Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the House had passed by voice vote, after only an hour of debate, the bill allotting 1.3 billion dollars to finance foreign policy, including the previously allocated 400 million dollars for Greece and Turkey and another 300 million for foreign humanitarian relief. The bulk of the money, 550 million dollars, went to maintaining occupation troops in Germany, Japan, and Korea.

The Senate sustained the veto of the President on the reiterated tax bill by a vote of 57 to 36 in favor of override, failing by seven votes to override.

Senator William B. Umstead of North Carolina, who had voted for the bill, changed his vote to sustain the veto, as did Millard Tydings of Maryland and Republican George Aiken of Vermont. Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah arrived back in the country in time to vote to sustain the veto.

The Republican leaders stated that the country would have to await a Republican president for tax relief.

Translated, it meant that rich fat cats could not get fatter and the poor, poorer, until a Republican was in the White House.

Undersecretary of War Kenneth Royall, from North Carolina, had been appointed by President Truman to replace Robert Patterson as Secretary of War following his resignation from the post the previous day because of the merger of the military about to take place. The Senate Armed Services Committee quickly approved Mr. Royall for the new position. Mr. Patterson had been in the War Department for seven years.

The House Armed Services subcommittee approved the President's plan for universal military training, voting 7 to 1. The full committee was said to be in favor of the bill as well.

The Senate passed a bill to increase the allowance for GI's attending school. It was now going to the House.

In Chicago, a city fireman saved on Wednesday a three-year old boy who was being held by a 250-lb. bear at the Brookfield Zoo. The fireman punched the bear several times in its snout and it finally released the boy. He needed ten stitches in his left leg and right arm. The boy had sought to feed the bear through the bars of the cage when he was grabbed.

Isn't that just like a bear? No good deed goes unpunished.

The fireman had handed his camera to a stranger when he came to the boy's aid and could not find the stranger after saving the boy.

Isn't that just like a stranger?

Tom Lynch of The News tells of a successful conference held at Blue Ridge by the Southern Conference on Human Relations in Industry.

The winners of the seven-week photo contest for its second week entries, numbering 700, were announced and published on the page. Nearly a thousand snapshots had been submitted during the two weeks, in quest of either the $5 first prize or $2.50 second prize, or the grand prize of $25 or one of three $10 grand second place entries, and the right to compete nationally for $10,000, to be split 167 ways.

We venture that the judges could not have spent more than a couple of seconds examining each entry and gotten much work done otherwise.

On the editorial page, "Note on Fellow-Traveling" tells of Dave Clark's Textile Bulletin, long an enemy of UNC president Frank Porter Graham, bringing forth an editorial condemning him after the HUAC report recently had labeled him a Communist sympathizer, though being clear not to brand him a Communist. The Bulletin found it especially damnable that Dr. Graham had supported the Loyalist cause in Spain against the Franco Insurgency in 1936-39. It determined him in consequence to be unfit for the presidency of the University—because he was not a good Fascist as Sr. Franco.

"The Dignity of Manual Labor" tells of a poll undertaken by The Woman's Home Companion, finding that half of the 3,700 respondents had said that they would advise a boy to seek a job in manual labor rather than as an office worker, while only 31 percent would advise the boy to become an office worker. The respondents said that they believed a person with manual skills was in a better position to advance in society. The worker had improved his wage, his hours, and working conditions, while the white-collar workers remained unorganized for the most part.

"Love Among the Comatose" tells of a sleepy husband in the shank of the evening being a major irritant for wives. Hedy Lamarr had recently divorced her third husband, actor John Loder, citing that very issue.

A piece from the Greensboro Daily News, titled "Charlotte in Christian Role", finds good example for the state in the nursery for children suffering from cerebral palsy, established at the St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Charlotte. The piece indicates that Charlotte should not feel hesitation in calling on its neighbors for help in such constructive programs.

Drew Pearson tells of the nepotism king of Capitol Hill, Congressman Gene Cox of Georgia, not having quite as many relatives on the Government payroll as he once had, but still having plenty. Mr. Pearson lists the four family members, with salaries totaling $36,000. Three were no longer on the payroll, including Mrs. Cox.

Joseph & Stewart Alsop tell of the Soviets slowly revealing their intentions in the Balkans, the bra having been dropped a few days earlier when Czechoslovakia was forced, at the direction of Moscow, to reverse its acceptance of the British-French invitation to attend the Paris conference on the Marshall Plan. The dropping of the G-string, the use of the trained International Brigade congregated on the borders of Greece with Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria, would be anti-climactic.

Samuel Grafton finds observations on the international situation to be that Britain did not exist for all intents and purposes, that the two powers left in the world were America and Russia, notwithstanding the exertion in the world of British power for a thousand years and the fact that the country, standing alone, had the wherewithal to hold off the vaunted power of Hitler's Wehrmacht for most of a year during the Blitz.

But in Western Europe, some of the best motion pictures of the day were being made and there was a literary renascence ongoing in Paris. The Benelux countries had established a customs union. There was adjustment throughout Western Europe between a planned economy and a free market, and it was being done without bloodshed.

But, he concludes, some of those realities might have contributed to the insistence that Western Europe was dead, because they made people in America feel insecure. Something was dead, but it was not Western Europe. Rather, it was the old isolationist argument trying to find new ways to express itself.

A letter writer tells of the House Labor subcommittee investigating conditions in New York, finding evidence of racketeering in setting of food costs.

A letter writer, "W.A. Black", sounding strangely similar in name and substance to A. W. Black, perhaps his illegitimate brother by another mother and father, finds no democratic society to exist, claiming that the Founders did not want to create democracy for fear that it would degenerate into mob rule. He concludes that the U.S. could not be a democracy under the Constitution. He is grateful that America is a republic.

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