The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1948 Page: 2 of 12
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Revo)t!nterrupts Bogota Parley;
Miners Get Pension, End Watkout;
GOP Aspirants in Primaries Fight
Bv Bit! Schoentgen. WXU Sta^ Writer
KDITOR^ \OTE -^ieh^K Af* it
REVOLT:
Bocofn
It was a peaceful early aftemoca
in Bcgrta. Cclcmliia. and the inter-
American conference was droning
along irc^s::mary style in the capt-
tol build^.g on the Placa Bclivar.
Then. wi:h the faring of fc.tr assas-
sin's bullets r.to the bciy cf Jorge
Elicier G^itan, popular leader cf
Cclcmbia's L-bera! party, one cf the
worst revolts Latm Amercas has
aeen exploded irto violence.
During the f-st afternoon Bogota
descended :r.:o a state of complete
anarchy. Mrbs pr sled the stret.s.
burning and l*o:.r.g. Scores were
killed. Tr.e residence cf President
Ospina Perez '.'. as attacked and wnr.-
dows were broken cefcre army
troops drove a .av tr.e crowd.
Above the cor.:'-sed clamor of the
throng could b-e heard shouts cf
"Down with the government, do^n
with the Conservatives."
Three days later, as the riots sim-
mered to a halt, 300 persons were
dead, many c.hers injured. Down-
town Bogota was a welter of de-
struction. C:l:mbia had briker. re-
lations w;:h Sov.et Russia, and the
inter-American conference had al-
most cracked up. v .ih delegates un-
certain as to '.vheiher they could con-
tinue.
On the face cf:t. the revolt was
a sudden erupt.on of violent seg-
ment cf Liberal party followers
against the Conservative govern-
ment in p.v.tr. Immeo.ate result
was the firmati n of a new coali-
tion cabinet. equally c mpcsed<*.f
Liberals am C.r?er.atives.
B:g quest.or. *.' *? ;.:w much Com-
gota
mur.ists had *.: J: v.th the B
riots.
U.S. Secretary f State George
Marshall, v'r.o w.*.. ;r Americans
in Bogota ^;t*y.r^\.c.**. to.e r-cis un-
seated. claimed fe revolt was
"The occurrence goes beyond Co-
lombia. Itiscfthesamedefin.te
patterns as the occurrences which
provoked strikes ;n F ranee and
Italy."
And the Colombian government, in
severing relat.or.s with Russia. de-
clared that a "Communist insurrec-
tion" had touched off the mob fury.
Finally, :t was announced from
Bogota that the mier-American con-
ference would resume "so that Com- '
munism could r.ot triumph over Co-
lombia and the rest of the nations of
the hemisphere "
SETTLEMENT:
Con/
John L. Lewis wasn't exactly :n
the position of a man who had asked
friends cut to dinner and then found
he couldn't pay the check, but ne
was verging on some such situation.
Half a million soft coal miners
started to straggle back tt work
after a 28-day strike when Lewis in-
formed them that the fight for S190-
a-month pensions had been won. but
Lewis himself had to appear before
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough
to answer a contempt of court
charge.
Lewis was cited for contempt by
Goldsborough. h.s 1947 nemesis, on
the grounds that he ignored an Apnl
S court order to call off the strike.
Apart from the contempt of court
citation, settlement of the coat strike
was distinguished mainly by a
slightly marvelous amalgam of po-
litical action and expedient compro-
mise
Beginning of the end came when
Speaker of the House Joseph Martin
(Rep., Mass ) moved into the dis-
pute by persuading Lewis and Ezra
Van Horn, a mine operator, to meet
with him in his office. Martin then
suggested that Sen Styles Bridges
(Rep., K H.) be Ytamed the third
member of the board which admin-
isters the miners' welfare and re-
tirement fund. (Lew-s and Van Horn
are the other two members.)
At a subsequent meeting of the
three. Bridges proposed a plan that
would give MOO-a-mor.th pensions to
62-year-old miners with 20 years of
service who retired after May 22,
1946. the date on which the miners'
welfare fund was set up Bridges'
plan was accepted and the strike
called off.
Actually. Lewis, m approving the
New Hampshire senator s proposal,
had descended several notches from
his original demands.
Politically, the most fascinating
aspect of the affair was how Jce
Martin managed to take the p.ay
away from the administration m
arranging for a settlement.
TREATY:
1 hi tsfon^H
Russia had what it wanted -fr;r
Finland—a buffer state ta the r.ort--
uest.
The two nations s.gned a 13-yt:r
treaty cf mutual assistance wr *
herders is the event either ccun'.r;
is attacked.
Finland ar.d Russia, stated tr:
pact, would battle s.de by side *:
repel aggression :y Germany r
anotr.er s.aie a ,.?d with" German
The treaty cirr.rr.spectly fa led to
mention any other state by name
Despite tr.e fact that F-nlarci
deligat.cn v.rtuallv had been c:r-
manded tc appear at M.soow to s ^
la his South St. Paul home Stas-
sen grinned with the comfortable
cheer of a cat who had jnst swiped
all the cream in Wisconsin as he
sat with his wife and received re-
ports stating that he had run off
with 19 of the ?7 delegates in that
state's primary election.
PR!MAR!ES:
ff !3fOnSM!
7.'.scor.s.n's presidential pr.mary
election to choose delegates to the
Republican f.jticnal convention tn
Philadelphia on June 21 was regard-
ed. as usual, as a straw* in the wind;
but this year the political breeze
was a shifting one.
For Harold Stassen. ex-governor
of Minnesota, a hard, thorough cam-
pa.gn waged by himself and his
volunteer supporters up and down
the state paid eff nobly when Wis-
cf 19 of the state s 27 delegates to the
GOP convention.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur took the
remaining eight to run a poor sec-
ond. despite a flamboyant publicity
drive carried cut by his backers
f notably the Hearst newspapers)
which was built around the theory
that heis "the only man equipped to
deal with Russia."
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of Kew
York drew a compiete blank in Wis-
consin, where he had been the Re-
publican
ATdMBO*.!!!:
ot^-.u- = .a
favorite in 1940 and again
mlS44.
As a result of the scons-n elec-
tion. Stassen was catapulted into
public consciousness as a leading
contender for the Republican nomi-
nation. It was certain that his top-
heavy victory there would be reflect-
ed m the other primaries to follow,
and that he had gained considerable
stature in the Midwest.
It was difficult to tell which of
the two losers—Dewey or MacArthur
—nad been hit harder by his defeat.
Dewey. who received no delegates,
might seem to be in a position simi-
lar to that of Wendell Willkie in 1944
when he withdrew from the GOP
race after losing ignominiously tn
the Wisconsin primary. But the New
York gcvemor previously had beaten
Stassen in the New Hampshire pri-
mary. and. also, he had the full siate
of ?\e'.'. York delegates pledged to
It was on MacArthur, who had
c.aimed Wisconsin as his home
state, that the axe of public disfavor
appeared to have fallen with great-
est force.
Vorp To Come
From Wisconsin the election year
wind swung to the plains of Nebraska
where seven leading contenders in
the Republican presideptial race
fought it out in a free-for-all match,
with Stassen again emerging as the
big winner.
After Nebraska the battlefield
shifted to Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts on April 27. A total of 108
delegates to the GOP convention was
at stake.
On May 4 Harold Stassen was to
carry the fight to Sen. Howard Taft's
home arena, the state of Ohio. It
was no secret that Taf! was wor-
ried over which way his fellow Ohio-
ans might go, and a good showing
by Stassen would hamper materially
Taft's White House ambitions.
In his second pitched battle with
Governor Dewey (New Hampshire
was the first) Stassen was slated ;o
invade Oregon for that state's GOP
primary on May 21. While results
of the Oregon primary were not ex-
pected to be conclusive, they would
serve to provide a first sampling of
West coast opinion.
Final state presidential primary
on the Republican side occurs in
California on June 1.
Italian Stv!f
EDUCAT!0\:
Nearly half of the :,245,000 World
War I! veterans who entered special
education and training programs
under the G I bill of rights have
abandoned their courses, Veterans
administration says.
More than 400,000 completed their
work, however—382,000 of them
under the G.I. bill and the rest under
the rehabilitation program for dis
abled veterans. Many of those that
quit piantoreturnlater.it was indi-
cated.
Gasotina from Coa!
Gasohne made from coal, even
when it comes into genera) use. prob-
ably will cost more than petroleum
gasoline, but at least motorists won't
have to worry about shortages, a re-
search sotentist, Dr. R. W. Krebs
of Baton Rouge, La., has predicted.
He estimated that coal gasoline
wiil cost from 10 to 15 cents more a
gallon than gasoline currently tn use,
but he added that the supply will be
enough to last 1,000 years.
U.S. Ambassador to Italy James
Ctement Dunn (right) peers beoev-
otentty at an Italian worker in
Taranto as he tastes grain that was
^ among Me foodstuffs delivered
aboard the 500th relief shii tn bring
foodto!ta)y.
CONTROLS:
CoM ShoNMrr
The jeertng specter of pr.<.e .-.age
and ration controls was invoked
again by President Truman's counc.t
of economic advisers which called
for nationwide "discipline" to pre-
vent inflation under the impact cf the
new defense program.
In its report covering the first
three months of 1943 the council de-
nounced the tax cut law as "infla-
tionary " and recommended new
taxes if the planned defense spend-
ing :s not offset by reduced govern-
ment costs inother areas.
Republican - dominated congress
received rather happily the coun-
cil's call for reduced government
spending, but maintained a glum
silence on the subject of selective
price, wage and ration controls
Congressmen indicated that they
want to study possible inflationary
effects of the preparedness program
and foreign aid spending under '.he
Marshall plan before they g.ve any
serious consideration to resurrect-
ing economic controls.
Although the council admitted that
foreign spending coupled wtth a big
defense outlay "will not swamp our
economy nor require us to pass from
free enterprise to regimentation," it
added that "some rather systematic
and vigorous discipline must be ex-
ercised."
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Muff (a Dog) Has Her tdeas
About the Nobility of Man
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; ;t,i cf.T.s i:ke the one in the accompanying
in t be too surprised to be to!d that the dog
: *. e .ar.s ar.d who shouldn't: to hear about
e r.re '.vith a shopping tist. bring hack gro-
.-. :!.<? basket they carry: and you know at!
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ft-;n appear to sense danger's approach,
ar. cxperierre with a dog which you prob-
- r. my pgg a never has been maintained
r.j a com- excrrt by 'balan-. e of power'; men
.h'. r.g animals' and so on ad
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keep yourself
while accomf.'-J..
worth whiin
Secretar.- of Defense James F;r-
resta: put a name ar.d a def^iit.vt
e:re. aft.r a faji.icn. to all the rest-
less postwar fears Americans hav*
been exper.er.c.r.g.
He did :t by announcing to the
hojse armed services committee
s how to make the
bomb. More specifically,
rs.or.s possess the knowledge
to put the bomb together but
oortt avetre industrial
btmb. but the days of U. s/mcno^
erred. Forrestal said. He told the
c n^.eisicr.si committee that he got
r..s informat on from Dr. Vannevar
Bush, chairman f the t* S. research
and development board.
Dur.ng the course of h;s testimony
r:gsroing a twc-: ear draft of men
19 through 23, the defense secretary
answered quer.es with:
"I S3id they do r.ot have the atom
&o-mb. 1 did not say they cc not
have the secret of the atom b^omb
I am informed by Dr. Bush that
the scientific knowledge ar.d techni-
cal procedure involved in the mor.^-
facture cf tr.e atcm bomb are kn; vn
to Russia."
Thus, U.S.-Russian relations on
the atomic level had developed 'o
the pemt where there was or.ly ;.-.e
unknown quantity: How soor. wo..d
the S-ovms acquire the industr.ai
capacity to produce atom bombs*
Secretary Forrestal
didn't know.
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rdon the Latin but a
Roman senator belonged to one of
my .,r. fr.-" rs.) New I. with my race
m: :.- —*^r. rcrall m<ve of them
w i nve worn thin and been dis-
carded than your species (which I
dou : will have a very extended
destiny) ever will have.
"Just an example. With tittle ef-
fort, I can recall some of the silly
shibboleths which made trouble for
some of my ancestors. It was back
in the stone age, just about the same
time when we canines decided Man
had reached the point where he was
ready f<-r adopt on and training in
civilisation.
"At that period m pre-history we
had advanced to the point where we
hunted m packs instead of singly.
Our policy was still kill and let be
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on cataloguing the obvious
.-oioatiir.s of Muff's intelligence,
w'r.i.h far surpasses that of many
locuao.ous h-man acquaintances. As
I talked cn. Muff rolled over care-
fully thire was just room for it
oa her perch and yaw-ned. Not
because she was bored, as I was to
learn later, but c-ecause praise of
thus type always embarrasses her.
She'Aiilwagnerselfwaglessata
"good d:g ' f:r s:me stupid, fetch-
and-carry trick tr.st even a Boston
terrier co-Id learn, but when or.e
praises her intellectual achieve-
ments. it always embarrasses her
and she tries to hide it.
"Well," I insisted "It's true you
are intelligent enough to talk."
Then I was puzzled. Distinctly,
though in a breathy voice which
sounded the way a dog does be-
fore he has quite decided to bark.
! heard an answer: "!t isn't that
! am not intelligent enough. And
it isn't that dogs will never talk,
but I'm afraid 1 shall never learn."
I'm dreaming. I said to myself, but
no. There was Muff, there was the
outline of the maple, dim now as
the darkness gathered. There was I.
I'll handle this
rationally, I said Just let things
happen. I relaxed and was lesssur-
prised to hear the soft, breathy voice
continue It isn't that there's any-
thing wrong w.th my speech center
in the third, left convolution of my
cortex—but, I want to repeat, that
dogs never can learn to talk. . .
"Gently I opened my eyes. Muff
was sitting up now, her head cocked
to or.e side, her mouth, or at least
her jaA. moving a little, because
eveninthecrepusculelcouldsee
her beard wagging ger.tlv as she
went on:
Because, as you may know, we
canines, and [ believe this applies
to other animals as well, have far
clearer race-memories than human
betngs. 'Sou sometimes mistakenly
refer to tr.ese memcr.es - s intuition,
mat ;s nonsense Given a set of
circumstances, any half-witted pooch
or over-bred show-pup. i-.med.ate'v
<nows what to do.
"We canines picked man as a
friend and were probabiv one of
the great factors in his domestica-
tton. largely because we found him
more malleable than any o( th,
other fauna. And ) think we have
done a good job. W, have not
been harsh masters. mat be
over-sentimental at times, but' tou
v<th 101R maudlin sentiment,
you frequently interpret sound.
practtca! loyalty, motivated bv a
- - -
"But I'm d.gre --9
went on)—'.'.ha: I .<
to your attention
race memories
some. too. and;, j ^e"s"i
else—traditions 'l*
as far. but they j,;e parl.-.d
* the* Or* -*
your traditions lead vr"/
M*. h (he lax few 'month.
you thought I was asl-iep i t. -
you and your high-broj fn.-,d,
Hirase, „ke.
:: tr.ng
s "'usir.ess cf
^*er. have
back
arcel
iy of
o trou.
while
e heard
"We canines picked man as a
friend and were probably one of
the great factors in his domestica-
tion."
killed although some of us had dis-
covered its fallacy. We also had a
long list of so-callcd hereditary en-
emies, and next to the apes, Man
led them all.
"1 don't know how many cen-
turies it took to revise that list,
and accept Man as a friend. A
pretty stupid and cruet friend, to
be sure, but one who could be
trained. There was one saying, !
believe, which was very popular,
but which the more enlightened
canines Mew was nothing but an
oldftmales'tate. Itwent: Don't
trust a man any farther than vou
can smell him.' You would realize
the force of that if you knew how
far you used to smeM. '
"There was another saying: The
only good man is a dead one. and
even then you'd better let the jamais
taste him first.' I could go on end-
lessly. It took an awful lot of work
to explode those myths. Almost as
long as it did to get some of the
cruelty out of Man. We've gone a
]h3ngway m that direction, ag you
know. In another it) or 15 centuries
I wouldnt be surprised if we got
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Lgh. That shouldn't - and wouldn't
happen to a dog!"
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ind'Vth
and 1 thought notonlv my true
humb''<t fnpec'fu' and
Mi* s^Rsimpertnent
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