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Show iHE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1050 JOURNAL . Weekly news analysis Claims Rare Power POLITICS: British laborites Facing Major Test in Ballot Issue Conservatives Rated lewis Battles Old Foe in T-- law Sound & Fury The sound and fury of the up- coming congressional elections was increasing in volume. If the ReH publicans could make it stick, they had found their issue: Liberty To Have Best Chance against Socialism. Coal Stockpile Stands In Years for Victory it appeared the HOWEVER, Low Ebb When At Notoi GOP was running into the same old opinions (Editors Dangerously nre oxprosaed In these columns, they The pledge of Anthony Eden, trouble inability to get along. The nre those of Western Newspaper British deputy Conservative leadAs Pit Men Defy Order Unions news analysts and not necme too element, while pretender, who, with Winston Churchill essarily of this newspaper.) An old and hated enemy was ing, or appearing, to have changed in todays and other party tig-wig- s neveragain at grips with John L. Lewis its collective minds, was, election, is hoping to overthrow theless chomping at the bit when and his United Mine workers. the Labor party, that the ConserAfter a delay which brought him called upon to embrace a more libvatives will work with all nations sharp criticism, President Harry eral attitude. for peace, might have meant more In an closed meeting, memTruman had turned to the device than it indicated. he declares he hates in order to bers of the Republican national EDEN, being the astute world bring order out of the coal strike committee and house and senate diplomat that he is, must know Republicans attempted to iron out chaos. that there are elements in many THERE WERE MANY who had their differences. .They had hoped places, particularly the United begun to wonder if Mr. Truman-kno- wn that a proposed statement of prinStates, who feel that there must would for the stubbornness he em- ciples and objectives be no further support of power for to serve the reserve and unify party ploys when balked ever would the Labor party in England. as a basic platform for the camsort to the T-- law to resolve the With the Laborites position mine deadlock. Now that he has, paign electioneering. often regarded as the fostering of Out of the welter of discord it would cause much delight in the socialism, the more conservative came these arguments within the ranks of the political opposition. people everywhere fear it. It has The T-- law, however regarded, party: been an amazing thing to most stuVigorous opposition to most of has been used several times in nadents of world history how the Mr. Trumans Fair Deal policy. tional emergencies with an effect British, traditionally jealous of middle-groun- d A on U.S. foreign that gives it a real cause for betheir liberties, ever permitted the ing, whether anyone likes it or not. policy, advocating continuance of imposition of this kind of governpolicy, but sharply For, without some such measure, the ment upon them. A reduction of administration the of it. the nation would be helpless criticising the answer to fundamentals might Particular condemnation of secagainst the great unions in several explain that it came about only ret agreements at Yalta and PotsLike a stuck Victrola record instances. through the economic distress of or an old movie constantly reThe miners, however, showed dam. the once proud and mighty empire. Opposition to the spread of comdefiance. They still chanted the old showing, John L. Lewis, mine IT IS APPARENTLY assured union czar, was in the news traditional refrain: No contract munism. that whatever the outcome, the Denunciation of any socialized no work. And it looked like a again, this time with another Labor party faces its severest test coal strike on the boards. contract agreement was far off as health program, wage and price in todays election. he as Lewis the President named a control, the Brannan plan. appears gestures Eden warned, in the first broad RETURN to a balanced budget before the conference table board of inquiry who would atcast of a Conservative speech in contract and talks renewal repeal of wartime excise taxes. during tempt to restore peace in the d the campaign, that the A fair price for the farmers which broke down. troubled situation. United Nations is at its lowest TO THE BOARD, President Truproducts. ebb, the democracies are forced That was the scaffolding for the L. RED man Patternamed David Cole, to pay dearly for armaments, and which the committee son, N. J., attorney who headed a platform of communism Terrific Echo the nightmare would 1948 similar board in that settled hoped satisfy all the Repubstalks through Asia. He made a There was a sudden and dramatic a bitter contract row between licans. First results indicated it telling point in recalling that the in all the talk about Lewis and the operators; John will not All of which would bring Labor party in 1945 declared that interruption or Just as Dunlop, Harvard university busi- smiles to Democratic hopefuls, inif it were returned to power, it the hydrogen was pondering the fate of ness school, and a veteran in labor asmuch as there is little hope for could get along with the Russians everyone a world on which the monstrous management relations; and W. victory at all by Republicans who because of its Socialist ideology along Willard Wirt, Northwestern uni- are divided. It would be tough and how the world situation had weapona might be loosed, the Russians that came report versity law professor and former enough if they were all united. gone from bad to worse since then. chairman of the wage stabilization OPPOSITION SPEAKER Labor-- J already had it. POTATOES: The reporter was an Englishman, board. ite Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskill, would Theirs be difficult the who claimed that job, Canada's l. had told an audience at Leeds that a Mr. de Courcy, Cheaper a L. diffiLewis because was John sources secret the inside had he in the cost of socialism was high t i The muddled, fantastic juggling iron curtain which told him what- cult man to deal with. He might be V I Britain, and would remain high, three-da- y even more difficult since his of federal farm polon. characteristic was ever going . I but declared the cost worthwhile week had reduced the icy was heightened by nothing so work THE CLAIM was a bit rugged because under the Labor govern-- I k coal acnations to much as the recent importation stockpile to a ment acute poverty has really been for the average American supply at the time of the from Canada of a million pounds of abolished. cept, inasmuch as there was still strike. potatoes That was a debatable point about no actual proof the Reds ever had purchased by a New a bomb. food Orleans atomic broker because they was it the Still, which the argument continued were cheaper than those he could nice, frightening topic of talk, and TAXATION: while Britain voted. was discussion rathe? widespread. Get 'Em All buy in the United States. THE POTATOES arrived as the :l EGG PRICES: Naturally, the first impulse was of The the United States Atto U.S. government, loaded with miltreasury a great rushing revamp all iNo Humpty Durapty d lantic defense plans and, perhaps wants to put the tax bite on a lot lions of pounds of of which situatlonrhadi are now not American The to talk of greater more naturally, egg organizations spuds, was offering its surplus to y no chance to rival the nursery I u.S. outlay of arms for herself and paying any income tax on the op- Americans at one cent per 100 eration of unrelated businesses. H Humpty Dumpty story, inasmuch the pact nations, pounds. I The fixed a were made to federal as Amid an excitement ran all the supports treasury price request J. Segari, the New Orleans conjj f I so that no such fall as occurred to undercurrent of spy thrills and na- - congress that this be done, assert- signee of the Canadian potatoes, e egg could hap-- 1 tional menace with the disclosure ing that some labor unions, busisummed it up thusly: j; .1I the nursery-rhymI ness to modern social charhis clubs a and German counterpart. who that had pen leagues, I DONT KNOW WHY I can buy physicist, f THE GOVERNMENT, which al- - I worked with the British in de- - itable and educational organiza- choice potatoes from Canada and had given tions were getting away with non- have them ready owns some 100 million dol- - veloping the down here 4 lars worth of eggs intended to keep secret information concerning that payment of tax that the treasury cheaper than Ishipped can buy them from on buying them through March of weapon to the Russians, insists should be paid. Maine or Idaho but I know I can this year. The idea was to support Vance N. Kirby, the treasurys do it. the price at an average of 25 cents EUTHANASIA: counsel, made it If the economics of the potato a dozen on the farm. the admin! s situation baffled Mr. that clear, however, Segari, he The governments policy was Case in Point tratlon tax program did not con was not alone in his bewilderment. Advocates of euthanasia quaintly stated by one federal of-- 1 mercy template such tax treatment of Many Americans also must have would find support for their religious bodies, except as they wondered ficial who summed it up with: killing at the absurdity of such The hens are laying their fool views in the action, of a Bridgeport, might be affected in the operation a situation. heads off. Conn., jury in acquitting blond of educational institutions. He said the proposals would apThe farm price of 25 cents a Carol Ann Paight of the slaying of INDOCHINA: dozen was about 75 per cent of her cancer-riddeply to labor unions, father, business A jury made up of all parents leagues and social clubs. Big Talk parity, a level calculated to be conto and found fair the producers He also emphasized that the tax equally college girl Just how far the U.S. would back sumers. Producers of dried eggs, not guilty of slaying her father, recommendation was concerned up his warning was still problematthe statement said, would continue Carol Ann had fired a bullet through only with business income which ical, but UJS. roving ambassador to get about 65 cents a pound. her father's head after it was is not incident or related to the Philip Jessup announced in Sing-ajor- e Most of the eggs the government learned he had only weeks to live, exempt purpose. that this nation would regard HOWEVER, there was a techni-year- s buys are dried. In the past two For example, he pointed out, an armed aggression against Indo it has accumulated about 73 cal point on which euthanasia a university bookstore may conchina as a very grave matter. pounds of these eggs, most ponents might find a place to tinue to sell textbooks to students, HE SAID he believed Russia and at a price of $1.26 a pound. Some stand. The jury did not actually an agricultural college run Communist China were poised to may are stored in a cool cave near acquit Carol Ann because the v a wheat farm in connection with go all out in aiding Moscow-traine- d Kansas. The rest are in ing of her father was an act of its educational I program and a so Ho Viet Nam republic warehouses in other sections of mercy. Instead, the jury accepted cial club may sell food to its mem in Indochina with material aid and the defense contention that the girl bers without i the country. tax-e- x its affecting troops. THE QUESTION of what to do was temporarily insane when she empt status. the unrelated Only The ambassador was making a I with them has become the major killed police sargeant Carl Paight business would be taxed spark-plu- g the g tour of the Far East. problem. The law permits the de- - in the name of mercy; or chinaware IT WAS big talk he was making, factory run by A wave of j partment of agriculture to give applause swept the a university. and might have some effect. If it I' them away if they are kept out of courtroom when the jurys verdict The treasury seemed to demondidnt, how much face would the commercial, competitive channels, was announced. Said Carol Ann: strate a current and decontinuing U.S. lose in the event the thing the This restrictsjhem to welfare pur-- 1 I am very happy. I am grateful termination on the part of govern- ambassador warned to the jury. against should ment stop its leaks. come to passt Thundering Again 11-d- ay H H an three-memb- er just-ende- . H-BOM- B: b. two-wee- price-supporte- 1 Gertrud Voleynik, (right, Berliners by shocked above) claiming the power to raise the dead and heal the sick. She first amazed Berlin when she drifted in from eastern German territory and issued an appeal to parents of recently deceased children to bring them to her for revival. There were no takers. The healer is shown here attempting to cure a paralyzed woman who said she felt much better after treatment. FOREIGN AID: Bottomless Pit? The question of whether the United States ever would be freed of the burden of supplying economic aid to Europe was beginning to occupy the minds of many U.S. citizens. With more than eight billion dollars already spent on efforts toward European recovery thats on the basis of released figures and western European nations now asking for another four or five billion for the next two years, the astronomical figures were becoming more astronomical. The apparent situation indicated that all the ERP supporters had to do in order to get more funds for European aid was to report amazing progress by the foreign nations on the road to recovery, and immediately temper that with a but the but being that more and more money would have to be spent if recovery were to be permanent. The Marshall plan is supposed to end in 1952, but the follower of U.S. foreign policy as it affects aid to needy nations would lay the cue that the plan stomary 1952. will not end in By that time, with crisis mounting on crisis because of the immi and word that ence of the Russia already has it, it logically may be expected that there will be found multiple reasons for continuance of aid to Europe to an extent whereof ho man can see the end. eight-to-fiv- H-bo- ; . b, tax-legislati- ve 1 n op-milli- shoot-Atchlnso- n, Chi-min- jj fact-findin- tax-recei- pt hs As jitters mounted over reported leaks and treasonable acts concerning the secrets of the hydrogen bomb, apprehensive officials and citizens were further disturbed by reports that a former clerk in the French consulate at Stettin, Poland, had confessed he had led an espionage network that obtained information on British military movements. He was identified as Andre Simon Robineau, The accused said that Great Britain was the unnamed Atlantic pact country cited in the Polish governments indictment againsl two Frenchmen and four Poles. It was believed that Robineaus testimony, which took four hours, waf only the beginning of Britians involvement in the case. In a peculiar way, the western world that is the average citizen! of countries in that alliance might glean some hope from the revelation; it might be assurance that all the spying is not being done by the cold war enemy, and that when an aggressor starts into action the western worlds own spie! will know it in plenty of time to do something about it. j Released by WNU Features |