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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ,
New Aids Asked for Farm Support;
Coal Industry Seeks Strike Peace;
Unemployment Surges to New Peaks
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When •pinions are expressed in these colnmns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
FARM SUPPORTS:
New Aids Asked
Charles Brannan, U.S. secretary
of agriculture, was still plumping
for adoption of his (Brannan plan)
system for farm price supports,
arguing that new price aids must
be provided now.
Pointing out that there is trouble
getting rid of 1948 farm surpluses
even as 1949 surpluses are pouring
in, Brannan said the disposal prob
lem “points to the need of supple
mentary action on price supports,
particularly with respect to more
efficient methods than procedures
for handling price supports of per
ishable commodities.”
THE agriculture secretary may
have had a point there, but the
main question was: Would his plan
of letting farm products find their
own levels on the price market,
with subsidies making up the dif
ference—provide an adequate so
lution?
Up to this point, he had been un
able to convince congress that it
would. What luck he would have in
the future was wholly problemati
cal. But there was no arguing the
point that something needed to be
done to clear up the muddled farm
price support program. As it was
being operated, federal farm policy
seemed to be getting worse the
farther it went.
Brannan was eminently correct
when he admitted that the present
price support system programs
“encourage over-production on one
hand, and under-consumption on
the other . . . and to find sufficient
ly new uses for the surpluses, or to
divert them into non-commercial
channels at anything comparable
to the support price usually is im
possible.”
SUMMING UP, Brannan said:
4, Briefly, the outlook includes the
likelihood of some further contrac
tion in the total demands for U.S.
farm products and points to the
need for adjustment in production
if a favorable price level is to be
maintained.”
The problem indeed was a grave
one and made even more grave by
the fact that the administration
may be caught in a trap that has
been long in the making—a trap
created by the fact that having so
long experienced the subsidy aid
as is, farmers won’t like any tam
pering with the program and might
visit their ill will on anyone who
may do so.
LEWIS:
A Fine Largess
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America
—a labor union which does not pay
its members *■ strike benefits and
which subjects them to untold mis
ery and hardship during strike per
iods—was offering a victory-flush
ed one-million-dollar loan to the
C.I.O. United AutmobUe Workers
union.
THE PURPOSE of the loan
would, be to help the UAW win new
contracts from Chrysler and Gen
eral Motors. Lewis wrcflte Walter
Reuther, head of the giant auto
workers union, that wage-welfare
improvements in the coal industry
were fought by money interests
linked with “the financial group”
which dominates car-making.
He added that this aid is needed
mo “your union may be assured be
yond preadventure, of success in
its present struggle.” Reuther was
in the midst of a long strike for
pensions at Chrysler corporation.
At the time of Lewis’ offer, it was
Estimated UAW workers had lost
85 million dollars in pay and the
company 250 million dollars.
Help for Reuther was authorized
at a Jubilant meeting of Lewis with
his top union aides, where Lewis
was said to have boasted that he
had “licked” the strike-emergency
injunction provision of the Taft-
Hartley law, inasmuch as a federal
Court injunction issued under- the
law failed to halt the coal strike.
MOST of the big U.S. industrial
concerns feared that Lewis’ victory
4ver the coal operators in the mat-
tar of wage increases and addition
al health and welfare benefits
would touch off a series of strikes
as other unions sought to do as
well for themselves.
Coal was being mined again and
industry's wheels were turning,
but the immediate future appeared
grim and uncertain. The question
■earned to be: When and where
will the next strike erupt? It
seemed inevitable to even a casual
observer that another round of
wage-hike fights was in the making.
FRENCH-SAAR:
U.S. Worried
United States high level diplo
mats had a new and aggravating
problem on their hands: The sud
denly critical French-German split
over the Saar region.
The situation was complicated
when France and the semi-indepen
dent government of the coal-rich
Saar signed a pact under which
France would take the Saar’s coal
tor the dext 50 years, which the
German chancellor resented.
Communist?
A sensation was caused in
British political circles when
Lord Beaverbrook’s conserva
tive London Evening Standard
named War Minister John
Strachey (above) “an avowed
Communist.”
COAL:
A Look Ahead
The most crippling coal strike
in the nation’s history had come to
an end. Miners were pouring back
into the pits and allied industries,
faced with a threat of total shut
down, were reviving and calling
men back to work.
John L. Lewis, United Mine
Worker chieftian, apparently had
won again. He had obtained a raise
in pay for the miners along with
additional health and welfare ben
efits.
But as the nation relaxed with a
sigh of relief that the production-
stop threat had been removed,
leaders in the coal industry began
to look farther ahead—to examine
methods by which a permanent
coal peace might be won.
Leading mine operators stated
they hoped to complete arrange
ments to have Harry W. Moses,
head of the “captive” mine sub
sidiaries of the United States Steel
corporation, to leave big steel and
devote all his time to handling the
coal industry’s dealings with Lewis.
APPOINTMENT of Moses as a
full-time representative of the soft
coal industry in its relations with
the UMW is designed as a move to
end the chaotic conditions that
have existed in the mine fields for
years. The move has the support
of virtually all the principal opera
tors in the north and west and was
expected to win strong favor among
southern operators as well.
A lasting industry peace has long
been the goal of operators and the
public, which is beginning to tire
of the almost annual war of nerves
between the mine union boss and
operators while the nation stands
almost helpless without fuel.
JOBLESS:
Hit New Peak
Again jobless numbers in the
United States had catapulted to a
new high, and again the federal
commerce department appeared
unperturbed about it.
Uner ployment rose to 4,684,000
in February—the highest figure
since 1941—when the total was
5,620,000.
DESPITE THE FACT that many
industrial and economic leaders
professed to see danger in the sit
uation, the commerce department
came up with the usual bland, un
concerned explanation as to the
cause of the big jump in unemploy
ment.
As was stated in January when
jobless figures appeared alarming,
commerce department boss said:
“The slight rise in unemploy
ment between January and Feb
ruary (204,000) appears to be due
mainly to seasonal increase in the
tabor force and not to any cutbacks
in employment.”
But was that the case? Wasn’t
it logical to assume that an “in
crease in the labor fo*ce”—mean
ing unemployed but available labor
—meant a corresponding lack of
employment for that same force.
IT WAS SIGNIFICANT, many
observers felt, that the figure as
reported did not include striking
workmen, a fact that meant the
unemployment picture was not dis
torted in that sense.
Why was unemployment appar
ently steadily increasing? How
would the “seasonal turnover” ex
planation hold water? If there
were serious threat of widespread
unemployment in the nation, it
seemed the government should
ascertain the fact.
ARCTIC ARMY
Large masses of men never
could be pitted against each other
in Alaska, or other Arctic wastes,
as they were in the last war, ac
cording to military experts who
couldn’t a^ree on why that is the
case. One reason given was diffi
culty of transporting supplies, an
other was that there simply isn't
enough room.
U.N. COST:
One Dime Each ,
Each citizen of the United States
pays less than a dime for his share
of the basic United Nations annual
budget.
At least three members of con
gress disagree on whether this is
too much, too little, or about right,
according to the first issue of a
weekly wall newspaper in color, the
UN GRAM.
APPEARING for the first time
this week, the new publication re
ports' that Sen. Herbert R. O’Conor
of Maryland, chairman of the sen
ate committee on expenditures in
the executive departments which
recently issued a report asking
that the U.N. reduce its expendi
tures for the United Nations and
its affiliates, thinks that a dime
per capita is too much. Congress;
woman Helen Gahagan Douglas,
on the other hand, says it is too
little; while Sen. Estes Kefauver
is quoted as saying it is about
right.
The U.N. Gram, which tells sub
scribers about the United Nations,
in this issue objectively presents
each of these three viewpoints.
Buttressing Senator O’Conor’s
“too much” point, it states: “In
ternationalism, plus national de
fense, is a luxury. U.N.’s budget is
just the start: each specialized
agency asks more. How can the
little nations pay?”
Supporting the “too little” ap
proach of Congresswoman Douglas,
it says: “New York City, U.N.’s
permanent home, pays more for
garbage disposal than U.N.’s an
nual cost; its subway deficit would
run the U.N. for six months.”
AND BACKING up Sentor Ke-
fauver’s “just right” viewpoint, it
argues: “Upping the U.N. budget,
by forcing out poorer members,
would make it A “rich man’s club.”
If the U.S. paid the increase, still
others might resign, charging that
the U.N. was the “creature” of
the United States.
“Our aim,” states publisher Wal
lace Thorsen, “is to get people
thinking and talking about the
United Nations and the job it is
doing in building the world com
munity.”
“We try, in this and all subse
quent issues, to present a simple,
objective analysis of the problems
faced by the world’s only machin
ery for peace, to anyone with the
time and inclination to pause be
fore a bulletin board long enough
to read the U.N. Gram—a matter
of minutes.”
FARM UNION:
Asks Red 'Bargain'
From a surprising source came
a plea for the United States to
“strike a bargain” with Russia and
to spend 150 billion dollars in the
next 15 years on the undeveloped
areas of the world.
THE SOURC^E was James Pat
ton, president of the National Farm
ers Union. Patton said, “Somehow,
I believe we will be able to find
a way to live in this world with
peoples who differ in viewpoint as
to type of economy and social sys
tems.”
“Let us try to strike a bargain
with those whom we are fighting
in the cold war along with peaceful
lines,” he went on, “so that all of
us can lay down our arms.
“Let us lead out in America by
placing at the disposal of the peo
ple of the world an annual credit
of 10 billion dollars for the next
15 years for the purpose of build
ing TVA’s on the Danube and the
Yangtze, and for building man’s
productivity in all of the unde
veloped areas of the world.”
PRESIDENT PATTON’S propo
sal was magnanimous, generous,
all-inclusive, but withal mostly
visionary. It would delight those
who operate on the theory that
America can buy peace and good
will with its dollars.
They might even add that Amer
ica must be the most hated nation
in the world, inasmuch as it ap
pears it has no friends except those
who are won and kept with money.
Another Shirley
In Germany they are com
paring a i x-year-old Dagmar
Glombig to America’s Shirley
Temple when the latter was
rising to stardom as a child in
Hollywood. Dagmar Js the
daughter of composer and
conductor Eberhard Glombig
and has played in several Ger
man films.
RUSSIA:
Parley Proposed
That there was at least a pos
sibility of a Big Four meeting
including Russia taking place was
indicated by a report from Paris
that the three western foreign min
isters, meeting in London, would
From another authoritative
source came word that the Big
Three would “study the problems/*
led the recent mock warfare in the
Alaska sub-Arctic; but they discuss the matter. French For
eign Minister Robert Schuman was
the authority for the statement.
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TRIPLETS INCREASE HIS BROOD TO 38 . . . Edgar Masson Torres,
71-year-old native of Spain, whose seventh wife presented him with
triplets recently, poses proudly with the surviving two at the Standifer
hospital In Lamesa, Texas. His 37th and 38th are a four-pound girl and
a five-pound boy. The 39th died shortly after birth. Kneeling In front of
Torres and the nurses are five of Torres’ other children.
“LAZY BONES” . . . Dreamed up as an advertising stunt by the pro
prietor of a Berlin linen shop, this display draws big crowds daily. The
girl in bed, caressed by the firm’s fine linen, is Tbea, a Berlin dancer,
who “sleeps” in the store window for about five hours a day. During
her sojourn in the window, the sidewalk out front is jammed with peo
ple, but most of them are men who come, not to admire the sheets, but
to ddmire the occupant.
DIPLOMAT KILLED . . . The
body of Capt. Eugene Karpe,
naval attache of the U. S, lega
tion in Bucharest, was found in a
railroad tunnel near Salzberg,
Austria.
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SEEKS FORTUNE . . . Mrs. Eva
V. Hoover, Pittsburgh widow, has
filed claim to 17 million-dollar
snuff fortune of Henrietta Garrett,
claiming she is the “unwanted”
daughter of the Garretts. She says
she has a letter written by her
foster mother to prove her claim.
FROM RICHES TO JAIL . . . Ken
neth Blackmore, hotel auditor
missing 20 months with $13,381 in
hotel funds, gave himself np to
police in San Francisco. He ex
plained his abscondence: “It was
a balmy day, the sky was blue,
sun was shining, and I decided to
take off.”
A “BEARDEN” TO HER CAREER ... A top film studio official was
reported to have flown to Tucson, Ariz., to put a chill on a romance
between Shelley Winters, actress, and Gene Bearden, star hurler for
the Cleveland Indians. Miss Winters Is on location in the desert town
and word is filtering hack to Hollywood that she hopes to be the next
Mrs. Bearden when his divorce becomes final. Studio says a husband
would be a burden on Miss Winters* career.
HELD AS SECURITY . . . Sandra
Wessel was returned to the custo
dy of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Wessel, by a Milwaukee
judge after 'being held a year by
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kotecki for
payment of a $90 board and medi
cal bill from her parents.
WHY DOES FASCIST’S WIFE RATE A SALUTE? ... At the entrance DESERT SKI QUEEN . . . Chosen
to the Rome military hospital, a soldier salutes the wife of former queen of the fourth annual Thund-
Marshall Rodolfo Grasiani, the highest ranking Fascist brought to trial e rbird ski meet at the Arizona
in Italy since the war. Grasiani went en trial on charges of treason snow bowl. Flagstaff, pretty Holl
and desertion, with the charges based on his activities as minister of ^ Walker, 18, sits beside a
war in Fascist government set up behind lines after late King Victor j phoenix, Arizona, swimming pool
Emmanuel surrendered to the AlHes in 1943. N | wnxlng her skis for the event. ,'
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INCOME FKOPERT*—24
Tax Probe Reopened
L AST JUNE, after s huddle of
lawyers In Birmingham, Ala., an
important income-tax fraud case
was sent back to the justice depart
ment in Washington where it
marked “Closed,” “No prosecu
tion.”
The case involved Joe Mitchell
and Sam Ripps of Mobile who were
alleged to have profited from the
sale of jewelry to army post ex
changes during the war and then
cheated the government out of in
come taxes.
But the lawyers’ huddle in Bir
mingham decided' that there was
no case against Mitchell and Ripps,
and sent it hack for “no prosecu
tion.”
Six months later, however, on
December 16, 1949, this column
published the whole story of the
Ripps-Mitchell scandal, including
the fact that they were defended
in Birmingham by Ben Leader,
former law partner of U.S. Attorn
ey John Hill, the man who was sup
posed to prosecute them.
Just a few days before this
story was published, John HOI
telephoned the justice depart
ment from Birmingham warn
ing that “Pearson had one of
his investigators in Birming
ham probing the Ripps-Mitcb-
ell case.” Three days later,
when the story was published.
Hill issued a general denial.
However, the justice department,
with some of the new facts disclos
ed by this column, reopened the
Ripps-Mitchell case. And the two
men were indicted in Mobile.
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SPEEDY
The council of economic advisers
has presented a significant, secret,
three-page analysis of the coun
try’s economic problems to the i R - c_
President Here in brief is whatjBUy U.J. duVHiQS
Truman’s advisers told him:
1. The major problem fabing the
country today is the sharp rise in
unemployment:
A) During the month of January,
unemployment set a record post
war high with 4.5 million out of
work—almost a million higher th*
the previous month. Unemploy
ment is now at 7 per cent of the
total labor force as against only a
little over 4 per cent one year ago.
B) The increase of a million to
the ranks of toe unemployed to a
30-day period is considerably* more
than would normally occur at this
time of year. , .
2. Partly offsetting toe' poor un
employment picture is the high
level of home construction, busi
ness loans and bank clearings. v In
addition, those people who are still
employed have not received any
appreciable pay cuts.
3. In general, toe present, situa
tion, while warranting the closest
study, is not as yet alarming.
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4. Hie basic problem Is one
of expanding the U.S. economy
fast enough to absorb the ever-
increasing number of people
available to work. During the
year 1949, for example, the
labor force Increased by 1.33
million. Today’s high level of
unemployment Is due to the
failure of the economy to grow
sufficiently during 1949.
5. The present economic situa
tion calls for action along three
-major lines: *
A) The development of a pro
gram to stimulate business invest
ment, planning for large public-
works expenditures and increased
attention to local areas of severe
unemployment.
B) Continued government spend
ing to order to pour money into
toe economic stream (defense
spending, social security, unem
ployment compensation, veterans
benefits, etc.)
C) The rapid settlement of toe
coal strike before coal shortages
send a chain reaction of unemploy
ment throughout the nation. ,
Rankin Silanead
John Rankin, the wild-talking
Mississippi congressman, has met
his match on the house floor. It
happened early to toe morning of
toe long filibuster against FEPC.
Finally Representative Andy
Jacobs, dubbed by colleagues “toe
Abe Lincoln of Indiana,” wearily
pulled himself up and remarked:
*Tm getting a little tired of this
Holy Willie prayer. You remember
Bobbie Burns’ Holy Willie, who
thanked toe Lord in a congratula
tory vein that he. Holy Willie,
wasn’t wicked like his neighbors?’’
This crack opened sleepy eyes,
for few representatives are bold
enough to take on the nagging
Ran)dn. But Jacobs, recalling Ran
kin’s outpouring against FEPC en
forcement, continued: “He favored
enforcement of the Taft-Harfley
law and asked enforcement against
John L. Lewis. He requested toe
President to invoke toe Taft-Hart-
ley law in the present emergency.
A year ago, when labor legislation
was being considered, the gentle
man talked here so much about the
right to work; today he does not
seem to be too much interested.*
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