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Southern, Oregon Miner. T hursday, Ju n e 21), 1946 < *• <X. f x . (X . <X. f X . f x . g x. (X . (X . f x . ( X . (X . (X . fX . ffc, C r 7 ASK M E I ? ANOTHER ? ? A General Quiz PUBLIC S SPENDABLE INCOME DOUBLE Personal Mail Exerts Big In fl nenee on Congressman o f x . (X . (X . (X . ( X . ( X . (X . ( X . f x . (X . <") t ; f x . f x . f X . fX . f x . T he Q u est ions VANDENIIIKG GOP CANDID ATH WASHINGTON — Erudite Sena tor Vandenberg of Michigan not only has been doing a good job on for eign relations, but he takes it- ana him self seriously. Perhaps one 11 necessary to the other. Talking to a friend the other day, the Michi gan senutor opined; “ Well, we're getting along pretty well now that we have a Republi can foreign policy." By BAUKHAGE itw i /X . i n a l i t i and Com m entator. WNV S erv ice , 1616 E y e S treet, N.W ., W ashington. I). C. 1. The cornerstone of the While House was laid during whose term of office? 2. What fish has used the radar principle for millions of years? 3. What does "sotto voce” m ean’' 4. What color is the rectangular flag with a white center that is hoisted when a ship is about to sail'' 5. Who would wear a burnous? 6. When do we sta rt dying? 7. For whom was the month of July named? 8. What type of ship was the old Constitution? 9. Who was the youngest Presi dent of the U. S. ever inaugurated? 10. Is it true that elephants live for hundreds of years? telegrams such as the White House has not known in the memory of its There is a great mail mystery in present staff, some of whom have Washington which public reaction served there since the days of Wood- row Wilson. sleuths are trv- lng to solve. Re A lot of letters I receive indicate cent reactions of that a great many people think con "What do you mean?" c o n g re s s p r e gress pays no attention to the voter. “Well, anulyze it for yourself.” sents a paradox. This is laughably inaccurate. The shot back the man who may be the In fact, a pair of voice of the voter is the one thing next GOP nominee. “It all goes back paradoxes. a congressman obeys In spite of to my now somewhat famous Gradually, one this fact, 51 per cent of the people, speech of January, 1945.” by one, like a if our old friend. NORC. is right' NOTE—Van elaitns he is get m aid e n p lu ck as it has proved to be on many oc Laid waste by war. area In front of battered rrlehstag building in ting bored with polities. “One T h e A n sw e r* ing daisy petals casions. believe that congress de Berlin is converted by Germans into vegetable gardens to help replen question I can't answer to my to learn her fate ish barren larders. pends more on its own judgment w ife’s satisfaction ,” lie says, “ Is than on public opinion. and fortune, con 1. George Washington's. why I'm running for re-election gress has been 2. The electric eel has used a Of course, the reason for this im (as senator). I’ve threatened to s tr ip p in g the pression is that the organized process sim ilar to rad ar in locat divorce her If she asks m e poor o ffice of voters, the ones which some organ ing food. again .” (The answer, of course. p ric e a d m in is ization controls, form the congress 3. Speaking in an undertone. Is that if Van doesn't run again tration of its powers, until said man's judgment because they are 4. Blue. for senator, he won't he In the agency has little more control over the most vocal. They make them 5. An Arab (a cloak-like gar« trial heats for President.) prices than man over a skidding selves heard in person, through tnent and hood woven in one piece)q car on an icy pavement. their membership, and the people 6. At birth SENATE LABOR REBELLION 7. Julius Caesar. And yet, according to recent polls. whom they influence. In the two recent questions I Deadliest backstage punches 8. Frigate. 82 per cent of the public is in favor against President Truman’s labor- 9. T heodore House veil (42 y e a r* of “holding the line.” The March have njentioned: labor control and GRAINS: draft program were scored by CIO old). survey by that reliable poller. price control, you have two power NO. 1 ENEMY: Pres. Phil Murray In a secret meet 10. No, an elephant is old at sev| Bet on Prices NORC (National Opinion Research ful lobbies at work — the unions and K ats In crease The rat population of the United Center of Denver university) among the industrial organizations, but ' In Chicago, those who buck the ing held by the senate education •nty live. States shot up during the war, due board of trade arc betting that the and labor committee. other similar groups, points this out. pulling in opposite direc ’ons. I am not saying that either is to a shortage of chemicals for OPA extension bill will eliminate Those present included Murray; When the house virtually stripped S tu tte rin g N airn’s OPA of its powers late in April, let right or wrong in the views they rodenticides, and we now have over basic commodity farm prices from Lew Hines, AFL legislative repre express and the causes they advo sentative; Martin Miller, represent 25 million rats. They do an annual ters poured in supporting the agen control. Bidding is constantly high In a number of past issues ofi cy. since then its head. Paul Por cate. I am saying that they are damage of 500 million dollars to food er on wheat, oats and rye and are ing A1 Whitney's railway train the Los Angeles Telephone Direc-J men; plus Senators Jim Murray of tory, two firms have vied with ter. using the publicity machine active and powerful. And also that and property, exclusive of sickness going higher. built up by his predecessor. Stabili they naturally promulgate ideas n and death caused by disease they The Kansas City board of trade Montana (chairman), David I. each other for first-place listing zation Director Bowles, has omit their own interest. If these inter spread. from time to time has prohibited Walsh of Massachusetts, Elbert by prefixing their nam es with a d Government officials estimate all grain futures trading on the ex Thomas of Utah, Claude Pepper of ditional A's. ted no word or act to keep his side ests happen to be the public’s, as that from 12*2 to 15 billion pounds change except in settlement of open Florida, Lister Hill of Alabama, Joe of the arguments against ceiling- well. fine. If not. . . . In the current book, the firm Most of the congressional sec of grain a year are consumed or commitments. Purpose of the ac Guffey of Pennsylvania and Wayne smashing before the consumer. Al previously holding the coveted po though gongress is not now being retaries I know well enough to talk destroyed by rats on farms. Each tion, the directors said, was to pro- Morse of Oregon The CIO president got right down sition with 25 A’s has l>een sup needled as heavily as it was at the with frankly support this view. Ex rat eats about 100 pounds a year, tect traders against losses caused planted by the other which now peak of the house debate, plenty of cept, of course, when some strange and spoils at least another hundred. by the increased ceiling prices es to cases. uses 30 of these initials. political deal is involved, whereby “My organization has always fol people are still asking for OPA con Scientists of the Interior depart tablished by the federal govern the congressman feels it safer to ment are making use of two potent ment. tinuation. lowed President Truman’s recom mendations in labor disputes and At the same time, of course, anti displease some of his constituency rodenticides developed during the the record proves it," Murray de control forces are keeping up their because of its indifference, than to war. One is ‘'1080.“ or sodium flu- CUBAN SUGAR: clared. "Look at the auto, steel and Relieved In 5 nun lit a« or doubt« your money back pressure, both through lobbyists of disregard the pressure brought upon oracetate, said to be the most ef P rice P led g e G iven W h e n » i c e « • turnerh a d d p a in fu l, e u ffo ra t the interested groups, and through him by other forces in or out of fective rat poison known. The other If prices of U. S. foodstuffs im oil disputes. We went along with the In tfir a a , aour ■loiiiacft and !>••» tb u rn . d u r U in iM ually f a a tM t- a r t tn « k n o w n fo r the paid advertising of the National congress. is “antu,” an abbreviation for al- ported into Cuba go up next year, fact-finding boards. In some cases p ■ y re in ee p to rw rn e a »ha tlr r e lie f m n l l d t i M lib * tt iu e r in D e ll one a b le te. *' N o l o i a t i v * |t« ll-a n e b rin y « «'»»rofiwt In • Manufacturers’ a s s o c ia tio n , and This particular inquiry by the phanapthylthicurea. the U. S. government has given we had to accept much below what T J iffy o r double y o u r m o n ry back u a re tu rn o f b o tti« other industrial organizations. ■ Quarterly showed legislators rated WEATHER: that country assurance of a higher we asked, but we did so patri U» ua. X c a t a ll druiftftala otically. price for Cuban sugar in this coun But as far as any one can gauge, , the various influences on them, as R ains and Drouth try, says Oscar Siegle, president of “ Can industry say as m uch?” the people themselves still want I i follows: The government weather report the Cuban sugar commission. -Murray continued. “ Look what price control. Nevertheless, con (1) personal mail; (2) visits TO The basic price agreed on for this happened during the auto gress has managed to whittle it the public; (3) newspapers; (4) vis shows that recent rains in the Mid strike. General Motors held out down, and many observers, at this its FROM the public; and (5) pub dle West have benefited small year’s sugar crop will continue to grains, but that more sunshine and be 3.675 cents a pound. Siegle said It My > « t Friend" for months against the recom writing, consider it as among the lic opinion polls. warmth was needed for best growth Any increase in American foodstuff dead already. mendations of Trum an's fact The bearing which these figures and development. prices, because of changes in the finding board, which labor was Up until the unions threatened to have on the importance of writing Crop estimates are up. One ex OPA, would be reflected “perforce, willing to accept. That was a tie up the railroads and ignored gov your congressman, in my opinion, S#‘ ..( £ 1* * case of m anagem ent striking ernment orders, there was no is this: they show that mail IS im pert predicts winter wheat produc on the price of sugar,” Siegle re against the governm ent, but did chance to get any labor-control portant, and that when letters at tion this year, as of June 1, at 751 ported after a trip from Havana to h »»*’'* President Truman call for a measure through congress. But the one end of the spectrum of impor million bushels, or 8 million bushels Washington. more than the government estimat Joint session of congress to up people wanted something, and when tance jibe with the poll (at the TO TOKYO: braid General Motors offi the President offered it. he received other end), it certainly puts a burr ed last month. Spring wheat was estimated at 268 million bushels, New ATC Airline cials as he did recently against a response in the way of letters and under the legislator’s vote. ”‘r« urvir* slightly less than the 300 million The American fliers who spanned labor? lie did not.” bushels in 1945. the oceans and flew the “hump ' In many places in the Mississippi have inaugurated a new airline to NO-STRIKE PLEDGE? valley, wet weather slowed all farm Tokyo over the “top of the world,” Then, with a scowl, the usually work and especially corn planting. saving more than 18 hours of flying CIO boss acidly The extremely wet spots were rare, time each way. They are the pilots mild-mannered added; however, and in many places rains of the Air Transport command. Recently, I said over the air that “ Did he offer legislation then can't get all of what we want are were needed. In announcing the new route for America was eating better, and in to penalize and enslave all no danger of starving. We can passenger and cargo planes, the eating more than it had ever eaten m anagem ent as he did in this get things we may not like, but WAR BABIES: ATC stated the trip will take 26 before. Immediately I received a which M ay Curb Influx ea se against labor? Well. I don’t will be just as good for us. hours’ flying time. squall of stormy letters, vehement rem em ber reading anything The bringing of very young babies j The new line will follow a one- And also, we can be assured that ly denying my statement. Millions E at about it.” All of the writers regaled me the people, who, in America's past, of war brides from Europe to the stop route from Seattle to Tokyo by KELLOGG’S ALL-BRAN United States may be halted, if a have been near the danger lines, Senator Hill inquired if labor way of Adak in the Aleutian islands. with the same tale which my wife for Lasting Relief recommendation of a special army j are getting a lot more than they would be willing to offer Truman a brings home each day — that the ever had before. And they weren't board which investigated a recent | compromise on the strike Issue, grocer’s and the butcher's shelves outbreak of diarrhea on the trans Oddities in the News . . . starving then, either. such as a six month no-strike Harsh laxatives got you feeling are almost bare. pledge. down? If yours is the common typo So don’t think that we haven't port Zebulon Vance when 30 babies Nevertheless, America is eating With a full-sized hornet’s nest "That is impossible, as far as of constipation, cau ed by lack of better and more food. Americans enough to spare for the invisible were stricken and eight died. built tightly against the outside of The army may halt transportation the breakfast room window of their the CIO is concerned.” replied Mur sufficient bulk in the diet, follow who ate a yearly average of 127 guest. this pleasant way to lasting regu from Europe of all babies under ray emphatically. “My organization larity. pounds of meat before the war are one year of age. More thorough is run on Democratic lines and such now gobbling it at the rate of 150 Just eat a serving of crisp, de a pledge could never be enforced. licious KELLOGG’S ALL-BRAN pounds apiece. This statement is PUBLIC’S SPENDABLE INCOME physical examinations have been requested for war brides and their When members of a CIO union are every day and drink plenty of from Fortune magazine, a periodi children at European staging areas working under intolerable condi water! Do this regularly—and if cal not noted for making false state before departing for this country. tions, I couldn't dictate to them not your trouble is due to lack of hulk ments. The war mothers themselves are to strike. Therefore, I would never —you may never have to take an 1939 You and I cannot get everything other laxative the rest of your life! somewhat to blame, it is reported, agree to such a pledge.” we want, but we aren’t all of Amer ALL-BRAN is not a purgative— because of laxity of sanitary hab ica by a long way. You and I have not a medicine. It’s a wholesome, its which might have contributed to RATIONING F E R T IL IZ E R always had meat virtually every natural laxative food, and— the epidemic. Agriculture department experts day in the week. KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN Is Richer in are worried over a new drive by CANNED MEAT: But millions of people in this N u tritio n than wholo w h e a t Dixie democrats. They now want 60% Set A side country never had meat more than Because it’s made from the vital fertilizer rationed. Hitherto, potash A new government order provides j once or twice a week. These mil outer layers of wheat, in which 1946 fertilizer has been used mainly for that federally inspected slaughter- [ lions of people have more money Estimate based protective food ele food growing, but now the southern whole-wheat ers may not produce canned meat ] today than they have ever had, but an 1st quarter. ments are concentrated. ounce bloc wants it rationed so more can of ALL-BRAN provides One for civilian consumption unless they you, if you are one of the people more than deliver to government agencies 60 Kan Francisco, Calif., home, the go for the cotton and tobacco crops. ’/□ your daily iron need—to help who wrote me, probably never were per cent of each week’s total Walter Ohms have a ringside view Midwest farmers do not object to make good, red blood. Calcium and conscious of that fact i output. The order is designed to of the busy bees at work. Pic the idea of rationing of potash, pro phosphorus—to help build bones The little graph shows the facts. provide more canned meat for for ture shows the Ohms’ four-year vided rationing regulations recog and teeth. Vitamins — to help These figures on which it is based Pigvrei freni t r r . e -t Cmirtret. eign relief shipments. nize the supreme importance of guard against deficiencies. Protein old daughter studying the nest. are compiled by the department of help build body tissue essen food. The Civilian Production ad —to commerce, and the most anti-admin tial for growth. Eat ALE-BRAN ministration, however, has always istration banker you know won’t every day! Made by Kellogg’s of allocated scarce materials on the Battle Creek and Omaha. doubt them. basis of a base period, and the They show, as you tee, that in southern representatives are insist WNU—13 1939, the public’s spendable income j 2 5 -4 « ing that any new rationing program was 68 billion dollars. The estimate be based upon 1944 consumption of for 1946 is 139 billion. fertilizer. Now your common sense will tell WASHINGTON.—With new uses Starch, flour and glucose are other Support buying at the announced In 1944, five southern states you that the people who ate meat for potatoes being found, along with potato products for human con price levels reached about 500 car used 44 per cent of the nation’s every day didn’t get all of that 71 a heavier consumer demand, is sumption. loads last week, officials estimated, fertilizer but produced only 10 billion dollar increase in their keeping the government out of the Potatoes manufactured into alco with 200 cars purchased in North per cent of the nation’s food. In F o p Y o u T o Feel Well spending money. The low-income market for support purposes to a hol yield about 20 per cent in by Carolina alone. But the demand the same year, five midwest 24 l hour« every day. 7 days every groups got a large part of it. In greater degree than department of product livestock feed. from all types of consumers, includ states produced 50 %er cent of week, k, i never stopping, the kidney« filter other words, America (as a whole) agriculture officials expected, in waste te 1 matter from ___________ tno blood. Shipments from potato producing ing distilleries, prevented the buy the nation’s food but used only If more people were aware of how the is eating more meat (and other view of the unprecedented potato states have broken the all-time high 6 per cent of the fertilizer. ing program from reaching the pro kidneys must constantly remove sur things) than it ever did before, and shipments this spring. plus fluid, excess acids and other waste of 1,514 carloads a day on four suc portions such heavy marketing matter that cannot atiiy tn the blood because so many MORE people are One of the reasons for increased cessive days this spring. California would normally mean. The market C APITAL CHAFE without Injury to health, there would eating so much MORE meat, there demand is the entry of the distilling has been the heaviest shipper. be better understanding of why the can normally absorb only about The exit of young men continue«. whole system la upset when kidneys fail isn’t as much left for the people industry into the buying field. Dis To meet the situation, the depart 1,000 carloads a day, compared with to function properly. Josiah DuBois, one of Secretary who ate all they wanted before. tillers are buying potatoes from the ment has set up support buying of last week's daily average of 1,717 Burning, scanty or too frequent urina Vinson’s crack assistants, has re tion sometimes warns that something The discussion of how much growers at prices above government fices in California, Arizona, Texas, carloads. Is wrong. You may suffer nagging back signed to practice law here and in America is eating arose in connec support prices in order to convert Mississippi, ache, headaches, dizziness, rheumatic Alabama, Florida, Camden, N. J. . . . Secretary of the The department will use some of pains, getting up at nights, swelling. tion with the question as to our abil into alcohol. Georgia, South Carolina, North its surplus for school lunch pro Interior Cap Krug ended a six-hour Why not try Doon’s P ilU l You will ity to help feed starving Europe and be using a medicine recommended the Potatoes were successfully used Carolina and Virginia. While peaks country over. Doan'a stim ulate the func Asia. Some people believed that be for livestock feeding in 1937, 1939, were reached last week in seyeral grams and relief needs, hut it is ap- fishing trip in the Virgin Islands tion of the kidneys and help them to flush out poisonous waste from the cause they couldn’t buy as many 1940 and 1941, officials pointed out, states. North Carolina, California parent that the bulk will go for out with a painful sunburn, then pro ceeded to sweat out 12 days of hot blood. They contain nothing harmful. side needs. Officials hope that a things at the store as they were and in view of the feed shortage, and Virginia marketings are ex Get Doan’i today. Uae with confidence. ter negotiations with John L. Lewis. considerable amount will go into in At all drug stores. accustomed to buying, America may go into this channel. When pected to run even higher this week, dustrial uses other than the manu . . . At Fort Washington, Md., Is a didn’t have enough to spare. processed into flour, potatoes also with Oklahoma, Arizona and Ar facture of alcohol, but admit that half-empty veterans’ hospital which But the peoplt (you and I) who make an excellent poultry feed. kansas just coming on. costs the taxpayers $211 a day per some may go to distillers patient. NEWS REVIEW' Rats Cost Half-Billion a Year But New Rat Killers Found; 1946 Crops Depend on Weather Gas on Stomach ASTHMADOR 1 People Are Buying More QUIT DOSING CONSTIPATION! NEW USES FOUND D em and for P otatoes Is H eavy W A C t T T K T /~ ” T«<XK T T ir iA V »_ zi « . . . Kidneys Must Work W ell- DOANSPlLLS