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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S. DRAFT: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. S. Farm Expert Gives Friendly Advice to China (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) -Released by Western Newspaper Union. TEIEF'ACT By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Out In Falls Church, Virginia, a little way from Washington, there lives a friend of mine who was brought up on a farm. Last year, some new neighbors moved in next door city folks, you could tell by looking at them, but full of pep and vinegar and very patriotic. They started out to make a victory garden. My friend could tell by the way they handled their hoes that before long, they'd be asking him for ad- vice. He's a good neighbor, but he isn't nosey. So he Just waited. Well, it wasn't long before the man next door came up, leaned over the fence, and said: "How is It your garden is coming along so good and mine ain't?" My friend smiled, and then he pitched in and told him some of the facts of plant life. It Isn't going to benefit my friend even if his neighbor's garden is a record breaker but he's a typical American and he's doing what we all used to do back in the old days when neighbor depended on neighbor giving a helping hand when it is needed. Last week, I sat down across the feldesk from a big, black-hairelow, who looks a lot younger than he is in years and wisdom. His name is Dr. Ralph W. Phillips. When I falked with him, he had Just returned from giving a little neighborly advice over the back fence to our Chinese neighbors. He's in charge of genetics investigations for the Department of Agriculture and he was loaned to the State department, along with some 21 other experts, to go over to China (at the invitation of the Chinese) to look around and see what ought to be done to improve their stock. For you and me and most Americans, even those who don't know any more about a farm than to think "shorts", are just underwear, a cow that doesn't give milk wouldn't be much of a critter. But believe it or cot, one of the results which it, is hoped Dr. Phillips' trip will achieve is to explain to the Chinese why cows have udders. d . First-Han- d Facta The Chinese know many things which wo don't know, but Phillips has put between the covers of a book now being printed in China, a lot of things that the Chinese never knew before. He got his facts first hand, traveling over most of the unoccupied parts of China with the Chinese Minister of Agriculture and a good interpreter, and collated them against his own expert knowledge of animal husbandry. But as he said to me, if you know anything about a cow, a sheep or a horse, you don't need an interpreter to tell you what's the matter with it. It was a hot day in Washington when I interviewed Dr. Phillips and he had his coat and vest off. "I'm a shirtsleeve diplomat," he aid to me. When I learned a little more of the details of his particular Job, I realized that it was one in which you had to take off your coat and roll up your sleeves. Among other things, he rode several hundred miles over what the Chinese laughingly call roads, in ancient automobiles, and a good many miles on the back of a very tough Mongolian tough-mouthe- d, K I EFS JANUARY J aV. STEEL: Union Grows Philip Murray's United Steelwork-erof America have grown into one of the most powerful labor organizations in the country, with membership of 936,500 and net assets of s 913 JANUARY 1 . 1944 . L - . J. .4. . i . A . J .j $3,313,077. including $2,174,313 in 4,167 EUROPE: Zero Hour All the world tensed in anticipation of the U. S. and British invasion of western Europe, expected to coincide with other Allied thrusts in the Mediterranean and a great Russian offensive against German lines in eastern Poland. As the enemy reported on huge concentrations of Allied shipping and naval formations in English waters, neutral sources quoted Ger- PACIFIC: Trap Japs ' Around 140,000 Japs stood trapped in the South Pacific with the U. S. invasion of Hollandia in north central New Guinea, about 1,400 miles distant from Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur'- r coveted goal of the Philip- pines FLOOD: Extensive Damage tax rates, the committee's bill calls for abolition of the victory tax and the creation of a normal tax of 3 per cent and a surtax starting at 20 per cent on all income in excess of personal exemptions and a straight 10 per cent credit. d llf i -- ill lis ARMY: Ask Single Command 1 In the interests of efficiency, unity of command, economy and elimination of duplications, two war department officers studying reorganization of the services urged the consolidation of the army and navy into a single command instead of sepa- (to..- CIVILIAN GOODS: Production Urged Following congressional pressure applied particularly by Senators Stewart (Tenn.) and Wherry (Neb.), the War Production board withdrew a previous order freezing civilian goods output to first quarter levels. As a result of WPB's latest action, opportunity should develop for a gradual reconversion to consumer merchandise, particularly in those plants facing expiration of war contracts and shutdowns. "Military production will not be hurt by a gradual conversion of industry to the manufacture of civilian goods," Senator Wherry said. "There is no reason why flat irons, automobile parts, general machinery parts, alarm clocks and dozens of other urgently needed products cannot be made now." rate arms as at present. Flood scene in However, the spokesmen refused to go as far as Representative Maas (Minn.), who also suggested the adoption of a single uniform for all Illinois. Illinois river hovered around the 20 foot mark, flooding productive branches and their functioning as teams. Declaring unity of command at the top would be sufficient, the spokesmen favored t retaining the separate identities of the services. Without a single command, the spokesmen said, the task of coordinating army and navy units and preparing for defense must be left to the President, without any workable machinery to aid him. Economies in securing munitions and other supplies would be effected through a single command, the spokesmen asserted. bottom- -lands. Between the mouth of the Missouri river and Cairo, 111., where the mighty Ohio river flows into the Mississippi, high waters lapped at straining levees, and a little farther down, St. Louis reported a crest of approximately 33 feet. Extensive damage was caused in Wichita, Kansas, where the residential district stood in water waist deep. As conditions improved in Kansas, they worsened in neighboring Missouri and Arkansas. WORLD BANK: ARSENAL: CORN: U. S. Sole Iluyer U. S. The U. S. ' BIG LEAGt'K PILOT: Mel Ott, manager of the New York Giants baseball club, has been accepted by the army. He is 33 and has two children. Ott joined the Giants at 16 and remained with them for 19 years, a league record. He also holds the league hi'ine run record of 4f5 and for runs batted in with l.fifi!?. He Is the first big league manager to be drafted. in th L fen ... ... I N. Some of the men from a redistribution center were entertaining at the Latin Quarter the other midnight . . . When they finished they tipped the waiters lavishly and to hand him called over a bus-bo- y a few dollars . . . "Thank you, Lieutenant," he said, "but I couldn't accept any gratuity. Just waiting on you has been a pleasure. You see, I was wounded in your sector, discharged, and I'm now back helping the war effort by serving you and all other men in the war" . . . Then he opened his white coat and displayed his campaign ribbons . . . The officers stood and saluted the bus-boIt was all very and thrilling. Congress refused to put another heavy tax on horse racing. It imposed 30 per cent tax on night clubs where servicemen get real recreation. Racing has a powerful lobby In Washington, and the night club owners (with a 600 million dollar industry) had a very weak lobby. r, Some Chicago cafe people, sent the members of the Ways and Means Committee (and the Sen-t- e Finance Comm.) large posters, which burned the legislators to a crisp because they know they are true. The posters show thousands if people throwing away their money it race tracks. The caption: "No tax here! They had a powerful lob-a- et is fourteen inches wide with one of the matching smaller brackets on each side. The sketch also shows how easy it is to cut out the heart design with a sharp knife after boring holes with a brace and bit. Any school boy who has the use of a coping saw or mayb a jig saw may make these graced ful brackets. NOTE Mrs. Spears has prepared an actual size pattern for all the pieces of this set of wall brackets, with complete directions for cutting, assembling and finishing. The lines of these brackets are o well proportioned that you will be proud to own them. Ask for Pattern 263 and enclose 15 cents, which covers cost and mailing. Address: MRS. Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 263. Name Address StJosepii( ASPIRIN WORLD The Intelligentsia: Tommy Harmon, the hero, will do a book on his war adventures for Crowell . . . S LARGEST SELLER AT l(X Judge States All of the 83 past and present Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. have come from "g states, and 42 have been from only 6 states: New York,. Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia. Tbi comedy quiz starring 0t THURSDAY NIGHTS 10:3 0 P.M. E.W.T. bow-eve- The opposite side shows men In in ifor m in night clubs enjoying themselves dancing, etc. The caption: "These boys are giving their blood and had no lobby. They pay SO per cent extra for their funl" That tax is the highest on anything In our history. RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills on the entire BLUE network CONSULT YOUR NEWSPAPER LOCAL McKesson t bobbins, inc CALOX TOOTH POWDEI BEXEl VITAMIN COMPLEX CAPSULES Shroud Is Bridal Gown In Japan it is the custom for an engaged woman to make a burial shroud for herself. She wears when she is married, then when she is dead. . Poet Joseph Auslander's "The (poetry In epic form) Is his best . . . Senator James A. Consultant economists of 30 out ol Mead's book, '"Tell the Folks Back Many the 34 United Nations were reported Home," will arrjve May 8th via Insectt to have agreed on the formation of Appleton-Centur. . Kyle Crich-tr- a a world bank with a capitalization of Collier's once wrote "the novof 10 billion dollars to promote inter- el is a literary form. Stories national business stability in the re bestdying told via straight reporting postwar period. or biog" . . , Kyle's first novel, Vegefcrbet Functions of the bank in which the The Proud People." Is la its 3rd fotvert V U. S. would have a 2'4 billion dollar printing . . . Eighty-seveShrub year old interest, would be to provide mem- S. S. McClure (founder of the old ber nations with finances for holding McClure's mag) will receive the Orup the value of their money, pre- der of Merit plus $1,000 cash prize venting any drops that would de- from the Nat'l Institute of Arts and Letters . . . Stanley Richards' new press their business activity. Great Britain with $1,250,000,000 play script (a cartoon in three acts) Feather Money and Russia with $1,000,000,000 would is titled: "Marriage Is for Single In the Santa Cruz islands In the be the two other biggest subscribers People" . . . When Billy Rose hears d bout some heel or he South Seas, wives are bought with to the bank, on whose managing committee of nine, the U. S. would mark the name down on hi ver money made of feathers. have one vote. long "Drop Dead List." DONT LET BRITISH TAXES After at recent raid in Italy (acThe British exchequer intends to cording to Irv Hoffman) an Army raise about 12 billion dollars of the surgeon told the eia plain that one SLOW YOU UP annual cost of the war by taxation, poor fellow was beyond hope. The WImb bwti an lurrih and too with the levy amounting to approxi- chaplain leaned over the wounded faal irritable. liMdwrhf, k n million do -c- haw th modern mately $300 for every person in the man and laid: "My dear fellow, you n ehswlnf-ctiThe Simply chaw re badly hurt. Have you anything IiIIt kingdom. year's expenditure for Mar tc to barf, yov war will likely be double this to say or any word for your family?" taking aniy in aecardanca with poekaga coat amount, or slightly more than last inside direction moaned pocket," "My alaap without being dia year. the soldier, painfully. iutuv. rvvs morning gcnue, in uttti ' K ' W roo feel await Main. Trj" s helpinc the felt In The tM, Further increases the tax on chaplain pocket and T.tta. ood. I hani items are anticipated. removed a wallet. "Is this what you . . . The basic rate is now 50 per cent want?" he asked "Yes," whison incomes and 100 per cent on pered the soldier. "I'll bet you THAI FEEN-Min- ra that I won't die!" He didn't. luxury Items. KILLS n f CONSTIPATION week'i new DRIED EGGS: Profits of the egg drying industry will be somewhat reduced by action of the War Food administration. The WFA will now allow cost of processing and approximately five cents profit per pound of egg powder. Some processors had been buying ess at considerably below support price?, and so were obtaining an unduly large profit. ed d n s, HIGHLIGHTS bric-a-bra- y lend-lease- FKEN-A-MIN- j e c Williston Rich of the Time mag an attractive arrangement of and trailing vines? factory tried for years to convince his colleagues there that Bob Hope This sketch shows a set of three would make an interesting profile brackets in a quaint . . . But he was always . . . heart design over a davenport in So he went on a short holiday, and the living room. The center brack- the bosses suddenly decided that markU Hope should be given a salute . . . USE PATTERN TO The piece was prepared by the guy MARK PIECE CUT pinch-hittin- g So for Mr. Rich what? So Reader's Digest t MS BRACKETS picked it up and sent the pinch-hitte- r a check for $1,000! For Trade Stability Aids Allies "arsenal of democracy" the with its gigantic, efficient industrial machine has silpplied the Allies with weapons and munitions valued at nearly 10 billion dollars since March of 1941. U. S. agencies. Although the Allies paid for some At the same time. War Food ad- of the deliveries, most were ministration announced that the including 23.000 planes, 23.500 government would stand all expense tanks and 550,000 motor vehicles. In of shelling and transporting corn all. the Allies paid for 7.000 planes, from the farm to the elevators, 1,500 tanks and 250,000 vehicles. where sellers would receive the loperiod, the During the three-yea- r cal ceiling price. U. S also aided the Allies with the Approximately 80,000,000 bushels production of $1,800,000,000 of airof corn are needed by the processing craft engines and parts, $2,700,000.-00- 0 industry for making food products of weapons, munitions, steel, and material for fiber boa.d. adhe-sive- aluminum and other metals, and drugs, vitamins, explosives, hundreds of millions of gallons of chemicals, plastics, etc. gasoline. To supply processing industries with badly reeded supplies of corn, the government froze all farm or elevator sales of the grain in 125 counties in Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana except to Tales of the Big Town: ..." end. To simplify waL yoK-hous- that looks rather bare? Why not fill it with a group of matched brackets on which you may make "... the nation's 50,000,000 taxpayTown and alike were inuners, 30,000,000 would not be required dated as country flood waters surged to file individual returns if congress the central Mississippi approves the house ways and throughout river basin, approaching record means committee's simplification it many points, with early bill, drawn after lusty protests over peaks' counts showing 10 dead and many present complicated forms. Under the committee's bill, a per- homeless. Northernmost danger point was son earning up to $5,000 would have his whole tax deducted under the around Beardstown, 111., where the withholding plan, and he would just have to file a copy of his employer's withholding receipt at the year's Of ! YOU have a large P)0space somewhere in lumpy-ln-the-thro- at As Doughboys fought inland from Hollandia to take over the airfields which would give them command over shipping lanes supplying eneman strength at 90,000 men in Nor- my troops to the southeast, good way; 180,000 in Finland; 180,000 in word also came from India, where the Balkans; 375,000 in Italy; 75,000 British and native forces stood up along the Mediterranean coast; 450,-00- 0 against fierce Jap efforts to sever railroad feeding along the Atlantic wall, with the Bengal-Assa900,000 at strategic points in France, Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stil well's Allied Germany and central Europe and units hacking out the Ledo road to China from north Burma. finally 2,625,000 in Russia. As the zero hour approached for The 140,000 in Jap troops trapped the greatest battle in history, U. S. by the Hollandia invasion stretched and British bombers roared over all the way from the newly embatEurope, smashing at concrete and tled area to the Solomons, with their steel defense bunkers, ripping up shipping lanes jeopardized by the communication lines over which the superior U. S. air and naval forces, enemy might rush troop concentraso far unable to draw out the enemy tions and pouring fire on industries fleet lurking closer to its bases to supplying the Nazi wehrmacht. the west. INCOME TAX: Plan Simplification .RUTH recash, according to a port of the union. During the year ended November 30, 1943, the USA signed up 210,875 new members and increased assets by $1,538,177, including $759,313 cash. During the period ending November 30, 1943, USA paid $227,000 to the CIO with which it is affiliated, and also raised $102,500 for the CIO's political action committee. Costs of negotiations and wage scale A group of midtowners were gabconferences totaled $35,376 and traveling expenses of officials and repre- bing about charges of "innuendo" sentatives were $78,161. over the radio, and a veteran recalled this Jimmy Walker story . . . SUPREME COURT: During his first campaign for Mayor of New York, LaGuardia charged' Religious Freedom the popular Walker, with all sorts of In a majority decision read by corruption, and Walker never anS. Justice Douglas, the U. Supreme swered. court reaffirmed the "Why should I make his camfreedom of religious paign for him?" he said to a pal. worship, asserting "I won't build him up. It would no jury had the be fun, though, to ask him one quesright to pass on the tion. What was he doing in Water-bur- y docof validity any on July 16, 1928?" trine. "Was LaGuardia there then?" "Freedom of asked the friend. f 1 thought . . . em"I dunno," Walker, "but if braces the right to I asked that replied he could deny question maintain theories of It until he was blue in the gills. A life and death and lot of suckers would still believe Justice Douglas of the hereafter there was something fishy about him which are rank heresy to followers of and Waterbury!" orthodox faiths," Justice Douglas Men may believe what said. Sid Sheldon reports that a comthey cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious pany of boys from the Army Signal stadoctrines or beliefs. Religious ex- Corps were sent to the induction tion for overseas physicals. One of which are as as life real periences to some may be incomprehensible them (in the army three years) wandered into the wrong line and wound to others being examined with selectees. "If one could be sent to jail be- up The final doctor told him he was cause a jury in a hostile environ"But," protested the soldier, "I'm ment found these teachings false, in the Army!" little indeed would be left of reli- thready "Nonsense," snapped the medico, gious freedom," the justice said, "get dressed and go homel" adding that if the doctrines of the The poor soldier got back into uniparties involved in the court case form, returned to camp and said were subject to judgment, "then the How do you explain to a same can be done with the religious nothing. Top Sarge that you're ? beliefs of other sects." semi-annu- No Ordered Effort ers have taken to traditionally American dishes such as cheese with apple pie, and fried chicket and waffles, the British Information services report. The war may leal to an exchange of cooking recirf as well as an exchange of ideas . IN COMMISSION) Mm inter-breedin- Yanks on leave in British restaurants ask for roast beef, Yorkshire and homepudding, made scones, while British custom- I 1942 d . . . by Iiaukhnge Premier Hidekl Tojo's government bat announced details of a countrywide "vacant lots utilization program" under which the land long railroad lines and highways, well at other available vacant areas, will be put to use for growing pumpkins and soybeans to help solve Japan's war food problems. The plan is quite reminiscent of our own victory gardens. (SHIPS d, first-han- 150,-00- GROWTH OF U.S. NAVY small farming and very small farm ing, indeed, is the chief activity. In the west, there are great grasslands better adapted to the raising of stock. Animal husbandry in China musl meet one immediate problem, and that is, increasing and improving production in the western part ol the country and breeding for restocking in the areas which will b when the Japanese art driven out. The heavy demands for food by the American military, to say nothing of China's own soldiers, make il necessary for the Chinese to increase food production to the utmost. At present, however. Dr. Phillips reported that except for th famine areas where drouth or insects have affected the crops, the Chinese people have more food available than is popularly believed. But they aren't making the most of their cows and pigs and chickens. As to the Chinese cow, about which Dr. Phillips spoke with great feeling, one of the first things to do is to teach the Chinese peasant that i1 gives milk and that milk is a pretty good food. And then, to improve the breed so that it will give milk. A1 present, the cow is a beast of burden, a draft animal. However, il isn't even as good a draft animal as it could be. It will not be difficult to improve the breed so that it will be more efficient as a beast ol burden and as a milk giver at the same time. Of course, the Nomadic people who live on the great plains oi northern China, who live from theii herds, use the milk as food, mostly dried in the form of casein. They also store butter. They have the yak and a hybrid animal, a cross between a yak and a cow, which is called a "pian-niu.- " The chickens In China aren't much to crow about either, I take it, from Dr. Phillips' description. II they lay only 50 to 60 eggs a year, nobody complains. There, too, breeding from selected types that China already has would be a great help. Dr. Phillips likes the Chinese donkeys and in spite of personal experiences on their backs, thinks Mongolian horses have possibilities. Very good mules are produced by crossing the Mongolian mare and the donkey. But the Mongolian horse is a little, crooked-leggeanimal which could be greatly improved with g with a good saddle horse .strain. Dr. Phillips had experience with these little animals whose ancestors were tough enough tc carry Ghangis Khan across Asia but are too tough to follow the bridle if they get other ideas. Up until now, there seems to have been no ordered efTort by the representatives of any other foreign country to assist in the improvement ol Chinese livestock. Missionaries here and there have introduced better grades which have had an influence in the Immediate vicinity. German missionaries brought in some nice fat pigs. Others introduced good chickens and cows. But these wer- only a drop in the bucket. The Chinese Department of Agri- culture itself is a new thing and has very little background of training or experience. Perhaps the one most pony. important Influence has been the ex- This friendly, easy-goinshirt- change established between Cornel) sleeve scientist typifies a new order university and the University in he is part of a new, honest effort Nanking. A number of experts in (as one member of the State depart- agriculture have been trained at ment said to me) "to establish Cornell and have gone back to relationship of people to people" China. rather than a relationship of diploNaturally with such a large mat to diplomat, or government to of the population illiterate, it will be exceedingly difficult to government Dr. Phillips witnessed the effects spread the information even when of the great migration of the the Chinese leaders themselves are Chinese government followed by iU trained. universities, its people, its indusThe present Chinese government, tries. This great movement, en- despite the fact that almost every forced by the Japanese occupation, ounce of energy has to be turned opened up vast territory In western toward fighting the war, has shown and northwestern China about which an interest evidenced by the wel- very little was known and with come reception given the varioui which the rulers of China heretofore American representatives, and the have been very little concerned. For United States on Its side has sought the sake of this discussion, China to improve its relations betweer can be roughly divided Into two people and extend its influence by quite different agricultural domains. this activity which Is a part of the In the crowded eastern provinces. cultural relations program. J3 Unless European or Pacific miliimpose a severe drain on manpower, selective service officials expect 1944 draft calls to be met with men under 30, it was revealed. Induction of younger men, however, may place a heavy strain on industry and agriculture. Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey declared, acjding: "Older men, physically unfit for service . . . and women can and must replace these young men at the lathes and on the tractors . . ." 0 Of monthly requirements for men. General Hershey said, about 60,000 can be met from men becoming 18, and the rest must be supplied from the 1,000,000 under 26 now deferred, of whom 600,000 are expected to pass their physicals. ON THE UHOME FRONEs tary operations Smashed by Huge Allied Air Armadas; House Group Studies Income Tax Plan; Midwest Floods Cause Heavy Damage Department of Agriculture Officials Visit Chinese, Suggest Practical Methods Of Increasing Food Production. ffiSsJil Depends on Losses Nazi Airfields, Defense Fortifications ' Thursday, May 4, 1944 FEEN-A-MIN- T FEEN-A-MIN- |