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PAGE TWO JJailgJtoowft BUNN, N. C. Published By A- *; RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY At 311 East Canary Street -JJATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE - - THOMAS P. CLARK CO., INC. Branch Offices In Every Major City ts rr‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES r ~ BT CARRIER: 20 cents per week; 18.50 per year in advance; |5 for six months; $3 for three months i - “JBf. TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL . ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: S6.M per if, year; $3.50 for six months; $2 for three months - OCt-OF-STATE: $8.50 per year in advance; $5 for six months. $3 •-* . for three months Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office In Duim, N. C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879. Every afternoon, Mpnday through Friday Two Kinds Os Shortages l m m . The American railroads face a double scarcity of both the-materials and the funds with which to carry forward th6 program of improvements made necessary by nation al transportation needs. That succinct summing up of the railroads’ basic problems was recently made by Wil liam T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads. The materials situation grows more critical. The rail roads need at least 10,000 new freight cars a month, for example, and have placed the orders for them. But, ef fective with the first quarter es 1932, allocations have been so reduced that the industry will be able to secure only..about 6,000 cars a month. This not only immediately reduces the flow of new cars, but disrupts the construct ion-organizations created by both the contract car build ers and the railroad shops. Assembly lines will have to be shut down and trained labor forces dismissed. ~lh the matter of funds, the whole trouble is a rate structure insufficient to meet today’s operating costs and to return anything even resembling a fair return on the investment. In the last four months for which figures are available, net earnings have run almost 50 per cent be ■«low 1950. A railroad is like any other business, or, for that "gpjSEar, a farm or a home—it must have adequate income SjjBhUPTS to go ahead and do the best job possible. It can’t afiijggHgss when it’s financially starved. HfeSggiere is absolutely no substitute for railroad service that goes for both military and civilian transpor pSSßrneeds. We can’t afford to let our railroad plant de- for lack of either money or materials. §lso d For Four If "T-ifo magazine recently ran a picture story on what Sartyplcal U. S. family of four eats in one year. The photo wa» taken in the warehouse of one of the big food chains, and-showed the family surrounded by the huge mass of sucaulent products it consumes. The' long list included 20 pOqrflis of cheese, 300 pounds of beef, 690 pounds of po tatoes, crates of fruits and vegetables, 131 dozen eggs, and so t>ri and on. The total weight is two and a half tons. The cost runs about $25 a Week, outof the worker’s $1.96 an hoW>age. V In most other countries—and especially the Commun ist and socialist countries-—Life’s picture and accompany ing text would seem unbelievable, a piece of deceptive and dishonest capitalist propaganda. For it is a rare in , dividual abroad who eats anywhere near as well as the millions of average Americans. What is true of food is true of all other consumer ugoods—clothes, furniture, appliances, cosmetics; and every ttjJßCelse. These are tangible parts of what we call the SpmeTßcan standard of living, brought about by free men jjjwqflfiAg in a free society. 2L-*»We see that all-the way along the production and dis ffejJSßßon line. We see it on the farms and in the factories, -Where ’the raw materials are produced and processed and Tnacl»-into something useful. And we see it, in concentrat ed form, in the retail stores of America—the chains, the in- Jdf pendents, the specialty shops, the super-markets, the •mail-order houses and all the rest. Mass production and *rnasKSuttribution of evecything from staple foods td auto- have made our splendid American economy and jriveiwus strength and abundance. | A story such as Life’s is one of the best possible argii anents against those who attack free enterprise, and want *the government to run everything. There’s nothing much i wrong with the economic system of a country in which a {typical family of four eats two and a half tons of extra- Ordinarily varied food each year. Frederick OTHMAN I WARRINGTON. Here we go hold tight to the Yungs of your chairs. You know ttcut. lathes. f They're the whirling widgets that , Snake Ute rungs onto which you’re I flanging And do not lose your ... j Lathes come in all sizes to make inuare things round; some of the Srhoppers are fine for turning out let engines, of which we need a lot. One particular lathe, known as the 42-Inch Bullard Cutmaster. weighs 80,000 pounds and sells for ed a T-lathe. Well, sir, T-lathes cost only $28,000 each. So the Pentagon considered this at some length, as weH as the fact that the orders for jet engines had Heen cut back about one-ttilrA Three days ago the Federal tool buyers canceled their multl-HUl lion-dollar order from the FMber Body Co. Only trouble was that Fisher Body had vast factories jammed with tools and • materials; ready to tarn out $38,088 Cutmaster* at a cost to uS taxpayers at two and a w times as much. Ten million dollars had gone down the drain. This probably is not a total task The tools win be good for some thing else and the bureaucrats hope —their word—that maybe they cfth salvage about 54.000.00e worth, tad sad tale. The one trouble is that Reg. Hrtwt nD.. Co.. ol the These Days THE SORGE SPIES General Charles A. Willoubhby has performed a signal service to his country by writing “Shanghai Conspiracy,” the story of the Sorge espionage ring of which many Americans were a part. This was Undoubtedly the most clearly con ceived and the most successful es pionage operation. As 1 know quite well some per sons Involved, particularly Agnes Smedley, who was obviously a Rus sian agent as early as 1829, it has often been astonishing to me that so little has been told of thls'kc tlvity. Nor am I sure that the story ends with General Willoughby's book, for while he establishes be yond doubt that It waj Sort !’s data that convinced the top then of the Kremlin that they could risk war In Europe without fear of Japan, his data does not tell us what part these spies played in the development of an anti-Ameri can atmosphere in Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. Maybe someone will dig into that tone day. You will discover, If you toad this book, that one of the men in this intrigue in who went by the name of Walsh, Was none other than Eilgene Dennis, whom Judge Medina sent to prison. You will be told that when EugtJne Dennis and Earl Browder were working in China . . Thteir clandestine activities in Shanghai were under the direction of the Kremlin, the Comintern, and the 4th Bureau (Intelligence! of the Red Army.” We rarely think of any American operating just that way. but this book gives names, many of them familiar to us. One of the central facts that General Willoughby stresses time and again Is -that when such men becomes spies, they leave the Com munist parties of the countries of their origin and become members of the Russian Communist Party. , Thus, they come not only under the discipline of that party but they become Russian citizens, subject to Russian law. That does not mean' that they give up their original citizenship. They keep that as well, to be used as might be. For lnsta/iae, Agnes Smedley had both an American and a German passport. V >GNiU*ral Wiltaighby method of operations: : a “Three principles which guided - them are noteworthy; “(1) While the group was high ly cosmopolitan there seems not to have been a Russian among them. (2) While every member of the group was either a Communist Party member or strong sympa thizer, they avoided association with the Chinese Communist Pari ty. (3) They did not function as a group, and few of the members knew who the others were, or even were aware of their precise mis sion or whom they were working for. They knew they were working for the Cause, but not the chain of command.” To me, the mos't interesting char acter in General Willoughby's book is Agnes Smedley. an Amertcah woman.Svho engaged in Soviet es pionage for more than 20 years. I met Agnes Smedley almost on the day she arrived in Shanghai, os tangibly from Germany. I came to kn(M%her very well and recognise her as some kind of a Russian -ssr-nP Agnes was born In Missouri Os old American stock. Per father, whom she seems to have hated, was an unskilled laborer and her mothpr took in hoarders. Her Rus sian affiliation arose out of hfr interest In India. In Hew Yore, she had jothed “Friends of Free dom for India.” Ih 1918. she toss arrested with Salindranath Ghose. Here the tnbst significant fact %is that this group was in pMsfessttln of German funds, while the United {states was at war with German*. I have not the space here to give the whale of Agnes Smedley’s ro mantic anti-American career ih China. Suffice it to say that Geb ergl Willoughby traces that caHfer from childhood to her death. Yet, the Pentagon cleared her. After reading O*- tean Activities their Body get started and Slab because Bullard's dealers had to edMttt cnmr regular commissions. Rep. Hebert couldn't understand this. Why did taxpayers have to Pfty.il commission to a machinery dealer on a sale direct from the factory? The Pentagon gentlemen saM this was an oM custom. ■:% They also said the deal was a good mm, even ts did hav^totoe sistant Secretary of the Air FW*e. said, in fact, that we should con sider the torn we’ve taken on toe factory we’re not using as toadr ance. If we'd needed Cutmaster*. mk the* doubV THE DAILY RECORD. DUNN. N. C. I “I understand Fred is buildin’ a boat down in Ills cellar ... 11 I i qu WSIWSTOH O#MBW-GO-ROI» scTS »f »i«w nation WASHINGTON The U. S. government is now in the red to the tune of $260 billion, with the debt increasing at a rate which will put it beyond the ceiling set by law—s27s billion—by June 30, 1953. The newly proposed budget will plunge, us at least $14.4 billion fur ther into debt, thereby boosting in terest payments S3OO million a year. At present the taxpayers are sock ed $6.2 billion a year just to pay the interest on the federal debt. Irony Is that this colossal debt is swollen by waste, then com pounded by interest payments on the waste. A Strong Army, Navy and Air Fofce are absolutely es sential, but they can defeat the nation they are built to defend if the nation goes bankrupt. The fol lowing illustrations of Army waste are not meant as a reflection on the many thousands of patriotic officers and men who are trying to save money, but rather to fo cus attention on those who are not. Anyway, here are some things the nation can do without: RAS6 HAT SHI-SHl—The spe t airplane trip of Brig. Gen. Riel from Ecuador to Panama et his dinner jacket. General tad four dnitorma with -him, tmt a special plane' alf the way to Panahia for a civilian din ner jacket. Cost $4600...The three coats of paint put on the office of Assistant Army Secretary Earl Johnson because each time he didn’t like the color. Finally he settled for robin’s egg blue.. .The Army’s plush playground resort near Galveston for the benefit of Army regulars, not Korean veter ans, Dubbed “The Palm Beach of the Gulf,” it cost *350,000 a year to operate, and was closed after Comptroller Oeneral Warren pro fited. DUPLICATE BUYING - The Marines buy a combat boot for $16.80. The Army buys exactly the same combat boot for $24.65. There is absolutely no difference. The Marines offered to buy the Army's boots for them, but the Army dil lydallied, let prices go up, finally bought the same boot Tor a high-, er price... The Air Force dress shoe costs $7.19. The Navy’s dross shoe costs $6.08. They are almost identical except for some stitch ing on the heel. The Air Force bought 1,700,000 dress shoes, thus could have Saved $1,700,000 if it had bought the Navy's Shoe.. The Army buys sheet metal by the sheet, the Navy buys it by weight, the Air Force buys it by the square loot. They all compete against each other. Yet the dollars .ail Co the from the taxpayers’ pocket.. On blankets the medical services pay $21.75 each, the Air Force $14.15. the Navy $1967 for blan kets aboard ship and $20.17 tat m blankets ashore. While there’s a legitimate' excuse for different qualities, money could be saved it one agency bought lor all. * OVERORDERINO The gov ernment now has about $27 bil lion of equipment In storage, most of It military. This eats up money through storage costs: also some bureaucrat is likely to decide to sell It for surplus, following which another bureaucrat may have to buy It back again.. At present the Navy has enough anchors to last 50 years the Army enough of cer tain kinds of jeep parts to last 104 years Last year the armed forces bought close to a year’s sup ply of coffee, thereby creating a civilian scarcity The Army, Navy, Marine corps insist on having their own rival coffee-roasting plants Identical Army items are now list ed under different names and numbers. As a result the Army may order, several barrels of a cer tain bolt, not realizing that It has ample supplies of the same bolt, though under a different number .. The Defense Department Is sup posed to finish a standard cata logue to avoid this waste, but it won’t be completed until next win ter A five-month study of Army engineers overseas leqtaVltlons shows they overstated their peetjs 26 to W pereccent. ' “**" RED-T APE The Army use s'i single-spaced, typewritten pages to describe the kind of ping-pong balls it wanted to buy.. There was so much red tape surrounding World War II benefits; that the Army mailed" out .S3O million In overpayments .. Army engineers are building homes on military bases for $16,5w per family jjnit, where as FHA indicates The'same home can be built for an average $9,400. A few dollars here and there may not seem like much, but what some of the military don’t realize is that when you lump them together, they run into millions. GOP BOX SUPPER Republicans attending the big Uncoln bay box supper weren't as happy about it as they pretended. Next day Congressman Jim Ful . ton, live-wire Republican from Western Pennsylvania, telephoned Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, ardent democrat from Eastern Pennsyl vania. Widow of Woodrow Wilson’s attorney general. “I know you’ve Been getting some bad news lately, » I’ll give you some good news,” He said. “The Lincoln box supper was a flop.” At the supper, Mrr. Homer Fer guson, wife of the Republican Sen ator from Michigan, listened care fully to the speakers, her husband among them. Alongside her, a friend finally said: “I don’t know why I feel so tired.” “You’re not tired,” remarked the | Waller Winchell In New York <asS ‘ By JACK LA IT (Substituting for Walter Winchell) Winch-hitting for Walter Long distance calling.. Seattfc, Washington... An old friend... “Hello, Jack. It might interest you to know the cops here raided a post of Alcoholics Anonymous .. That’s right... Took out eight slot machines.” Another ring.. Los Angeles .. “Branch Rickey, the Pittsburgh mahatma, bought 16 percent of the Hollywood Stars baseball club for $75,000. A bargain if the Pacific Coast ever goes big-time.” The Ray Browns have reconciled. She’s songstress Ella Fitzgerald Paul Valentine, once the husband of Lili St. Cyr, is wooing Cathy Mastice, who sings with her clothes on Iranian Prince Hassan Tag ha vi, a'student at Columbia, is tak ing extra-curricular courses in the philosophy of this and that from leggy showgirl Eleanor Williams A 23-y4ar-old beauty, acclaimed one of the tnree loveliest models in . the land. Is out of a hospital, dis figured for life after her hoodlum sweetie slashed her face with a. glass ash-tray. The Clark Gable registration at . the Pierre is a front. He’s living with friends on Long Island. And he has secretly visited Sylvia. Lady Ashley, his estranged wile, who was carried in after an auto crash. She is not at a hospital, as re ported, but Is being cared for on the estate of a long-time chum . Rhea Gable, one of the exes, is in Palm Beach, and may wed Clar ence Bitting, Sr., sugarman. Robert Taylor is around town, mostly ■ with Randy Collins, the fashion lensmen’s sweetest dish... And Barbara Stanwyck is due here by any plane. She will look over the latest plays, then wing for a Florida vacation. Kay Williams, who settled her financial didoes with ex-husband Adolph Spreckles, will be In New York this week, to live with her brother, Vince Williams, ABC ra d lotos ter, until she can collect the cash, next month Farley Gran ard Oreene, recently divorced from Pat Medina, will come east io see Carolyn Price, who, they tell me, is related to a former governor of West Virginia. Vito Marcantonio. who has been spending most of Ms time lobby ing in Washington, is busy again in his 18th Congressional District' His American Labor Party activi ties are humming. He expects to run once more for his seat in Con gress and he may win. He will a- ■ gain be the main wheel of the Pro gressive Party, which will enter a candidate for the Presidency— probably Paul Robeson—though his man Henry Wallace threw New York state to the Republicans, whom Marc hates with vengeful fervor. In the current True Crime De tective Is a report by br. Jbieph Gatton, who Interviewed Winnie Ruth Judd as a scientific subject. He reveals that she had been Un faithful to her husband with a married man, whom She loved diad ly. The two women whom she kill ed had threatened to break up that romance. Dr. Catton adjudged her not insane and seems to hive rather admired some of tar char acteristics. MGM took stern official action to sever a budding asnMatibn be tween Denise Dsrcel and Serge Rubensteln. the slick pfombter who did a stretch in the federal peh .. Bill Buckner, who also looked out side from the inside, Is in close touch with his ex-wife, the former Adelaide Moffett, who’s getting her final Florida divorce papers from Maj, William Craven . Gary Coop er is showing interest in Hungar ian beauty lisa Bay; friends ex pected him to rekindle with his wife at Sun Valley. A slot-machine was borrowed as a video prop for Rudy Halley, from his friend" Ethel Smith, who Had it in tar rumpus room, where callers played it and made it heavy with their nickels . When -the one armed bandit was retorned to the bdme of the organist, titer having served as an exhibit on “Crime Syndicated’’—lo, it contained one l<*ie mekel! ‘ rights to “Paint' Your^Wagon”. . Warners bid $300,000; Paramount wbnt to $350,000, but Mayer of fered sSo6.WB five percent us •** * ■ *~mli . t . , EATING » EAttNG deer, apparently struck by a car, highway. When Patrolman Jack MONDAY AFTERKOOV, FEBRUARY 11, 1952 f = The W«ry Oiak H| I By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE f Marilyn doesn’t knew H Mt she contracted a venereal dis ease at the age as $. Her moth er It now almost tick with Wor ry Mr Marilyn is wppoeed to take a pre marital examination. Paste this Case Record to year scrapbook, for it anftwfes Many of yenr common question*. , CASE C-378: Marilyn M., aged 20, is soon to be married. “But. Dr. Crane. I am worried sick," he mother informed me. “For when Marilyn was a little girl of right she developed an in fection Which the doctor diagnosed at gonorrhea. “He treated her and pronounced her cured. Meanwhile, we tried to trace the source of her infection but we could never locate It. “Now Marilyn is engaged to be married. She Is soon to take a blood test. Will this earlier Infection ahow up?” MEDICAL FACTS As a rule, I omit strictly medical problems from tMs feature, out of courtesy to the medical columnists. Rut when the medical diftieul -1 ties catiae undue worry or fear, I may treat them briefly. Gonorrhea la one of the two ma jor venereal diaeases. The other ia syphilis. A blood test usually reveals wheh er or not you have syphilis, but a blood test Is not used for detect ing gonorrhea. Besides, since Marilyn was cur ed, the Is cured! When you get over mumps or scarlet fever, you are also over the Infection and cured. But many victims of venereal disease. If they contract it because of their own Illicit behavior, have a guilty conscious long afterwards. Even if they are pronounced med ically cured, they may Still dis believe the physician. Year after year they may thus demand new blood testa. Marilyn may have contracted gonorrhea from a contaminated toilet seal, for occasionally that Is the case. Since Marilyn was never inform ed about the nature of her ailment, she is innocent of any worry or Wmk'huui" By America's Foremost & VV Personal Affairs Counselor ,>, ~4.1' t ■wtoli Much Neurotic Tension Today Is Caased By Individuals Trying to Adhere To Ideal* of King • Arthur’s Time. DEAR MARY HAWORTH: "Your correspondent J. E. (January 23). speaking from 38 years’ professional work in the field of human rela tions, says men are becoming more passive or feminine, and women more aggressive or masculine, at least In our society. And he sees this as the source of many of the Ills of family life, accelerating the rise of neurotic disorders. J. E. argues that family stability and the welfare of children depend upon the degree of real femininity, true masculinity and emotional ma turity in parents. And to curb the trend towards neuter gender, he in sists that young people should be fully informed concerning the at tributes of real masculinity in a husband and father. His observa tions do indeed deserve a hearing; but you have forcussed precisely on the flaw In his treatise when you ask “How about defining basic masculinity for our readers?” Masculine ana femlninC Charac ter, aside from the biologic fun ction, are for the most part Cul turally determined. And in a chanring society like ours, the role of the sexes naturally Is changing also which largely accounts for the phenomenon J. E. reports. Much neurotic distress today is caused by individuals trying to ad here to cultural Ideals of wtag Arthur's tithes, when the twentieth cqntury situation seems to call for radlcafljr Mfferent behavior. Thus to lecture young people on “real” masculinity. In terms Os rigid Or obsolete criteria. Is to Increase confusion instead of giving Bght. SELF AWARE PERSON RETAINS INTEGRITY tough, aggressive, dominant, etc. %s forced to dtasociate hirrgjelf stSrtif sub missive is constantly at war with bertetf m a situation where abe should talk tarfcw. Them mb the J. E. dkicbStod, ’ the anxtoos dnSed**! YOUR QUESTION? Here are antwers to other medi cal questions which thousands bf you reader* ask me every year. _ ts you want to consult a specie* list and don't know who is an ex pert In your special field, just call the superintendent of any local hospital and ask him to recom mend the names of reputable local physicians. A proctologist specializes in ail ments of the rectum, Including hemorrhoids and cancer. A gynecologist Is an expert In disorders of the female pelvis, in cluding the uterus. He performs n-. hysterectomy (removal of the uta* rut), as for fibroids, etc. An obstetrician delivers babies. A pediatrician specializes In chil dren’s diseases. And ophthalomologist Is an eye surgeon. He'S the man to consult for removal of cataracts. A psychiatrist Is an M. D. who concentrates on diseases of the ner vous system. Including neuroses and psychoses. HYPOCHONDRIACS - Some people constantly over their “Innards.’’ We call them hypochondriacs. They need to get a good medical check-up once per year; then forget themselves till the next annual medical examina tion. Many people also suffer from phobias, or persistent abnormal fears. Acrophobia Is fear of high places. Claustrophobia is a fear of closed spaces. Agoraphobia is ter -1 ror of open spaces. If you wives undergo a hystereo-® tomy (Removal ol uterus) that does not make any significant re duction In your physical charm as ’ i a wife. For the uterus is not primarily a sex organ as regards marital re lations. And if It peases function ing at 45, you can still remain thrill ing and thrillable Into a ripe old age. (Always write to Dr. Crane in earn of The Dally Record, enclos ; tog a tong 3c stamped, addressee® envelope and a dime to cover typ ing and printing costa when you send for one of his psychological • charts.) feelings; and who can deal with their social deficits and liabili ties sensibly, with minimum an xiety to themselves and others. Children born to, and raised by, parents like these stand very little chance of emotional crippling Jrom that source, ahyway. R. £•_ MALE SUPREMACY • WAS SORRY MYTH DEAR MARY HAWORTH: Your correspondent J. E. protests against overly assertive women and insuf ficiently assertive men; and the criticism seems justified. But he overlooks . another combination equally censurable, namely, the autocrat male and the doormat te mile. I doubt that arij competent stu dent of 'human relations favofs a return to the old ideo logy of masculine rule and female submission. It wasn’t constructive an should be outmoded; and it J. B. would like to go back to that, he may be dismissed as one who yearns tor the impossible (fort unately) . The bully, man or woman, seeks as a male a weakling dlie tehb can be pushed around. And the unduly dependent sissy, mtfle ar female, seeks the support and con-£) trol of a "strbng” member of the opposite sex. The antidote is to tram young people to proper self assertlveness and teach them to recognise the marks of wholesome self respect to a prospective pkrt- May I add, wallers about “koto lsm” are doing society a grave dis service by imposing new anxiettos and inhibiting upoh young.mothri*. When the man is weak, or away from home because of tear or other ® duties, the woman may be faced with a choice Bf taking the bit in her teeth, or letting the family go X teill take my chance on keeping her happy-alkiat my if S%£»iS who figuratively devours bar brood.