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Atonthement
Rom where I sit... ly Joe Marsh
Handy and Easy
Are Both Wrong
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"you're both wrong. I caught this
baby right out in the middle!"
From where I sit, there are al
ways two (or more) sides to every
story. Let's live and let live in the
true American tradition of tolera
tion. Your opinion is worth a lot,
but so is the other fellow's —
whether it's on politics, the best
fishing spots, or whether he likes a
temperate glass of beer and you
like buttermilk.
Handy Peterson and Easy Rob
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other day over at Fred's Garage
talking about the best spot to fish
up at Green Lake.
Opposite the old sawmill is the
best spot," says Handy. But Easy
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biggest fish caught off Cedar
Point," says Easy. "I've been
catching them there for years.
Then Fred goes into his office
and brings out the biggest mounted
rainbow trout you ever saw. "Bet
that was caught at the sawmill,
comments Handy. "Cedar Point,
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- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS -
New Aids Asked for Farm Support;
Coal Industry Seeks Strike Peace;
Unemployment Surges to New Peaks
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
FARM SUPPORTS:
New Aids Asked
Charles Brannan, U.S. secretary
of agriculture, was still plumping
for adoption of his (Brannan plan)
for farm price supports,
aids must
system
arguing that new price
be provided now.
Pointing out that there is trouble
getting rid of 1948 farm surpluses
even as 1949 surpluses are pouring
in, Brannan said the disposal prob
lem "points to the need of supple
mentary action on price supports,
particularly with respect to more
efficient methods than procedures
for handling price supports of per
ishable commodities."
THE agriculture secretary may
have had a point there, but the
main question was: Would his plan
of letting farm products find their
own levels on the price market,
with subsidies making up the dif
ference—provide an adequate so
lution?
Up to this point, he had been un
able to convince congress that it
would. What luck he would have in
the future was wholly problemati
cal. But there was no arguing the
point that something needed to be
done to clear up the muddled farm
price support program,
being operated, federal farm policy
seemed to be getting worse the
farther it went.
Brannan was eminently correct
when he admitted that the present
price support system programs
"encourage over-production on
hand, and under-consumption on
the other . . . and to find sufficient
ly new uses for the surpluses, or to
divert them into non-commercial
channels at anything comparable
to the support price usually is im
possible."
SUMMING UP, Brannan said:
"Briefly, the outlook includes the
likelihood of some further contrac
tion in the total demands for U.S.
farm products and points to the
need for adjustment in production
if a favorable price level is to be
maintained."
The problem indeed was a grave
one and made even more grave by
administration
As it was
one
the fact that the
may be caught in a trap that has
been long in the making—a trap
created by the fact that having so
long experienced the subsidy aid
as is, farmers won't like any tam
pering with the program and might
visit their ill will on anyone who
may do so.
LEWIS:
A Fine Largess
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America
—a labor union which does not pay
its members strike benefits and
which subjects them to untold mis
ery and hardship during strike per
iods—was offering a victory-flush
ed one-million-dollar loan to the
C.I.O. United Autmobile Workers
union.
THE PURPOSE of the loan
would be to help the UAW win new
contracts from Chrysler and Gen
eral Motors. Lewis wrote Walter
Reuther, head of the giant auto
workers union, that wage-welfare
improvements in the coal industry
fought by money interests
were
linked with "the financial group"
which dominates car-making.
He added that this aid is needed
so "your union may be assured be
yond preadventure, of success in
Its present struggle.
In the midst of a long strike for
pensions at Chrysler corporation.
At the time of Lewis' offer, it was
estimated UAW workers had lost
35 million dollars in pay and the
company -250 million dollars.
Help for Reuther was authorized
at a jubilant meeting of Lewis with
his top union aides, where Lewis
said to have boasted that he
Reuther was
was
had "licked" the strike-emergency
injunction provision of the Taft
Hartley law, inasmuch as a federal
court injunction issued under the
law failed to halt the coal strike.
MOST of the big U.S. industrial
concerns feared that Lewis' victory
over the coal operators in the mat
ter of wage increases and addition
al health and welfare benefits
would touch off a series of strikes
as other unions sought to do as
well for themselves.
Coal was being mined again and
industry's wheels were turning,
but the immediate future appeared
grim and uncertain. The question
seemed to be: When and where
will the next strike erupt? It
seemed inevitable to even a casual
observer that another round of
wage-hike fights was in the making.
FRENCH-SAAR:
j U.S. Worried
United States high level diplo
j mats had a new and aggravating
i problem on their hands: The sud
denly critical French-German split
over the Saar region.
The situation was complicated
when France and the semi-indepen
dent government of the coal-rich
Saar signed a pact under which
France would take the Saar's coal
for the next 50 years, which the
German chancellor resented.
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British political circles when
Lord Beaverbrook's conserva
tive London Evening Standard
named War Minister John
Strachey (above) "an avowed
Communist."
COAL:
A Look Ahead
The most crippling coal strike
in the nation's history had come to
an end. Miners were pouring back
into the pits and allied industries,
faced with a threat of total shut
down, were reviving and calling
men back to work.
John L. Lewis, United Mine
Worker chieftian. apparently had
won again. He had obtained a raise
in pay for the miners along with
additional health and welfare ben
efits.
But as the nation relaxed with a
sigh of relief that the production
stop threat had been removed,
leaders in the coal industry began
to look farther ahead—to examine
methods by which a permanent
coal peace might be won.
Leading mine operators stated
they hoped to complete arrange
ments to have Harry W. Moses,
head of the "captive" mine sub
sidiaries of the United States Steel
corporation, to leave big steel and
devote all his time to handling the
coal industry's dealings with Lewis.
APPOINTMENT of Moses as
full-time representative of the soft
coal industry in its relations with
the UMW is designed as a move to
end the chaotic conditions that
have existed in the mine fields for
years. The move has the support
of virtually all the principal opera
tors in the north and west and was
expected to win strong favor among
southern operators as well.
A lasting industry peace has long
been the goal of operators and the
public, which is beginning to tire
of the almost annual war of nerves
between the mine union boss and
operators while the nation stands
almost helpless without fuel.
JOBLESS:
Hit New Peak
Again jobless numbers in the
United States had catapulted to a
new high, and again the federal
commerce department appeared
unperturbed about it.
Unemployment rose to 4,684.000
in February—the highest figure
since 1941—when the total was
5,620,000.
DESPITE THE FACT that many
Industrial and economic leaders
professed to see danger in the sit
uation, the commerce department
came up with the i^sual bland, un
concerned explanation as to the
cause of the big jump in unemploy
ment.
As was stated in January when
jobless figures appeared alarming,
commerce department boss said:
"The slight rise in unemploy
ment between January and Feb
ruary (204,000) appears to be due
mainly to seasonal increase in the
labor force and not to any cutbacks
in employment."
But was that the case? Wasn't
it logical to assume that an "in
crease in the labor force"—mean
ing unemployed but available labor
—meant a corresponding lack of
employment for that same force.
IT WAS SIGNIFICANT, many
observers felt, that the figure as
reported did not include striking
workmen, a fact that meant the
unemployment picture was not dis
torted in that sense.
Why was unemployment appar
ently steadily increasing? How
would the "seasonal turnover" ex
planation hold water? If there
were serious threat of widespread
unemployment in the nation, it
seemed the government should
ascertain the fact.
ARCTIC ARMY
Large masses of men never
could be pitted against each other
L Alaska, or other Arctic wastes,
they were in the last war. ac
cording to military experts who
ted toe recent mock warfare in the
sub-Arctic; but they
as
Alaska
couldn't agree on why that is the
case. One reason given was diffi
culty of transporting supplies, an
other was that there simply isn't
enough room.
U N. COST:
One Dime Each
Each citizen of the United States
pays less than a dime for his share
of the basic United Nations annual
budget.
At least three members of con
gress disagree on whether this is
too much, too little, or about right,
according to the first issue of a
weekly wall newspaper in color, the
UN GRAM.
APPEARING for the first time
this week, the new publication re
ports that Sen. Herbert R. O'Conor
of Maryland, chairman of the sen
ate committee on expenditures in
the executive departments which
recently issued a report asking
that the U.N. reduce its expendi
tures for the United Nations and
its affiliates, thinks that a dime
per capita is too much. Congress
woman Helen Gahagan Douglas,
on the other hand, says it is too
little; while Sen. Estes Kefauver
is quoted as saying it is about
right.
The U.N. Gram, which tells sub
scribers about the United Nations,
in this issue objectively presents
each of these three viewpoints.
Buttressing Senator O'Conor's
"too much'' point, it states: "In
ternationalism, plus national de
fense, is a luxury. U.N.'s budget is
just the start: each specialized
agency asks more. How can the
little nations pay?"
Supporting the "too little" ap
proach of Congresswoman Douglas,
it says; "New York City, U.N.'s
permanent home, pays more for
garbage disposal than U.N.'s an
nual cost: its subway deficit would
run the U.N. for six months."
AND BACKING up Senior Ke
fauver's "just right" viewpoint, it
argues: "Upping the U.N. budget,
by forcing out poorer members,
would make it a "rich man's club."
If the U.S. paid the increase, still
others might resign, charging that
the U.N. was the "creature" of
the United States.
"Our aim," states publisher Wal
lace Thorsen, "is to get people
thinking and talking about the
United Nations and the job it is
doing in building the world com
munity."
"We try, in this and all subse
quent issues, to present a simple,
objective analysis of the problems
faced by the world's only machin
ery for peace, to anyone with the
time and inclination to pause be
fore a bulletin board long enough
to read the U.N. Gram—a matter
of minutes."
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FARM UNION:
Asks Red 'Bargain'
From a surprising source came
a plea for the United States to
"strike a bargain" with Russia and
to spend 150 billion dollars in the
next 15 years on the undeveloped
areas of the world.
THE SOURCE was James Pat
ton, president of the National Farm
ers Union. Patton said, "Somehow,
I believe we will be able to find
a way to live in this world with
peoples who differ in viewpoint as
to type of economy and social sys
tems."
"Let us try to strike a bargain
with those whom we are fighting
in the cold war along with peaceful
lines," he went on, "so that all of
us can lay down our arms.
"Let us lead out in America by
placing at the disposal of the peo
ple of the world an annual credit
of 10 billion dollars for the next
15 years for the purpose of build
ing TVA's on the Danube and the
Yangtze, and for building man's
productivity in all of the unde
veloped areas of the world."
PRESIDENT PATTON'S propo
sal was magnanimous, generous,
all-inclusive, but withal mostly
visionary. It would delight those
who operate on the theory that
America can buy peace and good
will with its dollars.
They might even add that Amer
ica must be the most hated nation
in the world, inasmuch as it ap
pears it has no friends except those
who are won and kept with money.
Another Shirley
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paring s i x-year-old Dagmar
Glombig to America's Shirley
Temple when the latter was
rising to stardom as a child in
Hollywood. Dagmar is the
daughter of composer and
conductor Eberhard Glombig
and has played in several Ger
man films.
RUSSIA:
Parley Proposed
That there was at least a pos
sib.hty «* a / our meetln *
including Russia taking place was
indicated by a report from Paris
that the three western foreign min
^ters. meeting in London would
discuss the matter French For
; eign Minister Robert Schuman was
the authority for the statement.
another authoritative
came word that the Big
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