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Small sunken court by a window 26. Small valley 28. Poisoned by gas 31. Writing fluid 32. Dispatched 33. Erbium (sym.) 34. Close to 35. Varying weight (India) 36. Wing 37. South American ' ruminant 39. Unsteady (colloq.) 41. Jewish month 42. Too 43. Equips 1: w 1 Ti " " IlIIlllIIII HIGHWAY SAFETY Nebraska Rural Safety Project Wins Traffic Engineering Award How one state reduced automo-bile accidents 91 per cent in one year at a dangerous rural highway intersection at trivial cost, simply by removing an unwarranted traf-fic signal and installing stop signs and warnings, has been voted the best example of traffic engineering results submitted to the Associa-tion of Casualty and Surety com-panies in its 1950 competition for traffic officials. First prize of $100 was awarded to J. Edward Johnston, of Lin-coln, Neb., state traffic engineer, Nebraska department of roads and irrigation, for his entry in the second annual "Getting Results Through Traffic Engineering" con-test sponsored by the association's accident prevention department. It showed how accidents have been nearly eliminated at the junction of highways U.S. 30 and Nebraska 15, near Schuyler, where 32 acci-dents had Injured 13 persons in eight and a half years. Only one very minor accident occurred dur-ing the first year after the change was made, compared with 11 during the preceding 12 months. The important contributions to greater highway safety being made by the nation's traffic engineers and officials are Indicated by seven case histories of results, including Mr. Johnston's, published last year in the accident prevention depart-ment's bulletin, "Getting Results Through Traffic Engineering." By actual count, according to Thomas V. Rnnt th nrln. tlon's director of public safety, the 1950 examples of engineer-ing results prevented 70 acci-dents, nine deaths and 61 Inju-ries In comparable periods after safety projects were completed in five cities and on two rural highways In seven states-Tenne-ssee, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, Nebraska, California and Michigan. Nine deaths and 65 Injuries had occurred in 90 accidents at loca-tions studied by traffic officials before the changes were made In the seven projects outlined in last year's bulletins. There were no deaths, injuries were reduced to four, and only 20 accidents occurred after the changes were made, Mr. Boate said. I THE ASSOCIATION'S annual competition, major factors consid-ered by the Judging include effec-tiveness of a project in reducing accidents and traffic delay or con-gestion, and relationship of the value of benefits to cost of the Improvement made. The example submitted by Mr. Johnston showed that the prize-winnin- g Nebraska rural crossroads project enabled the authorities to increase the speed limit from 25 to 35 miles an hour, thus expediting traffic at the same time accidents were reduced 91 per cent. Eight times as many acci-dents had occurred at the Schuyler, Neb., intersection as were experienced at a similar location on U. S. 30 where only stop signs were nsed to control traffic, a study revealed. Analy-sis showed that fixed-tim- e sig-nals were not justified, so the lights were removed and 48-In-reflectorlzed stop ' signs and stop ahead warnings were erect-ed to control traffic on Nebras-ka 15. Other successful traffic engineer-ing projects published in 1950 by the Association, ranging in cost from $5.50 to $30,080, included: es-tablishment of a four-wa- y stop in Nashville, Tenn.; channelizing and installing signals at in Los Angeles and Charlotte, N. C; bus rerouting and signal retiming in midtown Norfolk, Va.; Instituting mid-bloc- k transit loading zones in the central business district of Shreveport, La., and a rural junction near Grand Rapids, Mich. The 1951 "Getting Results Through Traffic Engineering" competition, which again offers a $1C0 award for the best example submitted, is open to all engineers, police and traffic officials. Entries should be sent at any time during the year to the Accident Prevention Depart-ment, Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, 60 John Street, New York 38, N. Y. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Labor Adopts Grass Roots Program; Revision of Farm Parity Suggested GRASS ROOTS MANIFESTO Seven hundred small town unionists met In Washington recently, adopted a seven point manifesto, and de-parted for the Main Streets of America determined to marshal the sup-port of consumer groups, including ladles' clubs, service clubs and farm organizations behind their program. The home town unionists based their manifesto on the thesis of "equality of sacrifice for all groups." In a statement issued at the close of their meeting the group stated: "We are shocked by the cruel disregard being shown for the interests of everyday American families. We are shocked by the privilege and favoritism bestowed on a single group big business." One of the major points of the "grass roots" labor program: "Labor, the farmers, small business and independent consumer groups must be given full representation on all mobilization and stabilization agencies at the policy-makin- g and administrative levels. By so doing, the govern-ment can inspire renewed public confidence and public support of con-trols which otherwise will be hard to take." MAIN STREET ECONOMY Although the situation is not too clear at the moment, there seems to be shaping up in congress a battle over the administration's budget that will strike at the Main Street level of the nation before It touches many other The Big Show ' ... l": segments. The joint congressional committee, which reported on the nation's economy and the proposed budget, recommended a new study of farm-pric- e supports and reduc-tion of federal grants to states. Specifically, the report cited next year's budget estimate of $2,883,000,000 In fed-eral grants to states for highways, public welfare, health, school lunches, agricultural-e-xtension services and agricultural experiment stations, vocational rehabili-tation, airports, and other services. All of these services are on the Main Street level and a cut will be felt immediately in the home towns of the nation. Of all the questions considered in the report, farm parity was the most explosive. The report declared that legislative rem-edies must be sought to correct a condi-tion which now exists by which prices increasing the cost of living and the cost of defense are geared to the industrial practices which have for many years driven up prices of industrial commodities. Farm parity, invented at the depths of the depression, Is geared to the price of Industrial commodities. Revision and modernization of the law will undoubtedly be one of the big questions facing the con-gress. Sen. Estes Ktlauvtr, (abovt), tmcel of th$ senate crime investigating committee bearings in New York, provided the nation with its greatest show during recent weeks when bis committee play-e- J to 15,000,000 television fans, and starring such underworld-gamblin- g big-sbo- tt as - Aim .iiMiiMiliMtiiilJ Jak "Greasy Thumb'' Cuxich, who refused to talk, HIGHER STILL Every time the bu-rea- u of labor statistics announces its in-dex figures on the cost of living they are always higher, even as administration of-ficials repeat the old refrain that leveling-of- f is "Just around the corner." The bureau's newest figures reported the cost of living up 1.3 per cent, setting an-other record. The figure was pegged at 183.8 per cent of the 1935-3- 9 base period. This was 8 per cent higher than the level of June, 1950, before the Korean fighting began, and 9.5 per cent above a year ago. Meanwhile, there were indications that the people in the home towns may be de-veloping some consumer resistance to high prices. The commerce department re-ported a 3 per cent decline in retail sales. Department store sales were reported down 4 per cent. Unofficial reports told of a slackening of consumer buying, possibly because many persons had stocked up heavily last year and possibly because of price climbs. THE BORROWER Russia flatly recently to return 670 American naval and cargo ships she "borrowed" under the World War II lend-leas- e pro-gram. The Soviet went so far as to state that the United States really does not need the ships. Reduced to a common denominator, it Is like a home town neighbor borrowing your lawn mower and refusing to return it after he has clipped his lawn, and hav-ing the nerve to tell you you don't need it anyway, because your lawn doesn't need cutting. The ships are only one of the lend-leas- e problems with Russia. The Soviet still has an over-al- l $11 billion unsettled lease-len- d account with this nation. pwwpisa"i niiBjmw Frank Costello, who keeps $40,000 in cash in bis borne, I ' ,1 1 . MACARTHUR UNDER FIRE Gen. and James J. Carroll, Douglas MacArthur, who seems to have a senators ,i!"!iyf?t knack of making controversial statements, cameras scared bim. The f "lnJth"w1 016 ftate deParUnt and the public liked the show so United Nations into an uproar when he much it objected when a asserted he stood ready at any time to few stations switched to a confer in the field with the commander in brief Easter religious serv-- chief of the Chinese and North Korean forces to end the war and "find any mil-itary means whereby the realization of the political objectives of the United Nations in Korea, to which no nation may justly take exceptions, might be accomplished without further blood-shed." The state department immediately asked the defense department and the White House to curb the general's authority to issue diplomatic overtones. The controversy was taken up in the U.N. and MacArthur was criticized by British and French newspaper. Strong-wille- d MacArthur, who does not believe in hiding his genius under a blanket, had nothing to say about the criticism of his latest statement If the state department and the United Nations persist in their demands that MacArthur be silenced permanently, it might mean that pipe-smoki- Doug will have his wings clipped for the first time in his long career. DRAFT CALL CUT Home town draft boards were notified that their April quotas had been cut in half. The army ordered a quota of 40,000 for the month instead of the previously announced 80,000. Enlist-ments, running higher than were anticipated, and fewer casualties in Korea than had been feared were given as reasons tor the change in the induction rate. The army at latest reports was only about 100,000 men short of its present goal of 1,500,000 men. Meanwhile, a congressional spokesman said the army should be able to halt the draft within 18 months and set up its universal-military-train-in- g program. '4 Wj J$M?$S$, Little Chemist "When Lot's wife looked back," said the Sunday school teacher, "what happened to her?" "She was transmuted into chlo-ride of sodium," answered the boy with the goggles. His Mistake Little Raymond returned home from Sunday school in a very joy-o- us mood. "Oh, mother," he ex-claimed, "the teacher said some-thing awfully nice about me in his prayer this morning!" "Isn't that lovely! What did he say, pet?" questioned the mother. "He said, 'O Lord, we thank thee for our food and Raymond.' " No Heart! Sunday School Teacher "My vord! Doesn't that little boy swear terribly?" Backslider "Yes'm, he sure do. He knows the words, but he don't put no expression in them." Wrong Peter A clerical gentleman in examin-ing the Sunday School, asked the class before him if any could tell him anything about the apostle Peter. A little girl raised her hand much to the gratification of her examiner. Speech Impediment , Thweet Young Thing "I want ihome adhethive plasther." ; Druggist "What thickness?" Thweet Young Thing "Don't mock me, thir!" By INEZ GERHARD FRANK SINATRA, recently from Florida with a fine tan and great enthusiasm for per-forming in a hotel, as he did there, has done well in all fields of enter-tainment but one; so far he has never appeared on the legitimate stage In New York. Probably he'd I ' - ' Hi J . ' "" i ' - Wh. I 'I fwiSAMo!i. Mm hi, Aw vw. wwirwAfc FRANK SINATRA tackle the assignment if it was of-fered, and turn in a good perform-ance. He loves to work, especially in television; has his own show, on CBS, the network which also car-ries his radio series. And he is booked to make "Meet Danny Wil-son" for Universal. He talks well about show business, but really goes to town about Jimmy Durante; you should hear himl Since Virginia Mayo and her hus-band bought their ranch in Arizona they have had 312 applications for jobs from cowboys; ten of them even offered to work for bunk and board if Virginia was going to be on hand. Alan Young is one of the happiest young men in California since How-ard Hughes managed to make a deal with Paramount and get Young for "Androcles and the Lion". When Young was in New York he hardly dared hope the deal would go through, and everybody from Jose Ferrer down was being talked about for the role of "Androcles", for which Alan is perfect. Walter Brennan will soon be ready to welcome tourists at his new Indian Lodge Motel in Joseph, Oregon; has 15 units, at the foot of snow-cappe- d mountains. He directed work from the set of RKO's "Best of the Bad Men" by phone. HL LOVER'S QUARREL I CORNER By Loura M. Welch 1MUST HAVE been about ten or a rather intense little girl with a twenty year old sister whom I adored. She was in love with a young druggist, a handsome young man and she always kept a large photo--I graph of him In Minutt the center of our 3 Fiction vno-- usually with a small fluted bowl of pansies or violets in front of it. Bess had been going with an-other young man in town and Clyde had had another girl; then suddenly they only made dates with each other. One night about one o'clock my sister came upstairs to the room we shared and came to bed and cried nearly all night. Several times I asked her what was the matter and she'd say, "Nothing, honey, go back to sleep." I knew she and Clyde had been to a dance and I was sure they had quarreled. The next morning she still wouldn't tell me why she had cried so much. Later on in the day I went into the parlor to practice my scales and there was his photograph right there in front of me. I couldn't bear to look at it. He had made my sister cry. He had hurt her dread-fully and I hated him. I hated him so much I couldn't bear to see his picture. I took the picture and slid it along the baseboard behind the piano. I gave it a hard shape and was sure it would never be found again. Two or three days went by. My "It was a hateful sort of thing for him to do," Bess said. "I know he's just laughing to him-self, thinking how be put it over on me." sister was still sad. I wondered if she and Clyde would ever make up their quarrel. Some of her friends got to-gether and decided to .'o some-thing to help them make up. They came down to the house and brought Clyde with them, stayed a short time and went off leaving Clyde and Bess to-gether. But it didn't do any good. Clyde left early, too, and my sister was just as sad as ever. One day I heard her talking to one of her girl friends. "It was a hateful sort of thing for him to do. He could have asked me, you know. That would have been the honora-ble thing to do, even if he had wanted to give it to another girl." She swallowed a sob and went on, "I know he's just laughing to him-self, thinking how he put it over on me." I didn't have the slightest idea what she was talking about. THE WHOLE TOWN was inter-- ested in the quarrel. They'd been expecting a big church wed-ding with all the fixings and were disappointed. As for myself, I Just got madder and madder. One morning I was sent uptown for the mail and met Clyde on the street. I started to go by him with-out speaking, which 1 knew was very rude, but I didn't care If it was. He reached out and caught my hand. "Look, honey, don't be mad at me," he said. "Don't you know this thing is hurting me too?" I said angrily, "You made her cry." He turned a little pale and looked very serkus. "Did she really cry, Becky?" "Yes, she does . . . did, I mean. That's why I took your picture and bid it behind our old piano, "You took the photograph?" I nodded. "It's behind the piano." "And all this time I thought she took it away because she was go-ing to put another one there." Quite suddenly I began to under-stand. "And she thought you took it to give to another girl." He took my hand again. "Look, I'm going home with you, Becky. Will you tell Bess what you've Just told me?" I nodded. And we went home to-gether and I told her. There was a wedding after alL CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT HELP WANTED MEN KANTKD 8almman to sell fireworks on consignment to grocery, drug, retail stores. Write HIRST-JONE- S F1KE-WOHK-Center. Imi, WANTED TO BUY FOR SALE : Two milk routes Including: one new Chevrolet truck. Ten thousand! dollars. Dairy and Stock Farms. City Property, Call or write Rernatt Invest-ment Co., Hamilton, Montana. 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Kills si i JJT ot common fungi on cootactj GRASSROOTS Taxpayers Bear Expense of RFC Deals and Frauds By Wright A. Patterson GENERAL VAUGHN'S bestowal on favorites was but a piker operation com-pared with the natural mink coats presented to White House stenog-raphers for influence in securing loans for corporations from the Reconstruction Finance Corpora-tion. The mink coats have figured prominently In tlie senate In-vestigation of the R.F.C. scan-dal that has kept Washington and the entire nation aghast for several weeks. But like other scandals of the past that newspaper and radio re-porters have dug o n t of un-usual graft conditions, nothing will come of it all. The White House stenographer has her fur coat and will keep it. The Democratic national commit-tee has collected considerable sums with which to finance the next na-tional political campaign, and it will be used for that purpose. Numerous "fixers" have been paid extrav :gant sums for their services with directors of the R.F.C In-directly the American taxpayers bore the expense through the R.F.C loans, which are financed by the federal government. It Is reported in Washington that grand jury Indictments against R.F.C. directors and the "fixers" will be sought. Such indictments may be voted, but. In all probability, convic-tions will not be obtained by the Department of Justice. of the sensational evi dence produced by the senate committee, nothing will hap-pen. The committee findings will be a political "white-wash." The senate will refuse to confirm the directors for a new term, and they will pass out of official life and quite possibly accept lucrative Jobs with some of the numerous con poratlons to whom they have made extensive iJans of gov-ernment money. Such a procedure would be but a repetition of other similar In-stances of the past. During the last war, for example, reporters dug out the evidence of large scale graft on the part of contractors on the International highway through Mexico and Central America. They provided the names, places, amounts and methods. The state-ments they printed could well have been the basis for libel suits if the statements were untrue, but no such suits were Instituted. A congres-sional committee undertook an in-vestigation. For a few days there was much fuss about It all. Then the subject disappeared from the newspapers, and the investigation stopped. Nothing happened. The grafting contractors kept their gains, the tax payers paid the bills, the investigation was called off. It was interfering with the game of politics and politicians. Another instance in which report-ers dug up the evidence was the installation of radar protection for Hawaii. The installation was to be made under the direction of a Ger-man who was an engineer officer in the American army. For various reasons of the German officer, the installation was delayed, and that delay resulted in the Pearl Harbor disaster. After the reporters had investi-gated and printed their statements accusing the German officer with deliberately delaying the installa-tion, a congressional committee undertook an investigation. Again there were grounds for libel suits, but the suits were never filed. The congressional investiga-tion lasted for a few days, and was then dropped. The German en-gineer officer was assigned to an-other job, in connection with the construction of the Alcan highway. Later, h was promoted and sent to Germany with the army of occu-pation. Such were two examples in which there was convincing evidence. There was a similar situation in connection with the construction of the Alcan highway, and the oil development project that went with it. In that case a four-st- ar genera was involved. It, too, was white-washed by a congressional investi-gation. The President has sent to the senate for confirmation the five directors of the R.F.C. There is hardly a chance of senate confirma-tion, but they will be allowed to get out to be rewarded with lucra-tive jobs from some of the corpora-tions to which they have made loans of the peoples' money. Such is partisan politics. THE AMERICAN FARMER Farm Plant Value Pegged at 91 Million American farmers now own 91 bil-lion dollars worth of land, buildings, live stock and equipment. This gigantic food "factory" turned out approximately 30 billion dollars worth of produce in 1950, or a third of the value of the "plant" itself. In 1900 and even in 1910, American agriculture produced only a sixth of its own physical value in a year. Even in prosperous 1929 it produced a little less than one-four- of its "plant value," a recent survey re-vealed. The farmer has accomplished these gains through a 900 per cent increase in his investment in tools and machinery since 1900, and by use of better methods, better seed, better livestock, and more fertilizer, the report stated. |