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WE COULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT OUR VOLUME
HIGH-LEVEL BASEBALL STRATEGY
•There have been all kinds of rumblings during
recent months about the status of baseball. Is the game
getting too stodgy? Are fans getting a good shake?
What about television?
The facts are that the great national pastime has
made tremendous strides during the last decade. If
what Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick calls the
“prophets of gloom” would evaluate some of the results,
they might change their tune.
Today, there is little or no threat that ball games
will be “fixed,” largely because of a rigidly enforced
no-gambling rule. The calibre of ball players has notice
ably improved, not only in playing ability, but in
sportsmanship and other personal qualities as well.
Racial barriers have been torn down. New cities have
acquired major league teams. Ball parks have been
refurbished and brightened up. Night baseball has
become commonly accepted. Raids on schools for talent
have been stopped. And there are countless other
improvements that have developed in the last genera
tion.
Even so, Commissioner Frick and the baseball
owners are not satisfied to sit back and bask in a glow
of self-satisfaction. Instead they have asked the inde
pendent counseling firm of Stephen Fitzgerald and Co.
to make an objective study and tell them what baseball
ought to do next to make the customers happy.
With such an attitude and such a complete accep
tance of public responsibility, we believe baseball is
here to stay. Of course, the national game faces some
problems, but wherever there are problems there must
also be opportunities. And we congratulate Mr. Frick
and the baseball owners on their constructive efforts
to find those opportunities—and to act on them.
Lambertvilie, N.J., Beacon: “The Tax Foundation
reveals the fact that a $4,500-a-year man works two
hours and 23 minutes of his eight-hour day to earn
enough to pay his taxes. ... It seems to us that facts
presented in this understandable way will do more
to alert the evils of big government and all it repre
sents. Furthermore, we must never forget that we
never get anything for nothing.”
One reason opportunity isn’t recognized more often
is that it goes around disguised as work.
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suggested a few weeks ago. But
he said he will want some definite
limitation on the duration of any
such conference with the Pre
miers of Britain, France and Rus
sia, in advance of the meeting.
He suggested without such a
limitation the Russians might try
to capitalize on the meeting for
propaganda purposes. The Reds
have been critical of the proposal
to put a sharp limit on time, and
to restrict the session to broad
outlines without decisions on
specific problems.
Speaking vigorously, Eisenhow
er said that inasmuch as he is
willing to go anyplace—from Tim
buktu to the North Pole, as he put
it—he certainly is not going to
insist on a three- or four-day
meeting if more time is needed in
the quest for peace.
Employment
Eisenhower said the latest fig
ures on employment and unem
ployment in the United States are
a cause for gratification.
He said they show 62,700,000
persons have jobs, employment is
up one million in May as com
pared with April, and unemploy
ment is down a half million.
Polio—Eisenhower again paid
tribute to Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby
for her handling of the Salk polio
vaccine program.
Eisenhower said in his opinion
Mrs. Hobby was very wise in ad
vocating safety and caution re
garding distribution of the vac
cine rather than mere haste.
Yugoslavia—Asked whether the
United States plans to reappraise
its program of aid to Communist
Yugoslavia, in view of the visit by
Soviet leaders to Belgrade, Eisen
hower replied this is a world of
change and policies are reap
praised daily. He went on to say
the United States does not dimin
ish its interest in other countries
merely because they are striving
to be somewhat neutral.
"MENACE" LOSES BOAT
AND AUTO LICENSES
DETROIT, W)—Termed a “men
ace on land or sea,” Louis Mora
bito was ordered not to pilot a
boat for the next four months by
Traffic Judge George T. Murphy
Monday.
He was convicted of reckless
driving on the Detroit River.
Morabito already has had his
automobile driver’s permit re
voked.
“And don’t take up flying,”
Murphy cautioned Morabito.
Fresh Trout at the U.S. Merc
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Top Canadian Air
Advisor Loses Post
Over War Speech
OTTAWA, UP\ — Canada’s top
military advisor on air weapons
has been removed from his post
because of a speech in which he
said another world war appears
inevitable ‘‘but if we fight the
Russians we will beat the pants
off them.”
Air Vice Marshal J. L. Plant,
chief of the Royal Canadian Air
Force technical services, made the
speech before a meeting of the
Aviation Writers Assn, in Toronto
last Thursday. Defense Minister
Ralph Campney announced Mon
day Plant has been removed from
his post.
In his speech, Plant said some
recent reports had stirred up “a
helluva panic about all the things
that go on behind the iron cur
tain.”
“Without weapons of mass des
truction, we could lick them
hands down—and why we should
be scared I’m damned if I could
see. We do have weapons of mass
destruction, and we are going to
plant them on them the minute
they kick over the traces.”
Campney told the House of
Commons Plant’s speech was in
an “entertaining and humorous
vein” and was “so interpreted by
those who heard it.” He added,
however, the statements were
“highly inappropriate coming
from a service officer.”
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Italy’s Pro-West Party
Hails Sicily Elections
PALERMO, Sicily, WV-Premier
Mario Scelba’s pro-Western Chris
tian Democrats yesterday hailed
their victory in the Sicilian re
gional elections as one with far
reaching consequences for all of
Italy.
Their 37 Assembly seats made
the Christian Democrats Sicily’s
biggest party by far, although it
did not give them an outright
majority of the 90-member cham
ber. The Christian Democrats
scored their gains at the expense
of the Fascist MSI and the minor
center parties. The Communists
and the socialist allies also in
creased their popular vote, but
their combined Assembly repre
sentation remained at 30 seats.
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