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WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—This nation seems to be flooded with phoney whisky, a fact which ordinarily would not bother a temperance’ leadeM® like. myseir. I have, however, been investigating these distillations of plum juice, Soggy ‘potatoes and, for all I know, old overshoes. They are: colored brown ‘with burnt sugar, flavored with baked wood chips, bottled at. 100 “proof, and

Hkely to blister your gullet, eat’ “holes in your stomach, '

and blow off the top of your head. I. know. AS ‘of now, they're strictly legal. %hat'’s the trouble, according to Frank R. Schwengel, president of the Distilled Spirits institute, who has- appealed to the internal revenue bureau to make the bottlers tell all on the label. : Now they don’t. ‘The result is rough-on the human body: #0 When the government made Mr. Schwengel's members go easy on whisky making to save. grain, their competitors began bottling fluids known ‘as rye and bourbon liqueurs. ~ ' They look like whisky and (I must report shuddefingly) taste - frequently like something brewed by Scarface Al Capone, :

Import 6 Million Gallons THE OFFICIAL figures give some idea. "In the first six months of 1945, there was shipped ‘in’ this country nearly 6,000,000 gallons of creme de menthe, triple see, goldvasser and” perhaps 100 other flavors of the sirupy ‘potions known as after-dinner liqueurs. In the first six months of this year the consumption of cordials increased 76 per cent and the whisky distillers aren't talking about creme de violet, or

By Frederick Othman)

curacao, gither. They claim the increase’ consltaas of bourpon and rye -liquers baught by folks. who | 7 thought they were getting whisky.

Are Plague to Industry “THESE substandard, emergency concoctions hoodwink. the public and are a plague to the distill-

ing industry’ s reputation.” Mr. Schwengel said. | “They «ate reminiscent of some of the low stafidard

Caribbean and Mexican alcohol products Which mushroomed in the ‘market several years ago.”

Only in Connecticut, hé said, is thefe a law, “Any-|

body. who buys. bourbon liqueurs there finds .on- the bottle a speciaklabel Which says: “This is not whisky.” If a Nutmeg stater still insists on drinking it, that’s his business and the Distilled Spirits institute will wring no cold towels for him, At some peril to my well-being I pave made a

. personal investigation of Mr, Schwengel's case.

I must announce that some brands of bourbon liqueurs: state good.. (I just stuck the tip of my tongue | in the glass, of course, and then quickly washed out my mouth.) Some others taste like the liquid in the

“bottom of a coal car after a heavy rain;

That's not all. There is a brand of whisky, which | contains 80 per cent alcohol from ‘those plums, 20 per’ cent genuine whisky aged one month, and caramel coloring so it won't look like gasoline. Another brand, which: does look like sasone. is genuine whisky, all less than one month old. It doesn’t taste at all. It burns. I could make better; myself, were a drinking man, I mean.

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(Donna Mikels is on vacatiom. Inside Indianapolis will be resumed on her return.)

Wilderness Park

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont, Sept. 2.— Today we pushed upward into the clouds and backward into antiquity—back into the ice age., "We spiraled over the mountains of glacier on the dizzy Going- -to~ the- Sun highway. It takes Hollywood terms to describe that road—stupendous, super-colos-sal, terrific, an atom ‘explosion in technicolor.’ Also magnificent.

The highway is a great arch, 53 mile$ long, that connects the east and west sides of the park. First it takes you- along streams and lakes of quiet, relax-

s+ ingr beauty and then it shoots up onto shelves hlcked

into the sides of sheer mountains. You do ‘one hairpin turn after another as—-aou Jook down ‘and see the road you have just traveled far beneath you. The grades are not too steep; though, even for a small motor, and protecting rock barriers -on the outer edge of the road give you comfort and confidence. There are bays where you may ‘park and push your popped eyes back into their sockets and relax and enjoy the scenery. In time you find yourself up among the little glaciers that are rémnants of the ice age, and among the snow banks and the big white powder puffs and the gray. flannel blankets of clouds that float around the peaks. Logan Pass, the top of the highway, is 6654 feet above sea level, which. isn't so high as the passes on some transcontinental highways over the Rockies. There's a world of. difference in the sharpness of the approach and in the rugged grandeur of the mighty horns and spikes around you. Headquarters of the park are at. Belton, on the west side, and we stopped there. M. E. Beatty, acting superintendent and park naturalist, said Glacier is ~not having the big increase in visitors that some other parks are having. Here they are running about 3 per cent over 1941, the. best L_prewar year. They expect about 20Q,000 this season. Accommodations are not easy to obtain.

Fire Hazard Great

THE REASON Glacier business ‘isn’t larger is that the park is so far away from population centers. Vacationists ‘don’t have time to drive ‘way up here into the northwest corner of Montana on the Canadian border.

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THE PRESENT epidemic of Infantile paralysis- is , ample testimony to the wisdom of the National Foundation for “Infantile Paralysis ih continuing to raise funds on, the scale that it has in the past,

.One half the funds raised by the annual March:

of Dimes in any communily remains in that community to finance the care of polio vietims in that area. Very often a case of infantile paralysis requires many months of nursing and treatment by trained orthopedic nurses. The other half goes to the foundation to finance its research and educational programs and to build up a reserve for meeting emergencies, ' On numerous ‘occasions, epidemics have broken out in rural areas where the local funds were not adequate to deal with the situation. In this eonnection it is important to remember that all present studies point to the fact that polio does not break out first in-crowded city areas. In nearly.every instance, epidemics start in rural areas, later moving into cities. The situation is made even more puzzling by the fact that the first victims are usually -children that show every sign of good health and proper nutrition,

Research Need Great

IT IS NOT the malnourished child of the city slum who falls a victim to the disease at the start of an epidemic. The need for research on polio cannot be overestimated for not only is the medical profession under great handicaps in treating the disease, but there is no known method of preventing it. In fact, the medical® profession is completely in the dark as to how the disease is spread. Although there are many theories, only one thing can be said with certainty.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday—This year as we come to . Tabor. Day, I think more than ever before about the * resporsibility which labor as a whole now has for the conduct of our affairs at home and abroad. Organized labor, perhaps, carries the heaviest burden because, Where there are organizations, labor can be better informed on national and international affairs and there are avenues through which its voice may -be heard. In the past, I think that labor could legitimately confine its activities to its own concerns—organization, conditions of work, wages, and legislation direct= ly affecting labor, Now, however, since its organizations have grown strong, labor must of necessity think of itself as an integral part of any community. It must seek to understand and t6 work with all the other groups in ..4he "community—the farmers, the small ‘merchants, the housewiyes, the professional people. The interests of all’these touch on labor, and labor organizations cannot successfully ignore the wellbeing of the community as a whole and serve only their 6wn inferests.

Political Activity Surprising PEOPLE may be surprised at the political activity which has grown up in the ranks of labor. should not be surprised, for it is simply a sign that labor groups are becoming conscigus of their stake as citizens and that, they Join, in all the interests of

the community, ‘ This being so, Jabor has a deep corfcern in the

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By Eldon Roark

“ The toughest problem the rangers have to battle at Glacier is fire. “We have the greatest fire hazard of all the nation- | al parks,” says Mr, Beatty, “We have a lot of dry| lightning storms. Last yéar one storm started more! than 30 fires. We had to call on the ‘army, “Indians

Some of these peaks are inaccessible. Airplanes and smoke-jumpers (parachutists) have to geo.'into| action. :

Jumpers Lead Dangerous Lives

. THE NATIONAL PARK service and the forest service have crews of jumpers stationed at Missoyld, ready to<sérve both Glacier and Yellowstone. “We can have jumpers on the job at any place in| the park within two hours after a fire is reported,” | Mr. Beatty says. “It might take ground crews eight| hours. to reach the same spots.” : = Smoke-jumpers icad- dangerous lives. They have to land in the roughest kinds of places and in trees.| They wear, special suits and masks and carry ropes with which to climb down from the trees! Their firefighting equipment is dropped to them by ’chute, Glacier is of special interest to geologists because: of the famous Lewis overthrust fault. Away back in the dawn of fime when thése mountains were formed, there- was ‘a great crack in the earth, and the rocks to the west were pushed upward and then eastward | over other Tocks for a distance of 15 miles. “So’ our peaks are composed of rocks of thé same age as those in the bottom of the Grand Canyon,” Mr. Beatty says. “We have the Grand Canyon turned upside down, you might say. Our older rocks are on

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‘MONDAY, § SEPTEMBER 2, 1946 THE CRY OF BARKERS IS SWEET MUSIC AFTER FAIR-LESS DAYS DURING WAR—

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barn’ stalls for a card game.

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Wilbur Newlin, Mooresville; Hubert Glascock,

Jingman; Amiel Auer, Noblesville; William Arndt; v8 tock well, and Herman Franklin, Crawfordsville. and everybody else for help to put out one of them | . ’ ;

top of our younger rocks. There is no evidence of life! 3

whatever in the older rocks, but there are plenty of | fossils in the younger rocks underneath them.” Along with the great upheaval came the formation | of streams that started carvirig the land mass, and? later came the ice age and more cutting, smashing} and grinding. That went on for thousands of years, | and the result is these jagged peaks and rich green! valleys and cold blue lakes. ; * Nd new highway development is. planned for! Glacier:-1t-is the desire of ‘the park service to keep it' a wilderness park, Good roads encircle it, and the: Going-to-the-Sun: higiway crosses ‘it, but much ‘of it | must he seen on foot or from horseback. There are 1100 miles of alls,

By ‘David Dietz

- | It is tlat the knewn™ facts about polio do not | match any- known method of disease transmission, It may well be, therefore, that when the method | of transmission is aiscovered, it will constitute an advance in knowledge .of tremendous proportions. The virus of polio has been found in flies but there is no information as to how the disease gets from flies to human victims, if indeed it does.. The pattern of the disease is not that of a fly-borne disease.

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SIMILARLY the virus has been found in sewage in| 4

infected areas but not in sewage in: areas

there are no cases of polio. simpossible to evaluate the importance of “the virus in sewage. - One difficulty about the medical profession today is treating a compica- | tion rather than the disease itself. The cases that come to attention are those in| which a complication, namely paralysis, appears. | Today, however. many authorities think that pa- | ralysis occurs only in:less than 10 per cent of the] cases that occur, .perhaps in only 1 per cent. Studies have shown that more then 90 per cent | of the adults in any community have the neutralizing | antibodies- in their bloodstream that indicate previous attacks of the disease. Moreover widespread examination of individuals in the neighborhood of acute cases. always reveal scores of persons who are carrying the virus of the disease without ill effect.

cause continuous epidemics. Another is why the ex-

Scplioual ase of infection goes on to the complication | | ALASKA—FIRST. LINE OF DEFENSE-.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

It is this realization which made certain wise beh leaders fight very hard for a retention of OPA price |, regulation until production can reach a point where prices can be: held down by. the mere fact that np plies are plentiful on the market. Anyone understanding thé economic situation to. day knows that .rising prices will bring demands for higher wages, and if these are granted, prices will, of course, go up again, For the manufacturer does not absorb higher wages —he passes them on in costs to’ the consumer. Labor, being a great part of the consuming” public, soon finds that: it -1s no better off that before, and the vicious circle repeats itself,

High Production Needed

IT IS essential, therefore, that high production be achieved as quickly as possible in all the real neces sities that are now in demand, and that no essentfal materials be allowed to, go into Ruy type of nonessential production, Labor, as consumers, should demand these sings since, as citizens, they now wield considerable politi~ cal power. They should demand from those running for political office an opportunity before election day to hear their views on economic questions affecting our national situation. This is not selfish, for if we are not strong from an economic standpoint, the rest of the world is even weaker. If we want fo help build a better world, we “have to see to it first that our domestic situation is sound and then that, in our international contacts, we act with witdom and with an “interest in the

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A look to the future. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gwin, Jamestown, ine

spect a model of the farm house of Farmer magazine. With them are David.

tomorrow exhibited by the Prairie = two of their children, Ruth l

. With the show about to go on inside the tent, a mass of prospective customers ;

crowds the edge of the platform to take » ‘good look at the entertainers. After a war-time lapse, the cry of the barkers is sweet music to fair- -goers’ ears and the money flows freely.

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By Jim Lucas

~ Navy Is Silent About Oil-But If’ There

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“POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 2.—~The navy is saying ‘little about its activities north of Alaska's Brook ‘mountain range, The reason: In that area lies the 35,000 square mile Barrow oil basin. | Officially the navy's policy is to tell the- public no ‘more about its 0il project tn ‘herthern Alaska thdh | it told in is last statement Jan. 12. At that time, the major well, Umiat No. 1, was down to 1800 feet Considerable drilling has been done in the last six months. Z Navy will admit -only. that it has foand “evidence of oil” near the

junetion of the Colville river andi

Prince creek. That evidence. can be found in high grade samples at | Fairbanks and Kodiak:

~ ” » SPOKESMEN for r tractors, Inc, say ray Umiat | No. 1 “do not yet indicate we have | a commercially valuable well.” officially, they say the oil is here. |

There remains only the Job, of get-|1945 were | increase of 500 per cent over 1019.| will still remain many engindéering

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tine operattons until 1950, it regards! Umiat No. 1 as exploration. Naval Petroleum Reserve has of a potential oil setting, ” n » “WITH ITS enormous volume of marine sediment, its numerous and conspicuous oil and gas seepages; and its re markable regular structural alignment, it may legitimately

| be considered the ios attractive |

looking, yet untested, area in the Western Hemisphere,” Lt. William Foran, navy geologist, reports, The volume of oil found in, the | Barrow basin may ‘determiné” the number of ships the havy Lan put to sea ‘if another war should come.

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“the most severe meas~ ures.’ The navy's California reserve is of value, not because of the oil it produces, but because of its strategic location. In world war II, it was | necessary to supplement California's private production by 50,000 barrels daily from this reserve, » » ~ HAD WAR continued, Commodore William = Greenman, director of petroleum reserve, estimates 100,~

petroliferous| 600 barrels a day would have been | required, | whether its California reserve could {have produced that much.

The navy is uncertain

As to the Barrow reserve, Comsmodore Greenman says “it is of great importance, in planning for the future, that the contents and

“The navy has four. petroleum re- | productive capacity be determined

serves, but only two are of future

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» n DOMESTIC. petroleum require[ments for all purposes for the year 1.950,000,000 barrels, an| At the end of world war II, the! (nation’s productive capacity

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in order that it be ready to serve as

ctic” Con-|importance—No. T in California and | a strategically located supplemental

source of oil ip time of national emergency.” Va EVEN IF oil is found in commer~

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and economic problems of (ransportation before its availability to

Barrow reserve was opened in June, | strained. Discoveries of new reserves, our West Coast refineries can be

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|were not keeping space with with | withdrawals, . Had the waf con

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first attempt is unsuccessful: tinued, oil requirements, could have| ery of oil at Point ‘Barrow has ex-

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and makes imperative the defense of Alaskan territory. The Barrow, basin has none of = defenses of geography -inherent in] other navy oil flelds. Isolated ati the top of the world, separated from the United States by 2500 miles, it would be tempting to any oil-hun-gry military power,

LAUDS FOOD WORKERS FOR EFFORT IN WAR

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (U. PJ) |

Paul. 8, Willis, president, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc, today paid ‘tribute to more than 1,000,000 workers in American food plants for loyalty to their country and employers in helping to produce record amounts of food in the past six years, : In a special Labor day message, the G, M. A. head said the food industry management applauds the efforts made by food workers in helping to establish production records during world war II, which would ‘have -been impossible “with out their co-operation. “Despite thevingenuity and mass production techniques of management,” Mr. Willis said,

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We, The Wome Oh, How rc Hate to See Years Add Up

By RUTH MILLETT WHAT 1S BEHIND the current craze to make little girls “mamas in ‘miniature?” So many of the little girls you see these days don't look like little |girls at all—but small editions of Solr carefully turhed-out mamas. little Susie—aged three—has i hair and ker mama doesn’t belong to the pig-tail school of thought, *all too frequently little Susie has a permanent, too. n ” ” SHE MAY even wear nail polish like mama's and. clomp along on wedgies, instead of Wearing sturdy, little-girl shoes. dr, may be like mama's, too-—MNgothier and daughter dresses, they'r¢ called. Apd if mama has a flower in hep hair, Susie hag a matching flower, » » ~ Ad, WHAT is the idea, anyhow? How would a “psychologist try to explain this sudden desire of mother’s fo look like their small daughters, op to have their small daughters res semble. miniatures of themselves?. +18 it an indication that thaiha is

have been impossible. to do the job asked of us without the loyalty and willingness to work that was

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