Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SIXTY MILLION JOBS cussions affecting the postwar world and the 60,000,000 jobs promised by Roosevelt is now taking place be hind the scenes among top admin- istrationites. It involves the price which manufacturers can charge for peacetime consumer goods when they begin making them, as some; companies will shortly. A certain amount of peacetime production already has been author ized by the War Production board, and to prevent inflation, the OPA will set the price of these goods. This is where the backstage debate has waxed hot and vehement. On one side have been Economic Stabilizer Judge Vinson, War Mobi- lizer Jimmy Byrnts and for a while, OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, all arguing that prices of civilian articles produced now must not rise above the prices paid for the same articles in 1942. On the other side are industry members of OPA, led by James Brownlee, formerly of Frankfort Distilleries, who argue that prices must be above 1942 in order to al low for increased wages and the higher cost of raw materials. They have worked out a substitute for mula based upon 1941 prices plus wage increases, plus the increased cost of raw materials, and they have now sold this formula to Bowles, despite his former speeches for the 1942 price base. Judge Vinson, however, points out that increased wage and raw ma terial costs in many cases have been nullified by labor-saving de vices. Most striking example of this was in the OPA study of the steel industry, showing that, despite increased wages, the cost of pro ducing steel had decreased 9 per cent per unit since 1942. Another factor influencing Eco nomic Stabilizer Vinson is the fact that 85 per cent of the goods in volved are produced by only 18 com panies. Incidentally, Vinson is supported by General Electric’s Charley Wil son, formerly of the War Produc tion board, who says that GE will sell its refrigerators and washing machines at pre-war prices. To do otherwise, he says, is “shallow, pas sive thinking.” Finally, Vinson, Byrnes and other administration leaders are begin ning to lay the economic ground work for the 60,000,000 jobs which Roosevelt promised after the war. And they are absolutely convinced that, in order to have a big con sumer demand, there must be low prices, which in turn will keep fac tory wheels turning and men em ployed. The principle of high prices and scarcity, they argue, will mean fewer jobs and depression. • • • GOP PLANS FOR ’4S Despite discouragement over Dew ey’s defeat, GOP leaders already are laying plans for 1948. First step will be further revitalization of Re publican headquarters, enlistment of a cracker-jack staff to pep up party machinery. Republican Chairman Herbert Brownell, who has been resting in Arizona, wants to .resign, will call a national committee meeting short ly after the first of the year which promises to be turbulent. Several factions will be gunning for Dewey, may try to seize control of the party machinery, set the stage for “Stas- sen in ’48.” One key man in the post-election GOP set-up is shrewd, popular pub- ’licist Lee Chesley, who joined the campaign late, is now in charge of national committee publicity. Ches ley, one of the brightest press agents on the Washington scene, is anxious to slug it out toe to toe with Demo cratic publicist Paul Porter. Ches- ley’s Washington predecessor, Car lisle Bargeron, handled publicity for the powerful Pennsylvania GOP ma chine during the campaign, and plans to continue working for Boss Joe Pew now that the balloting ii CAPITAL CHAFF C. The treasury department had two war films ready to show the public in the war bond drive, calculated to bring the war really home to the American people. One showed a sailor on a stricken vessel, his clothes aflame, desperately trying to put the flames out. The other was a close-up film of a soldier on the bat tlefield—dying. When the films were shown to OWI, it not only ordered that they not be shown to the public, but that the films be destroyed, ft. Newly elected Sen. “Cowboy” Glen Taylor of Idaho is first cousin to sphinxlike Harold Dixon Young, who steers Vice President Wallace’s political fortunes. ft The White House got a terrific barrage from the senate when word leaked out that two Jesse Jones henchmen, plus one disciple of Dem ocratic treasurer Ed Pauley, were to be appointed to the three-man Surplus War Property board. Sena tor Murray of Montana wired the President that he was shocked at the proposed appointments and would do his best to block them, ft Biggest crowds in the halls of the Pentagon building these days are officers hanging around vending ma chines, waiting for them to be filled with cigarettes. Musicians Are the Funniest People: Adelina Patti asked $100,000 for a certain three-month tour. ‘But,” ob jected an impresario, “that’s more than the President gets!” . . . “Well,” shrugged the diva, "then get the President.” . . . Liszt was a character who wore the same kind of clothes whether the weather was rainy or fair. ... “I never,” he declared, “take notice of that which takes no notice of me.” . . . Handel composed so fast, they say, that the ink on the top of the page of his manuscript had not dried by the time he reached the bottom. . . . Another gag of the day: “Do you like Brahms?” ... “I don’t know. What are they?” . . . “After Strauss—what?” an English jour- nalist once queried. “For one thing,” music oracle Leonard Leib- ling noted, “the critics.” A Journalist objected to the 7 a. m. piano playing in the room next to his in a Milan hotel. “Do you always allow that?” he asked. . . . “Not as a rule,” they told him, “but we make an exception with Mr. Verdi.” ... It was the late Alexander Woollcott \yho deflated a famous soprano boasting of her ex ecution of an aria she described as “difficult.” . . . “Difficult!” groaned Woollcott. “I wish it had been im possible!" ... At a Peabody con cert President Grant once observed: “I know only two tunes. One is ‘Yankee . Doodle’ and the other isn’t.” When Rossini heard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” for the first time, he said: “One cannot judge a work upon a single hearing— and I have no intention of hear ing this a second time.” . . . A German critic once wrote that “Wagner was a good musician, but he left behind the Wagner- ites, which was most unkind of him.” . . . “In order to com pose,” said Schumann, “it is just enough to remember a tune which nobody else has thought of.” . . . When Albert Spaulding toured through the West one Winter, he told a theater man ager that his violin was 200 years old. . . . “Don’t say any thing about it,” replied the im presario, “and maybe the audi ence won’t know the difference.” Paderewski, when still quite un known, went to London armed with letters of introduction to influential Britishers. “Dear Prince,” one said, “the bearer, Ignace Paderewski, is a fiery young Pole . and rather charming when he doesn’t play the piano, for which he has little tal ent.” . . . Paderewski, unless a press agent of the day is fooling us, once accosted a polo player with the question: "What is the differ ence between us?” The other shrugged. “You,” grinned Ignace, “are a good soul who plays polo. I am a good Pole whq plays solo.” . . . Grunfeld was caught by the father of one of his pupils kissing the girl. “Is this,” stormed the par ent, “what I am paying for?” . . . “No,” replied the famous tutor, “I do this free.” A young man approached Mo zart and asked him how to write a symphony. “You’re a very young fellow,” the composer told him, “why not begin with a ballad?” . . . “But,” pouted the youth, “you composed sympho nies when you were ten.” . . . “Yes,” smiled Mozart, “but I didn’t ask how.” ... Dr. Samuel Johnson admitted once he did not care for music. “But of all noises,” he added, “I think mu sic is the least disagreeable.” ... A young lady auditioned on the piano for Rubinstein. “What,” she asked him at the end of the selection, “should I do now?” Snapped Rubinstein: “Get married!” Chopin, whose life Columbia brings to the screen in “A Song to Remember,” could give more than the piano “the finger.” He was a dinner guest in a Parisian home one night and, after the meal, was asked by the hostess to play some of his compositions. “But, madame,” said Chopin, “I have eaten so lit-, tie!” . . . He once cracked to Liszt: “I prefer not to play in pub lic; it unnerves me. You, if you cannot charm the audience, can at least astonish them.” . . . When DePachman mislaid his false teeth someone appropriately observed: “His Bach is better than his bite.” ... To a young pianist, Nellie Melba remarked: “You have talent, presence, charm. All you need now to make a success is a nice hot scandal.” Mascagni heard an organ grinder murdering an aria from his famous "Cavalleria Rusticana” and ran out of his house to show him the proper speed to crank out the melody. Next day the organ grinder carried a sign on the organ: “Pupil of Mas cagni” . . . Liszt paid women 25 francs to faint at an appointed time (a swoonster!). He would prompt ly and gallantly dash from his key board and pick up the swoonee. Once, a hired fainter forgot her cue and Liszt, very upset, swooned him self. W ILLIAM GOETZ, head of International Pictures, is so enthusiastic over Sonja Hen- te’s first Technicolor picture that ne’s signed her to star in a sec ond, “Countess of Monte Cristo.” We’re told it’s quite different t’-om any other screen story she’s done. Those who are tired of seeing tier as the girl who puts a broken- fiown hotel on its feet will be de lighted. “It’s a Pleasure” will be ! released through RKO at Easter Being a radio matinee idol has its drawbacks. Victor Jory, who each Sunday afternoon causes many a heart to flutter when he appears on the CBS “Matinee Theater” pro- Refugee trains are filled and covered (lower), with Chinese civilians being evaenated from the theater of war in eastern China. Hungry, disease-ridden Chinese fill the inside of the train. Upper left—Entire family riding the rods, shoeless, ill and homeless. Upper right—the stoic Chinese drape themselves inside, on top and even on the very front of the engines as they flee from the Japs. Japan Training Young Boys for New Wars While stiff in the grade school, Japanese youngsters are being trained in the rudiments of flying. Each boy is given tests and training on the manipulation of controls. The blindfolded boy has been whirled about in a spinning chair. When the chair stops revolving the boy is supposed to place his pointer on a specified spot on a chart. The accuracy he displays indicates his coordination, powers of recuperation and sense of balance—his fitness to become part of the future air force of Japan. gram, has received many an odd gift. Among them is a six-inch statue of himself with diamond eyes, made by a group of lady weld ers in Maine. And he received some wampum from an Indian squaw! * Lawrence Welk, the Mutual net work bandsman whose “champagne music” is often on the air, is look ing for a new girl vocalist to take the place of Jayne Welton; she will have a permanent job with the or chestra. Mr. Welk wants a girl with a “champagne voice.” It’s the chance of a lifetime for some girl who wants to sing with a top-flight band. * “Rags” itaglund is back in Holly wood, set for a role in “Her High ness and the Bellboy,” starring Hedy Lamarr and Robert Walker. Also assigned to this cast are Aud rey Tetter and Tom Trout, new comers who make their debut in “Main Street After Dark.” * First German Snow of Campaign Greek Boy Veteran Snow faffing on the Siegfried line for the first time this winter has not prevented the Allied armies from making rapid advances into Ger man territory. Insert—Sgt. Sam C. McNeely, Morgantown, N. C., stands watch by his machine gun during the first snowfall to visit the First army at Monschau, Germany. Exercise Girl to Be Trainer Her mind full of horses and the ambition to become a licensed race horse trainer, Shirleye Stanley, Baltimore, Md., is an exercise "boy” at the track. She spends her days putting thoroughbreds through their paces ta put them in top shape for their racing engagements. Right— /ae ma'. rs "Ftcc: F’jip” take a low hurdle. Bora in Cleveland, Ohio, 15-year- old Louis Petropoulagos, went to Greece in 1936. Louis has partici pated in 14 battles and conducted himself as a seasoned veteran. Heroine Has Faith Seven-ycar-old Judith Ann Koch of Cleveland, lost her sight when she ran into a street to save a dog im periled by an oncoming auto. She believes she will see again. She is shown with her new pet dog. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT HELP WANTED • Persons now engtted in essential industry will not apply without state ment ot me ail ability from their local United States Employment Service. Re*UteredPh»rm«clst»—Good working con ditions. Attractive propojtUon to one who qualifies. Madlsen Dm* Co., ®®0 F f•““JL- Tampa. Fla. USES referral eard reqaired. SALESMAN WANTED COLLECTION SALESMAN listing quent accounts for collection by organization. Should weekly. No age limit. REAUp 1514 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, O. HEARING AID HEARING? DO SS«r # CLEARLY DISCOVERT Vaco Ear Oil. a prescription to treat head noises, ciogged-up feeling, ringing, hissing, dizziness, roaring in the head. Dry scaly itch ears sometimes a forerunner of «f a *” ness. 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The cast includes Kathleen Lockhart and Edmund Gwenn; Oboler directs. * Dinah Shore hopes to be able to do at least one novelty number each week on her radio show, since the public liked “Pretty Soon” so much. Since she sang it, Dinah’s teceived nearly 500 requests for a repeat. * Radio actors are haunted by the thought that some time they may be late for their shows. It hap pened to Chet Lauck of “Lum and Abner,” once; a business appoint ment held him up, three minutes from the studio. Suddenly Chet dis covered that it was 5:15—“Lum and Abner” were on the air, but he wasn’t! He got to the studio at 5:20, to find that Tuffy Goff, “Abner,” was doing fine, ad libbing the show. * Jimmy Cagney has been made Regimental Guardian of a British fighting unit; Capt. Dennis King notified Cagney that the regiment had just finished two weeks of heroic fighting to hold the tiny town of “Cagney,” France, and would never forget the name. The unit had seen Cagney himself in England during his tour a few months ago, and have decided that he belongs to them. * , Joan Davis will star in RKO’s next big musical “George White’s Scandals of 1945,” which will go into production in January. Gene Krupa and his band were signed some time ago for a featured appearance in the aim. Felix Feist will direct. Th* Him of Vhe country*, synthetic rubber production may depend not only upon technical progreu, but ah# upon policie* adopted for die- posal of governmont ownod plant*, in tha opinion of John L. Collyer, prasidont of Tho B. F. Goodrich Company and a pioneer in synthetic davel- Authorifies expect that about 32,500 tons of natural rubber wll roach the U. S. from the Amazon ian region this year. Our synthetic program Is now geared to pro duce 836,000 long tons a year of this substitute for crude. 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WNU—7 49—44 i ODDS AND ENDS—Ruth Douglas and Douglas Rutherford, of “Crime Doctor,’’ ire the latest husband and wife team in radio; they’ve been together professionally on the fTest coast and in USO shows. . . . 4lan Ladd, who never won a penny on a horse race, collects fSOflOO on his horse in Paramount’s “Salty O’Rourke.” . . . Al lred Hitchcock once said of Joseph Cotton, ' tou’ playing in “Love Letters,” that Joe “could underplay a corpse.” . . . Eddie Zantor’s drive for a Christmas gift for every sick serviceman has already brought lorth more than 100,000 responses; the final drive will be spearheaded from NBC’s If esl coast headquarters. That Na<?<?inq? Backache May Warn of Disordered Kidney Action Modern life with its harry and worry, irregular habits, improper eating and drinking—its risk of exposure and infec tion—throws heavy strain on the work of the kidneys. They are apt to become over-taxed and fail to filter excess add and other impurities from the life-giving blood. 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