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Atomic War Could Force Return to Primitive Life By BAUKHAGE (' Hews Analyst and Commentator. Mid-Jane welcomes a gathering to Washington which will deal with a luhi^rt mnrp im. - ? - portant to you and me than any thing I can think of. The meeting is described as an "institute on the control of atomic e n e r g y." A t about the same time, the United Nations commis sion on Atomic Energy will be meeting too. At the "institute" in Washington, authorities will explain just what effect atomic energy can have on your life if you are one of those who aren't going to be destroyed by it. I was going to say "one of the lucky ones," but you won't be lucky, ?if atomic warfare starts, even if you 'are among those whose lives are spared. We have all heard a lot of dire prophecies about what the atom bomb can do, if it once gets on the loose. Also, what wonders atomic energy can perform in building a better world, if it is confined to peaceful and productive activity. But by far the most impressive footnote on the subject came to me in the repeated words of a scientist speaking not scientifically, or for quotation, but very intimately of his own private thoughts, and his own personal plans. He has lectured a great deal on the subject of atomic energy, and is one of thpse intimately concerned with its development. Suddenly, one day he realized that he bad better make some personal plans to pre pare for the future in this atomic age of which he had spoken so much. His work is near one of the several prime targets of any enemy bombs that would be dropped. No Rtfugo From A-Bomb So he began to consider. Should he try to get transferred to some smaller institution, located in a lit tle town? That, he considered, would not help much. He has a farm, but he is not a farmer. Should he move onto the farm immediately, learn as much as he could about farming, and plan to live there where he would be comparatively TU- 1. #?. oaiv ; iUC lOitll AS tOi iruill Willy large city, tucked In the hilla. Then ha itarted planning. Ba would have ta learn a lot more than fanning. He would have to learn to card wool, for In itance; hit wife would have to learn to spin, to weave, to make eoap, to fabricate aU the thing! yen buy in sterea. He would hare to lay In toola, and enough other supplies to last him the rest of his lifetime. Well, perhaps all that could be done. Then he realized that even at that, he wouldn't be safe. He would have to build barbed wire en tanglements, and obtain machine guns and other weapons with which to defend himself . . . for with the refugees who escaped, starving, from the cities, the few who had food would be at the mercy of the hungry mobs. If I had heard those statements from a lecture platform, or read them in a magazine, I might have passed them by as sensationalism. But the statements weren't in a magazine, or spoken from a plat form. They were said over the luncheon table In the quiet corner of a club. The speaker wasn't trying to "sell" his Ideas to any body. He wasn't trying to persuade 'anybody to do anything, or to get publicity. He was thinking out loud , about what he considered an acute personal problem. In the end it left him baffled. (There is no defense. The only hope la to make the United Nations work. I beard this story, and was moved by it I was already pretty well stirred up. because I had just learned of what deep concern this question Is to more than three thous and people who wrote me, asking for a pamphlet I had mentioned in one of my broadcasts. That Is an Interesting story, too, that I want to peas on. One day, I received a little pam phlet among the several bushels of handout material which is the grist of the publicity mills dumped on press and radio desks all over the country every day. This pamphlet caught my aye and held It. It was ? reprint (rem Leek magazine entitled "Tear Last Chance." Ton may hare seen it. It moved me so much that I Just couldn't help talking about It on the air, and offering to pay lor the ffrst 5M pamphlets requested, providing a stamp was enclosed. I limited the requests to people in the following categories: insur ance men, salesmen, real estate men, teachers, clergymen, mechan ics, utilities workers, scientists and merchants. I did this, first, because I wanted to limit the number of applicants, and second, because the article con tained specific instructions as to what the people In the groups named could do to help prevent a cataclys mic war. I blandly overlooked the fact that somebody had to address envelopes, insert the pamphlets, mail them out. Public Interested In Prevention Requests began to arrive, so I called up the National Committee on Atomic Information which is near the Washington office of the West ern Newspaper Union; ordered the pamphlets; and had the nerve to ask the committee to mail them out. I didn't know it then, but it costs the committee, which is, of course, a non-profit organization and skimps along on t handful of small cash donations, four cents for the pam phlet, a cent and a half for the stamp, two cents to address the en velope, another cent to insert, seal and mail! Eight and a half cents, altogether. My generous gesture toward preserving civilization had turned out to be rather lame. But that was only the beginning. An avalanche began to descend on me. At last count the requests reached over three thousand. The committee didn't know what to do. The letters came from such an in telligent and earnest set of people who were so anxious to do some thing that the committee hated to disappoint them. Twice, I begged the public to hold off. but the committee te atill fllltne the requests while its funds hold out, or more donations come in. Which is what happens when you get an atom by the tail. ? ? ? Question* Popularity Of Rail Nationalisation Just after the bulletin came In over the news ticker in my office announcing that the government in tended to take over the railroads, a railroad man happened to call me up about another matter. I congratulated him on his new Job with Uncle Sam. He wasn't very enthusiastic. He speculated on whether or not the men would go back to work if the government ordered them to do so. The miners, you recall, refused to obey govern ment orders when the government took over the soft coal mines dur ing the war. "Everybody ought to go on strike in the country," he said. "If it gets bad enough, it may get better." We mentioned the possibility of permanent government own ership at the railroads. My frtand reminisced a little on the days when he was an employee of Uncle Sam once before, In World War 1, when the govern ment did (to Its sorrow) take over the railways. He said what happened then was that a man would come up to the ticket window and demand a draw ing room. Sorry, there were no more drawing rooms. Well, do you know who you're working for, and who I am? I'm Senator Claghom, and you'll (something-something)? well, get the passenger out of that drawing room, and put me in itl My friend said he didn't think the people would like it if the govern ment took over. Of course, we don't like the black-berth-market now, ei ther. Time and again, every Pull man seat or berth will be reserved by the blackmarketeers. They hold them up to the last minute, and If they can't sell at a premium, they cancel. Just before the train leaves, half empty. The Chesapeake and Ohio ran an advertisement recently, begging the public to refuse to pay the premium, and help get a regu lation through which win provide for cancellation of reservations with in a reasonable time. BARBS . ? . by Baukha g? As long a* America hat tha heart -to attend spelling beet and county "tings," we can't bo quite as badly off at tome of our neighbors teem to think. ? ? ? ' I never attended enough spelling beet myself. But a radio commen tator b<n an advantage hie audi ence can't tan whothoi he can van the words be uees or not. A ~ _ The Twentieth Century fund find* that to per cent of the fur goods In* dustry is located in New York. Is the rest of the country good-fur nothing? ? ? ? There is no one so poor in self re spect, no one so truly inferior, as be who feels he must try to prove someone else is inferior to him KKK, please note. BKEAD LINES BEGINNING TO FORM ... Not the depression soap lines, bat bread lines caused by the rationing of floor to bakeries, has resulted in bread lines in most cities and before the doors of most bak eries. Photo shows a bread line In Detroit. The baker says be has tM loaves daily, soon to be cut to 450 loaves, bat the iine-ap each morning soon bays ap the entire allotment. BOW ALLIED AIR FORCE WRECKED FRANKFURT ... Bombs from American and British air forces rained from the skies caused a vast panorama of rnin at Frankfurt, Germany. Photographs shew Five Fin ger Place as it appeared at end of war. Insert shows tame location as it appeared on a prewar German post card. Only the little statue is unmarked. Few cities took a more sustained beating than Frankfurt. ' TO BE TOGETHER . . . Cwtit mad dcnUn dominating mac ?f the trnly great tore stories of modern times. Maj. Hans O. Horn hostel, 8mm Francisco, TCteran at two wars mad the "Batman death march," Is exerttaf every effort to eater the Leproeartam at CarriDe, La., so that he eaa remaia at the side of his wife, who eoatracted the ravaging disease while la a Japaaeoe prison eamp. Major Horn hostel, who is net afflicted with leprosy, Is shown with his wife as they talk with Dr. 1. C. Gelger, chief of San Francisco health department. MOON-JUMPING COWS . . . Flying cattle to Sooth America from New Park City lead* the way to a new modern method of transportation of high quality breeding stock. Valued at ttt.NI these Ayrshire dairy cattle are' shewn an plane, converted Into a tying horn. The trip win take abont M hours, instead af several days as would bo necessary by^ rail and wmter^Mare exports of cattle will foOow from the Utoted POSTAL PAT INCREASE . . . Pro. Harry S. Truman a* he af txed his signature U the bill |It Img an postal employees a raise at $m per year. Postmaster Han necan witnessed the signing el new postal pay hOL FAIRWAY TO FURROW . . . Passing between tournament* on bin farm near Denton. Texas, golf champion Byron Nelson relaxes behind the wheel at s tractor. Be raises sweet potatoes, peanuts and cnemnbers. HOOVES AND REPORTERS WASHINGTON. ? When Herbert Hoover staged a press conference after his talk with President Tru man and Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, newsmen immediately asked what President Truman had told him. The former chief executive?whc had as rough a time with the press as any United States President in this century?replied with deep feel ing: "There ought to be a law," he said, "agaiast anyone re peating what the President has said to him." Hoover also refused to answer any questions about administration measures to meet the European emergency, and would not give any opinion when asked if U. S. ration ing might be necessary. ? ? ? ARMY DENTISTS At long last Maj. Gen. Norman Kirk, who has the reputation for hoarding more medical manpower than any other surgeon general in history, has decided to let a few more doctors slip through his fin gers and go back to civilian prac tice. He has decreed that all medical corps officers who have served 30 months as of May 1 can be released from the army before June 30. However, this does not apply to army dentists, who are now getting to be the forgotten men of the U. S. army. For some strange reason best known to General Kirk, general ooprrion Hnrtnre sin Afli (if the army after 30 months, bat I dentist mast remain in 39 months. And today there are hundreds of patriotic dentists who cave np good practices to Join the army, now marking time at army posts, unable to get discharged. Furthermore, the brass hats have permitted the discharge of many younger dentists, while older men have to stay on. Many of the young sters, educated at army expense, have been declared "essential to civilian practice" and discharged, while older men with families to support, can't get out. This means that younger dentists get their civil ian practice firmly established be fore older men can even begin to look for scarce office space. ? ? ? HOW TO HANDLE LEWIS Towering Gov. Bob Kerr of Okla homa, who packs close to 250 pounds and a droll wit, tells this story about a chat with a "prominent Repub lican" during a recent visit to Wash ington. "Why doesn't Truman do some thing about 3ohn L. Lewis," com plained the GOP-er, "instead of sit ting around on his hands while Lew is ties up production in the entire country?" "Lewis is a tough man to handle," said Kerr. "What would you sug gest that the President do?" "I could give him plenty of ideas if I had the chance." "Okay," said Kerr. "I'm go ing to give yon the chance. I'm a close friend of Harry Truman. In fact, I am going to see him tomorrow morning. And I hap pen to know that right now, more than anything in the world, he wants the answer to this coal strike. So you Just sit down and write out the solution and I'll give it to him the first thing in the morning." The discussion ended right there. ? ? ? KAIL BITTERNESS For a long time, bad blood had existed between the trainmen-engi neer brotherhoods and the other three?conductors, switchmen and firemen. It has been somewhat like the.CIO-AFL row, but the bitter ness deepened after the Roosevelt arbitration dispute. Whitney, at the time, sent a let ter to all his trainmen excoriating the other brotherhoods for refusing to arbitrate?a letter which doesn't put him in such a good light today. Among other things, he made up a little poem which read: "Three blind mica?hear how they talk! They an refase to arbitrate? They're gambling with their country's fate Though the hour is getting late For the three bund mice." "Were they afraid to trust the President?" 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