Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, July 25, 1946 Washington Not Always Glamorous ’T 'H IS c h u lr has such s iiiu rt linet * lic i t it l i m y be u -i-il in any in fo rm a l room us w ell ns out ol doors. It is made wi'.h sim ple cuts o f the hand saw from slock w id tlii of lum ber. World’s G reatest Capital Has Its Seamy Side Too! TRUMAN'S VETO f IIO IH WASHINGTON. Opinions may f ih n it i differ us to whether President Tru ninn wua right in vetoing the price control bill, but he personally has not changed his mind u bit. When he arrived on Capitol H ill for the * Roosevelt memorial service, Tru man was greeted by Ills old friend, Kenneth Romney, sergeunt-at arms of the house. As they shook hands the President quipped: " I didn't know whether you folks u Movr rtos to s r ’f o t s i ----- would let me come up here toduy PIILI» hat I after reading my latest message.* "Oh. don't worry about that,” T h e sides, the seat and the back a rt se p arate sesthins which a re put togethei chuckled the sergeant-at-arms. am t held rig id w ith pegs. R em o ve tlx *‘A lot of us are glad you vetoed pegs unu you have fo ur fla t pleci-s. s e e that OPA hill. And your veto P a tte rn 2!)2 w ith la rg e cu ttin g d la g ia m s message hit the nail right on fo r a ll pieces of the ch air. Illu s tra te d dl the head. You did the right reettons and list of m a te ria ls . Is 13 cents thing, in my opinion.” postpaid. Send o rd e r to: " I couldn't do unything else.” M RS. R U T H W Y E T H SPKARS replied the President with chin-set Bedford H ills, N. Y , Drawer to seriousness. By BAUKHAGE j P e g g e d L aw n C hair E a sily T a k en D ow n In a h ti ami Commentator. WNU Service. 1616 Eye Street, N.W stitution. He w ill be remembered Washington, D. C. for his long campaign to give Wash­ WASHINGTON.—A boy joined the ington a vote in congressional and staff of a four-page paper of which national matters. __ he was one day to become editor R ata W e re M e n ace The office was a To C ity ’a H e a lth ratUe-trap build­ ing whose notable Some time ago 1 had occasion to mention the invasion of Washington characteristics, he later s a id , by rats and how the city hired a were "sewer gas. modern Pied Piper who has done an effective, if silent, job. This was rats, dirt, over­ g ro w n ro w d y brought to my mind recently when I encountered a fat, black cat on my new sboys who had to be held in way to work early one morning. TRIP TO CAPITAL Mrs. Evelyn Baker and Mrs. James Magee check by a long The cat had a guilty look, and I had won a trip to Washington in a contest conducted by radio station KOTA whip and fire a hunch he had spent the night in in Rapid City. S. D „ to honor women who did their jobs quietly and riotous living and was merely arm s,"andit was well during the war. Mrs. Baker's husband was killed on Okinawa Enclose 13 cents for P a tte rn No. 202. sneaking in to change his collar. "positively dan and she has two children. Mrs. Magee lost a son in the war. gerous at times to go into the al­ However, the cataclysm caused by N a m e_____ _ equipping u . s . schools ley which they infested, leading to the rat-invasion in which, believe it When a committee representing Addreaa____ the composing room.” or not. a baby's hand was eaten the leading national educational . The town as the boy had grown brought hasty action and I see that organizations tried to see War As­ up in it was a straggling over­ it was considered worthy of com sets Chief Lt. Gen. Edmund B. grown country village “ with zigzag ment by experts, including the edi Gregory about getting surplus grades, no sewerage, no street cars, tors of the magazine of the Amer equipment for American schools, it no water supply except from pumps ican Museum of Natural History received two brush-offs. and springs, unimproved reserva­ The campaign began when a case Once Gregory had been "called tions, second-rate dwellings and of typhus which is spread by fleas out"; another time he was "too streets of mud and m ire." and mites on rats, was discovered. busy." However, the educators had That doesn't sound like the na­ Traps set in the neighborhood TRUMAN: cret weapon or invisible death no trouble seeing Gregory's boss tion's capital whose budget for the caught a number of rats whose Temper Short around that South Pacific area for President Truman. Further, Tru­ coming year is $76.755.009—but that blood was typhus-infected. The Maybe it's hot weather, but Presi­ hours and days—and even longer man's callers were definitely as was the way it was in 1858 as de­ United States Public Health service perhaps. „ ,, , , , sured that steps would be taken to scribed by the editor of the Wash­ got busy, shocked to learn that the dent Truman's temper is consid­ k ’ .»1 “ i J t" ia.y. ! . and lnV,S.‘.b k Provide schools, colleges and uni­ erably shorter than it used to be. ington Evening Star. Theodore scourge of Europe two centuries ago alpha, beta and neutron rays that Noyes, who died early this month. was a possibility right here in our This was evident recently when hit ships from the atom bomb were! versities with more war surplus. he spoke out at a press conference They Informed the President He joined the paper in 1877, fair capital. stating that John O'Donnell, a re­ more crippling than the blast that approximately 2,000,000 Except for the Australian capital An expert was called in. He first porter, had spread "another lie.” smashed down and the heat that! that American youths would seek of Canberra which arose almost as sealed up all points where commer­ wrecked some. One of the navy's! Camelot at a wave of Merlin's wand, cial transportation entered the city. (Incidentally, O’Donnell once re­ "drone' ships, which went pilotless! education next fall in colleges there is nothing to compare with the Then 300 traps were set up in the ceived an iron cross from FDR ) into the cloud and returned, was un-| alone. Of these, about 970,000 w ill be World War II vets. Un­ bizarre history of a city whose site zone where the infection had been Other displays of irrita b ility have safe to approach for more than was based on a political deal and found. Five days later the traps been noticed by those close to him. three days. It is believed that had' less srhools are given a "fa ir no city which has gone through were taken in and the area was Is it his health? No. says his doc­ there been pilots in the planes they : and reasonable" access to war surplus goods — laboratory, more vicissitudes than this Bagh- thoroughly dusted with DDT, the in­ tor; it's just being President. “ I don't know of any President would have been killed. Mice that classroom, cafeteria and kitch­ dad-on-the-Potomac. secticide which the army perfected. flew into the cloud changed color.! D A B XI o x i i r who kept so many appointments,” en facilities, electronics equip­ No city was ever more magnifi­ Next red-squill bait was distrib­ said Col. Wallace Graham, the White mice became brown. Hair ment, visual aids and other K t m cently planned, or more discredit­ uted. It kills rats, but not pets or usually turns white or gray wher, | > Q * / i n r /iir Items — a great many of the ably neglected in its early days, as children who might pick up the bait. President’s physician. exposed to radioactive rays. All Mr. Truman wakes himself be­ M r. Noyes' description indicates. To­ In places where there was no dan­ the drones brought back evidence o f( students cannot be accommo­ New créent positively stops dated. day, as the undisputed capital of ger tp human beings the deadly tween 5:30 and 6:00 each morning, extreme radioactivity in or near the ’ underarm Pertplration Odor the world, it still has to battle with “ 1080" was distributed. The cam- j showers, shaves and dresses without cloud. This invisible ray attack' "Education cannot afford to go the aid of a valet, and goes for a a grudging congress for its budget. paign was successful. ____ _________ Meanwhile, _ a ___ mile walk. He sometimes splashes was worst at about 15,000 feet alti- Into the commercial market for I. N ot «tiff, not mesay —Yodora apreada mat I t remains the chief city of the clean-up of potential rat-breeding in the White House swimming' mo ? l ?de' The roof of *-ray is placed at wha‘ we nep<1 - and and need drastical- Hke vanishing erenm I Dab it on-odor conn I greatest democratic republic whose premises was started with court or- | but never clav, » „if i f . J about 2’000 ,eet- 50 ‘ he other rays * * Mr. President - o because eca u se we a do o i| . XctuaUy K>oth,n, _ Yod„ „ CBB w but never play» golf or engages in 938,000 citizens have no voice in their ders to enforce i t Today Washing- i j any not have the money,” asserted one L , h t a fte r .having game more strenuous than were different. own government and whose citizen­ ton has a complete scientific rat- So far the scientists have made of them. 9. Won’t rot delicate fabric«. • • • ship itself is a bar to the basic priv­ control program which w ill cost us pitching horseshoes. He may keep no report. But newsmen are ask­ eight or ten appointments of 10 to 4- K eep« » o ft I Y o dora does D o t d r y in Jar. No ilege of a democracy—the ballot. CONSOLIDATING GERMANY about $75.000 annually waate: goea far. 20 minutes each, see visitors, legis­ ing: "Could human beings have Mr. Noyes was, as is the news­ Top secret talks between the However, it still leaves a few rats lators. foreign diplomats, head a lived on airplanes and ships after the Yet hot climate teats — made by n u n ie a — paper he served, a Washington in­ for energetic cats. blast?' Americans and the French have prove thia daintier deodorant keep« nnder- reception line and do some work in now started to weld western Ger- ,rms immaculately sweet—under the moat his office, all in an afternoon and COTTON: many il to one economic unit. The »ever« condition«. T ry Yodora I In tube« evening. He sleeps soundly too. Crop Is Bigger move may end up by uniting the 1 1*™- ‘Of. »Of. 80<. lfcKaaaon « Bobbin«. But sometimes these days, he's a U. S., British and French zones | ‘Be” Bridgeport. Connecticut, There were 18,316,000 acres of cot­ little irritable! Maybe he's just like ton in cultivation on July 1, or 3.2 into one anti-Russian sector, with the rest of us. The June "Economic Outlook," ! can't see anybody on the line, no- per cent more than a year ago. the the rest of Germany under the ham­ published by the Congress of Indus­ , body is there. department of agriculture has es­ mer and sickle INVISIBLE DEATH: timated. tria l Organizations, contains an ar­ The U. S. occupation zone In­ 1 wouldn’t be surprised to learn Surrounds Bikini ticle entitled "When the People Vote that telephone conversations with cludes most of the province of The acreage in cultivation July 1 Some of the things that happened P E oD O R A N TC R E A M —They Win.” That might be in­ j most of the government departments at Bikini atoll when the atomic and the percentage of the 1945 acre­ Württemberg and the northeastern terpreted in more ways than one. j are being recorded right now. I quarter of Baden The remainder of age. respectively, by states included: bomb exploded are still a mystery, The article points out that an "off have reason to believe that when Missouri, 310.000 acres and 116 per the latter province and a small Invest in Your Country— correspondents aver. The A-bomb year” is so designated politically the question of installing these re­ rays, for instance, clung like a se- cent; Virginia, 20,000 and 105; North western piece of Württemberg are Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! not only because the presidency is corders in the White House was , Carolina, 580,000 and 102; South under French control. not at stake, but because the poli­ brought up, it was flatly turned Carolina, 950,000 and 98; Georgia. This suggestion was approyed ticians know that general apathy on down. White House employees have 1.235,000 and 98; Florida, 23.000 and In principle by Maj. Gen. Luelus the part of the voter has marked a long and excellent record for fidel­ 100; Teqnessee, 600,000 and 99; Ala­ Clay and Lt. Gen. Joseph ¡Hc- those elections in the past: 1938 (off) ity. Of course they are carefully bama, 1,510,000 and 107; Mississippi, Narney, highest-ranking U. 8. thirty million voters went to the screened, and when the campaign I0M0RI0W ALRIGHT 2,420,000 and 106; Arkansas, 1.660,- commanders In Europe, and polls; 1940 (on) fifty million votes; to get .everybody fingerprinted (an 000 and 107; -Louisiana, 900,0W and the war department has in­ 4//-VIOI7ABL! 1942 (off) twenty-eight m illion; 1944 excellent idea if you have nothing to 104; Oklahoma, 1,120,000 and 95; structed General McNarney to LAXATIV! (on) forty-eight million. Texas, 6,350,000 and 104; New Mex­ conceal about your past and no plans Inform the French that this The CIO takes the attitude that for an over-adventurous future) was ico, 116,000 and 99; Arizona, 145,000 country w ill discuss the plan if 6£T A 25' BOX what the people as a whole want is begun, the White House employees and 94; California, 359,000 and 113, France agrees to discuss, at the what they (the CIO) want, and that voluntarily came forward and of­ and all other states, 18,000 and 99 same time, internationalizing the people get what they want when fered their thumbs, fingers and the vital Ruhr basin. WHEAT QUOTA: they vote for it. They say: "Mass hands for the ink-pad. I f the deal is worked out, it w ill To Europe Passed registration and mass voting is the • • • be an important step toward ending best guarantee of liberal progres­ The United States was ahead of The senate galleries were full. It sive government.” its quota of wheat shipments to Eu­ the economic confusion which exists was a scorcher of a day and a fili­ They might also add that if you rope in the first six months of 1946, under the present set-up. The buster was going on. The senate want conservative rather than lib­ Secretary of Agriculture Ander! United States, Britain and France eral progressive government, you chamber is air-cooled. What caused son reported a few days ago. He are hoping to unscramble the cur­ rent mess, at least in western Ger­ OR S P R E A D O N R O O S T S have to vote for it, too. In any the crowd? The heat or the stupid­ reported to President Truman that many. ity? -case you can't get what you want 50,000,000 bushels were shipped in Russia so far has indicated no unless you go after it. The "Out­ June, bringing shipments for the willingness to go along. look” prints a table showing how LanaeV Georgia year up to 397,000,000 bushels. Ihe vote shifted in certain districts f r i Washington with Here's One Of The Greatest in off-years. The table showed that J ' B r o S ™ ” ?*"?“ 8 ' K‘d COAL LAND: RESEARCH FOR FARMS when the vote fell off, it was the F r o m B r ° okI>'" > stepped up to a Secretary of Agriculture Ander­ Good for Farming Democratic vote. Districts which newsstand and m ° Ved a paper‘ son and a delegation from the At Altoona, Pa., tests have shown house agriculture committee re- swung from Democratic to Repub- , th® iaCe °f !!? c,°'fer «irl Îa c k fS ^ ^ c a n ë ro n ’ p re ^e n i'T V u m a n lican candidates in most cases shift- on the July Coronet, Coronet. Why. I asked CANDIDATE . . . Mother of four her. Because it was her face. r.J.1 f2 L . d ! to plug for the Flannagan - Hope children, Mrs. Elizabeth Chilton ed with a decrease in the total vote than before the coal was removed. If you lack BLOOD-IRON! farm research bill. However, not M urray is a candidate for the . . . “ the Republican vote remain­ It was the opinion of You glrla and women who suffer so the state much plugging was necessary. I never saw a purple bear, I Democratic nomination for con­ ing relatively stable, while the Dem­ from simple anemia that you’re pale, mine inspector that practically all never hope to see one—but I ’d like Anderson opened the White House weak, "dragged out”—this may be due gress in the eighth district of V ir­ ocratic vr^e dropped sharply.” of the land can be restored for agri­ lack of blood-iron. 8o try Lydia E. meeting by emphasizing the impor­ to ginia. Her father was former Does this prove that Democrats to see that little silver-blue fellow, Plnkham's TABLETS—one of the best cultural purppses, either for crop­ tance of the legislation, which Is home ways to build up red blood to U. S. Senator William Chilton. are sleepier than Republicans, or born recently in the Bronx zoo. ping, grazing or planting orchards. more strength—In such cases. Plnk- aimed at finding new uses for get that the Republican is a creature of ¡\8m 8 Tablets are one of the greatest farm products and improving mar­ Dlooa-lron tonics you can buyl habit? • • • keting. “The bill already has been WNU—13 W a r P ro fite e rin g called to my attention,’* the W ill B e S can d al President said immediately. “I The juicy scandal uncovered by have looked into It and I am in the senate war investigating com­ favor of appropriating whatever U 7 AQUTMP.Tnx? 1____ « *• WASHINGTON.—The largest « __ crop«®’- mittee in which "profiteering at its money is necessary.” worst,” as Senator Mead called it, of corn ever raised in the United els based on present condition. high. Measured by the 1935-44 aver­ A prim ary aim of the bill is to do was exposed, is, I fear, only the be­ States, and near record production Production of oats is estimated at age, the 1946 acreage for harvest is away with such marketing bottle­ For You To Feel Well of wheat and oats has been forecast 1.471,026,000 bushels, compared with only a trifle less but the prospective ginning. «4 hour« every day, 7 days every Any moment I expect to hear an by the department of agriculture. 1,547,663,000 bushels harvested last yield an acre is 8.0 bushels more necks as caused large acreages of Wssk, never stopping, tne kidneys filter explosion in connection with surplus The department stated the current year, which was the largest oats and the production over a fourth cabbage and lettuce to be plowed waste matter from the blood. under recently in North Carolina. I f more people were aware of how the property. War breeds waste, and outlook for total crop production has crop ever raised. Barley production larger. kldnevs must constantly remove aur- the cloak of patriotic endeavor as seldom been surpassed. Except for is placed at 230,278,000 bushels, plus fluid, excess acids and other waate Acreage and yield an acre cannoi «tay In the blood Samuel Johnson indicated even 1942, the reported condition of all against 263,961,000 bushels last year changes from last year fall into CAPITAL CHAFF Jrithout Injury to health, th a n would Official state department broad­ more bluntly, often covers skulldug­ crops is the best in seven years. be better understanding of whn the and 1935-44 average of 289,598,000 simple patterns. A big wedge of whole system 1« upaet when kidney« fail casts to Russia in the Russian lan­ gery. Continued favorable weather is bushels. to function properly. states extending from Kansas and guage w ill begin Just as soon as Burning, «canty or too frequent urina­ The same thing happened after necessary to bring this prospect to Corn Peak in Prospect. Oklahoma northeast to the New Eng- the necessary staffs have completed tion sometimes warn« that aomethlng the last war, and on a smaller scale, realization. Indicated corn crop is In commenting on the report, the land states show either increased their training. . . . One of John ¡TronJt' Y ou. “ »y «Uffer nigging back­ ache, headache«, dizziness, rheumatle after all wars. But what is prob­ 3,341,646,000 bushels, compared with department said the nation’s corn acreage or no change while almost Snyder’s first acts as secretary of P8™ .