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'V Page Four THE, 1 DEX )OURNAl, GREENWOOD. S. C. Friday, une 5. 1953 the Penolty One Pays; for Having Reputation 1 Editorial Page THE JNDEX-JOURNAL -SEVEJ, As Pegler Sees It Byestbrook Pegler (Copyright, 1953, King Features Syndicate.

InO The Leading Newspaper of Weatera oath Carellna LESS TIIAN 'FULL' TEN. TEN, U. S. Supreme Court seems to have replied: "That may be the cast now. It was not the case when our story and editorial were written and cited the case already mention ed and another case of a witness who borrowed a coat from an agent of the P.

B. "Our position," the paper said, "was and remains that a man In overalls is capable Just as much dignity as a man in a tsroots Brothers suit, or, for that matter, a Judge in a black robe." The Judge 4 i could spend his time much more tryside suddenly is replaced by the mark of the metropolitan area. A new theory is that these fumes, and the vast amounts of carbon dioxide released by the consumption of coal and petroleum products, has formed a great blanket around the earth's upper atmosphere. This layer, according to Dr. Gilbert N.

Plass, a Johns Hopkins physicist, acts like glass in a greenhouse, apparently intensifying short wavelengths of heat radiations from the sun and preventing the escape of long wave radiations from earth. This phenomenon, in addition to other atmospheric changes brought about by the billions of tons of carbon dioxide in the air, is gradually raising temperature. According to Dr. Plass. measurements, the earth's average temperature is rising IVi degrees a century.

This rate will continue to increase as consumption of coal and oil increases. Dr. Plass' theories are a fascinating complement for the newer theories regarding the relationship of weather and the atmosphere. Some of the new studies are closely tied in with attempts by man to manufacture his own precipitation by means of cloud seeding and the release in the air of chemicals. si r- a ta -a3 fir: The editors of the Nashville have had a fight with Elmer D.

Davies, Judge of the United States Court for the district of Middle Tennessee, who wrote the paper a nasty threatening letter and then vindicated himself by his own decision in his own court. Few of us were familiar with the character and conduct of the federal Judiciary prior to the packing of the bench by the Roosevelt-Truman administration with political devotees of the Democratic party and weak Republicans. My own opinion, and I dare say the opinion of most of the laiety, at of then, was however, that the federal Judiciary were, subject to exceptions, which were few and spec-; tacular, usually high-grade men in three essentials, character, morals and education. This esteem certainly has not been maintained by the new bench and, in this case, Judge Davies' letter to the editor of the Tennessean smacked more of the anger of a roadside J. P.

presiding over a speed-trap than of the federal Judiciary as it should be. The spat arose over a command by the Judge to a witness who was a Negro to wear a coat to cover his shirt when he was on the stand. The incident occurred last July when Nashville was having hot weather and the paper took the court to task because, it said, the witness had to travel home to Mur-freesboro, borrow a coat and return the next day. Davies promptly wrote a letter to the editor threatening to teach him a lesson by directing the clerk of the court to put the names of "your presumably all of them, into the Jury box for the next" term. The tone of the letter was undignified and spiteful and Elisha Hanson, chief counsel of the American newspaper Publishers Association, who went down from Washington to argue a motion to dismiss one summons for grand Jury duty, got the rough side of an autocrat's tongue and lost out.

The Judgt crawled, however, to the extent of denying that his threat had actually been carried out. The public was asked to believe that mere coincidence governed the calling of Coleman Harwell, editor, and John H. Nye, associate editor, for the grand and petit Juries, respectively, after the letter was published. The public is not required so to believe, however. Davies wrote: "It is unfortunate that your usual Inaccurate reporting caused the writer (if one there was) of the anonymous letter published in the July 15 issue of your paper to be unnecessarily concerned over defendants in this court losing a freedom by being denied the testimony of a coatless witness." An editorial in the same Issue caught up the Judge on his implication that witnesses had been described as witnesses for any defendant said they had been confounded further the confusion surrounding: the constitutional edict that "full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state." This confusion seems likely to encourage the sort of conduct that law is supposed to minimize.

Recently the court had before it an appeal by Mrs. Leona Anderson May, who lives with her three children at Lisbon, O. She wanted a- decision of the Ohio courts overturned a decision to the effect that the Ohio courts could not change a ruling by the Wisconsin courts giving" her former husband, Owen Anderson, custody of the children. The United States Supreme Court held that the Ohio courts were wrong, that they are hot prevented from considering this case, that In fact they need neither adept nor reject the Wisconsin determination. So now the case goes back to the Ohio courts for further consideration or at least consideration of whether it should be takn under consideration.

If that sounds! unclear, it was also confusion to some members of the couit. There was a 5 to i division on this finding, and Justice Jackson wrote a vigorous dissent for the minority voicing the fear of "new. confusions." He added that the law of custody seems to have been reduced to "a rule of eize-and-run." Mr; $lay children because her fomerrasbaftd, a resident of Wisconsin, allowed them to visit her in Ohio. When the time' came to take them back to his home, refused to give them up? He sued to get the. Wisconsin court order enforced, -and has yet to succeed.

Justice Jackson's fears that the Supreme Court has invited parents denied the custody of their children by one state to "kidnap" them and take them to another seem Because the "full faith and credit" clause has been taken at something under face value, it is a fact that the same man can be a law-abiding citizen in one state and 'a bigamist in another. How the court seems to have diluted a sound principle still urther, TOURING CANADA THOSE KOREAN ACES n7 Washington News Notebook profitably than in acting as a fashion arbiter. He might, for example, take his own coat off and go to work on the tremendous backlog of cases that have accumulated during his frequent and extended hunting and fishing trips." Hanson's motion to dismiss Harwell's summons for grand Jury duty was argued May 33 with Davies sitting in Judgment on the facts of his own case and the propriety of his own conduct. Hanson said the summons was illegal because Davies had not authority to give orders to the clerk to call anyone for Jury duty. "The Jury system cannot be made the tool of any individual's purpose whether that purpose springs from lofty or base motives," Hanson argued in his motion.

Davies threw the Nye case entirely out' of court because Nye had served in another term. He called to the stand Lon nie Armes, clerk of the court, and asked him questions which elicited a statement that be received front Davies no such order as his letter had threatened to issue. Ormes did say, however, that he had seen tht Judge's letter in print, but when Hanson asked him if he considered that "Sufficient," Davies shut him off. Hanson apparently intended to ask if Ormes had taken the letter as an order from Davies. but if so, the Judge was taking no chances.

When Hanson asked Davies point-blank whether he did issue such an order, Davie had the effrontery to aay: "That is none of your affair," although that was the crux of the whole matter of whether ht had, according to his letter, subverted the Jury system, with an explicit threat against free expression in the press, to serve his own spite. "That Is none of your affair," Davies said. "I am not on. the witness stand." This is a flagrant case but only one of many of similar portent tt Journalism, which, by and large, ignores the problem. In some cases papers are silenced by fear on tht part of their regular lawyers that they will get the works from Judges who have been criticized In print for conduct however shocking.

HaT- -well announced that fie would serve willingly now that the question of illegal action had been disposed of by Ormes denial Davies got himself off the hook by his own. arbitrary self-serving disposition of Hanson's motion, but the charge still stands in the motion still on the file that "the direction of tht Judge was not only In violation of this statute but of the sound public policy. He posesses no such, authority, either under the law or tht settled Jurisprudence of the land." SIS Eisenhower's Department Shuffle Would Add 222,500 To Top Payroll By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Carres pordent WASHINOTON (NEA Five Elsenhower administration reorga nisation plana have thus far added 14 new top-level officials of cabi net and sub-cabinet rank to Washington's bureaucracy. If all are approved by Congress, these new top jobs would Increase the gov uniforms and police installations in the fort built at 60-mlle Intervals throughout the jungle. The motto was, "Friend of the People." The first month there were some 10,000 acts of service performed for the people by the police.

The aim is to increase the service each month. That's where the kindness comes In. The idea is that it will make the people trust the police and cause them to Inform on movement of- the guerrillas, or Identify Communists on the plantations and in the villages. ernment payroll by $222,500 a year. aiinougn much of this would be for replacement of other officials Capt.

Manuel Fernandez, after 125 missions over North Korea, had bagged HMIOjets. That made him high man until Capt. Joseph McConnell came back to his field one day after his 106th mission. He'd knocked down his 14th, 15th, and 16th MIGs. But when they both put in for more duty of the same kind, their commanding general turned thumbs down.

"You boys," he said in effect, "have done enough. You've had it." Whether the $100,000 price offered for a new flyable MIO has anything to do with the Korean sky being full of 'era, or whether some big red training program is going on, cannot be answered. The eight-to-one ratio of downed MIGs over downed Sabrejets is making the air war sound more like a duck shoot than anything else. The effect on U. S.

pilots could be to generate over-confidence. A far cry such over-confidence is from the ordinary climate of air warfare where the two sides are fairly evenly matched. During World War IT, neither the German nor the Japanese air forces could stand up to Allied power by themselves. But the flak from ground batteries could be horrifying. Not many crews wanted to fly more often than they had to over Germany or Japan.

When the Japanese war ended, for instance, there were pilots who were offered air transportation back to the States. Did they fly? Some did. Others declined. They chose to go home by ship. For all they knew, their luck had run out.

formerly doing similar work for less rank and money. ing built for the Air Force by Bell Aircraft. The present unofficial air speed record is 1238 miles anftiour, held by Bill Bridgeman, a U. S. test pilot.

Even this speed is twice the muzzle velocity of a regulation .45 cal. pistol bullet. KINDNESS KILLS COMMIES Killing Communists through kindness is the newest maneuver being used In Malaya's warfare against the red bandits in the Jungles. How these tactics work was explained by British Col. Arthur E.

Young, until recently head of the Malayan police force, who atopped off in Washington to visit FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Colonel Young was on his 'way to London to take a new assignment protecting the crowds during the coronation of Queen Elisabeth. The big, blond Britisher was formerly assistant commissioner of The increase include one new secretary, Mrs. Oveta Cuh Hobby.

lust ncau (m uie new Department The kindness is not then applied to the guerrillas. They're still the or Heaitn, Education and Welfare, at a year. Mrs. Hobbv enemy. They were 15.000 strong whe the fighting began.

Seventy- would also get one new undersec retary at 117,500 and two new as five hundred have been killed. sistant secretaries at 115,000. wounded or captured. But there described merely as witnesses" The paper also challenged an en The first law which President are still more than 6000 left. Eisenhower signed created a new suing statement in the judge a let ier that "if it appears that the wit undersecretary ship of State for Administration.

This Job was given to Donold B. Lourle, former ness does not have a coat, we are glad to furnish one." Quaker Oats official On that point, the Tennessean police in Scotland Yard. When first assigned to Malaya, he wondered how he could Londonlze the Jungle police so that the anti-Com Department of Agriculture's reor ganization plan would create two new assistant secretaryships and munist people would trust them as Ike Follows Roosevelt the British people trust their create another Assistant secretary for Administration, who would Bobbies." The answer In London On the other side, about one third of the able-bodied male populationover 350,000 men are giving their services to fight the Communists. They comprise 70, 000 police, 43,000 British, Gurkha and Malay troops and 344,000 home guards on, duty. part time.

Their casualties have been 1500 killed and 3000 wounded. The cost of this little-publicized war is now running over $5 million a month. From the start, it has cost a quarter of a billion dollars. TO THE POINT There's no danger of anyone getting the wrong impression of Air Forces) Secretary Harold E. Talbot.

In "Who's Who" be lists his occupation as "Capitalist." was that the system has been in have Civil Service status. The new Department of Defense In Making Air Address reorganisation plan would create effect tor 100 years or more. Colonel Young, in Malaya, didn't have that much time. But last December he did start a alx months' experiment which he called "Operation Service." The six more assistant secretaries, on top of the three Jobs of that rank By JAMES MAR LOW arhtnotom an President There are many stories urnewspapers of the -stampede of tourists from the U. S.

to Europe, but more tourists will cross the border into Canada. And they will see more of what they are looking for, and do it much more economically. tour Europe is" an expensive under-' taking; and, involves the expenditure of" time as well. But almost any American can tour Canada, taking as short or long a period as desired. There is a minimum of red tape at the border, and prices in Canada have been adjusted to sizzle the hide of4 the vacationer.

Canada is rich In scenery and offers "surcease from torrid summer climate of the regions to the south. It has modern cities, and it has all' the accommodations a tourist can desire. Americans who have gone to Canada on a vacation usual- ly repeat. previously provided for. Only the Department of Justice Eisenhower is picking up where Captains Fernandez and McConnell really cannot have an unlimited supply of luck still left to them.

They may as well rest on their laurels. TV was in swaddling clothes al the start of Truman' administration in 1945. By the time he left the White House in 1953 TV was the center of attention In living rooms from coast to coast Truman may explain In hi me reorganization plan created no new idea was to make the police recognized as the friend of the people. Jobs, though it did change rank He had a label made for police and title of some top officials. HEARTS AND FLOWERS President Roosevelt left on taxing his case directly to the people.

"Papa's here and everything will be all right," was the impression Roosevelt sought to give when he took to the radio. He was always relaxed, like a man whose problems. If any. had been trained to' Flowerlest orator In the Senate iimiif 11111111111111111111111 Is still Matthew M. Neely of West Editorial Comment Virginia.

When Sen. Spessard Holland of Florida took the floor of the Senate to can attention to IIIIITI lie down and roll over. For Rooseveilt. the radio was a the fact that 100 Florida Daughters of the American Revolution were In the gallery. Senator Neely pour wonderful instrument not only tor getting his Ideas across to the na lllllllllllllllllllilllllllllll liillllliiiinillttiiiittiiiiiiiiiii ed it on like this: tion but for creating public confi "Mr.

President, It Is obvious dence in him and his administra that the beautiful ladles from Florida, who have Just been Intro dam, and will tell you even his dreama By HAL BOYLE LONDON un-What Is an Ens-1 SMOKE AND HEAT tion. It helped elect him four times. No wonder he used It duced, have aU found the fountain But if von. look the least hit lishmanf He read well and he had a warm of youth, for which the old bored, hell clam up again That Spaniard searched in vain. Ladies, voice.

They were grtat assets. He Is why I find the Englishman the world's best conversationalist. please be as generous as you are read so well that, behind the mask moirs why he didn't use TV and radio more, particularly In the last two years when he and his administration were under fiery criticism. Judging from what he has dona in the past two weeks Eisenhower probably will use radio and TV tt the fullest advantage. He made a nation-wide radio talk May 19 to explain one of the sorest pills the public ever has to swallow: why there shouldn't be a tax cut now.

He read that talk. Wednesday night on TV he talked without visible script but not without help. That was a carefully prepared program, rehearsed: and using modern TV techniques. It amounted to a production. Eisenhower doesn't read as well as Roosevelt He's stiffer and more self-conscious, more like Truman.

And he's not as relaxed as Roosevelt or, perhaps, Truman, when he's talking off the cuff without notes and without rehearsal. Since this country faces difficult days, at least in foreign affairs, when there may be more international heat than light Etsenhowet win probably use the airwaves beautiful, and tell certain elder of the radio, you weren't conscious They say EriKUshmen talk to each members of the Senate how to he was reading at all. He used all other only. about the weather, and the devices of good talking: seri In a series of "Hrrumphs" and obtain enough of the maglo fountain's potent water to wash away ousness, gaiety, sarcasm, humor, "urn-urns" that anlv thev can da the heavy burden of their years. figures of speech.

code. If this Is true, the only possible reason I can advance la that Roosevelt probably would have been equally successful on televi DIFFERENT SLANT The toughest question so" far thrown at Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby most people like to talk about their irouDies, ana in a crowded land where everybody has more than sion but its development, nation wide, was after his time. Approaching any of. the great ports from the sea, or any of the great Inland cities from the air, a traveler is impressed by the immense volume of.

smoke and fumes these centers send skyward. The smoke from New York or Bostoxi can be seen for miles i at sea. Coming into, say, Philadelphia on an airliner on a clear day is a startling experie-ence as the crystal clear air of the coun- THE INDEX-JOURNAL Taa Laa daf Nmwa il Whm Swath Caratlaa" Ti Craanwooa Journal aatabtbhaa Aarut 1. ltti i. Tka Graaawood late HUUiiM Naaanaa ltti Tha Jaaraal aaa Tha U4u aoaaolidataa Jaa.

It, Hit new Secretary of DHEW con his share of them, who wants to cerned an editorial which appeared In her Houston newspaper some President Truman never learned to read aloud with ease. He lacked listen to the other guy complain? It is ttfer to criticize the climate. months ago. The editorial support the un bothered voice of Roosevelt. ed tha stand of a group of Texas Life la runed tor tha mn DOES.VT DESERVE IT IWm Th Grtenvillt Piedmont.

Tb Arrierfcat for. DemotraUo Action (ADA), tht-leftwing group which ha til hut eaptund control of tht National Democratio party (unltta defeat last November reversed the trend) hu called upon all concerned to declare war on the "methods" used by Senator Joseph McCarthy. If the Democratio party, under the. Influence of the ADAers hadnt frown to carelete with respect to the thing McCarthy has grown powerful by pretending to fight-Communism Joe would now be nothing more potent than the Senator from Wis-eonsia with one vote. The way to whip McCarthy It to deprive him of a cause by using the proper "methods.1' As for the ADA, It is assigning to McCarthy mors power than he pOMessea and we strongly suspect it motive Is to build up tvVoUUcal Inue on which "liberal" candidate can run next year.

AGE PERHAPS From The Abbeville Press and Banner. It Is indeed strange how forgetful It the human mind. Just a few abort weeks ago we were waking to chilly mornings and days that had Jurt a little too much chm to invite us Into the cooling lakes and to sun baths on the lawns or lake' shores. Now though, we have had a few days of real summer and Indications are that we have some really hot day ahead of us. Already a goodly number of us are looking forward to the cooler days of fall and winter.

Perhaps our feeling are a revelation of our age, but we cant help nut enjoy the cool days a little more, but like everyone else, weU take what we get, make the moat of it and In all probability enjoy it as much as the next person. housewives who refused to pay so Englishman, compared to life In It was on of Truman's worst handicaps. He was at his best talking off the cuff in the heat of cial security taxes for their maids. America, uuough he feels things are looktitsf in now. Wars, denrea.

a campaign, without a script 1 fan Mrs. Hobby was asked if she still felt that way, now that the Social Security Administration was signs' and an old caste system that is cracking up but sua exists have made him some thins of an under in her department? do. That nrobaMs exnlalna hla rblih4 Dan EiMpt Sunday ay Sha replied that the regular of the editorial page was not ant7 tremendous sensational sympathy TUX DsDEX-JOCRNAL CO MP To American gagwrlters, he Is a fellow who wakes up In the morning and asks his wife: "What century is It?" In vaudeville be la two fellow, with monocule and drooping mustaches. The first mumbles through his bristles, "I tay uh er uh are you English?" And tha second stutters back, "Er uh If were any more English, old boy, you wouldn't be able to understand me." In Joke books the Englishman boards a train going from London to Edinburgh, and a stranger in the compartment says, "Nice weather we're having." As the Englishman leaves the train at Edinburgh, he turns to the stranger and snaps, "Chatterbox!" These are outworn stock caricatures, of course. But many Ameri-aans still think of the Englishman as a guy a bit behind the times and proud of it, very reserved and reticent, but one who always faces life with a stiff upper llp-a dull companion in victory but a great comrade to have at your aide when the bullets are coming your way.

This makes him out a nice fellow, but one not likely to become the life of a party. Perhaps I have been meeting the wrong type of Englishman, but I dont find him that way at all The English have the same appetite for fun and self-indulgence as a 5-year-old boy turned loose In a candy atore, and have had It for centuries. Were there ever greater roisterers thsn the English of the first Elzlabethan Era, 400 years ago? If there were, Shakespeare was a liar. The Englishman of today Is Just as gusty and vital as his ances working that day, and she herself ror au underprivileged, things At ltl Manrall Avaaaa was out of town. Mrs.

Hobby said aogs, cats. Dins, flowers and chil dren. He will accent cruelty to himself H. WATSON. President ARTHUR LES, Bec-Treti.

3. 8. BAILEY, Sec-TreM, 1919-1935 that if she had been there, that editorial would never have been printed. Furthermore, she did not support the stand of the Texas more easily than he will cruelty to leaser creatures. Duty and discipline are taken housewives.

TIME'S NOT RIPE XntaraS tri elm autter at tha Poat Oftlea at (iraaawaoi, I aadar tha act at March S. 117. more seriously by the ordinary Englishman, it seems to me, than or the oral nary American. Secretary Hobby was asked at her first press conference if the considered herself a Republican or a Democrat? She asked the report AQ men are morsels of yearning in a crust of courage, thick or thin. On the Englishman the crust has grown a little deeper than on most.

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Hobby replied. "You knew I wouldn't answer such a that chiefly makes him an English man, Australia Develops Shrink-Proof Wool MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Tba Aaaoeiatad Praaa ia entitled axeloairalf to tha aa tar npublieatioa of all tba local ntwi prist1 at tkia aawapapar, aa wall aa all AP aaw Clipataba. question now." Then she added as an after Intelligence Is the ability to believe any person who tells you they cannot sing a note. Malta Alt rmlttaneaa Ta Till INDEX-JOURNAL COMFANtV thought: "Rut I do hope that the Republicans Increase their majority In Congress at the next elec NEW YORK Bhrink-proof wool hu been developed by an Australian research group, the Australian Information Service here tors. The trouble is he hasnt been turned loose in a candy store for tion." FASTER THAN A SHOT a a a Folks wouldn't mind so much paying for a doe- tor's advice It they Just had sense enough to take It.

v. says. At least one license to a wool MsJ. Charles "Chuck" Yeager this summer hopes to be the first THAN SOUND-Artist's sketch, above. Is the Ant cut samiU has been- granted.

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Dial t-IJII cess will be developed In other commercial plants, the announcement sound, or 1530 miles an hour at a long time. The coronation showed he loves to kick up his Jjeels when life gives a chanctvL I dont find, the Englishman reticent. Hell a great talker. But you have to open him up. You open a clam with a sharp knife.

You. open an Englishman by kindness; by showing a real Interest In him. Then he Is as exposed as an opened sea level. a (.,. After a crackup, a road hog is always the first to squeal 'V We are njovlng into the fourth season of the year when fish dont seem to blte.Vv The new process treats the wool Five years ago Major Teager broke the sonic barrier.

To double with a resin, but the Australians say is expected to be' tht Air Force's first truly supersonlt Interceptor, According to Air force Magazine, ia which tht drswing first appeared, tjie delts-wing, single-seat, all-weather Interceptor will be under almost entirely automatic control. Tht pilot's chief duty will be to act as a monitor for tht electronic flight i-' and Art-control equipment vY -W'- this record he will fly In a new that Is does not change the normal rocket-powered research plane be qualities of the wool IT A1- VfVi.