Show 6 W washington D 0 PRESIDENT AND NEW INT some of the presidents newspaper pat friends who have bien been canals consistently for arhim him over a long period of arenow years are now suggesting that this Is a good time to turn the other cheek regarding his constant feud with the press they suggest that he personally could step into the current newsprint shortage and take a strong stand on an issue which seriously threatens one of the basic freedoms of the country freedom of the press actually a good many bureaucrats have been nibbling at the news newsprint r t problem I 1 but no one has stepped steppe in with any forthrightness to cut red tape ind and solve the problem it now looks as if only the white house could do this not generally realized Is the fact th that at newsprint shortage is due not so much to decreased wood pulp production la in the Ca canadian forests but to much greater use of cardboard and packing material in sending war supplies abroad this is a terrill terrific drain and though U S publishers publishers have patriotically cut their ne newsprint w they will have to cut to th the e bone unless energetic moves are made by the government the plan put forward by newspaper executives friendly to the white house includes 1 greater use of war prisoners to in the canadian and maine forests 2 more equitable distribution of newsprint among publishers at present the papers with the big sunday editions have scarcely suffered at all being able to absorb their paper cuts out of their sunday fat on the other hand medium sized papers may have to take terrific punishment ish ment 3 stricter supervision of cuts by throw dodgers comic magazines and newsprint users who have not kept such accurate records ol of their past consumption the newspaper industry has suffered by its past efficiency having kept very accurate records 4 more emphasis on the paper salvage campaign at present presen t only 35 per cent of the nations waste paper is being collected and salvaged the waste paper reclaiming machinery is running at only 51 per cent of capacity approximately tons of waste paper are normally collected and sold for far paper board but now only two million the newspapers stepped in and did a great job of collecting scrap iron when the nation needed it but now when the newspapers need newsprint they themselves are somewhat handicapped in blowing their horn hom what the white house will do remains to be seen GOOD NEIGHBOR PEACE ten years ago there was a very serious war between bolivia and paraguay in the jungles of the gran chaco last week the presidents of paraguay and bolivia met at the border of the two countries in the chaco erected a large cross and pledged themselves and their countries to everlasting peace the bitterness which animated these two south american countries has been wiped away and they are good neighbors in every sense of the word some diplomats hope this incident Is a forecast that the bitterness actuating the enemies of world war II 11 may likewise be eliminated after the passage of time INSIDE STORY OF HORNET the navy department has okayed oklyed publication of the inside story of the famous airplane carrier hornet written as abood a book A ship to remember by alexander griffin ot ol the philadelphia record for the first time it reveals th the e spectacular operation of the ship which carried general Doo doolittles littles bombers within a stones throw of 0 tokyo among other things the navy okayed oklyed publication by griffin of the fact that at one time the hornet homet practically acted as a substitute for henderson field in the solomons that badly messed up airport on the night of october 14 1942 had only five planes left and gasoline to send out only four so the hornet homet came alongside the island threw her planes into action and for 36 hours substituted for henderson field even more astonishing Is the revelation that at onetime during the low point in the south pacific battle the U S navy had only one aircraft carrier left un undamaged damage d in i that entire expanse of water the hornet a a MERRY GO ROUND C wheeler macmillan farm journal candidate tor for president arrived in wisconsin two days after ill OPA will soon hoist prices for essential war commodities being produced by small war contractors this is to compensate the contractors for higher labor costs fl 41 the truman truman committee has received reports of sanctioned loitering in the naval torpedo plant at alexandria va C washington is interested in U S judge jetty OO proposal to punish the germans by making them in each country until they build up all the property they have damaged |