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Evening star., 1946-08-03
Tennessee Election

AS Senator Kenneth D. McKellar
and his political hacker, Boss"
Edward H. Crump of Memphis,
survey their comfortable margin of
victory in Tennessee's Democratic
primary, they would do we'll to re-
fleet on the significance of the CT
revolt in McMinn County, where
machine guns, rifles, shotguns and
dynamite were used by a group of
veterans to unseat an apparently
corrupt county administration.
There will be little disposition
anywhere to approve the violent
tactics used by the veterans in their
night-long battle with the Athens
authorities. Nevertheless, on the
basis of the news reports which have
come out of the town, it should be
recognized that this was a case of
violence begetting violence. 1t seems
clear that the veterans, supporting
a fusion ticket, were forcibly barred
from their legitimate role in super
vlsing the counting of the vote. and
there is some evidence that deputy
sheriff provoked the riot by threat
enlng two of the GIs with a gun,
Tactics of that nature may have
served to steal" elections in the
past, but our machine politicians
would be we'll advised to recognize
the TACT that the young men who
have come back from this war are
not going to submit tamely to being
pushed around, nor is it going to be
easy to steal elections from them.
AS matters stand in Athens, the
Unsupported ticket has been pro-
claimed the winner, although it is
not clear that the counting of the
ballots has been finished. The legal
authorities have been chased out of
the town and the community is
tunctloning under a citizen COM
mittee pending the re-establishment
OF some duly constituted authority.
That, admittedly, is a bad situation
1t may be doubted, however, that
the town would be better off if the
ousted regime were still functioninp
Although the McMinn County
machine is said to be a subsidiary
OF the Crump organization, there is
no evidence that the CT revolt was
directed against Crump himself or
Senator McKellar. Apparently 1t
was strictly local fight, but If the
political powers-that-be in Tennes-
see and elsewhere are wise they will
not ignore the implications of the
Athens affair. What happened there
can, and under similar conditions.
possibly will happen elsewhere.
Evening star., 1946-08-03
British Military Policy
BY George FieIdine Eliot

LONDON.-Four days in London is
certainly not long enough to acquire
any detailed view of the military policy
of Britain. Yet even in that short time,
certain general characteristics became
clear. Perhaps the most striking i'm
preston was the strong similarity to
our own military situation.
There is grave uncertainty as to the
future. not only on the political side
of military planning, but also as to
the effect that new weapons and new
techniques may have on military or
ganization and training. Hence, in
their higher organization the British are
maintaining flexible position. They
are seeking to preserve military high
command which will be readily adapt
able to future change and will still en-
body those features which the expert
ence of the late war has shown to be
satisfactory and workable. To be pre-
else, this means that for the present
they will retain three service depart
ments-war, admiralty and air-with
ministers of cabinet rank They will
also keep the chiefs of staff committee
functioning under the immediate di-
rection of the cabinet as the principal
source of military advice to the gov
ernment.
But it is altogether possible that in
the near future this structure may un-
dergo some alteration. At present the
British do not have an overall defense
ministry controlling all three services
as has been proposed in the United
States. There does exist what is called
a Ministry of Defense, but this is one
of the functions of the Prime Minister
who is assisted for this part of his duties
by a chief of staff tat present. Gen.
Sir Hastings Ismay, who served the
war cabinet in this capacity throughout
the war;
4 4
Gen. Ismay is not an overall chief
of staff, but rather military adviser
to the Prime Minister in the latter's
capacity as the head of the government.
He is of course member of the chiefs
of staff committee which consists, be-
sides Gen. Ismay, of the chief of staff
OF the army tField Marshal Lord Mont
gomery), the chief Of the naval staff
Evening star., 1946-08-03
For Want of q Nail
FROM bal, Christian science Monitor

Monitor
A typical instance of how compara-
lively small strike of union workers can
cause an economic upheavaI out of all
proportion to its primary Importance
has recently pushed Granite City, Ill.
into the national limelight.
Machinists to the number of ITS
walked out of the Granite City Steel Co.
The cause and merits of the dispute
nave no bearing on the point that the
strike threw out of work 700 others in
tne plant, upset great part of the city's
retail business and disrupted the pro-
ductlon schedules of number of steel
consumers, with consequent further un-
employment.
Granite City, suburb of St. Louis has
something over $4,000 people. Throwing
l,700 of its men out of work affects one
third OF its families directly. At last
reports, the strike had been going on 80
days. No pay envelopes for several
thousand families means that a good
many merchants have been losing Gus
toners.
One electric company, failing to get
steel for needed parts was prevented
from hiring 1000 additional workers.
Doubtless other steel buyers were SINH
larly affected.
These companies were thus unable to
fill orders for consumer goods. Thou
sands OF retailers lost sales and probably
thousands OF buyers among the general
public were disappointed-if they did
not in the meantime suffer losses
through inability to procure needed
equipment.
It's the old story of "for want of nail
a shoe was lost" Until orderly and
legal methods OF settling labor disputes
are substituted for the disorderly and
chaotic strike, the American reputation
for efficiency in industry remains pure
MYTH.
Evening star., 1946-08-03

with his senatorial career and would
dislike to give 1t up-particularly in
view OF the TACT that Congress, by law,
mas arranged for an increase in the
compensation of members of Congress
from $4,000 to $4,000. Indeed, so i'm
pressed have some of his colleagues
been by these views of Mr.. Mead that
they are willing to make small wager
the New York Senator in the end will
be found running for reelection to the
Senate and not for Governor.
1t has been urged by some of Mr.
Mead's friends, too, that he would prob
ably be couple of hundred thousand
votes stronger running for Senator than
ne would be for Governor, because the
people are used to voting for him for
Senator, and because Mr.. Dewey will
be the strongest man on the Republican
ticket and more difficult to defeat than
any Republican nominee for the Senate
What the Democrats will do if Mr.
Mead decides to stick out for sena-
torial nomination is a conundrum. 1t
may never have to be answered If Mr..
Meads hat goes in the ring for Gov
ernor. But if a selection must be made,
other than Mr. Mead, for the guberna-
torlal nomination the thing narrows
down to Associate Justice jackson of
the Supreme Court-who has given no
sign he will resign from the court to
make the race for Governor-James A
Farley, former Democratic national
chairman and State chairman, Secre-
tary OF the Navy Forrestal or some less
known Democrat.
MIR. jackson would confront also the
fact that he might be unable to defeat
Gov. Dewey-and that his resignation
from the court was an idle gesture-a
throwing away of a life job of great
honor Mr.. Farley would make no
hight whatever for the nomination
although he might take it if it was
offered to him by the leaders and he
mad some assurance that the American
Labor party and the Liberal party
would go along with him
II Mr. Mead really desires to run
again for the Senate, and not to run
Tor Governor. the embarrassment might
be relieved if his friend, President Tru-
man, who was chairman of the Senate
Committee to Investigate National De-
tense before he became Vice President
IN l945, should address a letter to Mr..
Mead saying that the Chief Executive
relied heavily upon Mr.. Mead for sup
port in the Senate, and urging Mr.,
Mead to seek another term in the
upper house Such things have been
done in the past
Evening star., 1946-08-03

admiral Sir John Cunningham and
the chief of the air staff Marshal of
the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Tedder)
The British are deeply conscious of
the exposed position of the British Isles
with reference to the continent of
Europe and with special regard to the
vulnerability of Britain to attack by the
air-borne weapons of any future war.
They are fully convinced that military
defense of their islands is no longer pos
slble as against an enemy possessing
such weapons established on the con-
tlnent They recognize that the only
contribution which military power can
make to British security lies in the
maintenance of position of offensive
readiness so powerful and so well dis
persed as to offer a threat which no
hostile power could afford to disregard.
The British do not believe that they can
maintain any such position alone nor
do they think they can do so in COL
laboration with any European power
such as France. They are fully con-
Vinced that they can maintain such an
offensive position only in close co-opera-
tlon with the United States.
For this reason Gen. de Gaulle's
speech, proposing an Anglo French al
lance as balancing force between
America and Russia, was received with
something less than enthusiasm in
British military quarters. An Anglo
French arrangement as stabilizing
force in Western Europe is considered
desirable by many Englishmen, but not
in the larger sphere of activity which
Gen. de Gaulle apparently has in mind.
The De Gaulle thesis seems to lend
color to the theory held by some
American observers that the present
world conflict is between the rival inn
perialisms Of Britain and Russia. in
which the United States should be a
mediator rather than a close partner
OF Britain. The British view, which
Is to my mind the correct view, is that
the conflict is one between two rival
systems Of human life and government
In which the United States and Britain
are natural and inseparable associates.
tHerald- Tribune service.1
Evening star., 1946-08-03
A Proper Veto

In his message vetolng the So
called tidelands oil bill-a veto
which has been sustained by the
inability of House proponents of the
measure to muster the two thirds
vote necessary to override the Presi-
dents decision-Mr Truman said
that "the Congress is not an appro-
pirate forum to decide the legal
issue now before the court" This is
a statement which may be taken
with some reservation. 1t is true
that suit to test the title as be-
tween the States and the Federal
Government to the tidelands, or
rather to the land lying between the
low-tide mark and three mile limit,
is now pending in the Supreme
Court. But it is hardly to be doubted
that, suit or no suit, Congress, with
the concurrence of the President,
would have both the right and the
power to reno1nce any Federal claim
to those lands Nor in so doing
would it decide the legal issue" in
the sense in which the President
used that term, or trespass upon
the rights of the Supreme Court.
1t is equally true, however, that
Congress, without the concurrence
of the President and lacking the
votes to override a veto, has not the
power to renounce whatever claim
the Federal Government may have
to the lands in question, and Mr..
Truman is to be commended for his
refusal to give assent to the attempt
to vest title to the tidelands in the
States
AS the President pointed out in
his message, "the ownership of the
vast quantity of oil in such areas
presents vital problem for the
Nation from the standpoint of ma
tionsl defense and conservation. II
the United States owns these areas.
they should not be given away"
This is the real issue. Once title
TO the tidelands were securely vested
Ia the States, the National Govern
Evening star., 1946-08-03
As 81 SATURDAY, August 3. 1s4s
Bus Accident Lesson

II there is any lesson for the public
In the fatal bus accident on the
Memorial Bridge it is that an auto
mobile out of control can be as
deadly as weapon specifically
designed to kill or MAIN And when
the loss of control involves a loaded
bus on a bridge, the potentialities
are even more deadly. 1t is truly
a miracle, therefore, that yesterdays
accident was no worse than it was.
Had it occurred few yards away
the bus would have dropped into
the river, with a heavy death toll
almost certain.
BY coincidence, news of the acci-
dent reached some newspapers as
they were preparing to publish
editorial comment on the grim traffic
casualty summary just made public
by the National Safety Council. The
local tragedy, it is to be hoped,
will serve to direct public attention
to the councils startling report on
the automobile as peacetime peril.
Reading like wartime communique
on campaign casualties, the report
shows that 1870 men, women and
children were killed in automobile
accidents during the first half of this
year, while $4,000 persons were
iniured-many of them permanently
crippled.
The figures represent 40 per cent
increase in serious accidents over
the first half of 1945, when gaso-
line and tire restrictions still kept
automobile traffic to a minimum.
Came VI day and the automobile
driving public proceeded to go on
what the council characterizes as
a traffic spree" Cars which had
been lacked up in garages were
brought back into circulation, often
without proper mechanical check
up. War speed signs were taken
down. Highways again became
lammed with pleasure seekers. And
the accident rate began to soar.
But the council has noted an en-
couraging reaction from the first ef-
fects of the spree" Whereas the
traffic death toll during the first
four months of 1946 kept pace with
the all-time peak set in 1941, dis
tinct decline in fatalities became
evident in May, when the death
total was 81 per cent below that of
May, 1941. The June total was 10
D per cent under that of June, 1941.
1t is significant that the decrease
conceded with Nation wide traffic
safety campaigns launched by po-
lice, highway and other officials, in
cooperation with automobile asso-
Citations and safety organiza tions.
Police chiefs of the country began
drive on unsafe cars that removed
many potential killers from the road.
And motorists have had drummed
into their ears the wise admonition
to take 1t eaSy''-eSpecially when
the streets are wet and slippery, as
they were yesterday The Memorial
Bridge accident will have served
useful purpose if it impresses drivers
anew with fact that they command
machines which can be transformed
by a slight skid or other mechanical
or human failure into indiscriminate
killers-Without benefit of warning
Evening star., 1946-08-03

ment would lose all control over
enormously important oil resources
This oil, which someday may become
vital to the life of the Nation, might
be wasted under State control or
selfishly exploited by private inter-
estS. If the Supreme Court should
hold that 1t belongs to the States
that will end the matter. But If as
matter of law the oil belongs to
the Nation, 1t should not be given
away, and on this ground the Presi-
dents veto is eminently right and
proper.
Evening star., 1946-08-03

lites now have democratic" govern
ments which will be free to deal econom-
lcally, at least, with any nation they
wish. But the Paris conferees will not
bring out the fact that the governments
of the former satellites are nothing but
Soviet stooges and were established only
after the leaders were thoroughly
screened by the Moscow Politbureau, It
is true that, for the sake of appearances
the prime ministers are not members of
the Comintern. But they are mere
puppets in the hands of regular COMM
tern members.
In Bulgaria, Prime Minister Georgiev
takes mis- orders from George Dimitrov,
one of the bigwigs of the Russian Com
munist Party. In Romania. Prime
Minister Groza is wax in the hands of
Madame Anna Pauker-a Russian citi-
zen and also an important figure in
the Communist party-while in Hun
gary Prime Minister Hagy follows
blindly the instructions of Rakosi a
Hungarian Communist who has spent
the last Is years in Moscow in the
councils of those who frame Russias
foreign policies.
The "free elections" which the west
ern democracies demanded as the price
OF recognition of the nations liberated
from German domination are a dream
which will not be realized until these
countries themselves become free once
more
Under these conditions it will be fool
lsh to imagine that even minor por-
tions OF the peace treaties which might
give even semblance of freedom of
action to the former enemies will be
effective. Since their surrender they
have been compelled to play the Rus
sian game blindly After the peace
treaties have been signed and the pup
pets are formally confirmed by all the
nations represented at the Paris Con-
ference, there is even less likelihood that
they will be permitted to be anything
but Russian satellites
To the man in the street in this coun-
try 1t may be matter of relative un-
Importance whether the Balkans or
Finland are handed over to one power
or another If it were a question of
economic influence alone it would mat
ter little. The Balkans and Eastern
Europe are, however, of great military
and strategic Importance. The First and
Second World Wars which sent millions
OF Americans across the Atlantic start
ed in those areas
Evening star., 1946-08-03
Foscists in Bedsheets
From the Winnipeg Free Press


The antics Of various political candi-
dates who are making their campaigns
with jazz bands, crooners and travelling
circuses OF one sort and another. must
sicken the great sensible mass of Amer
lean voters. In Canada we understand
that such curious Phenomena represent
only small part of the American peo-
pie but many foreign nations do not
understand it. They do not hear much
of the honest and competent American
politicians, the sober voters. They hear
rather of the Fascists In bedsheets and
they remember these things when they
are asked to accept the moral leader
ship Of the United States.
Evening star., 1946-08-03
American Truoedy'

lhe exhibition of American paint
lngs now current at the Tate Gallery
IN London has brought out at least
one authentic work of critical art
IN a review entitled "An American
Tragedy" by Cyril Connolly in the
New Statesman and Nation. Perhaps
the snow would be worthwhile If it
did nothing else. 1t is an achieve
ment OF sort to provoke such COM
ment-and the inevitable reactions
to such comment.
Mr.. Connolly divides the display
into four parts or "acts." The first
consists of productions of Colonial
America where, he insists, "the tech
nlque is still British, the sitter Euro
pean." Then follows the romantic
interpretations of the American
wilderness of the early nineteenth
century, "the huge continent of roll
Ing, deciduous forest, mountain, lake
and river, Indian and buffalo )"
Among these mature pictures" the
appraiser finds George Bingham's
Fur Traders Descending the Mis-
souri, particularly engaging with
its almost Oriental economy, it's
wonderful atmospheric effects. its
soft gradation of space, it's sensi-
tiVity of the light, air and the CLASSY
motion Of the river-in all these. it
is an unforgettable work"
But contemplation" of mans
new Eden" Mr.. Connolly says soon
ended, and this again was tragic
The Civil War. "the rush for dollars.
the telling of the forests .. :.
the degradation of the artist" he
contends, cost America whatever
1t might otherwise have had In
worthier achievement. Whistler and
Sargent fed to Europe as Henry
James and Henry Adams did. A
whole flock OF painters, of whom
Mary Cassatt was an example, be-
came as French as the French them
selves. Mr.. Connolly concludes that
Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream
IAN astonishing provision of Hem
ingWays Key West romances !.
but more than family magaziny"
is about all that matters in Act
III
The latest phase of effort he con-
siders an attempt to atone for the
"quantitative Philistinism" of the
sorrowful past. Unfortunately, how
ever, the result is "lamentable"-
largely because every kind of trick
and ism f1ourishes" and Ignorant
but well-nourished armies of artists
argue in paint" Benton, Chopper,
Gross, Levine, Hopper. Watkins,
Weber and most of their contempo-
raries Mr.. Connolly marks in his
catalogue: No" The one modern
istic composition which does appeal
to him is Grant Woods Daughters
of the American Revolution" in
which he admires the "moonlike
surfaces" the divine flatness" of
the three tortured faces and their
"paper-clip mouths" probably caused
by ill-fitting dentures.
Mr.. Connolly closes his critique
on a relatively hopeful note. Some
thing, he says, will be born out OF
| all this encouragement, endowment
Evening star., 1946-08-03

II anybody is tempted to doubt
that God loves America, let him
remember that in spite Of certain
contractors, generals and congress
men we still can win wars.
Evening star., 1946-08-03

II the G1s have to work as hard
to stay in college as they have had
to work to get in, they should make
record for achievement rarely, il
ever, eoualed
Evening star., 1946-08-03

and appreciat ation" What the some
thing" will be. he does not know
and neither does anybody else on
either side of the Atlantic.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-11
PUBLIC INVITED TO
ATTEND C. & D MEET

Raleigh, Jan. ll-Any citizen haV-
ing conservation problems or sug-
sestions is invited to appear before
he Board of Co @serVatiOn and De
Velopment at its meeting in Raleigh,
January 2l-23, Director r. Bruce
Ethcridge said today.
"Our streams, forests, game, min
erals and other natural assets belong
10 +!le people Of the state Etherldge
aid today, and this board is merely
he custodian and guardian of these
resources. All citizens should be in
terested in the proper administration
Of these responsibilities, and we urge
anyone with helpful suggestions to
present them before the board SO
that it may more intelligently fulfill
It's dutieS.'
Meetings will be held in the board
room on the second floor Of the edu-
cation building.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-11
RULING PERMITS
EXTRA CHLORINE

Raleigh, Jan. 1.-THE State board
OF agriculture has amended lis fer
tllizer regulations to permit the sale
this season of fertilizer containing
3.5 per cent chlorine, it is announced
by Agriculture Commissioner Kerr
Scott.
Heretofore, the maximum chlorine
content permitted has been 3 pei
cent, and all fertilizer having more
than this amount this spring will be
required to have ca the bag d yellow
tag warning the farmer that it has
the extra amount.
The question Of the maximum
content of chlorine to be permitted in
tobacco fertilizer first arose in pub
lie view at a conference of fertilizer
manufacturers, agrOnOmlsts and
farmers. The conference was called
by Assistant Agriculture Commission
er d. S. Coltrane in an effort to de-
termine what should be done with
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-11
Miss Williams And
Robert Dixon Are
Wed December y

Miss 1rCne Williams. %da1rhter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. F.. Williams, ot
Christobal, Canal Zone. formerly of
New Bern, became the bride Of Rob-
ert Fben Dixon, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. n. Dixon. Of Henderson, in a
beautiful ceremony characterized by
SIMPLICITY ard solcmnized at the
home Of the brides sister, Mrs.
Ralph Lewis. Saturday afternoon,
December %. at 2 o'clock. Rev.
Thomas w. Fryer. pastor of the FIRST
Baptist church. officiated using the
single ring ceremony.
The vows were spoken before an
improvised altar, banked with BAN
boo. and cathedral candles and
thanked by tall floral baskets filled
with white chrvsaathemums and
ferns. The decorations Of p~oinsettia
and evergreen carried out the Christ
ma mott THROUGHOUT the home.
The bride and bridegroom were
unattended and entered together.
The bride was lovely in a light
Green wooden suit. Her hat was a
small off-the-face model Of winter
white and her only ornament was
a string of pearls. She wore a or
sage of American Beauty roses a;
her shoulder.
Immediately after the ceremony.
the couple left for a wedding trip
to points in Florida. Upon their re-
turn, Mr.. and Mrs. Dixon will re-
side at 230 Craven street, New Bern,
where Mr.. Dixon holds a position
with the Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company.