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HTHFl MFWRF'RRV STT1S] TVFWTRKRRY S. C. 1951 SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Grassroots Poll Reveals Political Thinking in Home Town of Country THE BIG GUESS—what is the political thinking in the home towns of America one year before the most important presidential election in the history of the country? Who will be the candidates? Who will win? In an attempt to answer these questions, The Publisher’s Auxiliary, a weekly newspaper published by Western Newspaper Union and direct ed to the publishers and editors of the country’s small town publications, recently polled 6,444 editors. Replies revealed a trend of political think ing that has not been touched by previous national polls. Of the 1,188 editors participating, with every state represented, 40.6 per cent believed that President Truman would be reelected. They also wun U/ll I nr TUP believed that Sen. Robert NEXT PRESIDENT? PERS0NAL CH0IC£? 50 40 30 20 JO ■ 40 6 3C ,6 2< .9 21 IS 2> V 8 £ A. Taft would be the GOP candidate. The startling re sult of the poll, however, was that neither Taft or Truman were the editors’ personal choice. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was the personal favorite by 30.4 per cent, with Taft second with 27.1 per cent. President Tru man polled only 8.6 per cent of the votes on the per sonal choice question. The poll gains added significance in that it re flects the thinking of editors who know what the people of the home towns and cross roads are thinking. And unlike other national polls it samples the rural thinking of America, generally conceded as having been the balance of power in the last presidential election. A similar poll conducted in 1947 by The Auxiliary was 100 per cent accurate. A brief summary of the questions asked and the answers revealed this thinking at the grassroots level: 1. Who do you think will be the next President: Percentage vote: Truman, 40.6; Eisenhower, 24.9; Taft, 20.5; Undecided, 6.1; Scattered (Warren, MacArthur, Stassen and other political figures), 7.9. 2. Who do you personally favor for the presidency? Percentage vote: Eisenhower, 30.6; Taft, 27.1; Truman, 8.6; Undecided, 6.8; Stassen, 6.5; Warren, 5.1; Douglas, 3.7; MacArthur, 3.0. 3. In your opinion, what candidate will the Democratic delegation from your state be pledged to at the national convention? Editors of 42 states said Truman, 4 states unpledged or rated undecided, 1 was said pledged to Russel, and 1 to Byrd. 4. In your opinion, what candidate will the Republican delegation of your state be pledged to at the national convention? Editors in 38 states believed Taft, 6 to Eisenhower, 1 probably pledged to Stassen, 1 divided between Taft and Eisenhower, 1 to Warren, and 1 unpledged or unde cided. 5. Which candidate do you believe will receive the national Demo cratic nomination? The consensus showed that editors in all states believed it would be Truman by 94.5 per cent. 6. Which candidate do you believe will receive the national Repub lican nomination? Taft was picked by 57.5 per cent and Eisenhower sec ond with 28.1 per cent. LAW The strangest tax law in the history of the United States is now in effect. It is the 10 per cent tax on gambling. This federal tax levy presents a strange paradox. It is supposedly a revenue raising scheme, yet it provides a public list which will allow local law officers to stamp out gambling and thus kill the expected source of revenue. Gambling is illegal almost everywhere in the U. S. outside of Nevada. If the gambler complies with the federal tax, he then puts the finger on himself as a probable violator of the local law. If he doesn’t comply, then he’ll have the treasury men down on him. Treasury men reason that many gamblers will stay in business because they have spent a lifetime operating outside the law; local policemen already know who’s gambling without aid of federal pub licity; and registrants for the “occupation tax” may still dodge jail un less it is proved they “actually received a bet.” DRAFT BOOST T* 16 Defense Department has announced a draft quota of 59,650 for January, the largest number asked for in any month since last spring. Of the total, 48,000 will go to the Army and 11,650 to the Marines. The department said the induction call for January was to “provide an orderly buildup of the armed forces to authorized strength, including the recent increase in the strength of the Marine Corps” and to com pensate for the low call in December. FARMERS' GIFT A $41,936 gift from America’s farmers was turned over for loading on a Friendship Food Ship in Chicago recently. The gift was donated in a Germany through the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP). Chris J. Bannerup, a farmer of Twin Lakes, Minn., presented the gift at a ceremony that initiated CROP’S 1951 fall appeal for 1,400 carloads of food for distribution among needy people in 32 countries. Addi tional Frieridship gifts, bound for Italy, Greece, Turkey, Trieste, the Holy Land, India and Japan are_ also en route. Since 1947, CROP has collected through the nation 5,400 carloads of good will gesture to refugees in Western foentkhip Food . from CROP ' exportable farm produce as free gifts to the world’s needy. PAY BOOST American Federation of Labor members of the government’s Wage Stabilization Board have suggested a new wage policy under which pay raises would be permitted for increased effi ciency and production. The move was seen as a possible solution to the 5 per cent pay increase which labor has hinted at in the last few weeks. Added to the 10 to 12 per cent cost of living increases now permitted by the Stabiliza- 1950 levels, that would send the figure to 17 tion Board above January per cent. The AFL contends the plan will cut costs and thus permit wage increases without boosting prices. WON'T TALK Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the United States last week for a series of v talks with President Truman and military ex perts concerning the defense program in Europe. But the question in the minds of everyone in the nation, from home towns to the cities, was what are Ike’s political plans? Harassed by reporters and politicians alike f the general called at the White House and had a long talk with the President When he de parted he again told reporters he did not talk politics, he had not given anyone authority or a go-ahead to undertake any *political activity on his behalf. » Thus Eisenhower cut the ground from under a number of Republican leaders who have been intimating broadly that he had authorized them to seek the Republican presidential nomination for him. But he still left the political picture wide open when he replied to a question if he would talk politics, by saying, “No, not just now.” DON'T UNDERESTIMATE WOMEN Export Says Father's Days Numbered Dr. George P. Murdock, noted an thropologist, has made the sage ob servation of “don’t underestimate women.” Mankind faces the possi bility of a woman’s world in which females would own most of the property and husbands would play a secondary role in family life, he recently. It could even be that girls, not eventually may carry on the family line and name, he observed. Murdock based the possibility on changing customs and traditions. One such change, he said, is the increasing political and economic emancipation of women. According to Murdock, women al ready own “more than half of the corporate wealth of the United States.” And the amount of that wealth is growing daily SOMETHING SOUR . . . Col. Chang Chun San, chief Red liaison offi cer, is anything but poker-faced in this closeup after one of the armist ice sessions at Pan Mun Jon, Ko rea. Something must have smelled sour at Pan Mun Jon. NANCY GETS DIVORCE . . . Nan cy Sinatra was granted a divorce at Santa Monica, Calif., from crooner Frank Sinatra who plans to wed Ava Gardner. She told judge she had made Frankie wait for divorce to be sure he knew what he wanted. FREED, RE - ARRESTED . . . Kingpin bookie Frank Erickson was booked in New York a short time after his release from Riker’s Island penitentiary where he served a sentence for bookmaking and conspiracy. This arrest was on two gambling counts. HE’S IN, PARTY’S OUT . . . Aneurin Bevan, fiery leftwing La bor party leader, was re-elected to English parliament, bat his party was beaten by the Conservative party, led by Winston Churchill who became prime minister. The Laborites left the Tories with many problems. MISSING ENGINEER FOUND . . . A nationwide search for Craig Nandain, engineer said to be work ing on a top-secret project, ended recently when Nandain telephoned from Provo, Utah, to say he had been ill and under treatment. YOUNGEST POLIO VICTIM . . . Diane, 44-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Shaughnessy of Chicago and called Chicago’s youngest iron lung patient, is fed by Nurse Lois Doeden at Michael Reese hospital. Diane, whose twin brother died 10 minutes after birth, was placed in the iron lung after coming down with infantile paralysis. Doctors say that she stands a good chance for recovery. PRIVATE PLANE CRASHES IN POTOMAC ... Thomas H. White, prominent Cleveland industrialist, his wife Kathleen, and Mrs. Robert York White, their daughter-in-law, were killed recently when their private plane crashed into the Potomac river while attempting to land at Washington, D. C., national airport. A Bolling air force base rescue crew is shown removing the body of one of the victims of the crash from the wreckage and the water of the river. GRANDMA NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD . . . Some Hollywood fashion designers have come to realize that some of the things Grandma wore had their own peculiar charm. So they are now turning our modern ized versions, frothy with lace that is the whipped cream of vogue. At left is a lingerie ensemble inspired by the bloomer girl of yore. It con sists of panties and bra of sheerest lace fabric. At right are the ancient bloomers glamorously modernized and topped with a bodice. i m \ s ' $1111 fpf 1 BACK FROM BATTLE . . . Fifth air force crash and fire crews spray the burning engine of a B-29 Superfort with a chemical foam after the medium bomber tangled with enemy jet aircraft and anti-aircraft guns over North Korea. The daring air crew brought the limping Superfort back to this advanced Korean air base without the use of flaps or rudder controls and with two engines out. None of the crew was injured. Our airmen have noticed an increase In strength of the Reds’ air force. Political Plums 'I'HE MORE you look into the in- ^ come-tax situation, the more it appears that some U.S. tax collec tors, especially those with political pull, regard their jobs as indirect pensions and spend more time on private business than on Uncle Sam’s. Fortunately, there are thousands of nonpolitical internal revenue agents, but here is an illustration of what has been happening at Nash ville, Term. Investigation of Nash ville’s internal revenue office so far has concerned three individuals: 1. Lipe Henslee, the suspended collector, who, following an illness a couple of years ago, fell a vic tim of narcotics, ^he narcotics bu reau sent two agents to Tennessee to see where Henslee was getting his drugs, reported that nothing illicit was involved though he is still tak ing narcotics and not spending suf ficient time at his office. This was the reason for Henslee’s suspension. 2. Also under investigation is George Welch, Jr., assistant collec tor, who has been criticized for spending too much time on the af fairs of the Washington Realty com pany rather than on collecting tax es. The realty company owns three large apartment houses in Nash ville, and the company is controlled by Welch’s family. Investigators who checked the case reported that Welch is almost stone deaf, difficult to talk to, with the result that his superiors by passed him, gave him little work to do. Therefore, he devoted hfmself to his family’s realty firm. 3. Also under investigation is Chief Field Deputy Ira Parker, Jr., whose family is connected with a liquor distributing firm, the Nation al Distributing coqipany of Clinton, Tenn. The company was organized by Parker’s nephew, Kenneth E. Caldwell, and financed by a note for $125,000 at the Commerce Union Bank of Nashville. Underwriting the note are Ted Murray of the Nash ville Baseball club and Joe Parker, brother of the chief field deputy. What investigators are interested in is whether Ira Parker is or was an owner of any part of the liquor firm. They found an arrangement in the underwriting deal whereby Murray and Ira’s brother Joe were cut in on the profits until the $125,- 000 loan was paid off, plus another provision wheret# the loan was never to be entirely paid off, which made his brother a virtual partner. In August, Mrs. Roxie Parker, wife of the deputy collector, acquired a 25 per cent stock ownership in the ffrm. It has been reported that Deputy Collector Parker accom panied representatives of the firm on their visits, thus bring ing indirect pressure to increase the company’s business. Cald well denied this. “Ira was down here on a visit and just happened to accompany me,” he explained Washington internal revenue ex ecutives say they feel sorry for Messrs. Henslee and Welch because of their physical infirmities. How ever, it’s admitted that the govern ment budget, already one of the biggest in history, should not be overloaded by paying salaries to those who cannot give fuU time to their jobs. British Admirals A secret State Department report blames the British Admiralty for the crisis in Iran. The British ad mirals controlled the Abadan re finery, but were too blind to grant the Iranians a few small conces sions. For example, the admirals charged the- Iranians the full price for gasoline used in Iran, plus^the cost of freight from the Caribbean. In other words, the Iranians had to pay a phony freight rate, even though the gasoline came from their own wells and was never shipped. The admirals also refused to allow Iranians to examine the books or sit on the board of the Anglo-Iranian Oil company. Health Drive The American Legion and other vet groups will get behind a physi cal-fitness program to counteract the heavy rejection of draft 4-F’s— now running better than 60 per cent In some big cities. The program is spearheaded by Congressman E. H. Hedrick of W{st Virginia, a doctor and long-time crusader for more outdoor exercise and better diet education to improve civilian health. President Truman has pri vately okayed the idea. Washington Pipeline GOP Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska is mending after an oper ation at George Washington JJni- versity hospital, where he paid the full rate instead of accepting the cut-rate accommodations for con gressmen at Bethesda Naval hos pital . . . Wherry also scorns con gressional junkets, pays his own way wherever he goes . . . Another congressman who pays his own way is Jarman of Oklahoma, Demo crat. SHOPPER’S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY CLASSIFIECT DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. THOSE FIXIN’S pm.,! "*■.. ” :'r- .i ;? = Bf m Step up to the counter, ladies— for cranberries are pouring in to your store, and you’ll have plenty for those fixin’s for your holiday turkey. Although production in high volume is limited to just a few states, distribution is nation-wide, and your grocer is getting more and more of these gay red berries, fresh, preserved, jellied and juiced. Of course you’ll have ’em with your holiday bird, but why stop there? That same tart flavor peps up many other meats. Ever try cranberry sauce with pork, instead of the traditional ap ple-sauce? You have a tasty treat in store for you. Or cranberry jelly with lamb or beef main courses?\ Why not? Or combine cranberries, either whole or jellied, with such things as mincemeat, or orange, or lemon, for a relish with any meat, or fish or fowl? There’s one relish so like a fairy-tale that it’s called Hans Christian Andersen, made with cranberries, either whole or jellied, mincemeat and chopped walnuts, that’s delicious with any thing. - As for desserts, just to name on^, how about a Cranberry Noodle Cup for that hungry family of yours, and a tasty, zesty and nourishing addition to the pudding family. FOR SALE k Sacrifice established raillwork concer] fully equipped. Located Nerthwest Geo. gia industrial town. A real buy for rigb party. Address all inquiries Box 706 •> phone 1138, Athens, Georgia. t MODERN grocery. Very good living. Full price 14,500, terms. Worth double. Cohen, 1674 N.W. 27th Ave., Miami, Fla. 6-BOOTH beauty parlor for sale. One-, third less than cost cash, or on terms, i Located in Thomston. Ga\ Telephone 69ft-; J. W. A. Odom, 410 Thompson St., Thom- aston, Ga. FARMS AND RANCHES CENTRAL FLA. GULF COAST \ Farm—10 fertile acres. Fenced. 4 rm. j home, elec. barn. 75 bu. corn. 6 cows. Horse. Colony bees. Fruit. On Co. Rd. f near town. Ideal set-up for semi-retirea t couple. $31Q0.00. Farm—80 acres. Fenced and cross-fenced. 3 Bdrm. home. Barns, sheds, Y* mi. front on Co. Rd. near progressive depot town. A bargain. S3700.00. In Yankeetown—Small home. Comp. Fur nished, nice lot, near river and Gulf. $2500. Get details and photo. DEWEY D. ALLEN, Realtor, Inglls.»Fla. GENTLEMEN’S Farms, $250,000 and less.' Details. Photos. Bnrkholder Agency, Waynesboro, Va. HELP WANTED—MEN LA SALLE ENGINEERING CORP. tSSy. - - Product Engineers in air craft, Br&._- man, Checkers and Trainees. We offer immediate advancement if you qualify. Also choice of climate. Apply :ring corp. LASALLE ENGINEE1 La Salle Building, S East 9th St. KANSAS CITY, MIS/SOURI HELP WANTED—MEN, WOMEN DELTA Air Lines hasL openings for Eng- sservatic Ineers, Stewardesses, Reservation Agents, type Operators, Radio Technic’ and Mechs Telets Operators, Radio Technicians tanics. 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You’ll be seeing ’em everywhere, fresh, canned, jellied, semi-jellied, and just plain juiced. If they bounce, they're good whole and fresh. When the berries are first harvested, and separated from the leaves and twigs of their na tive bog, they are dropped over a series of inclined boards. The sound berries bounce freely over the hurdles, and the soft ones just drop to bottom and are collected in boxes and quickly processed. The bouncers are sorted and packed in bags, and sent on their merry way to market. So you can have ’em fresh or canned or bottled, for im mediate and future use. When buying the fresh berries, choose the plump, solid, shiny red ones. For the processed fruit, this year, for the first time, the U. S. Department of Agriculture has set official standards. The chief grades are U. S. Grade A or Fancy; and U. S. Grade C, or Standard. So read the label before you buy. Thousands of Soldiers Learn Languages in Army’s School Tens of thousards of American soldiers—many of whom plodded through language courses in high school and college without acquir ing any degree of proficiency—now are enthusiastically learning for eign tongues. The rolls of soldier language stu dents now stationed in foreign coun tries have increased steadily, and in response to their desires the Army’s Troop Information and Education Division has made language courses available to every soldier desiring them. In Germany, France, Austria and other European countries, na tive instructors augment the teach ing staffs. The flow of textbooks from the United States to foreign na tions where American soldiers are assigned is constant. The language courses offered by the Army are not limited to sol-' diers in foreign lands, but also are available to those in training in this country. The Army has established special schools of languages at Monterey, Calif., and in Europe. 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