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G VRTAND UTAH Korea a House Divided Between U S and Russia By BAUKHAGE “AFTER seeing talented Deborah Kerr’s fine performance in the thrilling “The Adventuress” it is easily un- News Analyst and Commentator WNU Service 1616 Eye Street N W D C Washington A WASHINGTON of couple months ago I wrote a piece about Korea for this column It was largely a factual report and when I wrote it I realized how little I and perof haps you know about Korea I have been realizing that for many years but not too I think many that the - some first time Korea quartered with a young fellow In a barrack in F r a n c e in World War I He talked in his sleep That was bad but I couldn’t understand enough what he said So I asked him He said: was a missionary in father “My Korea I was born there When I have a nightmare I talk Korean” Korea est omnis divisa in the partes duo unam incolunt Red army el unam ( south of a dividing line drawn by Stalin and American the by Roosevelt) army The agreement was that the two nations would set up a unified proand lure the visional government Koreans back into democratic life Then things began to eventuate Roosevelt died and he couldn’t tell meant one Stalin that “democracy” and something thing to Americans quite different to Marxian schooled Russians Oh quite different But regardless of academic defiaccordnitions this has happened ing to General Hodge's own statements: The Russians have drafted Koreans in their zone into an army They have set up a Communist regime in their sector We haven’t done so well with our in our sector brand of democracy Not because of lack of good intentions nor of the efforts of General Hodge (so his enemies admit) but due to a lot of things including the spectre of the past which has harassed the Koreans They like America But all they have got from us in the past is vague promises Other with Japan took nations beginning them and tore them They have faced a historical array of broken promises from the great nations Koreans thought they were promised independence “in a few days” That after American occupation misunderstanding was due to the fact that the Moscow agreement who was translated by a Korean was possessed of more native optimism than knowledge of the Engon the From then lish language Americans attempting to abide by their understanding of the Moscow decisions have tried in vain to get an agreement out of the Russians which would be the basis of a unified Korea behind a unified provisional Korean government Today Korj?a has become one of those explosive areas where two meet where the two ideologies great empires left in the world (the U S and the USSR) face each Neiother for better or for worse ther thinks it should retire and allow Korea to erecl a government which would take its pattern from the other What’s going to happen now? We are going to get a little tougher with the Russians and if we can be released from that ambiguous agreein our ment we’ll let the Koreans zone set up their own provisional government They already have a parliament of their own but General Hodge has a veto and he will keep it until we see some kind of a Communist free from coalition pressure— or any other kind of pressure of which there are a lot It will cost money Blatt Proposal for Higher Teacher Pay from My folks came onginaUy New England We followed the various migrations west In Jerks But my New England ancestry is the only reason I've always been proud of American schools As a school boy I had a tough time because I wasn’t tough enough There were a lot f fights that had to be negotiated But I came out with the idea that I’d take the public schools of America because they taught democracy BARBS in has been company sent Maybe I'll get back the shirt I the in to the laundry when I enlisted army in 1918' marked 1910 A towel returned to the Pullman 3H derstandable why cast her opposite Clark Gable in "The Hucksters” Garbo Dietrich Berg-a—now Kerr who already rates right along with them "The Adventuress” a J Arthur Rank producis detion released by it’s a thriller Sometimes lightful of Hitchcock sometimes worthy It’s wonderful The cast comedy sf course is excellent the scenery DEBORAH KERR —Ireland the Isle of Man—is beautiful And Miss Kerr who has the courage to look plain as well as very beautiful gives a performance to be enjoyed and better to be emembered — the kindly "Dr Jean Hersholt Christian” of the CBS Wednesday light show got his first movie Job’ n Hollywood in 1915 not because te could a(t but because he owned i dress suit tuxedo spats derby ind cane He received all of $19 a week The cast of "This Is Hollywood" close to 30 of the film lumbering :apitol’s top people converged on Salt Lake City for the recent premiere of ’’Ramrod” via all modern methods of transporatlon Some went by plane some by train Jtheri by automobile The reason ’or splitting the group was to make :ertain that a talent nucleus would e on hand no matter what the weather happened to be‘ V'wv Bryan Foy will personally super-ris-e "Red Stallion" which may out“Smokey” and "Thun under his superproduced vision at 20th Century-FoThere’ll he animal battle scenes that have sever before been attempted In a a picture class t MX Richard Benedict who plays the oouncer in Columbia’s “The Guilt of Janet Ames" is really Joseph Sciurba an Italian Ho got his start oy hanging around East Coast studios as a youngster One day A1 Christie over a crowd of looking prospective extras singled him out snd asked if he spoke Spanish “SI Duono” said Richard in hia beat Italian and they gave him the part fashion creator Michael Woulfe under contract to William Cagney At says he’s rapidly going nuta clothes RKO he’s designing for Laraine Day and Judith Anderson tor ‘Tycoon” he’s at Sidney and Ann Sylvia dressing Richards for “Love From a Stranhe’s whipping up ger" and at frocks for Ava Gardner for “Singapore” Ran up a taxi bill of $10713 in no time at all dashing from one studio to another So he decided to learn to drive and on his first day as a motorist was hauled In by a top for improper parking Because she expects a blessed event In MOTHER’S HELPER the near future “Gretchen” Intelligent dachshund owned by Mra Karl Kaesmeier Leetsdaie Pa is rushing the Job of preparing "Gretchen” can’t handle the needles very well but tiny garments she does a swell Job of bolding the skein OH RICHARD Richard in this case Is donald L Robinson Jr 11 snd his sister Sandra Jean 6 Lincoln Nebr Pldge lets oat with "open the door Richard” Baukhage state secret something that upon receipt A X in Washington is columnists release Between Day and October last year 1014 million people moved out of the county they were living in a census made by to according Business Week What did they move into? Radio announcer Don Wilson has been signed no narrator for scenes in Colombia’s "The Corpse Came COD” George Brent Joan Blond-e- ll and Adele Jergena have the lending roles In the thriller— abont n series of murders with s Hollywood studio background Seven years Isn’t too long to wait to for a honeymoon according Robert Mltcbum and his wife They decided when they were married to wait till he was a star and then honeymoon In New York where he grew up She’d never been there His movie career was well under It way when the war interrupted “The Locket” starred him and they York — and he for New headed because that bought her a locket made it possible David Shapplrlo d D one of M C Washington finalists In the sixth annual science talent search cleared np an entomological "triangle” ‘by mating “Mrs” Wasp with her proper spouse The book had been wronging this coople lor years David’s own collection of wasps runs into the thousands He captures most of them in Rock and seldom gets Creek park stung of by Moscow Reporters there warned the foreign ministers to a bring their long underwear for long session Cold whatever else they didn’t teach Later I studied abroad and didn’t change my mind Then I Joined the army and discovered from my buddies (I got five francs for writing letters for them) that parts of America I hadn’t grown up in were as illiterate as parts of Europe which I’d held my nose going through and that some of Europe was more literate than the United States though at our worst we had a better school for the poor man proporthan Great Britain tionately Years passed and finally I began about our hearing c schools — including the areas I realized what teachers were bemg paid compared to dog catchers collectors and garbage I and bartenders (not as much) it on the radio Most mentioned ARMY GUINEA PIG REGIMENT AT FORT KNOX More than 650 boys under 19 years of age from people complimented my stand for all parts of the country are volunteers at Fort Knox Ky in an experimental universal military training Members of the unit will be trained for one year along lines of the war department’s proposed higher remuneration for education program to (Of course we couldn’t expect plan for nniversal training Recruits will receive a course which couples military training with civilian pay as much as we pay for liquor supervision and discipline to redden our noses or the women to redden their pay for cosmetics lips) But what shocked my New England soul was some of the letters on the "other side”: a teacher of “long and From varied experience”: "The most important teachers in the world are the mothers and fathers who are now earning wages v ' in a great less than the teachers i many cases Lack of adequate pay for them is the greatest cause of education failure— and failure it is —because it does not aid properly those who need it worst” From a California teacher who Is r in despair over the situa"almost tion”: "The school cannot substitute for the home it can only supplement it You can’t teach children who have had no home training you can’t even teach those who have if your whole time and strength are consumed ft by those who haven’t it Most parents will pay whatever a$ they have to pay for a parking sta4 tion for their children and will ask no More and further questions more of the parking attendants are unwilling to deal with such children at any price” mother: From a Pennsylvania "If monetary remuneration were the only consideration for our servlife— In ices would there be this BLOWN FROM AIRLINER shows how George W Hart Sag Harbor N Y was This photodiagram nurses doctors welfare workers blown from Constellation airliner on which he was a member of the crew When 19000 feet over Atlantic and ministers? Yet they abound in Hart was blown into space when the astrodome plastic babble from which the navigator takes star sightings love and kindness and toleranpe” for navigation broke when airliner was 500 miles from Newfoundland boond from New York to Faria From a Virginia man: “There is an adage to the effect 'you get Just about what you pay ' iV i for’ The point is when the school teachef does his Job as well as the street cleaner or garbage collector ' l i i but as he wiU be paid accordingly are content f v v long as the educators to have the street cleaners do their U ' job better the educators should not iA that the street cleaner is complain better paid” omplalnts meant anything more to me than a smear on the map was when I was ecreenMdio by Western Newspaper Union VALE By VIRGINIA Released When route salesmen went out on NEW BREAD LINE Milwaukee recently the Omar bakery gave away $15800 bakery goods rather tlan see It spoil Pickets policemen ewives and children fell in line to receive their free share of ery goods By late morning more than 1800 persona had for the free handout strike in worth of housthe baklived np f Gov Ingran M OH HUM! Stainback of Hawaii told congress Is subthat the Island territory to without taxation represenject tation The Hawaiian before the house public —— — lands committee - ODDS AND ENDS — Tathary Scott is convinced spsrsng ts really here bis daughter Wat erly 10 has poison oak No less than 50 Hollypoisoning wood news photographers have snapped candid shots of Ann Sheridan crocheting a bedspread Matt " and Crouley star of "Road of Life radio't ” man with the perfect diction " overcame the handicap of stuttering and so altered bis plans for earning a 'svelibood — from radio engineer to radio actor Donald O'Connor comedian on the Ginny Simms show is just 21 hut he’s a father and bos a lot of responssbilities—but be still eats — Eskimo pies during rt hear sal sJ T |
