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_Monday, July 23, 1945
SCORING PLAY
In the fabulous borough of Brooklyn,
New York, a girl office worker tossed a
bag containing $1050 to a feminine col
league. The second girl missing the toss
and the bag flew out the window. A pass
ing bobby-soxer neatly intercepted the
lateral, scooped the bag off the sidewalk
and streaked for the goal line. Not a
tackier laid a hand on her.
When last we heard the police were
still seeking her, so we can’t end the
story properly. But if the law let’s her
go she’s a cinch to get a scholarship from
some freshwater college. In this time of
scarce talents, you don’t run into a pass
receiver like that every day.
Occasionally a woman may say “yes”
or “no,” but never without tying a string
to it.
A weather prophet predicted a long
spell of dry, sunny weather this summer,
but could not say for certain when it
would begin. We say—the day we return
to the office after our holidays.
—The Humorist.
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The things we hear are never as interesting as
the things we overhear.
EXPERIMENT IN PEST CONTROL
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Army officials are now conducting in
a woodland tract of more than 100 acres,
experiments through which they hope
to decide the extent to which the spec
tacularly effective insecticide, DDT, can
be converted to civilian use.
Military men, of course, already know
something of the powers of DDT. It has
been used with remarkable results in
several campaigns. It has cut the malar
ia rate to almost nothing in many in
stances, ridding areas of the dreaded
germ-carrying mosquito. In tests in cat
tle and horse barns, the drug has elim
inated flies—which in summer time so
plague animals that their efficiency of
ten is drastically reduced.
But scientists know that most insects
are important cogs in the biological ma
chinery of the world. It would be impos
sible to wipe out most of these species
without upsetting the entire biological
balance. Results of too broad a use of
DDT could bring much more damage
than benefit.
Before a definite background of infor
mation can be gathered; before a work
able program of insect eradication can be
drawn, we must have a whole series of
scientific tests. Results of these tests,
added to the knowledge gained through
military use, must be coordinated. The
experiment in Maryland is one of the
first such efforts.
There can be no doubt that intelligent
control of so-called pests will be benefi
cial. It is equally true that hasty, ill-ad
vised use of the Cincinnati-manufactured
product could cause disaster.
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Political developments in Eng
land this summer have made a
show, profitable for Americans to
watch. Peace in Europe is really
felt in England; terror and blood
shed ceased for a time—for a long
time we hope. Britain’s post-war
problems are upon her and they
are almsot exactly like ours will
be when our war is over in thei
Pacific. There is however one big
difference.
The difference lies in what the1
working people think. British la
bor is socialistic, in large part;
American labor is not. The British
workers don’t think they fared
very well under the system in
which private capital owned the
factories and private management
operated them in so-called compe
tition. English laborers figure they
would be better off if the govern
ment owned everything.
Workers Prosper
Workers in America still favor
the system of free enterprise,
dominantly, our labor is in favor,
of open competition. The reason
is that working people in America
see how they have fared all right
with* nrivate enterprise. Labor
leaders express themselves freely
in favor of capitalism. Our work
ers probably will not turn against
the American system since U ir.s
not turned against them.
Nobody has the working people
of either country fooled. They
have the truth in both cases. In
England, labor has had a pretty
shabby deal; in America the work
er has lived well. The important
question is this: British workers
oppose capitalism and American
workers favor it—can it be pos
sible that they are talking about
the same thing?
Have Same Name
Prior to World War II, the eco
nomic system in Britain was called
private enterprise—same as in
America. Moreover the two were
quite a little alike, at first glance,
except that wages on this side of
the ocean were high and Ameri
can workers lived more than twice
as well as the British workers,
trade for trade. The difference
was that private enterprise in
Britain was not free.
Private enterprise in England
was hog-tied. Competition there
was not actually open. Wasteful
monopolies operated within the
law. Private business concerns
were fenced in with 4egal re
straints on this and government
restrictions on that. What they
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had was government-bossed pri
vate enterprise. Business men
couldn’t make money and there
fore couldn’t pay their workers.
Socialistic Labor
Working as hard as they could,
British workers couldn’t earn
enough to live well. They needed
new tools and modern methods so
they could produce more; so their
employers could pay better wages,
but the employers couldn’t buy
better tools. They were so restrict
ed that they couldn’t make any
money. Result: Labor unions
i formed a socialist party and grab
bed the government.
The _ same thing can happen
here. America can keep free pri
vate enterprise and the prosperity
that goes with it. With prosperity
and progress, American firms can
pay their workers well. But silly
restrictions and heavy taxes can
choke out profits. Without profits
there will be no new tools, no prog
ress, no better wages. Unhappy
workers bring socialism. Social
ism, nowhere in the world, has
brought wages half as high as
America now enjoys.
Health Commissioner Sets
Up Veneral Disease
Control Program Here
Dr. G. V. Scorebrand, Distric
Health Commissioner, with head
quarters at Anchorage, has ere
ated a venereal disease contrc
program in Nome and has set u
an outline for a generally im
proved health program for th
northern parts of Alaska, after a
extensive survey of the norther
Alaska communities. Doctor Scor<
brand conferred with Departmer
officials at the Juneau central o:
fee early this month regardir
*he general health program f<
the Interior.