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Evening star., 1950-01-26

room is mess Henry McLemore.
of crystal chandeliers, and the
bell I touch with my foot to
summon my liveried servants was
especially designed for me by
John Philip Sousa. For a second
helping of potatoes I play Sem
per Fidelis," and you always know
when I want some more biscuits
because 'The Stars and Stripes
Forever" rings throughout the
house.
Most Treasured Thing.
I don't want you to think I am
Dragging about my house because
I'm only trying to lead up to to-
days thought. And today'sI
thought is just this:
The most treasured thing in
my house, the one thing that n
would not sell for any amount Of
money. is a homely, downright
ugly. slightly rusty bathroom scale.
No world-famed craftsman made
this scale. It is sort of an off,
white color, but it has this abso-
lutely magnificent virtue-it is not
accurate.
You can trust this scale never
to let you down. It will make you
at least Is pounds lighter than
you ever were. Go on a diet one
day and the scale will prove to
all the world that you have lost
at least II pounds. You
can trust it to be inaccurate.
Women Love It More.
AS much as I love 1t. women
love it more. Once or twice q week
lines form outside my house-lines |
made up of girls coming to weigh
in on my lovely scale. I have seen
women just slightly smaller than
a Shetland pony leave my house
after weighing in on the scale,
chuckling with delight over their
slender" figures.
We once had q perfectionist |
in our house who openly declared
that the scale wasn't accurate.
We have turned him over for
burial, but not before we were sure
he was good and dead.
Everyone is light and just the
right weight on this scale of mine.
You can eat potatoes by the
peck, drink cream by the bucket,
and indulge in the richest of
sauces, and my scale will always
turn its head. ..
I am writing this standing on
my scale. Do you know what I
weigh at 43-141 pounds. The
fact that I actually weigh 172
pounds on legitimate scales does
not bother me one bit.
distributed BY McNaught Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1950-01-26
On the Other Hand
It's Paradox: The President Plans
To Win This Year by Raising Taxes

voters sense Of justice. parti-
cularly since he doesn't consider
that any has ever been provided
for himself.
And just to make the average
mans sense of justice complete.
he is to be relieved Of many OF
those annoying and expensive q
cent, Scent. 25-cent and 50-cent
wartime excise taxes on the
things he buys. This relief seems
certain, no matter what Congress
does with the Presidents other
recommendations. since manu-
facturers and dealers want II
quite as much as their customers
do.
Hit Where IT Hurts.
All IN all. the President ap-
pears to have done right well by
himself and his party in the mat
ter Of taxes. He has hit op-
position where it is likely to hurt
and the whimpering mas begun.
THE whole tenor" says Sem
ate Republican Leader Wherry
"is to levy more taxes to finance
spendthrift socialism" Con
tempt for the taxpayers pocket
book" says Representative Brown
Cracking the whip" says, Rep
resentative Leonard Hall. And
says House Republican Leader
Martin. Congress should mot al
low one man to legislate taxes
for the American people"
Taking the last complaint first,
it conflicts with the complaint
of other Republicans that the
President was not specific as to
the cuts and increases he favors,
Actually, the President has made
his program palatable to the
Congress majority by leaving the
real writing job in it's hands.
AS for the rest, the President
has given Democratic candidates
for Congress a basket of material
for their campaigns. The cor
Irection, for example. of the tax
provisions that permit the Holly
wood swimming pool set to re-
tain large share of their fab
ulous earnings. That is some
thing anybody can understand
and approve. Likewise the case
of the man who has been allowed
to keep nine-tenths Of his mil
lion-dollar annual earnings.
II this discussion of the tax
problem seems to put most Of the
emphasis on the political phase, IL
should be borne in mind tnat poll
tics plays a decisive part in the
framing of tax legislation. Il
the President has outlined a pro-
gram that is shrewd politically
he has outlined the sort of a
program we are likely to get.
Evening star., 1950-01-26
This Changing World
New Cold War Move Seen as Russians
Halt American Guarded Berlin Train

| is expected to be ordered by the
Russians, American authorities be-
lieve that henceforth they will be
confronted with a series of minor
daily annoyanceS. The Soviets are
past masters In the technique of
needing their opponents without
resorting to any overt act of hos
tility.
State Department and Pentagon
officials feel strongly that we must
steel our nerves for an intensified
cold war in some parts of Europe,
with the possibility of actual ag-
gression by Soviet puppets in
the Balkans and Iran,
Soviet to Exploit Tension.
Soviet agents are expected to
exploit the new tension between
the Bonn government and the
French. The temperance of a
new German nationalist party,
which wants fully independent
Germany, might be used by the
Russians as a link between the
pro-Soviet nationalists in the
Eastern zone and the Germans of
the Western zones. 1t is possible
for the purpose of unifying the
former Reich.
For a while Western zone COM
manders might be willing to join
the nationalists in singing
Deutschland uber Allies" Both
parties are still in the minority in
the Bonn republic. But few
more affrays with the French on
the question of the Saar or the
handicaps placed in the path of
the rebirth of German industries
and an increasing number of
Western Germans will be willing
to join the ranks of the Commu-
nists and nationalists.
The East zone German govern
ment at present is being stream
lined. Old-line Communists are
being removed quietly from high
offices. Their places are being
filled with German nationalists,
regardless of whether they served
Hitler or not. Communism in that
Russian dominated part Of Ger
many is superficial.
The German population is being
told that their survival depends on
the complete union of Western
and Eastern Germany and that is
possible only under the auspices
of the U. S. S. r. But what is more
important to those who know the
German psychology. the Russians
have created and are perfecting a
new German army with which
they are telling their new satellites
they will accomplish their pur-
poses, while Allied authorities in
the West forbid Western Germans
to possess even shotguns.
Evening star., 1950-01-26

Roger Garreau, Dorothy Thompson.
president of the United Nations
Trusteeship Council. to limit in
Standardization to small area
containing the chief holy places.
In short, it would appear that
the mission wishes, as does Israel,
to keep the United Nations out of
Palestine altogether.
This column agrees with the
mission that it would be danger
Gus" to oppose or criticize the
state of Israel in any way. It even
is dangerous for an American
publicist. Israel and its American
supporters are claiming an alb
solutely unique immunity from
Fcriticism-as recently pointed out
by pro-Israel Walter White.
State Created BY Force.
Although Israel owes the legit-
inizing of it's existence to United
Nations partition. which was ac-
cepted by its agents, the state
does not conform to that plan,
but has been created by force
as what is left of the Arab world
in Palestine is held by force. The
ports of Jaffa and Haifa were not
awarded to Israel, but Israel holds
them. The internationalization Of
Jerusalem was included in the
original plan, but is now refused.
To protect a U. N. trusteeship
would require force, for without
it, force would certainly be used
against it. Therefore. 1t is dan
gerous.
Whether a q. N. trusteeship
anywhere in Palestine is unneces-
sary depends on ones viewpoint Of
necessity. The mission declares 1t
is unnecessary as a means Of pro-
tecting shrines, and that there is
complete religious freedom" in
Palestine. Maybe there is freedom
to worship, but how about the
worshipers? Christian shrines re-
main undisturbed; how about the
Christian community? Is it free,
even to survive?
The United Nations never took
one step to guarantee the lives or
property Of the indigenous Arab
population in Jewish Palestine.
Hundreds Of thousands Of them
have been turned into refugees,
living In the bitterest want. with
all their possessions appropriated
Evening star., 1950-01-26
On the Record
Whole of Christendom Neglecting
Christian Refugees of Palestine

by Israel. And those refugees in
clude most of the Palestinian
Christians who constitute one of
the oldest, most faithful Christian
communities on earth.
Their story was told in part by
Yusif El-Bandak, sen Of the
mayor of Bethlehem Gall Bethle-
hem is Christian), and in the
November 80 issue of ''The Chris
tian Century" 1t apparently sur
prised Americans to learn that
there were any Christians in
Palestine! Yet they constitute q
tenth of the Arab-speaking popu-
lation. None Of them are con-
|verts from Islam. All are either
descendants from Christians, Of
the time Of Christ (mostly Philis-
tines or Canaanites) or of the
Crusaders.
Ties To Western World.
Throughout history they have
had ties to the Western World.
Their sons have been educated in
Christian schools and colleges in
the Middle East, and in the West.
They have been among the most
progressive and prosperous of the
native population, and were con-
centrated chiefly in Jaffa, Haifa,
and New" Jerusalem, where they
owned fully two-thirds of all the
property, both in private and in
stitutional holdings.
The members of this community
are today refugees in the country
wherein they have constituted a
secure and highly respected COM
munity for centuries. Their
properties have been confiscated
without compensation. In the
birthplace Of Christ-which would
have fallen except for a we'll
organized defense-40,000 of them
have taken refuge. bursting the
capacities of a town of $4,000.
Although their fellow Christians
have taken them into their homes
with sacrificial generosity. thou
sands, like Mary, could find no
room in an inn," and, like Mary,
their children are born in stalls,
or in caves, or under trees, while
over them "the silent stars go
by"
All that reaches them is a
trickle of totally inadequate re-
lief. Great Christendom neglects
them. The Moslems watch their
plight with wonderment. asking,
"if the United States, overwhelm-
ingly a Christian country, lets
these Christians perish in the
birthplace of their Lord, whom will
the United States protect any,
where?"
Russian agents jeer, "You call us
atheists, but where is that Chris
tian world?"
And a Christian" mission re-
ports about Shrines, but not about
Christians. :.
Who will protect this COM
munity? Israel. which created
their plight? The Moslem world?
Who, If not the U. NJ?
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Evening star., 1950-01-26

pollcemen who constantine Brown
guard the train refused to be
intimidated by the Red soldiers
tommyguns. AS is generally the
case when they are confronted
with determined resistance, the
Russians yielded.
The incident could have been
serious. The officer in charge of
the train realized that if he
acceded to the Russian demands
there was a chance that the pas
sengers-all travelling on military
orders-would be arrested for
setting foot Illegally on Soviet
occupied territory.
New Incidents Feared.
This, it is feared by American
authorities, may not be the last
incident in the new'cold war being
waged in Berlin. Political head
quarters in Frankfurt and military
headquarters in Heidelberg are
considering the possibility. if such
incidents recur, of carrying pas.
sengers to Berlin by air instead of
rail.
Ever since the Berlin block
ade was lifted military and civil
ian personnel possessing permits
from American military authori-
ties could travel without Red
interference from the Western
occupation zone to the Gross
Lichterfelde railway station in the
American sector of Berlin.
The practice has been for the
MP officer in command of the
train to present the American
military permits to the Soviet
control point and after perfume
tory formalities the train is allow
ed to proceed. without further
stops. Of course, the sleeping cars
are locked throughout the 11-hour
journey and no passenger is
allowed to get on or off the train
during the trip.
While no new formal blockade
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Compromise Moves Spiked
Truman Has Not Retreated One Bit
From His Program on Civil Rights

election where as usual it will
be hardest on the progressive
Southerners who would escape
from it if they felt they could.
Their Democratic colleagues
dislike, for example, to draw an
issue against such Southerners up
for reelection this fall as Full
bright, Hill, Hoey, Long and Pep
per. Most Of them would add
Senator George of Georgia, the
conservative chairman of Finance,
both because they respect him
personally and because they are
often glad to have him save them
from themselves in fiscal mat
ters.
Casts Shadow on Debate.
The impending filibuster also
casts it's shadow over debate. In
the partisan clashes between Re-
publicans and Democrats where
the principal aim is election prop
aganda, most of the Southerners
are sitting on their hands. Sen
ator Connally, chairman of For
eign Relations, will rise to defend
his international course and SEN
ator Tydings of Armed Services
champions his own. But they
get little backing from fellow
SouthernerS who include some of
the ablest skirmishers on the
floor.
The Southerners are not Of
Tending any Republicans until the
civil rights showdown is out of
the way. No chance is taken that
the idle wisecrack of a partisan
encounter will leave scar.
The result is to place a heavy
burden upon the majority leader,
Senator Lucas, and his principal
aides who must be ready to bear
the heat and burden of the day
at all times.
That the Southerners are res
tive under their role appears evi-
dent. They enjoy their trade
more than most and they realize
they are not rising to the positions
of leadership here to which their
talents entitle them. They have
made some moves of their own;
1t is possible that it is later than
the President thinks,
Evening star., 1950-01-26

anu 1dyUen
h a S returned
from Palestine
a n d reported
against u. N.
in ternationali-
zation of Jeru-
salem as dan
gerous and un-
necessary"
The up
also opposes S
even the latest,
much less in
elusive scheme
q d v q need by
Evening star., 1950-01-26

early Tuesday
morning. After
a delay of sew
eral hours, dur
ing which the
r u S S ! a n S in
sisted that the
travellers 6 e t
out and change
to a Russian
train, the "Ber-
liner" was al
lowed to con-
tinue.
The Ameri-
an military
Evening star., 1950-01-26

nara Idple, anu
all the cues
we're made by
Cellini. When
the visitor is
not trying to
k n ock tn e
eight ball in
t o the 81 d e
pocket he can
relax in a chair
by HeppleWhite
and place his
feet on a fen
der by Ford.
My dining
Evening star., 1950-01-26

by one syllable
from his pro-
gram.
The Pre- 81 =
dent re a dily
con sented to
receive Repre-
S e n t a t | v e
Brooks Hays of
Arkansas, chief
proponent Of a
Southern COM
promise keyed
to a voluntary
a ppro ach to
the pro b lem.
Rut, in their
Evening star., 1950-01-26

Une Suggestions
on the subject
contained in
the Presidents
message t h ! S
week. This is a
campaign year.
Two ye q r S
ago the Repub-
licans went to
the country, ex-
pecting to win
because they
had re du c e d
taxes. 1t was a
reasonable ex-
\
Evening star., 1950-01-26
By Lowell MeHeft

You are going to hear a lot
about taxes between now and
next November. That will be true
whether or not Congress accepts
Evening star., 1950-01-26
By Constantine Bro,cn

The "Berliner." crack sleeping
car train running daily between
Frankfurt and Berlin, was stopped
again by Russian frontier guards
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Christian Re
By Dorothy THOMPSON

An investigating mission under
the auspices of "The American
Christian Palestine Committee
composed of Protestant pastors
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Bv Doris FIeeson

The welter of words on civil
rights has begun again but one
hard news fact remains. Presi-
dent Truman has not retreated
Evening star., 1950-01-26
McEemore-
Fuvors Inaccurate
Bathroom Scales
By Henry McLemo,

My house is beautifully furn-
iShed.
The first thing that greets a
visitors eye is a Chippendale bill
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-02-23
N
Uncle Comes Through

The United States, continuing its
efforts to stop communism by
strengthening local nationalist
regimes over the globe. approved a
loan of 100 million dollars to the
new republic Of Indonesia.
THE MONEY, according to re-
ports, was to be used by Indonesia
to finance purchase in this com-
try of industrial material and equip
ment for reconstruction of the Indo-
nesian economy.
It was reported that funds from
the import-export bank, which made
the loan, might be flowing to Indo-
nesia in a matter of weeks for pur-
chase of railroad cars, trucks and
similar equipment, but that a long
er time would be required for such
items as heavy machinery.
THE INDoNESIANS, numbering
IS million people, are faced with a
major task Of restoring production
to an economy not yet recovered
from the effects of wartime jap
anese occupation.
The funds from the United States
would go principally to repair of
war-damaged port, railway, high
way and processing facilities and
replacement of damaged transpor-
tation facilities.
The loan was the largest since
the import-export bank agreed to
lend Israel 100 million dollars sew
eral months ago. i.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-02-23
ARMS RACE:
Suicide Rood

A solemn warning that an arms
race between the United States and
Russia beckons humiliation was
issued by DR.. Albert Einstein.
Appearing on a television show,
Einstein. hailed as the worlds
greatest mathematician and one OF
the great physicists of the world,
declared the arms contest now un-
derway is assuming "hysterical"
proportions on both sides.
ONE Of the chief contributors to
the final development of the atomic
bomb, Einstein declared that 1.-The
means to mass destruction are per-
fected with feverish haste behind
the respective walls of secrecy. The
H-bomb appears on the public
horizon as a probably attainable
goal and its accelerated develop
ment has been solemnly proclaimed
by the President"
Then he uttered the punch line:
ARMED security is an Illusion
il successful, radioactive poisoning
Of the atmosphere and hence an
Inhalation of any life on earth has
been brought within the range of
technical possibilities"
To implement that conclusion, he
said: "The ghostlike character of
this development lies in its appar-
emily compulsory trend. Every step
appears as the unavoidable conse-
quence Of the preceding one. In the
end, there beckons more and more
and more general humiliation"
FEW MEN could speak with more
compelling authority on that SUBJ
iect than the white-haired, brilliant
eyed. venerable scientist who has
contributed so much to the sum
Of mans knowledge.
But each time civilization has
been wont to attempt humiliation
through war. there has been little
disposition to listen to those voices
who would cry out a warning.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-02-23
Crime
A

With IA metropolitan newspa-
pers taking a careful scrutiny Of
its operations, and the federal gov
eminent opening a conference on
what to do about it, us. crime APP
peared to have fallen on evil days.
Not for decades had the boys who
deal in shady enterprises has so
much publicity focused upon them.
Names were being called, police
officials we're getting the lifted
eyebrow treatment, wire services
were ripping telephones out of
bookie joints and, all in all, it ap-
peared to be a real blow into which
the craft of crime was walloWing.
THE PRESS would be the real
instrument of exposure, granted
that officialdom in cities included
really wanted to clean up the un-
desirable conditions. For example,
New York city's fabulous Frank
Costello, often called the king of
the rackets, was the first target of
the newspaper series. Costello was
referred to as a fellow so unbe-
lievable he might have been
dreamed up by a Hollywood script
writer" The story attempted to
link him with top-flight gambling
activities over most of the us.
One significant line in the first
of the newspapers series was this:
Gambling can't operate for any
period unless the police let it op-
crate. Nor can the other rackets."
THAT was so obviously axioma-
tic that there could be no argument
with it, and honest cops over the
nation had to take the rap with the
hand-held-out boys when blame was
being shuffled around for lax law
enforcement.
The slot machine-termed vari-
ously the 'one-armed bandit" and
other u%nprintable names-was the
target for a special government in
quiry. It was indicated thai their
menace is so fully realized that the
federal government may step in to
help the state control them.
There is an ironical contradic-
ton here, however, because the fed
eral government licenses slot ma
chimes and accepts revenue from
that source. If the federal govern
ment should outlaw them, it would
go a long way toward insuring eff
cient state control.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-02-23
Maybe So

According to a California DEM
ocrat who might know, President
Truman has been thinking about
the 1852 presidential election.
George Luckey, Los Angeles,
vice-chairman Of the California
Democratic central committee, has
reported that he put the question
up to the President during a White
House visit and got maybe 500
for an answer.
HE said maybe so,'" Luckey
told reporters. HE said that II we
have the same team together
again, maybe we can do some
thing"
Luckey said by team the Pres
ident meant those who supported
him in ls48.
While Mr.. Truman has never
declared openly that he would be
a candidate for reelection in 1852,
he has never fatty ruled out the
possibility.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-02-23
COAL DISPUTE:
Strikes VS.. Courts

-EE- Er-.r E-Eas4s
If the recent coal strike did moth
ing else, it may have set in mo.
ton forces that will bring about a
determination for all time of the
power of the courts of the land to
deal with big walkouts.
It is true that John L. Lewis, ur-
der pressure of the law, capitu-
lated and ordered the miners back
to work; but when he gave the
order the miners were defiant and
no one knew whether they would
return to the pits in sufficient num-
bers to ease the production situa-
ton.
THE BIG QUESTION in the
minds of most Americans was:
What can be done about it? If
the miners didn't want to work,
who could make them return to
the pits? In this still-free land, men
can work or quit without penalty
under the law. But could their
union be punished because its men,
bers quit as a group, since the
law says a union is responsible for
the acts of its agents"
If that we're the attempted
remedy, the question surely would
be raised: Were the miners acting
as individuals in pursuit of their in
dividual rights in working, or must
they be regarded as agents" of
the union in their decision?
It was a torturous question and
one certain to provide a classic
case for the courts.
OF course if Lewis and the oper-
ators, under order Of the court to
resume bargaining, were to reach
an agreement, the question would
become a moot one. But under the
recurrent stress of coal strikes
and usually at a time when coal
stockpiles are lowest-the result
may be the writing of some new
law, or co~urt-decision approach to
break up the continual crises which
hamstring production and ',ntrib-
ute to widespread unemployment
and consequent suffering.