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Mr. Churchill's Visit

7 ASHINGTON correspondents for London newspapers believe that some Washington officials are conducting an organized campaign to create the impression that Winston Churchill and Anthény Eden are unwelcome: i isitor S. - A reporter for the London Times has told of an “obvi. susly inspired story” that President Tryman was annoyed | when he héard of Mr. Churchill's plans for a visit, and had ; allegedly told the British Embassy that on the night of its dinner for the distinguished visitor he was going to bed at 9 o'clock “regardless of the Prime Minister.” 7 This and similar stories do not seem to come from the top, according to.this correspondent, ‘but eq ally they do not come from very- far down.” Hatchet jobs of this kind are by no means new Washington phenomena. The story about Mr. Truman, as unjust to the President as it is to Mr. Churchill, must have been inspiréd by someone on the White House staff. ‘However, most. of the. stories designed to embarrass the Churchill Eden mission obviously have emanated from the State Department. Campaigns by innuendo and misrepresentation are a favored tactic of some of its would-be policy All too often, too, they achieve some success.

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IT IS noteworthy that Britain was not a target for such attacks while it was under a Socialist government. The State Department's underground goes into action "+ only when there is a leftist cause to serve, such as undermining a Conservative government. Witness the all-too-familiar China story. a In this case, let's look at the facts. Britain is our most dependable ally, particularly Britain under the leadership of Winston Churchill. Britain under the left-wing Socialists headed by Aneurin Bevan might be quite another matter. Yet that is what we are likely to see if the State Department's wrecking crew manages to drive a wedge between the Truman and Churchill governments the same way it drove a wedge between the ‘Truman administration and Nationalist China. We invited the terrible Korean War by one debacle. Do we want to lose what is left of Europe by a second one? Through loans and grants, the United States sent $6.463,497,000 to Britain while that country was under a Socialist government. Imagine the inevitable reaction there if we now turn our backs on the first free enterprise government Britain has had since the war. # 8 8 4 0 = WINSTON CHURCHILL'S place in history is secure. * Such a man is above petty insult. But we can discredit ourselves by an ill-natured reception, inspired by ‘thoughtless and wilful men. All.of Mr. Churchill's objectives are not ours. He is first of all an Englishman and a champion of the British Empire. But our basic, over-all purposes are much the same. And if his mission here is unsuccessful, the ultimate consequences are likely to be as disastrous to our interests as they are to his. _ America is honored by the visit of this monumental figure whose inspiring leadership contributed so much to Allied victory. Any proposals he may make deserve thoughtful and sympathetic consideration. We need his friendship and counsel in our. present dilemma quite as much as his country may need our economic assistance as it rallies from the enervation of six years of socialism.

‘Freedom of the Stomach

HILE the distinguished justices disagreed—violently, it appears—in their reasoning, the Supreme Court ‘has struck another blow for individual liberty in the Antonio Rochin case. ; When officers raided: his Seton Antonio swallowed two capsules of morphine. The officers strapped Tony ‘to a tahle and extracted the capsules with a stomach pump— using the evidence to convict him on narcotics -charges. In three separate but concurring opinions, the Supreme Court said Tony had been deprived of his. constitutional rights. Justice Fraififurter held the capsules had been extracted without due process of law, as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Justices Douglas and Black said the Fifth Amendment, which protects Americans from being ~ompelled to testify against themselves; had been violated.

‘Once Over Lightly

REORGANIZATION PROGRAM

NEWS NOTEBOOK .

ee ay Talburt RED THREAT .

X ed Essay. 3 fo AOS; Ei

. By Peter Edson’

DPA Chief Has a Bad, Bad Day

“WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-—Defense Production

‘Administrator Manly Fleischmann had a pretty

tough week just before the holidays. -

It all began one morning when he drove his car into the basement garage Of the big new

General Accounting Building where be is boss."

A guard who didn't recognize Mr. Fleischmann as the head man stopped him as he started to park his car in its assigned place. ~ “You can’t park like, that,” the guard ordered. “You'll have to, back out, drive your car all around the passageway in back of those

" other cars, and come into your spate trom the

other side.” Meekly, in order to avoid an argument and te abide by regulations, Mr. Fleischmann

complied, though it meant circumnavigating the block-long basement of the big building.

He Fixes the Plumber

SOME time later, upstairs in his own office, Mr. Fleischmann's wife called him from home to report the plumbing was frozen and a pipe

had burst. The plumber had come and was there. But he reported he couldn't make the ° necessary repairs because he couldn't get a

priority for an allocation of copper. DPA boss Fleischmann also happens to be National Production Authority Administrator, In this latter capacity, he runs the program for allocation of scarce materials—steel, and copper. He thérefore knew that the plumber didn’t know what he was talking about, and that for the repair and maintenance of essential civilian services, the plumber could apply for and get the necessary priority on copper to fix his bathroom. : , So, over the. telephone, Mr. Fleischmann talked to the plumber and told him just what forms to use and just where and now Jo apply for whatever scarce materials wereenecessary.

it's Tough on the Kids

THAT was not much more than taken care of when a -toy manufacturer came into Mr. Fleischmann's office to protest and appeal a ruling by NPA which had denied an allocation

od steel to the toy maker's firm. The man got pretty hot about it. But Mr. Fleischmann stuck to his official guns. Toy-making was not an essential industry. Steel. was needed for national defense. Therefore, not a pound of steel on priority for tovs The toy-make# was still unconvinced and not at all inclined to take this decision-as final. He looked at Mr. Fleischmann. for a minute and then said solemnly “What this issue comes down to, Mr. Fleischmann, is, ‘Are you for children, or are you

against them?'” 3s

Just Food for Thought

THIS was enough te ruin any temporary bureaucrat’'s peace of mind, but there was one more blow. in store for Mr. Fleischmann. He went to the airport to take a plane back to his home town of Buffale. With him was his former boss and law partner, John Lord O'Brien, chief counsel of the old War Production Board.

aluminum

and no piece work.

They were the last two passengers to boardthe plane. As they stepped into the cabin the stewardess greeted them with: “I'm sorry, but you two passengers will have to go without supper on this trip. There are 26 passengers aboard and they sént me only 24 box suppers. You don't have a high enough

priority.” On-the-Spot Power Sought WITH U. 8. defense production. officials

frowning on any more use of natural gas as a fuel to generate steam for electric power production, there's a big search on for locations where big blocks of power might be steamgenerated for industrial production. Best bets in sight are the lignite fields of

North Dakota and the strip-mine coal fields of -

southern Ohio. The idea now is that generating plants could be built right over the fuel supply, with the aluminum er. other defense production plants close by.

More Power to Produce Titanium

ONE of the new uses for electric power, and of the requirements for more and more large blocks of cheap power, is for production of the wonder metal, titanium. It now costs about $5

‘a pound, as compared with 18 cents for alumi-

num, Yet! if the supply of titania were big enough, it might replace aluminum, and even

stainless steel. Because of titanium'’s heat-and-corrosion resistance properties, it is invaluable in supersonic projectiles. To produce a pound of aluminum or magnesium takes 10 kilowatt hours of electricity. To produce a pound of titanium takes 20 kwh.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY PRESIDENT TRUMAN made it clear at his press conference that he has no intention: of announcing Attorney General McGrath's resigna-

tion—until it is ready. So ow GOV. EARL WARREN

referred -to a statement from one of the Taft campaign managers as a ‘‘sword” although. it was neither sharp nor pointed.

TITO IS finding it easier to collect from Uncle Sam than from the Yugoslav collective farmers. oN PRESIDENT TRUMAN wants to streamline the tax

collectors——straight salaries

‘Tito .. collector

U. S. AIR supremacy requires more and better planes that can take off from the drawing boards. o> <> &» INFLATION NOTE: Time is money—the more you save, the less you have.

‘By Ludwell Denny Latest Soviet Move in UN

~ Aimed at Collective. Sorat

WASHINGTON, - Jan. ‘5—The latest - Soviet move in the United Nations is the most sinister if many months. . vy It is a skillful effort to destroy collective defense against’ aggression in Korea, the Middle East and Europe. It is also a Red threat af bigger war in Indo- China, Southeast Asia, and possibly Yugoslavia. - Prabably .it will fail in its full purpose.’ But already it has driven more medium and small nations into the neutralist camp, which 4s so useful to Stalin. And it hag confused some of our strongest Allies. The trick—as attempted Wednesday in Paris by: Soviet Foreign Commissar Andre! Vishinky —consists in using-Allied desires for a Korean truce and settlement of the wider cold war to seat Red China in the United Nations and let Russia impose a world ‘‘peace.”

"A Few Proposals

AFTER repeating the usual charges of Amer- |

jcan aggression in Korea and war plotting elsewhere, and warning our. Allies against becom-

ing American. vassals, Mr. Vishingky proposed.

that: ONE: The United Nations Security Council take over ;the Korean truce negotiations. TWO: A high-level conference be called at once to examine Security Council measures to relieve international tension. THREE: The proposed United Nations collective measures committee to oppose .aggression be junked-in favor of big power control. To get the signfficance of these proposals it must be recalled that Stalin originally had a complete stranglehold on the United Nations. The Assembly of all members ‘was relegated to a talking role, and: all effective authority was vested in the Security Council where Russia had veto power. By misuse of the veto Stalin not only blocked organization and action against

LABOR .

aggression. He also prevented United Nations

*investigations .and blackballed non-Red appli.

cants for membership. * “This Stalin stranglehold was loosened somewhat when ‘he outsmarted himself by boycotting

the Security Council for daring even to discuss

subjects banned by him. Russian absence from the Security Council permitted it to act in the Korean crisis. Then the Assembly asserted its right to protect the peace whenever the Security Council defaulted.

‘Assembly Continues to Act

AS A result the Assembly continues to act in

Korea despite Stalin, and is now moving into

the German situation and into regional defense

like the Eisenhower system—whenever aggression threatens in the world. Vishinsky’s first proposal would end the Korean military truce negotiations in which Gen, Matthew Ridgway represents the, United Na. tions, and substitute political negotiations in a Security Council dominated by- Russia. It would in effect replace the Chinese Nationalist on the Council. with a Chinese Red. the American group from the British group which now recognizes the Peiping aggressor regime. Vishinsky's second and third proposals would put the free world back where it was in the 1947 big power conference in Moscow—at the mercy of Stalin. The issue is whether defenseless democracies shall unite and arm tHemselves to

those wars if he attacks; or accept the slavery he dictates. If he can't trick us into handing all the “peace” machinery back to him, he hopes to frighten us into that surrender by ominous hints of other wars. By that Hitlerian method of accusing the victim of aggression in advance,

he struck Korea. . i

. By Fred W. Perkins

Battle Forming i in Mine Issue

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 — Battle’ lines are forming again in the bitter fight over whether

, federal or state authority shall be supreme in

’ making coal mines safe,

This time the impetus is last month's mine disaster at West Frankfort, Ill, men were killed. . Five years ago some ‘Congresamen tried to make mine safety a federal responsibility” after an almost equally destructive mine blast in Illinois which took 111 lives at Centralia. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, again is demanding strong federal control. He: {8 sup-, ported by Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman and Mines Bureau Chief John Forbes. They are opposed by the heads of state mining departments and by coal mine operators who have expressed themselves in congressional hearings. More congressional hearings this year are sure because of active interest shown by Sen. Hubert -'H. Humphrey (D. Minn.), chairman of a Senate labor, subcommittee, He sent a committee agent to West Frahkfort for.an on-the-spot investigation.

The charges so far developed indicate that explosive “methane” gas, as well as undue quantities of explosive coal dust, existed in the West Frankfort mine, and that federal inspectors had given advange warning: Federal inspectors can call such conditions to the attention of the

, Mr. Chapman

«+. agrees

MR. EDITOR: . What's wrong with the world? The ministers tell us we need more religion, that the solution is to turn from material things to spiritual things. Educators tells us we need more education, that people and nations who live in poverty ang filth, do so because of the lack of educafon. Politicians tell us the world is in a sorry state because of communism and that if all nations hecame democracjes our Problems would be solved. Communists blame the capitalists for the troubles of the world. They claim communism . will save the world. ~. But the world cannot be better than the people who irthabit it. Yet there is nowhere in the world an ade-quately-endowed, properly ‘equipped and completely staffed scientific institution for the study of human heredity. If money were appropriated for the study of man instead of the study of the atom, we could produce a human race just a little lower than angels. C. Miller, Harrisburg, Pa.

‘Mela Cash to Waste’ MR. EDITOR: Now that we may buy 49 post cards without the New Deal and me-too tax, may I suggest those messed-up politicians in Washington revive the laws that allow the farmer to kill his little pigs and the one that prohibits the baker the right to slice his bread. That would allow them more money to waste. —James J. Cullings, 1078S. Capitol Ave.

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ers and public as well as the mine managePh But. official authority to close down i A mines is held only by state inspectors. Algo, UMW contracts give authority to pull he men cut of a mine, because of dangerous conditions, to local union committees. ' This authority has been used only a few times, Federal inspectors are required to post preliminary reports of their findings at mine entrances. coming congressional” hearings may ask why the miners’ local committees do not act imme-

diately on the federal reports.

This question, however, is“subordinate to the main one, according to Mr. Lewis and C. Fremont Davis, head the union’s safety division. They claim principal issue is the - failure of Congress to give federal inspectors the power to close mines. - Opposing arguments are: ONE — The proposed extension of federal authority would violate the Constitution in several ways, including its reservation of “police powers” to the states. TWO-—Imposition of federal safety regulations would cause confusion which might result in more rather than fewer accidents. THREE State mine inspection services and laws would be made ineffective or obsolete, despite varying conditions that exist in the coalmining states. . FOUR — The federal emphasis on safety would be changed from education of rank-and-file. miners and mine bosses and managers to enforcement of regulations.

Another “anti” argument ¢oncerns how. far federal authority shpuld be extended in indus-

trial safety. Opponents argue that actual production of coal is not an interstate business,

Nsssvesedunesnnnennal

‘Mac for President’ MR. EDITOR: ° : - _ Guns, butter and corruption, with emphasis on corruption, With organized crime and cor-

" ruption going on over most of the nation today

a lot of people place the blame on Mr. Truman,

egged on in this belief by the Reds using their invisible hand they keep concealed..

This corruption started long before Mr. Truman ever saw the White House. It first began to show its hand back in the Hoover administration when certain powers succeeded in electing

a corrupt Congress in the Iniddie art of his admjnistration. P in

These same powers are now. building up Eisenhower. Back in World War II he was just a small officer until they took hold of him and promoted him over the heads of older and more experienced officers.

Why, oh why this sudden interest in Ike? It was because they knew he would play the

‘game the way they wanted it played and still

does. soldier.

MacArthur 18 just the opposite. - As true and stanch- as-a sturdy oak. We need a man like. him in.these trying times we face today along with his big stock to swat the isms that keep raising their heads up in this fair land of ours and to keep the old flag fluttering in the sunkissed breeze defying any nation at their peril to insult it. ~FErnest Bronnenberg, Anderson.

He should have credit for being a great

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> been well ~ Freedom of the mind, heart and tongue have been we SIDE GLANCES By’ Galbraith PRICES . . . By Eredlorick C. Othman Peal trike! established. So, whatever the reasoning of the justices, it L : , tral: Pike Tow _ feels healthy to live in a country where the august Supreme G a The S a k C j Central “were . . POEM 7 Ss Court will rise to protect a man's stomach from unreason- « a pu S an xpensive Hiter: vr Jaws as able search and seizure.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-1 they were stalled Lawren: ] I , . ) packed. A number This dye cost more than $2 per - the sa . guess the hundreds of millions of Fancy Dans made a tidy pound and when that Bap pened few re iat Progused 2 mate in the fir we taxpayers~ spent squirting profit, ia tact, throwing away potato eaters became what you bushels y 1s Bdge ln Te ne ! . blue dye on potatoes so people the potatoes and selling the might call aroused. So did Th H roughly p . It's Not the Food . wouldn't eat ‘em wasn't exactly ~~ sacks. “ Congress. For that matter, so ren of oy i Be Seine con HE Archbishop of Canterbury says that the British peo- in vain. ; Eighty-nine million bushels did the potato growers. partment urged people to eat Chandler and 4 Now that we have cut out the. government couldn't sell, p88, 8 more potatoes. It put out athered eigh ple should be thankful for England's s notoriously bad such expensive monkeyshines, or even give away. It ran ALONG with the price sup- recipe books calling for mock Zale fe weathers because it really is the secret of their national the price of potatoes.is so high bulldozers over hills of pota- _ Ports of the government, of meat loaf of potatoes, potato = : » that the OPS .is putting price toeg and plowed them under, It course, went acreage controls. soup, potato bread” and potato strength. controls on them. For eight filled ditches with-potatoes and Only the wily potato growers candy. The potato-growing as- PIKE CAME The abominable climate in which they live has taught years we spent money holding poured kerosene on them. Then NOW were using trick juice to soclations began polishing ee x A find fort o “Well, it. ht be up the cost of spuds; now it made a deal with numerous kill. the bugs and still trickier their best potatoes and pack- Thorntown, Ww nglishmen to find comfort in saying, ell, it- migh we're spending money holding farmers to buy their potatoes fertilizer to make two potatoes ing them handsomely in pace: 21 to 13, and 3: worse,” the primate says. it. down. But not so much, ,--and letthem keep their spuds grow where only one grew-be- to ure housewives into buying Be Those who’ have visited England will be ‘glad to learn fortunately. Gad. of animal Tender, dve. tis Jore. Then acreage shrank, but them. Nationally, there was Dean Templin this. They have been wondering for years whether it was - I've been looking over some Y ay. Dal. 0 dye Le eir. production continued to a campaign. to prove to the all. He had 15 is. ey have bee 0 g Y of my dustier dispatches on potatoes blue so. there'd be no boom. Many a man was grow- ladies that potatoes were non- Brownsburg .the weather or English cooking. the subject . of “potatoes -and humans tempted to taste them. 8 400 bushels of potatoes on fattening. None of these ex- with a. 51 to they're hard to believe, For... = rr Denaitires were 6f much use. "Brownsburg ba . instance: . “ ongress despaired and washed - had 21 points - Born Too Late L = In eight years we taxpayers THE CLOCK ; : —{ts hands of this unfortunate had three mor * ‘bought 500 million bushels, or THE : > puree. . And I guess we are -at least seven one medium-sized mountain, of THE CLOCE thai stands upon the shelf... peryerse People, to 6 at the fir E HAVE, now, the case of Bob Starr, 23, father of Ema Bay heen ny Tend or years’, . . it's guided me a. to 35 at the : idl ro © ii : ries two children. more than half a billion dol- and. ‘through os > it Who oo! gh Sains : aS Soon as the price Sup. all the way, Bob was chucked out of Memphis State College because Jarsh $5e0 ition fo be exact. wy hie te Bs 4uyens } know + + + It governs gH Eo ho Fok ni Berd Grove. 0 : ak can make . . . me fast or make me . ’ authorities discovered he was attending another college, IN 1950 alone.we bought all ,/ ° slow’. . . it regulates my every amove . . . in ato. wile the indies began g Bustman. t. 00 "holding down seven’ part-time Jobs, and writing a novel— thegpotatoes that 10. thousand "morning, noon or night . . . and I rely ypon it ay, ore. th Dest b While. A Lal at the same time. 5 people could eat in one year, ‘tad. ... be punctual. and right . . . it welcomes + po De Dy e bargain | Bmec = 30 Li In 1949 we spent $90 mijlion . ® me when day is done . .[. its outstretch : 7y. «BF Russell g 8 1. ‘ is ched hands . i came a spell ‘of bad vi “Times have changed, all right.” "Bob gets only a passing ” for potatoes that weren't much - embrace . . . each moment and each minute of weather, particularly in Idaho ~ eee 000 ; ’ tir news story. In another era a fellow with old-fashioned Cal hart v. 3 esr 00d as anybody, xem ‘the : A : this lifetime that I face. . . oh clock, run and the unsupported price’ of ang 9.0 : ideas named Horatio Alger Jr; uld ha itte h > Ee a. fast when T am blue |, . run slow when 1 am potatoes spiraled upward unt 304 : i WO ve written a W ole "The Russians must have abhi od hai ‘that our government couldn't ~~ - ° gay ... you are the master of my tate . . hy until. . 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