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"TT EDITORIAL MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER SENATE BELITTLES PRESIDENT -r Mfirsholt; Texos.Fridoy Aftembonr January 20, Calling johnson7Bradley onTormosd Is Actotihtfric pf7CcIv.ee QvenTOmdi Li -GovernmenfPays 6enqtors But lt's Folks at Home Who Make Him Eligible ted ttafway bjr" Invading and WALTER LIPPMANN A week from now tht secretary fluence, that ht has not been able to find out what the chiefs of staff thjnk about of defense, Mr. Johnson, and the chairman of; the Joint Chiefs of Har-htrever asked them and destroying the confidential re-lilionship between tht President -and hit cabinet, between tht President and his military advisers. Their advice to the President, like a lawyer'a advlee to lus client, cannot be made a subject of pub- Bradley, art Uj appear before the Foreign JUlationa Com-; been told it it none of his busi ness? If that it whst has happened, It tee of the Senate. They are to it it indeed a scandal that cannot bt remedied except by summon lie debate. To da that is to impair ing the chiefs of staff to glvt pub' the integrity and the discipline of bt interrogated about the-foreign policy of-the United States, It an understatement to sty that this is a remarkable way to run a railroad to invite a cabinet officer to lie testimony.

But unless Sen. Vandenberg has in fact been "denied" tht Information he needs, the ex testify publicly whether he agrees hibition which I being arranged the military estamisnmem ana int constitutional authority and "responsibility of the President; 1 PORTANT ISSUE The matter is Important and no one should be allowed to confuse' the -issne. There is no ouestlon must beIistened to." Both senators say they cannot "reach sound Judgments" without the testimony of tht chiefs of staff which has been "denied" to them. Thin would bt tasler to believe if both senators had not already reached and had hot already loudly delivered their Judgments on the question on which they say Congress lacks tht in-t inatloa to reach sound judgments, VANDENBERG'S JTAND was, however, SedV'Vanden-berg who seems tt havt Cllnehed the demand for the summons. Unlike Knowland and Taft.

he ''has not prejudged the is.ut which he wishes to investigate. Nevertheless, speaking "'with great respect for Sen. Vandenberg. Is tht statement he made in tht Senate, a week ago well considered? "And-so fsr as I am concerned." be said, "I cannot feel that I have 'obtained adequate information in respect to the facta, adopts such an attitude is exceptional. In ifee days when senator -were chosen ByateJegislattirei there-was more substance In -the idea that he must be Rational in his outlook.

iii In those days a senator did not represent IKe people of his state; he represented its government. Today, with senators chosen directly by the people of a 1 state, he knows he must answer to those people-and 'the knowledge bears upon his vote on every question. The federal government may pay his-salary; but it is the folksjat home who make him eligible for the pay, and he can't Igndfe them. The realities of politics prevail against -statesmanship, in the Senate and with the President, to invite a who Is the Pre sldent't military adviser, to say whether he agrees with hi oJ.lheteeretary and of tht chiefs of staff in It it really true that SenYan-denberg cannot find out' what the chiefs of aUff think on this or any other question except by summoning them to glvt public testimony, while, tht wholt -world listens? As a natter of fact Sen. Vandenberg can alwaya and at any time get Information bt needs simply by hsviug a quiet talk with Gen.

Bradley or with anyone elst in the Pentagon whose opinion ht values. Moreover, ht will probably toot get all tht Information he needs and ought to havt by staging a public hearing. For what chiefs of staff can tell Sen. Vandenberg confidentially about tht strategic needs and plans of tht United States, and what they can afford to tell tht wholt world, Including tht Soviet and the-Chinese poUt-buros, are not necessarily or probably the tamer Sen. Vandenberg Is absurdly modest when he depicts himself as so unimportant, so bereft of In- In' thr Senate" at ashinsrton IjV there was a brie discussion of an old question.

For whom does a senator" Interests should he consider paramount, those of the country as a whole or those of the state which elects him? Probably there are many senator who don't let such questions trouDie thens very They giVe due ihought to the national interest, when it doesn't clar with that of their home states, but If there fa a conflict, It Is the'sUte which comes first, -rThere are students of government who hold that this Should not be; that the national' interest should supersede; that of any state. But the senator1 who that responsible Senators like Van-; for Jan. 28 will bt a gross and unnecessary violation of '(he spirit and the Usages of the Constitution. If It allowed to pass unchallenged and to become a precedent, It will mfllct-a grave in-Jury -7 both on tht fundamental principle of civilian supremacy and on tht integrity of the military According to Knowland, who initiated the reason for summoning the cabinet officer and tht general Is that, the Congress hat beta "denied information to which It It entitled and upon which It could base (Its) Judgments." According to Sen. Taft, "the strate gic importance of Formosa is a vital factor in tht determination the testimony of tbt de of tht Formosan policy; and obviously the Joint Chiefs of Staff fense establishment in general, and Rep: Potman's Coinage Proposal denberg and Taft have a ngr to be fully informed.

There is no evidence that they havt been denied ii the Information they want But if they still lack all the in-, formation they they need, then the question how they are to be Can they be informed, as they have always been before, by informal and confidential discussion? Or must they hfcve public testimony and a public cross-examination? I should think thst Senator Vandenberg, who it not on a political binge, would prefer to make up his mind by knowing all about the subject privately rather than a little about it publicly. For he must realize that in a public bearing of this kind, the" witness, if he deals fully with the subject, will have to make disclosures -which are against the public interest; and If the witness does not deal fully with the subject, then his testimony will certainly be inadequate and probably misleading. (Copyright, 1950, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) UrKAC A I CkIT Theater Makes nUlYlC I ALCIN Bid as National Hobby establishment. STRANGE POSITION For what the Senatt-Viropos-Ing to do la to summon a military commander to about a decision taken by his duly elected and lawful civilian superior. Where does that leave the President and the Chiefs of Staff? It puts them on notice that whenever the CNefs of Staff are called in to advise tht President, which is continually in the field of foreign affairs, they may expect to be summoned later to give a public accounting ofihe advice they gave the President.

Therefore tht President cannot count on receiving, and the chiefs of staff cannot afford to give, advice except the kind of advice which can be published to the world and can withstand cross-examination by the senstors. Advice of that kind Is not likely to be the best advice. Government cannot be conduc vide the coin into fourths, each being the equivalent of two bits. And so it came to pass that one used, and spoke of, a piece of money that didn't exactly 1 Everybody knows what two-bits is, but nobody has ever seen a bit, in money. If Itep.

Patman has his way, the bit, an eighthof a dollar, will become part of our coinage; likewise, the half-bit, six and a quarter cents. He has introduced a bill to authorize such coins. In the early days in the Southwest, the peso, then equivalent to the dollar, a widely used exist. four-bits, six-bits, for 25 cents, 50 cents and 75 cents, respectively. While it is logical enough to create a bit-coin, one can't help feeling that it would do things to the consumer.

The seller of nickel products would be tempt-. ed to raise the price to a half-bit, if his present margin of profit is slim. There coin. As there' was no Mexican coin of smaller" denomination; folks provided fractional currency by frrctioniring the peso, cutting it into eight parts, called bits. It proved handier, later on, to di are dime products which would be up-ped to a bit.

The new coinage would have a certain convenience, but it would present temptations. TEXAS TODAY Costs Force High CURRENT ISSUES Rails to Cut Trains Magazine Rack LAWMAKERS IN ACTION What Texans Say in 1950 be better than In 1949. The national Income ill exceed $210 billion. Pricei will be stable. There will not be much change In living costs.

There will be a slight upward clisnge In wages. Farm pricei will certainly bt firm for the first six months In 1950. If there Is an extraordinarily goodcrop In the latter part of 1950 prices might dip a little but not much. Vou understand, of course, that this forecast is only one man's opinion based on his own survey of facts and conditions at this time. It Is far from infallible." Congressman Wright Patman.

passenger train, you, 4emporarily at least, lose the god will of Uiat part of the public which does not understand. "In figuring the income versus outgo on the South Plains train we figured its expenses only on out-of-pocket costs, such as wages, tv- An th wuti umnlles and By WILLIAM C. BARNARD' AMeeutid Pnu Suit Why are more and more railroads applying for permission to drop branch line passenger service? There are many reasons. Take the case of the Texas South Plains train operated for the past two TEACH! NC stage love, director in center tells hqw. JACKS of pl trades, members of amateur theater groups build their own scenery and paint flats for settings.

nrbs are fairly typical. They are i By 10YD BRADY CHICAGO, Ufi The amateur aecaoes oy on eons aww Uperjiting repairs. didn't con- THE NEW YORKER. Lillian Rosa profiles the garment Industry's wonder boy, Henry Rosen-feld. who hss also been called the Henry ford of dresses and the Christian Dior from tht Bronx.

Rosenfeld Is described by Mist Ross as a tall, cherubio looking fellow, an extremely mild-mannered employer anxious to be loved by everyone and widely admired in the Industry. He takes frank pride in being a self-made millionaire but still finds it hi rd noLta feeLawed Uonaires, she finds. "Henry Is the most naive man In a business of sharp characters. His word Is better than most written contracts." she quotes a manufacturer. His chief salesman vows, "If Henry told me, 'Marty, go In the middle of Broadway and lay down and let four buses run over you 1 would do It tor him." Much of his success, the story Indicates, Is due to his affability as well as a the Theater of Western Springs, ver City Railway tubslditrrofth sider sucrrthinssTrs Todbedrnin- theater has crept up almost to the atatus of a national hobby.

In virtually any Community of the traditional road show these days. But in the plact of the stock companies have sprung the amateur community theaters. Th i productions rsnge from the more advanced forms of drama, such as Jean Paul Sartre, to- the purely ham type of thing such as "Aunt Semanthy Rules the Roost." Largely, however. the active tenance and station upkeep. I "But it continued to be.

a losing proposition. When you put a train on the track, state law says, it has to have a crew of four and wages are high. A bus might carry more pas- 5,000 or more you can find an ac tive amateur drama club which will stage anywNert from one to IV productions annually usually I sengers ON MANY SUBJECTS -LCol umn i sts JWxiiel over weekends. The actors are sll. shrewd understanding of the amatinrrsnieoWrviri full group does warmed over Jobs on the side, but who find in I Brdway.

"Lift with Father" is Burlington line. The Hrain, No. 101-102, runs daily, except Sunday on a -round trip through Childress. Turkey, Quitaque, Lockney, South Plains, Sterley, Barwise, Petersburg, Dlmmitt, Plalnvlew and Lubbock. Tbfra Texas Railroad Commission for authority to abandon the line because operating costs exceeded revenue.

A hearing will be set. "Give us the lowdowh on why you want to abandon the South Plains train after all these we asked Robert L. Hoyt of Fort Worth, general passenger agent for Burlington lines of Texas. Here's what he said: "Any railroad hates to abandon any passenger service and will do 27 years old, the Naperville Drama Club, andjhe Elmhurst playing In the aummer. Their prices, stemming from low costs inherent in amateur operations, are in the range where they are competitive with movies.

Napervill for- examprerTOIJa four-show aeason for $2 50 cents a show. Western Springs wells only on season basis, $10 for four shows for two people. Elmh urst gets SI per admission on season ticket basis. Their communities respond to this process. Western Springs attracts 5,000 persons In a season.

Elmhurst's total audience is similar; Naperville, younger in point of concentrated activity, draws a totla otJ JOOr. a substantial gain from ita starting point. dramatics their fun and a few other things, It is a hobby, but there aren't any sure-fire estimates as to its extent. A few educated guesses "In forming an Asian policy It Is of crucial importance that we should not concentrate our efforts upon emergencies at the front line (as In China). In the long run the main issues In Asia will be decided In the countries where the main power in Asia resides in Turkey pre-eminently for the Middle East, In Pakistan and India for Southern Asia." -Walter Uppmann.

among popular plays. Even "The Male Animal" of the mid-30s is still being played. Take the Chicago area for example. There the amateur theater is in direct competition with the professional stage, which had 3C shows in the Loop last sesson. Yet more than 100 active groups csn be counted in the Chicago area.

They produced an estimated 300 Three of these groups In the suh- and the guessers freely admit thy're guessing indicate the statistical picture. Christopher Sergei, vice- presi lKLonJy wbeaJMservlceontinues TODAY'S TOPICS Quote Unquote The watchword of today, which la simultaneously the supreme basic principle of the foreign policy of the German Democratic Republic, 1st Friendship forever with the people the Soviet Union. Soviet Foreign Minister- Andrei Vlshln-sky. Censorship under any conditions has obvious drawbacks. Try to ban kids from a certain movie and they'll do anything to sneak in.

Top U. S. propagandist George V. Allen. dent of the Dramatic Publishing Cehr-ot Chicago second of 35 companies supplying plays to the smaieur market provides this clue: to lose money.

When you drop a it. Since 1940 operating expenses have increased 95 per cent. "Airlines have improved. And sir.ee 1940, construction of fins highways and airports at the expense of taxpayers has been tremendous. In the South Plains area served by our train, there are about 100,000 people.

And, believe it or not, Ihere are now 61,000 registered motor vehicles for that same area." "What'a the solution," we asked Hoyt. a sturdy man of 48. railroader- "3 years. "Can you think of a plan to financially permit operation of branch line railroads." "Sure," he said. "The Budd Co.

is now putting out a one-unit, diesel-electric car for passengers, mail and brggage, Change the state law to allow one or two men to operate a little branch train of this kind. Then persuade the union brotherhoods to reduce its wage scale in keeping with the decreased work and responsibilities on such a train. And then you'd have a branch line railroad that would 7l i Ti" I I "We send out 400.000 catalogs to our complete mailing list. That BOYLE'S NOTEBOOK Includes approximately 30,000 schools and another 20,000 or so churches, labor unions, profession EDITORIAL OPINION The Press Speaks THE NEWSWORTHY USUAL CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Cyros S. Chlng, the towering chief of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, has Joined the good company of those who view statistics with a al little theatres, and so on." The bulk of the others go to drama clubs! Barret Clark, of Women Would Put Men in Their Place-And They Wear Skirts Dramatists Play Service, estimates annual productions st more than 5OQ00O.

Some people HEARD ON THE RADIO put it as high as 1,000.000. And ikentifil the scene from the they art iwcrnnirtai as gat flie-etrg-Bcrg- whose company is more than 0 years old, says his business has A wrap- around skirt of plaid silk. A collarless suit with a sewn-ln shirt dickey. Berets with colorful sunburlt shown an Increase every jesr including depression. This widespread movement of live drama gains Increasing Im-portancs when compared with what has happened to the, profes equally lofty height of bis lung experience, he opines, tn effect, that statistics can tell how much and how msny, but nut what or why.

More specifically, ha believes that the number of strikes and man days lost provide but a "crude standard of measurement" and "no reliable indication of Improvement or of labor management relations. And he la convinced these art improving. Those who think otherwise, he says, "do not see the present clearly and tlther havt forgotten the past or never knew IC patterns. Shoulder-strap leather handbags I would be the last to underesti By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK There is a new theory that men ought to spend less time chasing skirts and more time wearing them. Yep, that's right, fellows, S-K-I-R-T-S for men instead of T-R-0 q-SfE-R-S.

Naturally this idea didn't come from a man. It was cooked up by a group of high-priced lady designers. They were asked by the Jimmy Durante: Why, I play tht piano better than Jascha Helfeti. Lurene Tuttle: But Heifeti plays tht violin. Durante: I knpwj I made It so hot for him he" had to take up another Instrument.

Milton Berlt reported that Princess Elisabeth's year -old son, Charles, has spoken his first two words: "Lend lease," sional stage. The American Na-j mate the power of women. But if the man of the future is ever in tion. As every woman knows, the biggest thing wrong with men is the way they dress as much alike as polka dots. Or, as Designer Lily Dache crisply put it: "It's a "good thir that they put tags on men at conventions to tell them apart" Well.

If men. start wearing what these, fashion experts dreamed up for them they won't need to wear tags. They will probably be caught In nets and pinned on boards like butterflies. Among other Items, the girls suggested Jackets of pale yollow doeskin with big, big button. duced to go about in this' attire, I Perplexing Sheep From tht Sheffield (England) Weekly Tele-rph.

The clothing manufacturer complained that business difficulties kept htm awake, "Try to forget them." advised a friend. "Count sheep." Next day the wakeful one looked a wreck. "Didn't sleep a wink," he said. "I counted 50.000 sheep. Then I Sheared them and made up overcoats.

1 had to spend the rest of the night asking myself. 'Where can I get 30,000 linings?" have no hesitancy in predicting what the woman of the future will look like, Sh will wear pin tlonal Theater and Acad rriiy (ANT.M In New York reports the Broadway stage is its pre depression size approximately 30 active theaters Instead of 72. Equity, the actor's un I n. reports 90 per cent unemployment among Its members. Only about 30 major cities across the nation get shows last aeason.

costume Institute of the Metro stripe suit' trousers and a double-breasted Jacket and IN THE NEWS MESSENCER politan Museum of Art to figure out what the man of tht future ought to derby hat. She will also chew to bacco and spit through ber teeth, and only her mother will love ber. The ladies leaped a tthe sugges Yesteryear Marshal Iin4he YearsrPast BABSON BUSINESS REPORT Ad Campaigns to Interest Investors Boom to Wall St. State Park Board as a site for a state park, hat been accepted by the board, according to word reaching Marshall and upon the adoption by the legislature of tht park board measure recommended by ex-Gov. Pat M.

Neff, measures will be taken to convert, tht piacrnnto a recrea-tionIround. The offer of tht land at Caddo Lake was made upon tht visit hrrejlast month of tht board, and the (deal location tht property was tht favorable comment of all. tht board members at tht time. Five Years Ago The board of supervisors of the Harrison Cnun? ty Soil Conservation District agreed that no lines would be run on district cooperatort farms for terraces having no suitable outlets. Harold Brown, tenor soloist with the Radio Station WFAA and tht First Methodist Church in Dallas, is to be presented in concert In Marshall Monday night by the Marshall Music Club.

After the concert a reception will be held at tht home of Mrs. Robert Barber with Mrs. W. T. demons as hostess.

Ten Year Ago Homer "Trice said "My philosophical friend nays: 'How much worse it would bt if wt were born old and had to look forward to growing young and silly." A total of 14,612 fruit trees and berry plants, an Increase of approximately ,000 over the number purchased last year, have been ordered by Harrio4 County farmers la the first shipment to Forty-Mine YeotV-Ago---- new stock Issues. Very little attention was given to continue investors Interest In these Issues after they- were once sold. Hence, the market declined and Investors often were compelled to take I they heeded to sell. Almost no money was spent to Interest Investors in standard issuct which. for many years, have paid dividends and had a ready market NEW ERA 1 Now all' this has changed, at the earnest solicitation of Emll By ROGER BABSON-BABSON PARK, Fla.

A very revolutionary event Is taking place on Wall St. It is one reason for the belter stock market which we sieeIy'iaeWjotdU-'ltecJ the new dvertising campaigns of conservative, banks and stock exchange firms. FINANCIAL ADVERTISING From the early yajr of the New York Stock Exchange up te 19-9, most financial advertising was of one two classes: Large Splashing ads of new issues; or and words of one or two syllables. (This developed experts In advertising. There then were very few advertising agencies.) (3) The products advertised must be worthy, obtainable everywhere and sell "at" a CONTINUOUS ADVERTISING As I read these new financial advertiements, I think they conform 'to Mr.

Curtis' rules tl and I2. They surely have a "new look" and if continually improved. Should bring good "But" as Mr. Curtis would say "advertising to be successful must be continuous MiUions be advertisements are written in simple language which every reader can understand. Some have been prepared by expert ad writers and art pulling good results.

All this is very revolutionary. It has never happened before since the stock exchange "was started In 1791 This new policy has great WHAT CURTIS TAUGHT When I was a young -man I worked for the Saturday Evening Poet which then had a small-circulation and very little-advertising. At that time "national advertising" Was almost unknown. ArHenry-FoTd iartbf father" of not promise a fixed price for their wares. But they can talk only of security, income and marketability, making no reference to "profit I go further arid say tand this' is very Important) advertising- paign a success," the stock exchange must stabilize -prices and eliminate the big gyration for which the exchange has always been blamed.

This, more- over, can be done. The must Is that these firms cannot succeed by 'advertis-ing only in the big city newspaper. The idle money safe in-vestmefiTvmhgacd income can best be found tn small cities and The fame of the Highland Lake Fishing Club has gone abroad, even unto the Holy Land, as witnesseth the following: "Palestine. Jan. IS.

1901, C. A. Price. Marshall. Texas.

Dear Sir: The members of the Highland Lake Fishing Club are cordially invited to attend the annual oyster roast to be given at Crystal Lake by the Palestine Fishing aub. TuesdaV. Jail. 23. 1901 JTay lor" we havt heard it whispered that this Pales- Schram the able new New York Stock Exchange president.

Many onEese tTinj "Tiub "is eottdTOfitr wnntausw-uft' MrBmwomtrvt Uonal agriculture teacher at the high school, Hand Fishing Club oftwhich Bill Coyle, Bob Adair tost in advertising as welt as mass production, so my friend Cy or sioca exenange memoer iirms. The big ads were knocked out by the Stcuritiesifnd-Exfhange Cpni nnd-Btlr-McGarywtrt --Ufa mtmbert. and 1t rur-Curtia was the frttaiHit4Jl by-getting Even magazines cannot curtailing Just befort reaching' the members are putting out attrac-tive adscatiihg atteaUejrlo the "great "large th-comes'Vand "remarkable securv ty'r thata family wfttr-onty few hundred dollars" caa find among the established stocks already listed -on the" exchange. Let mt add that most of Building tn Marshall took sudden upturn here Saturday with the filing of a 171,000 permit for construction work at the local post office which tent the total for the three weeks of tht month to Twenty-Five Yean Ago The 13) acid titer Caddo Lake, offered to the Uonal advertising. These were: The ads must tell what the product-can do for-the readers.

(Most Of the advertising 6f that day merely glorified the concern well known that tht acceptance tf aa Invitation from that. club meant a week off. and aeother week to rest up. If this invrtatien-la accepted, we shall Insist upon a chaperene being tent along to look after Uncle Tom Whaleyv Mr A. S.

Feild, W. J. 04 borough Ind seme of the other younger members. mission after the 1929-32 The dlgnified'card' advertising has tended to die out because-of lack of returns. Another thing: Up to recently 90 per cent" oft the financial advertising was to get people to buy reach these "grass roots" pro- spective investors.

Women can be reached by magaiines. but, 'ht men who -control the family in-ves'm inl policy can best be reach- ed through small daily 'and weekly newspaper. Jackpot- --8 IMPORTANT-WARNINGS- Mr. Curtis' rule (3) meant, that the product must have a "stable market and, if possible, a fixed Stock. Exchange firms can doing the (2) The must be of short sentences adtjmu.