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Show THK mTTXETIN. BINT.HAM. UTAH Consumer Income Continues Rise I ..Salle Map of Business Condition?) By L. G. ELLIOTT President, LaSalle Extension University More people are at work in fac-tories and are earning more money than at any time in this country's history. Incomes of consumers are steadily rising, and the larger amounts of money in circulation keep the products of Industry and agriculture moving at a more rapid rate. Retail trade In all parts of the country is from 12 to 14 per cent higher than it was last year at this time. Volume of sales is increasing In rural districts and small towns. ditions abroad change considerably these trends are likely to continue for some time. Larger domestic de-mand and the government farm pro-gram will do much, to keep up farm prices even though surpluses in many products are large. Prospects for 1941 crops are good because precipitation in most parts of the country was above average during the winter. Exact estimates of the probable harvest cannot be made this early in the season, but the outlook now appears favorable. Farmers are planning to have about the same total acreage in cash and feed crops as they planted a year ago. Government payments are ex-pected to be about the same In 1941 as they were last year. Good crops and rising prices will probably push farm income to the highest level in many years. as well as in the larger cities. Prices of many farm products have continued to rise. Even those prices that have declined recently are, for the most part, higher than they were a year ago. Prospects are that the increased purchasing power of consumers will keep prices and cash farm income above the average of last year. Many farm products are being used in increasing volume. Production of milk and dairy prod-ucts has made a new record and in-dications point toward a continued high level as long as consumer de-mand remains steady or increases. Farm prices of dairy products have been the highest in four years, and Income from dairying is expected to be the largest in a decade. Prices for poultry and eggs are also higher this year than they were last year. Exports of industrial products, es-pecially war materials, are large, while those of agricultural products continue to be small. Unless con- - tl 1iS Man About Town: NEW YORKERS ARE TALKING ABOUT: Look's current Issue, In which Dorothy Thompson directs an oper letter to Anne Lindbergh . . . The fat dividend checks Goering gel from an American munitions firm, which are deposited to his account at the Bank of Rio de Janeiro . . . The way those exiled Cuban army and nnvy officials are whooping it up in the Miami spots, oblivious to trouble . . . FDR's alleged flip-pancy to A. Woollcott: "My family likes actors and why not? Doesn't Eleanor play one-nig- stands?" . . . The tiara the Duchess of Windsor wears in the Bahamas made of beach shells. The riillly newspaperwoman, who went to work In Goebbels' gar-bage factory two years ago. They say she was the one who dreamed up that trick . . . The plan by Londoners to confer a title on Cuentin Reynolds when he returns there . . . The Trotsky book on Stalin which will be published posthumously. The strange stories from London about Andre Maurois, the writer, who is currently warning Americans to remember the fate of France . . . The new resident agent of the Com-my- s, a perfect Milquetoast in his teaching job. His own Red col-leagues in the same college aren't even hep to hm, Pearson and Allen's table-turnin- g on Congressman Sweeney of Ohio, who is suing them in every state. He has lost 3 out of 3 already. In-cluding the case of his home state. P. & A. have filed against him, charging "abuse of judicial process" and ask $500,000 . . . The legend that Virginio Gayda was beaten up near Rome by two heroes who escaped. Mood: 'Ooray for the H'Engllsh: Cliff Edwards told it over on the "Knock-out" set at Warners. Two British-ers met after a long separation and compared notes about their adven-tures. "I've been drivin' ambu-- . lances, puttin' out fires, h'all sorts of things," said the first "What 'ave you been doin?" "I was at Dunkirk," said the other. "Gawd," gasped the first, "Dun-kirk? It must a been turrible!" "It was 'orrible," was the retort, "rained every day!" Our llo-IIu- m Dep't: All the Os-cars for the best film acting went to players who impersonated charac-ters from best selling novels and hit plays. Meaning that they had some life before they were screened. But those statues they give the ac-tors are big ones and they cast shadows that black out the authors who merely wrote the prize-winnin- g roles. Observations: The N. Y. Times points out the difference between the Germans of 1914-1- 8 and the Nazis of today. Von Papen, "runner of Hitler's dirty errands" In Turkey, showed a movie depicting the Nazis' cruelties to the conquered peoples. In the last war, the Times recalls, the Germans tried to lie out of their atrocities. Now they glory in them. Imagine! Paramount recently paid Moss Hart and associates al-most $300,000 for the film rights to "Lady in the Dark," the hit show Hart penned while under the care of a psychoanalyst. It is assumed that he will now take out a big policy insuring him-self against getting well. Served Him Right: One of those bores who begins his anesthetic vith: "You don't remember, do you?" was properly stifled by a fed-u- p victim with: "No, ain't I lucky?" Form of Criticism: At the play premiere the other intermission time one of the critics' wives was telling Richard Watts, who hated it that she and her husband were hav-ing fun. "Whatcha doing," intoned Watts, "holding hands?" New Yorchids: "Meet John Doe," which the previewers insist will be another feather in his Capra . . . Hugo Storm's book, "Seven Lean Hounds" . . The editorial cartoons of H. H. Bergman in the Springfield (Mass.) Union big-cit- y stuff . . . Quentin Reynolds' exciting book, "The Wounded Don't Cry," which father'd the "Dunkirk" quip that led a recent colyum. In Fewer Words: Bumito has double-crosse- d hs henchmen over here again. Many Americans came back from Spain to deny the Fas-cists and Nazis were .helping Fran-co. Now Old Baldj sends Spain a bill, itemizing the cost of every Fascist retreat! Of All Thngs: Cussing has been outlawed among the soldiers at Fort Devens, Mass. "Watch your lan-guage." the men were told. "You're in the Army, not 'What Price Glory?'." General HUGH s. Johnson J&yv Washington, D. C. TRANS-ATLANTI- C MAIL There is considerable discussion in Washington as to whether the gov-ernment should subsidize another air transport line between New York and Lisbon to compete with the Clippers over exactly the same route. In this argument there is little criticism of the marvelous pioneer-ing work of n of plan-ning and putting into execution this trans-Atlanti- c service which, due to the war, has become a main reliance for our traffic with Europe, both for mail and important government of-ficials and civilians. It is the best similar service in the world and plans for three more sailings a week, six in all, have been made and financed by the company and ap-proved by the government No, the argument is neither bad service, high rates nor lack of full with the government It is the word of evil omen in all American legislative deliberation. There is only one air service op-erating between New York and Lis-bon. The argument is that govern-ment, at much greater cost to itself tor mail service, should subsidize a much less frequent and initially certainly less efficient service in or-der that there should be competition on this route. It is the story of the railroads over again. Any kind of public service, such as transportation, has some elements of public helplessness-so- me aspect of monopoly. In deal-ing with early high-hande- d railroad operators, our government used two checks. One was regulation. The other was to encourage and subsi-dize competition by parallel rail-road lines at first, later by artificial waterways, airplanes and roads and other special advantages for trucks and busses. The final result of checking by subsidized competition was the mare's nest snarl and tangle of our inefficient and frequently bankrupt railroad web. The report of the Coolidge National Transportation committee, recommending consoli-dation in three or four single monop-olistic systems, showing that the subsidized "competition" Idea has proved disastrous and insisting that "the latter (regulation) has been practiced long enough and sufficient-ly extended to prove that it domi-nates competition or any other in-fluence as the governing law of rail-road practice ..." The air route business Is an ex-actly similar case in which repeti-tion of errors of 70 years ago in fumbling toward a solution of the railroad problems was urged. The present air route has or will ap-parently soon repay the government through postage what it expends for mail freight which is the "subsidy" in question. If that mail load is divided up, neither company can continue with-out great loss. DEFENSE LABOR PROBLEM Both Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Hill-ma-the Janus-heade- d duality which is managing industrial mobili-zation, have testified that all is sweet-ness and light on the labor front They may think so, but hardly any-one else in even remote touch with the situation does. Unquestionably, important sabotage is being used in organizational efforts and attempts to Increase wages. This is notably true in some key steel plants in dispute where the per-centage of spoiled work is rising rap-idly and unusually. This is going on. It is very costly and destruc-tive. It creates delays throughout the whole production process. It is in-conceivable that the government and public can stand for that. The whole coal industry and much of the steel industry is threatened with strikes. Management in some cases is far from The only meth-od to deal with this yet made legal-ly available to the President or his d boy in OPM, is to com-mandeer the plant That means that government takes it over and runs it as an arsenal is run, which in turn means that labor in that plant is working for government directly. All this is being shushed. It has been badly managed from the be-ginning. It was generally under-stood between President Wilson, A. F. of L. President Samuel Gompers and industry, that the "status quo ante" as between labor and man-agement should remain in defense in-dustries. Thus, except as rising costs of living justified higher wages and the government's two labor boards decided, neither manage-ment nor labor was to use the de-fense crisis to take advantage of the others. At the first defiance of this policy, which happened to occur at the same time on the part of one labor union at one place and one group of manufacturers at another, the government move decisively and promptly. It decreed the discharge of the recalcitrant workers. It com-mandeered the recalcitrant plant. All the subsurface boiling and rumbling is being shushed by those whose responsibility it is. That seems wrong from every angle. To a casual observer on the sidelines, it seems time to get not only frank but also vigorous and tough. Doctors Store Blood Plasma For Emergency Program Prepares to Aid Victims of Disasters On Short Notice. (Releaied by Weitem Newspaper Union.) NEW YORK, N. Y.-L- arge scale collection of blood plas-ma by the American Red Cross for the United States navy and army will be the proving ground for the devel-opment of a nation-wid- e net- - work of hospital blood banks, Dr. Charles R. Drew, medi-cal supervisor of the plasma division of the Blood Trans-fusion association, predicts. He says this program was in-stituted to acquire stores of dried and liquid plasma both for the armed forces and for use in disasters involving civilians. Plasma can be sub-stituted for whole blood in transfusions for treatment of many cases of injury, shock and illness. "In case of need, the program could be expanded rapidly to reach thousands of donors In major cit-ies," Dr. Drew explains. "As the technique and facilities for blood and plasma collection Improve, the use of plasma, or serum, undoubtedly will increase. Plasma banks and blood banks are being more and more widely used in hospitals throughout the country." Stored In Philadelphia. "At the present time, blood for the national defense plasma program is being collected" only in New York City," Dr. Drew continued. "The blood is being sent to laboratories in Philadelphia for processing into dried plasma." Dried plasma is eas-ier to store and transport than the liquid form. It is less susceptible to Infection because the moisture necessary to most bacteria life has been withdrawn. Dried plasma is restored to liquid form before it is administered in transfusions. Both liquid and dried plasma may be stored for long periods of time, even several years. Neither form requires "typing" to an Individual patient's requirements when drawn from a supply made up of plasma from many Individuals. The Presbyterian hospital blood bank is representative of modern blood plasma banks. The "vault" is a special Westinghouse refrigerator, developed by the Times Appliance company, to meet the association's requirements. "A constant evenly distributed temperature and ab-sence of vibration is essential in the plasma technique," Dr. Drew said. Maintain Even Temperature. Special controls of the Presbyteri-an blood bank refrigerator maintain the temperature within one-tent- h of one degree of 39.7 degrees Fahren-heit, the ideal cold point for blood and plasma storage. The heart of the blood bank is the pooling room, a glassed-i- n cubicle In which the plasma is drawn off after the corpuscles have settled. The Presbyterian hospital pooling room is bathed In the bacteria-destroyin- g rays of three Sterilamps. One Sterllamp casts a curtain of ultraviolet rays between technicians and containers and tubes with which they draw off and bottle the plasma. Specifications of this refrigeration, Sterilamp and air conditioning equipment for blood banks, have been recommended to the National Research Council which is acting at the request of the navy, army and public health administration. r? .rf f ; y , 1 A trained technician Is shown drawing plasma from a bottle of blood. Ultraviolet rays from three Sterilamps protect the blood plasma from bacteria in the air during the process. Washington, D. C. PROHIBITION LOBBY ACTIVE Prohibition, after being; in the lim-bo for eight years, again has a po-tent lobby on Capitol Hfll. The Women's Christian Temperance Union and other Dry organizations have launched their most intensive campaign since the one that put over the Eighteenth amendment during the last war. And they are using the same tac-tics. Congress is being barraged with appeals to 'protect" soldiers and sailors by prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages near mili-tary reservations. Simultaneously, the heat is being put on state legis-latures to enact "local option" statutes. The only thing new in the drive is its slogan. This time It's "Defend the Defenders." The Dry campaign is well organ-ized. In the last few weeks thou-sands of letters have poured in on congress. Some are written on W.C.T.U. stationery, but most are form letters signed by Individuals obviously connected with Dry organ-izations. FOREIGN PROPAGANDA Postmaster General Frank Walk-er said nothing In his report to con-gress, but he has quietly taken steps to plug up the inflow of foreign propaganda via first-clas- s mail. Postal officials were able to seize and burn 15 tons of illegal litera-ture under the authority that per-mit- a inspection of second and third-clas- s matter without a search war-rant. First-clas- s mail, however, is Immune from direct investigation, can be examined only on a search warrant. Ordinarily this is a laborious pro-ceeding. But thanks to the mass of matter that was seized, Walker found a way to simplify the Job. From the seized material were obtained the names of hundreds of persons in all parts of the country who apparent-ly are on Nazi, Fascist and Japanese propaganda lists. Henceforth, under an order quiet-ly issued by Walker, all foreign mail addressed to these individuals will be subject to a search warrant exam-ination, and if found illegal will be destroyed. Note Walker wants congress to require that both the senders and re-ceivers of foreign propaganda regis-ter their names. A considerable portion of the literature seized ad-vocated violent overthrow of the government Vice President Henry Wallace has engaged a Spanish-speakin- g secre-tary to help him practice his Span-ish. Wallace wanted someone who would be available at any moment in the office. In the restaurant, in the handball court So he turned down a handsome feminine appli-cant from the Mexican embassy, took a man instead. ORATOR VANDENBERG Genial Sen. Arthur Vandenberg is one of the most effective orators in the senate. His mind is alert, and he has a command of phrases that makes the galleries lean forward to hear him. When he had delivered his major effort against the lease-len- d bill, he retired to the cloak room, lit a cigar, and leaned back in an upholstered chair. One of his colleagues con-gratulated him on the speech. With a mischievous twinkle, Van-denberg replied: "I could have de-livered Just as strong a speech on the other side." Senatorial loungers looked up, and Vandenberg added: "I could recite 50 unanswerable reasons why the bill should be passed." TENANT FARMERS The President is not losing sight of domestic problems in the welter of foreign affairs and recently his kept very precise undersecretary of state, Sumner Welles, waiting an hour while he threshed out a farm relief problem. Representatives John Tolan of California and John Sparkman of Alabama had called to protest against a $25,000,000 cut in farm rehabilitation loans, a cut made by the budget bureau in the agricul- ture department appropriation. The conference was supposed to last 15 minutes, but Roosevelt for-got all about the time, became com-pletely engrossed in the "economic shock" to be felt by tenant farmers and migrants after defense spend-ing has tapered off. Meanwhile Welles cooled his heels In an outer office. Finally the two congressmen emerged. They were beaming about the President's promise to have the farm relief cut restored. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Able young Rep. Charley Halleck of Indiana, who nominated Wendell Wilikie at Philadelphia,, broke with him on the lend-leas- e bill, votinn against it Minnesota's husky Gov. Harold Stamen is finding no support among friends of District Attorney Tom Dewey for his presidential ambi- tions. They claim Stassen had com-m- it ed himself to Dewey before the Philadelphia convention, and nurse wiEge because of his B IfYffi 1' I f Pattern N0. 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She has kept that pledge made to herself and now is believed to be the oldest woman employee in point of service on the railway's entire service. Early this month she passed that fiftieth milestone and recalled some of her early impressions of railroad work In those days. "It seems as though it was only Katherine L. Connell (left) as she appeared when she started work for the railroad 50 years ago, and (right) as she looks today. yesterday when I went to work," she says. In those days the company's head-quarters in Omaha employed about 50 persons and in her tenure of service she has watched this num-ber grow to nearly 2,000. Especially does she remember her first salary of $35 a month as freight car mileage clerk, which was a "very comfortable" salary in those days, Miss Connell recalls. She has worked under seven immediate su-perior officers, her present position being in the company's auditor of equipment service accounts office. Supervisory Positions. She has held supervisory positions with the company since February 1, 1900, when she was appointed head clerk in the statistical bureau. For 24 years she was a head clerk, and since 1932 has been assistant bureau head. Her life belongs to the romance that is railroading, for her father too. was an employee of the Union Pacific. He died shortly after her birth, of a cold, contracted on the job. It was after this that a company official promised her widowed moth-er that as her children grew up they would be given work, if they desired, with the railroad. Years later the official kept his promise and Katherine went to work. Her mother dying 16 years ago, and a brother Pat more recently. Miss Connell has been left without kin except for two nephews. But she finds comfort and great compan-ionship both in her work and in a wide acquaintanceship of friends. She is active in several Omaha busi-ness and social organizations. Deceiving First SijS Things are not always: seem; the first appeara: ceives many; the intellig few perceives what has te fully hidden in the recessc mind. Phaedrus. Parents, Educators Strive to Combat Comic Magazines NEW YORK. Color comic maga-zines which don't even try to be funny are becoming increasingly popular among children throughout the country. Conscientious parents and educators denounce them as an undesirable influence upon impres-sionable young minds. In an effort to offset their popu-larity, a new publication has been started which supplants grotesque excitement with true adventure and exploits of superbeings with human bravery and daring. The mushroom growth of color comics began about two years ago. Since that time more than 75 publi-cations have entered the market to sell 10,000,000 copies every month. Dime adventure stories con-demned by many parents at the turn of the century were mild compared to the "thrillers" sold to children today. They offer fantastic excite-ment, lurid adventure and grotesque characters of tremendous strength. Fear Influence of Comics. Parents and educators are becom-ing Increasingly concerned about the influence of these color maga-zines upon youngsters. They fear that these magazines that is, the objec-tionable 70 per cent will give the children a false and undesirable sense of values. Theoretically the solution to the problem is to provide children with a substitute which will command their interest yet possesses none of the qualities which make the picture magazines undesirable. Efforts of Parents' Magazine to provide such a substitute have reached fruition in TRUE COMICS. Looks the Same. Externally it looks just like any other comic magazine. It is of the same size, the same general appear-ance as the other magazines, with its 64 pages of brightly colored pic-tures. The subject matter, how-ever, differs diametrically from its competitors, because it deals with current and past history. Colorful pictures illustrate thrill-ing adventures and conquests of Si-mon Bolivar, South American Lib-erator, and the exploits of George Rogers Clark. More exciting and timely than all is the life of "World Hero Number One," Winston Churchill. Other pages illustrate im-portant and interesting episodes in history. To assure the magazine's ap-peal, a group of well-know- n boys and girls have been asked to serve as Junior Advisory Editors. Among those who have accepted the invita-tion are movie stars Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple. While many adults helplessly be-moan the fact that children read and are influenced by the comic books. Parents' Magazine makes a bold at-tempt to offer a partial solution to the problem. Interested persons from coast to coast are watching this new magazine. True Comics, to see if it will prove successful Memory Clings Experience teaches thai memory is generally joiE weak judgment. Montaif Scornful Silence Silence is the most p ' pression of scorn. s nard Shaw. Electrically Cleaned Air Helps Machine 'Breathe AKRON, OHIO. Enough electri-cally cleaned air to meet the normal breathing requirements of 50,000 persons is being supplied continuous-ly to ventilate a new 75-to- n electri-cal machine for the Ohio Edison company. The air is cleaned to keep dust and dirt out of the windings of a new synchronous condenser which regulates voltage and current on power lines. Bloodstone's 'Poivers Considered Miraculous NEW YORK. - Ancient legends gave the wearer of the birfii gem for March, the bloodstone or jasper, a wide choice of miraculous powers! ranging from calming the wrath of dictators to stopping a nosebleed, according to Natu-- al History maga-zine. Among alleged qualities of the bloodstone is that its owner will be believed, whatever he may say. |