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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-02
How Low Can You Crawl, Walter?

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getting plenty the bOorh treatment Of ecss Josephine
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-02
On Halloween

On Halloween in the dark, dark night
I like 10 think OF the terrible sights
when the old. old witch Is flying around
I like To hear her awful sounds
with a cat on her broom stick
And q tall black hat
Should Halloween BE- as scarcy as that
Carolyn ,. Smith. Age
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-02

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-02

unnatural that Egypt should undertake
bargain but that bargain should undermine the
the tearing Of TREATIES Egypt pro-
eCd Middle East Command Allies should proceed
without her but with FUN nSstencc pledged British
. n the zone
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-02

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-02
No Work And No PIay

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play Grandpa mighty of conclusions
OF New York Legislative committee
the aged Similar findings all the country impetus
beginning
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-11-02

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Senator Taft on u. N.

Your editorial of October 80, entitled
HARD to Follow" does Senator Taft an
injustice. Had you listened to his debate
with Senator Mcmahon last Sunday
you would have heard him point out
tnat the U. N is not Furnishing Commu-
mist China for its part in the aggression
against the Republic of South Korea
and apparently has no intention of
DONG so. Mr.. Taft drew the perfectly
obvious and logical conclusion that the
Dig aggressor is beyond the reach of
the U. NJ: that therefore the U. N, is a.
failure as means of stopping agrees
sion. Is that position hard to follow?
Does any realistic-minded person be-
lieve that the U. N. could stop any bad
practice among nations after setting
precedent of reaching only the weak and
letting the strong go? Senator Taft ar
gued for realistic appraisal of the
situation. He said that the failure of
the U. N. to punish Communist China is
an open invitation to others who are
big enough to become aggressors.
All is not lost because the U. N. is a
failure as means of stopping agrees
sion. There is a lot to what Senator
Taft says about the ACCESSIBILITY of
keeping this Nation strong rather than
frittering away our substance on doubt
full world projects.
Lynn c. PaulsOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Federal Pensions Need Revision, Too

President Truman expressed his pleasure
over the action of Congress in authorizing a
80 per cent increase in pensions for 100000
retired railroad employees and a As per cent
increase in benefits for survivors of deceased
employees. His pleasure was understandable, for
these retired workers-in common with other
pensioners-have been harassed by rising costs
of food, clothing and shelter in this in1ationary
period.
1t would have been pleasing too if Congress
had given as much attention to the retired
Government workers and their families as it gave
to the railroad folks. The railroad legislation
went through both Houses with remarkable
celebrity, after favorable reports from the Com
merce Committees. The first checks embodyng
the increases will be mailed next month. The
maximum annuity for the railroad workers now
will be $165.60 month instead of $144 month
and the maximum payments to survivors will
rise from $109 to $3.50 month.
Railroad employees pensions were larger than
those for Federal employees even before the new
legislation raised the rates. Government workers
who retired prior to 1948 receive an average
annuity of only 81 $50 and those who retired
after that date receive slightly $500 month,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06

on the average. Bills to raise the pay of active
Federal workers passed at the recent session,
but the Federal retirement bills were shelved.
One reason for this neglect may be the fact that
retired Government employees have no organiza-
ton to press their case-as railroad workers have
The railroad legislation provided for thor
ough congressional study of the railroad retire.
ment system, presumably with view to further
improvement of the system. The President, in
signing the new law, said he hoped that this
study could be completed in time for legislative
action next year. Presidential support for a
thorough investigation also of the plight of
retired Federal workers would be helpful in
stimulating legislative action at the next session
on behalf of veteran public servants on the
retired list. They are as badly in need of aid as
retired railroad or other workers in private
industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
This and That .

There on the blanket, carefully put
away for winter, lay single pokeberry.
Not drop of juice had been spilled.
How had the berry got there?
Brought up by a mouse, of course. At
this time of year the bright-eyed rascals
like to come indoors. bringing a store
of food with them.
Only trapping could tell whether it
was an ordinary mouse, or field mouse.
In suburban sections the latter will come
indoors.
In corner of the cabinet were SUM-
flower seeds, too.
Evidently the mouse family had been
preparing for the cold months ahead.
Sometimes in the night there is a
creaking in the walls.
1t is mouse, coming up!
Womenfolk tend to shrink from mice,
even many men. though the latter may
not admit it so openly.
Actually. mice are bright eyed, clean,
not causing too much mess.
They seek shelter, the same as the
rest of u.s. and like to find an old bureau
drawer for nesting place.
Mice do some damage, but probably
their greatest risk lies in the fact that
they may, now and then, gnaw wires
in the walls.
Rats in the walls (title Of a Lovecraft
story make no more noise. coming aloft,
than little mouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06

"vorstand" are elected for five years
and In practice they are fairly indie
pendent Of the supervisory board.
The actual operations of any German
company. veterans say. will be directed
by two men: The technical director
and the business director. The labor
director. who is nominated by the trade
unions. will have nominal equality with
the other two directors but in practice
he will be run by them.
2. The trade unions do not have
enough competent men to fill the posts
in the supervisory boards which are al
lotted to labor. Thus they will not be in
a position to deal on equal terms with
the sharp witted employers representa-
tives. The same applies to the labor
directors. only more so.
3. The 18th member of the super
visory board will be able to dictate
policy, thus maintaining the good old
German fuehrer principle.
4. In participating in management, by
having five members on the supervisory
board and by naming the labor director
labor and the trade unions risk the loss
of their principal weapon--the right to
fight for the workingmen's rights When
a crisis comes and labor's interests are
threatened by unemployment and wage
cuts, it will be natural for the company
to make the labor director and the five
members Of the supervisory board
front" for the company. 1t would be
different If labor really had the final
decision in either the supervisory board
or the board of management because
1t does not it will have 10 participate in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Letters to The Star

1mproprieties and failed to report them
10 the Secretary of the Army; co if he
dld report them then who in the Army
Is responsible for suppressing them and
falling to act upon the Inspector Gen.
erals reports.
1t is no excuse that the Inspector
General has small staff and could not
be expected to have the manpower to
Keep close vigil over so widespread an
organization as the Army. Remember.
however, each major command has an
inspector General and over each the
inspector General in WASHINGTON has
sufficient authority to make himself
aware OF what takes place in any COM
mand. And 1t is his duty to do SO. A
glance at the functional and organiza-
ton charts OF the Inspector Generals
Office will show that he is adequately.
ny DIVISION, branch and section, author
lied to investigate and act. What's
wrong? Who is stopping whom?
Secrecy about the Inspector Generals
once could hardly come under President
humans censorship order; or does the
covering up OF military corruption by
the Army itself involve national secur-
1ty? Some newspaper, perhaps The Star.
might well devote its attention to find.
Ing out just what goes on in the In
spector Generals realm of activity or
oetter, perhaps, what doesn't 60 on.
w. M. Hines, Sr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
By Charles E. TroceweN

This is because he is lively fellow.
It is a pretty good idea, then, if
noise is heard, to find out if it is
rat or mouse.
If mouse, do not be in too great
hurry about eradication.
A mouse won't hurt anybody.
Just cause bit of furry. maybe.
Mice make good pets. though not
every one, it must be admitted, likes to
handle them.
It is here as with snakes. Many small
boy handles snakes fearlessly, only to
grow into young man who hates them.
How does this change come about?
There is an old belief that it is natural
to hate snakes. but now and then some
one crops up who says this is not so,
that it is fear pushed onto one by
others.
The household mouse, then, is not so
bad.
The household rat is another animal.
Both rats and mice came from Eu-
rope, and have thrived here, what with
our grain and other foodstuffs.
Let it be admitted that mice are a
nuisance, they do not consume human
foods in the same way that rats do.
Rats on our farms eat millions of tons
of grain, and cause billions of dollars
Of damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06

And they tend to spread terrible
diseases.
Not many diseases can be laid at the
door of the house mouse.
The mouse is clean. in comparison
with rat.
1t does little harm, and may be used
as a conversation piece if one has a
sense of humor.
The cat is not the best mouse catcher,
despite the popular tradition.
If one is determined to rid a house
of mice, the old snap-over traps are
best.
These should be placed in the attic,
since all mice tend to go up and up in
a house.
A baited trap there, with cheese or
peanut butter. will do the work.
The cat is an old four flusher, when
it comes to mice, in many cases.
A Well-fed cat will listen to mice, but
unless he sees them, he is not likely to
do much investigating. The modern cat
is well fed, and so loses some of his
spirit in this respect, but it is question:
able whether poor feeding would make
him any better mouser. That is poor
idea. Cats are CATS and mice are mice,
and never the twain shall meet, except
now and then, and then there is no
question as to who wins. Size and speed
does it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Egyptian Dissent

follow with great interest your edi-
torials, particularly those tackling inter-
national questions, and I appreciate the
fair policy of your paper which gives
the readers opportunity to clarity, COM
ment or criticize the views expressed in
these editorials. This policy is a fine
example OF the free press in the United
States.
But I wish to clarity some points
in your editorial under the heading
Russian Bogeyman." which appeared
October 30.
You stated as fact, the following:
The British have right to be in Suez."
Now I do not deny that Egypt in
1886. under the pressure of occupation,
signed treaty with England authoriz-
ing the latter to maintain a specified
number of her troops at the Suez Canal
zone for certain reason and under
explicit conditions.
Keeping the British forces in the Suez
Canal zone was conditioned by an ex-
plicit obligation on the part Of the
British to help Egypt strengthen her
military forces and to supply these
Egyptian forces with arms, munitions
and military equipment, thus enabling
them to replace the British in defend
ing the Suez Canal. But this obligation
never has been fulfilled and all evidence
shows that the British deliberately in
tended to weaken and not strengthen
the Egyptian Army as solennly prom
ised in the 1886 treaty.
You also stated as a fact that "the
Suez Canal is vital waterway-as vital
to us (U.S.A) in the strategic sense as
it is to the British" You may add to
this statement that Egypt considers the
Suez Canal vital to international trade
and communications and not only to
the Americans or the British in the
strategic or non-strategic sense. What
should be clarified and stressed is that
this canal is of more Importance to
Egypt in all aspects: let us not forget
that although this canal is run finan-
cially or administratively by an inter-
national company. the fact remains that
it lies in Egyptian territory and is sub
ject to the Egyptian laws and legisla-
ton, with due consideration OF the 1888
agreement.
The third statement you described as
a fact was: "The Egyptians as of this
time, are not capable by themselves of
guaranteeing the military defense of the
canal" But we defended the Suez Canal
during World War II, and we would
have been in position to defend it
now more adequately if the British had
kept their obligation under the 1886
treaty to help strengthen the Egyptian
Army during the past Is years But they
never tried to carry out this obligation
and thus abrogated this treaty, on their
part. from the very beginning
Ekram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Legislation by Rider

Last-minute riders on appropriation bills
are justified in some emergencies, but as
general rule the practice is bad one, for it
leads to hasty legislation that later may have
to be undone Civil Service Commissioner Per-
kins has cited the Federal leave riders passed
at the recent session of Congress as typical Of
the kind that bring troubles in their wake.
Miss Perkins pointed out that on August 81
Congress passed an appropriation rider reducing
the annual leave of Federal employees from
26 to 20 days. retroactive to July l. 1t became
law without having been studied by Senate or
House Civil Service Committees, charged with
the responsibility of advising Congress in such
matters The Federal departments then began
the tedious task of recomputing the leave records
of some million employees and, at the same time,
working out new methods of crediting leave.
While all this was going on, Congress on
October 19 decided to pass substitute rider.
providing for graduated leave system. AS
result it has been necessary to scrap the work
already done on computing leave and preparing
forms and start all over again. But that was
not the worst of it. Because the new rider does
not take effect until January of next year, the
old leave system must be reinstituted for the
remainder of this year and leaves for the period
from July last to January must be recomputed
under the old plan. Then starting with the new
year. new computations, new rules and new forms
will become effective. And new questions may be
presented to the Controller General for solution.
The confusion waste motion and wasted
materials might have been avoided if Congress
had left the leave revision problem to the Civil
So~vice Committees, which then were considering
the subject. Leave revision is complex problem
that cannot readily be disposed of without care
full study by committees familiar with civil serv-
ice policies and procedures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
A Plan Worth Fighting For

Chairman Cannon of the House Appropria-
lions Committee may be waging a losing fight
Tor omnibus appropriation bills, but his argu-
ments for the system make sense Although
he failed to induce Congress to use the single
package-bill plan at the recent session, he is
convinced that another effort in behalf of the
one-bill-for- all idea is justified Senator Byrd
and other economy advocates also are convinced
of the soundness of the plan.
Two of the main criticisms voiced bv oppo-
nents of omnibus appropriations WERE first, that
the single bill resulted in delay in passage of
appropriations until after the start of the fiscal
year, and, second, that more savings were possible
by individual scrutiny of departmental budgets
than by overall study Mr. Cannon points out in
supplement to the Congressional Record, how
ever that whereas the omnibus appropriation
bill of 1850 was adopted on August %, the last
of the separate departmental bills did not 90 to
the White House this year until October More
over, he says, the 1850 omnibus bill represented
an overall reduction below estimates of per
cent, with go per cent reduction in non-defense
appropriations, as compared with an ver-all
reduction this year of only 81 per cent and
non-defense reduction of 6.3 per cent
On the basis of that comparison, the return
to the old system of considering dozen different
appropriation bills was mistake which Con-
greSs ought to correct when it meets again in
January. The trouble with that system is that
it gives Congress only piecemeal picture of the
huge Federal budget. An overall view of the
cost of running the Government cannot be
obtained until all of the separate bills have been
passed and their appropriations totaled up That
is dangerously slipshod way of authorizing
expenditure of the taxpayers money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Boss Role for -|s|tOn|yoSoporifc?
By William H. Stonemon
Foreign Correspondent OF The Star and
Chicago Daily News

nORTMUND, Germany, Nov. g.
~ What may turn out to be the worst
practical joke in industrial history is
now being played on the workers of
Western Germany-by their own trade
unions.
Under law passed last April the
workers of Germany's steel industry
have begun to name their representa-
tives on supervisory boards which-the
workers have been told-will give them
large share In the direction of basic
industry.
They hope thus to be able to fore
stall successors and mimics of the Ruhr
industrialists who financed Hitler.
They dream that it will give them a
new and painless sort of workers
democracy here in the Ruhr.
Each supervisory board will have II
members. five from labor. five from the
employers side and one independent.
There will be one board for each of
the 26 steel companies which are now
being formed from the old big nine"
Later similar boards will be formed for
all of the coal companies.
The trade unions hope that the sys-
tenn of "co-determination" or init
beStimmungsrecht" also will be applied
to I. G. Farben's former empire and
to the railways. If not to all big Ger
man companies of all kinds.
American employers were so alarmed
at this dangerous socialist experiment"
when it was first preached that the
National Association of Manufacturers
sent team of lobbyists to Germany to
fight against it.
It is commonly said here that the
German Bundestag passed the law
largely in order to show it's contempt
for Eldrldge Haynes, editor of Modern
Industry and other American "buttin-
skis"
BY now it is pretty clear that the
NAM was frightened of a shadow.
Experienced German industrialists in
this neighborhood express the view that
"mitbeStimmungsrecht" is little more
than a harmless soporiflc for the Ger
man trade unions and the working class
in general. They don't say so publicly
because that would spoil the effect.
American and other non-German
trade union officials have criticized the
scheme and many of them regard it
as outright dangerous.
Major criticisms of the plan are these:
!. The supervisory board has limited
powers, less than those of an American
board of directors. 1t names the three
man board Of management, or "vor-
stand" which really runs the affairs of
German company. but members Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
The Mark of Time

You ,Don't believe 1t, son. but once this
1DdS
A dusty lane. deep bordered Nth tall
pines,
The dust paS cool beneath my feet 1phen I
Walked slotDly home from, school, re-
citing lines
Remembered from the lessons had
heard.
And there Uas music in the air then.
Autumn Uinds
That whispered by, the soft notes of a
bird.
It's hard to picture noU dusty lane
Where concrete spreads hard and
1Dhite-hot glare,
Where trucks and tnris rush on sQueal.
ing tires
One cannot hear bird music in the air.
The city spread out far to take this in,
This stretch of country tohere I used
to roam,
You mont believe 1t, son, but once this
aDdS
A fragrant bit OF heapen I called
home.
Catherine Z. Berry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Opposes Military Pay Roise

Why all the howl for a pay raise for
the military forces? The service person.
mel already are overpaid. as compared to
industry. The average officer and top
enlisted grades receive we'll over 500
month as allowances" which are not
taxable. We now are getting plenty for
what we accomplish. Practically all Of
us drive better cars than the average
civilian. For proof, take look at the
Pentagon parking lots. Note the number.
especially the senior officers, who are
trying to get back into the service.
If the Congress wants to give money
where It's deserved. it should give
generous raise to men in actual combat
and this does not include the staff
commands or Potomac River warriors.
Give the raise to the shooters" instead
Of the "rooters."
Recalled Reserve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-06
Investigate Inspector General?

The Star, in the latest scandal involv-
ing delinquencies at the Rossford Ord
nance Depot, reports the Secretary OF
the Army as having new disclosures by
a Congressional committee checked by
the Inspector General of the Army" and
says that the Secretary has advised the
committee that "the Army is taking
every possible step to eliminate these
irregularities"
Search of your files, am sure. will
disclose this to be stock reply relative
to each outside disclosure of Army cor
ruption. It sometimes is varied with this
statement: THE Secretary of the Army
has asked the Inspector General for a
report and appropriate action will be
taken"
1t seems high time that the Inspector
General of the Army get on the Job and
clean up the mess repeatedly being re-
vealed in the activities of our high brass
without being prodded into doing what
he is charged by law to do: which is to
keep close vigil over the integrity and
honesty of military personnel and report
his findings to the Secretary of the Army.
We find that the Inspector General did
not originate the case Of General Benny
Meyers, the activities of the five per-
centers, the derelictions of General
Crawford, the latest exposures at the
Rossford Ordnance Depot or many other
of the derelictions of the high brass that
in the past few years have filled the
news columns and volumes of congress
sional reports of Investigations.
I suggest, if Congress really desires to
straighten out the corruption of the
Pentagon brass as revealed in matters
involving billions of our defense taxes,
that it investigate the Office of the Army
Inspector General and determine Cd if
the Inspector General was aware of these