Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, December 15, 1952 Page: 2 of 6
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Washington Scene
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 — Gen.
Eisenhower plans to call in his
old mentor, Oen. George C. Mar-
shall, and ask him what he thinks
of the Marshall plan now.
The ehamces are that Ike will
get a very Mistering answer.
Gen. Marshall has grown more
and more irked of late toward
the Marshall plan, and the fact
that it no longer wears his name
is not sufficient solace. He feels
that the Marshall plan under any
other name, even one as impres-
sive as Mutual Security Agency,
doesn't smell any sweeter.
The godfather of the grand give-
away hasn't said much as yet,
even to his closest associates, but
he has not been able to conceal
that he is smouldering and in
danger of eruption. The real tip-
off to his feelings toward the
Frankenstein monster he helped
create was inadrvtently revealed
by the life companion of his joys
and sorrows, the usually shy and
self-effacing Mrs. Marshall.
It happened on a boat coming
back from Europe early this fall.
The election campaign was going
strong. On the same ship were a
couple of prominent American bus-
inessmen who had been, making
the rounds of their foreign branch-
es and, incidentally, checking to
sec how some of the equipment
they had manufactured was being
used in the Mutual Security Ag-
ency’s handout program.
These tycoons got together with
Gen. and Mrs. Marshall one eve-
ning on shipboard. The conversa-
tion inevitably got around to the
big MSA giveaway.
One of the manufacturers said
the thing that had galled him the
most on his European tour was
the way some of the Mutual Se-
curity workers were flaunting by-
zantine luxury amid want and
squalor.
He spoke with depth of feeling
about the grossly - overstaffed
MSA branches he had visited, say-
ing it would ruin any American
private enterprise to carry so much
dead wood. With great bitterness
he described the lives of almost
Oriental spendor being lived by
the top MSA “workers” in nearly
every capital he had visited.
He said they were flaunting)
their sybaritic orgies in the faces j
of natives who weren’t even get-
ting enough to eat.
Monday, December 15, 1982
Drew Pearson <'
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About this time It dawned on
the buairew man that he wasn’t
getting any response from Oen.
Marshall. He glanced at the form-
er Secretary of State and saw he
had enveloped himself in a silence
thicker than the fog over the
ocean.
The manufacturer plunged
bravely on, however. He conclud-
ed by saying he had been jarred
| to the core of his soul by the
1 boon-doggling of some of the MSA j
I staff members who were putting i
on the most idiotic show of doing
| something so they could hold on-1
to their jobs.
i Gen. Marshall continued to say |
nothing. But finally it became too
much for Mrs. Marshall. She
blurted out indignantly:
“That wasn’t George’s plan at
all! His idea was to provide enly
enough money and machinery to
get those countries on their feet,
and then Jet them shift for them-
selves ”
Gen. Marshall looked straight
ahead, but the look on his face be-
came so ominous that the business-
men suddenly remembered they
had an engagement for bridge in
the cardroom.
So when Gen. Eisenhower calls
in Gen. Marshall and asks him
what he thinks of the Marshall
plan now he is apt to be blown out
of his chair by the answer.
* * *
Mr. Gene Archer, the eminent
singing star of television, radio,
and the gridiron club, has four
sons, ranging in age from 9 years
to 7 months. Because of the close-
ness of their arrival upon earth
they have had to learn to share
each other's possessions.
The other evening Mrs. Archer
asked the second son, Johnny, 4.
what he wanted for Christmas.
He answered so quickly it was ob-
vious it had been in the forefront
of bis mind.
"This year,” he said, "I want
something all for myself.”
In fear and trepidation, sure it
would be something far beyond
the family finances, Mrs. Archer
asked Johnny what he craved so
exclusively.
“A whole roll of that stickum
tape,” the kid replied.
Washington Merry Go f Round
WASHINGTON — This column
leceives a great many letter* from
G. I.’s and gobs in Korea and
j,her areas asking for advice and
help regarding various inequities.
Many of these get to the root of
enlisted men's problems and even
affect the general public.
Because of widespread interest,
here are the most recent excerpts
from the G. I. mail bag:
Cablegram from 55 members of
322nd signal battalion, Darmstadt,
uermany — “Pan American air-
ways forced cancellation of a con-
tract between 55 G. I s and Sa-
bena Airlines for a chartered plane
to take us home for Christmas.
Pan American withheld action
until after we had waived our
right to government transportation
for the month of December,
leaving the alternative of paying
full prices for commercial trans-
portation or remaining overseas
for the second successive Christ-
mas. When we protested, the
Panam representative called us
‘emotional kids.’ We are 55 ‘emo-
tional kids’ who still appreciate
spending Christmas at home with
our families.”
Answer — Investigation by this
column finds that the 55 G.l.s'
cable not only is accurate, but that
Pan American Airways also
brought pressure on the British,
French, Dutch, as well as Sabena
(Belgian' Airlines to cancel 30
other chartered Christmas flights.
'Panam warned these airlines
that under an International Trans-
port Association regulation they
i could be fined $50,000. This regu-
I lation is actually intended to stop
CoprUghl. 1151. gy (ha l*U Syndic***. lac.
cut-rate competition. Nevertheless,
Panam threatened to invoke it to
stop the G.I. Christmas flights. As
a result, the- other airlines got coldj
feet and left the G.l.s stranded in'
Europe. As far as this column
could learn, only on echartgred
plane ignoicd Uie warning and
went ahead witlmis flight.
Apparently, Pan American
hoped to force the G.l.s to fly
home on its planes at regular com-
mercial rates. This would amount
to from $100 to $250 extra for euch
G.I., depending on how many had
got together for a chartered flight.
Though all available military
transportation is already booked
up for December, the Air Force
has promised this column to have
any "special mission” planes sent
to Europe during December pick
up these stranded G.l.s on the way
home. The air force has also con-
tacted several unscheduled air-
lines, which do not come under
ITA rules, and asked them to pick
up the canceled charters. This col-
umn is happy to i eport that most
of the stranded G.l.s will be home
for Christmas—in spite of Pan
American Airways.
Three enlisted men aboard the
U.S.S. Duxbury Buy—“There are
215 white hats (enlisted men'
aboard this ship. We have four
shower stalls, but only three op-
erate, and they are turned on just
one hour per day. Most of the
time we have only two washbowls
to wash up. Yet 215 men are given
only fifteen minutes to clean up
in the morning. If we don't turn
to on time, we have to work two
hours for every five minutes wo
late."
Answer — When the seaplane
tender U.S.S. Duxbury Bay last
left port, she was supposed to have
18 washbasins and nine showers
for 215 enlisted men, as compared
with 10 washbasins and six
showers for 16 officers. Even u
all these facilities are working,
this still leaves 12 enlisted men to
a washbowl and 26 to a showor,
as compared to less than two of-
ficers to a washbowl and three to
a shower. It looks as it the offi-
cers could move over a bit and
give the “white hats" more elbow
room around the washbowls.
A service mother, Denver, Colo-
rado—“My son has served two
years with the Marines, 11 months
of this in Korea. He was slightly
wounded by shrapnel on Heart-
break Ridge. He has less than a
year before his enlistment is up.
But he has been shipped to Camp
Pendleton, California, for assign-
ment back to Korea. Isn’t there a
regulation against this?”
Abswer — Enlisted men under
the rank of sergeant are not sup-
posed to be shipped to Korea if
»hey have less than eight months
left to serve. Those who haven’t
even been sent to an embarkation
point are supposed to liave over a
year left before they can be ship-
ped out. However, both the army
and the Marines have been ignor-
ing the regulation and shipping
men to Korea despite it. Now that
you know the regulation, you can
raise the issue with the proper au-
thorities.
Capital ITsws Capsules
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-By BENNETT CERF-
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frontier with Iran, winds up to 110
miles per hour blow continuously
from June to September.
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‘'•Motions peynbk in aifngice.
A STORE president, dismayed by his constantly spiralling
overhead, called in an efficiency expert, and implored,
"Find me some way to operate this place more efficiently and
economically, or we’U have to ^
close our doors.” The E. Ex. NMIH#
began by passing out forms
to all employes on which they
were asked to set down ex-
actly how much time each
day they devoted to their va-
rious assignments. One me-
ticulous elevator man an-
swered, “My time is equally
divided—50 per cent up; 50
per cent down.”
• • •
Budd Schulberg, author, vis-
ited a new super-de-luxe beach
front hotel In Florida and re- J ^
ports the cuisine is so fancy the guests rarely have the ides
what it is they’re eating. As a final touch, confides Schulberg, "they
pnt whipped cream in the drinking water.”
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Stevenson’s hindsight — At his
White House sessions last week,
Governor Stevenson remarked that
last July he was convinced no
Democrat could beat Eisenhower.
I ’But during the campaign,” Stev-
i orison added, "I fooled myself and
j drought I had a real chance to
win. As 1 look back on it, I now
! realize that 1 was right last July
| —nobody could have beaten Eiscn-
! nower this year."
Inauguration weather — David
Lynn, the capitol architect, is
basing the seating plans for Presi-
dent Eisenhower’s inaugural on
tho Hagerstown almanac—a bible
of weather and planting lips used
by Maryland farmers. The first
thing Lynn did in planning for the
size of his grandstands was to turn
to the almanac, which says that
the weather for January 20 will
be cloudy, moderately cool. <Thc
worse the weamer is the less
grandstand space needed.'
I
Air Secretary
There’s been a lot of backstage
,debate among Ike-advisers about
j the appointment ot Harold Talbott,
j World War I and II aviation man
* and heavy GOP campaign contri-
ibutor, as secretary of the air force
lun the Eisenhower administration.
A Talbott hit the headlines last
Rumintr as the Republican who
collected $20,000 from the Sea-
gram’s whiskey group during the
1948 campaign. A similar contri-
bution was given to the Demo-
crats.
Much earlier, in World War I he
and his airplane company wor-
investigated by Charles Evans
Hughes at the instance of Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson in connec-
tion with Liberty engines Talbott
was vice president and manager of
Dayton M.-tal Products Co., and
Dayton-Wright Airplane Co., later
becoming president of the latter
company. Both were formed by
Charles Kettering of General
Motors and Edward Deeds of Na-
tional Cash Register.
In 1917, Deeds was made a
colonel by Secretary of War New-
ton D. Baker and placed in charge
ot the equipment division for
aviation where he could award
contracts. A total of 3,490 air-
planes was Contracted for, equip-
ped with Liberty motors, supposed
to be manufactured by the com-
pany operated by Deeds, Talbott
md Kettering. No planes were de-
livered during the duration of the
war.
Charles Evans Hughes, after in-
/estigation, recommended that
Deeds be court-martialed, but
there was no subsequent action.
\mong other things, investigation
how?d that there was no paid-in
apital in the two companies when
the contracts were awarded.
In World War II, Talbott served
as aviation expert on the War
Production Board and, in the opin-
ion of this column, did a conscien-
tious job. He got into the army’s
hair, however, and eventually was
eased out.
Erich Brundols
Looking at
Life
On one of Art Unkietter’s tele-
vision programs the other day,
there was a little boy who had
picked far himself e most unusual
occupation.
The kid seemed to be perfectly
normal. Ha was about ten, had
lets of freckles, red hair that
stood on end — and a black eye,
which ha said he had gotten play-
ing football whan another boy
ran into him.
"What do you want to be when
you grow up?” Llnkletter asked
him.
“An autopsy surgeon!!!” Art ex-
claimed. "why on earth do you
want to be THAT—ot ail things?"
• * *
"Wall, 111 tall you.” said the
kid. "I know all about how people
look on the outside.
"I want to find out what they
look like on the INSIDE. I want
to find out what makes them
TICK.”
Llnkletter wiped his brow. He
did not pursue the matter any
further, but turned to the next
youngster. That one was satisfied
to be a fire captain, a profession
which fitted much better into
Unklettcr’s repertoire.
« • •
"To find out what makes them
tick," said the kid.
He is probably stiil a little too
young to know that you can’t find
out what makes people tick just
by cutting them open.
Oh yes, he would find all kinds
of mechanical parts, that make
the human being walk and talk
and eat and digest and hear and
see.
He would find out what makes
I the heart beat and what makes
j man breathe and perform an the
j other STANDARD actions that all
l human beings have more or less
j in common.
* * •
But there arc several things he
will never find out just by cutting
j people open.
He won't find out why some
! people are good, others bad.
He won’t find out why some
j people are failures, others suc-
' cesses.
! He won't find out why some
people hate and others love.
Or why some people are mean
and cruel, others sympathetic and
full of pity.
He won't find out where faith
comes from and hope and charity
• ♦ •
All those characteristics which
distinguish MAN from the ANI-
MAL can never be discovered bv
an AUTOPSY
And I doubt that they will ever
be discovered at all. Our biolog-
ists and psychologists and our
chemists and medics may know an
awful lot, and 1 am glad that they
do.
But I am just as clad that there
are still many riddles about the
human being that have not yet
been solved — and are not meant
to be.
Life is just a bit like Santa
Claus.
Nobody has seen the real Santa He has the key
NEW GLASSES TO AID NEARLY BLIND
BINOCULAR-TYRE OLASSIS to aid the nearly blind are *"**£»**
Los Angeles by Dr* Murgaret Hester (left I and Kooerl \sranam.
Dr. William Felnbloom, associate in optometry at Columbiajmlvttsity,
developed the new glasses after five years of research sim£ IW. He
said the lensea remove nil blur optlcnlly possible and should enable
the nearly blind to perform their daily routine unaided ilslnsattsssb
GLADEWATER 10 YEARS ABE
(Excerpts taken from the files of the Ttaea-TfOSBif “
Arriving Tuesday, December 15,
from Christian College in Colurn-
bia, Mo., will be Elizabeth Yates
who will spend the holidays with
her parents. Mr. and Mrs Jack
Yates.
V. E Curry of Longview, Counts
Chairman of the Red Cross, pre-
sided Monday afternoon at the
regular meeting <»f the County
Board when they met in the Com-
munity Building here. During the
business session a nominating was
appointed composed of nine mem
bers. three from Longview, three
from Kilgore and-three from
Gladewater.
The committee includes H H
Broiies, C. N Jarrell and Hugh
White from Gladewater.
Current events from
mission Magazine went
member#of Circle
day afternoon meet
R C. Taylor. Mrs J.
opened the meeting with pturti
A study of Luke 14-21 was ted b
Mrs. Taylor.
four at h Mon
i with prayer
Mrs. Sain Moore brought the
lesson story on the Book'rof Acts
for the Woman's Cunril at the
First Christian Church Mnday aft-
ernoon This study is proving quite
interesting due to the research and
special talents of the toachcr.
Mrs N L Roe lias returned
from an extended visit With her
daughter and family in .California.
Agnes Graham was the name
selected for Circle Seven of the
Baptist W M U Monday afternoon
Miss Graham is the author of the
mission book, "Pioneering With
Christ In Chile." She Is also a
missionary in Chile. Mrs L. C.
Keoun was hostess at her home
■ Clause But everybody KNOWS
{ that he exists
If you doubt his being—then
j ask your child, or any child. Not
| one of them will deny his exist j
1 ence. Not one of thorn will, for a
moment, share your doubt They i
KNOW that there is a Santa j
Claus
C B Bell was dismissed Mon-
day afternoon from the JMc^ean
Hospital. , .
Mr and Mrs. Jahn Howard
Wood returned Monday from Ban
Diego, Calif . where they have been
making their home for the last
several months.
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You will never know the origin
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