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Give Light and the Peopls Will Find Their Own Way

A Better Reply to Stalin + QECRETARY of State Marshall is doing a better job of . debunking Stalin’s second found of propaganda than was. done week before last when the Kremlin started its drive. But Secretary Marshall is still on the defensive, He is still replying to Stalin. It is high time for him to launch | an American diplomatic offensive. | This should not be difficult. The United States is tiv. ing from strength, the Soviet from weakness. Russian objectives appear mixed. The motive’ may be to influence the American election and to slow down American foreign aid and rearmament, or to divide us from our allies, or to give Stalin time to reorganize his expansionist forces after his defeats in France and Italy. Probably all these ‘motives operate. A In any case Stalin is trying to convince the world that Russia is for peace while the United States is for war. If he can make that lie stick—on the Hitlerian theory the bigger the lie the easier its acceptance—he can camouflage his next aggression as defense against American encirclement. Then under public peace pressure, the United States to escapé his blackmail may be driven to make a virtual

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away on two points: One is that Russia; not the United | States, has been violating peace agreements and holding up treaties. The other is that no two-way deal can be made between Moscow and Washington, that the issues involve | other allies and the United Nations which must participate in any settlement. The State Department has cited the record of Soviet obstruction or betrayal on each of the Stalin-Wallace “peace points.” . Now, it seem to us, Secretary Marshall should follow through with definite proposals in the appropriate international bodies such as the allied councils and the United Nations. Stalin should be made to put up or shut up on hia ~ glibly’ deceptive, Wallace generalities. Foreign Minister Bevin has the right idea. At the annual British Labor Party conference he was not content with putting the responsibility for the cold war on Russia.

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~ference—which- the United- States has been. Aemanding- for. a year but which Stalin is blocking. So on most of the so-called peace points to which Stalin says he agrees, he should be given the chance quickly to make good or to break faith again—while the eyes of the ‘world are on him. Along with this’ American diplomatic counter-offensive, it is even more important that the United States and the European democracies speed rearmament and regional defense alliances. That is the language Stalin understands _ inside or outside an international conference;

8000 Wouldn't Be Enough N preparation for his current skirmish with the soft-coal mine owners, John L. Lewis hiréd a New York public relations: firm which has supplied him with a staff of eight publicity men. Here is something new. Some observers think it indi-

Secretary Marshall in response has been hammering |.

He called for an immediate 14-nation Japanese peace con- |- 1 glimpsed a distant magnolia tree es jovely fragrant bloom; -

In Tur ne’ With the Times

cates Mr. Lewis at last has acquired a wholesome respect for public-opinion. Such a consummation is, to quote Mr. Lewis’ favorite bard, devoutly to be wished. But any conclusion that it actually has occurred probably would be, to say the least, premature. For what Mr. Lewis has just said about the way to .. prevent. another coal strike seems. to us to reveal him in all his old-time form. : He said that three rhen—Mr. Fairless of U. S. Steel, Mr. Humphrey of the Hanna Co., and Mr. Francis of the Island Creek Coal Co.—bear the respsonsibility for “peace or war in the coal industry.” These three, according to Mr. Lewis, control so large a part of the industry that, if they negotiate a contrffct with him, the rest of the mine operators will be forced to sign it. If that is true, it means that. Messrs. FaiMess, Hum"phrey and Francis have dangerous monopolistic power over ..A.commodity essential to the nation’s life. And the fact that ast year other mine owners did sign a contract négotiated by Messrs. Fairless and Humprey with Mr. Lewis suggests that it may be true. ) But Mr. Lewis seems to think of monopolistic power in the hands of the three men he named only as a convenient device for him to use in exercising his own tight monopoly over mine labor. He has pléhtifully proved that he has power to take 400,000 miners out of the mine, on any excuse or with no excuse.

to be the super-monopolist, requirigg Messrs. Fairless, Humphrey and Franeis and, through them, the other mine operators to give him whatever he wants. If they let him have his way, he can dictate the price of coal and force it to any heights he pleases. If they refuse, he can shut off the supply of coal altogether. Whether he employs eight press agents, of 8000, we do not believe Mr. Lewis can ever persuade public opinion that such power is safe in his hands or that he should be permitted to exercise any part of such power without legal restraint.

Being ‘Nice to Uncle John

i AS negotiations for a new coal miners’ contract got under way, nothing could have been more certain to put the operators on the spot than the government's request that “Justice T. Alan Goldsborough dismissthe contempt convietion and no-strike injunction against John L. Lewis and the UWM. Nor was anything more likely to inflate Mr. Lewis’ pomposity even further,

~ think that by this time the federal legal eagles would have learned that when they try to do something nice to keep ¢ Join in a good humor, the old gentleman will usud by kicking the government and the public in

So what he really is saying, we think; is that he intends |

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The government's intefit was obvious. But one would

LITTLE MISS MIDAS

* ell me little Miss Midas When you sit down beside us, Do you chuckle tn mirth, At a crowfoot's birth? : *. Or do you breathe a sigh Or perchance a little cry, Because you cannot erase, It from a lovely face? There is no need you know, To let it bother you so, They stand for laughter and tears, The joys and sorrows of the years, Won on the way to worthy goals They denote beauty in the soul, — MILDRED C. YOUNG. * The question before the house is when will they come down to a price where the average person can buy one? .e “>

LIFE PROMISES TOMORROW

And life promises us tomorrow, As each day draws to a close, Whatever today held of sorrow, Fades, at the dawn's early glow, . “Enhances the hope of a new plan, Fashioning dreams to be won, Whatever of yesterday's hour-span Were left unfinished, undone, -*—--<- _ We're never permitted to borrow Against our source of supply, But life promises us tomorrow, . And with this hope we'll get by.

Our souls may be tired » Losing our courage y, . But then, for te dawn of tomorrow, We’ Te given hope for today. RIAN N.- WISE. * a @ You never know whether to take some politicians at their face or two-faced value. * & .

| SEEK A love that filled with peace serene That grows in faith, is large with trust, A Jove that's pure, that's sweet and keen... That ws. unquestioning faithfulness.

With no reserves to give and take And ever abounds in sympathy, That effortlessly keeps awake Loves fires to burn eternally,

Should I, these yearnings cast aside It is a sin to seek for such : What mortal can't such thoughts abide It seems not asking overmuch. —H. E. DROLL.. ¢ © o . A professor says grade school teachers should know 4000 words—and Junior says

« “study this at home” should net be among — : them. .

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““SPRING BEAUTY I “strolled: along spring beauty lane In showers and merning mist, While little birds sang in sweet refrain, And every little bud was kissed,

Though I knew not for certain what it might be I soon stood by: nature's loom

‘Twas even lovelier than from afar, As I came to the beautiful nook,

With the door to fairyland, ajar,

“1 sketched it in niemories book.”

With lingering gaze, I strolled along Through myriads of pear blossoms far, Bringing to my heart and lips a song For the beauties everywhere.

Lilacs appeared in fragrant profusion,

Greeting the sunshine and showers. In all this loveliness there came sweet infusion of spring beauties in a golden hour. ~~MILDRED C. ¥OUNG. * ° © Blowouts are certain to make a lot of touring plans fall fiat Site summer, ; * ©

IDYLL “INCARNATE

Sweetest song of my soul . Naive flower to my sight; Oh, wild dream of my heart, Thy kisses be a mad delight.

Thy voice, so dear to me, The rustling of silken things; The hush of a summer's breeze — List’ to the humming birds’ wings.

Thine eyes, like twin orchids, Deep in the springtime wood — “Thou. an Idyll Incarnate, That delights my every mood. —DR. H. LATELLE GREGORY. eS It's house-cleaning time, gentlemen. on the suit you want » keen. :

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(OSBORNE, Kas.—Town Listed as Geo&raphical Center of the World.”) Long the center of the nation, Osborne, Kansas, now “enjoys” Which may weth disturb its poise.

For all Osborne's Janes and Joes: “How did we get in the middle Of this earth and all its woes?”

| ANOTHER-COAL-STRIKE?-.

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A Little Bodging Might | = Prevent New Fuel Tieup |

By FRED PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 24—Their public statements show that the opposing sides in the

| present coal labor quarrel could get: together

again if either or both would do a little budging. That is the view of government men: concerned with keeping the stalemate from drifting into another big coal strike in July or earlier. What broke up last week's meeting for a new labor contract was refusal .of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, to recognize the Southern Coal Producers Association as a bargaining agency to sit in with the northern and western operators. = oe But Thomas Kennedy, vice president of the union, stated that the Lewis contingent was willing to recognize Joseph E. Moody, who is president of the Southern Coal Producers Association, as the bargaining agent of the district associations that make up the larger body. To the public there may not appear to be much practical difference in the operator and union standpoints.

U. S. Ready to Step In THAT 18 the theory on which the. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is likely to work ‘in trying to untie the knot if the parties don't do it themselves. Cyrus 8. Ching, its director, is not expected to make a degutte move before this week. However, the solution may not be so simple, Mr. Moody says Mr. Lewis, seeing in his association a strong bargaining force, is trying to smash it. He has asked the National Labor Relations Board to proceed against the union president on the ground that Mr. Lewis is trying to coerce an employer in selection of his bargaining agents—which the Taft-Hartley Law forbids. Lewis Follows Old Pattern

FURTHER TO keep it from becoming too simple, Mr. Lewis with no reference to what

Vice President Kennedy had said, follows an =

old pattern by calling for negotiations with a

“triumvirate” which he alleges controls the coal

industry. "He names two of the three as -

Benjamin ¥. Fairless, president of U. 8, Steel Corp, and George’ M. Humphrey, héad of the M. A. Hanna Co. interests, centering in Cleveland. These two are primarily steel men, but they must have coal to keep their mills going. . Mr. Lewis looks to Messrs. Fairless and Humphrey because last July they made a contract with him which the rest of the coal industry had to accept—with loud squawks. Mr. Lewis, wishing to deal only on the highest levels of industry and not with those he has called “kept men,” wants Ben and George to repeat.

So far Messrs. Fairless and Humphrey,

southern only the Island Creek Coal Co. of Huntington,

southern show. Mr, Francis-denies that, and says he is so busy mining and sling coal that

| W. Va., but Mr. Lewis says he runs the whole | | | |

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In Words We “Know—

‘Gradually We're Learning to Live With That Bug-Bear—The Atom

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| In Washington

By Peter Edson’

WASHINGTON, May 24—Information that will enable even lowbrows to understand the atom is at last beginning to roll out, Ever since they took office, Chairman David E. Lilienthal and the four merry members of this Atomic Energy Commission have been making speeches on the need for popular knowledge about this newest force in civilization. Not much information to understand has come out,

—however; and the general public -has- remained’

as much in the dark about nuclear fission as it

was-on the day after the first bomb. Last year, the American Library Association reported that readers religiously stayed away from books about the atom. This was explained as escapism. People were so scared of the blamed thing they didn’t savant to know anything about it. That sentiment now seems to be changing. The idea is taking hold that, if the mind of man discovered how to release atomic energy, the mind of man can control it. Instead of beating it for the backwoods, where no enemy would have any good reason for dropping a bomb, people now are reconciled to staying where they are and saying, “Okay, if one hits ‘me, it hits me!” That leads to curiosity about what it is that may hit them. They want to know what they can do about it.

still Too Technical

MOST OF THE information available is still” too. technical for ordinary folk to understand. About 3000 technical papers have had the secrecy wraps removed by AEC. Another 3000 are waiting. They deal with such subjects as “Magnetic "Moments of Hydrogen-3" or “ Counts of Rare Earths.” They're unintelligible to the average guy or gal, but hot stuff for the scientific journals. Within the next couple of years, group and publish “these in a series of 50 or 60 volumes. , Another 50 or 60 volumes, now classi-

AEC will |

fed. as secret, will be held, until: they can be |

reclassified.

AEC is also compiling a .source book for |

writers and publishers of text books. Practically, |

all science texts are out of date. Publishers wag! to revise them. The trouble has been that

nobody knew what was secret and what was |

information. | The source book, ready this

|. public fall, will pull together all unclassified material

as a guide for authors.. It's in the less technical fields that information will be dished out so it can be understood by non-scientists. About a dozen non-technical books on the atom have come out since the deepdish Smyth report was issued in 1945. Selig Hecht's “Explaining the Atom’ is typical.

The Association of Secondary School Prin- |

dipals has just published one, called “Operation Atomic Vision.” It consists of a kit of facts, charts, questions and answers and such source material. It's intended for use by high school

—genior- honor-students, training -them-- so--they-

can train others less smart.

Teachers, Editors Helping

FOR THE GENERAL public, the Joint Com- |

mission on Adult Education is planning to train leaders for discussion groups, night schools and university extension courses. The American Society of Newspaper Editors has a committee studying atomic energy education through their columns. The Boston Globe is already running a high school essay contest on beneficial uses of atomic energy. A number of organizations have prepared documentary films on atomic energy subjects. The Moody Bible Institute's “God and the Atom” is “packing in audiences all over the country. “Tale of Two Cities,” made up of Signal Corps and Navy films from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is still going strong in its third year. The Monsarfto Chemical Co., which operates

beg AEC plant at’ ‘Miamisburg, 0. ‘recently

opened an exhibit to stop ‘ugly. rumors and educate townspeople to the fact that they had nothing to fear. Though the community population was only "6500, the exhibit drew 17,000

visitors. Hungry “to learn; -they -came-from- » miles around.

Most successful of the exhibits is that by Brookhaven Laboratories, ‘the AEC research center ‘run by 14 eastern universities at Patchogue, N.Y. This exhibit showed for eight weeks at the Museum of Natural History, New

York, and is now opening at Mechanics’ Hall |

“Th “Boston.” Most Bf the trowas it draws” scheduled tours of school kids who love this stuff and lap it up. All these are signs’ of’ WHALE nthe “wind.”

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Gradually, people-are finding out that the atom |

can be lived with in peace.

years Mr. Street to get in—has named some ‘banks.as the real powers behind the coal ness. Fairless and Humphrey continue

called for big N He may do that yet this year

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‘Hoosier Forum

"Ido not agree with a word that you you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say-it."

Third Party Futile By Frances Ray: : A United States President from a third party presents such an illogical situation in government efficiency and its value to the people that one wonders at college professoys, or even college students, indorsing such an idea. Regardless of who the man might be, he would get no co-opération from a Congress dominated by the first two parties. turn, would get no co-operation from him. Thus, we, the people, would spend millions of dollars for government operation over a fouryear period without gaining any results. Why waste our money and time like that’ J ever in--oyr-history we. have needed constructive, thri - government, we need .it now. We should have learned by now that election promises or platforms, from a minority party especially, are meaningless. They can promise a trip to thé moon and blame the other party for not letting them have it. The man from a majority party. must come through with his promises to some extent, at least, to save his party's prestige. Thus, his platform means far more than the other contender’s. Does ‘Wallace seek the presidency to help the people of the United States? If he has enough intelligence to be president, he knows he couldn't, as a third party man. Let's not be foolish.

Still for FDR By M. G. T., Tipton, Ind. 1 agree with Denby H. Byrens that PDR was the greatest Presidént who ever lived. My husband spent five years in service.

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agrees with me that if the people had listened *

to FDR we might have prevented the war, or at least have been prepared. If President Roosevelt were alive, I would vote for him again.

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IT think President Truman is a good Presi -

dent, too. If he runs, I'll vote for himg I hope Henry Schricker runs. We need a good governor,

Undefeated Generals By Mrs. A. Y. Drummond, 55 8. Toledo St. ioe Ae fow Gays ago NOU “column, Master,” gave the names of three great gen_erals who were always victorious in battle.

WHY” fiot “add “the “name of “a fourth=Gen:

Stonewall Jackson”

I never heard that he ever lost, Did you?

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| Side Glances—By Galbraith

Ah, 2 Last

WASHINGTON, - May 24— | What with moving problems, | special-duty assignments and the weather, the Immigration and Naturalization Service is having its troubles. The service takes pride in its “Monthly Review,” now in | its fifth year. It carries articles on departmental regula- | tions, news events of the | agency and graphs and tables | showing the ebb and flow of | alien visitors. ! After putting the February issue to bed, the ‘staff had to pack up and move the agency from: Philadelphia to Washington, Copy for the March issue was lost in transit. The issue had to be skipped. Getting settled in the Washington offices proved more of a job than expected. The service found it necessary to skip | the April issue, too.

"nn I ALONG CAME MAY. But by that time, the R “Review” ed“ftor's

help the Justice D Department i promote its annual “I ‘Am an | American Day” celebration. So the May issue was omitted. But the service isn't licked. Barring plagues, earthquakes and other unforeseen annoy: — ances, the “ staff will issue a combined March-April: | May-June, number. It should be out. according- | to present plans, the last week | of June. aT

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| RATIONING DOCTORS

U. S. té Divide Supply of Medics Between Home Front and Military

By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 24 — The National Security Resources Board is working out plans

to distribute the nation’s doctors between the |

military and civilian population in the eyent of another emergency. Chairfiin Arthur M. Hill has named Dr. James M. Crabtree, former assistant surgeon general in the Public Health Service, to handle the job. If Congress passes the draft, Dr. Crabtree could become arbiter of the disposition of all the nation’s scientific and medical . personnel. The Senate bill givés the National Security Resources Board “the authority and machinery necessary to maintain a correct balance between the military needs and the civilian and industrial needs.” The 1940 draft law gave the President the power to defer men for reasons dictated by the “national health, safety or interest.” The current Senate bill goes further and gives him authority, on recommendation of the National Security Resources Board, to défer those and

others engaged in “study, research: and other

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Training Stopped During War . DR. VANNEVAR BUSH airman of the National Research and Development Board, told the House Armed Services Committee: " “We are now suffering acutely from our

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failure to continue ‘the training of scientists

and technologists during the recent hostilities. ‘We have a deficit in scientific manpower, which has been estimated variously to be between "40,000 and 150.000 scientists and doctors with bachelors’ degrees. and between 7000 and 17,000

PHD! 8. The Aelieit is rapidly being filled as a

result of the GI Bill of Rights, but it takes four to ‘10 years to train a scientist. We must not again block the, flow of men into scientific training.” The House Committee says the last draft law “seriously disrupted the scientific and research effort to the detriment of American technological advance.” It sald witnesses rep” resenting science and medicine unanimously agreed that the power to defer scientists and doctors should not again be given the selective service system.

To Set Up Priorities List

DR. BUSH told the committee the Nationae Security Resources Board was the logical agency to advise the President on the most effective utilization of the nation’s manpower Mr. Hill says Dr. Crabtree’s big job will-be 0 set up priorities to assure the military the

doctors it needs and at the same time leave ~

enough at home to take care of the civilians. He foresees a greater demand for civilian doc-

tors ir any future war because of the possibility

this country will be bombed.

demands some system of priorities to regulate the call-up of medical officers in an emergency: It insists a minimum of 116,000 doctors must be deferred. That would provide one doctor for every 1250 people. The "peacetime ratio is one of each 740. In addition, it recommends that safeguards be established to assure continuation. bf medical and scientific education - throughout another emergency and establishment of a national emergency medical board ‘within the Nations! Security Resources Board.

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