Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Newspaper) - February 8, 1954, Walla Walla, Washington Walla Walla Fonr AN INDEPENDENT Monday February 8 1954 J O F O Mir Round Miller H 8 Mitchell Afit Poplar OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPER Evening and Sunday In advance either morning and Sunday or Sunday Per year mall 12.00 ilx mall three mail month mallI Outside 4th rone one year Carrier monthly payable to carrier Contrasts in Prosperity One of the outstanding problems facing the United States in its international relations is an economic one The ever-widening gap between America and the other parts of the free world in terms of living standards represents a barrier to all efforts toward unity in the struggle against totalitarian Communism and the willingness and ability of the U.S to meet this challenge will be a major test of its ship both at home and abroad At the outbreak of World War II the real in- come actual purchasing power of income of the average American was already substantially higher than the average European's and much higher than the average resident of Latin America or Asia But since 1939 the differential has be- come even greater During the period real income in the United States has almost doubled The average European and Latin American has meanwhile be- come somewhat better off but the growth of economic prosperity in the U.S has been so great that the others have been left far behind Even more pointed is the contrast between the real incomes of Asians and Americans today most Asians are no better off economically than they back in 1939 and as a result the real in- come of the average small by our now only a tiny fraction of that of Americans The February issues of McGraw-Hill tions commenting on this situation suggest that Very real danger threatens from any feeling which may develop in the less fortunate free tions that our enviable economic progress has been made at their expense Instead of viewing the American economic system as a model that might be followed by their own countries they may be led to see in it a menace to their being If Communist propaganda can persuade these people that their alliance with the free world will only result in their dropping farther and farther behind an increasingly prosperous United States they will be driven to the side of How these free nations on the lower half of the income ladder can be helped to alleviate the conditions that keep them there is a question that poses a whole series of complicated lems But unless the U.S exercises leadership ward the solution it is certain that Russia will take advantage of the situation the editorial states The circumstances give real point to ments that it is to our own best interest to help our less prosperous neighbors make satisfactory headway This does not mean that the U S needs to sacrifice its own economic progress in favor of some sort of global leveling scheme Nor does it mean that we have to raise the ing standards of our allies by gifts But it does mean that we must use a high degree of skill and statecraft in helping them to help selves Among the obvious areas for study as gested by the recent report of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy are our tional trade policy in itself presents a perplexing range of programs of for- eign technical and economic assistance and ex- foreign investment to strengthen the eco- of the free world It would be highly ironical if the tremendous dynamic force of our free enterprise system of which we have always been so proud would prove a detrimental factor in our attempts to achieve peace in the world We have been blessed of course with exceptional natural resources and fortunate also that we did not suffer from the devastation of two world wars as did many of the other free nations But it is undoubtedly of real importance that we show effective leadership in raising the general standards of well-being throughout the free world if we are to retain the good will of our allies in all parts of the globe An Iowa teachers college reports that today's children cry less and are better behaved than those of a generation ago What a silly Those weren't children those were us Member Audit Bureau of tion Bureau of AJlled Dally Newspapers of Wash The AP la entitled exclusively to the use lor of all local news printed W this piper well ai all AP news dispatches Entered at Walla Post Office as 2nd Class Matter On an Island At times the public needs to be reminded that the heaviest concentration of population on the North American continent is on an island a small strip of rock known as Manhattan One of its companion areas of dense population also is an island ard on this one are a couple of other boroughs of the largest city in the Western New York The fact that so many people and so much industry and business are crammed into these areas surrounded by water has tremendous eco- nomic significance Transportation is important wherever people reside but a city of ly 8 million souls a majority of whom are de- pendent for their very existence upon bridges ferry and tug boats and tunnels under rivers is quickly sensitive to any interruption in the ment of persons or commodities Tugboat personnel who have been talking strike in New York's harbor hold economic power far beyond their numbers Should these men who move barges of fuel loaded freight cars and other commodities from railheads across the son and East rivers tie up their craft the fine balance that is necessary to keep the metropolis going would quickly be lost Actually Brooklyn Queens Manhattan and lesser boroughs situated on the islands produce little that is not trans- ported there for fabrication or processing The tugboat men could halt the delivery of coal which fires the boilers for electric power generation in several huge plants leave refrigerator and freight cars by the thousands at Jersey terminals of railroads that do not have rails into the big city Finished goods would pile up on docks around the islands awaiting cars and movement to the lines that carry away the output of factories and workshops numbering into the thousands In the hands of the relatively few tugboat men is a weapon that can become an economic in short order It is to the interest of lions that these fellows continue giving service Sedate Debates James Reston of the New York Times took note the other day of one of the sadder mena of our decline of really lively debate in Congress There is some good argument he adds By this we assume he means there are still makers who can present issues clearly so that the listener understands the two or more ing points of view Anyone who frequents the House and Senate chambers these days would have to agree Very often only a handful of senators are present when that august body has under consideration the most momentous issues have great debates any just a lot of of it reasonable but all too much of it shouting and ranting Quite a Future Peacetime development of atomic power ises to make substantial changes in our way of life and at not too distant a date according to Dr Luther Gable who was heard here in a couple of addresses the past week When we contemplate the speed with which labor saving inventions have come in the first half of the Twentieth century the prospect of adjusting to an atomic power era does not awe us And yet the extent to which our lives may be changed as full utilization of the possibilities develops should give us pause To achieve many of the results that now re- quire at least a fourth of each week's 168 hours in gainful effort will take only a fraction of the time we are informed The added leisure will present definite challenge to most of us Not only that but it is possible we will have even longer accident gets us The prospect the lecturer brought is intriguing indeed And we must hasten to be ready What with radio quiz programs charity tations sales campaigns and wrong numbers the last thing you expect to hear when you answer a telephone these days is a familiar voice That's One Way of Disposing of It RAY TUCKER Huge Surplus Is Unloaded WASHINGTON The nation's farmers have unloaded almost billion worth of food surpluses on Uncle Sam within three months cording to the Commodity Credit Corporation's figures The ment has virtually bankrupted that agency although Congress will bail it out and exhausted quate storage space The Eisenhower Benson farm program has been responsible for this unprecedented rush to obtain government loans or to sell their crops outright to CCC The ers naturally want to cash in at 30 per cent of parity the current figure for loans and purchases rather than at the 75 or 80 per cent proposed by the tion It is a jam Other Editors SOME CENSORSHIP NEEDED is much disagreement as to the method of censoring motion pictures held to be immoral or ob- scene Confusion has arisen in the light of United States supreme court rulings against bans on ies by New York state and Ohio The court opinion seems to have left uncertainties as to its intent but there can be no doubt as to the need of doing away with -some of the scenes and tising of some of the pictures which sia Arch asks how about have been help up before ca's theater goers Censorship poses a delicate tion A code of self discipline is by far the best method and the picture industry has taken great strides in that direction Of late however provocative scenes and dialogue have placed some tures decidedly in the unwholesome class certainly anything but an in- spiration to youth The publicity sued in connection with them has glorified crime and moral is Daily icle 111 la 111 11 especially bitter against C y Ezra Taft Benson for his Out of Line in reverse and the movie industry need The farmers are simply be astonished that the public for cover before the barn roof caves in although it is almost tain that Congress will not grant the White House request for er farm price support levels The bloc is in reckless revolt It is tary misrepresentation the plus problem and his apparent sponsorship of an urban ers to fight high food prices Counter to Seasonal Trends This peak unloading runs ter to past seasonal trends mally in the fall and winter the disposes of some of its ings thus building up its ing and lending power for spring production Dairy surpluses especially usually decline at this time of year But CCC is now paying out more than a day for It was rather surprising in view f the President's often expressed TWICE TOW IN WALLA WALLA Instead of porting of surplus butter to exporting anywhere some of the surplus females who have been cluttering up the movies and Las Vegas scenes recently PETER EDSON Divorce Court Dulls Taste Of Coeds for Matrimony Japs Coveting Alaskan Pulp WASHINGTON NEA The American pulpwood industry is iously Alarmed by threats from interests to establish ber and pulp mills in Alaska to ply Japan's big rayon industry gest in Asia The U S Forest Service which controls Alaskan timber does not dc business with foreign ies So an American corporation SO per cent owned and controlled by the Japanese has been formed in this country to bid for Alaskan for socialism in all and licenses Called the and what is more important be- Alaska Pulp and Lumber Co the cause he is engaged in a desperate concern has been put together by struggle to cut the cost of 20 Japanese firms Two are in taxes that his the lumber business the others in proposals for housing should rayon and wood pulp products volve further debt and more Japan is really up against a j tough problem in finding an One explanation of this pulpwood supply It can By JIM B SCHICK Two Walla Walla school students were faced with cold hard ties of life last week and came up with what he the obvious answer for the moment but one that probably time and spring will change The students both girls spent part of two days as observers in divorce court in connection with courses they were taking in school At the end of the divorce slons both girls I'm never going to get married Divorce court has never been a cheerful place but another spring on the beautiful Whitman College campus will erase the memories of difficulties that some men and men have In a divorce trial last week three young women apparently friends of the tened patiently in the audience ing the two days of testimony They spent their time knitting baby from very obvious appearances the three will be needing them in the ture A year or two ago a witness in a Walla Walla divorce case was an elderly woman who would fit nicely on any Saturday Evening Post cover page to typify a gossip DICK KLEINER Laughton Boss She was a neighbor of the man seeking the divorce and titled that she had seen certain incidents from her living room window The opposing lawyer asked You wouldn't be spying on your neighbors would Oh no she replied I was watching some kids I never stick my nose in other peoples affairs Then she proceeded to recite In every event that had ken place In the neighborhood during the period in question Most of her testimony was dis- regarded by the court A well-known Empire city school superintendent not from Walla Walla is famed for his et dignity and unruffled nerves He recently was telling a Walla Walla friend of his favorite TV programs and wrestling topped the list The amazed friend asked why? You see it's this the related Every day an irate parent visits my office and rakes me over the coals over thing or an official of the ton Taxpayers Association berates us for spending too much money on schools At night tired and worn I go home and turn on TV and the wrestling When I see one of the grapplers with a ly rough hold 1 think that's me and he other guy is the Washington Taxpayers representative 67 cents may te the longer get logs from butter that at at Columbia University Sakhalin Island Japan's own island cents With institution for more than reserves were overcut Ul JUt cents wun pyramiding I a century has been located on the ing the war Unless the Japanese side of the Hudson river in are permitted to trade with Russia pyramiding costs the discrepancy in b prices lies behind the demand direct action and boycotts by other But the U S for flexo lower rigid higher farm I In early November CCC had of the to acquire sufficient lumber and woodi NEW NEA Charles Laughton who was Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the is up timber as L own private back yard They aren't particularly interested in de- u plf t tn lor bought or loaned money on about quate protection against the growth j Alaska C4 Ar 01 Slum arCHS CheCK Dy I j t billion worth of surpluses On November 30 the figure had risen to On February 1 following Benson's disclosure of his now bor and transportation costs are too high But when TJ S timber re- serves are further reduced the i American companies have been play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial Lloyd Nolan plays Capt Queeg in this triumph And Nolan tells me how Laughton over the Queeg speeches with him line by line University In a Bind o ui ins iS tWO farm to groups to which the counting on starting operations in I But somehow it didn't sound or only aent referred in his message And want Nolan says I went home 000 less than the legal from and land used a tape recorder and for loans and purchases Merrill Lord of Jed it back and it still didn't sound CCC Was Bankrupt In other words actual in- vestment and incurred obligations were so huge that it was bankrupt and had to call on Congress which means the taxpayers for iate cash It is estimated in tion to present debits that CCC require almost billion more to carry it through 1954 For the the past few close proximity on the institution And sides of forest products division of U.S right the way Laughton suggested like so many Department of Commerce says Then I did it for my wife and she HKe so many liVe some U.S pulpwood men doubt You don't sound like Nolan institutions this one would not be represented on present CM loading continues at a rapid rate board of trustees financial L tions with sufficient means to buy they Despite these astronomical ons ures farm bloc spokesmen deny that the price support program has been an economic extravagance i slums They charge that Benson has S to meet p on their on melr from not suggest that the uni- en an entirely erroneous idea in his public statements Figure for Over 20 Years Over 20 years from 1933 to 1953 according to CCC records the total loss on basic commodities ton tobacco corn wheat rice been only needs are involved in the present presidential program I simply say that presidents like other men argue from the small island of what they know out into the great sea of what they don't know The bare facts that concern or about a million a year everywhere from Presque consider thai a small outlay for Isle to San Diego are these Read arui buy if you will but don't say jou were not warned Accepts Responsibility 1 The President is asking Con- gress to join him in a policy which frankly accepts the responsibility of the federal government to see that slum conditions are ed and that declining hoods be rehabilitated 2 The President is that the federal government pledge it- self to increase its building of maintaining farm prosperity and purchasing power The loss on toes butter barley cottonseed castor beans etc has been about But more than 50 per cent of this is accounted for by the potato support scheme which ago was abandoned two years A significant factor on the small loss on basics however is that two of Dixie's products cotton and tobacco saved the day The i free and government owned and fits on them came to about operated units from the present 000.000 which offset the red ures on corn wheat rice and nuts Scant Chance for Program of a year to This is to involve a total commitment now of 140.000 units 3 This will cost over the whole It is true that World War II and period billion and probably the the Korean conflict kept of revenue and cost of down by providing a domestic and i ices not paid for by token foreign market But the farm bloc tances in lieu of taxes will cost High-Pressure Selling Benjamin F Fairless U S Steel Corporation board chairman tells this story to impress on U.S how important it is for them to sell aggressively in this period of creeping Let me remind you of the ing store proprietor who was ing to clear out his One of the suits was an ab- solute nightmare to him so as he was going to lunch one day he ed to an assistant and Sam of Shakespeare on TV these days depends upon the baseball and football schedules So says Maurice Evans possibly the greatest Shakespearean actor around You see he says I wouldn't for a moment do a Shakespearean play in less than an hour and a half And you can't clear that much time during the baseball or ball season So Romeo and Juliet mus wait on Musial and Williams and alas poor Yorick must stand aside for the New Yorick Yankees But between seasons TV viewers can have treats like Evans latest we gotta get rid of that suit See on if you can't do something about it Hall of Fame while I'm gone LIBERTY NOW CONTINUOUS DAHLY FROM THE YEAR'S LIVELIEST MOST SOPHISTICATED COMEDY I Forever Female with JAMES end Introducing PAT ADDED BUGS BUNNY CARTOON TRAVEL NOVELTY NEWS ROXY TONIGHT Well when he got back an hour cut to two hours but Evans thinks DOORS OPEN AT of last year THE BATTLE OF THE GLAMOUR the Bard's works stand such a trimming admirably That's the trouble with TV later he found to his amazed de- light that the suit had been sold But the store was a wreck and so was Sam A whole rack of clothing Shakespeare in he says had been overturned A showcase They play it word for word They was broken Sam's face and they muck around were cut and bleeding and his suit the national poet so they run was in shreds Good heavens said the proprietor What Did you have to force that suit on the it too long Actually shortening it can pre- serve its flavor as long as you don't have to add additional dia log by Joe Zilch or someone said Sam He Evans is haPPy in his be- at all scrap with his dog The Payoff Assistant secretary of sure had that Shakespeare himself like his stuff on TV Ana i the actor feels that in years to Defense j come TV may be the repository insists that food and fiber governments about a A Seaton in charge ages during these crises dollars and information have meant even more 4 The federal government be- ties says January 1334 will go tic prices for consumers and comes a master planner and down in his memory book as the bly a defeat for the democracies vides some millions to enable month in which he got paid by What these figures mean in view ies and metropolitan communities Uncle Sam after working nearly i of the farm legislators analysis plan themselves five months without a payday them is the administration's Would Increase Liability The catch is a law which program has scant chance of 5 The government through the no sage Also that organization of a FHA has a contingent consumers union will not have Hill's about 2 per cent in reserves in ule years Hayman used Happy in selling the debentures in- Assistant At- lucky he's not a tuba President Eisenhower is so ta avoid trials on cases fancier learning the practical ways and get them settled by consent of politics some of advisers decree has run into a snag m the should tell him that public strawberry war at Hammond La COMPANION FEATURE be a British way of as we don't louse i it up Harmonicas like everything else i wear out Richard Hayman one of Montana Belle TOMORROW February 8 The Walla Walla extends congratulations and best wishes on this the birthday Alfred U mechanic in Eagle Sock Va Carl J office manage jom in Si Louis Minn Eugene auto repair born in Washington Ind Lawrence Bernard railroad man Sen who in rent bom Seattle to the fact that indirectly but in- the cost of ton Mrs Margaret Rose borr R G piano tuner in Mrs Walter born in Cousin Winston proves he is as strone as ever As news this ranks j 1 also charged with coercion in forcing a flash that Pike's Peak is j l to bc in Krw York City the small strawberry farmers standing and Niagara arc the area to join the union to flow A settlement recently eo out between the Department of in Justice and the union Some ot the in turn accused union members were to plead not guilty and be acquitted their were to plead guilty with ths understanding that they these flashy new cars in ic assessed minimum fines which the Iront half ol the top is When the terms of this the proper passes people it on to the tenant are ahead Che President's are thus not only economics bat doubtful politics too The writer of topical humor is to throw nothing ay High-priced coffee jokes or are in season about every years Billy Douglas born in Yakima Grace Davis of bom in Dayton Mrs Guy nurse bom in Dayton Mary Cole en Love bom in Main Omaha Mrs Elizabeth M Grain born in St Mo Henry born in On This Date court agreement taken to Dis- headgear for the driver a Herbert W o isinglass in treat ol the berry at Orleans he He declared that il the i didn't have a case it should bei A Bible Thought i Smith In incorporated Later a is found necessary ai 30 ai In P 7 L Co Fnr he me a to continue says JI wounds V common stockholders Job In allocates for new lichts at county airport A service future of dis- w A to s nea JCAB Tears and sorrows and losses arc In 1952 Arthur Si Peter foiled a part of what must be in attempt over prison ed in ibis present stale cf with ladder during previous for our manifest cood and -a try all it Js inr mr jn for our final and cale stage freeze needed to Leigh Huai plants government lie vras against this new procedure of settling cases out of court LAST WEEKEND TO SEE THIS SUSPENSE THE SMILE SUSPENSE THRILLER FEBRUARY 12 13 150 WALLA WALLA LITTLE THEATRE 1310 for 2 S p.m MONDAY THRU SATURDAY STOKER COAL Inn's Utah OiW to proper rise for yon Stoker Ah to rode ano hi Hnt tow in Ash FUEL OIL contain RR Tausick TIL 35 COMPANION FEATURE COOPER STANWYCK 2.43 Aown open P.M to Knock ami BeSt at 70S and
