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Show Thursday, August 26, 1948 THE TIMES- - NEWS. NEPITT, UTAH PAGE TWO WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Bumper Crops Due This Year, May Crack High Cost Living; Spy Probe Confusion Mounts Ghost of Latvia Recalls Memories of Better Days -- By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer- - ut When opinions In these eolnmna. they are those of (EI)ITOR expressed news analysts Western Newspaper Uaien's and not necessarily of this newspaper.) By BAUKHAGE S News Analyst and Commentator NOTE: WASHINGTON At the end of one of those few pleasant summer days which Washington gives us, I was walking homeward from a mission in a part of town which I hadn't visited recently. I found myself in a neighborhood which seemed to produce a slightly nostalgic feeling. The street took a quick and, for a short block, was quite steep. Most of the houses were Dew but there was one with a colored glass window such as graced many a home that I visited as a child. Such windows were usually on the staircase landing, at the turn, and when the sun shone through them it tossed a handful of jewels on the carpet. I always wanted to pick them up. That, I thought as I walked along, is nostalgic childhood memories. But I was wrong. Soon I realized that the memory which the stained is being turned into the coffers of glass window Kremlin. I can well imagine evoked was much the organizamore recent. But what happened to the tions when the Reds stepped in it did stir ghosts, the ghost of a man they are about as closely akin to the Communist youth as the boy and the ghost of a scouts were to the Hitler jugend. nation, for there is But if we are to believe all we hear, no reason why is resisting communization. Latvia dead nations, which Only this week I received a copy really never quite of the Baltic printed in died, must not live Sweden. Here isReview, one paragraph: on in some form. "With the coming scholastic And Washington is not without such year war games will be introduced as an obligatory subject in the sovdisembodied of all the constituent Soviet schools ereignties. I had republics, writes 'Cina.' the Lift, Mrmrtlw organ a itai&'fSrJ seen the man whose of the Communist party in Latvia. memory the multi- The paper goes on to say that the colored window had stirred for the situation demands first time when he was descending international a stairway with Just such a window that children be taught the art of behind him. He was Alfred Bil- war as early as possible. Military manis and he died in July of this discipline should be instilled in them even before they come to year. He was the minister of the school. Their should be model republic of Latvia which had "died" tanks and toys and planes to but eight years ago according the state department was and is of children's 'mechanos" or building such corporeal quality that, along boxes should consist of parts with its sister republics of Lithu- whereof these objects can be conania and Estonia, it still possesses structed. The author relates about his trip to Russia to study Soviet diplomatic representatives who are education and military training and on with terms recognized equal remarks that in this respect the those of living nations. Baltic republics are very backward It was in August of 1940 that as yet. Pupils of seven and eight the Red army marched Into the in the schools of Moscow had disBaltic states and they became played quite surprising knowledge as regards military matters. Ten by force majeure, territorially part of the U. S. S. R. year olds had been experts with the rifles and girls had been as But the three little democracies were prepared politically, if not competent as boys. Even tiny tots A month or so four and five had known the rudidiplomatically. ments of military drill. How useful earlier, by due process of parliaproficiency may be in a guerilmentary law, a decree was pro- this mulgated which made the Latvian la war, exclaims the author." minister to London chief of the What Is going to happen to Latvian state if the Russians took the next generation in the over her territory. Today Charles U. S. S. R. itself and in the Zarena, minister to Britain, recountries dominated by her? mains the head of the diplomatic Listen to this further extract corps of the republic of Latvia. from the Baltic Review: Bilmanis continued to serve his in the United Communists' Ideas States after the Russian seizure. About Education Up to then be had helped to keep th bonds firm .between us and his "Every Soviet school manual, little country whosa people reached every work of fiction for children the shores of the Baltic back in the and young people, every periodical early days of European history, for the rising generation is a manspirit along with the only two other re- ifestation of a war-lik- e maining groups which are at least worthy of the Huns of old. Innuare the glorifications in liguistically, if not ethically, re- merable lated to the Latts: the Finns and them of all sorts of heroic exploits of Soviet people during World War the Magyars. II., to enter a military school is The last president of the represented as the highest aim of free republic of Latvia, Carl Soviet boy and 80 per cent was Ulmanis American every of the pictures show guns, tanks, trained. He lived in Nebraska infantry or cavalry exercises. Picwhere he waited in exile and ture books for tiny tots exhibit worked for his country's Indechildren playing with rifles, tanks He studied agriculpendence. and grenades, every game taught ture and when he returned to to the young has a military purLatvia in that hopeful heydey of pose. The little bit of space that is Europe's new republics after left over from these aggressive and World War I, he carried back ideas. One of them was the clubs. Latvia was 80 per cent agricultural and among its population of movement only two million, the grew, adapted of course to its new to 40,000 when I environment, heard of it last before the iron curtain descended. There were interchanges of visits between the countries and, whenever the big encampment took plnce in Washington, the little Latvian legation echoed to the cheer.. , i i. i ful chatu-- r of American children ; .' . who drank lemonade and heard the big. smiling mnn with the expres-siv- j ruddy hands, tell of his country and show pictures of the children there at work on their projALFRED BILMANIS ects or going through their folk . . . ghost of s nation . . . dances in the gay costumes of bellicose writings is used to extol their land. the merits of the Communist party The American kids looked at and its leaders, Lenin and Stalin. the paintings that covered the All this literary production exudes was Bilmanis walls for quite such a hate for the whole world, a collector. They were allowed for the bourgeois, imperialism gingerly to try the great chair and capital, that the books of the which Nspolenn had taken bark Hitler jugend seem mild nursery to Franca from Moscow, rhymes in comparison." the delightful little Ivor ies. the china and the other That Is not the kind of a d'art which filled the state of which Alfred Bilmsnls ohjet dreamed. He hoped one day to Vgation. return with his valuable pos And then, one by one, they sessions and build a museam trirped up the stairs to look at In his own restored country. e model of the Latvian the ThouRh he continued to serve girl tn the traditional robes of (he as minister, his funds ran lew country, wearing the symbolic and he had to part with many necklace made of great discs of of his things. However, he did amber. Amber had been a Latvian save some of the paintings, article of export since the earliest Napnlrnn's chair and the lad; traders from the Mediterranean and her brails mode their way to this northern land, for it was a much admired ' Perhaps someday others may ornament for the ladies of ancient realize his dream some happy Rome and Greece. A good neckday when freedom In Europe Is lace was supposed to be worth an returned and the ghot republics of Arabian mount. the Baltic become real onre more If there Is .my amber being eol- - for the people who inhabit Jetted on Latvian beaches today It them. up-tur- n SIDETRACKS . . . Two potential witnesses who were expected to add some information to the Washington Red spy hunt were Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina (left) and Alexander Koral. Neither did, however. Mrs. Kosenkina, who taught children of Russian C. N, officials in New York, made headlines by leaping from a third-storwindow in the Soviet consulate where she allegedly was being held against her will. Koral, billed as a "mystery witness" and accused of being a paid courier foe the wartime Communist espionage ring, refused to tell anything he might know on the grounds that he would be incriminating himself. 4-- ld y work for farm gluts that would be followed by costly subsidies in the form of farm price supports. Should another year of heavy crop yields follow this one, and should there be a recovery of agri- CROP REPORT: Momentous There was momentous news from the nation's farms: In the cards for 1948 was a record-settincorn crop, the second largest wheat crop g culture abroad, tremendous surpluses in grains would result. Thus, U. S. taxpayers would stand to lose in the cost of price supports a good deal of what they might save in food prices. and substantial increases over last year in oats, barley and rye. Government as of estimates, August 1, of this year's grain production read like a statistical fantasy of the promised land. Bureau of agricultural economics 0 reported that a corn crop of bushels is indicated this year, far above 1947's small, weather-placrop of 2.4 billion bushels. CONFUSION: And Spies 3,506,-363,00- America's current top thriller, the Russian spy sensation, had developed more facets than a cylindrical lens in a lighthouse, and each one was blinding to the eye of the beholder. The motley group of persons called to testify before congressional investigating committees was growing and growing. It was getting to the point where even the witnesses had witnesses. A sensational offshoot of the original spy investigation temporarily stole the spotlight from the main event. This was the battle 'of the schoolteachers Mikhail I. Samarin find Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina, both U. N. personnel. The goings on over this pair of Russian pedagogues seemed to be fairly complicated, but they could be boiled down to a sophisticated international game of run sheep run. Both Samarin and Mrs. Kosenkina had appeared on the scene as potential witnesses in the congressional investigation. Then things started to happen. First Mrs. Kosenkina disappeared for a few days. According to the official Soviet version, she had been "captured" by a group of White Russians and held prisoner. Then she was "rescued" by loyal U. S. S. R. subjects. A few days later she leaped from a window In the third story of the Soviet consulate in New York where, she said, she had been held captive. Driven to desperation by fear, she was seriously injured when she took the only way out. On top of all this the other school teacher, Samarin, also disappeared. He. too, was supposed to be in cus- gued An approximate 1,284,323,000 bushels of wheat will be forthcoming this year. Other crop estimates were: Oats, 1,470,444,000 bushels; barley, 313.139,000 bushels, and rye, bushels. 26,664,000 Trouble grew out of the fact that, although the huge crops are welcome this year, they may set the scene for huge postwar surpluses, mostly of corn and wheat. Officials contend that there sim ply aren't enough animals left on the nation's farms to take care of the kind of production being achieved this year, particularly the corn outturn. Immediate result of this sudden condition of oversupply probably will be the government's starting to support corn prices as soon as the crop starts moving. Other grain supports are likely to be evoked later. Grain exports will be pushed, of course, but the export market is almost certain to fall off in a year or so because other nations also are intensifying their farm production with considerable success. Deflation? Brighter side of the crop situation is the fact that it promises the consumer almost certain relief from inflated food prices sooner or later, since grain supplies and prices are basic in determining cost of living at the household level. Prices of most grains, as a matter of fact, already have broken. Corn was down to $2.02 a bushel 4-- U o i life-siz- I ; , tody crops ooaT t REDUCE fOOO price.' f-- ' White If the day should ever dawn when every family in the nation becomes fully aware that all juvenile delinquency has its beginning in the home, then U. S. society will have reached its Elysian fields. Once families become endowed with this awareness they will tend to bring pressure to bear to eliminate the secondary factors that con tribute to delinquency in young people: School failure, church failure, bad housing and the inevitable shift in ethical values from one genera tion to the next which are some times confusing and frightening to immature minds. To that end, and because a healthy store of young minds and bodies is the best overall insurance. any nation can have, September has been proclaimed Youth Month, The Theater Owners of America, who feel they have a big stake in the welfare of U. S. youth, have undertaken to organize the principal media of information newspapers, magazines, radio and motion pictures to publicize the month. Aside from the publicity to be ac corded the problem of juvenile de linquency, which is the immediate purpose of Youth Month, the observ ance is more deeply significant in that it provides some evidence that Americans are becoming actively conscious that at least a partial remedy must be found. Springboard for Youth Month and any other concerted group action that might obtain is a probing and thoughtful report on juvenile delinquency by the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency, Washington, D. C. digest of this report, or series panel reports, covering basic causes and possible solutions of the problem, is well worth a few hours' study on the part of every parent who is aware of his inevitable falli bilities as a guide and leader of his children. A of NEW LOW: Bitterness While American, British and French ambassadors in Moscow were grimly making peace talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Molo-to-v in the Kremlin, general relations between the East and West were sliding to new depths of mutual recrimination. This state of affairs was not eased any by unsubstantiated reports that the Moscow talks had degenerated into a deadlock and that no progress was being made. For the most part, however, the animosity was being spread through raucous propaganda by Berlin newspapers, with the publications sponsored by the Russians and the western powers waging a pitched battle of words. The British-license- d paper Tele-grareported that the Soviets were getting ready to move great numbers of new troops into Germany and that Russia was pressing toward "sole rule over all of Berlin." Soviet propaganda instruments, meantime, renewed their overall attacks on the West, demanding that the Berlin city council be ousted and that the whole city be made part of the Soviet zonal administraty ion, Regardless of any truth implicit in the Berlin newspaper fight it was obvious that the vindictive battle would do much more harm than good to relations between the two power spheres. It was equally obvious that there was more bitterness and fear at work in Berlin than there was a rational understanding of how to cope with the crisis. af Rus- sians. However, information leaked out from the Samarin camp: He wanted to testify; he liked the U. S. and revolted against going back to Russia. y IzYTfcfeL, 'M.ll s if 'AuZSSSf 'j' J of YOUTH MONTH: Awareness ' DRAFT: billinn dull.i.s pbove the total per sonal income for May. Responsible for the large May increase were the absence I of major Mnkes, impact of third round wage boosts in durable goods industries and higher prices re ceived by farmers for livestock, the department of commerce sail Wage an! ssiary payments Jurnitd .3 billion dollars in June .. be-ful- l. CLASSIFIED Crooked diplomatic deals are not cooked up at No. 10 Downing street in the Big Burg just dinners. It's the address of an apartment house. Central park is the result of a work relief project. By the way, this park isn't the city's largest. Pelham Bay park has the biggest patch of greenery. . . . Despite all the overcrowding, there is enough room in the Big Burg for 117 parks. . . . The Player's club has preserved the room where Edwin Booth passed away. Even the book Booth was reading is open to the page where he left it when death came. . . . Fifth avenue is one of the town's newer thorofares. That street was born about a century ago. . . . New York City owns and operates a fleet of ferryboats. Speed of the swiftest ferries is only 18 m.p.h. DEPARTMENT HOME FURNISHINGS a4 IN LONDON. Blankers-Koe- . . . fa"? Mrs. stupendous d heifer. . . . Diane Janakos charged her husband with cruelty In a divorce action, displayed as full of hair proof a pocketbook which she said he had yanked out of her head. IN CHICAGO. Questions This may come as a shock to young future draftees who want the world to know that they are loyal Americans, but just abmit the only question draft boards will not ask the potential Inductee Is whether or not he is Communist and if he is loyal 'r the U. S. Ail the queries In an eight page questionnaire for draftees deal with the subject's social, economic, physical and marital status. A heavy tubular ends. 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PRY, CRACKED century ago you could a tot on Madison avenue fo Now you can buy $480. gowns there that cost more. cur-cha- 1 QUICK RELIEF WITH 1 MEKTHOLATUM J Boju(a. UPS? cnflTUM SMAKTIN3 VAIN . burr YOU SMIUE V ... The following explains why Big Towners never view every sector of the city: New York has 5,000 miles of streets. Vee New S2.BOeach J. 00 each Z 24 to 100 100 or over was This city's budgw Is larger than any state's. . . . New York City's borough presidents earn higher salaries than U. S. senators. An ancient house on Pearl street has Its only stairway on the outside of the building. , . , New York is the "most modern town" but there are almost 200,000 homes in it that lack bathrooms. . . . New York harbor was carved by the slow retreat of vast glaciers. . . . New York had horsedrawn flrewagons until the 1920s. . . . New York has 718,065 buildings. (I counted 'em). . If you pierced the walls of the Lafayette street subway station, water would gush forth. Ifs surrounded by an underground spring. COT STEEL FOLDING Why New York's skyscrapers pop the orbs of hinterlanders: Our town has 40 buildings that are 36 stories high or higher. But there are only 20 such skyscrapers in the rest of the V. S. It's mammoth port is what made New York a Big Town. . . . Several hundred Indians still make N. Y. their home. . . . There once was a gallows in what now is peaceful Washington Square. . . . Hart's island prison has dormitories instead of cells. . . . The Bronx has its own flag. . . . There are two concert halls and an art gallery at the . . . Customs officers state that one of the lucrative smuggling rackets is in watch movements. . . . Four of the five boroughs are either islands or parts of islands. ATPLI. & All Steal Cot with wire link spring attached to frame with helical springs at. each end. Strong; angle iron frame. anf scrapers. 211.9 BILLION works. Everybody Everybody makes money. That is the theme song of th! American people who are. nevertheless, twisting and turning in the clutches of an Intolerable condition of inflation. But the money keep on rollinsi In. Personal income hit a hi&torlc high rate of 211 9 billion dollars in June, the commerce department has reported That figure It 2.5 ... cloud-raker- Kannie Dutch woman athlete who won four gold medals in Olympic track and field competition, subsided into housewifely bliss (above) after her endeavors as she received an kiss from her husband. IN OAKLAND, CALIF. . . . Edwin G. Chester dejectedly told a judge that the price of meat was pretty high, pleaded guilty to a charge that he wrestled and killed an Persona! Income Slill on Elevator ... popularized the burg's lofty towers s. . . . There were known as are laws regulating the shape of sky- Possibly the most shocking set of statistics compiled year in and year out in the U. S. is that dealing with accidental death rate. y Ct'SSniHl'1--"- ''" ' theIn nation's 1947. National Safety council from its postwar peak of $2.80. hns disclosed, about 100,000 persons Wheat was down from $3.13 to $2.09, died accidentally The full accident oats from $1.47 to 74 cents. Further toll was approximately 2,000 deaths decreases are Inevitable when this higher than in 1948. Accidents in the home accounted year's great yield makes itself felt. Generally, cheaper grain means for a majority of all the deaths list cheaper feed for livestock. .Cheap- ed by the council. There were 34,500 er feed means less expensive meat such fatalities. The total also In in the butcher shop. eluded 32.300 traffic and 17,000 oc This apparently certain relief cupational deaths. from the high cost of living Is not Some of the other facts released Just around the corner, however. In the annual report: It lies somewhere in the middle More people died in disasters last future. Prices probably will con- year than in 1948550 In the stutinue to rise somewhat for the rest pendous Texas City explosion, 167 in of this year, after which ,the ima tornado. Ill in pact of the 1948 crop should be felt, the Centralia, 111., mine blast, and 198 In airplane crashes. causing them to come down. Despite the optimistic outlook, Total of 20.900 deaths resulted there is another problem to com- from rural traffic accidents, while plicate the picture. This year's city traffic accidents accounted for great crops could lay the ground 11,400 fatalities. (J. S. The world's busiest corner is not Deal the Bread! street and Times Square it's The company cook brought in In St. street and B'way. Ann's churchyard is the grave of a plateful of extremely thin slices Lewis Morris. He's the only Hew of bread and butter, which rather Yorker who inked the Declaration dismayed the hungry outfit. "Did you cut these, sergeant?" An old mileof Independence. stone (marking the distance to city asked one. "Yes, I cut them," came the hall) still can be found on St. Nicholas avenue. It once was used as stern answer. "Okay," replied the soldier, a guide for stagecoaches. . . . More crimes have taken place on the "I'll shuffle and deal." Main Stem (between 47th and :9th Send for a Doctor streets) than in any other spot in Traffic Cop Get along with yon. town. . . . Our town is earthquake-proo- f: No quakes have occurred in What's the matter with yon anyNew York or are likely to occur. way? Motorist There's nothing; wrong a with me but my engine is dead. Most of the Main Stem's mas-dinferno is not generated by Ambitious Hobo legit theaters or film palaces. Mrs. Jones (to tramp at the The majority of the electric door) Are you really content to signery advertises eateries. spend your life walking around Assessed valuation of Broadway's the country begging? . real estate is a mere three billion Tramp No, ma'am, many's the bux. . . . City hall still has the matime I wished I had a car. hogany desk that Washington used to pen his Inaugural Address. . . . Out of Season When you pass 309 Bleecker street "A moth must lead a dreadful life."' "Why?" say a little prayer. Tom Paine "He spends the summer in fur coats-anlived there. . . . Waterfront workers the winter in bathing suits." have names for various piers. They usually are christened after womA Hard Fall . Despite the surrounding en. Our town neighbor, Mr. Jones, of Jasper section the gayest poverty, is the Puerto Rican part of Harlem fell off his roof while he was shingling it. on Saturday night. . . Cliffs flankMrs. Jasper Oh, my! Didn't ing the Hudson are made of volcanic Mrs. Jones feel terrible? rock. Jasper I'll say she did. He fell Parts of the Statue of Liberty were right into her nicest petunia bed! exhibited in various sections of the city Wage Earner before they were assembled. IncidenTeacher What is it that comes-itally, you know that Miss Wonderful carries a torch in her right hand. Know like a lion and goes out like a what she holds in her left? Ifs a book lamb? the with representing Law inscribed Johnny It's father, when be date July 4, 1776, to signify liberty home his wages. brings law. based on Corn Squeezin's One of the most striking illustraTourist (in mountains) This i& tions of the city's cosmopolitan repI'm sure I utation is a church on 2nd avenue. acanwonderful place. get plenty of ozone here! Services are conducted in English, Native Yes, stranger, all you-havMohamChinese and Italian. . . to do is to leave a jug and a. on a medans worship at mosque side of the road'; Powers street . . . Since there isn't half dollar at thefive minutes and a Buddhist temple, devout Buddhists go away for l in N. Y. worship in their own homes. when you come back the money-wilbe gone and the jug will . . . St. John's cathedral hasn't the usual steel framework of most huge edifices. It is made completely of stone. . . . Brooklyn has many more places of worship than any other borough, 42nd 34th . . . Before the word skyscraper Headliners ACCIDENTS: 100,000 Deaths Texas-Oklahom- a Exploring New York: at in A KM i.ll OTHO LATUM WNU W 3448 PILES TROUBLE? For Quick Relief f0!T a rF.I.lt AST I.ONOF.nt formula ran Now, S at home to yon dial roaming fUarnm'ort nt ii-- h (rrlinilon ! to piio. TmiiIo to aof- -' "d ohrlnn Ue Ihle reen dmor-- formula, swolllng. you'll ke amato-- t at t eitoortr action roltof. A, your rlrnrirtt Thornton A Minor's Korial Oint-mol'l"y for or SuprmoltnrlM. rollow lahol if or aej at all drug eterea. oy-to- r rM m t'n |