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ROY W, HOWARD WALTE

R LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

WASHINGTON, Mar. 27—President Vincent Auriol of France-—who arrives here tomorrow

THE AVERAGE MAN ... By Jim G. Lucas Auriol And Attlee-Have Much In Common

King nor as broad as those of an American President. He still represents considerable

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Nevertheless, M. Auriol has no authority over Parliament and is not even a member.

With Truman he also is chairman of the high council of the French Union. According to one foreign corre-

Business Manager President Editor o 2 —has much in common with President Tru- political power by the very fact that the The French President, like the British King, spondent, he “presides over cabinet meetings PAGE 16 Tuesday, Mar. 27, 1951 man. k President is no longer regarded as a politician. has only the power to select a Prime Minister, affecting measures he must sign and helps Like Mr, Truman and British Prime Min- It is his job to see that France always has a who then picks a cabinet, He has a telephone interpret the constitution, which has its obscure

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ister Clement Attlee, he is the kind of man you would call “typical” or ‘‘average.” ; Politically, M. Auriol has more in common with Mr, Attlee than with Mr, Truman. He and the British Premier are Socialists. Each headed his country’s Social-

government -— no simple task since French cabinets have a habit of toppling. He has wide discretion in deciding who will be called. When a government falls, M. Auriol is the sole repository of executive authority until a new one is formed.

from his office to ther National Assembly’

chamber, but he must pay for it himself. He grants pardons and makes certain ap: pointments, including those of prefects. Prefects direct the administrative personnel of the departments (states) of France, In addition,

points.” Frenchmen call him “the schoolmaster.” In the early days of the Fourth Republic—when non-Communists tried to co-operate with the Reds—he was always willing to compromise if he could do so with honor. He long has been known as a mediator between the right and left wings of his own party. One American correspondent wrote in 1947 that M. Auriol “worked steadily and conscientiously at the

Is That Why They're Called 'Reds'? rma Give Light and the People Will Find Thew Own Way jo arty: Fach js Sommitied S a Y hey re +) e e S ° unspectacular and vital task of keeping peace = " : i si——— ownership of property. Each ’ among the rival deputies... countless times his KISSIM has given his adult life fight- : common sense prevailed over volatile French Although Deceptive Blac Ing the causes of the political ee thie, However, 3: Axriol i Indianapel P ' tins AS ts. the govern- left. But--having once ae+ i ls y AL, ol has stood up tant to ac S OF Mar. 21, the U. S. Treasury reports, g * Mr. Attlee cepted the responsibilities of against Communist deputies working under on their ...average slate each has recognized orders from Moscow. He has refused to call

ment had spent $3,737,271,184 less than it had received in the fiscal year which began last July 1.. So large a black ink figure on the Treasury's books is welcome. It has grown suddenly to that A a of the flood of first-quarter 1951 income-tax payments since

Mar. 15. Soon it will start to shrink.

But meanwhile it fs inspiring predictions that the government will wind up its current fiscal year with a small surplus instead of the considerable deficit heretofore

size, of course, hecause

the threat of communism and closed ranks against it, M. Auriol is a contradiction. A veteran Socialist since student days, he. has been described as ‘a good, active party man.” Never-

theless, when France redrafted her constitution _

In 1947, it was M. Auriol who fought for a “more American” concept of the Presidency and it was Gen. Charles De Gaulle who opposed it. A compromise was. the result, + 3 M. Auriol's powers are limited He was elected, not by popular vote, but by a majority of the National Assembly and the Council of

their leaders to head the government despite their strength in the Assembly. And when the United Nations intervened in Korea, he was one of the first to announce support. Now 66, M. Auriol is the son of a baker in Southwest France. Early in his career, he became a Socialist and edited a party newspaper, He was first elected to the assembly in 1914, He is an expert in financial affairs, and one American described him as “the terror of all fi-

nance ministers . . . Leaning over his bench, his

massive head perched forward and his arms

"flailing the air, M. Auriol often made dry fig-

ures sound like drama.”

Hedrick, t

officially forecast: the Reublie He was the man on whom the Eddie A i= yin) ie LL. sual. In the majority France's warring political factions "Re That, too, would be oleae Bg Ps could agree. Only the Communists’ consistently 3 Escaped by Air Diels Fri ot Ga stn o has happened only " bus : : lst 19 youls seh a thing gi . PB! $3 : B Te i A rule, M. Auriol's power t ne AS one Ot $0 Depusies to vote sEaimst today whe) re 8 x om Cty itm, r M, 8 powers are j . ransfer of total powers to Mars : YET the expectant hope of a Treasury surplus Can neither as restricted as those of a British CHINESE a result, he was re ig Mud Boke prove a sad misfortune if from it*grows a general belief : COMMUNISTS ; leased because of his health, he fled to the Park. TY : is lessened need for fiscal prudence in the (J. S, AID... : mountains where he lived under an assumed It was th that there now 1s I D By James Daniel name for a year. In 1943, he escaped by air to Indianapoli government. ; e fe London where he joined Gen. De Gaulle. Gen. first meeti Lessened need for a tax increase large enough to ! n ia et De Gaulle took him to Algiers where he became I at Bartow. i + fizeal vear's feder et and keep the ; chairman of the Committee on the Interior. His played her balance next fiscal year's federal budg hh I > . a. ; wife remained in France, working with the on the Ind defense mobilization on a pay-as-we-go basis; Gra 1 n ; T 2 Maquis around Lyon. When Paris was liberated, tilt betwee: For rigorous economy in non-defense government n ime » M. Auriol returned to head Gen. De Gaulle's to square c ; ® ’ ! : WASHINGTON, Mar. 27— The Apr Foreign Affairs Committee, and later was made tow on Thu spending; = : line JASHING LON Sar, 27-7 / Pr. 1 dean a cabinet minister without portfolio. He was Chamt For money-saving reorganization of federal depart- i American grain Tad to rr casson one of four candidates for the presidency in og W ad Indi i a par 47. 5 " . was ments and agencies; lodis India is to avoid famine, is now only a elected to a seven-year term, mound ag: . : i ol ” t . lve days away eh For bringing and keeping prices and wages under Heys Ya The Auriols live in the Elvs ’ and to be ging The State Department isn't making any their son, Paul, his on ey Palate Wii mack, anof

effective control. The government's current fiscal year begam only a few days after American forces went to war in Korea. That war awoke us to the urgent necessity for a tremendous mobilization and preparedness program. But the program

public effort to get the India food bill off dead center in Congress. So unless something happens soon to break the deadlock between Mr. Acheson's insistence

He has one more thing in common with President Truman—a wife who wants him to retire. Mme. Auriol looks forward to the day they leave Paris for their country home in Muret—the French equivalent of Independence, Mo.

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this date i tion contest

got off to a slow start and thus far we have barely begun that India shouldn't i . ¥ as though 1 to pay its ultimate cost. pay anything for the : M FE : over their | pay 2 4 » 7 a." oq food, and the feeling : oosier orum : But getti NOW, however, military contracts are being placed of the House Rules i "ldo not agree with a word that you say, 1} Hick, in 3 at a rate of $60 billion a year—a rate which may have to Somimicies a he P but! will defend to the death your right Mavager I be increased and maintained for two or three or more fo pay what she : to say it."—Voltaire. : Owen Bust » i SO fielder, Nan years. : wants to and can a- F . Bin oy ha From now on, as these contracts are fulfilled, the ford, net Joan ths x Slels Are Facts demonstrat ; : ; ; . y ne her Tri ! : : : dling th bills for them will have to be paid. And throughout the year on United States ELEMENTARY, WATSON . .. By Frederick C. Othman Thousands of us agree with Mr. Ordinary They eo government's. next fiscal year, and it may be throughout Mr. Acheson No grain, getting the . Motorist. We were known as a nation of fine on “coming rears after that, these bills will increase in size. . va 1 S| thy 4 ghways before trucks became so numerous on in handing 3 t f h I Treasur public effort. two million tons of on ressionaa ev 5 ave the roads. The taxpayer built and maintained man on p So the prospects of —perhaps—a sma easury requested grain to the roads in fine shape, without the truck oe he Feng

surplus this fiscal year emphatically does not justify any

dockside will take a major movement of United States freight cars, according to transportation

Little Time for Laws and Taxes

Look at the roads now. No engineer could build roads capable of

rick appare eral factor:

letdown in efforts to avoid future Treasury deficits and sSperts. And io move the grain fem Untied standing such punishment. If he could, the cost great reach stop inflation. States ports to India will require use of a par : . ; ee + per mile would be ‘f 50 has p of the Thorcliont That pul tn wotipalls after WASHINGTON, Mar: 27—The 82d Congress John M. Butler (R. Md). Some disgruntled ~~ pel thle would ® Shtastie. = the truckers 3 th World War II may not be passing any laws, or even raising Republicans in Oklahoma, peculiarly enough, 0" PF I0et, Al fad : uild ele makes an ? : inistrati ; ’ any taxes, but it’s certainly busting records as are demanding that the statesmen investigate oO : yo eir roads i The administra s now moving to put the J 5 g 8 » 5 Our One-Sided War yaerchant os otk into Bg a the greatest group of Hawkshaws in lawmaking the campaign of Sen. Mike. Tey IL Stay off ours ADA gladly dispense with Rb V HEN Gen. Douglas MacArthur called on the com- waiting for passage of the India food bill. It's history. The gentlemen are investigating farm parity S. Si de ry ator

mander of the Communist forces to meet him in the field to discuss an end of the Korean War, he warned that Red China faced military disaster if the United Nations dropped its “tolerant” attitude and decided to authorize direct action against the Chinese mainland. But the Chinese Communists were promptly told by

our own side that they had nothing to fear.

figured we will need them anyway during the heavier defense shipping period ahead. But India's food bill is still sidetracked in Congress,. Congressmen in charge last week asked the State Department to “find out from the Indian Government what it meant by its request for grain on ‘special and easy terms.” There has been no report back on whether the State Department sought or got an answer.

tee even now is in-

The Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee, with its discovery of monkeyshines in high places, is only | the beginning. The congressional sleuths are looking up all sorts of odd alleys. One commit-

prices; they're thinking about an official inquiry into price controls; they're looking into some odd loans to little businessmen who suddenly become big ones, with Uncle Samuel's assistance. : All this investigating is playing hob with the old routine on Capitol Hill.

All Is Confusion

IN THE TIMES, Mar. 2, an editorial stated that 10 overloaded trucks might inflict $200,000 worth of road damage before being caught. How long would it take to repay. this damage at fees of $50 to $200? . .» . I've no grudge against truckers. I own a truck myself, but facts are facts. If truckers built their own roads they wouldn't be so apt to overload. The load allowance is far too high

second half teridge left mee lunche Meet After me here this a will travel to mix in

petition fo

: Lo : ; : ; ; i SO MANY legislative cops are so constantly now and they even exceed the limits, but as spring. In Washington, the administration disassociated itself Red Propaganda vesuigaling he of he toed a) one here Son sorely The Times says, “Let ‘er roll, boys, the bie Te They are from Gen. MacArthur's declaration and said the “political t py, Communist China is Uys Hot Springs ATR. missed. Congressional bells clang as usual at who pay the taxes will build more roads.” nt ; o . v3 : o get pr anda benefits is invests noon for the daily meeting, but few lawgivers ... If we face a manpow horta think tw / S. ; : Another is investi- ) 2. g . power s ge. thin issues” would be dealt with by the United Nations the hard-pressed Indians. A few days ago, Red show up because theyre in committee rooms of the manpower wasted trying to repair this two right-h

same time a “spokesman” for the U. S. delegation to the United Nations repudiated the General's warning by saying

China arranged to swap 35.000 tons of rice for 16,500 bales of scarce burlap bags. It probably was a one-shot barter deal, because Red China

gating the investigators of the Federal

Trade Commission, on the theory that

making witnesses squirm. Many of these committees have special dispensation to work all day, without attention to

road wreckage over and over again. —Rural Reader, City.

City pastim Forrest Ma

Smoke

the United States had no intention of carrying the war to the same day was feported to be experimenting the | hat debate on the floot, and several Senators hardly ‘Box Office Reds’ ; i ron 3 n 3 d with a food rationing system. maybe it's been wor 2h ; a THE wini Red China, even if the truce proposal were rejected. I I Tlemmi't get fi this Way. Tying too much about such things as venetian have set foot this year in their new, $3 million mp EDITOR: pion. Bos So the Chinese Communists can continue their war An Indian newspaper in Lucknow was quoted blinds and imitation mink. shaper. Senate vice building. 8 iz confusion I would like to see an aggressive move get and Spring i i ; i , iping radio : i . ord, mink, is u . Thanks to te Send > ' : sion. der way to boycott pictures of all Hollywood secretary, s c . y hat their | over the Peiping radio as saying that the trade That word, mink, is unfortunate. 1 ] eH 4 2 on under way y pictures a ollywoo against the Republic of Korea with the knowledge that t was evidence of the Communist regime's suc. the operations of the Sendte Banking Committee The place usually looks like Paramount studios 1 vie figures connected in any Way with Red set of the T homeland will be safe from attack. cess. From a food importer, China had become the gag is going the rounds that RFC stands in Hollywood, with electricians laying cables for activities. mee by’ hc ; # uN any + an exporter. As for the United States, the por- for Rosenbaum fur coats. The poor old RFC the movie and Islevision cameras, setting up It is completely disgusting for adults with topped all « IT'S a nice way to.fight a war—for the Chinese Com- tion of the Indian editorial quoted by Peiping still hasn't heard the last of congressional in- Dicropianes, and Swinging flood lights from good educations, and in position to be in the More or : SD as : y Ln vat . . ’ ; zs . e crystal chan Ss. ’ munists. And for the British, too, because they are piling ma: A oe Suitles. Yow he Elicute Piped on hid i Re Fo Tuy on viewAN yes of ou youth, to espoyise Cases of suy kind Woe snd . y topelt . ; “The negotiations with America for foo mittee, w sc ’ 8 : 8 ! : ER ie ’ which favor communism in any degree. ese up profits by trading with the Reds at Hong Kong. % grain started earlier than the negotiations with ~~ way it uncovered the free deep freezes a couple Al 1 have to do - be there, without ear muffs. people have attained positions of wealth and Indiana wh it's an outrageous handicap to Impose upon the United China. But we have now received rice from of years ago, is continuing the inquiry into the No reporter ever had it so easy. prominence in the land of freedom and oppor- mee Surly t te 52 “hina ° W as a § "ie ; is ‘er t's loans to peculiar businesses. tunity, yet cravenly and openly give aid and er Sey Nations forces in the field China whereas as far as American wheat is governmen i yy penly : . ; : : : concerned even the supporters of America do In that connection a Midwest rattlesnake comfort to an avowed enemy. lakes and This situation,stems from the fact that while Americans not - think it can reach India before November farm decided not to apply for an RFC loan the CHARACTERS Let's get a little tough on this ., . . Let's nothing, W and South Koreans are doing most of the fighting, war or December. other day: the directors concluded rightly that ON DAILY walks through life I meet , . . make them behave like Americans or ship them other night dl : § To fellows like me might waite speofing pieces with many different folks . . . from doctors of all over to their friend ... Russia. Such people grandslam. policy is being dictated by governments such as Britain . Jute Products about them. “After all, thé RFC did lend money philosophy . . . to comics with their jokes ... deserve no sympathy, no leniency and certainly It was which is supplying one-tenth of the troops; or those not “THIS MAKES it quite clear who has gen- to one snake farm in California and we tax- it Big By the Jolks > i Le sil pion no continued success at the box office. WolFhing a2 5 . 4 . : : uine concern for the welfare of the Indian pavers still own what's left of it, The snakes, quite a sig “isi e folks tha iffer from e : —A. O. Reed, City. when pu supplying any troops at all, such as India. Si people.” unfortunately, died long ago. rest . . . as morning does from night . . . they 2 y And by | This was the bill of goods Prime Minister Attlee sold Simultaneously, the Indian government an- The Senate Agricultural Committee is look- jake ihe Ry of Sharer . re a Jugs . Sic ums: y ” rig ido , red t it was considering sw aw ing into the hi i : sti in’ bi SPORE «3. S are J ater Ww to President Truman when he recently visited this country. Makinced that 4 5 as Lpside: ng SPINE raw Ag Int he HEN price of meas i onl Bases by most . . . as though they were a freak . . . What Others Say— 81} pou . We are 0 boxed in that if we win the war it will be a As in the ( hina deal, there was .no suggestion than 40 movie stars, directors and producers Ari ay the re Jou suis THE atomic bomb is the most powerful pits Bost ia United Nations victory, while if we lose it, it will be an that India would receive any food free. even now are buying tickets on the Super Chief °° "| Tot EU E Soe or after deterent element in the arsenal of the free world. around to American defeat. Meanwhile we will continue to saffer What interests some Congressmen is that for appearances before the House Un-American all is said and done . . . the characters I see But it is universally regarded as the ultimate showing it both transactions involve jute and jute prod- Activities Committee. : 4 we . It should be treated as such. all Tribe i 3 : are no more funnier than I... who bows eapon u e as su the most casualties. If anything can destroy American gon- ucts, needed in the United States for essential A committee under Sen. Mike Monroney reluctantly. . —L. B. Pearson, Canada’s external close to h fidence in the integrity of our international relations, this commercial and. military purposes. (D., Okla.) is investigating the election of Sen. —By Ben Burroughs. affairs minister. THREE kind of arrangement is most likely to do it. departed fo day, after |

True Soviet Character

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith COST OF LIVING . . . By Fred W. Perkins

New BLS Figures Support Pay Freeze

but also lea work involv club into st

Had the ships been returned to us, most of them would But it's evident that Russian ship-con- - struction hasn't reached the stage where such war-weary This tacit admission deserves more

. have ben junked.

craft can be retired.

ahout the same as the increase in the cost of living. This comparison is. on the basis of average hourly earnings. On the basis of average

cently approved by Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, and also

points), and this was 9.5 points higher than on Feb. 15, 1950, ” n n

UNION LEADERS, com -

Mr. Johnston by union demands that he use his power to approve pay raises or change the wage formula. Under the defense production act he has

mobilization boss Charles E. Wilson and Mr. Johnston. The unionists’ hope is that Mr. Truman soon will recommend that Congress revise the Defense

HE Russians have given a most unusual reason for re- = These th fusing to return the 670 American ships they got under : \ WASHINGTON. Mar. Plow . 3 by ¥h Saiiat the. sti u mn “ than 10 da J Sevier VA iin ) AD r LOIN, Mar. z(—Wage figures announce y the unions. decide to use the strike ouse following a meeting a cinch to lend lease during Wor ld War II—that we don't need them. 3 Bureau of Labor Statistics gave some support to the stabiliza- weapon. there Saturday between Presi: Indians this Which is the Soviet way of saying that Russia does tion pay-freeze now in effect over protests of all labor unions. x x = dent Trumaniand a large group Robinson, . . : a They showed that in a year the wages of 13 million factory UP TO now the heat has of officials concerned with the : “ : g ov o S¢ . . y > b ence (Grub need them. And that's a most revealing confession workers rose practically dhe same as the 10 per cent limit re- heen concentrated mostly on defense program, including dentally, P:

~ attention than it has had, for it raises questions about some weekly earnings the showing is menting on this comparison, this power, and the wage board Production Act. to change I I . hei : od ro 1 invertiv fe (1 gs 14 ! said there is no indication that is only an advisory or recom- This law will expire on June to Florida. of Moscow's other claims of- productive and inventive, even more favorable to the ; . mending agenc But Mr. 30, but could be replaced ' i < factory workers, hecause peo- the upward swing of prices is § agency, + . 90, but co replaced ear- That's a : miracles. ple are working longer hours being stopped. Some of them Johnston has consistently re- lier by new legislation if Con- “book.” Ye : 7 : wl Pre A arhing ad predict the index will reach [used to use this authority as gress agrees with the President dred miles "ON THE same score, why quibble with the Soviets, as x 195 by July 1. But the wage a0 Individual official. that the change should be made meet up wit

freeze order contains a pro-

“_ *

The pressure on Mr. John-

without waiting.

own street

the State Department over whether they should THE BLS figures draw this 3 : 9 win : Sree ¥ © . ‘ris : : is t , ris ston was ease ons 3 never c * pay us the $240 million they have offered, or the $800 million Metre : Vision pat i maybe Yevised ie a eeomens ue erably g = i i i i actory workers eared : S sown, : i T ¥ we are asking, in final settlement of their $10.8 billion lend- Avene of Sola I A For such a revision, there threat by both the CIO and Barbs— Meighan account ? ruary. or nearly $8 more than, must be a reconstituted wage AFL unions of packinghouse tes . lease 4 : . . , in ora a IR increase Poard, according to policies of workers. They had threatened pa die being. Sanger = were i - Propaganda worth more than even the larger amount is a little more than 14 per Stabilizer Johnston. He refuses to strike unless they got ap- of he # could be made by charging off the whole account to ex- cent. to make changes by himself proval of a new wage boost deo s n . . - » 2 perience and letting the rest of the world know why we Gross hourly earnings av- nd declares ey ean Te ge that Wowma Pierce the Ml : : eraged ‘31.56 this February. SIU€C Only bY a hoard repre. ceni cefing. @ meat pack. INSOFAT % have done it. 14 cents or 9.8 per cent higher 5enting labor, management ing companies had specified Bush is cc bo The account can't be collected anyway. But, if than «in February, 1950. and the bublie. Such a pata thay me boost must 2 2 will return is s ‘ . . , oes (18 fF ! Vv >» + sia's attitude is properly exploited, as it ought to be The 10 per cent freeze order. oE8 Ol BNE FO Eau Ie Bylo? nica don | year for spi Re 1s % yi . : was adopted Feh. 15 by the : ; s pulled out. C1als hy Mar, =, 1 ae si kes the coud t d in darkened invitation = futility of trying to maintain normal business relations with public and management mem. If living costs continue to rise were averted when the unions on y ly an thar Py i Chamber of “the gang operating out of the Kremlin will be demonstrated bers of the Wage Stabilization and the number of demands accepted the companies’ offer 8 2:8 #4 ;: be extende » bevosd : Board, with the lahor members for exceptions to the wage to extend this deadline to A lot of the better things in ; meeting on " eyond question. . . i, th 37 withdrawing in protest. formuia continues to increase, May 7° : life come to the people who i Indians bre x When the Soviet character reveals itself in its true COPR. 1951 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. The new: Consumer's Price labor groups may be pressured . ERS . nh United wait—on themselves, * i Jot it do " 3 : : Sar} : ee. da . : : i Index, based on prices around to rejoin the board. The pres- LEADERS of the nite: 2 a i dicted a cot : finkedness, as it has in this instance, we should mak Am HES rich? Oh. surel Im getting so rich I'l be able, _ lagt Feb. 15. stood at 183.8 sure also may be shifted partly = Labor Policy Committee have It’s an ill wind that blows a i Indians wil mol of it. afford one of these steaks myself some day!” (1p35-39 is the base of 100 to management if important thefs ears tuned to the White man's own horn all the time ? 1952