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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
British Election Set February 23;
Seek Anti-Trust Law for Miners;
Conflict Seen on Proposed Budget
TRIO WILL CHART RENT CONTROL, HOUSING . . . With rent
control and housing two major items on the agenda of the current
congressional session, these legislators will play a major part in
law-making activities. They are, left to right. Chairman Brent
Spence (D., Ky.) of the house banking committee; Chairman
Burnet Maybank (D., S.C.) of the senate banking committee, and
Sen. John Sparkman (D., Ala.) member of the senate banking
Committee. They are shown after conferring with President Tru
man on rent control and federal housing aid.
ELECTION:
Britain's Choice
In a little less than a month
Britain’s voting populace will
make an elective decision on the
issue of whether to continue with
socialism, state planning and na
tionalization of industry under
the present Labor government or
to return to free enterprise with
Winston Churchill’s Conservative
party.
In setting February 23 as the
date for the general election, Prime
Minister Clement Attlee must have
been acutely aware that this will
be far and away the most bitterly
contested and momentous election
in modem British history.
Britain’s 33 million voters will
elect a new house of commons,
with the party seating the majority
of candidates getting the right to
form the government.
Speculation was high as to
whether defeats within the past
two months by the Labor parties
in both Australia and New Zealand
could be taken as a straw in the
wipd, insofar as the outcome in
England is concerned. Most in
formed opinion had it that it would
be dangerous to predict a downfall
of Attlee’s government on the
basis of the “down* under” elec
tions.
Chief reason for this thinking
was that the Labor party very
recently had been able to show
signs of substantial gains in Brit
ain's fight to overcome poverty.
BIG STICK:
Union Mon6polies
Virtually everyone from busboy
to bureaucrat probably has, at one
time or another, discussed the
question of whether the tactics
used by some of the larger unions
—^particularly John L. Lewis’
United Mine Workers—in securing
benefits for their members do not
constitute a monopoly in restraint
of trade.
ON CAPITOL HILL that issue
had been presented more forceful
ly than ever before when 10 sen
ators—seven Democrats and three
Republicans—sent to the senate
judiciary committee a report stat
ing that a bill forbidding labor to
monopolize control of industry
would end the “usurpation and
abuse of power” such as currently
is being demonstrated by Lewis’
three-day work week in the soft
coal mines.
The 10 senators were members
of the senate banking committee,
which had been investigating the
problem of the miners’ short work
week but which had no power to
take legislative action in that eco
nomic area.
THE REPORT pointed out that,
“If this usurpation and abuse of
power to control production and
price is tolerated by the congress,
unbridled use will spread from
to union, from industry to
industry, and the congress will
never again regain its own narrow
ly circumscribed power to control
the economy of the nation con
sistently with the Constitution of
the United States.”
Soviet Walkout
iv.
It has been evident for a long
time that Russia wants to elimi
nate China’s Nationalist govern
ment, both from the Chinese and
international scenes, and is sparing
no effort to achieve that end.
IN ADDITION to the military
i pressure exerted by the Chinese
Communists, the Soviets had turned
on the heat in the United Nations
in a continuing attempt to get the
Nationalist delegation discredited
in the security council.
Latest development aloijg those
lines came when Russia’s Jacob
Malik wrathfully stomped out of a
security council meeting because
the other delegates would not kick
out the Nationalist representation.
And, said Malik, he would not
return to the council as long as
the Nationalists sat at the table.
Meetings with them present would
be a parody, he asserted. And the
chief Nationalist delegate, T. F.
Tsiang, who was presiding as Jan
uary chairman over the first coun
cil meeting this year, “represents
nobody,” Malik concluded.
U.S. BUDGET:
No Balance
Mr. Truman’s federal budget for
the fiscal year starting July 1 was
not surprising. It was unbalanced,
calling for the government to live
more than five billion dollars
beyond its income during the year
—if congress doesn’t pare the fig
ures, or give the President the
“moderate” tax hikes he has pro
posed.
THE OVERALL BUDGET figure
was 42 billion, 439 thousand dollars,
but Mr. Truman declared the pro
posed spending “vital to our secur
ity .. . and to the welfare of our
people.”
As was to be expected, Mr. Tru
man insisted the budget was one of
soundest prudence and restriant.
He argued that it was a financial
expression the steps the govern
ment ought to take now “to build
toward economic growth and the
expansion of human freedom in
our own country and in the
world.”
National defense continued to be
the biggest expense in the budget,
although expansively covered in
that is the money being spent in
an effort to insure Europe against
any further spread of communism.
An ironical twist was the fact
that while the U.S. is pouring
money into Great Britain as a part
of that general effort, the British
turn right around and give aid and
comfort to communism by formal
ly recognizing the Communists.
AS FOR TAX INCREASES, the
President was silent on specific
recommendations. He did, how
ever, indicate that he would like an
earlier date for imposition of an
increase in social security taxes
from one and one-half per cent to
two per cent on employers and
employees. The President apparent
ly wanted that extra money to aid
a health-insurance plan, which
congress seems to have little in
tention of approving.
<EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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MD STUPIDITY PEACHES NADIR
Soviets Claim U.S. College Girls Spies
There appeared no end to the
absurdity to which Moscow would
go in screaming to the world about
how it is being imposed upon by
low-lifed, unprincipled spies. The
latest frenzy of the Soviets in that
sphere was directed at the Swiss
branch of Smith college for women
at Geneva. According to charges
from Moscow, American girls at
this school are being trained for
anti-Soviet spy work.
This spy work, the accusation
went on, was to be performed in
the Communist-dominated coun
tries of East Europe. A large group
of Smith girls are at the Hotel de
Russie, studying in the center of
international affairs. They are
chaperoned by a member of the
college faculty and apparently have
impressed no one else as spies.
FORMOSA:
Many Tanks
The administration was standing
pat on its decision against U.S.
military intervention in Formosa—
destined to be the next area of
conflict in the Communists’ drive to
control the Far East.
Official U.S. attitude was that
this country could do more to com
bat communism in the volatile
Orient by extending economic aid
to lands still outside the Red orbit
than it could by direct intervention
in the struggle.
AT THE SAME TIME, however,
the generalized term “economic
aid” was being employed as usual
to cover a multitude of purposes.
A case in point was the news that
the Chinese Nationalists had pur
chased nearly 300 U.S. army tanks
for shipment to Formosa, where
they would be used in the defense
against the Communists.
The military vehicles were listed
as surplus army equipment, and
the price tag was $1,000 per tank.
Similar tanks, minus weapons, cost
about $58,000 to build during the
war.
ANOTHER element in the para
dox was that the Nationalists paid
for the tanks with money from the
25-million-dollar kitty which was
provided for the aid of China by
congress last year.
U.S. state department’s stand
on the matter was expressed by
Michael McDermott, department
press officer, who said that the
Chinese Nationalist government
had been spending the aid money
through its own purchasing agents
and had bought whatever arma
ments it wanted.
“WE STILL recognize the Na
tionalist government of China and
would interpose no objection to its
exporting this material from this
country,” he stated.
Although the destination of the
tank shipment was not disclosed
officially, it was an open secret
that the cargo was bound, aboard a
Turkish ship, for Chiang Kai-shek’s
Nationalist government headquar
ters on Formosa.
FEDERAL OUTLAY:
GOP Sharpens Knife
Even as President Truman was
calling for a 42-billion-plus federal
budget for the coming fiscal year,
Republican members of senate and
house were sharpening paring
knives in an effort to slash some of
the proposed expenditures. Many
Democrats, too, expressed misgiv
ings over the prospect of another
five billion “red ink,” or deficit,
spending.
GOP HOUSE LEADER Martin
served notice that the “Republi
cans in congress have no intention
of accepting this budget and will
work night and day, if necessary,
to bring it within the bounds of the
capacity of the people to pay.”
Similarly, the GOP senate lead
er, Wherry of Nebraska, termed
the budget message “purely politi
cal” which “sugar-coated” the red
ink implications.
Representative Taber (R., N.Y.)
was the most violent in his attack
on the budget proposals. “We can
not maintain our liberties,” he
charged, “if we turn this money
over to the President and the So
cialist schemers who surround him.”
Taber said he intended to battle
for a balanced budget.
THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY
that the President might be in
trouble on his budget, because ever
since the congress convened mem
bers have been talking of economy.
Answer Is 'No'
Dean Acheson, U. S. secre
tary of state, arrives for the
White House conference at
which it was decided that the
United States would not inter
fere in Chinese Communists
aims . in Formosa. President
Truman said this government
will not provide any military
defense or assistance to the
island. *
PROGRESS:
Deodorized
Rubber products which in the
past have been anything but at
tractive because of their odor, may
now smell as sweet at “mountain
air after a shower” as the result
of development of a new series of
odorants.
The I. E. du Pont de Nemours
company, introducing the odorants,
said they may be used singly or in
combinations added during the
manufacturing process.
WORLD CITIZEN BESIEGES GERMANY . . . Garry Davis, son of
American orchestra leader, Meyer Davis, who gave up his American
birthright to become a “citizen of the world,” is attempting to get per
mission to enter Germany. He is explaining his views to Ken Zumwalt,
managing editor of the Stars and Stripes. French officials refused to
permit Davis to cross the border without proper authorization. The
allied control commission for Germany refused Davis an entry permit.
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WHERE WERE THE CLOWNS? . . . The faces of Princess Beatrix
(left) and Princess Irene, daughters of Queen Juliana and Prince
Bernhardt of the Netherlands, were sober as they viewed the Mills
circus in the royal box at London’s Olympia. They were flown from
the Netherlands, in a plane piloted by their father, especially to see the
circus.
REPORTER’S TIP REVEALS DYNAMITE PLOT . . . Inspector Albert
C. Langtry and other Detroit police officers examine contents of a box
holding 39 sticks of dynamite planted in stairway of U. A. W. head
quarters. The plot was discovered following a tip to police by a Detroit
Times reporter. The bomb apparently was meant for Walter Reuther,
president of the U. A. W. Anonymous caller informed the reporter the
explosive was planted '“when the big guy was in the building.”
PRINCELING . . . Prince Carl
Gustaf, son of Sweden’s Princess
Sibylla and the late Prince Gustaf
and grandson of King Gustaf,
wears his first uniform, that of
the King’s own regiment of horse.
The uniform was made by the
King’s tailor. He wears a minia
ture Gustaf medal on his breast.
MARGOLIS RESIGNS . . . Wil
liam N. Margolis (left), who re
signed as assistant director of the
federal mediation service, chats
with conciliation chief Cyrus S.
Ching as the latter announced res
ignation of Margolis.
MAYBE HE CAN EXPLAIN IT
... William G. Graves, Marlboro,
Mass., says he developed thd new
gravitational theory now claimed
by Einstein as far back as 1942.
The theory seeks to explain all the
basic physical laws of the uni
verse.
CHARMER IS A PUZZLER . . .
Nicole Vayssieres and her python
are a Paris carnival act. Some le
gal experts say the act is unlawful
because the child is in danger.
Others say it’s the snake who’s
being abused.
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Three years had passed since
the honeymooners had descended
from their lofty pedestal and ap
parently their puppy love had
matured.
“You don’t love me any more,”
she sobbed. You used to be so nice
to me, now you’re always barking
and growling.”
“What do you expect?” he de
manded. “You’ve always got me
in the doghouse.”
Mr. Jones squinted into the liv
ing room where his 'daughter’s
young man was comfortably en
sconced < in the most luxurious
chair in the house. He frowned and
turned to his wife.
“Ye Gods,” he grunted, “why
doesn’t she marry him and get
him out of my easy chair?”
“Now, now, dad,” she reminded
him, “you were young once your
self, you know.”
“Yes, I do know,” he muttered,
“but you didn’t keep me waiting
that long. After all, the only thing
she has to decide is whether she
loves him or not.”
“Well,” she replied, “she’s had
to wait a while to see^f she can do
any better.”
Young Tom was the picture of
utter dejection. “My girl turned
me down,” he explained to a
friend. “Now I have nothing to
live for. I may as well cut my
throat.”
“Now, now, wait a while,” said
his friend placatingly, “don't lose
/our head.”
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