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PAUL MALIGN
Republican Strategy Pays Profits
T HE Republicans brought themselves out of their first new
leadership session of congress in greater unity than any
political party has achieved since long before the New Deal.
Defections generally drew only three of their senators.
This was accomplished by a peculiar inner system of
organization. Normally steering committees are bossed by
one or two men, but the Republicans made theirs truly representative of
the party. For instance, in the house Speaker Martin was boss, but he
worked closely with Floor Leader HaUeck (which is not unusual) They
both cooperated genuinely with a steering committee, which made many
decision to which both Martin and HaUeck were opposed.
Out of this system of operating from the grass roots np. In
stead of from a top leadership down (as Mr. Roosevelt did), came
the dominant party characteristic of their first session.
Now this guiding committee-leadership had an operating system which
was kept completely under cover. They had a two-pronged base policy
from the start. They strove (A) to keep down the amount of legislation,
selecting only the bare essentials for beginning a new policy era for the
■country, and (B) to get away from emergency and “must” legislation.
Their delay on the union reform bill was deliberate. Nothing was said
about this yardstick. They kept the Democrats from knowing their for
mula. But they feel rather good now about the way it worked out.
H. L PHILLIPS * * *
Letter for Special Delivery
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“Mr. Averell Harriman,
Secretary of Commerce,
Washington, D. C.
"My Dear Mr. Harriman—The pa
pers say that the Committee of
Nineteen which is to look into this
country’s capacity to do aU our for
eign lending and underwriting has
started on the job in a big way and
that it wiU ‘make a study un
matched in history.’ Fine and
dandy! Some such study to find
out where the bottom of the barrel
is, what’s between it and the top,
how big the bunghole should be
and whether multiple spigots are ad
visable is certainly overdue, bub.
And it will comfort most Americans
to feel for the first time in many
years that ‘Stop, look and listen’
is replacing the slogan ’Shoot the
works, let the poorhouse come
when it may.’ ”
• • •
Bill Powell is reported the
Hollywood choice to play Elwood
Dowd in the movie of “Harvey.”
We can’t imagine him as even
close to the type, and the actor
we think would be a scream in
it would be Barry Fitzgerald.
He is the only performer on
stage or screen who could touch
Frank Fay. Why not, by the
way. Fay for the picture ver
sion. Too much as the author
intended, eh?
*
It is our guess that Holly
wood will put the rabbit into the
play, visually. And that, were
John Bunny alive, he would get
the part.
• • •
“So far as this airplane business
is concerned I have been in it 13
years and lost $14,000,000.”—How
ard Hughes.
*
“Is that good?”
* * *
// seems to us, reading about those
gay parties as an amusing interlude in
the war contracts routine, that there
should have been a "Miss $200 of
1944."
THE EGG ON HIGH . . . Herb Parsons, reputed to be the fastest gun-handler in the country, demonstrates
his own unique method of coping with soaring eggs. The Western-Winchester exhibition shooter holds his
empty gun in his left hand and hurls the egg aloft (left). Egg in air, he inserts shell in chamber (cen
ter), then swings on the target and scrambles it medium well. Moral: With the price of eggs pre
dicted to zoom to $1.00 a dozen, the practice of shooting at them as they pass overhead is expected to
become generally widespread.
DREW PEARSON * *
Congressional Junket for Peace
CEN. GLEN TAYLOR of Idaho, a former cowboy vaudeville crooner
l -' who has come to win the respect of his senatorial colleagues, will
take an unusual trip this summer.
While some senators will be junketing to Alaska or touring Europe
Taylor will ride horseback from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast.
The senator from Idaho candidly admits that it is a publicity
stunt, but not for Taylor, for peace. Along the way, Taylor plans
to speak for the United Nations and world cooperation.
At the last session of congress, he helped introduce a bill to strengthen
the United Nations and help eliminate the veto power by which one nation
can hold up the peace efforts of the rest of the world. Taylor feels that
the Middle West is becoming isolationist, is worried over the threat of
war and wants to dramatize the problem of peace.
The Idaho senator planned to buy two horses in California and begin
his trek from the Golden Gate bridge, San Francisco. One horse will
follow behind on a trailer, while he rides the other, alternating each day.
Taylor says he plans to ride horseback every inch of the way, even in
cluding western deserts and the Rocky mountains. He figures the trip
will take him three months.
WALTER WINCHELL *
Land of the Melting Pot
Auto Builders
Plan for 1948
Few Alterations Expected
By Major Producers;
Slow With Models.
SUPERFORTS OVER MOUNT FUJI . . . This flight of six B-29 superfortresses makes a majestic picture
as the huge bombers soar over Japan’s towering Mount Fuji. The big ships were on a training mis
sion to intercept naval forces at sea for a practice bomb run. Even in summer there is snow to be seen
in the crevasses near the peak of the mountain. B-29s roaring peacefuUy over Japan are a common sight
in 1947.
This underlines America’s reputa
tion as a melting pot: We have 256
different religious denominations.
... A democratic form of govern
ment in America had its origin in
Virginia under Governor Yeardley—
two years before the Pilgrims land
ed at Plymouth. . . . Polish, Ger
man and Irish workers began to
battle their oppressors in Virginia
long before the Revolutionary war
exploded. . . . During nine of the
last ten years America’s annual im
migration quota was not filled.
Historians have said that the
American Revolution was the
achievement of an “aggressive
minority.” The colonies consisted of
men and women who came from
Ireland, England, Scotland, France,
Germany, Holland, Switzerland,
Sweden, Poland and Italy. And ev
ery religion also was represented
among the soldiers who formed
Washington’s army.
AMERICA IS A NATION composed
of minorities. And when compared
with the rest of the world's popula
tion—Americans as a whole also are
a minority. . , , Bigots who blame all
our troubles on foreigners should be
reminded that only 10 per cent of
America’s population is foreign-born.
.. . And we must not forget America’s
most beloved immigrant—the Statue of
Liberty.
Those who say the Indians
are a vanishing race are spread
ing a myth. Their population
has doubled during the past dec
ade. . . . Many American Indian
reservations have modern
hemes. They look like any oth
er smaU town.
WALTER SHEAD* * *
Cost of Living Spirals
TN PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S state of the union message to congress last
January he warned of the spiral of inflated prices. In the succeeding
seven months the President filed with congress two economic reports on
conditions in the country, and in both of these he urged congress to do
something about the high cost of living. In addition, more than a month
before adjournment of congress he sent a special message urging posi
tive action against the continued spiral of living costs. He also made
a plea to private industry to reduce costs voluntarily.
All through the long months until congress adjourned, no ac
tion was taken. In the meantime, living costs reached their peak
immediately before adjournment. As prices soared, profits soared
and 1947 earnings will be approximately 50 per cent above last
year’s record of $12,539,000,000.
On the last day of the session, the senate named a joint committee
and appropriated $100,000 for it to hold hearings to probe the question of
whether or not there is a high cost of living problem. That is all congress
did. These hearings probably will get under way in mid-September.
WRIGHT PATTERSON *
Useless ‘Jobs’ Will Remain
SCORCHED EARTH IN JAVA . . . This is a view of the harbor of
Probolinggo, in East Java, with its huge stocks of corn, rubber,
rice and resin destroyed by retreating Indonesian Republic fighters
before Dutch troops occupied the town. The action took place before
the cease-firing edict became effective in Java. Dutch-Indonesian dis
pute is now headed for mediation, either in the United Nations or
by one or more associated nations.
FIERY CROSS . . . Scottish run
ner leaves Edinburgh with the
“fiery cross,” symbol to summon
all Scots throughout the world to
support “Enterprise Scotland
1947,” an exhibition of industrial
design in Edinburgh.
P OLITICS being politics, regard
less of which party is in power,
it probably was too much to expect
any considerable reduction in the
many agencies, bureaus and admin
istrations of the federal government.
Useless as many of them may be
to John Q. Public, they do provide
jobs, and jobs represent patronage.
Those bureaus were created by a
Democratic administration, but
the jobs they represent can be filled
by a Republican administration if
and when there comes such a
change. As long as the jobs are
filled by Democrats the present ad
ministration wants them contin
ued. Anticipating a possible change,
the Republicans wish to retain these
jobs.
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ATOMIC ENERGY FOR PEACE . . . Ground has been broken for
construction of the nation’s first peacetime atomic energy plant on a
6,000-acre tract at Brookhaven, L. I., once the site of Camp Upton.
Dr. Lyle Borst, atomic pile authority of Brookhaven laboratory, is
at controls of the power shovel as it takes first scoopful of earth.
Laboratory will be operated on a non-profit basis.
TOP MEDIATION MAN ... Cy
rus Stuart Ching has been named
by President Truman to head the
new independent federal media
tion and conciliation service cre
ated by the new labor act.
DETROIT.—How many of the na
tion’s car makers will go full
length in engineering and styling
changes is a subject that now is
engaging the speculation of auto
trade circles. There is a growing
conviction that few of the larger vol
ume producers will have new mod
els out by the end of next January.
Some of the so-called “independ
ents” reportedly will be ready to
switch over before the year’s end
but it may be well into the first
quarter of 1948 before all the new
models are in production.
The point has been made in some
circles that with new car demand of
overwhelming proportions there is
no particular reason why the manu
facturers should bring out all their
newly developed engineering and
styling offerings in a hurry.
With output so far this year well
under original expectations, the
larger producers cannot afford the
extended shutdowns entailed in
drastic model changes.
Speaks of Changes.
To implement a major part of the
rumored engineering and styling
changes will mean assembly line
suspensions ranging up to three
weeks or more.
Ford, with an extensive model
change-over program in prospect,
including its truck lines and its Lin
coln, Mercury and Ford cars in that
order, has given no definite dates
for the various changes.
Ford had said the new car will
be different from any heretofore
made. If this planning is carried
out it will involve a protracted as
sembly plant shutdown.
“Some time after the first of the
year,” has been as far as any ex
ecutive would go in answering ques
tions regarding a date for the new
Ford. Many industry observers be
lieve it may be next March before
the car goes into production.
Industry experts generally look
for major changes in General Motors
Buick, Olds, Cadillac and Pontiac
models “some time” early next
year.
Automatic Shifts.
Some of the automotive authori
ties are convinced the new Ford and
Chevrolet models will have automat
ic gearshifts and transmissions as
optional equipment.
If they do, it is fairly certain
Chrysler will do likewise with its
Plymouth model.
An increasing preference for auto
matic driving is reported by Hudson
following a survey of 1946 and 1947
car orders. Hudson brought out in
1942 its “drive master” automatic
device, which gives an option of
three driving methods, fully auto
matic, manual gear-shifting without
use of the clutch or conventional
shifting and clutch operation.
The assumption that most 1948
models may be delayed well beyond
next January arises from the fact
that relatively little new die, jig and
fixture work has been contracted for
up to now, at least insofar as
Chrysler and General Motors are.
concerned.
It has been fairly well established
that retail prices cannot be held to
current levels unless sizable manu
facturing economies can be effect
ed.
This alone may tend to withhold
from next year’s models at least
some of the engineering changes
that have been forecast.
Western Ranchmen Now Go
South for Their Saddles
ANNISTON, ALA.—The saddles
used on a western ranch, in a Hol
lywood movie or in a Madison
Square garden rodeo may be typ
ically western in style, but they fre
quently bear an Alabama trade
mark.
J. R. Russel and his 30 employees
get most of their orders from the
western states and from rodeo com
panies. Russell started making sad
dles commercially 10 years ago.
“When I was training horses I
had to remake every saddle I ever
bought to suit myself, so I decided
I might as well make some good
saddles to suit a real horseman’s
needs,” he said.
Courageous Child Finally
Succumbs to Rare Disease
NEW ORLEANS.— Four-year-old
Dickie Butler never complained.
Victim of a rare blood disease
that sapped away his life for three
months, he died at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Butler
Jr.
“He was in terrible pain those
last two days,” the father said.
“But he never complained."
When the final attack came,
Dickie looked up and told his 38-
year-old mother: “Mother, I love
you with all my heart.”
Doctor Delivers for Twins
He Attended 33 Years Ago
NEW YORK.—Twin sisters who
live in the same house in Brooklyn
gave birth to their first children and
were attended by the same doctor
who delivered them 33 years ago.
Dr. Henry Aronson, speaking for
Mrs. Katherine Devine Donahoe,
Mrs. Winifred Devine Murphy and
their respective offspring, said:
"We all did very nicely.”
Army Not Worried
Over Lack of Radar
Would Cost Many Billions to
Install 'Umbrella/
WASHINGTON. — The United
States is without any sort of radar
“umbrella” to warn against an air
attack, say leaders of the armed
forces. But they aren’t worried too
much about it.
They said installation of such a
radar network would take billions of
dollars and thousands of men to
complete. And then it would be
come obsolete in five years.
If a plane should attack the Unit
ed States, the nation’s defenders
would have to rely entirely on visu
al reports.
Military leaders base their de
fense on the belief that a strong of
fense is the best defense.
They believe that this country is
the only nation that has the atomic
bombs at present. They have built
up a long-range strategic air force
of B-29s to carry them.
The radar equipment left over
from World War II has a range of
only 150 miles at the maximum.
This would mean that those sets
would have to be spaced 150 miles
apart all around the nation.
The military men say that on the
North, equipment would have to be
set up in Canada, Alaska, Green
land and Iceland. EacK radar in
stallation would cost at least $300,000
and require 200 men.
Then there would be the problem
of providing units to manage, con
trol and transmit the information
gathered by the radar stations.
This in turn would have to be
made available in a hurry to fighter
units and anti-aircraft batteries.
The military leaders point out that
radar would be useless without stra
tegically placed fighter and anti-air
craft units.
Pig Muscle May Produce
Cure for Stomach Ulcer
PITTSBURGH. — A certain
kind of pig muscle may be the
answer to the recurrence of
stomach ulcers.
A report made by Dr. Morton
Grossman, assistant professor of
physiology at University of Illi
nois, reveals that “excellent re
sults” have been obtained from
the use of a new drug in curing
ulcers.
Dr. Grossman, who estimated
that ulcers recur after healing in
7 out of every 10 cases, said he
has slowed the rate considerably
by using the intestinal extract
from a pig.
“Out of 27 cases, I obtained
excellent results with 23 of the
patients,” he said.
Veteran of Boer War Is
Seeking College Diploma
CHENEY, WASH. — One veteran
attending Eastern Washington Col
lege of Education stands out from
all the others. He’s a veteran of the
Boer war.
A. K. Sangster, 64, enrolled last
fall as a freshman. He says in his
English accent, “It’s a little late to
be sure, but better late than
never.”
Unlike other veterans, he re
ceives no government aid. In fact
he helped out the government in
preparing for his schooling.
“My education is being paid by
the government bonds I’ve been
able to save,” he explains.
Sangster describes himself as
“just a world hobo,” emphasizing
the difference between hobo and
bum.
Born in England, he shipped to
sea and then when the Boer war
broke out, stowed away in Australia
on a troop ship bound for South
Africa. Only 14 at the time, he
served as a norderly.
Later he joined the United States
marines and took part in the Cuban
revolution of 1906. Then he served a
hitch with the army engineers.
He is taking pre-engineering at
Eastern Washington for two years.
“I intend to finish at the Washing
ton State College School of Mines
with a diploma in my pocket,” he
says.
Old Woman’s Snake Story
Starts Rush on Barbers
MANILA.—An old woman story
teller was credited by the barbers
of Pampanga province with bring
ing them a capacity business in at
least five towns in the San Fernando
vicinity.
Her story: A bird and a snake
quarrelled over which should rule
over all newly bom children. The
bird won, but fhe snake vowed to
kill all babies with hair on their
heads.
Credulous mothers, taking no
chances, rushed their youngsters to
the barber, and there is hardly a
baby in the region without a shaven
pate.
Army’s Baby Care Helps
Postwar Recruiting Drive
SPOKANE, WASH. — Old Man
Stork is lending a hand in the
army’s recruiting program, accord
ing to Master Sgt. John F. Brerton
of the local recruiting office.
Brerton said one prospective
father after another has been in
quiring about pre-natal and mater
nity care for amy wives.
The sergeant said most of them
sign on the dotted line when they
learn the army still finances G.I
babies.
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