The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 4

Publisher Published Dally Except Saturday by Tbs Eagle Publishing Co A Partnership Established in 1902 Edited 1905 1924 by WILLIAM THEODORE HALL 4 Edited 1924 1939 by 1 JULIAN HALL Horace Hall Entered at the Dothan Alabama Pcstofflee a Second Class Mail Matter SUBSCRIPTION rates where Carrier or Motor Route aITk maintained and outside the States of and lorida Week loe 1 SlSO TA 1 31590 and Sunday in Alabama Georgia and lorida where no Carrier or Motor Rkita service Is maintained 1 month 85o 3 montns 250 1 year 3709 By Mail Dally and by Motor Route Sunday where service is available Straight 3100 per month telephones All Departments 2 9209 Card of Thanks Obituaries and Resolutions charged tor at the rate of three cents a word MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to us? or of all the local news Printed in' this newspaper as well as ail AP news dispatches A MEMBER' UNITED PRESS MISSTATEMENT ACT appearing in The Cagle Is never Intentional If you have grievance of this sort we are more tharr glad to investigate full and If found to be well founded redress will be prompt prominent and thorough KELLY SMITH CO National Representatives Graybar Bldg New York 11! Washington St Chicago House Bldg Boston 209 Palmer Bldg Atlanta Llncoln Llberty Bldg Philadelphia 5 Center Bldg Detroit? 300 Montgomery St San rancisco 968 Colorado St Los Angeles South Salina Street Syracuse upon the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of Thomas Jefferson Thursday June 28 1951 There Be Thou hag consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people and hast sinned against my Habakkuk 2:10 He that falls into sin Is a man that grieveg at it is a saint that boasteth of it 18 a devil yet some glory in that shame counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls uller I I III I ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE It was only yesterday that we were talking here about Alabama automobile tags how they should be made distinc tive And already we have a fresh example of the ineffective of the present plates in informing people of other States about Alabama A visitor just back from Washington tells this story: In North Carolina Virginia and: Wash ington he noticed the frequency with which the natives stared at his Alabanqa plates as though an Alabama carwas a rarity He was puzzled but attributed the stares to the possibility he was from a Dixiecrat State He learn what it was all about until on the return trip he stopped at a rural Virginia store A woman customer after glancing at his tag asked In friend ly fashion where he was going and he answered that he was on the way home do you expect to get she asked tomorrow night at the he replied the woman exclaimed in wonderment be in Alaska by tomorrdw If we get a slogan our our tags at least Montgomery should spell out ALABAMA and do away with the ALA abbreviation In view of the experience of this Ala bama traveler perhaps we can get some support from the people of Alaska too BETTER TO BE READY The dope addiction among agers has been described as an in the metropolitan areas So far it has not spread to smaller cities and rural re gions This does not mean however that small cities and rural sections can look to a permanent immunity from the dope traffic because they offer peddlers sparsely settled market If the racket continues to expand and flourish as it has In the past ten years the menace could be widespread That is why the entire nation should be concerned with ederal legislation to stamp out the traffic landing in Con gress is a bill calling for mandatory sentences up to 20 years for peddlers and also a proposal providing life sentences for those who sell dope to minors At present the maximum ederal sentence for a peddler is five years and the usual sentence for a first offender is a year and a day Obviously stiffer punishment is in order Harry Anslinger Narcotics Commissioner says that the present sentences are hampering the govern efforts to break up the dope racket Speaking of the smugglers syndicates wholesalers and retail ped dlcrs he said in an interview with News and World Report: can catch them but we keep them in They serve about 16 months We put one crowd in jail then start on another one By the time we get the second one the first is out working While the laws ar being tightened UR cj A at the ederal level it is assuring to see that the is being faced at the State level as in Alabama where there is no addiction like that in the North and East but where it could conceivably hap pen Under the present Alabama law the sale of narcotics is a misdemeanor punishable by a minimum fine of $50 The Senate has passed a series of bills calling for a two to five year sentence on the first conviction five to ten years on the second offense and ten to 20 years for subsequent convictions These bills also provide that the maximum sentence is to be meted when dope is sold to a minor In the House consideration Is being given to a bill that would make sale of dope to a mihor an offense punishable by imprisonment up to 50 years Though Alabama is free of the narcotic traffic among 'teen agers we will do well to have this legislation on the books It is a case where it is better to have these laws and not need them than to need and not have them 1 1 SPOTTED IRES More errand running back and forth plus the inevitable oblique conferences among diplomats will be necessary be fore the world is to learn if there is a real basis for hope that the war in Ko rea will be called off But that talk has gone this far is en couraging Prospects look better for a cease fire order now than at any time during the weary 12 months of battling Yet these prospects are tempered with the deteriorating situation in Iran Secretary of State Dean Acheson says that events in Iran are moving toward The British who are losing their oil privileges are sending warships to the area and planes are re moving British civilians And the Iranian government is dispatching troops to the oil belt' 1 It looks more and more like what we were warned about months ago that when the Korean war bums itself out there will be another fire going at an other point in 4he world as part of the plan tq keep trouble going all the time Secretary statement to a House committee yesterday that is no thought of the United States in tervening in Iran either with or without 'Congressional is the sort of com fort one gets from whistling in the dark Everybody knows that the way things happen the way we get involved Ache statement of'yesterday may be out of date tomorrow Iran is a tinderbox now just as we were told months ago it would be ALWAYS A SLIP The International Labor Organiza tion meeting in Geneva Switzerland has approved a proposal which if ratified by member countries of the UN would grant women the same pay as men get for the same kind of work it might prove meaningless be cause as in everything else many a slip twixt the cup and the lip or instance: Great Labor government has affirmed the principle that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work This principle was reaffirmed in a speech to the House of Commons the other day by Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell who said in the very next breath that it be done It would only bring on inflation he said thus inferring that inequality be tween the sexes on pay is to be preferred to the high cost of living The ILO might as well save its time EXAMPLES CLARITY An impressive bit of circulation is be ing given this gem (author unknown) but making the rounds: Gettysburg address con tains 266 words The Ten Commandments contain 297 words The Declaration of Independence contains 300 words But the OP A order to reduce the price on cabbage contains 26911 To this we can add that the Gettys burg address the Teh Comjnandments and the Declaration of Independence were all written with the intention they be understood end aH pre date the advent of gobbyldegook Something that we hope will never dis the friendliness and understand ing that go hand in hand with the greet ing your crops 0 There are times when real content meat is enjoyed only by those of whom it is said that what goes in one ear comes out the other the only ones who let their imaginations have the benefit of the doubt Ever notice how the new car ownenun about their mileage? HAL BOYLE '4 Will Lady Godiva Ride Again? 1 WESTBROOK PEGLER The Red Baiters Meet RAY TUCKER 25 ears Ago A ar Reaching Squabble What Other Editors Are Saying SI DE GLANCES by Galbraith good eoea mi by mu scbvkc wc wra err orr 1 three Power lY I 1 Enterprise defeated Dothan in baseball yesterday three to two Two pitchers struck out II and 12 batters Rollins selsky Dr A Campbell Dunkley some post is an unprecedented legal jurisdictional clash between federal agencies that will ef every large and small indus HNPrlLLnXl SHOWDOWN This is not the conclusion of reactionary oppo nents of the Administration It is the legal opinion voiced by PC lawyers who have battled Interi legal staff on the three projects that the basis of their controversy the Idaho Power transmission lines across public lands in that western state a single purpose dam on the Kings River in Cen tral California and the Roanoke River hydroelectric plant in North Carolina Never before 'during New Deal or air" Deal eras according to almost all participants in this struggle has there been such a showdown between advocates of private enterprise and govern ment domination not even in so cialistic Britain never even heard of Midland Texas There is a war boom on in the great Southwest Truman would sweep Texas like a cyclone or a neighbor as you might say the Messrs Stripling Steedman owler and Palmer have Ralph Ingersoll late editor of PM or PU or Marshall thing which was called pro Communist with out protest full many a time in its maleficent life in New York Mr Inger soil once printed a layout of his staff handpicked for PM or PU with a non committal discussion of the possibility that this or that one or most of them had Bolshevist tendencies but he has never owned up to anything He too came down here' to make money in oil Harold Young formerly secretary to Henry Wallace is now a lawyer in gen eral practice over in Odessa 20 miles away in the same oil belt and just about one run to the west over toward Carlsbad New Mexico Nathan Witt is messing around in a strike of the Mine Mill and Smelters Workers which was too Red even for the I old classmate Leon Pressman confessing his own association tagged Witt a Communist a few months ago and Witt say no Alger Hiss confess but Mr Stripling hung even worse oh him Mr owler covered the Italian cam paign from Naples up to the invasion of southern rance and on up from jthere and camelback to Texas covering the State for The Dallas News In this job he had constant recourse to the tumbled papers on the exchange table and formed a low opinion of the ethics ability and responsibility of the small town Texas press in general He ex pressed this opinion out loud at a meet ing of the west Texas editors and loaded it with facts about the widespread use of canned editorials bought from syndi cates The Odessa American is one of the few little papers in the State with editorial opinions and principles of its own but they seem wasted on a public preoccupied with war profits I am told that the west Texas editors not only mind what Mr owler said about their journalism but surely know what he was talking about Did the fellow mean that they ought to sit down and write their own opinions when they could buy canned editorials for about a dollar a week per linear foot guaranteed not to offend Demo crats Republicans or even Communists? Mr owler once took occasion to state that old John Nance Garner Texas landmark made of perishable material was not a sterling patriot at all but a stingy calculating old time country banker who put his corrupt political party above his country and held his tongue when he should have hollered out against the Communists and especially the nomination of Henry Wallace for his old job of Vice President That has been my opinion of Garner ever since but I am surprised to learn that any Texan let him have his deserving in his own home (C 1951) rt (h TKe Same Kind Of Joy Water He Bought In 1948 i 1 vate versus public development to go before the high tribunal for a final showdown He might not per mit PC to appeal (This question has so angles of bread and butter inter est to readers that be dis cussed in more detail tomorrow and the next day) POSSIBILITIES If "Interior wins this jurisdictional battle on the basis of the several legal ar guments it has advanced at gov ernment hearings and in the courts there may be no end to the extension of federal jurisdic tion and authority over both pri vate and public enterprises indus trial wholesale and retail' Judicial support of the Chap man philosophy and its implica tions would enable Washington to direct and supervise the construc tion of factories as Mr Truman tried to do with steel and alumi num the kinds and amounts of goods to be produced the prices to be charged and the markets to be given preferrential service All these possibilities are in herrent in the Chapman conten tion if it is upheld by the courts in the current controversy with the ederal' Power Commission NOT HERE WE HOPE Every' thinking American has been' startled and shocked by recent revela tions that some 6000 New York children of school age are to some extent addicted to the use of narcotics As The Dothan Eagle pointed out it is no time to point a scornful finger at the fact New York has a habit of setting it self up as an example for the rest of the nation to follow This is time for neighborly con sideration and sympathy and a time for neighborly prayers too for no com munity can be absolutely sure that it is doing everything possible to protect its 1 youth from the many evils abroad in the 7 land today i To say that It happen here is but to express wishful thinking unbacked bythe cold facts of the matter It can happen anywhere and it will happen if society is not everlastingly on guard It has not been many weeks since three boys took the stand at a juvenile court hearing here in Talladega to test! fy of buying liquor from bootleggers We would not have thought it possible for that to happen here but it did The course of wisdom is to trust your youth but to redouble our efforts as adults to see to it their feet are directed in right paths and that their bubbling energy is directed into wholesome rec reation Talladega Daily Home IGHTING In opposing Sec retary Chapman in these key cases the ederal Commission is fighting for exist ence If the Secretary of Interior wins he will have stripped the PC sY thoroughly that it might as well close up shop even though it was specificially created by Congress as an agency to de velop water resources in an' or derly and businesslike mannerwithout any prejudice toward pri vate or public interests PCs briefs in hearings and incourt have blasted Interior in language never before used pub licly that is between two ex ecutive agencies PC lawyers have accused Mr Chapman of a 'dog in the attitude They base this charge on the fact that although he has no plans for building the three projects involved he wants to prevent PC and private interests from giving immediate service to needy customers ISSUE It is significant that Secretary Chapman did not at tack authority and jurisdic tion until after President 1948 reelection The three applications had been tentatively Approved by PC in early fall of 1949 without provoking any pro test from Interior Severs! mapn account forMr ATE TEMPTER The idea that nothing is quite enough and it must be better is repre sentative of most businesses in our kind of economy The businessman who stands 4tm tempts the fates' Somewhere near by a competitor is going ahead and get the business The people beat their way to the door of the man 1 with the better merchandise who them in and tells them what he has to offer through continuous adver lorala New MIDLAND Texas There was an im promptu meeting of our floating cell of the society of Red baiters of the United States in a basement lair of the Wilkin son oster Bldg where Robert Strip ling and Jernes Steedman have an of fice entitled on its door That is That is all there is hereabouts Oil is mutable into money Mr Stripling was for several years the chief investigator of the House Com mittee on Un American Activities He showed up Alger Hiss as the triumph of his painful but successful career during which he was harshly persecuted by the Roosevelt Truman Communist cabal Then he wrote his book picked up his profit which unlike General Eisenhow however was not exempt from the income tax and put down his stakes in the latest of the fabulous Texas oil Golcondas Mr Steedman was the investigator on the Pacific coast during most of his service with the committee specializing in the political treason of the Hollywood riff raff He helped to turn up the proof of Communist treachery which thereafter lay in the possession of the committee all this time until it was sprung on a galaxy of eminent traitors' within the last few months Then knowing that they would be con fronted with their party records if they come clean they came in babbling that they had been guillible innocents who rightly known what Commu nism was Gullible innocents what they were LyingJ sadistic double crossing conspirators is what they right ly were who deserved to be shot as becomes traitors and whoever forgives them now and pays admission to movies in which they flaunt their pretty painted faces and prattle recitations written by their like is nbt gullible either but culp able There was Dick owler the managing editor of The Midland Reporter Journal which is a trade journal of the oil busi ness with a jabberwocky of its own Mr owler was with the old Dies Committee in 1941 through 1942 and Milo Palmer now in oil with two sections of land that his Pa bought for $3 an acre was with the same committee on the Hill in Washington This bunching of veteran and inveterate Red baiters in Midland is sheer coincidence So was the presence for a few hours of a solemn fellow named Jake Spolansky one of the pio neers in the sport a native of Russia and long with the BI ake recently did one of the best factual books onthe conspiracy Communist Trail In He was hereabouts on business of his own and dropped in on a quorum in this office down cellar of the Wilkinson oster Bldg which is six stories high and chock a block like the hotels This might seem unnecessarily lofty a countryside out in the old dust bowl But there are two other buildings 13 stories high and in a weak moment I would be willing to bet you that you JUNE 28 1926 Delegates' to the state American Legion convention at Selma July 5 7 will be Kingry Joe Whatley Joe Kra and was Mr political ad vance agent in the eleven public land states beyond the Rockies where water and power are a bread and butter issue with the voters He was too busy in corral in Democratic votes which he did with great success to bother with departmental problems Sec ondly it was useless to" Voice his radical views on public power and related questions until a Tru man victory was assured' Mr attitude in tho matter is still in doubt He has kept out the Idaho arid Roa noke squabbles He first opposed Mr Chapman Ojn Kings River but subsequently endorsed! Inte viewpoints against PC' If public power 1 scheme seems likely to win general ap proval from the voters the Presi dent will be for it MONOPOLY Interior and PC wilt next meet in judical combat on September 4 before the Court of Appeals at Richmond Va Ironically contestants will be the Interior Department against the PC which will be associated with the applicant for the Roanoke River power license the Virginia "Elec tric Power Company If Mr Chapman wins so far he has been defeatedin other courts the' federal government will supplant private industry states and cities in construction operation and management of all future power projects' built on American rivers and tributaries Washington will enjoy a complpte monopoly of power except where if is generated by steam plants If the Richmond jurists hold for Interior (and this is one of the most respected courts in the coun try) the government will gain by judicial sanction an authority nev er given to it by Congress in the basic ederal Power Act of 1920 or the lood Control Act' of '1944 including all the amendments thereto In its present bitter mood the PC would appeal an adverse decision to the Supreme' Court It would appeal if and this is a big President Truman will permit the moot question of pri THE HILT REACHED IN TAXATION Eighty seven year old Rep Doughton chairman of the Ways and Means com mittee stated merely facts yesterday when he told the House: I consider it unlikely that we shall be able to increase substantially the yield of the ederal tax system beyondwhat is included in the present The is the $72 billion measure drafted after months of study in order to pay the costs of the 7 defense preparations without having to borrow Since the beginning of the Korean war just short of a year ago this tax hike with two others approved in recant months will amount to about $17 hillinns That is about all maybe than the national economy can stand without? its being wrecked private initiative choked and wild inflation encouraged If more money is needed for defense preparations the only sound fiscal course open to Congress is to reexamine planned ederal outlays and to cut expenditures to the bone Regardless of what ederal' state and local officials say there is some fat that can be cut out "of present budgets some improvements deferred and luxuries that we want that can be poned Huntsville Times Revival Meet Held At New Brockton A 'X 4 i NEW BROCKTON (Special The Rev Robert Miller of the Dalrida Methodist Church at Montgomery was guest speaker at a revival meeting at the Netf Brockton Methodist Church last week Rev: Miller was by the Rev Rice Jr pastor of the church The Rev Cljfford Abbot pastor of the Pepperell Methodist Church Opelika wras song director PROPERTY' Though the founders of Co munism argued 'that it is the 'nat ural form of ownership actually individual property rights are rec ognized among almost all primi tive tribes Sanford Dawsey today was nominated postmaster at Dothan BUTTONS igures in bathing suits' never lie 1 A shady creek' a baited' hook a lighted theYe are other dreams that sometimes come to the man who has to work for a living a Nobody kicks at Ithe price 7 of luxuries i AY OR POLITICOS Once again Clyde Sellers dangled the $35 per week pay raise before the state legislature and once again the measure was defeated Currently getting $140 weekly when in session the legislators voted 45 37 to let itga at that This astute move made less unsavory the passage by the solons of a measure to award themselves an eleven day vacation with gitfauJu NEW YORK (AP) Will new group of Lady Godivas arise to rescue the American people from high taxes? This suggestion for cutting the rising prices of government was made re 7 cently by rank Tripp sage of Tlie Elmjra (N Y) Star Gazette a He recalled the legendary ride of the original Lady Godiva nearly 900 years ago As I get it this beauteous Saxon dame told het husband the Lord of Coveatry: Lord why have you lowered such a heavy tax boom on our pleasant it serfs them punned her master it Milady? It serfs them I like your manor at said the Lady are you going to give these poor people a cut their taxes the day you ride bareback through the scoffed old man Coventry haw Well he knew that Lady Godiva was one of the poorest riders in the whole countryside She regularly fell off her mount at every foxhunt And all her husband meant by saying what he did was that she dare try to ride a horse without a saddle But like any wife in any age Lady Godiva took what her husband said literally She thought he meant she dare ride with her own back bare through the streets No lady could resist a challenge like that So she put out an order for the peons to stay indoors Then she saddled up a white hbrse took off her robes and rode through Coventry adorned with nothing but her long blonde hair One tailor looked out to see what all the hoofbeats were about He was WASHINGTON Secretary Os interim disinterest He car vnapman persistent but in1 direct attempt to seize all author ity for development of till the natural resources of the nation has finally precipitated a violent battle in open court between his Department of Interior and the ederal Power It and two feet try and retail business haying even a remote' connection with operations covered by the inter state commerce or general wel fare clauses of the Constitution Although water power happen to be the immediate "cause of the Interior PC dispute the broad legal question involved af fects industrial and small busi ness activity from steel mills to chain stores operating across state lines Ti struck blind probably by the bright sunshine C' On the way home Lady Godiva met her astounded husband who demanded: A and what the hell are you do "A i said if you the rateK going for another ride tomorrow never had so much "7 Shewent to bed with a bad case psunburn and the next day the' peasantsgot the biggest 7 tax rebate in history Every since then peasants figure it will? happen again And what heroine? Whenever she asked for a new dress old man Coventry would say: Milady but our coffers are as bare as bare as you know Today the House of Representatives has passed a new $7206000000 tax bill the biggest ever rank idea is that 49 modern Godivas might help save the one to ride through Washington CT and of the 48 State capitals It would probably be easy enough to find the gal volunteers but where would you find the 49 snowwhite horses? And people nowadays expect more They even turn out for the parade unless Lady Godiva played a guitar or carried a rifle and shot down eggs thrown into the air and flying streamers saying down the high cost of Nope Congressmen scare as easy as the old Lord of Coventry They know" what the average husband would say if his wife trotted bare down the stairs bound for a horseback ride to lower taxes for say back upstairs and put on your hat I don't want you to go out looking like a Then go back to reading his news paper Ji ysgA 1 7 al SB i Rspta jgiCsgg 1 jy i HE 4 XI th SteL 1 WK w( 'xi i CL IHw HO I itlT 4 Vh Yr if I V4A i it was a good break I got my nd' AMAf 'MmImUIuk.