THE SELMA TIMES-JQURNAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1946 FOUR THE, tje jelntR A Difficult Shot at Best Established 1M7 Published daily except Saturday, THE SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, proprietor. Entered at postoffic at Selma, Aiibinnii ii second clff thpi1 Mr. F. X. Publisher and General Manager Edward B.
Field SdU (UHIB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tbe Asaociated Press i exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all new credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Daily wire reports and Associated Press correspondence. COMMON SENSE NEEDED 7 BY DEWITT MACKENZIE (AP Foreign Affairs Analyst) We should not mi-- the significance of the French general election and Italys plebiscite to determine whether that country shall have a monarchy or a Republic. These are no ordinary events, for basically they represent major battles in the drive by Communism to coiffcrol western Europe, as it already does the eastetn part of the continent. In France the Red forces have been unseated as the strongest party by a move of the countrys voters toward the right.
The Italian returns are still too incomplete at this, writing to permit of an accurate estimate of the way the tide runs. Of these two, the French elections are more important in determining the political future of Europe perhaps of the whole world, for that matter. A totalitarian Cqm-munist government in Paris would go far toward giving Russia domination of Europe clear through to the English Channel. The present swing toward the right though not great moves France further from dictatorship and closer to the western democracy of America and England. While Washington officially was silent, government officials expressed much gratification at-the turn of events.
What Has Happened What has happened in France is this: The last government was a coalition comprising Communists, the Popular Republican movement (which is middle-of-the road politically) and Socialists, whose respective representations In the Assembly were 159, 150 and 146. There are, of course, other smaller parties. The Assembly drew up a new constitution, the framing being dominated by the Communists and the Socialists. This was submitted to a national referendum on May 5 and was rejected, necessitating the election of a new constituent Assembly, which has now taken place. The rejection of this constitution was a rebuff to the tendency toward totalitarianism.
The present election reaffirms that viewpoint. The Popular Republican Movement (MRP) now has the largest number of seats in the Assembly with the Communists next and the Socialists trailing. No party has a plurality, and the new government therefore will have to be another coalition, but how that will be framed is anybody's guess. While this represents a moderate turn away from Communism, it shouldnt be interpreted as a trend toward conservatism. France is socialistic but the Frenchman loves his individual freedom too much to hand it over to a dictatorship.
It should be remembered too that France is largely agricultural and that her tillers of the soil own their farms. The French farmer has no disposition to pool his tidy acres in collectivism. De Gaulle Speculation There is considerable speculation whether the turn of events in this election will bring General de Gaulle bac kinto the political arena. The MRP is generally held to represent his political ideas and backed him before he resigned from the presidency and went into retirement. France needs powerful leadership at this crucial juncture, and many feel that de Gaulle is the one to givp it.
However, the youthful leader of the MRP, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault has been displaying marks of strong generalship and there is talk that he may be put forward by his party for the presidency. The newly elected Assembly now must frame another constitution which in due course will be sub mitted to the country for approval. The interim presidency will be an uncomfortable job, since no long term policies can be inaugurated until the constitution is adopted, and if the countrys affairs dont prosper, the chief of state is likely to get the blame. S. BY FRANK CAREY (Substituting For June Marlow) WASHINGTON, June 4 yP The health of American soldiers during the war just ended was better than during the first world war, latest figures from the Army Surgeon Generals office show.
Statistics on disease Incidence for the Army up to the first of this year were shown to reporters yes-tereday in a pre-view of an exhibit to be presented to the American Medical Association in San Francisco next month. Figured on a basts of per thousand troop-strength per year, the record shows: The overall disease rate was 649 in World War II, compared with 852 in the first world war; and the death rate from disease was 0.62 compared with 41.6 in the last war. Battle wounds and injuries took the same toll in each war 112 out of every 1,000 combat troops per year but the statistics for diseases were as follows: Common respiratory diseases, 167 cases per 1,000 men a year, compared to 325 in the last war; venereal disease, 42 to 87; mumps, 4.3 to 56; measles, 3.1 to 24; diarrheal diseases, 21.4 to 22; Pneumonia 10.9 to 19; tuberculosis, 1.1 to 9.4; scarlet fever, 1.2 to 2.1. The incidence of malaria was much higher in the recent war than in the first world war, the figures showing 18.9 compared to 3.8 in the last war. Surgeon General Kirk, at a news conference held during the exhibit, disclosed proposed plans of his department to establish an "Army medical research and graduate training center at Forest Glen, Md.
He said he envisioned it as a national research institute which would give the general public, the Veterans Administration, and the medical profession as well as the Army itself the benefits of Army medial research. The program must first be approved by the War Department and by Congress. Kirk said his department also hopes for ultimate establishment of a school of global medicine a science bom of global warfare as American troops pushed into remote comers of the Arctic and the Tropics and encountered little-known maladies. In the most direct attack yet made upon the rights of the various states to legally impose segregation, the Supreme Court has held that buses crossing state lines cannot be required to separate white and Negro passengers. Heretofore, the chief restraint upon segregation has been the requirement that equal faculties be provided wherever it is practiced, but now the Supreme Court has gone one step further and it can be expected that the new ruling ultimately wUl be appUed to all other common carriers crossing state lines.
What the final outcome wiU be no one ean foresee with any degree of accuracy, but the chances are that this new flouting of states rights by court justices more interested in social theories than in interpretation of the Constitution is going to prove more harmful than helpfuL Regardless of what New Deal judges say to the contrary, the Constitution gives the various states the right to stipulate conditions under which their citizens shall live and the Federal government has no right to intervene in the regulation of common carriers. It does have the right to say that segregation practices shall end at the boundary lines of states not requiring it, but it invades the rights of the commonwealth when it tries to dictate what shall be required within its borders. It would be just as logical for the Supreme Court to attempt to apply a unifomi code of operations for all carriers and a uniform system of supervision for all highways between the states, and what the people of this state need most on their high tribunal right now is a little more understanding of the Constitution, a great deal more common sense and justices willing to weigh the facts of life against social fancies. 0 NOT MUCH OF A SWAP EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN McKENNEY ON BRIDGE BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY Americas Card Authority In the recent world championshipl Masters Individual General Duty LUC Mime LUCY AGNES HANco*ck Copyright by Lucy Agnes Hanco*ck Distributed by NEA SERVICE, INC' A A 7 5 3 85 8 7 5 2 22 Years Ago tained in theory its eight hour working schedule.
Actually everyone was on duty ten and more often twelve hours while the doctors seemed to work straight through the twenty four. How was it possible to lose even one member of the staff and still run the hospital? Sally didnt know and as she watched Doctor Richards face she knew he was wondering the same thing. AQ 9 4 3 A 109 6 4 A A 7 6 By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. (NEA) Presi-dent Trumans letter to Sen. Bob Wagner of New York called imminent danger of inflation the most important issue now before the Congress.
That statement though since derailed by the rail strike, takes in a lot of territory, including atom control legislation and other explosives like the British loan. In spit- of this high priority given price control, and in spite of the fact that Congress has been dallying with this extension for four months, it will be another week before Senator Wagners Banking and Currency Committee will complete its deliberations. Then a few weeks more for Senate floor debate. And a couple of weeks more for Senate and House conferees to agree on how much theyll knife OPA in the back. If the act is completed by June 30, when the present OPA law expires, it will be sheer luck.
If its a bad bill, President Truman has indicated he will not sign it on the theory that emasculated price control is worse than no price control at all. That may suggest an interesting line of sabotage to congressmen who would like to See the whole OPA works thrown out the window, but dont dare be quite that raw about it. OPA has been lifting controls and raising price ceilings so fast its a wonder theres any price control left at all. OPA Administrator Paul Porter says that 40 per cent of ail applications for price increases have been granted in full, and 20 per cent in part. In other words, OPA ceilings are already a sieve.
The rate at which price increases have been approved has been going up month by month. Last October 1153 increases were granted. In March, the number was 2069 nearly double. The trend is still upwards. April and May totals will be far above that for March, because the effects of the new wage-price policy announced in February are just now beginning to be felt.
The $5-a-ton steel price increase has just registered on the auto industry as the third set of new-car price rises since V-J Day. No one can predict what the effects of that order will be over the remainder of the year, but 'the pressure is upwards. Other important factors include increases in coal wages and prices railroad wages and rates. When they go up, OPA will have to allow still more price increases, even if the present price control law should be renewed without amendment. No wonder the President so recently called the threat of inflation the most important issue now before Congress.
A 109 J.7 6 A A 3 A 8 4 Duplicate Neither vul. South West North East 1 A Double 3 A A Double Pass Pass Pass Opening 4 THE STORY: Sally Maynard, popular nurse at Linton Memorial Hospital, overhears Norma Holden accuse her of being an apple Returning to Marion Junction polisher. Upset, she realizes Nor-from various colleges were Siska ma is angry because Sally has been Smith, Ida May Davis, Hallie Reed assigned to replace her on the Roarke, Pauline Kirby, Elizabeth Hobbes case. Brice, Prof. Marion Brice, Greer Alexander, Donald Rail, Samuel Summers and Lawrence Brice.
chapel next morning Sally sat in her regular place. Mar- New officers for the Uniontown Saretu A.da beside her The chapter, Royal Arch Masons were, had lted or tss they stood before the bulletin af blgb priest; H. boar(j exchanging items of news. 2' Lo.ngsc"be; i Norma Holden hurried from the elevator and paused for a glance at the board then with a bare Hi! went on down the hall. Jim Hallock, senior interne, came in from a rear door and Norma greeted him with laughing enthusiasm.
Apparently her ardor was not shared by the young man for he passed with a casual nod and dashed into chapel ahead of her. Margaret said nothing. Sally was sure she wouldnt. Margaret F. M.
Goff, treasurer; T. Harwood, secretary; Joseph Pach, captain of the Host; T. F. Huckabee, sojourner; E. M.
Rankin, captain of Royal Arch Masons; W. A. Cam-mach, captain of the third veil; T. C. Collins, master of the sacred veil; R.
F. Fellows, captain of the first veil; F. L. Givens, sentinel. An event of the week at Planters- ville was a reception by the Metho- Philip Murray, Cio president, recently announced that the Cio is opposed to Communists who work the Communist line as a block within the organization.
At about the same time the Ku Klux Klan put on an old-time display of white nightshirts and burning crosses in Atlanta, Ga. It is probably more than coincidence that both these interesting vents occurred at about the. time the Cio. and Afl were starting their organizational drives in the South. It is unfortunate that Mr.
Murray postponed his declaration against the Communists so long. Some Cio unions have been dominated for years by Communists or Communist sympathizers who have pulled the membership back and forth in response to shifts of Moscow policy. There has been no forthright official disapproval of such practices until now. Naturally, the Afl capitalized on this situation as it started its organizing campaign below the Mason-Dixon line. It served to present the senior organization of unions as a' conservative labor group to a conservative section of the country.
Incidentally, it may also have come in handy to take peoples attention away from the Afls John L. Lewis, who at the time was not Americas No. 1 pinup boy. That this didnt do the Cios chances in the South any particular good is strictly the Cios worry. But the stimulus it gave to smouldering Klan sentiment didnt do the country any good, which is more important.
A chance to "save the South from the Communists was a made-to-order opportunity for the Klans remnants to arise from a grave of shame and public condemnation with a minimum of embarrassment. Anyone acquainted with the Klans history in the years following World War I will hesitate to believe that an anti-Communlst crusade would stop there, or that another political stranglehold on the South and Middle West is not again the ultimate goal. And anyone acquainted with the Klans shame-faced terrorism, practiced with masked faces in the dark of night in the name of Americanism, will hesitate to believe that a Klan revival is much preferable to Communist infiltration which it professes to fight. It Is to be hoped that experience and common sense, bolstered by the law where law is applicable, will throttle this Ku Klux Klan revival in its Infancy. It is equally to be hoped that Mr.
Murray, now that he has declared against Communist domination of organized American workers, will give his policy a vigilant and continuing enforcement. With this declaration, Mr. Murray has taken on the obligaton to allay an suspicion by the public that his belated discovery of Communist influence in his midst was a matter of expediency. It would be sorry thing indeed if the Cios southern campaign should have revived the old evil of Klanism without destroying the more recent evil of Communism masquarading as unionism. 0 RETURN OF THE SPUD Morrie Elis, an ex-servicetnan came close to upsetting the pfece-l dent that no player has ever won I this title twice.
Ells won In 1940,1 and this year finished second, six and one-half points behind Robert McPherran. Elis liked todays hand best of all; those in the Individual, Five clubs looks like a difficult contract wit! so many aces and kings in the North-South hands. i Elis (East) ruffed the first diamond and had to select his line ot play. If he tried to ruff out the spades, he was sure that the op ponents would win the first spade lead and return a club. Deciding to play South for the king of clubs, he led the queen and took the finesse, then led the jack of clubs.
Next he cashed the ace of hearts and played a small hear to the queen. Wien North and South followed, he cashed dummys ace of clubs. Thus Ells made six club trick and five heart tricks for his THE DOCTOR SAYS dist Sunday School at the home of never gossiped and Sally admired Mrs. H. H.
Biscoe for Miss Evelyn Lacy. Miss Lacy was given an old gold brooch worn for above 50 years by her paternal grandmother, Mrs. W. N. Lacy.
Attendance included Mrs. A. P. Hoggs, Mrs. S.
T. Walker, Mary Hanlin and Quin-tilla Cox. her for it as well as for other traits that had made her loved and respected by the en. staff. Now as the superintendent approached from the rear, the two girls went on into the shabby chapel with its rows of chairs lately barely half-filled with nurses, doctors, internes and such of the employes as could be spared even for tne brief service.
Seventeen stars studded the field of the service flag hanging on the wall behind the reading Some of our biggest men are desk anc unconsciously every eye heads of small business. They are seemed 1 focus there as the su The Times-Journal announced its big Black Belt Edition would be published June 29. big because they are interested in the bigger things of life. H. H.
Frazier in an editorial on the Trade Expansion page. A pessimist is a man who has been listening to a mechanic ex- plain what his old car needs. perintendent opened the psalter and read the morning lesson. It was a rather long psalm and Sally found her thoughts wandering. This morning the chiefs of staff was present and Sally thought he looked very tired.
No doubt he had been up and operating the PRO-OPA PRESSURE ON CONGRESS HAS SUBSIDED The heat turned on Congress by consumers after the House passed its horribly-amended price control renewal bill has now subsided. This apparent cooling-off of public OPA enthusiasm may have emboldened the anti-OPA senators to start talking in terms of still more amendments. If more consumers pressure is to be put on these senators, it will have to be done in another drive by housewives' lobbies and another letter writing campaign timed to hit fast. The eight Republican senators the Banking and Currency Committee seem to be voting the party anti-OPA line. They are Tobey of New Hampshire, Taft of Ohio, Butler of Nebraska, Capper of Kansas, Buck of Delaware, Millikin of Colorado, Hickenlooper of Iowa and Capehart of Indiana.
Tobey and Millikin are the only two inclined to give OPA a break. With three southern Democrats Bankhead of Alabama, McFarland of Arizona, and Fulbright of Arkansas the anti-OPA forces have a majority of the committee. Three Democrats are on the fence Rad-cliffe of Maryland, Murdock of Utah, and Carville of Nevada. That leaves only six strong supporters for OPA Chairman Wagner, who probably also holds a proxy for Carter Glass of Virginia, Barkley of Kentucky, Downey of California, Taylor of Idaho, and Mitchell of Washi gton. All are Democrats.
The pale rays of early morning sun were filtering through the big stained glass window when Sally left the chapel and hurried along to the elevator which carried her to the third floor and her new assignment. It was barely seven. Good morning, Mrs. Hobbes, she greeted her patient. It seems good to have even this pale sun after last night storm.
She picked up the chart and saw that the lady had slept well rousing but once when she demanded a hot water bottle and an alcohol rub. The woman watched her warily. I hoped for an older nurse, she announced truculently. You young girls have no patience or sympathy for what I am suffering. Im paying good money for service and care and what do I get? Indifference, even neglect, or else a lot of platitudes fed me in a sugary voice that is simply maddening.
I should have gone to Quaker City as my husband suggested, though I have a notion he wanted me far enough away so he wouldnt have to visit me so often. Men! She spat out the word as if she hated it. Sally listened with apparent attention but began mapping out her line of attack. This patient must be handled with firmness kindly but firmly. She saw that she had been on a very strict diet.
Linton tried to satisfy everyone and usually succeeded. But in cases like this there was little to offer. I never eat much at breakfast, the woman said sourly. And before I touch a mouthful I want a glass of hot water with the juice of half a lemon in it and I want it hot. Understand? I understand, Sally said quietly.
She brought up a thermos jug of hot water and a glass which contained the juice of half a lemon. She watched the patient sip the mixture with relish, then lowered her bed and helped her turn so that she could lie on her right side as she demanded. And in half an hour you are to have a slice of toast and a cup of black coffee not too strong. In the meantime Ill leave you to a nap. Where are you going? Mrs.
Hobbes snapped. -Just down to the kitchen to see that your tray is right. Was there something I could do for you before I go? I dont like being left alone. I think. I sec, Sally said.
Then Ill call the kitchen and have a tray sent up to you. The speaking tube is in the corridor. If you want me just press the button. I wont be a jiffy. She wondered why the patient didnt want to think to be alone with her thoughts.
For a long moment there was quiet in the room id Sally slipped out to order Mrs. Hobbes breakfast. "Gallbladder congestion calculus No wonder the woman was bad-tempered and viewed the world through dark glasses. Poor soul! Sally determined to do her best in making Mrs. Hobbes stay In Linton happier.
(To Be Continued) BY WILLIAM A. OBRIEN, M. D. Written for NEA Service One child in every three prefers to use his left but most of these natural left-handers are trained to use their right hands by uninformed parents, relatives, and teachers. Universities now are enrolling an increasing number of southpaw students, a fact which suggests that fewer left-handed grade-school pupils are encountering pressure to use of the right hand.
If your child prefers to use his left hand, do not interfere with his choice, and do not permit anyone else to do so. Left-handed persons are not inferior to the right-handed. A few investigators have found a certain number of undesirable traits in the left-handed, but the same number have been reported in right-handed individuals. The world is gradually making adjustments for left-handed people, and most schools now have special equipment for those who prefer to use the left hand. FORCED CHANGE DANGEROUS Speech and writing disorders may follow an attempt to train a left-handed person to use his right hand for everything.
The control center for speech is located in the brain near the center which controls the hand, and confusion may result if this association is disturbed. Some left-handed children can be taught to use the right hand without any speech or writing difficulty, but they are exceptions. Even if the speech, writing, and hand centers were not located near After commencement at the Virginia Military Academy, Alston Keith will make a tour to take In Canada with the Thousand Islands greater part of the night. The and New York City. resident and a visiting surgeon I were beside him and on the other The Federal Trade Commission side the rostrum were two points out that in 1922 the stagger- stranSe men in Navy blue and ing sum of 32 billion dollars was wearing the insignia of the medi- invested in tax free securities.
Thus Cal Sally wondered 11 were here to recruit more of the do the rich avoid their part of the tax burden-Editor F. T. Raiford But if the staff was further in the Selma Times-Jaumal. depleted how was the hospital io go on? She joined in reciting the twenty third psalm and at its close the older of the officers stepped forward and made an impassioned plea for recruits. Aside from any Christian spirit, Her eyes traveled around the food imports are required (in Ja- sparsely filled room and she won-pan) if American boys are not dered if anyone there would sign one another, the tension, anxiety, and conflicts which revelop when youthful southpaws are made to do someting which is awkward fori them might be sufficient to cause stammering.
CHANGE CAN BE MADE Although two people in three! prefer to use the right hand, it isl possible, with proper training, for them to learn to use the left hand. Servicemen who lost- the dom-l inant arm have learned to write! with the opposite band without dlf-l ficulty. OfteVi they can write bet-1 ter with the remaining hand than! they did with the one they former-1 ly preferred as the change occurred! during adult life, when they were better able to make the adjustment. This poromon service experience is highly encouraging. But change! made through inevitable necessity) should not be accepted as justification for forcing naturally left-1 handed children to employ the right hand.
Our wheat conservation program may succeed in restoring the potato to its rightful high estate in this country. Perhaps such a minor byproduct of the important business of saving lives is unworthy of attention. Yet it must be admitted that the humble spud has taken quite kicking-around in late years. The potato, is the Department of Agriculture points out, is not fattening. A good-sized one contains no more calories than an average serving of peas or corn, or two slices of bread.
But to hear the diet faddists talk, one would think that a potato was 100 per cent butterfat. The truble, of course, lies in what we put on the potato. And so, because of gravies and cream and gobs of butter, the seekers after slimness have felt constrained to pass up the tasty tuber and thus deny themselves one of the noble plebeian delicacies. A boiled or baked potato, anointed with salt and less butter than you would put on a slice of bread, offers wonderful low-calory nourishment. Or the dieter can use salt alone and find himself missing very little.
And to get right down to cases if you think you must have a of bread for a "pusher at every meal, theres always the baked potato skin. Its a delicious substitute that will do very nicely for the i duration of the emergency. 0 NO DEALS A rumor of "deals between Great Britain and Russia at the for-j eigh ministers conference in Paris has been officially denied in Washington and London. The denial is welcome, for, in the light of the con-tsrencei lack of accomplishment, it was not hard to believe the rumor I that Britain was to get a free hand in Italy in return for continuing Russias free hand in the Balkans, Eight months of antagonism, climaxed by more failure in Paris, have led to a discouragement in which the powers drifted back into the easy, familiar, and fatal sphere of influence arrangements. That they did not reflects credit upon Secretary of State Byrnes.
His efforts, notably his proposal of a 25-year disarmament arrangement for Germany, show that he Is still thinking in terms of one world. The alternative of two worlds, with Russia dominating one and America and Britain the other, would inevitably breed war. The longer that alternative is avoided, the less likelihood there Is that it will be resorted to. Russia may continue to be difficult. Russia, in the face of Communist defeats In European elections, may still try to keep her troops In eastern Europe.
But Russia cannot hope to win in the long run by proposing peace treaties with her former enemies indefinitely, nor has ha anything to gain by provoking an Anglo-American coalition against bee. So hope persists. to be endangered by disorders and epidemics inevitably arising from its starvation. Herbert Hoover, chairman Pres up. They all listened attentively; but every one of those present realized the conditions existing in Linton Memorial--the only hospi- tal within a radius of twenty idents Famine Emergency Com- mies The hogpual stm main.
mittee. OPA HAS BEEN LIFTING PRICE CONTROLS RAPIDLY The main point about what the anti-OPA congressmen seem con' cerned is the lack of faster decontrol. But a check of the record shows that ever since V-J Day, On the eve of the peace settlement (with Italy) let us have the courage to recognize that in a peace without justice there shall be neither peace nor justice. Emperor Haile Selassie of CALL-US-WELL-HAUL-IT! SHERRER TRANSFER (0. PHONES 697 581 9299 THE CHEERFUL CHERU6 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn My lettuce a.rtd onions s-re, up Tl ve tended and weeded them so They jeenrt just like, children to me never ca.n eat them I know.
1L AND DIXIE OVERLAND LINES It is difficult but not impossible in many instances to control the American economy but it is equally clear that you cannot control inflation. Opa Director Paul Porter. LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE REGISTERED A. P. C.
CARRIERS Furniture Building Material? Cattle Cotton All Farm Products Nothing too small or too large ALL LOADS FULLY INSURED 15 YEARS CONTINUOUS SERVICE It is not alone the children of our community who are delinquent. They are merely victims of the kind of homes they have to live in. Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop of New York..
