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PAGE 4 STATESVILLE RECORD LANDMARK TUESDAY MAY 8 1055 Part of Mr Molotov's Bog of Tricks 4 uWSk shMi 1 MS5M HEA Service lc They Were All Power Mad Recently American newspapers carried a photograph of Rudolf Hess once the No 2 nazi in Hitler's hierarchy now a gaunt wild staring madman It was a stark remind er that exactly 10 years ago the darkness of total defeat was closing in upon Hitler and his evil henchmen They were not all pathologically insane like Hess who by then had flown off to England on a weird mission to enlist British support for the war against Soviet Russia But they were obsessed by power The nazi regime had nothing else It had no philosophy of government Its doctrines of the Aryan were mere window dressing for the excesses of a bloody tyran ny It had no social program Nazism was a cult of power nothing more Its leaders worshiped power for its own sake When their world began to crum ble about them and it was clear Hitler had to go they quarreled and schemed among themselves for what they imagined would be nazi control of a postwar German govern ment That was one of their great follies for the victorious democracies never had the slightest intention of handing even a tattered shred of power to any nazi When the allied armies had crushed them what a transformation had come over that strutting crew of brutal men Hitler Goebbels and Himmler were dead by their own hands Ribbentrop once the dashing champagne salesman later top diplo mat was found cringing in a dark hideout Goering a rumpled hulk yielded himself to capture with no trace of bravado Martin Bormann simply vanished It was hard to believe that these shells and ghosts of men had built a colossal mili tary juggernaut and sent it hurtling east and west across Europe spreading ruin and death to many millions It was hard to be lieve these men had visited a plague of evil upon the earth for 12 long years But they had eeding upon human an xieties arising from another war and from the troubles of baffling industrial age they had seized the reins oi a strong nation and deformed it until it fit their wicked designs And when they learned they could not impose their designs upon the most power ful lands beyond the German borders they exposed the full depth of their viciousness by trying to bring down the house as they collapsed Hitler even urged that Germany itself be ravaged to prevent the allies from using its resources In this ghastly purpose to cheat the win ners of the fruits of victory the nazis did not wholly fail or they left Europe a smok ing heap of rubble stripped of its reserves of wealth and much of its young manpower They left an aching vacuum of power which beckoned irresistibly to the new colossus Soviet Russia They left a heritage of pro blems that may haunt us for many decades Yes doctors likely will say that only Hess among these men was truly insane But by the broad measure humanity must apply they were all mad for visiting upon the world this tragedy of ruin and privation and pain orceful Gesture The American submarine Nautilus has al ready successfully demonstrated the prac ticability of atomic powered ocean vessels But the Nautilus being a warship can never serve as an emissary bearing this hopes of peace to ports all around the globe Therefore it was welcome news that the United States intends to build an atomic merchant ship to be sent around the world as a symbol of this desire to apply nuclear energy for peaceful purposes No plan has so caught the imagination of the world as did President atoms for peace proposal in December 1953 But Russian reluctance has stymied any real action in that direction and meantime peo ples hungry for relief from war have seen no concrete demonstration of the atom's pos sibilities for peace A ship powered with nuclear fuel is no substitute for a daring global plan to divert energies away from the making of weapons But as token evidence of what might happen in a climate of better interna tional understanding it can be a forceful gesture We must begin somewhere No Need ear The announcement that some youngsters who were inoculated with Salk polio vaccine as produced by a particular firm have since contracted polio should be taken in calm stride by the American people By and large the parents who first al lowed their children to participate in the great test of this vaccine responded with firm good sense That same attitude is called for now The authorities do not believe the vaccine is at fault but they have withdrawn this particular batch as a precaution Obviously the matter requires the kind of intensive study that was given to all phases of the original test Until that study has been made there is no reason to jump to con clusions That is the advice of Dr James Salk him self There is no need for fear or panic The American people are too steady a lot to fall into that Surely they will wait patient ly while the cases in question are investi gated Statesville Record Landmark Published every afternoon except Sunday by Statesville Daily Record Inc The Landmark was founded in 1874 the Daily Record in 1931 The two were merged May 6 1954 I1USKINS President and General Manager JIM TAYLOR Managing Editor CARL ELTS Circulation Manager MRS MIDDLESWORTH Secretary Treasurer JOHN KISER Advertising Manager MELVIN YARNALL Mechanical Superintendent National Advertising Representative: Inland Newspaper Representatives Inc Wrigley Bldg Chicago Ill 41 42nd St New York Entered as Second Class Matter at post office in Statesville SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail tin Iredell county area) one year $750 six 75 three months $190 (else where) one $850 six months $425 three $225 By cairicr: one week 2b cents one SUtOO: six $500 Drew Pearson on the Washington Merry Go Round WASHINGTON It hasn't been announced yet but the army en gineers will burrow under Green land's mighty icecap this summer and if successful run subway trains beneath the packed snow and ice just as subways now run under New York city This spectacular project known as Operation Icecube is awaiting final approval by the Danish authorities who govern Greenland A volunteer construction crew of six officers and 172 men command ed by Lt Elmer Clark is standing by to begin the danger ous tunneling through the solid million car old ice Their work will be supervised by 60 scientists all artic specialists Using the latest snow tunneling equipment they will bore 100 feet below the ice to build this unique deep freezo subway Purpose is to link scattered artic outposts by fast electric trains that will streak under the icecap with troops and supplies Greenland stands a mammoth stationary in the path of soviet bombers that could strike America from artic bases Actually the island is a huge submerged valley packed to the brim with snow' that spills over the moun tainous outer riin into the sea This tremendous snowdrift ac cumulated for centuries is nearly two miles deep at some points The surface is Sahara of snow whipped by winds over 150 miles an hour frozen by stark 70 bclow temperature is a constant 13 de grees below zero Besides protection from the ter rible storms and severe temper atures the proposed under ice transportation system would be safe from detection by enemy bombers Already the army en gineers have built sinking artic outposts whose buildings are de signed like submarines to stink on an even ked leaving only antennas and hatchways poking abote the show Construction on the artic sub way will begin in July probably near Thule air force hasc The first effort will be experimental to determine how feasible the pro ject is Cost is expected to ntn no more than it takes to build an average two lanc concrete high way Rut Its value may be immeasur able in conquering the forbuJding but strategic another tri umph for American ingenuity Hall Gt Panned Genial barrcn bcancd Lcn Hall chairman of the GOP National committee has to carry a lot of gripes and trouble on his broad shoulders He is used to most of them takes them in his stride But he was flabbergasted when an explosive gripe was delivered in his office by an old backer of the Aeronautics board Ryan is the friend of Pan American Airways who from his vantage point on the CAR had helped deliver im portant routes to the big gest airline" Though Pryor con sistently io his writer and that Ryan was a friend of Pan Am or had done any favors he seemed to have forgotten these denials when he talked to Hall Hall was too amazed to say very much during the interview but af terward he remarked to associates that never in his life had anyone ever talked to him that way and he going to let it happen again NOTE: Ryan has been replaced on the CAB by Ross Rizlcy a straight shooting former GOP na tional committeeman from Okla homa who doesn't favor the big airlines anl has been doing one of the best jobs in the CAB in recent years Other Chinese Islands other 400 guerrillas use the Islands as bases for raids against the mainland Yet they would be no match for a junk borne invasion army of 35000 reds known to be massing for the assault Communist patrol boats have al ready taken soundings and charted the approaches to the two islands The attack is expected early in May Merry Go Round Reader of the Clarksburg Va Exponent rubbed their eyes in amazement when they saw Westbrook name over column praising ranklin Roose veil on the tenth anniversary of his death They wondered whether Peg had had a reformation or a stroke What happened was that a typesetter put name over my column printed on the anni versary of death The House Anti Monopoly com mittee will investigate bank mer gers as its first order of business LYNN AROUND vice to be Thomas Stokes Governor Hod The Political ront The current been lack Governor Answer to Previous Puzzle On the Air Waves The Doctor Says CAT'S EYE "CLOCK" 0313 ItaBBawEiaEj Instead of inviting administratioi officials to start off the testimony however the committee will listen to congressmen first Norris Nelson the executive director ol the Republican Education founda tion boasts that he never grad uated from high school Yet he's in charge of an educational foun dation This is the foundation which arranged for the birthday celebra tion of the Grand Old party in Wisconsin recently The navy hopes to build a fleet of midget submarines powered by small compact power plants The Russians have surrounded their key cities with rocket powered later appointed Industrial coin 32 Mud 33 Dines 41 Station (ab) 43 Lamprey 45 Bay if angry servative management This in volves removing the pressure on the inflamed and thickened tissues The shoes must fit well and 24 Experts 25 eminine appellation 26 Small bottle 27 name 29 Mountain (comb form) military background where are ordered better is more susceptible to per harassment by confusion the institution over which temporary steward the Chinese peasants believe they can tell the noon hour by look ing into a eyes Even on clouded days the pupil becomes a slit when the sun is directly over head ACROSS 1 Air waves personality Edwards 4 He is a actor 9 One of his roles is that of a teen hero 12 Exist 13 Constellation 14 Insane 15 Charge 16 Prayer endings 17 ollower 18 Compound ether 20 Senior 22 snake 24 Goddess of tasan bhue party quarreling within itself which he has done already to an extent that is really beyond be lief for a party leader in the Sen ate The range of his insurgency is without precedent It must have tried the Presi patience almost to the break ing point That is what worries loyal Eisenhower lieutenants who like most other practical politi cians in both parties see the renomination as the only possible way for the party to remain in power They have re lied on the President up to now to keep the Eisenhower wing of the party predominant which he has done and they had looked him to be their champion in 1956 But they can see now how that can no longer be counted certain or ormosa is not the only source of discord within the par ty It has become a divisive fac tor just at the time when other old hobgoblins of issues that pro mote party friction are rushing forward to the public stage Once again there is the Bricker amend ment to shear Presidential auth ority in foreign policy which was defeated by only a single vote in the last Congress It is a pet pro ject of the Knowland faction In the orbit that now swings about Senator Knowland are found too those most hostile to the another administration project ex tension of the Reciprocal Trade law which is before the Senate this week Around these issues revolves the bitter conflict within the Republi can party If they are allowed to get out of hand die party may find itseljj without the only candidate who seems to have a chance to win for it next year break out in a quarter from which monstrated capacity to keep ttie a President of the United States and head of a political party would least expect it Meaning the repeated defiance by the Republican leader in the Senate Senator William Knowland of California who is in fact the aggressive and pro vocative head of the newest re bellion against the course in the ormosa sector So serious in fact does the Califor nia Senator seem to regard this issue that he is holding behind his back in effect a tacit threat to quit as party leader in the Sen ate if anything is done toward ne gotiating a peace in the ar East without Chiang Kai shek of whom visits are not unwelcome at GOP except for this one This time he came storming into Chairman Hall's office fit tied am going to get you the last thing I the Pryor told the genial Hall And he proceeded to blame the GOP committee for failure to re appoint Oswald Ryan to the Civil Chou En latest olive branch may be communist camouflage to hide war moves along the Chinese coast Intelligence reports that a red assault is imminent against two nationalist held coastal not Qucmoy and Matsu but two whose names brok en into the headlines They arc Wuchiu and Pinghai two small nationalist outposts lying mid way between Qucmoy and Matsu Their capture would cut one side of the Qucmoy Matsu ormosa triangle and provide bases for harassing nationalist sup ply lines Wuchiu is defended by 1800 tough nationalist troops the Pin fighters which can fly short di ghai garrison is even smaller An tance at tremendous speeds WASHINGTON revolt of the extreme right wing of the Republican party against the President dramatized now over ormosa is nothing new as we recognize This rebellion has broken out sporadically ever since the administration took of fice But now because of circumstan ces and timing it seems to be more serious at least it is so re garded by Eisenhower loyalists They are assessing its potential in terms of the national convention only 16 months away and in terms of the project they hope to accomplish at that con vention that is the renomina tion of the President The President for whom thejhe is the outstainding champion White House job has not been the being consulted at every step of happiest of experiences would be less than human if he did not find the prospect of extended tenure less and Idss inviting if it is to mean continued frustration and bafflement because of a warring and divided party His close frie nds in the party know that One of his things much sonal within he is Republican party than would be one long inured to politics No one however not even a hardened career politican could have been more patient than has he through all the vicissitudes of a split political household They began back with the Senator Joe McCarthy battle that finally quiet ed down only to have trouble the way The latest Knowland defi was the more unpalatable in that he was immediately joined by Sena tor William Jenner (R Ind) which puts the Republican Senate leader in the company of a figure (for whom the White House is kno wn to hold very scant regard a mong other reasons because of his vicious attacks on Gen George Marshall Senator Knowland is the only outstanding leader in the party who never has joined the Ike in movement insisting that the party should not have a He has therefore kept himself in a clear position to lead an anti Eisenhower campaign within the party though just where he would drum up an army of any size is not now appar ent But it is not in that possible guerrilla leader role that Eisen hower leaders fear him so much since that seems even beyond Sen ator doing Rather they tear him because of his de 47 Sharpens as a razor 48 Roster 49 wife 50 Low sand hill 52 Alms 53 Goddess of discord 54 Pause a 57 Note in scale 58 Swiss river 59 Route (ab) HCJI Ud iQQII cut a hole in the shoe around the bunion so that there is no pres sure on it at all Heat may also relieve the tenderness and reduce the swelling Sometimes such treatment is enough but unfortunately some are so bad that more heroic mea sures are necessary Surgery may be the only answer At times part of the difficulty is the accumula tion 6f fluid which can be removed by a needle or small cut But often an operation whidj involves removal of the excekr tissue making up the bunion is necessary Just the right amount has to be taken out and then the bones of the big toe have to be placed in the proper position and held there (usually by plaster of Paris cast) until healing takes place It is not a quick or par ticularly comfortable procedure but is often highly successful GOP He was Sam Pryor former GOP National Committeman from Con necticut a Wendell Wilkie cam paign manager and now president and chief lobbyist for Pan American Airways Pryor has helped to raise a lot of money BY EDWIN JORDAN MD Written for NEA Service It is impossible to guess at the misery caused by bunions and this is unnecessary too since almost sometimes it is even necessary to all bunions could have been pre vented A bunion is really a form of bursitis which develops at the base of the big toe The tip of the toe has been bent inward so that the joint at its base is subject to pres sure and irritation which leads to the development of the bunion It is a swelling of the lining of the joint and the skin over this becomes thickened and reddened and the whole area extremely sen sitive to pressure Almost all people who have bunions could have avoided them They are usually the result of wearing improperly fitted shoes whicih are too narrow too pointed or too short Bitinions are practically unknown amom'g those who do not wear shoes though this solution is scarcely practical for us today Prevention however can be accomplished by carcfid attention to the fitting of shoes so that the angulation of the toe which leads to bunion forma tion js averted Once established however what can be done for a bunion? A bunion which has not been present too long aund which is not too bad often gets along pretty well under con rOUTlCS Immediate interest of the business and politically mind ed is with the pending revenue bill What new taxes will be in cluded and when will the bill be reported out of committee are the most frequent questions Experienced observers arc cer tain that there are political man euverings with far reaching impli cations going on behind the scenes What bothers oldtimcrs most is that these maneuvers apparently are difficult to evaluate Naturally most of 'hem involve Gov Luther Hodges and the unique situation of a chief executive serving during a General Assembly with prospect of being a candidate to succeed himself the following year Politi cal motives arc a tributed to al most everything the Governor does or says even though he may not be conscious of any such consider ations Governor Hodges is not the only enigma Politica experts are equal ly puzzled at act'ons of the fisca' experts in the budget bureau and finance commiVccs They find it diffii ult to rations ize reduction of $24 million almost 50 per cent in the estimates of new revenue re quired to balance the budget Econ omic conditions have improved all over since the original estimates were made and legislation enact ed or certain to be passed will make possible some savings in sta te government expenses These changed conditions are not general ly thought to be significant enough or unforeseeable enough within themselves to justify cutting in half the estimates made in December Many observers think there is some additional reason but they cannot satisfy themselves as to what it is VACILLATING Almost as puz zling is the vacillating policy of the budget makers switching al most daily from one favored source of taxes to another The tobacco tax the soft drink tax the auto mobile stamp tax overall exten sion of the sales tax and other pro Dosals have been in and out of favor among the leaders without apparent reason In that respect the current Legislature differs from the 1931 1933 and 1935 ses sions latest previous occasions when revenue problems were a cute In those sessions the admin istration program handled by the finance committees was fixed and constant The vacillations came from down the line after the bills reached' the floor This time there has of consistency on part of the ad ministration although Hodges has been consistent in say ing the question of where to get taxes is for the General Assembly not the Governor to decide Mean time the revenue seekers have not been quite sure of the degree of support or opposition the Gover nor would give to any particular item Result has been an unusual number of trial balloons sent up and then put back in their han gars The biennial budget report was prepared by an advisory budget commission named during the ad ministration of the late Governor Umstead Although signed by Gov ernor Hodges after he assumed I nffire it was laraelv the ideas of 1 Governor Umstead and his direct or indirect appointees This is the first time a Governor has signed a budget report largely preparedby another Governor and had to defend it in a legislature at a time when he is a candidate to succeed himself That explains Governor lack of enthusiasm for some of the budget proposals and necessity for the trial balloons It is more im portant than usual to have a tax bill that will not be too unpopular That is where the back scene pol itical maneuvering comes in SCOTT Some observers see in this situation the shadow of the personality and the influence of Kerr Scott They see evidence of Gov Luther Hodges and ex Gov now US Senator Kerr Scott They cite these items: During the campaign last full when Hodges was still licutenan governor but generally regarded a candidate for Governor in 195G it was easily discernible that he was me pouilar with the Scott ''le nient in the party than with the Umstead group It was often heard H33IBI3SQE3EI igwhejiSqqh i i ma Ea CJ 63 airy fort 64 ruit drink 65 Biblical weeds 66 East (r) DOWN 1 Out of danger 2 Greek war god 3 Encounter 4 Bellows 5 Upper limb 6 Expire 7 Electrified particle 8 Beginning 9 Among 10 ence opening 31 In a line i niver in Germany 19 Auricle 21 Permit 23 son i enp A Square that if Hubert Olive runs again many who voted for Umstead in 1952 would support him while many for Republican campaigns and his who voted for Olive in 1SU2 would switch to Hodges in event of a con test between them The first major appointment by Governor Hodges was to name rank Huskins a special judge with the statement he would be ap pointed a regular judge if the dis tricting bill was enacted Huskins was one of Governor chief lieutenants in the 1919 road bond fight and was chairman of the mission by Scott Recently when ges was seeking a man to head up the small industry promotion cam paign he picked Capus Waynick former ambassador to Nicaragua and Colombia and organizer of the Point IV propram to aid backward countries in self development The Waynick selection was hailed as a happy one because of his qualifi cations and experience But the politicians remember that he man aged successful campaign for Governor in 1948 Early this year the Governor told newsmen he was thinking about asking that the Utilties Commission be changed back to a three mem ber board but later said he had decided the five man quasi court plan adopted by Governor Scott in 1949 is better And the of S4 million year saving in government operations and the currently favored $5 to $10 special automobile tax came from sug gestions by Rep A Speight of Bertie one of the staunchest sup porters of Governor and Senator Scott ILLOGICAL The 'folks who point out these instances admit they are not being very logical Politicians are not always govern ed by logic If they were they might recall that neither Kerr Scott nor Luther Hodges has ever been defeated for an elective of fice although they have not been early favorites of the would be king makers Any sort of allaince or combination embracing Kerr Scott and Luther Hodges will be a very potent force for a Jong time in North Carolina politics Because of his lack of active positive support for any particular tax Governor Hodges will not be held personally responsible for its enactment If the budget is balanced and state services main tained he will be in the happy position to claim credit for his ad ministration and still avoid the per sonal odium of sponsoring obnox ious taxes Capitol RE I 21 teg El 6 CL Elfc uIkIsI ALE 5 isls fa elEAX A Gp EP I nRy I is 8 25 H1 13 ETTTT1 28 Wand 17 if i 30 Domesticated 34 Cover 15 Ifc 17 i 35 Anger 38 iber knots ZT 39 ft Ijga eh thMp 3J js gjj 44 Cravat jJT" 48 ortification ST 05 55iidividuaid a is 154 1 56 Acquire 77 knowledge 5b 5) SB 60 Mineral rock 61 Important Dl A nl Ti TTfl ata QEI SI3EJS a EJ is.