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ence got under way, he was "not eo sure" there would be much time for that sort of thing. Vlshlnsky referred, of course, to the notorious, Russian habit of working at night. Or at least that is the habit of top-drawer state planners. Among these "men of steel" sleeping late the next morn-Ing Is one of few indulgences permissible in otherwise Spartan lives. A sinister Impression of the Kremlin, lit up like a Christmas tree long after midnight, is available in the memoirs of roost any American who has In fact a just published hook by is entitled "A Room on the route is the Mozhaisk road, a broad reputedly guarded by 4,000 NKVD it fleets of sleek Packards streak Why Russia Discounts Atom Bomb Moitopoly WA8H1HOTOK.

ONLY a few days after the British government put ua on notice about its withdrawal from Greece, the Soviet government slammed the door against the American proposals on atomic energy. These two events are related In that tha British decision increases Incalculably our responsibilities and commitments vis-a-vis the Pnetofflre at March )7. Entered aa Berwrnd Claaa Matter at Mlmvmpolia. under Uia Art TCK.L'MB LXXX FACE 4 TUESDAY. at dawn carrying commissars to their after the night's work.

Marshall, a man of regular to Moscow's midnight-saving time seen. But he should be able to draw while attending international Russia whereas Gromyko's stand must express his government's estimate of the military value of the atomic bomb, and its policy for dealing with our present monopoly of that weapon. As our liabilities have risen sharply owing to the decline of the British power, the Soviet government has taken a position which discounts, almost unreservedly, the present value of the atomic bomb regarded by so many of us as the decisive weapon in the balance of power. "Gromyko demands the Immediate disarmament of the United States in atomic weapons. It must have been obvious to him that the United if iaL Gromyko F.D.R.

In addition, he's had some slaying up late while "cramming" for secretary of state. Time magazine along a flying jacket and winter probably need both as he steps cold, gray dawn after a night of peacemaking. Confirm Lilienthall THE SENATE atomic energy committee has made Its decision on David E. IJlienthal and the other members of the atomic energy commission. The decision to approve these men showed an ability to rise above the petty which should not go un-noticed.

The appointments now go to the full senate for approval. Statements which have been made by some senators even while the committee hearings were in progress indicate that approval will not be given easily In the senate, despite the committee's action. In the course of the hearings, IJlienthal has ben accused of being a communist, or at least of having communist tendencies. Aspersions have been cast upon his ability as an executive. His record in public service has been torn apart, bit by bit, by all those who oppose him for any reason.

The committee has found that he Is capable and good standing. These were the "only things Could Be Wrong of Louis R. Lautier, a Negro admission to. the congressional has been turned down by the press committee by a vote of 4 to 1. was entirely on technical grounds.

WHAT'S IN THE MAGAZINES decided that Lautier's "chief attention" to his work as a correspondent Negro Press association. As such, decided, he did not fit the rules of which restrict press gallery seats correspondents of reputable stand-lng business, who represent daily newspapers newspaper associations requiring telegraphic press of this nation has been growing steadily and the quality of its been Improving rapidly. Many of newspapers have been attempting to do reporting. President Truman took this recently when he presented the awards for outstanding Negro the recipients of those award was cited for his objective reporting. time The Minneapolis Morning carrying articles on a diversity Charles S.

Johnson, a writer for Negro Press. One such article appears page. These articles compete with writers for space on this page. The some of them because it believes space they are given. the rules, the correspondents' committee acted correctly.

This does not that the rules are right. which the committee or the full senate were called upon to weigh In deciding whether to confirm or reject the nomination. Some senators, however, take the position now that because slanderous statements have been made against Lillenthal at the hearings, he cannot be confirmed. It Is not a question of the truth of such statements In the minds of these senators. It Is merely the fact that the accusations have been made.

Such an attitude is not only unwise but actually dangerous. It raises slanderers to the level of Importance. It will make mora difficult the selection other public officials, for It sets a precedent of voting down anyone who is accused merely because he was accused, not because the nominee la not fitted for the position In question. This la aot good government; It la not good AmericaJiiam. The committee hearings have developed no real evidence against LllienthaL And certainly there was ample opportunity for real evidence to be presented.

Senator Hickcnlooper as chairman of the committee did an excellent job of permitting all sides to be heard and attempting to keep the hearings en a high plane. lacking evidence against the nominee, there should be no doubt in the minds of any senator about his obligation to vote for confirmation. thnt there are at leant two hall-point pen won't writ on: (1) a wet cake of soap. Moscow Nocturne ANDREI VISHJNSKY welcomed British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevln to Moscow with the hope that he had had plenty of sleep on the way from Iondon. For once the foreign ministers' confer world in in a ferment, and it i tell whether the result will be vinegar.

Adult Fears Responsible for Child's Race Bias NUMXcit am MARCH 11. 1147 through the country homes In some classrooms there is just one Negro child, in others the Negro children are in the majority. Wherein lies the difference? Obviously, in the adults. This particular neighborhod is occupied by white working people, many of whom own or are in the process of paying for their own homes. frlCAK PASSED ALONG To them the Negro family In the neighborhood representsa threat to economic security and social status hardly won and never quite secure.

Let the mother be afraid of fire, and the children will tremble at a lighted match; if she fears burglars, they will be afraid to go to sleep in the dark. If the parents fear an "invasion" of Negroes, "the children will take sticks and stones to drive the feared symbol from their midst It obvious that part of the euro will bava to come by allaying the fears of the adults and by appealing to them on a different plane of reaction. If they are given facta to show that Negro neighbors need not spell property depreciation and social degradation, and if at the same time they are appealed to on the level on which they want to be good neighbors and good citizens and, above all, good parents, they may at least refrain from expressing their hostilities to the children. But it is also possible to work directly with the children. INTELLIGENT APPROACH In another school in Chicago in a racially mixed neighborhood, there is a teacher who seems to understand the meaning of education for democratic living.

She permeates every activity and subject with the sense of family and of neighborliness. If a child has returned after an illness, she asks about other children who have had the same Illness, making even chickenpox a link across the barriers of race or color. The class keeps a good neighbor box of crayons, pencils and such treasures to help out the children who do not have enough or have lost them. The children do much of their work in groups so that all are contributing to the end result. And whether they are reading or writing or drawing pictures they are unconsciously learning the lesson that our likenesses aro more Important than our differences.

visited Russia. Godfrey Blunden Route." The Moscow avenue agents. Over How Secretary habits, wiH react remains to be on his experiences powwows with practice in his new Job as reports he took underwear. He'll out into the Soviet-style Rules THE APPLICATION reporter, for press galleries correspondents The rejection The committee was devoted for the National the committee the association to "bona fide in their or service." The Negro more Important newspapers has the Negro a good job of cognizance of Wendell L. Willkie journalism.

Among was Lautier, who From time to Tribune has been of subjects by the Associated on this those by other Tribune prints they merit the According to probably mean, however, We've discovered thing a melting ice; () The whole too early yet to champagne or By HJALMAR BJORNSON th Minneapolis Morning Tribune editorial page ttaff THE DECLINE AND FALL OF SENATOR WHEELER WHEN Senator Burton K. Wheeler went down to defeat the Democratic party In Mon tana went down with him, de clares Joseph K. Howard in Harper's. Having demoralized both parties and converted Mon- vernment i into a bipartisan machine, Wheel er "lost out when he thought was big enough for two parties. Just when he was rec ognized a Wheeler the most fearless guardian of the common man, Wheeler saw that role taken over by the Demo cratic party under the broader leadership of Roosevelt.

When he was not admitted to Roose velt councils, the liberal of the '20s changed and went to dan gerous lengths in opposing F. D. foreign policy. Wheeler's real achievements Included removal of Attorney General Daugherty, farm debt and drouth relief and the holding company act. This record did t.

.3 i li. nut save juiu am wjiuc ma siiion to the MVA didn't defeat him it did cost him the support of the powerful Farmers Union. There is a lesson, says Howard, in his career for those who are quick to acclaim indifference to party responsibility as an unqualified virtue. AMERICA AN1 RUSSIA HOLD KEY TO PEACE PAUL Hutchinson returns from a world tour fearful of the threat to human freedom im-plicit in Communist totalitarian-ism but unconvinced that freedom can be defended against this danger by war. A lasting peace, not simply an armed truce, depends on the ability of the United States and Russia to take the edge off their SO FAR ML States would not agree.

The American position has been that it would disarm Its atomic weapons when its system of international control wm set up. If Gromyko had expected to negotiate seriously, he might have argued that American disarmament shoflld begin soon in return for firm promises to negotiate on the main elements of the American plan. But Gromyko's position now is that the United States should disarm, and that it should also surrender all hope of getting any of the important features of its own plan. WE KEEP MONOPOLY We have to conclude that the Soviet government expects us to continue to have the monopoly of the atomic bomb, that it does not believe we can use it effectively, and will, therefore, make no concessions to us. Why does the Soviet government take a position which, stripped of all its dialectic, leaves lis in physical possession of a monopoly of this enormous weapon of war? It must bo because tho Soviet government has come to the conclusion that at the present time It can discount the atomic bomb.

In the calculation which has led to this conclusion, the weakness of the British Empire has undoubtedly been a determining factor. BRITAIN'S NEW POSITION The liquidation of the British Empire in Asia and North Africa is going to mean that the United Kingdom Is to become primarily a western European state. No doubt it will long maintainors connection with the English-speaking nations of the British Commonwealth. No doubt it will also maintain its colonies In Africa and elsewhere. But the main imperial position, which extends from the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt through Indian to Malaya, is being liquidated.

The main interest of tho British people in the British Isles, is, as a consequence, more than ever bound up With the destiny of France, Belgium, The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries, Germany and the continent as a whole. As Britain ceases to be an Imperial world power. It becomes necessarily a European stale. As such, Britain ran no longer regard the continent of Europe as tho theater in which the giant non-European powers con. tend.

It must take the European view, which Is essentially different not only from the Russian, but also from the American and the imperial British view. It must preserve Europe, because it is becoming part of It. REVALUE ITS BOMB Under these conditions the strategical importance of the atomic bomb is due to be revalued. It is a reasonable inference from Gromyko's argument that the Soviet valuation of the bomb is a great deal lower than that placed upon jt by many Americans and Englishmen. The Russians, no doubt, assume that the atomic bomb will never be used against them unless there is a total war.

They must assume further that a total war can break out only if Britain and the leading countries of Europe are engaged. A direct and Isolated war between Rusnia and America Is for all practical purposes impossible. But If, as is now Increasingly probable, Britain must throw In its lot with Europe, and must prevent such a war, then the atomic bomb can be discounted as decisive in the world balance of power. leave the state, and that is not fair. Many accidents are unavoidable.

This is the most unfair law I can Imagine. I have been in other slates where such laws are in effect and they don't do a bit of good. S. H. SWENSON.

Enkine, Minn. Editor' Note: The driven license bill (H.F. 227) passed by the house Feb. 19 sayt in Section 3: "Upon application and payment of the required fee driving privileges shall be extended or renewed on or preceding the expiration date of on existing drivers license without examination unless the (highway) commissioner believes that the licensee no longer qualified as a driver." CIVIL SERVANTS FIRST SERVED PRIVATE FIRM from the trithk Megetie THE term "civil service" orig-ignated in the East India company to distinguish its ordinary employes engaged in foreign trading from members of the army and navy who supplied aid and protection. When the British government took over the company, it also took over the employes and the term.

DOROTHY KLLGALLEN Louis to Try Cafe Venture in Detroit NEW YORK. JOE LOUIS, despite the fiasco of his Harlem testaurant venture, will try again this time in Detroit The Jacobs Beach boys are betting that Rocky Grazlano will bo back in Madison Square Garden action within five weeks. Tony Martin will 1 iiimi ij T. Louis Moko (tha Charles Boyer role) In the musical film version of "Algiers." Frank Fay and Betty Kean have called it off again. Mrs.

Jimmy Roosevelt's sister, Phyllis Schneider, is tha bride of press agent Dick Pit-tinger after a surprise elopement A member of th wealthy McMartin gold mining clan has put in a bid for the entire Hesse diamond and Jewelry collection, which is now in Washington, while Col. Durant Is being tried. An agent will handle the deal. SUSAN MOVES UP The "Susan Brown, contralto," who is arranging to give a concert in Carnegie Hall, is really Gall Garber, the strip-teaser currently at the Howard theater in Boston. She went to work as a stripper (so the slory goes) to earn money for her serious vocal studies.

Joseph Cotten tangled with the autograph hounds la no uncertain fashion at the Giel-gud opening. Had his chauffeur remove the bobby Boxers from his path. Lana Turner raised a terrifie fuss when she arrived in Aca-pulco and found Tyrone Power doing the town with a New York model. Add Hollywood headaches: plenty of prohibitionist organizations will boycott all movies until producers cut down the footage devoted to guzzling. TOPS EV TOWN: Phil Regan's tenorlng at the Roxy.

Georgia Gibbs' disc ef "How Are Thfngs in Glocca Mora" (Majestic) "The Big Yankee" Michael Blank-fort's exciting biography of Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson. Bud Taylor's organ magic at th Sheraton Lounge.

SaxI Dowell's "All I'v Got Is Me." Murray Wl-nant's kiddie album, "It's Fun ta Eat." Jimmy Durante's performance in "It Happened in Brooklyn." SUBSCRIPTION RATES, BV MAIL MINNFSm. NORTH DAKOTA. SOUTH DAKOTA. IOWA. WISCONSIN I ft IS WH ki Wkt WM Momlni Trltttim I 00 II SO 70 Bvrnlni Star .30 I 00 2 0 Sundj Trtbnn Ji t.M s.M ALL OTHER STATXS Morning Trlbun .25 1.5S so Bvenlnc Star .35 1 35 2t OO Sunday Trlbun 30 1.00 I SO 3 Th Anoc)atd frtt It zctoflvclt entltlrtf to th ua for republication ot all newt -patehra rrwllted to It or not ethcrwtu trrd-lfrd to thla paper, and alao tho local newa published herein.

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Complaints may be made in per 3 01 or bv calling ATlantxo 311L subsiding as reconversion completes Itself. Union membership grew from three to 15 millons in the 12 years of the Wagner act once employer interference was removed and workers were able to exercise the right of self-organization. Wagner calls talk of restoring free speech to labor relations "a polite way of reintroducing employer Interference, economic retaliation, and other insidious means of discouraging union membership and activity." Seeing "no short-cut panacea for tha solution of the strike protolem within the framework of a democratic system," Wagner would rely not on suppression, but on the willingness of the parties to resolve differences by mutual accord. LITTLE HOPE SEEN FOR GOP LIBERALS TWO things are taken for granted "in circles close to the Republicans who really run the party," says Carey Long-mire in the magazine '47. They "are: (1) Harold Stassen hasn't "the whisper of a chance" to make the White House in '49 and neither does any GOP a (2) If tha bosses can help it, Thomas Dewey won't make it either.

The Inner party machinery of the GOP sel-d has been as tightly held by one fac- Staiwen tion as it is Caricature now held by by Sam the Ohio Berman Pennsylvania axis directed by Senator Robert Taft. The major threat to Taft is Dewey but as far as the actual party machinery is concerned he is on the outside looking in. The conservative high tariff industrialists of the middle west and the Pews and Duponts prefer Bricker but they know Taft is an ultraconservative. The chief point is the fierce hostility between the middle western and New York wings of the GOP. Taft is too clever to toss the whole New Deal out but he will use budget cuts to restrict the activities of New Deal-created agencies.

It is an old Taft method to agree to a radical scheme In principle but to trim it down to harmless size. Taft clearly fits the temper of the Republican times, says Longmire, so when the delegates roll into the GOP convention from the south and the middle west they will be whooping It for Bob Taft. Wartime China a Poor Place for Writers From the introduction to "Stories of China at War" edited by Chi-Chen Wang THERE is a limit to the suffering which man can bear, and during the war the Chinese writers and Intellectual workers have suffered more than any other group. Writing in Hsin Chung Hua. Wu T'ieh-sheng gives some telling statistics on the lot of the writers.

Before the war the author's fee represented 58.48 per cent of the total publishing cost; in 1943 it was only 22.3 per cent. The purchasing power of a thousand words fell off from a picul and a half of rice (about 200 pounds) to a little over a sheng, one hundredth of a picul. In terms of money, his fee rose only 50 limes, while the average worker earned 150 times more. Newspapers carried appeals on behalf of sick and undernourished writers. NOTHING mutual suspicions sufficiently to permit friendly working relations, he observes In the Christian Centory.

The European "heartland," outlined by Sir Halford J. Mac-kinder and which Hitler had almost conquered is now nearly completely controlled by the realists in the Kremlin. To finish the job, Russia must push out the British and it knows that Britain will be no stronger than the United States allows It to be. Left to contend with Britain alone, Russia has no doubt which would be first in Eurasia so the question which obsesses Russia is whether we Intend to stay out of the struggle. Molotov Is trying to Mmako the consequences of active American intervention seem ao costly that Washington will hesitate before making sweep- ing commitments to British support." If we believe Russia should not continue to expand we must prepare to prove our social and political system can provide more comfort, security and liberty than any other.

If we do that communism will fade; if can't, all our arms and techniques won't save us. WAGNER APPRAISES LABOR RELATIONS ACT UNAFRAID of the stresses and strains in labor management relations as they seek to adjust their conflicting Interests, Senator Robert F. Wagner sees no reason to alter his national labor relations act. Writing In Sign magazine, Wagner thinks the wava of postwar strikes is Oleo Edict Puts Dairy Interests on Their Toes An ditorial in Collier' Weekly A COUNTY court at Harrisburg, the other day declared unconstitutional the big license fees which Pennsylvania has been levying on oleomargarine dealers for 45 years. These fees are $500 a year for wholesalers and $100 for retailers.

They are, said President Judge William M. Hargest of the Harrisburg tribunal, "unreasonable, confiscatory and discriminatory, and constitute an Illegal restraint of trade." For decades, various dairy interests have procured legislation in numerous states giving the inside track to butter. Heavy taxes, direct and indirect, have been imposed on trade in oleo. Crazy regulations designed to keep oleo makers from dressing up their product as attractively as possible have been rammed through state legislatures. The propaganda campaign against "bull butter" has gone on with the utmost ferocity, and styll does.

All this operate to curtail the market for a fat product which, when properly manufactured, is as efficacious butter and normally a 'good deal cheaper. Plenty of people who can't afford butter can afford oleo, when they can- get it. They ought to be as free to it as anybody is 1o buy Duller. These discriminations are unfair and we think unwise. We're for free competition, in this field as in others, as a means of keeping table-fat prices reasonable and both the dairy and the oleo interests on their toes.

By CHARLES S. JOHNSON Associated Negro Fress Writer SOME of the things that happen among children are heartbreaking because they are so obviously the consequences of adult behavior. Children unln-structed by their elders would never have Initiated such action but, once the lesson Is learned, they carry it out with terrifying zeal. Recently a Negro boy named Charles was brought to school by Ms mother in a neighborhood into which the family had just moved. It was In a northern city where the children are not segregated by race, but in a neighborhood where there were few colored families.

OTIIKlt CHILDREN JEER Charles was the first colored child to attend that particular school He did not stay long. On the first day the children gathered in the playground and shouted. "We don't want any Negroes in our school." They Jeered at Charles and threatened him. Naturally he was terrified. The school authorities had to call police to escort him home.

Charles and hbs mother had heA enough. Ho was sent to lio with his aunt In a neighborhood whero most of the children were Negroes. What made the children behave like that? In the same city, white, Negro, Japanese and all other possible shades of children are attending school to-Sethr peaceably and happily. AS A BRITON SEES IT frm the New Statesman and Nation (London) SNOW has put 200,000 American workers out of work in the city of Pittsburgh alone. In a private enterprise society, if people are thrown out of work by the weather or by decision of employers, the ordinary public regards it as an art of God; they only put a bit of the blame on the government and then mainly out of bad temper.

A Socialist administration, which announces a policy of planning and which nationalises the mines, takes over responsibility that has hitherto belonged to the Deity. If it claims credit for full employment, then inevitably it will get blamed for THE OPEN FORUM DRIVERS LICENSE BILL EFFECTIVENESS DOUBTED To the Editor: The proposed new drivers license law will not help the acct dent situation on th highways very much. Many good people who have driven for years will fail to pass the examination and will be denied the right to drive on account of a new law they may not understand. California has a drivers test law, and if anybody wants to see crazy driving they should go there. Poor drivers will be in a tight spot.

If they lose their driving license they might as well.