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rase Pout. I I A N. NOVEMBER .12, IMS. The Atom Becomes A Bargain Point RIME Minister Attlee appears to have come to Washington for Whiiehouse consultations with a clear cut and definite proposal regarding the atomic bomb. The proposal is nothing less than to make the scientific wonder of the age the subject of bargaining with Russia.

Let the Allies share the secret of nuclear energy production, but only on condition that Russia agree not only to disclose Soviet but to be more forthright and candid concerning the policy of Moscow in the post-war world. This is reasonable and logical. Russia up to now has been exclusively a recipient, never a giver, not even of confidence and trust, in the association of Nations against the Axis coalition. Russian Armies fought splendidly in the war--largely with American weapons. Russian civilians during the conflict subsisted to a great extent on supplies obtained through Lend-Lease.

Nobody expects a return in kind, but the Russians so far have failed to reciprocate with the degree of good will and cooperation necessary to establish so little as a safe footing for future international relations. It is perhaps a result of the late President method of dealing with the other Allies. He gave them the idea that what was ours was also theirs, but what was theirs was their own. Naturally this has created circumstances which now constitute a decided threat to an effective organization of Nations. The British Prime Minister perceives the danger.

It is also evident to the American Congress. House members have already suggested that recovery credits to Russia shall be conditioned on the opening of doors in the Soviet-dominated regions Europe where the word liberation has yet no meaning. What the British and American Allies have first to accomplish is the remedy of the harm done by the ROOSEVELT policy. Russia must be made to understand that the Communist adoption of the imperialism of the Tsars is not satisfactory, and that while the fighting qualities of the Russians are greatly admired, nobody considers that the victories won by Russia entitle Moscow to grab everything and yield nothing. President TRUMAX, we hope, will use the Atom Bomb secret (while it is a secret) to make Russia realize its obligations, as well as its opportunities, in post-war readjustments.

THE ERIE COMES THROUGH A TRANSACTION just completed by the Erie has finally liquidated a debt incurred to put its line through Orange County a hundred years ago. The last bonds issued under a mortgage to the authorized by the Legislature that can wait. The first task is to Insure that the assets will not fall Into hands sympathetic to the Nazis. MONROE DOCTRINE VS. BEDS SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES F.

BYHNES, speaking in New York the other day, expressed the sympathy of Washington for what he termed the Moscow determination to create among the nations adjoining Russia a circle of friendly powers. He compared what Russia wants with what America has in the western Hemisphere under the Monroe Doctrine. While the address emphasized the friendship all Americans would like to see existing between this country and Russia, Mr. BYRNES also bespoke American sentiment when he made strong objection to having the Soviet system imposed by force on any country. It is a good thing for Americans to keep their thoughts clear about Russia, because there is an element in this country that is constantly trying to trick the unwary into the belief that Russian Communism and Americanism are identical.

These cuckoos, some of them in high places, would also have Americans believe that subjugation by the reds of the string of countries from the Baltic to the Adriatic is Identical with American maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine. BYRNES, inadvertently or otherwise, put his finger on the vast difference between what the reds are doing and what America has done in speaking out against imposition of the Soviet system on Russia's neighbors by force. In all these countries adjoining Russia the people only know they have swapped masters. First they were oppressed by the Nazis and now the same thing is happening to them under the Reds. This by no means can be called a Russian Monroe Doctrine, in the meaning of the phrase in this hemisphere.

the Erie had encountered the State when first of a long series of vicissitudes have been retired. It is a notable occasion in the world of finance, not only because it was EFFICIENCY FIRST THE ADMINISTRATION has now placed before Congress its program for a general increase in the pay of government employes. With the President's approval, the Civil Service Commission has presented a schedule calling for substantially higher salaries for top office-holders in all departments and for a twenty per cent increase in the pay of 860.000 workers on the lower pay levels. In placing these recommendations before the Senate Civil Service Committee. Commissioner ARTHUR S.

FLEMING contended that they were conservative, that they were necessary to equal the scale in private employment, and that the government must "stand out as one of the most progressive employers in the Nation, and thus attract to its service and hold in its service persons of outstanding qualifications." These somewhat conflicting ends, in Mr. FLEMING'S view, justify the addition of $414,000.000 a year to the cost of running the government. This proposal, coming at this time, poses certain questions. Its timing seems to imply ihat the Administration meant it to have some effect on the been photographed with some of the soldiers they once feared." I GESSXTT, whose brothers SAMUZL, WALTER and WILLIAM GARLAXD are still carrying on the family business in Baltimore, said that he and other members of the Northern Baptist Convention household were treated "fine throughout the war, especially by local officials and the police." He remained at the Convention- founded Kanto Gakuin or Mabie College in Yokohama for the first years of the war. Since late 1942 he has spent his time gardening and translating religious works.

He intends to return to Baltimore soon to recover from a war- induced illness, but hopes to return to his work in Nippon next year. "There are many things to do over here." he said, as he looked through a window at the ruins of a bombed home less than 100 feet from his suburban residence. His No. 1 project is to curb juvenile delinquency, particularly by "orphans who are now living in holes in the grounds of city parks, stealing what little food they get." He said that more than half of the 160 American church workers in Japan on December seventh, 1941, were Interned some time during the war. The biggest roundup came in September, 1942.

Only one member of GRESSITT'S household--Miss ELIZABETH KTLBURN of Germantown. interned. She was arrested when she went "too far" from home in spreading her and "the police feared she might be reducing the propaganda-induced war hatred of Americans." HENRY TOPPING, a Baptist missionary here for fifty years, died two years ago, but his wife. GENIEVE, is still carrying on their work. Also working with GRESSITT during the war were Miss RUTH WARD of Pasadena.

and Miss JESSIE WENGLER, who recently left by plane on the start of her return to her former home-in St. Louis. Book The Month Inside Out BY THK OBSERVER MAYOR LAGUARDIA'S recent milk directive, issued on recommendation of the New York Board of Health, has had an effect in this part of the metropolitan environs. CREAM HAS GONE back to its war-time Sokolsky The object of the Labor-Management Conference, as clearly stipulated by the President, was not to increase but to reduce the differences between employer and em ptoyee in industry. He sought formula within which, the median ism-of collective' bargaining migh be employed without strikes.

FCT collective bargaining involves negotiation, not a threat; a meet ing of the not a take-it-or leave-it intimidation. Obviously, the current rash strikes is similar to the pattern the immediate years after the las war when labor, which had rijjidfc maintained a no-strike policy during foe war and made notabli gains, sought to maintain thost News Behind the News PACKED: Sam Rayburn. perhaps the most popular man on Capitol Kill, is the victim of a violent campaign of aouse by the Hillman spokesmen and certain overenthusiastic friends of President Truman. They accuse the Speaker of spiking the social and economic program on which National Chairman "Bob" Kannegan hopes to retain control of Congress next year and re-eiect Mr. Truman In 1948.

Although the verbal blitzkrieg is based on an abysmal ignor- consistency. And we personally don't lance of parliamentary" procedure rules of the House, that does like it. We are therefore cutting out rules of Icream and going back to evaporated defense. Chairman Carter Manasco hails from Jasper. Alabama, while Clare Hoffman, ranking Republican, is from Allegan.

Michigan. Ironically. Democratic members of Executive Expenditures are hand-picked by the Ways and By RAY TUCKER Means Committee, which serves as a selection board. AKd it is Ways and Means, ruled in czarlike manner by "Old Bob" Doughion of North Carolina, which has bottled up the Unemployment Compensation Bill demanded by "Bob" Hannegan for tfte 1946 and 1948 campaigns. in issue.

Is THIS THE DAY for relations with Russia to be bettor or worse? probably the oldest railroad mortgage sett of the vexine: wage-price extant, but because it showed the Erie bad triumphed over aii difficulties, overcome all hazards and. in spite of a checkered past, had handsomely redeemed a promise. That is something many States and Nations cannot say. In its day the Erie has been robbed and looted." It has had to default at times on some of the debts contracted by over-optimistic promoters and selfish freebooters. It has had several experiences of bankruptcy, but has always paid out finally.

Say what one may of the Erie, and plenty has been it deserves high credit for honoring word in this era when the word is rarely a bond among individuals ar.c never among States and Nations. NAZI ASSETS ABROAD THESE is NO EVIDENCE as yet that any of the Nazi big-wigs have managed to fiee to the neutral countries where they secreted part of their ill-gotten gains. But it is as important as ever to make sure tha; these funds will r.ot be avail- to finance a revival For Emperor By MURRAY M. MOLER America's hardy missionaries who spent the war in Japan, many in prison camps, were agreeably surprised by the Allied decision to permit KIROHITO to remain on his throne. J.

FULLERTON GRESSITT. representative of the Northern Baptist Convention in Tokio since 1907. lauded the decision as the "most inspired decision in history." milk for coffee and cereals. DURING THE WAR accepting thinned cream was all right--a small sacrifice to the soldiery and the needy abroad. BUT NOW THERE does not seem to be any excuse for it.

The shortage, which inspired the LA.GUARDIA action, is entirely man-made. IT is THE RESULT of Federal price pool manipulations. This has operated to change the dairy x'arms from Winter to Spring peak producers through the process of having Spring and Summer prices higher for the producer than those for Winter milk. So WE REVOLT. It entails a sacrifice, for we have a'feline love of cream.

But we are off cream until it gets thick again. SPEAKING OF THE feline, Mrs. BARTON- MURRAY of Station WALL has five cats on the farm in Goshen township. One is Buzzy. who is a clown and turns somersaults when he runs.

ANOTHER is MIDNIGHT, who has iearn- ied to open a kitchen door. Mrs. MUR- i i i ViW. 1 A wo'ald be a calamity to remove the RAY rates brunette cats higher in intel- emperor." said GKESSITT. "It would cause a troubled in feeling against Americans if the emperor was deprived of his status head of the people.

"Nothing wiser could have been done than thi. retention of KIROHITO. His position suits the Japanese psychology and way of thinking eminently well. of Nazism ir. Europe or in other lands.

They are fundamentally such a docile. For that reason it good to see that law-abiding people that they will obey the Allies have formed four-power German External Property Commission to take possession of German assets abroad which are estimated to be worth as much as a billion It is a ticklish and difficult job which has been entrusted to the commission. Mot of the assets which it is after lie ir. countries like Spain, Sweden, Switzerland Argentina which were either neutral or aggressively sympathetic to the Nazii. The commission has no but persuasion in trying to get at the funds.

Allied leaders have taken special pains to make the document creating the commission and setting forth its authority a legally watertight document. The Allied Control Council Is, at present, the sole government of Germany. As such it may legally claim the right to dispose of all German assets and property as it sees fit. This shouid be sufficient to satisfy the neutrals but it is more than doubtful whether it will have any effect on the attitude of Spain and Argentina. What use will be made of these assets if a question still to be decided.

But his orders to the letter and thus make the occupation easier for all concerned." From his long experience will- the ligence than blond. She also thinks Midnight is about the most intelligent of all the blacks. MR. MURRAY disagrees. And his evidence is the fact that the other cats wait for Midnight to do the work of door-opening, so they can all pass through.

SOME DAY SOON Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES RUMPLES of Paterson will comedo Goshen and the ashes of a horse Texan's friends. The liberals blame Mr. Rayburn because he referred the Full Employment Bill to the House Committee on Executive Expenditures.

They wanted this considered by Mrs. Mary Norton's Labor Committee, which is packed with legislative friends of the CIO. BLAMED: Indeed, the lady from Jersey has toyed with the idea of trying to force the measure from the hard-boiled, reactionary group by the discharge technique. If she can get 218 signers to a petition, she can force the proposal to the floor foe a vote. She can't.

The CIO insists on action to demonstrate to its followers that It can crack the whip over Congress. Bob Hannegan figures he c-n hold the mass of the metropolitan vote if he can point with pride to the enactment of -ihe relief measures. Neither the Full Employment nor the Unemployment Compensation Bill has made much progress, and it is probable that they will be unrecognizable to their original sponsors If they emerge in any form. And Mr. Rayburn Is being blamed for the blockade.

BURIED: When the Rayburn enemies took their complaints to friends of the Speaker, the latter gave a sharp lecture on the power and jurisdiction of the Executive Expenditures Committee. It Is a story which only a few members of the House know in detail, and it completely exonerates Mr. Rayburn. The time was when this committee was an unknown and innocuous body. It had as low a status as the Committee for the Disposition of Useless Papers or the group which handles such subjects as coinage, weishts and measures.

Members foucht to avoid an assignment so it for fear they would be buried politically and legis- latively. Fair Enough President Truman's completely unfair denunciation of the House Ways and Means Committee for its failure to comply promptly and fully his unemployment compensation plan is reminiscent of the Roosevelt abused all dissenters and appealed to ignorance, avarice and the mob spirit. He assumed complete virtue for his plan without even discussing its obvious faults. Here Is a proposal which would repudiate the basic principle of unemployment compensation and substitute a dole. Unemployment compensation at stated legal rates is net a favor from a generous -state to subjects whose political gratitude the ruling party desires to exploit at the polls.

It is a lesal right of the individual clients. Mr. Truman's proposal Jls not legal but emotional and is based on desire than right. by Pegler i detent motives in their attitude. If need was to be the basis of qualification for his dole, and our laws do not recognize mere need as such a basis, then provision should have been made to judge each cass apart arbitrarilv en the basis of need.

gains by strikes when the war wa: over. And as pan of the pattern the Government then held a conference like the one now in Washington. But If strikes are the only method available for the determination of a national economic policy, why hold elections for public officials? Samuel Gompers. who during World War One represented labor was statesman who always put his country first. He was a giant in an era of great men and ht would never have used the language that Phil Murray spoke on November fifth, for such language not then and Is not now the truth If Phil Murray cannot abide tht wisdom of Sam Gompers.

he might accept the dictum of the Sovie! Constitution. Article Twelve, which reads: the USSR work is a duty anrt a matter of honor for every able- bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: 'He who does not work, neither shall he "The principle applied In- USSR is that of socialism: 'Frois each according to his ability, tc each according to his And may I quote from Joe Stalin "The principle of socialism that in a socialist society each works according to his ability and receives articles of consumption, not according to his needs, but according to the work he perform? for society- When, then. Phil Murray saic that to reject forty-eight pay for forty hours' work, at the highest money and real (purchasing power) wage scale in the world for men living on the highest standard hi the world, is to refuse a "plea for a decent life." he uttered what is untrue and he injected into the conference a sophistry which the President wisely omitted from the agenda. I am surprised that no one asked Phil Murray to produce figures Ur prove fust, what a decent life is: secondly, relationship inflated money, designed to the worker, has to the American standard of living; and. thirdly, in what other country the worker receives as great a reward in money or in non-monetary benefits for so few hours of work as the American worker does, employed or unemployed, at wartime wages, peacetime wages or even at the govern- A family unit of three, each of-ment charity, called euphemistlcai- whom had been earning an average of say $80 a and lived together with reasonable economy would have come to V-J Day well heeled.

Another worker, the solej earne'. with a wife and three dependent children in another section! of the country, also earning SSO a week, would have wound up broke and threadbare. Mr. Truman's proposal, however. have ragarded these two cases as equally needy, and moreover would have exaggerated the disparity by granting prosperous unit first cited S75 a and the other only S25.

But that is not all there is to the case against Mr. Truman's dole. An casc against -vir. irumans aose. An ar 5TM Japanese, GRESSITT said he felt that on the race course of Good Time most of the people of Nippon always had been and always would be admirers of the Arr.erioa;: people.

Ke believed that "such unfortunate have jiist been completed by JOHN Coy atrocities as those committed in the NELLY, the village clerk. in progress. The hidden purpo: was to persuade large numbers of transient war workers then employed in shipyards and aircraft factories on the Pacific Coast to stick to their jobs and not drift away. Production, unimpaired by defections of workers who might pull stakes and head for home, was the chief consideration. After V-J Day.

the plan still was pushed, however, the pleas now being that these workers would have hard going during conversion. This flouts the propaganda of the Roosevelt government, and particularly of the Treasury during the war production years, which held that the maintainance of time and one half and double time pay. under conditions of labor shortage, was justified because the workers would invest their surplus In bonds and use some of the money to supplement their legitimate unemployment compensation during conversion. This --as one cause of the present inflation. These rates had been a time of labor available for a halk-skilled youth, previously employed in war industry, find that he actually offering only $15 a week, the margin above the Truman dole.

One employer who did Have such a job in a state high unemployment rates was unable to fill it for this reason, frankly stated. The available candidates vrere hardly to blame either, when they could earn $20 or $30 a week on the odd-job basis which is not regarded as employment, or jast relax on the $25 a week. One company presents correspondence exchanged the Slate Unemployment Commission in two cases which illustrate the abuse of such lanvs. even at their best, and before the addition of the proposed Truman dole. In one case a boy of eighteen worked part time for about three months and quit raiher than take a full time job.

His earnings were S144 and he xras awarded compensation of $383. In aonther an ly relief? These figures are obtainable for most countries, even for Soviet Russia, and the management members of the conference ought to slap them into Phil Murray's teeth. Fortunately for the country. John L. Lewis has assumed a measure labor leadership at this conference and he and the AFL representatives are moving in a constructive direction of attempting to discover a formula for cooperation ins'tead of using the conference as a platform for demagogic dissertations on false- premises.

In the presence of Bir John. the current CIO leadershi-- shrivels to accurate proportions for after all, he made them what the." arc today and he knows what cla- he used. It is to be hoped that something no matter how little, that is constructive can come out of th conference, for this country the: defeated both Germany and Japar and the latter single-handed, is no', going to be disturbed, distressed and defeated by a handful of willful men. insistent upon their owr: demands without regard to the country as a whole. They substitute threat, intimidation and coercion for collective bargaining.

This nation has not yet paid tribute for the right to live. pensation because employment available. Mr. Truman is not ignorant such complications which present legitimate objections to his plan And considering the extent to which the Democratic majority of the Ways and Means Committee recent- ARKANGEMENTS WITH WILLIAM H. CANE Lew.

It was given junsascaor. CV that thev shouM almost every problem involv-, Onw effect ing the expenditure of money by i talnai ce js over-tine rate was the Federal Government. Under a ha henc revoked, this main- henchmen in the the Philippines and in some prison camps were the acts of one element of the Japanese army who always had a reputation for gangsterism." The elderly, distinguished theologian complimented Gen. MACARTHUR'S administration of occupied Japan and said that the Japanese people were "delighted at the behavior of the majority of American soldiers." "Just a week before our troops arrived." he recalled. "I hesrd a group of Japanese crying and frantically arranging to their daughters out into the They believed the Japanese that their daughters would be raped at sight.

Just the other day I those same women talking ag.xln. laughing this time and giggling because their daughters had Ms. RUMPLES SENT a letter recently to Mayor JOHN LUFT. saying that an Uncle. JACK MATTHEWS, had died, leaving a death-bed request thai his body be cremated and the ashes scattered at Goshen.

Ms. MATTHEWS was described by his nephew as a lover of harness horses a faithful attendant at Hamble- tonian races. BUT APPARENTLY he never made himself known to any of the horsemen here. MR. CONNELLY said yesterday he awaited further word from the RUM-'' PLERS.

voted to the national defense. It nothing to do with it. Roosevelt did reached a parUamentary Jevel al- 5. a aric unions levied veritable most equal to that of Ways ar.d income taxes on thes? high wages Means and Appropriations. In the: arK IJSS 3 much of the money to Coohdqc and Hoover Admir.istra- iect him the fourth time, tions.

however, it was given no During those years the entire opportunity to use or enjoy its union political movement boasted greater authority. Neither of those the high wages of the war work- conservative Chief Executives spent i flaunted the figures Jn their scads of money, proposed radical! propaganda to srr-ze that reluctant changes in the Federal organlza- workers in open shop plants were tjon introduced far-reaching re- deadhaads who hau a moral obliga- forms or transferred departmental tlon to pay dues, fees and asscss- from one office to another mer.ts in appreciation of their lavish without Congressional authoriza-1 benefits. Mr. Truman Is right, of t'on They ran a tidy, careful and course. the extent that Irving inactive household.

Not until FDR the housing shortage and tho a'rid the New arrived did the income tax ir. many areas of work rcjuvcr.Stcd committee see a chance left the workers v.ith llit.e if any i VM. 1 In (V iJrt to flap its wings and claim its jurtsdtctional rights. Indeed, members thought it necessary to Intervene. They felt the hour had come to assert themselves as watchdogs over public monies and properties, If only Jn Congressional self- more than a living wage.

No opponent of his compensation plan has denied this and it is unfair to the people to deceive them by Insinuating that reputable public men. such as Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Committee, had of these clients vras entitled to ccm- new chief. (fltmrs 17. 1830 Owned PolaatO Oallj Except sss. KOONS.

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