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What Others Think That the Van Waters case has a significance which extends far beyond the borders of Massachusetts is attested by news and editorial comment appearing in papers in other parts of the country. The New York Times, for instance, speaking of Dr. Van Waters' reinstatement as superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women, says this significance reaches into every nation of the world where there is a prison. The Times states further: "If Dr. Van Waters had lost out to Elliott F.
McDowell, Commissioner of Correction, it would have meant a serious setback to the cause of prison reform throughout the world. "Dr. Van Waters, an internationally known penologist, is admired for her kindness and humanity as well as for her understanding of the use of psychiatric skills in the treatment- of of prisoners. She thinks of the women not as criminals who must be punished but as emotionally disturbed individuals who need help. To her defense rushed Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt. Austin H. MacCormick, a leading prison allthority, and Dr. George S. Stevenson, elect of the American Psychiatric Association.
among others. Commissioner McDowell, perhaps, did not realize the extent of the esteem in which the woman against whom he filed -seven charges is held. "It is to the credit of the review board. headed by Erwin N. Griswold.
dean of Harvard Law School, that they cleared her on every count. They even reported that her administration is 'ahead of the Thus closes a cause celebre in the annals of prison reform, with justice once again triumphing in its own unmistakable fashion." Pedestrian vs Motorist Our traffic laws give pedestrians the right of way over motorists at crossings, once a pedestrian has started to cross before the light turns. It is on the supposition that this law is obeyed that pedestrians are told to cross only when the green signal shows. But at som- crossings Springfield's pedestrians have found that the law giving them the right-of-dom way is not obeyed, and that if they attempt to cross when the green light appears they are likely to be run over by automobiles making either a right or a left turn into the crossing. Because of this, pedestrians feel that the only safe procedure is to ignore the lights at such crossings and wait until there is a lull in the traffic, and then cross whether the light shows green or red.
It is because of this condition that the spasmodic efforts which have been made from time to time to require pedestrians to obey the traffic lights have proved discouraging. An attempt at strict enforcement of the law giving pedestrians the right-of-way at some crossings would bring difficulties. At certain intersections during the hour when traffic is at its peak, if no motorist should be permitted to make A turn until all pedestrians who desired to cross the street were allowed to do so, there would be a traffic jam. A compromise will have to be reached on a common sense basis. The corner policemen at such points will have to use their best judgment as to when motorists may make a turn and when pedestrians shall have priority.
Spring Song Even during a relatively mild winter there are moments when the return of spring seems impossible. Rain has turned to sleet, sleet to snow, snow to mud, mud to ice. Storms have sneaked in from the Northwest and also from the Southeast. The apartment-house dweller has telephoned to the superintendent for more heat. Householders look sadly at their emptying coal bins.
Young people in queer clothing carry skis or skates over their shoulders. There have been days when country life appealed only to those of robust constitutions, while city life didn't appeal to anybody. Then, suddenly, winter packs up and departs. He has a long way to go as he will now be expected in the Southern Hemisphere. The sun floats northward, higher in the sky.
Robins become commonplace, which hurts their feelings. Boys bring out their baseballs. Suburbanites take home lawn mowers, rakes, spades and packages of seeds. They also practice their golf strokes and get out their fishing tackle. The days grow longer.
In three months they will he growing shorter. Soon those who have been yawping all winter about the 'cold will begin to yawp about the heat. Soon after that an old farmer in Northern New Hampshire will notice that the hedgehogs are growing longer bristles than usual and will predict a long, hard winter. The Weather Burcau has done and is doing its best. It will continue to fail to give satisfaction.
We reserve in advance the right to complain about the quality of weather it will furnish us. Defeated Legislation What is the nature of the legislation which was defeated or at least indefinitely postponed by failure of a compromise to end the Senate filibuster? The President's civil liberties program outlines legislation to which many of us can subscribe, at least in principle. Some items have induced controversy, especially, of course, in the Southern states, but even there the opposition has been chiefly against methods urged rather than the principles to be achieved. Mr. Truman's recommendations followed in detail the proposals of his Committee on Civil Rights.
These recommendations favored federal legislation to outlaw lynching and race discrimination in interstate occupations, with new federal agencies to be created for enforcement. The most serious criticism of our from abroad has emphasized the fact that our large Negro population does not now receive, in many cases, equal justice under the law. Even in the South the validity of this criticism is admitted. But it is maintained that 7 EDITORIAL THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, SPRINGFIELD, such inequalities are gradually lessening over an extending liberal area and that states themselves, on their own initiative, can do more effective job of eradicating prejudice than can be achieved through federal compulsion. 4 The President proposed a more direct approach to the problem, with every agency of the national government enlisted in the effort.
In the main the complete program embodied praiseworthy and feasible objectives whicl must be kept steadily before the people. Though we know that our democracy offers a fuller, freer, happier life to our people than any totalitarian nation has ever offered, we also know that our democracy is not perfect. Great masses of our citizens cannot be deprived of their vote simply because of their color under any system that professes to be democratic. We must seek to arouse the full force of public opinion to: correct the remaining imperfections in our democratic way of life. Censorship Again library selections.
The disturbing, thought about all this is that there any evidenco that any American should think that he can get away with censoring libraries. If a church or a person or a union or an industry thinks that it can get away with forcing the suppression of criticism, or of ideas, then freeof thought and inquiry are in danger of being lost. When the elected representatives of the people think that they can create a library censorship board and not lose their offices because of such action, then we have already traveled a long way down the road toward official thought control. Respect for facts and an impartial search for truth are inherent in the democratic way of life. If we encourage a healthy skepticism and the habit of critical reading and thinking in today's pupils, and are careful to provide adequate library services for them, the poli-! ticians will not be so effective in seizing our prejudices as handles to push us Unthinking, uncritical automatons may be good citizens in a totalitarian society, but in our democracy they are liabilities.
Ideas cannot be killed by banning them and restricting our freedom to read. A false idea should be refuted, not banished. What appears false to some may seem true to others. This is the very basis of the scientific method. It is the basis of Our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The era of the book raids seems to be upon again, this time ushered in by the state's attorney general, Francis E. Kelly, who has brolen out with a rash of censorship against obscene literature. Mr. Kelly has swooped down on the Worcester Library and confiscated "Serenade" and "God's Little Acre," which under his purification edict are on trial for the offense he alleges against them. What- this amounts to is the old story of cleaning up literature, and there seems to.
be an epidemic of this sort of thing sweeping the country just now. In this state the drive has gone to the absurd lengths of demanding from librarians lists of those who borrowed the books during the past year. The difficulty in this hullabaloo about clean books is that people do not think alike. What and when is a "good" book or a "bad" book? Are we by some ukase to be compelled to think as some board of censors does? So Mr. Kelly thinks "Serenade" is smut.
Ralph Thompson, a book reviewer for the N. Y. Times, who might by many be regarded as a better critic than the attorney general, regards it as "a more than competent, serious piece of and defends it against the obscenity charges. We still think that the less censorship the better. Intelligent people don't need to be told what they can read.
Literacy finds its own way around. Yet there is at present a strong trend toward censorship, even of our Lewis' Monopoly John L. Lewis is being attacked on many sides for idling 425,000 miners for a "memorial holiday" of two weeks and as a protest against the nomination of Dr. James Boyd as Director of the Bureau of Mines. A Senate committee responded to this threat by promptly confirming Dr.
Boyd, 10 to 1. Mr. Lewis' compelling reason is probably to "stabilize" the coal industry, by reducing coal stocks to improve his bargaining position for a new contract. Anyway, Mr. Lewis has power to tie up a whole industry by calling miners 'out of the pits, besides putting many thousands of men out of work in associated industries.
And because Mr. Lewis is using his power, a lot of people are saying uncomplimentary things about him. The fact is, of course, that the country should be glad that Mr. Lewis is head of the Mine Workers and that the place he holds is not occupied by another kind of man. What if Mr.
Lewis were a Communist? What if he had stood out against improvements and labor saving machinery in the coal mines? He may enjoy being a central figure. He may indulge in theatricals to an irritating extent, but when wha he does is compared to what he might do, Mr. Lewis is 8 model of restrained The difficulty is not Mr. Lewis. The difficulty is with a system that gives any one man a position of power such as he holds.
He can tie up. practically all the coal mines in the country. He can do this because he is the bargaining agent for practically all the miners. He has a monopoly; one of the most effective and tightest monopolies that this country has ever seen. He has that because there is a law that says he can, which encourages him.
It is the labor union exemption from the antitrust laws that allows industry-wide bargaining. If that exemption were repealed, Mr. Lewis would lose the power she has. Must there be power in the hands of. a single man to tie up the whole country? If there is anything; more chaotic than the situation whereby one man can stop coal mining and force all his followers to remain idle, we would not like to see it.
What Mr. Lewis can do with monopoly powers we all know. What a vicious man could do in his place is something which the country will learn sooner or later, unless the monopoly power is withdrawn. Brown-Sugar Pudding A man may have difficulties trying to induce his peers to eat desserts at the front end of meals when taste buds are keenest but at least he can continue his crusade for honest, satisfying puddings. The culinary system needs an overhaul what with so many doodaddish dishes and strong men forced to eat salads to set a good LE example for the children.
Maybe WEDNESDAY. MARCH 16, 1949 EDITORIAL RUSSIAN SWITCH CONTINUES TO BE ANYONE'S GUESS But Further Unpleasantness by Soviet Is Likely to Occur By JAMES THRASHER The Soviet foreign ministry 18 no more autonomous than the United States State Department, perhaps even less 80. The big difference between the two is that State Department policy reflects the decisions of the majority of the people. Thus much of its operation is in the open. The Russian foreign ministry has no responsibility to the public.
It takes its orders from the 13 men who form the Soviet Politburo. So long as that closed corporation present membership and Icadership, the new foreign ministry lineup may not be too important in the end. But since the Politburo is as secret as it is unpredictable, the replacement of Mr. Molotov and the promotion of Megars. Vishinsky and Gromyko has given the political exports an Interesting new puzzle to work on.
Some of the experts probably were more surprised Mr. Vishinsky's elevation than at Mr. Molotov's departuro. They had speculated that the new foreign minister's recent illness WAS diplomatic rather than physical. There was reasonable ground for such speculation.
Mr. Vishinsky succeeded in making a great many. of the nonCommunist representatives hopping mad at the l'aris meeting of the UN General Assembly. Gave No Ground Under his leadership there, Russia gave no ground and made no concessions. But it scemed evident that a number of delegations not only lost their patience with Mr.
Vishinsky and his tirades but also their sympathy with the cause that he was pleading. So a diplomatic indisposition and DOlitical oblivion would not have been surprising. Instead Mr. Vishinsky is now foreign minister and Mr. Gromyko is his deputy.
Whatever reasons the l'olitburo had for appointing them, it has selected two past masters of unpleasantness. Mr. Vishinsky's specialty is hysterical, apoplectic insult. Mr. Gromyko is best remembered for the cold contempt with which he ut'his few words--most of them "no." Hot or cold, the difference is not great, for these men will simply be delivering orders from the Kremlin.
But the P'olitburo could scarcely have picked two diplomatic representatives who are less likely to improve international relations on a face-to-face basis. If there is any dissatisfaction behind the foreign ministry changes, it must be with some of the decisions that the Politburo itself has made. Its aggressive tactics have solidified the long-talked-of idea of a western Europcan union into action. Action is proceeding along both military and economic lines, and that can scarcely he good news to an ambitious powering whose best bet certainly would be to divide and conquer. The Soviet leaders may.
have some further unpleasant surprises in store. But there does not: seen to be any reason United States and its friends not continue calmly, confidently and firmly along their present course. THE NEIGHBORS By George Clark kinda fun having a woman boss. Her clothes are more interesting than old man Bilby's baggy old tweeds." People's Forum The editor welcome letters, especially and address of the sender must be given, so Anonymous contributions will rejert such letters he considers libelous, to delete from any letter references whie good taste. the return envelope.
BIBLICAL REFERENCES TO THE ROCK To The Editor of The Union: Sir: 1 have been interested in the letters appearing in the "Forum" of late, which lead us to believe the church is built upon the rock "Peter." I have, been studying the matter, and respect and with malice toward none, I would like to write about my Andings, trusting they will he of interest to those who would care to read. In Matthew 16, 17 and 18, we find Peter (l'etros. or stone) had just confessed to Christ the belief that Jesus WAS indeed Christ. (In the original Greek the word rock used the here happens to be Petra. large rock) and that Jesus stated that this WAS revcaled to l'eter by God and not man, and that upon this Christ whom he had confessed.
Christ's church was to be built. Readers might ask how 1 know Christ was ever referred to as A rock? All we have to do is to turn to the Old Testament and read, keeping our minds open and acceptGod's word as the truth. Let us turn first to 32: 3. 4, and 18. the Lord; ascribe be you greatness unto "Because I will publish name of our God.
He is the rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgement; a God of truth and without iniquity. just and right is he. Of the rock that begat thee art thou un'mindful, and hast forgotten God that Streamlining to Help GOP Become Effective Minority Creation of Two New Committees Are of Big. Aid to Republicans in Congress By PETER EDSON Washington. March 13-Gradually the Republicans in the House of Representatives scem to be getting organized as an effective minority.
Were Chagrined This happy change has come about principally through the creation of a type of Republican Policy Committee and a brand-new Committee on Pubic Information. This latter group is now talking about hiring A a topnotch public relations man to direct a campaign to tell the country just what Republican policy is on every issue that comes up, and sell the voters on it. These developments amount to almost A. revolution in the conduct of Republican affairs in Washington. When the 171 Republican congressmen elected last November came back to Washington at the turn of the year, they were a pretty dispirited hunch.
They had lost 75 of the 246 seats they hold in the 80th Congress, About 60 of those seats had been held by congressmen who thought they didn't run the slightest risk of being re-elected. Their chagrin at defeat was terrible Constructive Suggestions Those who came back realized fully that something WAS wrong and that something had to be done. In the Senate, a small group of self-styled liberal Republicans tried to stage a protest against the old guard by nominating Henry Cahot Lodge. to run against Robert A. Taft for the minority leadership.
That proved to be a futile gesture. Also, it split the party. Housa Republican Icaders decided the job had to be done some other. way. First Republican CAUCUSES on the House side fumbled around, but final1y produced a constructive suggeation to abolish the old Steering Committee and set up a new Policy.
Committee. Previously the Steering Committee had been selected more or less by seniority. Nobody ever knew exactly who was on it. and it never functioned as a policy-making group. Usually the various committee chairmen made their own policy in their respective ficlds.
Eight Regions In setting up the new GOP Policy Committee, it. was decided to junk this antiquated machinery. The new committee was based on geographical distribution. Excluding the Democratic solid South, the U. S.
was divided into elght regions. Republican congressmen from each of these districts were told to meet and elect a specified number of members for the Policy Committee. The average way one for every 12 GOP congressmen. Three more members were elected by the Republican Committee on Committees. Then 4 4 puddings were invented long, long time ago when mankind was and.
not so civilized with bombs and unexpected fortunes over wireless. Some intelligent lady in an experimental frame of mind cooked up A combination of grain with sweet fruits and the idea was born. Puddings are different. A man naturally wants his full share of pies, cakes and cookies but a moist, sweet gooey pudding hits the spot with pleasant results. In all the list of puddings there is nothing that quite equals grandmother's old-fashioned, brown-sugar concoction.
Cooks don't make such things very often now. Takes too much time when a woman has afternoon bridge parties and serves on committees to ameliorate the condition of the aborigines in Timbuctoo. Making. decisions is psychologically deleterious whether a woman is trying to decide what dress to wear for an evening party or a man is studying' a long menu card. However, a cook will make no mistake to decide on brown-sugar pudding for a March supper.
The batter is put on the sauce. Beat cupful of white sugar and 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine. Add to this 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, teaspoon salt, cup raisins, cup walnut meats. Next make a sauce of 2 cups tepid water, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 teaspoons butter margarine, 1 tablespoon corn starch. Mix these sauce ingredients together.
and boil 5 minutes." Grease a casserole and pour in the syrup first. Put the batter on the syrup and' bake an hour at 350. If you have never eaten this pudding you have a pleasant experience ing. Life is real and life is earnest; your neighbors' actions and attitudes are definitely perplexing. But 8 big dishful of this pudding with plenty of heavy cream over it will partially restore your faith in.
human nature. A Bow to St. Patrick Tomorrow, St. Patrick's Day, is always a great day for the sons and daughters of Ireland. In some of the larger cities there will be huge celebrations.
The emerald banners will wave gaily and the shamrock-wearers will step a bit higher as the procession passes. Sons and daughters of Ireland have always foregathered to honor St. Patrick's memory and keep it bright. His day was celebrated by shivering American troops at Valley. Forge and recognized in General Washington's orders of the day in 1780.
It is now an old and friendly American which all can join with green measure. mutual understanding, and respect. Turn the On The Firing Line By D. N. T.
A survey shows that executives rank a sense of humor 25th in the list of good qualities they look for in a -News item. FAIR WARNING A sense of humor's not required, Like several other senses, To get a secretary fired Or an amanuensis. secretary well may sit, Reserved, efficient, solemn, And not applaud her boss's wit That's stolen from a column. Yet there's a chance that she must take Who grave and smileless tarries; She'll find such conduct less than jake With anyone she marries. News photographers may not take pictures of President Truman in swimming, for "security" reasons, according word from Key West.
It's a little hard to understand that ruling, unless they're afraid a leftist barracuda might identify him. Valentin A. Gubitchev, the Russian engineer now in the toils of the law, denounces his prosecution on espionage charges as "a comedy." That's enough for Moscow papers to headline: "Capitalists Assault Comrade With Custard Pies." An Ontario lady who celebrated her 105th birthday Monday said that she wouldn't ject matrimony "if the right man came along." The girls never give up their dreams, though she'd probably settle for something tall, dark and centenarian. John Auerbach of the Bicycle Institute of An.erica urges the construction of bicycle safety lanes at the edge of all main highways. That would catch the pedestrian like the ham in a sandwich, with the no-hands boys on one side of him and the no-head boys on the other.
"Boston March 14 (AP)-A 'for sale'. sign came down from 990-year-old Ft. Rodman overlooking New Bedford Harbor today and the Army said it was taking it back for training of reserve units in Southeastern Massachusetts." -The Union. Probably couldn't give A clear title to it, either, with that old claim of Leif Ericsson's clouding it. There has been still another shake-up and several replacements among top Soviet officials.
Will anyone who understands the Russian procedure for effecting such changes please communicate with the GOP? I 3 During the' Southern filibuster Monday. night, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine presided over the Senate for the first time. She probably is the first woman who ever had to liste: to an argument for several hours without being able to get into it. Clothes rationing has ended completely in Great Britain, after eight years of control. The long period of grace is finished; from now on the world will have to believe that Britions dress that way because they want to, not because they have Washington already counts four of President Truman's major proposals as either dead or dying: Civil rights, universal military training, a four-billion tax boost and health insurlance by payroll taxation.
Apparently it's time the President to 'show some other kind of leadership than being the first one in at the beach. Ol' Doc Brady By W'ILLIAN BRADY. M. D. Signed Letters, Not More than Page or 100.
Words lung. Personal Health and Hygiene, Not Disease Diagnosis Or Treatment, Will Bo Answered by Dr. Brady If Sett Addressed Envelope Enclosed. BUT THERE ARE POLITICIANS -In response to an increasing number of requests from readers, I shall try to present here from week to week the poor folks' side, as well as. the family doctor's side, of the question of state or social medicine, universal health care or whatever name the agitators prefer to give their various plans.
Aside from the fart that many readers have learned to rely on the truth of what intel 'em about health, perhaps 1 am better position' to talk to laymen about this problem than the real doctors are. You know what I mean. Physicians, I mean real practitioners, he great silent body of men and women who take care of the sick and all that, seldom confess how desperately hard-up they are, even to a colleague, The colleague might be desperate, too, and make use of the knowledge for his own advantage over his Sometmes they tell me, when they realize I cannot use it against them, From this source I gather that the doctor's fee, even though it be at the lowest level at which honest scrvice can be given, is a real deterrent the protection of health. After all, the important factor in maintaining public health is the quality of service rendered by the family physician, Even the must brazen public health executives in the country recoguize the truth of this when they undertake 10 invade the practice of menicine vy offering treatment. for this and that vi diagnosis, or other purely private services which is undebatably the field of the legally qualified private pracriuoner.
Of course the public hear departments that provide' such lice liagnosis and treatment for various allments defend the strange use of public funds on the grounu that the diagnosis and proper treatment vi cerfain communicable diseases is part ut the "control' of such discase and hence a legitimate function of the ubiic health administration. However, believe that the reul motive behind this aberrant course of sanitation is political patronage and graft. Precise determination of the Nature of the trouble in any case of tuberculosis is avoweuly til important step in the prevention of the spread of the diseuse. Even in the pre-tuberculous or 'latent" stage, before any lluess is evident and long belore any tubercle bacilli are given off, it may be argued that a diagnosis of 50- called "preclinical or latent" tuberculosis is essentially a public health matter. This is based on the theory that, unless carelully watched and created, children with this latent or preclinical tuberculosis are likely 10 develop the actual disease in youth or early adult life.
However, many good physicians doubt that we can draw such conclusions from a positive reaction to tuberculin and a so-called hilum shadow in the X-ray pictures. This hilum shadow is a vague sign interpreted by the X-ray expert as evidence of smouldering nidus of tubercle bacoilli in the deep lumph nodes behind the lungs. AN it looks to me--and I'm no specialist, just a plain hurryright-over-doc-the-pains-are-coming. lust variety of practitioner, IC tooks to me all this costly monkeying with tuberculin tests and Xray pictures of the chests of school chiluren 18 questionable practice from any point of view. The evidence $0 obtaied is rather lossweight than the opinion 01 a good doctor who knows the child, the family history.
invents a New Surgicdi Knife Exeter, uarch 1. -A young hospital technician said today he has invented a surgical knife which immediately puts back into the veins the blood lost by a patient during an operation. The inventor is W. G. D.
Gregory, a. a sick bay attendant 111 the British navy during the war and now an operating room technician at City hospital. His knife has not yet been in the operating room. He told reporters it will prevent shock through lass of blood which sometimes is fatal dur. aling an operation.
The new knife has a grooved blade with a thin tube running through its hollow handle. As an incision is made, a small electric pump draws away the flowing blood, passes it through purifier and pumps it back into a vein through a necdle, such as those used for giving transfusions of blood or plasma. Gregory has registered his knife with the British l'atent Office. Prot. F.
H. Newman, director of the Washington Singer' Medical Labora. tory in Exeter, said the knife "makes surgeon's work easier and cleaner." JUST FOLKS. By EDGAR A. GUEST ST.
PATRICK'S DAY St. Patrick was a Roman youth, long centuries ago. He heard some voices whispering: "To Ireland you should go." So he went to study Latin, and ho learned to be a priest. Now millions keep his birthday with mass and prayer and feast. He walked among the people as his Master did before.
His heart was filled with pity as he went from door to door. Now with the saints he's gathered Heaven's triumphal arch, And the living keep his birthday the seventeenth of March. Oh, neither fame nor fortune could have won him love like this. The crown that he is wearing oft the proud and mighty miss. But while his church is standing, at the altars where they pray, The humble and devoted still will keep St.
Patrick's, Day. (Copyright; but the name will not he used if the writer nut he used. The editor the right to scurrilous, or not of general interest and he considers contrary desired. ad- formed thee." I Sam. 2: 2, "There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God." Sam.
22: 3 and 3, "And he said, the Lord is my rock; in him will I Pas. 31: thou art my rock and my Then turning to the New Testament we And Paul writing to the Corinthians and referring to the children of Israel as they went from Egypt to Canaan. I Cor. 10: 4, "And all did drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank that of spiritual that followed them: and that rock was Christ." I l'eter 2: 4-9, l'eter is careful to tell us that all true born again Christians are lively stones, regardless of the age in which they lived, and regardless of denomination. and is these lively stones which make up the body of Christ which is the church of Christ.
Christ is not only the rock upon which the church is built but also the chief cornerstone. In John 10: 9, Jesus is also the door. the important parts of the structure are Alled by Christ, no one else, everyone else whether it be Peter, John or any other of the twelve, or for that matter any one to our present time. only contribute their bit to the material which makes the structure, Springfeld H. D.
COLTON RUSSIANS PROVED SELVES TO BE UNGRATEFUL party leaders were made members ex-officio to complete the roster of 22. This Policy Committee has been in existence only A month and 60 far has taken definite action on only one thing. It recommended A decrease in excise taxes on transportation and a few luxury items. But the plan is to have this committee shape and state GOP policy on every issuo that comes up. There is no intention, however, of.
making the Policy Committee decisions binding on all Republicans in Congress. Every congressman will -have Absolute freedom to vote AS he sees fit. Its Next Job When the Policy Committee reaches An agreement on any issue after full discussion in minority the next job will be to make this policy clearly understood by the country at large. Republican congressmen now believe that one reason the GOP made such A poor showing in the last election was that the voters did not understand' the party's position. candidate Dewey's campaign vagueneas may have been partly responsible.
This uncertainty has carried over into the present Congress. For instance. on the one major issue thus far decided in the House--extension of reciprocal trade agreements--the Republicans voted almost solidly against it. But they. never did make clear to the county why they voted as they did or what the party policy is Committee Members To carry out.
this assignment on future insues that arise, the Republican Committee on Public Information has been appointed. On it are Republican leader Martin. Auchincloss of Now Jersey, Boggs of Delaware, Brown of Ohio, Case of South Dakota, Ellsworth of Oregon, Hall of New York, Halleck of Indiana, Jensen of Iowa. Thus far the committee has been concentrating on trying to find the right man to run its public relations program. But the naming of this new-type Policy Committee and the Public Information Committee to publicize decisions are probably the best news in Washington, where the need for A a strong and vocal opposition to the majority has long been felt.
FORMER SLAVE DIES Spencer, March 15 (AP)-Mrs, Eliza Jane Gatewood, A former slave, died today, aged 97. She was the town's oldest resident. She was born in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. To the Editor. of The Union Sir: Prof.
Hans Kohn of Smith College in his recent address in the Springfeld Public Forums series expressed the opinion that there will 1. no third world war. He based this opinion on the fact that in F. Stuary 1948 Stalin made what the termed the dictator's first great blunder in foreign policy, in making Czechoslovakia a totalitarian ata te, He might have added that his next and greater bluater was when he ordered the present blocka le of Berlin which is really cold wAr against the West, and which hus Awakened the western powers into forming A union through the Atlantic Pact as a defense against further Communist aggression. Dr.
Kohn intimated that the third world war will be prevented by the Atlantic Pact, which is true provided Stalin will listen to reason, as he could never win a third world war. Although he might overrun most of Europe overnight, he would bel thrown back as Hitler was and 'lose all. I was rather surprised that Dr. Kohn did not mention the Berlin blockade in his address as this constitutes a declaration of VAr ly the Russians against lis lacks only the firing of cannon, and that if we were not such patient people we might have answered that blockade with the cannon. I am not fully convinced that third world war has yet been but if we continue our preparation as we are doing and include Italy in our western union--she is important to us strategically to meet our enemy at the battlefield with superior force- cannon of the third world war will be prevented from going off.
Human nature has not yet changed land probably never will. It will listen only to superior forces, superior intelligence and boldness. The Russians certainly proved themselves be ungrateful dogs after what we pid to save them in the last war. NIXFORD BALDWIN Springfield TRIED AUTO EXHAUST ON MOLES To the Editor of The Union Sir: I read the letter in The People's Forum by W.H.G, about using automobile exhaust to drive skunks out of their holes. I never tried it on skunks but I did try it once on moles in my lawn.
Didn't have much success. In the first place I couldn't seem to find any WAY to hitch the hose to the exhaust pipe of the car so that most of the exhaust wouldn't leak out before it got into the hose. Then after a while the end of the hose next to the exhaust pipe got so hot it ruined the rubber. Only a faint whiff of exhaust came out of the far end of the hose, and that evidently didn't bother the moles -at all; anyway they kept right on plowing up the lawn. American moles are bad, but we ought to be glad we don't have the English variety.
Those critters burrow so deep they don't make a ridge in the turf, but every few feet they erupt through the surface like volcano and leave a mound of earth sometimes eight inches high and two feet across. Great things to have in colt course I Longmeadow C.P.F.I -4 4.
