Presidential Travel Is Major Project
Chief Executive Zealously
Guarded by Secret Service
m
New Product Keeps
Potato Sproutless
By B A l’KHAGE
W m j Analyst and Commentator.
Problem of Storage Now
Aided by New Methods
“ When P resid en t T ru m an finally an-
a s k e d !? h ? ™ J ? e Wi S*g? ng tO B razil> he w as im m ediately
s ia 1 w contem plated any trip s acro ss continental United
States. He answ ered in the negative.
A rep o rter piped up: “This v e ar or next v e a r’ ”
“ THIS y e a r .” the P resid en t'rep lied
< t Z h,V r X e n S ‘' i
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'T 'W E N T Y years ago. Babe Ruth
* turned in his 60th home run In u
■ingle sensen
Here is a murk thut thousands of
ball players have been swinging at
ever s i n c e , but
only three huve se­
riously challenged
These were Hunk
Greenberg of the
T ig e r s ,
Jim m y
Foxx of the Athlet­
ics, with 58 each,
und Buck Wilson of
tlie Cubs with 58.
The sprouting, shriveling and sog-
gincss of potutoes when kept at
room temperatures now can be pre­
vented with use of barsprout. The
treated potatoes remuin firm, prac­
tically farm-fresh, and not only
cook but also taste better. The
What the three
product is equally effective on cer­
tain other root crops such ns beets, don’t know Is that
they were halted
carrots, turnips and rutubagas.
by the Jinx plaa-
Babe Ruth
The active Ingredient is methyl
i tered on their ro­
ester of naphthaleneocetic acid.
When applied to the potatoes as a bust frames by several million kids.
dust, it vaporizes and literally Io whom (list number SIXTY has
'gets into their eyes," keeping been a shining star in baseball’s
them from sprouting Feeding tests -iky because the Babe pul It there.
Just when it begun to look ns if
both Greenberg and Foxx were cer­
tain to beat It, star dust, thrown
mysteriously by all these kids, got
In their batting eyes and they were
forced to halt abruptly.
Now Big John Mize of the Giants
Is the latest Ruth challenger for a
record season. Big John of the
moon face and the mighty swing
w ill be facing the same Jinx Many
thousands of kids would like to see
the mauling Mize reach 59 Hut not
60 Especially not 61.
• Thia mysterious kids Jinx won't
Potatoes at right treated with
begin to uffect Jolting John until he
barsprout, left, untreated pota­
passes the 50, or perhaps the 55
toes; both held under the same
point. Then he w ill feel mysterious
conditions.
forces nt work thut w ill turn the
baseball into the size of a golf ball.
have shown that the chemical im ­ He w ill And star dust in his batting
parts no harmful effect. Tests have eye, Just as Greenberg and Foxx
been conducted for the past five did. Big John won't quite under­
years at leading agricultural exper­ stand what has happened, but some
iment stations.
ten million kids w ill
By this treatment the potatoes
may be kept at ordinary room tem­ Untouchable Record
peratures without sprouting and
Those 60 Babe Ruth home runs,
without
formation
of reducing
delivered twenty years ago as part
sugar. Ordinarily potatoes are held
below 45 degrees and shrink 5 per of a total cargo of 714—which Is be­
yond anybody's reach unless they
cent in weight, developing reducing
use rubber balls nnd move the
sugars which affect color and taste.
fences in back of the infield—-is now
a classic number in American
sport. It belongs to the greatest
KNOW YOUR BREED power hitter of ull time, who was
only halted by the 100 to 170 bases
Percheron
on bulls handed him each year.
has been used to the respect spontaneously^ndHexcepVffi elect! "b ™ b”
almost universally, tendered his office
pt
ction >' ears)
set FOR NEW SPEED RECORD . . . After two years of prepara-
A presidential trip may be. in-P—
hi " o u° ln R‘ ( ° bb oi En»,and w»» prepared for an attempt to drive
many cases, fun for the President,
is Kailton Mobil Special to a new land speed record. Cobb's car la
raid
alert
system
was
designed.
powered with two airplane engines.
but it isn’t much fun for a lot of
Reilly says “ to protect FDR any­
other people.
where in the United States."
Not that all Presidents have had
easy traveling.
When a spotter or watcher,
either civilian or m ilita ry, spot­
It was an ordeal for the early
ted an airplane he or she was
heads of the nation just to get home
unable to identify “ any place
In the stagecoach ______
from Greenland to the Straits
and tavern days.
of Magellan,” the information
President Garfield
was radioed immediately to the !
was shot in a . 5
..
army air force headquarters at
railroad station;
Mitchell Field. N. Y.
M c K in le y w a s
THE AMERICAS:
killed by a half-
The information was immediately •
mad anarchist on
evaluated and conveyed by radio ; Aid Promised
a trip to the Pan-
and land line to the secret service 1 "W'e must refect an encroachment
American Expo­
communication system where men ! *pon the fundamental rights of the
sition in Buffalo;
were standing a 24 hour watch. This stale. I am confident that u e all agree
IN DALLAS . . . Mrs. Warren J.
Harding died in
system tied together Mitchell Field, that the state exists for man, not man Woodard. 24. housewife, got up in
San Francisco on
t
or
state—
and
that
u
e
abhor
any
Bolling Field, the homes, offices and
__
_
arms about legs.
his
way
back
automobiles of various secret serv­ limitation upon the freedom of exprès-
She organized the
from a swing-
sion
of
men
throughout
the
world."
ice agents, field offices throughout
"L ittle Below the
around that had
Thus, in his first address before
the country, all secret service mo­
Knee
club"
for
t a k e n h im to
bile units, the President’s train, the inter-American conference at
Baukhage
w om en w ho o p -
Vancouver. Can­
Petrópolis,
Brazil,
U.
S.
Secretary
Shangri-La, and the President’s
pose the long skirt
ada; Wilson suffered a stroke in his room at Hyde Park.
of State George Marshall issued a
now in style. The
Pullman; Theodore Roosevelt was
reaffirmation of democratic princi­
girls organized a
wounded while he addressed a P r e s id e n t K e p t
ples in the western hemisphere and
parade and ankled
meeting on a visit to Milwaukee.
then
bulwarked
his
expression
of
I n fo rm e d C o n sta n tly
th ro u g h
Dallas
idealism with specific assurances
Furthermore, it has been re-
streets to give em­
But keeping the President alive of U. S. economic aid to Latin Amer­
cently revealed by the head of
phasis to their pro-
is only one activity. Keeping him ica.
Mrs. Woodard test.
the secret service, Mike Reilly,
in touch with his job is another.
He told the delegates that the
in his book "R eilly of the White
IN LAS VEGAS
Once when a bullying congress U. S. government " w ill continue
House." that Franklin Roose­
. . . Senator McCarthy (Rep., Wis.)
1 demanded of President Grant which to take up economic questions with
velt, who disliked a ir travel,
: if any of his duties he performed in its sister republics and seek a sound put the bite on congress for its “ do
nearly cracked up in Malta, and
nothing" attitude toward veterans.
' Washington, he replied that his busi­ basis for practical cooperation."
might have been assassinated in
Congress,
said he, "did foully by
ness and where he did it was his
a park in M iam i had he not
our disabled veterans, their widows
i own affair. Now a president’s out-
and dependents."
leaned out of his car to take a
of-town business is a lot of people's
telegram (Mayor Anton Cermak I affairs.
IN BALMORAL SCOTLAND . . .
of Chicago was killed and four
Princess Margaret Rose of Eng­
In
wartime
this
signal
corps
de­
other persons wounded).
land, just turned 17. received as a
tail had the mission of speeding the
birthday present her first m ilitary
President’s
top-secret
communica­
S ta y e d W ith in
The Babe picked out his stance
The Percheron horse originated
title —colonel-in-chief of the High­
tions "from the highest level con­
from
Joe Jackson. This position Is
N a tio n ’s B o rd e rs
land
light
infantry.
in La Perche. a province near Nor­
ference tables to installations in the
known in golf as the closed stance
mandy,
France,
and
was
imported
field.”
Up to Franklin Roosevelt’s time,
CRYSTAL BALL:
into this country in 1839. Readily which, In Balm’s left-handed batting
Taft was the most traveled of presi­
“ Today," as M ajor McNally
gaining in popularity in America, it posture, meant that his right root
dents, and in 1901 worried all the
puts it, “ wherever the President
Ypxf
President
is
still the most widely used draft was well In advance of his left.
constitutionalists (unfam iliar with
travels, the White House signal
However, Babe's stance was not as
breed
in the country.
Marshal] at Itio
General Douglas MacArthur w ill
the Constitution) by visiting the
detachment continues its task of
pronounced as Shoeless Joe’s was,
The
Percheron
is
an
unusually
the
state
exists
fo
r
man
.
,
be
the
next
president
of
the
United
Canal Zone. However, he was scru­
weaving deftly an intricate com­
and his feet were planted closer to­
States.
active horse, but never the-less
pulously careful to stay on board
munications net, which enables
gether to give his tremendous body
That was interpreted as meaning
the
American
warship
which
That, at least, is the occult pre­
the commander-in-chief (and,
a better rhance to work with his
that the U. S. is w illing to help solve diction of a 75-year-old Japanese for­
touched only American soil. It had
he might have added, a travel­
hands and arms.
Latin
Am
erica’s
economic
problems
been considered an unwritten law
tune teller. Kakudo Tomioka. who
ling candidate) to keep himself
through a series of bi-lateral pacts. eulogized: "M acArthur has a glo­
Added to his power was almost
since George Washington’s time (he
constandly informed and in
There
was
also
a
hint
that
the
big
perfect
coordination between mind
had refused to enter Rhode Island
rious
future
in
store
for
him
."
touch with the nation."
northern neighbor is counting on
und muscle, including amazing re-
until it was admitted to the Union)
Tomioka, who is said to have
This work of weaving this "com ­ sending down its capital
fiexes. If Ruth had started out as an
that a president in office couldn’t
record of several accurate predic­
outfielder
in 1914 or 1915. where ho
leave the country. When Woodrow munications net” is an exciting sto­
tions, placed the general on a plane
was u winning pitcher, his home-
Wilson went to Paris and Vice Pres­ ry too long to recount here, but DP SHUFFLE:
with Mohandas Ghandi in the field
run mark today would have been
ident Thomas Marshall had to pre­ let me quote Major McNally brief­
of social welfare.
commu- Truman Acts
around 1,000.
side at cabinet meetings, the
vice ly » to show how • continuous
inc vice
.
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"There presently are two living
president made it clear he was of
nlcatlon was maintained when Pres
President H arry Truman, in a re­ men who have succeeded in realiz­
one of -----
his - fre­ newed effort to alleviate the "tragic
ficiating only at the request o i ident Roosevelt made
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Mize and the Modern Rail
ing a peaceful revolution,” he said.
quent trips to Hyde Park.
plight” of Europe's displaced per­ "They are MacArthur and Ghandi.
No one can question the fact that
“ A 50-watt frequency modulation sons, ordered a three-way shift in But, then, Ghandi’g mission is over.
the ball Babe swung at was far
station was modified and installed the top command of the U. S. im ­ And M acArthur has his most glori­
livelier than the pellet Home Run
on the secret service car attached migration and naturalization serv­ ous task to accomplish for the world an easy keeper. He is clean-legged, Baker. Ty Cobb. Joe Jackson, Tris
black
or
dapple-grey
and
of
marked
to the presidential train. Arm y ve­ ice.
in the future."
Speaker and other hitters had to
tractability and intelligence.
hicles, radio equipped, were spot­
In addition, it was disclosed that
It was not immediately known
face before the first war. On the
ted at strategically plotted points administration officials in Washing­ whether MacArthur would use To-
other hand, taking nothing from
along the route between Washing­ ton have resumed their review of mioka's recommendation as a plank Michigan Designs New
Johnny Mize, the 1947 National
ton and Poughkeepsie, so that the the problem of displaced persons.
in his platform if he runs in 1948
League ball looks to be the liveliest
train was in constant touch with
Bug and Weed Killer
ammunition yet thrown at swinging
Most
important
personnel
shift
in­
the White House all the way. An­
volved the transfer of Ugo Carusi SURPLUS:
To meet the need for a light­ bats.
other FM radio link was installed
In certain places the fences have
from
his
post
as
commissioner
of
weight
sprayer to apply 2,4-D to
in the old stable on the President’s
Rudget Review
lawns, pastures, cornfields and gar­ also been moved ln to decrease the
estate at Hyde Park. By means of im m igration to a position in the
President Truman’s budget busi­
home-run range.
a direct telephone line to Washing­ state department where he w ill sur­ ness made big news again when the den patches, this relatively inex­
But this Isn’t Johnny .Mize’s fault.
vey
all
“
c
ritic
a
l"
problems
relating
pensive
and
easily
operated
appa-
ton and frequency modulation ra ­
chief executive (1) forecast a rec­
He is swinging at the ball that la
dio, the White House was kept in­ to displaced persons, particularly ord treasury surplus next June of
their resettlement.
O.K.’d by the National League. He
formed of the President’s where­
has always been a great power
This is expected to result in add­ nearly five billion dollars, and (2)
abouts at all tim es."
hitter.
hurt Republican feelings by telling
ed
stress
being
placed
on
a
directive
The speed with which messages
the nation that congress trimmed
The war came along just when
could be dispatched and answers re­ M r. Truman issued in December, the 1947 budget estimates by only
Big
John was at his prime, and
1945,
calling
for
coordinated
action
ceived was astounding. When Win­
S ig n a l C orp» P h o to
1.5 billion dollars.
after his injury last season, few
ston Churchill was making his sec­ by federal officials to admit as
President Truman receives tele­
thought he would ever be the same
His mid year budget review esti­
ond visit to Hyde Park, he and the many displaced persons as possible
type message aboard the presi­
old walloper.
mated tax receipts this year at
President who were keen competi­ within quota limitations.
dential radio car. Standing by the
$41,667,000,000, which is 2.1 billion
tors as well as close collaborators
President are 1st Lt. Clinton G.
Watson B. M iller, federal security
dollars
more than any previous
Tots of Power Hitters
decided to make a speed test on the administrator, succeeds Carusi as
Conover (left), maintenance of­
forecast.
communications facilities.
Each commissioner of immigration, and
ficer of the army security agency,
It isn't so much thut Mize is
Mr. Truman made his announce­
sent identical messages to Australia Oscar Ross Ewing, New York law­
and 1st Lt. Harvard E. Dudley,
now up in the home run 30s. It is
ment coincidentally with a bureau
over the respective British and yer, replaces M iller.
cryptographic
officer,
White
more that so many others are close
of
labor report which indicated
United
States
facilities.
The
Presi­
House signal detachment.
on his trail. As I recall the far off
President Truman’s action was that the U. S., far from being in
dent had an answer in less than taken in the face of congress' re­
details, Hoffie Run Baker, another
for a business depression, can look
Wilson and that he didn’t consider two hours; the Prime M inister got
stout swinger, led both leagues
fusal
to
act
on
his
proposal
to
relax
forward to a period of prosperity
Wilson’s leaving the country vacat­ his the next day.
around 1911 with either 9 or 11
immigraton quotas.
continuing •’indefinitely."
ed the presidency.
home runs.
I can’t recall a ball club that had
Travel has become a presi­
Sprayer mounted on cultivator
such power hitters as Mize, M ar­
dent must, and Mr. Truman’s
as designed by Michigan State
shall, Cooper and Thomson at this
trip to South America is just
college.
stage of the race—not even Ruth,
routine.
But it Is complicated routine
ratus has been constructed at Mich­ Gehrig and Mcusel. The Giant are’
now after the old Yankee mark and
igan State college.
for a whole army of people.
The spray boom is made of one- arc quite likely to break It.
What these people do is little
Today any power hitter who
Swinging sharply away from its
eighth inch pipe, connected to the
known to the public, especially the previous cautious attitude of econ­ might acquire runaway proportions. ventories a year ago are placing tank by a length of rubber hose An hasn t cxillected 20 home runs, ln
“ We are watching developments orders to replenish their stocks
secret service. One out of every 10 omy - minded discrimination, the
automobile gasoline filter removes the National League especially, is
of our presidents has been assassi­ U. S. buying public has launched from day to day,” said a govern­
As
a
result
of
the
widespread
particles of dirt which might clog on the puny side. Ted Williams,
nated up to the time congress itself on a relatively liberal pur­ ment economist, “ hoping that It buying trend, previous opinions that the nozzles.
rated the hardest modern hitter, is
w
ill
taper
off
before
it
becomes
a
turned the job of protecting the chasing spree.
industry and business were in for at
close to the Giant trio. Ted has a
violent
spiral
that
can
end
only
In
chief executive over to the secret
least slight setbacks in the last half
good chance to lead the American
V irtually all fields of trade have a serious reversal."
service. Since then no president reported a clear-cut trend away
of this year are being revised Cur­ Hot-Weather Care of
League, but only an epidemic of
It is generally agreed that the rent forecasts are optimistic con­
has been assassinated.
home runs down the stretch can
from passive waiting for lower
Poultry Is Essential
Theirs (the secret service) Is a prices, and purchases are increas­ movement began with the renewed cerning high levels of business ac­
put him ln front of Mize.
Hot
weather
always
brings
prob­
wave of price increases that fol­ tiv ity during the third and fourth
heartbreaking job, and never have ing all over the country.
Club owners have decided that
lems of poultry management, but
lowed the boost in coal prices and quarters.
the details been so thoroughly re­
The change has given rise to a mine wages. It has gained momen­
good practices w ill solve most of the home run is something the
vealed (to the discomfiture of certain amount of alarm over the
Belief now is that prices generally them successfully. Feed your flocks crowd wants, and apparently the
tum ever since.
some of his form er colleagues) as possibilities of a new Inflation spiral
w ill move upward, or at least hold freely to keep up high egg pro­ 1947 attendance is backing up their
Consumers apparently have given their present heights, until well into
by Mike R eilly in the book I men­ which may develop as a result of
judgment. Any number of teams
up hope that any m aterial reduc­ next year. Cash remains abundant, duction and to keep pullets grow­ w ill pass the m illion mark this sea­
tioned.
indiscrim inate buying. It has be­ tion in prices w ill occur wjthin the
ing rapidly. Have plenty of fresh
and the influx of large amounts of water available for them at all son, including Pittsburgh, which
Of course in wartime the job was come the subject of much discus­
been u just
cellar line.
vastly more complicated, and the sion among business leaders, bank­ reasonable future and are going money from veterans’ terminal times. Provide plenty of shade t has
u . u
.. . above the
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ahead to purchase merchandise leave bonds and state bonuses w ill
arm y and
navy worked
closely
ers and some
economists,
of H
whom
---- viuaeij
wun ers
ana with
economists,
of whom some
; which
i p . inn» h»,,»
Make use of good pastures where -\,rf
" rabld anlmal-
the secret service. A special air I express concern that the movement 1 merchants w h f curtailed th e ii^ n - be added contributing factors to the possible, to help keep feed costs i “ d f he th° u«ht too many home
down.
P
° COSti I ,r,uns wer* being hit, he would lose
inflationary trend.
I little time in staying away.
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