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Show 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 salary sal-ary earners continues to drop, while farmers' income still Is rising, it has been revealed by a monthly Investors In-vestors Syndicate survey of purchas- dent Truman's citizens food committee, 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-gap aid for Europe this winter may run as much as 800 million mil-lion dollars 220 million more that Mr. Truman had estimated earlier. The appeal for Americans to cut I down on the amount of foods requir-j requir-j ing grain feeding was couched in a I five-point program which, if fol-! fol-! lowed, will eliminate the traditional race for the last chop on the platter it won't be there. Those five diatetie commandments 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 meatless 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 relationship 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 j 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 between be-tween farm and city buying power," the survey pointed out, "indicates that a serious unbalance may threaten the stability of our economy. econ-omy. A close balance is essential." RECOGNITION: Playing Safe Not as a gesture of approval, but ! rather as a means of keeping in- i formed of internal developments did the United States grant full diplomatic diplo-matic recognition to the Communist-dominated government of Bulgaria. 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 skirmish. skirm-ish. The issue: Which nation shall succeed suc-ceed pro-Russian Poland on the security se-curity council. Poland has represented represent-ed eastern Europe and the Slav bloc for two years. Russia wants the Ukraine, which, although an integral 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 Nations. 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, intensely 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 independence. inde-pendence. At Yalta, then, Stalin told Roosevelt Roose-velt that he wanted the Ukraine and White Russia to be represented repre-sented in the U. N. for "internal reasons." F.D.R., being an old politician poli-tician and sympathetic with "internal" "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 action ac-tion meant neither that this country approved nor condoned "certain recent re-cent actions of the Bulgarian government." gov-ernment." Although he did not say so, Lovett obviously referred to Bulgaria's execution ex-ecution of Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposition to the Communists. Previously, recognition of the Bulgarian Bul-garian government was withheld on the grounds that the pro-Soviet regime 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 interests in-terests there. LITTLE HOPE: Less Coal There is little or no hope springing spring-ing in the collective breast of official offi-cial Washington that the coal shortage short-age this winter can be averted. Current estimates place coal production 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 stockpiles stock-piles depreciating instead of growing, grow-ing, as they normally would. It was hoped at first that some relief re-lief would come when winter weather weath-er stops or curtails road-building j and construction, thus permitting di-version di-version of sand and gravel cars to the coal fields. However, a railroad i spokesman said the diversion of j such cars would do nothing but offset off-set a normal 10 per cent drop in railroad efficiency in winter. |