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Show r --J ....... - n MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH j WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS j Berlin Srisis Hears Showdown; First Peacetime Draft Begins; Special Session Opens Sampaigr By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer ' (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions arc expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union'B news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) fa sr u Wh i 1 - ' ' V ' ' ib rt! 1 CRACKDOWN: On Reds Uneasiness over the foreign sit-uation was reflected in two actions directed against subversive ele-ments on the home front. In the greatest crackdown in his-tory on the Communist party in this country, a special federal grand jury in New York indicted 12 party leaders on charges of con-spiring and agitating to overthrow the U. S. government and of being members of a party which threat-ens overthrow of the government. The special grand jury to delve into Communist activity was creat-ed in June, 1947, by order of Atty. Gen. Tom C. Clark. Included in the roundup were William Z. Foster, party chairman and several times Communist can-didate for President of the U. S.; Benjamin Davis, New York City councilman; John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, and several members of the Communist na-tional board. Almost simultaneously, charges that several hundred foreign agents have used the United Nations to cover subversive activities here were hurled by state department representatives at a senate commit tee hearing. Robert C. Alexander, assistant chief of the department's visa com-mission, declared that some of the agents were employees of the Unit ed Nations or came here in some way related to the U. N. Such per-sons are covered by the interna-tional immunities act passed in 1945. Surprised at the charges, United Nations officials insisted that it was up to the state department to back up the charges with facts. A check on nationalities of U. N staff members showed that of i total of 2,944 there were 1,463 for eigners. From the "iron curtain' countries there were 108, but man. were appointed before the change o governments put their homeland: Into the Russian sphere. NOT YET BUT SOON Josh sergeant now but just wait a few months! Eductions would begin, but they are not expected to start before October 1. The first draftee, it is indicated, will be 25, unmarried and a Registration dates specified by Mr. Truman for each age follow: The oldest group, meaning men born in 1922 after August 30, 1922, will be registered on Monday, August 30. Men born in 1923, August 31 and September 1. Men born in 1924, September 2 and 3. Men born in 1925, September 4 and 7. Men born in 1926, September 8 and 9. Men born in 1927, September 10 and 11. Men born in 1928, September 13 and 14. Men born in 1929, September 15 and 16. Men b.orn in 1930 before Septem-ber 19, September 17 and 18. The proclamation stated that youths born after September 19, 1930, will register on their eight-eenth birthday, or within five days thereafter. About 1,200,000 youths come into this category yearly. CAMPAIGN: Advanced With the kickoff advanced six weeks through President Truman's action in calling congress back into special session, the American people are in for one of the most heated and intensive presidential campaigns in recent history. The whole political calendar has been advanced this year. The President's opening message to the recalled congress signaled the ini-tial salvo in the campaign, which will be in full swing until the November balloting. Normally; national candidates wait until after Labor day before entering into thorough-goin- g dis-cussion of the issues of the cam-paign. This year's campaign also be-came more involved with the addi-tion of third and fourth parties to the field. Although its ticket of Henry Wal-lace for president and Glenn Taylor for vice president was in the field month ago, third party adherents followed the Republicans and Demo-crats to Philadelphia for their nominating convention. Rebellious southern Democrats, after walking out on their regular party conclave, gathered in Bir-mingham, Ala., to enter a fourth party in the field. Heading the states' rights ticket are Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Caro-lina for president and Gov. Field-ing L. Wright of Mississippi for vice president. The states' rights Democrats have shown their greatest strength in Alabama and Mississippi, where a combined 20 electoral votes are pledged against Mr. Truman. BERLIN: Showdown The old familiar pattern of just one crisis after another in the cold war between Russia on the one hand and the western Allies on the other was being repeated again in the Berlin showdown. But an un-easy world watched , anxiously, fearful that at any moment some crisis might explode into actual warfare. Urgency of the Berlin crisis re-sulted in the recall of Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. military command-er in Germany, and his top politi-cal adviser, Ambassador Robert Murphy, for a first-han- d report on the situation. Clay conferred with President Truman, State Secretary Marshall and Army Secretary Royall on means of carrying out the Ameri-can government's intention to stay in Berlin despite the concerted Rus-sian drive to force the western powers out. The official line was laid down by Secretary Marshall who said that while the United States would not be "coerced or intimidated" by the Russian blockade of Berlin, the ad-ministration nevertheless will "pro-ceed to reach an acceptable solu-tion to avoid the tragedy of war." Although rumors that the Berlin blockade might prove the spark that would enkindle fighting war-fare permeated official quarters, the U. S. position appeared to be that this country hopes to avoid war. However, if the Russians are determined to cause more serious trouble at Berlin, this government is determined to resist force with force. It is equally determined to avoid taking any step which might make the situation more serious as long as negotiation and other diplomatic means remain open. There' will be many more talks, much painstaking deliberation among the western powers in con-nection with the exchange of notes regarding the Berlin blockade, ir-retrievably linked up as it is with the over-al- l German settlement. Marking the high water mark in the deepening Berlin crisis and lending emphasis to the determina-tion to back up its policy that American troops will not . leave Berlin, the United States dispatched powerful reinforcements to its air arm in strife-tor- n Europe. A big question 'mark still con-cerned Russia's ultimate objectives. Was the KTemlin merely trying to drive the Allies out of Berlin or was this but another step in the funda-mental objective of moving the iron curtain inexorably westward, coun-try by country, until it embraced the whole heartland of Europe? ' DRAFT: Blows Strong America's first draftees 1948 style are going to be whisked into uniform so fast they won't know what hit them. The draft proceedings will start rolling Monday, August 30, when the first of 9,500,000 youths will register. Registrations will con-tinue on 17 designated days extend-ing to September 18. From these millions of men, volunteer draft boards throughout the nation will select the manpower to match the material build-u- p of air, land and sea forces called for under the rearmament program. Military men are set to welcome the first draftees into their ranks any time after September 22. Under the law actual drafting cannot start until that date. The presidential proclamation setting the registra-tion dates did not specify when in- - STRAW: Stack of Money There are potential stacks o money in the stacks of straw whicl annually go to waste on U.S. farms Although the paper industry offer; a large potential market for thi . product, farmers last year burner or did not use about 38 million ton: of straw, according to department of agriculture estimates. Recent technical advances hav made possible a large expansion o' the market for straw. It has beet found suitable for blending wit! wood pulp to make fine papers anr also can be used in the manufactur of various insulating building board products. Principal industrial use for straw at present is in mak ing corrugated strawboard, which is used as a liner in cartons and boxes. Some straw also is used foi coarse grades of wrapping paper Research by the department oi agriculture laboratory at Peoria. IH, indicates that straw pulp can be substituted for 25 to 40 per cent of the wood pulp now used in fine and specialty papers. The strawboard industry was es-tablished in this country around 1900, when wheat was harvested with binders and threshed. Every wheat farm then had its straw stack and the straw could be baled. When the combine harvester came into general use, most of the straw stacks disappeared. Development of pickup balers, however, once again have made straw collection on the farm a practical operation. In normal times, it is estimated, the farmer may add 8 to 20 per cent to his cash income from wheat by collecting and selling the straw. WAR: Still Costs The costs of war continue long after the battles cease. A grateful Uncle Sam already has expended 8 billion, .223 million dollars to re-turning veterans during the first four years of the G.I. bill of rights. Veterans' administration reports. Accounting for that total were 14 million, 300 thousand "benefits." It is impossible to determine the exact number of World War II vet-erans who shared in this payment. FOOD: Consumes Dough Confirming suspicions which house-wives have held for many months, department of commerce analysts reported that food stores easily get a bigger part of the retail dollar npw than any other business. Food stores are doing far better than be-fore the war by taking in 27.6 cents of each dollar spent in retail chan-nels. In 1940, by comparison, their share was 23.5 cents, according to jthe report. - Disturbed About World? Suz y Sun Spots May Hold Clue yeai t By BAUKHAGE thi News Analyst and Commentator. hef WASHINGTON. If you were disturbed over the mayhem pei and misunderstandings rampant in the month of July, relax, i thi there may be a scientific explanation. Sun ' hl1 spots. . For the first time in 11 years, there is a maximum number of ultra violet rays about, released by eruptions on the surface Us j of the sun-ray- s which may cause tempers to flare, emotions to get off balance, glands to be affected so that abnormal behaviour results. This imec jsn't fantasy. Medical science has revealed the effects of over exposure t0WI to the ultra-viol- ray. 'its. Sun spots may have been respon- - sible for the disturbances you and I read about on just KUf i . H ; one single day last July on that day in Haiti a publisher was assassinated by an otherwise gentle young poet because the bard had lost some kind of a scholarship; a painter who lived near the otherwise pleasant and peaceful New England home of TJT . Cnnnlrar' .TflO i, is something in it for virtually every farmer and, if there were enough books to go around, could be utilized by everybody who raises a lawn, not to mention people who run air-ports or playgrounds, or any other enclosure of greensward. There is a growing interest in this subject. One member of the de-partment of agriculture called it "a big swing to grass" on the part of farmers over most of the country. Not just as feed but for many pur-poses and functions. One farmer near here, for instance, said to a friend of mine recently that he had quit growing corn for silage. He uses grass entirely. In case you have forgotten, you have a chance to get a De-partment of Agriculture Year Book because of a law passed in Abraham Lincoln's time. Congress every year appropri-ates a sum of money; the de-partment prepares the book, (under the incumbent editorship of Alfred Stefferud) the govern-ment printing office prints, binds and delivers 241,000 copies to members of congress. They pass them around as far as they go. That's the law. This volume is probably one of the few "free" books which is not wasted for it goes almost ex-clusively to people who want it and use it in this order (1) farmers, (2) state agricultural colleges, (3) other colleges for G.I. courses, (4) some high schools. Later on I shall give you an idea of the, contents of the current volume which deals comprehensively with the subject of grass (including legumes and associated plants) be-ginning with the history from colonial days, the place of grass in building soil and feeding livestock, specific information applying to 10 sections of the United States and pictures and descriptions of a 100 different grasses and legumes. Guard Your Liberty Know Dates at Least It's almost impossible to believe that any American would not know the meaning of the approaching V-- J day. But will Americans, 172 years from now, remember that September 1 marked the official end of the bloodiest war in history! Perhaps this sounds absurd to you. It wouldn't if you had read the results of one of a series of polls taken by the Washington Post. Just before July 4, the Post Interviewers asked a number of individuals: "Fourth of July is almost here. Can you tell me why we celebrate it?" Eighty-fiv- e per cent of all persons asked had the right answer. Twelve per cent had no idea why the Fourth is a holiday, and 3 per cent thought it was the anniversary of Armistice day, the end of the Civil war, emancipation of the Negroes or some other event. One of those who had no idea at all on the subject was credited with a col-lege education. Asked what the day meant to them, 39 per cent said, in various ways, that it meant national free-dom; to 18 per cent it spelled per-sonal freedom and liberty in gen-eral; 11 per cent said it didn't mean nothin' nohow but a holiday. How many of us who admit that liberty freedom is our inherent right, know what freedom is? Few, unless they have lived in a country where one practices that quick, ap-prehensive look to right and left, before he dares comment. It's a de-pression gesture. I've seen it and shuddered. I have quoted W. E. Woodward before. In his "New American History," he says: "Liberty implies responsibility and the vast majority of man-kind has always hated responsi-bility worse than death. So in all ages, men have run around, holding it out before them as one holds a golden vessel, offer-ing it to anyone who possesses enough vulgar enterprise to take it away from them." This "vulgar enterprise" is afoot today, snatching liberty,' right and left and tossing it into a totalitarian limbo of the things mankind really loves loves but does not always cherish except in memory. One might paraphrase an ancient proverb: "A fool and his liberty are soon parted." Folly is not in-curable. It can be exchanged for wisdom. Perhaps some of the "realists" who scorn such abstract subjects as political science and history would do well to encourage study of our liberty, how we came by it and why it is worth keeping. Martin at Attleboro, Baukhage Mass., did a dance when he heard his wife was dead it seems he had shot her in the head; here in Washington, a 22- - year-ol- d husband knocked his wife' down, tried to stab her with a butcher knife, attacked an innocent passerby and started a fist fight .with a policeman; a vitamin plant blew up, a prisoner became ill of benzedrine poisoning, a tanker in Chicago caught fire, Jimmy Roose-- velt feuded with the other members of the California delegation and the Russians kicked up the usual fuss. You and I probably had our own troubles all perhaps due to nothing but the rash on Old nf Sol's physiognomy. Scientists will tell you that sun W spots were known by the Chinese j before the telescope made them a rif comparatively familiar subject of "if1 astronomical concern. They are not P uniform in size or shape and some-- fLJ times appear singly, sometimes in groups. A single spot may be large enough to take in our whole planet jg with room to spare. Groups extend ;8j over areas that may include mil- - lions of square miles. Sun spots do not appear to have tol a definite duration. As a rule, they last but a short time, sometimes j not more than a day. But one is ! recorded (in 1940-41- ) as having con- - '.i ' tinued for 18 months. The number jr of sun spots varies greatly in a periodicity that is not strictly regular but that reaches an aver-age of slightly over 11 years. And last month Dr. Roy Mar-shall, director of Fels planetari-um in Philadelphia, echoed an earlier suggestion made here In Washington. He said that sun spots could have a definite effect v on the behaviour of people. And L j he reminded us that sun spots ""j reached their last maximum , j frequency (before July, 1948) In 1937 when Hitler started his blitz. It was several years ago that no less an institution than the con-servative and careful Smithsonian, the capital's great scientific organ-izatio-speculated on the possibility r that there might be a relationship I i between sun spots and wars, as well J as sun spots and weather. Weather U I affects crops, crops affect economic conditions. Sun spots which release ultra violet rays which affect emo- - tions might, an official report to congTess suggested, disturb nego-tiations between individual leaders which might involve nations in war that's the reasoning, anyhow. Some may think it I ' Shakespeare did when he said: 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Poets are frequently right but not, perhaps, immune to the violence oi the violet ray. (Witness the Haitian poet who shot the publisher.) At any rate, the Smithsonian listed considerable technical data showing that sun spot activity frequently had preceded wars. Some scientists say sun spots may have good effects, too resulting in heavier foliage, better crops, more rains as well as their evil tenden-cies to disturb interpersonal rela-- i tions, not to mention radio com munications. However, there is little we can do about It, for as far as we know the sun is like a leopard it can't (or won't) change its spots. One 'Free' Book Is Not Wasted If you are one of the lucky farm-ers who wrote your congressman promptly, asking for a copy of the Department of Agriculture 1948 Year Book, you have a treat in store for you. The first copies al-ready have come from the govern-ment printer but it will be some time before the bulk of the printing is ready for delivery. This year's topic is a live one: GRASS. It deals with the general subject of grassland agriculture and there HOUM is!! Soot be prevent St tag through , wind0. covering the outside oi with cheesecloth ' soot and ca k waslung whenever nece scrub floor,, put little ; ad hes.ve tape inside the s.!. ! protection against nai!slJ: jpiei Tiny holes in rubber j,J ic often be mended with nal iarl Ordinary starch wi8 of. Kcl whitish east on black r colored y something about it. pul amount of leftover cofW not the grounds-i- nto the f When the stove begins . t . dull, but still doesn't quite polish, you can brighten J '' " rubbing it occasionally : paper. -- - i To prolong the lie 0( , dip it in hot soapy watr ;. salt water about once i always hang the broom up'.. rt on its handle but ' i, Scissors are not utensil, but are h- big keep in the kitchen to cut up Thl and celery, trim fat from rrr lhe dice fruits and other vegets' lifl -- - "B Before yon attempt to pee; Cl1 tomato, massage it lightly dull edge of a knife. The come loose much more wv When stewed fruit begins r sour, reclaim It by adding i lai of baking soda and boiling fe tie over again lor a few mint!; Cc If the wash water li hoi, t. glass slowly Into it tdgewiu.?.-- it in bottom first or top lis: crack it. Pl - tt Brown shoes can be d;td 'temporarily if you just poliii (v twice with good grade s! poUsh. T That Man Again BHllSliilBI :;:;:;:::ji;;:: lllliii Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey is sworn In as director of selec-tive service for the second time. Hershey, who will direct the na-tion's first peacetime draft, held the same post during World War n. ti i fcir.' - J Notes of a New Yorker: The Front Pages: There's no use having your blood pressure boil because the U. S. is dangling moneybags before Tito's eyes in an effort to widen his split wits Stalin. In the grimly realistic game of power politics principles are taboo. All that matters is: Whe can help us hurt our enemies? That's why Russia and America were once allies. . . . The Demo-cratic party is now cut up like a jigsaw. But out of the confusing one tiling it clear: The Repubs can't hurt them as much as they've harmed them-selves. . . . How ridiculous can you get? The Soviet government hai made it illegal for Russian wom-en to alter their skirts to "capital-istic lengths!" Truman doesn't seem to have progressed much in four years. In '44 he was second choice and still is. Man Under a Shower: There'll be a new third party paper. Name: The National Gazette. Sometime in August. . . .' Richest waiter in the world (he's the oldest and walks the fastest, too) is the Stork club's Mr. Johnson. . . . Wanna get rich the easy way? Be in Washington in November and sell tickets to Mis-souri. . . . John Edgar Hoover's "pained" expression, intimates know, is from his fear that "war may come tomorrow." Now don't ask him if it is true; he will only deny it. Zanuck would toss this out of any script (unbelievable, 'e'd argue) but it happened the other i ayem in New York. Two stickups ot away with two small safes from he Cadillac branch on York avenue md while the gendarmes searched the ity for them one returned to the cene to retrieve a revolver he left be-hind! And got away again. Stage Entrance: Warner's just signed a Mexican actress named elipe Gomez to a ar contraot in the strength of her playing in Key Largo." She's 102 years old. . . Dorothy Kirsten, the Met hrush who owns several spectacu-a- r fur coats, is backing one of the ipstate New York chinchilla farms. . . Oscar Homolka of the piercing lue eyes will play the "famed lungarian playwright" when the lew George' S. Kaufman-Edn- a Fer-je- r play, "Bravo!" hits Broadway, fanet Fox (niece of Fer-er- ) will be in the east. . . . The ich get richer: "Annie Get Your lun," a wow in New York, San ''rancisco, Denver, London just to nention a few cities is now the liggest hit in Australia, too. Elsa Maxwell's party game was played again. The query was: "If you had only 10 min-utes to live, and yon knew it, how would you spend them?" To which Helen Hayes' hus-band, Charles MacArthur (a wit) seriously said: "I would call my wife on the phone and apologize!" American taxpayers will blow a 'use when they learn Hirohito's innual living allowance is $400,000. . . Life mag notes Gene Autry's : actus sagas made him a Yet his seldom are rated good enough for Broadway premieres. . . Justice William O. Douglas' :ssay in Reader's Digest uses ords for paddles on the Commu-list- s. He believes they can be trounced without using . . . Passing planes will cause your television screen to get blurr-y- . Odd Coincidences: Since Gov-ernor Warren left California he visited the State of Pennsyl-vania, the Pennsylvania station in New York and the Hotel Pennsylvania ditto. Next stop: Pennsylvania avenue, Washing-ton? Insiders hear Carole Landis planned suicide by driving her car off a west ciast cliff in 1946. . . . A kitten dashing across the path of the car changed her mind. . . . Carole than drove to the home of Dick Haymes' mother (the story goes) and while holding the kitten in her lap Mrs. Haymes and Carole talked out her problem. . . . When she appeared in "The Lady Says Yes" (a Broadway flop), a doctor described Carole as "one of the most sexicological women in and out of show biz." . . . The Landis tragedy proves that the greatest dramas in H'wood are not filmed they're lived. Mary Margaret McBrlde has a way with words. She advised one of Dewey's cabinet: "When you read a speech you say what may have taken months to write. But when you ad lib you speak from your heart what it has taken years to live." ... If you look closely while vjevfing "Fort Apache" you will see a, shrivelled, apple-cheeke- d old lady tn the part of Mrs. Gates. She is Mae Marsh who reached stardom in "The Birth of a Na-tion" 33 years ago. "Cluster City" 4 For Atom Age "Cluster city" Is not ft! a place, but of a ityle of dt; signed especially for pnfc against atomic bombs. Tracy B. Augur, a city a consultant to the Alms!;: ergy Commission Is response the "cluster city" idea. Sucni:t he says, would be a braich of t,' cities of about 50,000 potty each, aU grouped together K terrelated, and separated to J I other by four to five miles if V country. J ' Augur believes that mc- i-' would leduce to a minimum fij ; feet of an atomao attack m- l-also Increase city livabllitj. j; CLASSIFlf DEPARTMEKy MSCELLAXEOtSj ROLL DEVELOPim-fl"- 1'' "Tj Never Fade Hlsh OloM P'mU' 25c. 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"It is common knowledge that Communists joined unions to cause trouble, not to help the unions, and congress had a right to legislate against this." Judge Sherman Minton of U. S. circuit court of appeals. "It must not be forgotten that with Russia we are dealing not with a great nation that can express its free will but with 13 men in the Kremlin who have made themselves the masters of the brave Russian people and who rule them with far more dictatorship than was ever shown by any Russian czar since the days of Ivan the Terrible." Winston Churchill. "Never again should we have to abandon our men as was the case at Corregidor." Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chief of naval operations. |