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BROOKLYN EAGLE, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951 National Whir Heffernan Says RAY TUCKER' Signs of Reds' Waning Power Seen as Big 4 Deputies Meet LETTER mFtI Charles Xt Dickens And History 1 The Truman Administration's new procedure of preventing or penalizing major strikes with heavy fines on the offending unions Is the behind-the-scenes reason for threatened severance of frien ly relations between organize labor and a political par which has given unprecedentr benefits to the workingmen (i almost 20 years. I Railroad operators kept the fingers crossed when Feder courts in two different jurisdu tions Washington and Chicaa others that are viewed of paramount importance by the Western Powers. If a later conference of Foreign Ministers is to be held, however, it must include on its agenda all of the known causes of fear and of the feverish race for military power. They stand out with grim vividness in world consciousness the future of Germany and of Austria, tlie danger to Yugoslavia from the Kremlin's wrath, the security of the Near Fast with its coveted oil fields, Soviet Russia's 5,000.000 men under aims and 1.000.000 more in the satellites. Since the first mention of the proposed conference there has been nothing to suggest even vaguely that the West might be willing to make substantial concessions even though a spirit of compromise were brought to the conference.

As a matter of national honor and of practical interest, the United States and its Allies must stand on principles basic to an enduring peace. In the trend of world history during recent months there are signs of Communism's waning power the diminishing membership of the party and its heavy losses of parliamentary representation throughout Europe, the failures of its armies in Korea, the unity of the North Atlantic nations and their growing military strength. In the past, Soviet arrogance and intransigence have had their origin in a conviction of overwhelming power. The Kremlin's masters will be foolish indeed if they proceed in the belief that they are still in a position to impose their will upon the free world. In the atmosphere of pessimism that naturally attends the meeting of Big Four Ministers Deputies in Pari there are one or two gleams of hope.

They are traceable to the fact that Soviet Russia apparently wants a Foreign Ministers' conference to be held. Furthermore, there are reasons why the Soviet ardor for conquest should be less intense today than it was some months ago. Changes that have tdken place in the world situation hae not been to the advantage of the Kremlin's designs. Regardless of what may develop from the meeting of the representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia, the Paris sessions will be important in the respect that they are certain to be revealing either for good or for ill. The Western Powers will confront Russia with terms designed to test sincerity.

Their acceptance or rejection will aid in answering the question of whether it is necessary to intensify preparation for war or whether peace is anions the possibilities of the future. The Western Allies enter the Tans conference in the only mood and attitude justified by the history of diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. They have no enthusiasm and they are without delusions. Having learned a great deal about Soviet techniques, which are never very subtle, there is no danger that they will be fooled. The objective in view is clearly defined that of determining the causes of ten-Eions in Europe.

There are causes in which Russia is primarily interested and slapped fines totaling on the striking switchmen aftc the latter's officers admitte that they had been responsib for the "sick" walkout a mont ago. Because of the trainmen long-time "in" at the Whit House, it appeared to be a pu up job for the leaders to assum the blame. But the recurrent attacks President Truman at labc meetings and in their public; tions reflect a labor hostility that cannot be discounted. fact, the Union Policy Commi tee's row over freezing wages generally regarded as only symbolic and visible manifest; tion of a deeper resentment, There are no insoluble di ferences over a wage-freeze fovs mula, but there is possibility war to the finish over the tion of a judicial prohibitio against strikes. As labor leaders view th problem, the Administration" new formula during the cui rent national amounts to an anti-strike bain essential industries.

A1' Brooklyn's classicist among lawyers and historian among classicists, Cosimo De Gregorio of lea Starr ask space for a quotation from thp Enelish new -spapcrman and author. tthop span of cais covered our Revolutionary period and its aftermath. He writes: After you read the follow, ine quotation (in the year 1775) please say something shout Charles Pickens for the readers: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of ile-pair, we- had. everything before us. we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only!" Not so much about Charles Dickens, product of old Fleet St.

In London, who, while a newspaper reporter, was famous for a beat on all contemporaries by getting a speech of primary importance delivered in Manchester into print 48 hours after its delivery. Readers of the Pickwick Papers will he able to imagine how he marie the journey in the good old stage coach days. As to hi to the novel date 1859, was it Martin Chuzzlewit? it reminds one of the Dies Irae, a poem of such tragic sublimity that its translation into English has baffled most of our great writers. From one effort the late Dr. James .1.

Walsh gives the following lines: "Those are the latter times, these are not better times; Let us stand waiting: Lo! How, with awfulne-s, He, first in lawfulness, Comes DESERTING THE RED BAND WAGON NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS Doubt if U. S. Supreme Court Ruling Will Affect N. Y. Condon-Wadlin Act President Truman has to do i LETTERS to order the Army to take ovei a certain industry, which makes' the workers employes of th LTO THE EAGLE Government.

If thev strike or sulk, regar less of their professions of sick By ERNEST LINDLEY Senate Group's Anti-Crime Plan May Run Afoul Free Press Rule tin Mr. Lindl.ry'x absrvee on vacation, this quest column has been written by Samuel Shaffer, well-known Congressional correspondent.) On March 31 the Special Senate Committee to Investigate Crime will wind up its efforts with a final report and a series of recommenda ness or unwillingness, the De, nartment of Justice seeks rontemnt citation. And if the present pattern is pursued fines follow. As an explanation for spreac, of anti-Truman feeling to th workers, and not to the profes, sional leaders alone, it shoulr he noted that these fines woulf not be paid by William Green Philip Murray or John L. Lewis tions.

Thus far the committee has advanced a number of tentative conclusions and legislative recommendations which promise plenty of controversy in the months to come. Even if the legislative proposals should gather dust in Congressional pigeonholes because Dr. Brady Says: but by extra assessments or thp union members. Aside respective States of the power to enact legislation which would curtail the right to strike. While a Federal law can be applied only to cases that involve inter-State commerce, this interpretation seems to assume that any industry in the utility field falls under that category.

In its infancy the inter-State commerce law was strictly interpreted. The meaning, however, has been so broadened that many an industrialist may have come to the wry conclusion that if he uses United States postage to mail a letter the action involves him in inter-State commerce. It is doubtful what effect the new ruling will have on no-strike laws such as that now prevailing in New Jersey and other States. We doubt that it will nullify the Condon-Wadlin law in New York. This law prohibits civil service workers from going on strike.

The decision clarifies the jurisdiction of the individual States on the question, but it adds nothing to the Taft-Hartley law's present, inability to circumvent strikes in critical industries. The Supreme cWt, sitting for the first time in over a month last week, did a real day's work at one session. Eighteen decisions were handed down. One of the most important rulings of the court was that declaring unconstitutional the Wisconsin law forbidding strikes and demanding compulsory arbitration in the public utility field. The contention of the court was that any such State law conflicts with the Taft-Hartley Act.

It threw out the argument of the Wisconsin State attorneys that this specific law was meant as an emergency measure to protect the public in time of a labor dispute in the Utility industry. Chief Justice Vinson pointed out that the Wisconsin law was not of an emergency nature but laid down permanent restrictions in industrial relations which deprived the employes of the right to strike. Congress had considered similar action and rejected it. The Taft-Hartley law, ineffectively perhaps, but legally and constitutionally, covets national emergencies: The ruling deprives the from the implications of thii new anti-strike procedure, tha is the real reason for labor's winter discontent. The $100,000 fine levied against the switchmen has been publi cized nationally, but there wa? a recent happening at Richmond er's territory.

Jurisdictional disputes are settled by "Lucky" Luciano, currently operating from Italy after his deportation from this country. The life-blood of the vast bookmaking empire of the.e crime syndicates consists of the inter-State transmission of gambling information. The Kefauver committee believes this should and can be halted by Federal legislation. This is easy to propo.se but difficult to legislate, for it involves a knotty Constitutional problem: how to devise legislation controlling the inter-State transmission of any kind of information without impinging on freedom of the press. Yet some way must be found if municipalities are not to founder in the police and civic corruption that is inevitable wherever gambling flourishes.

One other recommendation advanced by the committee needs no legislation and should be put into effect at once. The group proposes that the Bureau of Internal Revenue adopt special procedures and rules for dealing with the income tax returns of known criminals. The Kefauver committee is certainly not guilty of exaggeration when it states in this connection: "There can be no question from the testimony we have taken that the gangsters, mobsters and gamblers are literally 'getting away with murder' in their tax returns." of public indifference or Senatorial hostility to Chairman Estes Kefauver (because his investigations tread on some sensitive political toes), the work of the commitee will not have been futile. A year ago some officials of the Department of Justice, supreme agency of the land for the suppression of Crime, doubted there was any serious organized crime problem in the nation. They did this in the face of protests from the mayors of Los Angeles and New Orleans that the situation had gotten out of hand.

The official attitude can no longer stand up as a result of the committee's interim report, issued last week. The Kefauver committee proved the existence of two major crime syndicates which exercise so much power they are referred to in the report as a "phantom government" in themselves. As much as 20,000,000,000 a year changes hands in the United States as a result of organized illegal gambling. One group, constituting the Miami-Chicago axis, is controlled by the notorious Capone syndicate. -The other axis, this time between Miami and New York, is controlled by the notorious racketeers, Frank Cos-tello and Joe Adonis.

Both groups have branch lines extending into many cities. They have a gentleman's agreement not to infringe upon each oth Obstructing Justice We have some advice for the Civil Rights Congress: Get out of Trenton, N. J. We don't expect that they'll take our advice because the Civil Rights Congress does not carry out its Communistic programs that way. Where law and order are needed, you can always count on the C.

R. C. to turn its back. This subversive group is clown in Trenton stirring up what troubleMt can in connection with the third trial of the which fell even heavier on the squabbling union It threatens to terminate the jurisdictional disputes in which the three major groups fre quently engage, and therein prevent them from boosting power, prestige and membership at the public's expense. In the Old Dominion capital, a Federal jury held that Mr.

Lewis' United Mine Worker' and District 50, the catch-all union headed by Brother Den-nis, were guilty of preventing a building firm from fulfilling its' construction contract. John "pickets," by their violent tactics, the jury held, frightened American Federation of Labor workers off the joh in a jurisdictional controversy, The convicted unions were fined As a come-lately to the organizing field. District 50 serves as the Lewis brothers' commandos, lis assignment is to raid both CIO and AFL rivals in industries which have even a remote connection with coal, such as synthetics, glass and public utilities. Naturally, this judicial negative will handicap Blasts Ozone Park K. of C.

For Threat to Theater To the Editor of the Eagle: The members of the Knights of Columbus of South Ozone rark. Council 223(5, have coerced the night manager of the new Ozone Park theater, 1305-01 Rockaway Ozone Park, to cancel the showing of the film the "Bicycle Thief." He was threatened by the mobocracy of the Legion of Decency that they would picket the theater and see that be would close up the place in the event he would refuse to obey their menacing order. The flabbergasted- owner-manger of the theater had to yield to the threat of the o-pressor, tyrant and usurper of the freedom to exercise the Bill of Rights. The despotic rulers of the local council never did protest the showing on the screen the films of the ruthless gangsters, thieves, murderers, racketeers, gamblers, etc. from which movies the youngsters do acquire knowledge and skill in the tricks as to how to hold up the citizens.

It glorifies an outlaw. The delinquency of the youngsters is. greater today than ever before clue to the showing of the vitiated movies. The movie "Bicycle Thief" has won several prizes, has been shown on Broadway, throughout the metropolitan area and suburbs and no protests have been made by mentally competent citizens. SCAPPATOIO FRANCESCO.

Landlord Says It's Cheaper To Keep Apartments Vacant To the Editor of the Eagle: I own an apartment house for which tenants are still paying the same rents of seven years ago. In that time, taxes, repairs and janitor services have made big increases. My tenants all have increased incomes. I find it cheaper to keep apartments vacant and many owners in my neighborhood do the same, so when families are looking for apartments they will realize existing conditions. Until we can raise rents in a fair proportion there will be a shortage of low-priced housing.

V. A. RAND. His Delinquency Solution To the Editor of the Eagle: Concerning gang wars, you can blame it on the churches and false Puritanism. That has made the borough a virtual cemetery.

When I was a youth, we had burlesque and theaters to go to the Bijou, Grand Opera Mouse, Star, Casino ancl Majestic. Now the kids have nowhere to go. Where do you expect them to spend their time, in pool- halls or praying for their souls? Give them a break! W. HOLMES. Fear More Prejudice To the Editor of the Eagle: The letter from "A Reader" in your March 1 issue on the subject of minority and majority groups and their cries of "discrimination" whenever one of their members is disciplined or called to order or whose views are controverted, is very much in order and needs to be impressed upon these criers of "discrimination." Such actions on their part against those who have no prejudices are likely to create them! C.

F. SMITH. For the poor geeks who have to take high school, college or other examinations I have, believe it or not, the greatest sympathy. Relieve it or not 1 was a poor geek for several years before 1 discovered, in an examination for a commission in the army medical corps, that Mt. Shasta was not in Russia and that Napoleon did or did not do something or other who cares what? after all; it was only a job as army doctor that 1 sought.

My sympathy for victims of the formal examination evil is fiom the heart and not just from the lips or the typewriter. I advise every pupil, student or candidate preparing for an examination to begin a few weeks or at least a few days beforehand taking one grain of quinine three times a day right up to the hour of the examination, together with an adequate daily ration of vitamin El or one-half milligram of thiamine with each grain of quinine. If this isn't as clear as mud send stamped self-addressed envelope for pamphlet on "Examination Jitters and Stage Fright." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FKh or Shark Liver Oil Many years ago you told how Newfoundland fishermen cure night blindness in 24 hours by taking a few doses of fish oil. I began taking it for sensitivity to bright light and it helped my eye strain immediately. Later when I learned that it is vitamin A in fish oil I started taking capsules of vitamin A daily and have continued ever since.

Now I am told fish oil is vitamin D. H. V. E. Answer Not just fish oil, but fish (or shark) LIVER oil.

It is the richest natural source of both vitamin A and vitamin D. Shark liver commands top price because it is used as the source of the vitamin A you take in capsules. One 25.000-unit capsule of natural vitamin A (not to be confused with the pro-vitamin, carotene, found in numerous yellow and green fruits and leafy vegetable.) taken as a supplement to the ordinary diet just once a week should maintain an adequate vitamin A intake and prevent night blindness or photophobia (undue sensitiveness to glare). Egg yolk, milk, cream, butter and cheese are the best sources of natural vitamin A. The provitamin, carotene, requires conversion into raal vitamin A in the fish, animal or human metabolism and only a fraction of it in fruit or vegetables can be so converted.

Real A is seven to ten times better utilized than carotene, so the presence of 1.7.. 00n units of carotene (mislead-ingly called vitamin A) in a pound of food, of which only a fraction of an ounce Is ordinarily taken in a day, is GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty hand out two tiny tabs, to be attached to the same plates. The motorist would pay the same registration fee, so the State would gain the difference in cost in metal and labor. It also would save several thousand dollars in postage. It now costs the State 18 cents to mail a pair of plates.

It probably wouldn't cost more than 6 cents to mail out the two little tabs. This bill, already through the Senate, should be passed by the Assembly and signed by the Governor without further delay or debate. A Plan for Private Hospitals The plan of the Kings County Medical Society to formulate a set of professional standards for Brooklyn's private hospitals is a wise one. By and large, the ten privately owned hospitals in Brooklyn are fine institutions with high standards and enviable records of public service. However, most of them do not meet requirements for recognition by the American Medical Association or the American College of Surgeons for purely technical reasons not connected with medical adequacy.

Perhaps a set of standards, planned by the local Medical Society, would improve this situation. A total of SOG beds are effected by these plans. Whatever improvements in treatment, and operation of our private hospitals that conic nut of the society's plans will he, in the end, a benefit for the whole community. THE MANY AND THE FEW Hy KDGAR A. (U'KST Acquaintances, from day to clay, In number may increase.

We meet and send them on their way Without a binding lease. Dwellers among the many, they, Of whom we say we know; But few of them, 'tis true to say, Will into good friends grow. tetcume pa On umiL M. guerrilla warfare. it is licit generally realized, but John L.

still stands in the shadow of a heavy fine in connection with the soft coal walkout that lasted from May of mi!) to March of 1050. Another financial tap-he paid several million to the Government only a few years ago would dent his treasury. It was during this dispute that the miners, under orders from headquarters, worked only three days a week. For months President Truman refused to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act because of his prejudice against that statute. Eventually, he prepared to seize the mines at the very moment when he asked the District Court here to hold Mr.

Lewis in contempt. To the of J's surprise, the court exonerated the UMW boss of this charge. The Government appealed immediately, and, despite the lapse of a year, the higher court has not yet handed clown its opinion on the appeal. "Trenton Six." The "Trenton Six" are a group of unfortunate men who are accused of the murder in 1048 of a storekeeper. Whether or not they are guilty is yet to be decided in the traditional American way.

Meanwhile, because these men are Negroes, the Communists, aided by the C. R. have grabbed the situation for their usual exploitation purposes. They're calling it the "Northern Scotts-boro Case." They've hauled in such henchmen as Howard Fast, the man who preaches Americana and practices pro-Sovietism. Last night, they had a big whoopdedoo about how the defendants were being unjustly treated and, incidentally, about how we shouldn't have "intervened" in Korea.

The net effect is that the Civil Rights Congress is once again obstructing justice with propaganda. The good people of Trenton should kick them out. Permanent Auto License Plates Permanent automobile license plates have proved successful and desirable in at least seven States, so the bill now before the Legislature calling for issuance of permanent plates in New York could in no way be termed an experiment. The saving of steel that would be effected by such a move, particularly now. with impending shortages because of the defense effort, would be substantial.

But not to be overlooked is the additional net revenue the State would obtain, at a time when Governmental costs are reaching all-time highs. Instead of issuing a pair of large plaUs, the Motor Vehicle Bureau would BROOKLYN EAGLE Min (round, ov Van Andre in 1841) THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE FF ANK SCHROTH. Editor. Publish CROWELL. serrHary-Treaaurar Eajla 24 Johnton Bklyn 1, N.

T. TELEPHONE MAUI 4-6200 Siioacnptlon ran by mail lot tht BrooaMri Eaili in tha United State, one, year, 119.00 Entered, at Brooklyn P. o. dantb.24 ciut Mall Mittw s3'" Acquaintances we merely know. The old ones and the new.

Sinre friendship slower is to grow, We only trust a few. And this the difference which part3 Acquaintances from friends: The few will give to us their hearts Until life's Journey ends. "It's one thing to criticize my broadcast, Sneedby and it's another to run this Nation's affairs.