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Give LAght and the People Will Find Ther Own Way

They Take It Away, Too SPEAKING to reporters after a talk with Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson, Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Ohio said he thought Western states were safe for the Democrats because in the last four years the federal government had spent more on reclamation projects than in the previous 40 years. “I don't think the West is going to forget,” he said. Mr. Kirwan is chairman of the House subcommittee which handled these appropriations. -He also is chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. The kinship between the two is obvious to Mr. Kirwan. What Mr. Kirwan said accurately reflects the belief of most Truman Fair Dealers: To spend is to make votes.

» oN CHARLES LUCEY, Scripps-Howard political writer, has summed up federal spending, in the light of its possible impact on November voting, in two articles. The government's nonmilitary payroll is at its highest peak since 1946—and growing. More nonpayroll Americans are getting federal benefits than ever before. The government's payroll is 214, times its size in the pre-war year of 1940. It is more than four times as big as it was in 1932. In terms of salaries, the payroll is costing nearly 10 times what it cost 20 years ago. Benefits from the federal Treasury have been spread out until about one in every eight persons gets some kind of a government check. This will be the theme of the Democratic electioneers this fall: “We gave it to you; vote for us.”

» on THE TRUMAN Fair Dealers never say: “We took it away from you; now wé're giving some back, keeping a large chunk for our own bureaucracy.” But that's how it is.

Another Killing:

GAIN, this time in Chicago, a young woman has been murdered by a mad killer who had been released from a mental hospital. Just as in the Columbia University incident of a few weeks ago, the murderer never had seen his victim before he killed her. The Veterans Administration hospital which had released the Chicago killer did so after his father agreed to provide “care and treatment.” The son promptly left home and three weeks later went berserk in Chicago, killing the girl, wounding another stranger and then committing suicide. When are the custodians of mental hospitals going to learn that doting relatives are not capable of caring for insane people?.This foolish and sentimental practice has been going on too long, and too many innocent people have been murdered and attacked because of it. It is up to Congress, and to the states as well, to see that these dangerous people are confined.

John Hvasta’s ‘Escape’

ZECH Communist officials have notified the State Department that John Hvasta, an American who has “been a prisoner of the Czechs since late 1948, has escaped. The Czechs say Mr. Hvasta escaped last January. Czech Communists being what they are, the report is open to suspicion. The State Department can neither confirm nor refute the report. But one of Mr. Hvasta’s prison mates, who did escape, says the American never talked of escape, only of his hope that the U. 8. government would rescue him—a rescue which never came. William N. Oatis, the American newspaperman jailed last year on fake charges, also probably had hopes. But he is still in a Czech prison.

Home-Made Music

N THE GOOD old days Americans made music at home, and while it may have lacked quality, it had vigor. Everyone sang, and at least one person in every family played an instrument. No town was too small to have its community band. Then came the radio, sound movies, the juke box and television. With the best professionals available to everyone at the twist of a dial, amateur music lost favor. The new little houses and apartments had no room for a piano, and neighbors had little tolerance for the screeching of the amateur violinist, the bleating of the saxophone in the hands of a novice, or the screams of the future opera singer. To practice on the bagpipe was to invite a visit from the police. Prophets of doom declared we were becoming a nation of listeners. But now there is a swing in the other direction. At their national convention in New York, music merchants report last year was good and this year is even better. The psychologists have not come up with an explanation, and the cynics will say people are being forced to make their own music because what they hear on the air is so bad. But the real answer is that other people are learning what the bathtub soloist always has known—that to the man who is making it, his own music is the best there is.

Northern Riches HE “URANIUM RUSH” now going on in Saskatchewan

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Service wrote in the days of the Yukon gold rush. But it is even more important than that earlier mass search for wealth in the Far North. We already have so much gold that even in Alaska few people bother to look for it today, the price being so low. But uranium is something else again—an essential ingredient in atomic production, and one so scarce that we import large quantites of it from as far away as the Belgian Congo. ~The 1000 or more 1952-style prospectors have geiger counters and good food, whereas the men who searched the Klondike in 1896 had to depend on sharp eyes and hardtack. ; But the glamour of adventure and riches is the same. 1d 80 are the good wishes of the folks back home. :

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Soviet Envoy Stirs Doubts

LONDON --British officials are receiving Andrei Gromyko, the new Soviet ambassador to the Court of 8t. James, with absolute correct ness. But they are suspicious of his mission. Mr. Gromyko 1s expected to try, quietly and methodically, to exploit British domestic disagreements over foreign policy, especially Ger. many, and drive a wedge between Britain and America.

No one knows the Kremlin's objective in sending probably its smartest and most experienced young diplomat to London. But no one doubts that Stalin has something up his sleeve. Mr. Gromyko, a completely Com-munist-trained, made-in-Moscow technician, appears too valuable a man to waste in a routine assignment,

Whatever Russia's objective, few are naive enough at this stage of the cold war to believe that Mr, Gromyko is another Maxim Litvinov— a between-wars Soviet diplomat who is dispatched West whenever Russia wants to cooperate,

‘On Best Behavior

MR. GROMYKO-—or “Grom” as he is famillarly known around the United Nations in New York where he is a “matinee idol”—went through his preliminary formalities on his best behavior. He ignored pamphlets thrown at him on his arrival a week ago. They read: “Gromyko go home"”-—the Western version of the Communist slogan scribbled on walls throughout Europe: “Americans go home.” Unperturbed, he read a statement appealing for British-Russian understanding, He rode in state in a horse-drawn carriage to present his credentials to the queen. Just like capitalist ambassadors Mr. Gromyko wore striped pants, a swallow-tailed morning coat and a tall silk hat. The preliminaries over, Mr. Gromyko 18 now ready for business, Every move will be watched with the greatest Interest and probably the wildest speculation. It his objective is.to exploit British-American difficulties, he'll find some fertile ground and some unwitting help from the badly split Soclalists, : But a lot of interest will center around how Mr. Gromyko conducts himself in informal situations. He is well known here and comparison with the past may give an initial clue. For example, there was never any question in the past that Mr. Gromyko was an unques-

- tioning advocate and pleader for Soviet policy

who could repeat for hour on end the same rigid line. But while in the United Nations, he slowly became approachable outside the conference chamber and even showed signs of humor. Occasionally, he even laughed at others’ jokes.

Changed After Visit to Moscow

A YEAR AGO in the Big Four meeting In Paris, where he was the Soviet deputy trying to agree on an agenda for the foreign ministers, Mr. Gromyko appeared changed after a year in Moscow. He#seemed more suspicious. He no longer smiled at others’ jokes or laughed off Western efforts to pull his leg about the rigidity of Soviet policy. . The following incident in the Palais Rose conference illustrates this: The famous British newspaper cartoonist, David Low, one day, after two weeks of fruitless discussion, pictured the four deputies—Mr., Gromyko, the United States’ Philip Jessup, France's Alexander Parodi and Britain's Ernest Davies—crawling on the floor around the conference table with a female figure representing

_the controversial agenda on the table.

“Here we go around the agenda” was the caption, with further reference to the 869th meeting of the deputies. Mr. Low sent the original to British deputy Davies, with the request for autographs by Mr. Gromyko "and the other deputies. When Mr. Davies showed it to Mr. Gromyko, the Russian studied it carefully with a stern expression on his face. Without a smile and without an autograph, Mr. Gromyko handed the cartoon back to Mr. Davies, remarking: “But, Mr. Davies this is inacurrate. only our 34th meeting.”

What Others Say—

I WOULD like to see a strengthening of understanding between the British people and the Soviet Union—Russian ambassador to Britain Andrei Gromyko. > > 0S I STILL think we're going to get an armistice out there (in Korea), particularly because I think the Communists want one.—Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Willlam Fechteler.

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WANT A JOB? ..". By Frederick C. Othman All Day the Tasters Sit and Sip Rum—And They Call That Work

RIO DE PIDERAS, Puerto Rico—Dr. Victor Rodriguez is my idea of a heartless employer. He's in charge of Puerto Rico's official rum tasters. What he does to them shouldn't happen to a prohibitionist.

These six hapless individuals he takes up daily to a breeze-cooled roof garden atop the University of Puerto Rico's pilot distillery and testing laboratories. There this sextet must sit around a handsome, circular bar of mahogany and test some of the most salubrious rums produced anywhere in the world.

These fluids they sprinkle in their palms. Then they rub their hands briskly and sniff their fingers for aroma. Next they take tentative sips and swish these mellow liquids between their teeth. :

Down It Goes

THERE IS NOT a cuspidor in the place. What, you may rightfully ask, do the poor testers do next? Dr. Rodriguez is a hard man. He makes 'em swallow the stuff.

“Testing rum is not only odor and taste,” he says. “Each tester must swallow at least onethird of each sample. This is to learn what it does to his throat on the way down and to his stomach after it gets there.” I told him frankly that this" was cruelty to testers. Dr. Rodriguez said, perhaps so, but he'd had not one single complaint from the rum tasters union. He said further. that, Since I seemed to be interested in this kind of work, he’d add me to his lengthy list of applicants. In 15 or 20 years, he promised, if I practiced carefully and consistently he might give me a chance to break in as a substitute taster.

If you get the idea that Dr. Rodriguez is something of a Latin spoofer, I believe you.are correct. Actually, he {3 one of the leading chemists in the rum trade.

Dr. Rodriguez said—and he was serious— that the local rums had improved immeasurably since those horrid, wartime days when the United States was flooded with noxious brews labeled Puerto Rico rum. Some of the rums now being made here he considers among the finest distilled anywhere. There is only one major trouble: U.S. excise taxes. They are so high that consumption has not kept up with production and Puerto Rico now has on hand 20 million gallons of aged rum it still has been unable to sell. This is the biggest stock of rum ever assembled in one-place and what to do with it is worrying many a Puerto Riqueno. So I headed across town for a chat with Dr. Manuel J. Machiran, manager of the Bacardi Corp. operations here. I found him in. the midst of buildIng what he said would be the most modern of rum distilleries.

Ages Four Years

EVEN as the experts were installing the copper distillation towers, Dr. Machiran’s trucks were hauling 45-gallon barrels of rum to the new plant for storage. That's his big worry: Space for the rum that has to age at least four years before it can be sold.

. . By Peter Edson

India and devoted 1200 pages to discuss-

standing gag around the Department .of Agriculture that is revived whenever anyone starts to write a story about bad drought conditions. It is: “I hope this piece gets printed before it rains.” This is simple recognition of the well-known unpredictability of the weather and the way it has of making liars out of prophets. The present dry spells in New England and from the Carolinas to Arkansas and Missouri, with a billion-dollar crop damage already reported were, however, more or less expected. As a matter of fact, they were overdue.

FOR U. SWEATHER, from the farmers’ ptandpoint, has been exceptionally good during the past 12 years, in the absence of bad drought. “There ‘were the extremely dry years of 1934-36, which created the dustbowl and the great Oakie migration to California. But with the exception of a mild dry spell in 1943, rainfall in the growing season has been abundant in most areas ever since. This long spell of good weather for the crops enabled the United States to grow its record quantities of food all dur‘ing the war. It also enabled the U.S. to supply relief for thedrought and famine-ridden

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China in the post-war years. This good growing weather in the U. 8. even had its political consequences. It was the good weather and the bumper crop of 1948—as much as the Department of Agriculture's grain storage policies — which swung the farm vote for Harry Truman that year.

"8 EJ o WHAT THE POLITICAL effects of a continued bad drought would be on this year’s election is something to conjure with. The way the present administration is rushing in aid to the stricken areas, it certainly’ won't have an adverse effect.

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ment disaster loans to farmers who can't get their local private baMk® to carry them over will probably bring Republican charges that the Democrats cashed in on the drought and tried to “buy” the farm vote. When it comes to predicting whether this new drought will be extended into another two or three-year cycle of dry weather like 1934-36, U. S. Weather Bureau officials throw

up their hands and say it can’t- _ be done.

A lot of time, money "and scientific research have béen devoted to trying to prove the existence of weather “cycles.”

But the Department of Agricul- three-year consecutive droughts bee ture year book for 1941, which gp intervals of from rou i na dry year gvery 11 years,

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ing all phases of “Climate and Man,” had to admit in the end, “All such short-term climatic changes are nothing more than matters of chance.” a n = ACCURATE weather observations go back only 100 years. That isn't enough time, from the scientists’ viewpoint, to establish any pattern for weather behavior and accurate long-range forecasting. U.S. weather, moving from west to east, is largely born in the Pacific Ocean. Accurate weather data from that area go back only about 10 years, covering the period of transPacific flying. Observations on

sometimes pressures its way down on the U.S. cover only the five years since Arctic flying and the Russian transpolar bombing scare have been taken seriously. = » 2 SINCE 1886, the U.S. has had about 18 dry years, according to records compiled by Ivan R. Tannehill, chief of synoptic reports and forecasting for the U.S. Weather Bureau. They have come in 1886, 1887, 1893-94-95, 1901, 1904, 1910, 1917, 1924-25, 1930-33-34-36-39, 1943 and now 1952.

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He was chary about telling the size of his sales, but he said if his firm had any ideas that rum was on the way out as a beverage, he doubted if it would spend $2.5 million for a new

plant. He then took me out behind the bonded warehouses, where the management has planted

11,000 lemon trees. These are about to start producing lemons and, according to Dr. Machirap, not a moment too soon. One of his best advertisements is the free sample for the visiting turista. This obviously takes a lot of lemons. .

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MR. EDITOR: As I watched today on the streets of this city the forgotten men of yesterday who either have no income at all or are living on a Social Security pension, which is too small to make ends meet, and read in the paper where Gen. MacArthur will receive his full Army pay in addition to his pay from Remington-Rand, I would like to know why a General is any better than these old people living on pensions.

I propose a bill be brought up in the next Congress stating that all people on a Social Security pension will be allowed to make over $150 a month without losing their pension. That way these old people could have a better living in their last remaining days.

It is ‘about time that Senators and Congressmen gave “some thought to these old people. Some day we all will be old and unable to care for ourselves.

I am still in my thirties and see the danger that exists today will also exist in my old age. Just imagine, today Americans 40 years of age are considered too old to work in a factory. Men over 35 are too old for fire and police jobs. What are we going to do with these men?

—Bud Kaesel, 1149 Fairfield Ave., City.

Progress Is Part of America MR. EDITOR:

I'm surprised and a little disappointed in The Times for publishing such drivel as was included in the letter of Aug. 5 by “A Good Democrat.” Democrat or Republican—progress is part of the American people. How can anyone be 80 wrapped up in his own little world as to think that if we had a Republican President that we would go back to working 70 hours a week. We have to give credit where credit is due and some progress has been made under the

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nine years. But the average is five and a half years, and not always in the same places. It's a pretty rough rule for a forecaster to have to go on. There are two principal theories on which attempts nave been made to make long-er-range predictions. One is the sunspot theory and the other is the tree-ring theory. 8 n = AN ENGLISHMAN named Harriot first observed sunspots in 1610. So there's a 300-year record on their occurrence The number of sunspots varies on an 1ll-year cycle average, though the actual range is seven to 15 years. Note that this 11-year average is just double

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every five and a half years. The theory was that the more sunspots, the more the heat, and. the dryer the weather. Actually, the exact opposite effect was found. So that theory has been generally discarded. A. E Douglass first developed the tree-ring theory by examining cross sections of old timbers in Arizona Indian pueblos and the giant sequoias of California. In wet years the tree-ring growth is wide. In dry years it's narrow. There's a | 3000-

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

CAMPAIGN ... . By Andrew Tully

Women Noisy In Politics

WASHINGTON-—TI'll tell you where you are not going to find me during this political campaign. You are not going to find me in the same room: with a dame. ii This is not because of any suddenly acquired dislike of the female sex, per se. It's just that Ive decided I'm not strong enough to stand up to them in an election year. I suppose it has been building up for some time, but it seems to me that never before in the history of this nation have women been so pugnacious about politics. The way they carry on, you'd think they'd discovered a plot to make mink coats illegal. Girlish voices that used to whisper sweet nothings in male ears now are being raised in loud screams, accompanied by the shaking of little fists. To the average dame, it is a personal affront that anyone should dare to run against her candidate. It’s been a long time, of course, since any man tried to tell his wife or girl friend how to vote, but this year the situation is perilous. Dames now not only form their own opinions, but also are determined to force them on every male within shouting distance, and if the male courteously dissents he is lucky to escape with only minor abrasions. The other night, at a dinner party, I got to talking with a nice female, a doll noted for her lady-like behavior at all times. Being a great conversationalist, I passed an innocent remark about Adlai Stevenson—something like, “well, he sure is governor of Illinois, ain't he?” ,

Martinis and Brass Knuckles WELL, THAT DOLL fell on me like a wildcat full of martinis. It seems she is for Ike Eisenhower and apparently has it on high authority that if the Democrats win they are going to trade the country to Iran for six dancing girls and a second-hand burnoose. Besides, Democrats eat babies, Alger Hiss is a bum, Yalta was a crime and have you, yuh bum, yuh, bought any butter lately? When she paused for breath and to don her brass knuckles, I remarked timidly that I thought the race was going to be very interesting. “Ha,” she sneered. “Listen to the man, You're going to vote for Stevenson, that's what you're going to do.” If was not a statement, it was an.accusation—kind of like confronting me with the charge that I had just sold some atomic bomb blueprints to Joe Stalin. Another dame I know is just as truculently pro-Stevenson. Only ‘when she launches into a campaign speech, she gets all emotional and bursts into tears. This is embarrassing if you happen to be sitting in a saloon with her because the bartender gives you black looks and other dames drop by the table and say things like, “What did he do to you, dearie?” The worst- type, though, is the doll who's done research. You get into a discussion with her and she keeps flooring you with snappers like, “oh, yeah, how about the way the bum voted on antimacassars for Armenia?” You have to admit you haven't the slightest idea and she walks off muttering that it’s no wonder the country’s in such lousy shape with men in it. Frankly, they've got me running.

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Democrats, but at the same time, look at the taxes we pay, the prices we pay, and the corruption in government. * © o TO EVEN SUGGEST that to put a Republican in the White House would automatically repeal all the laws that have helped the working people is not to give the average American citizen much credit. We are still a free country even though we have been under the domination of the Democrats these 20 years. It's time that we as citizens started thinking about the country as a whole and less about our own little job which might be cut out should someone with a little less free spending ability be elected as our next President. Now is the time to think about America. Now is the time for all of us to wonder what we can do to elect an honest man, not what will happen to us if an honest man is elected. —D. G. H,, City.

‘Standards Are Highest Ever’

MR, EDITOR: Well, well, the Republican Party is at it again with a new trick, poor souls. They call at every door telling folks all Democrats in the block -are voting for Ike and ask you to do the same. They can’t believe a good Democrat knows when he is well off. We ask them what they can give to take the place of our very good times. They say we need a change. But why? And a change to what? They can’t say crookedness, for that is only the pot calling the kettle black. People don’t quit working for a firm with which they are doing well just because someone tells them they need a change. No, friends, we don’t need a change to less. Our living standards are the highest ever. Let's keep them that way. Don’t be misled-by these poor souls. They do only what they are told to do. They don’t say why, only they want to get in the driver’s seat. —Times Reader, City.

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