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v Will Briuin "Muddle Through" ?
While the statement issued after the meeting I
tf ILf nrcKill nlon -Mint Hoc in Paris last WMk'Wai I
reassuring there is nothing to indicate that the
agreement on settling trade balances with Bri-
tairfwas more than temporary. - The dollar crisis
in Britain'will not yield as easily as that. It
promises to continue, and at the' moment there
is slight prospect of improvement. What :was
obtained at Paris was some measure of relief
from pressures of Continental powers for some-1
thing .better than British pounds'at $4 per. J
Despite the American loan of over three, bil-1
. lions and the aid under ERP Britain has been
running out of dollars. Its exports increased,!
reaching beyond totals for 1938, but they werel
not enough to pay for the purchases needed from j;
dollar countries. So Britain has had to dip into j
gold reserves, until now they are, welt below s
$2 billion, and as far as Sir Stafford Cripps!
the chancellor of the exchequer, thinks they can
safely go. s ' ' ' r
The problem is complicated because of fall-
irtg off of American demand for British goods.?
For instance Britain developed a good market
In the United States for small automobiles
until domestic companies cauj'ht up with de-jj
Mir nnlv q four Rrit i ch.maHp carl ari '
matter which party is in power And the con-,
servatives will have to convince the people
they can do a better job of management before
they will be entrusted with power, j We must
remember too that the British have a! surprising
ability to "muddle through." We look for them
to repeat in the present crisis.
UN Has a Birthday
United Nations is now four yearsSold. And
the thing to remember and marvel at on this
anniversary is not the accomplishments of UN
but the fact that UN is still a going concern,
f Four years ago the UN charter was signed
:at San Francisco amid a good; deal of interna
tional backslapping and almost universal optim
ism. Th'e miserable record of their peacetime
efforts is only too well known. Nbt so well
known, probably, is how much the Ignited Na
tions organization helped keep that rfceord from
being worse. . i
The New York Times has compiled a record
of the major activities of UN during the four
year period: ll.OOOmeetings here And abroad
have been held; ten missions to Palestine, the
Balkans, Indonesia, Greece, Kashmir? and else
where, have been sent out; 25 economic and
social commissions and 13 specialized agencies
have been organized; a staff of 3,000 has been
coming in. The slack in buying felt generally empoyed. offices of information have been set
here is felt acutely in Britain because of the)
urgency of need for American trade.
Britian suffers on another trade-front too.ji
France has been complaining because Britain
. wouldn't buy its luxury items like wirte, per-
fumes, etc. In. these days of austeritv, none;
of these for the British, says Sir Stafford.
Even so the continent has been supplying Bri ji
tain with considerable volume of goods, for
which it is offered pounds to balance accounts.?
But the British value their pounds at 54 each,!
and Belgium thinks that rate is far to high.
Actually the side-market in pounds (runs at
about $3. This insistence of an unrealistic values
for the pound causes irritation abroad. I $
Some say that Britain should devalue the';
pound, bringing it down to earth. This would:'
r-hav the effect of making more British goods?
available per dollar and so might increase ex-
ports. On the other hand it would take more!
British pounds to pay for imports. And Sirs
Stafford has been holding firm against devalu-j
at ion of the pound. ?!
It all adds up to this: that Britain has not!
yet b?n able to get back to self-support. Loss"
of overseas investment, loss of profitable tradei;
with other parts of the empire and the world,?
loss of much of the business in shipping and in-:
aurance,. have been so heavy the islanders
haven't been able yet to recover from them.
For one thing British production costs are too
high relative to world markets. But the labor
government has a hard time holding costs down.
trades unions want higher wages, want easier
conditions of living. This doesn't work for lower-;
ing production costs to meet foreign competition!
Becluse of its position Britain resists move-:
mentVfor free trade. This formerly was sound
British doctrine; now it is avoided by the;
masters of economic-planning in London. Yet
with all their planning they haven't solved
Britain's fundamental problem: How to be self-
supporting., A few like Lord Beaverbrook urge
that Britain undertake to go it alone, that is
to get. away from the international dole. That
would 'mean tougher austerity, which; the
government is unwilling to impose. f
The plight of Britain is of great significance
to world tradey but it has important repercus
sions in Britain itself in view of the coming!
general elections next year,. The labor govern -i
ment faces a stiff-battle, and its difficulties wilf
become political capital for its opponents.-
The problems will be the same however, nq
up in 14 countries; membership has been in
creased to 59 nations; $97,125,627 has been spent
and 842,000,000 copies of 78,000 documents have
been published and distributed. And construc
tion on its headquarters in New York has been
started. !
The record makes plain the fact that thus
far UN has been engaged chiefly in organizing,
perfecting the machinery. But the - concrete
accomplishments seem slight when compared
to the amount of time,, study and discussion.
Maybe that's because the UN has Experienced
32 vetoes, 30 by Russia and two by Franc
Maybe, 'too, it's because the member nations
are riot ready to put into action the very plans
they sometimes vocally support: the 14 UN
employes who have died in the line of duty
(Count Bernadotte among them) testify to that.
The biggest block all along, of course, has been
US-USSR friction. ;
Still, the history of UN is not such as to
warrant cynicism. We may be skeptical of the
practicability of some, of its higjh-sounding
principles in view of the troubled times. But
we should not lose sight of them, nor lose faith
in the purposes and possibilities of a world
organization of nations. The important points
are that United Nations exists and that it may
have done more good than we suspect. The UN
deserves our continued ' support ; and good
wishes for happier returns of the day.
Kimmell Named Circuit Judge
Rex Kimmell has demonstrated his ability as
a lawyer in his many years of service as assist
ant attorney general.. His experience has been
varied, embracing preparation of opinions, trial
of cases, giving advice at adrninistrative hear
ings, and assisting legislators in preparation of
bills. The quality of hts work, has been excel
lent; so one can understand why Governor Mc
Kay chose him for successor to Judge Page
on the Marion county circuit court, j
His work in interpreting the constitution and
statutes in advising state officials and legis
lators should prove good training for the judgeship.
The Medford Mail-Tribune, Bob Ruhl writ
ing, regrets that Judith Coplon didn't take up
golf or lawn tennis instead of international in
trigue. We dunno. Think of the; thrills aha
has had, as well as the spills. '
Taft Vote Will Decide Nation's Course
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Written by
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By Joseph Alsap
WASHINGTON. July 4 Not
since the days of James F.
Byrnes has any member of tha
senate display
ed such techni
e a Uy effective
legislative lead
ership as did
Robert A. Taft,
of Ohio, last
week. The day
before, even the
hour before the
key vote. Sen
ate M a jorlty
Leader Scott
Lucas was still
hut i ng the
White House that the senate
""would do to the Taft-Hartley Act
substantially what the president
wanted done.
But on the big day, Taft be
gan the task of putting the final
pressure and persuasion on the
' waverers at 7 a. m. Long prior
to the vote, that afternoon, he
knew the secret purposes of ev
ery senator, and correctly pre
dicted his own victory by the
narrowest possible margin. It
w almost ludicrous to see
Capehart of Indiana, for exam
ple, who must face a labor elec
torate next year, quaking like a
vast political blanc mange as he
cat his vote for Taft. Yet it was
also a remarkable . tribute to
Taft's grim efficiency and force.
Taft's triumph has already
been sufficiently celebrated,
however. What now deserves in
vestigation is the probable po
l iwal result of this senate ac
tion, which will certainly pro
duce a ringing presidential veto
of the new labor tall. What will
Taft's triumph do to Taft him
self, to Taft's party, and to the
allied Southern Democrats?
Taft was above all astonishing
ly successful in committing his
party in the senate to his view
point. Only six republican sena
tor differed with him in the
vote on the crucial Lucas amend-
5
ment, which was defeated 48 to
44. He had to build roaring polit
ical fires under such senators as
Capehart and Hendrickson, of
few Jersey.! These men quite
openly hankered to vote the oth
er way,; yet they yielded In the
end to the business leaders and
republican organization chief
tains mobilized by Taft.
The test of the desirability of
this commitinent to the Taft
brand of republicanism will ob
viously come; in 1950. Although
there will be other important
contests all ill turn in the end
upon Taft's own battle in Ohio,
which he regards as so important
that he will begin stumping the
state late thia summer. 14 months
before the election. What he did
last week ha$ squarely posed the
Issue and drawn the lines for the
fight f I
Taft's most dangerous't)hio
opponent, GoV. Frank Lausche,
has 4efinitely taken himself out
of the senatorial race because he
wants to havfe- the state delega
tion at the democratic presiden
tial convention in 1952. But this
means that Lausche will seek re
election as governor,, adding his
pulling power to the democratic
ticket. Meanwhile, the democra
tic senatorial candidate will pro-?
bably be the; state auditor, Jo
seph Ferguson,, the kind of gen
ial, rather uninspiring political
professional who is always
known; as a irgood vote-getter,""
and can call most inhabitants of
the state by their first names.
Immense forces will be rallied
for this Ohio i struggle. The labor
groups will put everything they
have into the effort to defeat
Taft. And w&ile the republicans
sanctimoniously complain about
"outside labor money," it is an
open secret that right wing bus
inessmen all fever the country are
already laying the cash on the
line to aid the Taft campaign.
In a sensej it is too bad that
Taft's competition will be a man
at smaller stature. None the less,
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it plays to a small audience
which changes constantly. The
show can move from city to city.
But nation-wide television is
good for only one performance.
And when it's through It's dead.
Because of this heavy consump
tion of material (words) Allen
thipks the best writing today is
done for the theatre and for
books and magazine, the poorest
for radio and TV.
Allen pays his back -handed
compliments to the Hooper rat
ing of shows (the spot checking
of "What program are you lis
tening to now?")l The "advertis
ing rajahs" of the agencies which
handle much of commercial ra
dio now come in for his kick-in-the-pants.
(A sort of belated bit
i ing of the hand he has been feed
j ing out of . ) And studio audien
! ces are to him a pain-in-the-neck.
Discount what Allen says by
, allowing for his own weariness
after many seasons of grinding
out a weekly show. The comedi
an has become a cynic, a not un
usual transformation. But still
there is truth is what he says.
Consider popular music for ex
ample. There is nothing quite so
ragged as a song after it has been
Worked over on the hit parade
and radio programs. The public
soon is sated with its words and
rnelody, no matter how catching
they were at first
But radio will survive In some
fashion, arid television will work
out some place of its own, even
if it crowds some other media.
In this age of mechanical gadgets
.we want everything to come by
flipping a switch; and that is the
consumer effort required for ra
dio and TV.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
whatever may be Ferguson's de
fects, the Ohio election will real
ly turn on the trend: in the coun-
Senator Taft's brand of Average . consumption of meal
repubheanism is still as popular America in 194S included 63
fjihmks hfw1vb,re- pounds of beef, nearly 68 pounds
elected. If not, he will be beaten. pork, and 14 pounds of veal,
5neLW,.t- n?"" lamb and mutton.
will be extraordinarily far-rea-
clung.
What Taft really wants is the
republican presidential nomina
tion in 1952. There are various
other republicans who are also
making advance plans. For in
stance, in New York, it seems
very probable that Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey means to retain con- .
trol of the state delegation; to be
come the Warwick of the next
republican convention; and hav
ing made his king, to take some
such reward as the secretaryship
of state. But Dewey and all Taft's
rivals will be almost powerless,
if the Ohio senator wins re-election
by anyort of majority in
1950. In that event, the conven
tion will be" dominated by the
sort of republican who complain
ed about Dewey's "me-too" tac
tics last time. Taft will be the
odds -on favorite to get the noro
ination he wants so badly and
has tried for so often.
On the other .hand. If Taft is
beaten in Ohio next year, his
brand of republicanism will be
finished forever. The uncertain
ty that even now afflicts the oth
er republican right wingers- was
splendidly symbolized by the
quaking Capehart, than whom no
senator has more reactionary
record. A Taft defeat win be a
grisly warning, sending them all
running for cover. And in that
event, the southern democrats in
congress will also be left isolated
and unprotected, and may be ex-.
pected in the end to wither on
the political vine, j Before very
long, in fact we are really going
to know where this country is
heading. j
(Copyright l4fl. New! York Hcrmld
.Tribune Inc.)
As I have pointed out, the con
ditions .which may cause head
ache are numberless but, for the
type of headache which recurs
frequently and persists over a
long period of time, there seems
to be two main causes.
. These are first, head injuries
and, secondly, psychological dis
turbances, such as mental con
flicts or emotional strain.
A large number of patients
with these types of headaches
have been studied by Dr. Arnold
P. Friedman and his co-workers
of New York.
Where headache resulted from
injury, the pain appeared soon
after the accident and persisted
for more than two months.
The factors which are thought
to account for these headaches
are distention or swelling of the
blood vessels within the skull,
possible spasm of the nek and
head muscles, and the emotional
effect produced by the injury,
such as anxiety or depression.
A patient with so-called psy
chogenic Or psychologic headache
has head pains regularly when
subject to some mental conflict
or strain. In these patients, thor
ough examination reveals no evi
dence of physical illness or an
abnormal condition. It is thought
that these psychologic headaches
are due also to some swelling or
dilation of the blood vessels with
in the skull, and spasms of the
head and neck muscles.
A variety of remedies for head
aches of the two kinds mentioned
have been suggested. More than
500 patients with such headaches
were treated with different types
of drugspain-relieving drugs,
drugs which cause a contraction
of the blood vessels, and drugs
which cause the blood vessels to
dilate. In addition, vitamins, to
gether with psychological meas
ures, were also used.
It was found that the best re
sult were obtained in those pa
tients treated with the pain-relieving
preparations. The other
drugs apparently gave no better
results than those obtained by
the use of substances which had
no known effect on the body,
such as salt solution.
It is felt that treatment with
drugs is beneficial in many cases
By Lichty
11? ' jv
because the patient knows he is
receiving treatment and has con
fidence in the remedy which the
physician has prescribed for him.
It is important in all of thee
cases to restore the patient's con
fidence and to get rid of factors
of mental and physical strain
which contribute to the persist
ence of the headache.
The physician, of course, will
prescribe such drugs as he thinks
may be useful, particularly seda
tives or quieting drugs.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
C. L.: I have recently had X
ray pictures taken of my hip and
pelvis. Would this in any way
hinder my having normal child
ren? Answer: X-ray examination
would not in any way interfere
with normal childbirth.
(Copyright 1949. King Features. Inc.)
Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. Sogers
OPUS 21: DESCRIPTIVE MUSIC
FOR THE LOWER KINSEY
EPOCH OF THE ATOMIC
AGE: A CONCERTO FOR A
ONE-MAN BAND: SIX ARIAS
FOR SOAP OPERAS;
FUGUES. ANTHEMS Ac BAR
RELHOUSE, by Philip Wylie
(Rinehart; $3)
This is a novel, says the pub
lisher; a romance says Wylie; and
he adds the "warning" that "most
of the characters in this book
are unreal and that is particu
larly true of the author." There
upon we launch into Wylie's
first-person narrative: He has
throat cancer, the doctor sus
pects, but tells him he can't be
sure until the result of a test is
learned the following Monday.
If a man thus practically under
sentence of death behaves in a
special way. he has to be for
given; and. we can't be so callous
as to refuse our attention during
this long and maybe last week
end . . . Wylie, the narrator, and
you and I learn the doctor's
finding on page 365, or 10 pages
before the story ends.
So all the distended middle of
the book is the razzle-dazzle ac
count of a sort of farewell bend
er. Wylie-narrator has a manu
script to cut to serial length, but
author Wylie dismisses that in
very few lines. The rest of the
time he spend with Yvonne
Prentiss, a pick-up; his nephew
Paul; Hattie the Madam and a
couple of her proteges; and Da
vid Borne. They are. generally,
on the receiving end of a lavish
series of lectures.' Tbey hear
about rumba, the Id. age, sin,
Toynbee, Hooton and Philip Wy
lie; tbey learn that Wylie la for
Kinsey, Vogt, prostitution and
sex, and against Russia, drunks,
speech-making, old friends of the
family, and a non -discrimina tory
tax on novelists.
"Do you really understand all
these things?" Yvonne asks. What
she should have asked is, "Now
yogVe got me into your romance,
why not lef me do something
besides listen to you?" He does
let her. eventually, but the wait
is hard on Yvonne a ' well as
the reader. There are ' other in
cidents, too, even melodramatic
ones, about a woman who driven
a hatpin through her cheeks, and
a man who considers Jumping
from the 16th floor.
Mostly, however, this li an
Idea book: advice is passed out
: with notable generosity to people
j who react one war. or ' another.
But it is more ranting than writ
ing; the feverish hysterical pros
. finally seems like a pose;
This being plctoresqwr characters ain't easy n mare, Len ,
the wpetitiaai gets a Uttl suiter
, every
In 1934. average meat consump
tion by Americans dropped to 117
pounds, compared with 145 pounds
in 1948 and 151 in 1900.
Palmists3ef "
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No Boosting
From Henry
By Demry MeLeca
DAYTONA BEACH. July 4
I am 19 years old: I am going to
live to be 83 yean old. I am go
ing to spend my vacation this
summer m North Carolina. I
have an uncle who is going so
1 . . ... . . m
2402S.' f
f.:- 1
tua cuuitl
directly from a
tent A palm
ist's tent
The palmist's I . iv.
name is Prin
cess Carlo. For
$1.00 she will? .
read your hand, ! .
and for $1301 ,
she will read ' .
your wrist, and1
if you happen nrimt
to have $3.00 on you , she will
give you an astrological under
standing of your elbow.
When the army released me
from a tent, I -swore I'd never
go back in one but I went back
in one today.
When I walked into the tent
Princess Carlo was reading a i
pulp magazine called "Famous
Western Stories." I asked her if
she'd read my palm.
She said. "If you'll wait just a
minute till I turn to page 74 and
find out what happened to Two
Gun Bill. I wilL"
She turned to page 74 and
read what happened to Two-Gun i
Bill.
'Princess.- I said, "from
which royal family do you
stem?"
. "Huh?" she said.
.By that simple remark I Whew
1 was in me presence ox a Bour
bon. She held my hand and told me
the things that I've written
above.
Then I asked her if I might
look at her hand. She said yes.
By looking at her thumb line I
found out that the Princess was
from Davenport, Iowa, long
known for its royal blood.
"Princess," I asked, "how did
you find out that you could, look
at a person's hand and tell his
destiny?"
"Huh?"
Having said "huh two times
in a row I decided that the Prin
cess was a Hapsburg. I asked her
if she were a Hapsburg and she
said, "When are you leaving for
North Carolina?"
If this column makes no sense
"to you up until now it will be
because there is no possible
chance to make any possible
sense out of a palmist. Reading
palms may not be the biggest
racket in the world, but I'm
willing to bet you that it will be
a photon-finish with the racket
jthat wins. Mind you, here's a fat
old lady from Davenport, Iowa,
reading Western stories, taking
a dollar from me. and telling me
my future, my past and my pres
ent. If she knew what she was
talking about she wouldn't be
working in a tent. She'd be sur
rounded by marble, she'd be
wearing Christian Dior's clothes,
and she wouldn't be interested
in my dollar.
This column can only serve
one purpose. If this column will
help to eliminate palmists, then
it has not been written in vain.
(McNaught Syndicate. Inc.)
Better Ehpslr
Byb. C. WUliamaf
L What is wrong wita this
sentence? "She was very dis
turbed by the noise.? i
2. What is the correcjj pro
nunciation of "bade"? '
J. Which one of these (words
is misspelled? Scandal, scalop,
scavenger. si j
4. What does the Word; -erudition"
mean? ' i? j
. 5. What is a word beginning
with lama) that means "to Invoke
a curse .upon some one"? j!
1 ANSWERS S
1. Say. "She wasveryi maaek
disturbed." 2. Pronounce ;jme a
as in bad. not as in aid. 3 Scal
lop. 4. The result Of thorough
instruction. "He was a rtian of
profound erudition" . Im
precate. Somervell Cite4
Coal-lo-Gas Neeil
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PITTSBURGH, July 4-f.INS)-Development
of a vast roal-to-gasolioe
industry is necessary if
the nation wants to be prepared
for peace or war.
Gen. Brehon Somervell, presi
dent of the Koppers Go., 'in; Pitts
burgh, believes such realistic
planning is necessary to guard
against the day when war, or the
rapid expansion of. peacetime
consumption, will bring petroleum
resources down to a criticat point
The government already fj is op
erating three coal ; gasification
plants which Gen. Somervell de
scribed as th. "greatest undertak
ing in the country since the atomic
bomb and synthetic rubber pro
jects of war days." '
Two of the plants recently wera
opened at Louisiana, Mo. pne of
these, costing 10 million dollars,
has an output of 200 barjfels of
gasoline, a day and' consumes
some 150 tons of coal dailyij
MORE USE AUTOS "? I
NEW YORK -(INS)- Ah esti
mated 82 per cent of vacationists
are expected to travel pyf auto
mobile this summer. th New
York Automobile club reports, as
compared with 76 per cent;: before
the war. They will Spend about
$6,000,000,000. !J I
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