Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Pressure Out Oui in Berlin Controversy British Welcome Farmer Priority looms in Legislation By Bill Staff Writer EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion opinions are ste expressed In these thue columns column they hey are those of Western Newspaper Unions Union new news Analysis and sod not necessarily of this newspaper PRESSURE Polite NO Sore point in all the Berlin controversy controversy controversy con con- continued to be the Soviet blockade of the Reich ex-Reich capital The Big Biff Three Western powers still blamed Russia for continuation of the cris crisis s through perpetuating the blockade and President Harry Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man had bad given emphatic ic evidence that he planned no further discussions discussions discussions discus discus- with Russia on the subject until the blockade was lifted Following his return from a Floridi Flori- Flori di dL vacation t the e President went into inton a n full-dress full review of American foreign policy with Secretary of State Marshall and W. W Averell Harriman Harriman Har Har- riman U. U S. S large at in Europe The gravity with which United Nations leaders viewed the Berlin situation was evidenced in the efforts bf- bf forts of U. U N. N Secretary General Trygve Lie and H. H V. V Evatt general general general gen gen- eral assembly president THESE TWO made urgent appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal to chief executives of the four big powers powers going going over the heads of these nations' nations U. U N. N delegations to todo todo todo do so to so-to to bring the Berlin dispute to toan toan I Ian an end and thus bring about world peace This appeal was without avail The United States France and England England England Eng Eng- land said no politely but firmly They declared the issue must remain remain re re- re main In the hands of the U. U N N. N security security security se se- se- se council until the Russian blockade is lifted Russia reacted as usual blaming the Western powers for the stalemate Evatt and Lie argued that the dispute dispute dispute dis dis- cannot be settled within the cramped confines of the security council and should be aired in the wider fields of the general assem assem- bly AGGRAVATING the situation was the coming winter with its consequent consequent consequent con con- sequent obstacles to the air lift litt The Russians appeared content to wait out this phase of American aid to Germany in the apparent conviction conviction conviction tion or hope that bad weather would so impair air lift efficacy as asto asto asto to make it negative in the battle for Germany If U the situation were to be resolved resolved resolved re re- re- re solved by diplomatic means American American Amer Amer- ican lean thought and procedure on the question would carry top weight with the Big Three Under this setup President Truman's Truman's Truman's Tru Tru- mans man's evident intention to spurn discussion of the problem unless the Berlin blockade were lifted would indicate the United States was prepared prepared prepared pre 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 reiterated 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 BerUn Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin Un question even if it it cam came from top chieftains in the U. U N. N PRIORITY I I For Farmers I The man with the hoe p put t the X where it counted November 2 2 and as a result Americas America's farmers are areto areto areto to reap a share of President Truman's Truman's Truman's Tru Tru- mans man's smashing victory at the polls Even now administration chiefs are moving to give the nations nation's farmers top priority over labor in any legislative program coming up for action by the next congress THE FARMERS FARMER'S reward is to come not immediately not in the future fu ture ture and and the outlook is that labor may have to stand behind the farmer farm farm- er when awards for a part in President President President Pres Pres- I ident Truman's triumph are to be handed out in a legislative program Best friend of ot the farmers when the plums are to be passed around is Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan No doubter of where credit cred credo it for Mr Truman's victory belongs Brannan already has assigned Louis M. M Bean department economist and election forecaster to prepare charts and graphs to show the President President President dent that he owes his election primarily primarily marily manly to the t farmers THAT all that will be done to insure the farmers a fair return 01 their investment in Mr Truman for top level planners are drafting a new flexible price support program program pro pro- gram to go Into effect early in 1949 instead of ot 1950 as would have been the case under the Republican Aiken farm bill Add Add to this the fact that Senator- Senator Elect Clinton Anderson CD D. D N N. M. M I Missing Link I Anthropologists appear to have turned up another missing link linkin in the evolution of man The latest find discovered in hi an ancient Transvaal cave in South Africa may provide a clue to the earliest known of mans man's ancestors The bones of ef this prehistoric creature crea ture who may have lived a million years ago indicate he might have been a man ape who carried weapons and built fires I former agriculture secretary took a direct hand in supervising drafting of the new measure and personally will introduce it and it becomes evident evident evi evi- dent the farmers farmer's happy place in the administration sun is most assured BASIS of Brannan's contention that farmers elected Mr Truman if it it weren't for the farm states in inthe inthe inthe the agricultural west the 11 industrial industrial indus indus- trial states on the Atlantic seaboard that tha t voted for Governor Dewey would have swung the election R Re Rt- publican How will farmers fare under the administration plan Heres Here's the projected program To protect the farmer against anticipated anticipated anticipated an an- crop price fall oils he would be given a flexible price floor that would protect growers but would not burden U. U S. S taxpayers with an extended permanent subsidy subsidy subsidy sub sub- sidy of farm surpluses PROVIDE adequate storage facilities ties for farmers in corn and wheat belts to prevent loss of bumper crops Extend reclamation and soil conservation conservation con con- benefits to more farmlands farmlands farmlands farm farm- lands and provide an increased rural electrification for more farmers this to be sponsored and paid for by the government eat This then is an nn 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 IE Infant Rex lor hours the solemn-faced solemn or constable constable constable con 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 guarded guard 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 constables constable's side bent over and spoke in a low voice THE CONSTABLES CONSTABLE'S face tace lighted he walked quickly to the iron railing against which the crowd was densely dense dense- ly packed and declared exultantly Its a boy Then throwing his head back he shouted A prince has been born To Princess Elizabeth heir ent to the throne of England and her II consort Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Ed Ed- had been born a son A prince by a special royal decree of ot King George VI issued several da days s 's before the birth of the child Their young prince was born just six days short of the royal couples couple's wedding anniversary November 20 I THE NEWS that Elizabeths Elizabeth's child I was a son told the usually stolid Londoners what they wanted to hear that that the royal heir was a child who might someday be their king Into a world of ot crisis and unrest an al age of a dwindling empire for Britain was born a princel ng whose future as a potential ruler is fraught with imponderables Both he and his mother would oe e cut off ofT the line of ot succession to the throne should a son be born to the king and queen monarchial governments governments gov gay evon of ot the benevolent type are nce fading from the world scene the contracting empires empire's dimensions dimensions dimensions di di- are subject to speculation but even were these things nonexistent nonexistent nonexistent non non- existent there Is the last and greatest greatest great great- est imponderable of them all the all the atomic bomb REFUND Pay Up If It youre you're an GI ex-GI and figure to cash in on those service insurance dividends next year make sure youre you're square with the Veterans' Veterans administration or youre you're likely to get left in the cold VA says it may withhold all or part of the checks of ot two groups of veterans veterans those those who have received received re reo re- re overpayments for education I or training subsistence and those who have defaulted on GI loans I MILLENNIUM Very Unfunny When a radio comedian backs oil oft from laughs the event rates In tn news item value with the man-bites-dog man But theres there's method method about about ut worth weekly weekly weekly-in in Arthur Godfreys Godfrey's 8 madness Godfrey is the guy who has ordered his musicians not to laugh at any of his Jokes THE RED-HEADED RED radio comic I explains wistfully that his musicians musi musi- clans 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 it his musicians laugh at his jokes or join him in songs they will come under an additional union the American Federation of R Radio Artists And that says Godfrey would mean an extra cost of to a n week for each musician His men would sing choruses and they'd kid each other the comedian says but now if U they open their mouths to sing they come under AFRA's jurisdiction That adds the extra salary No Here vr S S 'S SA A picture of carefree content content- meat ment President Truman accoutered accoutered himself in casual shirt while tripping lightly through his post post- election vacation at Key West Vest Fla He lie whiled away the drowsy hours by formulating the broad outlines of his administrative policy pal pol icy for the next four years and paused for a moment to turn turndown turndown down a proposal for another Big Four conference at this time NEW LIGHT From Isaiah New light and Interpretation may be thrown on the Old Testament by discovery of the complete scroll of the Prophet Isaiah All AU 66 68 chapters of of the book with only a few tew portions missing have been found One of the most dramatic Biblical discoveries of all nil time the scroll was brought to light recently when four of ot th the oldest Hebrew manuscripts manuscripts manuscripts manu manu- scripts thus far known were found in a n cave near the northern end of ot the Dead Sea Scholars date the Isaiah scroll as ns early or second century century century cen cen- tury B. B C. C which would make it the oldest Biblical document yet to tobe tobe tobe be discovered intact THE DISCOVERY of a complete Isaiah scroll dating back a thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand years before the oldest one known promises scholars a ap opportunity opportunity opportunity to seek new meaning from the Bible and to determine by comparison comparison com corn parison the extent that errors may may have found their wa way into Biblical I I manuscripts with the passage of time Bib Bible e scholars point out that the Book of ot Isaiah like all of ot the Bible came down to us as the result ot of many by scribes who would make additional scrolls as asI I the old ones wore out |