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PAGE FOUK Saturday, December 4, THE DECATUR REVIEW THE DECATUR REVIEW The Washington Crisis "The Community Paper" Truman Apparently Backing Away From, Defense Policy as Did Stanley: Baldwin When Warned About Hitler By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP such an important part in American foreign policy. Washington WHAT IS NOW going on is a In short, other nations, both our potential allies and above all the crisis within the Administration comparable to the crisis that pre lights of New York BLOND, HAZEL-EYED Alice Reinheart, in the last 11 years, has shed more tears than any other actress on the air. Instead of singing for her supper, as did Tommy Tucker, she cries for it also her breakfast and luncheon. In other words, tears are her bread and butter. Miss Reinheart is the heroine of "Life dan Be Beautiful," pioneer "washboard weeper," and has been ever since that radio program started.

Her ability to weep at will helped her to land the job. In those 11 years, five' times a week, 50 weeks a year, she has had plenty of reasons to turn on the tears. Her husband died. Her child died. She has been close to death herself.

In fact, she informed me in the course of our chat, just about everything that could happen has happened to her in the character of Chichi, central figure in a daily drama familiar to thousands of housewives. ceded Secretary Marshall's Har Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST SELF-MADE MAN A self-made man is hard to find, I think the species rare, Since down the years I've- searched for one who could the title wear. Though many from a humble start success of life have made, Not one who'd reached the top would say he'd never needed aid. A self-made man! I'm sure too much that Kremlin, are to be openly informed that American policy is without backbone.

And this is to be done at a time of grave crisis, when the vard speech. At that time, the question was whether to pretend to City Politics Split Berlin By DEwrrr Mackenzie Of the Associated Press Despite strong-arm efforts of Russian-inspired German Communists to disrupt the municipal elections in Western Berlin tomorrow, the American, French and British occupation forces are going straight ahead with the project of establishing a city government. Meantime the Russians have formally recognized the new Communist rump government in the eastern sector of the capital as the "only legal organ of the city administration." The Muscovites will have no truck with the western government, and have given every indication that they intend to use all possible means including the brutal food blockade to drive the western powers out In short Berlin is to have two wholly separate and hostile governments. ignore the increasing menace- of President's own experts consider Soviet policy, or to adopt the counter-measure of the European Re that the still-unresolved Berlin situation may flare up at any moment into an actual danger of war. The short-range result will be to usual, or a developing foreign and defense policy.

We cannot any longer have both. And if we do not go forward on the foreign and defense fronts, we shall automatically go backward, losing ground disastrously. The choice is essentially the same that confronted Stanley Baldwin, when Winston Churchill and other British leaders visited him. in solemn deputation, to warn of Hitler's re-armament The curious thing is, in view of the President's past record, that he seems to be seriously considering making Baldwin's comfortable, easy, but ultimately suicidal mistake of choosing business-as-usual. Such, at least, is the practical implication of the 15 billion ceiling placed by the President on army, navy and air force expenditures in the next budget.

covery Program. And at that time, President Truman made his choice boldly, firmly and with wise kill the last slender hope of a Ber vision. Adoption of E.R.P., passage of common phrase implies. That means with not one friendly hand boy to fame can rise; lin settlement. The long-range result will be to place us In the position of Britain vis-a-vis Germany in 1938.

the launching of re-armament, last year seemed to commit the President to an all-out effort That from the start not one nearby of all whom he has known There remains the riddle of the Has stirred to smooth the path for him or President's decision, which so ob any kindness shown. to stabilize the desperately dangerous world situation. But even then, it was clear that the increasing costs of American re-armament, plus the need for such further steps as the Atlantic pact and peacetime lend-lease for Western Europe, viously makes nonsense of such Truman measures- as last year's fine draft message. The answer is A self-made man! That cannot be, since all men hail with joy Protect Witnesses Reform in committee investigations may secured in the next Congress if Senator Scott Lucas, Illinois' senior Democratic senator, has his way. Reform long has been talked about but "trial by committee" continues with the right of cross-examination still denied.

Also the accused may or may not be permitted to see his accusers, depending on the decision of the investigating committee. Most congressional investigations are considered as having a place in government President Woodrow Wilson called them "semijudicial examinations into corners suspected to be dirty" but the degree to which the semijudicial nature of the examinations is allowed to vary causes the most complaints. It often has been asked why congressional inquiries are not in the nature of public trials with the safeguards to the individual that he has in regular court proceedings. No one has fully explained. J.

Parnell Thomas is reported to have informed a witness before the House un-American committee that the committee would determine what rights he had before the committee. In the loyalty investigations of recent months there has been much complaint by witnesses that they could not confront their accusers and that they had no opportunity to cross examine. Senator Lucas proposes that cross examination be granted to all persons brought before a committee. Senator Lucas also would bar a committee from making a report of misconduct before the accused is informed and has opportunity to present to the committee a sworn answer to the charge. Also a report could not be published unless the report has been approved by a majority of the committee present and voting.

Reform certainly is needed to give witnesses some protection. Some witnesses may merit rough handling but they should have some rights of rebuttal through cross examination in the American manner. that certain of the President's per The signs of merit and of pluck in youngsters sonal advisers, out of touch with foreign policy, pre-occupied with they employ. would eventually confront the Pres And all who ever win success remember ident with another difficult choice. domestic problems, persuaded him TWO WEEKS EVERY year.

Miss Rein-heart does not weep: Instead of tears, Mexico. Miss Reinheart holds that life can be beautiful in Mexico without tears. So does her real life husband, Les Tremayne, radio's well known "Thin Man." As soon as vacation time Mr. and Mrs. Tremayne head for South of the Border and they can't get there too fast They don't bother with the tourist spots their preference is for the unexplored.

The object is archaeology and photography. That is, they dig and take pictures. Thus Mayan ruins have more fascination for them than even the grandest scenery. In fact so wild is Miss Reinheart about archaeology that she is looking forward to that happy day when she can dry her tears and spend all her time with a shovel. down the years to take the present steps with no This choice is the issue in the With gratitude the help of those who shared end in view but holding down the in their careers.

budget The most important influences seem to have been Secretary of the a choice of candidates. That is why Mr. It already has been disclosed in this space that the budget ceiling means abandoning plans for any effective air striking force, by cut ting back the projected air force from 70 to about 50 groups. It has. been officially announced that draft call-ups next year are to be reduced from 30,000 monthly to 5,000 monthly, and the projected American ground army is to be cut back from 900,000 to about men.

And it can now also be disclosed that the budget ceiling may even force the navy to reduce its Mediterranean units, which have played Treasury John Snyder and Snyder'a present crisis. Up to now. foreign and defense policy have been financed out of surplus as it were. But now the time has come, as predicted hefe, when taxes must be increased heavily perhaps by as much as five billions and controls must be imposed to prevent Drummond says the Republicans of the nation perpetual White House ally. Dr.

This being so, the question rather naturally arises as to why the Western Allies don't abandon this island of trouble and let the Reds move in. Berlin of course lies wholly within the Russian zone, and the latter are taking advantage of this to make life tough for the democracies. Well, the western powers could have avoided occupying this metropolitan island in the Russian sea at the close of the war. From a purely military viewpoint it wasn't necessary for them to hold onto Berlin. However, the city had a great psychological value in that it was the symbol of sovereignty and the torch of hope for the defeated Germans.

Every capital occupies a similar sentimental position in the minds of its people. John Steelman. Snyder's motive, of course, was an intense anxiety did nominate Mr. Dewey and the Democrats of the nation did nominate Mr. Truman.

Mr. Drummond says we do not know whether a majority of the people wanted Mr. Truman for President or not Or if Dewey to avoid renewed economic controls and to escape any new taxes foreign and defense spending from precipitating a serious further in but a mild corporate income tax. nad been elected we would not know flation. We either can have business-as- Snyder and Steelman were sup support for it even on Capitol Hill.

ported by Budget Director James Webb and the President's chief economist, Edwin Nourse, in the sense of giving the impartial. May Question whether a majority wanted him. It was a decision in which Mr. Truman was preferred over Mr. Dewey.

That Is the way it is with may of the nominations. The voters may want someone else but they are forced to make a choice of the candidates offered. Mr. Drummond's point is well taken. Let's reform both the electoral college and nominating systems.

undisputed expert opinion that in creased foreign and defense spending would necessitate heavy tax rises and a strong controls Mme. Chiang BORN IN San Francisco, Miss Reinheart has been stage struck all her life. Nevertheless, she started as a concert pianist, at the age of 12, and lived and studied in Europe in 1924-25. The musical interlude caused a delay in her first stage appearance until she was 17. First there was stock in San Francisco and Cleveland and then came nine Broadway productions under such producers as the Theater Guild, Dwight Deere Wiman, George the Shuberts and the Playwrights Co.

Her last Broadway appearance was as Mlra opposite Frederick Tozere in Maxwell Anderson's "Journey to Jerusalem." Returning to Europe in 1931, she played on the Berlin stage both in English and in German, and made short films for U.F.A. studios. In this country, she made a number of shorts for Warner Bros. She has been in radio 15 years. By JAY G- HAYDEN Washington Not the least curious aspect of There has been no public arrangement for Madame Chiang to present her views to Congress, but privately there seems to be an understanding among leaders of the foreign relations committee that if she is heard at all it will be behind closed doors.

The excuse given for this course is that the Madame necessarily will have to be asked a lot of questions that would be embarrassing for her to answer in public. An inkling as to the future course of the United States in the Far East may be found in the announced departure to that region by There was forethought and even a bit of malice In the Decatur Day by Day Ten Years Ago 1938 A public hearing on a complaint involving decision that whisked Madame Chi the resulting situation is the reflection on the sincerity of the President's own repeated requests for reimposed controls and his repeated attacks on the Republican tax cut Snyder's advice has placed ang Kai-shek off to the Leesburg home of Secretary of State George So the Western Allies moved In, much to the disgust of Russia. Then followed the Soviet campaign of skulduggery to drive them out. This natrally put a wholly different aspect on the matter, for it became impossible for America, Britain and France to withdraw without loss of face. They had hold of a hot poker and couldn't let go.

Moreover, as time went on large numbers of German leaders in Western Berlin lined up with the occupation powers in an effort to bring political and economic rehabilitation out of the chaos. The Allies couldn't pull out now and leave these Germans to be persecuted by the Russians and German fifth-columnists. Marshall, 40 miles from Washing the organization of employes of the A. E. Staley Mfg.

Co. will be conducted in Decatur by a trial examiner of the National Labor the President in the position of re ton. Relations board, starting Dec. 12. Operation of bicycles in Decatur may be versing the most vital of all his policies, in order to avoid doing precisely what he has himself advocated loudly and continuously.

E.C-A. Administrator Paul Hoff regulated by the police department in the near future if the city council adopts a pro The invitation from the Marshalls (the general himself entered Walter Reed hospital Tuesday for a several days check-up) served as a buffer for President Truman's failure to invite Madame Chiang Jto stay at the White House, as' President mann without waiting to hear the recommendations of Madame Chiang. Hoffman is going to Shanghai to confer with his Chinese relief ad Thus, the President is depicted in such a strange light that a posed ordinance submitted to Mayor Charles broader review of all the facts Roosevelt did in 1943. ministrator, Roger Laphan, but the real purpose of his trip is said to There was the added excuse in this instance that the White House WHILE A STUDENT in the University of Wisconsin, Miss Reinheart studied journalism and though she never worked as a reporter, she does considerable writing in her spare time, several of her articles on Mexico having been published. At present she is preparing a book on that country, also a television program titled, "Mexicans," in which folk lore and songs of the country will be used.

The program is to be both "live" and filmed. Colored slides made from the Tremaynes' photos are exhibited regularly by them to service men in hospitals. Recently, they presented 200 of the slides to the American Museum of Natural History. be to discuss plans for assumption Deadly Sport Deer hunting has carved for itself a separate place in the listing of fatalities of the nation. Early this week 121 persons in 21 states had been killed by gunfire while hunting deer and the.

season is not yet over in some states. There is little doubt that the total for 1948 will exceed last year's total of 141. But all the deaths of deer hunting are not caused by weapons. In addition to those mistaken for deer, those who get in the line of fire of some' other hunter, or are killed by their own weapon, almost as many more die from drowning, heart failure and auto accidents while deer hunting. This figure stood close to 100 early this week.

Record highs have been established this year in New York, Colorado and Idaho although Maine has had the most gunfire casualties with 17. New York was next with 18 and Colorado had 11. Some of the fatalities have been distressing. boy mistook a woman dragging a tree to her camp as a deer and killed her. In Wisconsin four different hunters mistook another hunter for a deer and shot him.

Still another hunter killed two persons while shooting at a woodpecker. With more than three million licensed deer hunters in the nation there are certain to be some accidents but the rate of fatalities has been climbing in recent years. It has become, one of the most deadly sports in the nation E. Lee by Sgt C. L.

Lycan of the police traffic bureau. Ed L. Doyle today is completing eight years as chief deputy sheriff of Macon county and 12 years as a deputy. He has served under the late Sheriff C. A.

Thrift, E. Wilson and Emery Thorneli. Prior to becoming a deputy, Mr. Doyle served two years on the police department by his civilian agency of the job of is vacated for repairs and the Tru-mans themselves are living in Blair rehabilitating Japan and Korea. Just before he was named to head the foreign relief effort, Hoffman house, where visiting heads of state and their wives frequently have seems certain to make him change his mind.

He is not sophist enough to convince himself or the country that America will be "strong," as he has always demanded, after the extremely modest re-armament program has been publicly gutted. Whatever his other defects, he has always shown disinterested courage and simple patriotism. These were not the qualities that animated Stanley Baldwin when he brought Britain to the brink of destruction. (Copyright. 1948) visited Japan and returned home with the firm opinion that restora been quartered.

This reserve In the matter of en The way things are going it looks as though there will be two Ger-manys. one comprising the Soviet zone of occupation and the other constructed from the three Allied zones. In that case the western reich presumably will have a new capital of its since Berlin will remain isolated within the Russian sector. However, even if and when that takes place, one would expect the western powers to remain in occupation of their section of Berlin. tion of that country to economic tertaining China's first lady, may health was one of the main hopes have been prompted by recollec for saving Asia from communism ticn of her previous visit.

Then she Southern Korea is the one spot on the Asiatic continent where the United States army still is firmly consorted mostly with political opponents of President Roosevelt and used the White House quite frankly as a base for "propaganda designed to cudgel the President into in the saddle. ill That city which once was the hub of Central Europe has become the fulcrum which may give the Western Allies leverage to pry eastern Germany loose and make it a part changing his war policy. Chiang's closest Ameri can collaborators at that time were Twenty Years Ago 1928 Jane Britton of Casner placed fourth in the pure bred Heref ordopen steer classes and second in the Hereford junior yearling class in the international live stock show in Chicago. The first meeting in the new Westminster Presbyterian church will be a dinner served to 150 men tonight H. S.

Gebhart says his company is willing to pay $100 a week to the company or individual who will furnish reliable transportation at a 5-cent rate during the holiday shopping season. Commissioner Van Praag declares that more than $500,000 has been offered by merchants to support and maintain a cJy owned bus service. Mrs. Inez J. Bender has been re-elected for the third consecutive time president of the Decatur- Woman's council.

MISS REINHEART tried hard to escape becoming Chichi in "Life Can Be Beautiful." At the time she received the call to audition for the role, she was already doing two five-day-a-week serials on the air and was not eager to take on another. Incidentally, both those programs are now. mere memories. But she dutifully showed up for an audition. Then she went on vacation telling no one except her mother, where she was going.

When she had been away a week, the advertising agency, having traced her through her mother, telephoned to her to return to New York immediately since 80 girls had been auditioned and the choice had narrowed to her and another girl. Wendell L. Willkie, recently return' oi ine new reich. ed from a visit to China, and Clare Boothe Luce, newly elected Repub McGrath Wants to Keep Job as Demo Chairman Washington. Dec.

3 (AP) Sen. J. Howard McGrath (D-RI) said today he intends to continue as Democratic national chairman. Talking to newsmen after calling on President Truman at the White House, McGrath was told there were rumors he would resign. "Those rumors should be entirely disregarded," McGrath Youths Denied lican congresswoman from Connec ticut.

The Time-Life-Fortune chain of magazines, headed by Mrs. U. I. Sanction Luce's husband, then, as now, was campaigning vigorously for more American aid to China. Champaign, Dec.

4 (AP) 'Madame Chiang Kai-shek especially displeased President Roosevelt -when she told a wildly applauding joint session of Congress that "the prevailing opinion" that Dean Fred H. Turner said today the University of Illinois will not sanction a local chapter of the Young Progressive Students of Hitler must be whipped first was all wrong. JSxlv AND HERE'S WS TOUR On that score, there is a close parallel with her current mission in. that the Chinese now are com America members sign affidavits that it is not connected with the Communist party. Officers of the organization have refused to sign such affidavits, he added.

Turner said the university is acting under the Clabaugh bill passed ly the 1947 Legislature. It specifically directed the university to deny use of state buildiiujs to the Thirty Years Ago 1918 Appraisers named by the city to set a fair price on all land to be submerged by the new impounding dam, reported values ranging from $40 to $150 an acre. The C. Sc. W.

announced Sunday passenger trains through Decatur would be discontinued. Although the war is over and the first discharged soldiers are returning home, the new Red Cross canteen at the railroad station has just been completed and formally opened. Grain buyers, who have been required by the government to secure a permit for handling corn and oats, are released from all such restrictions. plaining that their troubles are due to the American policy of saving Europe, rather than Asia, from Communism. Actually, of course.

the United States has given-more American Youth for Democracy or than fwo billion dollars for Chinese relief since Japan surrendered. Madame Chiang's current arrival coincided with an offer by her gen eralissimo husband to hand over command of all of his armies to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. This move, of course, would be equivalent to committing the United States to see Chiang's government through to victory. any other "subversive" organization.

Dr. A. H. Lybyer, retired history professor, who headed the local Progressive party's presidential campaign for Henry Wallace, has announced the Progressives will seek repeal of the bill in the 1949 Legislature. Turner said the Young Progressive Students widd not be recognized as an official organization or allowed to use un.versity buildjngs unless they sign the affidavits.

He said the affidavits must set forth that the group is "not subversive, seditious and un-American, not a continuation or front for the American Youth for Democracy, and not connected in any way with the The latter assumption certainly is opposed by President Truman Color Is Only Argument The American pairy association is going to fight margarine solely on the basis of color. The executive committee of the association made this clear in Madison. this week when the association went on record in favor of removing all federal and state taxes but prohibiting margarine from being colored yellow. The committee stresses the point that has been stressed in the action of smaller dairy associations that coloring of margarine should not be permitted in order to protect the public against "fraud and deception." The committee takes -the stand that yellow is the public's means of identifying butter. The removal of opposition to taxation would seem to assure that Congress will take the taxes off margarine which were placed originally as a means of blocking use of margarine.

However, in recent years the price of butter has greatly increased the use of margarine. Once it was known as a butter substitute the dairy association still calls it that but margarine has reached a place where jt is not a. mere substitute but a product in its own right. Housewives have demanded that margarine be colored at the factory. Factories are willing to do it and can do it much better than housewives but taxation and state laws have prevented 'it.

There is no danger that colored margarine will be sold in stores unlabeled. The fear is the serving in public places but even that can be controlled. Margarine is winning its battle. More Reform Needed How can it be said that the American voters democratically choose their President until the American voters democratically choose their presidential nominees? It Is a timely question raised by Roscoe Drummond. chief of the Washington bureau of the Christian Science Monitor.

It is raised in the midst of the wide discussion on reform of the electoral college to make it positive, the selection of a President never will be decided except by naming the candidate receiving the largest popular vote. The electoracoUege system is now a hot subject because just a month ago the presidential election almost became a duty for the House of Representatives or by the shift of a few thousand votes Thomas E. Dewey might have become President with Harry S. Truman receiving two million votes more than Dewey. Most of the voters have forgotten how it was pointed out to them last spring that presidential primaries were not a factor in naming the candidate.

There were no Democratic presidential primaries this year. Only five Republican preferential primaries really gave the voters "I ASKED THE GIRL'S name and when I was told, I informed the agency that she was my best friend so the part should go to her," said Miss Reinheart "Then I went on to Asbury Park without telling anyone where I was. I got home Saturday night and found the agency had been calling me all week. Monday, I reportedand Tve been Chichi ever since. It's reached a point where I am Chichi in real life and that sometimes leads to complications at home" L.

L. STEVENSON. Frank Colby Readers Want To Knew St Louis: A radio announcer said that cerebral should be accented on the first syllable. Isn't ser-EE-bral correct? J.C. Answer: All dictionaries but one show as the only pronunciation: SEH-ruh-br'L The American College Dictionary lists suh-REE-br'l as second choice.

Shelbina: schoolteacher pronounces remonstrate as "rem-un-strate." Is she correct? Mrs. E.WJ. Answer: Sorry, no. Better accent the second syllable: re-MON-strate. Los Angeles: Last spring I read that Stas-sen was considered as "presidential timbre." Isn't that wrong? Mrs.

J.D.K. Answer: Decidedly wrong. Timbre designates the quality, or resonance of a sound, as a baritone voice of good timbre. "Presidential timber" is the correct wording. Wheeling: From the Freedom Train booklet: "What Is The Freedom Train Saying To We The People." Can that be right? Reader.

Answer: I haven't seen the booklet. But if it reads that way. it is grossly incorrect The pronoun should be "us" the objective case. Akron: Why are tailors called "bushel-men? W.T. Answer: Bushel, an American word of uncertain origin, means "to repair or alter." Hence, a bushelman, strictly speaking, is a tailor who repairs or alters clothing, as in the fitting department of men's clothing stores.

and Secretary Marshall, and up to date there has been little visible fir All This Fifty Years Ago 1898 The Decatur Wheelmen's club is in fine financial condition, this month's rent having been paid and $50 remaining in the treasury. There are now 75 members of the club. J. L. English, until recenUy foreman of the Illinois Central freight house, has rented the corner of Church and Main street where there is a blacksmith and woodwork shop on the first floor, for a carriage shop.

Other Editors i TOUGH TURKEY Detroit News: John Gunther reports to Look magazine from Istanbul that the strongest point in the European line of defense against communism is Turkey. He approves of the Truman commitment of substantial aid to a Vountry as tough and resolute in asserting its own sovereignty and brooking no non Communist party." You can depend upon our De Soto-Plymouth service because it's based on skilled factory-trained men, factory-approved tools, fair prices, advanced equipment. You save money by winter-servicing your car now and you'll get more satisfaction Sam Feld of New York City, president of the Young Progressives, said recently the group had 86 members here. Complete Motor Tnne-L'p $7.50 Clean and Flush Radiator 11.50 Check All Hose Connections $1.50 Check Battery and Battery Cables 60c Check Lights and Horn 50c Windshield Wiper 50c Fin Rlt ka. Michelangelo Statue' sense from the great bear which glowers onJ coming to us your Being Brought to U.

S. Rome, Dee. 3 (AP) A Michelangelo statue of David friendly DeSoto FOR OUR VAwmA2A Price $13.50 Plymouth Dealer. Act Nov and Save! will sail aboard the U. S.

cruiser Grand Canyon next Friday from Naples on its first trip outside Italy. It will be shown temporar STEEL PRESSES IVePayUriE Fit All flrato Strip Im aid Mttaft ily at the National Art Gallery in Washington. The statue is not the great 18-foot it Irom the North. What Gunther found in Turkey, and what he names as the missing ingredient in the anti-Red front elsewhere in Europe, is wilt It is true Turkey has been spared the crippling punishment suffered by others in the war, and that its manhood is intact Yet it is not a large nation, nor it rich in anything but the determination to be left alone. It has a tough soldiery of 600,000 udder arms.

Red agents spotted in Istanbul have a way of dropping from sight and turning up later in sacks in the Bosporus. It Is the only Russian neighbor with no Identifiable fifth column. It gives no soft answer to any Kremlin proposal which would compromise its integrity or right to what it holds. H. P.

HAZELRIGG CO. Your DiSato-Plymouth Dialer masterpiece completed by Michelangelo in 1503, as an Italian foreign ministry spokesman first announced. It is the smaller work, not quite life size, made by Michelangelo for his own tomb. 435 East Prairii Phana 3-3179 Mr. Colby's leaflet C-15, explains the three degrees of comparison in simple, and nontechnical language.

For a copy of this helpful leaflet, send Sc in coin and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to him, car of this paper, P. 0. Box 89, Station New York 19, N. Y. The statue is being loaned by the Tuns iii "Hit Tht Jackpot" Every Week, All CBS Stations Bargello museum of Florence on request of the U.

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