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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS France, Canada Urge Atomic Pact; British Labor Gets Speedup Rule; G.M. Dividend Sets Industry Mark (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions sro expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) NEW NAVAL OPERATIONS BOSS CONGRATULATED . . . U.S. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews (left) congratulates Adm. Forrest P. Sherman after the latter was named by President Truman as chief of naval operations to succeed Adm. Louis E. Denfeld. Denfeid was let ont because of criticism of unification and defense policy in the armed services setnp. Plane Record Navy Background T O UNDERSTAND WHY Secre tary of the Navy Matthews had to discipline Adm. Louis Denfeld— whom this column has consistently praised—you have to understand what has gone on in the navy. Over the 50-year period begin ning with Teddy Roosevelt, the ad mirals have led almost a charmed life. They had behind them the personal glamour and publicity that radiated from those two dy namic presidents—Teddy and FDR —plus the secret but powerful sup port of Bethlehem steel, U.S. steel, Westinghouse electric and other big corporations whose business flour ished from building battleships. The only two Presidents who bucked the navy in that period— Coolidge and Hoover—faced an admirals’ revolt not unlike that of today, aided and abetted by the big steel and ship-building companies. Greatest heyday of the admirals came under Franklin Roosevelt. They had never got over this, and Secretary Matthews is now reaping the consequences. FDR appointed as his secretary of the navy Claude Swanson, a de lightful and aging ex-senator from Virginia who knew little about the navy. Swanson died in office after letting Roosevelt and the admirals run the show. His successor was Charles Edison, son of the late great inventor, Thomas A. Edison. • • * Edison Knew Navy The new secretary had operated • big industrial firm, understood construction technicalities, and im mediately got in the admirals hair. By this time, FDR had diverted many hundreds of millions from public works administration funds to build warships. And, although congress howled, this was probably a good thing—in view of impending war. Certainly it would have been a good thing if the admirals had not insisted on building so many battleships but had built a few more escort vessels and antisub marine craft. This was where Secretary Edison and the top navy brass had their first big clash. Edison went out to Pearl Harbor and dared to criti cize. He told the admirals that duty at Pearl Harbor did not mean ■pending all the time on the beach at Waikiki, and that the first thing they had to do was get their fuel- oil tanks underground. Even more important, Edison told the admirals to‘clear off the superstructures of their battleships. The next war, he said, would be an air war; and battleships would have to fire straight up in the air, not broadside. Therefore, they couldn’t be in the position of firing at their own crow's nests. # — • • • Top-Heavy Destroyer About this time, Edison also caught the admirals lousing up the new destroyers built with PWA funds. He found that out of 28 new destroyers, 20 were so top-heavy that extra weight had to be added to the keels to keep them from turning turtle in the water. In ad dition, the deck plates on three destroyers buckled in only a ’’mod- erately rolling sea.” Furthermore, because the navy still insisted on using rivets, millions of defective rivets had to be replaced. Edison not only discovered these facts but also learned that three of the private shipyards building the destroyers feared the center of gravity was too high and warned the admirals in advance. They even offered to submit the center-of- gravity test to Gibbs and Cox. Secretary Edison also discovered that these errors were chiefly due to the fact that the chief .of naval construction, Adm. William G. DuBose. was at loggerheads with Adm. Harold G. Bowen, the chief of naval engineering. So he shifted ♦hem both. • • • Edison Eased Out By this time the top brass who had been running the navy depart ment in the past were really seeth ing. And they took their complaint to their best friend—Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, ever since he had been assistant secretary of the navy, believed the admirals could do no wrong. So FDR called in Charley Edison, told him the Democratic party needed a good man to run for gov ernor of New Jersey and that he, Edison, was just the man. Further more. Roosevelt said he needed a Republican in the cabi .et to further his bipartisan war policy. s • • Knox Liked Admirals Frank Knox was an easygoing ex-newspaper publisher who loved the navy, enjoyed the polish and precision of things nautical. At first Knox and the admirals got along beautifully. The new sec retary didn’t know too much about the navy, let the admirals have free rein. But gradually, as Knox began to learn what it was all about, he began to realize that it was Franklin D. Roosevelt and the ad mirals who really ran things. ATOMIC PACT: Asked by Two France and Canada joined at Lake Success in asking that all nations do everything in their pow er to ban use of atomic bombs and control atomic energy. THE APPEAL was directed to all—and especially the Soviet union —to forget traditional ideas of the sovereignty of nations and join an atomic pact that would promote security and peace. It was a sincere gesture, but about all that could be said of any results that might ensue was that it was a “nice try.” The proposal did have the sup port of the others in the majority group pf the 59-nation political committee of the U.N. general as sembly, but Soviet Russia was still to be heard from on the suggestion. The French-Canadian resolution actually meant the majority pow- FIRST BOMB WEIGHED TON According to Stephen M. Alexis, Haiti, the first atomic bomb weighed a ton. He made the statement at a United Na tions session. Statistics on the makeup of the bomb have not been officially disclosed, bnt Alexis said he had his informa tion from a scientist, and that In three or four years there would be a smaller bomb for use by smaller countries. ers want the general assembly once more to endorse their proposal for atomic control and to order secret talks to continue between the Big Five and Canada. SIR SENEGAL N. RAU, India’s chief delegate, offered another idea in the debate outlining official ly his plan for the international law commission to draw up a world declaration for prohibition of the bomb and for control of atomic energy. But, it was said in official circles, that the French-Canadian proposal was as far as the majority powers wanted to go at this time. DIVIDENDS: New High Was it a symbol, a portent of the future? Did it indicate the strength of the nation's economic situation, or was it as temporary signboard at the mercy of any real wind of economic recession? WHATEVER its real significance, industrialists and economists took cheer for it. It was a vote by Gen eral Motors corporation of the largest cash-dividend total in the history of American industry. The company, which recently reported a record net profit of more than 502 million dollars from the first nine months of this year, would send checks totaling $190,436,055 to 436.005 holders of its common and preferred stock. The distribution would represent a year-end pay ment of $4.25 a share on the out standing issue, raising to $8 a share the amount declared on the com mon stock this year. GENERAL MOTORS was also ex pected to establish a record when it retired out of its own corporate funds its entire long-term debt of 125 million dollars—17 to 27 years before the notes are due. According to an Ohio state uni versity professor, crankiness or a cantankerous state in old age is directly proportionate to poor health. In other words, the profes sor’s situation holds basis for the adage that a man is “only as old as he feels.” The professor, Albert R. Chandler, said his conclusion was the result of 503 reports by college students Commercial planes were darting about the world faster and faster. Latest speed record for commercial planes was claimed by Pan Ameri can lines which reported its strato- cruiser Westward Ho landed at London in 9 hours and ft minutes after leaving New York. Cap. Robert D. Fordyce, Jackson Heights, N. Y., commander of the Westward Ho, did it with the aid of a tail wind which at times reached a speed of 75 miles an hour. The plane traveled the Great Circle route and its average speed was about 385 miles an hour. The plane carried 21 passengers and a crew of 10. Only a day before, a Pan Amer ican plane flew from New York to London in 9 hours, 21 minutes, which had bettered the existing mark by 20 minutes. BRITISH LABOR: More for More It has been a fairly well estab lished philosophy of trade unions to frown on the "eager beaver” who likes to demonstrate how fast he can work or how much he can pro duce in a given time. In fact, some unions prohibit members from en gaging in any type of production speed content. The philosophy is understandable, if not popular. It is one which takes care of the union member who hasn’t the ability, the skills or the physical stamina to keep up with the would-be speed demon. The philosophy has been applied often enough for critics to charge that it has amounted, in many instances, to an actual work “slow down.” ALL THIS being a matter of record, England’s labor govern ment’s move to allocate higher re wards for greater labor productiv ity came as a surprise to many U. S. supporters of the Atlee re gime. They began to speculate whether the prime minister was laying up trouble for himself among his labor adherents. The British government’s turning away from this traditional phil osophy of labor was explained on the basis that it must be done to meet growing demands for higher wages to offset higher living costs. Therefore, the ministry is advoca ting a system of tying wages to the rate of production, rather than the price index. GOLD HOARD: Really There Those skeptical, apprehensive citizens whose dreams had begun to be haunted by the awful spectre of doubt that Uncle Sam’s purported gold store at Fort Knox wasn’t there at all could all relax. The gold was there, all of it. ASSURANCE came from a source certainly qualified to know, for that source was Leland Howard, assistant director of the U.S. bureau of the mint. It is his duty to ex amine personally the gold hoard at least once a year. "There’s more than 12,000 tons of It (gold) at the Ft. Knox deposi tory.” he reports. That’s more than half of the 24 billion dollars worth of the stuff which the government keeps under lock and key. and young professional people on the personal traits of older persons they knew well. The subjects of the study, the philosophy teacher said, ranged in age from 50 to over 80. Results were presented at the sec ond annual meeting of the geron tological society, where Chandler said age itself was no cause for its wearers to be cranky or irrltabla. the tests showed. RUSSIA: Direct Warning Soviet Russia was doing a bit of boasting and chest-thumping about the atomic bomb for her arms stockpile. IN A SPEECH broadcast from Moscow, Georgi N. Malenkov, a member of the Soviet inner circle, warned that with the atomic bomb ir. Russian hands a third World War would “wipe out capitalism.” His was the main speech in celebra tion of the 32nd anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution. “If the imperialists unleash a third world war,” he said, “this will not be the grave of individual capitalist countries, but of world capitalism as a whole.” He said that atomic energy in the hands of capitalism is the "means of bringing death.” Turning to a new note for the moment, he declared that "we do not want war and are doing everything to prevent it.” Then, discussing atomic energy again, Malenkov asserted that atomic en ergy "in the hands of the Soviet people must and will serve as a mighty weapon of unprecedented technical progress and further speedy growth of the productive forces of our country. FOLLOWING THE PARTY LINE right down to the final syllable, he charged that the United States has a plan to “enslave the entire world” and that this plan was "borrowed from the mad plans of Hitler and Tanaka (pre-war Japanese militar ist) but different in that it exceeds both plans together.” Despite all the boasting and the bombast, there existed in many minds a doubt that Russia has the atomic bomb as we know it—a weapon ready to be dropped at will. POLITICS: Sound & Fury The sound and fury of the 1950 congressional campaign was touched off rather prematurely by Minnesota’s Harold E. Stassen in Minneapolis where he accused President Harry Truman of making “vicious and untrue” statements in his attacks on political enemies. AND STASSEN is one of those enemies, for the former Minnesota governor and now president of the University of Pennsylvania, is a certain candidate for the GOP pres idential nomination in 1952. Stassen charged that Truman used historical references in his re cent St. Paul speech to “wrap the cloak of Jefferson around himself,” but that actually the President “long ago personally trampled on the cloak of Jefferson.” WITHOUT mentioning Truman by name. Stassen answered direct ly the President’s address at St. Paul in which the chief executive assailed “reactionaries” who, he said, had impeded progress of his welfare program in congress. Stassen praised congress for re fusing to go along with Truman on the “dangerous” Brannan farm plan, on the President’s request for postwar retention of OPA, and on his demands for pyramided centralized power over a wide range of subjects.” BLARNEY: A Sham Rock? Most folks know better than to get into an argument with an Irish man—particularly about anything that is peculiarly Irish, such as the blarney stone. BUT IN CALIFORNIA, as in Brooklyn, anything can happen, so it wasn’t too surprising to find a row over Ireland’s famed blarney stone breaking out there. It all happened when a 15-pound stone, believed by San Franciscans to be a chunk of the real blarney stone, was stolen from a church bazaar. Jim Cummins, custodian of the San Francisco stone chunk, declared he had “documentary proof my stone is authentic.” On Trial Again Alger Hiss (left) is shown with his attorney as they left federal court in New York after Hiss had been refused a three- week delay in his second trial on charges of perjury. The first trial ended in a hung jury. GEESE: Farmer Burned Near Allegan, Mich., nearly 13.000 Canadian geese were making themselves at home in the grain fields of farmer Andrew Degeus. The loud ' yackety-yak of the birds as they devoured the grain at tracted about 5,000 sight-seers. At times, nearly 4,000 of the birds would rise into the air in a black cloud. Spectators thought it was great fun to watch the birds eating their dinner on the farm. OLDSTERS' ATTITUDE Crankiness in Old Age Linked to Health , i * , ,•'$?, , FIRST WOMAN AMBASSADOR ... Mrs. Eugenie Anderson (right). Red Wing, Minn., newly-appointed ambassador to Denmark, is greet ed at Washington’s national airport by Mrs. India Edwards, director of the women’s division of the Democratic national committee. Mrs. Anderson is the first woman ever to serve in the United States diplo matic service with the full rank of ambassador. She was sworn in shortly after her arrival in Washington. She succeeds Josiah Marvel, Jr., in Copenhagen. TWO WHO WAIT AND HOPE ... In New York from Czechoslovakia, 15-year-old Marina Tscherenschansy and her grandmother, Mrs. Olga Ovosllchev, 76, wait hopefully for the release of Marina’s mother, who has been held on Ellis island for the past 10 months. There has been no official explanation of Mrs. Tscherensehansky’s detention. Mother, grandmother and daughter are world-roving refugees. GOBS’ NEW BOSS . . . Vice Adm. Forrest B. Sherman, commander of sixth task force, succeeded Adm. Louis Denfeld as chief of naval operations. The develop ment followed chiefs of staff meet ing since unification row. SUCCESS STORY . . . Lou E. Hol land, Kansas City, who started as 10-cent-per-day delivery boy, re cently was elected president of the American Automobile Association at the A.A.A.’s annual meeting. He is a Kansas City businessman. BAD NEWS ... Austere is the word for British Prime Minister Clement Attlee as he broadcasts sad news of more austerity for Britain. Huge cuts must be made in nation’s expenditures in order to win economic stability for Britain. EMPEROR HOBNOBS WITH CROWD . . . Emperor Hirohito and Em press Nagako inspect an exhibit of natural resources of Japan in Tokyo department store. They are looking at a relief map. Since the allied occupation, they have become the country’s number one sightseers in contrast to the secluded lives they lived before the war. FILLS WINN’S DERBY ... BUI Corum, New York sports column ist, took the post of the late Matt Winn as bead of Churchill Downs and boss of the annual Kentucky Derby, classic of the turf. “Colo nel” Corum received a stack of congratulations. NEWEST JET BOMBER TESTED . . . The U. 8. air force’s newest Jet bomber, the Martin XB-51, leaves a smoke trail as its three Jet engines thrust it upward on its first flight at Patuxent, Md. The ship remained aloft for 34 minutes on initial flight. The plane has swept- back wings, horizontal stabiliser above its rudder and dual wheels mounted bicycle style. It carries crew of two in pressurised, air conditioned cockpit. SOPRANO ACCUSED . . . Metro politan opera soprano Zinks Kuntz Mllanov, now appearing in Bel grade, was accused by the Russians of being an American spy and friend of Yugoslavia’s Marshal Tito. 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