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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith fmtdlulit DOWN TO CASES SWEET TOOT WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON, Noted Capital Columnist Page 0 Friday, Jan. 11, 1946 ii J. It. he doesn't know what was done with Hawaii's Greatest Newspaper that huge cache of sugar found in Java recently, but assumes it wiii go right back into Java. A mainland industrialist Insists there are too many dreamers.

And, no doubt, too many snorers. With another cabinet resigning, it looks like the Japanese government may be planning to acquire some modern furhiture. Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday 125 Merchant Honolulu 2, Territory of Hawaii, U. S. Wallace Tends His Political Fences; Opposes Truman's Ideas About Labor; Leahy Upset Over Russian Relations Disorders Loom In Germany If Signs Are True By L.

S. B. SHAPIRO North American Newspaper Alliance FRANKFURT, Germany, With the passing of the most disastrous year in her history, Germany enters Upon her most critical year with little to look forward to except tears, trouble and possibly Violence. It is this observer's impression after ah extensive trip through southern and western Germany during the last fortnight that the crisis in the Reich's physical and mental illness has not yet been reached and that substantial disorder may break out during this year RILEY H. ALLEN EDITOR Blazers have gone out of style, but their place has WASHINGTON.

fJ. CV Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace isnt taking any chances on being left holding the political bag if the Truman administration begins to lose Out with the public. He continues on excellent terms with Truman, but has also embarked on a speech-making campaign which, while supporting most of Truman's WASHINGTON BUREAU 1288 National Press building. Washington. Radford Mobley.

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Your Hokum for Today: "Be sure and look us up when you come to the mainland." HOWARD D. CASE. Letters From Readers MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The As ciated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. before the country settles down to office and, although it wasn't said so in these exact words, net result of the session was to sabotage the president's plan for admitting refugees. The state department officials de cided: (1) that they did not have enough staff to handle more immi BOUQUET FROM A HOME-BOUND Gt Editor The Star-Bulletins Sure that I speak also for thousands of others, 1 wish to express a hearty "thanks" to the people of the Hawaiian islands for their memorable hospitality extended the avalaifche of service personnel during the war years.

I shall always remember this charming land and especially their beautiful, native music which will forever ring in my ears. May prosperity be with you always. A HOME-BOUND. GI. gration visas; (2) That they would A.

B. Member of the Audit Bureau of U. P. The Star-Bulletin receives the standard day report ol the United Press A Thought for Today To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Samuel Johnson.

have to concentrate first on bringing home the foreign born wives of American soldiers. nun While the White House is equally anxious to expedite the return of soldiers' wives, the significant thing about the state department meeting was that officials did not consider asking for a larger staff to handle refugee visas. CHEERING THE WAITING GIs Editor The Star-Bulletin: Now is the time when a cheery word, a lift in the car, a friendly invitation, will do a lot to cheer the GIs waiting to be demobi-lizedi The tensity of war is over, time hangs heavy enunciated program, makes it plain that the ex-vice president still has a very forthright political mind of his It didn't get much attention, but Wallace made a significant speech at a. Negro fraternity meeting in Washington the other night which drew wide acclaim in the, Negro press. This is a segment of the public that Bob Hannegan has been worried about ever since Mrs.

Truman tossed aside the question of the D. A. R. and Hazel Scott, wife of the Negro congressman, who was barred from singing in Constitution halL mm Wallace's next talk will be at a 10 state farm meeting in St. Paul on January 11.

This will be Wallace's first i farm speech in almost two years and has more significance than meets the naked eye. After January, Wallace will make three or four speeches a month all over the country, renewing his contacts with the hundreds of delegates who voted for him at the last Democratic convention, at the same time checking his political fences aroUnd the nation. nan Wallace doesn't plart to resign from the cabinet before June, and when he does he will go out with Truman's blessing in order to Cam Obviously, they would have received Truman's 100 per cent backing. Their chief conclusion was that on tHeir hands, and they will greatly appreciate some genial attention. As a longtime resident.

I have been struck with their eagerness for a little personal contact with civilians. Let's try to make the time pass more quickly for them. KAMAAINA. "working her passage home." Although official reports and surveys of German opinion reflect a guardedly sanguine hope that the country is already resigned to the realities of her terrible plight, this observer predicts that the coming year will be a strenuous one for the occupying authorities. Despite low crime figures and signs of political progress, the casual traveler in areas remote from principal headquarters cities is aware of trouble in the offing.

a a This impression is based on nothing more concrete than instinct and picayune incidents. The average German's attitude is so sullen, his outlook so hopeless, his daily life and surroundings so drab that one feels that this naturally self-assertive people will erupt once more before accepting the hardness of the long, hard pull. Incidents which amplify this impression are small but significant. Allied travelers in sparsely occupied areas find that civilians supply them with more deliberately wrong directions than tight ones. Many civilians when hailed by a passing Allied automobile seem to suffer from deafness.

When walking in populated streets of towns like Darmstadt or Kassel one can hear sardonic remarks in German Often accompanied by unfunny laughten the wives of American soldiers were all they would have time to handle with their present staff before the fiscal year runs out on June 30 and SPEAK LOUDER. PLEASE! Editor The Star-Bulletin: As a daily listener from i forgot to tell yoti doesnt like to go to sleep unless they didn't want to enlarge their staff. the "gallery" at the statehood hearings, I have been straining my ears to find out what's going on when sdnie of the witnesses have been on the stand. lie can put nis root in your race a few times Note American immigration quo Ii is obvious that Hawaii lead! the world in sugar tas have never been filled during the war, nor for some time before the war. Thus a large number of and pineapples, but I would suggest that a course in public speaking should be added to the qualifications for industrial leadership.

It would certainly help their Cases, with the public, at least. RESIDENT. refugees could be admitted, as proposed by President Trumah, without new legislation and simply by GALLUP POLL: Labors Rank and File Favor Truman Proposals using present quotas. BANNING PRIVATE AGENCY RELIEF TO GERMANY AND JAPAN Elitor The Star-Bulietin: I want to call your atten paign for liberal congressmen who will support the Truman program. a ft GI MAIL Servicemen's mail received by tion; and that of your readers, to ah unheralded but this columnist has been so heavy most significant communication reported in a re that unfortunately it is impossible cent issue of a widely-read American religious week to answer each individual letter.

ly, the Christian Century. By GEORGE GALLUP Director American Institute ef Publle Opinion However, below are general an in its Issue of December 19th. it states that offi In the Capital swers to some of the questions most Consistently iaised in GI mail. cial representatives of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, the World Council of of oppose such a law?" Vote of Labor Union Members Churches, the Church Committee on Overseas Relief NAVY STOREKEEPERS AND YEOMEN These men have been handi Favor -19 Oppose and Reconstruction, and the Church Committee for Relief in Asia have joined in a public protest to the president and the state department against the ban 1 i .16 capped in getting discharges be Undecided ivun cause tney have been working patriotically to expedite the dis imposed by the United States government on the sending of relief by private agencies to the people of Germany and Japan. charge of other men.

This is the type of Campaigning where Truman is weakest and Wallace strongest, so there will be no break with the Truman administration tinless The "unless" hinges on plans to get Wallace to testify before congress regarding Truman's recommended labor legislation and the much debated cooling off period. Wallace is opposed to this, and if called before congress will be forced to say so in which case he will follow customary practice and submit his resignation. Trouble makers On Capitol Hill already are maneuvering to put him oh the spot. mm SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Able Secretary of Agriculture Anderson has come a long way from the day when he went out to New Mexico many years ago, suffering from tuberculosis. Attaining membership in the cabinet of the U.

S. is quite a climb for a country boy. There are only a handful of men every four years Ik Unquestionably this has been a This protest' declares that "one of the greatest NEW YORK. The practically unanimous opposition in the labor union press and among labor union leadership toward the Truman proposal calling for a 30 day tooling off period and fact finding boards to study labor management disputes is not reflected among the rank and file of labor union members, a nation wide survey including labor union members finds. in measuring sentiment, on the issue, Vie institute had field reporters ask: "President Truman has proposed a law requiring a 30 day cooling off period before a major strike could Start.

During this time a committee would look into the facts and causes of the dispute and make public its report Would you favor hardship and the navy, finally recognizing this, informs me that it One of the reason for the heavy support of the Truman proposal among labor union members in the survey is the widespread belief that it will prove an effective means of reducing strikes. This is shown by replies to tht following question: "Do you thir.k this law would operate to reduce strikes?" Vote of Labor Union Members Yes 1 1 will lower the point scores for storekeepers and yeomen bn br about February 15, with another re tragedies of fee civilized world may take place this Winter unless the churches and other private agencies act now." It points out that neither UNRRA nor any other agency is authorized to extend relief to the Germans or Japanese, that "alarming and deplorable conditions" exist in former enemy countries, and that the Potsdam-inspired policy which prevents the sending of relief must be changed. MENTAL SEDUCTION WASHINGTON. One of the duction March 2, most accurate prophecies ever made MARINES Marine headquarters states that Added to this is tne more recent word from Gen. marine corps demobilization is now six weeks ahead of schedule.

MacArthur that there is a most serious shortage of food in Japan this winter, and from many competent The marine corps is how sending 17 and 18 year olds to the Far East observers that the death rate from starvation in Berlin alone has reached the appalling figure of to replace marines with long serv who attain that honor and distinc American Ties With Far East Rise With New Commitments ice overseas. Many letters have complained was ordered for restricted circulation early last winterv What this little training pamphlet tried to do was make a psychological forecast of how U. S. troops were apt to feel about things after V-E Day. Then it tried to outline a course of action that would help offset the worst effects of the post-victory letdown.

The guide predicted accurately the first thrill of victory feeling and the normal desire for celebration wine, women and song and carousing in a general -sense of irresponsibility This, it was predicted, would be about the shipment of younger men 4,000 day, not to mention the rest of Germany. Surely conditions such as these, which already are producing "one of the greatest tragedies of the civilized world," demand that all right-thinking Americans protest immediately and unceasingly until the intolerable and diabolical Potsdam policy is ended and adequate relief supplies are shipped into Germany land Japan. HoW can we possibly expect the peoplt- of those countries to believe in the Four Freedoms when we deliberately pursue a policy of mass starvation? Sincerely yours, EDWARD L. WHlTTEMORE, Director, Honolulu Council of Churches to China. However, this complaint should not be registered against the marine corps, which is only carrying out orders, but against the overall foreign policy of the United States which has agreed with Chiang Kai-shek to keep marines in China.

followed by a wave of uncertainty, the "When do we go home?" and It seems only fair that if marines are to be kept there, those who have served longest should be returned to the states and replaced by young the "What's going to happen to me feeling. tion. At heart, however, Clinton Anderson Is still frustrated man. Most people don't know it, but his secret ambition long was to become an author. When he first went to New Mexico, Anderson had plenty of time to write.

And he turned out dozens of magazine articles, aimed primarily at the Saturday Evening Post. As fast as he sent them to Philadelphia, however, Post editors sent them back. Anderson Collected a fine assortment of rejection slips and finally stopped writing. He turned to insurance, cattle raising and politics, in all of which he has been eminently successful nam The other day, however, Anderson got his revenge. Bearded Forrest Davis of the Saturday Evening Post, Sometimes nicknamed the "Missing Link." dropped in to see Anderson and offered him a part time writing job.

He said the Saturday Evening Post could use one article pef month from the secretary of agriculture, TODAY and TOMORROW Finally would come the "aftermath" feeling, the "We've done more than our share" attitude. It was predicted that this would er men. tt MAIL There has been considerable delay in delivering soldier mail to Europe be accompanied by growing resentment against civilians by distrust ana tne Pacific. of Americas Allies and increased This is due to quick movement of sympathy for the beaten Germans. By WALTER LIPPMANN All these things have now come troops, particularly in the European theater, where the APO "number is to pass.

So this is a good time to take stock. The "morale" of the changed rapidly. volved in Manchurian affairs. For 40 years our government has had A special interest in Manchuria. Once before we were mediator" in Manchuria at the signing of the Russo-Japanese peace treaty irt Portsmouth, N.

in September, 1905. mum The story of Mahchuria 'ill concern steel, gold, coal, aluminum, lumber, wood pulp, fertilizer, soya beans, communication lines, harbors, railroads, heavy industries and innumerable airfields. The political control of the Manchurian railroad may become an international squabble. Among the issues for 1946 will be the administration of the island of Formosa, and of the former Japanese navy base In the Pescadores islands, west Of Formosa. I believe the U.

S. navy should establish a permanent base in th Pescadores for weather and hydro-graphic surveys. Equally important is the need for the U. S. government to establish, weather and radio stations on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

a tt tt The Soviet government will not, I am sure, surrender any of the Ku-rile islands. Kamchatka Or Saghal-in to a joint trusteeship or mandate arrangement Somewhere between these Is- lands in the North racifie and the China coast on the mainland of Asia the U. S. government should maintain a permanent base. Hokkaido, to my mind, would the ideal island for this American defense operation.

Br JAMES R. YOUNG Author of The Road to Tokyo NEW YORK.In my 20 years of covering events in the Far East, I can not recollect any one year which opened with as many economic, military and diplomatic problems as those facing us in 1946 in the Orient. I find many Americans who want to believe that we can be independent of political matters in the Far East, that we are not dependent, economically, on any country in Asia. Factually, we are tied to the Far East by economic promises, secret arrangements, independent guarantees, joint trusteeships, and relief and rehabilitation measures. Thousands of Americans, more than ever in the past, will go to the Orient to direct the fulfillment Of our commitments.

tt tt tt We are partners today with three other nations in administering the bankrupt affairs of Japan. We are bound to a trustee's job in Korea for five years. We have pledged the Japanese government that our military in China will help remove a million of their nationals to their homeland. We are tangled In China's political controversy. We have promised the Filipinos their Independence Ort July 4.

I expect to bear of many political assassinations and plots, coup d'etats, native uprisings, and changes of government accomplished by Violence in 1946. Burma. Siam, Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies are among these trouble areas. I believe we shall become in SOMETHING WELL TO ftEMEMBErt The Articles of War on the subject of expressions by men in uniform toward the secretary of war, and others, are Here is one enunciation of principle from the 62nd Article: "Any officer or enlisted man who uses contemptuous or words against the president, vice president, the congress of the United States," the secretary of war, or the governor or legislature of any state, territory or other possession of the United States in which he is quartered shall be dismissed from the service or suffer such other punishment as a courtmartlal may direct. "Any other person subject to military law who offends shall be punished as a courtmartlal may direct.

Tha 73rd Article says that any person subject to military law who behaves himself with disrespect toward his superior officer shall be punished as a courtmartial may direct. It is well for men in uniform who ar now engaged either in arranging or attending "pro test meetings" about demobilization to realize fully what the Articles of War provide. The meetings to date have been Orderly. Speakers for the Gts rightly lay emphasis oft the preservation of order. Here and elsewhere the commanding officers have allowed freedom of assembly and of speech to an extraordinary and perhaps Uri- precedented extent.

Hickam field, Ft. Shaftef and other arenas are used to stage mass-meetings at which there has been open denunciation of the war department, and caustic criticism of congress and other Constituted authority. This is possible only because the commanding general and Other officers here wish to give the non-coms and enlisted men the greatest possible freedom of expression consistent with the duties and responsibilities of all men Wearing the uniform of the United States. This is a degree of consideration which should evoke from those who arrange the meetings, and those who speak, a like consideration. Observance of the Articles of War in good spirit can be carried out without weakening the protests of indignant, homesick, weary GI who feel that they have been "let down." One speaker at the Hickam massmeeting said: "What we all need to do now is to get together and work thii thing Out." It can be most quickly and happily worked out if personalities be omitted, and principles put first.

'THE CHOICE OF LIFE OR DEATH' This week can go down in history as a turning point in civilization. Or it can be remembered as no different from any other week, when the course of history is reviewed. This week the United Nations organization for International security comes to life in London. At a gathering the representatives of 51 nations, the peace machinery planned at San Francisco last spring was put in motion. Public Interest Is centered in control and use of the atomic bomb as the meetings begin.

But Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Great Britain put the matter correctly when he said, addressing the opening session: "The coming of the atomic bomb wai only the last of a series of warnings to mankind that unless the powers of destruction could be controlled, immense ruin and almost annihilation mould be the lot of most of the highly civilized portions of mankind" The question is not whether the atomic bomb will destroy civilization. That is only the manner of the destruction. The question is whether civilization will be destroyed. Because it is obviously true, on the basis of the destruction in Japan and Germany before the advent of the atomic bomb, that another war would lay waste the great nations of the earth with or without this new weapon. The world can not Stand another war period.

The use of the atomic bomb in another war would simply end the agony more quickly. But the great air fleets, the jelly and gasoline bombs, the V-ls and the V-2s and improved versions of all these and Others would make the destruction effective enough. Mr. Attlee, on a flight of hyperbole, told the delegates they must make the choice between life and death for the peoples of the world. But it is not the delegates who will have the power of deciding.

There is no question but that the delegates will make the right choice. They will set up the machinery according to the agreements made at San Francisco. It is the manner in which this machinery is used, how well it is respected, how carefully its spirit is adhered to, which will decide the issue between life and death for the peoples of the world. The machinery is only as good as the use ta which it is put. And that will depend on the good will of the peoples behind it.

SLAP-HAPPY PAPPY The marital troubles of Col. Gregory Boying-ton, famed marine combat flier, may be due to the effects of his long internment In Japan, the praise, adulation and flattery heaped on him when he got out and got home. Sometimes we think that a national war hero needs a special guardian for a couple of years after he returns to his grateful country. Said grateful country proceeds, to get him into more trouble than ever did the evil enemy. And every slap on the back may be a shove toward the toboggan slide.

A small town is the one where a man has only to be worth about $100,000 to be regarded as a millionaire. Greensboro (Ga.) troops is again a problem though It is not uncommon for a soldier to have two different APO numbers that highly inappropriate word within a period of two weeks. This (Yesterday Mr. Lippmann interpreted the recent foreign ministers' council meeting in Moscow as having dealt only with American-Russian relations. Today he explains the task remaining before British-Russian, French-German and British-French relations can be satisfactory.) hasn been heard much since be is largely because of redeployment fore Pearl Harbor.

and transfer of troops home. The army assures me that it is doing its best to straighten out this and Offered a very juicy fee. mail tangle. But the Secretary of agriculture, now one ef the busiest men in Washington, said be had ho time to w-tite. He gave the Saturday Evening Post ft "rejection slip" of his own.

Note One Of the best pieces of literature written by any Washington official in recent months was Secretary Anderson's guest column for the Washington Merry-Go- Round last summer, in which he found time to express the hope that sbme of the neighborly habits of the Waf, such as" car pools and victory gardens, might be continued in times of peace. Ghosts of the Air-Lost Planes a A research branch of the army's information and education division has been conducting polls of soldier opinion to determine the troops reactions to their current problems. These surveys of opinion have shown for instance that over period of four months the average soldier in Germany develops an increased sympathy for the German people. This leads to fraternization and all its consequences ahd that is what much of the griping is about. Mental seduction of the troops in Germany is considered ft far worse hazard than the other kind.

Mental seduction works in many ways and all the patterns are now familiar to officers who take the mental attitudes of their troops seriously. A soldier's first discovery may be that the Germans have a higher standard of cleanliness and more inside plumbing than in most Euro-pean countries. That, like home here, is a first bohd. Then the former Naii-lndoc-trlnated people may start com paring notes with non-Jewish Americans and they discover many common views and prejudice. German women play on the sympathies of southerners by pleading for protection from Negro troops and so on.

All the old propaganda tricks are pulled out and worked over again. a BYRNES vs. LEAHY Jimmy Byrnes' most vigorous Our Own Poets critic inside the White House is now Presidential Chief of Staff Admiral William Leahy. WHAT WAS DONE AT MOSCOW? II NEW Taking what was achieved and what was not achieved, it is evident, I think, what ought to be Our next important moves in the making of a world settlement. Having reached a working agreement on our own immediate differences with the Soviet union in eastern Europe and in the Far East, we must use our good offices ahd our diplomatic influence to help Great Britain and the Soviet union reach an agreement about Germany, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

The Middle Eastern question is undoubtedly the most difficult. But the German question Is immediately much more important. For if we can settle-the problems of the Ruhr, the Saar and the Rhirteland, depriving Germany of political and military control though not of the industrial resources of that region, the demilitariza tion of Germany will be an accomplished fact. Without the control of Silesia and the Ruhr, Germany can not reariri. Once it is.

certain that Germany can not rearm, there will be no danger and there will be every advantage irt allowing the Germans to set up a central government, and to work out as best they can the consequences of their defeat. Then it will -be possible to scale down military government to a much more modest undertaking, and to reduce the army of Occupation to a size where it can be maintained without difficulty over a period of years. We have every reason, in our own interest and in the general interest, for taking the position that a German settlement should be the next great international business. Without it there Can be no stability in Europe, and no real progress In rehabilitation and reconstruction. Furthermore, while the future of western Germany is in dispute, it will be impossible for Great Britain and the Soviet union to have good relations anywhere, including the Middle East.

For until Great Britain accepts the French View, which is also the Russian view, that Germany is not EULOGY TO A NEWSPAPER When Leahy read the final text nix By GORDON A Book a Day GUMBO YA-YA. Compiled by Lyie Saxon, Edward Dreyer, Robert Tallant. Published by Houghton Mifflin Boston, 1945. 581 pages. Out of the multiplicity of superstitions, ghost lore and folk customs peculair to the racial groups in Louisiana a sparkling picture of the state has been drawn by research workers employed by the works progress administration, Louisiana writers' project, and sponsored by the Louisiana state library commission.

Cajuns, descendants of the Acadians, Creoles, Italians, Irish and Negroes shoulder each other across the crowded stage. Louisiana cookery, Mardi Gras antics, celebrations for various saints' davs. and the mourning customs of the groups prove a fascinating study. In some manner the state has enabled the essential color of each country represented in its history to be retained, and the result should be an irresistible lure for the tourist. tt tt tt Superstitions play a large part In life for the true Louisiana resident.

However, the Negroes are particularly susceptible to this form of group persuasion. They, too, are famous for their wakes held at the side of such prominent community personalities as Sister CordeHa. who "died an unexpected death due to bad symptoms." At one such wake the corpse was eulogized in the phrase "His relatives were many, but his faults few!" of the Moscow communique, he hit the ceiling. He then burned the midnight oil writing a blunt analysis of the Moscow decisions for the (From the Philadelphia Record) Modern man doesn't believe in ghost stories. Did we hear a laught Ghost stories are no laughing matter.

There is ever some truth, somi history, some tragedy behind them all, as we can see from the modem ghost story in the making befor our eyes. tt it tt Five planes take off from F. Lauderdale, Florida. The weather is good. The planes, big navy torpedo bombers, have five hours' gas president.

CHA 3. BA 47-44 II onest reporting of every day's news nly the best, to your readers. you give, ondescript gossip, you firmly refuse, nly fact, and the truth, you let live. ast minute news at the close of He evert went so far as to describe Byrnes' Moscow agreement as a "veritable Munich." He also took Occasion in the same supply. There a radio in each.

Yet all White House memo to chastise Byrnes for the Complete breakdown of liaison between the White House and the state department. five disappear, without a trace. When a big Martin bomier set an Actually the decisions at Mos off in search, that too vanishes, literally, into thin air. cow now have Truman's blessing. nam each day, Itimate plans brought to light.

egitimate items of business and play Unvarnished truth, printed right! imply and clearly, your captions explain he news of each daily sheet A nd confusion, which taxes everyone's brain, esolved are you, to delete. Both Trumah and Byrnes, who But here is a curious sidelight. Army opinion samplers who have studied all these things report that American troops can be mentally had been irritated at each other for weeks, held a love fest aboard the SS Williamsburg, Truman's private yacht, during the New Year week seduced in this fashion, enjoying all the forbidden fruits of fra to be reconstituted with the industrial potential of end, when Truman agreed that Byrnes had taken the only rea ternization, and still believe that the German people are guilty as hell, fully deserving hard and long sonable course with the Russians It doesn't maka sense. It shouldn't be. One plane has often disappeared without trace.

That happened to Amelia Earhart, to Paul Redferrt. And their names are legendary. But five planes at once! That challenges the laws of chance. Odds against five of a suit in a royal flush art 649,740 to 1. a a Odds against five planes disappearing, at once, are far greater.

Add the sixth lost plane, and you can see how those other Strang tales of the sea came down to us, of Ancient Mariner and Flying Dutchman. national punishment. It is on that foundation that morale officers can build their case. and British in the Soviet capital. Admiral Leahy is now saying that Byrnes is trying to have him ousted from the White House, which may be true.

They are perfectly conscious of the tt tt A project such as this is an invaluable contribution to the history of a state. Patient delving among books, and visits to old residents elicit facts and customs fundamental to an. understanding of present day customs, some of which may have seemed responsibility they have in prevent Actually, Leahy has long wanted etter reading as always, youf forty six aim, -U nalloyed news every day. ong awaited peace, this year, we acclaim, iberty's now here to stay! ternally grateful, dear paper, are we hose war years have proved, once again, we pull as a team as men who are free sword can be greater than pen! ing mental seduction of the forces to retire and has talked to Truman about doing so. Each time, how of occupation and they are working ever, the president has urged him against it.

LOST ON OWN FARM to stay on. PAUL, Ida. (U.R) R. G. de Long got lost on his own farm.

He ad a great military power, Moscow and London will find themselves dangerously at odds wherever they meet. And as they meet in innumerable places from the Baltic to the Adriatic and the Aegean to the Persian gulf, the Anglo-Sov4et tension will disturb the whole world. It would hfive been possible, and perhaps more acceptable to many, to put the results of the Moscow meeting less nakedly. But the world needs peace desperately, and policy can not and will not be formed unless we make up ear minds to see starkly and clearly the bare bones of the problem. The basic relations of power must be adjusted if there ii to be a settlement of the war and if the higher structure of collaboration in the United Nations organization is to be given a firm foundation.

Towards this end Secretary Byrnes accomplished more than was expected, having brought away from Moscow a working arrangement which does promise to adjust the relations of Soviet and American power in the two regions where there is serious conflict. Dr. Edwin Sharp Burdell, director, Cooper Union The veteran who learned in war that moral and physical strength was to be gained from being one of a closely knit team can and will provide an additional source of energy for community action. Now the admiral is so upset over our relations with Russia that he would probably like to remain until they are ironed out AWAITING REUNION mitted wryly that he had a con RELOCATION CITY ENDED HEART MOUNTAIN, Wyo. (U.B The third largest populated city in Wyoming, the Heart Mountain relocation center, has been closed following the last trainload of Japanese-American sto leave the center for the west coast.

When this material in all its fascinating detail is presented by competent writers, the result is just such a book as Gumbo Ya-Ya. It proves constantly entertaining and provides laughter and information in a well mixed dish of literary tidbits. struction firm bring in heavy equipment to level off several fields. A dust storm started and, unfamiliar By E. TOM WOLLMANN SKlc, USCG with the new terrain, de Long drove (Dedicated to my darling wife, Anna Hee Wollmann, from her his tractor in a circle for quite awhile before he could see where husband).

The beacon of light some day will shine he was going. STATE DEPARTMENT SABOTAGE A significant off the record meeting took place in the state department shortly after President Truman announced his plan to bring European refugees into the United States by filling up immigration quotas during the remainder of the fiscal year. The meeting consisted of members of the state department's visa To bless the day that we two, our A 56 year old time table just dis that is In my heart wears th cloak of reunion Distance can never dim our memories neither still all of our longings" -To you was the way my heart went, with faith ever as it beacon, love renewed SHOULD BE SATISFACTORY Manager: "Now, I'd like to see your recommendations." Job Seeker: "I don't have exactly what you'd call recommendations, but I was fired by a gyp company for being honest." covered shows there was then My prayers each night for thee to train from Paddington, England, to be in God keeping Bridgewater, faster than any now running. "That with the ipring and hop.