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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Lewis Battles Taft-Hartley Law; Baruch Sees ‘Total Mobilization’; % Eisenhower Repeats His Refusal _________________ Released by WNU Feature* _______________________ (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinion* are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) LABOR: Lewis Fight John L. Lewis and the Taft-Hart ley law were locked in a mortal ■truggle. His United Mine Workers were still out of the pits in a “volun tary” objection to the companies’ alleged refusal to provide them with a $100-a-month pension plan. Most of the 400,000 miners were out fish ing. Lewis himself was out gunning for the Taft-Hartley law. enactment of which was largely the result of his activities in the first place. After the miners had gone out, President Truman, acting under the Taft-Hartley law, had appointed a fact-finding board to investigate the difficulties. But when the board asked John L. Lewis to testify, he refused. ' Then the board issued a subpoena requesting that he appear. Again Lewis refused, stating that the board had no right to demand, his presence before it. He said he based his disinclina tion to testify on the facts that: Neither he nor the UMW had • done anything covered by the Taft-Hartley law, thereby nullifying the President’s invocation of the law, and Two of the three board mem- » bers were “biased and preju diced and in honor should not serve.” Finally, minutes before the dead line. the burly, bushy-eyebrowed chief appeared. It was obvious, of course, that the UMW chief was out to break the Taft-Hartley enactment. Apparent ly he was determined to drag the pension dispute all the way through the courts—preferably as high as the supreme court to get a final verdict. And any way it turned out, the process would react for the miners’ immediate benefit. While the courts would be mulling over the matter the date for the annual renewal of the mine workers’ contract in June would be approaching. The longer the present dispute remained unset tled, the worse the nation’s coal situation would grow, thus putting Lewis in a good bargaining position to extract a favorable contract for next year. MOBILIZE: Controls? Bernard M. Baruch approves of selective service and universal mili tary training for the present quasi crisis, but he does not think that is enough to meet all the implications the world situation holds. . The financier and presidential ad viser called also for an “economic mobilization plan” and said that America’s failure to muster all its resources now for peace would leave “no alternative but to mobilize for war” in the future. Baruch told the senate armed serv ices committee that he was afraid that if the nation suddenly and with out preparation were called upon to mobilize and prepare for a big war, such forces of domestic inflation would be set in motion as could blow the country wide open and leave it defenseless. He suggested the appointment of someone to “watch the impact upon our economy of the partial mobiliza tion we are entering upon and to maintain a constant inventory, bal ancing all our growing commitments against our resources.” It had not been a hidden threat, but Baruch's statement had focused attention on the possible danger that a sudden spate of military spending could bring about ruinous inflation. As a result, talk of reviving the defunct OPA was being heard in Washington. Baruch’s warning touched off informal discussions in congress about the possibility of re viving wage-price controls, rationing and other curbs on the domestic economy. This, of course, had been an in tegral part of President Truman’s famous 10-point program against in flation which he proposed last year, but most congressmen virtually had gagged at the thought of reimposing price and wage controls, and the President was accused of trying to set up something like a “police state.” Now, however, congressmen were not so sure. They were beginning to wonder if the military spending necessary to contain Russia might not have to be buttressed by con trols at home. U. S. astronomers have revealed the discovery of a bundle from heaven—a strange new minor planet which moves around the sun at high speed. The planetoid is only about two miles in diameter. Although there are about 1,600 of these minor chunks of matter, all circling around the earth like the sun, most of them ‘Greatest Killer’ Glenn L. Martin, pioneer air craft builder, revealed that the U. S. has developed an offensive weapon superior to the atomic bomb. He called it a “radioactive cloud—the greatest killer of hu man beings ever devised.” Martin said also, “I’d be in favor of using it before I’d become a slave to another nation.” LUCIUS CLOBB On War Nerves "Pharonie,” said Lucius Clobb to his helpmate as he arranged a quiz zical wrinkle in his brow, “d’you think we’re thunderin’ toward an other war?" "Soon as you open your mouth l figure we're in for at least a skir mish," retorted Pharonie. “If you spent half as much time cultivatin’ my peace of mind as you do your soybeans we wouldn’t have near the arguments we do." Site impaled the elder statesman of Pawhooley coun ty on a spearlike glance. "Dang it, Pharonie, why do you have to drag your rockin’ chair mili tarism into everything I set out to do a little talkin’ on? One of the reasons you married me in the first place was to get security. Now you got security but you still want to fight." The light of creative achievement gleamed briskly in Lucius Clobb’s eye. “Say, by gosh, that there gives me a right smart idea for an aphorism. Nothing I like better than an aphor ism. What d’you think of this Pha ronie'. Between 1941 and 1945 we were united with Russia in the bonds of holy warlock, but now the honey moon's over, the lock is busted and there ain’t nothin’ left of the orig inal idea except war." "Mister Clobb, you can put that out in the com crib with the rest of your aphorisms," commented the critical Pharonie. “Mebbe so," sighed the elder statesman, "but it worries me—not knowin’ how to feel about this here world situation. I’m gettin’ on toward 69, so I could afford to think that in order to have peace and a secure foreign policy we first got to rig up a strong backbone at home. And a strong backbone right now means a strong army and navy and air force." REPEAT: Ike’s ‘No’ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fnir- haired boy of both political parties, said it once more: He would not be a presidential candidate on any body’s ticket. There had been a lull following his unequivocal refusal of Republi can overtures, and then the pro- Eisenhower sentiment was resur rected in the hearts of no fewer than four widely divergent groups. Probably the most unique ap proach was being made by Torrey Steams, a New York public rela tions man, who harbors the opinion that Eisenhower is a Republican. He conceived a “People for Eisen hower” movement. The method is a nationwide solicitation of voting citizens to send in postcards bear ing this signed testimony: “I want to vote for General Eisen hower for president in November. I am a citizen of voting age.” “On June 21," Stearns announced, “all of the statements will be pre sented to the Republican national convention as indisputable evidence that the people of the United States demand the nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower for president.” But Eisenhower was having none of it. Speaking through a statement by Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, army press chief, he indicated that “his no politics statement of some weeks ago” should “apply to all parties and groups of voters.” travel in orbits far larger than that of the earth and do not come any where near it. It is the fact that the newly dis covered planet cuts through the earth’s orbit that makes it unusual. Only four other minor planets have been found which do this, and they have since been lost to astronomers’ telescopes. | TO WALLACE: Veiled Hint Henry Wallace, whose third party movement was coming more and more to follow the standard Com munist party line, had reached the status of a complete pariah as far as President Truman was concerned. In his St. Patrick’s day address in New York the President had re jected angrily any notion of accept ing Wallace’s support in his cam paign, even if it cost him the elec tion. Then, during the course of re marks made at a dinner meeting of Greek-Americans in Washington, Mr. Truman turned on still more heat. He issued an acidulous, thinly veiled suggestion that Wallace take his third party movement to Russia where Mr. Truman obviously thinks it belongs. “I was going to tell you that the Greeks had a Henry Wallace,” the President said to his listeners. “I was going to tell you that the Greeks had a statesman, an orator, a dema gogue. . . . They had the greatest demagogue of all times, Alcibiades.” (Alcibiades was a famous Atheni an who, after committing certain indiscretions, was forced to flee Athens. He went to Sparta and there betrayed secrets of his coun trymen which were instrumental in bringing about the fall of Athens.) Mr. Truman continued: “If imi tators of that ancient Greek con queror want to see . . . liberties subverted, I suggest that they go not to the Rocky mountains—that’s fine country out there. He ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country if that’s the way he feels.” Aw, Drop Dead Few people can appear more ha- man than this quizzical simian as he bestows a suspicions glare on photographer Arthur Sasse and obviously is thinking he wants his picture taken about as much as he wants a hole in the head. Sasse, staunchly unafraid in bis belief that no animal would attack a photographer, has been taking pic tures at New York’s Bronx zoo for 28 years. HOMEBODY: iVo Meeting With the arrival of spring and the yearly rebirth of hope eternal, a second-hand rumor suddenly was re vived across the Atlantic. It had to do with the rebuilding of the stripped gears of East-West rela tions. The rumor, which was being cir culated widely in Europe, said that President Truman was planning a trip to the continent for a Big Three conference with Attlee and Stalin. Another version, as given cur rency by newspapers in Turkey, re ported that the President might go to Europe sometime in April and possibly visit Turkey and Greece. All this was good for a flurry of excitement, but in the end it turned out to be nothing more than a clutching at straws. Mr. Truman, the White House an nounced, had no plans for leaving the country, and there was no pros pect of a Big Three meeting. SPIES: in Germany Conditions were getting back to the cloak and dagger state. With a dramatic flare, radio Mos cow charged that Russia had un covered an American-directed spy ring of former German army offi cers operating out of western Ger many, Austria and Sweden to learn Soviet zone secrets. Leader of the group functioning in the Soviet zone had been captured and had confessed, Moscow re ported. The broadcast claimed, in part: “He confessed he was a member of an illegal Fascist organization ex isting in the western occupation zone of Germany, consisting of officers of the former German army who are being used by the Americln in telligence service for espionage in the Soviet zone.” PIPELINE: Junked The Canol pipeline, that 140-mil- lion-dollar project constructed dur ing the war as a means of getting an emergency oil supply from Nor man wells in Northwest Canada to Alaska, is ending in the junk yard. All that is left of it now is being trucked out for shipment to junk dealers in the Midwest United States. Fifty trucks work night and day out of Johnson’s Crossing on the Alaska highway hauling salvage. BUNDLE FROM HEAVEN New Minor Planet Swims Into Ken' SCRIPTURE: Ezra 1-6; Haggal. DEVOTIONAL READINO: Psalma 12»! 1-6. The Return From Exile Lesson for April 18, 1948 C OWPER’S lines come to mind as we study the dramatic re turn of the Jews from their exile in Babylon to Jerusalem in the first year of the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia, 536 B. C.: “God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps In the sea And rides upon the storm.” And yet it is not altogether strange, for if you will turn to Jeremiah 29:4-14. you will find a prophecy given 50 years be fore the event that this very thing would occur. There were two other deportations of the Jews from Babylon, prior to the incident in our lesson—the return led by Daniel, 6Q6 B. C., and the one led by Eze kiel. 597 B. C. * a a * PROCLAMATION OF CYRUS HE proclamation of Cyrus, Ezra 1:1-5, records the happy word to the Jews that they would not only return, but that the temple would be rebuilt. Cyrus called upon all the people who would to make offerings by which the temple might be restored. Cyrus was act ing under divine impulse in this gracious and generous proclama tion. “The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah." said Cyrus, Ezra 1:2. Fifty thousand Jews, their hearts rejoicing at the thought of return ing to the land of their fathers, set out on the trek of 600 miles, laden with gifts from the Per sians for the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem. They could now sing the song of the Lord, and no longer did their harps hang silently on the willow trees. * • * THE DECREE OF ARTAXERXES HE fourth chapter of Ezra brings us to the halting of the work on the temple, after they had raised the magnificent sum of ap proximately $400,000, and had laid the foundation for the temple, with imposing ceremonies. This delay was occasioned by the jealousy of the Samaritans, who went to Artaxerxes. through em ployed counsel, and convinced him that it would be dangerous to al low these Jews to rebuild Jerusa lem. At first, the Samaritans pro posed that the Jews let them use the temple in joint worship, but the Jews feared the Samaritans Dr. Newton By ?A.W. i~4U6ENT A P LACE A WOODEN MATCH- ON THE KNUCKLE OF YOUR. FOREFINGETi AND BALANCE IT To THE AMAZEMENT OF YOUTZ. FRIENDS. . . HERE'S THE SECRET: bend the forefinger inward and Place the match in the. CREASE- then straighten the FINGER TO HOLD THE MATCH . Jjkjr° U V * uJL Ee 2> SCJ -ATi.E2> A W/MNE/Z OF THIS MAZE Crmr GAME /F You CAN LEAD T/VE HOOKED SAIL FISH M TO THE POSITION MAAKED "CAUGHT "-SK NOT TAKING MoTZE THAN THREE TRIALS.START EACH TURN FROM THE FISH. PLAY FA!A,Don't CROSS A LINE OR TURN J3ACK IF YOU LAND IN A PATH THAT WILL PERMIT THE FISH TO ESCAPE. IF /T ESCAPES THREE TIMES YOU WILL LOSE. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Solution In Next Issue. and refused their offer. It was then that the Samaritans effected the delay in the building of the temple by the space of 14 years. Mean while. the Jews went forward with the building of their homes and re establishing themselves and their civilization in Jerusalem. * '> * STICKING TO ONE’S PURPOSE W E come now to the part Hag- gai played in summoning the Jews to their duty and obligation to God to restore the temple. It was In the second year of the reign of Darius that Haggai received the word of the Lord. “Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts. Consider your ways.” It was enough. The people rallied to the call of Haggai, and the temple was completed. Men can always do what they ought to do, if they will to do it. ... GOD’S PURPOSE FULFILLED T HE message of Haggai was heeded. The temple was com pleted, Ezra 6:13-18, and God’s purpose was fulfilled Read Psalm 126. This brings us to the golden text: “No man. having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God,” Luke 9:62. When once the returned exiles felt the iron of God’s purpose surging through their veins, they quitted themselves like men, and God’s power was everywhere mani fest. So may it ever be with us! ... (Copyright by flic Internationai Council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protesiant denominations Released bv WNU Features.) As We Achieve The degree of success which we achieve in making effective our Christian education program in the Ufe <f[ this generation will determine whether future generations will be able to enjoy a society free from the distrust of religious intolerance, the vindictiveness of race prejudice, and the bitterness of class hatred.— Walter W. Head. 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