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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, ITAH --- Housing Bill Suffers Rough Going in Congress Taft Breaks With Conservatives in Backing Administration Measure; Long-Ran- ge Building Policy Asked. By BAUKHAGE Neus Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C. It is fully expected that what is left of the plan for settling America's number one problem the problem of find-ing a home will be cut up by con-gress and pasted together in some new, strange shape by now. If it is still in the works when you read these lines there is a possibility that what finally emerges from the hop-per will be more what the patient planners wanted and less like what the various pressure groups wanted. The interesting thing to me about the debate on this measure in the beginning was this: although the ad-ministration features of the bill went squarely against the conservative grain of oui conservatively in-grained congresses, it had one champion who usually sits as far away as he can possibly edge from anything of even a pale pink hue. I refer to Sen. Robert Taft, Re-publican of Ohio. What Mr. Taft says never falls on deaf ears in the senate even if the ears are doubting ones and sprout from the heads of those cruelly affronted members once referred to as "the sons of wild jackasses." Vox Taft to the conserv-ative is his master's VOX. The two key features to the ad-ministration bill were the subsidy which would grease the way for quick construction of the lower-price- d type of homes, and the price ceiling which would make it cheaper to live in a house than re-se- ll for profit. That is, the present owner of a house could sell his property for any price he could get without restriction, but owner number two would have to re-se- ll it for what he paid (plus, of course, reasonable cost for improvements). These two conditions may have been good or bad. Whether they were or not they were opposed for two main reasons: first, because they were considered "government Interference" and therefore radical, and second, because powerful lolj bies, the profits of whose principals would have been curtailed, put all the pressure they could on congress In spite of the feeling that the spirit of the housing bills was "lib-eral," if you prefer that word to "leftish" or "New Dealish," Senator Taft supported it. He had made a careful study of housing and come to the mature conclusion that the administration idea, as embraced in the bills introduced by Senator Wag-ner in the senate and Representa-tive Patman in the house, was as nearly the right sort of legislation as could be obtained. The CIO took the same view. Now when viewpoints as different as these two arrive at agreement, the simple citizen is inclined to think that their joint approval is pretty sound sponsorship. Labor Wants Planned Action The CIO has printed a very busi-nesslike booklet on the subject in which we are reminded that we have always had a housing short-age because our cities just grew like Topsy, that the shortage is steadily growing and that estimates show United States was ready to carry out its International obligations and use force to check aggression, the follow, in).; scnti nee has been before me: " . . the American people, now in the height of their might and majesty, are no longer a sovereign nation." That sentence is from Nathaniel Poller's book, "America's Place in the World" which the Saturday Re-view of Literature calls a "stubborn-ly and trenchant discussion." I agree with that description of the book and believe that what Peffer says is true and that it is vital for Americans to understand why it is true. Peffer says that we have lost our independence and our autonomy "in that which matters most in the life of the nation peace or war." And then he shows with his "stubborn realism" how this has come about, how in the beginning (before 1776) America "had no control over its own destiny because it was so weak, now because it is so strong." And he shows clearly and con-vincingly that, no matter how anxious we may be to stay out of foreign broils, any major war in Eu-rope or Asia will eventually involve the United States. Our sincere But romantically futile dream of splen-did isolation is forever broken. Must Lose Life To Gain It Many thinkers have pondered over this question. In tracing Amer-ica's international affairs, this au-thoritative and provocative writer traces our course through the great crises whose milestones are marked with the dates 1776, 1787, 1861 and 1941. 1917 was the warning that was not heeded. We were drawn into a w:ir then, not of our own making, but we did nothing to shape world affairs which followed and whicn, inexorably, drew us for the second time into a world conllict in which we had r)o direct concern. It may seem a far cry from dip-lomatic intrigue and the vicissitudes of human hatreds, organized mur-der and lust, to the world of the spirit but I could hot help thinking as I considered the efforts I wit-nessed at Nuernberg of a certain text in the Bible; the words of Jesus as recorded in the gospel of St. Mark (XVII1:35), "For whosoever shall save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it." I am well aware of the fact that the devil may quote the Scriptures with the best of us but I do not think one has to be charged with Mephistophclian tactics when he traces a parallel between the loss of our nation's sovereignty in the sense which Mr. Peffer expounds it and the loss of our spiritual life in the New Testament sense. It is needless to iterate here that the principles upon which this na-tion was founded derive directly from the Christian philosophy. How-ever, we have never fully lived up to that philosophy since we still feel it necessary to indulge in that high- - ly unchristian procedure which I once heard the late Lloyd George de-cri-as "organized savagery" that by the end of this year almost three and a half million families will be homeless unless they are taken in by relatives or double up with others as the President suggested they will have to do meanwhile. The reason that we always had a housing shortage, according to the CIO. is because we never had a housing policy. We have a public school educational policy; a police protection policy; a war and navy policy. As a result, we have a pretty good school system, our police give us reasonable protection to life and property; we have never lost a war nor suffered invasion. But we can't have roofs over our heads. That is what the current housing legislation is supposed to provide. One more factor may be injected Into this controversy which could af-fect it materially: the veteran, chief sufferer from homelessness, is as yet unorganized. Once organized, he could the other pressure groups. Since I heard forthright speeches of Senator Vandenberg and Secre-tary of State Byrnes which sounded a sharp warning to Russia that the war. War has always been justified as a measure of defense defense of our citizens, our territory, our sovereignty. We have now lost our sovereignty tn that we must be willing to die to save it. Let me replace the. word "life" with the word "sovereignty" in the rest of the Biblical text, which would then read: "Whosoever (and that means a nation as well as a person) shall lose his sovereign-ty for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it." Until America and all the nations are willing to sacrifice their sovereignty to a high-er, world organization, whose tenets are four-squar- e with the gospel's in proscripting war, we can never hope to win back a sovereignty in accord with the Christian principles which are the foundation of our na-tion. A former American military gov-- ernment man says our state depart- - ment and Britain and France are keeping Russia from searching Nazi assets in foreign countries. It seems strange that if Russia has been slighted in any way we haven't heard about it in a loud voice before now. KANSAS SAHARA ... In 1936 there were desolated homes such as this around Liberal, Kansas. Pasture lands were ruined and grasshop-pers aided drouth in destruction of crops. In mid-summ- not a green thing was in sight. Many Sections Fearful Of New Dust Bowl in 46 (A WNU News Feature) THE "dust bowl's" rich land, after several good years, is dry enough in some spots to take wings again. But whether it will or will not is the ar question. Millions of people would like to know the answer before the soil starts moving. So far, there has been "a little blow" out in western Kansas and Oklahoma and it's dry too. But no one who went through the "black" blizzards of a decade ago would compare this year's storms with those years. "Another dust bowl may develop, but conditions would have to grow a lot worse than they are now be-fore I would climb out on a limb with any such prediction," one Kansas official has stated after snow and rain fell. The winter has been a dry one in all the old dust bowl states. Wheat made little growth in some areas. And the U. S. department of agri-culture has reported that a new dust bowl appeared to be forming in the "redlands" district of Kansas and Oklahoma. Some wheat damage has been re-ported at Pratt and Liberal. Kans., but recently snows and rains have improved the wheat lands west of Hutchinson. At Amarillo, Tex., Gene 9 some places in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, a black market in wheat has sprung up. Latest fig-ures show visible U. S. wheat to half, compared to a year ago. Mill-ers are paying all the traffic will bear to keep their mills going. Newspaper editors in the wheat-land- s who make it their business to know crop prospects, have made their own surveys. To a man they say "not yet" to the government's prediction. It is going to take a lot more dust and dry weather to scare some of those grizzled old farmers who weathered the worst nature had to offer in the '30s. Where does the dust come from? That is easy, say the editors: "Oklahomans say it comes from Kansas; Jayhawkers say the dust plague originates in Oklahoma." The rivers aren't very low yet, either, one Kansas citizen reported. "They're a little too wet to plow and a little too muddy to drink." Howe, newspaper publisher, is op-timistic, pointing out that con-ditions are not yet critical, and spring snows and rains may end the threat of a drouth. Both farmers and the government combatted the tendency to plow up grasslands for planting during World War II, as was done in World War I. The land is tied down better this time. Farmers have learned to plow and cultivate so as to leave more stubble on top to hold the soil. In some places in the old dust bowl there has been little or no moisture all winter, and undoubted-ly wheft is in bad shape. Whether or not it will survive much longer no one knows. Perhaps the fate of many fields hangs in the balance, and not until late spring will the verdict be known. Even experts in the winter wheat belt differ widely in their opinions. Some say the wheat is already gone; others hold out for an 80 per cent yield. Still others think that rain any time within a month or six weeks will give the fields new life. Wheat supplies are lower than for many years. Some of the mills are working only five days a week. In BACK IN 1935 . . . Sand storms worked havoc in Oklahoma and other plains states. The above picture was taken in Western Oklahoma and shows drifts of sand around buildings on an abandoned farm. Some Scoii At Idea of New Drouth TOPEKA, KANS. - There won't be a repetition of the 1934-3- 8 "dust bowl" in Kansas, Texas and Okla-homa. At least that's what a lot of people out here say as they scoff at the U. S. department of agricul-ture's report that another drouth is developing. "Of course, If it doesn't rain for four years, it'll go blowing again," Eck Brown, banker and rancher of Dalhart, Tex., admitted: "but the soil is tied down now." The agriculture department's pes-simistic prediction prodded a sore spot in the memories of Sooners and Jayhawkers alike. Farmers . i i j I jOKLA. i c i 5,1 TEXAS DWINDLED . . . The old dust-bo-of the '30s gradually dwin-dled until It was no more. There has been plenty of rain the last few years. were fighting then to hold title to their land in the depths of a depres-sion, prices were low, and dry, pow-dery dust was piled in fence rows like snow drifts. The vagrant winds were "swapping" the farmers' real estate like careless horse traders. The people out in this part of the nation don't like "gloomy Gus" predictions. They've seen drouth, grasshoppers, blizzards, and other plagues, but they've managed to come through them all. A little "Duster" doesn't scare them, and rain always comes just 15 minutes before it's too late! Behini by PaulMaliaON Released by Western Newspaper Union. COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS OPERATION COSTLY WASHINGTON. The degenera- - tion of the superior American effi-- . ciency in business into something like Europe before the dictators where trains did not run on time, telephone service was whimsical and telegraph messages and airmail might be expected to arrive two or three days late was observed pain-- 1 fully by me in my trip down through the southeastern states. The railroads are not yet a monopoly in this country, per-haps the people are getting from them as good service as the deficiency of materials and men will permit or a reason-able approximation in general thereof. However, telephone service is a monopoly. If the citizen cannot get service on one line, he cannot walk across the street and try another. The com-pany has a monopoly of the business; the workers have a monopoly of the work with their unions. This Imposes upon them a public responsibility beyond other businesses and other workers, to perform their public service efficiently. I am not now considering the strike threat issue. I have not in-vestigated merits or demerits of op-- i posing contentions. Yet your house may burn to the ground causing you great and needless loss, if fire calls are not handled promptly because of strike, negligence, inefficiency or any other reason. Deaths may be caused by delays of a few moments in ambulances, operations or blood transfusions. Robbers may make good escapes. All the property as well as the very life of the citizen rest heavily upon the efficiency of this single means of swift communi-cation between people. No company and no group of workers have the right to cause damage and death among the people as a whole for any reason, whether just or unjust. To do so is a violation of every na-tural law of man and common de-cency. With the right of monopoly in business and 'or work (closed shop) goes a public responsibility which cannot be ignored or avoided for any human purpose. MONOPOLY DOES NOT IMPROVE VITAL SERVICE I was forced to muse upon these serious considerations of vital (in-alienable?) rights, by my minor ex-periences of trying to handle my comparatively unimportant' busi-ness through telephone, telegraph and airmail while away from my office for a few weeks. I found the telephone and airmail wholly unde-pendabl- e. The airmail, of course, is a government monopoly and effi-ciency is to be expected from past experience. But I found that airmail special delivery letters, mailed at the same time each day at the same point of origin, would arrive at their destination on schedule only one time out of three. The other two times, the mail would be from one to two days late. I understood then why so many newspapers were com-plaining about late arrival of mail copy. The post office has plainly failed to recover yet from the war. Telephoning became an idle but interesting amusement. Each occasion furnished some-thing novel. Out of 10 calls to Washington, I eventually got three through. One was prompt. The other resulted from an hour of effort to get a supervisor, who put it through for me, after my original call and the opera-tor's promise to "call you back in 20 minutes." Both had become lost so deeply that no one around the exchange had heard of it. The third call in the after-noon was completed the follow-ing morning. The others never got through for reasons which are not reportable authoritatively by me, but I was told a variety of things: "There will be a delay of 30 to 40 minutes," or "your line is busy," and then a few seconds later: "it does not an-swer." I could never find out why it could be busy and then in a few seconds did not an-swer. I soon found out complain-ing accomplished nothing. Elec-trical noises would erupt in the phone and deafen my ear if I even suggested such a thing to myself. The only way you could get a supervisor was to work through a friendly operator on a private switchboard who could make just as loud noises as the telephone monopoly. The sending of a telegram I to be found less of an adventure, and could be done in less than a day In fact, I have only one complaint against the telegraph monopoly (they apparently gave my telegram to the wrong party on the phone I will say telegraph service is at least better than when the Postal vacated the field. But what of. the people who deal in important figures of money men or perishable materials' TMl is a big nation dealing daily in bia matters. What of the national ,al eader. trying to call off strike.- Making 0ver( Sewing NewQ ARE your curtains heart . .73 but six ways of makinji or of sewing now ones' fabric. 1 1 The budget'll balance if curtains. You'll be deliji smartness. Instructions Hi tions for 6 curtains. 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Worth i You find them egf th columne of WJS m.rchanteo' our who do not feel thfT" the quality of disc or their price It Ifj aaf. to but fr chant who AD" China, Australia and Iran Plan Irrigation Projects WASHINGTON, D. C. In 1945, more than 170 engineers represent-ing 30 foreign countries visited the United States for the purpose of studying reclamation and irrigation projects, and they are now return-ing to their native soil to begin work on similar works in their own coun-tries. Heading the list is China, with 66 engineers, while India follows with 24, Australia with 11, and other na-tions famous for deserts Iran, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have sent delegations varying in number from one to nine. Through unified development of such famous river valleys as the Ghanges, Yangtse, Euphrates, Ti-gris and Irrawaddv, it will be pos-sible for surrounding areas to be irrigated, and for the owner-nation- s to establish hydro-electri- c power production, flood control, municipal water supplies and improved navi-gation. In many cases the United States will send its own engineers abroad to assist these areas, in-terior officials said. Wornout Land Needs Cultivation And Fertilizing to Regain Vigor The notion of giving worn-ou- t farm land a "rest cure" has for-tunately just about passed, says J. C. Hackleman, professor of crops extension at the University of Illi-nois college of agriculture. "Calcium leaches out of the soil, and every ton of beef, pork or mutton or milk produced on these pastures removes nitrogen, phos-phorus, potassium and calcium or lime just as surely as does a crop of corn, oats, wheat or hay," Hackleman says. "In addition, as these permanent pastures become less productive they provide less cover, and the result is more loss through erosion, until on rolling pas-tures the present crop is largely weeds or unpalatable weed grasses." But these worn pastures are not hopeless, according to the crop spe-cialist, and the response of most of them to treatment is almost mir aculous. Five simple steps will transform the average worn-ou- t pas-ture into a productive acreage in one or, at most, two years. The steps are to test the soil and treat it with needed minerals, disc these minerals thoroughly while prepar-ta- g a reasonably good seedbed, re-se-with a mixture of legumes and grasses, control grazing for at least a year and clip weeds, giving the legumes and grasses a chance. Because of an increase of culti-vated acreages during the war. a greater acreage is now really ready for legumes than before the war, Hackleman says. A majority of the fields limed in recent years have not yet grown a legume, he believes. Rock phosphate which was used to the full extent of its availability during the last war years will also show up in improved alfalfa and clover production. Kan son Says He Predicted Drouth 'Cycle' PRATT, KANS. --The dry cycle is here again just as Fred Reece predicted 11 years ago in an arti- - cle in the Pratt Daily Tribune. Recently Fred dug out th)e old article he had written in 1934 under the title, "Sun Spots." And then he sat down and wrote another one, tn which he stated: "In my 1934 article I noted that observations over almost a century showed these increased sun spot outbreaks occurred at fairly regu-lar intervals of about 11 '4 years. No-body knew why or if that rate would continue. But on the theory that it might continue, I ventured that 1946 might find us in the midst of another series of dry years. That year is here; the sun tornadoes are here, perhaps a bit late but they started their upsurge more than a year ago. Last year's wheat crop was not much affected, probably be-cause we have learned to conserve moisture. This year's crop hangs in the balance between good subsoil moisture and a hot, dry, blowing surface. Maybe the memories of the dust bowl days of the '30s will enable you to guess the next two or three. 53,000 New Forms Planned for Missouri Basin ects would increase employment op-portunities on a nationwide basis, they say. Much of the material for building dams, power plants and canals comes from the 31 states out-side of the arid and semi-ari- d re-gions of the west. Approximately 53,000 new irri-gated farms could be created in the Missouri basin, and the popula-tion would vastly increase, if pro-posed reclamation projects embrac-ing nearly one-sixt- h of the U. S. are carried out, Mr Ickcs declared WASHINGTON, D. C. - Harold L. Ickes, former secretary of inte-rior, estimated just before resign-ing his office that more than 400 irrigation and multiple - purpose projects are needed in the United States About 100 of these have been authorized and some of them are already in operation By building 415 irrigation and multiple - purpose projects, almost 200 000 new farms wnuld bp mad available for settlement of veterans and others, reclamation experts claim. The same reservoirs, im-pounding storage for irrigation, would make possible the generation of great blocks of hydro-electri- c en-ergy to be used for pumping irriga-tion water, serving rural electrifica-tion needs and stimulating food processing, mineral and related in-dustries. Construction of reclamation proj- - BARBS ... by Baukhage The term "collective bargaining" was first used in London in 1891 by Beatrice Webb and was promptly popularized in this country by Sam-uel Gompers of the AFL, says a 20th Century f.und..survey. Plastics from bituminous coal are now being made into linoleum for floor coverings. Wonder if they'll be in "striking" designs. People who deal in black mar-kets support the Bill of Rights per-haps, but not the Bill of Responsibili-ties. ... 1 lunched with Marshal Montgom-ery and he showed me his necktie. What do the colors mean, I asked. He replied: Red for blood, brown tat mud and green for the fields of Normandy after the breakthrough |