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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. But at the same time
they must convince the West
Germans that they have the
strongest coalition. Thus the im
portance of the British move at
this time.
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