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Show I the RPT T ETTX. BINGHAM CANYON, ITAH ... World's Greatest Capital Has Its Seamy Side Too! By BAUKHAGE Vni j Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, I). C. WASHINGTON. A boy Joined the stall of a four-pag- e paper of which children who might pick up the bait. In places where there was no dan-ger to human beings the deadly "1080" was distributed. The cam-paign was successful. Meanwhile, a clean-u- p of potential g premises was started with court or-ders to enforce it. Today Washing-ton has a complete scientific program which will cost us about $75,000 annually. However, It still leaves a few rats for energetic cats. he was one day to become editor. The office was a rattle-tra- p build-ing whose notable characteristics, he later said, were "sewer gas, rats, dirt, over-grown rowdy newsboys who had to be held in cher.k by a long whip and fire-arms, "and it was "positively dan- - War Profiteering Will Be Scandal The Juicy scandal uncovered by the senate war Investigating com-mittee In which "profiteering at its worst," as Senator Mead called It, was exposed, Is, I fear, only the be-ginning. Any moment I expect to hear an explosion In connection with surplus property. War breeds waste, and the cloak of patriotic endeavor as Samuel Johnson indicated even more bluntly, often covers skulldug-gery. The same thing happened after the last war, and on a smaller scale, after all wars. But what is prob-ably making people squirm all over Washington is the revelation of the fact that telephone wires were pret-ty generally tapped, and heaven knows what may be in the FBI files. It Is a strange thing about the tele-phone. People have just come to take for granted that because you can't see anybody on the line, no-body is there. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that telephone conversations with most of the government departments are being recorded right now. I have reason to believe that when the question of installing these re-corders in the White House was brought up, it was flatly turned down. White House employees have a long and excellent record for fidel-ity. Of course they are carefully screened, and when the campaign to Ket everybody fingerprinted (an excellent idea if you have nothing to 1'oineal about your past and no plans for an future) was begun, the White House employees voluntarily came forward and of- - fered their thumbs, fingers and hands for the ink-pa- . . . gerous at times to go into the al-ley which they infested, leading to the composing room." The town as the boy had grown up in it was a straggling over-grown country village "with zigzag grades, no sewerage, no street cars, no water supply except from pumps and springs, unimproved reserva-tions, second-rat- e dwellings and streets of mud and mire." That doesn't sound like the na-tion's capital whose budget for the coming year is $76,755,009 but that was the way It was In 1858 as de-scribed by the editor of the Wash-ington Evening Star, Theodore Noycs, who died early this month. He Joined the paper in 1877. Except for the Australian capital of Canberra which arose almost as Camelot at a wave of Merlin's wand, there is nothing to compare with the bizarre history of a city whose site was based on a political deal and no city which has gone through more vicissitudes than this No city was ever more magnifi-cently planned, or more discredit-ably neglected In its early days, as Mr. Noyes' description Indicates. To-day, as the undisputed capital of the world, It still has to battle with a grudging congress fur its budget It remains the chief city of the greatest democratic republic whose 038,000 citizens have no voice in their own government and whose citizen- - hip itself is a bar to the basic pnv-ileg- e of a democracy the ballot. Mr. Noyes was, as is the news- - paier he served, a Washington in- - stitution. He will be remembered for his long campaign to give Wash-ington a vote in congressional and national matters. 'When the People Vote, They Win' The June "Economic Outlook," published by the Congress of Indus-trial Organizations, contains an ar-ticle entitled "When the People Vote They Win." That might be In-terpreted In more ways than one. The article points out that an "off year" is so designated politically not only because the presidency Is not at stake, but because the pol-iticians know that general apathy on the part of the voter has marked those elections in the past: 1938 (off) thirty million voters went to the polls; (1940 (on) fifty million votes; 1942 (off) twenty-eigh- t million; 1944 (on) forty-eigh- t million. The CIO takes the attitude that what the people as a whole want is what they (the CIO) want, and that the people get what they want when they vote for it. They say: "Mass registration and mass voting is the best guarantee of liberal progres-sive government." iVufs Were Menace To City'a Health Some time ago I had occasion to mention the invasion of Washington by rats and how the city hired a modern Pled Piper who has done an effective, if silent. Job. This was brought to my mind recently when I encountered a fat. black cat on my way to work early one morning. The cat had a guilty look, and I had a hunch he had spent the night in riotous living and was merely sneaking in to change his collar. However, the cataclysm caused by the in which, believe it or not, a baby's hand was eaten brought hasty action and I see that It was considered worthy of com-ment by experts, including the edi-tors of the magazine of the Amer-ican Museum of Natural History. The campaign began when a case at typhus which is spread by fleas and mites on rats, was discovered. Traps set in the neighborhood caught a number of rats whose blood was typhus-infecte- The United States Public Health service got busy, shocked to learn that the scourge of Europe two centuries ago was a possibility right here in our fair capital. An exiert was called in. He first sealed up all points where commer-cial transportation entered the city. Then 300 traps were set up in the zone where the infection had been found. Five days later the traps were taken in and the area was thoroughly dusted with DDT, the in-secticide which the army perfected. Next red-squi- bait was distrib-uted. It kills rats, but not pets or They might also add that if you want conservative rather than lib-eral progressive government, you have to vote for it, too. In any case you can't get what you want unless you go after it. The "Out-look" prints a table showing how the vote shifted In certain districts In The table showed that when the vote fell off, it was the Democratic vote. Districts which swung from Democratic to Repub-lican candidates in most cases shift-ed with a decrease in the total vote . . . "the Republican vote remain-ln- g relatively stable, while the Dem- - ocratic vote dropped sharply." Does this prove that Democrats are sleepier than Republicans, or that the Republican is a creature of habit? ! 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George Raft among the other Sardines at Sardi's. . . . Andy Russell and the Ritz (Raff) Bros, dining at Olin's. . . . Ann Sheridan (and her feller) at the Riv-iera ringside. . . . B. Baruch (the United Statesman) quitting his Cen-tral Park bench to amuse the tots at the playground. . . . Meeshaaa Auer thrilled about being cast for the radio version of "Tovarich." . . . Mrs. John Mason Brown (wife of the critic) looking refreshing de-spite the whewmidity. . . . Mrs. Wendell Willkie at the Blue Angel. . . The man who makes you pause and say: "Oooh, there's Mr. Molo-tov!- " He is Bill McKamy, execu-tive at the J. Walter Thompson agency. Memos of a Midnlghtor: Her says Rita Hayworth isn't at all proud about the Atomb being named for her and her film, "Gilda," one of the best press agent tie-up- s (we thawt) In history. He says it wasn't any tie-u- p that they really adore Rita and so christened it after her. He wished, however, their child, Rebecca, could one day say: "My mother's name was on the very last atomic bomb!" Midtown Vignette: It happened in the Krots Bulc the other night. Our reporter was none other than the boss hisself, Shoim Billingsberg. . . , He was touched by the episode. . . . An army officer asked that bar-keeper Tony Butrico Join him at his table for a drink. "We served together overseas," said the officer. . . . He reminisced long with Tony and then insisted on having a photo taken of their meeting. . . . The of-- fleer made a terrific hit with the stall and patrons by this demon- - stration of democracy and being a nice guy. . . . His name (and mark it down high on your list) is Gen-eral H. F. Kramer. Sounds in the Dark: At the China Doll: "She knows all the answers. It's the questions that confuse her." . . . At the Mermaid Room: "He's lost weight, but he was once the biggest jerk in town." ... At Monte's on the Park: "She has the lead in his next flop." ... At Leon & Eddies: "She's saving her hus-band's money for a Reno day." . . . At Chandler's: "Now that there's no OPA people should be reminded that a fool and his money are soon worthless." Lois Thrasher, a Chicago news-ga- l, belongs in any column about newspaper heroes. ... Not too long ago the wife of a gov't official was slain in a Chicago hotel and Lois took a job there as a chambermaid to check the movements of a sus-pect. . . . After maneuvering to be assigned to the floor where the sus-pect lived, Lois inspected his suite with no luck. ... In addition she had to scrub a dozen bathrooms on hands and knees! Jackie Kelk witnessed a woman trying to navigate In a traffic jam. She rammed the car in front of her, then tried to back up and knocked down a pedestrian. Then she tried to move over to the curb and smacked into a hydrant. A gendarme rushed up. "O.K., lady," he demanded, 'let s see your license." "Don't be silly," she grunted. Who d give MR a license?" When Frank Ward O'Malley (one 3f the craft's greatest) was on the Mew York newspapers they could always be counted on to give you your two cents worth. . . . Frank Jnce had a city editor (of the old school) who made him rewrite his :opy at least once no matter how lood It was. ... To even matters ith him, O'Malley (who was doing m article on the origin of the Su-Te- Court) dug up a piece the :lty editor had written on the sub- let years before. . . . O'Malley :opied it word for word and then landed it in The editor glared ?ad and barked: "I could do a getter job than this when I was in newspaper business six nonths!" "That's funny." jibed Frank You wrote this junk when you were n the business six years!" Judy Canova knows the laziest elevision performer in the country A comedian who just holds up his oke book before the camera Morton Thompson's ' new How to Be a Civilian," revives Se Z H:l:Gl- " his flrst and putting nickels in slots carrying the food back ble repeating the trick for 15 n notes. The food was a foot high all over the table. Afascinated civilian asked him: you enough food' You'll jew eat all that, why dt "What!" exclaimed the " Q"'t when fm winning?" By EDWARD EMERINE jMMj Wk HERE we have Idaho fabulous sunsets, lakes of Rold ""mU dreamy, purple mountains; million stars in the B dark blue sky and moonlight on the sagebrush; canyons and Hf gorges, sand dunes and crystal lakes; stunted desert brush HHfe Vfl and towering pines; waterfalls higher than Niagara an; JHw'' $tr S gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon; snow 20 feet deep ;v ,v among the juries and spruce; farms and cities amidst nature's . Hk jHL unspoiled loveliness; natural caves full of ice in the hot r Hfl From the Canadian border on the north to the temper- - ( ffl Vmi ate Cache valley on th south, and from the frozen ( AftW. TctOD peaks on the east to the warm Pacific winds in Sl Boise valley, Idaho offers a variety of climate, topog- - 'T IHsK sKr MEB raphy and scenic wonder. It has miles of desert and s-- k ARNOLD WILLIAMS '.formidable table lands, but it also has more lakes than anooTrnAi of Idaho man has ever counted. It has alpine peaks where the O , GovVrnor Willlamswas ice and snow never melt, and homes heated by water H ifvU.X ' born ,n nah. but moved from natural hot springs. Id Mil He was ' in No more interesting, romantic and pleasant area may jaStt'VV "! f the state be found on earth than Idaho. Yet from an automobile 2 jS. 4Wf rV future and lleuten- - (jr train window it may often appear to be a rolling ul . 7 A waste, lonely and cruel Unfortunately the main high- - I fflPfa-- ) ant foverDOr "'Tww ways and railroad tracks wander too far from rich J ) J1 " 7conlms: Kvernor ' and beautiful spots in Idaho, and those who would know f ftf vj the "Gem of the Mountains" must take the sideroads WHtAT ) xfw and great will be their reward. Cy X&S Idaho is a young state, with young and energetic peo- - Tjlk XrvW CTffinn 1 pli rhey are not hampered by the (navy hand of tradi- - VftT 'wJVjV 'VffijMUti' tion, nor restrained by the ghosts of their ancestors. vjf T&( jJjTlAt " ''QK&sy I ' "i Whether Basque sheepherders, Mormon descendants, V "'"".ty ''vvN AX farmers from Nebraska, or recruits from the West V 23 " yl v t 1 coast states, the people of Idaho are living proof of w B;RDISF AiL Western friendless and hospitality, Western progres- - fyS ViiJiv vBftv E.P J siveness, and V tstern determination to harness nature's iw '"T" resources (of Ihe good of all. Wffl -- Xf t The early history of Idaho is bound up with that of nUPjR ? r the state of Oregon and Washington, but its tradition TVSi niiL)&' and lore has borrowed much from the Mormons of - ...oV.ocVTC i'q iDamo potatoiS Utah, the cattlemen of Wyoming, and the miners of 0A" YJT P Montana. It drew from all its surrounding states and p v'y?'Ns"suGAR became the great melting pot of the Northwest. n J ii. titTioM 0 Following the Lewis and Clark expedition, Idaho vtt-- o S fl tl was the hunting and trapping paradise of early adven- - 1 - .v.- S. duck fhvAUir;--- . Va-- WHEAT turers. Later thousands of persons crossed Idaho by indun bemrvation way of the Oregon trail, following the Snake river Ni LVAUA UTAH through the desert. The ruts of thousands of wagons j still remain, but the Oregon trail and one of Amer-- h -- ica's t;ratest migrations added little to Idaho's develop- - Northern Pacific railroad laid its rails across the Panhandle in 1880-8- and the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line crossed the southern part of the state In 1882-8- Its mines and forest were opened com-mercially, and Idaho was no longer a wild frontier. When Idaho became a state In 1890 its valleys were soon home-steade- d by sturdy stock from the Middle West. For each mining beets thrive and alfalfa grows lux-uriantly. Cattle and sheep are fat-tened on rich pastures and In feed lots, and dairy herds are found everywhere. Only recently has Idaho come into prominence as a playground and recreation spot for people who are weary of make-believ- e life in cities. It offers year-aroun- d skiing, hunt-ing, fishing, swimming, boating and other sports. Pheasants, ducks and geese are plentiful. There are ante-lope, deer, elk and other big game in abundance to assure the sports-man of his kill. From dog races at Ashton when the snow is deep, to summer boating on Payette lakes or fishing Pend d'Orielle, no other state exceeds Idaho in sports of the great outdoors. New York capitalists and Holly-wood movie stars have found in y in the Sawtooth Mountains one of the world's finest recreation spots. In winter, skiing Is the out-standing sport, with tobogganing and big game hunting following. In summer, the mountain streams near-by offer varieties of trout, the gam-es- t fish of them all. Lakes an woods in the Stanley Basin afford boating, fishing, riding, hiking and camping. ment. s In 1859 gold was discovered in the Pierce City region and by the autumn of 18(12 there were 30,000 persons near Lewiston. A greater discovery followed in the Boise basin, and within a year Idaho City had a population estimated at near 40.000. At the census of 1870, only lfi.000 remained of the swarm of miners of the early '60s; but 200 million dollars in gold had been taken out of Idaho the greatest record in history for a similar pe-riod of time. It was the Mormons who founded Idaho's first permanent settlement Li 1860. They believed they were in Utah when they called their village Franklin and made irrigation a fact In Idaho by building a canal three and a half miles long. They also established that year the first school for white children within the present boundaries of the state. Agriculture made little headway, however, for the feverish indus-try of thousands exploring the earth for mineral treasures continued. A-lthough the Idaho Territory was created in 1863. more lusty years were to follow. Rich gold strikes were made in the Salmon River and Florence areas, in Boise basin. In the Owyhee terrain, in the Coeur d'Alenes, and elsewhere. Boom towns were erected overnight, and the days were rich in murders and hangings, feuds and melodramatic SALMON RIVER . . . Highway along the canyon. The Salmon is known as "The River of No Re-turn." mB.-.---.?- . .....v. ..AV:vli.;..li,.jjpsi!,i:::'; DESERT? . . . Sagebrush eleared away and the magic of irrigation applied, the desert produces Idaho's famous potatoes and other crops. Idaho is a state of mountains, val- - leys and deserts, with variety enough for everyone. The mountain range include Cabinet, Coeur d'Alene, Beaverhead and Bitter Root in the north; Salmon River, Sawtooth and Lost Rivers in the, center of the state, and the Bear, Blackfoot and Snake River moun-tains in the southeast, with the Te- - tons along the Wyoming line north-ward. Shoshone Falls 46 feet higher than Niagara pours its flood over a horseshoe-shape- d rim in Snake River canyon. Twin Falls Is another majestic sight, and American and Salmon Falls are also attractive to visitors. Idaho offers the unusual the almost unbelievable in scenic wonders. The deepest canyon on the North American continent drops almost 8,000 feet below the rimrock of the Seven Devils ranges of i mountains. The Big and Little Lost rivers tumble down from mountain peaks to disappear into the porous volcanic desert, breaking into sun-light again as Thousand Springs in the Snake River gorge. Recent j volcanic action is offered at Craters of the Moon, and Mount Borah I highest point in the state, carries coral limestone on its crest, lifted from the sea which was once three miles below. The state of Idaho remains a part of the Great Northwest, rich " in re sources, sure of its future. The front ier spirit still lives in countless ways within its borders, ready to mount to thunderous zest in the develop-- ment that seems sure to come. camp that became a ghost town, a new community appeared, built sol-idly on the development of Idaho's great natural resources. Idaho set-tled down, at last, to build its king-dom. The northern part of Idaho re-claimed logged-of- f land, to become one of the most productive areas in the West. "Idaho white pine and plenty of it" is the slogan of its lumbermen, and yellow pine grows broad and tall. Idaho's mines yield countless minerals, with more be-ing discovered each year. The Snake River valley and its drainage area has prospered under irrigation and reclamation, while lands beyond the irrigation ditches tiave been utilized for wheat and 3ther grains. New irrigation proj-;ct- s are being opened, and Idaho's agriculture and livestock industries ire thriving. Idaho potatoes, famous all over the civilized world, are grown in lesert soil enriched by centuries of sagebrush and other desert growth jnd touched by the magic of irri-gation. Even cull potatoes are now itilized and made into industrial ilcohol, or fed to livestock. Sugar ieaths. The turbulence of Idaho City's former life, and the violence f its ways, may be inferred from he statement of that ' inly 28 of the 200 persons buried in ts cemetery in 1863 died from latural causes! But the development of Idaho was o follow the decline of gold fever, i Cattlemen pushed their herds into I he territory from Wyoming, and i heepmen soon followed. More dormon farmers moved northward i ind irrigation was expanded. The i ssssssssl"""' 12.663 feet, Idaho's hiehesMnountT j BARBS ... 6y Baukhage The big batter-and-biscu- it man from Texas who knew how to say It with flour, got tired of saying no to OPA. There is an old Spanish proverb that says: "Make a bridge of silver lor a flying enemy." Maybe the United Nations could get rid of Franco that way if they can't find any other. These days, prices rise with the sun. Non-ski- d rugs are forecast by Business Week. Anything to make life less rugged. The tobacco plants In Maryland look as precise and prim as u" they had been done up in curl papers j each night. |