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MONDAY, AUGUST 1. 1949 THE PORT HURON TIMES HERALD PACE FOUR GETTING INTO THE ACT Arms Aid Not New can find a way and means to implement it to solve almost any problem. All In A Day By LOUIS J. DUNN In Foreign Policy THE TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICHIGAN Intend at the potoffir at Port Huron, Aug 1 1AOO aa second class mail matter on a frequency of van issues per week under tna act of March 8. 1878.

TELEPHONX 7171 By PETER EDSON A Washington Correspondent) Washington Efforts to oppose new Military Assistance Program as a radical departure in U. S. for- The Berlin Airlift is being liquidated because its services no longer are needed. But arrangements will be made so that it can resume operations if Russia established a new blockade. The outstanding success of the Berlin Airlift probably will persuade Russia that it would be just a waste of time and effort to establish another blockade of Berlin.

I eign policy won't stand up. Any- 1 one wno wm isne me iirjuuie 10 look at the record since the end of the war will find half a dozen prec Tha Times Herald, VoL XL. Wo. 213 Published The rimes Herald Company 907-909 ftlxtb Street. Port Huron.

Micb. Published Brery Afternoon and Sunday Morning Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the for republication of all the local new printed to edents for doing what is now proposed to do under the MAP legislation which President Truman and the State Department have just sent to Congress. ewspaper as well as ait ur news auiuKiia When the House Foreign Affairs Committee was considering Marshall Plan legislation last fall, the idea of backing up the European We Couldn't Do It! When the mercury is in the 90s, Dr. David F. Tracy, New York hypnotist, hypnotizes himself into thinking the weather is cool and he says anybody can do the same thing.

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Recovery Program with some military, assistance was presented by Rep. John M. Vorys, Ohio Republi can. The State Department was then asked to draw up legislation to carry out such a program. A draft bill was submitted and con Little Fellow The Goat In one of his weekly newsletters to his constituents.

Senator Karl Mundt, of i i -I Paul Banyan Talk Puts South Dakota, said: sidered. But it never saw the light of day. Ever since the end of the war, the U. S. armed services through the State Department have been sponsoring three bills to facilitate "We should all realize that a big reason Minnesota On Spot why it costs so much to buy an automobile, military assistance to foreign coun a tractor, a windmill, a plow or a pair of tries.

By RAHMAN W. NICHOLS Associated Press Staff Writer! Washington, Aug. 1 Paul Bunyan, the gi THE FIRST WAS A request that Congress grant authority to transfer surplus U. S. arms to Latin-American countries.

Another ver gantic legendary log-roller who was said to gnaw on a cake of eatin' tobacco as big as a bale of hay, has put Minnesota on the spot i with his tall talk. sion of this same idea would have provided for standardization of Paul is appearing "in person" at the Chi arms in Western Hemisphere coun tries. This would have been 1f ill mi cago railroad fair. Standing there 23 feet tall and wearing a size 42 cap, a 150-inch belt and a shirt sheared from 168 square feet of gawdy plaid. A statue, of course, but with a trained seal inside to answer questions about WHILE FOLKS MOPPED their brows in the heat wave last week and the humidity got so high the fish were sweating, a doctor in Chautauqua, New York, came up with some advise on how not to grow old.

If sweltering humanity ever needed encouragement on keeping up the ol' pep. it needed It last week. This physician. Dr. Edward Stieglitz, didn't prescribe anything phenomenal when he advised how to stay young.

He is an expert on the problem and he made his remarks before a gathering of medical men. The main thing, he said, is to retain an interest in life. Such an outlook not only keeps people useful, but it contributes largely to their health, in the opinion of the doctor. "Health must be earned." he went on. "The medical profession can do just so much.

The rest is up to the individual." We're just an amateur like most everyone else when it comes to this business of medicine and health, but the idea of maintaining an interest in life to stay young appeals as a particularly sound creed to follow when a person just stops and looks around. Take Gar Wood as an example. The man who is to the speedboat world what Babe Ruth was to baseball or Jack Dempsey to boxing is as intrigued with life and the things going on around him today as he ever was. Proof of that was his interest in the Harmsworth race run off in Detroit during the week end. a spectacle in which the Grey Fox of Algonac was almost as much a part as were the race pilots themselves.

At a testimonial given in his honor by prominent Detroiters the other night before the big race, the veteran racer, who is 69, announced his formula of living as "having a good job, a good religion and a good hobby." Even at 69, he is in on boating which he jokingly describes as his hobby with as much enthusiasm as he displayed when he first wrested the Harmsworth from Great Britain with the first of his great boats back in 1922. Gar Wood has aged, but his heart and spirit are young, kept that way by a tremendous interest in what's going on around him, and in the field he loves best. There are many other examples in every walk of life of people who have refused to grow old in spirit, and who, as a result, have stayed young. Sometimes, maybe we can even get too young, like George Bernard Shaw. SPEAKING ABOUT the Harmsworth, it was just about 20 years ago this month that Wood was testing a new boat.

Miss America VIII in the river at Algonac, in preparation for another successful defense of the coveted trophy. The speedboat king went on with the VIII to outdistance an English rival, Estelle IV, Sept 2, 1929, in Detroit, to keep the trophy in the U. S. hitting what was then a record speed of 75 miles an hour average over the 30-nautical mile course. There are many who say that his later boat, Miss America now in Algonac, is still the best in the nation today.

It still holds the world record for a competitive boat (124.91 mph). SOME OF THOSE IVANOVITCHS are hav himself at the Chicago and north western exhibit He replies mostly with a Minnesota ac cent. A native of Bemidji, Paul says spent most of his life in the area. That doesn't set well with leaders from other States. Senator Owen Brewster, Maine), near blew his top.

"What do you mean born in Minnesota?" asked the Senator. "He was born in Maine. I know a man who has it from his great-great-great grandpappy straight that Paul used to achieved by permitting the U. S. to give its surplus equipment to Latin-American countries in exchange for similar equipment that might have been furnished by another foreign government For instance, a German-built destroyer might be traded in for a surplus U.

S. destroyer. The German-built ship would then have been scrapped. The second bill proposed was to authorize the detailing of 'U. S.

military advisory missions to foreign countries. The third bill was to authorize the training of foreign military missions in the U. S. All these things were done during the war. They are still carried on to a limited extent particularly in Latin America under hemisphere defense and the 1948 Rio de Janeiro Reciprocal Assistance Pact plans.

The newly-proposed Military Assistance Program would GOP Factions Still Rowing Over Chairman rew rearson: sit in the Maine woods and wolf a breakfast of pants is that the hidden taxes which Government places upon all production pyramids up so that the consumer pays the freight, and that these taxes are just as real as though they were deductions from one's take-home pay or quarterly installments on one's income tax. "When Uncle Sam gives you something, he always sends along the bill afterward. "Sometimes you find it is in the cost of the new shoes yon have to buy or la the price of the shirt on your back. In this newsletter, Senator Mundt was trying to impress on his constituents that Uncle Sam is no Santa Claus. And that's true.

In the great majority of cases, for every dollar returned to any Governmental unit by the United States, the taxpayers in that unit pay many dollars. And every nickle of so-called Government gifts comes out of the pocket of the consumer. All the talk about Tunning the Government on revenue derived from taxing corporations or wealthy individuals at higher rates is so much hooey. The little fellow always pays. Franklin D.

Roosevelt once said that taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who toils. Uncle Sam is no benefactor. Under the "tax and tax, spend and spend" of New Deal Administrations, he has been and is more of a waster of the money he collects in taxes than a Washington, Aug. 1 All is not harmony inside the Republican National committee as it nears the job of picking a new chairman. It was hoped that when Pennsylr vania's Hugh Scott, a Dewey man, resigned, diverse GOP factions would the hatchet and pull together.

But they haven't Today, there is just about as much inside dissension as there was over controversial Hugh Scott Gen. Waitt sat on an Army't tril- uation board to pass upon hit brother officers and had previously given high recommendations to tht very same officers whose qualifl cations he deprecated in the mem-orandum which ht dictated tor lobbyist Hunt. NOTE When Douglas Mie Arthur wanted promotion to tht rank of major general, he ask his wife's stepfather, the wraith? Edward T. Stotesbury of Phllid). phia, to Intervene at tht Whlu House.

Stotesbury, a J. P. Morfu partner, was a heavy GOP wm paign contributor. merely extend this authority for 40 bowls of porridge plus 15 ten-foot high stacks of wheatcakes. Senator Bill Langer, N.D.), wanted to know if everybody hadn't heard Paul once had taken a mountain that stood on its head and righted same with one finger.

Representative Cliff Hope, Kan.) was surprised that people hadn't heard about the corn husking bees Bunyan organized down his way to take care of an overproduction. Hope swears that Paul worked six rows at a time and kept five bushels' of corn in the air at once. Senator Edwin Carl Johnson, Colo.) said he had it on good authority that Paul once peacetime operations and wrap the whole business up in one bill. The same principle would be applied to continuing postwar mili This time the feuding is over tary assistance to Greece, Turkey, got in a fight with Pecos Bill over a mountain. The mythical giant struck at his opponent with A Thousrtt For Today his axe and missed.

"Where do you suppose we got the Grand Canyon?" demanded the Senator. Senator Claude Pepper, the democrat from Florida, said his people had some claim to the Big 'Jack. too. Seems Paul sent a man down that way to stake out a farm for him. Later he went down to inspect his property and found his share cropper out looking for the fountain of youth.

"Bunyan pulled out," said Pepper, When I was daily with you la temple, ye stretched forth no hand! against me: but this is your but, and the power of darknew. Lukt 22:53. The golden moments in tht stream of life rush pant ui, and see nothing but sand: the anftli come to visit us. and we only know them when they are gone. Ceorp Eliot and we were glad of it We have other things to brag about." ing a rough time of it over in the Russian zone of Germany, and the only way they can slap back is to do some arresting.

Representative Reid Murray, Wis.) said We Help Pav. Too From Hamburg, comes a report that a Ger he would rather talk against oleomargarine than in favor of Bunyan but "he is as much ours as anybody's." man haw-hawed out loud while viewing a Soviet propaganda film. The movie showed "Paul did a lot of logging in our fine state." BARBS and was praising to the sky what the Russians claimed to be a new textile machine. Murray said. "I don't think the guy was ever happier in his life.

He found all the trees in our great State leaning in the same direction, Iran, Korea and the Philippine Islands. Aid to Greece and Turkey has of course been supplied under the special "Truman Doctrine" legislation since May, 1947. To date about 5500,000,000 worth of such aid has been furnished. The new Military Assistance Program bill would add another $5,000,000 or more previously requested to that endeavor. Including the new aid for the Philippines, Korea and Iran, the total of new money under the Military Assistance Program for these countries would be MILITARY SURPLUSES having an original cost of $680,000000 were transferred to the FTttlippines under the Rehabilitation Act of 1946.

The new Military Assistance Program would continue this effort to set up the now independent islands on a firm basis. The United States assumed a responsibility in Korea when its Army of Occupation moved into the peninsula to help establish an independent government. Now that U. S. troops have been withdrawn, there is an obligation to continue military assistance to the Koreans to hold their own against Communist pressure from the north.

There has been less publicity about U. S. aid to Iran. But beginning with the sale of U. S.

surpluses in the Middle East to Iran, there has been continuing aid through police and military training misions. What the Military Assistance Program legislation would do, in summary is put into one law a number of related activities which which made logging a simple thing." It turned out to be a machine of vintage 1920 and the German was giving the Ivans the The reporter got what he expected from the the top candidate for the chairmanshipGuy Gabrielson of Ber-nardsville, N. national committeeman from New Jersey. Last week the chairmanship appeared to be all set for Gabrielson. Since then, sudden and stiff opposition has developed.

For one thing, it is strongly suspected that he is a Stassen man. Even more important, republican Congressmen from New Jersey are almost solidly opposed. En bloc they called on ex-speaker Joe Martin, and registered their objection. Usually it's an honor to have a national chairman selected from your state, but in this case New Jersey Congressmen wanted to forego the honor if Gabrielson is to be the roan. Another strike against Gabrielson is the fact that he is from the East, and that Scott's resignation was forced because a mid-Westerner was needed as chairman.

(Gabrielson was born in Sioux Rapids, but has lived in New Jersey for some time.) KANSAS' DARBY IS FAVORITE Another complaint is that at the last Omaha meeting of the GOP, Mrs. Reeve Schley of New Jersey, whose husband is vice president of the Chase National bank, wanted to be on the executive committee in place of Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Scranton, Pa. Accordingly, Mrs. Scranton was persuaded those mentioned above, if that should be found necessary.

In effect, passage of the Military Assistance Program would extend the Truman Doctrine originally propounded for the benefit of Greece and Turkey to the whole non-Communist world. The advantage to the government in having all these loose ends, wrapped up in one omnibus bill, with a clear statement of policy and authority, is obvious. two Senators from Minnesota. royal ho-ho when boots from the Volga tramp Senator Edward J. Thye, (R) wanted to know what all the argument was about.

ed down the aisle. Frustrated, there was only one thing they "Any student of history, he said, "knows that the great Bunyan really lived born and rear to resign in favor of Mrs. Schley, following which Gabrielson did not pass this choice plum to Mrs. Schley but usurped it for himself. This made many people sore.

Meanwhile, a lot of wires are being pulled to put Gabrielson across. His chief backers are Texas committeeman Creager, Arizona's novelist Clarence Buddington Kelland, Harrison Spangler of Iowa. Senator Brewster of Maine, and Sam Pryor, former committeeman from Connecticut and vice president of Pan American Airways. Pryor has even secured the help of a public-relations firm, Andrew Gahagen of 270 Park avenue. New York, to put Gabrielson across, and one of its representatives.

Lee McCann, has been in Washington buttonholing the boys. NOTE: Top candidate for the GOP chairmanship if Gabrielson doesn't make It is Harry Darby, GOP committeeman from Kansas, who is chairman of the Kansas City airways and of the Kansas Palomino Horse Exhibitors association. Darby is acceptable to Dewey and most other factions but doesn't seem to want the job. DULLES' NEW JOB It may or may not have been significant, but John Foster Dulles, the famed new Senator from New York, has been appointed to the Senate committee governing the District of Columbia. In Voteless Washington this means that he will have a great deal to say about governing Washington including its public utilities.

Significantly, it happens that the Dulles Law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, is attorney for the Washington Gas Light company, also for the Potomac Electric com-juny, also for the Washington RR St. Transit which owns the Capital Transit Company. At the time when Senator Dulles was appointed to the District of Columbia committee, these utilities are asking for rate increases, while the Washington Railway Electric Co. proposes the sale of its 44 per cent interest in the Capital Transit company to outside interests. In fairness to Senator Dulles, it should be noted that he wanted appointment to the Foreign Relations Committee.

When no opening developed. Senator Schoeppel of Kansas was moved off the District of Columbia Committee, and Dulles took his place. Senator Dulles remarked, incidentally, that he knew nothing about D. C. problems with the exception of the bill to kill the Capital's population of starlings.

Though he liked! birds, he said he did not like starlings. WANTED PROMOTION Here is one inside reason why Gen Alden Waitt. chief of the Army's Chemical Warfare section got suspended for dealing with lobbyist James V. Hunt, close friend of General Harry Vaughan, White Houe military aide. General Waitt has been chief cf the Chemical Warfare section for nearly four years, and ordinarily chiefs of Army bureaus are could do in such a situation.

They arrested the chap. ed, mostly, in Minnesota. You've heard, of STEADIEST-NERVES-of-the-week award course, about the trouble we had finding buttons big enough to keep his pants up when he was a stripling. Well, we couldn't find any. The men of Bemidji where he was born (and I can prove it) donated wheels off their goes to that doctor out in Telluride, wno removed his own appendix as an experiment There, to put it mildly, is a true scientist.

The Duke of Windsor complains that the high cost of living makes it a little difficult for him and Wally to get along. He can barely manage to maintain his Paris mansion with its 32 servants and his place on the Riviera, it seems. The Duke does not earn his own living. He gets an allowance from the British Government which is unearned income if any income ever was unearned. Part of that income at least comes from money the United States hands over to Great Britain.

And that means that you and I and the rest of us are helping Eddie and Wally live in the style to which they were accustomed. Not many taxpayers ig Great Britain have mansions with 32 servants. But if they want to finance the life of Reilly that Eddie and Wally live, that's all right with us. But it burns us up to know that Americans also few of whom have mansions with 32 servants are contributing to the luxury in which the former King of England and his wife live in idleness. An echo, for once, came from the office of SEE WHERE FRANKLIN D.

ROOSEVELT Jr. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, the Minnesota democrat. Silver is the best conductor electricity, says a scientist Wtl we get a shock every time It handed the change from a dollar bill. A university professor suffertl a course in courtship for school students.

We thought it ctflU naturally. There is a silent piano used Just, for finger practice the kind wish the girl next door would If you want to get the most kick out of a bridge game, men, plT opposite your own wife. Soon comes the watermelon son when fewer youngster! will I reprimanded for having dirty Hft A doctor observes that our not are becoming sharper. lu" think it's a good idea to keep tlwa to the grindstone. Despite the everlasting effortl bring lasting peace, the number June marriages likely wiU run high as ever this year.

I thought the sensible thine to do was to give in a magazine article on his election as a New York Congressman declared that his magic name both lie.ped and hurt his cnpain. Paul's stand-in a buzz on the phone at the OT hand, tha -eemj like a ve-y sound way to si it all up. rail show in Chicago. He answered in a deep backwood voice and listened in silence to the evidence. Congress wasn't going to involve him in any controversy.

have been proposed or which the "No comment." said he. United States has actually been carrying on in one form or another ever since the days of World War II. The legislation would cover assistance to other countries than Those Were Trie Days (From the files of The Times Herald) ortraits 50 Tears Ago The Free Methodist church hplrl it annual By James J. MeysaJfa SIDE GLANCES i Camp meeting in KimbalL A Mexican firm was advertising for a com Auto Racing petent business man to oreanize a storlr com pany in Michigan for the manufacture of Ferro Nickel Manganese, Calcium Flouride. The opinions expressed syndicated columns of thil PT are not necessarily those ef TM Times Herald These re published lo give of controversial issues.

510 Tears Ago Donald MacQueen, superintendent of The Times Herald composing room, started on his 30th year as a member of the newspaper staff. The Port Huron Aquatic club was to have its annual challenge race. Many visitors enjoyed camping life on the shore of the St. Clair river in Marysville. 10 Years Ago A reasonable Huckster License fee wa the WORD-A-DAY By BACH There is no grind more gruelling Than driving in a race.

one that takes more courage as. try to set the pace. guide your car around the And as you near each curve. You jiggle it and steer it so. The auto will not The dust and smoke are in your eyes.

signal flag is But there is neither time nor cause. register complaint have to stop for fuel and. wipe away the dirt. in your heart there is a prayer. no one will be hurt.

if you are the lucky one. Who roars to victory final lap has put you The lap of luxury. It (the Public Housing and Slum Clearance bill) opens up the prospect of decent homes in wholesome surroundings for low-income families now living in the squlor of the slums. President Truman. question for discussion before the city officials and two local grocers at a meeting with Safety INCIPIENT 16) commissioner Otto A.

SchmekeL The Berlin Airlift Liquidation of the greatest air freight project in history the Berlin Airlift started today. Operations of Airlift planes will be reduced gradually and will stop Oct. 31 unless need for resumption of operations arises. From June 26, 1948, when the Russians established their blockade of Berlin, until May 24. 1949, when the Russians partially lifted the blockade, the Airlift was the only means of supplying the people of West Berlin with food, fuel and raw materials.

-frit 'carried nearly 2-4 million tons of supplies into West Berlin and saved the people from starvation and suffering. It cost 290 million dollars to operate, 2551a million doUarsof which came from American taxpayers. And it cost the lives of 31 Americans and 39 British. The Berlin Airlift rendered the blockade of Berlin by Russia futile. It boosted the morale of the people of Berlin and of all Germany.

It proved to the people of Germany that America is indeed the friend of the German people. And convinced Russia that Americans MOW ITSELF; SO THEY SAY INITIAL; AS, TMt INU. not re-appointed. They are trans- ferred to the field. However, Waitt wanted to continue in his lush Washington office in which after quite a howl he had jost install- ed a new tile bathroom, kitchen- ette.

air cooling, etc. So General Waitt. appreciating1 INCIPIENT LiGTOPDAYJ wAkTC I The kind of wage policy which will help to maintain full employment in this countr an which will maintain our economy on "stable Selfish interests are urging us to commit a great blunder. They are now urging drastic cuts in government expenditure cuts which would fall hardest on those expenditures which are most important to our domestic economy. President Truman.

They (the North Atlantic Treaty and the arms-for-Europe program) are not separate issues, but inseparable. The question now is: "Are we to endorse a 20-year arms plan?" Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R.) of Nebraska. The (North Atlantic) Pact will not solve the fundamental ills that afTlict the western world, but it will help give us a breathing spell during which, if we are wise, we mav be able to leveis, is one which adds to consumer purchasing power frfim year to year, because we have the capacity to Droduee mnr nH mnr lobbyist Hunt's friendship with General Vaughan. and also appreciating General Vaughan's power around the White Hou.e.

asked Hunt's help in securing his reappointment. Hunt in turn proposed that General Waitt dictate a memorandum which Hunt would then send to General Vaughan. This General Waitt did. using Hunt secretary. This memorandum gave a glrwing description of Waitt's virtues and achievements: also exposed the faults and failings goods from year to year.

Leon Keyserling. vice chairman of the President's Council of economic Advisors. 8-1 The administration is the crowd that is lead- ing us into the ditch by going right down the avenue of deficit spending Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R.) of Nebraska a. far -r-V 'Co down and annoy daddy so he won't notice how Jate of other candidates to be chief of chemical warfare i One interesting point is that find the solutions to our real problems.

Sen. I William J. Fulbright (D.) of Arkansas. i it's eettmg'-.