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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 194r,
A Thought for Today
Let os therefore fear, lest, a promise being
left ns of entering Into his rest, any of you
ahonld seem to come short of it.—Hebrews 4:1.
Let there be some more test made of my metal,
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamped upon It.
-Shakespeare.
To Be Continued
All devotees of radio soap operas are
familiar with the cliff-hanger though
they may not identify it by name. A
cliff-hanger is a type of serial story in
which each chapter ends with one or
more principal characters in dire peril.
It is a simple, effective technique that
always assures the author of an audience
for the next instalment. This same tech
nique is apparent in the Crimean Con
ference report. And the result is perhaps
the top cliff-hanger in diplomatic his
tory. The authors swiftly disposed of a
couple of vexing problems left over from
the last episode, then shaped their plot
SO that not one, but three, of the leading
Sayers in the world drama were left
ingling from a precipice. In conse
quence, the global audience is now sitting
on the edge of its scats and biting its nails
in anticipation of the next chapter, on
April 25. But Hitler, one of the dangling
players, can’t even be sure of the date
when he will be disposed of. He must
just hang and wait for that “powerful
blow” from the north which the Crimean
script-writers added to those from the
east, west and south, promised him at
Teheran and since delivered.
The other two characters involved can
■wait till the April episode. One of them
is Japan, who will know by that date, or
perhaps on it, whether her neutrality
pact with Russia automatically contin
ues, or whether the Soviets are to join
the forces already arrayed against her.
The other one is the heroine of the whole
drama, World Peace. The fate of World
Peace rests with a decision reached at
Yalta, after being by-passed at Dumbar
ton Oaks, but dramatically withheld by
the authors of the report. The decision
is on voting procedure in the proposed
international security organization.
There are three evident voting procedures
by which the security council of five per
manent and six elected members could
determine the aggressor in any breach of
the peace. One is Russia’s proposal of a
unanimous verdict. The second is the
American proposal that council members
of nations involved in the dispute refrain
from voting. A third choice would be a
simple majority decision.
If the Russian plan were adopted, ef
fective maintenance of peace would seem
to be doomed. Naturally an accused na
tion represented on the council would
not vote against itself. And without
unanimous agreement on the aggressor
(which the Soviet delegates at Dumbar
ton Oaks held out for) the world organ
ization would be powerless to act in an
outbreak of war. All this is surely evi
dent to Russia. And judging from the
reciprocal compromise, general agree
ment and spirit of amity reflected in the
Crimean report, Marshal Stalin was not
in the mood to undo all this good work
by insisting on the impossible. So let us
await the next instalment hopefully as
well as anxiously.
Loafers and Hoarders
The Mead Committee has made public
glaring examples of loafing on the job
and labor hoarding.
Stories of a similar nature from unof
ficial sources have long been common
knowledge. Private citizens can recount
from their own experience, disgraceful
examples of deliberate loafing on war
jobs. Many conscientious workers have
quit war jobs because they could not
stand the waste of time they were re
quired to endure.
The answer to criticism of labor loaf
ing and labor hoarding is always, “We
have produced the goods.” That may be
true, but at what a price! How much
more could have been produced other
wise! We have now reached the point
where both money and man-hours are
growing scarcer. Let us hope that if the
Mead Committee is not able to penalize
or punish labor loafers or labor hoard
ers,* that revelations which it can make
will arouse the nation and shame the of
fenders into a correction of their ways.
Nebraska Swallows the Bait
Starting with the new year, Nebraska
became the first state in the union to
favor total socialization of one of its
greatest industries—electric power de
velopment.
The ironical part of the plan to "liqui
date” the privately-owned Nebraska
Power Company, is the fact that its sale
was forced by Federal laws and a Federal
agency, but promoters of the deal got a
fat “profit” for destroying a profitable,
taxpaying industry.
If the people of Nebraska want social
ised industries, they have made a good
•tart. The public electric plant will pay
no Federal taxes, and will probably be
tamnpted from much of the tax it previ
ously paid to state and local governments.
The company that laid the golden tax
eggs is killed, and the people hold the
sack. Thus does state socialism extend
its field in the United States.
An Appeal For Veterans
In the last war, some 10 per cent of all
American forces became disabled. It has
been estimated that in the present war
that percentage may be doubled. The
principal reasons for the expected increase
are the gerater destructiveness of modern
war, and the improvement in surgery
and medicine that today is saving many
more wounded men from death.
The country is conscious of its responsi
bility to these disabled men and, through
its lawmakers, has made provision for
them to be compensated and cared for on
their return. But there are inevitable
complications in obtaining this care and
compensation, and often later difficul
ties, which tend to confuse and discour
age some of these veterans.
This was more true after the last war
than it is now. As a result, a group of
returned soldiers organized the Disabled
American Veterans in 1920. Their pur
pose was “to secure fair and just compen
sation, adequate and sympathetic care,
and honest and profitable employment
for those who are employable.”
One of the DAV’s chief contributions
during the peacetime years was in pre
senting and prosecuting veterans’ claims,
free of charge. That service is now ex
panding, and will continue to grow. But
the DAV’s work does not end there. It
follows through on cases after claims are
disposed of and hospitalization ended.
It helps to rehabilitate any disabled
veteran who applies for assistance,
whether a DAV member or not. Its care
extends through the veteran’s life—and
beyond it, in the assistance it gives his
dependents.
Congress has authorized the Veterans’
Administration to secure all aid it can in
carrying the huge load of work that this
war is bringing. One of the sources to
which the Veterans’ Administration is
turning is the DAV. The two groups are
cooperating in the training of 400 dis
abled veterans of World War II to serve as
full-time DAV national service officers.
A million dollars of government funds
has been appropriated to help meet the
cost of this training program, which con
sists of five months’ special college in
struction and 18 months of on-the-job
placement training in various veterans
facilities throughout the country.
But $10,000,000 is needed to meet the
modest salaries of these 400 additional
workers over the next 10 years. So the
DAV, after financing its own work for 25
years, is making its first national appeal
for funds. The drive is endorsed by an
imposing list of eminent men, including
high military officers and the governors
of 35 states.
This campaign is ‘entilted to full sup
port of every citizen,” as the Veterans’
Administrator, Brig.-Gen. Frank T.
Hines, has said. The DAV, chartered by
Congress, non-political, self-effacing and,
until now, self-supporting, may be trusted
to help carry out a nation’s minimum
guarantee that those who have fought and
bled for it shall not be forgotten and
neglected.
A good deal of guessing is being done
about the stock market. Will it have a
boom, or will it “go bust?” According to
gambling history it may go in both of
those directions. The stock market is
founded on good intentions as a place
where investors may buy shares and draw
dividends. All goes well for a time, until
as in the early 1930’s the investors are
carried down in boom gambling specula
tive markets that drop halfway out of
sight in a few days, or weeks. That’s why
the uninitiated “investor” should watch
his step and keep clear of the stock
market.
Lumber production in 1945 will be
about ten per cent below 1944, according
to a statement by the U. S. Department
of Commerce. Forty years ago the United
States was warned by a great conference
of businessmen who gathered with Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt in the White
House that eighty-five per cent of the
| standing timber of the country was
i wasted in logging, or destroyed by un
! checked forest fires. But the press and
the people merely commented: “What
of it, there is standing timber enough to
last forever.
There is every indication that the Fed
eral Reserve Board will be given broader
authority to help small business enter
prises and individuals to borrow money
through their local banks—after ’while.
When that will be is impossible to say;
but when the wars buckle-up and are over
there will be a stampede in all directions
by workers and others to reestablish them
selves. The Government will direct
“orderly procedure” along the home
front.
One of the best informed commenta
tors in Washington informs his readers:
“War costs, war burdens will reach their
peak in this year.” The tax peak is shock
ing to the American taxpayers.
(Charles Malem in The Christian Science Monitor)
I nave foui (. my watch—the one which was slow—
At the bottom of the woodpile. Under the snow
tt lay all winter, not much minding,
Five months rested for want of winding.
World X accused of stealing my time,
I ask forgiveness. But who could know
Odd would be there when the cold ran low,
At the bottom of the woodpile?
Moon sets at 6:45 a. m. (war time)
Sun rises at 7:34 a. .m, sets at 6:37 p. m.
(war time)
Vbliicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
Selected Poem
THE WATCII
Daily Almanac
4
• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
“Government
Corporations’*
By PETER EDSON
Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash
ington Correspondent
Washington, D. C., Feb. 24 —
Tracing the development of the
maze of "government corporations"
—the fourth arm of the government
which Senators Harry F. Byrd of
Virginia and Hugh Butler of Neb
raska now seek to bring under con
trol with new
legislation —
shows exactly how
one innocent little
seed of an idea for
a new federal
bureau can mush
room all over the
place till it be
comes the biggest
financial aspidi
stra in the world.
Back in Teddy
Roosevelt's time
the government
took over the
Panama Railroad,
and ran it. It was
the first, and for a long time the
only government corporation.
Prior to World War I all govern
ment activities were carried on in
the regular departments headed by
cabinet officers. But in 1916 the first
Federal Land Banks were chartered.
They were privately owned, but gov
ernment controlled, which seemed
innocent enough.
When the United States got drag
ged into the first European fracas,
the government corporation idea
really took hold. First came the
War Finance Corporation, then the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, U. S.
Housing Corporation, Spruce Pro
duction Corporation and a few
others.
FEW SUCH BUREAUS
IN TIIE 20 s
Eibon
au were uquiaaieo auer me wai
except the Federal Land Banks and
the Fleet Corporation, which later
became the Maritime Commission.
The 1920's were relatively free from
this sort of stuff, until Herbert
Hoover came along and started the
Inland Waterways Corporation
while he was Secretary of Com
merce, and the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation while he was
President.
The depression really saw the gov
crop idea take hold. The National
Industrial Recovery Act gave Pres
ident Roosevelt powers to create new
businesses. Among his first was the
Commodity Credit Corporation, set
up to borrow money from RFC and
loan it to farmers. Then Congress
expanded CCC, gave It powers it
didn’t realize it was bestowing —
and the next thing Congress knew,
here was CCC paying subsidies and
was the Congressional farm bloc
face red.
Today there were 44 of these gov
corps and credit agencies doing bus
iness at pretty fancy stands. Sixteen
are in the credit and banking bus
iness, nine deal in war supplies, four
in insurance, four in transportation,
four in construction, four in econo
mic rehabilitation, one in power, one
in retail distribution and one in
publicity. This last—Prencinradio,
Inc., Is a honey. Set up in the
Rockefeller office, it is authorized to
do darn near anything it can think
of in the fields of communications
and public relations.
LITTLE INFORMATION
AVAILABLE
Chanting that all these big bus
inesses have been ably and honestly
run, they still present an inherent
danger because they are definitely
not run in gold fish bowls and in
formation about their operations is
hard to get because they don’t have
to report baclf to Congress on what
they have done, what their assets j
are, how much they have lost or I
where they’re going. Incidentally, 37
of these corporations were created
b.y Congress itself, so you can see
whose fault the present condition of
those gov-corps really is.
The best approximate balance any
body has been able to strike on all
these operations is that 35 of tiie
government corporations show total
deficits of over 15 billion dollars. It
really isn’t quite that bad, because
about 10 billions of this will have to
be charged up to the cost of the
war. And the other government
corporations show a total profit of
684 million dollars.
Out of the Byrd-Butler bill, the
George bill to separate the loan
agencies from Department of Com
merce, the second Wallace-Jones
fracas. Wallace’s ’ statement that
RFC should be investigated, Jones’s
statement that as Federal Loan Ad
ministrator he had powers that ac
tually scared him — there should
come some healthy reforms, and
isn’t it about high time?
I
SEVER OR TO WELI)
The acetylene torch can be used
either to cut steel or to weld it. It
will go through a section of armoi
plate like a hot knife through a
print of butter. Under other condi
tions, It is used to bring two edges
of steel together and weld them
firmly.
How many things in life resemble
the acetylene torch, either to sepa
rate or to weld! Words spoken in
anger can sepa
rate people, while
words spoken in
love will draw
them together.
Religion comes
into some families
and separates
them into two
warring camps: it
comes into other
families and binds
together those
who formerly
were hostile to each other. Ambition
destroys some people, yet causes
others to reach achievements which
no one thought possible. Things
which ennoble one set of people
drive others to fury and violence.
Jesus declared that He came not
to bring peace but a sword. He did
nt mean the sword of steel. He
meant that wherever the gospel oi
the Son of man is proclaimed, con
troversy is sure to arise. Those who
see its meaning and long for its
blessings are willing to lay down
their lives to get these things. Those
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D.D.
— BY —
DREW PEARSON
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Drew Pearson Says: Rep. Rankin Would Pay Extra Salary to Dies Com
mittee Clerk; Investigation of Frank J. Gould Continues; Nazis Paid
Rent for Gould's Villa.
WASHINGTON, February 24. — Mississippi’s rootin-tootin’ John Raiikin has intro
duced an interesting little resolution to drain away a small segment of the taxpayers’
monev.
It is to pay a salary to draft
deferred Robert olrip.ing, clerk of
the old Dies Committee, during a
period when he was supposed to
have been in the Army and at a
time when the Dies Committee
had ceased to exist.
This climaxes a long series of
draft deferments for the young
man who did so much flag-wav
ing on Capitol Hill about un
American activities.
For some time, Stripling was
deferred by his Alexandria, Va.,
Draft Board as an essential
worker. Then last August the
Draft Board decided he wjs not
so essenl.al alter all cnil put
him in 1-A. In October, how
ever, he was deferred again,
Others around him, such as the
36-year old nephew of General
MacArthur, also living in Alex
andria together with the 33
year old City Manager of
Alexandria, were drafted. But
31-year old Stripling was
deferred.
Finally on Dec. 11, he was slated
to repo-', to the Army at 7 a. m.,
but once again he was given more
time. This time the Virginia
Draft Board refused to defer him
but General Hershey’s Selective
Servlc in Washington wmt over
its head, and the request of wire
pulling Congressmen, and gave
Stripling until January 4.
Came Jan. 4, and the young
Dies Committee flag-waver got
his fourth deferment. This time
Congresman May of Kentucky
went over the head of the local
Draft Board and got him deferred
until January 20. But this time,
tlie Dies Committe had ceased to
exist, having expired Jan. 3. So
Congresman Rankin has int:o
duced a resolution to pay Strip
ling for thhe time in January that
he was hanging around Wash
ington with the Dies Committee
non-existent and when his Drait
Board wanted him in the Army.
GOULD’S FRENCH
TRANSACTIONS
French and U. S. officiais are
greatly interested in the state
ment of Mrs. Frank Jay Gould
that she paid 5,000,000 francs to
the Nazis to save her husband
from being taken off to Germany.
What puzzles them are some
transactions which make it ap
pear that the Gould family was
being well-treated by the Nazis.
In fact, during part of the war,
the Nazis, instead of exacting
payments from Gould, actuary
paid him rent on his villa.
This was in September, 1943.
The amount received was 1,500,
000 francs. (It was ten months
later, in July 1944, just as the
Allies were sweeping toward
Paris, that Mrs. Gould deposited
5,000,000 francs in a German
controlled bank in Monte Carlo,
allegedly to save her husband.)
The 1943 German payment to
Gould was deposited by the Ger
man Commissioner in the Cha
teauneuf-Sur-Cher branch of the
Chase National Bank for requis
iting Gould’s villa In Vichy. La
ter, the German commissioner
even paid Gould an additional
195.300 francs to compensate for
expense connected with requls
ltlng the villa.
Mrs. Gould’s deposit of 5,
000,000 francs ten months later
was in the Banque J. E. Charles
et Cle., or Monaco—the eight
square mile, neutral principality
famous for its Monte Carlo
gambling casino.
The date of her deposit, July
21 1944, in Itself is interesting.
For the Charles Bank was actual
ly established on this same date.
It had not been in existence be
fore. Furthermore, Mrs. Gould
became a stockholder. U. S. and
French officials also consider
other dates significant. June 6
who want to hold to their own
selfish purpose oppose the demands
of the gospel to the point of fury
and desperation.
Whether we let the factors of life
break our hearts or heal them • de
pends upon our faith and determin
ation. Nothing ever damages our
souls unless we permit it to do so.
All Rights Reserved—
Babson Newspaper Syndicate
was the date when the Allies land
ed in Normandy. July 19 was
the St. Lo break-through, when
General Patton started his dash
for Paris. Three days after the
break-through, the Bank was
founded.
CALLABORATIONIST BANK
The group which put up capital
for the Bank included some inter
esting Germans and collaboration
ists, suspected of wantnig to get
their money out of reach of the
de Gaulle government. The found
ers were:
1. J. E. Charles, a German
resident of Monte Carlo.
2. August T. Gausebeck, an
other German banker, formerly
living at 50 Broadway, N. Y., C.,
suspected of handling Nazi funds
in the U. S. A., and. deported
from New York in May 1942. Be
fore the TJ. S. break with Ger
many, he apparently kne wit was
coming and transferred much of
his property to Argentina. The
rest has been seized by the Alien
Property Custodian.
3. Guillaume Charles Le Ces
ne, French banker, who before
the W'ar was associated with a
company making electric storage
batteries. During the war he con
tinued with this company, the
batteries being important to the
war and being sold to Germany.
4. Florence La Caze Gould,
born in San Francisco of French
parents, former actress and third
wife of Frank Gould. She is Vice
President of “Sea Bath s’’ at
Juan - les - Pins, a Director in
“I,unchs et Glaciers,” a catering
company, and in various winter
and summer resort companies.
Another Interesting date in
the history of the Charles Bank
falls on Aug. 23, 1944, when it
increased it capital from 80
million to 150 million francs.
August 23 was Just eight days
after General Patch ladnde
with an American Army along
the French Riviera, near Monte
Carlo.
Since Monte Carlo is neutral,
officials suspect that the Charles
Bank was a scheme whereby Ger
mans and French collaboration
ists transferred funds out of de
G a u 11 e’s Jurisdiction. Charles,
when interview by investigators,
said he and the German, Gause
beck, would retain an interest of
50 million francs and the "Amer
ican group (the Goulds), which
has a participation of only five
million, will have the right to a
total participation of 50 million."
Investigation of the whole
affair is continuing by both
French and U. S. officials.
Note—Mr. and Mrs. Gould were
warned repeatedly by American
authorities before hostilities to
return to the United States. Their
funds were frozen during the war.
END OF THE WAR?
After one member of the U. S.
High Command returned from
Yalta, officers surrounded him
to ask when the “Big Three"
thought the war would be over
in Europe.
Listen." replied the returned
staff officer, “in the last war,
I knew Marshal Foch’s chauf
feur and he told me he wag
constantly being asked the
same question. Every place he
drove Foch, people asked if
Focli had told him when the
war would be over. He always
said he didnt know.
“One day he was driving the
Marshal toward the front
thinking how when he returned
everyone would be asking him
if he knew when the war would
be over. Just then, Foch reach
ed, over from the front seat
and asked.
“ *Henri, when do you think
the war will be over?’ ”
“Confidentially," con eluded
the staff officer, “that’s what
all our men asked each other
at Yalta.’’
Note—Actually, after American
British and Russia staff officers
completed plans for their final
coordinated offensive, they agreed
Germany should be finished off
by July 1st. Many of these same
top men Including Generals Mar
shall and Elsenhower mlsculated
last year, thoughtt he war would
be over last autumn.
(Copyright, 1946 by
The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
TELEVISION’S FUTURE
(Washington Post)
The Federal Communications
Commission has issued what amounts
to a caveat emptor warning in con
nection with its proposed allocation
of spectrum space to television
broadcasting. There has been a bit
ter controversy in the Industry be
tween those who wish to promote
the sale of television receiving sets
as soon as materials become avail
able and those who would like to
postpone commercial exploitation
until a superior technique for broad
casting can be perfected. In its pres
ent place in the spectrum, television
can operate in bands no more than
six megacycles wide, permitting a
picture of only 525 lines. In the ul
tra-high frequencies, which the FCC
has designated for experimental
television, much wider bands would
be available to make possible pic
tures of far greater clarity, depth
and detail.
What the commission’s findings in
its allocations report boll down to
is a flat warning that better televi
sion is around the corner. Prospec
tive buyers of television receivers
should take note. Yet th commis
sion lias authorized commercial tele
vision to go ahead on 12 six-mega
cycle channels assigned to it in the
lower frequencies. The danger in
herent in this policy was made evi
dent at once in a talk delivered be
fore the Washington Advertising
Club last week by T. F. Joyce of the
Radio Corporation of America, a
manufacturer of receivers. Mr. Joyce
predicted the television industry
would become a billion-and-a-half
dollar business in terms of retail
pricing at the end of the fifth full
television year. He must be planning
to sell a groat many receivers. But
these receivers, keyed lor reception
in the frequencies now allocated to
television, would be altogether
worthless for reception of the Im
proved television In the ultra-high
frequencies when this gets under
way. If the public should be gullible
enough to invest millions of dollars
In such receivers, then the change
over to the superior system of tele
vision, when It becomes feasible
would be extremely painful, perhaps
impossible. The FCC might well
have been more explicit on this
score.
When it was talking about fre
quency modulation, the commission
declared that "Public interest re
quires that PM be established In a
.permanent place in the radio spec
trum before a considerable invest
ment is made by the listening pub
lic in receiving sets and by ths
broadcasters In transmitting equip
ment.” We quite agree. And the doc
trine is equally applicable to tele
vision. At least the public ought tc
be informed that the type of televl
Your Health
By Dr. William Brady
Signed letter* pertaining to per.
sonal health and hygiene, not to
disease, diagnosis of treatment,
will be answered by Dr. Brady if
a stamped self-addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In Ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address Dr.
William Brady, National News
paper Service, 320 West Madison
Street, Chicago, 111.
MANIFESTATIONS OF CALCIUM
DEFICIENCY
A familiar bit of hokum taught
by the school physiology books In
the last century Is this, quoted from
Fourteen Weeks in Human Phy
siology, by J. Dorman Steele, pub
lished by A. S. Barnes & Co., 1874:'
"The composition of the bones
at maturity Is about one part
animal to two parts mineral mat
ter. The proportion varies with
age. In youth it is nearly halt
and half, while in old age the
mineral is greatly in excess.”
To the average layman this may
sound right. It seems consistent
with the common popular notion
that the bones of the elderly are
more brittle, more liable to break,
than the bones of younger persons
because in the elderly too much
mineral matter (calcium phos
phate) is in the bones.
The truth Is that, as Boas de
scribes It in his book “The Patient
Past Fifty” (The Year Book Pub
lishers, Inc., Chicago), "as a result
of the calcium deficiency in the
American diet adults experience a
steady, long-continued loss of cal
cium through the years ... as a
result of this constant depletion tho
bones become poor in calcium and
more fragile."
But, after all, this osteoporsis
(as the porosity and absorption of
calcium from the bones is called)
is a late manifestation of aging.
Some authors state that this change
in the bones may be a result of
long-continued calcium shortage
and not necessarily an accompani
ment of aging, and that it probably
could be prevented by “greater
calcium storage in earlier years.”
Greater calcium storage in earl
ier years—in youth, in adulthood;
in middle age. But then, in earlier
years who cares about the osteopor
osis of advanced age? When we re
young we are concerned about hav
ing a good time—we leave it to the
old folks to worry about calcium
storage.
Greater calcium storage in earl
ier years means more liberal con
sumption of milk and milk prod
ucts, particularly cheese, nuts,
green leafy vegetables, greens, sal
ads, and more exposure to sunshine
or daylight to enable the body to
manufacture adequate vitamin D
to insure assimilation, utilizatiori
and retention of calcium (and
phosphorus), or when or if such
exposure is impossible, then daily
eating of sufficient vitamin D.
In a booklet on ‘The Calcium,
Shortage” (mailed on request if you
inclose ten cents and stamped self
addressed envelope) numerous com
mon complaints due to calcium de
ficiency are described. If young
folks were more familiar with these
earlier manifestations of calcium
deficiency they could not only
avoid many of these troubles, by
keeping calcium metabolism at a
high level, but they could keep
younger longer. But. shucks, there
we go again, preaching to deaf
ears. As the old proverb expressed
it: They who would be young when
they are old must be old when they
are young.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Croup
Son, 8 1-2 years old, gets three
or four attacks of croup during the
winter. First attack when he was
5, after removal of his tonsils.
(Mrs. P. H.)
Answer—If the tonsils were mere'*
ly enlarged perhaps it was a mis*
take to remove them. Send stamp
ed envelope bearing your address,
ask for pamphlet on Croup. If you
would like also a pamphlet on Ton
sils and Adenoids, inclose ten cents
for it. For either pamphlet alone
send just stamped addressed en
velope.
Sulfur
Mother thinks flowers of sulfur
good to clean out the intestines
and it will not do any harm.
(M. M.)
Answer—Sulfur is merely a mild
laxative — washed sulfur (Sulfur
lotum, U. S. P.) rather than flow
ers of sulfur (Sulfur sublimatum,
U. S. P.) is generally used for in
ternal medicines—for instance the
familiar "compound licorice pow
der," often given to mothers after
childbirth, is a mixture of senna,
licorice and washed sulfur. Your
Ma is right — sulfur is no more
harmful than any other laxative,
although Just between ourselves she
is wrong about "cleaning out’’—but
then, let us not blame her for her
ignorance.
Copyright 1946 by John F. Dille Co.
Current Comment
There is not a barrel of gasoline
in the oountry that can be truly
defined as surplus, and every black
market operation and every wasteful
or non-essential use subtracts from
what already is a minimum supply.
—Ralph K. Davies, deputy petroleum
administrator for war.
• • •
I am not going to make any
prophecy about the end of the war
in the Pacific, but I can say that
it is going better than expected and
that we are more than satisfied.
—Adml. Sir Bruce Fraser, British
Pacific Fleet chief.
sion which the FCC now proposes to
authorise is merely temporary and
makshift in character. It would be
tragic if eagerness for immediate
commercial gain were permitted to
block technological progress.
BUTTER KRUST BREAD