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It is not generally known but actually only one-tenth of the earth
surface has been surveyed. The UN Cartographic office has taken on
the enormous task of re-charting the entire world for much of the in
formation which exists today is scant vague and inaccurate.
Soon after its organization the UN established WHO (World
Health Organization). One of its first jobs was to put down malaria in
Greece. In one year after the entire nation had been dusted with DDT
more than 150000 people were able to return to work.
The United Nations building in New York is probably the most
modern structure in the world. A 12-degree temperature variation per
mits the worker to adjust the temperature to the one he likes best.
DEPRESSIONS
Throughout world history all nations have suffered periodically
from what historians used to call panics but which are now labeled
depressions. The United States has had its full complement of them
and people in many quarters are beginning to worry over another one.
Although the wizards who teach school are always quick to trot
out their notions about what brings on hard times and advance their
remedies for restoring prosperity we have never been quite sure about
what causes a depression or what enables us to recover from one.
When it fails to rain and the farmer loses his corn crop it is easy to
see why he is not prosperous. But when factories close down for a lack
of business and stocks begin to dwindle it is not always easy to de
termine the cause.
Probably the hard times of the early thirties were brought on by
a tarrif law which imposed duties so high that foreign customers could
not sell their goods in the United States at a profit despite their cheap
labor. After the Smoot-Hawley bill was passed 32 foreign nations re
taliated by inposing duties equally high which brought our trade to a
standstill. But many other factors may have contributed to the eco
nomic blow-up of the thirties.
Many people today believe that the Roosevelt Administration
which took office in 1933 was the first government to experiment with
borrowing from the well-to-do to lift the unfortunate out of penury.
This is not true. Borrowing to save spending to elect is very old in
history. The Roman Empire toyed with the idea in the Fifth century
and the French tried it on a large scale in the middle of the nineteenth
century.
After years of bitter struggle France in 1845 had finally recov
ered from the Napoleonic wars. Louis Phillippe a highly respectable but
immensely stupid king seemed safe upon his throne. Business was good
prices were reasonable every Frenchman who wanted one had a job
and taxes were low enough to suit even the rich. But in 1847 some
thing very strange happened.
Stocks began suddenly to decline. Shops in Paris slowly became
empty of goods and factories one by one began to shut down. In a
few months hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen were roaming the
streets looking for work and they began to murmur as unemployed
Frenchmen always do.
Early in 1848 one M. Marie who had been reading newspaper edi
torials written by a fellow named Karl Marx decided to roll up his
economic sleeves and save his country. Getting a following behind him
in the parliament. M. Marie and his men kicked poor Louis off the
throne and gave him a horse-whipping. This occurred on February 24
1848. A provisional government was set up the following day and the
new leaders called themselves advanced thinkers. These men proceeded
at once to give France what they called Shared Wealth a term bor
rowed from them 90 years later by the eminent patriot Huey Long.
The French Tugwells abolished the capitalistic system at once. The
rich they promised would b% taxed to the limit and the money divided
equitably among the downtrodden.
The first project of course was a public works program. New
buildings were erected new canals they didn't have use for were dug
and government railroads were built. When the first tax bills came in
the rich Frenchmen paid them. They also boarded up their factories
and their mansions drew their money out of the banks and went off to
Switzerland to drink beer and fish. Whereupon M. Marie and his men
took over the factories in the manner Marx had recommended. But
their effort soon ended in failure and in December 1848 the French
working men chased Marie out of office to ponder his ineptitudes.
Louis Napoleon was brought in as president and soon thereafter the
nation began to make a partial recovery without much interference one
way or the other from Napoleon. Later on the following year the rich
began to trek back and reopen their abandoned factories. In a short
while France was back on its feet and no one to this day knows exactly
what brought on the hard times and what enabled France to recover.
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The United Nations
If you believe that the United Nations is no more than a bleating
ground where the Russian parvenues may vent their spleen and malice
upon a free world you are in error. Even though it may not always
be able to deter agression the United Nations serves many a useful
purpose.
It is not generally known but the UN realizes a net profit annually
of more than six million dollars. A million of this comes from one mil
lion sight-seers to plank down one dollar each just to take a look at
the UN building which cost the neat sum of 68 million dollars. The
balance of the income is derived from the sale of stamps space docu
ments handiwork and staff assessments. The U.S. citizens employed
by the UN pay their income taxes like the rest of us but they are re
turned to them by the UN and the employees in turn are assessed ac
cording to their salary and the number of dependents. The six million
net profit goes into the UN general fund where it is used for philan
thropies through out the world.
Only recently the UN decided to send a large supply of food to
Korean orphans. In Thailand thousands of children were found to be
suffering from painful sores caused by a disease called yaws and a
satisfactory amount of penicillin was dispatched to that nation which
now reports that the disease is under complete control. In India many
underprivileged youngsters suffer from TB and all of them are cur
rently receiving treatment from vaccine furnished without cost from
the UN.
A few months ago a large quantity of DDT was requisitioned by
Mexico and Uganda where malaria was taking a heavy toll. Recently
a scientific training program was inaugurated for the midwives of Afg
hanistan where infant mortality was very high and special drugs have
lately been sent to North Africa to fight diseases of the eye. Indonesia
has long been short of milk and early this year soy bean converting
equipment was supplied to relieve this shortage.
The more than 3300 staff members employed by the UN come
from the 60 nations members and all of them are de-nationalized and
take no part in political activities other than voting in their home na
tions. The UN guides speak 20 languages other than English.
New YorK
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Book
Reviews
BOVARD OF THE POST-DIS
PATCH By James W. Markham
From the day it was founded
in 1878 by Joseph Pulitzer The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch has al
ways been one of the nation's finest
newspaper. Other great papers
have flourished for a time many
have risen to positions of great
influence in the land while others
have grown rich and respected
only to topple from their lofty pe
destals from one cause or another.
But there seems to have been no
ups and downs in the history of
the Post Dispatch. It has always
been an excellent newspaper.
Joseph Pulitzer was a great
newspaper executive because he
developed a sound philosophy of
journalism from which his papers
were never permitted to deviate
in his lifetime. It was his philoso
phy that a newspaper should re
port it should interpret and it
should lead.
Until he died in 1911 Pulitizer
gave much more of his personal
attention to the New York World
than he did his Post-Dispatch. Yet
the World survived him only a
few years while the Post-Dis
patch is a more prosperous and
influential paper today than ever
before.
One reason for the failure of the
World was the death of Frank I.
Cobb in 1921 and one of the prin
cipal reasons the Post Dispatch is
still thriving is Oliver K.. Bovard
a man whose name is still un
familiar to all save newspaper peo
ple.
Mr. Markham is a very able
journalist himself his treatment
of Bovard is both friendly and cri
tical and his book is brilliantly
written and well organized. Both
Cobb and Bovard were of course
Pulitzer trained men and when
Cobb died the Pulitzer philosophy
seems to have died with him al
though two of Pulitzer's sons were
active in the management of his
papers. But when Bovard resigned
his editorshop of the Post-Dis
patch in 1938 over differences with
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. the men he
trained apparently continued on in
the tradition of Bovard except they
did not embarce the Socialism Bo
vard expoused in his last years
and which was responsible for his
break with the younger Pulitzer.
Early in 1898 Oliver Kirby Bo
vard was a cub reporter on the
St. Louis Star a partisan politi
cal organ devoted to advancing
the fortunes of the Republican
party. Bovard discovered in his
rounds the sordid story of the Cen
tral Traction Company's bribery
of the City Assembly for a pro
fitable street railway franchise.
The Star refused to print his
story so Bovard carried it to the
rival paper The Post-Dispatch and
offered to give it to them free if
they would give him a job.
Bovard was hired immediately
and his story was used. This was
in a day when entire state legis
latures and city assemblies were
being bribed by financial tycoons
in a wholesale manner. Bovard's
exposure had no immediate salu
tary effect but in a few years his
subsequent crusading sent many a
big-wig on his way to the peniten
tiary.
Bovard had been on the Dis
patch only a short time when Pulit
zer Sr. began to see genuine tal
ent in him and in a few years he
was made city editor over the
heads of many men who were
senior to him. After he had been
on the paper only 10 years he
became the managing editor and
he remained the managing editor
for 30 years.
Probably few papers in Ameri
can history have enjoyed greater
success in putting down corruption
in public affairs that the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. Most of its really
great coups including the Teapot
Dame Scandal occurred during
Bovard's tenure as managing edi
tor.
To succeed as a city or manag
ing editor a man must not only
be a capable reporter and editor
himself he must also possess exe
cutive ability which is to say that
he must have talent for controlling
and developing other men. Many
of the great names in journalism
today owe their eminence to Bo
vard.
Soon after he took over as man
aging editor Bovard saw the need
for a Washington Bureau which he
surmissed would give him an out
let to attack corruption on a na
tional scale. One of his best re
porters was sent to Washington to
establish the Bureau. This man
was Charles G. Ross. He was join
ed lated by Paul Y. Anderson who
is still looked upon today as a
newspaper man's newspaper man.
Bovard assigned Anderson to at
tend the hearings of Senator Thom
as J. Walsh who was investigat
ing certain oil lease transactions
which had taken place in Albert
B. Fall's Interior Department and
Edwin Denby's Navy office.
As the world still remembers
Paul Anderson's brilliant expose
sent poor Fall to jail and restored
to the government oil lands valued
at more than 400 billion dollars.
Of all the dozen or more great
reporters Bovard trained Ander
son was probably the most brilli
ant one. His fine reporting went
on for many years but his heavy
drinking finally got out of hand
and Bovard felt compelled to fire
him. This was in 1938 and within
less than a year Anderson took his
own life at the age of 45.
During the depression years Bo
vard embraced Socialism or per
haps what might be called a sort
of benevolent Fascism which he
lOohd
THE AROMERED SENTINEL FORT HOOD TEXAS
JsL&i
Adding a new word or two to
your vocabulary each week will
increase your comprehension and
reading speed. A few of the words
listed below may be unfamiliar to
the average reader. Eighteen cor
rect answers is superior and if
you get sixteen correct your vo
cabulary is above the average.
Answers are on page 10.
1. Traduce describe defame
trip deceive.
2. Squeamish stingy liberal
fastidious attenuated.
3. Torpid warm indifferent
lazy odd.
4. Secular earthly biased stub
born apathetic.
5. Mendacity. Slyness intoler
ance falsity viciousness.
6. Quidnunc gossip lunatic
overbearing person maniac.
7. Querulous nosy peevish
hard headed stubborn.
8. Hedonistic a doubter a be
liever pleasure loving pedantic
9. Zany. Buffoon rascal dolt
thief.
10. Avid bad smelling eager
indifferent silly.
1. Slothful. Careless indolent
eager recalcitrant.
12. Acrimonious. Harmonious
bitter vindictive easy going.
13. Conjure enjoin invent di
vide bring to agreement.
14. Nuncupative. non-commit-
al oral cooperative stagnant.
15. Obdurate not easily broken
unyielding sour flaccid.
16. Sporadic. Spreading harm
ful single petulant.
17. Peremptory dominant posi
tive final conducive.
18. Indigence. Naturalness pov
erty stinginess mental instabili'
ty.
19. Impinge. To fasten
croach to strike to avenge.
20. Thole. Piece of cloth wood
en pin handle scoop.
THE
New Books in Your Post Li
braries:
Anthony—Royal Intrigue Novel
Babcock—Hang Up the Fiddle
Novel.
Benchley—Benchley Roundup
Anthology.
Brick—They Ran For Their
Lives Three stories.
Brynley—Seth Novel.
Coombs—Skyrocketing into the
Unknown Rocket and Jet Planes.
de Leeuw—Crossroads of the
Mediterranean Travel in North
Africa.
Genisong—Miscast for Murder
Mystery.
Ingstad—Nunamiut Life among
the isolated Nunamiut Eskimos
Lanham—The Iron Maiden Nov
el.
Lichty—Grin and Bear It Book
of Cartoons.
Liddell-Hart—Strategy Textbook
of military strategy.
Locke—The Tigers of Trengganu
Tiger lore and hunting in Malaya.
Manfred—Lord Grizzly Histori
novel of the early west.
Neider—Man Against Na e
Adventure and exploration.
Nye—Red Sombrero Western.
Pohl—Assignment in Tomorrow
Science Fiction.
Prescott—Journey by the River
Novel.
Queen—The Glass Village Mys
tery.
Raine—Arkansas Guns Western.
Sedgman—F rank Sedgman's
Winning Tennis.
Smith—Baseball's Famous Out
fielders.
Stone—Love is Eternal Bio
graphical novel of the Lincolns.
Street—Goodbye My Lady Story
of a boy and a dog.
Terry—Buccaneer Surgeon Novel
512th Restores
Army Custom
The 512th AIB of the 4th Arm
ored Division recently reinstituted
a custom perhaps as old as the
army of appointing the best sold
ier at guard mount as "Colonel's
Orderly."
PFC Everett L. Kerns a mem
ber of A Co. was selected as the
firs enlisted aid to Lt.Col. Rus
sell O. Fudge Commanding Offi
cer of the 512th AIB.
His duties include acting as an
enlisted aid to the commanding
officer. Accompanying him at all
times during duty hours. This re
quires attendance at conferences
inspections and formations with
the battalion commander.
Upon completion of his tour of
duty the orderly receives a one-
day pass for his outstanding per
formance. In the event he is se
lected for a second time will re
ceive a two-day pass.
thought could be made to work
within the framework of our Con
stitution. However correct his
views may have been he failed to
convince Pulitzer Jr. of their wid-
dom and practicality. Late in 1938
finding he could not resolve his
differences with his superior he
resigned his job which was paying
him $55000 annually. Bovard died
in 1945 at the age of 72. The pub
lisher is The Louisana State Uni
versity Press.—R. L. Thompson.
Horse And Buggy Stuff
Bv The Editor COOC fnnr\f» am +Ua
By The Editor
The man we dislike the most is
the fellow who provides in his will
for a monument to be erected to
his memory. If you deserve a
monument the people will erect it.
When a man sees something in
print which runs counter to what
he thinks is true he says an out
rage has been committed.
One man we know keeps his
whiskey hidden in his cellar an
other displays his on the dining
room mantle for all to see. The
former is unable to borrow at
the bank the latter's note is good
for any amount.
When we bet against majority
opinion we usually win. We wish
you would think more about this.
It is said of a man that he car
ries his head too high. He never
sees the traps set on the ground
into which he is always stepping.
A group of men pretending to do
good once bought considerable
newspaper space to denounce us.
It was the only act of goodness
we ever knew them to perform.
Our paper at the time was need
ing revenue very badly.
The power of newspaper silence
is often illustrated. An editor once
denounced an officeholder but
without success. When he quit
mentioning his name the candi
date was defeated at the first
election.
Most writers are always more
interested in getting quoted than
in telling the truth.
"Did you vote for the honor
system?"
'You bet I did—three times."
Divine Services
PROTESTANT
Stockade Chapel Sunday 8:30 a.m.
Hospital Chapel (Ward C-5) Sunday 9:00 a.m.
Battalion Avenue East Chapel. Sunday School Sunday 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service Sunday 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.
37th Street East Chapel Sunday 10:00 and 11:00 .p.m.
50th Street Chapel Sunday 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.
Evangelistic Hour Sunday 7:30 p.m.
162nd Street Chapel—worship service Sunday 10:00 a.m.
Battalion Ave. West Chapel Sunday 9:00 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.
Brigade Ave. West Chapel Sunday 10:00 a.m.
Brigade Ave. East Chapel Sunday 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.
Bible Study Wednesnday 7:30 p.m.
268th Street Chapel Sunday 10:00 a.m.
Hood Village Chapel—Sunday School Sunday 9:45 a.m.
Worship Sei-vice Sunday 11 a.m.
North Fort Hood Chapel Sunday 9:00 a.m.
52d Street Chapel Sunday 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.
North Fort Hood Chapel 11:00 a.m.
Bldg. No. 233 CC 'B" Sunday 10:00 a.m.
Bldg. No. 10018 46th Med. Bn Sunday 11:00 a.m.
CATHOLIC
Sunday Masses
Hospital Chapel 8:00 a.m.
Battalion Ave. East Chapel 8:00 a.m.
Brigade Ave. West Chapel 9:00 a.m.
37th Street West Chapel 9:00 10:00 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
162d Street Chapel 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.
Theater No. 1 11:00 a.m.
North Fort Hood Chapel 8:00 a.m.
Daily Masses
162 St. Chapel 6:15 a.m.
37th Street West Chapel 6:15 a.m.
Confessions
162d St. Chapel (Friday) 7:00 p.m.
162d St. Chapel (Saturday) 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
37th West Chapel (Saturday) 3:00 p.m.
Battalion Ave East Chapel (Saturday) 7:00 p.m.
North Fort Hood Chapel Sunday Before Mass.
Novenas
162d St. Chapel (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m.
37th West Chapel (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m.
Baptisms
162nd Street Chapel (Saturday) 5:00 p.m.
37th West Chapel (Sunday) 12:00 a.m.
JEWISH
Brigade Ave. West Chapel Worship Service Friday 7:30 p.m.
DENOMINATIONAL
Seventh Day Adventist—37th St. East Chapel Friday
Protestant Episcopal—50th St. Chapel Sunday
Protestant Episcopal—North Fort Sunday
Christian Science—268th St. Chapel Sunday 11:00 a.m.
Latter Day Saints—52nd St. Chapel Sunday 1:00 and 7:30 p.m.
Christian Reformed—50th St. Chapel Sunday 2:00 p.m.
Lutheran—50th St. Chapel Sunday 9:00 a.m.
Servicemen For Christ—52nd St Tuesday 7:30 p.m.
General Bible Study—52d St. Chapel Tuesday 6:30 p.m.
United Christian Fellowship Sunday 6:30 p.m.
50th St.—52d St. and Battalion Ave. West Chapels
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Wives Club
Election of new officers will be
held Tuesday November 2 at the
Main Officers Club for all mem
bers of the Officers Wives Club.
Reservations may be made in
the following manner: Names be
ginning with A through contact
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Thursday Oct. 28 1954
Company Receives
Weapons'Trophy
Co. of the 25th Recon. Bn.
Fourth Armored Division was re
cently awarded a trophy for hav
ing the years' highest scores in
the individual weapons including
the M-l rifle the carbine and .45
caliber pistol.
Lt. Col. Alex N. Nelson battalion
commander made the official pre
sentation to Lt. Mebane Staffore
the company commander. The tro
phy was furnished by the battalion.
The drunk staggered to the door
and found the milkman waiting.
"Nothing today pal" he said.
"Haven't got a thing to mix it
with."
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