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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Truman Undaunted ED. NOTE—While Drew Pear son is on vacation, the Wash ington Merry-Go-Round is writ ten by his old partner, Robert 8. Alien. C ONGRESS hasn't heard the last of government reorganization plan No. 1 to set up a department of welfare. The senate’s turndown has not cooled President Truman’s de termination to put the proposal through. He will make another try to get approval. The President disclosed this in a talk with Reps. Robert Grosser and Wayne Hays of Ohio. They con ferred with him on government reorganization plans. “As long as government re organization can be vetoed by either branch of congress," said Hays, “it will be impos sible to effect economy In ex penditures. It’s the old story of lobby pressure. The lobbies go to work behind-the-scenes and kill these proposals. That hap pened when Hoover was Pres ident and what the senate did on this proposal was more of the same." “That’s sure,” said Truman, "but they are not scaring me. If the Hoover commission’s magnificent report is to mean anything, it will have to be put into effect. I am going to keep on sending plans for that purpose to congress. Whenever one is vetoed. I’ll send up a revised plan in its place.” Touchy History House rules committee consider ation of the arms-for-Europe bill unexpectedly touched off a sharp explosion on American history. Supporting the measure. Rep. Ray Madden, D., Ind., vigorously criticized former President Hoover tor assailing ac^ninistration spend ing policy. “The ex-President was talking out of both sides of his mouth when he said we are spending ourselves into a collectivist state," thun dered Madden. “He himself has advocated 30 billion dollars for de fense and foreign aid out of a total budget of 42 billion dollars. He talks economy, but he wouldn’t cut • cent of the military and foreign- aid expenditures.” “That’s an old story," broke In Chairman Adolph Sabath (D., 111.). “Pve heard It many times. I remember as far back as the period after World War I, when the same cries were raised by those who fought to keep as out of the League of Nations. If congress had not listened to those men, there might not have been a World War D. Then, pointing at Rep. John Davis Lodge <R., Conn.), Sabath added, “there sits the grandson of the man who led the fight against the League—Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge.” For a moment. Lodge sat in stunned silence. Then, white with anger, he jumped to his feet and shouted, "The record will prove who is right." "I Just gave you the record,” re torted Sabath. Sunday School Vaughan The "5-percenter” uproar has had no effect on Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan as a Sunday-School teach er. He has continued to conduct his regular class of high-school boys every Sunday morning at the West minister Presbyterian church across the Potomac in Alexandria, Va. Usual attendance is 10 to 12 students. Vaughan has been conducting this class for three years. He is very regular in his appearance. When he can’t attend, Mrs. Vaughan takes over. Vaughan uses themes from the regular material prepared by the Presbyterian church for such classes. He does not wear his uni form to church. Vaughan is an eld er of the church, and popular with parishoners and his class. He en livens his teaching with jokes and witticisms. Note—Vaughan has told friends that regular army antipathy to re serve officers is one of the secret influences behind the senate probe. Vaughan has long been critical of “West Pointers.” Tideland Oil Sen. Joe O’Mahoney <D., Wyo.), chairman of the interior affairs committee, has thrown a monkey wrench into the drive to steam roller through a so-called “com promise” on the tideland oil issue. He was supposed to sponsor “compromise” legislation in the senate. Bat after examining the bills agreed on at secret conferences with California, Texas and Lonisiana officials, O’Mahoney vefnsed to have any thing to do with them. Hearings on the measures were scheduled before a house judiciary subcommittee, headed by Rep. Francis E. Walter (D., Pa.). One of the measures is an out- and-out grab. It would give the states the bulk of these vast oil reserves. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS British Ask Special Loan Favors; Senate Rejects Economy Measure; Gl’s Apply for War Risk Rebates (EJOITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these colnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) BRITISH LOAN: True to Form Even before the talks got fully underway, the trend of the dis cussion concerning British-Ameri- can finance deals was becoming familiarly clear. THE PROBLEM was Britain’s current financial crisis. The hope rested with U. S. procedure as it affects assistance. That the U. S. was thoroughly under the spell of British need and persuasion was shown in the statement that this government is hospitable to a pro posal to relax terms of the British •oan pact. Under the current preliminary proposal, the II. S. would grant Britain permission to discriminate temporarily against American goods. Under the British loan pact, Britain got 3.75 billion dollars from the United States in return for a promise to treat American exports the same as those from British em pire countries and Europe. Now, the British want that re quirement knocked out. Here's how the British plan would work: BRITAIN could, for instance, re fuse to license British buyers who want to buy American goods, but it could give “open licenses” to Britishers who, for example, want ed to import Italian goods. Since the Italian imports could be pur chased with sterling, this would save Britain dollars. Thus, with the monetary talks hardly underway, the British are asking a double burden of the American taxpayer—money from the taxpayer to solve Britain’s eco nomic problem while at the same time setting up what amounts to a boycott of American imports which will further cost the American tax payer if he happens to be one of the businessmen affected by the ruling. And, as the pattern seems to be, officials were reported favorable to the British proposal and—symp tomatically, too—were planning to by-pass congress in implementing that approvaL WATCHMAKING: Pioneered in U. S. Many Americans believe precision watchmaking is an exclusively Swiss craft. Hence the small but lusty U.S. jeweled watch industry delights in pointing out that basic production methods now used by the Swiss were developed here a century ago, and that this “Amer ican systam” was adopted by the Swiss about 1875. Two years ago American crafts men proved they hadn’t lost their ingenuity, fin Elgin, 111., watch manufacturer introduced a rust- proof, acid-proof “durapower” mainspring which was called the most revolutionary advance in watchmaking since introduction of jeweled bearings 200 years ago. Now, by way of improving on perfection, the same factory an nounces its technicians have learned how to squeeze every last ounce of power out of the wonder-alloy mainspring. Their method was to eliminate the conventional annealed arbor end of the spring, which had always been dead, unproductive weight. By pre-forming the arbor end, pos sible only with the new alloy, they have put the entire length of the spring to work. The result: A long er run of the watch between wind ings, hence a boon to lazy and for getful thumbs and forefingers! DIVIDEND: Rebate for Gl's The federal government, in one of the most amazingly simple forms ever to come out of Washing ton, was receiving applications from World War II veterans for rebates on GI insurance premiums. REJOICING over the windfall, surprised and delighted with the simple application form, veterans were flooding the mails with their application cards. "It’s like finding money on the street,” one veteran declared. The dividend payments from na tional life insurance surplus funds are to be made to persons who hold or have held these policies. The average payment is estimated at $175. To be eligible for a rebate, the veteran must have had his service life insurance in force at least 90 days. The dividend would not be issued on any service life insurance issued after December 31, 1947. Touched Off Probe Cedric Worth, special assistant to Navy Undersecretary D. A. Kimball, is shown as he ap peared before the house com mittee investigating the B-36 bomber program. It was Worth who touched off the probe. He admitted writing the document containing serious charges against Defense Secretary Johnson and former air force secretary Symington. SPENDING: Slash Rejected The United States senate stood firm in support of President Tru man’s estimate of the financial needs of the nation for the next fiscal year. A move to force the President to slash federal spending to a level 5 to 10 per cent below his advance estimates was defeated. But the margin was only three votes. The economy amendment, had it carried, would have required the President to hold spending for the current fiscal year some two billion to four billion dollars below the estimares he made last January. FOES of the proposed economy asserted it amounted to passing the economy buck to the President. Supporters of the amendment an swered that the President was in better position than anyone else to determine where to cut. After the decision on this issue, the senate passed by a voice vote a 14.80 billion dollar appropriation bill to pay for national defense— the cost of the army, navy and air force. This was 500 million less, however, than President Truman had asked. IN OPPOSING the economy rider. Sen. Scott Lucas, majority floor leader, said the amendment was a “political gesture,” an at tempt to tell the President to do what congress lacked the courage to do. He asked if economy sup porters would “impeach him” if Mr. Truman failed to save as much as ordered. On the contrary, contended Sen ator McClellan of Arkansas, “it is sound legislation necessary in the public welfare, and failure to bal ance the budget or hold the deficit to the minimum this amendment makes possible may well prove to be a stupid and dangerous blunder.” TELEVISION: Color Must Wait For those who want color in television, there were four more years of waiting. That was the expressed convic tion of a television manufacturer, Benjamin Abrams. He said that while color television had been demonstrated successfully, “it still is in the laboratory stage and it will be years before it is available- for the general public.” He then es timated the waiting time as four years. Abrams said that at the present stage of development of color tele vision, he did not believe manufac turers could turn out adapters for less than $300 to $500. And he esti mated a set built especially for color would cost $1,000. He declared present sets would not become obsolete even with the advent of color. But he said wide spread interest aroused by the FCC exploration of color television was causing some prospective custom ers to postpone buying sets. Abrams took issue with charges that manufacturers are deliberate ly holding back color video. He de clared it would be in the manu facturers’ own interest to bring out color sets quickly if they could produce them at prices within range of the general public. Summing up he said: “You can’t push a button and have color tele vision appear over night.” TITO: How Long? How long would Yugoslavia’s Marshal Tito manage to hold out pgainst Moscow? On-the-scene ob servers didn’t give him long. They predicted that Tito would be liqui dated by assassination or that Rus sia would abandon diplomatic ma neuvering and move into Yugo slavia by force of arms. THIS LATTER supposition was strengthened by the reported ar rival of three Soviet mechanized divisions in southern Hungary. The general view in Belgrade was that the Soviet government had so in volved its prestige in the 14-month campaign to destroy the present Yugoslav government that Mos cow couldn't let Tito get away with anything further. The presence of the new Soviet forces in Hungary was held indic ative of the gravity of the new crisis between Belgrade and Mos cow. It was pointed out, however, that conditions which made Soviet op erations successful in the Baltic states and in Poland do not exist In Yugoslavia. A direct attack might create a condition that could result in another European war. THE RUSSIANS must reaUze that as well as anyone else. It will be interesting, therefore, to ob serve Russian strategy in the con tinuing onslaught against Tito’s regime. If the Russians resort to military force, that action should notify the world that Moscow be lieves itself ready for war and is ready to face the issue. If tactics of diplomatic attrition continue, then the embassies of the globe could safely hazard the opinion, and act upon it, that for all its sabre-rattling, the Kremlin Is not ready to go to war—not just yet. TRUMAN: Long Memory While President Truman may have nothing else in common with the symbolic GOP elephant, he shares the pachyderm’s fame for long memory. This was indicated by a recent story in Washington that the Presi dent appeared about to shake up the membership of the Fine Arts commission which opposed the controversial balcony Mr. Truman installed in the White House. THAT BALCONY, as almost everyone will recall, was a bonan za for gag men and cartoonists, and, apparently, Mr. Truman didn’t appreciate whatever humor might have been contained in the situa tion. According to the Washington re ports, Commission Chairman Gil more D. Clarks, who vigorously op posed the balcony project, has re ceived no word from the White House since his term expired last March. Terms are about to expire for three other commission mem bers and they, too, have received no communique from the White House about being reappointed. During the winter of 1947-48 the dispute over the proposed balcony raged furiously after President Truman announced he wanted a second-floor “porch” built onto the White House. The Fine Arts com mission formally voted disapproval and various architectural groups and citizens joined in. THAT DIDN’T deter the Presi dent. Mr. Truman had the balcony built despite the criticism. The tur moil subsided quickly and many thought that was the end of the affair. It might ha^e been—but Mr. Tru man, like an elephant, apparently, never forgets. Moscow Bound The Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury, whose support of Russian ide ologies has earned him the nickname, “Red Dean," is shown entering his car for the airport on the first stage of a trip to Moscow. This will mark his second journey to the Soviet capital since the war. HITLER AIDS COUNTERFEITERS International Ring Floats Bogus Bills The dead hand of Adolf Hitler reached out to assist one of the biggest international counterfeiting networks in history. The ring was reported to be flooding New York and South America with bogus bills. And all the experts agreed the bills were printed on plates Adolf Hitler ordered made to en rich his wartime over-seas sabo tage funds. Scotland Yard indicat ed hundreds of thousands of bills have been passed, Yard officials said the counter feit ring’s members may include both international criminals and former Mayfair society playboys “now living in luxury in the south of France.” More than $120,000 worth ol forged U. S. dollar bills were re covered in little more than a week. FARM AID: Truce Sought President Truman was casting about for an end to the feud on farm programs. To that end he invited a group of congressional leaders to the White House to dis cuss the situation. Senator Thomas (D., Okla.) who is chairman of the senate agri culture committee expressed a hope the President “tells us ex actly what he wants for a farm program next year." HIGH-FLYING HIGHNESS . . . Among recent emigres arriving in New York on the S. S. General Ballou was White Russian princess Tamara Ugrinow, who is displaying the spirit of her 21 years by performing a jete, ballet terminology for “hitting the ceiling.” The princess, brought here by the Church World Service, hopes to dance at the Metropolitan. She was held prisoner for three months in Yugoslavia. DOUBLE-HEADER . . . Here Is a couple of additions to the Philadel phia Athletics. Lou Brissie, Athletic pitcher, beams as happily as if he had just pitched a no-hitter as he looks over his brand new twins, Ronald and Robert, in a Philadelphia hospital. Wife, Mrs. Dorothy Brissie, looks over the new twosome just as proudly but more modestly than Lou. If the babies take the colic and cry at night, do you suppose the pitcher will issue a couple of walks? Or would you say Brissie now has two strikes on him? MID-AIR MAGIC . . . Readying themselves for the coming pigskin reason, Jimmy Knotts (left) and Captain Louis Allen, two veteran members of the forward wall of Duke university, Durham, N.C., dive at the ball. Allen is Duke university’s all-American candidate and Knotts should make his mark on the team. He is the younger brother of former Duke star, Ernie “Bear” Knotts. Football coaches all over the nation are beginning to gather the members of their squads to gether for limbering up and training for the 1949 season. I DOWN-UNDER UPSETTERS . . . One of the biggest upsets in the last dozen years of tennis was registered at Longwood Cricket club, Chest nut Hill, Mass., when this pair of ambitious Australian youngsters, George Worthington (left) and Frank Sedgman, third seeded foreign pair, outfought and outhustled defending champions Gardner Malloy, Miami, and Bill Talbert, Wilmington, Del., to win 6-4, 1-6, 7-S, 9-7, in the quarter-final round of the US national doubles championship. SOME SETTING . . . Background (or these pearls is Miss Victoria Pearl of 1950, Miss Roma Paige, at the jewelers’ exposition in New York City. Previewing 1950 jewel designs, the gems displayed at the show are valued at $35 million. CONGRATS, HUBBY . . . Gen. J. Lawton Collins, former vice chief of staff, US avmy, gets kiss from his wife after being sworn in as chief of staff. Collins succeeds Gen. Omar Bradley, who is now chair man of the US joint chiefs of staff. AIDS SUFFERING ... 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