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Show Paper Work WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS S. Registers Cold War Victory; Moscow Talks Headed for Failure; Truman, Congress in Budget Fight 13. Nations Grasslands Stand For Security in Agriculture -- (EDITOR'S NOTE: Newspaper By BAUKIIAGE Western News Analyst and Commentator. The grasslands, hay lands and forested WASHINGTON. range lands of the entire United States cover more. than a billion acres, nearly 60 per cent of the total land area. They furnish about half of the feed for all the livestock. That statement is quoted from the new AGRICULTURE YEAR BOOK splendid 900-pa- book, by an means of agriculture that is stable and secure for farm and farmers, consistent in prices and earnings; an agriculcan ture that satisfy all lndef-initel- y our of food, fibre and shelter BAlKIIAGE in keeping with the living standards we set Everybody has a stake in a permanent needs agriculture." Grassland is, according to the many experts who have contributed to this volume, the foundation of security in agriculture. Grasslands, by the sheer force of their need, have Increased from an original 700 million acres to the present billion. Believers in grass expect that acreage to be increased, and I have no doubt that this book will help. Grass means to these students of the Gramineae family, wheat, corn, rice, sugarcane, sorghum, millet, barley, oats, many of the and crops which provide forage or pasturage and the associated legumes, clover, lespedezas, alfalfa and others. The trend toward grassland agriculture in America existed for some 10 years but was interrupted for intensive cultivation during the war. Now it is increasing again, according to Cardon who has been engaged In agricultural research since 1910. But he points out that agriculture supplements rather than replaces other for example, farm production livestock production, with which it is inseparably linked. Grassland agriculture," he under good management says, may equal or increase the production of digestible nutrients, reduce materially the labor needed to grow them and lower the cost of supplying protein necessary to nourish animals. There are many interesting and widely varying chapters, progressing from the general to the more specific. The editor, Alfred Steff-eruhas summarized the book as separated into four parts. The first is an examination of grass as it applies to people anywhere with the emphasis on livestock and soils and conservation. Forage for livestock, the use and value of pastures, grass and rotations, the range, as a major resource and grasslands Bill Schoentgen, YTNU Staff Writer- When pinion are sxprsssrd In these columns, they tniooe news analysts aa4 net necessarily ef this y . W v of dazzling per-dur- e, world. glittering like a meadow in early The Communists tried frantically spring, unreal as an incantation, surprising as the sea to the soldiers of to cover this breach In their curtain Xenophon as they stood upon the by calling it, among other things, shore and shouted Thulatta! It was an underground conspiracy in the Blue Crass, unknown in Eden, the U. S. to wreck any possibility for final triumph of nature, reserped to between the two nations. peace compensate her favortie offspring in But the villains disguise was off the new Paradise of Kansas for the loss of the old upon the banks of the now and everyone knew him. Try as they might, the Communists nevTigris and Euphrates er would be able to explain why two la Truman Another obscure school teachers would seek their freedom so desperately, nor Boy on Burning Deck? why Russia was so determined to It may be just as well that Washget them back. ington has not only its proverbially-unbearabl- e weather, but that it has PARLEY: a political campaign as well to take its mind off more serious troubles. Failure It started out as a rather dull From Moscow came crushing campaign with the Republicans news for all those hoping for peace: positive of victory and the Demo- The talks between the western decrats showing an overweening will- mocracies and Russia were reportingness to get used to the idea of ed to be on the brink of failure. looking for another job. miracle In Barring a the conferences between the U. S., But ever since Harry Truman's peppy speech at the England, France and Russia, the East-Wes- t stalemate would continue, Democratic convention, you frealong with the Soviet blockade of quently run Into a Democrat Berlin. who actually thinks his party It was reported that the western has a chance in November. were getting ready to stay powers One loyal adherent to the party In Berlin under conditions of ecoof Jackson and Jefferson approached nomic siege, planning to maintain m with a theory that Truman had and the air lift to supply a very good chance of winning on the enlarge 2.5 million persons in their , v the psychological basis. sectors. A, You know, he said to me. deep A Vi' There was, however, one slim down in the subconscious of every chance that utter failure could be A American is a avoided. The three western ambasdeck complex. sadors were scheduled for a final talk with Premier Stalin, and it , , . the boy stood on the burning was a possibility that the negotiadeck, Whence all but him had fled; tions might be rescued. But the The flame that lit the battles r,T' odds against agreement stood at wreck. about five to one, officials said. Shone round him oer the dead, Technicians selecting male If the conference ended in the buffalo grass to secure pollen for I didnt get it at first, but th anticipated failure, it was thought breeding to improve strains at explanation is simple and not il- that the Big Four governments the bulTalo grass nursery at logical. There probably never has would try to conceal the extent of been a more outstanding example the fiasco from the public in order tVondward, Okla. of a show than Harry to avoid the even greater degeneragrass for happier living" on the Trumans performance at the tion of East-Wes- t relationships that playing fields, lawns, highway Democratic convention. undoubtedly would result if everyshoulders and airfields. My friend went on: Most Ameri- one knew just how hopeless the case Other parts of the book are de- cans at one time or another have was. voted to the uses, nature and iden- pictured themselves as rising to the, However, If the Moscow talks did tification of various grasses and occasion, alone and unsupported, break up In futility it would not finally there are detailed charts, taking on all comers, swinging to mean necessarily that all similar tables, recommendations for seed-ing- s the right and left regardless of the negotiations would be abandoned. and mixtures. odds, holding the fort or storming It would mean that any further efthe redoubt or saving the child fort to reopen them would be deScope of the topics Is wide, whence all but him had fied. layed until at least next spring for the subject involves not possibly March after the election the on to He went only varying conditions of say: Ameriand inauguration. soil and climate, but also socans sec this spunky little tightcial conditions affecting the tener who wears a confident smile ure of land and the lives of the when most of his colleagues WHAT'LL YM HAVE. GENTS have faces as long as a new-loo-k people, along with shifts in national policies and political skirt, and they imagine How 55 trends. themselves In his place. Coffee and milk, by a wide marThere is no more striking exAs any who has gin. remain the favorite beverages schoolboy ample of how these purely external studied psychiatry knows, there will of American drinkers who will conditions affect the farmer than be a transference displacing the down nearly eight billion gallons in England today, whore a comaffect from one person to another of coffee snd nearly seven billion plete change in that country's ag- motivated by the unconscious iden- gallon of rnilk in 1918. riculture was brought about dur-ln- tification of the voter with the boy The report on the national liquid the war and continued since. on the burning deck and fiom the Intake, compiled by the family Tiie great parks, private estates, boy on the burning deck to the economics bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance company, preserves and forests have been Democratic candidate. broken up under pressure to raise also estimates that about 2.7 bil Quien snbe? last-minu- one-ma- g mnr are those of newspaper.) Rhine-Mai- budget at the the government's end of this fiscal year? It was a question good for a lot of political haymaking, and both President Truman and his Republican opponents in congress went to work with a wilL Mr. Trumans forecast was that the government would be 1.5 billion dollars in the red next June. In his mid-yea- r budget report he blamed the Republicans tax cut for putting the nation back in the hole. Stricken with horror, GOP lawmakers rapped back sharply: Far from harboring a deficit, they said, the treasury will close its books next June with a surplus of between five and six billion dollars. The President had juggled figures for political campaign effect, the Republicans charged bitterly. Another of the weird distortions which are coming from the White House while Its occupant is a nervcomous candidate for mented Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.) mordaciously. Mr. Truman had said that federal expenditures this year would hit 42 billion dollars, while Republicans claim that actual expenses will total 38 billion. They charged, too, that the President had figured the national income 3.4 billion dollars too low for the year. Just who was right in the matter, if anyone, was impossible to say. The entire affair had many of the characteristics of the kind of tempest In a teapot that Is a event in an election year. Actually, even if President Trumans estimate turns out to be the correct one, the books still will show an adjusted surplus, despite the operating deficit. That is because congress provided that three billion of the surplus last year should be shifted to this years accounts to help meet foreign aid costs. PSYCHIATRY: War Cure How can the world prevent wars? Use of psychiatry would be a big help, according to Dr. John Milne Murray, professor of clinical psy- chiatry at Boston university. A psychiatrist, he said, is one who seeks the reason for the failure of human relations in the individual rather than in the mass. he asked, what is war But, except a mass breakdown of inadequate relations ending up in a tremendous burst of Take, for instance, the reactions of a child trying to adjust itself to a harsh environment. Under stress the child may revert to archaic forms of behavior, and that is very similar to the impulse of destruction which, on a world-wid- e scale, becomes war. Therefore, knowledge of mass human reactions should be employed to abolish war. Dr. Murray concluded. its Actually, If all very simple. people didn't act the way they do they wouldnt have to fight each other. The trick Is to make them understand that. Out of the Park VVA. . SVMIJ. , 4 f v ' i .1 t -- A In' ff Us j li y- - . S fv I k 4 v v - I'-,- ; ' r I V i Y ? f, NJj; ? $$' . - I I ' f . L;' .1 y.y pi d - Li . .y.. Vis, It ' - - record MASARYK: Murdered? Last March 10 Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime, fell winto his death from a third-stordow in the foreign office in Prague. Since then Masaryks friends, as well as many who never knew him but admired him because of his hopeless fight in behalf of Czechoslovakias rational liberty, have speculated long as to whether he committed suicide or was killed by the Communists who wanted him out of the way. The official Communist version of the incident was suicide, but too many persons had too many doubts to let it rest at that Then, suddenly, last month the doubts were crystallized. Dr. Oskar Klinger, Masaryks personal physician, asserted that the Czech statesman did not commit suicide. He was sure of that he said, because he and Masaryk had planned to escape by plane to Great Britain on the very day that Masaryk died. Klinger said that the security police discovered Masaryks plan to flee and came to his rooms that night to arrest or kill him. Defending himself, Masaryk shot and killed possibly four men. With the remaining men closing it Klingers version went, Masaryk was forced closer and closer to the window. Then, the men either threw him out the window or, overwhelmed by fear, Masaryk flung himself out In proof of his conviction, Klinger offered this evidence: Masaryk would never have committed suicide because he was afraid of physical pain. Also, he left no note or letter a usual practice in suicides. Shots were heard in the building the night he died, and four coffins were carried from the place that morning before the Czech commission arrived to inspect Masaryks body, indicating that four persons might have been killed during the night. y . ? Current Events ? Here are fipe questions, based on recent happenirgs in the news, which are guaranteed not to keep you awake nights. Unless, that is, you stay up late to read the paper anyway, 1. Several witnesses before the house activities committee, refusing to answer questions about Communist activities, invoked the fifth amendment to the Constitution. What does that amendment say? 2. President Truman 6aid recently that a woman president of the U. S. was not only a possibility, but a probability some day. At present the Cona woman stitution prohibits from becoming president. True or false? 2. Population of the U. S. Is 143,414,000. Name the nations that have larger populations in order of their size. 4. What outstanding war events took place three years ago on these dates: August 8, August 9, August 14? 5. Born In 1865, he was governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and became a senator in t In seme dimly seen future time baseball n. Recently he retired from the senate as its senior member in point of service. Who is he? t , 4 . War-gui- lt trials of the Japanese war lords In Tokyo produced literally tons of evidence bale after bale of recorded testimony and documentary proof of the Jap war criminals carryings-oJob of translating all the data will take five weeks, after which the international military tribunal will hand down its verdicts. 1919. ' - n About Dress Rehearsal for War of EIGHT MILESat outthe Frankfurt, airport, is a place the G.I.s call Boom Town. It is called that be- Will there be a surplus or deficit In last something had happened that could and did make people understand what this Russian situation was all about It had been pretty difficult going for the world public to perceive the basic truth when it was obscured like food which formerly was importby confusing circumstances ed. currency reform In Berlin, control a maze of The general trends In America of the German Ruhr, spies at home and political annihilahave been less obstructed by extertion of small European nations by nal influences. Russia. Grass is a book for city-ma- n What It all amounted to, as far as as well as farmer, and most people were concerned, was a mess of verbal pottage that they among the vast compilation of data resulting from experiment, wouldnt trade for the comics page record and research, there are any day of the week. Then it happened. Mrs. Oksana even a few pages given to a school Kosenkina, the Russian panegyric whose poetic fervor makes up for what may be a teacher, jumped from a third-storwindow in the Soviet consulate in lack of purely scientific backNew York to achieve the liberty she ground. so desperately sought. I cant help quoting from the arMikhail Samarin, the other RusIn Blue of Praise ticle, Grass, sian school teacher, was wanted by by John James Ingalls who was the Russians but managed to retain senator from Kansas from 1873 to his freedom. Refusing the Soviet de1891. It is reprinted from the Kanmand that he return to Russia, he sas magazine In which it appeared tossed this scallion for the CommuIn 1872, and has been widely quoted nists into the propaganda war: I ever since. wont return to death. After describing the beauties of And finally, in England Olympic a ride through his primeval win- athletes from Czechoslovakia and ter in Kansas," Ingalls describes other Soviet satellite states were a steadfastly refusing to return to their home countries aftffr their taste of a free land. It all added up to the biggest s break the western nations have had ; v yet in their propaganda battle with the East. ' 4 This was simple, basic, understandable: These people from the I 1' i , land of the Soviets the schoolteach. . and athletes utterly despised YJ ers the idea of returning. They simply would not do it. Close up showing method of Thus, it was in the end a few pollinating female buffalo grass persons who destroyed the ordinary flower with pollen from selected elaborate fabrication which Moscow male strain. had constructed to represent to the of life that his descent into a valley where, he world the ideal way existed in the Soviet Union. was created the strange says, One Voice of America spokesman spectacle of June in January, said: This Is what we have been peculiar to his native state. waiting for in our war of words. "A sudden descent into the shel- This is something that can be easily " tered vulley, he writes, "repealed an understood by people all over the crescent unexpected u Unbalanced Villian Revealed At pearsbn drew T BUDGET: COLD WAR titled Grass, last copies of which now are being delivered to congressmen for their constituents. Purpose of this book is to contribute to the lore and practice of the American farmer so he may help to attain "permanency in agriculture. This permanency is obtainable, says P. V. Cardon, in the opening chapter of this By MFfirGB-ROUH- D books might fall into dust, but there will be those who still talk of Babe Ruth. And among kids the legend of the Babe might grow into this: Every baseball he ever bit he hit for a home run. And some might smile at the exaggeration but say nothing because it will be a magnificent story. ? Gallons of Black Coffee? lion gallons of beer and 1.7 billion gallons of assorted soft drinks will be consumed this year. Coffee consumption comes to 55 The gallons per capita in 1948. grand total of 7 95 billion gallons would make a circular lake one and a half miles across and 20 feet deep. It would keep a Niagara fats cataract (lowing for 67 min- utes without cream or sugar. ANSWERS I. No person . . . shall be compelled In any criminal case to be a witness against himself . . . J. False Only presidential qualifications required are that he be born tn the U. S . be a resident of the country fer 14 years and at least 33 years old. 470 million), Union of 3 China W9 India million), U. S. S. R. million) August 8 Nagasaki was atom bombed; August 9 Russia declared war on Japan; August 14 Japan surrendered 6. Sen. Arthur Capper (Rep., Kas.) 193 4 BOXCARS: Vo Worries record producDespite all-tition and the bumper crops forecast for tliis year, U. S. railroads do not expect as tight a boxcar situation this autumn as has prevailed during the past several years. Southwestern grain, bulking arger than any other section, has Jcgun to taper off, more cars are available In the Noithwest this year than last and terminals still have space for storage. n cause a new town has sprung up overnight, with the carpenters' hammers still making as much noise as the airplane motors all because of the Berlin airlift. One thing about this airlift which most people dont realize Is that Its an air force rehearsal for future possible eventualities. And the top air people are quite candid about this fact. If the diplomats Furthermore, succeed in raising the Berlin blockade, the air force does not intend Boom to abandon its installations. Town will stay right on just in case the Russians tighten up their economic grip on Berlin once again. In the briefing room at Rhine-Maia pair of snowshoes are tacked on the wall memento of the 54th Troop Carrier squadron based at Elmendorf field, Anchorage, Alaska. Those snowshoes are symbolic of the manner in which the air force has abandoned all other tasks in all other parts of the world to break the Berlin blockade. There might also be other from Albrook field, symbols Panama, Bergstrom field, near Austin, Tex., and Ilickham field. Hawaii pilots assembled from all parts of the earth, getting experience In a theater where they may have to operate with in determination the future. That is why the army, in calculating the cost of the airlift, reckons only the cost of gasoline and supplies. The cost of pilots time, they figure, is a good investment. Doodling on the Typewriter : News Item: Treasury Secy Snyder predicts a rise of three billion in the national debt. Sowot? We always can make it up peddling guns to our enemies. . . . Mr. Truman calls his wife his chief adviser. Says he never wrote a speech without going over it with her and never made any decisions unless she was in on them. Thats what it says on page 174 of the World Almanac. . . . George W. Morrison wrote I Sleep, which is a book to make insomniacs laugh, even if they cant sleep. It dedescribes 54 methods of inducing slumber, none of which will work. . . . Didjez know if you eat a raw onion sandwich before bedtime the sandmanll getcha in about 20 minutes? (Who else would want you?) Cit AP reports that Dr. C. A. Watson (candidate for president on the Prohibition ticket) predicts hell be elected with 24 million votes. Fcvvensakes! Whats the man been drinking? , Carolyn Burke, who wrote the television show (NBC) on the German museum paintings, sent us some very interesting data about them. Hitler, frixample, had his eye on all the German paintings here at the Met opera and planned having them returned to Berchtes-garte- n as soon as the Nazis capOf the tured Manhattan isle. art displayed here at least 20 paintings are worth half a million bux each. They were hidden in those salt mines because the temperature is always at 40 to 45, the proper temp for paintings. . . . Interesting how the American MPs found them. They were trying to help some excited hausfraus who were looking for a midwife for a girl in need. As they ran past the MPs one frau said in German: Dotz vare Bradleys Inspection Tour BEST INDICATION that the west- iss hiding all kepcherd gold. The ern powers dont anticipate early G.I.s got curious and, sure enough, hostilities in Europe despite the they discovered the greatest cache tense state of the Moscow talks is of treasure in all historyl that army chief of staff, Gen. Omar Lines for a Lost Lady (By Tom Bradley, plans an extended vacation trip. Weatherly) . . . Sighing, sighing, the night-win- d . . General Bradley is combining va- sighing , Softly sentinel shadows gently grieves ...As cation with business on a soothe The fretful, wakened tour of American outposts in the leaves . . . Alone beneath the Far East. Although nobody will conI search the whispered sky firm it, its considered likely Brad- rue . . . And all the muted murmuring s ley will take to Japan another invi-tio- n . . . Breathe poignantly of you . , , For from President Truman to each repeats the other . . . All piteously As though a myriad MacArthur, asking the Allied Far the same mourning lipt . , . Caressed a single Eastern commander to come home name . , . And so I lie and listen , . . and receive a heros welcome. Macalone . . . And wonder if Arthur has indicated that if he re- Unutterably the nsght-wind- s loss Is bitterer thats turns home from Japan it will not my own. be until after the November election. In radio circles last Sundays Note U. S, diplomats predict Rus- heavy rain is called perfect Hoopwhadda-yano- ? . . . Well, sias next zone of intensive operations er weather. will be the Far East the area Bradley Forty congressmen are exis visiting, newspapermen! . . . Did you know Governor Dewey and his wife are Seek Small Town Vote among the sponsors of the Starlight theater at Pawling, N. Y.? Well, DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN Melvin Price of Illinois and Frank they are. John, their very young one, was seen there this summer in M. Karsten of Missouri got lecture from President Truman on the the tryout of a new play titled Marys Lamb, . . . Flirtation importance of the small town vote. Walk (at Tamarack lodge upstate) Calling at the White House, Price has which are switched and Karsten assured the President to greento lights indicate red occupied terriof their support next November. . . . Radios tory. Superman Whereupon Mr. Truman gave them Clayton Collier now is in his 21st a homely discourse on the coming year as a Sabbath school teacher. campaign. Im not worried about the elecSights Yon Never See on Teletion, he said. Were going to win, vision: of Einstein in the thats sure. I know thats sure be- west The bust of Riverside church. portal cause were right and theyre wrong. Been there 17 years. Only one there of a living notable. . . . The Im going to make It a back - platform camWestern Union messenger paign to what Taft calls all the boy whose beat is 53rd and Madwhistle stops, the President ison. She carries yellowed newspacontinued, Taft calls them per clippings which toasted her whistle stops, but I call them acting decades ago. . . . The lone the heart of America. When tree growing boldly on East 41st they count the whistle-sto- p street between Madison and Vth. votes, Taft may be in for a big surprise. I think the whistle Wanna feel old? Well, Shirley stops will make the difference has about 10 gray hairs. Temple between victory and defeat. Mr. Truman also The Ford family will okay a expressed confidence that he would carry much script on the life of the late motor of the farm vote. He said that Recar magnate only if Leo McCarey publican opposition to the world directs. . . . Three burgs in Caliwheat agreement would play into fornia are getting the Atchison, Democratic hands. Topeka and Santa Fe treatment on We have our biggest wheat crop a recording by the 4 Musettes. The In history, he said. The Russians towns are Azusa, Cucamonga and have their biggest bumper wheat Anaheim. . . . Theres a new play crop In history. The farmers know about Hollywood making the rounds. that if there isn t some agreement The foreword says: "All the characto protect them, all the farmers will ters in this play are purely phony be hurt. I am going to explain this and so are their . . . originals! to the farmers in the Here's a dilly: The newest gimmick campaign. Is a horn for pedestrians. It honks back at motorists who drive with Condemn Housing Frauds their horns. AN ALL-OU- ... th ... one-mon- ... moots-starv- ed ... CRACKDOWN on housing frauds against veterans was ordered by Atty. Gem Tom Clark and Housing Expediter Tighe Woods at a conference of U. S. district attorneys from 21 key cities. I want you to put these housing frauds at the top of the list when it comes to prosecutions," ordered the attorney general. Equally vigorous was Woods, who has expanded his Investigating force from 15 to 300 men. ne told the district attorneys In their rlosrd-doo- r session tha, while he would leave the legal Justification up to them, he wanted to emphasize the governments moral obligation to do something about bousing Verbose can learn novelists something about editing by studying digests of their books. Take Omni0 book, frixample. It whittled a word best seller down to 35,000 words. . . . Championship bouts have topped all Hooper ratings. Including those for international and events. Dream up your own editorial it's too lazy over at this desk. . . . The nightmare of living in Communist-dominateplaces was stressed by the brother of Benes, who told U. S. reI am afraid porters on arrival: to talk! . . . Talk about also-ran- s being forgotten quickly. Looka what happened to Stassen. , , . Only two president were born west of the Mississippi: Truman and Hoover. 500,-00- world-shakin- d |