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Show THE BULLETIN, KING HAM CANYON. UTAH I PHONE COMPAnT But the Company Would Ban Helios n$fe, WRONG NUMBERS, TWITCHELL T ' Rv H. I. PHILLIPS "DON'T SAY HELLO" ("Don't say 'hello' when the phone. Give your name or company name promptly and save time." From telephone company ap-peal.) We read It again. "Don't say hello' when you answer t h e phone," it iaid clearly. "It wastes time." It seemed revolutionary reasonable. After U. why not but So with the company. and awaited a phone we sat down call . . o how long one It Is strange has to wait for the phone to ring when one Is not busy. If absorbed In a we had been book, tied up In a conference, trying to find a rhyme or busy t reassembling a Swiss watch there would have been a call every 10 seconds. But now . . . silence! Nobody wanted to talk to us. But we are not easily defeated. We called up a Dud-ley Zeek (at random out of the book) and hurriedly left word with his secretary to phone us. o Presently our phone rang. We leaped to it and announced our name with no waste of time. "Elmer Twitchell," we said. There was no answer. We Jiggled the hook and insisted on getting the connection. Central finally Bsked, "Who called you?" "What differ-ence does it make?" we asked. "We will take a call from any-body." Presently she us. "Elmer Twitchell," we repeated firmly. "There is no Elbert P. Twitch-ell here. You have the wrong num-ber." "No, I haven't. Listen . . ." "This is not Twitchell," the fe-male voice insisted. "Of course not," we explained. "How could it be?" "Hello," the voice said. "And you're not supposed to say 'hello,' " we put in. "Hello. Who do you want? Hello. You must have the wrong number. Hello." "Stop slipping in all of those hel-los-we yelled. "Haven't you heard about them?" Here a male voic put in. "Hello," it said. "Are you try-ing to get me?" "No, you're trying to get me," we said. "Who are you? Hello," the voice repeated. "Elmer Twitchell. You ara Dud-ley Zeek, aren't you?" "Who?" "Dudley Zeek." "No," came the answer. "This is the Economy Pastrami Factory, Amos Finch speaking." "Are you trying to get Elmer Twitchell?" "No. My secretary has been try-ing to get the city hall. What're you doing on the line. Hello. There must be a mixun Hplln Hplln " " WS too . hl1 The I)uey Zeek cXyU 'e,t camps As Parents ntti , , Hi.-S- aw a slgfu ''Cattle Crossing. hour." That', too fa; to move in modern t&i McElroy. "United StoteTft. lion a Day-Hea- dlir. Aw, they can't be": has lion dollars on) mothers of babies, j nounces. We IWlil that Russia oriiM( of motherhood. 0- - With every resta- -, closed, we undent of divorce applicanu their suits the cois;:: wife's cooking cons:.: able cruelty. 0-- We trust that the c; by Clark, great coma ial and that, above C will never make t cigars. GOTHAM BUGLU: Cole Porter has fc . . . "Kiss Me, Kej" munitions stocks ban since Olsen & Johnse Ye ed watched the ; and got powder bwrj vey" is being played: with a Welsh rabbit, 0 We know a fellow ti reverse the routine 1: case from the supie the lower tribunals,, in 4V.ir.t .1..... J WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Signs North Atlantic Pact; Brannan Farm Plan Beaten in House; British Clamor for A-Bo-mb Secrets (KDITOIt'8 NOTE: When opinions are riprvaaed In theae column, they art thou ( Western Newapuper Union's news snalyata and not neeeaaarlly of this newapapar.) yw?'v, f , S , Jew ,'V ,y, iy , A far y f 7 ' Mi s ' -- T"W i f W (, KNVOV TO COSTA RICA SWORN IN . . . Joseph Hack (left) of Doylcstown, I'a., places his left hand upon the Itible as lie takes oath of office and is sworn In as new ambassador to Costa Rica from the United States. lie succeeds Nathaniel I', Davis. The wife of the new envoy is looking on as Stanley Woodward, chief of proto-col officer at the state department in Washington, I). C, admin-isters the oath. ' INCOMES: Profits Decline Net corporation Income, accord-ing to the securities and exchange commission dropped to an esti-mated two billion, 400 million dol-lars after taxes, In the first quar-ter of this year. THIS INCOME was approxl-matel- y 16 per cent below the prof-its for the corresponding quarter of 1948 and 18 per cent below the preceding quarter. The drop in sales, the report said, more than offset lower costs and expenses. Experiencing the largest declines in net earning were the large cor-porations. Thesj lower profits were said to have been reflected in low-er rates of return on stockholder's equities. The SEC reported: "The ratio of profits after taxes to stockhold-ers' equity for corporations over 100 million dollars in assets dropped from an annual rate of 18 per cent in the fourth quarter of 1948 to 14.4 per cent in the first quarter this year." SMALLEST-SIZ- E CLASS corpor-ations with less than $2.00,000 in as-sets showed an increase from a small loss to 8.4 per cent. All but two of 22 industry groups showed declines In profits after taxes from the fourth quarter ftf 1948 to the first of 1949. ARMISTICE: Israel-Syri- a Accord Syria and Israel have signed an armistice agreement that will keep their military forces behind their international frontiers and estab-lished demilitarized zones In the contested areas. THE CEREMONY, taking place between the Israeli and Syrian fighting lines in north Galilee, will lead, it is hoped, to on early settle-ment of issues between Israel and the Arab states in the Lausanne, Switzerland, talks of the UN Pales-tine conciliation commission. Israel has signed armistices with all the Arab countries that took part in the Palestine conflict-Eg- ypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Syria. The agreement is another tribute to the skill of Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN mediator, and Brig. Gen. Wi-lliam E. Riley, US chief of staff. IT HAS been agreed that un-restricted civil life may be re-sumed in the demilitarized zones pending final peace negotiations when an international boundary will be clearly defined. The agreement calls for the BRANNAN PLAN: Loses Trial The house approved a measure continuing the farm price-suppo- rt program in its present form. The bill was slated to go to the senate. The house vote was 383-2- The retention of the 90 per cent of parity supports killed the Aiken law, passed by the Republican-controlle- d 80th congress and which was scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1. The administration gained a par-tial victory in eliminating the Aiken law but saw defeat in being denied a test run of the controver-sial Brannan agricultural plan. Under the Brannan plan, perish-able crops would be allowed to sell at what the market would pay; then the government would pay the farmers the difference between the support level and the average price the farmers got. The Pace bill, which embodied CRAZY FISH I Searchers after the unique can find the "screwiest" fish acquar-iu- m in the world at the University of Toledo, Ohio. As a of research into means of boosting the stock of fish in the nation's lakes and rivers, Floyd J. Brinlcy, physiologist, has developed the following: Thirty-three-eye- d brown trout. Trout with extra transplanted hearts outside their bodies which continue to pulsate after the fish have died. Trout babies which, in the in-terest of determining the effect of oxygen on the heart action of fish, live in oxygen "tents." ATOM DATA: England's Needs Reports say the administration has investigated the possibilities of sharing atom-bom- b secrets with nn'lnin hv nvnpntivi aoroetmnnt provisions for a trial run on three farm products of the Brannan plan, lost out, 222-15- A substitute for the Pace bill, the Gore measure, suspending the Aiken law and continuing the pres-ent farm program, won by a final vote 303-25- . One of the surprises of the ses-sion was the very few votes cast to keep the Aiken law alive. Corridors of the house office building where the meeting was held were filled with lobbyists for various farm organizations. Police had the area roped off. Democratic Leader McCormack (Mass.) argued that opponents of the Pace bill were obligated to of-fer some kind of alternative. "I'm concerned about the con-sumer," he said. "When he reads about millions of bushels of pota-toes being burned under the pres-ent farm program, he wants to know what's wrong." WARNING: Pact Okayed Russia received a warning that . j - - .... . , . without action by congress. Some law-make- have sought to tie the President's hands. The idea has been discussed but no decision has been reached to carry it through. It is considered a matter of the senate-hous- e atom-ic committee, the state depart-ment, the armed services and the atomic energy commission. A secret meeting at Blair House was thought to have been called by Truman to discuss the matter. The United Kingdom and Cana-da in atomic develop-ment during the war and are be-lieved to know all about the war-time bomb. The atomic energy law of 194G has forbidden further exchange of information. Some sources say Great Britain can produce an atom bomb of its own if it decides to concentrate on the problem. Britain may have threatened the United States with loss of uranium ore from British-owne- d Belgian Congo mines if the U.S. refuses to yield atomic secrets. Britishers have been resentful that1 their observers were not al-lowed at the Eniwctok bomb test. wnnarawaj or cieiensive lorces to a line three and a half miles deep on either side of the armistice line. This keeps the Arab legion and the Israeli troops out of grenade-- tossing distance of each other. GUATEMALA: Rebellion Off A military revolt in Guatemala against the government of Pres-ident Juan Jose Arevalo died out. Calm spread over the capital after 24 hours of fighting that followed the assassination of Col. Francisco Javier Arana, chief of the armed forces. FORT GUARDIA DE HONOR, the seat of the revolt, was regained by loyal troops and civilian vol-unteers. All fighting ceased. Forty persons were reported killed, according to the police di-rector. No United States citizens were among the casualties. Observers said the colonel was killed because he refused to lead an uprising against the govern-ment, and then his death was used as an excuse to attack the govern-ment. Among inose iigniing were many who belonged to a political party backing Arana for president. All state ministers were loyal to the president. THE GOVERNMENT armed large groups of civilians for the battle against the rebels. Queen Roosevelt established the prece-dent of presidential with Britain in things atomic with-out congressional authorization. HOUSING: Modest Home A modest home may be built for $5,900, federal rent director Tighe Woods has proven. He was trying to solve the military's hous-ing difficulties. The over-al- l size of the house is 15 by 38 feet. The price includes sewer and water systems. Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.) of the house armed services commit-tee said he was going to examine Woods' home near Fort Belvoir, Va. The committee has studied a military construction bill author-izing the armed services to spend more than 449 million to house 7,795 military families. THE BILL would limit homes in the United States to $16,500 cost each with no limit on those built abroad. will be considered an attack upon the United States. The warning came in the form of an 82-1- 3 rati-fication of the Atlantic pact by the senate. It was the first time in American history that a peacetime pledge had been made that the United States will take action (military action, if necessary) if certain other nations are attacked. UNDER the north Atlantic treaty this nation and 11 other nations pledge that an attack upon one will be considered an attack upon all. The pact also pledges that the 12 members of the treaty shall pre-pare for mutual defense before the need for military action actually arises. A small minority waged bitter opposition to the pact during the 13 days of senate debate upon it. Three Republicans, Wherry of Ne-braska. Taft of Ohio and Watkins of Utah, tried to write a reserva-tion into the treaty, specifying that ratification did not impose upon the United States the moral or legal obligation to supply arms to the other 11 signers. The heavy vote for ratification and the impressive vote against arms reservations were victories for the senate bipartisan foreign policy. Only two Democrats voted against ratification Johnson of Colorado and Taylor of Idaho, Henry Wallace's running mate in 1948. President Truman then asked congress for a billion, 450 million dollars to finance an arms-ai- d pro-gram for western Europe after signing the pact. Is there anyone to dispute the decision of the judges in select-ing Janice Ilarvell, 18, of Caro-lina Beach, N. C, as queen of the Lions? The smiling miss won the title in competition with beauties of other nations. The crowning occurred at the 32nd annual convention of Lions International at Madison Square Garden, X. T. PROTEST: Reds Denied Russia protested against Italian membership in the north Atlantic alliance, but her protest was de-nied by secretary of state Dean Acheson. Russia claimed Italy's participation was a violation of a treaty she had with Russia and other allies after the war that she would join in no alliance di-rected against any of the victors. Acheson denour-re- ti'e Soviets. GRACE NOLI CROWELL Wwt I DARE not pray for you, dear friend, that g ' sorrow' W&M The strange unwelcome guest may pass you by, I dare not even trust that each tomorrow '$r May hold for you a bright and cloudless sky. i'Mll I cannot hope that pain, that hard taskmaster, 110? May leave you quite untouched throughout the years, 10 Or that you may escape loss and disaster; "rV That grief may never dim your eyes with tears. I'i ' For only sorrow brings an understanding Of others' sorrow; only as we learn 'I'wJM The slow and tortuous way, the harsh demanding " That grieving make upon us, can we turn " - And speak the freeing word to some hurt brother, J" And well we know that blue skies bring no rain !zji& To heal the heart, and we can learn no other Ja Way to sympathize save through experienced pain. 2 I m h I crave the best things for you, O my friend, j' ' pj And for what is best we can trust God to send. I viiiiiiv iicaici Fiction LOVINGLY, TEMPLE Corner ic conditions which stirred to life the slumbering romance that lurks within the breast of every man, or it might have been the simple de-sire of a man for a mate. At any rate Aaron toctc Miss Daniels In his arms and kissed her and whispered nonsensical things that somehow seemed to fit the occasion. THE NEXT MORNING he found another letter from Temple Creighton on his desk. "Dear Guardian: I'm sorry, but com-mands and demands from folks like you don't mean a thing when a girl is in love. And your little Temple is certainly in love. I ex-pect she'll be proposed to in the very near future." Aaron buzzed for Miss Dan-iels. "Dear Temple: This thing has gone far enough. It's a pity you couldn't have been en dowed with st least of your father's It Is my wish that t lately send me tot address of this bo I shall write to him Aaron had hoped th he would find himsel enough to offer a pre: riage to Miss Daniel again they were seatei watching the moon cc the ocean, his couracs Heavy-eye- d he wee: next morning to find lng him from Tempi "Dear Guardian: Yo He isn't the man I the Apparently he hi Just ing himself, with no li me to marry him. Id talk to him. His nunil Lovingly, Temple." rEAR TEMPLE: I was indeed ''glad to learn that you had ob-tained such a satisfactory position. I am sure that you will make a most efficient secretary. Frankly, I have been entertaining some mis-givings about your future. Serving in the capacity of guardian to mod-ern young ladies is, after all, hardly in my line, although I was only too glad to look I " I after the daugh- - Minute ter of my close 3 Fiction ie"d- - Tm Creighton, when he so unexpect-edly passed away. I imagine you are quite a grown up young lady now, though it is hard for me to visualize you in any other form than a girl in pigtails and short dresses" Aaron Bell, 34, looking 10 years younger, abruptly ceased dictating and stared hard at his stenographer. The stenographer. Miss Daniels by name, was small, dark, vivacious and exceedingly attractive. She had come to work in the law office of Attorney Aaron Bell two weeks pre-vious. She was a capable girl, yet for some unexplainable reason Aaron hadn't been able to get used to her That is to say, he felt nervous whenever he was dictating letters. During the next fpw days Aaron began to Kot an Inkling of why it was that he felt un-ea-when dictating letters to Miss Daniels. He began to won-der If heretofore he hadn't been attempting to evade an Issue. He asked himself, secretly, if Miss Daniels was becoming to mean more to him than Just a secretary. --TWO DAYS LATER Aaron was rudely swept out of the of rPam ecstasy (a slate of mmd brought about by his dinner date with Mi-;- s Darnels), by receiving another let- ter frorn his ward. "Dear Guardian: My boss is real-l- y quite lovely, and has been an unusual amount of in me since my last letter I am not a little flattered bv his at' tendon and very much thrilled In fact. 1 bcheve I could fall in love with him very easily " Aaron rang for M,ss Daniels Dear Temple: 1 demand that you res.gn from your present poon at once. It's silly and absurd to hank of a girl love your age MUng jn especally with a man who make, ove to every stenographer he employs." That n,Kht Aaron sucked drive ,hrou,h the country and a delated was when M,ss Darnels c wh a full n,on an(J , r n breeze blow;, ofr the It miehi have , n p - i STAGESCREENADIO BY INEZ GERHARD TRVING MANSFIELD, young pro- - ducer at Columbia broadcast-ing, proves that lightning can strike twice. He conceived and produces the tremendously suc-cessful "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts;" using a different twist on the same idea, he came through with the new hit show, "This Is Broadway," also on CBS. He began in radio in 1943 as coordina-tor of the Fred Allen show, then. IRVING MANSFIELD in 1944 and '45, produced the Milton Berle program. Realizing what they had, CBS assigned him to originate and develop new comedy and variety shows, and he came through with the Godfrey gold mine, which made its first appear-ance on the air on July 8, 1946. Well, "The Fountainhead" ar-rived, was seen, and proved to be disappointing, despite the excellent cast and the mon-ey lavished on the production. As with "Arch of Triumph," a good book just was not good screen material. At luncheon in New York months ago Macdonald Carey announced that a second visit from the stork was slated for his home. Elizabeth Macdonald Carey arrived July 12th, ending a long, tedious so-journ in bed for her mother. Carey installed a television set in the bedroom to entertain his wife. He commented sadly that she didn't care to watch football games and he did. On the lookout for new acting talent, Columbia has signed Benno Schneider as top drama coach. He is rehearsing a group of players, some of whom will be selected for screen tests. Meanwhile Richard Quine. a talent scout, is touring the summer theaters in Denver. Omaha, Chicago and the East. He recently and "Leather Gloves" for Columbia LCHOSSWDHH PUZZLE g ACROSS DOWN 19. Large iMl3 1. Fruit of 1. School rooflnj sSEP the palm graduation slate SjJf 5. A prophet document 20. Taken by Bib.) 2. Measure mouth 2$ 9. Water of land 22. Indefinite 77 cooler 3. 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From the walls, pictures of Chiang Kai-she- k are being torn down and pic-tures of Mao Tse-tun- Communist, are being tacked furtively. British rule was flaunted once before. Last summer the Chinese Communist high command ordered the Chinese Re'is :n Singapore to switch from agitation to direct action. The British acted swiftly in the face of rioting and shooting, seiz-ing Communist leaders and hang-ing some of them. Communist pow-er was broken in the city. Singapore is really two cities mixed together a Chinese city and a British city. |