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Show When shoes begin to scuff and peel, rub them with the white ol an egg. It will paste down the broken pieces. Table linen should be looked over for stains before putting in the wash tub. Soapy water will set the stains, and measures must be taken to remove any marks before be-fore immersing in the suds. WW TPS EPRflpS"p; PRE IF PEARSON Deadlock Over Korea MAJ. GEN. ARCHER L. LERCH, military governor of Korea, gave an off-the-record talk to reserve officers recently re-cently expressing great pessimism regarding U. S. relations with Russia in Korea. Latest efforts to get together with Russia, Rus-sia, General Lerch said, may as well be written off as failure. What caused the deadlock was recognition of political parties, since Russia Rus-sia would not recognize any Korean parties not controlled by Communists. General Lerch also revealed: (1) Russia's agrarian reforms In northern Korea have backfired. 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 38th parallel. (2) Border incidents have been reduced along the Russian-American Russian-American line. However, two Russian soldiers, prowling for rice below the border, were shot and killed by Korean police. (3) Only 53 Japs are left in southern Korea all hospital cases. (4) Russia, which controls the industrial 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 be-coming converted to communism. "Koreans," he said, "could never be regimented into communism, I am sure." WALTER WINCHELL Oddities in the Biff Burg Radio City has three employees whose duties consist of picking up ciggie butts all day. ... In the year 2015 Rockefeller Center's maze of skyscraper buildings will become the property of Columbia university without cost. How Times Change: At the turn of the century a shave and haircut in the Big Burg cost two-bits. two-bits. Tipping was taboo. . . . The reason some of the old brownstoncs have blue windows: At one time it was believed that sunlight streaming through blue glass was very healthful. Slavery was abolished in Manhattan Manhat-tan before the Revolutionary war exploded. . . . It's well known that New York once was called New Amsterdam. Am-sterdam. But for a few years it also had another monicker: New Orange. . . . Scientists claim the land that makes up lower Manhattan Manhat-tan is probably the oldest known part of the earth's surface. Many of the jewels in the door of the tabernacle at the Little Church Around the Corner are stones from the rings of ' women married there. . . . Maiden Lane gots its name because Dutch maidens once washed their clothes in a brook there. WALTER SHE AD Doom to Veterans' Loans ONE of the main reasons why veterans are failing to obtain loans under the G.I. Bill of Rights is the fact that the 80th congress has clipped the power of Reconstruction Finance corporation to purchase these mortgages mort-gages from banks. The 79th congress, which passed the G.I. bill, gave RFC authority to purchase mortgages on homes where the loans had been guaranteed by Veterans' administration under terms of the G.I. bill. The authority under which the RFC purchased these mortgages expired June 30. When the new law was passed by this congress extending the RFC 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 RFC authority to purchase G.I. 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 im- j possible to obtain home loans no matter how well they are armed j with letters of eligibility. Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama introduced a bill in the last minute j rush of congress seeking to extend this authority of the RFC j II. 1. PHILLIPS Treasure Hunt of Long Ago j William O'Keefe, 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 half-ton safe one day to get at a nickel beneath it, and explained, after a severe injury to his back, "I wouldn't have moved it only I thought it was a dime." And he tells the one of the fellow who, urged to take another drink by a friend pretty well under the weather, refused. "Oh, come ou," the friend argued. "If anybody notices anything, I'll say it's my breath." "Perhaps," was the answer, an-swer, "but suppose they also ask, 'Is that your stagger?' " VAX1SHIXG AMERICANISMS "House to Ut. $20 a Month K ith Heal." j "Everybody is entitled to s summer vacation, and it doesn't cost much." m , "All You Can Eat for $2i." "Mommer, may I bring a couple of ' friends home to dinner.'" ' ! "Corn Crop Much Improved." Headline. "Listening in on the radio I would think it was the best ever," says J. J. W. PAUL MALLON Military Weakness of Russia MUCH 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 of her vast spaces. Hitler's military mistake was In attempting to devour more than he could chow. No one seems to think of Russia's Rus-sia's far vaster, outer circumference of defense, which Is really too extensive to bo 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, chlelly 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 fnrflunR distribution of Industry (except oil). For our part, defense against uso of such missiles Is our most vital necessary concern. Wo nre protected everywhere except In tho nlr. Wo uro protected In every way excepting from atomic possibilities and missiles. In these baskets most of our eggs may now bo put. We must think of atomic defense, not otTense. We must concentrate on air and inlsslln protection. k k -k WRIGHT PATTERSON Stolon Fruits Are Sweetest PUUINCt boyhood days in Iowa 1 was taught that It was wicked to stealthily appropriate the other fellow's watermelons. Iwiter, for morn than half n century, I was never tempted. Now, living In a small community, 1 have a watermelon water-melon vine In my own back yard -hut that vine In runted In H neigh-liiir'n neigh-liiir'n garden. The friendly, neigh borly argument has been over tho question: "Whoso melons nre those In my back yard?" To settle (t, 1 it t o the melons. If wo have to (IrIiI tho next war across the North Tule wo will lliiil It hind slcdillni:, especially espe-cially for the yrouml mmim. |