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Show MEflf GO-ROUND rsiJ UV iv Pearson CABINET LADIES AND MENUS WASHINGTON. - Ladies of the cabinet are really practicing whal their husbands preach regarding the j saving of food for Europe. Ever since President Truman urged that the American people eat the equivalent equiv-alent of a European ration two days a week, cabinet wives have been studying menus. Mrs. Clinton Anderson, whose secretary of agriculture husband is one of the hardest-working of the food conservers, has given permission permis-sion to publish one of her menus. It provides 1,540 calories the equivalent of a European ration-as ration-as compared with the normal American diet of 3,600 calories. Here it is, with the number ol calories listed after each item oi food: Breakfast glass of orange juice j (75); bowl of cereal (100); milk for I Caret (85); half-a-pint of milk or ! j cocoa (170) total, 430. Lunch half-a-cup of thick soup or , I chowder (150); vegetable salad J without oil in dressing (75); muffin (75); baked custard (100); half-a- pint of milk (170) total, 570. Dinner poultry, fish or meal (150); potato (large serving) (150); I green vegetable (peas, beans. : greens or broccoli) (40) ; raw vege- : table strips (carrots, celery, tomato, toma-to, cabbage) (50) ; half-cup of fruit j (150) or milk for children total 540. TRUMAN'S GIRL FRIEND The leading lady of the poppy presentation ceremonies to President Presi-dent Truman fell hard for the chiel executive. Three-year-old Betty Lou Hall of j Eaton Rapids, Mich., one of five j orphaned children left by a heroic 1 infantryman killed after the Nor-! Nor-! mandy invasion, was selected to put the poppy in Truman's lapel in behalf be-half of war orphans of the Veterans Veter-ans of Foreign Wars. Her job finished, the little girl was asked hy photographers if she didn't want to kiss the President. Presi-dent. She complied not with one kiss, but a shower of them. In fact, the young lady seemed inclined in-clined to continue this part of the proceedings indefinitely until un-til reminded that her embraces were sufficient for picture purposes. pur-poses. ARMY MORALS OVERSEAS One reason for strong sentiment : in the senate against drafting 18- year-olds is that many senators have been abroad since V-E Day and have seen first-hand the wanton immorality to which young soldiers i are exposed. Returned senators are especially I critical of U. S. army officers for j setting a bad example to young j G.I.s. "When they see their superior officers living in German Ger-man castles with frauleins," reported re-ported Sen. Harley Kilgore of West Virginia, "enlisted men get a very bad Impression. It's no place for youngsters. After they get to be 21, they can stand on their own feet, but give them a chance to get some education first." Other senators feel that the army has an obligation to put its house in order before it demands drafting of 18- and 19-year-olds. "An officer is supposed to set an I example to the enlisted man," commented com-mented Sen. Ed Johnson of Col- orado. "An example of upright living. liv-ing. Some of the examples set by officers in Germany are shocking j Until they clean house they can't expect us to be enthusiastic about j the draft." CASE BILL BOOMERANGS Some of the GOP southern coalition coali-tion who stamped the Case anti- strike bill' through the house are ' singing a different tune in the 1 cloakrooms since the Illinois primary pri-mary election returns have come in. One of the most significant battles bat-tles in this primary was in the district dis-trict represented by GOP Con. Robert Rob-ert B. Chiperfield of Canton, 111., an all-out advocate of the Case bill. A fourth-termer, Chiperfield ! boasts that never before has he been opposed In a primary election. elec-tion. However, it was different this year. The Illinoisan not only had an opponent, but he was renominated re-nominated only by the skin of his teeth approximately 1,300 votes. Chiperfield makes no bones to close friends about the reason for his tight squeak. "My support of the Case bill came darn close to licking me," he admitted in the GOP cloakroom. "That was the main issue of the? campaign." DIPLOMATIC CHAFF The Russian Trade mission to Argentina Ar-gentina is not on a brief visit. The Russians brought their families and art prepared to negotiate a long-term long-term trade deal, especially trying to buy the Argentine linseed oil crop If they succeed, the American home-building program for veterans will be very short of paint. . . . The United States and Great Britain Brit-ain are pressing for an early election elec-tion in Romania which the Russian Rus-sian don't seem to want but others do. |