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Another Round==For Lewis? JOHN L. LEWIS appears to have backed water, but not until he was able to tell his miners they'd got what they were after. : John L. followed his old and familiar technique. He is a crisis-creator. His trick is to shut off the coal so badly needed for industrial power until someone somewhere gives in. He seems to know just how far to go, too. He understands when he is being backed into an embarrassing corner. He usually manages to wiggle out of a bad situa. tion just in time to save his and his union's neck. We have a strange and insistent suspicion that Mr. Lewis was badly in need of a loophole to slip out of the government court net which was tightening around him. Speaker Joe Martin of the House of Representatives provided the loophole in just 13 minutes of conference with Mr. Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, the coal operators representative on the pension administration board. The mutual acceptance of Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire as the third member of the pension board, as suggested by Mr. Martin, was the key which unlocked the coal mines—if the miners go back as Mr. Lewis suggested. “It is hoped that we shall have a long and continuous period of coal production. But don't count on it too seri. ously. Experience tells us otherwise. We suspect that the next thing Mr. Lewis will do will be to sit down with his boys and figure out the next objective, then plot the timetable as to when to pull the trigger. There is nothing in Mr. Lewis’ actions this time or has there evér been to convince us that he will abandon his course of heckling and embarrassing American industry and thé millions who depend upon its payrolls for wages.

* - . THE COUNTRY lost four weeks of vital coal production and more than half a million tons of steel production. The miners lost about $300 each in wages, and there were additional wage | to perhaps a quarter of a million workers in other industries.

weakened in a time of grave Would stishs, Ang is shove ground coal reserves are so depl t the country more than ever will be at Mr. Lewis’ mercy if he calls another strike, with higher wages the istus, when his union's preshis presidential prospects by a triumph of statesmanship or only helped Mr. Lewis to beat a strategic retreat and gain opportunity to prepare for a new assault. : Meanwhile, there's biting irony in the eagerness of Mr. Lewis to deal through Republicans Martin and Bridges. Of course, he is himself a Republican from away back. And he will never forgive President Truman for standing up to him successfully in one fight through the courts, and for

chance to deal the President's prestige a blow. : But the Taft-Hartley Act, another object of undying Lewis hatred, was passed by a Republican Congress, with the support of Speaker Martin and Sen. Bridges. And it was the Democratic President, Mr, Truman, who exposed himself to bitter public criticism by the veto which sought to save the power of John L. Lewis and other union bosses from restriction by that law.

Get Something for Our Dollars have on our books a law more than 50 years old : which permits an American who has traveled abroad to bring back $100 worth of foreign goods duty free. When that law was passed, 100 American dollars would purchase as much goods abroad as can now be bought for about $600. Sens. Brewster, Hawkes. and McMahon have in. troduced bills which would permit touring Americans to bring into the country $500 worth of merchandise duty free. The Treasury and Commerce Departments think it would be better still to raise the exemption to $1000. And why not? : Since the war, our government has given away to foreign countries $20 billion in American products. Congress has just started the Marshall Plan, which will cost taxpayers another $20 billion in the next four years. The reason is that war-distressed foreign countries are afflicted with what is glibly called “dollar scarcity.” The way we have been operating, American taxpayers shell out and get nothing in return. ! THESE SAME taxpayers have the American itch to travel to foreign parts, and spend some of the money the tax collector leaves them on goods that meet their fancy. Trans-Atlantic shipping services have accommodations for 225,000 round trips, and the airlines an additional 85,000. Many European countries are advertising for their patron-

Most of the things American tourists buy abroad are not competitive with goods produced at home. How could we find a happier way to help foreign countries obtain sparce dollars than by permitting these traveling Americans to spend their money for what they want to bring home? Let them buy abroad without. fear of how much they will be soaked when the customs collector ransacks their baggage on the home pier. By all means, make the exemption $1000. Let Americans have something to show for their dollars. Help take other countries off the dollar dole.

Salute to a Soldier

H® commanded the greatest air armadas of history, over

Germany and over Japan.

Following the scuttle-and-run demobilization after VJ-Day, he started anew building the United States Air

Force to respectable strength. Though well on its way,

that job has not been completed and his retirement comes

a few months earlier than had been expected. :

Gen. Carl Spaatz served his country well, and what-

ever reasons prompted him to step aside and pass the re-

willing to take him on in another. - He grabbed at the |...

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Home is happier when little things are around the house, says & pastor. faucets?

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ABOUT THOUGHT

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kyway Of all attainment, su End of enchainmenf! To think, to grow, To live {6 know, To ses the glow In truth's pure flow, Life's prize To rise Above Through love. And think, Not sink. ; =VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON. ® 4 » For a lot of people who recently cleaned up their income tax, now is a good time to roll out the barrel.

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APRIL SHOWERS

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hard to comprehend, That so may life and showers end.

: —H, E. DROLL. we * 6 0 ; When all the people who don’t vote at the al election.

ti on are placed in one group, De the candidate elected. * ¢ ¢ THAT NEW LOOK Witsy was radiant on Easter morn’ earing that brand “new look” But “Hubby” was wearing a look careworn And an empty pocketbook. «LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK. * ¢ oo Wal is good for the complexion { a ne Pty But » ot al a phone for theirs. ® 4

WONDER WALKING BABY

A baby born at house cleaning time Walked right out on his Maw And everybody who saw him said He was the very image of his Paw." -F. P. M. ® ¢

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“NEW YORK--Wallace Orders Corn Planted at Campaign Hesquariss.”) In old Baghdad-on-the-Subway ! Kight on staid Park Avenue, At the “Vote for Wallace” Club, they Have a bumper crop in view.

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . .

WASHINGTON, Apr. 12--Once again Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is caught in the crossfire of politics. Fighting a war with a diverse assortment of allies was nothing compared to the intricacies of politics at home. : It is quite clear that t happened to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Wisconsin has little or no bearing on the future of Gen. Eisenhower. the common-sense judgment of the American ple, there are aud generals. One fact that makes a big difference is that Gen. Eisenhower is only 57, while Gen. MacArthur is 68. On Jan. 22 Gen. Eisenhower made public his

chester, N. H., Union-Leader, stating that he could not accept a presidential nomination, Having sent that letter, he felt like a man who has been: delivered from a plague of boils. He believed he hat 18ken himself out of consideration for good and all The latest Eisenhower boom is made up of at least three choirs of hopeful, not to say desperate, Eisenhower seekers. They are as numerous as before, They are clamorous and persistent. The first group consists of those who believe that somehow the general can be prevailed upon to come to the rescue of the Democratic Party. Among them are party bosses who see overwhelmsing defeat ahead without him. They believe the

tracking President Truman even if, in the end, Gen. Eisenhower says no more firmly than before. In the second group, and it may well be the most numerous, are those who have no connection with politics. They do have a sense of the perilous time we are living through and they long for a “big” man—someone above the ordinary considerations of party politics.

Poor GOP Choice a Factor

IN THE THIRD GROUP are those whose point of view would come nearest to prevailing on the reluctant Gen. Eisenhower. They feel that, if Mr: Truman is the only choice for the Democrats and if his fortunes continue ut the present low ebb, the Republicans at their convention in June may 80 back to the pre-McKinley era to find a safe, sane, honest Harding who could never be suspected of any New Deal t«int. They argue that, if thiz should happen, then Gen. Eisenhower would feel complelled to respond to a draft from the Demorcats, who meet three

He's produced that stuff for years!

We Have Little in To Back a Firm

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combat here in Berlin.

Our. Forces Getting Weaker

rather than stronger.

for combat. .

of this than the Russians.

munications between Berlin and headquarters

through Russian-occupied area to Berlin.

can vehicles in case of breakdowns. The “aid

Power Cut Off Now and Then

of objections by candle-light.

against our lines of communications,

lity ‘to a younger man must have been in his mind

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William H. Newton

BERLIN, Apr. 12—-People back home who enthusiastically urge a “firm stand” against Russia hére in Berlin are like the prizse-fighter’s manager who says: “Go ahead,

The plain fact is we have little in Berlin, or in Germany, or in Europe, with which to make a “firm stand.” The Russians have more than 18 divisions of combat troops in Germany. We have around 30,000 men, the equivalent of two divisions. The Russians have more than 4000 combat planes. We have exactly 75 combat planes in all Europe. Russia has two armies within easy striking distance of Berlin. We have little more than ‘1000 soldiers equipped for

U. 8. warships have put in an appearance at various trouble spots in Europe, but no one familiar with the capabilities of ‘overwhelming air superiority thinks the Navy would keep its ships in those exposed positions if war came. It would be suicide.

OUR MILITARY STRENGTH in Europe is getting weaker In another few months, according to present schedules, we won't even have 75 planes here ready

80 far, all we have been doing in a military sense is to talk a good game. Probably no one in Europe is more aware

Their latest move threatens to cut off land and wire com-

Zone at Frankfort. They will accomplish that by ordering out the three or four U. 8. soldiers who maintain the telegraph wires

There is a paved highway through the Russian Zone connecting our Frankfort headquarters with the U., 8. sector of . Berlin. We maintain “aid stations” on the road to help Ameri-

as the communications maintenance posts are “out,” say the Russians. There is nothing we can do about it.

HERE IN THE AMERICAN sector of Berlin the electric power supply is cut off briefly every now and then. tricity comes from plants within Russian territory. We pay so many tons of coal for so many units of power. . If the Russians decide to cut off electricity altogether for our sector, we can protest—but we will have to compile our list

There's every disposition on the part of Americans here to resist Russia's war of nerve and to oppose the constant attacks Americans in Berlin are »-8 8 ready and willing—and if the Russians try to force us out they will—make Berlin another Batasn. But they do not have much to fight with. The American people haven't given it to them.

weeks later. After all, it is pointed out, he did

letter to Leonard V. Finder, publisher of the Man- _

Gen. Eisenhower name will be useful in sides

Side Glances—By Galbraith

By Marquis Childs

Eisenhower Backers Still Hopeful

in his letter refer to “some obvious and over riding reason” which might persuade a professional soldier to overcome his reluctance to run for political office. : Nomination by the Republicans of a stohe age candidate would be such an “obvious and overriding reason” For one thing, 85 the argument

In goes, In a choice between Mr. Truman and the peo- stone age man a great many voters would be

driven into the Heary Wallace camp. And if Wallace should get 10 million votes, the masters of Soviet Russian would be convinced of a large body of American opinion sympathetic to Soviet

This is a potent argument. It would earry weight with Gen. Eisenhower, who is thoroughly aware of the precarious balance by which the present so-called peace is held together.

Some Are Holding Back - THE DANGER is that Gen. Eisenhower, be.

deviled and harassed, will go even further than

he did before in slamming the door on a nomina: tion, That is the dilemma of those in the third

group, which includes Republicans as well as Democrats.

"Philip Murray of the C10 is for Eisenhower but

in all likelihood he will say nothing publicly jor fear of forcing the general's hand.- This caution is holding back others on the liberal-labor side. : At the same time, however, they realize that the Eisenhower boom must be kept going with some guidance and assistance. Should the Republicans nominateskarold Stassen, Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg or Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the general would not be likely to feel any compulsion to run. He could then follow his real inclination, which is to stay in the presidency of Columbia University and k /out of politics. Republican friends are now fitting pressure on Gen. Eisenhower. They are ridiculing the talk of nomination by the Democrats, telling him that this is the desperate expedient of a bankrupt party. The arguers, pro and con, sometimes go so far as to come knocking on tne door of the Eisenhower quarters at Fort Myer in Virginia. - All this gets in the way of the general's present job, which is to write his memoirs. But that is one of the penalties of overwhelming popularity in an age of uncertainty. :

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"We won't be able to get a new car for months, so we're visiting the neighbors—it's better than just sitting at home!™

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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

We have arrived at that point in our economic development in this country where we must export or dry up.—Andre Mouton,

We are taxing our own folk to relieve these countries while these people are escaping taxation and are not contributing their wealth to this pictute.—~Rep. John Taber (R) of New York, accusing wealthy Europeans of moving their private wealth outside

I see no possible way financially to maintain a reasonable military posture except on the foundation of universal military training. — Secretary of State Mars! a ¥

opposite effect. Norway's Scandinavia in

terprise system. TWO: Racial equality cannot be legisiated, The ability of minority races to exerciss their come through education and the development of needed patience legislation “tg

alback up Constitutional guarantees is in order, Pressure tactics should not be & part of that - THREE: BY ceasing A-bomb production 1 versal Military proposals, ‘by giving our efforts in bekall of world disarmam, ent in. ©

of rearmamsnt economizing wher public welfare is not benefited, & sound nation. al economy can be established and the sa can be made through a substantial reduction the tax burden. - ~~ : * cee Try Brown Trout By John Connor, 108 E, Main St, Mooresville,

, 1 cannot for the life of me understand why |

The sad patt of it is when such » fail the whole idea is dropped. Saati Why do they not give the Brown trout a. try? It has n very successful in the East, in fact record breaking brown trout taken from Kensico. Dam which is less than miles from downtown New York. City, . Many of the famous Eastern

are too warm to support. native stock so brown : trout were planted and are doing quite well, No fly fisherman who has had the good fortune to trade punches with Br. Brownie will | say that he is not a gamester of the first order. He will do well anywhere the small-mouth bass thrives and will propagate well in warmer waters. ms hg hs Give us poor fly addicts a break who can: not afford to hop a plané to Canada and plant some Brown trout. . iis { i

By Mrs. Walter Hafferty, City. ; The question, “where did the money go¥ has been answered, “Under the bridge.” The question, “Where did the meat. go at Julietta?” has remained unanswered. Some have told us thet the meat was. so “well cooked” you couldn't see it. I have cooked meat rare, medium and well done, but it has never entirely disappeared. Couldn't those County Commissioners give a better explanation than that? The taxpayers have paid the money and our citizens have elected these Commissioners to serve for a term of six years. There is an electorate device to remove undesirable public officials from office before their; term expires. A. petition with the requisite signatures calls for a.special election to determine whether a public « official shall be removed. If there were independent groups that would enforce these rights the people have, public officials would be on the job and not be so secure for their terms. It’s the people’s job. : * * o

Firemen on the Job By George F. Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave, _ In regard to Mrs. Withams’ letter in The Times of Mar. 20, it seems to mie she is some what unjust in her rap at the Indianapolis and Beech Grove Fire Departments because they refused to rescue her kitten. Picture an all-out fire alarm, with part of the mén looking for a cat.

of its own volition when it got a 1ittié hungrier. Should Mrs. Withams’ house evér catch fire,

by those factors, 1048 find firm political footing. In the parliamentary election of the Reds won 11 out of 150 seats. and increasing, especially in many Norwegian intellectual circles. But then came the Red coup in Czechoslovakia. death of Jan Masaryk more than anything Norwegians the rules of the game which Moscow played. Quick events put Norway right in the middle of the trouble between U. 8. and Russia. Pe : began charging Norway and’ Sweden to give air bases to America. .

Prime Minister Condemns Reds IF THE Moscow plan was to intimidate the Norwegians bolster the Communists in that country, however, completely. The recent activities of the Russians have

He made it crystal clear to Stalin that the honeymoon and that if there was any threat to Norwegian freedom people of his country wouldn't hesitate to fight. g The

she will find the fire department on the job.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Douglas Larsen Norway Startles World Standing Up to Russia

WASHINGTON, Apt. 12-~One of the few éncouraging reports from Europe is the surprising reaction of Norway to the current, tense Russian situation; Norway and the other Scandinavian countries are right back in the precarious position they were in at the start of World War II, when they were calling it the war of nerves. Norway i8 in an even more dangerous spot than it was then. Grabbing that country would mean more to Russia, strategically, in the event 6f a war now than it ever did to Germany. Of the non-satellite countries of Europe, Norway éonsistently has had the best and most above-board relations with the Soviet : government since the war. When the Russians drove across the northern boundary liberating the Norwegians from the Germans, the Red troops were extremely kind to the people they were setting free. In their retreat the Germans burned homes and destroyed everything they could, in their wake, The first act of the Russiad 3 soldiers was to provide food and shelter for the butrned-o

In fact,

’ Wheat for Whale Oil v. DURING THE occupation the Norwegian Communists d heroic work in the underground. Since with: Russia has flourished with the Norwegians get deal of wheat in exchange for whale oil. And Norway is the ony Scandinavian country which has never had an open War wi

the war Norway's trade ting a great

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element Communist Party, schoolteachers, local gOvers”:

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