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_ For Palestine Peace . Sl fr largely to the United Nations mediator, the + * American Dr. Ralph J. Bunch, the long Israeli-Egyptian "armistice negotiations have ended in agreement. This probably will be followed soon by similar armistices with the other Arab states. So the way is virtually cleared for per _ manent peace treaty negotiations, under the United Nations Conciliation Commission. . Whether the final result will be just and lasting peace | "in that strategically critical Mideast area will depend in a Israel, the military victor. The unprepared " * jealotisy-ridden states of the Arab League were licked, ex-

Red Czechoslovakia, are now on top. a ti eir new power res dE hatred and create the basis for joint ce and co-operation necessary for stable peace. But if they insist on more territory than they can digest, intheir neighbors’ enmity, they must remain a militarized state unable to concentrate on the difficult job of building a new nation. That way lies eventual destruction s for little Israel, as well as continued Mideast conflict with

Soviet connivance leading to a possible world war.

she launched her later offensives, will henceforth, ! * United Nations authority. She cannot use the United Nations partition plan for all take and no give. As the United States government and others point out, if she wants more she must compensate by giving up accorded to her by the United NaCA Jerusalem. The United Nations plan specifically required internationalization of that city, a

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North Korean forces and South Korean police are building up another explosive situation in troubled Asia. It is a situation in which American. troops could become involved

Appareil, serious fighting has been avoided thus far

ght. But Phat fay be only buying time. “=. i Se pti. Lt security forces are under U. 8. Army control. Russian ops are supposed to have withdrawn from North Korea, inf on that score isn’t dependable. In any : Soviet-trained Communist forces are far superior “in numbers-and equipment to any forces in South Korea,

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THE increasing frequency of the attacks has been in- ~~ terpreted by South Korea's Premier Lee Bum Suk as anindication the Com may be testing South Korean defenses with the intention of mounting a full-scale inva-

"More likely, the real feeler is to determine the American reaction should the Soviet fifth column seize and try to hold some segment of South Korean territory, now under __éur protection. Until now the Communists have retired without attempting to hold any of the territory they have invaded, according to Premier Lee. But should they try to do so, our government would be confronted with a decigion of far-reaching consequences, so it’s something to be faking about. sy * The United States would be placed in a most unenviable position if our troops become involved in a shooting war +. with any group of native Koreans, evef though they might | be acting under Russian instructions. Yet the alternative would be no better. If an initial invasion were ignored, the Communists probably would continue to crowd us until we I~. had to choose between a fight and an ignominious evacua«tion of the country. The Kremlin may be plarming to cof: © front us with exactly that dilemma.

Taxpayers Get a Ride

N° wonder the taxpayers get taken for a ride. Latest figures show that they have bought and are paying to operate about a million motor vehicles for the federal

local governments, . Of course, in this motorized age, government needs autos. Whether they need 1,500,000 autos—one out of every 20 registered in the United States.is another question. A lot of official cars unquestionably get driven many, many miles on errands not vital to the taxpayers. Time was when the first things a bureaucrat got were a desk and a secretary. Now any néw government office calls immediately for new cars, and the bigger the cars the more important the bureaucrats feel. Perhaps those taxpayers who can't afford new autos, or any autos, for themselves will be consoled by the | thought that they're providing so many for their public. servants. But, somehow, we doubt it.

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Barton Rees Pogue THE GLORY OF GOD

1 was with my friend Johnnie and her tall son. We had gone, for an hour or so, with her mother, who lives on a farm. The ‘phone rang, and our hostess answered. A neighbor's voice tedly exclaimed, “Go outside and look at the queer lights in the sky!” We all trooped out into the night, away from the house with its

eastern to 1 i In brea awe we watched the climbing shafts of light of the aurora borealis, reaching

to the zenith of the heavens and curving down on the other side. We were in an im-

standing . measurable dome of light, the like of which we

not have imagined. Never co: t, the of light gleamed and paled, and

muted, yét darkly glowing, the sky to ‘the east and west, Streaks appeared and vanished. Hunwere visible, as if the lovely lavishly embroidered with ‘The great dipper shone toward northwest. In the eastern sky the fiery red of the planet Jupiter could be seen as the on the horizon. Continuously playthe surface of all, quivering waves of light rippled’ and spread, advanced and retreated.

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handiwork. I think we should not have been

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peared singing “Glory to God in the highest, hosanna to the King!” % ~MABEL NEWMAN, Oakland City. ® ¢ ¢

WOODLAND WINTER NIGHT

As daylight fades and evening Shadows fall, Soft winds come whispering through darkHed onans into night's dak pan The t n 3 EE Eh a eile breeze > Come flurrying flakes of fluffiest snow. Submissively the woodland monarchs wear Their robes of white and crowns of purest glow— In attitude of reverential prayer.

Is it not lonely In the wood, at night, When trees are bare, and clouds are hanging

In wintertime, when snow is drifting white, And darkness comes so early? Lonely? No—

There is no loneliness for those who love The trees, the night, and the snow from above! MARY HAGLER 144AST TERS, Franklin.

REMEMBERING FOLK OF - OTHER LANDS

knits inside her window day by day,

’ * 5 ° * THE MAPLE RUN When February skies were blue, With snows soft in the vales,

We sought the maple sugar tree To hang our oaken pails,

{ . And once the “maple run” was on, With freezes every night, We boiled sap the clock around, By hickory log's red light.

The odors of the sugar camp, The mules’ ‘soft jingling harness, Return to stir the memory ' When February's on us. --PAUL K. McAFEE, Michigantown, Indiana.

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ECONOMIC COMEBACK «% Britain Making Fast Recovery

LONDON, Feb. 26—The British people are an amazing recovery, but not without grumbling and discontent. Though they gripe and complain about living conditione, they are boosting their prod tion figures to an all-time high. i

Last month, Britain exported 60 per cent more goods than the same month in 1938, and imported 20 per cent less. $ * British steel production last year (13,465,000 in the first 11 months) was an all-time record. Production of textiles, electrical industries, tractors, coal—all showed big increases over 1947. Britain is now the world’s biggest

To a visitor who has been away for a year, there appears to be many more goods of all varieties in the shops, the quality of food is better, and the people look brighter and better dressed. It is obvious, too, that Britain is the one country in Europe that is making sacrifices.

Food Still Short

‘ BUT getting a Briton to admit his country has accomplished anything is about as easy as getting him to say that Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo. cause of complaints is that food is still short, Britons today are more milk than ever before—118 million galions a month as compared with 72 million prewar. But they are getting less meat, less sugar, fewer

Barbs—

AN OHIO girl says she got married because she was tired of working. What a surprise is coming to her! - ® ¢ o

washer in Kentucky inherited $8000. ® © 9 ge THE horse is scarce on our streets’ fgday— almost as scarce as horse sense, ) ® Ca APARTMENTS are kept‘too warm, aeccordIng to a heating expert. What a lot of janitor friends he'll pick up. : : ® ¢ © SPEAKING of good luck—there is only one Friday the 13th in 1949 on which to have bad luck.

ALL YOUNG daughters please note: A dish

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eggs, less tobacco, less alcohol, less butter and less bacon. The egg situation is steadily improving. The meat situation is getting worse. “It's a plain cake we're living ‘on now,” said a young British ‘economist. “Everyone would like a richer diet, but this is the only way we can make a comeback.” Britain's difficulty is that she has to buy food imports from the U. 8. for dollars, but must sell most of her exports to countries which can pay only in sterling. Her goal is to increase

least 214 per cent each year for the next four years. If she can do that, Britain may gain economic independence by the time the Marshall Plan expires—a unique achievement among the aided countries.

Talking Politics

BRITONS are beginning to think about the general elections which will come next year. The Tories are certain they'll be able to “throw the rascals out” The Labor Government is confident it will be re-elected. WEE Fey The middle-of-the-road guess by independent observers here is that the Laborites will be returned to power, but with a considerably lessened majority in Parliament. That is the feeling if the election were held today and the experts are careful to say it could change either way by next year. } As election day "approaches, there'll be a strong political temptation on the part of the government to let up a bit on rationing and austere living. Clothing has just been taken off the rationed list, but prices are almost prohibitive on luxury goods of all types. Wages have just about kept pace with the cost of living. Using June, 1947, as 100, the cost-of-living index in December, 1948, was 109. Wages were 107.

Higher Living Standarg

BY ELECTION, it may-be that the majority of Britons—who are those in the low-income groups—will have a higher standard of living than they have ever had. But it is certain that the upper-income groups and white-collar classes will have less, ' The Socialist experiment here has leveled many people’s standard of living upward. It has also leveled many others’ downward. If the “ups” outnumber the “downs”—and gov= ernment supporters believe they do—then the present regime will probably be continued in power,

“1 do nok agree with a werd thet you sey, But | will defend fo the death your right fo say it." Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familier. Some letters used will be edited but content will be pre.

By M. E. Wright, 2715 W. Jagkeon St Last fall the majority of changed

Because we have our wages takes about a year for our wages to be granted

after we ask for an increase in pay. We have -

always succeeded in getting about half what we should. The wages on the railroads for all mechanics are $1.39 a Spar, This is the reason I am against arbi a I believe the Democrats should stand on their platform as that is what we voted for, even though The Times is against it.

tirety, as you have conducting your alleged forum in a dull and 1 . * * ‘Neighbor Was Helped’

By Henry M. Graham, General Secretary, Family Service Association = Open letter to Mrs. Lillie Ford: Slight r please. The Community Fund does not people for donations and the Community Fund is there when people like your neighbor eed its help, Since he was burned out Jan. 8 your neighbor has received help from three Red Feather services, the Family Service Association, Goodwill Industries and Salvation Army. That you did not know he was helped is evidence of the quiet and confidential way the Community Fund agencies help people out of trouble. We have helped and will continue to help those in your neighborhood, those who sit alongside your children in school, and you if you need us,

Views on the News

. By DAN KIDNIEY y SEN. PEPPER explained that his statements should be taken with a grain of salt. ® o o “DISINFLATION” seems to leave the 'unemployed just as “dissatisfied” as “recession” or “depression.” ® o o

SEVEN German women are in the U. 8. to study “democratic processes.” Hope they don't visit the Senate on filibuster \ ‘ ® ¢ o ? SEN. McGRATH wants every state to hive three Senators—migh t gn 4, §vod one that way.

COMMUNIST courts are bound to crack down on churchmen preaching the

of man. Such a doctrine 8 a might really “classless world.” Hag te.a

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BUILDING PROGRAM .... By James Daniel ‘Economy Home’

~~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Housewives around the country | Aare setting up a howl over those pint-sized - “economy houses” which builders are putting forward as the answer to the hous-

Ing shortage.

After all these years of poring over the house lovely magazines, they say it is asking too much of feminine nature to be

happy With the bare little baxés up for sale,

Their laments may have a lot of bearing on a major gov ernment campaign for the construction business. ’ The expression ‘economy house” was thought up last year by the National Association of Home Builders, the Contractors’ Trade Association here which opposes the growth of public hous-

Worried because many of their members had priced themselves out of the market and because the public-housing lobby

was getting set to move in, the association set

country, including Congress, on the idea of a small, plain house.

“+-Economy House Idea Pushed

THE Housing and Home Finance Agency, over-all govern. ment housing bureau, in effect supported the plan, Without making the government's part conspicuous, the agency has been arranging conferences of builders and mortgage lenders in many

cities.

sain purpose of the meeting#™is to sell the idea of the economy house as the only practical answer to the housing needs of A little more product for a lit-

middle and low-income families. tle less money also was stressed.

The meetings have kicked up quite a fuss, Here in Washing

ton the money lenders and the builders were

throats until somebody reminded the gathering that reporters were present. The builders aecused the bankers of bel locks, and the bankers replied that builders were the of

people who would weigh a thumb with a roast.

Then the American Federation of Labor withdrew from the

over-all project. AFL. spokesmen, whose co!

members have something to do with the reason for hullding costs bein; so high, said they were all for the idea of economy fn hous ing. But, they added, they thought this plan was likely to turn

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have originated with foreign intelligence organizations has been set up, according to Albert R. thy ab, hcoording to Beatty, assistant vice president of

State Department experts are consulted frequen suspicious requests for inform he

the association merely “forgets” to I skip all data which might be of assis waging war on this country,

Many Requests

“ALMOST every mall brings in a large number of requests

from foreign countries,” Mr. Beatty! . legitimate and innocent e y said. “Most of them are

a request which is too exhaustive and ro tourist.” detailed to be the work of

It was such a letter that disclosed the peacetime security

NATIONAL SECURITY ... . By Tony Smith

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—American ra lowering security curtain on information requests from hy * Too many letters seeking data on our rail system have be-

gun to carry a heavy odor of es lonage according the Association of American Rallroads ' 8 40 officiate ot

~80,-the organization has vat mation it sends to foreign A Jown on the volume of infor-

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