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Show SEWING CiaClE PATTERNS- Atomic War Could Force Return to Primitive Life Bj BAUKHAGB Ntm Audi 4 CiwtniwtBwiH. gsgr Mid-June welcomes gathering to Washington which will deal with subject more important im-portant to you and ma than anything any-thing I can think of. The meeting Is described as an "institute on the control of atomic energy" At about the tarn time, the United Nations Commission Commis-sion on Atomic Energy wiU be meatina too. At th "institute" in Washington, authorities will explain Just what fft atomic energy can have on your life If you ere one of those who aren't going to be destroyed by It I was going to say "one of the Inokv ones." but TOU won't DO 1UCW. If atomic warfare starts, even if you . .mnnif those whose lives are soared. We have all heard lot of dire nnh(i about what the atom bomb can do, If it once get on the loose. Also, what wonders atomic energy can perform in building v.t4.. amriit. if it la confined to oeaceful and productive activity. But by tar the most Impressive Awtnnt on the aublect came to me In the repeated words of a scientist .nvin not scientifically, or for Quotation, but very Intimately of tils own private thoughts, ana us own personal plans. He baa lectured great deal on tha mhiect of atomio energy, and to one of those intimately concerned arfth its development Suddenly, one day be realized that bo bad better make eome personal plana to pre-rare pre-rare for the future in this atomic tga of which he bad spoken so much. His work is near one of the several prime targets of any enemy bombs that would os groppea. This pamphlet caught my eye and beld K. It was a reprint from Look magastne enuuea "Tour Last Chance." sen may have Been it. It moved me so much that I lost couldn't help talking abont It en the air, and offering to pay for the first 500 pamphlets requested, providing stamp was enclosed. I limited the requests to people in the following categories: Insur ance men, salesmen, real estate men, teachers, clergymen, mechanics, mechan-ics, utilities workers, scientists and merchants. I did this, first, because I wanted to limit the number of applicants and second, because the article contained con-tained specific Instructions as to what the people In the groups named could do to help prevent a cataclysmic war. I blandly overlooked over-looked the fact that somebody had to address envelopes, insert the pamphlets, mail them out By EDWARD EMERINE rJSLA. rxzdl 5" CSa ! WW Af l'f. 0CE JV$ii. No Refuge From A'Bomb So he began to consider. Should ti nr a ret transferred to some smaller institution, located to a lit. tie lownT That, ne eonsroereo, muaiin nnt heln much. Ho has farm, but he is not farmer. Should h tnnva onto the farm immediately. learn as much as be could about farming, and plan to live there where be would be comparatively safef The farm is tar from any large city, tucked in the bills. Thea he started planning. He would have te lean a lot more than fannhur. He would have to leara to card wool, tor to. etancei hie wife would have to lean to spin, to weave, to make soap, to fabricate all lb things rou boy In stores. yt wmild have to lay In tools. and enough other supplies to last blm the rest of bis lifetime. well nerhans all that could be done. Then be realized that even at that, be wouldn't be safe. He would bave to build barbed wire en- tanglementa, and obtain machine guns and other weapons with which to defend Mnuelt ... tor wMr the refugees who escaped, starving, from too cities, the tew who bad food would be at the mercy of the hungry nobs. it f bad heard those statements from lecture platform, or read them In a masazlne. I might bave passed them by as sensationalism, nnt that statements weren't In a magaxlne, or spoken from a plat form. They were said over the luncheon table In the quiet corner of a dub. The speaker wasn't trying to "sell" his idess to any-bed. any-bed. He, wasn't trying to persuade anybody to do anything, or to get publicity. He was thinking out loud about what be considered an acute personal problem. la the end It left blm baffled. There Is no defense. The onlv hone Is to make the (tatted Nations work. I beard this story, and was moved bv it I was already pretty well stirred up, because I bad Just learned ot what deep concern this question Is to more than three thousand people who wrote me, asklne- for a pamphlet I bad men tioned la one ot my broadcasts. That Is an interesting story, too, that I want to pass on. One day. I received a Utile pam phlet among the several bushels ot handout material which is the grist tot the publicity mills dumped on press and radio desks sJH over the country every oay. Public Interetted In Prevention Reauests began to arrive, so 1 called up the National Committee on Atomic Information which Is near the Washington office of the western west-ern Newspaper Union; ordered the pamphlets; and had the nerve to ask the committee w man un m. I didn't know it then, but it costs the committee, which to. of course, a non-profit organization and skimps along on a handful of small casn donations, four cento for the pamphlet, pam-phlet, a cent and a half tor the stamp, two cents w aaaresi w velope, another cent to insert, seal and mall! Eight and a half cents. sltogether. My generous gesture wurH nreiervlns civilization had turned out to be rather lame. Rut that was only the beginning. An avalanche began to descend on me. M lass count reached over three thousand, me committee didn't know what to do. Tha letters came from such an In telligent and earnest set ox peopie who were so anxious w 0.0 something some-thing that the committee hated to disappoint mem. Twice. 1 begged the public to hold off. but the committee to still filling the requests while Its funds hold out, or more donations come in. Which Is what happens wnen you get sn atom by the tail Qae$tlon$ Popularity 01 Rail Nationalization Just after the bulletin came In over the news ticker in my office announcing that the government intended in-tended to take over the railroads, railroad man happened to call me up about another matter. 1 congratulated htm on hia new Job with Uncle Sam. Ho wasn't very enthusiastic. He speculated on whether or not the men would go back to work If the government ordered them to do so. The miners, you recall, refused to obey govern. ment orders wnen me goverumem took over the soft ceal mines dur ing the war. "Everybody ought to go on strike in the country." he said. "If It gets bad enough, it may get better." We mentioned the possibility of permanent government ownership own-ership ot the railroad. My friend reminisced a little sn the days when he was an employee of Uncle Sam once before, tn World War t, when the government govern-ment did (te Its sorrow) take ever the railways. "OLD!" The magic word was J spoken. It was heard and repeated. re-peated. Gold in Colorado for the taking. Nuggets as big as turkey eggs all over the mountains. As the tory traveled, It waa embellished In retelling. Overnight in 1858, "Pikes Peak or Bust" became the nation's slogan. Men of every nationality, occupation occu-pation and station In life Joined the Pikes Peak gold rush, one of the great mass migrations in Ameri ca's history. They swarmea inw u Colorado mountains, whooping it up as they went In their wake followed fol-lowed farmers to settle in the fertile fer-tile valleys. From Texas, across the open grasslands, were driven herds of longhorn cattle. Down south In Georgia. W. Green d...ii hoard nhnut It. He organ ized a party of 30 or 40 miners and set out for the Pikes Peak region, hardly sleeping until he reached the banks of the South Platte and made eamn. Within a month he had been Joined by 400 others and the settlement was dignified by the name Aurarla, In honor of Russell's town back In Georgia. Thousands of others were on their way. A year later General Larimer crossed Cherry creek, took possession of some cabins, snd named the settlement Denver City. In honor ot Gen. James W. Denver, governor of Kansas. (At that time, Colorado as yet unnamed was a oart of Kansas territory). Wild days followed on that SCO-acre townsite. Thousands of excited peo-ola peo-ola thronsed the dusty streets. Soon Denver was the Mecca of tha Mountains. A printing plant wss brought from Omaha, and the Rocky Mountain News made its debut (1859). Soon thereafter the Herald was founded. The files ot those early-day newspapers tell a story of lusty life in Denver, of gambling, Indian scares and prom ised riches tor all men. The Denver scene was re-ensct- But for ten 1 i . i 1 Joe Cronln mootiutj JSrodter and idi m Iff I II J a : JOHN C VIVIAN Governor of Colorado Gov. John C. Vivian was bora la Golden, Colo., not far from Denver and state capital. He Is a graduate of the University of Denver. His profession Is tow. He served as lieutenant governor from 1938 to 1912. - J 'i! oradoan knows that Cowmen, sheepmen, beet growers, truck gardeners, gar-deners, fruit growers, hay ranch-ers ranch-ers and general farmers must have water. They got it They dug wells deep in the ground. They constructed con-structed dams in the canyons to store the melted snow; they dug canals and ditches; they irrigated the rich, thirsty soil. They homesteaded In the Great American desert and they made it bloom. The beet ana potato industry in-dustry around Greeley, founded by the old Union colony, is a monument to pioneers in irrigation. All along the South Platte basin, from Denver and Fort Collins to Sterling and Julesburg, Is a mighty agricultural empire. The Arkansas river waters developed a famed val ley that produces neeis, meions, fruit and garden truck for the nation. na-tion. From Canon City through Rocky Ford to Lamar and the Kansas Kan-sas line to another agricultural wonder brought about by irrigation. irriga-tion. In between the rivers, the non- Irrigated farms and ranches now produce wheat com, hay, beans, potatoes and other crops. Thou sands of head 01 sneep ana cat tle are crown and dairying is statewide. The Western Slope, the San Luis valley, and all mountain ous areas below timberline are havens for farms, ranches and or nhnnfo. Snow-canoed peaks often look down on blossoms in the val-lev val-lev below. With raw materials near at band. Colorado progressed indus trially too. Mills were built to process proc-ess the ores. Steel plants grew up at Pueblo, the Pittsburgh of the IT MIGHT seem strange to say that a manager whose ball club 1 w ArAna verv well indeed could be even close to the border line of a predicament much less the brink of an abyss. years Boston, always al-ways s great base- hull town with a great baseball tra dition, has been dreaming vain dreams of recovering recover-ing some of its lost glory. There were the winning days of Jimrnle Collins. Bill Carrigan and others, oth-ers, who carried the Red Sox banner k.Ml. 13iit In anlta flf the millions Tom Yawkey has ted M. m.rrhnitea and Day roll. IM Red Sox thus far have been on the ...Mrf. nflprins in. Now Cronin has his team winging , .. . rM.nrd clin. He has come through with the hitting and the pitching for which only the most rabid fan ever could hope. Outside ToA winiama. Johnny Pesky and Bebby Doerr, no one could figure that so many Red Sox would hit so -on Kn one could fleure Mickey Harris winning six straight, with able support from Tex Hughson, Joe Dobson and Dave t erriss. Can't Hold the Pace iM rranin'a medicament Is this: ... .meet ao many ua to blast ine baO SUGAR BEET FACTOR! ... At Brighton. Colorado to a leading producer pro-ducer of sugar, made from augar beets. Ha said what happened then was that a man would come up to the ticket window and demand a draw lng room. Sorry, there were no more drawing rooms. Well, do you know who you're working for. and who I am? Tm Senator aaghorn, and you'll (something-something) weo. get the passenger out ox tnai drawing room, and put me in itl My friend said he didn't think the people would like It It the govern. ment took over. 01 course, we aon i like the black-berth-market now, either. ei-ther. Time and again, every Pullman Pull-man aeat or berth win bo reserved by the blackmarketeera. They hold them up to the last minute, and it they can't seU at a premium, they cancel. Just before the train leaves, halt empty. The Chesapeake and Ohio ran an advertisement recent ty, begging the public to refuse to pay the premium, and help get regulation through which will pro-tide pro-tide for cancellation ot reservations within a reasonable time. ed a hundred times. Boom towns grew overnight at Cripple Creek, Leadvttle, Central City, Creede and scores of other places. Prospectors clambered over the bills. Nuggets were found. Rich veins ot ore were uncovered. There were million-sires million-sires created Wtafield Scott Strat ton. a A. W. Tabor (ot "Stiver Dollar" Dol-lar" tame) and others. Men blustered, blus-tered, gambled, drank, fought and died during the score ot years that followed. But slowly the truth about Colorado Colo-rado emerged The tacts were not an pleasant ones. The territory was Incredibly rich there was no doubt of that There were great tnrea of silver and gold. There wera rich and fertile soils. There aM other resources lumber, coaL building stone and a marvel ous climate. There was deep snow In the mountains, but there was littla rainfall on the plains. The nuggets were soon picked up. The free" cold was gone and hard- rock mining had eome to stay. Gold and silver were buried deep in the granite, defying quick wealth. Men who bad sought a soft and easy lite wen confronted with stark reauty. Cntorado was no Garden of Eden. They would have to work end work hard for whatever they got And they couldn't live on fresh air and mountain scenery. Colorado welshed each man imoni them to find his worth. Then waa work to be done, end it took strong men to do it The weak lines, the ne'er-do-weiia, me mie ml were eliminated They depart ed with a curse on their lips and hatred In their hearts. Those with courage, strength, nope ana vision stayed First the miners sei w wora. They did not know vie extent ox mineral reserves in we vouvaao Rockies - and tney stui aon i BARBS... Baukhag As long as America bss the heart to attend spelling bees and county stags, we can't be quite as badly off as some ot our neighbors seem to think. " I never attended enough Spelling bees myself. But a radio commentator commen-tator has an advantage hut audience audi-ence can't tell whether he can spell the words he uses or not . , The Twentieth Century fund finds that 80 per cent of the fur goods In dustry is located la New York. Is the rest of the country good-fur- nothing? There Is bo one so poor In self re spect no one so truly Inferior, ss be who feels he must try to prove someone else to Inferior to turn. KKK, please note. know. Many veins have been mere ly tapped and new ones are constantly con-stantly being discovered. In spite of an obstacles Coloradoans have dug and blasted three billion dollars' dol-lars' worth ot precious and indus trial metals from the granite ware houses within its borders. More than 250 minerals have been discovered dis-covered within the state, between 35 and SO of them now being ex tracted for market Colorado to first among the states in vanadium and uranium, third in gold, fourth in tungsten, fifth in silver, sixth tn lead, seventh in copper and fifteenth fif-teenth in sine. It leads the world in molybdenum production. These Coloradoans probed and blasted and swore, as they went deeper and deeper into the gran ite treasure chest In 1862, A. M. Cassedy drilled in a canyon near ! Florence and struck oil, after petroleum had been found bubbling on the surface of Oil creek. They found Colorado shales containing enough recoverable oil to equal present production tor SO years. The recently opened Rangely oil field on the western slope is the most sensational find In years. Natural Na-tural gaa was discovered over a wide area, and helium gas struck In Las Animas county. Beneath the surface ot the good earth they found coal, too enough of it to last the nation for 700 yearst Colorado ranks first among the states tn coal reserves, most of them in the San Juan basin, Moffat county, all along the Utah border and extending under the foothills on the eastern slope from the Wyoming border to New Mex ico. The Colorado plainsmen were sifted, too, and the unfit w blown out starved out and sent back home. Where there Is life there must be water every Col- ,,,,, IIUI M i " f B-'j fAT.' let j A A' v Snow Mass man Peak, Springs. Lake and Hagger- near Gleawoed Rockies. Colorado has foundries. brick kilns, canning plants, sugar factories, food processing plants. creameries, cheese factories and scores of other manufacturing plants. Colorado's granite, marble. limestone, sandstone and lavas are known to builders the world around. Sawmills still flourish near its great forests. Colorado clasped its riches tight ly to its bosom and said, "you can have them it you deserve them." The men and women ot Colorado accepted the challenge. They conquered con-quered the mountains and plains. They built cities and factories and schools. They blasted highways out ot solid granite. They made It easy tor others to "Come Up to Cool Colorado," where the sublimity ot the Rockies inspired Catherine Lee Bates to write "America the Beautiful." A- Ar;v NX Pikes Teak, the monarch i which watches .ver the plains. ne men to continue with such deadly effect; and no one can figure that Mickey Harris can ntinna ta hold such winning term, although Mickey is a mucn unproved un-proved pitcher ever past seasons De- tore the war, wnen "" tiM&k ven. If the Red Sox had Droxen mra nri at a steady clip, there would have been no such excitement nimi in Boston today. As ft now lands, any Red Sox slump, which is certain to occur later on after such early speed, to bound to cause a reaction up Boston way. Thor. ia tha chance, of course, that the Red Sox today have what the old Yankees once carried when th almost wrecked the league, practically closing out the season to late July or early August It could hannen After aJL Cronin's hired men have shown power at bat and nnwer in tha Ditcher's box. which are the two main spots of the game. However, an early rush to the front enn lead to much brooding later on; It to still my contention that the Ti?era have the best pitching staff in baseball, followed by the Cardi nals. But Red Sox pitching, in aa- ditlon to being an Improvement over what it looked to be earuer, also has run-making and fielding support that win bag many a ball same through the summer ahead. However, Boston's long-suppressed aimnnrtera should understand that it to stui a long way to uciooer. Chasing the Cardinals Mv eood friend Eddie Dyer, once a star halfback in Texas, is shocked over the fact that his team is still called a 3-5 shot against trie neia. 'We have a good, sound oaii club," Eddie says, "but no team is that eood not even the Red Sox, today. Too many things can nap-pen nap-pen in a baU game. Too many thines can happen to your best men. There are other good teams in this league, teams much Improved over last season. This includes the Dodgers, Braves. Reds and the Giants. Both Cubs and Pirates wiu soon begin picking up speed After alL the weather has made this an uncertain spring as far as rat-Ins rat-Ins coes. I don't believe many peo ple understand what sucn piayers as Reese, Reiser ana Herman mean to the Dodgers. They are all win ning ballplayers." One of Eddie Dyers greatest thrills so tar has been the fine show ing of Terry Moore, not only a great ballplayer but a fine man to have on any club. After being away from action for some time in the army. Terry has been hitting tar above his prewar punch; and Terry ia no longer long-er a kid When you look et such ballplayers as MuslaL Marion, Ku-rowskl. Ku-rowskl. Moore and others plus the Cardinal pitching stall whether or not you are a Giant Dodger, cud or Brave fan, this to the club to be watched once they nave squared away from the summer festivities. It might else be suggested tnat BiUr Seathworth has turned in a fine Job with the Boston Braves, club supposed to be planted In the second division. The Braves may finish there, oat they are a big tm-Drevement tm-Drevement over the Braves ot ether years. They are a hnstiing entfit as Bffly 8oathwerth's teams always have been. This can be baseball's greatest at- tendance year, with many thousands to spare. If the two pennant races re main reasonably close, for It Isn't any too easy to keep the popeyed tan keyed up when his homo club Is outclassed and far out of the race. The danger spots hero are the Red Son and the Cardinals, but both can run Into more severe competition competi-tion than one might look for. Both Messrs. Cronin and Dyer confirm (bis observation. Few horse races ever are won In the first quarter: this also goes tor a pennant race. vrPiay Clothes "" """ii CJhHdren'f Play Clothes 8979 fl . 14-44 I ill Graceful Frock rrm delightful summer aner- F noons, n simple graceful frock desimed in a wide 6lze range, wida extended shoulders accent a slim waistline, the panelled skirt falls smooth end straignx. Use novelty buttons for a pretty finish. b.m.m H. awa eomea In alzea 14. 18. 18. 20; 40, 41 and 44. Siza 18 requires 35,i yarns oi os-mca Japan's Biggest Loafer From a friend in the occupying forces in Japan comes an amus ing account of the odd signs ois slaved bv Jaoanese tradesmen in what hey evidently consider to be idiomatic English. One of the funniest is that displayed oy a baker. It reads: "A. 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