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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH s STIFF COLLARS, CUFFS TAKE ALL . . Yours Truly, for More Flexible Shirt To7s ... THE 'STARCH' OUT OF PHILLIP; ' " : ' By H. I. PHILLIPS --J 'NO STARCH' "rjiHEY STARCHED my shirts again," we said to the wile. "Well, don't say it so accusing-ly," she replied. "I didn't do it. It's the laundry." "But the laundry has been told again and again not to put any starch in 'em," we said. "I'm all in from repeating the word 'No starch' to it," said the wife. "What does the laundry say?" "It says 'O. K. ! No starch.'" "And back it comes starched In technicolor, with the collars on summer shirts as bard as lawn-mow- blades, and the cuffs so hard you have to but-ton them with a chisel and hammer. Why don't we change laundries?" we moaned. "Hah!" snorted the missus, "Change 'em and what do you get?" "More starch," we suggested. "Exactly! The laundries or the laundry workers are in a great national conspiracy in restraint of soft collars and cuffs. They are in a secret society dedicated to the use of starch. Their motto is 'You'll take starch and like it!' " We resolved to investigate. We spread our shirts among different laundries. Our routine was the same at each laundry.' "Does this laundry do shirts without starching them?" we asked. "Certainly. All you gotta do is specify you don't want no starch, mister." "I so specify. Do you want it in writing?" "Naw. I'll put a note on it "no starch.' Then it goes through and comes out with no starch." "I've been putting notes 'no starch' on my shirts for years," we said. The laundryman looked sur-prised. "I can't remember that," he said. "Are you sure they came back starched?" "Look at my neck. You think those red circles are from rope?" we demanded. "Some laundries are careless, you know how it is. With us when a customer says no starch he gets no starch. We got a system." "What is it?" "We have a starch department and a department. All the stuff that don't want starch goes to the starch department. Also we got a starch superintend-ent and a h superintendent And on top of that we got starch and classification clerks and inspectors. Here's something else, we don't use much starch anyhow, even if you ask for starch." "So these shirts will come back with no starch then?" "You can take my starch beg pardon my word for it." "Positively no starch!" "Positively!" The laundry came back In a few days. We felt confident and carefree as we we openej leaped through h '11' story window Kci ing. ' cut b: VIDEO AND EDUCATION College course, b, now being S'" announced w shskS! We can see it all now baccalaureate by Howdy'r But a lot of people have our educational system much as it is. - Personally we feel that cation hasn't been enough. A jackpot could helped us through ancieai h tory. And we are positive It we would have done i under our professors If ah introduced puppet, bj Latin, French and mathenu' ics courses. We just had to get an efc such as it was, by study, w, no outside aerial. But now we are entering c, when ignorance may be ea ' tributable to the fact that it 1 was connected up poorW lacked a "booster." Your education may btn-- little dependent on fosa t yon may find that your ;;: scholarship resulted froo n small screen. t ' ' ' t Ira Hirschbaum, forma c. j tion and now a video t makes the announcement Hunter college will make tfc:C tests in video education, wi; t tory the first televised it: t Lectures on historic events r o synchronized with the picta i cash prize on the commert i VEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Beep Freeze Gifts 'Chill' Hemes; Senate Kills Welfare Setup Plan; Taft Is Target of AFL Vote Drive (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they arc those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) I Slim Pickings BARKLEY: "Much Ado . . ." Although he had declared it was "much ado about nothing," the nation wasn't dismissing Earkley's seeming ro-mance with a pretty old widow so lightly. RECEIVING almost as much publicity as the Rita Hayworth Aly Khan love story, Barkley's at-tentions to Mrs. Carlton S. Hadley, St. Louis, was second only to the "5 per center" probe as a topic of national speculation. The "Veep" as Barkley likes to be called didn't seem too dis-tressed by all the furore. He was smilingly posing with the widow for pictures; he had taken her to "meet the folks" in his home town of Paducah, Ky., and he had squired her to some baseball games and social affairs. WOULD HE and the widow get married? Most folks seemed to think so. And, if that were current opinion, it was touched off by the "Veep" himself. Newspaper read-ers would remember that, crown-ing a beauty queen at Culpepper, Virginia, Barkley had declared that one day he would crown a "queen" of his own. The fact that later, at Puducah, he referred to his granddaughter as being the "queen" to whom he referred, few people believed him. MacARTHUR: DEEP FREEZE: Capitol 'Chilled' To paraphrase an old tune, it was "January in June" in Washington as the story of the gifts of the home freezer unit! unfolded and expanded. Finally, the sordid angles of the "5 per centers" op-erations reached to the White House. WITNESSES before a group probing the extent and results of "influence" obtainable by the "5 per centers" testified that of several deep freeze units given away by the manufacturers, one went to Mrs. Harry Truman, wife of the President of the United States. Others who apparently re-ceived a similar gift were Chief Justice Vinson of the U.S. supreme court, James K. Vardaman, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, Mr. Tru- - I v. ip,w , , i , fcd; I" T'N, f J" " h.i((. j i?f '"tv,c tune ont.& . I I I - - It will be slim pickings for holdup men who go after Frank B. Tippins' store in Miami. Twice within one month hold-up men came and got a total of $513. Smartened up now, Tippins will no longer be a lure for robbers. WELFARE: No Cabinet Status The senate was having none of President Truman's proposal for creation of a federal department of welfare with cabinet status. A coalition of Republicans and south-ern Democrats dealt the project a pulverizing blow by a vote of 60 to 32. WITH a constitutional majority In either house able to veto any such plan, the senate action meant complete and final defeat of the plan to transform the federal secu-rity agency, which handles the na-tion's education, health, and social security functions, into a depart-ment of welfare. This proposal stemmed from the recommendations of the Hoover commission wheh spent two years seeking ways and means to make government more efficient and eco-nomical. OHIO'S Republican Senator Taft, denying the Republicans were re-pudiating Hoover in opposing a plan they believed ran counter to the Hoover commission recommen-dations, declared: "I believe very strongly that Mr. Hoover was misled." This led Senator Lucas, Illinois, Democratic floor leader, to state that he was both "shocked and sur-prised that the good Republican from Ohio would deal with Mr. Hoover in this manner." man's military aide. In fact, Gen-- I eral Vaughan got two, so the wit- - ness said. In connection with that develop- - ment, there was a question which i': it seemed should have been an il swered long ago by the man most I'i concerned. The man was Presi- - !' dent Truman. The question was: iS Why hasn't the President declared that White House influence and !: prestige are not for sale, cannot !i be wheedled by favorite hangers- - I' on, and cannot be swayed by any- - thing except the best interests of ;! the people of the United States? ANY FAIR-MINDE- citizen will concede that there is no reason to think the acceptance of the gifts mentioned involved any law viola-- i tion. Even though the company which paid the bills for the home freezers is linked with the ubi-quitous John Maragon and the in-quiry into the activities of "5 per centers" the mere fact of receiv-.!;- ; ing personal gifts does not consti- - i' tute legal offense. In any sense of the word, it f ;;. seems to be an offense against propriety. It is further evidence of V a downward trend in political mor-- als, a not too new development in these changing times. On the evi dence at hand thus far, the deep freeze affair is not important it is merely symptomatic. ELECTIONS: Taft Is Target The American Federation of La- - bor, looking to the 1950 congres sional elections, set plans for rais-j- ! ; Ing a million dollar war chest with which to knock off candidates ob- - j noxious to the organization. THE MILLION DOLLAR figure . was the "minimum" officials said, I with a voluntary contribution of : S2 a head to be asked of the federa- - Problem for Truman No matter how the Truman ad-ministration plays it, Gen. Douglas MacArthur is a tremendous public relations problem. THE GENERAL has twice de-clined the invitation to appear be-fore senate committees, the second refusal being in connection with a bid to come home and tell a probe group what he trfinks about the Chinese situation. The general re-plied that he thought he could do better staying in Japan. Of course, President Truman could order the general home, but if he did so, and MacArthur ac-cepted the order, both the White House and the state department would be in a constant case of jitters over what the prima donna might say in speeches throughout the country. If the President chooses not to order the general home, then his critics will have fuel for added clamor that MacArthur is being isolated and persecuted. APPARENTLY, no one seems to know the procedure in the event MacArthur refused to come home if ordered. There seems to be a prevalent conviction that Mac-Arth-can stay in Japan forever, if he so chooses. There are those who say for the general to make that decision would be a typical MacArthur gesture and that it would fit in superbly with his fine sense of the dramatic. ' STALIN: Very "Courteous" The delayed report on how U. S. Ambassador Alan Kirk made out with Russia's Joe Stalin in a talk in Moscow held nothing more im-portant than Kirk's report that the Soviet ruler was very "courteous and pleasant." However, anyone who might have expected anything else was indulging in wishful think-ing. SOME EXCITEMENT was stim-ulated by Kirk's refusal to com-ment immediately upon his inter-view with Stalin. He told reporters following the conference that he'd have something to say later. The ambassador, a retired ad-miral and former envoy to Bel-gium, held the first meeting with Stalin that any American official has had in nearly a year. He de-scribed his visit to Stalin as a "courtesy call." 'THOUGHT' LAW: Held too Broad The fallacy of attempting to deal with ideologies through laws has been highlighted by a Maryland circuit judge. The judge, Joseph Sherbow of Baltimore, fuled that the state cannot punish a person for what that person thinks. The opinion was given in a case involving a state law against peo-ple who join or work with subver-sive organizations. It was the first courts test of the new law that re-quired loyalty oaths by public em-ployees and candidates for office. "The supreme court," Judge Sherbow said in his opinion, "has made it clear that laws may punish acts and conduct which clearly, seriously and imminently threaten substantive evils. "They (the laws) may not in-trude into the realm of ideas, re-ligious and political beliefs, and opinions. The law deals with overt acts, not thoughts. It may punish for acting, but not for thinking." The law which Judge Sherbow tossed out did not specifically ban the Communist party. Its preamble said communism is a dangerous, world-wid- e conspiracy that fits the definition of subversive activity. Anything that aims at the over-throw of this government by force was deemed subversive. Justice Sherbow said the law was too general. Declaring it violated the first, fifth and 14th amend-ments to the constitution, and Maryland's declaration of rights, he added: "As stated by Justice Jackson (in a West Virginia case before the supreme court): "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be ortho-dox in politics, nationalism, relig-ion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." ' tion's members for work in the 1950 campaign. It was no secret that Ohio's Sen-- j ator Taft was the main target of AFL efforts, with the second tar- - get being Senator Donnell (R., Mo.) who was described by AFL's Wil-- liam Green as "more like Taft than anyone in the senate." The per capita contribution, double that of the organization for the 1948 elections, will be split evenly with the state federations whose share is to be used in work-ing at the precinct level. AFL's election activity will have an important bearing on the future of the Republican party in the na-tion. For instance, if Taft should be knocked off in his race for re-election to the senate, it would mean that Dewey would remain as a top figure in the GOP hierarchy. On the other hand, if Taft should win and Dewey were defeated in a bid for his third term as New York's governor, the party would be all Taft's. SYRIA: New Cabinet The fighting, the blood-lettin- g were over. Peace of a sort reigned ; in Syria after a lightning like army coup that overthrew and executed President Hossni Zayim. The" army committee which took things into its own hands was replaced by a new coalition cabinet which was organized by Col. Sami Hennaui ' who headed the revolution. IT APPEARED that civilian rule would predominate, inasmuch as the new cabinet was composed mostly of civilians. The new gov-ernment represented three politi-cal parties and various independ-ent groups that opposed both Zayim and the constitutional regime which fell last March. The premier is Hashim El Atas- - sy, head of the national bloc and a former president of Syria. In for Year Seeking to win a bet of $1,000 against $25,000, Don Haynes, Ashland, Ore., is to spend a year in this deluxe car. He made the bet with rancher D. M. Mauldin, a neighbor. The year will be up next February, Haynes holds a girl's picture he found in the road and she was to be given a new car if she identifies herself. SAILORS: Pockets, Mac! The navy has relented at last. Harkening to a complaint stem-ming from 1797, the seagoing branch of Uncle Sam's forces has promised sailors they'll have pock-ets in their pants but not until June, 1952. But, having waited this long, sailors could wait two more years. And that wasn't all. Prom-ised, too, was elimination of the front on sailors' trousers, to be replaced with a zipper. The Everlasting Arms J ROUND me and about me and beneath me, $jS00 C, Closer than breathing, closer than any yf&'--. friend, iiPSllF The everlasting arms draw near to shield me, J a To comfort and to keep me to the end. 'IIIPIl Earthly arms grow weary in their holding, f- j Earthly arms may fail the weight they bear, i M J But oh, these everlasting arms, enfolding, Have never one brief moment failed me there. ftjl. 'si I wake each morning in their blessed keeping, I rise to serve, or wait his blessed will. ' Life passes whether waking, whether sleeping, T y p God's everlasting arms v. ill hold me still. ffflp'jj ' The t Fiction ON BUSINESS Corner c i WHEN DOUG PRINGLE signed to illustrate stories for Midweek Fiction magazine at a figure that surpassed any amount he had earned in the rather uncer-tain past, he felt that he had reached a mile- - I stone in his ca- - -- Minute reer-- , 3 Fiction cZ7'oe hu wife, Aggie, "we can begin to have a few of the things we've been doing without for the past seven years." "And the first thing we'll have" Aggie told him, "will be a nice little camp on Spur Lake where you can work amid surroundings that you love and where, accord-ingly, things will be easier for both of us." ' So the Pringles built a studio for Doug, a rather attractive building that added to the general outlay. He moved into it with all his equip-ment and the next week-en- d Ag-gie moved in with him. In August the Hollands ar-rived. The Hollands were bores. Steve Holland belonged to Doug's golf club. They were friends of some of the Pringles' friends. TTOWEVER, they arrived and 1 Mrs. Holland spied the studio and wanted to look at it. Aggie smiled wearily. She was getting used to this sort of thing. She led them down to Doug's workshop and Mrs. Holland peeked inside. "Why, there's no one there!" she exclaimed. Aggie nodded. "Doug's away. On business." 1 The Hollands were dlsar: ::" at not being able to see the 1 at work, but there was i: they could do about it lb; 1 parted shortly after. 0 At dinner time Doug came He was in high spirits. p "I've found Just the jb; t wanted. A room right li 1 heart of Goodwin's be ' district. Plenty of noise i dust a place where mi L do a real day's work it j being bothered." Aggie smiled fondly. . "The Brants are arrivbS " row." "Swell!" said Doug. the works and tell them I' ; on business." '! "The camp," he told her gravely, "will come immedi--. ately after Mrs. Prlngle has replenished her wardrobe." It turned out that Aggie could have her new clothes and they could purchase the camp and not feel too extravagant. They went up to Spur Lake the following week and talked to a real estate agent. They had been there many times before. They knew just what they wanted for a camp site and where they wanted it. That afternoon the real estate agent made the easiest sale he'd transacted in years. The Pringles sat down and made up a schedule of guests for week-ends. They wanted to have com-pany. This was the first time they had lived in a place big enough to hold guests conveniently. They were eager to share their posses-sion. And so two weeks later the first guests arrived. Doug and Aggie slept in the work room and every-thing was fine. All hands had a swell time. The guests departed in high enthusiasm. In fact, their apparently bubbled over, ifor in the middle of the following week some friends dropped in who had "heard so much about the cute little camp the Pringles had bought." Aggie and Doug asked them to stay over night and they did. The summer hadn't progressed 'very far when Doug decided they ought to turn the present work-shop into another bedroom. "I'll build a studio for myself clown by the lake. It seems there sire a lot of people who are just dlying to see our cute little camp. Gosh! After all, I'm a working nSan." It's fun having guests, though," A.ggie said. "Sure," Doug agreed. ! By INEZ GERHARD ROSEMARY PETrilT PRETTY she's just like any Ameri-can girl; had no exotic birthplf ce for Hollywood to make a fUss about she was born in Tulsa, Qk-l- She went to high school and college, one year, in Californfa, ' where she lives. She had to go to New York for Hollywood to dis-cover her and take her back for bits in Michael Curtiz productiors. ROSEMARY PETTIT ' She returned to New York to study, went back again, really ready for films this time. You will see hell' in Warners' "The Lady Takes ia Sailor," and later in Curti' "Young Man with a Horn," fo;r which she's just gone west, after a season in summer stock at Prince-ton, N. J. Paul Henreid, seen currently irj Paramouht's "Rope of Sand," will be long remembered for his ap-pearance as the family counselor on "The Second Mrs. Burton" Aug-- ; ust 31. Vitally interested in doing what he can to further the conquer-- 1 ing of polio, Henreid's own experi-ences when a member of his family was struck by the disease gave him touching material for his talk.. Joan Crawford's son, Christopher, believes that his mother is the bravest wom-an in the world. So does Joan. During her vacation in the wilds she caught six lizards for him, put them in a box and brought them home. Helen Hayes returns to radio's "Electric Theatre" Oct. 9 in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"; meanwhile she and her daughter Mary are doing a new play for six weeks in summer stock; if good enough they will do it on Broad-way. Jamie, last mem-ber of the family to become an actor, has appeared in "The Corn Is Green" once in a part all writ-ten in Welsh! I CROSSWORD PUZZLE gj ACROSS DOWN 17. Variety of laPJj-- 1. Fuel 1. An article cabbage a EKJfp - 5. Strike of virtu 18. Conclude '! with 2. Pungent 21. Desert l. ., U .T the vegetable (Asia) IrloK - hand 3. Cutting 22. At home JtJ&l 9. "Wavy tool 23. Young hog 5 cTfEET " ' (Her.) 4. Confederate 24. Ashes s a ru W" 10. A weed general 25. Gold (Her.) Tn'okJ! 11. Award 5. Porticos 26. Club 12. Forebodings 6. Young 28. Fuel 14. City sheep 80. Agreed with An u fix '(Brazil) 7. Region another iolll ( 15. River 8. Dreamily 81. A burst of ' I (W.Ohio) thoughtful shouts from otv(Fr' H 16. City 11. Lever the crowd S'rweP (N.Y.) 13. A fragment 82. 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This organization reported that j total domestic consumption for the J year beginning July was expected j to be lower than at any time since lfl- - i w At the same time, wheat stocks in all storage positions on April 1 were greater than in any other April with the exception of 1942 and 1943. In addition, the 1948-4- 9 wheat har-vest may be the third largest in history. With the U.S. already hold-ing more than a quarter of last year's wheat crop, farm price sup-port was becoming a major nation-al problem. |