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A p THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
4-5. Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, Feb. 4, 1084
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full
of hypocrisy and iniquity.—Matthew 23:28.
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does
after his departure from the world when be becomes a spirit.
Swedenborg. *
RUARK'S REMARKS
Australia Stirs Herself
As an Independent Nation
The Truce With the Bear
A cynical and jeering generation has
rather relegated Rudyard Kipling to a
place of secondary importance, a mere
maker of pat phrases, a sort of sopho-
moric versifier who glorified colonial-
ism and injected a kind of tinny lilt into
everything he wrote.
But Kipling is staging a comeback,
largely because some things that he
wrote five, six and seven decades ago
have come alive and kicking as time goes
on.
With an eye on Berlin and the Big
Four conference, why not re-read "The
Truce of the Bear?” Any old Kipling
fan can tell you about Matun, the hunter
who lost his face and eyesight because
he trusted “The Bear That walks like
a man," and failed to pull the trigger
when Adam-zad the Bear approached
him with a piteous plea for mercy, only
to rise on his hind feet at the last mo-
ment and destroy Matun’s face with one
swipe of his massive paw.
"... When he stands up like a tired
man, tottering near and near; / When he
stands up as pleading, in wavering,
man-brute guise, / When he veils the
hate and cunning of his little, swinish
eyes; / When he shows as seeking quar-
ter, with paws like hands in prayer. /
THAT is the time of peril—the tune of
the Truce of the Bear!”
And Anally the clincher “There is no
truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks
like a Man!"
The Russians are never so dangerous
as when they seem to be making conces-
sions. When they act according to their
nature, the world is forewarned. It is
when a velvet glove is slipped for tac-
tical reasons over the iron hand—that
is when the danger is greatest. There is
only one way to handle Adam-zad, the
Bear that walks like a Man: "Rouse him
at noon in the bushes, follow and press
him hard— / Not for his ragings and
roarings flinch ye from Adam-zad.”
Well, it was good advice when Kip-
ling wrote these lines 56 years ago. It
is even more valid advice today; for
Adam-zad has become a great power in
the earth, and the Matuns of this world
would do well to concede him no quar-
ter.
was routine in most families where the
stuff was available half a century ago,
as a means of toning up the system for
spring. Insult added to injury was when
small boys were made to go out in the
woods and dig'up the roots of the sassa-
fras, for the preparation of the nos-
trum slated to be poured down their
throats. The only concoction worse in
taste was the mixture of sulphur and mo-
lasses used for the same purpose. We
have always thought our detestation of
ordinary tea comes from having been
forcibly drenched with the sassafras va-
riety as a child.
Meantime, two or three congressional
committees and some government bu-
reaus are looking into the coffee situa-
tion, with the usual results so far—a
lot of conflicting opinions and proposals,
without much prospect that anything
worthwhile will come of it all.
As usual, the quickest and surest cure
is in the hands of the public-quit
scrambling for coffee, cut down on con-
sumption, and watch the price come
tumbling down in two shakes of a dead
lamb’s tail.
Sassafras as a Substitute
In Van Buren, Mo., W. L. Martin of
the El Leon Cafe thinks he has the
quickest answer to the coffee situation
yet made available to the anxiety-torn
public: sassafras tea. He is selling sassa-
fras tea at 4c the cup, as against coffee
at 10c. Large quantities of the raw ma-
terial of the tea are available around Van
Buren, Martin argues, and there is plen-
ty of labor available for the work of gath-
ering and preparing it
We suppose few of our readers ever
heard of sassfras tea, much less tasted
it. It comes from the dried bark of the
roots of the sassfras tree, a member of
the laurel family, and it grows in pro-
fusion in Tennessee, Missouri and other
states, as well as in Bast Texas. The tea
is highly aromatic and for generations
it has been used as a spring tonic. Frank-
ly, we doubt if it could over be popular-
ized as a beverage, though Mr. Martin's
cafe is reported to be doing a land-office
business at 4c a cup. The juice of the
sassafras bark is also used as a flavor-
ing in some kinds of medicine.
A good drenching with sassafras tea
OTHER-VIEWPOINTS
Now It's Official
That awesome explosion touched off
many months ago in the Pacific that
wiped out an island and left behind only
boiling sea-water was indeed a hydro-
gen bomb.
President Eisenhower has now told
Congress that this was the first full-
scale thermonuclear explosion in history,
the first step in the government’s hydro-
gen weapons program. The nature of the
bomb had been known unofficially al-
most from the start, mainly because sail-
ors on the ships at the scene wrote their
relatives and friends about it—contrary
to regulations. It had been generally ac-
cepted as a fact since then, but was nev-
er acknowledged officially until Presi-
dent Eisenhower confirmed it Tuesday.
He gave no details, except to say
was enormously more powerful than
the "conventional” atomic bomb.
Almost at the same time, Secretary of
Defense Wilson said he wished people
would quit waving the atomic bomb as
a sword-rattling exercise, which sounds
more like s pious hope than a practical
policy declaration.
But the secretary’s further comment
on the point was what really interested
us. He said that if Russia ever agreed to
atomic disarmament, we should have to
take a “second new look” at our current
defense program, which places the prin-
cipal reliance on air power and atomic
weapons.
On several occasions in recent weeks
this column has been trying to empha-
size the obvious, to-wit: that putting all
our defense eggs in one basket could be
fatal. We argued that if we stripped our
Army and Navy to the bare bones in or-
der to build up the airpower-atomic
bomb program as our principal machin-
ery of defense, we'd have nothing much
left if and when atomic disarmament
should come. It would be suicidal to ac-
cept atomic disarmament on any terms
unless we insert a proviso allowing us
plenty of time to rebuild the weapons
we would then have to rely on—that is,
the Army and the Navy. That could take
years.
Mr. Wilson evidently senses this, snd
if you ask us it is none too soon. We be-
lieve firmly in airpower and atomic
weapons, but we also believe in a bal-
anced defense that includes all our
armed services.
A
MATTER OF FACT
Flying Saucers Were Bad Enough
That Mounting Asian Crisis
By ROBERT C. RUARK
SYDNEY, Australia — There
has been, it seems to me. more
than a subtle change in Australia
since I was here four years ago.
It seems to me that the country
has struck off on its own, snd
has lost s great deal of its old
dependence on England. It to more
or less as if a large but young
child had suddenly gained confi-
dence and chopped the apron
strings
There to a stirring here that to
more felt than seen: almost smelt,
as a matter of fact. There was
something of the same atmosphere
at the end of the war in Canada,
at the start of its big boom. L.
Imagine we to the States had
something of the same thing at
th* start of the century, when we
really began to roll.
The discovery here of oil, and
of uranium, and the change in gov-
ernment cannot be entirely re-
sponsible. Nor can the admission
of the migrants, although undoubt-
edly they are all components of
a whate. What I really believe to
that a certain shock resulted from
the war, and that it took several
years to recover from it. And with
those years came a realization that
Australia was on its lonesome own
out here, and must stand on its
own, with much less dependence
on England than formerly.
Looks Less to England
It would be wrong to say that
Australia looks more to America
than to England for guidance, but
it certainly looks less to England
than formerly, and the impact of
America on this continent has
certainly been felt.
There again the Canadian an-
alogy makes itself apparent. The
sentimental ties persist, but the
old childish reliance an Mum haa
been dissipated by a fresh confi-
dence. .
I noticed with interest that in
the recent meeting of the finance
ministers one Australian editor
asked Mr. R. A. Butler, Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, if England
were aware of this transition, to
the discomfiture of several repre-
sentatives present. Chancellor But-
ler answered that it was indeed
noticed, and more or less a pointed
problem back home. The infer-
ence waa that Australia might.
someday, grow to regard the
mother country with the same sort
of mild distrust with which Amer-
ica views England.
I do not believe there ever will
be, in this century at least, the
same sort of severance of ties with
the old country that America ex-
ercised, because we were actively
at war twice with England, and
the cleavage was complete. But at
the same time there must be some
realization . here that Australia
must fend for herself; that there
is very little support to be gained
in the future by a childish de-
pendence on a small and moment-
arily impoverished country so
many, many thousand miles away.
Headed for Greatness
This seems to me to be healthy
indeed, because this vast sprawl
ing land seems earmarked for
greatness, and the greatness to
achievable only through lusty self
sufficiency. If Australia has prob-
lems, only Australia to actually
able to smell out its own solutions.
It seems that recent years have
proved the land filthy rich with
natural resources, and that the ex-
ploitation of those resources to
certain. In time the harnessed
atom is bound to alleviate the wa-
ter problem. The country to filling
with migrants whose progeny will
swell the population, and whose
racial admixture with native Aus-
tralian stock must strengthen the
fiber of the peoples of tomorrow.
There is one aspect, and that
of labor, which must be selfde-
termined to fulfill the promise that
I seem to smell in the air. There
is much work to be done here,
and there seems s certain unwil-
lingness to do it. We have been
somewhat hamstrung at home by
the same sort of take-it-easy ten-
dency in recent years, but most of
our foundations had already been
firmly constructed on hard work.
To be blunt, I don't see how a
man, or a country, can afford the
right of retirement before the right
to retire is earned by tell.
But of one thing I am certain:
Australia is on the move as an
independent nation, an adult en-
tity, and you can sniff the beady
excitement of it even in the drowsy
summer air. —(United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
Bigness Not Badness Per Se
Wall Street Journal:
It was said of the Labor government to
Great Britain, which took office in 1945, that
each time it aaw something big, it sought to
nationalize it.
Nationalization waa not popular in this coun-
fry but the American ideological brother gl the
British Socialist had a formula of his own. If
he saw something Mg. he wanted to sue it.
And very often he seemed to decide on the suit
before he could determine what the suit waa
to be about.
One of the wholesome changes which the El-
senhower Administration brought Into office with
it was the perception that bigness and monop-
oly are not the same thing. In his economic
message Mr. Eisenhower said this:
“It is clear that size alone does not preclude
effective oompetition Cases abound in which
competition among large firma turning out sim-
Her products, seeking steadily to improve them
er to reduce the root of making them, haa
speeded technical progress and price deductions
to the consumer.*
On the same day Attorney General Brownell
Too Much to Say
Cripple Creek (Colo.) Gold Rush:
There seems to us to be no sadder eommen-
tary on the weakness of human nature than its
uncontrollable propensity toward idle gossip.
Hew often just pure conversation turns Into
mental meanderings which carry with them
misinformation and oft-times malicious injus-
tice.
There are among us none who is shore mak-
ing many mistakes some of them willfully,
some of then unknowingly. That is a weakness
of human nature that we must understand, and
forgive. But to publicly discuss these weaknesses
often leads to hurt and injury which cannot be
repaired no matter bow hard we try.
To think before we speak is a noble motto-
mia
matter how hard we try
Ry JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON — This is one of
those queer moments when the
real news and the news on the
front pages tend to diverge. Con-
gress is wrestling with the Bricker
amendment The White House to
pressing a massive legislative pro-
gram. In Berlin, Molotov to talk-
ing sweet So we are told every
morning.
What we are not-told to that
another major Asian eriala to
quite probably on the way. Be far
as America to concerned, thia
large, unattractive, uncomfortable
fact seems to be regarded as one
at the secrete of the National Se-
curity council, where the new Asi-
an cristo to being anxiously and
‘continuously discussed.
The measure of the gravity of
the cristo is given by the charac-
ter of the proposals that are now
before the N.S.C. Reportedly, the
decision has already been taken
to aid the French in Indo-China,
where the crisis centers, by send-
ing them 400 mechanics and main-
tenance experts from the Ameri-
eaa Air Force unite in the Far
East. The number is not large.
But surely there to grest sig-
nificance to this decision to send
American troops to Indo-China,
not for training purposes, but to
assist directly in the struggle
there.
And Other Things
Nor is this all. One of the of-
ficial projects now before the Na-
tional Security Council calls for
giving the French in Indo-China
all-out American air and naval
support. In the same context, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford, to
authoritatively understood to have
revived his old plan of a naval
blockade of the China coast. There
is no prospect, at present, that
such drastic steps will actually be
taken. The signs are all the ether
way. But the mere fact that such
steps should be discussed at all
speaks several volumes
There la a reason why the naw
Asian erials is causing such con-
cern In the Inner circles of the
Administration, yet attracting so
little attention from tha rest of the
world. In effect, the immediate
danger la not in Indo-China, but
in Paris The French mood is such
that the French government will
shandon the Indo-Chinese struggle
if their forces la Indo-China mere-
ly suffer a serious reverse. Of this
the American government has been
plainly warned, officially and un-
officially.
This means, to turn, that noth-
made a speech in New York in which be made
quite clear that the present Administration la
not preceeding in the fatuous belief that the
anti-monopoly statutes need no enforcement.
They obviously do
But Mr. Brownell made equally clear that he
is not enforcing the law according to some
preconceived formula. He has not decried that
this or that situation in itself la evidence of
attempt at monopoly it is possible that half a
dozen big firms In an industry could have agree-
ments which would tend to stifle competition.
But the presence of half a dozen firms does
not prove restraint of trade.
Violation of the anti-trust laws to either a fact GRIN AND BEAR IT
or it to not. If there are a number of big firms
bidding actively for business, the presump-
tion to that they are competing and their size
has nothing to do with the matter. If you find
a number of other firms, allocating territories
or holding back new developments, the pre-
sumptton to that they are net competing. And
they may be large or they may be small L
The anti-monopoly laws, which are an Amer-
lean invention, are one of the pillars of Amer-
ican economic strength. It to important they
be enforced. It to also important that they
should not be abused.
ding
ing very grandiose has to happen
in Indo-China, in order to open
the gateway of South Asia to the
onward march of Communist im-
perialism. The French and Viet
Namese forces do not have to be
decisively and finally defeated, in
order to produce an acutely haz-
ardous situation. They need only
suffer the kind of setbacks that
will finally sap the much
weakened will of France to carry
on the war. Maybe not a straw,
but hardly more than a twig can
break the camel's back.
Difficult Problem
The problem this creates
Gen. Navarre and Gen. Cogny is
obviously very difficult Generals
cannot guarantee not to suffer fair-
ly serious local setbacks, even
when their forces are much strong-
er than the enemy forces. But the
margin of strength possessed by
Gen. Cogny and Gen. Navarre Is
very small, and growing less into
the bargain.
for
For the time being, to be sure,
the outlook has been improved at
Dien Bien Phu, the important
French fortified post where the
situation was causing intense alarm
only a week ago. But this improve-
ment has taken place because a
division of the Communist forces
that encircled Dien Bien Phy has
been diverted for another purpose.
A major Communist movement
has now been noted towards Luang
Prabang snd perhaps Vientiane,
the two strong points in the Laos
country thst the Viet Minh attacked
last year.
Large numbers of Gen. Navar-
re's best troops are already com-
mitted at Dien Bien Phu Whether
he will have the effectives avail-
able to resist s major Communlat
drive into the Laos country is sn
open question In addition, the
Viet Minh high command haa
launched an attack, not major in
itself but embarrassing, in cen-
tral Indo-China. And now there haa
come bad news of large scale de-
fection! by Viet Namese army
units In this supposedly pacified
territory near the southern capi-
tal. Saigon.
These Viet Namese army detec-
tions to the Communists seem to
have been wholly voluntary, with-
out any serious preliminary fight-
ing. They come after the “affair
of Bai Chu” last September,
when raw Viet Namese units sur-
rounded an masse when attacked
by smaller Communist forces.
A Real Calamity
psychologically, the Viet Nam-
ese detections are a real calam-
ity; for the improvement of the
By Lichty
Viet Namese anti - Communist
army has been the main basis of
all recent French hopes and plans.
This disheartening development on
our side is balanced, moreover,
by indications that China to mas-
sively increasing the supply flow
to the Viet Minh Communists. This
means that Gen. Navarre and Gen.
Cogny must expect a constant
growth of enemy power.
Altogether, Get. Navarre will
need something very like genius
to avoid the kind of setback that
can do irreparable damage in
Paris. Perhaps the great policy
problem will be crystallised in
Saigon, where French Defense
Minister Rene Pleven and our
army's Indo - China expert, Gen.
O’Daniel, are both going to con-
fer with the French High Com-
mand. Perhaps Molotov, in Berlin,
will offer the French peace in
Indo-China in exchange for aban-
doning their American allies in
Europe. But either way, the Asian
crisis is not the sort of thing that
should be shoved under the rug.
—(New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
COST-PLUS WASTAGE
Spanish Airbases Bring
On Argument on Costs
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
WASHINGTON — Let us con-
sider today the matter of the cost-
plus planks and how to make mon-
ey sawing them in the wrong
places.
The House Appropriations Sub-
committee was fascinated. It had
up the matter of paying for the
airports we're planning to build in
Spain. This was no easy thing to
decide, because nobody seemed to
know exactly how much they'll
cost.
Rear Admiral J. R. Perry, Chief
of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
assured the legislators the job
would be done as economically as
possible under standard coot-plus
fixed-fee contracts. That's when
Rep. Clarence Cannon (D-Mo), an
expert on such matters, raised his
of labor here to provide for any
emergency.’ Now, you take excep:
tion to what statement, Admiral
Perry?”
The admiral said the Congress-
man must have been thinking of
1917, when such skullduggeries
were common. Now, he said, the
contracts do not allow profits on
waste motion.
5 Big Airports
Rep. Cannon didn't seem to be
entirely convinced. But he let it
go and maybe we’d better con-
sider those airports in sunny
Spain. There'll be five big ones,
plus a number of small installa-
tions, and s pipeline for gasoline
570 mites long that will cost M41,
000,000.
The statesmen wondered whether
the fuel couldn't be shipped via
tank car.
“My understanding la that the
roads and railroads of Spain are
horrible,” the admiral said.
Other witnesses agreed well
have to spend millions more fix-
ing them, despite the pipeline.
Otherwise our military traffic,
they said, would disrupt Spanish
transport. One informed guess was
that the whole business eventual-
ly would cost two billion dollars.
The experts said it wouldn't be
that much, but bow much they
wouldn't say. —(United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
_____eyebrows,
RUTH MIL LETT “Other subcommittees have
AUIMIE found the cost-plus-fixed-fee basis
AL . n 1 to be unsatisfactory and I used a
ADOUt People very moderate term," he said.
E “They have found by actual ob-
There's something about throe servation of military construction
mhadien reducing diets that seems .cida in. Gur miiricne tronra %
to reduce a woman’s charm even get three feet.
faster than they slim her figure. “Men working under the con-
Whether she is temporarily liv- tractor would reach down into (he
to, on skimmed milk and bananas #C52 °kcun4Lo02 MPa, XX
or lean beef spinach, the worn- carpenter would say, ‘Go along,
an who la subjecting herself to a faring me a whole board, an IP-
strenuous reducing regimen-is a foot board; this is on s cost-plus
around basis.’ So instead of using smaller
bore to be around . Pieces that were available, they
She’ll accept an invitation to a would take an 18-foot plank, cut
party, nobly pass up all the good three foot oft and threw IS foot
things bar hostess has prepared, on the scrap pilepatas,
make a point of taking her eotfee The admiral inea U interrupt.
Mask, and then make sure that but the gentleman from Missouri
everyone is aware of her self- was only setting a good start. "In
denial, other instances when the work was
The hostess certainly doesn’t punab.aeprindle id emm, 2 mouna
feel flattered to have her food by- and they had a number of kegs of
passed. And the guests who bars malls which had not been opened,
helped themselves snd should be the contractor would throw them
enjoying: it suddenly begin to look w mereana:
at every mouthful they take as “The more they expended, the big-
so many eateries. ger the percentage received by the
Furthermore, there always contractor. .
seems to be guests who are obwi- found the come plus contract the
ously more la need of reducing most expensive and sometimes the
than the one who to making such most reprehensible mathod of mil-
a point of her own diet — and itary construction.” . ,
these look a Mt embarrassed when , The admiral finallygot a word
the dieter talks about how awful in edgeways. He said could he,
she looks, please, take exception to one state-
. . __ment of the Congressman?
They make a mental note that “First permit me to add one
it she thinks she looks terrible, more instance,” Rep Cannon said
she must, think they look even “When we were investigating
worse. And that she must be won- some of these projects, we found
dering how they can all there eh- they had more labor on the job
joytag all those calories than was required and a number
if she doesn't want to put a of men were asleep in a ware-
damper on a party, there are only house where they could not be gen-
two things for the women who is erally observed and, when the
on a strenuous diet to do. contractor’s attention was celled
One to to stay home end diet to it he said, ‘Well, ** have to
in private. The other is to go to provide for, contingencies. J we
the party do not take this labor now and
PNr * as what later on need it, it would not be
XX." PALM SNEA"see, available, so we have a surplus
Inc.)
In Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD —(NEA) — Mov-
ies Without Popcorn: If it isn't
one kind of falsie in Hollywood,
it’s another.
“The Talisman,” before the big-
screen cameras at Warner Bros.,
haa Rex Harrison, in dark make-
up. as a Molsem leader and
George Sanders as Richard the
Lion-Hearted. Colorful tents i'
of
the Christian warriors stretch
across the entire sound stage and
Director David Butler calls for
last-minute lighting adjustments.
But with all the sound and fury
and show of pageantry the actor
in the epic who steals the scene,
for my money at least, is a Great
Dane dog.
Back in the days of the Cru-
saders, pooch owners never
thought of clipping a doggie's
ears to conform to canine fash-
ions.
So this modern-day Great Dane
wears false ears.
"Tender Hearts" to shooting on
the histone Charlie Chaplin let off
Sunset Boulevard.
But the real drama here to not
on the set. It's in a rubbish heap
outside the sound stage.
Stacked high for the trash col-
lectors is a pile of empty film
cans. Each one to marked with the
title of a picture negative: ‘The
PIgrim,” “City Lights,” "A Wom-
an of Paris." "Modern Times’
and "The Gold Rush:”
SO THEY SAY
Quotable Quotes
The Army has begun to live off the pantry
shelf on the biggest scato you ever saw. — '
Army Undersecretary Pearson.
1 hope each of you geta the salary raise that's
been so long overdue. —President Eisenhower
to newsmen.
I am convinced we ean have s mere pros-
perous economy in the next generation than we
ever dreamed possible. —Defense Secret: y Wil-
son. i 1
The bleedy battle over the farm issue will
not materialise, at least as far as the Senate
to concerned. - Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt).
As long as there are hungry mouths to the
world,we shouldn’t let surplus food go to waste.
—Agriculture Secretary Benson.
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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Rot a ringing signal each time
and he was correct in assuming
someone was an duty.
Then the chief realized why there
was no answer Burglars had rip-
ped the telephone off the wall.
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headquarters for fingerprinting,
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tag fair, are we being just, are we being
charitable?
But we hope above all that the lesson will
remain, and that we will learn that to keep
your mouth shut” at the right time is a great
and magnificent accomplishment.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 233, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1954, newspaper, February 4, 1954; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1652649/m1/14/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.