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Saturday Morning, June 2G, 1043 The Gazette and Daily, Y6rk, -EDITORIAL 10 VSTJfT: The Washington Merry-Go-Round Fact and Fancy (Opinions expressed in this eolumn are those of the writer and may or. may not reflect the policy of the newspaper. Ed.) (By Drew Fearsoii) Col. Robert S. Allen on active duty) Jimmy Byrnes? Congressional Ex-Colleagues Give Him A Though Friendly, They Take Issue With His Attack On -Investigations; Truman Committee Members Blame Administrators For Public Confusion; V.

S. Bombers Seek To Spare Civilian Life And Property In Germany. THIS IS one of those days when it seems a. shame to. spoil things by working.

So instead of laboring into a lather, we'll pass this column off with a roundup of a few loose ends and then sit with our ears laid back until an opportunity to let one fly presents itself; 31-35 E. King York, by YORK GAZETTE CO. Allen C. Wiest, President; Geisel MAN, Secretary; J. W.

Gitt, Editor and Treasurer; C. M. Gitt, Assistant. Editor; Bernard Elsesser, Managing Editor. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th'c use for publication of any news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper, and also the local news published herein.

Subscription Rates By City and Suburban Carriers Per Week 15t Yearly, in advance $7.50 By Mai Veai-Iy, in advance 1 Outside Yor County Yearly, in advance $7.50 Saturday, Jtuie Zfl, 1943. WE. NOTED an interesting bit of conversation via the Associated Press wires the other night. It seems that Governor Edward Martin had jumped upon his magic carpet at llarrisburg and was deposited gently at Washington, Pa. His gasless car -shared the magic carpet with him.

At Washington, the Governor stabled old Axminster, his magic carpet, and startled on a jaunt by automobile to the Ohio border, probably for the confab of GOP governors at Columbus. Now ordinarily this would be a hot trail for the newshawks of the Assockited Press. But this isn't an ordinary state. And Mr. Martin is in an extraordinary fortunate position.

You see, he had the sagacity to appoint Mr. Floyd Chalfant, head of the Pennsylvania Associated Press, as his Sec- retary of Commerce. We sure would like to know how Martin got to Columbus. Or at least as far as the Ohio border. For the Governor of a gasless state going on an auto junket arouses the curiosity of the people.

And sometimes a bit of anger. One fellow who heard about it, for example called wp and wanted to know why he couldn't use gas to go to a ball game if the Governor was using gas to go to Columbus which has excellent train connections with Harrisburg arid Washington, Pa. The last we heard was the report that Governor Martin might explain the whole thing from Columbus, but no explanation has been forthcoming and Mr. Martin returned from the Governors' Conference in time to sit in on the great $8,000 a plate Belshazzar's feast of the Republicans in Pittsburgh. Oui; correspondent in Washington, tells lis that old Axminster, Martin's magic carpet, was being fed carrots in his stall while Martin was on his way to Columbus.

Washington, June 25 Ex-Justice Jimmy Byrnes has been and still is extremely popular on Gapitol Hill. Long years in the House of Representatives, then in "the Senate, make him understand the Congressional point of view. Early this week, however, Jimmy got a friendly but' pointed going-over, from some of his ex-colleagues. The incident was significant because it points the finger at one sore spot on the home front bickering among high officials. Two weeks ago the Assistant President roused the ire of the Truman Committee by urging publicly tha Congress cut out a lot of its investigations.

The Truman Committee has done a painstaking and statesmanlike jom of investigation, and when some of its members resented Byrucs' statement, he sent word that they could come down to the White House and talk to him. They sent word back that he was quite familiar with the street car lines to Capitol Hill, and he could come up and talk to them. This impasse ended in a compromise. Byrnes finally came up to the Senate, but as the luncheon guest of the Truman The session, although friendly, got a bit hot when Byrnes was asked why he was opposed to Senatorial investigations. WHO CONFUSES MOST? He replied that' investigations left the public confused and went on to explain in some detail how the public heard one side state its case at Truman Committee investigations, then the other side, until they didn't know which side to believe.

"It all makes for confusion," concluded Jimmy. "Confusion," snorted Senator Brewster of Maine. "I would' like to know who is causing the confusion" around here?" When the Undersecretary of War makes a public statement that we don't have enough high octane gasoline and must curtail rubber; and then the: Rubber Czar, Mr. Jef-fers, calls him a damn liar, just who is the poor public to believe? Who created the confusion in that case? And who "was it who finally brought the Undersecretary of War and Mr. Jeffers up here and knocked their heads together? The Truman Committee.

"And what kind of confusion results," continued Brewster, "when Chester Davis, who is supposed to know all there is to be known about food, comes out and says that his way is the way to handle food, while Prentiss Brown and the White House say he's wrong? Did the' Truman Committee or the Administration cause that confusion?" Before Justice Byrnes could really reply, Senator Wallgren of Washington, a Democrat, tcok. up the argument. "And what about the millions the Army is spending on camouflaging these (censored) war painting them all up with the most intricate and expensive camouflage, and then putting barrage balloons over them so the enemy will know right where the are? Did we create that confusion? "Also what about our investigation of the Wright Aeronautical Engine plant at Cincinnati?" interposed Senator Kilgore of West Virginia, another Democrat. "The Truman Committee caused no confusion there. We investigated the.

thing very quietly, said absolutely nothing to the public, and ever issued a reassuring statement to the public at the request of the War Department when the story leaked to the press." Thd debate continued all during the lunch hour. Jimmy Byrnes smiled and took it. But at the end there was no doubt about whether Congress would continue with its investigations. HUMANE BOMBING Strange as it may seem, the United States Air Forces are planning the humane bombing of Germany. They want to avoid killing people and destroying non-military building.

They want to bring the war to a merciful ending. High ranking officers of the Air Forces are urging that we conduct our bombing operations in such a way that unnecessary destruction of enemy life and property shall be held to a minimum. This is part of their thesis in favor of precision, or "pin-point" bombing, as contrasted with the "area" bombing of the RAF. The precision bombing, carried on in daylight, is able to pick out the precise military target, and destroy that without laying waste to an entire city, or killing helpless civilians. These Air Forces officers speak of the post-war attitude of nations toward each other, emphasizing that careless bombing would intensify the hatreds of war, and make it more difficult to build a peaceful world.

Somebody will have to rebuild the broken cities of Europe. World ties are now so close, that no great areas of der strueion can be allowed to remain; rebuilding will have to be and only the victors will have the power to do the work. Therefore, say these exponents of precision bombing, let us have no indiscriminate bombing, and only a precision job, which spares the life and. property of the enemy as much as possible. (Copyright, 3943, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1 "PREMATURE ANTI FASCISTS The other day wc noticed a phrase that Las been recurring to our mind every now and then since wc first read it.

"Premature anti-fascists" were the words and it was applied to persons who recognized the Nay's and fascists for what they were before a great many of their fellow citizens understood the seriousness of fascism to the future well-being of all free peoples. This phrase was used as a term of reflection upon the persons so called, as though they were to be censured for their intelligence and their ability to know something bad when they saw it. One can understand, of, course, how th osc who looked with favor upon fascism in its early development can resent the tact that others were not taken in like they were. People who turn out to have been "suckers," in common parlance, do not relish the fact that there were others smarter than they were who refused to be deceived. But to cast such a phrase at high-minded, intelligent, patriotic fellow citizens who were smart enough to understand where fascism led, as a term of reproach, is just simply making a fool of oneself.

And those who do use this phrase to cast contumely upon any one are being just -as ridiculous as they and others' were when they were heaping praise upon Benito Mussolini because he made the Italian trains run on time. This is one of the things that has been charged against Dr. William E. Dodd, whose father rendered such signal service to his fellow Americans when, as Ambassador to Germany, he early saw through Nazism and recognized it for the vicious and monstrous thing it was. It was also cast at Dr, Goodwin Watson, fellow communications commission cm' ploycc of Dr.

Dodd, Jr. And it might as well have been thrown at Dr. Robert Mors's Lovctt, Secretary to the Virgin Islands for he too was wisV. r-j iuwiuin tung uiuit. so many of his critics had the faintest idea what it was really all about.

These three men who Tiave been hound' cd and persecuted by the' Dies Committee and whom the Kerr Committee of the Lower' House of Congress, (o its everlasting recommended be dropped from governmental payrolls, certainly do answer the description "premature anti-fascists." To their great credit they did indeed understand just what fascism meant, while many of their critics were playing into the fascist hands by America First activities1 and extreme isolationist agitation. They indeed were among thc first of us who thoroughly understood the danger we were in from the fascists. While thosc who ar'c now persecuting, them were chasing the Communis vjll. of the wisp, these wise patriots were serving their nation. profoundly and well by under' standing that fascism was the real enemy as it so surely turned out to be, and were doing their best to render it impotent to harm us.

Had they had the support of those who now criticize and persecute them, the danger to us would undoubtedly have never succeeded in reaching the de' gree that it did. Dr. Lovctt, Dr. Dodd, and Dr. Watson may be "long haired" intellec tuals in the opinion of some ppliticians.

and so-called "practical" men, but we' had had a lot more of them only a few short years ago we would be far, far bet' tcr off then we now are. Instead of pass-ing bills of attainder against them, as the Lower House of Congress is attempting to do, it be awafding them honor's for their wisdom and powers of analysis The United States Scnafe, to its enduring credit, voted once again by an overwhelm' WE HAVE HEARD that the Republicans dined on chicken at that $8,000 a plate Belshazzar's feast. We wonder, about that. Reports coming to us of the speechmaking indicated they were dining on haired of Roosevelt. And instead of a mild saulerne to go with the chicken, we understand they drank bitter gall.

Among those present was one William P. Witherow, former President of the National, Association of Manufacturers, who gained fleeting fame by waving his arms and ridiculing the idea of "milk for the Hottentots and a TVA on the Danube." Among others present were the Mellon fortune, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Companyy the Mesia machine Company, The Aluminum Company, and the First National Bank of Pittsburgh. From New Jersey came another ex-president of the NAM, Senator Hawkes. It seemed to us that this meeting was not only a fund-raising dinner for the GOP machine, but also was an open declaration that the National Association of Manufacturers has taken over the Republican Party for a The men Roosevelt saved now feel the firm ground under their feet, so they are digging in to take a swing at the. man who spared them from drowning.

Moreover, they are using the profits they are making out of war to take over the country. GOP CHAIRMAN HARRISON W. SPANGLER made one crack that tickles our fancy! "If the New Deal goods continue to, go up, it will prqbably take that much ($8,000) to get ham. and eggs for breakfast pretty soon." Here's the payoff on that dne: Republican Chairman of the War Food Committee, president of General Foods, Clarence Francis, in a press conference Thursday came out for "controlled inflation" in order to raise the prices of foods. That's an indication of the sincerity of the Republican big shots.

They are playing polities with the war and with the home front 24 hours a day. And to screen their sabotage of the war front and the home front, they level accusations at the charging the administration with the acts they themselves' are committing. The rank and file of Republicans may resent the present leadership of the Party. But the power of that leadership is being demonstrated every day on the floor of Congress. -The reasonable men in the Republican ranks are being pushed overboard.

The gang that bought the party are intent upon scuttling the present administra-tioa They don't care a hoot if they do fouttle at the tame.time.- i ing majority to refuse to withhold pay for the services of these men and thus hound them out of 'government The: Sen' ate deseves the commendation of every freedom-loving: American as well as of every last Believer in decency and justice. News Of The Past York county started its Fifteen first consolidated school. A The school was to be lo- ears Ago eated between Hively's church and the Grand View school house along the road leading from York to Pleasureville. Pittsburgh banned all fireworks pn the Fourth. Robert B.

Man tell, noted actor and producer, died at his home after an illness of two Mr; Mantell frequently appeared before York audiences in some-of his favorite Shakespearean roles. .1 Four American soldiers Twenty-Five decorated the? French for conspicuous Years gallantry on the, Those receiving "Croix de Guerre" were Chaplain J. B. De Valles, Captain Connelly, Capt. Roberts and Lt.

Barnett. The number of prisoners captured by the Americans in their operation in Belleau Wood was 264, according to dispatches received from headquarters. The trolley wire at the corner of King and George streets broke but no serious damage resulted, and traffic was interrupted but little. West Market street Fifty 1 man advertised "ice cream a made by steam." Years Ago For four weeks a large hoptoad made its home with a brood of little chickens near S. Bethlehem.

At night it tucked its head under the Wing pf the Old hen. The glass factories all over the state observed their usual summer custom of ing down. 'Dr. James A. Dale was visiting in Harrisburg; Ancient Greeks Liked To Talk (By Science Service) Baltimore Greeks have 'always been i i jiiyo, iiwn uiiiiiui muiaiuun iu Jiiuucill Argyrokastron.

But they never have been the "strong, silent" type. They always liked to talk, and the record shows that they have talked well. So much did the ancient Greek's like to talk, especially about that most perennial of all subjects for discussion, politics, that they were the first of all peoples to build special places in which to do it. Remains of these talking-places stand as earliest monuments to the first of the Four Freedoms: the freedom of speech. Descriptions and pictures of all of these old Greek forums that have been excavated by archaeologists are presented in a new book, The Political Meeting of the.

Greeks, by Dr. William A. McDonald of Lehigh University, published here by the Johns Hopkins Press. These; talking-places bore, various names: agora, which means simply field or open ecclesia, usually translated church but. perhaps more accurately, rendered by that grand.

New England name, meeting-, house; which would translate literally as the place, of the. old -men, or more conveniently, senate. Throughout Greek history, and even in the pre-Greek culture of ancient Crete, such meeting-places followed the same basic pattern: rows of stone benches, curved into a horseshoe or arc pattern cut by converging aisles, rising one behind the other like a filght of steps, with a platform for the speaker and a raised place for the presiding officers in the focus of the arcs. Once in a while the lines would not be curved but would follow the three sides of an open-ended rectangle. Usually the meeting-places were roofless, for the dry climate of Greece permitted open-air sessions at practically all times.

lt is interesting to note that the same patterns still prevail in modern legislative halls. The concentric horseshoe or arc type can be found in both houses of Congress and in most of the legislative chambers of. the various state capitolsi The rectangular arrangement is classically developed in -Britain's House of Commons; and on a smaller scale in" the first American national assembly place, Independence Hall Tin Philadelphia. i.