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bill today after asking on several
amendments which were passed
over temporarily.
These included House direc-
tive for release after IL months OF
thousands of World War II veter-
ans called back to active duty
bill today after acting on several
leaders objected this might seri-
ously affect their plans for rota-
ton of combat veterans.
The Senate committee knocked
out the House provision after
being assured few if any more of
these World War II veterans
would be called against their
wishes. but several senators indi-
Gated they may fight to retain the
House directive or at least some
similar system.
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ing out of past wars or of our ef-
forts to prevent another world
war increased 68 per cent in dol
lar terms from 1910 to 1850. Ad-
justing for changes in the price
level they actually declined"
Budget Figures Cited.
In amplification, the President
started citing figures from next
years budget:
For national defense, nearly $50
billion, or 10 per cent of all ex-
penditures.
Public debt, Sc billion.
Veterans, nearly $5 billion.
Aid to needy, aged and blind
and others, 81 billion.
Highways, close to $500 million
THE things I have mentioned
he said, add up to more than $50
billion out of total expenditure
of $68 billion, and yet some people
are saying you can cut $6 billion
from the budget. If you did that
there wouldn't be anything left
to maintain the ordinary opera
tions of the Government like the
Coast Guard, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and the Public
Health Service"
The new General Accounting
Office Building will allow consoli-
dation of widely scattered activi-
ties of the agency which is also
sharing space with two defense
groups of the National Production
Authority and the Defense Pro-
duction Agency.
Warren and Reynolds Speak.
Along with the President, Con.
troller General Lindsay c. Warrer
and Commissioner w. E. Reynold
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Allied Counterattack
Drives Two BatfaIions
OF Enemy From Peak
BY The Associated Press

EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR-
TERS, Korea, Sept. 11.-Counter-
attacking Allied infantrymen drove
two battalions of Korean Commu-
nists off key peak in Eastern Ko-
rea today and chased the fleeing
Reds northward.
The Reds had attacked the AL
lied troops in darkness earlier and
forced a withdrawal from United
Nations positions north of 1nje. 25
miles inland from the Korean cast
coast.
The Allies smashed oack at day
break and drove the Reds from
fortress-like positions on the peak.
SOftening Attacks Made.
Allied troops on a limited Of
fensive threw softening-up attacks
at other Red strongholds on the
eastern front.
On the western front, the Com
munists surprisingly broke off at
tackS they started a week ago.
Red truck traffic in North Korea
diminished last night after two
weeks of heavy movement. In
that time Allied warplanes pounded
Communist vehicles mercilessly
and scored some of the highest
damage and destruction figures
OF the war.
The Allied attacks in the East
were in the jagged mountains
north and northeast Of the Hwa-
chon Reservoir and north of the
Reds old Punchbowl assembly
area near the Sea of Japan coast
2 Attacks Turned Back.
The Reds turned back two of
the attacks. The allies broke of
two others because of darkness.
Failure of the attacks-nearly
all against new objectives-had
no particular significance. In the
savage fighting among peaks
$500 to nearly 1000 feet high
it often has taken the Allies two
or three or sometimes as much
as 10 days to wear down sturdy
Red defense.
Gains in miles have not been
spectacular in the rough region
hardly more than miles in one
month of f1ghting-but the fight
ing has forced the Reds out of
long cherished positions and weak
ened their overall strength.
In that area Gen. James A. Van
Fleet, 9th Army commander, was
giving the Reds a dose of his
favorite prescription-"the best
medicine" for the stalled Kaesong
armistice talks "is Allied victory"
/ Supplies Parachuted.
Cargo planes parachuted almost
20 tons of supplies Tuesday to the
troops in the East.
The Chinese attacks on the
Western front and their sudden
halt puzzled observers at 9th Army
headquarters.
/ 1t was not known whether they
were genuine probing attacks to
feel out the Allies for a major
Red blow, or whether they were
merely diverSionary to take the
sting out Of the Allied blows in the
East.
Despite the general lessening of
Red truck traffic behind the
enemy lines, Air Force and Marine
flyers found plenty of moving tar
gets. They reported sighting at
least 1900 vehicles Monday night.
They destroyed or damaged about
$50 Of these. The night before,
pilots reported they spotted 1,70O
Red vehicles.
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Minister Denies Israel
Suffers From Fumine
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Sept. 11.-Minis-
ter of Agriculture Pinhas Lavon
denied to the KneSset CParlia-
menD yesterday that Israel is
from famine. He con-
ceded there is food supply crisis.
The tense house heard Lavon
warn in a Commute speech that
the next two months will be the
most difficult because autumn
crops will not be harvested until
November.
I'VE will survive this critical
period and will then have to main
tain a policy of providing the min
imum food basket required for
health and growth" he said.
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flowing by gravity from a bottle
S feet above the patient.
In some extreme cases" a small
quantity of blood was injected by
Ia syringe. with sufficient pressure
to force it into the coronaries in
a fraction of a second.
The report emphasized that
the arterial TRANSMISSION "is not
"a proper substitute for intra-
venouS TRANSMISSION except in
those cases in which the blood
pressure is very low, or cannot be
recorded, or in arrest of the heart
action from hemorrhage."
The two surgeons recommended
a return to intravenous injections
after the patient revives and
bleeding stops.
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NNoIIIlIlueQ from flTSt rage
with a Surplus-a surplus Of near
ly So billion altogether.
The President said that he
wouldn't say that "there is not a
dollar wasted in an operation as
big as that of the Federal Govern
but he added; The main
point want to make is that al
though Federal expenditures are
very large they are all made for
purposes that are necessary to our
national welfare, and our budget
is as tight and solid as we can
make it."
The President said that ex-
penditureS "other than those aris-
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DR.. Blacks Rites Set

PITTSBURGH. Sept. II R.-
Funeral services will be held today
for DR.. Robert M. Black, professor
at the School of Mines, University
Of Pittsburgh, who died Sunday.
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DR.. james M. Smith

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
Nv. Va. Sept. II R.-Dr. James
M. Smith. SO. a druggist of Spar
tansburg, S. c.. died Unexpectedly
here Sunday.
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Office Building where he signed
some mail.
An aide, Robert Wallace, told
reporters Senator Douglas may
have sounded a little hysterical
because he was tired"
He added that the Senator, a
veteran Of World War II, who was
wounded with the Marines fight
ing in the Pacific, had been
working 16 to 18 hours a day.
His outcry, which brought a
sudden hush in the Senate, oc-
Cured during a sharp exchange
with Senator O'Mahoney, Dem
ocrat, of Wyoming.
Questions Production Fund.
Senator O'Mahoney, who is in
charge of the big appropriation
bill, quickly said there was no
intention to imply that Senator
Douglas was giving aid and COM
fort to the enemy"
Before the exchange occurred,
Senator Douglas had questioned
$2.942, 100000 to expedite defense
production, saying it would go
to buy tools and machines for big
contractors. He also criticized spe-
cial flight pay for desk or admin
istrative officers in the Air Force,
calling this a gravy train appro-
priation."
Questioning procurement prac-
tices involving high-ranking off,
GERS, Senator Douglas also said:
I'VE do not want to let the
get abroad that when
an enlisted man does something
wrong he is put in prison for a !
long time, when a cadet cheats
he is dismissed, but when a gen.
eral errs he is slapped on the
wrist"
O'Mahoney Defends Officers.
Senator O'Mahoney came to the
defense of the military officers
and said he would hate to see the
gained from what
Senator Douglas had stated that
the military men ARE wilfully
more mistakes than those
which are made by all human
beings from time to time"
Then the following exchange
occurred:
Senator O'Mahoney-We can
not take every dollar of waste out
of this bill because waste is in
herent in war and preparation for
war. /
Senator Douglas Il may say
that the remarks just made by
the Senator from Wyoming en-
phasize that many, includ-
ing the Senator from Illinois.
find themselves very reluctant to
criticize the military because
every time we offer suggestions as
to how money could be saved, or
suggest that there is excess per-
sonnel in the departments, then
the implication is made that we
are somehow attacking the char
acter or the patriotism of men in
the department. No one wishes
to do that
Implication Disavowed.
The Senator from Wyoming has
shown how difficult it is for the
of the Senate to propose
ways of effecting economies in
good faith, because when as fine
a Senator as the Senator from
Wyoming implies that criticism of
these items constitutes criticism
of the character and patriotism of
the members of the service, It'll
acts as a silencer on
people who think:
Senator O'Mahoney - The
Senator will permit me to say that
I have said justifies that
I am merely ex-
the hope that no one will
draw the implication from what |
the Senator from Illinois said that
he is making a blanket charge
against the men in uniform be-
cause the Senator is not doing
that.
Senator DouglaS-I am not, of
course, making any such charge.
Senator O'Mahoney-But I want
to make it clear-and I am glad
that the Senator from Illinois has
interrupted me to help make it
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Seeds or Weeds?

Charles K Moser's excoriating letter
August l on the Seeds of Destruction"
which American democracy nurtures
within itself because of the alleged
deterioration of public morality, is in
deed a timely warning. This was writ
ten in answer to the question why Are
Bolsheviks?" Can we reduce Mr.. Moser's
pessimism somewhat by asking him now
why there are so few Bolsheviks in our
country?
Let, us grant that there is reason for
pessimism when we think how Bolshe-
vik methods and ways of thinking have
become prevalent of late among those
who have redoubled their efforts after
forgetting their aims. Let us grant that
we must heed Mr.. Moser's call to uproot
the vicious seeds we are cultivating
within ourselves"
But on the other hand, let us take
heart at the thought that these are
but the weeds around the trunk of
American democracy, which, it seems
to me. is still healthy and f1ouriShing.
see the noxious weeds, but also sense
the vigor of a free society having within
it the seeds of it's own improvement.
Mr.. Mosers dark picture represents only
the shadows; in the end justice and
truth will triumph-because there are
and will be people like Mr.. Moser on the
scene fighting for them.
Sidney Koretz.
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Tragedy at West Point

The tragedy at West Point is that so many
young men, so early in their lives, have found
the bright future of their yesterdays smothered
under black cloud of dishonor that will darken
their tomorrows. But an understanding SYM
pathy for them and their loved ones, who will
suffer, too, will support and make stronger the
rigid code of honor to which they proved false
and the stern justice of the penalty they have
incurred.
What will occur to most of us is the contrast
between the sharp, clean, hard standards of
honor demanded at West Point and our own
cynical acceptance, as people, of the tawdry
standards that seem to be becoming so evident
in other realms OF public service as we'll as
private life. Should this contrast sink in, should
1t really prick the public conscience, we may
have another example of the old truth that
God works in mysterious way His wonders
to perform"
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assigned to Washington as the local share of
the United Defense Fund. The UDF item was
added to the budget and to the goal after the
original goal had been squeezed down to what
Federation officials considered to be practical
proportions. The grand total to be sought is
therefore $4,O5o,oOo, or less than the 1851 goal
without USO item.
If serious attempt had been made in recent
years to adjust goals to subscription levels, the
record of the Community Chest might have been
far less dismal. Commendable as was the de-
termination to "try, try again" despite past fail
ureS, the unfortunate effect was to nurture
defeatist attitude among Chest workers. 1t was
diSheartening to the thousands of volunteers
to have their work end in defeat each year. just
one victory would have cheered them up and
helped to restore morale. The goal fixed for
1852 is designed to provide this much-needed
victory. The whole community should strive to
make success certain, for the sake not only of
the Chest agencies that need the money, but of
the future Chest program.
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A Realistic Chest Goal

The Community Chest Federation has acted
sensbly in setting realistic" goal for the 1852
Chest campaign which begins in October. Not
counting an emergency fund for the reactivated
UsO, the goal this year of $3,73o,00O is $37o,ooO
below last years unattained goal of $41O0,0OO
1t is just $155,000 above the sum actually SUBJ
scribed last year Thus, long-overdue effort
is being made to bring campaign goals down
closer to the level of past subscriptions. This
will be welcome news to the Woodworking men
and women who, year after year. have had the
hopeless and disappointing task of trying to
raise sums which experience has shown were
unattainable
The reduction in the goal does not mean
that the need for larger budget is any less
urgent at present than in the past. On the
contrary, the total estimated minimum needs
budget for 1852 is $5614y376 including $4,000
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Our Hot's Off, Too

We men can learn an important les
son from women. who at least in one
respect are ahead of us in common
sense.
I am thinking of the kind Of clothes
women wear in summer. Their light,
constructing dresses, open at the
neck and often loose around the waist,
allow body vapors to get out and the air
to move freely on the skin. They also
choose light colors (white. pale yellow,
etc. which absorb the heat to lesser
degree than dark shades. Many of them
do not wear hat or stockings. Women
know how to beat the heat.
But what about men? Well, look
around you, brother; still better, look
at yourself. Why do you wear that tie,
coat, and hat. these hot days? If the
heat makes it intolerable for you to
wear coat and hat, why don't you leave
them at home, instead of carrying them
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Fifty Years Ago in The Star

The trial of Robert S. Fosburgh for
the manslaughter of his sister May was
going on at Pittsfield, Mass,
Fosourgh half century ago, and The
Trial Star carried lengthy reports
of the proceedings. It was the
contention of the Fosburgh family that
the girl had been killed by burglars. The
State held that Robert was responsible
for the crime. This was denied by the
defendants father who told of seeing
the intruders and graphing with one of
them. A physician testified that he had
found both Robert and Mr. Fosburgh, ST.,
suffering from head injuries, apparently
inflicted by a heavy instrument On
July 26, 1901, the news came that the
judge had halted the trial, instructing
the jury to bring in a verdict of mot
guilty" The demonstration that fol-
lowed was described as lone of the most
remarkable that has ever occurred in a
court of justice" Robert Fosburgh held
a reception at the Wendell House, where
hundreds of people took advantage of
the opportunity to shake hands"
In The Star for July %, 1901, there
appeared an editorial reading: Three
people were killed yeSter-
crossing day in Fredericksburg,
Accidents Va, and four in Lebanon,
N. H., by railroad trains
These seven lives go to swell the record
of the American locomotives as de-
stroyer. Both places are small commu-
mites, compared with those which have
been given elaborate constructions to
avoid grade crossings. But their annual
tribute of sacrificed life is proportion
ately heavy. In the case Of the New
Hampshire tragedy the dispatches state
that no blame attaches to the train
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men, Of course not The men on the
engines are never to blame for these
killings. The responsible persons are the
owners of the railroads, which cut across
country and through cities and towns
with the f1imsiest barriers between the
public and death, at best, and along the
greater part of the line offer not the
slightest guard against disaster. The
trainmen must take their chances of
killing just as the public must risk being
killed whenever the railroad is APP
preached. Some day, perhaps, the idea
will dawn upon legislature, not wholly
tied down to the railroad interests, that
it is first step for the preservation of
the larger rights of the people to require
all railroad lines to be inclosed and
guarded, with frequent points which the
public may cross without danger of death
or mutilation."
A dollar went long way half cen
fury ago. The Star for August /, 1901,
contained an advertise
Hecht's ment for Hecht's Greater
Hour Sole Stores, 513-515 Seventh
street, in which it was
explained that numerous bargains would
be on sale during periods of one hour
each throughout the following day. For
example, between 8 and 9. cotton towel
ing would be 17s cents yard. Then
from to 10 boys Merrimac percale
shirtwaists, "well-made and in a large
variety of colors," were announced at
824 cents each and boys wool knee
pants, excellently put together, at 1917
cents each. During the hour between
10 and II ladies' cool and dressy shirt
waist suits of fine batiste with braid and
ruf1e trimming, would be 80 cents
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To the Editor of The Stor:


THE EDITORIAL in The Stat of July
l. 7. entitled above and Beyond the
Call of Duty" brings to the surface
fame that has been smoldering for
long while namely, that of too many
medals. Medals are awarded for acts
sublime. absurd and nearly ridiculous.
AS a result they are the butt of every
form of jest by the military, they bore
the civilian and they impress no one
but the most naive.
It has even become hobby with some,
much as any other collector" If you
have enough rank or pull, you can travel
from one "theater of operations" to an
other as an observer" put on another
campaign medal as casually as you might
put on another shoulder patch, and it
is not even necessary to be anywhere
near the battlefront. In consequence,
we have seen medal ribbons spread from
the left breast pocket on the military
tunic to the left shoulder strap, much as
a Boy Scout displays his achievement
badges on his sash. And, although this
may be praiseworthy in an adolescent,
we are presumed to have given up child
iSh toys when we cease to be children.
Even our Allies have commented on our
overgenerouSneSS with medalS-and they
were the originatorS Of the practice.
At the turn of the century there were
still in active service many distinguished
veterans of the Civil War, and notwith-
standing all the campaigns and the
fierce and savage battles some of them
saw, not one wore decoration or ribbon
Of any kind, unless it was the Medal of
Honor, and these were very few indeed.
The same was true of Spanish American
War veterans still in service. Those who
were with Dewey at the Battle of Manila
Bay and those who were with Sampson
at the Battle Of Santiago wore the Dewey
Medal or the Sampson Medal. The Good
Conduct Medal awarded enlisted men of
the Navy and Marine Corp (and is really
more than it's name implies) was worm
But no medals or ribbons were worn
except on occasions of ceremony. Badges
evidencing excellence in craftsmanship
with rifle or pistol, were worn at all
times except in campaigns or maneuvers.
The armed services sought for decades
to persuade Congress to authorize the
wearing of campaign medals and rib
bons by the armed services similar to
the practice in the British Army. But
Congress just as consistently refused to
ape the British or other foreigners in
the practice of decorating the bosom.
During the Teddy Roosevelt admin
istration, some one in the armed Serv-
ices thought of the bright idea of maxi
ing military decorations part of the
uniform Since the President pre-
scribes the uniform for the armed serv-
ices, he also prescribed that medals and
ribbons 'be part of the uniform" and
thus Congress was circumvented and we
were off in grand splash of color that
has continued to this day and threatens
to cover both breasts with SPAN" I'M
less we are brought to our senses. And
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Boss Kettering
By Bruce Barton

Thirty years ago, in Dayton, Ohio, I
spent an unforgettable day and night
with BOSS" Kettering, head of all the
research of General Motors. His big
gest achievement up to that time was
the invention of the electric self starter.
Most of my readers are too young to
remember when we had to get out in
the mud in front of our cars and grind
away at the crank. "Ket" lifted us all
out of the mud.
At our first meeting noticed that
every window in his Office had a box
full of growing plants. Whats the idea
of flowers in an engineering labora-
tory?" asked.
That's part of our research" he re-
piled. II have botanists on the staff,
and biologists, as we'll as chemists and
engineers. We are trying to find out
why the grass is green
It sounded like a joke, but he was
deadly serious. cit will be great thing
for men and women when we do find
out" he continued. We'll open whole
new era of human life Just think how
primitive we still are in our knowledge
of the development and use of power.
To drive our locomotives and heat our
homes we have to send men down into
black holes in the earth to blast out
coal: have to crush it and wash it and
haul it over the railroads. and then
shovel it under the boilers and burn it.
To run our automobiles we have to drill
holes thousands of feet deep and go
through costly processes of refining and
transportation.
But the power in the oil and the
coal all came originally from the sun.
1t was grabbed off and stored away by
plants. BY what magic do plants take
energy direct from the sun? What makes
plants green? When we answer those
questions we may some day be rid of
all this digging and drilling. We can
have some little gadget on the top of
our cars that will sop up the power, the
way the plant does, and put it right into
the cylinders. But first We must find
out how the plant does it; what makes
the grass grow; what makes it green"
Last week we had another hour and
half together. He said: There are
three great barriers to progress: We
don't know anything. We think we know
lot. And we try to halt progress where
1t now is.
But wherever there is life there is
change. You can't halt it. The first
step in trying to make progress any
wherein chemistry, in engineering, in
medicines to start with this firm as
sertion: What we know is nothing"
Every time talk with "Ket" he makes
me feel that the world is not old but
still very young; that mankind, instead
of approaching the end, is only just be-
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