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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1945
A Thought for Today
And they cried unto the Lord, ami said.
We have sinned, because v<* have forsaken the
Lisrd; but now deliver us out of the hand of
eur enemies, and we wiU serve thee.—I Samuel
13:1a.
I couldn’t live in peace if I put the shadow or
a willful sin between myself and God—George
Blot.
Votelesa Washington
The wreck of Washington is a long,
continued story, tracing the history of
the Capital of our country from the cradle
of Democracy to the political dumping
grounds. George Washington wanted to
seat of government located on the banks of
the Potomac, and as usual, his wishes
were okayed. Washington’s downfall was
an aftermath of the war between the
North and the South, and it is the most
shameful chapter in the history of our
nation.
The political game played in Washing
ton would raise riots and rebellioas in
states like Arizona, Montana and Ver
mont, whose combined populations prac
tically equal that of Washington. Ten
other States have from one-half to three
fourths as many people as there are in
the District. All the fundamental prin
ciples of our Federal Government are
based on the rights of people. The peo
ple have no political rights in Washing
ton.
Abraham Lincoln’s ringing address at
Gettysburg in November, 1863, was an
appeal for the rights of all our people.
He declared: “Fourscore and seven years
figo our fathers brought forth on this con
tinent a new nation, conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.”
There is no democracy in the way the
Capital of the United States is ruled,
since “government of the people, by the
people” was destroyed in Washington.
The Congress very clearly has authority
to “exercise exclusive legislation” over a
"territory”. All “territories” except one
have been raised to Statehood.
Any intelligent person who can read
and understand the English language,
will readily understand the absolute fal
lacy of the alibi Congress has built up to
cover the political trickery of 1874 and
1878. Congress denied, and destroyed
the People’s rights to vote in the “terri
tory” (or district).
Congress has insisted through all these
long years that it wil ltake a Constitu
tional Amendment to undo tne ‘ perma
nent” withdrawal of suffrage from the
people who are residents of Washington.
That claim is preposterous, on its face.
Congress should receive notice from the
48 States that Lincoln’s championship of
the people must be recognized.
Thirty-five members of the two
branches of Congress continue to over
ride the will of a million people of Wash
ington — the same class of people whom
Lincoln declared should rule their own
public and political affairs. Fifteen are
members of the Senate District Commit
tee. The twenty Representatives are
from Congressional Districts with popu
lations a fraction as large as the city of
Washington. The Senate District Com
mittee is seldom attended by a quorum of
ifs members. The House District Com
mittee is seldom attended by a quorum
of its members. There are Citizens Asso
ciations in every part of this great Capital
and with one accord they have gone in
force, time after time for more than 70
years, to argue and beg for their constitu
tional rights, and Freedom. The Senate
and House -District Committees hold
drumhead meetings, at which they let the
representatives of Washington repeat
their sad story and protest against the
blight of being cheated out of their birth
rights. We repeat: This Is a National
Issue.
Mr. Vandenberg’s Speech
Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Republi
can and prewar isolationist, helped
launch the Senate’s foreign policy debate
with a speech that merits the attention
•nd admiration of all friends of interna
tional postwar peace.
He was specific. He proposed an im
mediate treaty among the leading pow
ers to demilitarize Germany and Japan
permanently. This, he suggested, would
remove the fear of Axis militarism and
the doubt of eventual American co-oper
ation which apparently are driving Bri
tain and Russia toward a course of uni
lateral and bilateral agreements, and
power politics. He was practical. He
proposed to allow the President prompt
authorization of force to cany out the
treaty. He also proposed eventual func
tions of the Dumbarton Oaks plan calcu
lated to cancel some foreseeable objec
tions by “perfectionist” colleagues in the
Senate.
And, as an influential Republican, lie
tharted a course of unity and action for
party. His program is one of positive
mplishment, not negative opposition,
promises a willing, constructive part
' ip by the Senate minority in the
t and fateful work ahead. In short,
Vandenberg probably did a lot to
a lot of wavering faith in the Con
oi the United Mates.
Polling the Pollsters
We hope that some day there will be a
congressional investigating committee to
investigate the congreslsonal passion for
investigating committees. (Try reading
it again, a little more slowly.) Too often
it has seemed that investigation has
been an end in itself, rather than some
thing aimed toward eventual legislation
or reform. And so we have hoped. And
that hope was revived with the publica
tion of a House Campaign Expenditures
Investigating Committee report on Dr.
George Gallup’s poll. Why the investi
gation was ever undertaken is something
of a mystery, but here in brief are its
conclusions:
1. The Gallup organization sin
cerely tried to use scientific methods
in forecasting the results of the pres
idential election.
2. Better sampling methods are
available, and Dr. Gallup should
have used them.
3. The Gallup samples must
either have been inaccurate or ob
tained by improper interviewing pro
cedure, for the poll underestimated
the Democratic vote in about two
thirds of the state.
4. Dr. Gallup ought to publish
“raw” figures as well as “adjusted”
figures, which take account of some
imponderables that don’t show on an
adding machine. Thus the public
could draw its own conclusions.
The only explanation for the investi
gation we can see is that Congress is go
ing to start a free business-consultant
service. That must be it. The Gallup
poll is a private business specializing in
the collection and marketing of samples
of public opinion. Its only market is
newspapers. It does not undertake any
surveys for individuals, private firms or
political groups. It has not government
contracts.
Dr. Gallup operates in competition with
four other leading poll takers. All five
firms did well this year, artistically and,
we hope, financially. They did well be
cause none of them was off as much as 2
per cent in forecasting the actual results
of civilian balloting for president. So it
is apparent that, for these five firms,
accuracy is not a matter of congressional
compulsion. Accuracy is their bread and
butter. Them as guesses closest gets the
most business. And if the House com
mittee's subcommittee of expert govern
ment poll takers was able to offer Dr.
1 Gallup any free tips on increased effi
ciency and accuracy, we presume that he
was duly grateful. But if Congress is
going to do that for Dr. Gallup why
shoulnd’t it do as much for his competi
tors, or for any other strictly private,
nonwar business Well, anyway, we hope
the boys had a goo dtime investigating.
Just tack the bil Ion our taxes, chums.
Super-Crisis in the Supermarket
On a morning when civilization was
tottering its way along the rim of dis
aster. there arrived a letter enlisting our
support in a nation-wide campaign. Our
correspondent, a consultant to chain
stores and supermarkets, was deeply con
cerned. Danger threatents and action
is imperative, we learned, and for this
reason ”—
Mothers insist ujxm putting their young
children in the wire push baskets which
they wheel around to collect groceries.
The evil, we learned on further reading,
is two-headed. Children are getting hurt
and baskets are getting bent. Appar
ently there is no solution except a pro
gram of national action.
By the time we had reached the end
of the letter we had also reached the con
clusion that one of the minor hardships
of wartime living arises from the fact
taht there arc too many nation-wide
campaigns and too few groceries.
Getting the Wires Crossed
The war seems to be headed in the
usual direction. The discussion of the
Polish problem and affairs in Greeco, and
elsewhere, indicates the usual selfish de
sire of the warring nations to seize some
other peoples’ land, possessions, oceans,
airways.
The United States entered this war as
a champion of Freedom. We were licked
in the peace framed after World War I.
But we have a chance this time to use
our diplomatic forces and power in be
half of freedom.
Don’t get hot in the collar because you
differ with World leaders, or our own
national leaders in official and private
life. Let’s have the discussion now. The
more intensive it is the better for all of
us We don’t want anybody’s land; we
have enough of our own. Therefore we
must use strong arguments, and employ
our commonsense and brains in search ot
new Freedoms.
JANUARY RAIN
(Stanton A. Coblentz In the New York Times)
Rain, on the granite of a city day,
Palls like a sorrow; like an old regret.
But. beauty walks the hills of showery gray,
And leaves a glow in forests newly wet.
The Chariot clouds that ride the peak, ai.d drift
In streainered grandeur down the deluged pass;
The thunder-foaming torrent, race-horse-swift;
The valley great with flood in one wild mass,
All chant with exultation; while the trees,
Ohost-glants ranged amid a twilight hall
Of ever-ehangeful floating tapestries.
Seem bowed In worship to the source of all,
And, from the houseless canyon, wood and plain.
Welcome one guest, the dear life-giving rain.
Daily Almanac
Bun rises at 8:16 a. nr, sets ta 5:53 p. in.
(war time)
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
A new moon lias been riding high in tire
sky the last few clear nights.
It would not be safe to predict whether it
is a wet or dry moon, considering the weath
er fpr the laat month.
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• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
New Senator
‘Inherits’ a Cockroach
By PETER EDSON
Waterbary Democrat-NEA Wash
ington Correspondent
Washington, D. C., Jan. 20 —
When Washington state's newly ap
pointed Senator Hugh B. Mitchell
took office as successor to his former
boss, Senator Mon C. Wallgren, he
was assigned to the office suite for
merly occupied by Senator Gerald
P. Nye of North Dakota. Mitchell’s
secretary. Jack Croome, took the
desk formerly occupied by Nye’s
Croome, took the
secretary. Gerald
W. Movius. Open
ing the desk
drawer, Croome
found this note:
“To my succes
sor: Please take
good care of
Montmorency. He
involves little
trouble. Just don't
hurt him or I will
haunt you. He
doesn’t take
baths and he
doesn’t have to be
taken out for
walks. He used to be mine and now
he is yours. You can have him. I
don't know what he eats. Apparent
ly nothing. You may not sec him
right away, but you may be assured
he is in this desk and will show up
In due time. He Is a cock-roach.
Goodby, Gerald W. Movius."
Senator Alben W. Barkley of Ken
tucky got roped in on a publicity
stunt the other day, being photo
graphed with Marie McDonald sit
ting on his desk. If the name doesn’t
register, she Is the Hollywood gal
being promoted as "The Body." You
will recognize “"Hie Body.” Just to
clinch his gag, the press agent later
called up the senator and all the
photographers to advise them that
"The Body” was confined to her
hotel with measles. The press agent
wanted to know If the senator was
immune.
THAT, SIR,
IS REAPPROPRIATION
The day before the President’s
budget message went to Congress,
Director of the Budget Harold D.
Smith held a 6emlnar for news
papermen to go over some of its In
tricacies. One of the things Smith
was asked about was the 14 billion
dollars worth of reappropriations —
what were reappropriations? "Sup
pose your wife comes to the end of
your budget year and finds you have
$200 that she hasn't spent,” said
Smith. "Then she says to you, ‘I’ve
got $200 that we thought we'd spend
but didn't, and here are some sug
gestions as to how we can reappro
priate it.’ ”
Redheaded Congressman Edward J.
Hart, who was finally picked as
chairman of the House Committee
to Investigate Un-American Aifairs
—formerly known as the Dies Com
mittee—has one of the shortest
biographies in the Congressional Di
rectory. It says, "Democrat, lawyer,
Jersey City.”
HE NEVER GOT THE JOB
The man who thought he was go
ing to—but didn’t—get the chair
manship of "The Un-American
Committee" as it has been dealt was
Congressman John S. Gibson of
Douglas, Georgia. Gibson was Mis
sissippi Congressman John E. Ran
kin's choice. Gibson is a self-made
man, having studied his law through
a Chicago correspondence school
whose disploma hangs on his wall.
He is beginning his third term in
Congress. He hasn’t made many
speeches but one of his most recent
was the most violent tirade of racial
, and religious intolerance I have
heard on the floor of the House. He
can out-Dies Mr. Dies any day.
When MacArthur’s forces landed
on Luzon Island in the Philippines,
Brigadier-General Horace S. Sewell,
British military spokesman in
Washington, issued a statement to
show that the Britishers had been
at Luzon, too. Credit was given to an
Australian naval squadron under a
commander whose few destroyers
had been with Admiral Klnkaid's
covering fleet. Then, like an echo
of the European controversy over
Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley
and Field Marshal Montgomery,
(here appeared in General Sewell's
communique this revealing para
graph:
“The operations on land are pre
sumably under the direction of
General Sir Thomas Blamy, Austra
lian Army Commander, the chief of
Allied land forces in the Southwest
Pacific.”
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
PEOPLE ARE A WORTH-WHILE
INVESTMENT
There is nothing so marvelous as
to se» some consecrated individual
throwing his life into an enterprise
fo- the betterment of humanity.
Think of John Wesley's long career
of u s e f u lness
which transform
ed the spiritual
life of the British
Isles; or of Flor
ence Nightingale's
work in the Cri
mea. or of Clara
Barton's labors in
founding the Red
Cross. Ponder for
a moment the
courage which led
Father Damien to
betake himself to a leper colony In
the South Sea Islands, conscious of
the fact that it n.ant certain death.
Recently I was reading of a Y. W.
C A. worker in London who at the
dose of the first World War be
came Interested in a convict. This
man had had an excellent record as
u soldier but after his release from
prison was unable to find a Job.
Through this discouraged chap the
worker came in contact with a num
ber of men who had had prison re
cords. She gathered them together
in what she called "The League of
the Straight Road", which set up as
its ideal the attempt on the part of
unfortunate men to meet life hon
estly and to get back to the normal
way of things after their tragic ex
perience. Each member was expect
ed to seeure another member and
What Mr. Byrnes Objects To
Washington Merry-Go-Round drew pearson
Drew Pearson Paints Picture of Roosevelt as He Starts 4th Term;
F.D.R. Would Like to Retire After Settlement of War and Peace.
WASHINGTON, January 20 — As Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his 4th term as
President of the United States, two great problems to the exclusion of almost all
others are on his mind: 1. Winning the war as quickly as possible, and 2. Winning
the peace after the war.
Many of those close to the Presi
dent say his concentration on
these problems Is so intense that
when they are settled he would
like to step out and retire to the
peace and quiet of Hyde Park.
Roosevelt's absorption with
things military and diplomatic,
his veering away from things do
mestic Is the most important
basic change in the 12 long years
since 1933.
In the days before the war he
met with scores of politicians,
economists, business leaders.
Evenings after dinner in the
early years his Brain Trust
would bat out ideas galore on
the cconomie state of the nation
—bat them into the air, discuss
them, reject many, accept a few.
Those were the relatively care
fre days of “picking the rabbit
out of the hat,” having a new
trick for the economic ills of the
nation.
At that time also, Roosevelt
got around among his fellowmen,
despite his physical handicaps,
more than any other President in
history — even more than William
Howard Taft. His travel record
formed a restless zig-zag graph
across the map of the U. S. A.
When he wasn’t traveling, Mrs.
Roosevelt was, and her reports
came in almost daily by private
White House wire or telephone.
Today the old Roosevelt
Brain Trust is gone, and the
new brain trust which sur
rounds him is composed of ad
mirals and generals. His con
centration at night Is not upon
economic ideas tossed up by the
Columbia professors, but on
the map of the Pacific and the
map of Europe, where blue, red,
green and yellow tabs indicate
the number of divisions Stalin
has thrown into the battle of
Poland, the amount of armor
Von Runsredt has in reserve in
the west, the exact where
abouts of the battleships, cruis
ers, airplane carriers and de
stroyers guarding the islands of
the Philippines.
More than any other one man,
Roosevelt helped to build up that
armada, and he watches every
Hhrnacled bottom — knows when
it was last scraped, the caliber of
its guns, how many hits it took
in the last engagement—almost
as if each were one of his chil
dren.
HOW ROOSEVELT WORKS
But aside from the change
in the subject matter of his work,
Roosevelt's methods of work have
changed little during his long
years in the White House. He is
awakened every morning about
3:30 by his negro valet, Arthur
brewing his own coffee on a bed
Prettyman, has breakfast in bed,
side table.
Usually while he is still in
bed, the personal cabinet drops
in—Ills daughter Anna, Henry
Morgenthau, Harry Hopkins,
Steve Early, Judge Rosenman,
Pa Watson. They plan strategy
and line up the day’s busi
ness.
By 9:30 he has read five news
papers, shaved himself, and is
in the Lincoln study where he
works for an hour before going
over to the executive office for
the usual round of callers. This
continues, with luncheon at his
desk, until 5 p. m. when a pike of
mail and reports occupy his time
until around 7.
There was a day when FDR
slopped work a bit early for a
plunge in the White House
swimming pool, but that rarely
happens anymore. Vice Ad
miral Ross Mclntlre, the Presi
dent’s personal physician, urges
him to get more relaxation and,
at one time decreed that he was
not to have business luncheons
at his desk. But between the
demands of the war and the
demands of health, the latter
usually comes second.
THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH
It is no secret that the Presi
dent's health has suffered some
what from the wear and tear of
the most relentless, ravaging Job
in the world. Many others
have broken completely under the
strain, and the lines on Roose
velt's face show tie lias not come
stand surety for him. It was said
that of the men who entered the
league, only one was again guilty of
stealing.
A consecrated life and an under
standing heart liad done their bit.
A woman had gambled on inmate
human decency and had won.
All Rights Reserved—Babeon
newspaper Byndioate
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out unscarred. Yet the rumors
about his health have been gross
ly exaggerated.
The chief facts are that after
his illness last spring, bis doc
tors advised him to cut down
his weight, and he has lost
about twenty pounds. This
shows in his face, alreday lined
with the worry of watching an
ever-mounting casually list and
a war which has dragged on
and on.
Also the President has lost most
ol ins teeth in his lower jaw
and has a new set which is not
too comfortable. During import
ant and most embarrassing mo
ments, such as in the middle of
a speech, the new teeth some
times click.
Finally, the President has be
come more hard-boiled about
being seen in public in a wheel
chair. During the early years
In office he was super-sensitive
on this point. He didn't like
to have people realize he
couldn't walk. But now he
knows that during 12 years in
the White House everyone is
quite aware of this fact, so he
frequently rebels against wear
ing his stiff and uncomfortable
iron and leather braces, without
which it is impossible for him to
stand.
Not only has the President be
come relatively callous about his
physical condition, but he is not
averse to telling a story on him
self, the frankest of which is re
garding the Philadelphia Conven
tion which nominated him in 1936.
The President was walking up
to the platform when the bolt
came out of the brace on his left
knee and he started to fall, in
fact would have fallen to the plat
form; but secret service men
held him up and stood around
him so that few people could see
what was happening. The bolt
was replaced, and the Prfesident
continued, but, he said, very
much shaken up. In addition
to this, Jimmy Roosevelt had
drapped his speehc and the pages
had scattered all over the plat
form.
Then, as Jack earner de
livered his acceptance speech,
the pages were rattling In the
wind, making a whistling noise
in the microphone. Pat Harri
son of Mississippi tried to hold
the pages down, got one page
out of place, and the Vice
President repeated one whole
page of his speech.
Tlie President tells how he was
worried sick, until the last word
of his own address was finished,
for fear he would make the same
mistake.
LONESOME PRESIDENT
Franklin D. Roosevelt has never
lost the old sparkle and verve
which have characterized his pri
vate and public conversations for
twelve long years. Sometimes In
press conferences, he is irritable,
but he always snaps baek. He has
his ups and downi.
After the day’s work Is done,
however, after dinner In the
White House, after the last
intimate callers who sometimes
come as late as II P. M. have
departed, then, in the Lincoln
study you will sometimes catch
a rare glimpse of Franklin
Roosevelt as he really Is In
these war years.
One evening a friend came over
to the residence part of the White
House to confer with the Presi
dent on a troublesome strike prob
lem. He walked along the thick
carpeted corridor outside the Lin
coln study. The President did
not hear him. As the advlscer
came to the door, which was open,
he glanced inside.
The room was dark except
for one lamp on the President’s
desk which illuminated his face
almost as if in a stage setting.
The President sat there, gazing
off into space. He was not
reading, he was not smoking,
he was thinking. And on his
face was a look of almost tragic
loneliness. A man surrounded
by people, problems, and war,
and completely alone.
(Copyright, 1945, by
The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
WHY HAVE A SPECIAL
ELECTION
(Bridgeport Post)
As an aftermath of Senator Ma
loney’s death the thought of under
going a special election to choose a
successor for the brief period of his
unfinished term will fill most Con
necticut citizens with aversion. We
have Just had a combined presiden
tial and state election and that's
enough electioneering for most of
us.
A special election would not only
be a heavy and needless expense In
war-time but under the complicated
procedure which must be followed it
could not be held until the latter
part of the present year thus allow
ing a good part of the unfinished
term to elapse. leaving Connecticut
without representation In the mean
time.
All this could be avoided if the
Legislature would empower Gover
nor Baldwin to appoint somebody
to fill in the interim period until
the next regular Senatorial election
in November, 1946.
This 1s said by some political fore
casters to be out of the question
because we have a Republican House
and a Democratic Senate and the
latter,—the forecasters assume,—
would never empower a Republican
governor to fill the senatorial vac
ancy.
But why not? The appointee
would hold office only during Sen
ator Maloney’s unexpired term, or
until January 1947. Such an ap
pointment however, could take ef
fect immediately and the state
would have its full representation
in the United States Senate dur
ing his critical wur-and-peace per
iod.
Under the Constitution of the
United Stuues a vutancy in the Sen
ate is to be filled by special election
except that "The Legislature of any
state may empower the executive
thereof to make temporary appoint
ments until the people fill the vac
ancies by election, as the Legislature
may direct.”
The Legislature therefore could
direct Qovernor Baldwin to make
such an appointment affective until
the next regular election in No
vember, 1946. If as a matter of poli
tical expediency the Republican
House would object to the appoint
ment of a Democrat as Senator or
the Demochrat Senate would object
to the appointment of a Republican
this difference might be effectively
bridged by appointing someone who
Is publicly pledged to fill only the
interim term and not to be a can
didate to succeed himself.
This would leave both parties free
to make new nominations In 1946
and to start the contest on even
terms. It would avoid the expense,
the strife and the nuisance of a
special election In the meantime.
SENATOR MALONEY
(Catholic Transcript)
Senator Maloney’s death on Tues
day of this week takes away from
the state and the natlona an able
public servant, from his Church an
exemplary son and from his family
a devoted husband and father.
In the political arena Senator
Maloney was a skillful contestant.
His record of steady progress from
minor offices to the Senate of the
United States lndlc. as much.
But he was more. He was an honest
and honorable warrior in a field
where cunning and trickery are too
often used as weapons. In his own
words he never met an Issue on the
basis of class, politics or special
privilege. He met every issue on the
basis of his own steadfast integrity
That, rather thaiT his admitted pos
ition as one of the ablest men In the
Your Health
By Dr. William Brady
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William Brady, National News
paper Service, 320 West Madison
Street, Chicago. Ill
A SALAD HOUND
A meal is not a square meal, a
diet is not a balanced diet and life,
is not all It should be without a
salad. The finest food, In prime
condition, however well prepared
or cooked and served, food that is
good to eat, chock-full of calories
and therefore excellent fuel to sup
port the energy requirements In
any emergency, is still inadequate
if it happens to be poor in vita
mins and minerals—and a meal
without a salad is pretty certain
to be Inadequate in that respect
these days.
On the other hand a salad with
out a dash of arsenic is not as easy
to obtain these days as you may
think. If you are fortunate enough
to have your own garden patch and
grow your own spinach, lettuce, as
paragus, chicory, onions and the
like, then you can have salad and
still no bellyache. But if you buy
your vegetables and greens in the
market or if you eat out, you can
either omit green salad or take a
chance on it and hope the arsenic
will not exceed your tolerance.
In Public Health Reports, official
publication of U. S. Public Health
Service, Jan. 1, ’37, Iowa State Uni
versity experts described their find
ings in tests of the spray residues
on fruit and urged that apple
growing States enact laws to em
power the health department to
protect consumers against spray
residues. They also recommended
that fruit growers who spray their
fruit on the trees should use 1
percent hydrochloric acid rinse,
which is a simple procedure and
would at least mitigate the poten
tial danger of poisoning.
It is advisable to use this solu
tion for rinsing greens or leave
vegetables in preparing them for
salads. To prepare 1 per cent hy
drochloric acid solution mix a pint
of standard medicinal Diluted Hy
drochloric Acid with 9 points of
water. This solution may be used
over and over for rinsing such
leafy vegetables or whole fruits.
The dilute acid dissolves and re
moves lead or arsenic residues that
are not dissolved or removed by
water or even by soap and water.
After rinsing well in the 1 per
cent hydrochloric acid solution, an
other rinsing in plain water re
moves any acid remaining. I be
lieve I’d go for salad any time,
even In a restaurant, if I knew the
greens were given this acid rinse
by way of assurance against belly
ache.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Sulfur and Molasses
Please explain the effect of sul
fur and molasses on a person.
Would it be harmful for a child to
eat a lump of sulfur? (Mrs. L.),
Answer—You believe in preparing
well in advance for the big spring
thaw? Sulfur and molasses is
midly laxative, nothing more, so far
as we know. If the sulfur is pure
it would be harmless to the child
—merely a laxative.
Broad Field of Ignorance
You cautioned readers to remem
ber that your ignorance of psycho
logy Is stupendous. Your ignorance
of Geography is even more so. I
was startled to learn that Palm
Springs and Meca are on the Mo
jave Desert and near Bagdad. Palm
Springs and Mecca are in the
Coachella Valley and Bagdad on
the American Desert nearly 300
miles northeast. (J. H. M.)
Answer—Oh, well, those alleged
"deserts” in California are a huge
disappointment anyway. First time
we drove across the Mojave “desert”
from Needules to Barstow we load
ed up with extra cans, barrels, etc.,
as for a safari—and found we never
got off the pavement or out of sight
of a service station. I’ll never get,
over that disappointment. One could
forgive the west for no Cowboys
and no Indians, not for this. It
your “American Desert” is as great
a flop as the Mojave you can place
Bagdad, Mecca, Palm Springs or
Jerusalem in it for all I care.
(Copyright 1945, John F. Dille Co.)
United States Senate, is the reason
the men and women of his state and
his faith were proud of him and
the reason too that they mourn his
loss so sincerely.
A devoted son of the Church, Sen
ator Maloney did not parade his re
ligion. Nor ddl he try to use it for
political advantage any more thar.
he tried to deprecate it for a similar
purpose. To him his faith was the
truth and he served it as he served
the truth in all the circumstances of
his life. How great and good an ex
ample his service gave may only ba
learned from those closest to him.
That it was great and good we know
if by no other means than the hon
est and open character of the man
himself.
Senator Maloney's family suffers
the greatest loss in his death. How
ever fine a public servant, he is
soon forgotton when he vanishes
from the scenes of public life. Sen
ator Maloneys place will be filled,
even if Inadequately, and the world
will go on as before. But for his de
voted wife and children the world
will not go on as before. The plac*
left empty by the departure of on*
as beloved as we know he was can
not ever actually be filled. May theli
lasting grief be lessened by the con
solations of the faith they and he
professed,