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Show MONTH; Attnrenvss YOUTH Dumper Crops Due This Year, May Crack High Cost Living; Spy Probe Confusion Mounts Ghost of Latvia Recalls Memories of Better Days Hill Si linen (gen, Vi'NU Start Writer Wh.o ainias at. .i....d i !! stm .unroii tt.ft. Hr.l.ti ft.ft.nanri I Hy By IJ.M KII r.i; .Inalyit and Commentator WASHINGTON-- At the end of one of those few pleasant summer clays winch Washington p.m-- us, I was walking hem ward fmm a mission in a part of town which I hadn't visited recently. I found myself in a neighborhood which Neu r" s r A 'f seemed to produce a slightly nostalgic feeling. T! p !rt--i I t.Hik a quick up turn and, for a short blick, was quite strep. Mo t of the houses were new but there was one with a colored glass window, sin h as graced many a home that I visited as a child. Such win- dows were usually on the staircase landing, at the turn, and when the sun Mi, me llii nugh them it tossed a handful of jewels on the carpet. I alwavs v, .oiled to pick them up. That. 1 thought as I walked along, Is nostalgic -- childhood memories. was wrong Soon 1 realized, that the memory which the stained is turned into the coffers of window the being Kremiin. I can well imagine evoked was much But what happened to the 411 organizamore recent. tions when the Reds stepped in did stir ghosts. are about as closely akin to they a man of the I j ghost the Communist youth as the boy I ,f and tlie ghost of a scouts were to the Hitler jugend. nation, for there is But if we are to believe all we hear. no why Lutvia is resisting communizatnn. dead nations, which Only this week I received a copy never really quite of the Baltic Review, printed in died, must not live Sweden. Here is one paragraph: on in some form. "With the coming scholastic And Washington Is war will be Introduced year games not without such as an obligatory subject in the sovdisembodied schools of all the constituent Soviet I y 7 A those of living nations. It was In August of 1940 that the Red army marched Into the Baltio states and they became by force majeure, territorially a part of the U. S. 8. R. But the three little democracies were prepared politically, if not diplomatically. A month or so earlier, by due process of parliamentary law. a decree tvas promulgated which made the Latvian minister to London chief of the Latvian state If the Russians took over her territory. Today Charles Zarena, minister to Britain, remains the head of the diplomatic corps of the republic of Latvia. Bilmani continued to serve his in the United States after the Russian seizure. Up to then he had helped to keep th bonds firm between us and his little country whose people reached the shores of the Baltic back in the early days of European history, along with the only two other remaining groups which are at least liguistically, if not ethically, related to the Latts: the Finns and the Magyars. The last president of the free republic of Latvia, Carl Ulmanis was American trained. He lived In Nebraska where be waited In exile and worked for his countrys Independence. He studied agriculture and when he returned to Latvia In that hopeful heydey of Europes new republics after World War I, he carried bark ideas. One of them was the clubs. Latvia was 60 per cent agricultural and among its population of movement only two million, the grew, adapted of course to its new environment, to 40,000 when I heard of it last before the iron curtain descended. There were interchanges of visits between the countries and, whenever the big encampment took place in Washington, the little Lat- vian legation echoed to the cheerful chatter of American children who drank lemonade and heard the big, smiling man with the expres- siv- - ruddy hands, tell of his country and show pictures of the children there at work on their projects or going through their folk dances in the gay costumes of their land. four and five had known the rudiments of military drill. How useful this proficiency may be in a guerilla war. exclaims the author." to happen to the next generation in the V. S. S. R. itself and in the countries dominated by her? Listen to this further extract What is going from the Baltic Review: Communists Ideas About Education "Every Soviet school manual, every work of fiction for children and young people, every periodical for the rising generation is a manifestation of a war-lik- e spirit worthy of the Huns of old. Innumerable are the glorifications in them of all sorts of heroic exploits of Soviet people during World War II., to enter a military school is represented as the highest aim of every Soviet boy and 80 per cent of the pictures show guns, tanks, infantry or cavalry exercises. Picture books for tiny tots exhibit children playing with rifles, tanks and grenades, every game taught to the young has a military purpose. The little bit of space that is left over from these aggressive and 4-- H XV J rv x"4 r be Incriminating himself. farm gluts that would be CHOP HE PORT: by costly subsidies in the farm price supports. JoficnfOfS another year of heavy There was momentous news from the nation's farms: In the cards crop yields follow this one, and corn should there be a recovery of agrifor 1943 was a record-settincrop, the second largest wheat crop culture abroad, tremendous surand substantial increases over last pluses in gra.ns wou.d result. Thus, U. S. taxpayers would stand to lose year in oats, barley and rye. as of in the cost of price supports a Government estimates, August 1, of this years gram pro- good deal of what they might save duction read like a statistical fan- in food prices tasy of the promised land. Bureau of agricultural economics CONFUSION: reported that a com crop of 3,506,- - And Spies 363.000 bushels is indicated this America's current top thriller, the year, far above 1947's small, weather-plaRussian spy sensation, had devel2 4 billion of crop oped more facets than a cylindrical bushels. lens in a lighthouse and each one An approximate 1,284,323,000 bebushels of wheat will be forthcom- was blinding to the eye of the holder. ing this year. Other crop estimates The motley group of persons called were: Oats, 1,470.444,000 bushels; to testify before congressional in313 139,000 and bushels, rye, barley, committees was growvestigating 26.664.000 bushels. to Trouble grew out of the fact that, ing and growing. It was getting the point where even the witnesses welare the huge crops although come this year, they may set the had witnesses. A sensational offshoot of the origscene for huge postwar surpluses, inal spy investigation temporarily com of and wheat. mostly Officials contend that there sim- stole the spotlight from the main event. This was the battle of the ply aren't enough animals left on the nation's farms to take care of schoolteachers Mikhail I. Samarin Kothe kind of production being and Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna achieved this year, particularly the senkina, both U. N. personnel. The goings on over this pair of corn outturn Russian pedagogues seemed to be Immediate result of this sudden fairly complicated, but they could condition of oversupply probably be boiled down to a sophisticated will be the government's starting international game of run sheep to support corn prices as soon as run. the crop starts moving. Other Both Samarin and Mrs. Kosenkgram supports are likely to be ina had appeared on the scene as evoked later. potential witnesses in the congresGrain exports will be pushed, of sional investigation. Then things course, but the export market is started to happen. almost certain to fall off in a year First Mrs. Kosenkina disappeared or so because other nations also for a few days. According to the are Intensifying their farm produc- official Soviet version, si nad been tion with considerable success. "captured" by a group of anticommunist White Russians and Deflation? held prisoner. Then she was "resBrighter side of the crop situation cued" by loyal U. S. S. R. subis the fact that it promises the jects. A few days later she leaped consumer almost certain relief from from a window in the third story inflated food prices sooner or later, of the Soviet consulate in New York since grain supplies and prices are where, she said, she had been held basic in determining cost of living captive. Driven to desperation by at the household level. fear, she was seriously injured when Prices of most grains, as a mat- she took the only way out. On top of all this the other school ter of fact, already have broken. Com was down to $2.02 a bushel teacher, Samarin, also disappeared He, too, was supposed to be in cuswork for followed form of Should gued THESE BiG CROPS OoGHTA REDUCE POOD PRICES I re. u tied Fix Sian field US families become endowed awareness they will lend thi with to bring pressure to bear to eliminate the secondary fictors that contribute to delinquency in young peoSchool failure, church failure, plebad hoaxing and the inevitable shift in ethical values frmn one generation to the next which are sometimes 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 accorded the problem of juvenile delinquency, which is the immediate purpose of Youth Month, the observance 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, (line C D. digest of this report, or series of 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 fallibilities as a guide and leader of his children. A NEW LOW: Bitterness British While and American, French ambassadors in Moscow were grimly making peace talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov 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-licensepaper 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 administratd af 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. White Rustody of sians. However, information leaked out from the Samarin camp: He wanted to testify; he liked the U. S. and revolted against going back to ALFRED BILMANIS . the paintings that covered the for Bilmanis was quite a collector. They were allowed gingerly to try the great chair which Napoleon had taken back to France from Moscow, examine the delightful little ivories, the china and the other objets dart which filled the 'egation. walls i life-siz- j I i ' . . ghost of a nation . . . Generally, cheaper gram means cheaper feed for livestock. Cheaper feed means less expensive meat m the butcher shop This apparently certain relief from the high cost of living is not just around the corner, however. It lies somewhere in the middle future. Prices probably will continue to rise somewhat for the rest of this year, after which the impact of the 1948 crop should be felt, causing them to come down. Despite the optimistic outlook, there is another problem to complicate the picture. This years great crops could lay the ground- - Is not street and Times Square- - it's In St. 34th street and B'way. Ann's churchyard is the grave of Lewis Morns, lies the only New Yorker who inked the Declaration An old mileof Independence. stone (marking the distance to city hall) still can be found on St. Nicholas avenue. It once was used as a guide for stagecoaches. . . More crimes have taken place on the Mam Stem (between 47th and 9th streets) than in any other spot In town. . . . Our town Is earthquuke-proo- f: No quakes have occurred in New York or are likely to occur. ... 42i d :D!j asked uiu. Parts of ths Statu of Liberty wer exhibited in various sections of the city before they were assembled. Incidentally, you know that Mist Wonderful carries a torch in her right band. Know what the bolds in her left. Its a book representing Law inscribed with the date July 4, 1776, to sigmfy liberty based on law. One of the most striking illustrations of the citys cosmopolitan reputation is a church on 2nd avenue. Services are conducted in English, Chinese and Italian. . . . Mohammedans worship at a mosque on Powers street. . . . Since there isnt a Buddhist temple, devout Buddhists in N. Y. worship in their own homes. . . . St. John's cathedral hasnt the usual steel framework of most huge edifices. It is made completely of stone. . , . Brooklyn haa many more places of worship than any other borough. Crooked diplomatic deals are not cooked up at No. 10 Downing street in the Big Burg just dinners. Its the address of an apartment house. u cut I cut thfft. ,"Ycs' amwer. Ok.,y, replied Til shuffi and Whats the Why New Yorks 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 U. S. . Before the word skyscraper was s. matter Jjj Ambitiouj Bek . Mrs. Jones (to tran. door) Arc you reallyT) spend your hfe a: the country begging Tramp S, ) No, timelw.j.hcdlhadf? Out 'A moth mu. I ll Tij of Seuea Uii 1 1 " He spends the and the u inter i .V it. "la summit kethn v. A Hard Taj J asper Our neighbor oil his roof while hi gling it. Mrs. Jasper-O- h, rr.y! Mrs. Jones feel terrdle Jasper I'll say ahediij. right into her nicest pet ll I other J s'lri' a th .n b Teacher Wage Earner hat is it Aj t rj-'- that 1)8 a in like a lion and goejmw f rule lamb? Its Johnny brings home Tourist father, tta jecubt: his wages. (in fi s ter h d Corn Squeewi hir led mountains)- -' ',Ud wonderful place. I'a c can get plenty of ozone hen Native Yes, stranger, I have to do is to leave a jag e half dollar at the side of then go away for five imtes when you come back the will be gone and the jug rZ full. tera I ia Ma bet l?s chh t, that dtjble j There' a ag b irians: if. CLASSIFIED DE P rc A R TMEI FOLDING Bis fls; n (17 I 'jst at fled, ken i uentit poslUon M Pom Spring 17 High. Weight Quantity Price Upon But te 4 24 te 100 100 er ever 4 itt ga t, bit MONSET IRON Jn. MET1L G 750 South Third Wilt Salt Lake City Want till. as jeb fo ..M .. l.MeaeS & ser Jfc i 1 les g tached to frame with helical WW each end. Strong engle Iron tn wi uss heavy tubular enda. EndiWill, IT a when set up. 16 New St.M each 2.00 eath 01 the j6 link S with wire cla i HOME FURNISHINGS I Iff STEEL Si kauffei 7T Cot Central park is the result of a work relief project. By the way, this park isnt the citys 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 Players 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 towns 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. e, deal.' Motorist Thert'iidw with me but my aignery advertises eateries. .. a of hroul anj butter u dismayed the harA Most of the Main Stem mas-d- a inferno la not generated by legit theater or film palaces. The majority of the electrlo Assessed valuation of Broadway'i real estate is a mere three billion bux. . . . City hall still has the mahogany desk that Washington used to pen his Inaugural Address. . . . When you pass 309 Bleecker street say a little prayer. Tom Paine lived there. . . . Waterfront workers have names for various piers. They usually are christened after wom. Despite the surrounding en. poverty, the gayest section of town is the Puerto Rican part of Harlem on Saturday night. . . . Cliffs flanking the Hudson are made of volcanic rock. 1)fal n,!:Pany J!4-l)f exiren , ... cloud-raker- ACCIDENTS: 100,000 Deaths from its postwar peak of $2 80. Wheat was down from $3 13 to $2 09, oats from $1 47 to 74 cents. Further decreases are inevitable when this year's great yield makes itself felt. Lxfloring Sew York: The world busiest corner popularized the burgs lofty towers were known as . . . There are laws regulating the shape of Russia. at And then, one by one, they tripped up the stairs to look at e the model of the Latvian girl in the traditional robes of the country, wearing the symbolic necklace made of great discs of amber. Amber had been a Latvian article of export since the earliest traders from the Mediterranean made their way to this northern land, for it was a much admired ornament for the ladies of ancient Rome and Greece. A good necklace was supposed to be worth an Arabian mount If there is any amber being col- lected on Latvian beaches today it V T V 4-- The American kids looked - mIDM KICKS . . . Two potential witnesses who were expected to odd some information to the Washington Red spy hunt were Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina (left) and Alexander Rural. Neither did, however. Mrs. Kohcnkina, who taught children of Russian U. N. otlieials 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 arcused of bring a paid rourier for the wartime Communist espionage ring, refused to tell anything he might know on the grounds that he would reason d V V 'I Bil-ma- x 1 glass republics, writes Cina.' the organ of the Communist party in Latvia. The paper goes on to say that the international situation demands that children bo taught the art of war as early as possible. M.litary discipline should be instilled in them even before they come to school. Their toys should be model tanks and planes and childrens mechanos or building boxes should consist of parts whereof these objects can be constructed. The author relates about his trip to Russia to study Soviet education and military training and remarks that in this respect the Baltic republics are very backward as yet. Pupils of seven and eight in the schools of Moscow had displayed quite surprising knowledge as regards military matters. Ten year olds had been experts with the rifles and girls had been as competent as boys. Even tiny tots Vftr1 delin-quiiu- T'?,? i I Jut I bad ereignties. seen the man whose memory the multicolored window had stirred for the first time when be was descending a stairway with just such a window behind him. He was Alfred and be died in July of this year. He was the minister of the republic of Latvia which had died" eight years ago but according to the state department was and is of such corporeal quality that, along with its sister republics of Lithuania and Estonia, it still possesses diplomatic representatives who are recognized on equal terms with r.in. ! I day huuH ever dawn when in the null. n beenme family every fully aware that all juvenile has its beginning in the ieielv will hate hoii.c. then U S If she ft E 4 Hail More If you are !otng yohalr it do not w have lost someas ofthousands couraged. Doand done, scientific home treatment is a triednd results. This restores method that a to healthy scalp hair tomorrow. day for r Die 4 the ete y 4r st J h isces r The title edy mmis- tnd ''Jlllll Metlj Hollywood Hair Care Hair and Scalp Consul'1 E. Ireta fork Suite 41V Hooper Bldf., U'- Salt Lake City. fie p fig i Its mammoth port is what made New York a Big Town. . . . Sev- Possibly the most shocking set of statistics compiltd year in and year out in the U. S. is that dealing with the nations accidental death rate. In 1947, National Safety council has disclosed, about 100,000 persons accidentally The full accident toll was approximately 2,000 deaths higher than in 1946. Accidents in the home accounted for a majority of all the deaths listed by the council. There were 34,500 such fatalities. The total also included 32,300 traffic and 17,000 occupational deaths. Some of the other facts released in the annual report: More people died m disasters last year than in 1946550 in the stupendous Texas City explosion, 167 in a tornado, 111 in the Centralia, 111., mine blast, and 198 in airplane crashes. Total of 20,900 deaths resulted from rural traffic accidents, while city traffic accidents accounted for 11.400 fatalities. bellicose writings is used to extol the merits of the Communist party and its leaders. Lenin and Stalin. All this literary production exudes such a hate for the whole world, for the bourgeoise. imperialism and capital, that the books of the Hitler jugend seem mild nursery rhymes in comparison." That is not the kind of a state of which Alfred Bilmanis dreamed. He hoped one day to return with his valuable possessions and build a museum In his own restored country. 211.9 BILLION Though he continued to serve as minister, his funds ran low and he had to part with many U. S. Personal Income Slill on Elevalor of his things. However, he did Everybody works. save some of the paintings, billion Everybody doling above the total permakes money That is the theme sonal income Napoleons chair and the lady for May. of the song American people who and her beads Responsible for the large are, nevertheless, twisting and increase were the absence Pei haps someday ethers may m the clutches of an in- - of n turning ajor Mr.kes impact of third realize his dream some happy tolerable condition of inflation. round wage boosts in durable day when freedom in Europe is goods But the money keeps on rolling indastr.es arid higher returned and the ghost republics of in. Personal income pr'ces re hit a historic ceived by farmers for livestuk. the Baltic become real once more high rate of 211 9 billion dollars in the department of commerce said for the people who inhabit June, the corn tree department Wage and them. has reported That figure is 2 5 2 3 bill, on salary payments jumped dollars in J Texas-Oklahom- a May-to-Jur.- eral hundred Indians still make N. Y. their home. . . . There once was a gallows in what now is peaceful Washington Square. . . . Harts IN LONDON. . . Mrs. Fannie stupendous Dutcn 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 heifer. IN CHICAGO. . . . 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 Blankers-Koe- . n d DRAFT: Questions This may come as a shock to young future draftees who want the world to know that they are loyal Americans, but just about the only question draft boards will not ask the potential inductee is whether or not he is a Communist and if he is loyal to the U S. All the queries in an eight page questionnaire for draftees deal with the subject's social, economic, physical and marital status. 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. WANTED T0B5L Office Furniture. Fue. log fie ter v,caft Surly 2S South State St., Salt bu Jffi. US- Scteini- - A century ago you could purchase a lot on Madison avenue fo $480. Now you can buy gowns there that cost more. This citys budgqg is larger than any states. . . . New York Citys 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 716.065 buildings. (I counted em). If you pierced the walls of the Lafayette street subway station, water would gush forth. It's surrounded by an underground spring. The following explains why Big Towners never view every sector of the city: New York has 5,000 mile of streets. For Quick DONT DELAY ort doctor' formula foa At, rell.T distressing lo P Itch Irritation due w Li. 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