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BARUCH ON STANDBY CONTROLS
Bernard M. Baruch told the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee recently that if Congress does
not pass a bill providing standby controls for an emer
gency, there will not be a person alive who will not
bitterly rue this tragic, needless neglect if a new war
occurs.
Mr. Baruch, who has testified before this commit
tee many times, has consistently stressed a practical
approach to the problem of economic controls.
The elder statesman has perhaps more experience
in the field of economic controls than any other living
American, having handled the heaviest part of this job
during World War If. When the Korean War broke
out, he journeyed to Washington soon afterward, to
testify before the same committee, and urged that
committee to speed passage of the bill which would
impose price controls on the economy before inflation
got out of hand and cost the United States needless
billions of dollars in its efforts to rearm.
Congress accepted Mr. Baruch’s advice, passed a
bill in September of 1950, but President Harry Truman
delayed invoking the authority granted in that bill of
1951. The delay has cost the American taxpayer bil
lions of dollars and, in the meantime, every manufac
turer, and especially those manufacturing war goods,
hiked their prices sharply. Thus, when economic con
trols were finally imposed on the economy in March,
1951, the horse had already fled the barn.
Mr. Baruch, speaking a few days ago to the Senate
Banking Committee, put his advice in simple terms:
“You face a simple issue. Are we to take the
elementary precaution of writing into law now what
we know would have to be done in the event of an
emergency?” The answer is obvious because' the con
trols do not go into effect until and unless the President
—a Republican President—decides a national emer
gency makes controls necessary to prevent another
reckless inflationary spiral.
Once before, Mr. Baruch’s advice was not followed,
at a cost of billions of dollars. His advice today is as
good as his advice was in 1950 and we can see no logical
objection to legislation which would provide the Presi
dent with a standby controls authority which could
be used in an emergency.
A good memory test: Try to remember the things
you were worrying about last week.
‘Change of Life’ for
Men In 50’s Often
Leads to Suicide
By FRANK CAREY
AP Science Reporter
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., UP) —
Many men in their fifties under
go an emotional “change of life”
that often can lead to suicide if
untreated, a Navy psychiatrist
said today.
The condition, said Capt. Geo.
N. Raines, is somewhat similar to
tjie emotional tension and anxiety
that affects some women during
the female menopause which is
actually a physical “change of
life.”
After the menopause, the wom
an loses ability to bear children,
but maintains sexual potency.
In the female “changes,” Raines
said, there are distinct physical
alternations in the balance be
tween certain glandular and ner
vous systems to help account for
emotional effects, but he said
there is no evidence that a sim
ilar physiological change takes
place in men—at least to a degre
that would tie in in any major
way, with the anxiety upsets
noted in some fiftyish men.
The term ‘male menopause’ has
been ascribed to these emotional
disorders which are somewhat
common in men after a certain
age,” Rains told the annual meet
ing of the American College of
Physicians, “but there is fair re
cognition that the term is some
thing of a misnomer.”
He said the symptoms occur
largely in men “who have set
goals so high they are impossible
of attainment.”
“They are actually successful
men who feel that failure threat
ens them,” he added. “Most of
them are married to their wofk as
well as their wives, and they are
bothered by fancied threats, the
nature of which they can’t always
put their finger on.”
He told a reporter later th&t
there is a physiological aspect to
this degree:
“These men are aware that they
are at the age where they are
slowing down. Meanwhile, they
might erroneously feel they are
losing prestige at home, that the
old man’s word doesn’t carry so
much weight as it once did. Thus,
real disturbance emotionally
comes from trying to adjust to
real or fancied stresses while in
that .slowed-down physiological
state.”
He said the pattern represents a
distinct change in the man’s per
sonality and is therefore treatable
by psychiatric care.
“And unless treatment is given”
Raines told the doctors, “the sui
cidal rate is high.”
PAN AM LOADERS RESPECT
150 POUNDS OF SNAKE
FROM BRITISH GUIANA
MIAMI, Fla., tfft—It was only a
snake-in-the-box, but Oh Boa!—
what a constrictor!
Warehousemen at Pan Ameri-,
can World Airways clipper cargo
terminal in Miami took one look
at a crate when unloading a plane
from British Guiana, and stepped
right back.
Inside the stout, wooden box
was a 150-pound boa constrictor,
one of the largest snakes ever re
ceived by the PAA cargo men
who, in the course of their work,
handle just about every kind of
“live freight” imaginable.
Some animals travelling by air
are taken for a walk and a breath
er during stopovers on long trips.
The boa stayed in the box—
but good.
Test Home Blasted By A-Bomb
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LAS VEGAS, NEV.—This is a "morning after” view of two-story
dwelling 3500 feet from A-Bomb last test. Blackened wall ignited but
shock waves extinguished flames.
Grunewald Income
For Officials’ Gifts
To Be Scrutinized
WASHINGTON, UPi—House in
vestigators Tuesday planned a
dollar-by-dollar combing of the
income, running into six figures,
from which mystery-man Henry
W. Grunewald says he bought
costly gifts for federal officials.
Some of it came from an inves
tigation conducted for United
Mine Workers Chief John L. Lew
is, Grunewald testified Monday,
and some came from betting on
the horses.
He refused to disclose the na
ture of the services he said he
performed for Lewis at a time
when the mine workers’ president
was in trouble with the federal
courts.
Lewis, who has said previously
he knew nothing about Grune
wald, had no comment.
Volunteering his connection with
Lewis, Grunewald said Senator
Bridges introduced him to a Lewis
attorney, Lowell Mayberry, who
hired him and paid him. Bridges
for a time was a trustee of the
Mine Workers’ Welfare Fund at
$35,000 a year.
Alaska Visitors Assn.
To Hire Exec to Head
Membership Drive
A concerted membership drive
throughout the entire territory
will be undertaken by the Alaska
Visitors Assn, this summer, and
an additional executive will be
hired to serve as territorial mem
bership director, according to
plans revealed by the association’s
finance committee, following their
meeting in Juneau recently.
The newly-created position as
outlined by the committee will
require the full-time services of
a promotion expert, especially ex
perienced in organizing fund
raising campaigns. While his du
ties will primarily embody associ
ation membership problems, he
will also handle local tourist ac
tivities and hospitality within the
territory. ,
Applications for the position
are being accepted at the Visitors
Association headquarters, Klein
Building, Juneau, Alaska.
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Wade of ANS Says Nome
Will Get Reineed Meat
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! the situation the people from the
| villages and islands would be tak
| ing their business elsewhere to
i where whiskey was not so easily
obtainable and where they could
save their summer earnings for
winter living.
Accompanying Mr. Wade were
Max Penrod, Mr. Lowell, L. Wil
liams and Daisy Keene.
Captain E. Schiller was also a
guest and stated that he has re
turned for further study of dis
eases carried by rats, such as dis
temper and rabies, prevelant
among the wild fur bearing ani
mals as well as the domesticated
animals in this area.
H. F. Harper presided in the ab
sence of Chamber President Dew
ey Goodrich, who is in the States
on business.
Charlie Chaplin Will Not
Return to United States
WASHINGTON, UPi — British
movie comedian Charlie Chaplin
has surrendered his U.S. re-entry
permit, indicating he does not in
tend to resume residence in this
country.
The action was announced to
day by the Justice Department.
The department last year posted
a stop order against Chaplin at
all American ports, after he had
gone to Europe on a visit.
That order, made effective by
former Attorney General James
P. McGranery, requires that the
actor submit to re - examination
upon his return, to establish his
readmissibility to the U.S.
Beauty Note
"Beauty is as beauty does,” and
if you want to protect a small hurt
without using
a bandage that
will quickly be
come soiled and
unsightly here’s
i a timely tip. The
flesh-col ored
Band-Aid Plas
tic Strip band
ages are incon
spicuous because
they blend with
skir. tones. They
can be washed
clean, without
being washed
off. They are a
, real beauty aid,
as well as efficient piotectors
against dirt and infection.
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