Show 460 - reammeg-- EDITORIAL'S itstabitsbod April lb 1871 Mg 5ri1t sake Issued Yory morning by Thu bait gfibint Laic MI Sunday Tribuns Publishing arch If a Tieup Is Called For ' Co Balt lAks City Utah i r"110Neso 3 Delegate Warren R Of the Trmnan Recommendation House GOP Majority Keeps Pledge in Passing Tax Bill :': or'ea' : ' S '''vsit'4--''414iN tN':''''N''' ''''k 4 ixv-A- Austin7s-Indorsemen- t : DAVID LAWRENCE SAYS -- '30 1'947 :0--- : 8- - ' 3 N - e1:400 WASHINGTON — When the house of representatives passes bill by virtually a vote a it may be taken for granted that the measure renresents a preponderant public sentiment The best indicator of this is the fact that 40 Democrats out of the 173 who voted cast their ballots for the bill along with 233 Republicans Considering that only three Republicans voted against the bill out of 236 voting it is evident that the Republican majority is not only cohesive but it can command support on the Democratic side too For several weeks there has been a smear campaign waged against the Republican congress It has been argued that tax reduction would unbalance the budget and bring other dire consequences The truth is the Democratic party is badly split One group is politically sagacious and isenvious because the Republican party has been given the opportunity to gain prestige through tax reduction The other group of course wants to keep on spending indefinitely The spenders in the Democratic membership in congress are still the more numerous inside the mitiority party and one wonders what would have happened if the Democrats had regained control of the house in last November's elections If the Democrats were in control today the economy-minde- d would have been outvoted by the spenders and it is questionable whether any such vote- for tax reduction could have been mustered even with Republican help Without a promise of tax reduction the nation today would be in the midst of runaway inflation and economic chaos The new dealers have been denouncing the Republican con have gress and the been assiduously cultivating the impression that the Republican congress has been bungling its job The trutA is that delays were encountered because the entire congressional structure has been reorganized 'pursuant to legislation passed last year and no congress in history has had to face the reorganization of committees and the rearrangement of procedures which have been imposed on the present congress by statntit Nothwithstanding these steps the Republican majority in the house has given an example of resoluteness in 'passing—within 90 days of the day the session began-- -a tax bill which not merely fulfills the promises made to the people in the autumn elections but dra '' ' - - Austin former senator Delegate Warrens-Vermont one of theinost forceful and f statesmen in 'this utilized the first opening presented by the Soviet delegate at Lake Success Andrei Gromyko to explain the purpose of the American delegation and governmenttheir relinquishment of acknowledged advantittl4 inthe event of a conflict their willingness to aid rt devastated countries in attaining their proposals for peace and and their determination to minimize the scope of totalitarian tyranny and industrial serfdom In defense of President Truman's plan to check the pestilential spread of communism before it engulfs Europe and endangers the rest of the earth Delegate Austin has just delivered a masterly addreps stating the issue EO clearly and concisely that the red representative who wears a veto over each eye and in each ear will be puzzled to put his usual misinterpretation on the sentiments expressed or to ignore the principles expounded Even Gromyko with ten vetoes- already on 'record for the Russ obstructionists must blush and stutter when he opposes President Truman's recommendation of immediate help for Greece and Turkey without awaiting a protracted discussion and a vetoed decision by antipeace plotters in conferences of the United Nations Judging by tactics from which the Soviets have never deviated it has been assumed after checking the encroachments of Communism which invariably intimidates or liquidates opposition in any land on which it has it is too late to wait for either argu-- rnent or compromise Once the red ants cross a border and creep through a state there is nothing left to discuss no chance for recovery no way for right to claim attention except in the ancient court of war Calling attention to the desperate plight of Greece due to the unprovoked attack by Mussolini's minions followed by the invasion of an overwhelming force under Hitler's' orders the concern of the United States government and people for the starving and struggling survivors of those vicious assaults were matters Austin assumed that any person of humane impulses ought to comprehend Not only far-seei- I - - -- I s 1 1 i i ' Did Moscow Order Riots I 1 In Italy and Germany? 1 As though 'in answer to warnings voiced other day by J Edgar Hoover chief of Ithe Federal Bureau of Investigation that the lCommunists in the United States form a dan1gerous fifth column reports are coming in 1from Germany of food riots and of other acts of violence in Italy Although official reports refrain from naming nnmes it is quite apparent that the Communists are back of the Ithe - t i i unrest In Duesseldorf British military cars were overturned and several buildings occupied )by British occupation officials were stoned In Bari three buildings were set on fire by rioters The uprisings in the British zone of Germany are the most serious since the end of the war It has not been reported but it is quite certain that the Germans in Russian-occupie- d In Germany are equally hungry ithese areas however no rioting has taken4 place The situation gives rise to suspicions to put it mildly It can be recalled that Hitler was overIheard in the days just before the outbreak of WorldWar II that he could press a button on his desk and lhrow the United States into such chaos that no aid would be forthcoming from that cntry for any enemy of the reich Is it possible thatthe Kremlin has—or thinks Iit has—a similar push button? Has the word gone out from Moscow that 1 I i I 1 1 q 1 1 I ' I 1 f ) 1 I i 1 many industrious and progressive citizens United Nations relief organization said Mr Austin has furnished Greece with $362- 000000 in food and other essentials Of this amount 72 per cent has been supplied by the United States Another sum of $180000000 is being sent as rapidly as possible Would it be wise or even sane to let the Russians take advantage of whatever recovery has thus been made even ELS Molotov longs to take from surviving Germans a large portion cf the 10 billions of American dollars which may be spent there to put that disillusioned people on their feet? With reference to the recommendation of President Truman Mr Austin declared that therewith would "strengthen the conformity United- Nations and advance the creation of collective seurity" under that international He quoted from the message organization of the president where it said "In helping free and independent nations to maintain their freedom the United States will be giving effect to the principles of the charter of the United Nations" He reminded the Russian delegate that the initiative had been taken by the United States to preseMe sovereignty before' adverse influences couia- - undermine it and said: "The United States regards it as an obligation under the charter as well as a matter of elefor every member of mentary the United Nations to do his utmost to bring about the peaceful adjustment of any inter-designational situation before it becomes a threat to the peace It is evident that the proposed United States program of assistance to Greece and Turkey together with effective action by the security council in the case of northern Greek frontiers would materially advance the cause of peace" The entire address was so conciliatory and convincing that no one but a fanatic could be expected to disregard its appeal Delegate Austin is an orator who tempers his words to the atmosphere of the occasion He would rather convince than arraign But he is cape-M- r ble of putting his ideas into phrases that ring for support and sting for emphasis - changes of pace—mostly Irreconcilable but turning placatory just when the biggest fight was expected—have been a marked characteristic of Russian postwar diplomacy and never more so than In its reception of President Truman's sweeping chal1 lenge to Communist expansion: Rarely has any nation been subjected to such a barrage of attack as the president set off In the United States against Russia Certainly all of the unpleasant things Russiazt statesmen and the press said about us in recent months have been much more than outdone all in 10 days But the Russians throughout this period have acted almost as though they hadn't heard what Mr Truman said or the after comment There has been abi olutely no official reply and the longest stophack In the Russian 1press consisted of a excerpt from the speech of 1 Henry A Wallace opposing the Truman program More than that the conference of foreign ministers at Moscow which had just opened when the president spoke'Is showing progres3 much greater than had been 1 I ' A two-colu- 1 1 1 hoped 1 for: The most astonishing circumstance of all perhaps is that the i have not once menRussians tioned the Truman message to Secretary of State Marshall or any of his aids even in their un1 official 'conversations The expectation had been that the president's declaration would Immediately take precedence in 11 i 4 1 s t UP THAT speech would help rather tAnd hurt the Moscow prospect the reports to the president from 'A logical assumption may be Russians that the don't talk when the other fellow has they feel them on the hip "F armerssays a page 1 item In a produce trade journal "raised year" editorial columns - two-thir- ds Id: 1 4' 1 :!'' — 1 : ') -- e "'V1 t7"7 Z r - - - P 4"-'?- - r ' cr s5411so itt ( — i- '' ' t ' 1it' kz) t'‘ 44 Nt IJ :1 : 4:N-7!':-- q e''' ---- q 141 4w two-thir- CI - -- - F i: :e'Ø '‘ ' ' t -- : te 3t 1 ! f t"i '- t- ' !' 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'""1ik ''SifiVigat z - 1 14 ''''441414 ''' :ii:'::0:11&4IZI) '°° " ' - 4"61'"Cinkoe'- '' DMOIMPoilrelotIttle AMO CAVITY'S '5' :::::1241t'1:!'1at:3--- 0 bak VC) ' t SYMDICATeMor - : -- -s ) !770 '$:'1': iUSIW:3'4 --- p!-i 7a I - i ( 1 1 4 sIc2Astkv - 4 e 0mr''ilr ilw00oodaos rr i:E!f41 ''''''A "ie - l'-- ' Rt6AANMING against Mr Warren This raises BY THOMAS L STOKES a challenge to the president's appointive power which strong presidents in the past have resisted with all their might to uphold the prestige of that high office Interesting a n d significant too was the testimony before the house ties committee by James F O'Neil national vice chairman of the American Legion's Americanism commission and police chief of Manchester N H He would go beyond banning the Communist party and other measures and also investigate "writing" in which he said on Inquiry he included "literature" Shall we begin to gather the books and pile them up in front of ' the capitol and apply the Truman Purge' Challenges Smile Fundamental Rights WASHINGTON—Maybe there are a few communists in the government and perhaps a few more "fellow' travelers" though it is doubtful that there can be many with all the investigations and screening for security purposes during the war What we once knew around here as "new daaler9" were constantly called "fellow travelers"by many people But most of the "new dealers" are gone now out Some few of the government have done handsomely for themselves in the ways of free enterprise by capitalizingisupon their experience in government and their contacts in the practice of "law" here and are highly respectable now As anyone who covers news in this city knows the background of government here now by and large is comfortably middle west and southern This transformation was accomplished by the Missouri gentleman in the White House who has been so successful indeed that he has become a hero of sorts even to conservative Republicans who say nice things about him But Republican political strategists still continue the needling process of the last campaign which was to try to tie the label of "communism' on the whole Democratic party and Democratic political strategists are seemingly sensitive about that So we have Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach advocating outlaw of the Communist party to which Attorney General Clark chipped in with his "me too" And we have Gael Sullivan executive director of the Democratic national committee askNational Chairman Carroll ing Reece of the Republican party to join in a statement indorsing Truman's President "foreign to stop communistic agpolicy prize political gression" ofthe this turbulent seafaux pas son And finally there was Presi - dent Truman's executive order setting up an elaborate system for 'checking a n d rechecking every government employe The Truman "purge" as it is called has its safeguards its apologists point out in that it gives those accused of disloyalty an opportunity for a hearing But so broad seemingly is the power it confers upon the attorney general to define what types of persons may be fired that it raises questions both directly and by its implications about the fundamental rights of American citizens Tom Clark may use it with discretion But he may not be attorney general more than a couple of years longer It is not pleasant to recall the "red raids" after World War I conducted by Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer a Democrat nor some of the activities during the regime of his successor Harry M Daugherty a Republican With all the money to be provided for the new loyalty check system and all the help it is likely that government department-1 and agencies can successfully round up every communist and "fellow traveler" in federal agencies But how far may it go beyond that and in other directions from other sources with the encouragement it gives to persons who do not perhaps have the same standards''' as President energy-commissio- left-winge- an - Copyright 1947 United Feature Syndicate ' 1 4 ( 'I it c7 0 ' He was mobbed by them once in Macy's where he was on a shopping tour Erickson cornered there by the autograph hunters wrote his name on the pieces of paper submitted to him by the customers and Then he decided salesgirls bobby-soxe- rs to make another purchase discovered that he had spent all his cash and told the sale'sgirl—one who had pleaded :for and received his autograph: "I'll have to pay this by check Will It be all right?" "Sorry" she told him "but you'll have to identify yourself" BUSINESS DEPT: Eddie Dowling the lectured a group of young actors about their profession mber that you must look the theater as an art and as a means of making money" he told therm "Then true artists shall ye be" "How much did you make out of 'Sally Irene and Mary'?" one heckler reminded him °It's true I made a million dollars out of that show" Dowling apologized "because Hollywood made a movie out of it four producer-directoract- - or r"'"' 4411- ( n - 4 - I L7 ") - irir :fio o ----) 441114:6 t: eka1 r- - - PI fl ct P1 i L Li Ct7:::27 1 Diamond LisL ii ""”) dLLA) ) J M t ailt- - 214" p 4 I Ai- rr- 9 4 k Unusual! 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On every front page I told you it would be better to say 'No comment"' ed D --- :7--------- 1 -- LI 4e i A 117 7 i I '''-- 1 ) k 1 By LEONARD LYONS MOVIES: Leif Erickson' the stage and screen actor is back from the navy and back to his Broadway and Hollywood comBefore the war mitments Erickson was a favorite of the left-hand- ed S THE LYONS DEN ' A photo shows a drink being passed to a visiting diplomat by Molotov But what kind of a bartender is that to spill your troubles to? A famed industrial designer points aut that practically nothing today is made for the individual Except right-handpitching If it were a little easier for cashiers to handle the pork chop in a $1denominat1on might be put into circulation by the U S treasury 4 te-- - c By H V WADE 'DAyNEs ' jEwELRY 'From 1 REcomi OFF THE aw110d MIEMISton 11) rs left-winge- rs time-consumi- torch? Truman? It was immediately an open invitation to Rep Cox (D Ga) who said that he would try to defeat the appropriation for the salary of David Lilienthal as chairman of the atomic and thus prevent him from holding that office Similarly the house appropriations committee deleted funds for the salary of Edgar L War ren head of the labor department's conciliation service and his regional directors raising another spuriouS "red" issue ds - IMMOIENINIIIIMME101111 prejudices "Naturally" said the boss Russian in the fairy story "I will give you all that stuff conceded us in the Yalta agreement if it was not approved by of the U & senate e so r an fice o 4ct-- i0 0go ots I """ 1 - Marshall now are that the outlook as respects agreement concerning both Austria and Ger- - 1:iO3-- 1 - man-to-ma- g - ' The people of Jerusalem heard that J'esus was approaching They "took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet Him and cried Hosannah" "And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast" The Pharisees were disheartened and said: "Behold the world is gone after Him" In commemoration of this triumphant entry into the holy city Palm Sunday has been observed by many Christian nationalities for cen tuHes Two sects still dedicate palms and processions to the occasion as it was described in the twelfth chapter of St John Palm branches have become symbols of peace and promise They are displayed on wincoundows and gates in many tries today They are material reminders of religious teachings in the hands of converted races They are banners of merit that float above poetic lines in Imperishable epics Palm Sunday was celebrated in bygone centuries by the liberation of prisoners and suspension of legal sentences Otherwise it has always been a purely religiops anniversary the Moscow meeting and that its proceedings would come to a dead stop until after some sort showof an American-Russia- n down The hope expressed in at lease one quarter close to the president was that Premier Stalin would invite Marshall to n discussion covera ing the whole range of American-Russia- n relations There has been no such approach to Marshall but neither has the work of the foreign ministers been Impeded Mr Molotoy as described by American correspondents has seemed more conciliatory and cooperative than at any other time in a year and efforts a half of treaty-writin- g In contrast with the hours-lon- g speeches he was wont to make in debate with former Secretary Byrnes no speech of Molotov in the present meeting has lasted as much as a half hour There has been none of the de- lay and evasion which the Russians practiced so persistently in previous conferences and while Molotov has attacked American and British practices in Germany his assaults even on that score have been less violent than heretofore - The impact of the president's speech on the Moscow conference was considered carefully before It was delivered There was sharp difference of opinion among the president's advisers on that question but with Marshall among those who believed that the r4 GOOD! Palm Sunday Observance In Many Countries many is distinctly more favorable than was anticipated before the president delivered his address The current Russian attitude recalls their Initial reaction to the atomic bomb When Secretary Byrnes prepared for his trip to Moscow late in 1945 his main preparation was for Russian questions concerning the bomb He had figured out to the last dot exactly what he should and should not tell them concerning our atomic development And to aid him in meeting technical inquiries by the Russians he took along President Conant of Harvard university But not once 'during this Moscow visit did the Russians mention the atomic bomb to Byrnes or any of his assistants Conant had several close friends among Russian scientists But not one of them came to see him When Conant ventured to invite one Russian scientist to dinner he received a formal declination sent through the Russian foreign of- 4 N 47 ' displeasure over American aid to Greece and Turkey should be signaled by riots in Germany and Italy? Latin-Americ- el: PA tPt6Ei BUT - tax-reducti- on 4i1 5 ns Soviets Aren't Talking Much In View of U S Firmness WASHINGTON—Sudden 1 WOUL1) TIE self-intere- st JAY HAYDEN WRITES I m The ng nt - de-fro- ' tion self-suppo- - rt I were the ancient Greeks the founders of modracy but modern Greece has given this na- - matically reverses the tide of spending which if not blocked would have bankrupted the na tion ' The trouble about the tax-bi- ll controversy is that the bureaucrats in the administration have been concealing the truth First they put figures in the budget estimates which were plainly padded Not only were receipts underestimated but the expenditures were placed much higher than they should be Then the president took the ridiculous position of opposing tax reduction—a blunder in politics if ever there was one The Republican determination to fulfill the wishes of the people for reform should not be discountedThe time to appraise the Republican record is when the present session adjourns And incidentally there probably will not be as many presidential vetoes as the with whom the wish is father to the thought would like to see (Reproduction rights reserved) LD -- - t - 4' c 1 0 '-- 1 ''--- ' ''' i - - co ) ) i ' |