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Aid to Iran : A SHOW WINDOW for this country’s reviled and revered Point Four program is being hurriedly built in far-off Iran, between India and the Mediterranean, in the shadow of South Russia. : Things got off to a fairly auspicious start with the appointment of Ahmad Ghavam Es Sultaneh to succeed Mossadegh as premier. He is generally considered proWestern. Some ‘22 million American dollars will be spent this year in a hurry-up program of agricultural extension, health improvement and rural education in Iran. These are the
heart of Point Four's effort to improve living conditions in.
backward nations. - Critics of the program have called it the All-American give away. The United States will spend some $218 million on Point Four throughout the world this year. Its backers, among the chief of whom is Justice William O. Douglas of the United States Supreme Court, claim Point Four can be our winning maneuver in the battle for friendship of those uneasy nations caught between Russia and the
rest of the world. . » .
gs =» . FOR TWO reasons the current program in Iran should let us know quickly and definitely just how effective, or ineffective, Point Four can be. The first of these reasons is that Iran lies directly under the Russian guns, bordering the Soviet for some 700 miles east and west of the Caspian Sea. And Russia certainly has no lack of interest in Iran, if for no other reason, only because of the latter's rich oil fields, recently wrested by Iran trom British operation. Also, the Point Four aid can mean just about everything to the perilously shaky Iranian economy, which has just about hit bottom in recent months. The government budget is now being spent on a month-to-month basis, at the rate of about $15.5 million every 30 days. And every bit of that goes to pay the wages of the army, civil servants and police. There's no money to build anything or put into effect such needed programs as are contained in Point Four.
8 8 =» 8. 4 8 THE SECOND reason that the Iran experiment will have interest for this country is that we won't have to wait forever to see the results. Every item in the 12-month program is geared for accomplishment within that time, and that's no administrative accident. It's the calculated result of a high policy decision. : - The program’s planners are understood to have acted on the fear that Point Four might come to an end next year. So they're trying to do a job in Iran which will be complete as far as it goes this year, with no long-range projects hang. ing over which have little chance of getting finished. Whatever concrete display items that turn up, or fail to turn up, in this Point Four show window in the coming year will be of interest to all Americans. For once, it shouldn’t be too hard for the layman to figure out immedi-
ately the results of at least one part of our foreign policy program.
A King Departs KING FARQUK OF EGYPT once remarked that the time was approaching when there would be but five kings left in the world—the four kings in a deck of cards, and the king of England. (He overlooked the possibility that Britain might have a queen.) Now that the Egyptian monarch has joined the growing list of kings in discard, it must be said that he did more than his part to discredit the monarchial system. A man of stronger character in his position might have done much to rehabilitate that system in an area of the world much of which isn’t as yet prepared to assume full responsibilities of representative government. Farouk came to the throne at a time when the Middle East was in a state of ferment and transition. But a prisoner of his feudalistic environment, the young king-—now through at the age of 32—couldn’t seem to make up his eal Whether he was living in the medieval or the modern world. At times he displayed flashes of political genius. But his c3htributions to constitutional government were less notable than his exploits in the gambling casinos of the Mediterranean. : While his people struggled against poverty, disease and illiteracy, his personal extravagancies and ostentatious display of wealth were the talk of Europe. Events began to move toward a showdown when the Egyptian army all but collapsed during the war in Palestine because of the faulty equipment grafters had sold the Egyptian forces through Farouk's corrupt friends in the palace. The King made one or two half-hearted gestures at purging his government of such elements. But he failed to follow through, just as he did later when he took the reins firmly in his hands for a few days after the disastrous riots last January. Now Farouk is in exile and Egypt is under a military dictatorship. While the King abdicated in favor of his 7-month-old son, Crown Prince Ahmed Fuad, the latter's prospects of eventually becoming the ruler of Egypt seem highly problematical. Of more immediate concern is the real strength of Egypt's new “strong man,” Gen. Mohammed Naguib Bey, who has undertaken to establish a sound government. That is a large order in present-day Egypt.
Just Be Natural
WHEN VISITORS ARE COMING, self-appointed boosters are always warning us to be on our best behavior. We often have felt that these warnings were overdone, because they make us nervous. Evidently they were overdone in Helsinki, too, during the days just preceding the Olympic games. One courageous éditor finally heard more of them than he could endure, and exploded with some of the best advice of the year. “Just be yourselves,” he advised his Finnish readers. “If the foreigner finds us rude and rough, remind him that, had we been less so, there would probably be no Finland any mora co. fs ; J :
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‘NEW REGIME . .. By Erne Hill
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Take Ord UNITED NATIONS, July 28 — King Farouk, who abdicated Saturday, could have remained on the Egyptian throne only by courtesy of the country’s new strong man, Gen. Mohammed Naguib. Censored dispatches from Cairo, it is stated, tell only part of the story of the Egyptian coup d'etat Wednesday which sweat out she King's hand-picked government and returned: Aly Maher Pasha to the job of prime minister. It was the first time Farouk had to take orders from his own people. The 3ritish in 1941 ordered him to appoint Nahas Pasha as Prime Minister instead of Maher Pasha, the present choices of the army.
Under Virtual Arrest
CONFIDENTIAL» REPORTS received here state Farouk had been under virtual arrest since Naguib's army revolt swept aside the palace gd guard generals and brought in useful army ers.
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Reports state Naguib wanted the king to
stay on as traditional head of the government. The king, however, would not have been allowed much voice in government or much freedom of action, Aly Maher Pasha, who spent 31 months in all for suspected Axis sympathies d World ar II, was eased out of the Premiership last spring by the old army “Prussian clique” with influence at the palace. : ung army officers now in the saddle have restored him to power.
Wants Reforms
JUST HOW MUCH reform legislation can be expected remains to be seen. Aly Maher although eager to institute reform has no polit. feal following. However, the government military group already has started arrests of old generals who are char with m vast amounts of money selling faulty military equipment to their own army during the Palestine war.
GHOST . . . By Albert M. Colegrove Hiss Parole
WABHINGTON, July 28--One of the most ticklish jobs Democrats face in the election campaign is trying to keep a living ghost— Alger Hiss—from materializing right at the climax of the sales talk and scaring customers away. Here's the situation—and it’s political dynamite: For 16 months, the one-time high State Department official has been tucked away in relative obscurity at the Lewisburg, Pa, federal penitentiary, He's serving two concurrent five-year sentences for perjury in connection with Communist avtivities in the 1930's. ut— He's eligible for parole after 20 months. The 20 months will be up in November, same month as the national election. Furthermore The whole issue probably will bloom in Se tember or October, critical months of the ® tional eampaign. Mr. Hiss’ attorney, Chester T. Lane of New
York, said he “certainly will” press for parole the fall. "= .
And it’s known that another man, U. 8. Ate torney Myles Lane in New York City-is equally against any parole. To secure freedom, Hiss must first make apBliestion for a parole hearing at the penitenary.
Hearing Scheduled
THE HEARING will be held—as early as September-—by one member of the five-member U. 8. Board of Parole. All the board's members are appointed by the U. 8S. Attorney General. He'll talk to Hiss and inspect: the prisoner's “parole plan” (which outlines possibilities for useful occupation, names a parole “adviser” who would pledge to help him become rehabilitated, ete.). Opinions on a possible parole then would be sought of the trial judge, prosecutors (including Myles Lane) and others concerned with the case. After that, decision. It can overrule recommendations of the judge and prosecution. Mark these down as cinches: ONE~—Chester Lane will help: Hiss apply for parole soon. TWO-—Embarrassed Democrats who handle the case will hope to keep it as “routine” as possible. THREE-—The GOP vice presidential candidate, Sen. Richard Nixon of California—who as a member of the House un-American Activities Committee in 1948 was credited with being largely responsible for bringing Hiss to trial— certainly won't let the case be “routine.” He'll most likely call the nation’s attention to every step taken. >
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PATRICIAN . . . By Paul Ghali
France Wants More Data on Stevenson
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ON EATING CROW . . . By Frederick c Othman The Blooper Is a Political Bird That Makes With the Razzberry
WASHINGTON, July 28—As a fellow fresh from rubbing shoulders with the political gods in Chicago (and still suffering sore toes from where they carelessly stepped) I'm supposed to know who's going to be elected President.
Or so thinks everybody I've met since I stepped off that flying machine from the West. The temptation’s been strong to tell ’em, too. I know. Boy, do I know. One thing's held me back from revealing all about the chances of the Messrs. Republican and Democrat and that's a wad of teletype paper in my pocket. It's sadly crumpled and about to fall apart at the creases, but then I've been carrying it now for four years, come November, as a horrible reminder. ’ The time has come, I think, to tell you about one awful night. Or how a very smart fellow named Othman learned the hard way that he was a dope. . It was election day, 1048, at about 4 p.m: My chore was to pen an essay for the follow. ing day's paper and I chose as my subject a farewell to good, old Harry. He couldn't possibly win, :
Farewell to Truman
SO I wished him well in type and suggested about half way through that he'd worked hard, earned a good rest, and deserved the joy of drying the dishes for his beloved Bess the rest of his days. It was a fine, affectionate piece, if I do say so, and written as carefully as I could.
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ALWAYS trying to fall back on your friends eventually makes you miss some of them. ¢ © o WE ARE supposed to get along with less in the way of material things. The women’s bathing
‘sult industry already has reached a minimum in
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A PLACE on the lake is what folks rent 80 all their friends can drop in unexpectedly and enjoy fit. Le & @
AN OPTIMIST is most any fellow who is foolish enough to lend money to relatives. * * @ TOO MANY people go to the movies to forget every Tainge-eX opt Bot > talk out loud. ® SAVING for the rainy days is swell—iZ yuu still are enjoying the sunny ones. : * © IF THE AVERAGE grouch could see himself as others see him he wouldn't believe it! * o> o NORTHERNS don't envy racetrack fans down south who go crazy with the heats,
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It was my tribute to the outgoing President of the U. 8B. A. After listening to the radio awhile that night and learning that Tom Dewey was well ahead, I went to bed, feeling proud of my work, and slept the sleep of the righteous. Until 4 a. m. I did. New York calling. “Son,” said the man, “you pulled a blooper.”
He said I better write another in a hurry and get it on the wire, electing the right President. I don’t believe I ever felt so sick. My little world was crumbling under me and I stumbled to the closet, hauled out my portable, and banged out another story. I couldn't think
of anything interesting to say, or even how
to say it. My substitute was an almost incoherent item about how I was eating crow. I got it off and returned to bed, wishing I could die. For another hour I stayed there, staring at the ceiling and wondering whether there ever was born another as stupid as me. The phone rang again. The head photographer of the Washington Daily News.
‘On Way Out With a Crow’
“GET UP, Othman,” he said, “I'm on my way out there with a crow.” He was, too. He arrived 30 minutes later with two paper sacks. One contained a small, blue-looking bird, long dead. The other held its feathers which he said he'd scattered around my bride's immaculate kitchen for background effect. Having done that, he handed me the bird by one stiff, black claw and ordered, “cook it.” In a stupor I put it in a pot and turned on the fire. When it was boiling hard, my torturer said, “now eat it.” This I tried to do, automatically, while he snapped pictures of my tragedy's climax. The five years have passed. The editor even has learned to smile about my crow and me. I've also learned something. Never, never predict how an election’s going to go. To remind myself of this, I've kept handy my story about Harry, Bess, and the dish drying. I still get the shudders looking at it. But I have it open on , my desk now. Kindly ask me no more questions about my Chicago researches into which candidate will be elected. As the only man I know who actually and literally did eat crow, I'm having no more.
What Others Say—
THE KID (Bobby Shantz) is a wonder. If that's the kind of stuff he throws, I am glad we don’t have to face him anymore.—Leo Durocher, after All-Star game.
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Since the little man from New York - who twice took us to defeat had his say in the National Republican Convention, in getting Ike over, I just wonder if he, and the young voters have decided to rule us oldsters out of -the Republican party. Perhaps they can beat the Democrats with out our vote. I say they need us, as this gove ernment set-up will be no pushover in November, Maybe his Royal Highness would like very much to be the National Republican Committee man from Indiana, after what he has done the past few years to the Republican party of Indiana, And why does he want Cale Holder removed as our State Chairman? Just because Cale was a Taft man? I was a Taft man, and thousands of others were Taft men, as we “Old Guard” knew that Taft was a Republican and that’s more than we knew about Ike, . y = Certainly I will vote for Ike, I want harmony within the party for a victory in November, with den. Jenner for the Senate and George overnor. Craig or “Big Wheel” would like to dictate to the Republicans of Indiana in naming the men for the choice spots in our state government, and has the guts to say: * Out with Cale Holder,” forgetting that Cale brought home vo winners, and no losers, in the time he has been te Chairman. ii 1 ask how, we are going to have harmony within our ranks when one man wo Bas tue newspapers keeps banging away. at Cal Hi : , Yes, the pen is mightier than the swor d 2 it's time for Mr. Pulliam to stop banging .at Cale and have harmony in the GOP camp. —Geo. A. Tipps, Plainfield.
Traffic Hazards
MR. EDITOR: You are waging a campaign against traffic Sea ths. IV, my husband and I moved here from New Jersey. I do not know how their traffic death toll compares with that of Indiana, but from some of the cars I have seen that are allowed: on the streets here, and some that I know personally are being driven without the basic mechanism being in proper order, I do not wonder that the death toll is #80 high. Why doesn’t Indlana have a six months a. gpection of cars as so many other states do? Oh, I know it seems like a pain in the neck when yout car doesn't pass inspection and you have just seven days to get it fixed and get it inspected again, but I ¢annot help but feel it would help make people more safety conscious. When you take your ear for inspection in New Jersey, you are asked to step out of the car and the brakes are tested. The lights are checked, tail light, stop light, window glass, steering gear, ete. It takes about 10 minutes. If your car passes, a sticker is put on the windshield and that's for six months, If you have no inspection stamp when license time comes around, no license. I recommend they try it here in Indiana, It's a swell place to live, so let's make it even better. «Jane Spaulding, 1708 8. Tibbs, Ave., Oity,
Real Fundamentals
MR. EDITOR:
We in the Safety Council have been following, with a great deal of interest, the very excellent series of articles on traffic safety write ten by Mr. Joe Allison of your staff. , Batety stories have been written before, of course, and good ones, but Mr. Allison, it seems to us, has come closer than many others to the real fundamentals of the causes of traf fic accidents. When he names the leading violations that result in accidents, and shows what the police are doing to concentrate on those particular ones, that's good journalism, for it operates on the same theory of “selective” treatment that the police apply to the investigation of accidents and enforcement of traffic regulations. Congratulations to Mr. Allison for some good reporting. We feel sure that it will prove effective. Also, Donna Mikels deserves a lot of credit for the story of an alleged “fix” of a drunken driving case. You know our policy on these cases, and it was encouraging to us to see her get such a difficult story, and to see that you had the courage to publish it. .
«Dr. R. N. Harger, Safety Council.
THEY
THEY who confide in God the Father . . , they who will always speak His name . . . they are the chosen sons of heaven . .. and they will know, everlasting fame . . . they who will lead the evil doers . . . they who will act for God on high ., . they are the souls that share His promise . . . living forever to never die , . . they who are friends to those who need them - « « they who have hope and charity . . . they are the ones that I revere most . . . and most revered they shall always be . . . they who have faith when the night is darkest . , . leading humanity to light . . . they are God’s chosen sons of heaven . .. tempered and strengthened with His might.
—By Ben Burroughs.
AIRPLANES . . . By Max B. Cook
Safer Landings Due Through Air Research
PARIS, July 28 — French editors rushed requests to their correspondents in America today for all available details about Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Democratic Party presidential nominee, The French people know and like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican Party nominee for the American presidency. They don't know Gov. Stevenson. They prefer the Democratic Party platform to the Republican, however, and were impressed by Mr. Stevenson's speech to the Chicago convention on Monday. They found in it the same spiritual-realis-tic qualities they used to find in the wartime talks of Frank. lin D. Roosevelt. Today, in fact, a tendency to look upon the Democratic nominee as the spiritual suecessor of the man they always looked upon as a friend of France, 1s distinctly noticeable.
” » » . AS A MATTER OF FACT, sympathy, for the Democratic
cause has been increasing here °
In past weeks. The French fear possible return to American isolationism under Republican leadership. They consider the Democratic Party foreign policy far more constructive and less
dangerous to peace than that .
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They sense a warlike trend against Russia between the lines of the Republican program. And the French are as cautious as a bunch of diplomats when it comes to a fish-on-the table attitude toward the Soviets,
The Democratic Party's insistence on lowered duties on foreign imports pleases the French, too. European countries cannot balance their budgets without increased exports to the states. Moreover, the Democrats have made no reference to increased U, 8. aid to Nationalist China which would mean decreased aid to French rearmament.
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is for a Stevenson: victory next Novémber, All the average Frenchman knows about Stevenson can be summarized in four short sentences: ’ ; ONE-—He speaks French fluently. / TWO-—He fought local graft and corruption as Illinois governor and made himself popu-THREE-—He plays golf and
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WASHINGTON, July 28 — Possibility of more airport accidents such as those which took so many lives last winter will be reduced through an intensive flight-research program now under way. » Changes in present-day methods of airport weather reporting are expected to reduce greatly so-called “pilot error,” especially on landings in poor weather, The two-year program was initiated by the Air Navigation Development Board, a joint military-civil agency, in cooperation with the Sperry Gryroscope Co. MacArthur Field, Long Island, scene of the first ILS (Instrument Landing System) tests of several years ago, will be the site for at least 1000
test “approaches through low ceilings.
os n ® FLIGHTS WILL be made in DC-3 test plane carrying two pilots, two flight engineers and two technicians. Three experienced ground crew members will be at a control station near the approach end of the instrument runway during all flights, They will utilize two newly developed Weather Bureau ‘‘ceilometers” to measure ceiling and other equip
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brightn and ‘wind. Fhgh recordings will tell a complete history of each descent
through the overcast, One of the most important factors, it is said, will. be the synchronization of observae tions from the test aircraft and those on the ground. Differences in pilot observation with that of ground control has caused accidents in the past. » - . IT'S EXPLAINED that most weather reported to pilots in the past has been based on reports of height of cloud bases and horizontal 'visibilities in the general airport area. Slant. se visibility along the path of\the descending aircraft has \ been available. Reports therpfore, do not always reflecy true conditions which the Pllof will encounter in his desCent on instruments. Weather observed from the aircraft sometimes varies considerably from that reported fiom the ground. A pilot has 0 consider the aircraft he is flying, radio guiants systems available and the type of visual alds at the airport when making & decision to land. If he knows the approach zone visibility accurately, he can make an- early intelligent decision on whether to land or fly to another airport. Up to now, he has not always been able to coufit on his ground information being te, The eet tests tity :
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