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Home Owned, Controlled, Edited ftrtlirfctl nf tl ArUMX jffit Oakland, May 19, 1949. App renticeship Graduation Reveals The Legion of Death Mans the Life Boat 4 i Co-operation of Unions and Employers OTHER FELLOW By AD SCHUSTER The importance of the management-labor WATCHING HONGKONG By Stewart Afsop i-- Of COURAGe 'WELLGOFND THE TAtf PAYER PROCESSION When I was yung. how sure I was My first love was my onlv song But know, now my hair touched with gray. Another love could come along Though each has been the only heart Of his especial year or dav I have been to all of them-I loved each in a different way. ANN ANDERS tive organizations granted them the authority to set up? and operate their apprenticeship prograrhs.

So in honoring trese young men who have completed their training, and the joint apprenticeship committees, we are also' paying a tribute to all of the and all of the employers who made the decision some years ago to authorize the setting up of the apprentice-training program." Foresight of unions and employers to see the need for an Adequate skilled labor force has been rewarded in ays to set an example and encourage the movement elsewhere. Production played its big part in the winning of war; -in our productive potential is a deterrent to another war. What tc-ok place in Oakland' with this mass graduation of skilled workers is part of a program of promise, assurance and benefit to the government supported apprenticeship training program which has been so successfully demonstrated here was made apparent here this week when some 876 men and women received certificates after four years of study and application. A Cabinet official and a Governor, were here to greet this largest mass graduation of apprentices in the United States. Our Auditorium was packed and the purposes and achievements of the program were lauded by representatives of all the supporting groups.

Secretary Tobin of the Department of Labor put a thought that is in the minds of many with these words: "The outstanding services these men of the joint apprenticeship committees) have rendered could not have been performed had not their respec Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois in one breath, releases a revolutionary statement and take the of living from many persons when he says: -One does not have to be a spendthrift to be a liberal." Some day a fellow will discover hat any man who is against throwing away public mr nev is not necessarily a rock-bound moss-backed conservative. Today new Name Club member is Seymour Fabrick. choe man. We could take the wind out of Soviet saiis bv ouf wjth statement that we firmlv believe program. While the did not actually select the individuals for scholar invented xiusMa ain.

saw, and everything first. Gentlemen Upon a hike Often wish They had a bike. A Hagerstown. Md a hen lav, lavender eges. And prnbablv says something about the Easter rabbit not being as smart as he thinks he is.

"Tires good for 75.000 miles are predated for the near future" Well b.t there's a catch in that somewhere, such as discovery that new cars will not fit them. 3fc3VirA3 TODAY AND TOMORROW- HONG KONG. May 19 To the visitor arrived from Shanghai, Hong Kong appears wonderfully calm and comfortable. The Shang. hai streets are like a carnival in a nightmare; the streets of Hong Kong, like a bustling, colorful country fair.

On the Peak above the city, there are big. comfortable houses, cool breezes, and that air of peaceful stuffiness which is the hallmark of British colonial existence. But the real difference between Hon.g Kong and Shanghai is quite of another, more grim order. This city is sternly mobilizing for it3 own defense. It is mobilizing because there is a chance that something as ugly as what is now happening in Shanghai may start here within a few weeks or months.

It is mobilizing because there is even a very remote chance that China's civil war may become an international war when it reaches Hong Kong's borders. Before too long (six weeks to three months is the best guess), the Communist "People's Liberation Army" will arive at the borders of Hong Kong's leased territory on the mainland. Mao Tse Tung's victorious troops will then face a reinforced Hong Kong garrison of some 12.000 British troops hardly more than a corporal's guard. But if the "Peoples' Liberation Army" then attempts to "liberate" Hong Kong, the British troops will fight. PLANES ARRIVING The British do not expect to have to fight.

Yet they are making their intention to resist if attacked as obvious as possible. Fighter planes have arrived at the totally inadequate Kaitak Airfield on the mainland. Aircraft earners and other fleet reinforcements are steaming toward Hong Kong. British troops Singapore have been alerted to be ready for Hong Kong duty on short notice. All this is intended to warn the Communists that an attack on Hong Kong will mean war with a major power.

There are other reasons why the British do not expect to have to fight. The businessmen especially rather nervously hope that the have already decided to allow Hong Kon? to continue to function as a funnel for trade and a "window to the West." The evidence which supports this view is certainly not conclusive, but it is strikingly interesting. A kind of barter trade, rather like the China trade of the clipper ship days. hs been quietly carried on between Hong and the Communis narlh ever since thr initial Communist victories. As in the old days, it has sometimes been highlyprofitable, with a single voyage netting a neat hundred per cent return And very recently the Communists have evinced a more formal inter est in trade with Hong Kong.

SUPPLYING REDS Trey first, approached a great Chinese bank, with close Nationalist connections, to act as their Hong Kong agent. The Chinese bank, whose mam branches were still under Nationalist control, refused as politely as possible. The Communists then turned to a Belgian bank, with correspondents throughout the world. The Belgian bank accepted the assignment with pleasure. Already lubricating oil.

paper, and trucks are going north in exchange for shipments of bristles soy beans, and coal from the' great Kailan mines. On the other side of the balance sheet, less optimistic political observers point nut that Hong Kong is a rich prize, and that when the Communists control the mainland, the prize of this little island will ships, it assumes-responsibility. According to scientists involved in the student aid program, these students will not be engaged in secret work. Therefore, their loyalty was not investigated. This may be true but the idea of the scholarships is to create a pool of trained physicists from which the commission can choose future staff members.

'Why should money be wasted training scientist who would later be turned down on loyalty grounds? Obviously the commission is wasting money to take on such a student in the beginning. It is to be hoped that the Senate will take such action as will prevent Communists or fellow-travelers from enjoying educational benefits at the expense of the U.S. Treasury. And it is about timethat the Atomic Energy Commission revised its haphazard and short-sighted procurement methods. BAY INDUSTRIES As final preparations get under way it appears that Oakland will be the scene of a remarkably large industrial exposition this year.

The which will be held fiom June 4 to June 12 in the civic auditorium and exposition building, is designed to place under one roof typical examples of industrial products available in the Bay area. This should prove of interest, since some industries have purchased products elsewhere when they could have been obtained locally. More than 200 exhibits are expected in the Aner so many experiences with experts it must be embarrasSlne for Tammany to have its tail twisted by a mere newcomer. Many a Slip Twixt Bonn and Berlin In th School of fvprionr PUpil must apply his Own nv l( L.7 tests. tiate with the Russians while we negotiate with the Russians.

It seems reasonably certain that things have developed to a point where the whole problem of a German peace treaty will at least have to be examined in Pans. It may be possible, and certainly it would be preferable, to agree on an interim regime, and not to conclude a peace treaty until there is a German government, which all -the powers recognize, and then By Walter uppmann nationalists, should have the leading place in the unification of Germany and its liberation from the occupying forces. No one of any importance at Bonn has been serious about that West German state of which so much has been published. The text of the basic law makes that quite plain and the choice of Bonn as the 'capital" must be taken td mean that the Germans are expecting to unite Germany with its capita in Berlin. BONN A SYMBOL The choice of Born, which is a small town on the west bank of the Rhine, ouitp nncniteri As the three Western nations are trymg to work out a common policy for the meeting of the Big Four, the overriding question is how much of an understanding there is between the Western German and the Russians.

That there has been an exchange of views is known and admitted. But even if we did not know that intermediaries have established contact the evolution of Soviet policy on' the one hand, of German policy in the Bonn deliberations on the other hand, are remarkable The two operations have been like men digging a tunnel through A GENEROUS "WELCOME" Franklin D. Roosevelt who won a smashing victory over Tammany Hall in a New York Congressional election, says Democratic Leader McCormick, will "be welcomed to the House as a Democrat." We do not doubt this, nor that leaders of the party will be foremost in accepting applause and extending the congratulations which belong properly and solely to the rank and file. The son of Franklin D. Roosevelt ran without the official blessings of the Democratic party.

He had to forward his campaign as candidate of the Liberal and Four Freedoms parties while his main opponent, Judge Shalleck, was given the endorsement on behalf of the President by Chairman McGrath of the Democratic party. Judge Shalleck was the regular Democrat, the party candidate, in a district where "Democrat'' means Tammany. Not easy to explain today when the winner is being welcomed with so great a show of cordiality, is the fact that during the campaign he was dubbed by party leaders in New York as an "outsider running on the prestige of a famous name." Not to be brushed aside with patter concerning tradition and party loyalty is the fact the White House withheld its support to young Roosevelt. It is being remembered, and the factmade no difference to Democrats who "deserted" Tammanj-, that Franklin expressed himself in disfavor of the Truman nomination at Philadelphia and, along with his brother James, so put the Roosevelt name on record. Today young Roosevelt is being acclaimed in Washington while the voters who left that party's ticket to elect him to the House are left wondering at the vagaries of politics and the meaning of labels.

The voters and Franklin D. Roosevelt licked Tammany and the machine and licked them gloriously. They did it over the announced opposition of the Administration, the Democratic National chairman and those other "leaders" who so "generously" extend a welcome. Tammany has been beaten before only to bob up again and upon each occasion there is speculation over the future of the Democratic party in New York. Such speculation again is rife.

TRAINING COMMUNISTS It is difficult to see how the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission can justify the. spending of government funds for the training of an admitted Communist. Danger met him suddenly, He had no time to run: And so you'll find him listed As hero Number One. We suspect ulterior motives in the lecturer who spends an hour and a half telling that if we wish to be popular we must learn to be good listeners.

It is proposed by someone that a Federal tax of $5 be imposed on after-dinner speeches. No more than fair, considering that thoe who listen are thereby taxed to the saturation point. Suppose you went to the market bought a week's supplies, and just said, "charge this to the The future would find vol in the booby-hatch or the jail. 'and that's because you are an individual and not a government. KITTEN LOST My kitten as it plays today Seldom stops to strav away: But once, unknown, it went' from hence a mouniain.

inough they started from opposite sides, thev have meant to meet. They have meant to meet on the ground of the unity of Germany under centralized government, the military evacuation of Germany, and the restoration of the economic connections between Germany. Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia. The Russians have always been particularly insistent that Germany must have a strong central government. That is not so much because they have expected to capture it for Communism but because it is only with a strong central government that my best ust nave jumped friend's fence.

make the treaty with. But the problems of a treaty will certainly have to be discuspd. at least, informally. Among them none is so tricky as the frontiers of the new German state, particularly its eastern frontier with Poland and the Soviet Union. That is obviously a tricky question for the Russians, since they will be compelled to choose, at least for the present, between Poland and Germany on an issue which is irreconcilable.

But it is also a tricky question for us For we also could be compelled to choose. OUR DIFFICULT CHOICE The choice for us is not an easy i one. If we take a stand for the return of the Eastern territories, we shall certainly alienate not only the present Polish government, but virtually the whole Polish nation. On the other hand, we shall not win the Germans. For we do not hold the Eastern territory and cannot, therefore, return it to the Germans by making a declaration.

They can get back their territories only by a victorious war, which would ruin Germany once more, or by a deal with the Russians which would make them the allies of theJSoviet Union. On balance, therefore, it seems to me that our best policy is to say that the Eastern frontier is a question, for the. Germans, the Poles and the Russians, that we cannot decide the solution because we cannot enforce it that we shall We looked for it a long, long time iu the seat of a government, was notice to the Germans, to the West, and to the Russians that the West German state is certainly not meant to last, probably not even meant to be formed. For Bonn is to Berlin about what Vichy was to Paris impossible a- capital and therefore a symbol that the partition the occupation are transitory. The Bonn constitution is manifestly an ambiguous document, designed for negotiation with the Russians.

On the main point at issue with the Russians whether there is to be a central government, and not a federal union of relatively sovereign states, he Bonn text is much nearer the Russian view than it is to the French or what used to be the American. The text is devised; so that a government controlled. Sby nationalists can readily dominate the whole of Germany on all questions which would arise between Germany and Russia. The Social Democrats are nationalists, and they have succeeded in getting a draft constitution which woiild enable them, if they controlled Ihe government, to negotiate from Berlin for the whole of Germany. READY TO NEGOTIATE the old Ine" tnought to search grape vine.

a curled fur And there she was cup iields of machinery, petroleum, automobiles, steel, utilities, electricity, food, radio and television, materials handling, and many others. An outdoor area will be used. to demonstrate heavy-duty equipment. Under the sponsorship of the Oakland and San Francisco Junior Chambers of Commerce, the first of these expositions was held last year in San Francisco. This year it is Oakland's turn.

Co-operating in the enterprise are the Junior Chambers from 10 other counties adjacent to the Bay. In addition to the forums and discussions, the demonstration put on by the Army and Navy will be of especial interest to the general public which will be admitted to the exposition each day after 3 p.m. Here is an opportunity to view the great strides made in the industrial development of the Bay area, a. chance to see the wide range of products emanate from our factories and plants and thus obtain some appreciation of the economic processes on which so many thousands here depend for their livelihood and prosperity. Advance plans sound like an interesting and instructive Not hearing us as we crept up To find the pet there, fast asleep Drowsed as a dormouse, fathoms deep.

MARIF. K. CRESSEY. THE JESTER me ran no tneir political and economic business. THE 'BASIC LAW They have always wanted a -government in Berlin which all the Germans would obey.

They would have preferred a Communist government no doubt. But short of that they have wanted a government which could negotiate and make terms for the whole of Germany, unobstructed by local authorities particularly by the Catholic interests in Bavaria, the Western-minded interests of the Rhineland. and the big business interests of Westphalia. The Bonn constitution, or "basic law," as its authors prefer to call it. is the product of a struggle among the Germans The issue in that struggle has been whether the Social Democrats who are conservatives but on the whole also xue question arose in the case of a scholarship granted to one Hans Freistadt.

an Austrian-born graduate student at the University of North Carolina, who was awarded funds for training under the commission's mat does not mean that they intend to become a Soviet satellite. The Germans have bigger ideas than that. But it does mean that they have, with our approval, put themselves in a position to neco- not attempt to arbitrate it, but that, if invited, we would be prepared to use our good offices to mediate it. FOLKS AND FOIBLES Father doesn't need to ak if Mother thinks she has a chance to land the young man for daughter. The moment Mother decides to try to catch the youth, she begins a campaign to get father dressed up.

"Papa, you just must get a new hat for yourself." Mother says some morning when he is starting downtown. This is a sign mother is after a son-in-law. If the prospective son-in-law is wealthy. Mother will encourage Father to get a new suit and some shirts that are not shredded at the cuffs and collar. In a few days daughter join in the efforts to get father dressed nicely enough to be worthy of the Copyrifbt.

1949 LETTERS TO THE FORUM Sachs-Clay Feud By Doris Fleeson TAX EXEMPTION of the earth. Beyond a doubt Editor: Regarding a letter pub Sachs now be charges against dropped. wnnin ineir grasp. Moreover, the Communists could hope to seize the prize, if they were so minded, by a process of strangulation, rather than by direct assault. WILL BE TEST Hong Kong could be cut clean off from China, and trade with China is Hong Kong's reason for being Then the pressure could be steadily increased.

Hong Kong commerce could be thrown iMo confusion by a flood of hun. dreds of millions of Hong Kon dollars from South China, where the Hong Kong dollar has become the main medium of exchange Vhe Hone KS unose labor unions are Commu- and bloody street riots and lootl ing promoted by Communist ffne" 1116 pressure to abandon would then be very heavy, 1. SatUgtLthe assert outly that they intend to withstand any pressure whatever. In this rather ominous situation, only two points are clear First! the way the Chines Communisti choose to deal with Hone will be the first el their policy toward the Western world as a whole. If they sdop? the window to the West" proach to the Hong Kong probJ lem, we can assume that for th immediate future, they will wish to carry on extensive trade Sec.

"d- jthe Shins Communists attack Hong Kong, there willba fight; that fight will extend be yond Hong Kong's borders. And there will even be danger of Far Eastern War. Oprrirlit, 1949, Th, IrlbiM ciable fellows often causes gome of their betrayed brothers to either or get out. If this trend toward giving scholarships to students who show scholastic ability continues there is danger that some day the potential Ein-steins will be getting as much as one twentieth as many scholarships as potential Harmons. It's obvious that what America needs is more scholarships for the leaders of tomorrow.

The students who think of Marx as a fellow who runs a radio quizshow or of Laskey as a movie producer are promising in this respect. The boneheads -who have the ability to flatter their fellows into voting them into school offices will make much better leaders than those who spend their time studying economics, sociology and other worthless subjects that tend to confuse more straight thinking Americans. W. D. A.

Oakland. CRITICAL HOUSING Editor Who is this man who signs himself C. H. McCaslin? He young man. Poor Father needn't think Mother and Daughter are interested in him.

They simplv are trying to dress him up so he will not frighten away the prospect Claude Callan. Kansas City Times. DIAMOND LOGIC Very interesting, the wav the new Atlantic league plavers the Red chum when he strides to the plate waving three bats and muttering darkly. The outfield no longer falls back to the fence. Senator Soaper, Portland Ore-gonian.

TRUE THRIFT Eastern citizen brags about modernizing an old house at a cost of only $1100. Quite possible if he did his own work and collected the material at night Wichita Eagle. FULL HOUSE Said the fond mother proudly. John is such a good boy and so 'WASHINGTON. May 19-While General Clay was receiving a hero's welcome home.

word reached here that one of his latest official acts had been to discharge Alexander Sachs, the military government employee who had charged him with sabotaging the U.S. policy of breaking up the great German cartels. A recent report by a special investigating committee headed by Federal Trade Commissioner Garland S. Ferguson substantially upheld Sach's complaints that the German cartels were not being dissolved in the manner contemplated by Washington. In now discharging Sachs.

General Clay apparently has crossed up Acting Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray who only last Friday assured Wendell Birge, Sachs' attorney, that the case against Sachs had been dropped. Clay had fired Sachs before, when his complaints were first published. After investigation, the Army had re-instated him pending the Ferguson committee inquiry. The new developments will serve to concentrate public attention again on the cartel question. It has been understood here that when the State Department assumes the administration of Germany, as it will soon, the Clay cartel policy will be altered.

Doubtless the Administration would have preferred to do it without fanfare. But Bixzt will now demand that ow At the whole matter be explored, not in Frankfort where Sachs has Been ordered to report for a hearing later this month, but in Washington. Birge wants a public hearing and his witnesses, he said, will include Commissioner Ferguson General Clay. William H. Draper the Dillon.

Read partner who was formerly undersecretary of the Army, and Johnston Avery, a cartel expert long employed bv the Department of Justice. Draper was another major vil-lian in the Sachs' allegations. Sachs in effect charged that Draper brought in his Wall Street cronies to execute the cartel policy and that they, with Clay's consent, effectually circumvented it General Clay readily admitted here that he had discharged Sachs. His statement released by the Army read: -In answer to a query General Clay stated that he had dismissed Alexander Sachs from the service of the U.S. Government.

He had done this before but upon request of the Department of the Army, pending investigation by the Ferguson Committee, Sachs was re-instated. As soon as restrictions imposed by the Department of the Army ex-c C1ay discharged for the same reasons that dlsmissed him previously The previous reason cited by General Clay was "disloyalty" Regarding the Ferguson report as ample justification of his client. Birge wrote to Acting Secretary Gray May demanding that all Bay and its environs of cities, mountain and wonders, is the most exquisitely laid out plan rof nature's mapping to be found 'in this world. I have heard it said that one thought the Bay and its region a dream until Alcatraz was pointed out and described to them. Thereafter, the vision of loveliness faded.

Since we do possess this magnificent panoramic wonder why can't we move this necessary eVil to the desert or away from the eye of all who come to look and praise and leave with regret? LADY JANE HOLMAN SUTHERLAND Oakland. WASTED INTELLIGENCE Editor: I concur with J. C. Johns in his well phrased denunciation of the deplorable manner in which) money and time is wasted in giving scholarships to high school students just because they have the ambition and intelligence to work their heads off getting all A's and B's. What we need are scholarships for the more practical students who do not waste their time studying but spend it to fuller advantage at sdme'of the more important activities such as sports, parties and dances.

Th trouble with colleges today is that too many of the students think that college is a place to study ariii learn perhaps as many as fifteerf per cent have degenerated into this group. Such selfishness or the part of these egotists show no regard for thtir more so Under date of Mav 13 he received from Gray the following reply: "Tffis will acknowledge receipt of yor letter of 3 May, 1949. with regard to Mr. Sachs. "The basis on which Mr.

Sachs was suspended and his subsequent by direction of the Secretary of the Army, is now considered a closed case. "Subsequent to the filing of the Ferguson Committee report an officer the headquarters of American Military Government in Berlin gdvised a representative of this office that no further action affecting Mr. Sachs would be initiated relating to th charges madeby him before the Ferguson Committee. Sincerely, Gordon Gray' May 16. Sachs cabled Birge that he had been advised that his case was reopened and a hearing scheduled for the end of May.

Bire, formerly head of the Ant-Trust Division of the Department of Justice, has had a wealth of trial practice in this field and it is all right with him to pursue the cArtel question as long and as far he Army chooses. Whether the Army will choose now to air the Sachs-Clay feud is certain to be decided at the White House. Its prompt release of the Ferguson report and its prior action regarding Sachs are an indication that, swith respect to the cartel question, the Administration has lico in me May io Forum from Mrs. D.M.C. about veteran's tax exemption: On page 220 of the Division of Real Estate publication of the revised 1948 addition "Reference Book and Gue" it states that an affidavit must be filed on or before the last Monday in June together with the regular taxpayer's statement to obtain the exemption privileges.

Would this entitle these people referred to above the exemption mentioned in said article or not? I pelieve a large number of your readers would be interested in learning all the provisions of this article and what they have to do to obtain the benefits granted in the article. All veterans who are residents qualify. In the case above, as I understand the law. Mrs. D.M.C.

would be Entitled to exemption of all taxes up to the amount of $1000 which become due and payable on July 1, 1949, personal and real taxes. A. N. AIKEN. San Leandro.

REMOVE FROM BAT Editor: Today's Tribune contains an article on the advisability of doing away with Alcatraz Prison, because of the excessive cost, per inmate. There is a far better reason for removing this unsightly and heart-sickening pile of rock from the beautiful waters of the Bay. Psychologically, people come to visit this ragio from fax comer DIEHARD The Old Motorist who i resisted the self-starter unre glais)' heaters (unhealthy), radios (distract the driver's atten- lS trying to find something wrong with tha automatic gearshiftBill Vaughn! Kansas City Star. ugnn. ana 10 aumb animals.

"Why only last night I heard mm say his sleep, 'Feed the the kitty'." Altoona (Pa.) Tribune. KINGS-X It must be rather disturbing at times to be a United Nations delegateto watch the Russians angrily walk out of a session and know that they'll be back. New seems to be mad at everybody but himselt If he thinks he is is so terribly underpaid because they cannot take greater advantage of a critical housing situation, but still do everything to keep prices up and to prevent new buildings being erected, or older ones already erected from renting at lower post-war prices, then why doesnt he sell out and get clear eut ef tha East Bay area? i JAMES E. BOWZN. SILLY SEASON The best thing for a victim of spring fever four and do nothing tt aS th uui oeen wnoiiy satisfied.

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