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Show SHI Busy Washington Knows No Rest Even in Summer By BAUKHAGE New Analyst end Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washing-ton, D. C. WASHINGTON.-Ai goon a Labor La-bor Day is passed the business world settles down with sigh of relief. The summer slump is supposed -to be over. Most people, peo-ple, I suppose, consider that Washington In the summer is even more dormant dor-mant and deserted desert-ed than the ordinary ordi-nary city. If you believe the ac companying ear-toon ear-toon by Herblock which the Wash Bankhage ington Post permits me to reproduce, repro-duce, you will be sure we sleep. But don't let Herb spoof you. True, it did seem that way for while but actually this summer it was pretty much "business as Usual" in the Capitol, the bouse and senate office buildings, the offices of-fices of the White House and the state department and other execu- Uve branches of the government, to ay nothing of Washington's marts of trade, limited in comparison to other cities though they may be. Government isn't all congress, and the President and Washington aren't ail government A year or two ago, William Kip-linger,' Kip-linger,' gathering material for his book. "Washington Is Like .That." stood in front of the WiUard hotel at Pennsylvania ava. and 14th street and asked SO people going by who they were and what they did. Of the 20, only five worked for the government govern-ment and none had Jobs which were interrupted (except by vacations) in the summer any more than in any other season. . I have no idea how many members mem-bers of congress or members of their staffs go down to the Capitol to work every day in the summer months but many offices on the "hill" are open. The regular departments are as busy as they ever are,. The very week that the cartoon camt out showing "Congress gone home," sign on the White House door, "Back Labor Day," and another on the state department, "Gone to Paris," Par-is," the state department was making mak-ing public two of the most important impor-tant communications it has dispatched dis-patched In many a day. One was the ultimatum to Yugoslavia protesting pro-testing the shooting down of our planes and the other was the refusal re-fusal to accede to Russia's demand for Joint control of the Dardanelles, At the same time, the investigation investiga-tion of the war surplus sales was going on; .the other Investigation Into war contracts had Just closed and the department of Justice was taking up the work where the Mead committee had laid it down, and the decontrol board of the OPA was holding hearings in preparation tor Its first and highly important decision de-cision which put controls back on sneata and other products. These were only a few of the activitiesnot ac-tivitiesnot to mention the bubbling campaign kettles assiduously attended at-tended by political chiefs behind closed kitchen doors. BARBS I see by The Publishers' Auxiliary that a boy in Houston was so sore when be got only a "C" on his theme about his life as a German war prisoner that he threw the manuscript man-uscript in the wastebasket His sister sis-ter salvaged it and sold it tor $23 to a magazine. - Stone walls do not a prison make, but barbed wire can make 23 bucks for the prisoasur. I S . , '" No, Washington doesn't hibernate In the summer. Herblock' s conception concep-tion of General Jackson, chin on chest, hunched up against his horse, like a lazy pup, is pure poetic license. li-cense. Herblock probably chose that particular par-ticular figure for contrast because it is one of the most belligerent statues In Washington. Jackson sits there In Lafayette park, across from the White House, (as he does in New Orleans) waving his saber, his rearing rear-ing charger with its front feet pawing paw-ing the atmosphere. And I Imagine that If "Old Hickory" were here in this hectic period, his old flesh, blood, powder and brimstone self, he would have charged right up to the state department steps when be heard of American planes being shot down in Europe. The United States has gone a long way toward world leadership since the year 1781 when a little, 14-year-old boy named Andy Jackson, along with his brother "continentals" was fighting the armies of the greatest nation of the day-Great Britain. Andy's two brothers were killed and he was captured but he lived to turn the tables when he led his "long-rifle" heroes to victory in the battle of New Orleans, 31 years later. "01d Hickory" must be a little confused as he gazes across to the White House, beyond it to the Potomac, Po-tomac, and the Pentagon and beyond be-yond that and the Atlantlo to Europe Eu-rope today. As I pass Lafayette park in the twilight these days 1 seem to hear him rattling his sword and saying: "When these United States were in their swaddling clothes we re fused to let the greatest nation of the earth interfere with our sailors on the high seas. Who is this im pertinent upstart who shoots our soldiers out of the air?" Let us hope, even if Andy sleeps, that his spirit doesn't . ProRt$ or Wage Which Com Firitf Recently I received a postcard saying: "Thought OPA was supposed sup-posed to reduce prices, not increase them." It was signed "Dumbbell." Well. lot of us dumbbells thought that was what it was tor. But when congress tore OPA to bits and then reshaped it nearer to its heart's desire, it laid down specific orders tor raising prices. The law was written on the logical theory that you can't expect a farmer to raise, or manufacturer to make, things that cost so much in the raising rais-ing or the making that there is no profit in the game. Who is to blame for high prices? The manufacturers who made so much out of government contracts, or the workers who got higher wages tor making the things the government needed? If you know which came first, the hen or the egg. you know the answers. A new rival of DDT has been discovered dis-covered which not only kills pests but keeps them away for a week or 10 days. Of course, I wouldn't commit com-mit murder but I know a lot of pests whose absence for 10 days would be Godsend. by Baukhage A monkey in a pet shop tore up all the letters containing bills which the mail carrier slipped through the slot He spared the check. "They're cute, aren't they?" said the shop owner. Cute is the word. A hitch-hiking snake in an airplane air-plane caused a forced landing. I never knew snakes had thumbs. NewsJ BEfflMflll By pAlfcMAILOfQ Released by Western Newspaper Union. YUGOSLAVIAN INCIDENTS PART OF REDS' PLAN WASHINGTON. The Tito claim that the killing of American air passengers pas-sengers was "an unfortunate accident" acci-dent" offered an imposition upon the intelligence of an imbecile. It was a step in Russia's "peace of nerves" program, a step which went too far. The "peace of nerves" which Russia Rus-sia has been conducting against western civilization is not new, and made no one nervous. The devices used were first invented by Hitler and Mussolini. As any important questions came up Internationally, the Nazis and Fascists created disturbing dis-turbing incidents in order to threat en and weaken their opposition, thus to win easier concessions. Such diplomatic dip-lomatic tricks are really as old as MachiavelU, yet the innovation of utmost pressures was contrived only by the modern totalltarianlsts. The recent haggling, nagging and rattling of nerves according to plan evidently is designed to weaken Anglo-American resistance to Communist Com-munist demands and to promote the cause of appeasers among us who wish to give the Communists everything every-thing they wish. These appeasers do not realize the nature and purpose pur-pose of the attack which is to make us surrender the peace of the world to Communism. They do not realize that such surrender will only lead to larger and larger demands as was our experience in dealing with Hitler Hit-ler and Mussolini. WHAT'S BEHIND IT ALL Any fair mind can see this so plainly as to bring the point beyond the possibility of contradiction. Behind Be-hind these developments are the following fol-lowing facts: The air is free ever our sones. Commercial planes and military mili-tary transport may travel peacefully peace-fully there. Bat the air is closed in Russlaand by Russia in every ev-ery nation In which she is influential in-fluential la the government. Permits to travel must be sought In her sones, and these tre seldom granted. When allowed, al-lowed, restrictions are Imposed as to time and occasion. Russia and her satellites, like Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, are completely isolationist isolation-ist in the air as en the ground. Thai Is why these incidents can occur to ns but not to their planes. The nerve-Dreasure incident! in whooped up by the Russians and their satellites in various available ways. You may recall that one of our embassy men in Moscow was charged with "hooliganism" (undefined (unde-fined specifically) against a Russian girl Moscow made as much of it as possible, although Immunity is the rule with foreign diplomats on our side. The Yugoslavs have been crossing the line and kidnaping some people (not Americans) back into Yugoslavia where they disappear. disap-pear. From our mission in Romania, Ro-mania, a girl employee suddenly disappeared. It developed she had been Jailed with no charge filed, but our diplomatic people were not allowed al-lowed to communicate with her. Another An-other male employee of ours there (a Romanian) was arrested at his home and convicted without a public pub-lic trial. In typical Nazi ways, the Russian zones practice grimaces continuously at our diplomacy. With affronts to fairness which are almost laughable, Russia similarly sim-ilarly demands entry In the United Nations for her Outer Mongolia, but opposes entry for Britain's Trans-Jordan Trans-Jordan or Eire. When the Paris peace conference opened, the Com-munist Com-munist dictator of tiny Albania fortified for-tified it in a bristling way, which naturally had no effect uDon th. Trieste situation, which his act was supposed to influence. RUSSIA WANTS DARDANELLES But what made the Yueoslavlan development even more serious than its surface Indications were the private reports available to official. dom here that the Russians planned to move against Turkey and take the Dardanelles. Her soldier. the Turkish border had started fir ing in the air over the Turks in recent days, even ai th mirt from her part of Germany had been nying over the Swedes (the rockets brought an immediate answer in i large Swedish loan to Russia.) Now Russia does not need to fortify the Dardanelles, unless she expects to go to war against Turkey. She has no navy of consequence, but what she has may operate with free passage In and ent of the Black aea. Our note rejecting her demands de-mands for fortification could hardly have been otherwise than firm, at we could hardly be a party to a plan for her to seise the territory of neutrals for purposes pur-poses of fortification by her. This added, grimness to the Yugoslavian Yu-goslavian tragedy. If Russia Invaded Turkey and took the Dardanelles (aa she can do at : any time because she has more troops there) she thereby would ' create the first threat to world r order since the war and ffe-the ffe-the first real case for the U. N. Oklahoma Sets Sesquicentennial Noting First White Settlement Historical Pageant Planned As Highlight of State Fair By WNU Features. MUSKOGEE, OKLA. To the astronomer and the geologist geolo-gist 150 years is the merest fragment of time. Even the student of recorded history stands in no awe of such a period. But to the more finite-rninded people of Oklahoma it represents repre-sents a considerable span of time. In fact, it measures the period that has elapsed since the first white settlement in their state. That is why they're going all out this year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of that event. In accordance with a joint resolution of the state senate and house of representatives passed In 1839, Oklahoma will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the day when MaJ. Jean Pierre Chouteau, a French fur trader, led a peaceful Invasion into the uncharted Southwest South-west and set up a trading post at the site of the present-day city of Salina in Mayes county of northeastern north-eastern Oklahoma. In Muskogee, some 50 miles south of the site of Chouteau's settlement, plans are being pushed for a celebration cele-bration to carry out the legislative resolution. Seeks Trading Post In. the early spring of 1796, Chouteau Chou-teau left St Louis, where he was a member of an influential family of traders and merchants, to 'find suitable location for a new trading post among the Indians of the Southwest South-west Traveling southward along the Grand river, the Frenchman found the site he had dreamed of place where an abundant supply of game, mostly deer and wild turkeys, abounded among thick timber which would provide a ready source of building material. By what Chouteau Chou-teau must have regarded as providential provi-dential good luck, the site also stood near an inexhaustible supply of salt a vital necessity to his men and animals. ani-mals. To crown the good features of the location, the river itself would furnish transportation facilities. The pioneer lost no time in constructing con-structing a large log trading post at what is now Salina. Post Abandoned. Economic reverses, however, disappointed dis-appointed the French explorer, who discovered that the territory was not the permanent home of any Indian tribe and that prospects of supporting support-ing a trading post however propitious pro-pitious the location in other respects, re-spects, were insufficient to Justify making the venture a permanent settlement in the area. Chouteau returned to St Louis and for six years the little trading post stood silent and abandoned in the wild loveliness of a primitive country. But in 1802 events transpired trans-pired that gave new life to the settlement set-tlement Through the traders' efforts ef-forts the Osage Indians of the Mis- ' FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT ... An artist's conception of the old Chouteau headquarters post near Salina, the first white settlement in Oklahoma. TRAVELERS ARE 'JOLTED' Vacation Costs War-weary Americans, reveling In the lifting of travel restrictions, gasoline rationing and steady wartime war-time duties, are hitting the highways high-ways and byways by the millions this summer and fall bound tor their first vacation Jaunt in long years. Not Inly on the highways are they receiving a jolt however, for vacation va-cation costs, which climbed throughout through-out the war years, now have soared to a new all-time high. Thousands are being Jolted by boosts in the rates of resort hotels, inns and cottages. A few resort places haven't raised the ante since last year, but virtually all charge Here's Fish Stories but LONG BEACH, CALIF. Here's another fish story it concerns size but not those that got away. At least California fish and game commission com-mission hopes none got away, for the story deals with the commission's commis-sion's semiannual population census of fish. - The commission takes its census by three major methods, the results of all three being correlated to determine de-termine estimated, number of fish louri valley removed their homes to eastern Oklahoma. It was a double victory for the Frenchman. He had sought revenge re-venge on the Spanish government which had taken his trading monopoly monop-oly and given it to one of its sub J ecu. By the migration of the Indian from the Spaniard's trade territory, his business was virtually ruined. In addition, it created a market mar-ket for Chouteau's abandoned trading post to which be returned re-turned to start the 150-year parade pa-rade of progress which has made a great, modern state from a wilderness. A celebration to be held in connection con-nection with the annual Free State fair at Muskogee, scheduled for the week of September 29 through October Oc-tober 6, will bear Gov. Robert S. Kerr's stamp as the "official" Oklahoma Ok-lahoma commemoration of her sesquicentennial. ses-quicentennial. Pioneers to Participate. During three days of the fair, a colorful pageant will be presented. Several hundred eastern Oklaho-mans, Oklaho-mans, many of them direct descendants de-scendants of early-day pioneers, will appear in the pageant, which will portray the arrival of Chouteau in the state and the story of the little trading post. C. E. Chouteau, an official of the Indian agency at Muskogee, will fill the role of his illustrious ancestor. The fair, a gala panorama of midway mid-way gaiety and agricultural and educational ed-ucational exhibits, yearly draws thousands of visitors from eastern Oklahoma and adjacent Arkansas. In addition to the sesquicentennial sesquicenten-nial pageant, fair visitors will be able to view a comprehensive display dis-play of the state's agricultural and industrial outputs. The fertile farms which dot Oklahoma will contribute contrib-ute their animal and vegetable produce to the fair and the modern educational institutions of the sec tion will present exhibits. Fairgoers may see the original site of Chouteau's landing by a short drive from Muskogee and may visit other interesting historical spots near this city, the original capital of the Five Civilized tribes. Soar to New substantially more than they did in prewar and early war years. Surveys of hotel directories show that the increase in rates range generally from 15 per cent to more than 100 per cent since prewar days. Many inns which were abandoned aban-doned before the war because of guest shortages have reopened and are doing a capacity business at rates as high as $50 a day for two persons. Travel experts say an increase amounting to more than 50 per eent is quite typical in most sections. A tew old inns, apparently desirous de-sirous of maintaining the goodwill of patrons, have made surprisingly small increases. At the other extreme, ex-treme, say officials of travel organi These Didn't Get Away to be offered for sale or taken to canneries.' In the first method, list of commercial com-mercial fishing boats, together with their time and place of catch, is kept : As the second step, five samples of 50 fish each are taken from catches throughout the fishing season sea-son to check the average size offish in each catch. Size is determined by counting the rings on the scales. " ORIGINAL SETTLER . . . Founder Found-er of the first white settlement in Oklahoma was MaJ. Jean Pierre Choteao, French for trader. War Treks Fail To Lead Farm Youths to City r.ifo in h armed forces, which introduced thousands of farm youths to glittering cities and far-' away lands, did not dim their love for farm life. More than a million veterans of World War II have returned re-turned to farm work throughout the nation, it is revealed in a bureau of agricultural economics report Veterans on farms by July 1 to taled 1,045,000, according to the bureau bu-reau report, the number including 713 nno farm cmerators or members of farm operators' families, and 2,000 hired workers. Veterans comprised 9 per cent oi all persons employed on the nation's farms. The number of veterans on farms was slightly more than three-fourths the number of farm workers who enlisted or were inducted up to July 1, 1945. In the Northeast and on the Pacific coast the number of veterans re turning to farms was larger than the number who entered the armed services. In other sections they were from 70 to 80 per cent A total of 11 million was engaged in farm work. Program To Stress Value of Citizenship To New Prospects WASHINGTON. Plans for a na-tionwide na-tionwide program to emphasize the "worth and meaning of American citizenship" to prospective citizens were announced by the Justice department de-partment The department said the program "will be a continuous effort to stress the ideals of this country and the significance of American citizenship from the time of entry of a potential poten-tial citizen to the moment when citizenship citi-zenship is granted him by the court, and even beyond that" A national advisory committee on citizenship is to be named by Atty. Gen. Tom Clark to assist with the program. The program will include: 1. Publication of a pamphlet containing con-taining significant facts about the United States to be given to prospective pros-pective citizens and visitors to this country. 2. Preparation of a booklet to be given to each new citizen to emphasize em-phasize his responsibilities to this country. 3. Enlisting the aid of the bench and bar, civil and educational authorities au-thorities and patriotic organizations in the effort to stress the significance signifi-cance of citizenship. All-time Peak zations, are some unscrupulous operators op-erators who have used room shortages short-ages to gouge the vacationing public. pub-lic. Other Costs Hiked. Food sold along the highway also costs more. Boat and bicycle rentals rent-als and golf fees have been raised, in many instances by more than 100 per cent Fishing and hunting guides also are asking bigger pay. Barring a business slump, vacation vaca-tion costs probably will be as high or higher next year. The American Automobile association expects that many potential vacationers, now hesitant about driving the old car any distance on poor rubber, will have new cars or new tires by next summer. from Census Takers following the method utilized by archeologists in checking tree rings to determine a tree's age. For each year a fish lives a ring Is seen on its scales. Third method involves tagging samples of 100 fish taken from a representative rep-resentative catch, the fish then being be-ing turned loose until the next season, sea-son, when researchers , check catches to determine percentage of older fish reappearing. STAGEvSCREEN RADIO Released by Western Newipaoer Union. By VIRGINIA VALE BACK when Dinah Shore was getting started in radio she was on Station WNEW in New York, and the men who worked with her then still pay tribute to her; "She was such a perfectly swell kid," they say, "that we all wanted to do everything we could to help her along." That was when she first came up from Nashville, Tenn., after graduating from Van-derbilt Van-derbilt and doing some radio DINAH SHORE work. Dinah's still a swell kid; she doesn't brush off autograph seekers no matter how badly she's rushed for time, or how tired she is. She's been doing a stint at New York's Paramount theater, and her new radio program, with Peter Lind Hayes, starts September 18 over CBS from Hollywood. Motion picture actors usually call their own homes when the script requires that they dial a number; some dial a favorite restaurant or club. Bing Crosby dials a golf club where he and Bob Hope frequently play. But Radio Theater Producer Keighley has a long list of non-existent numbers for use on the air; some people, when a radio actor calls a number, just have to rush to the phone and call it Addresses Ad-dresses are just as bad; Keighley has a list of those, too, in New York, London, Paris, and other big cities. But they're all vacant lots! "A Miracle Can Happen" Is going to have an all-star cast that's really all-star. Producers Benedict Bo-geaus Bo-geaus and Burgess Meredith, who are making it for United Artists, recently added Fred MacMurray to a list including Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Charles Laughton and Paulette Goddard; by the time yon read this they'll have announced an-nounced some other feminine stars, - Cathy O'Donnell is worried because be-cause she can't cry for the movie cameras has to be helped out with glycerine tears. Working with Gladys George and seven-year-old Marlene Aames in 'The Best Years of Our Lives," she watched while they easily burst into tears, and could have wept herself with discouragement dis-couragement Her only consola-tion consola-tion was the fact that Myrna Loy and Teresa Wright also starring in the film and top-notch actresses both, had to rely on glycerine too. Betsy Blair, Gene Kelly's wife, plays the ingenue lead in the Rosalind Ros-alind Russell-Melvyn Douglas "My Empty Heart," her first picture. She was playing on Broadway in Saroyan's play, "The Beautiful People," Peo-ple," when she and Gene were married. mar-ried. At that time Gene was 17. When he joined the navy, she retired re-tired to take care of thoir AaM. , Kerry, who s three now, old enough io lei Betsy resume her career. J. Arthur Rank's $6,000,000 "Caesar "Caes-ar and Cleopatra" was being held over in some 25 key cities before be-fore it hit New York, rolling np top grosses everywhere. United Artists' home office says the two illuminated illuminat-ed signs erected in Time Rnnr. to announce it are the largest ever oseo to advertise a Broadway screen production one is 160 by 24 feet. Mary Small savs the tronri in nnn. - - ruK ular music is definitely toward the weeier siae, ana she should know, as she shares ton-sin eino With Harry Babbitt on the "R pnv ular Demand" show " nights on Mutual, which nlavs tha times liios, ish-w..v. m ers and singers in cafes and ballrooms; ball-rooms; the selections are wired in and the most popular ones land on the program. ODDS AND ENML-Jt it.. P a Dreviets at is. c w "Mues in the audience whistled so loud m rauiette Uoddard. shown wearing e negugee, mat nobody could hear the actors in thm ni,,.. J; ,l. same thing. ... Charles Trowbridge tot the role of Katharine Hepburn's father in "See Grass.". . .- Lowell I nomas twn, rn r inwiiuwn men on the edge ol their seats; in 16 years w oeea late to a broadcast, out he rami .l j Hun 30 seconds to spare. . . . Peter Law- jo stngs tor the first time on the screen in "It Happened in Brooklyn"; warbles "Whose Baby Are You?" Bedspread Wi'tk . 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