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Sunday, Aug. 17, 1952

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CIO Indorses Itself

A THOUGH it went through the motions of objective consideration, the CIO executive board's indorsement of the Democratic ticket was a foregone conclusion, even before the board met. The CIO leadership is part and parcel of the Democratic Party, as reconstructed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its top officials regularly are delegates to party conventions and highly active in its upper councils. President Truman has been a consistent CIO partisan. CIO comments on the two party platforms are about as devoid of objectivity as the platforms themselves. The CIO leaders, of course, are mainly interested in the Democratic platform's pledge to repeal the Taft-Hartley Jaw, which includes some mild restraints on their power over members. Nevertheless, they made no comment on the fact that, while the platform calls for outright repeal, Adlai Stevenson talks only of amendments, so far unspecified. But an indorsement of the Democratic candidates by the Democratic politicians at the top of the CIO hardly comes under the heading of surprise.

Trade Booms

VWORLD trade reached an all-time high in 1951, despite the Iron Curtain and the fact that some nations still are not producing as much as they did before World War II. The 1951 figure of $76 billion is three times as high as that for 1937, the best pre-war year. This does not mean world trade is as great as it should be, because a large part of the 1951 trade was in defense materials and can hardly be regarded as normal. Also, higher prices reduce the significance of the 37 per cent increase in dollar volume over 1950. Nevertheless world trade is growing, and the importance of it is being appreciated more by more Americans.

» » ~ ” ld n THE HOPE OF the United States now is to bring about a further increase in world trade, One good way to do-that is to buy more foreign goods. Every dollar spent for foreign goods soon returns here in payment for American goods, and in the process stimulates more trade abroad. Despite the arguments of the “protectionist” bloc here and in some other countries, international trade really means more prosperity for every country, just as more business in any city eventually benefits everyone who lives in that city. American policy already has made a major contribution to stimulating world trade through the reciprocal trade laws and efforts to lower tariff barriers everywhere. This has borne fruit, and our own self-interest calls for continued expansion of that policy.

The ‘Talkathon’ DEVICE NEW to politics is credited with having brought initial success to Francis Cherry, a little known country jurist, who defeated Gov. Sid McMath's bid for a third term in the Democratic primary in Arkansas. It is known as the “talkathon,” a trademarked, audience participation program, in which a candidate sits before a microphone and answers questions from radio listeners. Judge Cherry averaged 10 hours a day at the microphones answering questions in this manner, it is said. The idea has been picked up in Wisconsin, where Leonard F. Schmitt opened his Republican primary campaign against Sen. Joseph McCarthy with a 25-hour nonstop performance. Since we appear to be stuck with this new device, we may as well try to make the best of it. For one thing it seems to offer a ready solution to the problem of whether President Truman or Gov. Stevenson should be the main Democratic ball-carrier in the current campaign. Using the talkathon technique the two could sit down together before a gaike and let the public address its questions to the one it ‘wished to answer. Not all candidates, of course, would be willimg to rest their cases with a system based upon audience preferences. Moreover, a candidate must have great confidence in his air-appeal to open a 75-day campaign with a 25-hour non-stop performance, as Wisconsin's Mr. Schmitt has done. If he tries to maintain that pace, he will exhaust his audience appeal long before his voice breaks down.

Hidden Taxes

THE average man thinks that only about $1.95 in taxes is included in the price of a bottle of liquor, a recent poll discovered. But actually the combined federal and state taxes in many places total about $3.50. This hardly is curprising. The “pay-as-you-go’' plan has made it so easy for the government to collect the average worker's income taxes that he often doesn't realize how much he pays. Taxes are taken out of his pay checks, and the taxpayer has grown to think of what is left—his ‘take home pay'—as his in-

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THE government will not likely abandon that convenient system. But businessmen surely can do more to vemind the customer of the taxes that are represented in lhe price of an article. ; If every item-that is heavily taxed bore a price tag showing the customer just how much the taxes are, it would do a great deal to inform the public of the enormous and growing cost of government. The liquor industry, which has particularly felt"this burden, could do itself and the country a service by starting such a practice.

Good Gracious

IT NOW IS against the law to swear in Russia, yet read

ers of' the Literary Gazette in Moscow complain that are still swearing all over the place. * How else do they expecta man to describe those blood-

thirsty, imperialistic Wall St. warmongers who are ob-

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NO DOLDRUMS HERE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Medical Mixups and Mad Rush For TV Sets Make the Headlines

WASHINGTON — August in the newspaper business is the most wonderful time of the year. The bigwigs with the solemn pronouncements ~ that have got to be printed mostly

are at the seashore saying nothing. The politicians gre ‘getting

ready for large doings next month, The (Congressmen are away on junkets in far places and the result is that the really interesting stories, that ordinarily would be crowded off the news wires, now find their way into print. The one 1 enjoyed most this week concerned the young man and the young woman who ar-

rived simultaneously at an Oklahoma City hospital for physical examinations. The

young lady went inside the physician’s office first. Then the nurse asked the young man if he wouldn't like to watch the examination. He said he would. He did. The doctor thought he was the lady's husband. She thought he was an interne. The following day the Doc was indignant. He denied that any such thing had happened

in his hospital. Maybe not, but I still prefer to believe that it did. Another medical tale has

sent a number of my cohorts to Front Royal, Va. to cover the trial of a physician being sued by a bitter husband, who claimed that an unauthorized

operation was performed to sterilize his wife. Shortly before the trial started, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Where this leaves the lawsuit, the

doctor, and the husband is a fine thing about which to speculate on a summer evening.

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ANOTHER tale that pleases me ‘somehow is the mad rush of folKs in Denver to buy television sets in time for the opening of their first TV station. In the last three weeks they grabbed 12,000 machines with the giant screens and from all over TV sets to supply the demand are arriving by the carlpad.

Real estate agencies, used-

car lots, jewelry stores, sheetmetal factories and barber shops in Denver all are selling TV sets, \Even one funeral parlor has taken on TV as a sideline. What has me wondering is what the Denverites are going to think when they turn on’ their new machines? The Augs.,

ust doldrums have hit the TV -

broadcasting business and the programs as of now feature streaky movies, lady wrestlers, cowboy yodelers and panels of alleged experts trying to crack wise in solving some peculiarly juvenile charades. ” ” ” ONE OF OUR more talkative Congressmen here charged that school children in Pittsburgh and Cleveland were paying 5 cents each for peeks at feelthy pictures. The school boards of these cities retorted

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MR. EDITOR:

Strange as it may seem to the “Times Read-

that he was tetched in the head. There was a contest between Chicago and Baltimore as to which was the most disagreeable city. I've always liked them both, myself, but what a Chicagoan can say about Baltimore, and vice versa, is hardly printable. I was interested finally to read in numerous dispatches about the king is dead, long live the King; meaning that public interest in President Truman has lagged in favor of hearing about Ad!ai Stevenson. Mr. T. still looks like a live one to me and I question whether it was significant that newspaper reporters strolled from his last press conference instead of ran to their phones, If you ask me, it was just too doggoned hot to sprint.

Hoosier Forum—It's lke for Me

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

TRADING WITH REDS . . . By Peter Edson

List of 200 Export Violators |

Is Top-Heavy With U. S. Firms

WASHINGTON—For illegally trying to ship strategic materials behind the Iron Curtain, nearly 400 exporting firms have had their trading licenses suspended during the last four years. Some suspensions for minor violations have been for only a few months. Others are to run for the duration of the present emergency. In criminal®cases involving some of the worst offenders, prison sentences of up to a year and fines of up to $10,000 have been imposed. The current list of exporters on the suspended list maintained by the Office of International Trade in Department of Commerce contains nearly 200 firm names. Over threefourths of them are American exporters. Most have offices in New York, but a few operate out of New Orleans, S8an Francisco and Miami. Of the others, 12 are Swiss, eight British, five Dutch, four Belgian, four Italian, two each from Tangier and Trieste, one each in Lichtenstein, Union of South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong and Denmark. It is notable that all these are trans-shipping countries having so-called free ports and bonded warehouses. These are the principal leaks that have had to be plugged to keep materials from flowing to Soviet bloc countries through false bills of lading, dummy traders or forged custom papers. As far as the American exporting companies under suspension are concerned, one of the more amazing angles is that many of them are run

cans. At one time or another many of them have been subjected to Communist or Nazi persecution. :

Most Comply KNOWING first hand what the spread of totalitarianism means, they nevertheless cannot resist the temptation for profit by trading with what should be their worst enemy. The great majority of established American business firms, particularly the manufacturers,

bend over backward to comply with every reg--

ulation and to make sure that their products are not diverted to the Commies.

In the past year the United States has seized’

260 shipments valued at $415,000 because they were intended for ultimate delivery behind the Iron Curtain. In addition, export of another million dollar's worth of supplies was stopped while still in the paper-work stage. This is admittedly a small haul, considering that the total volume of U. S. exports in 1951 was about $15 billion. The amount of contraband intended for shipment behind the Iron Curtain and actually caught is approximately 1/100th of 1 per cent of this total legal trade. How much got through that wasn't caught, there is no way of knowing. But U. S. officials believe it isn’t much. To stop even the trickle that was caught cost a great deal more than the value of the goods themselves. Every U. S. customs official is on the lookout for such shipments. And it takes nearly 1000 government officials in Washington, in U. S. ports, in Europe and throughout the rest of the world to plan the policy and police the paper work to get the job done. It costs at

by: foreign businessmen and naturalized Amer-

least §5 million and maybe double.

WELCOMES AMERICAN MONEY . .. ByR. H. Shackford

Strong Anti-American Feeling Growing in England’s Socialists

LONDON — A strong antiAmerican sentiment shows up in foreign policy resolutions submitted by local Labor Party organizations for the annual party conference next month. For example: : American domination must be halted . . . we must stop tagging along behind a foreign policy ‘dictated by the United States . . . present-day United States is alien to our Socialist faith . . . more socialism and a lot less rearmament . . . no support for American efforts to rearm Germany and Japan, and smash the Chinese Red government. Resolutions containing such language come from the rank and file. They don't necessarily reflect the views of all Socialist leaders. But it must be assumed they're a fair sample of the rank-and-file Socialist sentiment. Time and again the resolutions accuse the United States of robbing Britain of her in-

dependence and of dictating

Britain's policies. Not once do they criticize the Soviets. Not once is there mention of Russia’s responsibility for the present state of the world. There is no sign that the rank and file is aware of Soviet enslavement of a great portion of the world, or a Soviet satellite. There is no criticism of Rus-

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er” (Aug. 12), there are fuite a few good Democrats who are going to vote for Ike this November. I know, for I'm one of them. You see, it's like this. I'm a Jeffersonian Democrat and I've seen, in the last 20 years, a party that was once a noble heritage transformed into nothing more than an overgrown fungus, sapping the American people of their initiative and enterprise. The Times Reader makes the statement: “People don't quit working for a firm with which they are doing well just because someone tells them they need a .change.” To that I say: “What political appointment do you hold?” Our standard of living may be higher than ever before, but so is the cost of living. So is the rate of taxes we now pay. So is the wartime death rate. What other administration has managed to plunge the United States into two wars in less than 10 years? No, my friend, it's Ike for me this November. —Mark Henry, City.

Worry Every Time It Rains MR. EDITOR:

It seems a shame to me that in this supposedly fine city the people have to worry

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1 pay my taxes, but I also have to pay for the damage the tiny sewers cause. I am tired of the water backing up into my bathroom with each rain. And I am sure other people are tired of the water in their basements, ruining their

heating systems, freezers, and other costly household equipment, (Can't something be done about this

deplorable condition? I was under the impression we had: a fine modern city. We pay enough taxes to have one, but all we get is dirty water in our homes and chuckholes in our streets. —M. W,, City.

FORGOTTEN

As I rest in my Morris chair . . . fond memories I recall . ., of years not too far past when f... was honored by them all ,.. I drift back to the golden days . . . when I was in my prime ...and I was making strides ahead . ., and on the upward climb . . . I hear the din of loud applause . . . still ringing in my ears . . . oh, ves indeed they really were .., the golden happy years . . . but now they're gone forever and . .. I am forgotten too . . . but they'll live in my memory . . . until I pass from view.

—By Ben Burroughs

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sia for splitting Germany and converting East Germany, into a Soviet sattellite. But there are many resolutions blaming the United States

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ment upon the world and stopping strategic East-West trade. The resolutions repeatedly

demand that American,

“shackles” be thrown off. But

.there is no mention that the

$11 billion in post-war American loans and grants saved the former British Socialist government from going down the drain, The resolutions restate that American aid is no solution and that it merely enslaves Britain to American capitalists. It would be naive and unfair to conclude that these resolutions represent British opinion generally. They don’t. But they undoubtedly represent the sentiment of a very large segment

. of Socialists.

Fortunately for BritishAmerican relations, most of

* them will never see the light

of day at the Sept. 29 party conference at Morecambe. However, they should be a danger signal to the Socialist Party leadership and to American officials in Britain, who must take the blame for the perverted view of American aid and American policies held by these people. What is alarming about the Socialist resolutions is the complete absence of any defending the United States. A few of the resolutions recognize the need to work with the United States but always are hedged with many “buts.” Take, for example, a resolutions by the Cardiff, Wales, Labor Party: The ‘Socialist Party must strive to work closely with the United States, but only on the

basis that Britain must be a free and equal partner. The dominant forces of the United States are primitively capitalist in character and too close an economic association with the United States may mean that the essential requirements in Socialist, democratic Britain of full employment and ample social security may be jeopardized. The. dominant ideology In present-day United States is alien “to our Socialist faith. The need of the United States for strategic bases abroad and raw materials to supply its vast productive machines must be used as bargaining weapons for equality with the United States, which our economic position may not merit.

“We must be prepared to welcome American capital which American captalism needs to. export inte our cel=onies and spheres of influence but only on the understanding that such capital is Publicly

. controlled.”

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ABOUT 2 million children are born in our country annually. If for no other reason than that, drive carefully. ” ” n SUNBURN days are here— to let us know how many more back-slappers there are than we thought. ” ” ” IN MANY prisons inmates are given the latest news throughout the day by radio. Maybe it makes them more satisfied to stay there.

TOMBS, NEON LIGHTS . . . By Oland D. Russell TownWaversBetween A Future and a Past

NIKKO, Japan—This is one town which hasn't made up its mind whether it wants to be occupied forever by the Americans or reach back into the past and slip on a comfortable kimono. Nikko is a beautiful town

lying on a shelf just above e

the fertile boondocks north of Tokyo—90 miles would fly it without radar. Focal point of Nikko's beauty, aside from the stately redwood trees, gently rounded

mountain tops and real cool waterfalls, is an impressive layout of red-lacquer tombs

and temples dedicated .to the Tokugawas? The Tokugawas were a closeknit family of dictators who ruled Japan for two centuries, handing it down from father to son, until 1868 when Emperor Meiji took over. - : a 8. 8 ” SOME people, including the for - goodness - sakes type of tourist, think the Tokugawas had their wonderful treasure house of art and sculpture built out of sheer loo of beauty. That is only partly right. The " Tokugawas wanted things done nice, it's true—but most of all they wanted to stay in power. So the head Tokugawa devised a continuing building project, putting a heavy squeeze on provincial war lords to contribute money and manpower. He put it on a competitive basis, and when it comes to sacrifice no Japanese is going to let another outdo him. Result was the warlords were always strapped. No time or- energy to make war or, more importantly, gang up on the Tokugawas. They stayed in power, and left an overwhelming memorial nestled in the evergreen forest of Nikko. There's always been that sort of practicality about the Japanese. During the past war With America they reasoned quite correctly that we wouldn't drop any bombs around Nikko in wanton destruction. : irl

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: biggest ammunition factories just upstream a bit from the has gone on for centuries. °

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Tokugawa heaven. We didn’t touch it. Good thing, too, in’ a way. For that same factory is going full blast now and we're in the market for its products. Nikko is famous too for its sacred red bridge over which nobody is” suppbsed to walk but the Emperor, or his proxy in annual state festivities. The legend is that ex-President U. 8. Grant was offered the immortal honor of walking across the bridge when he vis ited Nikko in 1879. Grant is supposed to have endeared himself forever to the Japanese by turning down the offer, very palitely. It's fenced off today, and looks pretty substantial, even a little sacred. It's floored with corrugated iron roofing, such a8 Middle-Western American “farmers use for” their implement sheds. Once a year they put a carpet down for the Imperial messenger to trod. ”n n ” THERE ARE other incone gruous things around the vari= ous holy places in Nikko. For instance, the Seth Thomas railway-depot clock which has been ticking away minutes since 1890 in one of the most sacrosanct spots of a princi. pal temple, And the “Off Limits” signs

in English which dot the shrine .

grounds. It's amazingly curious the way the Japanese, even the most austere and: nationalistic among them—have latched on to that typical U. 8S. Army term. One wonders just how the Japanese managed to. say it before the Occupation—or whether so many nooks and crannies were off limits in those days. Anyway, it's an idea the Japanese do not mean to give up. A third notable incongruity, in the fertile fields just below Nikko, -are the upright neonlight standards about three or four feet high in the center of rice paddies. They shed an eerie blue light, and are supe

+ -posed to keep out. mosquitoes,

This ultra-modern touch, in fields tended by hand in the same primitive fashion that

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