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Show m-mm-m ifiBsggi Science Talent Quest Shows Aid To Progress Recently a pretty little brunette who was irkec. by having to leave the city to dwell with her parent in gome dull rural area o t Missouri reAfter hooting Mama and belled. Papa, she tuffed them behind the sofa and tried to dispose of their property. Then there was the poor who smarted little seventh-grade- r under thoughtless taunting by a far mer who thought the youth displayed poor form In sawing wood. The boy shot the old man and dumped him In a creek. There wa the girl from Portsmouth. Va., who playfully with revolver prayed five G I. hot In a shooting gallery,' and the six girls, aged 14 to 18, who beat up their female gym Instructor In Bronx high school Of course 1 am not old fashioned enough to encourage corporal punish-- ' ment, but It does seem that a little less sparing of the rod might have prevented spoiling the crime record from of the peaceful eommunltle irhich these youngster came. Perhaps It wouldn't have helped, of the though, when the nation world set such bad examples. I couldn't help thinking of a paragraph in tha concluding chapter of that, highly Important and revealing book by former Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Said Hull (and I can he dictated, see, him leaning back looking over the wide sweep of the Maryland landscape, letting fti thoughts go back over the rich day of hi year): "We hve a desperate need for more religion and morality as the background for government, The religious and moral foundations " for thought and ' conduct require - well a trengthening ' here - throughout the world. .There la no higher civilizing influence than rellgious and moral concept. Corruption and tyranny can ba driven out of government only when these concepts give men the faculty to recognize uch evil and the strength to eliminate them." la these days wbea we hear ae many unpleasant references te the atom bomb, It waa a relief te the national capital te get ita annual reminder that the people who knew most about atomlo energy think far more about bow It can promote human welfare than abeut bow It can extinguish human life. Sixteen thousand presented themselves this year as possible winners In the seventh annual Westlnghouse science talent search. After rigorous elimination tests, 40 finalists were selected to come to Washington tor talks with scientists, visits to Capitol Hill and the White House and conversations with their colleagues. These 40 students have a reasonable assurance of scholarships of 81,000 each from various sources, aside from the search awards, while the two lucky top winners each are given $2,400 with which to continue , their studies, There wts another interesting thing about this years awards the revelation that America still Is drawing heavily on the Old World for its scientific talent Tha boy who won the top prize waa born In Budapest f.lasaryks Death Crystallizes lied Menace as U.S. Prepares to Act; Spring Dash of Strikes Breaks Out RcWm4 by HTNTJ Ftar He Is Andrew Kende, a chemist, a handsome youngster, five feet eight Inches tall. Of the 40 finalists, five were born In Europe, and 26 parents of the 40 fatalists were foreign born. The girl winner wa Barbara Claire Wolff of Flushing, L. I, (where the United Nations has Its headquarters although there it All the contestants no connection). must have worked on a special scientific project, and KTiss Wolff devoted her time to production of Now, If you raise fruit, phenocopiea. you will be Interested In this, although you probably wouldn't recognize a phenocopy If you met it on ane of your stroll through your orchard. 'N la theta ctloaaa, ffct? art that tf f tfei aawapaper.) ateetaarily at The Way Out Is a change -phenocopy of a fruit change in the fly. The fly itself will not be permitted to get at your fruit Its eg have been dyed and irradiated, observation of which processes in the long run probably will help the fruit industry. When Miss Wolff isn't dy ing eggs and irradiating them she A body-shap- e Barbara Claire Wolff, who plana to become a geneticist Is shown with the equipment she nses te produce phenocoples. Is editing her school paper, playing badminton, studying, and, we suppose, .practicing the modern dance and enjoying her clubs, which include math, cancer and microscopy organizations. Young KendeS project ha to do with removing or reducing explosion hazards in the chemical processes by which such modern synthetics as the silicones, sex hormones and sosrle synthetic rubbers are produced com mercially. Some day, thank to him, men and women may be able to face the most alluring .hormone or the most explosive overshoe or automobile tire In .comparative safety, and may even be able to walk right up to silicon and slap it on the bark. The 40 finalists were reminded by Watson Davis, Science Service director; Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard college observatory, and W. W. Waymack, atomic energy commissioner, that it is not, enough these days, however, for scientists to stick to "their scientific last, letting the rest of the world go by. A Don't Dr. Shapely put it: be so laborious In your laboratories that you Ignore your responk sibilities as eltisens." And as warned: Nowadays the scientists most not only aid in the creation of knowledge, but In the dissemination and nse of that knowledge for the general welfare. Unfortunately, there are all too few trained scientists In this atomic age. As the report of the President's scientific research board pointed out, the technological and scientific progress of this country depends upon one-haof 1 per cent of our population-some This 750,000 persons. small group comprises the trained manpower -- the scientists, technicians and engineers upon which the operation and the expansion of our d economy depends. And those In scientific research, technical development or teaching comprise a much smaller group within this pool only 137,000 persons. The science talent search and similar projects undertaking to discover and encourage youthful acientiflc talents are helping to ensure the future security and prosperity of the United States which depend ts never before on the rapid extension not only beof scientific knowledge cause the laboratory Is the first line of defense In wartime and the scientist is the Indispensable warrior, but also because icientific discovery is the basis for our progress against poverty and disease. Way-mac- version) of the foreign office Prague. Later reports by highly author! Insisted that Mas tative persons aryk had been murdered by Com munists. An alleged eyewitness testified that he had seen Mas aryk' body sfter Its reported fall to a concrete pavement and that .I bore no evidence that the foreign minister had died in such manner. Supporting the murder theory was the fact that Masaryk was reported to have met President Edthe day before his ouard Bene death, and the two were said to lave planned something the Communists wished to prevent. Unidentified Czech officials who lave escaped from Prague reported also that President Benes was a prisoner of the Communist Dwn NERVES: Warlike The alternate, ostentatious flexing of muscles by the United States and Russia was. It appeared, shifting In statuafrom a cold war to a war of nerves. There were the unmistakable ilgns of the military preparing to reassert itself. Many reserve officers had received letters pointing out that, although they were not being called to active duty Immediately, they would do well to prepare themselves for such a possible eventuality. In the Pentagon building In Washington, army planners were working late at their desks. Procurement officer were reported to be showing great interest in cement factories, since cement is vital In building underground shel- ters and fortifications. Russian troops were said to be massing In eastern Germany, but no one would venture to say whether this was true bluff, threat of retaliation to the Marshall plan and union of western Europe, or a show of force intended to Influence the coming elections In Italy. But President Truman himself precipitated the worst outbreak of war Jitters when he publicly proclaimed that his faith in real world peace had been shaken. In this crisis the U. S. government was stressing these points which embodied administration policy for meeting the altuation: The European recovery plan should be carried out promptly. The U. S. encourages formation of what Marshall called a political association In western Europe as the first step toward restoring stability. of Communist govem- 2 Spread ments anywhere In the world. Including China Is opposed by the American government which will do everything in its power to block communism. to U. S will continue 4 The work for world peace wherever possible. Finally, any estimate of the sitcan upset the budget must include this inescauation again this year. In its attempt to pable conclusion: Neither Russia trim Mr. Trumans spending, con- nor the U. S. wants war now; and, gress makes no allowance for near- more important, neither could afly 500 million dollars still unclaimed ford to This particular fight one In terminal leave ,ay due enlisted decade continues to be a period men. The President's bulging budworked by a shifting of forces and get set aside only five million dollars consolidation of strength where It for this item, just 1 per cent of the will do the most good if and when total possible cost. the real .showdown comes. lf actual-engage- In contrast to the usual Hollywood practice, the governments film production includes none of the usual short thrillers." Latest subject made by Uncle Sam bears the prosaic title. 'Toward a Uniform Plumbing Code." Other recent cover movies on blister sockeroos rust control, Japanese agriculture, foot and mouth disease. Communist expansion was going to meet a roadblock 'f the nations of western Europe had any voice In the matter. Britain, France and the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) nations , adopted a treaty for a political economic and military union of western Europe In an out and out move to check the communism that h in regime. But whether Jan Masaryk, son at the founder of the Czechoslovakian republic, had been murdered or goaded to suicide by his intolerable position, one jhing was certain: Communists' had killed aim just as surely aa if they had put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. If Masaryk took his own life it was not just because he was seeking an eseape, hut because it was 2ie last service he could do for his light,by hi country throwing awn destruction, on the terrible, destructive force that is communism. IVonder Alan With threatens their independence. Delegates from the five countries completed their efforts after more than a week around the conference table. The alliance was a of the union of direct western European nations suggested in January by Ernest Bevin, British foreign aecretary. The treaty was believed to bind the nations to mutual assistance in the face of aggression, mutual aid In the economic field, in improving their living standards and a measure of coordination of colonial resources. It was Just a beginning, but a good one. In the eyes of U. S government leaders the alliance was not only a desirable but element If the Marshall plan for recovery is to work at all. paper Ex-GI.'- s hazards. TREATY: 50 Years WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ) (EDITOE'S NOTE i When piatatt art uprwH WaUn Ntwtpapar Uaiaat atwt analyst aad BAUKUAGE By MASARYK: Newt Annlytl and Commentator '' WASHINGTON I dont often go into such intimate matters Death in Prague Whether Jan Masaryk, Czechoas private murders in these columns, but I have been impressed lately to see the results of the untrammelled spirit of modern slovakia's foreign minister, took by youth, whose repressions and inhibitions have been removed by Bis own life or was liquidatedmake Communist really didnt thoughtful parents who use reason instead of the cruel discipline the such as 1 have suffered having to go to bed without supper, for any difference. instance, when 1 was impudent to my elders, or being kept in The Communist government had announced that he had leaped to the house for throwing my arithmetic at the cat instead of doing nis death from a first, second or or out washed mouth acme with homework, having my my soap third floor window (U. S. news1 when used language unbecoming a future commentator. readers could choose their duce explosion Tuesday, March 30, 1948 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TWO nec-cesa- Added te the list of the world's numberless martyrs for liberty was the name ef Jan Masaryk, of Czechosloforeign vakia, son of Thomas Masaryk who was the first president and liberator of the country. minister SAY UNCLE: Palestine People continue to ask the Arabs and Jews of Palestine to stop their futile wrangling. France, China and the United States sent an appeal to the Jews and Arabs of Palestine and also to the six Arab state members of STRIKES: the United Nations, asking them to take steps to promote a truce Miners in the Holy Land fighting. Widespread strikes in the naThere was no real confidence tion's soft coal fields were touched among delegates of the three naoff by John L. Lewis latest foray tions that their request would be into the national scene, a demand heeded. Russia, the fourth counfor pensions for his try part In the big power taking miners. talks on Palestine, refrained from The United Mine Workers leader joining In the appeal because the reaction' had asked Soviets have taken the typical to his charge that coal operators stand that there is no need for the had dishonored" the 1947 contract big powers to consult with the And Arabs and Jews. by failing to grant pensions. his miners produced the exact reMost observers the action he wanted as almost 200,000 truce appeal lookedthought like wishful of them in 11 states quit to supFor one thing, no group thinking. port Lewis stand at the very ouN among either Arabs or Jews in Palset of the difficulties. estine is in a position to control its It was not a strike In the techni- dissident members and thus guarcal sense of the word. Lewis, in antee a truce. Moreover, the Idea of a military all his power, simply had nodded truce docs not bear upon the heart his shaggy head and his men quick to catch the signal, walked of the problem. The United Nations Is still committed, on paper, away from their jobs. The current mine contract does to partition, while the Arabs adamnot expire' until June 30, but it antly continue to reject that proprovides that the miners need posal and the Jews assert just as strongly that they will accept work only as long as they are "will'' nothlrig else. ' ing and able. Impact of the soft coal walkouts ACCIDENTS: showed first in the nations steel Industry where output Is threat Women s ened if the shutdowns continue for Accident rate among girls and any length of time. Many of the women has been reduced by about one-haIn the past 35 years as closed mines are captives" whose entire output goes to the result of modernization of the Amersteel companies. ican home, according to statistics compiled by Metropolitan Life Insurance company. Packers Illustrating the reduction in home Fraught with an even greater hazards, the statisticians said, are walkmine than the immediacy from oil lamps and gas for the shift out, however, was a nationwide to the electric light bulb, strike for more pay by 100,000 lighting of the traditional coal replacing CIO of members the packingstove b7 the modern gas 'or electric house workers. range, and use of central heating The strike went off as ached-ule- d instead of stoves and' fireplaces. despite an urgent request by President Truman asking the packing companies and workers representatives to maintain the status quo without Interrupting negotiations until April 1, at which time a board of Inquiry was slated to report to him on conditions of the strike. In reply to the President, the union strike board rejected his proposal because, it said, the packing firms would not agree to placing even their wage proposals Into effect during the negotiation. As the - strike began, governIN DETROIT . . . Gary Batherson ment records Indicated that the entire nation would come to feel the (right) saved Marlene Padars life curtailed meat supply after the when they broke through the ice first week, with some areas more on a pond where they were playing, then suffered painful aftermath of severely affected than others. heroism when Marlene insisted on h rank-and-fi- lf GOVERNMENT: bestowing a big smooch on hi College Athlete Student Sets Democrat chiefs are grim over th report that Time-Lif- e pubhnsher H. sports Luce's private poll show 15 milhoa are for Wallace. Thats about 10 per cent of the population . . . Jim FarOXFORD, MISS. A law student at Univerd ley threw a private party for 27 to sity of Mississippi continues political writers. Said he wouldn't amaze everybody with his unusual consider running as veepee on any athletic prowess. losing ticket and he feels sure the Don Ryback lost his left arm and Trumanagerie 'cant win , . . The hts left leg in a railway accident presidential situation is a meis. when he was 11 years old. Truman wont listen to Wallace. At the age of 26, he has behind Dewey wont listen to Taft and him an amazing record despite his Eisenhower wont listen to the peohandicap. ple. . , . NBC banned Spike Jones Now a sophomore law student In verslop cf .Iy 01d Fiame long the upper third of his class at ago. "Too gruesome. Pretty smallalRyback of Mississippi, time, too . . . This is the opening ready holds one degree from Temple paragraph of Times International university in Philadelphia. sectRm: "Every month brings a A star athlete, he is a nimble than most major graver calamity participant in handball, tennis, Millions pass into slavery battles. and football swimming. between one week and the next. The sufRyback is a realist. When he fate of whole continents swings with fered his childhood injuries, he a day's news. A fifth of the world's the to not let made up his mind are involved in actual war. people loss of his limbs get a psychological No place. from the Congo to Spitsworked hard and He on him. grip bergen, Is safe. Nobody is secure adapted himself to conditions. . , . This is the news weekly that Developed Arm. repeatedly chastised us for "frightNot particularly sensitive about ening the people" and "warning of his missing members, Ryback has the danger of another war," developed the remaining arm and Dept.: A Congres leg to a remarkable degree. And has now he board sional most nrges a 10 bilImportant probably lion dollar airplane program to developed his mind to keenness. head off the next war . . . The When he was graduated from Temple in 1945, Ryback enrolled at New York Post foreign chief, P. the law school of University of S. Mowrer, reviewing the Czech The depress Pennsylvania. Forced by illness to crisis, concluded: withdraw, he turned to the South ing thing Is the pattern. It gives me a sickening feeling of this Is and University of Mississippi. There he won respect and has where I came in. The pattern is earned the kidding of for war!" . . . Columnist Marquis his mates, a fact he grinningly Until the disaster Child's report: as a sign hes accepted as to Czechoslovakia there was a one of the boys and not as a freak. comforting feeling here In WashHe gets around with aid of a ington that the danger of war was crutch, a support which he wields something fairly remote, a matter with amazing dexterity He can boot of five or seven years. The coma football, for distance, straight fortable assurance has vanished. through the uprights while balanced . . . Some solely on the single crutch. try to make our. predictions look tn bad. But the Excels In Swimming. Europe make them look good. In swimming hes at his best. Using a lunging stroke, Ryback Postcard Poll This is the final recuts through the water with a speed and endurance that made many a port on the I want to see d d swimmer as our next president "postcard pool and Over 100,000 postcards came in. give up Just to add frosting to the cake, he can do a complete back somersault off the high diving board. Ryback Is no slouch on the wrestling mat .either Weighing, around 150 pounds, he figures hed tip the scales at about 200 with his other I cant resist adding this footnote. arm and leg. But, despite his difficulty, a lot of the campus boys Bricker of Ohio, who for years has themselves strong been getting away with the counterwho consider give him a wide berth in the grap- feit claim that the people of this country wanted him for president, pling ring. A member of Phi Delta Phi, napolled exactly 105 postcards. This tional honorary legal fraternity, Ry- columnist (tsk, tsk) polled more back even has overcome that final lhan 500. Politically speaking, this bugaboo of most law students hes means that the only thing Bricker learned to type with one hand, bangcan carry is his suitcase. ing along at a respectable rate of one-arme- one-legge- soft-bal- Total per capita cost of running the federal government for one year has zoomed $201 since 1939, ccording to a report by the Tax Foundation. It now is about ''70 year, compared with $69 In 1939. Total estimated1948 expenditures for the fiscal year are 3 7 bilWar and its after-matlion dollars. accounted for almost 23 billion of that. But the blueprint for 1949, said the foundation, registers an increase. It quoted President Truman: In the fiscal year of 1949, 79 per cent of our expenditures reflect the cost of war, the effect of war and our efforts to prevent a future ar. h SHIFTING WORLD . y, ... Consumer Income Worries About Tissiclf Now Nobody of the dwellers the of 300 years ago City lights, plague in rising the inhabitants of London in the guts, tsssick, Imposthume year 1648, for Instance were only others, says s study"! early and half as likely to be killed in acpresent - day mortality by Northcidents as arethe melropolites "of western Nationa-l- Life Insurance"" company. today. The kings horsemen were the But they were several times as Some of the people who say they likely to die from tuberculosis or fastest traffic to contend with in would rather be right than president other diseases with such fearful 1648. The automobile was still 250 dont get the chance they deserve. names as spotted fever, purples, years in the future. and Up Consumer income rose in January to a record high annual rate of 210 8 billico dollars, the commerce de- partment announced. The figure for December wa 210 4 billion dollars. The January rate, according to the department, was 7 per cent higher than the 1947 average of 196 8 billion. January increase over Decembei came despite a slight downturn in wages and salaries l, er good-nature- d fellow-travele- rs two-arme- . 30 words a minute. according to the requirements of Pennsylvania law. by Justin D Girolanio, a Bethlehem attorney, Ryback plans to return to Pennsylvania next year to take his bar examinations and start his final apprenticeship as a law clerk. Sponsored, Aussie Police Mount Bicycles To Chase Golf Ball Thieves - When SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA o the youthful bicycle riding golf ball bandits here told the lord mayor to go ride a bicycle" he took their advice literally and put wheels under his police force. Woe to any he promises, now that his patrol squad has been equipped with bicycles, too. d Up to now the kids have had no trouble the police patrolling the one bicycle-mounte- outma-neuverin- course horseback. Now that the squad Is on an equal basis with the gangs, his honor and the golfers are hoping this activity will cease. on Driver Discovers Two 'Male' Riders Are Attractive Girls SALINAS, CALIF After driving 7.000 miles in a stolen auto with his two "male" Memos Of A Midnighter That John (Inside U.S.A.) Gunther would merge with Commentator former wife was recorded here when she went to the Virgin Islands for her division . . . Satira, the Chicago dancer now in a Cuban prison for 15 years, will appeal on the grounds that the shooting of her lover took place aboard an American ship flying the Yank flag outside "Cuban jurisdiction . . . George Truman and Clifford Evans, who romped around the world in Piper Cubs, will aim for the headlines with a round-trito South America. Via an "unfeasible route" Toy magnate L. Marx Is supposed to have offered one million bux to General Eisenhowers campaign if he would have run for president Van-lercoo- .... p g IN CRANSTON, R. I. . . . Frank term Trifolgio, serving a four-yea- r for automobile theft, escaped from state prison by stealing a prison automobile. IN TORONTO . . Mary Richardson attended the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers association, was the lucky winner of the door prize a genuine gold brick. IN D4YTON , . . Garret H. Putr.p-leonlv fireman at a school having 13 furnaces, was ordered to bed bv his doctor to recover from a bad attack of overwork. IN PEC4TON1CA. 111. A farm horse, marooned on an isolated piece of wooded farmland for more than week by flood waters, was" kpt from starvation by fodder dropped to him from an airplane. About Town Man Jlmazlnz Record in light-fingere- d shrinking cheek. pensire. Ono Leg Is Star When Bob Benchley was sharing a Carnegie Hall office with Dorothy Parker, his work was constantly interrupted by telephone calls for her. Is Dorothy Parker someone asked. "No, she Isnt. Are yon sure Dorothy there? Parker Isnt there? insisted the voice. Positive, Bob assured. the phoae caller perWell, sisted, "how do yon KNOW Dorothy Isnt there? Because, he replied, this la the mena room at the Waldorf. accomplices, George was flabbergasted to learn the "young men were shapely, attractive girls "Why the dickens didnt they tell Einsla asked police, looking me The End of Don Wahn: Philip through his cell bars toward the Stack's name must be familiar to womens detention ward where his you. He has been contributing' to but female comthis column over the name of Don panions were lodged. Wahn for 25 years. His offerings alEinsla and the 18 year-olgirls, ways popped up In other places . . . Anne Lucile Stelzmede, Phoenix, In an army magazine signed by Ari?., and Shtrlev Mae Wills. Lansomeone else, usually by a G.L caster, Pa., were booked on a fed- hoping his girl might see it. . . . eral complaint of transporting a But many times a chorus girl or stolen car across a state line. Jane Doakes would open her Einsla said he had driven with plain and reveal several of them purse the girls for It davs and 7,000 miles clipped or torn from the column. ever since, FBI agents charged, His last note was Jn the handwritthey first picked up the auto in a ing we were so familiar with for a Tucson, Anz , parking lot. of a century: I am incur"But I sure had no idea I was quarter ably in," it said. "I leave everya dragging along couple of girls," thing to my wife. Goodbye, PhB Einsla said "Whew And then at 10 minute Officers said .the girls apparently-ha- d Stack. th been posing as men for some "past midnight Phil jumped front drivel Gibson A offices. cab firm time One had a job as a truck driver Einsla added that all three racing north said he saw the body had gone on dates with women dur- - plummeting down. Now he i gons and the last Don Wahn he submiting their jaunt ted was set In type for tiw very night he jumDed, darn it. H. pants-wearin- Einsla, 39, g d A |