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The midland journal., 1946-10-18
TURTLE:
Long Jump

The big, blue, two-motored "Truc-
ulent Turtle circled in steep bank
at 1000 feet and one engine sput-
tered. The crowd at the Columbus,
Ohio, airport watched anxiously in
fear that the planes tanks were
running dry. Then, Comdr. Thomas
D. Davies, 80, leveled off the ship,
the motor picked up, and he made
safe landing to complete rec
ord-breaking 11,236-mile flight in SIS
hours and II minutes.
The temporary engine trouble at
the airport was not the only anxious
moment the ''Truculent Turtle"
caused on the long haul from Perth.
Australia. In the Bougainville-New
Guinea area, the crew rode out heavy
weather; 200 miles off California,
they ran into thick clouds and flew
on instruments; north of San Fran
cisco, ice formations on the wings
cut speed to 150 m.p.h.
Although Commander Davies and
his three-man crew were not faxed
by the mechanical rigidities of their
flight, they intimated that the 35-
pound baby kangaroo they carted
as a gift to a Washington, D. c.,
zoo was more than their match as
he fused in his cage.
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
Scores Censorship Beat

One OF the few joys left to a news
paper correspondent in one of the
foreign cities where censorship still
prevails is trying to beat the censor.
One of the most amusing "beats" Of
this kind was scored by Drew Mid
dleton writing from Moscow for the
New York Times.
Perhaps it fooled many American
readers, too. It reads: -
stssIlya Ehrenburg, writing in lives
tia continued his long series of arti-
cles on the United States, a group
Of articles which for depth and un-
derstanding are superior to anything
written on these lines since the
works of Charles Lutwidge Dodg-
son."
The dispatch was passed by the
censor who didn't know that Dodg-
son was the real name Of Lewis
Carroll who wrote, "Alice in Won
derland." some Of the most delight
full nonsense ever penned.
do not know whether Ehren-
burg's articles as published in Mos
cow differed from those which he
published in the United States, but
! must say that some of them re-
hected life in America as truly as
the scene at the Mad Hatter's tea
party followed the pattern of an
ordinary tea party in England. You
remember that there was a table
set under tree in front of the
house and the March Hare and the
Halter were having tea at it; a
Dormouse was asleep, and the 9TH
er two were using him as a cushion,
resting their elbows on it and talk
ing over its head.
ID avery uncomfortable for the Dor
rnouse,'' thought Alice; 'sonly it's
asleep, ! suppose it doesn't mind. :"
The Halter was the first to break
the silence. "What day of the
month is it?" he said, turning to
Alice. He had taken his watch out
Of his pocket and was looking at 1t
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
BIG BUSINESS

Observation-Disclosures OF the
United States are operating a 100
billion dollar business, it is revealed
in report Of the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics.
= Total value Of the nations farm
plant, including all assets held by
farm owners, amounted to 1O1.5 bill
lion dollars on January l, l946,
the bureau estimates. The valua-
ton of net worth Of agriculture
showed gain of nearly IL per cent
over the estimate for January l,
1945, and about 80 per cent since
the beginning Of 1910.
The increase since January, 1945,
was attributed largely to price in
creases for agriculture's physical
assets and accumulations Of finan-
cial assets, resulting from large
volume Of sales. Comparatively lit
tie Of the increase came from inn
The midland journal., 1946-10-18

provements to the farm establish
ment, the report stated.
Real Estate Gains.
OF the total value Of the nations
agricultural plant at the beginning
of this year, farm real estate ac-
counted for 56.6 billion dollars, COM
pared with 50.3 billion dollars on
January 1, 1945. Other physical as
sets made up 24.9 billion dollars,
compared with 24.4 billion dollars a
year before. Financial assets Of
farm operators totaled more than
20 billion dollars compared with 1862
billion dollars a year earlier.
The value of holdings of farmers
and other owners of farms account
ed for 93.2 billion dollars of the
total value of the farm plant. This
compares with holdings estimated
to be worth 81.3 billion dollars on
January /, 1945. In addition, cred
itors' claims were calculated this
year at 8.3 billion dollars, a decrease
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
NEWS REVIEW
NEWS REVIEW
Army Alters Draft Plan;
Navy Sets Flight Record
DRAFT:
Modify Plan

In modifying its postwar draft
plans for teen-agers, the army inn
proved the prospects for eventual
congressional adoption. The state
ment of Rep. Dewey Short (Rep.,
Mo- that he would consider modi-
fed draft after having been con-
vinced of its necessity by General
Eisenhower indicated which way the
wind was blowing.
While the new plan calls for the
induction of 18-year-olds, it differed
from previous proposals in that it
confined intensive training to six
months and gives the draftee a num-
Der of alternatives in completing the
remainder of his service. He
could:
Continue his specialized mill
tary training for six months.
Enlist in any of the regular mil
itary services, national guard or re-
serve corps.
Enter West Point or Annapolis.
Enlist in the reserve corps and
take up an approved college course,
including R.O.T.C. training, or a
technical course in an authorized
school.
Inductees would not be subject to
military law but a special code of
conduct and receive a monthly al
lowance of $50 plus subsistence, de-
pendents' benefits, insurance and
disability compensation, if eligible.
The midland journal., 1946-10-18

tenn faces one of the greatest crises
in its history-American schools
have lost 100000 competent, we'll
prepared teachers since Pearl Har-
bor." (That was in June, 1944)
At that time only one out of hum
dred school teachers held "emer-
gency certificates is
sued to persons admittedly not in
the competent, well-prepared"
class.
Today, according to an estimate
made in an article in the October
issue Of Coronet magazine, one out
of every eight hold such certificates
and out of the 200,0 teachers lost
to war industries, the draft and 9TH
er wartime activities, Coronet finds
at least $4,000 of those teachers
"lost" for good. Stuart Chase, econ
omist, sets 100000 as the number
needed before the present teaching
staff of the nation is brought up to
what he calls adequate"
Ralph Mcdonald, executive Sec
retary of National Educational as
sociation in Washington, who has
been busy trying to wake the edu-
cational world to it's danger, quotes
reports that Russia today is spend
ing 20 per cent of her comparatively
low national income on education,
while we spend only two per cent of
ours for, the same purpose.
And not satisfied with what is now
being done, the Soviets are demand
ing still higher standards of ''ideo-
logical and POLITICAL knowledge for
their teachers. The party paper,
Izvestia, announced in recent arti-
Gle that students from Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia and other Slav coun-
tries were being brought into the in
stitutions of higher learning in Mos
cow, Leningrad and other cities.
The office of education of the
United States government is fully
aware of the danger facing our pub
lie schools. Its functions are strict
ly limited, however, to the acquisi-
tion and distribution of information.
Actual promotional activities are
forbidden and improvement of con-
ditions rests fundamentally with the
states and local communities. The
Office of education is doing all it
can. Full cooperation in the gath
ering of data is provided and for
the last six weeks or so special ef-
forts have been made to bring in
formation on this subject up to date
for distribution. Actual statistics of
the varying needs of various COM
munities now are being compiled.
National Education association,
which began an intensive campaign
two years ago to assist in the re-
The midland journal., 1946-10-18

uneasily, shaking it every now and
then and putting it to his ear.
Alice considered a little and said,
1.-THE Fourth"
''Two days wrong!" sighed the
Halter. 81 told you butter wouldn't
suit the works." angrily looking at
the March Hare.
at was the best of butter" the
March Hare meekly replied.
i Although Middleton's comparison
between Dodgson and Ehrenburg
was probably well-chosen, doubt
if the censor would have passed the
coEnment had he ever read "Alice
in Wonderland"
The midland journal., 1946-10-18

Of which would
triumph, naziism
or cy,
was settled, the
United States is
being forced to
meet a crisis in
its competitive
struggle to main
tain its way of
life.
Two years ago
the pre- edictio n,
based on trends
of that moment,
was made that
"our school Sys-
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
u. S. Faces Crisis in School System
Nation Suffers Scarcity
OF Competent Teachers
BY BAUKHAGE
Netcs Analyst and Commentator.

cruitment of teachers, improvement
of working conditions and higher
salaries, has renewed its efforts as
a result of action taken at the or
ganization's convention this July. A
slogan which they have adopted
runs: 1--WE must have federal aid be-
fore we can have equalization of op-
portunity." But federal "interfer-
ence" in Americas school system
has always been bogey.
Cheat Pupils Out
Of Proper Education
Meanwhile, as Charles Harris
says in the previously quoted Coro-
net article, 1--WE are cheating our
boys and girls of their right to the
kind of an education they DESIRE"
by permitting this teacher short
age which has closed more than 1000
class rooms and over-expanded
classes so that individual attention
to pupils has virtually vanished.
Many vital subjects have been
dropped.
The worst phase of the situation is
the turnover. AS is evidenced by
the number of emergency certifi-
Gates" issued, the standard has fall
en- sharply. Harris mentions one
school which permitted a convict
to be released from Jail because no
one else could be found to teach the
pupils. / was told of case where
a teacher teaching sixth grade pu-
pills had never had more than a
fourth grade education herself.
Low pay is, as it has always been,
one of the chief difficulties. 1t is a
strange paradox that the business
and industrial groups, who are most
anxious that the principles Of de-
mocracy and free enterprise be thor
oughly taught, are the greatest COM
petitors of the schoolhouse.
Here in Washington the minimum
wage of teachers is below that of
lower grade clerical assistants and
file clerks in the government. In in
dustrial centers, the gap is wider.
In business, there is more of de-
mand today for college-trained per-
sonnel. Many teachers, both male
and female, who went into the serv-
ices, held college degrees, and when
discharged were eagerly snapped
up by businesses requiring higher
education.
Chambers of commerce, dis
turbed by the threat of unframed
minds in their communities, have
appealed to the government to pro-
mote special teachers programs as
part of the veterans re-training
programs but here again the fed
eral government would be treading
on thin ice. That isn't in the law.
Private institutions and the COM
munity itself are responsible for this
type of effort, and congress always
puts its foot down when there is any,
thing that even hints at federal ac-
tivity in connection with the public
school system. The Office of edu-
cation leans over backward to keep
away from anything that might be
labeled interference"
Not only poor pay but also lack
of social life drives many prospec-
tive teachers into other fields. That
is something that only the commu-
nifty can change.
If the teachers position is not
changed for the better and the pub
lie school system is not restored to
its normal place in our democracy
we will have lost the one thing with
out which democracy cannot grow.
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
WANTED TO BUY

wANTED-U. s. GOLD COINS
for my collection. Will pay following
prices for coins in fine Condition, s32
for $40, $16 for $40, So for S. 81 for So.
$4 for S2a, $21a for 81. Write for details.
P.O. Box 2646, Baltimore rs, Maryland.
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Released by Western Newspaper Union.
MEAT ANIMALS WILL RETURN
TO MARKET WHEN PRICES RISE
paul MALLON .

WASHINGTON.- is not difficult
to find out what made the meat dis
appear.
The farmers, according to my
best farm experts, have entered
upon a practical boycott of the
market as a result of the OPA price
ceilings. Some increased ceilings
were allowed a few weeks back, but
not enough to lure cattle or hogs
into the market. Paul Porter's
group, operating OPA, increased
cattle from $18 to $20.25 a hundred
pounds, and moved hogs up from
SLABS to $16.25 a hundred. Since
then, packing supplies of meat have
dwindled steadily until the cities
have gotten around to horse meat.
Butchers shelves are empty near
ly everywhere except for slim al
lowances of sausage, cold meats and
other inferior substitutes for nor
NAL supplies.
The farmers are simply taking a
gamble that prices will go higher.
The feed situation is conducive to
holding meat on the hoof. Excel
lent crops of corn and grain, and
good pasture conditions, have afford
ed opportunities for feeding and
fattening now to sell for a higher
price later.
The midland journal., 1946-10-18

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Less than
Ia wear and a half after the question
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
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HELP WANTED-WOMEN

GIRL. Mothers helper on farm. Girl
wanting home rather than high VIZ ges,
Write. Describe self. MRS. FLORA
BAKER, Bernville, Pa. (Berks Co..
REGISTERED NURSES needed for 400
bed hospital. Good salary and full main
tenance. Write Superintendent, NORFOLK
GENERAL HOSPITAL. Norfolk, Virginia.
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
WHAT DID STAIN MEAN?

Stain said he had no fear of war,
but he said nothing about the size
of his army, which was put at six
million men in the last public an
nouncement last June. Certainly the
atmosphere has not been cleared as
much as an announcement by Stain
would have cleared it, if he had said
he was cutting the size of the Rus
sian army to the size of ours. Thus
also, he accused agents of the other
nations of waving war flags for prop
aganda effect on the conference.
The midland journal., 1946-10-18
A BID FOR FARM VOTE

So as / say, my guess is that per-
the price ceilings will be relaxed in
order to get the farmer vote. How
ever, this does not seem to me to
be even particularly reasonable pol
itics, as congress wanted to relax
the OPA restraints considerably
more in the beginning and congress
is the agency facing election this
year, not Mr.. Truman or his OPA.
So while a further boost in prices
would perhaps relieve the pressure
on the White House, the majority
of congressman facing reelection
Cup to nearly two-thirds of their
number) have a record more favor
able to the farm viewpoint-and the
obtaining of meat. e-.r.
Incidentally, Agriculture Secre-
tary Anderson, who was originally
brought into the picture by Mr.. Tru-
man to take charge of the food sup
ply situation and to straighten it out
by this time Che had distinguished
himself in congress by making a
report which was generally ap-
proved as showing some common
sense in the matter), has been i'll in
New Mexico for the past several
weeks. His friends have been
doubtful as to when or whether he
would be able to return, an inside
factor which may have contributed
to the decentralization of the admin
istration meat machinery again.
The midland journal., 1946-10-18

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JUST PROTECTING SELF

which the government has built up
over the past few years has prac-
tically required the farmer to do
what he is doing. He sees inf1ation-
ary prices all around him. Strikes
for tremendous increases in wages
running as high as 80 per cent are
being conducted in the large cities,
and in price imitation period, nat
urally he would assume his own
right to strike.
Now the government on the
OPA side of the matter has pro-
duced figures showing much
less cattle than last year are
going into the midwest feed lots
for fattening, and in other ways
excuses itself and refuses to
look the situation i'm the face.
Seeing the consumers side of
it alone in OPA, it has fixed
ceilings for what it calls anti
inflationary purposes, wholly
unmindful of the truth of the
matter, which is-the ceilings
themselves have become purely
tuCUTctiCd1 anu tuC ulCdt CdA1AOS
be obtained at any price.
The government is empowered to
keep up this stalemate until OPA
expires next June, but with the
election coming on, it's position is
becoming more and more embar-
RAISING politically every day. My
guess would be that the White House
considers it is being pressed closer
and closer into a political predica-
ment from which it will extricate
itself in the usual-if not the nor
mally intelligent-way, by lifting the
prices again. By "the normally in
telligent way" I mean going thor
oughly into its whole mismanage-
ment of the intricate machinery,
from the time a calf is born until
it reaches the butcher shop, and
then revise the regulations so as to
produce meat supplies at fair prices
in common justice.
A BID FOR FARM VOTE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-21
Past MatYOnSAnd
 Patrons Feted

Mrs. Hazel Curry, royal matron, and Robert Curry, royal patron of Evergreen Court, No 2, Order of Amaranth and staff of officers for l946 were supper guests of Ever green Association past matrons and past patrons, held recently at Masonic Temple.
 Mrs. Clara Senior, president of the association, presented Mrs. Curry with a bouquet of flowers which decorated the table. Follow Ing the supper. the first l946 meet ing was held. Mrs. Hazel Curry, royal matron, presided. Evergreen Asso- citation. past matron and patrons were guests at the meeting. Mrs. Curry announced that the annual officers card party will be held Feb ruary IS, at Masonic Temple.
 The following committees for Mrs. Evelyn Johnston, custodian, l946 are: Sickness and distress, Mrs. Hazel Spiers; finance, Mrs. Florence Mulson, and Mrs. Ida Schwietzer; auditors. Mrs. Amelia Bailey, James Burhoe and Mrs. Clara Senior: publicity, Mrs. Louise Clarke.
 Ways and Means committee, all officers of Evergreen Court. Re- treatments and entertainments for February; Mrs. Ceana and Mrs. Macdonald and Miss Evelyn Johns- ton; annual bazaar, Evelyn Johns- ton.
 A meeting of the Ways and Means committee will be held January 24 at the home of Mrs Evelyn Johns ton, IT Clifton Avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-21
2: :::;;= 1f9ES:A ANEafcA A fI -50us ssls :s.:st @ lzse1ass ass.::s ':

0us things. A comet had appeared after the death of Caesar. One hs6 sailed, languid and heavy, thfoN&4 the skies before the London plHNuas another swift and furious, beloE4 the Great Fire. This comet was Halieys, king of them all. ft he'd whlrled through the heavens before the birth of Christ. It had hunH suspended over Rome before tl1e death of Agrippa. It had flaMeu over the Battle of Chalons. where Attila, the Hun, bowed down before the Roman Actus. It had lighted the battlefield of Hastings. Now. on its twenty-eighth appearance, it would make a transit across the very face of the sun.
 The superstitlous began to spec ulate as to what we might have ia store. The country was at peace. We had no princess to dethrone, no ty- rants to vanquish. Perhaps a great pestilence. someone suggested. ("What kind might it be7" they asked my father. "Weak-nalnded- ness" he told them tersely). per- haps it was intended only as a warning. some said. A warning against men who were trying to fly in machines. Or against women who were demanding a right to vote. Some thought it might be Q warn- ing against hobble skirts and bloomers.
 (To Be Contlnues)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-21
Full Weather Report

Boston, Jan. 2I-(UP)-Weath- CT fOrecasti
 CONNECTICUT and RHODE TS- LAND-FreeEing rain this after noon changing briefly to snow be- fore ending early this evening. Clearing tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. Little change in tempeRa- ture. Twenty to % miles an hour mOrtheFiy winds tonight backing to northwest and diminishing slowly Tuesday.
 sachusetts-Raim near the coast and on Cape Cod and freex- Ing raln in the interior this after noon changing briefly to snow be- fore ending enrly this evening. Clearing tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. Little change in tempera- tuFe. Twenty to 90 miles an hour n0FtheFly winds tonight backing to northwest and diminishing slowly Tuesday.
 EastpoFt to Block Lsland-NOrth- east winds % to 50 miles an hour backing to n0rtherIy tonight and te poxthwest and dfminishing somewhat 0n Tuesday. Heavy snow north of Portsmouth and rain changing briefly to snow from P0rfsmoufh s0uthward ending to- night. Northeast storm warnings are being displayed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-21
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY America's Card AuthOritv


 Sometimes the simplest hand seems to present the biggest prob- lem. While some players, with the South hand, might elect to open the bidding with two spades, I think that most sound, conservative play CTS would prefer the bid of one spade. That was the opening bid at most tables at the recent na- tional tournament at Atlantic City. However, responses by North varied a great deal. At one tables North bid one no trump, South then bid three hearts and North bid four hearts. The hand was played there and, of course, Seven-odd was made. Many players do not like to re- spond with a four-card suit, and that was the reason for the one no trump bid by North; but when South jumped to three hearts, North should have taken some strong action. If North bids two hearts over one spade, there is not much difh- culty in getting to at least six hearts.
 At one table, West overcalled the two- heart bid with three diamonds, and South bid four diamonds; North bid four hearts and South then bid five clubs, showing a control in that suit. Over this North went to six hearts and, of course, South bid seven hearts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-21
Miss ManSOIinO
 Saturday Bride

Miss Mary Louise Mansollno, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Antonio Manzollno, Cossett street and An- thony D'Angelo, son Of Mir. and Mrs. Pasquale D'Angelo, Charles street, were married Saturday morning at s:3O at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. Rev. Alvaro Santolinl officiated.
 The bridal party consisted of Miss Ann Mary 0uzzo of New Britain, as maid-of-honor; Miss Josephine Manzollno, sister Of the bride. Miss Dorothy Alix, Canton, Miss Marie DiVirgilio and Miss Ann Quarando as bridesmaids. Peter Manzolino, brother of the bride was best man. In the usher group were Armand Allx, Canton Pasquale Spino, Dam iel Miribilio, brother-in-law of the bride and Domenic Spranzo.
 . Escorted to the altar by her father the bride wore a white jewel satin gown with net yoke, edged with Points de Venice lace, a full- length veil of illusion. She car- ried a bouquet of white roses, gar- denias and sweet peas. The maid of f-honor's gown of peach color jewel satin was styled with a net yoke outlined with lace, and full skirt. She wore a matching calot and carried & colonial bouquet. The bridesmaids were dressed in heav- enly blue, similarly fashioned and carried bouquets of Briarcliff roses and pink sweatpeas.
 Two hundred attended the recep- ton held at Mecca's restaurant. The mothers of the couple both re- ceived in black with corsages of red roses. The couple left on an unannounced wedding trip, and on their return will reside at Ill Dikeman street.