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Show WEW PEARSON Congress Must Control Rats rHE United States probably could save 400 bushels of grain annually by two measures alone control of rats and elim-lating elim-lating weevils from grain bins, elevators and freight cars. Few people realize the tremendous waste from these purees alone. Rats and other rodents, for instance, eat or aste around 200 million bushels of grain annually. The waste in some irncribs is terrific, and in order to undertake an effective ratextermina-3n ratextermina-3n campaign, it is almost necessary for every farmer in a community to terminate at the same time. Otherwise, the rats leave one farm for lother. Last year congress so drastically cut the funds of the bureau s of wildlife that its campaign against rats was knocked cold. I Weevils and other insects in grain bins and grain elevators destroy Mother 300 million bushels, a loss which could be eliminated by proper graying and fumigation. , j Plant diseases also take a tremendous toll, but can be partly con-olled. con-olled. The wheat crop in Montana was increased 25 per cent by spraying eeds. 1 What congress should do immediately is to pass the appropriation jquester1 Q-y- Secretary of Agriculture Anderson for insecticide control and iil conservation. This should be voted hand in hand with foreign relief. In '.ct, one is essential to the other. V ALTER WINCHELL Votes of a Bystander "Former Ambassador Joseph P. nnedy has more $$$ than the U. S. int. He sold the Somerset distil-ries distil-ries for 16 million (cash) and bawt e furniture mart in Chi. . . . The 'easury department is blueprinting Campaign to "sell" U. S. business-n business-n the idea not to expect any reaction re-action in taxes at least before 49. ;It costs only $16 to replace the !tire side of a 1948 Packidd less i!an the cost of repairing a bumped 'nder on an ordinary car. . . . any small acts are going to Puerto co where the loot is mucho more id performers are treated like roy- ty. As a matter of titular history it is interesting to note that Mme. Magda Lupescu outranks the Duchess of Wind sor, whom so many social-climbing Americans are anxious to cultivate. The duchess has never rated higher than duchess and has never even had the additional distinction of being ad-dressed ad-dressed as Your Grace. . . . Lupescu, however, married an ex-king, whose title has never been less than ex-king. . . . Magda, therefore, has gained the title of ex-queen. Furthermore, if King Carol returns to the throne his wife will be the queen; whereas, the Duchess Duch-ess of Windsor can never be queen for the simple reason that her duke-groom was demoted. . . . Theoretically, then, in a drawing room (or a night club) if there is any curtseying to be done, the duchess would have to do the knee-bending knee-bending before the ex-Queen Magda. . . . Anyhow, let Emily Post unravel it. WALTER SHEAD Protection of Civil Rights .I 7ITH the electoral votes of nine key states probably hanging in the ' balance California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jer-:y, Jer-:y, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania leaders in both parties are seek-lg seek-lg a way to enact some of the provisions proposed by President Truman's vil rights committee before the next session of congress adjourns for le 1948 elections. These states account for 223 out of the 266 electoral votes needed to ame a president, and negroes and other minority "groups may hold the alance of voting power in all of them. I Hence, it is conceded that legislation for a Fair employment . practices commission, voting restrictions such as the poll tax and an anti-lynching law will be pushed In the next session pushed squarely up against a southern senate filibuster unless strength can be found to adopt a cloture rule by majority instead of the j present two-third vote necessary. J President Truman already has committed himself on these and other 'roposals of the civil rights committee and is expected to endorse more Jach legislation in his message on the state of the union. ., On the Republican side, Speaker Joe Martin has pointed out that the tjouse passed an anti-poll tax bill last July and it is now in the senate for aeon. ae-on. He told a meeting recently that the anti-lynch bill also will be brought tp with early hearings. Sen. Irving Ives of New York is chief sponsor of Ji FEPC, measure along with Senators Aiken of Vermont, Taft of Ohio, jail of Minnesota, Murray of Montana and Pepper of Florida. l r r r I I PHILLIPS floral: Always Travel Light -The railroad traveling public now -ay be seen entering and leaving ;pots with a pronounced list to .arboard, moaning low and whis-pring whis-pring profanely. Women travel's travel-'s lc-k especially sore-going.' It is le to the fact, incredible as it may em, that the railroads have upped dcap fees again, this time to 15 -nts per bag or bundle, with the "C's blessing. A 200 yard trip for a little old lady ith a suitcase, a handbag and one indie too many now will set her tck 45 cents exclusive of tip. i The only traveler who is in a position to take it with a smile V ' is the fellow who steps off the train, signals a porter and points to bass violin, a sack of cement ce-ment and an iron deer. "A new auto with only three wheels is on the market." News item. New? The roads have been full of that kind ever since Pearl Harbor. DIM VIEW Approached from afar Or looked at much nearer, It's a pretty sad view: I'm a Boarding House Mirror! Pier. VESTBROOK PEGLER Loves the Poor and Steaks ARSON WELLES is a dear, roguish boy, forever up to mischief. If he isn't setting the whole United States upside down with a broadcast of j invasion of Martians he is growing a beard and jutting it in the faces jUie great big, humorous Irish doormen at the Waldorf. Sure and begorry J Isn't he the one! His whole nature seems to chitter and cheep in the age of the elves and it was just like him to say, yes, that he did have W steaks flown out from Iowa to California because, with his asthma, he jhuires an amount and kind of protein not found in fat western beef. I It was just like his honest, sweetly impudent character to main-i main-i tain this absolutely legal position even while he might set up a most lugubrious wail for the children of the poor in California, who might have rickets or scurvy or punkin'-head for the lack of all that hungry children need. After all, his own, personal steaks wouldn't spread far among many, d if they were so apportioned then all too soon the asthma might still the ice of Orson's protest. . As Precious, himself, endeavored to explain, the public, a horrid brute Disome aspects, lacks the intelligence to note that a great heart which Jies for the poor, with a special pang for children every hour on the ur, needs nutriment to endure this anguish, and, anyw,ay, even though a in is rich and flicks his ashes in the butter on the chip, who but a scist would deny his right to deplore the wretchedness around him? fpat about his freedom of thought and speech? BRIGHT PATTERSON 'loney Alone Won't Work HE Anal amount of America's aid to the rehabilitation of Eu-"e Eu-"e will not be known for a consid-"ible consid-"ible time. Whatever the amount y be, if the European nations do ' . establish stable governments, it 1 not be enough to do the job. e, such stable governments' were jjablished "nd if they would forget I S- the rivalries and jealousies of the past, working together for a new and better Europe, private American capital would do the rehabilitation job. There are billions of idle capital capi-tal in this country at this time; capital that is seeking a reasonably safe investment. It will not invest in a socialistic Europe. |