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'i- -v ni -i--ift- JVvrt j-kse pMarpycTMaaKiMaiiga i'f l7 1 1 I I S-'- iv i i I fl-jt -V'--SY' If Foreign Policy Js Kept -Out of Campaign Be First Timo By ANDREW TULLY ill nml The Knoxville News-Sentinel Schools and LA Scrippe-Howerd Newspeper -j rubueeitai THIS con-LOYE MILLER ference on educatkm solve the problems which confront pub-M CHAMBER lic education In this 1 But it has pnie Immensely useful urpose It was preceded by simi-i office ir local and area nd the result Is that thousands of persons concerned with our schools have a fresh knowledge of the rme Tmehoei aa Ar Dm problem and a stimulated Interest i in It Not only educators but lead ere from other segments of the national community The school problem la more than problem for school officials more' even than a problem for parents Since the fitness of future generations Jor the life ahead ot them depends so much: on their education it is a problem for any body and everybody The more people Invcdved ln threshing out the answers the wider the understanding" of the campaign -V needs and1 the greater the prob Te refuse or inhibit the most ability of sound answers 'Complete discussion of foreign vfWrv Hr a '2 ka-' policy would be a dereliction of teem to think llJXi i Kw thiuM in nffim and an root issue How much dereliction of Juty by those in office and an -( sailed Mr Stevenson for "Mr soft attl tude toward" that eoneptney "as proven by his detoua of Alger Htos evsn after foe latter's traitorous rseord wu known" Declarad that if Mr Truman md ths i Democratic State Department had their way "foe traitorepy Alger Hiss would be free today sad voting Mr lteven-ion Said the Democrats "eannot bo trust cd" to keep the nation out of war Mr Truman meanwhile' wag giving bitter "hell" to his ope-time pal Dwitfit Eisenhower In series of speeches warning the voters the GOP would make 1 a megs out of foreign policy Mr Truman charged that Mr Eton bower had adopted the tactics of Sen-Joseph McCarthy In a "faney ver-sion" He said Mr Eisenhower wu mak- ing "prtitics out of the Korean casualty lists" and wu using tactics that could our country onto the path of half- meai urea and half-hsartodnau" In foreign policy Mr-Truman de- dared Mr Elsenhower wee stooping to "gutter politics" end showed willingness to risk atomlo war fat Europe in an effort to win votes Those votegetting tactics he said could "weaken the coun morale and faith while iteuMn were at war TRUMAN qUOTES RECAIAED The Democratic President also said Mr Elsenhower favored discriminatory Immigration laws and charged Mm with supporting foe "discredited and un-American theory of racial superiority He said Mr Eisenhower had surrendered 1 to "a new kind of InteraationalUm" which he defined as seylng "Yes we are part of the but not If it eoets much At for Mr statement that he had a plan to and the Korean war Mr Truman implied the Republican candidate wu being disloyal In not bringing ft forward at once Said Mr TTuman "Now he hu been my military adviser ever since appointed him Chief of Staff -If he knows a remedy his duly to come and tell me what It is and uve lives right now" But that of coune was in 1952 Maybe everybody's beat studying Emily Post since then 4 It'l enough to lift eye-hrwffi to a new national bigh the Moua Way peditidans are talking them daya about keeping foreign policy out of pd tics during the 1956 campaign Sen Whiter George (D Ga) started it the other day by saying the must show the world that even in a campaign year our foreign policy to non partisan President Eisenhower jumped intio esy he thoroughly approved the statement and now Wee-President Nixon hu given It Ns okay Ha! The boys must think ti voters have forgotten an about 52 campaign and the brickbats that tilled the air about foreign policy despite foe feet h( nation was stUl fighting the Ktavan war Tot foe Republicans that battle was led by this same Mr Nixon whq tossed some of meatiest epithets ta American political history And fo names were thrown right pack by foe then President Harry Truman now Ms Elder Statesman and leading ad nixon was bough V' Mr Nixon declared it foe very out set of the 1952 campaign that foreign policy was foe "greatest issue" of that campaign The program fit Mr Truman and the then Secretary ot State Dean Achescn he aaid had the U- into a war In Korea long-range disaster in 'China and uneasy In Eu rope" Then ps tiw campaign progressed Mr Denounced Democratic candidate Ad-la! Stevenson as the appeaser" and as a Ph graduate of 'Dean Ache-son's Cowardly College of Communist Caned Mr Stevenson a "dupe" of Alger Htos and attacked Mm aa having "never regretted hla action In defending" Piss Charged the Truman1 Administration with covering up a "Communist conspiracy within the United States" and as- affront to voters by those seeking office 1 Of course there 'should be restraint in discussion of foreign affairs But that kind of restraint is Just as important all the not Just in election yearsV Statements made so far fail to' differentiate between two different problems (1) politics in foreign policy and (2) foreign policy in politics We frequently have cited the disastrous effects of letting domes- provide adequate schooling and where does it come from? i Certainly we build facilities and we pay teachers' without 'funds '1 The funds came from the taxpayers Bht when we get to the question of who taps the taxpayers for the money we get to the question of who trols the school system If localities and states pass the buck to the debt-ridden Federal Government they inevitably control to Washington that what they want? Much has been said about free- ttaa No Conflict of Interests Here! Tho Gallup Poll 'Z by-- Stevenson Is Democratic Favorite of Labor: Unions tic political considerations dictate Both parties in 1948 tried to make dan to teadi and freedmn to the Israel Isie That was politics leaiu The key is freedom to learn roreign poiiqr i rr that means the utmost op-BtJT-WE ARE just as dead set 'pwtanity foreach young citizen gainst trying 1 to take foreign to discover his most useful out of politics-It be 001 in living whether as a bricklayer done It be done Berlin Incident Inspired in Moscow radio transmitters hi vehicles of the Bei -lin command entering the Soviet sector of Berlin nor dol Intend to tolerate any -further molesting of United States per sonnel by members of the peoples po- lice" Unfortunately foe United State Is powerless to enforce this warning without resort to violence Unless Washington authorises American military per sonnel to shoot It out with the puppet police there probably will be a repetition ef Red lawlessness In this font or some Other Moscow knows Washington Is foiling over backwards to maintain the Geneva "relaxed tension" and to avoid any shooting incident which might precipitate war This gives the Red aggressors a Mg advantage over tiw peaceful United States 'Relaxed Tension' Ludwell Denny The sharp note of protest by foe American military commander In Berlin to the Soviet commander over foe terrorist tactics of East German police against two American Representatives and their party is not likely to soften Red policy Russia is trying to cause trouble In -Berlin and to humiliate America1 What theUnited States can do about It to not dear -v Officials here are cei-tain this1 provocation is deliberate and premedi-toted hi line with Moscow orders The fact that Representatives were fai a -U Army ear with a Army escort officer and foet foe ear carried only regular radio equipment used for such routine official tours eliminates the possibility the Re police wen acting 'on their own i If the people are to vote Afhey must know above all else in this nudear-age -where the men -they yote for stand on vital foreign questions Putting foreign policy in the crudble of national debate is the only way to find out' We will welcome every sign from both political parties that only national interests will de- termine' foreign policy i 4 BUT HAVINd said that we appeal to both Republican and Demo- cratlc leaders to start now a thor- ough' discussion debatandjw-fSJ can be no ey tbrtign ot schooling- where are we how did we get toat is the sure consequence here and where do we go from: here? The test of American maturity 1s our ability to examine inteili-: gently all the ramifications of our foreign all the time not in dosing our eyes to the continu ing challenge of Omnmunism After all it is the for- eign Policy -1 IN REAPPRAISING our imhool and we are persuaded it needs the first test is whether it' meets the needs of those who will live in America in the years just ahead1 It follow that every child must have the identical minimum of it does follow that each should be given a maximum opportunity to make the most of Ms own best abilities AJSPUft-- but that is the if we take the road to scrolled easy Federal money ''31 I'- Dealing With 'Hypocrites fr IS REGRETTABLE that Peter Matthews the British For eign Office spokesman who Year Retention of Reserve Wv Program Urged f-Y '-w SyleHpps Biwl ysweipiri -v WASHINGTON-rThe National Security Training Commission proposed today a one-year trial of the lagging teen-ager 'Reserve program adopted by Cop- gresa last summer as a substitute' for Universal Military Training Commission members after a meeting here yesterday conceded that the new military training program is "hardly off the Only 4000 teenagers have been signed up for six months of training under the plan CONFUSION BLAMED 1 David Sarnaff new commie-sian chairman said changes in the program will be proposed to the President and Congress unless it "picks up momentum" next year A MT Saimoft board chairman of the Radio Carp- of Amerlear blamed the lag in enlistments on lack of public understanding of the program and on confusion among young men about the choice of Reserve training now available to them He said the commission plans an educational drive to cell the advantages of the teen-ager Reserve program ''y IT HAS TO WORK Admiral Thomss Kinkald (Ret)said commission members favored a trial of the program before any ehanges are recommended This would avoid toasing the issue back to Gongrers during the Impending election-year session "1 think the program will work" Admiral Kincaid said "It hat to work We must have a trained Reserve of young non-veterans and we are not' getting ft Democratic Parly4 Which would you like to see nominated as the Democratic caiuti-datoinl956rVp-' 82 Kefiunee fotooooonoooaalB Hvrlmu a 8 Douglas Laueha BOhOOfOOOOOOOOtBf 8 Williams lMif9Miee4esM6M 8 Hassell otqoif 8 Meyaer 8 Rayburn MseifmMi996 8 Morse MMMMIMIMMMM9 8 Sparkmaa Others MsiisMeeetme6se Ne opinion a 8 Top Democratic choices nationwide are Stevenson 48 per Kefauver 11 per cent Harriman 10 per rent' Russell per cent and Rayburn 5 per cent- 1 Among labor union' members fat the survey expressing a a -preference for the Republican Party the vote on GOP candidate! Is as follows: "3 Hereto a list of men who have been mentioned as possible presidential candidates in 195e lor the Republican Party If President Eisenhower is not a candidate which ope of these men would you like to see nominated as the Republican candl date for Nixon Warm Dewey tea ot i 28 8taam tottttftttttot 8 Dalles ot at tttttte to 8 Dtrkaen esteeMoesoeeiesei 8 Kaowhwd atoatatttttqaattf 8 4 Others tttttetttttttttottat 8 Noopfadon tettttttt ttttt 8 Top GOP choices nationwide are Nixon 34 per cent Warren 23 per cent Dewey 10 per cent Stassen 9 per cent and Dulles per cent By GEORGE GALLCF SlmWwitaiMiHiri PRINCETON J- Where does union labor stand in politics eight months be-iore the IKS nominating con VentionsT iV --v today Stevenson Is backed by 53 per cent labor uniqn members (husbands and wives) who express a prefer ence for the Democratic Party Among labor union members expressing a preference for the Republican Party Nixon polls 28 per cent of the vote which falls below the margin of 34 per cent among GOP votera nationwide m- Labor union members In' the 8 are today heavily Democrats in their party preference Among those expressing a choice for one party Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of 3 to -Results of today's survey item from replies to the following questions: In politics as of today do you consider yourself a Republican Democrat or 1 Demecratie HeesMaes RfpBbHCU'1 aesseeseeiM ladepeadeot Polidca! strategists In both parties win be interested In the fact that as the above table shows about qne union member in every four today regards himself as Independent politically Here Is how labor'unlon members who claim allegiance to the Democratic party vote on their favorite nominee for "2 Here is a list of men who have been mentioned as possible candidates in 1956 for the described Soviet Premier Nikolai remarks in India as "thoroughly has been reprimanded and replaced by a higher-ranking spokesman The late Senator Arthur Van denberg had the proper formula for coping with the Soviet hypocrites It went like this: "We can live together and in reasonable harmony if the United States speaks as plainly on all occasions as Russia- does if the Uhlted States just as vigorously sustains its own purposes and its Ideals upon all occasions as Russia does1 if we abandon the miserable fiction that we somehow jeopardize peace if our candor is as firm as always is and if we assume a moral leadership which we have too frequently allowed to Angdoubtof waf removed when the Soviet provost tary headquarters where the party was taken after being held at cocked-gun point tor fore hours justified foe police action: He asserted the party bed violated the laws of the so-called German Democratic Republio-namcly foe Soviet puppet regime of East Germ any-prohibiting radio transmitters in cars of a foreign power marshal at SorietmuK TWO OBJECTIVES SATISFIED Probability that Russia would back wdown if her bluff were called does not i eliminate the risk of an ex-change of shots creating an explosion which neither Moscow nor Washington could control the necessity of Washington moving with great caution Meanwhile Russia stands to gain by this hwident despite Gen Dasher's firm protest' Moscow hu two obvious Mid exceedingly important objectives The first Is to establish in what the Allies and Bona refuse to accept in that th East German satellite controls the Sv YOUR Job! action as ill eg a and stated Gen Dasher will not tolerate repetition' Berlin legally is under four-power control viet zone including East Berlin and must be dealt with as a sovereign The second purpose Is to show up tiw United States powerless If Russia can convince West Berliners that the Allies are powerless to protect them and convince West Germans that the Allies art -powerless to obtain unification of their partitioned country It won't be long before they begin seeking to deal with Russia and her East German puppets That hu been the trend ever since the Geneva summit conference last July and the resulting Bonn-Moscow agree ment in September WARNING HOLLOW The note concluded: "Laws of the German Democratic Republic can have no applicability whatso ever to the Incident which have de scribed to you Finally expect you to take immediate measures to prevent repetition of such incidents which I'm sure you must agree are a violation of the established policy of free circulation In Berlin In the meantime do not in trod to alter the practice of maintaining A Country Calendar From When Carrie Names of Streets in Business Ana Lucy Templeton 4 TOMOitROW is Safe Driving Day for the nation's car and truck drivers: They are being asked by the Committee for Traffic Safety to make a special 1 effort tomorrow Every day ought to be a safe driving day in order to slow down the traffic death incidence which at the moment appears to be head- ing for a new record this year Here in Tennessee for example 781 persons have been killed in traffic accidents up through last Friday an increase of 16 per cent over the same period a year ago Figures compiled by the Na- tional Safety Council snow that for the nation as a whole there has been a monthly increase In fatali-: ties 'ever since March More than 400 were killed during the Labor? Day holiday week end Li Something has to be done to put the brakes on this senseless and tragic waste of human life Primarily the responsibility lies with you who read this -v' La Pauvre France! 4 ANOTHER FRENCH government has fallen It was the 21st since the war A Woman's Viewpoint Women Qualify Mrs Walter Ferguson for the Pulpit Do You Know This? CAMPAIGN SLOGAN How did the phrsu teen to originate? William Jenalap Bryaa raa for FlesMeat la 1IN on a platform advocating On free und unmltod coiaage of silver la the ratio of to 1 The phraae "Sixteen to One" was a campaign slogan MEANING OF TERM What do we mean by a It means straight as possible for a bee wbea ladea with hoaey gen straight to the Mve vr-- SERVED TWO TEEMS Wbo to the only President to have served two terms Vice President before becoming chief executive? A Joha Adame' NATIONAL GAME What to the national game of Canada? A-lee hockey Views on the News by Daa kmi? A SENATE commlttM found a way to have John Lewis appear as a witness without bellowing they praised the United Mine Worken welfare fund 'Five Beria Boys were shot in Bus- belonged to the wrong mob Gamblers dtoo paid for a Federal' permit may have to picket the TV --giveaway shows Milk-bar cowboys' are forming gangs In New Zealand and the natives blame "foreign USA Perhaps foom tome local family of prominence cannot say because am a newcomer in Knoxville my family came here only 88 years ago I have often wondered if Prince Street were a New World version of Prince's Street Which of coune you know is the principal street in Edin- burgh and one of the most beautiful streets in the world -Of course the "Scotch-lriah" who founded Knoxville had lived In Ireland for centuries but with the patriotism of the Soots they might have remembered stories about the old historic thoroughfare -No one who has seen It ean ever forget it with the parkland between the street and the crag on which stands the castle where so many famous per-sorages dwelt and in which- so many dark and Moody deeds were committed by thouunds of sermons which extolled the virtues of the good her price was above rubies Mother home and heaven were guaranteed tear jerkers for the pulpiteers rod they opened an tiw stops But pure noble and good as Mother was noticed very early that men were horrified at tiw thought of such a sanctified soul voting on church matters or expounding the Scriptures Those were strictly tiw business of tiw brethren' It has taken 2000 yean for some of them to get around to -admitting that perhaps a woman should be permitted: to occupy the pulpit which nas been their special perch Actually feel that few women wish to be ministers But wonder at the pure undiluted nerve of men who insist they have the right to prevent it Looking Backward 10 and 25 Years Ago SIDE OUNCES By Golbrsith ALONG WITH many other Old Knoxvillians have been intensely intersted in Sarah series in The Sunday News-Sentinel about historic old houses in the Knoxville area think it extreme- ly well done and remarkably freer from mistakes yet every now and then there are things that question In her piece fa the November 1 of The News-Sentinel on 1 the Lucien Bailey house originally the home of Charles McQung progenitor ot the numerous and prominent family of that name in Knoxville she quotes "a psper by Patty Regan compiled in 1946 with the help of the Lawson McGhee McClung Room This paper records that Charles McClung was employed by General James White to survey the site of Knoxville which he did and-laid it off into 16 squares of four lots each that he was a former resident of Philadelphia and used the names of streets in Mrs Conroy quotes from this paper: "The foot that the' streets bore the same names as those -of Philadelphia was due to the influence of Mr Mo-CJung (Market Walnut and Locust are the principal streets with Philadelphia nanus)'' Almost certainly they were not so named by Charles McClung Turning to THE FRENCH BROAD-HOLSTQN COUNTRY edited by Mery Rothrock from material compiled tar the East Tennessee Historical Society we find on Page 33 an early map of Knoxville (circa 1800) which correctly lists present-day Market Street as present-day Walnut Street as and present day Locust as "New" Thus they were probably known to Charles McClung Along with many ether Old Knoxvillians remember well when preeentday Market Street was called Prince Street Why it was called I do not know THE NORTHERN Presbyterian Church Is studying foe question of admitting women to tiw' ministry The Southern Presbyterians already have done so- The thundering of theological objections resound of coune as always The men long have followed tiw passages in tiw Scriptures which advise them that women should be silent and covered In the churches they do not always adhere to tiw Ten Commandments or the Beatitudes they believe in faithful adherence certain teachings of St Paul whose temperament did not fit him to be either lenient or tolerant to the fair sex' AD my life I've listened to men who could quote all tiw Biblical refennefcs in regard to keeping women In their place but who somehow eoukl never remember the admonition "Let him who Is without sin among you cast the first stone at her- The Gentlemen of the Goth and tiw laymen have been lavish in their praise of feminine moral virtues Although women were generally considered weak In all other respects we were said to be superior in good behavior And we were expected to bring up our children by setting them good examples rod to hefa the erring mole who wu likely to winder eft Into primrose paths While I was growing up I wu bored The News la Verse Tht Cops for Ono Tima Sniffed Out a Foul Crimo 1 NEW YORK-A delicatessen thief was arrested with MO worth of Imported cheese Inside Ms shirt This fellow stole Imparted cheese Rare pungent-Oh the best! The kind a gourmet's taste to please 1 And pan each test But Out the smartest loot he chose 1 Is still a point of doubt Some one who really Quite quickly smelled him out! -SEN FOSTER EDUCATION for girls is hunt on a false premise said Ruth Millett in her column We might add that sweater contour frequently Is likewise 1 Sometimes we wonder whether they mean high or low when stores advertise "Never before at this price" 1 wv i That series on what It wu Uke In wartime Germany bispires us to write poem: tTriTW Xrw SfWiI run ISO) U-T OLD GRADS were swarming into Knoxville for the first home-coming since 1942 and the Vol-Vandy football game The annual home-coming was canceled during the war years -Beatrice Fairfax' who has advised lovelorn hearts through her newspaper column for -many years died at her hone in Washington Her real name was Maris Manning GtMh 1 One of the guards at the Nad war crimes trials at Nuernberg Germany assKnoxvUle youth Pfc Lloyd Chosen Yeung High School football queen was Miss Mildred Courtney She reigned at the annual banquet at the Andrew Johnson In Yugoslavia the left-wing Tito re- glme proclaimed the country a "peopla'a republic" and 22-yeiivold King Peter in exile' In London issued a blistering re- ply declaring "This is tyranny un-worthy of the great victory of the Allies" Gn Dwight Eisenhower who led Allied troops to victory in Europe took leave of the millions of troops he com-minded "To each of good-by good TJuck and my undying tiianks" said Ms simple message read at the heed of every company Ike was leaving for home to take up his duties as Army ri Chief of Staff "That ole debbn atom!" Rep Clare Sooth Luce called it and She put in her PvO'blli' worth of advice about the A-Bomb "Give its secret to the UN" she Hid "unless we wish to scrap It la lota" 1 arum Ths Xmn-SnUMl Flks INS) POLITICIANS in Washington on ths eve of the convening of Congress predicted it would "make or the Hoover Administration Groundwork for the 1932 Presidential campaign would be laid during the short session Political forecasters said the depression would be short-lived and looked for It to blow over in 1931 so as not to trouble the Administration much longer But the ixiblio versus private power issue was Mowing up to -major proportions and the fight for and against national prohibition was gaining momentum 1 Tennessee Public Service Co workers began erection of the Municipal Christmas Tree on Market Street between Union and Clinch Avenues Dr Healer U-T botany professor was elected president of the Tennessee Academy of Science in its annual meet ing in Nashville Knoxville was chosen tor the 1931 annual meeting Ratification by the 8 Senate of the Protocol of the Permanent Court of International Justice wae urged by the Knoxville Bar Association In a reso lutlon submitted by Attys Charles Smith and Clyde Key -Charles Colvin formerly of Knox vUie was "home as new supeN visor of the' Southern Railway's signal succeeding A Otter bourg promoted Colvin had been away from Knoxville working tor other railroads for 18 years WiU 11 Hsys Postmaster-General the Harding Cabinet and later czar of the movie industry took as hla bride Mrs Jessie Matron Stutsman of Bethesda Md ft- Fellow named Lings Saw Hitler singe Ho hum! Wonder If back in tiw good old buggy days before IN Crme the-horse would wish that the driver had man-sense OLDITMER: Remembers tiw pre-TVA era when a steam plant wu just a faumdry Statistics show that three times as many single men are arrested as nurried Maybe this proves that women ere more successful time days in keeping their husbands at home "Yds glad to Memo's littld do I gtt timd and a half for ovsrtlmo liko th plumbtr?.