLACE: Freddy Bartholomews should count On to 52 ten hundred. . . . Bill Eythe, star oi Lend an Ear the incorrigibly (due soon), and Wallace, Henry incorrect visionary, who stumped Nancy Kelly are closer than Truthe political experts by getting his man and Oblivion. Progressive party on the ballots of 43 states, now is working hard to Pres. Trumans advisers are keep his party alive for the 1952 begging him to use his title of campaign. Commander-In-Chie- f and reIn a speech in Deverse the clemency decision on troit he criticized "doubters who Nazi butcher Use Koch and othargue that although a new party ers freed by Gen. Clay. . . . ConIs needed, it shouldnt be formed demnation letters to the PresiuntU 1949. dent (over this Judicial farce) WHILE Wallace didnt name any now crowd most of the White names he obviously was referring House mailboxes. to the United Auto Workers, headed anby Walter Reuther, who had The International Airport Show nounced plans to form a genuine" the Golden Jubilee Exposition and d progressive-mindeof third party in New York City may cost the people after the election. The UAW leadership had con- city a million bux, so anemic were . . . New Canaan edidemned the Wallace third party as the tors are checking the tip that the movement a Communist-inspire- d and supported President Truman wealthy P. Hanson Hisses will be news. Hes cousin to Alger Hiss, for IN THE waning days of the cam- who isnt going steady anymore with the Spy Probers. . . . Scott paign Wallace was appealing to his followers to stick with him after Brady of the films and Shirley BalNovember 2. I hope you are with lard are Counting Stars. . . . Eve Orten is Richard Neys new insomus all the way after November 2, he told one audience, putting heavy nia. . . . Arthur T. Robb and Newsweek got unmarried. He was in its emphasis on the word after. Do the ship lines Youve got to drive it home to Press section. e of the UAW, and deny advising against foreign travel the all labor: Where do "we go after after Jan. 1st? November 2? But wherever they were going, OVERSEAS TICKER: Gen. CUty it didn't look like Wallace would and French Commander Koenig ere be in a position to do much guiding. at war on how Allied Germany should be run. . . , Molotov is expected to make a last moment Barrymore entrance at the UN. . . . Arms are being smuggled into Egypt in defiance of the UN truce. Everyone just winks. . Ellen Adler, beautiful dghtr of actress Stella Adler, and playwright lean Paul Sartre are a duetcetera in Paree. . . '. Violinists in Paris swank spots ( such as the Lido) get $2.7 5 per night in U. S. money. . . . The Duke of Windsor may return to England solo to seek an official job. (Wot could doooo?). . . . Field Marshal von Rundstet of Hiller's army, allegedly in prisoner of uar camp in Wales, spends most of his time touring London night spots with British top brass. . Mayor LaGuardias nephew, Rtcb-tr- d Gluck, is now in a Berlin court light over who adopts him. preac k to le av a pr entire :ampl t is di cluck-cluckin- s. IF YOU wanttomai. boy happy and attlJ develop his interest T ing, build one of the press wagons from . pattern offered below t! build. Pattern Is merely auhu., size ggfled Full patterns, tions and numbered sSSSl! take all the materials can be obtZ? lumber yard. No ,er t Send 35c for Pattern CmPany, fanke No a air-tig- odd-angl- r, atom-conscio- irt A cheerful Christ, the news that y0UI budget can be madet wonders with little ta fort. Just write dowai of friends who udre: er .31 io nder ilay smoke, a neighborhood dealer well stocked with gaj mild, flavorful Camel and pound tins of a Prince Albert Smokt; the National Joy Sa gifts come ready-dress- s ful Christmas contain can even dispense wit: fussing with cards, q novel space provide! sonalized seasons p the wrappings of bothn budget will like thes gifts. And your friend) tain to welcome Camels and Prince ... ANOTHER GONE: Nazi General Experts Eye U. S. Mobilization Plans Top military planners work to complete a are rushing of United States mobilization require- spot-chec- ments by November 15. The check will disclose whether the United States over all strategic plan makes sense and whether it can be applied readily. Mobilization experts intend to find out if the requirements listed by the army, navy and air force can be ! j j : ; ; reconciled with one another, and if this nation has the capacity to fill the militarys estimated wartime needs. All this doesnt mean that war is necessarily around the comer prehensive analyses of the strategic blueprint are routine steps in U S mobilization planning. However the Is in line with the faster military tempo these days Corn-defen- spot-chec- Former German Field Marsha Walther von Brauchitsch died in the British military hospital at Ham burg, Germany, where he was un der guard awaiting trial as a majoi war criminal The British armys announcemen' of the death did not state the cause Von Brauchitsch, who was 67 anc had been ill tor zome time, wai scheduled to come up for trial ii Hamburg In January. This metropolis (New York) Is composed not merely of stone and steel: It also contains 285 farms! By cracky, there Is even a farm In Manhattan at 214tb street. Hows crops, Elmer? The word bank originated from ho Italian word, banca, meaning bench. In Venice banking was carried on In the market place. In 1787 the motto, Mind your Business," was Imprinted on coins. 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Tell" to sell you a bottle of u with the understanding I the way it quickly oC" or you are to have yours idar ilayt ir a san ar Of ! :ller CRE0MUU ChestCoI for Coughs, Kelieves s w it h tlonj From Com That IUH ling th rout the he Distress d nair PGdflU d a of a lese IVGflli I C: HI Also Helps BuM ft T Do female functW-turbances make you nervous, irritabl- e- "r try Lydia E. PlnkHV relieve such nympt0 Tablets are also veryI buUd up red blood Lydia E. Pinkham f into wl r i t d but ndc D P wes to 7 . Noi nd Arl top-secr- DEFENSE SURVEY in is gro , left-win- Ye 5. rank-and-fil- Coming Event a ins ( ... The President said that his defense officials had wanted a budget of around 23 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1, but that he had cut them back to the 14.4 most foundered more than once, but the situation began to look a billion figure. WITH RARE candor he admitted shade or two brighter when the it would take a Croesus to that United Nations suddenly steeled its spending as many billions resistance to almost impossible Rus- maintain wanted. His own as the officials on the issue. sian demands Mr. Truman said, was to get aim, OVER the objections of the Soviet a military program the country bloc, the U.N. political committee could pay for. overwhelmingly endorsed the westHe added that he hoped eventuern plan for atomic control as a to reduce military expenditures ally basis for elimieventual necessary to about five to seven billion dolnation of atomic weapons. stateThe conflict which has kept the lars a remarkably optimistic atomic control problem deadlocked ment, coming as it did before the election when he was conceded virAll the way through the now hisfor so long is simply this: When the reported that no chance of being able to torical election campaign one Francos Govtcolyum The U. S. and the West insist that tually sent Japan congratulof control kind any governmental thing was sure: Somebody would ations after the attack on Pearl an system of international spending after the first of the year. get to be President. On that thecontrol and inspection must be esHarbor that fact was questioned by ory work was begun last month on some readers and listeners. tablished before the U. S. would ATOM Some PLANE: stands in front of the Capitol editorialists feel safe in destroying its atomic echoed the denial. . in which will Washington building Seven Years? "This is a canard which cannot be weapons. be used for the inauguration cereThe resolution which the political Look up into the sky in about sevsaid one. . . . Veriwell. proven! mony next January. This committee adopted is generally in en years and you might see an see page 114 of the book, Complawas view taken from the line with the American policy. The atomic-powere- d cent Dictator. The publisher is airplane scudding plenary session of the general as- across the clouds. Scientists now Capitol dome. Knopf. . . . The author is Viscount sembly was expected to give it a think there is a good chance that who was Britain's Templewood, JAPAN: routine final approvaL nuclear-propelle- d aircraft will be wartime ambassador. . . . Page 114 Peculiarly enough, this was the in production by that time. On the Spot says in part: Serrano Suner was first time since Bernard Baruch AN OAK RIDGE scientist, David Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichel-berge- is wrong about the results of Pearl presented the American plan to the M. Poole, startled the former military governor Harbor as the Japanese Minister. He atomic energy commisison in June, public with the announceof occupied Japan, admitted he also seemed to think that it was a 1946, that all of the United Nations ment that the theory of an atom-drive- n might have made a mistake In not iecisive victory for the Axis. In any had a chance to vote on it. Previ-ousl- y airplane has been worked leaving the Japanese a few guns rase, he ordered the staff of his Min-str- y atomic energy was discussed out to completion and is ready to to leave cards of congratulatfor their own protection. only in the security council and the be translated by engineers into IT BOILS down as most inter- ion at the Japanese Legation the atomic energy commission. actual plans for such a plane. national difficulties do these days lay following the outrage. SHORTLY prior to the U.N. acThe nuclear scientists have to a matter of Communism and Jim Farley was recently quottion the U. S. had demanded that thought out a way to tap the power ed from Madrid as saying: the world group turn the deadlocked of a mobile atomic pile, Poole said. Communist influences inside the country. Yes, Ive heard such things problem over to the five great powThe problems ahead are to deAs a matter of fact, said Eichel-bergerers and Canada for direct negotia- vise the engine, fuselage and cong always by the press! Communist pressure in . . . Leftwing or lefthook? tions. trols and to build a shield to proin genera and the Far East Japan At that time Warren R. Austin, tect the planes crew. out may force the U. S. to chief U. S. delegate, had told the Poole disclosed that the scien- a limited rearmament of carry Broadway Stardust: Critic George the Japa rean Nathan (famous for political committee that tists have made up their minds how nese. walking the U.N. could go no further in its to make the best use of the power ut on new shows) rejected an I believe I went too far in disefforts to control the atom until the whose source is the heat generatto occupy a colleagues ex-z- a he said arming the Japanese, Soviet union agreed to "participate ed in an atomic pile. seat closer to the stage. 1 a need few machine gun: They in the world community on a coWhat kind of engine will be used and rifles to lislike leaving my seat empty, he themselve protect basis." to chain the tremendous power conoperative laid. It's unfair to the manage against internal disturbances. HOW much good the U.N. vote of centrated in the uranium fuel? The IF AND when the Americar nent. . . . Whipping up a best-lelle- r approval would do as long as the rocket-thrus- t motor was tried and army withdraws, the Japanese will doesnt always mean youll Russians continued to object was a abandoned, said Poole. Steam turwitfc have to be given ing the bells on the Hollywood cash question that remained hanging fire. bine. turbo-je- t and ram jet all were which to defend something themselves: egisters. Variety reveals the top It was conceded generally that, crossed off. force or a small lve fiction aces have been regardless of how much satisfaction ignored THE POWER unit will be a "nu- strong police the western nations might achieve clear rocket. Just what a nuclear army. jy the movies. Yet they are always Influence Communist in Japan, he vailing about the of expert by thus overruling and snubbing rocket might be is inforsaid, "is about the same as it it itories. . . . Prof. scarcity rhumbas Moscow, the paramount problem mation. All anyone can even guess here.' Cugats They are a nuisance beyonc md sambas are that of preserving the peace prob- at at this point is that it graaaand, but this probably their numerical strength. But it not had been an wishes hed leave the Jokes to moved very far involves a new principle of appliably the the that guy wrong always gets along the road to a solution. cation of power. he experts. pistols. How to establish effective, workable control of atomic energy on an international scale is one of the rocks upon which the U.N. has al- set E Man About Town: May Warn Kidney A Da Modem Jlf Irregular hblt drii, king U rirt tlon throw of the kidneys.) over-tsx- p, ' ?,) d end other sti 'est of lropeno-bio- od. . . w) Toe aay headache. leg DliDte tired. nrvoo.ril' p ol kidney or bla " , linM burnlfl arinatiott. P 1 Try Do kidney to P vwta Tbj century of mended by Aak your I '5 V. wt1 pi lut Id i h cor ers Ibi Iter 1 hig las est I KOI g 1st an |