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THE iNEWBEKKY SUN, .\EV> liliKKi. &. i . The Broadway Express: Memos of a Midnighter: Neigh bors say J. L. Lewis doesn’t have his Virginia house painted because union painters ask too much money! . . . Fritz Kuhn, wh6 was booted out of here, now is running a shoe store in Germany. . . . Sena tor Mead is leading prospect for the likker czar post. . . . Your Slip Is Showing Dept.: Editor & Publish found this headline in a San An tonio paper: “Dirty White House Widows Shock First Sightseers.” . . . Hotel managers reveal that the last thing a suicide (in a hotel) does is shave, bathe, put on clean under linen, etc. Women fix their nails and apply lip rouge. . . . Begin ning of the End Dept.: When a wom an looks more at the glass on the bar than the one on the wall. a lUeeJl&me i pm KefUVueSi m WASHINGTON Ml By Walter Shead WNU Correspondent Manhattan Morals: The ker- riekter who (every morning) goes into the 49th and 6th cafe teria and shaves himself at the table while his coffee cools. . . . The movie marquee on 8th, which advertises this appropri ate dooble-featnre: “Down Mis souri Way” and “Flying No where.” . . . The elderly dandy in the 57th street automat. He sits near the window and watches the crowds go by— while his chauffeur outside in his limousine watches him. . . . The big card game in the bal cony of a 42nd street movie joynt. . . . The car on Fifth avenue (with Georgia license C 27767) with this painted all over it: “Peace Is Love, Justice and Brotherhood Put Into Prac tice!” (Oh, go practice it in Ga.) Sallies in Our Alley: Encyclo paedia Britannica makes no men tion at all of Santa Claus or of St. Nicholas—the cynics. . . . Stop wast ing your time kidding soap operas. The Hooper survey reveals that 9 out of 10 are the “most popular daytime” programs. . . . Vince Cur ran claims the way Leo Durocher’s going—Leo the Wolf is becoming just as famous out in H’wood as Leo the Lion. . . . When songstress Patti Clayton (a rabid Dodger fan) heard about Durocher’s new inspir ation (Laraine Day), Patti asked only one question: “Can she pitch?” ... Is that loud argument back stage between Fred March and Ruth Gordon’ over billing? You mean even when they’ve been in the lights for decades they still take billing that seriously? . . . The League of N. Y. Theaters has asked a major mag’s critic to come to openings sober. New York Story: In 1941 Broadway welcomed a new “sucker.” ... A Texas oil man. ... He was 65 years young — full of wim, wigor, witality and woo-woo. ... In a year and a half he squandered over $400,000 backing flops that had more turkey in them than you often find in some costly Broadway sandwiches. . . . Any how, he was enjoying himself— having the time of his life. . . . He was very different from most “angels” who back shows. . . . The money was his. ... He didn’t promote it with big talft. ... He was not a tout or bookie who invaded Broadway to “take” chumps by staging one flop after the other. . . . This man was Big Time. . . . Not a nickel belonged to anyone but B. S. Which are his initials. . . . He just loved being around show folks—to help them get along. . . . Well, here comes the punch line. . . . One of the show gals he befriended got serious and married him. . . . And they stay home most of the time eounting his rich and wise in vestments, instead of empty champagne bottles. Add Inflation Items: Silk shirts at Leighton’s are advertised at only $28.50! . . . Peter Lind Hayes re ports the cost of living in Movie- town has gone up $3 a quart. . . . Plenty of mink coats are showing up for sale in those thrift shops. Wassamatta, lady, ain’t Daaadddy got enough loot left? . . . It’s amaz ing but the ballet (long in the red) is making money while dance bands and dance halls are limping and dying. . . . Some of New York’s night spots are so close to closing that employees phone in first and inquire: “Are we open tonight?” . . . People wouldn’t miss most of these joints anyhow. ... A. Jolson said to have dropped over $600,000 on recent stock market toboggans. . . . Legit matinees were the worst in five years, according to ticket specs. Winchellebrities: Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh (the walk ing mint) dining in style with her pair of diamond-studded chopstix. . . . Estelita, the Embassy Clubeaut, featuring earrings — one gold-let tered “Yes” — the other “Nope.” . . . Jose Ferrer—actor-director-pro ducer. Best known for his decency to hopeful young newcomers. . . . Wrong Way Doug Corrigan is with Royal Air service and will fly cargo planes. . . . Ray Bolger (slimmer than Thinatra) fighting the wind near his B’way hit. WNU Washington Bureau 1616 Eye St.. N. W. War Bonds Will Yield Huge Flow of Cash for Many Years 'T'HE president of a small bank in a rural midwestem town, here to attend a bankers’ meeting, told your Home Town Reporter the other day that interest on war bonds and U. S. savings bonds held by the de positors in his little bank alone would average almost $100,000 a year for the next 10 years. To me that is an amazing revela tion, for it is the answer to the confusion in the minds of many per sons throughout the country as to why the treasury department is con tinuing its drive to sell U. S. sav ings bonds although the fighting is over. Also, the treasury’s working balance and anticipated tax revenue are enough to meet government ex penditures for some time to come, and they have been sufficient since the close of the Victory Loan in De cember, 1945. The government actu ally does not need the money it is obtaining from the sale of savings bonds. Then why sell bonds? I asked Verne Clark, director of treasury’s savings bond division, for the an swer. It boiled down to the fact that the governmenr policy was to have the people collect the interest on the public debt. Said Clark: “Wise management of the public debt is an important function in which every citizen must be vitaUy interested until that debt is paid. Purchases of savings bonds directly by the people are a definite part in that management ... of keeping ownership in the hands of the people . . . and add another privilege to American citizenship, the privilege of sharing in the pay ments on the debt.” Enormous Buying Power Here are some amazing figures: According to treasury statements, war bonds now outstanding, includ ing all series, total $49,700,000,000. If these bonds are held to maturity the interest to be paid on them in the next 10 years will total approxi mately 13 billion dollars, or an aver age of about $1,300,000,000 a year. That is purchasing power! It al most equals the total national in come from banking in 1943; it is approximately the equal of the na tional income from insurance in the same year; it is more than the average annual national income from bituminous coal; it adds up to a new national spending power. And remember, this is interest only, not the $49,700,000,000 of principal, much of which also will be paid before the 10-year period is up, because some of these outstanding bonds are already five year sold. Bringing this new purchasing pow er down to that little midwest town, that $100,000 a year in interest alone is more than the annual payroll of half the industries in the town, and if those industries shut down for any reason, folks there would look upon the fact as dire calamity coming to the community. The only factor which can shut off this annual in terest is redemption of the bonds before maturity. Here are some more amazing com parisons: In Texas, the people hold approximately a billion and a half dollars of war and savings bonds on which the 10-year interest would be $375,000,000 or an average of $37,500,000 a year. That total in terest amounts roughly to one-third of the total value of Texas farm products in 1944, given by the bu reau of the census as $1,115,669,126. Large Part of Income In Indiana value of farm products in 1944 amounted to $538,000,000. The 10-year interest on a billion dollars worth of war bonds held by Hoosier citizens will be approximately $250,- 000,000, or about one-half the total farm income for 1944. In an eastern state, Massachu setts, folks hold two billions in bonds with an approximate $500,000,000 in terest total and that figure, accord ing to the census bureau, is four times the total value of farm prod ucts sold and used in Massachusetts in 1944. The annual interest, $50,- 000,000, probably equals the annu al payroll of any one of a dozen thriving industries in that inaustrial state. It seems to your Home Town Re porter that these figures bring home to every citizen all the familiar ap peals for the continued purchase of savings bonds. But the fact remains that the man agement of that public debt is im portant and we’ll have it with us for some time to come, so it seems to this reporter that as long as the folks in the home towns of the coun try must pay that debt in their fed eral taxes, their one hope of reaping any return, aside from the privilege of living in this country of ours, is to continue to buy government sav ings bonds and to hold what they have until maturity. Somebody is going to get the interest on that huge debt. It might as well be you, the common citizen. (Editor’s Note: This is anoth er in the “Stories of the States” series.) By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Features “Chust look at dis! It’s coal!” John Peter Salley, one of an exploring party, had picked up what seemed to be another rock, and found it to be bitu- minuos coal. Today West Vir ginia, with its 585 mines, often is referred to as the "coal bin of America.” When William Tompkins used nat ural gas as fuel to evaporate water from brine in 1841, he became one of the first men in the United States to use gas for industrial uses. West Virginia’s natural gas produc tion in 1944 was 213 billion cubic feet. In 1797 Elisha Brooks began ex tracting salt for commercial pur poses from a brine spring in Kana wha valley near the present site of Charleston. Other West Virginia salt works have been operating for more than 100 years. Develop New Industries. As early as 1790 a furnace was built by Peter Tarr of Kings Creek, near the present site of Weirton, now ane of the biggest steel producing cities in America. Cannon balls made here were used by Commodore Perry’s fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813. Michael J. Owens, son of a coal miner, invented a bottle-making machine in 1903 and started a new epoch in that industry. West Vir ginia produced, in prewar years, glass, china and pottery valued at 50 million dollars annually. Miflin Marsh made stogies and sold them to passengers on Ohio river boats in 1840. M. Marsh & Son, Wheeling, is reputed to be the largest stogie manufacturer in the United States. And back in 1915, when World War I cut off the German supply of playing marbles, Akro Agate was founded at Clarksburg, and today the concern makes over half of the world’s glass marbles. But lest West Virginia’s in dustrial achievements blind us to her other claims to fame and distinction, let us look farther than bituminous coal produc tion, natural gas, petroleum, chemicals, salt, stone, hardwood timber, steel and iron manu facture, textiles, glass, pottery, ceramics and others. There is also the romantic and historic West Virginia. And there is the mountainous and scenic West Virginia which has become one of the nation's greatest recre ational areas. CHIEF EXECUTIVE . . . Clar ence Watson Meadows was elect ed the 22nd governor of West Vir ginia in 1944. A former lawyer, he had served as state attorney general and judge of the 10th judicial circuit court before his election. He is a native of Beck- ley, W. Va., where he was born February 11, 1904. The first white men went into what is now West Virginia as early as 1719, and a few years later cabins were being built. After 1735, South Branch valley began to fill up with the overflow from Shenandoah val ley and from Pennsylvania and Maryland. Settlers were of several nationalities — and the composition of the people of West Virginia al ways has been different from that of the country east of the mountains. Story of Controversy. West Virginians heartily support ed the Revolution and sent troops to help New England and the Mid dle Colonies, but the history of west ern Virginia before 1801 is a story of controversy with eastern Vir ginia. Socially, politically and eco nomically, the two sections were un like from the very beginning. West ern Virginia was democratic while eastern Virginia was aristocratic. The idea of separation was fore most long before the Civil war. When war broke out between the states in 1861, there were bound to be repercussions through the en tire state. Eastern Virginia was the heart of the Confederacy. Western Virginia was opposed to secession. The long desired separation was ef fected, not with the Civil war as s cause, but rather as an opportunity On December 31, 1862, the congress of the United States gave its con sent to admit West Virginia as a state, and the next spring, on April 20, 1863, President Lincoln issued his proclamation. West Virginia be came the 35th state of the union two months later. Many Historic Shrines. Three states and two rivers mee* at historic Harpers Ferry where John Brown’s anti-slavery raid was staged. Blackwater falls, Seneca rocks, Pinnacle rock, the burial mounds at Moundsville, the state capitol building, the historic shrines — all are interesting and worthwhile. From mountain tops to blue grass farms, the agricultural side of West Virginia is a revelation. Anyone must mar vel at the agriculture and fruit that are produced in a state that ranks among the first in industry. Prize beef and bitu minous coal? Yes, anything is possible in West Virginia. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson was born at Clarksburg, and West Vir ginia also gave the nation John W Davis, Pearl S. Buck and Ann Jar vis. In case you’ve forgotten, it wa^ Ann Jarvis who in 1907 asked s group of Philadelphia friends tc wear white carnations on the firs) anniversary of her mother’s death —and thereby founded Mother’s Day. j State of Contrasts. The state's northwestern border is the Ohio river, the aquatic highway that opened the west. But the Mo- i nongahela and the Kanawha rivers ! are important too. West Virginia’! elevations range from 240 to 4,861 feet above sea level, with the high est average elevation of any state east of the Rockies. Yes, it’s a mountainous state, but every wooded hill, every shady nook and every sparkling stream belongs to just such a state. About 60 per cent of the state’s area is covered by for est, with trees ranging from spruce in the highlands to prickly pear cactus and other semi-desert plants in the lowlands. Scenery, wildlife and extensive semi-primitive ereas combine to lure vacationists to West Virginia's twe vast national forests, the Mononga- hela and the George Washington The state also has 15 state parks and seven state forests. Fishing, hunting, hiking, riding swimming, golf, tennis, boating- well, what do you want for recre ation? And what is your trade, whal are your business ambitions, you: specifications for success? And whal of your “dream” home where naturs is loveliest? Perhaps the answer is —in West Virginia! E^SCREK Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE T IME was when movie he roes had to be dark to be romantic; John Gilbert and Rudolph Valentino were con sidered ideal. But now the blonds are coming into their own. At Paramount Sterling Hayden, Sonny Tufts, William Hol den, William Bendix, Howard da Sil va and Johnny Sands, all blonds, are cast in “Blaze of Noon,” a story of early commercial flying. A sec ond attraction is the fact that some of the most valuable planes in the country, dating from World War I and now practically museum pieces, will be shown in action. Lucille Ball introduces a bit of whimsy in the fashion field in Hunt Stromberg’s “Personal Column”— wears a hat which has feathers dyed in a polka dot pattern, with a slip to match! It’s an idea whipped up by Eiois Jennsen, Stromberg’s fash ion designer, who got her first big picture break when she did Hedy Lamarr’s clothes for “Dishonored Lady,” and it’s certainly an original one. Almanacs Long-Lived in U. S.; One in 250th Year Among the oldest publications in the United States are the local al manacs the contents of which ap peal chiefly to farmers, says Col lier’s. For example, Gruber’s Hagers town Almanac is now in its 149th year, the Old Farmer’s Almanac in its 154th, Daboll’s New England Almanac in its 174th and Foul- sham’s Almanack in its 250th year. SuMimsi Jbo dUdiculouA A slightly tipsy gentleman walked into the telegraph office, took a pencil, spent three or four minutes in deep thought, and wrote this message to a friend in St. Louis: “Tra la, tra la, tra la, tra la." He signed it and presented it to the lady behind the counter. After checking it, she said: “That will be 64 cents.” The gentleman paid her and she said: “You used only eight i words.” “What would you suggest add ing?” he finally asked. “Well, how about just adding ‘tra la,’ ” she said. “No,” he said firmly, “that would just make it sound silly.” i’ Experts at Warner Bros, think they’ve discovered the secret of Dane ClarK’s appeal to the fair sex. They say “It’s because he smol- THE PANHANDLE STATE . . . Surrounding the map of West Virginia are typical scenes of the the state: (1) Blackwater falls; (2) the administration building at Babcock state park; (3) a modern coal tipple; (4) New River canyon, and (5) apple growing. Eastern Panhandle Is Favorite Spot for Vacationers Old-timers used to talk about “this neck of the woods,” and West Vir ginia’s Eastern Panhandle may have the answer to how the expres sion started. Back in the wilder ness days, the area was called “The Northern Neck of Virginia.” Eastern Panhandle retains a fla vor all its own. Gouging into Mary land and Virginia as it does, it par takes of the traditions of both those states and remains somewhat dif ferent, if not apart, from the main area of West Virginia. In 1776, the village of Martins- burg had “30 houses” and the com munity was building “a courthouse of no inconsiderable size and ele gance.” Today Martinsburg is the industrial center of the Eastern Panhandle. West Virginia’s Eastern Pan handle has as its main attractions Cacapon state park, old homes of the Washington family in Colonia days, Berkeley springs, and large apple and peach orchards. Harper’s Ferry, historic center a' junction of the Potomac and Shen andoah, is the state’s oldest town The Eastern Panhandle is onlj 52 miles from Washington, 73 mile! from Baltimore, and 261 miles from New York. It is one of the favorite spots for week-end and vacatior trips from metropolitan areas. DANE CLARK ders.” Elevated to stardom because of his performance in “That Way with Women,” he’s now “smolder ing” in “Deep Valley.” Milo Boulton, emcee of “We the People,” recently flew from New York to Detroit to do a 20 second narration for an industrial movie. He probably set a record for short and snappy business transactions—with in an hour he was on his way home. * Robert Merrill, star of the RCA Victor program, rides to the 6th floor of the NBC building in a freight ele vator these Sundays, and wishes he’d thought of it sooner and saved his neckties—through muffler and all, fans snipped pieces from his cra- vats. Sinatra fans may have to be curbed or limited as to age, but Per ry Como’s “Supper Club” will con tinue to be open to all comers.. As a rule they’re very well behaved, 6ut if they let out a shriek now and then it’s forgiven. James Stewart won’t talk about ips experiences as a bomber pilot in private life, but in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” he has to. Talking to Donna Reed, who plays his wife, he cuts loose with some vivid and of course believable de scription. But it’s in character, be cause in the picture he’s telling about the exploits of Todd Karns, who’s cast as his brother. Cass Daley has added to her al ready extensive real estate holdings. The “Ladies Man” comedy star is buying a 165-acre ranch, complete with burial grounds, near Hollywood. Professor Quiz can answer prac tically any question, but when he trips up it’s likely to be a question involving an animal. “Which way does a pig’s tail curl?” “What kind of noise does a rabbit make?” On those he was right save foi excep tions. But when he said that, when a cat washes its face, it holds its paw stationary and rubs its face against it, he got hundreds of pro tests. When Joseph Gotten appeared on a “Hallmark Reader’s Digest” pro gram on CBS he was swamped by autograph seekers. One starry-eyed young woman thrust a five-page doc ument into his hands for his signa ture, but, recalling advice given him by his lawyer, he looked through the pages carefully—and discovered the document was a love letter, ad dressed to the autograph-seeker! ODDS AND ENDS—Elena Warmer, of RKO’s "Trail Street,” has just finished decorating George "Gabby" Hayes’ new Palm Springs home... . Ken Niles’ other radio and film commitments forced him to bow out as announcer on Arlene Fran- cis’ "Affairs of Ann Scotland’’ radio show; Knox Manning replaces him. . . . Olivia de Havilland has discharged her agent, business manager and publicity man, and turned their duties over to her new husband, Marcus Goodrich. . .. Ann Sargent of "Right to Happiness” has Pow- er-modeled as the typical American sports girl time after time—but doesn't Play a single game! 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