| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS r British Laborites Face Major Test Lewis i Miners Clash With Old Foe r ri US U.S. to Continue Price Egg Egg Pr Support EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTEs NOTE When opinions are expressed In n these columns they are those of I Western Newspaper Unions Union news newl analysts and not necessarily ef f this tb newspaper I BRITAIN Warning Sounded The be pledge of Anthony Eden British deputy Conservative leader lead lead- er who with Winston Churchill and other party wigs bigwigs in today's election is hoping to overthrow the Labor party that the Conservatives Conservatives Conservatives Conser Conser- will work with all nations for lor peace might have meant more than it indica indicated ted EDEN being the astute world diplomat that he is must know that there are elements in many places particularly the United States who feel that there must be no further support of power for forthe forthe the Labor party in England With the Laborites' Laborites position often otten regarded as the fostering of socialism the more conservative people everywhere fear it It has been an amazing thing to most students students stu stu- dents of world history how the r British traditionally jealous of o otheir their liberties ever permitted the imposition of this kind of ot government government government govern govern- ment upon them A reduction of the answer to fundamentals might explain that it came about only through the economic distress of the once proud and mighty empire IT IS APPARENTLY assured that whatever the outcome the Labor party faces its severest test in today's election Eden warned in the first broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast of ot a Conservative speech inthe in inthe inthe the just-ended just campaign that the United Nations Is at its lu lowest ebb the democracies are forced to pay dearly for tor armaments and the nightmare of communism stalks talks through Asia He made a 8 telling point in recalling that the Labor party in 1945 declared that if it were returned to power it could get along with the Russians because of its Socialist ideology ideology- and how the world situation had gone from bad to worse since then OPPOSITION SPEAKER Laborite LaborIte Laborite Labor- Labor ite Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskill had told an audience at Leeds that the ithe cost of socialism was high in InI I Britain and would remain high but declared the cost worthwhile because under the Labor government government government govern govern- ment a acute ute poverty has really been abolished That bat was a debatable point about which the argument continued while Britain voted EGG PRICES No Humpty The American egg situation had no chance to rival the nursery Humpty story inasmuch as federal price supports were fixed so go that no such fall as occurred to the nursery rhyme nursery rhyme egg could happen happen happen hap hap- pen to his modern counterpart THE GOVERNMENT which already already al already al- al ready owns some million dollars dollars dol dol- lars Iara worth of eggs intended to keep on tm buying them through March of this thIl year The be idea was to support the price at an average of 25 cents a dozen on the farm The governments government's policy was quaintly stated by one federal official official of of- who summed it up with The hens are laying their fool heads head off aU The farm price of 25 cents a dozen doten was about 75 per cent of parity a level calculated to be equally fair to producers and con con- sumers Producers rs of dried eggs the statement said would continue to get about 95 cents a pound Most of the eggs the government buys are dried In the past two years ears it has accumulated about 73 million pounds of these eggs most at a price of a pound Some are stored in a cool cave near Atchinson Kansas The rest are in warehouses in other sections of the country THE QUESTION of what ta to do with them has become the major I problem The law permits the de- de of agri agriculture to give them away 1 if they are kept out of commercial competitive channels This restricts them to welfare purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses and similar uses TAXATION Get Em All The be treasury of the United States wants to put the tax bite on a lot lotof lotof lotof of organizations which are not no now w paying any income tax on the operation operation operation op op- op- op of unrelated businesses The be treasury made a request t to o congress that this be done asserting assert assert- asserting ing ling that some labor unions business buss busi ness leagues social clubs and charitable char char- table stable and educational organizations were getting away with nonpayment nonpayment non non- nonI I payment of tax that the treasury ry i insists should be paid 1 Vance N. N Kirby the treasury treasury's a tax legislative counsel made i it II clear however that the admInIstration admInIs admInIs- 1 tax program did not contemplate contemplate con con- template such tax treatment o of i religious bodies except as the they y might be affected in the operation n of educational institutions He said the proposals would apply ap up ply to labor unions business bushes s leagues and social clubs He also emphasized that the t tt tax a x t j recommendation was concerned d t i i only with business income which h I i is its not incident or related to th the e exempt purpose I i i Thundering Again r 1 r I- I I's Like s 's a stuck stack a record or an old movie constantly re- re showing John L. L Lewis mine union czar was In the news again this time with another coal eoal strike on the boards Lewis gestures as he appears before belore the conference table during contract renewal talks which broke down PIT PITMEN ME MEAn MEN An Old Foe An old and hated enemy was again at grips with John L. L Lewis end hie ferl l I I i n After a delay which brought him sharp criticism President Harry Truman had turned to the device he declares he hates in order to bring order out of the coal strike chaos THERE WERE MANY who had begun to wonder if Mr Truman Truman- known for the stubbornness he employs employs employs em em- ploys when balked ever balked ever would resort resort resort re re- re- re sort to the T-H T law to resolve the mine deadlock Now that he has it t would cause much delight in the ranks of the political opposition The T-H T law however regarded has been used several times in national national national na na- na- na emergencies with an effect that gives it a real cause for being being beng be- be ing ng whether anyone likes Jt It or not The miners however showed defiance They still chanted the old traditional refrain No contract no no work And i it looked like a contract ct agreement was far tar off as the President named a three three three-mem mem- mem bet ber board of inquiry who would attempt at- at a at attempt t- t tempt to restore peace in the troubled situation TO THE BOARD President Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man named David L. L Cole Patterson Patter Patter- son N. N J. J attorney who headed a similar board in 1948 that settled a bitter contract row between Lewis and the operators John Dunlop Harvard university business business business busi busi- ness school and a veteran in labor management relations and W. W Willard Wirtz Northwestern university university university uni uni- law professor and former chairman of the wage stabilization board Theirs would be the difficult Job because John L. L Lewis was a difficult difficult dilli- dilli cult man to deal with He might be even more difficult since his three- three day work week had reduced the nations nation's coal stockpile to a two- two I week supply at the time of the I strike RED BOMB H-BOMB H-BO H B Terrific Echo There was a sudden and dramatic interruption in all the talk about the hydrogen hydrogen or or H Just as everyone was pondering the fate o oa of ofa a world on which the monstrous weapon weapon might be loosed alon along g came a report that the Russians already had it The reporter was an Englishman a Mr de Courcy who claimed that he had secret sources inside theiron the theiron theiron iron curtain which told him whatever whatever whatever what what- ever was going on THE CLAIM was a bit rugge rugged d for lor the average American to accept ac accept accept inasmuch as there was still no actual proof the Reds ever ha had d the atomic bomb Still it was a anice anice nice frightening topic of talk an and d discussion was rather widespread Naturally the first impulse wa waa was wasa s I I Ia a great rushing to revamp all Atlantic Atlantic At lantic defense plans and perhaps more naturally to talk of greater greats r US U.S. outlay of arms for herself an anthe and d the pact nations Amid all the excitement ran a an n undercurrent of spy thrills and national national na na- national menace with the disclosure discloser e that a German physicist who ha had d worked with the British in developing developing de do the bomb A-bomb had given give n secret information concerning that tha t weapon to the Russians I Good Omen I As jitters mounted over reported reports d leaks and treasonable acts concerning concerning con con- the secrets of the hydrogen n bomb apprehensive officials an and I citizens were further disturbed b by y reports that a former clerk in th the e French consulate at Stettin Poland had confessed he had led an espionage age network that obtained informs information information tion on British military move move- meats ments He was identified as Andre Andr e Simon POLITICS t D Sound Fury The be sound and fury of the upcoming upcoming upcoming up up- coming congressional elections was increasing in volume If the Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans could make it stick they had found their issue Liberty against Socialism HOWEVER it 11 appeared the GOP was running into the same old trouble trouble inability inability to get along The Theme Theme Theme me too clement element while pretending pretend pretend- ing or appearing to have changed its collective minds was nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless never never- chomping at the bit when called upon to embrace a more liberal liberal liberal lib lib- eral attitude In an day 11 closed meeting members members members mem mem- bers of ot the Republican national committee and house and senate Republicans attempted to iron out their differences They had hoped that a proposed statement of principles principles principles prin a and n d objectives would serve to unify the party and serve as a basic platform for the campaign campaign cam cam- campaign electioneering Out of the welter of discord came these arguments within the pa party Vigorous opposition to most of Mr Truman's Fair Deal policy A middle ground on US U.S. foreign policy advocating continuance of th the bi bi partisan bi-partisan artisan policy olic but sharply criticising the administration ol ot it Particular condemnation of secret secret secret sec ret agreements at Yalta and Pots Pots- I dam Opposition to the spread of com com- Denunciation of any socialized health program wage and price control the Brannan plan RETURN to a balanced budget and repeal of ot wartime ex excise ise taxes A fair price for the farmers' farmers products That was the scaffolding for the platform which the committee hoped would satisfy all the First results indicated it will not All of which would bring I I I I smiles to inasmuch Inasmuch in inasmuch In- In as there is little hope for victory at all by Republicans who are divided It would be tough enough if they were all united FOREIGN AID Bottomless Pit The question of whether the United States ever would be freed treed of the burden of supplying economic aid to Europe was beginning to occupy occupy occupy oc oc- cupy the minds of many US U.S. citizens citi citi- zens With more than eight billion dollars dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars already spent on efforts toward toward toward to to- ward European recovery recovery that's that's on the basis of released figures figures and and western European nations now asking for another four or five billion billion billion bil bil- lion for the next two years the astronomical figures were becoming becoming becom becom- ing lag more astronomical The apparent situation indicated that all the ERP supporters had todo to todo todo do In order to get more funds for I European aid was to report amazing amazing amazing ing progress by the foreign nations nations nations na na- on the road to recovery and immediately temper that with a abut but the but the but being that more and more money would have to be spent if recovery were to be permanent The Marshall plan is supposed to end in 1952 but the follower of US U.S. foreign policy as it affects aid to needy na nations would lay the customary customary customary cus tomary eight to five eight five that the plan will not end in 1952 By that time with crisis mounting mounting mounting mount mount- ing on crisis because of the ence of the bomb H-bomb and word that Russia already has it it logically may be expected that there will be found multiple reasons for continuance continuance continuance contin contin- of aid to Europe to an extent whereof no man can see the end Claims Rare are Power f 4 N 4 t 9 s g ay y i iG G e c r t r u d right above shocked Berliners by claiming the power to raise the dead and heal the sick She first amazed Berlin when she drifted in from eastern German German German Ger Ger- man territory and issued an appeal to parents of ot recently deceased children to bring them to her for revival There were no takers The healer is shown here attempting to cure a paralyzed woman who said she felt much better after treatment EUTHANASIA Case in Point Advocates of euthanasia mercy euthanasia mercy killing would killing would find support for their views in in the action of a Bridgeport Conn jury in acquitting blond Carol Ann of the slaying of her ridden cancer father tather A jury made up of all aU parents found the year old college girl not guilty of slaying her father lather Carol Ann had fired a bullet through her fathers father's head after it was learned he had only weeks to live |
