WATCH HIS VOTIHG RECORD CAREFULLY!
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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.
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that pull out with tiny brass knobs. Both
pieces are easy to cut and assemble from
white pine which, when oiled and waxed,
has a real antique appearance
Pattern 281 is actual size for the shaped
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other parts, illustrated directions and list
of materials. Price of pattern is 15c post
paid. Order pattern direct from:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills, N. Y. Drawer 10
Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 281.
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