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THURSDAY, May 17, 1951
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A Balanced Pay-Increase Plan
If there is any substantial criticism of the
administration’s Federal pay-increase plan, it
will probably be directed at the fact that em
ployes in the higher salary grades will receive
greater raises than those in the lower brackets.
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grades will be treated alike. And unless the
proposed increase is applied percentage-wise
throughout the graded structure of the pay sys
tem, the structure so carefully rebuilt through
the Classification Act of 1949 will be thrown out
of balance. That act was designed to correct
inequities that had developed over a long period
of years as a result of favoring low-salaried em
ployes with larger increases than those in higher
grades. By 1949 the pay system was in such a
chaotic state that some workers were receiving
more pay than their supervisors.
It was this background that Chairman
Ramspeck of the Civil Service Comniission un
doubtedly had in mind when he stated: “What
ever rate of increase might be appropriate, we
favor an across-the-board percentage increase,
rather than a uniform dollar increase or a slid
ing scale which results in disproportionately
lower increases in the middle and higher brack
ets.” Mr. Ramspeck, in discussing the pay bill,
pointed out that while Government salaries in
the lower grades compare favorably with pay
for similar jobs in private industry, the rates in
the higher grades are much lower than outside
the civil service. To raise the lower grades more
than the middle and upper grades would be to
make the discrimination more pronounced.
The administration plan would award an
increase of 7.5 per cent to employes in all grades.
This would be well uhder the promotion “ceiling”
fixed by the Economic Stabilization Agency for
private industry. A maximum of 10 per cent has
been decreed for raises in private business enter
prises. The Government hesitates to grant the
maximum to its own employes because such a
move inevitably would be taken as Federal sanc
tion for general adoption of the top limit. ESA
officials are hoping to keep the raises as far
under the maximum as possible, in the interest
The average pay of Federal workers has
more than doubled since World War II, as a
result of four increases. The average increase
since 1939 is approximately 84 per cent, whereas
the cost of living has risen more than 87 per
cent since that year. With costs still going up,
despite efforts to restrain them, Federal workers
are finding their dollars worth less and less in
the grocery stores and clothing shops. That is
why so many employes are leaving Federal em
ployment to take more lucrative jobs in private
offices and factories. The exodus will become
more serious unless Congress does something to
bring Federal pay in closer alignment with that
prevailing generally in private industry.
The U. N. Embargo Move
In voting 11 to 0 for a resolution to impose
an arms embargo on Red China and North
Korea, the Additional Measures Committee of
the General Assembly has opened the way for
action of a sort that the United Nations—as a
matter of logic, common sense, and obligation to
Its troops abroad—ought to have taken imme
diately after branding the Chinese Communists
as aggressors.
The branding took the form of a resolution
adopted by the overwhelming majority of the
Assembly’s members as far back as February 1.
The same resolution created the Additional
Measures Committee. But not until now—more
than three months later—has the committee
been moved, primarily as a result of American
pressure, to vote for a specific international pro
gram aimed at cutting off the shipment of actual
or potential military supplies to the aggressors.
One reason for this delay has been the feel
ing of several countries—including Britain,
France and Australia—that a formal embargo
move would tend to deepen Red China’s enmity
and lessen whatever chance there might be for
a negotiated settlement. That feeling, however,
has been dissipated by Peiping’s own conduct, as
well as by persuasive arguments from the United
States. As a result, the projected arms ban,
which will now be subject to debate in the Po
ttttcal and Security Committee, will soon be sub
mitted to the General Assembly as a whole, where
all but the Soviet bloc and a few other members
are expected to vote in its favor, as urged in the
resolution that has just won the unanimous
approval of both houses of Congress.
Actually, when adopted, the ban itself will
do little more than formalize what most of the
free nations have been practicing for some time
past. Despite leaks like Britain’s rubber ship
ments (a leak belatedly plugged last month), all
the key U. N. members who have joined in brand
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clamping down—in varying degrees—on strategic
exports to China. Although they have been doing
bo on a selective basis (only the United Stated
has totally cut off goods of every kind), there is
ample evidence that their controls have begun
to have an adverse effect on the strained war
economy of the Chinese Communists.
Under the resolution approved by the Addi
tional Measures Committee, the General Assem
bly is expected to do the following: (1) Call upon
all members to apply against Red China and
North Korea a ban on shipments of arms, am
munition, atomic materials, oil and items useful
in the production of war equipment; (2) urge
that every effort be made to prevent the circum
vention of shipping controls; (3) instruct the
Additional Measures Committee to report on the
embargo’s effectiveness and recommend whether
it should be extended or relaxed; and (4) re
affirm that the United Nations still seeks to end
the war in Korea and achieve its objectives there
by peaceful means.
By emphasizing the latter point* and request
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ing the Assembly’s Good Offices Committee to
continue efforts for a peaceful settlement, the
embargo resolution is at pains to remind the
Communist aggressors that the door is not closed
to honorable negotiations. At the same time,
however, even though it does not go much be
yond formalizing shipping bans already in effect,
the resolution, when the Assembly adopts it, will
serve to dramatize the solidarity of the U. N.
majority in the Korean wax. Further, besides
tending to tighten up present controls, it will
lay the groundwork for sterner action If sterner
action proves necessary.
All this is in keeping ^pith the letter and
spirit of the February 1 resolution labeling Red
China as an aggressor. What it amounts to, in
effect, is the first formal step by the law-abiding
members of the U. N. to join in doing everything
possible, with the minimum measures of a lim
ited embargo, to insure that the free world’s sol
diers in Korea are not endangered by any of the
free world’s shipments to the Communist enemy.
It is a step that should have been taken months
ago, but better late than never.
Mr. Johnston on Inflation
In his series of statements and talks around
town the other day, Eric Johnston, chief of the
Economic Stabilization Agency, had a lot
of blunt but timely things to say about the
need for a “get-tough” policy in dealing with the
problem of inflation. Despite the fact that many
prices have tended to level off in recent weeks,
the danger ,1s still very much with us, and unless
it is dealt with vigorously and without delay,
along the lines suggested by Mr. Johnston, it is
going to cause the Nation a great deal of grief.
As outlined by Mr. Johnston, there are at
least six major factors that make the inflation
ary threat Very real and pressing. They are:
(1) The impending great increase in defense
spending, which will inject an additional $1
billion weekly into the Nation’s economy during
the months immediately ahead; (2) demands for
“milk-it-dry” profits and wages; (3) rising food
prices; (4) the danger of “scare” buying and
hoarding when consumer shortages begin to
appear as rearmament goes into high gear; (5)
the possibility of serious new labor-management
troubles; and (6) widespread failure to recognize
that this is a period of genuine emergency in
which emergency action must be taken on all
economic fronts to keep the dollar as sound as
possible.
The problem, of course, has to do with much
more than the individual pocketbook. It has
to do with the security of the entire Nation, the
simple fact being that inflation, if not firmly
checked, can gravely affect our defense effort.
Thus, when prices soar—as after the outbreak
of aggression in Korea—planes, tanks, guns, etc.,
cost more, and the more they cost, the less of
them we can get with our money. In short, as
if by enemy action, they are knocked out by
the economics of the situation—a fact that un
derscores the common sense of these words by
Mr. Johnston: “Just as mobilization is our best
insurance against war, so a sound dollar, in a
stabilized American economy, is the best insur
ance we could have that our mobilization pro
gram will succeed.”
To get that insurance, Mr. Johnston has
emphatically urged that the Defense Production
Act, which is scheduled to expire June 30, be ex
tended with strengthening amendments. At the
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it to be imperative to do the following, among
other things: (1) To crack down on spiraling
industrial profits; (2) to hold the line unyield
ingly against above-ceiling wage demands; (3)
to keep rents from soaring; (4) to flatten down
food costs; (5) to enact heavy “pay-as-we-go”
taxation and strict credit controls in order to
siphon off excess purchasing power and discour
age competitive bidding by businesses and indi
viduals for a diminishing supply of consumer
goods; and (6) to economize in a way that will
eliminate non-essential governmental spending.
This “get-tough” policy (considering the
times, it’s not really so tough) obviously will not
win Mr. Johnston any popularity awards in cer
tain circles. But he is not looking for such
awards. His only objective is to keep the United
States economically as strong and as steady as
it must be if it is to cope effectively, and tri
umphantly, with the deadly external threats
now confronting it. The program he advocates
to that end may not be perfect down to the last
detail, but the substance of it is sound, and
something very much like it is undeniably needed.
The American people should support him
accordingly.
Expedition to Marib
Archaeology has brought Yemen into the
news again. Reports from Cairo have told of an
expedition to Marib, the capital of ancient Saba.
The trek over the desert was led by Prof. Burr
Wendell Phillips of the University of Wisconsin.
It was authorized by King Saif al Islam Ahmad,
and, its principal objective was the ruins of what
once was one of the most important way-stations
of the main trade route between India and
Europe. Among the questions for which the
scientists sought answers was that of the his
toricity of the famous Queen of Sheba: Did she
really exist or was she simply an idea in the
mind’of a maker of legends?
The whole area of the “Happy Arabia” of
antiquity is, in effect, a book of a sort, amenable
to be read by scholars trained for such work. But
the country is difficult, and political considera
tions hitherto have interfered with systematic
exploration. If the recent excursion into the
heart of Saba results in the opening of Marib for
study, a completely new chapter may be added
to mankind’s comprehension of the past. Harlan
B. Clark in 1945 and Charles K. Moser and
Charles R Crane still earlier HevplnrvpH or»_
proaches to the problem which now should be
revived. Specifically, the remains of the old
. metropolis, of Marib should be examined with
care. Prof. Phillips thus far has had only a
glimpse at the picture. The gifts brought to
Solomon by Sheba’s Queen proved her realm to
be rich beyond description. Relics of that wealth
must be buried in the sands, preserved by them
against the time when they can be uncovered
“for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
A vast Temple of the Moon is one of Marib’s
attractions. It demonstrates the importance of
astronomy to the remote ancestors of the Yem
enites of today. Only a community of noble
culture could have raised such a structure—or
wished to do so. An active and popular idealism
is reflected in the pillars 30 feet tall, still stand
ing against the burning sky. The same observa
tion applies to a vast amphitheater with walls
copiously inscribed with text as yet uncopied. In
a valley two and a half miles from the center of
the ancient city is the ruin of the famous Marib
dam, constructed for irrigation purposes about
700 B.C. and wrecked in the 6th century A.D.,
allegedly by a rat sent by Allah to punish the
sinful people of the Saba of that era.
Further news of Prof. Phillips’ expedition will
be awaited with interest. His enterprise is an
other link between America and the Arab coun
tries well worth support.
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A Case of Congress Giving Until It Hurts
By Howard P. Bailey
ONCE a year. Congress puts politics
aside and joins wholeheartedly in a
completely unselfish project, whose aim
is to send as many underprivileged chil
dren to summer camp as possible.
The occasion, of course, is the annual
congressional baseball game, proceeds
from which go to The Evening Star’s
summer Camp Fund. This fund each
summer lifts hundreds of children from
the torrid streets and alleys of Washing
ton and transports them to the health
ful surroundings of Camps Pleasant and
Good Will. This year, the game will be
played Friday, May 25, at Griffith Sta
dium, starting at 8 p.m.
Now, there is a lot more to this than
the mere appearance of the various
members of Congress who don uniforms
oi the Washington American League
Senators on the night of the game. The
players are all busy legislators, members
of important committees, men whose
names make the headlines. They can
not drop their important work on the
Hill to practice and get in shape. They
have to squeeze the time out of their
leisure hours, if any.
The Republicans have been reporting
foi practice at 8 a.m. and sometimes late
in the afternoon. Their Democratic
rivals have been working out mostly in
the afternoon after winding up their
more important office work.
At the moment, it is not difficult to
pick out the baseball players. Any mem
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a new and noticeable limp, any who pass
up the useful political handshake in
deference to a bruised and puffed hand,
may be tabbed as ready and willing to
give his all in the interest of the camp
fund.
It must not be assumed that the game
is all fun. Each year there are casual
ties. Last time one member broke two
bones in his foot. Another was struck
in the mouth by a ball which took a
bad hop and the resultant dental work
set him back $200. Still another, in a
fit of pique over an umpire’s decision,
slammed the ball to the ground. His
punishment was sudden and painful. The
ball hit him on the nose with bloody
results. The number of pulled ligaments,
which left the victims writhing, was
relatively large.
The striking part of all these accidents
is that they don’t stop the victims from
coming back each year.
Those members of Congress unable to
play do their part by supporting the
game financially. Practically every
downstairs box between first and third
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A “Charley horse” was no fun for Representative McKinnon, Democrat;
of California, when he was seized with one two years ago in the congressional
baseball game.
bases is purchased by some non-playing
member, and even the players buy tickets
heavily in order that their friends and
relatives may be present. One new
member of the Republican team, at least
he is striving for a place in the infield,
has purchased 50 box seats. “Runt”
Bishop, Republican manager, will deny
heatedly that the player is attempting
to buy his way onto the team.
Backing up the game is a tingling
spectacle by the Armed Forces. Each
year the four big bands of the Army,
Navy, Marines and Air Force participate
in the game ceremonies. This year,
the Washington Scots Pipe Band also
will play and there will be a demonstra
tion of Scotch dancing on the infield.
All of this is being done for the benefit
of Washington’s underprivileged chil
dren, but strangely, the Washington
public, whose responsibility the children
actually are, has not in the past sup
ported the game to the fullest. It has
always been necessary to follow the
game with a solicitation of funds to
make up the amount needed to care for
all the children requiring the two-week
stay in the country.
Congress backs the game to the limit,
the armed services representatives give
their free time willingly to add glamour
to the affair, the Pipers and their dancers
contribute their part and Clark Griffith
donates his stadium. Yet the general
public in the past has been largely in
different.
Those who attend the game are under'
no illusions they will see major league
base ball. But the old college try is
there. And the proceeds are for a
worthy cause.
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It's Only Money
Now that Daniel Bell has been named
chairman of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, I should like
to mention two needs that likely will
interest the commission.
First, there is the lack of police en
forcement which in itself has damaged
the civic and national pride of visitors
at the Zoo park, where littered picnic
grounds in the summer are a disgrace.
Strict crackdowns on the offenders would
quickly end this. It would be necessary to
discipline or punish only two or three,
vrith due publicity.
Next, there is the crude cement “wad
ing pool” and common hydrants on the
White House Grounds that is called a
“fountain.” Not even the tiniest country
in Europe would fail to dignify the home
of a President or ruler with a magnifi
cent fountain on the grounds. There is
no use to mention such capitals as Paris,
London, Rome and Berlin in this con
nection.
If I had authority, I’d build a $20-mil
lion fountain on the White House
Ground* (maybe two). But can We not
have at least say a couple of Billion
dollar ones? If not. oan’t we have one at
least as imposing as many that can be
seen on other public grounds or even on
private estates? We are proud of our
White House, but its modest simplicity
deserves a bit of highlighting along the
lines suggested.
N. B.
Some Searching Questions
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tendency of thought which decries na
tionalism and patriotism as being un
worthy, in favor of a faith in ah ideal—
the United Nations. It was refreshing
on May 8 to read David Lawrence’s
searching analysis of our military and
political position as revealed in Gen.
Marshall’s testimony.
We try to shut out emotional hysteria
and to cast a fishy-cold eye at the bare
realism of this position, and can’t avoid
wondering—is national pride any less
worthy than individual pride? To what
extent can an ordinary mortal among
other mortals long survive a policy of
self-inflicted martyrdom? Are the people
of the world spiritually ready for such
an organization of world democratic
action? Can the threat of atomic ex
tinction hold nations together in mu
tual fear—or will they become inert
and paralyzed because of it? Does the
U. N. have weaknesses of collective sup
port of collective action that need to be
corrected in order for such action to have
measurable value in achieving a unity of
action?
Specifically—can the United Nations
continue to operate as an effective in
strument of peace without compulsory
contributions of manpower and materials
to “back up” its first decision to defend
a lesser nation against aggression, as
in Korea, or do the forces of economic
survival in other nations have stronger
pulls? Can we continue to ignore our
own security in favor of these forces
to maintain our Allies, or must we “set
our own house in order” so that we are
strong enough to lend our arm of as
sistance?
A great wisdom is needed to direct
us constructively or we may find our
selves being tossed into the air as a
coin to be called heads or tails.
Frances Townsend Trammell.
Cue From Great Britain
• Having been actively associated for
many years with the amateur stage in
England, I was greatly interested in
the recent despairing letter of Gene
Thomas.
While not in a position to comment
on the reasons there given for the
alleged failure of the amateur move
ment in Washington, I would like to
make a positive suggestion, viz., that
some one with the interests of the
theater at heart should study the amaz
ing vitalizing effect that the British
Drama League has had over a period of
years on the amateur theater through
out the British Isles. This league, to
which a large number of amateur
societies are affiliated by a modest an
nuai suDScripuon, Desiaes maintaining
(among other departments) a compre
hensive reference and lending library
of plays and theatrical works, organizes
a nation-wide competitive drama fes
tival of one-act plays.
Adjudicators of professional status—
actors, playwrights, producers, critics—
attend the local preliminary festivals
and deliver from the stage criticisms
of the four or five productions pre
sented each evening. The winners of
the local festivals compete again in re
gional festivals, and so on until the
finalists meet in a London theater. The
national winner holds the Drama League
trophy for the following year. There is
also an award for the best new play
submitted during the festival, so that
encouragement is given to playwrights
as well as to actors.
The result of the Drama League’s
activities has been (a) to raise the
over-all standard of amateur acting and
production, (b) to provide an incentive
for small companies to put their best
into good shows and (c) to vitalize the
amateur stage generally. The produc
tions staged by many teams are pro
fessional in quality. Moreover, strong
support is provided by the local press.
Thespian.
Collaboration
I note in an article appearing in
your May 1 issue that you state with
reference to Mrs. Claire Phillips, "She
has written a book, ‘Manila Espionage.’ ”
This was in connection with the mov
ing picture called "I Was An American
Spy.”
It is realized that you published this
data based on a statement made to you
by either Mrs. Phillips or her press
agent.
The fact is that I wrote the book for
Mrs. Phillips, based upon data furnished
by her, after she had paid $1,000 to a
so-called Hollywood “ghost writer,” who
was unable to complete a work accept
able to any publisher.
Inasmuch as I am a native of Wash
ington, D. C., and have many friends
and acquaintances there, it is felt that
in justice to myself you should publish
this letter.
Myron B. Goldsmith.
San Francisco.
(Editor’s Note: According to the
Public Library, “Manila Espionage,”
published in 1947, was co-authored by
Claire Phillips and Myron B. Gold
smith.)
Puts Truman on Couch
Now that all the mouthpieces have
apologized for international intrigue and
politics, let us not forget Mac, the
American General, who did a good job
of his work—more so than that of
Generals Ike, Bradley and Marshall put
together, and got fired notwithstanding.
Since Truman fired Mac and Mac
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and simple facts. President Truman and
all his satellites, Acheson, Bradley and
Marshall, have engaged in a veritable
logomachy to relieve their defensive
mechanism, or guilty conscience. What
is remarkable in all this back talk is the
plain truth that the areas of agreement
between Gen. MacArthur and the ad
ministration are far greater than the
areas of disagreement.
To the average American the fact is
that Gen. MacArthur was fired be
cause he realized that the Korean con
flict was getting out of hand by reason
of the support of Red China by Red
Russia. And yet, President Truman says
that he doesn’t want to provoke Red
Russia and risk World War m.
All this is double talk. Red Russia
and Red China are already in another
war in Korea. Why then the fear or
apology for Red Russia, which is satis
fied with the subtle World War III it
is waging now under pretext of Korean
conflict and at the expense of vital
American sacrifices?
Dr. Argento,
New York. Psychologist.
This and That . . . By Charles E. Tracev/ell
Sometimes people tend to think verse
is not natural, that one must get into a
sort of pose to come up with it, but what
would L. A. C. of Thirteenth street do
without it?
She falls into verse, evidently, as nat
urally as some do into the river. She
sees a dandelion near Mount Vernon and
finds a perfect day; she sees violets, and
thinks of her childhood; she hears the
lilies-of-the-valley tinkling where more
prosaic souls hear nothing but traffic
noises.
To auit the latter, let us print them in
prose form. The verse is still here:
“When I look at lovely things which
pass—gold dandelions nestling in green
grass; the fretwork of spring’s leaf-filled
trees, pure beauty of the dogwood trees
flanking highways; red-bud bright flam
ing through the day and night—I feel
there is no heavenlier world than this,
when earth and sun embrace and kiss,
and usher in the perfect day as April
leads us into May.”
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Violets, the flower of our childhood;
“When spring brings warmth and
wooing winds, we find in shaded places
violets nestling in green capes—those
dear, remembered faces; same odor,
grace, and royal blue, they lift their un
changed faces when wooed by spring and
zephyr winds in old, familiar places.”
The poet, of course, has to hear the
lilies-of-the-valley tinkle; the rest of us
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just see them, and smell them, but the
poet—well, let us listen to her:
“Did I hear a tinkle in a neajby vale,
a faintly muted chime as from a wood
land fay—in early morning hours, and
at the hush of eve—from magic little
bells do I hear a symphony? (Editor’s
note—No, you do not, but if you think
you do, then you do.) Music softly
blended, with subtle purfume rare, as
tiny scented waxen bells sway tinkling
in the air. In early morning hours and
at close of day, the lilies-of-the-valley
chime sweet greetings to May.”
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Well, now, that is a bit of the all right;
evidently in verse almost anything goes;
so let us get out into the sunshine and
fresh air, gayly stepping on our little
toes.
Let us take a good lunch with us, and
plenty of something to drink, and in old
trousers and jacket and. without thought
of royal pastel mink, let us wend our
way from the gardeners and their bon
fires, away from the haunts of man, into
the silent forest, where the squirrel is an
also-ran.
Over there is a nice log, where we can
perch for a time, and forget all about
politics in thought of the sublime.
Let us ponder the weight of the worlds,
while the mosquitoes bite our toes, right
through the leather, too—who can keep
up with our woes?
Here where the moss is growing, be
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cause there Is not enough lime in this
soil; here where a little sewing of lime
would bring things to a boil; here where
for a little time we can see what soil cul
ture means, let us be quiet and listen
for dreams.
What, listen for dreams? Why, cer
tainly, pal; you don’t think to have
dreams one necessarily must have a
gal;
Here in the forest primeval, where the
lilies bloom in spring, you can find
plenty of old hats and bones, and bottles,
and everything; this is man’s desecra
tion of the way things are; here is an
old spring, out of somebody’s car.
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Ouch, what is that? Is it a yellow
jacket? Ouch, whatever it is, it has
gone through my jacket.
Let me get out of here, with the wasp’s
bites swelling, let me find some soothing
lotion, before they hear me yelling.
Let me hie me back to the safer and
much smoother ways of the city, and
leave to the wasps and the ants the
forest’s ancient ditty; I think at times
like this that there is very good reason
why man invented cities, but not why
nature invented this season; poets and
other good folk rhyme of the season ver
nal, but when a yellow jacket gets you,
you think of the regions infernal.
Let us, then, be up and doing, and
make a dive in easy motion; to get even
with that yellow jacket would require an
ocean of lotion.
The Political Mill
New G. 0. P. Delegates
Sought by California
Census Count Puts Strength
Equal to Pennsylvania
By Gould Lincoln
CHICAGO.—When California head*
into the Republican National Conven
tion in Chicago next year Gov. Earl
Warren will, it is expected, have back
of him a State delegation practically
equal in size to Pennsylvania’s, provided
the delegate strength is apportioned
among the States in accordance with the
1950 census. New York alone will have
a larger delegation.
The new census, on which the mem
bership of the House of Representatives
is apportioned, gives California seven
more congressional districts. The oasis
of delegate strength in the party's na
tional convention is two for each mem
ber of Congress, including the Senators,
with certain bonuses for party victoiy
in previous elections added.
The apportionment of delegate strength
in the 1952 national convention has still
to be made, however. It was discussed in
formally at the recent meeting of the
Republican National Committee in Tulsa.
While it is not likely to be announced
until the formal call for the convention
goes out, it is probable the National Com
mittee will deal with the subject when
it meets next January in San Francisco.
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The actual size of the congressional
delegations will remain as it is today
until the end of the 82d Congress in
January. 1953. On the other hand, it is
expected that the redistricting of the
States will have been accomplished in
accordance with the census figures, be
fore the 1952 elections, and in those
States where changes are to be made the
number of House seats will have been be
vised, and candidates will be fighting
for the seats.
Under these circumstances, it is ar
gued by some members of the National
Committee, the appointment of dele
gate strength should conform to the
new oensus of population. If any fight
is to be made against the plan, it will
be by those who insist that until the
delegations in the House are actually
changed the old apportionment of dele
gates must be adhered to. California,
which makes the greatest gain of all
States in the new House apportionment,
will certainly plug hard for 14 more
delegates to the convention.
Gov. Warren has made no announce
ment of his political plans, but the talk
is he may become a formidable candi
date, particularly should Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower be out of the running
when the convention meets. Then the
opposition to Senator Taft for the presi
dential nomination will be casting
around for a man to beat the Ohioan.
There are others who might fit the
picture, among them two new Senators, •
Duff of Pennsylvania and Dirksen of
Illinois. Should Gov. Warren solidify
back of him the delegations of many of
the Western States, he might make a
strong bid. For he belongs to the more
progressive wing of the Republican Party
and would have greater appeal to Gov.
Dewey of New York, Senator Duff andi
other Eastern party leaders than woul<f
Messrs. Taft or Dirksen.
Taft Backers Active.
The Taft people are apparently more
active today than the supporters of anv
other Republican presidential possibil
ity. They are busy laying the ground
work for Taft support all across the
country, despite the fact that Senator
Taft himself has said that he is not now
a candidate, although if the party wants
him as its standard bearer, he will be
honored to have a nomination. Repre
sentatives of the Taft support are plan
ning to invade the Pacific Coast States
and the Mountain States, and will be
on hand at all important Republican
gatherings from now on—just as they
were at Tulsa. Dave Ingalls of Cleve
land and Ben Tate of Cincinnati are
key men in the Taft drive at present.
By January, when the Republican
National Committee meets in San Fran
cisco—as now planned—a great deal
of spade work will be back of the Taft
for-President drive. Not only is the
Ohio Senator being pictured as a direct
antithesis of the Truman administra
tion, but the clainj is being made that
he has demonstrated conclusively by his
huge victory in Ohio last year that he
can carry industrial centers and win.
Questions and Answers
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By THE HA SKIN SERVICE.
Q. Has the height of a person’s fore
head any relation to his aptitude? Or
brains?—H. K.
A. The height of one’s forehead has
been shown time and time again to bear
no relation to temperament, attain
ment, aptitude, vocation or economic
condition.
Q. What was the farthest point east
in Europe reached by American troops
In World War II?—R. s.
A. Before the close of hostilities, pa
trols had reached Amstetten, Austria.
This was the easternmost point reached
by American forces as of V-E day.
Q. What is being done with the build
ings at Lake Success vacated by the
United Nations?—C. H. O.
A. The space is being reconverted to
war-production use by the Sperry Gyro
scope Company, which owns it.
O. How Inn? has If Vuu>r> 4.
import a bird of paradise?—J. McK.
A. Since the passage of the 1913 Tariff
Act, it has been unlawful to bring the
bird of paradise into this country.
Q. How did people of ancient times
treat hiccups?—E. N. S.
A. The ancient Greeks treated hiccups
by holding the breath or tickling the
nose to produce a sneeze.
The Dusk People
There are the folk who rise before the
dawn,
Gray silhouettes against a grayer sky.
Whose veins pulse mercury when night
is gone,
Who love the day and never question
why.
And there are those who know the silver
range
' Of moonlit hills and live from sun to
sun,
With wild elation, feral, dark and strange.
Moon-marked and lonely as the paths
they run.
But dusk people are kin to shadowed leaf.
To things half seen, half heard, almost
divine,
Their gentle hour is sweeter, being brief,
For they have sipped a quiet. purplM
wine.
Alma Robison Higbes
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