Small Scare Crow Turns
In the Slightest Breeze
BROADWAY AND MAIN STRICT
P lan G iven to B e a t Inroads o f D re a d D is e a s e -
M a k e s A ll D o cto r's O ffic e s C a n c e r Fin d in g Labs
By BILLY ROSE
Mr. Alfred S Black
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Dear Mr. Black:
A couple of months ago you dropped in to see me, and as the
result of our meeting I wrote a column asking for suggestions on
how to best spend the $2,000,000 left by your brother to the Black-
Stevenson foundation to provide “preventive and remedial tre a t
ment for cancer sufferers.”
And I was plenty happy when you phoned a week after the piece
appeared and told me you had received 4,000 letters, many from out
standing medical men and research organizations.
Well, this is letter No. 4001, and
If your patience and eyes can take
/li / get it from Dr. Nyman. a
It I’d like to out
person has a SO per cent chance
line a startlingly
of licking cancer if it it spotted
unspectacular plan
in its incipient stages an J treated
which may save
by a competent physician. But
the lives of 50,000
once the malignancy is far enough
cancer victims a
along to cause pain and the asso
year at a cost of
ciated symptoms, the odds against
less than $5 per life.
killing the man-killer drop to 20
The idea—and it’s
per cent.
a simple one—was
Which, in my simple arithmetic,
passed on to me by
means that 30 out of every 100
Dr. Harold T, Hy
cancer deaths can be prevented
man of New York,
Billy Rose
if we find a way to make every
the well • known
physician whose four-volume “In doctor's office in the country a can
tegrated Practice of Medicine’’ has cer detection center.
been called "the practitioner’s
Here’s where Dr. Hyman's notion
bible” by Time magazine. But be and vour brother’s money come in.
fore 1 ease into Dr. Hyman’s no
Why wouldn’t it be a good idea
tion, let me give you some of the for the Black-Stevenson foundation
reasons behind it.
to compile all the latest knowledge
on cancer diagnosis in one hefty
IN THIS WEALTHIEST of na volume and then, working through
tions, where we have more doctors the various local medical societies.
per capita than anywhere else, mil
lions of people get periodic medical see to it that a copy of this volume,
check-ups—but seldom are they free of charge, reaches the desk of
checked for cancer until something every family doctor in the country?
begins to hurt. The reason, accord And why wouldn't it be a logical
ing to Dr. Hyman, is that these ex extension of this idea to follow up
aminations seldom include a "sur the book with supplements when
vey” for cancer, even though this ever the research labs come up
involves- little more than a few with a worth-while advance in test
or technique?
probings and scrapings.
IF THIS PROGRAM were backed
up by an educational campaign to
alert both doctors and public to the
importance of nipping cancer be
fore it buds, it is Dr. Hyman’s esti
mate that each of our 100.000 gen
eral practitioners would spot at
least one incipient case each year.
And since there’s a 50-50 chance
of curing cancer in its baby stages,
it figures that some 50,000 lives
could be saved annually—either by
local medicos or by specialists and
hospitals equipped to deal with the
malady.
I know this is an undramatic no
tion. promising no miracles and
requiring no glass-and-chromium
skyscrapers. I also know it isn't
new—clinics in New York and a
few other cities have worked along
these lines for years.
.4 campaign on a national
scale, hou rs er, is something new,
and it ought to appeal Io you be
cause it would gift the fellow on
Rh'D 1 the same chance to lice
out his tbree-score-and-ten as the
chap on Central Park West.
I’m not suggesting, of course.
that you tear up the 4.000 letters and
put your entire $2.000.000 into this
one venture. The plan which Dr.
Hyman has outlined could be car
ried out for a tenth of that sum,
leaving the bulk of your endowment
for well-administered agencies and
projects such as the Damon Run
yon fund.
And by putting a couple of hun
dred thousand on the sure-shot of
diagnosis rather than on the long
shot of research, you would be ren
dering the average Joe and his mis
sus a service hardly anybody else is
bothering about.
Sincerely.
Billy Rose
Wool Outlook Bright,
Bureau Head Reports
DEATH WON . . . In a dramat
ic effort to save the life of two-
month-old Joseph Bryant of
Boston, Patrolman Jeremiah
Harrington breathes Into the
infant's mouth.
For the sheep ranchers and the
farmers who maintain small flocks.
W. F. FitzGerald, president of the
Wool bureau, had a good word
when he predicted markets for
wool are bound to increase.
This Is
| Speaking before the National As
sociation of Wool Manufacturers at
Your P aper
l their annual meeting in New York.
! be said:
“Barring a national catastrophe,
markets for wool, and Indeed for
i all textiles of established service
values, is bound to increase. The
reasons are fundamental and are
J to be found in even a casual study
By W illiam R Nelson
I of our increasing population, our
ewspaper subscribers who j expanding birth rate, the total
become angered at the paper
have long used cancellation of their
subscription as a means of show
ing their Irritation. Such action is
generally looked upon as being the
same as stopping ’patronage of a
store to show displeasure. But, is
it the same?
The reader who cancels a news
paper subscription does not cancel
telephone, gas, water or electric
service to show displeasure with
those services. Yet, the home town
newspaper is, in many ways, com
parable to utility services.
There Is a
notable differ
Subscription
ence between
Is a
newspaper and
Fraction
o t h e r utility
Newly-scoured virgin wool
services. It is the individual sub
Is t u r n e d to hasten drying.
scriber’s share of the cost. For all
There will be a greater demand
services except newspaper, the sub
for this fiber, spokesmen for
scriber pays the full share of cost
the wool producing Industry
THE
plus a profit or its equivalent.
predict.
The subscription price of the home
FICTION
town newspaper, however, is but number of people employed and
CORNER
By Richard H. Wilkinson
a fraction of the actual cost of the constantly increasing standards
producing and delivering it to each of living of large segments of our
subscriber.
population."
ITHOUT REALIZING it Armine I face was tense. "You've got to hear
Unlike other services, where the
FitzGerald went on to point out
had been watching the young i me. I know it all sounds crazy. But subscriber can somewhat control
man with the black hair and blue , it isn't. Last year, when I went the cost through regulation of the that an acceptable substitute for
away in such a hurry it was be amount used, neither the subscriber wool has not been developed Wool
eyes. She admitted to herself that cause
my brother had been hurt in a nor the publisher can regulate the is still the quality fiber which is
he was good looking. Also, he
football
game. I wrote you the day amount of newspaper service to be best suited for a wide variety of
wore his evening clothes with just
after
I
arrived in California. Air rendered. Being a continuous re human needs and we are convinced
the right degree of casualness: his
face was pleas mail. It wasn't till a month later cording of local history, the amount the public shares that opinion, he
ant and guile- that I learned the plane crashed and of newspaper .space required is added.
The Wool bureau is a service or
1 e s s. Danger burned. Then I knew it was too late. bound to fluctuate. To meet its obli ganization established by wool-
ous, she thought. I came on east, bringing my brother gation, yet keep the cost of its serv growers of Australia, New Zea
The type of man along with me. He got well—”
ice so low all can afford it, is why land. South Africa and America.
He broke off. She was staring at the
who couldn’t be
paper sells subscriptions below
him
in
amazement.
He
gestured
trusted. Deceptive. Like Loring
cost.
Brookes. Mere thought of Loring helplessly. “I tried to look you up,
Cancelling a subscription to a
N eeds of Corn
but you’d gone south for the winter.
gave her a funny little pang.
newspaper, it seems obvious, is not
And
then
in
the
spring
the
universi
And then the young man with
the best way to show displeasure.
the blue eyes and black hair ty sent me up to Canada to do some
A better way
research
work.
I
got
back
a
week
started toward her. He weaved
is to write a
Letter
ago,
learned
you
were
in
town
and
his way in among the dancers and
letter to the pa
Is
tapped Seaver Clark on the should came here tonight, hoping to see
per. If your
Better
you.
I
.
.
.”
er. “Mind if 1 cut in?” he asked.
point of dis
He
turned
away,
got
half-way
to
“Hope you don't mind? Believe
agreement is a matter of general
the
door
when
she
called.
“Loring!”
me it took courage.”
concern, and you authorize it, the
“Did it?” said Armine coldly. He swung back, and she came up to paper willzpublish your letter. In
him.
“Was
.
.
.
Robert
Brookes
.
.
,
“Am I to feel flattered?”
that way you publicly chastise the
He grinned broadly. “Sorry. I’ll your brother?”
paper and tell another side of the
"Yes.
How
did
you
know?”
quit if you say so?”
controversial matter.
“And leave me stranded in the
“ 1 didn't know. But I read
Publication of m atter critical of
about him in the papers. And I
middle of the floor?”
themselves is another of the unique
read about the crash of the
characteristics of our newspapers.
“ Well, then, when the music
plane, too . . . Oh, Loring, what
No other public or private institu
stops.” But when the music
a stupid little fool I’ve been!”
tion or service is so willing and
stopped they weren't on the
floor at all. They were out on
She was in his arms, sobbing hys eager to publicize its own mistaxes.
Corn needs plenty to eat and
Subscribing to the home town
the terrace, looking up at the
terically. Loring held her tight;
moon, and Armine was say
presently tilted her chin and kissed newspaper should be looked upon drink to produce high protein
ing, “I do wish you'd take me
her mouth. “ Darling! I . . . I hate as the same as subscribing to the yields.
You can get extra pounds of
to think of what might have hap other services available in the com
back. I’m cold.”
“You can’t be cold. It's a warm pened if you had objected to coming munity. The price is small and protein and more bushels per acre,
actually below the cost. And, what too. with a well-rounded bill of
night. Besides, if you start to go out on the terrace.”
“Objected? Why, my precious, ever the amount, it is a necessary fare based on good soil manage
back alone I’ll grab your arm. And
. . . if . . . if you hadn't brought me item for complete enjoyment of life ment. University of Illinois re
that will make a scene.”
in the community.
search men proved that in tests
She looked at him angrily, but out I would have died!”
on a number of experiment fields.
he only grinned. “I’ve half a mind
IASI WEEK'S
H. J. Snider of the agronomy
to do it. It might teach you a les-
staff reports that good soil man
sofi.”
ANSWER
agement increased the corn’s pro
“It probably would,” he ad
tein content by nearly a pound per
mitted. “But please don’t. You
UDDU
□□□□
bushel. Corn grown on well treated
see, I've been watching you all
□QDQ aaou
land averaged 5.6 pounds of pro
IB
□nno
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2. Philippine 20. Salt
ACROSS
tein per bushel, or about 10 per
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(Chem.)
port
1. Frighten
□□□
DEC
fo G
cent of the total weight. Corn on
22.
Congregate
3. First man
C Family
hq o b
untreated soil averaged only 4.8
23. Synopsis
(Bib.)
groups
□□□ □□□
pounds of protein per bushel, or
of a play
4. Grating
11 Pinaceoua
□□□□ od n a n e
about 8.5 per cent.
24 Hog
AIR
5. Before
DB □ □ □
OD
tree
I t A F T E ¡R
27. Chart
The well managed land had the
6. To wind
12. Indian
a rs ODO □□□□□
29 Head
and turn
prince
benefit of liming and rotation built
b o d e aooa
(slang)
7. Loiter
13. Degrade
around well-fed deep-rooted le
□□□□ ODDO
8. Partly open 30. Youth
14 Century
gumes. The organic m atter added
9 Journey by 36. The life
plant
by the legumes built good soil
principle
water
15. Thump
structure and tilth, improved the
(Hindu)
43.
True
10.
Semites
16 At home
drainage and increased the soil’s
«4. Examination
16. A state of 37. Wait on
17. Border
water holding capacity. That made
46. Cuckoo
39. Afternoon
U. S.
18. Pulls with
it easier for corn roots to get at
receptions
47. River
19. Island in a
effort
plant nutrients, oxygen and mois
(Swttz.)
river
42 Grows old
21 Gill (abbr.)
ture.
No.
ISt
22 Viper
IO
The fertilizer treatment included
25 Fish
4
7
8
t z I 4 5 777/ 6
26 Weight
phosphate and potash where needed.
(■Java)
On soils requiring more nitrogen
12
II
28 Twinkle,
than the legume crops provided,
. . . "Oh, Loring, what a
as stars
K
nitrogen fertilizer helped increase
'S
stupid little fool I’ve been!”
31 State flower
the corn’s protein content. Snider
of Utah
17
is
says good soil management not
15
evening and planning this cam
32 Rough lava
J
only improved the corn’s feeding
paign-bringing you out here, I
33 Footlike
¿
ll
14
«
value, but Improves yield.
mean.”
organ
“The ideal” Armine tossed her
34 Half an em
za
z?
n 21 Z4 % Z5
head. "Well, you can bring me
35 Stripes
1 2 ’/f Million Fewer Mules
rW
right back again.”
y
/
a
38 Cushion
V«
24
Zff
“Not until I say what I have to
40 Tantalum
And Horses in 30 Years
say.”
(sym )
Today there are 7*/4 million head
Si
U
»•
41 The Orient
of horses and mules on farms in
UDDENLY HE sobered. “That’s
Y/Yt
45 Fresh-water
I
the United States, a decrease of 12'A
Î5
17
M
T*
the trouble with you — you’re
flsh (Eur.)
million in the last 30 years.
never willing to give a fellow a
47 Debate
44
do
44
41
42
Experts estimate that it took
44
chance. You take him at his face
48 Any climb
about 24 million acres of crop land
value and let it go at that. It’s not
ing plant
i
«47
44
45
to feed these 1214 million animals.
49 Affirms
fair.”
That amount of land, released to
50
A
dye
What! Certainly you can’t be
45
4JJ
yield food, would provide fer 11
51 Set again
serious. If this is some sort of
77
million
people. The horse popula
7 7 5i
joke, It’s a pocr one. Please
DOWN
SO
tion of the United States is expect
take me back!”
1 Crust on a
ed to drop furt' -
7Ú
“ Wait.” He gripped her arm. His
w ound
You're Angry?
Write a Letter
N
HE SPOKE HIS PIECE
iE^CREI
By INEZ GERHARD
PINE took his wife to
W ILLIAM
a sneak preview of “The Law
less;” he and William Thomas, after
making some sixty successful ac
tion pictures, had stuck their necks
out and tackled one that was highly
controversial. And for the first time
Mrs. Pine said to him afterward,
WILLIAM PINE
“I like your picture!” Starring Mac
donald Carey and Gail Russell, “The
Lawless” deals with the minority
problem in a small California city.
The Johnston office recommended
it to special United Nations consid
eration. Paramount executives want
ed to scrap it at one point. It is
honest and realistic, showing what
might happen in any American town.
Johnny Bond, western singing
star, has been signed to an exclu
sive, two-year radio contract by the
World Broadcasting System. He
will transcribe songs for the pro
gram service library, used by more
than 700 radio stations.
Bob Garred has been heard in
six movies in the past two months
but hasn’t been seen in one, which
is how he wants it. Being photo
graphed entails making up, endless
rehearsals with others, and over-
. time work, he pointed out— “And
1 just don’t have the time. My two
news broadcasts a day make it im
possible for me to do any acting.”
So he will remain a voice rolling
from a loudspeaker.
Warner Bros’ forthcoming
“ Fifty Years Before Our Eyes”
features some of the rarest old
film footage in the world, such
as Prince Ilirohito’s chat with
Lloyd George before World War
I, and the first movies of Hitler,
Stalin and Mussolini.
Patrice Wymore, known in New
York as a dancer and singer, re
ported for her role in “Tea for Two”
wearing the finest white slacks suit
money could buy, with a white cap
on her red hair. Even on the Warn
er Bros, lot* she stood out. But two
minutes later deflation of the spirit
had set in. Director David Butler
took one look, and asked if she
were going to work on a parking
lot between pictures.
When James Cagney a n d his
“Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye” troupe
made some scenes at a Glendale
supermarket two elderly matrons
were spotted among the extra play
ers. They explained that they slipped
In to get just one close look at Mr.
Cagney.
Material Remains Quality
Fabric for Human Needs
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General Donovan's Interview
ENATOR M c C arthy and Boy
S
Howard of the Scripps Howard
newspapers didn’t know It. blit
General “Wild Bill” Donovan,
famed wartime chief of OSS, let
them down on the Amerasla stolen
document* case.
A New G arden F eature
General Donovan, a fellow Re
HIS ANIMATED «care-crow la
publican, was butlyhooed as back
only 18 inches high, nnd turn»
ing up the McCarthy Scrlpps-How
ard charges.
When Interviewed in the slightest breeze, making nn
by a senate committee shortly be interesting feature fol the garden.
fore leaving for Europe, however, Paint him In bright colors as
be talked much more like Sen. shown on pattern 307, which nlso
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, gives directions for muklng nnd
who decries McCarthy extremism. finishing
s e e
In fact, Gen. Donovan inferentl-
Price nt pattern I» SBc.
nlly criticized his own OSS Inves
W O R K S H O P P A T T I K N Ml MV IC R
tigator, Frank Blelaskl for Illegal
llr e w e r IO
ly raiding the Amerusia office, and
n r d f a r d H ills . N s w V e rb
the FBI for Illegally raiding Em
manuel Larsen’s apartment.
As
a result of these Illegal raids, the
Justice department could net pro
secute.
Here is exactly what the senate
Investigators reported to the com
mittee after their Interview with
Dohovan at his New York apart
ment
“General Donovan asked if we
had talked with Archbold Vnn
Buren (bis wartime deputy), and
when we replied in the affirmative,
he Indicated that his Information
was no more than that which
Van Buren probably gave us . . . J 4 X i g n a f u r e ' S i l y e i ^ r e
"General Donovan discussed
his belief at the time that
Only 754
'John Doe* warrants should
with w h rto ita r 9nJ from
have been obtained and state
KELLOGG’S VARIETY
ments under oath gotten from
PACKAGE
the principals,'* the Investiga
• L o v r ly ailverwart* w ith
tors' report continues. “ Hr in
our own scrip t initial.
dicated that hr felt that the
?) )ld Com pany Plato nut (la
matter was Incorrectly hand
and Ku.trmt. « .1 by Wnu
Hogers M fg.Co. »Meriden,
led, herausr whrn any agency
C o n n . W ith spoon», you
conducts an investigation, the
get prices on com p lete
matter does not remain confi
service—offered by . . .
dential and opportunity to cov
K ello gg 's vAHiKi y ..f 7
e rr ru I deligh t» . . . IO y«*n-
er up arises.
e ro u s b o xes . D e lic io u s
anytim e!
“General
Donovan mentioned
lhat in discussing the matter with
E'red Lyon (of the state depart
ment). he asked if the state de
partment had any idea who might
have been responsible for this m a
terial (secret documents) em anat
ing from the state department.
S IN D TOOAY1
When he pressed Mr. Lyon for some
K ellogg*». D ep l.F F.W allln gferd .C en aectictH
Plea»« send me . . . . . “Signature” tea-
suggestions or suspicions. Mr. Ly
spoon» with following in itia l..............
on suggested that it might have
For each unit set o f 4 spoons. I en
been John Carter Vincent. Gen
r í o * ) 1 u h i t . H t . i r end from K ellogg’«
eral Donovan then queried us as to
VARI KT Y packagk and 7bf in coin.
whether Vincent did not have a
N o m e . .............................................. ..
wife who was a Communist."
(pleaie
Throughout the Interview, Dono
Address......... ....................
van made It clear he had no new
C ity............... .............. Z o n e .. . Stole. . • • • •
evidence but that his attitude was
Offw good otdf I« U. I , tv b fft to off
that of a Margaret Chase Smith re
flat* and toral raÿt/ltihoni
,
publican who didn't relish unfair
accusations.
Continuing, the Investigators' re
It’« as «imple
port declares: "Donovan suggest
as this
ed that we should sec Pat Hurley
(former ambassador to China).
Shortly after the discovery of the
Amcrasia case. General Donovan
went to London and met Pat Hur
ley at the airport there. Hurlpy be
HOMI
ing on his way to Moscow and
China. Donovan told Hurley what
Fred Lyon had said about Vincent with Better caps & lids
because he knew that Hurley
thought Vincent was ‘his boy.’
That was about all Donovan had
to say. In fact, he seemed In a
hurry to get off to Europe.
T
Each Mth Your Own
Initial!
Teaspoons
7
Trygve Lie and Truman
Here Is the inside story of what
happened when U. N. Secretary
General Trygve Lie met with Pre
sident Truman and Secretary
Acheson following Lie’s return
from Moscow.
Lie first reported on the strong
di sire for peace which he found
everywhere from Moscow to Wash
ington; then asked the President
to consider sending Acheson to a
pccial meeting of the United Na-
t a ns security council In Geneva
this summer, a meeting which he
said was Imperative to keep the
United Nations from collapsing
Mr. Truman's reaction was im
mediate. He promptly said he
could do no such thing; that it
would be a cruel hoax to play on
the American people when there is
absolutely no chance of agreement
with Russia.
The only thing Russia under
stands, the President argued.
Is force, and the West Is going
to build up its own force until
Russia realizes the democra
cies mean business. After that,
perhaps a meeting with Russia
might produce some good.
As it is now, Truman told the U.
N. secretary general. Russia is
boycotting the United Nation* be
cause it won't seat Communist
China—just like a little boy who
says he won’t play In the game un
less he can be captain of the team.
Capital News Capsules
Ambassador Kirk has cabled the
state department that the Russian
general who was suddenly recalled
from Japan with his entire 52-man
staff has suffered the same fate as
Marshal Zhukov. He's being de
moted and disgraced—because he
was too chummy with American
and British personnel In Tokyo.
Kirk says General Kuzma Derev
yanko committed what Is the sup
reme heresy—he actually believed
the east and west could get along
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