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Mansfield News-Journal AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Washington Merry-Go-Round 'Softening' of Truthan's Speech Urged OHIO, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1947 PAGE SIX MANcIFIELD. cent of American industry will voluntarily agree to police prices in their own fields, while the other 10 per cent can be whipped Into line by the threat of compulsory controlsthat is, providing Congress gives Truman the power he wants. Pledge of Allegiance to Flag "I pledge allegiance to the Flag ot the United States of America and to tht Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The sensational story of Mai Gen.

Bennett E. Meyers' war profiteering, now making first-page headlines, was first re-, vealed to News-Journal readers by Drew Pearson on July 29. At that time, three months ahead of the Senate hearing's, Pearson reported that "Meyer. had as much as $1,000,000 In his personal bank account, and that one transaction alone netted him a profit of 9140,000." 0 fit 40 AO' L. 1::1 1 1 i 1 e--- -----43 io 1 It 411.11 ,0 A Mk I 10 I I 19 1 ana 4.

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Ilir Don't Walt For Congress. INSIDE strategy, however, is to get voluntary price controls in full swing immediately without waiting for Congress. As an initial step, Harriman will call in the nation's top industrial leaders for a "showdown" conference, on prices. Secretary Harriman believes can induce the industrialists to get together to reduce prices, providing they will not face prosecutions under the price-fixing code of the anti-trust laws. To guarantee this, he may ask Congress for changes in the laws to deal with the present emergency, Harriman is especially anxious to persuade the big steel companies to crack down on the notorious "gray market," where steel is selling for two and three times the manufacturers' list price.

The soaring cost of steel is perhaps the biggest hurdle the government must overcome in the war on price inflation, and President Truman personally believes the steel companies could stop these soaring prices without half tryingif they wanted to. NoteAnother likely step will be the continuation of meatless Tuesdays and the entire program of food conservation until after the European emergency, (Copyright, 1947) By DREW PEARSON thing else was added that the Cabinet members still don't like, though, being good soldiers, they will not admit it publicly. The original draft of the Truman message called for controls on only food, clothing, fuel and rent. However, at the last minute, Truman added to the proposed control list a catch-all phrase: "vital commodities in 3hort supply that basically affect industrial production." This takes in virtually every consumer commodity, and Anderson and Harriman have told intimates that it will make the Truman program that much tougher to sell to a hostile Congress. The Anderson Harriman prediction is now fully confirma Republican leaders are seething.

Undaunted, the President still believes his policy was right. Federal price compulsion won't be necessary, he believes, because the psychological effect of having compulsory powers, plus voluntary cooperation, will be enough to do the trick. He estimates that about 90 per French People Will Finally Decide pNCE AGAIN the Republic of France lives through fateful hours. As in the days of Napoleon Bonaparte and the later Empire restoration the democratic way o4 life bees itself threatened with authoritarianism. For the pommunists are making an open bid to wreck the Republic.

And, some observers feel that even if the communists do not succeed, they may have to be stopped by Charles de aulle who is considered to favor personal rule by himself. I That the communists are moving openly now indicates ither that they think their strength is sufficient to win, pr that they believe the last election showed them losing Fround so fast they decided to make a wild gamble. In any event, it is well to remember that the historic freedom of France stems from the people themselves. They love independence; and fascism, whether of the Stalin or the possible de Gaulle brand, would find the going less than easy. The French have tossed out kings and emperors.

It teems likely that in due course they would toss out any other form of dictatorship that imposed itself upon them. When Law Forbids Death Penalty WISCONSIN is one of six states that, at some time or other. took action to abolish the death penalty, even for the most atrocious crimes, and so it comes about that two fiendish ex-convicts who freely confessed to the crimes of murder and rape, have been put away in the state's prison tinder life sentence. Their night's orgy of murder and lust was one of the most horrifying that can be imagined, and the judge who sentenced them to prison expressed regret that the state's constitution forbade him to impose the death sentence. It is in cases such as this that the arguments of sentiinentalists against "capital punishment," as it is sometimes called, carries little weight, as the brutal instincts which make that kind of crime possible depart entirely from reasonable requirements of classification as human beings and Justify treatment as dangerous wild beasts.

Extermination, rather than punishment, might well be regarded as a proper term for such legal procedure, and the states that have thought they have taken an advance step by banning the death penalty would do well to consider its restoration in cases in which recidivists have clearly forfeited their right to live. the Shade of the Old Apple Tree. In 1 A Voice From the Country Listen World We Couldn't Understand By ELSIE ROBINSON Vital To Success of 'Plan' port of the Marshall Plan is far from disinterested. There are a great many individuals a corporations which see fantastic gains by taking your money and mine, passing it through the Marshall "Plan" operations and putting it into their own pockets. The suggestion that any 'funds be managed and directed by a commission of trusted American housewives, men and economists is obviously a sound one.

Neither the administration, which could be subject to political motives, nor the state department, which, throughout the whole discussion, has shown an indication not only to be over-generous to Europe, but actually to indulge in wholesale propaganda in behalf of an all-out interpretation of the Marshall idea, should be entrusted with this power. The execution of the "plan" and the delivery of money and materials and its subsequent use obviously must be left to an independent citizens' commission in order to avoid some of the serious errors and abuses of Lend-Lease and U.N.R.R.A. (Copyright, 1947) WASHINGTON A Inside fact is that before the President elivered his militant message demanding price controls, four members of his cabinet remonstrated with him against it. They were: Secretary of National Defense Forrestal, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson and Secretary of Commerce. Harriman.

This cabinet guar felt that Tru- -0, man should have laid great- er stress on the fact that he didn't intend to Use the cornpulsory price 5,04 and wage controls which he requested of Congress PEARSON unless voluntary measures failed. This was their main criticism of the speech. Otherwise they went along. Anderson and Harriman were particularly outspoken. At a White House session on Sunday, the day before the message was delivered, both argued that the two chief ghost-writersClark Clifford and Leon Keyserling of the President's Economic Council had gone too far in expressing the need for compulsory controls.

"This is going to make Congress sore," complained the secretary of agriculture. "Some of us who will have to go up to the Hill and fight for enactment of the program will have a tough Job if the message is delivered the way It's written now." Commerce Secretary Harriman also suggested that the message be revised along "more conciliatory" lines. "You ought to make it very clear that while you are asking for authority to control prices and wages, you do not intend to use them unless voluntary controls fail," Anderson told Truman. "I gathered from wh- you have said in our cabinet meetings that that was your idea also. But this message doesn't read like it." Truman Sticks To Guns.

"THAT is my idea," replied the President, in substance. "I hope I never have to use these powers and I still believe it won't be necessary if everybody cooperates in keeping prices down through voluntary methods." He added, however, that he did not want to raise any false hopes by minimizing the chances of price and wage controls being invoked, because it was impossible to tell at this time that they won't be necessary, This would not be fair to the public, the President said. The President explained that he couldn't promise absolutely compulsory measures wouldn't be taken; therefore, it was better to have this authority, even though never used, than not to have it and take a chance on economic collapse. Late Sunday afternoon the President's message was changed somewhat to meet the Anderson-Harriman objectiohs. But some gar C.

Corry, are charging that it was just "another case of Army generals white-washing Army generals." Corry cites other instances to prove the fallacy of "a system which permits one general to investigate another general who, chances are, was a personal friend or aWest Point classmate." His point is well taken, as innumerable newspapers already have pointed out. His solution "that an independent investigating body be set up within the armed forces to probe irregularities of all however, fortunately unnecessary. The reason: We already have the newly-formed Central Intelligence Agency, which isn't brassilampered by being "within the armed forces." That agency is a part of our new national security set-up, which isn't, as yet, too well known. Planned as a sort of super counterintelligence corps with foreign activities its chief concern, it reports only to the President and his security councilmen. Since it obviously must concern itself with many questions involving our armed forces, it is only a matter of slightly increased personnelwhich could be subtracted elsewhereto have it all cases of armed forces irregularities.

Had they been probing the case of General Meyers, the subject would have been settled long ago without benefit of brassand the Senators now could be concerning themselves with the far more important problems of foreign aid and home front inflation! It Says Here: By KEN WOODMAN A UNIVERSITY of Minnesota student who was having difficulty writing an article had one 1 of the professors hypnotize her and order her to write. Everything was fine except that she complained her fingers were so stiff she had to use a pencil Instead of a typewriter, and what she wrote sounded like Gertrude Stein talking In her sleep. The professor thought it was wonderful. Others w'ho have read the result of the experiment decided literature will probably surI IV, without benefit of hypnosis. 'Name-Callincr' Can Be Costly BE CAREFUL whom you call a communist.

The New York court of appeals, the state's highest court, has just ruled unanimously that such charges come under the law of libel. "It is of little moment," the court decision reads, "whether the statement describes one as a communist or as having communigtic sympathies and affiliations, for, as has been observed, any difference is one of degree It is about time that such a decision was handed down. The name of "communist," dqellow-traveler" and the like have been thrown about with extreme recklessness, until to many persons such a word means nothing more than some one whose views they don't like. The House coblmittee on un-American activities, under its various chairmen, Dies, Rankin and Thomas, has been notably irresponsible in these charges. The fact that congressmen cannot be sued for their official statements, no matter how false, has probably made them feel freer to call names.

Communism is so repellent to Americans that the name should not be heedlessly plastered on opponents. Assignment: America Assure Unbiased Probes By KENNETH L. DIXON 'Know-How' THUS FAR in the tentative groping of Congress and the administration toward a Marshall "plan," there are signs that (1) as a nation we are growing up, and (2) the tired New Deal tradition that you can cure anything by throwing money around is on the way out. The proposals directed toward ate the foundation of a plan to aid Europe shows r.off every sign of No longer does it follow the prin- ciple of the of well heeled young roisterer who says, BROMFIELD "Here! Take twenty billion dollars' You are breaking my heart!" The indiscriminate giving-away of money, when you have plenty of it, is the easiest thing in the world. It requires infinitely more wisdom, judgment, balance, consideration and intelligence to invest $10 in a way which will be constructive, than to throw out of the window, a hundred times that amount.

Considering the Interior political situation of the nations of Europe, every safeguard must be taken to prevent existing political parties now in power from using our money and real wealth as bribes to the people to maintain themselves in power. The Labor party of Great Britain casually frittered away nearly 40 per cent of a 4 billion dollar loan on movies, cigarets and other luxuries, if not deliberately to persuade the Biltish citizen that he was better off under a Labor government, at least carelessly and irresponsibly. When the money began to give out ahead of the scheduled time, with little prospect of getting more from the same opulent sources, the Labor government had to face reality with measures which encroached upon the freedom of British citizens, cut out movies and cigarets and other luxuries, and made itself generally unpopular, as the recent Tory Looking Back TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1927 Mansfield lodge No. 56, observed 41st anniversary of its founding with a stag social at the Elks home.

lion. Edward C. Turner, attorney general of Ohio, was the principal speaker. Fred Beach was toastmaster and Henry G. Brunner, exalted ruler, pre.

sided. E. Stokes Heistand, secretary, gave some reminiscences. An enthusiastic audience bailed the Community Players production of Philip Barry's "You and Leading roles were taken by Louis J. Ott and Mrs.

William Layton. Willis Wappner left for Philadelphia to attend the Penn-Cornell game on Thanksgiving. New Finefrock funeral home on West Fourth street opened for public inspection for the remainder of the week. Retail Merchants announced completion of arrangements for simultaneous unveiling of Christmas-decorated windows. V.

H. Lodde was spokesman. Lloyd Brown returned from Vest Virginia University to visit his parent; Mr. and Mrs. E.

R. Brown, Wise avenue. M) YEARS AGO TODAY J. Albert Hines was held up and shot by highwayman on Ritter street. TODAY IN HISTORY On Nov.

23. 1912, official announcement was made that the French balloon had won the Gordon-Bennett race which started from Stuttgart, Germany, on Oct. 27. THE NICE ladies in the town didn't talk to her. This was a very mystifying thing to me, for she was such a pretty lady and she smelled nice.

For some strange reason her nice smell seemed to be connected with the fact that the nice ladies didn't speak. I used to wonder about it. She lived in a queer little old house on the edge of town but she always managed to have one of the loveliest gardens. Other ladies had gardens too but none had as nice a garden as she did. There were clove pinks all over the place and hollyhocks and mignonette.

Surely these were an admirable sign of a fine nature. We youngsters were always snitching bouquets of her clove pinks to take home to our mothers but even these did not soften their grim hearts. We used to speculate amongst ourselves concerning why all good people had to be so glum whereas she who was obviously looked down upon was always so cheerful and bright. She nearly always had a cookie jar for us when we passed in the morning. Of course she wasn't always awake in the morning like our mothers were and we were strictly forbidden to go into her Timely Editorial Test for Democracy.

The citizens food committee puts out the encouraging estimate ot 35 per cent progress toward the saving of 100 million bushels of grain for winter aid to Europe. This is based upon the pledges from industry, with added support expected from that source in the next few weeks. The total contribution that might be had from industrydistillers, bakers, hotels, restaurants, packers, the farm feeding of livestock and the likehas not been definitely calculated. But it is said that a substantial contribution must come from the millions of people. This is the hardest part of it because no suggested program will suit everybody.

But individaul responsibility is the basis of a democracy. The millions might prove it here as a wholesome demonstration to the world.Kansas City Star. Grab Bag One-Minute Test. 1. What are the principal grains? 2.

What is meant by "arid" soil? 3. Where does most of the world's quinine come from? Words of Wisdom. He is great who can do what he wishes; he is wise who wishes to do what he Hints on Etiquette. If you are on a diet and attend a dinner, you may refuse dishes which are at variance with your diet rules, but don't talk about your diet and its needs. Those are for you to discuss with your physician.

One-Minute Test Answers. 1. Wheat, barley, rye, rice, oats and corn. 2. Soil that is barren and dry.

3. From Java. As Others See It Speedy Recovery. Cut to the quick by criticism of the low tone and quality of its product, Hollywood heals quickly and thinks perhaps it will film a saga of Capone.Detroit News. Daily Bible Thought Jehova is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his annointed.Psalms 28.8.

house. But you know how youngsters arewe went anyway. I remember one Christmas. Christmases were always lovely times and this Christmas was one of the loveliest I can remember. All the inside of her house shone and sparkled and gleamed.

She had the biggest tree I had ever seen and the loveliest ornaments. And she had presents for each of us when we came home from school. Most of our presents were useful things like long flannel under-drawers and shirts but she had little bottles full of that sweet smell she used and hair ribbons and dolls and footballs and all sorts of quite useless things that we enjoyed wonderfully. Of course when we went home we got a good scolding. Yet even now I can't quite understand.

She was such a cheerful person. She laughed at the least little thing and so few people laughed then. She was always full of jokes and tricks whereas our good mothers never had time for jokes. Vaguely I knew that she was not a Good Woman. But even in my tender years I thought that if you had to be good like certain old crotchety folk I would much rather be bad and enjoy myself.

Many years have passed since I saw her bright yellow hair and the high buttoned shoes and the peekaboo blouse but I can still remember her laugh. It has lasted perfectly through all the years. Sometimes I wonder about that laugh. Maybe she wasn't a good woman. Maybe quite a number of the better saints turned up their noses when she went down the pearly streets.

But I bet that some of the male pillars of society gave a surreptitious peek. Queer, isn't it Why are the good people so disagreeable and bad people so cheery? (Copyright, 1947) God's World By ANNE CAMPBELL Who can destroy God's world? Not man, who takes The lightning for his bombs; not anyone But He. Disaster comes; the day awakes; Ample and steadfast shines the morning sun. Who can destroy God's world? Man can destroy All he has placed upon it, factories, Houses and barns, the objects of his joy; He can burn gardens down, and smother trees. But Gods world will remain; the stars will rise, The moon will pour fresh silver on the moors, And nightly walk across the midnight skies To prove that God in majesty endures.

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Sunday only 3260 per year By carrier per week. 33 cents. By LOUIS BROMFIELD landslide in the local elections amply demonstrated. Used For Polities. IN OTHER words, the Labor party used more than a billion dollars of American taxpayers' money as a kind of "campaign fund" to keep itself in power and conceal its weakness and failure.

This must certainly be guarded against in any plan by which we further finance Great Britain or any other nation. Such a course Is not the "political Interference" about which we hear so much yammering. It Is simply common sense and protection of the American citizen and taxpayer. The apparent defeat of "Morgenthauism" with its destructive philosophy, already so costly to us, is another sign of maturity that the administration at least has recognized the terrible force of economic realities in determining the welfare in future years of the world. That dermany must be put back into operation as one cog in the complicated economic machinery of our times and of Europe, in particular is obvious.

The recognition of the fact that Soviet Russia does not hold out any new hopes for mankind, but is only the re-incarnation of czarist Russia with its expansionist and aggressive tactics toward weakened nations, is a step for. ward. It has come about probably through the greatest elimination of immature and unbalanced minds from positions of power in Washington. One aspectand an importadt oneappears to have been overlooked. That is the selfish motives of certain financial and industrial and even agricultural interests in giving money in vast quantities to Europe in order to profit through foreign trade and through the maintainance of high this country.

Not Foreign Money. IT SHOULD never be forgotten that the money which their interests hope will carry dollars back into their individual pockets, is not foreign money. It is American money paid by American citizens and taxpayers. In other words, the Marshall "plan" will take money from all of us, filter it through Europe, and concentrate it in the hands of certain special interests in the form of higher prices and high-profit margin. 0 These special interests are very powerful in Washington and in the President's own cabinet.

A great deal of the enthusiastic sup Dave Boone Says: AN UPLIFTING feature of the royal wedding was the glorification of marriage as a holy sacrament. In these days, when news events are so often of a tawdry nature, the emphasis through all the agencies of publicity upon the spiritual side of matrimony was like a breath of clear, cold, mountain air. "Holy matrimony which is an honorable estate instituted of God himself signifying unto us the mystic union that Is betwixt Christ and his church" was the definition that rang across continents to lift men and women from an age of lightly accepted wedlock. and at a titne of shameful divorce laws. 0 The words of the service, em- phasizing that marriage -is not to be taken lightly or wantonly, but reverently, soberly and in the fear of God," heard by millions, seemed deeply moving.

And what a different world this would be if it were tuned to the words in the closing anthem. "See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." And what a different world this would be if it were tuned to the words in the closing anthem. "See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." Is 'Universal Education' Advisable? UNIVERSAL education, commonly thought an ideal project, may be the ruin of China, says Lin Yutang, the Chinese philosopher and writer. The trouble is that every educated Chinese thinks that he should be a member of the governing class. But, as Lin Yutang says, "How are we going to provide posts for 450,000,000 educated men?" Germany suffered from a like trouble for many years.

University education was widely distributed and opportunities for its use sharply limited. It was not uncommon to see a doctor of philosophy driving a taxi. He was discontented, and a multitude of such discontents helped bring on the Nazi revolution. No one who really wishes an education in literary and historical subjects should be denied it. He should be taught, however, that manual labor, skilled or unskilled, has just as much dignity and importance as white-collar work.

It's when education is thought of as giving a map a peculiar position above his fellows that such difficulties as those in China and Germany have occurred. When all have access to the best in education and culture, there is no lower level, no "menial" work. WASHINGTONIt is, of course, ridiculous for a mere newsman to make suggestions to the President, the Congress, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. More than that, it is presumptuous and impertinent! So, now that we have that point settled, let's get on with the suggestion: Let's have all questionable situations in our armed forcesin peacetime as well as warinvestigated by the Central Intelligence Agency, which owes no allegiance to any individual branch of the service and is answerable only to the National Security Council and the President. It will do away with all of this business which currently is distracting attention from the important Job of deciding what is to be done about foreign aid and domestic inflation.

It might even put an end to a lot of whitewashingnot to mention considerable upper bracket armed force malingeringand give the average citizen the same breaks in uniform that he gets in civvies. If it did that, it certainly would assist the current recruiting programs This is the immediate trouble, If you view it objectively: Right now', on Capitol Hill, Congress has been assembled to consider two (aforementioned) problems of terrific importance to the American people and to humanity as a whole. Those problems definitely concern whether we will have another war in the near futureand whether we will be faced with another internal economic revolution. Misdirected Spotlight. BUT the spotlight.

for obvious reasons. is on one littleby comparisonhearing which involves the war just finished. The inter. est is not in congressional activities. but in the wartime activities of former Major General Bennett E.

Meyers and his alleged personal war plant profits while serving as a procurement officer in the army air force. meyers and nis allegea personat lwar plant profits while serving as 1 1 a.procurement officer in the army air force. And more and more responsible citizens are asking why didn't the Air Force, or the Army which then controlled the Air Force. probe that situation fully when it was first called to their attention? I And other citizens, such as IANIVET National Commander Ed Gaining Security By Faith "IF THE American people have the will to believe; to walk by faith instead of sight, toward the goal of world security, they can create a body of public opinion that can penetrate all barriers and make demands which no statesmen or governments can ignore," says an American minister. This, as a business man would probably say, is a large order.

But it is such orders and purposes backed by faith, which in the scriptural phrase can "move mountains," or at least come near such an achievementnot forgetting, of course, that "faith without works is vain." In a world that greatly needs leadership and enlightened service, faith may have as much to do with the outcome as any other factor. "Moral character urged in students," says a headline. Good idea. And while we're about it, why not add a dose of moral character for a lot of other people? Claude Callan suggests: "You ca9't accomplish much singlehanded. The reason Satan accomplishes so much is that he has so many willing helpers." The Youngstown Vindicator reminds: "The world improves slowly.

'hen we learn a little we think we know it all and quit trying.".