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THE PROVERBIAL SNOWBALL
_ THE CAPTIVE AUDIENCE
If a member of a political party, or a civic or frater
nal organization, doesnt’ like the policies and programs
of the organization’s leadership he has a simple
recourse. He can resign, without penalty, and join
another group or none at all, as he chooses.
But suppose a member of a labor union doesn’t
like the stand on personalities and policies taken by the
union officials. Then the situation becomes utterly
different. As the Wall Street Journal accurately states
the matter, “In many cases withdrawal from the union
would mean withdrawal from his livelihood. So here he
is, not only a captive audience for the union leaders’
political propaganda but also—if he happens to disagree
with the official union line—an unwilling accomplice
in the promotion of that line.”
This, of course, is inevitable under the closed shop
and union shop system—a system which is based, in
effect, on the premise that a man must join a union
and pay dues or be refused the right to work and earn
a living for his family. That is intolerable in a sup
posedly free country. The solution is found in the
right-to-work laws, which protect workers from either
union or employer coercion, and which have so far
been adopted by 17 of the sovereign states.
Less Federal Restraint
On Home Buying Credit
Asked by House Group
WASHINGTON, UP* — A return
to no down-payment terms for GI
home loans and immediate easing
of other federal restraints on
home buying credit were recom
mended today by a House sub
committee.
It denounced as excessive and
outrageous the size of premiums
charged by some commercial lend
ers to make loans on low interest
government - insured home mort
gages.
The House Banking subcom
mittee report foresaw a sharp
slump in home building unless
curbs imposed last July 30 are
rescinded and other credit re
straints are relaxed.
The subcommittee, headed by
Rep. Rains <D-Ala), cited reports
applications for Federal Housing
Administration insurance on
small homes last November were
down 40 per cent from Novem
ber 1954.
For the same period, it said,
Veterans Administration home
appraisal requests — “a sensitive
indicator of future GI loan vol
ume” were down 36 per cent.
41.000 U.S. Troops
To Train With
Mock Atom Bombs
YOKOSUKA, Japan, (Jt—Thou
sands of U.S. Navy men and ma
rines sailed from Japan and Oki
nawa today in a 22-ship fleet to
conduct a mock atomic invasion
of Iwo Jima next week.
The Navy announced 30,000
Navy men and 11,000 marines
would take part in the maneuver
during the anniversary of the
bloody fight for the island in
World War II.
The Navy said that although
atomic weapons will not be fired,
special plastic-cased projectiles
dropped over the invading task
force in the maneuver will create
mushroom clouds, like those of
atomic bombs and shells.
The blasts, exploding about
1.000 feet above the 70 U.S. war
ships in the maneuvers and over
the landing beaches, will be
harmless to men and equipment.
Hundreds of carrier based jet
planes will also participate.
The amphibious landing, largest
in the Far East in two years, will
be staged nearly 11 years to the
day after U.S. marines stormed
ashore on Iwo Jima during the
last year of World War II.
In one of the bloodiest battles
of the Pacific war more than
4,500 Americans and 20,000 Jap
anese were killed. Before the
struggle on the beaches, Ameri
can airmen bombed the island
steadily from late 1944, and heavy
guns of the U.S. fleet pounded i!
from the sea.
Gobbledegook in
Archives Deplored
ST. LOUIS, 0T*—The man who
must sort and file it away wants
to put an end to government
“gobbledegook. ”
Dr. Wayne C. Grover, archivist
of the United States, said yester
day “if we could eliminate fu?zy
prose, we could at the same time
eliminate the tens of thousands
of second and third letters sent
to the government by puzzled and
bedeviled citizens trying to get
straight answers that they can
understand.”
He told the St. Louis chapter
of the American Society of Public
Administration that machinery
for a “successful records pro
gram” has been developed “but j
we have by no means accom
plished it.
Would Be Ample Time
For Eisenhower Alternate
WASHINGTON, liP-Two Re
publican senators said today the
GOP will have ample time to
pick a candidate if President
Eisenhower would announce
around the end of this month he
won’t run again.
Sens. Duff of Pennsylvania and
Payne of Maine added, however,
they are more confident than
ever that Eisenhower will seek a
second term.
Sen. Goldwater (R-Ariz), in a
separate interview, said he thinks
Eisenhower will run because of
what the senator called “utterly
baseless” attacks by Democrats
on the administration.
“Like love and marriage, paper
work and large-scale operation go
together,” he said.
Russia Calls U.S. Weather Balloons
Sign of ‘Brink of War Policy
MOSCOW, UP> — The Soviet
Union today accused the United
States of carrying out a ‘‘brink of
war” policy in the release of
weather ballons over Russian air
space.
In a news conference Foreign
Ministry Press Chief Leonid Ilyi
chev declared the ballons carried
apparatus which not only took
meteorological data but aerial
reconnaissance as well.
He declared the ballons consti
tuted a menace to air navigation
and ground inhabitants and
added:
“All such attempts by American
military organs are an attempt to
conduct a policy of ‘to the brink
of war’ which has been con
demned by peoples.”
The Soviet press chief was re
ferring to a statement attributed
to U.S. Secretary of State Dulles
in a Life magazine article.
Ilyichev briefly reviewed So
viet protests but did not mention
the fact the United States handed
its answer to the Soviets’ latest
protest yesterday.
(The United States, responding
to the Soviet protest, yesterday
ordered a halt to the launching
of U. S. weather ballons from
West Germany and Turkey. Bal
loons will be gi'ounded pending a
study of whether they have bden
flying over Russia.
(Before taking this action, the
U.S. government promised in a
conciliatory note to keep the bal
loons from flying over Soviet ter
ritory. It also offered to tell the
Russians about the balloon pro
gram's safety features. In addi
tion, the note sought to enlist So
viet cooperation, asking the Rus
sians to return any scientific in
struments the balloons might
have parachuted to Soviet soil.”
“These ballons were made in
the United States,” Ilychev said.
“Look at them if you care to.”
By his side on the counter were
pieces of apparatus, including a
radio transmitter.
EARTHQUAKE CAUSES
MUCH DAMAGE IN
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
EL CENTRO, Calif., <£> — A
powerful earthquake centered
south of the border in Mexico
rocked Southern California as far
north as Los Angeles Thursday,
causing widespread but minor
damage in two counties.
Water mains burst, windows
and plaster cracked, small tires
were started and buildings
swayed in the border counties—
San Diego and Imperial.
Seismologists gave the quake’s
magnitude as 6.8 on a scale which
rates the largest ever recorded at
8.6. This compares with 7.6 for
a shock which killed 14 persons
in Tehachapi, Calif., in 1952.
No deaths or injuries were re
ported from this tremblor, heav
iest along the border in 15 years.
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