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Wednesday, May II, 1949 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Changing ihe Course TAKE MY WORD FOR IT '4 AIRLIFT FLIERS EARN REST The Daily Sun San Bernardino Fifty-Fifth Year Published daily except Sunday and Sunday In combination with The Sun-Telegram, by The Sun Company of San Bernardino, California. SHALL I QrO bOMM AMt TfeLL EDITORIAL erned by a board composed of an equal number of government officials an private citizens. This would give the school some of the freedom of enterprise which the government itself lacks. Hoover, himself, would be the guiding genius behind the school. And, though his days of retirement are still some time off, the day might come when, instead of taking a tempting offer from private business, he could devote his talents to the thing he enjoys most improving the youth of the nation.

And in view of Hoover's long service at a modest government salary, nobody in congress is going to object to putting up part of the money for a boys' school dedicated to him. UNDERNEATH HIS BELLOW Bellowing Bill Langer, the unruly senator from North Dakota, likes to size up a man before voting to confirm him for office. That's whv hr Worked the confirmation of Adm, By FRANK COLBY Do You Make These Common Mistakes? "She is light-complected." No. Complected is an adjective meaning "interwoven." In speaking of the color of the skin and hair the proper word is complexion, thus: She is light-complexioned. "He don't know his lesson." Don't is the contraction of do not.

Obviously one would never say "He do not, she do not, it do not," but that is precisely what we say when don't follows he, she, and it. Correct: He doesn't, she doesn't, it doesn't. Don't is correct after you, we, and they. "We want you to do your work good." No. Good is an adjec-tice; it should not be used as an adverb meaning "well." Better say: We want you to do your Paul Mather to succeed Jess Larson as war work well.

She dances well (not assets administrator. Finally Larson called the senator "and asked what he had against Admiral father. "I just want to look him in the eye," roared Langer. Larson hurried Mather over to Capitol hill "Our goal is less traffic acci dents." We should not confuse "less" with "fewer." Here is a for Langer's inspection." The big, friendly sen simple rule to follow: If it can be counted, use fewer; if it can be measured, but not counted, use less. Examples: Our goal By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Today the Berlin airlift is suspended and the pilots and ground crewmen who performed the greatest air feat in history at long last get a rest.

What they and the nation may not know, however, is what intelligence reports from Russia say about their work. They say that the Berlin airlift has done more to increase American prestige in Europe than anything else. Even behind the Iron Curtain, the facts of the Berlin airlift are known. The Russians couldn't keep the news out The feeding of a city of 2,000,000 people by air, day in and day out, was too staggering a story to suppress. It was a great human story, spread not by newspapers, but by word of mouth.

The Soviet government not only couldn't suppress it, but was worried about it. So the pilots and ground crewmen, as they ease up on their labors today, may never really know how much they have done for their country. J. EDGAR HOOVER SCHOOL During the 25 long years he has been director of the F.B.I., J. Edgar1 Hoover has received all kinds of tempting financial offers.

Various corporations have invited him to leave the government and join thm. Movie companies have asked him to serve as their crime-story adviser. Big detective agencies sought his services. But Hoover has said no. When you compare this with the general field of ex-government officials, Hoover's sacrifice looms much bigger than the public realizes.

Most top government officials serve a few years, then go out and make big money in private industry. In Washington and New York, the woods are full of lawyers who once worked for the government and now lobby against the government. But Hoover was satisfied to work for years on less than only recently got a salary increase to $14,000. He is truly devoted to public service. Therefore, it was appropriate that yesterdaythe twenty-fifth anniversary of Hoover's directorship of the F.B.I.

a bipartisan group of senators and representatives introduced a bill establishing a model school for rejected boys outside Washington in honor of Hoover. For work among boys has been one of his greatest contributions. PRIVATE-GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISE Already, a group of private citizens have secured a 530-acre farm near the upper Potomac in Maryland as a gift to the J. Edgar Hoover foundation. They also plan to raise money privately to help build and finance the school.

The bill, introduced in congress by Senators Thomas of Utah, Morse of Oregon and Ives of New York and Congressmen Walter of Pennsylvania and Case of New Jersey, provides that the government will match private contributions, and that the school will be gov is fewer traffic accidents (acci dents can be counted). There are fewer men than women in ator threw an arm around the admiral ana said: "You look like a two-fisted guy. We'll confirm you this afternoon." ACHESON WILL GO TO GERMANY Secretary Acheson has decided to visit Germany while ii Paris for the four-power conference. In fact, Acheson already has a speech ready for his brief case, with the idea that he would go to either Stuttgart or Frankfurt as did Secretary Byrnes in 1946. The purpose of the Bpcech would be to assure Germans that the United States has no intention of turning them over to the Communists, even if we do reach an agreement attendance.

We must have less noise (noise cannot be counted, but it can be measured). This recipe calls for less sugar. "The sign says to drive care fully." Say should not be used in the meaning of "give orders or instructions." Correct: The sign with Russia. reads "drive carefully." Not, "The policeman said to watch the Flying Discs Appearance of flying discs, more popularly known as flying saucers, in many parts of the country is still being reported, but lacking the excitement that previously accompanied the claims of witnesses. To the public the flying discs are becoming an old story.

In Washington, and especially in the Air Forces department the flying discs are not as old a story as one might believe. News that air intelligence officers have spent two years carefully scrutinizing stray bits of evidence on the discs indicates that the phenomenon is by no means regarded as a dead subject. The air intelligence section has just released a voluminous report which tells what they have been able to find out about the celestial skimmers. It also sets to rest a few of the many fantastic theories that had been put forth. Major conclusions are that the discs are not atomic powered, that they are not space ships, nor are they visiting air yachts from other planets.

The need for such a study was obvious. Beginning in June, 1947, hundreds of people, including many airmen and a few top level Air Force officers, had seen the discs. Of the cases that have been investigated, careful sifting of available evidence has shown that perhaps 30 per cent can be chalked off to "aerial objects" such as weather balloons and birds. Another 30 per cent were astronomical phenomena. The other 40 per cent of the reported sightings cannot be solved.

The disc problem is no joke to the Air Force. At least two military aviation tragedies have been the result of attempts to close with the objects. In one case the pilot, and the other the pilot and co-pilot, died under circumstances that can logically be blamed on the weather, or mechanical failures. But there is enough of the unknown about the cases to set one's spine tingling unpleasantly. The Air Force is now applying regimentation to the investigation.

Reports of disc sightings are followed up by investigation teams and the observer is requested to fill out a long questionnaire. A digest of the reports, coupled with the information already at hand, gives air intelligence some perspective of the problem. The Air Force is not thrusting the subject aside as the fruits of too much imagination, because it feels that there must be something to back up emphatic claims that the discs have been sighted. Meanwhile the research goes on and reports continue to trickle in at the rate of approximately 12 a month. And still the saucers continue to wheel, dip and hum to the amazement of the few who see them and to the irritation of the Air Force, whose intelligence would like to sight them.

traffic lights." Better: The po liceman told us to watch the traf fic lights. "She started in to sing." Omit 'in." Say: She started to sing; Should the Paris conference end in failure, Acheson's speech would be doubly important, because he could then assure the Germans in person that the United States wants them to go ahead full speed with plans for a separate western German state. Note Acheson may run into some competition from Vishinsky who is bound to make a similar speech in eastern Germany. JUDGE FRANK LAUSCHE The big question mark in Ohio politics is versatile Democratic Gov. Frank Lausche.

The nnlitiHans are trvincr to guess whether he TODAY AND TOMOKROW or, She began to sing. "I wish I could of gone." It is incorrect to say "could of, should LABOR IN REVIEW -THEN AND NOW of, would of, must of, might of." Use "have" instead of "of," thus: ployed were not absorbed until By WALTER LIPPMANN After the vote In the house it I wish I could have gone. war production got under way. will run against Senator Taft in 1950 or be This is impressive on amending the Taft-Hartley act. But it is not anything like a mandate for its repeal.

For "while nearly 100 who supported it were retired. 227 who is clear that for the present the "I couldn't find it nowhere." But when they were absorbed. Taft-Hartley act can be amended when full and even over-full em come a Democratic candidate for president or vice-president in 1952. A key to the puzzle mav be a statement Lausche made at an off- This is a double negative. Better say: I could find it nowhere; or: I couldn't find it anywhere.

ployment prevailed, the bargain and given a new name, but it cannot be repealed. This congress at had supported it were reelected. ing power of the unions, which had the-record dinner some time ago. "I have this session will not go back to The eighty-first congress con-tains a majority not a big ma. been too low in 1935, became too great.

"We seldom ever go to the theater." The authorities state "seldom ever" is illiterate. Bet a great nostalgia, he declared, 'lor ine judicial bench." (Copyright, 1949, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) jority but a majority who are on the Wagner act. For what the house has shown it will not do, the senate will be even less willing to do. The union leaders then had not ter say: We seldom, very seldom, or hardly record lor the Taft-Hartley act or something fairly near to it. There THE PASSING PARADE This means that despite Mr.

is longer a sure majority which "We suspicioned that he was the could again override the nresl. Truman's election and the popu thief." No. Suspicion is a noun, lar dislike of the record of the not a verb. Correct: We sus HOBBY BUSINESS IS INVOLVED only the legal privileges of the Wagner act but something unforeseen, and regarded as unlikely in 1935, a labor market so favorable to labor that it was virtually impossible, especially during a war, to bargain with union labor. In certain conspicuous cases, which were dramatized by John dent's veto.

But there is a sure majority to prevent repeal, and to pected that he was the thief. eightieth congress on domestic issues, there is still a majority in compel a compromise which, at Mr. Colby's leaflet. C-23. make it readv to call it off and relax with something easy for you to learn the only two least on the crucial Question of difficult, like collecting whalebone or unused congress, and presumably among the voters, who are convinced that ways in wnicn tne aeii woras may De used corectly.

For a copy, send 5c in strikes against the public interest, is similar to the Taft-Hartley act. TRUMAN'S FAILURE coin, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to him, care of this paper, P. O. Lewis, the excessive power was. Box 99, Station New York 19, N.

x. in the view of the great majority the bargaining power of the big unions is too strong. Does this sentiment reflect an actual condition, or is it the result of pres (Released by the Bell Syndicate) oi tne people, abused. Here, as on the civil rights fiasco. Mr.

Truman has exhibited dollar hjlte. But the instructor insisted that I ought to try it myself. The evening being already ruined, I agreed to humor her. I started and at first everything went along all right. It was going to be a jug, that was apparent.

But progress was slow and I speeded up on the pedal, which was a mistake. As the iuff erew taller one side bulged and sure and propaganda by the in REACTION SETS IN Then the reaction acainst the what Arthur Krock has described veterate enemies of organized so well as "an inability to com THANK YOUK.C.B. prcnend the limitations of sue labor? CONDITIONS IN 1935 The Wagner act was Dassed in cess." He fooled most of us on th election; he is now showing many signs of fooling himself about the Wagner act set in. It was exploited and envenomed by very reactionary elements. But Mr.

Truman and the leaders of the big unions are deceiving themselves if they do not recognize that the Wagner act with ten million un I seriously considered making a wine cooler out of it, but. I had never seen one shaped 1935, and its purpose was to in election. crease the power of the unions to Dear K.C.B. Once in a while one of your lady admirers will insist that you have your picture organize and to bargain col ective- like this thing was beginning to appear. FINE VASE TOO MUCH HAND I eave a little extra pressure on the side Thus on the Wood bill, which is a modified Taft-Hartlev bill, the ly.

In 1935 there were about 10.G employed and the Waener art taken and used as a heading for million unemployed. The year be- opposite the bulge and that side bulged, too, administration lined up 203 votes with full employment are two al your column and you argue tore there had been about 11.3 but downward. It became obvious mat tne iue was out of control and there was no tell million. In 1933, the first year of together different things. Full employment, which is now also declared obiective of nntinnni the new deal, there were nearlv ing what might be the result.

By EDWARD T. AUSTIN There was quite a story in the papers the other day about a federal judge who relaxes after a tough day on the bench by making hooked rugs. This jurist was quoted as saying there is nothing quite so relaxing as becoming involved in a new rug design and a lot of yarn. The story caused me to wonder if the judge ever tried the hobby that I fooled around with for awhile. I went in for clay modeling and relaxed to such a degree that at the end of two months I had made an ash tray.

It sort of flattened out in the firing process and we had to use it for a paper weight instead, but at one period it was an ash tray. SOMETHING ABOUT HOBBIES Since nearly everybody sooner or later gets around to writing or talking about his hobbies, I might as well go into a bit of detail about mine. I joined a class which met in a long, low building equipped with tables and a woman who wore a linen duster and a beret and said she believed I should start with a wheel and make a jug. This wheel actually was underneath the table, but by pedaling it with one foot and keeping it turning, it, in turn, caused a small wooden platform to go round and round and upon this I was supposed to work. The instructor said I ought to be able to make a jug in no time.

Taking a lump of damp clay, she put it on the little platform and started pedaling. With one hand she managed the clay and as it turned she pressed it this way and that and darned if a jug wasn't shaping up before my eyes. The whole thing looked so easy that I was against doing that but how about the natty little gentleman who used to stand at the foot of your column in the young days of the century and bow to the public 13 million. When the Wagner act policy, has changed the bargaining to oppose it. or these some 130, and not many more, were drawn from the industrial and mining districts where organized labor has dominant political influence.

Of the remainder, most of the votes were cast by Democrats who showed their party loyalty but are- looking for an acceptable was passed, there had been a con siderable improvement. But noth position ana brought about the demand for a reduction of the For Economy Admission by leading administration ipokesmen that -the nation is; in a period of deflation is one more reason why congress should actively consider the possibility of reducing government expenses. Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia reiterates that this would be a sure way to keep the economy from sliding down hill too fast and too far. Senator George, chairman of the senate finance committee, also senses the dangers Inherent in either higher taxes or deficit financing.

But he is of the opinion that it is futile to "expect members of congress to cut down on our domestic programs unless we first make a reduction in foreign spending." If that is indeed the temper of congress, why not a slash in appropriations all along the line? with his: I thank you. I have ing like full employment was in about 30 of these columns with sight. The supply of labor was power of the unions. So Mr. Truman is not trvin2 to So, I stopped, kneaded the clay into another ball and started again.

I kept one hand inside this time as I turned the wheel and shaped the outside with the other. At last I had the knack of it' and before long I had a vase, beautifully shaped. The lower part was the size of my hand, the neck was tapered to the size of. my arm and by maneuvprinz with the other hand, the upper his portrait and if you will send greater than the demand. The bargaining power of the unions restore to the unions the position me the addresses of those disap compromise.

which Roosevelt won for them. pointed ladies I will mail each and ineed of almost all employes As long as full emolovmcnt is was low. There were more men An acceptable compromise would be highly desirable at this time. For on the one hand the maintained, he is trying to give and women wanting jobs than edge was beautifully fluted. I called the in the unions more power than they ever in fact had under the country is facing another period of Industrial conflict ovpr mnro there were jobs, and therefore those who did the hiring were in the stronger bargaining position.

The Wagner act. deliberately deal. What he js asking congress pay for less work: on the other to sanction and confirm is the structor. She said it was pretty, but how was I going to get my hand out of it without destroying it? That, it developed, could not be done. So, after a few more lessons, I settled for the ash tray that became a paper weight.

Trouble with ceramics is that the outcome is too un hand unemployment is increasing. one a copy while they last. I MAY V. A. MYjDEAR May.

AND HERE we are. THE TWO of us. FROM AWAY back when. AND IT'S a long time. BACK TO that when.

AND THERE can't be many. WHO HAVE been with me. SINCE THOSE other days. WHEN THE artist drew. THE LITTLE man.

weighted against the employers, was, under the conditions of 1933, extraordinary position which union labor had, not under the new deal, but during the war. he true interest of labor, as of the nation, is to take all necessary measures to regulate the recession and to restore full employ. a iorm or rough justice to equalize power. And as the farming com. Mr.

Truman has no mandate certain. munities and the smaller towns (Copyright 1949 General Features) mcnt when the necessary read- from the people to do that. In the eightieth congress, counting the non-voters who went on record were also in bad straits, Roose justment of prices and costs has velt, unlike Mr. Truman todav. DAVID LAWRENCE DISPATCH taken place.

was able to get farm support for WHO DOFFED his hat. That will be harder to do If for lack of good will about a reason. labor legislation and urban mm. the house divided on the question of over-riding the president's veto of the Taft-Hartley act 338 to 89. Of the eightieth coneross 127 port for farm legislation.

NAVY JET FIGHTER KEPT SECRET DOWN AT the bottom. OF EACH day's column. WITH THE line below. ably fair labor law, the country The large mass of the unom- members did not return last No nas to deal with the recession in the midst of serious and embit. Independent group of citizens after the last THAT SAID: "I thank you." tored labor trouble.

vember, and most of them had supported the Taft-Hartley bill. Gracie Allen Says (Copyright, 1949, Herald Tribune) war as to results in both Japan and Europe knows that "pin point" or precision bombing from an altitude of 40,000 feet is out of the question. HUMAN THING TO DO By GRACIE ALLEN Well, I see that a Swiss scien The most significant information in the PERSONALITY AN ASSET Nurses Needed It is estimated there is a shortage of doctors and of three of four times that number of nurses in the United States. These figures are no doubt exaggerations but efforts are being made to expend facilities of medical schools to accommodate more students. Similar action is required in the field of nursing.

Without the nurse, who has taken a great burden off the doctor in the past generation, the shortage of doctors would be more acute. Where a nurse is available, it is no longer necessary for the doctor to spend long hours with a patient. Nurses associations' are engaged in a drive to encourage high school graduates to enter nursing schools. The public should aid in this effort. It is very much a part of improved health services which everyone desires.

Military Aid Nations of western Europe are spending virtually all of their military money on infantry, the secretary of the Army told congress and the nation the other day. They are relying on the United States to supply sea and air power for them in event of a war. But this does not mean that Eurnne tific magazine says it's now thought that the human brain has been getting smaller since the days of the cave man. Gracious press association dispatch, however, is contained in the following paragraph: By CHARLES McCUNE Poise can be acquired. Success 'Today very few Air Force officers are When you read this column, evaluate your own appearance and personality.

If you do not measure up, or if you have no measuring anybody could figure that out. After all cave men didn't ea ful men 'have it. Women in the business and professional world familiar with the capabilities of naval aviation, Admiral Blandy asserted. Observers had AND THAT is that. AND NOW you come.

AND YOU have thirty. OF THOSE old columns. AND IF I'll tell. MY READERS about them. AND ANYONE who wants them.

YOU'LL GIVE them away. AS LONG as they last. AND LISTEN, May. I'M TAKING a chance. WHEN I do that.

FOR JUST suppose. NOBODY WANTS them. HOW DO you think. I'D FEEL about that. WITH YOU having them.

AND NOT wanting BUT, ANYWAY, May. I'M TAKING a chance. AND THAT'LL be that. I THANK YOU. By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON Sometimes, way down in the press association dispatches, far removed from mention in the headlines, a sensational piece-of news in concealed.

It isn't intentional, of course, and is due only to the general unfamiliarity of the press with what is or has been secret information of a classified nature on defense plans. Thus, the fact that the United States Navy has developed a jet fighter plane which can climb to an altitude of 40,000 feet in seven miruites has been a secret. It has just been made public in a United Press dispatch from the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt on the authority of Admiral Blandy, commander of the Atlantic fleet. What this means is that the B-36's, on which congress has placed its chief reliance for strategic bombing, are vulcrnablc and cannot proceed without fighting protection from continent to continent as claimed.

Everyone who knows anything about air war around fighting with atomic stick, ask to sec books and maga bombs that might ow the whole do, too, for who likes to look at a slouchy, droopy woman an implied demonstration of this possibility zines on the subject of sclf-im. provement at your library and Professor Coakcs was talking to world to pieces. They laid into one another with clubs and sometimes came out with only a slight when Navy jet fighters were catapulted off the carrier's deck to climb to bookstores. Poise can he a department senior. The young People with poise command re-spect.

You surely desire to fellow was standing in front of the desk at an awkward angle, smoking a cigar. He had led his And my husband savs thev used respected. a lot of more sense than modern class in scholarship engineering. men in their wooing. Thev lust AUNT HET But his appearance was not pleasing.

He had no poise. His chances 000 feet in seven minutes. These planes McDonnell F2II Banshees were said to be able to intercept a bomber attack at altitudes up to eight miles. If actual war games were held with the Air Force and the Banshees proved themselves, it would weaken the Air Force's claim that its B-36 superbombers are almost impossible targets for interceptors above 40,000 feet. Air Force statements have grabbed their snookie-pie by the hair and dragged her to their cave instead of spending a lot of of becoming an executive will be By ROBERT QUILLEN few and far between.

20 YEARS AGO "Dr. Coakcs," I began (the would have the infantry to fight land money on candy, flowers and theater tickets. When I asked George why he never has shown his love by dragging me around by the hair, he been based on tests of the B-36 against Air senior had departed), "I've bedn lecturing to hundreds of business executives and they are not enthusiastic about your graduates." fare knows that fighter planes cannot carry enough gasoline to operate from territorial United States anAwilI have to support long-range bombers from overseas bases. OUT OF QUESTION Everyone who studied the official reports of the strategic bombing survey made by an said his brain although reduced in size was still large enough not to "Our men are the best engineers in the country," he said testily. try anything like that.

"Well, among the best," I put catties. The secretary reports that every European country expects America to build up Its infantry forces in Europe rapidly, that European infantry never would be able to top an invader such as Russia. It would be up to America to do the major portion ef the job. New Jersey man with $500,000 in the bank died of starvation, just when meat prices were down to the level where he" tould have afforded an occasional steak. in.

"But they have not learned the value of the sharp look and, a pleasing personality. They have THOUGHTS SO THEY SAY (From the files of May 11, 1929) San Bernardino building permits for the year to date total $998,753. The figure is over $200,000 ahead of last year. Ed Poppctt was greeted by fellow officers on the start of his twenty-fifth year as a police officer. Petitions containing 1,000 names will be presented to Mayor J.

C. Ralphs by a group of businessmen asking return to diagonal parking on downtown streets. The Southern California Edison Co; has completed underground service for all its lines on street between Second and Sixth. not learned the techniques of personal charm," Force fighters which are said to require 23 minutes to climb to 40,000 feet and then not be able to do tight maneuvers." Hero is an excellent example of what patriotic competition between the research and development staffs of the Navy and the Air Force, respectively, has done for America. It is a good example also of what would be lost if one Rervice were given a monopoly over all airplane research.

Certainly a monopoly is a much more convenient arrangement for the folks who get the monopoly but, in the business world and in the world of research, it has been found that rivalry of achievement is a stimulus to effort and that a certain amount of competition adds zest to everyday work. For this is he that was srjoken of bv the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one cry "What can we do about it?" "Tench them. Insert personality ing in me wilderness, prepare ye the way ol the Lord, make his paths straight. Matthew The Tfuman administration leaders on Capitol hill are giving a perfect Impersonation of the youthful bully who runs home to mama screaming that some hoy much smaller than himself has punched him in the nose. Hugh D.

Scott, Republican national chairman. 3:3. courses speech, grooming and poise directly Into the four-year course, It will pay off ten fold." These smart modern vounirnn know what tn rln whim th od- It is revealed that most popular songs ire written in less than five minutes, but many persons continue to insist it is a aste of time. I left the professor thinking advice, they just want to The voice of the people is the voice of God. Hesiod, seriously about his seniors and you responsible if things eo their welfare.

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