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i ^^TvilH ii i at#j fiYiV 11 r#T?x^i ? ^ A i^ J 1*11 ILVil^B J hoover Hears Call To Help Feed Hungry ^ ? Cites Great Need for Food Grains Overseas; *" Asks Americans to Pull in Belts, Invite 'Invisible Guests' to Their Tables. By BAUKHAGE ISeui Analyst and Commentator. WNC Service, 1616 Eye street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C. ? The speed with which the American people have run away from the war is in credible. Like the lazy workman who drops his hammer and leaps for the dinner pail at the first toot of noon, we began a stampede for the din ing table on V-J Day. Stampedes always make trouble for someone. Many hundreds of peo ple will starve as a result, and heaven only knows how the cause of democracy throughout the world may suffer. We could not foretell, but we could have made allowance for possible crop failures. They were cata strophic in many countries. We could have pursued a different food policy at home. We shook with fear lest there would be surpluses, we tried to get the people to eat up their stored supplies and counselled restrictions on food production to prevent a glutted market, especial ly in eggs and poultry. And how we ate! That is why, a few days ago, we hailed back Herbert Hoover into service. He said he had promised his ramily tor years to go fishing with them and he had only got start ed when he heard that ominous phrase on the telephone, "White House calling." He may have been reluctant to leave the enticing fish filled Florida waters but there is no doubt that it was a keen satisfac tion to him to get back into har ness again, especially since he was called upon to do a job he knew he could do well. Whatever the pub lic that snowed him under in the 1933 elections may have said and felt at that time, however glad the Republicans were to edge him out of politics, there were few who would deny that he was a success at feeding the hungry during and after World War I. Ex-Pr**id*nt In&pirts Press It was really inspiring to hear him. Not that Mr. Hoover could ever pull you out of your seat with frenetic oratory or raise your emotions to a fever heat with his personality. It was, indeed, the matter-of-fact, al most prosaic way in which he made his appeal that gave it weight. We were gathered in a small hotel "par lor." It was crowded. We over flowed the chairs and sat on tables and In the window niches. Many of us couldn't see him. Most of the time I could catch only a glimpse of one fold in his generous pink neck. He had the facta and the figures all right ? nine million tons of grain alone were needed to prevent star vation. At present there was only enough good grain in sight to make up tO per cent of the need, etc. But he gave us more than facts as he explained what America must do and what he was sure Americans would do. He gave us faith. He tossed the idea of rationing with cards out of the window with out even a gesture. He said the American people would ration them selves, said they would have done it in the war that way too. And when reporters asked ques tions with political Implications he refused even to discuss that phase Of the subject. He was talking about human beings, he said, about sav ing lives. Then, near the close of the interview, he said in the same matter-of-fact tone, "There is one message 1 would like to give to the households of America." There was a long pause. Finally he spoke? looking at nobody, as is his habit? "I would like to have them enter tain at their tables an invisible guest." And so the old engineer, so often accused of having a heart of wood, the man of slide-rule and logarithms, painted a deeply moving picture in the simplest of words and in the simplest ways. I left the interview feeling sure that however Amer ica had been stuffing itself since the end of the fighting (we have run up the biggest food bill in history) we would be willing to conserve enough so that Mr. Hoover's invisible guests wouldn't leave our tables hungry. ? ? ? Semantic*?Aid to Strike Settlement* When President Truman, at a re cent White House press and radio conference, talked about the hun dreds of labor disputes which were settled by conciliation without strikes and which never made the headlines, I couldn't help thinking of a conversation I had with MaJ. Charles Estes, one of the labor de partment's anonymous heroes of these bloodless and successful en counters. Estes has what it takes to be a conciliator and in his case it in cludes, along with a keen sensitivity to the human side of all relation ships among workers and employ ers, a keen sense for the nice use of words. Indeed, semantics (the science of meanings, as contrast ed with phonetics, the science of sounds) is his hobby. "The ultimate goal of the concili ation service of the labor depart ment is not merely the settlement of disputes but the prevention of disputes," said Major Estes the other day. And then he went on to expand on his thesis that the crux of labor ? management relations is human adjustment, the adjustment of one person to another. The main trouble, he says, is poor communication, which is poor for three reasons: 1, poor reception, or imperfect listening and perception; 2, poor digestion, or inaccurate in terpretation and assimilation of what is read or heard; and 3, poor transmission, or inadequate use of speech and language. Estes can go on for hours on that subject and will, at the drop of a hat. In fact, once when. Interested though I was, I had to tear my self away for a pressing engage ment, I could only do so after con vincing him that I was not anti semantic. I wish I had space to develop his ideas for they represent a practical system which he and his colleagues have demonstrated in "hundreds" of successes as the President put it. Like most successful systems, the conciliation service's methods are based on a solid foundation of long, hard preparation and represent the concentrated ounce of prophylactic procedure that is worth a pound of exhausting arbitration, adminis tered after the patient is already ill. Mr. Hoover (left) addresses press conference on food situation. 'j BARBS. . . by Baukhage ' Our government says it doesn't think Franco is a threat to inter national peace. So that's that. And the democratic elements in Spain seem to be no threat to Franco. . . . No one can be really objective about the contents of a book, any more than a dog can be philosophi cal about the contents of a butcher The Swedish discoverer of Greta Garbo has just died at M. It's a nice lite while it lasts. ? ? ? You can't dispose of the Indone sian situation as just another strug gle for independence, another Amer ican revolution. There is far more difference between the two sta> aUons than there Is between mocha and Java. STATIC IS THE WORD FOR POSTWAR HOLLAND . . . The reconstruction period in postwar Holland is the forgetting period. The Dutch, tortured by (our years of German occupation, are doing their best to wipe out the memory but do not hare the wherewithal with which to rebuild the vast areas of their bombed cities, which still look as they did at the end of the war. There is no building material, no machinery and apparently no planning. Insert shows a pathetic figure in this era, Queen Wilhelmina, as she drove through The Hague rains. OKLAHOMA 4-H AND FFA SHOW PRODUCED REAL WINNERS .. . Competition among 4-H club and FFA entries reached a new high at the Oklahoma Livestock show, Oklahoma City. EilabeU Swigart. Mooreland, lower left, had the grand champion with her hereford calf. Raymond Lnckinbill, 15, Gnthrie, upper right, won the 4-H championship with his shorthorn calf. Grand championship Iamb was won by southdown owned by Doc Clark, Frederick, npper left. A duroc Jersey owned by Jerome Smith, Banner, lower right, champion pig. I 111??I ? ?I TITO TAKE8 AMBASSADOR HUNTING . . . U. S. Ambassador Richard C. Patterson Jr., rifht, and Marshal Tito, head of the fed era tire peoples republic of Yugoslavia, are pictured preparing for a hunting trip near Roma. Ambassador Patterson left shortly after the hunt for a vacation trip to the U. S. B1MMIP *rvT* fT-r.T' ?!- yiiB?HUM EDGE ON ATOMIC ENERGY ... Dr. Arthur B. Compton at Wash ington university, St LnIi, Mo., one o( the leadinf atomic scientists, who played a leadin? part in tho development oI the atomic bomb, ahnwa bis wife, while vacationing at Attantie City, N. J., that bo can handle OT Pibtto, Jast aa well as ha bandiad the atomic ezporlments. Mrs. Caaapton was a defecate to tha TMCA hot mills, CURE FOR FLO ... Dr. Wendell M. Stanley. Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. I., discoverer of the eentrlfnfe type of inSuensa vaccine which should saves the lives of millions of people. JAPAN'S POLICY . . . b being reorganized by Lewie J. Valen tine, former police commissioner ft New York City. As police com missioner be was credited nation ally as baring the most efficient police system in the United States, a valuable asset in placing the Japanese police apoa an efficient noo-political basis. General Mac Arthur, who appointed Commis sioner Valentine, has stated that he win hare nnHmltod power. News/|x By PaulMallon^^ Released by Western Newspaper Union. OVERHAULING OF UNRRA BY HOOVER EXPECTED WASHINGTON, D. C. - The offi cial whisper sent to the senate be hind the Hoover appointment to world famine relief played down the job as a mere survey. Inquiring newsmen were told the Republican ex-President and skilled world food handler was only to find out how much food was needed and how much was available?the job of a statistician or economist. HERBERT HOOVER Immediately, however, the reign ing world food reliefer, Herbert Leh man of UNRRA, was announced to be ill?whether from the news of the Hoover appointment or not. He of fered his resignation to the world council of UNRRA opening Friday at Atlantic City. These dovetailing circum stances lent credence to a nat ural interpretation that a com plete overhaul of our relief ef forts is at hand. Mr. Truman had earlier blackened the wheat content of bread, and his action took such swift effect that my baker this week began com plaining that his flour had be come grossly inferior, and that Mr. Truman did not know the severe effects of such an order. The quality of the loaf he gave me of this basic poor man's food certainly furnished evi dence of a colossal mistake ? or many of them?somewhere. PUBLIC ASKED TO RATION FOOD ON VOLUNTARY BASIS I thought Messrs. Truman and Hoover, in later announcements, displayed a somewhat different ap proach to the matter. Mr. Truman asked the people to cut the use of wheat by 40 per cent and fats by 20 per cent, and Mr. Hoover spoke of setting up "a circuit of helpful ness around the world." Both gen erally indicated by their words that they would appeal for voluntary co operation by the people in a truly democratic way. This was in clear contrast to totalitarian methods of requiring conformance by economic tricks and the force-methods so familiar during the war, both of which we borrowed to a consider able degree from the Nazi and Fas cist ways. Officially it was said, for instance, we need not have ration insr Personally I will say I will be able to avoid bread entirely, If the flour is to be corrupted to the extent of the last loaf I got. But as I say, bread is the poor man's basic food, the staff of life, and what I would like to see U the maintenance of its full quality for our people, and the feeding of famine victims to whatever extent is necessary. I do not believe our food should have been?or should be?used for political purposes, for buying sup port abroad, unless we have sur pluses. Our contribution should be limited to what is required to re lievo actual human suffering. Now as to statistics on this subject, I have found from experience that a politically minded person can get nearly any kind be wants, and a careful sincere man must guard him self to the utmost against being mis led into false assumptions by social reforming statisticians. 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