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VEW Stole March on Legion
In Presenting Pension Bill
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—Veterans of Foreign Wars stole
the show from American Legion at the unveiling of
the Legion’s own pension bill on Capitol Hill. Smart
VFW legislative chief Omar Ketchum called Chair
man John Rankin of the House Veterans’ Com
mittee and told him that new VFW national com-
mander Lyle Beggs was in Washington, but would
have to leave soon. Ketchum asked if Beggs couldn’t
speak his piece on the bill first. Rankin agreed. As
a result Beggs got all the initial publicity and made
it appear that the whole thing had been planned by
VFW. Actually, the Rankin bill, which would give
veterans of both World Wars S6O a month at age
60 and S9O at age 65, was drafted by the Legion.
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Katharine F. Lenroot, head of the U. S. Children’s
Bureau, had to do some fast ad libbing to avoid an
awkward conflict before the National Commission
on Children and Youth, meeting in Washington.
Speaking ahead of her was George D. Stoddard,
President of University of Illinois. In his talk he
said he wasn't sure that rent conirol was such a
good thing for the country. “Maybe what we need
is less rent control and more houses,” he said. When
Miss Lenroot read her speech, she came to one
sentence which sfiid on paper, “Until enough houses
have been built to provide a freer market, rent
control will be needed to aid in keeping rents with=-
in the reach of lower income groups and to prevent
evictions.” Instead, she said, “The question of rent
control needs close study in connection with lower
icome groups.” Members of the audience who were
following printed copies of the speech snickered.
Miss Lenroot blushed.
HOOVER COMMISSION LOOKS TO CONGRESS
Ex-President Herbert Hoover’s Commission on
Organization of the Federal Government is now
somewhat concerned over how its 2,000,000-word
report is going to be handled by Congress. The
commission master minds would like to have a
special committee set up to handle the report as a
whole. But there is considerable outside pressure
to have the report broken up, with each part re
ferred to one of the standing committees of Senate
and House—Agriculture, Armed Services, and o
on. This could easily nullify all Hoover recommen
dations. Best compromise suggested is to have the
report handled by standing committees on Ex
penditures in the Executive Department.
Although only 4000 displaced persons have now
been admitted to the U. S. under the new DP law,
total U, S. immigration last year was 170,000. This
is the largest number in nearly 20 years. One
third came from England, France and Germany.
Another third came from the remainder of western
Europe. U. S. quota immigration from the old world
is now limited to 154,000 a year. Only 92,000 came
in because countries behind the iron curtain could
not fill their quotas.
SAVINGS BOND DRIVE TAKES NEW TACK
Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder has an
nounced that the annual spring U. S. Savings Bond
sales campaign will this year be launched as an
“Opportunity Savings Program.” The theme will
be, “Put More Opportunity Into Your Future.”
Governors of the 48 states are being asked to give
dinners for their county Savings Bond sales cam
paign chairmen on Patriots’ Day, April 19. On May
15, President Truman is scheduled to make a na
tionwide broadcast. The drive will be on for the
next six weeks, to the end of June. The fall cam
paign will as usual be an effort to get more Payroll
Savings Plans adopted. Three million workers are
now haing deductions made from their wages and
salaries for the purchase of Saivngs Bonds. Sales
last year were $2,726,000,000 over redemptions—
a new peacetime record which the Treasury hopes
will be beaten this year.
Veterans’ Administrator Carl Gray is having a
rough time with congressmen from districts in
which construction of Vets’ hospitals has been can
celed. In 14 cities, a total of $1,250,000 had already
been spent for preparation of sites for promised
hospitals. Water systems were enlarged, streets and
sewers put in, bond issues floated to pay for them.
Many sites were donated. Under the law, these
properties can be returned only by act of Congress,
or through sale by War Assets Administration as
surplus property. Irate congressmen are trying
first to get their hospital projects reapproved, or
at least to get Veterans’ Administration to pay for
improvements already made.
Electric eels are not eels, but are called so be
cause of their shape and resemblance to true ells.
The economic loss from accidents on American
darms is estimated at one billion dollars a year,
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Sweden’s Gamble Is Unfair
To Her European Neighbors
As the efforts to form a North Atiantici
defense aliiance go on, it develops that|
the choice between hanging together and |
Jdanging separately is not as easy as it
sounds. Already twe important snags havel
been struck, one in the United States andl
the other in Scandinavia.
The American difficulty is simply this:l
the Constitution reserves to Congress the
right to declare war. Thus the U. S. gov
ernment cannot sign a treaty which guar
antees in advance to give military adi to
another signer if the latter is attacked.
But the sentiment of Congress and the
country is such, at least at present, that
this difficulty appears to be one of method
rather than of intention.
The disagreement in Scandinavia, how
ever, is more basic. Norway wants to cast
ite lot with the alliance. This is under
stundable. If Norway had had a firm, welli
planned assistance agreement with Britain
in 1940, Germany might not have invaded
or might have been beaten off if it had.
Sweden wants to, cling to its traditional
neutrality through a three-power Scandi
navian treaty. It wants arms from the
United States, but with no commitments
to help other countries. Theoretically. it
also wants no help from outsiders if Rus
sia should attack anay of the Scandina
vian countries.
In other words, Sweden wants to take
the great gamble of doing virtually noth
ing in the hope that nothing will happen.
This fatal risk has been . taken in two
werld wars. Its consequences were over
come at the near-fatal cost of a continent’s
exhaustion.
Twice in this century Germany’s neigh
bors have taken the German leaders at
their word. They took refuge in their
weakness or their good intentions until
the blow was struck. |
So, in 1914, Germany attacked a small
and almost defenseless Belgium. In 1939
Germany attacked an isolated, deserted
Poiand after the bloodless seizure of
Czechoslovakia the year before. Czecho
slovakia, it now appears, could have been
saved by a strong Franco-British stand.
PPoland might have survived the Nazi
blitzkrieg if its allies had not abandoned
both will and obligations for a policy of
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Sweden has two argumeants in favor of
its gamble. 'One is that it was able to stay
neutral in two world wars. The other is
‘that Russia might be provoked into mass
ing troops opposite Sweden, under the
Soviet mutual-aid pact with Finland, if
Sweden joined the Atlantic alliance.
‘lt seems most unlikely that Hitler left
Sweden alone through any pious regard
for neutrality. Sweden was economcially,
geographically and diplomatically useful
to the Nazis as a neutral. It also seems un
like'y that any gesture of strict neutrality
could save Scandinavia if the Soviets con
sidered it useful to occupy the peninsula.
So even if the United States should sell
Scandinavia arms on a long-term loan
basis, it promises little security. Three
coun‘ries with a total population®of 15,-
000,000 would be in no position to impede
their colossal neighbor to the east—whose
government is scarcely more tender
hearted or trustworthy than Hitler — if
Russia should move in.
Unider the circumstances, Swedei
seems unfair to Scandinavia as well as to
the rest of free Europe when it asks Am
erica to divert to a proposed Scandinav
ian alliance a share of dcarce arms which
Sweden would refuse to use in thé com
mon defense of Europe’s freedom.
The commandment of peace is a matter
of 'divine law. Its purpose is the protec
tion of the goods of humanity inasmuch
as they are gifts of the creator. — FPope
Pius XIII.
I imagine that in the Soviet Union there
are some people sympathetic with a more
conciliatory policy than the harshness we
have so far encountered. But it is difficult
to say who they are. . . . After all, my re
lations with the Politburo have been
somewhat kimited.—General Walter Be
dell Smith, ‘American Ambassador to Rus
sia.
It would be tragic indeed if we should
save western Europe from the menace of
totalitarian communism only to wake up
some morning and find that democracy
has disappeared from our own backyard
in Latin America, — Serafino Romualdi,
Latin-American representative of the Am
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The Story: John Henry and
Sin Conover win an expense-paid
vacation at a swank California
resort on a quiz program. Upon
their arrival they are assigned to
Cottage 15. Their arrival seems
to draw unusual interest from
Gayner, the hotel clerk, and Miss
Thelma Loomis, a gossip column
ist, Later, as the Conovers dress
for dinner, a man named Anglin
enters the cottage holding a pistol.
He is wounded in the shoulder
and apparently is expecting to
meet someone. After a few ques
tions he decides he has made a
mistake and goes away, warning
the Conovers to say nothing of his
visit. Anglin wonders to himself
if the Conovers are “more of Bar
selou’s bunch.”
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“It beats me what happened,”
John Henry said. “I was just
singing a song—surely it wasn’t
that bad.”
Sin still wore the filmy dressing
gown she’d bought especially for
this year’s vacation. She faced the
open closet challengingly, rapping
at her teeth with a knuckle.
“Johnny, which dress shall I wear
tonight—the green or the gray?”
“The gray.” John Henry frowned
as he bent over and started lacing
his shoes.
Sin chuckled throatily. Now
that all the windows were fasten
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ed and all doors Ilocked,, she |
wasn’t afraid any more. “In the
first place, dopey, we were going
to drop it. In the second place, all
the fellow said was that he had
‘it" for ¥you—or whoever he
‘thought your were.”
After a while, John Henry ex
pressed all his thoughts. “H’m”.
Sin had put on her mnylons
straightening the seams carefully
before the long dressing-table mir
ror. She was adjusting her garter
belt when the rap came on the cot
tage door. John Henry was still
pants-less. Clutching the dressing
i gown tight around her, Sin headed
for the front door. Then she
stopped and asked him, “What?”
“Nothing,” he lied. John Henry
had started to say, “Watch it!” but
had given the whole thing up
rather than make a fool of him
self.
Sin finally managed to release
i the night latch and the door han
dle at the same time. Vernon, the
freckled bellhop, stood somberly
grasping an envelope in both
hands.
“Evening,” he lisped.
From the bedroom, John Henry
called, “Who is it?”
“It's all right,” Sin told him.
“Someone from the hotel.” To
Vernon: “Is something wrong?”
Vernon looked at the envelope
moodily. “I guess not. Here”. He
thrust the envelop toward Sin.
“I'm supposed to deliver these.”
“What is it?”
“Invitation.”
John Henry came up, hastily
buckling the belt on his gray
gabardine slacks. “Invitation?
Where we going, Vernon?”
The freckled youth was pained.
“From the hotel. They’re throwing
a big costume brawl tomorrow
night. Everybody gets invited.”
- “Oh, honey!” Sin’s eyes spar
kled. “It'll be fun! I love costume
parties.”
Vernon had already vanished
into the night.
John Henry had a red knitted
tie wound around his finger
and the collar of his white shirt
buttoned and the wings turned up |
around - his neck. The knock
sounded again.
“Oh, no!” Sin said firmly. “I’'m
not going this time. I intend fto
get my clothes on.”
“All right, all right,” Conover
‘muttered to his tie and the front
'door. “I never saw anything like
—"” He let his wvoice - trail off
into unspoken bitter comparisons
and went into the living room. He
remembered the first visitor in
time to open the door only a crack
and say gruffly, “Yeah?” S
It was a wizened little man in
a hlack serge suit and his late
fifties. He had a big smile on his
face that showed every one of his
teeth.
“Mr. Conover?” y
“Uh-huh.” ;
“Mr. Conover, my name is Trim.
On behalf of the Bry-Ter Tooth-
Paste Company may I welcome
you— Mrs. Conover to Azure.”
‘“Well, thanks,” said John Henry
uncertainly and opened the door
the rest of the way. “Won’t you
come in Mr. Trim?”
The representative stepped in
and stood blinking in the living
room,
“Who was it, honey?” Sin de
manded from the bedroom. It
broke the stern silence.
Mr. Trim cleared his throat.
“Mrs. Conover—" He cast a ques
tioning look at John Henry and
the younger man nodded. “Mrs.
Conover—l represent the Bry-Ter |
Tooth-Paste Company. For a Bry- |
Ter Future. You know.
“Oh, how thoughtful,” Sin
threw out to him but she didn’t
appear.
John Henry waited. The bed
room doorway stayed empty. Mr.
Thim shuttled his glances between
them, “Well—l've been commis~
sioned by the Company to sort of
look after you—you know, see if
I can do anything to help— The
Bry-Ter people want to make sure
you have a good time and —uh—-
enjoy your stay here.”
“Fine. We want to keep the
Poe-T~~ neople hanpy,” Pointedly,
Johnr Henry lifted his dark-blue
Mewin buaw from ‘the back of a
chair and slipped into it. Are you
staying here at the hotel, too, Mr.
Trim?”
“That’s right!” Mr. Trim nodded
his old head with its scant horse
shoe of hair vigorously. “Please
feel free to call on me at any
time”. He massaged the door han
die wistfuiiy. “il'm aiways avail-
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Mr. Trim stex;ged out onto the
brightly lit poreh of the Cottage,
“Thank you for coming” said hijg
host. But the Bry-Ter agent
wasn’t gone yet. He peered at the
cottage wall beside the doorway
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like blood!” 3
John Henry sighed, “It certain.
lly does,” and closed the blye door,
(To Be Continued)
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