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Debate Arms Boycott
JUTOST IMPORTANT diplomatic
^ ^ debate of the Korean war has
been going on backstage at the
United Nations—namely, an arms
boycott of Red China.
So far our U.N. allies haven’t got
around to voting to ban arms, let
alone an economic embargo. How
ever, it remains a fact that this
is one of the most important steps
to be taken against any aggressor.
Furthermore there is a long his
tory of diplomatic pussyfooting re
garding this by our supposedly good
friends—pussyfooting that eventual
ly has landed them in war. Here is
some case history:
Pussyfoot No. 1 was when the
British undercut us in 1931 when
Japan first invaded Manchuria.
Issues almost identical to the Ko
rean aggression were involved in
Manchuria, and the late Secretary
of State Henry L. Stimson saw
them clearly. He saw that Japan
was sowing the first wild oats of
aggression, just as Russia is to
day, and that if she got away with
one aggressive bite there would be
more.
But Stimson never conld get
the British, who had more at
stake than we, to cooperate.
When U.S. Ambassador Cam
eron Forbes would deliver a
note of protest, the British am
bassador did likewise — then
dropped round to the Japanese
foreign office an hour or two
later to explain that Britain’s
note was merely to please the
Americans and not to be tak
en seriously.
Pussyfoot No. 2 was when Presi
dent Roosevelt tried to organize an
economic blockade of Japan in
1936 in order to stop further ag
gression against China. By this
time the British realized their 1931
mistake and went along with us.
But Roosevelt could not get the
support of other European powers.
Hitler and Mussolini were too strong
by that time, and he also faced
the private opposition of Cordell
Hull.
Pussyfoot No. 3 came when Mus
solini invaded helpless Ethiopia.
This was one of the crudest cases
of aggression the modern world
has seen, and the tottering League
of Nations conscientiously tried to
act. But although an economic
blockade was voted for the first
time in history, two things made
it unsuccessful. ^
One was the exclusion of oil.
The big American and British
oil companies pulled backstage
wires, managed to scare Brit
ish and American diplomats
Into permitting the continued
shipments of oil to Mussolini.
Without oil, his fleet would
have been paralyzed and his
trucks conld not have moved.
But we pussyfooted.
Pussyfoot No. 4 is taking place
right now in regard to Red China,
an obvious, wanton aggressor in
Korea. While the British are the
worst pussyfooters, we in the
U.S.A., including General Mac-
Arthur himself, have pulled our
punches.
MacArthur, for instance, has per
mitted a steady driblet of strategic
materials to flow into Red China
from Japan. From July to October,
1950, he permitted $8,106,000 in
metals, machinery and textiles to
leave Japan for China. From Octo
ber to January, Jap exports to the
Communists increased to $11,100,-
000. Since MacArthur controlled
all Jap exports, this could have
been stopped.
However, the flow of British
goods entering China through
Hong Kong is the most shock
ing scandal of the entire Ko
rean war. While American lives
are being snuffed out, British
millionaires are being made
overnight.
Yet the state department has tak
en no tough steps, such as a threat
to cut off U.S. economic aid to
Britain, as a means of stopping
this trade.
Merry-Go-Round
Robert Mack, a senate elevator
operator, literally stepped into
Senator Kefauver’s shoes the other
day. The Tennessee crimebuster
worked so late that he had to
dress for dinner in his office, bolted
out the door wearing dinner dress,
but brown shoes. In the elevator he
noticed his mistake, traded shoes
with Mack, who had on black
shoes, and got to dinner on time.
. . . Congratulations to Ira Hirsch-
mann and his radio station WABF
in New York for winning the Pea
body award for good music.
Chinese Give Up
It didn’t get into the press com
muniques, but a small naval task
force turned back a Chinese thrust
down the Korean east coast recent
ly. The Chinese Communists sent
two units to prod for a weak spot
in the South Korean line that is
defending the east coast.
However, two American cruisers
and four destroyers hurled broad
sides all - day into the attacking
Chinese. After 1,000 rounds of dev
astating ship-to-shore fire, the Chi
nese gave up.
SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS
of Main Street and the World
Committee's Proposed Tax Increase
Hits Lower Income Groups Hardest
In The News
TAXES ON THE LOCAL LEVEL—By July 1, or shortly thereafter,
the man on Main Street is going to find himself subject to increased
Individual income taxes if the house ways and means committee’s pro
posals are carried out.
The committee voted to increase income taxes $2,950,000,000 a year.
The increase would raise taxes in every bracket by 3 percentage points.
For instance, a single man with a net
income of $2,000 a year would pay $322 in
taxes instead of $280. This would be an
increase from 20 per cent to 23 per cent.
In the second bracket ($2,000 to $4,000),
the tax would go up from 22 to 25 per cent,
and in the third bracket ($4,000 to $6,000),
from 26 to 29 per cent.
In general, the increase in each person’s
tax would be about the same as the jump
which took place under the first war-tax
bill passed last year. This proposed tax
ation is tentative, however, and subject to
possible changes by the house, the senate
finance committee, and the full senate.
But it is an indication of approximately
what the small-towner can expect before
the summer is over.
WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK?-,
From the time this nation was founded
politicians have tried to keep in close con
tact with the home towns in an effort to
know and understand what the average
man is thinking. Very few of them, how
ever, have succeeded.
With this in mind, Secretary of Defense
Marshall made a bold statement during his
testimony on the MacArthur-Truman con
troversy when he asserted the American
people will stand with the administration
on military policy in Korea.
Marshall believes the average home-
towner has no desire to expand the war in
Asia. He believes the American people
“are on the* side that the defense depart
ment, the joint chiefs of staff, and the
civilian authority of the government
favor.”
Defense Secretary Mar
shall {top picture) con
tinued to be of top interest
in the nation's press as he
told senators the home-
towners don't want to ex
pand the war in Korea . . .
Economic Stabilizer Eric
Johnston (center) was in
the news again with de
mands for extension of
economic controls . . . Don
ald Dawson (lower pic
ture) made front pages by
swearing he never used
pressure on RFC directors.
This side, Marshall asserted, involved
a settled conviction that the present policy
of limited commitment of force in Korea
must go on.
TEAM WORK—The first thing the
American youngster learns, whether he
is a city boy or a small town one, is that
he has to be a member of the team. To
play with the other kids he must cooperate.
Americans carry this lesson with them
through life.
It was with some relief, therefore, that
home-towners heard the news that those
free nations who have been trading with
Communist China had finally agreed it
was time to start playing with the home
team and to cut off that trade completely.
Britain, trade and dollar hungry, was possibly the worst offender.
It could be that the senate vote to cut off economic aid to any nation
which permits its citizens to trade with Communist areas had much to
do with the sudden splurge of cooperation.
FOR HUNGRY BEEF EATERS—In an action entirely independent of
the recent projected general rollback on beef prices scheduled by Octo
ber 1, the government. unexpectedly slashed approximately 12 cents a
pound off ceiling prices of some chuck steaks and pot roasts.
For the hungry beef eaters of the nation it was a welcome surpriso.
It is not likely to make relations between the administration and the
nation’s beef producers, packers and distributors any cosier, however.
In The News
A SECOND ATTEMPT—WhUe Gen
eral Marshall and the joint chiefs of staff
testified before congressional committees
in rebuttal to earlier testimony of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur on the conduct of the
Korean war, North Korean and Chinese
Communists were ready for a second at
tempt in their spring offensive.
The first attempt launched April 22,
bogged down in little over a week with an
estimated 75,000 casualties. For the sec
ond try, the Communists rushed thousands
of troops into three buildup areas armed
with an unusually large number of ma
chine guns and Russian-type submachine
guns.
United Nations forces were ready and
waiting for the new offensive, firmly en
trenched and, for the first time in the war,
ready with an air raid warning system.
UN commanders remained firm in the be
lief they could beat back anything the
Communists could throw against them.
Dr. Mary T. Martin
Sloop {top picture), 77-
y e a r-o l d of Crossmore,
N.C., became big news
when she was named Amer
ican Mother of 1951. Dr.
Sloop, wife of a country
doctor, became nationally
known for her work among
the underprivileged in the
mountains of her state ....
Always sensational news,
glamor princess Rita Hay
worth, arrived in Reno to
divorce Prince Aly Kahn.
THE PRICE IS STEEP—The weeks ol
futile talks in Paris by deputies of the
big four foreign ministers has reaffirmed
in the minds of the average home-towner
the fact you can’t reason with the Com
munists. For weeks the deputies' have
tried to work out an agenda for a meeting
of the big four foreign ministers without
success.
It is apparent that the end of the rope
has been reached. The price demanded
by the Reds is too high for a God fearing
and freedom loving nation. Hie Russians
insist upon an arms-reduction item in the
agenda that would mean the suspension of
our defense program. The Russians want
their own kind of arms-reduction formula.
It doesn’t include international inspection
and control
Here again the free world has been blocked in its attempt to ease
world tensions and try to make some progress toward real peace.
THE TALKING CONGRESS—At the moment it appears that the
82nd congress will go down in history as the talking congress, with a
record of fewer laws enacted than the 80th congress which was termed
the “do-nothing congress” by President Truman.
After four full months, the 82nd congress has enacted only 28 public
laws, a recent check revealed. None of the major platform planks on
which Truman won election for a second term have been approved. Of
37 specific legislative recommendations by the President, only three have
become effective as a result of congressional action since January. And
two of them affect only soldiers or veterans of the war in Korea.
FROM COW TO CAN
New Milk Canning Process Is Reported
A new cow-to-can process that
produces milk that tastes like bot
tled milk, but which can be shipped
long distances without spoiling is
feeing used by a dairy in East Stah-
wood, Wash., and being sent to
Alaska, Japan and the armed
forces.
■ The process was invented by Dr.
Roy B. Graves, 64-year-old reseafcch
scientist Since March 30, 2,000 gal
lons of milk have been canned
daily. *
The milk is never exposed to air.
The canning is done in a bacteria-
free atmosphere of steam. It differs
from the standard pasteurization
process in the amount of heat used.
In the new process the mliv u
exposed to 278-degree heat for only
eight seconds, the 64-year-old sci
entist reported.
MORMON PRESIDENT . . .
David O. McKay was elected
ninth president of the Church of
Jesns Christ of Latter-Day Saints
during the church’s 121st confer
ence in Salt Lake City. He still
works, rides horseback on his
farm.
PULITZER WINNER . . . The
Pulitzer Prize committee gave its
1951 fiction award to Conrad Rich
ter for his novel, “The Town,” a
story of the American frontier
family during the first half of the
19th century.
CHEMICAL STOPS POLIO GROWTH ... Dr. Gordon Brown (left)
and Dr. W. W. Ackerman, University of Michigan scientists, reported
recently the discovery of a chemical compound which will stop growth
and multiplication of polio virus in a laboratory culture of human tis
sues. This is the first time a chemical has stopped the growth of the
virus. Use of the chemical, ethionine, was reported during the 35tb
annual meeting of immunologists in Cleveland.
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EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH . . . Through a lane strewn with rubble*
a group of inhabitants of Jucuapa, Salvador, carry whatever they can
salvage as they flee to safety following violent earthquake that rocked
the country recently. More damage was Inflicted on the Inhabitants
when landslides followed the quake. The death toll was officially
placed at 1,200. The Salvhdoran Red Cross mobilized all its facilities
to care for the injured and homeless.
KOREAN WAR HERO . . . Master
Sgt. Ernest R. Kouma, Dwight,
Neb., is the first survivor of the
Korean war to receive the con
gressional medal of honor from \
President Truman. He is credited
with killing 250 Chinese Commu
nists.
SECURITY COUNCIL HEAD . . .
Selim Sarper, Turkey, new presi
dent of the U.N. security council,
presides at a session. The U.S.,
Britain and France were expected
to join in an appeal for a cease
fire In Syrian-Israeli conflict.
EISENHOWER CONFERS . . . General Dwight D. Eisenhower (left),
commander-in-chief of the Atlantic pact forces, holds his first official
conference with the United States director of defense mobilization,
Charles Wilson, at the general’s temporary SHAPE headquarters in
Paris. Among the topics discussed by the two officials was the mat«o»
of the division of resources among the Atlantic pact members.
CHAIRMAN DIES . . . Rep. John
Kee (D., W. Va.), chairman of
house foreign affairs committee,
died while presiding over a ses
sion of his group. He had been HI
for a long time and expressed da-
sire to die “with boots on.”
COURTROOM DRAMA . . . Boy identifies dope peddler. Phillip
Petress, 15, points to Homer Stigger in Chicago courtroom as the man
who sold him two capsules of heroin. Phillip’s mother and State At
torney Boyle (right) look on as new state narcotics law with heavy
penalties is invoked for first time. A growing problem across the
nation is dope addiction among teen-agers, aggravated by unscrupulous
dope peddlers who prey upon young people.
The Answer
The Moving Finger writes* and
having writ
Moves on, nor any error or a
hit.
Nor any prayer can change a
single score.
Nor any tears wash out a game
from it.
L. Durocher Khayyam
The Costly Slump
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New York, May—No one can ex
plain a slump. One can only take a
flying guess. One can only guess
what actually happened to the
Giants through the
windy, chilly April
days of 1951. A good
many writers saw
this squad train at
St. Petersburg and
the majority opin
ion rated Leo Du
rocher’s outfit eith
er on .top or close
to the Dodgers. The
Grantiang Rlc* Dodgers, Giants
and Phizes were rated in the
plateau country,, practically neck
and neck.
I know Durocher worked his
bunch into first-class physical
shape. Condition has always been
a big word in the Durocher dic
tionary. He rates mental attitude
just as high.
“This club had no pennant
faith itself last summer,” he
said one morning, “until June
had passed into July. Then it
began to believe It could win, a
verj^big factor. From that point
on through . July, August and
September we played the best
ball in the league. Now we are
starting this season with a
stronger faith in ourselves than
we had at any time last sum
mer. The team has been
strengthened by the additions of
Noble, Bowman and Wilson. 1
feel sure we have a fine chance
to win, although I know also
how good the Dodgers are. A
good start will be a big help.”
Whereupon this hustling, well-
conditioned ball club took a fast
running start and dived for the bot
tom of the pit. Here was a better
team than the squad that outplayed
the league for three months. It was
a match for any team it faced all
spring, including the Indians. But
after picking up two games in Bos
ton, the following moody events
started taking place—
No. 1—The pitching became ex
tremely erratic. When the pitching
improved, bad outfield and infield
play wrecked game after game. I
saw one outfielder turn a simple
putout into a game-winning home
run by misjudging the same ball
twice.
TOWN FOR SALE
No. 2—The consistent power at
bat became extremely inconsistent.
The Giants could hit only on days
when the other team was getting
more hits and runs. They couldn’t
support the few well-pitched games
they gpt.
No. 3—The team lost its hustle. It
soon began to look whipped. There
was a dazed look on practically
every Giant face.
No. 4—The squad was overten
sioned. It was drawn tighter than a
dozen drums. Apparently all its
early faith and belief bed been
wrecked.
Th« Rest of the Way
No one can say just how far the
Giants ragged start will crowd them
close to 1951 oblivion. It certainly
won’t be any big help. They are
still only a few games back of the
leaders and now that the losing
skein has been broken it may be
a different story. A few winning
games could get them going again.
I ran across several managers
and veteran ballplayers who
didn’t believe Hearn and Magile
would do nearly aa well with a
pennant chance as they did
when far out of the race. There
is a big psychological differ
ence. It 'was Important to win
this spring. It wasn’t too impor
tant last summer when the
team was far behind. Jansen,
Hearn and Maglie are still
three good pitchers. Jansen has
pitched two fine games and an
other good one. Hearn and
■ Maglie so far haven’t been near
ly as effective as they were
last summer on a team prac
tically out of the running.
No one can lay any blame so far
on Durocher. He has picked the
pitchers he was figured to. pitch.
He hasn’t the relief hurlers which
he expected to have back in St.
Petersburg.
The poor outfielding on the club
wasn’t expected. After all Durocher
can’t do the hitting and the fielding
from the bench« of the coach’s
box.
In the middle of a slump you be
come jittery and jumpy. You ex
pect something morbid or melan
choly to % happen at any given mo
ment You are looking for trouble in
every inning. You wear your collar
cut low so as to be prepared for
the worst Finally the situation be
comes so desperate you become
numb—and then start winning again
with most of the tension removed.
Small Town
In Michigan
Up For Sale
NAHMA, Mich. — The town of
Nahma (population 750), located
on the upper peninsula, is for sale.
The community is losing its only
industry, the Bay de Noquet Lum
ber Co. sawmill after 70 year’s
operation.
It would probably cost $2,500,-
000 to replace all the buildings
and other .property in Nahma,* but
the lumber company, which owns
it, is willing to sell for 10 cents on
the dollar. There’s only one catch.
The company wants to sell the
community to another company
that would establish a new indus
try to keep the 250 workers em
ployed. v
For a quarter of a million dol
lars, the purchaser will get 102
occupied dwellings; a modern com
munity center; Industrial build
ings; brick office buildings; gen
eral merchandise store; an eight-
bed hospital; a 17-room betel and
three-story boarding house; barber
shop; a nine-hole golf course, an
airport, and five rustic cottages
on a fine sandy beach on big Bay
de Noc.
Railroad Part of Deal
Thrown into the deal is the Nah
ma & Northern Railway, with miles
of trackage, two steam locomotives,
100 log ears and a roundhouse.
Nahma has a good harbor to moor
boats of 14-foot draft and three
decks. In addition, the buyer will
get 4,400 acres of land, partially
timbered..
* At one time. Bay de Noquet com
pany owned 200,000 Acres of tim
ber land in the Nahma area. Alii
has been cut over, and is now lo
cated within the boundaries of the
Hiawatia National forest.
Charles E. Good, president of
the firm, reported recently: “We
want to dispose of the town to
some company that will start a
new industry here. We have 250
loyal workers and we want to see
them -taken care ol”
The company set up a $100,000
fund to provide for severance pay
for workers who remained with the
firm until it ceases operations.
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Folk, Want to Star
“I am not encouraging a
working plant for Nahma,”
Good explained. “There are
already in this area. This
be a good place for a metal,
ment, or plastics Industry of
kind.”
Nahma folks dislike the idea
leaving the home town. They
enjoyed a comfortable living,
ample opportunity to go
and fishing in nearby woods
waters whenever they
There is a fine bathing beach
Bay de Noc, a short walk from
center of the village.
Nahma has the township form
government The community has
an accredited high school.
The Bay de Noquet Lumber com
pany was organized in 1881. In
early days, several boatloads
lumber went out dally from 1$
ma to Chicago, Milwaukee, ;
falo. North Tonawanda, N.Y.,
other ports.
The company had 75 miles
tracks two decades ago when
had logging camps operating
the area north of Nahma.
tracks were pulled up three
ago in the cut-out country,
then, logs have been trucked from
operations .on the Lake. Superior
shore.
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Pottery Maker to Sell
Plant to Aid Workers
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SCIO, O.—Lew Reese, owner
possibly the most famous
plaint in the United States, has
cided to sen his business.
The plant in the town of 1,200
turned out a superior product
years, but it became famous
cause Reese always thought of
welfare and problems of his
ployees above everything else.
Reese went to Scio in 1932 i
took over an abandoned pot
min. Practically singlehanded
turned it into a livelihood for
town. Since that time he has|
it a practice to turn the
back to the employees. Plant
profits grew, and Reese gave
more than $1,000,000 in
Then disaster. On December
1947, a fire destroyed the
000 plant. The townspeople
to help “the boss.” Local, nat
and even foreign manufact
who heard about Reese’s
lence, “chipped in for Lew.”
Three months after the fire,
tery again roUed over the
a completely new plant and
caUed it “a miracle.” *■ ■»'.
Now the plant will be sold,
“What wiU happen to
employees) if I should
teH you—they’d have to
place just to cover the
taxes.”
$2,fl
“By selling," Reese
give them the money I
plant.” The price is $3,i
There’s, only one
ed with the sale. Reese
insist that he* be givei
contract as general
plant. He also said he
seU to anyone who
his labor-relations j
tem of share and