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ITAll 1948 Campaign Maneuvers Started WJ to Hi Top lu)iil)licans An; Angling For hvsiduntial Candidacy I N t.ou in a PF!' i :u I kii r:i; isv is.m n i pft Anahit and t nmmeMlalur tar!' ss WASHINGTON - M"rt than two uikx Ih fore luM hit of light wont out .f it ,it.l it looked vorv mm h the d, jouri. to on unpi rtui hod ns thi.ii) h it would glide I apHil v hut j f ; . - noli hi Or Missouri scandal r.iisid its ug!v tii.nl Son J irons P Kem was gLing t.) ii'i i.t t.is resolution S lies Mu I. mseti i tii.it K.e sas to investigate 0 e lii'tiee !r aim i t.ts hand1 ng i f the al T i !'. iliip. 1 50, Hi - rn means pulilu ms tins was t y an unpleasant dish ,f have on the fire fir tl ev intend t" f make It one the piet es de lesi'l.mi e of He j tie f.u tte t O .it against suit) it ju'lsi lary iumn.itprobe. to ing siart it oi ink- before nd for jrujriiinent tin y leahzed that liiie tun fti.it v O.l'i't Spu ( links t li I s h r n t ti . it w I ilnner dinner haok home The nemoorats, of course were set to fight it and some of (tie rather than pt along t'e battle, u'anted to fotget it for the J oM-fu- At of b low It couldn't I e ert'telv negli eted fur, di spi'e vin'i digging on 0 e part of the Hi publican and Pi e n eratie nation il eon mittei s. no re dlias ly tiwinus campaign t1 IW i genet abhip this wilting nohodv e the W. 1"" up I b. t'e i afraid n tu ti of a tli'rd Jj.irt v !i ft w i.gers who would f.d . h i i 'he hole of build eg f. r l'i'2 or lieiilv to f. ! I I spite be As to .1 'I M hge" l.ibi r cite for the TaP I! irtli v ,'K t T.dt's friid-at- e th it he w is t! e go'tig to ir man who s.ici ) it fn m lent a te.illv viiious ,mti hit or weapon Sioitlv after t'e ito was mcr-r- n It n. he i in ated tn.it the i lauses vd I. li n u." e the labor ptrss and juevi nts them from expressing their po! tn al views should be amputated In fact, some penp'e who ue nun h farther to the left than Taft, in both parties, insist that this bill is going to lose its terrors with time, that familiarity will bring, not contempt, but the realization that it may be used" by both management and labor to their advantage d just as the railway labor act, in its early days, eventugadally became a useful get. Meanwhile, the White House contingent has not been heard humming Tosti's "Goodbye. ta-e- nthed The Pendi rg.1 t lie will be used but it cannot be depended upon as n major weapon in the battle of 1113 alAt present tin Republicans, though they ate o timistie enough concerning the final vntorv, realize that it cannot he achieved without some heavy artillery eapahle of smashing the Democratic defensive, the strongest feature of which to date is the poll the poll that showed In July that Harry Truman still had a 54 per cent popular majority. That is why a lot of politicians on Well win Capitol Hili are saying: with Dewey," not just, We ll win." Youd be surprised to see how much-belabore- d many good Democrats turn sadly away, without replying to the Republican boast. There is one group, of course, Serving ihe Public It isn't an ordinary ad It is not directed primarily to the people without homes, without nurses, it is directed to the persons and organizations who can help bring these facts home to the general public to It is an ad written by and you. about the Advertising Council, concerning an operation of which almost everybody is conscious but about which few people know the What does the word advertise mean to you? Does it mean to warn, to give notice to, to inform, to notify, to make known to" Or does it mean some sort of high-power- involving blondes, y skybill- scrapers, Hollywood boards and singing commercials The first definition was written by Webster (not the senator, the who wrote a dictionary) The. other concepts are the result of a rash of lampoonery of advi Using which, while some of it mav contain a grain of truth, looks to me like biting the hand that is not feeding you. The lug. had novel about advertising at its blooming worst was called The Hucksters. a best sell- rr highly salted with erotica which has been turned into a movie There is no accounting for tastes, and I won't object if you see the picture and like it All I askDon't accept the advertising sequences as the literal truth. There is much about advertising I could loudly decry (and often do) at the risk of biting the hand I mentioned a paragraph or so back. But pen-t'ema- n there are hucksters who are undertaking projects of a very decent sort of which you may not be aware. Maybe in these past few months youve asked yourself: Why doesn't somebodv DO something about a lot of things. Something about the people killed or injured in automobile accidents every year. The Something about housing war ended two years ago. Yet the land of the free still isnt providing homes for the brave Shame on all us' about the shortage of medical services. Patients are neglected, hospital wards closed because the nation desperately needs nurses. Training them is a Something long-rang- e, national job Something about world trade Our econcmie future depends on unhamYet pressuie pered world trade groups make our world trade a football for selfish interests about the nation's Something health. Between the ages of 15 and 4. tiibe'culcisis is our greatest k:!l-iAt any given time, 5(H).Oi0 people have it But they dont know it You bet it is. Alarming Your Something about our k'ds children are gett'ng a rough deal Too few teachers Too in school antiquated equ'pmp'.t, old textbooks It or none at all Make you mad should. What has all this to do with ad- The above Just thisvertising words were copied from an adverr. - advertisement tisement, a in a recent New York Times, and perhaps other papers by this time. full-pag- r- . - '' e details ' It is an operation based on giving away what the givers oidinarilv sell advn Using spate, atvertismg ideas, advertising eoj v It answers Whv doesn't some-bo- d the question v DO something' The ieply is it's given in woiks as well ns words Somebodv IS The council grinds nobody's axe except vours, the publics, seeks no no expense account, has profits, meronly one objective To make ica a still better place than it nl- ready is The Advertising Council was horn a week after Pearl Harbor when Donald Nelson, about to take over chairmanship of the war production board, called in a group of advertising executives and discussed with them what the average citizen could do to help victory and incidentally, what would make him do it Now you are reading and hearing the results of the councils peacetime efforts they are embodied in the various forms of advertising of many firms, as spots on the radio, The council is many other places providing suggestions, ideas, radio fact sheets and other material to members of business firms, unions, civic groups and other citizens who can put that tremendous power, advertising, to work personalizing big national problems. 5 t 5 ... old-time- lilue-blood- s w'-n-- dollars last year, it is revealed in a department of commerce survey. The return, in history, sur- passed by 18 per rent the best year of the lTiOs and was well above t'e hig'-cs- t of 474 million preceding peak earned in lTf! For year of the 30s, tae figure was million dollars. The higher return was largely d 1938 top 44 J at- - rre tncso I it 3- ,fW a1; Aai.s ,7.r:ir the heei but the big shots in Washington. no held animosity jaipartntly id t' e President Follow oit by a U o g a r he was sent to a Washing-- j Later, n t! .1 I. uni has i. vcy n ton hospit. for observation. fund to i i t i r n 'i .mum t " fi The (( incidental appearance of n enls f, r t1 s yr ,r President Truman in the senate i i stole do; in i led I. I. ihambir was the result of a dare !,'"l!ion shale if ' whah fie took while having lunch Auuriean with some of his former colleagues In its ,itif, ii oi n the state senate. He spoke (or five t at special S.ii Items,, from the from the sent he held as minutes .1 l.c.x and such as me sup from senator the M,souri, dwelling tuffs fir paitieul.ir y feel auld larg syne on the largely ul Toland le it siprhed groujis. theme. and relief ia'enne.s through private other org. uiiz.it. ntis. READING IUREIC: The announeerm nt added: In view of the above and of the 19 Per Cent Heard fact that funds available are suffiIt is probably a safe surmise that cient to meet nn'y the most urgent of State George Marshall relief needs, it has been decided not Secretary was shocked clear down to the botto undertake a relief program for tom of his briefcase when a Gallup Poland revealed that only about 49 per poll Next on the list, according to incent of Americas voting population dications, might be Hungary, where had heard or read of his cele better crop prospects are in sight. brated plan for repairing and reThe state department said that building Europes shattered econ the decision to cut off relief to omy. Poland was based entirely on the On the other hand, he could take relative needs of European coun- some consolation from the fact 57 tries. No official comment was per cent of those who were aware of made on the fact that Poland is the Marshall plan also approved of well within the Soviet sphere of init. fluence and that Hungary is defi(T he plan, in simple terms, uas a sugnitely Communist-dominated- . gestion to the European nations that they get together to u ork out their economic NKW SPLIT : basis. saltation on a cooperatne, Plating a maior role in financing the reVccirv Treaty cot ery would be Ameriian money obRussias rejection of the United tained through taxation of both the 49 States proposal for drafting a Japa- per cent u ho had heard of the plan and nese pence treaty is showing up as the 51 per cent uho hadn't .) another breach in the already badly Here is the first question which weakened structure of American-Sovie- t Gallup pollsters asked: unity. "Have you heard or reac. In addition, it may delay indefiabout the Marshall plan for a work on nitely peace treaty for helping Europe get back on its Jar n which, the Un'ted States confeet? tend'. is an absolute necessity if the conouered nation is to get back on its eu comic feet American proposals fivr bogin-nm- r tie tn'k of writing a treaty on August I1' were turned down bv Moscow on the grounds that the U . S was attempting to act and without having made am previous agreements with Gnat Britain. China or Russia Major question now facing the United States and other nations inThose who had heard of the plan ter ste m making progress on a were a'ked: Far Fast peace settlement is What is your opinion of the whether to go ahead with the writplan? of the Japanese peace treaty ing without Russia C.( meeled 4rf It is a sure indication that rrofrPa OIL AND HORSEPOWER is under way across the land when old ways and new wayj (Iia side by side for a time in the same bailiwick. At Ledue. Afberu Canada, these days horses are grazing in the skeleton shadows of j derricks because wh2t was once an important agricultural area cently has come to be an even more vital source of petroleum, oil companies already have launched major operations near Lediituj five wells have been brought in. First oil strike in the region iu ID: IOI.WI) all ... lid Poland Cancelled; Reds Delay Jap Treaty i made to-v- v. in that fra' nan for fast February. i ! ! I i EISLERS AT COURT . . . Gerhardt Eisler, described as the No. Communist in the United States, and his wife leave U. S. district conrt in Washington, D. C., where Eisler is being tried on passport (rand charges. The government is scheduled to present further evidence that Eisler made several trips to this country to whip the Americu Communist party into the Moscow line. Eisler previously heard an admitted former Communist testify that every American Communist is an agent of the Communist Internationale. 1 self-hel- p Foil Mar er nui ti! a New V ''or!, bjildll Dur aso 1 Tmtei l.shea from day s uere (fans Idas, captiv ff the a?r sude well laur lead wer Fori of f ject It ip GI N TOTER: Coincidence For police would when ing a a few minutes Washington thought they might have a be assassin on their hands they picked up a man carrygun inside the capitol just after President Truman had made a visit to the senate chamber. But Clifton R. H. Spires, 39, of Augusta, Ga , arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, appeared more confused than anyone else about the affair. He seemed to think that he had a grudge against noi e lv foes tf M treatii .ABEL FOR GIFTS TO GREECE . . . Rep. Leo E. Allen UWj and John Baer, cartoonist and former congressman from Dakota, display the emblem submitted by Baer for house approva connection with a bill introduced by Allen for the labeling of all S00 donated by the U. S. to the relief of war-tor- n countries. The meau. tn W'ould provide that indelible such gilts tell on all markings origin, destination and unsalability. -- HI.) As a footnote, the poll disclosed that while public opinion was generally in favor of Marshall's proposal, support would decline sharply if taxes had to be raised in order to put it through. fpper S.oux of the r.esotE fent ents teir F f des Fort The i"anv fxcha row Peak Foreign Income Reported Compensating m an infinitesimal degce for the vast sums of United S'utes money lave flowed abroad dunng the postwar era for rel ef of devaxtabd countries, earnings on American investments in toie.gn countries reached a new peak of 520 million de were ir. is A scene dear to the hearts of I (, It s( .m: at d nurrv at the watering trough. These three rercherons are who till be rounded up from farms tvpiral of the many throughout the I'. S. to compete at the National 1ercherun show August 23 . t at the Ohio state fair iu Columbus. NOVI 111 Ve fate ' NOT ALL OUTGO ASHINTGTONT Si f t" 7 . Cl fan AVr: Inch is insisting stubbornly "V.'e'll with T i't " They mav admit if vwi put 0 m a ritnrr that th-f.ifit w n with ri'm." ,. ,, p Hi, ti ,! m tic Truman poll an i tv e m g.i'ne c i.u nee revealed in the Il Taft Rut, they s,lV. T.,ft I avt t vt irti-to campaign Win n he does he'll change nil th it " How ,d out ai ron if C.d fni "in, ! w .lid w no liii.e will! I. I n 'her or s,.j .itism nor St.issen's T. ills III i t ills;. i t or Dewev's Hit W, II. ate look It g I is one stui v tli.it Warien eo; lldn t hi, e ,iu,J possible u .f.g Hie N" that hi dot sn t wai.t the N'o 2 job that wb.it I ( does watt is ;it- - toinev present of te 1 - w -o I mil'ht til-- o everybody late fur skull-dugger- - 1U-- they didn't Waft I L - Jrd a' I - T.t Rut campaign i L j with tu . - lit 3 i j1 r ! tin- . v ( . despite City vote ffniiils in 1946 Thi-'doeitlt d had lie nf ti.e si nale already In ' tubued to an increase of dnect invest," ents abroad These are direct pnvate business inv t 'tments not government loans T! e f? v-- f 5" 4c ; - ar t- s sod j es th( t - 'A4s e" ' Canada has consistently occupied first place. Countries next in importance in providing income on American direct investments were include principally foreign Venezuela, Chile, the United branches and subsidiaries of Amer- - dom, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil and" lcan enterprises and foreign com Mexico. pan-imencnns own in which Largest single more than 25 per cent of the voting was the petroleumincome producer industry, which StlH ri. accounted for 170 million dollars in of De 1946 income, J94G Alout ore-haManufacturing was second cr 273 million dollars, was received with returns 130 milfrom Latin Amer.ca, and one-- , lion dollars approximating f'Uith, 126 million do'lurs, from. M.nmg and produced 65 Canada The remaining fourth was mill on dollars;smelting public utilities, 50 aivmed between Europe, Asia, Af- million; agriculture, 45 million; rica and Oceania. distribution industries, 40 million', and other industries, 20 million. Among the countries involved lf ' V 'S, 5 elm 'v , Pror.o a ' , S i $ , v v Wwz s 'I' t 7 st K, if Sc - -- V- - "Vt Ider f.ivr P-- t PIT 7 h - f . f s. , trk n- - X f r- MOM: Y- -M L BAD . . . United States Mr .. Brown embraces the mountain of Deputy $10 bills found on bogus seC arv'0Uth f St George ltah- - and brought to Los Angeles bf agents. The pile of counterfeit bills was estimated nT,r, -- 'e resent about $150,000 at face value. |