Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1947 Page: 10 of 16
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MOSCOW CONFERENCE
Will Debate German Peace Treaty
By EDWIN L. JAMES
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ITH the Big Four Conference
meet in Moscow, it is apparent
now that it will be a difficult af-
sure to involve issues of rr tional
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fair,
politics and international ideology on a
large scale It is not to be expected that,
even taking into account the prelimi-
nary work of the Big Four Foreign
Ministers’ deputies, it will write a Ger-
man treaty. Those who are optimists
hope that it will make a good begin-
ning.
The matter of the peace treaty with
Germany is, of itself, the most impor-
tant matter which has come up for set-
tlement since the end of World War
II. There is involved the political fu-
ture of Europe for years to come, as
well as, in large part, the economic
future of the Old World. To illustrate
why this particular conference will not
complete the job, one can cite the cir-
cumstance that before a peace pact can
be made with the Reich there must be
a German Government to sign the
treaty. Germany is a very long ways
from a degree of political unity which
permits of the quick establishment of
a central government. Before that can
be done there must be some form of
German economic unity created and
that is not in the immediate offing
from a practical.point of view, although
the United States, Russia and Great
Britain have expressed adherence to
the principle of economic unity.
Toward Economic Unity
The Americans and British have
united their zones economically to a
degree. But this very act has aroused
no little sharp-shooting from Moscow,
with charges that things are being done
which the Russians think should not
be done.
Washington and London believe that
not only for the sake of Germany her-
self, which must eventually be brought
to the status of a self-supporting nation,
but for the good of the Continent there
must be a degiee of economic unity es-
tablished in Germany which will en-
able that country to fit into the now
claims to reparations are satisfied and
it appears to.be their idea that all of
Germany should contribute thereto.
Moscow has done a good deal of strip-
ping of the Russian-occupied zone of
factories and other machinery of pro-
the tools of production.
It is evident, however, that there
must be a nice balance between the
Russian desire to collect heavy repaia-
tions and the Anglo-American p'an "
help Germany to her feet economically,
while maintaining a strict watch to see
than she shall not be able to turn .m\
new production in the direction ol ie-
armament.
The French and the Ruhr
Paris has brought forth a plan for
the management of the Ruhr with its
great coal mines by placing the region
Above is a map of the Ruhr in Germany, keystone of Europe's industrial economy.
disrupted economic puzzle of Europe
The Russians have gone a long way
toward accepting that principle, but
they have reservations. For example,
they wish to make sure that their
duction. This has not been, in all re-
spects, a successful policy and it is said
that the Russians now see some advan-
tages in collecting in manufactured
products rather than in carting away
THOMAS 4. EDISON Centennial
under a special regime governed by the
Security Council of the United Nations.
There is here a chapter in the old fight
of the French to be guaranteed a defi-
nite and liberal supply of coal from
the Ruhr for the purpose of steel pro-
duction by France. The management
of the Ruhr is now in British hands,
since it is in the British zone. It is evi-
dent that the French would prefer a
wider court in which to appeal for Ruhr
coal. This is understandable.
Up to the present, Moscow has not
approved the Paris plan. The Russians
have frequently advocated general con-
trol of the Ruhr, but it is not certain
that they share the French ideas about 9
the distribution of Ruhr coal. The Brit- 1
ish have their, own economic fish tu “
fry. and it is a good guess that the
United States is going to find itself in
the position of mediator in this affair
The French have shown no enthusi-
asm for the economic unity of Ger-
many, but it stands to reason that if
the other three members of the Big
Four agree on a program it is going to
be difficult for the French to keep their
zone out of the combination. It is pos-
sible that- it will work out that the
French demand for assurances on Ruhr
coal may indicate their price for agree-
ing to economic entity fof Germany.
Matter of Government
The disagreements which have ex-
isted among the occupying powers on
political matters in Germany, denazi-
fication, for example, may well be a
measure of the difficulties which will
arise in the German political field.
Whether or not Moscifw. Washington
and London can match up their ideas
on the degree of political autonomy to
be given to Germany is certain to be
one of the big issues of the conference.
There is the risk of a battle of ideol-
ogies here. There is more communism,
spontaneous or not, in the Russian zone
and there is more of what we call de-
mocracy in the American and British
zone, there is a subject which may be
difficult. While there have been re-
ports, officially denied, and then re-
peated, that the Russians are playing
with the idea of military evacuation
of Germany, it is a very good guess that
Moscow will seek "guarantees” before
leaving Eastern Germany.
The Foreign Ministers' deputies have
decided to recommend that all occupy-
ing troops be withdrawn from Austria
ninety days after the making of a peace
treaty. But Germany, in the eyes of
all members of the Big Four, is in an-
other category.
It is evident that the degree of suc-
cess reached at Moscow will reflect it-
self in the preparations which will
probably start before the end of 1947
for the peace treaty with Japan. It is
possible that nationalistic trading on,
the German treaty will reflect itself in
more ways than one upon the making
(Continued on Pago 7, column 3)
By T. ,1. McINERNEY
I Grit Magazine i
/\N THE occasion of the birthday an-
II niversary of another great Ameri-
can—Tuesday, Feb. 11—a grate-
ful Nation marked the centennial of
the birth of Thomas Alva Edison, the
man who made the electric age possible.
It was Feb. 11, 1847, in the little
town of Milan, O., that the great Amer-
ican inventive genius, son of Samuel
and Nancy Edison, was ushered into
this world.
His life, viewed in retrospect, dem-
but Edison valued money only as a
means of carrying on his work of cre-
ating new and useful devices. The true
measure of the man—a century after
his birth and less than 16 years after
his death—is to be found in the in-
creased standards of living, the com-
forts, the conveniences, and the mil-
lions of jobs that grew out of his inven-
tions and discoveries.
Even if Edison had been content to
do nothing more than invent the first
practical incandescent electric light
bulb, that one achievement alone would
HIS PHONOGRAPH, the talking machine, was Thomas A. Edison's favorite invention.
onstrates the heights to which a man
may rise under a free economy. In many
European countries Edison would have
been a maker of wooden shingles, be-
cause that was his father’s trade, and
in such lands a son could not rise above
the station of his father.
Three Months’ Schooling
But Thomas Edison, whose formal
education was limited to three months
of schooling, contrived inventions and
scientific discoveries, which, even by
the most conservative estimates, gave
birth to new industries with a capital
valuation of $20,000,000,000 and em-
ploying more than 4,000,000 persons.
The real measure of Edison’s stature
cannot be stated in dollars and cents.
Hundreds of men in American history
accumulated more money than he did,
have been enough to guarantee him
fame as an inventor.
Bulb Only a Part
“The Wizard of Menlo Park,” as he
was to be known later when he moved
his laboratory to the little New Jersey
town of that name, considered the elec-
tric bulb only a part of his schemes and
went on to devise an entire generating
and distributing system for electricity.
The bulb has become the symbol of
his success, but he also invented dy-
namos, generators, insulators, meters,
sockets, fuses, and a hundred other al-
lied items. In the electrical field alone
he produced more than 260 inventions
and altogether received 1.097 patents
—by far the greatest number ever is-
sued by the U. S. Patent Office to one
man.
The phonograph and the motion pic-
ture, the fluorescent lamp, the first
electric railroad in America, the in-
vention of a system of wireless teleg-
raphy six years before Marconi’s, the
making of rubber from goldenrod, the
business dictation machine, storage bat-
teries, and a hundred other modern
miracles—all these make every Ameri-
can citizen as much a beneficiary of
Thomas A. Edison as if he had been in-
cluded in his will.
Had Sense of Humor
One might suspect that such a man
as Edison must have been a cold, hum-
orless individual. On the contrary, he
was warmly human and possessed a
keen sense of humor. Vanity and pom-
posity were missing from his make-up.
Once a delegation from the French gov-
ernment called on him at his labora-
tory to decorate him with a medal in
recognition of his services to mankind.
Dressed in top hats and formal attire,
the visitors found Edison at work in
old trousers and an undershirt. He had
not dressed.
When Thomas Edison died at tillage
of 84, Oct. 18, 1931, he was buried in
Rosedale Cemetery, in Orange, N. J.,
in a grave which is unmarked to this
day. Somehow, it seems fitting that
this great American advocate of free
enterprise and progressive living should
rest in an unadorned grave because,
after all, the real memorials to his
greatness are to be found in every elec-
tric light, every phonograph, every
motion picture, every electric train,
and every radio and television set that
graces this Nation.
In 1946 alone 2.000,000 new custom-
ers—each representing a family unit—
were added to the rolls of the Nation’s
electric companies, boosting the num-
ber of American families using elec-
tricity to approximately 90 per cent.
And of the new customers added, only
400,000 were within the limits of cit-
ies, indicating the large increase in the
farm use of electricity.
Epochal Year Planned
As a year-long tribute to the man
who made all this possible, the indus-
trial leaders who carry on his work
plan to make 1947 an epochal year in
the electric age.
If, in this critical year of 1947, the
American people need a message of
courage to help them conquer any dif-
ficulties that may confront them, the
last public words of Thomas Alva Edi-
son, delivered over the radio to the
National Electric Light Association at
its convention in Atlantic City in 1931,
should suffice:
“My message to you is: Be coura-
geous. 1 have lived a long time. I have
seen history repeat itself again and
again. I have seen many depressions
in business. Always America has come
out stronger and more prosperous. Be
as brave as your fathers before you.
Have faith. Go forward.”
TRA FFSC Safety Seeks
To Halt Sudden Death
By BOOTH MOONEY
1.139 Liberty Hank Rldg., Dallas. Texas.
iN ROUND figures, 2.000 men. women
I and children were killed in auto-
* mobile accidents in Texas last year.
More than 50.000 persons suffered per-
sonal injuries in such accidents, and the
economic loss caused by the accidents
amounted to approximately one hun-
dred million dollars.
Such facts as these are behind the
current drive of the Texas Safety As-
sociation to bring about adoption of its
six-point traffic control program, which
recently was placed before Gov. Beau-
ford Jester at a special conference
called in an effort to halt the rising
(1) An increase of 200 additional men
for the Texas Highway Patrol with ade-
quate operating funds for traffic control
purposes. There are at present only 250
highway patrolmen assigned to cover 26,-
000 miles of State highways—about the
distance around the world.
(2) Adoption of the Model Traffic Code
tor uniform traffic regulations. Some Tex-
as traffic laws date back to 1917. They
need to be revised to be able to cope with
present-dav high speed traffic.
(3) Broader authority for traffic courts
m larger citie. This would give <he cities
more power to deal effectively with drunk-
en drivers, hit-and-run drivers and juve-
nile1 traffic offenders.
(4) Restrict use of driver license fees to
driver license administration .and Texas
Highway Patrol through the Department
ot Public Safety. This would give the Driv-
DEATH MAP——Col. Homer C. Garrison, Jr., director of the State Department of Public
Saiety, presents the death map oi Texas to Governor Jester at the recent safety confer-
Each pin on the map represents a death by a traffic accident. Left to right are
Felix C. Tapp, manager of the San Anton'o Safety Council; Colonel Garrison; Larry
Graff, safety dtrector «f the Fort Worth Safety Council; Carl J. Rutland. Dallas, vice
president for trafiic salctv of the lexas Safety Association, and Governor Jester
tide of death on Texas streets and high-
ways.
Nature of Program
The Texas Safety Association is a
non-profit organization brought into
being some 10 years ago to cooperate
with State and local law officials and
numerous private gioups to make life
safer in Texas. The Association’s pro-
gram, developed through a series of
State conferences by traffic authorities
and patterned after recommendations
ot the National Highway Safety Con-
ference, proposes the following legis-
lation;
ers' License Division of that department
funds to operate properly, insuring the
withholding of licenses from incompetent
drivers.
(o) Controlled Access Highway LaWi
This would authorize the State Highway
Department to control points of access into
the main channels of traffic where it would
be advisable to install engineering features
that would make it easier to get safely into
and out of the heavy flow of traffic.
Safety Education
(61 Adequate appropriations for driver
education and driver training courses for
lexas schools under direction of the State
^cP8rtment .of Education.
Ill is six-point program would place
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