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Show ( MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH , , ' i P51 AltV Things I Never Knew 'Til Now (Because the teachers were too pretty) That Shakespeare's most loqua-cious character was Hamlet, to whom he gave 1,569 speaking lines. (Showing off again that he can read! ) That in Indianapolis, Ind., It's illegal for a mustached man to kiss anyone. (Mustache my lawyer about that!) That Oscar Wilde's full name was Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. (They called him "Whoopsss!" for short.) That according to the department of commerce the American public spends 400 million dollars a year on restaurant tips. That the brain isn't mentioned in the Bible. (Now he's trying to tell as he reads the Bible!) That in West Cork, Ireland, relief clients who are toothless and un-able to chew the free beef are iven whisky instead. (Mebbe that's why they say Ireland is "a little bit of heaven.") That when someone once asked Heywood Broun what was the most important qualification for a col-umnist he replied: "To own a waste basket." (You're telling me!) That you can forecast the weather yourself by observing the change in the wind's direction. (If the change is in a clockwise direction, the weather will improve, f it's counter-clockwis- carry your umbrella!) That Dante, the Italian poet who wrote "The Divine Comedy," trained his pet cat to sit on a table and hold a burning candle In its paws while he read. (It must have been the cats!) That a woman's brain is 140 grams lighter than a man's. (So will yon kindly keep still and listen?) That the reason "Q" is the only letter omitted from the telephone dial is because it would look so much like "O" that people would be confused and dial wrong num-bers. (And I do mean Q!) That the Michigan State college curriculum now includes a course for blacksmiths. (Shoe 'naff!) That you weigh more in an ele-- , vator when it is going up. (Is there anything that man doesn't know?) That if you have trouble loosening tight screws and bolts, a few drops of peroxide will do the trick. (Ask me anything!) That the color ink you use is sup-posed to be a clue to your character. Black ink shows sound opinions blue ink, a happy balance between intellect and sentimentality violet ink, impulsiveness and choleric tem-perament and red ink reveals ob-stinacy, quarrelsomeness and a tend-ency to dominate others. (It also shows that business isn't so good.) That if prisoners in Mexico City are married, they may receive overnight visits from their wives and are given special quarters away from the cell block. (Latins are so romantic!) That a Hindu trick for wooing slumber is to close the eyes and concentrate on looking inward to-ward the nose supposed to put you to sleep in less than two minutes. (Who'll count my sheep for me while I'm fooling around with Hindu tricks?) That when Mrs. Harry S. Truman attended the Barstow School for Girls she excelled in the shotput. (Hmmm, so that's 'where Margaret inherited her talent!) That almost four times as much aspirin is used today as In 1929 10 million pounds In-stead of 1929's 2,500,000. (Some fun, eh, kid?) That more U. S. Presidents have died in July than any other month, and that no President ever died in May. (Seven died in July, includ-ing John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe.) That a popular misconception is mat Big Ben is the name of the clock on the House of Parliament in London. (It's not it's the name of the bell that strikes the hour.) That according to a Smithsonian anthropologist, the cave man's ideal femme measured the same in all three directions. (Every man to his own taste!) That geologists predict N-iagara falls will cease to exist by 22001) A. D., because they're continually retreating. (Gosh you'd better hurry up and see them!) That giraffes in captivity have an ntense dislike for women. (The big dopes!) WffCLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. Events Reach Climax; lossow Parley Continues Uneasily; Soviets Sever Consular Relations I By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they ar thos of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Discussion FUEL OIL: Plentiful Last winter's serious fuel short-age in homes and industries prob-ably will not be repeated this year, according to present predictions. The supply of fuel oil is becoming so plentiful that there apparently is no need for an elaborate distribu-tion system to be set up for the pur-pose of doling it out. Stored supplies are 60 per cent ahead of last year at this time and crude runs from distilleries are half a million barrels ahead of a year ago. New refining facilities are largely responsible for eradicating the shortage. Moreover, oil industry officials say, there now is an ample supply of gasoline. Only thing that could put a crimp in that would be a na-tional emergency or a transporta-tion stoppage. Most of the major cities are well supplied with oil, and while there might be spot shortages in rural communities during the winter they probably would be only of a day or two duration. "Last winter," said one industry member, "part of the trouble was caused by snow tying up the rail roads." That happens and attention is focused on it when there is an oil shortage. It could happen again. RADAR NET: Inadequate What with one thing and another Americans can't help now and then wondering what would happen ii this country suddenly were to be attacked from the air. Biggest question in this connection is whether a warning of such an at tack would be given in time for the population to evacuate probable centers of attack. Air force officials say they are doing the best they can with what they have to provide the nation with a radar warning network. What they have, however, is a1 best inadequate, they say. The pres ent radar system is not capable of detecting all approaches of foreign planes. Currently, a committee of leading scientists, headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush, is carrying out a careful study of improvements in radar that could lead to an adequate air warning system. Political Pounding Kasenkina, the U. S. state depart-ment pointed out as it ordered him out of the country. It was a sensational turn of events. In a note to the Soviet em-bassy the state department asserted that Lomakin had, in effect, misled his own government with regard to the Kasenkina case so that the pro-tests which the Soviets made to the U. S. were "based on misinforma-tion." In addition, the note charged that the consul general had "hindered the investigation of the competent police officials by refusing to al-low them to interview Mrs. Kasen-kina" while she was under control of the Soviet consul. Then, even as Lomakin was pack-ing his bags and preparing to leave the country, Russia countered sharply by formally severing con-sular relations with the U. S. and repeating its accusations of bad faith. That seemed to prove that Loma-kin'- s actions in the Kasenkina af-fair were not so much the expres-sion of his individual initiative as they were a direct reflection of Kremlin policy. However, no one was worrying too much about the breaking off of consular relations. The move did not mean that diplomatic relations were severed. Soviet consular activities in the U. S. were limited to arranging for mutual trade and travel between the two nations. Since there is prac-tically no trade or travel exchange taking place, the presence or ab-sence of a consul wouldn't make too much difference. To Escape Lying weak and ashen-face- d in her hospital bed in New York, Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina finally got around to telling the story of why she leaped from the third-stor- y win-dow of the Soviet consulate. "I jumped to escape, not to kill myself," she said. She said that her "rescue" from the Tolstoy foundation's Reed farm was not a "rescue but an arrest," engineered by the Russian consul-genera- l. She did not want to go back to Russia. Although she loves her people, she stated that "I don't agree with the policies of Josef Stalin. I cannot agree with the regime in the Soviet." VIEWPOINTS: THE AX WAS THERE RUSSIANS: Climactic Virtually every avenue of public thought in the U. S. was teeming with Russians, shadows of Russians and a few Red convertibles. There was a feeling, however, that the international commotion had reached its climax and was ready to start subsiding, partly be-cause public interest, flagellated into a state of high excitement, couldn't stand the stress and strain of it all much longer. Nevertheless, events having to do with Russia remained for the time being, at least, reasonably climac-tic: The Moscow talks were ready either to pay off or break down; Russia had broken off consular re-lations with the TJ. S. ; Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, the window - jumping Russian schoolteacher, had told the story of how she had been strong-arme- Moscoiv In the Kremlin, where the three western ambassadors were trying to pound out some kind of tentative basis for negotiations with the So-viet Union, the Russians were play-ing their familiar game of u. Ambassador Walter tsedetl Smith, British Representative Frank Roberts and French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau had been drudg-ing through a series of meetings with the implacable V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister. Molotov, as usual, was hard, tough, adamant in his adherence to current Soviet policy on the Berlin and Germany problems. No prog-ress was made; the three western representatives were dispirited, al-though they kept to their chore. The word was whispered about that this conference might break up in total failure. Then came a break, or so it ap-peared. Premier Stalin would meet again with the three envoys. In the ensuing discussions with Stalin hopes again were raised that the western powers might succeed in at least partially lifting the Berlin blockade and perhaps effect an area of agreement that could be used for a subsequent top-lev- meeting to iron out some of the major East-We-differences. But there were some who still could see the ax on the peace table. Somehow, there was a familiar pat-tern behind these negotiations that went something like this: After Molotov had subjected his fellow conferees to hour after hour of his d refusals to come to terms, attempting by those tactics to wear his diplomatic op-ponents down, the scene was set for Stalin's return. Stalin came" on with his air of geniality and good will, apparently not only willing but eager to reach common ground. His attitude was so manifestly different from Molo-tov'- s that hopes again soared. There was the danger. Lulled into optimism, the western envoys might be trapped into making concessions that should not be made. This same kind of Molotov-to-Stali- n play had worked before. Hit the Road Jacob M. Lomakin, Soviet con-sul general in New York, had con-ducted himself improperly and dis-creditably in the affair of the Rus-sian schoolteacher, Mrs. Oksana Bubbling toothfully with con-fidence, Herbert Brownell Jr., campaign manager for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, nails up the sign which proclaims that the Washington, D. C, head-quarters for the Republican cam-paign ticket of Dewey and War-ren is open for business. Brownell also has the idea that business will be good, INSTALLMENTS: Regulated Just exactly what effect the new-ly imposed restrictions on credit buying would have on the hog-wil- d inflation that has been devastating the nation's moral fiber was not quite clear. Acting under authorization of the 80th congress, the government put the brakes on installment buying and extended the ceiling on its new regulations to $5,000 to control wild-cat buying of expensive new auto-mobiles. This new order goes into effect September 20. From that day forward the law will require that the buyer of a new ear pay one-thir- d down in cash and take not more than 18 months to pay off the balance in installments of not less than $70 a month. Other hard goods stoves, refrig erators, washing machines and re lated household articles call for a 20 per cent down payment with the balance to be liquidated in not more than 15 months. Religious It couldn't be called schismatic: It was thoroughly democratic. In such a way delegates to the first assembly of the World Council of Churches might have assessed the first two addresses which of-ficially opened the historic sessions in Amsterdam. John Foster Dulles, U. S. lay lead-er in many religious activities and internationalist-minde- d statesman, and Czechoslovakia's Joseph L. Hromadka of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, speak-ing in a section discussion on "The Church and International Disor-der," between them managed to strip much of the camouflage from the growing philosophical and spir-itual rift separating the East and West. Total result of Dulles' and 's addresses, taken together, was not to presage a religious split between the two blocs of nations but rather to define the problems at the root of current international disorders for those who are cou-rageous enough to attack them with spiritual weapons instead of guns. DULLES . . . "Peace can never be stabilized except by institutions that seek to reflect moral law and that respect the dignity of the indi-vidual. And the present methods of communism are incompatible with peaceful changes. "Collective action may at times be require, pursuant to the United Nations charter, to protect mem-ber states or individual human be-ings in their charter rights. "Those, who believe in moral law and human dignity must be con-cerned to make social institutions reflect those ideals." HROMADKA ... The world is seeing "the end of western suprem-acy within the realm of internation-al order. "Now, three years after World War II, the western man hasn't yet recovered and is losing more and more the last remnants of his world leadership." He "hasn't much to offer along the lines of moral, philosophical or spiritual leadership." OUTPUT: Upshoot Total national output of goods and services, stimulated by inflationary forces which have been growing stronger since early summer, hit a record-breakin- rate of 248.2 bil lion dollars in the second quarter of the fiscal year, the commerce department has reported. That figure is 4.4 billion dollars above the peak reached in the first three months of this year, accord ing to the department. The order exempts anything cost ing less than $50 or more than $5,000 a rule which st many Americans to asking caustically what they could find to buy for less than $50 and where they could get the to money purchase anything over $5,000 Actually, however, the credit to amount to little more than putting the government's stamp of legal approval on a prac tlce which has been followed volun tartly by a considerable number ol retail merchants. Many astute businessmen havf been following the one-thir- dow. payment rule all along, as a pro teetion both to themselves and thr prospective buyers. Upshot of it all was that few pe pie believed the federal regulatio. would do much to clear the infl; tinnarv atmnsphpre Watch That Credit Prospective home buyers who might plunge beyond their means simply because down payments are lower under the new housing law have been warned by government housing experts to avoid that trap. "Our only worry," one expert said, "is that the lower down pay-ments will encourage people to buy homes they can't afford. When you reduce the down payment, the j monthly payments are more." Man Is Riding Life Cycle Toward His Destruction By BAUKIIAGE New Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. Today we have two visitors whom I met recently at the Smithsonian institution, Mrs. Neanderthaler (her husband wasn't available) and Mr. n. They have come a long way. The Neanderthalers lived about 25,000 years ago but what's a few thousand years among friends or relatives? I doubt that the Neanderthalers are relatives of ours and I'm not sorry. They lived early in the Old Stone5 age, and died without leaving any known heirs, assigns or descendents which may be just atf well for the rest of us who might have inherited some of their characteristics. They were stocky folks but they couldn't take it. They died out. Now Mr. n was a dif-ferent proposition. He was a su- - perior human and I wish he were a relative because he was really superior to us better tiouys . better brain. .Ji he'd only lasted, what a career he would have had in Hollywood and what he might have done for us! He might have saved us. He may still. f J f 1 t, age depth of the topsoil on the earth is about one foot. It is estimated that it takes nature, under favorable con-ditions, from 300 to 1,000 years to build one inch of that vital source of our food, clothing and shelter. "Yet," he says, "what may have taken a thousand years to build can be, and in some places has been, removed by erosion in a year, or even in a single day." Erosion. That comes from over-use, wrong use or removal of pro-tecting grasses and trees. We over-grazed the plains to get quick money nor beef, mutton and wool. We plowed fields of grass, left them ex-posed, and you remember what hap-penedthe dust bowl. We slaugh-tered the forests and reaped the yearly devastating floods. Today our food and shelter runs down the mud-- . died rivers to be lost in the ocean And animal life? We killed off millions of wild animals on this continent. We replaced them, to some extent, by domes-tic animals. But we are breaks ing the magic cycle of life there, too, for the proper ties of most of our domestic animals do not return to the soil as did the bones and bodies of wild life that lived their course, died and were enveloped in their mother earth. Sheep and cattle are shipped today to slaughter houses where what lit- - i V - ' J' rve been read" Baukhage ing two new books "Our Plundered Planet," by Fairfield Osborne and "Road to Survival," by William Vogt. . Our friend Neanderthaler proba-bly managed to stick around 200,000 years or so before his environment r his neighbors finished him off. Today we are rapidly chang-ing our environment, and un-less we cease destroying our sources of food and shelter, we shall soon destroy ourselves, as our friend was de-stroyed. We know that there are two things which chiefly distinguish man from the animal: The way he has de-veloped the use of his hands and the way his brain works. But our hands, at the levers of machines, conceived by our brains, have so disturbed the cycle of nature, have done such terrible things to all forms of life, that they may prove our undoing if they don't blow us into atomic eternity, first! Forgetting atomic destruction, let's look at some others. We are very good at repro-ducing. In three centuries the population of the earth has in-creased almost five times. In the seventeenth century there were 400 million people. There are 2,000 million today. Five times as many mouths to feed. Osborne says: "If one takes four billion acres, representing an area of land estimated as now available for cultivation, it means that there are less than two acres per capita. Contrasted with this is a generally accepted computation that two and one-hal- f acres of land of average productivity are required to provide even a minimum adequate diet for each person." Think of that: It takes two and one-ha- lf acres to feed you properly. There are now only two acres avail- - MR. N . . . spark of something else , . . tie is left disappears in disposal plants or goes back to the ocean. We are killing the soil. Gradually removing it and the tiny animal and plant cells it contains, and thus de-stroying the potential for reprodu-in- g the tiny living organisms in the top soil which are a part of the re-lationship of all living things. I haven't space to go on, but I don't want to leave on a note. It's true that our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Neanderthal-er, the n folk with the lit-tle brain, couldn't take it. But we can hope that his successor, Mr. who had a better brain than we have, passed some of it on to us, with the spark of something else that made him lift his chin a little from the clod. "We have been taught to lift ours higher, to the heavens. There's hope up there and inspiration and with-in ourselves the power, too, if we know how to use it. More Trees On the Way American farmers will have more trees to plant next year than ever before in our history. State nurseries plan to grow in 1947-4- according to a national survey just completed by the American Forest Products In-dustries, Inc., of Washington, D. C. Most of these trees will be sold to farmers and other landowners at cost, while many will be given to farmers free of charge by forest industries who purchase them from 'iSK'. ; 1 IRiilpSl ; ! . .-- '' I . - - - - . I l . as,, . r. " j j MRS. NEANDERTHALER ... they couldn't take it . . . eble. So you can see why there are such food shortages around the world. Osborne goes on: "The relation between land-healt- h and health of human beings is actually no more than a delicate aspect of the delicate l: tomplex aspect of all life." The cycle of life the life In the soil that feeds and clothes onr own life is a part of the single whole which contributes to the fruitfulness of the earth. I haven't space here to go through the whole list of crimes that man has committed in the race to break that cycle to destroy the fruitful- - ness of the earth that fruitfulness upon which his own existence de-pends. Take the most striking ex-- ample the topsoil. Topsoil. When that goes, we go with it. Osborne, as I mentioned In this space last week, estimate! tht aver- - state nurseries. This forest seedling production, however, will be increased substan-tially by federal and private indus-try nurseries over the United States, pushing the total to approximately 400 million seedlings. Yet these figures, representing the planting of three trees for every man, woman and child in the coun-try, indicate statistically that seed-ling production still is not enough to fill the demand by woodland own-ers and other citizens interested in growing trees. And while they still do not meet the tremendous demand, if all these seedlings were planted 1,000 to an acre they would form a verdant, mile-wid- e belt stretching from New York to Chicago. The record in tree planting is matched only by the volume of new wood now growing on America's forest lands. Total growth now ex-ceeds 13.3 billion cubic feet of wood every year greatest volume ever recorded in surveys made by the federal government "" She-I'Ve-CaSf't ' weight? a j:. , He--I can't see it J She-- Of course not, rtef " There . Family iies always , father " ' w and if tbtre TyoTJn' P " is r wearing it dor hS"" hermothe'XS1 " she said: "wK Prayers, Joan, ask Z ? 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