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MAR. 7, 1947. 10 DOROTHY THOMPSON declares it is: i VI if Des Moines Tribune Published every day except Sunday by TTe Register and Tribune 713-715 Locust ies Moines, la. Here! Still Too Early to Ratify Treaties With Axis Powers L6t GORDON GAMMACK -J Sl'BSCRIPTlON RATK8. BT MATI.

IN IOWA Tribune, one year, Sunday Register, one year, payable In advance. BT MAIL OUTSIDE OF IOWA Tribune, one year. $12: Sunday Register, on year. payable In advance. ONE OF THE STORIES GOING THE rounds concerns a man who took out NEW YORK, N.

Y. The president, General fire insurance on a box of cigars. Marshall, former Secretary of State Byrnes, smoked them, saved the stubs and then filed and apparently Senator Vandenberg, all urge claim for fire destruction with the insur FEBRUARY CIRCULATION, NET PAID. Daily Register and Tribune ...363,770 Pally Register 212,748 Dally Tribune 151,024 Sunday Des Moines Register 476,509 immediate ratification of the treaties with the Axis ance company. 1 lie case went to court, th man proved his point and the court awarded satellite states Italy, Hun him a judgment.

But then the insurance "It is my opinion Yugoslavia will hesitate to take such action as to the international territory under the control of the United Nations. She will realize that there Is a difference between encroaching on the territory of a defeated enemy state that has been disarmed and encroaching upon the free territory of Trieste." That means that the aim of the internationalization of Trieste is not to protect the Yugoslavs against the Italians but the Italians gary, Rumania and Bulgaria. company turned around and filed suit against It may seem presumptuous la Des Moines. DsIIt Register and Tribune Sunday Register .111,604 63.168 the man for arson. And the Insurance company won Its case, too.

to express any doubt, how ever humbly, whether this counsel is wise. Member of Tbe Associated Press. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It In this papr and of all local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter published In this newspaper are also reserved. None of our statesmen de HEAR THAT IN ONE OF THE VET- erans hospitals in the midwest a couple of employees pick up some small change I against the Yugoslavs.

And there is a difference" between attacking a disarmed selling liquor to the patients at $9.50 a bot ex-enemy state and any other form of state. tle Double feature at Redfield: "IT'S fends these treaties in principle. They are quite unable to do so. They defend them as President Roosevelt defended the Yalta agreement, with a wry face, as the best The Lewis Decision. what is that difference? Can the one be committed with impunity? GREAT TO BE YOUNG" and "IN FAST COMPANY" Twin sisters, Dorothy and Doris Sheldahl, are graduate nurses at Iowa Lutheran hospital and are both from the If so, disarmament an Invitation to con MISS THOMPSON.

we could get. They defend quest. town of Sheldahl. WAR TACTIC. The tactic of World War III, into which we NCI IF YOU ARE ONE OF are already sinking, is not to send armies I across the frontiers of another country in an Identical male twins, you can drive a barber batty.

First one goes in for a badly obvious act of aggression. needed haircut 'r gets one and departs. Theu the second twin enters the shop with equally shaggy hair; tells the barber he didn't do a Rood job the first time and to try a train. them as "realpolitik," that German concept of politics which has become universalized, CO-OPERATION. The secretary of state urged ratification that his hand should be strengthened in Moscow.

He argued that the principal provisions of the treaties were based on recommendations of the conference of Paris adopted by a two-thirds vote, aid that "this is the kind of co-operation which we must encourage if we are to build enduring peace." But the peace treaties of 1919 represented just this kind of co-operation, based on struggles of interest among the victors, divorced from any principles including those of Woodrow Wilson. Those treaties did not bring enduring peace. And these, more completely divorced from the Atlantic Charter than the 1919 treaties were from the Fourteen Points, are worse The Supreme Court decision upholding the sentence for contempt of court against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers ia not clear-cut despite its eeven-to-two majority. And like many crucial decisions during periods when our social philosophy is in transition, this decision may raise as many questions as it settles.

The most important issue was whether the Norris-La Guardia act of 1932 und the War Labor Disputes act of 1943 denied courts the right to issue injunctions in this kind of case. Here the decision was five to four. Justices Vinson, Reed, Burton, Black and Douglas said No. Justices Jackson, Frankfurter, Murphy and Rutledge said Yes. For the justices who thought injunctions not permissible, another question had to be decided.

That was whether, in refusing to obey a court order which these Justices consider illegal, Lewis was nevertheless guilty of contempt of court. Justices Jackson and Frankfurter an LIKE THE OBSERVATION IN THE New Yorker magazine by E. B. White who, in commenting on the conviction I Instead, it is to give political and armed support to factions within a country after it has been weakened to the point where no government can command authority-weakened by measures conducive to economic breakdown, misery, despair and consequent anarchy. The San Francisco charter provides no means of dealing with this kind of aggression, though the recent war started that way.

It has not. the means because it has failed to establish any law of nations governing their permissible dealings with each other. The danger to Italy is not a direct Yugo of Homer Loomis of Columbians, infamy, said that in this country you can get a stiffer sentence for trying to set a back house on fire than for trying to set the world on fire And White also observe than the former treaties were much worse, OMINOUS. Former Secretary Byrnes went into the matter farther, describing the situation in Venezia Giulia. What he said was more om swered this question Yes.

They reasoned that even when a legal question is in doubt, With the Rest of the World As It Is By Shoemaker. The Register and Tribune. Syndicate. the court has the right to restrain the ac that ridicule Is the "Angostura In the glass of speech." IN CONNECTION WITH THAT ATROCI-ty about Richard not being able to open the door because he was a Harvard man and It was a Yale lock, Vic Jones of the Boston Globe informs me that most of the locks in the Harvard dormitories are specially made Yale locks with the name left off. Also, to phone about half the people connected with Harvard you have to dial ELI (for Eliot, the former Harvard prexy).

OH, THE WOES OF BEING A BIG-TIME football coach. Coach Ray Elliott of the Rose Bowl Illinois Big Nine champs was given a spanking new auto. One night acid was thrown all over it, ruining the paint job. Elliott had that fixed and then some DAVID LAWRENCE says: tions of those involved until the matter is settled. A defendant does not have the right, they said, Just to ignore the court's orders.

slav assault on Trieste, but Yugoslav support to comrade Togliatti and his party-success for such support heightened by Italian chaos. The treaty will not lift that chaos. And what Mr. Byrnes said was an admission of being forced to circumvent a threat of aggression. It is a bad way to start an enduring peace.

Were the times other than they are; were there such a thing as common sense, no treaties would be ratified until all could be considered together. The treaties with the Axis satellites will be relatively good or bad only in the light of the German and Austrian treaties. Until one sees the whole picture, it is impossible to exercise sound judgment. inous than encouraging. "We were compelled to choose between Internationalizing Trieste or having no agreement at all.

Nationals of Yugoslavia were moving into the city. It Is probable that there would have been rioting. Then Yugoslavia would declare it necessary to quell the rioting on its border and would send troops to Trieste." Therefore, they concluded, Lewis and his un ion were guilty of contempt anyway. Congress Not to Blame for G.O.P. Drop in Public Favor Justices Murphy and Rutledge didn't think so.

They reasoned that if a court order is illegal, then a party who ignores the order rnereiore, Jugoslavia was threatening a cannot be guilty of contempt. repetition of the Hitler tactics in the points in the months between February and one went after the car with a glass cutter. Sudetenland exactly. WASHINGTON, D. The latest Gallup poll affords an opportunity for both Republicans and Democrats to do a bit of self- November during 1946, there can be equally wide fluctuations in the 21 months between Other opinions concerning the size of the THOMAS L.

STOKES reports: now and the presidential election. 9 G.O.P. Leaders Seek to Keep Rubber Purchasing Program If there Is an economic "recession," for example, It will most certainly hurt the Truman cause. This Is because the record of Truman encouragement to labor unions to demand the same pay that was paid for regular work weeks plus overtime during wartime as compensation for less ing hours in the postwar period threw the whole economic system into Its present imbalance. fc "More pay for less work" is an easily examination.

For It shows that the Democrats, if the presidential election were held today, would get 51 per cent of the vote and the Republicans 49. This shift from last November, when the percentage" was 45 Democratic and 55 Republican, is somewhat of a surprise to the Republicans, but it is even more surprising when it i3 noted that the climb upward occurred almost entirely before the Republicans took messing up the windshield and all the windows The most widely used machine in the United States Is not the telephone, the auto or the refrigerator but the pump. The national pump population right now is 100 million The patients at Veterans hospital here want to get their hands on two particular records "The Rose That Grows in No-Man's-Land" and "A Baby's Prayer At Twilight." Anybody got them? POLICEMEN JOE COUCH AMI) Charles Jordan of the Des Moines po-llco juvenile bureau were out trying to spot places which sell beer to minors. They stopped a 19-year-old emerjring from a Second ave. grocery store with what appeared to Ixi a sack of beer.

It was beer all right-root beer. fine and the procedure of the lower court were expressed, but these were of minor Importance. Here are some other questions which the Supreme Court decisions raised: Should the Justices of the Supreme Court take into account the letter of the law merely, or also the social significance of the case? The justices divided on this. To what extent should the Supreme Court take into account "the intent of The Justices divided on this matter, also. Does congress have the right to "legislate away" the government's power to do what it considers necessary to preserve the stability of society? Evidently Justices Rutledge and Murphy think it does.

For, while implying WASHINGTON, D. Republican party policy, in the last congress, in the last campaign, and in the new Republican congress, understood slogan. The revolt of the teachers and other workers today who are trying Shafer have revealed that this is opposed generally in the administration, from President Truman through the War and Navy departments and down to other agencies that have to do with rubber. The fight for the Arends bill on behalf of rubber companies Is being led by three big companies -Goodrich, Goodyear and U. S.

Rubber corporaaion which in the last few days have brought pressure on LAWHEMli. has been to do away as rapidly as possible with all war controls. But this policy, it turns out, has its Inconsistency. While it applied to OPA and other controls, abolition of which has sent prices al- to meet with their meager fixed incomes the prices forced by labor union leaders in 1945 and 1946 is going to be recognized as one of the many effects of our economic imbalanceJ RECESSION. control of congress in January.

Thus, the Democrats had the better of it on a 55-to-45 basis in February 1946 and gradually (slumped downward to the low point in November 1946 when they had 45 per cent of the vote, according to the poll. Then the Democrats regained their strength ft most out of sight, some Re 1 iHk fckifchWf ABOUT A WEEK AGO PHOTOGRA-pher Jervis Baldwin of Des Moines was visiting in Monterrey, Mexico. He was stopped by a couple trying to get into a photograph shop who asked him if he spoke English. They were from Cedar Rapids. While getting a bawling out from a policeman for parking in a Monterrey taxi zone, another car pulled in behind Baldwin and congressmen Dy personal contact, a manner not seen around the capitol for a long time.

The Firestone company favors an end to the government purchase program. So do rubber brokers. The high price level can be traced directly to the impetus given wage increases immediately after VJ-day by President Truman, who urged that prices be held down while wages were increased. The recession or depression, if it comes in 1947 as so many of the economists are predicting, or even early publicans find justification to continue controls sought by a large segment of one big powerful private industry. A bill sponsored by Rep.

Arends house Repub STOKES. almost immediately after the election and by January had reached a 50 per cent figure. Only one point has been added since the Republican congress came into being early in January. got the same treatment. He was a Mr.

Leaf SYNTHETIC. The administration wants the government to get out of the rubber purchasing business, NEGATIVE VOTE. that the situation arising from the coal strike was of the utmost gravity, they nevertheless followed what they considered to be the meaning of the law. When the War Labor Disputes act expires on June 30, does the government need further legislation to cope with industrial disputes which threaten the public welfare? We are currently discovering that many matters which we used to consider private affairs are the concern of the entire nation for example, the right of lockout and Btrike in key industries. If we curb these rights, what kind of safeguards can we devise in their place? These are long-run fundamental questions which cannot be solved by hasty or vindictive legislation.

As a people we have not yet thought these things through. We have not yet compiled the information and experience which we need for straight thinking. We have begun asking the right questions, however. Here is one of the important bits or "home work" before the American people. The Democrats may see in this gain prior lican whip, with the private support of the house party leadership, would continue the government rubber purchasing program, through the Rubber Development corporation of RFC, until congress has studied the rubber situation, but not beyond March 31, next year.

RUBBER LOBBY. Hearings before a house armed services committee subcommittee, headed by Rep. to January confirmation of the belief of some in 1948, will unquestionably lead to a nationwide debate as to the responsibility for the downward trend. Undoubtedly there will be some unemployment, too. The recession can, of course, be avoided.

A substantial increase in productivity by labor and a willingness on the part of labor to help write fairness into the labor laws would do much toward creating a new spirit of enterprise in America. It is to everybody's interest to prevent an economic recession and the country is not of their experts that the November election was a negative operation and that it was a as provided by law, on March 31, and let private companies do the buying themselves. At the same time it favors continued allocation of rubber by the government for a time so there is a fair distribution. Such a solution is provided in a bill by Rep. Crawford also before the committee, which was endorsed by numerous government officials.

ACTION vote against governmental controls and espe cially against restrictions on the sale of meat which affected every householder. from Marshalitown. A few minutes later ia a curio shop, Baldwin bumped into three girls from Des Moines. When my wife's down in the dumps, She buys herself a hat, no less; And the way some of them look, That's where she gets them, I guess. Ken Rollins, Guthrie Center.

IOWA HIGHWAY PATROLMEN THOMAS Elliott and Lawrence Dickinson were patrolling near Winterset (in Madison county about 35 miles southwest of Des Moines) when they saw a dog in a furious fight with a 'coon in a ditch. The dog killed the coon and walked off nonchalantly (if that's what dogs do). "Wonder why he did that?" asked Elliott. Must bo because coons are out of season and he doesn't want to get In trouble with the law," quipped Dickinson. It will be recalled that President Truman, in the middle of the campaign, began lift READERS SAY: in controls but didn't get them all lifted concerned witn what faction benefits politically by avoidance of an economic upset.

The Democrats will derive the biggest ad soon enough to turn the tide. He kept on removing various controls in November and December, and in this way corrected the sit vantage from such a contingency, but it remains to be seen whether 16 years of Demo- Poor Recovery Record. Typical was the endorsement in a letter from Secretary of War Patterson who wrote that the Crawford bill "establishes all controls needed to maintain our synthetic rubber industry In a reasonably healthy condition until congress has had an opportunity to study the entire rubber problem." Rep. Lyndon Johnson who has uation that was alienating many Democratic votes. To the Editor ot The Tribune: cratio rule in the White House will of itself bring a demand for a change in November, It is reported that 55 per cent of the pa 1948.

(Reproduction Rights Reserved.) tients committed to Iowa's insane institutions are discharged as cured and 45 per cent die. directed the fire against the Arends bill in This is no doubt a poor record, yet it is better ELEANOR ROOSEVELT discusses: committee, expects to take the fight to the floor. Committee action is imminent, with than many of us who knew anything about it realized. likelihood of a decision today. A few years ago they were sending inebri CONSERVATIVE SHIFT.

But it is possible also to find another potent reason for the rise in Democratic strength last December. This was the time of the coal strike. President Truman handled the situation with a firm hand and filed court proceedings against John L. Lewis a step that undoubtedly Increased Mr. Truman's popularity.

In fact, everything that Mr. Truman has done since the election in November has seemed to favor the conservative rather than the radical side. ates, dope users and criminals to these hos COSTLY PROGRAM. Numerous witnesses testified that there la Interesting Experiments in Obtaining Freedom of Press pitals as insane and the majority of discharges were of this type of patients which leaves the percentage of discharge of true no reason, national security or otherwise, for the government to continue the purchase of mental patients very low. John Blodgett, I 4, Box 181, Moines.

rubber. Politics in Wisconsin. I Howard J. McMurray, a former professor cf political science at the University of Wisconsin, resigned his job last year to run for the United States senate and was defeated. He formerly wa3 a Democratic member of the house of representatives.

Now the university board of regents has refused to reappoint him, although the po- litical science department, the division of tvxial science, the dean of the College of Li tters, and Pres. E. B. Fred had all recommended re-lnstatement. The board of regents instructed the political science department to look for another man.

The department retorted that it had canvassed the field and that McMurray was best fitted for the Job. But the board again rejected McMurray. The local chapter of the American Association of University Professors wrote a report protesting the action. PORTLAND, ORE. At a dinner Wednesday evening, a newspaper owner told me about his plan for a free press.

He evidently Good Radio Program. This may mean that his gains are from the ranks of Certainly Mr, To the Editor ot The Tribune: thinks that no press can bo free except as its owners In these times of trashy radio programs Truman has not been giving much comfort to the "left wingers" either in his policies Government purchase, they contended, results In higher prices, poorer grades of rubber, as well as administrative expenses, warehouse fees and demurrage, losses through depreciation, and the possibility of loss to the government if there should be a break In the rubber market all of this costly to the taxpayer. The purchasing program for the next quar make it free and, on his for children may I recommend an excellent program heard over a Des Moines station or his appointments. FUTURE CHANGES. small paper in Vancouver, he is trying an experiment of joint ownership in which at 9:15 a.

m. on Saturdays. We of the Windsor school area feel that this program is a step forward in our desire for good children's radio. The poll is by no means an indication of what may happen in 1948, for, since the the members of the unions working in the plant are his partners. At the top of the ter would require an estimated outlay of Let's all express our appreciation of the Democratic party dropped from 55 to 45 worthwhile programs and inform the spon 1 The reason given by the board was that ilia iL-gciiu iiiu- -y jtf, Av ed: "Owned by the men who sors of poor programs of our displeasure.

McMurrav had spent too much time in would I get my driving license back tyid what did I think of the spring fashions. Not having had any time to look at the spring fashions, I was woefully ignorant that they were as yet ready for consideration. In the afternoon, my granddaughter showed us around the campus of Reed college. There is no question, from what I hear on every side, that the students here think first about their work. The library into which I glanced was filled with students.

This college is run on an interesting system. No class attendance Is taken, but the standard of work Is so high that the youngsters do comparatively little else but work. Sunday Is their only free day, and even much of that has to be devoted to study. Dr. Peter H.

Odegard, the president, ttlls me that the trend in the choice of courses is towards preparation for a way to earn a living, with less consideration for an all-round preparation for life. 5fc fc At 4 o'clock, I went into Portland for an interview on a local radio station and was Instead of just deploring the lack of whole politics. Here is a clear case of a state some radio entertainment, let's do something WALTER WINCHELL On Broadway run it, run by the men who own it." It seems to me it will be worth watching this experiment. board arrocatinjr to itself a decision that toward getting it. Mrs.

Jack Leaverton, 1355 Sixtieth Des Moines 11. should rightly fall to the administrative of ficers of the University. around $300 PRIVATE INTERESTS. As Allen Grant, until recently president of RFC Rubber Development corporation concluded his testimony, he was asked by Rep. Johnson "And your thinking is that the only purpose public purchasing can serve is the private Interests of a few rubber companies?" "That Is right; I do, Sir," Mr.

Grant replied. sb stc We should think a man who had been in The New York Express. Bill for Liquor. Many things have been mks. koosevelt.

tried. For instance, for a while a New York paper took no advertising so that it could not be influenced by it3 advertisers. Some people feel that the tyranny of the sub Winchellebrities: Margaret Hastings (the To the Editor of The Tribune: congress and had taken part in a political campaign would be all the better fitted to teach political science regardless of his Shangri-La WACorporal) denying those re ports about merging with SSgt. Wally Flem We hear much these days about better school laws and better pay for teachers. We party.

1 Or do they teach only Republican political Americans spend over seven billion dollars a year for liquor and only half that amount scriber ia felt by many papers, 'for while a nowspaper is supposed to lead in creating public opinion, it very frequently abdicates that position and molds its opinions to suit its audience, wlych makes it the slave of the after the rescue. Margaret la rirwit otnl-ulntr InflilsH'Hfll science now in Wisconsin? for schools and churches combined. It goes 5 1. TT engineering ai Byracuats u. Annabella daughter Rep.

Johnson, who cross examined every witness, prefaced his questions to representatives of the rubber industry advocating continued government purchase by expressing surprise that they should want to continue tt show we are not concerned about our schools and churches. Without this awful waste we could pay our teachers twice as much, have better schools and churches, better homes and a better America. J. Alvin Mitchell, It. It.

6, Des Moines. Unhappily, pork chops if you could find 'em are just a trifle greasy to put vAth the war bonds in the safety deposit box and a little large to wear on the third finger set -in platinum. (Anne Power) having fun with Gregory Jaurez before resuming at a New York finishing school. John Hudson of "Craig's Wife" presented with a lovely corsage of Portland roses and lilies-oMhe-valley. I must say that the city of roses lives up to its reputation, and the bunch I found in my room are fragrant and beautiful.

(World Copyright. 197.) subscriber. A really free press Is a very difficult thing to obtain, and I often wonder whether those who clamor loudly for It In this countryreally want a free pn-ss or a press which they are free to run in their own way. When we arrived in Portland Wednesday morning, we found the daffodils blooming. government control.

He wanted to know why private companies couldn't do the buying. The replies were generalized, largely to the effect that the government should continue for a while until congress decided future policy, and that some of the smaller companies might not be able to compete in purchasing. 1947.) The old definition of an expert as a fcl low array from home, has been revamped by congressional hearings into "a fellow who can put into words what he doesn't know." and his Mrs. (Mary La-roche), who have decided on one of those friendly marital earthquakes. Toshio Jung (Japanese actress seen CPU Margaret.

jn the Charlie Chans), who State House Bulge. To the Editor of The Tribune: That bulge In the state house is more laws. Over a million laws and regulation measures and still adding more commissions and bureaus! License to repair a dollar, watch, to sell a house, No wonder the police don't have time to hunt criminals running wild with gun and ax. What's free about Iowa? And whoever is responsible for destroying potatoes when people are starving should be tried as criminals. G.

G. Haag, 820 Small Des Moines. SEX EDUCATION. (San Francisco Chronicle.) To postpone instruction in "sex relations, marital problems, or like questions" as late as the twelfth grade makes no sense. The primary purpose of sex education In the public schools is to arm youngsters with facts which will protect them from becoming sex delinquents.

Delaying this till a youngster is 16 or 17 years old merely gives a head start of several years to the opportunities and temptations of delinquency. While Washington is wrestling with the problem of lowering next tyear's taxes, most of us out here are doing our best to raise this year's. Portland's winters are usually rather rainy, but yesterday the sky was blue and the sun was -shining brightly. The day was nice and peaceful on the whole. In the morning, I was visited by the press, who asked me many things of consequence about the United Nations, and a few such inconsequential things as when quietly merged with N.

Erich on Feb. 17 upstate. Fran English (of the girl shows) who has been sealed to songwriter Leo Robins for several months. Newsgathcrers Abel Green (of Variety), Earl Wilson and Louis Sobol, the columnoxes, went all the way to Movieburg to appear in Carmen Miranda's next picture, "Copacabana." BARGAIN FOR HIM. (St.

Louis Post-Dispatch.) Hirohito ia said to face a 90 per cent tax on his $200,000,000 fortune. There's a gent who could face a 99 per cent tax and still have more money than he was worth. The average political candidate's love for the common people almost always persists until he is defeated or elected..