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I Thursday, April 26, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Stm Jacobs Opens Place Business In City Jacobs who has been em ployed in Tallahassee, Fla., for some time has returned to the city and opened a place of business on Broad street opposite The Chron icle office. The building inside and out has been given a face “lifting” and presents a new appearance. Theownr announces a cash prize in today’s paper to the person select ing the best name for the business to be announed May 3. Birth Announcements GROGAN Mr. and Mrs. Horace Grogan an nounce the birth of a daughter, Margaret Anne, on April 21 at Hays hospital. Mrs. Grogan is the for mer Miss Minnie Norwood. MacArthur Story In Chronicle Feature Today year and one of the biggest news breaks since the end of World War II. volved in the controversy. This story, incidentally, is writ- , ten so that it will “stand up” for ♦ ' i Th Chronicle today carries a ,, „ . , J The dismissal of General MacAr-! special illustrated feature story on! 1 u. k., eg die* thur from his command by Presi-,this epic event which examines andl°f what further developments occur dent Truman is the story of the analyzes some of the factors in- 1 in the MacArthur case. '1 i APPLE AND CHERRY PIES 9 in. 55c — 8 in. 45c TINMAN'S BAKERY Phone 334-W Social Secority Ad Covers Farm Workers Hall-Million Eligible For Insurance Benefits As of January 1, about 500,000 regularly employed workers on farms and in farm households be came eligible for social security. This means they became eligible for the first time for old-age-in surance benefits—pensions—and for benefits paid to survivors if a wage i earner dies. Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security administration said the new program covers anyone wjio does planting, cultivating, or har vesting of crops; raises or tends livestock, bees, or fur-bearing ani mals; prepares, processes, or deliv ers crops or livestock to market Return in Relation To Feed Cost Down Beef, Hogs, Sheep Show Highest Feed-Cost Gain The nation’s farmers are not mak ing as much from each dollar spent for feed as they have in the past few years. In fact, the return for each dollar spent for feed in the production of eggs and milk is below the 1935-39 average, For each dollar of feed the farm er spent in the production of hogs, cattle and sheep, however, return is higher than the 1935-39 average. In the production of eggs the farmers received $1.72 for each dol lar spent on feed during 1935-39. But as of September, 1950, he was receiving only $1.56. The amount of ONI DOHA* SPENT PO* FEED... isvyjfcj UsS Special Stamps made to your precise needs. 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EGGS MILK HOGS BEEF SHEW <3> *171 © *M1 $!« £5 us* & *i« <&> <& U14 *15* © © *'♦* *1W *2 93 ttM GSj H0i tlx VV vn Disaster Relief Program For Farmers Expanding The government announced ro- cRntly that the simple relief meas- j ure started in 1949 to aid mow- bound ranchers in the west has mushroomed into a tremendous I I business. It has grown into a $33,- 000,000 business and covers parts of $7 states and Puerto Rico. The farmers home administration, in charge of the program, reports more than 26,000 loans have been made to farmers. They average about $1,192 each, although there is no limit on the amount a fanner may borrow if be qualifies as a "disaster victim” and can put up sufficient collateral The largest loan approved to date was $400,000 to a Mississippi farmer. One of the most recent disaster areas was the entire state of Mis sissippi where the cotton crop was damaged by bad weather and wee vils. “Tha end isn't in sight,” one of ficial said. “It looks like the pro gram is here to stay—unless the government starts taking losses like it did in the feed-and-seed-loan program of the depression era.” Hie above chart shows the re turn for each dollar the farmer spent for feed in the production of the five farm commodities listed. return in the milk industry was three cents less than the $1.92 aver age of 1935-39. For each dollar spent for feed for hogs, the farmer's return in 1950 was $1.80, a drop of 23 cents from the 1949 return. The 1935-39 average return, however was even , lower, only $1.50. In beef production the average return as of September, I960, waa I $2 35 for each dollar apent for feed. ! The 1935-39 average was $1.36 and the 1949 average $2.01. Don't wonder...* DO SOMETHING! 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Thread portion of the pipe into this hole. When ready to draw off any of the contents just roll the barrel a little until the liquid starts to run. When sufficient has been drawn, roll the barrel back to a position where the pipe is upper most and contents will stop flowing. Steps to Help Curb Swine Enteritis Are Outlined The American Foundation for Ani mal Health outlines seven steps to help curb swine enteritis. 1. Isolate newly-purchased swine from the home herd for at least three weeks, until they are known to be free of disease. 2. Control internal and external parasites which weaken the ani mals’ resistance. 3. Keep swine away from old hog lots, contaminated pastures, cow pastures, stagnant pools and other sources of infection. 4. Keep feeding and watering equipment clean. 5. Check rations carefully, espe cially possible deficiency of B-com- plex vitamins. Prevent over-eating of rich concentrates. 6. Earmark sows and their •litters to identity and weed out sow ‘‘car riers’’. 7. Watch for scouring, loss of weight, and failure to feed into gains. At the first, sign of trouble, get a diagnosis and isolate the ail ing animals from apparently healthy ones. Tir« Tether Dehydrated Cheese Is Put On Sale in Netherlands Cheese in powdered an<j tablet form is being marketed in the Netherlands, according to the U.S. department of agriculture. The new dehydrated cheese product is made from Gouda and Edam cheeses un der a process which is said to re duce the volume of the cheese by one hell The report seys that e variety of flavors can be obtained depending upon the ace oi tha used tor dehydrating. Instead of tying a tether di rectly to the stake, fasten it to an old automobile tire casing and then drop in over the stake. The later, of course, should be much higher than ordinary so the animal will not pull the tire off the stake. This keeps cattle from winding the tether around the stake. Chemical Blossom Thinning Raises Yield 15 Per Cent Research men of the U. S. depart ment of agriculture co-operating with orchardists of the northwest report that for the fifth successive season the chemical thinning of blossoms in golden delicious or chards has resulted in gains that average six boxes a tree or about 15 per cent. The new thinner* were used on an estimated 20,000 acres this past tea- THE GREAT CONTROVERSY There's a * 1 MacArthur in All of Us, » And History Shows Symptoms Behind His Dismissal Have Existed in Various Forms for Many Centuries By W. P. SCHOENTGEN WNU Managing Editor There is a kind of universality about Douglas MacArthur that communicates itself to many men, something of the same stuff that leads nearly everyone to believe in his own heart that he can run a newspaper and play Hamlet with a deathless genius. Was MacArthur right or wrong in his belief in the strategic priority of Asia, the bombing of Manchuria, the utilization of Chi nese Nationalist forces? Did he, in his public and private rejection of administration and United Nations policies in tha Far East, express a subconscious de sire to achieve "martyrdom” for his principles? Did President Truman take the right action but at the wrong time in relieving MacArthur of his mul tiple command? It doesn't make any difference who you are — you undoubtedly cause of aviation which MltcheQ was personifying. But he also made it plain that, sympathy or no sym pathy, he could not overlook the insubordination of which General Mitchell was found guilty. Aa Assist te Air Fewer The violent closing of Billy Mitchell’s career, we know now. marked the turning point of the controversy over the future of mili tary aviation .and the pioneering general did much to advance U.S. Ueerral Grant TRUMAN AND MACARTHUR TALKED AT WAKE ISLAND . . . but the result uas only an uneasy truce ... have your own strong, definite and perhaps impassioned answer to each of those quesUons. And ac cording to your answers, you align yourself on one side or the other of the MacArthur controversy—the great American schism of 1M1. It la a basic division, a schism of the soul and spirit; and the rock upon which the split has occurred is a military man. a soldier, yea. evan a 71-year-old generaL Military Men’s Drama 'flu! in Itself is not unusual It la. In point of fact, a fairly sound historical tradition that great epochs of man’s development are likely to turn upon the personality of a military leader, probably be cause it is easy for the public to focus its attcnUon upon a man who can be identified with the drama of danger and physical ac tion. and with the glamour of mili tary triumph*. General MacArthur follows vig orously in that tradiUon. It has been his peculiar deattny to help lead this nation in smiting tyranny both right and left within the past decade, striking to the right at Jap anese imperialism in World War II and to the left at Communist efforts at dominaUon in Korea and the Far East Thus he has become a political symbol having stood as the spear head of America's often inept and fumbling but always intense de sire for a peace that patently will not be had for the asking but which may come if we fight hard enough for it > Whether the principles he has advocated are right or wrong, it is MacArthur the symbol, not Mac Arthur the man, around which the PRESIDENT TRUMAN be lowered the boom very real, very basic foreign pol icy quarrel has gathered. From that point of view, the MacArthur controversy is an old and elemental form of domestic strife that has occurred and re curred within this or that national community ever since man has been able to formulate and defend an opinion. Without attempting to make any invidious comparisons, a number of historic parallels to the Mac Arthur case become apparent from a quick glance at the records. Thera is a superficial resem blance, for instance, between the firing of MacArthur by President Truman and Calvin Coolidge’a dis missal of the late General "Billjr" Mitchell for defying orders. Mr Cool id ge made It clear, howev* that As waa m sympathy with the air power to the mighty peak It reached in time to help win World War II. Whether time and events wilt vindicate General MacArthur's ideas as hilly as they have those of Gen ral Mitchell is anybody’s guess. One of the abiding characteristics of many powerful and successful military leaders ia the past has been their capacity to capture the imagination and sympathy of the people and carry them along a chosen course—to a point, at least Thu makes for power and au thority And the possession of broad authority ia like having a permit to carry a pistol. Keep It in the holster and depend upon its pres ence there to control circum stances. and chances are you won’t get into trouble. The danger of carrying a gun lies in the possibil ity that sooner or later you might start firing it indiscriminately and a lot of people will get hurt, in cluding yourself. Julius Caesar, an overwhelm ing military and political genius, amassed for Rome and tor himself a great reservoir of power which he was able to exercise pretty much at will But there were those who felt he had too much power; they mis;rusted it. feared that Caesar might mis-use it. No single man or group of men were strong enough to fire or depose the ruler by legal means. So Brutus and Cas sius plotted, and on a day in March, Caesar, powerful and unsuspecting, walked up the steps of the Capitol to meet the knives of his assassins. Controversy, Then. Too That stirred up a great civil con troversy in Rome, too. Was Caesar right in his principles and policies concerning the Roman empire, or ware the men who deposed him by liquidating him right? It might be argued that Rome, under Caesar, reached its peak of dynamic ex pansion and that its decline began after Caesar’s death in 44 B.C. But regardless of the truth of that po sition, the split over the aims and policies of Julius Caesar marked an epochal turning point in the his tory of the Jtomin empire. Scotland’s immortal Robert Julius Caesar Bruce was the storm center of a raging controversy much of his life, while he held to and fought for his ideal of a free and independent na tion. He settled that issue himself, however, by decisively defeating, the English forces under Edward II at the battle of Bannockburn in June, 1314, and assuring the con tinuance of Scotland as an inde pendent kingdom. Every student of American his tory knows of the quarrels and differences of opinion that flarad after President Abraham Lincoln put General Grant in charge of the' Union armies. Some members of Lincoln’s own cabinet not only re fused te support but actively op posed Grant's appointment It was, in a sense, a MacArthur situation in reverse. Grant's Problem And When Grant took command In March. 1864. he found he had to fight not only the enemy but the torpor and passivity of his own generals in the field. The mili tary issue at stake that time waa whether or not Meade, Hook er. McClellan and others In the string of Union generals were right in fighting a defensive war. avoiding battles wherever possible, and choosing more often to retreat than to fight Grant favored action and offen sive contact with the Confederate armies. Over the protestations of his subdordinates. he decided to attack wherever possible and car ry the war to the enemy. The ultimate surrender of Gen eral Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox proved the rightness of Grant's strategy. But Grant, who went on to become President of the United Statee. albeit not an especially popular one. remained the center of a malettrom of violent opinions all his life. So the MacArthur story la by no means a new one. Call his actions and utterances in Korya Insubor dination. or call them an honorable defense of his own principles, they have basic meaning for us as a dramatic Illustration of the grim tact that the United States has to choose between two basic and dif ferent courses in this battle against the evils of communism. One way is going to be right, the other wrong. We say that the nation, in its collective mind, has split over the issue of which ia the best way to deal with Communist aggression in the Far East But it la not. it cannot be. a fatal split The doubt that has been lurking behind our thinking and our attitude on the question of how best to fight the monstrosity of ‘ tor Id communism has been brought plainly into the open and ia clearly defined There la no longer any reason for anyone—be he statesman, mil itary man, farmer, storekeeper or factory worker—to deny the exist ence of that doubt. Now it can be talked about and it can be elim- nated. That is the great service that President Truman and General MacArthur have unwittingly per formed for the nation and the free world. They have managed to get all the cards on the table. The answer, still to be found, is there somewhere. GENERAL MACARTUHR be went bis own way RED ARMY SPEARHEADS THE MENACE OP COMMUNISM •.. would Mat Arthur's polscsas hare brought total r » F# • • •