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Show TOOELE COUNTY CHRONICLE I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Pressure 'Out' in Berlin Controversy; British Welcome Lilibet's Princeling; Farmer Priority Looms in Legislation By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union! news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I Day of Judgment Hideki Tojo, former prime min-ister and top war lord of Japan, was found guilty of wartime atro-cities by an allied tribunal in Tokyo and was sentenced to death by hanging. He is the last sur-vivor of the Infamous axis. PRESSURE: Polite 'NO' Sore point in all the Berlin con-troversy continued to be the Soviet blockade of the capital. The Big Three Western powers still blamed Russia for continuation of the crisis through perpetuating the blockade, and President Harry Tru-man had given emphatic evidence that he planned no further discus-sions with Russia on the subject until the blockade was lifted. Following his return from a Flori-d- i. vacation, the President went into a full-dres- s review of American foreign policy with Secretary of State Marshall and W. Averell Har-rima- U. S. ambassador-at-larg- e in Europe. The gravity with which United Nations leaders viewed the Berlin situation was evidenced in the ef-forts of U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, and H. V. Evatt, gen-eral assembly president. THESE TWO made urgent ap-peal to chief executives of the four big powers going over the heads of these nations' U. N. delegations to do so to bring the Berlin dispute to an end and thus bring about world peace. This appeal was without avail. The United States, France and Eng-land said "no," politely but firmly. They declared the issue must re-main in the hands of the U. N. se-curity council until the Russian blockade is lifted. Russia reacted as usual, blaming the Western powers for the stalemate. Evatt and Lie argued that the dis-pute cannot be settled within the cramped confines of the security council and should be aired in the wider fields of the general assem-bly. AGGRAVATING the situation was the coming winter with its con-sequent obstacles to the air lift. The Russians appeared content to wait out this phase of American aid to Germany in the apparent convic-tion, or hope, that bad weather would so impair air lift efficacy as to make it negative in the battle for Germany. If the situation were to be re-solved by diplomatic means, Amer-ican thought and procedure on the question would carry top weight with the Big Three. Under this setup, President Tru-man's evident intention to spurn discussion of the problem unless the Berlin blockade were lifted, would indicate the United States was pre-pared to continue the "cold war" with the Russians, and to bet with the elements that the air lift would continue to be efficient and that Premier Stalin and his Communists would have to come to terms in the end. PRESIDENT TRUMAN reiterat-ed that he planned no American mission of any sort to Moscow, and that he and Secretary Marshall were in accord on all questions. The President would stand for no pressuring in discussion of the Ber-lin question, even if it came from top chieftains in the U. N. PRIORITY: For Farmers The man with the hoe put the "X" where it counted November 2, and, as a result, America's farmers are to reap a share of President Tru-man's smashing victory at the polls. Even now, administration chiefs are moving to give the nation's farmers top priority over labor in any legislative program coming up for action by the next congress. THE FARMER'S reward is to come immediately not in the fu-ture and the outlook is that labor may have to stand behind the farm-er when awards for a part in Pres-ident Truman's triumph are to be handed out in a legislative program. Best friend of the farmers when the plums are to be passed around is Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan. No doubter of where cred-it for Mr. Truman's victory belongs, Brannan already has assigned Louis M. Bean, department economist and election forecaster, to prepare charts and graphs to show the Presi-dent that he owes his election pri-marily to the farmers. THAT ISN'T all that will be done to insure the farmers a fair return or. their investment in Mr. Truman, for top level planners are drafting a new "flexible" price support pro-gram to go into effect early in 1949, instead of 1950, as would have been the case under the Republican Aiken farm bill. Add to this the fact that Senator-Elec- t Clinton Anderson (D., N. M.), former agriculture secretary, took a direct hand in supervising drafting of the new measure and personally will introduce it, and it becomes evi-dent the farmer's happy place in the administration sun is most assured. BASIS of Brannan's contention that farmers elected Mr. Truman: if it weren't for the farm states in the agricultural west, the 11 indus-trial states on the Atlantic seaboard that voted for Governor Dewey would have swung the election Re-publican. How will farmers fare under the administration plan? Here's the projected program: To protect the farmer against an-ticipated crop price fall-off- he would be given a flexible price floor that would protect growers, but would not burden U. S. taxpayers with an extended permanent sub-sidy of farm surpluses. PROVIDE adequate storage facili-ties for farmers in corn and wheat belts to prevent loss of bumper crops. Extend reclamation and soil con-servation benefits to more farm-lands and provide an increased rural electrification for more farmers, this to be sponsored and paid for by the government. This, then, is an extension of the benefits which farmers may have felt were imperiled in the Dewey program, and for which they felt they were voting when they cast their ballots for President Truman. WELCOME: Infant Rex For hours the solemn-face- con-stable had kept his vigil in the chill of the November night. Impassive in the fact of the huge throngs that pushed against the gates he guard-ed, he waited for the word. At last he saw a royal page, garbed in blue, walk stiffly from a palace doorway. The page strode to the constable's side, bent over and spoke in a low voice. THE CONSTABLE'S face lighted, he walked quickly to the iron railing against which the crowd was dense-ly packed and declared exultantly: "It's a boy!" Then throwing his head back, he shouted: "A prince has been born." To Princess Elizabeth, to the throne of England, and her consort, Prince Philip, Duke of Ed-inburgh, had been born a son. A prince by a special royal decree of King George VI issued several days before the birth of the child. Their young prince was born just six days short of the royal couple's wedding anniversary, November 20. THE NEWS that Elizabeth's child was a son told the usually stolid Londoners what they wanted to hear that the royal heir was a child who might someday be their king. Into a world of crisis and unrest, an age of a dwindling empire for Britain, was born a princeling whose future as a potential ruler is fraught with imponderables. Both he and his mother would be cut off the line of succession to the throne should a son be born to the king and queen; monarchial gov-ernments, even of the benevolent type, are fading from the world scene; the contracting empire's di-mensions are subject to speculation, but even were these things non-existent, there is the last and great-est imponderable of them all the atomic bomb. REFUND: Pay Up If you're an ex-G- I and figure to cash in on those service insurance dividends next year, make sure you're square with the Veterans' administration or you're likely to get left in the cold. VA says it may withhold all or part of the checks of two groups of veterans those who have re-ceived overpayments for education or training subsistence and those who have defaulted on GI loans. MILLENNIUM : Very Unfunny When a radio comedian backs on from laughs, the event rates in news value with the g item. But there's method about $16,000 worth weekly in Arthur Godfrey's madness. Godfrey is the guy who, has ordered his musicians not to laugh at any of his jokes. THE radio comic explains wistfully that his musi-cians used to laugh at his jokes, sing with him and "have all kinds: of fun." But that's all over now,; Godfrey says. He adds that union rules provide that if his musicians laugh at his1 jokes, or join him in songs, theyi will come under an additional union, the American Federation of Radio Artists. And that, says Godfrey,! would mean an extra cost of $800 tO $900 a week for each musician. His men would sing choruses and they'd kid each other, the comedian says, but now "if they open their mouths to sing they come under AFRA's jurisdiction. That adds the extra salary." No Hairshirt Here I ' V ' ' , f. i :" ;V j , r.Sx X ,y - ' ; " -- - y- A picture of carefree content-ment, President Truman accou-tere- d himself in casual shirt while tripping lightly through his post-election vacation at Key West, Fla. He whiled away the drowsy hours by formulating the broad outlines of his administrative pol-icy for the next four years, and paused for a moment to turn down a proposal for another Big Four conference at this time. NEW LIGHT: From Isaiah New light and interpretation ma be thrown on the Old Testament by discovery of the complete scroll of the Prophet Isaiah. All 66 chapters of the book, with only a few portions missing, have been found. One of the most dramatic Biblical discoveries of all time, the scroll was brought to light recently when four of the oldest Hebrew manu-scripts thus far known were found in a cave near the northern end of the Dead Sea. Scholars date the Isaiah scroll as early Maccabean, or second cen-tury B. C, which would make it the oldest Biblical document yet to be discovered intact. THE DISCOVERY of a complete Isaiah scroll, dating back a thou-sand years before the oldest one known, promises scholars an oppor-tunity to seek new meaning from the Bible, and to determine by com-parison the extent that errors may have found their way into Biblical manuscript!! with the passage of time. Bible scholars point out that the Book of Isaiah, like all of the Bible, came down to us as the result of many copyings by scribes who would make additional scrolls as the old ones wore out ' il. The Election Has Changed 1 Both Democrats and GOP j By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. j WASHINGTON. There are two experiences which no one should miss if he can help it. Coming into Paris, the "city of light," and Washington, "the city of magnificent distances," at twilight by airplane. Lately I dropped down from the clouds upon Washington, with the lingering embrace of southern sunlight about me. The tiny sparkling lights below winked their welcome. But this esthetic experience ended bruskly when I left the airport. The winking lights stared, and by the time I reached the National Press club, eyes winked but they belonged to my colleagues who patrol the beat from the White Housa to the CapitoL Fresh from the innocent delights of the vacationing fisherman, I ( bragged about my tan, and then carelessly in-quired: "What is going to happen in congress next month?" One of the col-leagues answered: "Harry Truman is lucky. He owes one debt he never will have to pay to Henry Wal- -' lace. When lace bowed him- - gressive ideas set forth in Mr. Dewey's speeches with the some-what pleistocene attitude (as one observer described it), of some of the for house and senate. Witness the embarrassing situa-tion in West Virginia, not to ment-ion1 Illinois. The New York gover-nor simply couldn't stomach cross-ing the borders of West Virginia to embrace its recalcitrant senator. Chicago on the other hand is a railway center and it was neces-sary for Governor Dewey to change trains there and "in Rome do as Romans do." He did, and endorsed the Republican senatorial candidate from Illinois. But the citizens of Illinois did not. Had Mr. Dewey been elected, and had the Republican senator from Illinois been the White House would have faced difficulties, among them the embarrassing par-adox: Sen. C. Wayland Brooks opposed the Marshall plan which Dewey strongly endorsed. Taking that as a guide, it seems possible that Brooks could have been count-ed upon to vote against a Dewey-Dull-foreign policy as he did against Mr. Truman's. Liberal Thought Crowing in U. S. The election, I believe, caused thoughtful people to emerge with one idea which the entire nation, regardless of its politics, will have to get used to. The thought is not original with me, but it is one that was mentioned by the only person who did predict the election re-sult (except the man I lost a bet to). Agriculture Economist Bean said something like this: The wave of liberal thought which appeared to have reached its zenith under Roose-velt is still on the upswing. Apparently the natural post-war reaction stopped it, but didn't start it going In the op-posite direction. Now some of you may not like that thought, but it were well to accustom oneself to the idea. Nor need you expect the pendulum ever to swing as far back as you might wish. Personally, I enjoy riding behind a spanking team in a buggy "with the fringe on top," and I wonder if we wouldn't all be better off if the Internal combus-tion engine had never been invent-ed. But I am willing to admit, things being what they are, that we have traffic lights and other an-noying regulations. At any rate, when President Tru-man takes the rostrum to deliver his message in January, he will look out on a congress which, his friends claim, he fashioned in large part with his own hand. Or I might say with his own sharp tongue from a back platform. Harry Truman went out and fought tooth and nail, no holds barred, for the kind of con-gress he wanted. The people, whether or not that was their only intention, gave it to him. And now as one somewhat cyni-cal observer remarked to me: "Harry's got what he wanted, God help him." He has to deliver now. Baukhage self out he stepped on the red ruffles of Miss Democrat's petticoat, and I pulled it along with him." And It was generally admit-ted that much of the stigma connected with the charge of "coddling Communists" was removed when Wallace left. Like the Pied Piper (not of Bamelin, but once of Iowa) he piped away a lot of the "luna-tic fringe" which Is the eternal headache of all political par-ties. The rodents In this case (both red and pink) followed the piper's dulcet promises. But the piper was unable to take his revenge. Un-like the flutist in the poem who lured Hamelin's children away when their parents wouldn't pay the Henry's pip-ing titillated few Democratic ears. The voters didn't follow. There were other unwept losses among Harry Truman's alleged supporters. He won the election without the solid south. The other end of the Democratic spectrum colored by the views of those who preferred mint juleps under the fragrant magnolias, to straight Yankee or middlewestern spirits withdrew discreetly and complete-ly to their jasmine-curtaine- d veran-das. This doesn't mean they won't be heard from later, but they aren't the worry they once were. While no one would bracket the conservatives with the "lunatic fringe," the Dixiecrats did cause many embarrassments to the Dem-ocrats. Now they are at least sep-arately ticketed. The Republicans likewise de-rived certain healing qualities from the cold douche they took on November 2, not unlike Mr. Truman's. A number of their die-har- died in the struggle with the electorate. Minority-Leader-to-B- e Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, is no wild-eye- d radical. So what he says on the subject of change (which is what the radical always wants) is significant. Joe warned his friends back In Attleboro, Mass., a district which probably will elect him as long as he chooses to run, that the Repub-licans in the recent campaign of-fered the people "too many Brah-mins, too many plutocrats." These Republican candidates, said Joe, likewise offered too little person-ality, did not appeal to the people, and formed a narrow circle which prevented what he called "expan-sion and the opening of ranks." (Of whom could he have been thinking?) "We digressed too far from the people," the former speaker said, and the "GOP must reorganize in the cities and towns, getting in new blood at every level." Joe was speaking then out of his deep political wisdom. Social Legislation s Here to Stay Rep. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Republican nation-al committee in the recent cam-paign, gave another significant post-election warning to his party. Re-publicans must recognize, he said, that legislation embodying social gains is here to stay. So it would appear that these men, and many of the other Re-publicans who now represent the GOP in congress, are as happy to be relieved, not of a lunatic fringe like the Demo-crats, but of an albatross around their necks. The Republicans who are trying to their ranks and for 1950 are by no means pessi-mistic. To quote Joe Martin again, he predicted that the GOP would snap back quicker than they went out. They know now, if some of them didn't before, they must keep i" step with the times. One of the great problems the Republican na-tional committee faced in the cam-paign was reconciling the pro-mmi m FaRST AID TO AuIT By Roger V7hltm, QUESTION :The floor railer home is covered If isphalt covering which k i;' adly worn. Would you , nend laying tile over thi ng or taking up the old and ng from scratch? s'. ANSWER: A good fl00 .ontractor probably would7" o take up the old covering hP ; t might make an .he tile. Ha would know ft'' .hat, however, after seeing Z; .condition of the pre i QUESTION: Is there . I ieal leaks in a roof by nZ ver the roofing? mi: ANSWER: Leaks often can." topped by the application-isphal-roofing cement A ro- -' ;an do this job for you But if oof leaks all over, a new r would be more advisable. r ? Current Events ? You probably will recall that the V. S. had a presidential election (sounds of screaming) a few weeks ago. It was the biggest upset since Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern in Chicago, and it will take its place as one of the most unusual in a long line of distinguished American elections. The subject merits a few questions which merit a few answers. Do you know them? 1. Mr. Truman is the first na-tive of Missouri to be elected President. In what two states were the largest number of Presidents born? 2. In this election four south-ern states voted against the regu-lar Democratic party. How many southern states deserted the par-ty in 1928? 3. Seven have succeeded to the presidency on the death of the chief executive. How many of these, besides Mr. Truman, were elected to a full term as President in their own right? 4. When does the President's term of office begin? And when do those of senators and repre-sentatives? 5. There are nine men In Mr. Truman's cabinet. Other Presi-dents elected recently have had cabinets. Why the difference? ANSWERS 1. Virginia eight (Washington, Jef-ferson, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Ohio seven (Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Ben-jamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Hard-ing). 2. Five. Texas, Virginia. Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee voted Republican. 3. Two. Theodore Roosevelt and Cal-vin Coolidge. 4. President's term begins January 20, those of senators and representa-tives on January 3. 5. Under the armed forces unifica-tion act of 1947 the cabinet positions of secretary of the navy and secretary of war were eliminated and just one office secretary of defense was added. Tis the season to be jolly if you're a woman facing the ing question of what to get a two-wa- y perfect sold If he's a smoker who likes cigarettes on the cool, mild get him a carton or two of Ca Their choice tobaccos are him on Christmas Da: perhaps he enjoys smoking If so, mellow Prince A Smoking Tobacco will round j-your gift selection in a nr handsome manner. Both items right in keeping with your w day sentiment; they come ! 8 wrapped in special The Camel cartons h tain 200 cool, mild Camel ri rettes. And the pound tin of P: im Albert is brimful of mild, t; !3nl smoking that has truly earie: ;s title the National Joy Sr Each gift has space for your:- Prc ten greetings. 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Ibner, the way it quickly allays ii" ;ne Au or you are to have your soot - -- pj f Relieves Distress .lp&00 Also Helps BnfJ ft jl ! Do female ..fc 7 Ka turbancM make I f Mte a Lydla 8. PUUham' aj relieve auci eympto , i. lely , Tablet, are alaci0 'esern build up red Wood In WmtMl LydiaLPinkham's- -l Modem IK.i f pr, ,4 , tlm .bumml. lb, J f urination. Vf F0".'os Hdneys W PM" , art?1. Had , mended JKrl in,,blcit UNWILLING YAQUIS Mexico Aids Her Indians CIUDAD OBREGON, SONORA, MEXICO. A long-rang- e plan to change warring Yaqui Indians into peaceful farmers is patiently being pursued by the Mexican government regardless of wide-spread doubt and skepticism. The Yaqui is not willing to for-get his persecutions by Spanish conquerors or Mexican agents. He feels all the land rightfully belongs to him and thinks he has exchanged a blanket for a small handkerchief in accepting two and a half square miles of property for each of his nine pueblos and addi-tional farming lands. Mexicans feel too much land has been given the Indians and that the amount of money being spent on them is excessive. "The Indians are not good farm-- I ers," they say. In the meantime, the Mexican government, copying the United States Indian Service plans, is con-structing a huge canal to irrigate the Yaqui land grants in an effort to convert the warriors into farmers. Butchery Has Stopped j No longer do the Yaquis sweep out of their Bacatete Mountains stronghold to burn trains, butcher passengers and ranchers and rav-age the countryside. Even so, there is constant, If slight, fear of another Yaqui out-break. While Southern Pacific of Mexico trains now travel without soldiers, two cavalry posts at Esperanza and Bicam are ready to protect citizens. "There is not a family in this area but has suffered at the hands of the Yaqui," L. M. Byerly, American farm machinery mer-chant, explains. "This valley today is in exactly the same position Arizona found itself in the 1880's" says Sidney M. Morrison, manager of the Rich-ardson Construction Co. which opened the valley's vast irrigation system. Our valley has the Yaqui, Arizona had the Apache," he continues. "There is the constant fear not only of another Yaqui outbreak, but of further expropriation of lands under the agrarian system. Farm Training "Some progress is being made among the Yaqui in training them to become able farmers, but it seems slow by American stand-ards." Mexicans themselves feel their government has been wasteful in giving the Yaqui tribe more than 12 million acres of land which extend to the Gulf of California. A large portion of this is irri-gable and it is through this that the Utah Construction Co. has been building a new canal over 30 kilometers long. Eventually water will be fed into the canal system solely for Yaqui Indian use. But the Yaqui continues to call the Mexican "yori," or enemy. Generally they dislike laws, sol-diers, government agents and Americans. They remember the 1903 massa-cre of thousands of Yaqui and the trainloads who were shipped like slaves to work in Yucatan. Bronx Woman Wears 'Cheap' Brooch Which Costs $5,0C0 NEW YORK. A $5,000 brooch, worn by a Bronx housewife for two years as a cheap piece of costume jewelry, was claimed by Mrs. Serge Voronov, wife of a Russian gland specialist. Mrs. Voronov sent word from the principality of Monaco, south of France, that she would forward complete data on the pin she lost in April, 1943, while strolling near the Savoy-Plaz- a hotel. Mrs. Eleanor Hamilton, the house-wife, found the brooch in the sum-mer of 1945 in the Bronx, several miles north of the spot where Mrs. Voronov lost it. Mrs. Hamilton spotted it near a sidewalk while tak-ing her children to the Bronx zoo. The first jeweler to whom she took the pin offered her $10, then $20 for it. Becoming suspicious it was something more than costume jewelry, she took it to another shop where, to her consternation, it was valued at $5,000. The Wednesday Democrats" have turned out to be Saturday's children when it comes to getting jobs in Washington. An elephant can do a lot of things with his trunk but he has to carry it with him when he travels. I can check mine. The ocean is growing saltier, ac-cording to the National Geographic. Probably getting jealous of the Great Salt lake. Television is climbing out of its cradle, says Electrical Advertising. Let's hope it won't crawl back to meet the occupants of cradles half way. Export of butter from the Argen-tine is increasing. Perhaps because it won't melt in President Peron's mouth when he tells what he'll do to people who want to prevent his It's an ill wind (I'd say serious-ly ill) that blows nobody's good cigarette lighter out. It's hard to find anything you like to eat when you're on a diet. But suppose you were an ? Home sewing is a bigger business than ever but what's being sewed is nobody's business. Girl Rescues ld From Death in Tar Pool LOS ANGELES. Ruth Vivian Oriani, 17, saved the life of a two year old boy buried to his eyes in the clinging ooze of an old tar pool. Ruth, looking for little Larry Stansbury at his mother's request, found him in the muck. She threw down two planks, crawled out 10 feet and pulled his head above the tar. With her fingers she carefully dug tar out of his mouth and nos trils. She pulled and tugged, got him onto the planks, finally back to solid ground. Quickly she applied arti ficial respiration. About that time the firemen ar rived with a respirator. The hustled rescued and rescuer to th hospital. The little boy apparent.-I-recovering. Ruth let them remov the tar from her hands and arm.1 Then she just went home. Missing Link? i I Anthropologists appear to have turned up another "missing link" in; the evolution of man. The latest find, discovered in an ancient Transvaal cave in South Africa, may provide a clue to the earliest known of man's ancestors. The bones of this prehistoric crea-ture, who may have lived a million years ago, indicate he might have been a "man-ape- " who carried weapons and built fires. |