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Show Atomic War Could Force Return to Primitive Life By BAUKIIAGE ' Newt Analyst and Commentator. Mid-June welcomes gathering to Washington which will deal with a lubject more Important Im-portant to you and me than anything any-thing I can think of- The meeting Is described as an institute on the control of atomic n e r g j." A t about the same time, the United Nations Commission Commis-sion on Atomic Energy will be meeting too. . the "Institute" In Washington, authorities will explain Just what effect atomic energy can have on your life If you are one of those who aren't going to be destroyed by it. I was going to say "one of the lucky ones," but you won't be lucky. If atomic warfare starts, even if you are among those whose lives are spared. We have all heard a lot of dire prophecies about what the atom bomb can do, if It onct gets on the loose. Also, what wonders atomic energy can perform In building a better world, if It is confined to peaceful and productive activity. But by far the most impressiva footnote on the subject came to ma In the repeated words of a scientist speaking not scientifically, or for quotation, but very intimately of his own private thoughts, and his own personal plans. He has lectured a great deal on the subject of atomic energy, and is one of those Intimately concerned with its development Suddenly, one day he realized that he had better make some personal plans to prepare pre-pare for the future in this atomic age of which he had spoken so much. His work is near one of the several prima targets of any enemy bombs that would be dropped. No Refuge From A-Bomb So he began to consider. Should he try to get transferred to some smaller institution, located in a little lit-tle town? That, he considered, would not help much. He has a farm, but he Is not a farmer. Should he move onto the farm Immediately, learn as much as be could about farming, and plan to live there where he would be comparatively safe? The farm is far from any large city, tucked in the hills. Then he started planning. lie would have to learn a lot more than farming. He would have to learn to card wtol, for instance; in-stance; his wife would have to learn to spin, to weave, te make soap, to fabricate all the things you buy in stores. He would have to lay in tools, ind enough other supplies to last him the rest of his lifetime. Well, perhaps all that could be done. Then he realized that even at that, he wouldn't be safe. He would have to build barbed wire entanglements, en-tanglements, and obtain machine guns and other weapons with which to defend himself ... for with the refugees who escaped, starving, from the cities, the few who had food would be at the mercy of the hungry mobs. If I had heard those statements from a lecture platform, or read them in a magazine, I might have passed them by as sensationalism. But the statements weren't in a magazine, or spoken from a platform. plat-form. They were said over the luncheon table in the quiet corner of a club. The speaker wasn't trying to "sell" his ideas to any body. He wasn't trying to persuade anybody to do anything, or to get publicity. He was thinking out loud about what he considered an acute personal problem. In the end it left him baffled. There is no defense. The only hope is to make the United Nations work. I heard this story, and was moved by it I was already pretty well stirred up, because I had Just learned of what deep concern this question is to more than three thousand people who wrote me, asking for a pamphlet I had men tioned in one of my broadcasts. That is an Interesting story, too. that I want to pass on. One day, I received a little pamphlet pam-phlet among the several bushels of handout material which is the grist of the publicity, mills dumped on press and radio desks all over the country every day. BARBS As long as America has the heart to attend spelling bees and county "sings," we can't be quite as badly off as some of our neighbors seem to think. a a 1 never attended enough spelling bees myself. But a radio commentator commen-tator has an advantage his audience audi-ence can't tell whether he can spell the words he uses or not In i til This pamphlet caught my eye and held It. It was a reprint from Look magazine entitled "Your Last Chance." Too may have seen it. It moved me so much that I Just couldn't help talking about it on the air, and offering to pay for the first 500 pamphlets requested, providing a stamp was enclosed. I limited the requests to people in the following categories: insurance insur-ance men, salesmen, real estate men, teachers, clergymen, mechanics, mechan-ics, utilities workers, scientists and merchants. I did this, first, because I wanted to limit the number of applicants, and second, because the article contained con-tained specific instructions as to what the people in the groups named could do to help prevent a cataclysmic war. I blandly overlooked over-looked the fact that somebody had to address envelopes, Insert the pamphlets, mail them out Public Interested In Prevention Requests began to arrive, so I called up the National Committee on Atomic Information which Is near the Washington office of the West era Newspaper Union; ordered the pamphlets; and had the nerve to ask the committee to mail them out I didn't know it then, but it costs the committee, which is, of course, a non-profit organization and skimps along on a handful of small cash donations, four cents for the pamphlet pam-phlet cent and a half for the stamp, two cents to address the en-velope, en-velope, another cent to insert, seal and mall! Eight and a half cents, altogether. My generous gesture toward preserving civilization had turned out to be rather lame. But that was only the beginning. An avalanche began to descend on me. At last count the requests reached over three thousand. The committee didn't know what to do. The letters came from such an in telligent and earnest set of people who were so anxious to do something some-thing that the committee hated to disappoint them. Twice, I begged the public to hold off, but the committee is still filling the requests while its funds hold out, or more donations come in. Which is what happens when you get anatom by the tall .Questions Popularity Of Rail Nationalization just after the bulletin came In over the news ticker in my office announcing that the government intended in-tended to take over the railroads, a railroad man happened to call me up about another matter. I congratulated him on his new Job with Uncle Sam. He wasn't very enthusiastic. He speculated on whether or not the men would go back to work if the government ordered them to do so. The miners, you recall, refused to obey government govern-ment orders when the government took over the soft coal mines during dur-ing the war. "Everybody ought to go on strike In the country," he said. "If It gets bad enough, it may get better." We mentioned the possibility of permanent government ownership own-ership of the railroads. My friend reminisced a little on the days when he was an employee of Uncle Sam once before, In World War I, when the government govern-ment did (to its sorrow) take over the railways. He said what happened then wa that a man would come up to the ticket window and demand a draw ing room. Sorry, there were no more drawing rooms. Well, do you know who you're working for, and who I am? I'm Senator Claghorn, and you'll (something-something) well, get the passenger out of that drawing room, and put me in itl My friend said he didn't think the people would like It if the government govern-ment took over. Of course, we don't like the black-berth-market now, el ther. Time and again, every Pull man seat or berth will be reserved by the blackmarketeers. They hold them up to the last minute, and If they can't sell at a premium, they cancel. Just before the train leaves, half empty. The Chesapeake and Ohio ran an advertisement recently, recent-ly, begging the public to refuse to pay the premium, and help get a regulation through which will pro vide for cancellation of reservations within a reasonable time. by Bau k hage The Twentieth Century fund finds that 80 per cent of the fur goods industry in-dustry is located in New York. Is the rest of the country good-fur- nothing? a a There is no one so poor in self respect re-spect oo one so truly Inferior, as he who feels he must try to prove someone else is inferior to him. K&a. please note. WEEKLY NEWS Congress Moves Cautiously on Labor Legislation; Army Board Recommends Equality in Service ii.-iu "inrn newspaper umuu. ,v af (EDITOR'S NOTEi When pinion are eiprtsied la thai eelomm, tbT "'., (Waiters Newtpapat Union's news analyata ana not eceeaarlly el "u awpr"- fi.i....ii m . fmtjmmmmnilMW mm vwmmilimimmm mniiiMiiimu. I t J ft'! The Iron horse might have been laid up by the recent rail strike but 4H ton elephantine Sid, guided by Trainer Irish Kyan, came to rescue of Clyde Beatty circus in Redwood, Calif., by pushing show's cars onto spur track. CONGRESS: Temper Cools Pro-labor stalwarts were Joined by conservative elements in congress con-gress in blocking immediate passage pas-sage of anti-strike legislation pushed forward as a result of the costly railroad and soft coal walkouts. Though the house acted quickly in passing President Truman's emergency anti-strike bill by a 306 to 13 vote, the measure was stalled in the senate, where its delegation dele-gation of wide powers to the chief executive was met with distrust and its constitutionality was doubted. Liberals and conservatives alike hammered at the provisions provi-sions permitting seizure of, strike-bound industries deemed essential to public welfare; the drafting of workers remaining out in defiance of U. S. operation; opera-tion; loss of their seniority; government gov-ernment retention of profits and punishment of union and company com-pany officials opposing government govern-ment action. Besides hitting at the sweeping powers conferred upon the President through the bill, the senate coali tion characterized the proposed drafting of workers as a step toward to-ward involuntary servitude banned by constitutional law; the depriva tion of workers' seniority after previous pre-vious faithful service as legally questionable, and the retention of company profits as confiscatory and without proper process through court Meanwhile, Representative Sabath (Dem., HI.) as chairman of the strategic house rules committee, held off consideration of the drastic Case antistrike bill, which the senate sen-ate passed by a 49 to 29 vote in lieu of the President's emergency measure. meas-ure. Previously approved by the house, it was sent back for an o. k. on senate amendments. Sabath's delaying tactics reflected reflect-ed administration opposition to the Case anti-strike bill, which the sen-terly sen-terly assailed by labor. Under the bill, a 60 day cooling-off period would be instituted against strikes if a federal mediation board assumed as-sumed Jurisdiction of a dispute; workers would lose seniority provisions pro-visions if violating a contract; sympathy walkouts by other unions would be barred, and health and welfare funds solely administered by unions would be outlawed. LABOR: Vows Vengeance Bitter over governmental pressure pres-sure for terminating the two-day railroad strike, A. F. Whitney, chief of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Train-men, vowed use of a union fund of 2H million dollars to defeat President Truman for re-election in 1948. Claiming the sup-Dort sup-Dort of manv CIO and AFL leaders in A, F. Whitney condemning the President's use of the ". . . seizure weapon to break a valid strike," Whitney' averred that "Truman never will be President Presi-dent again after 1948." "He's a political po-litical accident anyway," he rasped. Along with the President congressmen con-gressmen voting for his emergency strike legislation incurred Whitney's RACETRACKS: The phenomenal rise of horse-racing to a $l,500,000.0OO-a-year business busi-ness has put racetracks in the limelight lime-light as an important source of state revenue, 21 states collecting $70,-000,000 $70,-000,000 last year. More than 18,-000,000 18,-000,000 U. S. citizens played the horses in 1945. In New York state alone, $450,-663,000 $450,-663,000 was bet on horses last year. California bettors put $233,615,000 on the ponies despite the fact that some California tracks weren't operating. , 1 ANALYSIS .1 . . -i 5 V wrath. Asserting all union labor would be with the Trainmen, he revealed re-vealed that his board of directors had already authorized the use of funds to defeat legislators backing the measure. Meanwhile. T. C. Cashen of the Switchmen's union countered Whit ney's castigatlon of the President s action by declaring it was the only move he could have made under the circumstances. ARMY: Ask Equality - Not the type to be pushed around, Johnny Doughboy should feel per-fectlv per-fectlv at his ease in the U. S. army if the war department gets around to adopting the broad program pro-gram outlined by Lt Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's G.I. "gripe board." Formed to study measures for correcting irregularities, injustice In handling Dersonnel and abuses of offlcerial privileges In World War II, Doolittle's six-man investigating investigat-ing board recommended: Elimination of the hand salute off army installations and off duty; discontinuance of discriminatory dis-criminatory references between officers and enlisted men, and abolition of the ban on fraternization frat-ernization ranking personnel and G.I.s. Pay increases in line with civilian ci-vilian salaries; assurance of chance of advancement; selection selec-tion of officers based on one year In the ranks, and promotions promo-tions on merit basis. Regulations and instrnctlons be so written as to prevent officers from abusing authority; inclusion inclu-sion of enlisted personnel en military courts and system of registering complaints be improved. im-proved. Creation of a fairer system of decorations and limitation of distribution of awards so as te avoid cheapening them. WORLD FOOD: Production Boost Slowly recovering from wartime dislocations in acreage, seed, manpower, man-power, equipment and motive power, pow-er, the world's farmers promise to increase food production substantially substan-tially this year, though output will remain below the prewar lev els. Brightest prospects are in the northern hemisphere, where larger acreages and higher yields are an- ticipated over 1945. Though output out-put in most of the war-torn coun tries will be below normal, total production in continental Europe is expected to reach 88 to 90 per cent of the prewar figure, with the biggest gains in grains and sugar and possibly fats. Far eastern production is expected expect-ed to show improvement over 1945 despite deterioration of prospects for southern China's rice crop due to drouth. Growing conditions fa vored Chinese wheal and spring rains in India were permitting farmers to work their soil early. U. S. Shipments If housewives are not able to buy all the bread and flour they desire it is because of the record ship ments of wheat to famine areas. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told a national radio audience. U. S. efforts to fulfill commitments for delivery of 400 million bushels of grain by June 30 will witness the greatest single movement of a com' modity in history, he said. With two-fifths of the world's total to-tal exports of food grains for the marketing year of 1945-46 consisting consist-ing of wheat from American farms, U. S. exports of the commodity will represent one-third of the nation's crop, Anderson declared. Almost one billion pounds of dairy products will be needed for overseas over-seas relief during the next 12 months, Anderson reported. Of this amount, 624 million pounds will be In canned milk, 200 million pounds In powdered milk and 100 million pounds in cheese. OPA: Sellers Strike Protesting against OPA reduction of dealer profits on new machinery to 18 per cent from 20 per cent and on parts to 28 per cent from 35 per cent, retail farm implement dealers deal-ers in Iowa and Illinois agreed to withhold sale of new equipment in the hope original discounts would be restored. Planned as part of a nation-wide campaign of the National Retail Farm Equipment association, action of the Iowa and Illinois state memberships followed OPA refusal to reconsider its order requiring the dealers to absorb the larger portion por-tion of price increases granted to manufacturers. The order was similar sim-ilar to one issued to retail auto dealers deal-ers on grounds that prospective large volume without appreciable sales effort will provide adequate returns. While deciding to withhold sale of new equipment, the implement dealers agreed to sell parts to help farmers meet huge domestic- and relief demands. Though dealers had the obligation to service their customers, cus-tomers, National Secretary Paul Mulliken said, they could not be compelled to sell merchandise at inadequate prices. BIG FOUR: German Issue Pushing for implementation of the Potsdam agreement calling for the economic unification of Germany, U. S. military government authorities authori-ties halted the further transfer of industrial reparations to Allied countries from the American occupation occu-pation zone pending clarification of the reich's future status. Continuation of shipments of industrial in-dustrial equipment would seriously impair the economy of the U. S. zone if Russian policy were to lead to a permanent partition of western and eastern Germany, Deputy Military Mili-tary Governor L. D. Clay declared. Costs of American occupation are running at a rate of one billion dollars dol-lars annually and the U. S. does not wish to maintain southwestern Germany as a permanent ward he said. Under the Potsdam agreement Russia stood to obtain 25 per cent of surplus industrial equipment from the U. S. zone, with 15 per cent to be paid for in food, coal and mineral min-eral products from its section. In calling for implementation of the Potsdam agreement on unifying unify-ing Germany, Clay said a central agency should be set up for co-ordinating activities; an export-import program should be devised to permit per-mit the reich to pay for purchases of food and raw material, and free inter-zonal trade should be allowed. Eats With New Throat When 7-year-old Albert Gag-non Gag-non of Toronto, Canada, recentlj partook of a meal, it was the first time he had tasted food in five years. During that time it had been necessary to feed him through a tube because of the destruction of a section of his gullet after' he swallowed lye when two years old. Successful grafting of a new throat restored re-stored little Albert's ability to eat and enjoy food again. JAPAN: Draft Reconstruction Even as Japanese workers rallied for immediate delivery of delayed rice rations and removal of prefec-tural prefec-tural officials, the new central government gov-ernment worked feverishly along the agricultural. Industrial and polit- ironis w speea reconstruction. In agriculture, the government strove to provide fertilizers as the first step toward increasing short food supplies. In industry, proposals were shaped for the decentralization of Japanese production and the encouragement en-couragement of craftsmanship through small enterprises. Pointing Point-ing to the country's population of 73 million, Commerce Minister Ho-shijima Ho-shijima declared that labor-saving methods were unnecessary and the slack in employment could be taken up by increased handiwork. In pontics, plans were drafted for a 140 million dollar public works program designed to provide employment em-ployment for 700,000 Jobless. FARM ACCIDENTS: Farm resident deaths from accidents acci-dents Increased 8 per cent In 1945 compared with 1944 and are in line with an anticipated general rise in farm accidents during the next few years. The 16,000 accidental deaths and 1.500,000 nonfatal injuries among American farm people represent the highest toD since 1942. Farm home accidents took the greatest toll, with 6,500 deaths compared to 6,000 In 1944. There were 950,000 nonfatal in. juries. ill si 7 Newspaper Man Stuff t INS foreign news chief J. C Oes-treicher Oes-treicher tells about the pompous general who gathered a group of war correspondents and bored them by outlining the broad strategic situation without giving them any worthwhile news. When the general asked for questions, newsboy Johnny John-ny Florea promptly double-talked: That Is great General. But when will your troops take Unterstitzen on the Bleiweis?" ... The general looked uncertainly at his maps. Of course there was no such town. He asked Florea to repeat the query. The reporter did so, emphasizing that Berlin could not possibly be reached unless the Bleiweis was crossed and Unterstitzen captured. Afraid to admit he didn't know something, the general confidently replied: "My men will take lt In a few days at the most" . Probably the most bumptious publisher pub-lisher of all was James Watson Webb. During the Civil War he wrote to Lincoln suggesting that he be made a major-general. Lincoln offered him the slightly lower rank of brigadier-general Webb returned re-turned the commission with the words "Respectfully declined J. W. Webb" written across it Some legislators are again whooping up plans to clamp a nix on newscasters who tell the truth about them. Which Isn't anything novel. Years ago, only reporters who were friendly to Congressmen were allowed to' enter the Halls of Congress. Henry Clay fought such undemocratic procedures. He pointed point-ed out: "Liberty is not the private property of Congress. It is America's Ameri-ca's heritage. If freedom is only accorded to our friends, then we are the foes of democracy." When Floyd Gibbons covered China for a news service, he didn't communicate with his home office for many weeks. Finally Gibbons' editor asked another news service to cable their correspondent in China and find out what happened to Floyd. The whimsical newsman cabled his retort: "Have located Gibbons In the bar-room of Cathay Hotel in Shanghai. Do you want me to interview in-terview him?" A steel sheathed Bible carried in the left breast pocket saved the life of Flying Fortress Bombardier Robert Turner of Lexington, Ky. . . . Returning after a mission over Germany, Turner discovered several sev-eral jagged flak fragments embedded embed-ded in the Bible. During World War I the life of Ross Neal (of Lebanon, Tenn.) was saved when his Bible instead of bis heart absorbed a German bullet In appreciation (during World War n), Neal's church sent a copy of the New Testament to every member mem-ber in the Armed Forces. Oldest Bible in America Is a Latin translation dated 930 A. D, The lettering is in pen and ink on vellum. . . . For the past 25 years more than 25 million Bibles have been distributed throughout the world. . . . The American Bible society so-ciety (130 years old on May 10th) has 16,000 copies of the Scriptures In its New York library written in over 860 languages. . . . Esther 8:9 Is the longest verse in the Bible ... 89 words. John Barrymore was arrested for speeding in a hick town. At the courthouse he rushed to the phone. "We're only allowing you one call," said the Judge, "so you better bet-ter phone your lawyer." "Lawyer," snapped John. "I'm phoning my press agent" Inquiring photogger Sam Meflor stopped a group of ex-G.I.s to ask what they thought of the way Congress Con-gress is treating returning servicemen. service-men. "Do you think," asked the newsman, news-man, "that Congress kept Its promise prom-ise and received the vets with open arms?" "That's the trouble." niftied an ex-G.L (bandleader Herbie Fields), "Congress welcomed us with open arms Instead of open minds." Just after the last election FDR had an appointment with a visiting Gov. But due to a meeting on war matters, he was detained. "Mr. President," his secretary said, "I guess you know you have kept the Governor of Massachusetts Massachu-setts waiting four minutes." "That's not so bad," winked Roosevelt "I intend to keep the Governor of New York waiting four years." During the early 1800s America's gazettes were very prim and dulL Editors recoiled in horror at the thought of dealing In personalities. 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