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...Press. Still deadly serious, full of dull statistics and clarion shouts for the Five-Year Plan are Russian newspapers. But not long ago a leading Soviet editor rebelled, told the Kremlin privately but passionately that there must be more human interest, fewer statistics and less propaganda in his newspaper. Instanter the editor got the sack, was expelled from the Party. But his advice is being deeply pondered. Already a change looms, and some human interest has crept into Mos cow's Evening News, which even good Party members are reading more avidly than the dry-as-dust Pravda or Izvestia...
...Little Paraguay has a regular army of only 3,000 men, but no bantams crowed more fiercely than the pugnacious Paraguayans last week. Pudgy, pop-eyed President Jose P. Guggiari sent a strong protest to the League of Nations against Bolivian aggression, then mobilized the army and published a clarion to his people...
...American Artists Professional League, long chafing at inroads of foreign artists on their trade, offered a $10 prize for a patriotic U. S. art slogan. Last week Commercial Artist Valentine Sandberg won the $10 but the League made a few changes. He had put his clarion call in a design of crossed artists' brushes. The League added a compass, a modeling tool and a crayon to symbolize all its members. And it changed Artist Sandberg's slogan, "Choose American Art" to "I Am For American Art," the design from a rectangle to an oval, the inscription "American Artists...
...Senate to consider duplicate bills which would permit physicians, hospitals & clinics complete freedom to learn about contraceptives. Fortnight ago the House committee ?at the insistence of Massachusetts' Representative John M. McCormack (Knight of Columbus, Elk, Moose, Forester, Hibernian) ? pigeonholed Mrs. Sanger's bill. Her angry clarion stirred Birth Controllers throughout the land to telegraph their displeasure to their Congressmen last week, while the Senate committee was diffidently hearing other of her supporters. After listening to advocates of the movement the Senators postponed the hearings a week...
This means that 500,000 housewives have full time or part time jobs. Ridiculed by the Soviet Press, a "housewife" is now a Russian woman who has sunk so low that she stays at home, ignoring the clarion call of the Five Year Plan to "Work! Work! Work...