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Show THE BULLETIN, RjKGHAM CANYON. UTAH U. S. Farmer Will Beat Communism WITH THE CQIrQMPTOrl American Food Can Halt Chaos Threatening Europe By BAUKIIAGE NVi t Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. The American farmer is going to lick communism! That's what your worried capital is saying today. Ameri-can representatives abroad and at home are submitting one report after another which register gains in the Soviet battle to build a Communistic world out of chaos. The reports come in from Prague, from Belgrade, from Sofia, from Budapest, showing how each day the iron grip of the Russian-dominate-secret police is gradually choking off democracy in the little countries. Reports from Rome tell us of a planned coup of the Moscow-directe- Com-munistic party in Italy to overflow the government there. The open record of the meetings of the United Nations reveals the consistent attempt of the Russian delegation to block the efforts of the struggling, still-fre- e governments in Greece and France. Some American political leaders still look askance at the huge pro-,.- f iuiii ui a.,,i,1u lis western Europe I ?nvisioned in the I Marshall plan. I Part of the coun ! try seems unsym I pathetic, or at I least indifferent, I toward the effort I to win the "cold I war" against Russia with pure ly economic weapons, because It means sacri-fices on the part "realistic" side of the picture will be brought home forcibly to America. The average cltl-ic-as well as the farmer and the exporter and others directly dependent on international trade as a whole, will realize that what Is at stake is something far greater than the dollar-Ameri- ca's stake in the preserva-tion of a free world a world which will perish If Europe is underfed. Russia has only about one-sixt- h of the amount of wheat which the Unit-ed States is able to spare, accord-ing to current estimates. The Unit-ed Nations food and agriculture or-ganization estimated it as 70 mil-lion bushels against our 400 million bushels, as stated above. Our own situation, we admit, is not too good. Nevertheless, we are in a much better position on a com-petitive basis, than Russia. There appears little doubt In the minds of the men most familiar with the facts that when the full force of this situation and what it means is real- - of the American Baukha(fe citizen. Some of-ficials In the administration, sup-porters of the Marshall plan in con-gress, and a few diplomats at home and abroad, are frightened by this attitude. Until recently this correspondent has been pretty much distressed, too. But I feel better after talking with certain officials whose names seldom appear in the news These ized in this country, Europe may be saved for democracy and the American farmer will have at least two-third- s of the credit due him. men are not cabinet officers, they are not diplomats, they are not the leaders in congress whose faces ap-pear in the news pictures and whose adumbrations are quoted in the daily dispatches. They are just the men who do the work for which Uncle Sam "pays the wage." They are paid for knowing about American farms and American farmers. Their con-sensus Is embodied in the tirt line of this dispatch: The Amcr lean farmer is going to lick com-munism. I believe the farmer will do it, not because he knows it will pay him in dollars now. but because he is going (o be convinced before very long that it will pay America. The Amer-ican farmer will do it by pro-viding the food necessary to halt chaos in Europe just as he proved the verity of the slogan: "Food will win the war." The history of Europe since the war is that every government falls when the bread ration is reduced. The men who know tell me that whatever the total amount In goods or dollars demanded by the Mar- - shall plan, it is safe to say that two-third- s of it will be for food either the food commodities them-iclve- s or the dollars with which "Please, kid, don't EVER go collective on me." What do the Russians think of "collective farming," commu-nize- d agriculture under the Sovi-ets? Well, I asked a friend of mine, Paul Ward of the Balti-more Sun, who got this story from a Russian, a good Commu-nist, whom he met in Moscow. After a few vodkas the Russky used to tell stories. This was one: Stalin and Roosevelt were driving through the countryside. A cow got into the road in fronl of them and wouldn't move. The driver tried to shoo it away but it wouldn't budge. Finally, Stalin got out, went up to the cow and whispered into its ear. The cow-gav-one frightened look, jumped over the fence and disappeared in the distance. "What did you say to the cow to make it do that?" Roosevelt asked. Stalin smiled. "Don't tell any-body, but I said to her: 'If you don't get out of here, but quick, I'll put you on a collective farm! ' " :o buy them. American dollars are growing very scarce In Europe but there are three things which the Euro-pean purchaser hesitates to quit buying grain, coal and fats. You will notice that France, when it reduced its imports las al) European countries are do-ing as their dollars decline) tried to hold on to her grain, coal and edible fats as lung as possible. Even if the Marshall plan were not put into effect in time to pro-vide extra dollars, for their grain purchases, there will be a lag of .some months before the farmer is touched in his pocketbook. By that time, if nothing is done, the Euro-pean countries starve. Free World Is at Stake Exports to Europe already have been cut down. That will affect first employment of people in this coun-try in such export industries as ra- - Hin flertriral nnnlianres nnH lib-- gadgets which can be spared. It is quite possible that there may be a sufficient increase meanwhile in em-ployment in construction or other domestic industries which will ab-sorb this unemployment and keep up the purchasing power of the con-sumer sufficiently to maintain pres-ent farm prices. In any case, there probably will be a six months lag before prices are greatly affected Eventually, the marginal surplus would be touched (if Europe is not stimulated) as it was in 1920. Then, you recall, grain prices dropped, al-though exports were still heavy. However, the demand at that time was not great enough to absorb the entire American output. It is this "marginal surplus" which decides the prices at home. 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H I 2 A special Ingredient in encourages riguUrmJM which has atonic effecton ...helps makes them rosy. Tone up your snuie."i I Modi in jamous M.Kcnon 113 yiars tj phmmm'mWm "nj WNUW Mav Warn of Kidney Action Modern life with Its hurry trregular habits. 'nv drinkinf-- ita risk of P ' m tl tion throws heavy t, of th. kidneys. They " i over-taie- d and sfl '"Hi. and other impunue" fromt blood. M You may B"fS up headache, w leg pains. ' '0t. Oth tired, nervous, al 1 l" i of kidney or bladd t0 fi " 5 times buroine. nty urination. pM'i hi Try fo harmful e kidney, to P o!T.hd an tb waste. Theyh.v ,Are century of Pl,l;r."fur mended by DREW PEARSON Economic Experts Are Alarmed K.Sn oc rep.i Mr. Truman's r srwtrsruu&'CS- -- - r TrTn t0 Hower0 tc.economic advisers, . group of experts picked from pwty. is concerned not with wh.tW-- with heading off depression. And they informed may not think, but solely PrTtL coupled with inflation wi.l the present runaway prices continue for some time. 2. That continuation will lead to a real depression, rather Thev'a LTcautioned that the public-wh- ich makes up been using up its sav-ine- s. the vast majority of the nation's consumers-h- as because prices are so high that they can't pay their bills out ol present income. NEWS REVIEW Showdown Near in U. N.; Grain Exports Reduced $ . Atom flfter-Effec- ts Although the atom bomb explo-sions in Japan have caused some sterility among the people, they have not affected the soil adversely and may even have brought about an improvement in the rice crop. Dr. Shields Warren, Harvard pro-fessor, recently returned from Ja-pan where he studied after-effect- s of the bomb, said that its effects on L human beings may carry into the third generation, producing freaks. WHOSE FAULT? Taft Talks Sen. Robert Taft (Rep., Ohio), who had to crash a sign-totin- g pick-et line to get to his audience, told SHOWDOWN: Russia's Choice Secretary of State George Mar-shall sounded like a man who was getting a lot of things off his chest. What he said in an address before the U.. N. general assembly of 55 nations amounted to a call for a showdown with Russia. The Soviets, he intimated, have held to their stubborn, veto-boun- d course in the United Nations long enough. To make the delinquents come to time, Marshall proposed a four point plan of action to the general assembly: IHe suggested creation of a new committee of 55 coun-tries which would operate without veto and would remain constantly in session to consider world security wtA a Republican rally in Los Angeles that if President Truman had not jumped the gun in scrapping price controls the current inflation spiral might have been delayed a while longer. Exactly how Taft arrived at that rather hazv conclu- - questions and function as a board of appeals. Potentially, the committee would be a rival to the security council. 2 He announced that the U. S. was ready to relinquish, in all but the gravest .cases, its veto privilege and implicitly challenged Russia to do likewise. 2 He blamed Russia for the U. deadlock in Korea and said that America would submit the case to the general assembly for action. 4 He blamed Russia for using vetoes to protect Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria from being pronounced guilty of meddling in Greece. He said the U. S. would ask the assembly to vote guilt for the three satellites and to demand that they refrain from interfering In Greece. PRICE BATTLE: Exports Cut Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson had a "Horatio at the bridge" air about him as he an-nounced that the government had made a drastic cut-bac- of grain and flour allocations for export in No-vember. The move generally was account-ed as another noble stand against the forces which are causing domes-tic food prices to spiral dizzily. This one, however, had the blessings of the grain trade as "a step in the right direction." Reducing the export allocations for November was in line with the government's surprise revision of the nation's 1947 export goal from some 450 million bushels of grain down to 350 million. (In a significant sidelight, An-derson scoffed at the prospect Xaft s'on was not imme diately clear. The senator himself last year was de-nounced by Mr. Truman for his part in writing a price control extension bill which the President branded as being worse than no controls. Mr Truman's subsequent veto of the bill allowed price controls to expire automatically. Nailing down the first plank in what apparently is designed to be his campaign platform for the 1948 presidential nomination, Taft as-sailed the administration's record on taxes and spending. The country must elect a Repub-lican president next year if it is gen-uinely interested in reducing taxes and spending, Taft observed. SPEED-UP- : Forrestal In James V. Forrestal wasn't due to be sworn in as U. S secretary of week, but Presi dent Truman, mani festly alarmed ovei the trend of world events, ordered the former secretary ot the navy to jump the gun in takiny over his new job. Mr. Truman ob cprved that in iriati. of returning to rationing by pointing out that such a pro-gram could not he put into ef-fect before the need for it would be over.) Next move, it was hinted, would be an attempt by Secretary Ander-son to put through a sharp reduction of total food exports not just grain as the only practical way of pull-ing down prices. The U. S. state department, how-ever, committed to its "save Eu-rope" program, no doubt would ob-ject vehemently to any such action. of conditions Forrestal abroad, the nation should have its secretary of defense in office and functioning. The conditions, which he did not specify, probably were the current unrest in Trieste and the U. S. Russian stalemate in the United Nations, topped off by Sec-retary of State Marshall's challeng- - ing speech before the general as- - sembly. Now presiding over the unified army, navy and air forces, Forres- - tal is the armed forces' only repre- - tentative on the President's cabinet. WALTER WINCHELL New Yorkers Talking About . . . The British boats which are under wartime protection in the harbor. They fear time bombs. . . . Irving Berlin's "take" from the "Easter Parade" film. It'll be at least $600,-00- . . . The United Airlines hostess (on the Cleveland-Ne- York run) who has the name of A. Tomic. No kiddin'. . . . The big ball game at the Polo Grounds by disabled war heroes. Between the "Broken Wings" (arm amputees) and the "Flat Tires" (leg amputees). Ernest Truex, whose mother passed away recently. He had to show up for rehearsals for "The Big People," in which he plays the role of an undertaker. 4r 4r Hoagy ("Star Dust," "Lazy Rones," etc.) Carmichuel's mother, 70 yean young, uho baits out a better boogie bounce on the planner than her famous son, according to insiders who've heard both. The talk that the land Sgt. Alvin York (World War I hero) got for his heroism is pumping black gold at the rate of 80 barrels a day. Via three oil wells. . . . Former news-paper man John O'Neil (elevated to top kick in the American Legion) who got that job in a campaign to land him in the New Hampshire governor's throne. . . . The new in a Hollywood click spot a perfume dispenser that looks and works like one of those ball bearing pens. WALTER SHEAD New Deal Agencies Pay Off LIVERY now and then there is a news item, more or less unnoticed, --i which goes to refute the charges heard nowadays that everything done by the New Deal was bad. A majority of farmers today will tell you the triple A saved farming as an industry; Home Owners Loan corporation saved millions of homes and is paying out without loss; Federal Housing administration as a lending agency for private home construction is paying its way; the conservation service is credited with keeping American farms at top production during the war; no one in the Tennessee valley has an ill word to say against TVA. And now the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation, which in-sures bank deposits, has paid into the treasury $146,600,000, more than half the money provided to start the program. It pays in full the more than $139,000,000 in FDIC capital subscribed by the 12 fcde'ral reserve banks and about $7,500,000 of the $150,000,000 originally subscribed by the treasury. To be perfectly fair the FDIC act was introduced in 1934 by Sen Arthur Vandenburg (R., Mich.). But It is considered New Deal legisla-tion and no one has lost a dime on bank deposits since its passage. H. I. PHILLIPS New York Bids for Hollywood New York has gone all out to bring the movie industry to Goth-am, where it was born. It has se-cured a pledge of five years without strikes in the picture trades. All it needs now are palm trees, looser morals and a working agreement with Old Man Gulf Stream. The movie camera was developed on the east coast and the first flick-ers were shown in New York. Some of the top movie moguls got their start there. But New York couldn't hold the industry. It lacked the necessary insanity. However, this has changed. New ' York has become sufficiently wacky for anything even film making. a-ria spots it Is screwier than Holly-wood, but not In technicolor. A crazy song which we think could easily become a rage like "Yes, We Have No Bananas," "Horses, Horses, Horses" and "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round" Arthur Godfrey's "She's Too Fat For Me." Watch it, boys! Max Fleisehmann, the yeast king, has a magnificent new 168-fo-yacht. His favorite course, obvi-ously is "South by yeast." The yacht has been named "Haida." Why not the "Yeastward Ho," the "Cakewalker" or "The Great Y lern"? PAUL MALLON Air Age Speeds Diplomacy T5L52S SKMftS - - tary mind generally believes A mi"" a straight ,n is tl e tween two points, whereas a diplomat customarilv S,0prftest wd,stan be-t- o the left or right and indeed may bac i? up to M h revising the old Byrnes-Rooseve- formulas J thUS iS completely in tactics. not much In policy, but His primary technique is to count less on the tran -s-e;, . ;zz res:: r,n irnporunt Rome or China to meet the Wom con,. when the Paris from the U. S. ,n "four year thl Jt d? ". 29 bi"ion dfllla" ments, make speeches oge th e waS 0nT n0t 'SSUe h state" policy worker, George Kennan. w "stnt qSetlv bv" rShSl American officials into a 1 1. 1.1 8nd he got viewpoint from there, Ewoil PUb'ic'ty m our of the administration to wrfng In prob"m lican congress and the primary ZZTot NO EXPLOSION POSSIBLE Science Now'Spalliates'Atoms Scientists now can split the atoms of five more metals lead, bismuth, thallium, platinum and tantalum-achievem- ents destined to open new roads toward man's ultimate mas-tery of the atom. However, there's no need to worry about the possibility that a "cheap" atomic bomb could be made by splitting the atoms of such a com-mon metal as lead, according to Prof. Glenn T. Seaborg. University of California physicist, who played a dominant role in development of the first atom bomb The day has not yet come when atomic bombs could be made with common elements such as lead and bismuth. Dr. Seaborg said, empha- - sizing that the fission of such ele-ments "opens no possibility for the production of g chain reaction." As a matter of fact, he added, they can't even be used as sources of atomic energy for purposes less violent than that of blowing man-kind to bits. They don't emit enough energy for that. Actually, the atoms of the five metals are not split they're splin-tered. Scientists call this splintering process "spalliation" to distinguish it from plain ordinary fission. What good is the spalliation of atoms if they can't be utilized di-rectly for atomic bombs or energy? Their purpose is humanitarian. They will greatly enrich the field of scientific and medical research by adding at least 100 new radioactive isotopes to the more than 500 al-ready produced. It is the beginning of a new phase of nuclear development, he said, Next step is to create machines that develop such high energies that man will be able to create matter out of energy, thus reversing the process of the atom bomb which turns matter into energy. "Apparently the prospects for en- - tering this next energy region are good. Thus we may look forward to even more amazing developments in the fields of nuclear science," Dr. Seaborg predicted I WRIGHT Ptrmienx Save While We Have It A M ERICA'S annual per capita in-- I come has hit an all-tim- e .Twelve hundred high dollars each year for each one of us, men, women ar.d babies. Such an income is fine while it lasts, but what nf tomorrow' It was not many years ago when Wheat was selling at 50 cents a bushel; cotton at five cents a Pound; nogs tTOm $3 fo S2v2T cKrn went besin t 30 a bushel. Yes. prosperity fine, but let us remember some ,he '""davs POSjb e tomorrows. and prepare If wiJ the J .way a portion of our tncome over haVeuSOmethi"g to tide us the rough spots. |