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Editorial and Features
* WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK
Big Smoke, Little Fire
Russia!# decision to annul its World
War II pacjs of friendship and alliance
with Britain .and France should occasion
neither surprise nor alarm in the Western
world.
For all practical purposes the Soviet
Union canceled these treaties almost at
the war’s end. From that time forward,
the Kremlin has been operating as if the
■*$mb did not exist. If it could have man-
aged it, Russia would today be ruling
France through the medium of the French
Communist Party. And a Communist-
dominated Europe would not have found
Britain in a very enviable position.
The only reason the Soviet Union has
not been able in the years since World War
II to wipe out all that Britain and France
stand for is that they, in company with
the United States and others, have band-
ed together to prevent it.
The NATO pact was the keystone of
this preventive effort. Coming on the heels
of the Marshall Plan, which had helped
bring economic recovery to Western Eu-
rope, NATO drove home to the Soviets the
realization that these countries could no
longer be taken without a major fight;
The one missing element in NATO was
the industrial and armed might of Ger-
many. The Paris pacts, nearing final ap-
proval of all the affected nations, remedy
that deficiency by endorsing German re-
armament and entry into NATO.
The Russians now say these agree-
ments are “directed against” them. The
truth, which they well understand, is that
they are “protective against” the Soviet
Union. What annoys the Kremlin so thor-
oughly is that pulling Germany into the
Western orbit is the last, the irretrievable
step in blocking Russia’s way to an easy
conquest of Western Europe.
No smoke-screen propaganda about the
rebirth of German militarism can cloak the
fact that for nearly ten years the menace 1
to freedom has not been Germany but
Russia. No one but the most gullible neu-
tralists will be impressed by the argument
the Kremlin now advances for brewing
off “friendship” with Britain and France.
The practice in the Kremlin has long
been to observe some treaties as long as it
is convenient or compelling to do so, to
break others almost before the ink is dry,
but postpone public repudiation of them
until some moment when the act of sever-
ing ties can be milked for propaganda ad-
vantage. The latter course has been fol-
lowed in the case of the wartime friend-
ship and alliance pacts.
Nothing is really changed by Ibis act.
Russia is not thereby more likely to,.under-
take war with the West. Nobody but a
madman fights unless he thinks he can
win. The prospective incorporation of Ger-
many into the Western family raises the
barrier to Soviet conquest higher than it
was.
Whatever noises emanate from the
Kremlin in the wake of this historic devel-
opment the chances are strong that the
outlook for peace has been improved rath-
er than diminished. That, and not Com-
munist verbosities, is what counts.
Washington Letter...
BY JANE EADS
A.P. STAFF WRITER
Washington.—Liz Carpenter, president of the
Women’s National Press Club, gives the following
recipe for a perfect Washington pa^ty: “Combine
several ambassadors; saute with reporters; sprinkle
generously with American VIP’s, and shake with a
global subject.”
The luncheon over which she presided recent-
ly was just that. Head table guests and speakers
were four ambassadors, Couve de MurvilJe of
France, Brosio of. (Italy, Melas of Greece and
Areilza of Spain. The newswomen were out in
full force and invited their male colleagues as
well. VIPs were all over the place, including Mrs.
Sherman Adams, wife of the presidential assistant;
Mrs. Charles Wilson,, wife of the defense eecre-
tary, and Mrs, George Humphrey, wife of the sec-
retary of the treasury. In addition, the town’s
four top hostesses were in the tkrong of 850.
Mrs. Merriweather Post (the recently divorc-
ed wife of Joe Davies, former ambassador to Rus-
sia); pretty blonde Mrs. Robert Guggenheim, wife
of the recently mired U. S. ambassador to Spain;
“hostess with the most css" Perle Mesta, former U.,
S. minister to Luxembourg,1' and Gwen CafriU,
whose husband, Morris, is the town’s top realtor.
The subject discussed by the four envoys: How
can Europe contribute to world peace?
Burleson Sees Recess in
Congress as Inventory Time
- BY PETEK ED30N
NEA Washington Correspondent
The crystal chandelier, bought by Thomas Jef-
ferson in Paris for the White House, is among the
furnishings valued at close to $75,000 which en-
rich the office of the vice president, in the Capitol
near the Senate chamber.
^ Grover Cleveland was married under the chan-
-tfelier in the East Room. Later it hung over
President Theodore Roosevelt’s desk until he ord-
ered it to the veep’s office. According to the
story on the Hill, Teddy Roosevelt declaimed “He
(the veep) doesn’t have anything to do, and it
will keep him awake.” Other items include a
Peale painting of George Washington, valued at
$50,000, and a book ease made from wood of the
H.S.S. Constitution. a
Mrs. Hussein, young and pretty wife of the
Egyptian ambassador, whips up some of her own
beautiful party clothes on a sewing machine at
the embassy.
An Indian woman who shot her husband and
put him in the hospital how says she’ll miss him-
which she should have done in the first place.
NEA Service, Inc
Isn’t it funny how the most beautiful girl in
the world can be in so many places at’the same
time?
Autos run from 10 to 20 miles on a gallon,
and you never know wnat on a pint—with too
much alcoholic content.
Too many people eat too much meat, says a
doctor. A lot of little pigs go to market.
If you figure you’re not getting ahead in the
world, look and see if your wishbone is where your
backbone should be.
The income tax finally got through another
birthday, but without many happy returns.
Only when you try to tell it does what you
don’t know hurt you.
“Keep Off the Grass” signs soon will be tell-
ing us which parks belong to the public.
.We’ll bet that on some mornings after some
golfers wish it had been as hard to find a high-
ball as a golf ball.
‘ A sneak thief robbed four rooms in a Minne-
sota hotel. One man who didn’t leave a thing
when he checked out.
Now is the time when the boss gets absent-'
minded and goes to the golf course instead of the
office.
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By i. R. Williams
Austin, Tex.—Tax plans tail-
spinned in the House before ad-
journment last week-end.
A tight-running team carried
the Stanton Stone “fleas to uran-
ium” omnibus tax compromise.
But they threw the ball over the
head of the receiver. Net result:
The House refused to pass the bill
at second reading.lt had to be re-
vived for further action.
Some members rebelled because
they weren’t in on the play.
New compromises, with more
players and a less taut rein, how-
ever, promised an ultimate tax
bill. Members have been talking
about $100 million new taxes”,
and that was just about what the
new compromise plan embraced. It
would involve face saving all
around.
The four-point plan included:
Acceptance of the Stone cut of
the gasoline tax to one cent, from
two, as originally asked liy Gov-
ernor Allan Shivers. At the same
time, one-fourth of its revenue—
eight million a year — would be
given to cities and counties to buy
right-of-way.
One-cent increase on cigarette
tax was kept.
Cut-down levies on beer deal-
ers’ licenses voted by the House
was accepted, but, in deference to
strong group demands, $1 a bar-
rel! tax on beer was added.
Natural gas production tax
would be frozen at its present 9-
cent level. By present law, it
would drop to 8 cents in Septem-
ber and 7 cents after Sept. 1,
1950.
As the hill stood when the
House refused passage, it would
raise forty and one-half million
dollars a year. Various changes
proposed in the second comprom-
ise would push it up to $50 mil-
lion a year, thus reaching the
$1000 million” about which mem-
bers talked.
There still is talk of a special
session, should the regular ses-
sion not be able to iron out dif-
ferences on where and how to
raise the needed revenue.
Other Bill. Pa.. • -
While the House walked around
the tax issue, a number of non-
controversial bills were passed.
Voted by the House was con-
currence in Senate amendments to
a bill banning "lewd and deprav-
ed” comic books.
Also voted was a Senate amend-
ment shortening the “cooling off”
period in divorce cases. The House
has passed a hill setting the time
at 90 days. The Senate made it
60.
Two Senate bills calling for
mandatory jail sentences in sex
offense convictions involving chil-
dren were approved by the House.
Final passage was given a bill
increasing the length limit of
trucks from 45 to 50 feet.
In the Senate, 43 local and un-
contested bills were passed.
Probe to Continue
.Veterans land investigations
will proceed in the Senate, despite
bitter objection of some members.
Senator Jimmy Phillips said it
would be wrong to stop it because
“all parties responsible for the gi-
gantie fraud have not been ex-
posed and named.
Senators Dorsey B. Hardeman
and Rud’olph A. Weinert contend-
ed that the probe has established
the pattern of fraud and the time
ha* conic for trial of persons in-
dicted. "
Voting was 19 to 12 to cany
the inquiry through May 10.
Last week was ’the first in a
long time when no new crimi-
nal charges or indictments or civil
forfeiture suits were filed, in-
volving veterans land.
Submission of additional land
| bonds has been voted by the Vet-
erans Land Board two-to-one with
Attorney "General John Ben Shep-
perd voting no. Hearing has been
posted in the Senate on Sen.
George Moffett’s $100 million
bond plan. A $200 million resolu-
tion was waiting in the House.
Water Bill Pa.se.
Finally passed by the House
was a measure creating the Trin-
ity River, Authority.
Water eonseravtion, flood con-
trol, and irrigation projects are
authorized by the bill which speci-
fically forbids construtcion of a
barge canal between the Gulf of
Mexico and the Fort Worth-Dal-
las area.
Failure was the destiny in the
House of a proposed constitutional
amendemnt. to finance dams and
other water projects.
Voting favored the resolution
78 to 61, but 100 votes are requir-
ed to submit a constitutional
amendment.
Under the defeated proposal, a
State Water Commission, with in-
creased authority, would supplant
the State Board of Water Engi-
neers.
Tideland. Again
More trouble looms between
the federal government and Texas
over the tidolands.
Attorney General Shepperd said
he had discovered that the U. S.
Interior Department and the De-
partment of Justice will oppose
Texas’ sale .of tidelands oil and
gas leases May 3.
Congress restored ownership of
the tidelands, out to the 10 Vi mile
limit, after the submerged areas
had been claimed by the federal
government.
Only three miles of the offshore
lands were returned to other
states.
Now it appears the federal gov-
ernment wants to hold Texas
lights to three miles.
Money from sale of the leases
goes into the Texas permanent
school fund.
Hou.e Invite. Salk
Commending Dr. Jonas E. Salk
highly on his development of the
polio vaccine, the House has in-
vited the Michigan doctor to ad-
dress the Texas Legislature.
WASHINGTON —' (NEA) —
” Here’s the score card for
84th Congress activity after
three months, or half of the (list
session, according to Rep. Omar
Burleson (D., Tex.):
“Nearly 7000 bills have been
introduced; 178 reports have
been filed; 12 bills have become
law; about 60 roll calls have
been taken; 59 new lobbyists
have been registered.
“The Congress is taking a few
days’ recess for Easter. Perhaps
during this breather and during
the time which holds a religious
significance for millions of peo-
ple, members of Congress may
take an inventory of themselves.
... It is an easy matter to take
an inventory of the accomplish-
ments of the Congress. But it is
not an easy matter to take an
inventory of one’s self.”
SEN. NORRIS COTTON (R.,
N. H.) suspects that members of
Congress are so loaded with
special briefings and advice that
they sometimes ignore plain
common sense.
“The intellectual subtlety that
abounds in Washington is enough
to make your head swim," says
Senator Cotton.
Here are some of the examples
he gives:
“College professors lecture us
on the finer distinctions of the
philosophies of government. Dip-
lomats brief us on the delicate
phases of world relations. Soci-
ologists instruct us on the causes
of crime and delinquency and
the psychological background of
race prejudice.
“As for technical knowledge,”
adds Senator Cotton in a letter
to his constituents, “if you could
sit with us in committee rooms
listening to scientists, military
experts, and economists expound
on everything from atomic en-
ergy to the stockmarket, you-
would quickly realize that while
we certainly need all the infor-
mation we can get, too much ex-
posure to technical knowledge
can confuse the lawmaker and
divert him from the direct, sim-
ple reasoning of common sense.”
THE INSTALLATION OF milk
vending machines in the Repub-
lican and Democratic cloakrooms
of Congress has given Secratary
of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
a big lift.
“In those very rooms, through
the years, the problems of the
dairy industry "have been dis-
cussed upon thousands of occa-
sions," he told the Pacific Dairy
and Poultry Assn, at its Salt
Lake City convention.
“Now Congressmen have the
means of attacking the dairy
surplus problem through con-
sumption as well as through
legislation.”
ALL CONGRESSMEN keep a
pretty close eye on their mail
from home, but sometimes it gets
pretty discouraging.
Rep. James C* Wright, Jr. D.t
Tex.) reports that a member of
the Lone Star state delegation
got a telegram from a constitu-
ent who didn’t like one of the
Congressman’s recent votes. “En-
joy yourself,” the wire said
tersely. “It’s later than you
think."*
Another Texan got a wire from
home demanding that the Con-
gressman do something to get
the cowboys and Indians oft tele-
vision.
AFTER SEN. Hubert Hum-
phrey (D., Minn.) introduced a
bill to abolish the antiquated
Electoral College voting system
to rubber-stamp the election of
President and Vice-President, he
got a postcard from Hazel I. Dan-
neck’er, of New Castle, Ind. It
read:
Well, it isn’t much of a college
For it’s never produced, to our
knowledge,
A good football team,
And so it would seem * 7
It might just as well be
abolidged.
Truman Said
Dissatisfied With
Lyndon Johnson
New York, Apr. 18 .1A—Con-
cerning his sharp criticism of the
Eisenhower administration over
the week-end, Former President
Truman is quoted in the New
York Times:
‘ I got tired a long time ago
of some mealy-mouthed Senators
who kiss Ike on both cheeks.”
Truman did not mention names,
but the Times account says the
implication was that he is dissat-
isfied with the restrained parti-
san activity of Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas.
highway. He said he had enough
gas bur was lost and thought he’d
better land.
He said he was able to land on
the dark highway because he could
see the lights of the cars and just
put his ship down in an opening
in the traffic.
This year, more than 235,000
Americans will die of cancer.
'Losted'Pilot
Lands Airplane
On Highway
Huntsville, Apr. 18 IJV—A crop
duster pilot landed safely on a j
busy highway just five blocks
from downtown Huntsville last
night. The pilot, 30-year-old W. |
A. Fowler of San Antonio, had 1
been reported over-due on a flight j
from Knoxville, Tenn., to San An-1
tonio.
Fowler had this to say of him-
self—“I was the most ‘losted’ guy
you ever met in your life.”
Fowler said he had been flying
by radio but it went dead after he
left Shreveport, La.
Huntsville police reached Fow-
ler shortly after he lawded and
helped him push the plane off the
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Bolivian Plot
Said Uncovered
La Paz, Bolivia, Apr., 18 W—
The Bolivian interior ministry
says it has uncovered a plot to
assassinate President Victor Paz
Estenssoro and restore the gov-
ernment to what it calls the olig-
archy.
The minstry reelased a state-
ment in which it detailed what it
terms two simultaneous conspir-
acies. One was described as organ-
ized by members of the oligarchy
and its agents in the country,
and the other by the Bolivian So-
cialist Falange, whose leaders are
in exile in neighboring countries.
By Oligarchy, the government
apparently means wealthy inter-
ests, some of which liave suffered
since the 1952 revolution.
The Bolivian government says
60 men and 13 women still are in
jRil as a result of the plot, while
other suspects were freed after
being cleared on charges.
The government accuses the na-
tionalized tin-mining companies of
giving the conspirators financial
help to buy a radio station which
was to operate in an unidentified
neighboring country.
TEXAS
LAUGHS
By
Boyce Houm
“I’se gwinc to git in de Ahmy,”
a darkey said in 1942, “and’ I’se
gwine to handle one ob dem big
cannon an’ I’se gwine to pull dat
cord and den I’se gwine to poke
qvah haid up an’ yell: ‘Hitler,
count yoah soldiers!’ ”
BURGLAR TAKES BITE
Council Bluffs, Iowa (£>—Mrs.
Golda Knuth reported to police
that her cafe was burglarized.
She said she didn’t miss anything^
but: 1
A large bite had been taken
out’bf a c^ike left on the coun-
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