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T. Kenneth Berrien. Colgate unlveraity psycr.ologut and longtime conaultant on the polmapn, predlcU eitenalve use of the 'he detector" tn bualnena and industry. He foresee a prominent role for the machine In the mutual protection of both employers and employes as mell aa In crime detection. Doctor Berrien point out that survey have revealed the rather discouraging fact that as mary as 75 percent of the employes of aome hotels, stores, banks and filling station ptTfer aiaeaale amounts of cash or merchandise.

He also reveals that Lloyd of London already have endorsed the polygraph and are offering 10 percent bond premium reductions to employers ho have their workers tested at regular Inter vals. The Colgate psychologist' prophecy may be borne out but It la somehow a bit disheartening to be told that lie detectors may have to become a middy used as typewriters or erasers In order to catch dishonest employes. It also la difficult to conceive of a harmonious employer-employe relationship In a firm which periodically harnesses an employe up to the polygraph and asks htm mhether he ha been dipping Into the cash register since his last test. 8uch a procedure mould appear at least to Imply a lack of confidence in the workers mho would be given the meekly or monthly third degrees. There would seem to be a possibility that the employe, feeling that turn about la fair play, might Insist that the boss take a test for the purpose of finding out mhether he really was unable to pay that additional $1.50 or so a week which an employe might have requested.

Extension of the trend predicted by the Colgate doctor might find lie detectors used In wage negotiation between employe and unions with the former qulxxed as to their ability to pay higher wages and the latter questioned as to whether their members really deserved the boost. Use of the lie detector might also spread from the fields of crime detection and business to the home with the polygraph ranking with the electric toaster as a household appliance which could be used for finding out how much money hubby won at poker or why the wife didn't have dinner ready when her spouse arrived home from work. Polygraphs might also be used in the schools for the determination of guilt In connection with the throwing of spitballs or other school room misdemeanors. The possibilities raised by Doctor Berrien's prediction would appear to be limitless. The professor may be right but somehow or other it seems more likely that normal relationships between employer and employe, husband and wife and teacher and student are going to be continued tn the great majority of case.

The woild seems to be far from the point where auch general use of the polygraph would be necessary or advisable. The Nation Today By JAMES MARLOW l7ASHINGTON. Dec. 27 -President Truman haa told American offlclala to help speed up emigration to this country of people from middle and eastern Europe. At most.

Mr. Truman figures. tMs will mean 39.000 Immigrants coming here from those sections of Europe tn a year. He is not changing any rules. He can't.

There a law limiting the number of immigrants from any one country in any one year. Each has its quota. The total quota or total number of Immigrants who can come here in any one year is 153.879. (There are no quotas for any country In the western hemisphere Li't. In order to come here from any western hemisphere country a person must have been born in that country.) The quotas were set up in 1924.

under law. They have not been changed. There was only a trickle of immigrants during the war. But the quotas remain the same, until changed by congress. If any country's quota Is 300 or more a year, then only 10 percent of the total quota can com here in any one month.

If a country does not use up Its quota in a year, it can't add the unused part of its quota to the next year. Before the mar. some countries used up their quotas yearly. Some didn't. But Mr.

Truman points out that the war has left hundreds of thousands of people from middle and eastern Europe stranded and homeless. It is these he particularly wants American officials abroad to help come here. Some, of course, won't be able to come at all. The law forbids entrance here to criminals, prostitutes, badly diseased persons, or persons over 16 who can't un-derstandlngly read In their own language. And before getting an O.

K. to come here, an immigrant must have money to support himself here or have in this country a relative or some organization which will promise to see that -he does not become a public charge. Furthermore, the Individual or a relative or some organization must pay the cost of transporting him here. Mr. Truman specially wants to see orphaned children come in.

Most of the middle and eastern European people, whom Mr. Truman wants the American offlclala to help, will come from the American zone of occupation in Europe. There it will be easier to check on a would-be immigrant's quali Hoiihin Bottleneck Rnm omners with unused rooms have been eitd by the state office of veterans' affair, aa the biggest bottleneck to solving the returning service men's housing problem. The vruran' agency haa made the folio ir.g recommendation The Intensive ue of the present houMng farUltlea mean greater and more rompleu use Af the existing houint tn a community. It mean persuading tho individual mho have egrea spare to rent lhoe eiUa room to veteran.

In every community Uiere are many rae of widow living alone In eight and 10-room honwi and of alngle famille living alone tn large houne lih fitra room for mhirh they have no Immediate w. Every community hat a few home the nmner of which rould be prrtuaded to rnn-vett a part of Uirlr home into apartment. It iihmild be railed to the attention of the riurrnn of the community that they ose a patriotic duty to provide housing In aome form for thee returning erlre men. While the pieaenre of aome eitra room In oma houNe mould not nere.artly imply a lark rf patriotism and mhile other condition mhlrh might not be known might prevent the renting (if atich upare In all cae. the veteran' office haa railed attention tn a atluation mhlrh ahould be connldcred carefully by thoe having auch ex rem apare In their home they may determine mhrlher it mill be poMible for urh apace to provide Mielter for the homeleik veteran.

A re 1 1 rat ion that the hotiMng problem I not entirely anmenne ele' conrern might make avail a Die many loom mhlrh no are being masted. The National Observer The Netcs Behind the Day's AW Satin; Ships A nrmr ytem for preervlng Amerlra' mar nhip mill be melromed not only from the nund-rxunt of economy but also from the atandpotnt of the national aecurity. Borne of the hlp are being "parked amay In moth halls" at the naval repair base at San Diego, Calif. Wr'ie not going la have anv Red lead Rom here like thoe after the flit Woild mar." navy authoritle neclare. "America cannot afford to have hundred of hlp rotting amay to morthles.

ruMed Junk again. Thee aliim mutt be ready to be put In action quirkly tn rae pf national emriacncy." Tlie navy ay that mhen completely dehumidified by new prorewe. the ahip ran be put hark Into action by "Mcpping alxtard. firing the lxnlcr. looting the mhlslle and ihovlng off." The drhumldifymg miu-hine ran be oiicraled for cnly a few cent a day.

mhlrh. It I minted out. certainly cheaper than alloming the vrMcl to ruvt amay and having to replace them. The large amount of money and time required for the construction of fighting hlp make tin new method of avoiding the maMcful practice of the part of Immeasurable Importance to all American. It to be hoped that an enduring peace mill make It possible to leave the r-htpn In "mothball" but If they are needed they will be ready.

The cost of preserving the hlp I likely to be Insignificant in comparison mlih the feeling of aecurity their availability mill engender and mith the ving in money If It doea become necessary to u-4 them again to protect thla country or to safeguard moild peace. Deri in in Air Powrr Considering that the army air forces now constitute our first line of defense it seems that there I every reason for the very deep concern which Gen. Carl A. Spaalz has expressed. In an interview, over the present stale of American air pomer.

For various reason the air arm ha suffered more from the speedy demobilization of recent months than any other branch of the service. Because the air force got Into the fight long before the ground forces In most theaters, an exceptionally high percentage of It personnel as eligible for discharge under the point system when V-J Day came. On top of thl the A. A. F.

fares a far more difficult replacement problem than the ground force. It relies, to a much greater extent, on highly trained technicians: ll effectiveness depend on the precise coordination of air crew and ground crew teams. The breaking up of these team by the discharge of a large proportion of the men who formed them ha left the air forces ill-equipped to meet any potential threat. New enlistments only partly fill the need. For It will be many month before the recruits will be trained well enough to fit Into the team and bring them bark to standard operating effectiveness.

Fortunately the possibility is remote that the air forces will be called on to defend this country from attack at this time or for several years to come. Even though this is true. It seems highly unmlse to allow American air power to deteriorate at this point. This Is still a world In which Influence depends on power and we shall find our influence in world affairs declining if we pull down too rspidly the air strength which we have built. DEPARTURE If in the glittering fire-peopled night One comet burnt it teat from pole to pole.

Etching upon the pattern of the whole S'o blazing print, no golden tear, no bright Spatter of flame, vet think how that ttrange light Falling on time extinguished suns and dark Unhaloed moons along the spatial arc Would make them briefly, mar-velously white. Think how stand enchanted, having here Beheld you cross my thought-enkindled skies. Reluming many a forgotten sphere Of burnt-out vision, many a lost surmise Whose emerald cliffs and crags ft ifintnnnf Leave me a moment blind, a lit tle stunnea. Dorothy Hobson in Spirit. Flashes of Life That's Agin the Law SPOKANE.

Wash. (Engineer a. Pruitt Dulled the North Coast limited into the terminal yard line late and explained in nis report: "Delaved 10 minutes entering Spokane yard by horse, running wild with no signals." 9 Windfall CLINTON, Okla. Ran Van Alstlne didn't fire a shot during the hunting season but he has a fine fat duck in his holiday larder and It wasn't a gift from a friend. Van Alstine was on his way to work when he found a crippled pintail.

The duck had been shot by a hunter and managed to fly Into town before it was grounded. a a Ink Spots WILMINGTON. Cal. (AT They can write off this loss In black ink. A harbor pier fire caused an estimated $2,000 damage, most of the damage attributable to the explosion of two huge drums of Ink which drenched the dock with the fluid.

aaa No Skin Game LOS ANGELES (P Mayor Fletcher Bowron believes a man's skin is his own. So he vetoed an ordinance requiring special permits for tattoo artists. If an adult wants to get himself decorated, there should be no interference, he said. aaa A Long Backache SAN DIEGO. Cal.

(if) The 20- foot. 160-pound India python snake at the San Diego zoo fell asleep on the job, tumbled from his cement tree and Injured his back. Zoo Director Mrs. Belle Bench-ley sent the organization's hospital into action. They rigged up an x-ray machine in the python's glass-enclosed cage and took a picture of the injury.

Further treatment awaited the outcome of the picture. Clearing House CHICAGO (flV-Only one dog. Queenie, lives in the south side rooming which Mrs. Irving Klein manages, so she was astonished when she came down stairs and saw nearly a score of dogs romping through the first floor rooms. She called police but Sgt.

Eugene McCoy put in an SOS for reinforcements after he counted 18 canines going to town all over the house. Two more squads rushed to the scene. The officers succeeded in clearing the house of all the dogs except Queenie. a a a Bedding Down CHICAGO. Mrs.

Alberta Brooks explaining to felony Judge Charles S. Dougherty how she aired her bedding, denied a charge of malicious mischief. "I shook my bedclothes out the window." said Mrs. Brooks but Prosecutor' Maurice Mettel said a bed hit an automobile parked below her second floor window, and the owner wanted $200 damages. said Mrs.

Brooks. "When I shake my bedding, I shake it bed and all. And It Just slipped out of my hands." Judge Dougherty freed her of the charge. Bond Issue Control Plea Being Shaped by Croup A grouD of city officials Dlanned Thursday to put the finishing touches on an appeal to Governor Kelly to permit the approaching special legislative session to act on a bill giving the state control over municipal revenue bond issues. The group laid its ideas before Kelly last week and was advised to return with a formal brief.

D. Hale Brake, state treasurer, one of the sponsors of the measure, has contended it would provide regu lation of an increasingly popular form of financing which brought some cities to financial distress dur ing the depression of the 1930s. Ration Calendar Ingham county war price and rationing board now is operating on the following schedule Monday through Friday. 10 a. to 3 p.

SUGAR Stamp 38 good through December 31 for five pounds. Stamp No. 37 by passed and will not be validated. mind of her own and when her Scotch is made up, it is made up. If she is convinced that she has the right of a thing, it's very hard to budge her from it.

Eighteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth, ho one day will be ruler of the empir- in the ordinary course of events, has Inherited her mother's calm, and couples conscientiousness with this sterling quality. She is being tutored In the wide' field of learning mhich a ruling queen must possess, and is beginning to play her part at public functions. That's the sort of royal family with which the Socialist government has to dal, and relations are said to be in utmost harmony. Because the kin? shows absolutely no disposition to step ousude his assigned ro'e as constitutional monarch, the government is happy with the fituation. And that is a mighty Item In these days when continental tnrone ure beirg allowed up by the Leftist toUUuirun tide.

By CHARLES B. DRISCOLL TsJEVl YORK So I see by the papers that Staff Sgt. Donald J. Harms, first draftee from Wichita, has reen listed after 20 months in service in Europe. That will please the recruiting boys out at Governor's Island, and don't think that they won't blow some trumpets about it I went to school wtth a girl named Sophia Harms, who married a professor of math, and a nice fellow, too.

Usually. I dislike math teachers, because I was too thick-headed to learn the multiplication table. But I took astronomy under Professor Wheeler, and liked it. Probably part of the charm of the subject had to do with the evening study of the stars, along with extremely attractive co-eds. I was Just wondering whether the soldier, destined to be famous, is related to the Harmses I knew; Quakers, I believe.

aaa As president of the Society for Keeping Christmas Decorations Up Through January (every member is president), I think I should remind the customers that it is very easy to make the mistake of tearing down the beautiful things too soon. The society has done good work in keeping Christmas cheer going, as it used to go in some other countries. Christmas isn't Just a day. It's a season. a New Year's Eve is the big night at The Players, in Gramercy Park.

Tlie members gather through the day and evening, listen to eulogies of the club's founder, Edwin Booth, and at exactly midnight all drink a sup apiece from a loving cup that is handed around. I know of no club that retains its traditions and honors them more meticulously than The Players. A lucky city is one that has an artist among its citizens who appreciates his town and can put it on paper I observed that Harrisburg. is one such town. Artist Walt Hu-ber has been doing the town in pen and ink.

The drawing will be art gallery pieces, no doubt. New Bedford, may be the most widely pictured town, next to Charleston, S. in the United States. This is partly due to the undeniable and inherent charm of the place, and partly due to the unquenchable enthusiasm of its artistic sons and daughters. Chambers of Commerce do a lot for a town.

But artists and writers actually put it on the map. St. Paul. and Albany. N.

are two of the picturesque towns I have enjoyed, though I've spent little time in Albany. The architecture of both cities is individualistic. Both have interesting, hilly contour, dramatic bridges, and rivers to put them over. a San Diego is the city I have never sen that I most want to visit. Not only do its citizens rave about it all the time, but travelers verif many of the claims of the home folk.

I lived in Cleveland and Omaha without falling in love with the cities. They seemed all right to me. but 'ust all right. Winona, has a charm all Its own, and I must admit that Minneapolis is not so bad. for a big town.

It has a lot or lakes, aaa I modestly omit my home town this time. The customers might think me prejudiced. (Released by McNaught Inc.) Post-War Comment By DEWITT MacKENZIE (AP World Traveler) ONDON, Dec. 27 Britain's King George VI seems, rather paradoxically, to fit supremely well Into the frame-work of the new Socialist regime, the reason being that he not only is exceedingly democratic by nature but that he is said to have no personal ambitions. Not to be outdone by my observations, the distaff side of this column team has penetrated deeply into a quarter very close indeed to royalty itself and has emerged with information showing that the king owes a good half of his success and popularity to Queen Elizabeth.

In submitting this as a 50-50 proposition, Mrs. Mack does so with an air which Is calculated to convey and In fact does convey the impression that the credit really should be at least 60-40 in favor of the queen. aaa Well, well, you know how the women are inclined to stand up for their own sex. so I think we will let the figure rest at 50-50, since there's nothing to controvert that estimate. Her undoubtedly has been a wonderful aid to her husband.

And right here at the start we must record that the royal partnership has been a love match from the oeginning, and that the home life of the king and queen and their two princesses has been wonderfully happy. This explains a great deal, for only complete and sympathetic understanding could produce such a successful combination. To get the full significance of this, we must know that King George, despite his appearance of smiling tranquility, is high strung. As a counter-balance we have the steady calm of his very Scottish queen. This has been a Godsend to the ruler, because kingship of the British commonwealth is one of the world's toughest jobs at best, and George was thrown into it by fate without having had full training.

Virtually everything had been centered in his elder brother, who became Edward VIII and then abdicated so he could marry "the woman I love." a a a One of George's hardest tasks of course, has been speechmaking before great a- embhges, or broadcasting addresses which have been heard around the world. On these occasions the king always wants his queen witn him, for she gives him courage. She is his real audience. Now et anyone get away 1 with the mistaken idea that the i queen's calm bearing is an indication that she is easy-going. She is I gentle and sweet but she has a from the conflict, in a material way at least, was a 000 public debt and swollen budgets for the next generation.

West 15UT not even domestic cynics although some may can discount the possibly significant fact that the home of the UNO will be built here rather than at Berne or Paris or London. From a practical, publicity and psychological standpoint, it will give us a better chance to promote ideas and ideals than we ever had before. Incidentally, it is understood that President Truman prefers a western city as the seat possibly St. Louis (Missouri again), Chicago or San Francisco. The administration does not believe that the permanent site should be located in a parochial, international and money-minded place such as New York or Philadelphia.

H. S. T. would like foreign delegations and their resident staffs of experts to become acquainted with our middle and far west, as they did when the conference to frame the United Nations charter assembled at San Francisco. Putterville Folks By E.

R. P. (Specia to The State Journal) pUTTERVILLE. Dec. 27 Archer Putter's plan to make money on Saturdays has been hit right In the head by Jake Sparks, our blacksmith.

Archer broke a window pane a few days ago experimenting after school with his rocket bomb sling shot. His ma is making Archer pay for the damage by devious means. One is sawing vood and Archer hates that kind of work. Because he hates it, Archer devised a means for making money. His plan was to sharpen Ice skates for his school friends.

Archer was using Jake Sparks' emery wheel, files and everything else. But Jake has chased Archer from the shop and Archer's idea of making money without sawing wood for it, has blown up. Archer, however, sharpened three pairs of skates before Jake chased him and Archer did -the Jobs on credit. Now he Is trying to collect. It is understood Archer has collected one bill by main force.

In otber words he had to "lick" the money out of his customer. It is thought the other two customers will pay their tills very shortly as they have seen and taken cognizance of the two black eyes Archer gave the boy who paid the delinquent bill. No. 7 off a half hour today. Miss Myrt Elmroot is chummy with the new brakeman.

it is reported. She has been giving him the cold shoulder tor the past week. Prominent Deaths (By the Associated Press) JAMES SLOAN, JR. DANVILLE. 111.

James Sloan, 69, known to thousands of White House callers as "Jimmy of the Secret Service." who retired last July 1 after serving under Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding as a nominee. Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman. He was a native of Danville. aaa ROBERT O.

BAILEY TON. N. J. Robert O. Bailey, 70.

assistant secretary of the United States treasury under President Taft. secretary of the treasury under President Wilson and formerly associated with the National City Bank of New York. aaa MRS. HELEN PITKIN' SCHERTZ NEW ORLEANS Mrs. Helen Pitkin Schertz.

74. author of several books and for many years on the staff of the New Orleans Tunes. Democrat, a predecessor of the Times-Picayune. aaa CHARLES E. BARRY CHICAGO Charles E.

Barry. 63. assistant freight traffic manager of import and export traffic for the Roc Island lines. medicative value of frequent visits to the oedslde from the victims parents, wife or children. Advance word of these instructions has improved morale among the wounded who have already been returned to what they call "God's country." Permanent or semipermanent Invalids will be given their choice of restful, attractive and scenic spots, and not shoved into a noisy, hot and crowded home in some metropolitan area.

That is why the 200-bed hospitals have been given to such places as Bonham and Rankin's home town of Tupelo. Uncle Sam will eventually help the men's families to move to or near their convalescent locales, and try to provide employment for them. aaa Feather 'PHE selection of the United 1 States as the location for the capital of the United Nations organization may prove to be a valuable political feather in Harry S. Truman's hat. Although they operated quietly because Russia originally opposed the choice of the western hemisphere as the laboratory for this experiment in international cooperation, his diplomatic aides lobbied behind the scenes for the U.

S. A. from the start. The foreign powers' willingness to hold their postwar councils In this country, which has held so aloof from Europe's and China's disturbances in the past, can be a tised by administration spokesmen as an acceptance of American leadership in world affairs. They may also herald it as world recognition of our superior might economic, industrial and military.

For some time many Americans have groused, and might express their soreness at the 1946 and 1948 polls, because our sacrifices seemed to have gone unrequited by our former Allies and the regimes of the liberated peoples. It appeared that all Uncle Sam got Talks BRADY. M. D. In other words hold your head a though you were carrying a basket of bananas or a sack of coal balanced on your head.

You will find if you try It that you can keep such a weight balanced on top of your head much more easily if you keep your chin in and the crown of your head, rather than the forehead high. In fact anyone can walk a tight rope or do a dance or skate or play golf or tennis or pitch or bat a baseball or paint a dog kennel or shoot an arrow or knit a sweater or read ui announcement or sing a song better if he or she keeps the chin In and the crown high. As you pursue the study of posture you will learn that good posture is a large factor of good looks and Indeed that it is precisely the cultivation of or neglect of posture that explains why this individual somehow seems good looking even if he or she has no better features, form, complexion, etc. than that individual. a a Qt'ESTIONS AND ANSWERS Immunisation for Baby I am raising a new baby at our house by "the Brady Baby Book" and if I do say so.

she is the picture of health. My question now 1 1 do not find it answered in the book is what immunization should she have her first year? Mrs. G. W. Answer Every infant should be vaccinated against small pox when three months old and immunized against diphtheria when two or three years old.

or in any case before the child is old enough to attend nursery school or kindergarten or before the child begins to play with other children. Leave all other immunizing treatments to the Judgment of the attending physician. Copy of "Preparing for Maternity mailed on request if you inclose stamped self addressed envelope and ten cents. Inclose additional ten cents for copy of -The Bradv Babv Book." tl opyrigbt 1945, John F. Dale Co.) Cenciudrd from Page One tion.

But in the ca.se of the Bon-ham home the selection mas ar-ranted from a health standpoint. President Truman also deserves an assist because, although he the political pomer of the "heroes' bloc" on Capitol Hill, inasmuch as he used to be a prominent memoer. he backed General Bradley In the latters controversies with certain congressmen. tenter GENERAL BRADLEY'S hospital VJ board has insisted that the great 2.000-bed institutions for critical cases be built in or near cities which are blessed with the leading medical universities and centers of treatment in the United Slates. Their specialists will serve as part-time consultants for the government, thus augmenting the veterans administration permanent stafi.

In contrast 'o World War I hospitals, which were located in re-n'ote and barren spots because of political considerations, the future structures will be only a few miles from such medical stations as Johns Hopkins. Harvard. Michigan. Duke. Vanderbilt and other university centers.

The veterans mill get the benefit of the nation's finest physicians without a penny's cost. At the moment this country has ome of Europe's foremost surgeons, plastic experts and pioneers in numerous diseases of mars refugees. Many of them mill be given employment pending their return to their native land. aaa Home "pHE army and navy perfected 1 firugs, medicaments and all kinds of equipment winch mere exclusively by the armed forces during the war. They had to be withheld from private physicians.

The V. A. hospitals will have top priority on these nines. General Bradley has also ordered more attention be given to assignment of a wounded veterrn to the hospital nearest to his family's home He appreciates the Health By WILLIAM Hatch Your Chin Never Mind Your Chest "NE handsome youth In a group wof two dozen young men undergoing physical examination for a coveted position impressed the examining physician by exhibiting a chest expansion of fully five inches. All the other youths (still In their teens or a year or two older! had Just ordinary chest expansiontwo to three inches, perhaps.

Not that it matters a little bit whether one can expand one's chest scarcely 1', or Inches or all of three, four or fives inches. This exceptional young man explained that he had been following. I forget whose mail-order "course" tor development of superb manhood or something of the sort for several years. The boy's pride of achievement was almost patheticreally so. as it turned out.

As though unconsciously he contrived to pose several times during the interview in the superb manhood pose so effectively employed by Moose Musclebound. The youth said he had gone as far as sophomore year in high school but had left school then, for some obscure reason. This one handsome young man with the abnormal chest expansion flunked because he had incipient pulmonary tuberculosis. All tlie other young men with Just ordinary chest expansion the examination. Moral: Chesuness ouuide of the comic strip doesn't mean a thing.

I hope no young reader will infer from this that he or she should pay no attention to posture or that it is all right to cultivate a dump or slouch hen sitting, standing or milking. The suggestion is rather that for good posture, good looks and good health you should watch the chin and never mind the chest. A fundamental principle of posture is that at all times, whenever the thought of posture occurs to you. you should keep your chin in. not up That is.

keep it tucked inside of aa imaginary hh collar. Il.ippy T.ioi!li Slnuulcd Thousand of American mho fought tn foreign lii(t mrie reported to have spent Christmas Day on their native soil thankfully and Joyfully although still far from their homes and families. The stranded soldiers and sailors and marines mere entertained in prlvat home and by lodge and club. While they naturally mould have preferred to be home with their on famine they were said to have borne cheerfully the fact that the railroad were unable to handle the large number of returning service men. While It was.

unfortunate that all of them could not get home for Chrlstma. the fact that they had at least reached their omn country after long absences undoubtedly went a great way to make up for their inability to get back to the family fuesides. Even though they were still far from home the knowledge that the war over and that thry would soon be reunited with their loved one provided a Joyful contrast with their Chrtst-mases during the year of fighting. They are to he commended for their patier.ee and ability to look on the bright side of things. In their alUtude there a lesson for those who complain at times of minor Inconvenience.

fications than In some sections where there are few, scattered or no officials. This will give an idea of how the total quota of 153,873. established back in 1924. is divided: Great Britain, 65.721; Irish Free State. 17.853; Germany.

25.957; Austria. 1.413; Greece. 307; Bulgaria, 100; Poland 6.524. Quotas also were set up for other countries. They were established this way: two percent of the total number of foreign-born persons of any nationality living in the United States in 1890.

In this way it was figured that the greatest percentage of foreign-born persons here came from Great Brtatn and the next greatest from Ireland. Congress established the 'first general immigration law, on a quota basis. In 1921 and revised it in 1924. There was a tremendous rush here after the last war. 800.000 immigrants coming In in 1921.

Until 1880 most immigrants came from western and northern Europe, countries like Britain and Ireland, but- later the majority swarmed in from central and southern Europe. Ex-Iinsing Alan Named I run wood City Engineer John N. Calkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred P.

Calkins. 712 We Cttawa street, is taking over the duties of city engineer for Ironwood, the Ironwood city manager, wunam L. Johnson announces. Mr. Calkins was graduated from Central high school and Michigan Sttte college where he received hi degree in civil engineering ta 1937.

After graduation, he waa employed as draftsman in building of Grand Coulee dam in Washington, and later by the Muskegon county high way commission and the United States engineering department a an associate engineer. He left the last position to enter the navy, in which he served from October, 1942, until October. 1945. with the Seabees. He held the rank of lieutenant, civil engineer corpa, in the naval reserve.

While in the employ of the war department, before entering the ravy, he was assistant to operations officer on a seven million dollar -air base construction project at St, L'xia. British West Indies. Mr. Calkins is married to the Florence Lamont of Glle, Wla. Increase in Pork Supply Seen in Breeding Plana A potential Increase In the state's 1946 pork supply waa Indicated Thursday by a federal-state crop reporting service statement that Michigan farmers intend to breed 10 percent more sows and gilts for farrowing next spring than in 1945.

The service said the state's pig production this year was the smallest since 1938. although only 3 percent below the 1934-1943 average. Michigan fanners saved 677.000 pigs last spring. 18 percent fewer than a vear I earlier, and the fall crop of 700.000 i pigs saved is 7 percent smaller than last laiL If farmers carry out their Intentions the service um a tai about 110.000 sows and kilts will xarrow next spring, compared with 100.000 in 1945. 125.000 in 1944, and the 10-year average of 116,000.

Discontinuing Ferries To Mackinac for Winter Regular ferrv aarvira v. Mackinac Island and the mainland St. and Mackinaw City will be discontinued during the (Winter months, the state highway department announced Thursday I department said it would provide ferry service tor all necessary i emergency trips to the island. Not Out of This World Stories of clashes between American troops and French civilians at LrHavre. and criticism of troop handling In that btg embarkation port have resulted In the Imposition of army censorship tn that area, according to a New York Herald-Tribune correspondent In France.

The American port area commander is reported to have restricted correspondents' freedom of movement In his command, and to have ordered that all newspapermen be accompanied by public relations officera and their stories submitted for official review. The reason given is "embaravsment" that previous stories have caused. It seems hsrd for some officers to realize that the war has ended and with It the necessary and. to some, autocratic authority that they enjoyed. It is hard for them to realize that rules of military security no longer obtain, and that "embarrassment" Is not a sufficient reason to ban the unhampered coverage of news events.

In short. It Is hard for some officers to remember that they aren't living In a world apart, and that military authority is now confined to military matters. It may be hoped that their superiors will get In touch with such of these officers as ekist, and set them right. It Is contended Americans wUI again have luxtry before long. Including split pea soup? Yotcrclavs in Iinsiii" a 1 XHXOW1NO in the wake of the largest Christ-li mas buying period in retail history.

Lansing merchants reveal that gift exchanges since Christmas have been the lightest on record. Lansing post office ill rite a new high volume into its rei-ord books for the ONT lEAJg months of December. Postmaster AtlO D. D. Harm reveals.

Plans for I a urauon ceremonies New Cliii'Kci. of Fut urr A number of the country's leading poultry aeirntista have prepared a blueprint for the Ideal chicken of tomorrow. It going to have 10 percent more mest than the average IMS model chicken and If going to tas'e 100 percent better. At least, that's the ptediction of one of the chicken architect. The specification call for a bird with meauer shorter leg and a broader Juicier breat.

according to the poultry scientist who say that "now all we have to do Is find the chicken." A 15.000 reward going to be paid to the person mho produces such an Ideal torn I tn the next three year. In this atomic age It may not be safe to scoff at any predictions as to what science will accomplish but some skeptics are likely to feel that a pmt-war chicken cannot be constructed with the ease attending the changes tn automobile design. Such skeptics also may be expected to doubt that the new and unproved chicken wia taste 100 percent better than those which have been available for many years. Even tf the scientist fail tn their search for the meauer. Juicier, better-tasting chicken the world will be able to survive the blow.

The chickens mhicn are now available and have been for a long time are filling the bill satisfactorily and probacy wu continue to do so. In any event, the announcement of the searcn for the bigger and better chicken probsbly ma greeted coldly by many who did better than all ritht with the 1945 model chickens and turkeys on Chriim Day. Year's Day. at mhich Gov. Harry F.

Kelly and otnrr state officials elected last November, will take their oatiis of office, are announced by Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, state superintendent of public instruction and chairman ct the program sr-i ar.gr menu. fECLA RATION Is filed in circuit court in a I suit brought against operators of the Hotel Kerns oy Harriet s. ooodwine.

administratrix of the estate of the Ia.e John Ooodwine. Marlctte. slate representative who lost his life when fire destioved the hostelry tXS I IIS December 11. 1934. The Michigan AOO cooperative reporting service say the wnter wheat and rye acreage planted this fall are "about normal." although in each case less trtan last year's.

Slate police are investigating an aitempted safe rob-! berv at the offices of the Holt Lumber company. HolL.