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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C DPs Have Many Skills U.S. Needs Useful Citizens Stay Idle In Displaced Person Camps By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—It’s a strange thing about us Americans who grew up under a Declaration of Independence which states that we’re all born free and equal, and a Constitution which is so scornful of blue blood that it specifically declares that “no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of congress, accept any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state.” In other words, we’re supposed to believe "a man’s a man for a’ that” Nevertheless, come election eve, somebody always gets very ex cited about the ancestors of any prospective candidate for the office of president (or the office of dogcatcher, for that matter). So I wasn’t surprised to see a dis-<S> — patch come over the wires saying that somebody, who says his |§ grandfather was | the brother of the grandfather of General Eisen hower, is in a displaced per sons’ camp in Denmark. Eisen hower. when questioned, says his ancestors came to America before the revo lution and he has Baukhage little or no infor mation about the family in Europe. A good American answer. I’d say. And it serves to bring up the ques tion of displaced persons in Europe, a matter with which the congress of the United States is mildly con cerned at present. Not as much concerned, however, as Rep. Wil liam G. Stratton (Rep., 111.) would like, since he has introduced a bill “to authorize the United States . . . to take its fair share in the reset tlement of displaced persons in Ger many, Austria and Italy, including relatives of citizens or members of the armed forces, by permitting their admission to the United States in a number equivalent to a part of the total quota numbers unused dur ing the war years.” There are some 11 million persons who were enslaved, captured in war or thrown into concentration camps by the Nazis, who have been sent home, and 850,000 others who, like the alleged relative of General Eisenhower and many who have escaped from under the iron cur tain since the war, can never go home for fear of political persecu tion in Soviet-controlled countries where they would face slavery or death. Fifty per cent of these still in the camps are women and chil dren. One-fifth are Jews. Many DPs have skills and are only too anxious to nse them. And there is room for them — or somebody — to take the place of the manpower which has been drained from the farms in the Middle West into factories. There are 93,000 DPs who are trained farm workers. Now, instead of producing food for others and eas ing the terrific strain on the Ameri can farms due to the shift in popu lation, these DPs are eating at America’s expense. I doubt if any American is hardhearted enough to say: “I am not my brother’s keep er. Send 'em all back where they came from ... to strengthen the sinews of the Communist dictator ship and live out their lives in slavery ... if they are allowed to live at all.” Breaking down the DP census under the ‘’agriculture’ 1 ' classifies- tion made by American officials, we have: Farmers (all types) . Agronomists Lumbermen Hunters, fishermen .. Millers Other agric. workers. Many other skills are represent- ed. Need any carpenters? More than 5,000 are in the camps; nearly 2,000 painters; altogether more than 21,000 trained in construction and maintenance. And so on. No comment is necessary on the items: “Hospital attendants, 1,135; nurses, 4,057; physicians and sur geons, 1,763”; or, from the house wives’ point of view ... “Domestics, 22,066." It isn’t as if we had thou sands of unemployed in this country, or that we weren’t try ing to increase production to feed and house our people. It costs our army (that means you) $400,000 per day to keep these people semi-prisoners, growing up to be useless citizens by denying them freedom and hope. What does it cost our consciences?' THEY’RE ROARIN’ FOR WARREN . . . California’s Republican as sembly, meeting in Del Monte, heartily approved a resolution to “go out and sell Gov. Earl Warren as the best man for president of the United States.” The campaign to get the GOP nomination for Warren has been gaining momentum. NEWS REVIEW House , Debates Tax Bill; Gandhi Is Assassinated Creed of Destruction What is Communism, as exempli fied by members of the Communist party in the United States? Some say it is a religion. Well, if the whirl ing dervishes are religious, so are the Communists. They are certain ly as fanatically devoted to their creed. If the American people were a little more familiar with that creed, they would understand the Communists better, and it is to be remembered that that creed is more than an “I believe.” It is a set of rules, and if you don’t obey those rules, your life is in danger. Com munists don’t believe in punishment in a future life. Their motto is "do it now.” and they do it. My attention has been directed re cently to one paragraph in the Com- munist bible, a resolution passed and accepted and integrated into the Internationale. It explains Just what you can expect of Communists when they join a club, a union or any international body. Expect no more of them; no less. This is the paragraph: “There can be no question of the utilization of bourgeois gov ernmental institutions except for the purpose of their destruc tion.” Many explanations have been of fered as to why a normal, natural- born American should embrace communism. The reasons range all the way up and down the scale, and include /everything from a broken heart to some hidden neu rosis that makes other people nag their husbands, maltreat their wives, drink, kick the dog or jump into the river. But whatever the orge is, it has some strange effects on the patient. Take, for instance, that one-time firebrand member of the “Wob- blies,” Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Many of you recall the picturesque IWWs, “International Workers of the World," who flourished in the early 1900s. Misi Flynn played a spectacular part in the famous Mesabi range strikes of 1919 — her father was a miner. She helped organize the Commu nist party in America in 1920. Now she conducts a column “Life of the Party” in the party organ, the Daily Worker, published in New All signs pointed to an income tax€> cut of one kind or another this year as the house of representatives clanged the bell for the opening round of crucial, election-year de bate on that much-belabored issue. Joseph Martin (Rep., Mass.), speaker of the house, started things off with the assertion that an in come tax slash is in the bag. He conceded, however, that it might not run as high as the 6.5 billion dollars provided in the Knutson bill, now up for debate. But in the end, he said, the Re publican congress would override a presidential veto “of the tax bill we send to the White House.” In order to beat the veto that Mr. Truman might slap on the tax bill, however, the Republicans would have to line up a few Democrats to vote on their side'Io make the neces sary two-thirds majority. And to bring enough Democrats around, it was thought, the senate Republicans would tone down the bill. Rep. Robert Doughton (Dem., N. C.) t ranking Democrat on the tax-fixing ways and means commit tee, pointed out the obvious fact that Republicans would have to trim the size of the cut to get anywhere. Otherwise, he said, congress will up hold the veto “and we will have no tax reduction at all.” As far as Knutson’s 6.5-billion- dollar measure is concerned, GOP congressmen were touting it on the grounds that it would spur business, increase 'production and relieve the price-pressure on taxpayers in ad dition to leaving the government enough revenue for an 11-billion- dollar payment on the public debt in the next two years. Democrats, of course, take the diametrically opposed view, holding that a tax slash that big would force the government to borrow money, threaten national security and hin der the European recovery plan upon which so much of the current phase of U. S. foreign policy is founded. York, which follows the party line DEATH: as a fox follows the aniseed bag or a rat follows the smell of cheese. In » recent column, Misa Flynn described • luncheon in honir of the “First Daytime Women’s School” of the Com munist party’s Kings Highway section. Says she (note how Marxism flavors even the sim ple arts of the housewife): “The luncheon which the women pre pared themselves was so deli cious It is evidence they are equally good Marxists and good cooks. How can I reduce under such temptation?" Perhaps sensing that someone might reach for a grain or two of salt before perusing her observa- Gandhi: Mohandas K. Gandhi, India’s champion, peacemaker, patient saint, was dead at the age of 78— a victim of an assassin's bullets. He died barely two weeks after Hindus, Sikhs and Moslems alike, overjoyed at the possibility of peace that Gandhi’s latest fast had pro cured for their dominions, were shouting “Gandhiji ki jai” (long live Gandhi) in the streets of Delhi. It was a violent ending for the mahatma who all his life had preached and practised a philosophy based on an abhorrence of violence. A Hindu from Poona approached him during a prayer meeting and fired tions further, she sounds a some- three shots into his body from close what different note in another range. breath: “The Communist party of New York affords us not only this won derful opportunity (attending a big meeting) to meet together to memorialize the noble life of Lenin, but give us inspiration to be guided by his teachings.” To India and to India’s Hindus to whom Gandhi had devoted his life, his death was a bitter experience and a shock that left the already turbulent sub-continent in an even more complete state of turmoil. After the partition of the country into the dominions of India and Pakistan Gandhi had been the man of strong spirit to whom all three opposing factions, Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs, had looked for guidance. And in his last fast, of five-day duration, he had given it to them. He had provided the three clashing religious groups with a foundation for peace. His action had tended to narrow the schism between Mos lems and Hindus, had lessened the talk of war. Whether his death would undo the good that the last days of his life had accomplished remained, for the time being, an open question. LITTLE MAN And What Now? To the senate banking and cur rency committee came a repre sentative of America’s beloved 'lit tle man” to talk of inflation nnd ask the question “What now?” Economists may define an infla tionary condition as an excess of demand over supply or a dispro portionate amount of money and credit in relation to exchange, but WAUD AND FAMILY 'We're not living . . to Cyrus J. Waud of Camden, N. J., inflation simply means that his $50- a-week salary can’t take care of his wife and six children. Waud, a cannery worker, told a story familiar to millions of his co horts across the nation: The end less, insufferable rise in prices; the hand-to-mouth struggle to keep even with the implacable economic circumstances which gradually were beating him down. With the dispassionate bitterness of a good U. S. citizen who knows that it is within his rights but not within his power to have economic freedom and comfort for his family and himself, Waud summed it all up in the 1948 “little man's” tragic cliche: “We’re not living, we’re only existing.” Germ 'Flypaper 1 One of the latest developments in this century of scientific whing dings is a bacterial flypaper to keep rooms freer of disease germs. It is a chemical that can be put on floors, blankets or curtains to catch and hold tiny organisms, in cluding those which cause colds, when they settle out of the air. Un like flypaper, it doesn’t kill, but it does keep germs from circulating around the room. BUMPER BABY CROP Boom in Births Means Change Biggest boom of all right now is Big families mean bie chances hecin tn fnei Biggest boom of all right now is that which is expanding the U. S. baby crop to historic proportions. More than 26 million new babies have arrived on the scene in this nation since 1940, when the baby boom began. That is nearly 11 mil lion more than had been expected on the basis of what has been con sidered the average yearly birth rate of the past, about two million. And this bumper crop has in creased the total national family to more than 144 million souls—con siderably more than even any gov ernment bureau had counted on. Last year more bundles from heaven arrived in the U. S. than ever before in its history, a whop ping 3.37 million; and this year probably will measure up to approx imately the same standard. Big families mean big changes, as every parent knows. Although the future is seldom less than ob scure, it is possible to predict in general terms what this expanded birth rate will mean to the U. S. during the next 10 or 15 years. There will be more growing chil dren to provide for. That means bigger markets than ever for indus try, business and manufacturers. It will mean the building of more schools, the production of nfore food, the manufacture of more clothing, the building of more homes. The infants' wear and toy indus tries, of course, have already rock eted to new levels of endeavor and production. As the children start to school and outgrow their litUe quarters at home the construction industry will begin to feel the impact in the 1 of a stepped-up demand for r single-family houses, builders lieve. This, in turn, will give impeti the home furnishing and h equipment business. Further, it mean the building of more b; and stores and the extension of and street car lines. In short, it stimulate and sustain a higher 1 of employment. Another implication lies in fact that the present babies have reached the peak of 1 youthful strength between 1960 1970. Military and other author are quick to figure that if univt military training were to be ac ed now America's potential mili strength would be extremely pressive in the eyes of the worl that time. Young Farmer Has Chance to Start Knowledge and Training Essential for Success More than the usual number ol places are available for young men to get started in farming in 1948, according to Prof. C. A. Bratton of Cornell university. Many farmers are ready to turn their farms over to young men, or are looking for a young man to work for wages on a profit-sharing basis. Farming in the years ahead, ac cording to Bratton, will provide a good living for the young man who is well trained, properly financed and located on good lands. Educa tion and experience will be even more important for farming in the future than it has been in the past. Starting farming in a period of in flated prices requires caution. Un usually high prices for livestock and machinery and high land values make it important to start without heavy indebtedness. Working as a Time and again 4-H club mem bers have proved that their train ing well fits them to successfully operate farms of their own. hired man in a farm partnership or share renting are ways a young man with limited capital can be come established without a heavy debt load. Michigan Winners Winners in the Michigan better malting barley contest as awards were made at Michigan State col lege. Left to right: Ragalt Hauck, Rosebush, fifth prize winner; Her bert Gettle, Pigeon, fourth prize winner; August Kiehl, Harbor Beach, first prize winner; Foster Hickey, Fairgrove, third prize winner, and Clair Harrington, Akron, second prize winner. Pasture Makes Cheap Dairy and Stock Feed Pasture is the cheapest and best feed your dairy and meat animals can get, declares the Middle West Soil Improvement committee. Not only will it save scarce feed grains, but also it will cut production costs and step up the milk and meat out put. However, the soil must be fed to get a good stand of legumes and grasses. Legumes are heavy “eat ers” of phosphorus and potash, re quiring plenty of plant food. Lim ing, based on soil tests, use ol manure and the return of crop after maths to the soil are other essen tials. Posthole Digger This posthole digger was built by Clyde Hall, Bradford, III. He says it will put a nine-inch hole down three feet in Illinois soil in three minutes. It was built of heavy materials in his farm shop and required some large welds. A car differential provides a way to use tractor power to dig postholes. ★ ★ * ★ ★ it it it it movswHow * *« womens % These Budget-Wise Recipes Will Make Meat Go Farther A calavo served half shell pro vides a quick and satisfying way of rounding out menus on meat saving days. The calavo also may be filled with creamed vegetable or fish or a salad and served ai the main dish for a meal. Well, those food costs still are climbing, according to'latest reports, and most homemakers are having to tackle the menu problem with un diminished vigor. There’s first aid for all of you in these recipes to day, for they’ll keep the budget trim as well as furnishing sa vory meals. There’s no lim it to how you may extend meats — add a vegetable or two, fortify with rice, noodles or macaroni, or let the meat swim in cream sauce or deli cious gravy. Any of these is guaran teed to add satisfied smiles to your diners. Cabbage Roll-Ups. (Serves 6) 1 head of cabbage 1 pound ground lamb or beef 2 onions, chopped 1 cup uncooked rice Salt and pepper 2 cups canned tomatoes 14 cup water Cook cabbage until tender; drain and then carefully separate leaves from the stem end. Combine meat, onions, rice, salt and pepper. On each cabbage leaf place several ta blespoons of the mixture, then se cure with toothpicks. Place the roll-ups in a greased casserole and add the tomatoes which have been mixed with water. Cook in a moderate (350 degrees) oven for one hour or until rice is tender. Add cream sauce and pimiento to leftover veal roast as demonstrated in the following recipe, and you will have an excellent meat dish: ' Veal a la King. (Serves 8) !4 green pepper, shredded V. pound mushrooms 3 tablespoons fat 6 tablespoons flour 4 cups milk Salt and pepper I cups diced cooked veal 1 pimiento, diced Cook green pepper and mush rooms in fat for eight minutes. Re move from fat. Add flour to fat and blend. Add milk and seasonings and cook until thickened, stirring con stantly. Add green pepper, mush rooms and remaining ingredients and heat. Serve on toast, in bread croustades or patty shells. English Hot Pot. (Serves 4 to 6) 6 potatoes, pared and sliced 1H pounds lamb shoulder or breast 2 Iamb kidneys 1 large onion, sliced Salt and pepper 1 cup water 2 tablespoons butter, melted ice half of the potatoes in a sed casserole, then add meat :h has been cut into cubes. :r with sliced i and season ; salt and pep- Add water, e remaining toes on top, ^ ering with t completely ih with melt- jutter. Place a moderate (350 degrees) and bake for hours. *»■«+ 4-/-v Kovro r»r\mnnnv LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU ‘Spanish Pork with Vegetables. Spinach with Hard-Cooked Egg Garnish Kidney Bean Salad Rolls Lemon Cream Pie Beverage •Recipe given. dish than a cranberry topped meal loaf! Cranberry Meat Loaf. (Serves 12) Vi cup brown sugar % cup cranberry sauc« 1 pound ground beef % pound smoked ham, ground % pound ground fresh pork % cop milk 44 cup cracker crumbs 2 eggs 154 teaspoons salt 54 teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons diced onion 3 bay leaves Spread sugar over the bottom el a greased loaf pan. Mash cranberry sauce and spread over sugar/ Com bine remaining ingredients ex cept bay leaves. Shape into loaf and place in pan. Put bay leaves on top of loaf. Bake in a moderate oven (350 de grees) about one hour. Remove bay leaves before serving. Pork, prepared Spanish style, if a favorite because of its savory sea sonings as well as its color appeal. Vegetables go into the same dish with the meat. •Spanish Pork. (Serves 6) 2 pounds pork shoulder, boned and diced Flour Lard 4 medium sized potatoes 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sance 2 cups tomatoes 2 cups canned peas 1 green pepper Salt and pepper Have pork shoulder cut into 1-incfc cubes. Dredge in flour and brown in hot lard. Place alternate layers of meat and vegetable in casserole dish. Pour tomatoes over all Sea son and cook in a moderate oven (350 degrees) until meat and vege tables are tender, about 154 to J hours. A little meat will go a long way if you serve attractive cabbage roll-ups in a bed of buttered nood les. Round out the meal with but tered green beans and pickled beets and serve a simple baked fruit for dessert. You might try these two dishes with specialty meats if you want to serve nutrition-rich meals as well as appetizing ones: Savory Liver. (Serves 6 to 8) 1 carrot, shredded 1 onion, minced 1 turnip, diced 1 bay leaf 2 tablespoons fat 1 tablespoon flour 254 pounds liver (1 piece) 2 cups water or stock Salt and pepper Brown vegetables with bay leaf In fat. Add flour and blend, then add liver and water. Simmer for 154 to 154 hours. Broiled Lamb Kidneys. (Serves 6) 6 iamb kidneys 154 cups french dressing 12 slices bacon Clean kidneys and cut into halves. Marinate in french dressing for 12 hours. Drain kidneys and wrap in bacon. Place four inches below mod erate heat and broil for 12 to 15 min utes, or until bacon is crisp and kid neys are tender. Serve on toast tri- angles. Released by WNU Features. Marketing Lighter Hogs Stretches Feed Supply By marketing their hogs at just one pound lighter weight, hog men over the country could conserve about seven million bushels of grain, says Wisconsin College of Agricul ture. Marketing hogs at lighter weights is one of the best ways to stretch the feed supply. Hogs mar keted before they weigh 230-248 pounds usually require less feed to put on a pound of gain than hogs fed to heavier weight LYNN SAYS: Food Favorites Improve Your Menus If you’d like something novel in a frozen persimmon sliced and served with calavo set on a bed of crisp greens. Rinse the persimmon and place in the freezing compart ment of the refrigerator until firm. Fit square of biscuit dough into muffin pans to form cups. Bake until golden brown, then serve as cases for creamed meat vegetables or fish. A nice filling for yeast dough is made of honey mixed with butter and flavored with 54 teaspoon of cin namon or nutmeg. If you like a meaty flavored bis cuit for toppings, use 54 teaspoon curry powder or poultry seasoning mixed in with the dry ingredients. Cheese biscuits are novel when you want to serve an interesting hot bread. Simply add 54 cup of grated American cheese to biscuit recipe or to ready-mix. Add this before mixing in the milk. Gems ol Thought O NE of the best rules in con versation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.—Swift. Kindness—a language u/bitb the dumb can speak, and the deaf earn understand. Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. Handy Bookshelf Easily Made in One Evening 'C'VEN though you’ve never tried ’ your hand at woodworking you’ll be agreeably surprised to see how easily you can make this hanging bookshelf from the full- size pattern. Only ordinary hand tools — hammer, saw and plane—are needed. The pattern is first traced on the wood. The drawn outlines are then sawed and assembled exactly as and where the pat tern Indicates. You'll be able to make two at less than the cost of one ready made. All materials can be purchased at your local lumber yard. • • • Send 15 cents, plus 2 cents postage, fin Pattern No. 21 to Pattern Publishing Co., Box 215, Pleasantville, New York. • In NR (Nature’s Remedy) Tablet* there are no chemicals, no mineral* so phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are different—orf different. Purely vege table—a combination of 10 vegetable ingredients formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated or candy coated, their action is dependable, thorongh, yet gentle, as millions of NR’s have proved. 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