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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Ouran Way

Shocking Stupidity SOME of our English friends are finding it difficult: to conceal their alarm over American adventures in international trade, it is noted from an item in the London Times. When the stockholders of the Sungei Batu (Malaya) rubber estates held their annual meeting in London, the company chairman was_in a somber mood. Certain "extraneous influences,” he reported, had dealt Malaya “another grievous blow.” The price of rubber, always Malaya's “Achilles heel,” he said, had broken sharply in April under pressure from “the American policy of subsidizing synthetic to the detriment of natural rubber. “It is indeed a tragic thought,” the company chairman lamented, “that the failure of the United States to comprehend the situation could conceivably bring about that very collapse of Malaya's economic structure which the Communists after four years of desperate effort have failed to achieve.” In that case, and if Malaya or Indo-China were lost, sacrifices of life and money in Korea would have been in vain.” . And what does Malaya want?" Not “inflated prices,” it geems, but only “stability at a level which will enable a gorely tried industry to pay reasonable wages to its labor and to carry out those replanting schemes which insure efficiency.” That doesn't seem unrea-

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forces alone can sonahle. Then the stockholders were informed that because of these untoward pressures introduced by those thoughtless Americans they would have to be content with a 30 per cent dividend. Whereupon, we presume, one and all repaired to their respective clubs for a good cry.

Our Times ARK SULLIVAN, the noted political columnist who died this week, will be best and longest known for his cix-volume historical work, “Our Times,” which covers the first quarter of 20th Century America. Mr. Sullivan was a most exceptional figure in American journalism,” because his active span extended more than 60 years—from the gay Nineties t® the troublesome Fifties So His writings ranged alk the way ffom his early maga zine crusade against the patent. medicine evil to a policy of isolationism, after World War I, to his more recent advocacy of mobilization against the danger of engulfment by communism. Probably more than any other widely read commentator, the evolution of his philosophy reflected his times. When the first volume of his history was published, he wrote of it: “The purpose of this narrative is to follow an average American through this quarter century of his country’s history, to recreate the flow of the days as he saw them, to picture events in terms of their influence on him, his daily life and his destiny.” He succeeded brilliantly in his purpose. “Our Times” will remain for generations a prime reference for historians and a work of highly informative and entertaining reading for all Americans, No writer could ask for a more appropriate. monument. :

No High Tariffs

HE decision to keep our tariff on Swiss watches at the present moderate level—82.50 to $3 per movement— is a significant one for world trade. The American watchmakers who asked that thektariff be hiked are doing rather well, as a matter of fact; they are making and selling twice ag many jeweled watches as they were before the war. Of course they would like to have all the business, and they complain that sales of Swiss watches and movements have increased at a greater rate than their own sales. That is true, but -as President Truman pointed out in rejecting the proposal for the tariff increase, it is not a sensible measuring-stick for a tariff policy. We must enable our foreign friends to sell more goods to us, because when they do that they earn dollars which they promptly spend for American products. The Swiss, for example, are buying twice as much from us as we buy from them, and as soon as we reduced our purchases of their watches they would buy less American goods of other kinds. Mr. Truman's decision was correct, economically. run.

both normally and High tariffs really benefit no one in the long

Thanks, Doctor THE CHILD of today has a far better chance of living to a reasonably old age than his grandfather did, and much more likelihood of a healthy life as well. The United States death rate has been cut almost in half since 1900, the Brookings Institute reports. Infant mortality has been reduced amazingly—it was only 31 per 1000 in 1949, compared to 162 in 1900. We can thank medical science for these extra years of life. The progress, as the report points out, is due to improved treatment of disease on the one hand, and prevention of disease on the other. Some diseases which used to kill thousands have virtually been wiped out. Medical research has learned a great deal about the others, and is learning more every day. The medical profession has been kicked around considerably in recent years by politicians who think it has too much freedom. But the ordinary citizen, who has benefited so much from it, is glad that our physicians and researchers have their freedom and have used it so well for the good of their fellow” man,

Generals ALBEN BARKLEY says the big three of the Republican management are Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. MacArthur and General Motors, Mr. Truman will match them, we presume, with his

. own stars—Gen. Vaughan, General- ization and General ;

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BUSY THOUGH RICH

Envy not the idle rich lolling by their private swimming pools of turquolise blue.

Swimming pools are more trouble than ba-

hieg, and, when being scrubbed a good - deal more. The fellow who owns one seldom swims in it, himself; he's too busy crawling around in

an underground sump with a monkey wrench trying to keep the filter adjusted. Otherwise, the turquoise hecomes a scummy green and the health department asks questions, ~ On this subject

I am an involuntary expert,

oh One of oul more prosperous neighbors owns an

extravagantly beéautifal pool JheHind her ultra‘modern: house: She now is on a month's vafation. in a mountainous area where the ‘nearest swimming pool is 100 miles away. Refore she left she asked Mrs. O., who should have known better, if we wouldn't like to move inta her place, enjoy the swimming and kind of keep an eve on the machinery? 1 wondered why a woman with a layout like that even considered leaving town. Now 1 know, She had to get a month's relief minding that danged pool. The dav we moved in, the water looked a little peculiar. Almost milky. I was inclined to suspect some utter strangers who were disporting themselves in the shallow end (they said they wera friends of friends), but it turned out the filter was on the blink. Well, sir, at the side of the pool was a manhole cover, as on a sewer, I lowered myself into and underground chamber jammed with machinery, dripping with condensation, and sloshing two inches of water on the floor. The pump that brought the water up the well was working fine, but the pump that circulated the pool water through a dingus full of chemicals was hot. It also was dripping. T turned the shutoff valve; it came off in my hand. And there 1 was in the gloom being doused as by a fire hose. The water was creeping up toward my arm pite and T was in imminent danger of heing drowned subterraneously when I got out of there and closed the master pipe. Turned out the lady who owned the works had neglected to

"TOGETHER FOREVER’

Not too far distant you and I. J he joined as one .

. Will soon + «» and from that day . . . all through my life . . . I'll know a brighter sun . not far away I'll gain the world .

my whole world is you . .

+ for . You're everything my heart desires . . . you're all that's good and true . . . soon we will make our marriage vows . + . and tears will dim our eyes . . . but they'll be tears of happiness . . that make emotions . . just you and I together dear . . . until the lamp burns low . . . we'll always travel hand in hand . . . wherever we may go . . . and then as each year passes on . . . in memory will stay . the vision of our joining hearts . . . will seem but yesterday. —By Ben Burroughs.

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STRATEGIC MATERIALS

List Bans 500 Items From Trade With Reds

By Frederick C. Othman

Swimming Pool Can Be a Pain Like a Fur-Lined Glamor Tub

MCLEAN, Va.—

climb down the iron ladder and oil the bearings. These were burned out. The motor weighed 250 pounds, men and a winch to get it out of there; the bill's going to be, or who pays, idea. I'm dosing the pool meantime with chlorine and little do 1 care if it reddens the eves of our nearly unknown guests, Even =o, there forms daily on the surfate a scum of green. This has got to he skimmed off, like grease from a roast. Only difference is that this pan is nearly 50 feet

It took four what I have no

long. : + Some of the, algae, of course, along. with grass clippings, dead leaves, and no telling *

what all else, drops to the bottom. Only way {fo clean this out is with g kind of vacuum cleaner that works with water instead of air. Manipulating the nozzle at a depth of 10 feet is hot work and also dangerous. Three times now I've nearly fallen in with the rest of the debris. T will say, though, that our callers have enjoyed our pool to the utmost; some of them aeem like nice people and I'd like to know them better, T haven't heen able to join them yet in the water, because of being too busy on the sidelines, 1 only hope that the kind lady who turned this watery Frankenstein over to us enjoys her vacation where it's dry. And also that she returns goon. I don't know how much longer I can survive playing at being rich.

What Others Say—

MAYBE some American has tried to convince someope of "his talent (making flying saucers) and been called a crackpot and is getting even.—James T. Mangan, who holds a legal deed to all outer space.

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OLD TIME oratory, with all the cliches and wild gestures, has been shown up- considerably bv the new style of speechmaking.—Speech Prof. Leo Martin,

*> bn MISS (JANE) RUSSELL is gelling something we- aren't, She's gelling sex. We're in-

terested in good government.—Politician Mrs, Helen Weeks. dD THE ICING on the cake ig the Broadway run (of a play). The cake itself is the grand tour to the West Coast and back.—Stage actress Katherine Cornell o> 0» IF I'M A SPY, I'm the only self-financed spy in history.— Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, answering Russian charges that his Far Eastern trip is a cover for spying. “son THERE I8 AN interlocking relationship of communism in the United States with communism elsewhere.—Martin Dies, former chairman of the House un-American Activities Committee, o> ab

WE FIND the (International Red Cross) committee has been interested in covering up for war criminals.— Russian Gen. Nikolai Slavin.

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON — Amendments to the list of strategic items banned for shipment to Soviet Russia and its satellite countries will be announced within the next month.

It will increase the number 4

of banned materials from the original 313 to nearly 500. And thus will the net be drawn tighter by the" 61 co-operating non-Communist countries to choke off the Soviet bloc’'s warmaking potential. When the first of these lists of strategic materials was drawn up in 1949, it contained only 150 items—principally implements of war. The next Vear the list grew to 200. Last year it was 265. The full list is of course too long for presentation here. In broad categories, however, it now covers all munitions, everything used in the production of atomic energy, metalworking machinery, chemical and petroleum producing and refining equipment, electric power generating equipment, ~ general industrial equipment, transportation equipment, electronic and precision Instruments, and strategic metals. chemicals, petroleum and rubber products. These lists are made public

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Soviet purall the supply

by main headings. chasing agents know of military items which they must cross off their open shopping lists and try to procure only by smuggling or on the black market, But a certain surprise element must be maintained in this economic cold warfare. If a bit of intelligence comes in that Soviet buyers are in the market for, say, platinum mesh for vacuum tubes, then the games becomes one of closing to them all sources of supply for electronic equipment. i » » ”

TASK FORCES of U. 8S. government experts and engineers from American private industry are working constantly to revise tha list of strategic items they would keep from the Soviet. But the ban is not complete. : If this were a hot war, the compiling of a list of articles banned for trade would be easy, It would include everything. This was the .rule applied by the U. 8. Board of Ecdhomic Warfare in the war against Germany and Japan. And there was no regard for costs,

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But in this present cold war, there is no desire to cut off all trade with the Communist countries, Some trade between East and West Europe is considered necessray to promote western European recovery, Italy, for instance, must have wheat and coal to live, And somehow she must earn thé money to buy wheat and coal. So she is allowed to sell citrus fruits to the Soviet. Not all machinery is banned for shipment to the Soviet either. Drilling machinies that will bore up to three -holes &imultaneously are allowed to go through. When it gets to four holes and above. however, that's considered precision mae chinery and is banned. Shipments of goods from Furopean countries to Soviet bloc countries, made “in acwith trade agreements in effect before the embargoes on strategic materials were put into effect, also have "to be allowed to go through. That was the rule that had to be applied in the case of the Danish tanker recently de-

livered to the Soviet Union. It -

had been ordered in 1946, be-

. fore the North Atlantic Treaty ; Organization was set up.

Money had been: paid by the

- ~Soviet on the contract.

"U. 8. The alternative would be - coal deficiency for free. -. :

NEED MUTUAL COMPROMISES . . . By Ludwell Denny

France and Germany Fight for Control of Valuable Saar Coal

WASHINGTON —American and British officials are losing patience over the Franco-Ger-man deadlock on the Saar, which jeopardizes the Schuman coal-steel merger and also ratification of the German peace contract and European Army plan. If Paris and Bonn negotiators fail to agree on Aug. 29. the two larger Allies probably will step in. If they do, they will insist on mutual compromises which neither the French nor the Germans have been willing to make, So far Washington and London are keeping hands off. They think this old dispute between France and Germany over the coal- and steelrich Saar should be, and can be, settled by the disputants themselves, But the failure of Wednesday's meeting to make progress, after the. fresh start of three weeks ago, has deflated hopes of a direct settlement.

A New Approach

THE NEW approach, which had revived hopes, involves so-called Europeanization of the Saar. This was originally suggested by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany. French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman then picked this up. Thus there is an agreement in principle. The moment they get down to applying that principle, however, the disagreement is as wide as ever. The Germans say: If the Saar is to be internationalized, France should prove her good: faith by adding some of her own Lorraine territory to be internationalized at the same time, That is not only abstract logic. It also has a definite economic justification, because Saar coal and Lorraine ore are essential to the endproduct of steel. But the French refuse to give up any of their territory.

DOESN'T HEED OWN COUNSEL

Economie control, of course, is at the heart of the whole dispute. The French have it now, Under the existing temporary status, pending a final peace treaty, this former German area has nominal political autonomy but a close eco-. nomic union with France. And France has tried

to make this pepmanent with 50-year eeonomie

contracts,

The merit of the FEuropeanization proposal (s that it is in line with the Schuman pool of West European coal and steel resources, which substitutes Franco-German partnership for rivalry in those basic industries, If the Schuman system works, then it is relatively unimportant whether Lorraine industrialists or Ruhr magnates own the Saar mines and mills,

Life-or-Death Issue

« BUT IF THE Schuman system does not work, as many in both countries think it will not, then Saar ownership can become a life-or-death issue for France. For France with the Saar can approximate Germany's industrial power in peace or war. But if Gérmany recovers the Saar-—as most Germans demand — then France is hopelessly outclassed.

France is on much weaker ground politically, The Saar regime-—which the French call autonoous and the Germans call a “French puppet” ~bans pro-German parties and plans another “election” this fall on that questionable basis.

If the United States and Britain step in, they will not support such political discrimination or an absolute French economic monopoly in the Saar. Neither will they help Germany get back the S8aar. They think European peace depends on hoth Germany and France making genuine concessions in the Saar to advance an essential Franco-German partnership.

By Jim G. Lucas

Civil Defense Head Would Like To Quit, but Nobody Wants Job

WASHINGTON-—Millard Caldwell, former governor of Florida and now director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, apparently doesn't heed his own counsel. Ry television, radio and the printed word, Civil Defense daily warns Americans to stay alert 24 hours a day. It has enlisted three million persons in civil defense work. But Mr. Caldwell, who is paid $17,500 a vear, spends only a few days a month in his Washington office. Most of the time, he's either making speeches or resting at Harwood plantation. hig 700-acre estate near Tallahassee. “He doesn’t spend enough time here.and he

knows it,” J. J. Wadsworth, his No. 2 man, admits, “He's not very happy.” .

Mr. Caldwell frankly. dislikes his: Jobs. He announced several months.ago he wag ready to quit and go home. And his boss, President Truman, just as frankly wants him to go.

No One to Take His Place

BUT SO FAR. the President hasn't found anvone to take his place, Mr. Truman first offered the joh to Gen. Carl (Tooey) Spaatz, former Air Force hoss. Gen. Spaatz said no, thanks. Anyhow, he pointed out, the law requires a civilian director. Frank McKinney, then Democratic National Chairman, sounded out Maryland's former Gov. Preston Lane. Mr. Lana wasn't interested. Neither was Roy Turner, former governor of Oklahoma.

Mr. Caldwell was named director in December, 1950. He was reluctant to take the job. After four terms in Congress, he had left Washington in 1941, a bitter man. His 12-year-old son had been killed on his way to school by a hit-and-run driver who never has been apprehended. Mr. Caldwell said he never wanted to live in Washington again. Under Mr. Caldwell, Civil. Defense has had rough going. Congress never “bought” the elaborate plans his eager-beaver staff dreamed up. This year, for instance, Mr, Caldwell went

Q8GE0AENNNNINANNANEEES,

MR. EDITOR: The conspiracy between between FDR and the so-called labor leaders, which delivered the Democratic Party to the labor racketeers, is credited with winning for that all inclusive group known as “labor,” certain doubtful gains which these misleaders of labor choose to magnify out of all proportion. One of the chief of these is labor's right to not work-—strike. There was no balancing gain attesting labor's right to work at the occupation of its choosing, without outside interference. Unless I am awfully naive, it would seem to me that it is putting the cart before the horse to legislate labor's right to not work before first cementing into our fabric the inalienable right to work.

SIDE GLANCES

While the U. 8. tried to persuade the Danish government not to make delivery, the Danes felt they had to live up to their contract. The only alternative might have been for the U.S. to. buy

the tanker, and it didn’t particularly want it. So the Danes made delivery and President Truman ruled that Denmark should not be barred from receiving further U. S. aid, as provided for in the Battle Act. Often the determining factor for the United States in trying to break up trade between a European country and the Soviet has been whether it should have the American taxpayers provide the commodities which the western European countries would be deprived of in exchange. For instance, western Europe has been getting about 25 million tons-of coal a year from the U. 8. nine million tons from Poland. If these western European countries should refuse to sell their products to Poland, they might be unable to earn enough money to buy Ser. i962 that much more coal from the

to have the U. 8. make up this

Hoosier Forum—Strikes Like Wars

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

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"We landed that big customer for months—when he gets back from his vacation

to Congress with a $600 million budget. Con= gress gave him only $43 million. Among other things, Mr. Caldwell asked for $193 million to stockpile medicine. Congress gave him nothing. An appropriations committee said it had given him $50 million last year and none was spent. Moreover, it pointed out, other federal agencies have a medical stockpile worth $400 million. Mr. Caldwell asked for $250 million for homb shelters. Congress gave him nothing. It said that was a job for the states, Mr. Caldwell has caught it coming and going. When budget cuts forced him to close a Civil Defense school at Stillwater, Okla., the local paper editorialized that the step was taken because Stillwater. “lacked night clubs and bawdy’ Jouses. ” It demanded immediate dis-

.missals®of the “dirty minds” in Civil Defense

responsible for, the outrage,

Trouble Due to Past Record

MUCH OF Mr. Caldwell's trouble is due to

his past record. As a Congressman and a member of the House Appropriations Committee, he was known as a tightfisted economy advocate. Some Congressmen, remembering how he treated their pet projects, are outraged at the size of the appropriations he now asks for Civil Defense, Mr. Caldwell, on his side, has a low opinion of “the politicians” about town. He says Civil Defense has been “caught up in political cross currents.” The Capital, he says, has the ‘worst organized Civil Pefense setup in the country” because of “official indifference.” He says he's not criticizing. the District government “but members of Congress and the President's Cabinet.” Civil Defense now is pruning its payrolls— always a painful operation, during which business virtually ceases. It asked for $32 million for administration and got $8 million. It's not as bad as it sounds, however, since Civil Defense had only $12 million for administration last year. In effect, it's a 33 per cent reduction. But this, plus the fact Mr. Caldwell is on the way out, hasn't helped morale,

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Unions are a wonderful

that festering stage and are a curse to many .

members who are captives of the union ecard. Strikes are like wars—no strike has ever been won—when you win you lose. No strike

has ever brought gains which could approach offsetting the losses. When will the union slaves recognize this statistical fact? —A. J. Schneider, 1714 N. Meridian St., City.

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