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V-' il ifttorfal ffagg of Jiff (aklattb ulrttotnr Homo Owned, -Controlled, Edited Oct. 27, 1950 -ar If It Doesn't Reveal Anything Else ent, Important Issues Await Action When Congress Is Called Into Session OTHER FELLOW By AD SCHUSTER JOHN Q. PUBLIC By Margaret Chast Smith U.8. Senator 'i Jw il Si "They played guessing games at the President! 'news conference yesterday, guessing-whether Congress will convene on November 27, the day fixed as the end of the recess, or meet in special session before that date. In any event it will be a short Congress with some urgent and debatable business before it Before adjournment it was recpgnized that an excess profits tax would have priority and that the subject was too complicated to be rushed through on the eve of a recess.

As a result the tax-writing committee was instructed to prepare bills for readiness as soon as the post-election session xould get under way. The tax, provided one ioroied as expected, will be retroactive to prevent profiteering on the Korean war. Statehood for Alaska and Hawaii are con-lidereckurgent as a measure of defense and in recognition of their claims and of platform promises. This country would have to fight if either of the territories were attacked and enemy seizure of either would menace the whole Nation. Their defense would be aided if they were given a stronger voice in Washington and they would be in better position to develop their economies.

If this legislation, which has passed the House, is not completed in the short session it will have to move through the entire legislative mill again. Rent and bther controls are expected to occupy attention along with mine safety legislation and probably federal aid to education. Home rule for the District of Columbia will be pressed and there is chance there will be efforts to improve the Registration of Lobbying Act. The tag-end session, whenever it is called, will have plenty of work before it. AT HOME AND ABROAD- The Gimmick at Lake Success By Raymond Lawrence TIBET NO PRIZE Tibet is a strange and remote land, isolated and sheltered by lofty mountains, and it is also the only theocracy in the world today.

We have no reason to doubt communist reports that the Chinese reds are invading the country. There also is no reason' why the Chinese communists should have any difficulty in the occupation, which they have been threatening for months. Tibet, however, is no rich prize and the main significance of the action is that another country has become the victiraof red aggression. The main tie that Tibet has with other parts of Asia is a religious one. Lamaism is a type of Buddhism, headed by the Dalai Lama, who is the supreme ruler.

In some parti of Asia, including areas of China, Tibt-fcTggardedrthe seat of iiud-dhism, at a kind of religious capital. Partly to destroy any religious influence and partly ai a matter of prestige, the Chinese communists have embarked on this campaign ti "liberation." India should be concerned over, this new butane of red aggression. A Tibetan delegation now is in New Delhi to discuss what maasurta might be taken when the Chinese radf Moved in. Although the concern may ht mora political than military, Indian officials art uneasy over the prospect of a new communist neighbor. Premier Nehru has bow another opportunity to demonstrate how affectively he can deal with expanding military force.

CANADA WILL HELP Tht significant thing about the new U.S.Canada defense production agreement is that it benefits us as much as the Canadians, thus being unlike many of the co-operative defense pacts wt have signed in the past fiva years. Canada produces a number of defense items which it is more advantageous to obtain in that country. During the last war an exchange arrangement was in effect but, due to post-war legislation and dollar shortages, it could not be continued. Last summer a Canadian-American joint industrial mobilization planning committee Went to work on the problems arising from the mandatory "buy American" legislation. The formal agreement just announced is a result of those negotiations.

The six principles embodied in the program show its extent and value to the rearmament plan. The two countries are to develop a co-ordinated program of production, procurement and requirements of raw materials and finished military items, institute parallel controls over scarce supplies, consult before establishing controls that might affect the other Nation's economy, exchange knowledge and skills, remove barriers to trade involved in the defense plans, consult about foreign exchange problems which may arise from the agreement. Canada can make a valuable contribution to common defense and this agreement takes a long step toward making maximum use of our neighbors resources and productive capacities. OUR AVIATION PROCRAM From the days when aviation in Oakland was a wonder child upon which we could pin hopes that were often called more speculative than practical, our place in the air world has grown to one of great importance. We may be thankful it was no haphazard growth; that there were men here who foresaw competition among airports and airlines.

Facilities were provided jnjL expanded wt have, a program that grows with the months arid continues to look ahead. Our Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee announcing, a series of renewed efforts in behalf of local aviation is speaking for something which can benefit us all. Possessed of facilities and unequalled site we can follow the advice of the committee by requesting Oakland Airport schedules when we fly and asking our friends and those with whom we do business to do likewise. The aviation committee of the Chamber is working for continued promotion of air freight as a part of the promotion of all fojprns of transportation serving the area. It is assisting the air phases of civil defense and private flying.

What it has done and is working to do in attracting new aviation industries and advertising what we have, represents a community service of great value. In his own interests and that of the area there is much the individual can do to help. THE CRAND NATIONAL History, as Edward Lear wrote it, is authority for the statement: "There was an old man who said, 'How Shall I flee from this horrible Times have changed. We now treat cows royally and, indeed, install them and their relatives in a Cow Palace across the Bay. And to that Cow Palace, for 10 days beginning tonight will come men and women from all parts of the state and the West.

The Grand National Livestock Exposition with horse show and rodeo added, will be open and, as usual, will be an event of first importance for thousands of Westerners. Duncan Hines suggests stuffing the squash with spinach, which is decidedly preferable to stuffing oneself with either. It seems to us the quantum theory is being neglected. We haven't heard or seen anything about it for many months. The Soviet "peace" resolution presented in the General Assembly's political committee is a trick and a ruse.

That's plain enough but the four-point plan is worth examining for the light it throws on Soviet policy. The original proposal called for a peace treaty among the United States, the France, Britain and China, fora one-third reduction In armament by these Big Five powers, and for prohibition of war propaganda. Then, following the so-called Stockholm "peace" petition, the Russians added a new feature branding the first nation to use tht atomic bomb a war criminal. The real reason for dragging this in is to emphasize the Russian contention that the Soviet Union is the world's peace leader and the only great power that sincerely desires to prevent war. CHARTER STILL VALID That is the doctrine behind the plan for a Big Five peace treaty.

Russia already has non-aggression pacts with France and Britain which are admittedly meaningless todav. Furthermore, in our books the com munists have never lived up to any of the agreements that they have made since 1945 and it is futile to pile treaty on treaty when there is no spirit of good faith or guarantee of observance behind them. In view of the principles embodied in the United Nations Charter it is useless duplication to repeat them in a separate in- EVENING RAIN Quietly the rain is falling, Cooling autumn' levered brow; Bringing sweet refreshing dreams To where the flowers are sleeping now. Falling softly in the twilight. An alchemist who works unseen; Melting earth's brown drabness To a vivid green And decking night's dull garments With the rhinestone's sheen, Drowsily the rain is falling.

Bringing sleep serene. DORA FOLSOM MARTIN. Russian conquest of Tibet is proof literal and positive that aggression, can be carried to extremes. The idea of anyone but Santa Claus or a chimneysweep going to the roof of the world is fantastic. If public opinion can oust the reds from that high place, let it be symbolized by a landslide.

The easiest job in the world appears to be that of the man who steals the evidence in big. city scandals. In New York the uniform election law apparently means 1000 extra cops for November 7. It was the boyhood of Al Jol-son that wrote the great entertainer will. "Army to Investigate Women Spies." If it finds one that has not been called a Mata Hari, he's innocent.

NAME CLUB Town upstate has appointed. Mr. Bangs chairman of the Fourth of July committee. PENNY-WISE The poorhouse has A mighty snare! Don't let your dollars Get vou there! JOSETTA DINEEN COOK. Now the reds have Tibet, they will control the market in yak tails just as they have in yak-yak tales.

ON HOME FRONT (Chicago Dally News) A great plentitude of sugar clogs the market. As for the hoarder who guessed wrong, let her solace herself with 750 pounds of home-made fudge. LEAVES Or OCTOBER Dry your eyes; the leaves are falling But they do it merrily. They are simply celebrating Liberation from the tree. Turning cartwheels, pirouetting, Skipping---4aRCing o'er the sUet, They're enjoying their first freedom Since at Earth they took a peek As green, tiny buds unfolding.

Grew they then to Nature's crests. Spreading shadows for tht weary. Weaving roofs for fledgelings nests. With October cam bright colors Bronze and yellow, red and brown-Like gay flags that dared the wind storms Till old Jack Frost knocked them down! -Now they skip in wild abandon Over city, farm and hill. Hiding in protected corners, Twirling with ecstatic thrill.

Roiling, rollicking, gyrating Going gaily to their doom! Dry your eyes; they're only solving Life's Great Mystery too scun! ODD PAGES. THE JESTER SOCIALIZATION A reporter boarded the train carrying the Notre Dame team to the Southern Methodist game. Looking for a new slant on a story, he said to the student manager, "I understand that you carry a chaplain to pray for the team." That's right" "Would you mind introducing me to him?" "Be glad to. Which do you want the offensive chaplain or the defensive?" Reader's Digest LOOK WHAT HE COT The stingy farmer was scoring the hired man for carrying a lighted lantern to call on his best girL The idea," he exclaimed. "When I was courting I never carried a lantern; I went in the dark." "Yes." said the hired man sadly, "and look what'you got" Santa Fc Magazine.

FOUR PLATOON STSTEM We'd go a little farther than the Oregon State coach who suggests three platoons one each for offense, defense and attending classes. How shout a fourth to bt drafted? Kansas City Star. WASHINGTON. Oct "27. During 1950 there has been a development in this country that I think foreshadows real peace.

But it is a development that must spread to the other nations of the world in order to bring lasting peace. Individual Americans have been accepting more fully their role as citizens and their responsibility to think for themselves. They have followed through on this civic consciousness by making themselves vocal on vital issues. In making their views clesr to their elected representatives, they have, in effect taken over the leadership of our country. I do not believe that President Truman would have made the blunt, courageous San Francisco speech if public feeling had not impelled him to do so.

PUBLIC LEADERSHIP This is healthy and wholesome for our nation and for our individual liberty. As long as this leadership of John and Jane Q. Public exists, there is no danger of any Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin arising in this country to enslave us under a totalitarian dictatorship. And as long as it continues to grow, we will defeat and wipe out all threats of communism or any other anti-American type of "ism" here at home. If this leadership on the part of the public were to spread to the other countries of the world, we would not be talking so much about war and the threat of wir.

We Would not he preparing to brace ourselves for sacrifices, hardships, inconveniences and sorrows that the military preparedness red Russia has forced on us requires. If instead, we would be converting atomic energy, electronics and all tht other amazing new discoveries from destructive war purposes to constructive peace purposes that would maka for happier and undreamed ef living. NO SURRENDERING The people that txertjse their leadership keep power in their own hands instead of surrendering it to any individual or group. They refuse to "let George do It" to shun their responsibility and duty to do their own thinking. They speak up.

The surest and quickest way to real peace now would bt for the Russian people to stop letting others do their thinking" and to assert themselves just ai Americans are doing here. The people of all nations must gain a real sense of being masters of their own fate instead of slaves of the whims of dictators. The best wav thev can capture such a feeling is through active, individual participation in tht Jprmulatiort of the national leadership of their country. They must be able to see the results from their own efforts to encourage them to continue efforts. They must be able to control their representatives Instead of being controlled.

THE EASY WAT Most of us want to reach the top on an elevator. We don't want to climb. Kansas City Times. FORUM OBEYING ORDERS Editor: I am writing thi in answer to he woman who made such a "fus" about the con-demmed lieutenant You evidentally don't realize how dangerous failure to carry out orders ran be By not carrying out his orders he endangered manv other troops. You ran think of yourself or your own safety; you have to think of the safetv and lives of the other troops.

What if his failure to, ohev orders resulted in thousands rf our troops being killed The Negro rare loves our country the same as the whites do. They would be "up in arms" to defend her the same as the whites. They wouldn't if they were persecuted as you seem to, believe. Remember this nation is made of all races and all religions; it's our country. It doesn't belong to just white or just Negro, or just yellow, or just red.

It's all of those intermingled, living together. MRS. VIRGINIA FLORENCE. Berkeley. CHILDREN BARRED Editor: In regard to Grant Maxwell's letter of October 1 and Kathleen Lenroot'i statement about children gambling, might have held true four years ago, but not today The legalized gambling measure plainly slates that any person under 21 years of age, found playing any gambling device, is guilty of a misdemeanor and can bt prosecuted.

Also gambling machint opera tori permitting any minor ta play hi chinea will hart his licenaa tua pen ed ar reroked ZDWAXD J. CJUUSTU LETTERS TO THE fer to ignore the kind of aggression effected through fifth columns. Organized, disciplined and armed movements, which are directed and controlled from a foreign capital, can menace the safety of a state as much as the employment of military force. France and Italy discovered this just in time to maintain their independence. Korea was softened up in the same fashion and only saved by international action.

A dozen other countries were not so fortunate. Subversion can be aggression, too. Considering the lesson in semantics that the Russians have taught us during the past decade one that we would have known before had we been more diligent students of Lenin the proposed ban on war propaganda is the most cynical. In the communist lexicon "war propaganda" Is any attitude that differs from the party line, just as "fascist" is any person who disagrees with you. EFFECT OF ARMS CI Tne final fraud at Lake Sucre was dusting off the o'd numher ahoiit a r-duc'ion in armament by the powers.

Since Russia has by far the biggest army and air fnrre of any nation, it would be a magnificent triumph to induce other states to cut their forces by this amount. Russia would remain the dominant military power. It's a good deal if you can make it, but Mr. Vishinsky hasn't had much luck yet as a grifter. TRIBUNE policies at Lock wood Gardens Federal Housing Projects.

(65th Avenue). The neighborhood surrounding Lockwood Gardens is a fine democratic community where all peoples, regardless of race, creed, or color live side by side, and to the enrichment tf all. The policy of Iockwnod Gardens, however, is: No admittance to any minority groups. Please note that this is a Federal Housing Project for GI familtes of low income. All Americans are asked to fight on the battlefield, regardless of race, creed or color.

What do the good people of Oakland think of a policy where, if the GI lives to come home he finds a Federal Project closed to him of the color of his skin These projects are partly paid for by the Federal Government but policy is left in the hands of each city. And since one poison always breeds another, it has now been learned that hundreds of families live in Lockwood Gardens whose Income is way above the maximum set for Federal Housing tenants. We believe that the housing authorities shut their eyes to this in order to keep up the discrimination policy. Wt say with great pride, bow that our community did at last find all these things out it will leave no stone unturned to have theM policies changed. The citizens of all Oakland hart a duty in this.

Ntifhhorhood Tenanta Committee. MRS. MOLLU THOmm. strument. Since the Russians regard the U.N.'s peace machinery as operated by plotters whose only stm is to frustrate the legitimate aspirations of communist expansion, there is no reason to think that a new peace treaty would be exempt from the same doctrine.

It is simply a convenient excuse for chicane or obstructionism. NATURE OF AGGRESSION The gimmick in the atomic aggression provision was neatly exposed by U.S. Chief Delegate Austin at Lake Success who said: "The resolution offered us by the Soviet representative, in short, indicates continuing obsession with the atom bomb on the one hand, and on the other, marked indifference toward other weapons of aggression. But the real crime is waging aggressive war, either with atomic bombs, armored division or subversion." Here is one. of the central problems of our time: How to prohibit the use of force to implement national policy, nr, if its use is inevitable, how to organize collective forces against the aggressor.

Th Soviet proposal ignores this basic question. No matter hnW bad are atomic bombs, they are in principle only a multiplication of the power of conventional weapons. The essence of aggression is the unprovoked employment of military force to enforce your Will, regardless of whether the weapons are tanks or tritium. Then, also, the Russians pre ra a (TO in pa- aled by tht aasat aad addresa tht writer, which, if desired, will be withheld. Prefereace will tee given to those who are wllliag to have their names ased.

and running. In the street with you. They're in the street because there are no sidewalks. And it isn't in the country the district is 100T. built up And they're not high school kids they're small fry just a little bit older than Jimmy.

Are we going to wait for a similar tragedy and another horror-filled but incredibly fine story by Have-lock Hunter to give impetus to providing the protection only adults can furnish? The area between 140th to 142nd Avenues between East 14th Street and MacArthur Boulevard and one block west of Jefferson Grammar School on Lark Street is the area of which I write. Drive there some noon hour or when school is out a child has but to step one foot over in excitement to be crushed or maimed. I cannot conceive why this condition has beea allowed to continue this long. No, I haven't a child attending the school, had I there would be more done than ait-ting writing about it. MeCABE San Leandm.

A CLOSED PROJECT Editor: Only recently hag wt whole nefghbeirBoodl heeoint fully tware of tht shoe king MaeARTHURS DENIAL Letters shoold be addressed to Editor: How verv embarrassing Th orum Th Tribune dis-that General MacArthur should tUima responsibility for state-have the temerity to deny the letters. Cea- Raymond Moiey 1 ren.rl nf the War TVn.rtment anonymous tipsters (bout Formosa. It seems obvious that Harry's principal (if not only) reason for taking that long ride was to be able to report that there was "complete unity between him and MacArthur on Far Eastern policy, in the hope that it would be thought to include Formosa. In view of MacArthur's prestige it would be nice to have people think that he and the President saw eye to eye and were "like that." And after all a soldier can't say to his commander-in-chief, "You're so and so, I never can he? But to make sure that nobody missed the point the War Department was induced to sound off, unofficially of course, and "don't quote me." But a Us, that is where his foot slipped. Because MacArthur could deny a report from an anonymous source, and promptly did.

No wonder the President nearly blew a gasket when the point came up at his press conference L. M. CALKIN Berkeley. TRAP FOR CHILDREN Editor: Please imagine driving your automobile down a street at normal rate of speed where children walk on sidewalks and to suddenly find yourself with ice water in your reins because from tha "normal" street you hart pranged into a nightmare wtitT children ara coming, and foinx. walking Revolt Against The early results of the New York Daily News pre-election pell show that Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri ia running bout 5-3 over the hand-picked candidate of the powerful Democratic Tammany machine.

Judge Ferdinand Pecora. These odds may change before election. But if. as it now sems, the public is getting thoroughly fed up with machine rule, phony issues, and political conniving, there may be a number of very great surprises on election day. Ia this column a few days I recounted the incredible and unworthy scheme by which the New York bosses denied a nomination to which Impellitteri, a good Democrat himself, was clearly entitled by rirrue of experience and 'the office he held.

With no organized support, Impellitteri has carried bis cast to the people, and apparently they ara responding with enthusiasm. If any lessons cut bt drawn Ann thts it is that people this year ara deeply worried about their tnintiy and have a deep personal interest ia the gorera-wat ef their country. They art cooccraed about ear perUout aitaatfc ts tha world and tha tediridsaTa perOoua poaitfcM ia th teeny ef the country. Machines They want, at long last, real competence and efficiency in office. They want to feel safe with their government and with the people in charge of their government They do not feel safe with machine rule.

This is especially true in New York, where widespread police scandals are breaking out It may well be true in Chicago, where equally wretched conditions are coming to light It may also be true in Missouri It certainly looked that way in that state in the primary, in which the Truman machine choice was soundly beaten. If we may draw a further inference, it is a bad omen for all candidates who enjoy the support of iedcral machine patronage. Tbe issues conjured up in New York against Governor Dewey have been thoroughly phony. No reasonable person denies bis capacity as aa administrator of state affairs. But that issue has beea beclouded by spurious charges, slogans and contemptuous epithets.

If the Impellitteri poll is correct, the votert wiU break, through the machine-made screea and re-leet Dewey. Tha apparent shift ia senti- ment in Ohio in Taft's favor is another mark of this trend. There, too, the arguments against Taft have been spurious and contemptible. They are arguments sgainst integrity, forth-rightness, even sgainst education and hard work. In California, the trend is toward Warren and Nixon agau a mark of approval for good public service and against the shibboleths of statism, of handouts and class hatred.

This trend might well be noted by Vice-President Bark-ley, the assorted members of Truman's Cabinet and others who are stumping the country in behalf of machine-made candidates. The political leaders of labor, too, might well consider this popular demand for real issues. Even their own union members, the people who are supplying the money that these labor politicians are using to defeat Taft and others, must be feeling the urge to break through tbe unreal hullabaloo about the Taft-Hartley Act and get down to real problems. Once in a long time, this revolt against machine politic take plaee and sweeps everything before it It may happen this year. I i eerttary.

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