Show IV dust bowl Dowl menace A LBERT ALBERT GOSS COSS master of bof thee the national grange bluntly warned president truman the other day that we are inviting another dust bowl disaster unless we begin redeveloping the grasslands of the west 1 I have just returned from a trip to wyoming and can tell you that the dangers arp are very real reported goss there has been too much plowing up of the grasslands we developed ai as insurance against futile dust storms the grange leader who Is the ablest farm spokesman in wash ington explained that the ugh high prices aud demand for wheat for domestic and foreign ald aid were chiefly responsible since farmers want to maintain pasture lauds when they could turn a quick profit on grain crops most people take it for granted that we have lic licked ked the dust bowl hazards which caused such tragedy in the west some years back added goss however dust can blow again and will blow in my opinion within the next few years unless those grasslands are re stored oil lobbyists hobbyists at work NO I 1 INDUSTRY IN THE CAPITAL has become lobbying despite the lobbying act the hotels the cocktail lounges the corridors 0 of f congress now swarm with more of these oleaginous back flappers than during the war standing out above cherest the rest is the oil lobby kingpin of them all all the oil lobby has just scored one great victory palestine now its c concentrating on perhaps the richest of all prizes tidelands oil tidelands delands Tl oil the great con tin shelf extending under the water off the pacific and gulf coasts is estimated by some as more valuable than arabia and the oil fields of the united states combined around billion barrels lie buried in these underwater yater oil fields a against only 20 billion barrels remaining in the dryland dry land oil fields of the united states the petroleum resources of the continental shelf are ours to exploit whenever to exploit them becomes worthwhile w orth while said standard oil in a statement to stockholders and since the supreme court now takes a contrary view that the continental shelf belongs to the federal government I 1 no not the states the oil lobby Is focusing all its power on a bill introduced trod by senator moore of oklahoma himself on an oilman which would reverse the supreme court having reversed the united nations on PaW palestine partine tIne the oil lobby ests quite openly boast that they can put a law through congress reversing ev ersing the highest tribunal of the I 1 land lk ike ethe the democrat THE republicans WERE RIGHT in calling the burnon turn on general Elsen Eisen howers use of army personnel after his retirement from Ah the earmy army however its interesting that the man who called the turn w was s congressman AL A L miller mille of nebraska spearhead of the macarthur for president movement m 0 v 6 these boys dont like eisenhower also its significant that other high ranking generals and admirals have continued to use army navy personnel after their retirement for in instance s tance admiral ernie king now retired used no not tonly only a navy office but navy clerical person personnel nM to write a book and ii if all the money spent on gen john J pershing during his retirement were added up it would total over a million lay ing although retired for years continues to be the second high est paid government official drawing a salary of aroun around d sp a year only the president of the united states tops him lit in addition pershing has a colonel as an aide plus other army personnel and for years has lived at walter reed hospital eisenhower Elsen hower has a staff of lot three assigned io him at columbia maj robert L an aide WAC warrant officer margaret hayes and Master sergeant leonard dry a chauffeur he also draws a salary of a year for life from the army in addition to his salary as bres president ident of columbia university note pershing although appoint e ed d by woodrow wilson is the son inlaw in law of the republican republic chairman of the senate appropriations committee the late francis E warren of D f wyoming the republicans now consider eisenhower Elsen hower a democrat capital chaff HENRY WALLACE isi igi looking around for foi a new charlie michelson to supply him with campaign mats rial sortie people think thais a waste wasie ot of time harry Tr doing a better lob job than charlie michelon micheli son democratic leaders will wil I 1 b be amazed when they find out that oregon democrats are going to support henry kaiser against truman tru man |