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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Israel Registers Biplomatis Victory By Agreeing to 'Cease Fire' Order; Lewis Quits First Coal Conference By Bill Schoentgen, ,WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) PALESTINE: Diplomacy What the Jews of Israel lacked in armed strength to resist Arab at-tacks against their new state they had made up in shrewd diplomacy. It was just possible that the deci-sive blow of the Palestine war was struck when Israel, foreseeing mili-tary defeat, agreed to order its army to cease fire on all Palestine fronts if the Arabs would do the same. That development, which took place as the battle for Jerusalem entered its sixth day in an unholy atmosphere of rattling guns, burst-ing shell and violent death, made the most favorable impression pos- - Walkout I ( j 4 ' , ?. I A DAIRYING: To a Crisis While the U. S. dairy industry was busy promoting its 12th an-nual June Dairy Month for the pur-pose of selling more milk, butter, cheese and ice cream it also was taking a long, critical look behind the scenes and not liking what it saw. . Industry analysts had spotted what appeared to be a dangerous trend. In its simplest form the trend could be defined as an in-exorable increase in the U. S. popu-lation. At the root of the problem was a stubbornly entrenched economic condition whose factors were the war, widespread hunger abroad and domestic inflation. Continuing high prices for beef and veal have been instrumental in sending many dairy cows or poten-tial dairy cows to the slaughter house. Too many American dairy farmers have discovered how they could reduce their herds drasti-cally, put more land into money-makin- g grain crops, realize a greater profit and still have more leisure time. Adding those conditions to the fact that during the past few years the nation has experienced about a 45 per cent increase in its birth rate, the dairy industry came up with a grim conclusion: If these circumstances continue at the present rate, and there is every likelihood that they will, by 1952 the U. S. will be approaching the criti-cal point at which it no longer will be able to produce enough milk to satisfy its own needs. That, according to some prog-nosticated, might mean strict ra-tioning in a land which hitherto had literally flowed with milk and honey. This photograph of the west end of John L. Lewis going east out of a door Is perhaps symbolic of trouble to come in the nation's soft coal mines. First conference between the United Mine Workers and the coal producers on the miners' 1948 contract ended in frustration when Lewis walked out after refusing to seat a rep-resentative of the Southern Coal Producers association at the par-ley. sible in the United Nations. Thus having the onus of prolong-- I lng the Palestine fighting shifted suddenly to their shoulders alone, the Arabs were put on the spot in the U. N. and in world public opin-ion. It was a clever diplomatic maneu-ver on the part of the Jews but, at least at the outset of this new line of circumstances, the Arabs, were having none of it. They reiter-ated their determination' to wrest NO CONFERENCE: Lewis Again It was all typically Lewisian. "I make the observation that there is now no conference," quoth John L., chief of the soft coal miners, as he walked grandly out on the first meeting to negotiate a new contract between the coal operators and the United Mine Workers. UMW's present contract expires June 30. Lewis broke up the discussion on 1948 wage agreements when he ob-jected to seating Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Pro-ducers association, at the confer-ence and was outvoted by the operators. He was not against Moody per-sonally. Officially, his union's po-sition was that the 14 regional or-ganizations which comprise the Southern association must bargain in 14 separate groups, rather than delegate bargaining authority to the association. According to Lewis' accepted pat-tern of operation, his balk at the Southern Coal Producers was the opening tactical stroke in' his 1948 campaign for an improved miners' contract. Followinff that, he could sit hack POLITICS: The Race In Oregon, where the last presi-dential primary of this campaign year was held in an atmosphere of political hoopla, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York was voted more likely to succeed than Harold Stassen. Whether he would or not re-mained an open question, but it was certain that his political com-plexion had taken on a more san-guine hue as a result of the Oregon balloting. Stassen, who had won spectacular primary victories in Wisconsin and Nebraska over Taft and Dewey, his chief rivals for the GOP nomina-tion, and then had received a bor-derline setback at the hands of Taft forces in Ohio, at last had suffered a clear-cu- t defeat. Oregon wasn't going to do Stas- - all Palestine from control of the Jews. Actually, all the Jews had done was to issue a surprise cease fire order in compliance with a U. N. security council request that the fighting be brought to a halt. Neither the security council nor anyone else had expected the re-quest to be observed. But that put it up to the Arabs who, faced with a deadline set by the U. N., were having trouble de-ciding whether or not to cease fire. If they stopped fighting now they would have done so without attain-ing their prime objective the re-voking of Israel's claim to sov-ereign statehood. If they continued the war beyond the deadline they would be laying themselves open to possible security council sanctions of the economic variety. SECURITY: Desperate Plight President Truman came up with another sound plank to reinforce his campaign platform when he de-manded that congress overhaul and broaden the social security pro-gram. - To relieve the "desperate" plight of the aged and needy in this infla-tionary period he called for a 50 per cent increase in old age insurance benefits and asked that 20 million more persons be protected. He offered a five point program and said he wanted quick action on it. For' three years, the Presi-dent pointed out with some irrita-tion, similar requests on his part have been shunted aside. This time he was asking: 1A 50 per cent increase "atleast" in old age and survivors' in-surance benefits; allowing pension-ers to earn up to $40 a month in-stead of $15 without losing benefits; raising of the tax rate from 1 per cent to 1 per cent next January 1. Extension of coverage to farm 2 and domestic workers, the and others not now covered. 3 Broadening of unemployment insurance to cover employees of small firms (having fewer than eight workers), federal employees and others. 4 Disability insurance to protect workers from loss of earnings caused by sickness and injuries. Increased federal benefits to 5 match state aid for dependent children, the needy, aged and blind; Whatever his motives in present-ing the problem of inadequate so-cial security benefits again at this time, Mr. Truman did have a good, even a noble, point. "People whose sole income is from social security payments have Just about reached the breaking point. All of them face a des-perate struggle in trying to pro-cure bare necessities at present prices." Both President Truman and the aged and needy were hoping fer-vently that congress would be able to squeeze social security legisla-tion into the crowded docket it had prepared for the rnonth preceding adjournment. As for congress itself, it was on the fence again. ECONOMICS: Wage-Pric- e While prices continue to climb steadily, wage increases are begin-ning to show signs of levelling off, says the latest department of com-merce report on inflation. Possibility of a business reces-sion, and with it the prospect for lower prices, vanished like mist in the sun after the foreign aid and military preparedness programs began to take shape in March, the oartment survey revealed. and present the UMW wage de-mands in his own gqod time. Then, if the coal operators did not ac-cede, he could call the annual strike. Lewis knew ', his position was good. The UMW's recent pension walkout had left the nation's coal reserves seriously depleted. By the time June 30 rolled around soft coal stocks would not yet have been built up to the point where industry could stand a long strike. Barring unforeseen circum-stances, it looked like this would develop into another injunction case. The union still is under an 80 day court injunction prohibiting re-newal of the pension strike; but the court might rule that another walkout would be a brand new strike. In that case a new in-junction might have to be sought by the government under Taft-Hartl-procedure. HARVEST: European Europe may look forward to pos-sibly its best year since the war if, food production prospects con-tinue to be as favorable as they are right now. U. S. agriculture department said that the continent will produce a larger part of its food needs this year than it did last year and that the crop outlook was good over most of Europe and the Soviet Union early in May. sen any good. Having had to buck organized Republican opposition all the way along, he apparently had estimated that his best chance of procuring the nomination Jay in building up sufficient prestige and momentum during the primary campaigns to stampede the June 21 convention. However, he still will go to the national convention with at least 200 delegates pledged to support him on the first ballot. So. for that matter, will Dewey. A total of 548 convention votes is required for nomination. Prospects indicate a considerably larger crop of bread grains wheat and rye than last year's desper-ately small one. A severe winter killed most, of Europe's winter wheat and rye last year. European production of bread grains may surpass 1.8 billion bushels, which was the size of the 1946 crop, largest since the war. Production last year dropped to about 1.5 billion bushels, compared with a 2.3 billion average before the war. rp w.'"WUa.1 snwV.js.aisiWr"''wMS-- "if.'3V V Diary Doesn't Have to Tell Earth-Shakin- g Occurrences By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator WASHINGTON. The nation, and particularly the nation' capital, where we are highly national and international-conscio- ui is suffering as never before from the result of memories, good an bad. The Roosevelt epoch produced a rash of reminiscences 20 books about FDR, 32 of them just since his death. Currently we have with us the Churchill war memoirs, as they ar called, although when I was young and read "The Memoirs of Sherloc Holmes," I thought a memoir was something printed after a man's deatt Of course Sherlock came back, so I suppose that legitimizes the term nology. Winston Churchill was a great diary-keepe- r, as was his n, Samuel Pepys, whose Do we find the entry: "YESTEB DAY ARCHDUKE FERDINAN1 WAS ASSASSINATED AT SARAJE VO?" We do not. We find this: Juin 29. Lundi S. Pierre, S. Paul Bought Berlitz Greek : -'M stuff was so hot that the British government still h a s n't released all of it. Frank-lu- i Roosevelt never kept a diary. His sec-reta-of the treasury made up for this lack. Henry Morgen-tha- u assembled 900 volumes of about 35fl nncrpc parfi. trv-- Rustem Bey (The book was purchased in Paris, where the year's record began. The entry was made in Washington.) While the ancient throne of Hap: burg was receiving the blood bat that was to sweep a half doze rulers into oblivion I was buyin a Berlitz textbook for the purpos of studying some foreign languag I have no idea which one excef that it was one I never learnec taling about 80 million words. The task must have kept three stenographers a day working in relays. He had the diaries bound, some said at government expense, although I daresay he paid, for it in the end. His was a lazy method. He didn't have to depend on his memory. He had a dictograph in his office, and every word spoken in the supposed sanctity of his chamber in the treasury, overlooking the wide sweep of lawn and park that flows down to the Potomac, was duly tran-scribed. When the news of this epic achievement became public a terrible howl resulted and some of the volumes were returned to the government archives. What a man! I wonder if diary-keepe- are normal. I would hate to admit to a psychologist that I have kept a diary for years, even decades. I still keep one. I don't know how long ago I started, but I still have one slim, green volume, dated 1904, in my possession. The year 1904 that was just 15 years after another entry, not in my diary, but in my father's (diary-keepin- g is congeni-tal) which stated "fine boy arrived 5 p. m." I may say the "fine" is the natural exaggeration of a proud parent who didn't know what he was in for. At any rate, if diary-keepin- g is used against me, I have two outs hardly anything, even of mild in-terest, is or will be recorded on the faded pages of my journals, and secondly, because I write such a vile hand that I can decipher only a few lines here and there myself. My mother should have most of the blame for my bad handwriting, just as she is to blame for the fact that I can write at all. She was herself a writer and, unique as it was in those good old days, she possessed a typewriter, a stubby little affair, affectionately known Rustem Bey, I remember was th Turkish ambassador whom I had t interview. In all justice, it may not be en-tirely the fault of my diary-makin- g that I didn't record the assas-sination of the archduke. Nobody in America took the tragedy very seriously. At that time few Amer-icans expected much else from Europe's royal families but as-sassinations or less respectable peccadillos. I ought to have known better tha that since I had been helping cove the French foreign office for th two years preceding. But I ha been drenched with war talk ove there and had shaken it off whe I returned. Europe almost imms diately shrank into a dreamy dc main of picture-boo- k memory wit no connection whatever with m; work-a-da- y world. Later on, to be sure, there is ev! dence that I, on second thought felt I hadn't done my diary justic insofar as Ferdinand was cor cerned. But I always was feelin that way about my diary and neve doing anything about it. This, as I said, keeps my diarie from having the slighest valu other than to exude a somewha conscious-stricke- n odor and r mind me that the good young day were no better than those bad ol ones insofar as my habits and cor duct were concerned, for an hones diary certainly has to be well edit ed to conceal one's true charactei You note in its pages some hig: resolve or noble undertaking whic. was more important to you at th moment of recording than the oper. ing of the Panama canal or the r( suit of a presidential election. 1 a short year you read it over an are utterly unable to recall th slightest thing about the event chronicled. Sometimes my old diaries, eve though they record no event e great historical significance, soun quite timely. For example on Oc tober 3, 1914: "Not much doing. I don't seem to be able to save my money." . . . October 8: "The Belgian secretary appears, we consume quantities of beer and tells me his life story a bore, but business.' (just the weary routine of the hard-workin- g reporter) Fortunately my space is runnin out. Nothing is more interestin to write or read about than oneseL' Nothing is less interesting to anyon else. But I wish to prove my pour namely, that no matter how impo) taht diary-keepin- g may have bee for the Churchills, the Marco Pole or the Plutarchs, and perhap therefore as harmful as importan mine was neither. And I marvel that any news-man, press or radio, who lives in the midst of alarms, who "was there" when most things hap-pened and told all in breathless detail via the copy-des- k or micro-phone to millions of wide-eye- d readers or listeners would evei think of writing it down after-ward. Note for instance a recent diai entry for June 5, 1947, which brittle clipping of even date d clares not only vibrantly but wit perfect inexactitude "may go dow in history as the day of the begil ning of the real peace after Worl War II." (Lest you have forgottei that was the day Secretary of Stat George C. Marshal proposed i Harvard university a new approac to " European rehabilitation whic later became the Marshal plai then E.R.P. and finally the ecc nomic cooperation administration. Note my diary for that date: "A meeting of the Associatior of Radio News Analysts. Kal'n born to dinner." as "the Blick." Of course it was quite improper to expose a child of pre-scho-age to a typewriter. It was not my mother's fault. Back in the '90s, some of us weren't vaccinat-ed for anything but smallpox. I was too young to understand that at the time, and since typewriters were as rare as porcelain bath-tubs in a city of 20,000, who could guess their evil influence? I sup-pose I oughtn't to accuse my par-ents because I became thorough- - ly inured to the use of the type-writer long before I could balance a pencil, and this fact did my handwriting no good. At that time what was called "Spencerian" still was taught in the schools of New York state, but very few mastered it even without the curlicues and shading of earlier days. And just as I was getting so I could make the wobbly "M's" and the terrible "q's", along came a new Pharoah to my scholastic Egypt and introduced the "verti-cal system." That was probably where my uneducation really began. I unlearned the Spencerian all right, but I was never able to go vertical. Nothing Important Is Ever Entered But to get back to diary-keepin- g, at least my diary-keepin- The illegibility of the entries in my diaries isn't really as important as the unimportance of their contents. Let me illustrate from . one with a worn leather cover which I have at hand. It Is dated 1914, a good year for a diary, but a bad diary for the world. The record of war days should have been chronicled dramatically as the beginning of the end of an epoch, an epoch which breathed its last in the midst of another war. But did my record do that? Let's look at June 29, 1914. LINES, Just foraLa, A KING'S jester santly until th.? k Deration, condemned ku, V fi hanged. " However, when tioners had taken th.wf c, gallows, the king ' after aU a good je ler - to find, relented. mHl sengerpost haste with . i Arriving at the toe, where the Jester J4; he rope already about the messenger read the kir cree to the effect that ife ,: would be pardoned U b ; promise never to make anofe.' i: The Jester could not S'; temptation of the opportallit, V tin ever, for he cackled out: K "No noose is good newr And they hanged him, b ' C FIRE ALARM N ""V . to .,(. wim. Arriving at a strange hot n fussy woman thought she'd br i j know where the fire escape r, (t 3 she started exploring. Durin; tour she opened a door and i:: " herself In a bathroom occupis Bll an elderly gentleman. "Oh, I'm sorry," she eiclt dj0 "I was looking for the fire tax- y Continuing her search, tie pet ently heard the pad of bare k: TH hind her and a shout made her; 10! It was the elderly gentleman "N in a bath toweL "Walt a minute!" he p ' "Where's the fire?" B Biggest Switch Billboard advertising will reach a new spectacular extreme on Chicago's Lake Shore drive this July when the switch is thrown to tarn on the lights of the world's largest sign 114 feet high and 210 feet wide. A mile and a half of neon tubing, illuminating let-ters 38 to 58 feet high, will flash the name of a spirited product which a certain distillery wants everybody to switch to. 1VMiifH ti 1 a.WMfcL ..J Notes of a New Yorker: Congressman Hoffwit's alibi (for attempting to put over that bill) is that it would aid the nation's security. . . Oh, horse-radish- . Even during the darkest days of the last war no such re-strictions were necessary . . . What Hoffwit wants, of course, is to be able to stop news and radio people who keep the people informed about him . . . Anything a congressman of his ilk wants kept secret is a good definition of news . . . Must be awful to be the editor of a screen fan mag and come out with a piece on the happy married life of Susan Peters . . . She just announced plans for a divorce . . . Repartee during the heavy rains while you were dreaming: Reporter to Cop: "Terribly dull night" . . . Cop to Reporter: "Wonderfully dull night" An English critic named Dick Richards summed np a falling flicker with these scallions: "No Leave, No Love? No wit, no taste, no fun. No good, no like, no go." John Steinbeck recently turned out a book which was favorable toward the Russian people. It d criticism of the Soviet gov't ... So wot happened? The Russian newspapers attack Stein-beck accusing him of being inac-curate . . . Haw! ... An editorial writer grumbles that all would be honky-dool- y if we allowed Hitler and Stalin to slug it out while we concentrated on licking Japan . . . Such lunacy . . . The Japs and Nazis fought on the same side ... If we hadn't fought Germany, Hitler would have won in Europe. That means we would have been forced to fight the Japs and Nazis minus the aid of any allies . . . Besides, we didn't have the choice of fight-ing or not fighting Germany which declared war against the U. S. . . . Rememberrrrrr??? Between the Acts: AI Jolson was irked about rumors that he didn't get along with a certain actor in Hollywood. "It's not true," he told a group. "Why, only last week I had him out to my pool trying to teach him how to drown!" Add Success Stories: Bob Cooke, the Trib's new sports editor, ran copy there 10 years ago after grad-uating from Yale . . . Stanley Wood-ward, who was fired after being there since 1931, allegedly refused to cover a golf "tournament" played by the wives of advertising big shots ... A lot of fancy East Side restaurants are so worried about the slump in business they are slashing prices. Sallies In Our Alley: After his opening night click in a Ziegfeld follies, Mr. Z. congratulated Will Rogers: "You're probably the only Oklahoman lucky enough to be in shbw business" . . . "Gwan," said Rogers,, "everybody else in Okla-homa ii in the oil business!" . . . A few minutes ago Irving Hoffman was asked If he knew a certain tune-thie- f . . . "Only by repetition," was the reply. Quotation Marksmanship: H. W. Newton: The better a woman looks, the longer a man does . . . W. Fay:. Only a few strong char-acters can leave a ringing tele-phone alone . . . Jack Kilty: Success is like an Insult; very few people can take it , , . Fanny Hurst: Children jingling with lauphtar jlr though thftv ha.fi swal. lowed sleighbells . . . B. Par-tridge: A street as dark as a pocket. Several months after John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lin-coln, his brother, Edwin Booth (one of the greatest thespians of all time), starred in "Hamlet." On the opening night a drunk shouted: "Hey, Boothl , What are you going to do for excitement to-night, now that Lincoln's dead!" The actor flushed and didn't know how to reply ... A spectator knocked the heckler down and called to Booth: "Sorry for the In-terruption. Please go on." The defender was Robert Lin-coln, Abe's son. Headline: "ERP AID WILL BE CUT OFF FROM ANY NATION IN EUROPE THAT SHIPS WAR GOODS TO RUSSIA." Wazzamatta? Can't we stand the competition? The Late Watch: Reports that H. Young deserted H. Wallace are not true. He is working for the Wal-lace campaign in Texas. His slo-- ' gan is "Christ and Wallace" . . . recent of him to split the billing . . . Mrs. Alexander de Seversky, wife of the plane designer, is at Doctors hosp . . . Harry Conover wonders if Arline Judge has tried putting all her ex in one basket . . . Liberty's editor got a telegram from the reverend who merged Top-ping and Turner, offering an ar-ticle on it! (Titled: "Why I Mar-ried Lana Turner.") Let us all pray for the preacher. WANTED TO BIT WE BUT AND SELL disc Office Furniture, Files, Tyiritai! rosi ing Machines, Safes, Cain Rtiiira SALT LAKE DESK EXCHAMi ELECTRICAL EQU1PMW.. his ' " Gai Electric Motors Remind Automobile Generators and Saw Repaired or ExchanaM US( Special Attention to fc- suc THE ARMATURE SBC Established 1930 . m HELP WANTED-MEKJ- Wg spei Men and women Be"MvP"ti'?, Tt"" Electric home and health sppli" high irrads product with mn m needed in every home. """Jj, . another. Attractive comm. ina crew manager. Hollywood Lw' 4985 Eagle Rock Blvd., Lo' W ( HELPWANTED-Il- ! - ral Salesman I Infants' ShoM. ; aide line for shoe salman. territory. High commission. SH( GOLDEN GATE SHOE CO. be BDSINESA2mJNyESTjT. 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Buckingham palace announced some spot news to the press: Princess Margaret Rose had come down with measles. IN OCEANA, W. Va. ... A new postmaster was appointed name of Please Wright. IN NEW YORK . . . Magistrate Francis X. Giaccone "heard" 10 deaf mutes plead guilty to charges of loud and boisterous conduct, fined them a dollar each, then won-dered how they knew they were guilty. IN SOMERSET, Pa. ... A depart-ment store, frustrated by contrary spring weather which sent tempera-tures skidding to 50 degrees, ad-vertised straw hats with earmuffo Long Voyage Previous flight range records paled into insignificance when an air force superbomber flew an unprecedented 8.000 miles non-stop with a dummy bomb load of about five tons. It was aloft for a day and a half. The 6 returned to the ground with about 1.200 gallons of gasoline remaining in its tanks, enough to keep it aloft another two or three hours if necessary. |