S outhern Oregon News Review, Thursday, Septem ber 12, 194(i
'Business As Usual' on Capitol Hill
Busy Washington Knows
No Rest Even in Summer
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th a t if “ Old H ic k o ry " were here in
th is hectic period, his old flesh,
blood, pow der and brim stone self,
he w ould have charged rig h t up to
the state dep a rtm e n t steps when he
heard of A m e rica n planes being shot
down in Europe.
LEADS DOG'S LIFE . . . It’s not only the children but also the school
teachers who occasionally m ust lead a dog's life as schools reopen
in September. Enable to tind a hom e for him self, wife and four young
children, Roger K. Poole, new superintendent of Templeton, M ass.,
schools, pitched a tent on the high school grounds. Trailer Is used as
kitchen: arm y pyram idal-style tent has six cots.
NEWS REVIEW
Trouble Flares in Greece;
Vet Housing Gets Boost
fe r of a ll housing co n tro l to W yatt,
the governm ent in
Stakes
stitu te d
sweeping
d ire c tiv e s to an
Greece fo rged to the fro n t o f the
s w e r th e
w id e
tro u b le d European p ictu re as the
spread com plaints
scene o f the la te st tug of d ip lo m a tic
Non • residential
w a r between the w estern a llie s and
c o n s t r u c t io n was
Soviet Russia.
cut back fro m over
W orking b o ld ly to establish su 48 m illio n d ollars
p rem acy th roughout eastern Europe w eekly to 35 m illio n
and a d jo in in g Asia M in o r. Moscow d o lla rs
to d iv e rt
re ca lle d A m b. K o n s t a n t in e K. I
m ore m a te ria ls for
Rodionov fro m Greece as a m a rk home building.
J. D. Small
of displeasure against the holding
T w enty - s e v e n
o f a p lebiscite to re tu rn K in g George m ore m a te ria ls, in clu d in g stoves,
I I to his throne.
lin o le u m and lig h t fixtures, w ere
Because B rita in , supported by the added to the lis t of 25 a lre a d y sub
U. S., fa vo re d both the re sto ra tio n je c t to vet p rio ritie s.
of the m o n a rch y and the P opulist
p a rty g overnm ent now in the saddle,
R ussia’ s m ove re a lly was. pointed
against A n g lo -A m erica n policy. The Production Incentive
T a kin g advantage of the new OPA
presence of 40,000 B ritis h troops in
Greece has acted as a le ve r against act em pow ering h im to set liv e
a C o m m u n ist-in sp ire d seizure of stock ceilings. S ecretary o f A g ri
power, and the v is it ot U. S. w a r cu ltu re Anderson called fo r substan
ships to G recian w aters before the tia l boosts in ca ttle and hog prices
plebiscite was seen as a gesture of to encourage feeding th is fa ll and
frie n d s h ip fo r the rig h tis t regim e. to assure adequate supplies of beef
The tussle between the Anglo- ne xt w in te r and spring.
D e cla rin g that prospects pointed
A m e rica n and Russian blocs in
Greece is fo r big stakes: A govern to p le n tifu l supplies of feed grains
m ent frie n d ly to the B ritis h would th is year, Anderson stated th a t it
assure them of a toehold in the Bal- | was
necessary
to
b rin g
stock
kans and an advance base fo r the , prices in lin e w ith feed costs to spur
N ear East and Suez canal, w hile fa rm e rs in to fa tte n in g stock. O th e r
Russian d o m in a tio n of the co u n try wise. he said, large num bers o f lean
w ould re su lt in com plete Soviet a n im a ls would be butchered, c re a t
hegemony in the B alkans and a p ro ing a serious shortage la te r.
tected flank in the event o f trouble
Anderson’ s recom m endation fo r a
in A sia M in o r.
boost in the c a ttle top to $20.25 per
hundredw eight, C hicago basis, and
in the hog c e ilin g to $16.25 ran
counter to O P A d m in is tra to r Paul
A id to Pets
P o rte r’ s desire to establish prices
In o rd e rin g a 27 per cent reduc around the old level o f $18 and
tion in co m m e rc ia l b u ild in g and $14.85. As a re su lt of the boosts, re
channeling g re a te r ta il ce ilin g s w ere scheduled to rise
am ounts of m a te ri fro m tw o to e ig h t cents on beef and
al to new housing, about three cents on pork.
the
g o v e rn m e n t
sought to increase
the construction of
new dw ellings and
to reduce the tim e
fo r th e ir com ple
tion.
H ousing E x p e d it
er W ilson W. W yatt
and C iv ilia n P ro
W. W. W ya tt
duction A d m in is tra
to r John D. S m a ll w orked out the
new controls a fte r the b u ild in g in
d u s try had w arned o f a serious bog
ging of the w hole em ergency hous
ing p ro g ra m fo r vets.
L e a v in g a m eeting w ith govern
m e n t o fficia ls p rio r to the announce
m e n t o f the new pro g ra m , Joseph
M ye rh o ff, pre sid e n t of the N a tio n
a l A ssociation of Home B uilders, de
cla re d th a t the in d u s try had failed
to get the flow o f m a te ria ls neces
S A F E —IN M O T H E R ’S ARM S . . .
s a ry fo r the com pletion ot 200,000 to
A refugee m o th e r, her face bear
300,000 homes under construction,
ing the s tra in of years o f oppres
and th a t the shortages have length
sion, holds her sleeping ch ild as
ened the co n stru ctio n tim e fro m 3
ship docks in New Y o rk h a rb o r
to 4 m onths to 9 to 12 months.
b rin g in g 852 passengers fro m
W ith S m all agreeing to the trans-
Greece, P alestine and E g yp t.
GREECE:
Rig
MEAT:
dve branches of the governm ent, to
say nothing of W ashington’s m a rts
o f trade, lim ite d in com parison to
jth e r citie s though they m a y be.
G overnm ent isn’ t a ll congress, and
the P resident and W ashington a re n 't
a ll g o ve rn m e n t
A ye a r o r tw o ago, W illia m K ip-
lin g e r, gathering m a te ria l fo r his
book, “ W ashington Is L ik e T h a t,”
stood in fro n t of the W illa rd hotel
at P ennsylvania ave. and 14th street
and asked 20 people going by who
they w ere and w hat they did. Of the
20, only five worked fo r the govern
m ent and none had jobs w hich were
in te rru p te d (except by vacations) in
the sum m er any m ore than in any
oth e r season.
I have no idea how m any m e m
bers of congress or m em bers o f th e ir
staffs go down to the C a p ito l to w o rk
every day in the sum m er months
but m a n y offices on the “ h ill” are
open. The re g u la r departm ents are
as busy as they ever are.
The
v e ry week th a t the cartoon came out
show ing “ Congress gone hom e,” a
sign on the W hite House door,
“ Back L a b o r D a y,” and another on
the state departm ent, “ Gone to P a r
is ,” the state departm ent was m a k
in g p ublic tw o of the m ost im p o r
ta n t com m unications it has d is
patched in m any a day. One was
the u ltim a tu m to Y ugoslavia p ro
testing the shooting down o f our
planes and the other was the re
fu sa l to accede to Russia’ s demand
fo r jo in t control of the D ardanelles.
A t the same tim e , the in ve stig a
tio n of the w a r surplus sales was
going on; the other in ve stig atio n
in to w a r contracts had ju s t closed
and the departm ent of ju s tic e was
ta k in g up the w ork where the Mead
co m m itte e had la id it down, and the
d e co n tro l board ot the OPA was
h o ld in g hearings in preparation fo r
its firs t and h ig h ly im p o rta n t de
cision w hich p u t controls back on
m eats and o ther products.
fused to let the greatest nation of
the earth in te rfe re w ith our sailors
on the high seas. Who is this im
p e rtin e n t u p s ta rt who shoots our
soldiers out of the a ir? ”
L e t us hope, even i f Andy sleeps,
th a t his s p irit doesn’t
HOUSING:
Profit» or W age»—
W h ich C om e F irat?
R ecently I received a postcard
saying: “ Thought OPA was sup
posed to reduce prices, not increase
th e m .” I t was signed “ D u m b b e ll."
W ell, a lo t o f us dum bbells
thought th a t was w h a t i t was fo r. !
B u t when congress to re OPA to bits
and then reshaped i t n e a re r to its
h e a rt’s desire, i t la id down specific
orders fo r ra is in g prices. The law
was w ritte n on the lo g ic a l theory
th a t you can’t expect a fa rm e r to
raise, o r a m a n u fa c tu re r to m ake,
things th a t cost so m uch in the ra is
in g o r the m a kin g th a t th e re is no
p ro fit in the game.
Who is to blam e fo r h ig h prices?
The m a n u fa ctu re rs who m ade so
m uch out of g overnm ent contracts,
o r the w orkers who got h ig h er
wages fo r m a k in g the things the
governm ent needed? I f you know
w hich came firs t, the hen o r the
egg, you know the answers.
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A new r iv a l o t D D T has been d is
covered w hich not only k ills pests
b u t keeps them aw ay fo r a week o r
10 days. O f course, I w o uldn’ t co m
m it m u rd e r b u t I know a lo t of
pests whose absence fo r 10 days
w ould be a Godsend.
GET YOUR SHARE?
Per Capita Income Hits Peak
These w ere only a few of the ac
tiv itie s —not to m ention the bubbling
W ASHINGTON. — A verage per
cam paign kettles assiduously a t capita incom e in the U n ite d States
tended by p o litic a l chiefs behind reached an a ll-tim e h igh o f $1,150
closed kitch e n doors.
In 1945, a d e p a rtm e n t of com m erce
1 No, W ashington doesn’t hibernate re p o rt discloses.
J in the sum m er. H e rb lo c k ’ s concep
The fig u re represents an increase
tio n o f G eneral Jackson, chin on of 2 per cent fro m the 1944 le ve l of
chest, hunched up against his horse, $1,133 and a gain o f $575 per ca p ita
lik e a la zy pup, is pure poetic l i o ver the 1940 level.
Wages and salaries, incom e fro m
cense.
I H e rb lo c k p ro b a b ly chose th a t p a r unlncoporated
b u s in e s s e s
and
tic u la r fig u re fo r c o n tra st because fa rm s , net rent, dividends, in te r
i t ’ is one of the m ost b e llig e re n t est, ro y a ltie s and other item s such
statues in W ashington. Jackson sits as ve te ra n s’ benefits, m ilita r y and
there in L a fa y e tte pa rk, across fro m dependency allowances are com put
the W hite House, (as he does in New ed in the p e r capita incom e pa y
O rleans) w a v in g his saber, his re a r ments.
New Y o rk Leads.
in g ch a rg e r w ith its fro n t feet paw
New Y o rk led the states w ith a
in g the atm osphere. And I im a g in e
and to the rig h t degree, and at
the rig h t tim e, and fo r the rig h t
purpose, and in the rig h t w ay—
that is not w ith in everybody's
power, and is not easy.—A ris
totle.
W ASHINGTO N
A 4m C M '•’ >
N u n itz. hero of the P acific and on«
o f the m ost e fficle n l leaders of the
n avy, has in d ica te d to frie n d s
th a t he w ill re tire a t ch ie f of naval
operations a fte r about onu year of
his fo u r-ye n r appointm ent.
B ackstage reason Is that N im ltz
finds his jo b chiefly re q u ire s lo b b y
ing naval a p p ro p ria tio n s through
congress, und he would m uch ra th
er be at sou than p la yin g politics.
F u rth e rm o re . W ashington society is
ru n n in g h im ragged.
Vei»« I n u h tl anti C om m en tator.
W ASH IN G TO N .—As soon as L a
bor Day is passed the business
w o r ld
s e t t le s
t down w ith a sigh
i o t r e lie f . T h e
! sum m er slum p is
The U nited States has gone a long
! supposed to be w ay to w a rd w orld leadership since
' over. M ost peo- the ye a r 1781 when a little , 14-year-
I p ie , I s u p p o s e , old boy named Andy Jackson, along
c o n s id e r
t h a t w ith his b ro th e r "c o n tin e n ta ls " was
W a s h in g to n in lig h tin g the arm ies of the greatest
the s u m m e r is nation o f the day—G re a t B rita in .
ever, m ore d o r A n d y ’ s tw o brothers were k ille d and
m ant and desert he was captured but he liv e d to
ed than the o rd i- * tu rn the tables when he led his
n a ry c ity . I f you "lo n g -rifle ” heroes to v ic to ry in the
believe the ac b a ttle of New Orleans, 31 years
com panying c a r la te r.
toon by H erblock
Baukhage
"O ld H ic k o ry " m ust be a little
w hich the Wash
confused as he gazes across to the
ington Post p e rm its me to re p ro W hite House, beyond it to the Po
duce, you w ill be sure we sleep. tom ac and the Pentagon and be
B u t don’ t le t H erb spoof you.
yond that and the A tla n tic to E u
T rue, it did seem th a t way fo r rope today.
aw hile but a ctu a lly this sum m er it
As I pass L a fa y e tte p ark in the
was p re tty m uch "business as
u su a l" in the C apitol, the house tw ilig h t these days I seem to hear
and senate office buildings, the of h im ra ttlin g his sw ord and saying:
flees o f the W hite House and the I “ When these U nited States were
state departm ent and other execu- I in th e ir sw addling clothes we re-
N YBO D Y can become angry
A —thut is eutiy; but to bo
angry w ith the rig h t person,
NIMITZ WILL RESIGN
By BAVKIIAC.E
WNU Service. 1616 Eye Street.N.W .,
Washington. D. C.
Gem t of Thought
per capita incom e o f $1,595. M is
sissip p i was lo w w ith $556.
There was re la tiv e ly lit tle change
fro m 1944 to 1945 in the per capita
incom e of the va rio u s states. South
D akota w ith 16 per cent recorded
the la rg e s t increase and M ich ig a n
w ith 6 per cent the greatest de
cline.
The 1945 incom e p a ym e n t by
states:
C onnecticut, $1,449; M aine, $1,051;
M assachusetts, $1,321; N ew H a m p
shire, $971; Rhode Island, $1,268;
V e rm o n t, $1,023.
D elaw are, $1,381; D is tric t o f Co
lu m b ia , $1,361; M a ry la n d , $1,212;
N ew Jersey, $1,373; P ennsylvania,
$1,199; West V irg in ia , $839.
A labam a, $700; A rkansas, $564
F lo rid a , $996; G eorgia, $745; Ket
tu cky, $735; Louisiana, $785; N o rt
C arolina, $732; South C a ro lin a , $631
Tennessee, $813; V irg in ia , $903.
A rizona, $918; New M exico, $815
O klahom a, $889; Texas, $917; 111
nois, $1,360; Indiana, $1,152; lo w :
$1,109; M ichigan, $1,212; M innesoti
$1,061;
M isso u ri,
$1,063;
Ohi<
$1,289; Wisconsin. $1,161.
C olorado, $1,100; Idaho, $1,054
Kansas, $1,113; M ontana, $1,175
N ebraska, $1,117; N o rth Dakot:
$1,123; South Dakota, $1,083; U tal
$1,023; W yom ing, $1,096.
C a lifo rn ia , $1,480; Nevada, $1 24Î
Oregon, $1,266; W ashington, $1,40
I'rottre*» uilhout rlforl i* im/xnu-
hie. ,4nv number ol person» are
am ious to reach the top providing
they can »el there uilhout climbing.
We drank the pure d a ylig h t
of honest speech.—George M e r
edith.
An intense hour w ill do more
than dream y years.—Beecher.
Mrs. Ninilts doesn’t feel the
sam e way at all about Wash
ington society—which perhaps
Is one reason why the adm iral
wants to get out of the capital.
He hates dinners, loathes cock
tail purties and feels ill-at-MSe
at reeeptions. Hut Mrs. Nlm-
its loves them and Insists on
dragging her husband along
when she m akes the rounds.
THI
T IM f TfSTED
u u A ia u T
la ilT M iu i
IR IA iM tN l
attack of bronchial asthma A M I I M A I X I R
is lo e ip c m iv t — easy to use — nothing to take
in trn u lly — • dependable. effective treatment
that helps relieve the agony o f the attack —
aids disirttsed breathing bold by druggists
everywhere under our money ba< k guarantee
— three convenient forms A S T H M A D O R
powder, cigarettes or pipe m islure
R igors of w a r In the P acific now
have begun to look lik e heaven In
co n tra st w ith social W ashington and
when the rig h t tim e comes next
year, the a d m ira l plans q u ie tly to
p u ll out.
Note—G randson of a Texas hotel-
keeper, A d m ira l N im itz hopes to re
tire to Texas o r the C a lifo rn ia coast.
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PRESIDENTIAL SEASICKNESS
Those who su ffe r fro m stom ach
m a la d ju stm e n ts when they tra v e l by
sea o r a ir w ill be glad to know that
P resident T ru m a n not only sym pa
thizes w ith them but also has
found a fa irly good rem edy fo r sea
sickness
The cure is not 100 per
cent effective, however, and th a t is
one reason the P resident's yacht
tu rned south.
M r. T ru m a n had a bottle of sea-
sickness p ills w ith him on his recent
cruise— a rem edy concocted by the
Canadian a rm y fo r use by its troops
when they crossed the A tla n tic or
w ent ashore in tank la nding barges.
I t Is supposed to be the best thing
so fa r developed to cure seasick
ness.
In h H c the ric h , arom atic
fume, o f D R R S tH IF R -
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The President alw ays carries
a bottle with him when afloat
and eats the pellets alm ost as
if they were candy. On his first
important sea trip aboard the
cruiser Augusta to Potsdam one
year ago, he took this m edicine
along and apparently avoided
seasickness.
However,
raised on
doesn't get
sea as did
M r. T ru m a n , born and
the M idw est p ra irie s,
the same k ic k out of the |
F D R.
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You can relieve
IICSHED-I'P INCIDENT
Tenseness of the Russo-Am erican
situ a tio n in southeast Europe is il-
lu stra te d by an in cid e n t in A u stria
so' fa r hushed up by the censors,
F o r some tim e , the Soviet gov
ernm ent has been pressing Gen.
M a rk C la rk to p e rm it cross-exam -
in a tio n of Yugoslav. B a ltic and oth-
e r displaced persons in A u stria .
M any o f them rebelled against go-
ing back to th e ir homelands fo r
fe a r o f Soviet re p risa ls, but some
were w illin g to go. F in a lly G eneral
C la rk agreed th a t the Soviet could
send In 12 men to ask them ques
tions.
W hile the S oviet team was at
w o rk w ith the displaced persons,
G eneral C la rk was g e ttin g secret
in fo rm a tio n fro m one of the D .P.s
as to w hat was going on. E ventu-
a lly th is in fo rm a n t reported to C la rk
th a t he was under Soviet scru tin y
So Clark secretly placed an
American m achine gun in a
room above the inform ant’s and
another m achine gun on the
roof of the building opposite.
Invest in Your Country—
Buy U. S. Savings Bonds!
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A n ig h t o r tw o la te r a squad of
,m .l« -S U lC « K i r w ;
•O MUCH IA.
Russians drove up to the in fo rm JUST A
a n t’ s home, knocked down his door
OR S P R E A D O N R O O S T S
and c a rrie d h im out in the street.
Im m e d ia te ly the U. S. troops tu rned '
on th e ir searchlights and arrested
One of the best home ways to
the Russians.
Here was the pay-off. O ur allies,
the Russians, were dressed in the
u n ifo rm s of A m e rica n m ilita r y po
lice.
• • •
GUIIO UP
P6O GIOOD
T R IG G E R -H A P P Y T IT O
if you lack BLOOD-IRON
You girl» and women who suffer so
The question of using “ horse-and-
from sim ple anem ia th a t you're pale,
b u g g y” ta ctics to ca lm D ic ta to r
weak, "dragged ou t”—th is may bo d u .
T ito of Y ugoslavia, especially the
to lack of blood-iron. So try Lydia B
Plnkham ’s TABLETS—one of the best
n a vy’ s dispatch o f cruisers to T rie s
home ways to build up red blood—In
te, has been c ritic iz e d p riv a te ly in
such case». Plnkham 's Tablets are one
side the U. S. a rm e d forces.
of the greatest blood-iron tonics you
can buy I At all drugstores
U. S. w arships a t the head of the
A d ria tic , acco rd in g to a rm y men,
could be caught in a tra p and m ig h t W NU—13
37—46
be sunk w ith one bomb. F u rth e r
m ore, the cost of o p erating one
cru is e r in co n tra st to an a irp la n e
is tremendous.
T herefore, U. S. a rm y com m and
ers in E urope have proposed th a t we
H elp T h e m Cleanse th e Blood
send one o r tw o B-29s o ver Yugo
of H a rm fu l Body Waste
sla via to see w h a t T ito ’ s trig g e r-
Your kldneve are constantly Altering
happy w a rrio rs do about it.
waste matter from the blood stream. But
s e e
kidneys sometimes lag In their work— 4s
not
act as Nature Intended— fall to ro-
E L D E R S TA T E S M A N BAR U CH
m ore impurities th a t. If retained, may
K in d ly e ld e r statesm an B ernie
poison the system and upset the whole
body machinery.
B a ru ch has m ade a p riv a te propo
Symptoms may ba nagging backache,
sitio n to the state d e p a rtm e n t th a t
persistent headache, attacks of diuineea,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
he be allow ed to read its secret
under the eyee— a feeling of nervous
anxiety and lots of pep and strength.
cables
fro m
d ip lo m a tic
posts
Other eigne of kidney or bladder dis
th roughout the w orld. These are a
order are sometimes burning, scanty oe
too frequent urination.
gold m ine of in fo rm a tio n fo r w hich
There should be no doubt that prompt
any business m an o r banker would
treatm ent Is wiser than neglect. Use
Doan
a P illt. Doan'» nave been winning
give his eye-teeth. B aruch p ro m
new friends for more than forty years«
ised, a little n a ive ly, th a t i f he was
They have a nation-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful people the
given the d a ily secret inte llig e n ce
country over. Aafc your neighbor!
s u m m a ry of w o rld a ffa irs, he would
show them o nly to his tw o in ve st
m e n t-b a n ke r assistants.
Watch Your
Kidneys/
D oans P ills