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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Released by Western Newspaper Union. NEITHER MAJOR PARTY HAS A While Walter Winchell is on vacation, Jack Lait, writer of the PLATFORM I TALKED RECENTLY with two representatives of the people in congress. One a Republican, the other CLEAR-CU- T Broadway and Elsewhere column, will appear in this space as guest ' columnist. Winchells column will be resumed on his return in September. a Democrat. Foth are candidates for During their service in congress neither has, at all times, voted with the majority of his party. The Republican told me he differed radically with some of his party leaders; that his views on major issues did not match the views of some other Republicans; that he could pot present his views as representing anything more than himself; he could not speak for the party on anything other than a general condemnation of the opposition. He said the party has established no policies. If elected, as he expects to be, it will be because a majority of the voters of the district believe in his ability. to best represent them. He will feel under no obligation to support any set of policies because the party has enunciated none. The Democratic candidate told me much of the same thing. He said that during his two years in the house he had been entirely on his own in determining what proposed legislation to support, and what to oppose, for the party, as such, did not prescribe any policies those elected on the Democratic ticket were expected to follow, and there were no policies prescribed for the future. The party label is meaningless as a guide to the voter. The choice is between candidates rather than between parties. Such are the conditions on the eve of an unusually important national election. The voters have no assurance they will get from either party what they, as individuals, believe is best for the nation. Some Republicans voted to continue OPA; others to kill it. The same situation is found among those elected on the Democratic ticket. .What was true of OPA has been true of many other issues. Not one in a hundred of the voters of a state or district has an acquaintance with, or a personal knowledge of, the candidates on either ticket for either senator or representative. The party label tells them nothing, and the voters must go blindfolded xto the polls because the directing leaders of both parties cannot agree on what basic principles the party should endorse. Political fear is at the bottom of it Follies of 1946 Unreported incidents in Hollywood, by my bureau of information, which never sleeps, never drinks, seldom eats: Betty Grable said she would not accompany Harry James east on his tour. Almost as soon as he got off the train, she got on a plane for New York. . . . Before John Perona flew to Paris, Mary Pick-for- d gave him a solid gold St. Anthonys medal. . . . Bill Cagney begged Howard Hughes to take him up on that test flight and was turned A movie company is down. to advertise its $2,000 paying The Egg and I, on an ostrich egg which is being hatched at a farm which raises the big birds in Pasadena. Thousands visit there daily. The deal is that as each party goes through, the mother ostrich is to be shooed off her future offspring, so that gawkers can read the copy. Thre are seven words painted on the egg, which figures out at a rate of $275.75 per word. ed six-we- ek ... . . . Foreign girls were wooed and won by American soldiers in both world wars but, as the above pictures attest, there was a marked difference in the brides or two generations. Photo (1) shows a group of American soldiers in World War Is army of occupation entraining at Coblenz, many bringing back wives and children. Girls like those shown in photo (2) won the hearts of American servicemen in World War I, the picture showing typical war brides ready to embark for the U. S. In contrast to their sister war brides of a quarter century ago. World War II brides show every evidence of modobligingly posing on the railing of a transport in typernity. Photo (3) shows joyous wives of ical Hollywood style, although minus the finishing touches. Longer duration of World War II resulted in larger families for G.I.s and their foreign brides. Larger than ordinary is the family rf Arthur Smith of Greenville, N. C. Mrs. Smith is shown in photo (4) arriving from England with her four children, two of which were by a former marriage. An Italian girl fell hard for Joseph Cianciotto of Rochester, N. Y., and they were married in Italy. Mrs. Cianciotto fell hard for him again when her war bride ship docked in New York, as photo (5) attests. Even modern modes of transportation were utilized in reuniting G.I.s and their foreign brides, photo (6) showing a group of war brides arriving in America by airliner. MARKED CONTRAST . , ex-G.I- Statistics Show Equal Foreign Rate for Both Wars Marriage States leads war brides to to all parts of the United World G.I.s the general impression that serving ovejseas during War II were more addicted to marrying foreign girls than were their doughboy fathers of World War I. From the British Isles, Australia and th6 France and Germany, even from far-awPhilippines, have come bride ships transporting war wives to America to join their former G. 1. Influx of ty roe Doctrine. For more than a century we had felt secure behind our ocean barriers, both to the East and West. Today those ocean barriers do not did. provide the security they once with Science has demolished them rockets, capable of a speed faster than sound, carrying a threat of destruction not only to our long se3 coasts, but also to every part of the nation. For the future we must face the. possibility of atomic bombs be-of ing hurled at us from any part the world. We cannot again ignore the rest of the world. Isolation no policy. longer can be an American We must do our full part to subdue or control the passions that for centuries have affected Europe. We must have a foreign policy that rec-ogniz- ay i husbands. The common impression that thd average G.I. of World War II was more inclined to take a foreign wife than was his counterpart of World War I is contradicted in statistics compiled by Metropolitan Life Insurance company. Records indicate that there were about 52,500 marriages with foreign girls during World War II, compared with an estimated 4,000 to 8,000 during the war of a quarter century ago. Records for war marriages at that time are very incomplete. Despite the increased number, however, the foreign marriage rate of the two generations of servicemen is practically equal. Blood Test Used Fix Maternity In Animal World To An equine parallel to Hollywoods recent series of paternity disputes was reported by the CHICAGO. American Veterinary Medical asso- new conditions. It should ciation. The investigation described by the be a policy of world leadership, as the greatest, and no veterinary authorities was made we are today by of two French veterinary scientists longer the youngest or weakest, and was believed to be the first the world nations. practical application of blood grouping to determine parentage in MANAGEMENT insists pro: horses. of duction is the proper basis The problem was to determine wages; labor says it is profits. which of two mares, Fanny or to leads Fact is production Clairette, was the mother of a more profits, and profits is the stick. Serum tests colt named Robert. convenient measuring blood showed that enbelonged Fannys Wages based on profits will to group AB, Clairettes to group tourage production. A and Roberts to group O. ... The following acknowledg- ment is being received by those who order from a large Manhattan auto agency: We are herewith accepted enclosing copy of your order, subject to further delays due to conditions beyond our control. Delivery should be expected from 18 to 25 months. Department of internal revenue has had an agent in Hollywood checking into the extraordinary number of refunds claimed and movie peogotten by ancient an of virtue law, By ple. the government pays 6 per cent interest on sums paid and held, until refunded. There is virtually no such' thing these days as a 6 per cent investment, but anyone who wants to miscount or forget to enter a jut and provable claim for allowance can draw 6 per cent on such a sum, plus retrieving it in full. During 1945, the United States paid out $17,000,000 of such interest. In 1944, the amount was $23,000,000. This year, the interest will be only about $4,000,000, as the government is hep and rushing the kickbacks. Most of this, of course, is legitimate. But some big moneymakers have deliberately used it as a racket. high-salari- ed The ' basis of our government by the people is the system, but that system becomes valueless when the parties refuse" to provide for the voters any statement of the principles for which they stand. The party label does not provide a guide. He can only vote blindly for candidates. The election is not a contest between the Republican and Democratic parties; it is a contest between the Bill Smiths and the Ed Joneses. SEAS NO LONGER PROTECT US FROM THE TIME George Washington admonished the young nation to beware of European entanglements to the day when President Wilson asked congress ' for a declaration of war against Germany, that admonition of Washingtons had been the guiding principle of our foreign policy; that plus the Mon- .s LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON1 all; fear of offending some minority; fear of losing a few votes. two-par- ... It The dogdays are here. shouldnt happen to a dachshund. . . . Winchell is on vacation, meaning he can get up at 7 p. m., instead of 6. . . . But the show must go on. . . . So Lait will jiggle the dots and juggle the dashes. . . . Its fun. . . . Lets get started! Longer duration of World War II and the far greater numbers serving overseas account for the increase in marriages, statisticians point out. Third Have Children. Duration of the war also .is responsible for an increased number of children in war marriages. The 52,500 foreign brides coming to the U. S. to join their husbands were in- children, accompanied by dicating that nearly a third had children. In a majority of cases there was only one child, although there are instances of as many as three children. War marriages were most common in European and Mediterranean theaters. Nearly 60,000 of the 17,500 70,000 brides and children came from these two areas and they represented more than 30 different nationalities. Great Britain had the largest percentage of war brides, 75 per cent, followed by France and Italy with 15 per cent each, Belgium and Ireland with 3 per cent each, with about 4 per cent from the other countries of Europe and North Africa. Many From Australia. From the Pacific area came 10,000 war brides, 85 per cent of whom were from Australia. Another 10 per cent are from New Zealand and 5 per cent from other countries, particularly the Philippines. Age of war brides varies considerably, with marked concentrations in the late teens and early twenties. Just as personnel of the armed forces was recruited from every state in. the Union, so will these setwives and children of tle in every part of the country. ex-G.I- .s Soil Termed Great Laboratory For Production of New Drugs Soil not only is the source of lifesupporting food but also is a great laboratory in which are produced d many drugs for curing diseases of man and beast against which even good nutrition cannot prevail, according to Aldeh Stahr and Dr. Boyd Woodruff in an article in Cappers Farmer. These are the sq-- c ailed miracle drugs, first of which was tyrothric-in- , Then came says the article. penicillin, used extensively during the war, followed by actoinomyein, streptothricin, clavicin and guma-giciOthers have been discovered and more are in prospect. , Among the things scientists have seen and identified, Stahr and Woodruff point out, are: plants, molds, green plants, animals, protozoa, worms and nematodes. And these soil inhabitants new-foun- -- n. One-cell- i ed do more than provide fertility to the soil. In their struggle for existence, many of them throw off waste prod- ucts and create chemical substances which are deadly to disease germs. Thus a very special strain or species of fungi yielded penicillin, which shared the credit with blood plasma and the sulfa drugs in greatly reducing the wound mortality rate in World War II as compared with the First World war. The soil, conclude the writers, is so complex a mixture that there must be many' other healing agents found in it. Many of mans 2,000 diseases still are unconquered. Most prevalent of all, of course, is the common cold, which causes more economic loss and discomfort to people than any other disease and, weakening the system, paves the way for more serious ailments." Howard Hughes, the incredibly t rugged individualist, despite his ex- cruciating physical agony and his multifarious mental misgivings, has refused to take one sedative. . . . and Even the mildest sleeping-aid- s given patients who stub a toe, he has stubbornly turned In fact, he refused to eat down. Or drink, fearing some palliative He may have been slipped in. has lived entirely on orange juice since his injuries, and demands that it be squeezed in his presence, from the fruit, uncut until he sees it . Physicians say they halved. never heard of such a case. . . But who ever heard of a Howard Hughes before? pain-relieve- rs, ... Father ... Andrew Cervini, Jesuit missionary, who lost his left foot while a prisoner in a Jap camp, has just finished a book of his experiences. . . . The publishers weighed several titles. . . . Then Jim Harkins How about came up with, One Foot in Heaven? Churchill, the of the Tommy Dorsey-Jo- n Hall imbroglio, dyed her hair red and is in New York, trying to get a show job. . . . John Gart, the musical director, tells of a young in Hollywoood, asmale a famous film escort to signed beaut to a premiere. Next day he grumbled because it was such a terrible picture, he could hardly concentrate on it. . . . This Is Your FBI, official air program, Jane bit-play- er reveals: Americas annual crime bill is 17" billion dollars; its total education bill from kindergartens through colleges is less than four billion dollars. |