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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1047_
Star Program
State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with Its resources, to In
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses, ship repair faculties, near
by sites for heavy industry and 35-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural ,and industrial re
sources through better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the region’s recreation
advantages and improvement of resort
accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina's farm-to-market and primary
roads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City s In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
dustries. , .. , .
Proper utilization of Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina’s health facilities, especially in
counties lacking hospitals, and lnclua
“iMomfg^ mcnl^of'th'e"growth of com
111 Consolidation ol City and County gov
ernments. _
GOOD MORNING
The over curious are not over wise.—
Massinger.
The Budget Up Today
Today’s City Council meeting is of
primary importance. Final action is
due to be taken on the budget.
The city manager and bis advisers
worked diligently for months in an ef
fort to strike a balance between expendi
tures and income without increasing
the tax rate. When it was found that
the city could not meet its just obliga
tions and fulfill its pledges on the in
come to be obtained at last year’s rate
an increase was decided upon, where
upon lusty protests were heard in many
quarters. Nor have the bulk of the tax
payers become reconciled to the ad
vance.
This suggests that the Council to
day will be faced with the necessity
of proceeding with the adoption of the
budget as prepared or seeking further
ways of reducing it. It is understood
that a concerted move is to be made by
certain groups, notably the real estate
brokers, to have the budget revised
downward. If this transpires the Coun
cil, in all fairness, will hear what pro
posals have been formulated. And not
the Council alone, but the people of
Wilmington too, who are as deeply con
cerned with the budget as any group
in the city’s business community, will
be interested listeners, through the
press.
One question is to be considered so
berly by everybody. It is that while the
budget might, possibly, be reduced and
the old tax rate restored, could it be
done without lowering efficiency in the
administration? If a new proposal is
made today this aspect of the tax prob
lem, of course, will have had the atten
tion of the protestants. For no one,
least of all a prominent business
group, would wish the City either to
default its pledges or lower the standard
of its services.
It is always difficult to be calm when
taxes are to the fore. But this is one
occasion when Wilmington’s tax rate,
together with the budget, must be
dealt with in extraordinary calmness
and sound judgment.
Lloyd Crocker
The first shock of the untimely
death of Mr. Lloyd Crocker has passed.
"Hie grief clings.
Not only his associates in the At
lantic Coast Line mourn his passing.
Mr. Crocker’s friends, and they were
many, have a deep sense of persona
loss. For he had a fine talent for friend
ship, which hp exercised as splendidlj
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in his official capacity as his private
life.
Mr. Crocker entered the employ of
the Atlantic Coast Line a little more
than forty-five years ago. His native
ability, steadfastness and application to
duty brought its reward in successive
promotions from baggage master to dis
trict superintendent. And because he
felt a keen obligation for civic service
he served on the School Board during
the period when the county school sys
tem was undergoing the changes that
have raised it to eminence in the state.
Although the end came so suddenly,
a consoling thought for the family and
his friends may be found in the fact
that his grave cannot close over their
pleasant, happy memories of him.
State Airlines Ruled Out
East-west air service for Wilming
ton, as proposed by Piedmont Aviation,
is again in the lap of the CAB. State
Airlines had filed a petition with the
United States District Court of Appeals
in Washington for a review of CAB s
decision in the Southeastern States
case, in which Piedmont was awarded
three air routes across Norfh Carolina.
‘The court dismissed State’s petition as
premature. State Airlines should have
delayed its action until CAB had acted
on several pending petitions affecting
the Southeastern case. This is the
sense of the Court’s ruling.
Now that State’s court action nas
been cleared away it is expected that
CAB will act quickly on requests for
reopening the Southeastern case. Be
cause the board had previously certified
Piedmont to operate planes out of Wil
mington to Cincinnati and Louisville,
it is confidently expected that in the
final disposal of the case Piedmont will
be recertified. Mr. Thomas Davis, presi
dent of Piedmont, declares he fully ex
pects to have planes aloft on the routes
originally awarded to his line within a
month.
In the meantime Wilmington’s City
Council is in a difficult situation. It has
consistently urged that Wilmington have
more and better air service. But it. en
dorsed State Airline’s proposal which
if successful would have driven Pied
mont out of the air.
Thus it is in part to blame for the
postponement of east-west air service,
for, but for State’s court action Pied
mont would now be flying planes into
Wilmington on regular schedules. Pied
mont has the planes. Piedmont has the
pilots. But, with the Council’s help,
State Airlines has prevented a single
Piedmont plane landing paid passen
gers at Bluethenthal airport.
It is possible that State would have
resorted to court action without support
from the city. However this may be,
tjiere is no doubt that State was en
couraged to proceed because of the
city’s endorsement. The Council is in
an unenviable position so far as needed
additional air service is concerned.
Example Worth Following
Although Washington has been
weeping over the spiraling cost of liv
ing, ever since the inflationary trend
set in when the government, to speed
production in war industries, forced
wages up to attract workers, it has
remained for a federal judge sitting in
Chicago to take action which definitely
promises relief.
Judge John P. Barnes has ordered a
special grand jury to investigate the
entire price situation.
Judge Barnes’ example could well be
accepted by all federal judges. Grand
juries in all federal court districts
could not be better employed than in
probing prices, their cause and effect.
It is reasonable to think that their
investigations would reveal many things
needing correction and, whether ^:ourt
action were possible or not, the ex
posure itself would be helpful.
The searchlight which could be
turned upon them by the nation’s press
inevitably would arouse public resent
ment. The public still has tremendous
power in this land.
Quotations
We must not compromise on great principle*
in order to achieve agreement for agree
ment’s sake.—Secretary of State Marshall.
Internationalization of aviation and the great
waterways would give the United Nations im
mense power without armies or navies or
violence.—Emily Green Balch, Nobel Peace
Prize winner for 1946.
We are now living in an age of friendship
and unity in the Western Hemisphere. If
could just get friendship and unity in the
Eastern Hemisphere, we would have no more
trouble. — President Truman.
It is all very well to say that East and
West must meet, but you must have a bridge
for them to meet. — British Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin.
The people of Europe are more interested
in convictions than compromises. They want
to know in practical terms what the United
States stands for. — John Foster Dulles, Mos
cow Conference adviser to Secretary of State
Marshall.
As long as the threat of increased wages
hangs over business as a whole we can’t ex
pect reductions in prices. — Sen. Robert A.
Taft (R) of Ohio.
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1948 Signpost
By ARTHUR KROCK
WASHINGTON—The by-election to choose a
-member of Congress in the Eighth Pennsyl
vania District a week from tomorrow has
elemtnts that justify the use of a cliche often
employed in politics, but rarely apt. This is
that the eyes of the nation will be on the
voters in this district when they go to the
polls.
Not everybody in the United States, of
course, will be watching the voters in Lehigh
and Bucks Counties as they make their choice
between Franklin H. Lichtenwalter and Phil
Storch. But the national political community
is on the alert, and the account of the result
will interest a great many citizens who are
not active in politics. For the returns in the
Eigh‘n Pennsylvania should offer a guide to
the outcome of the general elections of 1948.
This is because of the issue that has been
put up to the citizens of the district by Mr.
Storch, the Democratic nominee, and the
spokesmen of organized labor, principally the
CIO. who are managing his campaign. It can
be stated as'follows:
Do you approve the record of the
Eightieth Congress under its new Republi
can control, with especial reference to the
passage of the Taft-Hartley Act; or do
you want to return Congress to the allied
control of the Democratic national admin
, istration and the Left wing groups, par
ticularly organized labor?
i When this correspondent was in the district
recently that issue was being boldly pressed
’ on behalf of Mr. Storch, and Mr. Lichten
> waller was not meeting it frontally. He was
. being urged by some supporters fo say, and
perhaps he sinc’e has said it, that he would
I have voted for the Taft-Hartley Act if he bad
beer, in Congress at the time, and if elected
would support amendments to meet fair criti
5 cisms that have been made. But whether or
5 not the Republican nominee defends the law
which his opponents have made the principal
1 basis cf their appeal, it will have a laboratory
, test a week from tomorrow.
The result of this test will not necessarily
1 be determined by the end product if that
shall be the election of Mr. Lichtenwalter,
lateiy Speaker of the Pennsylvania House. Un
less the Republicans of Bucks County stay at
home in droves it is almost impossible for
a Republican to lose the\ district. But if Mr.
Storcr, carries Allentown, the seat of Lehigh
County, and the county with it, the Demo
cratic national adminisiraaon will be en
couraged to believe that its Leftist alliance
will hold the White House in 1948 and return
Congress to nominal Democratic control. And
the political leaders of organized labor,_ es
pecially the CIO, will be stimulated to make
as hard a fight against the Republicans na
tiona Iv as they ever made for Mr. Roosevelt.
The reason is plain. In the Congressional
elections of‘1946 the Republicans got majori
ties in the House and the Senate by overturn
ing small Democratic majorities in urban
areas, many o£ them wholly industrial. But
the Republicans won many of these seats by
margins of 3 per cent and 5 per cent. A
reverse trend, which would at least be indi
cated by an upset in Lehigh County in favor
of Mr. Storch on the issue described above,
would give solid foundation for hope that these
margins can be wiped out in 1948. And. if
they are. the chances of the Democrats na
tionally will be greatly improved.
Even if the race in the Eighth Pennsylvania
is made closer than usual by the failure of
republicans to come out and vote, that, be
cause of the issue that has been offered them,
wi" be a sign that the party lacks the vi
tality and interest to stand on its record.
Republicans may stay at home on Sept. 9
in this district because the special election
for Congress is being held on the regular
party primary day, and there are no im
portant nomination contests in their banner
county of Bucks. But if they do, whatever
the cause, the charge of listiessness in the
face of a strong challenge can fairly be laid
against the party as a whole.
The by-election was made necessary by the
death in office of Representative Gerlach. Ex
cept .n 1940. when be lost Lehigh County by
about 350 votes, he» carried both counties in
tr.e district biennially from 1938, and in 1940
Bucks County easily wiped out the small mar
g;n against him in Lehigh. His majorities in
that county, the center of the current strug
gle, were 5.300 in 1938, 7.500 in 1942, 6.700 in
1944 and 4.000 in 1946. Now the controversy
over the Taft-Hartley Act and the general
record of the Eightieth Congress has crystal
lized the issues that reduced Mr. Gerlach’s
shewing in Lehigh in 1946. And now aiso both
wings of organized labor have concentrated
on Mi. Storch and his issue as they have
not done in that locality since the establish
ment of the CIO.
Therefore, the party vote in Lehigh County
is what the national politicians will watch for
a trend. There are, however, complicating
sufcfactors. The Republicans are stressing Mr.
Storch’s CIO connection (he is local president
of the Newspaper Guild!, the legislative ex
perience of Mr. Lichtdnwalter, and what they
call 1he “invasion from without” by national
CIO and other Left wing leaders. The oppo
sition js stressing Mr. Storch’s gallant ecord
as a combat correspondent with the Marines
and his pledge to assail legislatively the high
cost of living and the Taft-Hartley Act and
to work for a national FEPC.
The response to these arguments by a Re
publican district in Pennsylvania deserves the
atten ;cn it will receive.—New York Times.
Editorial Comment
WHAT IS A LOTTERY T
Probably somebody will have to be arrest
ed, tried, convicted, and take his case to the
State Supreme Coillt before it can be decided
what a lottery is under North Carolina law.
The Aho3kie Kiwanis club incident was said
to have been legal because each person who
bought a ticket on the automobile that was to
be given away got his money’s worth in the
form of admission to a dance.
Numerous benefits throughout the state have
conducted raffles on the same ground, bi&t
the buyer of the ticket got full value for his
money; whether he won the prize or not.
Now the merchants of Smithfield nave been
informed by Attorney General McMullan tha/.
their plan to give away a ticket on an auto
mobile with each dollar’s worth of merchan
dise purchased is an illegal lottery. If the
tickets were given away, the Attorney General
ruled, the lottery would be legal.
But aren’t they given away? The purchaser
gets his dollar’s worth of merchandise. The
ticket is given to him. Attorneys for the mer
chants hold that it is a free ticket.
But the Attorney General says it is not,
because nobody gets a ticket unless he buys
a dollar’s worth of goods.
That is a nice distinction which, it seems,
only the Supreme Court can clarify.—Chai
lotte Observer.
MODERATING INFLUENCE
So long as the Greek opposition, whether
political or rmilitary—and both are aspects
of the same republican conviction—is treated
merely as the paid agent of powers outside
Greece, no settlement may be expected. It is
no doubt true that many bandits still walk the
hills of Attica, but it is no less true that the
, bulk of the guerrilla forces with which the
Greek army has tried to come to grips since
April are not bandits but men who believe
that they are fighting for the same just
| cause which inspired them during the war . .
: the British and Americans are still in Greece.
Their authority stands for much and may be
decisive. If compromise is yet possible, it is
while their moderating influence remains
close to the scene of action. — London Times.
If the United States Senate can set a na
tional age for employes in industry, it can
! readily support a national minimum for its
teachers.—Sen. Claude Pepper <D) of Florida
Every American has a personal stake in
i the expansion of world trade. Exports provide
uXd^ates °'VUrt ,of *ver-v 12 jobs in the
• Unlted States — Secretary af Commerce Har
riman.
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THE ONLY LOCK (LEFT)
Struggle For Europe
BY EDWIN HARTRICH
FRANKFURT, Germany. — Ac
cording to press dispatches from
America there is a growing feel
ing that economic aid to Europe
is like “pouring money down a
rat-hole.” In fact, isolationists are
describing the implementation of
the Marshall plan as “Operation
Rat-hole.”
This is a report from one of
the many “ratholes” of Europe.
In fact. Frankfurt could better be
described as bombed-out “Hobo
ken am Main.” Like the rest of
the urban centers of western Ger
many, it is a dispirited, hungry,
half-destroyed city in which the in
habitants live in a gray shadowy
world. Its moral values have sunk
pretty near to rock bottom ac
cording to recognized criteria,
such as rising juvenile delinquen
cy. widespread police corruption,
steady black marketeering, de
creasing church attendance, etc.
Germans living in Frankfurt
and other urban centers focus al
most all their attention on the
time and energy consuming tasks
of geiting food, clothes and keep
ing a roof over their crowded
rooms. Farmers in the country
who control the sources of food,
naturally, fare much better.
To an observer who has been
here for some time there is al
most the inclination to accept the
statement of General Robert E.
Wood, chairman of the board of
Sears, Roebuck & Co., that west
ern Europe "is finished/” He is
willing to underwrite a little chari
ty, but, as he told a joint Con
gressional committee, furnishing
substantial financial aid to Europe
was "like pouring money down a
rathole.”
However, from recent state
ments made here and in Berlin
and Moscow by responsible Com
munist spokesmen, it is' quite
clear that they, too. concur with
General Wood that the United
States should cut loose from a
"finished" Europe. Communists
are quite willing to take over the
responsibility for the care and
maintenance of the numerous]
"ratholes.”
Recently in Frankt urt local
Communist leaders Walter Fisch
and Leo Bauer publicly declared
that “American dollar credits
helped Germany's recovery in the
1920s but at the same time pro
vided stepping stones for the
Nazis to come to power.” This is
the beginning of a campaign to
discredit in German eyes any pro
gram of American economic aid
for western Germany at least. In
short, by the surprising vehe
mence and concentration of their
attacks against proposed Ameri
can assistance, they indirectly but
clearly reveal their fear of its po
litical strength.
communist strategy appears
simple and basic. The longer
western Europe and western Ger
many remain economically pros
trate the greater will be their
chance* 'to gain political control.
They will cash in on chaos—eco
nomic, political and moral.
Of the four major political par
ties operating in the American
zone the Communists rank fourth
in voting strength. Yet they are
probably the* moat politically alert
and active in their proselytization.
They function according to tried
and true Tammany Hall politics.
For example, the Communist
party maintains a legal aid bu
reau for both members and non
Communists. This office wTill ac
cept complaints from those not
getting their required rations or
having difficulties in finding
places to live in this housing-short
city. The legal bureau writes let
ters and uses its influence
throughout its wddespread mem
bership in the city administration
to obtain results for those who ask
its help. In addition to the legal
department they have commis
sions for women's problems, for
the youth, refugees, prisoners of
war, etc.
They make a serious and intel
ligent effort to capture the neg
lected and disinherited blocs such
as refugees from eastern Germa
ny, expelled Sudeten Germans
from Czechoslovakia and hcme
ess prisoners of war. It is a
known fact that in 4|e Darmstadt
Stronger Than Ever
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
WASHINGTON _ For the past
couple of weeks there have ben
almost daily reports and predic
tions, including one from Presi
dent Truman, on how there is no
business depression in the offing.
But to those millions of U. S.
citizens who worried out the last
depression, the information which
is revealed in the annual report
of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, just off the press,
should contain the most real com
fort.
The report says that U. S. banks
are now stronger and in better
shape than they ever have been.
Chairman Maple T. Harl reports
that, at last, “the substandard as
sets which were held by insured
banks in 1934 have been sold or
charged off.”
The bank failures of the ’30’s
were the real morale crackers.
When your banks begin to go un
der and savings are wiped out,
that’s when you begin to wonder
if there is any security left at all.
And it wa6 a ending blow to
many small communities when the
one bank in town closed its doors.
r or more tnan tnree years now,
the report reveals, “no bank de
positor experienced a loss as a
result of banking difficulties.' And
in addition, no insured bank in
America hss failed since May,
1944. Only one bank which got a
little shaky in 1946 had to be
merged with a stronger one with
the aid of the FDIC, but nobody
lost anything and its busi
ness continued as usual.
Another comforting fact report
ed by the FDIC is that the cur
rent inflation is not weakening the
banks, the way the real estate
boom and the paper boom of 1929
did. In spite of what the rest of
the business world might be doing,
FDIC claims it has helped to keep
banking practices sound. The high
level of business activity,
however, has increased the profits
of banks 15 per cent in the past
rear, FT>IC reports, to give them
i.
the highest gains on record. The
latest net operating earnings are
reported to be $1,100,000,000.
One of the more interesting
things revealed in the report is
that the FDIC now has earned
enough to start paying the Treas
ury back the money put into the
program since its bi'tb, after the
famous bank holiday in 1934. If
FDIC’s earnings of more
than $100,000,000 a year continue,
the taxpayers’ original investment
in the whole idea — $289,000,000
—should be returned in a short
time. And that still leaves the
FDIC with its reserve fund of
$1,000,000,000 which is required by
law and which has been earned
during its existence.
According to the figures in the
report, the latest tally shows 81,
655,000 different bank accounts-in
the U. S. Of this total, 78,773,000
about 96 per cent, are accounts
of $5000 or less and therefore are
covered by Federal Deposit Insur
ance. The bulk of these are the
savings snd checking accounts o;
me average person, mere are
1,729,000 accounts bet.vr.i $5000
and $10,000 ; 722,000 accounts be
twen $10,000 and $25,000;
and 431,000 accounts of more than
$25,000. The first $5000 of the large
accounts are aiso insured.
Furthermore, as of the first of
the year, there were about $50,
284,000,000 in savings accounts
alone in the U. S. This should also
make a nice cushion for any de
pression.
The report states that the FDIC
will continue to perform its three
main functions; to examine and
help banks wh:ch get themselves
in dangerous positions; to try to
rr.ergr nrnks which are about
fold with stronger „ u-s- and lo
pay oft 'he dep.intors -to the ex
t'nt of the insurance :n case a
bank errs fail.
This p; ntectir.n is one o* tne
cheapest services . the govern
ment gives its citizens. It doesn’t
cost the taxpayer * cent.
internment camp and similar
other stockades small Communist"
cells have been organized to win
over the embittered young Nazis
who are held in confinement be
cause of their ranks in ihe PS or
political backgrounds. Meanwhile
they have in Hesse officially dis
associated themselves from the
de-Nazification tribunals, claiming
officially that the “de-Nazification
is a farce.'’ However, they' have
collected a great file of infor
mation on those with questionable
Nazi backgrounds. For example,
according to officials of the
Frankfurt housing “spruchkam
mer.” a court of appeal for Nazis
whose flats and houses have been
requisitioned, files and dossiers
were continually missing.
As in the Russian zone. Commu
nists are willing to overlook a
Nazi’s background provided he
shows an interest in joining the
party or working for its best in
terests. In short, the Communists
are not going to be tarred with
the possible odium attached to
stretching out de-Nazification to
ite bitter contentious end, but are
quite prepared to sit on the side
lines and denounce those who
have no interest or value to the
party.
In fairness to ‘he Communists,
however, they haven't been the
only ones who made a political
football out of de-Nazification. The
removal of Alfred Loritz. De-Nazi
fication Minister for Bavaria, and
the increasingly strong smell of a
major scandal from Munich are
proof of this.
Moving from the specific to thp
general picture, it appears that no
other major political party shows
either the initiative or practical
politics to interest the apathetic
Gel man men and women. Mean
while a partial survey of middle
sized industrialists in the State of
Wverttemburg - Baden, a political
centrist area, revealed a growing
skepticism about any American
aid program. They ’are fearful
that the Americans may leave one
day soon, and it would be danger
ous t0 be identified as one of their
“collaborators” when and if the
Russian influence fills that vacu
um.
The whole atmosphere of west
ern Germany, at least among its
thinking people, is becoming sur
charged with political feeling
about the American and Russian
struggle for western Europe. To
western Germans, the Americans
appear to have embarked on a
course from which they can’t re
treat without suffering a major
political defeat. If Congress stops
“pouring water down ratholes,”
as General Wood requests, they
might make good foxholes when
political struggle enters its bitter
last-ditch stage.—New York Her
ald Tribung.
Whole Blood
Transfusions
BY WILLIAM A. O'BKIEX j,
Injections of human W ’ ’
used m a variety 0f ‘:‘
The discovery that the ■vho’^k051’
is not needed in evcrv' ;loo<1
led to the separation o<
into its various parts called
derivatives. ' a "totti
When large amounts
blood are lost through .. °!
orrhage. or destroyed - bu„ "Pn’-‘
jections of plasma or fia]. j,,5 .1"
temporarily tide the patient ‘°n
but a whole blood transfu'io?!''
needed to replace the blood ut 5
is lost. Late in World War ii?
was discovered tha: wL1/,'. 11
was beneficial, whole blond 3
often needed, and a succeS T
tern of shipping it oversea* ‘
developed. 1“ "as
Plasma is collected bv .
ing the liquid portion of .h'.T/*
from the solid, or cells tu D',°od
cells may be kept in ’*3^ °t°d
and injected into patient* "‘i*!
have anemia. Injected cells -
as long as 100 days be'o',' ,1
wear out, but they must Ho ^
died with care to avoid ;
them. ‘-JurmS
wnen blood is allowed to CU
the liquid portion, which js -
as serum contains a"pr^
known as albumin, in sfarv.rh*
and in diseases in which .,XCP.sl"
amounts of albumin" i7'[
the body bv way of the kidn. v
jections of albumin are helpf--’
The discovery that there nre -T„
types of blood (Rh p0siti- o
Rh negative) has partially ,0'-h
the problem of special blood roac
tions in the newborn It i? P0ssib!
to withdraw the harmful blood
from the infant and to replace R
with blood which does not cause
a reaction.
Animal blood has been used k
transfusions, but *he severe .-eac.
tione they produce make their,
impracticable. The norma] human
body contains an extra amount of
blood so that a donation can be
made at regular intervals and this
will provide a regular supulv o’
blood and blood derivatives (or ;he
sick and injured.
QUESTION: I have so much
pain and stiffness in rm- kneet
that it is difficult for me to
around and do mv work. I can
hardly sleep at night because cf
the pain and soreness.
ANSWER: Pain, stiffness, and
soreness of the knees is a com
mon effect of osteo-arthritis. It is
a form of chronic rheums
tism which becomes more com
mon as we grow older. Ask your
physician for help.
Comments
HEAT TEST
Never mind those weather stories
that give mean temperature quo
tations to establish that the sun is
bearing down. The way you tell
when it’s really summer in Mont
gomery is to cross from the Exa
change hotel to the Capitol cloth
ing store at 12:25 p. m. The test
is whether or not your heel sinks
into the asphalt goo. — Montgom
ery (Ala.) Advertiser.
VOLUNTARY RENT BOOST
The voluntary rent boost law Is
not working too well, accorti.nl
to housing authorities in Washing
ton. It seems that many landlords
are finding it difficult to persaudl
tenants they should pav hi per
cent more for their liv ■ g quar
ters. Well, we thought all the
time that there was more politics
than practicality in the proposal
—Kinston Daily Free Press.
NEW SECRET BAII.OT
Something new in the . of
the secret ballot is needed, for
use in national elections in cer
tain countries abroad. Ce -. any
body invent a device vui will
register the voter’s a't'.de
whether he's voting as no wants
to. or in fear of reprisal?—\'or‘
cester (Mass.) Telegram.
EXPLOSION
Washington reports, through a
headline: “House Probe Meeting
Explodes With Charge--. Bn; the
session of the committee was o
dynamited: it was only her.
Tobey of New Hampst tre de
nouncing Senator McCartny
Wisconsin—Asheville Times.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Believe it or not. there are '
a lot of folks in the co 1 "
can remember when they <• ■
a chocolate ice cream -oda - J
nickel. But sometimes
ficult to get the nickel—Bn.men
(Ga.) Times.
THE “CURSE OF
UNTOLD RICHES"
A group of Georgians has b*W
indicted for income tax
Which might be called ’he
of untold riches. — Ttfton
Gazette. ^
The Legion’s Policy
An Editorial From The New York Herald Tribune
Amid the shouting and the tu
mult of the more informal aspects
of the American Legion conven
tion. the delegates found time to
formulate policy on many serious
national and international prob
lems n Was in keeping with the
tiadition of the Legion and the
temper of the times that opposi
tion to Communism, at home and
abroad, bulked large in the con
tention’s discussions and de
cisions. Many of the latter were
necessarily negative, defensive
and some went much farther in
that direction than the circum
stances warranted. One, at least—
the prr^-iosal to "amend the Bill
Ri.SRtf - would be little short
oi fatal to American civil liberties
if carried into effect*.
But for all this apparent preoc
cupation with defensive tac
ics the Legion did indorse heart!
m°Sl cinstructive idea
which has appeared in internation
al affairs since the deadlock de
veloped between Russia and the
West: the Marshall plan. Th-re
was opposition; a faction was all
f t making America secure
permitting Europe to de
scend. unassisted. int» economic
t£>n°% MUt ihC powerful interven
ing0 ' Harold Stassen and the
good sense of the great majority
of the delegates swept t'r,.s 9f '
and assured Legion support
program which would pP p
Communism by foster: g n'“' ^
European economies. ' 9
ing nations in danger of a
munist victory by inf '■ ■
counter the threat with fc-on
j°bs- 11
The Legion action on -e 'o„.
shall plan is significant 1
ly provides a defense a-:i ' , ..
charge that the organizat
ing to meet the onslaught £
bilized ideas solely by rf ' : .
legislation and armed force- ^
what is more important. - ,
the official backing ,a:1. ' -jblk
tial segment of A met’ p 0;
opinion, representing a!) P, 'iT,aJ
the nation, to a pi eject « , .
play a decisive rde in defe-h‘
the destiny of the world.
structive features of the - ,g....
plan form an essential 've 3
—if the United States is to 3
real foreign policy - t0 ' niver
traditional Legion goal as
sal military training. B> . '“b r
ing his fact, the Legion n
onstrated its awareness 0 t ,.a;
the basic element' of in^rn<;; i‘s
relations. It has refused -p ,-ne
faith in the Maginot lines
isolationists