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Maybe you're wondering why I sound so excited. Well, how would you feel if you took a South American tour of 19 countries—for free? Where did I put my castaneis? Here is how I wangled the trip. Whether you know it or not, a newspaper office is a depository for tons -of publicity matter. In that tonnage is included travel materidl. “Go to Honolulu.” “Go to Sweden.” “Romantic Greenland beckons.” ‘That's fine. But where do most of us go? We go to work every morning and if everything works out right, two days in Turkey Run State Park is quite a trip. Then, along comes Miss Burger and Mr. de Groat of Pan American. Will you join us? Muchas gracias, let's go. with the “South American Notebook” under my arm, Miss’ Burger is the author of this dandy money and time saver, I took off from Los Angeles for Mexico City. Gad, it was a beautiful night. “The flight was incredibly beautiful with the moon shining through the blades of the propellers and the light shimmering off the silvery wings.”

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I COULDN'T sleep a wink. It was too beautiful. The plane stopped at Hermosillo, Mazatlan and Guadalajara before the pilot dropped the

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SOUTH OF THE BORDER—""Pack your bag, grab your hat.and come along to the exciting scenes of Latin America. Our plane is ready . .."

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SANTA FE, N. M,, Mar. 17—Now- that our Clint, as master Clinton Anderson is called in these parts, has renounced his job as Secretary of Agriculture, I want President Truman to ap= point me to look after food and farming. I used to raise radishes, as a boy, and once I had a pony. I offer these specifications chiefly as a bonus, since it. is obvious that a man needs to know nothing about agriculture to fill the second or third most important Cabinet post in the Truman administration. With the ajd of Will Harrison, the political columnist of Santa Fe, N. M,, I learn that oyr Clint; who also ran the last part of our war food administration, had a. professional background which fitted him equally well for grand opera or for agriculture. «Mr. Anderson was'a publicity ‘man for A. T. Hannett, who was electéd to the New Mexico goyernorship in. 1924. The story goes that Clint asked Gov. Hannett for a State House job and was told to take it out in insurance business. Clint opened his insurance agency in 1925, when the governor took office. In 1928 Mr. Anderson was State Democratic Chairman. That year the Republicans had a landslide. In 1932 and 1933 our Clint was president of Rotary International. He was then appointed New Mexico state treasurer when the treasurerelect couldn’t qualify for his bond. Clint wasn't renominated. :

A So-So Administrator FROM 1985 to 1940 he was successively administrator of FERA for New Mexico, field representative for WERA with headquarters in Salt Lake, director 6f Unemployment yensation for New Mexico, and: managing direc of ‘the Coronado Cuarto Centennial, a historic roadshow which flopped. ; * Big bland Clint was a so-so administrator in these assorted jobs. His tenure in the NewMexico relief office was followed by spectacular indictments which charged that the relief program had

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1948

Minstrels and Can-Can Girls in Rhythmic “Ripples of 48"

I will return again.” There Goes My Hot Tamale

GUATEMALA. Again I tried to eat a hot tamale. It must have been the excitement. “Off to Guatemala. We skimmed over the tops of the clouds. I sat there entranced with my nose

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my hot tamale in the garbage bucket. I pinched myself to see if I were dreaming. No—there was Guatemala City. “It was all I could do to wait for the plane to stop, so I could get out and rub shoulders with this riot of color.” El Salvador can’t be described with words. Lake Coatepeque is & mirror of loveliness. The banana I snitched from a tree along the road was a little green. I remember hoping it wouldn't make me sick. You see, Honduras was next. Ah—Honduras. “There is only one Tegucigalpa in the world!” (Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras.) I'll run jn a few wo! such as thrilling, dazzling, breathless, playful breezes and hop| to Nicaragua. . { “Nicaragua ‘is’ a beautiful country with two fresh water lakes which are probably the only fresh water lakes in the world inhabited by| sharks.” : + Costa Rica. . Costa Rica. “If I've heard once! about’ Costa Rica, I've heard it a thousand times.| Everyone I would talk to. would inquire if I was going to Costa Rica and would recount to me all the wonderful things about it.” I didn’t pick any bananas. Wheeee—shopping in Panama; dancing in Colombia; listening to a native play the rondador.in Ecuador; ordering a: short one in the Fran Hotel Bolivar in Peru; sidestepping a llama in Bolivia: finding out that there's a lot of nitrate in Chile. Agentina was devastating and Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba were just too, too. Tired but happy, that's me. “So at the doorway to my native land—my home—I turn southward to say to our good neighbors, ‘Salud Amigos! Viva Las Americas!” Yep, viva. I say mare booklets like Pan American sends out. ;

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been misused for political pork. One ‘man went to the pen as a result. > One of Mr. Anderson's nicest touches has been his insuring, since he started working for Uncle Sam, of the Robert E. McKee Contracting Co. The McKee Co., holds a great percentage of the contracts at Los Alamos, N. M., the site of the federal atomic laboratories. Anderson's company covers several thousand McKee employees with workmen’s compensation.

Moved. Out on the Farm SINCE BECOMING Secretary of Agriculture, our Clint has also become a farmer. He changed hig address from 911 W. Fruit, Albuquerque, to the Lazy V Cross Farm, RFD No. 1, possibly to keep him in characters The farm near Albuquerque was formerly used mostly as a residence and pasture for saddle horses, but now Clint has a herd of Holsteins. A resident farmer runs the place. So far as I know, our Clint never practiced agriculture or-claimed a knowledge of farming and food until he got appointed to a wartime Food-Price Probing Committee. When Mr. Anderson was named to the agriculture job in May of 1945, his own home folks were stunned.. One paper said, at the time: “Had Dennis Chavez been named Secretary of Labor and Carl Hatch Secretary of State, the surprise could have been no greater . . .” And went on to condemn Mr. Anderson's home locality as the site of “the sorriest farming practices this side of Mexico.” | This is just a short sketch of the man who steered us through. the pitfalls of stratospheric food prices, commodity crackups, and assorted crises in grain.and meat. Which is why, Mr. Truman, I want tobe the next Secretary of Agriculture, now that Clint has selflessly decided to assure Democtatic success in. New Mexico for the Senate. I don’t own an insurance business, and I never) bossed ‘a leaf-raking program, but a great-uncle]

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—The mysterious little. men behind the barbed wire fences in Tennessce, who build atom bombs on an alchemist’s production line, are human beings, after all. Too doggone human, Some of ‘em are thinking of going on strike.

This, of course, cannot be. The atomic experts are aghast at the thought. So are the diplomats. And also Congress. Those bombs have got to roll out of the hopper 24 hours a day seven days a week, no matter what. So the Joint Senate House Atomic Energy Committee is holding a public investigation into how to pacify the atomic mechanics. Ordinarily the atom lawmakers meet in deepest secrecy; so I thought here was my chance to learn some-

& thing of what was going on in that citadel of “the future, Oak Ridge, Tenn. I must report that

it was a little disillusioning. The labor situation is in such a mess that mighty Oak Ridge might as well be a meat-packing plant, or maybe a coal mine, The three big factories in Oak Ridge are known cryptically as K-25 (the gaseous diffusion plant), Y-12 (the electro-magnetic processing shop), and X-10 (the Oak Ridge national laboratary). And do not ask me what all that means. I don't know and, if I did, I wouldn't want to get jailed.

How They're Split Up THE THOUSANDS of experts in the mechanical maze called K-25 are members of the CIO. Those in the sealed and windowless structures known as Y-12 have joined the AFL. The independent-minded ladies and gentlemen who manufacture atoms (and chop same into small pieces) in X-10 decided in a formal election: The devil with labor unions. They’ll do their own bargaining. And non-union they are today. These three factories, jammed together in a reservation and all working on assorted phases of bomb-making, have been managed for the

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vernmepg: by a never-ending assortment of Shemichi corporations. There have been so many} managements that sometimes a poor atom-maker never knew who was his boss. Each plant had different wages and hours for folks doing the same kind of work. So, oh boy, you can imagine the conversations around the soda fountains in Atomville. The government made a deal not long ago with the Carbide-Carbon Chemical Corp. to run all three plants—and there were the AFL boys and girls who claimed that their CIO neighbors were getting a better deal. They are talking strike. .

But Hope Wasn't Enough SILAS W. PICKERING II, the big, tall, bald director of industrial relations for CarbideCarbon, said he could understand why they were sore. He said he hoped he could ‘work out a scheme whereby everybody got treated the same, no’ matter which union he did or didn’t join. The Congressmen said hope wasn't enough. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, chairman of the committee, the most important perhaps that Congress ever established, said that even if it took a special law no atom furnace ever could be allowed to cool because of a labor argument, or because of anything else. i He was deadly serious. So also were the other committeemen and the atomic scientists and labor leaders in the hearing room. The choice: of rooms, I'm afraid, was unfortunate. The atomic committee had no room of its own, so it borrowed the chamber of the Armed Services: Committee. Here warlike pictures decorate the walls, Howitzer ‘shells serve as ornaments in the corners, and the brass name-plate pried off the battleship Maine has the place of honor under the window. And 1 only hope the atom-splitters work out their troubles and never have to use their bombs —except maybe to burn slowly, instead of coal, in the furnace.

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