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Mr. Truman Is Right
In Answering Summons
We believe that Former President Harry Truman is
to be commended for his willingness to appear before the
House Un-American Activities Committee to tell what he
knows about the case of Harry Dexter White.
He has shown that he has the right spirit; he has also
mown that he believes in good citizenship and in abiding
by the laws and duties of good citizenship by answering
whenever summoned. .
We also agree with President Eisenhower that it is
inconceivable that Mr. Truman should have knowingly
done ; anything to further the cause of Communism.
While we have disagreed many times with Mr. Tru
man, we see no basis for questioning in any degree his
loyalty to the United States.
It appears that the facts are against him in this case
but we attribute that to a mistake in memory or am error
in judgement not an error in his heart and his loyalty
to his country.
We think it is a good thing that he has been sum
moned to give Congress the benefit of any information he
has.
Wo do not believe that any man even President
Eisenhower Should be above responding to such a call.
It is most unfortunate that Governor Jimmy Byrnes
and Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark have refused to
appear, although Byrnes has offered to give any informa
tion desired in writing or in his State Capitol. That much
is commendable.
We think it is unforgiveable and beyond excuse that
justice Clark has taken such an attitude. Even a Supreme
Cburt Justice should be willing to give his government
the benefit of any knowledge in his possession.
He ought to be forced to appear even if it means
stripping from him -r- and permanently the robes of
the highest tribunal in the land. Mr. Clark should recog
nise the tUbt tbat he is not bigger than the country he
serves. 1
If it should become necessary for President Eisen
hower—or any other President ini the future —to be called
f£om the White House to testify, our position would be
the same.
When the welfare of our nation is at stake no person
who enjoys the benefits of citizenship should be beyond
call.: JTlf, v - ,: " ' ■ ■
Frederick OTHMAN
WASHINGTON—'tt* W. 8. NMT.
Which' is one of the lllggtig eater
prises there ever was. Wants to
hire a first-class business manager.
The pay is a smidgin over S3OO a
Week, or about what the comptroller
Os a first-class municipal trolley
ayatem gets.
Ee’ll be in charge of all the
bookkeeping for batßeships, flying
machines, steam JaWd^^int
the Navy maintains around the
wot Id. He will, that is, if Secretary
Robert B. Anderson ever finds him.
>5Te Navy, already has k busi
ness manager 'in the person of
Under-secretary Thomas & Oates,
ES&ItSH
getting ready to fight wars.
Secretary Anderson told hi s
troubles with the adding machines
dr he Air Force, still has^a
dollars accounted tar, (or sure.
ordering 'the teSttary to get
time *the stovlTgof cold. Under the
dtWseot setup It takes around five
atfeiiral has misplaced a zero some-
WRere in his ledger, that’s a long
-TTnr i mite ate vkhrf m etmfmnthnl
roua h
7®ch was about as gobbledygooky
mBUBL r ~A heard SC 06 shef he Rone ’
the Navy’s books and Bee
BM&g,”WL «ive ms siuaems some experience ;
W9MET WK. The trouble is liiiUma in “orocadure ”
first class accountants who'll work 1
an naval salaries. They’re scarce. 1
Sen. Flanders went hardmpf and
demanded to know whether tne
Secretary could tell him as of now
what it will cost to operate the
battleship Missouri during 1954.
Anderson went Into a huddle with
an assortment of admirals and
civilians in his wake then said:
“Senator, I think wfc could give
you a pretty good idea. We could
come (hit with a reasonably ckwe
answer”
He could, unless the Mighty Mo
gets hung up on another mud
bank; the bookkeepers don't take
such expensive accidents into *c
count ahrofi of tim*.
The Senator congratulated the
Smretary and suggested that he
come up with the actual figures on
keeping the Missouri in commission
next year.
“They should be educational for
the other services,” Senator
Flanders said.
He meant that some of the sc- i
counting methods of the Army
and the Navy were so antiquated,
complicated, and confusing that top
management frequently didn't
know exactly how much it was
spending for what. He would have
made me a more interesting story
had he mentioned some horrid
examples, bdt then the gentleman
from Vermqht Veally i s a gentle
man. Before he gets tough he's go
ing to give the Pentagon a chance
to install a modern bodkkeeping de
partment.
Bad guess
WELLINGTON, N. t W Wil
liam Henry Butcher caine to a serry
end after h« stole 44 pairs of trous-
W from a parked cir.’He totted
them to bg unfinished and took
them to a tailor to ha*e them eote-
Pteted. The tailor told Butcher to
Tetdrh later. He did aad found t*o
te« Pitted the owner « me trous-
Ufc AMOtUtt * A Univer
sity of Southern California law
school student brought suit today
against one of his law professors
in Small Claims Court. He charged
25 cfcits from him in a class dem
two bits but said the suit would |
These Days
OIL AND EDUCATION
Los Angeles, Nbv. 11 Some of
the oil - producing states, such
as Texas and New Mexico, have
tied their educational budget to the
production of ail. The states gen
erally receive a one-eighth royalty.
If oil is plentifully produced, the
schools are plentifully provisioned.
The present general reduction in
oil production (allowables, as it is
called) is imperilling school budgets
in those states.
The petroleum industry of Texas,
for instance, provides 3TA percent
of the available school fund’, 84.4
percent of the foundation school
fund; and 505 percent of the
teacher’s retirement fund, obvious
ly, a sharp reduction of oil pro
duction can cripple these funds.
The percent cut-down of allowables
is attributed to the import of for
eign oil in an over-extended world
market, which became over-exten
ded during the war years and has
never adjusted to peacetime needs.
in California, there is a short
age Os oil production, but there in
no pipeline between California and
West Texas and the adjacent oil
producing arm*. So Texas oil is
shipped from Houston, through the
Panama Canal, up to LO6 Angeles
by tanker, a distance of 8312 miles,
which makes that oil too expensive
for California. A pipeline would
reduce the distance to 550 miles
and is a less expensive way to
move this product.
Oil for the west Coast comes
from the Middle and Near East,
Venevxuela, Sumatra, Benieo, and
from Texas In tankers. A recent
dexelopment. not yet completed,
is to bring oil from West Canada,
bq pipeline, to $ refinery at Bel
lingham. Washington. Canadian
production is in an early stage and
does not yet amount to mtich, but
the Canadians are hopeful that
their fields will dcvelope enormou
sly and will expand far beyond
Canadas capacity to consume ou,
thus providing that country with
another export product- Canada
views its exports realistically, seek
ing always to ttevelope S favorable
trade balance.
The Texas (te teen naturally raise
the propagaodtotic argument that
California consumers ought to pre
fer Texas to Canada, if for no
other reason than they happened to
be Americans just as the CaUften
ians tat, That used to tfc a goo*
argument about anything, but in
these days of internationalism. It
Would town to be a UabiUtV, because
it is part of the current do-good
policy to favor foreigners at. the
expense of Americans.
In fact, it has often been sug
gested in recent years that the way
to solve this paradox of importing
from abroad commodifies of which
we have much or even Wo much at
home is to lower the tariff, to im»
port plentifully from abroad and
to give the American producer a
dole. After all, the argument runs,
we give a subsidy to the farmer
not to produce, why not give the
American businessman a subsidy not
to produce? And why not give
American labor a dole if it agrees
not to work?
Some of those Who are so qk
thuslasticaUy supporting the dblte
Idea for business that might be
come distressed because of easy
imports into tide country, fought
bitterly against doles for other seg
ments of the population in distress.
Although mere consistency is te>t
a virtue, the record ought to be
stated. , , ;
The anti- social character of
their argument should be obvious,
but it is hot to the international
ists who are more concerned about
iana. It is a theory of self- flagel
lation'in the economicfteld apd
mongthose enormously important
whole interests know
no nationality.
Also,. we have learned to two
wars What the submarine can do
awl ROW we beMfeteki the.jrfflqi
ent afiplane andjhejttomjxmite
Certainly tetport^oU.'
It might be argued that nr tidy
fion H reduced in the UqtteTStates
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WASHINGTON—(Worried Sta|te
Department officials admit privat
ely that the fuse is burning shorter
on the Trieste powder keg.
The Army is pressing to declare
martial law In order to prevent
additional bloodshed. However, the
State Department fear? this move
would only heighten the tension.
What has the State Department
really worried, however, is that our
Trieste policy has driven Yugoslavia
back to the strict neutralism it
followed immediately after Marshal
Tito's break with Russia.
This will mean that Yugoslavia's
rugged army cannot be tied into
Western defense plans. Up to now
Gen. JU Oruenther, the Supreme
Commander in Europe, has counted
Tito’s forces as part of, the SO divi
sions he has reported can be must
ered to meet a Russian attack.
Meanwhile, British - American
intelligence hqs uncovered 20 Soviet
agents working inside the rioting
student groups- On the other side,
Moscow agents have also been dis
covered on the Trieste police force.
Their orders from thF Krfemlta have
been to use brutality against the
students in order to keep the-troub
le boiling. ' '
HEADLINES AND FOOTNOTES
Army has quietly brought several
h%h South Korean offfcfcrs to fills
country—officially for “atedy.” Un
official reason, however, is that
Syngman Rhee was planning to
purge them. Tire forty old South
Korean leader feared the officers
Wer e too sympathetic to the U. -8„
might not be lbyal to. Mm in case
of a showdown. . . . Southeast Asia
has become a hotbed of intrigue
and espionage -The U. 8. has sent
its best agents to Thailand, the
Russians are operating out of Bur
am and the Chinese Communists
have set up spy headquarters ui
Indonesia. . . . The cattlemen’s,
caravan, which failed to persuade
Secretary of Agriculture Benson to
Villon. . . Clarence Randall, Who
has been trying to sell low tariffs
log during mint hearings that
his Imported Swiss watch kept
better time than the clock on the
HSxss'aS!
el spurts exposition, to bo hold in
Washington next spring timing
Cherry Blossom week. ... ,l£fc
national Security Council'Win de
cide today whether to give up coax
ing the aviation gas products to
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months, the government has been
trying to persuade the private
companies to increase their cap
acity for producing aviation gas.
Now it looks as If the government
will have to build the new plants
Itself.
JAPAN DOESN'T WANT ARMS
Backstage conversations regard
ing the new Japanese Army and
Navy make it quite clear that the
Japanese government is not near
ly as anxious to build up a a defea
se throe 8s the United States is
to have it built.
In private conferences held in
Japan, the Japanese government
indicated it would like a Navy of
300,090 tons, all steall Coastal
cratt; an army of 250,000, troops;
and an air force of four wings
three to be F-84 fighter bombers
and one to be F-SO jet interceptors.
The Pentagon s agreed bn the
300,000 Naval tonnage, recommend
ed A 300,000-man army and ap
proved four air wings, except they
should all be interceiftem -and no
fighter-bombers. Specifically, the
Air Force recommended I,wO com-.
bat planes and 500 stpporting plaiU*
es, mostly trSuiers, lor Japan.
11 However, Pritee MBnlgter^Yto
talks: by asking for only s£l,oßo
naval tonnage and no air tottfe At
all: OssteAd he advocated a longj
range goal of 305,000 to 400,000
troops.
The final decision will probably
depend on what policy the Eisen
hower Administration Adopts to
war<k^&mhlWETEitl| WAR
Carleton Smith of the National
Arts Foundation asked Premier
Naguib of Egypt who he thought
should get Arts Foundation prizes
for service to humanity.
Mnyiiift 1 (
“The man who invents comething
which prevents war.”
"Do you have any dandidates-”
asked Smith.
•“Yes,” replied Egypt’s strong
m*n. The Alan Who invented the
H-bomb.” j
r % &
.«e Joint Chiefs of Stiff hid
set m wings as the Air Forte goal >
Isl- MM, tort agreed to tot
Sii. Nat Twining, Air Farce Chief
ft *taff. go one step farther and
appeal to the White House for 13? :
wings, Ota vetoed the plea im-
N4W fork v
ferings (which failed to win critical ;
approval) will be uwad for agood 1
. ttH T*he reviewers coußmed the
tryout-Wwn maheeton aai found
SmSim
The star enjbyed a pertoual trt-
Ate. Hawkins summed tip for the
agQMjOSS
drollery brightens “Thfc Solid GoM
gt^ C; s. SuStn^waS
Telchmahb. the reviews were fill
ed With tt-tarst superlatives for
Mrs. Hdll and toe majority ap
prised the show s* a gut-edged
spoof. Mr. Coleman’s nugget: “A
Mild gold click.”
The Clnemagiclahs: “Kiss Me
Kate” tat the Music Hall) is full
of melody and mischief . . . Kath
ryn Grayson enhances every pretty
sound of Cok Porter’s, delightful
score and Ann Miller’s dancing and
figure wrap it up a« First-Rate en
tertainment . . . "The Joe Louis
Story” Is the biography of a man
who wa* a champion in and out of
the fin?- A wallopy movie . ... An
Italian import named "The Queen
of Sheba” freasepalnts a generally
3SSi ! t«t&£ ss%
its star . . . "Sabre Jet" Bhldtos
America’s eagles. The aerial man
euvers are more exciting than the
plot. JUlie Bishop is the charmer
. . ; "Calamity Jane” has i flimsy
yam playing second-tUMIe to CM*
Day's attractive stmg-Styie* . . ,
“The Fake” (tram Britain) is fine
for inSomnla.
H The Telebrities: “Omnibus” offer
ed a shpeker: An American officer
wym*
week’s Beats . • > Martha Kaye’s
cotetety confection kidded the Ga
bor Sisters, who assisted in the fun
moot of the IK hour show. Miss
Krrarijss&^r*
Me gto
(“Max”)** Gilbert’s romp with M.
Berle was swift and amusing. She
is always a welcome personality . ..
a&rm'iisute'aa:
tures of Herbert Phllbrick (played
by Itehsrd Carbon) whesi he Wgs
Love Lucy” on top , . V “Dragnet”
runnerup.
t • ffururt *(
South Carolina blglgfi Ike for the
just ESSTtbt Korean
was Eisenhowefs testimony befott
ayX (Mealier-
INTENSE GOr ACTIVITY
mittee, shaken
New Jersey, and worried over Presi
arssj smm
powered Congressional election cam
paign in history. . Tfuts will m
centratc on the marginal districts,
deriS|&y !r^ d h* e _ tl* 1 *
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 12, 1953
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BY DR. GEORG* W. CRANK
Case J-S4O: Rita M., sged », hs* betel married less than a yew.
"Dr Crane, we are expecting a baby in a few months," She said "but t
am all Upset,
“*br an plder woman next door hgs scared tee. A couple of.wrtk* ti»o
our kitcWfen oaught on rue. The fire engine came and soon put it out.
“But this titenan says the shock oT this fire will probably mark W
baby with a big red'blotch on its face or body. *
“She says that’s extetiy what happened to her sister when. She Aad
her last baby.
“Now I am so frtgntened I can’t sleep or bat normally. Bo te? husband
insisted I come to you for help-” - -
PREGNANCY FEARS
Mother-love is a marvelous thing. Physicians get an emotional lilt out
of their child birth oases when each baby is bom, tor the average mother
anxiously asks: m
“Doctor, is my baby all right?”
And by “all right” she means, “Does it have all its lingers and toes?
Dr is it crinoled or marked In any way?"
A mother will thus forget, herself and the many hours she has been in
labor, because of her unselfish devotion to the welfare of her new baby.
And fills unselfishness starts way back at the dhset of her pregnancy
when she hopes and prays that her baby will be O. K., both physically
ana mentally.
So Rita’s concern today about the possibility of “marking her baby by
emotions, is an indirect compliment to you expectant mothers.
OBSOLETE NOTIONS
And one of the greatest pleasures 1 personally derive from writing
this dally psychology column. Is relieving people of unnecessary or Ob
solete notions that otherwise fetter their happiness.
Almost 4,000,000 babies are boh> eacn year in the U. 8. A. , ao you can
imagine how many mothers and fathem, as well as in-laws, are concern
ed with Such questions as Rita’s.
Bo here’s a specific and blunt answer. Babies cannot be “marked" by
a mother’s fears or worries or other eteotional shocks.
And 1 don’t say that Just to relieve Jour anxiety, til give you the
evidence.
The unborn baby has no trerves connecting it with the mother: For the T -i
umbilical cord, which attaches the fetus to the wall of the wotnb, con- y
tarns blood vessels but has-no nerves in it. ~
Obviously, therefore, the mother’s mental upsets cannot get to the
child far there are no nerves to carry her ideas across: ,
l FACE FACTS \
“Rut, Dr. Crane, babies occasionally do have birthmarks. So how do
you explain such things?" you may logically inquire.
Automobile engines occasionally hove flaws m the metal, too. but
these are not due to the thoughts or emotions of the teen who make
tfie cars, arc (hay? !
| No, they are due to accidents in molding the block of the engine. And
' such aootdents occur in all type of manufacturing,
IB medicine we call, such accidents In human devciopmenfurtotacts.
So you expectant mothers can relax. Your yen or craving ftik freakish
roods like Strawberries or watermelon out of season will not mark your 9
baby, nor will yonr fears or even your noble thoughts, either,
Bend far My bulletin “Facte About Pregnancy” enclosing ‘ a, stamped
return envelope, plus a dime. It will answer mors questions 111 gteAter
! detail.
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8y America's Forwmost Personal Affair* ClOltiM
WOMEN, AT VARIANCE WITH
t SOME OF CHURCH’S TEACH
INGS, COMTEMPLATES BREAK
ING AWAY
DEAR MARY HAWORTH: Henry
and I married 14 years ago, each 9t
Us having lost our previous part
hers, and being left with adoies
! cult children. In rebuilding our
, lives, we Joined a church ..that at
, traded me—Henry going along
, willingly, as. he had no special
’ choice. ' '
We have worked actively in and
i for the charett. after actually being
M&h Hoht nteclde with M> sin
cere cohvictions. I cannot believe
that any one church or organi
zation has a monopoly on troth or
good: or that ony church should be
: founded on a human personality
to whom I owe my entire al
; legiance.
I am the sort of persOn who cak
-1 not retain my sense of integrity
whije outwardly subscribing to
something I no longer believe in
wholly I believe that I should stand
courageously tor my own convictions
about tii e wajti in which God works
to bring Iruth to mankind. My hus
band is inclined to rock and atten-l
church where one’s friqhds are, to
avoid the possible ostrtcism that
might follow dropping out.
I.feel sure we would be sub
jected to some unpleasantness in
that direction; yet fcrthnately we
know a humbfcr of persons in other
places who still would be our
frtemls—l hope. We have no
Mlmies in this church so for rfs
we know: and we arteit asking
SOU to discuss file merits of com
paratiVc religlbns. But we would
greatly appreciate your viewpoint
dh my feelings about staying in a
church who** method! we ns
longer endorse. E. B.
W Wililamaofa of ChAmbersburg,
when they fdt caught They
sent home with a reprimand. Billy
ktill ha* his heard.
■Honrfcto. n. y. wi - on h»i
found an *rick
DEAR E^.^Ttif^roSs^ of reU- °
and a loving fellowship with friends
and neighbors and congregation on ~
the other hand. Buch fellowship is
an expressing, or spending, of the
income of life, light and truth
which the individual soul receives
from God. via prayer (through
daily awareness of the loving sear
presence of God.)
Can’t you find it possible ro ex
perience, and to express, your per
sonal measure of realization of the
fatherhood Os God and brotherhood
of humankind, within the frame
work of the church you’ve chosen
meanwhiie closing your eyes ihd D
ears to .such distortions ,tu yttu
oppose, in minds that don’t reflect
your Possibly ytmr
’ er' than inwardly, in your efforts
to know and worship God.
As a rule, persons who are falth
tajjjgii*|
ttlttk PROBLEM
REALLY pride? A
Maybe ?bur problem really has,tb
do with vaulting pride to your own
personality, and with a self-seeking
rather than God-othtered approaeh
to fehixich-golng— a disposition mote
worldly than compassionate. Yoir
tnlditrYir* oa ttistetnn iw „„ t .T
«e« and wishlimtostond apart
from those who claim differently.
Ba^Tr^ tt SSiFi tetit
this church Is sparked by reaU
w, r ked vi