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Show 7, v 1 at?. ''Din Mi hert buy, a A t WALTER SHE AO jConsumers Pay Lobby Bill THE lobby racket in Washington is costing consumers ol the nation anywhere up to 50 million dollars a year, ac-'cording ac-'cording to conservative estimates. Under the congressional reorganization act, lobbyists an .'required to register with congress. To date, 951 individual lob- . Yyisti representing 662 organizations have registered, according to l ' ound-up by Congressional Quarterly, reliable source of Information. T These organizations are expending approximately five million dollars annually In salaries alone and, according to estimates, I the cost of expenses, offices, clerical help, entertainment, food and liquor will amount to 10 times the salaries paid. There Is no doubt but that this sum spent to Influence legislation in congress is passed on to the voters. I Here is a box score with approximate salary expenditures: I Twenty-six organizations like the U. S. chamber of commerce am 'National Association of Manufacturers, $289,250 annually; 23 buildini ! products and real estate organizations, $212,410; 22 financial organizations 237,600 ; 51 food and agricultural concerns, $581,810; 35 oil, gas anc mining organizations, $236,990; 21 power and communications organiza itions, $228,800; 79 transport associations, $68,000; S highway associations $76,600 ; 57 railway organizations, $259,386; 11 water or shipping con Icerns, $108,000; 48 miscellaneous companies, $163,033 ; 49 miscellaneoui trade gioups, $244,100; 61 citizens' groups, $218,886; 75 employees' groups, ; $725,383 ; 28 farm groups, $195,800; 9 foreign policy groups, $233,704; II ; professional organizations, $126,368; 26 reclamation groups, $150,408; 21 tax groups, $72,420; 21 veterans and military organizations, $112,950, ani j 14 women's groups, $39,731. w ALTER WINCHELL S (Doodling on the l The feds are checking a big New 5 York theater operator for alleged i income tax evasion. Insiders hear it : looks like a gaol term for sure. . . . ' Doris Duke told intimates she was I forced to come here (from Paree) I because her orchid farm "simply has to be put on a paying basis." fWell, times Is tough all over, milady. ! . J Biggest yock of the year. When a famed fellow's toupee slid off bis dome (into his toop) the other night in a Hollywood f. spot. DREW PEARSON Doctors to Study Atomic War ARMY-NAVY, strategists have estimated that the United States has until 1951 before Russia produces the atomic bomb in quantity, ever though she probably has the secret now. I . During these next three years, therefore, the government f faces the grim task of quietly briefing Its doctors for a possible I atomic war. Proper medical know-how, It Is estimated, will reduce I fatalities by from 25 to 40 per cent in . case of an American j . Hiroshima. f The special atomic medical course will cover the following high points. 1 1 Casualties from an atomic explosion caused by concussion, flying J ! debris, or flash burns. - I y Individuals within a mile of the bomb blast are exposed to a lethal I u, dose of radioactivity. This is deadly. No matter how healthy they ! may appear, it is useless to treat them. Casualties one to three miles fe'jom the target center are in serious danger, but can be saved by prompt medical attention. ' "J Most dangerous are the deadly gamma rays. These attack the blood J' J. cells, causing severe internal hemorrhages. Only blood transfusions on a massive scale can save life. i A Alpha and beta particles are less dangerous, since they cannot pass j T. through the skin. But they can enter the body through the nose, j mouth or a wound. H. I. PHILLIPS (The Washington Porch Issue j That decision of Harry Truman to j build a $15,000 porch on the White J House has put the . Marshall plan, I global relief, peace inflation and j even wheat speculation In the back ground. It may cost him the election. elec-tion. Anti-porch parties are ' being set up all over America. The Republicans already have a 1948 slogan to capitalize this Issue: "A porchless White House was good enough for Lincoln; It's good enough for Truman!" With a supplementary one, "Even Roosevelt left the White House exterior alone." A porch may seem a little thing (even 40 foot by 10 with iron rails WEST BROOK PEGi.ER Art of Debate Declines IT IS a fact, deplorable, I suppose, that the art of debate has declined not only in our national congress but also In other forums, to the extent that clamor and yammer now do the work of argument. The truth may be that the people always have been incapable of strong, discriminating judgment and have been governed by their emotions rather than their Intelligence in reaching enormous decisions. In the time of our great congressional orators our press was primitive primi-tive and its circulation was so small thaf obviously it could reach only a relative few of the literate minority. Inasmuch as there was no radio, it would seem that the influence of the debaters in congress on the opinions of the people must have been theoretical The radio, by itself, seemed to promise mankind a perfect medium of debate. But, in the hands of people, It was exploited and perverted from its beginning and today, for all its marvelous technical Improvement and its extravagance, radio Is simply a means of enlarging the volume and range of Incoherent, Irrelevant and more and more theatrical outcries. . This is a Presidential year, a strange quadrennial moon which always sets us to howling and twitching like arboreal Caribs making voodoo over chicken-heads and things unspeakable. At the two great conventions, conven-tions, the orations will be echoes of hundreds of past humiliations of the vaunted American intelligence, all absolutely artificial. WRIGHT PATTERSON rWa I lace Draws T IS a very long and arduous road between announcing a candidacy the presidency on a new party j ".t and having that party recog-e recog-e "1 in the various states and given irlace on the ballot. Futile as his Candidacy may be, Henry Wallace ; can do the people a real service. He can segregate the radical element, i garnered from both major parties. Typewriter We recently colyum'd sboul pretty Hungarian waitress (working in thi U. S. senate snack bar) who thought she'd like being bach in Vienna, "which is so much more gay!" . . . The item pul her picture in the gazettes. . . . Wh followed apparently changed he mind, ...An army lieutenant from Nea York flew to see her and spoke ardent wordage. . . . Another reader phoned her from Scranton, Pa. . . . She is nou quite awed and bewildered by the way "theengs hoppen zo quickly to a strain, cha in Amerryikahl" The Radioracles: You can discover dis-cover Inner Sanctum's spot on the dial where heebie meets jeebie. This show remains the topper among the spook spots. and tile floors) but it represents a step never before taken by an American President and thus becomes be-comes an event of national significance. signifi-cance. If we encourage Harry in this, how far will he go? One porch may lead to another. He can develop a porch habit. And, unchecked, he may go on with plans to add a watch-tower or a cupola. If it is the Missouri note that he is after what is to stop him from sticking a silo just east of the building and tossing in a chicken house and milkshed? IMPOSSIBLE TASKS: Interesting a man who has fust shoveled his sidewalk in a talk on the beautiful crystal formations in every individual snowflaie. All Radicals and put them in one pen. His group will Include the avowed followers of the Moscow party line; the pinks and fellow travelers; those with socialistic Inclinations; the theorists who believe in government planning, plan-ning, and that greater "something for nothing" class who expect the government to provide for their needs. , . " Y !) (7 S, - - . .--.V jHlrftf i -HIM IIIBIMIIMIIIB FAVORS IMT . . . John Thomas Taylor (left), national legislative director of the American Legion, predicted almost immediate house passage of the universal military training bill as he presented Rep. Walter G. Andrews (Rep., N. Y.) with 10,000 petitions favoring UMT. :1 Xil rv$ SWISS SAYS STALIN ILL . . . Mario Fimentel Brandao,' Brazilian ambassador am-bassador to Moscow for 18 months before Brazil broke relations with Russia, says that Prime Minister Stalin is suffering from paralysis of his right side. AND NO DEPENDENTS . . .Two-and-a-half-year-old Wendy Rey Stocking, one of Chicago's youngest young-est models, tolls off the figures as she counts her earnings in preparation prepa-ration for paying the last installment install-ment of her 1947 income tax. PLENTY SCARED ... Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, White House physician accused of speculating in grain, told the senate food gambling gam-bling committee that he got out of the wheat market because be was "plenty scared" by President Truman's Tru-man's scathing denunciation of grain speculators. IT'S LIKE THIS' . . . Chester Bowles, former OPA chief, dispatched dis-patched to Europe to make a survey sur-vey of conditions among children of war-torn countries, explains bis mission to reporters in Paris. gr 'ft ' yu'uml'MDIJWH U,l HDLHIIUUHUII I -i sBBBaBBaaaT"!-- - - -- fn " 1 "iVnYitti" J 1 '!'-1 v- 1 ) s-l. ..A . i J -- s SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN . . . Although the bands of this little French girl are covered with sores resulting from malnutrition, they hold her cherished doll as tenderly as might any normal child. She is one of the suffering youngsters overseas who will benefit through the American Overseas Aid-United Nations Appeal for Children, a world-wide group supported by the gifts of people from some 30 nations. The drive will be conducted during February. I C2I. T - . J BACKGROUND FOR ERP . . . Lewis Douglas, C. S. ambassador to Great Britain, came bearing charts to congress to warn the legislators that timidity and reluctance to face facts on European aid may lead to "incalculable consequences" for America. Appearing before the senate foreign relations committee, be gave the group the state department's statistical background supporting the four-year European recovery plan. Illlllli ... MmB'A llllif vWm lilllif A ill ,v piili , .-o- k vJ I .... Ill ..: r i v FAMILIAR SIGHT . . . Ton are looking down on a climbing line of steel-helmeted marines as they ascended the gangway Into the attack transport USS Bexar before the vessel sailed for Mediterranean waters. wa-ters. MaJ. Gen. Clifton B. Cafes, marine corps commandant, said the sending of 1,000 marines to the Mediterranean was strictly "routine." tkotrWM'.-S'S: fWW -. . 'Jf - . - ' r 'i I , .. - .. - .L.:,,..:k I READY FOR TURKISH NAVY . . . This Is the USS Brill, one of four submarines which the United States will supply to Turkey. This ship and another one are undergoing repairs at the San Francisco naval ship yard and being readied for their Journey Into the Mediterranean. V. S. navy has announced that the vessels will be fully loaded and folly armed, as on a wartime patrol, when they leave this country fr Turkey. . -" - i J v w .:. 'I 4. i ALTHOUGH a good bit on the belated side, it seems about time to rearrange a few national football rankings, and also see what might be done about the plight of the Far West in Rose Bowl matters. In the first place, we can see no argument for putting Notre Dame over Michigan. The two teams played three common opponents, op-ponents, Pittsburgh, Northwestern and Southern Callfor-; nia. In the total count Michigan was something like 74 points in front. j Few thought Michigan had a chance to equal Notre Dame's margin mar-gin of SI points over G. Rice Southern California. Michigan added add-ed 18 points to this score. The worst that Michigan should get Is to be ranked on a par with Notre Dame. I believe Notre Dame has the stronger line. I know Michigan Michi-gan has the' faster, more elusive backs. Michigan has the better pass attack with several good pasters and three or four fine pass receivers. re-ceivers. Also Michigan has more and better deception. In the new, rearranged slot, here Is how the teams should be placed: No. 1 slot Michigan, Notre Dame, co-champlons. No. t slot Texas and S.M.U., on a par. No. S slot Penn State. The State of Texas came through brilliantly, aided largely by Doak Walker and Bobby Layne. Layne outclassed Harry Gilmer In the Texas-Alabama test On the full season's count, Walker and Layne move up with Bob Chappuls and Johnny Lujack as four of the star backs of the year. S.M.U. has Walker back for two more years and this means two more years of S.M.U. success, although al-though Blair Cherry at Texas will have a lot to say about it. Same Leaders Next Year You also can add that Notre Dame ani Michigan will be almost as strong next season as they were this last year. Both lose good men, but they have plenty left and others coming in. . It would be no surprise to see Michigan, Notre Dame, S.M.U. and Texas rated among the top four tor 1948. Minnesota also can crowd Into this picture with a break or two. The west coast Is still In bad way when it comes to Rose Bowl competition. In the last three years, Alabama, Illinois and Michigan have run up 128 points In three bowl games 83 points were scored against Southern California and 43 points against U.C.L.A. And I know Frank Thomas In 1946 after scoring 34 points worked hard to keep the score down. "We could have made It 70 or 80," he said. Just why good football material should be so scarce on the west coast, while extremely good everywhere every-where else, Is a mystery. But that's the way It Is. In the last three Rose Bowl games, Far Western opposl- ' tion has been so futile and feeble that no semblance of a contest remained. re-mained. I doubt that Southern California had a man who could have made either the Notre Dame or Michigan team -not a man. The team was big enough but slow In movement sluggish, both mentally and physically, physi-cally, as far as football was concerned. con-cerned. The West Coast Mystery In the bowl game their reflexes and reactions were creaking. Michl- i gan made It look even worse by being Just the opposite fast, quick and smart to an outstanding degree. It isn't going to help matters next fall if Michigan wins the Big Nine title again. This means that a second sec-ond or possibly a third-place team will make the trip and probably win again without any great trouble. But what a squawk will rise up along the Pacific's rim If Michigan wins and either Minnesota or some other team Is sent out U.C.L.A. last season was supposed sup-posed to have the best material on the coast. Yet U.C.L.A. lost four games, without meeting Michigan or Notre Dame. Stanford's material was only fair. U.8.C. and U.C.L.A. lose a flock of veterans in 1948. It may be that Pop Waldorf can start something at California. He lost only one game last season and, right now, Pop and his Bears seem to be the main west coast hope. The west coast is packed with star athletes In every other field There are fine ballplayers all over the landscape. Just why the football material should suddenly run dry when you recall the stars of other years Is a mystery. You could understand un-derstand this happening for t year or two. But the west coast hasn't had a good football team in the last six or seven years It has had no team to bt rated close with the best In the other sections. It Is .about time the picture was changing, but at the moment there Is no such evidence In sight from the material at hand The great years of Howard Jones. Pop Warner. Buck Shaw and Babe Hnlllngberry seem to have faded into the mlitt n 1 hA..i.. S.'SA ilk Products Help n Conserving Grain Better Rations Result When Proteins Are Used With a world grain emergency nd a national drive to conserve rain used in feeding, and with grain rices high, milk by-products are lore important than ever in poul-y poul-y feeding. Balanced rations probably can do ore to conserve grain used In feed-ig feed-ig than any other single measure, lilk nutrients found in skim milk,', uttermllk and dried cheese whey ave been found highly effective la uildlng balanced poultry rations. These milk by-products provide nimal proteins of unusual quality, he milk proteins, lactalbumen and Total Dry Milk Production 19 .4 MriBifMMi. RmUI Or, M.ll kMU. C t DrMrf VM HA OrW Cu art wag asein, have a hUrh growth promot-hg promot-hg value and contain all the essen-lal essen-lal amino acids. These proteins give lance to the lower quality vegeta-ile vegeta-ile protein In grains, normally fed toultry. Milk by-products are rich In lac-ose, lac-ose, or milk sugar, a natural laxa-Ive laxa-Ive which helps poultry maintain food Intestinal health and minimizes be hazards of Intestinal parasites. Tiese milk by-products also pro-Id pro-Id e minerals, particularly calcium iid phosphorous and contain the rater soluble vitamins of whole nllk. In DreDarlna a balanced ration he object is to feed the correct roportion of the various nutrients hat poultry require. In every case here is a point beyond which it a wasteful to include additional rain without providing other nutrients nutri-ents because the fowl cannot make omplete economical use of all nour-shment nour-shment In additional grain. Killing Chestnuts The Asiatic blight which struck town native chestnut orchards in he United States, estimated at rums up to a hundred million dol- Forest Fire Commissioner W. L. Shaddlx Inspecting chestnut burs for asiatio blight. Ian some 25 years ago. Is still active, and doubt that It will pass over and let this luscious crop coir- back usually is accepted by weu formed agriculturists. Poultry Relish Grit; Rids Grinding Process Grit Is a material of value to poul try but full details are not yet definitely defi-nitely known, according to University Univer-sity of Delaware. It is certain that birds like it and, when grit Is fed freely, they consume more than is actually needed. Grit containing a large amount of soluble calcium has been widely recommended but appears ap-pears to have no advantage where other forms of calcium are included In the ration. Actually it might be detrimental, say Delaware specialists. special-ists. Helping the gizzard in the grinding process is the only known function of grit. A hard mica grit oi suitable size doubtless should be available to all chickens. . Productivity Depends Upon Organic Matter The soil's ability to produce high crop yields needed to feed hungry millions depends on its organic matter mat-ter supply. Soils rich in organic matter are good "sponges" for soaking up and holding rainfall tot crops. Organic matter helps restore soil structure, Improves tilth and helps plant roots get more nutrients from the soiL Use lime, fertilizer! containing phosphorus and potash tc get good catches of legumes. 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