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European Nevs Breaks! Against Return Home Of Gen. Eisenhower By LYLE C. WILSON , Washington U.PJ The lat est reports that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower would come home to campaign do not stand up well under close examination. The day by day European news breaks are against the gen eral's return. The political situ ation developing in the United States, of course, is an urgent spur to the hope of some Ike-for-President campaigners that the general will make a personal fight for the Republican presi dential nomination. Would Lift Campaign Eisenhower is a powerful speaker with a million-dollar smile. The campaign to nominate him undoubtedly .would get a tremendous lift from hi3 appear ance on home grounds. Some persons believe the campaign ur gently needs the general not only back in the United States but on the stump talking to the voters. However that may be, the word is being passed around that he will come back. His managers are being quoted to that effect. The radio, newspapers and mag azines are spreading the word. Won't Ask To Be Relieved But Ike, himself, has said he In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There's an odd and in its way rather fascinating little tale in the news as this is written. It concerns ' an . 82-year-old Colo rado schoolteacher .and librarian who liked so much the way the government treated her Civil War veteran father that when she died a week or so ago she willed Uncle Sam the tidy sum of $55,000. The dispatch goes on: "Attorney William C. Rhodes says the spinster schoolmarm was grateful for the way the gov ernment treated her father, Wil liam C. Thomas, a Union Army veteran who was wounded and imprisoned in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. "Rhodes said the government provided Thomas with a $20 monthly pension and certain other benefits." THE odd part of it, I suppose is that in these days anyone would be grateful to the govern ment for a pension especially one of only $20 a month. It is the way of the present world to take such things for granted and even to be a little bit miffed at the smallness thereof. Perhaps it is explained by the lady's age. At 82, she remem bered other days and other man ners. INHERE is another angle to the situation. In these days, most of us would be inclined to reason that the old gentleman with the chin whisker would get the bulk of the estate anyway in the form of taxes, so why break down and GIVE him anything? "DUT let's be serious for a mo- ment. Back in the days of which the Civil War was a part, there was RESPECT for government. For one thing, the president, in those days was Abraham Lincoln, a man who commanded great re spect. There was even respect for political parties. In the grave period that immediately pre ceded the Civil War, the Repub lican party was born. At its birth, the Republican party had more than a mere itch for office. It BELIEVED two things: - 1. The Union is RIGHT, and must be preserved. 2. Slavery is WRONG, and must be abolished. VOU RESPECT beliefs like that. You respect them deep ly. That isn't all. You respect men who hold beliefs like that. The institution of individual hu man freedom, upon which our country is built, was established by men of that sort, holding be liefs of that sort. Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich "Sorry to interrupt, but I must get the fire department. A glow worm and a lightning bug fust lit on me!" ... For emergency calls oyer a busy party-line, simply explain the circumstances to the other per i son ... Pacific Telephone. would not campaign. He has told visitors that and in his agree ment to permit his name to be put up for President he said last Jan. 7: "I would not seek nomi nation for political office. Under no circumstances will I ask re lief from this assignment in or der to seek nomination for po litical office and I shall not par ticipate in the pre-convention ac tivities of others who may have such an intention with respect to me." Jut to sew it up tight. Presi dent Truman then said he did not plan to relieve Ike. The gen eral's statement was definite. But conditions could change so dra matically and favorably in Eu rope as practically to release him from his western defense job. There has been no such change. On the contrary, some news has been bad. Great polit ical progress toward Europe s defense was made at the Febru ary meeting of North Atlantic treaty powers in Lisbon. But great as the progress was, it was vastly over-ballyhooed in first reports and much exaggerated as to accomplishments in terms of I men, guns an dequipment. I And ready to DIE for them, if need be. & It isn't too surprising, when you think it all out, that one born not too long after the Civil War and fathered by a veteran of that great war should hold for the government that treated her father right and lived up to it$ obligations to him such respect and affection that she would write into her will a consider able bequest to it. 1IE ARE living in the hey-day of the welfare state. Yet In these days, respect and af fection for the government, I would say, are the EXCEPTION rather than the rule. And that isn't too surprising when you come to ponder on it deeply. It isn't by lavish gifts that governments win respect and trust. Of all the Founding Fathers, so far as I have been able to read history, NONE gave away any of the government's re sources to win the favor and the votes of the populace. All of them, I'm sure, would have been horrified, at the political idea that lies back of the welfare state. But we respect them deeply and sincerely to this day. Yet all they GAVE us was a good coun try to live in and MAKE OUR WAY IN. The Grange Sami Valley Grange Sams Valley Grange met March 1 with Master Ralph James presiding. Gus Kohlner spoke on soil. Carlos Morris showed some pictures which all enjoyed. HEC met at Thelma Beers' place and some new officers were installed. Sister Straus re ported that HEC will buy new curtains for the hall. There will be a dance March 8 at Sams Valley Grange hall. Next Grange meeting will be March 15 with a potluck din ner at 7:30 p. m. A display ta ble of old dishes will be shown by Mrs. Walter Miller. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Day, Mrs. Haines and Mrs. Balkan. WINS DIVORCE Santa Monica, Cal. (U.R) Mary Rogers Brooks, 34, daugh ter of the late humorist Will Rogers, won a divorce from Walter Brooks, stepson of Gen. Douglas MacArthuf, on charges that he drank excessively "two or three times a week." 2 YOUR FOOD BUDGELwith PORTER'S FRIL-LETS! ALSO TIT-Spaghetti, Solodette, Macaroni, Sea Shells and KurI - 0Tt-SCAMU' MACMON 9w FOUIANO, OiCOON for LISTENING to French politicians during Paris reception, General Dwight D. Eisenhower is In unusually somber mood because of crisis growing out of govern ment's fall. (international; Quick-Thinking Pilot Saves Lives In Crash of Plane Tokyo (U.R) A C-97 military transport evacuation plane carry' ing 58 patients 27 of them litter cases crashed during takeoff Thursday and only the pilot's skill saved the passengers from death. The huge four-engined plane was taking off from Haneda air base on the outskirts of Tokyo for Midway island when' the right landing gear collapsed. The pilot, Maj. John D. Davis, re versed his propellers and used the nose wheel to swing the plane to the right. Smashes Into Mud It smashed into mud beside the runway, only a few feet from a seawall on the edge of Tokyo bay. If it had gone straight ahead only seconds more, it would have plunged into the bay. Two passengers were injured slightly by pieces of propeller blades which broke off and cut through the fuselage. Sprayed to Prevent Fire Within a minute and 15 sec onds crash rescue crews reached the plane and sprayed it with foam to prevent fire while the patients were removed. All patients were removed within three minutes under direc tion of the flight nurses. Within three hours all but the two slightly hurt passengers were placed aboard another C-47 en route to their first stop at Mid way. The Air. Force did not dis close the eventual destination of the patients, although they pre sumably were heading for Hick- am Field, Hawaii, and the U.S. 4-HCIubNewT Valley View Club Dough Babies was the name decided for the Valley View 4-H cooking club at its meeting Nine members were present. We sang songs and played games The second demonstration was on the art of making rice and cereals. Donna Faler, Reporter. 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S. recently handed the Czechs proposals which ul timately may bring his release. Optimism Created ' The mere fact that the Czechs consented to receive the pro posals excited cautious optimism in American diplomatic Quar ters. The next step is up to the Czechs. American circles obviously hope that the Czechs will accept the proposals as a basis for ne gotiation. Then the hard bargain ing will begin. No details of the proposals iim Alrw &mr AM artificial fiavoring everi lf!GAQlNF 8 Prove it! 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OF ALLSWEET The redeemable value of this coupon is 120 of 1 cent cash. This coupon is roid if taxed. - ZZZ ! prohibited, or restricted by law. Czechs are available. However, some idea of the path the negotiations will follow may be gained by studying the case of Robert A. Vogeler, who also was impris oned on espionage charges by a Communist government. Retaliation Taken Vogeler was sentenced by a Hungarian people's court on Feb. 21, 1950 to 15 years in prison. When Budapest rejepted American approaches for his re lease, the U. S. retaliated by closing Hungarian consulates in New York and Cleveland and banning American travel in Hun gary. Seventeen months and much bargaining later, Vogeler was released in exchange for what Budapest called the granting of "various just Hungarian claims" the lifting of the American retaliatory measures, plus the return to Hungary of property looted by the Nazis in 1944 and taken to western Germany. The U. S. has taken similar retaliatory steps against Czecho slovakia, not only for the im prisonment of Oatis but for the earlier Czech closure of U. S. Information Service libraries and arbitrary orders for reduc tion pf U. S. diplomatic staffs in the Red country. Geologists consider the fossil record of ancient forests one of the most accurate sources for in formation regarding the geologi cal history of any area. HEAB the rare, old ARtvoert muiie box playing the ttoeetat music on tht air Listen for it K.M.E.D. 4:15 P.M. Monday thru Friday Thursday. March 8. 1932 Buyer Resistance Brings Sharp Cut In Butter Prices Chicago (U.R) Buying 'resist ance on the part of the nation's housewives was reflected Thurs day in sharply lower butter prices, and egg prices also were on the skids. Retailers and officials of the Chicago mercantile exchange agreed that the break, which de veloped last week on the whole sale level, was brought on by the refusal of consumers to buy butter at prices edging toward $1 a pound. Further quts were announced by Chicago chain stores Wednes day, bringing down the price of butter as much as J.4 cents under prices of a week ago.. And chains across the nation followed Chicago's lead. Eggs in some locations were down as much as 30 cents under the highs set last November. Price Average Down The price reporting firm of Dun and Bradstreet in New York said its average of the wholesale prices of 31 generally used foods dropped two cents in the week ended March 4. The average was $6.56, or 9.8 per cent below the average of $7.27 during the same week a year ago. However, the average was still 10.1 per cent above the pre-Korean War level of $5.96. 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