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Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
BUDGET:
Unbalanced

Will there be- surplus or deficit
in the governments budget at the
end of this fiscal year?
1t was a question good for a lot
of political haymaking, and both
President Truman and his Republi-
can opponents in congress went to
work with a will.
Mr.. Truman's forecast was that
the government would be LIS bill
lion dollars in the red next June.
In his mid-year budget report he
blamed the Republicans "ill-timed"
five-billion-dollar tax cut for put
ting the nation back in the hole.
Stricken with horror, COP law
makers raped back sharply: Far
from harboring deficit, they said,
the treasury will close it's books
next June with a surplus of be-
tween five and six billion dollars.
The President had juggled figures
for political campaign effect, the
Republicans charged bitterly.
Another of the weird distortions
which are coming from the White
House while it's occupant is nerv-
Gus candidate for reelection, COM
mented Sen Styles Bridges (Rep..
N H.) mordaciously.
Mr.. Truman had said that federal
expenditures this year would hit AZ
billion dollars, while Republicans
claim that actual expenses will to-
tai 38 billion. They charged, too,
that the President had figured the
national income 3.4 billion dollars
too low for the year.
Just who was right in the matter,
if anyone, was impossible to say.
The entire affair had many of the
chara cteristics of the kind of tenn
pest in a teapot that is run-of-the-
mill event in an election year.
Actually, even if President Tru-
mans estimate turns out to be the
correct one, the books still will show
an adjusted SURPLUS" despite the
1.5-billion dollar operating deficit.
That is because congress provided
that three billion of the surplus
last year should be shifted to this
years accounts to help meet for
eign aid costs.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
Politicians Eye
Vast Increase in
Women Voters

WASHINGTON.-For the second
time in American history more wom-
en- than men are eligible to vote.
Up to 1910 the men had the edge.
In 1914 the population figures
switched the advantage to the dis
taft side. There were some guesses
that it might be the war, with the
men away, but that guess now ap-
pears incorrect
Both parties figure there are about
a million and half more eligible
women voters than men. Both major
parties are preparing an emphatic
wooing of the petticoat ballot.
Each has gotten out sort of
primer for the newcomers.
The Democrats call theirs the
"Guide Book" 1t gets down to such
fundamentals as What Is Pre-
cinct?" and how to work in one.
The Republicans call their booklet
Selecting and Electing." 1t con-
centrates on how to become dele
SdI0 W LIlC IldLlOlld1 CO11NS4AIAOAA CAAANA
how to help run things there.
Both books would be good for
either men or women hopefulS in the
political wings.
Women Are Determined
Women in both parties are de-
termined to put more women into
oo1;+;ooJ oHGoo foy txxy0 roocopc. (1l
They like to see women in office,
but also 90 they hope that the party
which is most generous to women
office seekers will also corral the
largest part of the women's vote.
Women's first loyalty appears to be
to the party and then to their sex.
Women office holders reached a
peak in state legislatures in 1916 '46,
when there were 234 women in Of
fee. They have slipped now. There
are % less.
That slip worries the women
chiefs of both parties-Mrs. India
Edwards of the Democrats and
Mrs. Robert w. Macauley of the
Republicans.
The political plums on which the
women concentrate are seats in
congress. Right now there are seven
women in the house, none in the
! senate.
Plenty of COntenders
But there are plenty of contenders
on the road. The Republican wom-
en-. through the mails, have heard
of 18 women all told fighting for
seats in the house.
The Democrats have further in
formation about possible contend
ers which may bring the women
seeking congressional posts to be-
tween 20 and 25.
Frances Perkins still stands alone
in the political history of American
women. She has been the sole wom-
an cabinet member, as secretary of
labor to President Roosevelt.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
Actress Stabs Self in Trying
To Avoid Traffic Ticket

HOLLYWOOD.-Evelyn Bertucci,
26, an actress, stabbed herself in
an effort to avoid getting traffic
ticket.
IF you give me ticket, I'll kill
myself" she warned F. r. Couch,
motorcycle officer, who signaled her
to the curb after she allegedly drove
through red signal.
Couch opened his book of tickets.
Mrs. Bertucci, known in the movies
as Evelyn Smith, pulled out seven.
inch-long Chinese ceremonial knife
from the glove compartment and
plunged the blade into her hip.
She was treated at Hollywood Re-
ceiving hospital, then taken home.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03

Technicians selecting male
buffalo grass to secure pollen for
breeding to improve strains at
the buffalo grass nursery at
Woodward, Okla.
grass for happier living on the
playing fields, lawns, highway
shoulders and airfields
Other parts of the book are de-
voted to the uses, nature and iden-
tification of various grasses and
finally there are detailed charts,
tables, recommendations for seed
ings and mixtures.
Scope OF the topics is wide,
for the subject involves not
only the varying conditions of
soil and climate, but also So
cial conditions affecting the ten
ure> of land and the lives of the
people, along with shifts in ma
tional policies and political
trends.
There is no more striking ex-
ample of how these purely external
conditions affect the farmer than
in England today, where a COM
plete change in that country's ag-
riculture was brought about, dur
ing the war and continued since.
The great parks. private estates,
preserves and forests have been
broken up under pressure to raise
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
WHAT'LL YA HAVE, GENTS?
How About 55 GuIIons of Black Coffee?

lion gallons of beer and 1T billion
gallons of assorted soft drinks will
be consumed this year.
Coffee consumption comes to 55
gallons per capita in 1913. The
grand total of 7.95 billion gallons
would make a circular lake one
and a half miles across and &c
feet deep. 1t would keep a Niagara
falls cataract flowing for 81 min
utes-without cream or sugar.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
Rugged Jeep's Best Selling
Point Today Is-Comfort

TOLEDO, o. - The jeep, that
great taskmaster of the last war,
has gone ''soft."
Once reputed to be the worlds
toughest riding vericle, the jeep
has caught on with Americas farm
ers largely because they say it is
the most comfortable vehicle in
which to do farm chores.
Willys Overland motors analysts
report that more than $4,000 of the
sturdy little cars have wound up on
farms since WI day. Oddly enough,
the farmers say the jeep's out
standing characteristic is-comfort.
Some farmers even have installed
radios. Then MON and the kids ride
along while pop does what used to
be lonely field chores.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
BOXCARS:
No Worries

Despite all-time record produc-
tion and the bumper crops forecast
for this year, U. S. railroads do
not expect as tight boxcar situa-
ton this autumn as has prevailed
during the past several years.
Southwestern grain, bulking G
larger than any other section, has
begun to taper off. more cars are
available in the Northwest this
year than last and terminals still
have space for storage.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03

Close up showing method Of
pOllinating female buffalo grass
flower with pollen from selected
male strain.
his descent into a valley where, he
says, was created 1.-The strange
spectacle of June in January"
peculiar to his native state.
ri sudden descent into THE sbeL-
tered Valley," bs Writes, "reVeaIed an
unexpected crescent of dazzling ger
dHre, glittering like meadosV in early
spring, unreal as an incantati0n, sur
trisine as THE sea to THE soldiers of
Zenobb0n as they stood Nbon The
shore and shouted T'balattsP 1t tVas
Blue Grass, Hnkno1Dn in Eden, THE
final triumph of nature, reserved to
compensate ber fav6rtie offspring in
THE nesV Paradise of Kansas for the
loss of THE old upon THE banks of THE
Tigris and EHbbrates."
Is Truman Another
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
Boy on Burning Deck?

It may be just as well that WASH
ington has not only it's proverbially-
unbearable weather, but that it has
a political campaign as well to take
its mind off more serious troubles.
It started out as a rather dull
campaign with the Republicans
positive of victory and the Demo-
Gratis showing an overweening will
ingness to get used to the idea of
looking for another job.
But ever since Harry Tru-
mans peppy speech at the
Democratic convention, you fre-
quently run into a Democrat
who actually thinks his party
has a chance in November.
One loyal adherent to the party
of Jackson and Jefferson approached
me with theory that Truman had
a very good chance of winning on
the psychological basis.
''You know" he said to me, deep
down in the subconscious of every
American is boy-on-the-burning
deck complex"
-. THE boytaOod on The burning
deck,
Whence all bNt bim bad fed;
The fame that lit THE battles
Wreck,
Sb0ne round bins o'er the dead.
I didn't get it at first, but the
explanation is simple and not il
logical. There probably never has
been a more outstanding example
of a one-man show than Harry
Trum n S performance at the
Democratic convention.
My friend went on: Most Ameri-
cans at one time or another have
pictured themselves as rising to the
occasion, alone and unsupported,
taking on all comers, swinging to
the right and left regardless of the
odds, holding the fort or storming
the redoubt or saving the child
whence all but him had fed"
HE went on to say: "Ameri-
cans see this spunky little fight
er who wears a confident smile
when most of his colleagues
have faces as long as a new
look skirt, and they imagine
themselves in his place.
LAS any schoolboy who has
studied psychiatry knows, there will
be a transference displacing the
affect from one person to another
motivated by the unconscious iden-
tification of the voter with the boy
on the burning deck and from the
boy on the burning deck to the
Democratic candidate"
Quien sabe?
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03

Coffee and milk, by a wide mar
gin, remain the favorite beverages
Of American drinkers who will
down nearly eight billion gallons
of coffee and nearly seven billion
gallons of milk in 1948.
The report on the national liquid
intake, compiled by the family
economics bureau Of Northwestern
National Life Insurance company,
also estimates that about 27 bill
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
COLD WAR
| William Revealed

At last something had happened
that could and did make people un-
derstand what this Russian situa-
ton was all about.
It had been pretty difficult going
for the world public to perceive the
basic truth when it was obscured
by confusing circumstances like
currency reform in Berlin, control
of the German Ruhr, maze OF
spies at home and political annihila-
ton of small European nations by
Russia.
What it all amounted to. as far as
most people were concerned, was
mess of verbal pottage that they
wouldn't trade for the comics page
any day of the week.
Then it happened. Mrs. Oksana
Kosenkina, the Russian school
teacher, jumped from third-story
window in the Soviet consulate in
New York to achieve the liberty she
so desperately sought.
Milkhail Samarin, the other Rus
sian school teacher, was wanted by
the Russians but managed to retain
his freedom. Refusing the Soviet de-
mand that he return to Russia. he
tossed this scallion for the Commu-
nists into the propaganda war: L
won't return to death"
And finally, in England Olympic
athletes from Czechoslovakia and
other Soviet satellite states were
steadfastly refusing to return to
their home countries after their
taste of a free land.
1t all added up to the biggest
break the western nations have had
yet in their propaganda battle with
the East.
This was simple. basic, under
standable: These people from the
land Of the Soviets-the schoolteach-
ers and athletes-utterly despised
the idea of returning. They simply
would not do it.
Thus, it was in the end few
ordinary persons who destroyed the
elaborate fabrication which Moscow
had constructed to represent to the
world the ideal way of life that
existed in the Soviet Union.
One Voice of America spokesman
said: ''This is what we have been
waiting for in our war of words.
This is something that can be easily
understood by people all over the
world"
The Communists tried frantic ally
to cover this breach in their curtain
by calling it, among other things,
an underground conspiracy in the
U. S. to wreck any possibility for
peace between the two nations.
But the villains disguise was off
now and everyone knew him. Try
as they might, the Communists new
er would be able to explain why two
obscure school teachers would seek
their freedom so desperately, nor
why Russia was so determined to
get them back.
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03

chapter of this
S p | e n did 500
page b ook by
means of AN
agriculture that
is stable and Sc
cure for farm
and f a rm e r S,
consis te mt in
prices and earn
ings; an agricul-
ture that can
S a t i S t y lndef-
initely all our
needs of food,
fibre and shelter
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Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
IlZzES, ] s'!!sz[:l i! \ ion lI{:2:&5y
Nations GrossIonds Stand
For Security in Agriculture
BY BAUKHAGE
NesUs analyst and Commentator.

WASTIINGTONTh grasslands, hay lands and forested
range of the entire United States than bill
lion nearly go per cent of the total land They fur
nish about half of the feed for all the livestock"
the
men constituents.
this book is to contribute the lore
he help to attain permanency
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03
NEWS ANALYSIS
U. S. Registers Cold War Victory;
Moscow Talks Headed for Failure;
Truman, Congress in Budget Fight
BY Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer

T T nsn: . sns n
Arizona sun., 1948-09-03

This permanency is obtainable, (
says P. v. Carbon, in the opening
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-16
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-16
RebekaIls Install
 19l8 Officers at
 Valentine Meeting

The Keoekahs ne'c their install- aticn of l348 officers Wednesday February II.
 Distric, Deputy Mary Ross. In- Ling ficers and installing -4lshal Pc 3gy Mo-vor, conducted Ee service with a corp of offi- -rs ali Past Noble Grands: Anna ke ii id Del. AstYid F,n- and Gefttude Jewell -he lecHye ct-icers installed R,becca Fee 0, Noble Grand, Ida Sturrcck, Wee Grand; Martha eadl ne, Rec rding Secretary; Lu- eChlson, Financial Secretary; 
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The Keoekahs net their install aticn of l948 officers Wednesday February II.
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Evening star., 1948-10-04
Vishinsky's Concession

The so-called concession on the control
OF atomic energy which has been made in
the United Nations by Andrei Y. ViShinsky,
the Soviet representative, is as phony as
three-dollar bill.
The proposal put forward by the United
States, and approved by majority in the
U. N, would first set up an effective
system Of international control and in
spection of atomic energy plants. After
that has been done, and only after that
would atomic weapons be outlawed
For highly suspicious reasons, the Rus
slams have long opposed this program.
Heretofore they have called for the out
lawing and scrapping of atomic weapons
as preliminary to consideration of con-
troll and inspection arrangement. Getting
nowhere with that, they have now come
forward with MIR. Vishinsky's suggestion for
q simultaneous outlawing of atomic weap-
ons and international control of the atom
There is a catch in this, however. Mr..
Vishinskys proposal provides that the
arrangement for international control and
inspection must be within the jurisdiction
of the Security Council. In other words,
the weapons which we have would be
banned but the Russians, through the
medium of the Security Council, would re-
tain the right to veto any inspection or
control of what they are doing within
their borders to develop atomic weapons
of their own.
1t is hardly likely that Mr.. Vishinsky
thought that this transparent fraud would
meet with U. N. approval Perhaps it was
put forward for such propaganda uses as
the Russians can make of it, Or it may be
that they are getting little apprehensive
at the prospects for themselves in an
atomic war In either event, they cannot
hope to accomplish much by offering con-
cessions" such as that which Mr. Vishinsky
has proposed. The Russians must either
agree to genuine and effective system of
international inspection and control of
atomic development, or we must push for
ward relentlessly with our own atomic
program.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Baseball Football and the Atom

With the Redskins on the warpath in
oldtime form and the American League
pennant race climaxed by today's play
of game in Boston, it is hard for many
good citizens to keep their minds on
more serious things like politics and diplo-
macy. AS matter of fact, it is a good
thing that there are "escapist" subjects
like football and baseball to take our
thoughts off the cold war and the atomic
bomb, even momentarily. Some of us
might 60 crazy if there were not an
occasional intrusion to divert our worried
and weary minds from the crises of the
hour. Thus refreshed, we are better able
to face the stern realities which press upon
US.
Indeed, so exciting were the diversionary
influences yesterday that 1t was difficult
to keep ones mind fixed on either foot
ball or baseball. For while the "underdog"
Evening star., 1948-10-04

Swiss diesel builders were also active in this
deal. One Of our large locomotive builders
had such a combined reciprocating engine
turbine unit which it offered to ship firm
for installation on a cargo ship. This proposal
was rejected because such unit, while highly
ed1cient from the view Of fuel consumption,
has the mechanical troubles Of both recipro-
eating engines and turbines
Such a combined unit may be necessary as
. crutch until American engine builders have
caught up with their British counterparts in
the design Of prophets.
The particular piece Of information that ap-
parently your editorial was based upon ap-
peared in even as reputable paper as The New
York Times, and on the front page at that.
Naturally, neither nor anyone else can give
any mixing of such new power plants as may
be under development-that we know about.
However, the situation does not lend itself in
any way to complacency. American mechanical
designers by and large have not been the equal
Of the European designers for a number Of
years. Our only ability in mechanical lines is
our ability to mass produce mechanical articles
large part OF this backwardness OF American
mechanical design has stenamed from the
miserable treatment in general accorded me-
chanical engineers by the leading manufacture
ing firms in this country over the years.
MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
You and Your Hospituls'

It is a tragic fact that Americas hos
pitals are being hampered In their vital
work of ministering to peoples Ills by seri-
Gus ills of their own. In Washington and
throughout the country Gripping epi-
demic of financial troubles is threatening
to affect adversely the operations of vol
untary hospitals. The story is the same
everywhere - widening margin between
hospital costs and income from private
and public sources, ending in mounting
deficits that threaten the very existence of
some institutions.
In an effort to get at the root of these
troubles, to learn more about the origin,
nature and effects OF the disorder, The
Star has talked with local and national
hospital leaders and with others familiar
with the problem. The findings are en-
bodied in a series of special articles by
George Beveridge, the first of which ap-
pears elsewhere in this issue.
Basically as the articles will show, the
hospitals have been experiencing the same
ailment which is affecting business insti-
tutions in period of rising costs OF ma
terials and personal services But hos
hard-boiled business methods of stepping
up income. The public will accept rise
in price of store goods much more readily
than it will accept an increase in hospital
charges. Besides, sickness affects not only
the body but the pocketbook Of the pa
tient.
Fortunately, q concerted attack on this
whole problem is being made by hospital
authorities, public health of1cials and
allied organizations and individuals. In
Washington Congress has appropriated
additional money for care of indigents and
has authorized payments to nine hospitals.
Payments under disqualification insurance
and Community Chest programs have been
increased. The hospitals are still in pre-
cariods condition, however. What further
steps: might be taken to bring relief-in-
cluding administrative improvements by
the hospitals themselves-will be discussed
in The Stars series on You and Your
HOSPITALS"