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re ‘powers othe subcommites headed by Rep drew Jacobs eb lot) ;

ror ; recently, thus blocking an attempt” Mr, a rons ha al hot ig dcr pes ne Ud

sd/to go back to work recent coal strike, in obe fience to an injunction Federal Judge Keech ay 5d to an order from Mr.

local union has ow ted to withdraw. the fine nt of Mr. Sidener’s

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X : . 6 him to his office as president. should. be hushed up. The Jacobs sub- _ into it thoroughly, including Mr. Mr, Lewis issued secret instructions “the ‘Feech injunction snd

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45 THIRD cae consorns charges of orgunised vi E3 SUW zeuthate 18 Kentucky durtpg ¢ oon}

. Whether he shall 8 question which ought not to be left to his ‘The charges in each case, if true, indicate clear and of the rights of workers. public is entitled to know the extent to which #0 often abused by John L. Lewis is based upon and tyrannical union practices.

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governments. [erat owtwsaloosbgovesmantas, oo. In that the federal, state and local goyernments employed ht! ver one million persons—ons out of every 23 of

yyment increased over 525 per cent. “These statistics,’ compiled by the National Industrial n erence Board, suggest an interesting topic for speculaflon: How long will it be, if that rate of gain continues, ore all the country’s workers are working for the various Vek 2aiad a

EOF COURSE, in a different sense, every worker in the nited States is already working for those governments a g part of the time. All workers, that is, ‘must contribute a large share of y Stiingh to pay the oot of Selars, state 38% oon

a But - workers realize how large that share is. That's “ Pecause so much of the various governments’ revenue is colted in the form of hidden taxes—taxes insloded. in -the rice of everything the workers buy. . If more workers did realize how much they pay to suport their governments, démands for public economy would far louder and more effective, "And, chances are, the number of persons on govern ental yay rolls would stop growing and start shrinking

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-or not you have ever listened to a ‘note of Y-gymphonic music; you must admire the irrepressible pirit and energy that have taken Arturo Toscanini, famed ron a nation-wide tour at the age of 83. 5 Toscanini, of course, is a legend in the musical world. t he is more than a symbol of the dedicated artist. A er of freedom, he refused to play the Fascist anthem in Mussolini's Italy. Time and again hé stood firm against gompromise with men who were bent. on “brutalizing huan, life. 4 -Btatesmen might argue that ‘an artist. can afford the Toxury of living by principle, since he doesn't have to enter the brawling political arena where trade-is the rule. 4 Maybe that's true. But a courageous statesman never yields the whole way. And the example of a man like

; Rhearten everyone who engages in the struggle for human

17 James F. Frenzel A \ MONG Indiana citizens who contributed much time and effort. for the welfare of the country and community -

brokéeifffjustness leader here many

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jis week will create a vacancy in community difficult to fill. For many years Mr. Frenzel Mypiration behind most of the war bond drives un in development of the payroll War Finance Committees.

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: : Co , I LH Tow fri? x : : Ed te TOE 7 ry : RE p : LF RS he LY Be oh 5 a ce

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er rriin to Plan co al Is Termed Bad Strategy, alin

: and Alifed military and dipiom i Unlike the older isola: bnism, which favored

, takes the correct position

— Toscanini, clinging tenaciously to his beliefs, must surely =

‘much of the incentive for the ad-

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WASHINGTON, June 1 “of: opposition to’ foreign! mili good domestic politics’. but | strategy. That is the cons

took such powers away /

is bad defense hsus of American (tie leaders here.

‘Taft brand { ald may be ~~

Global Defense Laas

BUT there ars more legitimate and

Alllol ®, - America sand not ‘Russia withou “chance whatever of Tore tial foreign bases without

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vance, Every major base lost would mean la costly invasion efforts like the liberation co France in World War 11—perhaps impossible

in an atomic war, As for small Allies lke Norway,

Soviet submarines ¢ould cut us off from Europe, without advance American arms our ally could _not hold in case of attack until American or

other reinforcements arrived. The

. of Turkey and Greece. or more important is the will to fight. Strong groups in most Allied countries

are preaching “neutrality”—"it's- America’s war, not ours,” American arms now are absolutely ang So But $06 million worth of this year's ~—assentizl to build morale abroad, to give

the #ense that they have a they take it, to replace ‘defeatism

The Taft policy would be taken by Furopeans

as confirmation of their fear that fight.

Russian Aggression AS

aggressio est, and 1% has been retarded by Al

in Berlin and American arms aid in Greece. - The Taft argument that Allled preparedness stimulates war is refuted by his argument that -insurance;-

Ah, quaint little village : With fishing fleet and sails, - ‘With piles of sponges at your dock ‘And colls of rope and pails.

Where coral, shell and briney gems Are clasped in pins of gold. ' Where rattan mats and coolis hats Are piled with other ware, : Near diving helmets and air hose And earrings by the pair,

~ Ah, Tarpen Springs, your beauty Hes Where blue seas meet the blue of skies,

And white spray on a windy day,

t,/ Washes o'er bows of your ships in play, = 7 : And your taut sails catch the wild winds free, And strain to be off to the open sea.

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IMPULSE ITEM

The drug store has a strong allure 7

For nephew mine, Nicola,

But not because of candy bars,

Ice eream or Coca-Cola.

The bubble gum, the toy balloghs

Hold forth no fascination,

Bo 1 ean guide him past these Apots

ge! Without his agitation.

But when my purchases, it, ‘seems ie, - Hae spots a surplus Christmas

Are made sans action dr: A truck: of scarlet plastic. I-fry to altér his I In a volce quite ¢ “I want that wittly’ auto!” Unfaltering, I m

Exhibits out of. season.

~John M. Moptant, 2640 N. Meridian st

SIDE GLANCES

: “Dad s cut off my allowance y und ~ so we can't go to the dance, but apie, Juek wining a ous

FOR the Taft theory that Allied rearma“ment will stimulate instead of retard Soviet aggression, the record is the opposite, Russian 3 n has come whera the Allies were weak-

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ce m/and sotto, -But he Whispers shed, : bits remedies. ® the door Though not before I reason, * There ought to be a law against

HEAVY. SPENDING By F Peter rg Dipping g Into re Pork aT

from whence ‘WASHINGTON, June 1—The biennis! pork $14,000 to take care of Fly Creek in ‘Alabama, barrel bill is always a fascinating piece of legis- and $21,000/for Twitch Cove, Maryland. Biglation for detailed study. President Truman re- gest item was $70 million authorization a:

same is true cently sent Congress a special Jaemage on it, criticizing though e signed it o I. : name for this pill is the Rivers

Ee rahormet tar 'or this year's bill was $1.8

. Arkansas’ River, plus $10 million more same river added by the Senate, The Si

ly, was well taken care of, ny 48 ¢ authorizations, these projects: $45,000 for Sandy Hook, N. J.

them authorizations were so bad that even the Presi- 6,000 for Anne Arundel County, Md.; $918chance if ent Bnd 1g protest for the St. Mary's River in Georgia #nd with hope. It's the strangest thing, but these flood con / Florida and $1,356,000 to deepen a Detroit River trol ‘and rivers and harbors bills have a way channel. On’ this last project, it seems that the

we will not ting passed only in election years. » was such a bill in 1940, It called for 151: Soy Presdmy

~ only beneficiary would have been ony’

led strength mS were 28} major flood con the country survived on the Teun ration with

less pork.

ol nor rivers Somehow ~

+He In 1944, “however, there” EE i a ee fn x Jay. ig ‘What if Dealers Struck?’ ‘time, as it were. d. ¢ = By T.B. Terry Th : his brings He OXY UD P6. s. BUC. Trea win Intorabin SFicls on the cost TIvers at Racoon Diy ot 1 of the “strike, but it failed to mention 5 that this cost 10,500 dealérs over $18,500 oly 94 Proj / a or 3 lotal OF 3154.250,000. ] ects / . nder n we are . THE rivers harbors part of the bill real basic facts? There ire going to face We takes care of 94 projects. As passed by the cars, as the lowest price Chrysler car runs House, thers only 65 projects authorized, “$57.36 per month for 2¢ months, 8 but the Senate, w to it that 20 more were in- - 4 am wondering what will happen when we siuded. 74 33 Apuk- Sae-of 28 stats and really get caught up on the easy money and Bena 4 Sve som. % es and Willamette basins, ang so on, the dealer is loaded with new cars he cannot A House, It authorizsd ex- Truman objected to five of the Bive away. penditures ‘of an million, The Senate added I wonder how these union

another million—in the interests of econ- sed projects to cost an estimated total of

-omy, of/ course. Total $203 million. This is . = oo (OTiSinal Som. a ar upkeep is esilma at around a year. ; e of the projects were little, like $18,000. / Intere prope id be enhanced /* weren't willing to contribute more than $2 mil. redge out Fighunie River in Connecticu tion themselves. The $36 million Grand Neosho project in

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only $1.04 in benefits for every $1 invested, And

Broadway 7 "A ZOO python suffering from toothacjie at- the $20 million Bayou Moto project in Arkansas / tacked two penta. It kid heen g a frowned | gp becaiise the Cops of Engineers / wor, thougn, if o snake ‘pain no aul o irrigation work, Also, / the neck. . Lg there was originally a provision in this one that A would have required the goverment to take / A PARISH, N.Y. man, blin¢- Cs. sald . payment in crops. / on his 100th UT he have no &h to find.” What are YOU about? Future Spending

MICHIGAN officials seized some lim! : Sheess ‘which they said was ed. Wow! a sense of smell! / 5

. TWO Oklahoma boys fatten hiked to New York in an airplane. ary peally getting a

PRESIDENT TRUMAN. also found fault. . with seven other projects, to éost $11 million because Congress had approved them without project reports. impatient, The gimiick in all this is that none of this is

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THE U, 8. spends | Looat $4 a minute tor n- =

sect control, ey much as we spend. for The net effect is

that it makes a lot of Congressmen look good __&t home bécause they got through a bill au- ” thorizsing a dredging or dam building operation on the local Sugar Crick. There are already some 12 years of beklog work in such Projects authorized but not appropriated for in. past slegtion years, i

for dny of the 160 projects.

YOUR Uncle put millions wil

may cut the cigar tax, continue to-go up in smoke

EARLY watermelons are on the Market 454 oui a Joan'by up 10 our sam,

By. Galbraith FOREIGN TRADE .

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. By Jim G. Led

«We : WASHINGTON, June 1—Russia apparently intends to see that ‘the United States gets no more strategic stockpile materials from. her puppets—particularly from Red China. In the past, China has been a valuable source of tin, tungs-

- . tem, antimony and tung oll-—all on the munitions board's critical thsugn her list, = a. Recent trade figures indl- Russia, in turn, depended on The Cc ussia intends manganese for most of her cate that Russia 1 10 act. Bt the end of 148, Jot. 1

as “broker” for her satellites = in their trade with the United -" States. Half of all Russia has sold here so far this year has come from non-Russian - Fourteen per cent represents Tx Lt * from the

goods “purd ~—X per cent of our total “Chinese with Red rubles and 1 Pr eent of our total ‘pur resold here for dollars. . Somssabrqad., air)

in an effort to break our trade .. embargo, . Russia suspended, manganese: deliveries. ’ In 1048, she supplied 34 per cent; last year, it was 8

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million. His reasons were that they weren't -

Oklahoma was opposed because it would yield *

In election years, they get

spending money. It is authorizations for future a 1 he cent has been appropriated

s=Sovist trade sely vague. It refers in itera} terms to an —exchange of machinery and raw materials. Observers are convinced, ‘however, strategic raw materials will

_ ‘whether or mot th needs them.

THE =o don t think the Chines¢ Reds are >= producing in quantity. Russia ‘can apply new pres. sures, either to disrupt our embargo or to weaken our stoak-

terials, and that presumably ‘will be available to the Krem__lin's strategists.) ~ Up to ‘May 1, Russia had } sold us raw materials worth only $103 million. Of that, $5.8 million, or 55 per Font, ~~

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t along with the rest of the world our selves. If we ever learn that secret, which seems vdoubtful, then we might try to teach other countries a few lessons about some of the things we do know how to do: :

“Cut Fat Out of Budget’ or - By 8. Sidney Bromberg. 1

I have just written to my Represeniative and Senators urging them to work for strengthene ing the armed forces, along the lines laid down by Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower, to cost about $500 million. : At the same time I have urged them to eut out a great deal of fat in. all other appropria« tions, the fat formed by having three stenog~ raphers, three supervisors, and three chiefs of departments, one real and two assistants, where one is sufficient. o* The resultant economies would cut the fede

ATE ET he to eign. ald cons a federal deficit into a surplus enabling us A to

ident Truman later objected to four ‘of / reduce the national debt of $250 billion,

The young men and women thus freed from the "idleness of government offices would be gradually absorbed by Jncreased armed forces and shops and offices producing additional armas« —

- ‘ment. Also, a great many of them would find

Saat] employment as nurses, teachers, houseVes, mec

mechanics, laborers, farmers — occupas s “tions that are now much neglected. lot All this would strengthen our eco; and

morale, do away with deficit spen: in gove ernment and cut our taxes. el a go The cutting of taxes would not only increase ‘the buying power of everyone of us, but also would Increase the risk-investment capital, ene

* < larging the national productive plant and ine

creasing employment—the touchstone of prose.

_ perity, unity and healthy growth of the nation.

people would like it if the dealers organized and told the factory “they would not take any more cars and they were forced to close down for three months?

What Others Say

THE economic health of the nation depends largely upon the ability of small businesses to realize their full earnings potential and thereby make their full contribution to high level eme ployment Richard L. Rosenthal, Prosident, Citizens Utllitles Company, —

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Mussolini) were overthrown, I am t EE Tm amr ;

the Russian dietatorship.~ECA A “Paul G. ‘Hoffman.

WHILE dictatorships, with all the imple

ments of war at their command, have unique advantages, all they ictually aceomplish 1s. to

Payl Hoffman. T

OURS was a victory of liberalism as opoied to radicalism; Americanism as opposed to so cialism.—Rep. George Smathers (D.) of Florida, on winning Senate candidacy over Sen, Clande Popper. “The ECA could well be called & self-defense ‘program.—Sen. Humphrey (D.) Minnesota,

Russia Putting Squeeze on U. S. Stackpile

NOW, however, Russia may be able to control—partially, at: least—our supply of other strategic. materials, principally

maining $2.7 million — or 3%- ©. per cent — represented materis als obtained from North Korea, Bulgaria, Outer Mongolia and ¥ast Germany. None of these transactions involved strategic er Russia’s ‘policy apparently is to horde them to dry up U. 8, supply sources. Resales from China were mostly furs, horse hair and hog bristles. Korea and Outer Mongolia sold us furs,

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a IN addition, we bought $3 million worth of potash shipped to Russia from East ‘Germany. While this. trade ‘volume is small, the experts say it established a pattern. -

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million pounds of tungsten in January. In February, howe ever, that dropped to 300,000 pounds. In the ‘same period, we got some tin and Antimony. BRS.

Toc om Amer To OBSERVERS say thie repie sold to the United States India, 0 “Brazil and. Cuba a §io04 odd in resents shipments rushed : Vea on have. than the oF : : y "8 @ ae Svar B aad. ANOTHER $15 million, of 1 figured we could spend sant 14 per cent, went for materials. me ll lle, Boi °. = i Stand Suis Chin, 2509

"We still are geffing soms ~~

pile. . ‘raw materials from Chinese. ' a (In 1948, We bought, $240 mil- gources. lion worth of Chinese raw ma- For instance, we bought 6.3