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J EWIS W. DOUGLAS, until recently this country's Am. bassador in London, holds that Great Britain and the United States need each other today more than at any

previous time.

Maintenance of our ‘grand alliance” with Britain is “indispensable” to American security, he said in a New York speech, for Britain “represents the last reliable bastion of strength between the Iron Curtain and our own shores.”

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Certainly the importance of a firm alliance between

Great Britain and the United States should not be under: éstimated.. But calling such an alliance “indispensable” to our security puts it a little too strong. “Highly desirable’

would be a more accurate term.

While Mr. Douglas was speaking on this side of the Atlantic, Aneurin Bevan, head man of the left-wing revolt against leadership of the British Labor Party, was urging in London that Britain abandon her American alliance and assume a neutral position between the United States and

Russia. »

MR. BEVAN is expected to take this issue to British

voters at the next parliamentary elections.

Surely Mr.

Douglas would not have us believe that our fate hinges on the outcome of those elections.

_ One thing truly is indispensable to our security.

That

is our own strength. Because strength attracts strength, the stronger, we become at home the more support we will

find abroad.

- We have spent a lot of energy urging other nations to rearm in their own interest—and with indifferent results. The force of example probably would be much more effective. In any event, we shall attain real security only when we have enough planes, tanks, guns and trained troops of our own to reinforce our present superiority in atomic

weapons.

* GETTING these things with utmost speed should be

our first order of business.

It should be our .earnest hope that Britain will not follow the course advocated by Aneurin Bevan—will not abandon rearmament in favor of more socialistic ventures —will not go in’ for craven appeasement of the Kremlin

gangsters.

But if Britain chooses that course, there are other

beachheads between the Iron Curtain and our shores from

‘which counter-attacks can be launched against Russia.

we have the world's strongest Navy to take our planes within bombing. distance of the Soviets. Highly desirable though a British alliance is, it has its liabilities as well as its advantages. The whole Middle East is suspicious of us because of

our friendly relations with Britain.

Spain—also an impor-

tant bastion of strength between the Iron Curtain and our own shores—has been denied admission to the North Atlantic Alliance largely as a concession to the British

-Socialists.

BECAUSE of Britain, Ireland has remained aloof from

that alliance. And, on the same account, our situation in the Far East has been dangerously compromised. +, If the American-British “grand alliance,” to which Mr. refers, is to endure, both parties must make concesgions. Up to now, the United States has done most of the conceding and the party of the second part has contributed little more, than new lists of complaints and appeals

for assistance.

The New Senator

HE NEWSPAPER profession feels rightfully proud that one of its members has been named as the new Senator from Michigan, succeeding the late Sen. Vandenberg. ~. Sen. Blair Moody has an impressive background, well known to his colleagues. But even without such foreknowledge, the general public will be reassured by his prompt statement of aims, beginning: strong as we can make ourselves, at the first possible

moment.”

“We must be strong, as

~~ Amen to that for top priority. His two other objectives, no less commendable and based on his competent reportorial observation in Washington plus a keen grasp of the foreign

situation, are’ .

“7 ONE: To fight inflation, “which gives Stalin a helping

hand.”

TWO: To keep Americans informed, so they can make

their own “right decisions.”

_ «Still another aspect of Sen. Moody's personality is heéartening—his independent mind. Though he may vote with the Democrats most of the time he is likely to be severely critical of some of the administration's actions, according to Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Charles Lucey who has long known the new Senator. The forecast is that he ‘will take an approach similar to that of Democratic Sen.

Paul Douglas of Illinois.

2: If he lives up to that high billing, we can certainly rejoice in Mr. Moody's appointment. Meantime, wishing him well in following the distinguished footsteps of his predecessor who was once-a newspaperman himself—but immeasur-

ably greater as a Senator.

Timidity Breeds Contempt

THERE won't be enough room iin Korea for the white

~ crosses over the graves of the “interventionists” if the United States forces do not “pull out and go home,” Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko boasted in Paris yes-

terday.

..+» This kind of belligerent bluster is what we have been asking for by the appeasement policy which hampers our

military operations in Korea.

3. Let an ignorant bully think you fear him and there are no excesses to which he will not go. In defending their position as a “peace policy,” President Truman and his Secretary of State have so overemphasized their anxiety to avoid war with Russia that the Kremlin imperialists are bound to be puffed up by unwarranted confidence in their own might. 4:2 Instead of keeping us out of a third world war, this impression of timidity may be the very thing that- will get

us inta it.

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APATHY? . .. By Chester Potter

Are We Ready For A-Bomb?

Congress Has Not Appropriated:

One Cent for Civil Defense

WASHINGTON, Apr. 26—At this moment, the civilian population of the United States is almost wholly unprepared to cope with an atomic attack which could devastate our cities and kill, burn and wound millions. Up to now, Congress has not appropriated one cent for the Federal Civil Defense Administration. : All the money the FCDA has spent so far in trying to set up a nation-wide civil defense plan has come out of President Truman's hip pocket $1,831,000 from his “‘emergency-national defense appropriation.” Deputy Administrator James J. Wadsworth has told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the money FCDA has spent to date wouldn't buy one radar installation or a B-36 for the Armed Servites. The House literally chopped to pieces the FCDA's request for $403 million. When it was

" through, there was $86 million for current use,

and $100 million to be released by the President when he issues an emergency proclamation “based on actual or anticipated enemy attack.”

A Nebulous Program?

THE $186 million appropriation bill is now awaiting Senate action. The House cut out of FCDA’'s request, all tunds for fire-fighting services, wardens, engineering and transportation services, rescue squads, warning systems, reserve supply opera tions, organization equipment. medical stock piling --such as blood and blood plasma-- wel fare services and research and development The House Appropriations Committee called the FCDA's program “nebulous” and said it had heen ‘co-ordinated only slightly with the mih tary forces of the nation.” Further, the House inversely argued that while the danger from attack, is now--this vear the FCDA's program won't move into gear until after 1951 The Appropriations Committee put it this way: 2) “The present plans of the Civil Defense Administration contemplate fulfilment. not in the present calendar year, but after 1951. “In other words, even if vast sums were appropriated for civil defense they would be of no practical value since with the current planning of the Civil Defense Administration they could not be effectively expended in time to meet the present emergency.” ot

‘An Amazing Statement’

TO WHICH the FCDA replies: “This is an amazing statement. The committee apparently takes the fatalistic approach that since we cannot complete full development of civil defense during the calendar year of 1951, we should not even make a start of it.” Last October, during the special meeting of the U. 8. Conference of Mayors in Washington defense, the mayors were urged by FCDA leaders to go home and get their state legislatures to appropriate funds for civil defense, to be matched, dollar for dollar, by Congress. z Up to now, legislatures have appropriated $128!; million... Other, iegisiatures still sitting, are considering appropriations totaling aimost $74 million, a grand total of $202 mjllion.

‘Menace to Security’

THAT is more than the House wants to ap-

propriate for everything, mcluding $100 million 2

for the emergency which will come with the atomic bombs. Millard Caldwell, head of the FCDA. in letter to Ohio's Gov. Frank J. Lausche, said he thought the House's failure to vote more money was due “undoubtedly in large part to the general public apathy to civil defense. The most vicious menace in America today is the shocking apathy of the American people to their danger from enemy attack. In the interest of our people and the free world. we cannot surrender to this apathy, despite what is dome or is not done by the Congress.”,

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

Pittsburgh—A local woman was granted a divorce because her husband wanted to tattoo her and put her in a circus.

We're sure that it would irk us, too If our sweet loving fawn, Would send us with a circus crew- - The plot's too finely drawn.

Ideas like that should be taboo! (There is our stricture, flat.) To fill a body with tattoo!— Can you just picture that?

PARITY AND PRICES . . . By Earl Richert

Is the U. S. Farmer

Very Bad Off?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 26—Just how bad off iz the American

farmer?

That, believe it or not, is an all-important question here at the Agriculture Department says officially that prices received by farmers average 111 per cent of parity—11 per cent ahove what the department itself calls a fair price.

a time when

The farmers. well-being is at issue because the Economic Stabilization Agency is seek-

Per capita income for people on the farm. he said. was only a little more than half of what

NATIONAL DEFENSE? . . . By Frederick C. Othman One Thing the Army Believes In; Pepper the Troops With Pepper

WASHINGTON, Apr. 26-1 suppose we'll have to excuse the Army generals. All that black pepper they bought got in their noses, caused them to sneeze and left them a little confused. You may remember a period last winter when pepper was. almost impossible to buy;

wholesale at nearly $5 per pound. One reason was that the Army bought 800 000 pounds of it, or nearly all the pepper there was. Z

“ what little there was “i, ' “of it was selling Kero < 7

Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman. the Quar- . termaster General, * said he bought pep-s per on the that

day. That's nparly five pounds of pepper per man per year. ‘1 do not ow what the housewives of America are goin say when they find out how much pepper-you are putting on the food of the men in the services,” said Rep. Errett .P. Scrivner (R. Kas.) of the House Ways and Means Committee. “Is that the way you keep them going—stimulate them with pepper?” inquired Rep. John Taber (R.N. Y.). Gen: Feldman set his lips in a grim military line, but he did not scare the Congressmen. Rep. Scrivner said he bet the average civilian didn’t eat one pound, much less five pounds of pepper a vear. He said in one three-week period, alone, Gen. Feldman bought 638992 pounds of pepper. Are those figures correct?” he demanded The General said he assumed they were They had been published by the Army. So for a couple of days the gentlemen in charge of the moneybags forgot about pepper and considered such things as antifreeze fly killer, coffee, boots, and butter, all of which they feit the Army bought in overwhelming quantities, Then they returned to pepper.

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Now they had Brig. Gen. R. 8. Moore, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, in the pepper pot. He had a statement which other General was wrong. The Army was buying pepper at the rate of four ounces of pepper per hundred men per day. The fact remained that the Army bought nearly 1 million pounds of pepper at a time when

housewives hardly could get it at any price.

The Congressmen were not happy; the generals have not heard the last of their pepper stockpile. Neither were the lawgivers overjoyed about most of the other items that the military had bought. They could not understand why the Department of Defense purchased in one week 3.4 million gallons of antifreeze, nor where it could be stored until used. They mentioned 1.935.000. gallons of insecticide the Navy had ordered. And Rep. Scrivner charged that the generals were buying enough canned fruits and vegetables to give every man in uniform 338 pounds a year. Then he took up butter. What he could not understand was why Gen. Feldman bought 5 million pounds of oleomargarine at 25; cents per pound at the same time the Agriculture Department was selling 5.5 million pounds of genuine butter to Italy at 15 cents a pound. Gen. Feldman said there were legal reasons why the Agriculture Department could not sell the Defense Department butter at less than cost. These reasons apparently did not apply to Italy.

Diapers—for the Army?

REP. SCRIVNER then wondered why the Army had seen fit to buy 23,000 yards of bird'seye diapers. “I knew we were taking young men into the service, but I did not think we were taking Infants in yet,” he said. The poor old General said the diapers must have been bought for the post exchange, where wives of soldiers trade. That led to the Army's purchase of 219,000 pairs of nylon stockings. according to Rep. Scrivner, for 15000 in the Women's Army Corps. “They are not centipedes, they are just normal women, with two legs, is that right?” the Congressman asked. : “They are women,’ the General snapped. And furthermore, said he, Army nurses wear nylons, too.

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but | will defend to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire.

‘Gambling and Churches’

MR. EDITOR: This is the figst time I have written any paper bout any policy or anything else that hag happened. I understand Mayor Bayt and Gow. Schricker are trying to stop gambling. Why didn’t they go all the way and stop it in the churches and schools too or aren't they supposed to obey the laws too? Or is it alright to gamble when the minister blesses it? If so, it would be alright to rob and murder if the minister would bless that. 3 : Today, I was approached by four children and asked to take a chance in a church bazaar, These four children were under the age of 10, It so happened that I asked one of the children if she didn’t know she was breaking the law? Her answer was the church and the school knew she was selling the chances and that it was OK. Is this what the children learn in the churches and schools? Have the churches special privileges that other people shouldn't have or have we two sets of laws-—one for the churches and church members and another for people who don’t go to church, . It all leads up to this, if Mayor Bayt and Gov. Schricker are going to stop gambling they should be consistent. Stop the churches and schools from gambling too, otherwise, I have as much right, you have as much right, everybody has as much right to break the law. No wonder the law is broken all the time, everywhere, when the officials of our land won't honor the laws that are passed and some groups of people are given special privileges. :

—Fred G. Hopper, 3530 W. Michigan St.

MR. EDITOR:

Chief: Rouls and his police force truly descended to a new low when they raided a bingo party in the auditorium of St. Patrick's School last Thursday. Picture a crowd of some 250 persons, most of them women and the greater number of these elderly. who, after the drudgery of performing their daily household duties, craved a little relaxation, a bit of enjoyment and pleasure by playing a few games of bingo at a church party. Suddenly the stillness of the night is shattered, the shriek of sirens is heard and Roul's vice squad arrives in all of its majesty and with fervor and dispatch promptly raids the place and stops their little game. Will someone kindly tell me, will someone let me know, why a businessman who buys 100 shares of stock at $20 a share and 30 days later sells those shares for $25 a share, making himself a profit of $500, is called a speculator? But a handful of elderly ladies playing bingo at three cards for a dime and possibly making a profit of $2 or $3, are tagged by the police as gamblers. Consistency, thou art a jewel. —Fred J. Payne, City.

MR. EDITOR: Concerning the present drive on gambling, I personally am glad of the crackdown on organized gambling, pool tickets, etc, but as for cracking down on the churches I think it is stupid. I'm sure that everyone knows that the money taken from these games is used for charity benefits and charity benefits alone . ... If this continues soon it will be agdinst the law to even own a deck of cards. All I can say to these men who oppose the churches is

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“—Paul G. Joseph, City.

‘Clean the Rats Out’ MR. EDITOR:

I am a mother desperately in need of a house to rent. I have advertised for one for weeks and am now to be evicted. I have had numerous telephone calls saying “No children allowed,” and with rents ranging from $75 per month on up. I have tried to be a Christian and practice the Golden Rule but it seems today people do not know or care to observe the Golden Rule. Money seems to be almost everyone's God. Landlords do not want people with children in their houses. I have two boys who some day may be called vpon to protect this country. Why should they sacrifice their lives to protect the lives and property of people like these? We had better clean the rats out in this country before we attempt to help other countries. —A Worried Mother, City

THIS LIFE

WHEN asked one day just what life Is . . . I answered life's a test . . . a time that God has set aside . . . for us to show our best . . . it's but a moment and a breath . . . and passes all too soon . . . and long before we think it's

time .. . the shadow dims the moon... it is the time before our death . the second after birth . . . and it's the time that we exist . . . here on God's great green earth , . . it is & dream as poets say ... a passing fantasy . .. it is a preparation point . . . for what will come to be . . . yes, life on earth as we know it . . .

is but a prelude to... eternal life that walts our call . . . away up in the blue, —By Ben Burroughs.

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JAPAN ...By Clyde Farnsworth

The Question Remains: Why Was Mac Fired?

TOKYO, Apr. 26 — Gen. MacArthur's spokesman in New has clarified one minor mystery for the Japanese people— why® he didn’t tell them goodby. He said the General was fired so abruptly he couldn't officially make a farewell address. But a greater confusion remains: Why was Gen. MacArthur fired as supreme commander of the occupation of Japan and as United Nations commander at administration

U. S. Seventh Fleet patrols the Formost Strait to keep For-

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ing some means of stabilizing farm prices. And the farm bloc is dead set against any tampering with the parity formula—the kev in the whole matter. The law now says farm prices cannot be frozen below parity. And since parity keeps moving up, this makes tight control of farm prices impossible. The farm bloc’'s answer- to show that any change in the parity setup is unjustified--is to present what it claims is evidence that farmers are far behind the income parade for the rest of the nation." ~ ” ~ FOR THIS purpose, the farm bloc wheeled Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan before the House Agriculture Committee to cite facts and figures purporting to show how little the farmer is getting for his labor. The way Mr. Brannan figured it, the American farmer got only 69 cents an hour for his labor last year while manufacturing workers were getting $1.46—or more than 110 per cent more. The farmer, he said, got only a 5 per cent return on his investment ‘while all manufacturing corporatighs got 15 per cent—or 200 per cent more. The farmer, he said, got nothing for his management while managers of business are one of \the country’s highest paid groups.

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the city folks got, $804 against $1546. » ~ ~ MR. BRANNAN also cited a page of statistics to show that an hour's earnings in a factory would “buy much more food than in the past. When he finished. many members of the House Agriculture Committee—a committee loaded with representatives from rural regions--congratu-lated him for what they thought was the best testimony he had ever given. Mr. Brannan, it may be noted, did not mention that farm prices now average 111 per cent of parity. And when he said that farm income last year totaled only $13 billion, a drop of $4.8 billion from 1947," he did not mention the fact, previously reported by the Agriculture Department, that farmers last year got $6 billion from non-farm soutces. “The figures presented by Mr. Brannan are totally misleading in terms of representative commercial farming,” said F. E. Berquist, an economist for the Joint Congressional GCconomic Committee.

“THOSE figures of 69 cents an hour for labor and nothing for management are just nuts. What they're doing is averaging in the 2!; million small plots and acreages which usu-

opr. ”er BY. NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC. U. 8. PAY. OFF. "Oh, come: in! I've just chased Henry to bed, though—I| want him to stay awake at the opera tomorrow night!”

ally account for less chan five per cent of farm produce. Anything of more than four acres in size and selling $250 or more of produce is counted as a farm, including cranberry bogs and mushroom cellars.” The 1946 census showed that one-third of the - farms produced 80 per cent of the country’'s total farm products with an average income of $7500 per year, he said. “If you take the city people who produce 80 per cent of the products and compare their in-

come with the farm people who produce 80 per cent of the farm output, there is no question in my mind but that the farm people would be far better off, I'm for the farmer making money, but I can't see why all this bleating,” he said.

Barbs— IT'S BETTER to wink than to stare, says a scientist. ‘That's dangerous advice for gals during next year-—Leap Year.

affecting a great measure of the very strategy he urged? Ambassador. John Foster Dulles made plain in an address here on the kind of peace the United States wants with Japan that Gen. MacArthur was its Inspiration. ~ » » BY a process of elimination it's obvious to the Japanese that President Truman acted not so much over Gen. MacArthur's long-established views of the Communist world threat and how to meet it, as over his public. advocacy of those views. Thoughtful observers trying to sort out the issues profess to see a Truman trend toward the MacArthur line. They summarize as follows: ONE: Gen. MacArthur acknowledged the strategic inter-

' dependence of Europe and the

Far East as critical areas, but insisted the Orient faced a greater and more immediate challenge. Though its statements may have been designed to take the edge from Gen. MacArthur's case, the administration lately has proclaimed a determination to. meet Communist challenge anywhere. TWO: Gen. MacArthur urged

economic restraints on and a -

naval blockade of Red China. The administration embargoed American shipments to Red China last December. The 5 .

no blockade. Britain and other maritime members of the United Nations continue to trade with Red China though the United States is now pressing for United Nations sanctions. THREE: Gen. MacArthur long before the Korean conflict’ urged the strategic importance of keeping Formosa out of Communist control while the State Department drew a line that carefully avoided Formosa and told U. 8. diplomats abroad to pooh-pooh its importance. After the Korean War

. started the United States raised

our diplomatic chief on Formosa from a charge d'affaires to a minister, considerably strengthened the air-naval-military liaison group, and started shipping $50 million worth of arms to Chiang Kaishek. Now the United States is sending a 100-man military

assistance advisory group e Formosa to help train a

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” . - FOUR: Gen. MacArthur opposed any appeasement of Red China. The State Department once took the position that it would not use the United Nations Security Council veto to keep Red China from grabbing Nationalist China's United Nations seat, but lately has indicated outright opposition to any such appeasement. Say

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