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The Berkshire Evening EagK Thursday, Dec. 8. 949jMHf Somebody Else Got Slung Heavy-Water Story poes Ker-PIunlc Federal Curbs Dominant Problem Says HOUSTON, Texas (AP) Findftig a dividing line between government control and citizen responsibility is America's biggest problem, Geri. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned last night.

Douglas Poses Health Plan, 1 PC. Tax Senator Asserts Truman and AM A 'Miss the Mark Water, whether or light, calling up Lt Gen. Leslie Groves, ft'' 4 Everyone Is Worried The Columbia University presl WASHINGTON Senator Paul H. Douglas (D-I1L), criticized both dent told a crowd of 15,000 that American need to take stock because "I think each of us would ad sidered self-seeking should he discuss problems involving America's future. I have found It is no use to say 'no'," he said, I still have the right of an ordinary American to say what I think about subjects I looks like water.

Tastes that way, too. And if somebody labeled, those jugs of wter then! somebody else got stung. The eral said he knew who got taken, too, If anybody was. He meant the American taxpayer, who was foot lng the bill under lend-lease for everything that was going to Russia at the time! Hr, also said that In 1943 when these jugs were supposed to be whizzing through Great Falls, all the heavy watejr In America could be measured in drops Instead of gallons. And I guess that takes care of Truman Administration and Amer By FREDERICK C.

OTKVIAN WASHINGTON If the chemistry class kindly will come to order, we now will have a lecture on heavy water. It isn't really. Weighs no more than the kind you drink, but it may possibly be a little wetter. The trouble Is that a glassful of the stuff is worth about $1000 and hence Isn't recommended for thirst-quenching purposes. Fact Is, It doesn't seem to be good for anything else much, either, i Back before the war the Norwegians first stirred up a beaker of heavy water, by adding an extra atom of hydrogen to every unit of H20.

This is easier said than done. They had to use a $5,000,000 hydroelectric power plant to do It. There was a lot of scientific whoopla in the wartime atom boss, to see what he knew about ell these nefarious activities. The room was jammed. General Gloves strolled In looking plump arid happy.

He knocked down a good deal of the major's story. i The general's general Idea was that the Russians didn't get much uranium arid what they did get wasn't much good. One reason he let 'em have couple of dabs was to keep 'enj from realizing how important we; thought lt was. Another was to steer 'em off on the quality of uraniurlji we were concocting. Representative Francis E.

Walter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the subcommittee, wanted to know about these five-gallon water jars, labeled water. Haw-haw, went General Groves. ican Medical Association health In mit he is-worried," Americans are wondering "where we are going," he told the annual surance policies yesterday as hav' thoroughly believe; are concerning ing "missed, the mark," and dis meeting of the Houston Chamber closed new details of a- modified program he is preparing to intro i i 'S i duce in Congress next year. Senator Douglas has been work ing for 'some time ori legislation to the heavy-water deal. Tomorrow we'll probably be Investigating' provide funds for "catastrophic" costs of illness, rather than to Of Commerce.

He quoted from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "gov rnment of the people, by the peor pie and for the "Lincoln left out one preposition," he said. "He did not say 'to "Lincoln saw no reason for our government to do business to' us like some bureaucrats now find Is intriguing." Eisenhower made one indirect referent to the 1952 presidential ejection. He said one might be con- something else. all." i I Three-Point Proposal He offered a three-point formula for a strong, productive society individual freedom- national co-operation and general education. Eisenhower lmpjlied that many of the government' existing trends, "often with the highest motives," are leading to regimentation.

He mentioned the ECA, the Atlantic Pact, arming of Europe. "Always, for he said, "these, things leave a of bewilder? ment. I want to know more." Eisenhower said previously in an (the papers about it then. cover ail neaitn expenses as pro posed In the pending tion bill. fK ft 5 iJ -f tl it a -A as It Happens on He arranged a news conference to explain his program as the See It 1 A the New AMA House of Delegates, in semi HI 1 interview, that he wants no connec annual meeting here, considered plain to Intensify its campaign against what It terms "socialized" medicine and finance itj by requiring its 143,000 members; to pay $25 A.

tion with politics but'wants to take i A i an active part in public affairs. "If I identified or? affiliated my self with any political party I'd a year In cues the first to be assessed on a compulsory basis in its i j. Then the Germans took over Norway, you may remember, and tried to get heavy water gushing from the faucets on the theory that It would be handy for making atom bombs. The idea was that a jug of heavy water would serve as a moderator In an atomic pile. This means, as I get it, that the heavy Water would slow down the splitting of the atoms a -little so they'd have time to go boom.

Well, sir, we didn't like the idea of heavy water for bomb-making purposes it was almost as difficult to make as pure uranium, itself. So wefigured out a scheme to calm those busy atoms by the use of pure graphite, (Now comes an ex-army major, name of George RXjordan, to make Spiel on radio about when he was at the Great Fails. air lose a lot of friends and I'm not TELEVISION SET going to do that, i "I have no. political connections, States Would Run It The legislative proposal being aliui WITH TIEE no political 'ambitions don want any connection with politics." The Store Msec Accommodating He emphasized, however, he will take an active interest in public ,1 worked put by Senator Douglas would be financed by a pay roll tax on employer and employee of not more than one per cent, of wages Tube! Jacob Nacken, eight-irtch affairs in that he thinks American people "should be talking -princl-. 9-INCH Picture 5149.95 and salaries not in excess of the Hirst $5000.

A is now being done Slippers and not In generalities. 'I don't believe we are in any Santa Claus, places 100-carat Star of the East diamond atop 10-foot Christmas tree in the United Hospital Fund's court of jewels exhibition in Rockefeller. Center in New' York. Nurse Dorothy Caracrio holds trajr of jewels to be placed on tree and five-year-old Gail Gorman tugs at SantaV jacket. Nacken arrived in this country from Germany "Tuesday.

(AP)- I base, he saw big jars of heavy water Now on sale with for Christmas plan on their way by Army planes to convenient budget gift giving at will wun unenipiyymeiii jnsuiam-e, ou- ministratfon of the Dcfuglas program would be placed In the hands of the states, with the federal government collecting the pay roll taxes and rebating all but adminis Russia. He made a number of other charges, too; about uranium being please FX sent over to the Russkles. xThis created about as elegant a rhubarb, trative costs to the states. Catholicism Menaces Liberty PITTSFIELD ELECTRICAL Under his plan, Senator Douglas SHOP Dial 9897 said the government would take with charges, counter-charges and flashlight explosions, as this town has seen In at least a week. So the House Un-American Activ 658 North Street Says: Methodist Bishop Oxnam crisis," he said, "and I'm definitely not afraid of the future but we don't want to find ourselves 15 years from now "in wrong spot." Eisenhower said he has no criticism for Columbia: University's student newspaper, the Daily Spectator, which Monday 'made caustic comments about Eisenhower, the university's president Eisenhower said the Spectator Is a free" newspaper and "can publish what It pleases, particularly about the president of the university" He said he had not read the editorial.

rj "What the lad said don't he added, "but more power to him." care of doctors' bills 1 In! excess of CORNER ORCHARD STREET five per cent pf annual jincome or ities Committee got into the act by1 BUCK HILL FALLS. Pa. (JP) $150, whichever were lower. The American! liberty is threatened by the Roman Catholic Church as cost of the plan, he jestimated, would be no more than; one-third that of "the Administration plan, well as by communism, says Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam.

"The Roman Catholic Church now set forth in legislation pending in both House and Senate and backed by Federal Seciuriiy Ad Blue does not believe in religious liberty ministrator Oscar rR. Ewihg. Quilted as we understand it, the bishop told- the annual meetine of the At advertised in LI FE Family Would Pay $150 public funds for parochial education, the bishop said that Issue nbw "becomes one of major importances." "It is part of a carefully calculated plan to break down the Am doctrine of the separation of the church and state, part.of a an so to mold the thinking of youth as to discount the values that lie in liberty of conscience and of jr-ship, in liberty of speech and of press," the bishop said. Calling the public school system in the VS. "one of our greatest achievements," Bishop Oxnam said the system stands as a bulwark! of democracy.

I 1 "To discredit our schools by call The Spirit of Christmas Calls for I Music Board of Missions and Church Ex Satin with Padded Sole tension 1 of the Methodist Church Senator Douglas asserted that the average family with an annual In 1.99 come of $3000 could afford to pay last night. i "The Communist Party," he add' ed, "does' not believe in civil lib erty as we understand it." "I regret to record these mat medical expenses normally of $150, or five per cent of that income. His plan, it was7 noted, would operate to pay allmedical costs over the figure under certain "reasonable ters," the bishop said. "However, Protestalrits must understand and 44iSBiav ssssfcii nssk face them to meet a crisis, now standards" of care to be defined ing them 'godless schools' is riot XT'-, world wide, in which freedom it Select Your Christmas For families making $2000 or lesS; self is at stake." the dividing line would be $100, or "When the Roman Catholic five per cent," and for those with incomes of only $1000 or less, it Church or the Communist Party seeks to deny us either religious or Album Now An Organ Concert of Carols Richard. Keys Biggs organ Christmas Carols would be $50, with the insurance providing for costs over those civil liberty our freedom Is In amounts.

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