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Commencement Address SURELY, among all the college graduates in this June's record crop, there is none whose achievements are so remarkable as those of Robert Joseph Smithdas, 24- -yearold son of a Pittsburgh steelworker. He can neither see nor hear the ceremonies at which St. John's University in, Brooklyn, N. Y., will confer upon. “Him today its bachelor of arts degree with high honors. When he was a child of five an attack of spinal meningitis left Bim totally blind and totally geal. ee
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FOR 19 YEARS he has lived in iter darkness and silence. All that he has learned reached his sager 1 mind through his sense of touch. Many able and devoted guides have helped | him in his ° “guest for knowledge. They taught him to read lips with his finger tips; to master the manual alphabet, which conveys words through varying pressures on his hand; to enter the world of books by way of the Braille alphabet. Their aid enabled him to complete a high school course in an institute for the deaf-blind, to become expert in several handicrafts and to obtain a state scholarship which
made it. possible. for him to enter A dobns..
BUT. CHIEF “eredit for what Robert Smithdas has accomplished belongs to his own indomitable will. And like Helen Keller, thoughts of whose wonderful career must often have lifted his spirits in moments of discouragement, he hopes to devote his life to helping others who are similarly handicapped. None of the commencement addresses delivered on America's campuses this month, none of the orations exhorting the young to face life's struggle with courage and determination, will be more truly inspiring than the story of Robert Smithdas.
Open. the Doors
Tydings-Committee-closed while looking into Sen. McCarthy's charges and the State Department’s loyalty files. Otherwise the reputations of innocent persons might be injured by public disclosure of unevaluated and miscellaneous data in those files. : ut there is no justification whatever for keeping the Ame case behind closed doors. This case is about Something that happened five years ago.
THIS cane tyvolved ‘hundreds of stolen overnment
their lives on land and sea and in the air. Those secrets were important then, but now they are just a part of history, and there is no honest excuse for not now making all the documents available to the American public. This is a case for which guilty parties were not adequately punished for their crimes.
This is a case for which some persons ‘high in ‘gov- :
ernment put in a “fix,” for reasons which have never
been adequately explained. ’ The public is entitled to know the truth of what “happened.
Open the doors.
‘Surprise! Surprise!
UNITED PRESS survey of markets in 18 cities reveals -+ what has been no secret to most housewives—namely, that food prices have been going up. Porterhouse steak, at an average of $1.04 a pound, is 17 cents higher than it was a year ago. $1.11, have risen from $1. Pork and lard, recently cheap, also are climbing. And, among other foods showing increases, are flour, cheese, coffee, cocoa and butter: Here, however, is another United Press report from Washington which may give the housewives a modicum of cheer, or something: : - “The government offered today to give away to hungry foreigners millions of pounds of butter and cheese purchased to hold up farm prices in this country. The Agri-. culture Department said it is offering the food to private welfare agencies serving the needy abroad because agencies serving needy Americans aren't taking the free food fast enough.” .
Always Gagging UDGING from the remarks of movie writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo oh the occasion = their departure for jail in Washington Friday, we tan see how so much double-take ham gets into some of those Hollywood scripts. The two are beginning one-year sentences for contemptuous refusal to tell Congress whether they. are or ever have been Communists. Said Trumbo: “We are angry and resentful in having to go to jail, but I don't see how we can do otherwise in all conscience.” (Neither do we. Yak-Yak.) Said Lawson: “I am going to be accommodating, wellbehaved and useful in jail. When I leave I hope to have the warden regret my departure.” (The warden probably will. Yak-Yak.) =e :
Let s Not Stop: Now T IS good news that the U. 8. has sunchel its first post-war passenger liner. When the American Export Lines™8S. 8. Independence went down the ways at Quincy, ! Mass, it ended 11 years of inactivity in the building of Juxury ‘vessels. = This September the Independence’s sister ship, the launehed. Four other liners, including a $70,000,000 giant to compete with Britain's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, are under construction. Unfortunately no additional vessels are planned as a follow-up to this hopeful. revival in U. 8S. passeng Spang “America has considerably less capacity before the : for carrying Hoops overseas dn event of
© Ewing, 61, to issue the call.
-is Justified. in keoping. the-doors....
Lamb chops, at’
© contentment and dignity.
‘FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT .
GM Pact Coiled Big.
WASHINGTON, “June 10--Charles E: wil
son; president of General Motors, 1s taking né
back talk ‘about GM's sensdtional five-year pact with” the United Auto Workers. He says it's not iMationary. Nor will it set a pattern which will ruin smaller and less pros-
' perous businesses,
“It's good for GM smployees, for aM Itsels and for the country, he says.. And he’s proud of it. “I have never krown a good businessman who took the position that the only way his business could prosper was by paying substandard wages.” he told the National Press Club
in his first major speech since the signing of
; agri “If I were a small businessman I would love to take this General Motors’ agreement and put it into effect in my business.” The $586,000-a-year president of the world's largest manufacturing company has every rea-
DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney ‘Accent on Age’
“Meeting Called
“Fair Deal go Interested In Problems of Old Folks
WASHINGTON, June 10--Dear Boss—Graybeards, who remember when Republicans were Presidents, also will recall that in the early days of the Democratic New Deal there was
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youth.”
This past week the Fair Deal announced
that it is calling a national conference with
accent on old age. President Truman, who is 66, asked FSA Administrator Oscar R. (Jack) If Vice President Alben W. Barkley addresses the meeting, those present will be hearing the youngest ou man In town at 72. Title far
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held at the Shoreham Hotel, is “Conference on Aging, a National Exploratory Forum.” It all started when the President sent Mr. Ewing a letier pointing out that there are getting to be a lot of old people around and the government had better look into it. “All aspects of life have a direct bearing upon our older citizens,” the White House letter said, “While problems of income and maintenance are of great importance to them, other aspects of life, such as their participation ag citizens in our democracy, their housing, recreation, education, and physical and mental health, are significant,
‘All Segments Have Stake’
“ALL SEGMENTS of our nation -- local, atate and federal government, voluntary
ibe Blows. orRARIALIons and other.
gro as well as the aging themselv and t ®: families «~ have a stake in the problems sand ‘an obligation to help find
solutions.”
Although the President didn’t say say so, that “participation as citizens in our Democracy” could make the old folks fit right into GOP Chairman Gabrielson's “get-out-the-vote” campaign this fall ‘Mr. Ewing informed the President that he is inviting interested groups to an old-age conference, He held a press conference himself to explain what's up. Pointing out that the U. 8, A. has changed from a rural to urban society in the last 100 .
wartimp ssieretsstolen 2 a time Amerieans were risking —— Years und the fiumber of Americans over 65
was one in 38 in 1850 and one in 13 in 1950, Mr. Ewing explained how all this makes Grandpa and Grandma a problem,
“It is our hope,” he. sald, “that this con-
ference will discuss and develop helpful at- -
titudes and perhaps policies in the various aspects of this probleny, and that it will examine the broad effects of the so-called aging process,
-the--extent of population “changes, And thelr ~~
social and economic implications. “We need to study the questions of em-
ployment, employability and rehabilitation as . they affect older people, as well as the safe- . ‘guarding of economic security through con-
tinuing employment, pensions, savings and
other income sources. . . .
‘Must Recognize Change’
“CALLING of this conference indicates that
we have reached a stage where we must recognize fully the effects of this change in our population pattern. The population shift in age-groupings, while it has been gradual, is both far-reaching and inexorable. We cannot change the tide, and certainly we would not want to do so if we could. What we are all trying to do is to make sure that this funda-
mental change is recognized, and turned to the.
benefit of the people concerned. “There may be problems involved .in the advancing. age of our population, but this development Itself is not a problem. All of
us, barring misfortune, will be old people our-
selves sooner or later, We do not consider ourselves problems now, and we should not have to consider ourselves probléms in our later. years. Neither do we look forward with
. ‘relish to being’ relegated to the scrap heap.
“The” dream of the average American is to be able to grow old gracefully, with security, He also wants to be able to continue as an independent, contributing member of his community. Because the country is not now equipped to make sure that this will be the case for many of our older fellow-citizens, it is my hope that the
_ conference on aging this summer will reveal
some of the things we may have to do, some of the new ideas we may have to accept, some
of the new conditions with which we may have S in order to Help ona. Another athieve e-thigodesired alma RR
to live,
Who knows, out of this conference may come a new bipartisan election day slogan, such as “Don’t leave the old folks at home.”
Preparations
CRUCIAL TO REDS .
~Bdgar-Hoover.— . public after four years.
By Eorl Richert
= He said the shortage of’ General Motors cars
Is: greater than a year ago, and even two years
ago—although production is 35 per cent above ; last year.
Mr. Wilson used the word “reactionary” in connection with some who have criticized the néw five-ymar, no-strike ‘agreement. He recalled
+. the criticism of the sast-of living feature of the GM contract ol i
they saw how things i x. last year. “The problem,” he sald, “is to work out an
ee American solution for the relations of -labor
and industry and not attempt to addpt the philosophy of class conflict from Europe, either
His Responsibility
with oe
“sponsored by the Federal Security Agency and
and said that sans. 7
lations, Mr. Wilson realizing it, he took the
regularly: “Our thinking behind this ea 2
said, “is that we want all jobs in General Mo- .
tors to be good jobs. We want our gmployees to. want to work for Motors,” He said the company expected to pay
prices. The contract, he said, was the first big one he knew of in which a big union had come out definitely on the side of technological progress. s “The boys deserve a lot of credit for it,” he
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“by Frederick Woltman
-Amerasia Had Vital India Facts
| WASHINGTON, June 10—The stolen Amer: asia documents: include a series of -State Department political reports on India containing information of great importance to the Communists, Their existence in the Amerasia collection shows that the pro-Soviet magazine, Amerasia,
for-w-pertod iy 1944-45, ised the United "Stites
diplomatic mission to India as a political intelligence listening post, One of the reports set forth a private conversationswith India's Socialist leader, who was one of the country’s principal opponents of the Communists. He was Minorr Masani, later mayor of Bombay and now India’s ambassador to Argentina. From this report, Amerasia learned the Indian Socialist party's reaction to Gandhi's political moves after he was fréed from jail by the British in May, 1944. : In India’s super- charged political atmosphere, no Socialist would dream of passing such inner-party-Gata over to his bitter enemies, the Communists. Yet the FBI found the report in the Amerasia office in June, 1945.
State Department Duped
THE State Department was the unwitting transmission belt. This time it was a Navy officer who gave the reports to Amerasia. For the FBI identified some of them as copied. In the handwri f Lt. Andrew Roth, attached fo the Office of Naval Intelligence. Roth, a formér employee of Amerasia, had the delicate war-time assignment of serving as Navy liaison officer with the State Department, Roth had copied at least one of the reports on stationery of the Statler Hotel in Washington. The FBI surveillance showed the Navy officer secretly met Philip J. Jaffe, owner of Amerasia, in the Statler Hotel shortly before the FBI seized the 1700 stolen government docu-
ments.
Despite: the FBI's positive identification, an indictment returned against Lt. Roth later was dismissed on motion of the Department of Justice. FBI testimony on the State Department's India reports was introduced into secret hearings of the 1946 Hobbs House Committee by D,
- Milton Ladd, special assistant to FBI Chief J, The-record- recently was made >
Many of the India reports, found in Jaffe's Amerasia ‘office, were addressed’ to the Secre-
ARMS FOR PEACE . Top War Materiel Earmarked for Europe -.
WASHINGTON, June 10—Jet fighters, -recoil-less anti tank guns and new anti-aircraft’ and anti-submarine weapons will go to Western Europe's defense forces during the second year
of the North Atlantic Pact.
3 North American early warning 2% « net; . President Truman will send Congress a breakdown of the $1 billion second installment of the mutual defense assistance program within two weeks. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, however, already has indicated what it will include,
. 8 8 . MR. JOHNSON said the first billion dollars, appropriated last year, was intended merely aR the “commencement” of a “realisgfe “rebuilding of the. immediate defenses of Western Europe.” It was designed to meet “the more needs
- tary of State and signed “Merrell.”
In addition, all treaty nations will receive new radar—effective up to 150 miles—to begin building a Western Europe-
pressing of the limited forces which our . —partners have this-year™ From pow xn, he Said, phasis will ‘be on modernization and ex:
George Merrell at the time was commissioner of the U. 8. Mission to India, with the rank of minister. Mr. Merrell is now American ambassador to Ethiopia. The Masani report Sutifiseated by the FBI from Jaffe's office. .was..one. .of--those--in Et Roth's handwriting. Dated Aug. 11, 1944, it revealed, among other things, Gandhi's current conciliatory moves toward the government of India (Britain) and the Moslem League.
Prized Information
THIS was valuable intelligence to Amerasia, which had been running numerous Communist party-line articles on India. As far back as January, 1940, it carried a piece. by Roth, himself, showing pleasure over Great Britain's, troubles in India. Another document copied by Roth was dated Feb. 4, 1944, and entitled “New Delhi,” the capital of India and seat of the U. 8. mission. It also was addressed to the Secretary of State and signed “Merrell.” It reported a move by the Indian legislature to resolve deadlocks among India's political factions. This was important as a tip-off to the Communists who were determined to insinuate themselves into Gandhi's good graces and pos-
-sibly worm their way into a “popular front gov-
ernment later.
“The original of that documeiit.” Mr. Ladd, the FBI assistant director, told the Hobbs committee, “was subsequently located in the State Department. It was stamped “Division of MidEastern Affairs, 2844, Division of Political Studies.” A third, identified in Roth's handwriting and
- found. in Jaffe’s office, was a letter to the Sec-
retary’ of State. Signed “Merrell,” it commented on recent actions of India’s central legislative assembly as showing a lack of ‘confidence in the government of India.
Pipeline Indicated
STILL other documents showed that Amerasia had access to State Department reports on political reactions in the press of India. “All this information, which eventually wound up in “the—Amvrasia office, was collected by. the
TS missfon at a tine When the Communists
were bitterly assailing the entire Nationalist in-
dependence movement, from extreme right to
the far (but non- ~Communist) left.
. By Jim G. Lucas
equipped with modern weapons and supported by an ddequate A air force, could contain the early phases of a Rus-
that there would be no increase in
a _By-Charles-D.- Ryan:
As a Young man with a wife and two chil dren, who wants to stay alive and h while, I say let's get together and do something about these “flying boxcars” of the highways. There have been many letters on this subject, But there still continue to be accidents and near accidents involving the big trucks,
I have no interest in any. type of fraght
“other type of transportation of freight. I just returned from a trip and we narrowly escaped certain death when two of these monstrosities passed a third one. Besides passing on a curve, they both crossed a double yellow line aad were making terrific speed, The second of the trucks forced me come pletely off the road. Luckily, there was enough
. shoulder on the road for me to drive on.
These close calls have happened to me other times and I'm quite sure there are many motorists who could relate similar events. I would be happy fo pay a little more for the necessities of ‘life if they had to be carried by some other means of transportation than tricks. Perhaps there are some capable and con siderate truck drivers, but they are sadly outnumbered by the “cowboys.”
It's both ridiculous and ironic to read the non sensical discussions in the newspapers regarding the communistic probes so prevalent in our country. It is ridiculous becaiuse communism is % form of government in vogue in certain retarded European countries and to advocate it here is being just as disloyal as to promote a monarchical descendant of King George III, It is ironic because the promoters of com-
munistic ideals have had the best things of life
given to them, under a republican Tepresenta-
tive form of government and now they want to
_ trade it for mere So let us face the problem from a positive point of view. Either one is for the United States or he is not: If he is not, he has no right to any American considerat and should either be deported to the country of his choice or put into a “conscientious objectors camp.”
‘Looks Like Coverup’
This .man Tydings is fertile in promises, Repeated warnings find no response. The whole Senate investigation affair has a coverup appearance. Or is Tydings defending Democrats
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and not democracy? Delay after delay. Sus-
picion is aroused, the people disgrunfled. What rights have they? A fine attitude. What patience. The more they hear about these so-called big shots the more must they _ admire the small fry who is supposed to he a mere cipher. They pass it along from one to another, You are to blame, rib him, his ignorance is colossal,” his nerve more so, no such case, no cock robin, a myth. You are a dream child. . When it finally emerges from fis: cocooh stage, what an uprising of hands, and the who, who, of the hoot owl assume nothing.
Memo to Congress: A patient is discharged from a private hospital on an average of 7.8 days after removal of an appendix. Similar patients in Navy hospitals 20.3 days; in Army hospitals 19.6 “days at the taxpayers’ expense, : GoM Revised rules on government medical
operations could eliminate some of this waste,
“of . Navy tighters— we shipped 152,000 tons of arms, 195 planes and 13,500 tons of ships, principally landing craft and minesweepers, plus antisub nets, counter-radar (de--gaussing) equipment, etc,
» n ~ BY JUNE 30, Mr. Johnson said, he will. have spent all but $200 million of his $1.3 billion
What Others Say—
IN dealing with the Communists, you. cannot assume the other man has the same moral standards that you have—Lewis Strauss, retired member of the Atomic Energy Cor
ALL the polite clothing of words can’t cons ceal that we. either are going to have democracy or something we don’t want shoved down our necks, ~Mayor William. O'Dwyer of New York.
have - are scheduled to get tanks.
Twelve destroyer-escorts are being ‘overhayled at Philadelphia and Boston, They probably will go to one or all of
land, Norway, Denmark, Turkey. These ships will be used for anti-submarine patrols in he English Channel and North
sian Invasion” « first-year installment. =, 28» WESTERN Europe has Eight nations — England,
neither the modern weapons nor the tactical air force. Thus, informed Pentagon sources say, jet plahes, anti-tank guns {including those the Army says may soon make tanks obsolete) and anti-aircraft guns which can track down enemy fighters at 600-mile-an-hour speeds already have been earmarked. In addition, large quantities ~of Garand
will
Portugal will
for any.
France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Norway and Denmark have received arms. This year,
Canada—buying arms in this country—and Iceland, with no ~ defense forces, have not asked
TANK shipments are just starting. In addition to those fles, Sent to Italy, tanks are sched- ch hips “uled for France in the next few Sept. onths, The French army has itop
"A DETERMINED drive to modernize the Greek army also is scheduled now that it is free be included. guerillas. Mr, Johnson expects
quantities of machine tools, shelt-filling equipment, ing equipment, jigs and dies, Mr: Johnson and Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of
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