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NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS 4 BROOKLYN EAGLE, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1951 Reuther's Plan to Give Up Wage Jump for Price Cuts Impractical 1 GETAWAY FROM THERE; I By ERNEST LINDLEY Senate Action on Troops Sets Bad Example for Europe Allies Daring Mr. Llndlejr'a absence oa vacation, his eolana la bring written bj Vance Johnson, Washlngtoa eorreapqndeat for tbe Saa Fran ciaco Chronicle. Those who profess amazement that our allies In Europe should for a moment question American Intentions regarding the Atlantic Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Worker of Amer ica, Mas answer to trie impasse te- tween labor and Defense Mobilizer Wil son, hut it win nam te accemea. Treaty well might ponder over the Senate's action on the draft bill. Last August, when the full Import of the Communist aggression In Korea had sunk in, Congress unanimously passed a bill removing all statutory limits on of business concerns that have bought goods at post-Korean prices will be hurt.

With a price rollback they wil be forced to sell at a loss. On the other hand, the higher-price spree which was allowed after June 25 shot prices up far beyond the 10 percent wage increase that the Government formula now allows. The consumers are getting hurt and being hit hard every day in the week. It is the disproportion between prevailing wages and prevailing prices that has caused the rift between labor and the wage stabilizers. As matters stand there is no real solution to the problem, and it is difficult to see how there can be.

In spite of that it is the duty of all of us, in every class of our society, to put a shoulder to the wheel and make the most of a very unsatisfactory national situation. the size of the armed forces. Reuther would be willing to cede the wage Increases won by his union through the escalator clause if prices were rolled back to pre-Korean rates. For the offer to have any real meaning all other unions would have to do the same thing. This proposal by Mr.

Reuther is an answer to a problem on paper. In reality it is an attempt to suggest a solution to an insoluble problem. The simple fact of the matter is that no matter what the defense planners do someone is going to get hurt. Every one wants the other fellow to be the victim. If prices are rolled back, thousands from men who doubt that the Europeans will put up their fair share of men to stand with ours in case of trouble.

Some of us find it difficult to understand why the Europeans should be worried about this. The fact that in Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty we bound ourselves to develop "collective capacity to resist armed attack" In advance as well as to Join in the fight if attack occurs seems to gome to be almost beside the point. But what would our doubts be if the British or French Parlia. ment were debating today whether this part of the pact meant that they, too, should contribute men to Eisenhower's Army? What would we think if the British or the French reversed themselves within half a year on such an important question as the size of the armed services? A Real Traffic Hazard at Grand Army Plaza circle, and in that city the underpass has been used with fine results. A more immediate solution In the works now is the Traffic Department study which should be completed soon.

5ALKAN 6 BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN Perhaps one of the most beautiful city plazas in America is Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza. It is also a deathtrap for pedestrians. That's why it is good news that the Department of Traffic is making a thorough study of the situation. Just a short time ago a woman was killed trying to make her way through the frightening maze of traffic that swirls around the plaza. This sort of lethal danger must be eliminated immediately.

The Brooklyn Public Library stands in a most vulnerable spot along this treacherous thoroughfare. Its employes, as well as the hundreds who use the library every day, must be excessively nimble or risk death. Library authorities suggest a Flatbush Ave. underpass as the only solution. Such underpasses exist in other cities and are very successful.

Washington, for instance, has many similar plazas, with several streets converging on one LETTERS TO THE EAGL I National Whirligig RAY TUCKER'S WOMAN AND MAN By FDGAR A. GUEST I don't know women very well Nor what they think and plan for. But knowing men, I cannot tell Just what they want a man for. It's nice to have a man around To help, at times, in small ways, But, what in man has woman found To want to have him always? At best he's slave to mood and whim; One twinge of pain he's dying! The constant need to pamper hiin Must certainly be trying. Yet, glad am I that love is blind: So blind, that when we woo them The women wait too late to find The bother we'll be to them.

LETTER This week the Senate reversed its field and voted, 49 to 41, to Impose an over-all ceiling of 4,000,000 men. This was not, strictly speaking, an unprecedented act Limitations on the size of the Army, Navy and Air Force always have been Imposed In peacetime. The action of last August was necessary because the limits then in effect obviously were far too low In the light of the dangerous new trend In international affairs. Nevertheless, as Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall was quick to point out, Congress never before has taken such a step at such a time as this.

"The armed forces have never been throttled with a mandatory ceiling in the midst of a period of emergency," said General Marshall. "To do so now would be serious, I believe, far beyond the conception of many who might favor such a procedure in the heat of debate." Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, underscored the seriousness of it when he said: "Such a limitation on the mobilization of our armed strength gives the Soviet Union the greatest single fixed factor that any nation could have which would plot the downfall of the United States through attack by armed aggression. I only wish that similar limiting information on the size of the forces of any potential enemy could be passed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It would make our planning immeasurably easier." The announced plan of the Defense Department has been to "level off" this year with a military force of about 3,500,000 men. But this plan was based on certain assumptions not the least of them being that the manpower drain in Korea would be no greater than it has been in the past and that no new and highly dangerous aggression would break out elsewhere in the world. In uncertain times like these, assumptions on which such a plan rest could disappear overnight. A quick expansion of the armed. forces by more than a half a million men suddenly might become imperative.

On the other hand, the international situation might deteriorate steadily over a period of months with no overt act to dramatize the seriousness of it. To talk about such things openly not only would tip the military's hand but might of itself provoke aggression. We have been having a "great debate" in the Senate on the wisdom of sending American soldiers to become a part of General Eisenhower's integrated European Army. Most of the opposition to his move has come "Do you think that the House will approve the Senate action drafting 18-year-olds for 24 months of se i asks Mrs. Students Label 'Unfair' Methods of Teachers To the Editor of the Eagle: This is the third term that our teachers, with their monomania for money, have deprived us of our extracurricular active ities.

The only ones suffering because of the puerile actions of the teachers are the students, and why should we suffer because they want raises? We are not going to say that the teachers do or do not deserve a raise, but we are going to say that the methods the teachers are using in trying to obtain their raises are entirely unfair. When the teachers first stopped extracurricular activities they said they were doing it because they wanted to bring their plight to the eyes of the public. They have been bringing their plight to the public for over a year now. It may be wrong for tha teachers to receive such low pay, but it's also wrong for the teachers to go about getting raises as they have. It might do a -lot df good if the "mental giants" who teach us were reminded, "Two wrongs' do not make a right." The S.

F. F. GRIN AND BEAR IT ij youngsters will get their draft summons on their 18th birthday. It may be weeks or months after that date before they are summoned before their draft board for examination. It usually takes from one to three months before they are sent to camp.

As the total called for service increases, the period of delay will be longer rather than shorter. It requires at least six months, possibly more, to make a soldier out of a boy who has had no previous service or training, as will be true of this group. Barring a war, they will be given more than a year of basic soldiering. And, even If there should be a war, it will take more months to shift them to a distant battleground and harden them up in a quiet area. Thus it is not precisely accurate to say that we are throwing boys of IS Into battle.

It would be military folly, and also a political blunder in the broadest sense, not in the narrow, partisan meaning of that term, to rush untrained and un-indoctrinated boys into battle. After reading a mass of conflicting testimony, I think there are only two reasons for taking them so young: (1) They make better, hardier and more adaptable soldiers; (2) They will be through their training young enough 21 or 22 years old to begin their education or life work without threat of an interruption afterward, always assuming that there is no war during the period of their reserve status. "Can you tell me why the British were so sore when an American admiral was named to command the fleet under the North Atlantic Military Pact?" inquires T. F. of Camden, N.

J. "For myself, since Eisenhower and MacArthur are handling the United Nations' defense preparations and war, I would be glad if the other countries assumed more responsibility at the top." Answer: The British think they have a real and substantial grievance here, as I read the debates of Parliament in the London Times. For political reasons and to embarrass the Attlee Government. Winston Churchill emphasized the fact that the selection of an American was a slight on Britain's naval traditions and accomplishments. But the debaters in Commons undoubtedly had in mind the Roosevelt-Churchill agreement when it seemed that Britain might be conquered and occupied by the Germans in the early stages of World War II.

The "Prime" was then prepared to move the throne to Canada and to withdraw the fleet to western or dominion waters for a last-ditch resistance. Naturally, the British did not want such a question, if it should ever arise again, to be left to the determination of an American. The opposition was assured by Attlee spokesmen that control of their navy in home waters will be entrusted to a deputy commander, and he will be a Britisher. Had the announcement for the naval setup been handled more wisely, there would have been no need for the flareup. For some unaccountable reason, it leaked out first in Copenhagen, with no mention of the plan for regional division of authority.

By Lichty M. A. of Oakland, Cal. "And what are the principal reasons for taking boys so young?" Answer: Yes, I believe that the eventual draft and service law will be the same as that passed in the Senate. Now that the upper chamber has assumed the responsibility for fixing the age and service limits, there will be less objection on the other side.

House members, who must face the voters every two frequently sidestep difficult decisions in the hope that the Senate will resume prior responsibility. Moreover, the controversy over the 18-year-olds was something of a sham battle. It is extremely doubtful, according to informed Selective Service officials, if youngsters of that age will see active service until they are past 19 or almost 20. They may never get into battle, largely because of the preparation and determination we show in resorting to virtual conscription in time of relative peace. Here is how the procedure will actually work out: Few "It's not that I think it's improper to have lunch with you, Mr.

Bullwinkle it's only that you take half-hour for lunch!" BROOKLYN EAGIEk inane Uul tu HnUwrMl (rounded liuc Via Andes In 1841) THB BROOKLYN DAILY EAOLE FRANK SCHROTH. Editor. PubilsM t. CROWVLL. Secretary-Treasurer Carle 24 Johnson B'fclyn 1.

N. f. TELXPHONK UAln 4-6200 Subscription rate by mall lor tbe Broot.jm Cacle in the United SUM. one veer. 115.00 Entered at Brooklyn 2d Class Mall Matter Monsignor Dillon to Address More Society of Law School Heights' Church Pastor 40 Years The Rev.

Dr. John H. Lath- Trinity Baptist To Install Its New Pastor Masonic Service At Hanson Place The Rev. John Emerson Zeiter, pastor, will preach on the subject, "In the Day of Adversity," at a special Masonic and E. 19th have comDleterl plans for a St.

Patrick's Day Lenten Preachers Al Holy Trinity Preachers at the Community Lenten Noonday Services in the Episcopal Church of tha Holy Trinity, Clinton and Montague during the coming week will Include the Rev. Dr. David M. Cory, of Cuyler Presbyterian Church, Monday, the Rev. Leopold W.

Uernhard of Zion Lutheran Church. Tues 0 card party and dance to be held on March 16 at 8:30 p.m. In the school auditorium. This annual rop, who preached his first sermon as minister of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour The Rev. Donald J.

Simmons native Brooklynite and World War II veteran, who was and Eastern Star service which! Dn March 12, 1911, will deliver affair is always an enjoyable and largely attended parish af- oiuaineti a twpust minister in will be hel(1 7:45 tomor, Monsignor William T. Dillon, president of St. Joseph's College lor Women will be the principal speaker tomorrow rrorninj when the St. Thomas More Society of the Society of tne St, John's University School of Law holds its fourth annual Communion breakfast. The affair will take place at the Hotel Granada, Ashland Place and Lafayette Ave.

and will be attended by approximately 500. Guest of honor will be the Very Rev. John A. Flynn, president of St. John's University.

John J. a special anniversary sermon at the morning service tomorrow. The beginning of the 41st year of his ministry at the church will be celebrated at a January, will be Installed as pastor of Trinity Baptist! row in the Hanson Place Unchurch, 179 New York Ave, antral Methodist Church, Hanson 8 p.m. Monday. Pace and St.

Felix St. Among those participating! Sharing in the presentation M. A' tair. Psychology Series Talk The Very Rev. Robert J.

Slavin, O. president and superior of Providence College, will be guest speaker tomorrow afternoon in the fifth of a series of the service will be the Rev. reception honoring Dr. and Mrs. La thro following the day; the Rev.

Gardner Taylor, of Concord Baptist Church, Wednesday; the Rev. Dr. Henry Neumann, of. the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Thursday, and the Rev. Dr.

Hugh D. Darsie, of the Flatbush Christian Church, Friday. service. Six parish organiza in the installation service, which will be held in Trinity Church, will be the Rev. Dr.

Stanley B. Hazzard, executive secretary, the Baptist Church Dr. Alfred Grant Walton, pastor of the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church and chaplain of Commonwealth Lodge, 409, F. A. and the tions will sponsor the recep of lectures covering psychology and sanctity, given under the auspices of St.

John's University. The lecture will take place tion. Greaney will serve as toastmas- i Coincident with the anniver Rev. Clarence A. Morrill, as Extension Society of Brooklyn; and Queens; the Rev.

Alger W. Geary, pastor of Greenwood sistant diretcor of the Metho- at 6 p.m. in Detiray Hall of St John's Colleee. Lewis anH Wil. sary service will be the dedication of a set of chimes for the organ, given in memory of for ter.

Prior to the breakfast the members and their guests will attend the 9.30 a.m. mass in the lounge of the university's dlst Hospital and a member of SACRED MUSIC CONCERT Baptist Church and moderator il A concert of sacred music mer members of the Mount Hermon Lodge, Medford Mass. downtown building at 96 This completes the renovation, loughby with the Very Rev. John A. Flynn, C.

M. president, presiding. It will deal witn the general theme of psychology and wisdom. will be presented by the Wittenberg College Choir of Spring Masons representing three LENTEN PREACHER Beginning tomorrow and continuing through March 25, the Rev. J.

G. Bring-dale, pastor-evangelist, of Seattle, will conduct special Lenten meetings at Bethelship Methodist Church, 4th Ave. and 56th St. The meetings will be held at 1 1 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

on Sundays and 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays. and modernizing of thechurcn of the Long Island Baptist Association; the Rev. Dr. J.

Henry Carpenter, executive secretary, the Brooklyn division of the Protestant Council of the City of New York, and Kings' districts and members organ, begun more than a year field, Ohio, at the morning service tomorrow in Incarna of the Eastern Star in four Schennerhorn which for the occasion, will be converted into a chapel. The Rev. Joseph T. Tinnelly, associate dean of the Law School, will be the celebrant of the mass. Plan Welfare Rummage Sale tion Lutheran Church, 4th Ave.

Kings' districts have been in vited to participate in the serv- Ice. Delegations of Knights ago under the direction of tne music committee of which Wayne Shirley is chairman. Negro Spirituals' Service At Union Methodist Church the Rev. A. V.

Arno, pastor of Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church, all of -tfhom will bring Templar from Bay Ridge, De and olth St. John Thomas Williams, head of the Witten-berg School of Music and di-rector of the college choir, will direct the program. Mr. Wil Witt Clinton and Damascus Commanderies will act as a The Ladies Auxiliary of the Rev. Lawrence E.

Lynch Post, Father Slavin, noted educator and lecturer, was for 13 years a member of the faculty of Catholic University of America where he taught philosophy. TOWN HALL SERVICES The Rev. Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary, will be speaker next Thursday at the Noon- greetings.

The charge to the church will be delivered by the Rev. Ralph C. Drisko. pastor. Richmond guard of honor.

liams, who is well known as a Catholic War Veterans will Mn Zeiter is a member of FORUM SPEAKER The Rev. Maurice Meyers, S.J., who recently returned from China, where he served eight years, will address the public forum of the Catholic Center for Jews in Regina Hall, 65th St. and 12th at 4 p.m. tomorrow. Father Meyers, who was interned for two and a half years Shanghai in World War II, is now studying for a doctorate in Russian literature at Columbia University and is chaplain of the Alpine Boy Scout Camp, Alpine, N.

which serves Jewish, Protestant and Catholic youth. choral director and concert hold their annual rummage sale LENTEN SERVICES IN BENSONHURST The series of weekly Lenten "A Sermon In Song," a complete worship service of negro spirituals, will be presented at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow by Merritt Hedgeman, tenor, of Washing Hill Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr.

Gordon H. Baker, pastor, Montauk Lodge, 286, F. A. Film Version of 'Mikado' at post headquarters 1191 Liberty during the week of March 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The proceeds will be applied to services sponsored by five Lenox Road Baptist Church will give the charge to the pas- ton. D. C. at the union Memo- churches in the Bensonhurst dist Church. New York Ave.

section ends at 8 p.m. Thurs At Academy Tuesday tor. The Rev. Charles Schwel- pianist, founded the choir in 1930. Margaret Kommcl, opera and oratorio soloist, will appear with the choir as soprano soloist.

John Bennett Horn, who has sung frequently with the Chicago Civic Opera Company, will be the baritone solol.t. iay services in Town Hall. Manhattan. The GonHroo and Dean St. Mr.

Hedgeman A psecial showing of "The formerl toured with the Fisk 1 ti a i are sponsored by a Protestant kert, pastor emeritus, Trinity Baptist Church, will offer the prayer of Installation. Edward day in St. James Methodist Church, 2021 84th with Dr. Cornelius B. Muste, minister of the Old First Reformed Church, Mikado," a full-length color Jubilee Singers and has done udjmens committee in cooperation with the Protestant R.

Higgins, chairman of the in radio and concert work. Christian Science Topic motion picture of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera will be given on Tuesday night as guest preacher. The Rev. stallation committee, will Martin Paul Luther and the TO SING 'THE MESSIAH' "Man" is the Lesson-Sermon i-ouncu or the City of New York and Town Hall. Salvation Army Speaker choir of the New Utrecht Re A reception will follow the subiect for tomorrow.

Golden Mr. Macfarland to Preach formed Church will assist in in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, under auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and service. the welfare fund. Norma Win-hein Is the chairman and Katheryn McMahon, co-chairman. Ann Gray is historian of the auxiliary.

To Mark Pope's Birthday Members of the Holy Name Society of St. Ephrems Church, Ft Hamilton Parkway and 75th St, will celebrated the 75th birthday of Pope Pius XII by receiving holy communion in a body at the 7:30 a.m. mass tomorrow. Plan Card Party and Dane Tha TTnlti SnHtiM nt the text "Mark the nerfect man The Lenten and Easter portions of Handel's "The Messiah will be sung under the direo the service. The Rev.

H. Neill MacFar- land behold the upright: for the UNION LENTEN SERVICES Sciences, Mr. Humphreys to Preach is peace. tion of Henry Fusner, organist The film, a faithful adapta- end of that man The Rev. William J.

Devine, pastor of the Park United Pres Capt. Henry Berkhoudt of the Salvation Army will be the speaker at special meetings which will be held at the Army's Brooklyn Citadel Corps, The Rev. W. W. Humphreys, tion of the D'Oyly Carte pro- (Psalms land, pastor of the Goodsell Memorial Methodist Church, will preach at 8 p.m.

tomorrow at the Community Lenten Sermon: From the King ana cnoirmaster, at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Lafayette Ave. and St. James Place, at 4 n.m. pastor of the Ridgewood Christian Church, Ridgewood, Queens will be guest preacher at sen-ices of the Highland Park tomorrow. Soloists will Include James version of the Bible: (Hebrews Correlative passages are from "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip byterian Church, will preach at 8 p.m.

Wednesday at union Lenten services of six churches in the Sunset area in the Sunset Park Norwegian Methodist Church, 7th Ave. and 45th St duction and featuring Martyn Green, Kenny Baker, Sidney Granville, John Barclay and Constance Willis, will be pre- sented as part of the Institute's activities program for Ministers' Association in St mi Asmana fiace, at 8 p.m. next Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday and at 6:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. on March 18.

John's Lutheran Church. 223 Edrie Sellick. Adelaide Boat-ner, Charles Curtis and Bruce Bennard. Lenten services at 8 p.m. Wed nesday in the Ridgewood Meth odlst Church, Church of St Edmund, Av.

tures," by Mary Baker Eddy. iew jersey, Ave..