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In one short j yih an a group of people who chmgtd fr B:ts ' ap,, old dentifrices to Calox Tooth Po"" ys- -iii a aged 38 brighter teeth by icW' yeat Why not change to Clox your"- tiiii0 , 'he Arr, Calox today . . . , your , JJ Nfi teeth can Hart looking " brighter tomorrow! tsi ietv M Iociay' 6, ' VOOTE I POlV ! "a. ww--w WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Proposes Keepbg Pledges In State of Elation Congress Talk; FJercy Killing Has ?uhk Support '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.) HARMONY: Some Question Congress was off to a rough start. The hope of general "harmony," expressed by President Truman and some congressional leaders, grew dim at the start. Republican Senator Vandenberg charged Democratic colleagues with violating the spirit of biparti-sanship in foreign affairs. Committee assignments provided the spark which set off the blast of discord. When the Democrats de-cided to take eight of the 13 seats on the foreign relations committee, the Republicans cried "foul" and uttered their protests. SENATOR VANDENBERG, who will be replaced as committee chair-man by Senator Connally (D., Tex.) called it a "political decision." Senator Morse (D., Ore.) was less restrained. He charged that the im-plications are that the Democratic party proposes to play politics with war and peace." Democrats denied any partisan-ship, claimed they were entitled to more seats because they have a bigger majority than the Repub-licans had. Barkley regretted the "controversy." He told report-ers that the bigger Democratic ma-jority will in no way affect the bi-partisan course of the committee. ' i . i ,,' V ' ' - - ' ' CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS PARLEY These are the men who will chart and develop legislation to implement the Democratic party's platform pledges. Shown in a opening conference are, left to right, President Truman; Rep. John W. McCormack (D., Mass.) house majority leader; Sen. Scott W. Lucas (D., 111.), senate majority leader and Speaker Sam Rayburn (D., Texas.) New Star hZW I ' i CHINA REDS: No Comment "The winners tell the funny jokes the losers holler 'deal!' " But the apparent winners in China's civil war weren't saying a word, and the nationalist govern-ment's peace offensive appeared stalled against a wall of Communist silence. From the government side carne a rising tide of clamor for a truce and a negotiated settlement. The Com-munists, who have been winning, continued to say nothing. Nanking reported growing anx-iety among Chinese who had pre-dicted quick Communist response to Chiang New Year offer to mediate. It was predicted that the Red answer, if and when it came, would be a demand for the government armies to lay down their arms. v In Peiping, a group of delegates to the national assembly sent the Communist leader a message urg-ing an immediate cease fire order because, they said "the people can-not endure any further suffering " Meanwhile, American position, as indicated by two statements, seemed uncertain, or divided. Oscar C. Badger, commander of U. S. naval forces in the western Pacific, denied rumors of a with-drawal of "American forces from China." He declared the rumor was based on reports the marines had terminated their lease on Shantung university campus where they main-tain their barracks." CONGRESS: Big Order In calm, unhurried manner, President Truman outlined to the Blst congress his legislative pro-posals. To the surprise of no one he asked legislators to enact vir: tually every recommendation he made during his election campaign. He called for more taxes, authority to restore economic controls, a broad program of social legislation. ALONG WITH corporations, indi-viduals in the middle and higher-incom- e brackets would share in the task of providing the four billion dollars more annual revenue whjch Mr. Truman says the government must have. These are the major recommen-dations made by the President in his "state of the union" message: INFLATION Widen government control over bank and consumer credit, exports and transportation allocations; extend and strengthen rent control. Grant authority to reg-ulate commodity speculation, allo-cate scarce key materials, control certain wages and prices, if neces-sary. TAXES Raise four billion dollars additional revenue for the govern-ment, mainly by taxing corpora-tions, but also by boosting estate and gift taxes; consider increasing income taxes for the middle and upper pay brackets. LABOR Repeal the y law and old Wagner act but with bans against jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts and some provision for avoiding strikes in general industry. Boost minimum wage from 4Q to 75 cents an hour. BUSINESS Strengthen anti-trust laws by closing loopholes that permit monopolistic mergers and consolidations. FARM Use price supports to keep farmers at a fair economic level. OTHERS Extend social security; set up system of pre-pai- d medical insurance. Aid state educational systems. Pass same civil rights pro-posals made to 80th congress. Push power, flood control and navigation projects on the rivers. Maintain armed forces "sufficient to deter aggression." Pass universal train-ing legislation. Dorothy Malone, in typical Hollywood garb that is for picture releases such as this was the first film player to be ac-corded stardom in 1949. Warner Brothers, her bosses, elevated her to filmland's top pinnacle for her performance in the film "One Sunday Afternoon." sored by the Euthanasia Society of America, declared that the "ending of the physical existence of an in-dividual at his request, when afflic-ted with an incurable disease which causes extreme suffering is under proper safeguards not only medical-ly indicated but also in accord with the most civilized and humane ethics and the highest concepts and practices of religion." The safeguards: The sufferer must submit a petition, duly at-tested by himself and his physician, asking for euthanasia. This must be presented to a court of records which will appoint an investigative committee of physicians. If this committee agrees, the court may permit euthanasia. CASTE SYSTEM: Officers Adamant The superiority which many army officers feel and affect over the G. I. came graphically to light in Ber-lin. There, in the biggest American club in the city, U. S. enlisted men were barred but Serman frauleins were admitted. G. I.'s and civilians got hot as the proverbial two-doll- pistol. En-listed men won a temporary victory when the board of governors of the club suspended the month-ol- d ban pending a special meeting to thresh out the matter. One lieutenant-colone- l epitomized the officer viewpoint. Ninety per cent of enlisted men were all right, he conceded, but it was the other 10 per cent which caused the ban. "THERE ARE 10 per cent of the enlisted men," he said, "who do not know how to behave." Then he added the clincher: "We don't want these enlisted barbarians with offi-cers and ladies." Evidently pos-sessed of the power of his convic-tions, he asserted he would rpsign from the club if enlisted guests were permitted. Significant was the reaction of the German- civilians. In effect, they asked if such tactics had any place in the teaching of democracy. As one employe put it: "The ban simply means that everybody in Berlin can come into the club ex-cept an American enlisted man. That is not our idea of being Amer-ican." MERCY KILLING: Has Advocates Euthanasia, a euphemism for "mercy killing", gained important support in New York state where hundreds of Protestant and Jewish religious leaders petitioned for legislation legalizing the practice. THE QUESTION has agitated hu-manitarians and sociologists for centuries and there are many cases on record where mercy killings have been committed. Despite legal barriers and penalties, the record in such cases, for the most part, shows that juries are inclined to look with some leniency on the per-son who kills another to put him or her "out of his misery." On an appeal to the emotions alone, much convincing argument for euthanasia may be presented. But, considered from all other angles with individual rights, possi-bility, of criminal intent and other such factors involved, the practice could become highly dangerous. The New York group advocating the measure included 379 Protestant and Jewish ministers of the Empire state, the largest group ever pub-licly to advocate euthanasia. The practice is now punishable as mur-der in all the 48 states. The petition was sent to every member of the New York legislature. THE MINISTERS' petition, spon- - Marshall Plan Has Halted The Spread of Communism By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. When this country was struggling into early man-hood, it was clear to our statesmen that if the tree oi western demo-cracy were to flourish and bring forth fruit in its season, it would have to be shielded from foreign interference. The Monroe doctrine was enunciated. It was defensive, negative rather than positive; it simply said to the world: hold what you have, but take no more. It was a large order for a young nation. It covered a lot of territory. It worked. The world grew older and smal!-- er. A new, powerful force arose. Amer-- J i It i " .. V;U ican leaders decid-ed that if the tree we had planted, now in full fruit, were to continue to live and flourish, tf e ramparts we watch-ed would have to embrace and pro-tect our friends whose liberties were threatened ev-en more immedi-ately than our own. The Marshal! of a Neanderthaler cave in the year 23,000 B. C. the mastodon on which he was riding having broken a tusk or an axle or something and all the poor man wanted was to borrow an extra tusk. But since the n was unable to com-municate his perfectly peaceful de-sire, and before he could present his driver's License or his member-ship card in the loyal order of moose, for identity, the Neander-thaler, after shoving his wife in the corner and calling his dogs, would step out and welcome the unfortun-ate visitor with a hearty wallop on the cranium. The result was probably a war between the Neanderthalers and the in which the Neanderthaler had a fifty-fift- y chance of eating Cro. ' BAUKHAGE plan was enuncia- - ted in June of 1947. After thorough debate in congress, It finally vas given sinews on June 28 of this year. What is the score today? Even if the Innocent visitor had been able to grunt without his consonants and lacera-ting his labials, and even if his in-hospitable ho.t had listened to him, that host probably could not have digested his idea as easily, at least as he later digested him. We have words to work with, and thus are able to fashion the tools of communication. But unless the speech teachers (and all teachers) furnish the jkills for the use of those words, the effort is in vain. Unless the idea behind what we believe in can be communica-ted, (and it can't be, unless we agree on the meaning of words) it withers on the vine. Thus, the speech teacher must teach his pupils not only the medium of communication, but the means of using it and convince them it has concrete value. In the field of labor relations at home, or international understand-ing abroad, v-- never can hope to achieve a real bulwark for demo-cracy unless a mental contact can be made, communications estab-lished words and ideas joined so that they have a universal meaning and the message they convey can be digested. As Eric Peterson, general secretary-t-reasurer of the International Association of Machinists, put it: "The need for better lines of com-munication between labor and man-agement, and between the concilia-tor and disputing parties is a dis-tinct challenge. For basically, the failure of these two groups to iron out their disputes without or violence is part and parcel of the broader problem of discord which plagues the v.orld today in its quest for peace." Peterson went on to say that a starting point for speech tea-chers might be to pay less at-tention to Demosthenes who be-came a great orator by practic-ing shouting until he could be heard above the roaring of the waves, and a little more to de-veloping men whose voices may net be loud, but whose skilfull persuasion can be heard above the misunderstanding in men's hearts. Speaking for management at the conference, Robert Chester Smith, director of industrial and person-nel relations for the Pullman Stan-dard Car Manufacturing company of Chicago, expressed his belief that each of the three members of the industrial tri.imvirate the inves-tor, the manager and the laboring man "has been and continues to be too short sip.hted. Each has been looking at the problem through its own specially-conditione- d glasses, and has been unable to see either upward, downward or sirtewise. and unfortunately not very far John Q. Jennings, head of Indus-trial Relations for the Singer Manu-facturing company, told an inter-esting story about how New York's great tugboat dispute last winter had been settled. The negotiations had dragged on for hours until well after midnight. Management and union men had basically agreed on the point at issue, but whenever they tried to phrase the agreement on paper, th :v got entangled in a maze of complicated terminology. Shortly after 1 a. m., one of the negotiators happened to say in simple language what everyone else was trying to say in technical lan-guage. Somebody had a brilliant idea: "Why nut put it Just that way In the contract?" They did a paragraph in or-dinary rank and file English was inserted a departure Jennings described as something brand-ne- w in anion contracts. Mere announcement of the " Idea is credited with checking Red revolution In Italy, with blocking the tide of Communist aggression in western Europe. Now, after only seven months of ,; functioning, I believe that objective observers will admit with Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hofman, a bard-heade- d bus'ness- - man, that "it has not only stopped the march of Communism, bui hs turned the tide in the opposite di rection." Only recently, Yugosla-via drew up agreements for trade with western Europe, thus smash-ing one hole in the iron curtain. The ECA is just what it was 'a-- j belled "enlightened To a chaotic and jittery Europe, it helped to bring: a 25 per cent ;n- - crease in agricultural productior, over the previous year; industrial production above the pre-w- level of 1938; relaxation of inflationary pressures in all the ERP countries except France and Greece. Now what? To convince our people that the game is worth the candle, that whatever the cost, this is the first bloodless war ever fought, that It is cheap insur- - ance against a shooting war. To convince congress that the charges, among others, that ECA is not being efficiently operated, that big business is being favored and little business slighted are un- - Just, or if the charges are true, cor- - rect them. :, To Spsak Or Mot To Speak ". Before congress convened, Wash ington was e'tjoying its usual 'nllux of national conventions, among them two groups concerned with the oral cavity the dentists and the speech-teache-of the nation. Although I was invited to attend sessions of both groups, I exercised my jaws at only one the speech instructors' meeting. The job of the speech instructor Is, of eourse, to get the learners to use words to express ideas a diffi-cult task. Not 'hat the raw materif.l is lacking. The dictionary is mil of words, and the "air is thick with ideas. More d.fficult is getting the words out of 'he dictionary and the Ideas out of the air into the learn-ers' heads. The next step is to set the learner to understand the meau-In- g of the worda he uses nj then to translate them into ideas which somebody else can un-derstand aye! there's the 'rub! Consequently the speech instruc-tors have not only a difficult, but a hazardous profession. Leaving a man alone with a lot of words is like leaving him in a laboratory with a lot of breakable atoms. We know from recent reports that some of the scientists working with atomic energy go blind. It's a wonder to me that more speech instructors don't go deaf. I suppose speech teachers also teach that most useful corollary art the use ot words to conceal one's meaning. It is one I practice arduously. After a decade and a half cf broadcasting, most of my listeners haven't the slightest idea of what my politics are. 0ne Point wnich was stressed at the speech conference was that the competition for power which ends in strife domestic, industrial, in-ternational is due, chiefly to im-proper communication. I agree with that assumption. There is no excuse for this In this day and age I' was different vhc-r. a n appeared at the door X Typewritar Doodling No wonder everyone was looking forward to a happier New Year. Look at some of the things that hap-pened during 1948. Use Koch of lampshade infamy had her life sen-tence commuted; Pro-fasci- Serge Lifar staged a rectial at NY's City Center; pro-ditt- o Kirsten Flagstad played Carnazi Hall five days after Pearl Harbor's anny; Dictator Franco was embraced by Dealer Jim Farley; Hjalmar Schacht, who financed the Nazis; was exonerated by a denazification court as not being a Nazi; and to top it all, our allegedly most upright magazine Time, was being edited by an Another reason "Lend an Ear is showkay is the amusing galivanting of Yvonne Adair. Very tomboyst-rou- s. understatement of the . .The week was Rita and Aly's confession to reporters that "they are fond of each other." I suppose Romeo was merely fond of Juliet. . . Nothing as disgraceful as the committee's attempt to smear the good name of Laurence Duggan. That committee defames innocent and patriotic Americans. . .but has't done anything about the KKK. Shameful. .Because of the Whitta-ke- r Chambers affair, Henry Luce's "March of Time" had to recall its Christmas cards. The cards featur-ed a globe of the world (with film strips protruding), and it looked like a pumpkin. ' The holier-tha- n - thou goons who feign horror at reporters who publish gossip give us an opportunity to revive a state-ment that once appeared in a country weekly: "If you get born, marry, have a baby, die, or some other accident happens to you, please let us know not that we give a darn, but most of our readers have a lot of curio-sity." That explains our posi-tion expertly. Wanna make a fortune In Movie-ville- ? Sell d specs. One producer insists that the depresh there "is largely psychological." Oh, sure. . . Radio critics are wasting their brick-bat- Nine of the top 10 Hooper daytime programs are soap operas. . .The plot of the film christ-ened "Whiplash" concerns an artist who becomes a pugilist and has his manager's wife fall in love with him. That's practically a replica of Odets' "Golden Boy." The "differ-ence" is that in Odets' play the figh-ter was a violinist. . .Several dajs ago John Foster Dulles told report-ers he recommended Alger Hiss for his job with the Carnegie Endow-ment for International Peace. Our listeners heard that a month ago. Imaginative camera work and hep direction can be found in the film. "The Dark Past." It grips the attention despite the fact almost all of the action ta-kes place in a single room . . . The NY Times editorialist apol-ohgeizaeddlifonrea misleading and story on its front page which was based on a statement by Cong. Mundt. But when a colum-nist's sources give him a bum steer belittlers holler like he had committed a crime. Ho-hn- Here's another Heil - Hitlerism: Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kassel-rin-is a convicted war criminal. He was given a death sentence by a British coi-rt- , but it was later commuted to life imprisonment, of course. A fortnight ago the British allowed Kesselring to leave his cell and spend a y holiday at a sumptous Bavarian resort with his wife. . . Apparently, being convicted as a war criminal'is almost as good as joining a country club. Churchill knows how to take a bow gracefully.. In his mem-war- s Winston states: "I hope you will give full consideration to my words. I have not always been wrong" So you want to be a writer, eh? Last year almost 2000 novels were pub- lished. Only about a hundred were money makers. So stick to your bookkeeping iob, Elmer. . . A tone'' of irony: Televish is a red-in- k pre p osition. But networks can take the oss because of the huge profits they garner from he ar(;h en elevish-ra- dio . . The President ra tes having his salary hoisted The Presidency is one job that hasn', had a raise m 40 years . . The new charmer in the film, "Every Girl Should be Married"-Be- tsy Drake-h- as the Stardust touch. She has a SyrLSPealting VOlce that Ctg the a kiss fits the lips. Before Prentice-Ha- ll agreed t Gen Ike) they wrote him asking i But GenV6 he did "Wishbone" Magic V , ys ". kr-"tf-- ' vli ; ft v . - v y Fuzzling over ihe amazing power of a chicken wishbone that's going to make someone's fondest wish come true are movie stars Dan Dailey and Cel-este Holm. The trio call atten-tion to the nationwide "Wish-bone Contest" being sponsored by by the Poultry and Egg National Board. WISHBONE: Send It In Perhaps you've never thought about it, but there must be a par-ticular reason you like chicken every Sunday. Now, if you'll only think about that reason, tell it to a judge, and it happens to be declared the best submitted, you will find your fondest wish coming true. THERE IS a big "Wishbone Con-test" going on in these United States and the national prize is the granting of the winning contestant's own "most-desired- " wish. The con-test is sponsored by the Poultry and Egg National Board of Chicago, and the only requirement is that a chicken wishbone a real one-m- ust accompany each entry. Anyone in the United States is eligible for the contest. Contestants must write, in fewer than 100 words, their reasons "Why I like chicken every Sunday." They can send entries in the form of an essay, limerick or slogan but each entry must be accompanied by a real chicken wishbone and the con-testant's "most desired" wish THREE REGIONAL winners' will receive a trip to Hollywood to s the final judging, which will take place at a gala chicken-dinne-celebration. During .the Hollywocc! stay, the regional winners will be honored at the "wishbone premiere" of ."Chicken Every Sunday." acters sh Too Many Mistakes are spec Pencil industry uses about to u' a and million pounds c! Pience i rubber per year for erasers. Jels "Pn s were NEED SHERLOCK HOLMES Thief Makes off With Pound Notes British authorities would he very happy had the renowned Sherlock Holmes been real and available, since the country was facing two aggravating and puzzling problems. Someone had stolen seven sneets of d sterling notes, amount-ing to approximately $560, from the extraordinarily guarded bank of England printing works. As an added poser, someone had been going around smashing stained glass windows in the Wolverhamp-ton area of the Midlands. Circum-spect, Britons couldn't understand how anyone could do either of these reprehensible 'hings. An idea of how n be the may pound-not- e thief is provided in the fact that the money, stolen last summer, had only begun to circulate recently. |