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Rail, Steel Labor Peace Wfll Prove Costly Labor peace has come to two major U. S. industries after relatively short strikes, and for that the nation is grateful. But the cost to both the steel and rail industries goes far beyond the inflationary terms agreed upon. The 42 per cent increase gained by the United Transportation Union over 42 months follows the pattern of agreement reached with other rail unions earlier.

The frank admission by one rail executive that he didn't know how the industry was going to absorb higher labor costs at the rate of one per cent a month for the duration of the contract was not surprising. No one else does either. As for steel, it took only about 12 hours lor the $1.11 per hour wage increase over three years and a handsome package of fringe benefits to show up in higher prices. The 8 per cent price increase announced by U. S.

Steel and soon followed by most of the other producers is an extraordinary rise in the face of the steel import flood, but even that could not be expected to recover the $10 billion the new contract is expected to cost the industry by the end of the third year. AGREEMENTS SUCH AS THESE, while they buy labor peace, compound the problem large American industries are having in meeting foreign competition. The base hourly steel rate is only one-half in Europe what it is here, and less than one-fourth as much in Japan. Is it any wonder freighters are unloading record volumes of steel from these sources at American docks, and that American jobs are disappearing as a direct result? American steel lost an estimated 11,000 jobs just this past spring, when the mills were enjoying boom times. How many more have now been eclipsed? Labor agreements such as these two go far beyond the effect in their own industries.

They quickly become pace setters for a host of other industries. jVo one not labor, management nor the administration wants a totally managed with price- wage controls and all the rest of the bureaucratic maze that entails, but no one is doing much to prevent that final verdict from falling heavily upon all. As far as these agreements are concerned, the inflation escalator is shifting into high gear, with effects that reach far beyond the two industries. It's Time To Go Dutch Now that Washington's gold and convertible currency reserves have fallen to a 33-year low. it is a good time to inform the world that Uncle Sugar's partytime is coming to a close.

With United States trade surpluses dropping to nearly zero and heavy overseas commitments still draining dwindling reserves, the time is nigh to remind the world of a perfectly good, but seldom used phrase, Dutch treat. Webster defines Dutch treat as "any entertainment, party, et cetera, in which each participant pays his own expenses." It is an economic arrangement unknown in such co-operative ventures as the United Nations, NATO, SEATO, or most trade agreements. Some world statesmen might be shaken beyond control at the thought of going Dutch on world obligations, but it is not a lethal device really. All that is required is the self discipline to realize that if the advantages are wanted badly enough, they must be earned at home as well as abroad. Why Do It Hard Way? Ever wonder why companies which make road maps fold them in such a manner that no matter how carefully the motorist unfolds them they always turn out upside down and reverse side front? As for refolding them in the original neat package well, that is good at least for occupying a full rest stop.

The state of Kentucky has been looking into the matter after an official complained about the high cost of official state road maps. The high cost, the producers answered, is because of the way the state has said the maps have to be folded. As a matter of fact, the suppliers added, it is no easy matter to put those original creases in the maps every which way. Has anyone though of just folding the things in some logical end-over-end sequence, or maybe simply rolling them up like a scroll? Top 0' The Morning Baltimore Sun Gives State Big Spread! By EMILE J. HODEL The good publicity for West Virginia still seems to be broadening.

May it continue so! We received a letter and the magazine section of a Baltimore newspaper in the mail which would seem to confirm the up-beat image which the state has been gaming of late. It is a former Mount Hope girl to whom we are indebted for the information. It was Mrs. C. Winfield (Minnie Belle) Robb of Cooksville, who sent us the fine letter and the section of the The Baltimore Sun.

And Mrs. Robb is a great booster for her home state, still, even though she has been living in the Old Line State for more than 25 years. All our expatriate West Virginians should do so well by us as the former Fayette Countian! -0- She wrote to Top 0' The Morning like this: have lived in Maryland for 26 years but I'll never really 'leave' West Virginia! I grew up in Mount Hope and since leaving the state I've been a faithful subscriber to the Post- Herald. "Dr. Donnelly, of course, is one of my favorites as I knew him through my church as a child and I think he's done a magnificent job for our state Next to my brother, he has to be West Virginia's greatest booster.

"Some time ago you wrote of Willia Thompson. She was my sixth grade history teacher. "I have always boosted my home state and I agree Kee is a detriment! The strip mining must go! "I have sent so many of our friends here to West Virginia on vacations and, without exception, they're very impressed. "I thought after your (columns) from the Chicago Tribune you would be enthused that The Baltimore Sun would have this article. "Keep plugging I'm on your side! It is a great state!" Our Covered Spans The Sun Magazine, which runs in the Sunday paper, had a double-page spread two-thirds of which was taken up by four lovely pictures of West Virginia covered bridges.

The heading and sub-headline read, "Covered Bridges: Some Historic, Some Minuscule, They Beckon in Picture Postcard Settings in West Virginia." The really big, beautiful picture which covers the top of one page and part of the second is of the "twin-barreled bridge" that spans the Tygart River at Philippi. It was built in 1852 and figured in Civil War battles. Since the Philippi bridge also is still carrying the traffic of a major highway, U.S. 250, it is probably the most outstanding old covered bridge in the nation. -0- Also shown are two from this section of the state, the Indian Creek bridge, south of Union in Monroe County, and the Hern's Mill bridge over Milligan Creek in Greenbrier County--with which we are not familiar.

The fourth covered bridge pictured is in Jackson County over Sandy Creek. It has heavy mid-span supports showing. Cooksville, incidentally, is a small community about halfway between Baltimore and Frederick. And Miss Willia Thompson of Montana Street in Mount Hope, who taught Mrs. Robb sixth grade history, has been a teacher of Latin, French, and Spanish at Mount Hope High School for many years.

But she retired this past spring and told us that she has now gotten well rested from the end of school. She gave every appearance of being bright-eyed and ready to go again when we talked to her just last week. -0- Perhaps we can reprint some of the Baltimore story tomorrow. It was written by Victor Block. Meanwhile, our thanks and top of the morning to Mrs.

Minnie Belle Robb, the West Virginian in Cooksville. The Ugly American Yesterday And Today-August Is Month Of Family Reunions By SHIRLEY DONNELLY The month of family reunions is upon us with a vengeance. August seems to be the month when kinspeople and i friends assemble to make new friends and to keep old friends from forgetting. fore me a i i i tten are invitations attend five of hese gatherings and peak before various groups. Some of the invitations are in writing while others are in form of notes made from telephone conversations.

My Answer By BILLY GRAHAM We have discovered that a prominent member of our church is dishonest in his business. What should we do, sue him, or should we throw him out of the church? N. P. Your attitude reminds me of the cantankerous Pharisees who wanted to stone the adulterous woman. How sad it is that you almost seem to rejoice in the failure of another.

Have you made every effort to help this weak one? Have you prayed for him; counseled him; and tried in every way to help him? refer you to Galatians 6:1 which says: "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Should you sue him? If he hasn't wronged you, you have nothing to sue him for! If he is really guilty of dishonesty, only the offended can bring him to law. As I see it, you are meddling in the affairs of another, and your sin is on a par with his if he is guilty. How about; getting on your knees before God, asking Him to give you love and understanding for your brother. And then, trying in a Christian way, to help him.

EACH YEAR FOR as long as it can be remembered there has come an invitation from Mrs. John B. Williams, Rt. 1, Box 30, Mt. Hope, to go to Packs Branch Baptist Church for the homecoming staged there each August.

Because the invitation has come annually from Mrs. Williams, I erroneously jumped to the conclusion that it was a reunion of the Williams family and their friends. In this I was as wrong as a human being could possibly be. Those gatherings have never been a part of the Williams family reunions. Instead, it is a homecoming of those who formerly lived in the Packs Branch area and moved away to what they thought were greener pastures.

Annually there goes out the call for those exiles to return for a day to their old stomping grounds and renew their friendships with those who have remained in the old home community. One of the features of the Packs Branch Homecoming is a religious service that is held in the little Baptist meeting house there. Date of the reunion this year is Aug. 8. A BLUE-RIBBON reunion to be staged this month is that of the Ritter Lumber Co.

former employes. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 15, those old timers and their families and friends will journey to the Crab Orchard Baptist Church on Pluto Road beyond the Beekley Water Co.

dam. There they will eat and drink and listen to the venerable men who felled the virgin timber for the Ritter Lumber Co. in crosscut saw days in this general area. Each year, attendance at the Ritter reunion has been well over a hundred and close to two. In the day of his strength, Mose Pitzer of MacArthur was the chief promoter of the Ritter get-together.

With a pacemaker installed in his heart, Mose is a plain case of what used to be said in the line of a popular song, "The old gray mare ain't what she used to be." Last time him, he said of the pacemaker hooked up with his heart and powered with an electric battery, or something, that he was "fully mechanized." HERE IN THE library where writing is done is a file of a hundred or so copies of "The Hardwood Bark." That slick paper publication was issued each month by an editorial board of Ritter employes. It gave all the news of the company's lumber camps such as the one at Beaver, Maben, Fitzpatrick and other places. "Through the years these magazines have been rounded up and kept as source materials pertaining to the lumber age of this area. The snows of a lot of winters have powdered head a hairs of those early days employes and all the sun and heat of subsequent summers appear to have been helpless in melting away those fast accumulating falls! Occasionally some of the employes of the lumber concern drop by to peruse the pages of "The Hardwood Bark" in order to bring the light of other days around them. THERE IS A doleful side as well as the happy side to family get-togethers.

It is doleful when these assemblies are breaking up to have someone "raise the tune" of that solemn old hymn blessing, "God be with you till we meet again!" Somehow, the singing of that hymn leads the mind to opine that some of them present win pass away before the next meeting! One family reunion I have attended always has a large crowd. It is the reunion of a family of persons who a literally the Biblical injunction to "be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth" with their kind. When the family members meet and greet and eat, an inquiry is instituted as to which of the women present is headed for a period of maternity. They speak of it as "Who's got the button this time?" Allusion is to an old game school children used to play at noon, letting one pupil pass along the line with a button in his hand. All hands were folded together like the business end of a corn planter.

The child who had the button would drop his folded hands into the opening of the folded hands of the others. In only one pair of hands would the button be deposited. Then the question arose when the whole line was served, "Who's got the button?" George S. Benson- New Book By Diplomat Reports On Communism Newspapers and television news departments, which made such a public furor over the official secrecy in the now famous Pentagon history of the Vietnam war, proclaiming the "public's right to know" as paramount, can find documents and documentation of sensational a i v- ities of former i dents, cabinet officers and particularly a Department Communists in a new book just published. It is "Diplomats and Demagogues" (Arlington House, New Rochelle, N.

the personal memoirs of Spruille Braden, former U. S. ambassador to three Latin American nations and subsequently assistant secretary of state. BEFORE CASTRO seized power in Cuba, a secret Communist, Harry Dexter White, had become assistant secretary of the U. Treasury.

While Braden was U. ambassador to Cuba, White went to Havana and drafted a plan for a Cuban government central bank and a currency divorced entirely from dependence on the U. S. dollar. It was designed to break Cuba away from U.

S. ties and give Soviet agents opportunities to subvert the country. It was, Braden shows in his book, "a Communist plot involving both our State and Treasury departments." Secret Communists in both departments almost got Braden fired for his opposition to the plan (they were that powerful). Braden killed the plot and saved his job by going directly to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and convincing him of the damage the White plan would cause the U. S.

as the "Pentagon Papers," the actions of Presidents and cabinet members in the early stages of the Vietnam. War. SOVIET-CUBA is just 90 miles from the U. S. Coast.

It is a Soviet fortress intimidating our presidents, posing a grave threat to national security, spawning revolutions and wars, and yet protected by secret deals made by President John F. Kennedy. "On Oct. 4, 1957, 15 months before Castro came down from the hills," Ambassador Braden reveals, "I sent an emphatic warning to Secretary Dulles through Terry Sanders, who had been a secretary of embassy under me in Colombia and by this time was in charge of the South American Division of the State Department. "We (the U.

had refused to ship a large order of arms to Batista that had been bought and paid for at the urging of our military, naval, and air missions, and a smaller order of anti-riot and police weapons Batista had bought and paid for on his own account "ALTHOUGH I did not then know what I was fighting (subversive Communists in both departments), I realized that I was up against something very tough," writes Braden. "It was a few years before Harry Dexter White, who ran Secretary (Henry) Morgenthau; a Lawrence Duggan a Department official) who ran our Latin American were exposed as members of the Soviet spy apparatus." United States foreign policy actions which brought Communist Castro (and ultimately Soviet Russia) into control of Cuba are explicitly recorded by Ambassador Braden, and this alone makes his book as important to the American public "THE DEPARTMENT knew I had had head-on collisions with Batista and entertained no personal bias in his favor, so I felt I could impartially disclose that our government's refusal to sell Batista any arms whatever would become publio knowledge and undermine him. For at the same time we were permitting clandestine shipments of arms to reach Castro in the hills. It was perfectly clear, I warned, that when these facts became known to the Cuban public they would be construed to mean we were backing Castro and working for Batista's defeat. Which is exactly what happened.

"Terry Sanders later assured me he had delivered my message to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. On Nov. 8,1 had Dulles' answer, by way of a press conference at which he triumphantly announced: "There is. no danger of Communism in Latin AMBASSADOR Braden says that U. S.

secretaries of state do not really make decisions, and that statements such as Dulles' were written for him by the real decision-makers, including some secret Soviet Communist agents and some non-Communists influenced by the conspirators. He tells of several schemes engineered by Alger Hiss, Soviet spy who worked himself up in the Roosevelt administration to a powerful State Department post. Jack Anderson-Howard Hughes Tried To Back Both Nixon, H.H.H. LAS VEGAS The private papers of phantom billionaire Howard Hughes reveal how he attempted to manipulate both presidential candidates in 1968 A 1 ough the papers are still court seal i ada, we have had access to them. Here are the i lights: ghes i ected his former a Robert Maheu, to help Richard Nixon win the presidency "under our sponsorship and supervision." Maheu allegedly siphoned off 5100,000 from the Silver Slipper, a Hughes gambling emporium, for Nixon's campaign.

The money was delivered by Richard Danner, a Hughes executive, to Bebe Rebozo, a Nixon confidante. --At the same time, Hughes suggested Maheu should "get word to (Hubert Humphrey) on a basis of secrecy that is really, really reliable that we will give him immediately full, unlimited support for his campaign to enter the White House." An immediate $50,000 contribution was supposed to have been made. Although Humphrey heard Maheu had contributed to his campaign, there's no record the $50,000 was ever received. --Hughes's lieutenants also offered to subsidize Larry O'Brien so he could serve without pay as Democratic national chairman during the 1968 campaign. Humphrey acknowledges the offer was made, and O'Brien confirms he was sounded out by Maheu in 1968.

But both insist O'Brien never drew a dime from the Hughes interests during the campaign. SEVERAL MONTHS later, however, he was retained by Hughes for a "substantial sum." Humphrey's son, Robert, was also employed by a Hughes company as a sales representative. Hughes' startling strategy was to help elect Nixon as President in 1968, then to groom Nevada's articulate and attractive Gov. Paul Laxalt for the White House. The fabulously rich recluse saw a Kennedy-like quality in Laxalt, who gave up the governorship this year.

On March 14, 1968, Hughes instructed Maheu: "I want you to go to see Nixon as my special confidential emissary. I feel there is a really valid possibility of a Republican victory this year. "If that could be realized under our sponsorship and supervision every inch of the way, then we would be ready to follow with Laxalt as our next candidate." We have evidence that Silver Slipper money was slipped to a number of Nevada and national politicians. In 1968, Maheu turned over $100,000 from the Silver Slipper to Danner, who delivered it to Nixon's close crony, Bebe Rebozo. The participants won't talk about the a a i Responded Meheu tersely: "I have made it a matter of policy never to discuss political contributions on behalf of any client unless I have specific authorization in writing.

In this case, I doubt whether the authorization be forthcoming." Danner, who now runs the Sands hotel-casino for Hughes, refused to comment. And Rebozo wouldn't take our calls. quake. "Bob," Hughes added, "I leave this whole campaign in your hands. I am sure you should pesonally go to the White House after we have obtained the 90-day delay and endeavor to sell the President on a permanent policy.

I am sure H.H.H. would be glad to go with you and to set up the appointment." HUGHES USED his gambling profits from the Silver Slipper to make political contributions. He owned the casino as a personal holding, therefore the money didn't pass through his corporate books. WHILE HUGHES was supporting Richard Nixon, he also courted Hubert Humphrey. The secretive billionaire hoped Jo use Humphrey, then vice president, to stop nuclear testing in Nevada.

"Bob," Hughes instructed Maheu, "there is one man who can accomplish our objective through (Lyndon) Johnson--and that man is H. H. H. "Why don't we get word to him on a basis of secrecy that is really, really reliable that we will give him immediately full, unlimited support for his campaign to enter the White House if he will just take this one on for us?" MAHEU SUGGESTED a personal message from Hughes to the President would be more effective. Replied Hughes on April 24: "You know I am perfectly willing to write a short personal message to Johnson, which we could ask Humphries to deliver hand deliver -to Johnson.

"Or if we feel it would be more prudent, I could ask to deliver it. In that way, it need not interfere with anything Humphries has going. "I feel we must start a negotiation with the A.E.C. just as if we were negotiating a business deal. I think we can go through Humphries." Humphrey, whose last name the billionaire could never get straight, acknowledged to us that he had the Nevada tests.

But he had taken this position, he said, before the approach from the Hughes people. the small society by Brickman BOfS THE ONLY WAY I'LL THE BILLIONAIRE'S secret, hand-scrawled instructions indicate Humphrey's help had been secured. Hughes sought "an order from LBJ inspired by Humphries" to halt all Nevada testing or, at least, a 90-day delay lo give him more time to prepare a case against: the tests. completely," Hughes wrote Maheu on April 16, 1968, "with telling the V.P. that he is free to tell the people in Washington if they don't grant the 90-day delay, I am going to the public immediately," He threatened to make public scientific opinions that the tests may have triggered an earth- Try And Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Justice Oliver Holmes always a fledgling lawyers that precedent was not the only thing they should rely on when making decisions.

"When the ghosts of dead fifcrs play too loudly in your heads," he summarized, "the laws arc silent." "I'm afraid an operation i.1 indicated," said a physician to a worried patient. "The charge will be $200." "Is the operation a dangerous one?" quavered the patient. "Don't be a fool," snapped the physician. "Where cmild you buy dangerous operation today for $200?".