Show NEWS NEW S RE REVIEW VIEW V urge T food I 1 0 new battle BL shakes UN waste less lips that sincerely frame the words food conservation will not touch such sturdy edibles as meat poultry and eggs quite so often hereafter charles luckman head of pres dent truman a citizens food corn com cittee opened the widely heralded waste less campaign by calling on the american people to cut their consumption of those three items thereby effecting a conservation of grain for europe at the same time it was disclosed that stop stopgap gap aid for europe this winter may run as much as mil lion dollars million more that I 1 mr truman had estimated earlier the appeal tor for americans to cut down on the amount of foods bequir mg ing grain feeding was couched in a five point program which if fol lowed will eliminate the traditional race for the last chop on the platter it won t be there those five diabetic diate tic command ments were 1 buy cheaper meat cuts 2 don t serve too much 3 don t overcook men meat 4 4 use leftovers 5 save wheat in all other possible ways in the future was the possibility that a voluntary program of meat less days and a reduction in the size of bread loaves would be put into effect NEW FIGHT recalls yalta in the U N another of possible failure and collapse of that organization arose as the U S and russia plunged into a new ish the issue which nation shall sue suc aeed pro russian poland on the se carity council poland has represent ed eastern europe and the slav bloc for two years russia wants the ukraine which although an inte gral part of the soviet union have a separate U N delegation U S contention is that the ukraine is not a sovereign nation therefore does not rate a separate status in the background of the me affair was the stalin roosevelt yalta agreement which gave the soviet union three votes in the united na eions russia proper the ukraine and white russia each has one how the US USSR S R came to get three votes probably hap happened penea something like this both the ukraine and white russia intense ly nationalistic did not like to lose their identities by being merged with greater russia the communist politburo therefore as a sop to their nationalism granted the two territories a sort of nominal inde pen dence at yalta then than stalin told roose velt that he wanted the ukraine and white russia to be depre dented in the U N for internal reasons F D R being an old poll poh bician and sympathetic with inter nal difficulties agreed thus the stage was set for one of the most serious battles yet to develop w thin the united nations I 1 income Dispa disparities ribe keal real income of wage and sal ary earners continues to drop while farmers income still Is rising it has been revealed by a monthly in vectors syndicate survey of ing power real income is the re lation ship of revenue to the cost of living wage and salary earners now have only about 96 cents of buying power for each dollar a year ago while tanners farmers have approximately at the same time the biggest cause of the wage earners problem is the sharp rise in the price of food the average family now pays more than 1 31 for the same amount of food that a dollar bought a year ago it also pays 1 06 for each dol lar on rent to the 1846 1946 dollar tor for clothing and 1 23 tor for miscella ne ous expenses this continued divergence be tween carmand arm and city buying power the survey pointed out indicates that a serious unbalance ma may y threaten the stability of c our ur econ omy A close balance is essential recognition playing safe sale not as a gesture of approval but rather as a means of keeping in formed of internal developments did the united states grant full diplo matic recognition to the comma dist dominated government of bill gana garia robert A lovett U S acting secretary of state said that the ac tion meant neither that this country approved nor condoned certain re cent actions of the bulgarian gov eminent although he did not say so lovett obviously referred to Bul bulgaria karla a ex elution of nikola leader of the opposition to the Communists previously recognition of the bul bill garian government was withheld on the grounds that the pro soviet re gime had been elected unfairly but now the U S felt that it was more important to have an embassy in the country to protect american in teresta there LITTLE HOPE less coal there is little or no hope spring ing in the collective breast of cial washington that the coal short age this winter can be averted current estimates place coal pro as running several million tons a month behind exports and domestic consumption principally because of the coal car shortage this has resulted in winter stock piles depreciating instead of grow tag ing as they normally would it was hoped at first that some re lief would come when winter er stops or curtails raad building and construction thus permitting di version of sand and gravel cars to the coal fields however a railroad spokesman said the diversion of such cars would do nothing but off set a normal 10 per cent drop in railroad efficiency in winter |