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Eeep America American probably notnwe than' 1,000. SOMERSET DAILY AMERICAN -nh Inside Washington Interpreting War News Dixon's Column Worth Reprinting PETTENGILL 'The Gentleman From Indiana' -ft annually which it is said we "have to 'War bond advertising has lacked something of common honesty. We have been and agayn and agayn" that-the bonds we buy mean future homes, automobiles, trips, as well as security in old age. This could be understooo only as -meaning the use of the principal of the bonds, for few people can save enough to buy the "dream house" interest at less than 3. --If the government now finds itself embarassed in asking ts bond buyers not to use their principal (not to cash bonds, but hold them) it has only itself to blame' There has been too much Holly woos in this wax.

I never thought too highly cf the fat man whqought bonds only if some -actress, with Morgen-thau's blessing, kissed him on i.he bald lipots. It is said that individuals have $130 billions. Tnis is largely baloney. If a man and wife have paid off the mortgage on the house, and now7 have the house debt free, vhey have saved something that will keep the rain out. But war bonds are act true economic savings.

They largely represent expenditure for wealth which has been eaten up, worn By ROMXEY WHEELER) (SubsUlutine far Kenneth L. Dixon) HERRINGTON England, Aug. 27 tJi One night in mid-Apnl a je: black Liberate -k-omber cut the nteht Eky over per jy, winging toward a puipomt oDvf me navigator's map. VJ The target Ti the big ship pilotel by Lt. Edgerton ol Washington.

D. was not an industrial plant or a military installation. It was a camp for slave labor. The dozen 'bombs" vhich soon were to jo plummeting down from 24.000 were amcng the topscrets of the war. I flew with Edgerton and his crew that night on a deep penetration mission over Liepzig and Dresden, but only now am I allowed to tell the full story.

For Edgerton's Lioeraior "Midnight Mistress" was one of the first ships to carry parachute "bembs" loaded with live pigeons. When. Lt. John A. Alexander" of East Liverpool, Ohio, the navigator, put us over the target, the live cargo went overside by hand.

Back in the waist compartment Sbjst. LaRue Shipley of Caldwell, Idaho, and SSgt. Charles W. Strain of Crete, picthed cut a dozen Cardboard cylinders, each containing a live pigeon. Like paratroopers, their parachutes snapped open on miniature static lines.

Each pigeon carried" a small con-; tainer on one leg With printed instructions, troop strength and deplov. ment which were to be fastened to the birds for relay to approachini spearheads of General Hodges and General Patton. -Birds Bore Valuable News Although the percentage of returning pigeons never has been disclosed officially, I learned later that a number of birds returned to their cages in England with valuablex information. Others may have been lest and still others may have found their way into someone's cooking pot. "You know," observed the bombardier, It, Carlo Zu'niga, Mira Loma, "if I were a hungry slave laborer and someone paracnuted in some pigeons I'm darn sure I'd be more interested in eating 'em than writing letters." The pigeon parachute bombs were dumped on Germany as presumably they later would have beeil dumped on allied prisoners of war camps in Japan by the night flying 460th squadron of the Eighth air fj)rce which in the last 20 months of the war dropped millions, of leaflets and patriotic newspapers on occupied Europe and Germany.

(By G. M. KELLY) (Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon) CALCUTTAW Col. Aleksei A.

Leonidoff, U. aimy doctor, is cy his way home to Poughkeepsie; N. with a trunkful of citations and medals from the Chinese government. Hailed as the "people's benefactor" by the Chinese among whom he worked, Col. Leonidoff, in civilian lire medical director of the St.

Francis hospital in Poughkeepsie, was commanding officer, of a station hospital near Kunming and laison officer and medical adviser ef Chinese army. The station hospital, he said, never had enough of except hard (Special to Central Press) WASHINGTON The rows of white crosses in American military cemeteries throughout the Pacific may prove imporant factors in any future argument over disposition of vital island bases. Military and naval leaders consider it is unlikely that the United 'StaUs will abandon any island which cost America hundreds, and In some cases, thousandsof lives From a purely military standpoint, the islanas taken since America launched her counter-offensive, whlcn crushed Japan, were chosen carefully by the high command and leaders in the field, and each was a vital link in the march to victory. Undoubtedly there will be arguments in Congress figainst retention of many of the bases because of their upkeep cost, but few politicians will have nerve to advocate abolishment of an American shrine. Military leaders insist America must retain control, if only to prevent seme other power from using the various bases for a possible war in the future.

Thus America paid with the lives of young men for such bases Us Tarawa, EniwetoK, Saipan, Peleliu, Okinawa, Ie" Shima, Iwo Jima and others. Who can say now -that any one of them was not vital to victory? TRUMAN- is anxKus to have Congress pass pending unemployment, compensation as soon as possible. In fact, n'endintr hills ore hp. hind schedule because victory caught congress on vacation, and already tens of thousands of workers are seeking new jcbs. Pending bills would pay workers unemployment compensation ranging up to maximum of $26 per week for 26 weeks.

OrganizecVabor is opposed to bills ready for consideration. One major ccmplaint is that the question of eligibility Is lef up to the states. BOTH THE ARMY AND NAVY are taking extraordinary precautions to keep veterans from being "rolled" when they leave separation centers with their uniform pockets stuffed with back salary and mustering out Pay. 4 in an effort 'to discourage panhandlers and petty racketeers and chiselers wjjs might be wailing aifcthad separation' centers, the War and Navy departments have arrangea to give a of cash to discharged veterans. The remainder of the money due any single person is given in he form of onfe or more checks.

Enlisted men also are urged to mail the checks or money orders horne before iiiey leave the centers. THERE IS GOING TO BE a red-hot battle in Congress over income and other taxes, but it appears certain that the average American will have less to pay the government, within iha next few months, perhaps after Jan uary! Secretary Vinson has his tax Plan ready, but from all indications it will deal mostly with levies on business. On the other hand, there is growing sentiment in Congress to reduce individual income taxes. Predictions are. that the 95 per cent, excess profits tax will gb.

For -individuals the proposal that seems to have most support is removal of the three per 1 cent normal tax on incomes. YOU CAN EXPECT further reshuffling of the Surplus Property disposal set-up in the near future. Present heads of the organization plan to take over physical disposition of surplus property instead, of merely, acting as aponcy-maKing organization. Purpose behind such a move would be to establish responsibility with one organization. A tough battle is expected in Congress over disposal of some items, especially and mot.rs.fobme industrialists argue- that if the govern-' ment dumps mountains of equipment on the market it will disrupt norjhal production and increase unemployment.

SUE FORD ET AL -FOR $10,000,000 CHICAGO, Aug. 27 Five Chi-cagoans asked $10,000,000 damages in a federal court civil suit today al leging that the 'Ford- Motor Company and two other concerns conspired to infringe patents on a gear shift mechanism. The "Ford Motor Company, the House Engineering Company. Buffalo, N. and the latter's -parent con cern, the Houdaille-Hershey Corpora tic were named as defend ants.

Plaintiffs were Salvadore Sipulla, Frank Girardi, Joseph Burrescia, An tonio Torretia and Edward XJ. Dublin. Their attorney, Ray Lane, said Sipulla and Girardi invented a steering wheel gear shift mechanism; with the other three men -helping to fl nance them, and obtained three patents between 1930 and 1935. Chesapeake Bay is the world's greatest oyster ground, but in 50 years Its has shrunk from 110 000,000 pounds -a year to (By JAMES D. WHITE) ii tress Writer) 6AN FRANCISCO, Aug- 27 UPy-1 u-year pact announced by China and Russia over the weekend could serve as a orld peace stabilizer' second only to the united nations organization itself.

Its chief significance lies in the simple fact that the two largest nations in the world, 'both with well-demonstrated determination to remain themselves, have faced the major problems between them and agreed to Keep 'iacinj thm. The pact does not remove all the possible causes of trouble, but lt does, bind the two powers to a frtendly apprqacn when uisputes do anse, us they -are bound to. Frontier The mutual land frontier alone stretches for 4,000 miles, is ill-de- lined in many places, and runs through various areas in central Asia where Chinese and Russian political iniiuences vastly different in the past at least have often led to contused situations among the minority peoples affeced. The pact recognizes Chinese sovereignty al) these aresa except outer Mongolia (which corrupt republican Chinese government lost two decades ago anyway), and a Russian hands-off promise is thrown in. This puts upon China the full responsibilty for seeing that eccnomic and political life in Sinkiang, Inner Mongolial Man churia and Tibet develops along or derly lines.

c.iinese and China's friends recognize that this did not always happen in the past. But the Cjimese could very well plead that ifL their border regions were politically chaotic attunes it was partly because of China's own fight against foreign aggression in the past century. But now China has thrown off many of the unequal treaties. 3be nwo has the first chance in her modern history to show what she can do. -lt is a heavy responsibility, particularly in view of the war-blinted tcunomy, with which sne will have to start rebuilding.

Administrative and tecmcal personnel to' tajce over Japanese-industrialized Manchuria is merely one example cf the problems China faces. V. S. Influence There is good resaon to think that American influence has been behind at some of the general arrangements of the pact, based on a. beUef that Sino-Russian amity is essential to world peace.

If this is true, American influence is therefore behind this- final full emergence of Russia as a Pacific power, with her eyes turned interestedly toward the teeming millicns of Asia as well as those of Europe. There is little if anything thus far to indicate that this means Russia will set about communizing Asia her actions in the recent past all aTgue against that, and so do her rather scrupulous gestures toward Chinese sovereignty over border areas in the present pact. But it does mean that, in the future, Asiatics in remaking their war-shaken political, economic and social systems, -will think about -what Russia has to offer as well as the so-called democratic group of nations. TO REGISTER FOR DRAET BIRTHDAY HARRISBURG, Aug 27 (JP) All young men who become 18" years' oi age must register for selective service 'on their 18th birthday, ir respective of the end of the state selective service headauarters 1 said today. Lt.

Col. Clarence Hartman. acting state annuonced at the same time "job 'under 26 years of age will be processed for immediate induction into the ai'med forces. Hartman'said while other government agencies have relaxed manpower controls, "registrants oecveen the ages of 18 and 26, who are deferred because of the 'work they are doing, can not leave their advance permission of their loca! boards" and "if they do, they face service in the armed forces without He said this applies to all registrants under 26, "including young men who are deferred because they are coal miners, or because they are serving in the merchant marine." Last week Hartman said "very few" of the 18-25 age group, otherwise eligible for military service still held deferments. Yputh who become 18, Hartman ssid "must reportNto the local' boards in their neighborhoods on the day they become 18- and not a day or two later," The.

only, exception is when a birthday falls on Sunday or -a legal holiday and then "he should report for registration on the following day," Failure to register immediately, he added, makes a youth "subject to prosecution for violation of the law By LES FORGRAVE inrvKf aw ucaha ii icy 1 HOLD YOUK WAR BONDS The government is shortly going to urge that war bonds oe neia ana not cashed. This will be good advice Jf followed nationally. T. B. Gamble, director of the ireas ury's war finance division, says he threat of inflation is more "aggravated than at any period during the war." Dr.

William A. Paton, professor of accounting at the University of Michigan, says the nation can avoid ruinous inflation only if tea millions of war bond owners continue to hold them Indefinitely. England and France carried huge debts, going back to Napoleon and Waterloo, without disaster until Word War I because their, bonds either had no redemption date (consols) or the people themselves continued to hold them as a nest egg, or as a dowry ior a marriageable or as an inheritance passing aown iron. lather to son. Tney were content to collect the interest, and, when oends did mature, they exchanged them for the new So far, American have held on to 85 of the war bonds they bought to finance the war now ended.

Will they continue keep them? Despite the danger of nation-wide cashins of bonds. Secretary of the Treasury Vinson promises that the government will not attempts to freeze" them. You can fash them Jf you so decide. But there are still more huge bond issues to be sold. In World War the biggest issue was sold after the armistice not before.4 The present debt will increase by many billions before the last soldier returns to his native shore.

But if bonds are held, and not cashed, what happens to this purchasing power" tied up in bonds? How is it to be used to finance a posfewar prosperity of $140 billions ber, presents an 8-point policy of mutual IT. S. -Russian trust. As proof of the urgent need of suchl TT. n.nn In the frictions already evident between America and Russia, stemming from events "in Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland, Iran and elsewhere.

These growing discords, he warns, constitute no advance toward the world promised by the San Francisco Charter, but a relapse into the old world of "new divi-skjiis anu spoils and thereupon (as We already see) of new great conscript armies and 'navies in preparation icr new impending wars." The first of the author's proposed remedial actions is to invite the, Russia to all international conferences in which it could have "even the re motest "Stop negotiating only with Britain about world oil," he says. While the Dardanelles lem is international, bearing the signatures of nine nations to the Montreux Convention of 1936, Mr. Hard states that Russia is putting "its own sole pressure" upon Turkey on that problem, and urges a broad ternational conference regarding the vital Dardanelles," with, invited. I His second point is to appoint for all liberated Europe "a commission of authoritative representatives of Russia, Britain, France and the United States to organize and execute a poli cy of breaking down all barriers to complete informational enlighteijmerit in every European liberated region." The author emphasizes that while we. cannot ask the Russian government to stop controlling its own press, "we can and should demand that it stop suppressing the freedom- of the press in regions it has liberated only with allied assistance." Free elections in all liberated countries is third point of the, program.

Reckling that the Yalta conference decided Jointly to assist the people of every liberated country to have free elections, the author urges such freedom not only in Russian-occupied Greece. Citing indications of Russian intentions i to add Manchuria to its sphere, "just as it has added Mongolia, at China's expense," Mr. Hard, in his lourth- calls upon our government to invite Russia to sign the treaty adoptedt the Washingon conference of 1922. by which eleven sig natory nations are bound to respect the territorial Integrity of China. At the same time, the author holds, our government -should act with the other nations, Including China, to give Russia "full transit for its trade across Manchuria to warm water norts.

In his fifth point Mr. Hard urges the United States, in all East Asian affairs, to Imitate "the two most ef fective characteristics of Russia in dealing with Asiatic a non- racial broadmindedness and a passion for raising Asiatics to a modern level of living. Declaring that an armament race with Russia would be ruinous, tne author's sixth proposal Is "to approach Russia Immediately on the problem of disarmament." With 400,000,000 people within Russia's military do-mam" in the next few decades more than the inhabitants of all English- out, or destroyed on land ana sea. A sunk battleship cannot be turned into a home. These billions of war bonds represent a charge against wealth to be created in the future.

They are not true -savings. They are a claim on future taxes which the people themselves will pay. The sooner we forget the hoop-la, and depend upon today's production for today's consumption, of working for living rather than spinning air castles out of war bonds thebetter. SAJJfUEL PETTENGILL speaking countries combined iand with its Suvorov military academies training enght-year-old boys for the ofiicer corps, Mr. Hard asks, "Does the United States want, does Britain want, to enter this kind of competition? Prospective conscript preparations of the great powers, he says, di-reciea not omy against Germany and Japan, who will-be totally disarmed, but only against one another, "make a hypocritical mockery of the whole San Francisco Charter." Provided the problems' of spheres and armaments can be sclved, Mr.

Har4 proposes, as his seventh point, to give itussja what it most sorely needs: American help in repairing 4ie Devastations visited upon Russia by the The final point of the author's program is "to make the most we can" of the- general- assembly cf the new united nations formed at San. Francisco. "Only the general assembly, 'of all he urges, "can represent the world's complete conscience." PRAYER OF THE TREES fRv Rauerl Rnmptlmpe npnnlp wnnripr whvl prayers are not answered" promptly or the reply is different from their expectations1, although we have the assurance our prayers are heard by the angels and carried by them to God. The following story is symbolic: Three large trees stood in a dense forest, one prayed, asked for what they desired to be converted into when felled, first prayed to be a beautiful palace where kings and queens dwelt and visitors would come and gaze with awe. The second, to be a large ship, sail the seven seas and encircle the globe.

The third wanted to stay, in the forest, grow into the tallest tree there and always point a high finger to God. One day the woodsmen came and chopped down the first tree and instead of a palace, it was made into a common stable but a virgin and her husband foundwshelter there and that night there was born the fairest babe in all creation and ever since men and angels have been singing the Glory to God in the Hignest. Thirty years Rassed, the second tree wfts felled in made into small ship, launched cn the sea of -Galilee; ft tall young man stood on the deck of mat snip ana witn a heart-warming smile told the multitude "I came that you might have life and enjoy it more abundantly." Soon the, third tree was chopped down, the limbs were made into, a cross and beastly men goaded cn by devilish spirits, pinned His shoulders down and nailed that voune man to the Cross the lovliest personality that ever walked upon this earth--(but ever' since, that cross has -been pointing to' the road to Paradise, the road which is now open to all nad the final station on that highway is God. People who have the influx of he Holy Spirit, knowing what has Seen aone lor tnem, nave an ardent love for their Savior. The heart that thas once met Jesus will never love another: work.

But he's willing to match its 3 death rate of 1.3 per sesvmiWr Qrprr rtTTl? against that of any other army hos- 1JU Irl kJllLiJL lJJCi Yet Ca1f-ijpui-g'g population is only abjhJ4jO, so that there arfev probab-fftt more than 3,000 headiKof families in the city. They are notall employed in Canons- burg's industrial establishments. Fut Canonsburg is in the center of rich coal fields and the mines around about employ goodly num ber of the heads of families resid ing there. There are merchantile establishments in Canonsburg, also. Canonsburg was pointed out dur ing the long 'years of depression that preceded the war as one western Pennsylvania town that didn't know there was a depress ion.

The people who live there are very largely home owners. They are the type of people who don't look to the government to do for them what they are free to do for themselves. They resent the pic ture of their situation presented by Mr. McDonald. The affliction that has come to Canonsburg is due.

largely to the progress that has been made in recent years in the manufacture of tinplate. The Canonsburg tin-plate mill which was sold to the United States Steel Corporation in 1942. used an ancient and expen sive method that consumed a great deal of tin to obtain a product equal to that of more modern methods. The United States gov ernment was responsible fjor that only in the sense that it had not enacted laws to prevent iiuman progress. This country has not been made great by communties that have gone down to Washington, tincup in hand, to obtain this, or that from the government, but by those which have set about to solve their own problems.

The people of Canonsburg placed little faith in the enterprises bestowed upon them by the government. The alumlnuni plant erected there never had any prospect of being of value to the city. The people of Canonsburg knew that when the war fended there would be no work in the plant that employed 900 people making shells. Towns that place their dependence upon what the government may do for them in the period of reconversion will awaken some day to find that they erred. Prominent men of Canonsburg are out with statements that, Canonsburg will get new industries.

These men know what Canonsburg has been. They have the spirit that made it' Mr. McDonald's whines contribute nothing 4 to Canonsburg's benefit. War Skills Edward Martin, speak- ctnnAav at thfl Chartiers Pres- bvterian church, Canonsburg, iUK, ajwsvaj known locally a the nm called for the employment in re-ronvArsion of the same skills that 1 1- have made America victorious in the wars. rru iimAi been more explicit.

Tact one "of those skills which enabled America to win the wars. Many persons who had no per sonal fondness for one anotner loved their country so much better than they loved their peeves that they made themselves agreeable during the war and the same skuis which- yielded victory to the war nrt will hriniy us back to peace time prosperity, provided the gov ernment in Washington can An tn nnrloratanH that the Am- iiauc erican Constitution is a living in strument for protection of the people from 'such torments as have been imposed upon xnem umer mt specious plea' of war necessity. UNRRA Some members" of Congress promise headaches for President Truman and other executives, in Washington. For example Rep. Brown n4 nronosition that UNRRA shall be denied funds promised for the relief of suDjecis of governments that deny freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion to the people who live under them.

While such proposition might make a lot of votes for its advocates, it smacks too much of dictatorship on the part of the United States to promise any iasunK good. The fault this- newspaper has found with UNRRA ia is too complex. At the close of the first World War, the United States made the Red Cross and Herbert Hooyer responsible for work analogous to that -which has been assigned to UNRRA. The United States provided the money and dictated how it should be dispensed. If each nation contributing to UNRRA were to dictate the conditions attached to its contribution, there would be a terrible mess.

The late Andrew W. Mellon was a smart mart, else be could not have brought the great prosperity his country enjoyed by reason oi his policies without all the gadgets the new deal has rigged up to do a similar job. The Ideals of the countries in Europe which the Communists influence, will be, of course, Communist Ideals. Hirohito serve as an Illustration of what wicked war lords may do with a "thoroughly amiable 1 a i imam Butia aaa TIM 8mmt StiaJ larued Dally except Sunday. July 4tb and CtirUtmaa.

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Western offices. "MO N. Mlchlgfn Chicago; Gen-- eral Motors Bldg Detroit: Chamber oi Oommeres Pittsburgh. AUGUST. ZS, 1945 PAGE FOUB Sino-Russian Pact the San Francisco con- vention, at which the united nations charter was formulated, an eminent Chinese Communist delegate went home, saying before hie departure that it was his intention to '-urge1; upon Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader, dependence upon -the United States rather than Russia.

1 5 The signing of a treaty of peace between Russia and Chiang Kai- shek's government is a most pro- sipti. however humiliating to the Chinese Communists the disillusionment concerning Russia may be. The'compact is alike a credit to the Russian regime and the states-. manship of Chinese Premier T. V.

Soong, brother-in-law of the Chin: ese generalissimo. It should be hailed joyously throughout the world, for the menace of civil War in China was a disturbing element "China and the United States are fieridsy and with Russia and China bound by a treaty, the outlook for neace in eastern Asia is most encouraging. China has had enough of war. people are inclined towards peace' From time to time, China Ji asTfteen afflicted by war, but not witfiin the recordings of historians has she been an aggressor. War! is expensive.

It has proven costly to the United States, It has proven jcostly other nation that has. undertaken to employ it for the settlement of international disputes, or for the defense j. Nof So Easy It appears that Senator Wagner's slavery bill, the "full employment bill," he would have it called, iff due for some rough sledding ju the House of Representatives. Chairman Manasco, Alabama Democrat, whose committee will receive it when the bill is introduced to the House, characterizes it as "vague and unrealistic." "Where's the money coming ftonj is the question that worries Rep. Manasco, though Senator Wagner and his fellows have never bothered about that.

r- Mr. Manasco has been following a week of hearings" by the Senate committee on banking and has not Keen impressed. There are a grefct many other Jrripricans who view with 'alarm the- Wagner proposal. Senator, Wagner, seems of understanding that even a treasury deficit has "a bottom and tiiat there, is. danger-that the econ- drnic lawftohich -brought Germany to disaster after the first world still operative.

Foreign nations want to borrow bullions, vast schemes for pauperising the masses of the American people, to say nothing of the full employment bill," urged upon Con gress appall thoughtful men and women. 1 Wealth is a product, of a com petitive economy, but it ceases to be When the government becomes oheof the competitors. Unless there is private industry iff Iftte Jherecan be no wjealthi a' jYet wealth' appears so desirable tg some nations that have arrived at, or are headed in the direction (of 'what their admirers call a arc willing to borrow all they can the United States, where free Enterprise has rewarded individual fcffort in competition more liberally than anywhere else in the world. rf iJSenator Wagner's proposal is a for the destruction of freedom. Chairman Manasco discerns that.

So do many ptiher thinking Americans. lf is to continue to be, Senator Wagner's infamous proposition muBt be defeated. Canonsburg jDavid J. secretary-trfeasurer of the United Steelwork-erti of America, has written John Snyder, director of war mobilization and reconversion, that Can-ormburg is "practically denuded of pijvote employment" and he wants to know what the federal government Is going to do about it. nvc werT'f)000 iwmrt the payrolls of Cnonaburg's industrial during the war.

Now there are THOMAS F. WOODLOCK) (Front New York -Herald Tribune) The death of Thomas P. Woodloclc, one-time editor of "The Wall Street Journal and in recent years a con trtbuttog editor to that paper, fol lows by only four months that of Alexander Dana Noyes, of "The New York Times dean of New York's fi nancial editors, his sole contemporary in the fields, and friend oi many years. Mr. Noyes became editor of the old "New York Evening Post" in 1891.

Mr. Wood lock, who was bora in Dublin, Ireland, and educated in Eng land, came to this country in 1892 and began his financial writing career as a reporter specializing in raiiroaa finance for "the Wall Street, Journal" that same year. Thus, the only twe nationally known financial journalists who could discuss with the same firsthand knowledge the events of Cleve-laau sceond administration and of World War II and the beginning of Hie Truman administration have now passe from the scene. It would be difficult to conceive a cacitrcund better fitted to the development of Juugment, perspective and wisdom In its most practical sense than half a century spent in watch ing history unfold, day by day, week by week and year by year, and analyzing the contents of the pages as they were turned. That Is especially true if as In the case of these two con temporaries, one's equipment includes moral and Intellectual and an eager and inquiring mind.

Mr. Woodlock took a sabbatical from editorial work between 1925 and 1930 to accept an appointment by President Coolidge to the Interstate Commerce Commission. This appoint ment marked a turning point in Its field. Up to that time political coloration and regional qualifications were regarded as the standard tests for membership on the board. This was a difficult hurdle for a man with a Wall Street background to overcome, but Mr.

Woodlock successfully convinced Congress, and subsequently the country, that his qualifications were purely those of a specialist in the field of transportation and railroad finance. That enlightened liberalism is not the produce of one locality or one set of associations is attested by the fact that Mr. Woodlock and the late Joseph B. Eastman, who came to the commission apparently with almost diametrically opposite backgrounds and conceptions of the railroad problem, name to be warm friends and deep admirers of one another's abilities and qualities. In his column, "Thinking It Over," Mr.

Woodlock's writings have in recent years become decreasingly technical and more reflective and philosophical. On this level he has conducted a brilliant defense of democracy and free enterprise as the only system consistent with the dignity and freedom of the individual. While a foe of "anarchical competition," to him totalitarianism, however disguised, was "a noxious brew of philosophic pragmatism, scientific superstition and naturalistic ethics" which added un to "a com prehensive dehiakof God, of the soul of man and of the moral law." OUTLAWING' WON'T SAVE US (From Pittsburgh Press) Let's agree, to start, that the' atomic bomb is a fearful weapon and that, in the long run, more evil than good may come of it. It is, obviously, a weapon which easily could result in civilisation's self-desti'ucticn, as many thoughtful sci entists and public leaders already have pointed out. But the course of action proposed by a committee of 34 clergymen and teachers, who sent President Truman an "unmitigated condemnation" of bf the bomb, merely leads up a blind alley, it seems to us.

It is almost like saying we think it's horrible, so it didn't happen. The. clergymen and teachers allege that the atomic bomb is an "atrocity of a new magnitude," that its use was "reckless and irresponsible," that the two bombs drooped on Japan were droppen on an "already virtually beat en joe. They demand that all nations "outlaw" the atomic bomb. Whatever the magnitude of the atomic bomb as an "atrocity," it is no worse tnan the fact of the war itself, or the individual atrocities ner- pebrated by the axis on millions of innocent people, or the attack on reari Harbor by the Japs.

And so lone as war persists, the weapons of war will persist, and he who has the best weapons and makes the best use of them will win the war. i Whether or not Japan already -was "virtually beaten" is a question of sheer speculation. But the atomic bomb undoubtedly did hasten the sur renderthereby saving hundreds of thousands of lives, not only, the lives nt nlUnrl ffrtHHnn. Mian 1 gv.g jjiui uu, cue uvea or many, many thousands of Jbds, So the atomic bomb was not the unmitigated horror, used in a "reck less and irresponsible'" manner which this petition claims. As to outlawing the use of the atomic bomb In 'war, that is a fine ideal if it can be enforced.

But war has been outlawed by the nations of world, too or so wc had been led to believe. There are many statutes which outlaw crimes but there still are criminals committing crimes. You can't say, "Presto! Henceforth nobody Bhair Use thr "atomic i bomb," and be sure of getting away with it. Suppose it were outlawed? -And some nation broke the law? How do you punish the outlaw nation? There is only one way go to war with hjm. And if he has the.

atomic bomb and the nations trying to defend themselves against- his aggression don't have who wins? We can't abolish the science which developed the atomic bomb some day may develop something even more fearful. As every scientists knows, our use of the atomic bomb was only a step two ahead of the Germans, and maybe the Japs, who were working on the Idea. The science which developed the atomic bomb can develop the same processfor unlimited benefits to mankind. those benefits are bound to come. Meanwhile, the world can get on with the business of learning how to get along with itself, While this Is happening, we can't go i our heads In the We tried that once! 8-POINT POLICY OF MUTUAL TRUST URGED FOR U.

PEACE (From Reader's Digest) Declaring a "root cause" of Increasing American distrust of Russia to be our practice of the "Great Power" theory of peace, leading to spheres of Influence, thence to a clash of the spheres and ultimately to war, William In the leading article In The Reader's pigest lor ieptem- pital. "Our death rate was low first of ail; I suppose, because we were rnighty luckyA-he said, "but secondly because it was run by a Wonderf team. That whole overworked stall is a fine Leonidoff says hbthing of his own role in' finding- spare time to set up the foundations of a public health program, in China; AH the cedit goes to "The Bunch," and he talks for hours of how the staff labored to forgetting the clock, in the constant struggle to keep the patient load from outgrowing the facilities of1 the mud-brick buildings Leonidoff believes his old hospital will become a permanent institution in a strong public health program. It already has given Chinese women of the area their first prenatal and post-natal care. Credit for that, he says, goes to his staff.

FOUR NAMED TO AERONAUTICS BOARD -JiARRISBURG, Aug! 27 (P) Four legislative, members of the aeronautics commission, who Will serve without voting powers, were named today by Governor, Martin. They are Senators John 't. Dent XD-Westmoreland) and A. Evens Kephart (R-Philadelphia) and Reps. William 'R.

McMillen (R-Indiana) and C. Smith -(R-Phila.) There are five -regular members of the commission, which is headed by Floyd Chalfant, secretary f. commerce. At present, one of the regular memberships is vacant. Chalfant said the new legislative members have been invited to attend the next meeting oLJhgency, Sept.

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