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Show - I fmm V 1 aw j ' UJfame. k 1 ' -- i. 7 6" Walter Shead 3WmCOrr''P0ndVri By VitTM. mmmm ; . i I . , '.v..'.-- 4MTCVKnftMec'WA j Will Be Continued A 'ft Form lllniMl i WWff Washington Butesu, Eye St., N. W. S liil r llill Messrr HMMIlMHI in lum RUSSIA WAR TALK WASHINGTON. J tm , true what they say about des? Shouldn't they be dropped? 1 Answers to these questions will deon your particular pend largely whose "ox is g of upon view, point be-fr- is-lu- " ..... - STATIC IS THE WORD FOR POSTWAR HOLLAND . . . The reconstruction period In postwar Holland is the forgetting period. The Dutch, tortured by four years of German occupation, are doing their best to wipe out the memory but do not have the wherewithal with which to rebuild the vast areas of their bombed cities, which still look as they did at the end of the war. There is no building material, no machinery and apparently no planning. Insert shows a pathetic figure in this era, Queen Wilhelmina, as she drove through The Hague ruins. Hill 41' liv-Jn- t I i , & v1! ijK.y pi 1 4H M . W M it V " k 4 JSfi. S " x i. ft Failures Dwindle Here are a few statistics which may answer some of the criticism directed against OPA. On the charge Concerning business bankruptcies, the records show, according to Dun V Bradstreet, there were 14,768 bankruptcies in 1939 and 13,619 in 1940, before OPA. The first full year of CPA control was 1943, when there In 1945 tvere 3,221 bankruptcies. there were only 810. So it appears to your Home Town Reporter that those 810 firms which went bankrupt .In 1945 did so in spite of OPA, and Cot because of OPA. The National Manufacturers association, the National Retail Dry Coods association and others are trying to persuade congress and the iublic that OPA pricing policies are responsible for existing shortages. The fact is that the record shows that for the five months after J pay, production was at a rate exceeding that of any prewar year, tven of 1941 when defense production lifted output above real prewar fevcls. In December of 1945 production output was 51 per cent above J939. which can hardly be considered as a production failure, f The committee for economic development says employment Is at the highest peacetime level in our despite strikes and disputes. Payrolls and earnings are now only slightly below wartime peaks and are rising. I What about subsidies?" Farm are against them . . . lways have been. They came as wartime emergency and are still eing used in the reconversion emergency. Can they be dropped? Of fwse, they could be dropped. If hey were, this is what would hapten. Food prices would shoot up 8 ter cent at retail overnight, and $;iere is no reason to believe they fcould stop there. On our 40 billion foliar annual food bill that would pan inan increase of 3.2 billion dol-?"the annual of food, "he subsidy on foodprice amounts to nly a billion and a half annually end it is paid in federal taxes largely by those with the most ability to lay. The rise In food costs would be pome alike by rich and poor. nt Profits 4 Times -- r j 1 f - - I Mfrt i 1JLj3OTf ' X'Zftfa. - V V f: effect on plain FOR a magic embroider flowered borders in natural colors, touched off with a pineapple crochet edgel So fresh! The crochet motif can be used In 3 ways. Pattern 71)5 has a transfer of 6 motifs averaging 4',i by 12 in., crochet directions. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send yur order to: Circle Needlecratt Dept. San Francisco 6, Calif. Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. Sewing Box 3217 No Name Address- - Birth Rate Among Women of Most Schooling LoWCSt is How the number of years women devote to their education relatively lowers the birth rate among them is revealed by statistics collected for the first time during the 1940 census and covering 2,638,000 married white women aged 9 years, according to Collier's. Those who had completed one to four years of grade school had an average of 4.33 children and those who had completed eight years had an average of 2.78; while the women who had finished college averaged 1.23 children. 45-4- 4--H r...iiiymii I .. -- V 'rJ KEJi If f 1 " .'i ;. k?f, aiiw' . ,t ' ) .V'. v;'i ' 'sjlr'-". - -ij v- j m erative peoples republic of Yugoslavia, are pictured preparing for a left shortly after hunting trip near Ruma. Ambassador Patterson to S. U. the vacation the hunt for a trip ... Dr. Wendell CURE FOR FLU Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J., discoverer of the centrifuge type of Influenza vaccine which should save the lives of millions of people. Greater NT 5A. ' . .w...., tlwwlll)AU n. Compton of Wash--r. OV ATOMIC ENERGY . . . Dr. Arthur atomic scientists, fo,.. one of the leading f ding part n the development of the atomic bomb, Itwed wl?e while T vacationing at Atlantic City. N. J., that he can J, atomic experiments. Dobbin Just as well as he handled the 01 handle YMCA convrnn. to the a was delegate rnrP lIL . hi Mr. Compton ! If yon haven't the tamina you should became lacks the natural A&D your diet Vitamins and natural oil you need you'll find Scott's Emulsion helps build itamina, energy and reiiitanct) to olds. See this wonderful difference bay Scott's at your druggist's today Older people ROAD Folks back in Jackson county, Mo., usually are willing to go the limit for any honor to their native son, Harry Truman. But a recent proposal to change the name of Van Horn road, an important traffic artery named after an early county pioneer, met with a storm of protest. Some of the ruraj citizens balked at stealing one person's tombstone to honor another. Van Horn road was named after Col. R. T. Van Horn, who settled in the county in 1855 when Kansas City's population was about 455. He became mayor of Kansas City, was active in Missouri politics, and bought the county's first newspaper, later the Kansas City Journal, now AND ICKE3 Henry Wallace and Harold Ickes, although agreeing on basic political Ideals, have never been warm friends. For 13 long years they served in the same cabinet, but part of the time they fought like cat and dog over who was to run the forest service and the soil conservation service. Ickes' exit from the Truman cabinet has left Wallace as the last of the original Roosevelt New Dealers, and the only cabinet member with a powerful hold on independent voters. An as was original Republican Wallace is strong with Ickes the Negro voters, labor, and the independent liberals. As a result, Wallace's position Inside the administration is better than ever. Truman and Bob Hannegan both are anxious to retain at least New Dealer. Wallace is one all-otheir man. JAPAN'S TOLICY Is being reorganized by Lewis J. Valentine, former police commissioner of New York City. As police commissioner he was credited nationally as having the most efficient police system In the United States, a valuable asset in placing the Japanese police upon an efficient r, basis. General who appointed Commissioner Valentine, has stated that he will have unlimited power. al LABOR DRIVE One of the most important labor decisions since the CIO broke away from the AFL has Just been taken. Phil Murray, head of the CIO, has decided to pour one million dollars into the greatest union organizing drive the south Ms ever seen. In a few weeks, CIO organizers by the hundreds will begin moving into Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, intent on organizing all unorganized labor, both Negro and white. SOUTHERN ... ( NO TRUMAN energy-building- -, good-tailin- g 1 slwdmldJ& Try dentist's amazing discovery Must Hold Your Loose Plates Comfortably Secure All Day Or VOu'll Mac-Arthu- iet vour monev now 'l7( WALLACE M.ri-"-:-'-m- i:" M. Stanley, TITO TAKES AMBASSADOR HUNTING . . . U. S. Ambassador Richard G. Patterson Jr., right, and Marshal Tito, bead of the fed- Men fmenomc issues." defunct t Ot to ' 1 What about the charge that profits .pre being curtailed? The per cent of Sam in profits in 1944 over the 1938 to 19';9 average in the retail field. P'eiure taxes. mam am fn11nu,' Itardw are retailers, 464 per cent; 4. . V tn.. io: ; n;ii! rurnitnra BIVI, 1IM JJCl WClll., riety chain stores, 339 per cent; F'n s apparel stores, 398 per cent; stores, 609 per cent; pnain groceries, 152 per cent; auto Sealers. 200 per cent. I The gain In profits before taxes the Industrial field shows the me large percentages with all nanufaturing showing 450 per average. Textiles and leather a 7.10 per cent gain; metals M products, 650 per cent; build-Lj- j natrrlals, 270 per cent; cheml-- , . 230 per Ccnt; food, bever-- , e and tobacco, 200 per cent. r comPla'nt from some V...!1 smesso, 1, opa-- s cost absorption '"cy which If abandoned would, ac- 0PA' boost st of foods J,T,nV m.ihon dollars, none of whicU 0Uld secret 4-- II 4-- H V-- fcistory no Most powerful lobby since the war threw itself into the battle to defeat the Wyatt housing program for veterans. Every congressman received wires, phone calls, letters from builders, lumber dealers, real w x r . ' i estate men. Many telegrams were phony, as several congressmen discovered when they tried to answer them. Others were signed with the names of people who later ' 1 assured members of congress that they had not seen or sent the wires. These tactics, of course, have been used before. club and FFA The prize telegram, however, was AND FFA SHOW PRODUCED REAL W INNERS . . . Competition among OKLAHOMA one sent to all congressmen from entries reached a new high at the Oklahoma Livestock show, Oklahoma City. Ellabell Swigart, Mooreland, lowarea by the the St. er left, had the grand champion with her hereford calf. Raymond Luckinbill, 15, Guthrie, upper right, won the Northwestern Flooring and Lumber championship with his shorthorn calf. Grand championship Iamb was won by southdown owned by Doo company, of which V. H. Alberts Is Clark, Frederick, upper left. A duroc jersey owned by Jerome Smith, Banner, lower right, champion pig. president. '" ' 1" ! 'u ' ""wimiliinHit 'yyyjWjjSMI wpwMWiuwitmww.w After urging that the veterans' pWW""1 4 K I ' program be defeated, the ' housing J lumber company had the gall to add: "Please also exert your efforts to oppose a standing vote on these IF That's Refreshing LOBBY ANTI-HOUSIN- G J Business It's that there's been considerable talk among the brass hats in the Pentagon building about war with Russia. Some of this comes from men who honestly feel war is inevitable and favor getting It over with right now. Others chiefly favor a little war talk because of its help in passing military conscription. However, there can be no doubt about the views of the top military man in the war department Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Two or three weeks ago, Eisenhower was attending a Washington dinner party when people began to talk about war with Russia. Irked by the conversation, he remarked that he was "amazed that so many people should suddenly be seriously considering the idea of war with Russia." Then the chief of staff proceeded to give a pointed lecture on the foolishness of this war talk, which can be briefly summarized as follows: "People who want war should only think a few minutes about the sacrifice Russia has made In a loss of the past five years life and property so large we cannot conceive of It. A people who have suffered such a loss will not turn tail before any military force in the world today. But at the same time they will not go out and look for another war. "And neither will we. This country is no more anxious to go to war with Russia. Our losses are great, and we want no more. Certainly the American people do not want to get involved in a war in which there can be no end but the destruction of the greater part of the world. "We have nothing to gain to start with, and would have nothing left when it Is over." OPA? I Are OPA policies sending business Arms into bankruptcy? Is it true fr.at production is being curtailed by rice control? What about subsi- gored" and, indeed, largely upon our honesty. I For there is no question that, immediately an OPA regulation is whether good or bad . . . and there have been some bad ones the first question which arises . fd the minds of many people is . . . Jow can we get around that regula- And there generally is a way. fon? happens amounts to a virtual conspiracy to evade the orders if OPA. This writer believes that if tfie same folks would spend as much time and energy in attempting to make OPA work, in then this agency which has become g the one bulwark against rising costs would function far better than it does, battered, repudiated and kicked around as it is by special interests and the congress. In spite of all the criticism directed against OPA, it is so popular With the people generally that congress does not dare repeal the law, nd will extend it beyond June 30. pow it will be extended is another inatter. The same coalition of Democrats and Republicans which fut the heart out of the housing bill in the house and which has made Ineffective every liberal piece of domestic legislation yet offered, is Jient on stripping OPA of every pow-- r it can possibly take away from Lovely Needlework UUk&.?i irtX'mifSh, I, 4 T j KATlf DRkw:fiASON j ' l El. 1' S IT J in WASHINGTON ; iOPA '. batik I ;ub mini frrana you u (And lonkl whpn vnil rmn talk and Uuko. without tear of to sore eu ma and enjoy steak, apples and other eating footle j you've been passim up. Don't let loots oltUi tsntlnns to ffaka you miiortblo anS ember. . relM. fin 85 tube, sloiunt, 8 tie st druggiiL Komombor, ' 8ti7i, tho romerkablo trMm.patte ' Oonture adkotln, siuit sol plates ft)l Meure all Say lonierltMtte yen seisin! 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