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Two-Way Street - YF SOMETHING happened that threatened to throw two million Americans out of work, the nation would be * horrified. Yet that is the number of American workers whose * jobs depend on foreign trade. One U. S. auto out of every | four is exported. So is one-third of our cotton, many ma- - chines, chemicals and other products. Those jobs are being endangered by the restrictions that lobbyists and log-rolling politicians are seeking to place on our commerce abroad. + The growth of these movements has caused President _ Truman to order a non-partisan group of leading citizens

«the Public Advisory Board for Mutual Security—to make

.a broad study of the barriers against foreign trade and their conflict with our basic foreign policy. It is a real dilemma. On the one hand we have spent +‘billions to help our Allies restore production and military . * preparedness, and are urging them not to trade with Rus- . sia and its satellites. On the other hand, by bowing to nar- : row selfish interests in our own country, we are making , it difficult for our Allies to trade with the world’s greatest * market—the United States.

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# TODAY we are exporting more than we were a year ‘ : ago, but importing less. Since foreigners must pay for U. S. goods with dollars, this situation obviously cannot con- + tinue for long. ! The way these barriers have been set up is an old :story: A Congressman whose district includes a certain in‘dustry is persuaded that foreign goods are threatening ! that industry, so he proposes that those particular imports “be banned, or restricted. "The notorious “cheese amendment” of last year is an xample. As a matter of fact it harmed the United States 2s a whole, by cutting down trade with certain cheese-pro-‘ducing countries—and it made practically no difference to

ore than a drop in the bucket to us. The foreigners who > been selling us the cheese lost the dollars with which

they would have bought other U.S. goods: . This particular act was modified this year. Meanwhile, “other groups were proposing other and worse barriers. Oné ‘would have virtually forbidden the importing of anything hat is produced in the U. 8.—which seems to be the real Boal of some of the ostrich minds in the high-tariff bloc.

- » . - - » . © WE NEED a realistic and comprehensive report which Fi tell the American people and Congressyhow essential ¢ growth of international trade is to our own: country and i the free world. The need is particularly urgent since the reciprocal trade act will be up for renewal again next year, ‘and the high-tariff bloc is already laying its plans to cripple + Foreign trade is no longer a regional or a politically partisan matter. The return of the old barriers would be as ‘great a disaster to the factories of the Middle West as it Would to the cotton growers of the South and the traders in our ports. It would wreck our European Allies as well. Tariff barriers more than anything else caused the fast great depression. To revive them would not only bring another depression, but might also hand over to the Russians half of the free world.

Blow to Shoppers

NE OF President Truman's favorite whipping boys is some nebulous characters he calls “the special interests.” He never names these guys; he just beats them over the head, usually aligning them with some Republican politician. The President had a chance to take a real cut at special interests in handling the so-called fair trade bill. It “would have been to the interest of the vast army of consumers to veto the bill. But instead he signed it—for the special interests. The bill permits manufacturers to set the retail price ‘of a great number of consumer goods. It is private price ‘fixing with no representation for the public who must pay -the prices. It results in higher prices, as many government studies have shown. In the message explaining his action, Mr. Truman says ‘the bill he signed isn’t the best way to provide such protection. He hopes the next Congress will investigate and pro‘pose a better method. ‘ If that's his true feeling, how much better it would ‘have been to let the bill die, rather than prejudicing the search. The powerful lobby behind this bill will hardly cooperate in replacing it. »

A Sensible Reform

HE Republican Party made an important and overdue i. change in its organizational setup at Chicago when it Woted to give an extra seat on its national committee to each State which voted Republican in the last previous election.

. Until now the national committee has been composed

®f a man and a woman member from each of the states and fertritories. Under that system, New York, which has a Refpublican governor, had no more voice in the committee than ‘Georgia, where the election of a Ropiijican governor would ‘be considered a miracle. The additional seats on the committee awarded to Re‘publican states will make the national committee a more ‘representative body. It also should make the committee ‘more cognizant of the election returns,

The need for this reform was pointed up when 25 Re- .

‘publican governors took exception to the national com‘mittee’s recommendations on credentials for the temporary ‘roll call of the convention. The change in the rules should - such blunders Sear leg mn the future.

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ern manager). He was there ings. He'll tell you it wasn’t my fault.”

REPUBLICANS . . . By Robert Crater

Taft Leader

Denies Blame

BLANCHESTER, O., July 16—Rep. Clarence J. Brown today roared deffance at those who claim he lost Sen. Robert A, Taft the nomination at Chicago. “If anyone is at fault,” the Ohio Congressman raid, “it's Tom Coleman. He was Seng Taft's floor manager. He was in on all the

meetings, and I didn’t hear him object to any-

thing. “People who're trying to make me the fall guy are just plain crazy.” Mr. Brown went to the convention an ill man. He had 2 physician nearby all the time. “A few minutes before I was to speak on the Louisiana delegate contest on Monday afternobn, I was told Sen. John W. Bricker was to introduce a motion that the 1948 rules should prevail,” Mr. Brown said. “That's an example of the lack of liaison between Taft forces that day,” Mr. Brown declared. “And liaison is the business of the floor manager. Tom Coleman was floor manager.” “I'm still convinced my point of order was 100 per cent right. Section 4-B clearly states that when delegate contests have been referred back to the state conventions or committees and acted on there, they.cannot be appealed anywhere.”

‘On Solid Ground’

GUY GABRIELSON, then chairman of the

national committee, told Mr. Brown his point of order was based on solid ground, the Ohio Congressman said. “He'd already made the same ruling before the national committee.” But, shortly before, Mr. Brown was to make his point of order Monday, Mr. Gabrielson came to him and said he was afraid he would have to overrule it, Mr. Brown said today. “That left me stranded. There I was ready

to speak, right up against the gun. I decided to -

amend the motion by Gov. Arthur Langlie so seven of the Louisiana delegates would be excluded from the list of contested delegates.” The motion was the test between the Eisenhower and Taft forces, and Sen. Taft lost by 110 wotes. The Taft drive never regained its steam. X “Tom Coleman was in ‘on those meetings in the room behind the Lincoln picture in Convention Hall,” Mr. Brown said, “He never opposed my strategy. I felt we should fight on the seven Louisiana delegates. I felt it was better to run the pilot engine over the track before sending the big train through.” Mr. Brown sald Sen. Taft didn’t-blame him for what happened. “I talked to Bob Taft before we made our move Monday. He said I was right about that point of order.” Mr. Brown is a member of the National Committee, and was on the tonvention credentials committee.

‘l Got Everything’ “I GOT EVERYTHING we went after in the national committee and credentials meetings, didn’t I? That was my job—to represent Sen. Taft's interests on both committees. “I won there, didn't I?” But, he added, when it came to the floor fight, Mr. Taft lost. ° “And Mr. Coleman was Sen. Taft's floor manager, He's the one who has to take any blame, It's just a case of the outside experts who were called in failing to deliver. That's the whole trith, “You ask Carroll Reese (Sen. Taft's southern -at-all-those-(From his home in Madison, Wis., Mr. Coleman today gave the Scripps-Howard newspapers this reply: (“I do not think Clarence Brown was responsible for the Monday i difficulties and I have sald so whenever questiofted. Furthermore, I do not believe the Monday vote was the primary cause of Sen. Taft's defeat. (“The main difficulty Monday was that the aisles were so badly blocked, any laison between Taft leaders for a quick decision was impossible. i (“Clarence Brown did have to make his own quick decision on the staté when he was told he would be overruled on his point of order. I have not criticized him for that and I regret he should show public resentment without having first discussed the matter with me.”)

‘TAKE TIME'

In the hustle and the bustle of . . . this tollsome life you know . . . it's good to take a little time . . . to love when lights are low . it's good to cuddle up and dream . . . the weary hours away . . . for when you're in the land of dreams . .. your skies are never gray « + + It's good to take the time to think . . . before you chance to act . . . for after thinking over things . . . you're prone to use great tact . it's great to take the time to pray ... and alr your deepest heart . . . for you will find by doing this . . . great joys will get their start . 50 when you're blue and all at sea . .. and cannot solve life's rhyme . . . you'll find that You can work things out . .. if you'll but take the time.

-—By Ben Burroughs

POLITICS . . . By Richard Starnes

Harriman Battling No-Vote-Appeal Talk

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By Frederick C. Othman

Patrons Eye Pretty Waitresses While Electric Eye Speeds Food

ST. LOUIS, July 16—1I've just finished eating too much at the Fountron, the world’s first allelectronic restaurant, where the food scoots to the customer under its own power and the pretty waitresses are on the job mostly for decorative purposes, This caused proprietor Sidney Baer Jr. to chortle. Everybody eats more than he intends here, just for the fun of watching his m arrive on an endless belt and stop automatically, with the aid of an electric eye, in front of him. No ordinary food, either, En route from the

kitchen it passes through a violet ray tunnel to, meet=— sterilize it, while the belt, itself, travels om a

film of water and detergent in case an electronic jolt should splash gravy off the plates. This has presented Mr, Baer with a pretty problem, which he stil] hasn't quite worked out. But, as

+ he says pioneers always have their troubles.

He's got to keep the belt traveling fast enough to get the chicken pie, swiss steak, shrimp salad .and such like to the hungry 176 clamoring to consume it every hour. And he's also got to keep it going slow enough so that the bartlett pear with the requefort cheese of the lady at the blue station doesn’t jounce into the hot fried ham with raisin sauce of the gentleman sitting goggle-eyed down at the yellow section.

In Business a Month

MR. BAER'S only been in business a month and he's still spending a good deal of time at the control panel regulating the speed of the minced corned beef and cream cheese and olive sandwiches. He is a member of the board of directors of Stix, Baer and Fuller, one of St. Louis’ largest department stores. He got the idea for the Fountron at Hudson’s of Detroit, another store in the same chain, which installed a somewhat similar restaurant a year ago. The Detroit installation didn’t work so well. Electric-eye trouble. “Over théte,” said Mr. Baer, “the food would come down the belt, with a transparent plastic cover over each dish. The density of the plastic was supposed to control the action of the eye. But steam from maybe sauerkraut would cloud the cover and get the eye all mixed up. Even a waitress’ fingerprint on the cover sometimes would send the food to the wrong customer.”

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So Mr, Baer tried a new principle. He uses plastic covers, too, but they are of different heights, to coincide with the eyes at each station along his 90-foot counter. The low covers proceed placidly under the higher eyes, but when each one comes to the eye that matches exactly in altitude, the belt stops and there’s the man’s food, almost before he finished ordering it. This is because the ordering is electronic, too.

Here Comes the Roast

. THE WAITRESS jots down the patron's wishes on the pad of a facsimile telegraph

‘machine; this appears on another pad in front

of the cook even as she writes it. And, whang, here comes the pot roast with the garden vegetables in a matter of seconds. That's the trick. The food arrives in such a hurry that Mr, Baer figures nobody, even eating leisurely, can spend more than 15 minutes in

' his restaurant. Each chair gets four new occu-

pants every hour and since the four waitresses have nothing much to do but write orders (I should have mentioned that the dirty dishes go back to the kitchen on the under side of the same belt), their principal job is to be pleasant to the custemers. They don’t even realize what an enormous business they're doing. Or so said Mr. Baer, giving that dial another careful twist and looking over his shoulder to see what was happening to the lemon meringue en route to seat 43.

What Others Say—

THE greatest discrimination is not made against race or creed, it's against men over 40 and women.—S8en. Richard Russell (D. Ga.). oo & o>

MORE than ever today it is necessary for people to know peoples and for their leaders to meet and exchange views.—British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. LE I DO not think Stalin will order his army to march against this weapon (the hydrogen

" Somb).—Sen. Brien McMahon (D. Conn.).

add I SEE in it (the Bonn Agreement) a repeti-

tion of the mistakes made by the Allies after World War I.—Brig.-Gen. Julius Klein.

By Galbraith

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney sy,

Estes Best Bet,

“Jacobs Insists

WASHINGTON, July 186—The Democrats’ dilemma today is to try ‘to keep Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee from becoming the next President of the United States. That, in substance, is the way former Rep. Andrew Jacobs of Indianapolis sees the picture,

Here en route to trying a Jawsuit in Baltimore,

Mr, Jacobs said that so far he is the only an-

4 nounced Kefauver delegate from Indiana. He

* {sn’t too ironclad about it. He just didn’t like being pledged to Gov. Adlai Stevenson without consultation, he explained.

‘Kefauver a Winner’

“I CAN see in Sen. Kefauver a winning candidate, if he can get the nomination,” Mr. Jacobs declared. He then listed four reasons why. They are: ONE: Because he was the first of the Demgcrats not only to declare against erime and corruption, but actively to do something about it. TWO: He represents the new blood so sorely needed by the Democratic Party, ridden by oldtime political bosses. It needs a transfusion to become healthy enough to win against the Eisen-hower-Nixon ticket. THREE: Sen. Kefauver is a progressive statesman, coming from a state where it takes courage to be progressive, FOUR: He has a profound understanding of the complex problems of the day and the ability to deal with them with poise and a judicial temperament. He is ready to listen and consider before he decides. That is the way Mr, Jacobs will present his candidate to other Hoosier delegates, when they caucus in Chicago next week, he said.

Might Change Mind

“I DO NOT,” he added, “intend to force my views on anyone. just want them to have a hearing. And I am ready to change my mind if backers of other candidates can convince me they are better.” Mr. Jacobs maintains that the Democrats have a better chance of carrying Indiana against Dwight Eisenhower than they would have had against Sen. Robert A. Taft. He expressed admiration for the 30 Hoosier Republicans pledged to Sen, Taft who never budged from their position. “It took a lot of courage for Sen. William E. Jenner and State Chairman Cale Holder to stand up and say no to Gene Pulliam, when he was beating them over the head with his newsPapen,” Mr. Jacobs said.

Hoosier Forum

“l do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

Mob Rule in GOP?"

MR. EDITOR: I Like Ike, tod. But I don’t like the cheer-and-jeer-of-the-mob method by which he

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_was nominated. That is the same surrender

to frustration and loss of faith in party by which the Democratic Party was vanquished in 1920 and mob rule without the restraint of party responsibility and party wisdom degenerated into FDR dictatorship. Has the the Republican Party too given up the job of bringing the

‘mob to the party and taken the easy way of

giving the party to the mob? Mr. Eisenhower tells us no one can quote him on principles and policy—that he doesn't yet know himself. This along with his stubborn refusal to pledge loyalty to the platform which the wisdom of Republicans have evolved, gives us little more from Ike than the 1932 slogan of FDR: “We don’t know where we are going, but we're on our way.” Is this the occasion for the cheers and jeers? Those hysterical cheering and jeering young faces demonstrating at the convention and on the streets with the ill-subdued slogan: “The people want Ike, but the politicians don’t,” remind me too much of the cheers and jeers with which party rule under law in other lands was mobbed out and mob-approved dictatorship was ushered in. Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini. The Republicans have nominated a man instead of a platform. The man, Mr. Eisenhower, has said he would use the brain and wisdom of the party in drawing up a program. But FDR promised that too while he was calling in the Communists from Hatvard. No man in history has ever accepted such responsibility, free from the anchor of party platform and party loyalty to restrain him, and been able to remain deaf to the cries of the mob crying for the quick and easy methods of dictatorship.

The television of the teen-age girl with a Taft button and tears in her eyes that she could not explain may be the prophetic symbol of the 1952 Republican convention. —J. E. D.

ECONOMICS . . . By Bruce Biossat

Military Budget Cut Will Soon Face Test

WASHINGTON, July 16— Toilers in the Harriman-for-President vineyard are working against time to dispel the same deadly “he’'s-a-good-man-but - he - can't - win” fog that

‘helped smother Sen. Robert A,

Taft's bid for the GOP nomination. Averill Harriman has several political liabilities. He's a chrome millionaire (usual guess is $40 million). He has a reputation as a wintery, aloof sort. And he has a Wall Street background as strong as the leeward bouquet of a billy goat. But the handicap the Harri-man-for-President people are working hardest to overcome is the charge that he just hasn't got enough political sex appeal to climb into the ring with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. o » n HIS WORKERS have sent to Chicago scores of tape recordings of some of Mr. Harriman's speeches. What they want the king-makers and delegates to hear is not the words—for their man’s views are well known-—but the reaction of the audiences. In Denver and Omaha, Honest Ave killed 'em and they say they have the tapes to prove fit, When Mr. Harriman announced he was available and wanted the job, the reaction among the political soothsayers here ranged from stark disbelief to the pat appraisal he was just acting as a “holding company” for New York's 07 convention votes until President Truman made up his mind

who was to get the nomina-.

tion. Since then, however, Gov. Adlai Stevenson - apparently

has taken himself out of the

race and the field of acceptable candidates has dwindled almost to the vanishing point. More and more speculation has been. aimed at Mr. Harriman, who has reacted like a tomcat hearing a fish head thump into the street. If, runs the speculation, the Harriman partisans could just

- convince people he's a good

man who can win, their boy might get the nod from the White House. » - » IN THE EVENT Mr, Harriman does get the Democratic nomination, he'll unquestionably be the only eight-goal polo player ever to take the stump in a preside tial campaign. An eight-goal mar is a good polo player, roughly comparable to a major league ball player who consistently hits 330. He'll also be the most diffident man ever to hit the sawdust trail, being shy almost to an unbelievable point. Although he is effective and persuasive in small groups, until

recently he was the unco t-

ed champion worst orator in Washington. At 60, Mr. Harriman is tall, lean and handsome. He's a hard worker and a lot of his success as a doer and trouble shooter for FDR and President Truman stems from his quiet dinners and cocktail parties

“for key people at his rented mansion on swank Foxhall

Road. He's been known _to quietly doze off at other peoples’ parties when the talk gets too far away from global doncerns. In the last 12 years, Mr. Harriman has operated ' history’s greatest give-away program, disposing of between

§25 and 30 billion In U, 8.

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“What if you did make a grand slam? You bid wrong, played it wrong and | can prove you didn't have a grand slam hand!"

goods and money to foreign nations. He is inclined to get rankled when people call LendLease and its successors giveaways, however. He thinks of them as devices for buying U, 8. security. He is now Mutual Security Administrator s LJ 5 POLITICALLY he is a fireeating Fair Dealer and, in fact, is the only candidate who has gone 100 per cent down the line for the President's program. Fes held top jobs in Wash-

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.most prized paintings,

ington since the NRA days. He has been Commerce Secretary, ambassador to London and Moscow (he knows Stalin better than any other American) and assistant to the President, a job created especially for him "By Mes Truman. - He collects modern art of the French school. One of his . however, is a Churchill painting ou a Ralf, a jug of rum. The other allegedly went inside Wington and W. Averell.

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THIS spring both Sen. Taft and Gen. Eisenhqwer declared their belief that sharp economies were possible in the nation's defense establishment.

We shall now have an oppor-’

tunity to test the wisdom of this viewpoint. For Congress has approved military appropriations for the new fiscal year which are roughly $5 billion less than the $51.4 billion requested by President Truman. That is a pretty fair-sized cut in any year. . The men in the Pentagon naturally are displeased at this outcome. But their temper is not the measure by which we must go in judging the effect of this reduction in expenditures, If the Pentagon adjusts to the slash without too much anguish and without serious harm to our defensive picture, then we will know the cut was substantially justified and there is indeed room for severe economies in the military

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IF, on the other hand, the $5 billion reduction necessitates a dangerous weakening of the American defenses in the ensuing months, if the so-

called stretchout of our preparations becomes an actual thinning out, then we will un-

..-derstind the budget trimming

was a foolish move. , In the nature of military budgets, one can't easily tell where savings may safely be

made and where they may

not. So it is perhaps unfair to

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out badly the blame must fall on a “reckless” Congress. What will a important to watch is this: If the damage done by the cut is heavy, the Pentagon unquestionably will request supplemental funds to make up the deficiency. The attitude of Congress on that request will be an accurate measure of the sense of responsibility the law-makers

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have for the nation’s real se-

curity, The public should keep a sharp -eye out for possible deficlency appropriation requests for another reason. If they are made and granted, that will mean Congress was wrong, It will also mean that in the end Congress did not save the country $5 billion on defense, or perhaps 2oyining at all.

You HEAR % lot about the old Army game, but you don't hear nearly enough about the old congressional game, That game is to trumpet loudly budget savings made in the spring, and then quietly restore the cuts later on through deficiency appropriations to which.the public customarily pays little attention. It is a politician's way of taking credit for notable say-

Ings without, in" the end, actu-

ally producing those savings. Since $5 billion 1s quite a bit of money, ‘the new defense budget reduction provides a 800d test this year of congressional motives and sense. We all ought to in the

- months ahead whether Con-

gress was playing the old phony economy game, whether it was taking

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