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Show " THE BILLETIN. BINGHAM CANYONUTAH ' ' mmmm ; Controls Necessary a, in . Food Crisis Export-Impo- rt Regulations Vital for Curing World Ills By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNI Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. -- The sudden de-scent upon Columbia's shoulders of the mantle of world leadership has forced the President to add all sorts of odd jobs to his other functions. Traveling sales-man is one of them. Almost be-fore he learned his way around the White House, he had the Unit-ed Nations as- - culties. It is impossible to estimate the "destruction" in terms of what has happened to social and political values. As to point two, that becomes a concrete issue which ought to be in debate before these lines are printed; namely, the question of ex-tending certain wartime controls over exports and imports. Briefly, if export controls go off, foreign nations can bid against each other for food Wheat, for example. That will send the price of wheat skyrocketing. What does that mean? In the first place it means the country with the most money gets the most wheat, regardless of its need. Others go hungry. It means the American taxpayer will have to pay a fancy price for the wheat the government buys. It means extra American dollars which could be used to buy other American products, which would encourage production, will be sucked out of foreign pockets and world trade will be stultified by just that much. That Is on argument for extending controls on exports Fortunately there are also a lot of "selfish-interest- " reasons for con-trolling some exports. It's this way: The man who extracts oil from soy beans, although he is quite willing to have his oil exported, probably can sell it here anyway. But he j doesn't want beans from which he gets the oil sent out of the country. The man who refines the oil doesn't j mind having his refined product ex- - ported but he doesn't want the un- - refined oil (his raw material), j which he has to buy, exported; the man who uses that refined oil to make margarine doesn't want to compete with foreigners for it, he's quite willing to have foreigners buy his margarine. These mixed motives don't add up to a very good argument for con- - gress. because the only controls de- - Baukhage sifinment at San Francisco. Hard-ly was he back from the Golden Gate when he was ordered to Pots-dam. He already has become our "flyingest" chief executive. The Mexican trip was scarcely over when he was called to the wearying vigil at his mother's bedside. Meanwhile he has conducted White House business without en-countering too much criticism for being absent without leave. In fact, his popularity with the public has grown. But at this writing some of his followers are growing a little res-tive about what they call his appar-ent neglect of certain issues which ought to be brought emphatically before the public. What was considered a crisis In world affairs was met successfully by overwhelming congressional support for the relief and Greek-Turkis- h aid bills A-lthough at times it has balanced upon a rather thin edge, the solidar-ity of foreign policy has been maintained But there is an-other matter which those most concerned declare has not been sired are for the other fellow. It doesn't generate too much pressure because there are enough "agins" to balance the "furs." But when it comes to imports. It's a different story. Take fertilizer. Britain and the United States, straining to increase production, now are using twice as much fer-tilizer as in prewar years. That is al right. But the destitute Euro-pean countries with their very tired soil need every ounce they can get ; and if there were no import con-trols they would get less the rich buyers would get more. The pres- - sure on congress is all against limit- - ing importation of fertilizer. Some imports into America are. Of course, highly d to get those American dollars abroad in order that foreign nations may buy raw materials and other things. But j if we are to keep the rest of the markets alive until they can feed themselves, what we give out and what we take in will have to be made to fit the needs of the situation, not the desires of the American busi-nessman who doesn't realize that If he is given too free a hand he'll be cutting off his own nose with it. brought home to the public - the world food situation. There are two Important facts: 1. Two years have passed since the end of the war and the world fbod situation Is no better. 2. Although congress (the peo-ple) has been willing to vote huge funds for relief. It appears unwilling to continue certain controls on business, without whlrh the machinery for help-ing the stricken countries to their feet will break down. The first Job is to bring home the eriousness of point one. The second Job (which has been dumped into the President's lap) is to convince congress of the importance of point two. Press and radio have been asked to help with the first job. They are trying. Here's one small contribu-tion: In terms of dollars the de-struction caused by World War II was seven times that of World War I. Recovery is, therefore, at least seven times as hard. Economic dif-ficulties are multiplied more than sevenfold because of political ditTi- - JII8T LIKE MOTHER'S New Bed Cross Class Designed To Appease Cake-hungr- y Vets M SU Features. ,r T ,;ii hp home-bake- d cakes JAMAICA N CTea of New York City for returned G.I.s in mi mi the central from now on, thanks to the n i niton eJJcurean slant is of Queens Red Cross Tfienew Red Cross chapter conduc ttd local result of the recent poll fM q the ch among itshiaJSW,"originally wives and sweethearts with the rudiments of housekeeping. The poU was intended to gauge these women as to opinion among reaction of their husbands to the tutored domesticity of their wives, and to discover the "Inner yearn-ings" of returned and discharged G Ij along domestic culinary lines. Signed returns to the widely dis-tributed poll amazed Red Cross nu-trition officials. A majority of the polices re-ported that their husbands were elated with their "homebody" wives, and that the former so-ldiers craved most their moth-er's old - fashioned "home-baked- " cakes. The result was a determination to refashion the Red Cross school, changing it to the "Red Cross School for Cake-Hungr- y Vets." Amid a great deal of fanfare, Red Cross officials formally opened the school. The first wave of "students" overwhelmed Red Cross executives. Not only war brides but also grand-mothers, mothers and sisters at- - EAT IT, TOO . . . War brides, mothers, sisters and even grand-mothers flock to the Red Cross school to learn how to bake cake. tended. It indicated, in the opinion of the school supervisors, a "defi-nite trend back to home baking and cooking as the best way to a man's heart." Baking experts were pressed into service at the school as "profes-sors." Topping this list were Miss Dorothy Wettemann, nutrition di-rector for the Red Cross, and Grace Lohmann, heralded as the nation's top "amateur baker." Miss Loh-mann baked thousands of delicacies for G.I.s during the war. The school, according to Miss Wettemann, will continue Indef-initely, and classes will be arranged in groups of 25. 7.1 iillir . v. A t - LIVING BARRIER PROTECTS CHILDREN . . . Whether the danger come from tigers or autos, mothers always are ready to protect their young. When a narrow residential street in Columbus, Ohio, became a speedway for motorists, aroused neighborhood mothers formed a living barrier to traffic to permit their children to cross the street from the school bus in safety. RETURN . . . Bafk after a wartime Slv j authoress Anna Seeh on "Free Book Day" I spot where her 0Wn . Seventh Cross," Was b Nazis 14 years ago. HOSPITALITY , , , U las, new I'nited States dor to England, receii welcome from Mrs. Griffin, a miner's wife, visited the Denaby mat at South Yorkshire. NEWS REVIEW Farm Budget Cuts Hit; Train Fares Increased FARM FUROR: Stormy Weather Possibly the most violent storm of the year, according to the eco-nomic and political barometer, is the one which was raised when the house appropriations committee recommended a 32 per cent cut In department of agriculture funds for the coming year. Slashing more than 383 million dollars from the amount asked by II4 President Truman, the committee opened the flood-gates for a deluge of protests from Clinton Anderson, secretary of agri-culture, and Demo--c r a t i c congress-men, who claimed they would fight the action right up ' TRAVEL PAY: Train Fares Up To offset Increased operating costs, Interstate Commerce com-mission authorized an approximate 10 per cent increase in basic pas-seng-fares for 60 railroads operat-ing east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. The change will boost one-wa-passenger rates from 2.2 to 2.5 cents a mile in coaches and from 3.3 to 3 5 cents a miles in sleeping and parlor cars. There will be an increase of about 15 per cent in coach round-tri- p rates and about four per cent in Pullman round-tri- p fares. In granting the increase, ICC noted that those railroads which re-quested the new rates incurred a deficit of 54 million dollars from passenger train operations last year. IT'S WONDERFUL: Long Time Peace Announcing the immediate aboli- - tion of capital punishment in Rus- - sia, Soviet authorities explained the move on the grounds that it was mad possible by Russia's growing strength, the people's patriotism and the certainty of peace "for a long time." Said the Moscow radio: 'The in-ternational situation during the time after Germany's capitulation and Japan's capitulation shows that the cause of peace can be consid- - ered secure for a long time in spite of attempts by aggressive elements to provoke war." Meanwhile, Herbert Hoover looked on the other side of the mask to charge Russia with attempting to bleed the United States through relief channels and blaming her for the economic paralysis of Japan and Germany. He declared that futher relief will remain necessary as long as the Soviets continue their obstructionist tactics and demands for repara- - to next year's n Hons, if necessary. Declaring that the reduction "directs a sharp cut at the interests of the American farm family and the general wel-fare," Anderson said that the "greatest harm" would be to the soil conservation program, the farm price support program and programs designed to help veterans and low income families become oetter established. The 32 per cent cut would elimi-- nate the Agriculture Adjustment administration by July 1, 1948. Cur-- j rently, the AAA is carrying on its basic program of promoting soil conservation on 3,500,000 cooperat-ing farms by paying farmers for following practices intended to in- - crease soil fertility and, hence, to j increase production. The proposed fund slash would mean that farm-er- s this year would be paid about 50 per cent of what they previously had been promised. In answering the criticism, the house appropriations committee said that its recommended cuts are "selective" and reasonable based on actual farm needs. tions, thus blocking peace treaties I with the two countries and keeping their economies paralyzed. French Honor i HOUSING: Unfounded Hope Popular belief that any substan-tial reductions in the cost of new housing will occur in the near fu-ture is not founded on realities. That assertion was made by James C. Downs Jr., president of the Real Estate Research corpora-tion, who explained that besides being geared to a high national debt, housing costs, like prices of other hard goods, are directly af-fected by the large demand for American capital and production by other countries. "The housing shortage today is worse than a year ago," he said, "and it will continue to grow pro-gressively worse for some time." He pointed out that increased earning power has put a greater number in the market for new homes, but at the same time build- - ers are afraid to start new con- - struction because of high costs. The theory that prices would drop kept many persons from buying or build- - ' ing homes last year. Downs said. I Vincent Auriol, president of France, decorates opera singer Lily Pons witb the rosette of the Legion of Honor. The French-bor- n artist has been making a concert tour of France. AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER Sixty-eigh- t youngsters competed In a model aircraft contest in Kan-sas City, Kas., under auspices ol Model Aircraft institute and sanc-tioned by Academy of Model Aero-nautics in Washington. ... A civic campaign has been launched in Du Quoin, 111., to raise $10,000 for pur-chas- e of a e site and develop-ment of an airport. Backing the project, the Lions club has arranged temporary financing for purchase of the site, which had been used as an airport until early 1946. The club voted $1,000 toward the campaign. . . . Expansion of civil air patrol activities Is contemplated during the coming year, wing commanders of the group were told at their an-nual meeting In Washington. High- - light of the three-da- session was th second annual congressional dinner, when reports were mad to congressmen on activities of nearly 1,500 CAP units throughout the United States. CAP is an auxiliary of army air forces. . . . Airplanes were utilized to inspect land de-voted to summer fallow in western Kansas. Glenn H. Johnson, state director of the Kansas Production and Marketing administration In Manhattan announced that summer fallow practice was performed by about 18,000 farmers on 2,500.000 acres of land. Use of airplanes ex-pedited checking to determine that farmers complied with all require-ments. Once again the airplane has come to the aid of law enforce-ment officials. An Arizona high-way patrolman, from whom three youths in a stolen car managed to escape, got his men recently by rushing to an air-port and taking a Cub plane aloft for a survey of the desert into which they had disap-peared. He spotted the youths hiding beneath a desert bush, made note of the spot and in a few minutes had landed and apprehended them. MODERN PROSPECTORS The old "pick and burro" prospec-tors soon will be giving way to men with helicopters, believes Dr. Francis A. Thompson, president of Montana School of Mines at Butte. Dr. Thompson explains that devices now being perfected will allow pros-pectors to use helicopters and en- - able them to locate mineral deposits hidden under lava flows and al-luvial deposits in the Northwest. GOOD PRESCRIPTION Serving as staff physician for hos-pitals in three different cities, Dr. Frank A. Brewster of Holdridge, Nebr., finds that time is valuable. Consequently, he resorts to a plane for rapid transportation between Holdridge and Lexington, Nebr., and Oberlin, Kas., the other cities in which he serves on hospital staffs. Each is more than 100 miles from Holdridge. Dr. Brewster. 73, bought his first plane, an old Jenny, in 1919. Now he pilots a Fairchild Ranger four-plac- e personal plane. This permits his wife and nurse assistant to ac-company him on many of the flights. In addition to his regular professional trips, he has made flights to Chicago, El Paso and points in Kentucky. FLYING DOCTOR Abreast of Times . WEST POINT OF AIR' Hundreds of young American soor. will be taking advantage of the opportunity to attend pilot training classes at the "West Point of Air. Army air forces 1. reopenint ts aviation cadet training prograrr qualified young men. The firs' postwar cadet class of 500 students which civilians now may apply' wi i begin training July , at g dolph Fieid. San Antonio Tex Th. course at flying instruction for avia Uon cadets will extend for 52 weeks B mm- SENTENCED . . . ReJ ney, former house M arms, was found . charge that he madf U'M to the government to "m house bank funds in pcrfl estate speculation. I Humanity Is at the Crossroads Two reports in the news recently caused some interesting comments in Washington on the international situation. Charles Reese, extension apiarist of University of Ohio, recently re-ported that because of the late sea-son and resultant scarcity of pollen on which bees feed, many of the drones (who do not work and are preserved for social purposes only) have been pushed out of the hives by the workers. Picket lines have been formed and the drones are not allowed to r. They die in the damp and cold. "Theirs (the bees') is not a very pleasant society," says apiarist Reese. "Hive activity is communis-tic and utterly ruthless." A statement by Andre Vlsson. French writer who syndicates a column in American newspapers, was the second inspiration for un-official comment. Visson said: "The world has indeed entered into a contest between American- - It has been shown that animals, when they master technology, tend to form a perfectly regimented, to-talitarian state. Take the ants and the bees. They long ago were able to do what Hitler planned and had begun to practice change the na-ture of species, not only by creating a special environment for the young but also by feeding it certain foods. The bees carefully segregate the babies (the eggs) and by feeding them three different menus produce three different classes, the workers, the drones and the queen. Hitler had ut theories for produc-ing a slave-clas- s by feeding the children certain vitamins, with-holding others, weeding out all those undesired by the Nail state, feeding and training a ruling class (Fuehrerprinzip). And now, the followers of Marxist-- I Leninism are set up to carry out the principle. ism and Communism." This pearl of wisdom laid beside the dispatch from Columbus moved a certain engineer-economist-philo-opher to the observations which follow: For the first time, this pundit pointed out, the human race is really at the crossroads. Life has followed two paths, one taken by the animals, another by those who have in them something that dis- - tinguishes them from the beast. One path has been clearly visible to ma- - terialistic philosophers. Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx and the monster who was created out of their theories. Hitler. The other is the one illu-mined by the thought and action of those who from cot or castle, from work-benc- h or cloistered hall, lived In the belief that the activities of the state, or the individual, should be measured against something other than material forces. IMMIGRANT . . An kangaroo, Kluey" Oakland, Calif., airpr mediately claimed VM of being the first of cross the I'ai ific Helping to take care m on the journey W M mons of Sydney, Fl Horseback Trek To Follow Trails Into Adventure BELLE FOURCHE, S. D - Un-surpassed mountain scenery, west-ern companionship and a d chuck wagon combine to make the horseback caravan from Belle Fourche to Devils Tower, offered for the first time this sum-mer as a tourist attraction, an in-teresting diversion from the vacation. Nine trips are planned during the months of June. July and August, departure dates being the 1st, 11th and 21st. Each caravan, it is ex-pected, will be comprised of 25 to 30 riders. The rides are sponsored by Western Trails, Inc., an organi-sation of Belle Fourche business-men. Traversing Black Hills National forest, the trail passes through mile after mile of virgin Ponderosa pine, up and over the Bear Lodge moun-tains, along sparkling creeks and through grassy lowland meadows. Western terminus of the ek'ht-r- i trip is the unique and awesome st of rock known as Devils Tower in eastern Wyoming. The first monument to be incorporated in the national park system, Devils Tower is a majestic sheaf of rock columns that rises 875 feet above its base. For the benefit of "dude" guests on the adventuresome ride cow-boys wrangle and saddle the' string of range-wis- e western ponies a trail boss guides the caravan and a CWW travels ahead in chuck and duffel wagons to set up each night's camp. APPALLING WASTE Mounting Fire Loss Predicted CHICAGO With fire losses con-tinuing to mount, damage may ex-ceed the billion dollar mark by 1950. Frank A. Christensen, president of National Board of Fire Underwri-ters, warns in urging support of the federal action program to save life and resources which was the result of President Truman's conference on fire prevention. The Increasing fire waste was attributed by Christensen to two causes, one physical and one psy-chological. "The physical factor tends to In-crease the number of fires of all i kinds, and the size of losses where flames gain headway because of de- -' layed alarms, poor fire protection, negligence or bad housekeeping," he explained. "The psychological factor arises out of our careless and reckless habits," he explained. Christensen pointed out that since 1941, national waste by fire has more than doubled, rising to 616 million dollars for the 12 months ended April of this year from 300 million dollars for 1941. "Even more appalling." he said. "ia the indication that the loss of life may have risen to a figure never experienced before. Loss of life in hotel fires in 1946 was greater than in any year in our history." Despite a 22 per cent increase in arson investigations, the national board had found a sharp decline in the number of fires started for profit during the last year. The board pointed out that in the year ended April 30. juveniles ac-counted for almost half of the per-sons arrested because of incendiary fires, and persons mentally irre-sponsible for another large share. I mu VMBASSADOR O'Neal. "'r""'r lM: gressman """ aled ? been nonii" man as Jf pine republic V. McNutt in v Overtime Parkers Get Opportunity To Repent CHILLICOTHK, MO. - One lone parking meter has been installed at the local police station to give a second chance to overtime parkeri who repent in haste. When a motor- - ist gets a ticket, he can gain forglve. ness by going to the station within one hour and depositing his nickel in the parking meter there But if be waif 61 minute., he must pay a |