The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 2

THE EMPORIA Editor, A TV. L. Fr. une EXCEPT SUNDAY of County Km Kur.m» fxciuiivfiy rn- uu puMictuou al! tf or r.ol klso local of ward farm talk, and they lei the men they'd elected to write their know what kind of laws they didn't want. legislators weren't what ihp people did want; but they had idea of what kind location can touch off tem- rilphvly confused, thinking body of law- who picked up their briefcases and went home to their hotel rooms Monday nlcht They had heard from the common people i pest.

It i carefully of ftuhnrriptleii tif to c'. 3C a week i ysr -00 in Kicporla MOKE STTOEVTS XKXT YEAK It Is generally conceded by eciursTors that the colleges and won't able to accept enrol 1m FT. i of nil who for college next fai; Probably It will take two more Tor to ex- the.ir nnc3 plants to enroll who desire to enter. Jr. Kansas this applies to the at Lawrence nuri to Ksnsfi.5 Stale collcse nt Manhattan.

K. I', officials thev CALL THE COPS Prom the Hiitrhlnsnn Nfn-Hf raid: In addition to their $3 a day, which is all the constitution allows. the members of the 1947 Kansas lepisJnture have voted almost mouslv an allowance of $175 each for "postasre nnd stationery." The foct la cited to the attention of Attorney promised General Am the people who has strict en- forcernent of the laws. An Investigation IF called for. It should bp determined whether ench of the Senators and Representatives has invested $175 in Irtterhpnds.

envelopes and United States post- nee Mnrnpi. Further, the investigation should establish whether the aforexaid stationery stamns were used solely on oiricinl business. In the event it is discovered nnv of these $175 voiirhrrs bear the endorsement of Topeka the duty what happens to employment, to wages, to Industrial- and farm prices, when this capital expenditure tapers off? That question not easily answered, and no one can quarrel with Senator Taft for not having a glib answer. But to fail to ask the question, to appear to be unaware that there Is such question, Ls 10 be blind to experience and to the facts of life. Por in the postwar period of the '20s purchases of new plant and equipment rose to their peak in 1929 ut something over nine billions, and 1 fell to a little over two billions in the depth of the depression in 1933.

They never got much above billions during the New Deal era until war production began after J939. Mr. Tail's problem, and the country's problem, IK posed by th-3 fact that If there Is a serious decline from the present rate of private capital investment, a serious depression la as certain as anything can be. How long then can American business continue to buy new plant and equipment at the present rate uf 14 billions annually? No one can say exactly how long. But what is sure Is that it cannot and will not be done indefinitely and continually.

In each established business the time must come when it has all the plant and all the equipment THE EfoPORIA GAZETTE looked for continuad heavy en-I of the AUonirv General is self-evl- next year wtUi a total the dent. HP should file charges or creator than this year's. K. tr. hits 9.000 Mudem.s with a plant built 5,000 nnd Kansas Plats' is nertriy ss crowded.

Which brines Empnrla. tiMvn has two college the Col- li'Cf 1 anrt established the oldest schools of hlrhcr in Knnsp.v Prob- nbh bfvausp the present low profession. the- Tcnrhcrs Coilcce Is not as over- -ifh The two Iftreer while C. of np- prsmrhlnr prewar size, could enrol) ndcHT.iov.ii! nwct fall. Po there's ii sellinp job ahead, not onlv for schools but for Emporla town.

Our hirh schools will be turniriK liundrf-d In any who are revealed to have trifled with the constitution and the taxpayers' money. He should procede apnlnst them for urand larceny, conspiracy to subvert the constitution, malfeasance in office, embozzlomrnt of public funds, and such other crimes revised statutes and mny rontnln. which it can use profitably to make the goods and services it has a reasonable prospect of Then, unless there are fcreat new business men to continue investing hugh sums of new money. That may for the tune being serve as sufficient policy for the dominant party In this post-war It might serve a political program through the election of 1948. But it containa nothing which can avert, or prepare the country for, that repetition the disaster of 1929 to which thU philosophy of unregenerate laissez- faire will surely take (Copyright.

York Tribuui Wathinglon Drew Pearson Truman Modem Art Washington President Truman Is strictly a conservative ivhen It comes modern art. "Ham and eggs" art he calls the paintings of the surrealists, the futurists, and the cubists. The chief executive wants his art down-to-earth and easy to understand. He likes it to be beautiful, not shocking, and to represent something. Reporters saw an example of the art Mr.

Truman loves recently. when he gave them a private showing of "The a painting by George Healy which the President had purchased for the White House for $10.000. He confided to newsmen that a New York art dealer originally asked $18,000 for it. but he argued him down to SI 0.000. Mr.

Truman had called in the National Gal- the painting to art ho enterprises calling for I be worth about good buy. ciiu-i tu CHUHlg IO1 Capital In- ij 0 vestment, new to be opened Presldent thought, and bought should mnmhs. Most of these yotmp 1 ijincoi want to co to collie. 'The I nc an be colIeRe. They riot find the welcome mnv out thorn at other collars next fall.

Thry could more- profitably spend tiifir yenr. even iheir year, here nt home. It would COM and housing would nrv bo difficult, a. problem. horn? town boys and Rirls should be on Mart ing their ccHcef work here at home.

Moreover, the vounp; crads of the many schools in the Emporln ry it or should told of the Per- Taritaee-s of Emporla schools. hnps RdvortlsSntr and some missionary work would help. The bulk of the veterans who will en- roll are 5n Emporia tRke of the crop nf from the hiirh whools and pive them a I rhnnre to something than thr and mencc-r hnuxins: in T. L. the lar per or out of the stnti.

his proseruuon of thrm until they are ousted, fined, jnilotl nnd 'or hnneed. I.sv.' enforcement, after nil. should where the laws are born. Tnday and Tomorroir Walter Lippmann Mr. Tail's 1929 Aftw some more study, which he hits promised to make.

Srnator Taft will, one may hope, wish to revise i his Lincoln Day speech. For if this a statement, or even a preview, of what. thinks American economic policy should be In the. postwar period then it is fair to say that it contains no hint of a suggestion that he has bepiin to face up to the- hard facts of the situation. Yet in the field domestic policy he is the most powerful Individual in the United States.

"Tiie problem of stability." he said, "seems to rne to rest primarily on continuing balance between competitive forces, a balance between taxes and government spending, a balance between wane levels nnd price levels, a balance between wages and consuqjption. ji balance brtween nnri industria! income" it 5 curious that neglected to mention the need of .1 balance between savings nnd Investment. Vet if there Is one clear nnd certain losson of the past 25 years, it that when savings run rio longer be invested profitably, nnd are not used In some other way, the whole system is 1 thrown out of balnnce. up. built and developed, the capital will not be invested, and the whole national economy thrown out of balance.

That time of trouble will surely come within relatively few years not in three years but almost certainly within ten. It will come, that is to unless we are fully aware of it in advance, nnd are prepared nnd resolved to deal with it before it comes. THE SCHOOL LAW PROTEST "Grid rmiir have laved the common penple: he made so many of their; TV.u* Ahnihr.m Lincoln Mimniiy in the hail of t.he Kar.sas house rcprfsrntatives. For thr people had come to ToprkR common peopla in thflr selriom used nnd vdiri their a RP q.nd booT.v The common Ir. un uncommon rtisplny of They on the city in the rsrly hours nnci they tared after the hnri iy nnf 5trert rific tc? Blonz Knri9MS "JTi-'v hart come to protest ar.ri rhry dirin't Ser.ve unit! they had bvjr rr! Their complaint wns school tersan SIR- Thpy didn't lik? it and 1 know r- np-n hearine of house and committees on the con.iolida- Kansas rurnl The law pjiwed had been rirp from the The prwrnt Inw- :r.r ft5 under ronsiciern- propofird chuncos and had to heard.

a or5 thc the co-op Jr. But to Kftr.v.» history. picturr In the Inst quarter of 1946 capital inx-estmem, thru Is to sny ex- urw for new capital and equipment by American business. not countinp BKrriculture. was running nt the rate of billion dollars annually.

The question Is how ions can American business continue prudently and profitably to Invpst cnpital at this rate, and his mind against lslft issible ncans. There Is nothing in Mr. Taft's speech to indicate that he is even of the problem, much less thai he Is preparing for it, or is resolved to deal with it. There is on the contrary, disconcerting reason to think that Mr. Taft has as matter of quito sincere any of the po They are, one, to export abroad the surplus capital that cannot be invested at home, and to reinvest the profits of that foreign Investment.

Mr. Tnft repnrds foreign trade as "highly desirable" but of trifling Importance and he wishes to cut to the bone our economic action abroad. Second, to Invest large sums in the upkeep and development of a great military establishment and of the supporting war industries: Mr. Taft wishes to trim the military budget to a point where our far-flung commitments cannot be adequately supported. Third, to engage in a large program of public investment for the conservation and development of our national re- and for the improvement of our altogether Inadequate system of education, scientific and cultural reserch, nnd public health: Mr.

Taft will certainly shrink from anything that if it is to be done on large scale. What then, is there left to him as a policy which he can support as the day comes, as come it must, when private cnpital investment can no longer be sustained year after year at sumhing like the present rate? Fie does not approve of public Investment, he dislikes the export of cnpitnl and does not. cnre much for the expansion of foreign trade, and he has never liked military power. All that is left to him Is to act as if private business could co on investing capital indefinitely, and to say nothing about what will happen to business and to the country when While in his office, newsmen were shown some of the art the chief executive despises most. He produced a spread of modern paintings from a magazine, which apparently he had been saving for just such an occasion.

"This is u-hat I mean by ham- and-eggs art," he told the re'porters, pointing to a painting of a fat semi-nude circus performer. "I've been to a million circuses. and I've never seen a performer who looked like her." he said. "The artist must have stood off from the canvas and thrown paint at it. If that's art.

then I'm a Hottentot." Ex-speaker Sam Rayburn had a whale of a good time at the White House recently, poking fun at the legislative program of the Repub- He was nearly worked to death, he confided to friends, because the Republicans were passing so many bills. "Let me see." counted up the rotund gentleman from Texas, "they passed on bill extending excise taxes and another Joint resolution for Senator Butler's alcohol plant in Omaha. It keeps us very busy busy." When asked if he were going to be the new ambassador to Great Brt- aln. Sam replied: "Well, it will have to be one of us rich boys." One thing to be said for the political generals in the Pentagon building is that they never do surrender when it comes to a seige of Capitol Hill. Actually, about one-half the undercover opposition to- David Lilienthal as atomic commissioner comes from the brass hats.

The rest comes from Senator Tail's determination not to let a New Dealer get appointed to any high office, with some quiet sideline help from the never- dormem public utilities lobby. Real fact Is that the Pentagon politlcans have never forgiven Congress for passing the McMahon bill which put control of atomic enercy in civilian rather than military hands. And having lost that battle they are determined to dominate selection of the civilians who sit on the civilian commission. So far Lllienthal and his carefully selected co-commissioners have shown that they cannot be dominated. Most persuasive argument used by the brass hats in undercutting Lilienthal is that the civilian commission would leak the atom's ee tier.

-Terry and Mary or com fo- TRlim? nd tr.e cn.m<? out rr.sic» End their ehll- no mob thsr ft.r.if hud or. o'cUx'k. AJi be rid or the arbitrary ior bcmris. Thi their srhc-oU They off on to totrE. They "rr.

Tif-zr home no they r.rsi en end rv nLUill A flti It becomes impossible for prudent cret, Paradoxical fact, however. Is that 90 per cent of the so-called atom's secret was contained in the now'famous Smythe report which the Army itself released to the public Just after Hiroshima. And the man responsible for the release" was none other than Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, the gentleman who vigorously opposed civilian control of the atom.

After the Smythe report was out and horrified scientists called attention to the secrets It contained. Groves hurriedly demanded that it be recalled. "That," replied a member of his would be like trying to put an egg back into a chicken." Regardless whether General Groves a mistake in releasing the Smythe report, the fact re- that the A-bomb was not entirely an American invention. It was discovered by scientists working fn America, but among the top men were Hungarians, Germans. Norwegians, Danes, Italians, Poles and Frenchmen.

The United States was wise enough" and humane enough to be the freest country in the world where they could take refuge and continue their scientific work. Actually, the Army pooh-poohed the Idea of the A-bomb when it was first put up to them. And it was the traditional American policy of freedom and humanity, not the military, which caused us to get the bomb ahead of anyone else. It Is this same than military will also keep us ahead of other nations. What scientists point out is that we can't shut our eyes and pretend that science can be stopped.

Most European countries already Had 70 per cent of the atom secret before the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Today, at least four England, France and atomic energy producing uranium material from which the bomb is made. They lack only the mechanism for setting it off. About Russia we know little, but suspect a lot. Our defense against foreign A-bombs, therefore, is to keep work- Ing in the laboratories building larger weapons, taking advantage of our own headstart.

We have already lost our bomb "monopoly," tifie Emporia, Kansas, Tuesday, Febmarr 18, 1947 Bill Mauldin'i Cartoon "Here are the new radiator ornaments, men. We'll have to work all night." Florists' RevUw. It entitled "Spring' time." The photo was by F. A. The Turkish Candy company Installed a new rotary churn with a capacity ot 206 pounds of an hour.

Between 200 and 300 Emporians had made no returns on Christmas Seals out by the Lyon County Tuberculosis and Health association. Telephone facilities installed In the U. S. War Department's Pentagon Building in Washington would, serve a city of 125,000 people. Expert Watch Work can films.

Thus the movies have become one of America's indirect but potent sales forces. In facetious vein, Johnston told the President that directing the destiny of Hollywood is like running a 20-ring circus. P. T. Barnum and his three rings were a piker in comparison with the job of policing screen morals and trying to get American pictures past the iron curtain Into Tito's Jugoslavia.

rt. Today, we already have a bomb 600 times more powerful than that dropped on Hiroshima. Howevjr. because the bra-ss hats still control a large section of the atomic laboratories, many top scientists like Leo refuse to work on government projects. It was Szilard who wrote thc first paper on atomic energy which Einstein forwarded to Roosevelt and which really started Gen.

Groves' much publicized Manhattan project. That Is why the fog which the brass hats and certain badly informed McKellars and Wherrys are spraying around Capitol Hill may La ver en Hall of Westby. champion 4-H farmer of America, who has made S53.000 at the age of 20, called to shake hands with President Truman, who was never able to make a go of farming in Missouri. GOP Cong. William Stevenson, who escorted his young constituent, told the President how Hall was chosen "national achievement winner" among junior farmers at the International Livestock exposition in Chicago.

One of the prizes was I a silverware set from the White "I'd like to meet more of your type," said Truman, perhaps remembering how his own farm sold for its mortgage. "You young Americans are doing great things for the country. It must feei pretty good to be a successful farmer at prove worst blow scientific de- the ase of 20. When did you get velopment of the atom has yet seen, started'" When Czar Eric Johnston of the motion picture industry called on President Truman last week, the latter quizzed him on what foreigners think of American movies. Johnston replied that shortly before the war.

Mussolini and Hitler were so perturbed over Hollywood's pro- democratic influence that they clamped down on American movies even before American newspapers and magazines were barred. Johnston also tolri Truman that thousands of foreign moviegoers write to Hollywood for information about new American inventions, such as bathroom fixtures and other gadgets which they see in Ameri- started? His visitor replied that he started at the age of 11 with one pureblooded calf and two Poland China hogs. He did not mention that his farm holdings are now worth $53,000. Young Hall looked bewildered when photographers trooped in and began exploding flash butbs on all sides. "Don't get scared." chuckled the President.

"I'm used to this sort of thing." Verne shyly held his tongue during most of the meeting, but ex- planen afterward: "Gee, wait till the folks hear about this. It was the biggest thrill of my life." (Copyrlslu. 1347. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Your New 'SOCIETY CLUB" or ''STETSON" To tiny Touch oj Tomorrow We have a choice selection of Fur wide, narrow and medium hrims. Spring's newest color? in sll sizes and regular and oval.

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S. H. Warren presented the newly constructed Welfare building at Fourth and Merchant to the city. Emporia consumers wers paying 27 cents a dozen lor No. 1 eggs; 53 a pound tor butter, and from 50 to 60 cents pecfc ior potatoes.

W. N. Gunsolly, Ford dealer, sold two Lincoln cars to Lew Schaeifer, ol Burlington. It "Flesh and the Devil" at the Strand, with John Gilbert and Greta Garbo at the stars. Mrs.

Vincent Davis gave a bridge- dinner at the Old Gold Tearoom honor'ng Mrs. 3. D. Hull, of Dallas, and Mri H. S.

Leake. at Chicago. The board of education decided to tell rhe old Kansas Arenue school and remore ie from the site. Lawrence High school a surprise and bent Emporla 36 to J8 in basketball. A picture of Mrs.

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