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The Price of Progress
The deaths of 84 men in the crash of a giant
air-transport at Moses Lake, Wash., leaves the
nation aghast this Christmas season. But no less
appalling is the probability that it will happen
again and with a larger loss of life since planes
art being built to carry more and more people.
With this the tenth in a terrible series of mili
tary transport plane crashes, there seems to be
no pattern of causes. In almost every case where
machinery has been developed, safety devices
have advanced, if not simultaneously, at least,
eventually. Automatic block systems on rail
roads make it ipossibje to overcome human
error in the routing of trains, and the increasing
use of such devices, it is hoped, will gradually
minimize train wrecks.
But whereas the limitations of speed and the
development of safety equipment will keep bus
and train accident statistics from sweeping into
an upward curve, the opposite is true of air
planes. Recent developments in the field of
transport aviation leave greater possibility of
mishap and a larger possible cost of human
lives.
The trend toward increased speed, with jet
transports due in-the near future, and larger
ships, such as the C-124, brings with it addi
tional chances for tragedy.
Our Air Force, and more especially the com
mercial air lines, have called into use the most
rigorous training of personnel and the maxi
mum of safety devices. But just , as on the
ground, people will make mistakes in the air.
And whereas a mistake in a two-seater plane
am cost two lives, the same mistake in a 1 15
passenger transport can cost upwards of 100.
As the weight of planes increases and faster
power plants are developed, the danger of the
take-off and landing are bound to rise. With
Increasing speed there is less time for the pilot
to make a decision. And it must be borne in
mind that even with the aid of automatic pilots,
Instrument landing beams and radar screens,
the ultimate decision still falls on a human
being the pilot..
The vagaries of wind and weather also pose
a problem, especially at this time of year, that
automatic machinery can never solve. Nature's
ways are not constant, and the decision as to
what altitude to fly, whether to turn back or
try to get through still ultimately falls on an
individual. It is fortunate that the modern pilot
has the aid of weather data and excellent -radio
communications, especially in the continental
United States. But if the alternatives seem
perilous there is no chance in an airplane to"
pull over to the side of the road and sit it out.
The fact that major air disasters are a rarity
is a tribute to the men who fly the planes and
the men who build them. But as surely as we
strive for higher speeds and larger planes, and
fly in wintry weather, we run the risk of fu
ture tragedies which will again be classed as
'trie world's costliest plane accident." There
are risks everywhere, however, not just in the
air. A nation will mourn the loss of so many
men and its sympathy will go to their families.
But we'll still fly.
tion to arrive at the correct answer. She never
knew a life other than that of a Hollywood
star as she was growing up. From the time
she was 3, she was the idol of America, and
also the slave of her millions of fans and The
movie industry.
As she grew older, movie magazines doted
on the theme that Shirley was being given all
the advantages of a normal childhood school,
parties with friends of her own age. It was
emphasized that she was learning the value
of money like any normal little girl. She was
given a small allowance. The rest of her for
tune was held in trust and administered by her
parents.
But she still made movie after movie. Other
heavy demands on her time included sitting
for magazine and publicity photographs, attend
ing film openings and other publicity events.
Top movie billing followed her through the
years until she was grown. When she married,
the fans wanted her to be blissfully happy. But
uci iuc ill ic siiauuw aiiuusiicic ui uuujrnuuu SaSSH5
nad ill-equipped her lor the choosing oi a
husband. Many of the millions who still love
Shirley feel a sense of personal animosity at
John Agar for "doing our girl wrong."
Divorce, and her retirement from the movies
opened a new life for Shirley. But in adapting;
herself to her new role as Mrs. Average Citizen,
- she has shown the same talent she brought to
her early movies.
With her new husband, Lt. Cmdr. Charles
Black, she has done everything possible to
avoid the spotlight. Is she happy in her new
role? All evidenee points to the fact that she
is content within her family circle.
Like anyone who fights for the things he
lives, Shirley is seeking to protect her daughter
from the glare of the theatrical spotlight which
once blinded her to normal living. She has
withdrawn 4-year-old Linda Susan from a
Washington, D. C. private school which sought
to use her name to publicize a children's show.
Shirley has made the choice of anonymity
for herself and her child. Let the movie-struck
adolescent, or the bored housewife, who sighs
and dreams of Hollywood fame look to Shirley
for inspiration to continue uncomplaining in
their workaday lives. It took Shirley Temple
many years of struggle and heartbreak to ar
rive at that same happy state.
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Soviet; lepers
ignore Birthday
Of Joe Stalin
Br EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW un Josef VLssariono-
vich Stalin became 73 years old
Sunday. Moscow papers made no
mention of the event but gave top
play to toe taun international
peace awards annually made pub
lic on his birthday.
I have seen the Soviet leader
close-up four times this year and
found his appearance little chang
ed from when I first saw him 11
years ago.
The four occasions were on May
Day, on Soviet Air Force D-y last
summer, on the stage of . the Bol-
shoi Theater Nov. when he sat
with other Soviet laaders, and in
Red Square Nov. 7 when he re
viewed a parade marking the, 35th
anniversary of the Bolshevik Rev
olution.
Stalin is known to have made at
least four public appearances at
Moscow theatres the past year.
ine ooviei leaaer walks with a
resolute stride. Three of the times
I- saw him- this year he had to
climb a long flight of steps. He
I socialist labor."
At party functions he sometimes
appears in a plain tunic with the
same decoration and dark trous
ers.
During the past week news-
reel close-ups of Stalin reviewing
the November parade have appear
ed on television. They showed him
saluting the marchers and chat
ting jovially with other Soviet
leaders.
This is the first time since the
end of the war that Stalin has
attended the November celebra-
I tions in Moscow. Other years he
ha", been away on his annual vacation.
He also remained in the Soviet
capital for the 19th Congress of
the Soviet Communist Party last
October.
(Continued from page one)
Trusteeship Council which has
direct contacts with the Trust
territories. When our committee
hears a native from Somaliland
which borders on the Indian
ocean we will all get out of
Africa.
I did not get involved in
North Africa. The first (polit
ical) committee wrestled with
the complaints over French ad
ministration in its protectorates
of Tunisia and Morocco. That
committee adopted rather mod
erate resolutions, sponsored by
the Latin American countries,
rejecting resolutions offered by
the Arabs and Asians who have
been extremely critical of the
French rule in North Africa.
Skirley Chooses Anonymity
Is the adulation, and money, that Hollywood
stardom brings worth the sacrifices of a normal
way of living?
Evidently Shirley Temple thinks not. And
she, perhaps more than anyone, is in a posi-
Fifth Plate
There is food for thought and we intend no
pun in a book titled New Farm Horizon, pub
lished by the Successful Farming magazine on
its 50th anniversary.
By 1975, it says, our population will have
grown so much we will have to serve five plates
of food for every four we served in 1950. Filling
this fifth plate alone is estimated to require the
equal of the 1950 pig crops of Iowa and Nebras
ka plus the 1950 cow numbers of Oklahoma,
Texas and Minnesota plus the 1950 lamb crops
of Nevada, Utahj, Wyoming and Montana plus
the 1950 milk production of Wisconsin, Michi
gan and New York plus the egg production of
California, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Penn
sylvania. That, you'll agree, is a whopping big meal. It
means we must look to the future of our farm
production, which may be turning up shortages,
rather than to the past, where the problem
nearly always was one of surpluses.
We did get away one evening
to attend, as guests, the annual
ladies' night of the Grolier So
ciety. This is an old organiza
tion .whose membership is in
terested in collections, especial
ly in book collecting. The meet
ing was devoted to a lecture by
John Mason Brown who talked
on George Bernard Shaw. Some
may have read the profile of
Brown which appeared about two
months ago in the New Yorker.
He is a regular contributor to
the Saturday Review and is in
great demand as a lecturer. As
the New Yorker article pointed
out he is a hardy perennial at
Town Hall and at women's
clubs and other organizations.
His score of repeat engagements
is really astounding; but con
sidering the fluency of his speech,
his wit and his wisdom it is not
surprising. As was most fitting
in the Grolier assembly hall,
the cases on the walls were
filled with GBS material, books,
original letters (some to Mrs.
Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry),
playbills, first editions of his
plays, etc
With Communist China's re
jection of the UN resolution on
Korea the Assembly is press
ing to wind up its remaining
business. It 'plans now to ad
journ Dec. 23rd with a return
date for February. I am sure,
however, that my presence at
the adjourned session will not be
required.
Literary Guidepost
Yugoslavia's Vehement Denunciation of
ie Not Calculated to Gain Tito friends
By W. G. ROGERS
AUDUBON'S BUTTERFLIES,
MOTHS AND OTHER STUDIES,
compiled- and edited by Alice
Ford (Studio-Crowell; $5.75)
From 1721 to 1824, when the
Audubon was in his mid-thirties,
and in want, he did some 15
pages of sketches of butterflies,
moths and so on, and left them
to a friend in Pittsburgh, Mrs.
Charles Basham. From a decen
dant of hers they were acquired
10 years ago by Mrs. Kirby
Chambers, and they are repro
duced in this book for the first
time. This fact gives .this book
a special value which the text
alone would not confer; the
pictures themselves are good, if
not incontestably great, Audubon.
Popi
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Al Fereiga News Analyst .
Yugoslavia's angry blast at the
Vatican the other day will do Pre
mier Marshall Tito no particular
good. Ia fact, it more likely will
do him harm.
The Yugoslav Communists dram
atized their anger at the appoint
ment of Archbishop Stepinac to the
College of Cardinals, and in doing
o called the West's attention to
the kind of , Allies the Yugoslav
Communists are.
At best, they are Allies who must
be watched carefully.
At worst, tney still represent a
threat to the West.
Should "Tito be overthrown, the
party very Likely would go back
into the Moscow fold, at a tremend
ous cost to Western defenses. And
it should be remembered there is
a large number of .Yugoslav Com-
rrmnists who would gladly return
to Stalin.
What Tito and his foreign mini
ster., in their blasts at Rome, have
done is to call attention sharply
to the strains under which the Yu-
gaalav Communist Party has been
struggling throughout these four
years in which, they were placed
outside the pale by the Stalinist
parties. i
There are frequent trials in Yu
goslavia ox Communists found to
have been working for the Conain
jform. Soma of them have been dia
, covered in extremeley high places,
where they bad been beyond sus
picion until the slips which be
trayed them.
Western aources ia Belgrade
ha estimated that perhaps a
quarter rnlllion Yugoslav Commu-
nists might be willing and eager to
return to Moscow's family tomor
row if the opportunity arose.
Tito has had luck in rooting out
many of these enemies, and his
coldly efficient secret police are
constantly on the job. For this rea
son Tito retains the whip hand, but
at the cost of constant strain.
On top of this strain comes his
conflict with the church. The Yu
goslav Communist press frequent
ly complains about party members
who show up at church services,
go to mass regularly and even hold
down jobs helping the church.
The Serbian orthodox church,
representing about half Yugoslav
ia's 16 million population, still has
a strong hold on the people, and in
the north, particularly in Slovenia
and Croatia, there are large close
ly knit bodies of Roman Catholics
fiercely loyal to their religion. The
Catholics represent about a third
of the population.
To Tito and his party, the church
represents reaction. At the same
time, within the party itself, there
are other forces which represent
to Tito's regime a still more dan
gerous reaction.
There are symptoms of the same
disease which has afflicted the So
viet Communist Party and brought
about a crackdown from Moscow.
The party in many Instances is
going soft, Many who are mem
bers came into the party after the
war, looking upon menbership "not
as anything revolutionary, but as a
means of living better than their
neighbors, i
Such party members tend to get
CURRIER AND IVES' AMERI
CA, edited by Colin Simkin
(Crown; $10)
Eighty plates in color, a help
ful introduction and notes, and
a general design and binding in
good taste serve to make this a
conservative, to avoid chances in
protecting the status quo and hold
ing on to what they have.
And while the party loses Its
militancy, Stalin's agents infil
trate probably at a fairly fast rate. GRIN AND REAP IT
despite all the vigilance of Tito's 1X1 111 OCt I I
police.
So there is danger for Tito on all
sides. In this light, his attack on
the Vatican begins to look suspi
ciously like a case of frayed
nerves.
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Better. English
By D. C. WDLIAM3
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "I can't seem to un
derstand this problem; it's mighty
difgcult,'
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "oppugn"? -
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Glossery, nursery, ef
frontery, dysentery.
4. What does the word "ad-n-onish"
mean? i
5. What is a word beginning
with v that means "easily roll
ing or turning"?" .j
ANSWERS
1. Say, "1 seem unable to un
derstand this problem; ifs very
(or, exceedingly) difficult." 2.
Pronounce o-pun, e as in odd, a
as in Bsc, accent second syllable.
3. Glossary. 4. To reprove gent
ly, but seriously. "He was ad-rnori-thed
for his failure to taring
the necessary papers with him."
9. Voluble.
worthwhile collection. Pictures
of the home, the farm, the family,
hunting, fishing, racing, boating,
skating, of east and west, of
winted and summer, of country
and city, add up to a consider
able part of 19th century Amer
ica. The book will look well on
your library table top, and it's
the shape if it, too.
BIBLE AND CHRISTIANTY, in
1,000 Pictures and Text, intro
duction by Albert Schweitzer,
by the editors of Year (Year;
$7.95)
This story-with-picture. and
picture-with-story account, fill
ing almost 200 pages, tells of the
Old Testament and the New, the
establishment of various churches
and sects, missions, Bible socie
ties. YMCA, Red Cross, and then
of other religions in other parts
of the world: Mohammedan,
Hindu, Buddhist and so on. Ifs
a sort of big glorified Sunday
school magazine for grewn-ups,
with the pictorial emphasis on
story rather than art, and the
text more about action than
theology.
Truman Drifts Jacqueline Auriol
Tops Flight Record
IfirPJ I rnfinS Marseille, France un - Jac-
v v P quehne Auriol, daughter - in - law
of the French president, bettered
WASHINGTON UP) President her own woman's record Sunday
Truman told troops in Korea Sat- ,or flyin' over closed 100-kilome-
urday the ramparts you watch ier -ij muer course witn an
are the bulwarks behind which average time of 534.375 miles an
"your countrymen and millions of bour.
other people are free to celebrate rs Auriol s flight beat the rec-
Christmas in a spirit of peace and onl of 511.360 miles. an hour which
ffood will." she set in May. 1951. She flew a
The President's special yuletide "Mistral" jet fighter of the French
message to Gen. Mark Clark, com- nationalized aircraft industry, pow
mander in chief of the Far East, ered "y Nene-Hispano Suiza- mo-
directed to members of the Ameri- wr- A."e previous recoro naa Deen
can armed forces and United N- Kl wun " J" vampire.
tions comrades, added:
"Your sacrifice is great. In our
hearts there is a special place for
you truj Christmas. In our thoughts !
mere is a special prayer."
GuppieSTcacli
FactsbfLife
NEW HAVEN. Conn. (J A
Yale pathologist suggested Sunday
that a guppy is better than the
birds, bees and flowers when lt
comes to explaining the facts of
tue.
Dr. Leon Whitney, also a noted
veterinarian, bases this conclusion
on his recently completed study of
me immodest Midget Fish." and
it'll appear soon in a book devoted
exclusively to the lowly little gup-
py.
Thousands cf youngsters learn
their first facts of life from their
tank of guppies, stated Dr. whit
ney. With this in mind, he has tried
to make the book valuable for In
quiring youngsters, as well as
adults.
Dr. Whitney claims thai mora
guppies are kept by millions of
fanciers than any other ironical
fish, yet less is known about them.
than their popularity warrants,,
Formosa Official
TAIPEH. Formosa LP Gov. K.
C. Wu was painfully burned Sat
urday as ho dedicated new, blast
furnace at Sitze, near Taipeh.
When Wu threw a kerosene-
soaked rag into the furnace to start
it in operation, a tongue of flame
shot out. It singed his left eyebrow
and the hair from the left side of
his head, and his hand was burned
so that he still wore bandages today.
This was the third anniversary
of his becoming governor of For
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On Yorkmar
PORTLAND UP) Workmen Sun
day were making temporary re
pairs to sprung bottom plates on
the freighter Yorkmar.
The ship was drydocked here
Saturday for repairs of damage
done when the ship went aground
Dec. 8 at Grays Harbor, Wash. It
was pulled free 10 days later.
Capt. T. F. Sheehan of the Cal-
mar Lino reported that the ship i
may be able to leave Portland
Thursday for Grays Harbor where
a cargo of lumber for the East
Coast is to be picked up. Perma
nent repairs are to be made at
Baltimore, Md., ho said.-
by Lichty
U.S., Spain to
Sign PactiT Soon
WASHINGTON UP) Diplomatic
officials said Saturday night the
United States and Spain soon will
sign three agreements covering
American development and use of
naval and air bases on Spanish
territory.
The pacts cover military aid.
economic aid and military facill-
toes.
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