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Warn Nms-Srtbunf Tuesday, August 5, 1952 FENTRESS. President S. JONES PAT TAGGART General Manager DREW PEARSON HARRY PROVENCE Editor SAM WOOD Executive Editor Published or Newspapers, Franklin Avenue. Waco. Texas, daily ex cept Sunday New Fourth of July.

Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day Sunday and holiday Issues The Waco Tribune-Herald Entered as second-class matter at the Waco Post Office under the Act of Congress March 3. 1879 is probably no accident that the planners in the Kremlin have chosen the most hectic of all American election summers to do some of their ugliest nose-thumbing. Election years in the U. S. A.

are always watched most carefully by those in Europe who have some- months and 50 for one month Outside of Texas Daily Only. 1125 per month Dally Sunday and holiday issues. SI 75 per Member Asaoclated Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP be within gunshot of attaining great goal of a European army. All these things also come at a time when the American public is Business The Washington Merry-Go-Round bored stiff with orld Problems and when it was difficult to squeeze a line of European news into the papers during the Chicago tions, even with a crowbar. Nevertheless, this undoubtedly Is why the Kremlin has stiffened its truce talks in Korea, why inflammatory posters have been tacked up in Moscow showing American planes shot down by the Reds, and why the Moscow stepped up its hate-Ameriea program to a new pitch.

In brief, we are pretty sure to face more trouble abroad this summer and of politics, the heat, and our own desire to be let alone. (Copyright, 1952 by tne Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 'Donors Must Be on Vacation Back Home' Subscription Rates By carrier, II 25 per month Daily Only per month Sunday and holiday issues By mail In thing ominous to put across. Texas Daily Only. 113 00 per year 50 aocidpnt for instancp for six months S3 25 for three months and n01.a?cl"*V1l. Ior 10 for one month.

Daily Sundav and that Mussolini, Hitler and Japan holiday Issues by mail in Texas. $18 00 per ganged up in the fall Of 1936 an year 00 for six months $4 50 for three to Start unofficial year submarine warfare in the Mediterranean while Japan was pushing farther into China. Roosevelt called a conference in Brussels to try to stop the Japs, but worried politicians, including Cordell Hull, finally induced him to pull his punches. It was also no accident that Hitler picked the election summer of 1940 to drive into France and try to take England. He knew that American isolationists would do their best to tie hand.

And had it not been for courage in bucking the tide Words simply cannot describe in Congress and sending arms to the horrible collision which snuffed England, a Nazi government might out more than 30 lives south of this i have ruled the British Isles, city early Monday morning. Nor Kremlin's Moves can words assuage the gnef of Likewise, it is probably no acci- those whose loved ones were Kremlin is making Bus Tragedy Has Some Lessons among the dead. It was blind fate at its blindest, an inexplicable thing, a tragedy which shocked the entire nation. Since we human beings seem to learn everything the hard way, it is not amiss to examine this mysterious calamity for whatever permanent good can result. One clear-cut need emerges from the cloud of uncertainty surround- ing the identity of the bits and pieees of bodies retrieved from the wreckage of the two Greyhound buses.

That need is for a mandatory name register of all who travel by bus, just as the airlines keep records of every person boarding a plane. Cumbersome? Troublesome? Certainly it will be no easy thing to perform. But it ought to be required of all public transportation agencies, whether train, bus or plane. The State legislature and the United States Congress should enact such laws. The safety record of the Southwest Greyhound Lines until 4:15 a.

m. yesterday was the best of any Greyhound organization in the entire nation. Unless and until some of its most telltale moves this a time when the American public is thinking about the heat, summer vacations, and who will be the next President of the United States. Here are some of the moves spurred on by Moscow at this time: 1. Reported test of the first Russian hydrogen bomb.

If this is true then the Soviet is ahead of us in developing the H-bomb. Bruno Pontecorvo, who escaped behind the Iron Curtain, is reported to be the scientist who developed it. Of course, these reports could be another part of the war of nerves. Rut if true, a hydrogen bomb in Russian hands will seriously upset the balance of military and diplomatic power in Europe. For nations like to be on the side of the nation with the greatest power, and so far our atomic power has been overwhelming.

2. Possibility that Iran will go Communist. Iranian riots and the demand that the American Arms Mission pack up and leave is no accident. Of course, incredible State Department and British stupidity have played right into Russian hands. But Communist agents, who now swarm all over Iran, are rapidly bringing about a situation where the Shah will have to abdicate, and Iran will fall into Red ALS0P BROS.

man could be wise old Sen. Arthur Vandenberg used to say, when he himself was being promoted for the Republican nomination' in 1948, He meant, of course, that no man can get his party nod without some sort of prior commitment to his party's key chieftain. The Vandenberg rule held true in his own case, as it almost always had before. Did Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois in order to get the Democratic nomination? This seems a good time to ask this question.

A good many people are saying that Stevenson won the nomination in a particularly wily maneuver, and a good many more people are likely to say so before the Presidential campaign ends. Sen. Paul Douglas, for example, has pictured the Stevenson draft as an exercise in and Republican national committee chairman Arthur Summerfield charges that Stevenson is the candidate of President Truman. In short, the Stevenson draft was supposedly put over, with Stevenson's knowledge, consent and secret cooperation, by Truman and a handful of powerful professionals. some concrete evidence of the hands like a ripe plum.

cause of tragedy can be presented, it is impossible to say whether the procedures and standards of the company need rectifying. Still, we are sure that the management already is examining that side of the picture and will do whatever seems to be indicated. This, above all, is another warning and a most severe one to all who drive motor vehicles. The margin between safety and death in modern highway travel is too close, considering the element of human error. dead are no deader for having been killed When that time comes, Communist influence is bound to march down through neighboring oil-rich Iraq, to oil-rich Arabia, to strategic Egypt and the Suez Canal.

Thus, the Soviet by working around Greece and Turkey, may circumvent the billions of American money sent into Greece and Turkey under the Truman doctrine to block off Russia from the Mediterranean. 3. Frenzied Soviet rearming of East Germany. This was spurred on partly by our pushing of a West European army. It is also why thousands of German refugees are fleeing into West Germany.

They want to escape conscription into in one horrific collision than if Red. ar.my But this rush by rtf. Russia to build up an East Gerthey had been pick off on man army brought great Conor three at a time in separate sternation to other Germans regarding the most important, farsighted project Europe has seen since unity of French and German troops under one flag. Luck and Stupidity On top of these, are some other factors attributable more to bad luck or American stupidty than to Soviet astuteness. While the men in the Kremlin take credit for them, they certainly are benefiting from them.

Here they are: A. The economic illness of Great accidents. If the bus crash strikes the fear of God into enough other drivers so that they will be more careful in the future, perhaps the victims will not have died in vain. While Politics ake Oi er While the two Chicago conventions were under way the troublemakers have produced new crises Britain. This goes hand-in-hand in Iran and Egypt.

In Iran the throne of the Shah is tottering. In Egypt the king has been given the boot, which he richly deserved, for with the split in the Labor Party and the increasing strength of the cut-loose-from-America group. happened in England is exactly been happening in he has failed his people, squan- States. England now has riered their substance over the an Isolationist Party. some gaming tables of Europe and tol- what comparable to the Isolation- erated almost unbelievable corrup- ists led by Senator Taft and Colonel tion in his government.

McCormick, except that, being Lain Iran, Premier Mossadegh now leaders, they don belong to the same economic strata. Never- holds the power ol a die ator. theless, they urge with increasing power is that of a consummate vjg0r ancj increasing popularity rabble rouser who has no answer that England pay for heavy to the problems he has created and so incessantly must create new rearmament and must go it alone While this might save us a lot whipping boys as the authors of monej, it would also wipe out his woes to divert attention of the people from him as We demagogue who has placed their country on the fringe of bankruptcy. The end of the steel strike has been heralded as a great victory by labor. But labor will work many months, even years, to get back what it has lost, and what is still to be lost by the inflationary spiral that has been created by the settlement.

The nation will be well into next year before steel again begins to fill the channels of supply. And before it does, many our air bases in Britain and pull the props out from under our goal of European unity against commu nism B. The wobbly situation in France. What most people realize is that American subsidies both under the Marshall Plan and later under the North Atlantic Pact, long have kept middle-of-the road leaders of France in power We have long benefited from a loose alliance between the Catho lie leaders of the middle, the non Communist leaders of labor, and small businessmen of the middle The chief factors keeping them to can begin to acquire enough power and cohesion in the factories to VICTOR RIESEL wrest the initiative from the Communist-dominated unions and force ut short-sighted employers to make more equitable wage bargains, the (Victor Riesel is on vacation. tctor defence prosram in Western Eu- Reuther, CIO Representative Europe, is substituting for him today as special rope will lab.y aggra soc ai guest columnist .) tensions and enable the nists, without committing further By VICTOR REUTHER overt aggression, to immobilize and is suffering from subvert Western European demo- a grave weakness of its inner cracy from wifhin.

democratic will. The deterioration TO GiyE FREE that power of its will to protect free mstitu- anfj cohesion in the crisis countries tions and way of life is perhaps of France and the ICFTU, in the greatest victory that Commu- tbe ci0sest collaboration with the nism is achieving today. By ex- international Trade Secretariats, is ploiting the social and economic developing organizational cam- mjustices which oppress the work- paigns in the key industries of ere, the Communist ideology is sue- mctal, mining, and transport. A ceeding in creating serious doubts training school for the future as to the merits and value of politi- cadres of such a drive is being cal democracy. i established in France where rank- Let there be no mistake on this and-file leadership will undergo a point.

The continuing popularity short intensive course in the essen- of Communism in France and Italy tials of union administration and is much more a protest against the recruitment. The recent joint AFL- economic and social defects of CIO statement on tfte Italian trade- politically democratic societies than union situation, stressing the im- support or sympathy for Joe Stalin portance of co-operation between and his regime. CISL and UIL, the two free labor piriTTVT rvTVTSi in Fmnce centers in that country, paves the nf this way ior a similar program geared fhe French Communist Party has needs of Italian workers to join in a Cominform- 1 vital ve to the inspired campaign of violence and Anieriear al- rioting. Its campaign of agitation, mnmn wfth directed first against General Ridg- of the West! way and then against the arrest of trade Unionists Jacques Duclos, has culminated in what a few hieh nTaced a failure of fiasco proportions. It Americans Uem to have forgotten was highlighted by the repudiation niinded of the Communist-controlled trade si; miTitarv buildl union center, the General Con- lnin oui federation of Labour (CGT), by the which masses of French workers, who re- fused to heed a general strike call whioh defend for the release of Duclos.

nf Euro ie must rest. Communist In Renault, France largest imperialism is a potential threat automobile firm, the Communists t0 territory: but the failed to strike the plant despite Communist ideology and religion their majority of union members. arp an actual. unremitting menace An attempt by a small group of to heait and soul. LCommunists to cut the Communist mystique has a Ji.Fdnwn range than the B-50 bomb- the day before and Pr a greater accuracy than any completely, as guided missile.

No military strong nnS umilH ho point, no boundary lire, can keep Sboteurs rlther from target: The mind of il thp TTian in street upon w'hose manhandled in th p. ess. ailesriance stavircr and fis'htinc? one considers that Renault has 0f democracy must finally depend. A Communist conspiracy CHILDS WASHINGTON From both the Eisenhower-Nixon and the Stevenson-Sparkman camps come signs new oppressions and new wars which were quick to This underwrites the view which has been assiduously spread by both Republican and Democratic critics of Administration foreign policy. These critics say, in effect, that if only the right set of agreements had been signed at Yalta McLEMORE IN FACT, this is so far from the truth that both Truman and the professionals, like Col.

Jacob Ar-, vey of Illinois, actually gave up on uncertainty as to the strategy Stevenson before the convention to be follow'ed this fall. The heads erything would be all right today, spoke English was called to order. Tremendous Qf the two tickets are feeling their s4 oh.l^cf,^?.e observers have a answered, pressure was brought to bear on tprritorv that is new Gov- pomttp(J this the funda- through the third grade Stevenson by these men, not to be- nature of Communist im- good.1 come an active candidate, but sim- ernor Stevenson and General Eis-; which is to treat ply to pass the word that he would enhower have both had only limit- agreements as mere scraps of pa- run if nominated. cd experience in national Politics. not broken Almost tearfully, Arvey pleaded But to an old familiar on the i traditionally been the key plant in Communist union activities, and a training center for its militants, the importance of the event becomes clear.

THE RENAULT incident illustrates the general situation in earth that can stop the progress France. The five-million French- of the Communist march against MEXICO CITY I was walking men who vote for the Communist the mind of man: Not preachment, down Avenida Juarez. Mexico ran be nipped polire within a ctate; a Communist ag- across national frontiers ran be met by countervailing force. But thfre is onlv one force on w'orkere belonging to the CGT in force of democratic action in those City's main drag, the other day and their overwhelming majority are areas of social and reform instead of the wrong set, then ev- a man stopped me and asked me doing so in protest against their mm uni err falsely claims economic lot. They support the to have the answers.

Communist Party and the CGT in order to win better housing, higher w'ages, not to further Soviet imperialism. They have demon- with Stevenson to allow him to pass this word. When ef- national stage what to do and how SIMILAR fashion these critics I said. a visitor. Could I help do you like it in (He asked me.

fqj of 1 fi In pin vv tts forts were unavailing, Truman dis- to do it is perfectly plain. Presi-1 bark again, so about the patched Democratic chairman dent Truman has said that he Frank McKinney to Illinois to try would make an extensive cross- again. Various other leaders, like country campaign lor the Demo- Gov. Paul Dever of Massachusetts cratic candidates, and it has been and Mayor David Lawrence of assumed that this would be in the Pittsburgh, also tried to get Stev- pattern of his fighting whistle-stop enson to make this simple com- tour of 194S. mitment.

And finally, shortly be-1 The President intends, however, fore the convention, Samuel Car- to quite a different line this dinal Stritch of Chicago saw Stev-! fall. He ill take to the road to enson in order to assure him that establish the record, as he sees his divorce was no bar to his can- it, on the foreign and military pol didacy. icy of the past seven years. His All this effort absolutely un- eye will be fixed history at As a result. Truman and least as determinedly as on the Democratic ticket av the key leaders like Arvev plenty of historical precedence that no convention was going to nominate a man who might turn the nomination down.

Truman therefore let it be known that Vice-President Alben Barkley was to him. Arvey, Lawrence, and the other leaders also turned to Barkley. Arvey even telephoned Barkley in Kentucky a victory of the in November. THIS IS what the President has confided to two or three of the top men in his Administration. Pride in his knowledge of American history is related in the mind to an acute awareness of how his own Administration fits into that history.

The President is few days before the convention, convinced that his record will stand up under the acid test of history and he intends to tell the American people all about it in a series of speeches from one end of the country to the other. Savage attacks on the Truman- Acheson policy have galled the President, particularly since when these attacks were made he was in no position to reply. Now the old campaigner is looking forward to October as a golden opportuni- deliberately thrown away by a little group of experts, thereby ignoring the vast forces at work was here last year, and ck again, best answer I can give you. MY WORD A oct IIE ASKED me if I were an siibrnerged masses American. I told him yes, that I if h- Wrf only was.

and that I was from New crucle Promlses York and Florida. i "Bet you can help me," he said. lnPV Ca "My wife and I are here and scrambled SSi It if the theory of6Vistory! erTcan he of a hot political campaign by a passionate partisan is open to doubt. JAY FRANKLIN to promise the Vice-President his support. THE PLAIN fact is that Truman and the who are supposed to have maneuvered the Stevenson draft were themselves caught flat-footed when it became clear that the convention wanted Stevenson and nobody else.

In effect, the professionals simply rushed to the head of the Stevenson parade was already ty. forming, and began frantically A record is to be compiled for weaving their banners. his use covering every phase of The only shadow of substance in participation in the crit- the charge that Stevenson "con- ical postwar years. It will begin lies in the fact that he with the Potsdam Conference and could have taken himself straight run through the Truman Doctrine out, and that he never did so. In for Greece and Turkey, the Mar- fact, he came very near to doing shall Plan and the Korean War.

so on at least three occasions. The The President is confident this rec- first time was just after President ord as he presents it will over- withdrawal, when Stev- come doubts that may have been enson wrote out in longhand his own version of Gen. famous statement. He only barely prevailed upon to keep it locked in his desk. The second time was shortly before the Republican convention, when W.

Averell manager. Franklin D. Roosevelt al- WThen the lights are on in our hotel room dim, and two or three times a day they go did you come to Mexico for your vacation? Must be a vacation you are on, because I know you going to live sure am on a vacation. When my two weeks are up, I am going After five years of denials it now back to the good old U. S.

seems that the Army admits that) a living soul will miss there are flying saucers. A flock I said, of them appeared over the Pentagon, showed up on radar, were SHOULDN'T HAVE said that, sighted by reliable aviators and I know, but I was strictly burned, pursued vainly by jet planes. This Mexico invite him and his sort of makes it official. wife to come here. I never saw So the question is: Whose flying an advertisement put out by the saucers are they? Mexican Tourist Bureau saying Let take up the question of that ham and eggs were tie big- whether they are manned by little gest attraction for tourists.

stirred by partisan attacks. NOR WILL his campaign, as he has discussed it with one or two of the men responsible for helping to frame policy, be a defensive one. Of all that he has done during his years in the White House, the President regards the Point 4 gether are fear of communism plus the fact that the French govern- plants dependent upon steel will menl couid balance its budget close and thousands forced out of through subsidies from the United work. States. While these have not been John L.

Lewis is determined that larRe compared to the total French his position as tht champ negotia- budget, represented the mar- will be maintained in the light kept mlddle partles of the steel Today Congress has drastically There is an 80-day supply of coal out this margin, and France may above ground, and when Lewis lays be torn between the Communist his demands before the coal opera- left and the Fascist right of anti- tors in September, winter for much American General De This wriom Stevensc of the count rv will not be verv far comes al a time when the Kremlin ant t0 nominated, ot me not oe rar js hi its propaganda harder were really only away. A strike oi unknown length 7. for failure tf most persuaded Stevenson to issue Program as most promising for the withdrawal statement, and Peace and prosperity in a free throw his whole behind bis will have a lot to say old friend Harriman. And the third can time was on the second dav of for underdeveloped lands formerly the convention, after the Illinois delegation had infuriated him by W1J1 be linked with another defying his express wish not to favorite. the peacetime support his nomination.

Stevenson of atomic energy. The Presi- telephoned Roosevelt and serious- yent will picture a wrorld trans- lv discussed taking himself out by American technological even then. assistance and the magic of limitless power derived from splitting THE FIRST twro times, Steven- the atom, friends dissuaded him on the The intention to grounds that his withdrawal would fute attacks leveled at the Admin- strengthen Robert A. Taft. The istration will risk the likelihood of third time, Stevenson was persuad- bringing foreign policy into the ed that his withdrawal help, campaign as an issue.

Tf he woes not Harriman. but Sen. Estes Ke- after his critics in his customary fauver, whom Stevenson did not vigorous fashion, then a similarly Yet these vigorous rejoinder can be expect- green fellows from Mars or maybe intelligent octopuses from Alpha Centauri. If they come from outside this planet or even outside the Solar System nothing much we can do about them except wait and see if they want to trade a new and better brand of whisky Pie got a little huffy. me what I meant talking to him like that.

I told him, though he w'as bigger than I. and the likes of you, are mighty poor representatives of the good old U. S. as you call it. for our ancestral hunting grounds, you have enough money to travei hoi- nf seems hard abroad but you should never do it to believe that intelligent beings from off the earth would be interested in the Pentagon, so I guess that the objects belong to one or another side in the Cold War.

They are either Soviet in origin or they are our saucers, assuming that radar cannot lie. THE CHANCES are that the ob- your vacation in Atlantic City. Des Moines, or New York. There you can have scrambled eggs every five minutes. If you thing a foreign country is different.

why bother to come? Save money by walking into your back yard and enjoying all the comforts of I am writing about this man, and jects do not contain human pilots, his discomfort from home be- They accelerate too rapidly and cause I have seen American tour- change directions at too sharp an an over the world, angle for the average human being in stand up under EIGHTY PElt CENT of them the strain. Of course, it is true feel just the wav this man in that a generation ago Steinmetz Mexico feels What a waste of was investigating antigravity and money! Think of all the poor but it could be that science has found i intelligent people wrho like a way of counteracting both inertia to travel. and momentum by means of some talk very long with the electrical or mag- man I met on Avenida Juarez, but netic field, like those gadgets in bet that what he about science fiction which take you trav- Cortez. Juarez Zapata, and the his- tory of this country would not far Iv, S5U" surpass what three wildcats know. i be and his wife collect JfiSi I that asb trays, too.

nnv.ncy hnht fif I mean this to he a bitter noyi habit of departing at a column. But I do believe that strated that they will not be duped into Cominform UP in By FRANK COLBY In Italv. on the other hand, I have Idea that Fascism is on the wav back. It is average person has a vocabu- not yet back on the balcony, but it on-v fbout 1,000 words, is back in the streets. The Italian is your idea.

Social Movement, a movement of M. H. T. the right, is a movement Answer: So far as know, an against American policy in Europe, accurate method of measuring vo- The center bloc of Christian cabularies has never de- Democracy in Italv now finds it- vised; although one may find vo- self, as a result of local elections cabularv tests which purport to of May 25 and 26. caught between estimate the number of the upper and nether millstones of words.

Right and Left extremes that to- I Such tests are entertaining, but gether control over half of thp they cannot be exact for the rea- Italian electorate. The Communist son that they try to base their bloc has retained its popular estimate on a dozen or two words strength; the Fascists and mon- that are not in common use. Hence, archists have gained, taking over they disregard entirely the many Naples, Bari. Foggia, and other thousands of familiar words in the centers and increasing their average vocabulary, strength by 120,000 in Rome itself. As to the average Italians are going three ways, not being larger than 1,000 words, and twTo of these ways lead a reflection will show from American notions of the kind the fallacy of such a belief.

Any of Europe we fought the last w-ar normal six-year-old can name hun- and are risking another war to dreds. perhaps thousands, of ob- save and build. jects alone: house, roof, wall, floor, AMERICAN ECONOMIC aid has window- door, chair, ta- improved the general conditions of i'ie' Jamp, rug, fireplace, European life, but has benefitted sidewalk, tree, leaf, grass, the employing and merchant classes Every literate person has three disproportionately, leaving wage- vocabularies: the words used earners with the bitter sense that conversation; the words used they have been bearing, through writing: the words inflation, the brunt of recovery, and in reading. The reading vo- now of defense. cabulary, of course, is the largest; American trade-unionists have and is true vocabulary, supported, in its broad lines, our Whether one speaks or writes a official foreign policy, but we have word is the the never considered it our responsi- word is recognized and understood bility to support that policv un- in reading, it is own beyond critically.

We have question. and again, to the consequences of Shakespeare used about 20 (VX) American failure to use the Euro- different words in all his writings; iean Recovery Program more bold- but it would be absurd to hold that to destroy the Stalinist grip on his true vocabulary was that small. European workers. W7e have at- AH of us, I feel sure, have much tempted, through the International larger vocabularies than the de- Confederation of Free Trade visers of vocabulary tests give us Unions, to rally the free labor credit for. Indeeed, an intelligent movement, not merely for a nega- dog will know a surprisingly large tive counter-attack upon the Con- number of words, and understand munists hut for a positive program them as well as any person.

My of organization and collective bar- dachsund has a stock of words gaining that can offer a practical that is remarkable. One word in alternative to Communist argu- particular, if uttered in his pres- ments and false promises. ence. will always send him to a Unless the free labor movement hiding word bath. CROSSWORD PUZZLE when an American goes to a foreign land it is his duty to put his best foot forward.

Americans are may have to be faced by the country. Other union leaders are hungrily eyeing the results of the settlement in steel. They want equal, or even more, gravy, and the outlook for some time is bleak for industrial peace, and with it the outlook for resisting the inflationary forces that will be set loose to devour the wage increases even before they get into the hands of the workers. Russia, meanwhile, is expected almost at any moment to be ready to try out the Red version of the hydrogen bomb, and it must be expected that coincident with it she will embark on an even tougher policy than the present. The mere fact that Russia will have demonstrated she has the hydrogen bomb, and that she has beaten the U.

S. to proving it to the world, will put an entirely different complexion on the Korean issue and create new diplomatic problems everywhere. Coincident with that test, Russia 11 be able to prove that she is more powerful than the United States and the nations of NATO and the UN. She will create new fears, new tensions, new reluctance. new demands upon United States, and create new strength for the neutralists.

The scales against the free world will bi alarmingly tipped. than ever and when we appear to HAMBONE LOOKS CKi WEAH WELL Yoo Right UM VE IN St DE surface reasons for failure to take himself right out. Stevenson is, after all, a politician, and although he did not ed from the Republican side. THIS HAZARD has occurred to those who feel, quite apart from political partisanship, that the rec- the nomination this vear, is orfi could stand some straightening by no means an unambitious poli- out- For example, on foreign policy tician. He knew' that a politician the Republican platform is tailored signs his own death warrant when much more nearly to the Taft-Mache flatly refuses to accept his par- Arthur rather than the Eisenhower nomination, and Stevenson has viewpoint.

Of the conferences of no political death wish. This is the Tehran. Yalta and Potsdam, it real reason, one strongly suspects, says of administration leaders: why he never made public his traded our overwhelming hand-written Sherman statement, victory for a new enemy and for In short. Stevenson did not want ----------------------------------to be drafted, and he did every-j thing short of committing i political suicide, to prevent a draft. Rut he was shrewd enough to that he might be drafted anyway, and in this case he wanted to be nominated on his own I with no strings tied.

Stevenson got the nomination he did not want on precisely the terms he did want I no achievement. But tamly the answer to the Question he is an emphatic! speed of about 2,000 miles an hour when approached by ordinary aircraft. My guess is that these saucers hv AmpriMns nnt hv tho are of Soviet origin. In the latter part of the war, the Germans de-j iSi veloped so-called trying bright balls of light that followed t0 sel1 the worlfl on our our bombers like St. fire and pointed them out to night fighters.

The Red Armyr captured a lot of German scientists and the first reports of the saucers came from Sweden, right handy to the Soviet Union. Since then they have been spreading and the only place w'here there is no report of the saucers is Russia itself. Heaven knows why. when it is the best then those Americans without understanding, appreciation, and graciousness, would do their country a good turn by staying home and taking in double features. End of sermon.

UNCLE EF Iv 1 It i hat's Risrlit You receive a letter from a friend and think it might be nice to send it on to a mutual friend. I WRONG: Do so without considering whether or not there is anything in the letter that might have been meant for vou alone. RIGHT: Read the letter carefully to make sure that the person who wTote it w'ould not mind its being sent on to somegne else. I SHOULD LIKE to think that we had developed these Flying Saucers but the reason why I doubt it is that neither the Army nor the Air Force could have kept stich a secret so long. Some public relations officer would have blabbed it out or some Defense Department official, seeking a Congressional appropriation.

would have given a hint to a Congressman and once you tell a Congressman you tell the whole world. So it comes down this: ap- a ticle parently the Flying Saucers exist, inches and. since I dubt that little green men from Mars or octopuses from They say guides on the Resti- gouche River in Canada will tell you that to be a good salmon fisherman you must learn to think like a fish. Then you can figure what the critter is likely to da If thinking like a fish is all necessary, there ought to be a lot of good salmon catchers Washington. mca Questions 0 Why is the flag flown at half staff only until noon on Memorial Day? A.

The explanation of this is that our nation lives, and the flag is the symbol of the living nation. Q. Are lakes subject to tides A. The tidal forces of the sun and moon produce tides in inland lakes, but they are usually too small to measure. Lake Superior, for example, has with a range of about two Q.

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