Show TOE GARLAND WEEKLY Better: Scratch One Tyro Diplomat f BAUKIIAGE A nalytt and Commentator AW We passed some of the last few fine old residence and a number of were drawn Shutters and legations embassies orange-re- d paint was smeared In a pattern I never have been able to understand on ironwork and window bars Some windows were boarded up of high "IX it marked hadn't been for you1' L reto my companion sltUng beside me In wbat he aUude to as ‘the taxpayer's "I limousine’ might not have in Washbeen sumthis ington mer I might have been loafing at a mountain- lakeside or ” elsewhere ' "How so?" he Inquired "Don’t you recall” I asked "that you were a newspaperman yourself once and corollarlly speaking met a lot of interesting people? I was one of them That meeting killed what I thought then was to be a brUllant diplomatic career" The story begins right across the street from the office I now occupy on Eighteenth street in a fine old brick house which I saw first In the year 1914 The carriage drive In Is blocked now by the front of it curbing probably because the traffic officials thought no automobile could safely make the turn which a - "spanking pair" negotiated so easily three decades ago A sign on the In front of the house says "no parking at any time” A brass plate over one of the windows atUl barred with Ironwork the at another century says: "Colum- bos University" The plat It replaced used to say "Former Home at Secretary of State Lansing" In 1914 it was some two hours after leaving that red brick house that 1 began "putting off’ — (putting things oft is a great art and on that has reached a high point of refinement in Washington I always hava practiced it) If I hadn’t put alt then I might have become a diplomat As It was all I got was deadlines the rest of my life It happened this way 1 had just returned from an extended period in Europe where I had beep going through the motions of acquiring an education In tha process acquired the ambition to become e member of the foreign service of the state department 1 planned to rise by easy stages on pure merit of course to the position of ambassador to the Court of St James Beyond that as a cabinet officer says following a change In administration 1 had no plana I did hava four out of five necessary qualifications which knew from experience on the Qusl and elsewhere assured a d’Orsay successful career The diplomat! four which 1 possessed were a a tailcoat striped pants and a pair af spats Tha fifth 1 was confident I could soon acquire easily since 1 had an excellent letterto the at the secretary of stats who had been a secretary of stats himself and an Important pillar of Washington society I was aura that under such auspices 1 could acquire that sine qua non— a wife rich enough tq keep a diplomat In the style to which be la supposed to be accustomed I recall that afternoon very well rang the bell to that door — well it was a different door of course— there are four there now with brass handies worn shiny by ambitious Columbians— but at least the door which that afternoon was to be my portal' to a brilliant carter was right there in the same frame It opened I handed the silk hat and ebony stick to the servant and in a tew momenta 1 was being warmly greeted by a gentleman wearing what Sam Blythe once called the most diplomatic whiskers in Washington John Watson Foster 1 1 aaw that my striped pants and tailcoat which had just enough ef a continental cut to make a proper as well as tha Impression I had learned in Berlin were doing their work and I mads mental note of tho less females unattractive unattached So after tossing off a bon mot or two I left feeling that my career waa virtually launched It was still fairly early so 1 decided to drop In at the National Press club to which my old schooDavid Lawrence lmate bad given me a guest card As the weather was fine I decided I might as well walk and give Connecticut avenue a chance to idmire my distinguished stripes and tails although tailcoats and per se caused very little consternation in those days By EDITOR'S NOTKi Nwippr As I walked I idly speculated on what course I would take If were insisted upon when I was presented at court Meanwhile I observed the strolling young ladies who unable to though probably were neversupport an ambassador theless quite as attractive as any of the ones at the reception I had just about decided not o make an issue of the tiling— after all I had been on the stage for a short period in my career and a couple of pair of long stockwould do for my ings underneath calves what nature hadn’t— when I found myself at the club A tall gentleman arose and gave me a dignified greet ing I had thought it best while I was considering my diplomatic ca rear to accept a temporary position with the Associated Press — a post' tion 1 received after some rather tall talk on the part of David Law rence and a kindly letter from Su‘ Roberts of the Paris perintendent bureau for whom I had worked Tha who greeted me at the gentleman club waa one of the staff which I was to join assigned to the state department And he was the man I alluded to—the friendly official-- in the eerly of this paragraphs column epieUae news Union's ara expressed aa eealyeta Embattled and fatigued the 80th nevertheless congress managed to spew forth a batch of Important with the relentlessnesa legislation of a doughnut machine before it adjourned for the national political conventions In the waning hours before ad' senators joumment tha and representatives pushed through farm legislation and a peacetime draft together with bills having to do with housing displaced persona the atomic energy commission wages of federal employees and foreign aid appropriations leaders mad it apRepublican parent that although congress had adjourned its session the way was being left open for it to reconvene later thia year Despite this however the 80th congress had run Its formal course And that It was a vital exciting course and on that had produced some momentous legislation no one would gainsay Partly responsible for this character of congress of course was the fact that President Truman had written a record number of vetoes Some of the high points of congress’ record: issued FOREIGN AID — Congress billions for the support of Greece and Turkey and for general foreign relief capping that by underwriting tbe Marshall plan for world economic survival and revival and estabcooperation lishing the economic as a further Invesadministration tment in the future of 18 friendly nations European NATIONAL DEFENSE— Aware of the implications of the realistic foreign policy the U S had begun to follow congress adopted a peaca etime draft demanded air force appropriated funds to modernize the army and navy enacted a law to unify the armed forces and created the atomic energy commission HIGH PRICES — Congress Ignored President Truman’s repeated and insistent demands for authority to control prices and wages and kept to the classic Republican conception of "laissez faire” with regard It reto business and industry duced personal income taxes and reduced the domestic budget by two billion dollars law LABO R— The was enacted over President Truman's veto in in effort to curb union excesses and restore a better balance between labor and management The minimum wage law growing constantly less useful as prices and wages rose was not re- Back la aat Urns eelamas tiwf ere these af necessarily af this newspaper) Eight Ball Adjourned Right there or shall we say In tha course of an hour or two there tho beginning of a developed beautiful friendship and the beginning of the end of any Illusions I a career concerning diplomatic In for membership the applied club never went to another ‘‘at home" In the fine old brick house on Eighteenth street From that time on it has been deadlines Instead of receiving lines Although I didn't realize it at the time I really wasn't properly equipcareer— my ped for a diplomatic spats were black The diplomatic world has not been In the course altogether neglected of meeting deadlines but when I entered that romantic allegedly demesne as I still do in tha course of my Job it is by way of the back door an entrance which I have discovered often provides a much more revealing view of the surroundings Perhaps it Isn’t polite to refer to the chancery entrance that vised way but It Is certainly not the front door DRAFTEES : As It turned out not many weeks Again after I had given up my dreams of With the peacetime draft a reality becoming a Machlavelli or a in the U S again for the first time I found myself a caller at six since 1941 many thousands of young or eight embassies a day— I was put men (19 through 25) are face to on the diplomatic run because a war face with the prospect of wearing had broken out and It was quite as GL clothing for 21 months for and important belligerents nervous Most of them were destined to neutrals to provide news from their points of view as It was since the navy go Into the army for us to collect it and air force are scheduled to receive an extremely small percentage The butlers In most of tha emof the draftees bassies before World War I would For those who wantas aoon admit a reporter as they ed to escape the draft there waa at would a era least one reasonable method of doIt required considerable ing so— enlistment In the national working over to bring them Into line guard or reserves before the President signed the bilL And national And what a change today! The guard officer all over the country amount of time money and energy reported that they were receiving 'expended by foreign nations in geta most gratifying number of to tha American ting Information from prospective enlistees radio press and public la one of quiries Meanwhile Gen Omar N Bradthe major Items on their Washington ley army chief of staff reported budgets! jovially that the army would try to take on as many as 10000 draftAnother Jawbone ees a month under the new act For Samson Selective service he said will An dentist thinks "back our leadership in the world the Russians hava Hitler's Jaw The and will strengthen our foreign dentist Dr Plaschke says be read policy" That certainly was the in a German dentistry magazine notwithep of most Americans that his former assistant now in hstanding the furious efforts Russian had Identified a of isolationists in congress to block custody Jaw which the Russians were passage of the draft law with as Hitler’s The chief of staff revealed that Dr Plaschke claims the assistant at present there is only one domecouldn't positively stic army division identify it but to full strength he himself feels it must be Hitler's He said the draft and enlistments because the magazine ridicules the will bring the army up from 540000 work as to 790000 Plaschke Is there sny immediate emergency says be did aa that must be met by a prepared Hitler when he job made a bridge ef 12 teeth In 1914 army force? Most authorities think Plaschke also claims not and General Bradley himself to have studied dentistry at the Univerthe idea lu 1908 Their sity ef Philadelphia methods have probably advanced Bongo Bongo since then but Hitler was about some things Evidence of a recurrence of cannibalism in French Equatorial All we can do la hope the bridge Africa has prompted the French colonial And remember that pained him that jawbone if It'S authentic slew administration to launch a vigorous effort to wipe out that evil among more men than the one from a similar source that Samson used the natives when he went after the Philistine The government Is imposing hard labor penalties on offenders using One of the features of the Rethat punishment as a threat to break wa convention a mampublican the hold of witch doctors who get moth acapple breakfast Tha delefree supplies of meat by promoting annual gates furnished the scrap rituals ' MEAT: Too Popular toEnd Bill Schocntgen WNU Staff Writer Who CONGRESS: d WASHINGTON— Back in the capital after one and before another political convention in these days when Washington’s tiger heat drives those who are not too driven otherwise out to the mountains and beaches I took a short ride with a friendly official who like most of the press and radio has to stick out a good share of the summer in the city Comes Of Trail in Welter of Legislation Truman Ends Political Road Show Waatara By UTAH NEWS ANALYSIS Veary 80th Congress One Diplomat Knew GARLAND TIMES With the (for him) Democratic convention only days with the away Republicans rock at him throwing political with southern Democrats blustering against him and his poUcies and with his own Democratic organization feeling very tepid about his prospects President Truman could be forgiven Indeed for having that feeling s With the exception of vegetarians and some carrot juice addicts nearly everyone likes meat And In tha U S everyone 'eats a lot of it That is why all the Mr and Mrs Jack Sprats in America are deeply incensed whenever the meat supply falls off from the normally prodigious amounts available to the consumer A condition of that general description currently prevails in the U S and according to R J Eggert of the American Meat institute it will take at least a year following good crops In 1948 to bring about increase In the any substantial amounts of beefsteaks pork chops and bacon on the table said is Biggest trouble Eggert that the ratio of the eaters to the edibles has grown too top heavy since the war Wartime drain of flocks and herds and last year's short corn crop are defor the currently responsible clining animal population deBut there Is no comparable cline in demand In sight The meat forecasts a continuing Industry for meat because: steady demand Incomes are near an high the real income (actual purchasing power) of the average consumer is greater than In 1939 population has increased 15 million in the past decade people are convinced of the nutritive value of meat SHIPMENTS: Restricted RETURN: Truman President In Truman was back the White House after journeying 9505 political' miles —one of them on a to Sun at Valley— bring his story before U S voters That story was primarily his of the presbitter characterization ent congress as wallowing in defection As a U S President going before the people to seek by his own party he summed up his stand in a single tough phrase made during his speech at Pa If the voters don’t Harrisburg make a change in congress this November he said In effect they can stew in your own juice” Whether or not the spectacle of the President stumping the country in search of popular is support viewed as admirable or otherwise it certainly must be regarded as a phenomenal pilgrimage in the annals of American politics At first flaunting a banner which he soon discarded Mr Truman traveled 8534 miles on 720 miles-beigh different railroads 225 automobile miles by air 25 miles across Puget sound by yacht and one mile by In that political hegira the President brought the public up to date on the background of what is probably the most bitter feud between a President and congress since the Johnson days of Andrew There is no doubt that the President safely back at his desk in was feeling that he Washington had accomplished pretty much what he had set out to do: The arousing of in the issues at stake and the presentation of himself to the people in the role of a but Presicomradely dent who is the watchdog of their welfare Widespread agitation by politicians newspapers and just plain people over shipment of critical U S goods to Russia had paid off in what economists might term an unfavorable balance of trade with the Soviets when the During April on exports to Russia first took full effect the United States received $12594841 more goods from the Soviet’ Union than it shipped Whether that imbalance will turn out to be strategically unfavorable to the U S if the controversy with Russia continues to expand is a question that the next few years probably will answer In Its simplest form the situation is a paradox It is an axiom in ternational relations that unrestricted trade among nations is one of the best guarantors of peace Yet the restrictions on export trade to Russia last April were imposed to war prevent shipment of potential goods to the Soviets Significant is the fact that U S imports from Russia were higher in April than in any other month this year except March indicating that there has been no immediate effort by Moscow to retaliate for the tightened U S controls One oddity perhaps also signifl cant was Russia's shipment 12382 worth ol manganese and chrome both basic items in the manufacture of war materials Job Done PALESTINE: Mediation Whitman C by Roger the HOUSE AILING There are finger QUESTION: marks on the head board of my bed probably caused by perspiring hands How can I remove these marks? ANSWER: Clean the surface by with thick suds of mild washing soap not just thin watery soapsuds Follow with a clean damp cloth and rub dry Turpentine may also help If this does not work try rubbing the marks with a scratchless scouring powder and a little light oil on the ball of your finger Could you give me QUESTION: sny information on tile flooring? Can I do the work myself? ANSWER: Whatever type you choose remember that a solid color will show dirt very quickly Mottled much colors stay Is perfectly possible for a longer home owner to lay tile provided he Is handy with tools and has a good guide book Any kind of tile must be set in the proper 'bed” no matter whether it Is clay tile asphalt rubber or anything else It one Should QUESTION: plaster that ha ment? off in a com patch base- ANSWER: If It’s ordinary plaster that is used for living rooms it would be best to remove all of it Instead of trying to patch it This type of plaster Is affected by dampness and Is not Intended for use in a husment How off my QUESTION: bad scratches top? can I glass polish table ANSWER: That type of polishcannot be done at home It is a for a dealer in plate glass who the equipment ing job has People Chicago transit riders leave more on thaa $500000 wofth of good streetcars buses and elevated lines every year American Municipal association reports One of the largest sums ever lost was one million dollars in negotiable bonds left on "L” train by a South American banker Most unusual item forgotten was a box of white mice ffarsti laxatives are VOfnecessary far most people The of lemon in a glass of juice a water when taken first thing on arising is all that most people need to insure prompt normal elimination Ne more hmrth laxatives that irritate the digestive tract and impair nutrition Lemon in water is good for you! Deaerations of Americans have taken lemons for health— and generations of doctors have recommended them They are rich in vitamin C supply valuable amounts of Bi and P They alkalinize aid digestion Not too sharp er tour lemon in water has a refreshing tang — clears th mouth wakes you up It’s not a at simply helps syspurgative tem regulate iitelf Try ityour 10 days VS I CALIFORNIA SVNKISt UMONS nrcKMM© Although the situation in Palestine — the true between warring Arabs and Jews— hast— beerr—overshadowed in the U S by the clamorous news from the Republican convention Count Folke were continunegotiation ing — and so was the tension There were no indications however that the United Nation mediator was having any signal successes In bringing Israel and the Arab atates together on terms As the truce went into its second week the U S assigned three dein the Mediterranean stroyers to Immediate duty with the Palestine mediator to help supervise the armistice Th American offidestroyers cials said were not empowered to us force of any kind in patrol duties nor would they be allowed to stop or board any ships Meanwhile to Inject a further of law and order Into atmosphere Palestine the first United Nations "army” had been started on a shoeU N string Thirty permanent from Lake Success were guards flown east to help supervise the truce along with 20 other volunteers selected from U N secretariat employees Sen Arthur Capper (Rep Kas) is S3 years old and has represented Kansas In the senate for 30 yean Now ho has announced that ho will not ran for Ho thinks It la time for him to step aside In favor of a yoanger MAGINOT: Try Again? TARGETS: Fleet Test Battleships New York and Nevada survivors of th Bikini atom bomb test were scheduled to be sunk this month as targets during Pacific fleet tests The two old battlewagons will be towed 50 miles south of Honolulu to play their final role with the navy they have aerved through two wars They will be used to test weapons of the fleet in tactical maneuvers FIRST AID to j France’s Maginot line that sup posedly Impenetrable system of static defense that failed to stop the Nazis in 1940 is being touted now as a shield against possible Russian attacks Some French army engineers even go so far as to say that the United States would be wise to finance the reconditioning of the Maginot line as insurance against the Red army And at least one of France’s top leaders Gen military Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is reported to believe that the line should be with the Idea that its vestigated immense underground forts might be transformed into atomic bomb shelters When the fortresses came into Allied hands near the close of the that the war( It was discovered Nazis had removed much less of the armament and equipment than had been believed !$st of the guns minus only the breech blocks had been left in place h o w e v e r —and Simple fact it Is accepted by most U & military men — is that the Maginot line Is badly outmoded by present swift and mobile methods of warfare and further that it was outmoded even before the start of World War II Tormented by itching of dry eczema simple piles common akin irritation? medicated Soothing Reoinol Ointment is a proved reliever of such distress Ita ingredients often used by doctor act gently to give lingering comfort Well worth trying CHANGE flLIFE?rr:"1 you going through functional “middle tgs’ periodthe peculiar to women OS to 5J yrs) ? 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