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Anna Pauker

world’s first.

woman foreign minister

By HARRY FAINARU
Editor of Romanul America

New Romania has given the world its first woman
foreign minister—Anna Pauker, one of the most distinguish-
ed personalities of modern times. S:

She was born 53 years ago, the daughter of a rabbi in
Bucharest, became a school teacher, and in 1918 — when

she was 24—was sent to prison
for the first time, for leading a
workers’ demonstration.

Her “baptism of fire” in the
struggles for peace occurred dur-
ing this time. She marks the
date because it was. her birth-
day—December 13, 1918. In that
demonstration she first encount-
ered the brutality of the Roman-
ian police, the hated Sigurantza.
She saw 100 workers shot down
cold-bloodedly, some 200 others
wounded, and many hundreds ar-
rested. She herself barely es-
caped death. :

In 1922 she became a member
of the central committee of the
recently founded Romanian Com-
munist Party, and when the party
was declared illegal in 1924 she
was arrested and sentenced to
20 years’ penal servitude.

As a result of mass protests,
however, she was freed, and
promptly returned to the people’s
struggles,
munist Party underground, or-
ganizing anti-fascist committees
all over the country.

For a long time the authorities
sought her in vain, sentencing
her in absentia.

They did arrest her again in
1935. Whiat’s more, the security
police tried to kill her in a
faked jail break. She was wound-
ed twice, and one of the bullets
is still lodged in her leg.

She was finally brought to trial,
and condemned to 10 years’ im-
prisonment and she remained in

jail till 1941, when the Soviet
government arranged her ex-
: change.

During her years in exile in the
Soviet Union, Anna was deter-
mined to win over the hundreds
of thousands of Romanian sol-

'_diers and officers in Russian

prisoner-of-war camps to a demo-
cratic army that would fight be-
side the Red Army for libera-

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and quisling yoke.

Two divisions were formed —
the beginning.of the first demo-
cratic army of Romania.

With the liberation of her
country, she plunged into hard
work, organizing the great Fed-

eration of Democratic Women of
Romania, helping to build the
Communist Party and to make
Romania a new type of democ-
racy, a country which fosters

brotherhood among its’ various
peoples and friendship with the
other peace-loving nations of the
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FOODS

New process

ends spoilage
By DYSON CARTER

Electrons, the smallest things
in the world, are beginning to
worry some of our biggest finan-

ciers. They are being used to
produce a new kind of lightning-
flash. This flash lasts only a
millionth of a second. But it
brings about some amazing
changes in foodstuffs.

Scientists call the treatment

“electronizing.” A bottle of milk,
straight from the cow, can be
electronized so that it will keep
fresh and sweet for weeks. With-
out being pasteurized. At room
temperature, without a refrigera-
tor!

The story began in depression
days. Then Dr. Arno’ Brasch
worked at the University of Ber-
lin. He developed what is called
the capracitron. When the Nazis
forced him to flee, Dr. Brasch
packed up his essential equip-
ment and went to Holland. Later
he came to America.

Not until 1945 did he get fi-
nancial backing for his idea. He
was helped by Davidson, a city
commissioner under La Guardia,
and by Donald Nelson, then head
of the WPB. Large sums of
money were spent on a labora-
tory. Early this year the remark-
able capacitron was demonstrat-
ed.

* * *

Perishable foods go bad _ for
two reasons. First, they contain
bacteria that quickly start break-
ing down the food. Thus milk
goes sour. Second, they contain
natural enzymes, chemicals that
bring about gradual decomposi-
tion even if the quick-acting bac-
teria have been killed. Thus
germ-free fruit. gets “over-ripe.”’
Bio-chemists had long sought for
some way to control both the
bacteria and the enzymes, with
the aim of preserving foods in-
definitely. \

Now it is possible to shoot the
electronizing beam on fresh
meat, for just a millionth of a
second, and have that meat stay
fresh and flavorsome for many
weeks. Raw milk can be pasteur-
ized and preserved in a flash.
So can butter and eggs and many
vegetables. Electronized —_ foods,
placed in hot rooms where they
would quickly spoil, go for weeks
without any sign or taste of
spoilage,

Dr. Brasch and his backers are
now working on mass-production
methods. To electronize food on
a mass scale, they say, will cost
around one-tenth cent per pound.

If the process works on a
commercial scale, the huge milk
industry will be radically changed.
So will the giant meat-packing
plants. Costly cold-storage facili-
ties will become useless. There
will be little need for home re-
frigerators, either. A multi-million
dollar industry would become ob-
solete.

For the first time in history,
the world has a way to preserve
valuable foods in the fresh, raw

state, at very low cost. This is
revolutionary, and could be of im-
mense value to humanity. But if
Dr. Brasch’s discovery threatens
to destroy capital by the billions
then it will be suppressed by
our finance-capitalists. We will
hear no more of it for many
years. Preserving profits is much
more important to the monopo-
lists than preserving food!

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In the Roosevelt tradition

In British Columbia, where most people still cut their own
Christmas trees, the price this Christmas ranged from one to two
dollars, But in New York some dealers were selling 15-foot trees
as high as $35 each. Elliott Roosevelt and his wife (above) opened

a retail lot at Poughkeepsie,

NOY,

to sell trees, planted by

Franklin D. Roosevelt as seedlings on his Hyde Park estate many
years ago, at one dollar each. In one day they sold 500 trees.

Elliott Rooseveit said he wanted to

Christmas trees dealers.”

“make Christians out of

SOMETIMES, scanning the papers, you’ll come across

a couple of news items which,

when they are placed side by

side, tell their own revealing story. I came across two such
items this week, although in this case the daily paper item was
more of a rubber stamp putting “confirmed” on an expose
published by the Canadian Tribune recently.

First, this is the story Helen
Wasser wrote for the Canadian
Tribune, charging that thousands
of cases of eggs destined for Brit-
ain were dumped in Toronto in
order to maintain the prices “we
have to pay in Canada. ~ She
said: f

“I have eaten some of the
eggs. The eggs that were dumped
by the thousands in the Boultbee
Avenue dump and declared unfit
for. human consumption by the
executive director of the Federal
Cold Storage and Warehousing
Company Ltd., G. A. Schell, from
whence they came.

“Schell after first denying know-
ledge of the affair, then said the
eggs were ‘rejects, unfit for food,’
from 20,000 cases held in cold
storage in his plant, and destined
for shipment to Britain. The
eggs were stamped with the word
Canada. Many housewives claim
they have bought eggs so marked,
which indicates not all eggs mark-
ed Canada end up as export pro-
ducts. 4

“Arthur F. Curran, inspector of
poultry products for Ontario, said
that government inspectors had
classified the ‘rejects’ as unfit for
human or export consumption.
Such rejected items usually go to
the incinerator. The fact that the
eggs were disposed of in a dump
seems to be a point of much con-
fusion. The finger is pointed at
the driver of the truck who un-
loaded the eggs ‘without author-
ity’.”

“So at least a dozen citizens of
who I know, including myself,
must be wrong. We don’t know a
good egg when we taste one. The
eggs, picked by neighboring resi-
dents, and the ones gathered by
myself, were not ‘individually se-
lected from bad ones,’ as city hall
officials theorized’ Any eggs
within reach that were not crack-
ed or broken from the dumping
were picked up and taken home.
There has not been one bad one

reported
consumed,”

And this is the unwitting post-
script added by an Ottawa dispatch
to the Vancouver Sun this week:

“Canadian housewives will get
an idea of what theyll have to
pay in future for bacon, beef,
cheese and eggs, with the forth-
coming announcement of the
United Kingdom food contracts
with Canada.

“It is expected that what the
British will have to pay will af-
fect Canadian prices.

“Here’s an easy way to figure
out what the various increases in
food costs does to the cost of
living.

“Cost of living index in Canada
at November 1, was 143.6.

“For every cent per pound in-
crease in pork products, including
bacon, add .18 to the cost of
living index. All it is necessary
to do is to multiply the .13 by the
number of cents a pound that the
pork products rise and add that
to the last cost of living index.

“When eggs rise a cent a dozen,
add .06 to the index and if cheese
goes up a cent a pound, add .03
to the index.”

Some one, you get the impres-
sion, is engaged in some particu-
larly flagrant profiteering—and it’s
not the poultry farmer. He’s got
all he can do to make ends meet
since the government ended feed
grain subsidies.—B.G.

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