Washington, D. C. BRITAIN'S BANKRUPT STATUS One of the most Important docu ments bearing on the postwar world soon will be issued by the British government in the form of a White Paper. It will be a survey of Brit ain's financial position and a frank admission that she is bankrupt. The White Paper will tell in detail how British investments throughout the world have been liquidated to pay for the war and will come to the conclusion that, if the British Empire is to continue free trading, she must have outside help. The alternative to free trade and free competition, the White Paper will say, is a system of barter, re stricted trade and cartels, such as that practiced by Germany after the last war. International cartels, of course, have been blasted public ly by President Roosevelt and one British corporation. Imperial Chem ical Industries, already has been prosecuted by the Justice depart ment on a charge of conspiring with the Du Ponts before the war to con trol the world production of certain chemicals. According to inside word from the diplomatic corps, the publication of Britain's frank survey of her bank rupt financial position will coincide with the secret conferences now tak ing place here between Lord Keynes and U. S. officials regarding the re newal of lend-lease. With the war in Europe nearing a close and with U. S. forces now getting a greater proportion of war supplies direct from the United States, British war needs for lend lease are dwindling. However, the British have proposed in Lord Keynes' private conversations, a new type of postwar lend-lease whereby the British could resell goods to for eign countries in order to reestab lish their export trade. UV/ Ut>B a IV|>VMi Word leaking from the diplo matic corps Is that Lord Keynes now proposes a total lend-lease allotment to Great Britain of CM billions for 1945, of which SH billions could be reexported in British trade. Host of this would bo la the form of American raw materials which the British would process into finished foods and then sell. The British do not propose that finished Ameri can products be riven them for reexport, but only that they get lend-leased raw materials to re vive their erippled industries. One proposal is to set up a new peetwar lend-lease court composed of one Britisher and two Americans which would de cide which foods could he used , for British trading purposes. The whole plan will be submitted to congress probably before Christ mas. ARMY'S PREFABRICATED ~ BRIDGES One of the great but little known stories of the Western front ts the way in which army engineers got a group of bridge experts together nearly two years ahead of the Eu ropean invasion and designed fabri cated sections of bridges which would exactly replace specific bridges in France, Holland and Bel glum. Through the European under ground, army engineers were able to get exact measurements of tha bridges which they knew would be destroyed by the retreating Nazis. Each part was numbered, and spe cial assembly crews, trained in Eng land, rehearsed the Job of putting them in place. When the invasion came, these bridges traveled so close behind our advancing armies that they were fre quently ahead of the field kitchens. And on arrival at a destroyed bridge its replacement was a matter of hours. ? ? ? 1 HILLMAN WOULD END PAO Sidney Hillman didn't advertise K but, during the last days of the campaign, he took steps to dis band his controversial Political Ac tion committee. The final decision will net be up to him alone, for the whole thing will be threshed out at the CIO national convention in Chi cago. But not waiting for the con vention, Hillman sent notice to most ?of the 200 members of the PAC staff that they go off the payroll before ?then. ' Originally PAC was set up as a permanent organization, and there are several schools of thought in side the CIO regarding its continua tion. One group, including auto workers president R. J. Thomas, wants to keep PAC alive. Hillman, on. the ether hand, wants to shut up shop, concentrate on New York poli tics, and also get his health back. ? ? ? MERRY-GO-ROUND | fiLAll during the war, FDR has been a close reader of Carl Sand ;burg's "Lincoln" and has continued his reading during the campaign. Someone who dropped into his pri vate study one day found a copy of the book open to Lincoln's war days. . . . During the 1864 campaign, Mo Clellan's followers accused Lincoln of squandering public funds, mis management of the government, de stroying civil liberties, meddling with the star, and standing out for surrender." fk.,... . Their Days of Hunger Are Over An old Italian farmer Joyfully shows children one of the saeka of wheat that have been ahipped to Italy by Allied government (right). The woman and baby, refugees from St. Naxaire, France, receive their share of food. Left, shows the unloading and checking of food in Italy, intended for the civilian population. In This Corner?the Winners m mmmm i in??? Another term in the White House has been assured for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who together with his running mate, Harry S. Truman, right, received a total of 432 electoral votes, 17 less than the Democrats se cured in 1940. Truman, senator from Missouri, gained nationwide fame as head of the committee investigating war expenditures. Dewey and his running mate secured a total of 99 electoral votes, unless late soldier votes change the picture, which is not considered likely by most political observers. , Too Late for Treasure Hunt 0 Insert shows Rudolph Wiekel of Verona, N. J., aa he left for Hoi yoke, | Mais., to dig br a bonansa of fl.MO, whose location eras told him at a studio ruest on a qnis prspin. Others heard the program, and Wiekel arrived to tad that Jose H. Roy and his 14-year-old brother-in-law, Henry Martell, already had the money, as shown above. Posted on Election Returns GIs W the American news services broadcast election returns to American soldiers all over the world from the New York headquarters of Task magazine. The army news services shooting the result overseas : with aa estimated 25, to* words by cable and another 25,CM by radio to 1 furnish the armed forces with early retnrns. Train Wreck Toll General view showing the wrecked Challenger streamlined train, which resulted in the death of 12 persons and in the injury of at least 100. Seven ears were derailed, three miles from Colfax, Calif. Wives of Winners Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, up per; and Mrs. Harry S. Truman, wile of the newly elected vice presi dent of ,the United States. Unlike the first lady of the land, Mrs. Tru man takes little part In polities or in public life activities. Mrs. F. D. B. says she is ready for new term. Stars on Her Flag Another cold star has been added to the service flat of Mrs. Alben Borfstrom, Tremonton, Utah, moth er of Marine Prt. Boyd Borystrom, who was dlscharced by marine com mander, when first three brothers wore killed in .action. Real Purdue Power Boris bimaneheff, Purdue halt back, is leading the Big Ten scor-' tag. Against the Iowa eleven ha1 raced to tour touchdowns and ex pects to add more. THE GI AND INDIAN 8CMMER ("The GIs miss Indian summer time back home. There Is nothinf like it in Europe."?News Item.) Indian summertime back home? November in my town? The maples and the chestnut trees All red and gold and brown! . . . Gee, what a peek at that would mean!? To take a good, deep breath Of smoke and flame at sunset time? And get no thought of death! The leaf piles burning in the street, Boy, what a grand old smell. And how it used to linger as The evening shadows fell! Things burning in the autumn time Yeh, burning everywhere But not from tank or torch or gun; And just peace in the air! . . . The trees aglow all rich and whole? Their tops a flaming red? Not blasted into twisted shapes? Not blackened, limp and dead! . . . The corn stacked up like sentinels Across the countryside? Where no one's killed another man And not a kid has died! The leaves in mounds on my home street A-cracklin', and the rush Of all the neighbors to put out The fires in the brush. . . . The smell of chestnuts roasting and The scent of newmown hay. . . . You take the global battle grounds? I'll take that scene today! My white and yaller rabbit hound? The rabbits just beyond. . . . The squirrels on the garden wall And wild ducks in the pond. . . . The sumac in one ruddy blaze In every path and glen. . . . I'd like a look at it before They send me in again! The try-outs for the football team? The school lot and the cries Where all the fighting is in fun And not a school chum dies! . . . Indian summertime back home? For one brief peek today I'd make them Krauts pay extra for The time I've been away! HOUSING SHORTAGE (Scene: Any real estate office.) ? I am looking (or a place to live. Who isn't? ? Have you anything on your list? About how many rooms? Five rooms will do. We have nothing in five rooms. Well, I might use seven or eight Sorry. Nothing in seven or eight. In a pinch I could do with two or three. We haven't had any small apart ments in months Then why the differentiation? It's just office routine! ? Can't you help me out some way? I've got to have a root over my head this winter. We have a couple ot places, but that's the trouble: the roots are off. Would you mind living in a bam? Not it the horses and cows are willing to vacate. ? One horse is pretty stubborn about It, but we can get all the others out. What's the rental? $1M a month. Isn't that high for a barn? Not when you consider the owner is leasing in a set of horse blankets. ? Have you anything in a trailer? j Don't be silly; all the trailers are occupied by the capitalistic classes. What's the situation in houses for sale? We have quite a few houses but you'll have to act fast. Why? Because you can get a house to day for only three times what it's worth. ' Wait a week and you may have to pay four times the value. ? What have yen to offer? I've got a nice little live-room bun galow eat In an exclusive swamp. It has a portable bath, defective plumbing and all modern defects. Tea can have it for Slt.tM cash. Isn't that high? High! Why, it cost eight hundred dollars to boDd It! How old is it? Only six years. It's ono of those Federal Housing Loan bungalows. Oh, the kind with no nails and with overcoat buttons for door knobs! m This one has extra value. One of the doors isn't warped and part of the cellar is dry. You can have it for $12,500. ? ? ? From the Front Dear Hi?The French kids' early cry of "Vive les Americains!" has now been supplanted by "Cigaret pour Papa?" ? It isn't quite true that the British drive on the left, the French oo the right. Both our Allies drive in the middle just Idee everybody in the United States does. ? The French gals have learned that there's at least one wolf in every foxhole. I rrm RtlUMd by Wntcrn N?rapap?r Union. FOOD'S PLACE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD there is a need for all the food the world produces. When that need is met, when all the food is utilised, the terrible scourge of famine will have been dissipated. To utilize the food of the world is a problem of finance and distribu tion, not a reduction of supply. The solution is not the problem of any one government, but of all govern ments, though a movement in that direction needs leadership. We raise wheat and corn and hogs and cotton; Brazil produces coffee; Cuba, sugar; Norway, fish; Austra lia mutton, and so throughout the range of food and farm products. When we produce more of any crop than is needed to meet our normal demands we take steps to reduce the production and destroy the sur plus. At the same time millions in China, or India, or elsewhere are dy ing for lack of food. There was a need for the surplus we destroyed, but there was lacking a means of financing its distribu tion. With that solved those who died would have lived, and there would have been a market for all the American farmer produced. "An ever-normal granary" is not a one nation problem, as it was in Egypt in the days of Joseph, but is a world problem. There can, and should, be a method of utilizing the surplus of any one nation in meeting the needs of the people of other na tions. Providing the necessary sys- . tem of finance and distribution calls for brains not polities. America ean provide the brains if, in the effort to do so, polities are forgotten. We have a prac tical, not theoretical, brand of economists who can, and would, supply the formula needed to finance and distribute the food of the world so that all peoples may be fed and the farmers of all nations have a market for what they produce. ine uuernauonai iooa comerence, held behind closed doors, did not find, or did not seek to find, such a solution. The thoughts of each par ticipant were of the selfish interests of the nation he represented. Pick a dozen of the right type of broad visioned, practical Americans and assign them the task of providing a workable plan of finance and dis tribution. When they have done so present that plan to other govern ments for approval. Out of such can come a real solution of the problem of finance and distribution of world food supplies, the lack of which makes possible the devastating fam ines that are an almost yearly oc currence in some section of the world. Food is of more importance to the human race than is oil or metals or rubber. When the prob lems of fppd for the world is solved the American farmer and those of other nations will have a market for all they produce. ? ? ? LANTERNS STILL ARE IMPORTANT ITEM IT SEEMS BUT A SHORT TIME since a lantern was an essential In every rural home. It lighted us to and from church on dark winter nights; it accompanied us on any evening visit to a friend; it kept us on the path when nature called us to that wee house in the back yard. It was only a comparatively short time ago, as time is measured, when no town or village enjoyed street lights of any kind. Until we ar rived at the stage of street lights, and some other modern conven iences, the lowly lantern was our guide. I had not even thought of lanterns for years. To me they had gone the way of other out-moded things. Then I met a man who told me his business was that of selling lanterns. I wondered where he got them and to whom he sold them. He explained his Arm operated a large plant, employed hundreds of men, at making nothing but?lan terns. He showed me his orders. Those for a carload at a time were not exceptional. The lantern is still an American commodity in quite a sizeable way. ? ? ? AS RAYMOND MOLEY SAYS, we have a thousand planners but no plans for the reconversion of indus try to peacetime products. The first thing we know the war will be over, the need of war supplies will have stopped; millions of workers, includ ing discharged servicemen, will be seeking jobs, when there are no jobs. The answer may be disaster on the home front because the plan ners procrastinated instead of work ing at the Job of planning. ? ? ? IS THE CHILD, KILLED BY an automobile, an expendable to be charged against the craze for speed? ? ? ? MRS. HENRY FORD MIGHT NOT object to an indefinite continuance of food rationing, but it could hardly be expected that Henry would en thusiastically approve a continuance of gas rationing. ? ? ? YOUTH SHOULD HAVE a place in the sun while he is still young, but it is well that he have a bit of experienced guiding. Culling Out 4-Fs Will Insure Winter Profit* It's Easy to Pick Out Loafers in Any Flock Culling of laying hens should start the day they are hatched. Weak and deformed chicks will never pay lor their feed. Slow maturing, slow feathering pullets are a liability. Poor layers will molt early, slow ly, and will have coarse, meaty, or Heel Pin Bent Broad back, daap body, straight b?l sad pin boaa?mark