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Monday, February 11, 1946
Tomorrow, February 12, the world honors a truly
great emancipator, a man who gave his life for freedom.
LINCOLN ... The Failure
A great many of the names written in history were
those of persons who were not discouraged at defeat,
and who surmounted all obstacles to attain their objec
tives. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a victim of infantile
paralysis, fought desperately to overcome the disease
until he became one of the country’s most active presi
dents. Demosthenes, who had been unable for many
years to speak clearly, overcame the impediment of
speech and became a great orator. One of England’s
great prime ministers, D’Israeli, surmounted the almost
impossible mountain of racial prejudice to attain that
high office. Abe Lincoln, in his struggle for a success
ful life, displayed extreme fortitude, “stick-to-it-ive
ness.”’
When Lincoln was a young man he ran for office in
the Illinois legislature and was badly beaten. Later he
entered business with a partner and went broke. The
next seventeen years of his life were spent repaying
debts incurred in the failure of the business venture.
As an office seeker, Abe Lincoln was defeated many
times, and badly. He tried for the House of Representa
tives, for the Senate, for a Land Office job, and for the,
Vice Presidency of the Untied States, and each time
was defeated.
Lincoln was undaunted by defeat and failure and was
finally rewarded with the highest possible success
wh.ch can be attained in this life. He became one of the
world’s greatest leaders in the fight for freedom of all
peoples of the earth.
He achieved undying fame for all time.
Abe Lincoln is one of the world’s immortals.
BAKED BREAD MADE MOLD-PROOF
Bread mold, which each year ruins 150,000,000
pounds of bread is completely destroyed when the baked
bread is heated electronically for five seconds, stated
Dr. William H. Cathcart, head of the national bakery
laboratories of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Up to the present, certain chemicals added to baker’s
formulas have merely retarded the growth of mold in
bread and other baked goods. Mold spores can now be
eradicated completely by exposing wrapped bread to
high-frequency heat generated in an electronic “oven,”
Dr. Cathcart reported. The taste, physical characteris
tics and nutrituve value of the bread are in no way alter
ed by the electronic rays, which penetrate all portions
of the bread simultaneously.
Bread given the electronic treatment remained com
pletely unaffected by mold after three weeks under nor
mal kitchen conditions of temperature and humidity,
while mold appeared on untreated bread three days af
ter the experiment was begun. Both batches of bread
were made of the same ingredients with the usual mold
retardants added.
In Britain, William D. Kendall, M.P., is starting pro
duction of a 1,000-pound, rear- engine car to sell for
100 pounds, or about $400. The three-cylinder radial
engine is air-cooled, and the exhaust helps drive a fly
wheel, giving the car a top speed of 60 miles an hour
with 40 miles to a gallon. The pressed-steel body con
tains four seats. The luggage compartment is under the
forward hood.—Newsweek.
PENICILLIN ALSO HAS ANTITOXIC EFFECT
Penicillin gains new statue as a remedy against in-j
fectious disease as a result of studies reported by Dr.
Aiden K. Boor and Dr. C. Phillip Miller, of the Univer
sity of Chicago.
The mj.d them.cal has an antitoxic effect as well as
the power to slop the growth of disease germs and evenj
kill them. Doses of penicillin, the scientists found, can
Lave m.ce from death that usually follows injections of
the pcison produced by one strain of meningococci, i
germs that cause meningitis. Although this poison
killed 39 out of 100 untreated mice, only 33 out of 100,
given the poison and treated with penicillin died.
The penicillin did not detoxify the meningococcus
poison when mixed with it before injection, however.
The scientists are now trying to find whether the de
toxifying effect in the animal’s body is due to penicillin
or to some impurity in commercial preparations of it.
THEBES ALWAYS A BEGINNING
MIT- I II I I I II ... ...
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BILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION:
WHO OWNS THE 3-MILE LIMIT?
WASHINGTON—Charges rang
ing from bureaucratic demogogery
to picking the public pocket in the
greatest land grab of modern
times have been hurled by both
sides in the controversy over whe
ther the federal government or
the individual states own title to
the submreged lands in the three
mile zone of our seacoast.
As bitter as the fight is. it isn’t
out of proportion at all to the bil
lion-dollar question which may be
settled as result of hearings now
coming before the Senate Judici
ary Committee on legislation to
abandon all claims to the lands to
the states.
The Department of Justice, in
its Supreme Court suit to obtain
title to specific oil producing sub
merged lands along the coast of
California, contends that title to
the so-called three-mile zone has
never been decided by the courts.
The fight of the states is spear
headed by California’s Attorney
General Robert W. Kenny, but
others claim that far more than
oil off Santa Barbara and Long
Beach is involved.
They argue that titles to the re
claimed areas of Back Bay Bos
ton, the steel pier at Atlantic City,
the oyster beds of the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts, the reclaimed por
tions of Florida, the shrimp beds
of Louisiana and the docks and
harbors, or navigable rivers and
lakes of almost every stpte in the
union are involved.
On the one hand, it is charged
tv>-t lmsmnulous oil companies
are behind the fight to protect
titles to leases advantageously ob
tained from the states. Yet it is
charged that eouallv unscrupulous
promoters are trying to cloud title
to the lands in the hope of obta;n
ing development permits from the
federal government. It is claimed
that Secretary Harold L. Ickes is
trying to put over a stupendous
land grab for the Department of
Interior.
Secretary Ickes says: “For eight
years I have consistently and re
peatedly taken the position that
this issue of ownership was a legal
one which should, like all similar
ones, be resolved by the courts.”
The Department of Justice feels
that the question of ownership of
these lands certainly is arguable
by the courts. Although former
Attorney General Biddle termed
his original suit a “friendly” one,
Attorney General Tom Clark has
tied no such term to the one he
has filed, making the State of Cal
ifonva party to the suit.
Both Biddle and Ickes have said
that they feel Congress is en
croaching upon judicial territory
through the resolution, already
passed by the House, and now on
its last legislative lap as hearings
open before the Senate committee.
That resolution would quit title to I
the lands, presumably giving them
over to the states, lock, stock and
barrels of oil, forever.
OF POLITICS
AND PAULEY
Just for the moment, let’s for
get about Edwin W. Pauley’s qual
ifications or lack of them to be
undersecretary of the Navy.
If we have a political sense of
humor, we dan still join the pro
fessional politicians in a chuckle
about the raking over the coals
the Republicans gave another ad- q
ministration appointee.
To contest every Presidential
appointment that is vulnerable is
good politics. If the appointee has
enemies in his own party—votes
that might go against him to make
ut> a majority—he hasn’t a chance
of even getting the Senate com
mittee approval without a vigor
ous going over.
“Ed” Pauley was a cinch for
such a going over. He was former
chief campaign fund raiser for
the Democratic national commit
tee. Starting from scratch as an
underpaid college instructor, he
had made a million or few in “the
oil game.” His feud with the “Old
Curmudgeon,” Interior Secretary
Harold L. Ickes, was an open se-^f
cret. Similar feuds with the State
Department and the Department
of Justice, or at least certain per
sons in them, were too widely ru
mored not to have some basis in
fact. His only previous govern
ment appointment—that of repar
at;ons commissioner in Europe
and Japan—had been attacked al
ready as “a political payoff.” His
only nrevious naval experience
had been winning the San Fran
cisco-Honolulu yacht race fa good
deal more than many secretaries,
not to mention undersecretaries. /
of the navy have had, it might be
noted in passing).
Is it any wonder that, regard
less of his merits or demerits, the
oDposition considered him a gold
en opportunity?
TMs doesn’t imply any lack of
sincerity whatever on the part of
persons who appeared against
Pauley. There isn’t a Republican
on Capitol Hill who wouldn’t
rather wrestle one of the polar
hp'i’-s in the Rock Creek Park zoo
than ask “Old Curmudgeon*’ Ickes
to testify for or against anybody.
But proof positive that the op- ^
oosition knew what was coming
was the fact that it was Sen.
Charles W. Tobey, New Hamp
shire Republican, who has been
gathering political battle scars for
more than 30 years, who was chief
inquisitor at the hearings where
Pauley’s thinning hair was so hot
ly singed.
It is already being freely pre
dicted that the opposition will
contest heatedly the appointments
of George Allen to the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corp. and James H.
Vardaman, Jr., to a 14-year term •
on the Federal Reserve Bank
board. W. Stuart Symington, re
cently appointed assistant secre
tary of war, went through his
baptism of confirmation fire when
he was named Surplus Property
Administrator.
It isn’t often that the opposition
is able to defeat one of the Presi
dent’s appointments. The Presi
dent confers with his leaders in
the Senate before he makes them.
But such rakings over do lay the
basis for later criticisms and “I
told-you-so’s.” That’s good politics.