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HAVE, Yob EVER given your cup of coffee & sec: ond sHidught other than: “Ah, good, po what is this stuff?” It might prove interesting. Personally, I like coffee and I feel right lucky if the various dispensaries downtown come up with a good cup one out of three times. But recently when I hit five straight cups that tasted as If they were brewed from one part coffee and two parts rubber overshoes, I decided to find out more about this beverage. Clarence Irish, president of the Hoosier Coffee Co., said He'd be glad to answer any questions. My ficst question of “Why is it so hard to get a good cup of coffee?” hit the energetic coffee com-

pany president in a tender. spot. In other words

..a. hunting

been collecting in this moisture?”

that question “did it.” .

You Must Follow the Rules

MR. IRISH CONTENDS that 95 per cent of the coffee makers such as the housewife, the man who “gets” his own breakfast, the “java” experts in drugstores, hamburger joints, and even restaurants don't follow :the simple rules of good coffee-making.

“At a luncheon a couple of weeks ago,” Mr, Irish:

said, “a local milk company executive asked me why was, it that on a hunting trip he could always get a good cup of coffee.” Pointing his finger at me, Mr, Irish then explained the “secret.” “The reason this man‘could make good coffee on trip--and I told him what I'm going to tell you—is that he had three important elements Yo work with. First — fresh’ water, probably from a spring or a fast-moving creek, Second a clean. and unused coffee pot and third — a healthy appetite. There it 1s.” To emphasize his point, Mr. Irish said that he

AND THEY COME OUT HERE—Loren (Doc) Wilson fitishes with a roast of coffee beans but that doesn't end the story.

or “Cee-rminy—

cout make good. cote in tn ca ove cami providing he had the “right stufr.” “Take ithe housewife in the morning, for example. 8he’s in a hurry to get her hubby:off to work. She throws out the stale coffee, gives her coffee-maker & quick rinse, then fills it with water from the hot tap to save time and expects good coffee, Can't be done.” Mr, Irish was going strong by this:time, “Often the coffee roaster is blamed. Often a certain brand of coffee takes the blame. Do you know," (I shook my head no) “that 99 per cent of the coffee coming into the country is mountain grown--it grows best in mountainous regions—99 per cent of the coffee, is shade-grown—99 per cent is tree-ripened--how else could you get the berry—and 99 per cent of the coffee is flame-roasted. Coffee roasters essentially operate their business in the same way.” “Why,” Mr. Irish kept going, “I, could make you cry if I told you How much goes into getting a pound of coffee to your kitchen only to have it ruined by carelessness or just plain not knowing.” I told Mr, Irish that I wouldn't mind knowing a little of how we got our coffee but would he mind leaving the tears-out?. It seems that it takes five to six years for a coffee tree to get where it can produce a full load of beans. Then hundreds of thousands of - workers pick the berries by hand. A large-scale process gets

the pulp off and the beans are washed. Then they're|’ dried in the sun, being carefully turned. After alll’ this the. beans are packed in bags and shipped toi” ~-this-couritry:

The roaster gets the coffee Deas which he blends for his particular brand. At this point Mr. Irish got up from his chair and sald: “Come on back into the plant. I think Doc has a batch of coffee coming from the roaster and you can see what we do here.” Just as we entered the-plant, Loren (Doc) Wilson, roaster, was getting ready to pull a roast. A warning. bell sounded while he was dipping into the revolving roaster with a small scoop. Evidently it looked “done” because Doc began to

turn valves.

Mr. Irish said that he was opening a ventilator so the heat inside the roaster would escape which would lower the temperature fast since the beans had been roasted the proper length of time.

Sees Beans Go 'Round and Round

SOON THE BEANS came out into a large cooling pan. They looked exactly like coffee beans, which fortunately they were, Air cooled them off, In a few minutes they were dumped down a chute. From there on the whole thing can be summed up with the words—the coffee beans go round and round—oh, ho, ho and come out here—the grinder. Same thing applies before they get to the roaster. Not being a mechanic, all I can say the beans go down a chute, get cleaned here, blown there for chaff, up an elevator, down a pipe, up a pipe and come out there—no not that pipe—this one and into

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Science Service

dental chair getting cavities drilled

The importance of the parental

health service. According to his findings, the mother who says, “My daughter gets her poor teeth from

the roaster. mes? is right.

“All this for a cup of coffee?” I asked, wiping

, away a tear.

“All this for coffee,” Mr. Trish answered, “beside the vacuum packing and handling shipping and getting it to you.” Brother—when you ask for a nickel fer a cup of

: coffee—remember, don't take it so lightly,

Costly Dew

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, April 8—~W. R. Johnson, the commissioner of customs, was an unhappy man. He ‘said he was so broke he couldn't even weigh the wool that arrived in Boston. Yes, asked the senators, but wasn't it weighed before it left Australia? ~ Certainly, the pale-mustached Mr. Johnson replied. Then why did he want to weigh it again at this end of the voyage? - Because wool picks up moisture on its journey across the ocean, he said. It always weighs more in Boston than when it was loaded on the other side of the world. This, he continued, is important. The duty on wool is a stiff one. H-m-m-m-m, the senators said. The more they thought, the more they h-m-m-m-m-ed. Is this government slapping a tax on ‘moisture? Are the housewives of America paying for the damp breezes of the Pacific ocean whenever they buy a rug?

Different Tax Rates

DOES THE PRICE of a pair of pants include a fee for salt sea air absorbed en route? And why is some sea water taxed at 13 cents a pound and some at 37 cents? How much of this costly dew, asked Senator Herbert R. O'Conor of Maryland, does wool usually collect onthe way from down under? The commissioner had the figures. He said they came from his own laboratory. A bale of wool blots up between four and 12 pounds of water on its long voyage. . “Do you mean to tell me that our government has cried Mr. O’Conor, who was ¢1&d in a blue wool suit of uncertain moisture content. Not at all, Mr. Johnson snapped. The customs bu-

reau weighs the wool in Boston, or would if congress wasn't so stingy, and figures out the tax on same with water. Then it does some further calculating, on the basis of laboratory experiments with bone dry wool versus wet. wool, and remits the duty on the water. This used to keep a number of government servants busy. : “Before the “war you weighed all the wool that arrived in Boston?” insisted Senator Edward J. Thye of Minnesota, the acting chairman of the government expenditures committee. He certainly did, Mr. Johnson said. He was conscientious about it. And if congress kindly would restore an appropriation of $100,000 to hire day laborers to haul the stuff, mostly wool, onto the official scales, he'd resume weighing wool and water.

Hope It Isn‘t Phony

MR. JOHNSON SAID he didn't trust all those Australian invoices. He can't tell how much of the listed weight is sea breezes and how much is cheating. | All his customs agents can do is squeeze the water from an occasional bale of wool, see how this checks

with the bills-of-lading, and hope that the fog in we,

other bales isn't phony. Senator Thye suggested that he quit worrying. The! senator said this government had been buying most of the wool grown in America for years, that the! federal warehouses are bursting with it, and that one of these days soon it will hit the market. “By next year,” Senator Thye added, “you probably won't be getting much imported wool to weigh

in Boston: You won't need much of an appropriation | §

to weigh it.” “Yes, sir,” Mr. Johnson said, reaching for the water pitcher and wetting down the wooly Tesiing in his mouth.

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By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, April 8-—Roman Bohnen, the character actor, wants it known that he isn't mad at President Truman and that President Truman Isn't mad at him. Mr. Bohnen was cast for .the part: of -President Fruman in the atom bomb picture, “The Beginning Or the End.” Then there was supposed to be some objection from Washington about his portrayal and his “non- militaty posture.” So he was replaced finally by another actor. “The newspapers,” Mr. Bohnen told me, "bungled it up. It .is true that I wrote a letter to President Truman suggesting he portray himself be-

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. to be a movie actor.”

was historical. For history's sake, I thought since he did it, he should act it. President Truman replied to my letter saying he ‘approved of my performance but felt the scene itself was unfair because it made he said: Mr, Truman added in the letter, “I dan't want Mr. Bohnen is still a little

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military posture.” He was even more peeved when he started receiving subscription blanks to physical s Lulture magazines, ‘

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TRYING to share the spotlight department: Isn't it funny that the only time Joan Fontaine makes an effort to say hello to her sister, Olivia de Havilland, ‘is when Livvie is facing a news camera? It's refreshing to discover something that isn’t

, super-colossal in Hollywood. It's Johmy Mack Brown's

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waitress to a chatty customer, “but I got rid of my husband myself. Not that I'm bragging, you understand.” *

It seems pretty funify at first to think % woman would be called upon to deny she is bragging. when

talking -about being divorced.

v,Pride in Divorce?

BUT WHEN you stop to. think about ft, don't

: women often take pride n their Hprorons these ae

i ‘I'M NOT bragging,” explained the not-so-young Might put up with such-and- such, but not me,” or

I divorced him; he didn't. divorge :

swimming pool—just an over-sized sunken bath five feet deep, four feet wide, and eight feet long. It was designed, says Johnny, for dunking after sun baths. Myrna Loy still receives letters from pe®ple who cherish her as an actress in Oriental roles. The other day an eager fan stopped her on the street and asked | her confidentially, “You do read Chinese, don't you?” | Replied Myrna: “Only when it is printed in English. " Roy Del Ruth wants Jimmy Durante to play the! serious-comic role of a truck driver in “Red Light.”

Tipping Formula

NIGHT CLUB patrons are tipping too extravagant. (and surplus property sold for a|

iy, says Herman Hover, who owns Hollywood's most ° famous late spot, Ciro's. They got into the bad habit| f over- tipping, says Herman, in the rush to night!

A study of the teeth of 5400 parents and children in 1150 families furnishes considerable evidence for this view. The families were of Japanese ancestry, studied at the Colorado River Relocation Center. When both parents had little or no signs of dental disease, their children also had good teeth, Dr. Klein found. When both parents had poor teeth, ‘the children also had much dental trouble,

» » » THE HEREDITARY influence on - teeth is probably strength-

U. S. Health Survey Cause of Child's

Study Bolsters Theory Fluorine Helps Prevent Decay Under Certain Conditions By JANE STAFFORD IF YOU HAVE.a lot of toothaches and have to spend hours in the

wrong kind of water-as a child. But then, again, at least part of your tooth troubles are probably due to heredity.

decay is stressed by Dr. Henry Klein, senior dental officer, U. 8. public

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influence in the liability of teeth to

studies disclosed. This is that like tends to mate with like when it comes to teeth as well as eye color and nationality. In this study Dr. Klein was assisted by Dr. Toyo Shimizu, dental officer of the office of Indian affairs. Small amounts of the chemical, fluorine, in the drinking water may help prevent tooth decay. This is a fairly well-known story now, and several communities are adding fluorine to their water supplies to take advantage of its anti-caries action. This measure was not expected to help anyone except children born in those communities after

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Fluorine, it has been believed, only protects the teeth of persons drinking fluorinated water from birth and during the period while the teeth are developing in the jaw. Its good effects, it has just been discovered, can be applied at considerably later ages. First and second molars and second bicuspids that are already erupted in the mouth can be. protected by fluorinated drinking water if they are exposed to the fluorinated water soon after eruption. n » ” DRINKING WATER may contain substances that make teeth more vulnerable to decay as well as fluorine which protects against caries. Evidence for this was discovered by Dr. Klein in examinations of the teeth of more than 3000 New Jersey school children. These were made with the co-operation of Dr. J. M. Wisan, New Jersey health department's dental chief, and Dr. John F. Cody of the U. S. Health Service. The children lived in five communities of southern New Jersey. In three of these communities the water supplies contained enough

decay. In the other two, the water was considered fluorine-free. Of the 3000 children, 1307 had been born outside the five communities and moved. into them at various ages. Of those moving into the fluorine communities, the younger the child was’ at the time he arrived there and the longer he lived there, the less his teeth were attacked by decay. This showed the now generally recognized effect "of fluorine in drinking water in favoring - resistance to tooth decay. » .

Ed ” BY CONTRAST, among the children moving into the fluorine-free areas, the most recent arrivals had

lived in the area the longest had the worst teeth so far as decay was concerned. Scientists = are now actively searching for the substances in the water of the communities that make teeth more vulnerable to decay. Superficial examination shows that the nonfluorine waters in the communities are acid enough to need treatment with alkali and

the best teeth while those who had |s

the ‘water. to remove ft. i usually high content of nitrate has also been-found in these water

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No U.S. Supervision

Our $3 Billion Chinese Puzzle—

Chiang Got $500 Million On own 1

viding for almost unlimited mili- million in 1945 and the final $120

of Spending

And Now Eastern Nation Wants More

First of a Series. Co.

By PETER EDSON

NEA Staff Writer | WASHINGTON, April 8.—The amazing story of how the U. 8. government in 1942 threw $500 million to China—with practically no strings {on how the money should be as never been told. That makes it

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{to get more financial aid from the { United States. Another $500 million |of export-import bank funds have been earmarked for Chinese reconstruction loans. TWO: Congress is considering $400 million advances to Greece and Turkey. How much supervision the U. 8S. will have over the spending of this money is now un-

Mr. Edson der debate. In the case of the original half billion Chinese loan, no American supervised the spending. In the cold light of today this

| might look like something of a na-|.

tional scandal, although no one has questioned it until. now, At the time, the only thought was how to kéep China—cut off from the rest of the allies—iri the war. This story works up to a $3 billion climax—which is the approxi- |

song. Relay to Washington

e years old.

It is also news for two other reaso ONE: Chiang Kai-shek has announced in Nanking that he hopes

Harry Hopkins. Not even the state department was cut in on the deal. Mr. Roosevelt sent a message to congress; asking for special authority to give financial and other aid to China. This was after the lend-lease law was passed pro-

tary aid to allied countries.

thing extra—a political loan to rebuild American prestige with the Chinese government. China at that time was blockaded by the Japs and it was impossible to ship her anything but love and credit. Feb. 21, 1942, congress passed a law granting economic and financial aid to China. Mr. Roosevelt signed

up by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau and T. V. Soong, Chinese minister of foreign affairs, who was then in the U, 8. The deal was closed March 21, A credit of $500 million was set up for China in the New York federal reserve bank. China drew $250 million of this amount up through 1944, took another $140

Our Air Force and Peace— Mission of America, Powerful in Air, Is to Maintain World Peace, Spaatz Says

New Method for Selecting Candidates For Aviation Pilot Training to Be Used

The policeman on the corner,

authority to the laws that govern

The story begins late in 1941. |the areas under their jurisdiction.

clubs during the war years when tables for two be- | The white man’s prestige was at

ame tables for eight. But now they're fools, he says, if they don't follow this formula: No tips to maitre! 1's or head waiters. Ten per ‘cent of the cost of food |

and beverages to the waiter and his partner. (Don't | Cans around in the Philippines. |

count the federal taxes in tipping). Twenty-five cents to the hatcheck girl, Doctors have ordered Maria Montez to take a month's rest after completing “Atlantis.” There are two big deals on the fire for Peggy Ann Garner to head her own weekly radio series. It's a grim coincidence that the fatal plane flight! (23 were killed) over the Alps which Barbara Stanwyck and Bob Taylor canceled at the last moment! was the same flight route Pat and Eloise O'Brien cap. celed during their recent trip to Europe. At that time 12 were killed.

By Ruth Millett

low ebb throughout The Japs were kicking the Ameri-

{The British were taking a beating from Hong Kong to Singapore.

out of the East Indies. Kai-shek summoned the American

headquarters and announced that he would like to have a billion dollars—half from the United States, half from the United Kingdom. U. S. Ambassador Clarence Gauss indicated that the request would be relayed to Washington, He said" it would be a good idea for the Chinese to tell what the money would be used for. The reply was that this would be decided. after the loan was

“No man is going to put anything over on me.” “And always there is pride—prigde that no man |

granted. So the request was re- | layed td® Washington without eny | prospectus on what was _ to be done

could put anything over on them, or tell them' what | with the money.

to do, or get by. with this or that.

Cause for Increase

WOMEN TAKE pride in being able to walk out |of Mr. Gauss, when a marriage: isn't going exactly to their liking. |told it should not’ interfere with |" Maybe that's one cause for the divorce rate increase. [what had become a Washingion 1g’ some way to hald | matter. ving “T quit Now i xe often they take 8 pride’ President ‘Roosevelt. “handled or diy himself, with ‘he

Once they took pride in

The record indicates that from this point on, negotiations were taken completely out» of the hands The embassy was

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Our air force is an instrument of on the common law "% which peace - loving peoples have always felt should . govern relations ° among nations, and of the new international law which 1s arising out of the United Nations and the war trials of world war II. It is an instrument of the policy of the United States as g peace-loving democracy. And as a United Nations member nation, we have pledged air contingents to support the decisions of the security council. Therefore the mission of the air force is to help keep the peace. It must be kept big enough and well enough equipped to do a big job. © Our present needs call for a 70group air force. This “air force in being” may ‘prove too large or. too small, in the light of future developments, international or in the field of air weapons.

May Drop Lower

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By GEN. CARL SPAATZ its WASHINGTON, April 8—At the very heart of peace is force.| equipment of “the air force in beWhether in the local community, the nation, or a federation of nations ling” remains much what it-was at mate total of all U. 8. war aid to under a world government, it is the means of upholding the expressed the end of the war.

{China~loans; lend lease, UNRRA. | will of the governed. the armed services of a sovereign |

nation, or the international contingents of a world government give

The air force must rely largely for its effectiveness upon the skill of the technicians who literally keep the airplanes flying. At war's end a great many of these highly-skilled soldiers’ were eligible either for immediate discharge or for release within a few months. Although volunteers and selectees replaced the discharged veterans, the skill and gxperience that those experts took with them back into civilian life still is keenly missed.

Needed by Force Photo laboratory technicians, radar mechanics, aircraft welders, and propeller mechanics, and a long list of other specialists, are needed by our air force. The opportunities for such training should stimulate enlistments among men who wish a career connected with aviation either in or out of service. A brand new policy for selecting candidates for aviation pilot training should attract ambitious young men to the air force. Randolph field, the “West Point of the Air,” will reopen this spring with its cadet corps made up entirely of .AAF ‘enlisted men serving in the United States. A year's flight training, leading to a {tad lieu-

it. Negotiations were then taken]

The aid to China was to be some-| over.

million in 1946, after the war- was

The loan was made interest free, although the U. 8. had to pay possibly $10 million a year interest on the money it borrowed from its citizens to advance to the Chinese. ' Left Very Fuzzy The customary interest rates charged by Chinese commercial banks run from 50 per cent to 300 per cent or more a year. Provisions for paying back the loan was left very fuzzy. “The final determination of the loan,” said the Morganthau-Soong agreement, “is deferred by the two contracting parties until the progress of events after the war makes clearer the final terms and benefits

This dispatch, ‘written for NEA Service by the top feteral of the “|substantial portion of our future nation’s army air forces, underlines the need for strong, up-to- -date combat flyers.

n t) ent of America’s new global policy. ar Yow 34 an ingirem , P .| continues research and development,

which will be in the mutual interest of the United States and China,

able to. pass scientifically devised aptitude tests and the qualifying physical and mental examinations. This makes every enlisted man a .| potential officer, and will provide a

While the air force. vigorously

utilizing. both civilian*agenciés and own facilities, the available

B-50 Is Successor

The B-29 still is the best long range bomber in the world available in useful quantities and provides the main strength of our strategic air power. Its successor will be the B-50, a similar plane with increased Jower and performance. The A-26 Invader combines speed and bomb capacity as A weapon highly effective against tactical targets such as bridges, rail yards, airfields, troop concentrations, and armor, As fighter-bombers and long-range escort craft, the P-47 Thunderbolt and the P-51 Mustang remain sus perior, although as interceptors they must bow to the jets: the Lockheed Shooting Star, the Republic Thunderjet, and Britain's world-record | holder, the Gloster Meteor. Would Differ Little If American air power were needed tomorrow to serve the cause of peace, what our “air force in being”

would send into the sky would differ little from the air forces that con-

tributed so. decisively $0 winning

ne he 8 — b en of lasting world peace acu “No thi 'g X % And a lot of other high-minded

language like that. Though the war has now been over-a year and a half, nothing har been said about working out =a settlement. Instead, Chiang Kaishek has announced his interest in getting more U. 8. financial aid. The British handled the dea’ quite ‘differently. The

down®to $200 million. They specifled that this money could be spent only in the British empire and only dyring the war. Since there was no way in which to transport goods into China except over the Himalayas, the Brite ish made no advances until 1944 And the total amount advanced was less than $100 million.

Unions Split In Canal Tone

C.1.0. Group ab ; To Join Bridges .

By JIM G. LUCAS Times Staff Weiter : PANAMA CITY, April 8—The $ C. I. 0s United Public Workers of Ameriea, which has some 20,00¢ members who are ' Canal sone employees, has begun negotiations to divide the Panama labor fielc with Harry Bridges’ Longshoremen’s

with being dominated by Com-

mists e public workers union di€. not Te to split its control of workers here out of a spirit generosity, It was faced

World war II.

button warfare ae Yo nearer to reality, 'it

Although the weapons of push- he

“The air force’ now finds itself | than is