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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER ufw WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS' JOHN WINANT: Man of Principle Britons Losing Faith in Socialists; GOP Sees Marshall Plan Limits; Red Hearings End on Atomic Note m John G. Win ant often said he was not interested in politics and political jobs, but in principles, and as a man of principle in public offices, he held determinedly to that philosophy. Released by WNU Features. , (EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those of western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Although not a native of New Hampshire, he served three terms as governor of that state and refused to run for a fourth because he thought someone else should t have a chance! In 1935, he was appointed by President Roosevelt as first head of the new social security board. He was chosen because of his intense interest in the cause of advanced social legislation. Winant constantly was seeking social and labor betterment. He was appointed U. S. ambassador to London in 1941 and served in capacity throughout the war. With the coming of peace, he was made the U. S. representative on the European supervisory council; and in 1946, President Truman named him permanent U. S. representative on the United Nations economic and social that ... On what used to be a playground of a sporting club in Frankfort, Germany, hundreds of famished Germans now wait daily for trucks which come there to dump spoiled food from storehouses of American occupation forces. Adults and children alike search eagerly for any edible scraps with which they can eke out their scanty rations. THE GLEANERS, 1947 WIND-UP- LABORITES: Red Hearings Socialism Wavers The political wind that blow-et- h where it listeth swept across Great Britain in the form of municipal elections and resulted in a severe and significant defeat for the British Labor party. seats were at No parliament stake, but the Laborites lost 652 council seats to the Conservative party, led by Winston Churchill. Since the elections were fought on national issues, they may be interpreted, according to the London Times, as an expression of dis- satisfaction with the Socialist governments record. Interesting from the academic standpoint is the striking similarity between the results of the British elections and the previous municipal elections in France, where Gen. right-win- g Charles De Gaulles Rally of the French People party tallied an amazingly high number of votes (40 per cent) against the forces of Premier Paul Ramadiers Socialists. In Britain Churchill claimed that the election figures proved the So- cialist government had lost the peo- ples mandate it had obtained in the general elections two years ago. And in France, De Gaulle had struck the same chord. Both are asking that new general elections be held; neither is likely to have his request fulfilled. What, if any, is the trend indicated by the two elections? Is west- ern Europe veering from left to right? Despite the political implications, it is more likely that the people of France and Great Britain were not so much revolting against Socialism as they were expressing their dissatisfaction with the physical discomforts and hardships that have been their lot since the war ended. Political philosophies pale into significance beside hunger and in- cold. LIMITATIONS: Marshall Plan . Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.) made it painfully clear to the administration that the Republican-controlled congress does not intend to give an across-boarproval to the Marshall now stands. d : ap- plan as it The senator from Michigan, whose views on foreign affairs are accepted with respect by his colleagues, asked that the administration submit a total bill for worldwide aid proposals. The house activities brought its investigation of Communism in filmdom to a halt by tacking on an ending that bore a strong spiritual resemblance to the final scene in practically every Hollywood movie; It had little or no connection with the events that preceded it. As finales go, this one was typically melodramatic. It involved the disclosure of an alleged unsuccessful Russian spy plot to get atomic energy secrets. Why committee chairman J. Parnell Thomas (Rep., N. J.) chose to wind up the Hollywood Reds probe with a story of an atom plot was as' great a mystery as1 the atomic bomb it- -' self. No Hollywood figure was shown to have had any con- nection with the in- c i d e n t, although ' Thomas previously had declared - that such a connection would be revealed by the committee. Louis J. Russell, committee investigator and former FBI agent, told of the skulduggery. He said that in November, 1942, Peter Ivanov, a Soviet in San Francisco, had attempted to get information about atomic energy research then under way at University of California. Ivanov failed, however, and that, apparently, was the end of it, As the committee adjourned its hearings indefinitely and the tumult and shouting began to die, a Redeyed and befuddled public was aware of only one definite result of the investigation: Ten Hollywood screen writers had been cited by the committee for contempt after refusing to answer directly whether or not they were Communists. That development was destined to turn up next in the courts, where the ideals of political freedom in the U. S. probably world be given an airing. vice-cons- self-confiden- d Bone-wear- j fear-ridde- years. Tennessees orchards are expanding. Her dairy herds are increasing Poultry and poultry products are more valuable each year. Industry Advances. In manufacturing, Tennessee has just begun. The electric energy available in the area is immense. The raw products are near at hand. The accessibility to vast markets is well known. Many industrialists already are moving there and others have their eyes on that area. It is pleasant for both labor and capital to get away from crowded cities. In Tennessee there is pure air. The sunshine is soothing. The hills and valleys are pleasant to look upon. Life is better there. men crave , recreation, All whether they work in an office, on a farm or in a factory. Tennessee provides beauty and variety in pleasure. In eastern Tennessee is Cherokee national forest and Great Smoky mountains national park, with hunting, fishing and natural Cumberland The wonders. mountains, too, are a maze of and ridges, rippling peaks streams and deep cut valleys. The great dams of the TVA system have created a chain of lakes extending across the eastern and western ends of the state, providwith no ing boating and fishing closed season. Reelf oot lake in northwest Tennessee covers 14,500 acres and provides a natural fish and one of the finest fishhatchery NATIVE RESIDENT . . . Gov. ing grounds in the nation. James McCord is a native of TenParks Are Plentiful. nessee. Born in Unionville, he State parks cover 55,000 attractive on a farm. Later he was acres in Tennessee. grew up They contain a traveling salesman, newspaper unusual formations, caverns, na. auction-livestock and publisher eer. After serving as mayor of tural bridges and other phenomena. There are bridle and hiking trails, Lewisburg for more than 25 years, and beautiful highways, and long to was he 1942. elected in , congress of picnic and outing places, plenty He was elected governor in 1944 with facilities for swimming, boatand was reelected in 1946. ing and fishing. But most important of all Just as Jackson rose from the about Tennessee is its people. wilderness to the Hermitage, so They are gracious, friendly, warm-hearteTennessee evolved from a wild Their heritage is and untamed land to the culture a great state' endowed by naof today, and the end is not in ture with rich resources. Upon capital that solid base they have built sight! The frontier is gone, but 1826. the states rich resources rea tradition of which they are Frontier Country. main. Such developments as proud. When Andrew Jackson came to TVA are but the beginning of a Their culture includes a love of Tennessee from North Carolina in richer, finer Tennessee, which beauty in buildings, in cities, in 1788, the country was real frontier, in gardens and in fields. always will retain the Old South farms, filled with individualists, feuds and ' atmosphere. Their 23 institutions of higher learnTennessees forests still cover 0 quarrels, and surrounded by Ining are testimony to their desire for dians. Every man had to be brave, square miles and yield half a knowledge. Their records on the well versed in human nature, able billion feet of lumber. field of battle proclaim their courto fight with fist or gun or sword. Rich in Minerals. age. Their progress from the frontSince Jackson had those characterChief mineral products are coal, ier to their present high developistics, he soon rose to prominence, iron, copper, zinc, gold, silver, clay ment attests their determination to helped draft the first constitution of products, phosphate rock, sand- move forward. Tennessee and was chosen United stone, marble and limestone. Tennessee is more than a state; States representative from his Agriculture is the base of Ten- it is an experience in life and living. nessees wealth. The leading crop is It is not easily forgotten. adopted s'tate. d, nist It policy there. was the familiar pattern of the Communist liquidate the opposition doctrine. The pattern which, during the past year, has been stamped on Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, now has fallen on Poland, too. Mikolajczyk, a lucky man, escaped from it with his life. PRICE OF WAR: 15 Million Those who footed the toughest bill in World War II are 15 million in number. That is how many persons were listed as killed or missing among combatants from 57 nations, according to a summary made by fj. S. Secretary of State George Marshall in the Encyclopaedia Britannicas e history of the decade . d. 30,-00- four-volum- 1937-4- 6. " - multi-millionai- er Commercial growers of fresh hits and vegetables raise their Products primarily for the tables of consumers; but from the time the produc leves the farm until Anally teaches the consumer, the produce wastes away at an alarm--8 ' rate through spoilage. ureeu of agriaultural economics that the farm value of oduct watted amounted to more 300 million dollars in 1946. WNU Features. of rugged Andrew Jackson still lingers over Tenspirit nessee, from the Great Smoky mountains to the Mississippi energy, perriver. His most striking traits of and loyalty are sistency, individualism, honesty, simplicity typical of the state. A product of the frontier, an unlettered youth, Jacksons abilities gained him prominence as a legislator, commander of troops, first citizen and president of the United States. To walk the halls of the Hermitage, his historic home near Nashville, is to feel the personality of the man who loved his fellow men and all things beautiful. The Russia suffered the greatest losses 7.5 million, or one dead man FLY BOY: or woman .for every 22 of Russias 1940 population. Me Flew Heaviest Axis loser was GerHoward Hughes, with 2,850,000, or one in every many, fly in the ointment of Sen. Owen 25 of the 1940 census. Japan listed Brewster and his war investigat1,506,000 killed or missing, begining committee, had the last laugh ning with the Shanghai incident in again he actually flew in the mam- 1937 one out of every 46. moth plywood flying boat, construcU. S. losses were 295,904, or one tion of which had precipitated the in every 500. flamboyant war contract investigaFull cost of the war, Marshall tion of last summer. either in intrinsic valHe had started out simply to make commented, ues or in intangibles, Will never be taxi tests of the largest plane known. Terms like battle casualties, ever built in Long Beach harbor. dollar ' expenditures and similar data are but partial and inadequate yardsticks, he added. We cannot indefinitely underwrite the world, said Vandenberg, thereby drawing attention to a growing framework of requirements uPon which the GOP majority in congress may insist before it approves any plan for economic help to Europe Senator Taft already had asserted that the cost of such aid ought to be limited to four and billion dollars in the next year, pointing out that the Marshall plan asks us for But on the third run,. Hughes put eight billion dollars in the calendar the flaps down and the craft beyear of 1948, an amount he concame airborne. It flew at a height of tended is beyond all reason. 70 feet for about a mile. Tafts stand, coupled with Said Hughes, who had sunk seven insistence on a total bal- million dollars of his own money ance sheet of global aid, provided into construction of the plane which 8 definitive outline of what the Re- he had contracted to build as a publican attitude would be when troop-carrifor the army: congress convened in its Well, I really sort of thought it special session. would fly. COSTLY WASTE By ED EMERINE But Jackson did not mould Ten- it was Tennessee, with its variety of mountains and plains, rivers and lakes, climate and opportunities, which aided his development. Seeing Tennessee is to understand the diversity of places and council. things and the vigorous culture that But his health began to fail, and sent forth such men as Jackson and he resigned his post last December Sam Houston to write whole chapto return to private life and to write ters of American history. his memoirs. Early this month he First Settlement. had finished the first book. In 1769 Capt. William Bean and Then, in his home at Concord, his family built a cabin at the mouth N. H., at the age of 58, John G. of Boons creek, and here Russell Winant put a Belgian pis- Bean was probably the first white tol to his head and pulled the child to be born in Tennessee. Other families came from North Carolina and Virginia, and the Watauga setMIKOLAJCZYK: tlement was established. Stores were opened in other parts of the He Escaped state, soon to be surrounded by cabPlans were made in advance for j ins. to to court sentence us military These pioneers were far from death. their mother states, without govsaid Stanislaw That, Mikolajczyk,,, ernment and without protection, Polands former premier and Peasso they set up their own governant party leader, as he arrived in mental organization. It is said his fled was he had London, why these were the first white men homeland. of America to establish a free y upon his arrival in and independent community on the British capital, Mikola jczyk litthe continent. The leaders were erally had disappeared two weeks John Sevier and James Robertn previously to begin his son. Rusfrom the Warsaw through flight The State of Franklin, or Frank-lansian zone of Germany to the comwas short-livebut it served parative safety of the British zone. its purpose. Tennessee was a terriwas and certain that British It of the United States from 1790 American underground units had tory to 1796, with Knoxville as its capiaided him in the escape. When it 'became the 16th state For Mikolajczyk, this was the sec-- 1 tal. of the Union in 1796, Knoxville reond such dramatic migration. When mained the seat of and the Nazis took Poland in World War continued as such government 1812. The until II, he fled to England to head the legislature, however, met variously Aftei Polish ' government-in-exile- . at Kingston, Nashville and Mur the war, he went back to help in the. Nashville being the capital .freesboro, TM reconstruction of his 'COUfltryT and from 1812 to 1817 and Murfreesboro so doing he and his Peasant party from 1819 to 1825. Nashville has came into opposition with Commubeen the since October 26, Soviet-dominate- com, followed by wheat, oats, hay, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, peanuts, cotton, and a multitude of new crops introduced within the last few (Editors Note: This is another in the "Stories of the Stated series.) DIPLOMAS: For Vets Veterans administration has announced that many of the two million veterans whose high school education was interrupted by the war may obtain high school diplomas by taking government tests. VA said that veterans testing service agencies are being set up in or near every community having a VA regional office or guidance center. The agencies are organized by state departments of education. CANDIDATE: Will Mac Run? The word was spreading, gathering weight and force: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, said friends and supporters of that doughty warrior, would undoubtedly declare, before Christmas, his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 1948. Lansing Hoyt, chairman of Wisconsins MacArthur for President club, said, I am able to set down with the certainty of personal knowledge that General MacArthur will accept the Republican nomination if it is offered to him. Supporting Hoyts declaration, the Baltimore Sun reported that private advices from Tokyo state flatly that General MacArthur will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 1948. In Tokyo, the general wasnt talking, although it might have been significant that, at the time, he was entertaining his longtime personal friend, Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, who is on record as favoring MacArthur s nomination. There also was a rumor that Mac would return to the U. S. next spring. ... TENNESSEE A PICTURE STATE (1) Tennessees capitol in Nashville Is attractive to visitors not only for its architectural beauty but also for its historio interest. (2) The Great Lakes of the South, created by the giant dams of the TVA development, rapidly are becoming famous as recreational waters. (3) Much f Tennessees wealth is derived from its agriculture, of which sheep and livestock form an important part. (4) Tennessee Walking horses, a breed originated In the bluegrass section of the state, have become nationally known as the smoothest gaited saddle animal. |