Show PAUL MALLON can we absorb refugees CONGRESS failed to enact the stratton bill admitting C L displaced persons from europe this is bestirring considerable bitterness among people who can make themselves bitter about such matters believing the united states should be a refuge for an anyone ezeir one who needs a political haven these people had spread their own impression that a critical emer gency on the issue requires immediate action there are perhaps 1000 1 europeans who do not wish to return to their homes for political or social reasons they fear to so go under the wing ot of communism about 21 per cent are children 13 per cent are over 41 44 years old 20 per cent are jews 65 per cent are catholic 15 per cent protestants a majority was in agriculture before the war congress realized the problem could not be solved simply by opening american immigration gates to let the mass flow in although some evidence indicated many had relatives here who might support them perhaps a faster part answer to the problem will be found at the forthcoming meeting of foreign ministers of the americas certainly latin america is a young and growing area in which immigration and colon coloni bation is needed more than in the united states better opportunities for the may exist there for us to absorb some may be found eco no feasible for both them and us an all america agreement would certainly be better than a united states decision alone H I 1 L PHILLIPS dangers of the open road the papers inform me of approve al ill of a super dooper national high way system to embrace the whole united states it will connect 42 state capitals and link the larger cities of the land by express high ways viaducts and tunnels link 42 state capitals by super high way my eyel unlink a few of em say I 1 there are too many good highways already and too many pe people ople going places on them instead of broader highways with fewer stoplights we need narrower ones with more stop lights if the population Is not to be kept in a state of sustained flight from home and fireside americans were a sturdier more likeable steadier and genuinely happier people when they were home part of the time 0 what does russia want can tt it be a cut in the world senes series two for oklahoma an end to husband and wife radio programs why the apparent hat hatred red of america and all things american have some of stalin s friends been using our subways A DREW PEARSON ARSON PE junkets to alaska IT TT S AMAZING HOW MANY congressmen suddenly find they have urgent business in m alaska this summer with travel paid for by the sweltering taxpayer back home even cong evan howell illinois republican now appointed to the U S court of claims and who won t pass on airfield sites any more now finds he Is needed in alaska to inspect new airfield routes here are the different congressional groups that have found urgent business in alaska though this summer they are careful to pay personally the expenses ot of their wives and families junket no I 1 senate public lands committee junket no 2 senate small business committee junket no 3 house interstate commerce committee junket no 4 house public lands committee whereas the senators made no effort to conceal their alaskan trips wolverton s interstate commerce junket tried to get off without public notice if these legislators really got to know alaska their visits might be bene facial since that neglected territory deserves consideration for statehood so far houpe however hoi ver ever few congressmen have been willing to pay much attention to alaskan problems except during the summer WALTER WINCHELL oddities in the new york scene at one time new york city threatened to secede from the union and form an independent nation the mammoth illuminated sign atop doctors hospital is a signpost for mariners and also a reminder not to toot their boat whistles in front of the hospital many of the trees in new york streets man age to exist by pushing their roots into sewers to absorb water some of the wealthiest new york families originally made their fortunes fortune when their ances tors worked with captain kidd incidentally there is only one clue to the treasure that the fabulous pirate is supposed to have buried along the atlantic coast A number kidd wrote on a card that no one has been able to decipher if V you happen to see ghosts roaming through the night at bryant park don t be sur it used to be a cemetery when bathtubs first were introduced in new york the very cautious board of health ordered citizens not to use them without first consult ing their doctor the big town s most arresting landscape can be viewed from the heights of fort tryon park wall street got its tag because the dutch erected a wall there cen tunes ago when they feared an in the reason some streets in the big town have feminine names when those streets were parts of farms the farmers honored their wives by naming lanes after them the grimmest sea voyage is taken by the tug that terries ferries cadavers from bellevue to hart v island for burial WALTER SHE SHEAD A T wh what a t about federal spending F FEDERAL spending in general and president truman s 1947 budget in particular combined to make a wonderfully bouncy political football which both parties have kicked lucked about all year A political football is a thin tissue of truths and half truths inflated out of all proportion with air of a strictly torrid temperature As a result the aver age american working man continues to go about thoughtfully rubbing two nickels together and wondering if it his government is really as ex trava gant as a night club blonde or whether it is making a genuine effort to cut financial corners what is the truth probably it Is impossible to get an accurate bearing on all the true facts the republican congress raised a victory chant over its cutting of mr truman s budget estimates and if U we can believe what we read many agency appropriations were slashed considerably including the army navy interior department and agriculture department but the president with a weather eye out for his big day in novena novem ber 1948 has come up with another idea he has accused congress of working the hidden ball trick intimating that the illustrious members have shifted various budget items around to produce the illusion that they have effected a great savings in other words did we put any money in the bank or did we blow it all at the races WRIGHT PA PATTERSON TTE wholesome entertainment best on the lawns of the orange calit high school building grounds we ate a pot luck dinner and then everyone attended the ball game between teams of the rotarians and the lions everyone knew all the players business and professional men of the town that game produced more thrills was more wild VF ly exciting than any profession game I 1 ever witnessed in the cum cub or the white sox parks in chicago it must have been good for it end ed in a tie of 0 to 0 such reccea tion as that pot luck dinner and ball game has replaced for us the at tempt to find thrills at the theaters night clubs and t a |