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Show mimjaiium .siiiBvaaiMSjsssBtsaMrs 3 By BAUKIIAGE JVeiM Analytt tnd CommenUUcr. WNU Service, 1611 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C There li a great mall mystery In Washington which public reaction sleuths art trying try-ing to solve. Recent Re-cent reactions of congress pre tenta a paradox. In fact, a pair of paradoxea. Gradually, one by one, like a maiden pluck ing daisy petal to learn her fate and fortune, congress con-gress has been tripping the poor office of price administration adminis-tration of its powers, until said agency has little more control over prlcea than man over a skidding car on an icy pavement. And yet, according to recent polls, 82 per cent of the public la in favor of "holding the line." The March survey by that reliable poller, KORC (National Opinion Research Center of Denver university) among other similar groups, points this out When the bouse virtually stripped OPA of lis powers late in April, letters let-ters poured in supporting the agency, agen-cy, since then its head, Paul Porter, Por-ter, using the publicity machine bunt up by bis predecessor. Stabilisation Stabili-sation Director Bowles, has omitted omit-ted no word or act to keep his side of the arguments against celling-mashing celling-mashing before the consumer. Although Al-though congress is not now being needled heavily as it waa at the peak of the house debate, plenty of people or still asking for OPA continuation. con-tinuation. At the same time, of course, anti-control anti-control forces are keeping up their pressure both through lobbyists of the interested groups, and through the paid advertising of the National Manufacturers association, and other industrial organizations. But far as any one can gauge, the people themselves still want price control. Nevertheless, congress con-gress hat managed to whittle It . down, and many observers, at this writing, consider It aa among the dead already. That la one mystery. Another was provided in the recent move on the part of the President, with bis emergency emer-gency strike bill, and on the part .of congress, with the reinforced Case bilL Up until the unions threatened to tie up the railroads and ignored government gov-ernment orders, there was no chance to get any labor-control measure through congress. But the people wanted something, and when the President offered It he received "a response in the way of letters and telegrama such as the White House has not known in the memory of its present' staff, some of whom have served there since the days of Wood-row Wood-row Wilson. Now' I, know thaKtome of my reader!, like many of my listeners, will aea nothing strange in this apparent ap-parent indifference to the popular will on .the part of congress. A lot of letters I receive indicate that a great many people think con gress pay no attention to the voter. This ia laughably inaccurate. The voice of the voter ia the one wing a congressman obeys. Ia spite of this fact, 61 per cent of the people, If our old friend. NORC is right as it haa proved to be on many occasions, oc-casions, believe that congresc depend! de-pend! mora oa its own judgment wan oa public opinion. Of course, the reason for this impression im-pression ia that the organized voters, the ones which soma organ Izatloa controls, form the congress, tnan'a Judgment because they are the most vocal They make them-selves them-selves heard in person, through their membership, and the people whom they influence. In the two recent questions I have mentioned: labor control and price control, you have two powerful power-ful lobbies at work the unions and the industrial organizations, but pulling in opposite directions. I ant not laying that cither is tight or wrong in the views they express and the causea they advocate. advo-cate. I am saying that they are active and powerful, And also that they naturally promulgate ideas in their own Interest If these interests inter-ests happen to be the public's, as Well, fine. If not. , . . Most , of the congressional secretaries sec-retaries I know well enough to talk with frankly support this view. Except Ex-cept of course, when soma strange political deal is involved, whereby the congressman feels it safer to displease some of bis constituency because of Its indifference, than to disregard the pressure brought upon him by other forces in or out of congress. This particular Inquiry by the Quarterly ahowed legislators rated the various influences on them, as follows: (1) personal mail; (2) visits TO the public; (3) newspapers; 4) vis-Its vis-Its FROM the public; and (9) public pub-lic opinion polls. The bearing which these figures have on the importance of writing your congressman, In my opinion, Is this: they show that mail IS important, im-portant, and that when letters at one end of the spectrum of importance impor-tance jibe with the poll (at the other end). It certainly puts a burr under the legislator's vote. More PeopU in Baying Market Recently, I said over the air that America was eating better, and eating mora than It had ever eaten before. Immediately I received a squall of stormy letters, vehemently vehement-ly denying my statement All of the writers regaled me with the same tale which my wife brings home each day that the grocer'a and the butcher'a ahelves are almost bare. Nevertheless, America ia eating better and more food. Americans who ate a yearly average of 127 pounds of meat before the war are now gobbling it at the rate of ISO pounds apiece. This statement Is from Fortune magazine, a periodical periodi-cal not noted for making false statements. You and I cannot get everything we want but we aren't all of America Amer-ica by a long way. You and I have always had meat virtually every day In the week. But millions of people in this country never bad meat more than once or twice a week. These mil- PUBLIC'S SPENDABLE IKC0I42 1939 imamMMiA mmm wwiu. mnrnm tnnonGH 1847 Personal Mail Exerts Big Influence on Congressman AaserA I WHICH J h BILLION jj 1946 titimaU based tn 1st quartet Itona of people have more money today than they have ever had, but you. if you are one of the people who wrote me, probably never were conscious of that fact Tha little graph shows the facts. These figures on which it is based are compiled by the department of commerce, and the most anti-administration banker you know won't doubt them. They show, as you see, that in 1939, the public's spendable Income was 68 billion dollars. The estimate tor 194S is 139 billion. Now your common sense will tell you that tha people who ate meat every day didn't get aU of that 71 billion dollar increase in their spending money. The low-income groups got a large part of it In other words, America (as a whole) Is eating mora meat (and other things) than it ever did before, end because so many MORE people are eating so much MORE meat there isn't aa much left tor tha people who ate all they wanted before. The discussion of how much America ia eating arose in connection connec-tion with the question aa to our ability abil-ity to help teed starving Europe and Asia. Soma people believed that because be-cause they couldn't buy as many thing! at tha atore ei they were accustomed to buying, America didn't have enough to spare. But tha people (you and D who can't get all of what we want are in no danger of starving. We can get things we may not like, but which will be Just as good for us. And also, we can be assured that the people, who, la America's past have been near the danger lines, are getting a tot more than they ever had before. And they weren't starving then, either. So don't think that we haven't enough to spare for the Invisible guest BARBS ...by Daukhage Perhapa if we pay 11 cents more a pound for butter, the cows will be stimulated to generate more buV terfat, and competition will force ' the price down again. I A man fall! freely at about 118 'miles per hour. In a parachute he cornea down at 14 m.p.h. Next time you stumble over the rug, ha sure you don't exceed the speed limit When Mr. Gromyko talks, ha doesn't remove the bark even if it is a bite. too. Since our family started rationing scarce bread, there haa been considerable con-siderable complaint outside the bedroom bed-room window from a mother bird who calls regularly tor crusts. Now she'll probably start on a meat diet and probably the worms will turn. Demobilization Set for 31st n December, 194 WNU rntum. THE USO will continue through 1946 and until the last day In 1947, when it will complete its wartime, war-time, demobilization and reconver sion services Decemmber 31, 1947. Official announcement that USO will conduct its own fund-raising campaign next September and October Octo-ber with a goal to cover minimum service requirements through 1947 was made by President Lindsley F. Kimball at USO New York headquarters. head-quarters. USO came into being on February Febru-ary 4, 1941, when six member agencies agen-cies joined hands to create one organization or-ganization to care for the needs of the men and women of the armed forces. So far the American public has contributed 200 million dollars to the organization. Still Needed, Says Ike. In a message to President Kimball. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stated: "May I earnestly count on your organization and your host of volunteers volun-teers to stay with us through the dangerous and difficult period of transition to final peace? "We still have a pressing need for the services of USO and will be deeply grateful for your continued help in the future aa in the past " Fleet Adm. Chester W. Niinitz. chief of naval operations, also sent a message of congratulation. For Wounded Veterans. The need for raising a terminal fund in the fall of 1946 is due to the fact that the National War fund Will finance USO only through 1946. Tentative, purely tentative, plana for 1947 call for the operation of some 3S0 to 400 USO clubs In the continental United States, largely In connection with lospltalized but convalescent veterans. Operation of station lounges for troops-in-transit men on leave, and families of service serv-ice people must continue. Overseaa clubs will carry on in Alaska, Canal zone, Hawaii, Philippines, etc. Camp shows will still be seen and heard in 1947 by men in hospitals and men overseas. Coincident with the announcement announce-ment of the USO fall campaign. President Kimball made public his annual report in which he says: "USO finds that at its peak of activity It was serving 1,000,000 people a day in one capacity or another, an-other, running up to more than 1,000,-000,000 1,000,-000,000 the total served since the organization waa.created. 1,035 Unite at Peak. "The number of operations, such as clubs, lounges and similar activities, activi-ties, reached a high point back in March of 1944, a total of 8.039. As training camps closed and the men went overseas this number declined but the over-all volume of work increased. "The five-year peak of activity and cost came after peace in Eu rope and before the surrender f Japan, Redeployment of troop! re opened many eamps, doubled or vastly Increased loads of various seaport cities. . . . Expenditure! climbed to $5,800,000 a month. New Postwar Problems. Referring to tha future of USO Mr. Kimball layi In hi! report: "Tha successful conclusion of the war does not cannot and will not return the United States to ita prewar pre-war status. ... It Is clear even now that our armed forces in tha postwar period must be numbered in the millions. "USO will complete its wartime, demobilization and reconversion service! December 31, 1947." ' 'V V' . - I' - -in fti h a I - " -I ty i i . f - v . . il , 4 if- ' - ' AT CHOW . . . Franklin P. Adams, John Kleran and Clifton Fadiman ef "Information Please, we G.I. and washed their own mesa kite while oa a USO-Camp Shews tour overseas. HOPE OF TOMORROW Future Horxmakers of America Membership f p over 200,000 We are the Future Homemakers ef America. We face the future with warm courage, And high hope. For we are the bulidera of homes, Homea for America's future. Homes where living will be the expression of everything That ia good and fair. flfBITTEN by pupil delegates at v a meeting of the, national executive council of the Future Homemakers of America in Chicago Chi-cago in the summer of 1949, the foregoing creed dramatizes the broad objectives of a booming high school home economics club already al-ready numbering over 200,000 members mem-bers in 49 states and Hawaii and Puerto Rico. High school home economics clubs are not e new idea but the Future Homemakers movement represents i i 1 ADVISER . . . Dr. Basel Frost la national adviser ef the Future Homemakers of America. the first effort to co-ordinate all such activity In a central organization. Under the stimulus provided by home economics sections in .State departments of education, tha American Home Economics association, associ-ation, and home economics school! and departments In colleges, independent in-dependent units have thrived tor 15 years, with recognition of tha un- wj n!mii.,Mi I.......... . n iin.ii mm m wswnimwmi ypwn m : : v K Y , f; I -V '' NN A it - s Wi W -' TJ mms Ml I i ftrt-Millf-- 'irfTllllllMl JUOSE WHO SERVED . The USO continaes to aid wounded vet-? erans. Above la Junior Hostesa LacUI Massa playing checkers with . s wounded vet at a Battle Creek Mich., club outside Percy Jonea army general hospital. limited possibilities offered for learning and teaching. Designed to stimulate interest in home economics and integrate high school activities with organization work, the Future Homemakers movement evolved from plana drawn by the American home economics eco-nomics association and the home economics service of the U. S. office of-fice of education in 1941 Within a few months, it was accepted by the state departments of education and vocational education and the state home economics associations of a majority of states, including Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the District Dis-trict of Columbia. 'Toward New Horizons.' When the pupil delegates of the Future Homemakers met in Chicago Chi-cago last summer they were fully prepared for formal organization of their club. Besides writing their creed and constitution, they developed devel-oped policies and procedures, drew a work program for the year, decided de-cided upon red and white for their colors, the red rose for their flower, flow-er, and an octagonal emblem. Fittingly, Fit-tingly, they chose "Toward New Horizons" for their motto. National In scope, the Future Homemakers are broken down into regional districts, with state and local lo-cal chapters. Presently, Myrtle Hilton of Tip-tonville, Tip-tonville, Tenn., is president; Anita Lehman of Baton Rouge, La., is vice president; Emma Jo Lewis of De. Land, Fla., Is recreation chairman; chair-man; Joan Du Plessis of Swamps-cott, Swamps-cott, Mass., is secretary; Barbara Ann Boggs of Sutton, W. Va.. is vice president and Marie Bresnan of East Haven, Conn., is national project proj-ect chairman. Other officers include Irene Trout of Milwaukie, Ore., treasurer; Barbara Bar-bara Parker of Carson City, Nev vice president; Margaret Worlton of Lent, Utah, public relations; Phyllis Marshall of Vermont HI, parliamentarian; Deania Burnworth of Independence, Kans., vice president presi-dent and Lois K. Mueller of Seymour, Wis., historian. Wide Latitude Allowed. While the pupfl members of the Future Homemakers are permitted tha widest latitude In the formulation formula-tion and development of their programs, pro-grams, they are assisted by experienced experi-enced advisers, including Edna Amidon, chief of the home economics eco-nomics service of the U. S. office of education; Mrs. Dora & Lewis of tha executive board of the American Ameri-can Homemakers association; Emily Baydock of the National Education Edu-cation association, and Dr. Hazel Frost Successful in developing a home economics club in Oklahoma several sev-eral years ago, Dr. Frost aa national na-tional adviser of the Future Home-makers, Home-makers, haa been largely credited with the phenomenal growth of the new movement In assuming her position with the future Home-makers Home-makers in 1944, Dr. Frost applied tha same principle! she employed in Oklahoma in making the new or ganization a close working partner of home economic! classes. Though mostly composed of girls, the Future Homemakers also admit ad-mit boys to membership, Highlights of USO Five-Year Record A brief summary of USO's accomplishments ac-complishments during its first Eva years of service to men and women in uniform all over tha world include in-clude tha following highlights: At peak, CSO was serving eae tntUioa men day. . During the five years (February (Febru-ary 4, 1941 to February 4, 1945) total at 1,100,000,000 aerved. At peak, there were 10.13$ USO operation Peak expenditures were S 00.001 a month. Peak everseaa unite totalled 178. Overseas club attendance (1941 to 1945) was KMJJISOSI. Daring tha half-decade, me-bile me-bile servicea ef all aorta totalled 50 million. Nineteen and eae-half million tndWidnal eervicea performed by 131 USO-Travelers Aid anita. At tha height at activities 700 USO ahowa were given daily everseaa and in the United States, by mora than (,90a entertainers. en-tertainers. lane, 1943; waa the numerical peak at volunteers 739,eoe Of them working that month. They worked total of 165 million hours tn tha five years. - American! public haa girea too million dollars la service 14 million meat and women ta armed force lit WASHINGTON rHBt woirer oneao WNU ConwpoKfwt SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS SilmmlnQm Graceful wo Pi 'DaV&Play 2)reM for Sunnij 3)a WNU sruh'mrfM Burtta, WtKrtSUM. W. Peoples of World Progress Slowly Toward Co-Operation WHETHER we like it or not whether we believe it or not forces of necessity, of self-preservation and world-wide need are bringing bring-ing the peoples of this old planet upon which we live, closer together . . . nearer to the one world about which Wendell Willkie preached. We have only to look at passing events to see the signs manifest upon every hand. Each passing day which brings its quarrels, its misunderstandings, mis-understandings, its mistrusts and misgivings into the open, is one more milestone . . . one more obstacle overcome as we inch toward to-ward that new day of a newer conception con-ception of our dependency one na tion upon the other, one people upon another people. Today the United States, more fortunate than others In the aftermath after-math of war, is upon the giving end. Who knows but that tomorrow we may be calling for help as other nations na-tions are calling upon us for aid today. Almost jme-balf of the two billion bil-lion persons which populate this world are today dependent apoa the ether half for the actual necessity nec-essity for life . . . food. Food and its distribution ia today the No. 1 priority ... It Is the all-consuming nought of these millions, mil-lions, enough food to maintain life. While we are engaged in our petty bickerings by comparison compar-ison . . . price controls, election prospects, whether we have one or two pair of nylons, how we stand on the list for a new car . . . how long the filibuster will last in congress . . . whether we ean get a new home . . . these millions think only of a loaf of bread. And who knows, we may be calling upon them this next winter for a ton of coat Sfeps Toward Unity The recent International Labor Congress ... the more recent International In-ternational Agricultural Producers conference in London ... the scheduled sched-uled meeting of the food and agricultural agri-cultural organization of the United Nations organization ... the proposed pro-posed International Conference tor the Expansion of World Trade and Employment ... the start In the operation of the International Monetary Mon-etary fund and of the International bank ... the widespread and broader broad-er scope of our own Export-Import bank ... the regular sessions of the security council of the UNO and the meetings of the foreign ministers of the great powers ... the broadening broaden-ing of the objectives of the Pan-American Pan-American union ... the plans for the cultural relations division of our state department . . . aU these passing events point to the building up of collective power and understanding under-standing instead of Individual power pow-er .. . collective thinking instead of individual thinking . . . which moves us closer to 'One World" and who knows perhaps world government gov-ernment If these events do not gradually gradu-ally bring about a united viewpoint view-point ... If they do not eliminate elimi-nate mistrust aa between nations na-tions ... if they de not discredit dis-credit intolerance ef one people for another, then Indeed we are preparing for another war. This writer ofttimes is pessimistic where human nature ia concerned, for it has changed little In the past 3,000 years, but we have now reached a crisis in the history of the world and a turning point in our civilization. For another war will not be just another war ... it will be stark effacement of whole cities, whole nations. . If the will to prevent this destruction destruc-tion of civilization la there, then surely these movements towards international in-ternational co-operation wQI bear fruit the yield alight perhaps, but gaining as we get to know one another an-other better. And that brings as to the fear that is In the minds of government govern-ment leaders and peoples everywhere ev-erywhere . . .what of the atomlo bomb which hangs aa a sword ef Damoclea ever the heads of the world? What will we de with it? Will we give it aver to the security council ef the UNO? . Your Home Town Reporter will witness July 1 the joint army-navy test of the fourth atomic bomb in the Marshall Islands. The first bomb which dropped in a New Mexican desert was a pigmy by comparison. Peace or Annihilation The next two at Hiroshima and Nagasaki are obsolete although they almost wiped out those two cities. What will the fourth bomb do, dropped on an array of target ships in Bikini lagoon? The army-navy task force test is a research which is intended to prepare this country tor defense against atomic energy ... tor any eventuality. Can mankind break the deadly age-old peace-war cycle and end wars? It Is evident mat we must or It our civilization perish. 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