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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Lewis Battles Taft-Hartley Law;
Baruch Sees ‘Total Mobilization’;
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Eisenhower Repeats His Refusal
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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
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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!
...
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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.
No. 13
HORIZONTAL
1 Music: as
written
4 Parent
(coll.)
6 Therefore
8 Deed
11 Looked
intently
13 Infant’s bed
15 Handle
16 Paddle
18 Observed
19 Southern
state (abbr.)
20 First sign of
the Zodiac
22 Symbol for
sodium
23 3.1416
24 To sham
26 Brother of
Odin
28 To tax
30 Three-cor
nered pants
32 Anger
33 In favor of
34 Short-dis
tance race
37 Chirped
40 Cooled lava
41 Pantries
43 Negative
44 Initials of
26th Presi
dent
46 Pale, yellow
ish clay
47 Note of scale
48 Desert
dweller
50 Damp
51 Small quan
tity
53 To spin
55 Of greater
length
57 Abstract
being
58 Indian
mulberry
59 Printer’s
measure
60 Guido’s high
note
VERTICAL
1 Resort
2 A game
3 Norse galley
4 Personal
pronoun
5 Admires
6 Prolonged
tirade
7 Correlative
of either
8 Arabian
seaport
9 To sever by
cutting
10 A number
12 Egyptian
sun god
14 While
17 River island
20 Repository
of munitions
of war
21 Hidden
marksmen
23 Parent
(coll.)
24 Danger
25 Challenges
27 Teutonic
deity
29 Title of
respect
31 Explosive
sound
34 Symbol for
samarium
35 Benefactor
36 Mason’s tool
37 Instrument
for mixing
substances
38 Glossy paint
39 To perform
42 River in
Wales
45 Rodents
47 Theater box
48 Exist
49 College de
gree (abbr.)
51 Symbol for
tin
52 Period of
time
54 Symbol for
fantalum
56 Concerning
Answer to Puzzle No. 12.
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