Show National Whirligig By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-PrentiSs Prentiss M. M Brown has discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered that some of his more zealous 0 O P ers A-ers seek to perpetuate the rationing of lifes life's necessities necessities necessities especially food after the war They would subject almost all production and distribution industries to federal control Nutritionists have joined with economic liberals to apply heavy pressure for a permanent arrangement In that way they figure they can obtain all aU their sociological goals at one single simple stroke By imposing ceilings on a system of strict allocations of commodities they believe that they will enable lower paid workers to buy buyas as much and as high grade articles as their more fortunately placed fellows A porterhouse steak and a fine suit of tweeds would be brought within everybody's reach They also assert that mass output at low retail costs would solve the postwar problem of unemployment and provide use for expanded plants Such a program would likewise give the federalists federalists federalists fed fed- a firmer hold on the nations nation's agricultural agricultural agricultural tural structure By manipulating the money and coupon values of specific crops they could offer offer offer of of- fer incentives that would determine what a farmer would raise far more effectively and at ata ata ata a smaller treasury charge than the acreage al allotment allotment allotment al- al method and the ordinary laws of supply and demand The grandiose idea does not appeal to the new big 1 ig three in Leon Hendersons Henderson's old shop Administrator Brown Edward Burke legal adviser adviser adviser ad ad- and Lou Maxon publicity and promotion chief Fourth Obtain Good Retort Fourth are ribbing Republican critics of F DRs DR's D Rs R's supposed ambition to succeed himself himself himself him him- self on January 20 1945 Their retort has become become become be be- come the stock slogan of the We want Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt again faction and it is presumably the latest brain child of old master Charley Michel- Michel son When the Republicans chide the new dealers in corridors and cloakrooms the two-time two tradition tradition tradition tra tra- tra- tra reply Well if our man is so vulnerable vulnerable vulnerable and if you believe he would be whipped on this issue issue we should think that you would want him to run again You fellows just arent aren't smart When the G GO GOP ers 0 ers P-ers ask if the Democrats dont don't give them credit for mindedness high in assailing another nomination for the president Michelson has an even better comeback N No 0 is the answer No politician is high Michelson's return to the arena after a few months of retirement hints at a slashing gloves- gloves campaign off when as National Chairman Frank C. C Walker says the time comes to open up The veteran newspaper man does not sl shine ne too brilliantly as a defensive publicist He belongs to the attack school of speech writers and ex- ex journalists Balkans Look Like Second Front FrontA A significant event has just occurred bolstering bolstering bolstering bolster bolster- ing the argument of those contending that the Balkans will be the site of the major second front against the nazi homeland Cable companies announce that Iraq is now blocked off from all commercial messages This action is a logical first step if the Levant has been chosen as the assembly ground for a huge invasion force for otherwise detailed news about bases and maneUvers maneuvers maneuvers maneu maneU- vers might leak out to the enemy Strategists hint that a series of blows against the axis is developing Anglo-American Anglo forces may be gathering in Iraq Syria and surrounding territory territory territory-as as well as in Egypt Egypt and and may advance to the Aegean islands and through the Balkans while soviet troops on the right flank set their battering ram in motion in the Caucasus Nazi satellites in the region expect such an offensive and are trying to wiggle out of the axis alliance Hungary has flooded Switzerland and Sweden with rumors that she will not fight Uncle Sam and John Bull Rumanian peasants hate the ruling clique which sent their sons to perish in the snows of Russia The first sight of the Stars and Stripes would cause them to re re- re volt Bulgarian Slavs are restless under their tyrannical King Boris and his Berlin BerUn master Should these shaky eastern bastions of fortress Europe collapse the united nations fliers could pound central Germany into rubble McClure Newspaper Syndicate |