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1' THf NASHVIUl TtNNtSSIAN. Ttiymiiy iwg, Mytfc II. 1955 1g 'Peashooter Attacks on Eisenhower Boomerang in His Favor Stokes Saysi i rl i i By Galbrahh Peorson Says; i oiae fiances ne onouia be scored On the Real Issues Ike Ran. on a Peace Now. He's Stuck With It People Who Boasted About 'Bringing the Boys Home' Now Want To Go to War Over Tiny Chinese Islands Ranting About Squirrels, Golf, Going To Church Will Never Hurt Winchell Soys: These Girk Made Show Biz History By WALTER WINCHELL Of New York Celebs About Towns Theater-Greats Helen Hayes, Ruth Draper, Barbara Bel Geddes.

Lena Horne (and other Broadway hits) making show-biz history at the Adelphi Critic John Chapman, concerned over an item about a liquid food being dangerous "It's not milk." he waa comforted "Gad!" he agonized, "don't tell me It's bourbon?" Terry Moore here from Girltown) hitting the hay (before midnight) to get mm w. U. S. Sabrejett Are Poised I 1 1 4 i I "I think it's wonderful to be poetry, Eddie but don't give up UrUITimOna OOyS: We Aren't By DREW PEARSON On the Wsihimlon Mcrry-Oo-Round WASHINGTON President Eisenhower finds himself in a paradoxical and difficult position as he confers with congressional leaders on what the United States should do in the Formosa crisis. First he finds almost all of his top military-diplomatic advisers, including his Secretary of State, in favor of defending Quemoy and Matsu even at the risk of precipitating World War IIL On the other hand, in addition to his own deep personal views against war, the President cannot get away from the political fact that he was elected on a platform to keep the nation out of war.

There may come a time in the life of any President when he has to make a fateful decision to reti'at no further, a decision which may take the nation into war. Eisenhower adviners are telling him that that time has now come and that the United States must defend China's tiny offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Such defense almost certainly means the atom-bombing of the Chinese mainland with all that goes with it war. On the other hand, Ike's political advisers remember all too well the hitherto untold circumstances of a key political decision made during the 1952 presidential campaign. It was a decision which vitally affects the talks now going on at the White House.

Mrs. Smith Says No During that campaign. Republican polls showed that the women's vote was slipping away from Ike. So. at a top strategy meeting, attended by Eisenhower, Sherman Adams, Henry Luce of Life, Time, and Fortune.

C. D. Jackson, an associate of Luce's who later became White House psychological adviser, and others, it was proposed that General Eisenhower move to settle the Korean war and bring the boys home. Sherman Adams then phoned Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in Maine, told her about the slipping women's vote and her to make a major speech promising women that a vote for Ike would be a vote for bringing their sons and husbands home.

Mrs. Smith refused. She said this was playing dangerous politics with peace; that Eisenhower might not be able to settle the Korean war, In which case the promise would boomerang. Later, Eisenhower himself phoned Senator Smith, pleaded that he might lose the election unless the Republicans dramatized the "Peace in Korea" issue. Mrs.

Smith still refused. So the GOP high command switched strategy and had the general himself make the speech Othman Says; mmediate War White House Conferences This Week Weren't Scheduled as Crisis Meetings By THOMAS STOKES WASHINGTON You remember the old rhyme: "Sticks and ttoaet may break my bones "But names will never hurt me." That popi into the mind automatically as you watch the political scene and see our current President peppered with the peashooter on squirrels and 2Cev Senator Neuberger He talked about squirrels golf and fishing and whether hi churchgoing is sincere. As you watch you can see this boomerang back In the President's favor. Among other ways, by the relish with which Republicans seized on Senator Mat Neely's charge that the President "parades his religion." They actually became fanatical themselves in berating the venerable West Virginia Democrat. They know that you don't question a man's religious sincerity under our traditions because you can't tell what's In his mind and heart.

To protect the sanctity and freedom of religion, we have always been to take the risk of some using it as a cloak or acting the hypocrite. In fact, Senator Neely, himself, is prone to toss off a quotation from scripture every now and then and roll his eves heavenward In a pious gesture. A Closer Look The Neely speech about the President's religious activity and his golf and his fishing, as well as the recent spate of publicity about deportation of squirrels that were tearing up the Pressident's White House putting greenthese things focus attention on the quality of our political battles here. They rage about plcayunlsh Issues for the most part. That Is at the behest of both Republicans and Democrats.

Neither party chooses to tackle the really basic issues, because both parties are vulnerable. As for the Democrats, there is the added reason that thcv are actually afraid to take on the President. Senator Neely ifl the exception as he was the exception in the last congressional election campaign. People Are Entitled To Know There are "sticks and stones" Of issues plainly visible here with which the administration could be attacked, and should be attacked and called to account. Our people are entitled to know what is being palmed off by clever fellows operating here who know what they want and are just as pious as the Pharisees that were driven once from a temDl a long time ago.

They have their slick phrases. Such, for example, as "partnership" to describe a new policy for development of our water re I i'lr'" promising to go to Korea personally and settle the war. Incidentally, India Edwards, then vice chairman of the Democratic National committee, heard about the proposal and asked Senator Smith to make a statement putting peace above politics. This again Mrs. Smith refused lo do.

She said this too would be playing politics for the Democrats. Public Remembered Promises Republican strategists have since credited their 1952 victory to the women's vote and the campaign for peace. In fact, they have considered it such a potent issue that time after time they have urged that the White House and State Department not reverse it. Early in 1954, for instance, Secretary of State Dulles threatened "massive retaliation" against the Reds if they continued their aggression in Indochina. Vice President Nixon also stated that the United States was ready to use U.

S. land troops in Indochina. All this was part of a campaign to prepare the public for any eventuality in Indochina. However, letters began pouring in from wives and mothers that Indochina wasn't worth risking their sons and husbands. So the planned tough policy in Indochina was reversed.

Later in the same year, GOP strategists pounded home the peace theme during the fall election. Waiting until just before elections, Republican speakers were instructed to harp on the idea that the Democrats had got the United States into three wars and that only Republicans could be trusted to keep the peace. AH over the United States identical advertisements appeared reading in part: "LEST WE FORGET 3 GREAT WARS! Three great wars with the horror, the heartaches, the cruelly maimed bodies, and widows and orphans and sorrowing mothers. Three great wars in our generation during terms of three Democratic Presidents. Here is the gruesome score." Then followed the casualties of World War World War II, and the Korean war.

"In less than two years President Eisenhower and the republican statesmen," continued the ads. "have opened a new vista of PEACE ON EARTH GOOD protect the laundry workers. James so exasperated Sen. Irving Ives (R-N. that the latter finally exploded: "Do you mean to tell me you are so blame guilty you can't answer any questions at all?" "I respectfully refuse to answer that question on the grounds that it might incriminate me," repeated James, blowing a double stream of smoke through his nose.

The tale of the laundry girls' insurance, as sworn to by a wide assortment of witnesses, wasn't a pretty one. Each girl had $2.60 deducted from her weekly pay check to protect her against sickness and injury. In four years more than $900,000 of this Insurance money never did reach the Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Binghampton. This firm, meantime, was paying commissions at the rate of 10 per cent to agent Saperstein, who did testify that he saw no wrong in also acting as insurance adviser to the union.

Then, according to the senators, the New York state insurance authorities took a dim view of such large commissions. The company tried to cut them down. It was here that Saperstein helped engineer a deal whereby WE SPONSOR 4W- 0U6HT4 BOTM "WEMTWREESUVS- THEVREBETTeRNj THE ROHT- MOBOCV KNOWS HOW TO THEY THE OL LEFT MOHI source that supposedly belong to all of us. What it means has been exposed by Sen. Richard Neuberger He explained how by it the government that la, the taxpayer pays for the dams which are then turned over to the "partner" the private utility under an arrangement that gives the "partner" control of the power and all the profits therefrom.

The government the taxpayer gets the non-revenue producing adjuncts, the physical properties, including the fish ladders. Lots of Publicity Senator Neuberger recently got plenty of nationwide publicity when he championed the squirrels against the President In the White House putting green issue. But he gets very little when he talks about the public power give-away, though he knows more about that perhaps than anybody in congress because of his exhaustive study of that issue in the Pacific Northwest. Even the President, himself, confessed recently that he knew practically nothing about the consumer side of another issue, natural gas. He should have, because he appointed a special committee which studied it that included seven members of his own cabinet.

But the cabinet committee did not Include anybody who knew anything about the consumer either. So it came up with ita recommendation to disregard the recent Supreme Court decision and to exempt the producer of natural gas from regulation by the Federal Power Commission. About all the consumer, himself, sees on this issue are the page, half-page and quarter-page advertisements in our newspapers and magazines paid for by the big oil companies which own the bulk of natural gas fields and reserves and which don't want any regulation. The consumer gets it coming and going in this operation. He pays for Neely (left) and Reuther His attack boomeranged these advertisements which are taken out in his bill and these advertisements are promoting an action that will increase his bills in the future.

Cute, eh? Sure is. These are some of the "sticks and stones" that could be used as real issues, and should be if are to have government that is fair to everybody. But both parties are beholden to powerful economic interests, including oil so, instead, they'll make headlines with sham battles about golf and squirrels and fish and going to church. devil uses to weaken a Christian is to tempt one to worry and fret over past sins and defections. But all our worrying will not change the deed that has already been done.

But once abiding in the love of Christ, saved and forgiven by Hi mercy and grace, nothing in our past can separate and alienate us from Him. Dennis the Menace "Hey I Did you know the warm inside the refrigerator?" i Mi i-WiW 9V 41 T.M 331 r. u. s. cm.

romantic in spring and write your paper route Expecting can take Matsu and Quemoy against determined Nationalist resistance in the near future. There remaintwo unanswered questions on the U.S. side: 1 Will the United States defend Matsu and Quemoy under any circumstances and, if so. under what circumstances? The President has said that he alone will make these decisions and thus far he has not made up his mind. If we want to avoid a "war of miscalculation" with Red China, is it wise to leave it precise that we will defend against any attack on Formosa, but leave it vague whether we will defend against any attack on the Matsus and Quemoy? This combination of deflniteness over Formosa and vagueness over the off-shore islands is official policy.

It runs into questioning from many sources and is undoubtedly subject to reappraisal. The Machinery of Bipartisan, ship It never works to the satisfaction of everybody and rarely to the satisfaction of the opposition party. The Republicans Rayburn McCormack They feel neglected criticized the Truman administration for bringing them in too often only on the "crash landings." The foot is now in the other shoe. A number of Democrats are feeling neglected. Rep.

John W. McCormack, of Massachusetts, majority leader of the house, remarked recently that neither Speaker Sam Rayburn nor he had been invited to foreign policy consultation at the White House since the convening of the present session of congress. This week's White House conferences are designed to strengthen the bi-partisan ties at the level of the President. Secretary Dulles and Senator George confer quite often at breakfast but obviously there is need to bring other important congressional leaders into the picture. Big Four Conference President Eisenhower can't avoid a Big-Four conference even if he should wish to.

He doesn't wish to. Now that the European military pacts are ratified British, French and German public opinion demands another try at negotiating with the Soviets. If the Russians and the others want to negotiate, the President can't afford to stand aloof and this Is what he will inform the congressional leaders. 3n Hia IFnntprtnlB The Gentlemen Who Fleeced the Laundry Girls Had Better Look to Their Buttonsl for Action on Formosa WILL TO MEN! Republican leadership has pointed the way. The Republican party has proved that this great nation can have prosperity In peace.

So when you cast vour ballot on Tuesday SON YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN." Then followed a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I thank God that today there Is not in the w-hole world an active battle-front." "Vote straight Republican ticket" were the concluding words of this highly effective advertisement. Will Democrats ForgetT Variations of this ad appeared all over the country. One read. "I proudly voted Republican because I was tired of watching New Deal Democrats kill- our sons and daughters in a senseless hot war." Another, appearing in' the St.

Charles, Chronicle of Oct. 27, showed an ambulance carrying away war wounded. Below waa the caption: "Remember the total destruction of Nagasaki? It could be total distruction of Aurora and Elgin including you. The above disaster scene could be ours. Vote straight Republican." These ads in Illinois materially cut the commanding lead of Sen.

Paul Douglas, Democrat, a marine hero of World War n. In some other states they are credited with defeating some Democratic candidates. But having blamed the Democrats for war, Eisenhower's- political advisers feel he la stuck with that policy regardless of Secretary Dulles and military advisors unless he can persuade Democratic leaders to indorse the Dulles policy of risking war over the small islands of Quemoy and Matsu. That's partly what the current White House meetings are about. Note Various senators and congressmen have informed me that they would be delighted to receive more reaction form the people back home as to whether the United States should take a definite stand in the defense of Quemoy and Matsu; or whether we should defend Formosa only; or whether we should not get involved in any problems in the Far East.

In keeping with the Democratic principle of representative government, they would be happy to hear from their constituents. the union itself, would buy the California Life Insurance and do its own insuring. For about six months Saperstein had legal control of this firm. It was then, according to the investigators, that he sat in all seats at once. They charged that counselor Saperstein advised the union to place its business through agent Saperstein, who'd already made a deal to collect eight and a half per cent commission from insurance tycoon Saperstein.

"You were a man wearing three hats," said Sen. Paul Douglas "You were just talking to yourself." Saperstein said he couldn't see anything wrong with that. He did nothing illegal. And eventually the laundry union did get title to its own insurance company. It developed further that the Messrs.

Saperstein and James were In a whole laundry tub of trouble, involving income tax charges, court actions, and disciplinary moves from union officialdom and state Insurance supervisors. I hate to think what's going to happen to their shirts henceforth, no matter what laundries they patronize. By Jimmy Hatlo THAT'S THE MOST PHYSICAL11 EXERTION THEY vc DONE SINCE THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS THE BOSS would Pop COJLDtfT THE THREE OF THCIK why out THEM WOULD A BEAUTY BE DOING RARLOR iF7 JSTEMlMG tdthe VERBAL KlMESCOPE OF LAST MIGHT'S MJUNX AHQA TP OS TUB WTtf HAT TO MUKwAy TATtt, 171 fWXHf lfe.reNTO JlAHAQk. pretmled for her Teevoom Ethel Merman, whose magazine series will be purllshed between covers in June. The title, "Who Could Ask for Anything More?" The clever billing: "By Ethel 5 i I Lucille Ball Lucy leaving Merman as Sung to Pete Martin" Paul Muni, whose hair is bleached snow-white for his role (as lawyer Clarence Dar-row) In the play "Inherit the Wind," due April 21st Marilyn Monroe entering her new flat (a li roomer) at 430 E.

56th. Broadway Owwls Lucille Ball reportedly tells chums this is the final season for "Lucy." Her logic: "I'm tired and the only place we can go is down in rating and money" The movie version of "Oklahoma" won't go into the Rivoli. Big story behind the "reason" Perry Como and his arranger Hugo Winter-halter have cussed and made up Diane Lynn was the loveliest angel at The Blue Angel Dennis King Is ill and out of "Lunatics Lovers" Jack Teagarden's dghtr (Vernajean) becomes a bride Apr. 23rd The "Damn Yankee" show-title may get the radio-ban. Groups in Boston squawked loud.

One of them must be the Boston Red Sox. Midtown Vignette: The other evening at "The Dark Is Light Enough" (starring K. Cornell and T. Power) there were two empty seats in the 1st Row As Act I curtain fell, Miss Cornell told the stage manager: "Those two empty seats keep staring at me. Please have them occupied" Two balconyitee were given the choice pewe Apparently bought by two Martini victims.

Memos of a Midnighten Jelke's barristers are looking for a youthful playboy who allegedly was an intimate pal of Miss Ward in '51 The war buza made the odds i to 1 that Ike'll run in '56 3 to 1 Harriman will be his competitor Warner starlet Joan Collin and her Maxwell Reed (British thespian) are dividing Betty Hamman (of the Latin Qutee Dept) is the new magic at Miami Beach's Black Magic room Happiest grandpop in San Francisco la philanthropist Lou Lurie. Hia son Robert and wife were daughtergraphed The Robert (Burlington Mills heir) Lovea (she's pretty Janet Valentine, Wall Street customer's lady) are rumored splitting 2 for 1. (Here now, Walter, no Wall Street tips!) Fly-by-Nitems: Nancy Kelly (itemed a lot as merging with the Theatre Guild's Warren Caro) will prob'ly do it in the Summer. Honeymoon in Hawaii Skewp for Lindy's: New Jersey has a park named Cheesequake Time's Chicago chief (Sam Welles) and Margery Miller wemme spons writer) unite soon Ava Gardner's new pursuitor (in London) wae Lord Granville. On the phone daily since she flew to Pakistan.

Barbara Hutton, whose skinny frame worried pals, is now plump. (Must be love or Hal Hayes) Oops, soddy. Third Avenue sousiety has taken to "Bloody Vodka, to-mater-juice, plus sauerkraut juice. Not bad. (Not good, either) Item for eweet-toothed readers trying to lose weight: Unsweetened chawklltt ha more calories than sweetened ditto Joe Le Vinson of Fayetteville, N.

quips: "The most unpopular animal in Wall Street is not a Bull or a Bear, but a Bum Steer!" The Big-Time: Jonl James "How Important Can It Be?" Marion Colby's "Unsuspecting Heart" Pretty cute Kcot-ty Scott (the weathercaster) on Ch. 7. (A Doll) Eddie Lay-ton's organchantlng tunes at the Mermaid Room The 8-Rlng-ling-Barnum Bailey Circus at the Garden. Greater Than Ever! Barbs Spring is always the time of year when young girle listen to or slosh through slush. Salt keeps grease from smoking.

Peppering the seat of the pants has the same effect ea Junior. it 'v I A Religion in Life 'Forward Look' Should Be Characteristic of Christians By ROSCOE DRUMMOND WASHINGTON As President Eisenhower embarks upon bipartisan conferences with the congressional leaders of both parties this week, these facts urgently need to be brought into focus: 1 The White House is con-cerned over the danger of war in the Pacific but does not share the widely publicized U.S. military view that the Chinese Communists are launched on a time-table of aggression which makes an attack on the Matsus and Quemoy almost inevitable in the next few weeks. These meetings with the leg- islative chiefs were not con- celved bv the President as "crisis conferences." They were set up before the talk of imminent conflict in the Formosa strait reached headline proportions. Their purpose was to strengthen the White House-congressional liaison on the whole range of foreign affairs.

0 Mr. Eisenhower will disclose his willingness to have an early meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers perhaps at San Francisco in June prepare for an Eisenhower-Qiurchill-Bulganin-French premier conference as soon as possible. The Background The background from which these statements are reported is as follows: The Danger Over Formosa The President does not share the sense of the virtual inevitability of war in the Pacific which some members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have lately been expressing. The White House does not minimize the danger of war, the risk of war, the possibility that Red China will rend all the bonds of restraint and strike out recklessly toward Formosa heedless of the consequences. It is true that the administration is bracing itself against the worst.

But this is far from the view that the Chinese Communists have already cast the die and that the last drops of sand are slipping through the hour-glass when the U.S. must decide whether the Seventh fleet should back up Chiang at the Matsus and Quemoy. The view which most reflects the President's is that Chinese Communist intentions are still far from clear, that there is a great difference between capability and intention and that it cannot be assumed that the Communists have a military build-up at a point where they Bv Honlt Ketcbar 'lectric heating pad even gets By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN WASHINGTON The sad part about the sight of the gentlemen in the $200 suits (one had a pearl stickpin in his gray cravat) was the realization that the hardworking women in America's leading laundries had paid for this haberdashery de luxe. Louis Saperstein, the Newark, N.

insurance agent who sported the pearl, wouldn't say yes and he wouldn't say no about the million dollars that passed through his office from the insurance policies of the laundry workers' union. He just fell back on the Fifth Amendment when the questioning by the senate labor committee got tough. Eugene C. James, the portly, curly-haired secretary treasurer of the union, relaxed in his beautifully tailored clothes of chocolate brown, sipped Ice water, puffed cigarets, and wouldn't answer any questions whatever. He'd been charged with collecting $2,500 a month from the insurance company that already had paid Saperstein $350,000 in commissions and he respectfully refused to say anything about the money that was supposed to They'll Do It Every Time By THE REV.

J. V. BROWN, Pastor West View Baptist Church, Cookeville, Tenn. Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil.

3:13, 14) a christian ought to be characterued by the possession of the forward look. To look backward is not only perilous but also reflects on the nature and character of God. When God forgives sins, he not only forgives but forgets. "I am he that blotteth out thy transgres-s i on for mine own sake, and will not remember thy tins. (Isaiah 43: 25)" If God does not harp Brown on our past sins which He has forgiven, then for to look back on them is to make light IT W4S THE WOffST FIGHT EVER I COULD LICK DIDJ4 XT OF THEMTHEy NOTICE lliAT JUST SLAPPED.

CANV4SB4CK ATE4CM NEVEB 7UREW OTHER. One upper- USE nJ43 AW MORE-i OF THEy JUST DONT I MAXL F16HTERS UKETWEy USETA' CS 8Wi I of the mercy of God. I Not only should we apply I i the principles of the forward look to our own lives but also 1 with regard to those about us. A 5-31 CHRIST AND RESURRECTION "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life." John 11:25 We do not mourn and grieve and weep In autumn when God puts to sleep The roses in their garden-bed Nor do we think the lilacs dead In winter when they bloom no more For in the spring God will restore These flowers and they'll bloom again And if you've faith, The Just maintain Your loved ones too will be reborn On God's appointed Easter morn. JULIEN C.

HYER All of ui tin and come short of God's glory. There is much to be desired in each of our lives. Others offend us, say unkind things, hurt us by ignoring us, or desert us in time of itresa. But surely if God can lay "I will remember their tin no more" you and I who have been less offended than God can also forgive and practice forgetfulness. One of the chief devices the cow.

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