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I HE DAILY DEMOCRAT, TALLAHASSEE. FLORIDA Friday Afternoon, October II, 946 four WESTOROOK PEGLER Shoe Is on the Other Foot Meat Is Coming Back Fair Enough' Government controls, more than any other factor, have retarded reconversion to peacetime operations. If such controls were to be continued, they should have been rigid all along the line labor, raw materials, finished products should have been held at equal basis. But when bulges were authorizedeven encouraged by high government officials in wage rates upon the demands of such organizations as the CIO and the AFL, it was inevitable that prices go up or production come down. If meat price controls are removed, the stockyards soon will be filled with cattle, packing plants will operate again, and thre will be fats and soaps and other things that the American household needs.

Prices may be up for a while, but the best adjustment of them to a level keel will come in competition for business and in the American purchaser's firm determination that he won't pay excessive prices. Best of all, regular flow of commodities into the open channels will destroy the black market. It's time for government to put faith in the people again. It begins to look like President Truman and some high government officials are going to see the light and take price controls off meat products so the American people can buy their favorite food again. This decontrol, which appears likely to be announced within a few days, will be a victory for the Americans who believe that free enterprise is the best guarantee that foodstuffs will roll to the market shelves.

There may be some political considerations in it. Remember that organized labor leaders like John Lewis and Walter Reu-ther cried for higher and higher wages, without increasing prices. Now they are finding that their formula simply wouldn't work. The mill that pays higher wages to produce cattle feed must raise the price of the cattle feed. The farmer who has to pay higher prices for cattle feed and for farm labor must raise the price at which he sells cattle.

The meat packer can't pay 20 cents a pound liveweight and then sell finished meat for 15 cents a pound. All the bright theories about how things might be done fade out in the cold analysis of the fact that there must be profit or there is no incentive. yg- -oV Where Are the Facts, Mr Ickes? VUMMl Teachers must be paid ft salary on a par with that of other professions. For theirs is a professiona profession necessitating a great amount of training and a good deal of expense; a profession which must call for its recruits from the cream of America; a profession which demands of its participants sterling character, unstinted attention to duty, and an around-the-clock awareness of the importance of the position held. Very few other professions exact such high tribute for such little return.

The teachers of this county have received a raise amounting to an over-all total of bringing up to $348,000 our country's expense for the teacher-item. This may sound like a lot of money, the $77,000 like a huge raise. But the salaries of the teachers of Leon county still run in the neighborhood of $1500 year. A union carpenter, working approximately the same length of time, earns about $2,200. A plumber earns about $2,400, an electrician $2,700.

A master sergeant in the army earns $1,500 and a second lieutenant $1,740 for the same period of time-plus extras, such as fogies (5 per cent for every three years in service, overseas pay, and subsistence for wife and dependents. The lesson is obvious; the fal JAY FREDERICKS Overworked and Underpaid Former Interior Secretary Ickes told a Philadelphia audience the other night that the citizens of the United States are taxing themselves for enormous sums to maintain the greatest Army and Navy in the world. "How," Ickes asked, -''could we expect other nations, even those that fought with us against Germany and Japan 'during the last war, to have confidence in our peaceful Intentions they see us arming ourselves to the teeth?" What does he mean? We are demobiliz-' ing our armed forces toward a 1947 goal of 1,700,000 "men a reduction of 87 per cent from their wartime peak. Next year our projected Army of 670,000 will beaccording to the estimate of military authorities about half the number of Russian occupation troops now In Germany, Austria and the Balkans. Our Air Forces have been cut 20 per cent below the "irreducible minimum" asked by the AAF command.

Scheduled construction of new Navy vessels has been slowed up by a year. Personnel Is largely green. These figures and conclusions are not new. We have not seen them seriously questioned until now. The Administration, for reasons of economy, and Congress, for reasons of politics, have shied away from expanding the military budget and voting an adequate draft law or universal military training.

There ha3 been little disposition to challenge the assertion that we are backing an increasingly strong diplomatic position with an increasingly weak military force. Now Ickes charges we are "arming to the teeth" and maintaining "the greatest Amy and Navy in the world." No facts. No figures. Ickes has every right to express his personal opinion, colored by his personal quarrel with the Administration. But, to borrow the words of Bernard Baruch, "no man has a right to circulate errors." Ickes may say we are manufacturing atomic bombs.

That is true. But production of those bombs is not arming a nation to the teeth. In both the government-supported Baruch plan for atomic energy control and in the dissenting plan of Henry Wallace, the United States agrees to outlaw the use of such bombs and cease their manufacture. Ickes may say we are experimenting with rockets and guided missiles. So are other countries.

The Nazis' V-2 factories and much of the personnel that operated them are in the Russian zone of Germany. When Ickes or any other person of prominence makes public statements which imply that the international intentions of the American government are aggressive and untrustworthy, he has a grave obligation to support his charges with facts. Surely Ickes is old enough and wise enough to know that these charges go far beyond the province of inter-party or intra-party politics. If he cannot support American foreign policy in this period of tension and delicate negotiations, he should at least bring forth evidence that he is on firm ground when he attacks it. NEW YORK If there, Wert any excuse for believing that they were honest in their remarks about Palestine and the immigration of more refugees into the United States, President Truman and Governor ewey might be forgiven their competitive political appeals to religious or racial feeling in the current campaign.

Howe r. both are obviously moved only by consideration tor the Jewish vote in New York. The president Issued his statement in time to Jump Dewey's gratuitous declaration at a dinner of the united Palestine appeal In New York. Thus Dewey's expression became another "me, too' item in an imitative appeal tJ elements which were a secure monopoly of Franklin Roosevelt as long as he lived. In 1944 Dewey indorsed the Wagner act unconditionally in a foredoomed attempt to win away some of Roosevelt's solid support in the union political organizations, knowing it was a bad law which had thwarted both of its avowed reasons for being: the promotion of Interstate commerce and the guarantee that workers should be allowed to bargain through agents of their own choice.

There was no occasion tot Truman's statement other than the political purpose of rubbiuj some of the fum off Dewey's peach two nights later. Dewey also lacked an occasion, except the political opportunity. The subject was. according to his own contention rather neatly put in his 1942 campaign for governor, none of his business because foreign policy is the inclusive business of the national government. Dewey is again a candidate for governor, so Palestine and the problem of refugees or displaced persons, as they are now called by subtle preference still is none of his business.

The state of New York is forbidden by the United States constitution to have a foreign policy and has no authority to exclude refugees or displaced persons. Their admission is controlled by national law. Once admitted by the federal government, they may settle in New York, or wherever else they please, needing no permission from him. In 1842, Dewey practically read Ham Fish out of the republican party for a politically stupid but morally honest admission of the fact that there was such a factor as the Jewish vote. Every politician knows there is such a thing and both Truman and Dewey in the present case ars angling for it by deliberate nd venal misrepresentation of the facts and issues.

As politicians they hope to seduce Jewish voters with promises that they know they have no authority to make and know they can't fulfill. In 1944, both the democratic and republican platforms contained Palestine planks thel would have committed American both in their physical persons as warriors, and collectively as a moral and political to the creation of a "free and democratic" i commonwealth in Palestine. But in that campaign none of them dared g) before the country and talk it up because they knew the people would flatly reject any ob'i-gation to go to war or ray taxes to establish an artificial nation for any group in a land a group of power propagandists happened to desire. Anyway Americans would be colosjal hjpocrites to take on such a mission, when our own national history contains so many chapters of ruthless dispossession, deportation and disinheritance of Indian nations from land which we now own. If we justify those aits of our own, we must reject the Zionist claims to restitution in Palestine, and we had better Jartfiy thetn or we must then unwind history and truly give the United States back to the Indians.

To be sure, our method vas something like that proposed for Palestine. We infiltrated until we either outnumbered the Indians or be-cirne a controlling minority because we were smarter and net New York, he is holding out on own precedent, we shouldn't object if the Zionists should try that in Palestine. But Truman. Dewey or any other American who tells the voters tnat they have any obligation to back such a venture with their lives in war, and the property and labor of the whole American people, will be exterminated at the polls. "It must be clearly demonstrated," Dewey said, "that the United States reaffirms its policy that the pledges to the Jewish people must be fulfilled." What pledges? When were the American people ever consulted in any election on this issue apart from all other issues or even as a major problem? Nobody can say the plat form planks on Palestine put tn auesuon souareiy to ma ceoo'i because they were never argued so as to bring out their meaning and elicit a conscious decision.

What Jewish People Throughout the Hitler regime Americans heard, and agreed, U.at Jews were Americans, Ger mans, unions, rrencn ana sc lurtn. we heard, and agree thai Jewisnness was a mattei of religion, not race, and that i i i.j a uinuusibiuu 1.1., 1.1 1 trry was diabolical. Now the auutonues aemana a new nation for Jews who are Oer it an 3, roues or Romanians or evtw Americans. Ana me same MlijUllLirB BUIU BIMUf ihi. upr sons of no religion or atheist nevertheless jews dt some tt that tA 4.

txt- win. wv 10 uiuitabc JllLb ler 5 racism. By what other test is a person won no religion to be deemed a Jew? fin. 1 ly admitted 580,000 displaced persons, formerly called refugees. by 1942 and some vast but un reveaiea numoer nave come nera since then.

Still, Truman, Dewr-y and recently Mayor OTJwyer. of New York, demand that we mod uy our laws so as 10 admit "our snan 01 aaaiuonai immigrants. but all without telling us how- many have been admitted what "our share" is. invitm 250.000 more to New xom. lawyer saia: anyone says mere isn plenty or room nere.

iu snow mm wnere is within 100 miles." ulil li ijwvrr i mi i linn 1 1 I A'n. ing quarters ior zmj.poo more population within 100 miles of lasuaious in our nonesty. on our nuaareas or inousanas or native Americans now living in amy nlM A klttti. tea rarracxs, raising Dames it frightening squalor and, inci dentally, with little food and les.i soap, me truin is mas ne Knows of no such habitations unless he is uuiking of more barrack But In that case these 250.000 new immigrants, tr. one yer, wouia be howling about segregation in detention camps hkp tne experimental i.uuu wno secutlon until we turned them loose, just as they expected frcm the start.

ODwyer was Just talking fcr vo-s. So are Truman and Dewey rue temwe -fault here is that mey are an trying to cnisei a pom, ral aivantage by telling lies sm w.enng tacts and outtinir ill tnc category or Hitlerites an wno i. i ULn, fill M.I iHiVAiiiH nrir meats and raise promises. That xina oi campaiRning never solves trouble to break in storms lat.T on. (Copyright 11.

tr Kins Feature Syndic tel Q's and How old is the Republican Party? A The modern Republican Party was born at a mass meeting at Ripon, Wis, March 20, 1854, called to fight the extension of slave territory. A convention at Jackson, Mich, nominated state ticket on July 6. Other states followed suit and by 1855 the Republican Party movement was well under way. Who are the Bourabbees? A Indian tribe living deep in the heart of the Panama jungles. They still use Elizabethan phrases picked up from sixteenth-century English buccaneers and exclaim "Oadzooks and "Zounds!" the Daily Democrat rtahltiho 1(14 Friday, Oct 11, 1946 Imiad WMk Out Afternoon Ixcest Saturrtaj from Uf So Adam St rHE CAPITAl CITV lU BUSHING CO Telephone All Departments 63S HENRY 8 WRrNN Publisher 1 BANT A Ad Olreclot STKVt VATFS Manaetni Editor Knitted erond cla matter June 31 1MU.

the post office at Tallahassee, under the act of March IS79. National Artvenlnlng Representative THRIS IMPSf)N INC Atlanta. OetrolL Chicago New York SUBSCRIPTION tATti i Parable In Advancai cm hmmf on.ivr.aY and RETAU. ZONE IMalli BATES 1 Year SI.1 00 6 "th. Month M0 1 Month 1.10 RETAIL SON! Leon, Oadtden Jefferson.

Madlaon, Taylor Wakulla Llhertv and frank-tin Countiea motor carrier and outsidi retail zone imaiu rates 1 f'Htft Month SO I I.M 1 Month 1.30 MEMBER Of THE ASSOCIAT PRESS The Aiaociatao Pre a tteluurely entitled Is the ute fat republication el 111 new ditnatehe accredited to tt hat otherwise accredited ta thi piper nd also the local newi published therein. All Hirntt tot publication of dispahe herein art aim reserved JAMES MARLOW lacy in our wage rates clearly evident. With salaries the way they are today, the teacher could do just as well for herself as a clerk, stenographer, or typist. And that is the trend today. The move Is away from the schoolroom into the office.

And yet the profession of the teacher is one of the most important in the sphere of public service. The teacher commands one of the big three factors in the development of our children. Of the all-important three factors, the home, the church, and the school, only the teacher does not receive her just credit. Much has been said of the plight of our teachers. Just the other day Attorney General Clark, speaking for the Department of Justice, discussing crime, said, and schoolteachers tremendous factor in the repression and prevention of crime are among the most poorly paid class of employes in the land." Educators have long been aware of this national disgrace, this local ill present everywhere.

And now. the attorney general of the United States speaks out in behalf of higher pay for teachers as a preventative and represser of crime. Enough can never be said In the cause of higher pay and better recognition of our teachers. They have done much for us. It is now time that we did something for them.

man, "they hear us speaking English and, to be frank, we don't look like liquor spies." "Liquor spies!" "Yes," he explained, "Stockholm's full of them. Why, I've even had them tap my telephone." "How does a liquor spy look?" I asked. "Like a dirty rat," hissed my friend vth real feeling. There's another habit connected with cafe drinking (and eating) which should be mentioned. After leaving a restaurant your Swedish friend if he has brought you in his automobile almost always will call a taxi and leave his car parked outside.

"Why?" I asked, "You've had only one glass of snapps all evening." "But that's enough," he explained, "to get me 30 days in jail. I don't have to be drunk. I don't have to have an accident. All a policeman has to do is to come up to me, haul me into a station, run a liquor test, and if he can prove that I've had even ft drop, off I go for 30 days or more." I told him that was very difficult. "Yes." he said, "it Is, but we also have very, very few persons injured or killed as the result of drinking drivers." It is almost axiomatic that civil servants belong to the overworked and underpaid group of American wage-earners.

From the president on down through all the categories of public service, the situation is the same. We demand of our public employes the wry highest of character, morals, and efficiency. And yet, their wage demands uid rights are the last to be recognized during periods of prosperity and the first to be slashed during depressions. Government service, whether it be in the office of president, chairman of an alphabetical board, local administrator, mailman or schoolteacher, is poorly-paying as a profession. With regular frequency government employes are leaving the service and entering into the much more lucrative field of private enterprise.

The exodus of teachers, from the exacting, demanding, and low-paying field of education has already been felt throughout the nation. Here in Leon county, we have been fortunate in that we have experienced no acute shortage of teachers or educational personnel as have other communities. It would serve us in good stead, however, to take note of the situation in the nation and take the necessary actions to avert a similar situation of a teacher-shortage in this area. The remedy is a simple one. EDDY GILMORE By EDDIE GILMORE (For HAL BOYLE i STOCKHOLM, Sweden's cafe society is just that in every sense of the word.

This is largely because to drink you've got to eat, and where else but ft restaurant in Sweden can you eat, there being no such thing as a bar with free lunch, peanuts in the glass bowl, or a soda fountain sandwich. Visitors, Americans and Britons in particular, find the country's drinking laws extremely quaint, if not strange. For instance: You decide to go to someplace to dine and dance. There's only a restaurant to go to. although many of these restaurants actually are night clubs as Americans know them.

You start off with your dinner and the waiter almost automatically brings you snapps a national firewater which is sort of an alcoholic blending of the west and east a drink that tastes like a cross between vodka and gin. About the time you're through your first snapps a youngish man comes around and sells you a permit to dance. It costs about a quarter. You finish your snapps and order another. But all the time you're eating, or you'd better be.

It is when you order a third snapps that Sweden's drinking law sits down at your table and Drinking in Sweden Means Eating, Too The Nation Today them but question each other, sometimes bluntly, because soms of the editors are critical about way some other editors' papers are run. After three weeks this group goes home. In batches of 25, they'll be followed by city editors, picture editors, and general news reporters. Each group will have sessions which last three or four weeks. The institute opened Sept 30.

The round-table discussions will end in May. Next year the institute hopes to repeat the performance with new editors. Whether it continues beyond that second year will depend upon how much good the editors think they've received from the sessions. They're bound to get some good. Public Opinion Our Readers' Views Mr Jay Fredericks co Daily Democrat.

A mutual friend of ours has called to my attention your article in the Daily Democrat of October 2, and I have read it with a good deal of interest. It is no wonder you are "mixed up." we all! Isn't the world, for that matter? It is to be hoped that through the sincere and conscience-dictated efforts of our statesmen, our business and professional leaders, and purveyors of public sentiment such as yourself, and the help of God, we will ultimately get ourselves "unmixed." I enjoyed your column and look forward to seeing more of them. Sincerely, Watson, Attorney General. him, put up more than $160,000 and created the American Pres3 institute. The Columbia School of Journalism is letting the institute use several of its rooms as meeting places.

Floyd Taylor foreign correspondent, editorial writer and teacher in the journalism school was made director of the institute. Claude Jagger, assistant general manager of the Associated Press, was appointed associate director. He is on loan from the AP. It was the job of these two men to get the institute started. One of the first things they bought was a huge oval table around which as many as 30 newspapermen can sit and talk Managing editors and editors of 25 papers some of their papers were not among the contributors of the $160,000 were chosen to come to the institute for three weeks.

The newspapers which sent these men here far more asked than were chosen are paying the institute $180 a week for each of them. That covers their room on the campus, board, university fees, and other expense. (Their salaries while they are here, of course, are paid by their papers.) Every day from 9 am to 5 pm they sit around the table. Experts from various fields, including newspapering, come and talk to the editors and then are open to questions. The experts are some of these: Newsmen who are labor experts, labor leaders, George Oallup, the public opinion specialist: men who have ideas about making newspapers more readable.

The editors not only quiz the experts and pick up Ideas from NEW YORK, (JP) Something la happening here which should have some effect on you, the newspaper reader. American newspapers and newspapermen are trying to learn how to turn out better and more readable newspapers. But the way they are going about it is brand new in American journalism. This is how it started. Some years ago Sevellon Brown, editor and publisher of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal-Bulletin, sat in an a lecture at the Columbia university School of Journalism.

The talk was on editorial writing. The lecturer was Dr Douglas Southall Freeman, historian and editor of the Richmond (Virginia) Newsleader. Freeman Is one of the outstanding newsmen of the country. Brown thought, as he listened: What a lot of good my own editorial writers would get If they could hear this. But there's no way in which they can.

And, going beyond his own newspaper and the job it was trying to do in Providence, he thought of these things: Why couldn't all newspapermeneditorial writers, managing editors, city editors and general reporters put out better papers If they could sit around, exchange Ideas, listen to experts. Question experts? Back of his thinking was this: The whole problem of putting out a newspaper which can inform its readers Intelligently becomes more complicated yearly as the problems of nations and people grow. Over a period of time Brown talked with many newspaper publishers about his idea. Thin year 38 of. them, agreeing with stares you in the face.

You've eaten up your ration. How then do you get another drink? You decide you're still hungry and tell the waiter so. If he understands you he brings on another glass of snapps plus a plate of green peas. If you want still another snapps and you'd be surprised at the number of people who do) you've got to order another plate of peas whether you've eaten the first one or not. Brandy, the waiter informs you, is now in order, but to get a shot of this you've got to order coffee.

But after that brandy, you've generally had thj works. You can't get any more. At this point your Swedish friends then show you other phases of their ingenuity. You get up, pay your bill, walk out in one of the pleasant parks nearby, re-enter the restaurant, sit down at another table and for all practical purposes, you can start all over again with the entire operation, beginning with an "initial" snapps. This is the law but in Sweden, as elsewhere, there are restaurants and restaurants and places and places and customs and customs.

For instance a group of us went to a restaurant and ordered whisky (without food) and got it. "How come?" I asked. "Oh," said a Swedish gentle.