Show r feT StAndJJere ‘ Weyhjave By EDWARD EMERINE New York Symphony: WNU features Silhouettes In the Night: Fannie we have Idaho —fabulous sunsets lakes of gold Hurst and her pup in the Park at crack of the dreamy purple mountains million stars in the Tony Eden yawn the diplomat checking his luggage dark blue sky and moonlight on the sagebrush canyons and at LaGuardia Frank gorges sand dunes and crystal lakes stunted desert brush Airport Thinatra devouring a meal atiancj towering pines waterfalls higher than Niagara and Howie's) that would fill two heavy-snow 20 feet deep gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon George Raft among weights the other Sardines at Sardi’s among the pines and spruce farms and cities amidst nature’s and the Ritz (Raff) Andy Russell loveliness natural caves full of ice in the hot unspoiled Ann Bros dining at Olin's desert Sheridan (and her feller) at the Riv-From temper-ernorth to Canadian border on B Baruch (the ringside ate Cflche yaU on gouth and from the fr02en United Statesman) quitting his Cen- - Teton warm Pacific winda ta eagt to pfakg on Boise valley Idaho offers a variety of climate topog- Meesnaaa raphy and scenic wonder It has miles of desert and Auer thrilled about being cast for formidabie table lands but it also has more lakes than the radio version of ''Tovarich man hag ever counted It haa alplne peakg where Mrs John Mason Brown (wife of lce and gnow never melt and homes heated by water de- the critic) looking refreshing from natura hot gprings Mrs pile the whewmidity n0 more interesting romantic and pleasant area may Wendell Wlllkle at the Blue Angel be ound on earth than Idaho Yet from an automobile The man who makes you pause or 0 window it may often appear to be a rolling trajn and say Oooh there s Mr Molowaste lonely and cruel Unfortunately the main high- 5 He la Bill McKamy execu-tovl wayg and railroad tracks wander too far from rich tive at the J Walter Thompson and beautiful spots in Idaho and those who would know must take the sideroads — the “Gem of the Mountains” and great will be their reward Idaho is a young state with young and energetic aays Rita Hayworth pie They are not hampered by the heavy hand of tradi- Isn't it all proud about the Atomb tion nor restrained by the ghosts of their ancestors Whether Basque sheepherders Mormon descendants being named for her and her film "Gilda” one of the best press agent farmers or recruits from the West from Nebraska (we thawt) In history He coast states the people of Idaho are living proof of says it wasn't any that they Western friendliness and hospitality Western progresreally adore Rita and so christened siveness and Western determination to harness nature’s for the good of all It after her He wished however resources The early history of Idaho Is bound up with that of their child Rebecca could one day but its tradition say: “My mother’s name was on the states of Oregon and Washington and lore has borrowed much from the Mormons of the very last atomic bomb!” and the miners of of Wyoming Utah the cattlemen states and Montana all its from drew It surrounding Midtowa Vlmette: It happened In the Krots Bulc the other night Our became the great melting pot of the Northwest Idaho the Lewis and Clark expedition Following reporter was none other than the was the hunting and trapping paradise of early advenboss hisself Sholm Billlngsberg turers Later thousands of persons crossed Idaho by He was touched by the episode the Snake of trail the river following Oregon way An army officer asked that barthe desert The ruts of thousands of wagons keeper Tony Butrico Join him at through his table for a drink “We served still remain but the Oregon trail and one of America's greatest migrations added little to Idaho’s developtogether overseas " said the officer ment He reminisced long with Tony In In 1859 gold was discovered Northern Paciflc railroad laid its beets thrive and alfalfa grows luand then insisted on having a photo Pierce City region and by the rails across the Panhandle In Cattle and sheep are fatxuriantly taken of their meeting The of- the 30000 and the Union Paciflc — Oregon tened on rich pastures and in feed ficer made a terrific hit with the autumn of 1862 there were A greater Short Line — crossed the southern lots and dairy herds are found staff and patrons by this demon- - persons near Lewiston In followed Its everywhere the Boise part of the state In tration of democracy and being a discovery “ah° C“y mines and forest were opened comnice guy His name (and mark bln’ and "ithin Only recently has Idaho come into estimated at near mercially and Idaho was no longer prominence as a playground and It down high on your list) Is Gen- - had 8 Population 40000 At the census of 1870 only a wild frontier recreation spot for people who are 15000 remained of the swarm of When Idaho became a state in weary of life in cities miners of the early ’60s but 200 1890 Its valleys were soon homIt offers skiing huntmillion dollars in gold had been esteaded by sturdy stock from the fishing swimming boating and ing — taken out of Idaho the greatest Middle West For each mining other sports Pheasants ducks and record in history for a similar pegeese are plentiful There are anteriod of time deer elk and other big game lope It was the Mormons who founded to assure the sportin abundance settlement Idaho’s first permanent sman of his kill From dog races at Li 1860 They believed they were in Ashton when the snow is deep to Utah when- they called their village summer boating ofi Payette lakes Franklin and made irrigation a fact or fishing Pend d'Orielle no other in Idaho by building a canal three state exceeds Idaho in sports of the and a half miles long They also great outdoors first New York capitalists and Hollschool for white children within the ywood movie stars have found in present boundaries of the state In the Sawtooth Mountains made little headway Agriculture one of tile world's finest recreation Lois Thrasher a Chicago news- - however l for the feverish In winter skiing is the ouspots 1 1 belongs In any column about try 0f thousands exploring the earth I v ' Not too long f0r mineral treasures continued tstanding sport with tobogganing newspaper heroes and big game hunting following In ago the wife of a gov’t official was though the Idaho 1 4 r Territory was summer the mountain streams nearslain In a Chicago hotel and Lois created In 1863 more lusty years took a Job there as a chambermaid were to follow by offer varieties of trout the S I Rich gold strikes fish of them all Lakes and to check the movements of a suswere made in the Salmon River in the Stanley Basin afford woods After maneuvering to be and Florence areas in Boise basin pect boating Ashing riding hiking and assigned to the floor where the susIn the Coeur in the Owyhee terrain pect lived Lois inspected his suite d'Alenes camping Boom elsewhere and with no luck In addition she towns were erected overnight and Idaho is a state of mountains va' had to scrub a dozen bathrooms and deserts with variety on the days were rich in murders and lleys ‘A hands and kneesl The mountain feuds and melodramatic enough for everyone f hangings irange include Cabinet Coeur Jf and Bitter d’Alene Beaverhead Jackie Kelk witnessed a woman fr Root In the north Salmon River trying to navigate In a traffic jam She rammed Sawtooth and Lost Rivers in the the car in front of SALMON RIVER Highway and of the state the Bear center her then tried to back up and The Salmon is along the canyon Blackfoot and Snake River mouknocked down a pedestrian Then known as “The River of No Rntains in the southeast with the she tried to move over to the curb eturn” and smacked along the Wyoming line nortinto a hydrant A hward gendarme rushed up ”0 K Falls — 46 feet higher Shoshone lady” he demanded camp that became a ghost town a “let’i see your license” than Niagara— pours its flood over new community appeared built “Don’t be silly" she grunted a rim in Snake of Idaho's idly on the development "Who'd give ME a license?” River canyon Twin Falls is another great natural resources Idaho settled down at last tef build its kingmajestic sight and American and Salmon Falls are also attractive to When Frank Ward O'Malley (one dom visitors of the craft’s greatest) was on the The northern part of Idaho reNew York newspapers they could Idaho offers the unusual — the land to become claimed — In scenic always be counted on to give you one of the most productive areas in almost unbelievable your two cents worth Frank the West "Idaho white pine— and wonders The deepest canyon on the ones had a city editor (of the old continent American drops plenty of it” is the slogan of its North the below 8000 school) who made him rewrite his rimrock feet almost and lumbermen yellow pine grows copy at least once — no matter how broad and tall Idaho's mines yield of the Seven Devils ranges of DESERT? Sagebrush cleared It was To even matters good countless minerals with more be- mountains The Big and Little Lost away and the magic of Irrigation with him O'Malley (who was doing rivers tumble down from mountain ing discovered each year the desert produces applied an article on the origin of the SuIdaho's famous potatoes and other The Snake River valley and its peaks to disappear into the porous preme Court) dug up a piece the crops area has prospered under volcanic desert breaking into sundrainage editor written subon as Thousand Springs had city the while light again irrigation and reclamation Recent in the Snake River gorge ject years before O'Malley of Idaho lands beyond the irrigation ditches The turbulence action is offered at Craters copied it word for word and then deaths volcanic for been utilized have wheat and City's former life and the violence handed it in The editor glared of the Moon and Mount Borah New irrigation proread and barked: "I could do a of its ways may be inferred from other grains in state the carries point and Idaho’s highest that jects are being opened better Job than this when I was in the statement of coral' limestone on its crest lifted 28 of the 200 persons buried in agriculture and livestock industries the business six only newspaper from the sea which was once three from are thriving its cemetery in 1863 died months!" miles below famous all over causes! Idaho potatoes "That's funny” Jibed Frank natural The state of Idaho remains a part are grown in of Idaho was the civilized world But the development “You wrote this Junk when you were Northwest rich in reto follow the decline of gold fever desert soil enriched by centuries of of the Great In the business six years!” sources sure of its future The fronCattlemen pushed their herds into sagebrush and other desert growth still lives in countless ways tier spirit of irrithe from touched and the and Wyoming by magic territory Jody Canova knows the laziest within its borders ready to mount followed soon More gation Even cull potatoes are now television performer In the country: sheepmen to thunderous zest in the develoand made into industrial utilized ’’A comedian who just holds up his Mormon farmers moved northward or fed to livestock The alcohol and irrigation was expanded Sugar pment that seems sure to come Joke book before the World’s Greatest Capital Has Its Seamy Side Too! By BAUKIIAGE HERE i Vews Eye Street characteristics he later said gas rats dirt overgrown rowdy newsboys who had to be held In were "sewer by a long fireand arms” and it was dan"positively gerous at times to go Into the alleading to ley which they infested the composing room” The town as the boy had grown overup in It was a straggling grown country village “with zigzag grades no sewerage no street cars no water supply except from pumps reservaand springs unimproved and tions dwellings streets of mud and mire" That doesn’t sound like the nation’s capital whose budget for the coming year Is $76755009 — but that was the way It was In 1858 as described by the editor of the WashTheodore Star Evening ington Noyes who died early this month He Joined the paper In 1877 Except for the Australian capital which arose almost as of Canberra Camelot at a wave of Merlin’s wand there is nothing to compare with the bizarre history of a city whose site was based on a political deal and no city which has gone through than this more vicissitudes check whip No city was ever more magnifior more discreditcently planned ably neglected in its early days as Mr Noyes' description indicates Today as the undisputed capital of the world it still has to battle with a grudging congress for its budget It remains the chief city of the greatest democratic republic whose 938000 citizens have no voice In their and whose citizenown government ship itself is a bar to the basic privilege of a democracy— tfie ballot Mr Noyes was as is the newspaper he served a Washington inHe will be remembered stitution for his long campaign to givea vote in congressional and national matters children who might pick up the bait In places where there was no danger to human beings the deadly The cam"1080” was distributed Meanwhile a paign was successful clean-uof potential court orwith was started premises ders to enforce It Today Washingscientific ton haa a complete program which will cost u about $75000 annually However It still leaves a few rata for energetic cats War Profiteering Will Be Scandal The Juicy scandal uncovered by the senate war investigating committee In which "profiteering at Ita worst” as Senator Mead called it was exposed Is I fear only the beginning Any moment I expect to hear an explosion in connection with surplus War breeds waste and property the cloak of patriotic endeavor as even Indicated Johnson Samuel more bluntly often covers skullduggery after The same thing happened the last war and on a smaller scale after all wars But what is probably making people squirm all over Washington is the revelation of the fact that telephone wires were pretty generally tapped and heaven knows what may be in the FBI flies It is a strange thing about the telePeople have Just come to phone take for granted that because you can’t see anybody on the line nobody is there I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that telephone conversations with most of the government department I are being recorded right now have reason to believe that when the question of installing these rein the White House was corders up it was flatly turned brought White House employees have down a long and excellent record for fideOf course they are carefully lity and when the campaign screened to get everybody fingerprinted (an excellent Idea if you have nothing to conceal about your past and no plans for an future) was begun the White House employees came forward and ofvoluntarily fered their thumbs Angers and hands for the When the People Vote They Win 8 The June "Economic Outlook” published by the Congress of InduRata Were Menace strial Organizations contains an arTo City’s Health ticle entitled "When the People Vote Some time ago I had occasion to — They Win” That might be mention the invasion of Washington in more terpreted ways than one by rats and how the city hired a The article points out that an "off modern Pied Piper who has done an year” is so designated politically effective if silent job This was not only because the presidency is not at stake but because the polbrought to my mind recently when I encountered a fat black cat on my iticians know that general apathy on to work one the part of the voter has marked way morning early The cat had a guilty look and I had those elections in the past: 1938 (off) a hunch he had spent the night in thirty million voters went to the riotous and was merely living polls (1940 (on) fifty million votes sneaking in to change his collar However the cataclysm caused by in which believe It not a baby’s hand was eaten brought hasty action and I see that It was considered worthy of comment by experts including the editors of the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History The campaign began when a case of typhus which is spread by "fleas and mites on rats was discovered Traps set in the neighborhood caught a number of rats whose blood was The United States Public Health service got busy shocked to learn that the scourge of Europe two centuries ago was a possibility right here In our fair capital An expert was called In He first sealed up all points where commercial transportation entered the city Then 300 traps were set up In the zone where the Infection had been found Five days later the traps were taken in and the area was thoroughly dusted with DDT the insecticide which the army perfected Next bait was distributed It kills rats but not pets or the or In camera” Morton Thompson’s new book "How to Be a Civilian’’ revives the one ybout the in his first Automat He kept putting nickels in slots and carrying the food back to a table repeating the trick for 15 minutes The food was a foot high all over the table A fascinated civilian asked him: "Haven’t you enough food? You’ll never eat all that Why don’t you quit?” "What!” exclaimed tbe GL — “Quit when winning?” Analyit and Commentator NW WNU Service D C Washington WASHINGTON— A boy Joined tha paper of which staff of a he was one day to become editor The office was a building whose notable 161 1940 50 million votes 1942 million 1944 (off) (on) million The CIO takes the attitude that what the people as a whole want is what they (the CIO) want and that the people get what they want when they vote for it They say: "Mass and mass voting is the registration best guarantee of liberal progressive government” They might also add that it you want conservative rather than liberal progressive government you have to vote for it In any too case you can’t get what you want unless you go after it The "Outlook” prints a table showing how the vote shifted in certain districts in The table showed that when the vote fell off it was the Democratic vote Districts which swung from Democratic to Republican candidates In most cases shifted with a decrease In the total vote “the Republican vote remaining relatively stable while the Democratic vote dropped sharply" Does this prove that Democrats are sleepier than Republicans or that the Republican is a creature of habit? 1942 28 million 1944 48 million GI fra x: ' 7: t ' i v jg t: The big rom Texas who knew It with flour got tired to OPA Borah 12665 feet Jdaho’s highest mountain man say These sun days prices rise with the no There is an old Spanish proverb says: "Make a bridge of silver a flying enemy" Maybe the United Nations could get rid of Franco that way if they can’t find any other that lor 4 Mount how to saying of rugs Business Week life less rugged are forecast Anything to by make The tobacco plants In Maryland look as precise and prim as if they had been done up in curl papers each night |