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defense problem if the delegates representing the 12-nation Atlantic Alliance, now meeting in London, would lift their self-imposed iron curtain. Then the people of the nations concerned could follow the proceedings. Z _Segrecy cantot be excused on the grounds uf military security. Money to y the costs of rearmament om contro the delegates. That means

Sacrifices must’ be on a share-and-share-alike basis for all Alliance members, and the timorous statesmen meeting in London might as well face up to that and abandon the wishful notion that somehow Uncle Sam can be induced to carry the major part of the load. a ” ~ , > on» ! BOTH Britain and France count on American aid. Yet neither seems willing to tax its own people as heavily for rearmament as they expect the U. 8. government to tax ‘our people to make this additional American assistance = ‘possible. i Both governments expect outside e wilp of such pro"portions that there will be no need for a change-over to s war economy in their countries. That is utterly unrealistic. If our spokesmen are promising anything like

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divorce rate here is still high ‘much higher than 10 years ago. This means that broken homes are becoming a major menace to the stability of our society.

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It seems to me that more education and 5 preparation of youngsters for marriage and its a ooh _ responsibilities ‘would be a project well-worth promoting —more important than many of the - ° existing public funetions of doubtful valye,

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WHEN adults become grown up physically

WHEN you TT the hundreds. of marriages that go on the rocks-efery year you will find an amazing lack of knowledge of the meaning and responsibilities of wedlock. Essentially these people who fail at marriage are emotionally immature, basing their concept of the institution on childish emotions of romantic glamour rather than on the basic principles of grownup companionship. :

but never grow up emotionally and mentally it ning to

is no wonder so many

marriages rocks when the problems of ning get tough

A little Laising ana in FA big job of marriage.

‘Models of Valor?’

By H. E. M., Indianapolis.

What's all this critical nonsense, deploring the conduct of some of our troops in the Korean

“fighting?

existing in Korea.

‘INVITATION’ TO REDS .

Europe Menaced by Greek Crisis

that they are committing themselves beyond their ability to deliver. Any financial arrangement which does not appeal to the American people as just and equitable will have little chance of congressiona) approval,

POLITICIANS ‘here ‘aid abroad should not defude

themssives that there is any easy, painless way through _ this situation.

y requires both immediate rearmament and

The eloth should be cut to fit that pattern and the hayes and voters of the nations involved should be made acquainted with it so they will understand what is expected of them. Preparedness must begin on the firm foundation of

attending the London conference will defeat its own ends _ by Wesding ‘suspicion and Sistujicstandiog

A Cheer for Anderson

AGAIN, a pat on the back for Sen. ( Clinton P. Anderson, smocrat of New Mexico. He argued down a farm bloc move which would have gone a long way toward saddling the country with rigid 90 per cent of parity farm price supports—just as was done with such disastrous results in the name of emergency in the last war. ; ‘The Senate farm bloc wanted to amend the economic controls bill so as to knock out the flexible price supports which, at long last, are supposed to go into effect next year on basic farm crops. And it would have permitted supports up to 90 per cent of parity on perishables if Agriculture Secretary Brannan deemed it necessary for defense purposes. :

: on : x ww : "MR. ANDERSON said the amendment's effect would be to raise the + cost . of, living. He said it would jack up

his warning, and rejected the amendment. It's fortunate for the. country that Mr. Anderson is the Senate. As a former Secretary.of Agriculture, he ws where the body is buried in the complicated farm + legislation that comes along. And he doesn't hesitate to

uncover it. Right now, he's giving the peanut crowd fits.

of parity amendment in the Senate was moot to a large extent. Under present law, Agriculture Secretary Brannan keep price floors at 90 per cent of parity if he deems the country’s intérests. And he already has done. so. for wheat next year, setting a floor at 90 per cent of.parity instead of letting it sink to somewhere between 80 and 90 — per cent as the law would-have permitted.

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own authority. He'll not have a congressional order requiring mandatory high price floors, such as has been the case in recent years on potatoes. Sw And if Mr. Brannan wants to continue throwing away millions of dollars on dried eggs, the responsibility will be strictly on his own shoulders. ~ ordered it.

Stalinist ‘Deserters’

THE New Leader, liberal periodical, welcomes Henry Wallace's resignation from the so-called Progressive Party as a sincere about-face brought about by “primitive patriotism.” ~ But it is not so sure about Lee Pressman, one-time buddy of Alger Hiss, John Abt, Harold Ware and Nathan Witt. Mr. Pressman, it remarks, “was the type of fellow traveler who acted out of deliberate choice, who was extremely well-schooled in the subtleties of the politics he

preached.” = . » =» x = =» = : SUCH a man, it warns, could turn out to be a dangerous “friend.”

So, hoping that Mr. Pressman's resignation is what it is represented to be, the New Leader suggests caution dic-

| — certain it is not counterfeit. »

apply to alt deserters frdm the Stalinist camp. Now that

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BUT the point is Je ‘will have to do all’ this on his

Congress will not have

‘ But, tates “that we first “examine the purchase coin to make .

. That's sound advice, and the same examination should

neers the heat is on, a lot of them may be running for cover.

A VITAL ISSUE .

By Peter Edson

‘Why Not Lock Up Judy, Hiss?’

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24--The question of locking up Alger Hiss and Judy Coplon has Sen. William E. Indiana. At a meeting of Republican Senators J. Howard MecGrath’s announcement that Department of Jus-

been raised by following Attorney General

Jenner of

tice would. try to have the convicted 11 U. 8.

top Communist leaders locked up, Sen, Jenner Sen, Jenner makes clear that he is not advocating this, not having studied all the legal angles of the Hiss and Coplon cases. But he thinks they ought to be looked into. The Hoosier Senator's point is that. the country now faces serious crisis. It is so critical that the government has moved to remand Harry

Bridges to custody.

Alger Hiss is now at liberty, on $10,000 bail, pending his appeal on conviction for perjury in stating that he had not passed government

bers,

The statute of limitations has run out on Hiss' alleged passing of government papers, The crime of which he was convicted was per- . Sen. Jenner nevertheless points out that. “Back of the perjury there was traitorism.”

Judy's Case Is Different THE case of Judy Coplon is considerably different. She was convicted under the espionU. 8. attorneys sought to have her kept in custody after her conviction. But the court refused to grant this plea and she was released on $20,000 bail. This whole matter of handling persons conconnected with communism has raised the question of how different the

age laws, in two trials.

victed of crimes

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opinion.

could be proved that they had violated other sections of the act. . The principal Mundt-Ferguson bill restric tion on registered members of the Communist Party would be that they could net apply for U. 8. passports and could not secure government

As to whether the government should now seek to take Alger Hiss and J ““fov into custody, Sen. Mundt says

sor of the Mundt-Ferguson bill, makes several

Sen.

other points on its effects, if it were law today. The bill would make it a crime for any government employee to’ pass government docaments to a Communist, cused of having passed such papers to the Russian. UN employee, Anto Gubitchev. Alger Hiss was accused of perjury in denying that he documents to ex-Communist Whittaker CHAR; passed ‘Bovernment reports to ? Wan Cha

Committed Before Bill Passed

IF passed now, the Mundt-Ferguson bill would not touch either Judy Coplon nor Alger Hiss, because their alleged offenses were committed before passage. factd,” as lawyers say. : Ferguson alsv points out that the Mundt-Ferguson bill’ would make easier the conviction of persons accused of advocating overthrow of the U, 8. government. The Smith act makes it a crime to advocate

Judy Coplon was ac-

It ‘would be ‘ex post

overthrow “by force and violence.” .The Mundt-

ure would be if the Mundt-Ferguson bill

to require registration of all Communists were

now law,

The question can be raised not only. about Alger Hiss and Judy Coplon, but also on the 11 Communist leaders, the 10 Hollywood writers, and the 58 individuals recently cited for con-

Barbs—

built

tempt of Congress in refusing to answer ques-

tions on their Communist affiliations. Sen. Karl E, Mundt is of the opinion that if his bill were now law, none of these principals. would ber touched if he had complied with the law and Togistered as a member of the Com-

conviction.

Open ond Admitted Members

IN the cases of the 11 top Communist leaders Smith act of conspiracy to advocate overthrow of the government, the bill. would. have a. . "All the 11 were open and admitted members of the Communist Party. As such they would have. registered. So there would be no case against them unless it

convicted under the

ferent impact, “says Sen. ‘Mundt.

Bureau of an could’ produce evidence that they were members, then they would be subject to two-to-five years’ imprisonment,’ on

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Ferguson bill would make it a crime merely to “substantially aid” advocacy of overthrowing the government, -

WE. hear so much’ about better autos being it's too bad we can't have better drivers to. go with them,

$s asks a health ad. With

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LABOR ISSUES AT STAKE ..

Opposing Sides Of Railroad Strike Emergency In U.S. Presented

By FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

“Editor . . Ni ote:

Here are { two ‘stories es about “the “de veloping . allroad strike emergency which present the opposing sides.

The first, giving the union view, is written from Cleveland, one

of three struck rail terminals.

The second, from Washington, “gives management's side, as elicited by two questions addressed

to rail owners by | ‘heads of striking unions.)

iS By ANTHONY MAZZOLINT, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CLEVELAND, Aug. 24—The Brothérhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors say they. are justified in refusing to accept the recommendations of a Presidential Fact-

Finding Board in June,

because the recommendations of the

board legally were not binding on. either the unions or the na-

tion's rail carriers. The board recommended a basic 40-hour week plus an 18cent hourly increase for 85,000

members of the two unions engaged in yard service. It rejected changes in two important working rules which would have given wage .increases to 125,000 other members employed in road service. » » = THE rejected demands were “for a sliding scale of pay rates depending.on the weight of the locomotives and a reduction of the basic day on passenger trains from 150 miles or T'y hours to 100 miles or five hours, Train engineers and’ firemen already~have sucha sliding scale and, basic day. the board said there wasn't enough evidence to show the duties of trainmen and conductors in road service are as heavy as those of engifiremen. For their yardmen, unions asked a cut to a 40-

the

hour week with pay for the present 48 hours. - They say this requires a 20 per cent basic increase — equal to 31 cents an hour, » » zn IN recommending only an 18-cent increase the board said the basic hourly rate, plus the 18-cenf increase, plus the opportunity for-overtime work at time-and-a-half, would ' substantially offset any reduction in take-home pay caused by cutting the basic work week from 48 to 40 hours. But J. P. Cahill, vice presi-

- dent of the trainmen, assigned

to the strike in Cleveland, says differently. Mr. Cahill says 75 per cent of the trainmen’s yardmen have beén working 56 hours a week. So. he says, even if they get the 31 cents an hour increase they they will lose a day's pay-—if they - work only 40 hours a week, :

are asking for,

being boosted up the family tree,’

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think women can't take a joke, you some of Shey're at a party.

their husbands when

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AND Mr. Cahill argues that

the railroads, instead of giving

overtime to their regular crews, will hiré extra help at straight-time rates in an effort to cut down their operating costs, As to the charge the unions have interfered with vital war production, Mr. Cahill replies: “If any war production has been stopped by the strikes, it is the fault of the carriers.” He says carriers have been stubborn in the 17-month negotiafions and that the strikes on the small but vital rail roads could have been avoided if the carriers had agreed to interim agreements, = " =

MR. CAHILL says that most of the terminal lines owned by steel companies have signed 18-cent “down payment” interim . agreements, and that

three owned by Jones &

Laughlin Steel Corp. have agreed to the 3l-cent hourly

The two unions also polit out that in March, 1949, a factfinding board recommended 48 hours’ pay for 40 hours’ work for a million railroad workers belonging to 16 other unions, They say this caused “discontent” among their members in yard service, who find themselves working side by side th members of other rail

unions who are now on the 40- -

hour ht

has 5 Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan, co-spon-

Cs premier, cannot obtain a parliamentary majority without the aid of one or mcre other parties. He is expected to try to form a coalition without Gen. Plastiras, the whose cabinet he upset last Friday.

But there is no assurance that Venizelos

ETSTHE ho tee hold

"85,000

el ed

Europe, where Stalin is building up aggressive

satellite Ailes. Polit becom month ago

political future is uncertain.

Caretaker Regime

MLL new cabinet is merely a temporary of the so-called Liberal Party. enizelos, Its leader and a former — on hee er ‘These developmen hydroelectric dustries,

Aside from the fact that many of them are little more than children, how many of us would be models of valor or citadels of resolution under the circumstances? 3 It is a shame that we even feel ourselves called upon to enter into a situatign such as that

Aug. 24-The Greek cabitension in

bility in Greece could again a nvitation to Red attack. Only a e United Nations special commiteg gy ele gs bor Sng od ger of another “Korea” in Greece. At that time the Athens government seemed stable. Now the

go on the

States as visitors or as Congressman that, “under congressional pressure,” the visa ——division-

United States on a visitor's visa. Sidor (a fob.

active a on Te 3 Why for one of these killers to States while pacicist are exciuded?

What Others Say

1 SUGGEST that all patriotic individuals

Mow GP ST EY ST an Bic colt IN létting Malik

as immigrants. “Arthur G. Klein complains

enter the

See Celtic home loan.

Capone gang take over the FBI during a law drive.

enforcement

Sen. William 3 Knowland (R. Cal.) *

War L

southeastern

of treason.

struction,

THERE will - ™ - sugar shortage. The longer the hoarder holds on . harder and lumpier it will get.

~Ody H. Lamborn, president of

Lamborn & Co., Ine, d & &

WE'RE not in a game of mumbletypeg. When we lose, we lose once and for all.—Bernard Baruch, mobilization director of World

. By Ludwell Denny

Plastiras, though an opponent of ¢commu~—§ nism, has favored forgiveness for some former Red followers with the aim of restoring tional unity. But he went too far in his policy of granting amnesty to Communists convicted

Poverty is general in Greece, despite large scale American relief and progress in reconAlso, there is still bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption, though the Plastrias

ministry was making headway against these

evils. .

Basically, ‘Greece suffers from over-popula-

“strong man”

can last as long as the four-month tenure of

Plastiras, or that he can obtain as able men

for key government posts.

Toe. dk time, Veauelor tried ta govern... which was after the March general elections, he could not hold a large enough Parliamentary

majority for cabinet stability.

Now he has chosen two issues to Justity his destruction of the Plastiras coalition, the most successful of Greece's post-war cabinets. One is.the gentle treatment of Reds.

is high lving costs.

GOOD SECURITY

power for new in agriculture, regaining central and eastern European markets, and a shift from indirect taxation of the poor, to direct taxation on wealth. The Marshall Plan has been applied to these

tion, uneven trade and an unjust tax system. e cannot employ or feed her growin a- | - without ‘reforms. E popula: So

, modernization of

10 the sugar, the

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financing —n officials ot 1 Marion

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problems. A lovely you os Reforms Delayed vil fro BUT reforms were delayed by the Commu- ] moved t Greece is better able to withstand a Red a the gity, satellite attack mow than before, because of : “+ No cost her American-trained and supplied army and } | to receiv because of Yugoslavia's break with Russia. Fo ‘Welcome Nevertheless, "Greece will remain vulnerable phone is to Red Bulgar invasion, and fifth columns at 1 The other home, as long as social unrest is widespread ~and political Instability ts chronic. Welco New York © | PHOI

‘Tip’ for Domestic, Farm Workers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Among the 10 million persons about to be brought under the Federal old-age and survivors’ insurance system are nearly five million self-employed, about a million domestic workers and ‘nearly a million

farm employees.

They were left out when the system was set up 15 years ago mainly because of the difficulty of working out how they could make payments. The Internal Revenue Bureau soon will announce how it plans to make collections in. the new categories Included in the bill awaiting

President Truman's signature.

Treasury Department. ¢

Internal Revenue experts hdve rejected the British plan of using a stamp book into which aid Would place regulary Ta stamp bought from the postoffices. Instead the maid’s employer will make a- quarterly report of payments, and the servant also will be re-

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—The railroad ‘wage dispute now in ~

Complicttes Collection a

tie servants. Many Work ey one © or two days a-week in the same household, and some have five or six employers in the. same week. This complicates the collection system used for fulltime employees, where the employer makes payroll deductions, matches them, and then himself sends the combined contributions in to the

quired to pay into the fund. Tax collectors think most employers will assume the maid’s payents. Shall will be explained in a pamphlet. be included the domestic must be employed in a nonfarm home for at least 24 days in three months. That rules out the one-day-a-week maid, but brings in the servant who puts in two days a week in the same household. Baby sitters apparently are barred, though if they baby-sit as a business they might qualify under the heading of self-employed. The self-employed who qualify for old-age insurance will make their Social Security pay-

+ ments under the income-tax collection system.

The forms to be filed in 3 Matelh 1952, will eonlain 2 3.Pj Qo I D i

instead of the 3 per ent that will od collected from hired workers and their employers, =

‘Steady Job Is the Ticket’

THE official definition of self-employed excludes farmers and most professional men and women. If the self-employed person does not

make enough money to justify filing of an in-

old-age “The farm

a White House deadlock is full of ‘puzzling technicalities created by the complicated pay structure of this industry. Also involved, as in other industries, is competition among the 21 rail unions to win improvements for their members. The two unions in.the current controversy-—the Brotherhood

of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Rawway Conductors ‘have just asked the carriers two questions that emphasize these points. The questions were given to the press by Presidents W. P. Kennedy, Trainmen, and R. O. Hughes, Conductors. 3 - § » tL J THE first question was: “Why didn't the railroads long ago make effective the 40hour week (with no reduction in take-home pay) to their en when, as of last September, they applied the 40-hour week (with no reduction in take-home pay) for nearly a million railroad workers, many of them shopmen

and craftsmen of comparable

skill?” Daniel P. Loomis of Chicago, chairman of the Association of Western Railways and one of the three management spokesmen in the White House conferences, said today, ‘the simple answer is that the operating employees have not pre-

- viously asked for .the 40-hour _-

week” .

THE unions of ‘non-operating

° employees, he continued, “made

this a demand in the spring of

1948, while in July of that year

the operating unions asked for

“straight wage increases without the 40-hour week.

“In the fall of '48, while the ‘non-Op’ negotiations were still going on, the ‘Op’ unions settled for a 10-cent an hour increase. The non-Op presidential emergency board recommended in that December a 7+ cent increase for the non-Ops and the 40-hour week to be adopted on Sept. 1, 1949. - = u THE non-Ops” ‘were lo get their 48 hours pay for 40 hours work without including the 7cent iricrease in the calculation. “The conductors and trainmen now, however, want to retain their 10-cent increase, plus an increase of 214 cents, which the President's board recommended be included in their base rate, and plus 20 per cent

on both of these items, the 10

cents and the 21, cents. The 20 per cent is how the 48-for-40 arrangement works out. “In other words, the train‘and conductors want 8

cents an hour, or 64 cents a

day, more than a non-Op em-

+ Steelman’s

come-tax statement he doesn’t get under the Insurance system SS ‘Worker must work Hve ah for * the same employer before he qualifies. As with household maids, Sufficient. / A steady Job is the ticket.

“casual” employment is not

ployee gettihg the same rate was Awarded. Boprind Lo -

MR. LOOMIS said that a

proposition made last Saturday night by John R. Steelman, assistant to the President, “would have given the con- " ductors and trainmen at least equal Hreatient with the nonOps. cepted by the carriers and rejected by the unions.” The - carrier spokesman, using a yard brakeman as an ex- +- ample, said that this operating employee “would receive a basic’ rate of $13.70 a day under the presidential board

award which the two unions .

have refused to accept.”

2 = - BUT, according to Mr.

Loomis, “if he had. been given .-

the same treatment as a nonOp received “his rate would be $14.07 a day, and the unions are demanding $14.71. Dr. proposition would result in a rate of $14.10.”

The second question of the

two union presidents asked why did an emergency board,

“appointed by the same Presi--"dent and dealing with the same

among the yardmen” by recom-

mending a 40-hour week for:

tlvem “with 44 instead of 48 hours’ pay. . ‘Mr, Loomis said he thought his answer to the first Bt question covered the second, alsa.

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