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Show IN EARTH . . . A Old Glory woo lowered In the tlhrrin( duck of J Day, 1945, a marine kneela U' 5rve f comrade In the cemetery on Okinawa. Peace came for him after the prayer JL g came for many on the batllrflelda. Insert chuwa Air Vice Marshall lactt, New Zealand, aa he currender aboard the ESS Missouri in Tokyo bay, while General Mac Arthur looka on. One year 14, all the world will honor those who willingly gave their Uvea that theira might Uve In Auyuct h jftUe J Day marked the end of the war, hundreda of thousands of veterans are still on active duty, iteir Job to see that war never lifts Hi head in the world. The nation honors aU who contributed to the war against Japan, many who formerly fought against Germany. ON frifE I, V-- LIVING COSTS AFTER WORLD WARS I AND II 841 L. KIRKPATRICK WHI? past can live in the present and look to the future, say young people of Richfield Springs, upstate A town with a sVvStSw.V'l J.' KVi ,y n.v rvii..-- : .. ; pTV- 10 MONTH! r-.-; anti 4 4 .A MONTH! i. EK IMVIIV lllliMI C'f anil Kvr;v4J ; A?TC V' woeio WA WOMB WAI N i H THESE UNITED STATES Youth Council Sets Pace In Developins N.Y. Town E. V-- i fij'A amis . . Following the trend of the cost of living In the United Slates after World economists point out that in PUR and 1919 prices rose spectacularly. Cost of commodities MR bat slight rises after World War II because or government price controls. Following demise of OPA, pim lose sharply on some staples and articles. This chart compares Increases after both wars. It Is based n fin C. S. burean of labor statistics consumers price Index and covers 200 goods and service in 34 hip cities throughout the country. 1C. L. AFTER TWO WARS . lull and n, i Futim " . . . Dorothea Fagnano, 15, Yonkers, N. Y schoolgirl, sample some of her own rook lea following her selection aa cook-la-g queen. Kbe disclosed that she now in working on a new recipe for but not ton making bread without flour a tall order for a teen-age-r, bard for Dorothea, whs recently captured first prim In a competitloa which attracted entrants from 312 cities. Miss Fagnano lo experimenting with potato flour aa a baste Ingredient far her new flour less bread. COOKING Ql'EEN the winter to formulate questions aud work out unbiased answers to them. Under direction of the council sponsor and the high school social science teacher it has quickened initiative, developed new viewand horizons points, broadened in defbrought needed inite community projects. One of these was a community carnival, whicli was a financial success and a concrete demonstration of how folks can and will work together. Another was the realization of (1,000 through contributions and a community dance fur Christmas boxes and gifts to 200 hometown men and women in the service. List Accomplishments. To prove that other communities cun "do as well ns ours," Youth Council members explain that in their fanning section of cash cropping, dairying and poultry raising, a dairy manufacturing plant, two fishing tackle factories and a sports wear mill have been established as a result partially of their interest and agitation. As war clouds lift, the council pro 1 ci to improve facilities for tout its at nearby Canadaraga lake which offers boating, fishing and swimming In summer and skating in uii.u-r- . "While we are planning for things ahead, we are doing more real living in the present with due respect to the past for cornerstones to build on, say Richfield Springs young people. New York center with 1,200 population. This consensus of the town's Youth council, started mure than three years ago from a panel on Young Peoplea' Present Day Problems. Some of the charter members as well as their followers were young people. On the present membership list are the names of a beautician, clerk, bookkeeper, farmer, housewife, laboratory tech-- j nician, machinist, secretary, school custodian, telephone oicralor. sten-- I ographer, and typesetter, so ev-- I erybody gets in and pitches or helps play the field. Each works where he fits and is must needed. Stage Annual Program. Chief activity is I Ain ail Amcri- can Day program staged annually under the council's direction. Use is made of school band and chorus, American Legion, chuich groups, town board and boys and girls' clubs. Highlights of this year's program were demonstrations by Cub, Hoy and Girl Scouts, remarks by a new voter and an address by one of the town's ministers. This youlii group tackles other things as the months come and go. They dig a bit into the annals of history" for indication of what's to liiclilieid happened Springs, which in the Gay Nineties was New York State's most opu1ar spa be-- 1 cause of the hi aling powers of its Then, we sulphur spring waters. had hotels filled with visitors, livery stables of fine horses and all kinds of carriages that outshone most cars in today's modem garecalls. rages, an Varied Frojeets. So," tlie group asks, "what can we do about what's left with us?" They consider how to dean and make use of deserted hotels and other buildings, explore the needs and possibilities of local industries such as cannery and dairy. Outstanding project t n forum to study the creation of good citisrmthlp to world affairs. This reaches 150 youth and adults who meet weekly daring FIRST WOMAN CLERK Frances E. Daslin, Dexter, Me., who baa became the first woman clerk to enter the senate chamber during a session. Intensely Jealous of Its member prerogatives, senate previously barred women. ... STAR SPILLS Fred Krrwla races for a fall la trial rnn during preparation for the National Aquaplane races te be held off the California roast along Ilcrmosu and Manhattan beaches llu- - middle of August. Aquaplane races were largely discontinued during the war. Many returned servicemen acquired the ert In Facifio waters and promise to give elrong competition in the sport. It hat been estimated that several thousand will compete In aquaplane races In various parts of the United States during 194S. AQUAPLANE Texas Politicians Slow in Own Towns TO QUIT . . . Irrs. Morinigo of Paraguay, who la reported te have asked permission from the armed forces to resign and leave the country, following upheaval hi neighboring Bolivia. WANTS William TAYLOn, son county politicians, Mr. A, and Mr. B., are running against each Mr. A. went to Mr. B other. hometown and reported jubilantly that he had contacted 100 voters and that 90 of them promised to vote for him. Mr. B. then visited Mr. A.'s hometown and reported with deep satisfaction that he had talked to 100 people and that 90 of them had in' dicated they would definitely vole for him. TEXAS.-T- old-tim- wo QUEEN OF INDIAN TRIBES . . . , Miss America of the Princess Dorothy Lee Rain- ia Indian-Nations- aiikiss r (POUTED A RULE . . . Tower and brat at the fifth atomic k churned Bikini lagoon into a caldron of flame, stnoke and ud pitched battleships about like toy boat. The underwater Jjjdsa sank the battleship Arkansas and two smaller craft and Mortal wounds to the aircraft carrier Saratoga, which sank ltTf hours aTlcr the explosion. Size of water disturbance ran be "Mis above photograph, by comparison with naval ships still (lea ting. ; ? ewr P K v ' WINNING WINDUP . . . George McGovern, 11, a future big league oulhpaw, who adds a bit of tongue technique to hia windup. George ia top pitcher in Class C league at Shaw playground, Somerville, Maw. water, selected in a recent competition at Atlantic City, Frincesa Rainwater has traded her tribal costumery for American sports attirr. 4 i? 5 V. , f $ ' A' ' V' 1 4. mikm-sp- X ' flCIALS cr I tope1'01 1 vv'X' v' Mrs. WIVES AID HOME CANNING PROGRAM .v7- - Wallace, Mrs. John R. Steelman, Miss Druelp Snyder Mrs. rj'IShIpIds and Mrs. J. A. Krug did their hit for National Home 'lmiU,0B kj canning peaches si rnmmunlty renter In re shown with their esns of peachet ready to be Rtoj'u?' officials ta "fiverooer. Hundreds of wives of C. 8. government food. n part la the preprint to preserve home-grow- s CRANSTON, R. 1. Guislx ut the of Thun ms Stabile arc an.;.z cl when they are gnrtcd by his tw- - mils I I : Child lias Unusual Vocabulary I send Vr;.--- - lli-nr- A-1- k'Wmm i, ' V on-si- n V otf TcS Can .i BIG I'llLESE TO "1SIG C HEESE" Wisconsin's dairy qurra, Catherine Mueller, 21, of I.akc, Wis presi-ntScldcn F. Waldo, newly rlccled president of U. S. junior chamber of commerce, with the first tVuu natural rindless sheddar (Amerlran) cheese ever offered the public at national Jayrce eonvenlion in Milwaukee. Heralded as majur development In dairy industry, the cheese does not form a hard crust when a texture of processed cheese with all cut. has no rind and the flavor of natural eliersp. Waldo is municipal Judge of Gainesville, Fla. To the left Is Kearns of rasadena, Calif., outgoing Jaycce national president. jTp; I ... Hot as the weather is, BIG BOYCOTT GETS UNDER WAY Lorraine Anderson, 2, and Richard Kratrrnbrrg, Vi, torn Indignant colfi shoulders to the rise from five to seven rents in the priee of Ice cream cones. Being yonng people of action, tlirv join the rickets around their stare in the Glen Ilazcl bousing project, Pittsburgh. year-ol- d MODERN CRUSOE ON BIKIM . . . George A. (Gator) Medlin, Orlando, Fla., operator of a navy powrr crane at Bikini atoll, where atomic bomb tesla have beea car- ried oat, brlievrs In being comfortable on the Job. Ho survived the final test. j I daucliirr. Dnur.-- i .Turn. leniences whereas average i calmly inquires about tl.cir curn- fort and continues to cairy on a lively conversation. Psychologists who have exarrii.d the pert, blonde child agrre that her is rapidly expanding vocabulary highly unusual for her age. Donna Jean uses 400 words in complete vocabu-hnm- e lary for ranges froru HO to 200 words, In checkers, whirh is her f.vii ite game of wits. Donna Jr an already has learned a u.siri trick. Because she always git: beaten when she plays with her fa ther, Donna Jean has contrived game she plays with hr r doll. Asked wlio wins in the contest, she in- variably replies: "1 do, of course." sclf-apj- ! snAW AT 90 . . . Eyes sIlO as keen as his razor-wi- t, Georgs Ilcrnard Shaw, greatest figure in English IHcrsinre today, looks out at tke topsy-turv- y world at the age of 90. He keeps his thoughts to himself sometimes. LEAVE FOR FI LG RIM AGE TO CANADA . . . Group of 75 Invalids before boarding a train In Chicago on their way to the noly Shrines of the Bainto In Canada, for the first of thrlr yearly pilgrimage. Miss Mary Ellen Kelly, 23. Marcus, Iowa, (third from right, front row). Inspired the pilgrimage and will lead the other Invalids to the Shrine, seeking health through faith. Thry will bo Joined by thousand fyom other parts sf the nation. |