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Broach of Faith

United States has voted with Soviet Russia and against Nationalist China on an issue before the United Nations in which the Chinese position was clearly right. China charged the Soviets with violating the 1945 Chi-nese-Russian treaty of friendship and asked United Nations ‘member nations to pass on the record she submitted in support of her case. Our government opposed this, and the American delegate, Dr. Philip C. Jessup, joined Russia in voting against a mild compromise proposal by Cuba, Fruadat and Peru for further study of the charges. - ..» ~ » ” RUSSIA unquestionably has violated this treaty, which America and Britain forced upon China as a war measure. * The treaty granted Russia commercial concessions at the ~~ Manchurian port of Dairen. But it stipulated specifically that Chinese sovereignty should be recognized and maintained, and that Dairen should be “open to the commerce and shipping of all nations.” And, . in an exchange of notes attached to the treaty, Russia promised moral support and military aid to “the National gernment as the central government of China.” + For four years Russia has barred Chinese officials from Dairen and closed the port to all but its own shipping. When am American naval vessel called there three years ago, its - commander, ordered to leave in a matter of hours, was told ~ that shore batteries would fire on him if he failed to obey. *£—F » n ” \ plainly has broken the treaty bargain. And yet we vote against the people we led into that spider's web: ‘wonder t the United States finds itself in the mist sue, with France, Belgium, Greece and the and’ Middle Eastern blocs on the. other

it shows how tonfused and distorted American foreign has become. We can't build confidence in our lead-

that way.

wr Lewis Shouldn't Get

T mighty hunter, John I. Lewis, is bringing in pretty small game so far. "He's had the coal miners on total strikes or three-day = wat so much this year that they've lost pay for almost one-third of the days they might worked. But he hasn't yet bagged a contract with even one really large mine oper-

~The little Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois companies he has signed up are insignificant factors in the in- | their eagerness for his permission ta operate - So week they're willing to agree to almost any terms. They haven't much to lose. oi, -- » ”. ” ” ” WHAT is significant is that their agreements have brought the Lewis terms into the open. Now, for the first time, it is clear that, in addition to a wage increase of 95 eents a day for the miners, he wants from the whole industry: - ONE: A 15-cent increase in his ‘wien welfare-pension fund's present levy of 20 cents on each ton of coal mined.

2 TWO: Power for him to hand-pick the fund's trus- * THREE: Retention in new contracts of his tricky elduse saying that the miners shall work only when “able and willing.” ;

“All the large companies, North and South, appear to be standing firmly against those demands. And so they should, in their own interest, and in the interest of the public, which pays the price of coal. » - » . . » IT WOULD be contrary to the public interest to give ‘Mr, Lewis absolute domination of a welfare-pension fund, with increased receipts, but with even less than the present adequaté protection against dissipation of the money h reckless mismanagement. The miners’ fund, or any similar fund, needs some -effective form of public supervision.

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And it would be disastrous to the public interest to retain thé “able-and-willing” clause. For that clause, plus his immunity from the anti-monoply laws, enables Mr. Lewis to turn the supply of coal off or on whenever he chooses to lift an eyebrow and places the whole country at the mercy of this one man’s dictatorial will.

A Mistake to Avoid

HE American Medical Association has a right to fight “nationalization of medicine,” as it _calls the. Truman administration's compulsory health insurance proposal. It

hearty approval of most of its members. "Now, however, AMA officials ask the organization's board, which is meeting in Washington, to raise’ "more money for the battle by levying a $25 compulsory annual assessment on each of the 145,000‘members. » » . » . 9 _. THIS, in our opinion, would be a grave mistake. Some of the AMA's members—probably a comparatively small minority, to be sure—disagree with its stand against the Truman administration proposal. That, surely, is their right. - And just as surely, we believe, it is their right to withhold personal contributions of money from a cause with which, as individuals, they are out of sympathy. Membership in the AMA and its affiliated state and gal societies is valuable to doctors in the practice of their fession. They should not be deprived of it for no better reason than refusal to pay levies to combat compulsory health insurance legislation. 4 Voluntary contributions from some 80 per cent of the are said to have brought $2,250,000 into the A's “war chest” in a year. Compulsory payments & little more cash, but at the price of alienating int same public opinion which the AMA's leaders are Sly afi soe +

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EUROPE... By Ludwall Denny

‘Stalin Stalls Austrian Pact

Diplomats Wonder What Moscow Is Up to Now

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—-Once again Stalin has stalled Big Four negotiations for an Austrian treaty. For nearly three years this has been the most cynical run-around of all the brazen shows put on by Soviet diplomacy socalled, . . By a combination come-on of blackmail and dishonored pledges the Kremlin has dragged out the interminable talks from London to Moscow to Vienna to Paris to London to New York, and back again several times. chiseling more on the promise of signing, on the eve of final settlement the Russian negotiator has received reversal orders from Moscow. This time the experienced American, British who had long since become accustomed to every trick in the Red book, thought ull major disagreements had heen settled.

Stalin Speculation

IN VIEW of the many concessions made to Moscow, they can't figure out what Stalin Is up to now. Speculation ranges all the way from the idea that he hopes to get even better terms by delay to the guess that this may be connected with a big shift of tactics elsewhere in Europe. Certainly anything done in Austria affects Stalin's unstable satellite states and Germany, and vige versa. So this latest stiffening in the Kremlin may very well be related to the larger European scene, Actually this conference collapse is not the calamity the treaty-hungry Austrians and the frustrated Western negotiators consider it. On the contrary, the draft in its present form Is so bad it is probably worse than having no treaty in the near future,

Blame on Austria

THE fact that the present draft would give away so much to Russia is not essentially the fault of the American, British and French governments, ~—on-pubtic-pressuré there for a treaty almost at any price, and on the weakness of the major political parties during. an election campaign

The blame rests squarely on Austria

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Trick Play Coming Up?

And, always, after *

in pandering to that uninformed emotionalism.

“Undér the present draft Austria's economic freedom would be curtailed by Soviet control of the basic oil and shipping industries almost to the point of sertdom. Withdrawal of Western occupation forces. would leave the helpless country at the mercy of an army of Red fifth columnists left behind when Russian troops “withdrew.”

Examples Cited

THE Austrian has only to: look across his close frontier to Czechoslovakia in one direction, and to Hungary in another, to see what happens. He does see, But instead of saying, “There, but for the grace of God, go I" he boasts, “I am different —it won't happen to me.” So with giant naivete and inflated pride that

tragic little country has insisted on the return ‘of sovereign independence which such a treaty

would give in form, without counting the cost of the servitude and insecurity contained therein.

IT'S SAD TO BE SICK

It's sad to be sick ‘most anytime And have to stay in bed, But it's worse to be sick at Christmas time And long to be up instead. Long to be up to celebrate Christmas and all its cheer, Trimming a tree and wrapping gifts For those your heart holds dear. When the sleigh bells ring And the le moon glows, Then your inside yearning Grows and grows, For the silent night across the sky. Where a gleaming star winks a golden eye, And the touch of mist that flutters by Lies on the banking snows. Oh, it's sad to be sick at any time, But the saddest time of year, To stay in bed is Christmas time When your heart holds yuletide cheer, And you long to stroll where brisk winds blow Where holly twines with mistletoe, And the ones you love are near.

—Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway. ® % 9

OBSERVER

I am in the midst of people Filled with fury. sound and strife, And I watch as from A steep’ As they hurry through their life,

Their eyes are closed to beauty As they pass it everywhere In their reluctant path of duty, Never knowing beauty’s there. —Dorothy Mae Parke, 15 N. Edgehill St.

NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Bruce Biossat

GOP Needs ‘Crisis’?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—A man named Walter Prescott Webb, professor of history at the University of Texas, has some Whether they are right is another question. But they seem to have enough support

ideas on politics that are new and differeat.

in history to merit our attention.

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Anti-Red Airline May Quit

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault” # airline, now flying the Chiang Kaishek government-out of Chengtu as the Red armies approach, may be carrying out its last major mission for the anti-Communist cause. The Civil Air Transport Line, which .for the past month has horne the entire burden of air communication for the Nationalists, is facing a squeeze play by British authorities in Hong Kong. Rumors about the situation, which have been coming out of Hong Kong for a week, were reluctantly confirmed here today by Gen, Chennault's local representatives, and were in considerable part corroborated by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Clyde Farnsworth in Hong Kong. British authorities, it is said, have threatened to ground Gen. Chennault’'s planes at their present opérating base in Hong Kong unless Gen. Chennault charters half or his planes to two small British-owned lines or agrees to share revenues with them,

Refused Order at First

THE General's representatives here, who have been .in almost daily touch with him by tele-

phone, said the former. Flying Tiger commander ,

at first refused the British dictum, .. But when, two davs ago. the Nationalists faced the necessity of moving their harassed government again, Chiang called on Gen. Chennault to furnish the airlift. To get clearance from Kai Tak Airfield at Hong Kong, where he had assembled 35 transports, Gen. Chennault finally agreed fo the British terms. Whether Gen. Chennault will be able to continue this share-the-business arrangement with the two British lineg after this current shift of the government is uncertain. In the background, as Gen Chennault's representatives here related it, is a complex picture of high-level international politics.

The British in Hong Kong have been gam-.

bling high on early recognition of the Communist regime in China. A month ago the word was that recognition by both the U. 8. and Britain would come on Dec. 1. Early ii. November, two Chinese airlines, one government-owned and the other owned 80 per cont by the Nationalists with a minority 20 per ‘nt held by Pan American, in effect deserted to the Communist side. The two lires, however. failed to get all their planes off, leaving 63 transports at Kai Tak Airfield. These were seized and grounded by the British. Meanwhile the Chinese Communists, with an eye to eventual conquest of Formosa, had been trying to get their hands on a strong fleet of transports. It would provide them with a good “front” of American-type planes to which Russian planss of similar type could be added for

SIDE GI.ANCES

an amphibious move on the island stronghold of the Nationalists: .

Could Do Worse ST

“IF the British were looking for blue chips to use in their gamble on early Red rec ognition.” as Mr. Farnsworth wrote last week, “they could do worse than pitch in a couple of airlines.” By recognizing the Commies, the British could declare void the Nationalist title to the planes and award them to the Reds. The grounded transports are now under virtual Communist guard —made up of turncbat employees ofthe two alriines—=and it-is_reported they havebeen stripped of vital parts now in Communist hands. But the timetable was upset by the Angus Ward case. . Public indignation, echoed by the ScrippsHoward newspapers, flamed to such an extent that Secretary of State Acheson was moved to declare against recognition as long as Mr. Ward was a prisoner. The British were compelled to go along with us—leaving the Hong Kong recognition advocates on a limb. More than a month ago, representatives of the Nationalist government, on advice of Gen. Chennault, asked the British to release the grounded planes so they could be used to help regroup the Nationalist forces as the- Commu-

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Decision Delayed

THE British reply was to set Dec. 21 as the date for a hearing. More recently there have been intimations that any decision will be put off until after Jan. 1—a new date on which the Hong Kong British expect recognition of the Reds. Meanwhile the planes are being held. Gen. Chennault then sought an understanding with the British aviation authorities on operation of his own line. Though he was permitted to make a few flights for maintenance and gas hauls, the civil aviation director of Honk Kong finally cracked down on the issue of nonscheduled flights .

Barbs—

ANY town that has neither a Jones nor a Smith in the telephone directory can be charged with being the most un-American city in the U. 8. Ce eb AN Illinois man was fined for a suicide attempt. 'Twas his money or his life! “Oe A KANSAS fur dealer reported 40 fur coats stolen. One man and a flock of animals skinned.

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’ ‘Foir Dealers’ Tactics By C. D. C., Terre Haute, Ind. I have written many articles in the forum and have always been exceptionally careful to is check all facts in order that every statement the exact truth. The New Dealers or the Fair Dealers have never been able to refute these facts with any proof that they are wrong, so they often adopt the New Deal technique of vilification. . .Mrs. Waltér Haggerty, without any denial that any statement I have made is wrong-has used this technique in a recent letter and has wanted to. know why 1 do not publish my name. The newspapers have recently told us of a coal miner's wife in Virginia who ‘wroty a letter to a newspaper criticizing John L. Lewis and the next day the windows were broken in her house. Now, I am well aware of the fact Mrs, Hag-

* gerty is quite content to vent her wrath by

name-calling and personal abuse, but there are other persons who do physical violence to anyone who criticizes (their politic al beliefs. There is also a Fair Deal “gestapo” which makes the rounds under the name of inspectors who have been known t&iclose up businesses of people on trumped-up charges. These are the reasons I prefer to remain anonymous as long was the Fair Dealers are in power. Mrs. Haggerty then goes on to defend Andy Jacobs for collecting attorney fees from the people he loves, the laboring men. Now, of course, if a manufacturer or mers chant, after risking several thousand dollars, should clean up a big sum in only a few months he would be branded as a malefactor of great wealth and an enemy of labor by the Fair Deal hierarchy. However, the friends of labor such as John L. Lewis and Dan Tobin have become millienaires because both the New Dealers and Fair Dealers have practically forced the laboring men to kick in to the union kitty or they can't get a job. While I do not believe that very many laboring men have ever gotten more than they earned, I merely make this statement to show that people like Andy and variotis Tabor léaders who pose as great friends of labor do not seem to have any scruples in taking the money that men have earned by the sweat of their brow, while the men who furnish the jobs are branded as reactionaries and the enemies of labor. That is why the friends of labor seem to be making plenty of money under the Fair Deal and will continue to do so as long as there are enough Mrs. Haggerty's to keep them in power. . S&B

‘Cats Should Be Controlled’ By George R. Davis, Columbus

Why do people insist that the dog is such a destructive and dangerous animal? Did, they ever stop to consider the cat? If ever there was a destructive animal—that's it. Farmers and wild life protectors will bear me out when I say they are responsible for thousands of deaths of songbirds, game birds, rabbits, etc., each year. Yet a cat has the free-

“dom of a bird—because they kill rats and mice.

If I'm not mistaken, there are hundreds of patented rat and mice poisons on the markets to do a much better job of rodent glimination than-any cat alive. Is 4 cat dangerous? Many children, and adults are scratéhed and bitten by cats—but think nothing of it. Maybe it's because a cat “washes” itself after killing and eating a mouse, 80 there's no danger of infection. If IT had the authority I certainly would enforce a law that every cat require a license and any found roaming the fields be destroyed on the spot.

What Others Say—

NO matter which party is in power here,

‘we can balance our budget only by sacrificing

Western Europe, and with it the rest of the world, to communism and the tender mercies of Soviet Russia.—James Roosevelt, candidate for Democratic gubernatorial nomination in California. . > THE fact that Egyptian policy aims at strengthening the Arab League and at maintaining a closer co-operation among its memsbers does not mean overlooking its own international policy with other states.—Premier Hose sein Sirry Pasha of Egypt. 2 WE want to check up on health insurance programs abroad to see if our proposition is wrong in any way and find ost what mistakes they've made and avoid them if possiblie.—Federal Sceurity Administrator Oscar Ewing, on compulsory health insurance. EE THE longer range problem is not one of Inflation but of deflationary pressures due to overproduction and due to inability to distribute our “abundant production among the people.— Marriner S. Eccles, former chairman of Federal Reserve system.

PRICE SUPPORTS . ., By Earl Richert

Big Raisin Surpl WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—The government now is shelling out $80 a ton to ge® surplus raisins fed to hogs in California.

the California raisin surplus is estimated at be70,000 and 90.000 tons,

out of total production of about

And the government will pay $80 (four cents a for every ton of surplus raisins that is diverted into

is’ doing that with- zealous vigor and, no doubt, with the’

Political experts have been trying for decades to understand

the ups and downs of American political parties. Swing in the economy from boom to bust, the cycle of social change, the waxing and waning of particular public personalities, these are among the factors set down to explain the rise and fall of party fortunes. ~ ~ . MR. WEBB writing in the magazine Southwest Review, takes a longer view than any of these notions embraces. He believes that political debate inevitably focuses on some great principle. “The party that originates the principle and establishes it, does so in a national crisis,”

"says Mr. Webb. “As long as the ~

principle works, it is almost impossible to dislodge the party that discovered if" He contends the Republican Party found such a principle

after the Civil War. It linked -

ftse1r with & néw and growing force—business—and fostered the idea that what is good for business is good for the counuy, © te po x» A ACCORDING to Mr. Webb, that * principle worked - for

a long time and kept the GOP in national power most of the

period from the Civil War until tha fret Depression,

In that crixis. he adds the Democrats seized the chance to try out a new principle wider use of government authority for the relief and welfare of farmers, workingmen, home owners, and many other groups in society. Mr. judgment on this principle, but simply notes that. like, the adépted by the Republicans in thé 1860's, it has been politi-

cally effective. . » ~

HE thinks the

Webb passes no

one

Democrats’

principle will go on working

until, in some crisis, it fails. Only then, he says, will the GOP have an opportunity to move in.on a long-term basis by grasping another new prin. ciple that can gain popular support. In the meantime, Mr. Webb believes the Republicans can only eriticize the operation of

the Democrats* Wellare prine- +

ple, and bide their time.. We leave it to the experts to reconcile Mr. Webb's theory with others. Obviously the “great principle” could not he the sole factor at work, for Democrats won the presidency

«during the long Republican as-

cendancy and the GOP took Congress in 1946 amid the big Democratic days. i ” ” .

BUT if there is some single

strong t thread A running through

COM 199 BY NEA SERVICE. WG. T. WM. RED. U & PAT, OFF,

"Yes, she earns more than | do—but if we get married,

he can

quit and stay home as soon as the cost of living goes down!"

these long periods when one or ’ the other party has tended to,

dominate the scene, it could very likely be the sort of prin-

ciple of which Mr. Webb speaks. Should that be 80, Mr.

Webb's panoramic study of party fortunes may help the Republicans clarify their outlook for 1950 and 1952, It may hasten the search for a new

the moment comes for another great swing of the pendulum. . ~ » ” RIGHT NOW there iz not the slightest hint what that principle might be. All that seems glear is that it probably cannot’! be the same one the GOP embraced in former tirifes; -nor ‘can it’ copy the Democrats’ welfare state, Somehow it will have to break

non-commercial channels, thus keeping the surplus from driving down raisin prices. The government will pay for the surplus raisins going into alcohol, livestock feed and such other outlets as may be approved by the Agriculture Department. But hog feeders have been the only purchasers so far and most of the surplus, it is thought, will go to fatten porkers—-which the government may have to buy soon to hold up pork prices. s » »

“IT WOULD be better to feed the surplus to livestock than to permit it to bankrupt the industry and latef attempt its rehabilitation,” Asststant Agriculture Secretary Knox T. Hutchinson wrote a Senator recently. Dairymen and cattle feeders so far ‘have shown little interest in the surplus raisins. Purpose of the program is

‘to aid the growers of raisin-

variety grapes and. thus the entire grape-growing industry. The surplus, Agriculture officials say, results from loss of foreign markets because of the dollar shortage. ~ ” ~ THE program, they add, will not drive up raisin prices. to consumers-but will keep them

around the present retail level

of about 16 cents for a 15ounce carton. Id The subsidy program works through a. so-called marketing agreement under which a committee composed of California raisin producers and packers estimates supply and demand

entirely new ground.

and then divides the gaising

received by packers into free tonnage, reserve tonnage and surplus tonnage. All this is with Agriculture Department approval and supervision.

“ 5 v (THE government likely

“would file an anti-trust suit

against any industrial doing this sort of thing). The raisins designated as free tonnage go directly into commercial channels, with the growers getting about $133 a ton. The reserve tonnage is released to augment the free tonnage if needed.-Arny serplus left in the reserve on June 1 goes to the surplus pool. The raisins in the surplus pool are sold by the industry committee to hog feeders at negotiated prices, usually less than $30 a ton. And the government kicks in $80 for every ton of these raisins sold. After the committee's administrative expenses are deducted, the grower gets what is left. "ow ~ AGRICULTURE officlals say the producers will pot much less for their raisins this

group

“year than the $130 a ton they

received last year when: the governmeént took 59,000 tons of surplus off the market by direct purchase at the $130 figure. And also; they say the new program will be less expensive to the government. The new $80 a ton diversion subsidy js “being paid out of tariff money collected by the Treasury. Under the law, 30 per cent of all customs receipts

go into a fund which is used /

to support the Hoy of petian__Able i de RBA /

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FRIDAY,

Tax Val Changes

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boost over the $21,619,430 on w tion paid taxes f Reduces The tax board ation to $26,746, Ralph Wilson, board, said in vi ment the board « the figures for Youngstown Sh both East Chic located in North They found Township asses: value of Youngst $5,037,000. The to $5,242,000. The Inland va $41,220. They r: 754,300.

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