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THE ODEM-EDROY TIMES
'? Wednesday, June 21, 1950
Clothes for Small Fry
Are No Trouble to Sew
SUPREME COURT
Three Decisions
-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS-
Japan Outlaws Communist Party;
Europe Coal-Steel Pact Signed;
U. S. Construction at New High
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The U. S. supreme court has
handed down three decisions in
the current civil rights controversy
which will have far-reaching reac-
tions.
The court held that segregation
of Negroes in railroad dining cars
violates the Interstate Commerce
Act, that Negro students must be
admitted to the
Texas
[By JIM RHODYI
Farm Fish Ponds
Farm fish ponds are gaining
widespread popularity, and many
thousands of these impoundments
of all sizes have been built during
the past few years. Methods were
developed in Alabama for increas-
ing fish production in ponds by
the use of commercial fertilizer. It
now is possible for a southern farm-
er to raise 250 pounds of fish per
acre of water in a year. This is
comparable to the production of
livestock on an acre of good upland.
Although yields may be somewhat
lower in the North, owing to the
shorter growing season, the pond
movement is gaining rapidly in that
region.
Ponds are useful not only for fish
productioin but for stock water and
domestic ducks and geese. Some
farmers have made their ponds
small waterfowl sanctuaries where
wild birds are decoyed by tame
ducks and fed during the fall mi-
gration.
j- Fish ponds are kept free of leafy
vegetation by deepening the margi-
nal areas. Food for young fish is
Cloud of Doubt
rpHIS REPORTER has just re-
JL turned from a trip through the
great, prosperous middle-east, the
breadbasket and the industrial cen-
ter of the nation.
And beneath the prosperity, the
vigorous planning, the optimism,
the heartiness and friendliness of
this segment of the nation, there
is discernible a faint cloud of
doubt, uncertainty and preplexity
in the minds of these people.
You ask about it and they cannot
put their finger on anything defi-
nite. It is something they look upon
with a degree of suspicion and dis-
trust, or a lack of understanding.
And here in this great city of
Washington, at its most beau-
tiful this time of the y^ar, with
its stately buildings, its broad,
shaded, smooth avenues spread-
ing across the Potomac to, the
red soil of Virginia and east-
ward to the rolling Maryland
hills, the reason for this feeling
on the part of the midwest peo-
ple is obvious. For there on
capitol hill, beneath the white
dome which dominates the pic-
turesque setting of this metrop-
olis of democracy, there is dis-
untiy and distrust; there is
hysteria and witch-hunting;
there is name-calling and char-
acter assassination. They are,
in fact, burning down the barn
to kill the rats.
University of
law school because the
state does not afford them facili-
ties equal to those for whites, and
that Oklahoma had been discrimi-
nating against Negro students at
its state university law school by
segregating them in classrooms
and elsewhere on the campus.
The court, however, did not go
into the cases as deeply as the
justice department desired.
For instance, the justice depart-
ment argued there can be no such
thing as “separate but equal” fa-
cilities and treatment. It contend-
ed the mere fact a Negro has to
use a separate public facility pre-
vents him from having an equal
facility. It is just as sensible, the
department argued, to say that a
thing can be “black but white” as
to insist it can be “separate and
equal.”
Observers point out that had the
court gone into the matter as
deeply as the department asked
and ruled in its favor, there would
have been practically nothing left
of segregation laws.
Some students of government be-
lieve such a ruling would have
been a great deal more far-reach-
ing than the passage by Congress
of the much debated F. E. P. C.
The court, however, adhered to
its long established practice of not
determining constitutional issues if
other grounds for decisions exist.
IOWA ELECTION:
Brannon Plan Test
The nation watched with interest
the final outcome of the primary
election in Iowa. And the out-
come was what seasoned policital
are those of
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JAPAN
Outlaws Reds
The Japanese Communist party
received a serious setback with
that government’s announcement
that the party would be outlawed
in Japan.
Observers did not find the move
surprising since such action had
been hinted and only waited the out-
come of the general election which
was carried by Japan’s Liberal
party. The liberals alone stuck to
a pro-United States policy in a
highly nationalistic campaign.
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida
had announced the action would be
taken if there were further acts of
violence by Communists. He re-
ferred to the attack on five U. S.
soldiers at a Communist rally on
Memorial Day.
As expected, the Communists
tried to blame the action on the
American occupation, but Yoshida
quickly denied it. -
Meanwhile, the Liberal party
seemed assured of victory in the
election. Despite rains throughout
the country, the voting was heavier
than expected. Offici Is said 31,400,-
000 voted, or 70 percent of those
eligible. About 60 per cent had been
expected.
Yoshida’s strong showing had
been expected after his government
firmly squelched projected Commu-
nist anti-American rallies an a so-
called general strike called for elec-
tion day.
[& mos. • 3 yr*.
Japanese Comunists staged
a rally in the shadow of the im-
perial palace and for the sec-
ond time violence broke out be-
tween the Reds and U. S.
soldiers. U. S. MP’s (above) are
shown breaking up the riot and
taking a Jap Communist into
custody.
They’re Easy
CAN SEW these darling
^ little clothes for small fry in
no time at all, they’re so easy.
Sister has a dainty dress and un-
dies, brother will be cool and com-
fortable in the simple playsuit.
CONSTRUCTION
At New High
Construction in the United States
has reached a new high, according
to reports by the department of
labor.
According to department statis-
tics, construction valued at nearly
$2,000,000,000 was put in place in
May. This was ahead of the 1948
and 1949 seasonal peaks.
Home construction accounted for
much of the advance, although
building costs have risen sharply.
Private construction in May
amounted to $1,400,000,000, an in-
crease of 12 per cent over April and
27 per cent over May of last year.
The home building part of that was
estimated at $825,000,000, an in-
crease of 15 per cent over the month
and 56 percent from a year ago.
In the first five months of 1950,
the total value of all types of new
construction was nearly $8,100,000,-
000, an increase of 21 percent from
the corresponding period of 1949, the
labor department announced.
HARRY GOLD:
Patriotic Spy
Like the little boy who pinched
off the icing on his mother’s cake,
Harry Gold, the American who
turned against his own country to
spy for Russia, wanted the sweet
but didn't mean to spoil the cake. J
Explained the Philadelphia bio-
chemist, no doubt for a gullible
American public, hr delivered atom
bomb secrets to Russia, but “I had
no intention of hurting my coun-
try.”
Such an explanation would not I
appease the intelligence of the six- |
year-old who pinched the Icing. How
can anyone give away the secrets
of his country and not expect to hurt
it, observers asked?
The Judy Coplon case and now the
Gold affair have shocked the Amer-
ican public. Many Americans are
remembering stern measures em-
ployed by founders of the nation in
handling spies.
The business of espionage, under
any circumstances, is a nasty thing.
One is not inclined to be angry with
a spy such as the Russian agent
Gubitchev who was acting under
orders. But to turn against your na-
tive land and give or sell its se-
crets is an entirely different matter.
Now an admitted spy asks the
court to appoint him counsel, which
he insists be counsel whose pa-
triotism is unimpeachable, with the
respect of the court, the public, and
the bar. Further, he insists upon the
right to cooperate with the F.B.I.
SEARS, ROEBUCK:
Sharp Price Cuts
Sears, Roebuck and company, the
world’s largest retail merchandise
business, has announced price re-
duction of up to 52 percent of 4,000
items in its midsummer sale cata-
logue.
The merchandising world was
startled with the announcement of
price cuts that averaged 7 per cent
on the items. Seasonal wearing ap-
parel was cut as much as 41 per
cent.
More than twice as big as its near-
est competitor, Sears, Roebuck and
company was founded in 1886 and
drew its greatest support from the
farm population.
Although today Sears sells in the
big cities, it still keeps its rural
touch with all sorts of farm pro-
jects.
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investment, he would have
congress enact the Brannan
plan at a cost to the people of
a sum he has not attempted to
estimate, a sum to be paid for
out of taxes to be paid by the
consumers.
Practically all of his legislative
program has been definitely and
consistently socialistic, and I am
not at all convinced the American
people would accept a socialistic
form of government as a means of
achieving the President's Fair
Deal purposes. His means to a
laudable end all point in the wrong
direction.
In his Chicago speech, he show-
ered great praise on Jefferson,
whom the people apreciate as one
of the nation’s great and construc-
tive statesmen, but he did not re-
fer to that Jeffersonian phrase,
which is considered one of that
statesman’s greatest
Communists Abetted
Months ago and repeatedly since,
this column has pointed out the ex-
istence of this condition which has
caused an evil atmosphere of fear
and hysteria, brought to a climax
in recent weeks by the charges of
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wis-
consin concerning Communist in-
filtration in our state department.
In the minds of most responsible
and thinking people here in Wash-
ington, these canards have been
proven both irresponsible and ill-
founded.
But there can be no doubt that'
because of these cries of “wolf,
wolf” the condition of uneasiness
noted in the midwest has been fos-
tered in the minds of the people
there and everywhere. There also
is little doubt that the objectives
of the Communist fifth columns,
not only in this country, but in
every country, have been aided
and abetted. For that is the aim
of the Moscow plotters of Commu-
nistic activities, to disunite, to de-
stroy confidence, and to create
suspicion in democracies and free
governments throughout the world.
This policy of destroying confi-
dence, of causing unrest among the
population has been used to advan-
tage by Communists many times.
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COAL-STEEL PLAN
Unites Six Nations
Britain’s labor government has
been caught short with the an-
nouncement that six European coun-
tries have formed a coal-steel al-
liance.
The United States gave the six
countries—France, Holland, Bel-
gium, Luxembourg, Western Ger-
many, and Italy—its blessing, with,
observers pointed out, an eye on
the heavy gamble for postwar eco-
nomic reconstruction of Europe as
a means of further winning the cold
war.
Under the plan, proposed by Rob-
ert Schuman, French foreign min-
ister, the six nations have united to
produce the sinews of heavy indus- |
try in peace.
Observers said it was fairly clear
that Britain, struggling to win back
a high place in world trade, was
caught by surprise at the move.
The Schuman plan represents a
historic surrender of national sov-
ereignty of all the six countries in
their economy. The pooled coal and
steel industries will be directed by
an independent international high
authority.
Neutral observers were especial-
ly happy over the alliance. It is the
first time in history that countries
whose differences have caused
numerous wars have gotten togeth-
er to create a community of in-
terests. This, observers contend,
should eliminate the cause of wars.
Increased production is also ex-
pected from the merger. The total
joint production could be far great-
er than the sum of their separate
competitive efforts. It was pointed
out, for example, the industrial
Ruhr needs French coal and France
needs the Ruhr steel but each put
a premium on the materials they
exchanged with each other.
Although the British have not
joined the alliance or made any
commitment on the plan, the way
has been left open. Observers said
it would certainly give the labor
government something to think
about.
furnished by the minute free-living
plants and animals that multiply
abundantly in fertilized water.
These pond areas usually are
fenced against grazing to prevent
silting. The immediate margin of
the water customarily is kept clear
to make fishing easier and to keep
the impoundment from collecting
leaves and brush. However, plant-
ings of conifers and shrubs may be
used on the watershed or inside the
fence of the pond area itself. Musk-
rats must be excluded from fish
ponds as there is not food for them
and they would be a threat to dikes
and dams.
Fish ponds should not be stocked
indiscriminately with many kinds
of fish. Some of the highest yields
have been obtained by stocking
new ponds with 100 largemouth
black bass and 1,000 to 1,500 blue-
gill fingerlings per surface acre.
The proper building and operating
of a pond requires professional
guidance. In most areas this can
be furnished by the soil conserva-
tion service. In some states the
state conservation department also
provides assistance. Bulletins on
the subject can be obtained from
the Superintendent of Documents,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, all of Washington, D.C.
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ments. It was Jefferson who said:
“The best government is the least
government.
was Jefferson
who was the strenuous opponent of
the centralization of government
In Washington.
The spending and the cen-
tralization of government the
President asks for are in no
sense of a Jeffersonian origin.
The one statement the President
made in that Chicago speech that
would meet with general approval
was his demand that the opposi-
George Keenan, counselor of the
state department in a recent speech
in a midwest city said: “The atmos-
'phere of public life in Washington
does not have to deteriorate much
further to produce a situation in
which very few of our more quiet
and sensitive and gifted people will
be able to continue in the govern-
ment. The margin of safety with
which our country moves in the
world today is not great enough to
permit us to be reckless and waste-
ful with the talents and idealism
of those people we depend upon
for the generalship of our peace-
time battles.”
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such a cheerful earful! And crisp
to the last. Energy, too—plus
vitamins, minerals and proteins.
Treat your family to their favor-
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Teach Them Young
Kelly DeBusk, Oklahoma state
game and fish director, has some
thoughtful and inspiring advice for
sportsmen in last month’s issue of
the Oklahoma Game and , Fish
News:
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker says,
“Sportsmen should teach beginners
their obligations as well as the
pleasures afield.” What are you
teaching your boy? Your neighbor’s
boy? Or your friend’s boy?
Have you told him of the many
times you recognized limits of
creel and bag? Have you explained
to him the importance of habitat?
Have you taught him to see beauty
in the dogwood, redbud and sage
brush? Is he attracted to the ripple
of water, the song of the brook or
the chirping of the birds? Is he ac-
quainted with the woods and wild-
life?
Have you passed over quietly or
ever omitted references to your
unguarded mistakes? Does the
not in a position to do so, but a
group of leaders of the party could
do that, and with it, the people
would have a choice as to which to
support.
Not in his Chicago speech,
but in his messages to the con-
gress, the President has shown
his means of achievement to
be the road to socialism. The
American people would not
willingly and knowingly accept
that road, they are fearful of
the thorns with which it is
paved, hut the people do not
j know either the ends or the
means of achievement pro-
posed by the Republicans. As
of now they have no opportuni-
ty for a choice.
Purposes alone are not sufficient.
The people want to know the
means of achievement leading to
the ends that are proposed. In one
way or another, the - President has
expressed both the ends and the
means proposed for their achieve-
ment of the Fair Deal program, a
program the congress has so far
been unwilling to accept. The Re-
publican opposition has offered
nothing of a definite character,
either as to ends or the details of
achievement. That is what the
public is awaiting.
Majority Are Honest
This nation must win this cold
war or as an alternative, fight a
hot war. This nation must hold and
continue to hold the respect, the
faith and confidence of not only our
allies, but of nations everywhere
who are looking to the United States
to beat back communism and
totalitarianism wherever it appears.
But the suspicion created by what
is now called “McCarthyism,”
both at home and abroad, is not
only a deterrent, but making it
well-nigh impossible for our repre-
sentatives to sit around the confer-
ence table with other nations of
the globe.
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BALTIC PLANE
Evidence Damning
The United States produced new
evidence that the navy patrol plane
recently lost in the Baltic was shot
down, although the Russians re-
ported they only drove it out to
sea.
State department officials said a
recovered landing wheel indicated
the plane had exploded in mid-air,
and had possibly lost a wing before
it spun into the sea.
The wheel floated because its tire
was inflated with air. It was found
by a Swedish fishing captain 48
miles off the Coast of Latvia.
A navy expert, Lt. Comdr. M. W.
Cagle, exhibited the plane’s front
landing wheel, and pointed to a lev-
er in a position showing that the
jvheel was retracted when the plane
crashed.
own
boy know what sportsmen think of
“potshooters”? Have you told him
of the crime of deer hunting at
night? Or dynamiting streams? Of
baiting duck ponds?
Does he understand that a game
ranger, a servant of the people,
would welcome his sincere coopera-
tion? Have you emphasized to this
boy that a game law violator is a
thief.
Does he know that game is cost-
ly and valuable? That fish are a
luxury? What are you yourself do-
ing for game and fish besides har-
vesting some of it?
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So it is time the people of
this country make up their
minds, either believe as the
Kremlin would have us believe
and withdraw into a cocoon of
isolationism, leaving the rest
of the world to the foes of
everything we believe in, or
once and for all time sweep
away these false clouds of sus-
picion and unite behind our gov-
ernment in its all-out fight to
win the cold war and keep the
peace.
John D. M. Hamilton, (right)
former chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee, is
shown with Federal Judge
James P. McGranery, (left) af-
ter the latter appointed Hamil-
ton counsel for Harry Gold, 39-
accused atomic espionage agent.
Keep the Communists out of our
schools and a,way form vantage
points of influence on the minds of
our children.
Help relieve distress of MONTHLY
The Bass
Bass can be truly called Amer-
ica’s game fish, for more than any
other major fresh water roamer
they offer unexcelled sport to a
great number of men, women, boys
and girls in the most widespread
territory.
Bass live in a good many places
where the spotted trout cannot sur-
vive because of the high tempera-
ture of the water.
Several million angler? yearly
visit our lakes and streams.
BELGIUM:
Wants a King
While the rest of the world has
worried about rebuilding and se-
curing a permanent peace since
World War II, Belgium has been
the scene of one election after
another on the question of bringing
King Leopold III back from exile.
The latest of the four elections
gives the Social Christian party
another victory and would seem to
guarantee the return of Leopold to
the throne.
MAUN A LOA:
Brilliant Fireworks
Mauna Loa, the 13,680-foot vol-
cano on the island of Hawaii,
turned on a brilliant display of
fireworks for island tourists with
the greatest eruption in history.
Fortunately, no lives were lost
in the eruption that sent streams
of molten lava across the island
and into the sea. At some points
where the lava entered the ocean,
the water was reported near boil-
ing far from shore.
Of the workers in the federal
government, 999 out of 1,000 are
honest, loyal, able Americans.
Our FBI, our central intelligence,
our department of justice, our mil-
itary intelligence know who are
Communists and who are not. They
are not stupid. They knew during
the war the movements of every
spy, every sabateur, every Nazi in
this country. None got away. But
they did not capture them by
witch-hunting or yelling sensational
charges from the house-tops.
“That “something for nothing”
demand has developed into a dis-
ease (that has effected an all too
large portion of the American peo-
ple. It is meaning the death of
thrift.
Employment
Employment in the United States
reached its highest peak in May
since last August, the census bu-
reau announced in an optimistic
report.
The number of jobless dropped
from 3,515,000 in April to the May
figure of 3,057,000. Employment
jumped from 58,668,000 in April to
59.731.000 in May, a gain of 1,063,
000. In May, 1949, there were 58.-
694.000 employed.
Each of us demands the econo-
mies that effect the other fellow.
We are opposed to all economies
that effect ourselves. That is a
sure way to national bankruptcy.
Let us have economy regardless of
personal interests.
VEGETABLE,
COMPOUND
by
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PATTER SON
WALTER SHEAO, WNU Correspondent
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