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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C ip I- Frietlon in Cabinet ff SRE IS THE INSIDE story on reports of friction between two of the most potent Truman cabinet members—Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. Actually there have been differ ences of opinion between them on three important policies, but both men are now leaning over back ward to get along with each other. The three policies are: (1) sending a steel mill to Yugoslavia, which Jdmson opposed but Acheson favored; (2> occupying Formosa with U.S. troops, which Johnson favored but Acheson opposed; (3) general American policy in the Far East, where Johnson believes the United States should have vigor ously supported Chiang Kai-shek. Acheson has particularly re sented Johnson’s barging into the Far Eastern situation; and the be lief has been expressed around the state department that Johnson’s Interferences could not be divorced entirely from his law firm which once represented the brothers-in- law of Chiang Kai-shek and the Soong dynasty. Argument Over Planes One small part of the Johnson- Acheson irritation came when the secretary of defense balked at giv ing the secretary of state a special White House plane to fly to the Big Three foreign ministers con ference last November. Acneson wanted tne **vew- Drop,” the deluxe liner which the air force had built for “President” Dewey. But John son refused on the ground that the President's special plane, the ''Independence,” was en route to Iran to bring back the Shah, and that Mr. Truman wanted the “Dew-Drop” kept in the United States in case of emergency. Johnson offered his cabinet col league the President’s onetime plane, the “Sacred Cow,” but the Sacred Cow does not make as much speed as the Independence or the Dew-Drop. So, without arguing any further with the secretary of defense, the secretary of state quietly rented a special plane from American airlines. Winchell Starts Something Shortly after Acheson returned from Europe, Walter Winchell broadcast an item that Washington in 1950 would not be big enough for both Acheson and Johnson. Acheson didn’t know anything about the broadcast—until 9 a.m. next day, when he got a phone call from Johnson asking if he could come over to see him right away. Acheson agreed; and Johnson, ar riving a few minutes later, asked: “Did you hear what Walter Winchell said last night?” Acheson hadn’t, but thought it was interesting that the sec retary of defense should go to so much trouble to say that he had nothing , to do with inspir ing the broadcast. As a matter of fact, if either of $he men departs, it will probably be Johnson—not because he isn’t doing a good job; he is. But he has occasionally stepped on Tru man's toes. Johnson’s Double Job Johnson is doing one of the most difficult jobs ever tackled by any administration—pruning the mili tary budget and at the same time putting across unification. Crack ing army-navy heads together is difficult enough and contributed simultaneously cutting the budget to the death of his predecessor. But is bound to make any cabinet sec retary of defense unpopular inside the government. However, Johnson, in his zeal to get things done, doesn’t always dear his appointments with either the Democratic national commit tee or the White House secretariat. On major appointments, he (Clears with the President himself, but he goes over the heads of the men around Truman to do this, and they don’t like it. been a steady trickle of well-placed anti- Joftmson venom in the Presi dent's ear. This, plus perhaps the fact that Truman may see a 1952 presidential rival In the dynamic secretary of defense, explains why he dropped the remark to intimates that some day he's going to “get rid of * Truman, however, has been known to fly off the handle and then forget about it. Meanwhile, Jdmson is doing one at the best jobs in the cabinet, and would not be easy to replace. So also is Acheson. And as of the present moment they seem to have climbed out of each other’s hair and put aside their differences. tail Bag Correction: A recent column may have* been unfair to Stephen Down ey of Sacramento in linking him his brother. Sen. Sheridan ey of California. The fact is Stephen Downey is an able WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1 U.S. Formosan Intervention Urged; Drive Is Launched to Trim Budget Group to Press for Child Welfare; (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eoinmns, they are tho«e of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) FORMOSA: Shall We Intervene? As the agitation for U.S. inter vention in Formosa grows, many Americans will have a sharp flash back of memory to the days when Anthony Eden and others were urging boycotts against Mussolini and the Japs as campaigns of con quest were getting underway. Now, there are many important U.S. officials and ex-leaders who argue that the United States must step in to keep Communist China from swallowing up Formosa. Use of armed force, if necessary, is recommended to stop that move ment. LATEST TO JOIN with those ad vocating intervention in Formosa was Herbert Hoover, former pres ident of the United States. He con tended that such a policy was nec essary to safeguard this country’s own security. Hoover argued the U.S. should use its naval power to protect not only the big island stronghold of Formosa but also lesser islands which Chiang Kai-shek’s forces were seeking to defend along the south China coast. He declared such a step would “erect a wall against communism in the Pacific” and offer a “con tinued hope of some time turning China into the paths of freedom again.” HOWEVER, the decision was further complicated by a British stand that American China policy would strain Anglo-American rela tions. Indications were that Britain was just about ready to recognize the Chinese Communist regime. Always the practical realist, Brit ain moves wherever her own best interests dictate, or where she thinks they dictate. Hence, for the U.S. to lash out at the Chinese Reds just when the British were trying to woo the Communist busi ness apparently wasn’t going to sit well with Great Britain. BUDGET: Drive for Balance According to house Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts, the United States government should be able to live within its income without raising taxes. That of course meant that the U.S. ought to be able to balance its budget. MARTIN joined forces with Sen. Robert Taft, of Ohio, who is on record as saying he believes the federal budget could be balanced in fiscal 1951. The two lawmakers are united in a drive to attempt to force the government to live with in its income. The project obviously had more merit tiian chance for success, for with congress predominantly Dem ocratic, there would be little prob ability of any great tax changes in the matter of reduced operating expenses. All indications were that while there might not be any tax in creases, there certainly would be little of tax reductions, despite ad ministration claims that the gov ernment couldn’t operate without more tax revenue. Where the bal ancing-up will come is problemat ical as yet. • TAFT and Martin outlined their views as congress reconvened. Both declared they would oppose vigorously any administration re quest for increases either in cor poration or high-bracket income taxes. Taft said he would not object to a deficit of about two billion dollars in 1951 if he were sure the govern ment woud get back into the black in fiscal 1952. The deficit this year is expected to rim about 5.5 billion dollars. BRITISH: No, Thanks Miffed because the world bank wanted to know too much about its operations. Great Britain’s colon ial development corporation with drew its application to the inter national bank for a loan of five million dollars. The 280-million-dollar govern ment corporation, set up in 1948 to foster colonial development, said it wanted the loan to buy “indispen sable” American-built land-clear ing machinery. THE CORPORATION would have been required to submit its de tailed budget to the bank for some years ahead and would have had to make quarterly statements showing total assets, liabilities and expenditures of each of its mul tiple operations. Atomic 'Advances' David E. Lilienthal, atomic energy commission chief, told a news conference that there have been “several secret ad vances” in the development of atomic energy. He said these are comparable to the “breed er design” in 1949. EDUCATION: Money & Health The needs of education in the nation apparently were to be well looked after in Washington, as far as interest and stressing of neces sity were concerned. The American Parents’ Commit tee announced a nine-point pro gram in the child welfare field for consideration at the current congress session. THIS COMMITTEE was organ ized three years ago to work for a national program to benefit chil dren. Legislation the committee will press for will be: The national school-health-serv ices bill for an annual 35 million dollars grants-in-aid for school health examinations and treatment for all school children. This meas ure has been passed by the sen ate. The public - school - construction bill, asking five billion to match state funds for a nation-wide sur vey of needs, and other sums for emergency school construction, which have been approved by the senate. THE federal aid - for - education bill, which would provide 300 mil lion for grants-in-aid to the states under a formula which gives a larger proportion of funds to the needier states. This bill passed the senate but was blocked in the house because of the controversy over “services” to parochial schools. The national child-research bill, which asks 7.5 million annually for research in child life and develop ments. The bill on social security re visions, asking increased benefits for dependent children. The local public-health-units bill, which would increase health safe guards for children. AN INCREASE in funds for the Children’s Bureau. Increased school lunch appropria» tions. COFFEE: $11 More The recent zoom in coffee prices, which jammed food stores with ex cited crowds of economy-conscious shoppers, will add a little over $11 to the average American house hold’s coffee bill for 1950 unless fewer or thinner cups are drunk this year, says the family econom ics bureau of Northwestern Nation al Life Insurance company. The retail rise in the United States, averaging around 22 cents a pound from mid-summer to mid- December, parallels an almost equal climb of approximately 21 cents a pound in Latin-American prices on green coffee, according to the bureau. AMOUNTING to over 38 times the cost of the coffee price rise, or approximately $425 per year, is the average U.S. family’s share of the 20-billion-dollar increase since 1939 in our government’s an nual non-military expenditures, the bureau points out. A yearly saving of $86, directly and indirectly, would be the aver age family’s share in the four bil lion dollars which it is estimated can be saved each year merely by modernizing and streamlining gov ernment operations; this saving would pay for the average house hold’s entire annual supply of 51 pounds of store-bought coffee, even if the price went to $1 a pound, and still leave $35 for sugar and cream, the bureau calculates. FOREIGN AID: Appeal to Reason It was impossible at the moment to evaluate its effect, but the fact that Sen. Tom Connally (D., Tex.) chairman of the senate foreign re lations committee was urging a reduction in foreign-aid spending was certain to carry some weight in congress. CONNALLY forecast a “size able” cut in funds for the third year of the European recovery pro gram, and explained that he meant “anything up to a billion dollars.” Congress voted more than 3.75 bil lion for the program in 1949. The most rabid supporter of the aid-to-Europe program would have to concede that there has been no little visionary treatnftent of the problem, with the top-drawer do- gooders finding it hard to restrain themselves when it came to giving away the American taxpayers’ money. There had been plenty warning and admonitions from men in gov ernment qualified to talk about the situation, but for the most part their authority wasn’t sufficient to permit their interfering. However, with Senator Connally on the side of a reduction in the program, the situation took on a new aspect. THERE WERE PLENTY ob servers who felt that unless the United States took a determined stand in insisting that Europe be gin now to do something to re habilitate itself, the drain on Amer ican funds would not only continue indefinitely, but might even in crease. The Texas senator might have had some such idea in mind when he talked ERP fund reductions. It was a little more difficult, however, to understand his posi tion with regard to Spain. Connal ly urged that the United States ex change ambassadors with Spain immediately and to call off its dip lomatic boycott of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. He wanted “strategic” Spain in the North At lantic pact. ECONOMICS: Stability Urged In the field of U.S. economics, there was pulling and hauling that would hold some measure of amusement were it not for its basic grimness. With President Truman previously committed to a tax increase, and some of his cabinet members advising against it, the no-tax-hike group found im portant support in the President’s council of economic advisers. THIS GROUP, reporting to the President on the general economic situation, steered clear of any definite tax stand, but did not hold an olive branch to business. And it hinted that some changes in the present tax structure should be made in order to meet what it called a “need for more stability” in government actions affecting file nation’s economic well-being.- That word “stability” was the tip-off. It meant, anyone could rea sonably assume, that the council felt U.S. business must have some assurance that it is not going to be confronted continually with an ever-shifting government tax pol icy. This coupled with Commerce Secretary Sawyer’s suggestion that excise taxes be repealed, could be regarded &s a definite switch in high-level thinking on tax matters. THE COUNCIL explained it this way: “While we should aim in the long run for reasonable stability in tax policy, the great changes in the tax structure over the most recent years and the double reversal of economic trends in 1949 may make it necessary to alter the tax struc ture somewhat before a basis of stability in future years will have been laid.” This new course launched the council on a course its former chairman, Edwin G. Nourse, re pudiated—that of making recom mendations directly to congress on matters of the administration’s eco* nomic policy. Margolis Quits William N. Margolis (left, above) has resigned as as sistant to federal labor concilia tion service director Cyras Ching (right). Margolis planned to open offices in Washington and New York as a labor rela tions consultant. Chairman Lord Trefargne told newsmen the corporation would buy the “second-best” machinery constructed in Britain and Italy. He declared the bank’s terms were “too onerous.” The corporation’s projects now underway included: Agricultural developments in Bor neo, British Honduras, the Lee ward islands, and Africa; forestry end mineral projects in British Guiana, and factory construction in northern Rhodesia, Kenya and Jamaica. Sleep Habits Revealing Since practically a third of orfe’s entire lifetime is spent sleeping, this phenomenon properly engages the attention of scientists. As witness the conclusions by Prof. Alfred Adler, psychologist, that the person who sleeps on his back, stretched out like a soldier at attention, wants to be as great as possible. The sleeper who curls up like a hedgehog, he says, prob- { ably lacks courage. SECURITY: A Plea to Wait Bernard Baruch, elder statesman with an over-sufficiency of this world’s goods, didn’t think social security benefits should be paid when the recipient becomes 65 years of age. Himself a vigorous 79, Baruch said the retirement age should be raised beyond 65. He suggested revision of social security laws to permit persons over 65 to go on working and ac cumulating larger payments. |fcv.*.>Sy.v.v •• v.-.-.-.- -.-.-.•- .•.'.v. . . •.•.•••.v. .-.w.-.sy.w.yv.v.*.v*.\W xxx^r-xvivxvx^v :yX-:->:::x:x-;::v * * * * . xxx-x-x-i-x-xx-x-xo . >.. x- -x-.vx M:: i u. mm m r^y&XrSXX JftXXwXv ■mm IM ■ * ■ xvX^x->>:-2vX*xx:v:*>: : : ^: : :-: : :-: : :>x : x-x%%->:> : :':->>x*:¥><Xy^v mmm mmmm -... V < << i x/xxxv: m : v'.^vv: FOUR-SQUARE . . . Screen star Clark Gable, fourth husband of the former Lady Sylvia Ashley, feeds some wedding cake to his new bride, his fourth wife. They were married in Santa Barbara, Calif., with only a few friends present. They honeymooned in Honolulu. She is a former wife of the late Dong Fairbanks, Sr. ADAM AND EVE ON A RAFT . . . George Mamroth, 54, scion of one of Germany’s richest and most influential families and former president of the Mamroth Bank of Berlin, is a counterman in a Brooklyn lunch eonette. He arrived in the United States penniless to start a new life. He was met by his son, Peter, who says that his father plans to brash up on his knowledge of accounting and eventually find work in that field. In Berlin, his banking business assets ran into many millions of marks. - * "X •r, A m CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS A INVEST. OPPOR. MODERN, best equipped cabinet shop to North Alabama. Reason for sale. 111 health. Write Pea 999, Sheffield, Ala. NITE CLUB—For sale—complete, 2 bars. seating capacity 300. Lock-stock* bar ren—$35,000. 7 year lease. $20,000, $15,- 000 on notes. Season starts Jan. 10. Ar Siegel, Meledy Clsb, W. 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Allen, new ambassador to Yug oslavia, sailed from New York re cently for his new post. He said the United States is against any aggressive move by Russia against Yugoslavia and is ready to voice strong opposition. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS wMmninerajMKVMHHnaHBMlMM * iilp? \ s-- ■■■ <' £ wmm mm DUKE AND “BEST DRESSED” WOMAN ARRIVE ... The Duke and Duchess of Windsor stand at the rail of the S. S. Queen Elizabeth as the vessel docks in New York. The dcchess had just been selected as one of 1949’s “10 best dressed women.” TRUMAN’S RIGHT HAND . . . Charles S. Morphy, administrative assistant, will succeed Clark M. Clifford as the President’s special counsel on February L A PUMPKIN FOR HIS MAJESTY . . . Although he is only 15 years old. Per Persson is a boy who believes in reciprocation if at all possible. When he came to Drottningholm castle, royal headquarters, to receive his prize as winner of the Swedish youths’ national contest for civil maintenance. Per brought along a present for the aged king. It is a king-size pumpkin from Per’s own garden, raised by the boy himself as a present for royalty. BAILED OUT . . . Former Polish Countess Fogelnest-Adrian, whose alleged war contacts with Nazis caused her to be impounded at El lis Island, chats with her husband at East Orange, N. J., home after release on $5,000 bail. y.\v.-A-.* v.v.-X-X-XvX-Xv.' POSTERITY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER . . . Reflecting the happiness of anticipated parenthood are Prince and Princess Aly Khan In Lnsanne, Switzerland, where the prince and the former screen star, Rita Hayworth, awaited their first born. When this picture was taken, ntimt Hayworth told newsmen to go home because her baby would not arrive until February. Several days later, the child was born, a seven- months girl. QUEEN OF HEARTS . . . Miss Mary Collins has been chosen by New York photo editors as “queen of hearts” to reign over first radio and television dinner. Proceeds were set aside for the New York heart campaign. What Dom a Mather Wants For Her Little Girl? Admit, it, Mother. You want every thing—beauty, braina, beau*. Fine clothes, poise, personality. You want her to be a good dancer, to stand straight and true, to play better ten nis or golf than other girls. But are you giving her that extra insurance? Music to enjoy, if she’s alone—if the beaus aren’t as frequent as you hoped? Music to make up for other things that may not be as plentiful as you planned? Music to keep her heart happy and her soul occupied? Today, more than ever before, thoughtful parents realize the impor tance of the benefits of music. As vour Wurlitzer dealer, we invite you to come in and see the new Wurlit zer Spinette pianos ... to find out how these more attractive pianos can bring music into your home at mod erate cost. YOUR WURLITZER DEALER Ei L Forbss & Sons Piano Co., Inc. ^ S 446 North 20th Street. Branch Stores:Anniston, Gadsden. 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