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FARM ROYALTY . . . This dim-
pled, smiling beauty is Vicky Os-
trowski, 19 - year - old farmer’s
daughter, who was chosen “Dairy-
land Queen” at the annual Dairy-
land Festival in Watertown, N. Y.
A real farm girl, she drives a
tractor, milks the cows and helps
with other farm chores.
VAST PIT . . . Halemaumau or
“House of Fire” is a vast pit in
the crater of Kilauea volcano,
Hawaii National park.
pared for congress when it
venes again.
Decision of the senate group
National Parks
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In a Series
Wider Vista of U. S. Policy Hinted
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DESIGNED FOR THE LIVING . . . First up the ramp to the new
model paraplegic house, built as a special housing unit at Halloran
hospital on Staten island, N. Y., is Louis Novelli of Machnaqua, Pa.
He is being wheeled by Michelle Parker, Red Cross nurse. Plans of
the nit will be made available to any paraplegic who desires to build
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Lush Tropics, Frozen Arctic
Embraced in Overseas Parks
WNU Features.
Two of the great national parks, which belong to the people
of the United States, lie in our territories overseas — Hawaii
National park on the islands of Hawaii and Maui in the Hawai-
ian archipelago and Mount McKinley National park in Alaska.
These two parks present a study in contrasts. Hawaii, within
the tropics, basks in perpetual spring. Its forests with lush
ferns 40 feet high are gay with birds of brilliant plumage. Mc-
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By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WASHINGTON.—It was a sizzling day in the capital. The
town moved slowly like a lazy setter, stretching and hunting the
shade. Even the trees were half asleep. The air pushed hard
against your brow and cheeks. The asphalt yielded to one’s foot-
falls like brown grasses in a trodden field.
But we had to attend the regular press and radio conference of the sec-
retary of state. Nature languished, but we knew the dispatch room was
spluttering and sparking in sharp shudders with the news of an anguished
world. America we sensed (but didn’t understand quite how) was em-
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Within these gorgeously col-
ored walls lies a superb vol-
canic spectacle. Covering the
floor are giant red, black and
orange cinder cones which, al-
though hundreds of feet high, are
dwarfed by the immensity of
their surroundings. The crater
has a circumference of 21 miles
and an area of 19 square miles.
Both sections of the park are
reached from Honolulu by island
boat or airplane. From Hilo, port of
Hawaii island, one may rent an au-
tomobile for the trip to Kilauea or
take the regular bus.
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reached as the Very Rev. Edmund
A. Walsh, a member of President
Truman’s universal military train-
ing commission, told a house com-
mittee that “the politburo in Mos-
cow is not going to adjourn for the
summer as its forces creep across
Europe.”
Father Walsh said that America
is definitely on the Soviet agenda of
ments had yet revealed.
Was there a greater plan lying
behind this program for aid to
stricken countries — the program
outlined by Secretary Marshall at
Harvard? The question was asked
although we knew that even if the
secretary had a vision wider than
ours, he could not reveal it—yet.
His answer, frank enough under
the circumstances and not unexpect-
ed, was that if there was some fur-
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“a sharp incline which current signs
indicate is typical of many states,”
the association said.
Several state legislatures have
granted bigger state relief funds to
meet the rising need. Pennsylvania
boosted assistance for 1947-1948 to
$30,600,000, an increase of $10,000,000
from the 1945 appropriation. Month-
ly relief costs in the state for May
were $1,260,000 compared to a total
of $520,000 in June, 1945, and the
monthly caseload increased more
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FRUITED PLAINS:
Apple Outlook Rosy
Despite a late spring and some
frost damage in eastern fruit areas,
prospects continue generally favor-
able for this year’s crop of apples
and other deciduous fruits, a de-
partment of agriculture report has
' disclosed.
The 1947 strawberry crop is esti-
mated to be nearly a fourth larger
than the 1946 crop, but still a tenth
below average. However, the peach
crop' in 10 early southern states is
expected to set a new record of
more than 25 million bushels this
year, the third successive large
crop from those states.
In California, the sweet cherry
crop of 29,000 tons is 15 per cent
smaller than last year, but still 16
per cent larger than the 1938-44 av-
erage. California’s 92,000-ton plum
crop is slightly below 1946.
TRAINING:
Hearings Begin
Although congress is scheduled to
adjourn July 28, the senate armed
services committee has voted to
proceed with hearings on universal
military training.
But in a formal statement the
committee added that if a report
cannot be made ready by July 28,
it will attempt to have a report pre-
year sleeps in Arctic silence. Here
in winter some of the birds and
small animals even don white
habits to travel like spectres over
the snowy landscape.
Hawaii National park was estab-
lished by act of congress on August
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in the same month. Main features
in the park are two spectacular vol-
canoes, frequently active, Kilauea
and Mauna Loa on the island of
Hawaii, and one of the world’s larg-
est dormant volcanoes, Haleakala
on the island of Maui. The total
area within the two sections of the
park is about 275 square miles.
Kilauea, probably older than its
neighbor, towering Mauna Loa, cre-
ates the impression of being a
crater in the side of the higher
mountain, although it is itself a
mountain with an altitude of 4,090
feet. This illusion is the result of a
broad depression at its top and of
its gentle slopes, caused by lava
flows from many lateral vents.
Within the depression is a vast pit,
Halemaumau or “House of Fire,”
which often contains a boiling, bub-
bling mass of molten lava whose
surface fluctuates from bottom to
rim.
Until 1924 molten lava was
usually visible at any time in
Halemaumau, but activity since
then has been spasmodic. Its
risings are accompanied by
brilliant fountains and inflows
of liquid lava, and its lowerings
by tremendous avalanches
which send up enormous dust
clouds.
To the west of Kilauea rises the
Vast dome of Mauna Loa whose
summit crater, Mokuaweoweo, is
included in the national park. In-
cluded also is a broad connecting
belt between the two volcanoes.
Mauna Loa thrusts it great bulk
13,680 feet above the surrounding
Pacific. By eruptions in its summit
crater and by flank outbreaks it is
constantly adding to its mass.
In action Mauna Loa is even
more spectacular than Kilauea, and
steam vents continually send feath-
ery clouds into the air. Extending
northeast and southwest from the
summit are volcanic rifts with
many deep rents formed by earth-
quake and eruption as well as many
brilliantly colored spatter cones,
some 200 feet in height. Twice since
1880 the City of Hilo at the base of
the,-volcano has been threatened by
great rivers of lava which have
flowed down the sides of the moun-
tain.
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erty is discouraged by a new coat of
washable paint which will not ab-
sorb lipstick and a wire enclosure
around the stairway designed to
prevent writing on the statue.
“Unfortunately,” Drury contin-
ues, “similar protection cannot be
given the delicate hot spring and
geyser formations in Yellowstone.
Debris thrown into the pools in
some cases actually causes explo-
sions that have destroyed pools.”
We walked down the air-cooled
corridors of this new state depart-
ment building which in wartime
housed the brass hats of the high
command. For those working for
peace, it is a little depressing to
pass those stark murals depicting
war at its worst—or best, which is
probably the same thing.
We were still interested in the im-
plications of the statements on for-
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FARM CONTROLS:
Opposition Grows
American Farm Bureau federa-
tion, powerful farm group which
sponsored most of the agricultural
legislation now in force, is consid-
ering recommendations for total
abandonment of all farm price and
crop controls by the government.
Edward A. O’Neal, president of
the federation, said the board is riot
msca satisfied with the
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general assistance rolls increased 60
per cent between March, 1946, and
March, 1947, the report declared.
Unemployment benefits in New
York City have increased ninefold,
from 23,212 in August, 1945, to about
203,000 at the present time, it was
asserted.
Total general relief caseload for
the nation in February was 344,000
compared with 258,000 a year ear-
lier. In a year general relief costs
increased 97 per cent in Delaware,
90.8 per cent in Wyoming, 75.8 per
cent in Ohio, 67 per cent in Cali-
fornia and 55 per cent in Indiana,
the report disclosed.
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Principal scenic feature of the park
is mighty Mount McKinley, highest
peak on the North American con-
tinent. This majestic mountain
rears its snow-covered head high
into the clouds, reaching an altitude
of 20,300 feet above sea level, and
rises 17,000 above the timber line.
On its north and west sides McKin-
ley springs abruptly from a plateau
only 2,500 to 3,000 feet high.
For two-thirds of the way
down from its summit Mount
McKinley is enveloped in snow
throughout the year. Denali,
“home of the sun,” was the name
given to this impressive moun-
tain by the early Indians.
Near Mount McKinley are Mount
Foraker, with an elevation of 17,000
feet; Mount Hunter, 14,960 feet, and
Mount Russell, 11,500 feet. Great
glaciers fed by the high snow fields
of this mountain range flow many
miles both to the north and to the
south.
During the park season, which ex-
tends from June 10 to September 10,
with more than 18 hours of daylight
each day, there is a wealth of flow-
ering plants. The park is also the
home of many interesting animals
and birds.
Prospective visitors- to Mount
McKinley National park probably
will make the trip to Alaska by
steamer from Seattle. To use the
war constructed Alaska highway
through Canada requires a special
permit from the Canadian govern-
ment, and permits are not yet
granted to motor tourists. Business
men, settlers and bus passengers
may apply for permits to L. E.
Drummond, Traffic Control Divi-
sion, Alaska Highway, Edmonton,
tions came
WIDESPREAD INCREASES
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HIGHEST PEAK ON CONTINENT . . . Mighty Mount McKinley
rears its snow-covered head high into the clouds, reaching an altitude
of 20,300 feet above sea level. The peak is the major attraction of
Mount McKinley National park, one of the two parks located outside
the continental limits.
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WASHINGTON.—As evidence that
public assistance problems are be-
coming critical throughout the na-
tion, American Public Welfare as-
sociation reveals that general relief
caseloads have reached a level
more than 50 per cent above the
low point of 1945.
Current unemployment is cen-
ered among unskilled workers who
lave been displaced by skilled vet-
erans, according to the report.
Marked increases in unemployed
rolls have been reported from 22
major labor centers.
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four tax-revision plans to think over
until it gets ready to have another
go at the income tax problem.
The treasury department has giv-
• en the house ways and means com-
mittee studies of four plans to equal-
ize federal income taxes on married
couples in all 48 states.
One of the proposals would save
4,900,000 couples three-quarters of
a billion dollars annually by giving
those living in 38 states the same
‘‘income splitting” rights now en-
joyed by couples living in 10 states
which have community property
laws.
Secretary of the Treasury John
Snyder has indicated that the ad-
ministration considers the proposed
plans to be among the “right kind”
of changes in the tax setup.
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nor a theater of
peace. Again and
again the ques-
■ I don’t know how interested you
readers have been in my reports of
what American ingenuity in differ-
ent communities has done to make
brick (and other building material
for veterans’ homes) without the
straw (of readily available materi-
als and labor) which we seem to
lack in this otherwise rich and pros-
perous land of ours. But I can tell
you that a lot of people who thought
they could go and do likewise were
heard from., •
Yakima, Wash., whose achieve-
ment was the first described in this
column, has had requests for infor-
mation from 41 cities and 18 states.
Nearby communities have sent peo-
ple to Yakima to get first-hand in-
formation in person. Delegations
have come to Yakima from Spo-
kane, Seattle, Walla Walla, Ephrata,
Pasco, Prosser, Ellensburg and
Bremerton in Washington, and from
Portland and Pendleton in Oregon.
The Salem plan, under which the
city is subsidizing the conversion
of extra space into new apartments,
has drawn comment from a num-
ber of other Massachusetts towns.
Gloucester already has copied part
of the plan, and inquiries have come
in from five other cities in the Bay
state, and from state offices of Am-
vets, VFW and American Legion.
The veterans’ co-operative
which has been so successful in
building moderate cost housing
in Albuquerque, N. M., has been
busy answering questions, too.
Requests have come from Hous-
ton and Amarillo, Tex., from
Syracuse, N. Y.; Chicopee, .
Mass.; Las Cruces, N. M.;
Great Falls, Mont.; Erie, Pai;
Berkeley, Calif.; Oklahoma City,
Detroit and elsewhere.
The success of Rochester, N, Y.,
in providing living space has
brought in an impressive list of
queries from other communities
which haven’t yet solved their hous-
ing problems. Chambers of com-
merce in Bristol, Tenn., and Far-
rell, Pa., and in half a dozen New
York and Massachusetts towns have
inquired. Twenty-nine banks in 14
states and one in Canada have writ-
ten in for details. Housing com-
mittees in Ann Arbor, Mich., and
San Antonio, Tex., have asked for
the story, as have a dozen other
committees in cities nearer to
Rochester.
The stories I printed were only a
few of the many communities which
had the will that finds the way.
I wish I could print them all.
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the rays of the sun, and forced it to
travel more slowly in its course so
that his mother might have suffi-
cient time to complete her day’s
work. Haleakala, now rising more
than 10,000 feet above sea level, was
once a much higher mountain. A
collapse of the dome, many years
ago, formed a great crater 71
miles long and 3 miles wide, with
walls over 1,000 feet high.
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WASHINGTON.—Carelessness on
the part of visitors annually causes
untold damage in the national
parks, according to Newton B.
Drury, director, of National Park
service.
Careless damage by visitors, he
adds, has been noted in such widely
different places as the Statue of
Liberty national monument and
Yellowstone National park.
Vandalism at the Statue of Lib-
for reducing acre-
ages in the basic crops of wheat,
corn, cotton, rice, tobacco and pea-
nuts.
Farmers from the North and
Northwest have consistently op-
posed federal subsidies, and senti-
ment was reported to be growing
among the producers for letting
farm products seek their own price
level as a permanent policy.
In the South, however, cotton and
tobacco growers are known to be
satisfied with the situation as it
stands, favoring tight controls if
prices start to slip.
One of the federation’s econo-
mists predicted at least a 10-year
period of good prices for farmers at
levels slightly below those prevail-
ing now.
conquest, and Russia will be ready
to start her “shooting war” as soon
as her atom bombs are in produc-
tion.
TAX PLANS:
To Think Over
Congress has been presented with
This new word of mine (which
Marshall might have used, had
he known it) is “peacefare.”
It was used in a paragraph of a
“letter to the editor” in the New
York Times. The writer was A. M.
Meerloo, wartime chief of the psy-
chological branch of the Dutch war
ministry and a member of the inter-
Allied psychological study group in
England. This is the paragraph:
“In those (wartime) days, when
the success or failure of the war
was at stake, psychologists and spe-
cialists in allied fields mobilized ev-
ery weapon at their command to
wage psychological warfare. Why
cannot we now, when the peace is
at stake, mobilize as carefully for
psychological peacefare?”
All right, there you have it—
“peacefare.” Not simply “psycho-
logical” peacefare now, but econom-
ic and political and moral peace-
fare. That is what I am hoping and
praying the unspoken plan of Secre-
tary Hull will embody.
A hard, long, expensive campaign.
But one - launched not against any-
body but for everybody; a campaign
to stop war to 'save humanity.
I say “everybody” because Mar-
shall pointed out that he envisioned
Russia as a part of this plan for
the economic rehabilitation of Eu-
rope. Without this economic re-
habilitation, there can be no re-
habilitation of the body politic or the
bdy (and s'oul) moral.
It must be a campaign to ban-
ish fear—fear of the atomic
bomb which we possess for the
moment; fear of the far more
terrible weapons of destruction
that any madman might put to
use.
It is a campaign to banish the
hate bred by fear. A campaign to
nourish the body so that- bodily
things may be forgotten and man
may pursue his spiritual destiny to-
ward freedom, toward decency, to-
ward a world where the major ef-
fort is dedication to the common
good.
Nothing like this has ever been
attempted before. Nations have
loaned money for the purpose of
earning a neat dividend or to wring
some political advantage from an
impecunious princeling or bankrupt
government. Many fair promises
and high sounding ideals have been
written into covenants signed only to
be broken when opportunism dic-
tated a reverse English.
But here is something new and
different.. Something rather bright
and idealistic has been added, what
we hope is an honest effort to wage
peacefare, to outroot the malice of
the few, in the spirit of charity to-
ward all.
It may be all eyewash, I know.
I’ve seen a lot of castles fall. But
my feeling is that if we get out of
the scoffer’s seat for a moment,
if we drop the cynic pose and put
peacefare into the national vocabu-
lary, we may make it work.
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ing to talk about it.
He did reveal that Russia was
not outside the pale of Amer-
ica’s rehabilitation efforts — in
theory at least. This was sur-
prising to some who had stud-
ied President Truman’s, Mar-
shall’s and Ben Cohen’s most
recent statements, and yet not
so surprising as we recalled the
nature of other talks, not pub-
lic, which had hinted at larger
things.
Is this a real effort to achieve a
fair understanding with Russia?
(Rapproachement is the diplomatic
word.)
Words.
I am wondering whether those un-
spoken words of the secretary of
state could possibly describe the im-
mensity of America’s task, the task
which is envisioned in the plans
which Secretary Marshall “would
not talk about.”
I say this because I have learned
a new word which, it seem? to
me, might bear within it a vital,
a hopeful concept. Like Hauptmann,
in “The Sunken Bell” when he said:
“Tear! All the gladness, all the
sorrow of, the world sparkles
within it.”
Think of the dynamic quality of
other words: Fame—Riches—Fair
Play—Charity—Honor!
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