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BY PETER EDSON -~
NEA Washington Correspondent
MADRID.—(NEA)—The best way to ‘'see Europe
today is to get into an automobile and tour the
sticks, Hanging around the capitals and the big
cities gives a completely warped impression of life
in the various countries.
So, after a month’s official Department of De
fense-arrranged tour of a dezen western European
metropolitan centers to observe recovery and re
armament progress, this reporter and wife decided
to try out rural reconnaissance by car.
So for another month, on vacation, we topred
southern France and Spain. It worked.
Thanks to arrangerrents now perfected by the
international travel department of American Au
tomobile Association, French, British and Ameri
can cars can be rented in the principal capitals, and
it isn’t necessary to buy a car in Europe or take
your own automobile abroad, though a lot of peo
ple still prefer that method. :
The cost for car rental for 3,600 miles of driving
in a French Ford — a baby V-8 model called the
Vedette—was $413. This did not include $8 for a
couple of international driving licenses nor the
cost of the gas.
The company which rented the car gave an al
lowance for oil and paid all repair bills, including
a couple of new fan. belts and a battery which went
dead in the dark of the night on one of the lone
liest roads in Spain,
Ford and Chevrolet, as well as the French cars,
have good service statigns in the major towns in
Europe. Mechanics are well trained and they have
good supplies of parts. Service on the bigger or less
known cars might be difficult outside the biggest
cities.
PLENTY OF DOUGH
Gasoline is expensive. It's equivalent to 70 cents
a gallon in France, where sale is unlimited. In
Epain it’s 44 cents a gallon but strictly rationed and
you buy your coupons from the Bank of Spain, pay
ing in dollars only. There is no limit on the anrount
of gasoline tourists may buy, but since Spain must
import all her gasoline from the dollar areas, for
eign users must pay for what they burn in dollars,
The French Ford, which is between the British
and American models in size, gave 20 miles to the
gallon. Total gas expenditures were SB7. So the
tota¥ automobile costs of the trip were around $520
for the month, or an average of a little over 14
cents a mile.
French roads are excellent and Spanish roads are
in general terrible, though far better north of Ma
drid than south or east, A third-class road in France
is the equivalent-of a first-class road in Spain, with
but few exceptions.
What you lose on bad roads, you make up for on
other almost forgotten joys of motoring in the
United States. The main advantage is that the roads
aren’'t crowded with other paassenger cars.
In one day's driving, from Merida to Seville,
about 150 miles, we counted only 13 passenger cars
going the other direction, Trucks were somewhat
more numerous.
SAME ANYWHERE
There is something about the Spanish truck
driver which makes him go down the middle of the
road and he is awfully difficult to pass. He seldom
has a rear vision mirror — seldom has tail or stop
lights, either—and he owns the road.
He gets this naturally from the donkey cart
drivers from whom he is descended, for they go
down the middle of the road, too.
Often the drivers are asleep and the donkey tends
to meander. In and near the cities both French and
Spanish, bicycle riders are an extra hazard. Streets
in many of the towns are crooked and narrow, un
paved and rutty.
French roads are excellently marked; Spanish
roads, in the little towns, are often not marked at
all. It helps if you speak the language, for you have
to stop and ask your way often.
But all over Spain the people are the most polite
and obliging on earth, They'll even run ahead of
your car for blocks directing you.
Since the Spanish government controls the sale
of gasoline, there are pumps only in the towns and
citles. Many villages have only one pump. And the
pump operator has to be found, particularly at
siesta time. One pump was empty and we had to
drive 50 kilometers to the next town.
Comdort stations attached to gasoline stations, in
the Ameriean manner, are so rare as to be non
existent in Spain. Bsos and Mobiloil are introducing
them im France, but you can't count on where the
next one will be. g
However, if you will take your chances on all
these things, you can have a lot of fun and see
things you never saw before, some of which will be
recounted in this space im the next issue,
1 get criticized for mot writing a book. I'mx prob
ably the only man in the country who ever got
criticized for @urning down a million dollars.—Gen
eral George C. Marshall, on refusing to write story
of his life for proffered $1,000,000.
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Reds Talk "“German Unity
For Propaganda Use Only
At first Stalin’s puppets in East Germany spurned
a United Nations invitation to Paris to discuss a
proposed commission for inquiry into free election
prospects in Germany. Then the Kremlin changed
its mind, and the East Germran Communists duti
fully decided to appear.
This might mean that Russia still recognizes the
UN as a powerful influence among the peoples who
yearn for peace. Or it might indicate only that
Moscow has re-assessed the propaganda debits and
credits and feels there is more to be gained by
having the German Reds come than stay away.
It clearly does not mean that the chances for a
unified Germany under a freely elected govern
ment have suddenly gone up. Russia has no inten
tion of allowing unfettered elections in the eastern
zone, The Communists would be voted down over
whelmingly, just as they would be thrown out to
morrow if the Red Army and the commissars went
home. : .
To the Soviet Union, the unity issue is a weapon
in the tireless campaign to disrupt the West's plans
to incorporate West Germany economically, politi
cally and militarily into the Allied family,
The upside-down language of its East German
stooges at Paris is proot of its total insincerity on
this question.
Dr. Lothar Bloz, deputy premier of the puppet
government, described the UN plan for a commis
sion of inquiry on free elections as a Western
scheme to block unity. Here we see the tattered old
device of trying to tar your enemy with the black
that belongs on you.
Bloz said a UN survey of election possibilities
would only lead to a “morass of idle prattle.” Trans
lated out of Commmunist gibberish, this means it
would lead to embarrassing facts which the Reds
dare not ackhowledge.
He asked instead for agreement between East
and West German governments to hold elections
under four-power supervision. Translating again,
this means under conditions which give the Rus
sians a veto, not to mention an opportunity to ham
string at every turn those who would be bent on
assuring honest, free elections.
Just for good measure, Bloz muttered something
about “Fascism once again rearing its ugly head”
in West Germany, Undoubtedly there is a certain
truth in this. But what Bloz didn’t say is that the
German Conmunists have welcomed with open
arms all former Nazis who are willing to embrace
the Red brand of totalitarianism. At least the West
protests when an old Hitlerite speaks up.
Wkatever their talents, the Germans have never
been noted for political sagacity. Yet it is difficult
to imagine that even they would swallow the Polit
buro’s watery pablum. There’s about as much
chance for Russian-backed free elections in Ger
many as there is for converting Siberia into a sum
mer resort,
!
Career Man |
There are artists in all walks of life. There are
waiters who make a fine art of waiting, teachers‘
who make a fine art of teaching, and janitors who
make a fine art of janiting.
Recently a janitor in Pueblo, Colorado, had a
school named after him. He has made his job a
career, say school officials. Successive generations
of students have found him always ready to take
on—in addition to his duties as school janitor—the
task of patching their quarrels, healing their
wounds, umpiring their games, mending their bicy
cles, and a dozen other extracurricular activities.
Of this greatly beloved local figure, who appears
to combine the shrewd versatility of a Connecticut
Yankee at King Arthur’s Court with the Ozarkian
simplicity of a Shepherd of the Hills, one school
official says: “He feels proud of his work, He does
it and then steps back to look at it, like an artist
would survey a master painting.”
While we might be cautious about the wording
of this tribute, we would certainly applaud the of
ficial's perspicacity in recognizing that an artist is
an artist, whether in smock or dungarees. We join
in the salute to George Spann, janitor, and to one
or two other janitors we havé known who have not
yet had buildings named after them. — Christian
Science Monitor,
The Comnrunists have their Siberia, but we have
something worse. We have a torture that the Reds
in all their diabolical inventiveness cannot match.
We can assign a man a fate worse than death or
exile. We can tell him that he has to sit down at a
table and try to negotiate with Communists.
I'm a sad man, I've been leading mourner at the
death of more jokes than any man alive—Fred
Allen, radio comedian.
In the case of Russia, the greatest threat is the
submarine. I don’t think it is quite generally appre
clated that we pretty nearly lost both World War I
and World War II through this submarine busi
ness.—Admiral W. M. Fechteler, chief of naval op
erations.
There is no other way but strength. We tried
weakness. It didn't work.—Rcbert A. Lovett, Sec
retary of Defense.
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A few years from now, music, as we know it,
will have ceased to exist. . . . People no longer
listen to “music,” they go to watch the performance
of a famous conductor or pianist.—Arthur Honeg
ger, French composer.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATPENS, GEORGIA
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’ By JAMES MARLOW
. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—(AP)
' Before publie interest in the Gov
ernment scandals subsides there
will be more investigations and,
probably, more irregularities ex
posed.
But the interest, public shkock,
investigations and exposures will
be a farcical, short-time result
unless steps are taken to make
future crookedness tougher.
President Truman said he’ll try
to make it harder for Government
employes to have outside interests.
That should help, by cutting off
some of the avenues that lead to
crookedness or “indiscretions.”
Bat making crookedness more
difficult won’t keep crooks out,
no matter whether Democrats or
Republicans are in the saddle,
since Government employes are
recruited from the general popu
lation and a certain percentage of
the population is full of larceny,
The shenanigans of racketeers
get headlines—never failing to
horrify the general public—but
the racketeers are only a small
percentage of the crooks that are
loose. |
Government attorneys who han
dle tax cases, for instance, will
show you that the overwhelming
percentage of tax frauds are com=-
mitted by people who have been
considered pillars of their com
munity.
Special Committee
In the past year a special com=
mittee of the Senate was set up
under Senator Douglas, Illinois
Democrat, to study the problem of
ethics in government and it re
ported:
“No group In society is in a
position to point the finger of
scorn at others. Influence ped
dlers can exist only as long as
businessmen or others are willing
to patronize them.
“Favoritism can be a problem
only when individual men and
women seek favors of the Govern
ment. Gifts, improper pressure,
and bribes come from outside the
government, from individuals, or
ganizations, and from groups
which are part of what we call the
‘public.’
“When educational - institutions
which we have long regarded as
responsible for moral leadership
are troubled with problems of pro
fessionalism, commercialism and
dishonesty in amateur athletics, it
is evident that we are all living in
the same glass house.”
In the past Congress could have
tightened the laws to keep em
ployes of the government on the
straight and narrow. It may do
something in that direction as a
result of the present disclosures.
Several months ago the House
subcommittee investigating the tax
scandals requested that all em
ployes of the Internal Revenue
Bureau be ordered to fill out a
questionnaire showing all their in
come. ' This was done,
Much Lefhargy
But members of Congress them
selves have shown remarkable le
thargy in disclosing their income
or its sources. Every year since
1947 Republican Senator Morse has
urged Congress to pass a law
which would:
Require all members of Con
gress and all judges to list—for
public inspection—all their income
above their salary. The same
would apply to other government
employes making SIO,OOO a year
or more,
President Truman came out for
pretty much the same plan a cou
ple of months ago.
But once again Congress went
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home for the year without paying
any attention to the suggestion,
After it left, the Douglas Commit«
tee proposed a similar plan for
action in 1952,
If the public could see such a
list of Congressmen's income it
would be able to tell a little better
—after a member of Congress
plugged for or opposed a certain
bill—whether he had any personal
interest in it or stood to lose or
benefit, depending on whether it
passed or didn’t.
When they argue on the floor
about a bill, members of Congress
never ask one another about per
sonal interest. But a public list
ing of income would let the public
know sometimes whether a body
was buried.
Wife Agrees To
Pay Alimony To
Keep Mafe Away
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 —(AP)— A
wife has agreed in circuit court to
pay $lO weekly alimony to her
husband until he gets a job.
Mrs. Freida Cupper, 31, made
the offer after her husband, John,
39, was brought into court for
failing to observe a court injunc
tion against molesting her,
Mrs. Cupper, who has a divorce
suit pending charging cruelty, said
she did not want to send her hus
band to jail for contempt. And,
she said, she didn't want to let
him continue living at the Cupper
home. She offered the alimony
so Cupper could live elsewhere.
“That is more than fair,” said
Judge T. Dempsey as he entered
the order—the first he had ever
signed directing a woman to pay
alimony.
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