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Evening star., 1948-08-02
THE EVENING STAR Washington D. c. A
4,

spring like an adolescent writing
love letters.
| From this room on. am a trifie
vague
Tossed Into Boiling Water.
I remember entering q cathedral
like room and being tossed into a
marble fountain filled with boiling
water. I remember, too, some one
poking my side with a fork to see
if I was done, and then bastmg
me with water that must have
flowed from Vesuvius.
Then, Just when must have been
ready for the barbecue sauce, I
was mistaken for visiting dough-
nut and dunked in the coldest water
since glaciers were invented.
Admiral Byrd's epaulettes hit me
back of my ears. A polar bear
clambered over me. A penguin used
my chest for a ski Jump. The North
and South Poles walked by and
were gracious enough to nod.
I started yelling. "Help!"
I kept yelling 1t.
My guide, who was parked out
side in a taxi, heard me.
He answered my distress signal
by relaxing in the back seat. and
ordering a "screwdriver." Yes, a
"screwdriver.
A "screwdriver" is a drink.
Spars With Big Turks.
1t was created by the American
Evening star., 1948-08-02

was not trying to determine tle
issue of any individuals loyalty
which is impossible in a hearing
of that nature. His object, he ex-
nlained. was to determine the eftl-
cheney of Government loyalty pro-
cedures since it appeared that even
when the FBI and Justice were
investigating man, he could stlll
get a confidential job with another
department.
Named Only Remington.
The committee and its counsel,
William Rogers, then led MISS
Elizabeth T. Bentley through her
story, permitting her to name only
the one man, William w. Remlng-
ton. whom she knew personally and
whose experiences bore upon the
issue of Government efficiency. Mr..
Remington was called next to give
his version and scheduled today IS
a witness capable of testifylng on
Miss Bentley's credibility.
The Un-American Activities Com
mittee was its usual uninhibited
self. It encouraged the witness
TO name all the names she fancled,
though she admitted she had never
had direct contact with her top
two, Lauchlin Currie and Harry
n White. She only suspected,
she said, that they knew the in
formation they gave Gas relayeo
IN PnSSio
Evening star., 1948-08-02

tlldC IL Is one OF uehry mcLemore.
the newer baths and is frowned
upon as Johnny-come lately, up
start Of q bath.
AS a Turkish friend explained,
the attendants at the bath where
I went had had practically no ex-
perience-were limited, in fact, to
having had but three centuries to
learn the art of administering a
Turkish bath.
Glad He Missed Older Bath.
just down the street, he told me,
was bath built in the 10th Cen
tury. He wondered why I hadn t
gone there.
am glad I didn't.
In the one I went to they don't
drown a guest immediately-they
take their time about it.
The bath I went to is an impos-
ing structure, built entirely of mar
BILE. When you walk in, there is a
lovely room where you are served
sandwiches and coffee.
After cup of coffee and bite
to eat, you are led into a vast mar
BILE chamber for disrobing. It is
very hot in this room, and before
they have wrapped you in--that's
right, Turkish towels-you are per-
Evening star., 1948-08-02

and provides for Constantine Brown.
mobilization of the continents cur
rency and credit resources in
dependently of American loans and
credits, but with the same ultimate
goal as the Marshall Plan.
This problem of clearing payments
for intra European trade is by no
means a new one. 1t arose first
during the 1920s when currency
problems hanging over from World
War I, coupled with growing in
naturalization of countries which
had traditionally been agricultural
producers, resulted in virtual aban-
donment of the principle of multi
lateral trade.
BiIateraI Trading System.
In the place of multilateral trad
ing, wherein an unfavorable bal
ance of payments with one country
can be offset by favorable balance
with other countries, arose the sys-
tenn of bilateral trading, blocked
balances, clearing agreements and
the barter trading of which Ger
many became the leader and mas
ter.
This bilateral system, which linn
tied trade almost completely to the
commerce possible between any two
countries, was an important part of
the economic background of World
War II. Against it Cordell Hull, as
Secretary of State, set his Recipro-
cal Trade Agreements program, and
from 1884 on he fought, through re-
vival Of multilateral trade, to solve
the economic conditions which were
impelling the Germans and Ital-
ians to regard military conquest as
the solution to all their difficulties.
Unfortunately. the Hull program
was unable, in the face Of Europes
bilateralism, to break much of the
trade log jam, although it did bring
many concrete results for American
foreign trade. 1t was not possible
to re-establish international trade
on the old ,multilateral basis, and
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Gets in LiCkS First
Ferguson Beat Thomas to Disclosures
By Miss Bentley, Yet Showed Restraint

Senator Ferguson at least has
proved that he is responsive to pub
lie opinion, which severely criticized
his first big investigation, the How
ard Hughes hearings. His friends
have always contended that Mr.
Hughes foe, Senator Brewster, Re-
publican, of Maine, led him into
that trap and left him to take the
rap when Mr.. Hughes fought back
so successfully.
May Be Attorney General.
1t was in the midst of those fab
ulous hearings that Senator Fergu-
son acquired his new counsel, Mr.
Rogers, a graduate Of the Navy and
of the Thomas E. Dewey crime
prosecution school as conducted In
the New York district attorneys Of
flee. The first Ferguson product
free of the Brewster influence was
the case of Maj. Gen. Bennett
Meyers, which a jury has since
agreed was proved to the hilt.
Senator Ferguson and Mr.. Rogers
of course, knew Miss Bentley's
whole story and their decision to
handle it as they did was deliberate
Speculation has 1t that Senator
Ferguson is possible Attorney
General in a Dewey Cabinet and
that the Senator is wholly receptive
to the idea. This being so, it is a
happy coincidence for the Senator
that he has at hand a guide to the
mind and methods of the Republi-
can Presidential candidate.
Disclosures Taken Calmly.
Gov. Dewey has been critical OF
methods used by the Un-American
Committee and in his Oregon de-
bate with Harold Stassen attacked
the Mundt- Nixon bill authored by
two of its members. Mr.. Dewey
stuck to his position in the face of
political attacks on him because the
center of Communism here is in his
New York.
The FBT and Civil Service Com
mission take the present disclosures
calmly. They point out that actual
ly considerable efficiency on their
part is proved by the fact that SO
few of the suspected characters re-
main in the Government. They
point out that when Miss Bentley
was operating, Russia was an ally
presumably worthy Of confidence.
Evening star., 1948-08-02

Navy during the last war. It con.
sists of vodka, gin, orange juice,
cognac. bitters, and three or four
things which have yet to be iden.
tilted. I am quite sure that REM
nants of sultans are part Of the
mixture.
Then was put back in the hot
water just to be sure that was
well done.
A very big Turk, wearing q
mustache and a pair Of steel wool
rlittens, started sparring with me.
rs this a massage?" 7 asked.
He took advantage OF the OPEN
ing and crossed me with q right
and shook me up with q left.
If you don't think I am telling
the truth-if you think I am ex-
aggerating-just come over here and
have a Turkish bath.
You then will know that am
a master Of understatement.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Ine)
Evening star., 1948-08-02

ers wrote the Dorothy Thompson.
Wallace headquarters asking for
an answer to the charges. Wallace
headquarters replied:
This is another example
of the efforts of certain groups in
this country to obscure vital issues
behind a smoke screen of red-bait-
ing =. Mr.. Wallace has discussed
the true motives behind the use
of the Communist label and has
exposed these groups whose interests
are served by red-baiting."
Reply Held Characteristic.
Here you have a characteristic
Communist response to challenge
on fact. Either what I said was so
or it was not so. But unable to
respond on that ground, the de-
tenders transferred the controversy
to a countercharge: I was acting
in behalf of certain groups, y
throwing up barrage against
truth, had sinister motives, and
was serving interests"
This tactic is being used to break
down confidence in all anti-Com-
munist writer's and create the i'm
preston that every one who calls
a spade q spade is the agent OF
Fascist" forces. This tactic does
throw up a smoke SCREEN" making
it difficult to discriminate between
Communists and Liberals of any
kind, and serving all the forces OF
confusion. A "red-baiter," If the
word has any meaning, is one who
Jumps all liberal movements together
as agents of the Kremlin.
But it is not "red-baiting' to as
sert that the so-called Progressive
Party" is a Communist-inspired Gre
alton, controlled by Communists.
This is a statement Of demonstrable
fact. The roster Of convention COM
mittees shows that, although. there
were few Communists on minor
committees, the important party
rules and platform committees were
packed with them, and what issued
from both shows that the Commu-
nists had their way.
Platform Matches That Of Reds.
Wherever there are Communists
in an organization, their tactic Is to
seek concentration Of power. In the
Progressive Party rules, representa-
ton from the States with the strong
est Communist minorities is in
creased over what they enjoy in
other parties. In the national COM
mittee, additional members may be
chosen by State members, and other
opportunities are opened for packing
the committee.
The Platform Committee pre-
sented and got adopted platform
which does not differ in one single
matter of substance from the tenta-
tive platform of the Communist
Party, as published in the Daily
Worker. w. H. Lawrence, in the
New York Times, analyzed the two
platforms, point for point, and DEM
onstrakd this.
The Progressive Party is solicit
ing subscriptions for new publica-
ton, "The National Gazette Weekly" j"
which will prove that the truth is
now, as it always has been, a vital
commodity on the American mar
ket."
Evening star., 1948-08-02
On the Record
Wallaceites' Charge of Red.Baiting
AGAINST Writer Held Avoiding Issue

The first truth" which this
weekly should publish is that its
listed contributors, native and for
eign, are almost exclusively Com
munist. BY Communist" I mean
they are writer's who either are
party members or who never diverge
from the strict Communist line.
They are not liberals; they are
simon pure Stalinists. So the Com
munists will put before the public.
in the name of the Progressive
Party, another Communist organ.
Refused Thomas Debate.
I think the American people ought
to know these things. Millions Of
people do not know them. Norman
Thomas, commenting on the Wal
lace convention in the New York
Herald Tribune on Thursday, said
correctly, some people just won't
believe you when you tell them the
Communists are running the (Wal-
lace) show. They won't believe it's
fire until they've been burned"
MI. 11lOllldo, doSONldtCo OH AiAo
life with Socialistic movements,
knows exactly what is going on.
It Is significant that Mr. Wallace
has refused to debate with him,
though he has offered to meet
President Truman and Mr.. Dewey.
When I asked a Wallaceite why, he
replied, I'VE don't like Mr.. Thomas
manner of debate" I suggest the
reasons are, first, that Mr.. Thomas
knows the score in detail:. and,
second, that it is impossible for
anyone to call him q tool Of siris-
ter cartelists."
The last thing that the forces
who have pushed Mr.. Wallace and
Senator Taylor into the limelight
want is truth, by which I mean
publication of plain matters of fact.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1948-08-02
This Changing World >
ECA Nations Pact on Mutual Exchange
OfGoods Is New Cause for Soviet Worry

autarchy-which was simply eco
nomic lf-sufdciency-held sway.
Battle Must Be Resumed.
Since World War II the problem
has been to get international trade
moving again, on any basis at all
even bilateral. Now, however, it is
necessary in order to carry out the
purposes of the Marshall Plan to
resume the battle for multilateral
trading, and recent international
economic negotiations. in the United
Nations and elsewhere, have been
directed toward that goal
In that campaign, then, the
agreement with which Mr.. Hoffman
returned from Europe comes as the
latest evidence of progress. If 1t is
implemented honestly and sincerely
it will represent the kind of self
help which Mr.. Hoffman last week
told the Organization for European
Economic Cooperation is absolute
ly essential If Europe is to solve its
economic problems before the United
States steps out of the picture in
1852.
Meanwhile, there is evidence from
the Soviet side of a growing realiza-
tion that Russia and its bloc of
states are not capable OF an eco
nomic and financial effort approx
mating that which the United States
can throw into the scales in order to
keep the variety of economic world
it wants.
Red Campaign Relaxes.
After the Italian election there
was evidence of a substantial de-
fection from the Communist cam
paign against the Marshall Plan,
and what opposition to the Mar
shall Plan exists in italy is far
less articulate and far less inf1u-
entail today than before the elec-
ton.
What effect the Marshall Plan
had in bringing about Marshal
Tito's split with the CominfQrm
is problematical, but the Yugoslov
Premier has made clear since the
conflict arose that he would well
come trade arrangement with
the United States If it carried no
political implications.
At Geneva last Thursday over
lures apparently were made by the
Russian delegate to the United Ma
tions Economic and Social Council
for some kind of compromise on
the Marshall Plan. Since such a
compromise would mean q retreat
in some degree from our objectives
under the plan, the Russian over
ture was promptly rejected.
The progress of the European
Recovery Program thus far has
given the East real cause for worry,
which is in itself a cause of salts
faction for the Western nations
Mr.. Hoffman's expression of opti-
mism on his return to Washington
had a good foundation
Evening star., 1948-08-02

phrase, for it is
being used as a
means of con-
cealing facts and
deceiving t h e
public.
Some tim e
ago I wrote a
review of Mr..
w a ! ! a c e s
Toward World
Peace" In it I
contradicted Mr..
Wallace on nu-
merous state
ments of fact.
One OF my read
Evening star., 1948-08-02

! came out OF
one about half
an hour ago,
and while wait
ing for the pull
motor squad to
arrive and make
a vain attempt
to revive me, I
would like to
tell you what
happened to me.
The bath I
wandered into
was built in the
18th Century,
which m e a n S
49, IL l. IL
Evening star., 1948-08-02

T h o m as Un-
American Ac-
tivities Commit
tee nor to be as
associated with
that controver-
sial G group s
methods.
Even after he
had won by a
few hours the
contest to be
first with the
sc n S a t | O n a !
story, the Sena-
tor showed re-
straint.
uo cold he
Evening star., 1948-08-02

the M a r S h all
Plan countries
of Europe which
b r in gs closer
that mutual ex-
change of goods
between Euro
pean producers
which is essen
tial for the con-
tin e nt's eco
non1ic recovery.
This is to be
accomplished by
breaking the log
jam in clearance
of cure encieS,
Evening star., 1948-08-02
By Constantine Br0,Vn

Paul G. Hoffman, Economic Co.
operation administrator returned to
Washington last week from his visit
to Europe with an accord between
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Rv Dorofhv Th0mbsOn

DD DOTOIHy HUWpSVH
II will not" said Henry Wallace
in his convention press conference,
indulge in red-baiting."
I think 1t time to define this
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Bv Doris FIeeson

Senator Ferguson's subcommittee
hastened to get its licHs in first
OIL the Bentley spy case because it
did not want to appear to trail the
Evening star., 1948-08-02
.clemore
Visits Turkish Bath
Built in 10th Century
Rp Henry McLemore

ISTANBUL, Turkey-Water polo
with ne referee.
That is q thumbnail description
of a Turkish bath In Turkey.
Evening star., 1948-08-02
From an architects drswins

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Evening star., 1948-12-20
By ChorIes J. Yorbrouqh

The American public really gets
eullible when it has stomach ache.
Experts in this field gathered in
The debunking laboratories of the
National Food and Drug Admins
tration yesterday and regarded a
mounting stack Of gadgets which
have been sold as panaceas for
plaques Of the human race.
The public has been buying them
as q cure for everything from fall
ing hair to hemophilia.
Successful sales of some Of them
apparently depend on how many all
ments the inventor can list as cur
able through use of his contraption
and those claims are the basis of
seizure and prosecution by the Food
and Drug Administration.
There has been a deluge Of them
since the war;" says George P. Lar
rick, associate commissioner of the
administration. They are present.
ing q regulatory problem compara-
BILE to that which patent medicines
caused 40 years ago."
Reasons for the increasing num-
Der Of the phony cure-all devices
are at least threefold, according to
Mr.. Larrick.
/. Availability of more metal and
more manpower since the war.
2. Great advances in legitimate
physical medicine devices, which
Evening star., 1948-12-20

for q serious disease, particularly
that disease which grows progress
sively worse while the patient tink-
ers with the new miracle machine" I"
One of the newest devices and still
under litigation in the Middle West
is a dumbben-appearing creation in
which the center bar is supposed to
be filled with water which has been
exposed to cosn1ic rays.
so has everything else in the
world" snorted DR.. Horatio Wales,
another of the administrations ex-
perts.
BY merely holding the dumbbell,
the patient is supposed to absorb the
latent energy and acquire a re-
'sistance to diseases and ailments.
The cost is between $50 and 500.
Vibrators and reducing machines
are prominent and numerous in the
administrations seizures-the ma
jority Of them as phony as last
months streetcar pass.
LAS far as the Food and Drug
Administration knows, there is no
easy way to get skinny" Mr.. Larrick
grinned.
In another case recently pros
ecuted, frustrated electrician wore
a zinc plate in one shoe and copper
plate in another; claimed an electric
current would produce health and
vigor, relieve the stiffness of old age
-" be efflcacious in the mitigation"
Of headache, asthma, cold hands and
feet and kidney trouble.
1t also would cure high and low
blood pressure, the inventor said.
He was fined $1,000 and given a
suspended sentence.
One of the prize Screwball con-
trivances in the administration COL
lection is the mysterious" Spectre
Chrome, brain-cnild of q man
eventually fined $4,000. In appear
ance it was cross between a slot
machine and hot peanut vending
machine.
The more mysterious they make
it, the more people believe it," OBJ
served DR.. Wales.
The Spectro-Chrome, which went
to any one having $50 with which
to join the institute" also carried
an esoteric encyclopedia. Its efficacy
depended on the patients latitude
and longitude, whether his head was
pointed toward the north and con-
siderable other gibberish," Mr.. Lar
rick said.
Dismantled, the machine con-
tanned 1,OO0-watt light bulb, fan
to cool it, bottle of water and
several colored slides.
Its claims: Effective treatment of
Evening star., 1948-12-20

have conditioned the public to be-
ueve almost any new miracle"
8. New regulations, which gave the
administration jurisdiction over such
mechanical gadgets beginning in
1889. Preparation for war and then
war itself delayed their production.
Officials can even laugh over the
fantastic claims made for some of
the inventions, but it is a rueful
grin at best
Some of them are actually
dangerous" says DR.. Irwin Kerlan,
medical officer in charge of thera-
peutic devices.
High on the list Of gadgets we
seek out is that which claims a cure
Evening star., 1948-12-20
Drug Law Nets Strange Array of Godgets
As Inventors Step Up Output of 'CureoIIs'

the "heart. lungs, skin, nutrition,
mentality and emotions, swelling,
fever. dog bite, appendicitis, gout,
hiccoughs, caDcerous growth and
nosebleed," to name a few. In all,
the claims occupied 80 lines of fine
type in the ministration's notices of
judgment.
The fact that the gadget has Pat.
Pending" stamped on it is no as
surance that its claims are true,
DR.. Kerlan warned. The patent is
granted only on what the inventor
claims.
This circumstance actually helps
Evening star., 1948-12-20

in some phases of enforcement.
"The big producers come out with
something; then the imitators fol-
low. We nab the big operators and
the little ones just fold up," Mr..
Larrick said.
Even easier was the litigation over
a machine which its inventor
claimed would cure arthritis.
"The inventor had arthritis so
bad he came into court in q wheel
chair" one of the experts said.
Evening star., 1948-12-20
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Evening star., 1948-12-20
Australia Reports Population

CANBERRA, Australia, (R.-Aus-
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was 7,579,358. This is the final
figure shown after the count of the
census taken on that date.
Evening star., 1948-12-20

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