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I I A tj ice desire to secure peace it must be known tJiat u-e are at all times ready for tear. (Geo. Washington to Congrew, 1793.) Beauty Sometimes Grow From Decaying Substance NEW YORK Belligerent Peace-Making It is easy to point cut discrepancies between Prime Minister Stalin's mild and encouraging statement on world peace and the external appearance of Russian foreign pol- icv. It is easy to say that i the principle QJ. eouality of the UNO.

which Mr. Stalin cited as the source of United Nations' strength, is contradicted in the Security Council by the Big Five and their veto power, which Russia insistently demanded and won. It can be suggested that the ''current fear of war" was not solely the product ami- Russian propagandists. It can be argued thai frankness, co-operation, and exemplary political behavior among world government is a better means of securing the peace than is the counter-propaganda against war mongers which Mr. Stalin suggested.

But to advance these arguments would be to accomplish nothing except the creation of new doubts and suspicions. It seems to us that it is more intelligent to take Mr. Stalin's heartening opinions at their face value. In the first place. Prime Minister Stalin the man who calls the signals in Russia.

When he speaks, the world listens to the voice of Soviet policy. The policy changes sharply from time to time, but the voice retains its authority. Secondly. Mr. Stalin 1 has put on record in unequivocal fashion with his forthright reply to the questions of an American correspondent.

Ke surely realizes tnat the world will hold him accountable now for any deviation from his proclamation of faith in the United Nations. What. then, are we to make of all the Russian saber-rattling, of the disturbing Russian activity in Iran and Manchuria, of Mr. Stalin's thunderous "campaign speech" a few weeks ago. of the many examples of evident reluctance which have marked Russia's past participation in the UNO? The "only ready explanation would seem to be that Russians determined to work for international peace and security in the most belligerent manner possible.

It may be that she has meant all along to give ground where the non-Russian world has held her policies to be wrong and dangerous, but that she has contrived to do it in such a manner as to make it seem that she is making a magnanimous gesture after 'being grievously misunderstood, put upon, and conspired against. Where other governments take a step toward world security with a positive show of good will, perhaps the USSR, with the old wounds of slights and suspicions still smarting beneath the armor of her present military might, has seen fit. to take the same step only after some fearsome oratory and sword-waving. All this is conjecture, and perhaps illogical. But it must seem about as logical to the average non-Russian mind as do some of the recent inconsistencies of Soviet foreign policy.

We hope devoutly that the conjecture.is true, and that, for the sake of the world's peace of mind. Russia will labor in the future toward the common goal of peace without so many offstage alarums and excursions. The Dispossessed Walter Winchell By what are called civilized standards; Bikini Atoll wasn't much of a place to set up housekeeping. It was shy on topsoil and altitude, and there was always the possibility of a tidal wave sweeping inhabitants and dwellings into the sea. But most Bikinians probably would echo the sentiment of the elderly and diffident resident of the Waldorf-Astoria who said to an out-of-town friend, as they entered trie loboy, 'It isn't much, but I call it home." ihe natives were used to the place, ihey tolerated its vagaries and appreciated its comforts.

Now they are gone, bag and baggage. We have been looking at the pictures taKen just before their departure. The people appeared confused and unhappy, from King Juda on clcwn to the breech-cLouteo. infants. And as we looked at them, we had the uncomfortable feeling that their expression could become typical of the atomic age, unless the world's leaders acquire, quickly and permanently, more good sense, than any world leaders have shown before.

For the Bikinians are the first people to be uprooted and dispossessed by the atomic bomb. They were lucky, of course. They didn't see the bomb coming, but those who did were kind enough to come and explain the situation carefully, then take them by the hand and lead them away to safety. ine rest 01 trie win not oe so lor- L-anate. unless both war ana trie atomic oorr.D are outlawed througr: agreements 01 mutual sincerity and good will.

If war should ever be no advance warning for the people of Detroit. Calcutta, Vladivostok, or wherever. The Bikinians' uneasy expression--the knit brows and apprehensive eyes--would become a sort of universal mask. The earth's billions would cast about them in cold desperation for a place of safety. First the dwellers in the likely target cities, then everyone.

And there would be no place to go. It is significant that these early victims of the atomic age lived on that handy and hardy symbol of escapism, a South Sea ible. On such an isle, palm-fringed, sun-warmed and sea-girdled, where fevered effort and frantic competition were outlawed, people used to dream of "getting away from it But the Bikinians were getting away from something specific. Their remote, insignificant strip of coral is now charted on maps and as the No. 1 danger spot of dry land on the face of the globe.

If the threat of war should grow with the progress of science, every piece land on this planet could come to enjoy Bikini's temporary and dubious distinction. With a force that knows no earthly bounds carried in a missile which knows no limits of distance or location (and this would surely arrive) safety would be an eventual impossibility. There is only one escape--in the hearts and minds of the political and military leaders who make the decisions and guide the destinies of their fellow creatures, in this alleged age of the intelligent, emancipated. and individualistic man. OFF THE RECORD Lebanese Girl Gets UNO Post By JANE EADS AP Newsfeatures "Writer WASHINGTON--Angela Jurdak is an attache at the Lebanese legation.

She is an amazing young woman, with coal black hair and big luminous eyes, and hails from a tiny mountain village in Lebanon called Shwayr. Whenever Washington whirl gets too much for Angela she yearns for the serene quiet of her home. She thinks often of the early morning walks she used to take down the mountain to i from the clear cool i below. Angela was the firs' woman member of the legation staff to come over here, about nine months 3,20. She has just received an invitation from London to serve on the UNO subsoccittee on the status of women.

A graduate of the American University at Beirut and specially a i for the diplomatic service. A a is a a very proud of her present appointment. She was a member of the Leb- CAPITAL COLUMN Wallace Aide Pulls a Boner By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 23 -NEA)--Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace jumped the gun a little in his enthusiasm to get "not so full" Err.ployment Act of 194:6 off to a good start, only to have said gun explode right behind him. As 2 result.

he'ii probably be picking slugs out of his bsck for some time to corne. It happened like this: Wallace called s. press conference with i Undersecreta Alfred E. cler and his new Director of Domestic nerce. ex General Albert J.

Browning. A 11 three read care- EDSON fully-prepared statements about what a great thing the Employment Act of 1S45 was going to he as "an economic charter for tne American system of free private enterprise." The hand-outs wer.t on to explain how the Department of Commerce was going to do everything in its power to make the Act work. After the statements were read, the conference was thrown open to questions. The statements were pretty broad, but at the end of Browning piece was cr.e sentence which seemed to offer possibilities for a little pay cirt if dug into. It read: the Act contemplates that both business and government i analyze economic trends and take such action as be necessary to secure the desired volume of production and employment." TAX THEORY InrioceT 1 asked 'irf 1 ci ihat was when the gun exploded.

What ought to be done. General Browning said, was to reduce the tax rates in the upper brackets of income! Reporters could hardly believe their ears. This was the first time sir.ce 1932 that anyone in the executive end of the national administration had dared express any opinion contrary to New Deal theory that the more money anyone made, the higher his tax rate should be. Could it be that the whole trend of tax policy was going to be reversed as casually s.s this? General Browning explained. The way the tax laws were now, they were curbing production.

The income tax rates on the upper brackets were too high. If a company couldn't make more money by doing more business, the general continued, it had no incentive to produce more What was needed was a program of incentive taxation which would encourage production. Browning said he was working with the Treasury to find out at what point Ux rates could be cut off so as to provide the necessary incentives for higher production. WALLACE TRIES TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE Shades of Andrew W. Mellon! i like this had been heard in official Washington since Andy was "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton." But this had gone far enough.

Secretary Wallace cut in to try to the i a i by say- i i was merely a plan being discussed with the Treasury officials. He emphasized it would be most unfortun- s'e if a idess got around a the Department of Commerce wss trying to tell The Treasury 3 5 recommendations Cor.ETC-??. tt-p u-s A rrz' 1 of i plain-ipcken enough to say that he thought high-bracket income taxes should be reduced. They'll be hearing about that one plenty. The financial papers may hail it as the dawn of a new day, but the left-wing and labor press will be yelling for Browning's scalp.

Browning is. of course. Big Business in background, though hi rose from a shipping clerk's status to become a i i manager for Mor.tgomcry Ward. then president of United Wall Paper of Chicago. He became an assistant to Donald Nelson in 1940.

ficiency. Lebanon is a little country to the north of Palestine, with hardly more than 1.000.000 population. There are 30 Christians to every 25 Moslems. Figs, olives and citrus fruits are among the country's principal products. Modernization and industrialization are growing, but tribes of Bedouins still roam the country.

Although the sheik of the tribe still lives in his goat's hair tent, he is well supplied with modern automobiles, in which he frequently tears about the nearest town. Abroad on his daily business, however, he rides his camel. Mrs. Robert Taft. wife of the Republican senator from Ohio.

is happy as the first spring robin. She's got her grass seed planted. If Dr. Luther Evans, librarian of Congress, had his way. this city of museums would have still another.

Dr. Evans told the Board of Trustees of the American Military Institute he thought there should be a special museum to house war trophies. He said it "should serve to guide the American people toward a sound and realistic attitude toward national security." The former Secretary of Labor. Frances Terkins. is vague about money matters--her own.

When a painter moved an electric refrigerator in her kitchen, he two S100 bills tucked behind it. When they were returned to Miss Perkins, she said she remembered putting the bills on top of the ice box but couldn't why. The same people return day after day to Miss B. Shipley's passport division in the State Department--but wearily. She hasn't enough people to help with the rush of applicants.

Sometimes the people stay all day, bringing their lunch, a book, knitting or something to keep from going mad. The other day a very good- looking well dressed American gent, who'd been in and out several days, really blew up. of the free be he muttered, crunching his hat down over his ears and striding from the room. FREDERICK C. anese National Tennis team, is a long-distance swimmer.

She is a linguist, quick-witted, a good conversationalist, and says she never tires of meeting people. But mostly she is interested in music. She is a talented pianist. She has played in concerts in Switzerland and Beirut. Bach and Chopin arc her favorites.

Angela the eastern woman's i in being able to meet the western world on its own terms of briskness and ef- Washington Onceover The ThriU That Conies Once in a Lifetime Webster ci i "To 'c-f- Tne wTnour i WASHINGTON. March Homer E. Capchart, the Indiana juke box king, stuck out his not inconsiderable neck today and predicted that if the government gets built all the houses it wants, prices of same will collapse like a patent window screen. That's all right with me. Sen.

Capehart said (and you should have seen the smiles spread over spectators' that if 2.700,000 houses actually were built by next year for war veterans it would cause so much production of everything from shingles to sinks that costs would drop at least 25 percent. "I am willing to stick out my neck," he said, running his finger around his size 18 collar. only will the cost of everything which goes into a house fall by one quarter, but the finished houses will drop that much in price, too." if EVERYBODY PLEASED Civilian production administrator John D. Small, the current witness before the senate banking committee, said he believed the gentleman from Indiana was talking through his stove-pipe. Small, a smallish citizen with hair pasted down flat, i have much to do with whooping up production of building material.

Tic said that when--and he didn't say. if--the houses are completed, the demand still will be great that, prices can't drop. Sen. Capehart was not convinced. What, worried him, he said, was the crisis after the.

program is complete, when hath iuhs are flowing, down the pro- line? (aster a anybody a month ago even had dreamed. Were all the bath tub factories to close and their workers look for other jobs? Small said he couldn't look into the future any better than the senator, but he wasn't much worried about supply catching up with demand for many years did, however, produce some interesting figures on building materials of all varieties. Since we're talking about 'cm, let us consider bath tubs. In 1939. the last normal peace time year.

Americans bought 887.000 bath tubs, most of which were too short, for comfort. This year, with the housing program shifting into high, the nation will need 1,350.000 bath tubs. Next year we'll have to have 1.875.000 bath tubs, which I fear still will not be long enough. This indicates that as a race, we're going to be cleaner than ever: it indicates also that few G.I.'s will have to struggle along with only one bathtub in their new "But where are you going to get all these bath tubs?" asked Sen. Robert A.

Taft of Ohio. "What about plastic a tubs?" countered Sen. Albcn W. Barklcy of Kentucky. Small said bath tubs were a problem, all right.

He said there probably would be 20 percent too few no matter what he docs, ordinarily, he added, a bath tub is made of cast iron. "But we also arc making bath tubs of steel now," he said. "And I have no doubt, that, we'll also get into plastics." He said also thst if scheme works schedule, he hopes to remove his vprhotens against non-veteran i i by i end of i yrnr. When a i romps and if Sen. CapHiarf is correct about prices, I'll build me TALES OF THE TOWN Eric Johnson, the other night, quoted Stalin as saying (when they met in '44): ''Foolish Hitler has done one good thing.

He has brought the American people and the Russian people together. We must never allow anything to come between us again. We must work together after the war." At the same meeting, according to ace correspondent Richard Lauterbach, Stalin also said: "I suppose you'll have a bad depression in your country after the war." Mr. Johnson replied. "Many people feel so." "How much will we have to buy," asked Stalin, "to keep all your people employed?" "'That depends," said Johnston, "on whether it is a big or a little depression" "Well," persisted the Russian boss, "approximately how many people will be out of work?" ''I don't know," said Eric.

"I think," said Big Joe, "you ought to start getting those figures so we will know how much we will have to buy from you to keep your people employed." "Why do you want to do this?" asked the American. "Because," said the Russian "you Americans did us all a very big favor, and we want to do one for you." iff. Walter Peters, the former Yank correspondent, revealed this in the Zanzibar: Churchill asked Stalin at Teheran, "Why does Russia insist on having a president when he has no power?" Stalin replied: "For the same reason your country continues to have a king!" Russia's devotion to extreme secrecy has always caused tension with "other nations. Soviet leaders seldom cooperate with foreign correspondents During the war an American reporter in Moscow asked a Russian propaganda official whether certain troops had gone into action. The official replied: "I'm sorry, I cannot say" "Well, they're in position aren't they?" "I'm sorry.

I cannot say" "Is a statement likely to be made soon "I'm sorry I cannot say" The reporter finally gave up. As he was opening the door to leave, the official called: "Don't quote me, will vou?" When U. S. intelligence agents arrested Axis Sally (the Portland. Maine, gal who may be shot for being a traitor) she was asked about past associations According to my information." said a Justice department official, "you were a close friend of William Joyce, alias Lord How Haw." "I certainly was!" she bragged.

"What about it?" "Well," said the American, "we have hopes you will soon be able to renew your friendship with the late louse." A couple of Military Policemen at the Xuremburg trials were talking about Gocring as he marched meekly into the courtroom. "What's happened to his arrogant goose-steps?" "They arc now goose-pimples!" Larrv Finlcy, the West Coast impresario owns ballrooms, a watch firm and a movie dio among other knick-knacks), had a luncheon date with a movie star whose specialty is Westernerns. Mr. Finlcy, noted for his straight-talk, was cautioned by a studio exec to be very circumspect in his discussions with the actor. "He is," said the stooge, "a cousin to the firm's president." "Googahd!" shrieked Finlry.

"A sacred cow-boy!" a They tell about a movie critic who has written an occasional movie scenario, which some studio always purchased but never used. This critic was golfing with Louis M. Mayer, Darryl Zanuck and Harry Warner During the game the critic cooed to Mr. Mayer: "Louis. I've just written a new scenario.

I'd like you to read it." Mayer yelled to Warner: "Harry! It's your turn to buy it!" Zanuck fell right down in convulsions. At a Waldorf-Astoria dinner, Quentin Reynolds made a plea for Spanish Republican refugees who had fought fascism as early as 1936 but were getting no UN- RRA aid. Another guest was a house without a bath tub. A shower, gentlemen, is my preference. New York Cong.

Celler, who called for a clear-cut break with El Caudillo. "Spain must be quarantined," insister Celler. "France must be sprayed with political DDT." "That's what we have been quipped a spectator. "Diplomatic Double-Talk!" 4 Who won the war dept: The New York State legislature has proposed an amendment to pay New York's vets a maximum bonus of $250, highest in the country. Vets in other States protesting the inadequate ur outright omission--of bonuses.

Yet the U. S. will pay over 000 to members of the German crew on the Prinz Eugen, the Nazi, cruiser to be used in the atom bomb tests. Lew Parker relays this housewife repartee-hee: "What's your son, Jack, doing these days?" "He's a 1 "And what about your youdP er boy?" "He isn't doing anything either!" A Winchelline or Two: Sunny Skylar and his young bride, Joy of the Latin Quarter show), have parted M. Todd has dropped plans to produce the show for Al Jolson F.

Sinatra is building a luxury hotel at Las Vegas. Nev. The Navy's inviting Wave Officers to sign up untU '47 UNOfficials are records of all women in our armed forces. They will be invited to take jobs with the United Nations here. (Don't write me about it.

please, girls; dunno any more about it) Eunice Healey, the Copa dancing star, has filed against Al White. Both such nice guys you wish they wouldn't Dennis Day and Eugenia Baird have it very baird Add Jerry Lester shrieks the night: "He's a heel--drinIB cad liver oil!" Chas. Spivak just got word from his real estate broker- that land has been discovered on his proptrey Backers of the Ray Bolger hit, "Three to Make Ready," expect to. get back their investment next week Belle Brooks, the pianotable (she doubles on the starts at the Penthouse on the 1st. By WILLIAM E.

McKENNEY At a bridge tournament one often hears the remark that a certain good woman player plays "a man's style of meaning that she plays a type of gamr. that is supposedly of men. However, I do not think that this idea holds true. Carefulness is the i that counts in the game, whether the player is a man or a woman. At the Mid-South Tournament in Dallas.

Elinor Murdock of i i a won the open team-of-four championship with Capt. William Christian, also of Birmingham. Payne Harrison of Dallas and Capt. MarX iHodges of Fort Worth. Tex.

in 1934 Miss Murdock won the A A 8 6 3 2 2 4 9 6 5 A 107 3 3 A A 7 5 Dealer A 5 1 0 9 7 5 7 4 6 IVIiss Murdock A 9 4 A 6 4 4 A 102 A 109 vuL 4 Sonth North East 1 A A Pass 4 A Pass Pass Fab? Opening--V3. 30 world championship Masters Individual title. While it has frequently been said that she plays a man's tyrjj of game, you may see from tTM day's hand that, carefulness makes her game what it is. As the opening lead was obviously a i Miss Murdock knew triui. the heart finesse was out.

She won the first trick with the ace of hearts, took two rounds of trumps and then led the club from dummy. East won with the queen and returned the four of diamonds, declarer plajtf cr played low. West won with the jack and played the king of diamonds. Miss Murdock won this with the ace. ruffed a club in dummy and led a diamond.

East had to win the queen and was forced either to lead into the heart ten- ace or give Miss Murdock a skiff and a ruff. THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Published Twice Daily Except Once on Sunday by the REPORTER PUBLISHING CO. North Second and Cypress Abilene. Texas TELEPHONE: DIAL 7271 Subscription Rates By Carrier, Morning and Sunday or Evemnc And Sunday. 20c a week; 85c a mo Morning and Evening and Sunday.

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