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Friday May 9 1947 Pubtlshln Laka City Salt Co STEWART ALSOP NOTES Britain Looks to Peanuts For Solutions of Empire Utah Impartial Judgment and Unforced Votes Needed on All International Issues Two of the foremost military men of the present era are also great Americans Recognized as warriors of the highest type — leaders who could not condone nor conduct campaigns of cruelty such as the axis sought to glorify in the recent global conflict —leaders who are honored in both military and civilian circles of this and every other civilized country of the earth — are men to whom the people and politicians of this republic should listen in these uncertain times General George C Marshall and General Dwight G Eisenhower are Americans of a stature that compels attention — men who hold the welfare and perpetuity of this government above any personal or partisan consideration — men who will not permit factional animus or advantage to sway their judgments or to color their counsel — men to whom the executive and legislative branches of government should listen since all other plots plans proposals and predictions will mean less than nothing unless a just impartial and durable peace is achieved and an organization is created to enforce disarmament and destruction of atomic bomb plants wherever found It is not believed that any thoughtful unbiased patriotic citizen of the United States nor any alien who has been striving for the formulation of an effective enforceable peace pact will refuse to accept this appraisal of or to discount their the wo intense and intelligent interest in the survival of civilization under the leadership of this resourceful democracy And yet in the face of a sinister opposition that has changed the tactics but resumed the conquest begun by a fanatical fuehrer there are Democrats and Republicans in congress so shortsighted so indifferent to public welfare and so susceptible to political personal or pecuniary advantage they lose sight of potential perils which could render all such allurements null and void To paraphrase a significant inquiry propounded by the Prince of Peace one may ask: 'For what are a people profited if they shall -- men-mentione- i fti 111 - ur Another German Gangster Convicted of Crime marshal should not cause anyone regret Kesselring sets the value of lives so his is worth no more than one of his victims Although the conviction and sentence to death of former Field Marshal Kesselring for war crimes committed in Italy comes as an anticlimax to earlier trials it should still command a share of public interest Atrocities against the former allies of nazi Germany in the final period of the European war were passed over by many Americans in the excitement of a victory which was steadily being achieved by our troops This nazi gangster also described as one of Germany’s foremost military strategists readily admitted responsibility for the caves massacre in Which 335 Italians were slaughtered in reprisal for the slaying of 32 German police troopers As g military strategist Kesselring made an efficient record on the western front in 1940 But his defense of Italy at a later date was not so outstanding although his armies did put up a stubborn resistance against the advance of American and British troops making their way up the peninsula To be a “foremost strategist” in the Germany army one must be part monster and part soldier The ruthless ordering a" slaughter of innocent people for infractions of military commands was an integral part of the German way of making war Lives of humans were to them the cheapest commodity on the ' iparket In thi3 case the execution of a former field Forced Landing Banned From Busy Traffic Lanes Ar-deati- ne llpl gain political power and lose the peace essential to the exercise thereof?” Both of the men mentioned have taken active efficient and conspicuous parts in attempted suppression of evil movements to dominate the earth and enslave its inhabitants they have also requested some assistance from the national congress of thi3 republic they asked that an adequate sum be loaned to certain countries that have exhausted their means in keeping communism from usurping their respective governments as it has established itself in a dozen other nations that ought to be permitted to choose their own forms of government and elect their own officials Both of these leaders know from bitter experience the power the purpose the patience and persistence which enable communism to extend its influence and fasten its tentacles on bewildered populations and both have requested congress to battle the approaching peril to popular government but without apparent avail Politicians seem inclined to erect barriers of boys rather than of bonds to check the spread of communism According to the New York Herald-Tribun- e the house cut the foreign relief bill to “the quick or the dead” by a vote of 225 to 165 — there TSfeing 190 Republicans and 35 Democrats calling for such reduction with 36 Republicans 128 Democrats and one Laborite favoring the amount deemed necessary by the president by the two men mentioned and by many newspapers of both party affiliations In a scathing editorial the Herald-Tribun- e a leading Republican newspaper of the nation had this to say of the cut: “The house is beginning at the wrong end with a poor understanding of the instruments it is necessary to wield” That a reconsideration is possible after a nine-hodiscussion more recently conceded might send the bill to the senate That Speaker Joseph W Martin favors the full appropriation is an encouraging omen The best way to prevent another war is to check the spread ' of communism Traffic policemen of New York City seem to be cpnfronted with problems not usually given consideration in safety conventions Aided by signal systems most policemen keep their eyes on pedestrians who challenge death at intersections and dart from behind parked cars into the path of progress In the nation’s metropolis it is becoming necessary for patrolmen to glance upward as well as toward right and left A few expert fliers have crashed some of the most imposing skyscrapers in the city or in the world for that matter just as motorists strike wayside shade trees power poles or stationary vehicles A particularly aggravating case of traffic interference occurred the other day when a pilot trained in the flying service of the army took a glamorous ballet dancer for an aerial spin over Manhattan to encounter engine trouble that caused the plane to settle down in the middle of a busy thoroughfare Neither of the was hurt by the forced landing but both seemed shocked by receipt of a summons to appear in court to answer the charge of landing without a permit and not observing stop signals It may become necessary to revise city ordinances in most municipalities if flying becomes half as popular as g on the surface of the solid earth joy-ride- rs joy-ridin- with you” That sounded better antiL I assured him that "Chet” my roommate would be AMERICANS ALL WIp iff "life: r-J' Ppi II ii lip By DR DANIEL A POLING The joke about the banker’s kindlier eye is international but I don't like it My banking experience has been limited but I have known a few bankers and In each instance both eyes were kind My first experience came in Dallas Oregon two weeks before I graduated from a fresh water college to which I owe vastly more than I shall ever repay I was broke— completely! Money earned hoeirg prune trees working in the harvest field acting as agent for a laundry and writing the county news for the Portland Oregonian had all disappeared I had never dealt with the local bank nor with any other but I did know the cashier Ralph E Williams Ralph was an enthusiastic football and basketball rooter the friend of everything our small campus attempted so I went to ‘ see him L 41 i In later years Williams became a rational figure successful in business and distinguished in politics— he was chairman of the Republican national committee I saw him last in Philadelphia when he was setting up offices for the convention which nominated Wendell Willkie for the presidency and it was in Philadelphia that he suddenly died But when I went to see him in Dallas that day he was just another friend of hopeful youth I told him that I needed 5125 to buy a suit and other accessories for commencement pay for my diploma clean up a few small bills including a balance on tuition purchase banquet tickets for two and provide a small One balance for emergencies hundred ’and twenty-fiv- e dollars traveled far when I graduated Ralph Williams listened to my story and then said something about "collateral” It was a new word to me He explained and then added: "Of course someone could sign the note glad to accommodate us Unfortunately "Chet” was impecunious too indeed he was also looking for a loan It was then that Ralph Williams turned on me two kindly eyes "Well Dan” he said “would it be all right if I signed 'the note with you?” It was and he did! Copyright 1947 New York Post Corp THE LYONS DEN By LEONARD LYONS Nelson Rockefeller chairman of the mayor’s business advisory committee — a group of 35 civic leaders designated by O’Dwyer last year — has resigned The committee received none of the promised appropriations and Mr Rockefeller felt there was a If and when the movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is made Helen Hayes will play the role originated on Broadway by the late Laurptte The AFL will team Taylor Henry Morgan and Milton Berle in the first of the entertainment series of broadcasts sponsored Edmund by the union Goulding —the director —whose one song "Mam’selle” made the Hit Parade has become a member of ASCAP William Harris the Fdrtune editor dined at the home of David Sarnoff recently A discussion arose about an article In Fortune "We can settle it easily” Harris suggested "Let’s take a look at the magazine” Host Sarnoff apologetically confessed that he does not subscribe to Fortune and that there wasn’t a single copy of the magazine in his house Last week Sarnoff dined at Harris’ home At 11 pm Sarnoff told the run-arou- nd f host: "I must listen to the 11 o’clock news program In which room is there a radio?” CoL H C Adamson Is at Johns Hopkins hospital for treatment of the spinal Injuries he suffered in October 1942 when the plane in which he was with Eddie Rickenbacker flying crash-lande- d in the Pacific LABOR PROBLEMS By JAMES J METCALFE Some jobs are quite important The salaries they pay and Are all that anyone could earn In any working day other tasks are The 'compensameager and tion low' According to what bosses are Expected to bestow But there are occuThe labor does pations where not fit The wages and the hours that Are figured out The efforts may exfor it ceed by far The money that Ls made And then again Be highly the worker may And that ls why overpaid we talk about Our losses And why the and our gains To country always seems suffer labor pains While ' LONDON — It is at first sur- prising to find large numbers of stolid British Labor party officials talking excitedly about "groundnuts” Even after it develops that what they really have in mind is peanuts it is difficult at first to understand why so much enthusiasm centers on the lowly goober Yet this widespread fascination with peanuts is one symptom of a momentous change in British policy which has been taking place almost unnoticed For slowly ponderously the whole weight of British imperial policy has been shifting and there are signs that a step or two behind British strategic policy will shift with it i What has happened Is that Africa has been slowly replacing India and the far east ns the focal point of the British empire Moreover fen attempt is being made to export the limited British version of socialism to the British possessions in Africa Any good doctrinaire socialist Maneuvering for ’48 Lulls Sound Fury on Labor Bills WASHINGTON — The main dish of the new Republican leadership is turning out to be The something of an entree union reform legislation upon which the nation was supposed to rise or fall is attracting less and less sound and fury The lobbying groups are still at it but less than you would expect Senate reporters claim to have seen no sign of the A F L-- I O buttonholers or the N A M-of C bell ringers since the senate committee closed the hearings and reported out its bill moderated Ads are being bought by opposing sides in the newspapers The AFL and CIO held a futile But aside from such developments the propaganda has a partial routine flavor’ This is attributable to the rather clever strategy of the big unions in getting the jump on the bill by closing two-yecontracts for substantial wage increases before it could be C C (Ives-Dewey- ?) get-togeth- er ar Union tactics 'have passed turned toward settlement of its heaviest disputes before the legislation can become operative As the union leaders were scared out of the indiscriminate national wave of strikes in which they indulged themselves last year except for telephones and coal the legislation is not subject to critical current application Then furthermore the realization is beginning to grow (although it s not being publicized) that the unions can work rather well under either the firm house reform bill or the weaker senate committee measure Their ability for just collective bargaining will not be impaired materially by either bill certainly not by the final form of the legislation which will be somewhat less than the house bill but more than the senate bill Neither would break the unions At any rate the legislation is experimental and no doubt will be altered by experience next year From any SENATOR FROM SANDPIT By HAM PARK Recollect that the Almighty who gave the’dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit — Sir Walter Scott Dogs If you call a man a wolf he is happy When you call him a fox he is ’ proud But if you refer to a canine a dog Be sure you don’t say it aloud You may call him a bear or a lion And he’ll think you have called him a king You may even call him a rat if you smile For the name doesn’t mean a darn thing You're his friend if you call him a tiger But call him a dog and you die For the epithet "dog” is an insult supreme I never could understand why For a dog has more virtues than mankind Read the news if you don’t think it's true A dog doesn’t murder his wife or his friends — He leaves that for humans to do A dog Is both honest and loyal He isn’t a gossip or snob Unless he is hungry he leaves things alone— It is only his masters who rob Then why should his name be an insult? Is he worse than a wolf or a bear? If there’s any objection to using his name I’m sure it’s the dog who should care — Miranda Snow Walton Notei on the Cuff Department "Dear Senator: A letter was sent recently from our town to a newspaper in a town six miles away and it took exactly a week to make the trip Following Its arrival the sender received a postcard from the editor containing this message: “ ‘It seems we have one week’s mail service between our towns now In keeping with the centennial year they must be sending the mail by pony express’— Calamity Jane” Not long ago a news item paid tribute to a woman who had "successfully reared a son age 3” Ordinarily when a son reaches health and not in jail a parent may consider him Just the successfully reared same though I read where Henry A Wallace’s mother is still worrying about him and he is fiftyish t An Idaho invalid writes that she tried out my system of putting callers fb work when they came to see her and asked if there was anything they could do Now she says they don’t call any more 21 is in good H’m The other day I bought the missus a housecoat equipped with a zipper It fitted her nicely and she liked the style But when she tried to take it off the zipper refused to budge From the looks of things I may have to return it with her in it objective viewpoint it merely lightly turns the federal setup against the worst abuses barTake the industry-wid- e gaining restrictions for instance The ban could hardly be effective The unions can get around it While an international union would not be allowed to dictate terms to a local it could recommend terms and the local could ask it to suggest terms Through internal union connections between the international and local the unions could do much as they now do They could certainly get around this proposed senate amendment which the unions call "harsh” much easier than they got around the Hatch act You never hear much of this truly objective side of the story because the propagandists on both sides are viewing with alarm in order to influence the final form of the legislation as much as possible for their respective sides Furthermore the bills are sunk In politics all kinds of politics personal inter and intra-part- y This is a year Mr when lines are forming Truman’s next year Georgia delegates have already called at the White House His representatives in the senate are trying to be coy and create doubt as to whether he will sign whatever bill congress passes The politicians all expect he will veto it for political reasons if no other The major Democratic strength outside the south has been among the unions and city political machines which were allied politically and the veto would be designed to perpetuate this alliance for 1948 As Gov Dewey’s man Senator Ives cast the deciding vote which weakened the senate committee bill (7 to 6) the supposedly leading Republican presidential candidate has assumed a ‘ character against tor Taft and also Speaker Suez canaL The younger men believe that the canal would be closed on the first day of hostilities and that the strategic objective must therefore be not to keep it open but to prevent its use by a potential enemy They thus lay the main strategic emphasis on two points— East Africa to be developed both as the paying proposition in the new empire and as a main strategic base and middle east oil which the main African base would be designed to protect For this purpose it is believed that control of the Arabian peninsula in case of war and total control of the Persian gulf and the Indian ocean will be necessary There is also some belief that a rd base at Basra in Iraq is essential Two facts are of Interest in this strategic assessment First the only potential enemy which the plan envisages is the Soviet Union Second it is obviously a basic assumption that the world commitments of the United States and more especially the American commitments in the near and middle east are such that in case of a Russian attack south the United States and Great Britain would inevitably be partners in the war which would immediately ensue Copyright 1947 N Y Tribune Inc that socialism knows PAUL MALLON OBSERVES weapons have made It exceedingly unlikely that it would be held open In case of another Second there will soon be little or no empire in the far east lor the lifeline to lead to These new factors have led to a disagreement (in less dignified circles it would be called a row) now in progress among the makers of British strategic policy The sides are almost exactly divided according to age The older admirals and generals still think primarily in terms of British communications with the far east Hence they emphasize the need for strong positions — in Palestine Cyprus Egypt and elsewhere — for the protection of the are mutually contradictory terms' Yet British history is a history of somehow making inherent contradictions work From the tentative beginnings now under way of which the “groundnut scheme” for East Africa is the most ambitious something new under the sun —a socialist empire —may yet emerge The groundnut scheme will be an attempt to apply the principle of the TV A (an experiment which has had a profound effect on British socialist thought) to East Africa with peanuts substituted for electric power An initial outlay of about 25000000 pounds will be used to establish a corporation for the production of peanuts on a grand scale Thus it is hoped first to raise the miserable standard of living of the East African natives It is hoped second and by no means incidentally to correct the most serious deficit in the present English diet— the shortage of fats and oils — to which some dieticians attribute the low rate of production in British industry In this way it is planned to eat the socialist cake and keep the benefits of empire too The groundnut scheme is only the most expensive of a number of similar schemes all centering on Africa This shift of this new imperial focusemphasis has of course Us strategic and military implications For generations the young men at Sandhurst have had it drummed into their skulls that British strategy in the Mediterranean and the middle east is designed to guard the “lifeline of The lifeline led of empire” course through Gibraltar and Suez to India and the far east Now two new factors are tending to undermine this first commandment In British strategic thinking First the lifeline was closed during most of the recent war and the development of the long range plane and the new mPJ main-forwa- A sidewalk opinion poll showi a hearty meal of steak and potatoes is still the choice of the American majority Strangely enough one misses the usual nonvoting seven per cent who never heard of food We’re the type of bookstore browsers who picks up this new volume entitled "Cats Cats and Cats” to see what it is about REFRIGERADCri fee Cube Maktrt Fhk-te- o Machines Air Conditioning Walk-I- n Doors y ur1 iT’ - WAR ERICHS J Q VA L E at 0 GRANITE FURNITURE CO 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