The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 27, 1951, Image 2
Marshall Works Hard
T HE WASHINGTON rumor factory
is probably the most active and
the most irresponsible in the world.
Tales cooked up in capitol hill lob
bies, the drawing rooms of high
•ociety or in a taxicab conversation
are spread as fact within a matter
of hours.
The story that the late Franklin
Roosevelt was insane and had to
be chained to his bed at night was
a good example. One confidential
news agency believed it to the ex
tent of relaying it to its many thou
sand customers.
Latest Washington canard is that
Secretary of Defense George Mar
shall is in his dotage and unable to
come to his office more than a half
a week.
On the contrary. I can state
that Marshall, though 70, Is
probably In better health than
before his kidney operation, gets
to the office before 8 a.m., has
the papers read and sent out of
his office by around 8:20 a.m.,
and puts in a full six-day week,
working even on Saturday.
Marshall is alert, his memory is
amazing, and he seems completely
on the ball. Furthermore, Marshall
has put the old uniform aside and
is trying to run the defense depart
ment as a civilian. This writer had
some skepticism about this phase of
Marshall’s new job when first ap
pointed secretary of defense, but the
skepticism appears not to have been
justified.
Cattle-Feed Shortage
Secretary of Agriculture Charles
Brannan had been at daggers’
points over government farm
policies for some time with the man
he fired last week, Ralph Trigg,
chief of production and marketing.
Main reason the ax fell was that
the production of certain vital farm
crops—chiefly cattle feed—is des
perately behind our defense goals.
About 127,000,000 tons of grain
will be needed to feed our greatly
expanded population of beef cattle
and hogs this year. However, farm
ers have planted or scheduled for
planting only enough acres to pro
duce 117,000,000 tons of feed grain.
Com will be about 5,000,000 acres
short of the 90,000,000-acre produc
tion goal fixed by Brannan—which
Trigg was supposed to deliver.
At the same time we have
4,000,000 more beef cattle and
over 5,000,000 more hogs to feed
this year than In 1950. The pinch
may not be Crtt t£is year be
cause of feedvraln' reserves.
However, with these reserves
exhausted, we will face a seri
ous cutback in cattle production
for defense needs—and there
fore a meat shortage—in 1952.
Manpower shortage on the farms
is one reason—perhaps the chief
one—for the failure to divert more
grasslands to planting feed grain.
Presidential Pique
President Truman’s pique and an
economist's desire to throw off his
new deal label are back of the ad
ministration’s tragic failure to
clamp on price controls six months
< ago.
This never-told story starts last
year when the elder statesman,
Bernard Baruch, publicly came out
for price controls.
Real truth was that the White
House and national security re
sources board were at that very
time toying with the same idea. But
when Mr. Truman heard that the
white-haired New York financier
was for price controls, he reversed
himself. The President had put
Baruch on his “S.O.B. list” when
Bernie refused to serve on a Demo
cratic committee in the 1948 elec
tions, and Truman didn’t want to
be in the position of coming out for
price controls just after Baruch did.
Another factor was the strong
opposition to controls by Leon
Keyserling, then acting chair
man of the council of economic
advisers. Keyserling, a former
department of agriculture
economist and assistant to Sen.
Bob Wagner, was being attacked
by Bight Winters on capitol hill
as a wild-eyed radical.
Keyserling, an able economist
but subject to human ambitions,
wanted to be named chairman of
the council and gain acceptance as
a middle-of-the-road adviser. And
at that time he told both the Presi
dent and Stuart Symington, chair
man of the resources board, that
controls were “unworkable.” In one
consultation with Symington, Key-
serling argued that high prices
would, in fact, be helpful by drain
ing off excess purchasing power
and its competition for goods, serv
ices and materials needed for re
armament.
Washington Pipolino
Illustrating the Washington ca
nard factory here is another I heard
recently: “Drew Pearson has now
sold out to Pan American airways.
He got a free trip to Europe with
Pan American and is now in their
pocket.” . . . Real fact is that I
paid my way to Europe on Pan
American as I have on every other
airline. However, I do not hesitate
to pay tribute to Pan American’s
it operation across the At-
SHOPPER'S
CORNER
By DOROTHY BARCLAY
Your butcher has to anticipate
your needs, while meeting his own
obligations for overhead, help, rent,
insurance and taxes. So it’s not his
fault that meat tops your budget—
why take it out on him? He prac
tically bends over backwards to
help you whenever he can, with
weekend specials like the one in our
town, which advertised three items
—a dozen eggs, a pound of butter
and a pound of bacon,—all three for
the price of any two of ’em! ’Twas
a busy and prosperous weekend for
that store, and a well-fed commu
nity!
While you keep an eye out for
those specials day by day, there’s
still another way to shop and save.
Why not call a meatless day once
a week?
NOT BY MEAT ALONE
Not by bread alone, nor by meat
alone does man livek M you’re
•looking for protein- cofttdpt, ‘there
are many other foods as good as
meat for protein purposes. And
most of these foods are plentiful
these early spring days—plentiful
and therefore cheap!
The time is now for the egg peak
—no wonder our market could
throw in a dozen with his bacon
and butter! Dried beans, peanut
butter, sauerkraut, and cheeses of
all descriptions are chuck full, not
only of proteins, minerals and vita
mins, but of possibilities for variety
of treatment and combination. Have
you tried the cellophane-packed
sliced cheese your grocer has occa
sionally? You can stock up on it
when he has the supply, and have
it on demand for the school lunch-
box, the quick snack, for adding to
your egg casserole dishes, or your
macaroni dinners for meatless
night!
Just watch those ads in your lo
cal paper, and the “Special for To
day” and weekend specials signs
on your store windows, and you’ll
have your family looking forward
to that meatless day!
Small Community Is
Frightened by Five
Fires in One Night
GREENVILLE, Mich.—The small
town of Greenville was so fright
ened recently by a series of fires
that at every home one member
remained on guard during the night.
The Michigan national guard was
also called to the town to patroL
Before the night was over one
church was destroyed and one was
considerably damaged.
Acting on a tip from Mrs. Harold
Godfrey who said she saw a slender
young man standing on the edge
of crowds laughing hysterically, po
lice arrested Vernon Mevis, 22-year-
old factory worker. Mevis admitted
setting the fires.
The youth said he was on his
way to work at a refrigerator plant
when he decided to “have some
fun”. He started looking for “places
for good fires.”
“I don’t know why I do this,”
Mevis cried. “But it just comes on
me and I can't help myself.”
Police officials said the newly
redecorated Congregational Church
was gutted, while the blaze in the
nearby Methodist Church was con
fined to the basement. Fires in a
barbershop, a Western Union office,
and a parked truck caused consid
erable damage also. In all, the dam
age was estimated at $175,000.
During the past year the town
had several serious fires with dam
age amounting to thousands of dol
lars. Police said they would ques
tion Mevis to learn if ha was con
nected with them.
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HOW ABOUT
A MEATLESS DAY?
M EAT PRICES still on the up-
and-up climb? How are we
shoppers to win this “Battle of the
Budget”, with our favorite food
stretching the battle-line so thin?
Protest, sure—but how? We could
go on a buyers’ strike—refuse to
buy meat until the price goes down.
That has worked in
some communities.
But isn’t that a
little rough on that
good butcher of
yours, who does
everything he can
for you, in the face
of even tougher
problems of his own? It’s not his
fault that meat’s so high, any more
than it’s the cattle and poultry
producer, or the meat packer’s. The
controlling factor in meat prices
is, as it always has been, the bal
ance between supply and demand!
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NEW AMBASSADOR . . . Dr.
Yang Too Chang, newly-appoint
ed Korean ambassador to the
United States, piakes a stopover
at the Yaesu hotel in Tokyo,
Japan, before proceeding to his
new post in Washington, D.C.
KILLED BY HUKS ... A member of the Philippine constabulary
corps views bodies of two Americans and an Australian who were shot
by Huk rebels recently at Antipolo, 30 miles south of Manilla. Victims
are Mrs. Alice Irene Wilkin Hardie (foreground), 42, formerly of Hil-
mar, Calif.; Donald Capuana, 25, Australia; and (background) John
Hardie, 53, formerly of Condon, Ore., husband of Mrs. Hardie.
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EX-HERO . • • Gregory (Pappy)
Boyington, 38, ace marine fighter
pilot in last war, was charged in
Los Angeles court with “being
drunk In public and unable to care
for himself.” He was arrested in
front of a cafe.
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REDS FIRE ON U.S. BUS . . . Corporal Everett W. Goldsmith, an
American MP in Berlin, Germany, points to bullet-riddled window of
one of the four U.S. passenger buses fired on recently by Communist
police at the Soviet-western sector border. The buses carried Amer
ican soldiers, dependents, boy scout cubs and civilian personnel. They
were on a regular weekly tour of the Soviet sector.
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SPY TRIAL JUDGE . . . Federal
Judge Irving Kaufman who im
posed death sentences on atomic
spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
said, “I would violate the trust of
the people of this country if I
were to show mercy.”
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GAVE GOERING POISON • • . Eric Von Dem Bach-Zelewski receives
sacrament at Catholic convent after stating he gave Herman Goering
the poison with which the latter committed suicide. He claims that
he whispered the word “zyankali” (cyanide of potassium) to Goering
through the flap of his cell, and later slipped the Nasi leader a cake of
soap containing an ampule of the poison. He was classified as “major
offender” and sentenced to 10 years labor.
NAVY’S FIRST WINNER . . . Lt.
(JG) Thomas Hndner, Fall River,
Mass., is the navy’s first winner of
the medal of honor for action in
Korea. He risked his life in an
attempt to rescue a fellow airman.
Ensign Jesse Brown, first negro
naval officer to lose life in any U.S.
war. Brown lost his life despite
Hudner’s attempt.
ATTACK DEFENSE SETUP . • • Phillip Murray (left), president of the
CIO, terms the national production act the most iniquitous and dis
criminatory piece of legislation ever enacted. He says labor is not fight
ing to run the defense mobilisation board, but is seeking fair represen
tation. With Murray is United Ante Workers president, Walter Reuther.
Murray spoke at a convention of the UAW in Cleveland, Ohio. Us
words were approved by the members.
DESERTEL SENTENCED . . •
CpL John Waller (right) is taken
to a military prison after being
sentenced for desertion from Brit
ish army. He fled to the Soviet
sene of Berlin, bat gave himself
Grim-Faced MacArthur
For him the war ends.
SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS
of Main Street and the World
Truman Relieves Gen. MacArthur
From All Commands in the Far East
MACARTHUR RELIEVED—To millions of small-towners across
the nation to whom Gen. Douglas MacArthur has become something of
a legend, his removal from all of his commands by President Truman
was a shock not easily understood. The action pointed up the serious
ness of the break between the general, the White House, and UN states
men which had raged for weeks over the conduct of the Korean war.
According to grim, stubborn MacArthur, he was fighting Europe’s
war with arms in Asia while Europe’s diplomats continued to fight com-
* munism with words. In his blunt, barbed
way, he wrote Joseph W. Martin, Jr., house
majority leader: “It seems strangely dif
ficult for some to realize that here in Asia
is where the Communist conspirators have
elected to make their play for global con
quest.”
That statement struck at the admini
stration’s very basis of how to defeat com
munism. It threw European diplomats into
a tizzy. It brought demands in congress
that a special bipartisan committee' be
sent to Tokyo to hear the general’s foreign
policy views. It brought rumors of the
crackdown on MacArthur which the peo
ple on Main Street could not believe would ever happen.
The action has produced a shock that may have serious conse
quences. In the next few weeks congress may possibly be involved,in
bitter debate as the general’s cause is championed by the Republican
party.
But above all, it has caused confusion and uneasiness in the mind of
the average Main Street citizen whose common sense tells him there is
no end in sight for the Korean conflict It does not answer the question
in the minds of millions of people in the home towns: How are we going
to get our sons and brothers and husbands free of the blood and filth
of Korea?
GRAPES OF WRATH— The people in the big cities of the nation
know little about the “Okies” so vividly described in John Steinbeck’s
* novel of the depression, “The Grapes of Wrath.” But to the people in the
small towns and rural sections of the nation, they have long been a
problem—and a necessity.
There are millions of them in the United States, working from the
south toward the north as the crops ripen for harvest. And as the harvest
nears they are welcomed and just as anxiously the community awaits
their leaving. They are poor, often underfed and inadequately housed.
They present a problem on the home town level that the individual com
munity is unable to solve.
At last, much to the relief of millions of home towners, the federal
government has stepped in and made a survey of their problems. The
committee that made the survey has recommended legislation on migra
tory farm labor that may solve wage problems, establish labor camps,
extend social security, public health and education programs with the
aid of states and local communities.
Of all the problems that faced the home towns of the nation, that
of the migratory worker was one of the most serious. Its solution will
be welcomed.
ATOMIC SPIES—In what was proba
bly one of the most dramatic and moving
scenes in a federal court in the history of
this country. Judge Irving Kaufman sen
tenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, hus
band and wife atomic spy team, to die for
treason. , v* .
Said handsome, 41-year-old Kaufman,
one of the youngest judges on the federal
bench: “I have searched my conscience
to find some reason for mercy. It is not
* in my power to forgive you. Only the
Lord can find mercy for what you have
done.”
Never before in a civil court of the
United States had native-born spies been
sentenced to death.
Morton Sobell, 34, fellow conspirator,
was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The
fourth member of the conspiracy, Mrs.
Rosenberg’s brother, David Greenglass,
29, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Thus ended another episode in the
constant battle to keep the home towns
of America free. Ethel Rosenberg
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KEEP 'EM ON THE FARM— The old question of “how are you
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figures from the 1950 census of agriculture.
The census bureau announced that the tentative count of the num
ber of farms in the country came to 5,379,043, a “real” drop of at
' least 280,000 for the first five postwar years and at least 500,000—or about
8 per cent—for the last decade.
The bureau put forth three major reasons: (1) A trend toward
combining small farms to form large ones. This was most pronounced
west of the Mississippi. (2) A trend away from production of food for
home use or sale. (3) Rural people taking jobs In nearby city industries
and dropping production of food.
THE LEVELING OFF-— Michael V. DiSalle, price director, said in
his latest statement that his ceilings have brought “some stability’* into
view, but that higher taxes and tightening of money and credit supply
are needed.
The question in the minds of home town housewives was whether or
not the line will hold, or whether there will be another upward spiral in
late summer as predicted by many economists.
In defense of controls, DiSalle said: “We had to start price con
trols. It was a psychological move to combat the factors that weroi
driving us toward a serious inflation.**
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At Truman’s invitation labor returned to the Defense Board.
U.M.Tn DROPPED—The house armed services committee dropped
efforts to write a universal military training program that would have WNU—7
reached into the home of every family In the nation! The senate had
previously approved establishment of a U.M.T. program in connection
with pending draft legislation.
The committee adopted an amendment by which congress agrees to
consider recommendations to be made later by a five-man U.M.T.
commission. Legislators who approved of U.M.T. said they believed
universal military training will be enacted within a year.
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NO C0NS1
THE HIGH SCHOOL PROBLEM
Large Numbers of Students Quit Classes
According to a national survey of
home town high schools, boys and
girls are dropping out of their class
es at an increased rate. The study
revealed clear Ranger that the
trend may reach proportions com
parable to the exodus of students
during World War H.
Educators in the high schools of
the country are being urged to con
duct a “stay-in-school” drive to
persuade students to remain until
the completion of their courses.
Major reasons for school-leaving
were said to be increased employ
ment opportunities, expectation of
the draft, economical need, lack
of interest in academic work, and
restlessness, insecurity or social
maladjustment. In the case of those
awaiting draft summonses, their
grades often suffer.
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