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Arizona sun., 1952-12-26

S. To practice efficient methods
of field crops production by: Care
full selection of seed; use of better
crop production methods; and
most proficient use of available
farm machinery.
Jeff Beasley has specialized in
growing corn, legumes and cotton.
John Sparks grows hegari on ir-
rigated land. James Mosser's
crops are wheat, oats, barley and
flax. Roger Hagan grows cotton,
peanuts, corn and tobacco. Ronald
Kouplen's crops are corn. oats and
cotton, while Stanley Warner has
concentrated on growing wheat.
Commenting on their accom-
plishments, Mr. McCaffrey said:
lone of the reasons we at Har-
vester so much enjoy being with
you is that you young folks here
have already demonstrated out
standing ability and determina-
ton and are now looking ahead
to new aspirations and new objec-
tlves. In addition, you represent
more than 100000 Alters back
home who will also go on to bigger
things and larger responsibilities.
Il fervently trust-and am conf
dent it will be so-that many Of
you in All who continue on the
farm in adult life will also con-
tinue active in All as adult leaders
in your community. That is the
effective way to carry on the good
work the way many of your
parents are doing it, parents who
were themselves members OF 4-H."
Arizona sun., 1952-12-26
Talmadge Blast
Idea Of Increasing
Teachers Pay

Gov. Herman Talmadge of Geo.
gia made his strongest attack Ia
week on proposal that the state,
25,000 school teachers be given
10 per cent cost-of-living pay boos
Governor Talmadge said 81
teachers salaries are raised on
cent. taxes would have 10 b
raised"
He said he wants no tax increase
and wants state spending TO sta
within state income.
Arizona sun., 1952-12-26
High School
Graduates Show
Big Increase

The number of high school grad
yates in the United States, sine
1890, has increased about 13 time
as fast as the total population, re
ports Lawrence Galton in the cur
rent American Magazine The mum
Der of college graduates has in
creased six times as fast, he says
Evening star., 1952-05-25
lStote Societies
If First You Don't Succeed,
|SquobbIe, SquobbIe Again
BY Fronk SortweII. il.

Ichowder. blueberry pie. apple Juice
potatoe chips and pickles. all from
Maine. The society has the CO.
operation Of the Maine Develop.
ment Commission in giving ths
affair. Some $50 persons are ex.
lpected.
Aside from whetting their ap.
lpetites, Down casters here have
been electing officers. They are
Don Larrabee, president: Rep.
resentative Clifford McIntire, vice
president; DR.. Timothy Murphy
second vice president: Mrs. Char.
lotte Drinkwater, third vice. presi.
dent: Mrs. w. Clark Noble, cor.
responding secretary; Miss Doro.
thy Bigelow, recording secretary
and Miss. Katherine Bigelow
treasurer. The latter two are
sisters.
Evening star., 1952-05-25
IStote Societies

The Conference of State Soci-
ties is still on the treadmill in try
ing to get organized under the
charter granted it by Congress,
failing about, getting no where
much.
The latest attempt, a meeting
of the incorporators Wednesday,
finally ended in the appointment
of a committee of eight to try to
work up an acceptable constitu-
ton and set of bylaws.
Persons close to the dispute
admit it stems from two factions
of the conference trying to gain
control-though why they should
bother Is a little mysterious.
The biggest prize I can see in
this fight is the glory of playing
second cello to the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee of the
Board Of Trade In the publicity
attendant on the Cherry Blossom
Festival.
Perhaps there are others-prizes
of the spirit. of being a large frog,
prizes Of serving ones fellow man
whether he wants to be served or
not, the great exhilaration of hav-
ing the steering wheel in ones
hand, regardless of whether the
machine is going any where.
Perhaps where some one else
would like to collect stamps or
|unoffending coleoptera. q few per-
sons like to collect power. how
ever small, and prestige. however
minor.
Regardless Of motives they
are all honorable men-the COM
mittee will meet tomorrow night
to get the show on the road. Chair
man-of-the- incorporates Roy c.
Haines says the committee, which
he appointed, contains team men,
bers Of both sides. 50 the great
congestion of bubbles may go on.
At any rate, the incorporators
will meet June % for another full
size go round.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

The Maine State Society will
give another in its justly famed
series of lobster dinners-this time
sharing the victuals with the rep
resentatives of other expatriate
groups here.
Delegates and alternates to the
Conference of State Societies will
be the guests of the Names at $3.50
o'clock Wednesday in the Interior
Department cafeteria.
Locals from States not in the
conference will also be invited.
The lucky ones will feast on
lobster, corn on the cob, clam
Evening star., 1952-05-25

MRS. CHARLES r. STUBS
The former
Miss Patricia A. Davis.
Miss Patricia Anne Davis,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. ".
Stuart Davis, became the bride
yesterday Of Mr.. Charles r.
Stubs. He is the son Of Mrs.
Agnes Stubs of Washington.
The ceremony took place at the
Nativity Church, with the Rev.
Thomas j. Grodavent officiating.
Following reception at the Ho-
tel 2400. Mr.. and Mrs. Stubs left
on wedding trip to New York.
Evening star., 1952-05-25

From California
Guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Wahl Of Rockville for the next
three weeks are Mr.. and Mrs. Don
Bunting Of Marino, Calf.
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Barn Dance

Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Weaver of
BoydS were hosts at an old fash
ioned barn dance on Friday eve-
ming.
Evening star., 1952-05-16
Stain Would Do 1t Otherwise
Forces Now at Work Seek to Destroy System
Demand for Wage Increases Can Only Bring Fewer Jobs

profits are wiped out. Some Of
the radicals who attack profits
disclaim any intention of want
ing to destroy the profit system
they argue that what they
are after is reasonable or mod
crate profits.
But profits which do not pro-
vide seed money" for the fu-
ture-that is, funds to buy new
plant and equipment and
profits that do not pay proper
wages to those who invest their
savings are not really moderate
or adequate in any sense.
There are various ways of
measuring adequate profits
sometimes by the per cent of
gross sales and sometimes by the
per cent of return on capital
invested. What is often over
looked, hoWever-and Mr.. Tru-
man is guilty of the same error
is that profits before Korea
cannot be used to measure profits
after Korea any more than liv-
ing costs can be based on any
such yardstick.
The profit dollar doesn't buy
what it did before Korea. 1t
doesn't buy as much conStruc-
ton or as much materials, and
it doesn't buy the necessities of
life for the investor as it did
before 1850. Any appraisal which
assumes that the workingman's
dollar declines in purchasing
power but that the investors
dollar buys the same quantity
as it did before Korea is falla-
cious.
The strength of the American
system is related to a proper
balance between the workers
dollar and the investors dollar.
Profits aren't things that the
owners of companies eat up at
the dinner table or spend in
buying yachts. The Govern
ment takes a large slice out of
any rich mans income today
so that there is small advantage
to owners in large corporation
profits. The real justification for
adequate profits today is to save
Evening star., 1952-05-16
Doris FIeeson:

President Truman has now
declared himself neutral in the
contest for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
This is equivalent to saying
that he does not perceive any
candidate who surpasseS all the
others in the sum of his quail
ties. Since Mr.. Truman under
took three times to provide the
party with his successor-Chief
Justice VinSon, Gen. Eisenhower
and Gov. Stevenson, all of
whom said no-he is not hold
ing back out of mere modesty.
The Presidents statement is
blow to his foreign-policy aide,
Averell Hartman, whose people
were representing him as
heavy Truman favorite. For the
others it represents a gain.
Gov. Stevenson wants to be
nominated by a convention
draft. figuring he thus will
escape the Truman liabilities.
Senators Kefauver. Russell,
Humphrey, Kerr and Mcmahon
had never expected a Truman
Endorsement: in fact, several
of them had more or less di-
rectly asked him to stay neutral.
The anti-Communist liberals,
Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton, will echo Mr.. Truman at
their convention this week end.
Except for Senators Russell and
Evening star., 1952-05-16
'Hot-in- 7ond Attitude ChonQed
Harding Conference With Steel Heads 80 Years Ago Recalled
President Had Asked Them to Abolish 124our Work Doy

means of livelihood on equal
terms as self-reliant citizens.
1t had not been so until then
for millions of workers. AS to
steel, for another refresher, one
may turn back the pages slowly,
back through the La Toilette
Senate investigation of the mid
1930S that disclosed the tyran-
nies practiced on steel workers,
with revelations of caches of
guns and tear gas and thugs
hired by the companies: through
the 1919 steel strike after which
an investigation by the Inter-
Church Federation showed the
inhuman conditions in which
workers lived and worked, and
back to the Homestead riots of
1892, a lurid and ghastly kalei-
doscope.
All that has changed-and
fortunately for all concerned.
But it is a necessary background
to understand what goes on to-
day. For it is becoming clear
that. despite increasing enlight-
eminent among steel leaders
forced by public opinion, there
are obviously those who would
exploit disturbed and unsettled
conditions today to weaken COL
lective union strength and to
break down controls essential
to protect labor's living stand
ards.
1t has long been the fashion
among some to speak Of the
Roosevelt-Truman administra-
tionS as ''pro-labor." That COM
ment is provoked once again.
and understandably. by the
public speeches at the Phila-
delphia United Steel Workers
convention by Secretary of La
Dor Tobin and Vice President
Barkley backing up the union
because it accepted the findings
of the Wage Sterilization Board.
while the industry refused.
Such partisanship in the
midst of a delicate situation is
questionable practice.
Evening star., 1952-05-16
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever
Harry Honon.

Gen. Macarthur the election of military
dent would tragedy
breaking for military learned in 1948
Gov Paul Dever Massachusetts, keynote speaker
for the Democratic convention He'll
storm OF oratoryand bring along his lightning just in case
Gov DeWeys Charge that
the 8 election draws blast from President
another campaign about Republicans trying
to get up enough steam to win the
The Government lifts the ban buildings amusement and
receat1on-thus permitting quick
dent headquarters.
House Democratic Mccormack is named to head the
partys platform committee platform makers hope to
guarantee free
free board and ~
President Truman he won't conven
ton before the nominee chosen He'd feel only
man in the hall who a candidate.
The House votes to give the orich tdeand States
The administration bitterly opposdhe
share the are those speaking FOREIGN
Evening star., 1952-05-16
PropaqQndo Hits u. S. Weok|inus'
Koje Prison Incident Has Made Deep Impression Japanese
Communist Agtotors Won't Let Golden Opportunity Go BY

anxious to stretch a friendly
hand to a real democratic
Japan"
Such propaganda has paid
few dividends in the past. Out
side of the May l disturbances
created by professional agitators
the rank and file of the Japa-
neSe have been passive. But
some political men in the island
empire remember that in 1910
when Foreign Minister Matsuoka
was in Moscow to sign a non-
aggression pact with the
U. S. S. r., Stain embraced him
warmly when he saw him off at
the station and assured him
that he and many people in the
U. S. S. R. were Asiatics too.
Asiatics should stick together, he
said.
The words of Stain can have
a deeper meaning on the eco
nomically hard-pressed Japan
of today than in the past when
the japanese felt that they were
at the height of their power. A
sense of gratitude for the sup
port we have given them during
the seven years of occupation
and the feeling of America s
invincible power induced many
of them to turn a deaf ear to
the Red propaganda.
Our military setbacks in
Korea were understood by the
military-minded Japanese peo-
Pile, particularly after we turned
defeat into victory after the
Inchon landing. The populace
Evening star., 1952-05-16
B|owto hartman; Gain for Others
Tuons Declaration Of Self Neutral in Presidential Race
Will Help Those Who Wanted Escape His Liabilities

over biscuits" he will tell ADA.
especially if We throw out half
the biscuits. We've got to beat
up a fresh batch and serve them
piping hot with an honest
promise to the American people
that We'll deliver. The people
who like halfway measures will
vote Republican anyway"
The South, like Pavlov's dogs,
has. been educated to froth at
= the mouth when Mr.. Hum
phrey's name is mentioned, but
he is an exceptionally good
political speaker.
The President likes him, re-
spects his political acumen and
gets kick out of his vigorous,
colloquial campaigning.
1t is just barely possible that
when the President at his press
conference dwelt with relish on
how a good speaker sometimes
stampedes a national conven-
tion-he named Bryan and Gar
field as examples-he had the
Minnesotan in mind. Mr.. Tru-
man is known to be dissatisfied
with the lack of oratorical Prov
ess of all the leading candi-
dates; except for the old-fash-
ioned torchlight-parade style of
Senator Kerr. who also has
humor, nothing spectacular in
that line can be expected from
any Of the front runners.
Evening star., 1952-05-16
Dovid Lowrence:

If Stain had his way, he
would demolish the American
economic system because it alone
can sustain a powerful military
mechanism. But there are forces
at work in America which are
also seeking to do the same thing
for an entirely different reason.
Those forces are bent on destroy
ing the profit-and-loSS system
because they want more wages,
and their major attack just now
is against profits as such. In the
end it can only bring unemploy-
ment because many companies
will not be able to survive the
decline of the armament pro-
gram at time when high wage
scales have become imbedded in
the cost structure.
The CIO is the leader in the
crusade against profits. 1t has
been the policy of the CIO to
do everything it can by way of
legislation to reduce profits, and
unfortunately President Thu
man and many of his officials
have been duped into follow
ing the same line.
1t was the CIO which led in
the fight for so-called "excess
profits" tax legislation, believ-
ing that by putting up the rates
of taxes to a high point en-
ployers would not hesitate to
pay higher and higher wages
because these costs are deduct
ible as expenses. Indeed, Uncle
Sam in many instances bears
as much as 70 per cent of the
increased expense and the cor
porations only 80 per cent. EX-
perience after the last war.
however, showed that wage
scales never come down-in
fact, in 1946 the demand was
for 48 hours pay for 40 hours
of work. This helped to start
the cycle of imitation which was
accelerated by the Korean war.
The radical campaign against
profits is, of course, a disserv-
ice to the persons of small in
come who will have to pay more
and more taxes if corporation
Evening star., 1952-05-16

Kerr who are unacceptable to
them they will have kind words
for one and all. then wait and
see.
The place ADA will try to
lead is on the issues. Their
keynoter will be Senator Hum
phrey. who inserted the famous
civil rights plank in the 1948
platform, and he will demand
more of same, only stronger.
AS Senator Humphrey sees it,
his party must win on the is
sues, especially if Gen. Eisen-
hover is the candidate with his
fresh and winning personality.
He reasons ::HaSS the Democrats
cannot attack the general per-
sonally but that Ike will have
to ask others for the answers
on domestic problems and that
the people around him will give
him the wrong answers.
The Minnesota Senator nat
urally thinks Senator Taft has
had the wrong answers all the
time and is therefore equally
vulnerable when attacked by a
stanch liberal.
Mr.. Humphrey will not be
satisfied, he says, with some
tepid applause for the New and
Fair Deals and he does not want
his party to run again against
Herbert Hoover. I'VE can't
keep dishing up those warmed
Evening star., 1952-05-16
Constantine Brown:

Real concern is being ex-
pressed in Washington over pos
sible sequels of the ignominious
Koje Island incident. Despite
the reputation by the Penta-
gon and Gen. Mark Clark of
Brig. Gen. Charles Colson's sur
FENDER to terms Of the Commu-
mist prisoners for return of Brig.
Gen. Francis Dodd. the last
word Of the effect of the action
may not have been heard yet.
The exploitation of the Incl
dent by the Communist nego-
tiators at Panmunjom is our
least worry.
The capture of a general by
his own prisoners of war and
the acceptance of their terms
by his successor has made a
deep and unfavorable impress
sion among the japanese people.
Communist agitators are not
likely to let this golden oppor-
tunity go by.
Moscow officially is still at war
with the Nipponese empire. But
the Kremlin through it's agents
is telling the japanese that they
cannot hope to recover their past
glory by siding with the Western
weaklings. The future of Japan,
they say. is in Asia by a close
association with the Asiatics.
The rank and file of the
Japanese workers and farmers
are being told by Red agents
that their, future lies on
the Asiatic mainland-which at
present is denied to them. The
students and intellectuals are
being told that any hope for
Improvement depends on chang
ing their form of government
into a Peoples Republic" And
the big industrialists and busi-
nessn1en are shown that Japan's
recovery depends on the country
entering into an association with
the Eastern powers, Russia and
China, which offer the best out
lets for the export of Japan's
production and ample markets
from which to obtain necessary
raw materials at low prices.
The restricted markets avail
able in Southeast Asia, they are
told. are being dominated by
the business-hungry Western
nations. principally Britain and
France. while the American
Point Four program will inter-
fere with Japan's export trade
because we intend to give those
Asiatics something for nothing"
The idea of co-exiStence with
the Reds in Asia is being strongly
urged by Moscow. The Kremlin
is, expected to adopt the same
bitter-sweet attitude toward ia
pan which it is using in regard to
Germany. The Politburo agents
are telling the Japanese that
they can expect no good from
the Western capitalists. The
old enmity between Japan and
China need not worry them any
more because the Chinese Peo-
pies Republic solidly united
with the U. S. S. r. is entirely
different from the Chinese re-
public headed by the National
lists under Chang Kai-shek, the
Reds say. Mao Tse-tung. the
Japanese are being told. is
Evening star., 1952-05-16

jobs and create jobs. If in
centfve is killed. if investors are
discouraged. then the way is
opened for state socialism,
which is the first step toward
Communism. The socialists
disavow any sucn purpose but
once they start an economic
system down hill, the commu-
niStic planners pick up the pieces
at the bottom and impose their
totalitarian system in the midst
of political chaos.
America is going through a
profit crisis the true meaning
of which may not become ap-
parent for some months yet.
But the drive is on, and whether
Moscow has had anything to do
with inspiring the drive-some
unions have had believers in
Communism as their officers or
general counSel-the effort to
break down the profit system
is on in earnest. The steel con-
troversy showed how easy a man
like President Truman-who
never had the instincts of a
radical, though he has gone
along with radical doctrine on
political groundS-can fall vic
tim to the mistaken idea that
Government regulation Of
profits is a desirable policy,
while wages can be permitted to
go sky high without correspond
ing regulation. Once the bal
ance is seriously disturbed,
money for expansion becomes
scarce and another avenue to
socialism is opened up-capital
funds furnished by the state.
with everybody taxed to supply
revenue.
The attempt to break down
the profit system is surely some
thing that the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor can hardly
countenance, because the CIO
tactics can only lead to nation
alization of industries and the
same deterioration that has
ruined the economic system Of
Great Britain.
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Evening star., 1952-05-16
Thomas L. Stokes:

Recalling by an eyewitness of
O little scene loaded with mean
ing that happened back in 1922
may help to an understanding
of what goes on today in steel
about which so much emotion is
whipped up. Thirty years Is not
so long ago.
President Harding, a man Of
kindly intent for all the tragedy
that overlook him, had invited
a group of steel industry leaders
to dinner at the White House
one night to ask them to abolish
the 12-hour day then still in
effect. Shortly before midnight
reporters waiting outside, in
Guiding this one, were summoned
into the White House and steered
to a small room off the lobby.
There presently President Hard
ing and Judge Ebert H. Gary.
United States Steel head, joined
us.
The President asked Judge
Gary to dictate a statement and,
with the President of the United
States standing silenly by, Judge
Gary did. 1t promised consid-
Grafton of the Presidents re-
quest about shortening the work
day, though industry leaders
had been protesting that steel
could not be produced on a
shorter work schedule. A year
or so later the industry COM
plied-and so recently was the
12-hour day abandoned.
Here We saw-and this re-
porter never has forgotten it
a President of the United States
with hat in hand before the
steel masters.
The "hat-in-hand" attitude
has changed. as it had to, though
only comparatively recently. 1t
was not until March, 1887, for
instance, that U. S. Steel, in
dustry bellwether, recognized
the union and signed a contract.
That was because a President Of
the United States came along
Franklin D. Roosevelt-who de-
cided to be President Of the peo-
pie and speak up for them.
A regime of fairness and JUS
tice was proclaimed by Congress
in the Wagner Labor Relations,
Act to guarantee collective bar
gaining so that workers would
be protected in their right to
Abargain for themselves for their
Evening star., 1952-05-16

But it is suggested humbly
that it finally became time at
the beginning Of the 1930s when
depression spread over the Ma
ton and millions were jobless
and desolate that somebody re-
sponsible in Government should
become "pro-labor" - ''labor"
being only people trying to get
along. For one who watched
Government here in the 1920s
can testify that the political re-
gimes then were certainly pro-
big business, and labor could
get nowhere. even with hat in
hand. Today there are plenty of
influential persons in Congress
and out who are working and
speaking for the steel industry
and, it might be added. mis-
representing the situation in
some cases and garbling the
facts.
Steel still is strongly en-
trenched in Government. Con-
gress exemplified this in au-
thorizing the very liberal tax
write-offs for new plant facili-
ties for the defense program.
These were administered so lib
orally, to the extent of some
81 billion for steel, that a House
committee which investigated
administration of the law cover
ing steel and other industries
called the result a bonanza"
The steel issue, with all its
ramifications, is in politics, in
deep, as it must be. What We
are seeing now is a preview of
the 1852 political campaign in
which again, as every four
years. the test will come as to
whether our Government really
belongs to its people.
Evening star., 1952-05-16

in Japan was not particularly
impressed by the later temporary
victories of the Chinese Reds.
They considered these unimpor-
tant as long as we did not hoist
the white flag.
But the Koje incident has
created such an impression in
Japan that serious fears are
expressed that Red propaganda
henceforth will find much
more fertile soil than in the
past.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-09-26

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