Show 4 I SCANNING THE WEEKS WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World I Truman ruman Relieves Gen MacArthur from All Commands in the Far East MACARTHUR RELIEVED RELIEVED To To millions of small towners across the nation to whom Gen Douglas MacArthur has become something of ot ofa ofa a legend his removal from all of ot his commands by President Truman was a shock not easily understood The action pointed up the seriousness seriousness seriousness serious serious- ness of ot the break between the general the White House and UN statesmen statesmen statesmen states states- men which had raged for weeks over the conduct of the Korean war var According to grim stubborn MacArthur he was fighting Europe's war with arms in Asia while Europe's diplomats continued to fight communism communism com corn with words In his blunt barbed 4 way he wrote Joseph W. W Martin Jr house wj majority leader It uIt It seems strangely difficult dif dif- difficult difficult for some to realize that here in m Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global con con- quest That statement struck at the administrations administration's administrations administration's s very basis of how to defeat com corn 44 It threw European diplomats into a tizzy It brought demands in congress that a special bipartisan committee be Grim-Faced Grim sent to Tokyo to hear bear the generals general's foreign For him the tho war ends policy views views- It Jt brought rumors of the crackdown on MacArthur which the peole people people peo peo- le on Main Street could not believe would ever happen The action has produced a shock that may have serious conse conse- I In the next few weeks congress may possibly be involved in bitter debate as the generals general's cause is championed by the Republican party But above all it has caused confusion and uneasiness in the mind of the average Main Street citizen whose common sense tells him there is no end in sight for the Korean conflict It does not answer the question in iii the minds of millions of ot people in the home towns How are we going to get our sons and brothers and husbands free of the blood and filth of t Korea GRAPES OF WRATH WRATH- TH- TH The people In the big cities of ot the nation know little about the aIdes so vividly described in John Steinbeck's novel of the depression The Grapes of Wrath But to the people in the small towns and rural sections of ot the nation they have bave long been a problem problem and and a necessity There are millions of them in the United States working from the south toward the north as the crops ripen for harvest And as the harvest nears they are welcomed and just as anxiously the community awaits their leaving They are poor often underfed and inadequately housed They present a problem on the home town level that the individual community community com corn is unable to solve At last much to the relief of millions of ot home towners the federal I government has stepped in and made a survey of ot their problems The committee that made the survey has bas recommended legislation on migratory migratory migratory migra migra- tory farm labor that may solve wage problems establish labor camps extend social security public health and education programs with the I aid of at states and local communities Of all the problems that faced the home towns of ot the nation that of ot th the migratory worker was one of ot the most serious Its solution willbe will willbe be welcomed JI ATOMIC SPIES SPIES SPIES-In In what was probably probably proba proba- bly ly one of the most dramatic and moving scenes cenes in a federal court in the history of ot this tills country Judge Irving Kaufman Kauman sentenced sentenced sen sea Julius and Ethel Rosenberg husband husband hus bus band and wife wile atomic spy team to die for treason Said handsome year old Kaufman 4 one me of the youngest judges on the federal bench tench I have searched my conscience to 10 find some reason for mercy It is not Julius Julias Rosenberg in my power to forgive you Only the Lord can find mercy for what you have bave done r Never before in a civil court of at the United States had bad native-born native spies been 1 sentenced to death Morton 34 fellow conspirator was sentenced to 30 years in prison The i fourth member of ot the conspiracy Mrs Rosenberg's rg's brother David Greenglass I 29 29 9 was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thus ended another episode in the constant battle to keep the home towns of America free Ethel Rosenberg KEEP EM ON THE FARM FARM- The old question of ot how are you goin to keep em down on the farm showed up again in preliminary figures from the 1950 census of at agriculture The census bureau announced that the tentative count of the number number num nurn- ber her of farms in the country came to a real drop of ot at least for the first five postwar years and at least or or about 8 per cent for cent for the last decade The bureau put forth three major reasons 1 A trend toward combining small farms to form large ones This was most pronounced west of the Mississippi 2 A trend away from production of food for home use or sale 3 Rural people taking jobs in nearby city industries and dropping production of ot food THE LEVELING OFF OFF OFF- Michael V. V DiSalle price director said in his latest statement that his ceilings have bave brought some stability into view but that higher taxes and tightening of ot money and credit supply are needed The question in the minds of home borne town housewives was whether or not the line will hold or whether there will be another upward spiral In late summer as predicted by many economists In defense of controls DiSalle said We had to start price con con- It was a psychological move to combat the factors that were driving us toward a serious inflation 37 c cL L Labor Policy Committee At lit Truman's Invitation lo labor returned to the Defense Board DROPPED DROPPED- The DROPPED The house armed services committee dropped efforts to write a universal military training program that would have reached into the home of every family in the nation The senate had previously approved establishment of a U. U program in connection with pending draft legislation The committee adopted an amendment by which congress agrees to consider recommendations to be made later by a man five commission Legislators who approved of ot said they believed universal military training will be enacted within a year |