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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH " WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS New Aids Asked for Farm Support; Coal Industry Seeks Strike Peace; Unemployment Surges to flew Peaks (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these colnmm, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Communist? f. 4 t rZu . V 1 I f 5 1 s . ... , V LiSSv..:i-J-. ......... U.N. COST: One Dime Each Each citizen of the United States pays less than a dime for his share of the basic United Nations annual ikudget. At least three members of con-gress disagree on whether this is too much, too little, or about right, according to the first issue of a weekly wall newspaper in color, the UN GRAM. APPEARING for the first time this week, the new publication re-ports that Sen. Herbert R. O'Conor of Maryland, chairman of the sen-ate committee on expenditures in the executive departments which recently issued a report asking that the U.N. reduce its expendi-tures for the United Nations and its affiliates, thinks that a dime per capita is too much. Congress-woma- n Helen Gahagan Douglas, on the other hand, says it is too little; while Sen. Estes Kefauver is quoted as saying it is about right. The U.N. Gram, which tells sub-scribers about the United Nations, in this" issue objectively presents each of these three viewpoints. Buttressing Senator O'Conor's "too much" point, it states: "In-ternationalism, plus national de-fense, is a luxury. U.N.'s budget is just the start: each specialized agency asks more. How can the little nations pay?" Supporting the "too little" ap-proach of Congresswoman Douglas, it says: "New York City, U.N.'s permanent home, pays more for garbage disposal than U.N.'s an-nual cost; its subway deficit would run the U.N. for six months." AND BACKING up Sentor "just right" viewpoint, it argues: "Upping the U.N. budget, by forcing out poorer members, would make it a "rich man's club." If the U.S. paid the increase, still others might resign, charging that the U.N. was the "creature" of the United States. "Our aim," states publisher Wal-lace Thorsen, "is to get people thinking and talking about the United Nations and the job it is doing in building the world com-munity." "We try, In this and all subse-quent issues, to present a simple, objective analysis of the problems faced by the world's only machin-ery for peace, to anyone with the time and inclination to pause be-fore a bulletin board long enough to read the U.N. Gram a matter of minutes." FARM UNION: Asks Red 'Bargain' From a surprising source came a plea for the United States to "strike a bargain" with Russia and to spend 150 billion dollars in the next 15 years on the undeveloped areas of the world. THE SOURCE was James Pat-to-president of the National Farm-ers Union. Patton said, "Somehow, I believe we will be able to find a way to live in this world with peoples who differ in viewpoint as to type of economy and social sys-tems." "Let us try to strike a bargain with those whom we are fighting in the cold war along with peaceful lines," he went on, "so that all of us can lay down our arms. "Let us lead out in America by placing at the disposal of the peo-ple of the world an annual credit of 10 billion dollars for the next 15 years for the purpose of build-ing TVA's on the Danube and the Yangtze, and for building man's productivity in all of the unde-veloped areas of the world." PRESIDENT PATTON'S propo-sal was magnanimous, generous, but withal mostly visionary. It would delight those who operate on the theory that America can buy peace and good will with its dollars. They might even add that Amer-ica must be the most hated nation in the world, inasmuch as it ap-pears it has no friends except those who are won and kept with money. FARM SUPPORTS: New Aids Asked Charles Brannan, U.S. secretary of agriculture, was still plumping for adoption of his (Brannan plan) system for farm price supports arguing that new price aids must be provided now. Pointing out that there is trouble getting rid of 1948 farm surpluses even as 1949 surpluses are pouring in, Brannan said the disposal prob-lem "points to the need of supple-mentary action on price supports, particularly with respect to more efficient methods than procedures for handling price supports of per-ishable commodities." THE agriculture secretary may have had a point there, but the main question was: Would his plan of letting farm products find their own levels on the price market, with subsidies making up the dif-ferenceprovide an adequate so-lution? Up to this point, he had been un-able to convince congress that it would. What luck he would have in the future was wholly problemati-cal. But there was no arguing the point that something needed to be done to clear up the muddled farm price support program. As it was being operated, federal farm policy seemed to be getting worse the farther it went. Brannan was eminently correct when he admitted that the present price support system programs "encourage n on one hand, and on the other . . . and to find sufficient-ly new uses for the surpluses, or to divert them into channels at anything comparable to the support price usually is im-possible." SUMMING UP, Brannan said: "Briefly, the outlook includes the likelihood of some further contrac-tion In the total demands for U.S. farm products and points to the need for adjustment in production - If a favorable price level is to be maintained." The problem indeed was a grave one and made even more grave by the fact that the administration may be caught in a trap that has been long in the making a trap created by the fact that having so long experienced the subsidy aid as is, farmers won't like any tam-pering with the program and might visit their ill will on anyone who may do so. LEWIS: A Fine Largess John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America a labor union which does not pay its members strike benefits and which subjects them to untold mis-ery and hardship during strike per-iods was offering a victory-flushe- d loan to the C.I.O. United Autmobile Workers union. THE PURPOSE of the loan would be to help the UAW win new contracts from Chrysler and Gen-eral Motors. Lewis wrote Walter Reuther, head of the giant auto workers union, that wage-welfar- e improvements in the coal industry were fought by money interests linked with "the financial group" which dominates He added that this aid is needed so "your union may be assured be-yond preadventure, of success in its present struggle." Reuther was In the midst of a long strike for pensions at Chrysler corporation. At the time of Lewis' offer, it was estimated UAW workers had lost 35 million dollars in pay and the A sensation was caused in British political circles when Lord Beaverbrook's conserva-tive London Evening Standard named War Minister John Strachey (above) "an avowed Communist." COAL: A Look Ahead The most crippling coal strike in the nation's history had come to an end. Miners were pouring back into the pits and allied industries, faced with a threat of total shut-down, were reviving and calling men back to work. John L. Lewis, United Mine Worker chieftian, apparently had won again. He had obtained a raise in pay for the miners along with additional health and welfare ben-efits. But as the nation relaxed with a sigh of relief that the production-sto- p threat had been removed, leaders in the coal industry began to look farther ahead to examine methods by which a permanent coal peace might be won. Leading mine operators stated they hoped to complete arrange-ments to have Harry W. Moses, head of the "captive" mine sub-sidiaries of the United States Steel corporation, to leave big steel and devote all his time to handling the coal industry's dealings with Lewis. APPOINTMENT of Moses as a full-tim- e representative of the soft coal industry in its relations with the UMW is designed as a move to end the chaotic conditions that have existed in the mine fields for years. The move has the support oi virtually all the principal opera-tors in the north and west and was expected to win strong favor among southern operators as well. - A lasting industry peace has long been the goal of operators and the public, which is beginning to tire of the almost annual war of nerves between the mine union boss and operators while the nation stands almost helpless without fuel. JOBLESS: Hit New Peak Again jobless numbers In the United States had catapulted to a new high, and again the federal commerce department appeared unperturbed about it. Unemployment rose to 4,684.000 In February the highest figure since 1941 when the total was 5,620,000. DESPITE THE FACT that many industrial and economic leaders professed to see danger in the sit-uation, the commerce department came up with the usual bland, un-concerned explanation as to the cause of the big jump in unemploy-ment. As was stated in January when jobless figures appeared alarming, Another Shirley company 250 million dollars. Help for Reuther was authorized at a jubilant meeting of Lewis with his top union aides, where Lewis was said to have boasted that he had "licked" the y injunction provision of the y law, inasmuch as a federal court injunction issued under the law failed to halt the coal strike. MOST of the big U.S. industrial concerns feared that Lewis' victory over the coal operators in the mat-ter of wage increases and addition-al health and welfare benefits would touch off a series of strikes as other unions sought to do as well for themselves. Coal was being mined again and industry's wheels were turning, but the immediate future appeared grim and uncertain. The question seemed to be: When and where will the next strike erupt? It seemed inevitable to even a casual observer that another round of wage-hik- e fights was in the making. FRENCH-SAA- R: U.S. Worried United States high level diplo-mats had a new and aggravating problem on their hands: The sud-denly critical French-Germa- split over the Saar region. The situation was complicated when France and the government of the coal-ric- h Saar signed a pact under which France would take the Saar's coal for the next 50 years, which the German chancellor resented. commerce department boss said: "The slight rise in unemploy-ment between January and Feb-ruary (204,000) appears to be due mainly to seasonal increase in the labor force and not to any cutbacks In employment." But was that the case? Wasn't it logical to assume that an "in-crease in the labor force" mean-ing unemployed but available labor meant a corresponding lack of employment for that same force. IT WAS SIGNIFICANT, many observers felt, that the figure as reported did not include striking workmen, a fact that meant the unemployment picture was not dis-torted in that sense. Why was unemployment appar-ently steadily increasing? How would the "seasonal turnover" ex-planation hold water? If there were serious threat of widespread unemployment in the nation, it seemed the government should ascertain the fact. ARCTIC ARMY Large masses of men never could be pitted against each other in Alaska, or other Arctic wastes, as they were in the last war, ac-cording to military experts who led the recent mock warfare in the Alaska but they couldn't agree on why that is the case. One reason given was diffi-culty of transporting supplies, an-other was that there simply isn't enough room. In Germany they are com-paring s i Dagmar Glombig to America's Shirley Temple when the latter was rising to stardom as a child in Hollywood. Dagmar is the daughter of composer and conductor Eberhard Glombig and has played In several Ger-man films. RUSSIA: Parley Proposed That there was at least a pos-sibility of a Big Four meeting including Russia taking place was indicated by a report from Paris that the three western foreign min-isters, meeting in London, would discuss the matter. French For-eign Minister Robert Schuman was the authority for the statement. From another authoritative source came word that the Big Three would "study the problems." X r,Uf tH - 'X4,--' t fotx : ' stricture V i X" XXX X - ' , I i ! -- ? I 4' ' ffl C i"X - . A I U - ' X LlH(-f-- J X SjXX. - iCi . .3 - xrUwl;-l- C . x " I ' ' ' v - - :: fi yi : f - . j IX 1 a .f.l; . .i; jots ?y)SB for Q Each spring, Florida State university campus at Tallahassee takes on the atmosphere and trap-pings of a circus "big top," as students begin tryouts and rehearsals for the annual circus pro-duction, "Flying High." Any regularly - enrolled student is eligible and competition is keen for parts in the 20-a- ex-travaganza. Coach Jack Haskins, who directs the show, has been in ama-teur circus work for 19 years and designs most of the equipment used. Costumes for the acts are designed by circus girls majoring in art at the university. In the photo at top, a very pretty "catch" for these per-formers is Babs Ellery, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., student circus performer. L m J. , ' ' i . ---- --- r I " v O Apparently ready to leap from this high trapeze is coed Betty Ann Holland (left) a junior at the university. In the campus "big top" she's the "gal on the flying trapeze." What she's real-l- y getting ready to do here is to go into a difficult foot revolve, one of the most spectacular acts of the campus circus. f ffsw--- . ' 1. I'..', .;, j .. - , . , i df I - piiliiitli IX r - , j jt I A ' tx : 1 fx f i ; !X. X.' t pX IX- J ' Himm-:- ' : r x- - W"r."'r'.N iii.ypn" j.! iwjp.ij'ji. uimi""iu"B f. Jiff - x 1 I J .X; "V 'V. t . ... 1 iX:- ., X ..r X'V i fx ;Xvxr I 2pX t't-w- . ' r. . ivw 'V; , , O Here is another "sur-efire" audience-gett- er (right) a "one -- arm swivel" by these two per-formers. Television and newsreel cameramen get a worms' eye view of the stunt as the scene, for the university's "Flying High" circus is being per-fected under tutelage of Professor Jack Haskins, circus coach. O In photo above,' bie Jones, St. Pet" and Charles M sacola, show their f i an "iron jo wire orer I on the high University of Flo"; campus circus W ground. The f practice every W ; in & -- their three hours academic ' In training the 'X performed wit k belts and ground; but as 'k X velop, the ac go the safety belts o' V doned. As sho photo at left, land and Hacj o start an ocro s during a spec" of the pr' i seems to have head start on " X , V- - 'Nx N ' - ... :h. x v v Specfoces Seven-in-On- e Correction SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. The correction of spectacles by grind-ing the lens to take care of seven specific defaults has been re-ported here. The American Optical com-pany, which did the job, believes there has never been a similar instance and challenges the world to top Its achievement. The glasses were for a man whose eyes needed seven differ-ent corrections and he wanted all the corrections in one pair. Here's what had to be corrected: First is nearsightedness. Second is need of a special glass for seeing intermediate distances. Third is a defect in his These three were met by tri-focals. These took care of near-sightedness and of medium dis-tance. A special curve had to be ground into the farsighted part of the lenses to get his distance-seein- g right. Fourth, a curve ground to cor-rect double vision. This was done in the g part of the lenses. Fifth, one lens is wedge shaped, its top edge thicker than the bottom, because one eye cocks up higher than the other. Sixth, a special curve over everything to correct aniseikonia, which is seeing images of differ-ent sizes with one eye as com-pared with the other. To do this, separate lenses were made, then fused on top of the trifocals. Seventh, ultraviolet light hurt his eyes, and the lenses were made of a glass which absorbs these rays. Five pieces of ophthalmic glass were used Instead of the usual one piece. Weariness of Coeds Becomes Concern Of Health Officials NEW YORK. The weary coed is a major concern to university and college health officials. In an inter-view, Dr. Ruth E. Boynton, of Cor-nell, and Dr. Ruth Collings, Wom-an's College of the University of North Carolina, indicated that fa-tigue Is the most common com-plaint among college women. Only infrequently, they said, could the condition be traced to a physical cause. In most Cases, the girls are tired from the sheer weight of trying to do too much. Social pressures and the press of extra - curricular activities were held largely responsible. "Acade-mic obligations in themselves," said Dr. Collings, "are seldom heavy enough to cause such disturb-ances." Both doctors, confirming the con-clusions of a conference panel on women's health, felt that a psycho-logical approach rather than a med-- . ical was indicated. Wise counseling, they said, can overcome the false drives which "force college girls into trying too hard to be popular or to be campus activity leaders." Next most prevalent fatigue, they indicated, are the problems of un-derweight and overweight. Under-weight, they attributed the motiva-tions similar to those which cause fatigue an of en-ergy and a drive to remain "fash-ionably svelte." Overweight is fre-quently caused by overeating to compensate for personal satisfac-tions which are lacking. Here again, the psychological approach was stressed. - Ailments which formerly hospital-ized students, they reported, are generally on the decrease in cam-puses throughout the country, as the result of the Introduction of penicillin and other AA Rejects $10,000 Gift As Against Principles NEW YORK. Alcoholics Anony-mous Intergroup Association o f New York rejected a $10,000 legacy bequeathed by a grateful woman member. A spokesman explained that of property or money, other than that raised by passing the hat at their own meetings, ten-ded to divert members from their primary task of rehabilitating alco-holics. "Members have discovered they cannot mix money and its manage-ment with the spiritual nature of the work they are trying to do," he said. "So, like the fellow at the end of the bar who has learned the hard way what's best for him, they, too, have said 'No' to this offer of 'One on the house.' " Man Couldn't Put on Coat, Finds Ice Pick in Chest WINSTON-SALE- N.C. William Hill is quite a man. He told police that when he couldn't get his over-coat on, he looked to see why and there was an ice pick sticking right out of his chest. He remembered having a fight with several men the night before, he said, but he didn't remember how that ice pick got there. He pulled it out and walked next door, where he sumoned an ambu-lance. Doctors who treated the wound near his left collarbone said he would be all right. |