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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Congress Goes Home After Passing $5.6 Billion Tax-Increase Measure CONGRESS—Members of the first session of the 82nd congress have deserted Washington and will, between now and January 8 when the second session convenes, try to convince the people of the home towns of their great achievements. The fact remains, however, that the record is not too good and the prospects for the second session, because it will meet during a presidential election year, are even worse. The congress spent week in the MacArthur hearings, the Kefauver crime inquiry, probes into subversive activities and corruption in government. Most of the important legislation enacted dealt with foreign iaffairs while the domestic field was nearly forgotten. There wa^ no civil rights progress; no marked advance in the Hoover plan for govem- noent reorganization, excepting reform of the R.F.C.; civil defense remained a stepchild; needed amendments to the Defense Production Act were neglected; statehood for Alaska and Hawaii remain undecided. The congress set another mark, the longest unbroken session of any peacetime congress since 1913-14, with the senate in session 172 days and the house 163. The senate oratory filled 7,927 pages of the congres sional record and the house 6,003 pages. And during the session 180 public laws and 338 private laws were enacted. In the dying hours of the session the house and senate enacted three bills authorizing the spending of $13,000,000,000, all aimed at strengthen ing the security of the U.S. at home and abroad. It swelled to $95,000,000,- 000 the appropriations passed during the year, of which $80,000,000,000 was for defense purposes. TAXES—President Truman signed the $5,691,000,000 tax-increase bm, one of the last measures passed in the first session of the 82nd congress, and on November 1 the average home towners will begin to pay it. Besides increases ranging from 11 to 12 per cent for most taxpayers, excise taxes go up on a long list of items including liquor, gasoline, and household appliances. Bigger income and excess-profits taxes are in store for some industries. The President, however, was very definite in his opinion of the Increase measure. To begin with, he felt it was not enough (he had asked ;for $10,*000 ,000,000 and indicated he would ask congress in January to jlmprove the tax law. He criticized it as containing too many loopholes and in some respects providing additional means by which wealthy Individuals can escape paying their proper share. | He also criticized the Jenner rider permitting states to publicize .relief rolls without losing their share of federal social security allot- ments. This, he said, is quite unrelated to the purpose of raising revenue land “may well result in unwarranted publicity and personal indignity arid unhappiness for aged people and others receiving public assistance. “ THE POWDER KEG The Middle East has become the powder keg iwhich may blow the world into World War III. Since ordering the (British out of the Suez canal zone and the Sudan, armed clashes have ^occurred between forces of the two countries. Egypt has ordered genera] mobilization of man power in wartime fashion and the British hav* reinforced their canal forces with troops, planes and warships. The Egyptian crisis is a manifestation of the growing fever cf nationalism in the Moslem states which started when Iran nationalized ita oil industry and kicked the British out. But unlike the Iranian question, the Suez and its safety is of vital importance to the free world. On the surface Egypt would seem too weak to throw the British out, but the west fears a series of incidents that could set the entire Middle East aflame. Should the crisis reach to point of open warfare between the two countries the Communists can be expected to step in and World War III could start at any moment. VATICAN ENVOY—President Truman nominated Gen. Mark W. Clark, chief of the Army Field Forces, to be the first United States ambassador to Vatican City. American diplomatic relations with the (Vatican, which had been terminated by act of congress in 1867, were resumed twelve years ago by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since early 1950, however, there has been no diplomatic relationship the Vatican and President Truman’s nomination of Gen. Clark was unexpected. Because of considerable criticism concerning the move, the President announced several days later he had decided not to carry out diplomatic representation at the Vatican until congress has acted on the controversal issue. Congress will probably take the matter under consideration •hortly after it convenes January 8. FEDERAL DEFICIT— The government has operated in the red this year. Next year it will go even deeper in the red and nothing that congress has done or economies will prevent it. Expenditure for the fiscal year 1952 will amount to approximately $70 billion, u is estimated. Receipts will amount to $63.7 billion, leaving a deficit of $6.3 billion. In the fiscal year 1953 expenditures will amount to an estimated $85-$90 billion while receipts will total $66.6 billion. This leaves about $18.4-$23.4 billion deficit. Congress is not likely to increase taxes next year because it Is a presidential election year, most observers believe. The only way to cut down this deficit would be to reduce defense spending and foreign aid. There may be some cut in foreign aid, but little, if any, in defense spending. The seems extremely remote at this time. “pay-as-we-go“ policy expounded by the administration Oblivious to the passage of U.N. and Communist investigators, two Korean women employ ancient flails to thresh grain on their farm near Kaeson so their families may eat. And while the harvest scene was taking place across war-torn Korea, Allied and Communist negotiators were scheduled to resume peace talks at the small village of Panemunjom. Whether the renewed talks would bring peace was another question. Many Allied officials believe that Moscow and Peiping have been shadow boxing and will continue to do so until they can make , up their minds on just what to do—peace or all-out war. Meanwhile, fight- in continues in Korea with a marked increase in air activity. One air battle involved nearly 250 Allied and Communist jets, history’s greatest jet battle. UNDISMAYED BY SCANDALS hilosopher Says U.S. Morals Unchanged Home towners across the nation who have been depressed at the increasing reports of moral de in the country can relax ac- ng to one of America’s great- 'est thinkers. Dr. John Dewey, dean American philosophers and of the progressive education says the nation’s morals sot worse than they have ever The distinguished educator, wh< Is 95 years old, did see a weakeninj in family relationships. Any declim in morality of youth, he said car be blamed on parents and not th< schools, government leaders, oi religious teachers. As for the Wesi Point cribbing scandal and “fix’ cases, he said, “As far as I car judge it’s very much the same froir one period to another.'* .rJi© LEADS BRITISH FORCES . . . Commander-in-chief of British forces in Egypt is Lieutenant Gen eral Sir George Erskine. He broadcast a warning to his troops saying, “Be ready to protect your self. We are not looking for trouble, but we shall deal with it firmly . . SPY . . . Charles Davis, Pasadena, was convicted by a Swiss federal court on charges of spying for Senator Joseph McCarthy. He tes tified that he sent a wire to U.S. diplomat John Carter Vincent to discredit Vincent as a Red. NO THIRD BIG LEAGUE . . . Washington Senators' owner Clark Griffith tells committee investi gating baseball monopolies there is little hope the Pacific coast league will become a third major loop, because it “just is not big enough.’* FARLEY SAYS NIX . . . James A. Farley says he would refuse the chairmanship of the Democratic national committee “even if it were offered to me.** He has been proposed as Truman’s number one choice to succeed William M. Boyle, Jr. DISPUTANTS SHAKE HANDS . . . Iranian Premier Mossadegh (left), who urged the security council to toss out Britain’s oil nationalization complaint, shakes hands with Sir Gladwyn Jebb, chief Britisn U.N. delegate, at conclusion of a security council session at Flushing Mead ows, N. Y. The 72-year-old Iranian premier said his nation will not negotiate with the British over the <nl wells, but will consider a deal to sell the British oil if they want to buy it. FOOTBALL CASUALTY ... Mr. and Mrs. John Higgins of Houtzdale, Pa., watch over their son, John, Jr., 17, the first major^grid casualty in western Pennsylvania this season. The quarterback, resting in an oxygen tent following brain operation in St. Francis hospital, Pitts burgh, has been unconscious since he crashed head-on with another player in the Houtzdale high school-Cboper high school football game recently. TENNIS PLUS BASEBALL . . . Tennis star Nancy Chaffee, 22, and Ralph Kiner, 28, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder and national league home run king, were married recently In Santa Barbara, Calif. Hank Green- burg, general manager of the Cleveland Indians, was best man. The couple left for a two-weeks* honeymoon in Acupulco, Mexico. They plan to live in Pittsburgh during the baseball season. BANDIT FROM MARS ... Un masked by death is the Los An geles man-from-Mars supermarket bandit. A reporter -poses in garb worn by Ray Colson. Colsot? was fatally shot while holding up a market recently. MISSION SCHOONER . . . Jesuit missioner Father William Rively, Altoona, Pa., recently completed a 4,300-mile voyage in the Romance, 45- fi. schooner. She carried Father Rively of the New York province, with a crew of five, from San Francisco to his mission at Truk in the Caro line islands. Rively was a landlubber until his superiors in the mission told him to return to the States and buy a boat for the mission. With, no money and knowledge of boats, ha fulfilled mission. Plot Strategy I| MAN who wasn’t there—General ** Eisenhower — was the main topic of discussion at a meeting of Taft-for-President advisers in Wash ington recently. Cincinnati’s Ben Tate, head of Standard Brands 'and a top Taft backer, made it plain that Taft forces will throw the book at Eisen hower if he enters the GOP presi dential race. Remarked ther usually jovial Tate: “If the general gets in the cam paign, he’ll have to take it like any any other candidate. Just because he’s been in uniform doesn’t give him any immunity from the search ing cross-examination of voters. “In fact,’’ continued Tate, “I’ve met Republicans who said they hud information about the general that Should be made public. I didn’t dis cuss it with them, but I know Re publicans generally want to know whether he really belongs to the party, and where he stands on is sues that are important to Republi cans.” The question was also raised as to whether Eisenhower is really a candidate. “I understand,” remarked Dave Ingalls of Cleveland, who is Taft’s cousin, “that he has the bug.” This caused Senator Taft to re mark that the general sent word to him that the only thing that con cerned him about the presidential election was his program for Eur ope. “He indicated,” continued the senator, “that if he had assurance of a reasonable degree of indepen dence in forming policies for the defense of Western Europe, he would not interfere in the campaign and election.” Smear Campaign Senator Taft probably doesn’t know this, but some of his cohorts already have launched the smear- Eisenhower campaign hinted at by Ben Tate. First attempt to scare the general out of the presidential primaries came from Westbrook Pegler last week when he reported Ike’s al leged flirtation with an English WAC during the war, -and warned that President Truman would use this to wipe up the general. Actually, certain Republicans, not Truman, are more likely to use this against Eisenhower. In fact, they’ve already started. It happens that Truman and Eisenhower not only are friends, but Truman was deeply grateful to Ike for staying out of the 1948 race when Ike could have had the Democratic nomina tion for the asking. So if Eisenhower really wants to run this time, it's a fairly good bet that Truman won’t. Meanwhile, the Westbrook Peg- lers and other smear-Eisenhower artists might look up the below-the- belt tactics used against Grover Cleveland. They elected him. Jessup and Ike Those who watched the senate hearings on Ambassador'Philip Jes sup detected a smear-Eisenhower undertone in that proceeding qiso. For Jessup is a Columbia Universi ty professor who not only servedJra Eisenhower’s faculty, but Deceived a letter from Ike defending' him against the McCarthy pro-Commu- nist attack. Seated across the table from Jessup during the senate hear ings was a Republican who has vowed to stop Eisenhower and who has staked his entire politi cal future on Taft—Owen Brew ster of Maine. It was Brewster who led the at tack on Jessup inside the senate committee. Stassen’s Memory Senators who listened to Harold E. Stassen stumble through the Jes sup hearings say that Stassen ap parently didn’t count on the State department releasing the full, secret transcript of the round-table con ference over far eastern policy. Stassen testified, for example, that Jessup brought up the question of recognizing Communist China on the third day of the conference, and that the State department came out in favor of recognition. The actual transcript, however, shows that the question of recognizing Communist China was brought up, not by Jessup but by the State department’s Charles Butterworth, not on the third day but the first day. Further more, Butterworth set forth the State department’s position clearly, which was against recognizing the Red regime. Boyle Partner % It was Maine’s courageous Sen. Margaret Chase Smith who fjrst ask^d the Hoey committee to in vestigate a key associate of Demo cratic ex-Chairman Bill Boyle. In a senate speech she said: *T suggest that the subcommittee call Mr. Daniel J. Hanlon and ask him if he was in any way connected with the legal controversy with the government over the American President line.” Hanlon was a form er law partner of Boyle. 4 SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY CHEESE IT W HAT’S the all-time favorite lunch for child and adult alike? A chorus answer? cheese sandwich! There’s nothing like it for appetite appeal. There’s nothing like it for nourishment. And there’s nothing so easy to put together on a busy day. Whether you pack a lunch-box for ycur man to take to work, or the chil dren to take to school, or they come trailing in at different times for lunch, you have the all-time favorite lunch-time treat as handy as your refrigerator and bread-box. So why not stock up at your grocer’s, with all the various cheeses he has available, in bulk, in cellophane-packed sliced time- savers, in shaker form? And you’ll be ready for lunch, or snack, yea, even for a casserole dinner you can fix ahead of time, and just brown up when your long day is over. Combined with butter, cheese gives you everything you need in the way of proteins, vitamins, min erals and fats, as well as the tasti est and most appetizing combina tions you could find. Make cream cheese butter for stuffing those won derful big celery stalks your grocer has in plenty. Make blue cheese, or roquefort or parmesan butter for stronger-taste spreads. You’ll be the talk of your club if you serve the ladies such appetizers as stuffed celery stalks, thoroughly chilled, sliced and placed on rounds of rye bread. COME DINNER And come dinner-time, do you know anything more appetizing on a cold fall night than onion soup, liberally sprinkled with parmesan or other favorite cheese? The French know a thrifty buy when they make it. They know a good thing when they taste it. And onion soup hails from France, the land of thrifty and tasty food. The French restaurant “Soup a 1’ oignon gratinee” calls for butter, onions, shallots, garlic celery, wine and flour, to be sure. But we can show ’em a thing or two by just translating the main in gredients—butter, soup, onions and cheese. And just as delicious, and kind to the purse! CHEESE CASSEROLES And what we can do with cas serole combinations is American genius. There’s cheese-noodle cas serole, for instance. For this easy- to-fix, easy-to-eat dish, you cook 8 ounces of broad egg noodles in salted boiling water and make your white sauce, with liberal lacings of shaker cheese. Then alternate lay ers of noodles and cheese sauce in a buttered casserole, and bake about half an hour. A dish for a king, and all your royal family. Or an egg and cheese casserole dish makes an occasional hit with every family. Call it scalloped eggs, and alternate eggs anci cheese in the casserole, and drown it in your special au gratin sauce, and bake it brown. And while you’re master ing that cheesy sauce, did you ever smother pre-cooked cauliflower or broccoli in it? Try it—your family will love it. Improved Potato Crop Will Help N. Y. Town RIVERHEAD, L. L—Improved crop reports in Nassau and Suffolk counties. New York, was good news recently to merchants of Riverhead. ^ ■ Potato production, chief crop of the area, was estimated at 14,640.- 000 bushels, a little over two mil lion bushels more than produced in 1950. About 44,000 acres in the two counties was planted to potatoes in 1951. The total agricultural income in Suffolk county in 1950 was approx imately $25,000,000 the New York state department of commerce re ports. Arkansas Village Rules Bicycles From Sidewalks ATKINS, Ark.—The people of Atkins have had a traffic menace in recent months—bicycles on side walks. The following ad, which ap peared in the recent edition of The Atkins Chronicle, wiped out the problem: “From the constable . . . There’ll be no more bicycle riding on the sidewalks of Atkins. One big fat woman has already been hit and a window broken. E. A. Darr, Constable.** Classified Department BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. DRYGOODS—Nice going drygoods store. doing volume ot business in Pensacola, Fla. Forced to sell on account of sick ness. Will sell at cost. Immediate posses sion Write, care Abbott’s Clothiers, 1116 West Cervantes, Pensacola, Fla. HOTEL. FOR SALE—60 rooms, bar and dining room; located North-Central Wis consin. Davidson A Fox, Brokers CLINTONVIELE SALES CORPORATION Clintonville, Wisconsin DOGS, CATS, PETS, ETC. HUNTERS—We offer Coon and Fox hounds, Blueticks, Blacktans, Redbones, Walkers, Beagles, others. Reasonable. Free literature. OKAW RIVER KENNEL, E-IB. Cowden, Illinois. >- * FARMS AND RANCHES FOR SALE—I have several, several thou sand acres of farm land. Most of these are fenced and well sodded in winter grasses. 100-acfe tracts to 2,000 acre tracts. J. T. 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