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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Truman, MacArthur Would Accept
Presidency “if the People Call”;
Great Powers Confer on Palestine
Released by WNTJ Feature
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
The United States is experiencing a steady increase in popula
tion. From a range of 2.1 million to 2.3 million in the 1930s, the
births rose to 2.9 million in 1943. They totaled 2.7 million in 1945
and then sharply rose again to about 3.9 million in 1947. This sharp
rise in births has had the effect of increasing the population some
4.4 million persons since 1945 and 13 million since 1939.
PRESIDENCY:
Announcements
As far as grabbing the spotlight
was concerned. President Truman
and Gen. Douglas MacArthur stum
bled all over each other with their
coy and almost simultaneous an
nouncements that they would accept
a presidential nomination if the peo
ple called them.
The declarations by the two men,
coming within just a few hours of
each other, were perhaps a symbolic
prelude to a similar but greater
clash of personalities and political
forces which it is now possible
might develop later this year.
Mr. Truman said he would run
for a full term as chief executive if
the Democrats would nominate him;
and MacArthur opined that he
would accept the presidency “if
called by the American people” but
would not actually seek it.
Taking note of the fact that peti
tions have been filed in Wisconsin
putting his name in the primary
there on April 6, MacArthur issued
this sonorous statement;
“While it seems unnecessary for
me to repeat that I do not actively
seek or covet any office and have no
plans for leaving my post in Japan,
I can say, and with due humility,
that I would be recreant to all my
concepts of good citizenship were I
to shrink because of the hazards and
responsibilities involved from ac
cepting any public "duty to which I
might be called by the American
public.”
Republicans, however, were going
easy in their comments on the gen
eral’s willingness to accept presi
dential nomination, confining them,
for the most part, to peripatetic re
marks about What a highly regarded
figure MacArthur is.
Sen. Ralph Flanders (Rep., Vt.)
said, “I think General MacArthur
would be doing the country a dis
service if he left the job he is in
until he has put it in such shape he
can leave. That’s the place the Lord
put him.”
Other politicians were wondering
about the spot that the Lord and
Harry Truman was putting them on.
Southern Democrats, despite Mr.
Truman’s announcement of his can
didacy, were not budging an inch
from their stand opposing him and
his civil rights program. Some of
the southern states, notably Missis
sippi, went right ahead with their
plans to prevent their electoral
votes from going to him.
NEW ATOM:
Thorium
Already well beyond the awesome
threshhold of the atomic age, nu
clear scientists are continuing to
step deeper into the contradictory
wilderness of creation and destruc
tion that appeared when the first
atomic blast burned up the night
and the sands at Los Alamos, N. M.
Latest step is the manufacture of
the first small pieces of a new kind
of atomic bomb and fuel metal, ac
cording to an announcement by Dr.
Glenn T. Seaborg, atomic scientist.
Where formerly the extremely
rare metal uranium 235 was the
only practicable substance through
which atomic energy could be pro
duced, there now is a new metal, |
known as uranium 233, made by
changing the heavy metal thorium
into uranium.
This new form of uranium does
not exist naturally on earth, nor is
it known to exist in the stars.
Dr. Seaborg reported that a small
fraction of an ounce—actually only
a few hundred milligrams—of the
thorium metal has been made in the
Hanford, Wash., uranium-graphite,
chain-reacting atomic piles.
PANIC PITCH
CONSULTATION:
Holy Land
Leading experts on global anat
omy were getting together in a con
sultation to determine whether there
was any conceivable way in which
they could perform a painless bisec
tion of Palestine. ,
Russia, France, China and the
U. S. had been requested by the
United Nations security council to
hold one of their famous conferences
to study how partition of the Holy
Land into independent Arab and
Jewish states might be effected.
Britain, too, had been asked to par
ticipate but declined the invitation,
although consenting to sit in in the
role of advisor.
As the consultation got under
way, the United States was report
ed ready to seek big power agree
ment on a new conciliation effort in
Palestine. Warren R. Austin, chief
U. S. delegate, said he felt the talks
should deal primarily with the ques
tion of “peaceful settlement.”
But while U. N. delegates might
talk in New York about a peaceful
settlement, Arab military forces on
the spot in Palestine had vastly
different ideas.
Arab Commander-in-Chief Fawzi
el Kawkji publicly issued a vow to
free Palestine from “the Zionist
menace whether it takes one month,
one year or a generation.”
Red-haired El Kawkji, the Arab
chieftain who had led anti-British
and anti-Jewish revolts in 1936 and
1939, had just returned to Palestine
after an absence of nine years. He
came back, he said, to fight “parti
tion, intrigue and Zionism.”
“We came here to fight anyone
who stands for partition, be they
British, Jewish or an international
force.”
What the United Nations con
ferees, none of them eager to apply
international power in the Holy
Land, could do against this kind of
gun-waving local zeal was a prob
lem which so far had them com
pletely baffled.
RUHR:
Solution
One of the major problems of the
uneasy peace—what to do with the
Ruhr, Germany’s prime industrial
section—was solved when the U. S.,
Great Britain and France agreed in
a series of conferences at London
that they would place the Ruhr un
der international control.
It was decided also that the eco
nomic and industrial assets of west
ern Germany, perennial breeding
ground for German war machines,
would be enlisted in the Marshall
plan for European recovery.
Moreover, the western powers
agreed that western Germany
should have a federal form of gov
ernment, providing adequate central
authority but protecting the rights
of the various states.
Indicative of the manner in which
statesmen of the western powers are
thinking now was the fact that Ger
many will be represented in the in
ternational control of the Ruhr but
that Russia very probably will not.
Recognizing the importance of the
Ruhr to the recurring surges of
German aggression, the conference
communique pointed out that “the
purpose of this international control
would be to ensure that the eco
nomic resources of this area should
not again be used for the purposes
of aggression and that there should
be adequate access to the coal, coke
and steel of the Ruhr for the benefit
of extensive parts of the European
community including Germany.”
The communique urged the “ne
cessity of insuring the economic re
construction of western Europe, in
cluding Germany”.
EDUCATION:
And Religion
In a ruling that, for good or III,
could stand to affect the moral
stature of this and succeeding gen
erations of Americans, the U. S.
supreme court declared unconstitu
tional the use of public school sys
tems to help any religious group
spread its faith.
Religion and government, the de
cision said, “can best work to
achieve their lofty aims if each is
left free from the other within its
respective sphere."
The ruling upheld a protest by a
self-professed atheist mother, Mrs.
Vashti McCollum, that a system of
religious teaching in Champaign,
111., schools breaks down the wall
between church and state. She con
tended that her son was “embarras
sed” by the religious instruction.
Delivering the main opinion, Jus
tice Black held that under the facts
shown the compulsory education
system in Illinois “assists and is
integrated with the program of re
ligious instruction carried on by
separate religious sects.” He said
pupils legally required to go to
school for secular education are re
leased from some of that legal duty
on condition that they attend re
ligious classes.
“This is beyond all question a
utilization of the tax-established and
tax-supported public school system
to aid religious groups to spread
their faith.”
It was an issue that parents as
well as all other U. S. citizens would
do well to consider.
There were two facets which
would bear reflection:
The supreme court’s decision con
firmed a long-standing and honora
ble theory in the U. S. that there
should be no interference between
church and state and no influence
exerted by one on the other. The
ruling would seem to safeguard the
nation against the two extremes of
a state-controlled church or a
church-controlled state.
But at the same time, the broad
language of the decision failed to
recognize the historical importance
of religion in creating civilizations
and forming and molding nations.
Western civilization grew out of the
Christian church. Divorcement of
the cause and effect now could be
dangerous.
FINNISH:
Aid to Russia
It was with no clapping of hands
that the government of Finland de
cided to accept the proposal of
Prime Minister Josef Stalin of Rus
sia to discuss a treaty of mutual
military aid.
Russia, which needs military help
from Finland about as much as the
U. S. needs a five-year plan, put the
proposal of a discussion to Finland’s
President Jugo K. Paasikivi within
a week after it had swept Czecho
slovakia into the Soviet orbit.
Having no alternative, Paasikivi
accepted the “invitation” and ap
pointed a negotiating delegation of
seven members, including one mili
tary expert, government officials
and parliament members.
Soviets say they want a binding
treaty of mutual military assistance
against future German aggression.
Talks presumably were being held
cn that basis, but it was the task of
the Finnish negotiators to do all
they could to prevent Finland from
being chained to Russia in a mili
tary treaty.
There was little doubt in the
Pack of Seed Nets
Million Dollar Crop
Plant Immigrant Has
Typical Success Story
One package of seed sent home by
a missionary less than 30 years ago
has developed into a crop now valued
at more than 200 tnillion dollars
year. That is the success story of a
plant immigrant — Korean lespe-
deza.
Only three decades ago Dr. Ralph
Mills, a medical missionary, sent a
package of lespedeza seed from
Korea to the U. S. department of
agriculture. Department specialists
planted the seed at the experimental
farm across the Potomac river from
Washington. In a few years there
was enough seed to plant lespedeza
at several state experiment stations.
The imported crop fitted well on
the poor, slightly acid soils unfit for
such crops as alfalfa and soon was
being grown widely in the East Cen
tral states as a'seed and pasture
crop. Now its use is becoming more
widespread, particularly in areas of
low fertility land.
The U. S. crop of Korean lespe
deza. developed directly from the
single package, now is valued at
more than 200 million dollars a year.
Value of the seed crop amounts to
20 million dollars. The hay crop
makes up another 100 million dollars
of value. Although value of the pas
ture crop is difficult to estimate, spe^
cialists contend that it amounts to
at least 100 million dollars. These
figures do not take into account the
profitable use of millions of acres of
low fertility land made possible by
introduction of the new legume crop.
He's a Rat
What is the most destructive ani
mal in the world?
No—it’s not a puppy or a small
boy!
The common Norway or brown rat
has absolutely no competition when
it comes to the ability to destroy.
Annually, rats alone destroy about
4 per cent of the total grain and
cereal crop in the United States, fig
ures compiled by extension service
entomologists indicate. As if its de
structive abilities were not enough,
the rat is host to carriers or is it
self a carrier of bubonic plague,
typhus and other diseases which are
deadly to man.
Few farms are entirely free of
minds of Finnish leaders that this | rats, although rat populations can
be reduced quickly. Cleaning up the
premises, rat proofing, cutting off
food supply, poisoning and trapping
are major points in an effective rat
control program. But, once the con
trol measures begin to show results,
there can be no relaxing. Rat con
trol is a permanent, year-around
program. A few days of poisoning
will have only a temporary effect on
the rat population.
was Russia’s first step in a campaign
to gain as complete control over
that little northern nation as it now
holds over the Balkans. And in the
final analysis the Finns probably
would capitulate in the stark inter
ests of self-preservation.
Military Insurance
Kathleen Norris Says:
Fiances Fears Are Unjustified
Bell Syndicate.—WNTJ Features
UNWILLING FIANCE
“He made himself so adorable to my father, sister and old Sophy that
all resistance on my part seemed ridiculous."
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
L INDA has been engaged for
four years. That is a long
time for an American girl
to wait for her wedding. In
Europe it is different. A six or
seven years engagement
doesn’t disturb a girl there, be
cause just so much social and
financial adjusting must go on,
and engagements are family
matters, considered and ac
cepted as solemn contracts;
breaking an engagement is al
most as serious as a divorce.
Linda said “Yes” to Charles in
1944, while the great war was on.
Charles went off to the South seas,
Linda stayed home with her mother
and her blind father. Before Charles
came back Linda’s mother died,
leaving a 17-year-old sister ■ to
Linda’s care, as well as their father.
The sister Betsey, is evidently a
popular and busy girl, away at
college most of the time.
The home is a roomy old-fash
ioned one and the family has a
good servant. Inasmuch as no small
apartments are available and Lin
da’s father is dependent upon her
for comfort and care, although finan
cially responsible for the home and
its upkeep, it seems natural to
Linda, who is 28, to get married
and keep husband, father, sister and
herself in one family group.
Fiance Is Afraid
But Charles is afraid to try it.
His mother’s life was blighted by a
mother-in-law who for 20 years
usurped her place in her home and
in her husband’s affection and she
has warned him against any such
arrangement. He loves Linda, he
will do anything for her, but not
that. He likes her father, he thinks
Betsey is a swell kid, but he has
decided that he and Linda must
wait until “something happens.”
After an engagement of
four years Linda and
Charles still haven’t mar
ried. Although Linda is will
ing, Charles is reluctant be
cause he fears family com
plications. Several years ago
Linda’s mother died and Lin
da feels obligated to care
for her blind father and her
17 - year - old sister. She
would like to marry anyway.
Charles, on the other
hand, contends that Linda’s
affection for him will be split
if they live with her family.
Miss Norris is of the opin
ion that a marriage between
Charles and Linda would in
volve no unusual risk. She
urges Linda to inform
Charles that they are going
to get married and make
him think that the idea is
his. Once he has taken the
step he will be extremely
happy, Miss Norris says.
Modem Dairy Buildings
Will Boost Efficiency
Increased efficiency has entered
the dairy industry with more wide
spread use of milking rooms and
milk houses.
The ideal location for a milk house
is attached to the milking room or
barn. In most areas, sanitary re-
Lieut* Gen. Albert C. Wede-
meyer, director of plans and
operations for the army and
author of top-secret report on
China, told house foreign affairs
committee that U. S. must back
up economic aid abroad with
military support if communism
is to be stopped in China and
elsewhere. He said, “I don’t
think I would recommend 500
million dollars in aid to China
unless there were military aid
to protect that 500 million dol
lars.”
Americans Ready to Go Off Deep End
People of the U. S. are conduct
ing their day-by-day activities in a
state of mind that is separated from
a condition of acute panic by only
the merest veil of self-restraint,
says Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith of
the International Committee for
Mental Hygiene.
Any day now a phony rumor of
sudden war or even of sea mon
sters invading New York harbor
might produce wholesale panic.
Many Americans are ripe to go off
the deep end from just such a scare,
no matter how fantastic it may be,
Dr. Fremon-Smith contends.
The reason people might be easily
panicked is the widespread worry,
anxiety or fear over the possibilities
of atomic war or of depression.
Perennial Blooms
Two Paterson, N. J., brothers, Dr.
Philip and Sidney Joffe, have re
ported the discovery of a chemical
solution that will preserve freshly
cut flowers forever.
They claim their secret process
fixes the cell structure of the flower
and preserves its color, form and
texture. Only drawback is that the
bloom loses its fragrance. The
brothers have worked on the solution
for the last eight years.
Miles of walking are saved an
nually when the milk house is
adjacent to the milking room or
barn, figures compiled by Cornell
university show.
quirements permit construction un
der the same roof.
Adjacent construction permits the
dairyman to coordinate feeding, car
ing for the cows, milking them and
handling the milk into an efficient
system.
Rabbit and Chicken
Raising Is Profitable
To offset high meat prices, home
production of rabbits and chickens
can be carried on very economi-
| cally, making the family at least
I partially independent of commer
cial sources.
Raising of rabbits and chickens
at home has a big advantage in the
economical use of feeds, because
such animals mature more quickly
and at a lower feed cost per pound
of gain in weight.
Now, this waiting until “some
thing happens” is a favorite de
lusion of us all when what we
really hope is that someone will
die. Linda’s father is a strong
and cheerful 60, he may easily
live 15 years more. Her sister
probably will marry but not for •
some time.
“I’ve tried the trick of telling
Charles that we had much better
end the engagement than go on with
any such expectation as this,” says
Linda’s letter. “But that didn’t
work.” In a day or two Charles
telephoned, came out to tell me
that we simply couldn’t be parted.
He made himself so adorable to my
father and sister, and even to old
Sophy, that all resistance on my
part seemed ridiculous and things
went back to their old status.
“Frankly, he is afraid. He says
he would not be jealous, that he
loves to have me read to my father,
that our home is the most harmon
ious he has ever known. His war
record shows that he never shrinks
back from anything he undertakes.
But still he hesitates to marry.
And of course that makes me hesi
tant, too. Will you tell me if you
think he is right, or might we go
ahead and take a chance?”
• « •
My dear Linda, you would be
taking no chance and neither would
he. This delay is a nervous strain
on you both, and you have worked
yourself up into quite unneccessary
distress over it. You are a fine
sensitive, loving woman, you have
a comfortable home in which to be
gin your married life, and your do
ing your full duty to your father
will only enhance Charles’ apprecia
tion of you.
Most Anxieties Needless
Most of these engagement anx
ieties are unwarranted. A man who
never will show jealousy again may
make his sweetheart’s life a burden
while they are engaged. A girl who
throw's her money about recklessly,
is smartly dressed and is always on
the go before marriage, may make
the thriftiest and most economical
of wives. Men who state boldly that
they love night life and dining!
down to wm turn into maddeningly 1
domestic husbands, unwilling ever to
leave the family fireside; men who
are sure they despise babies become
fatuous fathers; Robert, who as
serts that he’ll never *ive in the
country and hates dogs, presently is
telling you of early radishes and
the fidelity of old Binky, and girls
who despise the kitchen go in for
cookies and curried eggs on a big
scale.
Love is the alchemy that
works these miracles and since
you and Charles truly love each
other, you need have no fear.
Forget his mother’s gloomy pro
phesies as you prove to her that
she is wrong.
Your own good sense will teach
you to develop a friendship between
your two men, how to delegate some
of your daughterly duties to Betsey,
how to refer everything first to
Charles and seem to act on his ad
vice even when you don’t. All lov
ing wives learn this trick.
Make that home of yours the hap
piest in town. Carry things from
this moment with a high hand.
Tell Charles when you are going to
be married and make it soon. Put
it in the paper. Plan straight ahead
for your honeymoon, your home ar
rangements; be completely happy
yourself about it, and you’ll find that
he not only falls into line, but that
he’s happier than you are, and when
presently he convinces himself that
the whole thing was his idea, and
that he had to talk you over to it,
be sure you leave him in this fond
delusion.
SPEAKS —
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MJiUPI Sunday School Lwssom pij
By IQHH D. NEWTON, 0. fl.
SCRIPTURE: John 21:1-14; Colossianj
3:1-4. 12-17: I John 5:11-12.
DEVOTIONAL READING: John 14
2-6.
Eternal Life
Lesson for March 28, 1948
Dr. Newton
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His mother’s life was blighted
Talking Turkey’
The expression “talking turkey”
generally is attributed to an Indian
who roamed through a patch of
woods in New Hampshire in 1850.
It seems the Indian and a white
man went hunting and agreed to
split the spoils. They bagged a fat
wild turkey and an old black crow.
The fast-talking white man said: |
“I’ll take the turxey and you take
**' | 'HE Lord has risen indeed.
-*• and because he lives, we too
shall live. Easter is the day that re
minds us of this blessed truth—the
truth of eternal life. Well has Henry
Burton expressed it in these lines
"There’s a light upon the mountains,
And the day is at the spring,
When our eyes shall see the beauty
And the glory of the King;
Weary was our heart with waiting,
And the night watch seemed so long,
But his triumph day is breaking,
And we hail it with a song.
"He is breaking down the barriers;
He is casting up the way;
He is calling for his angels
To build up the gates of day;
But his angels here are human,
Not the shining hosts above;
And the drumbeats of his army
Are the heartbeats of our love."
TYEikD John 21:1-14 for the ex-
quisite account of Jesus appear
ing to his disciples in the early
morning at the sea of Tiberias. They
had been toiling all
night, and had
taken nothing.
Bringing their boat
near to the shore,
they saw one stand
ing there, “but the
disciples knew not
that it was Jesus.”
Jesus told them
to cast their net on
the right side of the
ship, which they
did, and they
caught 153 ‘‘great
fishes.” Jesus then summoned them
to breakfast. He had prepared the
bread and fish on coals of fire. And
they did eat.
* • •
BLESSED ASSURANCE
B EFORE his death, Jesus had
said to his disciples, ‘‘Because
I live, you will live also.” John 14:19,
but they did not fully grasp the
meaning of the great words. But
that morning on the sea shore, they
understood. They remembered that
he had died on the cross, and now
they were assured that he was real
ly alive, for this was the third time
he had appeared unto the disciples
after the resurrection.
How happy they must have
been! How happy we should be
on this recurring Easter season,
assured that he is alive evermore.
And because he lives, we too shall
live.
• • •
WHAT IS ETERNAL LIFE?
S UNDAY’S lesson leads us on to
the answer to the question. What
is eternal life? In Colossians 3:1-4
and 12-17, we have the declaration,
“Your life is hid with Christ in
God. . . ” If we have believed on
him — cast ourselves in implicit
trust into his keeping — we have
eternal life, which is his gift to ev
ery believing heart.
Paul goes on to admonish those
who have “entered into life eter
nal,” through faith in the riven,
risen, reigning Saviour, to put on
the garments of his presence and
power and peace — kindness, hu
mility, meekness, long-suffering,
forbearance, forgiveness.
The evidence of eternal life is to
be found in the fruits of the Spirit
in our daily lives.
• • •
CERTAINTY OF ETERNAL LIFE
W E READ in John 17:3 this
word of further assurance,
“This is eternal life, that they know
thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom thou hast sent.” And
in I John 5:11-12, we read, “And
this is the record, that God hath
giv^n to us eternal life, and this life
is in his Son. He that hath the Son
hath life; and he that hath not the
Son of God hath not life.”
In another passage John tells
that we know that we have passed
from death unto life because we
love the brethren.
Easter is the day of eternal
hope. It lifts above the fog of earth
iness the glory of the blessed hope
that fadeth not away. We have God’s
own testimony that we shall live
with him forever, through Jesus
Christ, our risen, reigning, return
ing Lord.
• • •
(Copyright by. the International Council
of Religious Education on behalt of 40
Protestant denominations. Released hr
WNU Features.)
Our Richest Treasure
the crow; or you take the crow and
I’ll take the turkey."
“Ugh,” the Indian grunted. “You
no talk turkey.”
The Bible walks the ways of all
the world with familiar feet and
enters land after land to find its
own everywhere. Children listen to
its stories with wonder and delight,
and wise men ponder them as par
ables of life. The wicked and the
proud tremble at its warnings, but
to the wounded and the penitent it
has a mother’s voice. It has woven
itself into our dearest dreams; so
that love, friendship, sympathy, de
votion, memory, hope, put on the
beautiful garments of its treasured
speech. No man is poor or desolate
who has this treasure for his own.
—Henry V*n Dyke.
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