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Cramming o- v-'i I -c rr for hn us'e-i ani lo ot Ttn.i v.at ro Tin: naimi.u: I i i TLNNLSSEAN NEWSPAPLKS, l.N C. EVANS President ar.d Further COLEMAN A. HARWELL Vice President and Ed. tor JOHN H. NYE Associate Editor Published Every Morning and Sunday at Eleventh and Broadway, Nashville.

Tennessee. Entered it the Post Office at Nashville. Tennessee, as second-class mail matter. atomic agt." directlv to the L'rrtci Nati conference the Big Three in the Western al forces of world communism only a month in advance of an of the Big Four foreign first such session since he became and Premier Malenkov replaced The news columns shall be fair and accurate, the editorial columns shall be honest and just in the expression of conscientious opinion. mmy-i'3 mem the final meeting cf a UN Gen session that has produced no wmm mm East-West tension but on the contrary heard new expressions of distrust mm- itpp ccayci iSis worM He will members cf the liance against the dead Stalin.

He will address cral Assembly First Things -ior, this fly icrmuaa the He will speak anticipated meeting ministers the President easing of that has and new reports And he will reportedly has level of our own that now is said approval of France's Premier To say that world will be on States on this for a that will understanding of and of what the to avert great. It is hoped, will reflect the "Operation Candor" public with the hydrogen weapons a fashion as security Since the time a heart-to-heart making, there have has been written attempt to satisfy Defense Department, and various The result, it was such original that doubt of saying anything it must be said was submitted in at a time when toward Russia the advocates of Yet, it must has now remain silent and world expects a the advance billing Whether by on a near-perfect of candor on a has weighted will, we may hope, of weapons of staggering de-structiveness. bring with him a speech that been "in the works" at the highest government for months and to have received at least tacit Britain's Sir Winston Churchill and Joseph Lanicl. the eyes and the tars of the the President of the United occasion is obvious. The opportunity sobering and statesmanlike statement help bring the world to a clear the horrors of atomic warfare, leading democratic power proposes such warfare, is accordingly therefore, that the address today original purpose of the so-called which was to acquaint the stark facts about atomic and 'in as complete and candid permits.

it was first learned that such talk to the people was in the been reports that the speech and re-written repeatedly in an the State Department, the the Atomic Energy Commission, presidential advisers. has been written from Washington, a watered-down version of the was raised about the value at all. And in all frankness, that the fact that the speech advance to Britain and France they are in a conciliatory mood could have given no comfort to gloves-off presentation. be remembered that the President decided to speak out rather than that he must be aware that the pronouncement that will justify it has received. deliberate long-range design or spur-of-the-moment impulse, he has chosen a opportunity to speak in a spirit subject that this nation's leadership long and carefully.

He make the most of it. i Blizzard Hit Washington Traffic Hard By BASCOM N. TIMMONS Chief Washington Bureau THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN WASHINGTON VVasiiirz- ton is hit by a real bhzzard only about once in a decade. Automobile drivers, including chauffeurs became mere amateurs in the hands of nature. Cars skid and twist or are stalled and abandoned by their owners until the enow stops.

In the recent eastern storm, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, the capitals real grand dame, now in her 'SOs. started home from reception with her car creeping not only through the snow but a heavy fog as well. Her veteran chauffeur drove at low speed fearing an accident. Several other elderly ladies were to dropped along the way, but th storm was so bad that Mrs.

Wilson asked them to stay with her. Finally they arrived at the 3 st. home of the late president in a state of exhaustion, including the chauffeur. He stumbled through the drifts to open th door. He missed the lock and hit the burglar alarm instead.

Thr clamor filled the neighborhood, but nothing happened. Thn blizzard and the fog stalled th police and the operatives from the alarm agency, and nobody showed up. Those Bottles Were Suspicious Checks on security risks her have become so searching that investigators pass up no possible source of information if th person checked seems at all questionable. The latest story concerns government employe on whom a very complete "rundown' had been asked. As readers of detective fiction know, clues ar often found in such unlikely spots as garbage cans.

In this case, the trash man was among those questioned. He was asked if he had ever found anything suspicious in the employe's trash. At first he couldn't think of a thing. "Well, I do recall something," he said, "Last Christmas thera were two scotch bottles along with the usual bourbon bottles." No Best Seller The Government Printing Office has put on sale, probably for the Christmas trade, a volume described as: "Table of natural logarithm for arguments between zero and five to sixteen decimal places, applied mathematics series 31, 501 pages $3.25. Your government looks after mathematicians, too.

Clark's Every Move Followed Justice Tom Clark of the U. S. Supreme Court is watched In public these days for an indication that he may de-ride to appear before a congressional investigating committee. At the B'nai B'rith dinner dozens looked his way when an unidentified man handed him a piece of paper. He snubbed out his cigaret and frowned.

"You suppose it's a subpoena?" some guests whispered. No, it was only a reminder from the television crews that, the Justice should put out his cigaret until after President Eisenhower finished his speech. Here's That Man Again Back in 1938, at a dinner of Washington's Gridiron club, a young man just out of college was introduced to the diners. He was Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

and the introducer paused before thn "Junior." The gag line was "Good Grief, you mean there are TWO of them?" Saturday night when the Gridiron dines again, the same younj? man will speak for the Demp-rrats. Rep. Roosevelt was not too popular a choice among tha club members, who said it would have the same effect as a hotfoot on a lot of other Dennv crats. But Adlai Stevenson hart been the party speaker at the club's spring dinner and Gov. Frank Lausche of Ohio declined this time, supposedly becausa the speaking assignment offer's fine chance to "put your foot in it," and Lausche is ambitious.

So the handsome scion of th Roosevelt clan will make his first real bow into the Washington political limelight before many of the nation's editors and newswriters. His speech won't he reported, but it will be remembered. And despite old hatreds, most of those present will be pulling for the boy Letters to The Nashville Tennessean 'A-l Driver' Analyzes the Current Traffic Situation A FL'BLIC FORUM THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN is always glad to receive letters from its readers giving their views on questions of the day. When requested, only initials or a nom da plume will be printed. However, the Identity and address of the sender must always be known to the Editor.

Because Forum space is limited, letters nnifit be edited and often cannot be printed in full though every elfoit will be made to preserve the Idea in each letter used. No manuscripts will be returned. Each day an award of One Dollar will be made for the communication deemed best by the Editor. That letter will be designated by three stars. First THE TENNESSEAN Firsts: FOR OUR REGION: Full Development of th Cumberland.

Expansion and Protection of TVA. FOR TENNESSEE: 1,000,000 Voters. Reapportionment of Legislative Seats. A Presidential Primary Law. Refill the Phosphate Cuts.

A $600,000,000 Tourist Industry. A Stronger Stream Anti-Pollution NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY: Annexation of Urbanized Areas with Assurance of Extended City Services. Consolidation of City and County School Systems end Welfare Services. A Metropolitan Community Hospital Reapportionment of County Court Seats. Smaller Precincts, More Voting Machines.

The Central Traffic Expressway. Smoke Abatement Page 20 Tucs. Morning Dec. 8, 1953 Farmers Hold Back Tennessee farmers in great numbers have refrained from joining in next year's federal agriculture conservation program. With only a few days to go before the deadline, less than 14 per cent of the state's farmers have signed.

This compares with a participation that in years past consistently has exceeded 60 per cent. Refusal by the farmers to participate in this long term federal program may be taken as reflecting a general lack of confidence in the future of agriculture as a profitable enterprise. It may also be taken as a testimonial to a growing lack of faith in the intent of the present administration's agricultural policy makers to keep their commitments to farmers. In fact, both the general and the specific failing of farmer confidence may be said to arise from the same basic cause. Farmers know that storage of agricultural products is less than at the beginning of World War II or the Korean War.

They know also that the number of mouths to feed in this country steadily continues to increase. For that reason stored surpluses should have created no unusually heavy pressures on prices of farm products. But the level of prices the farmers are getting for what they have to sell continues to ease off while the level of prices on goods they must buy continues to edge upward. The average farmer has learned that he may expect indifference to his plight in Washington, replacing the former reaction of warm interest. In these circumstances, he sees no great future for agriculture nor for farm land prices.

Why spend money controlling erosion and building future fertility in the soil, when the land may not even be worth the cost of the latest improvements? If the government sees no special good in its partnership with the farmers for building soils toward increased yield for the future, why should the farmer bother? The general reaction of the farmers probably arises from his attempts to answer such ques- tions. The specific reaction is even more easily understood. The farmer has not forgotten that, after farmers signed up last December for the present year's ACP program, the rules were changed. In some cases benefit payments were revised because of reduced appropriations. Farmers felt that Secretary of Agriculture Benson had welched on a contract.

It is true that the program for 1954 has been broadened again and that most of the restrictions imposed midway in the present year's program have been withdrawn. But the farm-er is not unreasonable in feeling that the rules may be changed again. Regardless of the uncertainties we think participation in the basic soil conservation "and permanent pastures program still is a good thing for the farmer and for all the rest of the people who depend on him. And we hope that the number of signers will be lifted far above the present 14 per cent before Thursday's dead-line. Duplication Comes High Now that estimates for building a sewer line to Inglewood school are in, the economics or uneconomics of this make-shift approach to the county's sewerage problem are more clearly seen.

The cost of linking this school to the nearest city sewer, about half a mile away, is expected to run around $40,000. This is $15,000 more than the school board had managed to set aside out of its improvement fund when the Inglewood emergency arose. The difference will have to come out of other school funds or directly from the county. In any event, it will come out of county tx funds. And it is a substantial sum.

Yet, for 140,000 the taxpayers will get a half-mile sewer line serving the school and only the school. When and if homes in the area get sewers as inevitably they must much of the work will have to be duplicated. And again these same taxpayers will pay. How much better and more economical it would be to do the whole job at once. Waiting too long has made that impossible now in Inglewood, for the situation at the school demands the quickest attention possible.

But for other sections of the county, where there is yet time to take the wisest course, sewers to serve all will be the cheapest by far in the long run. Full Circle First it was the disclosure that the Piltdown man was a hoax. Now comes a British scientist with the flat assertion that the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, was a hollow sham. The next thing we know, somebody will be telling us that Columbus just thought tht world was round. ing, or some such method, tn instil into us the idea of sensible driving.

I often find myself driving faster and faster, then suddenly I come to myself and say "What, difference would it make if I get there ten or fifteen minutes later? If I don't get there at all nearly everything will go on just the eame." Maybe it will be a good Idea to install the straps in cars; then we will feel so ridiculous starting to strap ourselves in that we will set a safe driving speed in our minds and decide to make this trip safe. Let's teach our boys and girls, and all do our part to check this mad pace. MRS. GRIFF1S COOK Lewisburg, Tenn. LONG LIVE TRUMAN To the Editor: It is almost impossible to believe that President Eisenhower would go along with Jenner and McCarthy, who had slandeied his best friend, Gen.

George Marshall. Jenner had called Gen. Marshall, "a front for traitors and a living lie." The loyal friend who had promoted him (Dwight Eisenhower) from the rank of lieutenant colonel to lieutenant general in one year, after Douglas MacArthur had sent him home from the Phillippines. And beetle-browed McCarthy who had delivered 60,000 words of invective from the safety of the senate floor against Gen. Marshall.

How could Eisenhower Indorse their candidacy for reelection and associate with them during the campaign, and why he continues to go along with them now is something that even his best Republican friends cannot understand. Regardless of how much or how little you may like ex-Fresi-dent Truman, you have to admire a man who has the courage of his convictions, and loyalty to his friends. He may have been loyal to a few who were not really his best friends. I have the highest regard and admiration for Harry Truman. I think he was a good President At least he was President when serving in that official position, There was much good all the people of the country during his administration, and history will record him as one of the great Presidents.

Long live Harry Truman. J. L. SHELTON Manchester, Tenn. about.

"Move over please." Often-Julie, the person sitting next to the window seems to be in perfect oblivion that he is using most of the seat and the. on-, who sits down by him has lo hang precariously on the cde wl llc those who move down the. aisle bump into that part of the anatomy that is thus exposed. If one finally gets tii enough courage to ask the seat usurper for a little more space, he. is sometimes met with a glare.

Winter coats and Christmas packages take up a lot of room right now, bo it seems to me that wc should he thoughtful enough to try to stay on our side of the dividing line. After all, the person next to the window pays no more bus fare than, ethers and therefore has no right to a concession of the whole seat, "Move over, please." will certainly make riding more comfortable for the person who sits next to the aisle. C. Nashville. SLAMS THE DOOR To the Editor: After reading so many letters in THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN today about door-to-door salesman.

I must have caught it, too. If there is any salesman that is a nuisance it a peddler. That includes them all, insurance men, too. If we housewives want to buy anything we go to a store and if we want insurance of any kind his office is a more suitable place to discuss business than' in our home. I don't mind a bit to slam the door in a man's face if he.

doesn't take no when I tell him I'm not interested in his line of business. So many men are so determined to gain entrance to women's houses they are willing lo use any old. line they can think of that might get them in, There isn't any housewife who enjoys slamming the door on a peddler more than I do, GLADYS KENNEDY Madison, Tenn. AMERICANISM PREVAILS To the Editor: Now it came to pass in the days of McCarthy ism there reigned men of power and authority as Presidents of the 1'nited States. When Joe saw these men bowpd not, nor did him reverence, then Joe was full of wrath.

He then thought to lay words of scorn upon them and to destroy them by proclaiming them disloyal to the government throughout their kingdom. So Joe promoted his investigations and set himself above all authorities and precedents for lus own glory and built a gallows upon which to destroy these men of trust, honor and power. Whereupon, there arose from the people of this nation who doubted not the loyalty of these Presidents who stood up and defended themselves against the accusations of their adversary. Then the people reasoned and said. "Hang him thereon upon the gallows that, he has prepared for others," Thus the people's wrath shall be pacified and Americanism and not McCarthy-Ism shall prevail, MRS.

VONCILE H. LEFTWICH 3003 Wellington Ave. Nashville NEW RESIDENT To the Editor: Just this short note to tell you how much I like your paper. am a newcomer in town and I think the people here in Nashville are very friendly and nice and everybody makes you feel at home. The welcome wagon idea is very nice and greatly appreciated.

I wish many more cities would do the same. Please tell Ben Burroughs, the writer of "Sketches," how much I like his writings. I am looking for the "Sketches" every morning and many times I get so much out of it and I paste them all in a scrapbook. MRS. KERMINA ElSENMANN 2930 Glenmeade Drive Nashville FASTER AND FASTER To the Editor: Has civilization completed the cycle and now entering the infant stage again? Imagine strapping yourself In your car like an infant in his buggy! I think American drivers should have to submit to a period of brainwash To (lip Editur: Traffic accidents are caused hy thp other fellow.

I was prone to blame all of them on alcohol, I. ut the. hlRhest estimate. I can (ind amounts to 16 per cm. That la, lti per cent of Tenncs-nc.

accidents involve people who have "been drinking." If 1 close, piy ryes to the fact that "ths other party" involved in an ac-lident may not have been drinking just forpet that anKlr. I still will have 84 per cent to explain away. 1 can blame that on teenagers. They cause a lot of accidents. Ought to bo ahlo to got "0 per cent there, by strctchinR a few points, and not allowing any of them to fall into the 16 per cent drinking lot.

That pets me down to 64 per cent, which baffles nie. until I think of women. Can blame, women for a lot of accidents. Statistics will bear nie out to some extent, too. Women have accidents, probably just because they're women, and not be-tause of some fault that could be attributed to men.

There will probably he a small percentage left, about 40 or 50 maybe, which wc can just forget. Maybe if we outlaw drunken drivers, kids and women, we can tnver the rest up okay. Anyway, if we can get a law passed t'i give nie all the load I want, I don't think there would be any accidents at all. A-l DRIVER Murfrecsboro, Trnn. EMBRACES McCARTH YISM To the Editor: Sometimes the truth hurts so 1 in sure many Trumanites are feeling the sting.

They know and won't admit that his radio-TV address was a blunder. In one phase he called the accusation a "lie'' then in another, he admitted the promotion of the. lite Harry Dexter White. iCon-tradiction.) Then he said the KBI was keeping White under observation at thp time. The next day J.

Edgar Hoover said he wasn't in on the "deal." Now remember Truman, as a private citizen, refused to go before the committee; giving flimsy excuses. Would not any (rue American, patriotic and tnithful lo our Constitution, be happy to testify as to innocence if so accused? 1 'lelicve he v. ould. As a last thought, re-iin inner this; In Truman's radio and TV speech, he wasn't under rirttii as he would have been be-iVic the committee. Hats off to McCarthy or anyone that exposes just one Communist.

I haven't heard of an innocent person being convicted. Yfs. I for one have embraced McCdithyism and I helped put Truman hack in Missouri. By doinc that I indirectly lulpet end the war. McENHOWER Linden, Tenn.

MOVE OVER To the Editor: We are all familiar with "Mme hack, please" when the bus driver is trying to load his crowded bus, but not much has been said Hi Nabor The reason lots of folks ain't broad-minded is that they ain't got enough brains to spread. Chicajo SuoTiml Syndictls Dr. Cyril J. Ruilmann, state commissioner of mental health, has taken a sound and sensible position in rejecting a request that funds ap-' propriated for improvement of the mental hospital at Bolivar be diverted instead to construction of a treatment center in Memphis. Such a course, Dr.

Rullmann has told the Memphis and Shelby County Mental Hygiene Society, could not be justified either morally or economically. First, he says, it would "introduce an unfortunate note of medical philosophy" to build treatment facilities at one place and leave custodial care at another, which might result in the latter's becoming "a dead end" for incurables. And second, he points out that plans call for spending $1,500,000 for a treatment center at Bolivar whereas the type needed for Memphis would cost "nearer $10,000,000." As former director of Gailor Tiychiatric Hospital in Memphis, Di, Ruilmann is quite familiar with the conditions and needs of that city. And he agrees that there would be many advantages in ultimately having a treatment center there, not only because some 50 per cent of Bolivar's patients come from Shelby county but because it would stimulate interest and help in dealing with the mental health problem. He obviously recognizes, however, that the state must bring its facilities at existing mental hospitals up to the level toward which it has been working before it can start building additional institutions.

Accordingly, no matter how desirable more mental hospitals may be even now, first things must be put first. This One's Hard To Duck The spunk of Arkmsas rural electric co-operatives in electing to answer back to Mr. C. Hamilton Moses of the Arkansas Power and Light Company ought to set an example for some of our timid Tennesseans. The Arkansas rural co-operatives, in setting up their Memphis meeting this week as a session for pulling Mr.

Moses' ears and for defending TVA, have shown considerable courage. They've got to buy power from his company. The federal Rural Electrification Administration will not make any more generating and transmission loans. And the Southwestern Power Administration, once a possible source of power, has been abolished. The cooperatives get their energy from Arkansas Power or they get none.

While our neighbors in Arkansas, because they believe in TVA are willing to beard the lion in his den, many of our folks in Tennessee either choose to ignore the attacks on TVA or to extend themselves very slightly in its defense They need to be made aware of the possibilities that have stimulated the Arkansas co-operatives to join in the battle to protect TVA. The Arkansans have said publicly that the goal of people like Mr, Moses is to advance power rates in TVA territory so he can advance his own rates at home. They feel that a defeat for his ideas in TVA territory would prevent a rate raise at home. Wc think the Arkansans are being realistic and that the Tennesseans, still trying not to take sides in the fight to save TVA are being anything but. So They Say They (Red Chinese) told nie I might be put to death in tha United States for treason.

Cpl. Edward Dickenson. Hambone's Meditations By Alley I TAim No scuseI FcJH A MAM TfeLUM A Lie 'Soot A woMAM tH EF Ht TELL ONE To "er.Aim'Mo QWlMt VU'K PAR MEiTHUH. I1-0-S3 ifp4 fcj 7 Sell St im.i ma i U. Pu omi tes By BEN BURROUGHS "WORTH THE PRICE" 1 you will take a little lime To analyze this Ujc And count the good against the bail The wj against the strife 'm sure you would arrive at this Tliat life is full of wne And ue must pay a bitter prie For happiness ice know You'll find I'm sure more work than pla? Mere tears than pleasant smiles And many, many rock! roads When traveling life's miles But even though all this is true One bit of joy is worth The heartaches we encounter in Oar visit tn this earth And so it goes throughout tins life .4 years go rolling by We hie tilth faith and honest hope We live and soon lie die.

The Sage of Bucksnort sy Albert wne AFTER CHRISTMAS BUCKSNORT Another project I'm working on is how merchants may display Santa Claus stuff without driving the merchants nuts and the mothers to distraction. When little folks go into a store where a whole raft of toys are displayed, they can hardly keep their hands off these attractions, and yet mamas are on needles and pins for fear their offspring will break more than they could ever pay for. And the poor old merchant, the only way he can show his tops is to put 'em out on a shelf or a counter or a table, but when he sees a block of lively kids come in the front door, his blood pressure goes up 40 points. Now, there must be some way to avoid this. There must be some way to show toys that kids can enjoy them as much as if they had them in their hands, or else there must be a way to make toys that can't be torn up.

That, ladies and gentlemen, and especially merchants and mamas, is what I have pledged myself to do. After Christmas, I'm going to take a sack of flour, four or five old hams and a few other items of food, and go off into the woods about 17 miles and stay there till I figure the thing out..

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