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Show MfGIHpND KXj h$ 1 ORi IW PEARSON Dust Bawl Menace ALBERT GOSS, master of the " National Grange, bluntly warned warn-ed President Truman the other day that we are inviting another "dust bowl" disaster unless we begin redeveloping re-developing the grasslands of the West. "I have just returned from a trip to Wyoming and can tell you that the dangers are very real," reported report-ed Goss. "There has been too much plowing up of the grasslands we developed de-veloped as insurance against future dust storms." The grange leader, who is the ablest farm spokesman in Washington, Wash-ington, explained that the high prices and demand for wheat for domestic and foreign aid were chiefly responsible, since farmers didn't want to maintain pasture lands when they could turn a quick profit on grain crops. "Most people take it for granted that we have licked 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 restored." re-stored." Oil Lobbyists at Work NO. 1 INDUSTRY IN THE CAPITAL CAP-ITAL has become lobbying. Despite the lobbying act, the hotels, the cocktail lounges, the corridors of congress now swarm with more of these oleaginous back-slappers than during the war. Standing out above the rest is the oil lobby kingpin of them all. The oil lobby has just scored one great victory Palestine. Now it's concentrating on perhaps the richest rich-est of all prizes tidelands oil. Tidelands oil, the great continental con-tinental shelf extending under the water off the Pacific and Gulf coasts, is estimated by some as more valuable than Arabia and the oU fields of the United States combined. Around 100 billion barrels bar-rels lie buried in these underwater under-water oil fields, as against only 20 billion barrels remaining in the 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," 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, govern-ment, not the states, the oil lobby is focusing all its power" on a bill introduced in-troduced by Senator Moore of Oklahoma, Okla-homa, himself an oilman, which would reverse the supreme court. Having reversed the United Nations Na-tions on Palestine, the oil lobbyists lobby-ists quite openly boast that they' can put a law through congress reversing the highest tribunal of the land. Ike, the Democrat THE REPUBLICANS WERE RIGHT in calling the turn on General Gen-eral Eisenhower's use of army personnel per-sonnel after his retirement from he army. However, it's interesting interest-ing that the man who called the turn was Congressman A. L. Miller of Nebraska, spearhead of the MacArthur - for - President m o v e-ment. e-ment. These boys don't like Eisenhower. Eisen-hower. Also it's significant that other high-ranking generals and admirals have continued to use army-navy personnel after their retirement. For instance, Admiral Ernie King, now retired, used not only a navy office but navy clerical personn to write a book. And if all the money spent on Gen. John J. Pershing during his retirement were added up it would total over a million. Pershing, Persh-ing, although retired for years, continues to be the second highest high-est paid government official, drawing a salary of around $26,-000 $26,-000 a year. Only the President of the United States tops him. In n addition, Pershing has a colonel as an aide, plus other army per-. per-. sonnel, and for years has lived at Walter Reed hospital. Eisenhower has a staff of three assigned to him at Columbia Maj. Robert L. Schulz, an aide; WAC Warrant Officer Margaret Hayes and Mastersergeant Leonard Dry. a chauffeur. He also draws a salary sal-ary of $15,751 a year for life from the army in addition to his salary as president of Columbia university. univer-sity. . Note Pershing, although appointed appoint-ed by Woodrow Wilson, is the son-in-law of the Republican chairman of the senate appropriations committee, com-mittee, the late Francis E. Warren of Wyoming. The Republicans now consider Eisenhower a Democrat. Capital Chaff HENRY WALLACE is looking around for a new Charlie Michelson to supply him with campaign material. mate-rial. (Some people think that's a waste of time; Harry Truman's doing do-ing a better job than Charlie Michel-son) Michel-son) . . . Democratic leaders will be amazed when they find out that Oregon Democrats are going to support sup-port Henry Kaiser against Truman. |