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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS New Taft-Hartley Battle Looms; Solons Ridicule Recession Idea; Dictator Feared in Defense Plan Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those of TAFT-HARTLEY: Another Try The administration hadn’t given up, despite a humilating setback in the senate by Taft-Hartley law •upporters. It was reported that President Truman’s congressional aides were planning another try at (repealing the measure, but bad reached no decision. THIS CAME to light after House Speaker Sam Rayburn concluded a conference with the President. Tile decision on a new repealer ef fort was to await further confer ences with labor committee mem bers in both houses. While the persistence of the ad ministration might be comendable, Ithe wisdom in any further effort toward a Taft-Hartley repealer was doubtful. A majority of top leaders had conceded there was little hope of getting the bill changed at this session of congress, and all, in eluding administration leaders, ,were willing to make the question K issue in the 1950 congressional ctions. THE RESULT of the vote on /changing the Taft-Hartley labor taw was confusing to the average observer of the political scene. If labor had played as important a part as it was conceded La the elec tion of President Truman—and with congressional elections up next S ear—how could so many senators ave found the courage to fly into |the face of what might seem cer- (tain defeat? On the other hand, if labor’s role dn politics is as negligible as others claim, why was the administration E ressing so hard for the Taft-Hart- sy repealer. One thing appeared certain: There were many congress men sufficiently unimpressed with labor’s political importance that they didn't mind going contrary to labor’s wishes on the Taft-Hartley issue. RECESSION: Ho, Ho, Ho! With unemployment figures stand ing at the highest peak in 11 years, and many nationwide organizations and national leaders casting about for a bulwark against economic hazards, congressional leaders were laughing at the idea the nation might be edging into a depression. THEY had just conferred with President Truman and upon emerg ing from the conference ridiculed the notion that all might not be as rosy as possible with the nation’s economic picture. If the lawmakers were out on a limb, they were way out, for House Speaker Rayburn and the senate Democratic leader, Scott Lucas, minced no words in expressing their optimism. "WITH 58 million people em ployed in industry and 30 million farmers with money to pay for whatever they need. I’ll be if I see how you can call it a reces sion,” Rayburn declared. Said Lucas: "If it is, it’s the most prosperous one we’ve ever experi enced.” MEANWHILE, it was said Presi dent Truman was preparing a spe cial economic message for delivery to congress. It was expected to carry recommendations for deal ing with declining prices and the unemployment situation. Out of all this came repetition of the additional-taxes proposal. Asked about that, Rayburn said it had yet to be determined. He did not make it clear whether he meant President Truman is reconsidering Us plea for four billion dollars in additional taxes a year, or whether the matter is still up in the air in congress. NEW HOMES: More Cosh Buyers planning t o finance homes through FHA-insured mort gages may have to make larger down payments from now on. THE federal housing administra tion had cautioned its underwriters to consider declining construction costs when appraising houses for insured loans. The result, the agency said, would be lower mortgages on many new homes. If the builder fails to cut Us selling price in line with lower costs, the down payment will be Ugher. THE decline in building costs and materials have been noted since late last year, the underwrit ers were told. Most materials are plentiful, it was said, and produc tion rates of workers in many sec tions have improved. MUNICIPAL INCOME Newlyweds Governor Fuller Warren of Florida and a honey blonde daughter of California, the for mer Barbara Manning, are shown as they left the reception following their wedding in Cali fornia. DEFENSE: Dictator Feared In nearly all discussions concern ing unification of the nation’s armed services, one thing stood out —many congressmen feared the possibility of a "military dictator” if framers of a unification bill weren’t careful. THIS feeling was put into words by Georgia’s Representative Vin son who proposed several amend ments to the pending bill, declaring that he wanted to make sure no military dictator ever arises in the United States. Vinson, a Democrat, is chairman of the house armed services committee. The amendments he proposed would take the armed forces out from beyond the recently enacted government reorganization law, and put them beyond a shuffling by President' Truman; put a civilian chairman over the joint cUefs of staff, a body which includes the highest officers of the army, navy and air force, and fix the member ship of the national security council by law, requiring that other mem bers be subject to approval by the senate. THESE AMENDMENTS were proposed to a unification biH which already has passed the senate. The measure is one which would in crease the direct authority of the secretary of defense over the armed forces. Louis Johnson, who holds that post, has told the house committee he needs that authority to make the 1947 unification act work. He pledged to save over a billion dol lars a year in operation of the mili tary services if the bill were passed, and a civilian manager put in charge. INTELLECT: Women's Best? If two Indiana university profes sors are to be believed, then the male of the species must face an unpleasant fact—namely, that girls (or women) can reason better than boys (or men). THE professorial gentlemen claimed, and cited figures for proof, that the female is the su perior of the male in the reasoning department, and this despite ten million jokes, books, philosophical discourses and general experience to the contrary. The professors say unequivocally that given a set of circumstances, the lassies can come up with more logical answers than boys can do. These gentlemen are Dr. William H. Fox and Prof. Nicholas A. Fattu of the research division of Indiana university’s school of edu cation. They made the tests in two high schools, one in a city of 11,000 in north central Indiana, and the other in a consolidated rural school near Indianapolis. TO USB the professors’ own words in the report: "Scores on the interpretation of date test, seeking to’ establish their relationship to measures of achieve ment, personality and interest, found no differentiation . . . but there was a clear cut advantage for girls in both schools in ability to reason, to see relationships, to make comparisons and to suspend judgment until pertinent facts are collected.” To which many a male will coun ter: Too bad they seem to lose those faculties when they grow up. Property Tax Declines as Revenue Source American cities were facing an unpleasant fact—general property taxation as a source of revenue was proving inadequate to meet municipal needs. The International City Managers’ association reported the finding after a survey of municipal-revenue sources. Data was gathered from census returns and from reporting members. In five "years from 1942 to 1947, the proportion of municipal income obtained from property taxation compared with that from other sources dropped 8.4 per cent. Slightly more than half of munici pal revenues now come from prop erty taxes. In cities of over 25,000 population revenue has increased by 13.2 per cent, while the property tax increased by only 5.9 per cent CORN: Reaching Up . . And the com is as high As an elephant’s eye . . .” Those lines from a hit tune from the musical "Oklahoma!” give an indication of the jubilation in the com country when the stalks are high, and more than a hint of the crop’s importance. THE federal government also Is acutely conscious of the importance of the com crop to the nation's economy—so when it was reported that this year’s com crop was reaching for the skies, there was general rejoicing. It is traditional with the men who grow com that if the stalks are "knee high by the Fourth of July” an excellent crop is in prospect. But this year, if that adage were true, the abundance of the crop would be amazing. For by July Fourth, the com stood not just "knee high,” but almost shoulder high. From all sections of the major com belt— extending from Ohio westward to Nebraska—the word was the same: the com crop was off to an excel lent start. GRAIN experts considered it pos sible that last year’s fabulous crop of three billion, 650 million bushel might be topped by the 1949 crop. Last year's crop had much to do with cracking the postwar agricul tural price inflation and is believed by many to have played a key part In keeping Thomas E. Dewey out of the White House. While prospects were considered splendid, the cautious were knock ing on wood for two reasons. These were that Iowa and Illinois both have extensive com-borer infesta tion, and subsoil moisture was de ficient in some areas, making the crop more dependant than usual on good rains in July and August. TOKYO ROSE: Sitting Pretty Whatever had been her effect in bringing death to American GI’s in the South Pacific, there was to be no death penalty for Mrs. Iva D’Aquino—known to the world as Tokyo Rose. SHE was on trial in San Francis co on a charge of treason because the government of the United States contends she broadcasted for the Japanese in the "hope to demoral ize and discourage allied military men and to impair the ability of the United States to wage war against its enemies.” In a manner of speaking, Tokyo Rose was sitting pretty. The gov ernment prosecutors said they would not ask for the death pen alty, so all the woman faced was imprisonment and fine or possibly both. A newspaper story of her ar raignment said she wore a "tail ored gray mixed plaid suit with gilded buttons. Her freshly- sham pooed hair was topped with a gold beret She sat demurely at her at torney’s elbow as if she were his secretary.” ALL throughout the war there were mixed claims about her in fluence on GI morale. Many service men declared they "got a kick out of her broadcasts—chiefly for laughs,” while others blamed her for widespread demoralization among the Allied personnel. In view of the Judy Coplon con viction on a charge of treason in connection with the Russian gov ernment, things might go hard with Tokyo Rose in the length-of- term department; but with the specter of death removed as pun ishment for a crime for which death might well have been expected, the blow couldn’t be too severe. Heave-Ho! "LITTLE JOE”—AND TWICE! . . , Two men who “roUed fours” in fatherhood congratulate each other while their quadruplets become ac quainted. While Charles Collins (left), dad of the Bronx, N. Y., four some, and Joseph Cirminello, father of quartette from Arlington, Va., light up a brace of cigars in background, the four Cirmlnellos, now 4!4 years old, inspect the Collins four. v. 'i , js* , • ’ -v. „ H i WAR ACE ENTERS COLLEGE . . . Captain Don 8. Gentile, USAF, (right) of Piqua, Ohio, ace of World War II, prepares to register as student with Col. H. C. Griswold, dean of military science at the Uni versity of Maryland. Captain Gentile, who destroyed 25 enemy planes in the air and seven on the ground, served with the 8th air force during the war. Julian Wilson, Cleveland newspaper photographer, is almost in the news as often as he photographs it. Here he is getting the old heave-ho from the Cleveland ball park after dispute with umpires Art Pas- sarella and Eddie Rommel about how far he should venture onto the field. NEW PARTY: Target: Poverty Like an item from the past was an announcement from Columbus, Ohio, that the Townsend clubs had decided to establish a new political party in the United States. Not too long ago the nation’? press was full of stories of the Townsend movement—a drive by Dr. Francis E. Townsend and his followers to obtain a nice pension for everyone over 60 years of age. It drew many followers and was a political factor, i LITTLE LADY NO SETUP ... So she scores one of the biggest upsets in the Wimbledon tennis championships over her statuesque opponent on the right. The ill-matched (in height) pair met in the matches in London. The tall player is Gertrude Moran, more familiarly known as "Gorgeous Gussie,” from sunny California. Across the net is Gem Hoahing, a Chinese girl who plays for Britain. Miss Hoahing is only four feet, seven inches tall, but she trounced Gussie, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. BEAUTY CROWNS BEAUTY . . . Shirley Galloway of Poughkeep sie, N. Y., is crowned queen of the 1949 intercollegiate rowing classic at Poughkeepsie by Shirley Dick erson, last year’s queen. AGE BEFORE BEAUTY . . . Extremes meet at Philadelphia zoo as month-old coyote pup, youngest member of the zoo, looks askance at a musk turtle, the old est member. The turtle was picked up in the Schuylkill river in 1895. PIONEER RED . . . One of the pioneers of the Communist move ment in Hungary, Mrs. Anna Rat- ko, former textile worker, has become the first woman to be raised to cabinet rank in Hungari an government. She is minister of public welfare in new Red. dominated cabinet. TWO STORIES HIGH . . . Here’s Paul Bunyan, spinner of tall stories. This legendary north woods hero is one of the exhibits of the 1949 railroad fair in Chi cago. Adults disbelieve Bunyan’s tall tales, and Carol Ann Macy, Chicago, does not believe the height of Bunyan himself. OFF WITH A SMILE . . . President Truman confers with John J. McCloy, the new high commissioner for Germany. The president and new commissioner seem assured that German problems will present no headaches that cannot be laughed away. McCloy succeeds Gen. Lucius D. Clay, former military commander in Germany, who resigned recently. McCloy called at the White House to visit Truman shortly before he was scheduled to sail for Germany. LITTLE FLOWER, LARGE VASE . . . Six-year-old Linda Wright with five-foot handmade glass vase made for Henry Clay. Col lecting handmade glassware is the American woman’s number one hobby. Economy Talked PRESIDENT TRUMAN discussed * plans for fortifying the nation’s economy against depression in a recent off-the-record talk with six Democratic senators and congress men. Only a meager announcement leaked out to the press, but here are the highlights of what hap pened. A program of “economic expansion” was proposed that may affect the future of every Ameri can. President Truman greeted the congressional group by saying: “I think I am way ahead of you on this.” Then he pulled several charts cut of his top, right-hand draw er showing the latest national •tatistics on prices, wages, profits and production up to the end of May. He admitted that the first symp toms of depression are beginning to show and agreed that the best plan is to attack any “mild break” in the economy to stop it from spreading. He stressed, however, that he is not worried about depres sion—as long as each problem is met before it grows into a crisis, t jetory Loans The legislators who called on the President were Senators James Murray of Montana, Elbert Thomas of Utah, John Sparkman of Ala bama, Hubert Humphrey of Min nesota, Congressman Andy Bie- miller of Wisconsin and Congress- woman Helen Gahagan Douglas of California—all Democrats. At the top of the five-point "economic expansion” program they urged on Truman was pro motion of private investment and production by offering FHA-type loans to build plants. Private en terprise, they agreed, is the key to a healthy economy. The legis lators also recommended: 1. A national advisory board, combining the business, labor, agri culture and consumer committees that now exist separately; 2. Measures to deal directly with serious unemployment wherever and whenever it develops: 3. Long-range planning for pub lic works and resource develop ment; 4. Voluntary adjustments in pur chasing power. Truman said he couldn’t endorse the program without studying the details, but remarked: “You are my kinc. of folks.” Their kind of thinking, he added, had always coincided with his own. It had been his belief and policy to ease off inflation controls gradually and give the economy a chance to adjust Itself. But the G.O.P.- controlled 80th congress scrapped all controls at once, let prices and profits soar un checked; then, as a last straw, passed a “rich man’s” tax bill. “That was no time for a rich- man’s tax bill—when profits were at their highest,” Truman shook his head. The inevitable result was "eco nomic dislocation,” the President declared. From such dizzy heights, it would only be natural for prices, profits, wages ana production to come crashing down. Therefore, he said, the government must throw roadblocks in the way to pre vent stampeding the economy into depression. If the public doesn’t get panicky, Trum in added, there is no danger of depression. Dixiecrat Postmasters South Carolina’s wily Sen. Olin Johnston reversed the tables on President Truman the other day and applied some sly counter- pressure to get postmasters ap pointed in his state. It is no secret that the President has been holding up appointments to punish southern senators and congressmen who have opposed his program. But what the White House didn’t take into account is that Johnston happens to be chair man of the senate post office com mittee which must pass on all post master appointments. So the South Carolinian sidled up to Sen. Howard McGrath, Demo cratic national chairman, and later to Senate Secretary Les Biffle, the President’s close friend. Drawling sweetly, Joh-ston let it be known that he was disturbtd over not getting postmasters for South Carolina, and hinted that maybe he would just block all ap pointments until those for his own state came through. Johnston allowed time for his remarks to pass on to the White House, then called for an appointment. When he was ushered into the President’s office, he talked about other matters. Then he mentioned casually: “I notice a lot of postmasters have been ap pointed lately, but my state hasn’t gotten any.” Wouldn’t the President, please, he asked, look into the matter? Scratching a note on his pad, Truman replied: “Yes. we’ll at tend to that right away.” CLASSIFIED, DE P A R T M E BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOB. buiVE-INN—Beer, sandwishes and Krc- * — a.*— for quick ta Beach* ceries. Good location. Cheap for quick sale. Wonder Bar, Fernandina * Florida. Mrs. Jones. OWN unique store. You don’t invest youi money in merchandise. Yet you., sell everything. Get details. Howell, 1320 St. Andrew, New Orleans 13, La. FOR SALE—Half interest of a Drive-In eating place, the finest location. $3?00Q required, experience not necessary- Male or female. P.O. Box 362, Columbia* South Carolina./ GRILL FOR SALE: In the heart of the villages. Season just opening, living quarters or can be made into private rooms, also Bowling alley witn four alleys. Long lease. Village Grill, Chimney Rock, N. C. FOR SALE—Completely equipped motor court and restaurant. Court has 8 cabins with 5 room cottage for owner. Restau rant serving average 200 people daily. Enjoying one of best reputations between Atlanta and Macon. Propane Gas System throughout. 5 acres of land one mi. N. of Jackson, Ga. on State Hwy. 42. $18,000 down will handle. Balance monthly pay ment. Glidewell Motor Coart. Jackson, Ga. HELP WANTED—MEN SALESMEN and AGENTS to sell nation ally known PEERLESS DIRECTION METER direct to automobile owners at established price of $4.95. 10 rainuta demonstration makes sale every time ana puts $2.00 profit in your pocket 30,000,- 000 prospects. Lifetime earnings of $100.00 per week easily earned. Send for literature at once. Sample $2.95 plus postage. Peerless Compass Company, Inc., Dept. NW-3, Peru, Indiana. HELP WANTED—MEN, WOMI White Teachers Wanted—Library, Jo nalism, Spanish, Commercial, Home Ec., Art, Music, Girl’s PE, Math., Science, 1500 grade teachers. 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