Show NEWS REVIEW urge food consel conservation new battle shakes UN waste less lips that sincerely frame the words food conservation will not touch such sturdy edibles as meat poultry and eggs quite so often hereafter charles luckman head of president Tr citizens food committee opened the widely heralded waste less campaign by calling on the american people to cut their consumption of those three items thereby effecting a conservation of grain for europe at the same time it was disclosed that stopgap stop gap aid for europe this winter may run as much as million dollars n million more that mr truman had estimated earlier the appeal tor for americans to cut down on the amount of foods requiring grain feeding was couched in a five point program which if followed will eliminate the traditional race for the last chop on the platter it wont be there those five commandments were 1 buy cheaper meat cuts 2 dont serve too much 3 dont overcook meat 4 use leftovers 5 save wheat in all other possible ways in the future was the possibility that a voluntary program of meatless days and a reduction in the size of bread loaves would be put into effect NEW FIGHT recalls yalta in the U N another of possible failure and collapse of that organization arose as the U S and russia plunged into a new skirmish the issue which nation shall succeed pro russian poland on the security council poland has represented eastern europe and the slav bloc tor for two years russia wants the ukraine which although an integral part of the soviet union have a separate U N delegation U S contention is that the ukraine is not a sovereign nation therefore does not rate a separate status in the background of the affair was the stalin roosevelt yalta agreement which gave the soviet union three votes in the united nations russia proper the ukraine and white russia each has one how the USSR came to get three votes probably happened something like this both the ukraine and white russia intensely nationalistic did not like to lose their identities by being merged with greater russia the communist politburo therefore as a sop to their nationalism granted the two territories a sort of nominal independence pen dence at yalta then stalin told roosevelt that he wanted the ukraine and white russia to be represented in the U N for internal r reasons being an old poll politician and sympathetic with internal difficulties agreed thus the stage was set for one of the most serious battles yet to develop within the united nations income disparities real income ot of wage and salary earners continues to drop while farmers income still is rising it has been revealed by a monthly investors syndicate survey ot of purchasing power real heal income Is the relationship lation ship ot of revenue to the cost of living wage and salary earners now have only about 96 cents of buying power for each dollar a year ago while farmers have approximately at the same time the biggest cause of the wage earners problem is the sharp rise in the price of food the average family now pays more than tor for the same amount of food that a dollar bought a year ago it also pays for each dollar on rent to the 1946 dollar for clothing and for miscellaneous expenses this continued div divergence argence between farm and city buy buying ing power the survey pointed out indicates that a serious unbalance may threaten the stability of our economy A close balance is essential recognition playing safe not as a gesture of a approval but rather as a means of keeping informed of internal developments did the united states grant full diplomatic recognition to the comma dominated government of bulgaria robert A lovett U S acting secretary of state said that the action meant neither that this country approved nor condoned certain recent actions of the bulgarian government ern ment although he did not say so lovett obviously referred to bulgarian Bulga rias execution of nikola leader of the opposition to the communists previously recognition of the bulgarian government was withheld on the grounds that the pro soviet regime had been elected unfairly but now the V U S felt that it was more important to have an embassy in the country to protect american interests there LITTLE HOPE less coal there is little or no hope springing in the collective breast of official washington that the coal shortage this winter can be averted current estimates place coal production as running several million tons a month behind exports and domestic consumption principally because of the coal car shortage this has resulted in winter stock piles depreciating instead of growing as they normally would it was hoped at first that some relief would come when winter weather stops or curtails road building and construction thus permitting diversion of sand and gravel cars to the coal fields however a railroad spokesman said the diversion of such cars would do nothing but offset a normal 10 per cent drop in railroad efficiency in winter |