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Show f - t Tuesday, August 24, 1948 YOUTH MONTH: Awareness WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Bumper Crops Due This Year, ay Crack liigh Cost Living; Spy Probe Confusion Mounts Ghost of Latvia Recalls Memories of Better Days By Bill Schoentgco, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whti ipiiitM r asareeaW la tkN Mliaii. tby are Umm of SMUrs Marti? of idvi aaaJyaie Mi eel HvtHMt f By BAUKHAGE Ntvpr Nmm Analyst and Comsesasetator WASHINGTON At the end of one of those few pleasant summer days which Washington gives us, I was walking homeward from a mission in a part of town which I hadnt visited recently. I found myself in a neighborhood which seemed to produce a slightly nostalgic feeling. and. tor a abort block, was qulta steep. The itreet took a quick n Most of the bouses were new but there was one with a colored glass window such as graced many a home that I visited as a child. Such windows were usually on the staircase landing, at the turn, and when the sun shone through them it tossed a handful of jewels on the carpet I always wanted to pick them up. That I thought as I walked along, is nostalgic childhood memories. up-tur- But I was wrong. Soon I realized which the stained that the memory is being turned into th coffers of the Kremlin. I can well Imagine what happened to the organizations when the Reds stepped in they are about as closely akin to the Communist youth as the boy scouts were to th Hitler jugend. But if w are to believe aO we hear, Latvia is resisting communization. Only this week I received a copy of the Baltic Review, printed in Sweden. Here is one paragraph: "With the coming scholastic year war, games will be introduced as an obligatory subject in the schools of all the constituent Soviet republics, writes Clna. the organ of the Communist party in Latvia. Th paper goes on to say that the international situation demands that children be taught th art of war aa early as possible. Military discipline should be instilled in them evenbefor . they come to school. Their toys should be model tanks and planes and children's mechanos or building boxes should consist, of parts whereof these objects can be constructed. The author relates about his trip to Russia to atudy Soviet education and military training and remarks, that in this respect the Baltic republics are very backward as yet Pupils of aeyen and eight in the school of Moscow had displayed quit surprising knowledge as regards military matter. Ten year olds had been experts with the rifles and girls had been as competent-a- s boys,- Even tiny tot four and five had known the rudiment of military drill. How useful this proficiency may be in a guerilla war, exclaims the author.' Wbat Is going to happen to the next generation la the U. 8. 8. R. Itself and In the countries dominated by her? Listen to this further extract from the Baltic Review: glass window evoked was much reason why dead nations, which really never quite died, must not live on in somq form. And Washington is not without such sov disembodied erelgntles. I had seen the man whose memory the multicolored window had stirred for the first time when he was descending a stairway with just such a window behind him. Be was Alfred and he died in July of this year. He was the minister of the republic of Latvia which had died eight. years ago but according to the state department was and is of such corporeal quality that, along with its sister republics of Lithuania and Estonia, it still possesses diplomatic representatives who are recognized on equal terms with those of living nations. . It was In Aagust of 1940 that the Red army marched Into the Baltlo states and they became by force majenre, territorially, a part of the U. 8. S. A. But the three little democracies were prepared politically, if not diplomatically, A month or so earlier, by due process of psrlla-mentar- y law, a decree was promulgated which made the Latvian minister-tLondon chief of the Latvian state if the Russians took over her territory. Today Charles Zarena, minister t to Britain, remains the head of the diplomatic corpa of the republic of Latvia. Biimanla continued to aerve hii in the United Communitti' Ideal State after the Russian seizure. About Education Up to then be had helped to keep th bonds firm between ua and his Every Soviet school manual little country whose people reached every worfc of fiction for children the shores of the Baltic back in the and young people, every periodical early days of European history, for the rising generation la a manspirit along with the only two other re- ifestation of a war-lik- e maining group which are at least worthy of the Huns of old. Innuligulsticslly, if not. ethically, re- merable era the glorifications in lated to the Latts: the Finns and them of all sorts of heroic exploits of Soviet people during World War the Magyars. IL, to enter a military school is The last president ef the as the highest aim of represented free repubtlo ef Latvia, Carl every Soviet boy and 80 per cent was Ulmsnis Ansrleai of the pictures show guns, tanks, trained. Be lived In Nebraska ! infantry or cavalry exercisea. Picwhere be waited in exile and ture books for tiny tots exhibit worked for hla countrys Indechildren playing with rifles, tanks pendence. Be studied agriculand grenades, every gam taught ture and when he returned to to the young baa a military pur-poLatvia in that hopeful heydey ef The little bit of apace that is Europes new republics after left over from these aggressive and World War 1, ha carried back ideas. One of them was the , clubs. Latvia was 60 per cent agricultural and among its population of movement only two million, the grew, adapted of course to its new environment, to 40,000 when 1 heard of it last before the iron curtain descended. There were interchanges of visits between the countries and, whenever the big encampment took place in Washington, the little Latvian legation echoed to the cheerful chatter of American children who drank lemonade and heard the big, smiling man with th expres-airuddy hands, tell of his country and show pictures of the children there at work on their projALFRED BILMANIS ects or going through their folk . . . ghost ef e station . , . dances In the gay costumes of bellicose writings is used to extol their land. the merits of th Communist party The American kids looked at and its leaders.. Lenin, and Stalin. the paintings that eevered the All this literary production exude walla for Bilmaaliwaa quite such a 'hate for thewhol world, collector, .They wera allowed. for th " bourgeois Imperialism gingerly to try the great chair and capital that th books of the which Napoleon had taken back Hitler jugend seem mild nursery to France from' Moscow, ex" rhyme in comparison. amine the delightful little Ivories, the china and the other That la not th kind of a state f which Alfred Biimanla objeta dart which filled the 'legation. dreamed. He hoped one day to return with his valuable . And then, on by one, they and build a museum tripped up the stairs to look at In his own restored country. e the model of the Latvian Though he continued to serve girl in the traditional robes of th aa minister, his funds raa low -country, wearing the aymbolic and he had to part with many necklace made of great discs of f hla things. However, he did amber. Amber bad been a Latvian save some of the paintings, article of export since th earliest Napoleon chair and the lady traders from th Mediterranean and her bead. made their way to this northern land, for it was a much admired Perhaps someday others may ornament for the ladies of ancient , realize hi dream some happy Rome and Greece. A good neckday when freedom in Europe is lace was supposed to be worth an returned and the ghost republics of Arabian mount ; the Baltic become real once more If there is any amber being col- for tb people wbo Inhabit lected on Latvian beaches today It them. ia so-cal- J , - ghost-governme- a. 4-- H 4-- 4-- vj -- life-siz- , I ! w.vi . . . Two potential witnesses who were expected to add some information to the Washington Red spy hunt were Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina (left) and Alexander Koral. Neither did, however. Mrs, Kosenkina, wbo taught children of Russian IJ. N. officials in New York, made headlines by leaping from a third story window In the Soviet consulate where the allegedly was being held against her will. Koral billed aa a "mystery witness" and accused of being a paid courier for the wartime Communist espionage ring, refused to tell anything he might know on the grounds that he would be Incriminating himself. SIDETRACKS 4-- more recent But it did stir ghosts, the ghost of a man and the ghost of a nation, for there is no i CROP REPORT: Momentous There was momentous news from the nation's farms: In the cards corn for 1948 was a record-settin- g crop, the' second largest wheat crop and substantial increases over last year in oats, barley and rye. Government estimates, as of August 1, of this years grain production read like a statistical fantasy of th promised --land. Bureau of agricultural economics reported that a corn crop of 3,506,- 363.000 bushels is indicated this year, far above lHTi small weather-placrop of 2.4 billion bushels. 1,284,333,000 , An approximate bushels of wheat will be forthcoming this year. Other crop estimates were: Oats, 1,470,444,000 bushels; barley, 313 139,000 bushels, and rye, 26.664.000 bushels. Trouble grew out of the fact that, although the huge crop are welcome this year, they may set the scene for huge postwar surpluses, mostly of corn and wheat Officials contend that there simply aren't enough animals left on the nation's farms to take care of the kind of production being achieved this year, particularly the com outturn,. , Immediate result of this sudden condition of oversupply probably will be the governments starting to support com prices aa soon as the crop starts moving. Other grain supports are likely to be evoked later. Grain exports will be pushed, of course, but the export market Is almost certain to fall off In a year or so because other nations also ar Intensifying their farm production with considerable success. work for farm gluts that would be followed by costly subsidies in the form of farm price supports. Should another year of heavy crop yields follow this one, and should there be a recovery of agriculture abroad, tremendous surpluses in grains would result. Thus, U. S. taxpayers would stand to lose in the cost of price supports a good deal of what they might save in food prices. CONFUSION: It the day should ever dawn when every family in the nation become fully aware that ail juvenile "delinquency has Ita beginning in the home, then U. S. society will have reached ita Elysian fields. Once families become endowed with this awareness they will tend to bring pressure to bear to eliminate the secondary factor that contribute to delinquency in young people: School failure, church failure, bad bousing and the inevitable shift in ethical values from one generation to the next which are sometimes confusing and frightening to immature minds. that end, and because a . To healthy store of young minds and bodies is the best overall Insurance any nation can have, September has been proclaimed Youth Month. The Theater Owner of Americas who feel they have a big stake in the welfare of U. S. youth, have undertaken to organize the principal media of information newspapers, magazines, radio and motion pictures to publicize the month. Aside from the publicity to be accorded the problem of juvenile delinquency, which is the immediate purpose of Youth Month, the observance is more deeply significant in that it provides, some evidence that Americans are becoming actively conscious that aj least a partial remedy must be found. Springboard for Youth Month and any other concerted group action that might obtain is a probing and thoughtful report on juvenile delinquency by the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency, Washington, D. C. A digest of this report: or series of panel reports, covering basic causes and possible solutions of the problemr 1 weD worth a few hours study on the part of every parent who is aware of his Inevitable fallibilities as a guide and leader of hi children. And Spies America's current top thriller, the Russian spy sensation, had developed more facets than a cylindrical lena in a lighthouse and each one wa blinding to the eye of the beholder. The motley group of persons ealled to testify before congressional investigating committees was growing and growing. It was getting to the point where even the witnesses had witnesses. ,. A sensational offshoot of the original spy investigation temporarily stole the spotlight from the main event This was the battle of the schoolteachers Mikhail I. Samarin and Mr. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina, both U. N. personnel. The goings on over this pair of Russian pedagogues seemed to be fairly complicated, but they could be boiled down to a sophisticated International game of run sheep run. Both Samarin and Mrs. Kosenkina had appeared on the scene as potential witnesses in the congresThen things sional investigation. started to happen. First Mrs. Kosenkina disappeared for a few days. According to the official Soviet version, the had been "captured" by a group of anticommunist White Russians and held prisoner. Then she was resDeflation? cued" by loyal U. S. S. R. susituation of the side crop Brighter la th fact that it promises the bject. A few day later she leaped consumer almost certain relief from from a window I in the third atory Inflated food prices sooner or later, of the Soviet consulate in New York where, she said, aha had been held since grain supplies and prices ar basic in determining cost of living captive. Driven to desperation by fear, she was seriously Injured when at the household level Prices of most grains, as a mat- she took the only way out On top of all this the other school ter of tael already have broken. Cora was down to $2.02 a bushel teacher, Samarin, also disappeared. He, too, was supposed to be in cusWhite Rustody of sians. However, information leaked out from the Samarin camp: He wanted to testify; he liked the U. S. and revolted against going back to Russia. gued NEW LOW: Bitterness Exploring New York : The worlds busiest corner ia not Deal the Bread! 42nd itreet and Times Square its The company cook brought in St. In and street 34th B'way. of extremely thin slices Anns churchyard is the grave of aof plateful bread and butter, which rather Lewis Morris. Hes the only New the outfit. Yorker who inked the Declaration dismayed cuthungry Did milethese, you old An sergeant?" of Independence. ... ... stone (marking the distance to city Nichhall) atill can be found on St. olas avenue. It once was used as a guide for stagecoaches. . . More crimes have taken place on the Main Stem (between 47th and 9th treets) than in any other spot in town. . . . Our town is earthquake-proo-f: No quakes have occurred in New York er are likely to occur. Most of the Main Stem mas-d- a inferno Is not generated by legit theater or film palaces. The majority of the electrie afgnery advertises eateries. Assessed valuation of Broadway s reel estate is a mere three billion bux City hall still has the ma hogany desk that Washington used to pen his Inaugural Address. . . . When you pass 309 Bleecker street say a little prayer. Tom Paine lived there. . . . Waterfront workers have names for various pier. They usually are christened after womthe surrounding en. . Despite poverty, the gayest section of town ia the Puerto Rican part of Harlem on Saturday night. . . . Cliffs flanking the Hudson are made of volcanic rock. .. Parts ef tb Statu of Liberty were exhibited in various sections of the city before they were assembled. asked one. "Yes, I cut them," came the stern answer. replied the soldier, "Okay, Ill shuffle and deal. Send for a Doctor Traffic Cop Get along with you. Whats the matter with you anyway? Motorist Theres nothing wrong with me but my engine is dead. Ambitious Hobo Mrs. Jones (to tramp at the door) Are you really content to spend your life walking around the country begging? Tramp No, maam, manys the time I wished I had a car. Out of Season lead a dreadful life A moth must "Why?" "He spends the summer in fur coats and the winter in bathing suits " A Hard Fall Jasper Our neighbor, Mr. Jones, fell off his roof while he was shin- gling it. Mrs. Jasper Oh, my! Didnt Mrs. Jones feel terrible? Jasper Ill say she did. He fell right into her nicest petunia bed! Wage Inciden- tally, you know that. Miss Wonderful carries a torch in her right band. Know wbat tb boldt in her left f I ft a boob representing Law inscribed with th to sigmfy liberty date July 4, based on law. British and While American, One of the most striking illustraFrench ambassadors in' Moscow tions of the citys cosmopolitan repwere grimly making peace talk utation Is a church on 2nd avenue. with Soviet Foreign Minister Molo- Services are conducted in English, tov in the Kremlin, general relations Chinese and Italian. . . . Mohambetween the East and West were medans worship at a mosque on Power street . . . Since there isnt sliding to new depths of mutual recrimination. a Buddhist temple, devout Buddhists This state of affairs was not eased in N. Y. worship in their own homes. any by unsubstantiated reports that . . . St Johns cathedral hasn't the the Moscow talks had degenerated usual ateel framework of most huge into a deadlock and that no progress edifices. It is made completely of was being made. stone. . . . Brooklyn has many more For the most part, however, the places of worship than any other animosity was being spread through borough. raucous propaganda by Berlin newspapers, with the "publications Crooked diplomatic deals are not cooked up at No. 10 Downsponsored by the Russians and the western powers waging a pitched ing street in the Big Burg just battle of words. dinners. Its the address of an The British-license- d apartment house. paper Tele-grareported that the Soviets were Central park is the result of a getting ready to move great number of new troops into Germany work relief project By the way, and that Russia was pressing to- this park isnt the city's largest. ward sole rule over all of Berlin. Pelham Bay park has the biggest Soviet propaganda Instruments, patch of greenery. . . . Despite all meantime, renewed their overall the overcrowding, there la enough attacks on the Wesl demanding room in the Big Burg for 117 parka. that the Berlin city council be oust- . . . The Players club has preed and that the whole city be made served the room where Edwin Booth part of the Soviet zonal administra- passed away. Even the book Booth tion. was reading is open to the page Regardless of any truth Implicit where he left it when death came. in the Berlin newspaper fight it was . . . Fifth avenue is one of the obvious that the vindictive battle towns newer thorofarea. That street would do much more harm than was born about a century ago. . . . good to relations between the two New York City owns and operates a fleet of ferryboats. Speed of the power spheres. It was equally obvious that there swiftest ferries is only 18 m.p.h. was more bitterness and fear at work in Berlin than there was a New York's skyscrapers pop rational understanding of how to tbfWhy orbs of binterlanders: Our town cope with the crisis. bos 40 buildings that are 36 stories high or higher. But there are only 20 cloud-raker- ACCIDENTS: 100,000 Deaths Its mammoth port is what made New York a Big Town. . . . Sev- Possibly the most shocking set of in and year out in the U. S. is that dealing with the nation's accidental death rate. In 1947, National Safety council front its postwar peak of $2.80. ha disclosed, about 100,000 persons Wheat waa down from $3.13 to $2 09, died accidentally The full accident oats from $1.47 to 74 cents. Further toll was approximately 2,000 deaths IN LONDON. . . . Mrs. Fanma Blankers-Koedecreases are inevitable when this higher than in 1946. stupendous Dutch Accidents In the home accounted woman athlete who won four gold years great yield makes Itself felt medals in Olympic track and field Generally, cheaper grain means for a majority of all the deaths listcheaper feed tor livestock. Cheap- ed by the council. There were 34,500 competition, subsided into houseer feed means less expensive meat such fatalities. The total also in- wifely bliss (above) after her enin th butcher shop. cluded 32,300 traffic. and 17,000 oc- deavor. as she received an Thia apparently , certain relief cupational death. kiss from her husband. from the high cost of living is not Some of th other facts released IN OAKLAND, CALIF, , . . Edwin just around the comer, however. In. the annual reporU G. Chester dejectedly told a Judge It lie somewhere in the middle More people died in disasters last that the price of meat was pretty future. Prices probably will conyear than in .1948550 in the stu- high, pleaded guilty to a charge tinue to rise somewhat tor the rest pendous Texas City explosion, 167 in that be wrestled and killed an of this year, after which the ima a tornado. 111 in heifer. pact of the 1948 crop should be felt the Centralia, 111., mine blasl and IN CHICAGO. . , . Diane Janakos to come down. 198 in airplane crashes. causing them charged her husband with cruelty Despite the optimistic outlook, Total of 20.900 deaths resulted In a divorce action, displayed as there is another problem to com- from rural traffic accidents, while proof a pocketbook full of hair plicate the picture. This year's city traffic accident accounted for which she said he bad yanked out great crops could lay the ground 11.400 fatalities. of her head. statistics compiled year n eral hundred Indians still make N. Y. their home. . . . There once was a gallows in what now is peaceful Washington Square. . . . Hart's island prison has dormitories instead of cells. . . . The Bronx has its own flag. . . . There are two concert halls and an art gallery a) the . . . Customs officer state that one of the lucrative smuggling rackets ia in watch . . . Four of the five boroughs are either Islands or parts of islands. A century ago yoa could purchase a lot on Madison avenno " foNow you can buy $480 gowns there that cost more. This citys budg. is larger than any state. . . . New York Citya borough presidents earn higher salaries than U. S. aenator. An ancient house on Pearl street has Its only stairway on the outside of the building. . . . New York is the "most modern town but there ar almost 200,000 home in it that lack DRAFT: bathroom. . . . New York harbor wa carved by th alow retreat of Questions vast glaciers. . . . New York had This may com as a shock to horsedrawn firewagons until the young future draftees who want the 1920s. . . . New York has 716,065 world to know that they are loyal buildings. (I counted em). . . . Americans, but just about the only If you pierced the walla of the question diaft boards will not ask Lafayette street subway atation, the potential Inductee is whether water would gush forth. Its suror not he i a Communist and if rounded by an underground spring. 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