Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1947 Page: 11 of 16
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By STAFF EDITOR
CURRENT COMMENT
Biggest Plane Unveiled
*T^HE Army Air Forces recently un-
1 veiled its mammoth double-decker
XC-99, world’s largest cargo plane,
at the Consolidated Vultee plant in San
Diego, California.
Capable of hauling 400 troops, 335
litter patients or 100,000 pounds of
cargo, the 365,000-pound giant plane is
1821 2 feet long and has a wing-span of
230 feet. It is powered by six horse-
power engines and the reversible pro-
pellers have 19-foot blades.
The plane carries a payload 8,000
miles without landing.
Record Tire Output
l The American tire industry produced
66,734,441 passenger car and motor-
cycle tires in 1946 to set an all-time
record, the Civilian Production Ad-
ministration announced.
The mark was an increase of 136 per
cent over 1945 and surpassed by 15,-
000,000 the prewar record of 51,000,000
set in 1940.
Truck and bus tires produced last
year totaled 15,837,039.
4 4 4
Asks Atom Leak Stopped
Chairman Hickenlooper, of the Sen-
ate-House Atomic Committee, says
members of Congress are investi-
gating the report made by Bernard M.
Baruch recently that Russia has had
considerable success in probing into
American atom bomb secrets.
Meanwhile, top-flight Army intelli-
gence officers are making their own
investigations, and every effort is be-
ing made to find the source of the alleg-
ed leaks.
4*4
Favors Two-Year Colleges
Dr. James B. Conant, president of
Harvard University, tc.'.d a Dallas audi-
ence that he is in favor of expansion of
the two-year college system in order to
take care of the postwar boom in edu-
cation.
He said this expansion, which could
he carried out under the public school
system, would relieve the over-burden-
ed universities without causing them to
stretch their facilities too far. He said
he favored a two-year terminal college
plan instead of the junior college sv
tern in which the two years are a pre-
paration for senior college.
-* * 4
Vet Hospitalization Hits New Mark
The Veterans Administration reports
119,845 veterans now are hospitalized
America, an all-time high. There
were 99,509 in hospitals six months ago
and only 92,276 a year ago. The jump
was caused by an increase in available
hospital beds.
Hitch-Hiking Insects
The Department of Agriculture is
making war on insects who hitch ride
airplanes. Experts are afraid that an
insect will ride in from overseas and
have as much devastating effect as the
Japanese beetle had years ago.
Authorities say they have in mind
such facts as the depredations of the
boll weevil. These insects, it is esti-
mated, consumed 639,000,000 pounds of
cotton last year, or about $170,000,000
worth. The European corn-borer cost
American farmers $37,000,000 in 1946.
Other big destroyers were the Oriental
fruit moth, the Mexican bean beetle and
the white-fringed beetle.
“Any plane coming in from overseas
may bring a pest with it,” S. A. Rohwer,
Department entomologist, says. “All
we can do is be careful and hope for the
best.”
* * *
Synthetic Oil Possible
The Department of the Interior claims
that production of low-priced synthetic
oil and gasoline on a commercial basis
will be possible within a few years.
Dr. R. R. Sayers, director of the Bu-
reau of Mines, added that, if research
continues to show the progress it has in
the past, synthetic petroleum products
will soon be pouring into the market.
Most of the synthetic products are
based on conversion of coal and oii
shale.
The Department pointed out tha<
ersatz gasoline can already be produced
from coal at a cost of 7Vfe cents a gallon,
only slightly higher than the cost of
producing gasoline from petroleum.
(The English have made their gasoline
from coal for years).
* * *
Asks Health Drive
President Truman has asked all
Americans to cooperate with every
agency, organization and individual doc-
tor in the country in combating the
present-day national peril, heart dis-
ease.
He pointed out that 400,000 Ameri-
cans are expected to die of heart dis-
ease this year and that one out of every
20 citizens has an ailing heart. He at-
tributed the serious risq^n the ailment
to the faster tempo of American life.
* * *
General Boosts Reserve Army
A well-trained army of civilian re-
serves is a necessary insurance for na-
tional security, Brig. Gen. E. A. Evans,
director of the Reserve Officers Asso-
ciation, said.
He claims that we had a narrow es-
• cape in World War II because we let
* our war insurance lapse and that we
can prevent World War III by having
a strong enough reserve to persuade
any enemy to peace.
Timber Shortage to Last
The U. S. Forest Service says the na-
tion faces a shortage of timber for lum-
ber, cardboard, paper and posts for
many years to come. It is not the equip-
ment shortngc that is to blame but the
fact that good timber is becoming
scarcer.
The Service reports that all “destruc-
tive cutting and unwise depletion”
must stop and new growth encouraged.
It advocates increasing the growth of
all types of timber by 50 per cent and
doubling the growth of sawtimber with-
in the next 75 years.
CIVILIAN CLOTHES—Gen. George C.
Marshall, former Chief of Staff, put aside
his uniform on succeeding James Byrnes
as Secretary of State. Secretary Marshall
will attend the Moscow Conference this
month.
Home Training Vital in Defense
American home life has a direct bear-
ing on the efficiency of the nation’s
armed forces, a Navy chaplain recent-
ly told Secretary of the Navy James
V. Forrestal.
The chaplain, Commodore Robert J.
White, declared, “The religious and
moral training and self-discipline of
American youth constitute a national
defense responsibility which must be
assumed by parents.”
White drew his conclusions from in-
terviews with 500 Navy men confined
in naval prisons and disciplinary bar-
racks throughout the nation. He said
the men who have had no discipline in
the home are the ones most likely to
get into trouble.
4-
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Grass Root Reveries
By JOE GANDY
(Copyright, 1947, by the Southwest Magaiine Co.)
rr^HE GROUNDHOG must have seen
I his shadow on Feb. 2 and rushed
* back into his hole, for February
weather was the coldest in many years,
temperatures going below zero over
much of the United States. The snow-
storm that lashed the East on Feb. 21
cost 51 lives, block-
ed traffic and dis-
rupted bus i n e s s.
Luckily the South-
west escaped the fury
of this storm, al-
though there were
light snowfall and
sub-freezing weather
in Texas and Okla-
homa.
•
Now that March is
here, we shall look
for milder weather.
The calendar says
March is a Spring
month, which is true
officially but not
true factually. I have
seen some very cold and some very
warm March weather that lured peach
and plum trees into fruiting, then later
killed the fruit with hard freeze. Only
newcomers and fools predict March
weather.
•
Howsomever, Spring has peeped
around the corner and trees are bud-
ding, shrubs blooming, and I saw a
bluebird yesterday sitting on a fence
calling to its mate. Easter comes April
6, so we may have an early Spring this
year. A writer in Pageant Magazine
says “weather, whether we know it or
not, colors our moods, sharpens or dulls
our minds, makes us vigorous or lethar-
gic.” I didn’t know weather would do
all that, but did know I am lazier in
Summer than in Winter.
•
Because of some food shortages, the
Government wants everybody to plant
another Victory Garden this year. The
last two Victory Gardens I planted
were eaten up by rabbits. They sneaked
into the garden at night and ate their
fill while I was sleeping and dreaming
about rows of snap beans, ’•adishes,
mustard greens and young onions that
would soon mature and I could eat with
gastronomic delight. Rabbits are smart,
and can fool the shrewdest gardener.
•
Bishop W. T. Manning says: *‘The
world is in need of a spiritual revival.
Peace will not be possible until we are
humble enough to recognize that spir-
itual things are more
to be desired than
power or wealth, and
that the hope of the
world is indeed in a
spiritual rev i v a 1.”
People have heard
all this before, yet
they go right on
playing ball with the
devil who has two
strikes on them and
a fast-hop ball that
fans them out soon-
er or later, leaving
them sadder but no
wiser.
•
T e 1 e v i sion will
probably show peo-
ple that radio programs look as silly
as they sound. The big radio stations
need a housecleaning to get rid of bal-
lyhoo, cheap comedy and mush stories.
Thousands do not turn on radio pro-
grams because they will not listen to
stuff that sounds silly and signifies
nothing. Advertisers throw away mil-
lions of dollars each year on radio pro-
grams that people tune out. Only the
better programs get a sizable listening
audience.
•
Science has made such tremendous
progress that the world is on the
threshold of a new age — the atomic
age. We have had a glimpse of what is
possible by atomic destruction. Scien-
tists are now probing peacetime uses
of the atom. Professor Milton Burton,
of the University of Notre Dame, ven-
tures the thought that entire American
cities will be able to operate on atomic
power within the next 10 or 12 years.
Atomic plants, he suggests, will pro-
vide light, heat, and power for all citi-
zens, while the by-product of radiation
can purify water supplies Chances
are the atomic bomb is such a terrible
weapon that no nation will dare use
it to start another war for fear of re-
prisals. We hope and pray this shall
come to pass—that the atom will bring
everlasting peace, not war, to a wor-
ried world.
• .
George Gallup, who polls the Ameri-
can people through his American In-
stitute of Public Opinion, revealed in
a press conference that 40 per cent of
the American people consider them-
selves happy, 10 per cent think they’re
gloomy, and the other 50 per cent are
both. Among other things, single per-
sons are less happy than married per-
sons. That is somewhat surprising, for
it is generally supposed that single per-
sons, because of the high divorce rate,
are happier than married persons. Hap-
piness is elusive, not always where
you look for it. Some folks spend
gobs of money looking for happiness,
then give up in despair. I suspect there
is happiness all around us if we try
hard enough to iind it. Old Negro Joe
and his wife Dinah, who lived on fath-
er’s farm, once told me that he and
his wife were happy because “we ain’t
wantin’ much and we ain’t goin’ to
git much,” he said.
•
The owner of a restaurant in New
York City has glorified ham and eggs.
He serves 23,000 persons a week with
only ham and eggs, but he cooks his
eggs in golden butter and cooks his
ham by a secret process that makes it
tender and delicious. I am glad some
one has at last glorified the hog and
hen. Both have helped to make Amer-
ica great.
•
When a man thinks a woman doesn’t
understand him he fools himself. Wom-
en understand men better than men
understand women. Take wife, for in-
stance. 'For a long while I flattered
myself that I understood her and she
didn’t understand me. But I was
wrong. Recently she looked me over
kinder careless and said, “Joe, you think
you are smart and that you understand
a woman’s mind, but what you don’t
know about a woman’s mind would
make a story excruciatingly funny!”
—PAGE THREE—
"The devil has two strikes on them.’
Live Normal Life
Nathan Howard Gist says most of the
trouble in the world today is caused by
people who reluse to live normal lives.
“Knowing how to live is the most
important and difficult thing in the
world,” he stated. "Some lives are too
cramped. Some persons have no defi-
nite aim; others try to cover too much
territory instead of doing a few things
well. These conditions put life out of
joint.”
Believing that most people fail to find
happiness because they put it above
everything else, Gist added: “Thinking
on high levels means good habits, good
habits mean character and character
means normal living. The normal life
keeps step with the universe. There
are many laws, but the law of harmony
produces the greatest results.”
* * *
Jet Bombs Unpredictable
The Army Air Forces have disclosed
that two giant “Jet Bombers,” to be
driven through high altitudes at unpre-
dictable speeds by eight monster jet
motors, will be flown this summer in
California tests.
The planes will be of the “flying
wing” variety, the design which is ex-
pected to be the most efficient in the
world. The flying wing is exactly what
the name implies—one enormous wing
and no fuselage.
4 4 4
Personal Debts at Peak
Personal debts of Americans have
climbed to a 16-year peak of $39,600,-
000,000. This is the highest since the
airtime pinnacle of $40,700,000,000
reached in 1929, just before the na-
tional crash.
The Institute of Life Insurance, which
made the survey, stated: “Some people
may well be undermining the financial
security of themselves and their fami-
lies by going into debt too heavily in
relation to their circumstances.”
4 4 4
Accidents Fatal to 100,000
Accidents killed 100,000 men, wom-
en, and children in the United States
last year, according to statistical depart-
ment of the government. They injured
10,400,000 more. They cost an estimat-
ed loss of $5,600,000,000. The toll was
four per cent greater than in 1945.
And the home was more dangerous
than the automobile.
Accidents in homes caused 34,000
deaths. Mishaps involving motor ve-
hicles snuffed out 33,500 lives. Occu-
pational accidents (those occurring to
people at work) took 16,500 lives.
Falls accounted for 27,800 deaths,
burns for 10,200, and drownings for
about 7,300. Fatal firearms accidents
totaled 3,100, an increase of 24 per cent,
probably due to war souvenirs brought
home from overseas.
The loss due to accidents includes
wage losses, medical expense, and cost
of insurance; production delays, and
damage to property and equipment.
The 10,400,000 injuries brought a dis-
abling injury to one person out of every
13 in the United States.
In addition to traffic accidents that
killed 33,500, there were about 1,500,-
000 non-fatal accidents which destroy-
ed property valued at $750,000,000,
with the over-all cost, including medi-
cal expenses and similar items, set at
$1,650,000,000.
4 4 4
Manufacturer Hires Pastor
A Bristol, Rhode Island, shoe manu-
facturer has engaged his pastor as
vice-president in charge of Christian
relations and has announced that his
instructions will not come from the
company but will be issued exclusively
by God.
The pastor, Rev. Dale F. Dutton, of
the Central Baptist Church, will as-
sume his duties after Easter Sunday.
He will have between $20,000 and
$100,000 to give away each year and he
will “do good as the Lord leads him to
do.”
President of the shoe company, Mau-
rice C. Smith, Jr., said he was interest-
ed in helping religious groups of all
kinds and creeds. His new spiritual
vice-president will study pleas of ob-
scure churches for financial aid and
will pass on his recommendations to
the company. The company will then
decide whether or not it wants to fol-
low his recommendations.
4 4 4
No Arms Cut
America will continue to labor zeal-
ously toward peace in co-operation with
the United Nations. But she will not
disarm, in fact she must support her
foreign policy with real military
strength, “until there is a dependable
basis of collective security.”
Thus did Gen. George C. Marshall
project U.S. foreign policy in a crowded
press conference in Washington, his
first since replacing James F. Byrnes
as President Truman’s Secretary of
State.
Gen. Marshall spoke of the "tragic
consequences” of unilateral disarma-
ment after the First World War. In
1922 the United States was the sole na-
tion to scrap its battleships. There
would be no repetition of that error, he
said.
Customer Right Again
The Office of Small Business has
made an official statement that the
customer must be considered always
right by any business which hopes to
prosper, in post-war America.
The statement came as a result of a
survey showing that many wartime
shortages are ending and, as the OSB
says, “clerks must learn that poor sell-
ing methods, laziness, indifference and
discourtesy lose trade and reduce prof-
its. Lower profits mean less oppor-
tunity for higher wages.”
4 4 4
Treasury Surplus That Will Evaporate
The United States Treasury closed
its January books with a surplus of
$706,000,000 for the month. This was
the first time since 1930 that any com-
plete month has shown a profit.
The January picture reflected heavy
income tax payments, and President
Truman says the surplus will evaporate
and be replaced by a $2,000,000,000
deficit by next June. The government
spent $21,600,000,000 during the first
seven months of the fiscal year.
4 4 4
Pocket Radios Near
The Federal Communications Com-
mission soon will make available to the
public license-free radio frequencies,
which will allow a person to carry a
personal broadcasting station in his
vestpocket.
Inventor of the small transmitter, 36-
year-old Dr. Cledo Brunetti, has per-
fected his mechanism so that the trans-
mitter can be mounted on a calling card
and the rest of the radio can be fitted
into an empty lipstick container.
It will maintain two-way communi-
cations up to a mile.
4 4 4
Best Dressed Men Selected
The Custom Tailors Guild has an-
nounced its selection for the ten best-
dressed men in America. The line-up
includes one baseball player, one judge,
one lawyer, a singer, two actors, a radio
comedian, a musician and a business-
man. Those listed in order were: Su-
preme Court Justice W. Jackson, Lippy
Durocher, Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Clifton
Webb, Senator Cabot Lodge, L. A. Vol-
ter of the Royal Paper Works, George
Burns, Feruccio Tagliavini, Joseph
Schultz of the New York bar, and Paul
Whiteman.
4 4 4
More Advertising Urged
President Gardner Cowles, of Look
Magazine, urges more extensive adver-
tising in America as a preventative
against a future depression.
“The present business situation is not
as hopeful as many people think,”
Cowles said. “Due to our high stand-
ard of living we are operating under
‘optical consumption.’ It is up to us to
get people to continue to buy goods.
That means advertising is necessary.
The break-even point in many indus-
tries is so high that even a mild reces-
sion might bring disaster to some of
them.”
4 4 4
Freight Car Shortage Hurts
The worst shortage of boxcars in 20
years has had a pyramiding effect in
industry and has caused serious slashes
in output and employment throughout
the United States.
Flour mills have been so badly af-
fected that production is down 40 per
cent and finished goods have been jam-
ming the warehouses.
Reason for the shortage is that rail-
; jads have been unable to buy new cars
as fast as they have had to retire them
for old age or disability. They need ap-
proximately 20,093 more cars before
they can relieve the shortage.
4 4 4
Is Hitler Living?
It is nearly two years since Berlin
fell in flahiing ruins about Adolf Hit-
ler’s he^.d. But there is still no positive
proof that the Nazi leader is dead, main-
tains W. F. Heimlich, former chief of
intelligence of U. S. forces in the Ger-
man capital.
Heimlich, who spent months running
down the story that Hitler and his mis-
tress, Eva Braun, committed suicide in
the chancellory, has some good argu-
ments to support his disbelief.
“Hitler did not die in th^ chancel-
lory,” he maintains, “and as far as I
know he did not die. That goes for Eva
Braun and Martin Bormann (Hitler’s
chief deputy).”
He scoffs at the story that the bodies
of the Fuehrer and Eva were burned
with 40 liters of gasoline in the chancel-
lory court yard. It’s impossible, Heim-
lich argues. He reasons that it takes
3,200 degrees of heat to cremate a body
in a closed crematory and that even
then some bones remain. Investigators
who tried to burn the body of a pig with
40 liters of gas found the porker still
recognizable when the fire went out.
From time to time allied search
teams have been flushing high-ranking
Nazi officers and civilians who had suc-
cessfully hidden since the collapse of the
German army. Maybe one day Adolf
Hitler will be turned up, too, to face
his just punishment, they say.
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