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Show THK BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH , Free Information Lifeline of U.N. World Council Will Stand Or Fcill on Public Opinion By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyt and Commentator. WASIIINGYON. Here are some more notes from a re-porter's notebook (of course, reporters don't really carry notebooks--the- y write on whatever is handy this is a at the United menu) Nations. Some of the people who are reading this column attended sessions of the United Nations I think I recognized some of you. It was hard to get in because so many nations felt this session was so important that they brought much larger stairs than ever before. These "extra" workers couldn't sit in the scats reserved for delegates, nor the news people's, so they were given seats ordinarily handed out to the Dublic For those of you who stayed hnmi 3 and listened to the radio or read the reports in the paper well, what im-pression did you get? Your impression is highly impor-tant, as I'll try to point out later. There was, and is, this danger, which Trygve Lie. secretary gen- - the debates for listeners In 16 countries. The French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian sections of the radio divi-sion also are preparing to broadcast adaptations of one of the U. N pro-grams which will be offered in transcription to stations unable to relay the original broadcast. The two services most widely re-layed, because of the high quality of reception, are those in Spanish (to Latin America) and in Chinese. The programs all carry the latest news on work of the assembly and other United Nations bodies, inter-views with delegates, background talks, recorded excerpts from speeches in debate and short fea-tures. erai or me unu ed N a 1 1 o n 1, pointed out in a speech which stirred all the delegates who heard it (and you, too, I imagine, if you were listen-ing) when he sum-marized it after-ward over the AHC network. Lie said: . . . "the neooles of the world, and m n v ffovern- - As the bickering and obstruction-ism Increased at the current session and it became clear that confidence in the United Nations was being undermined, the importance of the work of the agencies distributing in-formation concerning the topics dis-cussed by the general assembly, be-came more and more evident. The reason was this: It became clear - - naiiKnage ments as well. are shocked, frightened and dis-couraged to find that those same nations which created the United Nations so openly disagree." He called for a rebirth of the "San Francisco spirit," the spirit which we all felt in those hopeful days when the United Nations was born. A colleague of mine, a most re-trained and thoughtful commenta tor (Pauline Frederick, with con siderabie experience here and abroad) told me something which is worth repeating. She was interview ing Eleanor Roosevelt at a luncheon at Hyde Park. Whatever you ma think of Mrs. Roosevelt's domestic politics you must know in what higl' regard she is held as a member ol the American delegation to the United Nations. My colleague asked her If her heart weren't heavy over the world situation today. I haven't her exact words here, hut Mrs. Roosevelt replied in the nega-tive. She said we had expected too much too soon from the I'nit-e- d Nations. And then she went on to point out what so many of the delegates have said, name-ly, that faulty and ineffective TRYGVE LIE ". . . San Francisco spirit . . ." that under the present structure of the United Nations, where a unani-mous agreement on the part of the major powers before major steps could be taken, is required, the only force behind the whole idea is the lorce of public opinion. As this is being written, the ques-tion of the report of a committee on is being dis-cussed. The plans envisioned by the men on the United Nations who realize the importance of strength-ening the opinion-formin- g force of the organization, are not too gran-diose to be practical but they do in-volve expenses which make their completion uncertain. Nations of the world are all feeling the pinch of poverty and there is a strong move to cut expenses. A nnrt nf the lelpAmmnnlna. is the United Nations may be. It is far better than nothing. How many times have 1 heard that from even the most cynical of the reporters and observers here! As the New York Times re-marked in a recent editorial, "it cannot be stressed too often that the struggle brought to a head in this session of the general assembly Is not against the Soviet Union but FOR the United Nations." The most striking thing, the editorial added, is "the determination of the United Nations (that means the member tions plan was a radio network which would dispense objective world news for all the world. To show you how well the meagre elTorts along those lines already have succeeded, I was told by the radio liaison division that even the Russian reporters who, as you know, work for news-papers which are under a strict censorship, which permit no news which doesn't suit their needs, have begun to ask for items issued by the United Na-tions because they are so fair, so objective that no one could accuse them of containing prop-aganda for any one nation. The men on the staff of the United Nations are not all perfect. There are a number of weak sisters. But on the whole, it is surprising to see how the majority of them has been able to develop a world-wid- view-point, an attitude whose whole pol-icy is based on world understanding and the perpetuation of peace. nations) to survive. One strunne phenomenon which ap-pears to persons itot loo u ell icpuunled with the uux such gQtktrblgl it the frientl tuui enlircls norinul manner in which the tleleiiulet to the Vmted Vii Hons who mini A cri other on the ros trum. consort in the corridors and lounites pro! ided in the two huildinies which nou temporarily house the cut Utile council and the nenernl assembly, respectively. That's nothinn neu to peo pie who hare covered congress Dispersing of News Is Vital to U. N. The longei 1 serve, covering these meetings, the more I realize that the most important of all the groups, not excluding the delegates themselves, are those which serve to dispense the news and informa tion concerning the United Nations It would be impossible, of course, for enough people to pisit the sessions to affect pub-lic opinion greatly. But many of the-- people who do come go back with a message which stirs great interest In the organiza-tion in their communities. Proof of this interest was contained in the report of the secretary general. Lie, when he said that information had been sent out ind other steps taken in cooper-ation with a thousand meetings In the past year. But more Important than any-thing else are the actual reports of press and radio direct from one or the other of the two headquarters, or as a result of the many inter-views with members of the perma-nent secretariat. Here is what they've done with radio alone: During the general assembly, the radio division of the depart-ment of public information will broadcast for 12 hours a day. while visiting radio commenta-tors, using facilities leased by the United Nations, will cover Renewal of Patent Patents may be renewed only by act of congress, a thing practically unheard of. Patenting of an does not extend the life-o- f a patent. 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Also a great stomachic tonlcl I hjfii tent tjilin MBHH tuoM 1 Helps remove dim ...brifl all the natural lustre afl smile. 2 A special ingredient iofl encourages regular masfl which has a tonic effect oH ...helps makes them firfl rosy. Tone up your smileH Calox! Mad in famoui McKttsM I II) run tj pbarmactutual iM WNU W 1 slnKa!' HORSE MAfcH More people a, Kifl I I FOOD CZAR . . . Predicting that "America won't fail," Charles Luckman, president of Lever IJros. company of Cambridge, Mass., took charge of the nation's effort to conserve food to help hungry peoples abroad. PAST AND PRESENT PRESIDENTS . . . Unusual indeed is a pic-ture of the President of the United States chatting with a predecessor In his office. The occasion here was the naming by President Tru-man of former President Hoover to the chairmanship of a commission to study plans for reorganizing the federal government. Rapid Growth of Guernsey America with characteristic en-ergy has selected and imported from Guernsey island, over a period of years, 13,000 head of Guernsey cattle. From this relatively small number has developed a population of registered Guernseys now esti-mated at a half million. Registra-tion of calves each year is more than 13 times the total number of cattle imported. NEWS REVIEW Urge Food Conservation; New Battle Shakes U.N. DIATETICS: Waste Less Lips that sincerely frame the words "food conservation" will not touch such sturdy edibles as meat, poultry and eggs quite so often hereafter. Charles Luckman. head of Presi- - Income Disparities "Real income" of wage and sal-ary earners continues to drop, while farmers' income still Is rising, it has been revealed by a monthly In-vestors Syndicate survey of purchas- - dent Truman's citizens food com-mittee, opened the widely heralded "waste less" campaign by calling on the American people to cut their consumption of those three items, thereby effecting a conservation of grain for Europe. At the same time, it was disclosed that stop-ga- p aid for Europe this winter may run as much as 800 mil-lion dollars 220 million more that Mr. Truman had estimated earlier. The appeal for Americans to cut down on the amount of foods requir-- j ing grain feeding was couched in a five-poi- program which, if fol-- ! lowed, will eliminate the traditional race for the last chop on the platter it won't be there. Those five diatetie command-ments were: 1) Buy cheaper meat cuts) 2) Don't serve too much; 3) Don't overcook meat; 4) Use leftovers; 5) Save wheat in all other possible ways. In the future was the possibility that a voluntary program of meat-less days and a reduction in the size of bread loaves would be put into effect. NEW FIGHT: Recalls Yalta ing power. "Real income" is the re-lationship of revenue to the cost of living. Wage and salary earners now have only about 96 cents of buying power for each dollar a year ago, while farmers have approximately $1.09. At the same time, the biggest cause of the wage earners' problem is the sharp rise in the price of food. The average family now pays more than $1.31 for the same amount of food that a dollar bought a year ago. It also pays $1.06 for each dol- - lar on rent, $1.18 to the 1946 dollar for clothing and $1.23 for miscellane- - ous expenses. "This continued divergence be-tween farm and city buying power," the survey pointed out, "indicates that a serious unbalance may threaten the stability of our econ-omy. A close balance is essential." RECOGNITION: Playing Safe Not as a gesture of approval, but rather as a means of keeping in- - formed of internal developments did the United States grant full diplo-matic recognition to the Communist-do-minated government of Bul-garia. In the U. N. another scarehead of possible failure and collapse of that organization arose as the U. S. and Russia plunged into a new skirm-ish. The issue: Which nation shall suc-ceed n Poland on the se-curity council. Poland has represent-ed eastern Europe and the Slav bloc for two years. Russia wants the Ukraine, which, although an inte-gral part of the Soviet Union, have a separate U. N. delegation. U. S. contention is that the Ukraine is not a sovereign nation, therefore does not rate a separate status. In the background of the affair was the Stalin - Roosevelt Yalta agreement which gave the Soviet Union three votes in the United Na-tions. Russia proper, the Ukraine and White Russia each has one. How the U.S.S.R. came to get three votes probably happened something like this: Both the Ukraine and White Russia, intense-ly nationalistic, did not like to lose their identities by being merged with greater Russia The Communist Politburo, therefore, as a sop to their nationalism, granted the two territories a sort of nominal inde-pendence. At Yalta, then, Stalin told Roose-velt that he wanted the Ukraine and White Russia to be repre-sented in the U. N. for "internal reasons." F.D.R., being an old poli-tician and sympathetic with "inter-nal" difficulties, agreed. Thus, the stage was set for one of the most serious battles yet to develop within the United Nations. Robert A. Lovett, U. S. acting secretary of state, said that the ac-tion meant neither that this country approved nor condoned "certain re-cent actions of the Bulgarian gov-ernment." Although he did not say so, Lovett obviously referred to Bulgaria's ex-ecution of Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposition to the Communists. Previously, recognition of the Bu-lgarian government was withheld on the grounds that the pro-Sovi- re-gime had been elected unfairly, but now the U. S. felt that it was more important to have an embassy in the country to protect American in-terests there. LITTLE HOPE: Less Coal There is little or no hope spring-ing in the collective breast of off-icial Washington that the coal short-age this winter can be averted. Current estimates place coal pro-duction as running several million tons a month behind exports and domestic consumption, principally because of the coal car shortage. This has resulted in winter stock-piles depreciating instead of grow-ing, as they normally would. It was hoped at first that some re-lief would come when winter weath-er stops or curtails road-buildin-and construction, thus permitting of sand and gravel cars to the coal fields. However, a railroad spokesman said the diversion of such cars would do nothing but off-set a normal 10 per cent drop in railroad efficiency in winter. Hurry, May Be Too Late The first advertisement for a pe-troleum product was printed in the middle 1850s. It urged prospective buyers to "hurry before this won-derful product is depleted from na-ture's laboratory." Yet, despite sim-ilarly pessimistic predictions ever since then, reserves of crude petro-leum and condensates were in-creased . ni BIG GIRL NOW . . . Diminutive film actress Margaret O'Brien had a thrill even Hollywood doesn't provide when she intro-duced President Truman over all radio networks of the nation as he opened the Community Chest drive. . ATOMICAL TOM . . . Now able to sit up and eat a hearty meal, Frederick Thomas Humphreys of Perth, Australia, known as "Atom-ica- l Tom," was treated with first atomic isotopes to be distributed by the U. S. STOIT FELLOW... It took this giant tortoise, "Amelia," at the London zoo most of her 150 vears to learn how to drink a pint of stout through a straw. So now she's trying to teach the little turtle how to do it. SAME AS IN 500 A.D. j Pacific Journey Made on Raft! Dr. Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian enthnologist and zoolo-gist, had a theory that the first Poly-nesians were blue-eye- d blondes who floated over to their Pacific is-lands from South America on rafts in about the year 500 A. D. What he did about proving that theory now is history. He and a party of six men built themselves e primitive raft of bamboo and balsa wood, climbed aboard and set them-selves adrift at Callao. Peru. Exactly 101 days later the scien-tific group drifted ashore on their raft, the Kon-Tik- i. at Rnroia reef in the Tuamotu archipelago, center of their target. They had used no motors, oars or sails. Their only means of propulsion on the 4,300-mil- e trip had been the Humboldt and South Equatorial current. That, said Dr. Heyerdahl as he landed in San Francisco en route to Norway, provided "indubitable proof" of the veracity of his theory. "The fact that we made the jour-ney demonstrates it could have been done around 500 A. D., when the Polynesians were first populated," he said. "Expert navigators said it couldn't be done, that the balsa wood would sink, that it was impossible; but it wasn't." He related that the current and wind sometimes carried the raft as much as 71 miles a day, sometimes only 9 miles; but that "we always moved westward." The raft was 45 feet long and 18 feet wide a vir- - tually infinitesimal craft on which to cross the vast sweep of the Pacific. With true scientific objectivity, the men ate a little of everything that came their way during the course of the journey fish, small crabs that walked on the ocean, seaweed and plankton. Plankton was de-scribed as a c sea life, both animal and vegetable, which was "like shrimp paste." Cost of the expedition, estimated at $40,000, was financed by Dr. Hey-erdahl through funds of his own and by borrowing money. - . " NEW COMMANDO' JOINS KEL-- Kellj Congressional Medal Honor of winner, and his wilt Mav admire the -- r Carles ,r., Zo. ZTluV ht n0t ave (;B' I'ke his father did. I |