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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Truman Wants Welfare Department;
Veterans Will Get NSU Dividends;
Dig Four Agree on Austrian Pact
{EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnrans, they are those of
Westera Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not nc .'essarlly of this newspaper./
ROOSEVELT CHATS WITH TRUMAN • • • Another Roosevelt,
Franklin D. Jr., chats in the White House with President Truman.
The meeting occurred shortly after young Roosevelt was sworn in
as congressman from the 20th New York district, replacing the late
Sol Bloom. F. D. R. Jr., made it plain he is a Democrat and a mem
ber of Mr. Truman’s “team.”
WELFARE:
More for Less
Signing into law a bill to reorgan
ize the federal government. Pres
ident Truman offered a major pro
posal. He wants a new department
of welfare created with its chief
officer given full cabinet rank.
THE IDEA is not a completely
new one. It was heard frequently
during the early days of the Roose-
veltian era, much oftener during
the latter years of F. D. R’s regime.
While this proposition com
manded chief attention of the na
tion’s press, the President offered
six other streamlining plans aimed
at giving the taxpapers better ser
vice for less money.
These included:
Transfer of the U.S. employment
and unemployment compensation
offices to the labor department.
PLACING of the two key defense
agencies — national security coun
cil and national security and re
sources board—directly in the
President’s office.
Tightening up administration of
the post office department, mari
time commission and civil service
commission.
Transfer of the public roads
administration to the commerce de
partment.
The President said the plans,
which followed closely several
major recommendations of the
Hoover commission on government
reorganization, will not “automati
cally” produce efficiency and cut
spending.
BUT HE SAID they open the
door to improvements that will
make the government “more vigor
ous” and operate more smoothly
at a lower cost “over a period of
time.”
No one expected any reduction In
federal spending, and the Presi
dent’s conclusions might be con
strued as a preliminary defense set
up for continued federal outlay at
the present, or an increased level,
despite the Hoover commission
recommendations and the Presi
dent’s own seven-point manifesto.
VETERANS:
Get Good News
Veterans of World War II were
all set for a surprise bonanza.
The Veterans’ administration an
nounced in Washington that cash
refunds totaling 2.S billion dollars
will begin for them about next Jan
uary—that is, for all GI’s who took
out national service life insurance
during the war. These were esti
mated to number some 16 million.
Under the new payments, an
nounced by the VA, each ex-ser
viceman or his heirs would receive
an average of $175 frem life insur
ance dividends. Described as a
“dividend” the money js to be re
paid from two sources:
1. An eight billion dollar surplus
which developed from the fact that
G.I. insurance premiums were
based by law on a standard mortal
ity (death) rate table wh»ch turned
out to be higher than needed.
2. Earnings from the surplus.
In general, it was explained,
every veteran who took out national
service insurance and kept it in
force at least three months will be
eligible—provided the policies were
not issued after January 1, 1948.
No refunds are to be made on pol
icies issued after that date.
MEANWHILE, government of
ficials saw in the insurance divi
dend payments a timely “shot in
the arm” for business in 1950 which
White House Repairs
Still a Question
It appeared that all the commo
tion about repairs to the White
House wasn’t quite over, although
congress approved and sent to the
President a money bill carrying
funds for work on the White House.
The money was included in a meas
ure calling for expenditure of 671
million dollars for various govern
ment obligations.
THE HOUSE, which had passed
the bill earlier, accepted a one-
word amendment approved by the
senate. The change would put it up
to a special six-man commission
whether a separate residence
should be built for the first family,
in addition to the job on the Whitf
House itself.
GERMANY:
Partial Accord
The four-week conference of the
council of foreign ministers of the
four major powers had ended with
partial accord having been reached.
The western powers and Russia
cleared away obstacles to an Aus
trian independence treaty and
agreed to try to get along a little
better in Germany.
THE RUSSIANS, however, were
in there pitching right up to the
final moments of the parley. The
conference ended in a flurry oi
excitement as Russia sought un
successfully to make a last minute
change in the announcement of the
meeting's results.
The Reds had promised not to
reimpose a blockade on Berlin in
return for efforts to revive east-
west trade in Germany. This was
contained in a six-point statement
of principle by the Big Four to
guide negotiations in Germany.
The Russians were supported in
their 150 million dollar claim on
Austria for German assets, and
swung an uppercut at Yugoslavia’s
Marshal Tito by dropping their
support of Yugoslavian claims on
Austria. These were the points
which cleared the way for an Aus
trian treaty which has been or
dered for presentation by Septem
ber 1.
DESPITE the improvement in
east-west relations growing out ol
the conference, American spokes
men were not optimistic in evalua
ting results. U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson had no immediate
comment.
Work on the Austrian treaty,
however, was termed a “substantia]
step” forward and of no little im
portance because it would free
Austria and push Soviet troops
farther back into eastern Europe.
It was felt that ground had been
neither gained nor lost in Germany.
should serve to stimulate sales.
They recalled that the terminal-
leave payoff of some two billion
dollars in 1947 provided a sizeable
such stimulus for the nation’s busi
ness.
The plan to start the checks roll
ing in January brought vigorous
criticism on Capitol Hill as Repre
sentative Keating (R., N. Y.) de
manded that congress set October
15 as the deadline. He introduced
a bill to hurry the dividend pay
ments to that date. He declared
that the government had “over
charged” veterans on their life in
surance, and that the money should
be refunded “immediately, not 3
year frem now.”
LONG SEARCH SEEN ENDED
Chlorophyll in Toothpaste Fights Decay
A new toothpaste containing
chlorophyll may be the answer to
the long-time search for a preven
tive for tooth decay. Use of chlor
ophyll in the new product was an
nounced by Dr. Gustav W. Rapp,
professor and research biochemist
of Loyola university’s dental school,
and his assistant, B. F. Gurney.
The new paste acts to do away
with all of the conditions generally
thought by dental authorities to be
causes of dental decay, according
to Dr. Rapp and Mr. Gurney, and
owes its unusual powers to the use
of the water-soluble derivaties ot
chlorophyll, which is the magic
green substance that gives grass
and all other green plants their
color. Long known as essential to
all life, chlorophyll previously has
been used with excellent results.
'UNIVERSAL MAN':
Johann von Goethe
From every state in the union
and from many foreign lands, dis
tinguished visitors are pouring into
the historic little frontier town oi
Aspen, Colo., to pay honor to a man
bom 200 years ago.
The Goethe Bicentennial Convo
cation and Music Festival (June
27-July 16) is presenting an impos
ing roster of thinkers, writers,
statesmen, philosophers, educators
and musicians who will* seek to re
examine and re-interpret the works
and philosophy of Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe, die Universal Man, as
it pertains to the atomic age.
HEADING the impressive list of
lecturers is Albert Schweitzer, of
French Equatorial Africa—phil
osopher, doctor, musician, theo
logian — acknowledged throughout
the civilized world as the foremost
modem disciple of Goethe.
The music festival, running in
conjunction with the convocation,
will feature compositions based on
Goethe’s works, monumental
music of equal stature to Goethe,
and music contemporary to him
and known to have been inspiration-
al to him.
LABOR:
Bad Timing?
Was the postwar buggy ride of
consumer demand and increasingly
higher wages really over?
The Ford motor company thought
so and said so.
CONFRONTED widi a list of de
mands by the united automobile
workers union, the company made
a significant counter-proposal.
Instead of pay raises and pension,
health and welfare plans as drafted
by the union, the company pro
posed to peg wages where they
are for another 18 months.
Such action, said the company,
would “set a stabilization pattern
for the entire (national) economy
at this critical time.”
THE UNION, among other things,
had demanded that wages be
pegged to the cost of living.
Pointing out that the cost of living
is down and that the market for
cars might drop up to 32 per cent
after this year, the company de
clared flatly that it would reject
any change in the work contract
which would mean higher labor
costs—whether in the form of wage
increases or pension or welfare
funds.
THUS the issue was hastening to
a showdown. Could industry stand
firm against another round of wage
increases, or would labor with its
organized power so stifle industry
that capitulation would be inevi
table?
Indicted
There was much of mystery
and charge and counter-charge
in the events out of which grew
the federal indictment of Pres
ton Tucker (above). Tucker and
five others were indicted by
the government on charges of
mail fraud, conspiracy in viola
tions of the securities and ex
change act. Tucker has retali
ated with charges that the secu
rities and exchange commis
sion has made it impossible to
continue production of the
Tucker car, which was to be
powered with a motor in the
rear.
RED HUNT:
Harvard Cool
Harvard, the nation’s oldest uni
versity, was having nothing to do
with any Communist-hunting.
There was a reason, officials
said. They felt that to do so might
be a danger to the university’s free
dom and to its academic integrity.
AND, Harvard held, American
freedom is the school’s “true
glory,” as it once told a man who
tried to "buy” it for 10 million dol
lars.
The Harvard policy statement in
connection with Communist-hunt
ing activities was put this way:
“There will be no harassment of
professors for engaging in open and
legal meetings. There will be no
apparatus of inquiry and ‘closer
watch.’
“The harm done by the effort
necessary to discover even a single
clandestine party (Communist)
member would outweigh any pos.
sible benefit.”
PROMISES:
Made for Housing
House Republicans indicated they
were tired of the federal housing
wrangle. So, they promised, they'd
introduce a housing bill to substi
tute for the administration’s pro
gram.
It was said to include a plan for
privately-owned homes and some
low-rent property. In fact, the sub
stitute measure would embody
most of the administration’s slum-
clearance ideas.
Children are having more
fun, teaching is better and
better paid and there is less
cost as a fourth compatriot,
"Rhythm," joins the venerable
"three R's" of education. Class
instruction (top) in piano, like
this in York, Pa., schools, is
now being given in hundreds
of schools.
In photo above, boys and girls join in this brass class at Oak Park, where children are taught to
play effectively in groups. New methods are revolutionizing music teaching and bringing it to more
millions of children every day. In photo below is shown how wind instruments are taught to boys and
girls who aspire to elementary school bands. * According to a survey by the American music confer
ence, 85 per cent of all people believe music should be taught on the same basis as other subjects-
Carrying out the theme of
harmony and cooperation, per
cussion instruments are taught
in class groups in the Oak Park
schools. Here the children are
receiving instruction on the
fundamental percussion instru
ments of the orchestra —
tympani, cymbals, bass drum
and snare drum.
B-36 Probe
T HE MUCH ballyhooed probe of
the B-36 is now taking an un
expected and not too happy turn—
at least for the navy. The turn is
so unhappy that naval reserve cap
tain Congressman Jimmie Van
Zandt. the Pennsylvania Republi
can who started all the B-36 furor,
would just as soon forget about it.
For Chairman Carl Vinson of the
armed services committee is not
merely probing the B-36. He is
also investigating the source of the
smear stories against secretary oi
defense Johnson and secretary of
air Symington. In other words, he
is probing the delicate but highly
important question of who wrote
Congressman Van Zandt’s vitriolic
speeches.
In this connection it may be
significant that the navy has
suddenly transferred its press
relations and propaganda ex
pert, Rear Adm. Edward Ewen,
to Guan. Admiral Ewen had
served only one year of a three-
year tour of duty, but suddenly
he was whisked off to a distant
Island, far from the strong arm
of a congressional subpoena.
The Vinson committee also is ex
pected to apply the microscope to
the most powerful backstage lobby
ing organization ever to buttonhole
congressmen for a government bu
reau—the Navy League. Frank
Hecht, president of the Navy
League, now has become so vitu
perative in comparing Secretary
Johnson to European dictators, that
good-natured Bob Fleming, presi
dent of Washington’s Riggs National
Bank, is all set to resign as
treasurer of the Navy League. As
treasurer of the G.O.P. congres
sional committee last year, Flem
ing helped raise around a million
dollars for Dewey, and has no love
for the administration. But he
hasn’t been able to stomach the
Navy League diatribes.
The Navy League has now taken
over the admirals’ crusade against
the bill before congress tightening
unification. What the admirals say
privately, the Navy League now
says for them publicly.
History Repeats
Harry Truman isn’t the first Pres
ident to have trouble with the Navy
League. Herbert Hoover also had
his headaches. Just 17 years ago
he got into such a mudslinging duel
with the Navy League that the
latter ended up charging the Pres
ident of the United States with
“abysmal ignorance.”
Attempting to practice econ
omy, Hoover had ordered the
admirals to cut their 1933
budget. Instead the admirals
upped it by 40 million dollars
and Hoover sent the budget
back with a demand that it be
reduced 20 millions under 1932.
Whereupon the Navy League,
acting as a megaphone for the ad
mirals, hurled the “abysmal ignor
ance” charge at Hoover just as the
same Navy League is now calling
Secretary Johnson a dictator.
Most folks have forgotten the
origin of the Navy League—which
shouldn’t be forgotten. For its
founders read like a meeting of
metallurgical magnates.
They include: Charles M. Schwab,
Bethlehem Steel Corporation; J.
Pierpont Morgan, United States
Steel Corporation and owner of a
controlling interest in the Carnegie
Steel Company; Col. R. M. Thomp
son, International Nickel Company;
B. F. Tracy, attorney for the Car
negie Steel and Harvey Steel com
panies, and director of the Tennes
see Coal and Iron Company;
George Westinghouse, Westing-
house Electric Company; Clement
A. Griscom, director. Cramp Ship
and Engine Company, the Electric
Boat Company and the United
States Steel Corporation; S. S.
Palmer, director, Lackawanna
Steel Company; eighteen member*
of the Midvale Steel Company.
Steel Wants Big Navy
There is a good reason why these
gentlemen and their successors
should be the most powerful, un
scrupulous, and consistently irre
pressible propagandizers for a big
navy.
It pays. The bigger the navy,
the more steel plates, the more
generators, the more copper
and nickel these gentlemen sell
to Uncle Sam.
Members of the Navy League
have been active and brazenly ad
mitted their activity in sabotaging
American diplomats at interna
tional conferences.
It was Charley Schwab of Bethle
hem steel and associates who paid
$25,000 to “Big Bass Drum” Shearer
to frustrate the Geneva naval con
ference. The steel and shipbuilding
companies just didn’t want naval
limitation to succeed. Dividends,
for them, came ahead of their coun
try’s efforts for peace.
At Geneva, Shearer would have
got nowhere if he bad not had the
all-too-eager cooperation of several
U. S. naval officers sent to Geneva
to work for naval limitation. In
stead, they did the opposite and
plumped for naval expansion.
Fatigue Causes Depression
Continued depression without
apparent reason often is due to
fatigue. Persistent efforts to se
cure sufficient sleep on good qual
ity bedding every night usually
will result in better spirits. If the
depression continues, however,
doctor should be consulted.
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