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Show m)'''".:- .' 'm :,t 'm mh feVt'-- mM mm i v' t ' ' ',r j t - -.. " : f. ' ' ..:'-'(i--4 V : I " " : !-ltL MALLON New Brand of Socialism UNION Big Man John Lewis' new coal economy, calling for another bigger round of prices and wage increases, seems to have some economic relation to a newbrand of socialism ad- vocated by the latest AFL economic survey. The survey howls in top headiine: "High Prices Threaten Workers' Jobs and Living Standards." Stand-ards." Then at the end it furnishes what it calls "The Way Out." The way out, says the AFL, is "Consumer Cooperation," and it adds: "Consumer cooperation means cooperative ownership of a business. Every member is a part-owner . . . we must start at once to organize as consumers con-sumers . . . we cannot afford to wait . . ." Now let's see. Let's understand this. Consumer cooperation is cooperative co-operative ownership of a business, eh? That, of course, is socialism. Moreover, it is a different, advanced type of socialism than that which the British unions have imposed on Britain. The British government bought the business there with government bonds, and as is the normal case when the government owns anything, no one owns it. This new AFL socialism is not state socialism but union ownership. The unions start factories for shoes, clothing or even automobiles, maybe. Immediately this breaks its own unidn monopoly of the work in the privately pri-vately owned shoe, clothing or automobile factory. In work and price then, AFL would compete with its own members, for the purpose of underselling un-derselling them and making their business unprofitable. If AFL was successful, their members would lose the private ownership jobs they have now. BACK IN CIVILIAN DRESS . . . Reconverted to her prewar splendor, splen-dor, the SS Queen Mary again is ready to resume her luxury trade, plying between Southampton and New York. The 81,235-ton liner served as hospital and troopship. H. I. PHILLIPS That Summer Vacation Trip ps:.;;: a f -,:A : ': yv' 4 f ::y .. ; ;.:::.:.: :f::;;::::::; 'iyy-- S-Tp 'y.:.:: ..vij :v: :E.v;:::..v:v; : . . '''- '"'tftb ' ' 7 '1 Put a squirrel tail on the radiator cap, stick a pennant in your hat, and ho for the open road, the closed bridge and the detour that unravels your spine and puts gravel in your disposition! Through the great open spaces with tire jack, can opener, aspirin tablets and a will of iron. We have annihilated distance and run the clippers over the wings of time. And what have we? More hamburgers, popcorn stands, hot fudge parlors and popsicle spots per capita! . . . And a civilization whose slogan is "Don't forget to change the oil and look at the battery!" bat-tery!" Ben Pease says that if the ancient prophets could get a peek at present it -tr day civilization they would start sing ing "How are things in Sodom-Gomorrah?" Congress is to make an inquiry into the high cost of living. This should raise it considerably. INCREDIBLE He gasped, he reeled And then fell flat . . . Gromyko had said "I agree with that"!!! "Armies Close Trap." Headline. If only some of our leaders would. . . . "Dewey is regarded in some quarters as the White Knight." News item. Just at present, a sort of silent night,1 as it were. HUGHES UNDER FIRE . . . Howard Hughes, west coast industrialist indus-trialist and long a fabulous figure in the American scene, is one of the principals in a senate war investigating committee's inquiry into the awarding of 40 million dollars in aircraft building contracts con-tracts during war. l; ': ':f-yy ' ''i; :-: :-y-: ''::- i- ' " s ; mm ; ; ; m mt:-'l0 'ft V jffCA ft' " IP ' i:i-jilimB WALTER SHEAD A Warning Boom and Bust LEON HENDERSON, former price administrator, has told the Republican Repub-lican steering committee in the senate that the present governmental policy is heading toward a wild boom and then a bust. He declared the price structure is shot through with distortion and unbalances and that prices, just as in 1920, have been allowed to get out of hand, that profits of business and industry are swollen and that wages have not kept pace with the rise in prices. Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, chairman of the GOP committee, took the opposite view. He said there is no evidence today that prices are out of line with wages and he declared that factory workers today can buy 20 per cent more with their pay than they could eight years ago. Chances are that there isn't a housewife in the country who will agree with Senator Taft on that statement. Senator Taft even asserted that he believed higher rents would help purchasing power because the landlords would make some repairs. On one thing Taft and Henderson agree namely, that luxury taxes should be investigated. WALTER WINCIIELL Cast of Characters in the Big Town HELLO, MA . . . Screen actress Betty Grable (her husband is Harry Har-ry James) introduces her 10-week-old girl, Jessica James, to the camera for the first time. The blonde actress and her bandleader bandlead-er husband have another dangh-ter, dangh-ter, Yicki, now three. . The producer who lunches daily with his two ex-wives. . . . Chinatown's China-town's citizens idling away a Sunday Sun-day afternoon sipping rice wine and playing fan-tan. . . . Comely gypsy maidens near Tompkins Square garbed in colorful native costumes. ... The hot sweet potato vendors on Mulberry Square. . . Union Square's open-air forums where anyone can join the verbal free-for-all. Shady lawyers hanging around courts, hoping to pick up homicide cases. They're called "thousand dollar men." A thouz is the established fee for an attorney allotted by the court to defend an nccused murderer. A community of families who live on barges anchored in East river. Some rent extra cabins to boarders. . . . The depressing migration of derelicts to Bowery fleabags every evening. They seldom speak to each other. Miserable humans in night court the worst possible advert for the human hu-man race. . . . Prisoners delivered to police headquarters via a back door and whisked into hidden elevators. . . . Cocky prisoners in the police lineup who crack iokes in hope of creating "a favorable atmosphere." Gents who carry gum - tipped poles to pluck coins dropped in cellars. cel-lars. The city's version of a beachcomber. beach-comber. . . . Trafficops refereeing the midtown traffic tussle. r x v; V r i l DEFENSE SECRETARY . . . James V. Forrcstal, first secretary secre-tary of defense under the new national na-tional security act, hailed unification unifica-tion of armed services as "the most decisive and definitive step In formation of the republic." DREW PEARSON Marshall Exposes Russia's Game SECRETARY of State Marshall gloomily disclosed to the house foreign affairs committee that a Soviet fifth column, composed mostly of Germans, Ger-mans, is working "night and day" to create chaos in Germany. At an off-the-record meeting, Marshall, in effect, declared: "The Russian game Is to keep Germany in chaos, realizing that desperate, broken, hungry people arc easy prey for Communism Commu-nism and will turn to Russia for aid." He emphasized that European recovery is impossible without stepped-up stepped-up German production, and assured the congressmen that this was the unanimous opinion of Die "best minds available." Germany was the hub of European economy before the war, Marshall pointed out, and could not be blanked out suddenly without upsetting the whole European structure. "If Germany becomes a cancer, " he warned, "the thing will spread." The secretary of stale implied that Germany can be made self-sufficient without again threatening world peace, but Indicated that the problem prob-lem was to convince France of this. lie declared frankly that economic recovery in Europe hinged upon the French attitude toward Germany, inasmuch ns France fears any program that might develop Germany's war potential. This worry is aggravated by Communist propaganda, lie said. WRIGHT PATTERSON Russia Thwarts United Nations v v : v - v vi : X A MISTAKE was maile In tho San Francisco conference when the Unlled Nations was organized. or-ganized. Russia should not have been appeased by giving her n veto power. Shi" nhould have been permitted per-mitted to walk out then, und not later be in u position to block nrtlon. Unlled Nullum, to bo effec- I tlve, must be something more than n debating society. Its constitution provides M ralher cumbersome method of correcting that mistake. The (line to niaUe such n chnnj'. Is NOW. 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