Competent observers believed that by November and December, the emergency would come into full bloom, with a British economic collapse and probably a French collapse foreseen by the winter absent U.S. aid in the meantime. Britain had begun to decrease by one-third its armed forces abroad, increasing U.S. occupation duties. Britain was said to have but two months remaining of funding, about $200,000,000, from the 1946 U.S. loan of 3.75 billion dollars.

The piece concludes that it was the crisis on which Russia had depended, the capitalist collapse predicted by Marxism. Unless the U.S. extended the aid necessary to prevent it, observers believed, Europe would be lost to Communism by default.

The Republicans, meanwhile, were more concerned about Commonists in Holly-wood and whetha Howard Hughes provided gulls to Elliott Roosevelt to cuittle his affections for the Hughes photo reconnaissance aircraft during the woa.

One of the accused men had confessed the crime to the FBI and so there was obviously sufficient evidence on which to indict. But racial feeling had been running high in the area because of numerous alleged attacks by black men against white women just prior to the attempted lynching. Mr. Bush had been arrested originally on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape, based on his allegedly following a white woman. He, also, was not indicted by the Grand Jury.

By all accounts, it reports, the Greenville jury had acquitted in May, just prior to the Bush attempted lynching, the 28 defendants in the Willie Earle lynching, despite 26 of them having admitted to participation in the vicious murder, because of fear of local disapproval had they found them guilty. The Northampton grand jurors, it ventures, probably felt the same way. The Greensboro Daily News had reported that for weeks the local inhabitants of the community had expected the result.

North Carolina had established a good record of preventing mob violence and such was more important than fear by local citizens for their reputations in the community.

It applauds the Governor's forceful action and suggests that the citizenry ought also approve of it.

Something, it suggests, needed to be done.

One western city had tried an experiment of setting aside an area for derelicts, but it only attracted more to the city until the experiment was abandoned.

It concludes that the gentlemen had to move on.

A few years earlier, a study found that Harvard graduates averaged 1.25 children each, while graduates of P.S. 108 in New York City had five.

The piece finds the study to be based on the doubtful premise of intellectual heredity and thus no cause for alarm. Genius, it notes, had arisen from the humblest origins. It suggests that broadening educational opportunity was the way to enhance intellectual achievement.

That paid out by Pan Am made the Hughes bill pale by comparison. In a report to the Civil Aeronautics Board, a Pan Am senior vice-president told of shelling out over $10,000 in 1938 for meals for himself and others. He had other expenses totaling nearly $50,000, listed under the rubric "laundry, sightseeing, deck chairs, club dues, doctors, nurses", all at taxpayer expense. His bill for long distance telephone exceeded $10,000. CAB told of expense vouchers exceeding $100,000 for the same individual over a period of 30 months.

CAB stated that such expenses could not be included in the company's determination of need for airmail subsidies, determined in part by proper operating expenses of the airline. But the airmail subsidy did wind up paying for most of the company's lobbying efforts with Congress. It was true also of other aviation companies, but Pan Am received greater subsidies and conducted one of the largest and most active lobbying efforts. It maintained three offices in Washington, with two private hideaways. No Pan Am routes passed through Washington.

Pan Am maintained two private planes, used by Senator Brewster and others, at National Airport. Senator Brewster was flown to Raleigh on one of these trips to try to persuade, unsuccessfully, the late Senator Josiah W. Bailey to vote for the "one-company" bill to allow monopolies on foreign routes by particular airlines. The fact that Senator Bailey, then chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, did not go along with the effort was a primary reason the bill had failed to pass during the 79th Congress.

Pan Am had received an estimated subsidy for airmail totaling 150 million dollars, plus another 100 million for building airports in Latin America during the war. Howard Hughes had received only 40 million under his war contracts. The $5,000 for entertainment for Elliott Roosevelt had come from Government funds, but so had the Pan Am lavish expense accounts far exceeding that amount.

It was the motorist in the U.S.S.R. who bawled out the traffic cop rather than the reverse, as only big shots could afford cars. But the pedestrians also treated the patrolmen with the same ridicule. Black marketeers scarcely sought to conceal their open transactions in the streets from the eyes of the police.

Nor was there any fear of consorting with foreigners, despite the story that Marshal Zhukov's portrait had been removed from the Red Army Museum because he had been too friendly with Americans. But the average Russian understood little of Western ideas and institutions.

The most startling of the designs was for a jet aircraft which had a range of 800 miles, exceeding any American jet thus far developed, including perhaps even experimental craft.

Congress had granted appropriations for 1,700 Air Forces planes for the coming fiscal year, more than that requested by the Bureau of the Budget. Congress appropriated 145 million dollars for Army Air Force aviation research and 75 million for the Navy Air Force. In 1945, a committee comprised of all Government departments having an interest in aviation had recommended that a minimum of 3,000 planes per year be manufactured for preservation of minimal national security, assuming at the time that some disarmament would be achieved across the world, a condition not yet realized.

The gap between the recommendation and that appropriated implied the same lack of preparedness preceding Pearl Harbor during the 1930's.

The new super-sonic planes, such as the Bell Aircraft X-S1 and X-S2, were being developed, the first having already undertaken experimental flights. The plane was carried under a B-29 to an altitude of 30,000 feet before being jettisoned. The plane carried rockets as offensive weapons but its flying time was too brief to make it more than an experimental craft.

Prior to 1939, the Russians paraded advanced weaponry through Red Square. The scene on Aviation Day was thus familiar.

"The weapons grow more destructive while man's fear, suspicion and hatred stay the same."

He suggests that German social security 40 years earlier had led to the German debacle and Hitler.

Most of the ungodly activity was promoted, he says, by the radio and press. These organs could be used also to discourage such amusements on the Sabbath and to favor it as a day of rest and worship.

Does that include Saturdays?