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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, September 27, 1949
Isolationists Despite Russian A-Bombs
It is a toss-up whether to be more disturbed over the
fact that Russia has the atom bomb or whether senators
like Cain of Washington can take the attitude they do
toward international affairs.
Harry Cain has stated that if the senate had known of
Russia's possession of the atom bomb before the vote on
the arms for Europe bill, the senate would not have voted
for arms-aid. The senate did vote, 55 to 24, to help the
armies of western Europe build a defense force against
possible Russian aggression.
. It was Cain's contention that the arms bill covered a
needless expense since the United States itself would be
attacked first in event of war rather than the countries
being armed. This stand is of questionable logic at this
time, but it reflects a regrowth of isolationist feeling in
the nation.
The only thing that does make sense in his remarks is
the need for frankness on international affairs from Pres
ident Truman. It was proper that Truman, the chief execu
tive, should have made the announcement on Soviet pos
session of the A-bomb. Such an announcement had been
expected, but not so soon. Frank discussion of such devel
opments should be made regularly as they develop.
For instance, in connection with Russian military pre
paredness, the Soviets reportedly now have superiority
over all western allies in practically every arms category.
If the superiority is three to one, the rule-book ratio needed
for any attack, that fact is not known nor has it been re
.vealed. ,
Despite continued Russian "peace feelers," the aims of
the men in the Kremlin are still well known. In the cur
rent issue of Life magazine, a Russian colonel, one-time
member of the Red army's general staff, reveals the dii
culty of getting Americans and British to believe the
power of Russia's armed might.
He is quoted as saying:
"The British and American ... do not lake seriously what
I say. They do not believe that, if war comes, Russian bacterio
logical warfare, fifth-column activities in Britain and America
and the great weight of Russian infantry may go far toward
overcoming the tremendous weight of Western superiority in
the air.
"They do not believe that they were nearly attacked in 1947."
In regard to the latter point, he disclosed the Russian
general staff was told to prepare for a war with the U.S.
"This it did, producing staff plans which called for the de
struction of all American air bases on the continent of
Europe. The staff was all prepared to send ground forces
across the Elbe in 1947, but Stalin said 'No' and sent its
members back to their conference rooms."
The fact that Stalin did not approve the 1947 plan was
a good sign. After all, however, every nation's general
staff has war plans in readiness for use supposedly at any
moment. Often, however, the progress of time makes
those plans obsolete before they can be properly redrawn.
More disturbing now, however, is the growing isolation
ist feeling that is developing in the United States. Sena
tor Robert Taft has come out admittedly for more and
more of a hands-off policy toward Europe. And he finds
support in the middle west for that idea.
If anything, the revealing of a Russian A-bomb should
mean more of a strengthening of ties of the western de
mocracies for survival.
An Example of Strike Futility
The long strike of the 1500 printers on the five Chicago
daily newspapers has ended with a settlement along the
publishers' terms. The strike was another effort in futil
ity, because unnecessary and forced by President Ran
dolph of the AFI, International Typographical union as a
protest against the Taft-Hartley labor law which he de
clared spelt the destruction of the union, despite the fact
that no union has been destroyed and nearly all have
grown in membership under it.
Woodruff Randolph finally agreed (o accept a $10 a
week wage boost (to $05.50) the same offer he had ordered
rejected six months ago, after Chicago Local 16 approved
" it.
The strike cost the printers $13 million in wages and the
ITU had paid $11 million in strike benefits and costs. What
it cost the publishers, besides inconvenience, is unknown,
but infinitesimal compared to the strikers' kiss, for none
of the newspa)ers lost an issue in publication and both ad
vertising and circulation has grown to new records during
the walkout.
The strike was called for the ostensible reason of a boost
in printers' wages of $1 1.50 a week, but the real issue was
Randolph's defiance of the T-ll ban on closed shop clauses
in contracts which the publishers refused to sign because
of its illegality.
The Chicago newspapers were not crippled despite the
ITU monopoly on printers. They went over to Vari-Type
without missing a day. The new system was cumbersome
and inefficient at first but was soon standardized and im
proved special machinery solved the problems.
The greatest loss to the union in the long run has been
In stimulating the perfection of type-setting processes
which threatens to make the Linotype a back number.
The Graphic Arts Research Foundation of Cambridge,
Mass., has announced a new mechanical type-setting
process, which does away with casting of type metal, set
ting "type" photoelectrical!- on film instead. It is thus
described in Time:
"The operator pushes billions alongside the standard type
writer keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired
type stz and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then,
by a comhinalicn of an electronic memory, and an electric eye,
the machine automatically "justifes" the line. I.e., spaces It to
fit flush in 'he column, and transfers it to a film on a rotat
ing drum. At six letters a second, it can set 12 newspaper lines
a, minute, three limes average linotype speed. Automatically
developed, the film Is ready for photoengraving "
Love's Young Dream
Omaha. Nth U The enuple strolled .Irmly Into a local
Jewelry atora and with shy amllra asked In "look at ngaia
mant rings."
A eonfused elerk stammered, then said, "I'm sorry, hut
they arc all being cleaned right now. Can yon coma back
ieier7
The toupla left without protest.
The bof mi about tight, the girl Mvtn.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Now Russ Have A-Bomb
New Type Diplomacy Asked
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Last week's news that Russia had unloosed her
own atom bomb caused this writer to do some digging Into his
own columns written during the Christmastide Immediately after
the first A-bomb was exploded.
We have all become a little more calloused, a little mora
hard - boiled, a
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
iwAJUI-J
than any place else on the globe,
people have virtually destroyed
themselves with a war of their
own making. They chose to dis
regard the teachings to which
they gave lip-service.
"In the United States a scien
tific capsule has been given man
which offers the world two dis
tinct and definite alternatives:
"1. We can get into another
war and see the globe made into
a ball of fire by the hand of man
first. It s too bad
the Russians are
not interested in
baseball. If they
were they'd hold
off until after
the world's ser
ies, at any rate.
Fundamental
ly things have
not changed
much since a
little more wea
ry than in those
breatht a k i n g
days when tht
war was just
over in 1 9 4 5.
But the ideas
set forth at that
time probably
a d d 1 v lust as
much as ever, ty
and with apolo-fc
gies they are w rrM
reprinted herewith:
"Sometimes it takes the abyss himself; or
of pessimism and hoplessness to "2. We can use practical Chris
arouse people to new and revo- tianity to prevent war, and by
lutionary measures. harnessing the energy of the
"The atom is a revolutionary atom, make the world a virtual
weapon, the most revolutionary Garden of Eden,
in all history. It needs revolu- "Perhaps the prophets of Is-
tionary diplomacy to combat it. rael have now come back as sci-
"Old-fashioned talks between entists of the atom to warn us
three or four diplomats, who sit that the end of the world can
for a few days around a green come, not by flood but by fire,
baize table and then issue brief "The problem is immediate
communiques to the public aim- and urgent. We have to decide
ed to cover up what they didn't now whether we are going to
accomplish, will not cure the fight for peace just as vigorous
gnawing suspicion, the selfish ly as we fought for war, or
ambition, the lust for power that whether we are going to drift
breeds war. which eventually means another
"Only diplomacy of the most war.
revolutionary kind, based upon "We have got to make up our
the Sermon on the Mount can minds whether we are going
1 counteract the evolutionary back to the basic teachings of
I joyable trip and is a nice chap weapon of the atom bomb. Ma- the man who was born 2000
ny oi us nave lorgotten mat years ago ana wnemer we are
was a revolutionary, going to carry them out militant-
Sometimes the world has forgot- ly as militantly as connoted by
ten this just as woefully and the hymn, 'Onward, Christian
EVERY TIME
SEABISCUIT-RAN,
ODDS WERE 4T01
HE WOULD FINISH IN
THE MONEY... A .825
WINNING AVERAGE
192415 YALE GRADUATING
CLASS NOW HAS AN AVERAGE
INCOME OF $25,0O0 ANNUALLY.
AND 71 HAVE AT LEAST
ONE SERVANT
Its 200 to i against
an art school graduate '5
getting an art job.'
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CVOUB ANSIHCH,
MYHT UOSrtR.
MAYWOOO.CU.lt.)
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Itchy Fingers
By DON UPJOHN
Now with Russia reputedly having solved the secret of the
atom bomb that country and the United States are about in
the same position as two angry school kids, each with a big rock
in his hand and threatening to bash the other over the head with
it as the first false move. It seems to be a question of which one
gets too nervous ;
to ride with. Folk both in the
valley and at the coast should Christ
wake up and keep this advan
tageous bus system alive by completely as it has forgotten Soldiers'
uine ucccm paiiuiii.c. tne prmc,pies which he taught.
"At the time Christ was born, "Congress doesn't seem to re-
Too Much Competition a much higher standard of mor- alize that the time to head off
- A ! 1JB, ..r,uj.. al ethics existed than there is in war is long before it starts. And
Los Angeles W- Everybody tn, W(jrld todayi nd the propn . tney woulQ spend , fraction
in the country saw more of her ets of Israei nad repeatedly as much money harrowing the
than I did," Actor Paul Valen- warned their people that if they international ground for peace
chap named Cain got sore at his tine testified in obtaining a di-
brothcr about something
finished him off.
and vorce from stripteaser Lili St.
did not live up tq those stand- as they paid for the weapons of
ards they would be destroyed. war, then the next generation
"I nto, Toena nilnmi,ail alt fmil1 live in Mliritv
Cyr. Charging menial cruelty, lni. teaching and broueht forth "No good businessman would
In fact, Russia and the United Valenline sa,a yesterday the only the highest expression of moral ever think of neglecting his ad-
iime ne saw nis suver-monde ana etnicai standards ever given verusing or oi ninng poor saies-
the men to make the rounds of cus
tomers. He would go out of bu-
wife was when he eot her a bill- ' man in the bermon on
ing in Hollywood. He will con- ,nnn , ,h.
States are about in the same
shape as the two men mention
ed in the fnllowins disnntrh over
the teletype from St. Paul which ,inue to creai' and slag8 her neart of Christian Europe, where
just floated in: "Two detectives routin" as her manager. more professed Christians live
were sent out last night to in- irMTir'C r mill
vestigate a suspicious - looking MacKcNZlC 5 COLUMN
man standing in an alley. ktt k a I k. I i I
vyny rnee inot yvornea
They found the man was the
watchman at an industrial plant.
He told them that for half an
hour he had been keeping an eye
on a suspicious-looking man at
the other end of the alley.
"Fine," said the detectives.
"Keep it up. We'll circle and
get him from behind." They did.
Suspicious-looking man No. 2
explained: He is a watchman
for another plant and for half
an hour had been keeping an
eye on a suspicious-looking man
at the other end of the alley."
On Vote ofConfidence
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
(( Foreign Affair Analrat)
Britain's socialist government Tuesday faces a crucial test
of whether it has lost ground with its big majqrity of followers
in the house of commons as the result of the devaluation of the
pound sterling.
Prime Minister Attlee and his cabinet will stand or fall on a
vote of confi-
on this
dence
issue.
P a rl i amenti
has been called
into special
jonn naiziair wno started oti jion for a full
his daily bus system to and from
the coast last summer with all
good intentions has to cut it
down to once a week from lack
of patronage, which is too bad.
He ran a nice smooth bus and
furnished his passengers an en-
y " -m.-,
few
UiU-X
dress debate in
which the gov
ernment wil'
undcrt a k e to
justify its ac-'
lon DaWIII Hackcnila
The devaluation of the pound
was wholly unexpected by par
liament and the general public,
for the government had made it
a top-drawer secret.
AS a Consequence, the Slash mil mil urnrkeri at hi. rsliffinn
in the value of John Bull's He didn't stay in one place. He
money came as a shock to a na
siness in no time.
"But we as a nation fail to
apply the same good business
practice in regard to the most
sacred thing in our possession
the lives of the next generation.
We select diplomats for political
reasons, or because they hava
enough private cash to live
abroad on the miserly salaries
we pay them; and we fail to
give them an advertising cam
paign to supplement their work.
"This may not sound much
like religion. But, to me, religion
is a question of doing, not mere
ly having faith. As I understand
Christ's teaching, it is a doctrine
of going out and administering
to others, and if necessary, row
ing with money-changers and
driving them out of the temple.
"Christ was a man who went
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Why There Has Been
Kin Fnmnlia Rrnin Truct
By HAL BOYLE
New York OP) Tell the average woman she's a genius, and
what happens?
She immediately begins wondering if you are trying to break
it to her easy that her years are showing, her nose needs powder
ing or her face needs lifting. In any case, she takes the compli-
ment with deep-
"mere are absolutely no fem
inine names, none at all, which
can stand beside those of the
really great no Beethovens, no
Michaelangelos, no Shake
speares, no Tolstoys."
And Root says women can't
escape this truth by blaming it
on the tyranng in which men
i nave neia women mrougn me
ages. He says you can't explain
fpmalp lark nf ffpnins Vv lar1r
Hal Boju 0f opportunity the girls iust
Waverly Root gives some of don 1 nave the genius factor in
the reasons in an American Mer- their chromosomes, those little
cury magazine article flatly en- SaaSeU in the sex cells that con
titled. "Women Are Intellects tro1 heredity. Some lucky men
ally Inferior."
Naturally Root doesn't imply
that women are mentally lower
than Barbary apes, the giant
panda, polar bears or the pray
ing mantis. He simDlv rates
them lower than the only other 18 more common among men
sex they share the human race tha" am0" women, who may
with that simnlo rrMira f well consider themselves happy
w laim juwtri ill genius iur me
sake of ranking higher in san
ity." Root inclines to the belief that
genius, anyway, is only the rich
cousin of madness.
"You are indeed, mesdames,
barred from genius," he said.
suspicion. ,i
But it, on tne
other hand, you
remark to her,
"you're no gen- (j
ius, tsmeraiaa
she gets down
right annoyed.
She unsheathes
her claws and
demands to
know why.
do.
But listen, ladies, to the mas
culine penalty for being so
smarty
"It is also a fact that idiocy
didn't hide his candlestick under
a bushel. He battled so hard for
his cause of peace on earth, good
will toward men, that eventu
ally he sacrificed his life.
"He had what he thought was
a great idea and he traveled day
and night trying to sell it.
Now we in this country have
PAYING RESPECTS TO THE TRUMANS
Nichols Calls on President
But Gets Lecture Instead
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Sept. 27 (U.W I gassed up the Austin and went
over to the White House to pay my respects to the Trumans. Like brackets.
it says in the social list of Washington, D. C, put out by Carolyn threats of strikes.
Hagner Shaw.
I am not one to kick protocol around. In Mrs. Shaw's social
bible it says in verse 12 of the 5
tion which had regarded the
pound pridefully as the emblem
of stability.
Moreover, comp 1 i c a t i o n s
quickly developed.
The devaluation will force up
the nrirp nf enmn nccntiat Anm.
modifies which have to be im- K"-al Iurm OI government ana
ported, and bread is one of the a,great basc incept of getting
items affected. When agitation along wlth our "e'8"bors. And
arose among the ranks of some ? t'me we went out as Christ
workers for higher wages to dld and trled to scl1 our Ame"
offset this increase, the govern- can religion.
mcnt announced that there , .. , , .
would be no general raises We can 1 8lt Pasve in big,
Whatever there might be would ornate houses as m 0 of our
eo to waw. eamr in th. i,r ambassadors do, giving ritzy
That has brought . """ "Pr-trusi.
uiu inuin a i in uuici iit9UWH9t
xt.. ii i. . . uui uiuiuiiitiiB nave kui w ku
.."".''L the conservative,, , lak , ,ne ea,
uiiuc ivauci9iiiu ui lormer
good will, man.
At least he holds this to be
true on the topflight I.Q. level.
Genius, the man says, Is strictly
confined to the male.
Root says this isn't just one
fellow's opinion. He cites a
siuay made Dy Mrs. Cora Sutton "But what of it? Genius, from
Castle who sifted six encyclo- nature's point of view, is a dan
pedias looking for eminent wo- gerous abnormality; and she
men and found only 868 listed, has dealt handsomely by the
"It is a sad commentary on women in exempting them from
the sex," commented Mrs. Cas- it."
tie dismally, "that from the
dawn of history to the present But Mr. Root certainly loses
day less than 1,000 women have any claim to genius himself if
accomplished anything that his- he thinks that will satisfy the
tory has recorded as worth girls.
whiIe" This is the day of the demand-
ing female, and, if she wants
Getting at the root of the mat- genius, she'll get it even if she
ter, Root says that genius is has to carry her equal rights
creative, and that while many campaign to every chromosome
women have shown fine talent under the American flag,
such as Jane Austen, the Bron- It ought to be easier to change
tes, George Eliot and Emily a dumb little chromosome than
Dickinson none have reached the mind of a determined wo
the peak of greatness. man.
Language Offers No Barrier
Tacoma, Wash U.R Recruiting officers here were stumped
for a time when Henry I.. Ong presented three character
references to enlist in the regular army. The letters were writ
ten in Chinese.
An Interpreter was caller in and the letters were found to
be in order.
supplement:
"Cards should be left at the
White House once a year. This is
a mark of respect which should
never be neglected."
I am no neglccter. And the
guard at the White House gale
apparently is no reader, either.
He never heard of the "regula
tions" for us social lions. He
made me wheel around and
park my midget on a side street.
"People generally send their
chauffeurs in with calling
cards," the guard said with a
huff.
mrntous importance." she says.
Who ranks whom is vastly
important when one entertains
officials of the government. The
guard added his comment to this,
too.
Personal friendships don't
count it's the rank of the
guests which makes the difference.
I had what was required by
the rules. A married woman,
Mrs. N. in this rase, leaves one
card for the wife of the presi
dent. A man leaves a
the president.
It -coat a heap to have the
cards printed, Just to be prop
er, and I was going to leave
them.
I finally did.
The guard, who said he would
rather be dead than quoted, told
me that a lot of other people do
the same. That is leave cards
at the White House and also at
Blair house, where Harry Tru
man hangs his hat while-the
While the lecture was going
on. I was holding the green so
cial guide in one hand and the
family calling cards in the other.
"Lot mo ihnui vmi " maiA (hat
guard, grabbing the book out of mand'n
my fist without ceremony
"Here It
must be the deciding factor at all
times. When there is doubt as to
card for which of two people bears the
higher rank, it Is the better part
of wisdom never to invite them
at the same time.'
"And right here it says:
'Titles of nobility, unless accom
panied by diplomatic, or military
rank, carry no claim to prece
dence in this country.' "
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill, have seized upon this situa
tion to make an attack on the
socialist government, and the
assault will cover its financial
policies since it took power in
'45.
thony Eden.
that make up the backbone of
the country.
"This is not just theory. It
works out in practice that when
the people of a country are be
hind you. and don't have to wor
ry about their government, their
0nvprnminl pirpn an mif-nnH-
Churchill is expected to lead out dictatorship can't make
the offensive and he will be war on you. The people won't
backed by his chief lieutenants jet 'em.
including Deputy Leader An- "However, if the Russian nen.
pie are fed by a controlled press
and radio onlv what their Dolit-
It is Atllce himself who is buro wants them to know about
taking the initiative in face of us. then the problem becomes
the impending battle by de- more difficult. The bovs in the
a vote of confidence. Kremlin are now much more
The conservative leaders al- afraid of the spread of democ-
savs- 'One's guests relld-v nad made it known that racy that we are of communism.
' ' lhAv Jln't in. I . 11 , T-. 1 . 1 . .
uiu,, , iint-iiu iu. etui iur iney are adopting exactly tne
a vote of censure. same system toward us that for
Clearly Attlee feels very sure 17 foolish years the state depart
of the result, as well he may ment adopted toward them,
unless heavy defection should "They don't want their people
unexpectedly develop among his to mix with ours, t h t y don't
followers. want American newspapermen
The laborites (socialists) hold or Preachers to circulate over
SM of the 840 seats In commons. ,ner'- They don't ven lik cn"
whereas the conservatives have dren of tne R"'an embassy in
1R9. Thus Attlee has good rea- Washington going to our schools.
son to believe he won't be de-
"We'll train you
for leadership and
a successful career!"
Sap Sgt. lc Win. L Burnett
Fort Ord, California
The guard was warming up tested.
and calling his orders from 11 -
memory rather than the book: itials are never used. And who
"And don't ever," ht said, are you to be wasting mv time.
workmen are de-termiling the waging a finger, "refer to the anyhow?"
timbers of tht historic old pre-
ldentla! mansion.
And speaking nf protocol, the
rules are what you follow when
you have any doings with the
White House, according to Caro
lyn Shaw.
"Necessity of following pro
tocol In Washington is of mo-
president as 'Harry' when speak
ing to him. He is 'Mr. President.'
And when you write to him it's
'my dear Mr. President.' And
never use his name when ad-
The guard said I could leave
my engraved cards with him.
"I'll see that the president gets
m." he said. "Don't you worry.
You better worry about that
"This makes the problem dif
ficult but not insoluble. After
all, use of the atom up until a
short time ago was considered
insoluble.
"The solution, as I see it. is
to go over the heads of the So
viet Isolationists and win over
the Russian people."
The above Ideas, written in
December 194S when Russia did
Dressing me rresineni aione. ana Austin of yours. The man 1 . V" 1 ,l . i L
nnlv ihm anrnam la narf uhn u.rt,- J,ui. . not have the A-bomb, are even
vui,i-ii,(,n in, ,V UtHH
he and his wife are addressed knob."
together. Tht given names, or in- It was a parking ticket
more appreciable
tht has.
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