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Evening star., 1947-10-20
What the Farmer Gets

To the Editor Of The star
1t has been interesting to note In the news
papers and magazines during the past few
years how wealthy the farmer is getting and
the staggering prices he is receiving for his
produce, especially beef.
I had an idea in 1899 that that was the
lfe so we bought farm We paid an average
price for place and went right to work
fixing it up. OF course, being city folks, we
wanted it to look rather nice and as result
spent much more than the regular farmer
would have done. We just thought we would
put these great profits to be realized back
into the buildings and land, as we did not
need the extra money. AL We wanted to do
was to break even and live the life OF Riley"
we did not make the profits and we did
not live like Riley We worked and worried
plenty, spent money like drunken sailors,
lost money every year, and finally had to
give up and sell out
The reason is very simple. have records
to show we received less for our fine and
healthy herd Of white-faced Hereford beef
COWS and calves than I paid when I bought
them. We received slightly over II cents
pound for some cows, and up to little over
l6 cents pound for the top. The average
price for the cows was 13 cents pound.
The calves brought from Is cents to slightly
over 10 cents. One group Of four calves
brought ~ cents. 1t is presumed that some
bidder wanted these either for later breeding
or wished to finish them out for his own beef
Quite difference between this and 80 cents
you read abouti A. =. I.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Tour of the Nation

John and Virgil Emmert are two Salem,
Nebraska, boys who really know their
country. travelling in 1914 Model T
Ford, they have visited the capital of every
one OF the forty eight States They started
on January 25, and the Associated Press
reported their safe arrival home on Sep
tember 13. Their mileage is given as
25,200. Only $11.49 was spent for repairs
to the car and the youngsters say that
they had only seven flat tires-the last of
them within eight miles of their final
destination. Roads over which they oper-
ated generally were good; people, including
long list of Governors, were uniformly
helpful. Along the way the boys received
many offers to buy their f1ivver. The best
bid was $4,000. 1t seems that amount was
not enough
Neither would many times such sum
compensate the Emmert brothers for an
experience which they never will wish to
forget. Few of their fellow Americans
truthfully can claim to have viewed so
much of the United States The average
citizen is familiar with only relatively
small portion of the map. Most of us
move day after day in accustomed routines,
rarely attempting to go beyond the natural
limits Of our regular employment. Not
even the winter rush to Florida involves
more than tiny fraction of the whole
population. The variegated license tags
counted in Miami run into thousands, yet
comparatively they are few when con-
sidered against the millions of private
passenger vehicles which never have been
driven more than a few hundred miles
beyond the home neighborhoods of their
owners in the great metropolitan centers
of the North and West.
But what the Emmert boys did was we'll
worth doing. They qualified themselves
10 speak as authorities on places as distant
from each other as the Grand Canyon
Evening star., 1947-10-20
The Krug Report

The principal conclusion of the Krug
report is that we can, with proper manage
ment, undertake program of American
aid to Western Europe aggregating some
$20,000,O00,000 spread over period of five
years. And this can be done, further
more, without impairment of our own
economy
This is the first of three studies which,
when completed, will form the basis Of
the recommendations to be put before
Congress by President Truman. Until
all of these studies are in hand-the others
are in process of preparation by the Coun-
Gil of Economic Advisers and the non-
partisan Hartman committee-the exact
scope of the Presidents proposals will
remain undetermined.
At this time. however, we should be
more concerned with our national state
of mind than with the details of the
material aspects Of this program. There
is hardly any doubt that we can supply
the assistance now contemplated 1t will
not be an easy thing to do, but it can
be done if we want to do it. We will
find ourselves pinched here and there,
but as Mr. Krug has pointed out, the
portion of our production which will be
absorbed by the aid program is incon-
Sequential in relation to our total pro-
duction.
The real question is whether enough
people can be brought to understand what
is that we are trying to do and why it is
so essential that we do it. One aspect of
this has to do with our own economic
welfare, with the seriously adverse effects
which, in the long run, a failure of re-
covery in Europe would have on our own
economy. Another concerns our ability to
whose thinking seldom can rise above the
level of where and how to find adequate
food, clothing and shelter.
Our great concern today should be the
maintenance of the shrinking areas of
the world in which some semblance of
freedom prevails. These areas are the
front lines in the great war of ideologieS
which is being fought out with the United
States and the Soviet Union as the prin-
cipal contenders.. We can no more afford
to lose this war than we could afford to
lose a shooting war. Yet we almost GER
tainly will lose it if we do not throw into
the struggle the material resources neces-
sary to keep Western Europe alive We
have real chance noD to win this ideo-
logical war at relatively small costa cost
which assuredly will be far, far less than
the ultimate cost of failure to win it. This
is the central fact of the matter which
must be understood and kept before us.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Toi Mohul

AlUdys he sought beauty-tt tDas spring
That quenched all thtrsts that he had
ever kno,Dn
1t gaUe him peace; 1t gdue his spirit wing
To reach taper phere no Hoht had
sh01Dn.
1t fo,ped, as al,oays such spring must
foD,
To gracious wonderlands, lands spirit
seen,
Where thought spreads pleasant meadows,
Which to kno,D,
Make the minds landscape fabulous and
green.
He had dreamed long, the Taj Muhal for
him
Became his quests aim and his one
desire,
But gears slipped BY, his sight began to
dim,
His strength was iDantng, he began to
tire,
And one day from a Hill he looked to tDhere
His home was waittng-and his dream
stood theyei
" EDWARD D. GARNER.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Federal Bookkeeping Mess

If the series of investigations which the
! General Accounting Office has been max
ing of various Government corporations
and other agencies results in nothing more
than reform in Federal bookkeeping
methods the inquiries will have been we'll
worth while. There are hints in official
quarters that the checkups may uncover
more than merely careless or stupid &C
counting. Certainly there is ample justi-
fcation for the thorough investigation
being made by a Senate Expenditures
Committee of the much-criticized records
of the Federal Public Housing Authority
The FPHA mess" as Senator Mccarthy,
Republican, of Wisconsin, describes it, first
was brought to light by an auditing firm
engaged by the Controller General to re-
view the wartime records of the housing
agency. After preliminary survey the
firm reported to the Controller General
that the FPHA books for 1945 and 1946
were in such a confused state that it was
impossible to make an intelligent audit of
them. The House Appropriations Com
nittee last June, in severely criticizing the
work of the agency, declared that some
FPHA records were in an "atrocious con-
dition." The committee also took cogni-
zance of allegations of political irregulari-
ties and possibly fraud on the part of
some employees in the San Francisco area
The current Senate inquiry is follow
up authorized at the past session of Con-
gress. Senator Ferguson, member of
the subcommittee, says $26,250 fraud"
has been discovered in one regional Office
and Senator Mccarthy declares that
$608,261 debit item for Greenbelt housing
project was either "a mistake in book
keeping or a defalcation."
1t is not a satisfactory excuse to point
out that the alleged bookkeeping mess"
developed during the stress of war con-
ditions. Elimination of "red tape" in war
time should not be carried to such an
extreme that record-keeping is dispensed
with or sloppy bookkeeping tolerated. Yet
the General Accounting Office has found
that bookkeeping procedures in number
of Federal offices have been inadequate
and confusing. Such inefficient record
keeping is in itself an invitation to gen.
eral administrative waste or worse. An
overhaul and modernization of Govern
ment bookkeeping methods are badly
needed, if findings of the Controller Gen
eral are criterion of prevailing conditions
in some of the newer agencies.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Small But PROMISING Stort

Mr.. George Kennedy's excellent article
on this page today explains the theory
behind the Hebert law which makes pos
sible, with public funds, this community's
first organized attack on alcoholism as
a public health problem.
. While scientific research has given this
theory sound foundation, it is yet to be
demonstrated how practical may be its
application. 1t would be a disservice to
the theory itself to believe that within
any Immediate future we are going to
find any results that indicate notable
change. Nor should we reach any hasty
conclusion that persons lack of self
control is the result of type OF illness
for which he, as an individual, is in no
way responsible.
This law is designed, in the irst place,
to reach relatively small proportion of
the population, pitiful segment caught
IN the tragic cycle of Police Court, Jail,
brief liberty and Police Court again. It
is highly expensive segment It's mem
bers are housed and fed largely at public
expense and their families often become
public charges. 1t is the hope of the
Hebert laws supp Gters that cOnbina-
ton of medical treatment and mental
rehabilitation will return some of them
as useful and producing members of
society, and that success In this endeavor
will make available to many others, who
have not yet become involved with the
law, the same treatment.
The Commissioners have chosen an ex-
cellent committee of citizens to chart the
course of the experiment. It's members
should look around for an outstanding
man to direct the work. A sound, care
fully planned beginning-no matter how
small-is desirable. We shall be feeling
our way for some years to come and the
first requirement is some certain know
ledge that what is done on small scale
is worth doing on large one.
Evening star., 1947-10-20

get effective help In stopping drinking they
constitute major public health problem
Dr. Jeulnek has arrived at a way to estimate
their numbers. Figures on arrests are mean
lngless. Many persons arrested for intoxication
are not alcoholics. Death certificates are no
help. Pneumonia usually occurs in the fatal
stage OF alcoholism and that goes on the
certificate. But where autopsies reveal cirrhosis
OF the liver and alcohol has been a contrib
utlng factor that fact always is recorded
Projecting this statistic on the whole popula-
ton, with calculations allowing for age groups
etc., DR.. Jellinek comes out with figure For
Washington, his total of what he calls primary
alcoholics, persons suffering from a probably
fatal disease, is 5000
1t would be a fantastic burden on the
economy of the community to hospitalize such
number if they could all be located. But
something can be done about them
You must remember" says Dr. Seden
Bacon OF Yale who is running the Connecticut
program, that it took good many years to
build up such large mass of alcoholics Take
clinic program that brings in 1000 new
patients year. Our experience shows that
We can help at least half of them BY that
mean, get them back working at their best
skllls, paying their debts, supporting their
families. After six years Of such a program
you have helped 5000 or more. BY that time
you will find you are making a social change
in the community.
An Outstanding Man Is Needed.
But you will be doing something else Be-
cause recovery from alcoholism is so dramatic
every one knows man is an alcoholic and
every one notices his recovery-you will be
increasing the numbers that come to your
clinics voluntarily. Many of them are not vet
what we call alcoholics. They are just scared
BY this time you are preventing alcoholism
And that will mean further marked social
change"
The bill authorizes a research program
finding out more about alcoholism-whch is
of the utmost Importance
Congress followed the Connecticut plan bv
not putting the program in the Health Depart
ment. 1t ensured the spotlight would be kept
on the effort by having the head of the clinics
report directly to the Commissioners One OF
the first tasks Of the excellent citizens board
appointed from the nominations of Health Of
ficer George c. Rutland will be to advise on
the appointment of director There is no
reason why top man in the medical profess
sion cannot be found. The opportunity for
achievement and recognition is here The salary
level for the director does not have to conform
to levels established for other Public Health
work IN the District. Congress has ordered a
major attack on alcoholism because it is
disease that, handled as police matter, al
ready costs the District government large sums
Further the money for the program comes
from special source. The bill taxes the LIQUOR
trade to pay the costs. II more money is
needed it can be obtained
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Stars, Men and Atoms
Potent Antibiotic Found
In Mold of Citrus Fruits
Chinese Discover Effectiveness
Against Wound Infections
By Thomas X. Henry

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new and apparently very potent wound
healing anti-biotc of the penicillin class, de-
r1Ved from mold which oppears on citrus
fruits has just been reported from China.
Ctrlnln, as this substance is called, has cer-
tain remarkable properties in lessenine the re-
slstance of infection-causng micro rranisms
both to itself and to certain sulfa DRUGS o.
cordlng to report just made to the American
Association for the Advancement of Science
mere by Drs. F. T. Hwang and c. s. Fan of tho
Natlonal Biological Institute at Shanghai
IL Is particularly suitable, they say, for an
plcatlon to infected wounds according to ex.
perlments with both rabbits and human BEINGS
notable test was made by cutting almost an
men square piece Of skin from the rabbit and
hiecIlhe the wound with staphylococci aureus
one OF the most common infectious organisms
IL causes extensive pus formation. When dusted
with a powder formed of citrinin these uo,,nd,
orled up and crusts were formed over than, in
one Gay. In two days there was complete heal.
ing Similar wounds treated with sulfadiazins
required 1our days to heal. Those left untreated
showed no Improvement in seven days.
Found Effective for Humans
Inc new drug has been used in three cases Of
'oeai hiiec'loh IN human beings with dramatic
results. Areas infected with both staphvlococcus
hours Ihe patients felt some needing main
after the first application but later felt no dis
comfort 0 "1'-
In experiments to date the drug has nroved
enectlVe against wide variety of bacteria in
cluolng pneumonia a-causing organisms Ev.
perlments on internal use, made with rahbits
snow that it Is quite poisonous, so IT nrohah,v
VIII be restricted for some time to external an
plications.
The two Chinese scientists found th.t .t.er
single mild application Of citrinin, staphylo-
coccl were five times more sensitive tn xul-
1aolazlne than they had been before. There
was also an increasing sensitization to citrinin
Itself so that smaller and smaller doses vere
required TO 1nh1bit the growth of the organ
isms.
New Anti-Biotic Reported
A second curious anti-biotic ranhanin Nv
tracted from radish seeds, has just been re-
ported In the British scientific journal.
Nature, from the University of szeged, Hungary
IL appears to be not only a bacteria killer
but one OF the most potent antigrowth sub.
stances known. Small doses prevented the
germlnatlon OF seeds and a water dilution or
one part to 10000 was sufficient to stop plant
growth. 1t also proved moderately toxic, In
]ectlons OF tenth of migram were fatal
to mice
Search for these antibiotics is in progress all
over the world, not for immediate practical
purposes but to make possible determination
OF the properties OF all germ killers against all
sorts OF disease-causing organisms
Evening star., 1947-10-20
A Landlord Finds No Justice
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A short while before the war, all during the
war and nearly three years since the war, 1
have property that has been rented to ten
ants with children. Due to the children,
mostly boys, the house is in very bad condition
Recently put this house up for sale, but
people who have seen it inside are too revolted
to buy it. To sell the house would have to
make extensive improvements sinside, but what
would be the use Of this, when the tenants
children would smear the walls again? Also
the rental is very small compared to the prices
charged for repairs.
1t therefore appears that If the tenant can
not be removed. that can only sell my prop
erty at a very reduced price, and this injustice
with the consent of the Government OF the
United States!
Now. think where there are 50 many houses
for sale. with only small down payments,
people IN rental properties shoalld be made to
buy antdive In their own houses. and not CO.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Letters to The Star
Questions Stars Right to Question

Questions Stars Right to Question
To the Editor of The star:
Your editorial THE Egg the Chicken, and
Us" is not only disservice to the Presidents
food-saving drive, but also ranks with the dis
torted reporting Of Secretary Anderson's re-
marks in Chicago as a serious abuse of the
freedom of the press.
The facts of the matter are clear, and are
certainly available to your staff of editorial
writer's. Per capita consumption of meat and
poultry in this country is higher than it has
ever been-even in the days of prewar pros
perity. Production of this quantity Of high
protein food requires disproportionately large
amount of grain, grain which is needed not to
put fat on Western Europe, but only to keep it
alive. Ahstention from meat by Americans one
day week, and from poultry another day will
certainly save grain for Europe. For you do
not seriously think do you, that if man eats
no eggs or poultry on Thursday, that he will
eat twice as much on Wednesday, or Friday, to
make up for it? Chicken lost to todays dinner
is gone like the SHOWS Of yester-year as far as
we are concerned, but will appear as bread for
starving children in Europe. I think we can
stand it, don't you?
We will not keep on abstaining If you, and
those members of the press who in order to
AiohC AiSouA11iCs GoItcu ocCTtIdTy AnQerSOnS
remarks, confuse the American public by this
unfair sniping at the conservation program.
AS a nation we made great moral effort
during the war. much less effort is required
now, not to kill others, but to keep them alive
You may with propriety criticize the sacrifice
asked by the President on the ground that it
is too little, but not on the ground that 1t is
too much, nor that it will not do any good any
how. SAM L. BROWN
Editors Note-Mr Brown evidently believes
that 1t Is disservice even to question the me-
chanics of the food program The Star does
not Unless there is an answer to some of the
questions, the program will not succeed It
should succeed)
Evening star., 1947-10-20
A Stand From on the Fence
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
wish to take my stand on the fence 1t Is c
shame to dump oranges in the ocean, slaughter
meat on the hoof, burn potatoes and dump milk
in the river What if the farmers can't get
such hot prices? Wouldn't it be more humani-
tartan to give these products to childrens homes
and hospitals at least?> Charities have to be
kept up anyway, even after these foods are
wasted. If the farmer can't get dollar a
pound for something, he gets only the pleasure
OF venting his spleen when he throws good food
away. The pleasure of feeding the hungry is
much the greater. The fat people should diet,
but our thin people can't live on vitamin pills
And there are plenty who are hungry right in
our own country. The Christians tell us to
feed the world. If we could, we would control
the world and there would never be any more
wars. But then why have heaven?
PET LOVER.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

ny lHE HASkIN SERVICE.
Q. Is money still sent to the conscience fund
OF the United States Treasury? What is done
with this money?-V. A. N.
A. Contributions from persons who feel that
they owe money to the Government are still
received anonymously. In 1946 amounts ranged
from cent to sl,226O9 All contributions
go into the general fund Of the Treasury.
Q. Why Is the present Jewish year 57os,
From what event does the Jewish calendar
date?-S. A. H.
A. The Hebrew calendar dates from the wear
3761 BIC, the year Of the Creation, according
to Jewish tradition. Thus the year ls47 corre-
sponds to the Jewish year 57os which COM
menced> last September l5
Q. Was Russia expelled from the League
OF Nations?-L. D.
A. The League of Nations voted the exnul
sion OF the Soviet Union on December a. 1889
on charge OF aggression against Finland
Q. What was Raphaels last paintins?-
O. r. B.
A. Raphaels last painting was The Trans
hguration," the original of which is in the
Vatican Gallery in Rome The painting was
exhibited over the artists coffin as he lay in
state.
@. Did the Apostles themselves formulate
the Apostles Creed?-V. S. T.
A. According to an early legend this Is So
though there Is slight documentary proof
Many suppose the creed to have been taken
from the confession of Peter Matthew, xvi.16).
The earliest authentic mention is found in
passage In the works of ST. Irenaeus. who
died in AID. 202. The Apostles Greed has
been adopted either in part or as a whole by
practically every Christian church
@. Is the World War indebtedness of Great
Britain and other nations to the United States
still carried on the books of the Treasury De-
partment or has it been written off?-H " E
A. The debts are still carried on the books
OF the Treasury Department.
@. What great scientist was so absent minded
that he boiled his watch instead of an egg?-
T. H,
A. The story is told of Sir Isaac Newton
He is said to have prepared to boil an egg for
three minutes by placing his watch In the
boiling water and holding the egg in his hand
Q. Are the Argentine quintuplets identical7
p L.
A. Only two of the Diligenti babies are
Identical The quintuplets; three girls and two
boys, were born in 1943.
@. Did President Lincoln receive a special
invitation to attend the ceremonies at Gettvs
burg?-H. r. B.
A. The President received the same kind of
printed invitation that was sent to Senators.
Representatives, the Governors Of the Northern
states and members of the cabinet.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Community Forests

One of the phases of community activity
which merits increased interest in the i'm
mediate future is the establishment of ad-
ditional town forests. Our community
forests, including town, school and country
tracts, now number approximately 5000.
Although the country's first municipality
owned forest was started In ITO in the
little town of Newington, N. H, the Nation
has been peculiarly slow in developing