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Industries Study Alcoholism AMERICANS as a nation are a pretty hard-drinking crew, and as such inevitably carry things too far sometimes. In fact, the problem of alcoholism, when recognized for the extensive national ill that it is, becomes disturbingly serious. There are few of us who, right in our own lives, have not been touched at some time by the effects of too much drinking. It can be a brother-in-law, a father, a cousin, a good friend. It can even be a sister or a mother. Tippling unfortunately isn’t confined to men. Happily, the extent and nature of the problem have been recognized by our top medical men and by the governmént. It’s pretty well understood now that alcoholism is a disease with mysterious and hidden roots, and it is being attacked as such. © g . One of the leaders in research on the subject is the Yale University Center of Alcohol Studies. Numerous other schools have similar programs.

2 o » ~ ON THE nonscientific side is Alcoholics Anonymous. In that nation-wide organization former alcoholics have done wonderful work in helping others to get back on the right track. j Drugs have been developed such as antabuse, which makes a person sick if he drinks alcohol. For some years business and industry have been aware that alcoholism is one of the greatest destroyers of personal efficiency. ; It has been estimated thab alcoholism among employees costs the nation’s industry $1 million a year. That includes absenteeism, accidents, errors, inefficiency and poor public relations. In New York City certain industries have gotten together to see what can be done about the matter. First they attended a conference sponsored by the new Consultation Clinic for Alcoholism at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center. : There, the industrial representatives heard explanations from experts of the whole problem facing industry. Then they were invited to send to the clinic for treatment those of their employees who needed it.

- . ” ” THE IDEA IS that foremen be charged with the responsibility of reporting to their company’s medical officials the names of those workers in need of help. After a preliminary screening, the medical officials would be empowered to send the men to the new Consultation Clinic for axtended treatment. ] The clinic treatment might consist of individual sessions with a psychiatrist, meetings with other groups of alcoholics, use of remedial drugs, or perhaps joining Alcoholics Anonymous. Its proponents realize that the program, as-nitially applied within industries, is going to be in for some criticism and considerable joke-making. But if the results are significantly good in reclaiming the careers and even the lives of chronic drinkers, they believe the obstacles to the program can be overcome. The action by the New York industries is a positive, intelligent approach to a serious problem. And best of all, sucoess in their program can mean its extension to other parts of the country.

Cost of the Steel Strike THE STEEL STRIKE hurt the country—and hurt badly. If it had not ended when it did, it would have been much worse, of course. 5 Take the canning industry. The steel mills went back to work barely in time to prevent a catastrophe in this industry. As it is, the National Production Authority has had 0 funnel every available bit of tinplate to container makars to catch up with the major fruit and vegetable harvest. Without cans, much of the crop simply would spoil. This is a good example of the widespread danger of a shutdown in any .of our basic industries. It is easy to understand how a steel strike immediately cripples defense production and slows down such depend>nt industries as autos and appliances. But more remote ndustries are just as hard hit in the long run. Because of the timeliness of the steel strike’s end and quick and sensible action by the NPA, a large segment of the perishable foods industry will be saved from ruin. But elsewhere the damage done by the strike will go on for many months. A The steelworkers themselves will have to work 600 lays of eight hours each before the 16-cents-an-hour increase they were granted will equal their average loss of wages while the strike was on. Steel mills face the prospect of another shutdown in the spring because cre shipments were disrupted during the 55-day strike. Expansion programs in the vital aluminum, electric power, petroleum and transportation industries nave been slowed down. Manufacturing dependent on steel and the countless stores and little shops patronized mainly by steelworkers, or others affected by the strike, will be months getting back to' normal. Many products will be short and many thousands of workers are yet to face unemployment as a result of the strike. Small wonder, then, that Henry H. Fowler, NPA chief, called it “the worst production stoppage in American history.”

Square Peg AJ. GEN. ROBERT W. GROW, whose extremely indiscreet diary was stolen by Russian agents, has been reprimanded and suspended for six months. The tragedy of this case is not merely the rank fool ishness of an officer who had a satisfactory field record. It also is the fact that a man with no sense of discretion should have been made our military attache at Moscow. The position of attache calls for officers with special jualifications, not for just anyone who happens to be waitng around for a new assignment. We have enough civilian misfits in the State Depart- . ment, We don't need any from the Pentagon. : E :

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NO MILEAGE ... . By Charles Egger Another Convention Comes to Order

Clean-Up Drive In Slow Gear

WASHINGTON, July 31—1It looks as if the cold winds of post-election November will be “lowing before Attorney General James P. McGranery gets his government clean-up drive in high gear. Mr. McGranery has cranked up his scout car several times but—on the record at least—there isn't much mileage to show for his efforts, The politically cynical are predicting that not much will be done before the November balloting. They're guessing that some outsiders might be run over. But they don’t look for any big names in government to be struck during the national campaign. > o> o : SINCE MR. McGRANERY took office two months ago: . ONE—Four top Justice Department officials have resigned, although their departures were not necessarily connected with government corruption. TWO—Two U. 8. attorneys have been removed. ¢ THREE—A lot of paper work has been done, This could result in a real attempt to clean up, or it could turn out to be window-dressing.. Its announced purpose is to find out whether*prosecution of some cases by the Justice Department was held up or dropped because of improper influence. The four Justice Department officials who have quit since Mr. McGranery took over are Solicitor General Philip Perlman, whose resignaton is effective Aug. 15; H. Graham Morison, who headed the Anti-Trust Division; Harold I Baynton, who was in charge of* the Alien Property Office, and William A. Underhill, who was Chief of the Lands Division. Congressional investigators have touched on the Anti-Trust Division and are looking into the Alien Property Office, which handles enemy interests seized by the government. *

THE TWO district attorneys removed by President Truman at Mr. McGranery's request are Lester Luther of Kansas and Robert Grant of the Southern District of Illinois. Luther’s case involved charges of fee-splitting with a former Justice Department official in connection with a federal tax matter, In Grant's case, Mr. McGranery said “irregularities” were indicated. But what Mr. McGranery apparently believes to be the key to the clean-up drive is still in the paper-work stage. On June 10, he called all U. 8, District Attorneys to Washington and asked them (1) to let him know how much time they devoted to outside legal practice, and (2) to report to him on the status of all cases brought under their jurisdiction since Jan. 1, 1947. : From the detailed reports, Mr. McGranery believes he can find out whether improper influence had delayed or blocked prosecutions. He has named Charles B. Murray, an assistant U. 8. Attorney for the District of Columbia, to collect and evaluate the reports. Mr. Murray successfully prosecuted John Maragon, the former Kansas City bootblack and White Houte favorite, for lying to a Senate committee during the Five-Percenter investigation, When the reports have been evaluated and studied, Mr. McGranery says, “We will know where we stand and what we have to do.” ee + & MR. MURRAY is lining up a &taff to help him. Nearly all of the U. 8. Attorneys have sent in their reports, he said. Now they must be studied to ‘determine what action is to be taken. 4 “That will take some weeks at the very earliest,” Mr. Murray said. The Justice Department has been working on several relatively minor corruption prosecutions during the current cleanup drive. In one such case this week, Henry Bennett, a former Commerce Department employee, pleaded guilty ‘to accepting bribes. He was an export licensing officer and was charged with accepting about $2500 for favoring two New York firms. The case is before a federal court in Alexandria, Va. 5 Mr. McGranery won't try to dig into the financial status of government employees. He got his Cabinet job after former Attorney General J. Howard McGrath fired Newbold Morris as corruption investigator during a controversy over a financial questionnaire Mr. Morris had prepared for federal employees. A few hours later President Truman dismissed Mr. McGrath.

‘NEW HOPE

In the quiet of an afternoon ... far from the busy throng .,. I gather all my hopes again « + « and hear a bluebird’s song ...’neath a tree that God created . .. I can get a better view + + « of the problems that confront me . . . and the things that I must do . . . with the gentle breeze to fan me . . . and the fragrance in the air . . . I can set my way of diving . . . I can chart a course while there . . . for the wonders that surround me . . . make me realize so well + + that the worthwhile things of living . .. are around me where I dwell. -——Ben Burroughs.

GERMANY . .. By R. H. Shackford

1000 in Single Day Flee Red ‘Paradise’

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IN A BALLROOM . . . By Frederick C. Othman

National GOP to ‘Shield’ Newsmen From Democrats

WASHINGTON, July 31—Looks to me like the Republicans have pulled a fast one on the Democrats; they're establishing national campaign headquarters one short block from the Press Club's air-conditioned bar. This new layout at the Washington Hotel is almost twice as close to the club as the White House, itself, and a reporter henceforth setting out for a piece of political news is likely to collide with a big-shot Republican before he even nears the office of a Democrat. We might as well be frank about it. If there's anything the deep thinkers in my business like, it's a handy story. My guess is that the Republicans, who previously had maintained their smoky rooms on the fringes of the city, now will get a better press than ever before. Purely on the basis of convenience.

Just Like Chicago

EVEN I, in my tired and weary condition from the Chicago struggles, took the threeminute stroll'to the kickoff of this most expedient of political lairs. There in the mural room, which is a ballroom with ladies and cupids painted on the walls, was that exuberant Republican, Arthur E, Summerfield, chairman of the national committee. There also were most of my cohorts on goldlegged chairs, plus an assortment of TV cameras, floodlights, and hangers-on. It looked like a Chicago ballroom for sure, except that nobody carried balloons, wore badges, or tried to lead a three-piece orchestra. Most of Mr. Summerfield's helpers at that had golden elephants in their lapels. The pink-cheeked Mr. Summerfield, in his gray suit, gray pompadour and big smile, said he’d rented the entire second floor of the place for the convenience of Gen. Ike and had options on a few more floors in case he needed em. So I sneaked upstairs for a look at the Republican Hq. It resembled any hotel at 11 a. m, Same dusty smell, too. The maids were hauling out bottles from those rooms where the night before had been a big one. Many

SIDE GLANCES

BERLIN, July 31—Communism in East Germany is so “wonderful” that approximately 1000 persons abandoned what little they had left

there Tuesday-—home and belongings—and fled to West Berlin. This was a new record for one day. The average of late is about 500 daily. West Berlin, with about 300,000 unemployed already, offers them no paradise, But the Russians, the Red Secret Police and the East German Communists are not there. This correspondent has been allowed to watch the screening of some of these refugees—a screening designed to determine whether they are honest political refugees who have fled because of personal danger. The Communists also send lots of spies who pose as refugees. » » » IF THEY ARE classified as bona fide refugees in danger in the East, they become West German citizens and receive unemployment relief. If they cannot prove they were endangered, they are urged to go back--but cannot be forced to. If they still elect to stay in the West they are provided only a bare subsistence. Listen to the stories of some of these people: Case A — Strong, healthy looking woman about 40, a farmer's wife with eight children. Husband arrested in 1948 by the Boviet police and accused of reading Western newspapers, He was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor. In 1950, the wife sold a cow and some potatoes to West Berlin. Zhe was sentenced to 18 months

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When -released this spring she couldn't fulfill her cattle quota for the Commu-

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ordered to report to the local farm authorities in Fast Germany. Afraid of the consequences, she packed up her eight children and fled to West Berlin. " o 5 CASE B—Young intellectual woman, well dressed, about 30. She was a school teacher in a small Thuringia village. For months, one of the village's fanatical Communists hung around her one-room school— “observing” finally she was summoned before the Commu nist school authorities and aecused of failing to keep her school's “friedenecke” -— the “peace cornér” for Stalin's picture and Communist propaganda slogans—in good order, The authorities suggested that she had some “Interesting” newspapers—meaning Western papers. (She had received some from friends.) Within a few days, a friend on the school staff warned her that a report was being prepared and that

she should “be careful.” She fled, Case C — Thirty - vear - old

mother from East Berlin with an 11-year-old boy. The father is serving 15 vears in prison for reading Western papers. (Officials say the “crime” of reading Western newspapers is the most frequent cited, although the Communists undoubtedly use it to get rid of what they consider unreliables.) This woman sought advice rather than asvium. The boy resents the Communist vouth movement and refuses to go to the meetings while his father is in jail. has insisted that for the sake

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a doorknob bore a do-not-disturb sign. Sleeping as usual was going on here; there might even have been a few Democrats behind those closed doors.

Boot to Democrats

MR. SUMMERFIELD said he meant he'd just signed the lease. He'll oust those Democrats, if

' any, the first of the week and throw their beds

out after ’em. Then he’ll haul in office furniture (the Robert A. Taft headquarters have some slightly used desks on sale at a bargain) and be in business Monday a. m. He introduced a trio of his new helpers, including a press agent who once was a newspaperman, himself, and announced that the

Republicans were off to a good start. In an-

other hotel ballroom 1000 miles west about a week ago 1 seem to remember hearing the same man say the same thing. But I guess we can't blame him. ~ From now on Mr. Summerfield’s every waking hour will be devoted to talking Republicanism. I expect he'll repeat himself some more before November,

Sounds Familiar

HE WENT on to say that Sen. Taft now was wholeheartedly in Gen. Ike's camp, that he was beset by a feeling of awe by his own responsibilities, and—I quote—that only by a Republican victory can Americans restore order to the chaos in Washington, Mr. Summerfield mentioned Adlai Stevenson, the gentleman who heads up the opposition, but he said he doubted if even the citizens of Illinois would go for him. They'll remember, said Mr. Summerfield, that Adlai was handpicked by President Truman and hence would be bound to carry on the Truman tradition. I got the idea, which I doubt Mr. Summerfield will deny, that nothing could be worse. If the Democrats will set up one of their fellows in a handy location, I'll be glad to listen to him, too.

By Galbraith

BLUNDERS . . . By Ludwell Denny

Little Gain

Seen in Egypt

WASHINGTON, July 31—Egypt is -going from bad to worse. The new dictator, Gen, Mohammed Naguib, is picking protectors of crooks to clean up corruption and terrorists to provide stability. At the same time he is pandering to anti. foreign’ fanaticism by warning against foreign interference which is not threafened, and by insisting that foreign governments recognize the baby puppet monarch of Egypt as King of the Sudan—without Sudanese consent, There is still a chance, however slight, that these dangerous acts reflect the political naivete of a professional soldier dealing with forces beyond his experience, rather than deliberate plan. If so, he may try to correct his initial blunders. But the evidence so far indicates that Na. guib knows what he is doing, and must take full responsibility for it.

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BY MAKING AN alliance with bosses of the Wafdist Party, he betrayed the avowed purposes of his military coup. It is true, as he charges, that there was corruption among the palace favorites and that he is able to dispose of them after deposing King Farouk.

| But the Wafdist Party, which was more powerful than the King until he suspended Parliament after the Cairo riots of last winter, was just as deep in theft and bribery as the palace—if not more so. Repeated efforts by honest members of the party to cleanse it from within were blocked by its bosses. These bosses are the “reformers” Gen. Naguib is now eme bracing. : They are the “neutralists” who flirt with Moscow and blackmail the Allies, They are the feudal overlords who have kept Egypt as one of the most backward nations in all the world. The contrast between their riches and the peasants’ poverty, illiteracy and disease is the measure of Egypt's mis-gov-ernment under the country’s biggest political party, the WAFD. These WAFD bosses have escaped publi retribution by the easy expedient of turning mass revolt away from themselves and against the foreigner. They made the British, and then the Americans, scapegoats for all the evils of Egypt. ® > &

FOR THIS PURPOSE they called in the Moslem brotherhood, a terrorist organization of religious fanatics riddled with racketeers, The WAFD bosses even connived at arming that ore ganization, enabling the outlaws to dominate the simple religious zealots. The result was the Cairo riots of last January. Dictator Naguib has now liberated many of imprisoned terrorist leaders. And he has aecepted support of the head of the Moslem brotherhood. Before Naguib’s coup a week ago there wers four powers in Egypt, all in shifting alliance and rival®y, each serving its own interests rather than the people. Of the four—Palace, Army, WAFD and Moslem brotherhood—the Palace was the weakest and the Army the cleanest. Naguib, in the name of the Army, got rid of the Palace. : If the dictator is now trying to cleanse the WAFD and control the Moslem brotherhood he is going about it in a very strange way.

; ior Hoosier Forum | . "1 do not agree with a word that you i say, but | will defend to the death your i right to say it." * wainy 3 There Are Reasons MR. EDITOR:

I note in the Sunday Times an article by Robert L. Perkins on the book page, the heading of the -article being: “Britain's Bevan Hates U. 8. That Was.” One can easily understand that. What with the American Revolution, the War of 1812, both of which England lost, not to mention the aid England gave the Confederacy in its losing cause against the North during the Civil War, There may be other differences sticking in Mr. Bevan’s “craw,” but the above three instances will never be forgotten.

—George F. Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave., City.

. ‘ ] Both Guilty MR. EDITOR: In your articles against automobile accidents, it should be remembered fhat in most cases either driver could have prevented the accident, This puts the moral responsibility on both, even though legally only one is responsible.

~Warren L. Lawton, Plainfield.

NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Max B. Cook Adequate Airpower Air Force Assn. Aim

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of the entire family, he must at least put up a front. But he refuses. The authorities in West Berlin are trying to persuade the boy to follow his mother's advice. The mother ‘cannot be accepted in West Germany as a legal political refugee because there is no direct threat to her now, » ” ~ THIS IS JUST a sample. It goes on day and night. This is the human side of the greater tragedy—the Com-

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East Germany lock, stock and barrel. It makes nonsense of Russia's alleged desire for reunification of Germany. The discouraging thing is that the West has no clearsighted way of coping with these problems. For example, the East Berlin boy who resists’ the trination — and few resist — can only be urged to return and carry on. Unless that boy is a rare exception, it is only a matter of time before the indoctrination will work.

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WASHINGTON, July 31-—= Where the nation stands on airpower and national defense preparedness is to he thoroughly aired by government, industry and labor on Airpower Preparedness Day in Detroit on Aug. 29. Planned as a climax to the Air Force Association's sixth annual convention, the symposiums also will cover the three military services. Each has been asked to regort on the status and needs of the defense program. CIO and AFL leaders will talk on manpower. Congress will be given a chance; to present its difficulties and responsibilities in allocation and supervision of funds. Industry leaders will report on airframes, engines and electronics. " ” * THE AIR FORCE ASSN. is an independent, non-military organization of former Air Force members and also persons currently enrolled in the Air National Guard. One of the main objectives of AFA is to assist in obtaining and maintaining adequate alrpower for national security and world peace. The Detroit meeting is expected to examine the present controversy over the “why” of slowed-down aircraft production. Its findings will he used In a nationwide campaign to

educate the public on national :

defense weaknesses and to urge action to remedy the sit-

Whatever gains have bes made in airpower buildup ris ing the past few months.”

» » . THE FIFTH Annual Intere national Aviation Exposition will be staged at Detroit. Weve atrport on Aug. 30, 31 and Sept, 1 during the : meeting, § She AN Pylon racing, speed dash and aerobatics are oh in a $200,000 show. It also will include ground exhibits of tha atest civil and mil craft, ary. ally Government and milita. of« ficials will be guests a Force and Navy air participation has been promised. It will

be the only air show of the year,

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