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WALTER SHEAD. WNU Correspondent Socialism Charged ■'sv ■ ■pHIS CORRESPONDENT is in re- ^ ceipt of a brochure released by the private electric industries in which they charge that the activi ties of the REA and the Reclama tion Department as it pertains to hydroelectric dams, are part and parcel of a gigantic socialistic plot conceived as far back as 1923, to ce over and nationalize the elc- ic industries. Indirectly, they charge that 22,- 000,000 folks living in rural areas, 12,000,000 of whom are obtaining electricity from REA co-ops, and another 10,000,000 who are obtain- electricity from the Reclama- Department are involved. The brochure says, “This basic plan is a part of the socialistic plan for basic industries framed in 1923.” They further charge that the late Senator, George W. Nor ris of Nebraska, was the framer of the initial piece of legislation to (further the conspiracy. This column predicts that If the private electric industry wants to pick a fight and rest ifs ease upon the ghost of Senator Norris, probably the greatest liberal ever to sit in the United States senate In modern times, they are fight ing a rear guard action and a losing .battle. Recently this column reported a meeting in the office of J. Furcell Smith, the $65,000-a-year lobbyist for the utility industry, or the National Association of Elec- Vrtc Companies, at which the in dustry agreed there should be co operation between government and private utility industries, but coop eration on their terms only. That is, they agreed you as taxpayers, should construct the giant hydro electric dams, but that the private electric companies should have the right to reap the benefit—that is construct the power house and transmission lines and sell to the consumers at their own prices. And in this brochure in which ley charge some 22,000,000 of you cs as being a part of a socialist plot to take over the electric in dustry, they point out that REA is building a network of “duplicating transmission” lines when as a mat- of fact the REA declares “we never built a duplicating line, have built some paralleling but there is a difference be- duplicating and paralleling says, for instance, that traffic is so heavy across the iac river that a new bridge jeessary, that is not a duplica- but a paralleling bridge. And same thing is true with regard i electric lines. They have built parallel, but not duplicating »s, and only when private utili- have refused to service, or been too overloaded to serve >nal customers off the same Or in some instances, where /ate industry has refused to /e lower rates to electric con- )ers. mm Attacked Senator George Norris was the ddy” of the TVA system in the ssee valley. In spite of the t that every newspaper writer ever went into the Tennessee y recounted the wondrous of the higher living stan- rds, the cheap power available, 3 tremendous increase of indus trial activity and a corresponding influx of labor, the conservation and recreational facilities which rave been provided, and the cheap ertilizer produced for farmers, brochure again points to TVA a result of “dewey-eyed dream ing.” It declares TVA is a mecca for “ambitious bureaucrats and politicians who saw great- er personal power for them selves in a government oper ated economy.” This column has yet to hear anyone in the Tennessee valley so indict TVA. • • • A Forced Issue Lets not discount the money pri vate utility has put into expansion of; new plants, new transmission lines and, as a matter of fact, into cheaper .electricity rates to con sumers, both for industry and home Use. But let us also admit that this expansion and this reduction of fates has come about as a forced issue, largely because of this “so- called” government competition. • • • Out of Same Barrel The National Association of Elec tric Companies is perfectly willing that the taxpayers stand the ex pense of building the huge hydro electric dams, that taxpayers stand the expense of providing irriga tion, reclamation, recreational fa cilities and flood prevention. These, the utililies say, are the functions of government. _ But the by-pro duct. which is electricity, should be turned over to private industry go deliver and charge. Fruit Preparation Requirod Frocossiag •SMS HIM s Applts Wash, part, core, cot fat pieces. Drop in slightly salted water. Peck. Add syrup. Or boil S to 5 nuantes in syrup. Pack. Add syrup. N 25 10 Apricots Wish, helve and pit. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Borriys ^ ^ Wadi, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 s Chorrtos Wash, stem, pit Pack; Add syrup. 20 10 CranborHts Wash, remove stems. BoS S minutes in No. 3 syrup. Pack. 10 Currants Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 10 ns* Put in tods bath S minutes; rinse. Pre cook 5 minutes in syrup. Pack; add syrup. 30 10 Grapes Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 8 Peaches Peel, pack, add syrup; or precook 3 minutes in syrup, pack; add syrup. 20 10 Fears Select not overripe pears; pare, helve, precook 3 to 3 minutes in syrup. Peck. Add syrup. 25 10 Pineapple Petl remove eyes, cut or slice. Pre cook In No. 1 syrup S to 10 minutte. Pack with syrup. 30 15 Plums Wash, prick skint. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Quinces Wash, pare, cut in pieces. Precook 3 minutes in syrup. Peck, add syrup. 35 15 Rhubarb Wash, cut Into pieces. Pack. Add syrup. 10 5 Strawberries Wash, stent precook gently for 3 min utes in syrup. Removt from mup and cool Boil syrup 3 minutes. Add berries and let stand for several boors. Re heat Pack. 20 8 Tomatoes Scald I minute, cold dip 1 minute, peel, core; quarter. Peck. 35 10 Can your Fruits, Berries with this Chart (Set Recipe Below) Fruit Canning is Easy pRUIT CANNING yields big re- ^ turns for little effort, every homemaker admits when she goes to her canning shelf to load her arms with a jar of pears for the luncheon salad, berries for pie, or peaches for dessert. It’s delightful, too, to gaze on the colorful jars of fruit and ber ries. with their luscious array of colors and marvel at the juicy goodness in them. Fruit canning is simple, too, be cause the fruit requires only a short cooking time to prepare for the jars. This cooking before packing helps shrink the fruit to give a better pack and, at the same time, extracts some juices which may be used for packing. • * * Select Ripe Fruits FOR FRUIT canning, it’s wise to choose fruits which reach full ma turity on vines or trees in place of getting green produce which you have to ripen on the window sill or out on the back porch. Naturally ripened fruits and berries have firmness that makes them easier to handle as well as sweetness which can be acquired in no other way. Plan to can only the amount that you can handle efficiently for speed is required ^o there is no spoilage on the way to the jar. When fruit waits around after one step for another, it will be exposed to air and will lose much of its flavor and appearance. * • • MAKING A WATER BATH THE USE OF a boiling water bath canner has been widely used and recommended for processing fruits since it gives such good re sults. This can \ easily be made at homo if you ’ VS^jbsL::-: do not already have one. Select a large preserving ket tle, lard pail or even wash tub. The vessel should have a cover which fits tightly so that you can cover it during processing and thus prevent the water from boil ing away. Even so, it’s a good idea to have a kettle of water bub bling on the range to replace what ever does boil away and escape in steam, as the jars must be well covered during the whole process ing time. Whatever vessel is used for a canner such as described above LYNN SAYS: Use These Tips For Fruit Canning To help decide how many jars you’ll need, use these figures as a guide. Two to two and one-half pounds of the following will give one quart canned produce: apples, apricots, peaches and pears. Heavy syrup gives the most luscious packs in canned fruits. Use three or four cups of sugar to a quart of water. Bring to a boil and cook just until sugar is com pletely dissolved. /.V. Lynn Chambers* Menu Barbecued Chicken French Fried Potatoes Lima Beans with Bacon Cole Slaw-Tomato Salad Crusty Rolls Beverage Butter Boston Cream Pie should also have a rack that keeps the jars off the bottom of the canner about one-half an inch. If you cannot buy a rack to fit, use jar lids, fitting these all around the bottom. • • • Use this Routine for Canning THE SAME ROUTINE appUes to all fruits, berries and tomatoes, the latter being included in this class rather than with vegetables since tomatoes are acid like fruits instead of non-acid, as are vegetables. Get together pint and quart jars as needed, and see that they have no imperfections such as cracks or chips off them. Check, also, to see that you have enough suitable covers as well as jar rings, if you are using the cap and rubber closure. Fill the canner almost full of water—the jars will take up some room, so it does not have to be completely filled, and turn on the fire so the water can start to come to a boil as you work on the fruit. Prepare the fruit with a thorough washing. Bacteria lodge in soil, and you want to get rid of this so that none will rub into the fruit as you pare or cut it. Use the chart for preparing the fruit for jars. If you want excel lent results, you’ll grade the fruit for size and ripeness as much as possible when packing jars. Fill one jar at a time to within Mi inch of the top with both fruit and syrup (or, fruit juice or water, as desired). Run a spatula down the inside of the jar to remove air bubbles. Wipe top clean and put on the jar, as directed by the man ufacturer. • • • Process and Cool Jars AS EACH JAR is filled it should be placed into the canner, without touching or giving them a chance to bump against each other. When the canner is full, check to see there is enough water to cover jars thoroughly. When water comes to a boil, start coiin ting processing time. When time is up. lift the jars out on a folded cloth or several thick ness of newspaper. Tighten those covers which need it, according to the type which you use. Fruit or berries which you plan to use for pie or as juice for jelly can be canned without sugar. You’ll add this when the fruit or juice is used. The riper the fruit or berry, the less it will need in the way of sweetening. However, allow at least some syrup for sweetening the fruit as you’ll need liquid for filling the jars. Pick plums for canning just as they begin to ripen. If too ripe, they will be mushy. If too green, they lack flavor. S XLJi SCRIPTURE:: Exodus 4:28-31; IB-20; 35 • 40 ■ 17-38 fjEVOTIONAL READING: Ekodus 33: 12-34:9. God's Greatest Lesson for July 9, 1950 Dr. Foreman A GREAT man cannot always be seen at close range. His con temporaries may not know what to make of him. Current celebrities outshine him, his enemies cry him down, circumstances hide his true greatness. You have to stand off from him, perhaps several centuries away, before you can see his true height Great men are like tall moun tains; within a few miles of them, the traveler cannot see them for the masses of smaller ridges and peaks that hide the distant view. Only far out on the plain can we see the great peak towering into the blue. • • • Not Much Chance M OSES was such a man. At many times in his life, if you had been there, you would have thought he had very little chance to live, touch less to succeed. Suppose you had seen him in the first three months of his life? He was born under a death sentence; his par ents were breaking the law of the land by keeping him alive at all. Then later if yon had seen him in his sea-going bassinet among the reeds in the river, yon might have thought: Will the contraption float? Even if a princess finds the baby, won*t she know what he is and send him straight off to be killed? Or years later, when Moses was a sort of pampered Stepson of toe palace, what promise was in him? Pharaoh’s court was full always of proud young fellows spoiling for, a fight. Moses might have looked to you just like another useless aristocrat. And then when Moses wsis out in the wilds, tending an other man’s sheep, married to an ignorant back-country lass who never understood him in the least; would you have put much faith in that discouraged old ranch-hand? V * ,• • • • God’s Man B UT don’t judge a man by what his contemporaries say. We know now, we have known for centuries, that Moses was one of God’s greatest and best. Consider what the world owes to that one man. Of all his services, let us note three in particular. For one thing, we trace the Ten Com mandments back to him. Not that he was the first to call stealing or adultry or greediness wicked; men have known as much since early times. But we do associate the Ten Commandments with Moses’ name. He preached and taught that relig ion is ethical; that is, right living is tied in with and tied up to right religion. Faith and life flow into and support each other. Some relig ions declare that if a man pleases God that is all that matters; he can ride his neigh bors as he pleases. Other relig ions (or substitutes for religion) say that If a man treats other men right he can let God go. Not so Moses; not so the Jews nor the Christians! Moses was also the man through whom God revealed some of the most important truths we knout about God. Moses taught his people, and through them teaches us, of a spiritual God, not like anything “in heaven above or the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth.” God has “no manner of form.” God is pure spirit without a body like men or like anything. To this day men find that hard to take in; but it is an important truth for any one who wants to think truly about God and to find him • • • Moses and Christ A BOVE an, there would have been no Christianity if Moses had never Uved, or if he had failed. If the children of Israel had done what they wanted to do, slink back to Egypt and slavery, the whole great history of the Old Test ament would have been unwritten. Poets and prophets would have died unborn. But he would have had to make a start somewhere else besides with toe Hebrew people, and the whole history of relig ion would have been different. There would have been no New Testament without the Old Test ament. Even Jesus of Nazareth either would not have been at all, or would have been entirely different, if it had not been for the whole background of toe Hebrew story, in which Moses played such a lead ing part. If the world owes a debt to Christianity (and what a debt!), it owes also a tribute to Moses. U. S. Dollar Devalued 40 Percent In Purchasing Power in Ten Years This is the first of two articles on inflation, bow it works and its future, as prepared by the Family Economics Bureau of Nortbewestem National Life Insurance company. In these hectic days, fresh alarms and fresh problems flare up both here and abroad, crowding each other through the spotlight. Seldom is there time enough to think each problem through. Meanwhile, inflation creeps quietly on, down underneath. It chisels every pay envelope, every savings account. It undermines every pension program, every plan for future security. It weakens our ability to deal with all our other problems, both at home and abroad. Though inflation has gotten bad ly mixed up< in politics, no one party has a monopoly on toe blame for it. Groups and individuals belonging to all our important political parties have contributed to our present in flation menace, usually with toe best of intentions, i > . Prote: WU Features.) Buying Power Down r r inflation needs to be thought through now, regardless* of politics and In spite of an other distractions. For we, like Britain 'and France and many other nations, now have the inflation habit. As citizens of a democracy, we must aU share the blame as well as take toe conse quences, if we do not find a cure. Our own dollar has been de valued 40 per cent in actual buying power since 1939. The white haired couple existing on old age assistance, the elderly worker retired on a pension, the widow trying to keep her fam ily together on social security and her husband’s savings— these can testify whether infla tion has wb* Jed down their comfort and their security. To see how, and why, the infla tion process goes on and on, we must first stop long enough to real ize the nature of money, and why it grows or shrinks in buying power. Money is only waste paper unless there are things to buy. Without things to buy, it is as worthless as a hat-check when there are no hats in the checkroom. Things to buy—or goods, as toe economists call them—result from work and production. Money enables the farmer in Minnesota to trade a gallon of milk for canned pineapple from Hawaii, or fresh oranges from Florida. Hie money that passes through many hands to make these trades possible isn’t wealth nor does it create a standard of living. The milk, toe pineapple, and the oranges are toe wealth and the standard of living. It is production of these things that makes the U.S. dollar valuable, and makes toe American standard of living so high. | In the wild post-war Chinese in flation it was not uncommon for a ’ricksha collie to earn 175 million Chinese dollars a week, but he often had difficuty buying enough food with his baskets full of money to keep from starving. There were lots of dollars being poured out by gov ernment, but not much food being produced or marketed. Though the people’s dollar incomes increased fantastically, this did not raise their living standard; it merely de-valued their dollars. The inflation that is nibbling away at our dollars and our pensions and our future security is not the run away, printed-money inflation that afflicted China. Instead it is a creep ing, gradual credit inflation that is far harder to see. Here’s an illus tration of how it works: Money Supply Trebled Our government borrows a mil lion dollars from a federal reserve bank, to meet some of its expenses. The U.S. treasury gives the bank a note or bonds for a million dollars. The bank simply marks up a de posit of a million dollars In the name of toe U.S. treasury, and keeps Uncle Sam’s promise to re pay the loan as security. The treasury then writes checks on that million-dollar bank account until it is all paid out, for road building, pensions, airplanes, public housing, salaries of government employees. The total number of dollar “claim-tickets” in circulation is increased by a million, just as surely as If the government had printed np a million dollars in crisp new greenbacks and had spent that money instead. Uncle Sam’s checkbook dollars are deposited by individuals and business concerns in their own bank accounts; they write new checks as they pass the dollars on. The million dollars stays in circulation until Uncle Sam repays his loan. Some of the people who receive the bank checks will probably want actual greenbacks for them; any Federal Reserve bank can print up new paper money, using that same million-dollars IOU of Uncle Sam’s as security, with only 25 per cent gold reserve required under toe present law. Now. to see just what has hap- The above chart prepared by the Family Economics Bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance company shows clear ly why your dollar has shrunk to 57 cents’ worth. pened to toe purchasing power of toe dollar: In 1939 we had a little under 33 billion dollars of this “check book” money and a little over sev en billion dollars of coins and paper money—-a total “money supply” of 40 billion dollars in 1939. By late 1949 we had 93 billion dollars of “checkbook” money and 27 billion dollars of coins and paper money—a total money supply of 120 billion dollars in 1949. This is just three times as many dollar “claim-tickets” for goods as were outstanding in 1939. But our production of goods has increased, too, though it hasn’t trebled, like the money supply, oi even doubled—it has increased about 70 per cent. Production Fights Inflation It there were no more dollars in circulation today than in 1939, each dollar would be a claim for about 70 per cent more goods; would buy approximately as much today as $1.70 would buy in 1989. Bub there are three times as many dollar ‘‘claim-tickets” outstanding today. So each dollar can claim only about a third as much. A third of $1.70 would be about 57 cents; actually we have about a 59-cent dollar today, compared with its 1939 buying power. If it weren’t for the increase in production of goods —our real wealth— we would have about a 33 cent dollar today. About three-fourths of the 9$ billion dollars added to our money supply from 1939 to 1949 —or about 60 billion dollars—has been due to government borrow ing from banks. Most of this borrowing was done to help fi nance the war. Another 17 billions, or nearly all the remainder of toe increase, has been due to business borrowings to build new plants, buy new machin ery, finance larger stocks of goods. Such business borrowings were temporarily inflationary, because when they were paid out for v con struction wages, materials, etc., they boosted toe number of dollar “claim-tickets” outstanding against our total stock of things to buy. But as soon as the new factories and the improved machinery got into production, they greatly in creased toe supply of consumer goods, and thus offset toe increase in the number of dollars outstand ing. The government borrowings, how ever, did not increase production of consumer goods. The things those borrowed dollars were spent for either “went up in smoke” dur ing toe war, or were mostly junked after the war. The borrowed dol lars are still with us at pure infla tion. From the latest official estimates, our government is now spending over five billion dollars more than it takes in in the current year. As previously pointed out, this means that five billion borrowed, check book dollars are gradually added to an already existing money sup ply of about 120 billion dollars. If every other influence stayed exactly the same, so we could watch this 4 per cent Inflation at work, all by itself, we would find each Individual American dollar gradually “watered ‘ down” about 4 cents in buying power. This Is, it would take $1.04 to buy as much as $1.00 bought previously, i This means about four cents sucked out of each of our old dollars to create five billion new dollars. No “‘new purchasing power” has been created; toe purchasing power of the new money has been taken away from all the old money. Production Not Increased by Inflation As a crude example of inflation, suppose a restaurant check room started giving each customer two hot-checks when he turned in his hat This would certainly not increase the supply of hats; the patrons would be no better off than before, although they would have a merry jingle in their pockets. Each customer would either have to give up two hat checks to reclaim his hat, or else some customer would come away with two hats, and some with none. Neither does issuing more American dollars increase our sup ply of goods or raise our American standard of living, although for a while *t seems as if it does. Familiar Lawn Swing Liked by Everyone Com Borer Serious Threat to Midwest Loss Last Tear in Six States Totals Millions Last year in six states of the corn belt the European com borer caused a loss of some 300 million dollars. In 23 other states, damage ranged from slight to quite severe. The com borer appeared in this country in 1917 along the Atlantic seaboard. It has spread steadily until today it has reached states as The high clearance cart above Is dusting corn fer corn borer. The corn is about three feet high, correct stage for dusting, according to far west as Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas, and souto to toe Tennessee-Alabama line. Not only is the pest covering more ground each year. It is, in many places working more destruc tively. In Iowa, for example, the borer cost each com farmer last year an average of 750 dollars. There is nothing to indicate that the destruction has reached a peak. In fact, unless adequate controls are adopted, the com belt may find the worse to come. Chemical control must from now on be considered part of the regular production of the erbp. Humans Susceptible To 80 Animal Diseases Animal diseases are a constant threat to the health of human be ings, two public health physicians declare to the Journal of toe Ameri can Veterinary Medical association. In one report. Dr. 7. S. Leeder of toe Michigan department of health, said human beings are sus ceptible to at least 80 diseases of Cnimals. Many of these diseases are prevalent to toe United States, he jeported. The danger that foreign maladies may be imported by high speed air travel is also very real, he said. Most animal diseases to which man is susceptible are spread pri marily by livestock and wild game with which human beings come in to contact Work of veterinarians to helping to stamp out or control such diseases is thus an important fac tor in bettering human health. In another journal article. Dr. W. P. Deartog, deputy surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, points to the value of having veterin arians work closely with health de partments to protect the fcmblic against such dangerous maladies as rabies. A Ntw Light -vv - . * •> v ; v.- .::" •7 ' ' ■ . ■ '■ , : >*7 : ; ,77 ‘ ■:? ■:>*; •• “V i A new light—toe electric is appearing in farm shopa, barns and garages from Maine to California. Farmers by the thousands are now saving them selves time and money by using arc welding to do their quick easy repairing and building of farm equipment. /T I _ V # lawn swing pattern 3Q! A Perennial Favorita T HIS FAMILIAR Old lawn swing is a perennial favorite with both young and old. It is easy to make with a step-by-step pattern and ordinary hand tools. All friction parts ara of matal„and ^aro hard available In quality e in nnniwara Store*. ti*5 lumber and mako quality lumner ana - lasting swing with pattern 305. - ---- WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer «• _ - BeSforS Hills. New York. Poultry Experts Advise Weeding Out Cockerels All cockerels, except those to be kept for breeders, should be re moved from toe pullet flock by the time they are 12 weeks of sge, poultry experts report. If the cockerels are marketed at 12 weeks of age they will command a better price than if they are kept longer. If kept longer their meat be comes coarse and stringy. The rate at gain per pound of feed decreases m-iH •!** ftf HirH■ For Your Future Buy U.S. Savings Bondfi Personal ^ To Women With Nagging Backache r folks to ka* of p«i bladdiv^iHtlaAiaiw^dtts go cold. If don’t help tka Gat Doan’s Pills today! Pills Ono application nasi, of your Tasteless, odorless. I plates.*'an bet say: ".Nasa f earn a* guarmuttt. $1.25 for liner I for both plates. At n Memeyi ILNavTas* Forestry School The first school of forestry In the United States, first headed by Gifford Plnchot, was formed on what is now the Vanderbilt estate, just outside of Asheville, N. 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