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Show Tuesday, December 21, 19 13 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TWO Home-Canne- ROBOT EAR: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Of Interest in Year 1948 When tpinUat (EDITOR'S NOTE expressed la these eolamns, they are these ef Hesters Newspaper lotos's sews analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper) By BAUKIIAGE Seui WASHINGTON. Analyst and Commentator. New Years day, according to an WITCH HUNT: encyclopedia which I once remember consulting, is cele- Pumpkin , Too brated in the western world by merrymaking and, theoretLike a delayed Halloween epiically at least, in the meeting of ofold- - friends. cans sode, with macabre rather than huNew I took when we the idea remember Years seriously. That was back in western New York. I also remember later, when I was a student in Europe, three of us living in the same "pension (a word which Americans abroad prefer to "boarding house) We made our calls consecutively so that the one pair of gloves and one silk hat, which we possessed collectively, could serve for all. In that day and place both were essential. Today I have been meeting sorae) old dates of 1948 The first I have to record is Jan- uary 8 . . Baukhage talking . . . from the radio gallery of the house of representatives after having watched the opening of the second aession of the historic 80th congress," Note the word historic. Noone guessed then that other adjectives applied to that legislative body were to help cause one of the . clever speech without revealing that she and her husband are going to plump for Vandenberg later. Television is most unkind to what should have been a most telegenic subject. JUNE 23. A heavy mist hung over the city of brotherly love on the day of the convention's crucial session. I had left the hall at 4 oclock that morning. We had witnessed a stirring and a pathetic Irene when the blind veteran, Ilarlan Kelly, nominated General MacArthur In a clear, nnhesiiating voire whlth held in it the ring of a true devotee. Earlier, there had been the longest demonstration so far, upset great for Taft. Sfassens hi i been the election victories most vigorous. of American history. On January 7 (my birthday) JUNE 24. I was looking over the there was a bright sun shining public opinion po'ls and mentioned down on the Capitol but, I broadcast, the shadow beneath it are that qualities inthea voters said they would prefer presidential candeep and dark." didate were those of the humaniOn that day the President detarian, the protector of the weak, livered his message and the the benevolent guardian of the chilnest day the Associated Press Perdren, of the common man said: "Most of President Truhaps that was a better guide to mans 1948 legislative proposwhat the choice was to be than the als. particularly his tax reducfigures the pollsters provided us. tion and. plans It was la,te in the evening when appeared beaded today for a candidate Dewey, accepting the congressional waste basket. nomination, raised his hand and How true that was and how it swore ttrat he had made no comhim. In his anhelped mitments to any man. nual message he is to present JUNE 26 The Berlin airlift, most bt them again, more hopewhich with the Marshall plan fully, achieved the two greatest victories the cold war, begins January 12 was a cold day in in JULY 12. The other side: a leNew York which had just emerged convention Democratic from a blizzard. I was there cov- thargic demto life with a woke of the United the assembly ering Nations and that day the Palestine onstration for keynoter Barkley commission waa preparing its pro- which hfld more real feeling and at gram of. partition which, waa to b spontaneity in it, I broadcast which than the time, anything with and completed bayonets even the RepubJANUARY 22. At 11:30 a. m. a licans produced JULY 13. Tins was a da-- of the message came over the news tickof the extremes against the battle a of went relief er, and such aigh up from the White House and from middle. The Negro attacking the both Republican and Democratic Dixiecrats; Southerners begging for headquarter that the trees on Con- a candidate acceptable to the South. necticut avenue bent nearly dou- So heated were the arguments on ble. I am not available for and the floor that policemen walked could not accept nomination to high Into the aisles several times. The political office. Signed General Democrats glamour girl had her chance, and Helen Gahagan DougDwight D. Eisenhoiyer. JANUARY 30. Gandhi is dead. las, for some reason or other more The priest and prophet of Indian telegenic than her Republican rival, independence was shot to death at emerged equally triumphant, bia prayer meeting on the lawn of JULY 14. The President finally is the estate where he lived. MARCH 8. Truman announces nominated and makes his acceptance in the small hours, offering rehis . candidacy; MacArthur a sample of what was to come foith nounces his. MARCH 10. Jan Masaryk Is dead. in the campaign Many had already left the hall. He called for the speMuch died with that name. From the house radio gallery cial turnip day session of congress I have run into perhaps four or again on March 17 I report the I commented next by the President of five people, what was then called the Truman day, who venture the asset tion that perhaps he might still win Doctrine. MARCH 19. Wallace attack the But everyone else laughs at the thought. The calling of the congress Presidents foreign policy. proved good strategy. no It was April Fools day Joke when the Russians stopped Thousands of people braved the trains In Berlin. Washington's heat of July 19 to The next day, April 2, our line the long, slow march of the counter move: Congress passes caisson bearing the General of the European recovery prothe Armies, John J. Pershing, to his fast rest In Arlington. gram. The gaygreen of leaf and lawn On the afternoon of Friday, the on this 12th day of April are not 13th of August, as we were leaving enough to dispel Washingtons con- the White House press and radio cern over the revolution in Bogota. conference, Stephanove Kasenkma (Remember? A Communist-directeJumped from the window of the affair Secretary of State Marshall Soviet consulate m New York City was there.) She lived to become the symbol of At 10' 30 In the morning of April the escape which so manv human 19. Justice T. Alien Goidsborough beings, suffocating behind the iron ruled John Lewis guilty of crim-- . curtain, have sought before and inal contempt. since Pn April 27 come the rumors of AUGUST 16. The diamond's war from Palestine. beloved Babe Ruth, dies The Moscow newspapers of May SEPTEMBER 17. Tragic end of 11 are. bought out Ambassador a man Who had lived and- died- - for Bedell Smith is conferring with peace Count Bernadette Molotov. SEPTEMBUIt 20. A stormy ses sion or the United Nations begns at a state. May ft deliberations aff.but forgot '.en in - - 14 Israel ts born. - -. the heat of the presidential cam r Dewey wins the primary in Orepaign NOVEMBER 2. The election of a gon on May 24. Later he won, the ' ttaie President who nobody believed when A veteran steps down Prime Minhe went to bed that night- - or even ister Smuts of South Africa is de- - in the early hours of the next day feated on May 28. had won. Oregon in the news again, trag NOtEMRER 3. A little before Icaliy The little town of Vanport noon in a New York hotel Gov r is inundated May 31. Dewey announced one of the Tragedy for a neighbor state on greatest upsets in American po June 10. Secretary of Labor Sehwel-lenbaclitical history when he comedod of Washington the state dies his defeat and congratulated at the age of 53 champ NONEMBER U A male heir pre Outdoors, Philadelphia was cloudy and gray on June 21 Inside Repubsumptive to the British throne is lican headquarters it was rowdy and born gay. Dewey starts bis shock and DECEMBER 13. Baukhage re blitz tactics against the Held Cor- turns from his vacation with a lot respondents discuss the mystery of of liesabout the fish he caught I hope my readers will understand the vacant seats in the gallery (Did this foreshadow the absence that the last hectic days of the year of the Dewey voters from the polls have been recorded In the daily on election day?) The attractive press and are fresh in vour mem Republican glamour lady. Clara ones Hence 1 think they can be Booth Luce, hurls her barbs in a safely omitted anti-inflati- - hand-grenade- super-confide- nt foren-sicall- d rough-diamon- - -- y - v IS Hew Spy Ring Data Revives Probe; Tax Hike Dugaboo Frightehs Some; Berlin Bed Vote Tightens Issue EMPLOYMENT OF MALE H VETERAN S WORLD WAR SEPTEMBER (998 morous undertones, was the revival of the spy hunt in Washington. All the Ingredients were there the the pumpkin,? and the cornfield, specter of Stalin hovering over the unsavory whole. But there was nothing funny tn the situation to the house activities committee or to a federal grand Jury seeking to rush indictments against suspected traitors and espionage agents, THE PROBE committee declared It had definite proof of one of the most extensive espionage rings in the history of the United States. Bolstering this assertion wag discovery of microfilm documents, termed by the committee of "tremendous which had been reImportance. moved from the state department for transmission to Russian agents. The microfilm was revealed by Whitaker Chambers, a senior editor of Time magazine, who admitted its possession and declared Alger Hiss, president of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, had given it to him for transmission to Russia Hiss promptly denied the charge. PLACED ON the witness stand. Chambers said he had not had possession of the film during the years after 1937. until recently, and declined to name the persons In whose hands the film rested before being turned up in a pumpkin on Chambers farm. Meanwhile, Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state, studied the microfilm documents, evaluated their contents, but declined to divulge their importance. Chambers, an admitted member of a Communist spy ring which operated here a decade ago, was slated for further witness stand appearances, as was Hiss, who maintains be was never a Russian agent:' .Three years after the war most veterans, by and large, are firmly established in civilian employment, according to statistics compiled by the Research Council for Economic Security, Chicago. Eighty-nin- e of the estimated 14.9 million living veterans of World War 11 were employed as of last September. Of these, abont 900,000 were on farms and another 900,-00- 0 in school. About 450,000 The struggle for a Berlin peace dragged wearily on, extended by Russian establishment of a Communist government in the Reich capital Demanding elections be held on a "city-widthe Un.ted basis, States, Britain and France told the Soviet union that there could be no solution to the Berlin impasse until the Russians disown the The Berlin government terms wfireclearly expressed in a note accompanying a list of Soviet violations of the Berlin constitution that the three powers had submitted for guidance FORMALLY ALTHOUGH ad; dresse to a United Nations committee, the note obviously was meant as a strongly worded warning to Moscow It indicated that if what it termed the illegal body m the Soviet sector were not disbanded, the western powers would take a series of measures required by the fact, in their opinion, that the "legal, unified administration" of Berlin had ceased to exist The western powers placed no time limit for the Soviet union to make a decision on whether to continue collaboration. However, the tone of the note, as informed sources stressed, indicated that unless the normal administrative conditions were reestablished pretty soon," a new policy would be adopted. FROM BEGINNING to end the note gave what the western powers regard as detailed proof that the Soviets have pursued in Berlin a policy of systematic violation of all quadripartite agreements. e newly-installe- sock-the-ric- d sion He pointed out that corporate earnings now are piling up at the same rate as In 1929, although the companies are bigger So earnings are greater than ever before industrialists, leadHOWEVER, ers of the big labor unions, accountants and economists have been requested to give their views on what, if anything congress should do about profits, estimated at a record 20 billion dollars this year OMahoney proposed that little or small, independent business corporations be given special exemptions under any excess profits tax plan. d o More golden apart - ' the fleece m Dijon Housewives like medium sized potatoes bt cause thgy rate them easiest to peel and handle, and best for judging individual portions the :i purpose, pldato. they say The survey showed more thjm 8 fourth of the householders disi mechanical and til! bed bv T.oT potatoes Sa id' g Tuj ut u s the" "cf e p a rt rr e 1 "IT IS PRETTY good evtdence that too manv potatoes are being dug and handled with improper ma ch nerv and tools, and that the potatoes aie not properly culled be fore being sent to market Immed.ate question to arise Will potato cowers and shippers do any thing about it? han-dliT- . rain-makin- g Highlights Book's Effect the almanac hangs on a peg tn living room or kitchen Three al ready the 1949 almanac has began to hide the I94 and earlier ed tions The almanac is many things to many people It carries an anmver calendar, astronomical data information on how to get rid of ijataxaise healthv chicks how to stay awake tn church sary-listin- g 11 . , body-ban- Polio Poster Girl e e padded-celluloi- and a Technicolor A Southern Yan tale. kee is a rattle brained fiesta with the Civil War playing strtight for Red Skeltons hoke and joke rou "Hills of Home" is as tines . wholesome as milk, and the playing of Janet Leigh and Edmund Gwenn is warm and human Behind Locked Doors is one sleeping pill you can take without a medico's prescription. g V t . X ul t 4 ' v vawAv 1 . Memos: Edgar A. Poe. the j pleasure experienced at a theater arises from the spectator's sympathy uith the rest of the audience. . Schopenhauer: Sot to go to the theater is like making Duone's toilet without a minor mas: One should net er take ones daughter to e theater. Sot only are plays immoral, the house itself n imOne-hal- l.inda Brown, 4, of San Antonio, Tex., has been selected the poster girl for the 1949 March of Dimes, January 14 to 31. Stricken with polio two and a half years ago, Linda was treated at the Robert B. Greene hosp tal in San Antonio with funds derived from the March of Dimes She now walks without braces and has only a slight limp. RANKIN: Outward Bound? Rep John E Rankin (D , Miss ) one of the foremost house oppo- nents of President Truman's civil program, faces a strong by northern Democrats m ce him off the house congress to foi " activities committee UNDER THE senior, tj system, Rankin is slated to become chair man of the house veterans' affairs rights fight The -- aTfprrfpt ta orixf4' 'ComrffttTee him from' the' un American Invest!- - ; based on the gating group will general house rule that the chair man of a eomnunee may hold only one committee post The northern Democrats will ar gue that if Rankin accepts the vet te eiaes shin affairs committee chairman should be restricted tc he - that BIKINI: Still Echoes POOR RICHARDS .TLIM.VTC In hundreds of thousands of homes, rural households especially n rain-makin- g Doubt There was no longer any doubt Farmers, at last, had a full blown portrait of the American housewifes ideal potato. The U S department of agriculture even suggested that farmers tack it up in the barn for quick reference The department found, after a survey among 3.300 housewives, that farmers and shippers should see to its tt at potatoes prepared for market are. CLEAN, of medium sue, marked by few eyes. light in color, undamaged -- and of such quality that they will cook up soft, mealy and evenly throughout, without falling Page Jason r Stage Door: Two Broadway hits are backed by Chicago racket-coiProducer M Gordon has chewed his nails down to here. Not only because of recent flops; he also reportedly turned down the in St. Louis My Fancy.. . M. Goodbye. hit, The ear could be used when no As the Girls Go claims a Todds one is at home to turn on the light Real advance sale. outside the front door When the $500,000Gal has Lutcher Nellie Gone householder got ready to go home, fola m year, a come way long he could call his house, and the the Wmchellectricity, reear would turn on the light. No lowing Cole Porter's a critic. . Free Farms of Future ports one need answer the phone. Kiss Me, brand-nehis for Managed forests or tree farms chune THE ROBOT is a box on which Bianca are the lumber industry's objecshow is tagged Kate When the the telephone sets phone tive There must be a definite end predict itll rock the rmgs, the noise of the bell vibrates Backstagers to the supply of old growth and showgal Remember . nation a salt crystal in the box The vinow has forests raised under management Orlova? Broadway Gay flow in bration makes electricity Having . are the only possible source of raw one named Lla Doit. the salt, and the current is ampliThen hits? material when the virgin forest is to tix trouble getting fied to turn on the light switch. midweek matinees, which gone Tree farm" Is the name for the try the in set are and The box phone smash-clix- . area of forest land that will be for even ai are slim circuit with the light to be turned In Euforest producu1 ed for contsnuous (theater program) Playbill on In this way, the ear could be tion It is a business enterprise about show folk writes Burr gene the house, to used light any lamp in arid will be managed as such It superstitions The reason, or outside. above will be improved and given better be shouldn't placed shoes The device comes from wartime tl an the average protection from could easily fall and is they you detecand surface ship submarine You A on the noggin fire and other forest enemies conk you vition by sound Nothing but the On or Jackson the seed to other planting, supply, ain't jive, hep bration of a phone bell affects this When method of restocking will be pro-- ( the noggin is redundant ear hit on the vided above the legal requite-- ' conked youre youre Besides doctors, FBI men have . . . (Jes call n.euts Full use of land wh ih is it? Dig noggin. been getting these ears because me best suited to timber growing is perfesser1) a 24 hours call on day. they are it objective of good management Undertakers are getting them beweeks The The First Nights: cause more people seem to die at lnitialer, baptized "The Young and night. Fair, was dunked in lukewarm notices. Dealing with life in a RAIN-MAKEfemme boarding school, it was AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. In the Bag whacked across the girdle for its the capable Perhaps it was In the bag, but dramaturgic flaws but Franklin Fenenga, an archeologist cast copped caresses Reviewers FINE USED CADS generally regretted that every act of Cahfornia'umversity wasn't savof its some as as wasnt he was compelling All that he would say ing episodes Critic Wm Hawkins' midid have the bag Liberal Credit Terms nority report: "There is power and THE BAG was a complete outfit he had acquired from provocative good sense in this The next entry was an Indian whose grandfather was a play the Thittir Guilds second contrib JESSE M. CHASE, INC. medicine man. The bag and its potentialities of the season, "The Silver Whistle Sell Trade came to light when Kern county, in It had the aislemen blowing horns Buy the southern part of Californias jubilantly, the loudest toots for the of 4th So. Salt Main tak City central valley, had its first rainfall expert performance of Jose Ferrer. 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Investigate ented inmates of this the opportunities with one of the fastest Blanche Fury is growing companies in the West. a British immigrant with milhon-dolla- r GREAT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. 600 Besson Building POTATOES: A GOLDEN FLEECE: Poor Richard s anniversary. Jan-ua17 1949 highlights the m fiuenee of the almanac on Ameri can life Poor Richard v as the nom de plume of Benjamin Franklin whose Poor Richard Almanac began the popularity of this type of publication Notes of a New Y orker: Classified Department DEAD END: Reds Block W ay business men and Industrialists, who feared a Truman vich tory might result in a new tax program, shivered anew as they read a statement by one of the leading proponents of President Truman plea to impose a modified form of the wartime excess profits tax THE SPEAKER was Wyomings Senator OMahoney, Democrat, who cited the 1929 financial crash as an argument for boosting taxes on business profits The senator declared that "if corporate profits of 1929 had been adequately taxed, this government would have been in a much better fiscal position to meet the depres- Anniversary or-bi- I were unemployed, while an additional 300,000 were resting or unable to work. Some fleece," subject of one of mythologys most romantic, colorful stories, crashed the world press by proxy as a result of a row over custodv of its namesake The fleece, symbol of one of the worlds most exclusive orders of nobility not even the king of Eng land is a knight -- may be kid naiH'd by the city of Dijon of which THE GOLDEN fleece small replicas were awarded the knights was kept in Dijon. France, after the order was founded bv Philip the Good: Duke' of Burgun d ip 1429 for several generations until Mary of Burgundy took it with her to- - Austr'a when she married Maximilian the.Fairi Vienna The fleece remained until tlie French army recaptured the citv during the last war and returned the fierce to Dijon Now. Austria is asking for it back But the good Burgund'.'ins of D jon have petitioned the t it council to urge the Erei ch government to refuse the Austrian bid and to been--recogni- zee , Some Frightened The etc Magic Alexander Graham Bell would have approved Science had moved to make his telephone even more serviceable Tom Edison also would have nodded in approbation, for these same scientists had "tied together two great contributions to living to make their convenience even more marked, more appreciated A NEW robot ear that hears the phone ring and turns on the light was shown to doctors at the American Medical association meeting . HIGHER TAXES: twice-rejecte- tomatoes are very important source of vitamin and minerals, as well as a tasty and appealing food Tomatoes have as an imlong portant source of several vitamins and minerals, particularly ascoibic acid or vitamin C. Because av c acid cannot bt stored in the body, it is best to supply it daily for the best of health Winter meals have often been found low in this vitamin unless special care is taken to use vitamin C rich food When the amounts of vitamin C in a persons diet are low he will not necessarily be ill, but will feel more fit if he eats sufficient food containing ascorbic acid And that is where the home canned tomatoes come in. . 6z ft. Tomatoes d Home-canne- Bikinis atomic blast was still ei ho ng a Truman denied President chaige that the White House had suppressed a final report on the atomic tests off the atoll The President s statement made was tn an at a news conference swer to an assertion by a Mr Dewey that the White Bradley House had clamped the lid on the Rikim ftndinp- - bolt Lake City, if 'say A. 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