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Profits Must Live Even If Men Die.
With billion* of dollar* in military contract* to be let in the
next few months, Industrial leaders and governmental onteUIa
are somewhat concerned over the fact that there are virtually
no reserves of skilled labor in the country, even though the vol-
ume of production for the armed forces is still very small.
There is the suggestion that manning our war industries
may be as hard a job as manning the tanks,.planes and other
military equipment. This is, of course, nonsense. If the occasion
requires, the supply of labor can be shifted from non-essential
to essential jobs. This will mean, of course, that some civilian
production will have to be curtailed.
Meanwhile, the heavy industries, which will handle much
of the war contracts, and other producers of war materiel, are
looking hungrily for the contracts occasioned by the national
emergency. The scent of war profits is in the air. Every pro-
ducer knows that the billions to be spent for preparedness will
mean tremendous profits to business. So far, no business man
has suggested that any corporation make a contribution toward
the safety of the nation.
With young men being called from their jobs and families
to be trained for war and with other young men being wounded
and killed daily in battle, it is not too much to expect that busi-
ness should make some sacrifice along with the rest of the coun-
try. It is not a foolish idea to expect business corporations and
individual enterprise to do something for the general welfare
without putting the emphasis upon large and unusual profits.
We do not see anything wrong with the suggestion that
every producer of articles needed for warfare be required to
turn over a part of its production without profit. In fact, the
opportunity exists for some smart corporation official to set a
patriotic example by making an offer to serve the needs of the
country wihout exacting a profit. It would not hurt most of our
producers to devote a fourth or a fifth qf their working time
to the production of goods and equipment for war without any
profit whatsoever.
We are not against the corporate form of organisation
for business enterprise. Moreover, the courts of the country
have ruled that corporations are persons insofar as certain
legal rights are concerned. No court has yet been able to figure
out, however, that a corporation owes the nation some form of
service. The only form that it can give, in times of war and
national emergencies, is to perform useful service without
exacting profits.
If men must die to protect the nation, its people and its
economic order, it is not too much to expect the large segment
of that order, represented by corporate enterprise, to make a
positive contribution to the national effort and in behalf of the
national good.
Schumanns Plan May Succeed, If—
Robert Schuman, .foreign minister of France, is the author
of a plan which calls for the pooling of the coal and steel pro-
duction of Germany. Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxem-
bourg and France. In addition, he would eliminate customs
duties and blend the wage-price policies and Social and fiscal
legislation of the countries.
The French statesman takes some pride in the initiative
that his country has taken in proposing such peaceful cooper-
ation. He considers the approach "bold’’ and “ambitious” but
worthwhile, and suggests the countries sharing in it “will no
longer be tempted to wage war” because such conflict will have
become "unthinkable and impracticable."
There is much to be said for any scheme that will mobilise
the economic power of the countries named for their common
benefit. Nevertheless, we do not think much of the Schuman
suggestion that his plan represents a method to prevent war or
that it relaces the necessity for free countries to be in a position
"to defend peace by arms.”
It is quite possible that, in the course of development, the
Schuman plaijfl might make war improbable and impracticable
between the countries involved. There is no reason to suspect
that it will have any effect upon Soviet Russia, however.
In the meantime, before the Schuman plan can get into op-
eration and before it can be discovered whether it will be bene-
ficial or not, the rulers in the Kremlin might decide to wage ag-
gressive warfare. If this occurs, and the free countries are
without the ability “to defend peace by arms,” they will be
without the ability to try the alternate method hat Mr. Schu-
man advocates.
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With Nichols in Washington
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prcn Stag Correspondent
Washington, Oct. 13, <Ut—Win-
ston Churchill made the world rat-
tle with his oratory.
But his first etiort in painting
didn’t ruffle a leaf in the artistic
world.
But now he’s bigtime stuff. He’s
in the Christmas card business and
probably making more money than
kitchen perils j»
New Idea on Traffic Dangers
The advent of the fast moving automobile has caused pedes-
trians to develop the protective traits of cats and Rquirrels, ac-
cording to one director of traffic engineering, who alleges that
many pedestrians have acquired an unrecognised sense for de-
tecting dangers and unconsciously avoiding them.
Undoubtedly, human beings, familiar with the speed of
automobiles, have acquired an understanding of the menace
that confronts them when they cross modern streets. Whether
they have acquired any other protective sense continues to be
a matter of doubt, despite the suggestion that, somehow, they
have developed another protective trait.
The expect says that the new protective instinct sharpens
with the increase in traffic and is particularly apparent in the
younger population. Perhaps, sll that we need to solve the
problem of traffic deaths is to increase the speed of cars and
the youth of the population that uses the streets.
Manpower May Be Scarce
With the armed services expanding, it is vitally important
for the nation to consider its use of manpower in connection
with the necessary build-up of our fighting strength.
There have been a number of reports of draftees being re-
jected for various reasons, including lack of sufficient in
telUgence to become a soldier. The suggestion has been made
that these men, if physically able to work, be put in labor bat-
talions. This would relieve physically-fit soldiers for combat
duty.
With the nation about to embark upon universal military
~ training as a matter of policy. It is vitally important that ex-
; empions from service be carefully screened. Certainly, public
' ooinion will be incensed If too liberal exemptions make a farce
universal service. Those who are unfit to fight might be able
and thua serve their country to the best of their ability.
Statistics from vsrious sources
covering home accidents differ as
to which is the moit dangerous
room in the home, but all of them
are in agreement that tha kitchen
atanda at or near the top of the
list.
Since the kitchen ii the place
where aharp knives and other in-
struments capable of inflicting
wounda are kept and uaed, it could
be assumed that cuts of one. kind
or another would constitute a high
proportion of kitchen accidents. It
could ftlso be assumed that another
high proportion would consist of
bums and scalds from handling
hot liquids and containers.
Your own kitchen will be a safer
place If you keep knives in a sepa-
rate drawer or compartment, and
if you art careful to cut away
from, never towards, the hand that
is holding the object you are cut-
ting. Use a pot holder when hand-
ling pan* in which food is cooking,
and never leave handles protrud-
ing over the edge of the stove.
Another sound precaution is to
Veep on a kitchen shelf a small
bottla of antiseptic, a tube of burn
ointment and a few adhesive band-
ages—those ready-to-uae dressings
with the gause pad already affixed
to the adhesive tape. This will
make it easy to attend promptly
to minor cuts and burnt, which if
neglected are only too likely to
become infected.
% Water i> a conductor of electric-
ity. To avoid the risk of a jarring
shock, never handle electrical ap-
pliances with wet hands. Always
wipe up immediately anything you
spill on tho floor. Slipping on
•pilled grease may result in a fall
that may have more serious con-
sequences than can be taken ears
of with a touch of antiseptic and s
ready-made adhesive bandage. .
_ are borrowers who have tho idea that all loans run
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Cleburne Calls
Off Plane Search
Cleburne, Oct. 18. EB—Searchers
called off their hunt today for a
jet plane reported to have crashed
north of Keene, after deciding the
pilot was only stunting.
However, sheriff’s deputies said
they would check the area again
today “just to make sura.”
The report originated late yes-
terday with some peanut harves-
ters who said the jet climbed high
in the sky and then dropped until
it disappeared back of a hill. It
failed to reappear, they said.
Officers said they believed the
pilot straightened out the ship and
flew away to the east after going
behind the hill.
he ever made telling Parliament
what to do or writing books on
how to win wars.
Winnie is no kid at the business
of painting. True, he never held a
brush in hts hand, aside from a
hair-comber, until 1915. At that
point he was booted out of the
British government temporarily.
Later he wrote that he felt like:
"A sea beast fished up from the
depths—or a diver too suddenly
hoisted; my veins suddenly threat-
ened to burst from the sudden fall
of pressure.”
In other words, the guy couldn’t
alt'still.
He didn’t.
What Winnie needed and found
was a hobby.
He was 60 at the time—and tells
about it in a folksy little book he
'has written called “Painting As A
Pastime.”
He was inspired by his cousin,
Lady Gwendoline Bertie-Churchill,
who also painted. The sight of her
sitting with easel in front of her
stirred up the artist in him.
He called for Lady Gwendoline’s
kids to fetch him their water
colors. They did. And all of a
sudden he had himself a picture of
—a kidney bean.
They say, and he won’t deny it,
that Churchill still has it framed
some place.
Anyhow, that was his first ef-
fort.
The former prime minister has
come a long way since then.
As Of now, he is about to ap-
pear with seven scenes on Amer-
ican Christmas cards — for Hall-
mark Greeting Cards.
I’m not much of a critic of the
arts. I spent two years in fresh-
man biology at the University of
Iowa trying to get a clear picture
of the heart of a dead frog. I
finally passed with a three-color
job which the professor described
as looking like a cross between a
Bartlett pear and a Stark’s de-
licious apple.
But I took some of these Christ-
mas cards to an artist friend of
ours, Mrs. Mae Kirkpatrick. ,
“I am surprised,” said she. “The
man can do almost everything but
portrait. And from the satflpma I
see here, he never has tried that.
I particularly like the scene he
did on hunting. That’s a rough
kind of painting—all those dogs.
The faces on the hunters. Mr.
Churchill does everything.” .
Mr. Churchill, indeed, has done
just about everything.
Nobody will deny the fact that—
with his name—he could sell a pic-
ture of a pig backing through a
loose board in a sty.
Winnie didn't have to do that
to get where he is in art. He drew
'em straight. And for the first
time in his career—which is a
hobby and a relaxation for him—
he is in the chips. 1
Needless to say, Mr. Churchill
already has all the chips he needs.
Physician’s Son
Denies Attack
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13—A sus-
pended university student admitted
he helped photograph a pretty
teen-aged blonde in the nude but
denied that he attacked her.
Edward. An*)*, 20-year-old son
of a prominent physician, testified
yesterday at his trial on assault
charges that he and three other
^University of Nebraska students
picked up the 16-year-old girl and
took her to an upstairs bedroom of
his home.
He said he helped take a picture,
of the girl because he thought it
was “more or less for our album.”
But he said he left the room after
the picture was taken and didn’t go
back.
The girl testified yesterday that
the boys stripped off her clothing,
forced her to stand nude in front
of a camera, and then molested her.
Some of them tried to attack her,
she said.
PLANES AND CREWS SAFE DESPITE
ATTACKS 61 BIRDS AND ELEMENTS
Use the Daily Empire want ads.
*r united rasas
Birds, ducks, lightning and wind
ganged up on four big airline
transports last night, but the high-
flying pilots brought their planes
and several score passengers thru
unscathed.
An American Airline pilot flew
his four-engined DC-4 into a “flight
of ducks” at about 10,000 feet over
Iowa last night on a flight to the
Wsat Coast from Chicago. He spat-
tered so many duck bodies about
and with such force that he decided
to play safe and returned to Chi-
cago for possible repairs. One en-
gine nacelle was dented and the
passengers had to transfer to an-
other plane.
A second American Airlines pilot,
flying a two-engined transport,
from Rochester, N. Y., to Newark,
N. J., ran into another flock of
birds. He turned back to Buffalo,
N. Y., for a quick checkup, found
there was no damage, and took off
again after a 26-minute delay.
Lightning Hite Airliner
At Le Guardia Field, N. Y. yes-
terday a holt of lightning struck
Within three feet of a Trans-World
Airline plane just about to tohe off
with 13 passengers for a flight to
Germany.
The bolt bowled over ground crew
members, but nobody was hurt, al-
though the lightning tore dosens of
small holes in the landing apron.
Mechanics could And no damage
to the four-engined Constellation
but officials ordered another plane
to make the flight. The precaution-
ary move delayed the flight six
hours while another plane was
readied.
Deer Falls to Earth -
And over Michigan yesterday, the
cickpit door of an American Air-
line DC-6 snapped off and dropped
H.000 feet to earth near Coid-1 ^ wh<, can shoo flies off him-
water Mich. The wind suekril sero- M,f by twiu.hiB(t hii iki„ Uke a
Seoul, Korea, Oct. 18, «*-Le4-
ter to mv daughter, Susan, age 10.
•::i Daar-Susaa;
Since I left our apartment in
New York two and a half months
ago I have lived many places—-on
an airplane, in a hotel, a club, a
Korean school house, a tent, a ship
an Army barracks, a deserted
house, on the ground, in a barn—
and now I’m living on what teams
Uke a luxurious island.
It’s not surroundod by water.
It’s surrounded by tha signs of
war and wreckage of war. And
yet, it has not been touched ex-
cept for looting by the enemy.
It’s an American embassy com-
pound of 48 houses right in the
middle of the Korean capital city
of Seoul. (By the wey, that name
is pronounood sole—ss in shoe—
by the Koreans). The whole com-
pound is protected by a high stone
wall.''
Furniture was token from most
of the houses. But my host, whq
is one of the embassy secretaries,
found a good deal of his living
room and dining room furniture
in other parts of the town where
Communists had taken it. So when
he came beck into Seoul with The
American Army he moved bars
into the house he had occupied
before the Communist invasion.
Apparently the North Korean
Army had intended to make this
compound some kind of a head-
quarters. When they left they did
not take large items of furniture
with them. For instance in this
house they left s valuable 200-
year-old Chinese table. They
weren’t interested in Oriental an-
tiques. But they took aH the elec-
tric rasora and toasters and fans
thev could find.
When our host invited Fred
Sparks, who is also s correspon-
dent, and me to spend last night
with him, he found a couple of
mattresses some place and put
them on the floor In n spare room
for us to sleep on. As I lay down
I found myself looking at a fam-
iliar faee.
The Communists had taken
about half of my host’s library
But one of the books they left was
written by George Woodbury and
his face stared at me from the
book jacket. Woodbury waa head
of the Hermann N. Sander defense
fund at the trial of Doctor Sander
which I covered in Manchester,
N.H., last winter. I used to see
him at the court house every day.
His face
made me feel at home.
After being out in the cold and
dirt for many days. Sparks and I
gaped at the sight of rugs on the
floor, overstuffed furniture, elec-
tric lights nnd n hot kitchen
stove. Water running from the
faucet in a bathroom seemed like
a miracle to us. When you are
with an Army in war you usually
wash—if at all—by filling your
helmet with water — if you can
find any water. .
Outside in the back yard, as I
write, I can see n baby’s play pen.
Beside it in the gross a coal-black
cat has been licking her three
coal-black kittens and now the
kittens are clawing up a screen and
staring wide-eyed at me. There is
a washing on the line and n Ko-
rean servant woman is walking
across the yard.
She is wearing a red sweater
and she’s carrying her little boy
piggyback. She has her hands
clasped behind her to form a seat
for him and his little blue rompers
legs are perched on each side of
her whist. All babies are carried
that way here. The funny thing is
that little kids carry little kids
that way. You frequently see chil-
dren who can’t be more than four
or five years old carrying tiny
babies piggyback and taking very
good care of them.
There are more children per,
square foot in Korea than in any
other place I’ve been. And they’re
all cute. They always wave and
shout at American soldiers. The
Marines liked one little 6-yearw>!d
so much that they adopted him,
named him Patches and mode him
a Marine sergeant’s uniform,
complete with cap. ' He got so
proud that he shakes his finger
at other Korean kids nnd orders
them around.
Many small Korean boys go
every day to the Sandy Han River
Valley to peddle eggs to soldiers
in Jeeps which are lined up Waiting
to cross the bridge into Seoul. It
WEE there the other day that I
learned a new use of an old ex-
pression. A gang of North Korean
prisoners were shoveling sand,
guarded by three big American
Negro soldiers.
Every time the prisoners would
slow up the Americans would step
forward and shout, “Hubba, hubba,
hubba” and the prisoners would
start shoveling like crosy.
Fred Sparks was along with me
on the last Byrd South Pole ex-
pedition. I think you -would like
him because he is the only news-
paper man I know who can wiggle
his note like a rabbit. By the wav,
there’s another correspondent out
here, Dennis Warner, ah Austral-
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The Goal for the Armed Forces ; !
The defense program of the nation, which is expected to
cost from f20 to $60 billion dollars annually, will increase, the
strength of all the services. * / ' , ^ V
The Army, now with eleven regular divisions, and four mob-
ilized National Guard divisions, will be increased to’eighteen di-
visions. The probability is that they will be stationed about
equally between the Far East, Europe and this country. In addi-
tion, the Army will have a considerable number of independent
regimental combat teams, anti-aircraft battalions and special
units.
The Navy now operates with nine big carriers and eleven
light carriers, about 200 destroyers and one battleship. It will
increase its'large carriers to twelve and itB escort and light
carriers to fifteen. In addition to the Missouri, two other battle-
ships will be'-in th* active fleet. These units have beep fictremfly
useful for shore bdmbbardmen and to support amphibious land-
ings. Th* destroyer strength will be increased under the w-
panded program.
ft *°rt oi The Air Force, which is now working from a 88- to a 48-
group. structure, will be increased by twenty to tljlrty groups.
The Marine Corps, now authorized to have two, divisions
and eighteen squadrons of aircraft, will probably maintain tw«
full-strength divisions, with probably twenty or twenty-four
air group*- -.-mv , X\ '4
This is a tentative outline of the defense program, token
from articles written by those who keep up with the program.
It is too early to say that it is accurate but it seetna/to-be indi-
cative of what is underway. In all, the armed forces will
ably reach a total of $3,000,000 jnen, provided with wear
equipment and paraphernalia unequalled in the history of
fare. 5
Inquiry Into Draftees’ Rejection
A..
The House armed services sub-committee, headed by Rep-
resentative Carl Vinson, of Georgia, is seeking to find out the
reasons for rejections of Selective Service draftees up to sixty
per cent of prospective inductees. It also wants to look into the
granting of deferments to inductees without similar treatment
to Reservists and National Guardsmen.
The committee is wondering whether the Army has set its
mental and physical standards higher than necessary. It is
pointed out that there are many men who, unable to meet
present literary and other standards, might make good in spots
similar to those which they held in civilian life. This includes
truck-driverg, cooks and others. We might add, it includes gen-
eral labor.
The slowness of physicians, dentists, allied practioners and
technicians to volunteer has caused medical Reservists, who
served two years and longer, to be recalled to active duty. The
committee seems to think that the special draft law, recently
enacted, might compel those who received their professional
training at government expense during World War II, without
performing any service for the government, to give their time
before older men, With dependents and previous service, sre
called to the dolors. —j-- - ..
It isn’t fair to judge any area by the speeches of its politi-
cal candidates. '
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The nation, it seems, is cluttered up with magazines of the
trashy typd. •'*»., •
Our law-abiding nation will not observe any law that is not
enforced. ''X s
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FLOOD CONTROL, RIVERS AND
HARBORS PROJECTS FUND CUT )
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1 of the passengers’ coats' out of
plane. The plane, Carrying 52
passengers and a crow of flve,
landed safely at Detroit, and pas-
tenge is continued on to New York
aboard another transport.
The airline offered $100 reward
for the door, needed “to determine
the cause of the sccWent.” The
offer had schoolboys near Cold-
water searching fields and Other
open areas.
mule. Very peculiar people, news-
papermen—as you well know.
Your loving father,
Horsefpce.
Only 8,000,000 people in this
rantry know they are hay fever
sufferers. Allergists estimate there
are at least another 10,000,000 who
through protracted “sum-
mer colds,” unaware of their al-
lergy.
Washington, Oct. IS, flfl—The
Army Engineers have announced
that flood control and rivers and
harbors projects totaling $618^-
564,660 will be continued during
this fiscal year which ends next
June 30. .j / ' .
This is a cutback of $60,000,000
from original appropriations. The
reduction was ordered by the Bud-
get Bureau after Congress directed
the bureau to trim at least $660,-
000,000 from the omnibus appro-
priation bill to provide more funds
for national defense.
Program Screened
Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief
of engineers, said the program has
bees screened to include projects
which directly contribute to na-
tional defense or, to civilian, re-
quirements essential to the inter-
national situation. * fjfrV
The allocations include $421,-
627,160 for flbod control, 8182,-
142,600 for rivers and harbors,
plus $16,000 for federal water
way, Colorado River Locks «
mains, $1,880,000 for projects re- veston district),
quiring presidential approval and Necbao Waterwi
$12,900,000 a<]ded bv the 1951 supg
plemental appropriation bill.
Flood control construction JR I
ecu total $837,494,750 and rivers
and harbors construction totals
$109,760,600. Other allocations are
for maintenance, planning and
surveys. ^ ~ ' *• ?"•
Texas Projects
The construction projects by
states Include: Flood control con-
struction projects:
Texas: Belton Reservoir, $2.-
768,600; Renbrook Reservoir, $!,-
947,000; Fort Worth Floodway,
$660,000: Garza-Little Elm Reser-
voir, $8,000,000; Grapevine Reser-
voir. $1,741,000; Levon Reservoir,
$8,486,000; Sen Angelo Retervolr
and Floodway, $2,600,000: fw.
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rojrote ^ hmrb0r" con,*ruction
Texas: Houston Ship Channel,
$800,000; Gulf Intracoastal We
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