The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-31
Capital
'Luckman's Choice Good
Food Crisis Strategy
Distiiler Draws Praise
From Temperance Group
Special to Central Press

Special to Central Press
Washington-President Tru-
man employed an old, but al
ways effective, psychological
stratagem in appointing a clti-
zens' committee to evoke a
program for meeting the e
lated problems of high prices
at home and threatened IA
mine abroad.
With all authorities agreed
that foreign needs could not
be met without some form OF
domestic conservation, enforc-
ed or voluntary, the president
felt the American people would
respond Fundamentally to an
"eat less, waste less" appeal
from a group representing all
fields of endeavor.
The chief executive is said
to have believed that such an
appeal would earn a more en-
thusiastic response than would
have been the case had he,
alone, called upon Americans
to eat less.
Observers regard the chief
executives choice of Charles
Luckman to head the commit
tee as a singularly fortunate
one. Americans love a sue
cess story" Luckman, who at
SO heads the great Lever Broth
ers soap company operations
in the United States, epitomizes
the Horatio Alger hero.
On the other hand, cooper
alton from labor can be expect
ed through inclusion of the
AFL's William Green and the
CLOS Phillip Murray on the
committee.
Also represented r spokes-
men for agriculture, radio, the
movies, women's organizations,
government, the publishing bus
mess and a variety of other
fields.
Dry Praise For Wet Distiller
The Board of Temperance of
the Methodist church, which
recently harpooned the moist
views of Admiral William F.
Halsey, came out strongly the
other day for a Colorado dis
tiller.
Strange as it seems, the rea-
son is a simple one. The dis
tiller, Jay Ambrose, has writ
ten Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson suggest
ing that all distilling be halted
to help feed hungry Europeans.
Said the Methodist publica-
ton, THE Clipsheet The atti-
tude of Ambrose is commend
able"
Ambrose, according to the
Clipsheet, believes that a ire
mendous backlog of whiskey
exists in the country and that
continuing to make whiskey of
cereal grains is a needless
waste of food"
However, the Clipsheet was
unhappy about other angles of
the liquor situation, saying:
THE country is seriously ham
dicapped by insufficient num-
bers of freight cars to move
steel and other raw materials
essential to many manufactur-
ers, and to move crops, and yet
the manufacturers of beer are
using thousands upon thous-
ands of cars to transport a pro-
duct back and forth across the
country which is causing a per-
feet plague of crime and dis
order"
Why" asks the publication,
"does the government permit
these things?"
Atomic Energy Use Far Off
Future Atomic Power-Am-
erica's top atomic planners see
no hope of utilizing atomic
power for International uses
any time within the next 10
years.
One high Atomic Energy
Commission official, with access
to every secret detail on the
United States atomic program,
declares that scientists and
others who forecast nuclear
power plants within the next
three II five or eight years are
"unrealistic." >
He believes that there is a
chance a useable atomic pow
er plant may be developed
within 10 wears, but even that
will be only for a specialized
use-for providing the power
to operate a submarine or bat
tleship, for instance. The Of
fetal expresses doubt wheth-
er atomic power will ever sup
plant the hydro-electr plants.