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Mrs. Barkley Silent On Desires To See Mate in White House Editor! note: Following li in firsi diipateh in sarias of lit on she wives or poten tial official hostesses of actual and possible Democratic presi dential candidates. Washington (U.R) Jane Had ley Barkley, St. Louis widow who married the vice president, won't say. whether she wants to see her husband make a bid for the White House. She is as coy as Vice Presi dent Alben W. Barkley as to whether he will try to win the No. 1 national office. The "Veep" has not officially tossed his hat into the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination. There are indica tions he might. But until her husband does, or bows out, the pretty, vivacious Mrs. Barkley won't talk about his political future. "He certainly does appreciate the interest of his friends," is her only comment. Mostly, Mrs. Barkley says, she and the vice president are too busy to discuss politics. She keeps up on issues of the day by reading the Congressional Record. Ever since Mrs. Barkley ar rived in Washington as a bride a little more than two years ago, she and the vice president have been one of the capital's most popular couples. She has warmth, charm, and poise; he) wit. Their marriage in St. Louis on Nov. 18, 1949, after about seven months romance drew the delighted affection of the na- What "Its The perfection in brewing of light OLYMPIA Beer Is due not alone to premium ingredients, but to the rare waters of our artesian wells, famed for their natural purity and brewing qualities. Final touch of perfection is the skillful brewing ... a skill handed down through three generations of brewing experience. Visitors ara always welcome at Olympia Brewing Company, Olympia, Washington, "One of America's Exceptional Breweries" tion. She was then 38. The Berkleys live quietly here. They do a "normal amount" of entertaining in their roomy apartment on fash ionable Connecticut Avenue but always "most informally." Since the Korean war began, Mrs. Barkley, to her immense satisfaction, has spent more and more time on community affairs. She is an official of the Ameri can Heart Association, a trustee of American university, and joins in almost every fund-raising drive. Every Tuesday, from 9 to 3 she joins the ladies of the Sen ate wives of senators to knit, sew and prepare surgical dress ings. An accomplished pianist, she tries to practice "a little every day" on the grand piano her 74-year-old husband gave her last year. She listens to "good mu sic" programs. "When Margaret Truman is on TV I always try to see her," she says. Last autumn when Mrs. Bark ley was named ihe "outstanding homemaker" of the year, she said she regarded homemaking as the hardest job a woman can do. "I know because I have been a career woman, too," she said. She was a secretary in St. Louis before her marriage to the vice president. Mrs. Barkley has two daugh ters by her first marriage. Ann, 20, is a university junior in New Orleans. Jane, 17, is a senior at Holton Arms, a girls' junior col lege here. makes Olympia . . 1 7 1 so acceptable r the Water V v. I Symbol of Hospitalii In the Dav's News BY FRANK JENKINS In 1951. according to its an nual report issued in New York, I the Ford Foundation appropri ated $22,331,736 for education and peace projects. About half was appropriated to educational purposes, including scholarships. In the report, Henry Ford II, chairman of the trustees, says the foundation hopes to do its bit in seeking ways to help pre vent war and, more positively, to achieve peace. He adds: "It is apparent that the prime threat to humari welfare today is the danger of war and the attendant sense of strain throughout the world." T THINK young Henry is right about the prime threat to human welfare today. But his statement raises a highly im portant question perhaps the most important question facing mankind: How are we to STOP the dan ger of war and its attendant sense' of strain throughout the world? Personally, I see no IMMEDI ATE hope of ending war and bringing to the world the incal culable benefits of universal peace, but I think we could get farther in that direction by adopting the principle of the Golden Rule and adhering to it in all our public and private transactions than any other way. ODDLY enough, it would pay IN BUSINESS. It would pay off IN DOLLARS AND CENTS. There's a cynical notion abroad that if you want to get ahead in the world, you must be grasping and unscrupulous; you must look out unceasingly for NUMBER ONE; in every trans action you must seek to get the best of the other fellow. I doubt that ... A LOT of sound, able, ambitious business 99 men are coming around to the belief that a contract that is fair to both sides is more profitable in the long run than a contract that gives you the long end of everything. If a contract Is fair to all par ties, everybody goes ahead and does business unhesitatingly. That SPEEDS UP all the trans actions involved, and thus adds to volume and cuts down cost. In modern business, volume is all-important. Once you get past the break-even point, the going is easy. TN MODERN business, your biggest asset is the confidence of those with whom you deal. If you LACK that, you're badly handicapped. I'm sure all SOUND business men will agree with that statement. T THINK that in allocating to educational purposes approxi mately half of all the large ap propriations it has annually available the Ford Foundation is on sound ground. We must have education if we are to make in telligent progress toward a bet ter world. But education, standing alone, isn't the answer to everything we must seek if we are to have a better world. The dictionary defines "education," among oth er things, as "DISCIPLINE OF MIND . . . through study or in struction and Communism, as we are seeing it in practice throughout the world, is a foul thing. It isn't enough just to KNOW THINGS. One of the good smart cracks of all time is that "one of the -troubles with us is that so many people know so many things that ain't so." If knowledge is to lead man kind out of its troubles, it must have back of it the tremendous force of sound moral principles and the sound moral character that comes with knowledge and acceptance of moral principles. T'HE Golden Rule is best known - to us as a rule or way of life set forth by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. As stated by Matthew in the sonorous lan guage of the King James version of the New Testament, it reads: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." This rule, however, is older than Jesus. An old saying of the B. C. world was: "Do not do to others what you do not want done to you." Jesus turned this saying around to make It a POS ITIVE rule for Christian living. In one form or another, it ap pears in the teachings of Mo hammed and Buddha. The point is that from the earliest beginnings mankind has recognized that doing to others as you would want others to do to you is a sound rule of human conduct. The pity of it is that mankind has never ACTED IN CONCERT on It. I fear that until mankind does act in reasonable concert on this sound moral principle the "dan ger of war and the attendant sense of strain throughout the wor,ld" will remain the prime threat to human welfare. OSC Midshipmen Plan Tour of Europe Ports Seattle U.R NROTC mid shipmen from Oregon State col lege aitu the Universities ol Washington and Idaho will be among the 9,100 naval trainees who will visit ports in western Europe and the British Isles this summer. The Navy said the middies will leave Norfolk, Va., July 18, in a squadron headed by the battle ship New Jersey. The training cruise squadron will include the cruiser Roanoke, six destroyers, a high speed transport and a tanker. They will return to Nor folk September 9. Fish Survival Over Dams To Be Tested Seattle U.R) Tests will be gin this week-end to determine ability of salmon to survive downstream runs over dams and through turbines of power In stallatlons. Some 900,000 fish will be re leased on the upper Elwha river on the Olympic peninsula with in the next month, the slate fisheries department said. The fish will be carried by helicopter from the Dungenes hatchery near Sequim to a land Ing spot at the releasing points. GOLF BRAND Nationally Advartiiad FERTILIZER fiaaniiva Par Fauna1 but Chtaaar par Sahara Foot , finist'lawn aPSrfl Britain May Soon Announce Military Guarantees in Europe By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst j Britain is about to throw an other weight on the scales deter mining the balance of power in Europe. She is ex pected soon to announce mili tary luaran tees for all six members of European de fense commu nity, extending to West Ger many and Italy the promises of aid in case of attack she already has given to France, Belgium, The Nether lands and Luxembourg. The Brussels Pact guarantees that in case of attack on any member, the others will "aford the party so attacked all military and other aid and assistance in their power." It is a much firmer pledge than that undertaken by the North At lantic Treaty nations which also promise aid in case of attack but only that which each mem ber "deems necessary." Complicating Factors There are many complicating factors in the European defense situation, including the fact that I'hil Newsom Tuasdar. April 18. 19S1 while Germany is a member of the six-nation defense commu nity, she is neither a member of NATO nor of the United Na tions. Thus, neither Britain nor the United States is legally bound to go to her aid if she is at tacked. Italy is not a member of the United Nations, having been blocked by Rnsip, but she is a member of NATO and thus is covered by NATO pledges. Both Britain and the United States have held that it was not necessary to issue formal guar antees to Germany, since any at tack on her necessarily would involve their occupation forces and thus would be the same as an attack on them. However, the fact that the British are preparing now to put their promises to West Germany on paper is important. It comes at a time when the Russians are doing their utmost to upset the West European de fense applecart. By holding forth the promise of a unified Germany with it own army, the Russians have managed to weaken considerably already lukewarm West German sentiment toward joining the European Army. They also have impressed upon SAVE Deluxe REFRIGERATOR - FREEZER $49.50 DOWN Refrigerator Never Heeds Defrosting! Tr o wbiridge Fly 1111 Electric, Company 2I W. MAIN Whar Solas . end lervlca Art Twins PHONE 2-5211 the Germans the value of their bargaining position between the East and West. As a nation, the Germans would prefer to return to their old position of holding in their own hands the balance of power in Europe, so as Germany went so would go the rest of Europe, whether to East or West. The European Army was or ganized first as a defense against Russia and second to prevent a return to the old ways in which Germany could dictate to the rest of Europe. The Western nations. including the United States, will try to see to it that Germany never again becomes the threat she was. 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