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Show nomE 1$ IN WASHINGTON ppff t-T- I t he S tg anj fist! Kg, I Utah W PKOOEY'. lift cent ! 1 w iei, Sen' be-lit. ( ' M a -- A-' : ' ; A rrE KING IS DEAD . . . Babe Ruth, a legend while he lived, has become an American epic after his kith. He ws u the guya to the world wno ever Pu,,ed out ot obscurity to become big leaguers. The ube grew up to become the biggest, best, hardest hitting, most colorful baseball player on earth. His forgettable diamond career began with the Baltimore Orioles when he was still an open-faced, over-town over-town boy (inset). He reached the climax of his baseball life in the third game of the Yankee-Cubs world Jries on October 1, 1932. With two strikes on him and the Chicago crowd heckling him, the Babe pointed He center field wall. Then he hit the next pitch past the flagpole. This picture, from Esquire magazine's treat Moments In Sports" series, captures the simple but dramatic faith in himself that made Babe Ruth t American idol. , O - - ' J 9 . .... ,.-m&mMzmmft t Ji sn:... iirlt Till ' f- n 'X-.tli-v hi ICf 1c,S .k. ' ; 1 r f ' f S ft; ,SW I i t I 1 . ; (i f 5. f v- ' I 4 li-" .. ' v V IfAE IS OVER FOR THESE MEN . . . Fighting of the suspended "war" in the Holy Land will not be re-wmed, re-wmed, as far as these captive Arab fighting men are concerned unless they escape Jewish imprisonment imprison-ment or are released by force of other Arab arms. In the photo, some of the 2,000 Arab prisoners of war arch through the gate, of the stockade where they are held by their Israeli captors. Among the Arab jrisoners also are a number of Britons, some of whom left British armed forces to join the Arabs. rmlSSS i S wT h-INS i08111 AND THE BKIDGE WENT . . . Only the rails and ties survived when floods swept ' a railroad bf'Se in Berwickshire, England. Torrential summer rains caused overflowing of riv-and riv-and streams and inundated more than 1,000 square miles of northern England and Scotland. Hundreds wds rt Wefe ,orced t0 evcuate their homes. Ripening crops were ruined in many localities and rail-' rail-' e this one, were put out of commission. Total result was an additional severe strain on the al-wy al-wy overstrained British economy. 111 iw-nn tpp, ? , E THAT'S GOING ASHORE . . . Unification might still be Just a controversial theory In the "fines rns ' the rmd forces, but it was much more than that at Norfolk, Vs., when the army, navy, Euron 'r 'orce comD,ncI to combat landing operation based on the bitter lessons learned on shores ndlnt ?d th Pci0c- " wa "Operation Camid" (for West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen.) ,sl fcand'1 i Ure "ne(l np 00 the Deacn nd P'1Iin tnelr iotds of navy middies who are beginning to learn hem - W ground troops are np against when they undertake an Invasion of a strongly defended 4 'j coast. New Farm Program INSOFAR as the so-called long-range farm program adopted by the 80th congress is concerned, farmers, ranchers and truckers can forget it until about January 1, 1950, or thereafter. For the 1948-1949 1948-1949 crop will not be affected by the new act. These crops still will be largely marketed under the present support price system with a few changes. The important change is that prices received by cooperating producers pro-ducers of the mandatory Steagall commodities, including Irish potatoes pota-toes harvested before January 1, 1949, milk and its products, hogs, chickens and eggs marketed before Despite widespread support for 'ratification of the international interna-tional wheat agreement, the special spe-cial session denied positive action, ac-tion, preferring, leaders said, to wait until the new 81st congress convenes next January. The agreement would have assured V. S. wheat growers a 185 million mil-lion bushel export market for five years at guaranteed graduated gradu-ated scale of prices. Joining farm organizations In pressing for approval were Sen. Arthur Vandenbeie nd Sen. Al-ben Al-ben W. Barkley. January 1, 1950, are to be supported support-ed at 90 per cent of parity. In other words, on these commodities the parity price cannot go over 90 per cent as under the old law. On other mandatory Steagall commodities, including flaxseed, soybeans, dry edible beans, dry field peas, American-Egyptian cotton, cot-ton, potatoes of the 1949 crop, sweet potatoes and turkeys marketed before be-fore January 1, 1949, prices are to be supported at not less than 60 per cent of the parity price or more than the 1948 support level. So on these commodities the parity price as compared to the old law can drop from not less than 90 per cent to not less than 60 per cent. On basic commodities the parity price is the same as the present law except that parity for cotton is dropped (rom 92 to 90 per cent. On wool the price is to be at the 1946 support level, about 42 cents a pound until June 30, 1950. Support price for non-cooferators on basic commodities is to be 54 per cent of parity and only on as much of the commodity as would be subject to penalty if marketed, as under the existing law. Costly Support While the solons talked long and loud about doing something about the waste in potatoes, they did nothing to take the secretary of agriculture ag-riculture off the spot. The law still requires him to support the price of Irish potatoes pota-toes and go into the market and buy them when they reach the support price. This policy, adopted by congress. Is costing the government about four million mil-lion dollars per month. it was sainted put in debate that the early and intermediate potato crops could not be shipped abroad as food under the European recovery recov-ery program because of the perishable perish-able factor. The late potato crop, much of it from northern states, can be shipped but even if sufficient refrigerated ships could be obtained ob-tained for shipment there is insufficient in-sufficient cold storage in Europe to keep them once they arrive there. Consequently the government sells them to distillers, to millers, to farmers for feed, to all sorts of institutions and takes a heavy loss. Debate on Inflation During the debate on inflation in the special session, some senators sat open-mouthed, others . looked warily at one another as they heard this exchange between Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Dem., Wyo.) and Sen. Robert A. Taft (Rep., Ohio): SENATOR O'MAHONEY: "I understand un-derstand the senator to say that bi thought the President had the power to enforce sound anti - inflationary policies and one of the powers which he mentioned was the power to abandon aban-don government bonds in the market and let tbem go down in value. Dots the senator from Ohio recommend that policy?" SENATOR TAFT: " would rather have that done than to place price controls on the American people, yes. I do not think it necessary. I think that raising the rediscount rate, probably on short term bonds, would be sufficient. suf-ficient. As to a choice between that and (he reimposition of price controls, con-trols, I should prefer government bonds to go below par." Dewey Request Denied Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Republican presidential nominee, apparently asked one favor fa-vor of the special session and it was denied. Dewey reputedly asked Sen. Chapman Revercomb (Rep.. W. Va.), chairman of the senate judiciary committee, to revise the displaced persons bill by cutting back the eligibility entry date into German DP camps from December 27, 1945, to April 21, 1947. Mr. Tru-man Tru-man also asked for the revision. v LABOR . . . Maurice J. Ttftfm. former governor of Massachusetts Massachu-setts and former mayor of Boston, Bos-ton, has taken the oath of office as secretary of labor to succeed the late Lewis B. Schwellenbach. Tobin, 47 years old, has been a strong Truman supporter. mt AY' X0'm0 sill lif (tlrf ' 1 1 P Q ... Wm - f A I - - - CRUSADER . . . Mrs. S. D. Vaughn of Dallas, Tex., fed up with high meat prices, launched a campaign in her city to get housewives to stop buying meat for a week in order to break the rising spiral Her Idea for a butcher boycott spread to cities all over the country, resulting in kder.ate buyers' strike. ; A? 4 ' -, -' !t 1 iJf" " UsUMMisHBHaaHBiaMAtbaKCStn -i --i r- tr-uitafti i ' SPEEDY . . . Donald F. Strub of Akron, Ohio, Is pridefully kissed by his mother after he won the 11th annual all-American soap box derby at Akron. He also won a four-year scholarship to any state college or university. 'i t i . k." --."is.-. 'i BERLIN COP . . . Johannes Stumm, recently appointed police chief of Berlin by the Allied governments, gov-ernments, is among those not recognized by the Russians. Soviet occupation forces ignored his appointment, named their wn chief of police. "UWIii"H ywwiwwKin , ,i.mpw.i in iiiul 2 APPETIZER . . . Ready to g overboard for some of that Virginia Vir-ginia seafood, sub, is Eileen Brown who will be an appetising attraction la the national seafood sea-food festival to be held at Hampton, Hamp-ton, Va.. September 16 and 17. If -4: V if t i I s f 1 GETMIIT Tmmono UHIGHT M DIXIECRATS WHOOP IT UP . . . Count the political parties in the C. 8. one, two, three, four ot them. And the youngest party, the Dixiecrats, is the most rambunctious of all. Forsaking the regular Democratio party to paddle their own states' rights canoe, the Dixiecrats Dixie-crats held a convention in Houston, Tex., where they nominated J. Strom Thurmond, governor of South Carolina, as their presidential candidate and Fielding Wright for vice president. ' NOW THE "NO" IS ON THE OTHER FOOT . . . Soviet Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin, leaving the office of Under-Secretary of State Robert Lovett, reflects dour disappointment. He had delivered a formal diplomatic note demanding custody of Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, Soviet teacher wht made a "freedom leap" from a window of the Soviet consulate In New York. Panyushkin received a polite but definite "no." V liii -:x. lift- ASM ttmm 1 - ( '- ' VV -tlx i!L 22a.aLri CANADA'S GREATEST OIL DISCOVERY . . . It's oil by the millions of barrels at the new Leduc field near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Less than two years old, the field is hailed as one of the greatest oil discoveries discov-eries in the British empire. One hundred wells already have been drilled, one of which, Atlantio No. 3, broke loose last March and flowed wild at 14,000 barrels a day. Sixty tons of feathers (above), cement and wood pulp failed to stop It for five months. '? " 1 THE YOUNG LADY IS UNCOWED . . . Charmingly attired In a cen-tnry-old children's costume, petite Margery Anne MacConnell extends tentative greetings to Elsie the cow during a centennial celebration at Brewster, N. Y. Elsie seems (to coin a phrase) to have ber placid bovine eye more on Margery's old-fashioned nosegay than on the wisp of bay she is being offered. The little girl was a prise-winner la a children's parade. Released by WNU Features. Explanations Wanted OERE is a paragraph from t recent speech made by Winston Win-ston Churchill in England: "How the ministers (of England) can deride the system of free enterprise enter-prise and capitalism which makes' America great and wealthy and then at the same time eagerly seek the aid which has been so generously gener-ously granted from across the Atlantic At-lantic that is a grimace which baffles the limitations of our language lan-guage to explain." Why any Americans who have for so long enjoyed high standards of living, wages which are higher than any other nation's, na-tion's, farm prosperity, pros-perity, opportunities which free enterprise enter-prise offers to ell who are willing to strive, should be clamorous In their . effort to change our American way for the socialism of England and other European nations, is another grimace which baffles the limitations limita-tions of our language to explain. Following the close of World War II, a majority ot the English people, peo-ple, seeking "something for nothing," noth-ing," deliberately turned to the left. The people of England and the people of America have paid a heavy price for that turn. Year by year the English people are faced with a diminishing living standard. They have less to eat; less clothes to wear; less coal to provide heat; less of all things that make living a pleasure. During those same years we Americans have dug deep Into our pockets to . provide funds with which to keep England a going concern. We did this because be-cause the world needs a strong England to face, with us, the various problems the war created, creat-ed, and upon which the maintenance mainte-nance of our civilization Is dependent. de-pendent. The facts are generally and widely wide-ly known, but despite such knowledge knowl-edge all three of our political parties proclaim themselves liberals. Today that is but another name for socialism. social-ism. It is the providing of "something "some-thing for nothing." The government supports the citizen rather than th citizen supporting- the government. The liberalism of today is not tha liberalism of Theodore Roosevelt. His purpose was to keep us on the American way, not to turn to the left, but to provide equal opportunity opportu-nity tor alL It those Americans aligned with both of the old established parties' had an opportunity to express, in a definite way, a preference as to the road along which they wished to travel, practically 90 per cent would' vote for the tested American way of private enterprise, capitalism and the profit system which provides pro-vides opportunity for all individuals who are willing and anxious to strive for what they want. They would not ask for "something "some-thing for nothing." They would pay their own way, asking only that government be adminis- ' trated as economically as is practical. It is only a small minority who would wish for a turn to the left; for a government govern-ment that would support them without effort on their part. All too frequently our major political po-litical parties, led by leaders of imperfect im-perfect vision, bid for that minority vote rather than the 90 per cent majority. The great majority of the American people are not mendicants. mendi-cants. The "splinter" parties can take care of the votes of the mendicant mendi-cant minority. Answer to a Query A READER QUESTIONS a statement state-ment in this column to the effect that the people pay the tax of 20 cents a ton on all mined coal which is levied by the coal miner's union. He says a majority of the coal mined is used in industry and transportation, not in home heat ing. True, but when used in industry indus-try and transportation it adds to the cost ot commodities and serv ices. That added cost is, and must be, passed along to the consumer, and we the people pay the union tax ol 20 cents a ton on all coal mined by union miners. The consumer pays the taxes of Industry and transportation. transpor-tation. It is a portion of the price they pay for commodities and services. mv town and mv county, and I expect your town and your county, coun-ty, are following the example set by the state and the federal gov ornmpnt Thev are taxing an-1 spending at an all-time high. They have caught the spirit oi innauon and are helping it along. The preach savings for the individual but do not practice what they preach. To have some economy minded officials In town, county, state and federal government! might help as an example to th individual American citlxen. , |