THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C,
Fascist Neighbors
R ECENT REVOLUTION and riot
ing in Latin America has
pointed up what the American pub
lic has long dimly realized, name
ly that while we are fighting Com
munism in Europe, we are losing
out to fascism at our own front
door.
Panama, which surrounds the
most important waterway in the
world so far as the United States
Is concerned, is now in the hands
of a dictator, Amulfo Arias, who
had roots in Germany and Italy
during the days of Hitler and Mus
solini. Just before Pearl Harbor,
we considered him such a menace
the United States helped to euchre
him out of the presidency.
In Colombia, a country equally
vital to the strategic waterway
which links east-west shipping, the
bloodiest riots in history have been
taking place. Approximately 1,000
people have been killed, and a
Fascist party, deliberately aided
and abetted by dictator Franco of
Spain, has instituted such terror
that it was impossible to hold two-
way elections.
While U. 8. senators have
been guzzling dictator Franco’s
lash wines in Madrid. Franco
has been pulling the rag right
oat from under U. 8. policy in
one of the most important
countries in the Pan-American
onion.
Months ago Laureano Gomez,
now the Colombian strong man.
went to Madrid and arranced with
Franco to have his shock Faiange
forces smuggled into Colombia dis
guised in the robes of priests.
Bloodshed and rioting has followed
ever since.
• • •
Truman’s Idea
In the White House, Harry Tru
man speaks glowingly of his visits
to Mexico and Brazil. He is also
delighted at the prospect of mak
ing a trip to Chile. He considers
F:«i-American relations one of his
most important policies, and if
anyone walked in and told him tbe
good-neighbor policy had bogged
down, he just wouldn’t believe it.
But the trouble with President
Truman is that he thinks of Pan-
American friendship in terms of
getting out a lot of flags and the
brass bands to greet President
Dutra of Brazil. He doesn’t realize
that the good-neighbor policy must
be closely coordinated and care
fully carried out every day of the
year.
Over in the state department,
meanwhile, one of the best young
men in some years, Edward Mil
ler, is assistant secretary for Latin
America. Miller was bom in Puer
to Rico, speaks Spanish, knows
Latin America intimately, works
hard at his job.
Over in the export-import bank,
also, far more loans have been ad
vanced in Latin America than most
people realize.
Bat a successful good-neigh
bor policy isn’t bnilt op merely
by damping money into Latin
America, or giving rousing
welcomes to visiting pan-Amer-
Ican potentates.
Today we have a lot of well-
meaning cogs in our diplomatic
machinery, but sometimes they
seem to be turning separately and
in different directions. In brief,
the gears do not mesh.
• • •
Jesse Jones’ Rival
It looks like Jesse Jones, long
considered the financial czar and
once an aspiring political czar of
Texas, now has a real rival. He is
Texas oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy
of Houston, who recently helped
mastermind “Sam Rayburn Day.”
McCarthy already has built a
swank 15-story hotel in Houston,
the Shamrock, and now aspires to
build a new business center on the
outskirts of Houston. To finance
it, McCarthy is reported in the
market for an RFC loan, and it
was considered significant that he
sent his plush stratoliner private
airplane to Washington to fly some
RFC officials to Houston for “Sam
Rayburn Day."
Taking the free ride to Texas
for the big Democratic jamboree
were James Consodine, RFC con
troller, and Allen Freeze, his as
sistant, with their two wives. Neith
er is a Texan.
Another RFC official, Narvin
Weaver, assistant loan manager,
declined an invitation because, he
admitted afterward, “It might not
look right.” It is seldom that an
official has such scruples and
refuses a free ride for this reason.
Of course, Jesse Jones, when
head of the powerful RFC, did
not hesitate to accept trips in
a private car on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad at a time
when he was lending RFC mon
ey to that road. And it will be
interesting to see whether
Jesse’s rival now will get a
loan from the RFC.
Note — Democratic political fac
tions in Houston were split over
the Sam Rayburn celebration.
While Sam is personally popular
with all ranks of Democrats, the
Old Guard did not cooperate.
WiEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Supreme Court Decision Declares
‘Home Rule’ Rent Controls Valid;
Five Million Receiving Public Aid
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper./
RENT CURBS:
Home Rule Okayed
The “home rule’ rent control law
—which allows states and cities to
decontrol their own areas— was
upheld by the U.S.' supreme court
in almost record time. The court’s
ruling came in less than a week
after oral arguments were heard.
THE LAW was enacted last sum
mer by congress and is due to
expire June 30, 1950. It had lost in
its first federal court test when a
U.S. district judge declared it un
constitutional because it delegated
powers of congress to the states
and local governing bodies.
Tighe Wood and the justice de
partment by-passed intermediate
courts and appealed the finding di
rectly to the high court.
While there had been no general
statements to the effect, there was
a widespread impression that
many states and local areas had
withheld decontrol action because
of the pending suit.
IN ONE INSTANCE, a Kentucky
county area had restored rent
curbs after lifting them had re
sulted in what was termed "un
reasonable” rent increases.
However short private building
had fallen of its goals, there was
no argument that the housing
shortage had eased somewhat and
it appeared that congress might
find it relatively easy to abandon
all rent curbs when the present
“home rule” act expires.
But in view of what had hap
pened in some Isolated areas in
rental charges, congress might
leave the way open for restoration
of controls wherever landlords dis
played a tendency to gouge ten
ants.
PUBLIC AID:
Cost Enormous
In a country as powerful and
prosperous as the United States it
seemed an ironical paradox, but
the record showed it to be true—
more than five million Americans
were receiving public assistance
of some form or other, and at a
cost of two billion dollars a year
to the taxpayers.
JOHN L. THURSTON, acting
security administrator, cited those
figures at the opening of a 10-day
congressional inquiry into the
problems of the nation’s low-
income families. Thurston ex
plained that the federal govern
ment provides about half of the
two billion dollar annual outlay
for public aid, with the other half
coming from state and local com
munity funds.
Thurston, himself, saw the con
tradiction in the situation as he
indicated when he said:
“This seems to some people an
astonishing phenomenon, consider
ing the fact that we have had full,
or practically full, employment for
the past seven or eight years.”
HE SOUGHT to clarify the situa
tion, however, when he added:
“It is not at all astonishing,
however, in relation to the large
number of families with no earner,
or a low-income earner, and in
view of inadequacies of our social
insurance program.”
Then Thurston used the occasion
to get in a few licks for President
Truman’s "Fair Deal” program,
contending that its enactment
would help provide “better living”
for low-income families.
WAR VETS:
More Benefits
Slated for delivery after Jan
uary 1 were increases in benefits
for disabled U.S. war veterans,
dependents and widows. The vet
erans administration reported that
checks of some two million recip
ients were about to be increased.
THE LARGEST GROUPS to re
ceive increases, the V.A. said, in
cluded nearly two million veter
ans with service-connected dis
abilities from 10 to 100 per cent.
This group includes World War
I and II veterans disabled in ser
vice and other veterans disabled
in peacetime service since July
15, 1903.
The old rates of payment range
from $13.80 to $138 a month for
war service, and from $11.04 to
$110.40 for peacetime service.
THE NEW RATES are 8.7 per
cent higher—respectively, $15 to
$150 and $12 to $120.
About 58,000 widows receiving
compensation because of Ihe ser
vice-connected death of a veteran
and who have one or more chil
dren also will get increases.
Off to Prison
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, sen
tenced to 6 to 18 months in
prison and fined $10,000 for sal
ary kick-backs in his congres
sional office, is shown as he
started for the Danbury, Conn.,
federal prison to begin serving
sentence.
ECONOMY:
Over a Barrel
More than 500 national leaders,
talking of the need of economy in
operation of the federal govern
ment, may have felt themselves
more over the barrel than around
it when they met for a “cracker
barrel” discussion of the problem.
It was a real cracker barrel,
bearing the legend “citizens’ com
mittee for the Hoover report,” set
up amid the handsome appoint
ments of Washington’s Shoreham
hotel.
DELEGATES HEARD Herbert
Hoover, chairman of the commit
tee appointed to study means of
stream lining the government,
praise the accomplishments of his
commission and of the committee
now seeking to get the commis
sion’s proposals adopted.
After pointing out that federal
expenditure of more than 43 bil
lion dollars and a deficit of more
than five billion have been an
nounced for the current fiscal
year, he declared:
“I believe it may be much great
er in the next fiscal year. We may
be turning two Frankensteins loose
in the land. Their terrifying names
are ‘higher taxes’ and ‘inflation.’ ”
HOOVER POINTED OUT that six
months have passed since the
commission he headed finished its
reports on congress, and on eco
nomics and improvements in the
executive branch, and, in the
meantime, the “recommendations
have had a magnificent support by
the press and public.”
All of which was true. The rub
seemed to be in getting congress
and the President to go all the
way suggested by the Hoover com
mission in effecting more govern
ment economy and efficiency.
LABORITES:
Ousted by Aussies
For the second time within 11
days proponents of socialism in
the British commonwealth had
been ousted by the voters. Advo
cates of free enterprise threw out
Australia’s Labor government, an
action which paralleled the elec
tion verdict in New Zealand.
WERE THESE IMPORTANT
portents or did they signify noth
ing? If one chose to place the
events alongside the current dif
ficulties experienced by the Brit
ish Labor government, and at
tempt to evaluate them correctly,
the answer would be that social
ism appeared to be on its way out
in the British commonwealth.
On the other hand, the foes of
the free enterprise system every
where, would doggedly stand on
Labor’s claimed progress over the
years, and attempt to take the
stand that those voting out were
doing so simply because they did
not know what was best for them
selves.
ROBERT GORDON MENZIES,
Australian Liberal leader who will
now be restored to the prime min
istry he held from 1939 to 1941,
called the turn in an earlier com
ment on the Australian situation:
“The Socialists were brought to
power in New Zealand, Australia
and Great Britain in that order.
The dramatic (New Zealand) re
sult seems a happy omen that they
will go out in the same order.”
JOBLESS BENEFITS
Security Payments Continue to Increase
Officials in the federal labor de
partment’s bureau of employment
security were expressing concern
over the increase in the number
of U.S. citizens exhausting their
jobless benefit rights.
According to latest figures in the
department, more than a half
million ran out of their rights to
further employment compensation
payments during the July-Septem
ber quarterly period. There were
persons who still didn’t have jobs
after running through all the un
employment insurance payments
to which they were entitled. The
number of benefit weeks varies
from state to state.
The puzzling factor was that
these exhaustions came at a time
of high employment, and give m
Idea of future problems.
' BUDGET:
How Much?
While President Truman sunned
himself at Key West, Fla., posing
for newsmen, busying himseli
with affairs of state even though
on vacation. American taxpayers
were particularly interested in the
visit paid him by John Snyder, sec
retary of the treasury.
THE REASON, of course, was
the forthcoming budget message
which the President was prepar
ing to deliver to congress. Until
that time, no U.S. taxpayer would
know just what the administration
had in mind concerning taxes.
Everyone knew that the Presi
dent had publicly stated he .would
need some 12 billion dollars more
in revenue if the budget were to
be balanced, but everyone knew,
too, that there were many senators
and representatives who would
not go along with any such propo
sal.
It could also be regarded as
significant or not that there had
been no recent declaration from
the President concerning taxation
or any need for tax increase.
WHETHER THAT MEANT the
President war prepared to recede
from his original tax proposals
was purely a matter of speculation,
but such a course was probable,
inasmuch as some of the Presi
dent’s cabinet members had been
saying publicly that a reduction in
taxes, or holding them at the pres
ent federal level would be good for
U.S. business and the nation’s econ
omy.
And, as a rule, cabinet members
don't comment on such controver
sial subjects until their remarks
have been cleared previously with
the White House. Henry Wallace
didn’t follow that procedure and
now he’s an ex-cabinet member.
INJUSTICE:
Charged to Census
Twenty-three Republican con
gressmen wouldn’t be alone in
their attack on that phase of the
1950 census which will require
every fifth person over 14 years
of age to disclose all the facts
about his income.
The Republicans banded together
in a blast of criticism at the cen
sus bureau’s planned procedure in
an action following attacks earlier
by Representative Brown of Ohio
and Hinshaw of California upon the
bureau’s 1950 questionnaire.
THAT CRITICISM charged that
the “Truman administration is
perpetrating an outrageous dis
crimination against small-income
people . ,
Brown had demanded of Philip
M. Hauser, acting director of the
census, that he cite “legal author
ity” for the income questions. He
charged that such inquiries are
unlawful.
In the meantime, a spokesman
for the census bureau told news
men that “only a few” of the citi
zens asked the income question
are expected to object to it. He
explained that those who decline
to give the enumerator the infor
mation personally would be per
mitted to mail it to the bureau in
Washington.
The Republican critics’ view
was:
“IF A PERSON earns more than
$10,000, all he has to do is say so,
without giving the amount, and the
census taker is satisfied. But for
all people earning under $10,000,
the questionnaire stands as writ
ten . . . This is a raw injustice.”
As an added basis for its posi
tion, the census bureau stated the
figures about income will be con
fidential, not even open to tax col
lectors or the FBI. That being the
case, what good will the figures
do anyone and why does the cen
sus bureau insist on having them?
Ax Man
Mayor-elect Andrew J.
“Bossy” Gillis, of Newbnry-
port. Mass., sharpened up the
ax which he said will fall
on the necks of a lot of job
holders after he takes over
again at city hall. He landed
back In office in a surprise
victory.
BRITISH DOCTOR:
Change of Heart
Dr. E. F. St. John Lybum ban
made no bones about how put out
he was about England's socialized
health program. The first British
doctor to announce publicly he
would operate it, he was also the
first to announce he was going to
quit it.
But the doctor changed his mind.
He’s returning to the program.
But, he said, there was a reason.
His patients asked him.
CHARMING SHARMAN . . . Sharman Douglas, 21-year-old daughter of
Lewis Douglas, United States ambassador to Great Britain, arrives
with her grandmother, Mrs. Emma Zinnser of Hastings, N. ¥., at Idle-
wild airport, New York City, from London. Sharman is spending a
Christmas vacation at her family’s Arizona ranch.
ELBOW ROOM . . . “Give me a little space.” That seems to be the
request of Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery as he nudges Warren
R. Austin, permanent representative to the United Nations from the
United States, during a light moment in their conversation at tbe
Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. They .^attended the annual
dinner of the English-speaking onion of the United States.
ILL BRINGS GOOD . . . This Nationalist soldier was no good at arms
since he lost his leg. He was captured by Communist troops who over
ran parts of China. When they saw he possessed only half of the usual
complement of legs, they let him go. He is shown as he arrives at
British crown colony, Hong Kong, as a war refugee. The British-held
city is tightening its defenses, not because it expects a Red attack but
to be ready in case attack comes.
CLAIMS ROYAL BLOOD . . . This
young man says he is Prince Otto
Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, young
est son of the late German kaiser.
Now In Mexico City, he married
Virginia Kirk of New Orleans re
cently. Hohenzollerns deny his
claim.
NEW LIFE . . . Countess Edda
Ciano, daughter of Mnssolini, lives
with her mother and brother on
Ischia Island in full possession of
her executed husband’s wealth.
RECLUSE LEAVES FORTUNE
... A fortune in diamonds and
other valuables was discovered in
the disintegrating mansion of Mrs.
Linda Knox, 94, Chicago recluse
who died recently. She was known
as a purchaser of antiques.
SCHOMAKER THROWS HAY
MAKER . . . John Schomaker,
union associate of Harry Bridges,
testified in San Francisco trial of
Bridges that he issued Bridges
Red party cards several years ago
and helped him solicit new mem
bers. Schomaker was a prosecu
tion witness.
SHE FURNISHED EVIDENCE . . . Miss Helen Campbell, ex-secretary
and codefendant of Rep. J. Parnell Thomas on charges of payroll
padding, sobs as she leaves a Washington, D.C., court after dismissal
by a federal judge. Dismissal was on the grounds that she furnished
evidence about the kickbacks. Thomas withdrew his “not guilty” plea
and threw himself on the mercy of the court. With the 64-year-old sec
retary Is her attorney, John R. Fitzpatrick.
DER TAG . . . Wearing dog tags.
Boots (canine) arrives in New
York from Munich and joins boots
(pedal) of his master, T/Sgt. Ber
nard Gajzik, for trip to Decatur,
IU. He awaits “der tog” (the day)
when he will see his master again.
Ain't It So
• • •
Mind yonr own business and
you won’t have to carry a rab
bit’s foot.
• • •
This would be a dreary world
if pretty girls were as scarce
as men who mind tbeir own
business.
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