Echo of Bombs Induces Science Aid
A
Scientists for Unhampered
Freedom in Research Work
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
The bomb which leveled Hiroshi
ma and has since been echoing in
the Pacific did something to con
gress that could not have been done
_____ _____ before the explo
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sion. n inauceu
the senate to
loosen the public
purse strings to
the extent of vot
’ ing to subsidize a
national scientiflc
research founda
tion.
Scientists don’t
have many votes,
so the persuasion
couldn’t have
come by way of a
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1 - ■ •••»» f’-—
imagination had been stirred. Sud
denly the layman realized that sci
ence was a powerful factor in war.
He realized too that perhaps men
who could smash the atom and make
it smash the enemy, might learn
how to use the powers of the sleep
ing giant—atomic energy—for the
good as well as the ill of mankind.
At this writing congress has not
completed action of the bill but
probably will have done so by the
time these lines are read. The Idea
of a national research program
seemed very good to me. There
fore, I was somewhat surprised to
hear a pharmacological authority of
my acquaintance say that passage
of this legislation "would be as de
structive in the field of science” as
the bomb was in the midst of Hiro
shima and Nagasaki. He made the
observation in a group, several of
whom were scientists. His hearers
appeared to echo his sentiments—
sentiments which I later learned he
had set forth in the recent Bulletin
of the American Association of Uni
versity Professors. He <Dr. Theo
dore Koppanyi) said: "In an anal
ysis of the bill, a basic wrong im
mediately leaps to the eye. This is
the assumption that scientific re
search can be ‘initiated’ or ‘pre
scribed for.’ If this assumption
could be grounded, the natural se
quel to a national research founda
tion would be federal foundations to
‘initiate’ and 'prescribe for’ the
composition of music, the painting
of pictures, the writing of poems,
and the establishment of social con
trols and education, for science is
probably the most personal and in
dividualistic of all human endeav
ors. No agency, however authorized
X X
1 and directed, can develop a national
policy for scientific research.”
Difficult to Past
On Projects
The theories and ways of think
ing of scientists, Dr. Koppanyi ex
plained (and his colleagues agreed),
are as diverse as the world itself.
"How can we set up a court with
the power to pass on what is good
and what is not good for science?”
he asked, and then he turned to me
with this question: "Would you ap
prove of having a member of your
profession—a commentator or news
writer—appointed by a President of
the United States, as head of a sim
ilarly selected group of your col
leagues who were made privy to
private government information,
which was barred from other speak
ers or writers?”
Naturally I said: "No.'* (That
would be the end of the freedom of
the press and radio.)
Then Dr. Koppanyi concluded:
"You can spend a lot of money and
get no return. But if you trust in
human ingenuity, motivated by de
sire of public service, the love of
science, recognition, and maybe
selfish aims alike, you will have done
more for basic science than you
could ever do with billions of dol
lars of federal money.”
Social Science
Study Lags
Spokesmen for the so-called social
sciences (the study of people, of
individuals and groups) were loud
in criticizing the omission from the
bill of provisions for research in this
field.
An engineer spoke for the social
scientists in these words: "We've
gone miles ahead in our study of in
aminate things, in physics, chem
istry and the other sciences that
deal with inorganic matter, com
pared to our advancement in the
study of human beings—why they
act the way they do under given
conditions, their relations to other
individuals and to groups, and the
action of the groups in relation to
each other.”
He spoke of the recent pogrom in
Kielce, Poland, where the Jews
were attacked and killed. It all
started from a false rumor, a plant
ed rumor. The very same thing,
the engineer pointed out, touched off
the riots three years ago in Detroit.
Those are known facts but there is
very little public knowledge of what
causes such action, how it can be
prevented.
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Possession Is Law to Russ
Russian expropriation of Austrian
property and her delaying tactics in
the setting of the peace conference
date seem to be predicated on the
theory: Why start any discussions
of who gets what if you can operate
on the old theory that possession is
nine points of the law?
Possession is an important factor.
Take the recent experience of a
Philadelphia horse. Around mid
night one night a horse walked into
a residential district and began de
vouring gardens of dahlias, morn
ing-glories, snapdragons and other
flowers. The infuriated household
ers tried to shoo the horse away, but
he kicked at them and went right
on expropriating the bourgeois
blooms. However, in the good old
American tradition, a policeman ap
peared with a rope and lassoed the
beast. He was removed to the po
lice stables where he couldn't
exercise a veto on this purely pro
cedural process.
This subversive tendency in the
animal world was revealed in an
other part of Philadelphia at about
the same time. Returning from a
week-end, a householder and his
family who had started a counter
revolutionary campaign against
what they thought to be a harmless
mouse, found a large-sized rat in the
trap they had set. The rat with the
trap attached as a minor incum
brance went right after the family
which climbed tables and chairs.
This time when the cop came he
felt aggressive warfare justifiable
and finished the rat with his reac
tionary night-stick.
• • •
Congreu’ Work
Is Never Done
Congressmen invariably come to
work January 14 brisk of step,
bright of eye, confident they’ll have
•11 the bills passed, all the necessary
business disposed of by July 1 at
the latest, so they can go home to
their fences.
The old timers, of course, know
they are just kidding themselves.
Business is never completed by
July 1. though they work from sun
to sun for, like woman's, congress'
work is never done. Consequently,
fishing trips, motor jaunts, and im
portant electioneering have to be
postponed while house and senate
zpembers labor in Washington heat
to complete last-minute legislation.
This year, it was the OPAgony
that fevered congressional brows
late Into July. Debate was so furi
ous, night sessions were so frequent
that I wasn’t surprised when I heard
a man in the visitor’s gallery of
the capitol ask: “Why did they wait
so long to get at the OPA bill?
Seems to me they always have a
lot of stuff left to do at the end of
a session that they could have taken
up earlier. Do they always let it
go so long that these closing days
sound like a rowdy jam session?"
I reported this remark to a man
who knows Capitol Hill, as you and
I know the short-cut home.
"There are no jams in congress,"
he answered as he inhaled another
tablespoonful of the famous senate
restaurant bean soup.
“Not even on OPA?” I modestly
needled.
“No,” he said, “but I’U admit
they came to a near-jam when they
had to work like the dickens to get
the bill to the President before the
OPA expired. But they did get it
to him (he was talking about the
first OPA bill)—and it was better
than a lot of people had expected.
That was no jam.”
• • •
Chester Bowles has passed from
the Washington scene, his head
bloody but unbowed, and full of
thoughts of further battle. We’ll
see what happens in the next sena
torial elections in the Nutmeg state.
• • •
Want to know how to live with the
atom? You can rent a cartoon film
that will panic you (in both senses
of the word) from the National Com
mittee on Atomic Information. Write
this column for details.
PROTEST STRIKES ... In protest against soaring prices follow
ing end of OPA controls, buyers' strikes were planned throughout
the nation under instigation of unions, veterans’ groups, consumers
councils and other organizations. Typical is this scene showing St.
Louis housewives picketing a dairy in protest against the entire dairy
industry in St. Louis, where milk prices have risen 15 per cent and
butter 23 per cent.
NEWS REVIEW
Wheeler, Veteran Senator,
Defeated; Talmadge Wins
POLITICS:
Brat Wheeler
Political observers studied the
campaign in the Democratic sena
torial primary in Montana for a
clue to the cause of defeat of the
veteran Burton K. Wheeler, with a
variety of reasons appearing to con
tribute to his downfall.
Since the rugged veteran led the
non - interventionist cause before
Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack
on the U. S. and the swing of Amer
ican sentiment toward effective
world co-operation were seen to
have acted strongly against him.
But because of the closeness of his
defeat, the CIO-PAC fight against
him, the opposition of the powerful
railroad brotherhoods and the di
version of the main strength of the
Democratic organization to his op
ponent, Leif Erickson, could have
weaned enough votes away from
him to spell defeat.
Winding up 24 years of senatorial
service, Wheeler said: *\ , . . The
people of Montana have been very
good to me. . Those who voted
in the Democratic primary have re
lieved me of a great responsibility
and a lot of work. , . . Probably I
have lost many supporters because
I did not go along blindly with a
Democratic administration in the
last few years, but I could not sac
rifice my principles. . .
Return Talmadge
Georgia’s gubernatorial election
shared the national spotlight with
Montana’s senatorial race, with
fiery, red-suspendered Gene Tal
madge making his bid for a fourth
NO LEFT-OVERS . . . Food is
where you find it, and in famine
stricken Europe it Is a rarity to
find even one can in a refuse heap
that is not entirely empty. The
slim chance that someone inad
vertently might have left a bit of
food prompted this hungry Vien
nese to stop during his lunch hour
to investigate.
term on a platform of “white su
premacy.”
Despite the fact that his No. 1
opponent, James V. Carmichael,
roiled up an impressive popular
vote, Talmadge took an early lead
in the decisive unit voting in which
winners are determined by the
number of counties they carry.
Against a background of a U. S.
Supreme court decision opening
Democratic primaries in the South
to Negroes, and another court rul
ing forbidding segregation on inter
state buses, Talmadge conducted a
vigorous “white supremacy” cam
paign. With Georgia’s state ad
ministration under retiring Gov. El
lis Arnall making no effort to curb
the colored vote, more than 100,000
Negroes flocked to the polls, sep
arate booths being set up in some
election stations.
INVENTORIES:
Hit Hoarding
Hitting at the withholding of mer
chandise from the market in antic
ipation of higher prices, Civilian
Production administration drew up
stringent inventory controls on man
ufacturers of electrical appliances
and other scarce goods.
At the same time, CPA disclosed
that exports may be limited if ship
pers move out a flood of goods at
high prices to badly depleted for
eign markets. Restoration of OPA
price control would make such •
step unnecessary, it was said.
Under CPA regulations, invento
ries of finished goods would be re
stricted to 30 days. Included are
refrigerators, furniture, washing
machines, electric ranges, sewing
machines, vacuum cleaners, cam
eras, asphalt and tarred roofing, in
sect screen cloth and galvanized
ware.
JUSTICE:
Free Spy Suspect
The Jury had just returned a ver
dict of not guilty on five charges
of spying against 30-year-old Nico
lai Redin, Russian naval lieutenant.
Elated by the finding, the stocky
defendant rose to his feet, crossed
to the jury box and shook hands
with the seven men and five women.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury,” he said in heavily accented
tones, “I want to thank you for the
fair trial I have received here in
America.” Then shaking hands with
Judge Lloyd Black, he declared:
"The friendship between our two
countries has existed and will ex
ist.”
Redin’s acquittal followed Judge
Black’s censure of the prosecution
for building up the international as
pects of the case, with their im
plications of U. S. and Russian dif
ferences. Arrested in Portland,
Ore., last March as he was about
to board a ship for Russia, he was
charged with obtaining and at
tempting to transmit secret plans of
the new 14,000-ton destroyer tender,
USS Yellowstone.
SLl-ASlUtj ltiKMUyAlUU
Wheat Sale Requirement Ends
Producer wheat set-aside require
ments, under which it was manda
tory for wheat farmers to sell half
the grain from the 1946 crop that
they took to elevators or warehouses
for storage, have been terminated
by the government. The set-aside
provision had been inoperative since
June 30, final effective date of grain
ceilings.
Action to eliminate the require
ment preceded final vote on the sen
ate version of the new price control
bill, which as it now stands, makes
it mandatory for the government
to issue certificates protecting pro
ducers forced to sell their grain
through a government order against
a price rise in the next nine months.
Favors Revision.
No announcement was made re
garding other provisions of the set
aside, contained in an amendment
to war food order No. 144, and over
all wheat control regulation. How
ever, it is known that officials in the
department of agriculture favor
changing the set-aside to the termi
nal level in place of country level
if congress returns ceilings to
wheat.
The set-aside became effective
last May, and unofficial estimates
place the amount of wheat pur
chased prior to July 1 under this
procurement plan at about 37 mil
lion bushels.
Ends Obligation.
Removal of the producer part of
the requirement automatically re
moves the department from obliga
tion to any congressional directive
guaranteeing farmers against a
price rise, while retaining the ma
chinery for siphoning off 250 million
^bushels of wheat for the export pro
gram as it is marketed.
If price control on wheat is elimi
nated, the government will have to
set up new procurement machinery,
officials admitted, but said that
there is no change in the heavy ex
port goal.
Fruit Preparation Required Processing
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Wash, pare, core, cut in piece*. Drop
| . . in slightly salted water. Pack. Add
Appies syrup. Or boil 3 to 5 minutes in syrup.
Pack, Add syrup,25 10
Apricot* » Wash, halve and pit Pack. Add syrup. 20 10
Berries
Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 8
Cherries_Wash, stem, pit. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10
Wash, remove stems. Boil 3 minutes in
Cranberries No 3 tyfup Pack._10_
Currents_Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 10
Put in soda bath 5 minutes, rinse. Pre
Flg* cook 5 minutes in syrup. Pack, add
syrup.30 10
Grope* Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 208^
Peel, pack, add syrup, or precook 3
reocne* minutes in syrup, pack, add syrup. 20 10
Select not overripe pears, pare, halve,
Poor* precook 3 to 5 minutes in syrup. Pack.
Add syrup. 25 10
Petl, remove eyes, cut or slice. Pre
Pineapple cook in No. 2 syrup 5 to 10 minutes.
Pack with syrup. 30 15
Plum* Wash, prick skins. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 j
Wash, pare, cut in pieces. Precook 3
wu nee* minutes in syrup. Pack, add syrup. 35 • 15
Rhubarb Wash, cut into pieces. Pack. Add syrup. 10 S
Wash, stem, precook gently tor 3 min*
utes in syrup. Remove from syrup and
Strawberries cool. Boil syrup 3 minutes. Add berries
and let stand for several hours. Re*
————— he**- Pack. 20 8
Scald 1 minute, cold dip 1 minute,
Tomatoes ^ core quarter> Pack. K_ 35 10
Can Fruits and Berries This Easy Way
(See Recipes Below)
Fruits A-Plenty!
Among the most envied women
the past few years were those with
large stocks of their own canned
fruit. Yes, commercially canned
fruit has been a
mignty rare com
' modity during the
war, and it's still
scarce. If you
plan now to do
your canning,
you’ll be among
the lucky home
maKers wnen snoriages reaiiy De
come acute during the fall and win
ter.
There are few pleasures greater
for the cook than those Jewel-like
quarts and pints of luscious fruit on
the pantry shell. And besides, it’s
very easy to can fruit because they
are acid and easy to prepare.
You have a choice of two pre
ferred methods, and you are not
limited to a pressure cooker in case
that is causing you some worry. A
hot w»ter or boiling-water bath, as
it’s sometimes referred to (because
the water must be kept bubbling
merrily above the Jars all during
processing) is very adequate for
canning fruits and tomatoes.
As you may know by trips to the
store, you can buy one of those
large kettles fitted with a rack and
a cover to hold anywhere from
four to six or even eight jars. If
you don’t want to buy a water-bath,
you can rig one up yourself with a
washboiler and a rack. Some wom
en have even found lard pails satis
factory because they are deep
enough to let the water come the
required two inches above the jars,
and still broad enough to take four
pints or quarts easily, depending
upon their height.
Selection Important.
I can’t stress too highly the im
portance of having the freshest pos
sible produce for canning purposes.
Perhaps it is best pointed out in
this way. You know the rapidity
with which fruit spoils as soon as it
is picked. You also know how im
portant it is to have unspoiled
fruit placed in a can because it
easily spoils when preserved if
there are bacteria there that begin
working. Blemish-free fruit will
take less time to put in cans,
and the chances of spoiling are cut
down. Besides that, the appearance
of the fruit is better.
LYNN SAYS:
Here are some canning point
ers: To guide you in the approx
imate number of jars you should
have, you’ll want this guide. To
make one quart of canned fruit
you will need these amounts of
fresh fruit:
2V» pounds of apricots; 1%
pounds of cherries; 2V4 pounds of
peaches; 2 to 2Vt pounds of pears;
2 medium-sized pineapples; 1%
to 2 pounds of plums; \Vi pounds
of rhubarb; and 3 to 3% quarts
of strawberries.
Always use the manufacturers’
directions in fastening the cap as
caps vary greatly in their use.
Here are fruits which may be
cold-packed or hot packed: apri
cots; berries; cherries; grapes,
figs; peaches; pears; pineapple;
plums and rhubarb.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENUS
——“
Chicken With Dumplings
Lima Beans and Com
Stuffed Tomato Salad
White Rye Bread Spread
Fresh Diced Pineapple Cookies
Beverage
Freshly picked fruit and berries,
young, tender and fully ripe, are the
best ingredients
pes. Under - ripe
fruit does not
have mellow fla
vor, and over
ripe fruit will be
mushy. That’s
why the “prime
condition or iruit is so important.
Look out for bruised spots, signs
of decay and other injuries. All
these things have a great bearing
on the quality of your final canned
fruit.
Making the Syrup.
Fruit may be canned in just plain
water, but if you have any sugar
at all (those extra canning stamps
for sugar!) make a syrup, even If
a very thin one for canning fruit.
The syrup mellows them and brings
out true flavor.
Here are some proportions for the
lighter syrups which are popular
this year:
Light: 1 cup sugar, 3y<i cups wa
ter.
Moderately light: 1 cup sugar, 2
cups water.
Medium: 1 cup sugar, 1% cups
water.
To make the syrup, combine the
sugar and water and allow to boil
for five minutes, without stirring.
Remove scum and use to fill jars.
You’ll need from */i to 1 cup syrup
for each pint of fruit after it’s
packed in the jar.
If desired, juice may be extract
ed from fruits and berries by crush
ing, heating ana
straining. No su
gar is needed.
Use it as you
would syrup.
In making syr
up, one-half com
syrup may be
used with one
half sugar. Honey
may also be
uscru, uui n uuca
darken the fruit and emphasize the
flavor.
• Methods of Packing.
Fruits may be cold-packed for
canning prior to processing. This
means that raw fruit is packed cold
into the jars, then processed in the
boiling-water bath or pressure cook
er. This is suitable for many fruits
and berries, and is usually used by
women who have a lot of canning to
do.
The hot-pack method is sometimes
used for fruits. This means pre
cooking the fruits in the syrup a
short time before packing in the
jars and processing.
The. open kettle method gives
beautiful fruit, but is not often used
today because there is too much
danger of contaminating the fruit
after it is cooked and transferred
to the jars. In this method the fruit
is cooked thoroughly in an open ket
tle in the syrup and then placed in
the jars and sealed.
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some valuable timber sufficient for
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This tract is located in the heart of the
most productive part of the Arkansas
land, adjoining lands now in
cultivation are producing the highest
yields of cotton, corn, alfalfa, soy beans
and other crops common to this area.
Located six miles from city of 2,500 pop
ulation, four miles from U. S. paved
highway, two and a half miles from
graveled highway.
Due to physical disability incurred while
in the service, am unable to place
his in cultivation.
Fifteen dollars per acre.
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WE HAVE HAYING EQUIPMENT IN
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bearing drawers, mirror backs, and indi
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*Get O'Sullivan SOLES as well as
Heels next tine you have your
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You girls and women who lose so
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this may b« due to lack of blood-iron
Bo try Lydia E. Plnkham's TABLETS
_one of the best home ways to
build up red blood—In such cases
Plnkham’s Tablets are one of the
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May Warn of Disordered
Kidney Action
Modern life with Its hurry snd worry.
Irregular habiu, improper eating and
drinking—ita risk of exposure and infec
ts tion—throws heavy strain on the work
of the kidneys. They are apt to become
i over-taxed and fail to filter excess acid
E and other impurities from the life-giving
blood.
You may suffer nagging backache,
headache, dizziness, getting up nights,
leg pains, swelling—feel constantly
tired, nervous, all worn cut. Other signs
of kidney or bladder disorder are some
times burning, scanty or too frequent
urination.
Try Doan's Pillt. Doan'i help ths
kidneys to pass off harmful excess body
waste. They have had more than half a
century of public approval. Are recom
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