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EIGHT THE DAILY'MAIL, HAGERSTOWN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2S, 1MT. Entered in the at town as second class matter. J. GARVIX HAGKR Editor P. Phones Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Kates in Advance copy, .05: by carrier, in the city of Hagerstown.

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7th and Sth $14.00: foreign mail per month. $2.00. WASHINGTON DAYBOOK ANOTHER MYSTERY 9 a a 'ruman By Tris Coffin WWW Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use i'or republlca- tion of all the local news printed in this nawspaper. as well as ail AP It's Just As True Washington, Oct. Truman's sudden change of heart on a special session of Congress left the Republican leaders on The Hill flabbergasted and gasping for breath.

Their strategy was to play a clever cat and mouse game with Mr. Truman, always throwing to him the responsibility for doing something about prices and foreign aid. around the country soberly investigating high prices for the Joint Committee on the Economic Report. Every time Kilgore came to Washington, he rushed to the White House with a new argument for the President. He told Mr.

Truman of one experience ai Charleston, W. Va. The Senator stopped in for dinner at a restaurant run by a mer- Speaker Joe Martin and Senator chant who had notoriously crabbed Bo!) Tat't hadn't the faintest inkling against price controls a year ago. that the President would he bold This time, he told Senator Kilgore Matthew us this day our daily bread. Homecoming.

This week the first of our boys came home. It was not, however, the homecoming they longed for. these young men or the scores of the scores of others who will follow them in the months to come; or those who loved them lipped for. And lor many there wilji' be no homecoming at aH. All lands of earth are the lonesome graves of young Americans who died bravely unknown but to God.

Kor does the sea give up its dead. Thers are others also who are not soming home. They lie in vast of companionship, with beauty about them and the Flag over them, in hallowed ground which has become a lasting part of their America. It may be believed that they would have it so. For those who are coming back home there will be banners, but the banners will not wave gaily; there will be prayers, but prayers in acceptance of God's will, not in joyous thanksgiving; the step of the detail slow, the volleys sharp and final.

Be of good heart, yon who welcome them. These were gallant young men. They have been long- gone, and far away. How else to greet them but with courage and a smile? is the bugler, Bounding Taps. They are safe at home now, safe and at peace.

Home again with you. enough to actually call their bluff. As a matter of fact, Mr. Truman changed his mind so abruptly that no word leaked out until five days before his Thursday meeting with the generals of Congress. The President was weaned away from his cautious decision to let price and foreign aid problems wait until the regular session by four factors.

They are: 1. The somber report of Alben Barkley, the Senate minority leader, on European conditions. This eminently fair and conscientious as -wishy-washy Keutucfcian came to the White cr i House on his return from abroad jj 6 QQP Congressional leaders he wished controls were back on, that he had made more money under the OPA system than now. 4. The Gallup Poll showing Mr.

Truman with a handsome lead over his Republican opposition. Clifford and his associates told the boss, "Mr. Truman, the people are behind you. You can keep them on your side by bold and positive action." Also, the President was considerably nettled by newspaper editorials and cartoons showing him at the time of The Friendship Of Our Girl Scouts. This week the Girl Scouts of Hagerstown and Washington County are celebrating National Girl Scout Week.

The theme this year, "Friendship Builds a Better World," holds a wealth of wisdom for all people and all nations. That theme gives us confidence and makes us glad that our American way of life Is being taught to our children by volunteer leaders who are doing their part to insure future generations against the rices, and hatred and intolerance. A Girl Scout troop is a typical example of a true democracy. Here a girl stands on her own achievements. Money, home environment and laid a graphic, first hand account before Mr.

Truman. When Alben Barkley is aroused, no one in Washington is more eloquent and persuasive. The Senator pledged his complete cooperation in lining up both Democrats and Republicans and in fighting back at any attempt to knife the program. This solemn pledge of Barkley's relieved Mr. Truman of great there would be no one on The Hill to carry the ball for Mm.

2. The anguished hue and cry of Democratic Mayors and Congressmen from, the big cities about the high cost of living. By telephone, letter and telegraph, they stormed the White House for action against high prices. This team included Mayor Bill O'Dwyer of New York. Mayor Martin Kinnelly of Chicago and the popular young Minneapolis mayor, Hubert Humphrey.

O'Dwy- informed the White House that his city had been forced to dig down in its jeans to get more money for the school lunch program. The reason was that hundreds of New York kids were getting sub- marginal diets at home because of high food prices. The tall, lanky House Democratic leader, John Me- Cormack of Boston, pitched all his influence behind a bold legislative program to combat prices. This assured Mr. Truman of a hard hitting nucleus of big city Congressmen in the House to carry his program right into the teeth of the opposition.

3. A continued campaign by the liberal wing of the Democratic Party led by the President's handsome, smart adviser, Clark Clifford; Gael Sullivan, the Democratic National Committee's executive -director and sparkplug, and Senators Harley Kilgore of West Virginia and Francis 'Myers of Pennsylvania. gathered facts and arguments and shovelled them to Clifford, who laid them on Harry Truman's desk. Much of the information was obtained from Senator Myers and Senator Joe O'Mahoney, who have been bouncing were so surprised that Speaker Joe Martin's scheduled press conference after the White House meeting was a dismal Hop. A reporter asked, "Will the Republican leaders meet to consider a program for the special session?" The friendly New Englander stuttered and said, "We don't know what the President plans, so we can't meet.

We have nothing to lay before the policy committee. I don't know what we will do about prices. We may have our own foreign air Joe Martin's sole compensation was scooping the President on the announcement of the special session. As soon as he stepped out in the lobby, the speaker flashed the word to prSss service men. SHEEPISH warm Indian summer afternoon when Congressional leaders came for the big meeting with President Truman, a large crowd of reporters gathered in a knot in front of the doorway.

Bill Simmons, the pompous White House chief usher, waved his hands imperiously and shouted, "Make way. Make way lor the President's guests." When the correspondents parted, Republican leaders who have fought the Administration at every turn sheepishly walked through. There was Joe Martin, floor leader Charlie Halleck. and Jesse Woolcott, the strategist behind the anti- price control fight. "OLE TAWM" the meeting with the President on a special session, correspondents caught that tough old Texan, Tom Connally, in the White House lobby.

He was asked what the Democrats would do if the opposition flooded Congress with a lot of extraneous bills. "Ole Tawm" stared querulously at his questioner, then drawled, "If our leadership is worth a damn, ve'H choke 'em off." WMfDUMfT Vf WAMT1 rww WHV WASN'T Wii (Copyright, 1947, Globe Syndicate) 1 EW YORK, Oct 2S and enemies, liquor fe still the hoi is variously regarded as a chief social lever around the world temporary passport realm of good will, and racial and religious differences are of no consequence. The important thing is that all members abide by the promise that commits them to "do their duty to God and their country and to help other people at all times." We cannot help but believe that young people, taught to live by this a.l. creed, will be the foundation for a In Paris if better world and this belief gives you are host UB assurance against the dire pro- i an rd er a bot- the inferior and fearful, and a ticket to perdition. But where- ever it is used, or for what purpose, it develops its own rit- phecies for the future that we hear lle of wine for your today from all sides.

How can if you donX what an inion any foreign agency of hate flourish would nave on the solid rock of friendliness and democracv? for lifting strangers from many countries onto a common, though often temporary, level of rosy understanding. I have traveled in fifty-one countries in the last five years, and in each there always was a host who felt obligated to serve some form of alcoholic beverage. In Tunisia an Arab chieftain, bound by the Moslem faith from imbibing alcohol, served an orthodox feast. But since the chief guest was an American Army officer who bought several thousand dozen eggs a week from the tribe, the old chieftain had his modern- minded son take -the party into and complicated ceremony, town later for a brandy nightcap. WASRMGTDN By Thomas Stokes a First you must consult at length Wherever the white man has with the wine waiter over brands i carried his the natives who Our local Girl Scouts have proven and vmt we ighing their dif- want to do business with him have their friendliness not only by help-1 ferent merits as related to the learned they have to entertain him ASHINGTON, Oct.

For your program you're a movie fan you may be look-, ing forward to a wave of what members of the House TJn-Ameri- can Activities Committee call "anti- Communist" pictures. At least that seems to be the hope of the committee in. its current investigation, judging from daily emphasis on this point. The routine is intriguing to watch for tie way it avoids the common principles of logic, or cause and effect. It has been developed the first week of the committee's investigation into alleged Communistic influences in Hollywood, through witnesses friendly to the committee's purpose and called to advance Its thesis.

Nearly every witness, producer, writer or actor is asked whether he doesn't think there should be ''anti-Communist" pictures. The invariable answer is that there should be. But. some committee member asks in a hushed voice full of challenge, don't you think the Communists would try to stop such pictures? Well, maybe they wouldn't like them, but that won't stop them. Interesting, and perhaps significant, is the routine that precedes this.

Nearly every witness is asked by someone on the committee if he believes this investigation is for censorship of the movies, as some people are saying. Oh, no. Then, sometime or- other during his appearance, either from a question or by raising the subject himself, there is discussion about the main purpose of moving pictures. It is agreed that ttiey are for tertainment, and that they are not the place for "political'' subjects. Then follows later the questions about "anti-Communist" movies and the agreement there should be some of ever seems to classify these" as "political," which they" would seem to'be, nor to go back to the matter of "censorship." that is, whether the committee should tell the industry what kind of pictures ought to make or not make.

Some producers timorously took the defensive at the outset by explaining that they had made "anti- Communist" pictures before the war and before we became allies of Russia, naming two that "kidded" the Communistic philosophy. ing in numerous civic drives by do- meal at hand. ing those small and tedious tasks you don have a real know i. that save hours for the working edge of wine, you only make your- adults, but they have reached a self ridiculous by pretending. The helping hand around tlfe world in sensible thing to do is consult with the many boxes they have sent to i vour guests and ask their advice, needy countries.

They will take this as a compli- Here in Hagerstown they are ient and respect you for an ami- lending valuable services as' able instead of despis- nurses'" aides at the Washington ll" as a retentious Hospital. We have seen our Girl Scorfts work and we have seen them play, always reflecting the wholesome, cheerful characteristics typical of American youth. We have seen them stand at attention, green uniforms and brown, eyes and arms uplifted, saluting the flag of the TJnittd Spates. We have seen we are proud. Tfcey are among the deserving of part of the contributions yon make fall to our Community Chest Bows on tht left of men's hats a survival of cavalier days when plumes were so placed freedom of vision and ac- sword play.

phoney. When the wine arrives, the waiter first pours a small portion in your glass and waits expectantly. This is the moment of high drama in every French meal. You take a sip, roll it around to savor its every eye at the table is on you. If you nod at the waiter and give him a word of praise, the serving goes on.

But woe awaits you if you have accepted a' flat sour bottle. The guests will politely drink it, praise it with high adjectives and bate you the rest of their lives. A Trench guest can forjfive you for rautiliating his beloved can never forgive you for ordering him a poor bottle of wine. on his own level. They have learned to pour hospitality from hot- ties, too.

People from the temperate and northern climes are least educated in the use of alcohol and abuse it most A Latin child drinks watered wine or beer almost from birth. Later in life it is an occasion for him to take a drink of brandy. To take three or four would ordinarily be, in his own view and that of his neighbors, a wasteful sttu The Russian's capacity for vodfea is highly overrated. So is American's capacity for whisky. Put fifty from each country a drinking match with fifty Englishmen trained 1n foreign service, and at the end of the evening the fifty Russians would be singing "Old Man River," the fifty Amtr- icans would be bouncing "The Volga Boatman" off the ratters.

And the fifty Englishmen? they'd be soberly wondering: "Why those waking such a bloody Eire occupies about Jour-fifths of WMM! of Ireland, Just Folks By EDGAR GUEST But, ttoe question, It's been a long time since there were any "anti-Communist" pictures, hasn't it? Yes but they are making one now from a best-selling novel. And there'll be more. It was the hardly veiled intention to tell Hollywood what sort of pic- tures it should make that finally provoked the exasperated Paul V. McNutt, counsel for the Motion Picture Association and the Association of Motion Picture Producers, to protest that the committee was trying to censor moving pictures. There have been pictures and there normally should be more, whether treating of Communism or other subjects here at home.

The movie industry knows full well, too, that they can be box- office successes only if they are entertaining. The whole tenor of the proceedings here, with the emphasis against "political" pictures and the stress on "anti-Communist" pictures, suggests that perhaps the target of the committee is pictures dealing with controversial social, economic and political problems in the American scene that may be critical of powerful vested interests, and thus "Un-American" in the committee's eyes. Mr. McNutt at least seemed 1 to suspect something of the sort when he said: "The motion picture industry cannot be- a free medium of expression if it must live in fear of damning epithet 'Un-American' whenever it elects to Introduce a new idea, produce piclure critical of the status quo, or point up through a picture some phase of our way of life which needs improving." There he went to the heart of the matter. He said something else for all of us to think about, too, when he asked; "if the motion picture industry- can be called before a committee and challenged on the of the screen, then why not the newspaper, radio, magazine and book- publishing businesses?" (Copyright, 1947, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) THE PLACID LIFE Until that final crushing blow, No life's placid than the cow's.

Few tragedies are hers to know. IB. pleasant fields she's leit to browse. Hers is tfee peaceful world of grass And birch and elm and maple trees. She sees the fretful humans pass And chews her cud to.

perfect ease. Her calf, grown has gone away, But where sbe neither knows nor cares. She rests by night and eats by day, And that's the awn of her affaire. But man mast love and think and And learn how best to stand to strife; Have faith and steadfastly believe Tig care that the richer ttfe. DEAD AT 86 Jefferson, Oct.

28 James C. Greenlay, retired shoe manufacturer prominent Virginia Mason, died at his home here Monday at the age of 86. Jottings From Yesteryears 40 YEARS AGO A Democratic mass meeting was slated for October 30 in the Court Hall, with speakers, Hon. Joshua W. Hering, Isaac Lobe Strauss, C.

Magruder and Joen P. Poe. The results of the election ki Russia far show that the Conservatives will be in a great majority in the third Douma. Oklahoma will be admitted' as a state in the Union on Kovember 16. ttowr on wi WK7.

It OMt Of trt A OtCUHS FROM MWfft. flGWHS THt tttCt ttrwttH TNff MICHT Of MY 20 YEARS AGO No rain has fallen in the eoun- ty for some time, and reports are that the drouth is becoming serious. There is a great threat to the wheat crop, farmers report. i Representative rl of Texas demands a share of TJ. Treasury deposits to prevent Southern planters from being forced to sell the cotton crop loss of $160,000,000.

at a The Nation Today By JERRY KORN (For James Mar low) ASHINGTON, Oct 2S What is You've seen that and others, like "un-American," "disloyal," and "security and more in recent weeks. RiKht now a committee of the House of Representatives is investigating Communism in Hollywood. Its name Is "the Committee on Un-American Activities." "Un-American" what does it mean? Webster's new international dictionary gives this definition: "Not characteristic of, consistent with, American customs, principles, etc." And for "Americanism," Webster "Attachment or loyalty to the United States, its traditions, interest or ideals." But the dictionary doesn't say which customs, or ideals. Back in 1939, the Committee on Un-American Activities, reporting on its first year of existanee, denned Americanism in several hundred words. Here are some of the things the committee said then: "In the first place, Americanism recognition of the truth that the inherent and fundamental rights of man are derived from God and not from governments, societies, dictators, kings or majorities." Some people in tbig country don't believe in God.

Are they tin-American? The committee did not say. But continued: "Tht of Amerieanigm fe class, religious and racial tolerance. Therefore, a man who dais hatred is plainly no-American, if he professes racial and religious tolerance. "ft to ae un-American to hate one's neighbor because he has more of the world's material goods as tt is to hate him because he was born into another race or worships God according to a different faith." Recently, both President Truman and the State Department have added some definitions dealing with the same subject. The President, asking Congress for money to investigate "disloyalty" in the government, defined "disloyalty" this way: "Membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association with any foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group or combination of persons, designated by the attorney general as totalitarian, Fascist, Communist or subversive." Also members'of groups which favor taking away the constitutional rights of others by force, or which want to change the form of the United States government in some way not allowed by the Constitution.

And the State Department, which has fired some of its workers for being "security risks," defined its I. "That the hope of the reward influences men more than the fear of punishment" was debated the Male High School, with affirmative, William Buchanan, Clarence Foltz, Preston Lane; negative, Charles Boyd, Ralph Stouffer, George Losh. The affirmative won. BID FOR POWER Paris, Oct DeGaulle made big first open bid lor return to power fa France today with a demand lor dissolution of the National Assembly and- the holding of new general elections. It is said that Mrs.

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