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Show TIIE SAUNA SUN, U.N.COST: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Spectacles One Dime Each New Aids Asked for Farm Support; Coal Industry Seeks Strike Peace; Unemployment Surges to flew Peaks iFDITOK'I) Yriero NOTE: IVhea pinions are iprtisfd In (brio columns, they ire those ef not DtcennJy of till ur wpper.) nows nisto I nlon Sewtpiper Communist? FARM SUPPORTS: New Aids Asked Charles Brannan, U.S. secretary of agriculture, was still plumping for adoption of his (Brannan plan) system for farm price supports, aids must arguing that new price now. te provided Pointing out that there is trouble getting rid of 1048 farm surpluses even as 194Q surpluses are pouring in, Brannan said the disposal problem "points to the need of supplementary action on price supports, to more particularly with respect efficient methods than procedures for handling price supports of per- ishable commodities. THE agriculture secretary may have had a point there, but tbe main question was: Would his plan of letting farm products find their own levels on the price market, with subsidies making up the difference provide an adequate so lution? unUp to this point, he had been able to convince congress that it would. What luck he would have in the future was wholly problematical. But there was no arguing the to be point that something needed done to clear up the muddled farm price support program. As it was being operated, federal farm policy seemed to be getting worse the farther it went. Brannan was eminently correct when he admitted that the present price support system programs on one "encourage on hand, and the other . . . and to find sufficiently new uses for the surpluses, or to divert them into channels at anything comparable to the support price usually is impossible." SUMMING UP, Brannan said: "Briefly, the outlook includes the likelihood of some further contraction In the total demands for U S farm products and points to the need for adjustment in production If a favorable price level is to be maintained " The problem indeed was a grave one and made even more grave by the fact that the administration may be caught in a trap that has been long in the making a trap created by the fact that having so long experienced the subsidy aid as ia, farmers wont like any tampering with the program and might visit their ill will on anyone who may do so. n n LEWIS: A Fine Largess John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America a labor union which does not pay its members strike benefits and which subjects them to untold misery and hardship during strike perwas offering a victory-flusheiod loan to the C I O. United Autmobile Workers d A sensation was caused in British political circles when Lord Beaverbrook's conservative London livening Standard named War Minister John Htraehry (above) "an avowed Communist." COAL: A Look Ahead The most crippling coal strike In the nations history had come to an end Miners were pouring bark into the pits and allied industries, faced with a threat of total shutdown, were reviving and calling men back to work. John L. Lewis, United Mine Worker chieftian, apparently had won again. He had obtained a raise in pay for the miners along with additional health and welfare ben-eft- But as the nation relaxed with a sigh of relief that the production-stothreat had been removed, leaders in the coal industry began to look farther ahead -- to examine methods by which a permanent coal peace might be won. p Leading mine operators stated hoped to complete arrangements to have Harry W. Moses, head of the "captive" mine subsidiaries of the United States Steel corporation, to leave big steel and devote all his tune to handling the coal industry's dealings with Lewis. APPOINTMENT of Moses as a full time representative of the soft coal industry in its relations with the UMW is designed as a move to end the chaotic conditions that have existed in the mine fields for years. The move has the support o." virtually all the principal operators in the north and west and was expected to win strong favor among southern operators as well. A lasting industry peace has long been the goal of operators and the public, which is beginning to tire of the almost annual war of nerves between the mine union boss and operators while the nation stands almost helpless without fuel. they JOBLESS: THE PURPOSE of the loan would be to help the UAW win new contracts from Chrysler and General Motors. Lewis wrote Walter Reuther, head of the giant auto workers union, that improvements in the coal industry were fought by money interests linked with "the financial group Again jobless numbers in the United States had catapulted to a new high, and again the federal which dominates He added that this aid is needed so "your union may be assured beyond preadventure, of success In Reuther was Us present struggle. in the midst of a long strike for pensions at Chrysler corporation. At the time of Lewis offer, it was estimated UAW workers had lost 35 million dollars in pay and the company 250 million dollars. Help for Reuther was authorized at a jubilant meeting of Lewis with his top union aides, where Lewis was said to have boasted that he had "licked" the Injunction provision of the law, inasmuch as a federal court injunction issued under the law failed to halt the coal strike. MOST of the big U.S. industrial concerns feared that Lewis' victory over the coal operators in the matter of wage increases and additional health and welfare benefits would touch off a series of strikes as other unions sought to do as well for themselves. Coal was being mined again and industry's wheels were turning, but the immediate future appeared grim and uncertain. The question seemed to be: When and where will the next strike erupt? It seemed inevitable to even a casual observer that another round of wage-hik- e fights was in the making DESPITE THE FACT that many Industrial and economic leaders professed to see danger in the situation. the commerce department came up with the usual bland, unconcerned explanation as to the cause of the big jump in unemploy- strike-emergenc- y Taft-Ilartle- y FRENCH-SAAR- : commerce department appeared unperturbed about it. Unemployment rose to 4, (184.000 In February the highest figure 1941 since when the total was 5,620.000. ment. was stated in January when figures appeared alarming, commerce department boss said: "The slight rise in unemployment between January and February (204,000) appears to be due mainly to seasonal increase in the labor force and not to any cutbacks In employment. But was that the case? Wasnt it logical to assume that an "increase in the labor force" meaning unemployed but available labor meant a corresponding lack of employment for that same force. IT WAS SIGNIFICANT, many observers felt, that the figure as reported did not include striking workmen, a fact that meant the unemployment picture was not distorted in that sense. Why was unemployment apparHow ently steadily increasing would the "seasonal turnover" explanation hold water? Ifthere were serious threat of widespread unemployment in the nation, it the government should seemed ascertain the fact As Jobless ARCTIC ARMY U.S. Worried United States high level diplomats had a new and aggravating problem on their hands: The sud denly critical French German split over the Saar region. The situation was complicated when France and the dent government of the coal-ricSaar signed a pact under which France would take the Saar's coal for the next 50 years, which the German chancellor resented. semi-indepe- APPEAHING for the first time this week, the new publication reports that Sen Herbert R. OConor of Maryland, chairman of the senate committee on expenditures in the executive departments which recently issued a report asking tiiat the U N. reduce its expenditures for the United Nations a r its affiliates, thinks that a dime per capita is too much. Congress- woman Helen Gahagan Douglas, on tiie otiier hand, says it is too little; wh.le Sen. Estes Kefauver is quoted as saying it is about The U N. Gram, which tells subscribers about the United Nations, in this issue objectively presents each of these three viewpoints. Buttressing Senator OConor' "too much" point, it states: "In- ternatiunulism, plus national de- fense, is a luxury. U.N.'s budget is just the start: each specialized agency asks more. How can the little nations pay? Supporting the "too little" ap- proach of Congresswoman Douglas, it says: "New York City, U.N.s permanent home, pays more for garbage disposal than U.N.s annual cost; its subway deficit would run tiie U N. for six months." union. e UN GRAM. right. Hit New Peak wage-welfar- Each citizen of the United States pays less than a dime fur his share of the basic United Nations annual Judget. At least three members of congress disagree on whether this is too much, too little, or about right, according to the first issue of a weekly wall newspaper in color, the AND BACKING up Sentor "just right" viewpoint, it argues: "Upping the U.N. budget, by forcing out poorer members, would make it a "rich mans club. If the U.S. paid the increase, still others might resign, charging that the U N. was the "creature" of the United States. "Our qim," states publisher Wallace Thorsen, "is to get people thinking and talking about the United Nations and the Job it is doing in building the world community." "We try. In this and all subsequent issues, to present a simple, objective analysis of the problems faced by the worlds only machinery for peace, to anyone with the time and inclination to pause before a bulletin board long enough to read the U N. Gram a matter of minutes. men Correction Seven-in-O- MASS. The SOUTHBRIDGE. correction of spectacles by grinding the lena to take care of seven specific defaults has been reported here. The American Optical company, which did the job, believes there has never been a similar instance and challenges the world to top it achievement. The glassea were for a man whose eyes needed seven different corrections and he wanted all the corrections in one pair. Heres what had to be corrected: First is nearsightedness. Second is need of a special glass for seeing intermediate distances. Third is a defect in his These three were met by triThese took care of nearsightedness and of medium distance. A special curve had to be ground into the farsighted part of the lenses to get his distance-seein- g right. Fourth, a curve ground to correct double vision. This was done in the part of the lenses. Fifth, one lens is wedge shaped, its top edge thicker than the bottom, because one eye cocks up higher than the other. Sixth, a special curve over everything to correct aniseikonia, which is seeing images of different si2es with one eye as compared with the other. To do this, separate lenses were made, then fused on top of the trifocals. Seventh, ultraviolet light hurt his eyes, and the lenses were made of a glass which absorbs these rays. Five pieces of ophthalmic glass were used instead of the usual on piece. focals. close-up-seein- g Weariness of Coeds Becomes Concern Of Health Officials Q Each spring, Florida State university campus at Tallahassee takes on the atmosphere and trappings of a circus "btg top," as students begin tryouts and rehearsals for the annual circus production, "Flying High." regularly - enrolled is eligible and competition is keen for ext parts in the travaganza. Coach Jack Haskins, who directs the show, has been in amateur circus work for 19 years and designs most of the equipment used. Costumes for the acts are designed by circus girls majoring in art at the university. In the photo at top, a very pretty "catch" for these per-- . formers is Bobs Ellery, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., student circus performer. Any student 20-ac- NEW YORK. The weary coed is a major concern to university and college health officials. In an interview, Dr. Ruth E. Boynton, of Cornell, and Dr. Ruth Collings, Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Indicated that fatigue is the most common complaint among college women. FARM UNION: Only infrequently, they said, could the condition be traced to a Asks Red 'Borgain physical cause. In most cases, the From a surprising source came girls are tired from the sheer a plea for the United States to weight of trying to do too much. "strike a bargain" with Russia and Social pressures and the press of to spend 150 billion dollars in the extra - curricular activities were next 15 years on the undeveloped held largely responsible. "Acadeareas of the world. mic obligations in themselves." said Dr. Collings, "are seldom heavy THE SOURCE was James Patton, president of the National Farmenough to cause such disturbances." ers Union. Patton said, "Somehow, I believe we will be able to find Both doctors, confirming the cona way to live in this world with clusions of a conference panel on peoples who differ in viewpoint as women's health, felt that a psychoto type of economy and social syslogical approach rather than a medtems. ical was indicated. Wise counseling, "Let us try to strike a bargain they said, can overcome the false with those whom we are fighting drives which "force college girls in the cold war along with peaceful into trying too hard to be popular or he went on, so that all of to be campus activity leaders." lines, Next most prevalent fatigue, they us can lay dowm our arms. "Let us lead out in America by tndicated, are the problems of unplacing at the disposal of the peo- derweight and overweight. Underple of the world an annual credit weight, they attributed the motivaof 10 billion dollars for the next tions similar to those which cause of en15 years for the purpose of buildfatigue an a to and "fashdrive remain ergy on TVAs the Danube and the ing Overweight is freYangtze, and for building man's ionably svelte. quently caused by overeating to productivity in all of the undecompensate for personal satisfacveloped areas of the world." PRESIDENT PATTON'S propo- tions which are lacking. Here again, sal was magnanimous, generous, the psychological approach was but withal mostly stressed. Ailments which formerly hospitalIt would delight those visionary. who operate on the theory that ized students, they reported, are America can buy peace and good generally on the decrease in camwill with its dollars. puses throughout the country, as the result of the introduction of They might even add that America must be the most hated nation penicillin and other in the world, inasmuch as it appears it has no friends except those AA Rejects $10,000 Gift who are won and kept with money. As Against Principles O Apparently ready to leap from this high trapeze is coed Betty Ann Holland (left) a junior at the university. the campus she's the top" "big "gal on the she's real- What flying trapeze." do here is to to ly getting ready into foot difficult a revolve, go one of the most spectacular acts of the campus circus. In r jf t, j j. j j j I anti-biotic- Another Shirley NEW YORK. Alcoholics Anony- mous Intergroup Association o f New York rejected a $10,000 legacy bequeathed by a grateful woman member. A spokesman explained that of property or money, other than that raised by passing the hat at their own meetings, tended to divert members from their primary task of rehabilitating alcoholics. In Germany they are comparing s I Dagmar Glombig to America's Shirley Temple when the latter was rising to stardom as a child In is the Hollywood. Dagmar daughter of composer snd conductor Kberhard Glombig and has played in several German films. RUSSIA: Parley Proposed That there was at least a posnever Large masses could be pitted against each other sibility of a Big Four meeting in Alaska, or other Arctic wastes, including Russia taking place was as they were in the last war, ac- indicated by a report from Tarts cording to military experts who that the three western foreign minled the recent mock warfare in the isters, meeting in London, would but Alaska they d scuss the matter. French Forcouldn't agree on why that is the eign Minister Robert Schuman was the authority for the statement. case One reason given was diffiFrom culty of transporting supplies, ananother authoritative other was that there simply isn't source came word that the Big Three would "study the problems." enough room. of UTAn S ALIN A, "Members have discovered they cannot mix money and its management with the spiritual nature of the work they are trying to do." he said. So, like the fellow at the end of the bar who has learned the hard way what's best for him, they, too, have said 'No' to this offer of 'One on the house. Man Couldn't Put on Coat, O Here efire" (right) is another "sur- audience - getter a "one -- arm swivel" by these two performers. Television and newsreel cameramen get a worms' eye view of the stunt as the scene, for the university's "Flying High" circus is being perfected under tutelage of Professor Jack Haskins, circus coach. O In photo above. Bob bie Jones, St. Petersburg, and Charles Floyd, Pensacola, show their form in an "iron jaw" routine on the high wire over the University performed N C. -- William Hill is quite a man. He told police that when he couldn't get his overcoat on, he looked to see why and there was an ice pick sticking right out of his chest. He remembered having a fight with several men the night before, he said, but he didn't remember how that ice pick got there. He pulled it out and walked next door, where he sumoned an ambu lance Doctors who treated the wound near his left collarbone said he would be all right. belts , Florida practice every day for three hours in between their academic closses. In training the acts are Finds Ice Pick in Chest WINSTON-SALEM- of campus circus training ground. The students with and safety near the ground; but as skills develop, the acts go higher, the safety belts are abandoned. As shown in the photo at left. Bob Wetland ond Nacy Bennett start an acrobatic act during a special showing of the production. Bob seems to have gotten a head start on his partner. |