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Show LAYTON JOURNAL, LAYTON, UTAII, THURSDAY, MARCH ji Vasl s ' JL . .. .. i':' 17, 1949 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS , Truman Threatens to Take Battle On Legislative Program to People; MacArthur Sees No Russian Attack .. (EDITORS NOTE: Whea oplnloa ara ctpreS la (beta eolumai. they ara thota ol Weitara Newipaper Uniuai aewa aaalyau a ad not aeeettarUy ot thla acaripapcr.) All Aboard! Preiident Truman, who obvloua-lregards himself as the man y - ' '. ' V- ' ft ; r'T; - yi - vrh ; tk Ak- - tiizs3S d5sr J-- Tt .. ivf Atfr:rtf1 3 Ki,! I- ; t A V v vcrr5 "t . V.? i , 'j, I - V . . As- -i - ', V ' ,' .j iH57 f( J i''"! L ' 'i! ' .y;x- - - . , ' 4 -' , f r ,4 t'rt- - ' ' mA j v S v'', ' t,kiH vv4i .1 - " ' "I Mush No More ... in northern Manitoba, Canada, they have a new kind of called the "Bombardier, the proponents of which claim it will go any where on snow or ice at a clip, regardless of snowdrifts. And the word around the frozen wastes of the North is that this con traption soon will supersede the dog teams and sleds which for generations have been the only practicable means of Up mow-mobi- mile-a-minu- le f , x jA , ; A A ju te 3? snow-travelli- transportation in the aurora borealis country. (Incidentally, the fresh cheeked young thing sitting on the ice man's lap is Shirley Cane of Alberta. She's a skier and really doesn't belong with the rest of these pictures; but it's all right, isn't it?) At the right Is a man whose storied occupation apparently is destined for extinction. He is a dog team driver a figure right out of the gripping history of the North and he stands bundled against the temperature in layers of leather, fur ond wool, protected from mishap by the polished trophy foot hanging around his neck. minus-50-degre- ,g A es Sn 'A" the of the rigorous onslaughts northern winter by steel, a gasoline engine and all of man's ingenuity, the Bombar dier stands ready to zoom over Canadian snowfields. Six rub ber tires propel a highly flex ible track, and steering is con trolled through two front skis. e Capable of making a run and back in two days (it takes a dog team 10 days), the Bombardier already has changed the living habits of people formerly dependent on the dog team Bulwarked against 300-mil- once-a-mon- th mail delivery. ' f j with a mandate, was tossing some not too subtle threats toward congressmen Inhospitable to bis legislative proposals. Keep fooling with me, he said. In effect, and Ill hit the old stump again and you know what that means. The President meant that If congress didn't set about soon enacting into law the pledges he made to the people during the November campaign, hed hit the trail again and take the issue to the people the way Franklin D. Roosevelt used to do. felt MR. TRUMAN apparently that by so doing be could whip public sentiment up to such a pitch that congress would be forced to go along with his program, or else face possible defeat in the 1950 elections. Not having the vocal equipment of his predecessor, who could get desired results with his fireside chats, Mr. Truman would have to climb aboard a train if he wanted to Influence the masses. Strangely enough, congress didnt seem unduly perturbed at the Presidents threat. Things went along In congressional procedure about as usual, with Republicans charging that the 81st congress is do nothing also a congress, while Democratic members were Inviting comparison with the do nothing 80th congress. IT WAS READILY evident that Mr. Truman was needled by lack of congressional action on his prohis campaign gram. Reiterating pledges of last fall, in which he declared the central issue was the Mr. welfare of all the people, Truman asserted that lobbyists, pressure groups, and controlled editorial pages, columnists and commentators were offering determined opposition to his legislative program. All we have on our side, he said, is the people. Pointing out that he found on his campaign tour that the people of the nation are concerned about their government, Mr. Truman termed that concern a "fine thing. I propose to )o all I can to help it along, he added. Then he hurled the threat: In fact, I may even get on the train again and make another tour around the country to tell the people how their government is getting on. INTS on Japan: 4. ... trigger. The bullet ran around the Inside of his false teeth, came out his :3 vt mouth. Dr. J. E. Grtmby, who treated Hatfield for a cut tongue, said the man was alive because: The bullet was 10 years old. The false teeth were in its way. Answers Critics Try removing fresh fruit stains from washable fabrics by boiling the stained part in milk if they are boiled long enough, all sign of stain should disappear. Cut off the feet and tops of worn out stockings and slip the rest over shoes before putting the shoes away. The hose will keep the shoes from getting dusty. s, h rs Phone Aid Advances house subcommittee has approved a bill to let the government make loans for a vast expansion of telephone service to farm areas. The unanimous action came after the committee had adopted amendments aimed at protecting existing telephone companies and encouraging the development of rural telephones by private industry The bill authorizes REA to make loans at 2 interest A 35-ye-ar Former Gov. Mon C. Wallgren, Washington, nominated by President Truman to head the national security resources board, denies critics charges at committee hearing. He was accused of being soft toward communHe branded the charges ism. ridiculous and silly. WAR TALK: Little Eose-u- p d 200-inc- Ste. Marie, Ontario, George Hatfield put the barrel of a .22 calibre rifle in his mouth and d pre-wa- star-studde- Save Life In Sault , and OUSEHOLD "Even if the Soviet government' had aggressive intentions toward Japan, Russia would be incapable of carrying them out unless she. could secure mastery of the air and either had a far Eastern fleet of her own or possessed the means of neutralizing any action by our fleet.' Russia could not obtain air pre-- i On he went on. dominance, Okinawa I had constructed at thej end of the war 25 airfields with the capacity to dispatch then our largest bombers, on 3,500 missions a day. The whole of east-- j em Asia from Singapore to Vladi-- 1 vostok would lie within range of those machines. HE DID NOT point out that with development of the bombing arm of the air force since the war, even INFLATION: distances for bombing purfarther Has Two Faces poses could be covered by present-da- y Observers purportedly on the inmissile carriers. side of things in Washington reOf the function of Japan in the gard approval of the congressional American strategy of defense, Mac-- t committee on the economic report Arthur said: Mr. Truman's proposal for conWe never intended to use Japan trols to ward off inflation as lip as an ally. All we want her to do service only and argue that none is remain neutraL of the committee expect the proposal to win congressional favor. UNIVERSE: It was said the favorable committee report was made only to No Limits? save face" for the President as Since the first man lifted his he seeks to implement the pledges head and gazed in puzzled awe at he made in his election campaign. a sky, mankind has THE COMMITTEE vote, which been trying to discover the secrets will send the measure to the floor of the universe. of congress, was 7 to 4 for approval, To that end, the huge, and that came only after the pro- Palomar mountain telescope was' posals of the President had been built and put into operation. toned down. But the telescopes first contribuCritics of the Truman plan say tion to the sum of mans knowledge it poses the unique theory that the of the universe served only to deepcountry is in the midst of an in- en the mystery. flation and deflation period at the Astronomers using it found that same time a condition admittedly there is no outer edge to the unidifficult of comprehension. verse of stars, and the look they They assert, too, that it would took was twice as far as man has give dangerous controls to the ever looked before. President at a time when they acThe astronomers got some pictually are not needed. tures of nebulae a billion One commentator observed that distant and spaced about a if any members of the committee million s apart. Each one considering the proposal had had is a world of stars, like the Milky any idea it would be enacted by the Way The star worlds are about congress, it would have been killed uniformly spread up to the previcompletely before it ever got to the ous limits of sight, about a, halffloor of the house or senate. billion light years. THE NEXT STUDY will be to find whether there is any thinning JAPAN: ot the celestial families as sight is Reds Answered extended outward. The Russians had an answer to One stunning fact the discovery what would happen If they ever brought home was that there is moved on Japan. more than one star for every huGen. Douglas MacArthur, in a man being who ever lived. Nearly special interview, declared that he every star family, or nebulae, condid not expect any attack upon tains more than a hundred million Japan by the Russians, but if that individual stars. Now it is science concurring In occurred, we," meaning the United States, should certainly de- the psalm: 'The heavens declare fend her. the glory of God, and the firmaTHE ENTIRE IDEA of a Rus- - ment showeth His handiwork pulled the material d YOU have a problem stor- ing extra bed linen, clothing, or just about one hundred other orticns everyone collects and doesnt know where to put, this under the bed storage chest should be of interest to you. While the pattern offered below suggests building a chest approximately 30" wide, 42" long by Easi-Bil- DENTURES: A sinewy team of Intel fes.Nv' ligenf huskies pose for Hardened to snow, posterity. ice and winter wind, they have been more than a friend to man in northern Canada. Now mechanization is outpacing them. below-standar- fF n light-year- . are Storage Problems there is little market tor them. This is the tenor of reports from 108 private employment agencies in 42 principal cities from coast to coast, surveyed by the family economics bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance company. THE "WEEDING OUT process is now on in full swing, agency executives report, as employers prune down working forces to eliminate the lazy, the inefficient, the chronic absentees and the chronically tardy, who don't realize that the wartime has rumbled to a stop, gravy-traiand the era of competition is back. The biggest drop has occurred in 6 deep, it can be built to any jobs for untrained and junior office length required. One of the big help, particularly male, the survey features of this chest, beside ample storage facilities, is its finds. But there is still a nationwide demand for salesmen and utilization of unused space. 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W. tions much more thoroughly. tributors for ber work in the film, The great majority of employers Pleasantvllle, N. Y. Simon Peter, Fisherman, in dealt with are uncertain as to the which she portrayed Concordia. future, agencies report, but optimists slightly outnumber pessimists. slan attack on Japan held a bizarre Most r employers feel that aspect With the U.S. as chief oc- - competition is here again, and with cupaiion force, how could the, it the immediate necessity of trimSoviets launch an attack of the1 ming costs and sharpening effiJapanese without, in effect, making ciency at every possible corner. The A sprig of mint and a maraschino war on the United States? is busi. that good cherry frozen into each ice cube in prevailing attitude But, General MacArthur evidentness can be had by means of in- your electric refrigerator makes ly held the subject serious enough creased efforts, if pending legisla- the serving of cold drinks more to comment about it. attractive. tion does not turn out too unfavoraIn case of another war, we do concerns are reported as many bly; not want Japan to fight, Mac-- 1 Clean your silver the easy way time on their future proArthur said. Japans role is to be markinguntil sour milk. Leave silver in a with how can the see they grams the Switzerland of the Pacific, he new of sour milk for about a half pan tax program and labor law an hour, then remove silver to anexplained. other pan and pour scalding water THEN HE MADE a telling pointl shape up. over it. in speculation of a Russian attack1 light-yea- I For White Collar There are many fewer white collar Job openings than a year ago in most U. S. cities, but high grade personnel is still In demand. The volume of particularly men, is up all the way from ten per cent to as much as 300 per cent, but a heavy majority of the applicants Wins Film Award TRUMAN: , This Chest Solves FEWER JOBS ! In the There was little ease-utalk of possible war. War rumors were still flying, the latest reporting that the Russians had strengthened their garrisons border. along the A Finnish source was credited with the report. The informant said the Russian troops had come from the Murmansk area. 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