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Show Tuesday, August 19, 1947 fsmarmm m f m efepfoone Traces White Mouse History Smart Motifs for Brides Trousseau IfTr amm DREW PEARSON President Hayes Had First Phone in Executive Mansion (h Deadlock Over Korea GEN. ARCHER L. LERCH, military governor qf talk to reserve officers regave an cently expressing great pessimism regardmg U. S. relations with Russia in Korea. Latest efforts to get together with Rus-siGeneral Lerch said, may as well be written off as failure. MAJ. a, By BAUKBAGE aj NWi AnalyH and Commentator. WASHINGTON. Recently the President turned down a very flossy television set because he already had one. It was installed in the White House last January in time for Mr. Truman to "see the installation of the new Republican congress. However, I Imagine thi Innovation caused nowhere near the flurry among the White House staff that ensued on that day in 1878 when tbe first telephone instrument was put in. That was in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, the 19th president and that was the year In which the Democrats, who already had control of the house, acquired control In the senate as well. However, the opposition, when lt'fr " became the majority, made blunder said, "she doesn't need a number to after blunder. Mr. Hayes continued get her man. his administration with a quiet if Once she located Cornelius Vanperhaps somewhat monotonous dig- derbilt Jr. with no other clue than that he was motoring east from nity, until he was succeeded by another Republican, President Car-fiel- California. I don't know how- - many longI doubt if the even tenor of Mr. distance calls a day she put in at Hayes existence was frequently the peak of the war but I do know disturbed by the that the number of long-d- . stance ringing of the calls out of Washington Jumped from approximately 11,000 a day in telephone bell 1939 to well over 48,000 in 1945. Toor much of anything else for day they have dropped back to a little over 44,000 It is fair to asthat matter. Very few resi-- r sume that the White House calls dences or places have followed the same curve of business pounder the nimble-fingeredirection ssessed phones of Hackie. then. FurtherEven by 1935 It took five J more, the teleoperators In shifts to handle the phone was by no White Boose calls. At that time means accepted Mlse Hschmelster was the first ' as a means of snd only woman to operate a communication White Honse switchboard. for presidents or President Truman uses the teleBaukhage their entourages a good deal he has so phone In those days. In any case, the on Capitol Hill that friends many White House managed to limp along veentWfu ffmttv tV. J on one phone until the end of President Clevelands administration. By the 'time President McKinley entered the White House, all government offices had phones and I i they were accepted as every-danot were an but necessities, they i tA important element in the handling of White House business. I r When Teddy Roosevelt came In, despite his strenuous activities and what was considered then a somewhat revolutionary outlook, he made very little use of the telephone himself. Then along came Franklin Roose velt and the New Deal, a part of which was a branch exchange with more than 200 offl cial extensions and 20 outside trunk connections to handle the calls White House calling' became a f it -- i IT PAYS TO BE EDUCATED . . Some kind of high-watmark for radio quiz show prises must have been reached when $7,440 largest amount of money ever offered on a radio show went to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowler of Glen Rock, N. J., whom M. C Bert Parks Is congratulating here. Both in their aeventies, they are teachers in Paterson, N. J. er d. H f d if ? p y f T i j d. Then also came the first woman telephone operator and probably the most efficient of either sex that the White House ever had or will have in many a day. Louise "Hackie" is probably favorably known to more famous Users of the telephone than any other operator In history. Her genius in being able to locate people anywhere In the world has been the subject of many a story. Louis Howe, who introduced her to the President while she was working at Friends of Roosevelt headquarters, called her "the worlds greatest telephone detective" because, he Hach-meist- er Ml LOUISE IIACHMEISTER . . . doesn't need a number . . " his voice is almost as familiar over those branch lines as it was when he was a senatpr himself,, I don't know how much tun he gets out of the television set His bowling alley is pretty dusty anti the dirt doesn't often fly on his horseshoe pitching court or whatever the technical name of that arena is. As to the video." It can't be half the novelty to him that the telephone Instrument was to President Hayes. Russian Enigma Illustrated Boris Kreiov He has gone borne. was a member of the staff of Tass (official Soviet news agency), stationed for some three years in Washington. So tar as I have been able to learn, his American contacts, whlph were many, both official and personal, made not s tingle ideological Impact upon him or his way of thinking He upheld the Russian cause: he talked more freely than most Russians in a or official capacity do but (also so far as I can learn) he never offered the slightest compromise of viewpoint, never accepted any argument or explanation of democratic (American-style- ) methods of thought or action. And yet and here is the thing that baffled most of oe be was well-likehe was good company, mnd If we could have found the tiniest peg on which to hang an Idea, he would have Inspired us to write about Russia with a heart, as a Russian woman Interpreter Is reported to have begged of Sam Welles, Times correspondent semi-offici- d, In Moscow'. We wonder about Boris. We would have liked so much to sit down and talk frankly and freely with him about the common problems and the still more common between our misunderstandings countries. Was he able to appear so and charming ly genial because he held such high rank at home that he wasn't afraid to consort. as far as personal matters went, as a trusting friend Was he so deeply indoctrinated In the Ideology of that he was filled with pity rather than the typical suspicion which seems to permeate relations? most Russian-AmericaOne slight clue we have, though it may be a false one. Once, at a rather Intimate gathering, Krelova hostess finally grew a little impatient and said something like this: "Listen here. Boris, we're friends Surely you can be frank with us and-friend- Marxism-Lemn-ism-Statis- n and explain nment" why your gover- Before she could finish (he guessed what was coming) he held up his hand. "Please, he said with a dis- arming smile that took the sting out of hla words, "We are having such a pleasant time, but you force me te say this: 1 cannot explain what you wish because you people are Just too stupid to understand Commu- nism. If that sentiment Is a sincere and typical expression of how -- the men who run Russia feel, the road ahead is a rocky one. Kipling once put into verse the problem he felt the foreigner faced In trying to understand the American. What he said might be applied to Russia: " Inopportune , shrill accented, the acrid Astatic mirth that leaves him, earliest smd hit dead, the scandal of the elder earth. How shall he clear himself, bow reach your bar or weighed defense prefer a brother hedged usth alien speech and lacking all interpreter f" Mark Birthday of Atom; Hungarian Attitude Hit ANNIVERSARY: Bells Tolled protests to come from the state department since American planes were shot down over Yugoslavia a In Hiroshima, Japan, the hellt tolled. People of the city stood year ago, the note marked the first official unpleasantry to be delivered silently in prayer for a moment, then went on about the business by the United States to the puppet of living. Hungarian regime. It was the second anniversary of The incident grew out of the arthe radiant, consuming flash of the rest of Stephen T. Thuransky, an worlds first atomic bomb American citizen, for his alleged Hiroshima, which saw 92,000 of its revolTing and scandalizing vilificacitizens Immolated in that uncontions in public" of Hungarys presitrollable outburst of energy in 1945, dent and other government memwas perhaps the one place on earth bers. Thuransky, his wife and two where the bomb could be thought daughters later were taken into cusot ti a reality. Everywhere else tody by U. S. legation officials and it was a nightmarish, Damoclean removed to Vienna. sword; but In Hiroshima the people In the protest note, the state dewere paying It assort of fantastic partment pointed out that the arand bewildered adulation. rest of an American citizen on pureand thay ly political charges is absolutely They tolled bells, planned the building of a modern Inadmissible under the armistice city with a peace memorial at the agreement which prevails in Hunspot over which the bomb had been gary. Also, officials of the Hungaridropped. an ministry of the interior were At other points across the globe, accused of being uncooperative in the atomic age was living up to its the extreme and in some cases awful reputation by wringing fearinsolent. some comments and predictions who are supposed to know VIVA: frommen about 1L Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of Toreador Orson Welles, the man who didnt University of Chicago, said that two atom bombs which now could be come from Mars, has found himmanufactured would make the Unit- self, to put it politely, on the horns ed States uninhabitable if exploded of a dilemma. The simultaneously. He made it a comgenius was We quoted recently as saying he had plete Jeremiad by adding, know that some other country will killed 20 bulls, and immediately he have the atomic bomb within five was challenged by another actor, We know that when that Fortunio Bonanova. to enter the years. happens we are all set for the final ring at Tijuana, Mexico, and perform for the benefit of catastrophe. In constructive moment. Dr. charity. Said the Spanish-bor- n Bonanova Robert Oppenheimer, atom pioIn an open letter to Welles, neer, said that nsable electrical Killing i power derived from atomic en20 bulls is a lot of killing, neglecting to add that it is also a lot of ergy may be available by 1952. But everybody knew that the Unit- bulls. "So let us do a corrida (series of ed States was stressing development and production of the atomic bomb fights) this season in Tijuana for the motion picture relief fund. I to build a stockpile for utter destruction. And everybody knew that am sure the impresario would give Russia was laboring furiously to- us a Sunday afternoon. What do ward the same ends you say to two bulls apiece? Admission: Shady side, $2; sun The people of Hiroshima did well to toll bells two years after they ny side, $1. felt the bomb It brought to mind ALEUTIANS: an old, poetic question Did the bells herald a wedBases Retained ding or a funeral? The Aleutian islands, that long, cold chain of fog bound rocks which INSOLENCE: started many an American G I. Slop Hands talking to himself during the war. The United States, visibly irked is being integrated into the pattern of the North American defense sysby "recent actions of the new Communistic Hungarian government, tem vented its diplomatic rage in a General of the Army Dwight stinging note which accused Hun- Eisenhower has revealed that the framework of strategic bases m the gary of inadmissibly insolent conduct toward American diplomats Aleutians is being kept intact for in that country. rapid expansion if necessary. Second cause for U S. anger was After having paid a visit to the the arrest and beating in Budapest continents northernmost line of deof an American citizen and the subfense, General Eisenhower said that sequent unsatisfactory explanation the islands were not being abanof the incident offered by Hungarian doned, but Were undergoing a "conofficials traction and concentration of mill One of the most harshly worded tary potential. wheat acreage of nation have ever planted may be realized in 1948 If the department of agricultures revised goal of 75 million acres is met next year. That mark Is a five million-acr- e Increase from the pattern recommended last year and a seven boost over the wheat goal set last spring before the corn outlook took on its gloomy cast Continued and unremitting international demand for food grains influenced the agriculture department into making the upward revision. While officials admitted that the increased acreage constitutes an invitation to farmers to plant heavily in wheat they cautioned against million-acr- e Oddities in the Big Burg Radio City has three employees whose duties consist of picking up In the year ciggie butts all day 2015 Rockefeller Centers maze of skyscraper buildings will become the property of Columbia university without cost. How Times Change: At the turn of the century a shave and haircut In the Big Burg cost two-bitTipping was taboo. . . . The reason some of the old brownstones have blue windows: At one time it was believed that sunlight streaming through blue glass was very healthful. s. -- bull-fighti- U.S. Boosts - Fourth largest the farmers this WALTER W1NCHELL ... NEWS REVIEW 75 MILLION ACRES Washington. What caused the deadlock was recognition of political parties, since Rusi, sia would tiot recognize any Korean parties not controlled by Communists. General Lerch also revealed: (1) Russias agrarian reforms In northern Korea have backfired. Northern native farmers, oppressed by a 50 per cent tax sn produce and strict control under the cooperative system, sre drifting south across the 38th parallel. (2) Border incidents have been reduced along the Rnssian-America- n line. However, two Russian soldiers, prowling (or rice below the border, were shot and killed by Korean police. (3) Only 53 Japs are left in southern Korea all hospital cases. (4) Russia, which controls the Industrial half of the country. Is permitting a smooth flow pf electricity into the American zone V without interference. General Lerch said he was not worried about too many Koreans becoming converted to communism. "Koreans," he said, "could never be regimented into communism, I am sure. 1948 Wheat Goal not suited for sustained farming in order to take advantage of high wheat prices However, an even more important factor in. determining the nations wheat acreage in 1948 will be the lure of the two market price Department authori- Estimating on the basis of a average yield figure of 14 3 bushels an acre, the crop in 1948 would be 1 07 billion bushels, but if the outturn follows the 1942-4- 6 average of 16 3 bushels an acre, production would reach 1 221 billion bushels. ties admitted that high market In the wake of this years bumper prices will do more to dictate the crop, a much smaller 1948 wheat amount of wheat planted than could yield normally would be indicated; any arbitrarily assigned govern- however, the world food shortage ment goal. makes it desirable, according to deThe department said the 75 millio- partment that the spokesmen, n-acre goal, if achieved, would United States continue its high rate provide the fourth largest wheat of 'production. The United Nations acreage the farmers In the United has warned that the world food sitStates have ever planted Higher uation has not improved in the past plantings occurred in 1919, 1937 and year, and predicts shortages will 1938. continue another two years plowing up sod-land- s Slavery was abolished in Manhattan before the Revolutionary war exploded . . . Its well known that New York once was called New Amsterdam. But fora few years it srtiart motifs are a must New THESE also had another monicker: trousseau of the bride-to-bin Orange. . . . Scientists claim the as decorative as Theyre land that makes up lower Manhatare useful. Three different they tan is probably the oldest known designs. part of the earths surface to e. do Pattern Colorful, practical, easy 1321 has transfer of 14 motifs 2 by 2 to Many of the jeuels in the door of 12 by 10 . Inches. the tabernacle at the lattle Church Our improved pattern visual with Around the Corner are stones from the asy-tsee charts and photos, and com. . plete directions makes needlework eas rings of u omen married there Maiden Lane gots Us name because Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept Dutch maidens once washed their San Francisco S, Calii Box 3217 clothes in a brook there. Enclose 20 cents tor Pattern o No WALTER SHE AD . Name- - Doom to Veterans Loans why veterans are failing to obtain loans under is the fact that the 80th congress has clipped the power of Reconstruction Finance corporation to purchase these mort gages from banks The 79th congress, which passed the G I bill, gave RFC authority to purchase mortgages on homes where the loans had been guaranteed by Veterans administration under terms of the G.I bill The authority under which the RFC purchased these mortgages expired June 30 When the new law was passed by this congress extending the RFC for another year and slashing its loan authority from something like If billion dollars to two billion dollars, congress not only swept away the only source of small business and small industrial loans but refused tc give RFC authority to purchase G I. home, busmess and farm mortgage main reasons ONE ofG the I Bill of Rights Address- - Poos Ive Known.. by (2x umA Ikcjcsa loans Banks throughout the country, therefore, have no outlet for disposal of these loans and must hold them in their own portfolios, and from all over the country veterans are finding it almost im- -, possible to obtain home loans no matter how well they are armed with letters of eligibility. Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama introduced a bill in the last minute rush of congress seeking to extend this authority of the RFC. fl. I. PHILLIPS jtr Treasure Hunt of Long Ago William OKeefe, who used to be a reporter back home, wants to know rf we ever heard of a morning paper publisher many years ago safe one day who moved a half-toto get at a nickel beneath it, and explained, after a severe injury to his back, I wouldnt have moved it only I thought it was a dime n And be tells the one of the fellow who, urged to take another drink by a friend pretty well under the weather, refused. "Oh, come on, "If anybody the friend argued. notices anything, Ill say its my breath." "Perhaps, was the answer, "but suppose they also ask, T that your stagger? VANISHING A MERIC ANISMS " House to Let. S20 a Month VTstf Heat. " Everybody is entitled to a summer location, and it doesn't cost much. Strikes Doesnt like the food hes getting and makes no secret of it. If only his mistress would dish Ribbon Crisp. Toasted. up Gro-Pu- p Made with 23 essential nutrients. Economical, too. One box supplies as much food In dry weight as five also comes cans of dog food! Gro-Pu- p Feed all three. In Meal and In Pel-Etti. DogsGoJfa " All You Can Eat for tl.25.K GROUP " Mommer , may I bring a couple oj friends home to dinner ? "Corn Crop Much Improved. Headline. "Listening in on the radio I would think it waa the best ever, says J. J. W. IRfGDRIlKIIBNATEI 1M wHW Jml tilt By wll CmI so kmm wsttf is r jan. Ma prMikiaf. ter Uivtanl mm. PAUL MALLON liXy EAGLE BRAND Drinking Wafer gag Weakness of Russia Military Russian the of has been made of the army superior size military men frequently mentioned this recently to get then appropriations through congress. But little or nothing has been reported of the critical military weaknesses of Russia. She may be an isolated economic and political power existing behind an iron curtain, but from the military standpoint, she is wide open from the air on three sides, and extremely vulnerable in oil The custom Is to regard Russia as unconquerable because of her vast spaces. Hitlers military mistake was in attempting to devour more than he could chew. No one seems to think of Russias far vaster, outer circumference of defense, which is really too extensive to be defensible. The But these considerations run beyond current military realities Russia which has become so aggressive in the world of politics, does not comprise eight million square miles, but the few square miles occupied by its few thousand political leaders, chiefly in a few large cities (say Moscow and Leningrad) Russia could be effectively isolated in war from the rest of the world On the other hand, the atomic missile and without much difficulty. other bombing rocket threats against her are somewhat dulled by her farflung distribution of Industry (except oil) For our part, defense against nse of snch missiles is oar most vital necessary concern. We are protected everywhere except In the air. We are protected In every way excepting from atomic possibilities and missiles. In these baskets most of onr eggs may now be put. We must think of atomic defense, not offense. 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