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The Meat Shortage Has Its Political Aspects Oct. 3, 1946 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND mm i TAKE MY WORD FOR IT BLANDY SAID BOILING MAD ooesmYlook I1 LIKE. TrtErlC, BE. REAtitf FOS. A aA jfSk MARKET" BEFoq fW By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON It will probably be de The Daily Sun San Bernardino Fifty-Third Year Published every day of the year by The Sun Company of San Bernardino, California, Entered at the San Bernardino postoffice for transmission as second class mail matter.

By FRANK COLBY What's in a Name? From a California radio news editor: "An Associated Press article from Washington states that nicd, but Vice-Adm. William H. P. Blandy and several of his top associates are boiling mad at the cancellation of the third atomic bomb test. Bikini should be pronounced, EDITORIAL This was the test which the scientists predicted would really show the world the true power of the A-bomb, and which would have shown modern navies to be completely obso A Needed Campaign lete.

Unfortunately the reports of the colossal the budget usually wanted it balanced in some other state. McKELLAR'S BLUSHES Obviously the president had in mind a recent speech in which McKellar rapped him for the order blocking the rivers-and-harbors pork grab and challenged his right to issue the order. The Tennesseean flushed as he listened to this lecture and looked for a moment as if he had been beaned with a croquet mallet. When he got his tongue into gear again, he sputtered something about being "heartily in accord" with balancing the budget. He added, however, that the rivers-and-harbors project shouldn't be docked more than its proportionate share.

Truman made no promises about voiding his order, except to say that he would be glad to "review" it. He repeated that it was necessary to balance the budget, partly because of its effect in maintaining the high prestige the United States enjys among other nations. If the job had to be done at the expense damage done by the first and second bombs were only made public piecemeal, days after the explosion took place, so that the public Bick-in-ih, with the accent on the first Should I instruct my newscasters to use the A. P. pronunciation despite the fact that the networks accent Bikini on the second syllable?" Answer: I have been advised by the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Board on Geographical Names, and the Reference Department of the Library of Congress that the officially sponsored pronunciation of Bikini is: "bi-K EE-nee," the first short as in "bit." The name is of native (Marshallese) origin, and it means "fanned by palms." Add unusual names: J.

G. Sour- never got a clear picture of the fantastic de struction caused by the bomb. Admiral Blandy and his aides have now- made a confidential report which shows that more than half the men who would have been aboard the Bikini fleet would have been instantly killed; while more than 60 per cent of the survivors would have been permanently disabled or died of wounds. Test No. 3 Underwater would have been wine, of Silver Spring, Md.

And here is one of the queerest Ameri of rivers and harbors, he was prepared to do even more horrible. That is why men like Blandy who have been doing everything pos can place names thus far received: Titlum-Tatlum, a small island sible to educate the public to the truth about it, he said, despite the bricks that might be thrown at him. "The president usually has to take the and bird sanctuary just west of Galveston, Texas. I have found no bricks," he concluded, "and I can take them." atomic energy are now pretty well disgusted. One example of the mistaken conclusions which the public got as a result of No.

1 and 2 Is the case of "pig 311." Reference to the origin or mean Note The White House eventually may ing. This letter is typical of many "Pig 311" is the porker supposed to have make some slight concessions on certain reclamation projects which the budget bureau now admits were cut too sharply, but that's all. which comes to this column: "What is the correct American pronunciation of our family name, been placed aboard ship near the center of the explosion to demonstrate the effectiveness of bomb radiation on humans. After the second test it was reported that "pig 311'' had been hurled into the water by the explosion had swam around 36 hours, and managed to GENERAL' SARNOFF' When David Sarnoff, head of the Radio Governor Earl Warren's disclosure mat he takes seriously the threat of write-ins in the gubernatorial election obviously is not impelled by personal apprehension. The governor has the nomination of both the major parties in California.

He is as certain of taking the oath of office once more on the first Monday of next January as anything mundane can be in this imperfect world. He is booked to be governor of California once more if he lives, and the fashion in which he discharges his duties, both official and those not so official connected with the office of governor, indicates he is in most robust health. The governor has announced he proposes to oppose these write-ins because they are apparently directed against him by the Communist party. That group has a candidate of its own, Archie Brown, whoever he may be, but its members pretty much recognize the utter futility of voting their own ticket though many will do it. There are, of course, fanatics in that party who will stick to the party line even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

But the wiser members of the group, especially since Henry Wallace was tossed in the ashcan, will seek to leave their mark on California politics by writing in their own candidate, or some other, on one ballot or the other, probably the Democratic. Governor Warren declared, in connection with his announcement of his intention to campaign actively against the Communist candidate and Communist write-ins, that the people of our golden state want to know "what the Communists stand for and who they stand for." That statement adequately mirrors the vast majority of sentiment of the people of this commonwealth. California has been pretty much sane and sensible which likely accounts for the circumstance that various great enterprises of the east, desiring to establish a western' agency, have chosen this state for the enterprise. The fact that the governor himself won the nomination of both maior parties against the attorney general. Bonacci? Some of us pronounce it boe-NAHT-chee; some say buh-NASS-ee; while I prefer BON-uh-see, though some of my family ac Corp.

of America, was presented at the recent meeting of the new national commission to advise the state department on cultural ac survive with no sign of illness. Scientists who checked this story, however, tivities, newsmen were uncertain whether to cuse me of putting on airs." Answer: There are no rules, nor discovered that "pig 311" had never been near the explosion and the incident had not oc refer to him as general or plain mister. He appeared in civilian clothes, having been in and out of the Army several times. curred. is there any authority, for arriving at American pronunciations of names of foreign origin.

Some It never leaked out but when Admiral Blan The problem was settled by an unidentified man who decided that Sarnoff, although a reserve officer, is still "mister." dy was about to hold a press conference aboard the U.S.S. Burleson which brought the surviving animals of the Bikini test back to Washington, an aide suggested that Blandy pose with "pig 311" as evidence that the families preserve the foreign pronunciation, as boe-NAHT-chee, in the case of the Italian name Bonacci. Others adopt Anglicized pronunciations, and often change "Here's the story I've heard Sarnoff tell on porker survived the horrors of the A-bomb. the spelling Dooltitle, from the French de l'Hotel, and Smith from himself," he said. "In December of 1941, the day after he went off active duty, Sarnoff left his office in Radio city, New York, to go When he reached the street, he stood in a cold rain trying to hail a taxi.

"I.will not be a party to any such hoax," replied Blandy, angrily. "We all know that "Finally, an empty cab drew up and Sarnoff the German Schmidt, etc. The only "rule" I know of is this: The way you prefer to pronounce your name is the correct way for you, all other opinions to the contrary nothwithstanding. (Copyright, 1946, by Bell Syndicate) was about to get in when out of nowhere a young Army lieutenant jumped into the cab WASHINGTON CALLING MORE ABOUT 'RUSSIAN HAIL1 'pig 311 never left this boat." In the press conference which followed, "pig 311" was not mentioned. Real fact is that Blandy and his aides wish their superiors shared their realization of the A-bomb's devastating power.

Note The bombs used at Bikini are mere beanbags alongside future bombs capable of destroying a hundred-square-mile area. McKELLAR'S BUDGET BALANCING Senator Kenneth" McKellar's conference with President Truman on flood-control spending wasn't as congenial or as fruitful as the gentleman from Tennessee intimated to the press. ahead of him and slammed the door. Sarnoff, forgetting he was out of uniform, was preparing to let the lieutenant know what he thought when the cab driver said, 'Sorry, buddy, but with me a serviceman gets the call over a civilian any The cab drew off. "And Sarnoff says that since then he has never forgotten he can no longer 'pull his even though he was a general." (Copyright, 1946, by Bell Syndicate) Robert W.

Kenny, and all the various FLEESON REPORTS economic and political elements centered about him, indicates a certain sanity among our people that assures our state Truman promised to "review" his executive order, under the war powers act, by which he is a safe place to invest money. It is true that, in the past, the rumpus stirred up by Communists in the United States has been wholly disproportionate to their number. That may even be the case in California. But we need to remember in this state that the importance Governor SO THEY SAY in an age of reason and could not be touched by spells and hysteria that formerly swept whole populations. In the year 1000, large numbers of Europeans became convinced that the world was ending and strange forms of mass hysteria occurred throughout the continent.

Perhaps the "Russian hall" was only a stray meteor or two magnified by tragic fears that feed on the mysteries of science. How many years must pass before we can hope to see the peoples of the world back to anything like normal? (Copyright, 1948, by United Features) Warren has earned in the perceptions of terrifying. It has an impersonal, emotionless quality that disregards human values which have been painfully built up through the centuries. SIMILAR ACTION It resembled the action of the Soviets in the fall of 1939, when thousands of Poles fled into Russia to escape from the Nazis. Many of them were professional men and intellectuals with their families.

They were put in forest camps in the dead of winter with pitifully inadequate clothing and food, and they died in an average of three weeks. There was no special hostility toward these people, but there was no place for them to go and in the camps they contributed little work before they died Bearing on the mystery of the flying bombs is a misunderstanding as to what happened on the island of Peenemunde, which was one of the chief centers for German experiments with rockets. In this column, in the Readers Digest and elsewhere in the United States, it has been widely printed on what seemed good information that installations at Peenemunde were destroyed by bombing attacks. That is not true. The United States strategic bombing survey determined that very little slashed the $300,000,000 appropriation for rivers and harbors and flood control by two-thirds.

This "promise" was largely a face-saver for McKellar, so he wouldn't have to tell the newsmen that he had been turned down cold in his efforts to get the order rescinded. Actually, he was turned down cold. Furthermore, he caught an indirect lecture from the president for preaching economy for others while raiding the treasury himself. Plainly irritated by demands from the Tennessee senator and several members of congress who accompanied him that the anti-porkbarrell order be rescinded, Truman said: "Several of you have been after me at one time or another to balance the budget, but when I begin doing it as in this case you step on my toes." As an afterthought, Truman added that those who were most vocal about balancing Up to the time of Florence Nightingale, nursing was an exclusively male profession. In the last hundred years the work has been pretty much taken over by women.

I believe that the public would welcome an increase in the number of men nurses and that such an increase would lend dignity to the whole profession. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, writer. We have been saying for years that education is the way to improve society, but we have limited education to those between the ages of 6 and 21. If we want to save the world, this program is unrealistic. The world may not last long enough to let the present educational system affect the course of events.

Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago. QUOTATIONS By DORIS FLEESON CHICAGO, The American left wing, genuinely alarmed by its loss of influence in Washington, got set over the week end for new efforts to convert the Democrats into a liberal party. Like a brawling family suddenly threatened from without, the often disputatious liberals discarded ideologies, third party mutterings, differences over Soviet Russia and even their animosity toward President Truman for cold-blooded political action. Precinct organizations will foster an immediate drive to get out a great labor-minority vote Nov.

5 which will insure Democratic control of the next congress. Realistically, the leaders here know that their ace in the political game is the pluralities they can produce for their chosen candidates. They aim to elect an impressive number for the edification of Truman and Democratic National Chairman Robert Hannegan. 1948 POWER DRIVE Following Nov. 5, a committee of 50 will meet in Washington to launch the drive for power in 1948.

This group will appraise the situation and issue a call for a na All the wars in history are due to the clashes between clans brought about by fear, greed end pride, and until all men can accept a common axiom that they are all children of one family world brotherhood will remain difficult to achieve. Geoffry Francis Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury. The time has come to recognize DAVID LAWKEXCE DISPATCH By MARQUIS CHILDS STOCKHOLM The most extraordinary phenomenon of postwar Europe is the reports of flying bombs or rockets that are now beginning to come from widely separated areas. If they are real, then we have a small sample of what the next conflict will be like. If they are mere illusion, then we have an example of the uneasy state of mind of the people who live on this troubled continent The rockets were first reported in numbers from Sweden, where you would assume that the cautious and even-tempered population, untouched by the direct tragedy of war, would not be subject to random nightmares.

Next were vague reports of fire bombs over Athens at the time of the visit of the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt. More recently, rockets have been reported over Italian cities and the Italian government has ordered an investigation. SEEN BY AMERICAN I have talked to many people here about the flying bombs. Some put the whole thing down to post war hysteria.

Others take a serious view of what they call, half in jest, "Russian hail." One thoroughly reliable American observer with whom I talked saw a flying bomb in broad daylight over this city. It was a cigar shaped object which streaked across the sky with great speed and seemed on the point of shooting earthward. Careful Swedish observers have seen what they believed to be rockets. Official opinion is that nothing is really known about the phenomenon, which has now more or loss subsided. Recently, at any rate, very few reports of bombs have been received.

If the government has found any fragments, that fact is being kept a careful secret. The soundest opinion seems to me to be this: The Russians on the island of Peenemundo, off the German coast in the Baltic, are probably experimenting with televised rockets. They must send them over a fairly long distance in order to make an adequate test. That any political motivation lies behind the "Russian hail" is most unlikely. This somehow makes the phenomenon, if it is actually a weapon of war, more WAGNER ACT CAUSES STRIFE the American people makes it highly desirable to the radicals that his vote in November be redured as far as possible.

The likelihood that he will probably be urged to contend for the Republican nomination for the presidency inspires the Red crew to do what they can to reduce the size of his majority for the governorship in November. Not that they can do much, and no doubt the governor does not expect they can. But there is a great need that California shall speak loudly for the fundamentals upon which this government is based. The number of Communists in California can scarcely be gauged by the party registration. A lot of them do not believe in political action, we are told, and others do not relish the idea of spreading their names on the great register as Communists.

Also a fairish proportion of those who would vote the Communist ticket in this state, if they could, are not citizens and might well run into trouble if they applied for naturalization. The chief of the American Communists. William J. Foster, lay claim last spring to but 70,000 party members. Even in the depression of 1932, Foster polled only votes for president, and in 1940 Earl Browder, candidate that year, had only 46,000 votes.

But the governor will serve the cause of Americanism to a considerable extent if he carries out his pledge to campaign actively against the Communists in California, whether they are those who vote their party ticket or those who join the write-in campaign against him. Our California ought to speak with no uncertain voice on Nov. 5. We need in this state to attract the sort of folks that do not like Communists. The great value of the inspiration which would be given real Americanism by the governor's campaign cannot be overestimated.

He has the people with him. Atom's Rival As though war were not already terrible enough, the United States Chemical War tional conference of progressives By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON Since democracies haven't seemed to discover a way to prevent internal war, it may well be wondered how they can ever stop external war. Not only in the United States but in Britain, Canada and elsewhere the economic power of labor and management is such that disputes are being settled only through wars of exhaustion. In America even physical force is occasionally used. The newspapers nowa- I days print illustrations of virtual anarchy damage was done at Peenmunde.

From other sources I have learned that the Russians took Peenemunde almost intact. They also captured a number of German scientists who were active in promoting guided missile and rocket research. The U.S. got its share of these scientists, many of whom are now in America. But the Soviets also shared in this strange spoil of war and their captured scientists are now said to be working for them.

These experts may be teaching the Russians what they know and that may be the explanation for the mysterious fireworks. MASS HYSTERIA Psychologists do not, of course, discount the remarkable suggestibility of the human mind in periods of great stress. Before the rise of Nazism with its sinister accompaniment of mass hypnosis, we liked to think we were living in January, 1947. Incidentally, "progressive" is what they now desire to be called. Kindly omit "liberal." It's tarnished by Munich and a too general belief it indicates not only appeasement but a soft head.

"Radical" is unfair, they say, and does not sit well with many Americans. Asked if the progressives had consented to the use of their name Harold Ickes, an old progressive himself, said he doubted they would sue. The ambitious program mapped out here is a good trick if they can pull it off. Success and Truman's firing of Henry Wallace will prove to be a cloud no bigger than a man's hand. Failure and they fade into limbo with the Bull Moosers and progressives who also challenged existing parties in behalf of social and economic change.

LACK OLDTIME SKILL The question of what chance they have can better be answered that the United States treasury is not an inexhaustible reservoir, that "thrift is the philosopher's touchstone," and that excessive taxes discourage production. Spruille Braden, assistant secretary of state. Because the atomic bomb is a super-weapon it does not follow that we must hold that it means the extinction of civilization. It could mean shorter wars and wars less destructive to our civilization. Col.

Bradley Dewey, president of the American Chemical society. The black marketeers, both sellers and buyers, have been more interested in profiteering than in providing shelter for those who won the war for them and us. Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt. What we need is less government control in fixing wages.

We want to be free men who can sell their labor under their terms and not be compelled to work for wages fixed by the government William Green, president of A.F.L. If they (the Soviets) should continue to press their plan for world domination, it is difficult to see how we are finally to avoid trouble with them. Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N. newspaper publisher.

December, 1941. The pertinent part of the statement follows. DESCRIBES ENGLISH SYSTEM "The Wagner act ought to have various amendments made to it, but we are a funny people over here. We at once go to the extremes both on the side of labor and on the side of the employer. "Now in England, when they put social legislation on the statute books, they do it with the knowledge that every year or so they will amend it.

Now, how do they amend it They have a royal commission that looks it over. The commission is nonpartisan, there are businessmen on it, and there are labor people on it. They decide that the thing needs certain improvements. The royal commission makes a report to the parliament, and the thing goes through, almost automatically, without fuss or feathers. "If we had that temperament over here, we would have improved the Wagner act this year and improved the social security act thfs year, keeping them out of politics.

"Now the machinery (of the Wagner act) heavens above! the machinery needs improving, of course it does, but do it the English way." What Mr. Roosevelt really was saying was that a law as important as the Wagner act should be improved by evolutionary experience. Anyone who is disinterested and knows the real working of the act will concede that it needs amendment. But the labor leaders have lobbied successfully and blocked such action in congress. In the single instance in 11 years that amendments to the Wagner act were passed by both houses of congress, President Truman vetoed the measure and used as a pretext the very language offered as objections by the union leaders.

COMPULSORY ARBITRATION It was a sad day for America when President Truman played politics with the labor problem. Under effective leadership in the White House, legislation could have been enacted this year to prevent strikes in industries involving public utilities or services essential to the public health and safety. A system of compulsory arbitration in such industries is imperative and would have had pubiic support. The right of economic groups of damage the public interest is neilhrr unqualified nor unlimited. But it takes statesmanship to cure internal war, and that unhappily ii lacking today, AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN after Nov.

5 Up to now, these wnere courts or police departments are either too timid or too indifferent to prevent violence in picketing. Economic anarchy has grown considerably since the passage of the Wagner labor relations law in 1935. In the 11 years prior to the enactment of the Wagner law, there were 11,830 strikes. In the 11 years since the law was passed, there have been 38,521 strikes. BREAKS DOWN RELATIONS The Wagner law is responsible for the breaking down of the relations between management and its employes.

It has erected such artificial barriers as to make impossible in many instances the maintenance of friendly and cordial relations. The negotiation of contracts has usually been attended by an atmosphere of hostility which leaves many traces of real bitterness when one or the other side is compelled to yield to superior economic power. This bitterness would not be present if management and employes could talk frankly to one another. Under the Wagner law communication must be confined strictly to committees chosen by the unions and oftentimes these committees comprise officers who are engaged in internal politics, so that the rank and file do not really know what is going on and often are given a misrepresentation of the employer's real attitude. The Wagner act is in dire need of amendment.

To mention it, however, is to bring condemnation at once from labor groups. Yet the late President Roosevelt, as recently as the spring of 1938, said he believed the Wagner act should be amended in several particulars. It was at an interview with the American Society of Newspaper Editors but it was off-the-record at the time, The interview was published in the Roosevelt public paper ia 20 YEARS AGO groups spearheaded by the Politi cal Action committee, especially C.I.O.-P.A.C. with its huge membership, have had the benefit of the emotional-political drive of Franklin Roosevelt and Sidney Hillman. Their inheritors have not fare Service has disclosed the existence of a new weapon as horrifying in its potentialities as the atomic bomb.

It is a poison so deadly that one seven-millionth of a gram will kill a man and an ounce, if properly distributed, would be sufficient to wipe out the entire populations of Canada and the United States. The one comforting aspect of the atomic bomb, and it is not much of a comfort at that, is the fact that it is available only to a few great powers. There are not many nations with the uranium reserves, the financial resources, and the industrial know-how to build the great plants necessary to produce the bomb. This has lessened the possibility that it could be turned out in secret and sprung by a small group of malignant men upon an unsuspecting world. But the new poison is subject to no such limitation.

Apparenlly it can be produced secretly and at small cost with comparative ease. If one assumed that it can be spread in such a way as to ruin the food or water supplies of great cities, even small nations would have it in their power to wfifie aggressive war. their skill; most of them are eld THOUGHTS lerly, and it is late in their day for them to lead grand offensives. They have a right to bo en jcouragod by the events of the week (From the files of Oct. 3, 1926) The San Bernardino High school team took second in plant identification at the Southern California fair.

A team from Manual Arts High school, L. was first. Coach Arthur Schacfcr and his Cardinals have returned from Berkeley after playing the U. C. frosh.

Ernie Pinckert broke loose for runs of 20 and 25 yards. The Cards lost 40-0. The Terrace annexation election has been set for Oct. 11 at which lime residents of the Rialto bench will vote on entering the city. A second annexation election in the Shandin hills district is planned a faw.

weeks lateit end. The delegates were enthusiastic and single-minded. Even the 'Communists who usually can't Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. Luke 6:26. No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind "Alimony seems right if she had grown old or has youngens, near to hear an unkind word about Comrade Stalin swullowed stiff talk from Philip Murray and Ickes about the necessity of the Russians meeting America half- the lowest but it looks like Dick is payin Helen a lifetime pension for liv-ISavo ha who courts the flattowj in ivith him a year.