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FIRST Get To Tough With Me John Foster Dulles 12 THE MORNING CALL, Allentown, Tuesday, May 26, 1939 THE MORNING CALL David A. Miller, Publisher-Director 1895-195! The air waves of Europe have been filled with tributes to John Foster Dulles. Words of praise were broadcast by the radio stations everywhere on Sunday as the sad news of the death of the former Secretary of State became known. The contrast between what is being said now and what was said a year or so ago is striking. Somehow the free world came to appreciate Mr.

Dulles only when it was apparent that, being stricken with a fatal cancer, he would be lost to the councils of the Western governments. Listening to the eloquent eulogy by Selwyn Lloyd, the British foreign minister, as it came over the Call-Chronicle Newspapers, Inc. 101 N. th Allentown. Pa.

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Mr. Dulles frequently was represented as a believer in a one-man department because he handled so many problems personally. But he did develop a fine staff, and his legacy is the great team in the Department of State today. The picture of Mr. Dulles that unfriendly critics painted was that of a man who unduly influenced President Eisenhower.

This was not true. Mr. Dulles always functioned as an adviser as a lawyer to his client pointing out the different courses of action and leaving it to the President to make the decision. It was this quality of deference rather than any kind of domination which endeared Mr. Dulles to the President.

In fact. Mr. Eisenhower's respect and admiration for Mr. Dulles constantly grew, and a deep affection developed between the two men. When Mr.

Eisenhower learned that there was no hope of recovery and that Mr. Dulles had himself recognized the facts and submitted his resignation, the grief of the President was noticeable. The hesitation in announcing the immediate appointment of a successor was due in large part to the feeling that no news should for a day or two at least be permitted to overshadow the story of the departing statesman from the government he had served so long and so faithfully. Mr, Eisenhower had tears in his eyes when, at the press conference in Augusta, he announced Dulles's resignation. To Press Secretary Hagerty, who rode away from the scene with him, the President said: "It's like losing a brother." Principles Vindicated Somehow, since a termination of service was inevitable some future day, it is a splendid thing that John Foster Dulles, lying on his hospital bed these last few weeks, lived to see his principles vindicated in the world-wide acclaim given him.

Mr. Dulles's ambition from early days was to serve in the State Department where his grandfather, John W. Foster, had been secretary of state in had been secretary of state in the Republican Administration of President Benjamin Harrison, and where his uncle. Robert Lansing, had served as secretary of state to President Woodrow Wilson. Democrat.

The life of Mr. Dulles was enveloped in diplomacy and foreign relations from the days he graduated from Princeton University in 1908. Just a year ago. at the 50th reunion of his class. Mr.

Dulles spoke at length in an off-the-record address which moved even some of the critics of his policies. At the time they described it as an expression of deepest sincerity and the highest devotion to principle. John Foster Dulles is gone. A great statesman perhaps one of the greatest in modern times has departed. While the free world today appreciates what he did, it is important now that his principles and the not be forsaken by his own government or by the govdrn ments of the free world for the preservation of whose liberties and freedoms he gave unstintingly and unselfishly all his ability, his strenth and his energy.

(Copyright 1959) more tilting appraisal could have been uttered in govern-ment circles anywhere. For, as Mr. Lloyd put it, there was no "inflexibility" about Lawrence It may be symbolic of this community's conscience that a verbal request from "an unnamed source" was received yesterday by the County Commissioners, asking that the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument on Center Square be cleaned in advance of Memorial Day. Certainly this war memorial has received the shabbiest sort of treatment. It has been the shuttlecock that for years has been batted back and forth by two bodies of our government.

It has been denied peace and quiet and has been permitted to deteriorate. Responsibility for it has been denied or shifted from one branch of government to another. It has been decapitated and dispute has continued respecting disposition of the. torso and various elements therein. While there has been delay in settlement of the various questions involved, time has sped along toward one of the important days on which the Soldiers and Sailors Monument has been the focal point for patriotic celebration, namely Memorial Day.

The grime that settles upon all exposed surface during the winter months has not spared the memorial shaft, or rather what is left of it. It has been ever thus. But in other years, a fire engine has been sent to the monument along about the middle of May and a stream of water has been played upon it to give it thoro cleansing. So when the annual military services were held, there was bright, clean background for the display of flowers, flags and military uniforms that marked the observance of the day. Again on Saturday our military organizations will meet at the base of the monument for annual Memorial Day exercises, prior to a parade and then a program at West Park.

It would seem that whatever red tape is tying up official action, some one should be bold enough to cut it and provide a good scrubbing for what remains of the monument. But there should be swift decision and immediate action. The small voice that is the community's conscience spoke yesterday. They that have ears, let them hear. I Family Systems Food, for Pizza By GEORGE DIXON Mr.

Dulles except on matters of principle, and he had the courage to stick to moral principle even in the face of the bitterest criticism. The position of John Foster Dulles in history is in a sense being fixed earlier than might otherwise have been the case. For he was suddenly removed from the scenes of his greatest labors at a time of crisis. His statesmanship began to be appraised in the highest terms when it was realized that he would no longer be available to guide the free world. Mistakes there were in Mr.

Dulles' handling of some of the multifarious problems that came to him for solution, but he was the first to admit them and to correct them. He was not rigid in a negotiation. Indeed, he was resourceful and never felt that the door should be slammed when there was a possibility of agreement. Faith in West He had a faith that the West could win the long battle with the Communists only by sticking to principle and refusing to compromise on fundamentals. His critics thought he was unrealistic and that he should accept the Soviet position as one not likely ever to change.

Dulles realized that Americans often were too impatient and sometimes were ready to appease on the false theory that this would be of benefit in the end and bring peace. He felt just the opposite that appeasement or surrender at the time would mean dangerous complications later on and that Postal Workers' Merger "To what do you attribute this increas inquired Canada's Minister of Agriculture Douglas S. Harkness. "We are still checking." replied Mr. Palmby, "and we aren't yet sure of our facts.

But we suspect it is largely due to the pizza craze that is sweeping the country." "Ah." cried the Canadian, "I have it! Let us change the title, 'Food for Peace' to "Food for Pizza'!" vince where a nude parade occurred, the object of which was to establish youth autonomy. At the time, this demonstration of independence by udity was greeted with universal laughter. Nevertheless, it was no joke. It was a protest against parental authority. It was more than that.

It was a protest against the entire social system which had been erected in China for centuries and which had sustained that civilization. What the Commune will ultimately do to China no one can say because no such experiment has ever been performed anywhere on such a vast scale perhaps 600 million human beings and with such finality. It is something altogether new in human history. (Copyright 1959) Agriculture ministers of the five big wheat exporting countries United States, Canada, Australia. France, and Argentina conferred in Washington recently with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson serving as host.

The theme of the conference was, "Food for Peace." Clarence Palmby, associate administrator of our Commodity Stabilization Service, stood up and announced that a substantial increase in wheat flour consumption has taken place in this country in the last year. The visiting conferees perked up because owing to dieting and the fact that women don't bake as they used to there has been a steady fall-off in wheat flour consumption for the last twenty years. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has issued a document on the Communes which is most interesting because it discusses the new concepts concerning the family system. For many centuries, the family was the realistic governing body in China. The Emperor was remote; his officials were too important to deal with small matters.

Family pride and perpetuation provided the social pressures which influenced the individual to live within a moral code. The government in China never exercised as much power over the individual as the family (clan). Of this, the Central Committee pamphlet says: "It is true that the "Chinese people have broken the feudal patriarchal system. It must be known thaf this In Washington today, there will be a meeting of representatives of all the unions in which the various types of U.S. postal employes hold membership, and there will be exploration of the idea that one big union of the nearly half a million men and women who are in postal service can be of greater influence than sixteen small ones.

The proposed merger of postal unions would represent the fruit of two years' work. According to -tentative plans, each member union would retain autonomy within the overall organization. But more importantly, the merger would give postal employes a central lobbying force. Postal employes, while formally foregoing the strike weapon, have used their unions effectively to achieve their legislative goals. A small example is the bill being maneuvered through the House that would make a Friday holiday mandatory for government employes whenever a legal holiday falls on Saturday.

Postal union publications abound with transcripts of offi cial statements by their representatives on various bills before various congressional committees studying pending legislation. As the most systematically organized employe bodies in the federal government, postal unions are always in the forefront of drives for higher pay and improved working conditions. It was the postal unions' lobbyists primarily, for example, who succeeded at the 1958 session of Congress in having pay increases for postal employes vetoed by President Eisenhower in 1957 tied to an increase in postal rates. The raise in postal rates had been an administration goal since 1953. Other federal employe groups blue collar or white tend to look to the postal unions to take the lead in pressing measures that would be to the advantage of all.

A combined organization with a membership of close to 400,000 could exert more pressure on Congress than is now brought to bear by the highly effective Letter Carriers association and its fellow postal service "Unions. Soviet Monetary Sputnik? patriarchal sys When the gold braid and brass of the Pentagon used to invade the Capitol in quest of more appropriations, the invasion wasn't so noticeable. The invaders not only entered by numerous portals and were swallowed up in the caveronus corridors, but their limousines were parked over a wide area. Now, however, the Senate Appropriations Committee meets on the street floor of the new Senate office building. All the brass crowds through the front entrance.

But, worse than that, their limousines stick out like automotive sore because the street is presently 1 to through traffic, and they fill the entire block. All the Defense Department satraps, from Secretary Neil H. McElroy down, all come with huge retinues, like King Saud. Actually, it's like a hundred state visits, all at one time. If chief of protocol Wiley Buchanan had to handle it he'd go out of his mind.

(Copyright 1959) By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Manchuria, Peking, Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong. The home base was a village in Kunatung Province which was communally owned and was managed by the generation of elders. Some members of this family were men of great distinction; others were lesser folks and even peasants. But authority lay in the older generation, whether a man were a prime minister or a farmer.

The social structure of such a society is based upon a traditional moral code and general consent. The principal government official in such community was a magistrate and a tax collector, both aliens that is they were unrelated to the dominant families. As long as they behaved, they were tolerated. When they ceased to behave, the citizens found ways to get rid of them, the subtlest method being the boycott. As a tax collector usually paid for his job in advance, this could be very costly to him.

Sometimes, the elders appealed to higher officials to remove a local official, but usually it was not necessary. The Chinese family system produced a wholesome society which survived political changes and economic calamities. The first real attack upon it was the introduction of Christianity in the 19th Century from overseas. Christianity could not accept polygamy and in some manner encouraged free rather than family arranged marriages. As, however, all the Christian sects influenced a very small segment of the Chinese population, local customs prevailed until recent years.

Complete Destruction The Chinese Communists are not attempting to influence the Chinese people to accept Marxist moral concepts. They are deliberately smashing the ancient Chinese family system by destroying the ancestral temple, by separating husband from wife in communal buildings, by placing children under the care of the state, in common mess halls, nurseries, and kindergartens. As far back as 1926, the Chinese Communists were experimenting with the destruction of the family system. This was particularly true in Hunan Pro tem has long since ceased to exist in capitalist society and that this is a matter of capitalist prog-r s. However, we have gone a step further to establish a democratic and united family, something that is rare in No More Cigarette Stamps Informed rumors are now starting to fly through the international money markets that the Soviet Union is drawing up plans for a monetary Sputnik-preparing a spectacular financial move which would brilliantly enhance the prestige of the Russian ruble and downgrade that of the U.S.

dollar in the eyes of the entire world. The rumors go like this: Russia "is going to permit foreigners to buy gold in Moscow. She will let anyone who has the money to By SYLVIA PORTER jor step toward creating a gold ruble that may be owned without restriction by a non-resident of the orbit." Theoretically, this would make the ruble superior to the U.S. dollar. These are not cloak-and-dagger stories pulled out of the stratosphere.

Here is what I've been hearing: Item: In Salzburg, Australia often the source of authentic reports of what is happening in the Kremlin there is open gossip that Russia is working on the creation of a single currency, backed by gold, for all the satellites. "It would tighten her economic ties with the satel- Sokolsky ours and there are no claims against her gold reserves. Russia is mining about 675 million of new gold a year, the biggest annual production of any nation in the world and comparing with our paltry production of 63 million. As one expert put it, "I think the rumors are premature but only because I expect no action for six months or so. But action is coming." What would it mean? It would be a tremendous aid to Russia in the trade deals she is now making with the rest of the world and Russia is fighting a trade war with us today as never before.

It would give her an immense economic propaganda weapon, and while this is an intangible, only a fool would underestimate propaganda's value. It would signal her developing economic and financial power as compared with us, impress every nation whether neutral or committed. And what is the U.S. doing? From what I can gather, nothing. As we have done on so many fronts in recent years, apparently, we'll wait until the blow hits and then patch up a policy.

(Copyright 1959) lites," said one informant, "off pay for gold bars (at $35 an ounce, one gold bar costs about $14,000) buy them freely." For a quarter century, our country has prohibited private purchases of gold. Russia "is going to place her ruble on an external gold basis and make it freely Try Stop Me By BENNETT CERF There's a junior up at Smith College whose face is very red these days. "Remember that backless, low cut little dress I knocked 'em dead with at the Yale prom?" she prodded her roommate. "How could I forget it?" grinned the roommate. Confessed the junior.

"I just discovered it's a belt!" on the barrel or vat of whiskey before it is bottled. The red and green strip stamps which are placed across the top of each bottle merely indicate that the alcoholic beverage has come from a taxed barrel or vat. After June 24, the familiar blue stamp picturing Dewitt Clinton that is on each pack of cigarettes will disappear. Liquor distillers will no longer have to get a stamp for the vat or barrel of spirits. But officials saivi the red and green stamps wili continue to appear on the bottles, since they have come to represent specific grades of whisky and the industry wants to keep them.

The old plan was a pay-in-advance one for the manufacturers. They did not like tying up millions of dollars in pieces of paper upon packets in storage in their warehouses for months. Since the total tax upon cigarettes amounts to about $13 million a day, the prepayment of stamps weeks and months in advance of sales was costly for an industry that already is loaded down with burdens and can expect to be burdened further every time there are demands for additional revenue. A month hence a more than a century old practice the affixing of a revenue stamp upon each and every package of cigarettes will come to an ending and a costly and wasteful practice will be superseded by more businesslike procedure. Uncle Sam will continue to get his tax money on every package of cigarettes as well as upon other tobacco products but a stamp is not going to be required to attest the fact.

Instead of affixing stamps, which have been purchased in advance of shipment of cigarettes from the factory, cigarette makers will pay taxes twice a month on the basis of their shipments during the 15 days. Under the century-old system the blue stamp upon a packet of cigarettes or other tobacco products represents a tax payment by the manufacturer. The industry buys these stamps in advance, in effect paying taxes then. In the manufacturing proc-cess, the blue stamps are put on the packs. Liquor distillers also buy stamps in advance now, but the ultimate customer never sees the real tax stamp.

This is put Porter convertible in the satellite countries." This would create a functioning "ruble bloc" comparable to the two other great currency blocs In the world the sterling and dollar blocs. Russia will do this "as a ma- Rueful admission of long-suffering wife of famous Hollywood star: "I always can tell when my husband's lying. It's whenever his lips are moving." (Copyright 1959 Unprofitable By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Going Up! By OTTO GARR TAGUE general in capitalist society." Family Doomed The Commune then is not only a socio-economic system for the production of goods but also for the elimination of the family as a moral force. The hours of labor are regulated in the Commune; eight hours for sleep; four for meals and relaxation; eight hours for labor; two for study.

(Two hours missing!) Children under nine must not work, although they may "cultivate the habit of work." It is very difficult to see how the Communists could dominate and control the Chinese people unless they destroyed the Chinese family system in which loyalty was focussed on the clan. The elders, the senior generation, exercised a final authority over all members, no matter where they were situated. I had some relatfons with a distinguished family of considerable size perhaps a thousand or more persons. Their business enterprises were in many parts of China, including Today's Text By DR. R.

R. FRITSCH Acts When Philip began to preach Christ to the people of Samaria, they, with one accord, gave heed unto what he was telling them, hearing him, and seeing the signs which he did. For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice; and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. So there was much joy in that city. It is hard for us to imagine a community which had never heard the Christian message before.

No wonder that there was great joy in Samaria as the result of Philip's ministry. But there was a man named Simon who had previously been practicing magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They 'all gave heed to him, from the least to the greatest, saying: "This man is that power of God which is called Great." And they gave heed to him, because for a long time he. had amazed them with his magic. But when they belived Philip as he preached good news about the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

set any progress the U.S. is making." Item: In Bucharest, Rumania, a meeting of the East Europe Council for Mutual Economic Assistance recently was held ostensibly to discuss traffic on the Danube River. At the meeting were top finance representatives of all the satellites and of Russia. There was considerable debate "about a coming gold ruble," it's reported. Item: Earlier this year in a speech before the 21st Communist Party Congress, Konstantin V.

Ostrovityanov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, flatly predicted that Russia would make the ruble an international currency and that it would ultimately displace the U. S. dollar as the No. 1 currency in world trade. Ostrovityanov is a leading Soviet economist; his views are said to influence Kremlin policy decisions.

It may have been an empty boast, as our State Department hints but the world financial markets aren't nearly as complacent about the boast as our government. Item: In Geneva, at private sessions of the just-completed meetings of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, a key topic was the creation of a.i internationally accepted gold ruble "It was taken for granted that the planning for it has been done," I was told. Russia Has Gold Item: Among currency authorities here, there is no inclination to shrug off the rumors. Russia has the gold to do it a hoard reported at over nine billion, second in total only to Factographs Greece is discussing joining the proposed European free trade area, Athens reports. Public Opinion The Morning Call welcomes opinions of its readers.

Letters to the editor should be brief. They must be signed and include the writer's address. Signatures need not be published. The right to condense is reserved by the publishers. I hate to do this to you But I can report only facts I am not, believe me, the originator of those facts I would not wish them on my worst enemy Much less you, my fellow American For were I responsible for their having become the serious menace to your and our nation's well-being, I would right now be on my knees praying to God for the wisdom required to reverse them.

It was President Eisenhower, no less, who lighted the fuse that has set off this explosion For my morning paper informed me recently that he has requested that 450 million dollars be devoted to the welfare of the nations of South America which (and who can blame them?) feel that they have been getting shortchanged in this foreign aid deal. Of course there are those, like Sen. Wayne Morse, who feel that 450 million dollars, when added to what you don't have, makes just a little bit more And they are right Horoscope Promotion is likely, but avoid quarrels. Today's child will be courageous and reliable in a crisis. For it seems that the sum total of what the people of this nation owe is the staggering figure of $838 billion! To which the addition of 450 million dollars would be as a mere drop in a bucket.

Well here are some official figures showing how you stack up as a stockholder in the greatest business on earth the United States of America: You start off with the phony assumption that this greatest business on earth owes only 283 billion which, of itself, is more than the total debt of all other similar businesses on earth But to this you must add existing legislative' commitments of 105 billion, Social Security obligations of 350 billion and what is known as a Federal Reserve contingent liability of 100 billion That gives you a total of 838 But in addition to that 838 billion of federal debt obligations, we private citizens ower 2382 billion, our private corporate debt is 236.1 billion, and our state and local public debt is 50.9 billion Which means that our American people have engaged to pay off a grand total indebtedness of Which makes another 450 million look like peanuts! Especially to The Spenders responsible for this. (Copyright 1959) Little Bobby Fischer, the 16-year-old chess champion, nearly walked out of an international tournament in Chile last month, hen he learned that the prize money had been cut in half. "More trophies don't interest me," he grunted. If Bobby had read a few histories of the royal game, he would have been neither disappointed nor surprised. Chess is probably the most underpaid intellectual profession known to man, and the total annual earnings of the greatest masters wouldn't keep a Hollywood starlet in brassieres.

In the melancholy history of chess, most masters have died in poverty. Steinitz, the finest players of the 19th Century, ended his life as a chairty case. The man who took the crown away from him, Emmanuel Lasker, was so embittered by his meagre chess earnings that, in the 1930s, he applied to Ely Culbertson for a diploma as a bridge teacher. And the most brilliant player of our time, Alekhine, spent his declining years in playing games for coffee and cigarette money in seedy, sour-smelling clubs. Only two world's champions within memory have been able to live with a modicum of prosperity.

Capablanca was at an early age given a diplomatic post by his Cuban government, for which he did little except play chess and build up nebulous "good will" for his country. And in Russia. Botvinnik for years was given a handsome government salary as an engineer, although most of his engineering was performed over the chess board. One reason for Russia's latter-day pre-eminence in chess is that it supports its fine players the way we support baseball and football figures, who are not supposed to do anything but contribute to the greater glory of the sport. Most of the first-rate American players have been so busy scrounging for a living that they have had neither the time nor the energy to prepare fully for championship tournaments.

The Russians beat us not by brains, but by subsidy. I hope little Bobby has more sense than to try to make a career out of chess in this country. It simply cannot be done. Americans look upon chess as a freakish activity, not deserving the awesome respect we accord to baseball, hockey, football and six-day bike races. We are willing to pay for anything but a display of brains.

(Copyright 1959) ord in the baseball book. Casey Stengel showed the worid last year that he could spot Milwaukee 3 games in the World Series and still take the championship. He has the same players, (true they are all one year older), and he, like all his players, was simply fed up with the common saying from all the corners of the universe, "BREAK UP THE YANKEES." You don't hear that being said today. But evidently it will be oft-repeated before this season. He'll be able to say "WE to be able to do more bragging than ever at the end of this season.

He'I be able to say "WE CAME FROM THE BOTTOM," and I feel certain there are many dyed-in-the-wool Yankee baseball fans who are willing to make the same wager I have made "that the New York Yankees will be in first place in the American League by August 15th, at the latest, and will again go on to win the World's championship in 1959. You'll see. "THE YANKS ARE COMLY Yankee Fans Confident Dear Editor I have been listening to the many expressions of glee on the part of baseball fans who are happy to see the New York Yankees at the bottom of the standing in the American League. And on top of that, was amused to see in the Saturday issue of The Morning Call your own editorial entitled "Money has not saved Yanks." I have been a Yankee fan for years, and still am. I am not one of those fans who desert a team when the going gets rough, even though I cannot contribute anything other than my moral support.

But I should like to bring to your attention a few thoughts that may make you and other Yankee-hating fans do a little thinking before you start shouting "I TOLD YOU SO." First, there are very few honors the Yanks have not held over the past few years. They have won pennants, world series, and about every other rec Costa Rica will use a loan to help complete its Inter-American Highway. Egypt staged a "productive efficiency and vocational training week" this year..