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Show The Observations Of tV3r. Jones High Spots In Congress Editor .Vandenberg took off his Senatorial gloves back home in Michigan a few days ago, and talked to his neighbors in the language of ye editor. Senator Vandenberg is regarded as a possible choice for President of these United States; but some of us oldsters in . the Washington newspaper game would feel very sorry to have him step down from the editorial heights. When he talked to his homcfolks the other day he stuck an editorial pen into Stalin's ribs, and told him that "we shall not surrender to Communist conspiracy in the United States." He added a solid warning to Americans: 'We are suicidal" fpols if we dp riot rpot out arid destroy" any treasqn at home which may bring a. World, revolutign tQ iheTJnited States.", He averted with the force of a double-fisted editor ihat "we do not propose to be isolated in a World that has been Communized by conquest. We do not shut our eyes to the cold, hard facts, that there are those in the World who respect nothing noth-ing else but force." Senator Vandenberg Van-denberg emphasizes the conviction convic-tion that peace must include both justice and honor. $15,000,000 Kicked Away Lack of labor unity or disregard disre-gard of one major labor group for the well-being of another is getting to be pretty expensive. Fact that the United Mine Workers drew a fine of $1,400,-000 $1,400,-000 for their strike probably isn't . drawing much sympathy from autoworkers in. Detroit and glsewhere. ' The strike is costing General Motors workers alone $15,000, 000 in lost income, The auto company had to' call a recess in operations, averaging a week for about 200,000 workers, work-ers, while it waited for the steel and iron reservoir to fill up again, after it had been drained by the coal shutdown. "The damage already has been done, even if the miners return tomorrow," said C. E. Wilson, head of General Motors, a few days ago in explaining the GM shutdown, "The man hours lost to us cannot be regained. As a Nation we can no longer afford the extravagance of monopoly strikes." Missing a week's paycheck is quite vital to the average family in America. The payiess gap could have been longer and it may be, if Mr. Lewis or other labor leaders continue dictator-' ial attitudes. That the miners themselves lost a lengthy pay period is one thing. It was their decision. The $15,000,000 "fine" assessed against General Motors workers certainly is a horse of another color. "Information Roundup" "A Book Abput a Thousand Things," was so successful tlvit its author, George Stimpson deserted de-serted regular newspaper reporting report-ing and brought out another remarkable re-markable volume that "rang the bell" written under the title of "A Book About the Bible." Harper Har-per and Brothers have just issued is-sued its third book by Mr. Stimn-son Stimn-son entitled "Information Roundup" Round-up" and the wide-awake publishers pub-lishers declare on the jacket that it is "a new treasure of odd and fascinating knowledge." The author of "Information Roundup" compares his career with that of one of Shakespeare's characters who boasted that "God knows by what by-path and indirect crook'd ways I met this information." Stimpson reminds re-minds all who write for publications publica-tions that "the difference between be-tween plagiarism and research should be defined like this: "If a writer takes it from one source it is plagiarism; if he takes it from more than one source it is research." And so he explains, "Information Roundup" a$ a product of "research" plus association with "conversallonal-isfs," "conversallonal-isfs," alias Washington correspondents. corres-pondents. ''Above the salt" is listed in index A and explained as the division of places at dining tables of high and low classes, in olden times. "Honeymoons" lands in the middle of the book it was the custom of ancient people in North Germany to drink a beverage bever-age made with honey for 30 days after every wedding. "Zigzag lightning" does not zigzag it curves, twists zig-zaging zig-zaging is only "the imagination of artists." It is finis in "Roundup." "Round-up." From "above the salt," through "honeymoons" to zigzag," there are 550 pages of valuable and interesting "Information Roundup." Round-up." Congratulations, George Stimpson. "Information Roundup" Round-up" is a "Must" book. Life Insurance Extravagance And now the life insurance compaiies are buying big' advertising adver-tising .space in metropolitan newspapers, which very few people will read not even Senators, Representatives and officials of-ficials in the Government service. ser-vice. The Life Insurance Institute Insti-tute could save, a lot of that insurance in-surance policy money by mimeographing mimeo-graphing a thousand form letters to Senators and Representatives. |