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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH 8ROADWAY AND MAIN STREET In the Case of Coca Cola Versus Champagne, The Ban on a Beverage Can VorkBothWays By BILLY ROSE No French champagne is being sold at my York and patrons who request same will have to settle fdomestic fizzwater which is a lot easier on the pocketbook. TteFJenKmmunisto and what gives the French national assembly 'enfly paed As you probably know, the bottling ana a bill which, without naming the product, would prohibit sale ot Coca-Col- a in France and its colonies. - Two pressure groups, were respon-sible for this measure the wine interests which feared that the soft drink might cut into their profits, and the Communists, who, though they have no love for the vintners, saw an opportunity to take a rabbit punch at the United States. Suiting invective to word, the Commie paper, L'Humanite, a campaign against the of the country, Or to put it another way, it would be the beginning of a new French industry, and potentially a pretty big one, judging from the fact that more than 100,000 Americans de-rive part or aU of their incomes from the parent company and its subsidiaries. From where I cogitate, it boils down to this: John Q. Frenchman is being denied a choice between Leftists, aided and abetted by the bird-brai- n Righties, don't like the Coke and vino only because the country Coca-Col- a comes from. Well, Messieurs et Mesdames, two can play at boycott as well as one, and so, no French cham-pagne will be sold in my night club until the idiotic ban against our home product is lifted. Moreover, I'm hereby appealing to hotels, restaurants and night club proprietors all over the coun-try to follow suit and to wire or write me when they do. And if they'd like to explain the boycott to their customers, they're at lib-erty to run off reprints of this co-lumnof course crediting this paper. And remember, Messieurs et Mes-dames, if that doesn't work we can get really tough and stop buying your French postcards. Before I go any further, let me get it into the record that I'm not a big Coke drinker and never owned a share of stock in the com-pany. As far as I'm concerned, the beverage is just another American product like Orange Crush, or Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic. By initiating an anti-cok- e cam-paig-they have given Stalin's stooges a made-to-ord- excuse for yelping, "Down with Ameri-can imperialism" the same sleazy slogan used by Commies everywhere to divert attention from the accomplishments of the Marshall plan. As for the argument that the dis-tribution of Coca-Col- a would create unemployment and cut into pro-fitsthat, too, is a lot of bottletops. The set-u- p of the Coca-Col- a Export corporation is such that the entire manufacture and sale would be carried out by French personnel, on French territory, and under French supervision and ownership. loud- - mouthing that the basic syrup is highly toxic and would turn La Belle France into a na-tion of "coca-hol-ics.- " At the same time, the right-win-g press, front-i- n c fnr t.hp fizz Up I W 1 merchants, began Billy Eose to blab along the same lines, and even the usually sensible Le Monde warned that "the moral landscape of France is at stake." BENCHED . . . b work for supreme conrtiM, William O. Douglas ' had a hectic time of it this year. He was seriously toh7j last fall when a horse lJu ' him. 11 . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Need Claimed to ECeep Gl's Abroad if Continent to be Fully Guarded; Berlin Stocks Up for Emergencies HJ'nlTOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed fn these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Unlon'a news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Chills Charges EGGS ACTLY!, A Fowl Effort Who was surprised? If you feed a radioactive dose to hens, why wouldn't you get radioactive eggs? But Dr. Clyde Driggers, of the University of Florida agricultural experiment station, called them uncommon hens and uncommon hens they were, inasmuch as they had been given doses of radioactive calcium and they laid radioactive eggs. THE poultry-departme- scien-tist set out to learn what happens to calcium from the atomic energy commission at Oak Ridge and fed minute single doses to two hens and daily doses to another two. He kept them under close observation. The hens suffered no ill effects and got along apparently as well as other hens until they were killed at the end of the project. With the aid of a Geiger counter, the experimenters found: THE SHELL of an egg laid by one of the hens 15 minutes after the first dose contained enough labeled calcium to make the count-er tick, but none of the material was in the yolk or white of the egg. Radioactive calcium showed- up on the shell, yolk and white of an egg laid 24 hours later and the white contained 70 times more of it than the yolk. x - it-- : ' EUROPE: Just in Case The demands of the cold war are becoming steadily more vast and insistent. First and continuing is moneyAmerican dollars to stem the tide of communism and protect itself so the theory goes by pro-tecting Europe. NOW IT IS MEN Europe wants. American GI's to garrison the con-tinent. A permanent garrison of American troops in western Europe even after German occupation ends is vital to the Atlantic pact defense, several European experts believe. THE EXPERTS quoted argue that American troops would pro-vide leadership for Europe's defense forces, and would serve as a reassurance to France if German troops eventually are too powerful in the western Euro-pean defense. At present, as the pact alliance rounds out its first year, its 12 member powers have about 22 di-visions of varying strength and ef-fectiveness among- them. The normal complement of a di-vision is 15,000 men. That means a total of 330,000 potential fighting men ready to meet any attack up-on the pact signatories. It also means that each pact signatory is putting less than two divisions into the overall plan to protect them-selves. ' Under such a setup it is conceiv-able that America might have to bolster the defensive line: but the setup poses anew the question: How sincere is Europe in efforts to rehabilitate and protect itself? BERLIN: Fear Crisis In the event of a crisis such as that precipitated by the Russian blockade in 1948, Berlin was ready. The west has stocked the city's bins with enough food and coal to make a mockery of any new block-ade. In the 11 months since the Reds lifted the blockade of the city, a steady stream of train, truck and barge traffic has piled up what is felt to be adequate supplies to meet any emergency. When Russia clamped down the blockade, in an effort to impose its own political convictions on Ber-lin, the city had only an average of six weeks supplies on hand. Now the basic staples are in about six months supply and in all probabil-ity will continue to increase as further stocks are added. It was felt that the Russians, aware of this process, would be less foolhardy than to attempt another blockade effort, but even so, no one was taking any chances be-cause of the unpredictability of Soviet action and of the old truism that "what has happened once, can happen again." HIGH COURT: Accused Must Talk A ruling of the U.S. supreme court is likely to serve as a power-ful stimulant for those accused of Communist sympathies and refuse to talk. Brig. Gen. Conrad E. Snow, head of the U. S. state depart-ment's loyalty board, testifies before the senate subcommit-tee investigating charges of communism in the state de-partment. He chilled charges by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R., Wis.) when he told probers that he knows of no Communists in the department. VACATIONS: Why Not England? For the American tourist plan-ning a trip abroad, England can't be beat, according to Farnham F. Dudgeon, editor-in-chie- f of West-ern Newspaper Union, a newspaper syndicate. DUDGEON visited England some weeks ago along with 14 other rep-resentatives of newspaper syndi-cates, press associations and periodicals. The host on the flight over the Atlantic and the trip through England and Scotland was the British Travel association which is engaged in a campaign to attract tourist trade to the British Isles. The syndicate chief reported that "England definitely is the place to go" for the American who wants a memorable trip abroad at a modicum of cost. This is true, he said, because of the many places and things in England that are so closely tied in with our own his-tory. "Right now, England is a tourist paradise," Dudgeon said. "Espe-cially is this true because the pound devaluation has added so much more purchasibility to the American tourist dollar. For ex-ample, one may stay at almost any of the picturesque inns or ho-tels for as little as $21 to $23 a week. "TRANSPORTATION facilities in both England and Scotland are ex-cellent, even if the equipment is somewhat battered from the war. The British are eager to make Americans feel at home, and one gets the impression that this is a sincere hospitality, not motivated exclusively by the desire for American dollars." There is little need to remind Americans of the particular charm and beauty of the British and Scot-tish countrysides, with their lakes, moors, heather, famed resort spots and historic buildings and land-- PAKISTAN: Peace Move The Indian parliament ratified the new n pact and with that approval there appeared hope that bloody communal strife on the subcontinent might be end-ed. Prime Minister Nehru, in submit-ting the pact, said he was satisfied it would halt a drift toward catas-trophe. "We have stopped ourselves at the edge of a precipice and turned our back to it," Nehru said. THE AGREEMENT guarantees the security of the Moslem minority in Hindu India, and the Hindu mi-nority in Moslem Pakistan. It also permits the unhampered migration of both minorities across the bor-ders of the two dominions. The move was an idealistic one and had the blessings of the civil-ized world. But whether it would work was a problem that would still trouble hemisphere diplomats. OUT OF INDIA were coming re-ports that the announced and prob-ably sincere effort to abolish caste in order to bring about unity, was encountering more difficulty than was expected. Religious con-victions, customs, traditions and practices of centuries are not sloughed off so easily. CHILDREN: A New Hope A new hope for stunted children a promise of speeding the growth of undernourished boys and girls is held out in the drug aureomy-cin- . The "golden drug," it was said, may prove a powerful growth stimulator. THE ANNOUNCEMENT was made at the national convention of the American Chemical society in Philadelphia, where delegates learned that already the drug has increased the rate of growth of hogs, chickens and turkeys by as much as 50 per cent. Its effects, delegates were told, "far exceed" those obtainable with any known vitamin. It is being tested now on undersized children. Scientists said the g action of the drug "may hold enormous long-rang- e signifi-cance for the survival of the hu-man race in a world of diddling resources," because it may prove of tremendous importance in ex- - tending the world's meat supply and reducing the cost of produc-tion. Television Booms 1946 Nl947 1 1 VVCytoOO-SET- j V900,000 J marks, because they are known, even if vicariously, to most Amer-icans. "But seeing them at first hand is an altogether thrilling and mem-orable experience," Dudgeon said. RADAR: Day & Night The country was informed during the week that there is at least some insurance against another "Pearl Harbor" in the event an enemy should attack. That insurance is a radar and g network that is now far enough along to provide protection. The announcement also reported that alarm systems have been in-stalled that can flash, an alert to air force interceptor squadrons and civilian warning centers with-in a matter of seconds. All these moves simply are preparedness, officials stressed, and do not in-dicate any need of these defenses is imminent. Air force officials said more than 200 warning centers now are hooked up and many more will soon be in operation. The centers are selected by officials such as governors, mayors and chiefs of police. Headquarters will be in key cities and someone will always be available to man the warning ap-paratus. The court refused to grant a hear-ing to two Hollywood writers con-victed of contempt of congress. The action let stand a decision that congressional committees may com-pel witnesses to say whether they are Communists. The vote was 6 to 2. By its action, the high court re-fused to interfere with a lower court decision holding that congress may abridge either the freedom of speech or the freedom to remain silent "when legislating to avert what it believes to be a threat of substantive evil to national wel-fare." The high court handed down the ' opinion but did not explain - its reason. It took the action in a brief order saying it would not hear the appeals of screen writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trum-bo- . They had been pending since last August 11. Lawson and Trumbo are each under sentence to serve a year in jail and to pay a fine of $1,000. They had been free under bond. The court's order noted that Jus-tices Black and Douglas favored a review of the case, and that Justice Clark took no part. Lawson and Trumbo were two of 10 prominent screen figures who refused to tell a congressional com-mittee whether they had been members of the Communist party. Television production last year according to findings of the Conference Board totaled nearly 2.9 million sets as com-pared with 6,500 in 1946. The above graph illustrates the sen-sational growth of this new entertainment medium. The video industry estimates sets in use this year will range around 4.5 million. BUSINESS: Too Many Idle According to U.S. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, business is good but there is too much un-employment. HE ADDED, however, that it is dangerous to set a specific figure as the danger point in unemploy-ment because "people will get panicky" when it is reached. He also said that his department was not drawing up any plan to combat unemployment. j This ls Your Paper lis People Are Human ' By William R. Nelson IVrEMBERS of this and all A A newspaper staffs are victims I' that quirk of human nature so s( expressed by the axiom wt" asserts that: "An expert is a a away from home." NewspiaJ people are very much at r4 here, so they are seldom loot upon as experts. But they are a' perts, and specialists, in a variety of occupations and prcfc sions, all of them vitally import; to this community. A home town newspaper, stt as this one, is. published os through the teamwork ol peop:, of many skills. It is doubtful il a; other business or institution in fc community surpasses the ttv.fi per in its complexity, in the nn: nature of the expert know-ho- ii operation requires. Modem te; Teamwork stores, hi: of require I ec Skills binatiom' m e rchandic: and professional aptitudes, kg closest to the newspaper in 6: variety of demands made up: staffs. But in addition to merck dising and professional abilifc: comparable to those of the fc: store, the newspaper's people nr. also have mechanical undeisfc ing and skill of a high order. Newspaper mechanical st people must know both how to v ate a variety of machines, and maintain and repair them. Editorial staff members are sp cialists who perform their 41 rlnti within the restrictiM c fines of a code of ethics fiir: binding as are those of other fessions. They must have a:- a liking for people, knowledje' words, a feeling for art, tea: curiosity, willingness to wort hours under pressure, and h i miliar with mechanical prar.: and limitations of the printing i While 6k; Always with tin- 0I) neighbors Duty enjoyment commui' event, the editorial worker ms' so cover it, taking notes, st-riates and data, so that while - relax afterward, the story d event can be written. Tat reporter, like doctors, a duty" every hour of every d:! ' Members of the advert:. business office staffs, too, cialists, each in his or her ccj-An-they, too, are taper the community. SU FELIX RETIRES I CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson FELIX BRENDLINGER WHEN to private life he ceased to be a "figure" in May-fiel- If you took time to analyze the reason, the answer was simple. For 30 years Felix had left his home on Pleasant street at exactly 7:35 in the morning, walked a quar-ter mile to the railroad station, . boarded the 7:48 ... train for Long-MlrlU- 31 view, and spent Fiction the day in that distant city at a desk in the insur-ance offices of Booth, Gill and Dyer. Every evening he disem-barked from the 5:52 train and the quarter-mil- e to his Pleasant street home. Mayfield citizens were used to tVio sipht nf Felix walking briskly "The idea," Felix's wife ex-claimed. "Don't they know but of course they don't I'll write im-mediately and tell them how poor-ly you are!" "You'll do no such thing!" Felix exclaimed, eyes gleaming. "I'm catching the 7:48 in the morning!" THE JOB lasted three weeks. that time Felix became a figure once more. People became used to him going back and forth to the train. Unconsciously they fell into the old routine of asking him to do errands and demanding choice bits of news. Felix was hap-py again. He beamed. He put on weight. He felt important. He was important. On the day that Felix finished up the special work, Mr. Gill ap-- nrnapiini him "Felix, how about staying on with us, awhile? You're not old enough to retire. We need you here." "Need me?" "As long as you'll stay. Oh, I realize that sooner or later we'll have to get along without your help but none of us real-ized how important yon were." Felix's face glowed. "Thanks, Mr. Gill. You couldn't have said anything that would make me hap-pier. But as far as staying with you is concerned I'm afraid I'll have to turn down the offer. You see, I've got some chickens and a garden out home that need my at-tention. And well now I'll be able to retire with a clear con-science." to and from the railroad station. Sometimes some one would ask him to do an errand in Longview, and he'd always oblige. Frequently he would deliver choice bits of news to friends and acquaintances. Booth, Gill and Dyer had for their clients two large steamship lines, and Felix could tell when the boats arrived in port, or when they were delayed by storms and when im-portant personages were arriving from abroad. There were a hundred and one things that Felix could and did do that achieved for him a certain recognition. After he retired, Felix ceased to be a figure. He wasn't an especially imaginative person, nor were his neighbors. The neighbors knew unconscious-ly that Felix was no longer differ-ent from any of them. Felix knew it too. It troubled him. It hurt. It made him lonesome. It made him wonder. It threatened to develop in him an inferiority complex. Felix tried hard to find pleasure in his retirement. He planted a garden and bought some chickens "You'll do no such thing!" Felix exclaimed, h i s eyes gleaming. "I'm catching the 7:48 in the morning." and occupied his time as much as he could. But it was a physical oc-cupation, and this gave him plenty of opportunity to think. Eventually his thinking changed to brooding, and the brooding nourished the growing inferiority complex. Felix's wife noticed the change She tried to talk to him, to learn the source of his moodiness. But Felix couldn't explain it. He felt a little ashamed, and didn't want to talk. Another month passed and Felix's wife began to think he was a case for the family doc- tor. Then one day a letter ar-rived from Booth, Gill and Dyer. They wanted to know if Felix would consider coming in for a few days to assist in straightening out some mat- ters about which they consid-ered him an expert. By INEZ GERHARD STANLEY KRAMER made "The for less than $600,-00- it will gross more than two and one-ha- lf million. Then he made "The Home of the Brave" for the same amount; it had already grossed even more, though highly controversial. Hollywood respects those figures but doesn't see how this young producer does it. His new picture, "The Men", will .make them wonder still more. He does it by buying a really good story, holding a two-wee- k rehearsal be-fore shooting starts, casting the right actors rather than stars, pick-ing his director for ability, not his name and then throwing in just a tnnph nf ffAnins thrr. is nnrplv Stanley Kramer. Frank Lovejoy, who stood out as "Sergeant Mingo" in "Home of the Brave," will co-st- with Kathleen Ryan in her American film debut in "The Sound of Fury", for United Artists release. And Warners have signed him to a long-ter- contract and are announcing that he is one of the brightest of the new crop of screen stars. His work in their "Rock Bottom" convinced them. Jane Russell's first car, a Ford bought from the proceeds of her appearance as star of Howard Hughes' "The Outlaw", still stands in her garage. She says she'll al-ways keep it as a memento of the picture that made her a sensation. Two young men whose family names are known to movie-goers will make their screen debuts in "Tripoli", a Fine-Thom- as production. One is 10- - year-ol- d Marshall Berle, nephew of Milton; the other is Fat Ford, son of John Ford, the n director. He has been working successfully as a screen writer for several years, hut now wants to try his hand at acting. Beverly Hills, home of so many movie stars, will receive a thorough coverage in "In a Lonely Place", Humphrey Bogart's new film for Columbia. Director Nicholas Ray chose representative spots all around town, which ought to give the public a pretty good idea of the city they have read so much about, but have seen on the screen only in isolated spots in the past. Steve Cochran, star of "The Two Million Dollar Bank Robbery", will win $50,000 if the ice on the Yukon river starts breaking up at 6:09 a. m. May 13. He entered the famous Alaskan "Ice Pool" through his mother, who lives in Juneau. Columbia's search for a handsome young southpaw base-ball pitcher who can act a romantic role, or a handsome young actor who can pitch ended with the signing of Richard Taylor for the ro-mantic lead in "Kill the Um-pire", William Bendix starrer. Taylor, a husky was formerly a professional ball player with Salem, Ore., in the Western International league. John Garfield, director Michael Curtiz, and writer Ronald holed up on a telephoneless, mail-les- s ranch while finishing "The Breaking Point" wanted to keep the plot a secret. Garfield had but one request. "All I want," said he, "is more guns than Humphrey Bogart had in 'Key Largo'. Which gives you some idea of what kind of picture it is. Dry Cows Feeding the dry cow pays well off in more milk during her next lactation. 1 CHDSSWDHH PUZZLE ; rjupUi"lSrl Jill i! il!! j ACROSS DOWN 27. A fang scogfL,1 j 1. Corrosion I. Somewhat 29. Turn to -- -f ' fffcjif I on iron 2. Canton the i ;j 8. Species (Switz.) right THBofBMlU j of pier 3. 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A son of Adam I5 W"JL '7"'" 'Si V ;13 "II B3iP CLAIM & COUNTER-CLAI-Could Anti-Re- d Bill Win Congress' Okay? Could a bill to control Commu-nist activities in the United States win approval of congress? There was some squabbling about the question with claim and counter-claim being hurled. Senator Ferguson (R., Mich.) claimed he could line up y support for such a measure, but said he expected the administra-tion's leaders would try to block action on it. That forecast of Dem-ocratic intentions burned majority leader Scott Lucas, of Illinois. He promptly retorted that Ferguson was "just talking politics." But Ferguson told reporters he was convinced the administration is opposing passage of the bill and that the . difficulty was in getting senate leaders to bring it up for action. |