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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C — WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Signs Bill for Extension Of European Aid Another 15 Months; U. S. Launches Bond Sale Orive Lady Sheriff #F< EDITOR'S NOTE; When opinions are expressed in these colnmns. they are those of extern Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily pf this newspaper.) BOND DRIVE: Plan for Security Kick-off speaker at the opening of the "Opportunity Bond Drive,” in which the government hopes to sell one billion, 40 million dollars worth of U.S. savings bonds to its people. President Truman keyed his remarks to the need for nation al security. HE PICTURED the bond drive as providing another opportunity for purchasers to assure security for themselves and their country. Among other things, the President said: “We know that we cannot have a sound and secure nation unless se curity is the common possession of our people. Farmer, factory work er, banker, merchant, school teach er, housewife—all are buying se curity for themselves and each other when they buy savings bonds.” He added that “every bond they have bought has given them much more reason to feel secure about the future—their own and their country’s.” THE PRESIDENT said the kick off dinner was to honor three mil lion volunteers in the bond sales program, and declared they would be joined by another 250,000 news boys who would “ring the nation’s doorbells, bringing the message of the Opportunity Bond Drive into 12 million American homes. Top question plaguing bond offi cials was the recession in employ ment, lower prices and less con sumer cash interfering with the bond drive’s reaching its goal. Men Who Found Kathy Remembered by Mail The men who dug for little Kathy Fiscus, 3-year old who died in a California well shaft, were being remembered aU over the nation. Mere than 2,200 letters bad been received by the Kathy Fis- cns rescue fund from virtually every state in the uniom Mayor Clark E. Bell, San Marino, chairman of the fund committee, said the first envelopes opened contained $1,020—an average contribution of $5.10. Donations ranged from 10 cents to $50. It was pointed out that if the average continued, it would mean a total of more than $11,000 for the men who worked for 52 hours to reach the child who feU to her death 92 feet down the weU pipe. AID BILL; Has Truman Okay A bill to give 5.58 billion dollars to the European recovery program over the next 15 months—with one billion available at once—was signed by President Truman. MR. TRUMAN, as is a quaint capital custom in such matters, signed the bill with several pens— eight, in fact. Even Mr. Truman, himself, was moved to observe jest ingly that “this will probably look like a forgery, but it really isn’t.” The bill which Mr. Truman signed allots more than one-eighth of the entire budget of the United States to foreign aid. Mr. Truman, ever a meticulous man, carefully wiped the points of the pens, handed one each to seven witnesses to ihe signing, and kept one for Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, who was unable to attend. THERE WAS a check and bal ance in the bill, however. With the billion dollars to be made available at once, aid could be kept flowing to the Marshall plan countries of western Europe until congress votes the rest cl the cash later. CHURCHMEN: UN Asks Facts The United Nations wasn’t heed ing protests of Hungary and Bul garia against its consideration of the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and Protestant churchmen. Instead, the UN invited the two Soviet satellite countries to tell their stories of the imprisonment of the Cardinal and other clergymen. THE RUSSIAN delegation indi cated the two nations would disre gard the invitation, since both Hun gary and Bulgaria have contended the trials were internal matters and no business of the UN. The world organization, however, voted 30 to 7 to put the church cases on its agenda and to go on with a full discussion of them. U. S. delegate Benjamin V. Cohen argued the committee should delay inviting any nations or churches to send spokesmen until it decides how it wants to deal with the ques tion. Russia’s Jacob A. Malik indi cated the two Russian satellites would reject such an invitation and accused Bolivia of violating the UN charter by seeking to invite re ligious organizations. To the casual observer, the entire matter was even less than a tem pest in a tea pot. Whatever the UN might find as a result of rehashing the convictions of the churchmen— what could UN do about it? The force of UN in world peace reten tion efforts has been so meager as to cause critics to begin comparing it already with the old League of Nations which died of impotency. OASI COST: In Billions American taxpayers in covered employment would have to dig into their pockets to the tune of 3.75 billion dollars by 1955 to finance old age and survivors insurance under the proposals advanced by Presi dent Truman and his administra tion. BY THE YEAR 2,000—when the program is expected to hit its peak —the proposed cost would have mounted to approximately 13 bil lion dollars. This estimate, made by the Re search Council for Economic Se curity, Chicago, is based on a re port from the advisory council on social security to the 80th congress. Of a labor force of over 60 mil lion, OASI now covers about 35 million, or roughly three out of five jobs. Coverage is now limited to persons employed in industry and commerce. It is proposed that the system be extended to cover the entire labor force. In presenting both sides of the question, the council’s report in cludes a full page of pros and cons. Each side might be summarized as follows: ON THE ONE HAND, if em ployees of commerce and industry are entitled to this protection, why not employees on the farm and in the household? If the goal of the system is to provide even a mini mum of subsistence, benefits must be raised now to keep in step with living costs. An adequate OASI system will reduce substantially the heavy burden of old age assistance. On the other hand, opponents of the proposed extension point out that of those excluded, the majority are either protected by other systems or are able to provide for themselves, while the lowest in come classes are employed too irregularly to earn insured status under any program. If the cost of living is a valid reason for raising benefits now, then logically the whole system should be geared to the cost of living, fluctuating down as well as up. The bigger the system, the better the promises of bigger and better pensions. Mrs. Barkley Graham, weigh ing only 95 pounds, has become the first woman sheriff of Mc Cracken county, Kentucky, birth place of Vice-President Alben W. Barkley. She succeeded her hus band who resigned to become Pa ducah’s chief of police. FARM SURPLUS: May Hasten Subsidy The administration’s rarm ex perts weren’t being too subtle in a movement to hasten payment of direct subsidies to farmers. They were pointing out in the capital that an over-supply of pork and milk expected within the next two months, may require President Truman to ask immediate authority for such action. SECRETARY of Agriculture Brannan said he already had dis cussed such a proposal with the President. At the present time the government is committed to sup port prices of those commodities by buying any surplus and taking it off the market. This is supposed to keep the retail price up. Farm legislation passed by the 80th congress authorized direct pay ments to farmers for pork and milk, but this law does not go into effect until January 1, 1950. Meanwhile, the agriculture secre tary said consumer prices on pork and milk probably would fall if the admisistration was allowed to make direct subsidy payments to produ cers. DESPITE much sentiment to the contrary, Brannan said his depart ment has had a "quite favorable” reaction to the proposed farm pro gram which, briefly, would let farm products find their own price level through supply and demand, with the government paying the farmer the difference in this and the sup port price in cash. Congressional critics of the farm program declare its cost will run into billions of dollars and that it will benefit neither the farmer nor the taxpayer, because, in the end, the farmer and the taxpayer will be paying additional taxes to finance the program. CANCER: 1! •tm i - Ilf F — •— Pucuav ’— 4100 $27.50 $41.25 $41.25 $ 61.88 $20.63 $30.94 $48.13 $ 80.00 160 33 00 4875 49.50 73.13 24.76 36.56 67.75 97.50 200 38.60 66.25 57 75 84.38 28 88 42.19 67.38 112.51 250 44.00 63.75 66.00 95.63 33.00 47.81 77.00 127.50 300 44.00 71 25 66 00 106.88 33.00 63.44 77.00 142.51 S50 44.00 78.75 66 00 118 13 33.00 69 06 77.00 157.60 Rural Housing Off COMPARATIVE BENEFITS . . . Under present provision of the social security law it is assumed the worker has 10 years of coverage. Under proposed provisions, however, monthly benefits would not be affected by length of time spent in covered employment. Chart, prepared by Research Council for Economic Security, offers comparison of present benefit scales with those proposed in the administration program. ACCIDENTS: Fewer Noted Hope was indicated that the ap palling toll of death and injury on U.S. streets and highways might be lessened. The National Safety Coun cil reported that 92 cities of more than 10,000 population went through all of 1948 without a traffic death. The council reported that Med ford, Mass., with a population of 67,477, was the largest no-death city last year. According to Senator Fear (D., Del.) some of the nation’s worst housing conditions still exist in rural areas—a conclusion familiar already to many, many Americans. The senator’s statement was made during a hearing by a senate com mittee on the multi-billion-dollar housing bill pending in congress. There has been little talk of rural needs in discussion of the housing problem to date, although that need is as pressing, almost, as anv other. Progress Seen The men in white who wage an unceasing battle against cancer caught a glimmer of hope—they felt sure they had discovered, as they put it, “what is for all prac tical purposes a simple, cheap and reasonably sure blood test for can cer.” THE ANNOUNCEMENT was made with the customary caution and restraint of the men who work with test tubes—“reasonably sure” was how they described the test. But if they had made such a dis covery, it was a great stride for ward toward victory over the terri ble disease. According to the announcement, comparative studies at the Uni versity of Chicago of the blood serum of cancer patients and nor mal and other non-cancerous indi viduals had revealed significant differences that led to the state ment of the new cancer blood test. Report of the university findings was made by Professor Charles B. Huggins, who 10 years ago origi nated a new treatment for pros tatic cancer which has kept more than 25 per cent of the victims alive and well for more than eight years. DISCUSSING the new test, he said that tests on almost 300 indi viduals—equally divided into cancer patients, apparently healthy per sons, and patients with non-cancer ous diseases—proved positive for all cancer cases, negative for all normal persons and negative for all others tested, except those with lung tuberculosis and massive acute infections. Inasmuch as tuberculosis and in flammatory processes can be read ily diagnosed, it was explained, the test was not expected to confound cancer with other conditions. KIWI: Rare Chick Nature lovers in New Zealand rejoiced. A sturdy male kiwi chick was hatched at the Hawke’s Bay game farm, bringing to six the only known existing family of this noc turnal, flightless bird which was thought to be extinct until a few years ago. The male bird spent 81 days on the latest egg before the newcomer burst through the thick shell. PACT BEARER . . , Herbert L. Miller, White House record clerk, is shown as he left the White House with the North Atlantic pact and President Truman’s message to the sen ate, in which the chief execu tive urged ratification of the treaty. A VERY COCKY COCK ROBIN . . . Here’s a robin so belligerent he fights with himself. In the upper left photo, the bird wearing a red tux edo shirt imbibed too freely of the spring air and in the state of season al intoxication, squared off to fight with his own reflection as seen in an automobile hub cap. The other pictures show the battle as it waged to and fro. The little fellow refused to give up and so the owner of the qar moved it before the bird could kill itself. APPLE BLOSSOM QUEEN . . . Miss Margaret Thors, daugh ter of the Icelandic minister to the United States was chosen from 100 nominees as queen of the 22nd annual Shenandoah ap ple blossom festival at Win chester, Va. BRONX BELTER ABROAD . . . Steve Belloise, the balding Bronx belter who holds the distinction of being one of the world’s top welter weight prizefighters, shows admiring Parisians the mitts with which he hoped to pummel Frenchman Jean Stock when the two met in the capital. Belloise has signed for several fights in Europe, but his goal Is a go with another Frenchman—champion Marcel Cerdan—for the Utle In his weight class. TOUGH JOB . . . This man has the toughest Job in town—po lice chief of Evarts, Ky„ where five chiefs, one of whom was killed, preceded him in five months. He is Robert McLain, 23-year old ex-marine. 'HIS LAD DIED FOR 10 MINUTES ... In bed at home in St. Albans, jf. Y., six-year old Tommy Billings points to scar on chest, memento ft St. Patrick’s day adenoids operation at St. Albans naval hospital. J'ommy died on the operating table and his heart was stilled for 10 i fciinutes until attending surgeon Lt. Comdr. Richard Gailiard made in- 1 tision in chest, inserted finger and massaged heart until it started ^eating again. The boy’s mother declared it was a miracle. TEARS CEASE . . . Shirley Anne Martin, 11, of Syracuse, N. Y„ captured national atten tion when a broken statue of St. Ann, mother of the Virgin Mary, wept whenever she kissed it. Priests and newsmen witnessed the “miracle.” SENATE LEADERS STUDY TRUMAN MESSAGE . . . Sen. Tom Con- nally, Texas Democrat and chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, study a certified copy of the North Atlantic alliance In which President Tru man ur^ed American participation. Truman asked that the pact be ratified speedily and declared its Intention was to secure peace and preserve small nations from aggression and brutality. CANCER FIGHTER ... Dr. Stanley Graff, of Columbia's college of physicians and sur geons, has announced identifi cation and isolation of a cancer virus found in animals. The dis covery will advance research. Recess Is Refresher D espite talk about the boys “needing a rest,” real story behind the 10-day Easter recess of the house was that Speaker Sam Rayburn and majority leader John McCormack sent their charges home for a “refresher” course. Rayburn and McCormack were chiefly concerned over another G. O. P. Dixie coalition against re-' peal of the Taft-Hartley labor law, and they thought some elbow-rub bing with the folks at home might be the best preventive. The strat egy applies to Republicans from industrial districts as well as Demo crats. Meantime, local AFL and CIO leaders were planning to give the returning politicos a stiff workout during the 19-day “vacation.” Rayburn and McCormack are keenly aware that the Taft-Hartley vote will be a crucial test they can’t afford to lose, if they are to keep northern city Democrats in line on other administration measures. Ever since the G. O. P.-Dixie coa lition against rent control, there has been talk of a northern “revolt,” or a coalition-in-reverse, in which northern Democrats would gang up with Republicans to block southern farm bills. Rumbles of Revolt At a dinner meeting with North and South freshmen Democrats last week, Rayburn and McCormack heard increasing rumbles of “re taliation” against southern coal itionists. This wasn’t all cloakroom whispers. Quite a number of big- city Democrats, who believe in carrying out Truman campaign promises, have spoken out openly. Among them are freshmen Democrats Anthony Taueriello of Buffalo, N. Y., and Earl Wagner of Cincinnati, who angrily told McCormack the time had come to “stop ap peasing and start hitting back” at southern opponents of the Fair Deal program. “I’ve had enough,” bluntly as serted Tauriello. “I was elected on the Truman program, and I believe in the whole program. I’m tired of seeing the program delayed and undermined by members of my own party. A lot of us think it’s time to start retaliating.” At the dinner, Rayburn and Mc Cormack made strong pleas for harmony. Since then the grumbling has somewhat subsided. G.O.P. Hope Oregon’s b u s h y-browed Sen. Wayne Morse, considered a black sheep by old guard Republicans, nevertheless has a strong though secret following in congress. This group not only takes its political cues from Morse, but is quietly boosting him for the vice-presidency in 1952. He Is the only Republican, they feel, who can take votes away from the Democrats in their greatest stronghold—labor. Leaders of ttie Morse movement inrlude such congressmen as John Phillips of California, H. R. Gross of Iowa and James Golden of Ken tucky—all progressive Republicans. Morse, himself, didn’t learn of their support until he was invited to talk off-the-record the other day before a gathering of about 20 Republican congressmen. With characteristic bluntness. Morse tore into the ills of the Re- ! publican party. “I speak only of the senate," he declared, “but in the sen ate, we have a few who hold policy meetings. The rest of us read about it next morning In the papers and are called ten gether at 10 o’clock to confirm it." He accused G. O. P. leaders in congress of playing turtle during the last election. “It wasn't Dewey’s Job to defend the 80th congress,” said Morse. "It was up to our top leaders in con gress. A lot of them suffered political laryngitis.” As for the G. O. P stand on labor, Morse snorted: “We’ve got an anti labor label on our party, and we’ll keep it until we liberalize the Taft- Hartley law. Barkley Humor Vice President Alben Barkley brought down the house with this story at President Truman’s "har mony” dinner with freshmen con gressional Democrats. Here is the Barkley story: A minister sermonizing to his flock on the virtues of friend ship inquired if there were any members of the congregation who could honestly say they had no enemies. An aged man with a long beard arose in thi rear of the church. “Ah, I am glad to see that there j is at least one among us who can answer my question,” beamed the minister. “How old are you. sir?” “One hundred and four years.” “That’s truly remarkable,” said the reverend. “Do you mind telling us how you have managed to be without enemies in such a long life span?” "Because,” said the old man, “I outlived them sU.” Newfoundland's Future I N CHICAGO there Kved, within a block of my home, a family that owned a Newfoundland dog. He was big and black, with a thick coat of curly hair, characteristic of all Newfoundlands. He was a beau tiful animal, and a dignified, cour teous gentleman. Twice each day he walked around the block in which he lived. He paid no attention to other dogs, or to people he met. I passed him many times before I detected a friendly glint in his eye, and a wave of his magnificent tail. After we had struck up an acquaintance we walked together on many occasions, and I appreciated his campany sc much that I wished to know more of his kind. It was not long after wards that I arranged to visit Newfoundland, which I presumed was his native habitat. I arranged with two friends, fishing companions of many sum mer pilgrimages into the northern bush, to accompany me. They were interested in the gamey, hard fight ing land locked salmon, reportedly denizens of Newfoundland lakes. From Sydney, Nova Scotia, we crossed Cabot Strait, and landed at Port an Bas. On the dock, as I stepped ashore, I asked a native about Newfound land dogs. He had never heard of such an animal. “In fact,’’ he said, “there not only are no Newfoundland dogs, bnt there are no dogs of any breed on this island.” I found that to be literally true, and have never discovered the homeland of my Newfoundland dog friend. He may be a dog without a coun try.” Neither I nor my friends caught, or saw any one catch, a land locked salmon. That trip was a total loss except that I saw at first-hand what is today a new province of the Dominion of Canada, and, because of that, is still in the limelight today. From Port au Bas, on the south west coast of the island of St. John on the northeast coast we rode the narrow, narrow-gauge railroad, that, in 48 hours, traversed the 540 miles between the two island ports. Throughout more than 500 of those miles there was but one town. It is inland, some 150 miles from the north coast. Its one industry. • paper mill, produced print for the London Daily Times. Ne foundland forests provide the material. Aside from that, there are ue towns, no farms, no houses in the interior of the island. There are only forests and great herds of elk. It Is elk meat and fish— principally cod, not salmon— that form the main food sup ply of the people, and fish, pulp- wood and paper constitute the island’s chief exports. Newfoundland is, or was in th« mid-20s when I visited it, pioneei crude, but it was attractive and- interesting in a wild way. The fish ing villages that line the coast are scrupulously clean, but all much alike with the exception of color. Each village had its particular color scheme, with all houses and the one church faithfully following the village colors, but no two vil lages were alike. The range is all the way from white, with green trimmings, to a combination of red and brown, and every color be tween the two. The fisher folk are largely of Irish descent, with those of each village representing some one town, one county or small sec tion of the old sod. Each village has but one church. The transportation was provided by that narrow, narrow, gauge rail road across the island, or boats around its coast line. Aside from the streets and roads in St. John, and a few miles beyond that town, there were no highways, and but few trails. At the time 1 visited New foundland the man who occu pied the big white house on the top of the hill was named Reid. He owned the railroad and the bathtub-sized little steamers that served the fishing villages. He was the “pooh-bah” of New foundland. Such, briefly, is Newfoundla&d as I saw it, and I presume it is much the same today. It was the first English colony on the North American continent. To a large ex tent it is as primitive today as it was when the English sea captain, John Cabot, landed on its shores, and took possession in the name of King Henry VII in 1497. Nearly 500 years, and still a primitive frontier. Will it go forward under Canadian rule? • • • The money the government pays out, we, the people, must pay in. When Joe Doak gets a pension from the county, state or federal gov ernment, his neighbor, Joe Smith, must help to pay that pension. When the state gets money from the federal government, the people of the state must pay it back in taxes. When the government pays a subsidy to any class, regardless of the form it takes, the people pay it back as added taxes. What ever the government spends we pay for.