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CURRENT COMMENT
Seaweed Lingerie May Be Next
SEAWEED may be used to make
stockings, dresses, shirts and dain-
ty underthings, according to Dr.
C. K. Tseng of the Scripps Institute of
Oceanography in California.
"In recent years, because of their
nmque properties, seaweed colloids
have found innumerable uses in food
and other industries," Dr. Tseng said.
"A recent development is the prepa-
ration of seaweed 'rayon' from algin
and it has caused a great deal of ex-
citement in the textile world."
The seawood "rayon" could be used
for all sorts of personal wear and would
be considerably cheaper than conven-
tional rayons.
* * *
U. S.-Mexico Border Fence Discussed
A Senate foreign relations committee
has heard government officials testify
in favor of building a 1,905-mile fence
along the U. S.-Mexico border.
The Bureau of Animal Industry says
the proposed fence will help keep the
Mexican hoof-and-mouth disease out of
the U. S., and the Immigration and
Naturalization Service says it will pre-
vent illegal entry. (More than 98,000
aliens have been returned to Mexico
during the last year after illegal entry
into this country.)
Cost of the fence would be approxi-
mately $3,607,000.
* * *
Juvenile Thieves Grow Up
£• Edgar Hoover, boss of the FBI,
says the juvenile thieves of ten years
ago are growing up to be the major
criminals of today.
All crimes except auto theft showed
an increase in 1946 over 1945, but the
21-year-old group proved to be the
most criminal. It was followed in or-
der by the 22, 23, 24 and 20-year-olds.
Hoover says the figures reflect the
gradual breakdown of the American
home and that broken families are be-
ginning to have an effect on "the na-
tional behavior pattern."
Crime during 1946 increased 7.6 per
cent over the all-time high of 1945.
* * *
Employment Allowances Being
Exhausted
The Veterans Administration, which
has paid almost two billion dollars to
jobless veterans, says over 218,000 ex-
servicemen have already exhausted
their veterans' unemployment bonuses.
Pennsylvania and Texas lead in the
number of exhaustions with 14,355 and
17,384 respectively, out of veteran pop-
ulations of 1,130,000 and 710,000. Ha-
waii, with 28,000 veterans, has had no
exhaustions whatsoever.
Look for Forty-Year Accord
Secretary of State Marshall says that
his major objective in Moscow this
month is to formulate a forty-year four-
power pact against Germany, which
will give an iron-clad guarantee to the
world that the United States intends to
maintain her responsibilities in Europe.
Such a treaty, the Secretary believes,
will provide a political framework
within which the Big Four could de-
velop the final peace pact with Ger-
many.
* * *
MacArthnr Report Optimistic
General Douglas MacAr-
thur's latest report from Ja-
pan points with pride to the
fact that the Nipponese are
improving in the ways of
democracy, particularly in
regard to land reforms and
labor legislation.
The report also mentioned,
in an optimistic vein, that
this year's crops were better
than average and that dis-
tinct gains had been made in
development of manufactur-
ing. Negotiations had been
concluded to enable the Japs
to sell textiles to various Ori-
ental markets.
On the debit side of the
ledger he said that the De-
cember earthquake had kill-
ed 1.289, injured 2,364 and
left 94,669 homeless.
+ * +
Every Day a Holiday
If the current trend in
Washington continues, every
day of the year may soon be-
come a holiday of some kind.
Eight national holidays are
now officially recognized by
Congress, but a special House
Committee is seriously con-
sidering numerous other commemora-
tive dates, ranging from "General Pu-
laski Day" to "National Shut-In Day."
The three dates most likely to get
Congressional approval during this ses-
sion, however, are Good Friday, Lin-
coln's Birthday, and August 14, the day
of Japan's unconditional surrender.
* * +
Crimes Break All Records
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover says
that crimes in 1946 broke all records
for the decade and that there was a
capital offense committed in the Unit-
ed States every 5.7 minutes.
Major crimes totaled 1,658,203 last
year, an increase of 119,622 over 1945.
Hoover said that during an average
day 36 people were murdered and 185
others were feloniously assaulted in
1946.
Housing Plan Due to Fail
Housing Expediter Frank R. Creedon
says President Truman's plan for a mil-
lion new homes in 1947 is due to fail.
He says that with all Congressional
help no more than 825,000 homes can
be started, and, without such help, the
number will not top 750,000.
More severe shortages than those
which plagued builders in 1946 are pre-
dicted for the remainder of 1947. Big-
gest shortages will be in millwork lum-
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"Apron Strings."
ber. builders' hardware, bathtubs, toi-
let bowls, clay sewer pipe, door ply-
wood, construction plywood, wire
screening, box connectors for electrical
wiring, toggle switches and nails.
Hardwood flooring, lath, gypsum
board and cast iron pipe will also be
on the scarce list and will prevent the
1,000,000 home goal from being reach-
ed, Creedon believes.
* « «
Army Officers Get the Money
Economy-bent Republican Congress-
men are raising objections because
more than one-third of the $4,000,000,-
000 allotted to the armed forces during
me current fiscal year is going into
the pockets of the officers. Officer
salaries total $1,2,>0,000,000 in the four
services.
The Army still has 556 Generals
(more than it had all during World
War I). The Navy has 303 officers of
Admiral or Commodore rank. The
Coast Guard has one officer for every
six enlisted men, and the top brass in-
cludes 14 Admirals and 12 Commo-
dores. (Highest ranking Coast Guard
officer before the war was a Captain.)
The legislators are also eyeing the
retirement pay raises which now total
$75,000,000 a year.
♦ * *
Grow Old Aggressively
Dr. George Lawton, New
York psychologist, urges old
folks to discard the idea of
growing old gracefully and
to concentrate on growing
old aggressively.
"The real and only foun-
tain of youth can be found by
those who look on old age as
a way of life, a question of
intensity and not a matter of
duration," Dr. Lawton says.
He added that a man is only
as old as his associates think
he is.
+ ♦ *
Versailles Treaty Studied
A 1,000 page study of the
1919 Versailles treaty and its
effects has been published by
the State Department with
the idea that it might be use-
ful in working out World
War II settlements.
President Roosevelt order-
ed the work in 1943 as a
basic reference manual. Ad-
vance copies went with Sec-
retary of State Marshall on
his trip to Moscow.
+ * *
Farm Income Higher
The Department of Agri-
culture says farm gross in-
come in the United States ran
25 per cent higher during the
first two months of 1947 than it did in
the corresponding period in 1946.
But Department heads say that, de-
spite higher gross receipts, higher ex-
penses and lower governmental subsi-
dies will probably cut into the net in-
come to such an extent as to drive it
below the 1946 level.
By STAFF EDITOR
New Germ-Killing Chemical Found
A new chemical which kills germs
has been found to be so successful in
treating infections that 62 out of 100
patients have been saved from surgery
because of its application.
The chemical, called Bacitracin, is in
ointment form and attacks the same
germs as does penicillin.
* * «
A-Bomb Still Being Made
The United States still is making
atomic bombs and will continue to do
so until agreement is reached on an
effective plan to control atomic energy.
So declared John M. Hancock, official
of the Atomic Energy Commission, in
a speech delivered in Boston.
"It's hard philosophy, but it's safer
than war," he added.
The United States, he Said, must have
minimum essentials as follows in any
atom bomb control plan:
1. An international control body
with adequate powers.
2. A system of inspection based on
free access.
3. Appropriate provisions for pre-
vention and punishment without re-
course to the veto.
"The fundamental instinct of man is
self-preservation," he said. "While in
no sense a complete guarantee of self-
preservation, reliance on national pow-
er is, at present, a nation's only final
choice. It will not and cannot be re-
linquished until a more effective means
of assuring self-preservation is found."
* * *
Doom of OPA
Congress imposed a death sentence
on OPA. It simply cut funds for the
war-time agency to the point where it
must go out of business not later than
June 30. Congress leaders said other
legislation would be enacted to retain
rent controls and sugar rationing.
Democrats opposed the move but
were voted down in both the Senate
and the House.
Grass Root Reveries
By JOE GANDY
(Copyrrirtit, 1947, by the Smitbwnrt MbCo.)
Winter-weary folks are rejoicing
that Spring is here with its sunshine,
flowers and singing birds. Men who
make it a business to study weather
say this was the coldest winter in 20
years. Maybe the winters of our grand-
daddies are returning, when it was
so cold that most
people wore red
flannel underwear.
earmuffs, yarn socks
and hightop boots.
•
The cold, though
disagreeable,
brought ample moist-
ure for all crops.
There should be a
big grain harvest ov-
er the Southwest
this year and unpre-
cedented prosperity
if wheat sells around
$3 a bushel, corn $2
and oats $1. It could
be an auspicious
time to pay old debts
and have money enough left to put in
the bank. Money in the bank and all
debts paid is sound economy.
•
We hear a lot these days about "all-
out aid for Europe," Uncle Sam foot-
ing the bill. We never hear a word
about all-out aid for America and pre-
cious little about America's lend-lease
aid to Europe during the war. It were
far better, instead of so much aid, if
we impressed on European people that
they should go to work and thus aid
themselves. Another fine thing to im-
Sress on Europeans, and this goes for
ussia, is to stop hating each other and
stop fighting each other. Hate and
greed lead to wars—it led to World
War I and to World War II.
•
Springtime is chigger time and the
other day I came across this poem:
Here's to the chigger with a head no bigger
Than the point of a little pin;
The welt he raises hurts like blazes,
And that's where the rub comes in.
Doctors tell us not to rub where chig-
gers bite, that to do so may cause in-
fection. The doctors arc right, but we
gotta rub where chiggers bite or cuss
100 wives and 100 children tuspiriR
at his coattails."
the chigger if wc don't rub. Better to
scratch, for cussing is bad and means
nothing in the life of a pesky chigger.
•
The head professor in a Southern
college wrote in a newspaper recently
that the average student in his college
didn t know what free enterprise meant.
I suspect there are many students in col-
leges and public
schools who don't
know what free en-
terprise means. It is
simple and best ex-
plained in the case
of Verne Fall, of
Westby, Wisconsin.
He was judged Na-
tional Champion of
the 4-H Clubs of
America during the
National 4-H Club
Congress in Chicago.
La Verne's various
farm projects on his
225-acre dairy farm
under the 4-H pro-
gram have netted
him $52,000 in the
years. Had this young
boy lived in Russia in-
last eight
4-H Club „
stead of America he would* not have
been a 4-H Club champion because
Russia has no 4-H Clubs, nor does any
boy in Russia own land because the
Soviet government owns all the land
and all farmers work the land under
what is called "collectivism." that
is, they collect only part of what
the land produces. This is the differ-
ence between free enterprise as it is
known in America and Communism as
it is known in Russia. Russia is a to-
talitarian government ruled and domi-
nated by Communists. A totalitarian
government denies its citizens freedom
of speech, freedom of the press and
freedom of religious worship. These
Communists are the same breed who
have infiltrated into America and are
trying to overthrow our form of gov-
ernment.
Nothing is so embarrassing as to dis-
cover you are dead wrong when you
were absolutely sure you were dead
right. But some men are so "sot in
their ways" they never discover until
too late that they were dead wrong.
Many human tragedies can be traced
to persons sure they were dead right
when they were dead wrong. These
are they who will not listen to reason,
who get mad when you try to reason
with them and may start a fight. They
remind me of a mule I once owned.
This mule was stubborn and believed
he was dead right when he tried to
kick the stuffins out of you.
e
The American Red Cross is now pro-
viding milk from this country for hun-
dreds of thousands of undernourished
children in Europe. Most recently, two
million pounds of dry milk solids were
purchased for children of Poland, Yu-
goslavia and Austria. This supplement-
al feeding of children is generally car-
ried on in the schools of European
countries. Don't begrudge a donation
to Red Cross. It is the most unselfish
organization in the world. When there
is a dire disaster the first to be on
the ground ready to help is the Red
Cross. Nor does it draw the line on
color, or creed, or nationality while
providing help.
•
M. F. Gregory, president of the Illi-
nois Credit League, says that 6 out of
10 wage earners have no savings what-
ever and 5 out of 10 wage earners have
cashed their government bonds and
spent the money. The most improvi-
dent creatures on earth are human bo-.
ings. Most wage earners who failed to
put aside a nestegg from their lush
war wages will be a burden to society
when hard times come, will be fed by
charity or by government. A pecker-
wood has more sense than some men
— it provides for a rainy day by storing
food in holes it pecks in dead logs and
dead trees. The 6 out of 10 wage earn-
ers who have saved nothing should go
to the ant, or peckerwood. or squirrel,
study their ways and be wise.
•
The world's richest man is the nizam
of Hyderabad and Berar, India. He
doesn't know himself how much wealth
he possesses, but most estimates place
it around $2,000,000,000. He has 100
wives and 100 children. With all his
wealth, wives and children he is re-
ported to be unhappy. Small wonder.
How can a man be happy with 100
wives and 100 children tugging at his
coattails?
—PAGE THREE—
Says World Must Choose
The world must choose an atomic
road that leads either to death or de-
struction or one that leads toward the
more abundant iife and peaceful prog-
ress, Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, professor
of geology at Harvard University, said.
Characterizing the world as "very
small and demanding inescapable in-
terdependence," he declared: "It takes
intelligence to construct atomic bombs,
but it requires far more intelligence to
build a world of peace, security and
freedom. That lies within the area of
morals and ethics."
Philippine. U. S. Pact Adopted
The U. S. and the Philippines have
signed a 99-year agreement providing
for five major American military bases
and other minor posts in the Philippine
Islands. The agreement provides that
any or all of the bases can be made
available to the United Nations Secur-
ity Council if occasion demands.
The Army will maintain its princi-
pal military establishment in the vast
Ft. Stotsenberg military reservation.
The Navy will have four major operat-
ing areas in the Leyte-Samar area, Su-
bic Bay, Twitawi and at Sangley Point.
Fort McKinley and Nichols Field, both
U. S. military landmarks, will no long-
er be under the Stars and Stripes.
Business Census Asked
The U. S. Chamber of Commerce has
asked Congress to institute a business
census this year, the first since 1939.
The census would tell business men
where the markets are, what the con-
sumer is buying, where the new plants
and wholesale and retail establishments
are, what the labor supply is, where
raw materials are to be found and a
host of other business and economic
facts.
Canada Newsprint Production Near
Production Limit
Newspaper publishers looking lor
precious newsprint will have to look
elsewhere for relief than in Canada.
I he Canadians are stretching produc-
tion to the limit now, according to the
U. S. State Department.
The statement, however, points to
Alaska as a tremendous potential
source for U. S. production.
•* * *
U. S.-Moscow Broadcasts Start
Voice broadcasts direct from Moscow
have been resumed over U. S. radio
stations and Soviet censorship has been
lelaxed to a point where dispatches
now are cleared in record time.
National Broadcasting Company re-
cently received what it said was the
first uncensored broadcast ever made
from the Soviet Union.
The relaxation of censorship was
made in honor of the Big Four confer-
ence in Moscow, and Soviet officials
gave no indication that it will continue
after the conference ends.
Palestine Crisis
In Palestine, the British had to main-
tain martial law over a (bird of the
Holy Land's 700,000 Jews as a result
of a renewed outbreak of terrorism by
the Jewish underground. Twenty-one
persons were killed, 16 of them in a
Jewish bombing and shooting at a
British officers' club.
A special United Nations commis-
sion may be sent to Palestine to inves-
tigate and report to the general assem-
bly in September.
+ * *
Service Merger to Be Approved
All signs in Washington point to en-
actment, after due deliberation, of leg-
islation proposed by President Truman
for unification of the armed forces of
the United States. In both the Senate
and House observers say members of
Congress are willing to accept the pro-
gram in principle because it represents
the compromise views of the Army,
Navy, and Air Forces on the once high-
ly controversial subject.
Under the bill these three services
would be separate departments, each
with its own head, under an over-all
national defense establishment with a
civilian director with full cabinet stat-
us. The bill also provides for a national
security council to advise the President
on foreign and military policies.
Congress committee hearings on the
measure are expected soon.
* * *
War Against Reds On Double Front
The United States has gone to war
against Communism on two fronts—in
Greece and Turkey and on its own
home soil.
First. President Truman has asked
Congress to authorize a program of eco-
nomic and military aid to the Greeks
and Turks to keep them from falling
under Red domination and influence.
Secondly, legislation outlawing the
Communist part*' in the United States
has been introduced in Congress. It is
based on the theory that this country
cannot fight the world Communist
threat to democracy if it does not first
strive to clean up its own house.
This Is Private Enterprise
One of the best signs pointing to the
continuance of our capitalistic enter-
prise system is the desire of young
American manhood to be their own
post-war bosses, to engage in business
for themselves, to take their chance in
this land of opportunity
The United States now is at a record
high in the number of its business in-
stitutions, 3,650,000, according to the
Department of Commerce. This is a
net increase of 670.000 businesses since
the end of 1943
Of these 670,000 new business estab-
lishment® 300,000 are to be found in
the retail litlu, 120 000 in services of
various kinds, 90,000 in construction,
60,000 in manufacturing, and the re-
maining 100.000 described as miscel-
laneous.
More power to these new ventures.
The spirit behind them represents the
foresight and determination of our fore-
fathers. The faith these young men
have in the future is that same faith
which made us the great Nation we are
today.
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