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-THE DAILY COURIER. CONNEU-SVILLE. PA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 1.

1945. THE COU1UER COB1PANT JAMES j. DWSCOLL Fnddnt OaMnl Mir. a. A.

OONIGAN and Tmpim WALTia S. STDOOI. Kdltar JAMES St. OR1SCOU. AMOCtata BHtor JOSS I.YNNX B.

KQKXU, SocMy UHor J. WYLM DWSCOLL Itolimi lift. PAUL V. DWSCOLL Supt Member Audit Bumu ot Ctrculattooa Pennsylvania Nvwipcper PnbUdMn AnoeUtton Bureau of P. A.

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Pa. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBCI 1, IMi. Clique Ignores Byrnes There's a grave sltutloi, affecting tie Nation, the operatloi of, the State Department. Underlings are trying to rnn the department, and succeeding to a degree. They're nndernlnlng It.

The condition Is aot new. Secretary Hall knew It Secretary Stettlnlns, too. Secretary Byrnes fa iarlng no better at the hands of the cllqae. Polities may present a fall expose. Read Paid Mallon's letter on this page.

Raising False Issues Democratic States. Committee bringing politics Into the effort of tie Administration of Governor Edward Martin'to clear Pennsylvania streams of pollution. It is attempting to confuse the situation by raising the question as to whether it Is to be the policy of the Commonwealth to require municlpilities to Install sewage disposal plants prior to the time streams have been cleared of Industrial wastes and acid mine water. There ia every evidence the committee is not that it Is trying to hamper the efforts of the. Governor and the Legislature which pure streams legislation.

Governor Martin is interested in seeing all streams freed of all kinds of pollution at the earliest possible time. Important measures to that end were enacted, by' the 1945 Legislature, the foremost of which was the Brunner bill to prevent discharge, of silt and add mine drainage into streams not already polluted. A complementary measure makei. it mandatory for municipalities to provide sewage disposal systems. What matter is it whether mine acid or sewage is first disposed of as a means of ending pollution? The Administration is honest in its efforts' to return all streams ffi'thelr once pristine purity and beauty; the limitless possibilities for recreation and safety to the public health.

Furtherfore, the Legislature, urged by the Governor, permits local government units, to set up municipal authorities to finance sewage disposal. A $1,000,000 was appropriated, to be disbursed by the Postwar Planning Commission to aid local governments in thi9' It covers up to 50 per cent of the cost of architectural or engineering work. Through these, measure.s; Pennsylvania would ultimately be an adequate, supply of pure water for all'purposes. The Democratic Committee is seeking to introduce for no other than its own political purposes. Let nobody be fooled thereby.

Motor Car Inspections Procrastination is a rather common human There are times when this may become annoying. One is the tendency to delay the semi-annual inspection of automobiles. The current Pennsylvania period ends January 31, 1946. Citing the acute shortage of automobile mechanics caused by the war, the Pennsylvania Motor Federation and Its 61 affiliated AAA automobile clubs are urging motorists not to wait until "the last minute" to have cars inspected, advantages of prompt action are cited. Among them are: Assurance that through avoiding a last-minute rush, the motorist will not run the risk of being without his or her car for several days-after the deadline for inspections, due to garages being overcrowded with -work.

An early check-u? will also prove advantageous to motorists in that it will put their cars in shape for winter driving, and necessary changes for severe winter weather conditions can be made at the same time the car is bting inspected. The Motor Federation calls attention to a well-known fact, namely that many cars have reached the limit of endurance and are becoming a menace to safety on the highways. Inspection will be a safeguard against accidents resulting from mechanical defects. The motor code makes mandatory adjustments on such machines within the inspection period if the owner desires to operate after the January 31 deadline. On the assumption that there's so tuuch bad fn the best of us and so much good in the worst, Corporal John Deveny qf Los Angeles has elected to stand by his wife, 24, who ran away with a 16-year-old "It's a husband'? duty to wife," the corporal philosophizes.

It might be to have the wifely head examined. WASHINGTON, Dec. Pat Hurley said was true. Tor many months, evidence -has been leaking from the State Department suggesting the permanent underlying clique was unsympathetic with top and undermining it in subtle ways. Yet there was nothing sufficiently provable to warrant printing.

(The men within the department who have noticed the condition have been so frightened they dared not speak, even privately, outside of-- the Because of the stands they have taken within the department they knew they were suspect to '-the reigning group, and occasionally thought were being followed or their telephone conversations tapped. Even business men dealing there have noticed the condition, compared notes about. it among themselves, and wondered its extent. But until the retiring ambassador to China spoke out with direct charges, the matter never reached the public State Secretary Byrnes, my informants say, does not know the tacts, nor did his predecessor, Mr. Stettinius.

Byrnes promised a departmental reorganization and brought on a few top but this was as far as his reorganization The- clique was strengthened under Stettinius, who functioned largely as a personal-representative of the President, allowing the department to run'itself. And today, more men are being taken into the clique than are, leaving it. The various-bureaucratic -holdovers of the Roosevelt regime, losing their war jobs in other, departments, have been seeking couches in State. It is a peculiar condition and Has never been accurately de- 9ned, riot by Mr. Hurley in bis restricted men of, the clique do not hold meetings and agree to undermine this or that.

They are merely of one mind on some basic For one thing, they are uasymr pathetic with American foreign policy, today. For another, they agree in their 'distrust of anyone who would question Russia in the slightest upon any subject. They are not Communists but their minds are guided by the Communist grooves of thought. Objectionable things art: to them "fascistic." Hence Chiang Kai-Shek is a Fascist; a Democracy. they branch off from Communist grooves to others strangely enough.

The British have the best diplomacy, they think; hence Britain likewise can do no wrong They are known also as "the striped trousers set," affecting the uniform of the' Downing Street diplomats beyond necessities. To define what specific undermining they do is difficult. They are an invisible wall of resistance. Hurley had two "men in the Far Eastern division in his charges. These two, he apparently caught telling the Chinese to pay no attention to him, and spreading around at cocktail parties the notion that 'the American foreign policy was' temporary, that it would not" back Chungking in postwar.

Beyond this apparently he had' no convincing evidence. His purpose in reversing himself abruptly and deciding to quit with 'a challenging public statement, was to force a congressional investigation. A- thorough one no doubt would force a reorganization which not even a Secretary State has be'en able to effect in his own department. Before Byrnes and Stettinius, Mr. Hull knew very well what was going on.

He could read "in the papers daily the planted news leaked from his department Jigainst him, and he thought Sumner Welles, his assistant, was doing Welles was only the temporary outlet for the clique within. Not even Hull could do much. Mr. Byrnes has indicated his intention to smile away the matter, and there is danger that the Democratic Adminisration will treat it politically. Hurley is a Republican, and his efforts for a congressional inquiry may be shunted off as a political attack.

If the inquiry fails to develop, the Americanization of the State Department may await a future generation'. There is talk that Byrnes will quietly start housecleaning to forestall an inquiry, but he must necessarily use a whiskbroom where DDT is called for. Unless something done, Mr. Byrnes will find it increasingly difficult to effectuate his'foreign policy which is sufficiently popular with the country to have passed beyond public or congressional criticism, except from this one clique, and the few newspapers and magazines of like mind. Incidentally, General Marshall, was chosen by President Truman in Hurley's place, kept himself conspicuously above this kind ot political diplomacy during the war.

His aloof attitude was just what the Chinese situation called far. The cornerstone oJ the Nash county, North Carolina, court- louse contains a quart "of Nash county brandy. i 1 uman I merest A ngle and Comments on Happenings Out ot the Ordinary. Jim Resseger Sets Great Record as Solicitor, His Successor Six Feet, Foiir As a solicitor in numerous drives in the community, James Resseger, who retired this weiik as assistant trainmaster ol the Baltimore Ohio Railroad's Pittsburgh Division, East End, had. a knack that was remarkable.

An example is found in the number of memberships written: by him in the annual, campaign of the Baltimore Ohio Christian Association. Jim turned in, in his own name, 256, out a total of 1,142 written by four employe groups. It is said that numerous others were signed by him and credited to fellow workers. We have no figures on his in selling war bonds, but they an said to have been excellent--par'excellent. Jim was assistant trainmaster here four years and was a hard work He was a member of the Rotary Club and served for'a period of three months as its program chairman.

Recently he was speaker at a keekly club luncheon, discussing in a masterful way the'Diesel engine, on which he is said be, an He has gone back to his old stamping'ground at Willard, Ohio, where Mrs. Resseger" will join him. I The new assistant to Trainmaster William E. Boyland is a former Tennesseean. He's a striking figure physically.

He stands six feet, four inches--is said to be by all odds the tallest official on the Pittsburgh Division. He. is able, to "look down," over his glasses, on the division chieftain, Superintendent C. C. Pitcher of Pittsburgh who tops -six- feet.

Oh, yes, his name--4t'si Edward E. Arma- trciut. He came here from Pittsburgh, where he was assistant to the road foreman of engines. Before taking the Pittsburgh terminal, position he was a fuel instructor Ohio, and before that a freight engineer. Others of the family are Mrs.

Armatrout, a daughter in college'in Cleveland and a son in high They will-locate here when a home a be found. Ira D. Ydiinkin Rounds 20 Perfect Years in Rotary, When- Ira David Younkin, whose friends know him better' as Dave, made his way to the weekly luncheon of- the Rotary' Club Thursday noon he had established a record any'service club member would be proud to possess--20 years' of perfect attendance. This means he was- at every 8tated meeting of the club or "made up" by attending a meeting'of some other club 'within a prescribed time. Fortune has favored Dave through the years.

That-will have to be. admitted, for he has never been because of illness. But that was not all. There were many days when real effort was required io. be-on hand.

There was determination behind, his regularity. "I have to be thankful for good health," Dave said. "In that respect-1 have been more fortunate than many I have.found a lot of pleasure in my club membership. I hope I can keep up 'my record for a long time." Dave became a member of the club November 26, 1925. He served, as president for the year beginning July 1, 1942; His Rotary classification is wholesale produce merchandising.

HOESLESS SHAYS It's a mystery how they hold together as they go along the street Clanking, rattling Junk heaps that once were new and, neat: With missing lenders, broken bumpers, and bodies torn and wrecked, Metal tarnished or rusted away and' windows soiled and' cracked. As I-watch thesb; battered wrecks go by, clanking on their way, I'm reminded the story of the famous one hpss shay; It was so -old and worn that It fell apart from shame. And I wouldn't be surprised: 11 lome of the old cars did the same. RALPH KESSLEK Out of the Past Local History From Courier Files. FOKTY TEARS AGO A shooting match, is held at Hetzel's slaughter house in New Haven.

"Everybody come and get a turkey for Thanksgiving," the invitation reads. will have 100 turkeys 'and 100 chickens. Every person come and. have some fun." The annual union Thanksgiving service of Connellsville churches is held in the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Apple street. Music is furnished by a quartet composed of Mrs.

A. W. Bishop, Mrs. Herbert Knox, L. A.

Howard and Dr, Carl S. Horner. Youghiogheny Council No. 948, Knights; of Columbus, entertains at its sixth annual-reception and dance in Pritchard's Hall. THUITY YEARS AGO Miss Grace Reagan of Broad Ford entertains the Busy Bee Club of the Adelaide Methodist Sunday School at her home.

Out-ot-tQwn guests are.Hay Johns, Charles Harper, Lewellyn Townsend, Quay Berwick, Ellis Colbert and Ruby Bush, all of Dawson, and John Shallenberger of Scottdale. Two bloodhounds owned by Hawkins and Harris of Fairmont pass through Connellsville on their way to Ohiopyle, to try to trace thugs who held up Justice I. L. Collins of Stewart township. Joshua Torrance, 81, the last Civil War veteran in Lower Tyrone township, dies-at the home of his daughter, Mrs.

James M. Murtland of Lower Tyrone. TWENTY YEARS AGO E. who for a number of years operated a printing, establishment at Mount Pleasant, dies at his home there. 'An ordinance is drawn up by the city solicitor for a 44-foot retaining wall to be erected along the west side of South Arch street.

Thomas H. Hudson'is appointed by Governor Pinchqt as president judge of the Fayette county courts, to become effective at the expiration of the term of Judge E. H. Reppert, who became the late Judge J. Q.

Van Swearingen's successor! progress is made in construction -of initial hydro-electric development of West Penn System subsidiary, the West Virginia Power Transmission Company, on the CJieat River near the West Virginia-Pennsylvania state line. The dam, spanning the Cheat, is now more than three-quarters completed. TEN YEARS AGO Rev. Paul E. Porath is installed as pastor of St.

John's German Lutheran Church. Members of the church council are Carl Sandusky, Paul Sandusky, Joseph Rusnack, William Rosendale, Robert Tishman, Bert. Krumanacker, Harry McElhaney, Michael Gogliu and W. H. Blocker.

The Lutheran Church at West Newton burns the mortgage on an educational unit pf Babson Urges Holding Back Some Gash, Federal Bonds By ROGER W. BABSON NEW YORK am still bullish. Although the stock market may have a break to correct technical conditions, .1 believe that it will be some time before the current bull market collapses. There are many sons for this: 1 The tremendous 'backlog of unfilled orders; Z.j The tax reductions for 1946; 3. The very low iritei'eit rates, which mean that even at present stock prices one secure with safety, a better interest return bariks or bdnda; 4.

The scarcity of good 1 There are today fewer stocks listed the New York Stock Exchange than there were five years ago; witfc five as much idle money awaiting, inves merit; 5. The wage rumpus arid accompanying strikes will only; delay good times; or prevent them. Besides, chancise -stocks and leisure stocks wage 6. mostl total should benefit from all increases; The fact- that stocks are owned outright 'and that stock exchange transaction's are today only six, per cent pf national income compared! with '105 per cent Keep Some Cash In view of the above, some readers wonder why I''also advise keeping some cash and Governments on hand. The reason Is because of the one chance in 10 of a severe break the.market.

This might give such extraordinary opportunities. for reinvestment that it is always advisable to keep a certain amount of cash on hand for this "one. in 10" chance! As an illustration of what I have in mind, let me "refer to an investment list recently issued'by a very high-grade Stock.Exchange firm. It is titled. "Eight Attractive Stocks." These stocks today sell at an 'average price pf and give an average yield of 3.65 per cent.

Yet these same eight stocks sold at an average of only $5 iii. 1932. Th above does not mean that in the next bear market these' eight "high-grade" stocks will reach their 1932 lows, but most of them may go. down these figures. 1 At rate, the.

-discrepancy is so that it pays to keep a certain, amount' of funds available for rare opportunities when, as, and if they return, More Inflation Ahead. It is nonsense to attempt to prevent either price increases or labor increases. Inflation has followed every great war. There', is. no other way of paying for such! a war.

We'must take our choice- between or Governs ment repudiation. I. have, beta warning readers of this for''th'e past five years. Those who took my advice are--sitting pretty There are two things that can happen in the present situation: (1) Unreasonably, high prices and profits which will result: in increased employment; unreasonably lower prices and.high wages which will' result in much unemployment. of these will win out, but, there, will, be a.

general compromise by both groups yielding. something. This, compromise may not suit anybody, but it should result in higher stock prices. On.the other hand, it is well to keep some funds liquid in case--one chance out of 10--something unexpected should happen. My Conclusion.

This column has always been successful in advising when to get GRAB BAG 'One-MlnriteTeST 1. For "state of Delaware 2. For what person was Maryland named? 3. For whom was New York named? Hints on Etiuette. Don't try to talk' across restaurant intervening seats in a crowded bus.

It is embarrassing for the one to you are talking and annoying to others. Matter of Color. In China if a building has yellow tiles on its." roof It is a place; brown is where civilians live, arid green an official Factographs Hainan is a large island in the China. Sea, situated south of and-forming, a department of'the province of Kwangtung. Its', area estimated as 16.000 square miles.

Strength for Your Daily'Task By EARL L. DOUGLASS, P. D. WHAT WE ARE COMES OUT All youth is promising; old age is often disillusioning and disappointing. To say this is not cynicism; it is only the realization that as life goes on we becomes less satisfied with what we are and what we have achieved.

As young are graduated from school and college, it must seem to them and to their friends that a life of unlimited achievement presents itself in brilliant outline before them. But by the time middle tege has arrived, these hopeful young idealists have many defeats. Their powers have been challenged, their weaknesses revealed. Huskin never wearied of saying that whatever faults an artist may have, -they are always reproduced in his work. What we are comes out last, and since we are all a composite of good and evil, our achievements as we 1 go through life reflect both weakness and power.

This need not discourage us for it is the experience of everyone. But it should act as a warning against the development in our lives of weak- that may be our undoing. Unless a weakness is early checked, it grows like sweet honeysuckle over all other powers and. robs them of their strength, as the honeysuckle destroys the shrubs 'over which it climbs. The object of life is not success but growth, and the process of growth requires the blast of winter as well as the sweet per-- susion of.

spring. But what we are will inevitably come out, in late season or in early. into stock As to getting out, it is always more difficult. Preceding 1929 there were many danger signlas, but there were almost none preceding the decline in Certainly, conditions: are very much better today than in 1929 6r'1937 when business was uncertain and when 80 per cent of "the stocks "were held on borrowed money. Yet both.oi.-tbese' bull markets --1929 and 1 1937--were- followed by nose diyes'vin general business; certainly; this is.

not 'n evidence at the moment. Furthermore, rnoneyCrates were high in-those while; they today are very low with no chance of their only tty at. present is in. connection 'with labor strikes; and I have known anyone to make by selling'. stocks during labor; my personal "conclusion' is 'that" "both labor Teaders arid Mr.

Bowles will-retreat from their present ab unreasonable stands. If so, much more prosperity surely is ah.ead.and the- stock; market- is not -only. such a compromise will' much. unemployment be avoided; One-Minute Test Answers. 1.

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to the extremity, of bill short and curving, from.the.-base.' Sante Fe, New Mexico, is the second town United States." it was'settled'-by-'the Spanish in'1605. As Others Think WATER COMPANY SOLD (Greensburg Review) The Westnwreland Water Company has 'been 'sold by the Community- Service Water to John H. Ware, making the second-tiine in 18 years that- -the concern has changed ownership. This will be. of" interest to the people of Greensburg, Youngwood, Derry, Jeaririefte; Irwih, Penmand Manor, because 'they depend on the their water But bf particular interest to the people in 'communities, will be the announcement present management, as.

housed in the South Pennsylvania avenue headquarters, of water. cpjn- pariy here; will be-retained intact. The local head of that management is Morton W. Crownover. The people know Mr.

Crownover as a capable company executive who, gives his patrons, every consideration' possible, and as a highly, of the Greensburg community. The staff -he-has. under him is good" one, 1 It is be: hoped that Mr, now that owner-: ship in it growing.and providing even- better water 'serv-. ice for the' 'approximately' 70,000: families who are listed'as clients. Since 'Mr.

Ware was prominent in the public, eye when he sold Citizens Water. Company of Mt. Pleasant Scottdale -to -the Westmoreland County "Authority magnificent sum of $1,890,000 obtained management rights for 40 years," it was only natural that there should be public speculation -yesterday, at the. news of his buying the local water Some were prompt, without any reliable information, at hand, to jump to'the that Mr. Ware might have acquired the Westmoreland Water Company with the'intention of unloading it at a handsome profit-before many years have passed.

That was only guess work, and Mr. Ware should be given a fair chance to demonstrate whether lie has the public interest at heart in this deal. WINTER RESIDENT Mtv Bluejayj like some doorman Jn hisjmiforra of blue, Seems tHrun-lHS ieathered fellows as; those taxi-callers do. He stays'screaming from his station through- the. winter months and crear, And-I'll-swear that "Taxi! Taxi 1 is the summons that I hear.

AH the -other tirds -I'm- feeding -seem to live of in awe, As if hiwrtfoe- Lord had chosen to be minion, of: the: law. Some mistake hta-for-s "copper," as in truth. I seem do, For they fly away: in, terror when they sight that-coat of.blue..: Tve not fully learned the reason for the bluejayVharsh Nor why all his plainer seem to be of him'afraid. Still, I'm grateful' for his 'presence, though he; lacks the gHT-oi It is good to have him-with us all the dreary winter long. It took, faith to say and believe this a short time, ago, but events of three thousand years have-established Its truth of old time and in'these latter days; Pslam God is.

the. strength of iny heart, and- forever. Just Folks By EIJGAR A GUEST WHat Noted People Are Saying WASHINGTON --SSajor General Patrick Hurley adds fuel to the" controversy, over has resignation as ambassador China: "If I am compelled to veal places where'United States forces "have been'used in'support of ideologies foreign American' democracy and ideal for which we fought the war." WASHINGTON--Former Secretary of Hull denies he'touched the started .1 cnuld want all you religions- minded people to leave the 1 room." Radio Service 124 E. Gawford Ave. Phone 382 TIRES RECAPPED Grade --A" Oraelback Soisson Walk W.

Crawford 1st Street. Phone 868 WHEK YOU NEED PHONE 1000 SOUTH CONNELLSVILLE LUMBER CO. -Bear Anchor Hocking Plant; So. Connellsvllle, Pa. DEANNA DURBIN RALPH BELLAMY DAVID BRUCE STARTJ SOISSON TOMORROW! EflTJlf Last Dayl 6ABY GOOPEB "Northwest Mounted Police".