Thursday, Feb. 4, 1954
University Daily Kansan
Spy Hysteria Aiding Russia Rather Than U.S.
London — (U.P.) A British scientist said today that U.S. "spy hysteria" is apt to give Russia undisputed leadership in the atomic field.
Prof. F. E. Simon of Oxford university, said. "It is quite clear that the recent developments in the U.S. are not conducive to their retaining leadership in the nuclear field.
"If someone intended to draw a red herring across the trail of atomic progress he could hardly think of anything better than creating a spy hysteria."
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Simon noted that this "hysteria" is dangerous for two reasons:
1. It creates a false sense of security for those who think that Russia can make progress only with the help of "stolen secrets," whereas in actuality Russia has plenty of atomic scientists of its own.
Simon added that the Russians "seem to have surpassed the Americans in the output of scientists and technologists, and although nothing is known about their quality, to judge from the results it does not seem to be poor.
2. Super-security leads to "sterility" in America's own atom research.
"The real danger is that the Russians may overtake the western countries by quite legitimate means."
"However," he said, "100 per cent of this kind of security means 90 per cent sterility and thus some risks have to be taken. This was, of course, a most serious matter during the early years of the bomb. Now, since the Russians have caught up with the western countries in the design of bombs, many of the regulations appear to be highly anachronistic.
"The Russians must be very pleased indeed; not only does the hysteria strike most effectively at the roots of the American atomic energy project but it also diverts attention from the real danger points."
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Sarasota, Fla. — (U.P.) A prominent surgeon will take time out from his human patients Saturday to perform a delicate brain operation on a paralyzed gorilla.
Ape to Have Brain Surgery
Dr. Mason Trupp hopes to save the life of Toto II, a famous circus gorilla that has been paralyzed for nine months. The operation will be performed at the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey winter quarters here with an anesthetist and two nurses assisting.
Toto, a hairy 4-year-old female, has been languishing since last April in a paralyzed condition believed to stem from a brain injury or tumor. She has been existing on a meager diet of cooked vegetables and is 35 pounds underweight.
Dr. J. Y. Henderson, chief veterinarian for Ringling Bros., said Trupp, a leading brain surgeon in Tampa, Fla., was called in because the circus wanted to give Toto the same chance for suv:ival that a human would have.
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Gillette Bill Passed by Committee
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D.-Iowa) said today his bill to put the New York Coffee exchange under federal supervision is only a first step toward driving down coffee prices for American consumers.
The bill cleared the Senate agriculture committee yesterday. Gillette said Congress should enact another of his recommendations—to give the Commodity Exchange administration authority to fix margins or coffee traders.
Principal effect of the bill approved by the committee yesterday would be to force licensing of traders in the coffee exchange and to prohibit "undesirable trading practices"—such as price manipulation or cornering the market.
Agriculture committee Chairman George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) said "the Gillette bill at least would keep the Agriculture department better informed on speculation in coffee and prevent a corner in the market, if such is possible."
Gillette said a stronger deterrent to manipulation would be federal regulation of margins required on coffee futures contracts—that is,
contracts for coffee to be delivered at a future date.
The Commodity Exchange authority reported yesterday that coffee futures trading almost doubled last year in apparent anticipation of price increases. It said 1,072,100,000 pounds were bought and sold, compared with 637,000,000 pounds in 1952.
Buyers contract for future sales or purchases of a commodity as "insurance" on sales or purchases they make at current prices.
Officials of the New York exchange told the Senate committee Tuesday that present margin requirements — self-imposed by the exchange—permit a trader to tie up as much as $25,000 in coffee futures for a cash deposit of as little as $2.000.
After a 1950 investigation, Gillette recommended margin requirements be set at 50 percent—meaning that a trader would be required to make a cash deposit of $12,500 on a contract for $25,000 worth of coffee to be delivered at a future date. The Coffee Exchange spokesmen, Gustavo Lobo, Jr., and Chandler A. Mackey, said present margins were sufficient and anything like the Gillette recommendation would "ruin" the entire American coffee trade.
Washington — U.P. — City officials carried a happy message to Carlos Garcia today.
Those signs in his grocery store window roasting the Republicans for high coffee prices can stay up after all. City officials decided they had no grounds for complaint.
The signs which brewed all the trouble said:
"We will trade your car for one pound of coffee if you will trade the present administration for something better.
"Coffee (delivery protection by Brinkes). Easy payment plan insured by Republican administration (federal warehouses at Ft. Knox."
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