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THE EVENING INDEPENDENT 145 ERIE N. MASSILLON. ohlO FOUNDED 1863 Published Daily, Except Sunday by Earl J. Jones Enterprises, Inc. 5 CENTS A COPY 30 CUNTS A WEEK WED BECKER Editor JOHN E.

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9, 1948 One-Minute Pulpit Yc should follow his steps. Peter 2:21. What Do They Mean? Secretary of State Marshall, appearing before the senate foreign relations committee when it opened hearings an the Marshall plan for economic aid tp 16 western European nations, made (Jiree things quite clear to the legislators who the job of setting up whatever aid the United States will provide for economic recovery in Europe. These three things were: That Soviet Russia and the Communist party will "oppose and sabotage" the program in every possible way. 1 That the administration and the state department will fight any attempt by congress to set up a separate agency to administer Marshall plan funds and either assistance.

"There cannot be two Secretaries of Secretary Marshall fold the committee. That if congress is unwilling to provide all the money (more than $17 billion- dollars) the administration wants for a four-year long-range European economic program it should drop the program entirely. 'I There is little doubt Russia, now engaged in an energetic communist expansion in Europe, will do everything it can to wreck any effort by the United States to assist nations still outside the communist orbit. But. Secretary Marshall told the senate committee, he is certain the U.

S. can put the Marshall plan into effect and see it succeed. That the state department wants to handle the Marshall plan is quite evident from the secretary's opposition to creation of a separate agency. The state Department, however, has not been too in the past in its lavish efforts to help Europe. A business-like administration of the Marshall plan would tiring greater benefits and such businesslike administration can only come from in agency set up and operated by business men, and not by politicians, and the starry eyed "experts" who now the state department offices.

The secretary also in quite blunt 'words told the committee that if congress did not see fit to give the Marshal! plan, as proposed by President Truman, blanket approval it should drop it. "Either undertake to meet the requirements of the problem or don't it at all," he said. i Which means that the administration that nothing less than the $17 dollars it has asked for the. next four years or the $6.800,000,000 it wants for the first 15 months, starting April 1. -m-ill do the job.

Be that as it may, one wonder? just Thcrw thoroughly acquainted the administration is with the Marshall plan and objectives when compared, to its attitude on domestic issues. The day before Marshall appeared before the committee, the state depart- ment released a lengthy appraisal of the proposed plan in which it strongly urged western Europe to turn away from planned economics and embrace lhe principles of free enterprise as the quickest and surest route to economic recovery. One wonders how President Truman felt about that because on the same day he was appearing before congress requesting the legislators to grant him standby wage-price controls and rationing authority to re-impose upon Americans the very things his state department was telling Europeans to toss into the ash can. With that kind of thinking going on in administrative offices in Washington, congress certainly would be derelict in its duty to the American people if it swallowed the administration's Marshall plan, lock, stock and barrel, withoul giving it a thorough and searching scrutiny. In the welter of confusion now existing in administration circles in Washington the job of putting the plan on a business-like basis while at the same time safeguarding the Amen-' can economy will be strictly a job for congress.

51 r' 'I'lJl 1 i i From Independent Files Conserving Food The meatless Tuesday, eggless Thursday program is ending in the same sort of confusion that attended it right from the beginning. After operators of eating places announced they were abandoning both "fast" days because of public indifference, the government announced that eggless Thursdays would no longer be necessary. The "poultry- less" phase of the conservation program was dropped several weeks ago in a welter of controversy. If eggs will be plentiful soon, because of high seasonal production, it is too bad the government didn't take the initiative in terminating that part of the program. It is easy to understand the attitude of the restaurant operators and the public.

The program was hatched in confusion, its merits were questioned; and it was evident from the start that the American people never will tolerate governmental interference with their gustatory habits in peacetime. By continually asking food purveyors to the rules that had been set up by Luckman et al, the public was responsible for defeating this bureaucratic attempt to control what people shall eat. As the matter stands now, meatless Tuesdays remain on the government schedule, that primarily because ''meat is leading the inflationary spiral in food prices." The voluntary conservation plan has now been converted into a voluntary economic plan. Thus the law of supply and demand is recognized at last, if in terms of bureaucratic double talk. If meat becomes too high in price, people will cut down their purchases of it.

79 YEARS AGO Dr. John Shertzer. our worthy postmaster, who has been for some time on the sick list, we are pleased to say, is on the mend. Dr. Barrick is also able to ride out since his mishap in breaking bis leg sometime ago.

James Harsh i'or some years a resident at Findlay, son of George Harsh, a na- live of this place, is about to make this his future home. approximately $188,792 liave been redeemed since January 1, at maturity value. ff E. H. Nelson, general works manager of the Griscom-Russell company, was elected president of the chamber of commerce for the ensuing year at the annual organization meeting the board of directors, Tuesday afternoon in Ihe chamber of commerce committee rooms.

46 YEARS AGO The high school glee club organized Friday afternoon with Verne Nenedit, Manager; Melville Kirchhofer, treasurer; Howard Yost, secretary; Clarence Lipps, stage manager; Glenn Hcckerl, electrician; Herbert Schiel'er, advance agent. The members are pupils who formerly constituted the boys chorus, intend to give concerts in roundabout towns during the winter. ft Miss Gail Gonser is a guest of friends in Cadiz. 10 YEARS AGO William Karrenbauer, a senior at Washington high school, was selected as the winner in a 16th district Prince of Peace contest held at the First M. E.

church at Wooster, Sunday evening. 25 YEARS AGO Of the worth of war saving stamps sold in this district during the 1918 campaign Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, marriage vows were exchanged by Miss Mavgaretta L. Houston, of Pittsburgh, and John Reichel, manager of the -Postal Telegraph of this city, in the manse of Central Presbyterian church. A Mr. and Mrs.

John M. Luckner and Miss Blanche Smith, of 741 Main entertained 40 guests Sunday at a skating party at their cottage at Willowdale Lake. fcr-i W7 i nn i pee world lodav s. Daily the cleavage between Russian cum- jiiunism and democracy is being more sharply defined. We had a blunt reminder of this in Sec-re- 'tary of State Marshall's appeal before I be sen- ate foreign relations committee yesterday for prompt implementation of the program for of Europe.

The general didn't Siinee words: "Without the establishment of economic and vigor in the free countries oi the historic base of western lion, of which we are by belief and inner! tancc an integral part, will take on a new form in the image of the tyranny that we fought to destroy in Germany "This great project must be carried success against the avowed determination -of the Soviet Union and the Communist party oppose and sabotage it at every turn "The way of life that we have known is literally in the balance." APROPOS OF the general tense situation, but having no immediate relation to the Mar- jshall statement, a foreign office source in yesterday threw out a thought about a possible new United Nations. He did this by jointing that the British may incline to the attributed to certain elements in the American state department who arc said to be ready to recognize the United Nations "without Russia and her friends" in a real jsasl-west showdown. Your correspondent has reported before that there is talk in the air about the formation of a new U. N. comprising the dcmOcra- By Dewitt Mackenzie cies.

However, such a statement by a British official spokesman, even though guarded, came as an interesting surprise. The new peace organization presumably wouldn't bar Russia and her dependencies but the democracies would be in the majority and Moscow's power to block action by veto would be destroyed. MEANTIME'BRAZIL dealt a body blow to communism in the western hemisphere by withdrawing the last vestige of legality from the Brazilian Communist party which has ranked as the largest in North or South America. The chamber of deputies passed a bill, already adopted by the senate, removing all Communists from elective posts through the nation, and President Eurico Caspar Dutra promptly signed it into law. AT THE SAME time over in Milan.

Italy, the world was given further any were the Communists of Brazil or of any other country take their directions from Moscow. The Italian National Communist congress was meeting and was attendee! not only by Italian leaders but by Harry Pollitt, secretary general of the British Communist parly; Maurice Thorcz, the French Communist leader; and Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Bulgarian, Romanian and Hungarian One of the outstanding events of Wednesday's session was Pollitt's denunciation of his own Labor (socialist) government and praise of "that great man of genius, Comrade Stalin." Another was when Pollitt, Thorez, and the leaders from other countries slipped out of the, convention on some mission which speculation said might have been a meeting of the Cominform, recently established by Moscow to direct attacks on the Marshall plan, Broadway By DANTON WALKER FOR THE INTERESTING If True Department: Mayor O'Dwyer, who gave up his California 'vacation to direct the New York snow removal job, was offered three executive posts with the movies, one paying $50,000 a year. The Skouras interests in the motion picture field soon to come under federal scrutiny. Doris Duke investing heavily in airlines stock. E.

M. Loew, millionaire theater owner, agreed to pay his wife $200,000 during the next 12 years, as part of the divorce settlement made in Dedham, Mass. Queens housewives resorting to New Year's gratuities to get their garbage collected. Jim Farley to give some political hints in his speech at the Fashion Fair at the Waldorf-Astoria next Monday, which will be attended by 1,800 top figures in the national apparel industry. THE GOVERNOR GENERAL of Canada and Viscountess Alexander will tender a dinner to Canadian-born Mary Piekford at Government House, Ottawa, Monday, when she goes there to launch the campaign of the United Nations Appeal for Children.

There will also be a benefit performance of her film, "Sleep My Love." The British diplomatic service undergoing a world-wide shakeup, with younger representatives replacing the older career men. Henry Holt waiting for the go-ahead signal from Gen. Omar Bradley to publish his memoirs. Herman Talmadgc almost certain to land in the Georgia gubernatorial chair. ARTIE SHAW and one of his ex-wives (Mrs.

Elizabeth Cummings) in a legal fracas over a $25.000 trust fund. Mickey Rooney facing a $10,000 breach-of-contract suit on his return from Europe next month. The supreme court here gets the case next month, something concerning an alleged business deal Mickey made with a former army sergeant during his services overseas. Both Joel McCrea and Robert Taylor will wing east for the January- NBC Cavalcade radio show (Joel the 18Ui, Bob the 25th)- Rocky Graziano's friends advising him to hire a public relations coun- sellor. Insiders say Branch Rickey travel- led all the way to the New Orleans Sugar Bowl game to sign Alabama's passing ace, Harry Gilmer, for his newly-acquired Football Dodgers.

ff ERNIE GROSS soon to resign as general counsel for the state department. The air force's toughest public relations job will be to absolve that service from any connection with the General Benny Meyers mess. George Adkins, former U. Army chaplain with the rank of major, has become a dancing instructor (Arthur Murray). Phil Reich tells me the New Look in men's hats, due to "precm" (as they say on Broadway) this spring, will be the model Cary Grant has been wearing for years.

CAFE INTELLIGENCE: Edith Piaf follows Ilona Masscy at the Versailles when the Hungarian songbird moves onto the Roxy stage Jan. 14, Belle Baker and Vic DamOne scheduled for the Harem's next show Jan. 24. Donald "Finian's Rainbow" Richards starts doubling into the Waldorf's Wedgwood Room March 35. Ina Ray Hutton to be the center of Lou Walter's September presentation at the Latin Quarter.

Hollywood By HARRISON CARROLL HOLLYWOOD If Johnny Weissmuller goes through with a rumored new plan for a quick divorce, look for a storm of controversy. A close associate of Johnny's tells me that the movies' Tarzan may spend the first hall of his Nevada divorce residence in Reno and the last half in Las Vegas! If this ever happened before, I've never heard of it. And, of course, I haven't talked to Johnny. But. considering the source of my information, I am sure the idea at least ii under discussion.

THERE'S BEEN a rumor around town that Republic is going to re-issue the action films Jennifer Jones made there and capitalize upon her present screen fame. Nothing to it, says Republic. The studio denies it has any idea of re-issuing Jennifer's two early pictures, a western with John Wayne and a serial. And. even if it did, says Republic, it would bill Jennifer under the name she used then, Phyllis Islcy.

Jf GREER GARSON ws hostess at Louis B. Mayer's annual Christmas party. Barbara Hale suffered a painful accident on "The Window" set. A particle oi fine glass got in her eye and the doctor had a difficult lime removing it. Carmen Cavallarro's opening at Giro's has been postponed.

Singer Evelyn Knight and Jack Finn will be the attractions to follow the 'Kathcrinc Dunham dancers. Cornel Wilde paints furiously in his dressing room on "The Walls of Jericho" set but has a sense of humor about his art. A Wardrobe man came in, studied an unfinished opus and asked: "Whazzat?" Replied Cornel: "Canvas and left-over paint." DANA ANDREWS collapsed on the set of "The Iron Curtain" and now nis whole family, with the exception Of Mrs. who is an expectant mother, is down with the virus complaint that is bedding thousands in Los Angeles. ROSALIND RUSSELL'S supporters in the Academy award race couldn't be happier.

The Associated Women's clubs of New York have voted Roz the most distinguished actress of the year for the second time in a row. This year for "Mourning Becomes Elcctra." year, it was for "Sister Kenny." his appearance here, Louis Armstrong flics to Paris for an eight-week engagement. They say Rudy Vallee is close with a dollar and yet he agreed to do the narration for Frank Seltzer's low budget production, "Let's Live Again," for no money, at all. In lieu of salary, he asked Seltzer to give the various animal shelters in Los Angeles the cash to buy 1,000 meals for homeless dogs. Although a rattlesnake develops two to four new rattles a year it is a rare snake which has more than 10 rattles because they arc worn a way and lost by vibration.

Merry-Go-Roimd wireless) DIARY OF AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERMAN! IN ITALY: of Transport Corbcllini says that since Americans helped get a bell i'or Aclano he is gelling a bell lor Philadelphia. The Liberty bell, he hoard, is cracked. The bell i'or Philadelphia is now on this train. It's directed to Philadelphia Rotary club, since Corbcllini is president oi Florence Rotary and it sure is heavy. Our baggage is getting more unwieldy day by day.

Florence reception so large railroad uncoupled 1'latcar from which we speak, people could get around it. Was worried sick for fear people would be crushed. There were no police. Italians don't think much of police since Mussolini's day but crowd finally formed its own cordon. There was a big advance debate over whether-Mayor Matco Falsini.

who's a Communist, would come to train. He did and made nice speech paying tribute to friendship with American people. Seemed like a nice guy. They (ell me a lot of these Italian Communists are 'only theoretical Communists. One old fellow jumped up on flatcar, tears streaming down his checks, and gave me large kiss.

Felt a little foolish. Wished all the others who did so much for Friendship train back home could be here to sec gratitude of these people. Minister of Transport Corbellini insisted on driving locomotive when train left Florence. He used to be locomotive engineer. However, he got so many Italian newspapermen up in cab with him 1 thought he would never' gel -the train started.

BOLOGNA THIS IS THE REDDEST' CITY IN 90 per cent communist. Mayor Duzzo didn't come to train, giving as his excuse that last September I quoted an army report to the effect that he was among top communist leaders who planned revolution in Italy. One thing 1 didn't write about him but which was in the army's report was that he also was sheltering two Slav agents in his house. Despite Duzzo's absence, crowd at Bologna railroad station was most enthusiastic. In fact, we had to stop Italians from jumping up on Ilatcar to make speeches.

One priest who did get on the car and harangued the crowd said. "Columbus discovered America and now look what an investment it has returned John Secondari of Columbia broadcasting does a terrific job as Friendship train master of ceremonies. Nicola Giulii also gets across big. He is the Italian-American who rode with us from Los Angeles and now he's paid his own expenses to come -all the way to Italy to tell Italian people details of how lood was Collected. -f not so big here.

Perhaps it was too early in the morning or perhaps because this is another communist center. Milan is the Pittsburgh of Italy, with considerable unemployed. Later, however, there was big crowd in square outside city hall where we attended reception by Mayor Antonia Greppi. a left- wing socialist. Greppi made a beautiful speech, despite the fact several communist members of his city Council were keeping close rye on him.

arc now in the country By Drew Pearson Shakespeare made "The Merchant of Venice" and "Two Gentlemen of Verona." Old walls, narrow arches, streams running down the main streets. Biggest and most enthusiastic crowd so far met us at Padua. Flags Hew everywhere! People packed in the square outside station. The Milan papers which caught up. with us in Padua indicate we got a better reception there than we thought.

Many pictures of the parade of trucks carrying Friendship food going through main streets, also several fine editorials. Dr. Roy. Welkcr. Congregationalist min- isler who heads up our Friendship train cprn- millcc for distribution of the food, is sick.

lie has to go back to Rome. Monsignor Andrew Land! of lirooklvn is taking his place. are now up a few kilometers from Yugoslav border in country that has been fought over for centuries by Austrians, Slavs and even back to days of Romans. Train has just passed the Piave river, where rusted cars from World War I arc still lying in river bed. It was in battle of the Piave that Italian and American troops fought side by side against the Austrians: Three bands were at Udine railroad station and tremendous crowd.

A little boys' band had been practicing three weeks for train's arrival. The cymbalist was so small and played, so long that toward the end he could hardly hold up the cymbals. Girls in costume sang for us on the station platform and later the mayor insisted we come to the city hall, where huge crowd was gathered in square outside. There were more speeches, more music and more singing. Hospital here was bombed by Americans but everyone hastens to explain that of course it was an accident.

When we left trucks were backed alongside five boxcars we dropped off at Udine, already unloading food for the hospital and orphanages. Five European cars is small, considering the unemployment caused by moving Yugoslav border but the people seemed grateful, not so much for the food but merely that we had come to Udine. of Friendship train now has gone far ahead of us. Every little station today has been crowded with people waving flags. Four times in the hour's run between Udine and Gorizia we had to make unscheduled stops at small stations.

We had no food for them but they didn't seem interested in merely in the fact that Americans had taken the trouble come all this way to see them. At Gorizia the station was so jammed we couldn't move. Outside were another 10,000 people. They had been waiting a long lime but were most orderly'. The station was so packed we moved out into the square, pulled a table out of the station and used it as speakers' platform.

The mayor of -Trieste had come over to welcome us as well as the Cardinal of Gorizia. They all spoke, including the mayor of Gorizia. Fortunately, the table was All week have been speaking in English, which was then translated. All week I had also been trying to get up my nerve to speak in Italian. At Gorizia I got up my nerve.

Judging by the results I should have done it sooner. It was my last speech in Italy. Regretfully. I am now heading for Paris, Washington and back to work. ay Arthur Vandcn- berg of Michigan, Republican, has just made a move which, on the surlace, looks as if it is just a simple withdrawal from the presidential contest.

Actually it is much more. What Vanclenbcrg has done, without saying so in so many words, is to notify certain segments of the Republican party that he is not going to be affected by presidential politics and is going to endeavor to put the Marshall plan through congress. If the chairman of the foreign relations committee had continued as a kind of passive candidate, he would have been subjected to alt sorts of pressure by those who would want him to avoid alienating the groups in the Republican party who do not like the Marshall plan. By David Lawrence Bakhlcgan is a salt lake in southwest Persia to the east of Shiraz. It, is 74 miles long and from four to 13 miles broad.

It is formed by the Kur river. Its altitude is 5,100 feet above the sea, and large deposits of fine salt arc gathered from its basin when the lake dries up in summer. ACTUALLY THE Marshall plan isn't popular among Republicans. The opposition is growing constantly. Any man who champions it might as well dismiss from his mind idea that the leaders of the party will back him for higher office.

The regular organization men will follow the pattern of those members of the house who say that the Marshall plan is all right in its way as a relief measure but that it should be materially curtailed. Senator Vanclcnberg wants some changes and modifications made in the Marshall plan. He will doubtless join in the demand that a separate agency be created and he will have other suggestions to make. But these arc secondary at the moment. The truth is thai the Marshall plan could be sidetracked aivl emasculated and doubtless would be were it not for the leadership of such men as Senator Vandenberg.

It is significant that at this time the Michisan senator sent his letter to Michigan Republicans asking them not to pledge the delegation for him at the next national convention. He could have waited till later on in the year. The letter was dispatched, however, before the Marshall plan debate begins and serves as a warning to Republican organizations that the Michigan senator plans io make a fight for the plan no matter what the. other Republicans think about it. One infers that in the state of Michigan are many Republicans opposed to the Marshall plan and that perhaps recently it was made known to the senator I hat he could not expect their support at the next national convention if he persisted in his support of the Marshall plan.

SENATOR TAFT, who is lukewarm about the Marshall plan, maintains the most cordial relations with Senator Vanclcnberg. So far "as can be is no cleavage between these two leaders. This may be largely because the Michigan senator is quite skillful at avoiding cleavages or at least them from developing before issues are clearly undei- stood. At -the moment Vandenberg has not expressed himself very much on the Marshall plan beyond the fact that he favors its principles. He has arranged for committee hearings at which all sides will be heard.

It is to be noted, however, that Senator Vandenberg arranged for the elimination of the S17 billion figure from the proposed bill authorizing the Marshall plan. This was a sensible piece of strategy. What is significant is that Vandenberg worked it out with tha department of state and the president ahead of time. IT WAS ALREADY obvious to most people that this congress cannot bind a successor congress. The same point was made in these dispatches the very week that the 16- nations plan was announced from abroad.

It would have been a mistake to authorize a long- range program as such. Nevertheless Europe will" know from the appropriation made for the first 15 months' installment that the United States is not going to fail to see the program through to completion. This assumes, of course, that European people will do their part. There is also the argument that separate annual appropriations will keep European governments on their toes in an effort to comply with the basic requirements of the plan as it relates to their own action. Senator Vandenberg has undertaken the greatest task of his great career in public life.

His firm withdrawal from the presidential contest is an act of self-denial quite rare in the realm of party For it has been assumed here that Vandenbcrg would be beneficiary Of a Dewcy-Taft deadlock. He could be yet. But the Michigan senator means what he will not compromise or sidestep issues in order to placate influential groups in his parly. Instead he takes his position on principle and lets his chances for the nomination slip away though, to be sure, the country will not overlook what he has done. Diet And Health The astonishing ingenuity with which children seem to swallow metal objects of odd shapes and sizes is being matched today by the resourcefulness of physicians in removing them.

One of the neatest of these medical tricks is performed through the use of a handy gadget whose construction involved a good deal inventive genius. Like many other top inventions, it is essentially simple in principle. The apparatus consists of a tube in which a magnet is suspended by four strong strands of piano wire, the magnet extending slightly beyond the tube. This tube is then encased in a larger rubber tube, lubricated with mineral oil, and the whole thing passed into the child's stomach. The patient is placed under a fluoroscopc so that the physician may look into the stomach, see just where the object is located, and bring the magnet in contact with the object.

When the object is firmly attached to the magnet, both arc gently pulled up into the outer rubber tube by sliding the inner tube up. In this way, tissues are protected from injury by the object, and it can be easily drawn through all narrow places and past open air passages. In this way, such potentially dangerous objects as pins, screws, nails, and even open By H. M. Bundesen, D.

safety pins can be removed and without the major operation that was formerly required to get at thc'm. Before removal of the object is carried out, a similar foreign body is used in a practice test made outside the body to determine how well will be attracted by the magnet and how easily it may be removed. This device has been employed in a number of cases and the metal objects have been easily removed with it. Recently, good results have also been obtained in the removal of certain bodies through the use of a gastroscope, a long tube with a light at the end, which can be passed from the mouth through the esophagus to the stomach. Of course, many of the objects swallowed by children will pass through the stomach jiito the bowel and so out of the body without doing any harm.

Just the same, it does not do to take a chance that they will. Hence, whenever a child swallows some metal object, he should, of course, be taken to a physician for an examination. X-rays will be taken from time to time to determine whether or not the object is passing out of the body in the usual way. If it does not seem to be passing out of the stomach as it. should, the physician will decide just what method of treatment should be employed.

The use of the magnetic device may be found particularly worth.