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WATCH HIS VOTIHG RECORD CAREFULLY! - « Know Your Congressman To Make Democracy Work By BAUKHAGE Neu'» Analyst an<l Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street,N.W., Washington, D. C. The time of the singing of candi dates has come, and the voice of the to mention the fact that he helped to emasculate them carefully be fore hand. You will also find sometimes that although he has loudly shouted down a bill (which you didn’t like, and, secretly, he did), he did not actually work against it. Perhaps, finally, he even voted for it if there was no roll call. Another way in which a congress man can fool his constituents is to offer an amendment which appeals to his particular locality, but which he knows can’t possibly go through. That appeases the constit uents and, at the same time, doesn’t hurt the congressman with the particular interests with whom he may be friendly. They know, as well as he does, that the whole thing is just an empty gesture. Kill Bill With Recommittal The vote to "recommit” is a fa vorite trick, and usually reveals the true sentiments of a senator or con gressman. Not much attention is paid to these votes. When a bill is “recommitted,” it is sent back to committee, supposedly for recon sideration, Actually, recommittal usually means the measure is pi geonholed forever. mock - turtle is heard in the land. The representa tives of the peo ple are about to assure you that you have been well - represent ed, and that they would like to con tinue to do the representing. And who are you to say no, if you don't know exactly how well your represent MYSTERIOUS LIFE . . . Beneath wind-swept sands of Death Valley are tremendous deposits of salt, borax and other stores of value to men. These dunes move slowly across the desert, the ripples changing with each breeze. NEWS REVIEW 1946 Wheat Harvest to Alleviate World Famine atives in the house of representa tives or in the senate have carried out your interests? Issues are being Joined, there are sharp cleavages of thought these days. And if you don’t take the trouble to vote for the men in con gress who are voting the way you want them to, you have no right to lambast congress. True, it does take some trouble to learn to read your congressman’s record cor rectly. A simple statement by a candidate that he voted for the X bill (the one you wanted passed) doesn’t mean too much. A number of energetic organiza tions are out to tell you how to read the lawmaker’s records. One organizatiijn is the National Citi zentf Political Action committee which reminds voters: WHEAT: Harvest Is On When wheat ripens in the south west, it ripens in a hurry. Shortly after harvesting of a normal crop began the elevators were filled to overflowing. "Where are the cars so we can ship it?" asked grow ers. Thus, another wheat harvest started out normally! There is strong belief now that the world grain outlook has appar ently eased to a startling degree, but no official figures are yet avail able. Officials said exports in the final 10 days of June were in line with the first 20-day period when 834, 000 tons were shipped for famine re lief. The department hopes to equal or possibly exceed its 400,000, 000 bushel export commitment with heavy July shipments. months of 1946, the Automobile Manufacturers’ association has re ported. About 140,000 cars were as sembled in June. This is far below schedule. Production by General Motors in creased slightly during June. In the week ending June 22, the five car manufacturing divisions of the cor poration turned out 18,111 passenger cars in contrast with 16,280 for the preceding week. Only 4,692 trucks were produced, compared with 4,802 the week before. Truck output is expected to be ac celerated as a result of the opening on June 25 of the GMC truck division in Pontiac, Mich. On the other hand, when a power ful committee pigeonholes a bill you would like to see passed, and your congressman is willing to sign a petition to try to get it out, you can be pretty certain he is sincerely working to get it through. Of course, what goes on secretly in committees is most important, and can usually be found out, for the newspaper and radio corre spondents make every effort to report the inside facts. This is not difficult for the reporters, since committee members whose efforts were defeated are usually willing to divulge the machinations of the majority — if there were any ma chinations. Admittedly getting all this infor mation takes time and trouble on your part. But that is the price you have to pay for the kind of govern ment you want. The government makes you take time to figure out your income tax and to do a lot of other little chores, but it doesn't force you to inform yourself on how your government is being run. How ever, the information is all there, if you care to take the trouble to get it. Reports of public hearings, as well as the record of what happens on house and senate floors, are avail able for the asking. That is a part of your congressman's Job — report ing to you. As Lowell Mellett says in his "Handbook of Politics”: "The true test of a member of congress is not the good bills for which he voted, but the good bills he voted against — plus the num ber of bad bills he voted for.” Knowledge is power. Know your congressman, don't knock him. "A favorite device of congress men is to vote for a series of man gling amendments, or to procrasti nate with investigations or recom mittal. Then, having partially or completely wrecked the usefulness of a bill, they may vote for the final version. Don't take these votes at face value.” In other words, don't be satisfied with the record of the final vote. See how your congressman voted on the amendments. The NC-PAC literature concludes with a warning that any voter, what ever side he is on, may well take to heart: "When your congressmen start promising in their forthcoming campaigns, check their past voting records very carefully. Don’t take It for granted that if they voted for a measure, they were for it, and fought for it. Perhaps they helped cripple it first” Diaguiae Enmity To Legitlation That is true, and with a little in vestigation, you will learn that a lot of congressmen, whose real views and activities you really wouldn't subscribe to at all, may have been voting in favor of some of the bills you would like to see passed. Later, when he is solicit ing your support, he will point with pride to these measures, omitting 5-YEAR TAX: Tops 151-Year Total During the five years from 1941 through 1945 tax collections by the federal government totaled $121, 524,000,000, or about 38 per cent more than the $88,723,000,000 re turned in the preceding 151 years of the nation’s history, according to figures of a New York trust com pany. i In 1917 the United States paid its first billion-dollar tax bill. In 1942, federal tax revenues reached 12 bil lions; in 1943, 21 billions; in 1944, 40 billions and in 1945, 41 billions. Earliest federal revenues, accord ing to the study, came from cus toms duties, tobacco and liquor excise taxes. HOMEMAKERS: Leaders to Be Named A campaign to recognize out standing women in Nebraska and part of Iowa has been launched by the agricultural committee of the Omaha chamber of commerce. Nominations from rural communi ties will be received until Novem ber 1. The rural homemakers recog nition program was designed to hon or women in every community who have outstanding records. Individ ual selection of the rural home makers will be made by county committees composed of women who are leaders in that particular county. The Omaha chamber of com merce and the chairman of the rural homemakers program, May Yard, believe the plan so meritori ous that it will spread to all parts I of the United States. TOURISTS: Sell Their Autos Reports from Mexico and Cuba in dicate that great numbers of tour ists have taken their cars out of the United States, ostensibly for use in their travels, and then sold them at "fabulous” prices. And the U. S. •government doesn’t like it. The government has moved to break up what it described as a practice of taking automobiles abroad as "personal baggage” and selling them at exorbitant prices. To halt it, the commerce department has forbidden export of cars as per sonal baggage unless the traveler proves he has lived in the United States continuously for a year and has owned the car for six months. 654,000 AUTOS: Made in First Half A total of 654,000 passeger cars were turned out in the first six ♦ Ike Didn’t Tell It All The final report of General Eisen hower to the combined chiefs of staff, which has at last been re leased, is a splendid example of terse and comprehensive exposi tion. Into less than 123 pages is compressed the epic of the great est military operation in history, ex tending from D-Day to V-E Day. It is unfortunate, for the sake of mystery lovers, that the document does not go into detail concerning one phase of the invasion which has rightly been called “the greatest deception in history” — the clever ruses which caused the enemy to make his fatal miscalculations. The Germans knew that the Al lied landing must be made some where within a relatively lim ited length of shore-line, but despite this, they were completely deceived as to where that landing was to be. The result was that the Allies were able to get a toehold which they might never have been able to se cure, had the Germans guessed the prospective location of the real beachheads. ing instruments similar to the ap proach of a convoy. Another fake landing was staged in the direction of Boulogne, still farther east, with 16 ships and ac companying planes. The steady patrolling of the skies was taken by the Germans to be the air cov er of an oncoming armada. Far to the west, halfway down the Cherbourg peninsula, and at vari ous other points, dummy airborne invasions were carried out The Germans finally decided that the real thing was approaching Boulogne, and opened up with all they had. Meantime, the actual in vasion forces crossed the channel without any interference by air or sea. It was a grand fake. OIL MEN: To Aid Farmers A program calling for special types of research which will be of direct aid to farming and for co-op eration with all chemurgic re search groups and farm organiza tions has been set up by directors of the American Petroleum insti tute at a recent meeting in Dallas. It will be sponsored by local oil companies in their own areas. Final action on the plan will be taken at a meeting in Chicago. BRUSH FIRE . . . Pat and Donna Jean Allison, ages 7 and 5, watch a brush lire near Castaic, Calif., as they hold their pet dogs. Brush and forest fires take a heavy toll la the United States each year. DOUBLE INDEMNITY Judge Says War Clause Invalid a. __ Obviously, the natural place for a landing would be in reasonable proximity to Calais, where the Eng lish channel is narrowest Actually, the nearest beachhead was estab lished more than a hundred miles farther to the west, but the whole German 15th army remained immo bilized in that locality until K was too late. But even after the landings were made, the Germans*were not sure they were the main objectives This was because of a five-prong plan of deception, all the prongs pointing to simulated diversionary attacks by land, sea and air. away from the actual invasion area. One simulated attack was at Cap d’Antifer, northwest of Le Havre, far to the east of the invasion area. There, planes, ships and balloons moved in, gradually producing echoes on the German radar warn CHICAGO. — A decision holding that the war clause in a life insur ance policy was invalid because the service-incurred death did not di rectly result from combat or enemy action has been placed on file in United States district court here. Federal Judge William J. Camp bell ruled that John P. Hooker. 52, of Winnetka, 111., a real estate broker, should collect double in demnity on a policy taken out by his sor., Marine Capt. George K. Hooker. Captain Hooker leaped to bis death in training maneuvers near Auckland. New Zealand, in 1943. Was Training Accident. The $10,000 policy carried a double indemnity clause for acci , dental death, but stated the double i payment would not be made if death resulted from war or any act incident thereto. In May. 1943, Captain Hooker, 26, was sent out as a scout in a sham battle. He was captured by “en emy" marine corps forces, and at tempting to escape, leaped over a bush which hid from view a 75-foot cliff. The resulting plunge caused his death. Company Paid $10,000. The life insurance company paid the elder Hooker $10,000, but re fused the additional $10,000, claim ing the captain’s death resulted from an act incident to the war, Mr. Hooker filed suit in November, 1943. In his opinion, Judge Campbell pointed out that the captain’s death occurred in “routine training” and not as a result of combat or activi* ties in immediate support of opera tions against the enemy. INSURANCE AT NEW HIGH NEW YORK. — Topping all rec ords. life insurance owned by Amer ican families will reach an esti mated 163 billion dollars at mid year, the institute of life insurance has reported. Purchases of new life insurance in the first half of the year are esti mated at 11 billion dollars, or about half again as large as in the first half of 1945 and practically twice that in the first half of 1941. Greatest gains, the institute said, have been in the purchase of ordi nary insurance, although group life coverage has shown a marked re covery from the setback which fol lowed V-J Day. DIRECT FROM BIKINI: An Eye Witness Account Of Atomic Bomb Blast Damage from the atomic bomb test blast is shown here as the light carrier USS Independence is pictured burning shortly after bomb explosion. By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Washington Correspondent. ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN, OPERATIONS CROSSROADS — From a military standpoint the ex plosion of the fourth atomic bomb was a huge success but as a spec tacle worth traveling 8,000 miles to see it did not live up to its advance billing. From the standpoint of ef ficiency and precision the plutonium bomb was dropped squarely in the target area. The advance weather predictions held true. It was dropped on time to the second. The air drones were sent through the cloud area and shepherded back by their mother ships. The boat drones were sent into the area of radio activity and brought back via radio control. The cameras clicked and the instruments built especially to measure the results of the blast worked. But to those of us here aboard the Appalachian, who had been ori entated and lectured day after day for the past two weeks, who had interviewed scientists and scien tific writers, the bomb burst and the atomic cloud were a disappoint ment. top. The trade winds soon broke it up and it was pushed westward where it gradually leveled off and dispersed as our ship steamed slow ly along the seaward side of Bikini island. We could see the ghost fleet in' the lagoon through our binoculars. Fire amidship showed on the Sara toga. The Salt Lake City was ablaze. There appeared to be a small fire aboard the Nevada. These fires made a smoke haze over the lagoon, but it soon cleared away and as I look toward the lagoon now there is little indication of a fire anywhere. We are changing course now, fol lowing the Mt. McKinley, Admiral Blandy’s flagship, apparently with the intention of entering the lagoon. Television receiving sets in the ward room of the Appalachian reg istered the blast from- cameras in stalled on the island, then they went out of commission. The carrier Independence likely suffered more damage than any oth er capital ship to its superstruc ture and all planes which were atop its flight deck were carried away. There was superficial or superstruc ture damage to other ships of the 73 in the target fleet but to me the pathos of the thing was emphasized when I saw the sturdy masts of the old Nevada brilliant in its orange paint, standing there still staunch and true despite the atomic bomb. There was no wind, no waves and no thunderstorm. No trees were damaged on the island. There was no tidal wave and no earthquake. In fairness there was no prediction from the navy or army officials that any of these things might happen. The navy frankly said they didn’t know what would happen. These wild predictions were made by sci entists or scientific writers. Also, in all fairness to the officers of joint task force No. 1, the bomb, which looked to small to the lay writers, may actually have been big. Scientifically of course there can be no adequate judgment of the re sults until the instruments have been read, the damage on the va rious ships actually determined and measured. In the light of the ob jectives, the navy and the army had in mind the actual effect of the> bomb on naval construction, navy and army material, armament, ord nance and other equipment. Admiral Blandy, commander of the task force, issued a statement in which he said he was highly pleased with the whole operation; with the bomb drop and with the ef ficiency of the bomb. There are sev eral aboard the ship who saw the Nagasaki bomb drop and the drop at Los Alamos, N. M. They de clared this bomb appeared to be smaller, judging from the flash and the atomic cloud which in the case of Nagasaki soared to a height of about 55,000 feet. There is no doubt that the force of this terrible energy is like nothing ever known on earth before but the distances out here are so great that the energy was dispersed and dissipated over a vast area. For instance, at Nagasaki the area of total bomb damage was in six square miles, or an area of about a mile and a half radius, whild the distance of the Nevada from the shore of Bikini lagoon was about three miles. And the lagoon itself is 10 miles across and 25 miles long. It must also be remembered that as this story is written for trans mission in time to get it to you there has been no actual assessment of the real damage. There may be more as we enter the lagoop and can visually assay the damage. The recapitulation of the damage showed the troop transports Giliom and Carlisle sunk; the destroyer Lampson capsized; heavy damage was dong to the submarine Skate, the light cruiser Pensacola, the car rier Independence, the Jap cruiser Sakawa, and the German pocket battleship Prinz Eugen. Light to negligible damage was caused on the Jap battleship Nagata, the bat tleship Nevada, the oiler No. 160 and LCM No. 1. Small fires were started and later extinguished on the destroyer Wilson, the Pensacola, the transport Briscoe, the Nevada, the carrier Saratoga and transports Niagara, Bladen, Banta, Butte, Cortland, Bracken and Faun and the battleship New York. Heaviest damage was caused on the Inde pendence and the fire which burst into flames on her stern was more dramatic to watch than the bomb burst insofar as this writer was con cerned. Because the atomic cloud did not reach the heights achieved in previ ous drops was not considered as reflection upon the efficiency of the bomb. Reasons for the relatively low cloud given were that water ab sorbed much of the heat energy and the difference in atmospheric struc ture caused a slower rise. It may be that those of us who stood along the starboard rail of the Appalachian were expecting too much. We had been led to be lieve from many sources to expect drama and adventure and excite ment. Let me assure you there was no drama and certainly no ex citement. I confess that as I pulled the polarized plastic goggles over my eyes as we heard the signal •‘bomb away” I did feel excited and tense as I awaited the blast. It came as I saw it, well above the horizon, a huge orange ball. It might have beer, a fireworks display on the Fourth of July, al though not near so dazzling. I watched the cloi 1 appearing like nothing more than a huge cherry ice cream soda. Cream white on the surface but deep inside the hues were pink and rose, and it boiled and seethed up through a cumulous natural cloud which hid it from our view I felt a slight “pft” in my ears but felt no heat blast. Seconds later the sound of detona tion came like a distant peal or roll of thunder that’s all, but then we were 18 miles away. Ten minutes after the blast the cloud had mushroomed up to a height of 26,000 feet and was ap proximately 12,000 feet across the Precision Marked Operations Crossroads By PAUL FELTUS When “Dave's Dream” took to ihe dawn sky on Kwajalein Atoll, the long-planned and vast machin ery of the Army Air Forces role in Operations Crijssroads began to move with the precision of a great war mission. The operation had been planned, but this time there was a new thrill of anticipation for they were dealing with the force of atomic energy. The schedule for every one of tht hundreds of planes and ships had been timed to the second. Every body knew just what to do as the command plane headed for the tar get area of Bikini lagoon. The vast network of communica tions was set In motion. The weath er man had said, "This is the day," and General Ramey had said, "Let’s Go.” Then the planes began to roll. Knife Box and Stand; Two Pull-Out Leaves [carry your work or reading from! - PLACE TO PLACE OR USE FOR 5ERVIN6 it ■ ;• drinks {l * THE' actual size , PATTERN GIVES k YOU IP COMPLETE directions! FOR MAKING THE KNIFE BOX WITH I OR WITHOUT I THE ATTACHED STAND WHICH HAS *T TWO PULL-OUT LEAVES,, ps*3Snl ^ HEIGHTg3"|)l IN GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S 1 day knife boxes were a popular project for home craftsmen. To day, they are proving so useful and attractive that the old designs are being copied in modern work shops. • • • • The design shown here also has an Early American stand with small leaves that pull out with tiny brass knobs. 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