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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH Veary 00th Congress Conies to End By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator Back in the partially-deserte- d WASHINGTON. capital after one and before another political convention in these days when Washingtons tiger heat drives those who are not too driven otherwise out to the mountains and beaches, I took a short ride with a friendly official who, like most of the press and radio, has to stick out a good share of the summer in the city. We passed some of the last few fine old residences and a number of Shutters were drawn, orange-re- d embassies and legations. paint was smeared In a pattern I never have been able to understand on Ironwork and window bars. Some windows were boarded up. of high picket-fence- s If it hadnt been for you, I remarked to my companion sitting betide me in what he alludes to as the taxpayers I limousine,' might not have been in Washington this summer. I might have been loafing at a mountain- lakeside or elsewhere . . . How so? he inquired. Dont you reI asked, call, "that you were a newspaperman yourself once and, corollarily speaking, met a lot of interesting people? I was one of them. That meeting killed what I thought then was to be a brilliant diplomatic career. The story begins right across the street from the office I now occupy on Eighteenth street, in a fine old brick house which I saw first in the year 1914. . The carriage drive in front of it is blocked now by the curbing, probably because the traffic officials thought no automobile could safely make the turn which a "spanking pair negotiated so easily three decades ago. A sign on the lamp-poin front of the house says no parking at any time. A brass plate over one of the windows, still barred with st the gracefully-curvin- g Ironwork of another century says: Columbus University. The plate it replaced used to say Former Home of Secretary of State Lansing. In 1914 it was some two hours after leaving that red brick house that I began putting off tputUng tilings off is a great art and one that has reached a high point of refinement in Washington. I always have practiced it) If I hadnt put off then, 1 might have become a diplomat As it was, all I got was deadlmA the rest of my life. It happened this way. I had just returned from an extended period in Europe where I had been going through the motions of acquiring an education. In the process 1 acquired the ambition to become a member of the foreign service of the state department 1 planned to rise, by easy stages, on pure merit of course, to the position of ambassador to the Court of St James. Beyond that as a cabinet officer says following a change in administration, 1 had no plans. I did have four eut of five necessary qualifications which 1 knew from experience on the Quai d'Orsay and elsewhere assured a , successful diplomatic career. The four which 1 possessed were a top-ha tailcoat striped pants and a pair of spats. The fifth 1 was confident 1 could soon acquue easily since 1 had an excellent letter to the father-in-laof the secretary of state, who had been a secretary of state himself and an important pillar of Washington society. I was sure that Under such auspices 1 could acquire that sine qua non a wife rich w enough to keep a diplomat in the style to which he is supposed to be accustomed. I recall that afternoon very well. 1 rang the bell to that door well, it was a different door of course there are four there now with brass handles worn shiny by ambitious Columbians but at least the door which that afternoon was to be my portal to a brilliant career was right there in the same frame. K opened, 1 handed the silk hat and ebony stick to the servant and in a few moments I was being warmly , greeted by a gentleman wearing what Sam Blythe once called the most diplomatic whiskers in Washington, John Watson Foster. I saw that my striped pants and tailcoat which had just enough of a continental cut to make a proper Impression, at well as the 1 bad learned in Berlin, .were doing their work and 1 made mental note of the less unattractive unattached females. So after tossing off a bon mot or two, 1 left, feeling that my career was virtually launched. It was still fairly early, so 1 decided to drop in at the National Press club to which my old schoolmate, David Lawrence, had given me a guest card. As the weather was fine, I decided I might as well walk and give Connecticut avenue a chance to admire my distinguished stripes and tails, although tailcoats and per se, caused very little consternation in those days. top-hat- As I walked, I idly speculated on what course I would take if were insisted upon when 1 was presented at court Meanwhile, 1 observed the strolling young ladies who, though probably unable to support an ambassador, were nevertheless quite as attractive as any of d ones at the rethe knee-breech- es better-qualifie- ception. had just about decided not to make an issue of the thing after all I had been on the stage for a short period in my career and a couple of pairs of long stockings underneath would do for my calves what nature hadnt when I found myself at the club. A tall, black-haire- d gentleman arose and gave me a dignified greeting. I had thought it best while I was considering my diplomatic career to accept a temporary position with the Associated Press a position I received after some rather tall talk on the part of David Lawrence and a kindly letter from Superintendent Roberts of the Paris bureau for whom I had worked. The gentleman who greeted me at the club was one of the staff which I was to join, assigned to the state department And he was the man I alluded to the friendly official in the early paragraphs of this 1 knee-breech- es column. Truman Ends Political Hoad Show By Bill Schoentgen, (EDITORS NOTE: When opinion Western Newspaper Union's newt WNU Staff Writer or expreosed in the columns, they nr those of analysts and not necessarily of thia newspaper.) Adjourned Embattled and fatigued, the 80th congress nevertheless managed to spew forth a batch of important legislation with the relentlessness of a doughnut machine before it adjourned for the national political conventions. In the waning hours before add senators journment . the and representatives pushed through farm legislation and a peacetime draft, together with bills having to do with housing, displaced persons, the atomic energy commission, wages - of federal employees and foreign aid appropriations. Republican leaders made it apparent that although congress had adjourned its session the way was being left open for it to reconvene later this year. Despite this, however, the 80th congress had run its formal course. And that it was a vital, exciting course and one that had produced some momentous legislation no one would gainsay. Partly responsible for this character of congress, of course, was the fact that President Truman had written a record number of vetoes. Some of the high points of gress record: FOREIGN AID Congress issued billions for the support of. Greece and Turkey and for general foreign relief, capping that by underwriting the Marshall plan for world economic survival and revival and establishing the economic cooperation administration as a further investment in the future of 18 friendly European nations. NATIONAL DEFENSE Aware of the implications of the realistic foreign policy the U. S. had begun to follow, congress adopted a peacetime draft, demanded a air force, appropriated funds to modernize the army and navy, enacted a law to unify the armed forces and created the atomic energy commission. HIGH PRICES Congress ignored President Trumans repeated and insistent demands for authority to control prices and wages and kept to the classic Republican conception of "laissez faire with regard to business and industry. It reduced personal income taxes and reduced the domestic budget by two billion dollars. law LABOR The was enacted over President Trumans veto In an effort to curb union excesses and restore a betteg balance between labor and management The minimum wage law, growing constantly less useful as prices and wages rose, was not redog-tire- - Right there, or shall we say in the course of an hour or two, there developed the beginning of a beautiful friendship and the beginning of the end of any illusions concerning a diplomatic career. 1 applied for membership in the club, never went to another at home in the fine old brick house on Eighteenth street From that time on it has been deadlines instead of receiving lines. Although 1 didn't realize it at the time I really wasnt properly equipped for a diplomatic career my spats were black. The diplomatic world has not been altogether neglected in the course of meeting deadlines, but when I entered that allegedly romantic demesne as I still do in the course of my job, it is by way of the back door, an entrance which, I have discovered, often provides a much more revealing view of the surroundings. Perhaps it isn't polite to refer to the chancery entrance that vised. way, but it is certainly not the front door, DRAFTEES: As it turned out, not many weeks after I had given up my dreams of Back Again With the peacetime draft a reality becoming a Machiavelli or a Metter-nic- h, in the U. S. again for the first time 1 found myself a caller at six or eight embassies a day I was put since 1941 many thousands of young men (19 through 25) are face to on the diplomatic run because a war had broken out and it was quite as face with 'the prospect of wearing and G.I. clothing for 21 months. for belligerents important nervous neutrals to provide news Most of them were destined to from their points of view as it was go into the army, since the navy for us to collect it and air force are scheduled to receive an extremely small percentage The butlers In most of the emof the draftees. bassies before World War I would For those who wanas soon admit a reporter as they ' would a er a scissors-grinde- r. ted to escape the draft there was at least one reasonable method of doIt required considerable ing so enlistment in the national working over to bring them into line. guard or reserves before the President signed the bill. And national And what a change today! The amount of time, money and energy guard officers all over the country reported that they were receiving expended by foreign nations in geta most gratifying number of inting information to the American from prospective enlistees. quiries of is one and radio, press public Meanwhile, Gen. Omar N. Bradthe major items on their Washington ley, army chief of staff, reported budgets! jovially that the army would try to take on as many as 10,000 draftAnother Jawbone ees a month under the new act For Samson Selective service, he said, will An dentist thinks back our leadership in the world the Russians have Hitlers jaw. The and will strengthen our foreign dentist. Dr. Plaschke, says he read That certainly, was the policy. in a German dentistry magazine hope of most Americans, notwiththat his former assistant, now in standing the furious h efforts Russian custody, had identified a of isolationists in congress to block jaw which the Russians were toypassage of the draft law. ing with as Hitlers. The chief of staff revealed that Dr. Plaschke claims the assistant at present there is only one domescouldnt positively identify it, but tic army division up to full strength. he himself feels it must be Hitlers He said the draft and enlistments because the magazine ridicules the Will bring the army up from 540,000 work as to 790.000. Is there any immediate emergency Plaschke says he did an that must be met by a prepared job on Hitler when be made a bridge of 12 teeth in 1934. army force? Most authorities think Flaschke also claims to have not, and General Bradley himself studied dentistry at the Univerthe idea. sity of Philadelphia in 1908. Their methods have probably advanced Dcnga Bcnga since then, but Hitler was about some things. Evidence of a recurrence of cannibalism in French Equatoiial Africa All we can do is hope the bridge pained hint. And remember that has prompted the French colonial that jawbone, if its authentic, slew administration to launch a vigorous effort to wipe out that evil among more men than the one from a similar source that Samson 'used th natives. when he went after the Philistines. The government is imposing hard labor penalties on offenders, using One of the features of the Rethat punishment as a threat to break the hold ot witch doctors who get publican convention was a mammoth scapple breakfast. The delefree supplies of meat by promoting annual human-sacrific- e gates furnished the scrap. rituals. Taft-Hartl- last-ditc- Democratic convention only days away, with the Republicans throwing political rocks at him, with southern Democrats blustering against him and his policies and with his own Democratic organization feeling very tepid about his prospects, President Truman could be forgiven indeed ll for having that feeling. one-four- th meat SHIPMENTS: Restricted behlnd-the-eight-ba- RETURN: Truman President Truman was back In the White House after journeying 9,505 political miles one of them at Sun Valley to bring on a ski-li- ft his story before U. S. voters. . That story was primarily his bitter characterization of the present congress as wallowing in defection. As a U. S. President going before the people to seek by his own party, he summed up' his stand in a single, tough phrase made during his speech at Harrisburg, Pa. If the voters dont make a change in congress this November, he said in effect, they can stew in your own juice. Whether or not the spectacle of the President stumping the country in search of popular . support is viewed as admirable or otherwise, it certainly must be regarded as a phenomenal pilgrimage in the annals of American politics. At first flaunting a banner, which he soon discarded, Mr. Truman traveled 8,534 miles on eight different railroads, 720 miles by automobile, 225 miles by air, 25 miles across Puget sound by t. yacht and one mile by In that political hegira the President brought the public up to date on the background of what is probably the most bitter feud between a President and congress since the days of Andrew Johnson. There is no doubt that the President, safely back at his desk in Washington, was feeling that he had accomplished pretty much what he had set out to do: The arousing of in the issues at stake and the presentation of himself to the people in the role of a g Presicomradely but dent who is the watchdog of their welfare. al ski-lif- voter-intere- sumer. A condition of that general description currently prevails in the U. S. and, according to R. J. Eggert of the American Meat institute, it will take at least a year following good crops in 1948 to bring about any substantial increase in the amounts of beefsteaks, pork chops and bacon on the table. Biggest trouble, Eggert said, is that the ratio of the eaters to the edibles has grown too top heavy since the war. Wartime drain of flocks and herds and last years short corn crop are responsible for the currently declining animal population. But there is no comparable decline in demand in sight The meat industry forecasts a continuing steady demand for meat because: Incomes are near an all-tihigh; the real income (actual purchasing power) of the average consumer is greater than in 1939; population has increased 15 million in the past decade; people are convinced of the nutritive value of Eight Ball CONGRESS: With the exception of vegetarians and some carrot juice addicts, nearly everyone likes meat And in the U. S. everyone eats a lot of it That is why all the Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprats in America are deeply incensed whenever the meat supply falls off from the normally prodigious amounts available to the con. Of Trail in Welter of Legislation; One Diplomat Knew Better:. Scratch One Tyro Diplomat Sunbonnet Girls MEAT: Too Popular WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Job Done hard-hittin- PALESTINE: Mediation es mistice. The destroyers, American offi- cials said, were not empowered to use force of any kind in patrol duties, nor would they be allowed to stop or board any ships Meanwhile, to inject a further atmosphere of law and order Into Palestine the first United Nations army had been started on a shoestring. Thirty permanent U. N. guards from Lake Success were flown east to help supervise the truce, along with 20 other volunteers selected from U. N. secretariat employees. TARGETS: Fleet Test Battleships New York and Nevada, survivors of the Bikini atom bomb test, were scheduled to be sunk this month as targets during Pacific fleet tests. The two old baltlcwagons will be towed 50 miles south of Honolulu to play their final role with the navy they have served through two wars. They will be used to test weapons of the fleet' in tactical maneuvers. Sen. Arthur Capper (RepKas.) is 83 years old and has represented Kansas In the senate for 30 years. Now he has announced that he will not rnn for He thinks it is time for him to step aside in favor of a younger man. About a century go a captain was thrilled to see the flag being raised on the mast of his ship. The sight inspired him to describe the national emblem with two classic words. The captains name isnt well known: William Driver. ' However, his description of tha memormost one of became the flag able phrases in history: Old Glory. During a dinner in Shanghai some years ago, the British consul toasted the English 'flag with: Here is to the Union Jack the flag of flags. The flag that has floated over every continent and every sea for a thousand years the flag on which the sun never An American named Ell Perkins then arose, looked directly at the Britisher and offered this toast: Here is to the Stars and Stripes. When the setting sun lights up her stars in Alaska, the rising 6ua salutes her on the rockbound eoast of Maine. 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The porter kept putting off his bags in Missouri!" Lifes editorial says the present congress has built up an impressive list of accomplishments. Then Business (under the heading Passed Over) it lists such inconsequential matters as price control, civil rights legislation, federal aid to education, compulsory health Insurance and minimum wage increases merely the things that make a democracy work. Theres a good movie situation ie s the manner in which the Crosby scooped colleagues on the Lonergan rourdei case. He arranged with a police contact to tip him off when Lonergan confessed. The code was: Its raining like heck. Three hours before the confession the police official passed Crosby on the stairs at headquarters and casually said: It looks like rain. Crosby notified his city desk and a front page was prepared reporting Lonergans confession. It was held "for release." An hour later the same police official passed and said: Its raining like heck. Crosby phoned his editor and a few minutes later the Journal-America- n hit the streets two with the confession scoop hours before any of its rivals! WANTED TO BUY WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture, Files, Typewriters, Adi ins Machines, Safes, Cash Registers. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE t (23 Sooth Stats St, 8alt Lake City, Uta over-seaio- to ier Roil Developes Overnight Service. 8 H Gloss Prints, 1 8x7 Enlargement. All sixi 25a. "B" Studio-nd-SO- , each 3c. Box 1138, Billings. Mont. loppy ( on 06 a rye. WOMEN ew lav , WANTED Registered and under-gr- ai week Bate nurses. General duty. Ame Single. Under 86. Address superintendent; Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, Hoi If you lister. Cal. 'id yoi Jothes, ledium STEEL FOLDING COT Journal-American- New Item: Dr. A. H. Rice of Berkeley, Calif., says ruptured eardrums can result from an kiss. Hows that again, Doc? Kin hardly hear ya! Olht At Diffe MISCELLANEOUS HELP WANTED old irger ist wa ill pic LOOK iOOK i garded it for a moment steadfastly without deep emotion." J. Elinson wires: I hear Truman on b cents for pattern. , ey Cot with wire link spring at0 tached to frame with helical springs sad hau an-rniron each end. Strong angle frame, t heavy tubular ends. Ends are locked i position when set np. 2't" Wide, 8tient an Long, Spring 17 High,. Weight 46 Poundn(j Quantity Prices Upon Request Here ls Used New each 1 to 24 $1.50 eaevay We V 1.25 ear 24 to 100 2.00 each 100 or over 1.00 eac 1.60 each maybe I like 750 yc our bli So. Third West, Salt Lake City 4, Uta week i WNU-- AT GROCERS us Broadway Chop Suey: Jean flew to London to witness fiend, j nder c PILES TROUBLE? It I Dal-rymp- le MAGINOT: Frances line, that supposedly impenetrable, concrete-and-stesystem of static defense that failed to stop the Nazis in 1940, is being touted now as a shield against possible Russian attacks. Some French army engineers even go so far as to say that the United States would be wise to finance the reconditioning of the Maginot line as insurance against the Rod Maginot el at least the premiere of her new Jean-PaSartre play. She took along a dozen boxes of bubble gum for the Savoy hotel bellhops, who prefer It to tips . . . The town of Draguignan, France, has voted to name a street Rue de la Lily Pons . . . Talk about sewing up the field, Santa Rosa, Calif., has a publishing firm which publishes its two newspapers. They are and the Santa Rosa the Santa Rosa Republican. ul Try Again? army. And Significance of the Stars: The stai is an ancient symbol of power and lofty aspirations , . . Stripes alternate red and white (Instead of white and red) simply because of the invisibility of a top and bottom stripe of white as compared with the sharp visibility of red . . . Several days after the flag was officially adopted, troops of the Continental army (at Fort Schuyler) hoisted the stars and stripes. It was made out of a soldiers white shirt, a piece from a ladys red petticoat and a patch of blue from an overcoat. sets. Widespread agitation by politicians, newspapers and just plain people over shipment of critical U. S. goods to Russia had paid off in what economists might term an unfavorable balance of trade with the Soviets. During April, when the clamp-dow- n on exports to Russia first took full effect the United States received $12,594,841 more goods from the Soviet Union than it shipped. Whether that imbalance will turn out to be strategically unfavorable to the U. S. if the controversy with Russia continues to expand is a question that the next few years probably will answer. In its simplest form the situation is a paradox It is an axiom in international relations that unrestricted trade among nations is one of the best guarantors of peace. Yet the restrictions on export trade to Russia last April were imposed to prevent shipment of potential war goods to the Soviets. Significant is the fact that U. S. imports from Russia were higher in April than in any other month this year except March, indicating that there has been no immediate effort by Moscow to retaliate for the tightened U. S. controls. One oddity, perhaps also significant, was Russias shipment of $1,312,382 worth of manganese and chrome, both basic items in the manufacture of war materials. st Although the situation in Palestine the truce between warring Arabs and Jews ha3 been overshadowed in the U. S. by the clamorous news from the Republican convention. Count Folke negotiations were continuing and so was the tension. There were no indications, however, that the United Nations mediator was having any signal successes in bringing Israel and the Arab states together on terms. As the truce went into its second week the U. S. assigned three destroyers in the Mediterranean to immediate duty with the Palestine mediator to help supervise the ar- Facts About Old Glory one of Frances top Jean de military leaders, Lattre de Tassigny, is reported to believe that the line should be investigated with the idea that its immense underground forts might be transformed into atomic bomb shelters. When the fortresses came into Allied hands near the close of the war it was discovered that the Nazis had removed much less of the armament and equipment than had been believed. Most of the guns, minus only the breech blocks, had been left in place. Simple fact, however and it is accepted by most U. S. military men is that the Maginot line Is badly outmoded by present swift and mobile methods of warfare, and further, that it was outmoded even befoie the start of World War 1L Gen. Press-Democr- An editor just back from Washington reported seeing some Missourians around the White House wearing Truman buttons. This time next year," was the retort, "theyll be wearing Truman bats. Quotation Marksmanship: E. Hubbard: One machine can do the work cf 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. . . . Don Bland-ing- : A flower watched her dance and learned how to sway. . . . Victor Hugo: Whenever I see a man with a woman In his arms I think of a gorilla holding a violin. , . . James Burrell: Politics is like an insane asylum where people keep saying things they never mean to other people who are never listening. . . . Richard Harding Davis: No civilized person goes to bed the same day he gets up. For Quick Relief DON'T DELAY ANT LONGER! ! s Now, doctor's formula you can uw at homo t relievo distressing discomfort of paiaQSet, r r onE itch Irritation duo to ptleo. Tonds to of-e ton and shrink swelling. Uss this provo Schoc U1 at amasod bo doctors formula. Ton'll T speedy action relief. Ask your druggist.j v Rectal Oisi- teday for Thornton A Minor's moot or fluppositorlos. 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