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Taylor Daily Press, Friday, January 15, 1960, Page 4 [World Today
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*
A Ghastly Recurrance
The echoing waves of apparent anti-Semitism
occurring around the world are being discounted by
most thoughtful observers. The power of suggestion
upon people is great. The belief is wide that hoodlum
elements totally divorced from real anti-Semitism
have seized a chance to stir trouble.
The situation in Germany, however, cannot
be thus dismissed. The brutal anti-Semitism of the
Nazi era is still fresh in many minds in Europe
and elsewhere. The fear must inevitably be aroused
that this is the real thing, again.
Neo-Nazi elements have always been present
in postwar Germany. Generally they have been kept
under good control. If it be assumed that they bear
responsibility for the anti-Jewish outrages now tak-
ing place, then this must be put down as the first
time control has failed.
We cannot doubt the good faith of West Ger-
man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer when he gravely
deprecates these incidents and takes action to stamp
them out. No one can know better than he what
harm can be done to the image of a postwar Ger-
many trying at long last to take its place in the
society of decent nations.
In the minds of the easily fearful, even the
smallest anti-Semitic incidents stir the embers of
the past. All the horrors of Nazism are called up.
Men quietly ask themselves: “Is it to happen all
over again?”
Fortunately, the German incidents are still
minor and scattered, embarrassing as they may be
for the Bonn government and the West. The German
leadership has ample opportunity to find and deal
with the perpetrators of these acts.
Adenauer and his associates deserve the West’s
full support in this effort. This is no time to desert
the healthy and still overwhelmingly dominant
anti-Nazi elements in Germany. Reform is not made
lasting by seizing upon the first evident flaws and
saying: “You see. They’ll never change.”
This is not a new dark chapter in Germany’s
history. But it is black ink spattered on a brighten-
ing page. All who see the value of binding a resur-
gent Germany tightly to the free family of nations
must hope these splotches can be quickly erased—
and their recurrence prevented.
Present Mood
No Help to
Demo Party
WEST POINT, MISS., LEADER: “The vast
majority of advertisers—large and small—continue
to rely on the power of the printed word to move
merchandise. It’s, there when you want it—to read,
then to re-read, or put aside for future reading.
The newspaper you hold in hand is truly an ‘invited
guest’ into thousands of local and area homes. We
don’t claim a ‘captive audience’, but an appreciative
and responsive audience.”
The Bible ... Can You Quote It?
By Lavina Ross Fowler
1— Turning from the vortex of misery to gayety, how
did Jeremiah personify Israel? Jeremiah 31:4
2— Name the wayward daughter of Jacob. Genesis 34:1
3— Which of the following men was hanged on the
gallows he had built for Mordecai: Naaman, Haman
or Damaris? Esther 7:10
4— How many of the Israelites who left Egypt with
Moses remained to enter into the Promised Land?
Numbers 26:64-65
5— What is the parable of the Good Samaritan?
St. Luke 10:30-37
Four correct - excellent. Three correct - good.
See answers in Bible.
(Copyright, 1960, by National Newspaper Syndicate)
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By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON Iff) — For many
weeks this country has been
in a kind of fat and happy mood.
The feeling has been growing
ever since Premier Nikita Khru-
shchev came here last fall, talk-
ing of peace and reducing ten-
sions:
Time may prove this relaxed
national attitude was justified.
Or, in the end, it may turn out
to be an illusion and a great, if
not fatal mistake. Americans
will feel they were humbugged
by propaganda if events take
a sour turn.
But the present American
mood will probably become even
more visible in (the light of
Khrushchev’s announcement that
the Soviets plan a big cut in itheir
armed forces.
The deeper this attitude grows,
and the longer it lasts in this
election year, the tougher it will
be for (the Democratic candi-
dates to make the presidential
race exciting.
President Eisenhower’s news
conference Wednesday was a
good example of the present un
tense feeling. It was—except for
one Eisenhower flareup over a
political question—an easy, ami-
cable, and at times humorous
conference.
The question put to the Presi-
dent, and his answers, were all
pitched in a low key.
This same we’re-not-in-a-race-
against-disaster attitude was re-
flected in Eisenhower’s State of
the Union Message to Congress
last week. He talked of peace
and prosperity but only in a gen-
eral way of legislation he want-
ed.
In other ways since .Khrush-
chev’s visit Eisenhower has
acted like a man who feels he
can sit back and take it a bit
easy. For example: His Decem-
ber journey ito (three continents.
Now, with Congress back on
the job hardly a week,
hower is planning a brief West-
ern vacation and then a good-
will Latin-American tour, all pre-
liminary ito a summit meeting in
May.
The Soviets, for their part,
have been deliberately less hos-
tile since Khrushchev returned
home. This new Soviet restraint
is, of course, part of Khrush
chev’s program for taking some
heat out of the earth’s atmos-
phere.
He’s still working at it.
While here he poposed world
disarmament, a problem which
can’it be tackled or solved over-
night, Thursday in Moscow he
told the Supreme Soviet Parlia-
ment Russia will go ahead with
disarmament without waiting
for the Western powers.
This one act would fry several
kinds of Soviet fish: It would de-
crease international jitters a bit
more, be good Soviet propaganda
in showing good will, and free a
lot of husky men who could be
used in industry (to boost produc-
tion—or -on farms to provide
more food.
Any such Soviet move will cre-
ate problems for Eisenhower and
the Democratic-run Congress. If
it turns out the governmtnt is
still too suspicious of the Soviet
Union ito do any more military
cutting here, at least there will
be lots of conversation.
Usually, by the time a presi-
dential campaign year rolls
around, enough national and in-
ternational pressures have piled'
up ito give politics a zing and
the politicians a lot of argu-
ments.
If the current mood of relaxa-
tion continues, (the Democrats
will have a time trying to get
the voters steamed up on inter-
national problems. They’ll have
to look for excitement in doings
at home.
But, if the country remains in
high prosperity, that will be
tough, (too.
NEA Service. Inc.
'Excuse Me7
Confidence
Grows With
Steel Accord
Buy in Taylor and build your
own home town.
. By SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
NEW YORK (ff) — Consumer
'confidence seems to have grown
stronger with the steel pact. And
at the same time his feeling that
prices will go still higher is mak-
ing him a better sales prospect.
On this—along with the urge of
business to rebuild its. stocks—is
Eisen- based the hope that the total econ-
omy will climb to new highs be-
fore summer.
The consumer’s change from
worry to confidence is reported
by the University of Michigan
survey research center. It was
conducting a poll of consumer
buying intentions when the steel
pact was announced.
Its later returns differed quite
widely from those taken when the
public still feared a new steel
walkout at the end of this month.
The steel pact removes the
threat of shutdowns in other in-
dustries as a side result. It gives
many persons the belief that their
incomes will be as good or better
this year than last.
This confidence makes them
ready to Stake on more installment
debt for the big items they want.
Belief that prices are more
likely to go up than down gives
many the urge to buy now rather
than wait.
But the survey also shows an-
other fear—over tight money and
its handmaiden, higher interest
rates—and this could keep many
out of the housing market.
Plans to buy a new home have
dropped sharply since last sum-
mer, the survey says. Mortgage
costs have gone up and builders
find it harder to come by financ-
ing even at the higher rates.
Large increases in mortgage
debt through September are not-
ed by the Northern Trust Co. of
Chicago in its January bank let-
ter. But it also stresses increased
use of automobile credit and vig-
orous expansion in other consumer
goods credit and personal cash
loans.
The Chicago bank takes comfort
in noting that “continued strength
in consumer demand at years end
was evidenced by the 6 per cent
gain over 1958 in Christmas sales
of the department stores.”
For the year as a whole retail
sales came to about 216 billion
dollars, which was 8 per cent
above the 1958 volume. Only part
of this gain was accounted for by
higher prices.
* EDSON IN WASHINGTON
U.S-U.S.S.R. Lend-Lease
Hassle Is Strictly Private
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—The third round of negotiations now
under way to settle the 15-year-old lend-lease debt owed by Soviet
Russia to the United States is not considered a test of the new
“Spirit of Camp David,” whatever that is.
. Whether or not a lend-lease agreement is reached with the Rus-
sians, it is not expected to have any effect on. the disarmament
and atomic test-ban talks reopening in Geneva, nor on the Big
Four summit conference now scheduled for Paris in May.
So when U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen and Russian Am-
bassador Mikhail A. Menshikov start their talks, they will merely
be conducting an exercise to cure an 800-million-dollar hangover
headache from World War II.
The United States took the initiative in opening this subject
again when Chairman Nikita Khrushchev visited Washington last
summer. He had barged into the State Department, wanting to
talk about a new line of credit to increase trade.
Undersecretary of State C. Douglas Dillon countered with a sug-
gestion that this old account be cleaned up first, to relieve tension
and further promote peaceful coexistence.
Khrushchev got the point and agreed to reopen talks. Two
previous efforts to settle, in 1947-48 and 1951-52, flopped.
A SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT now would probably be some
place between the U.S. asking price of 800 million dollars in 1952
and the 300 millions which the Russians offered.
A full 800rmillion-dollar settlement would be only about 30
cf.^s. on the dollar for the 2.6 billion-worth of civilian type goods
still in stock, in use or in the supply pipeline to Russia on V-J day.
The U.S. first asked 1.3 billion in payment, then cut to 800 million.
One big difficulty has been Russian refusal to give an inventory
of such supplies, on the ground that military and civilian type aid
should not be separated.
THE U.S. THEREFORE MADE ITS OWN INVENTORY. It in-
cludes such things as a synthetic rubber tire factory, oil refinery,
locomotives, machine tools, trucks and nearly 200 million dollars’
worth of food and agricultural supplies.
r-un_xSeplrate cateS°ries are 84 merchant vessels, including 36
Liberty ships. The original asking price for these was 33 million
dollars. Included are 31 small naval craft and 39 army craft for
This total of 154 ships for which payment is now being asked is
only about a fourth of the 670 vessels of all types furnished Russia
during the war.
, -?11 Russians reported that 146 had been lost or scrapped,
171 unfit for navigation. The United States wanted 186 ships re-
turned, including 101 torpedo boats, 70 sub chasers and 15 landing
craft, for use in the Korean War.
. THIRTY SHIPS WERE FINALLY RETURNED, including three
icebreakers. But Russian refused to return the others unless the
U.S. agreed to sell 167 others. This is now cut to 154.
The final Lend-Lease Administration report in 1946 shows the
value of all supplies furnished Russia was 11.3 billion dollars.
This is about 22 per cent of the 50 billions that went into the entire
program^^Oniy the British Empire received more—31 billion, or
All the 39 allied countries that got such aid have long since
made settlement, except Nationalist China and Greece, which had
civil wars after V-J day and still can’t pay.
THE U.S. CANNOT IN GOOD CONSCIENCE accept a settle-
ment from the Russians any better than that given others.
MAY VISIT HERE
BONN, Germany (ff) — Chan-
cellor Konrad Adenauer is plan
ing a spring trip ito the Orient summit
and may visit Washington en
route, for a talk with President
Eisenhower before the East-West
conference.
BIBLE VERSE
Revised Standard Version
I am the door, if anyone enters by me, he will be saved,
and will go in and out and find pasture.” John 10:9
Confraternity Edition
“I am the door. If anyone enter by me he shall be safe,
and shall go in and out and find pasture.” John 10:9 save money.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON — One of (the
worst scandals connected with
government stoage is the man-
ner in which some of the big
grain companies have been
“slugging” high-quality govern-
ment wheat by mixing it with
wheat “screenings,” then sell-
ing it as high-quality wheat to
our foreign customers.
This practice of willfully deter-
iorating American wheat is
gradually driving it off (the for-
eign market, so (that about the
only wheat being sold abroad
today is (that which is virtually
given away under Public Law
480.
Yet Secretary of Agriculture
Benson insists on selling govern-
ment-owned wheat through the
big grain companies.
IT OCCURS TO ME
ANNUAL BANQUET
MAY BE BIGGEST
By LIN MILLS
Taylor Press News Editor
CHAMBER MANAGER Les
Box feels like the annual ban-
quet on Jan. 28 is going to be
even bigger than it has in the
past.
Tickets are just now being
distributed, and of course there’s
no count, but Les says a lot
of people who usually don’t at-
tend the big affair have indi-
cated they don’t want to miss
this one.
Our CC banquets do have a
lot of appeal. I think it’s safe
to say they’re the biggest civic
affair of the year . . .
Part of the appeal is finding
out who gets the honor of be-
ing named Taylor’s outstanding
citizen of the year and who’s
the master farmer.
This year, if I understand
what’s in the mill, there’ll be
one other award — the presenta-
tion of the outstanding sales
person of the year. A selection
plan in which the public will
have the opportunity to vote is
in the planning stage. The top
sales person is to be chosen
from the 12 named for monthly
honors during the year.
Of course, the voting can’t
start until after the outstanding
sales person for December is
named . . .
HERE’S ONE of the better
jokes from the Rotary Club’s
collection:
The harassed kindergarten
teacher was tugging away to
get a much too small a pair
of overshoes on one of her mop-
pets. Finally succeeding she
remarked, with goodly perspira-
tion on her brow: “My, but
these were hard to get on!”
“Yeth,” said the little boy,
“that’s because they are not
mine.”
With that the exasperated
teacher pulled the overshoes off.
“Well,” said the little boy,
“they are not mine, they are
my brother’s, but I have to
wear them.”
THE ROTARIANS also come
up with a solution on how to
drive a nail without smashing
your thumb — just hold the
hammer with both hands . . .
THE WRITER OF the Lions
bulletin was in an “all-is-not-
lost” mood:
“Be of good cheer. We’ve
managed to get through one
thousand nine hundred and fifty-
nine of them. Surely we can
get through one more.”
HUNTING SEASON as of this
The PRAYER
For Today From
The UPPER ROOM
Whereunto shall I liken the
kingdom of God? It is like
leaven, which a woman took
and hid in three measures of
meal, till the whole was leav-
ened. (Luke 13:20, 21)
PRAYER: O Father, help us
through prayer Ito open our
hearts to Thee to let Thy spir-
it leaven the dormant powers
within us. Thus may our
home, work, and community
be richer for our part in it,
and Thy kingdom come and
Thy will be done. In Jesus’
name. Amen.
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Taylor Merchants are your
friends — shop with them and
weekend is over except for
squirrels and rabbits.
Quail season ends today,
marking the close of all ma-
jor hunting.
But shooters shouldn’t be
discouraged. Hunting squirrels
and rabbits is a lot of fun and
goes a long way toward keep-
ing your “eagle eye” peeled.
Trouble with most of us
hunters, it seems to me, is that
we don’t shoot enough out of
season to be good during sea-
son.
Boyle Column
You Said It,
But Did You
Have To?
By SAUL PETT
NEW YORK Iff) — Have you
ever noticed how often we human
beings say and do things we don’t
really want, need, mean, or en-
joy.
I have in mind the act of com-
pulsion, the uttered cliche, the
compunction to fill a void that
doesn’t need filling, the pause
that doesn’t need refreshing.
Think of all the little useless
acts of human behavior, of the
cigarette you smoked purely out
of habit, of the extra highball or
coffee cup you drained without
thinking or wanting.
Is there anything on earth more
useless than the man who asks
when it’s 110 in the shade, “is it
hot enough for you?”
The list of pointless acts of hu-
man behavior is probably end-
less. But can’t we really do
something about:
The two old college mates who
couldn’t stand each other back on
the old campus but when they
meet accidentally 15 years later
insist on exchanging phone num-
bers and chanting, “We must get
together.”
The mother who says automati-
cally, “Be a good boy,” whether
the boy is off to solitary confine-
ment, a monastery, or a desert.
The driver who, when pulling
away from a traffic light along-
side another car, feels compelled
to outrace the other guy. And
pretty soon we have a mobile
battle of virility.
The teen-age girls who can’t
talk without squealing.
The baseball batter who paws
at the dirt with his toe, digs in
hard so his spikes will hold and
then steps out of the batter’s box
to get the dirt out of his spikes
so he can do the whole thing over
again.
The people who insist on talking
louder to children and foreigners
The man who can’t breathe
without asking “What’s new?”
and then feels put upon if you
tell him.
The departing guests who can’t
just say good night but must say,
“You must come over some-
time.” The implication is that
sometime when they’re not home.
The grandmothers who mutter
perfunctorily, “Eat, Eat,” when
the baby already is eating like
there’s no tomorrow.
The commuter who would rath-
er read your paper than his.
The columnist who would rath-
er carp than think.
Why Grow Old?
Marathon Questions Answered
You’ll find this exercise for the thighs in the Marathon booklet. Make large
ciicles with the leg. Keep knee stiff and move leg as far to each side as you
can as you circle.
By JOSEPHINE BOWMAN
(The Question Box)
Every year at this (time I turn
my question box over to questions
which concern Marathon ent-
trants.
Q. “Shall I wear my girdle
when exercising?”
A. No.
Q. “Is water fattening? I have
heard that a woman should not
drink much water when reduc-
ing.”
A. Water is not fattening. It
has no calories.
Q. “When should I begin Mar-
athon? I have just read about
it.”
A. Begin as soon as you receive
your Marathon booklet. Read the
instructions carefully and then
start immediately.
Q. “I am going to hold my
daily calorie intake to 1200 a
day because I MUST lose weight.
How should I divide (the calories?
Does it matter when I eat so
long as I do not go over the
daily allowance?”
A. So far as losing weight it
does not maitter how you distri
bute your daily caloric allow-
ance. However, it has been found
that it is much better not to skip
a meal.
Q. “Are exercises more effec-
tive when taken at a certain
time or does it make any differ-
ence when they are done?”
A. Fit your exercises into your
daily routine ait (the time most
convenient for you. The value of
exercise is the same, regardless
of the time of day or nighit it is
done. It’s besit ito wait several
hours after eating because exer-
cise draws more blood away
from the Stomach.
Q. “When should I weigh and
measure myself?”
A. Weigh and measure your-
self just before beginning Mara-
thon and weigh at the ’ end of
every two weeks.
Q. “How long before I will
see a difference in my figure?”
A. Usually the seams will be-
gin to loosen in about ten days.
If you exercise, you should see
an appreciable difference in
measurements in itwo weeks.
If you' would like Ito join my
8-Week Self-Improvement Mara
tlion to see how much you can
improve your figure and appear
ance in eight weeks, send 1C
cents and a stamped, self- ad-
dressed envelope with your re-
quest for (the Marathon booklet.
Address Josephine Lowman in
care of this newspaper.
*
«•
(Released by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate, 1960)
Happy Birthday
Greetings of “Happy Birthday’’
are being extended to the follow-
ing birthday celebrants:
Mrs. Anton Cervenka, Ned
Fails Jr., Linda Brinkmeyer,
Margaret Ruth Vance.
(Editor’s Note — “Happy Birth-
day” must be received in The
Press office the day before pub-
12cation at Jfee latest,! _______
The practice of slugging has
become so flagrant that Con-
gressman Carl Albert of Okla-
homa, recently returned from a
European wheat survey, is ask-
ing for a Congressional investi-
gation.
The big grain dealers would
just as soon sell Canadian or
Argentine wheat as they would
American wheat,” Congressman
Albert fold me.
“Too many exporters are af-
ter quick profits raithtr than long-
term markets. Slugged wheat is
ruining our markets. When we
throw trash in our wheat, we
just can’it expect European cus-
tomers to continue buying.
“I found (that our farm ex-
ports had dropped 18 per cent to
Britain for 1958,” ithe Oklahoma
Democrat continued, “30 per
cent to West Germany, 34 per
cent to Italy, and 30 per cent to
Belgium—partly because of this
practice.”
Prosecution Is Probed
Previous secretaries of agricul-
ture stored a large part of gov-
ernment-owned wheat in govern-
ment elevators and shipped it
abroad under careful govern-^-
supervision, frequently in govMjB
ernment ships. Benson, in con-v^
trast, has let ithe private eleva-
tor operators make huge profits
,on storing grain, and then has
required that all wheat be ship-
ped abroad by private com-
panies. This, in effect, means
the big four—Cargill, Bunge, Le-
val, and Continental.
Not only has Benson insisted
on shipping government grain
through the private companies,
but the Eisenhower administra-
tion has dropped (the posecution
of several grain companies which
slugged and stole government-
owned grain.
In one case the Justice De-
partment had indicated the Ar-
gentine Bunge Corp. for defraud-
ing the United States to the ex-
tent of $1,700,000 by mixing
frost - damaged Canadian wheat
classified as hog feed with good
quality U.S. government-owned
wheat at Galveston, Ithen selling
it abroad as wheat fit for human
consumption.
This had the effect of both get-
ting rid of Canadian wheat “un-
fit for human consumption” as
American wheat and simultane-
ously spoiling future American
markets abroad. Yet just before
official sof the Bunge Corp. were
to go on trial in Houston, Gov.
Allan Shivers of Texas flew to
Washington, lunched with Eisen-
hower, and immediately there-
after orders were given the Jus-
tice Department to drop the
prosecution.
Reason: E. H. Thornton, fait:
er of Gov. Shivers’ campaign
manager, was one of those un-
der indictment.
Thornton, manager of the Gal-
veston grain elevators, had free-
ly confessed to slugging grain
ships with poof quality wheat.
“I gave orders,” he had testi-
fied, “to slug as many ships as
possible.”
Yet, on direct orders of Presi-
dent Eisenhower the indictments
of Thornton and officials of the
Bunge Corporation were drop-
ped. Later ithe Bunge firm, as
a corporation, pled guilty and
was fined $5,000. Buit the indi-
viduals involved did not have to
face trial.
Green Light to Grain Trade
On another occasion, (the gov-
ernment had indicated, and in
some cases convicted, a series
of .grain dealers for selling gov-
ernment grain and beans which
they were supposed to be stor-
ing. Under direction from Ben-
son’s predecessor, Charlie Bran-
nan, the following grain elevator
men and graindealers were con-
victed:
C. M. Henderson, Farwell,
Texas—Four years plus $1,000
fine and the repayment of $1,086,-
000 for stolen grain.
Tenner’s Inc., Cortez, Colo. —
A series of prison sentences
ranging from 18 months to three
years for its executives, plus the
repayment to the government of
5-,108,000.
Herman Dawson, Fort Worth-J^B
Six years imprisonment and $15,-
000 fine with the repayment of
$454,000.
O. L. Shannon, Sudan, Texas
—Five years in prison and $15,-
000 fine with $1,043,000 to be re-
paid.
On March 30, 1953, however,
two months after Benson took of-
fice, a letter was sent to Wil-
liam Farrell, Dallas attorney for
the Agriculture Department who
had secured these prosecutions,
which stated in part: “You should
not take any affirmative steps
toward the institution of new
suits against (third-party pur-
chasers or 'the making of addi-
tional demands for payment up-
on them until further advice is
received from this office.”
The most important further
advice received was word that
the Agriculture Department’s le-
gal office in Dallas was being
closed down and Farrell, (the man
who obtained the convictions,
transferred.
Automatically (this notified the
entire grain industry that ele-
vator operators and warehouse-
men now had the green light to
do almost anything they wanted)
with government grain. This
marked the beginning of the ex-
orbitant prices for crop Storage
recently disclosed by Senator
Symington’s investigation.
(Copyright, 1960, by The Bell
Syndicate).
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