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Foundation of America
1 WENT UP to the litUe Pennsyl
vania town where I spent most
of my boyhood, to help dedicate the
beginning of a new town hall a few
weeks ago. It brought back a lot
of memories. It also set me think
ing about what forms the real foun
dation of government in this coun
try—namely, the small towns of
America.
Swarthmore boasted about 2,000
people when I grew up there, and it
still isn't much bigger now. The
houses are of that early peniten
tiary, mansard-roof type; solid, a
little ugly, but both the hearth
stones and the hearts of the people
inside are warm.
A few things about my town
have changed in the 30-odd years
since I moved away—but not many.
There’s a new movie house—un
heard of in my day. And an under
pass has replaced the old railroad
grade crossing where watchman
Mike McCarthy, friend of every kid
in town, used to fret and fume un
til school was out and all the chil
dren had been herded across the
tracks. <
Some swank new homes have
been built in the cow pastures and
woods where I once trapped
skunks; but Frank Gettz now the
town tax assessor, greeted me with
the observation: “The skunk-catch-
ling isn’t so good up here any more,
but I see you're still catching them
down in Washington.’’
Pearson’s Police Record
Biggest change in Swarthmore,
however, is going to be the new
town hall, for which—with proper
ceremonies—we broke ground. The
old town hall, a gaunt, ungainly eye
sore, caught fire last year, which
reminded me that maybe the police
records had burned with it, thereby
removing from the clutches of my
senatorial well-wishers the criminal
evidence t£ey have been so diligent
ly trying to find.
A certain senator has been eager
ly digging into my past of late, and
last week an attorney close to the
McCarthyites stood up in court and
indicated by his cross examination
of me that they were even trying
to track down an incident in Reids-
ville, N. C., where, after taking
down a Chautauqua tent, I was ar-
i]rested- at 3 a.m., for taking a
sponge bath in the murky Southern
railroad yards.
This is a story which I tell every
time I go to North Carolina, the
last time haring been to the North
Carolina press association in Chap
el Hill about a year ago. 1 also get
humorous letters from Judge Ira
Humphries who presided over the
court, and Rev. William A. Lam
beth, then Methodist minister in
Reidsville, reminding me of my
wicked past
Grist for Sen. McCarthy
Presiding at the town hall cere
monies in Swarthmore was William
H. Ward, -now a top executive of
the Du Pont company, who, like
me, worked his way through college
by spending his summers on a
Chautauqua tent crew. And I
couldn’t help but remember how
Bill Ward and Gibson Bradfield,
now Barnesville, Ohio’s, leading
banker, once took advantage of the
liquid coolness' Of the fountain in
the public square at Wellsboro,
Pennsylvania, to remove the all-
night grime of taking down a tent.
I hope Senator McCarthy doesn’t
go after them, too!
At any rate, I was acquitted in
Reidsville, N. C., and there was
even a little lecture by the judge
, to the arresting cop that it was the
duty of every citizen to keep clean.
What Senator McCarthy doesn’t
know, however, is that the burned
records in the old town hall at
Swarthmore would have showed that
I was also arrested on an entire
ly different charge at an 'earlier
age (about 15) and that time found
guilty.
It was. after a college football
game. Swarthmore had beaten its
old rival, Haverford. The two
Quaker colleges were supposed to
practice brotherly love, but didn’t.
Afterward, I rang the village fire
bell and got caught. Fine: $5.
Backbone of America
ffl Well, all these memories and a
lot of others came crowding back
at that dedication eeremony. And
among them was the realization
that our small towns are the back
bone of America, and that if we
ever lose our small-town independ
ence, and the community spirit
that goes with it, then we might
really be in danger of going the way
of Russia. *
The tendency of our modern,
streamlined nation is to concentrate
too much power in Washington.
Most people blamo Washington for
this, though actually part of the
blame belongs at home. For, when
some towns can’t or do not raise
enough taxes to build new school-
houses or pay their teachers, then
they come to Washington for fed
eral aid to education. And when
states want new roads, they are
eager beavers in tapping the pub
lic-roads subsidy in Washington.
So Washington can’t be blamed
for exercising that power.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS-
Government Issues Stopgap Order
Freezing All Wages and Prices;
AEG Conducts Atomic Experiments
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When •pinion* nr* expressed In the** column*, they are those ef
Western Newspaper Union’* new* analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper.)
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The mystery of the vanishing Chinese armies who failed to
tajee advantage ef their breakthrough Into South Korea remained
unsolved as U.N. forces advanced toward the 38th parallel. The
advance was not an all-ont push, but a probing action by U.N.
forces in an effort to locate the enemy.
WAGES-PRICES:
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A Stopgap Order
A stopgap order freezing wages
and prices was issued by the gov
ernment. Although unsatisfactory
as far as the average consumer
was concerned, the measure at
least was a stab toward stopping
the wage-price spiral that had
swept across the nation in the last
few months.
The main effect of the order was
that it brought to a standstill hun
dreds of collective-bargaining ne
gotiations in Industry. Prices on a
number of goods and services were
frozen, but there were also a num-
ber^of exemptions, the most im
portant one being the price of food.
According to administration
spokesmen the price freeze would
be replaced as fast as possible by
specific ceiling prices, industry by
industry. Such a procedure could
go on forever.
The wage freeze would be wiped
out as soon as a flexible wage
policy could be compiled, it was
'announced. This “flexible policy”
was considered necessary to per
mit lagging wages in some indus
tries to come up to a certain stand
ard.
The price order was complex and
confusing, especially with respect
to farm products and food.
First of all, there was no freeze
of any food prices at the farm
level. •
But on the processing, whole
sale, and retail levels, food prices
were frozen if the farm prices of
those foods were above parity. Thus,
beef, veal, pork and lamb prices
were frozen.
(Parity is a sliding scale designed
to keep farm prices at a fixed re
lation to the farmer’s costs. The
law prohibits price ceilings below
parity.)
Most farm products at the time
of the wage-price freeze were be
low parity. Poultry and eggs were
examples. If and when the farm
er’s prict went up on those things,
the wholesaler and retailer could
-not raise prices to increase their
margins. The increase, however,
would be automatically passed
along all the way to the consumer.
Other things exempt from price
controls includ.d communication
and publication fields—like news
papers, books, magazines, radio,
television and theater admission.
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Price administrator Michael
V. DiSalle (right) looks on as
Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath administers the oath
of office to 13 officials who head
regional and district offices
of the economic stabilization
organization. These men will
direct the price-wage freeze
laws.
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Captain Carroll Tyler, man
ager of the AEC Santa Fe op
erations office at Los Alamos,
N.M., announced test detona
tions at the atomic testing
range near Las Vegas. Tyler
gave no details of the tests.
His announcement was a warn
ing to residents of the area
that such tests were scheduled.
A-BOMB:
Tests Rock Las Vegas
While most of the world waitei
with apprehension at/the result ana
announcements of the first atomic
explosion in this country in a num
ber of years, residents of Las
Vegas, Nevada, 40 miles from the
atomic testing range, were irked
about the whole business.
The atomic energy commission
shrouded its experiments in silence.
It was known, however, that three
explosions took place. Las Vegas
witnesses reported a tremendous
white flash in the sky, closely fol
lowed by another flash, orange in
color and not as bright.
Las Vegas residents reported
windows shook, houses trembled
and burglar alarms in business es
tablishments were set off.
The last explosion was felt and
seen in Boulder City, about 65 miles
from the test range.
EUROPE:
Time for Co-operation
In the last few weeks, especial
ly since General Eisenhower made
his tour of Europe, there seems to
have developed a feeling of mutual
co-operation between the United
States and our allies.
The reluctance to arm and speed
up production that was evident
only a few months ago disappeared.
Britain has launched a production
speed-up and rearmament program.
And now France has announced
plans to take her place beside
the U.S. and Britain.
To further this co-operation,
French Premier Rene Pleven ar
rived in Washington for conferences
with President Truman. After a
series of meetings it was announced
Pleven and Truman were in agree
ment as to policy in the far east,
especially in Korea and Indochina.
Most observers agreed the talks
would open the way for greater
co-operation among the western
nations in the defense of Europe,
with much greater participation on
the part of France.
CASUALTY LISTS
Nation's Traffic Deaths Top 966,000
Military deaths in all American
wars, including Korea, reached a
total of 994,000 near the end of Jan
uary. And it appears likely, should
the Korean conflict continue for
several more months, that the total
could climb well over the 1,000,000
mark.
Americans in every walk of life,
from the big cities to the home
towns of the nation, shuddered at
the thought. But right on the home
front there is another casualty list
just as startling. At the end of Jan
uary the 50-year toll of traffic
deaths in this country topped 966,-
000, or 28,000 fewer than the aggre
gate of all war deaths up to the
present time.
In addition, between 29,500,000
and 30,000,000 have been injured
since 1900
KOREA:
Mystery Unsolved
The mystery of what happened
to the Chinese armies that pushed
United Nations forces south of the
38th parallel and seriously threat
ened to cut them off from Pusan
remained unsolved.
An unexpected lull swept ever
the Korean battle front as Chinese
pressure ceased. Then probing at
tacks northward by U.N. forces
failed to i^ake contact with the
main armies of the enemy.
Latest reports told of continued
movement of U.N. troops northward
and only minor resistance.
The situation raised a number
of questions and possibilities. For
one thing, it raised the question of
whether or not the Communist
armies had bean hurt to the ex
tent they were unable to continue
a strong attack. „ The possibility
seemed unlikely in view of the
numbers of men available to the
Communists.
There were also rumors to the
effect the Communists had suffered
severely from cold and disease.
There were other reports that the
Chinese would not fight below the
38th parallel.
The mystery was still unsolved
after two weeks of minor fighting.
4he battlefield hill also relieved
the tension on the political front.
The urgency of branding China the
aggressor in Korea was lessened.
POLITICS:
Republican Policy
The drums of politics, which'will
grow louder in the next few months,
were sounded by Sen. Robert Taft
of Ohio when he called on Republi
cans to meet head on any Truman
“truckling” to Communist sympath
izers or any appeasement of Russia.
Taft made it plain that he thought
the Republicans could defeat the
Democrats in the next presidential
election on the issue of foreign pol
icy. Whether or not the campaign
shapes up along these lines depends
greatly on events in the next few
months. On the surface it appears
that Senator Taft may face some
opposition along this line from with
in his own party.
Senator Taft's influence with Re
publicans . is tremendous, however.
He heads the senate G.O.P. policy
committee and has been called the
leading Republican contender for
the v 1952 presidential nomination.
In his own words, this seems to
be the core of Taft’s policy: “We
must meet head on any truckling
to Communist sympathizers, any
appeasement of Russia which la
likely to lead to more aggression,
and any waste of our resources
with the idea that we can buy the
support of nations.**
DRAFT:
Bitter Controversy
The all-powerful house armed-
services committee stepped into
the bitter controversy over draft
ing 18-year-olds for armed service
duty with an order to the defense
department to consider raising the
top draft age from 26 to 30 as an
alternative.
The move virtually put a stop to
the department’s plan of drafting
18-year-olds. Congress may still act
on the measure, however, which the
defense department reports would
provide between 350,000 and 450,000
men during the first year.
Also in the draft news was the
announcement by the defense de
partment that non-veterans 19
through 25 who have married since
the Korean war began Jun^ 25,
1950, should be drafted. Only single
non-veterans now are being taken.
Plans also were underway to
lower the draft standards. This
move would provide perhaps 150,-
000 men now barred for physical
and mental reasons.
ECONOMISTS:
Urge Stiffer Taxes
Four hundred economists, mem
bers of 30 institutions throughout
the country, recently urged the gov
ernment to increase taxes and
tighten controls. ,
Their views were interesting in
that they all believed that emer
gency fiscal and credit policies,
rather than price-wage controls,
constitute our primary defense
against inflation.
They recommended:
V Scrutinize carefully all gov
ernment expenditures and postpone
or eliminate those that are not ur
gent and essential.
2. Raise tax revenues even fast
er than defense spending grows,
so as to achieve and maintain a
cash surplus. Merely to balance
the budget is not enough.
3. Restrict the amount of credit
available to businesses and indirid- n
uals for purposes not essential to
the defense program.
The recommendation to achieve
a cash surplus would require a tax
increase of more than $16,000,000,-
000, the minimum required to bal
ance the new budget.
BRITAIN:
One Bite a Day
While the housewives of this
country were grumbling about high
prices and hoping price controls
would help the situation, British
housewives were protesting a dras
tic new cut in that nation’s fresh
meat ration.
It was the third cut in three
months and this time amounted to
20 per cent. It shriveled the ration
for each person in Britain to about
a bite a day.
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LAST VOYAGE i. . . Her flight decks charred and buckled, the 10,000
ton carrier Independence starts her last voyage beneath the Golden
Gate bridge, San Francisco, headed for a rendezvous with death.
Veteran of World War n and victim of two atomic bombing tests, the
gallant vessel will be towed out to sea and sunk by the Navy. The ship
was deemed of no value as scrap because of the radioactivity which
still clings to her warped plates.
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tist, approaches the 18th hole to
win Long Beach, Calif., Lake-
wood Park open golf champion
ship with a 72-hole mark of 271,
13 under par. The win was worth
$2,000 to Cary.
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Charles E. Wilson, (left) confers with Sen. John Sparkman (center),
Alabama, chairman of the senate small business committee, and
William Henry Harrison, chairman of the national production authority,
just before Wilson testified before the senate group. He said he does
not expect rationing to be ordered “in the near future.’’ He said the
present price freeze Is temporary, to be amended later.
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WANTS WOMEN FOR WAF . , .
Col. Geraldine May, director of
the WAF, stresses the need of
more women In the air forces.
She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr
college and the University of
California and is the air forces’
highest ranking woman officer.
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CHILD ACROBAT . . . Reggie Rosales, 18-months-old, with a talent for
acrobattcs. Is the star entertainer in his parents' small restaurant In
San Francisco. Reggie chins himself on a water pipe, polls himself
on counter stools and dances torrid Latin American rhythms to the
delight of customers here. Here he indulges himself In a few acrobatics
In the kitchen of the restaurant while his mother’s hands wait to eatoh
him if he falls.
DROPS TROOP VSZ DEMAND
. . . Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry,
Nebraska, accepted a counter^
proposal to refer the issue of the
President’s sending troops to
Europe to the senate foreign re
lations committee. Other Repub
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the conference of commonwealth ministers in London, India’s Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (right) chats with Soviet Russia’s
ambassador to France, Alexis P. Pavlovx, in Paris, France. They met
at a reception given for Prime Minister Nehru at the Indian embassy.
Nehru been attempting to arrange a cease-fire trace between Red
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Korean war and a soldier for
eight months before his true age
was discovered. He' had been in
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