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Show The Observations Of Mr. Jones WASHINGTON, D. C Sept. 30 David E. Lilienthal, chairman chair-man of the Atomic Energy Commission, Com-mission, said, a few days ago, that the American scheme will be lost unless private citizens exert wide-awake Democratic control over the sweeping changes chan-ges which new scientific discoveries discov-eries must bring. "We should make sure the -changes will be fitted to the American way of doing things, "because Atomic energy and scientific discoveries have not and need not change the fundamental principles of Democracy." Lilienthal suggests that every community should debate the question of whether a particular proposal of international control of atomic energy is workable or an ineffective "fraud upon the people." He seems to place the accent on "fraud." Lilienthal is as safe a man as there is to be found in the Government. Gov-ernment. That is why he was chosen in the Senate to the place he occupies. Now, he warns the public to beware lest "schemers or fools or rascals or hysterical stuffed shirts get this thing out of your hands." That warning should convince some of our optimistic op-timistic "statesmen that it is time to let up on discussing the atomic bomb as an international plaything. Time and again this correspondent corres-pondent has indicated that the best authorities in the land have steadfastly supported the American Ameri-can plan of Government to maintain main-tain the peace at home and restore re-store it, if possible, to the rest of the world. This principle seems satisfactory to everybody except the black-hearted Soviet Government that insists on being be-ing let in on atomic secrets which is none, of their darn business. bus-iness. , Believe it, or not: There will be no war with Russia as long as we keep in step with our own Atomic Energy Commission, which Chairman Lilienthal warns "will be lost" unless America Amer-ica denies to all the World any part of control of atomic energy. International control of this great weapon would be a "fraud upon the people of our own country." Henry Wallace told an audience aud-ience in Boston that the United States "will never win a third World War." That gentleman need not contemplate a third war while the United States continues con-tinues its leadership in World affairs because the United States will never be the aggressor. aggres-sor. Besides that, no nation will start another World War as long as the policies of the. Atomic Energy Commission are continued. I Speaker Joe Martin of the House. of Representatives has risen to remark that even though President Truman- twice used his veta power to kill a four billion bil-lion dollar tax reduction bill that he Martin, still thinks "it is essential to the economy to cut taxes . . . We can't have wartime war-time taxes forever in peacetime." peace-time." He added his belief that "we must create incentive to get production. Production is the thing we need above everything. I think" lower taxes will help get that production." Such opinions are particularly valuable at this time. Of course Martin is the publisher of a local newspaper that explains why he expresses express-es his opinions so clearly. The old saying that you must go away from home to learn the news has. been traced down by a Los Angeles advertising manager man-ager who has told the World something that . it should have known 50 years ago. Advertising Advertis-ing agents, he says, tell their clients that there are so many dailies and so many weeklies and that when advertising is placed "it is on, a snap-judgment consensus'!, con-sensus'!, that represents a distinct handicap to the weekly newspaper news-paper seeking to sell National advertising ad-vertising space. The U. S. Bureau of Census reveals that 30 per cent of the Nation's sales originated in towns of 9,000 or less, where weeklies collaborate and furnish all the news in their territory. The Federal Reserve banks increased in-creased loans that have reached an all new-time high in recent weeks. There is still plenty of money in the banks if you have been thinking about going around to see the cashier. A few weeks ago a new political polit-ical cryiwas made in the favor of returns to rationing and price control simply because there was a scare that there would be a severe djrought and acute shortage short-age of crops. We have all heard demands) for meatless days, curbs on grain! speculation, export control con-trol ana "brass hat" allocation of food, particularly for export products. Just tighten your belt a little and watch your purse. It won't be long before we are on the up-and-up. TWO YEARS' BETTING NETS $26 SAN FRANCISCO Victor W. Nielson, testifying in a divorce di-vorce case, submitted records to reveal that, in two years, he had bought $311,000 worth of pari-mutuel pari-mutuel tickets on an original capital of $4,500. His total pro-fit? pro-fit? $26.41. . |