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Strike V--' 4' Gomg, Going I Milk Price Spread Crucial Issue ABANDONMENT OF the federal milk marketing order at this time would throw 4 the milk situation into far greater con- fusion than it is at present. The thing is true of a strike of dairy farmers. They would be the worst losers from it With all dairy farmers in the New York milk shed included in the federal marketing order, they have a powerful influence on their side, the government. It has only been in effect 10 days, so no one can know yet what benefits it can confer or, on the other hand, whether it is more of a handicap than a help. It has brought a minor increase in returns to dairy farmers.

A STRIKE by dairy fanners would lead to greater use of substitutes than exists now. ri A strike would not change that major trouble in the milk situation--the 15-cent spread between what the consumer pays and what the farmer receives for The vote taken recently does not represent all dairy farmers supplying Syracuse markets. It reflected the sentiment of ri fewer than 10 per cent of them. The vote was 50 to 32 in favor of a strike, or 18 more were for it than against it, out of 82. THE FEDERAL order brings all dairy farmers serving the New York milk shed into one big co-operative, in a way, even though it is an instrument of government and not of voluntary association.

This has been the goal 'of dairy farmers since organization of the Dairymen's 4 League more than 40 years ago. Their was to organize effectively into a strong bargaining agent to deal with distributors. The order may not prove the medium needed, but it deserves a longer trial. Thc dairy farmer of Central New York works harder than most other men He furnishes us with one of the finest and most essential of foods. He deserves a better break than he is getting, but abrupt abandonment of the federal order or a strike would not give it to him.

His major need is to receive a fairer share of what the housewife pays for fresh milk; He should" get at least half of the street price. -The real solution of the problem is in bringing about more efficiency and economies in distribution, so both consumer'and dairy farmer benefit. Who Wants Taxes Cut? EVEBYBODY TALKS ABOUT HIGH TAXES and that they should be cut. But who really wants taxes reduced? Does the farmer who gets' a subsidy want taxes reduced? Does the airplane company that gets a subsidy taxes reduced? Does the shipping company that not only gets a subsidy, but sometimes even a monopoly, want taxes cut? Does the manufacturer who gets a subsidy in the form of war orders and who is bailed out when he faces bankruptcy want taxes reduced? Does the worker whose pockets are full of "Sokolsky jingle money and who may face unemployment taxes reduced? Do the vast horde-of public workers, the bureaucracy, federal, state and taxes reduced? What would they do for a living? Who really wants taxes reduced? -William Benton remarks on.this subject most. interestingly: "In 1950, when I was the most junior member of the United States Senate, a big batch of Hoover" Commission proposals carrie before the committee on expenditures, of i Committee engages in propifanut to an public sentiment for tht Hoover economies.

BUT WHO WANTS THESE ECONC Certainly not the large number of effective pressure groups organized by every industrial, trade and. particular activity, association in the country. each want economies lor the other fellow, but as for themselves, they are indispensable and everything they do is pro bono publico, even if it costs-more than it should and adds to the velocity of the Do all those who are agitating for dams; and roads and public power want economy 'too? The duPont decision cf the Supreme Court, to which the has-paid the least'attention, is the most serious in -many years because it reaffirms the that monopolies are intolerable in American life, and the investment of one company in another must not be used to control'the sale of the products of another or to use them THE DUPONT DECISION COULD BE USED to kill off the raiders who are becoming a pestilential element in the American economy, endangering not only the ownership of companies, but the morale of management. Morning's Ma Bock UD I McEIrov Cut Frills, The new Secretary of Defense, Neil EL McElroy, "will be requked to sell his holdings, in 'companies with defense contracts before he- can take office. Mr.

owns securities in General Electric and Chrysler Corporation, both making equipment for the military forces. The law forcing him to dispose of them is designed to prevent a "conflict of interest." In the same way, his predecessor, Charles E. Wilson, was forced to dispose of securities in General Motors amounting to $2,500,000. A government official in such a high position has, like Caesar's wife, to be above suspicion. As a matter of fact, a man holding securties in companies with defense or other government contracts would probably lean over backwards to avoid even a whisper of doubt.

He would be inclined to deny a contract to a firm in which he had an interest. On the other hand, it is doubtful if the mere selling of securities "in a company would lessen a man's confidence or affection for it. The law is not really needed in cases like these, but it is better to have it than to permit any doubt at all to persist. It is a law for the protection of all the Ameri- can people. Mr.

McElroy unquestionably is an American of the highest type; In addition to being forced to sell these securities, he is giving up a position paying him $285,000 a year for one paying $25,000. The son of a Methodist minister, he earned $1,000 by doing odd jobs as a boy and that nestegg, plus a scholarship he won, made his education at Harvard possible. On graduation, he joined Procter Gamble as a mail clerk and worked his way up steadily to the presidency of the big soap company. He is the kind of man we need in high policy-making position in the government, ft one we can depend upon. Rep.

Sikes of Florida doubts the wisdom of spending $10,659,000 for improvements at Griffiss Air Force Base, and objects specifically to a new runway for; B52 bombers. Griffiss is one of the most important bases in the country, and certainly should be equipped to handle'any kind of aircraft. Rep. Sikes bases his contention on a probable cut in the disarmament program which will bring about a reduction in all the services. But Griffiss is a vital center for defense of the Northeast, and the Strategic Air Command of which B52s are a part certainly would not be cut.

A report on defense financing by the House Appropriations Committee condemns the use of costly materials and fancy architecture by the armed services. is the place to reduce funds rather than on runways of which there are too few to handle the big bombers, according to the director of Air Force construction. We can do with less rubber and ceramic tile, window canopies and maple dance at military but not without equipment to handle every type of plane. If, as the House committee contends, the armed services are going in for luxurious accommodations the trend should be reversed. Rep.

Sikes should concentrate on these frills, and Congress should have no trouble in saving more than enough to put in a new runway. ft Pity for Dealers -i To the Editor of The Post-Standard: I wish to publicly express my sincere, sympathy to the. milk dealers of your city. I was grieved to learn (in a full plorable, condtion of our slum page plea by "Your To the Editor of The Post-Standard: In few days your paper has done much to acquaint, the public with the de- Perhaps because of my business background; these proposals appealed tc me powerfully. I leaped into not, I like to believe, without.some success." Then he added: has many able and dedicated'' a safeguard, the citizens from crooks--a task that ofen to end in failure.

courts, would make a study of the role played: by American in raiding established companies, it could perform as serious a service as was done years ago when ambulance were discouraged. An economy- in. government oerations could knew there is almost no incentive for them in terms of popular- support, meaning votes.in the next election." on Aug. '6) that our dealers might possibly go broke as a result of the 3-cent jump. My, what will we farmers do now with all of these extra dollars? Four hundred quarts a day at the stated 2.9 cents per quart increase would bless the average fanner with $11.60 daily or a grand $348 monthly pay raise.

This sounds fantastic and is. Farmers will more likely see the remaining one-tenth of a cent of the 3-cent increase. Those wonderful figures looked neat in the newspaper but will never be seen where they should be--on the farmer's milk check. Thanks to the "milkman'' for his concern about next year's salary. Surely a "doubtful" milk dealer could not bear the expense of a full page display.

D. ROCKHILL. Moira. area. It is good to see a paper 'take this stand.

But bad condition exists, and I think you should be made of it In many areas of our city the sewers back up every time we have a hard rain. Our THE 'HOOVER PROPOSALS WERE MADE by two commissions, one appointed by President Truman, the other by President Eisenhower, the SLOWLY A REPORTER GATHERS THE DE- tails, the publication of which-would now Iibelous because not-yet provable, a' the The'commissions were to recommend reorgan-" ttc ization of the executive branch of the govlm- ment, to improve it, make it more efficient, and pwpie Term to institute economies wherever possible. Duri Trum istra to which a decreased efficiencies. It is becoming: a serious in our national economies and needs looking If disorder former Sen. Benton refers, considerable was but not enough.

DurinfthfS! to no who really wants taxes practically nothing'hi happens ne lfllou a VHy tte Citize is told of it, nothing ever happens. I think that if your paper would investigate this matter, maybe something can be done. I will be glad to help in any way that I can. Syracuse GUS E. JOHNS cut? Could it the rafters taxes? twid paying Drew In Revolt inst His Rule Tax Question To the Editor of The Post-Standard: In your Aug.

6 edition I note an article by Alva M. Meyers, Syracuse director of Internal Revenue Service, stating that hereafter all persons filing income tax returns must pay all tax owed in full unless it would cause undue hardship. Now I would like to ask why if Mr. Meyers expects all tax psid when the taxpayer the taxpayers who have a refund should not receive tteir Majestic mountains guard their refund checks when they file? 2and No one owes any tax until he various CaJltonS) different has earned enough to offset his exemptions but the tax is de- Stays With -Billy To iht Editor of The Posl-SCan dard I see in the paper where an atheist has criticized Billy Graham for not curing New York City's ills. The atheists -have been.

in New York much longer than Billy, and apparently their proposals haven't helped any. So rjl stick with Billy who has a common-sense solution. Actually "free thinkers" is a misnomer since the atheist inind is so enslaved he doesn't recognize God in the most obvious place-- Mother Nature. CHARLIE FINCH. Norfolk.

Memories of Switzerland WASHINGTON. Eisenhower's angry- pointed an ambassador because of political contributions, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has discovered quite by accident that the State Department clears every diplomatic appointment with the Republican National Committee. A State a stenographer made a slip and sent the wrong letters to Foreign Relations Chairman Theodore Green H. II. The letters were supposed to have been sent to the ranking Republican, Sen.

Alexan- Pearson der Wiley of Wisconsin. Instead, Democratic Senator Green was assured on two occasions that ambassador-nominees had een cleared with the Republican National Committee. Green has now demanded to know whether the State Department or the Republican National Committee is running our diplomatic seivice. heavily to the 1956 campaign. The former ambassador to Denmark, Jlob- ert T.

Coe, got his job after contributing to the Eisenhower, campaign in 1952. He reportedly was asked lor. a more substantial donation in 1956. The records show his family scraped up $6,190. "It was more than that.

I doubled my 1952 told this column by long-distance phone-from 'his home in: Cody, Wyo. But apparently it wasn't enough; was kicked out as ambassador; Coe admitted he was surprised'at his replacement, but denied it had anything to do with his campaign offering. "Don't you get in trouble in 1 he said. IT'S NO SECRET THAT ONLY A PER- centage of the actual campaign contributions are officially recorded. The "balance is often table.

Ail Dee's non-career known to have donated to the tongues; Ad Disarmament, civil rights and labor union investigations may make the headlines, but among the more burning issues of the moment is how long to cook sweet corn. This is the season for that great American delicacy, and several schools of thought should hearken to Byron A. Fox, who says it's murder what some people do to sweet corn. Mr. Fox moves vast quantities of corn to market He it four minutes." His remark was prompted by attendance at a Rochester barbecue where "they boiled the corn for 30 minutes.

Can you imagine that? Perfectly' good corn was killed, so far as its eating qualities were concerned." Mr. Fox handles corn packed for shipment by the Genesee Valley Regional Market. An authoritative voice is needed in view of conflicting opinions. They range from four to 20 minutes, with the 10-minute school in the majority, a recent neighborhood controversy disclosed. Corn on the cob four minutes in-the kettle may be Just about right, but the only consumer who knows its true flavor is the home gardener who picks his ears and runs for the kitchen.

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WO) MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRE33 entitled exclusively to ttie use for of ft thc lo news printed In the paper aa well as an Associated newi (Robert Lee went to Cuba to cover the rebellion on the eastern end of the island. Because of censorship he was forced to return to Miami before he could teil this eye-witness story.) By ROBEKT LEE Cuba, 'Aug. 9--A Cuban policeman shot a 14-year-old boy in broa'd daylight without provocation before my eyes Monday in this town under the heel of'martial law. The boy, Manuel Pedriera, when I left Tuesday night lay between life and death in the General Hospital here. This tragedy was only one experience in a five-day visit that revealed the warlike efforts of President Fulgencio Batista to break an all- out strike among Oriente Province's 300,000 residents and businessmen who are.

leading the people into the fold of rebel Fidel Castro. I was walking down Gen. Garcia St. the main thoroughfare of Bayamo, about 9 a.m. when I saw slight Manuel talking to a shopkeeper about 300 yards away.

He laughed shrilly and turned toward the door. At that point a policeman who had been standing on the sidewalk pulled his pistol and shot the boy in the stomach. Manuel fell with an astonished look on his face, shouting: "Policio, policio, help." Taken to Hospital Several businessmen en the almost deserted street hailed a passing jeep and the boy was taken to the Surgeons performed a-hurried operation, but the boy was not given much chance to. live. Later I learned that the youth had asked the proprietor of the store, a delicatessen called La Muralla, for matches.

But the shopkeeper replied that he did not have any. matches. The youngster said: "If you do not have anything to sell, you should close your doors." These words infuriated the officer, it seems. Only hours before he and hundreds of other police and soldiers had forced the shopkeepers for the third day to -open at gunpoint. This town, like Santiago and Manzanillo.

has been staging general strike since last Thursday in protest against Batista. I was in hiding during my stay because the police on Tuesday, two days before my arrival. had ordered an American suspected of being a newspaper man to leave the province. Shooting: Nightly Each night terror in the form of mechanized troops, rode the streets under the 45-day martial law imposed by Batista. Citizens were warned that to be on the streets after 9 p.m.

was to risk being shot. Nightly shots rang out on the hour from various parts of the city. A rebel-imposed "blackout" also-Was a nightly occurrence through manipulations and cutting of wires in the area. Reliable eye-witnesses reported the shooting Saturday of an innocent bystander in 'a brush between troops and businessmen who protested the smashing of their doors and windows. Two troopers began 'quarreling with a pair of merchants working to place wooden shields over smashed windows so an impending storm would not ruin merchandise.

One of the men turned and shot to death one of the soldiers and wounded the other before the pair hurried away. The wounded soldier.began firing wildly and killed a man riding a bicycle. Throughout this province food supplies are growing scarce, but the people seem determined to keep thc ehops closed. ducted from the first you In 3nd danger fi TM earn. Therefore the govern- i ment has use of all tax.

col- 3S revealed ta son lected for a period of one year, A country somewhat small in although a great number of size, people owe no tax at all. With azure lakes and rushing Mr. Meyers wants his money streams; on the line, but those who have Where rainbow trout, the However, it's difficult to trace the Individ-, ual contributions. For example, Jefferson ambassador to gave $4,000 to the Eisenhower campaign in Dayton, Ohio. The records also show another $20,000 con-, tributed by Jefferson Patterson and his wife in Washington.

Robert Thayer, ambassador to is listed as donating $1,000 via the American em- refunds have to wait from sportsman's prize, three weeks to three months to Hold their abode while he but ambassadors and finds overwhelming evidence that Ike just didn't know what he was talking about or else wasn't telling the truth when he said campaign contributions didn't influence diplomatic appointments. The committee's findings indicate that diplomatic posts are put bassy in Vienna, Austria. Two. contributions on the auction block and almost sold for cash --on the.barrelhead to campaign contributors. The chief money-raiser for last year's campaign, GOP National Treasurer J.

Clifford er, was appointed ambassador to Belgium. and his wife not only raised money, but gave $10,500 out of their own pockets. Aside from his money-raising ability, Folger has no. i of $1,000 and have been traced- to Mrs. Thayer in Vienna.

Still another $2,000 shows up in the record, contributed by Mrs. Thayer in Washington. get back their overpaid tax. It looks as though the government is very anxious to collect but does not care about paying back. Let's have the game work both ways.

FAIR PLAY. East Syracuse. Police Praised dreams. Where nightingales at darkness sing Enchanting prajses to their mates; Forget-me-nots and crocus bring A message of old nature's traits. other known qualification'Tor complicated foreign Total contributions of $8,500 have traced to James David Zellerbach's THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT the political spoils system is followed in hand- posts.

This may explain has suffered so been Where church-bells on i To the Editor of The Post-Standard: Sabbath-day Hats off to Police Chief out a call for rest; NOTE: The man who stirred up the 'controversy over political ambassadors, the California paper box king Gluck, admitted contributing $36,000 Eisenhower campaigns. He was a close friend and associate of Ben Javits, attorney brother of Sen. Jack IKE'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE, Javits of New York. Senator Javits didn't want to appoint ck from New York, so arranged, with his Republican Senate friends from Kentucky to A TT Amory Houghton, coughed up $6,000 and his son gave another $2,500, John'Hay Whitney ambassador to Britain, has long been a bfg Republican contributor. Ten traced to him and his Kelly! I for one think he is doing a wonderful job as head of our Police Department.

He seems to be using vision in running it and I am glad for every man he puts on the force. A bigger and better police force for a bigger and better Syracuse. I think our chief and his Their tunes re-echo, while they Play, Throughout the valley and the crest. A sturdy folk dance twelve- nine-one, Imbued with freedom's precious likes, the way right; these producers Their 'One for all and all for one tickets will be Wta Ffl lo and Chase because he men deserve our best support 'After all, they work for our HaS ht throu the. at.

1 a good. Our Police Department is going places. Now, let's get back of them and provide them with suitable quarters. For a city of our size we should be ashaned of the building which houses them. MARY BROWN.

Syracuse. storms aright. And some of them -do leave their prices. Saroyan a i h. For distant corners of the earth; theater is They see the world while thus that to many they roam Remembering still their land of birth! WERNER P.

BRAEGGER. Coreys, N. Y. guys -who have knowledge of the theater control, it. They to ls 50 Lyons Traffic Complaint I recently read a letter in your column relative to the noise and the speed on W.

Onondaga St. I am a working girl and many nights I am kept awake or, if I do get to sleep, I am awakened by automobiles racing and-- making a lot of noise and even blowing their horns after midnight near the "circle" as they come up the street. I can well imagine how awful it would be to be ill and kept awake by this. Another thing, almost every Saturday wedding will pass along this three or four times blowing horns continuously. Isn't there a law about prohibiting this? If anyone wanted to investigate, they would also find cars parked on the side plainly marked that it is prohibited on that side but people do not pay any attention.

Why should they when speeding, blowing horns and driving with your cut-out or whatever it is on the car that makes all the noise is gotten away with? Syracuse MAY BELLE BARKLEY stand between me and the public. THE REVEREND cents a ticket! I'm not interested in, the money. I like Automat food. I can jjet by on $25 a week." There is "another school of price-thought -whose followers disagree with Saroyan regarding the cost of theater tickets. Michael Todd was the first of the modern group of producers to rasie the He was advised to do so by the late Ferenc Mol- nar, who told him: "In Europe and in New York I've always mixed with, the crowds at intermission to overhear their comments.

I've heard them say 'It's a wonderful show, but damn But never have I heard la theatergoer say, 'It's a bore, but so cheap 1 Frank Loesser, now at work on the musical project which will foDow his "Most Happy Fella," once confided to Sam Goldwyn that he spends every wakeful moment in scheming. Loesser rented a summer home on Island. "Frank," said one of his friends, "you don't waste you time jest idling in the sun, do you?" "No," said Loesser. "I stretch out on the beach and tell the-sun: George Raft entered a discussion on Marxism. "It ain't for guys like ns," said Raft.

"Now take me, for example. I got a Cadillac. Okay? But, according: to the Communists, my friend here--Killer Gray--he ought to have a Cadillac A listener asked: "Well, what's wrong 1 about that, George?" "What's wrong- about that?" Raft scoffed. "If Killer here has a Cadillac loo --then what good would my Cadillac be to me?" Karsh, the famed photographer, arrived from Canada to photograph Bishop Sheen and Norman K. Winsten, the realtor who is donating the a new university near Tampa, Fla.

Truman Capote returned to New York 'Monday to read a script "of Herman Wouk's new play. Wouk wants him to play a featured role in it. So many screen stars now go to Topcka for psychiatric treatment that a merger was suggested, with a new name, "2Cth ningerV 'Sun. you have just seven minutes to tan Nature's gonna be in charge? Not with me around." Swifty Morgan, the soldier of fortune, finally has taken to wearing glasses. "I decided I needed glasses," he confessed, "when I walked smack into a jcreditor I'd.

been, ducking for three years." Louis B. Mayer, who is fighting to regain control of the MGM studios, has all the wealth a man could possibly hope to acquire. He was asked: "Mr are you a happy man?" L. B. pointed to a place on the back, of his neck, and replied: "Well, sometimes I get a little pain back here." i Except in rare instances for past 10 years, Richard Rodgers' name no longer is misspelled in the public prints.

When the composer first invaded Broadway, his name usually was printed aa "Rogers," without the He thought of changing it legally to "Rogers," but was dissuaded by his The senior Rodgers told him: "Dick, change it, I expect you to become so famoui that "Rogers' will be the uncommon way of spelling it".