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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Gen. Clay Out as Berlin Chief; New Rent Curb Formula Attacked; Tafl-Hartley Bill Wins in Test (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those ot Western Newspaper Unioa's news analysts and not necessarUy of this newspaper.) BERLIN: Clay Is Done G«n. Lucius D. Clay, stormy petrel of American administration in Berlin, was relieved of his post as military commander in Germany. The action was taken at the general’s own request. CLAY, who has been widely criti cized for his apparent “soft” atti tude toward German war crimi nals, notably in the case of Elsa Koch, the "witch of Buchenwald,” frequently asked to be relieved of notorious German horror camp, had his command. He said he wanted to return to his home in Marietta, Ga., and "go catfishing.” Clay’s leaving would open the way for appointment of the first civilian high commissioner for Germany, something the army has been wanting for a long time. PRESIDENT TRUMAN, in mak ing the announcement Clay was to leave, said the general deserved the thanks of the American people for his execution "of one of the toughest tasks and accomplish ments of American history." It was no secret that the Presi dent and Dean Acheson, secretary of state, were trying to persuade John J. McCloy to take the assign ment in Berlin. McCloy is now head of the international bank for reconstruction and development, a position which carries a $30,000, tax-free annual salary. Pending the appointment of a civilian commissioner. President Truman announced military gov ernment deputies and two generals would carry on Clay’s work. The United States, Britain and France have agreed to arrange ments for turning over civilian con trol to the Germans when a pro visional government is established for the western zones. Meanwhile, hope continued for an end, through four-power negoti ations, of the Berlin blockade by the Russians. HOUSING: Nobody Pleased The government, it appeared, couldn’t please anyone in its ef forts to implement the newly- enacted rent control bill. Scores of landlords and tenants in New York turned out in angry confusion after Federal Housing Chief Tighe Woods announced a program for putting the new law Into operation. Woods had come up with a plan which he hoped would provide owners of rental property with a “fair net operat ing income.” This was one thing the new law said should be done. BUT WOODS, in a personal ap pearance in the nation’s largest city, stepped personally into a hot bed of landlords’ inquiries. Landlords assailed the Woods formula as giving inadequate re lief to hard-pressed property owners. The formula was confusing be cause it contained so many inde terminate factors. It was intended to produce a “net operating in come” of 25 to 30 per cent of gross income on some 14 million dwellings throughout the nation still under federal rent control. As Woods expressed belief both landlords and tenants would be happier under the new formula, a surprised murmur of laughter swept the audience which over flowed the 869-seat hall. Woods dashed from the meeting, where he answered some 50 questions, to a conference with New York’s Mayor William O'Dwyer. WOODS SAID the new formula “goes right down the middle, pro tecting landlords against rents that would deny them a fair profit, and protecting tenants against being charged a higher rent than the fair net operating income allows.” Meanwhile both property owners and tenants seethed, each fearing they were being put upon by the Woods formula; landlords obviously resentful that specific rent in formula which they feared held nothing but bad news for them selves. One most probable result of the formula was that local govern mental units would be disposed to let existing conditions alone with out petitioning their governors or state legislatures for lifting of rent controls in their respective areas. NEW DRUG DISCOVERED N Loyalty Queen Radio actress Mrs. Ted Steele Is shown jnst after she was chosen as “Miss Loyalty of 1949” in ceremonies on the steps of the U.S. subtreasury building in New York. LABOR LAW: Rough Going If a big league scout were re porting on Harry Truman’s per formance against congressional moundsmen, he would have to say: “The President simply can’t hit fast ball pitching.” And that certainly appeared to be the case. Mr. Truman had been to bat twice already. In his turn during the Mon. C. Walgren ap pointment to head the national se curity resources board, he had struck out. Next up with his civil rights program for a bat, he struck out again. Now, with his espousal -of repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor law, he was at the plate again and, with the house of representatives pitching, there were two strikes on him. FOR THE HOUSE, by a vote of 217-203 approved the Wood bill which retained most of the features of the Taft-Hartley law. Administration forces were plunged into gloom. But a coalition of southern Democrats and north ern Republicans were jubilant. They were bent on retaining the Taft-Hartley law largely intact, and at the moment they were vic torious. The Wood bill would repeal the Taft-Hartley law on paper, but would re-enact most of its impor tant features. For instance, it would retain the 80-day injunction in "national emergency” strikes. It would keep the present non- Communist oath requirements, but would apply them to company of ficers as well as union officers. It would ban closed-shop con tracts, but permit them in any state which took affirmative ac tion to permit them by state law. SPEAKER SAM RAYBURN had made a plea to the house for a com promise bill he put forward in an effort to salvage part of the admin istration’s program, but his speech was in vain. Whatever else congress might be doing, and whatever good or ill might result, lawmakers were serv ing notice on presidential candi dates that campaign promises to enact or repeal this or that law ought to be conditioned, with the candidate making such pledges add ing a word to the effect that those pledges would be kept "provided congress cooperates.” LEOPOLD: Wants Throne Disliking the common life, exiled King Leopold III of Belgium has made it clear he wants to return to the throne of his country. THIS was made known in a letter to his brother. Prince Charles, Belgian regent, in which Leopold said: “I am convinced you are sharing my views that the time has come for a return to constitutional nor malcy.” That would mean, of course, an end to the regency and return to kingly rule. HOWEVER, the outlook for any such development appeared dim. Leopold surrendered the Belgian forces to the Germans early in the war and became a prisoner-of-war. His action in that respect was crit icized by many Belgians. The ex- king has not returned to his coun try since the war. He has been liv ing in exile in Switzerland. Anti-Allergy Medicine Battles Colds There was new hope for cold suf ferers. An industrial physician reported that an anti-allergy drug has been found effective in controlling com mon-cold symptoms. Dr. Halstead G. Murray said that 75 per cent of 494 persons treated during early stages of colds re ported "they were cured or had their symptoms alleviated.” The drug, pyribenzamine hydro chloride, was administered in 50 milligram tablets at four-hour in tervals at the onset of a cold. The drug is used extensively in the treatment of hay fever. It is classed as an antihistamine because it neutralizes histamine, an irritant substance released by the body in allergic reactions. Checking results, testers found: GRANDMAS: Enough's Enough Grandma was getting fed up. Enough was enough. And she was becoming vocal about it. Mrs. Lyn Greene, president of the New York chapter of the National Grandmotners’ club, was the spokesman for the grandmas, the spearhead of a drive to make grand ma a respected member of every family. MRS. GREENE and all the other grandmas were up in arms against all the corny gags about grandmas and mothers-in-law, too. They were in a crusade to ban such alleged humor from the face of the earth forever. And they held some power ful weapons in their arsenal. For instance, if the jokes aren’t banned, the grandmas said, there would be no more baby-sitting, no more crocheting, no more cookies and cakes. That was the grandmas’ ultimatum. Also knitting needles would stop, not one lullaby would be hummed, and daughters "going home to mother” after a tiff with their hus bands would have to find hotel rooms, instead. THE GRANNIES were tired of being made to appear as jabbering, ridiculous troublemakers. But the grandmas were fair about the whole thing. In return for a new status as a “sweet, lovable old dear” they would agree to mind their own knit ting. Mrs. Greene, a professional art ist, philanthropist, mother of two sons and grandmother of four small children, believes she is just the person to take the giggles out of references to grandmas. "THERE ARE STILL a few rock ing-chair grandmas, bridge-table grandmas, and drudge grandmas who need to be reformed,” she said, but contends this reformation will never come about through silly radio and movie jokes and sillier cartoons. Eventually Mrs. Greene and the thousands of other grannies in the national organization hope to win so much respect that October 10 will be proclaimed as national Grandmothers’ day. HEADACHES: Sfop Worrying Have a lot of headaches? Wen, stop worrying. That, according to a Columbia university headache study will cure your noggin knocks. THE STUDY was conducted with 531 men and women as subjects. These sufferers were given three kinds of treatment. One made use of drugs supposed to help head aches; another “make believe” drugs, and a third a technique in which doctors spent quite some time talking to patients about their worries. In the first two treatments, the "make believe” potions worked al most as well as medicines designed especially for aching heads. The patients never knew which kind of drugs they were taking. It was learned in the study that best results came from combining drugs with conversation about wor ries. The conversation-type of treat ment is known as psycho-therapy. Its purpose is to discover emotional and mental conflicts. In many cases the sufferer does not realize he has these conflicts and is likely to get better when he learns about them. HOWEVER, mere knowledge of the conflicts isn’t sufficient. The patient needs faith in his doctor to make this knowledge work. Some times this relief depends on how often the doctor sees the patient. So Tired People whose feet have ever hurt them will feel a twinge of sympathy for mailman William E. Lilly, Jr., of the Los Angeles post office who took 5,000 letters home with him. Lilly was jailed despite assertions he meant all the time to deliver the letters later. TRUMAN: jood Friend President Truman had some bet ter friends than he thought. David S. Wright, 84, proprietor of a feed store in Dunkirk, N. Y., offered to advance cash to President Truman on his salary check. Reports had said Truman re ceived only part of one month’s check because of a congressional deadlock over a deficiency appro priation bill. Wright wired the President. "PEACE CARAVAN” IN PARIS . . . The flags of the United States, Britain, France and Russia are carried by this truck, one of many that participated in the "peace caravan” that brought paraders to the big mass meeting at Buffalo stadium outside Paris. The meeting was the windup of the “world peace conference’' at which "Intellectuals” from many lands sang the praises of Russia. BROTHERLY GESTURE ... It’s aU in the family (Uncle Sam’s) as navy Lieut. George M. Thomson administers oath of allegiance to his sister, Ensign Esther May Thomson, upon her induction into the navy nurses’ corps. She was graduated from San Diego school of nursing in 1947, and was to be stationed at the Long Beach naval hospital. AMERICAN MOTHER OF 1949 WITH PART OF HER FAMILY . . . Mrs. E. A. Gillis of Fort Worth, Tex., named American mother of 1949 by the American mothers’ committee of the Golden Rule Foundation, New York, said notice of the selection was the happiest day of her life and only presence of all six children could have made it better. She is seated in center with daughter Mrs. Evelyn Gray on left; daughter Mrs. Eileen Plemmons, right; her husband Earle Gillis and a son, Lewis Gill, standing. DELEGATE TO FARM YOUTH CONFERENCE . . . Meta Marie Keller, 21, is the principal of one of the most dramatic stories in 4-H club history. She is the only known survivor of a "Siamese twin” op eration, and was picked from thousands of rural youths as a delegate to take a four-month trip to Europe under the international farm youth exchange project by the U, S. department of agriculture. She was chosen because of her outstanding 4-H club work. FACING DEATH ... Iris Davis, 24, was reported dying of a malig nant brain tumor and her father. Jack Davis, American news-reel executive, has made a desperate appeal in Europe for any sort of medical aid which might save his daughter’s life. Atlantic Pact Combed T ERSE, urgent questions affect ing our hopes for peace came boiling to the top the other day be hind closed doors of the senate foreign relations committee. An swering them, the men who must implement the North Atlantic pact were kept under steady fire for 4Vi hours. Big, bull-voiced Senator Vanden- : berg set the pace, but each senator got a load of questions off his chest. They combed the pact’s fine print for pitfalls and loopholes, and searched for hidden meanings be tween the lines. As a result, many tough problems were plowed up. The chief targets in this verbal shooting gallery were Secretary of State Acheson, Secretary of De fense Johnson and EGA Ambassa dor Harriman. They talked bril liantly, but not quite enough to please the senators. I "I can’t be offhand and free ! about information that involves other countries,” Acheson retorted impatiently, when pressed for de- I tails. Johnson also buttoned up during a barrage of questions on atomic energy from Senator McMahon of • Connecticut. The queries were based on secret information which : McMahon had learned at the Pen tagon, and Johnson objected to going into detail in front of com mittee clerks. This caused McMahon to declare that he wouldn’t support the pact if he couldn’t get the information he wanted. VISITOR . . . Michele Gina, Ital ian Socialist senator, is shown here as he arrived at La Gnardia field from Rome. He proposed to join Henry Wallace on the latter’s nationwide peace tour in which the former vice-president is expected to urge accord with the Rnssians. OLD WEAPON . . . Mrs. Engene Schnm is shown behind the cir cular shield that protected the user of this old weapon—a King Henry VIII breech-loading pistol. The gun is the property of George Harding’s Museum, Chicago. SHOCKED . . . Peter Makushak registers shock and incredulity as he learns his son, 33-year old Paul, had been living in the house with him, walled up in a tiny secret room since 1939. It was said Paul’s mother put him in the room to protect him from military service draft. “If the price of the senator’s vote,” bristled Johnson, “is my vio lation of what I consider the secur ity of the nation, then we may have to forego the senator’s vote.” Senate Stairs Steep To add to the turmoil, the meet ing was interrupted 13 times by roll-call votes on the senate floor. This kept the senators straggling up and down stairs to the senate j floor until 71-year-old Sen. George i of Georgia finally snorted in dis- ' gust: “By God, I can’t go up and down ! those stairs any more!” And he quit the meeting. Another problem was how much j to tell the press. Vandenberg was against issuing any release until the secretary of state formally pre sented the military program to 1 congress. The Michigan Republi can warned, however, that “Drew Pearson has a dictaphone hidden in here.” Later, chairman Tom Connally 1 stamped angrily into the meeting after a trip upstairs to vote. "Somebody has already leaked the amount (of the proposed mili tary aid),” he thundered. "Some newspapermen told me the figure and asked if that was correct.” Following this incident, it was agreed to release an outline of the one billion, 130 million dollar plan to help rearm the narth Atlantic treaty nations. Here are other high- | lights of the meeting. Senator Vandenberg wanted to clarify the important question of whether the pact was just another ' old-fashioned military alliance or a genuine instrument of collective security. He pointed out that the U. N. charter recognizes the right of nations to “collective self-de fense" in case of attack. The charter, however, adds in Article 51: "Measures taken by members (of the U. N.) in the ex ercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the security council.” Does this mean, Vandenberg asked, that the treaty nations must report their secret defense plans to the security council—where Rus sia has easy access? This was something none of them wanted to do, but Senator Pepper of Florida warned that the pact, itself, prom ised to abide by the U. N. charter. Secretary Acheson explained, however, that the only “measures” we are obliged to report to the security council are whatever meas ures may be taken jointly- -after an armed attack occurs. DREAM COMES TRUE . . . Clowns usually entertain a secret ambition to play Hamlet. Dancer Cyd Char is se made no secret of the fact she’d like to play dramat ic roles. So, in her next movie she’ll have a dramatic part. Only Arms to Europe? "What I want to know,” chimed in Utah’s scholarly Sen. Elbert Thomas, "is what do you mean by the rearmament of Europe? One thing Europe knows how to do is arm. The idea of supplying arms seems archaic unless we give them our best bombs and techniques. But If we do that, I am against the whole program. "The aim of the Atlantic pact is to bring about an atmosphere to make arms unnecessary. If we are not going to teach the processes of peace, we may as well quit now.” Another question, raised by sev eral senators, was whether to fur nish Europe with American-made ; arms or help the treaty nations manufacture their own arms. If the United States tries to produce all the armament needed for the allied world) the production and logistic problem, it was argued, would be terrific. But, on the other hand, plants built in Europe would be easy prey to the Russians and might be turned against us. 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