Show Merry -- Go -- Round! By Drew Pearson ""M vt Ccurto LM tlso th t —— Pi " T f Mirvice and A B " ntun mji ""ikST O tn: S15 W mmCttaa CUlM mallei AMOOttM of TU WASHINGTON nniMKJ oer year local oew" qimnAY MORNING APRIL 13 1947 Catastrophe At Concert somewhat intimidated by the Those persons who re surrounds concerts meant excessive formality that too often doubtless to be entirely restful relaxing and entertainingconcert a goer have wondered about the chances persistent these Think of the catastrophe that could occur amid profoundly dignified and grave auspices: a of cougn-iA- g suppose an artist should be beset by siege at the wrorig moment? What if the performer forgets the words of the song or loses his way in the complexities of the concerto?! What if some other similar terrible episode Well a large audience in Boston's symphony hall ob-- 4 Royalty Seems to Be on the Spot 'Argument Against Merger Army Navy h Considered April 18—If the -- US government really wante to call the turn on John L Lewie it has a simple way of doing it All it has to do is go to town on the income-ta- x transaction between Lewis and Carl Elshoif the Springfield 111 mine owner whom Lewis paid to keep his mine closed back in 1937 In 1943 the treasury department investigated Lewis' income tax and some officials were eager to prosecute Other officials however felt it would make Lewis appear a persecuted hero so the case was sidetracked At any rate here are the facts: War With Miners During Lewis' civil war with the Progressive Miners in Illinois he paid Elshoff around $300000 from the United Mine Workers treasury to keep his mine closed Lewis had lost an election under the national labor relations act by the sour vote of 404 to 25 Sjb unable to win legitimately he threw the 404 Progressive Miners out of work by paying the mine owner to close for two years Later Lewis reported the expenditure of $300000 in his tax return but Elshoff failed to report the S3UUuuu as income Thus the treasury appeared at first to have a case against Elshoff and not against Lewis However a series of notes were exchanged between Lewis and Elshoff to make the transaction appear as a loan not income which of course would save Elshoff from income-ta- x pros- B? Peter Edson IflU ufii WASHINGTON Aorii 12 NEA ?w argument against unifice- uon or the U b armed services is reitrinff it head on CaDltol Hill The line 1 that the e'rmy-nav- y merger bill now being considered by congress creates a military dictatorship which would be a threat to the traditional American demo cratic form of government First to brine this araument out in the open have been Republican aen Styles Bridges of New Hamp shire and Democratic Congressman — r "w°ov-- " inspiration for the idea however comes from a small number Of army and navy officers who are opposed to unification They are fighting under cover because word has gone down from the top that there must be no opposition to the president's announced policy favoring Unification If this fear of military dominance of the American government came from it could be laughed off as communist propaganda aimed to keep the U S militarily weak The fact that it comes from conservative army and navy Officers and congressional reactionaries makes it another matter Criticism of the merger bill may he a sincere concern over the nation's future On the other hand it may be the most sensational argument that could be thought up to serve as a blind for the fear of army ground force navy and marine corps officers that their services will be swallowed up and made Subordinate to the ambitious air force Or it may be jiist politics— anything to oppose art idea favored by President Truman Whatever the motives for this opposition it is worth bringing out in the open as a point of view If there are real dangers in unification there is still time toj amend the merger bill If the alarms are phonies they can be shouted down j left-winge- rs tained an: answer last week Kirsten Flagstad Norwegian of charges soprano was thfe artist She is under fire because tenthat she was friendly with the Germans So the usual sions of a recital were augmented by the outcry from those dewho dont like Flagstad She therefore was the more termined to provide a great performance And then as the soprano was singing a Brunhilde aria the artist stopped abruptly The accompanist immediately took the blarney saying he hadn't played the sore for six ecution The treasury however claimed years and miscued the singer The audience laughed goodr it had evidence that the notes were predated and that the ioan naturedly and the concert was resumed was pure afterthought to cover up believe to led been And so th4se who erroneously have the fact that Elshoff had failed to on the money that a jbobbleit a concert was to be viewecl as a disaster payIt taxes — and still is— the contenwas on a par with dropping a casket at a funeral learned how tion of treasury experts that Lewis was guilty of conspiracy in helping silly they werq Elshoff avoid income taxfes Back 1 -- j in 1943 however when the A I The was then set aside No Unfriendly People Gov Ernest Gruening of Alaska has been having an argument with the manager of the Alaskan RailCo John P Johnson over Congressman Bill Dawson of LaytOn stood up in the way moose bull problem is that so house of representatives last week! to invite the nation's maqy mooseThe get on the tracks in Alaska that they impede traffic lawmakers to visit Utah this Centennial year Utah i& a and upset railroad schedules most friendly state he asserted Winter in Alaska was unusually severe this year with the snow so Every state lays claim to being a most friendly state deep that snowplows threw up The people deeply believe this to be true And "quaintly banks on either side! of the railroad tracks Moose trying to j enough it is true cross the tracks get in this can t get out In the lat£ preparedness and early war days when ravine and snow andcaught a train has to stop or else masses of Americans migrated to war centers tolerant Then mow them down So far 119 moose Americans had some anxious moments They heard fre- have been killed "71this winter and Colonel Jones now wants oermis quent complaints about unfriendliness The home folk com- spring sion from Governor Gruening to not newcomers were that peoplei Strangers friendly plained snoot down the moose But Gruenflocking into the war work centers complained! they were ing says no He saysl the locomotive engineer should wait for the moose encountering chilly receptions to get off the track It doesn't matGood people everywhere were asking: Ar4 we really ter if the train is one or two days late Crruening hints since nobody unfriendly as these strangers charge? expects them to run on time any j 10-fo- ot j ! They soon were answered by Professor Ogburn of the University of Chicago who made a quick surveyj of the nation His verdict: People everywhere were somewhat resentful of the strangers coming to live among them the strangers far from home where everybody knew them felt they were among cold neighbors The professor predicted all would oon be well And it wasj Utah assuredly is a friendly state and so are: its people But so are the new people who have come to live with us There are some exceptions on both sides of course which points up the truth in the recently tolct story about the small town philosopher When strangers asked him about the quality of the local citizens the philosopher would reply with a question: "What kind of people do you have in your home 'town?" If they said "splendid" he replied that the stranger would find the local people splendid If they replied J"terrible" the village wise man insisted that the visitors would discover that the local people were "terrible" too -- j Battle for Watersheds There is no-- now before the corjgress iny legislation authorizing the sale of government owned watershed lands to private enterprisers and if bills df tiis jnattjire should pop up the Utah congressional delegation will oppose them The Veterans Advisory council of Weber county believing that veterans' interests! were! concerned recently adopted a resolution favoring retention of watershed lands under public ownership and management Resolution copies went to Senators Thomas and Watkins and Representatives Granger and Dawson iLach sent a reply to Harvey N Rijch council secretary relating they were in sympathy With (the resolution because the bread and butter and happiness of Utah's people are pretty well tied to the condition of the! lands which are the sources of our water supplies This is good news but it should! not cause triends of conservation to relax their guard The battle for ihe water sheds is not over Indeed it hardly hs been begun ! Important Public ' how Moose says the governor are one of the assets of Alaska They cannot be destroyed Furthermore he requires that when moose are acci dentally killed the meat be sent to hospitals not wasted So until the snow clears up it looks as if the Alaskan trains will have to run a little late Democratic Purge Fizzles aome iast iootworK went on backstage after Democratic Executive Director Gael Sullivan read Henry Wallace and Senator Claude Pepper of Florida out of the party because of their opposition to the h loan Chairman Bob Hahnegan imme uiaieiy pnonea cuiiivan and re minded him that Penner and Wal lace had worked as hard as anyone ior xne party in the past Sen Carl Hatch of New Mexico also called his old friend President Truman while Senator Barkley of Kentucky dropped in at the White House perj ureco-lurkis- sonally "We can't be in a position of re party members simply be jecting cause they disagree with adminis tration policy on certain issues and speak their minds" Barkley told lruman jtsut he did not have to argue lhe president was well aware that if the Democrats are to win in 1948 they must have the huge liberal vote upon which the late President Roosevelt always relied so heavily Barkley reported back to Pepper nidi me president was distressed aboutthe Sullivan faux pas and that Pepper was free to speak his opinion on public issues without danger of sacrificing his Tposition withm the party "He said Sullivan has a few errors but the troublomade is he's young and enthusiastic— which is a good thing in some ways but can be troublesome" Barkley reported to Pepper How to Clean Up Greece There are two schools of thought inside the administration regarding the best way to iron out Greek politics after the Greek loan is voted by congress— as it is sure to be School No 1 believes in Honnin up the Greek government before we begin handing over the cash acnool No 2 believes in eentlv suggesting cabinet chances — aftfir we begin handing over the cash Chief argument behind school No 2 is that the United States can't in the position of 8ut itself Russia has been telline Yiwn Residents of Ogden and Weber cOiinty give generously when campaigns for contributions ate conducted by the Bulgaria and Roumania who Community Chest the Red Cross s4nd by organizations slavia snouid be in their cabinets and it dictation that we are campaigning against tuberculosis cancer polio heart dis- is to combat going into Greece ease rheumatic fever and for programs to the Furthermore if we start mishimtf improve condition of crippled children and adults Citizens devote tune and effort to these campaigns They all are good causes but the suggestion has been made that all the appeals should be combined into one ress was made a few years ago when campaign ProgOgden's! welfare agencies were grouped under the Community Chest which conducted an annual campaign to finance the agencies It is felt that the timers ripe for another consolidating The subjectwill be discussed ajl a public meeting (Monday night at five in the Utah Power & Light com Chamber °f c°nimerce committee Tn Gaskill is i by the meeting to which every interested citizen issponsoring invited city-coun- ty Greek leaders around and telling them how to form governments argues school No 2 we will become just as unpopular in Greece as the Russians are in other Balkan countries On the other hand th stat Ho partment has already had an inter-estexperience in trying to clean up the Greek government through gentle suggestion It didn't work Advice to Tsaldaris N When diehard rpantimianr Pro mier Tsaldaris flew to Washington of State Acheson Undersecretary told him bluntly that for the good of his country he should resign Acheson minced no words He gave lsaldaris one of th ing lectures "uMuon ever given to a ""vr foreign visitor an °Pera today when President Trum told him with nninfoH Richard" for a million Tsaldaris emphasis that he supported g m i ! 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"UW" an° wrte iiney can seu an upen the Door I dollars — upera Singer Melchior Ache-rLJn- that was said vrueu Asaiaaris got home U S Ambassador McVeagh also indicated that the premier should step out Finally the premier did But he took only one short small step He moved from the premiership over to be foreign minister School No 1 in the state department points to this example as proof that the United States will have to be tough with the Greek government in advance of the loan if all political factions in Greece are to work together Probable compromise will be: To spend the money in driblets with U S administrators hanging on to the purse strings If the Greeks don't make sufficient reforms they will get no more cash we complain about the iron curtain in Russia Turkey has a steel screen of its own The New York Times correspondent in Turkey recently had hisj credentials suspended because of his critical attitude Perhaps the loan to should carry some guaranTurkey tees on press freedom j i Note-Awh- ile Tennessee Censorship Boss Ed Crump of Tennessee the man who rules Memphis with an iron hand recently denied that Bob Allen's new book "Our Fair City" had been suppressed by the Goldsmith department store because of its fear of the Crump machine However here is something else which happened in Memphis The A H Taylor company 18 South 2d street Memphis recently ordered copies of "Our Fair City" n which of course gives the on the Crump machine The books were sent and received Below-dow- fore they even had time to be put on the shelves the A Hi Taylor company wrote Vanguard Press publishers of the book asking permission to return all copies If it isn't Crum censorship maybe it's just reading of the Crump mind Merry-Go-Roun- d A lot of women held off their spring buying until after Easter Prices were too high present prices are not the fault of the retailers but of the politicians who predicted what would happen if OPA was abolished Eventually prices will come down but the fluctuation back and forth hurts a Bill Phillips lot of people to India and a half dozen other countries will do a good job of settling the French a GOP boundary senators claim Sen Alben Barkley day pulled a fast one the other Though Republicans are now the majority partythree-to-Democrats were p elected to the positions in the interparliamentary union with the president Real Barkley as not reason was Barkley but the fact that so few Republicans attended the meeting that the DemoAbout 50 crats won everything house Republicans are worried over the tough labor bill being written by their colleagues These 50 must get labor support to be reThe political polls indielected cate that part of Truman's present popularity results from his December victory over John L Lewis It was over a year ago that Harold Ickes advised Truman to crack Economists down on Lewis in agree that the country is now for a series of labor disputes Some threatened strikes such as steel have long been postponed but can't be stalled off mucn longer (Copyright 1947 by The Bell Syndicate Inc) Indo-Chin- 1 HE AVERAGE AUTOMOBILE — may cost from $25 to $50 per month to own and operate You wouldn't be without your car would you? Well the cost of insurance to protect you against claims and judgments and high legal expenses is only about $200 to $250 per month Without insurance you may be depriyed of your right to drive Men Who Know Insurance" ti ' Big Difference Seen Between Truman Monroe Declaration By Walter Lippmann There is this most critical difference between President Monroe's message of Dec 2 1823 and President Truman's of March 12 1947: Monroe made his declaration only When he knew beyond a reasonable doubt how the commitment was to be met indeed that there was Virtually no chance whatever that bje would be unable to meet it The Monroe doctrine unlike the Truman was preceded by negotiations abroad and by cool and stpdied consultation at home in which Jefferson Madison and Jd)hn Quincy Adams played the leading parts They approved the declaration when they had before them the definite assurance given in August to the American Minister Rush by Canning that Great Britain then in undisputed command of the sea had decided to prevent the rejeonquest of the Spanish colonies hi the western hemisphere It was then when Jefferson had read the dispatches from Rush about the British decision that he approved what became the Monro doctrine saying that "all Europe combined would not undertake suph a war for how could they propose to get at either enemy (Britain or the United States) without superior fleets" Madison was equally definite and practical in realizing that it was the assurance of overwhelming power which justified the commitments fit is particularly fortunate" he wrote to President Monroe "that the policy of Great Britain though guided by calculations different from ours has presented a for an object the same with ours With that we have nothing to fear from the ret of Europe and with it the best assurance of success to our laudable views" Laudable Views The Truman doctrine expresses our laudable views But unlike the Monroe doctrine it has been declared to the world without the kind of careful calculation of the assurances of success which were made by Jefferson Madison Adams and Monroe before they announced their laudable views The difference is a big one — between making a promise which you know you can carry out and making a promise first and then 7 mTtF'uZU onlvTnTi! HP?" board would kXh me war "1-w- n" 3 A new Joint staff crnt - Hitlers Germany The joint staff w Mini BULiiuriiy 10 nam wwn "-- — airecior wno it is claimed wouia Decome the real U S au- commander pieme 4 The proposed unificatioh bill would provide for three services— and nvy— but critics of bill say that the functions and the ?rmy' duties of each are not in the law They are to be defined designated by executive order subject to easy 1 change To correct these and other detailed objections to the present merger bill critics of unification j propose amendments intended to insure more civilian control at top g levels In summing up their case these opponents of unification sayj that the military forces of the U S should be kept the servants it the American people not made their masters Every country that has given over its power to the military may have temporarily achieved strength— Germany under the kaiser and Hitler the France under Napoleon the Sweden under jusiavuts Adolphus But eventually au went down to defeat It could nappen nere policy-makin- I These criticisms overlook important factors First that the president —a two civil- Insurance naming the secretaries of air army wondering how you are going to and navy who would work under carry it out It is the difference him 2 These four secretaries with the between bold but astute statesmanship and reckless rhetoric seecretary of state and the chairAs a result Senator Byrd has man of a new national resources asked the administration a ques- board would constitute the new na- tion which is quite proper but unTruman doctrine der the people But the deficits of as it now stands is quite unan- Greek this which protects government to swerable Senator Byrd wants profiteers and is trying to know whether "we have the re- the crush the republicans! as well as sources alone to pay the bill" the communists will continue as Bill for Greece long as the government as now What bill? The immediate bill constituted and conducted exists Yet Greece is only a pin point in for Greece alone is nearly But under the adminis- the Truman global policy There tration policy this can be only the ban be no end to the financial The money is costs of that policy because adefirst installment to be used to balance the Greek quate precautions have not been budget this year on behalf of al-a taken to see to it that the money will accomplish the purposes for government which collected most no taxes and is with our which it is given Unless the Greek approval conducting a civil war government is reformed Greece Conceivably this installment would will not be stabilized by our meetpay the Greek bill if there were ing the deficits of that governset up promptly in Athens a gov- ment ernment which can collect taxes (Copyright 1947 New York Tribune Inci) and can unite the bulk of the Announces a Courteous SMALL LOAN SERVICE j Borrow on Your Own Signature so-call- ed $300-0000- 00 $5 to $300 N Service Charge Low Interest Rate Immediate A c tiou Neff Insurance Agency Inc Eccles Bldg Phone 5843 NEVER BE LATE Your watch in need of repairs? Take it to Anderson Jewelry at V once where expert watchmakers I t he bill is pictured as the riai of future iU military power It would be! a group of 100 professional militarists who wouldbecome to the U S what the German general staff was to the kaiser's and ian— is U S commander-in-chie- f with power to appoint or remove cabinet secretaries of defense air army and navy Second only congress cam declare war And congress throiigh its Makeup of Proposed Council power tp appropriate money holds Reasoning of the merger critics the real control and check over follows this outline: 1 The bill now before congress what the armed services do would provide for a single secretary of national defense who would have complete control over all the armed services It is claimed this is Neff too much power for any one official to have His budget would be hearly a third of all government Agency Inc expense He would have a hand in income-ta- x was made PresiBy renouncing war in her new constitution Japan hasa dentinvestigation Roosevelt feared that because the known bitterness between thrown herself fat the mercy of the allies The allies have of him and Lewis and prosecution from moral responsibility to protect the j Japanese people would appear to be political perse cution aggression — General Mac Arthur case Moose Trouble t tional security council While mm would ne civilian attention u " ' C" m ine V7 J will repair it without delay 7 JEWELRY COMPANYY 2449 WASH BLVD YOUR FRIENDLY COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING ARE SINCERELY APPRECIATED BY THE TELEPHONE COMPANY Your cooperation in not making telephone calls requiring the services of an operator EXCEPT IN EMERGENCIES during the period of worjfc h stoppage is genuinely appreciated ' - regret any inconvenience the strike majp§i causing you and hope normal service can be r stored soon We t THE MOUTAIN STATES TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY |