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Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
Woodpeckers Hit
Phone Service

The telephone service in many
parts of Britain is being fouled up
by a strange creature-the wood
pecker. For years the woodpeckers
have been attacking telegraph
poles and doing them no good.
There's some mystery about the
whole affair. Why do woodpeckers
go for telegraph poles which are
without bark, are harder than
dead trees, and are far less likely
to harbor insects? The experts
have been led to the conclusion
that it's the humming.
The only way to discourage the
woodpeckers seems to be to
silence the hummipg by insulat-
ing the wires for a distance of 10
inches next to the poles.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
More Trees
On the Way

American farmers will have more
trees to plant next year than ever
before in our history
State nurseries plan to grow $685.
976,5 ,551 in 1947-48, according to
national survey just completed by
the American Forest Products In
dustries. Inc. of Washington, D. c.
Most of these trees will be sold
to farmers and other landowners at
cost, while many will be given to
farmers free of charge by forest
industries who purchase them from
state nurseries.
This forest Seeding production.
however, will be increased substan-
TALLY by federal and private indus
try nurseries over the United States,
pushing the total to approximately
400 million seedlings.
Yet these figures. representing the
planting of three trees for every
man, woman and child in the coun-
try, indicate statistically that seed
ling production still is not enough
to fill the demand by woodland own
ers and other citizens interested in
growing trees.
And while they still do not meet
the tremendous demand, if all these
seedlings were planted 1000 to an
acre they would form a verdant,
mile-wide belt stretching from New
York to Chicago.
The record in tree planting is
matched only by the volume of new
wood now growing on Americas
forest lands. Total growth now ex-
ceeds 1873 billion cubic feet of wood
every year-greatest volume ever
recorded in surveys made by \the
federal government.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10

age depth of the topsoil on the earth
is aboutFone foot. 1t Is estimated that
it takes nature, Under favorable con-
ditions, from 800 to 1000 years to
build one inch of that vital source
of our food, clothing and shelter
yet" he says, what may have
taken a thousand years to build can
be, and in some places has been.
removed by erosion in a year, or
even in single day"
Erosion. That comes from over
use, wrong use or removal of pro-
tecting grasses and trees. We over
grazed the plains to get quick money
for beef, mutton and wool. We
plowed fields of grass, left them ex-
posed, and you remember what hap
pened-the dust bowl. We slaugh-
tered the forests and reaped the
yearly devastating floods. Today our
food and shelter runs down the mud
died, rivers to be lost in the ocean
And animal life? We killed
off millions of wild animals on
this continent. We replaced
them, to some extent, by dOmes-
tic animals. But we are break
ing the magic cycle of life there,
too. for the life-giving proper
ties of most of our domestic
animals do not return to the soil
as did the bones and bodies Of
wild life that lived their course.
died and were enveloped in their
mother earth.
Sheep and cattle are shipped today
to slaughter houses where what lit
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10

able. So you can see why there are
such food shortages around the
world.
! Osborne goes on: '"The relation
between land-health and health OF
human beings is actually no more
than delicate aspect of the delicate
complex aspect of all life."
The cycle of life-the life in
the soil that feeds and clothes
our own life-is a part of the
single whole which contributes
to the fruitfulness of the earth.
haven't space here to 60 through
the whole list of crimes that man
has committed in the race to break
that cycle-to destroy the fruitful
ness of the earth-that fruitfulness
upon which his own existence de-
pends. Take the most striking ex-
ample-the topsoil.
TOpsOil. When that goes, we
60 with it.
Osborne, as / mentioned sin this
-pace last week. estimates the aver
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
FUEL OIL:
Plentiful

Last winters serious fuel short
age in homes and industries prob
ably will not be repeated this year,
according to present predictions.
The supply of fuel oil is becoming
so plentiful that there apparently
is no need for an elaborate distribu-
tion system to be set up for the pur-
pose of doling it out.
Stored supplies are 60 per cent
ahead of last year at this time and
crude runs from distilleries are half
million barrels ahead of a year
ago. New refining facilities are
largely responsible for eradicating
the shortage.
Moreover, oil industry officials
say, there now is am ample supply
of gasoline. Only thing that could
put crirnp in that would be ma
tional emergency or transporta-
tion stoppage.
Most of the major cities are well
supplied with oil, and while there
might be spot shortages in rural
communities during the winter they
probably would be only of day or
two duration.
Last winter" said one industry
member, part of the trouble was
caused by snow tying up the rail-
roads," That happens and attention
is, focused on it when there is an oil
shortage 1t could happen again.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
RADAR NET:
Inadequate

What with one thing and another,
Americans can't help now and then
wondering what would happen if
this country suddenly were to be
attacked from the air. VS.
Biggest question in this connection
is whether warning of such an at
tack would be given in time for the
population to evacuate probable
centers of attack.
Air force officials say they are
doing the best they can with what
they have to provide the nation. with
a radar warning network.
What they have, however, is at
best inadequate. they say. The pres
ent radar system is not capable eSof
detecting all approaches of foreign
planes.
Currently, committee of leading
scientists. headed by DR.. Vannevar
Bush. is carrying out careful study
of improvements in radar that could
lead to an adequate air warning
system.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
OUTPUT:
UpshoOt

Total national output of goods and
services. stimulated by infiationary
forces which have been growing
stronger since early summer, hit a
record-breaking rate of 248.2 bill.
lion dollars in the second quarter
of the fiscal year, the commerce
department has reported.
That figure is "A billion dollars
above the peak reached in the first
three months of this year. accord.
ing to the department.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
Watch That Credit

Prospective home buyers who
might plunge beyond their means
simply because down payments are
lower under the new housing law
have been warned by government
housing experts to avoid that trap.
''Our only worry" one expert
said, lis that the lower down pay
ments will encourage people to buy
homes they can't afford. When you
reduce the down payment. the
monthly payments are more. -
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
VIEWPOINTS:
Religious

1t couldn't be called schismatic:
It was thoroughly democratic.
In such a way delegates to the
first assembly of the World Council
of Churches might have assessed
the first two addresses which Of
ficially opened the historic sessions
in Amsterdam.
John Foster Dulles, U. S. lay lead
er in many religious activities and
Observation-Disclosures statesman,
and Czechoslovakia's Joseph L.
Hromadka Of. the Evangelical
Church of Czech Brethren, speak
ing in section discussion on 1.-THE
Church and International Disor-
der" between them managed to
strip much of the camouhage from
the growing philosophical and spir-
itual rift separating the East and
West.
Total result of Dulles and Hro-
madka's addresses. taken together,
was not to presage religious split
between the two blocs of nations
but rather to define the problems
at the root of current international
disorders for those who are cou-
rageous enough to attack them with
spiritual weapons instead of guns.
DULLES Peace can never
be stabilized except by institutions
that seek to reflect moral law and
that respect the dignity of the indi-
vidual. And. the present methods of
communism are incompatible with
peaceful changes.
Collective action may at times
be required. pursuant to the United
Nations charter, to protect men,
Der states or individual human be-
ings in their charter rights.
Those who believe in moral law
and human dignity must be con-
cerned to make social institutions
reflect those IDEALS
HROMADKA The world is
seeing "the end of western suprem-
acy within the realm of internation-
al order.
Now, three years after World
War II, the western man hasn't
yet recovered and is losing more
and more the last remnants of his
world leadership"
He hasn't much to offer along
the lines of moral, philosophical or
spiritual leadership"
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
INSTALLMENTS:
Regulated

Just exactly what effect the new
ly imposed restrictions on credit
buying would have on the hog-wild
imitation that has been devastating
the nations moral fiber was not
quite clear.
Acting under authorization of the
8Oth congress, the government put
the brakes on installment buying
and extended the ceiling on its new
regulations to $4,000 to control Wild
cat buying of expensive new auto
mobiles. This new order goes into
effect September 20.
From that day forward the law
will require that the buyer of new
car pay one-third down in cash and
take not more than 18 months to
pay off the balance in installments
of not less than $40 a month.
Other hard goods-stoves, refrig-
orators, washing machines and re-
lated household articles-call for
20 per cent down payment with the
balance to be iquidated in not more
than Is months.
The order exempts anything cost
ing less than $50 or more than SIS, 600
"a rule which set many Americans
to asking caustically what they
could find to buy for less than $50
and where they could get the money
to purchase anything over $1,000.
Actually, however, the credit curb
seemed to amount to little more
than putting the governments
stamp Of legal approval on a prac-
tice which has been followed volun-
tarily by a considerable number of
retail merchants.
Many astute businessmen have
been following the one-third down
payment rule all along. as a pro-
lection both to themselves and the
prospective buyers.
Upshot of it all was that few peo-
pie believed the federal regulation
would do much to clear the infla-
tionary atmosphere.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10

They lived early in The Old Stones
age, and died without leaving any
known heirs, assigns or descendants
which may be just as well for the
rest of us who might have inherited
some Of their characteristics. They
were sub-humans-sto folks
but they couldn't take it. They died
out.
Now Mr. Cro-Magnon was a diff
ferent proposition. He was SUI
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10

pe er1Or mum d II
and l wish he
were a relative
because he was
really superior TO
us-better body.
better brain. If
he'd only lasted,
what a career he
would have had
in Hollywood
a n d W h a t h e
might have done
for us!~ He might
have saved us.
He may still.
I've been read
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10

Bubbling tOOthfully with con-
fidence, Herbert BrOwnell Jr.,
campaign manager for Gov.
Thomas e. Dewey of New York,
nails up the sign which proclaims
that the Washington, d. c., head
quarters for the Republican cam
paign ticket of Dewey and War
rem is open for business. BrOwneD
also has the idea that business
will be good.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
CIin1dctlC

Virtually every avenue of public
thought in the U. S. was teeming
with Russians, shadows of Russians
and few Red convertibles.
There was a feeling, however,
that the international commotion
had reached its climax and was
ready to start subsiding, partly be-
cause public interest. aagellated
into a state of high excitement,
couldn't stand the stress and strain
of it all much longer.
Nevertheless, events having to do
with Russia remained for the time
being, at least, reasonably climac-
tic: The Moscow talks were ready
either to pay off or break down;
Russia had broken off consular re-
lations with the U. S.; Mrs. Oksana
KaSenkina, the window jumping
Russian schooltea cher, had told the
story of how she had been strong
armed.
Moscow
In the Kremlin, where the three
western ambassadors were trying
to pound out some kind of tentative
basis for negotiations with the So
Wet Union, the Russians were play
ing their familiar game of hit-and-
run.
u S. Ambassador Walter Beden
Smith, British representative Frank
Roberts and French Ambassador
Yves Chataigneau had been drudg-
ing through a series of meetings
with the implacable V. M. Molotov.
Soviet foreign minister.
Molotov, as usual, was hard,
tough, adamant in his adherence to
current Soviet policy on the Berlin
and Germany problems. No prog
ress was made; the three western
representative were dispirited, al
though they kept to their chore. The
word was whispered about that this.
conference might break up in total
failure.
Then came a break, or so it ap-
peared Premier Stain would meet
again with the three ENJOYS. In the
ensuing discussions with Stain
hopes again were raised that the
western powers might succeed in at
least partially lifting the Berlin
blockade and perhaps effect an area
of agreement that could be used for
a subsequent top-level meeting to
iron out some of the major East
West differences.
But there were some who still
could see the AK on the peace table.
Somehow. there was a familiar pats
tern behind these negotiations that
went something like this:
After Molotov had subjected his
fellow conferees to hour after hour
of his case-hardened refusals to
come to terms, attempting by those
tactics to wear his diplomatic op-
ponents down, the scene was set for
Stalins return
Stain came on with his air of
geniallty and good viii, apparently
not only willing but eager to reach
common ground His attitude was
so manifestly different from Molo-
tov's that hopes again scared.
There was the danger. Lulled into
optimism, the western ENJOYS might
be trapped into making concessions
that should not be made. This same
kind of Molotov-to-Stalin play had
worked before.
Hit the Road
Jacob NJ Lomakin, Soviet con.
sui general in New York, had con-
Quoted himself improperly and dis
creditably in the affair of the Rus
sian schoolteacher. Mrs Oksana
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
Was s!!sy:{ 5s{ ) l1l:2:2Sy
Man Is Riding Life Cycle
Toward His Destruction
BY BAUKfiAGE
NetUs Analyst and Commentator.

WASHINGTON.-Today we have two visitors whom met
recently the Smithsonian institution Mrs Neanderthaler
cher husband wasn't available) and Mr.. Cro-Magnon.
Neandehaers lived
doubt
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
FARMS AND RANCHES

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FORMATION on farm settlement Opportunities
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Arizona sun., 1948-09-10

Kasenkina, the U. S. state depart
ment pointed out as it ordered him
out of the country.
1t was a sensational turn of
events. In note to the Soviet en-
bassy the state department asserted
that Lomakin had, in effect, misled
his own government with regard to
the Kasenkina case so that the pro-
tests which the Soviets made to the
u. S. were "based on misinforma
ton
In addition, the note charged that
the consul general had ''hindered'
the Investigation of the competent
police officials by refusing to al
low them to interview Mrs. Kasen-
kina" while she was under control
of the Soviet consul.
Then, even as Lomakin was pack
ing his bags and preparing to leave
the country, Russia countered
sharply by formally severing con-
sular relations with the U. S. and
repeating it's accusations of bad
faith.
That seemed to prove that Iona
kin's actions in the Kasenkina af-
fair were not so much the express
sion of his individual initiative as
they were a direct reflection of
Kremlin policy.
However, no one was worrying
too much about the breaking off of
consular relations The move did
not mean that diplomatic relations
were severed
Soviet consular activities in the
U. S. were limited to arranging for
mutual trade and travel between
the two nations. Since there is prac-
tically no trade or travel exchange
taking place. the presence or alb
sence of consul wouldn't make too
much difference.
To Escape
Lying weak and ashen-faced in
her hospital bed in New York. Mrs.
Oksana Kasenkina finally got
around to telling the story of why
she leaped from the third-story win
dow of the Soviet consulate.
81 jumped to escape, not to kill
myself" she said.
She said that her rescue" from
the Tolstoy foundations Reed farm
was not rescue but an arrest, >"
engineered by the Russian consul
general.
She did not want to go back to
Russia. Although she loves her
people, she stated that II don't
agree with the policies of Josef
Stain. l cannot agree with the
regime in the Soviet"
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
---WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
u. S. Russia Events Reach Climax;
Moscow Farley Continues UneasiIy;
Soviets Sever Consular Relations

--=-By Bill Schoentgen WNU Staff Writer---
Of new
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
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Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
FARM MACHINERY & EQUIP.

for Uni-carrier. Good as new. John Deere
8-ft. power grain binder on rubber. Bound
50 acres. ED l.. TRACY, Agate, Colo.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-10
Hit the Road

Jacob NJ Lomakin, Soviet con.
sui general in New York, had con-
Quoted himself improperly and dis
creditably in the affair of the Rus
sian schooltea cher. Mrs Oksana
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Trained Reds Ready
To Wreck Industry,
Gen. Gearhardt Saws

Small highly trained units OF
Communist saboteurs are present in
American industry and at a given
signal, can cripple it, Brig. Gen
Charles H. Gearhardt told members
of the District Department of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars last
night.
He was principal speaker at the
opening session of the departments S
29th annual encampment here. The
gathering was in the Commerce
Department auditorium.
Our real danger is not military
aggression but political infiltra-
tion," the former 29th Infantry
Division commander declared. But
We are smarter than they are and
we must awaken our people to the
possibility of the damage they can
do" He added that it is the
citizens job to control such sub
versive elements, for the armed,
forces cannot.
Gen. Gearhardt, who is Go Of
fcer for the Second Army, said he
felt very optimistic about avoiding
World War III" and added that the
possibility of war on our own soil
was most improbable He said
the Soviet display of military might
was "smokescreen" to allow Com
munists subversive activities to get
under way.
Three department members re-
ceived VFW citations during cere-
monies last night. They were
Claude T. Reynolds of Equality
Walter Reed Post No. 284 and Mrs.
Jessie S. Williams of the posts
Ladies Auxiliary, who were cited
for distinguished service, and Frank
E. Heise of Potomac Post No. l085
for Is years Of service with national
headquarters.
Guests of honor at the meeting
included Paul C. Wolman, past ma
tional commander of the VFW;
George Cassidy, national comman-
der in chief OF the Irish War Vet
Grams; Roy Dunn. department COM
mander, Disabled American Veter-
ans; Maj. Donald Mobley Of the
District National Guard; Mrs. Olea
French, president, Grace Darling
Siebold Chapter, Gold Star Moth
ers; Mrs. Martha Reynolds, depart
ment president of the VFW Ladies
Auxiliary, Canon Merritt F. Will
liams, national and department
chaplain and Chester F. Naumowicz,
Veterans Administration regional
Office manager here.
The encampment will continue
through Tuesday. An encampment
of the departments Ladies Auxil-
iary will begin tomorrow and last
through Wednesday.
At 4 pm. today Canon Williams
will conduct memorial services in
Washington Cathedral.
Evening star., 1948-06-13

member of the Catholic University
law faculty. A native of Boston, she
studied at Catholic University ano
George Washington University Law
School. She has been with the
state Department for 20 years. She
plans to leave her present post
between now and Sep
tember."
Dean White has been with Cath
olic University faculty for II years,
Evening star., 1948-06-13

| l D r a r l q n Dy
Catholic Univer-
sity, it was an
nounced yester-
day.
Simultaneous
ly, the university
announced the
resignation of
Dean Robert J.
White of the law
school because
of i'll health. His
successor W q S
not announced.
Miss Rooney Is
the first woman
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Silver Spring Art Gallery
To Open Exhibit Today

A summer exhibition of work by
three artists, Denis Beatty, Bella
Weinberg and Tracy Coleman, and
a display Of Chinese art objects will
be opened this afternoon at the
Silver Spring Art Gallery, 9216
Flower avenue. Silver Spring, Md.
Claus Bogel, "The Fact Finder" on
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Leqion to Hear Kaufman

Irving r. Kaufman of New York,
special assistant to the Attorney
General, will address the Depart
ment of Justice Post No. Al, Ameri-
can Legion, at 8:15 pm. Tuesday in
the American Legion Home, 2437
Fifteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1948-06-13

Station WToP Of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, will give an
informal talk on "Reminiscences Of
the Theater" at 4 pm. today as part
of the opening program. This an
nouncement was made yesterday by
Isobel Gregory Dexter, gallery di-.
Evening star., 1948-06-13

II of which he served as dean of
the law school. He served as q
Navy chaplain during World War
II and recently was retired in the
grade of rear admiral.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Miss Rooney Joins Faculty
|0f Catholic u. Law School

Miss Miriam T. Rooney, assistant
to the legal adviser to the Secre-
tary of State, has been named an
associate professor of law and law
Evening star., 1948-06-13

rector.
Drawings, pastels. water colors
and oils of the three artists will be
Evening star., 1948-06-13
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington D. C. = A-21


shown. The Chinese art objects are
loaned by Simon Kriger Of Wash.
ington. The public is invited.
Evening star., 1948-06-13

Your old living room set is COM
pletely torn down, re-designed to
Regency, Lawson, sectional, Tux
edo, Duncan Phyfe, ChippendaIe,
chesterfield, Duchess of Windsor or
Modern and then re-uphOIstered to
new beauty and enduring quality.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-07-23
Tokyo yank Looks
Forward To Job
As Park Lookout

Belton-Glacier park noun
tain-top lookout job for his wife
and himself in 1850 is the dream
of an American soldier, now over
seas in Tokyo, Japan.
In the service since 1871, the
soldier has just filed an applica-
ton for the lob he wants most"
after he's received his discharge.
It will be t h r e e months on a
mountain top for his wife and
himself, the summer after next.
Glacier now has 10 married cou-
Piles VETERANS and their wives)
serving as lookouts on isolated
peaks. Last summer there were
eight. The park has found that
couples are more satisfactory in
event of fire danger. There are