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WALTER SHEAD
Three Items Consume Budget
"IT WHENEVER the cost of food, rent anchclothing consumes
YV all the income of the masses of the people, nothing can
preretit a depression. That’s solid logic because the people
have nothing left to spend for anything else. The bureau of
Isftior statistics says that at the present time these three items,
food, dothing and rent, are taking more than two-thirds of the average
*s income.
it makes no difference what the amount of the income is,
whether it's $20 or $100 a week, the fact remains that the con-
anmer’s dollar is worth only 51 cents in a grocery and 55 cents
hi a clothing store and his total dollar for everything else is worth
•mtf 64 cents.
Those who attempt to blame high prices on exports in our efforts to
aid starving Europe are barking up the wrong tree. For instance, from
Mar. 1946, to May, 1947, our exports of meat were only 2.2 per cent of
tathl production yet wholesale meat prices increased 83 per cent. The
•ngoBizations which a year ago were heatedly berating OPA are now in
noisy argument over who is to blame for what has happened since.
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H, /. PHILLIPS
The Golden Touch
Vaele Sam, reacting to that pro
posal to redistribute the Fort Knox
gold, might quote from Hamlet:
‘‘Oh, my offense is rank, it smells
to Bevia.”
The understatement of the year!
•
Prices are up now where we art
compelled to get along with almost
everything we don’t need.
• • • ^
Maybe Emie, on the other hand,
has Ws Keats mixed up and would
put it:
“Marti have I traveled in the
realms of gold,
And many goodly forts and
metals seen.’’
* * •
At Los Alamos, atomic energy
has been harnessed to do peaceful
work. We want to get a little to open
a hotel bureau drawer.
• • •
“The Soviet government has the
Mtest inspect and confidence to
ward the Bulgarian court set up by
jostioe.”—From the Moscow reply
to an American note.
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Ben Ames Williams has written a
book of 720,000 words. This is 230,000
more than in “Gone With The
Wind.” A title “Gone With The Sec
ond Wind’’ is hereby suggested.
• • •
Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, once
chancellor of Austria and who lost
all through compromising with Hit
ler, is in America. He says all he
wants is to live a quiet life, perhaps
in Brooklyn. It is our guess that he
will Just have to keep compro
mising.
• • •
Maybe we had better turn over Fori
Knox to the British, at that, before
we wake up some day and find some
body has won it as a prize on a radio
quiz show.
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PAUL MALLON
GOP Presidential Possibilities ^
M UCH may happen before the Republican presidential convention, but
as it looks now, Taft is out in front as most likely candidate, with
Dewey a doubtful second. Half a dozen are bunched for third place.
The somewhat guarded endorsement of Governor Dewey for the youth
draft military training at the Legion convention brought him forward on
a national subject in response to the grumbling heard in Republican
ranks that he had not taken forthright stands on big issues of the day.
His Washington friends say he will speak out more nationally and inter
nationally, from now on. There is no question of the unanimous sup
port he will get from New York.
Results of Taft’s speaking tour will largely tell the tale for the
Ohioan, although his candidacy has received stronger private
growth within the party than has been advertised. Last spring
the swing was to Dewey because of Taft’s connection with union
reform; now a reaction has set in attributable to the growth of
feeling that the bill may not be unpopular.
Both General Eisenhower and Governor Warren are credited with
being sincere in their recent renunciations of incipient campaigns. Be
fore their public disavowal, they let friends circulate the word of theii
lack of interest, and then made it public. Eisenhower does not think he
will be an important figure, despite the Kansas City campaign fot
him but the presidency of Columbia university is a good place from which
to view efforts in his behalf academically. The California delegation dis-
counts current reports of a coalition between Dewey and Warren.
WALTER WINCH ELL
Notes of a Bystander
The candidate profiting most from
all the Eisenhower talk is Stassen.
The more talk for Eisenhower, the
harder it becomes for Dewey and
Taft to crash through. After Stas-
seo’s Washington press conference
(in which he suavely posey'd the
Taft-Hartley bill and said that fur
ther aid to Britain should be stopped
if the English socialize the steel in
dustry), one gal reporter wistfully
said: “And he used to be such a
nice liberal, too." All that Stassen
is trying to do is show the GOP big
gies that he really belongs to the
club and wouldn’t be such a bad
guy to nominate.
DREW PEARSON*
Remember when Bilbo cried
poverty and was allowed to stay
on the senate payroll at $50,000
per annum (including staffers’
expenses) to pay for his opera
tions? Now he bequeaths $100,-
000. Of your money!
Topic “A” in South America
wasn’t President Truman's visit bul
what Evita did when she returned
from her 78-day Yurropean trip and
found that Peron had installed a
beauty contest winner in the Presi
dential Palace of Olivos. . . . In A1
fred Dunhill’s store (Radio City) all
the male and female solicitors ar«
compelled to wear gloves.
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Our No. 1 Enemy—Rats
r MAY sound hard to believe, but the huge shortage of this year’s com
crop could be largely offset if the American people were able to elimi
nate one factor In their economy—rats.
Most people don’t realize it, but one healthy rat eats or spoils around
1M pounds of grain per year. While it’s impossible to count the rat popu
lation, interior department experts estimate that rats are almost double
the human population—probably totaling 250 million in the U. S.
Entirely aside from the disease which rats spread from privy
to pantry and the havoc they wreak upon the waterfronts of Amer
ican seaports, their effect upon the food supply of the United States
is almost beyond realization. Between the time a farmer stores
his corn in the fall and cleans out his comcrib in the summer, rats
may have eaten the difference between profit and loss for the
year. In addition, they spoil as much corn as they eat.
If the food destroyed by rats could be shipped overseas, this alone
would about save Europe from its current danger of starvation.
At present one government agency, the fish and wildlife service ol
the interior department, is working on rat eradication. Handicapped by
lack of funds, government rat eradicators are able to do little beyond
circulating anti-rat propaganda.
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WRIGHT PATTERSON
Inflation Helps Debtors
T IOSE who are in debt are the
only ones who can profit from
ii.iiation, from cheap money. The
United States government, as the
greatest debtor in the nation, stands
to profit most from the inflation we
/ s0 greatly fear. The government has
premised to pay some 260 billion
dollars to those who hold its bonds.
In that promise there is no specif!
cation as to the value of the dollar:
the creditor is to receive. Runaway
inflation could make our dollar:
practically valueless, but they sth
would be dollars. The best gambh
would be to hold on, if the govern
ment does not call the bonds, unti
the value of the dollar comes back
HIGH COST OF LIVING PROBE . . . Mrs. Nessa Feldman of the League of Women Shoppers presented her
case against soaring food prices in graphic fashion when she appeared before a joint congressional sub-com
mittee which was holding hearings on the abnormally high cost of living. She demonstrated the difference
between prices of the same foods in 1939 and 1947. Numerous other groups also appeared before the com
mittee, headed by Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (Rep., Vt.) to protest against prices.
WIND OF FURY STRIKES SOUTH . . . Rolling in from the Atlantic ocean, the worst hurricane this coun
try had experienced since 1935 slashed destructively across the southern third of Florida, leaving in its wake
desolate scenes like this one at West Palm Beach. Veering out across the Gulf of Mexico, the swirling winds
then struck savagely at New Orleans and Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss. Thousands in Florida and along the
Gulf coast were left homeless. Damage to property and crops soared into millions of dollars.
FOOTBALL PRACTICE DE LUXE . . . Tough, cigar-chewing sports
writers told Coach Jack Harding that this was a silly way to train the
University of Miami football team for such opponents as Texas Chris
tian, South Carolina, Vanderbilt and Alabam^ His reply was brutally
frank: “This part of training is being conducted especially for newsreel
men and news photographers." The hurricane-battered Miami chamber
of commerce probably didn’t object to a little sunshine and pretty girl
publicity either.
G.I.S HOLDING THE BORDER . . . American s&Idiers of the 88th divi
sion are shown on duty at the recently established provisional border
between Italy and Yugoslavia pending arrival of Italian and Yugo
slav troops. When Marshal Tito’s forces did move into position, they
forced a number of “incidents" all along the line by attempting to
move up into Italian territory.
PERFECT GAME . . . Ruth
Elston of Toronto, Canada, en
tered softball's hall of fame when
she pitched a perfect game
against a Fort Worth team in a
tournament at Cleveland. She
struck out nine, allowed no hits or
walks. It was the first perfect
game in 15 years.
RIGHT OFF THE VINE . . . This
daughter of la belle France
doesn’t even bother to look for
wine. She prefers the juice of the
grape unfermented and makes a
picture of ecstasy as she demol
ishes a bunch of France’s choicest.
High Nazi Chief
Caught in China
Former Gestapo Leader Is
Found in Hole Where
He Hid Two Years.
PEIPING, CHINA.—The bedrag
gled one-time ruthless chief of the
German gestapo in North China and
Mongolia sighed with relief when
he was dragged from an earthen pit
under a rambling old Peiping house
by Chinese police. It was the melo
dramatic climax of a two-year hunt.
“I’m glad it’s over. I do not
believe I could have stood it much
longer. I haven’t seen the sun for
two years," gasped Charles
Schmidt, who was Himmler’s swag
gering bully boy here for 18 months
at the height of the war.
Emaciated, scantily clad and
coughing with what he said was tu
berculosis contracted during his hid
ing, Schmidt was meek but garru
lous. He said he weighed 228 pounds
when he went into hiding but now
weighed less than 150.
Can’t Explain It.
In a driving rainstorm, he was
hustled off to the airfield for re
moval to Shanghai. Beside his name
on the list of wanted Nazis was the
notation “believed implicated in
murder,” but Peiping authorities
were unable to explain it
Schmidt himself said he had been
sought ever since Germany surren
dered in May, 1945; first by the Jap
anese, who feared and hated him,
and then by the Allies after Japan’s
defeat. After fleeing to Tokyo and
then back to Peiping in 1945,
Schmidt said he had gone into hid
ing in the house where he was found.
It was the home of a middle aged
German widow of a Chinese doctor
in Peiping’s east city—a building
full of broken furniture and disor
dered rubble.
A Chinese reporter who was the
only witness of the arrest said the
police made a long search of the
nouse—their third in recent months
—and finally rolled back a rug and
found a trapdoor. Beneath it,
Schmidt crouched in a hole about
five feet deep and four feet square.
Clad in Rags.
"Don't move or we will shoot,” a
policeman warned in English. Clad
only in an undershirt and overalls,
Schmidt was lifted out and thrown
on the floor.
“Mr. Charley Schmidt,” said the
police captain unnecessarily, “we
are looking for you.”
“Yes,” Schmidt replied wearily.
“Two years is a long time.”
He volunteered that he possessed
no gun and had destroyed all his
papers long ago.
Asked about his successor, Adel-
bert Schulze, who vanished from
Peiping Just as Americans were pre
paring to fly him to Shanghai for
repatriation, Schmidt was con
temptuous.
“I heard he was working for the
Russians,” Schmidt said. “He is a
fool. No man can work for more
than one master.”
Hunt Amphibious Monster
On Day and Night Watch
SHANGHAI.—Villagers and peas
ants around Pootung, across the
Whangpoo river from Shanghai, have
established a day and night watch
for an amphibiods monster which
they believe is carrying off children.
Descriptions of the alleged beast
vary, some saying it is half-man,
naif-ape, others that it resembles a
huge wild boar.
The neighborhood has no doubts
about its existence, however, and has
erected a bamboo watchtower which
is manned constantly. Volunteers
also patrol the creek banks.
The China Press said a 30-year-old
woman was killed by a posse which
threw her into a pond when she re
fused to confess to any knowledge
af the monster.
Russians Grant Amnesty
To Thousands of ‘Nazis’
BERLIN. — Admitting that some
former active Nazis still were hold
ing public offices in Soviet-occupied
territory, the Russians granted a
political amnesty to the thousands
of “little Nazis” in their zone of
Germany.
• A proclamation to this effect was
issued by Marshal Vassily D.
Sokolovsky, Russian military gov
ernor.
It granted the right to vote and
to hold office to all Germans in the
Russian zone who had formerly
been nominal members of the Nazi
party and who “have not committed
crimes against the peace and secu
rity of the peoples of Germany or
other nations.”
Thirteen Buffalo Become
5,200 Pounds of Good Meat
COLDWATER, MICH. — Thirteen
buffalo that ran at large, trampling
lawns and frightening Coldwater’s
citizens, were just 5,200 pounds of
tasty meat ready for sale to bid
ders.
Their brief bid for freedom from
the buffalo ranch operated by Ed
win Butters, four miles southwest of
here, was brought to an abrupt halt
by a posse headed by Sheriff Wil
liam Bums and Police Chief Harry
Hutchins.
The authorities first tried to cap
ture the animals as they ran into
the city, providing a free Wild West
■how, but finally had to shoot them.
Decrease Reported
In Army Enlistments
High Intelligence Standards
Result in Decline.
WASHINGTON.—Eighty thousand
men are needed monthly to bring
the army up to n*rmal strength, ii
was disclosed by the war depart
ment. New fall enlistments are
running 25 per cent short of the
number required for bare replace
ment of discharges, an officer said.
War department figures show thal
enlistments for the first seven
months of 1947 averaged 22,862 a
month. The army estimates that
80,000 new Recruits a month are
needed to keep strength at present
levels, with still larger enlistments
necessary to build up to the 1,070,-
000 men authorized force.
Officials said the army could dou
ble its enlistments immediately if it
could afford to scrap its new high
standards for admission. In one
month, the army rejected approx
imately half of the men who applied
for enlistments—in the majority of
cases for failure to pass intelligence
tests.
The army made its "entrance
exam” considerably tougher at the
beginning of this year, because ex
perience had proved that men of
higher intelligence were needed to
hold down the many technical jobs
in the postwar service.
Before the passing grade was
raised. 22 out of every 100 prospec
tive volunteers failed to pass the
test. In a recent month, the aver
age was up to 35 failures out of 100
applicants.
In addition, 10 per cent of the men
who appeared at recruiting offices
couldn’t pass the physical examina
tions, and a small percentage was
rejected for what the army calls
“moral disqualifications.”
High war department officers are
firm in their determination not to
lower the army's standards in order
to make up recruiting deficits.
"We tried it once two years ago,”
a spokesman said. "We threw open
the ranks to almost anyone but
idiots, and the result was nothing
but trouble. We just can’t use dull
ards in the army now.”
Diver Comes Up With
^eeth Adrift in River
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.—Wal
ter Ford, whose false teeth
popped out and sank in 30 feet of
water when he gasped for air on
reaching the surface after an
underwater swim, paid a profes
sional diver $75 to retrieve them.
Ford arranged forCharles Delps
to dive for the teeth, valued by
their owner at $150. He agreed
to pay $15 if the dive was un
successful, $75 if it was success
ful.
Deips donned a shallow water
mask and dived into the Missis
sippi river backwater. After a
10-minute search he broke stir-
face with Ford’s set of uppers.
“The water was so cold down
there I heard the teeth chatter
ing,” he said.
Thirsty industries Face
Shortage of Pure Water
PHILADELPHIA. — Add current
shortages: A growing scarcity of
clean water for America’s increas
ingly thirsty industries.
The reason for this seeming para
dox comes from Richard H. De-
Mott, vice president of SKF Indus
tries, Inc., who says that the short
age is the result of a 20-year lag in
production of high-speed water
pumping and purification facilities.
An estimated three billion dollars
must be spent by government and
industry for new equipment to avert
a “drouth” of unpolluted water, he
declares.
“On many important rivers and
streams water becomes polluted rel
atively high upstream and is used
and reused so frequently that pres
ent limited purification facilities
cannot cope with the task,” DeMott
says.
U. S. industry “drinks” approxi
mately 21 billion gallons of this
basic element a day—equivalent to
twice the flow of the Hudson river.
Paper manufacturers consume
the greatest volume of water, De-
Mott explains, accounting for three
billion gallons a day. Other large
users include oil refineries, chemi
cal plants and food processors.
“Continuing demands for larger
pumps and other equipment that
will increase pump capacity, indi
cate that industry is seriously con
cerned about additional water sup
plies for the immediate future,”
DeMott says.
Paralyzed Girl Prizes
Eighth Grade Diploma
O’NEILL, NEB.—Like thousands
of other boys and girls all over the
country, Donna Mae Fuhrer felt a
little bit more grown up after receiv
ing her eighth grade diploma.
But hers was an extra special one,
representing unusual courage and
the loving cooperation of teacher*
at the little rural school near her
home. ''Also unlike others, her diplo
ma was accompanied by a letter of
congratulation from Gov. Val Peter
son.
Commencement exercises were
held at Donna Mae’s bedside. She
never has been able to attend school
and the teachers spent their spare
time tutoring her. She has been
paralyzed since infancy.
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