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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS'
U. S.-Russia Events Reach Climax;
Moscow Parley Continues Uneasily;
Soviets Sever Consular Relations
-By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns. they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Discussion
THE AX WAS THERE
RUSSIANS:
Climactic
Virtually every avenue of public
thought in the U. S. was teeming
with Russians, shadows of Russians
and a 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, flagellated
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 schoolteacher, 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
viet Union, the Russians were play
ing their familiar game of hit-and-
,run.
U. S. Ambassador Walter Bedell
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
representatives 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 Stalin would meet
again with the three envoys. In the
ensuing discussions with Stalin
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 ax on the peace table.
Somehow, there was a familiar pat
tern behind these negotiations that
went something like this:
After Molotov hqd 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
Stalin’s return.
Stalin came on with his air of
geniality and good will, apparently
not only willing but eager to reach
J common ground. His attitude was
so manifestly different from Molo
tov’s that hopes again soared.
There was the danger. Lulled into
optimism, the western envoys 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 M. Lomakin, Soviet con
sul general in New York, had con
ducted himself improperly and dis
creditably in the affair of the Rus
sian schoolteacher, Mrs. Oksana
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 goveiyiment
housing experts to avoid that trap.
"Our only worry,” one expert
said, "is 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.”
Kasenkina, the U. S. state depart
ment pointed out as it ordered him
out of the country.
It was a sensational turn of
events. In a note to the Soviet em
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
tion."
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 its accusations of bad
faith.
That seemed to prove that Loma
kin’s actions in the Kasenkina af
fair were not so much the expres
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 ab
sence of a consul wouldn’t make too
much difference.
To Escape
Lying weak and ashen-faced in
her hospital bed in New York, Mrs.
Oksana Kasenkina Anally got
around to telling the story of why
she leaped from the third-story win
dow of the Soviet consulate.
"I jumped to escape, not to kill
myself," she said.
She said that her "rescue” from
the Tolstoy foundation’s Reed farm
was not a “rescue but an arrest,”
engineered by the Russian consul-
genera L v
She did not want to go back to
Russia. Althoygh she loves her
people, she stated that “I don’t
agree . with the policies of Josef
Stalin. I cannot agree with the
regime in the Soviet.”
VIEWPOINTS:
Religious
It 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
internationalist-minded statesman,
and Czechoslovakia’s Joseph L.
Hromadka of the Evangelical
Church of Czech Brethren, speak
ing in a section discussion on "The
Church and International Disor
der,” between them managed to
strip much of the camouflage 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 a 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 mem
ber 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.”
OUTPUT:
Upshoot
Total national output of goods and
services, stimulated by inflationary
forces which have been growing
stronger since early summer, hit a
record-breaking rate of 248.2 bil
lion dollars in the second quarter
of the fiscal year, the commerce
department has reported.
That figure is 4.4 billion dollars
above the peak reached in the first
three months of this year, accord
ing to the department
FUEL OIL:
Plentiful
Last winter’s 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 noticed 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
a 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 an ample supply
of gasoline. Only thing that could
put a crimp in that would be a na
tional emergency or a 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 a 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. It could happen again.
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.
Biggest question in this connection
is whether a 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 fire
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 of
detecting all approaches of foreign
planes.
Currently, a committee of leading
scientists, headed by Dr. Vannevar
Bush, is carrying out a careful study
of improvements in radar that could
lead to an adequate air warning
system.
Political Pounding
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
ren is open for business. Brownell
also has the idea that business
will be good.
INSTALLMENTS:
Regulated
Just exactly what effect the new
ly imposed restrictions on credit
buying would have on the hog-wild
inflation that has been devastating
the nation’s moral fiber was not
quite clear.
Acting under authorization of the
80th congress, the government put
the brakes on installment buying
and extended the ceiling on its new
regulations to $5,000 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 a 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 $70 a month.
Other hard goods—stoves, refrig
erators, washing machines and re
lated household articles—call for a
20 per cent down payment with the
balance to be liquidated in not more
than 15 months.
The order exempts anything cost
ing less than $50 or more than $5,000
—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 $5,000.
Actually, however, the credit curb
seemed to amount to little more
than putting the government’s
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
tection both to themselves and the
prospective buyers.
Upshot of it all was that few peo
ple believed the federal regulation
would do much to clear the infla
tionary atmosphere.
Wheat Yield Boosted
Through Fertilization
Gains in Indiana Tests
Exceed Seven Bushels
Fertilizing wheat paid dividends
in crop increases averaging seven
to nine and pne-half bushels per
acre, Purdue university research
men revealed in announcing results
of 1947 studies conducted in 15 In
diana counties.
Wheat yields increased seven
bushels per acre when fertilizer
applications aver
aged from 150 to
200 pounds per
acre. When the
plant food treat
ment was boosted
to 300 to 400 pounds
per acre, average
production gains of
nine and one - half
bushels were ob
tained. \
Demonstrations
with wheat started
on various soil
types last fall
showed somewhat
similar results, ac
cording to the Pur
due research men.
When 165 pounds
of 0-12-12 was ap
plied on six south
ern Indiana upland
soils, increases of five bushels per
acre resulted. When the applica
tion was doubled, yield increases
averaged seven bushels per acre.
“Applications of 300 to 350 pounds
of 3-12-12 are being recommended
for wheat on practically all upland
silt or clay loam soils and for
sandy loams,” says a statement
by the Purdue agronomy depart
ment. “If the 3-12-12 cannot be
obtained, then 2-12-6 is a good sub
stitute for the wheat crop itself.
The additional potash in the 3-12-12,
however, is especially important
for the clover and corn crops fol
lowing the small grain.”
Machinery Is Revamping
Fanning in Cotton Belt
Nearly a million tractors today
are in action on farms in the 18
cotton - producing states, saving
time and labor in nearly every
phase of cotton production. The
invasion of machinery into the
South’s white cotton fields is elim
inating the back-breaking task of
producing the cotton crop.
Man’s mechanical helpers achieve
in a few hours what formerly took
days of costly human labor. For
example, the flame cultivator, at
tached to a tractor, removes grass
and weeds from the field at one-
tenth the former cost.
An experiment in the coastal
plains area of North Carolina
showed that while 118 man hours
are required to produce an acre of
cotton by the old man-mule meth
ods, use of two-row tractor equip
ment, mechanical choppers, flame
cultivators and machine pickers
cuts the man-hour requirements to
19.7 per acre.
Machines capable of harvesting
a bale of cotton in slightly more
than an hour are now a reality
instead of a remote possibility.
While the average hand-picker
gathers about 15 pounds of seed
cotton an hour, a single mechanical
picker in the same field harvests
about 1,500 pounds in 2 hours, 20
minutes. Thus, the mechanical
harvester accomplishes the work
of 40 to 50 human pickers.
Internal Parasites Loot
Farmers of Huge Toll
Few criminals ever dream of
committing a 125 million dollar rob
bery. But that’s the amount in
ternal parasites steal from the U. S.
livestock industry every year. Be
cause the parasites are hidden, the
farmer never will see the thieves at
work. However, they keep right
on causing losses day and night.
Parasites cause diseased animals
and poultry to'eat more grain and
other feeds than healthy stock eat.
They stunt the growth of young
animals and sometimes kill them.
Affected animals generally bring
lower prices when shipped to
market.
Internal parasites can be con
trolled. Phenothiazine, carbon tet
rachloride, hexachlorethane, sodium
fluoride and carbon disulfide are
used to fight certain types of para
sites. The advice of a local veteri
narian should be secured to de
termine the proper method of
treatment.
Spoilage of Stored Grain
Hinges on Bin's Condition
Grain can be stored almost in
definitely with little deterioration in
farm-type bins — those that hold
1,000 to 3,000 bushels—if the bins
are kept dry, cool, clean and free
of insects, according to the USDA.
For control of insect infestation,
chief reliance must be placed on
fumigation. Shelled com has been
stored for several years with a loss
of less than 1 per cent, according
to official reports.
Careful Planning Urged
To Make Light Meals
Nutritious and Balanced
AitE THE LIGHT MEALS
serve always nutritious? Or
they just some-
thing you throw
together for the e —L
sake of giving U If
calories to your p
family, even ~^li g i( fX
though the foods — l~l ~
are not particularly abundant
health-giving elements such as pro
tein, vitamins and minerals?
You’re guaranteed to feel better,
work better and, yes even play bet
ter if you’re getting the right kind
of food. Nutritious meals, no mat
ter whether they are small or large,
are bound to pay 'off big dividends.
Just how, you ask? Well, for one
thing, you won’t get tired so quick
ly, and there will be sparkle in your
Serve a salad for lunch and get
your nutrients the easy way. Muf
fins or sandwiches w”h milk or a
nourishing beverage help give a
well balanced meal.
eyes and smiles and a general glow
of health about you. Your scratches
and cuts, for example, will heal
more readily if you’re getting vita
min C in ample quantities.
That dragged out feeling may
come from lack of the B complex
vitamins which guard general well
being, or it may come from lack
of iron in the blood which helps car
ry oxygen we breathe to all parts
of the body.
If you’re troubled with night blind*
ness, poor appetite, and get colds
and infections readily, you’re apt
to be getting less than your share
of vitamin A.
When teeth are in poor condition
it would be wise to -check on your
calcium, phosphorous and vitamins
C and'D. Any one or all of these
may be responsible.
Dinners are apt to be rather well
balanced to give the- essential food
elements, but \frequently the cause
of many ills is the lack of good
lighter meals such as lunches or
suppers. Some people skip lunch
others nibble at little or nothing,
while some eat something that sat
isfies hunger without regard to sat
isfying bodily needs.
Keep your refrigerator well
stocked with fruits and vegetables,
so that you always can toss a salad
together. Serve this with sand
wiches if you’re hungry or "ginger
bread if you want a kind of bread
and dessert together. Add to this
a nourishing beverage and you’ll
have a lunch that satisfies hunger
as well as dietary needs. Doesn’t
take much longer to fix than a
snack! ,
Soups and juices are good to have
on hand because they satisfy vita
min and mineral requirements.
Plan, however, to serve a salad
with them or a nourishing milk
drink or dessert. r
• • •
CHOOSE FROM AMONG these
recipes for those light lunches or
suppers. Foods
containeft in them
are vitamin and
mineral con-
scious, but still
will be found to
be very appetiz
ing and refresh
ing.
Molasses Milk - Shake
(Serves 1)
x tablespbon pure dark molasses
1 cup cold milk
Dash of cinnamon
Combine molasses, milk ’and cin
namon. Shake well and serve im
mediate^.
Molasses Banana Milk Shake
(Serves 1)
1 medium ripe banana
1 cup cold milk
Few grains of salt
1 tablespoon pure dark molasses
Few drops vanilla extract
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LYNN SAYS:
Give Old Foods
New Flavor Tricks
Meat loaf will take on an inviting
flavor if you fold in one-half cup
of grated parmesan cheese into the
mixture before baking it
Chopped ham is delicious to add
to your favorite plain or cheese
souffle, fondue, omelet or scram
bled eggs.
Pork sausage will have a special
appeal when you prepare with
macaroni and a chili-flavored to
mato sauce.
Lynn chambers’ menu
phicken-Ncodle Casserole
•Combination Salad
Jelly and Relishes
•Very Best Gingerbread With
Marshmallow Topping Beverage
•Recipe Given.
Mash banana with fork until
smooth; add milk, salt, molasses
and vanilla extract. Shake well.
•Combination Salad
(Serves 5)
t cup cooked string beans
% cap shredded raw carrots
H cup celery strips
2 cups shredded lettuce
1 hard-cooked egg, sliced
French dressing '
Combine vegetables and mix
lightly. Arrange sliced eggs over
vegetables and serve with french
dressing.
• • •
THESE FRUIT SALAD combina
tions will enable you to add nutri
tive value as well
as appetite ap
peal to light
meals.
1 . Orange
wedges, sliced
banana, pear or
peach half, sbeed
apple and white
grapes or cherries. Serve with
sweet french dressing.
2. Pear halves with p i m i en t o
cheese balls on lettuce, served with
french dressing or mayonnaise.
3. Pineapple chunks, apple strips,
diced celery with riced American
cheese over top, served with sour
cream dressing.
4. Calavo filled with orange and
grapefruit segments, served with
french dressing.
5. Orange and grapefruit sections
with thick slices of banana, served
with the following dressing: One
cup mayonnaise, one-half cup mo-
kisses and three tablespoons of
lemon juice to serve four.
• • • i
TRY THESE sandwich combina
tions as a means of varying the
luncheon menu.
1. Old English cheese or smoked
American cheese with bits of cooked
crumbled bacon.
2. Egg salad with finely chopped
pickle and celery with enough salad
dressing to moisten.
A simple but easy dessert for
one of those light lunches includes
tall glasses of milk with a very
dark and delicious gingerbread.
Serving gingerbread is an easy
way to work iron into the diet by
means of the molasserf.
3. Mashed liver sausage mixed
with finely chopped, hard-cooked
eggs, moistened with cream and
seasoned with salt and pepper.
4. Peanut butter mixed with crum
bled. cooked bacon or shredded car
rots, or honey or chow chow.
5. Ground leftover meat mixed
with ground raw carrot, moistened
with mayonnaise and seasoned with
salt, pepper and onion juice.
•Very Best Gingerbread
(Serves 16)
>4 cup butter or shortening
• H cup granulated sugar
1 egg, beaten
214 cups sifted flour
114 teaspoon soda t
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
14 teaspoon cloves
14 tedspoon salt
1 cup pure, dark molasses
1 cup hot water
Cream shortening and sugar. Add
beaten egg. Measure and sift dry
ingredients. Combine molasses and
hot water. Add dry ingredients to
first mixture alternately with liquid,
a small amount at a time, and beat
after each addition until smooth.
Bake in a paper-lined pan (9x9x2
inches) in a moderate (350 degree)
oven for 50 minutes. .
Released by WNU Features.
When brinjng pickles in a crock,
the skum should be removed as it
gathers. Scum causes spoilage.
Corned beef patUes are delicious
when dfde with chopped green pep
per, served with a tomato sauce
when they are browned golden and
crisp.
Try this new trick the next time
you serve the old favorite, spare-
ribs with sauerkraut: Place the
sauerkraut on one rack of ribs,
sprinkle with caraway seed and top
with another rack of ribs. Braise
until done.
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ASK ME
ANOTHER
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\ A General Quiz
1. What is New York state’s
most familiar nickname?
2. How often will a royal flush
occur in poker?
3. Does England have more
hours of daylight during the sum
mer months than the United
States ?
4. What country produces the
most gold?
5. Does the United States own
the land surrounding the Panama
Canal?
The Answers
1. The Empire State.
2. On the average, onoe in 649,-
740 deals.
3. England is further north
than the United States and conse
quently has more hours qf daylight
during the summer months. \
4. The Union of South Africa
produces more gold than any other
country in the world—about 400
million dollars worth a year. ,
5. No, the U. S. just rents it.
MtXS#
Try lemon m ffirfer-
oeoJAryov
The juice of a lemon in a glass of
water, when taken first thing on aria*
ing, is all that most people need ta
insure prompt, normal elimination. 1
No more harsh laxatives that irritate
the digestive tract and impair nutri
tion ! Lemon in water is pood for yem!
Generations el Americans have taken
lemons for health—and generationa
of doctors have recommended them.
They are rich in vitamin C: supply
valuable amounts of Bi and P. They
alkalinize; aid digestion.
Net tee sharp er sear, lemon in water
has a refreshing tang—clears the
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