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IT'S A YIRUS
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Observing patients in the office of 8 doctor in these
day of colds, flu and infection, one cannot help but be
amazed by the woes and pains that afflict the human body.
One sees the swollen eyes, the red nose and hears the
hacking cough of the patient sufferer; senses the pain of
aching joints as a wracked wretch awaits the ministering
hands of doctor and nurse; squirming and fidgeting efforts
to find a comfortable position, but ever without success.
And in these days it seems the waiting rooms are
always full, and one must wait his turn (while turning)
apparently spending hours upon end with last year's ma
gazines before his name is called.
When we heard our name (yes, we're speaking from
experience) we finally succeeded, on the third attempt, in
getting our rubber legs to lift our aching frame off the
chair and carry us, staggering, into the doctor's office.
Finally we got it through our head, as thick as a Ixs
Angeles smog, that the doctor wanted us to remove our
shirt. Then with radar, sonar and crowbar, he went to
work. He probed, pinched and pounded ; made us pant,
cough and grunt, then, after searching thoroughly with a
mine detector, came up with an exultant, "I've got it."
And all the time we thought VK had it.
He informed us he had located a virus.
Shouldn't Bt Difficult
If the mine detector the doctor was using was worth
thirty cents, it shouldn't have been difficult for him to
locate the doggone hobnailed gremlin that's been running
footraces up and down our spine, driving crampons in ev
ery vcrtabrae, using a jaekhammer on our shoulder and
elbow joints, filling our veins with scalding water one min
ute and ice water the next, while taking what used to be
muscles out of our legs and substituting rubber bands
synthetic at that not to mention the coils of barbed
wire wrapped around our innards, to be yanked at fre
quent Intervals.
But it seems that jiiBt locating a virus isn't enough.
He must be eradicated, or words to that effect.
First comes hypos of penicillin and stuff. Then a pre
scription. After mortgaging the home and arranging with the
bank to make delivery of the down payment by armored
car, we were permitted to take home a tiny box of capsules.
Without police escort, we were scared to death to be trans
porting such valuable cargo, but managed to reach home
safely and hide our precious treasure under the loose floor
board.
Sura Cur For Insomnia
These, warned the doctor, must be taken at "regular"
intervals, "clay and night." That means we must wake
up every few hours and swallow some of those Fort Knox
ious capsules.
Previously we had trouble sleeping, but right away the
capsules proved to be a sure cure for insomnia. We al
ways fall sound asleep just in time to be awakened to take
our medicine.
The doctor added that we must slay home for a few
days and rest as if a guy could rest when he can't find
a comfortable position, lying, sitting, or standing. We'll
stay home. Yes indeed the wife was there and heard
the doctor's instructions.
However, if misery loves company, we know a lot of
yeu folks, too, are lovers.
Hut. at last, we know something.
We know now what is "THE THING."
It's a virus!
Tti Viahnett S. Martin I j
2
I never tire of watching the
birds. How much like people I hey
are! At times they are few and far
between, when food is plentiful
in the woods. Hut when that snow
came did they flock around our
back door! Just as 1 was wonder
ing what on earth I could find
next to feed thcin, I happened to
find a quarter of a barrel of wheat
left over from the time we had
five hens. 1 was as pleased as if
Santa Claus had left it for me!
I threw out that wheat hy the
panfull and watched the perfor
mance which was well worth the
price. Vie had birds I had never
seen before, and lots I knew. All
day long that patch was busy.
Then finally the snow melted,
but 1 had the wheat why slop?
So they keep coming. We throw
out scraps, too. This morning there
were three left over pancakes
hotcakes, EJ said and what a
show !
A lot of juncos took after one
pancake; apparently tho other two
cakes were invisible the whole
time. They fussed and snatched
biles and hopped around like
craiy. Along came a varied thrush
(new to me; bird book says "very
accretive" and to be seen only in
depths of woods!) who chased off
the little blackcaps. While he was
doing that another thrush sailed
in and had a bite or two.
The two thrushes argued Ti out.
No. 2 won out. No. 1 flew olf to a
fence post to either sulk or plan
strategy. Thrush No. S came down
and No. 2 lost out. No. S chased
No. 2 all around the snowball bush
while a few juncos and a little
striped sparrow darted in for a
lute So it went even the blue
jays mixed in, with angry
screeches af the idea of sharing.
Even two Alaska robins they
have a white patche on the breast
joined in.
Vet all the time, two other pan
cakes were lying there, forgotten
and untouched as yet. Kach bird
intent upon onething vetting all
he could of the pancake upon
which they all converged,
l'lanty of wheat lay around, too,
and other scraps. Was there any
real reason for fussing and fight'
ing, fearing and sulking, or going
oft to plan strategy? There lay,
in plain sight, plenty of food the
trouble lay in a lopsided method
of distribution. The divine l'lan
is impartial.
New Poster Racks
Reapportioning
Of Legislature
Proposal Aim
SA1.KM l.l'i -Rep. Robert
Root, Medford, has intrcAltircd a
proposed constitutional amend
ment to reapportion the legisla
ture. He would have the .Senate con
tinue to be divided on a popula
tion basis.
Hut he wouM increase the AO
member House lo members,
giving each of the !t counties a
representative, and dividing the
I rest hy population.
! The constitution now says that
! both houses must be divided ac
i cording to population,
j Governor Douglas McKay has
signetl into law the first of the
bills to revamp the state s school
i system.
I The hills would have the ttnle
boards & education snd higher
education meet jointly, and legal
ise the state department of evluca
tion. The legislature will take Good
Friday, Saturday and Kasler Sun
dav off.
the Senate voted 17 to tl toitake
tha threeAlay holiday. Tha House
votedf-Jo do so last week.
Fulton lewis Jr.
WASHINGTON All of the cheap fraud, chicanery and
tawdry pilfering of public funds exposed in the RFC in
vestigation were predicted in 194-48 by the Hoover com
mission on organization f the executive branch of the
government. j
A group of prominent citizens,
comprising a so-called "task
force" for the commission headed
by former President Herbert Hoo
ver, took the HKC apart to see
what made it tick back in 1H47
and '48. They came up with a rec
ommendation that the agency be
placed in the Treasury depart
ment. Mr. Hoover, who first rec
ommended establishment of the
RFC to congress in 19.11, now fa
vors abolition of the agency. Here
is one paragraph of tha 1948 re
port: "Direct lending by the govern
ment to persons or enterprises
opens up dangerous possibilities
of waste and favoritism to indi
viduals or enterprises. It nviles
political and private pressure, or
even corrupton. Kmergencies
may arise in depression, war, na
tional defense, or disaster which
must be met in this way. But di
rect lending should be absolutely
avoided except for emorgoncis."
Th RFC has developed into a
short-cut financing agency, prin
cipally devoted today to by-passing
regular appropriations com
mittees of Congress. It has ex
pended in the past six years more
than $12..V)0,0O0.HO of public
money in the form of emergency
loans, grants and gifts without
even tipping its hat to Congress.
Hy law Congress has control of
the public purseslrings or did
have until the legal eagles at the
RFC stalled mining loopholes in
the RFC enabling legislation.
Some $2,4H9,000,(MH) in RFC
funds were allocated to oilier fed
eral agencies, many of which were
refused funds n regular appro
priation requests to Congress.
Much of the money was used for
specific projects rejected hy Con
gress as unnecessary spcndingt of
public money.
Demands now to padlock . RFC
moneybags meet with presidential
and hair Deal resistance. 1 he
agency has been used for so long
as a grabhag by dollar-hungry
admnistratton favorites that it
would be like losing a rich patron
if it were abolished.
The RFC at one time was bossed
by Jesse Jones, the Houston,
Texas fnancier and former Roo
sevelt a dministration stalwart.
Congress had great respect for
Jons' honesty and capability,
and congressional trust in (his in-
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
(Continued from page One)
stance was not misplaced. But
the Jesse Joneses in government
appear all too seldom. His de
parture served to sever RFC
purseslrings, with the front page
results we read today. Jones, like
Hoover, thinks the HFC should
fold up with a minimum of fuss
and turn its lending business over
to the II. S. treasury for collection
of outstanding debts.
A lot of proposals about what
to do with the RFC have emerged
since the mink coat scandal. On
July 1, 1948 Congress extended
the life of RFC for eight years.
Lending powers were extended
for only six of those eight years,
with the final two years for liquid
ation. lute in 1947 the senate banking
and currency committee con
ducted an "investigation" of the
RFC. All the scandal, conniving
and betrayal of trust simmered
under the surface then. But senate
banking committee "investiga
tors" couldn't smell a thing. The
corruption had to ripen before Sen
ator Fulbright decided it was time
to air out the building.
Scandal and favoritism aside,
the reasons for discontinuing RFC
that were uneartherd hy the Hoo
ver task force in 1947 are still
pertinent today. They are:
1. A standby agency rots on the
vine. Without live functions em
ployee efficiency tends to disinte
grate. 2. No need exists for the govern
ment to keep an emergency "de
pression" agency aliv during non
emergency periods.
3. The RFC cannot obtain first
rale executivs during normal co
nomic periods.
4. The RFC short-circuits con
gressional bans on spending.
5. Agencies obtaining funds from
the RFC that were in effect denied
them hy congress, are not clearly
responsible for the handling of
funds thus obtained.
6. The Democratic national com
mittee and White House favorites
can function on a lowr subsis
tence level than the multi-million
dollar favors handed out by the
RFC.
Hear Fulton Leivis Daily
OnKRXR.4:00 P.M.
And 9:15 P. M.
all the credit needs of the ex
panding U. S. economy. Ihere ts
do point in having the government
competing in this field.
But as it has developed In the
capital, the issue goes well be
yond the economic justifications
for keeping or abolishing the RFC.
Basically the problem has be
come a moral one.
What the investigation of Sen
ator Fulbright's subcommittee has
disclosed is a supreme example of
the folly of government by crony
"cronyism," as some hav styled
it.
Too often President Truman
has placed in key government
office not the most fit men, nor
even well-qualiiied men, but sim
ply men he knew and liked.
Moreover, this attitude has been
aggravated by his insistence upon
regarding every attack noon a
subordinate as fundamentally an
assault Uon him as President.
Thus he has tended to discount
the criticisms as always political,
never isncere.
Senator Fulbri'jht may not be
without political motive, but the
facts unearthed by his committee
cannot be brushed off as campaign
fantasies. The expensive mink
coat given to a White House secre
tary, the free vacations for White
House functionaries (and senators.
too, for that matter) at the expense
of a Florida hotel manager who
won an RFC loan, the innumerable
pay-offs through awards of high
salaried business jobs to former
RFC men, these compound into a
sordid, immoral story.
Apparently only the strongest
men, administrators like Jesse
Jones and Kugene Meyer, can
keep a government lending agency
from sinking into the morass of
loans-by political-f-ivor. F.stahlish
an insiitulinn dealing in billions
passed out on fairly easy terms
and you have a set-up suited to
political machinations. Flies al
ways collet around the honey pot.
The result is not only a weaken
ing of the RFC itself, but a gen
eral lowering of moral behavior in
many parts of the Administration,
in Congress, and elsewhere.
Mr. Hoover, Jesse Jones and '
olhers have called for RFC's de-
and revolt some fine afternoon
without us doing anything to pro
mote it.
But there IS a possibility if we
handle ourselves right that the
time will come when they will re
volt. They revolted against ciar
ism, and what people have Uone
before they can do again. Foul as
czarism was, present-day Russian
communism is HJUl.hK.
My personal feeling is that Rus
sian communism is too foul a thing
to endure permanently on this
earth. The time is going to come
when the Russian people and the
stooge peoples living behind t h e
iron curtain will say to themselves
that they might as well be dead
as living the way they are living.
Such times breed revolutions.
You will ask, of course:
Aren't we DOING SOMETHING
ALREADY to put into the minds
of the Russian people and the iron
curtain peoples the idea that the
Russian COMMUNIST way of life
is bad and the American way of
life, in spite of all that is sail!
from Moscow, is much to be pre
ferred by common folk?
Yes, in way. We have what we
call our Voice of Freedom pro
gram. It is run for the most part
by our state department. I've lis
tened to some of it that goes by
radio and I've read some of it
that appears in print. My feeling
about it is that it's too STUFFED
SHIRTY. I think that if I were a Rus
sian or a Czech or a Hungarian or
a Pole or a Latvian or a China
man the kind of stuff we're send
ing out over our Voice of Free
dom program wouldn't get far
enough down into my nerve cen
ters to cause me to risk my life
and the lives of my family and
all my friends by revolting against
Kremlin communism.
I think our program just doesn't
get far enough down into the grass
roots for that. 1 judge from Gen
eral Donovan's talk the other night
that the feels the same way about
it. As I size him up, he is pro
posing that we do something to
GET CLOSER to the grass roots
of human nature.
Euiopean side of the iron curtain
and more are crossing every day.
That, in itself, tells quite a story.
If General Donovan means that
we aren't properly capitalizing the
immense human appeal that our
way of life has to common, ordi
nary people everywhere, I quite
agree with him.
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i FROM THE NEWS OF
After all, with all its faults, this
America of ours IS WONDERFUL. !
If given the free choice, with trans-:
Mri.iinn n,-nuirir.ri 1 rather imag
ine that 90 per cent of all the peo-: I
pie behind the iron curtain would I
pull up stakes ano come nere un
hesitatingly. Millions of them
have already crossed over from
the Russian side to the Western
53 YEARS AGO
no real reason, decided that she
did not want to go with her hus
band to America."
"These allegations have been put
forward by her to put herself in
the right and to avoid going."
Nuns Falsely
Blamed By Reds
For Child Deaths
HONG KONG f.W A Catholic
priest saill five Canadian nuns,
blamed bv the Chinese Commu
nists for the deaths of 2,116 chil
dren, actually had tried to save
the abandoned tots.
The Communists announced the
nuns had been jailed in Canlon.
Death is the penalty if they're
found guiltv. The Reds saitl the
children died in the oast 18 months.
The priest, who declined use of
his name, sahl:
The nuns years ago had set up
a receiving station for abandoned
children. Most of the waifs were
dying, freezing or so ill of com
municable diseases that they could
not be taken into the orphanage
the nuns operated.
The nuns sometimes were given
an unconscious baby with a leg
eaten off by Canton's hungry dogs.
The nuns buried more than 2,000
in 18 months,
It Seem Time To Ring Down
Curtain On Bungling RFC
Hy BRI'CK 1UOSSAT
It soemeil fair to hold off conclusive judgment about
the RKC until the Senate's inquiry was well advanced. Tha t
M:Ke has now been reached. And the findings poitrt to just
one sensible course: The abolition of the KKC.
As everyone knows, Herbert
Rut snmp thev saved. Thev
mise. To abolish the agency would 1 brought more than 200 to some de
be to set an example, lo start gov-1 s,ee 0f health and transferred
ernment back up the road to sound
moral performance.
Hoover created the RKC as a de. j conliar, 50und UnAint pr,ctie.
pression emergency device to help i .. ... ... . , .
keep tottering big business going' ,N doubt this greater liberality
in the dark days. It was never , had beneficial results, but
I contemplated that the agency ; "iinoi oe aiionru lo ui scuie
! should go permanently Into the ! ,ht .senHal that the RH was
! hanking business in competition serving as a vast commercial
jwith our private baling system. ; bank. On several occasions in
' But that is in (act exactly what d''. 'be RH s well-known liber
! haencd. More than that, the ! "I'ty enabled private banks to
, HKC became a sort of court of last i transfer to that agency oulstand
resort to which business firms ! ' ln lh banks rated as
'appealed after all regular banks P"or risks,
had turned a deaf ear. Many such Tlje private hanking system is
Wkirerns were granted loans, in pert lly qualfied. swept perhaps
aWianc of what private bankers ' in exterme emergencies, to meet
British Spouse
Of Gl Loses Suit
To Discard Mate
I.0ND0N-4P A British judge
refused here to dissolve the wed
ding of an English girl and a 28-year-old
former G. I. from Texas
on the wifa's charge of cruelty.
The plaintiff was 23-year-old
Mrs. Violet Benncr of Purfleet. j
She married Wilbert R. Bcnner of I
route 1, Del Valle, Texas then a
member of the U. S. air force sla
tioned at Wisbech in August, !
1944. They had a child four months j
later and have had two since. j
.ludge Harry Graebrook said j
the evidence snowed the marriage ,
took place after Mrs. Renner, then :
Ifi. appealed to Benner's com- ;
manding officer. ;
Mrs. Benner charged that Ben
ner slapped her around on their
wedding night and told her: "I
have married the wrong woman."
She contended he also beat her
from time to time thereafter un
til the final breakup of (he mar
irage last spring.
Benner denied he was cruel, al
though lie conceded that "tw or
three tunes" his wi(e provoked
him to the point where he struck
her.
! He -added that Mrs. Benner had
' repeatedly refused to accompany
) him to America. Benner finally
ob'jined a British court order for
! custody of the children in May,
I ISM). Mrs. Benner refused to give
: them up until she was imprisoned
briefly for contempt of court. She
I then sued for divorce.
Judge lirafebrook said he had
decided that Mrs. Benner was not
telling the truth about the way
her husband treated her.
I "I think the real explanation."
W said, "is that Mrs. Benner, for
them to the orphange.
The Chinese RcAls are in the
midst of a nation-wide ramnaign
against the influence of the Chirs
tian church on Red China.
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