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Show : - " : ' , - a : II ' ffiWttAfl Soviet Assistance Termed America's 'Great Mistake9 By BAUKIIAGE Netct Analytt and Commentator. WNU Service, 1618 Eye Street, N.W Wschlncton, D. C. An army officer, back from a long tew of duty In Germany, called on me the oiner day. He was pretty pret-ty grim about the situation in Europe and Into every lew minute! min-ute! of nil con versation crept the word "Russia." "Rus-sia." "I like to talk about America's great mistake," he said. "Ger-many "Ger-many is sup-nosed sup-nosed to have lost the war by making mistakes; by attacking Russia, by not Invading Invad-ing England after Dunkirk, by this and by that I contend that America's Amer-ica's great mistake was not staying out of Europe until Germany bad licked Russia. I mean staying out in every way. Because without American supplies Russia would have been beaten." I reminded him of the fact that America wanted a short war, that we bad opposed Churchill's plan for attacking Europe through the Balkans and thereby obtaining possession pos-session of the trouble-making strip of territory which the Russians now dominate from the northern border of Greece up through Berlin. We wanted to shorten the war by leaving leav-ing the eastern front to Russia while the western allies smashed the German power entrenched in France, the -Low Countries and Italy. Thus, millions of American lives would be (and were) saved. Churchill Foresaw Balkan Influence) Churchill probably foresaw the difficulties which would arise with Russia able to expand her influence in-fluence up to the fringe of western Europe, Roosevelt believed that the war must be won quickly and be thought that by giving the Rut lans -everything they asked for In tha way of military support their suspicions would be removed and that they would flay ball with the Allies in the peace and after. He believed that Stalls needed peace to badly that be would come around. General Eisenhower himself didn't achieve any more of realistic realis-tic viewpoint in regard to Russia than Roosevelt did if w art to believe be-lieve his somewhat verbose Boswell. Mr. Butcher, in bis 800-page diary. Butcher writes: "Ike (aid he felt that . . . the more contact we have with the Bus lans the more they will understand us and the greater; will be their cooperation. co-operation. The Russians art blunt and forthright in their dealings and any evasiveness arouse their sua plcions. It should be possible to work with Russia if we follow the same pattern of friendly co-operation that baa resulted in the great accord of allied unity. . . Roosevelt and the general were proved right when they said Stalin needed peace. But they were wrong when they thought be would come around. 'The state department understands un-derstands the situation now and, as the recently concluded meeting of the foreign minister demonstrates, appeasement has been over for some time. We know Russia can't tight and doesn't want to. Russia know we can't fight whether wt want to or not She is acting accordingly ac-cordingly and according to historical precedent Tragic History Inspires 'No-ism' But anyone who studies Russian history know that the eternal "no' which seems about the only answer the Russian statesmen are allowed to make, comes from something tar deeper than mere stubbornness. This "no-ism" is only one of the many typical characteristics which the Soviets bavt revealed. It baa nothing to do with the tact that they believe in a theory of political econ omy which is opposed to our own. t is a deeply implanted quality which is Russian rather than mere ly Soviet or Communist And so when you read "Soviet Russia evoked the veto tor the sixth time in security council history. . ." maybe the 16th time by the time you read this) . . . remember it's an old Kalmuck custom. Mother Russia has taught her children from the days of the invasion of Ghengis Khan, that when a stranger beckons, beck-ons, the only answer is "no. no, a thousand times not" In fact, a Russian seldom says "no" once it is always "net, net. net!" BARBS The moment the lid went off and the long green was waved under their noses, the "steaks and chops, the- roosts and the bashful filets came romping out of their hiding places. . Hired -hards are going to work shorter hours on the form, wt hear. Probably the cows will move milking milk-ing time up a tittle to be obliging. . . mlmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm atMaSaeaB- . HSHim I 0,. .at BaaS. Sk, I Of course, Ghengis Khan didn't take "no" for an answer. Which is about the course the rest of the world can follow if it can. Let's hope the process won't be as rugged. rug-ged. OPA Battle Ha, Political Sid, Whatever one may think of the intricacy of the economic theory behind be-hind the OPA, its political implications implica-tions are a thousandfold more difficult dif-ficult to assess. As congress battled over the tattered tat-tered remains of the price control law, many a congressman who thoroughly thor-oughly detested the whole set-up began be-gan to worry a little as to what might happen back home if he were held partially responsible for wrecking wreck-ing the agency. It was all right for the representatives representa-tives of farm communities. The farmer would reap the reward of higher prlcea first By the time he felt the effect of higher prices on the things he had to buy, OPA probably would be forgotten. But congressmen from Industrial centers cen-ters were in quite a different position. These communities are heard from the moment the missus encounters a markup at the corner grocery. That is the reason that a number of Republicans Re-publicans supported the administration administra-tion stand on OPA. It the Republican Republi-can party is to capture the house of representatives next November, it will have to pick up votes in the cities. Barben to Boost Vocabulary Too It is probably fitting that along with the dollar haircut which baa mads its appearance in metropolitan metropoli-tan barber-shops, we may find the barber presenting us four-dollar words. Barbera long have been known for the quality of their verbal verb-al output and in some cases for the quality as well. Now they may have a chance really to reach the heights, for the leader of a barber's union has offered to "enlist the old of 10,000 barbers" in a campaign to get some of the tacts of atomic life cross to the customer. Mrs. Lillian C. Watford, secretary of the Trl-State Atomic Information committee, received this offer. She' told us about it at a gathering which we had In Washington in mid-July participated in by many nuclear scientists, public men and women of note, and others who are trying to get the public to understand the importance of control of atomic energy. She took the barber's of fer quite seriously, snd I believe, properly so. I hope that the barbers bar-bers learn to broadcast the basic facts about the atom, not of course, from the standpoint of nuclear physicists, phys-icists, but from the standpoint of the average man who would like to live bis We cut in peace, and leave a world in which bis children can do the same, Congress Scans Types of Closing It took some time tor congress to make up its mind whether it would adjourn "sine die" (without date set tor reconvening), as they usually do when a session comes to an end, or whether they would "recess." When congress merely recesses it can reassemble without a special proclamation by the President When the President calls congress into session be has to issue a proclamation. proc-lamation. That's all the Constitution Constitu-tion demands. He doesn't have to deliver it Out of courtesy, however, how-ever, the White Rouse always telegraphs tele-graphs the president of the senate and the speaker of the house. But the proclamation Is not good unless the Great Seal of the United States is affixed thereunto. Nobody can do that but the secretary of state, for he is the keeper of the seal So along with the proclamation, proclama-tion, the President has to issue a warrant ordering the secretary of state to do the affixing. I might say that the secretary of state usually delegates this task, which reminds me of a story, which, I believe, never has been printed. When Secretary of State Hull had been in office 12 years, there waa a little outburst of congratulations. President Roosevelt as they were talking privately, remarked: "Cor-dell, "Cor-dell, you art the aole guardian of the great seal, aa you know." He paused, and Mr. Hun replied: "Yea, Mr. President" Then the President looking him straight in the eye, asked: "Where is it?" It was Hull's turn to pause. "I don't know," he admitted, 'Tve never seen it by Baukhage Each morning as 1 carefully spread a thin film of M-cent butter on my undersized, off-color toast I dutifully remind myself that America Amer-ica is eating more than it ever did before. If a clerk put strawberry cream in your chocolate soda and then got you to pay for it anyhow, would you say he waa neither deft nor dumb? WJ.QPfl.nKM L By EDWARD EMERINE WNU ftar. A balance has been struck in Wisconsin where the happiest hap-piest combination of farm and factory has been found! The state is ruraHn appearance, appear-ance, its industry so widespread wide-spread that it is never far from a dairy barn to a factory door. The truck and garden plot the orchard and the country home are but a step from the gears of industry. in-dustry. In Wisconsin, the neighbor-liness neighbor-liness and friendliness of the small town Is never lost The milk of human hu-man kindness is never evaporated in the fiery ovens of a factory. A great industrial state, with more factories and mills than you can count Wisconsin remains the land of milk cows, cheese, butter, apples and more milk cows! Everything grown in the north temperate zone is produced in Wisconsin Wis-consin in grains, vegetables and fruits. So varied Is its agriculture that the state produces corn, wheat rye, barley, hay, flaxseed, potatoes, sugar beets, tobacco (for cigar wrappers), hops, peas, sorghum and maple syrup. More peas are canned there than in any other state, and more hemp is raised. The state ranks high in cranberry production and also produces apples, cherries, plums and other fruits. Wisconsin remains a leader in the number of dairy cows, in cheese production and in the output of condensed milk products. Industries Are Varied. "Made in Wisconsin" stamps thousands of articles used all over the world, from the smallest radio TWO CANOES . . . Wisconsin's lakes are always a source ef pleasure for part to the greatest earth-moving machinery. The state has miscellaneous miscel-laneous mining and quarrying, sawmills saw-mills and lumbering, paper mills and wood products factories, breweries brew-eries and flour mills, cheese factories fac-tories and creameries. Manufactured Manufac-tured goods include sheet metal, work, foundry products, farm machinery, ma-chinery, electrical goods, engines and pumps, plumbing supplies, tools and hardware, automobiles and tractors, refrigerators, precision preci-sion Instruments snd countless other oth-er articles. During World War II its hundreds of factories produced tools of war tor the army and navy, backing V. S. lighting men on every ev-ery front Wisconsin is one of the most for- FISHLV . . . Tw Great Lakes, Superior and Michigan, and hun-dreds hun-dreds of small ones lure fishermen fisher-men to Wisconsin. Editor Credited with Major On the agricultural campus of University of Wisconsin at Madison Madi-son is bust of William Dempster Hoard, A glance at Wisconsin history his-tory discloses that he waa governor of the state from 1889 to 189L But the story of Hoard and his service to Wisconsin and the world goea Sack a score of years before ht as governor. . In the little town of Fort Atkinson Atkin-son about 1870 there was aa editor 7""" . TrspTFl . x' , ! 1 ' : 14: HSN i A,- -- H ilAKEwMICHICAN - f l "l i no"T" s tunate of states in transportation facilities. Steamboats ply the Mississippi Mis-sissippi and other rivers. Lake ships dock at Superior, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Racine and other points, and Great Lakes traffic is considerable. consid-erable. Fast modern railroads speed across the state. Truck traffic traf-fic from city to city, and from Wis- ejejsBjasajetsova 1 - and forests are never ending, and those who love the outdoors. consln to the rest of the United States, is increasing steadily. Lived 'Like Badgers.' The pioneers found Wisconsin a vast wilderness. They cleared it broke it and built upon it They dug deep into lead mines and often lived In holes in the ground "like badgers," some said. (That is why it is often called the Badger State.) But the people of Wisconsin, for all their industry, always have loved to play, to enjoy life, and to find refreshment re-freshment in the state's great playgrounds. play-grounds. The northern half of Wisconsin is a great forest smelling of pine pitch and brush fires. Rivers thunder thun-der over trap-rock ledges or flow quietly on clean sand beds. There are hidden ponds, many swamps and uncounted lakes. A third of the northern boundary Juts out into Lake Superior, and the entire east era length of the state is washed by the waters of Lake Michigan. la the southwest sprawls the coulee country, often steep and irregular, veined by streams and rivers, tributaries trib-utaries of the Mississippi Apple orchards smother the ridges with their pink and white blossoms while the slopes are covered with sugar bush and abandoned gingseng beds. Wisconsin has 8,500 counted lakes, 10,000 miles of trout streams, 900 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, innumerable in-numerable rivers and springs. It has lakes for swimming, boating, fishing and all water sports Lake Winnebago, Lake Geneva, and the lakes around Madison, to name a few. On the Great Lakes, trim sailing sail-ing craft course out to the horizon, while outboards and racing boats split the water near the shores. Jean Nicolet was the first white man known to have set foot on Wisconsin sou. He came to the Green Bay area in 1634 and visited the Winnebago Indians who lived Role la Dairy Promotion who noted the soil-depleting results of many wheat crops. He believed that In time there would be no good farms unless farmers turned from wheat growing to raising of livestock. He argued that Wisconsin no longer could depend upon grains snd that the future prosperity of the state lay in dairying. At first he devoted a column to bis campaign, then a page and later a separate section. Eventually bt n A f i - r - ""- -- . II I I IT. I M I along the shore (and whose descendants de-scendants still live in Wisconsin). Territory Organised. In April, 1836, over 200 years aft-er aft-er Nicolefs visit the "Territory of Wiskonsan" was organized to include in-clude what is now Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas and Illinois. The townsite of Madison, Madi-son, the capital, waa surveyed and platted that year. Gradually, however, how-ever, the territory shrunk in size after long and bitter boundary quarrels. quar-rels. To give Illinois an outlet on the Great Lakes, the boundary was moved northward and Chicago was lost The northern peninsula, a region re-gion rich in copper and iron, was given to Michigan to replace territory terri-tory taken from Michigan by Ohio. Other boundary adjustments followed fol-lowed as the drive for statehood was accelerated. On May 29, 1848, Wisconsin became a state. The years following Wisconsin's admission as a state brought a I great influx of German and Scan dinavian immigrants. Population doubled and trebled each decade. Railroads opened t ie rich interior of the state to farmers and lumbermen. lum-bermen. Wheat became a basic commodity, with flour and grist mills springing up everywhere. Introduction In-troduction of livestock brought about Wisconsin's noted dairy industry. in-dustry. By 18S0 many towns were offering offer-ing inducements to industry, and manufacturing was begun. Paper and pulp mills began operating, and meat packing was introduced. Shoes and leather products followed naturally. nat-urally. , The metal industry, now one of Wisconsin's greatest grew rapidly because of the state's location loca-tion halfway between Minnesota's iron ore deposits and coal fields in Illinois and Indiana. The land of green woods and cool waters continues to grow and progress. pro-gress. Its industry, agriculture and good homes make life better. Wisconsin Wis-consin is a serene and balanced land. LIFELONG RESIDENT . . . Wat-ter Wat-ter 8. Goodland, governor of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, is a native son, bora in Sharon December 22, 1862. He baa been a lifelong resident ef his native state, having been en-gaged en-gaged successively as a school teacher, lawyer, newspaper publisher, pub-lisher, mayor ef Racine, farmer and lieutenant governor before becoming the state's chief executive. execu-tive. He took the eatb as governor gover-nor January 4, 1942, ud haa served continuously since. founded Hoard's Dairyman, a magazine mag-azine that circulated widely, even today. to-day. He supplemented his writing by touring the state and speaking until he hammered his gospel into the consciousness of the people. But the farmers of 1870 were inclined in-clined to resent being "tied to a cow." After a while Hoard convinced con-vinced a group of German farmers to go into dairying, and many Scandinavians Scan-dinavians were to follow. Wheat production began to drop as the dairy output increased. ,y ' : S ,.n , " -:-:-:., A 'V Repute t Itn WASHINGTON I By Walter Sheod WHO WMMiinttoa Buru. If It t.fi:.m. nr. A Little Bit of America Transplanted in S. Pacific BIKINI ISLAND. There is an unforgettable un-forgettable picture spread before be-fore me here in this south Pacific atoH ... a picture of great beauty and a lesson which portrays the American way. For tonight as far as the eye can see in a huge arc which marks the curving length of this thfee-mile-long island, thousands of electric lights wink In the soft trade winds and mirror their reflections in the gently swelling waters of the lagoon. la-goon. Thousands of other lights from the fleet of some 200 ships anchored an-chored in array form other patterns pat-terns of reflected lights, numerous searchlights stab the star-studded sky and the winking lights of ship communications play a soundless tattoo upon the southern night Red and green riding lights atop the masts sway in the rolling waves and add color to the magical picture in this far-off place. Yet only a few short months ago this Island and the entire atoll of coral reefs and islets was aa primitive primi-tive and wild as when the first Polynesians steered their frail outrigger out-rigger canoes into Bikini lagoon some 800 yeara ago. Today the small band of natives has been moved bag and baggage to another larger Island, and taking their place are thousands of American boys swarming the beaches and playing beneath, the cocoanut palms from which the natives derived their chief food supply. Paving, Steel Buildings Concrete walks have taken the place of the rough native trails; coral-roads have replaced the sandy paths trod for centuries; rough thatched huts have been replaced by sturdy American structures; handball, basketball, tennis and horseshoe courts edge into the palm groves. Steel towers form installations installa-tions for radio, television and other communications, standing high above the trees. The chug of a gasoline engine, the roar of bulldozer bull-dozer motors and the shouts of men in recreation break the stillness of the night . . . such sounds as have never before been heard since this ancient volcano thrust its crater rim above the waters of the Pacific and the countless millions of coral polyps deposited their skeletons for eons of time to form the rock and sand base of the atoll reefs ... the crashing, splitting thunder of .two atomic bombs have broken the peace and stillness of this fairyland. fairy-land. American ships lie upon the coral heads of the lagoon floor . . . 30 fathoms down. Soon divers will explore their wrecked hulls to note the work of atomic energy and blast npon the workmanship of shipbuilders. Oceanographera win again chart the lagoon bed to ace what this man-made man-made force has done to nature'a work. Biologists win stndy the fish life to leans what radio-activity has done to the living tissues. In the years to come aa entirely new species spe-cies of fish may be one result A radio station. Ice plant and electric elec-tric plant lend their functions to this newest outpost of the American way ... for where American sailors and American soldiers and airmen go, so must go the American way u snips ana planes. Expensive, but Worth It To date this mass movement of ships and men, their supply and maintenance has cost the American taxpayers some $70,000,000 so that our military planners might learn the effect of atomic energy on ships and men and materiel And it is costing an approximate half million dollars a day to keep it going . . . going well beyond the summer months, for the third test is now scheduled for November and the total to-tal cost will run well over $100,000,-000. $100,000,-000. Our congress and our military mili-tary leaders believe it is weB worth it And they've left nothing undone. A jazz orchestra plays sweet swing music and the sound is wafted waft-ed across the water from the officers' of-ficers' club where the legend over the door reads "Up and Atom." And there's plenty of refreshment in liquid form, so plentiful it may be the reason for the shortage in the States, and cheap too. Some 30,000 men are here . . . a little piece of the United States transported to the South Pacific. If we could only see a ferris wheel, the scene before us would resemble nothing more than Coney Island. About one-fourth of the animals exposed to the atom bomb test of July 1 are now dead. This does not include those killed tor autopsy Capt Shields Warren, radiological expert says that about one-third of the survivors are in a critical condition con-dition from burns. Four goats, all quite sick, have been flown to the U. of Chicago for blood studies Their ailment is due to radioactive rays. One hundred and eight white mice have been flown to the National Na-tional Health Institute at Bethesda. Mi, where they will be studied. RdcaatS fay Weittrn Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA TALE IF THE gotras worn by Rita Hayworth in "GUda" dazzle daz-zle you, wait till you see what Jeon Louis whips up for her when he returrs from Paris. Before he went to Hollywood he was a well-known designer -tevtine his talents to creating costumes for such dressy ladies as the duchess of Windsor and Gertrude Ger-trude Lawrence (who'd look smart in a gingham apronl). He plans to itay in Paris a month, seeing his family and inspecting the new fash-tons, fash-tons, but he finished several chores at Columbia before he left costumes cos-tumes for Rita for the technicolor it J 4 " I"-. RITA HAYWORTH "Down to Earth," for Janet Blair tor "Gallant Journey," and tor Evelyn Keyes in "The Jolson Story," Sto-ry," also in technicolor. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the "Gilda" costumes are one of the best things In it X So Lizabeth Scott is to play op posite Humphrey Bogart in "Dead Reckoning." Could it be that she's offered as a reasonable facsimile of Lauren BacaU, whom she slightly resembles? Certainly the secona Mrs, Bogart would have been a better choice. Inadvertently Sol Lesser has endowed en-dowed a scholarship fond for the College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. When he nsed the school- owned Booth Theater la Columbia aa a set for "No Trespassing," and wanted to pay, and right well, too, the college accepted, bnt announced an-nounced that the money would be nsed to finance an annual scholarship scholar-ship In dramatics. The picture stars Edward G. Robinson and Lon Mo-Callister. Mo-Callister. With Gene Kelly's return from the navy, MGM's roster of stars numbers num-bers 30, largest in their history. Technically Clark Gable is still a Metro star, but so tar he's still not liking any of the stories they find for him. "Crime Doctor" started Its seventh sev-enth year on August 4 script No. 311 was performed that night Four members of the cast have appeared on every show House Jameson, Walter Greaza, Frank Readick, and Edith Arnold, who's averaged a corpse- a show. Old songs never die, If they're good ones. Several years ago Samuel Sam-uel Goldwya bronght renewed popularity popu-larity to Irving Berlin's "Always" by making It the musical theme of "The Pride of the Yankees." Now he's bringing back "Among My Son-venira" Son-venira" as the theme song of "The Best Years of Our Lives," starring Frederic Match snd Myrna Loy. Well, Just see what "Casablanca' did for "Aa Time Goes By"! Outstanding Hoosiers in the entertainment enter-tainment world, such Hyb Shriner, Red Skelton, Hoagy Car-michael, Car-michael, Singin' Sam and Ole 01-sen 01-sen have been invited by Governor Gover-nor Gates of Indiana to fly out for the opening of the Hoosier State fair on August 31. When Alec Templeton was four, a little Englishwoman, Miss Margaret Marga-ret Humphrey, began giving him piano lessons. He used to tell her that some day she'd be proud of him. Recently Miss Humphreys flew back to England, after visiting the Templetons for some time. She was taken along on Alec's concert tour throughout the country, and introduced in-troduced to famous musical figures as the person responsible for his success. Folks named Slater Just naturally land at Mutual, apparently. There's Bin, the sportscaster (now emcee- tag "Right Down Your Alley" at ABC), Tom, Mututal's special events director, and Ruth Slater, a contralto. 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