Show I M a e eee es I Q WITH TIlE THE DATTLE BATTLE of Abilene TV safely lately out of the way candidate Ike Eisenhower has hu been holding open house for delegates turning on his well well known known charm and per tonality While bosses bosse of the Els EIs- campaign deny dent that any expenses travel or otherwise of these delegates is being paid by bytho bytho bytho tho national organization of the Eis Eis- Eisenhower Eisenhower campaign the question remains remains remains re re- mains as ns to Just who is passing the hat to raise expense money for these these junkets to meet and talk to Ike The It costs coats plenty of ot money for tor a trip to io N New w York or Denver or wherever General Ike is holding forth Observers who have attended attend- attend ed cd national political conventions Inthe Inthe in inthe the past believe that the tho average expense of ot a D delegate amounts to possibly 1000 each including the ante many have bave to subscribe to get geton geton geton on the delegate list hit Some del delegates gates dont don't have that kind of money moneT to spend let alone enough to make additional trips tripe visiting candidates beforehand r d. d Democrats here bere in Washington are making book on whether or r t j not the Taft-Eisenhower Taft feud will willi i reach third party proportions proportion Certainly Certainly Certainty the bitter recriminations recrimInation on both sides have reached the point where party unity is fa threatened even oven after the convention The National Foundation for Consumer Consumer Con Con- sumer Credit which put on an aU all out but losing campaign for repeal of consumer consumer credit controls controls' under Regulation W administered by the I Federal Reserve Board now comes omes i forth with a new program aimed i at better educating buyers on the use of Installment credit While admitting extension of the Installment system of ot purchasing is purely selfish the foundation is II pp- pp posed to abuses of Installment c the the oart buyer who overloads himself and and cannot p pay y out ut or the seller leUer who oversells by tricky and deceptive advertising or with Inferior interior merchandise mer mer- chandise with heavy carrying clauses clausel The foundation warns against the so called so-called fringe hinge dealers who sell lell for and dollar and dollar a-dollar-a- week and against t buying ances where cash and installment price are obviously too far tar apart The foundation denounced all aU the o j no money down boys boy They w warn rn that where terms are better than 10 to 15 IS per cent down and about 19 18 months to pay the balance there i is usually something fishy Just for fot the sake ake of the record- record General is NOT a titan ilian He lIe is still a five tar general of the army and has has' use of ot twe aides although he voluntarily waived his salary Only way he can become civilian is to resign from tram the army Now he only has hat retired status The congress has passed a lion dollar highway construction bill providing for a year for tor two years which means mean the states will put up an equal amount on a matching basis The foreign aid compromise bill also was wu passed and sent ont to the White House calling for approximately approximately Conference committee upped the house houle figure and cut the senate figure to reach the compromise The Presidents President's request however was wal for tor 79 70 billion and a dollar billion slash was of the meat axe variety The National Farmers Union is II conducting a campaign urging a write your Congressman for JOO percent of parity of farm tarm price supports The present act Is for tor a sliding scale with most crops supported supported sup sup- ported at 90 percent of parity The Fair Trade act in the senate was being jostled around although Congressman McGuire its author predicted eventual passage The bill which seeks to spell peU out that signer non-signer clauses of state fair trade acts are NOT in restraint of trade passed the house on a teller vote of ISO to 10 JO Such a vote howl how impressive since obviously it is II not ot a QUo quorum of the Ute members of the howe house But Dut trace it was not a record roU roll c call U vote it stands standi as a. official The TheMi Mi Ier act did not specifically declare the clause daue a violation viola viola- violation tion of the trust anti-trust act according to observers hence the recent Supreme Supreme Supreme Su Su- preme Court ruling The bill has ba a fifty fifty-fifty chance to pass the senate |