Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH Telephone Traces White House History DREW PEARSON President Hayes Had First Phone in Executive Mansion Deadlock Over Korea GEN ARCHER L LERCH military governor or talk to reserve officers re- gave an cently expressing great pessimism regarding U S relations with Russia in Korea Latest efforts to get together with Russia General Lerch said may as well be written off as failure What caused the deadlock was recognition of political parties since Russia would not recognize any Korean parties not controlled by Communists General Lerch also revealed: (1) Russia’s agrarian reforms in northern Kores have backfired Northern native fanners oppressed by a M per cent tax on produce and strict control under the “cooperative” system are drifting south across the 38th parallel n (2 Border Incidents have beep reduced along the line However two Russian soldier prowling for rice below the border were abet and killed by Koresn police (3) Only S3 Japs are left In southern Keren— all hospital cases (4) Rnasla which controls the Industrial half of the country I permitting a smooth flow of electricity into the American sone MAJ By BAUKIIAGE and Commentator Newt Analyst 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 this innovation caused nowhere near the flurry among the White House staff that ensued on that day in 1878 when the first telephone instrument was put in That was in the administration of Rutherford B Hayea of Ohio the 19th president — and that was the year in which the Democrats who already bad control of the house acquired control in the senate as well it8- without Interference said “she doesn’t need a number to General Lerch said he was not worried about too many Koreans beget her man’’ coming converted to communism “Koreans” he said "could never be Once site located Cornelius Vaninto communism regimented I am sure” derbilt Jr with no other clue than IT PAYS TO BE EDUCATED that he was motoring east from Some kind of mark for radio quli show pritea must have been reached when $7440 California I don’t know how many longIsrgest amount of money ever offered on a radio show — went to Mr 1 doubt if the even tenor of Mr distance calls a day she put in at and Mrs Albert Fowler of Glen Rock N J whom M C Bert Parks existence was frequently la congratulatlngJiere the peak of the war but I do know Hayes’ Both tn their seventies they are teachers in disturbed that the number of by the Fatraon N J of the calls out of Washington ringing Radio City has three employees Jumped Slavery was abolished in Manhatbell — from telephone in 11000 a day whose duties consist of picking up tan before the Revolutionary approximately war or much of any- 1939 to well over 48000 in 1945 To In the year exploded ciggie butts all day It’s well known that thing else for day they have dropped back to a 2015 Rockefeller Center’s maze of New York once was called New Amlittle over 44000 It is fair to will become for sterdam few a buildings skyscraper But years it few resiVery that the White House calls the property of Columbia university New also had another monicker: dences or places have followed the same curve without cost Scientists claim the Orange of business pounder the direction land that makes up lower Manhatssessed phones of “Hackie” How Times Change: tan is probably the oldest known At the then FurtherEven by 1935 turn ef the century a shave and it took flvo part of the earth’s surface more the teleoperators in shlfta to handle the haircut in the Big Burg cost phone was by no White House calls At that time Tipping was taboe Many of the jewels in the door of means accepted Miss Hachmelster was the first the tabernacle at the Little Church ANNIVERSARY: The reason some of the old as a means of Around tba Comer ere stones from the and only woman to operate a brownstones have bine windows: protests to come from the state deBells Tolled communication rings of women married there White House switchboard At one time it was believed since American that partment planes Maiden Lane gots its name because for presidents or In Hiroshima Japan the bells were shot down over Yugoslavia Baukhage President a sunlight streaming through blue Truman uses the teleDutch maidens once washed their their entourages tolled People of the city stood a good deal— he has so year ago the note marked the first glass was very healthful clothes in a brook there In those days In any case the phone friends silently in preyer for a moment official unpleasantry to be delivered on Capitol Hill that many White House managed to limp along then went on about the business by the United States to the puppet of living on one phono until the end of Presiregime dent Cleveland’s administration It was the second anniversary ol Hungarian The incident grew out of the arthe radiant consuming flash of the By the time President McKinley rest of Stephen T Thuransky an entered the White House all govworld's first atomic bomb American citizen for his alleged ernment offices had phones and Hiroshima which saw 92000 of its “revolting and scandalizing vilificacitizens immolated in that unco- tions "XNE of the main reasons why veterans are failing to obtain loans under they were accepted as in public” of Hungary’s presinecessities but they were not an ntrollable outburst of energy in 1945 the GI Bill of Rights is the fact that the 80th congress has clipped dent and other government memwas perhaps the one place on earth Important element in the handling Finance corporation to purchase these mortbers his wife and two the power of Reconstruction Thuransky of White House business where the bomb could be thought The 79th congress which passed the GI bill gave gages daughters later were taken into cus- RFC from banks When Teddy Roosevelt came in reality Everywhere else tody by U S legation officials and authority to purchase mortgages on homes where the loans had been his strenuous activities and it was a nightmarish despite DamoClean guaranteed by Veterans’ administration under terms of the GI bill The removed to Vienna what was considered then a somesword but in Hiroshima the people authority under which the RFC purchased these mortgages expired June In the note the state deoutlook what revolutionary he 30 were paying It a sort of fantastic partment protest When the new law was passed by this congress extending the RFC pointed out that the armade very little use of the teleand bewildered for another year and slashing its loan authority from something like 18 adulation rest of an American citizen on purephone himself billion toned bells dollars to two billion dollars congress not only swept away the and they ly political charges is “absolutely They Then along came Franklin planned the building of a modern inadmissible” under the armistice only source of small business and small industrial loans but refused to and the New Deal a part of city with a peace memorial at the give RFC authority to purchase GI home business and farm mortgage which in Hunagreement prevails which was a branch loans spot over which the bomb had been gary Also officials of the Hungariexchange with more than 200 offdropped an ministry of the interior Banks throughout the country therefore have no outlet for were icial extensions and 20 outside trunk At other points across the globe of being “uncooperative disposal of these loans and must hold them In their own portfolios accused in to handle the calls connections the atomic age was living up to Its the aad from all over the country veterans are finding It almost Imextreme and in some cases in“White House calling’’ became a awful reputation by wringing fearpossible to obtain home loans no matter how well they are armed insolent” admissibly some comments and predictions with letters of eligibility Then also came the first woman from men who are supposed to know VIVA: Sen John Sparkman of Alabama introduced a bill in the last minute telephone operator and probably about It LOUISE IIACIIMEISTER rush of congress seeking to extend this the most efficient of either sex that authority of the RFC Toreador M Robert Hutchins chancellor of doesn’t need a number the White House ever had or will Orson Welles the' man who didn’t University of Chicago said that two have in many a day Louise his voice is almost as familiar over atom bombs which now could be come from Mars 1 has found him"Hackie”— is probably fa- those branch lines as it was when manufactured would make the Unit- self to put it politely on the horns known to more famous he was a senator himself vorably ed States uninhabitable if exploded of a dilemma users of the telephone than any I don't know how much fun he simultaneously He made it a comThe was genius other operator in history Her genout of the television get His plete Jeremiad gets "We quoted recently as saying he had by adding ius in being able to locate people bowling alley is pretty dusty and know that some other will killed 20 bulls and immediately he William O'Keefe who used to be VANISHING AMERICANISMS anywhere in the world has been the the dirt doesn't often fly on his have the atomic bomb country " House to Let 1 20 a Month With within five was challenged a reporter back home another wants to actor by of subject many a story Louis horseshoe pitching court —or what- years We know that when Heat” that Fortunlo Bonanova to enter the know if we ever heard of a morning who Introduced her to the Howe ever the technical name of that we are all set for the final Mex- paper publisher many years ago ring at Tijuana President while she was working at arena is As to the "video" it can’t happens ico and perform for the benefit of who moved a is entitled to a summer safe one day "Everybody Friends of Roosevelt headquarters be half the novelty to him that the catastrophe" In constructive moment Dr to get at a nickel beneath it and vacation and it doesn't cost much" charity called her “the world's greatest instrument telephone Robert Oppenhelmer atom pithe Spanish-boSaid Bonanova after a severe injury to explained telephone detective" because he was to President Hayes oneer said that usable electrical in an open letter to’Welles "Killing his back "I wouldn’t have moved it "All You Can Eat for $ 125 " 20 bulls is a lot of power derived from atomic enkilling” neglect- only I thought it was a dime” ergy may be available by 1952 ing to add that it is also a lot of "Mommer may I bring a couple of But everybody knew that the Unit- bulls And he tells the one of the fellow friends borne to dinner?” ed States was stressing development "So let us do a corrida te take of who drink However the opposition when became the majority made blunder after blunder Mr Hayes continued with a quiet if his administration perhaps somewhat monotonous dignity until he was succeeded by anPresident other Republican WALTER WINCHELL Oddities in the Big Burg NEWS REVIEW that matter Mark Birthday of Atom Hungarian Attitude Hit WALTER SHE AD Doom to Veterans’ Loans U PHILLIPS Treasure Hunt of Long Ago Russian Enigma Illuslralcd Boris Krelov has gone home He was a member of the staff of Tass (official- Soviet news agency) sta tioned for some three years In Washington So far ss have been able to learn his American contacts which were many bqth official and personal made not a tingle ideological Impact upon him or his way of He upheld the Russian thinking cause be talked more freely than moat Russiana in a or official capacity do but (also so far s I can learn) he naver offered the slightest compromise of viewnever point accepted any argument or explanation ef democratic ) t(Amerlcan-stylemethods of thought or action Aad yet — aad here Is the tiling that baffled most of take was be was good company and If we eould have foand the tiniest peg en which to bang an idea he would have inspired ns to write about Russia "with a heart" as a woman Interpreter Is reported to have begged of Sam Welles Time’s correspondent la 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 our misunderstandings between countries Was he able to appear so genial and friendly and charming 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 be was filled with pity rather than the typical suspicion which seems to permeate most relations? One slight clue we have though it may be a false one Once at a rather intimate gathering Krelov’a hostess finally grew a little and said something like this: “Listen here Boris we’re friends Surely you can be frank with us and explain ment—’’ Before she guessed what up his hand why your govern- could finish earning) he was h "Please” he said with a disam lie that took the arming ting out of bin words “We are time having such a pleasant hut you force me to aay this: I cannot explain what you wish because you people are Just too Commstupid to understand unism" If that sentiment is a sincere and typical expression of how the men who run Russia feel the road ahead la s 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 Asiatic mirth that leaves hint careless ‘mtd his dead the scandal ef the elder earth How shall he clear how himself reach year bar or weighed defense prefer— a brother hedged with alien speech and lacking all interpreter9” (series and production of the atomic bomb fights) this season in Tijuana for build a stockpile for utter de- the motion picture relief fund I struction And everybody knew that am sure the impresario would give us a Sunday afternoon Russia was laboring furiously What do ward the same ends you say to two bulla apiece?” Admission: The people of Hiroshima did well Shady side $2 sun 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 wedBases Retained ding or a funeral? The Aleutian islands that long INSOLENCE: cold chain of rocks which started many an American GI Slap Hands talking te himself during the war The United States visibly irked is being integrated into the pattern by recent setions of the new Comof the North American defense sysmunistic Hungarian tem government vented its diplomatic General of the Army Dwight rage in a stinging note which accused Hu- Eisenhower has revealed that the ngary of “inadmissibly insolent” coframework of strategic bases in the nduct toward American Aleutiaas is being kept intact for diplomats in that country rapid expansion if necessary Second cause for U S anger was Alter having paid a visit to the the arrest and beating in Budapest continent's 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 ef miliOne of the most harshly worded tary potential” to 75 MILLION ACRES US Boosts 1948 Wheat Goal - another nrged by a friend pretty well nnder the refused weather “Oh come on” the friend argued “If anybody notices anything I'll aay it’s my breath” “Perhaps” was the answer “but suppose they also ask ‘Is that your stagger?’ ” “Corn Headline Crop “Listening it was think J J Much in on the Improved’’ the best W radio I would says ever” PAUL MALLON Military Weakness of Russia XTUCH has been made of the superior size of the Russian army Our military men frequently mentioned this recently to get their But little or nothing has been reported appropriations through congress 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 in vulnerable oiL extremely The custom Is te regard Russia aa an conquerable because ef her vast spaces Hitler’s military mistake was In attempting te devour more than he could chew No one seems te think of Russia’s far vaster outer circumference of defense which Is really too extensive to be defensible But these considerations run beyond current military realities The 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 without much difficulty On the other hand the atomic missile and other bombing rocket threats against her are somewhat dulled by her of industry (except oil) farflung distribution For our part defense against nse of such missiles is ear 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 pat We must think of atomic defense not offense We mnst concentrate on air and missile protection iI WASHINGTON Fourth largest not suited for plowing up Estimating on the basis of a wheat acreage the farmers of this sustained farming m order to take average yield figure of 143 nation have ever planted may be advantage of high wheat prices bushels an acre the crop in 1948 realized in 1948 if the department However an even more impowould be 107 billion bushels but if of agriculture’s revised goal of 75 rtant factor in the naoutturn follows the the determining avermillion acres is met next year tion’s wheat acreage in 1948 will be age of 163 bushels an acre proThat mark is s five the lure of the two duction would reach 1221 billion increase from the pattern market authorrecomprice Department bushels mended last year and a seven ities admitted that high market In the wake of this year's bumper boost over the wheat prices will do more to dictate the crop a much smaller 1943 wheat POURING boyhood days In Iowa I goal set lastspring before the com amount of wheat planted than could yield normally would be indicated was taught that It was wdeked outlook took on its gloomy cast any arbitrarily assigned goverhowever the world food shortage to Continued and unremitting nment goaL stealthily appropriate the other internamakes It desirable according to de- fellow’s watermelons Later for tional demand for food grains The department said the 75 the that spokesmen partment more than half a century I was fluenced the agriculture department goal if achieved would United States continue its high rate never Now living in a into making the upward revision the fourth largest wheat of production The United Nations small tempted provide While officials admitted community I have a water- that the acreage the farmers in the United has warned that the world food sit- - melon vine in my own back increased acreage constitutes an yard— States have ever planted Higher nation has not improved in the past 'but vine is rooted in a neigh- vitation to farmers to plant heavily plantings occurred in 1919 1937 and year and predicts shortages will neigh- in wheat garden The friendly they cautioned 1938 against continue another two yeara WRIGHT PATTERSON Stolen Fruits Are Sweetest r 7 i — borly argument has been over the question: "Whose melons are those In my back yard?” To settle it I the melons ate If we hare to fight the next across the North Pole we find tt bard sledding espe f°f the ground troops war wlfl x U |