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Show U. 8.- - Russia Events Reach Climax; Man Is Riding Life Cycle Toward His Destruction fdcscow Parley Continues Uneasily; Soviets Sever Consular Relations By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer- are expressed la these damns. they are those el (FDITOKS NOTE: When .pinion Hester. Newspaper taisa's news analysts and net necessarily si this newspaper. -- By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator . Today we have two visitors whom I met Smithsonian the at institution, Mrs. Neanderthaler ecently and Mr. wasnt husband available) (her have come a long way. The Neanderthalers lived about 25,000 WASHINGTON. Cro-Magno- n. They years ago but whats a few thousand years among friends t doubt that the Neanderthalers are relatives of ours and They lived early In the Old Stoned sge, and died without leaving any known heirs, assigns or descendents which may be just as well for the rest of us who might have inherited some of their characteristics. They were stocky folks but they couldnt take it. They died out. Now Mr. was a ferent proposition. He was a dif- n su- perior human and I wish he were a relative because he was really superior to us better body, better brain. If hed only lasted, what a career he would have had in Hollywood and what he might have done for usl He might have saved us. He may still. I've been read-in- age depth of the topsoil on the earth is about one foot. It is estimated that it takes nature, under favorable conditions, from 300 to 1,000 years to build one inch of that vital source of our food, clothing and shelter. "Yet, he says, what may have taken a thousand years to build can be, and in some places has been, removed by erosion In a year, or even in a single day. Erosion. That comes from overuse, wrong use or removal of prod tecting grasses and trees. We the plains to get quick money We for beef, mutton and wool. plowed fields of grass, left them exposed, and you remember what happened the dust bowl. We slaughtered the forests and reaped the yearly devastating floods. Today our food and shelter runs down the muddied rivers to be lost in the ocean. over-graze- And animal life? We killed off millions of wild animals on this continent. We replaced them, to some extent, by domestic animals. But we are breaking the magic cycle of life there, too, for the properties of most of our domestic animals do not return to the soil as did the bones and bodies of wild life that lived their course, died and were enveloped In their g two new Our Plundered Planet," by Road to Fairfield Osborne and Survival, by William Vogt Our friend Neanderthaler probably managed to stick around 200,000 rears or so before his environment w his neighbors finished him off. books Today we are rapidly changing onr environment, and unless we cease destroying onr sources of food and shelter, we shall soon destroy ourselves, as our friend was destroyed. We know that there are two things which chiefly distinguish man from the animal: The way he has the use of his hands and the way his brain works. But our hands, st the levers of machines, conceived y our brains, have so disturbed the cycle of nature, have done such terrible things to all forms of life, that they may prove our undoing tf they dont blow us into atomic (ternity, firstl atomic destruction, Forgetting let's look at some others. We are very good at reproducing, In three centuries the population of the earth has increased almost five times. In the seventeenth century there were 400 million people. There are 2,000 million today. Five times as many mouths to feed. Osborne says: If one takes four billion acres, representing an area bf land estimated as now available for cultivation, it means that there sre less than two acres per capita Contrasted with this is a generally accepted computation that two and f acres of land of average productivity are required to provide tven a minimum adequate diet for each person. Think of that: It takes two and acres to feed you properly. There are now only two acres avail- - or relatives? Im not sorry. RUSSIANS: Climactic life-givi- mother earth. Sheep and cattle are shipped today to slaughter houses where what lit- - sub-hum- one-hal- one-ha- lf i i - wv v i '' V v ' V. i? A , , IV t .. Moscow tf4 In the Kremlin, where the w e CRO-MAGNO- N . , n JK Jr fc- h e Walter Bedell Smith, British Representative Frank Roberts and French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau had been drudging through a series of meetings with the implacable V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister. Molotov, as usual, was hard, tough, adamant in his adherence to current Soviet policy on the Berlin and Germany problems. No progress was made; the three western representatives were dispirited, although they kept to their chore. The word was whispered about that this conference might break up in total failure. Then came a break, or so it appeared. Premier Stalin would meet again with the three envoys. In the ensuing discussions with Stalin hopes again were raised that the western powers might succeed in at least partially lifting the Berlin blockade and perhaps effect an area of agreement that could be used for a subsequent meeting to iron out some of the major East-Wedifferences. But there were some who still could see the ax on the peace table. Somehow, there was a familiar pattern behind these negotiations that went something like this: After Molotov had subjected his fellow conferees to hour after hour of his refusals to come to terms, attempting by those tactics to wear his diplomatic opponents down, the scene was set for Stalin's return. Stalin came on with his air of geniality and good will, apparently not only willing but eager to reach common ground. His attitude was so manifestly different from Molotovs that hopes again soared. There was the danger. Lulled into optimism, the western envoys might be trapped into making concessions that should not be made. This same kind of Molotov-to-Stali- n play had worked before. U. S. Ambassador tie Is left disappears in disposal plants or goes back to the ocean. We are killing the soil. Gradually removing it and the tiny animal and plant cells It contains, and thus destroying the potential for reprodu-in- g the tiny living organisms in the top soil which are a part of the relationship of all living things. I havent space to go on, but I dont want to leave on a note. Its true that our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Neanderthalfolk with the liter, the tle brain, couldnt take it. But we can hope that his successor, Mr. who had a better brain than we have, passed some of it on to us, with the spark of something else that made him lift his chin a little from the clod. We have been taught to lift ours higher, to the heavens. Theres hope up there and inspiration and within ourselves the power, too, if we know how to use it. .. Lying weak and her hospital bed ashen-facein in New York, Mrs. d Kasenkina Oksana finally got around to telling the story of why winshe leaped from the third-stordow of the Soviet consulate. I jumped to escape, not to kill myself, she said. She said that her rescue from the Tolstoy foundations Reed farm was not a rescue but an arrest, l. engineered by the Russian y Inadequate What with one thing and another, Americans cant help now and then wondering what would happen if this country suddenly were to be attacked from the air. Biggest question in this connection is whether a warning of such an attack would be given in time for the population to evacuate probable centers of attack. Air force officials say they are doing the best they can with what they have to provide the nation with a radar warning network. What they have, however, is at best inadequate, they say. The present radar system is not capable of detecting all approaches of foreign planes. Currently, a committee of leading scientists, headed by Dr, Vannevar Bush, is carrying out a careful study of Improvements in radar that could lead to an adequate air warning system. Political Pounding Things I Never Knew 'Til Now Cant See It She Ive lost quite a lot of ft eight? He I cant see it. She Of course not, Ive lost it. read!) There is always a tie between a father and son, says the philosopher, and if there is you can wager the son is wearing it. - were too pretty) That Shakespeares most loquacious character was Hamlet, to whom he gave 1,569 speaking lines. (Showing off again that he can ( Because the teachers That in Indianapolis, Ind., it's Illegal for a mustached man to kiss (Mustache my lawyer anyone. about that!) That Oscar Wildes full name Oscar Fingal OFlahertie was Wills Wilde. (They called for short) Wboopsss! him That according to the department of commerce the American public spends 400 million dollars a year on restaurant tips. That the brain In the Bible. isnt mentioned trying to tell us he reads the Bible! ) That In West Cork, Ireland, relief clients who are toothless and unable to chew the free beef are (Mebbe given whisky instead. thats why they say Ireland is "a little bit of heaven.) That when someone once asked Heywood Broun what was the most important qualification for a columnist he replied: To own a waste basket. (Youre telling me!) That you can forecast the weather yourself by observing the change in the winds direction. (If the change is in a clockwise direction, the weather will Improve. If its carry your umbrella !) counter-clockwis- - people, she stated that I don't agree with the policies of Josef Stalin. I cannot agree with the regime in the Soviet. e, That Dante, the Italian poet who wrote The Divine Comedy, trained his pet cat to sit on a table and hold a burning candle in its paws while he read. (It must have been the cats!) That a womans brain is 140 grams lighter than a mans. (So will you kindly keep still and listen?) top-lev- el d Hit the Road Jacob M. Lomakin, Soviet consul general in New York, had conducted himself improperly and discreditably in the affair of the Russian schoolteacher, Mrs. Oksana Watch That Credit It couldnt be called schismatic: It was thoroughly democratic. Total result of Dulles and addresses, taken together, was not to presage a religious split between the two blocs of nations but rather to define the problems at the root of current international disorders for those who are courageous enough to attack them with spiritual weapons instead of guns. DULLES . . , "Peace can never be stabilized except by institutions that seek to reflect moral law and that respect the dignity of the individual. And the present methods of communism are incompatible with peaceful changes. Collective action may at times be required, pursuant to the United Nations charter, to protect member states or individual human beings in their charter rights. Those who believe in moral law and human dignity must be concerned to make social Institutions reflect those ideals. HROMADKA . . . The world is seeing "the end of western supremacy within the realm of intemation-a- l order. Now. three years after World War II, the western man hasn't yet recovered and is losing more and more the last remnants of his world leadership. He hasnt much to offer along the lines of moral, philosophical or spiritual leadership. That if you have trouble loosening tight screws and bolts, a few drops of peroxide will do the trick. (Ask me anything!) That the color ink you use is supposed to be a clue to your character. Black ink shows sound opinions blue ink, a happy balance between intellect and sentimentality violet ink, impulsiveness and choleric temperament and red ink reveals obstinacy, quarrelsomeness and a tendency to dominate others. (It also shows that business isnt to good.) Bubbling toothfully with confidence, Herbert Brownell Jr., for Gov. campaign manager Thomas E. Dewey of New York, nails np the sign which proclaims that the Washington, D. C., headquarters for the Republican campaign ticket of Dewey and Warren Is open for business. Brownell also has the idea that business will be good. That if prisoners in Mexico City are married, they may receive overnight visits from their wives and are given special quarters away from the cell block. (Latins are so romantic!) Hro-madk- OUTPUT: Upshoot Prospective home buyers who might plunge beyond their means simply because down payments are lower under the new housing law have been warned by government housing experts to avoid that trap. Our only worry, one expert said, is that the lower down payments will encourage people to buy homes they cant afford. When you reduce the down payment, the monthly payments are more. That you weigh more in an elevator when It is going up. (Is there anything that man doesnt know?) Religious West. Total national output of goods and services, stimulated by inflationary forces which have been growing stronger since early summer, hit a rate of 248 2 bil lion dollars in the second quarter of the fiscal year, the commerce record-breakin- department has reported. That figure is 4 4 billion dollars above the peak reacned in the first three months of this year, accord to the department in Look Under the Bed Junior Say, Pop, Teacher asked me to find the greatest common divisor. Great Scott! Is that Daddy thing still lost? CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT DOGS, CATS, PETS, ETC. Litter Reg. Irish Terriers. Welsh Terriers Kerry Biue Terriers, ar.d Cairn Terriers. BERTHA BILTGEN 7621 8.E. King Kd. - Milwaukle, Oregon FARMS AND RANCIIES FARMS CANADIAN Writ us for FREE IN en farm settlement opportunities. FORMATION FmIiIs tcHs. RcasenaWy priced C. F. Cora slL Canadian I'acifle Railway. V&nceuver. B.C. DOME FURMSniNGS INSTALLMENTS: Regulated Just exactly what effect the newly imposed restrictions on credit buying would have on the inflation that has been devastating the nations moral fiber was not hog-wil- d quite clear. Acting under authorization of the 80th congress, the government put the brakes on Installment buying and extended the ceiling on its new regulations to $5,000 to control wildcat buying of expensive new automobiles. This new order goes into effect September 20. From that day forward the law will require that the buyer of a new down in cash and car pay take not more than 18 months to pay off the balance in installments of not less than $70 a month. Other hard goods stoves, refrigerators. washing machines and related household articles call for a 20 per cent down payment with the balance to be liquidated in not more than 15 months. The order exempts anything costing less than $50 or more than $5,000 a rule which set many Americans to asking caustically what they could find to buy for less than $50 and where they could get the money to purchase anything over $5,000. Actually, however, the credit curb seemed to amount to little more than putting the governments stamp of legal approval on a practice which has been followed voluntarily by a considerable number of retail merchants. Many astute businessmen have been following the, one third down payment rule all along, as a protection both to themselves and the prospective buyers. Upshot of it all was that few people believed the federal regulation would do much to clear the atmosDhere. one-thir- d tafia-tionor- v That a Hindu trick for wooing slumber is to close the eyes and concentrate on looking inward toward the nose supposed to put you to sleep in less than two minutes. (Wholl count my sheep for me while Im fooling around with Hindu tricks?) That when Mrs. Harry S. Truman attended the Barstow School for Girls she excelled in the shotput. (Hmmm, so thats where Margaret inherited her talent!) That almost four times as much aspirin is used today as in 192910 million pounds instead of 1929s 2,500,000. (Some fun, eh, kid?) That more U. S. Presidents have died in July than any other month, and that no President ever died in May. (Seven died in July, including John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe.) That a popular misconception is that Big Ben is the name of the clock on the House of Parliament in London. (Its not its the name of the belj that strikes the hour.) That according to a Smithsonian anthropologist, the cave mans ideal femme measured the same In all three directions. (Every man to his own taste!) That geologists predict Ni- agara falls a ill cease to exist by 22000 A, D., because theyre continually, retreating. (Gosh youd better hurry up and see them! ) That giraffes In captivity have an intense dislike for women. (The big dopes!) APPLE & COT FOLDING STEEL Cot with wire link spring attached to frame with heUcal springs at each end. Strong angle iron frame, and heavy tubular ends. Ends are locked In position when set up. 3'6 Wide, S S Long Spring 17' High. Weight 45 Pounds. Quantity Prices Upon Bequest. Used New .87.50 each ....81.50 eaeh I to 24.. 1.25 each 2.00 each 84 to 100.. ....... 100 er .... ever...,, 1.50 each , each 1.00 M08SET IRON Salt l ate & METfiL CO. West 750 Sohth Third CHy 4 Utah. PERSONAL Want ' That the Michigan State college curriculum now includes a course for blacksmiths. (Shoe nuffi) VIEWPOINTS: d Wants a Reason Joan had been naughty. When her mother was putting her to bed she said: "When you say your prayers, Jean, ask God to make you a good girl tomorrow. With an inquiring glance, Joan said: "Why? Whats on That the reason Q Is the only letter omitted from the telephone dial is because it would , look so much like "O" that people would be confused and dial wrong numbers. (And I do mean Q!) She did not want to go back to Russia. Although she loves her In such a way delegates to the first assembly of the World Council of Churches might have assessed the first two addresses which officially opened the historic sessions in Amsterdam. John Foster Dulles, U. S. lay leader in many religious activities and internationalist-mindestatesman, and Czechoslovakias Joseph L. of Hromadka the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, speaking in a section discussion on The Church and International Disorbetween them managed to der, strip much of the camouflage from the growing philosophical and spiritual rift separating the East and Family Ties (Now he n. hmMSiib MR. . . spark of something else . . three western ambassadors were trying to pound out some kind of tentative basis for negotiations with the Soviet Union, the Russians were playing their familiar game of 'V i, AWwWAtft To Escape RADAR NET: consul-genera- American farmers will have more trees to plant next year than ever s , before in our history. State nurseries plan to grow I In 1947-4according to a national survey just completed by the American Forest Products InT dustries, Inc., of Washington, D. C. ? t. 5 Most of these trees will be sold i f y . y to farmers and other landowners at 4 i f.jV "'i cost, while many will be given to farmers free of charge by forest industries who purchase them from MRS. NEANDERTHALER state nurseries. . . . they couldnt take it . . . This forest seedling production, however, will be increased substanable. So you can see why there are indusby federal and such food shortages around the tiallynurseries over the private United States, try world. the total to approximately Osborne goes on: "The relation pushing 400 million seedlings. between and health of Yet these figures, representing the human beings is actually no more of three trees for every planting a of delicate than aspect the delicate man, woman and child in the councomplex aspect of all life. try, Indicate statistically that seedThe cycle of life the life In ling production still is not enough to fill the demand by woodland ownthe soil that feeds and clothes our own life is a part of the ers and other citizens interested in single whole which contributes growing trees. to the fruitfulness of the earth. And while they still do not meet I havent space here to go through the tremendous demand, If all these the whole list of crimes that man seedlings were (slanted 1,000 to an has committed In the race to break acre they would form a verdant, mile-widbelt stretching from New that cycle to destroy the fruitfulness of the earth that fruitfulness York to Chicago. The record in tree planting is upon which his own existence depends. Take the most striking ex- matched only by the volume of new wood now growing on Americas ample the topsoil. forest lands. Total growth now exTopsoil. When that goes, we ceeds 13 3 billion cubic feet of wood go with it. every year greatest volume ever Osborne, as I mentioned in this recorded in surveys made by ths space last week, estimates the aver federal government. land-healt- Virtually every avenue of public thought in the U. S. was teeming with Russians, shadows of Russians and a few Red convertibles. There was a feeling, however, that the international commotion had reached its climax and was ready to start subsiding, partly because public Interest, flagellated Into a state of high excitement, couldnt stand the stress and strain of it all much longer. Nevertheless, events having to do with Russia remained for the time being, at least, reasonably climactic: The Moscow talks were ready either to pay off or break down; Russia had broken off consular relations with the U. S. ; Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, the window - jumping Russian schoolteacher, had told the story of how she had been strong-arme- d. ' t More Trees On the Way A r a THE AX WAS THERE Kasenkina, the U. S. state department pointed out as it ordered him out of the country. It was a sensational turn of events. In a note to the Soviet embassy the state department asserted that Lomakin had, in effect, misled his own government with regard to the Kasenkina case so that the protests which the Soviets made to the U. S. were based on misinformation. In addition, the note charged that the consul general had "hindered the investigation of the competent police officials by refusing to allow them to interview Mrs. Kasenkina while she was under control of the Soviet consul. Then, even as Lomakin was packing his bags and preparing to leave the country, Russia countered sharply by formally severing consular relations with the U, S. and repeating its accusations of bad faith. That seemed to prove that Lomakins actions in the Kasenkina affair were not so much the expression of his individual initiative as they were a direct reflection of Kremlin policy. However, no one was worrying too much about the breaking off of consular relations. The move did not mean that diplomatic relations were severed. Soviet consular activities in the U. S. were limited to arranging for mutual trade and travel between the two nations. Since there is practically no trade or travel exchange taking place, the presence or absence of a consul wouldnt make too much difference. Last winter's serious fuel shortage In homes and industries probably will not be repealei this year, according to present predictions. The supply of fuel oil is becoming so plentiful that there apparently is no need for an elaborate distribution system to be set up for the purpose of doling it out. Stored supplies are 60 per cent ahead of last year at this tune and crude runs from distilleries are half a million barrels ahead of a year ago. New refining facilities are largely responsible for eradicating the shortage. Moreover, oil industry officials say, there now is an ample supply of gasoline. Only thing that could put a crimp in that would be a national emergency or a transportation stoppage. 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