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i TAKE MY MKMIY. f.O HOUND Saturday, November 4, 1950 Trying to Gei Their Bearings WORD FORI! O'KONSKI'S ACTIVITIES next Democratic candidate for If dcMiocratw. 7, fc I DOGS ANYONE1! lf I By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Shortly after elections kindly U. S. Attorney General Howard McGrath may have a test of the corrupt practices act laid on his doorstep which he isn't going to appreciate.

The corrupt practices act was passed in order to prevent candidates for public office from spending huge amounts of money, thus making it difficult for governor of Ohio if he comes back to congress with sufficient majority Democrat Charles Buckley of the Bronx, sometimes called the phantom congressman because of his long absences, is likely to be defeated by Max Bloom of the New York Liberal party Alex Campbell, Democratic candidate for the senate in Indiana, is descended from Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church, otherwise known as "Campbell-ites." In Oklahoma, a preacher in the same church, "Billy Sunday" Alexander, is also running for the senate but on the G.O.P. ticket IDAHO SCANDALS Idaho, famous for its Senator Borah and cowboy Glen Taylor, who deserted the Democratic party for Henry Wallace, is likely to stage some political surprises. Local scandals have mixed things up It all began with a state liquor and insurance scandal which the G.O.P.-con-trolled state legislature tried to shush. However, the irate people of Idaho, many of them Mormons, took things into their own hands, and a grand jury demanded prosecutions. Eventually the state nurchasine agent.

Har THE DAILY SUN SAN BERNARDINO FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR Published daily except Sunday, and Sunday in combination with The Sun-Telegram, by The Sun Company of San Bernardino California. EDITORIAL Housing and Slums Proposition No. 10, public housing, and San Bernardino city measure so-called slum clearance, seem to have been linked together in public discussion, although they are, as a matter of fact, separate subjects. These two measures have attracted considerable interest, and controversy is mounting. This column does not attempt to examine all the merits and demerits that are involved.

But we do reach a conclusion. Proposition No. 10 would require a public election before flny city or county could embark upon public housing projects. We think this is an unnecessary departure from representative government. The people elect councilmen and supervisors to represent them in reaching decisions on such matters.

Certainly such officials are responsive to local sentiment. To require an election on every public housing project would be expensive and cause serious delay in the event of an emergency. Public housing is a settled policy of the national government and we think will remain such regardless of what political party is in control at Washington. In its wisdom this government has determined that lack of housing for families with sub-standard incomes is one of the economic ills that cannot be corrected without governmental subsidy. There is not only an existing need for housing but the flow of population to California will continue to force expansion of every phase of development.

Most of the new housing must be provided by private capital. Should California turn its back on public housing, however, citizens of California would continue to pay federal taxes for the extension of public housing elsewhere. The editorial vote is NO on No. 10. Measure A involves only the city of San Bernardino.

The voters are asked to advise the city council whether they favor the creation of a redevelopment agency that would be charged with the responsibility for proposing projects for clearing slums and initiating, under private enterprise, re-development of the areas. We think a "no" majority would mean the establishment of a permanent policy of opposition by the citizenry. We suggest that under a "yes" vote the city council would be charged with the obligation of conducting a study of slum conditions in San Bernardino, and then listening to public debate as to what should be done about the matter. San Bernardino does have slum areas. It is time this progressive city gave thought as to what should be done and what can be done under state law set up for that purpose.

The editorial vote is YES on San Bernardino citv measure old Boyd, got 10 years in jail' i i i i 1 1 By FRANK COLBY What's In a Name? There was a time when given names were chosen for their appropriateness; but not any more. We seldom take into consideration nowadays the literal meaning of names, else- why would we inflict such names as the following on our innocent offspring? Abner, Hebrew, "my father is a lamp." Adolph, Teutonic, "noble wolf." Algernon, Old French, "with whiskers." Bernard, Teutonic, "bold as a bear." Caesar, Latin, "hairy." Calvin, Latin, "bald." Cecil, Latin, "dim-sighted." Claudius, Latin, "lame." Colin, Anglo-Saxon, "a peasant." Cornelius, Latin, "a horn." Emil, Latin, "work." Gerard, Old High German, "strong with the spear." Gideon, Hebrew, "destroyer." Harvey, Celtic, "bitter." Ichabod, Hebrew, "where is the glory?" Jabez, Hebrew, "he will cause pain." Julius, Latin, "soft-haired." Lancelot, Latin, "a servant." Leigh, Anglo-Saxon, "wayside beauty." Levi, Hebrew, "adhesion." Llewellyn, Welsh, "lightning." Lu-cius, Latin, "born at daybreak." Marvin, French, "more wine." Merlin, Welsh, "sparrow hawk." Morton, Anglo-Saxon, "unsatisfied." Moses, Hebrew, "drawn out." Octavius, Latin, "the' eighth born." Oliver, Latin, "olive tree." Orson, Latin, "a bear." Philip, Greek, "lover of horses." i a Hebrew, "brazen-mouthed." Reuben, He-, brew, "behold, a son!" Rudolph, Teutonic, "famous wolf." Sidney, Anglo-Saxon, "bruised." Thomas, Arahaic, "a twin." Tracy, Greek, "carrying ears of corn." Ulysses, Greek, "a hater." Old High German, "resolute helmet." a i Spanish, "fascinating." Amaryllis, Latin, "rustic sweetheart." Barbara, Greek, "foreign; strange." Belinda, Italian, "a serpent." Cecilia, Latin, "blind." Deborah, Hebrew, "a bee." Eloise, Old High German, "warlike." Lucy, Latin, "born at daybreak." Mary, Hebrew, "bitter." Melissa, Greek, "a bee." Myra, Greek, "she who laments." Priscilla, Latin, "somewhat old-fashioned." Rachel, Hebrew, "a female sheep." Theresa, Greek, "carry ears of corn." Undine, Latin, "a wave (of water)." Ursula, Latin, "a she-bear." Wilhelmina, Old High German, "resolute helmet." QUOTES No other country in Europe has done more to fight communism than Spain, and we must join with her in a united effort to fight aggression. Senator Dennis Chavez, New Mexico Democrat. I think one of the weaknesses of the movies is that producers type cast an actor on the basis of their personal opinion and feeling about him instead of his ability to perform. Ronald Reagan, movie actor.

MACKEXZHvS COLUMX BRITAIN AND PERMANENT CONTROLS a poor man to be elected. However, candidates have got around the act by claiming they had no control over friends or independent committees who spent money for them without their knowledge. They could not be responsible, they said, for money which well-meaning boosters spent behind their backs. Thanks to this dodge, thousands of dollars are being spent by both Democrats and Republicans in what is obviously a violation of the corrupt practices act. And not since hardhitting Alex Campbell left the justice department has there been any real attempt to prosecute.

In Wisconsin, however, there is now evidence of a clear-cut violation by Congressman Al-vin O'Konski, already famous for his nepotism, his income tax finagling and his payroll juggling. DOLLARS SMOKESCREEN Officially, O'Konski spends little money on his election campaigns. His chief electioneering has been done by the "Veterans for O'Konski" club, which has spent money heavily. President of the "Veterans for O'Konski" club is Wendell Johnson. And 'it now develops that Johnson is on O'Konski's congressional, payroll in Washington for $218 a month.

Actually Johnson doesn't work in Washington. He remains in Merrill, where he has an office at WLIN, the radio station owned by O'Konski, and has been the station manager. This dispels any fiction that, the congressman doesn't know what Johnson as president of "The Veterans for O'Konski club" is doing and how much money the club is spending. As a direct employe of the congressman, drawing a salary paid by all the taxpayers, the usual dodge for violating the corrupt practices act blows up in smoke. Note Attorney General McGrath has had a clear-cut case of salary kickbacks against O'Konski for months but has failed to prosecute.

The congressman put members of a weekly newspaper staff in Hurley, on his congressional payroll, thereby reimbursing them for the purchase price of the paper. Thus the taxpayers actually paid for the purchase of O'Konski's newspaper. However, it looks as if the justice department only likes to prosecute congressmen who have gone after Communists such as Parnell Thomas. MERRY-GO-ROUND Senator Taft is reported gaining on Democratic Joe Ferguson in the last couple of weeks Congressman Clarence Brown, Taft's No. 1 Ohio brain truster, admits to friends: "In 10 years I've never had such a tough fight." However, he'll probably win Congressman Ed Breen, regulations time economic wnue we liquor law-eniorce-ment chief, Clarence Saunders, was fired All this had seriously hurt G.O.P.

candidate Henry Dworshak who had been defeated by the late Senator Bert Miller in 1948 and is trying to stage a comeback. Running against him is a live-wire farm-implement salesman and history professor, Claude Burt-enshaw On the other hand, the Democrat who defeated Glen Taylor in the primaries, ex-Senator Worth Clark, is pretty sure to lose. In Ohio a lot, of Republicans are cutting the G.O.P. candidate for governor, Don H. Ebright, in order to vote for Democratic Governor Lausche because of Lausche's silent support for Taft A big Republican vote is expected in North Carolina-cast by Democrats in protest against the primary campaign tactics of Willis Smith In South Carolina not too many folks will bdther about voting.

With the issues decided in the primaries, South Carolina is chiefly looking forward to what ex-Secretary of State Jimmie Byrnes is going to say about his ex-boss in the White House when Jimmie becomes governor. JAZZED-UP Troubled by the fact that comrade Vishinsky steals the play at Lake Success, the U. S. delegation putting a new spice, into its speeches. Witness the reference to Frank Sinatra by staid Wall street lawyer John Foster Dulles.

Dulles had carefully prepared a speech rebutting Vishinsky on the hot question of voiding the veto. It was mimeographed and issued to the press. But when newsmen listened to the speech, trols for fundamental nationalization. The extreme left wing of British socialism goes a good deal further than that and has been very vocal of late. However, the indications are that Prime Minister Attlee and the great majority of the Socialist party do not subscribe to these left-wing views.

ATTLEE SINCERE The prime minister has a widespread reputation for sincerity, even among his political opponents. I had a long private conversation with him at 10 Downing street not long after he displaced Winston Churchill as prime minister, and I came away with the conviction I had been talking with an honest man, irrespective of whether his political theories were sound. Mr. Attlee never has concealed from the public his party's program for nationalization. On the contrary, he has called each shot as he made it.

Now he has called the shot again in connection with his project of making various war By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst) One of the most daring and controversial issues yet advanced by Britain's Socialist government is its proposal to make numerous wartime economic regulations permanent. These include food rationing, price controls and allocation of scarce materials. BITTER CHARGES Certainly the Socialists had to have the courage of their convictions to bring forward such a far-reaching program. Naturally it has brought from 'the opposition bitter charges of a further swing to the left and of being bent on regimenting the life of the country. You will get a quick denial of these charges of dictatorship if you inquire (as I have done) in authoritative British Socialist quarters.

You will be assured that these are "democratic safeguards" supporting the government's belief that it must have basic controls in order to carry out its program. It is claimed that the regime needs these con permanent. He has placed his proposals before parliament and they will go through a process of manhandling to determine whether they are acceptable. As a matter of fact, it is hard to believe that even if British socialism wanted to establish a rule of regimentation, it would be foolish enough to make the attempt now. The British public would rise up and smite any such regime.

VOTING DIVIDED National and local elections have shown the voting population is almost evenly split over the question of socialism. The majority of the Socialist government in the house of commons is a bare eight which gives a fair gauge of the public leaning. In any event, another general election is to be called soon and the nation then will have a fresh chance to express its likes or dislikes of the Socialist program. It is a foregone conclusion that the question of the permanent economic regulations will be among the major issues. Flight From Freedom Not all of the facts concerning the disappearance of Bruno Pontecorvo, the naturalized British atomic scientist who has not been seen on this side of the iron curtain since Sept.

2, are clear. For example, he may be in Moscow or he may not. But it is certain he has been lost to sight of free men. The story of Bruno Pontecorvo's journey from Italy, where he had gone for a vacation after resigning from the big British atomic research center at Harwell, is fascinating and frightening. Apparently none of his friends had thought much of it when he started out with his family for Copenhagen after all, he was to have become professor of experimental physics at Liverpool university in January.

And it was not until six weeks after he had left Rome that Italian newspapers reported he had' vanished. It was possible to trace him as far as Helsinki. He and his Swedish wife and his three children had gone from Rome to Copenhagen, from Copenhagen to Stockholm, and then to the Finnish capital. They had not stopped in Stockholm, though Mrs. Pontecorvo's parents live only a 15-minute ride from the airlines office.

They had gone to Helsinki without visas, and their passports were taken up. But apparently they had no further use for them. It appears they boarded a Soviet ship bound for Russia. What Pontecorvo knew about atomic weapons is in dispute. It is not known whether he went to Russia voluntarily or by command.

But there is no doubt that if he and his family are alive and in Soviet territory they have turned their backs on freedom forever. TODAY IX WASIHXCTOX SHOOTING BOOSTS TRUMAN AUDIENCE something new had been added. "We are hearing the same old song from Mr. Vishinsky," explained Mr. Dulles.

"But are we bobby-soxers who swoon when our modern Frank Sinatra croons?" (Copyright, 1950, Bull Syndicate) 20 Years Ago ex-mayor of Dayton, may be the OX THE IIEC01ID ELECTION HOCUS-POCUS (From the files of Nov. 4, 1930) A new class of 128 young men has been assigned to March field for training as air corps cadets. Lady Sharp of East Highlands has as her house guest her daughter, Mrs. E. E.

Palmer of Vancouver, B. C. The San Bernardino realty board will join the chamber of commerce in seeking a $25,000 publicity fund to attract tourist, according to E. B. Bussey who heads the realtors.

The school board will open bids on the south side junior high school next week. The school plans have been drawn by Architect DeWitt Mitcham. By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON No matter what happens in or around the White House, there are always political effects and the shooting incident Wednesday is no exception. It so happens that, while President Truman isn't running for office, he is about to deliver a speech in behalf of Democratic candidates for congress, and the spotlight will be focused more sharply on him now that there has been so much sensational publicity given to the episode in which the White House guards fought intruders presumably bent on an attempt on the president's life. WIDER AUDIENCE The Democratic campaign committee had already bought radio and television time on a more extensive network than ever before, so the president's speech is likely now to be listened to by a wider and wider audience.

It may cause the president to make less of a partisan speech than he might otherwise have delivered. For, after ob serving the emotional surge of relief of the country that Mr. Truman has escaped injury, there may come a natural tendency on his part to be less polemic and more humble. The political effect usually is in favor of the man against whom an assassination attempt is made. This is the reaction, too, in local contests where shooting affrays have occurred.

RED CONNECTIONS The shooting this time could not by any stretch of the imagination be linked to any opposing influence in politics. There will be widespread comment naturally about the Puerto Ri-can Nationalists and their terroristic tactics. It is within the realm of possibility that Communists may have had something to do with the militant outbreak in Puerto Rico, even though there may not have been any connection between Communist plotting and the shooting undertaken by two Puerto Rican Nationalists. There evidently was enough stimulus anyway from the tactics of vio lence practiced by the Puerto Rican Nationalists to cause misguided elements to plan an attempt on the president's life. Maniacs do not reason things out.

If they did, in this case they would have known that guards do protect the president's residence on all sides and that, in a matter of seconds, more than a dozen men can spring to arms. CRACKPOT IDEA The idea that two men could enter. Blair House by shooting their way through Jhe front door may have been a criminal's theory or, as they prefer to believe around the White House, a crackpot impulse. Whatever the cause of the bold attempt, the nation is gratified that Mr. Truman escaped.

As for the elections, it may be said that the president's appeal for a Democratic congress will get a wider audience than would otherwise have been the case and, if his arguments are persuasive, he may help considerably the cause of his party. (Copyright, 1050. N. Y. Herald Tribune) Longer Work Week? The proposal of General Motors President Wilson that the work week be temporarily extended to 45 hours to boost defense production without cutting the output of consumer goods has again brought him under attack by trade union leaders.

Emil Mazey of the United Auto Workers says Wilson wants employes to put in five more hours a week "without being paid for the overtime." What Wilson meant was that employers should be encouraged to operate their facilities for longer hours by being relieved of present premium rates of pay for hours in excess of 40 a week. In a speech before the National Manufacturers association in December 1948, Wilson called for permanent, not temporary, abandonment of the overtime provisions of the fair labor standards act. He then said: "The 40-hour week is a heritage of the days of planned scarcity, of plowing under cotton, and killing pigs to raise prices. It is a job-rationing measure Today the situation clearly calls for a repudiation of these reactionary and inflationary proposals." The 40-hour week was similarly attacked during World war II and during reconversion, but proposals to suspend the premium-pay requirements made no headway in congress. The fact is that outright repeal of the fair labor standards act at the present time would have little effect on labor costs in strongly unionized industries.

Most union contracts now provide pay at higher rates for work in excess of the standard 40 hours. Some contracts call for more than time and a half; some for a work week of fewer than 40 hours. THOUGHTS TWO GREAT SHOWS REACH AIRLANES Then saith he unto mo, See thou do it not: for I am thy fel-lowservant, and I of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this bonk: worship God. Rev. 22:9.

Remember that God will not he mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom wc prelend to worship. Bishop Hcnshawc. By DOROTHY THOMPSON The conduct of the Ohio elections suggests the need for an impartial umpire to inform the public when free speech and campaign charges depart from and grossly misrepresent truth. The political action committee (C.I.O.) has put all it has into defeating Senator Taft, in promised revenge for the Taft-Hartley (slave labor) bill.

Significantly, however, this bill is being played down. It simply cannot be sparked to inflame workers. It has been in effect for three years and workers arc hetter paid, have better working conditions and pensions, and are more unionized than before it was passed. These are things workers know about and, there- fore, they cannot be deceived. So the anti-Taft forces are concentrating on presenting Taft's record on other social legislation.

USE COMIC BOOK Their most effective campaign literature, as direct appeal to the voters and as source material for anti-Taft speakers, is a ic book entitled "The Taft Story It's on the Record" This purports to set forth Taft's voting record in the senate on bills popular with farmers, veterans, workers, and houseless families. The legend presents a mythical "Mr. Money-Bags," trying to construct a film to present Senator Taft as a friend of the people, and being forced to destroy it, strip by strip, by the incontrovertible record of the senator's votes. The average man, of course, cannot follow every debate and vote in congress but the details of a voting record are likely to Impress him as statements of fact and therefore unanswerable. The facts, however, as presented in this campaign, are so far from the truth that the document astonishes anyone who, even to some degree, has followed the senator's record on social legislation.

The trick is to record his vole on given bills while suppressing all mention of his vote on substitute bills containing similar and often improved legislation to effect the same end. But the strategy puts the Taft committee on the defensive, nee-essitating that it set forth complicated and somewhat boring details concerning every individual bill, while the senator's opponents feel sure that the original, simple "statement of fact" will stick. It is not, of course, the first time that facts can be used to cloak lies. The C.I.O.-P.A.C, not the Democralic party, is running this anti-Taft campaign. The Democratic candidate is just a wooden figurehead.

Taft himself is the whole issue. Lilera-Lure designed and printed in Washington goes to C.I.O. headquarters in Ohio and from there to Democratic headquarters in Cadiz, Ohio. SOCIALISTIC VIEW The brain trust of the C.I.O. political action committee, how-ever, is not Democratic but So-cialist.

It is simply laying its eggs in the Democratic nest, ob-viously because it realizes that a frank declaration of its objectives would not win votes. This further confuses the sit-uatlon and disturbs many Democrats who know that Ohio is a test of the capacity of the C.I.O.. P.A.C. gradually or rapidly to absorb the Democratic party. Both sides, as usual, predict victory.

If the vote is heavy, Taft forces appear confident of a satisfying But they have never before had to deal with just this kind of campaign in which many original and to this columnlst'disturbing, because mendacious tactics have been introduced. And one thing I think is predictable. If the C.I.O. by these tactics can de-feat Taft in Ohio, politicians elsewhere will learn the lesson and trim their sails. There Hie not many with Robert Taft's moral and Intellectual AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN t.

i. mim ii ii 3ml i of variety performers. Ted Mills and Bill Hohin, prooucer and director, have discovered the TV camera as a friend and ally. The show, blended and steered by Garroway, can hardly be called a variety act, since it is as carefully constructed for cas-ualness and dramatic effect as an outstanding musfcal of the caliber of "Oklahoma" and this happens once a week. It comprises a careful and well-oiled merger on non-corny comedy, sly humor, music and dance, with an adult charm that is as distant from the accustomed TV mishmash as is "South Pacific" from "Peep Show." NEW TECHNIQUES This could be the fault of a collection of comparative youngsters largely crew cuts, who have tackled television as a fresh and difficult medium rather than as extension of creaky vaudeville or a negation of the filmsi I'd say director Hohin employs more new techniques of and camera than is generally used in the production of an moving picture today.

to television the captivating charm of the early Walt Dis-neys. On even an average night Tillstrom's puppets are as provocative as the seven dwarfs. The only thing is that Tillstrom and his human foil, a pleasant gal named Fran Allison, shoot off the cuff five nights a week, one half-hour per night. The big TV mountains labor mightily for a week to produce one half-hour mouse Tillstrom and Frannie run over two songs, talk for 10 minutes about the general motif, and deliver a polished period of charm and humor that has nearly deserted the kiddies to captivate the adults. PROVIDES VOICES Tillstrom provides all voices for his hand-manipulated stars headman Kukla, Ollie the dragon, Madame Oglepuss, Beu-lah Witch and Fletcher Rabbit.

Kukla, Fran and Ollie provide the encompassing answer to the unrehearsed end of the business no more surely than the Garroway show has spelled out Hip gospel to the frantic exploiters By ROBERT C. RUARK CHICAGO It is more thaii passing odd that this rough-hewn hamlet which Carl Sandburg once described as hog-butcher to the world, or some such, should pioneer in subtlety an industry that may yet be forced to fall back on talent to avoid extinction. I mean television. After a steady diet of New York potboilers, which seem to have depended largely on flaunted bosoms, ancient vaudeville and cowboy movies, it is almost embarrassing to sit in on the construction of two of Chicago's star products, "Kukla, Fran Ollie," and "Garroway at Large." One is a puppet show. VARIETY SHOW The other is a variety show.

More sins have been committed in the name of both than I care to remember. Kukla and Garroway commit few sins. The Kukla show is about tour jeafs old now, and Is the product of a young genius named Burr Tillstrom, who has brought Kickbacks in Congress The filing jn Ohio of a new "kickback" case against a member of congress may move the house rules committee to sanction an investigation of congressional payrolls when congress returns to Washington. A resolution for such an investigation was introduced by Representative Burdick, North Dakota Republican, shortly after the conviction of Representative J. Parnell Thomas, New Jersey Republican, on charges of payroll padding and kickback operations.

The resolution was not reported by the rules committee because, according to Chairman Sabath, the committee deemed it "a reflection on members of the house." When Burdick made his proposal last January, he said: "Most congressmen are honest about payrolls but a few violators have hurt the reputation of all. Inasmuch as a great many people are uncertain about the honesty of congressmen in general, I believe we should have an investigation of the whole matter." This is probably as good a time for such an investigation as any because payroll abuses are believed now to be at a minimum. The floor leaders of both parties gave warning at the opening of the present congress that there must be no repetition of the Thomas case and some relatives who did little or no work are known to have been separated from members' payrolls. Charges in the present case in Ohio go back to the period 3915-1918. I used to think that woman was high-hattin' everybody, but she.

just raises her chin up so she can look through her bifocals..