Good Spot for an Accident Let's Fix It The Evening Times Editorials Ike's Proposal May Make Panama Parley Important were for the United States little more than sites for "banana republic" revolutions, and disciplinary problems for a stern (and not too well-beloved) big brother. There are still many problems south of the Rio Grande, but they are steadily being solved. Mexico has taken its place in the world as a stable and progressive nation. Chile and Brazil likewise must be reckoned with as vital parts of the community of nations, and Argentina appears headed back to a top ranking after its disastrous experience with dictatorship. There remain some unstable states within the American orbit, it is true, but there are others which need little more than sympathetic understanding to allow them to reach the status of important nations.
In the background of this noted improvement there is a close bond of the, Latin states with the United States a common belief i (even though at times imperfectly carried out) in human dignity and human freedom, in democracy, in independence which make the American nations natural allies in every field of endeavor. The creation of a commission, as suggested by Mr. Eisenhower and accepted by the Panama conference, to seek out additional ways collaborating for the benefit of all, is an idea which holds vast possibilities, and we trust that it will speedily be organized, and become the force within the hemisphere that it can well become. 'J James Marlow GOP Likely to Play Down Reds-in-Government Issue Washington (AP) This year the Republicans will probably soft-pedal the Communists-in-government charge which they found so useful in the last two elections. In the 1952 campaign, when Sen.
McCarthy of Wisconsin was still a Republican hero, they did their best to create suspicion about the willingness of the Truman Administration to get rid of Reds. In the 1954 Congressional election they trotted out figures to show how many dangerous characters they had ousted under President Eisenhower's new loyalty-security program. Those figures came back to haunt the Republicans. As has been pointed out many times since, by Democrats and by newspapers, the figures were misleading when used to imply disloyalty or subversion. Under one general head of security risks they bunched possible subversives with drunks, hom*osexuals, loudmouths and general misfits.
The Democrats put a name on this whole business: a "numbers racket." The Supreme Court ruled Eisenhower's program went too far in trying to cover too many jobs. And Eisenhower has appointed a special commission to study his program. The Democrats weren't going to allow the Republicans a repeat performance in 1956, if they could help it. They worked hard to back up their charges of distortion in the Republican figures. They may have thought a new investigation would expose a gold mine.
They gave this job to the Senate's Post Office and Civil Service Committee headed by Sen. Olin D. Johnston A subcommittee did the investigating. Its work has been something less than sensational although it held 19 days of hearings and questioned 73 witnesses. But it did find how misleading some of the figures were.
Now it has issued a 549-page report which no one will read unless he has to. It is one of the most disorganized, disjointed and meandering reports this writer has ever seen come out of a Congressional committee. Nevertheless, it has some ammunition Democrats can use against Republicans, if they try talking numbers this year. The subcommittee turned savagely on Philip Young, chairman of the Civil Service committee. It's Young's commission which periodically produced the figures on the number of those let out of the government under Eisenhower's program.
The subcommittee said Young, "a personal adviser to the President deliberately compiled figures which are basically dishonest." As an example of what it meant: The commission reported that between May 28, 1953 and Jan. 30, 1955 there were 3,586 government employes "terminated because of security questions." The committee says actually only 343 less than 10 percent of the 3,586 were let out under Eisenhower's program. The rest were handled under normal, civil service procedures. And some of the 343 were rehired. The subcommittee said the commission's figures on those who left the government with security questions settled or unsettled in their files included: Employes who had died, duplicates, part-time consultants, transferees, aliens, persons who resigned because of illness or to go into private industry, and even men drafted into military service.
The commission hasn't produced any fig-u-es in a long time. Merriman Smith The conference of Panama, which started out as little more than a bit of friendly inter-American formality, may well take on a considerable degree of importance as the result of a proposal presented by President Eisenhower and enthusiastically accepted by the heads of 18 other Latin-American states. The Organization of American States, the successor to the Pan-American Union and by inference at least the outgrowth of the Panama conference of 1830, called by the liberator Simon Bol-'var, that" the present session is designed to commemorate, has already shown a very real value in the field of international politics and defense. For instance, the serious threat of Communist infiltration in Guatemala was ended largely because of the cooperative interest of all American states brought to bear through this organization. But there still are vast fields of inter-American cooperation that have not been tapped, or have been worked only sporadically those of economics, cultural relations, finances, technical affairs and social relationships.
In these fields there is an important opportunity for closer relationships for the mutual benefit of all the peoples concerned and incidentally for strengthening the bonds between the Americans to make them a still greater force for peace and prosperity in the entire world. There have been vast changes in the Latin-American republics since the days when they Changing Patterns There are some people who will simply look at the record of 66.5 million workers on the job in this country as of June 30, and take it as a grand vindication of our system and a reflection of the times. Twenty-five years ago the prospect of even 60 million jobs was regarded as visionary, a chimerical dream of the like of Henry Wallace, who wrote a brook about it. However, when the figures of the amazing employment record (11 million more jobs than 10 years ago) are broken down, some conclusions come out that are more social than economic in nature. There are some pointed signs that the manner of life in the United States is changing.
In other words, we are getting all this more jobs, more money, more new faces in our working force all this and automation, too. Remarkably, the total number of jobs goes up though the number of jobs in manufacturing is less than it was three years ago. The total goes up although only eight million workers are on farms today compared with 13 million in 1936. Mechanization on farms and in mines, new automatic devices in factories, have come to displace workers, and still there are more jobs. Some may find a note of the ominous in the increase in public employment.
The job record as just announced shows the number of workers on federal, state and local government payrolls to be up to 7.1 million, about more than last year. The number has grown to almost half the number of factory workers 16.7 million reported in industrial employment on June 30. There is also the note that one person in every three employed is a woman a jump in women's employment of 75 percent since 1940. With one-third of all wives employed, family incomes increase, and the pattern of family life necessarily changes. Perhpas the noteworthy point of this new record of employment in America is the great increase in "trade" and "service" jobs meaning that more people are working for one another a fact which tells a great deal about the changing pattern of our social Yesterday Files of Past Years ents, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Pearn of 135 N. Elmira street, Athens. Hal Newhouser missed out at a 30-game victory season in 1944 by one game, but he now has 19 victories and at least 16 more pitching turns for Detroit. He now has 19 wins of 21 starts.
Representatives of the nation's major collegiate conferences today sought the support of their member schools for a plan to keep college sports on a strict amateur level. Mrs. George Severance and children of Los Angeles, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs, C. A.
Davidson at their home at 122 Paine street, Athens. Irvin Macafee of Milan and H. E. Higbee, senior investigator for the Bureau of Animal Industry, have returned from Harrisburg where they asked the Department of Agriculture and the Game commission for aid in killing the coyotes and Canadian brush wolves around Macafee's farm. will act bill to revive either in the form a memorandum Senate is expected house-approv-ed atom bomb was Bikini lagoon to-t.
radio-controlled cause it to explode against 87 target Gromyko, Soviet the United Nation's energy commission, rejected the States proposals atomic energy. Include the veto power in of Elmira purchased the company store Athens, and possession officially store will be Farm Supply been discharged and has arrived home of his par- Other Editors' Views: Controlled Fallout A novel and puzzling twist in the endless chain of atomic debate will inevitably follow Thursday's report that American scientists have made progress in limiting the fallour of nuclear detonation. The Atomic Energy Commission's announcement is, as might br expected, very brief; as to just how the danger of radioactive contamination can thus be localized, not one detail is supplied. The apprehensive civilian can only note that AEC Chairman Strauss definitely pronounced it a step of "humanitarian" importance. Speculation will not stop there.
Reporters quickly asked whether a reduction in the fallout danger might not prove an influence in the contrary direction, strategically. That is, the complications of atomic warfare have proved a deterrent, so far, to any resort to such weapons; might not a nation feel freer to dip into its nuclear locker, if it can better hope to control the extent of damage? No answer was forthcoming. We are reminded, again, of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill that wag cited here last month after Lieut. Gen. James M.
Gavin had been telling senators that the speed and direction of the prevailing winds could, in the event of full-scale nuclear war against Russia, pile up casualties "on the order of several hundred million." Sir Winston said, considerably earlier, that we are approaching the point where "safety will be the sturdy child of terror and survival the twin brother of annihilation." Today, it looks as if he should have put the terror and the annihilation first. In the mouths of ordinary people, the word fallout itself has become a byword, applied even to specks of paint allegedly flaking off a ceiling. We have been conditioned to expect ultimately harmful radiation even from getting too close to a television screen. It is good to have Mr. Strauss's reassurance, but, in the absence of more specific information, somehow the vast, technological perils of the future do not really seem fewer.
Baltimore Sun It Seems Like Valley Area Notes from Newspaper 20 Years Ago July 24, 193S Gov. Alf Landon and Republican Chairman John Hamilton worked today over details of a campaign which will carry to the nation the Republican nominee's plea for return to "a free and competitive system" of American life. A U. S. consulate employe was killed in a U.
S. government car bearing the American flag while going to the assistance of an American in Barcelona July 22, the state departmenf reported today. The employe was a Spaniard. The Spanish government put its massed strength military, political and moral into the fight tainst army-Fascist-Monarchist rebels today. Troops poured northward to form a battle line in the mountains which protect Madrid and rebels advanced from the south.
Mrs, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, American and Olympic backstroke swimming champion, was dismissed today from the U. S. Olympic team by a special committee for violating the training rules. Mrs. Jarrett pleaded tearfully for another chance and the committee also ignored a petition of the athletes and dismissed her.
Her violation had included attendance at- co*cktail parties. Miss Irene Bissell of Stevenson street, Sayre, has been graduated from a six-months course at a beautician school In Wilkes-Barre and has returned home. Bids for construction of the new Waverly post office will be opened next month. The building will be made of brick, granite and sandstone and located on Waverly street on lands sold to the government by Arthur Du-Bois for $13,500. Olympic gold medals won by the U.
S. athletes since the' first modern Games in Athens in 1896 total 125 out' of a possible 227 in track and field events, a survey has revealed. In the first game, 12 track and field events were scheduled; the U. S. won threee track and all six field events.
10 Years Ago July 24, 1946 The White House said today Strictly Richter President Truman promptly in the price controls, of a message or to congress. The to pass the measure today. The mighty suspended in day, awaiting a impusle that will its fury ships. Andrei A. representative to atomic today flatly major United for control of The U.
S. proposal removal of the its administration. Fordham Wood street, Sayre, has Dayton Milling on Herrick street, will take tomorrow. The known as Wood's store. Jack Pearn has from the navy at the Washington printing you with anything a horse, diaper bigger and better It's the biggest plant in the the latest booklets is a volume The cover shows brilliant daylight back leaf carries a beautiful night All sorts of both in Things like the prayer chamber can meditate, containing questions Congress functions.
Comparatively sprawling plant a youngster as It goes back to put up Harman Biggest W. Nichols Information Center (UP) The government office can supply information on almost like how to shoe a baby or grow parsnips. general printing world. One of off the presses on the Capitol. the building in color and the a duplicate in shot.
subjects are included print and pictures. new private where members down to a section on how the speaking, the is something of bureaus go. 1860 when Congress $135,000 for the Washington Merry-Go-Round Steel Talks Suffer from Absence of Ben Fairless original layout, populated by only 350 employes. Today, 95 years later, 6,200 persons draw some $32 million in annual pay. On its 32 1-2 acres of floor space are 200 presses of all sizes and 365 casting and type-setting machines, The GOP's so called book store is fascinating.
There you will find pamphlets on foreign affairs. "How To Drive A Nail," and "How To Sew On, Buttons," which come from nothing to a nickel or dime a copy and right on up. These are sold on the spot or can be ordered by mail. Address: U. S.
Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Most of the printed matter originates from government bureaus. Agriculture, Commerce, the Department of State, among many others. One of the biggest chores is a job which comes every work day when Congress is in session the printing of the Congressional Record.
Here, the printing office shows its colors. Copy for the Record generally arrives around 6:30 p.m. unless there is a night session. It includes the roll calls, debates, from both houses. In the back is the appendix, a catch-all for blowing off steam in an "extension of remarks" and costs us taxpayers up to about $85 a printed page.
Sometimes these run into the likes of reprints of magazine articles and other things fitting the lawmakers' own thinking. More than 41,000 or so copies are printed daily, proofread and delivered by 8 the following morning. The record runs from 120 pages to sometimes more than 300. Its a credit to a well-organized team, at present under the able thumb of Public Printer Raymond Blattenberger. And when an error shows up which is seldom the page becomes a collector's item.
Some thing to be stapled onto the wall as an oddity. STATISTICAL FACTS Lithium is the lightest known metal. Tropical Backstairs MERRIMAN 18 1-2 9 ED PG PA Panama City (UP) Backstairs at the temporary White House in the tropics: The White House won't say so but local arrangements for protection of key figures at this meeting of American presidents are considerably tighter than when Mr. Eisenhower visited Geneva for the Big Four meeting about a year ago. Some of the President's opposite numbers down here are frequent objects of rather pronounced opposition by their political enemies.
Hence, the host government of Panama is taking no chances. Armed troops are deployed liberally throughout the Republic. Soldiers maintain security checkpoints as far away as six miles from airport where the presidents landed. Before Mr. Eisenhower underwent his ileitis operation June 9, there was considerable planning about around the White House for a cool weather holiday preceding the Republican convention.
Several spots in Wisconsin were under consideration but in recent days, as ths President's recuperation moves along, plans for the vacation have been quietly drooped. After his return from Panama, the President probably will divide his time between Washington and Gettysburg until it's time to fly to San Francisco to accept renomtnation. THE EVENING TIMES TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1956 Publisher Dana S. Johnston Clara S. Johnston President Harold C.
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Published dally except Sunday by the Sayre Printing Company, a corporation at Sayre Pa. Entered at. Sayre, Post Office as Second Class Matter. MEMBER Associated Press ANPA PNPA United Press Audit Bureau of Circulation BY DEEW PEARSON Washington One factor handicapping the steel strike negotiations is the absence of Sen Fairless, kindly, powerful former head of the U.S. Steel Corporation, who always dominated past wage talks.
Fairless, an orphan raised by an uncle who was a coal miner, was sympathetic, to labor. And though he rose to become head of the world's greatest steel company, he was largely responsible for OKing healthy wage increases to steelworkers. He and Dave McDonald, head of the United Steelworkers, were understanding friends. During the closing days of the steel negotiations just before the strike was called, U. S.
Steel still seemed more sympathetic to the union's position than oth-er companies. But there were several roadblocks, as follows: Roadblock No. The two companies which do most of their business with the automobile companies, Bethlehem and National Steel, were the toughest negotiators. It looked as If they wanted a strike. This fits in with the word, passed down inside the industry, that Ernie Breech of Ford and Harlow Curtice of General Motors were not at all averse to a steel strike which would give them an excuse for closing down, thus using up the huge car surplus on hand this year as a result of overselling last year.
Roadblock No. 2 With Fair-less now on the sidelines, the steel moguls adopted the Boul- ware technique in their negotiations. This technique, developed by Lem Boulware of General Electric, is a take-it-or-leave-it approach. Industry approaches the conference table and says: "This is it, boys. This is all you're going to get.
The longer you delay, the more you lose, because you won't get retroactivity." General Electric has been able to get away with this because many of its workers are not unionized. But Westinghouse used this approach and found itself with one of the longest and bitterest strikes in recent years. It still hasn't recovered. The steel moguls tried the Boulware technique in their recent talks against the advice of U.S. Steel's John Stephens and ended with a strike.
The Stephens-Fairless technique has been to work up gradually to terms which seem about right for both sides. Roadblock No. 8 Wall Street bankers who have a hand in guiding the steel industry want a five-year contract. They want this in order to figure their tax depreciation writeoffs in financing new plants for the steel industry. Negotiations were held in New York, incidentally, to be near the bankers, who have the last word.
Labor, on the other hand, doesn't want a five-year contract. Inside fact is that the steel executives have been much tougher in their negotiations than appeared in the press. On the last night before negotiations broke up in New York, in. dustry leaders met most of the night. Afterward they told newsmen the union was offered a 20-cent package with a three-year agreement.
Actually no such offer was ever made. The industry stood pat on its five-year offer. Note During all this period, and not until after the strike was called did the Federal Mediation Service make any overtures toward a settlement. Ike's Ex-Naval Aide Probably there has been no man closer to Eisenhower during the years outside of his brother, than Harry Butcher, Ike's naval aide during the war. They got to know each other before the war when Ike was stationed in Washington and Butcher was working with the Columbia Broadcasting system.
Later, when Captain Butcher went abro'ad with General Eisenhower, their wives waited out the war in the same Ward-man Park Hotel together. After the Butcher wrote a book, "My Three Years With Eisenhower." Last week, however, Harry Butcher got the brushoff from Ike's appointees on the Federal Communications Commission in what looked like a political move. He had applied for a TV license in Hartford, Conn. Opposing him was the Travelers Insurance Co. Butcher has had vast TV-radio experience, now operates station KEYT In Santa Barbara, Calif.
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