Show Z ta L u DREW PEARSON deadlock over korea M MAJ AJ GEN ARCHER L LERCH military governor of korea gave an off the record talk to reserve officers recently expressing great pessimism regarding U S relations with russia in korea latest efforts to get together with russia general lerch said may as well be written off as failure what caused the deadlock was recognition of political parties since russia would not recognize any korean parties not controlled by communists general lerch also revealed 1 dussias Rus nus sias agrarian reforms in northern korea have back fired northern native farmers oppressed by a 50 per cent tax on produce and strict control under the cooperative system are drifting south across the parallel 2 border incidents have been reduced abong the russian american line however two russian soldiers prowling tor for rice below the border were shot and killed by korean police 3 only 53 japs are arc left in southern korea all hospital hossli al cases W 4 russia which controls the industrial halt half of the country Is permitting a smooth flow of electricity into the american zone without interference general lerch said he was not worried about too many koreans becoming converted to communism koreans he said could never be regimented into communism I 1 am sure WINCHED oddities in the big burg radio city has three empl employees byees whose duties consist of picking up biggie butts all day in the year 2015 rockefeller centers maze of skyscraper buildings will become the property of columbia university without cost how flow times change at the turn of the century a shave and haircut in the big burg cost two tiro bits tipping was taboo the reason some of the old brownstones brown stones have blue windows at one time it was believed that sunlight streaming through blue glass was very healthful william okeefe OKe ete who used to be a reporter back home wants to know if we ever heard of a morning paper publisher many years ago who moved a halfton half ton safe one day to get at a nickel beneath it and explained after a severe injury to his back 1 I have moved it only I 1 thought it was a dime and he be tells the one of the fellow who urged to take another drink by a friend pretty well under the weather refused oh come on 11 the friend argued it if anybody anybody notices anything ill say its my breath perhaps was the answer but suppose they also ask Is that your stag stagger gerV slavery was abolished in manhattan before the revolutionary war exploded its well known that new york once was called new amsterdam ster dam but for a few years it also had another bonicker mo nicker new orange scientists claim the land that makes up lower manhattan is probably the oldest known part of the earths surface many of the bevels in the door of 0 the tabernacle at the little church around around the corner are stones from the rings of women married there them maiden lane kots gols its name because dutch maidens once washed their clothes in a brook there WALTER SHEAD doom Veterans to 9 loans NE of the main reasons why veterans are tailing failing to obtain loans under 0 ONE the GI bill of rights is the fact that the congress has clipped the power of reconstruction finance corporation to purchase these mortgages from banks the congress which passed the GI bill gave authority to purchase mortgages on comes homes where the loans had been guaranteed by veterans administration under terms of the GI bill the authority under which the purchased these mortgages expired june 30 when the new law was passed by this congress extending the tor for another year and slashing its loan authority from something like 18 billion dollars to two billion dollars congress not only swept away the only source of small business and small industrial loans but refused to give authority to purchase GI home business and farm mortgage loans banks throughout the country therefore have no outlet for disposal of these loans and must hold them in their own portfolios and from all over the country veterans are finding it almost impossible to obtain home loans no matter how well they are armed with letters of eligibility sen john sparkman of alabama introduced a bill in the last minute rush of congress seeking to extend this authority of the H I 1 PHILLIPS f treasure hunt of lons long aso ago VANISHING americanisms house to let 20 a month with ab heat heal everybody it is entitled to a summer vacation and it cost much 11 all you can eat for A may I 1 bringa bring a couple comple of friends home to dinner corn crop much inch improved headline listening in on the radio I 1 would think it was the best ever says J J IV PAUL 1 VA 1 UL MALLON military weakness of russia M MUCH UCH has been made of the superior size of the russian army our military men frequently mentioned this recently to get their appropriations through congress but little or nothing has been reported of the critical military weaknesses of russia she may be an isolated economic and political power existing behind an iron curtain but from the military standpoint she is wide open from the air on three sides and extremely vulnerable in oil the custom Is to regard russia as unconquerable because ot of her vast spaces hillers Hit lers military mistake was in attempting to devour more than he could chew no one seems to think of rus sias far vaster outer circumference of defense which Is really too extensive to be defensible but these considerations run beyond current military realities the russia which has become so aggressive in the world of politics does not comprise eight million square miles but the few square miles occupied by its few thousand political leaders chiefly in a few large cities say moscow and leningrad russia could be effectively isolated in war from the rest of the world without much difficulty on the other hand the atomic missile and other bombing rocket threats against her are somewhat dulled by her tar far flung distribution of industry except oil I 1 for our part defense against use of such missiles is our most vital necessary concern we are protected everywhere except in the air we are protected in every way excepting from atomic possibilities and missiles in these baskets most of our eggs may now be put we must think of atomic defense not offense we must concentrate on air and missile protection WRIGHT PATTERSON stolen fruits are sweetest DURING awas boyhood days in iowa I 1 was taught that it was wicked to stealthily appropriate the others other fel fellows lods watermelons water melons later tor for more than half a cen century I 1 was never tempted now living in a small community I 1 have a watermelon vine in my own back yard but that vine Is rooted in a neighbors garden the friendly neigh borly argument has been over the question whose melons are those in my back yard to settle lt it I 1 ate the melons t if we have to fight the next war across the north pole we will find it hard sledding especially for or the the 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