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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Progress Reported in ESA Field;
Truman Signs Crop Increase Act
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they arc those of
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Charges Hurled
Charges that the government has
been "ragging its feet" in organ
izing civil defense against an A
bomb attack and in telling Ameri
cans how to protect themselves
have been hurled by four big-city
officials.
MAYOR Elmer E. Robinson of
San Francisco minced no words in
asserting that federal authorities
have "fumbled the ball" of civilian
defense. He urged that a policy of
total defense be inaugurated imme
diately by the federal government.
Federal planners have said that
local officials will have to assume
primary responsibility for civilian
defense against atomic warfare,
the government's role being that
of coordinator.
THAT MUST have seemed an odd
stand to take to officials who have
no knowledge of atomic bomb ef
fects or of the first steps to take
toward protection if such bombings
occur. Surely public leaders were
within the bonds of reason and logic
when they demanded that the gov
ernment channel to them more in
formation on how to provide pro
tection against atomic warfare—
information which only the federal
government possesses, if anyone or
any group does possess it.
The government's attitude seemed
a callous one and hard to reconcile
with all the scare techniques prev
alent in connection with the possi
bility of another war in which the
A-bomb or the H-bomb would be
the most frightful weapons.
FOREIGN AID:
Some Progress
As the economic cooperation ad
ministration started its third year
of operations, Marshall plan coun
tries were being urged to take two
steps of paramount importance to
make themselves independent of
extraordinary outside aid by the
time EGA ends in June of 1952.
COUNTRIES participating in the
Marshall plan were to be told that
they should intensify efforts to sell
more products to the United States
and other hard-currency areas.
EGA pointed to that as one means
of closing the dollar gap.
In that connection, the agency
continued, the U.S. could assist by
following increasingly liberal im
port policies and commercial poi
cies generally so that trade bar
riers do not prevent European
countries from increasing dollar
earnings in this country.
AS to European economic unifi
cation, EGA stated its belief that
the establishment of an effective
European payments union is of
great importance. Elimination of
public and private trade restric
tions also were said to be a con
tributing factor to economic unifi
cation.
As a result of increased produc
tion and financial and political
stabilization, EGA said, commu
nism has been placed on the de
fensive in all participating coun
tries.
HOGS:
No Props
For the first time within the past
eight years, hogs were being bought
and sold at major U.S. markets
without any price supports—and
dealers admitted it was difficult to
note any difference.
PRICES were steady to 25 cents
higher. What did that mean? Was
it an indication that federal agri
cultural planners could have been
wrong all these years? If that were
the case, there probably would be
no admission of it.
In fact, one U.S. department of
agriculture spokesman hailed the
event as a "normal market." It
was "just a matter of supply and
demand," he said, as if the de
partment had been aware of and
had considered that venerable law
ever since the government went
into the farming business.
FARMERS and traders, however,
held varying opinions as to what
might happen when the markets
opened for the first time since hog
price supports were allowed to die.
Some felt growers would become
panicky and flood the market with
hogs. But, as was reported, nothing
happened.
Anti-support adherents, never
theless, could draw little consola
tion from the evident, for farm
leaders had made it clear vigorous
efforts would be made to restore
hog price props.
SUBMARINES:
But Whose?
Cloaked with all the color and
trappings of mystery and suspense
was the report that a naval officer
had made instrument contact with
"one or more" unidentified sub
marines about 17 miles off the Cali
fornia coast.
OFFICIALLY, the western sea
frontier, which ordered the hunt,
reported "results and comment
negative." It added the search had
been discontinued.
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Defense Secretary Louis John
son (right) talks "cold war"
in a "hot" shirt as he and
President Truman discuss de
fense strategy and anti-Com
munist activities at the "little
White House" in Key West,
Fla. Secretary Johnson's shirt
recalls the "Solomon-in-all-his
glory" quotation, but even it
was topped by one the Presi
dent frequently donned for
pictures.
CROP BOOST:
A Compromise
In any manner likely to affect
the farm vote—with the congres
sional elections not so many
months away—President Truman
showed an unwonted disposition to
compromise, rather than come out
fighting against anything he didn't
like, as he has done so frequently
in the past.
THE PRESIDENT compromised
on an agricultural bill raising ac
reage limitations on cotton and
peanuts for 1950 and modifying
price supports for Irish potatoes
next year.
In signing the measure after
long study, the President noted,
according to the presidential press
secretary, Charles G. Ross, that
"the good features outweighed the
undesirable features." And with
that profound utterance, the bill
was signed into law.
The President acted after under
going heavy pressure from groups
urging approval or veto of the
joint resolution.
The section affecting potatoes
knocks out price supports for po
tatoes in 1951 unless marketing
quotas are then in effect. Addi
tional legislation would be needed,
however, to put such quotas into
operation in 1951.
THE MEASURE as approved
authorized an increase of 1.5 mil
lion acres in cotton acreage this
year and a 50 per cent increase in
acreage of peanuts planted for oil
production. The previous cotton al
lowance was 27 million acres.
It would permit peanut growers
—principally in Texas and Ala
bama — 100,000 more acres and
would permit excess peanuts to be
grown for oil without penalties on
certain conditions.
JAPAN:
Bible vs. Marx
Believing that Christianity and
the Bible are the dykes that are
holding up the flood of communism
in Japan, the American Bible So
ciety is beginning a campaign to
send Bibles to Japan
printed in the Japanese language.
Already the society has dis
tributed a total of 2,789,956 Bibles
Bibles
among
—and this sentiment is shared by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, that isn't
enough.
GENERAL MacARTHUR isn't
alone in that opinion. He has asked
for millions more. And Dr. Shiro
Murata, an officer of the Japan
Bible Society, said: "The eyes of
Japan are fixed on two books. One
is Das Kapital by Karl Marx. The
other is the Holy Bible. Japan is at
the crossroads."
To usher in its program of Bibles
for the Japanese, the American
Bible Society this month is spon
soring a huge signature book of
donors for the purpose of raising
funds with which to purchase and
send the Bibles. Every person
who contributes one dollar or more
to the project will be asked to sign
the donor book.
WHEN the campaign comes to
an end, probably this fall, the huge
book, bearing the signature of ev
ery donor, will be forwarded to
Japan where it will be displayed
in the offices of the Japan Bible
Society as a token of friendship
from the people of America to the
people of Japan.
Adam's Daughter?
Did Adam have a daughter, no
mention of whom is in the Bible?
Dr. Guido Kisch, noted scholar,
has declared that a 900-year-old
Latin manuscript claims that Ad
am had a daughter whose name
was never mentioned in any ver
sion of the Old Testament. Dr.
Kisch said the manuscript, oldest
and most accurate version known
as "Biblical Antiquities," men
tioned a daughter named Noaba.
SECURITY:
A Denial
U. S. State Secretary Dean Ache
son branded as falsehoods state
ments by Sen. Joseph McCarthy
that Owen Lattimore—whom Mc
Carthy has called a Soviet agent
—was the actual director of Ameri
can policy in the Far East. An
swering questions at a press con
ference, Acheson added that:
1. Lattimore never was em
ployed by the state department.
2. He (Acheson) isn't sure he
ever met Lattimore.
3. Lattimore's contacts with the
state department have been limit
ed to a few occasions.
4. According to his information,
Lattimore never had a desk at the
state department.
Lattimore, a Far Eastern expert
and a professor at John Hopkins
university, had reached London
from Afghanistan, from whence he
was returning to answer Mc
Carthy's charges. In London, Lat
timore branded the McCarthy
charges as "unmitigated lies."
McCarthy, meanwhile, was in a
hospital after a four-hour senate
speech in which he said he would
produce a witness who would
swear Lattimore was a member of
the Communist party. He told the
senate he has documents to prove
that Lattimore was a Soviet agent
who was getting instructions from
Moscow as long ago as 1936.
Lattimore was most important
to McCarthy, for the senator had
declared he would rest his entire
case of Communist leanings in the
state department on the outcome
of his charges against Lattimore.
And, unless the senator could
produce his witness and his docu
ments, the case boiled down to one
of the senator's word against that
of Acheson and Lattimore, with
the public deciding as it pleased
about who was right.
FLYING DISKS:
Navy Says 'No'
If there are, or were, any flying
saucers whirring through space,
the United States navy has nothing
to do with them and knows nothing
about them. The air force said the
same thing.
THE SERVICES also denied that
they are developing secret planes,
guided missiles or anything else
that could be mistaken for flying
saucers.
These denials were issued after
two published reports traced the
saucers to navy and air force "se
cret" projects.
An air force spokesman declared
that "the armed forces are not do
ing anything that could be traced
to being the basis of reports of fly
ing saucers."
He said the air force position was
the same as it was last December
when it announced—after investi
gating 375 reports of flying saucers
— $hat they were "misinterpreta
tions of various conventional ob
jects, a mild form of mass hysteria
or hoaxes." In other words "there
ain't no such thing" as a flying
saucer.
A NAVY SPOKESMAN denied
with equal vigor that the navy is
developing super-speed planes that
have been spotted as "saucers."
Said he: "The navy is not ex
perimenting with, or doing research
on, any type of plane or guided
missile that resembles in any way
a flying saucer."
So, that should be that. However,
it would be difficult to convince
many Americans that there are no
flying saucers, and if a troubled
citizen, seeking, subconsciously or
not, a momentary relief from his
woes and burdens, thinks an object
in the sky is a flying saucer, no
particular harm has been done. In
fact it may do him some good.
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David Russo, who was se
lected "Boy of The Year" of
the Boys Clubs of America,
holds the plaque awarded him
and gets a kiss from his moth
er after arriving in Hollywood
for a three-day tour of film and
radio studios.
GERMANY:
Crisis Impends
According to U. S. German High
Commissioner John J. McCloy, a
"real crisis" appears inevitable in
Germany. McCloy uttered the
warning in a talk before a con
gress subcommittee. He told a
house group that Soviet pressure
is a result of confidence, rather than
any "sense of inferiority or fear of
attack" by western forces. "The
Russians feel their strength," he
said.
Order Of DeMolay
Installs Officers
The Norman C. Johnston chap
ter, Order of DeMolay, met Tues
day evening in the Masonic temple
to install officers for the summer
term. The installing officers were
Jack Heebner and Donald Brad
ford, both past master councilors.
Danny Hafer was seated as
master councilor; Douglas
senior councilor; Bob
junior councilor;
Jim Graff, senior deacon; Clayton
Sheets,
Leuthold,
Gass, junior
Hageman, chaplain; Ronald Hage
man, marshal; Neil Roberts, al
Danny Freund, standard
Don Schessler, orator;
James
Toombs,
Stickleberger,
junior deacon; Kenneth
senior steward; Jim
seward; Richard
moner;
bearer;
Harry Hodges, sentinel;
Morrison, Sr., scribe. Preceptors
are: Dick Williams, Don Mobley,
Don Brown, Bob Schessler, George
Bangert, Harold Johnstone, and
Keith Gomon.
Jim Morrison received a past
master councilor's pin from the
chapter in a presentation made by
his father, James Morrison, Sr.
Lunch was served by Mrs. Her
man Schessler, Mrs. Fred Graff
and E. R. Bradford of the mother's
circle.
News of 4-H
CLUBS
The Happy Go Lucky 4-H club
met Friday, April 7, at the home
of Mrs. John Armour for a wiener
roast and Easter egg hunt. Those
present were Coy Eshom, Ann
Bishop, Darlene Altman, Elaine
Stebbins, Frances Kuper, Juanita
Kuper, LeRoy Kuper, Jerry Ar
mour, Alice Kinney, Mr. George
Stebbins, Mrs. Elsie Kuper and
Mrs. Armour. The members not
present were Larry Homing and
Joyce Resser. The next meeting
will be held at the home of Coy
Eshom, April 21, at 7:30 p.m.
History of Coal is Marked
By Controversial Episodes
A wagonload of anthracite coal
would look mighty fetching in any
one's bin today, but as recently as
88 years ago a Philadelphian was
arrested for trying to sell the worth
less stuff.
The culprit, Colonel George Shoe
maker, was accused of perpetrating
a fraud, according to Wilbert C.
Fritz, assistant professor at the
University of Pittsburgh and spe
cialist in co|l research. As every
body knew at the time (1862) soft
coal was the only coal worth burn
ing. Anthracite's superior quali
ties were discovered too late to
do the Colonel much good.
This incident was only one of
several controversial episodes in
the history of coal, as pointed out
by Fritz in his article for World
Book encyclopedia.
The first reference to the use of
coal in England dates Lack to A. D.
852, when the mineral was believed
to give off poisonous gases. Still
following this theory. King Edward
I made the use of coal a capital
offense in 1306, and at least one
man was put to death for violating
the law.
There appears to be a definite
tie-in with coal trouble and the
speaking of English, as the ancient
Greeks and Chinese got along quite
happily with the fuel.
The Greeks used coal several
hundred years before the birth of
Christ. Aristotle, Fritz points out,
mentioned it in his writings; and
still another reference is made to
the mineral in the Book of Proverbs
As usual, China was a little ahead
of the game. Coal fires were warm
ing the toes of the ruling Shang
family as early as 1100 B. C.
Two Psychologists Claim
Alcoholism Starts Early
Alcoholism has its seeds in early
childhood, according to two Uni
versity of Denver psychologists, E.
Ellis Graham and Robert Parks.
The educators said that persons
suffering from compulsive drink
ing often are those who are unable
to untie themselves from their
mother's apron strings. A feeling of
dependency of this sort, they
hastened to add. could stem from
lack of parental affection during
early years, parental rejection of
the child, or other causes.
Alcoholics typically yearn for
self-gratification
level, Graham and Parks pointed
out. And one of the ways they can
attain gratification as adults is
through drinking.
The pair stressed that true alco
holics are persons who are emo
tionally immature and mentally
ill. Consequently no amount of nag
ging can be expected to work as a
"cure". Many persons who drink
excessively do so in part to escape
from tension generated by lack of
self-understanding.
People should realize that alco
holism is a result of personality or
emotional problems—conflicts and
tensions which the individual tries
to resolve through drinking. The
psychologists warned against well
meaning efforts toward "home
made" cures, and recommended
prompt professional help for the
alcoholic.
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N.W. Scientists Develop
Camera Device for Planes
A device for controlling as many
as 17 cameras in one airplane and
five in another has been developed
by two research scientists at North
western university's technological
Institute. The synchronized opera
tion system is designed primarily to
aid the testing of experimental air
planes.
Already successfully tested in
flight, the device controls 17 cam
eras located in various positions
throughout the experimental plane,
enabling engineers to photograph
the plane's instruments.
The synchronizing mechanism al
so permits the operation of five
other cameras placed in an accom
panying plane to photograph the
test plane's performance from the
outside. Work on the new remote
control device was done by North
western research scientists Miss
Viola J. White and Sidney J. Hor
witz for the U.S. navy.
The entire system of cameras is
controlled through a push-button
panel board inside one of the two
planes. The equipment, consisting
of only the panel board and the
cameras, is lightweight for airplane
operation, and functions from the
plane's 28-volt direct current elec
trical supply. An interlocking relay
system controls the entire mecha
nism.
Another feature of the synchro
nizing device is that the film used
has a time-reference identification,
recording when each picture is tak
en. This aids in later analysis of
data obtained.
The camera system was develop
ed in the Northwestern aerial meas
urements laboratory, a U.S. navy
sponsored research project at the
technological institute.
Lather Aids Shaving
How does lathering the face aid
in shaving? The function of the
lather is to soften the beard by
soaking each whisker thoroughly
and keeping it moist for the dura
tion of shave. Shaving soap manu
facturers recommend that the face
1-2 washed with soap and water be
fore lathering. This removes both
greaso, which might repel the
water and prevent thorough soak
ing of the beard, and gritty mate
rial that may have a dulling effect
on the razor's edge.
Confused the Germans
Comanche, a tribe of buffalo
hunting Indians who spent their
early days raiding Spanish ranch
es, often were used in pairs during
World War I to transmit telephone
messages. Their language, which
has never been written down,
caused the German code experts
a great deal of confusion.
Otter Crest
Cape Foulweather. now popular- i
Iv known as Otter Crest, on the j
Oregon coast near Newport, was |
discovered and so named in March, i
1778. 14 years before the Columbia i
river was discovered by Captain I
Gray. Today a lookout is on the :
cane. 500 feet above the sea. pro
viding snectacular seascapes fôr |
many miles in both directions. ,
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Folding Fan
Tradition says the Japanese in
vented the folding fan about 670
fc. D.
"Chair Warmers"
Chinese proverb: Salesmen who
cover chair instead of territory al
ways on bottom.
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The biggest or the smallest auto repair
job is tackled with the greatest of ease
by our skilled mechanics. Don't wait until
it's too late or too costly . . . bring your
car around for necessary repairs now!
We guarantee rapid, satisfying service.
It's time to have us flush out the radiator
as one of the first moves for a change
over to spring and summer driving.
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