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Show THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PARK TWO Loves on W cashongtoim.' SpSics Ml yflhundjuisJboiL The Washington Biological Survey has changed the wording of the metal bands used to ring birds released in connection with its researches into American bird life. It now reads: Notify Fish and Wild Life Services, Washing, ST D. C. folks would think that congress had had enou h of ton, The old inscription was the ablowfiasco, after that Brewster-Hughe- s breviated: Wash. Biol. Surv. ever, another big extravaganza is being cooked up by the and the change was made after house investigating committee that will out- an Alberta farmer sent in a comdo the Hughes probe in names and glamour, if not headlines. plaint to the U. S. government. Until the curtain goes up, a publicity blackout has been ordered by Dear Sirs, he wrote, I shot committee chairman Parnell Thomas of New Jersey. However, it is one of your pet crows the other e known that a swarm of actors and actresses will be brought and followed instruction atto Washington next month to testify on alleged communism in Hollywood. day tached to it. I washed it and biled Even if the probe doesnt prove anything which it probably it and surved it. It was terrible. wont it will keep Congressman Thomas name on the front pages You should stop trying to fool the K always helpful when one aspires to be GOP senator from New people with things like this. Jersey. Thomas and his investigators are mum about which movie stars and Make Foreign Coins producers will appear. However, It can be revealed that those scheduled to be invited or subpoenaed Include: Since 1874, the mints of the Charles Chaplin, who filmed The Dictator; Katharine Hepburn, who introduced Henry Wallace to a Los Angeles rally; Adolphe Menjou, United States have been making Robert Taylor, Director Leo McCarey and Hans Eisler, a Hollywood coins at cost for foreign governwhose combined orders composer and brother of Gerhardt Eisler, recently convicted of contempt ments, of congress. Jack Warner, who produced Ambassador Joe Davies book at times have exceeded the volMission to Moscow, at a time when we were wooing Russia, also ume of domestic requirements. For example, during January, will appear. DREW PEARSON I ,L?Efef Americans Dote on Nations Monuments to Its Heroes Another Glamour Probe Due rPr' MOST By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst ond Commentator. WASHINGTON. If you havent anything else to do, just take a seat beside me on this bench for a moment. I think this is one of the nicest little parks in the world. It doesnt take its name from the gentleman on the horse right over there in the center, behind the iron pickets. I dont know why. Of course, he is only a replica. The original is in a square in the city he defended from the British in the vieux carre of New Orleans. He wai GENERAL Jackson then. We think of him ai President fun of the horse hes sitting on, that prancing Jackson now. And we make steed with his feet planted so firmly In the air ("like a liberal congressman, as one of the old conservatives used to say). It took many pounds of lead in Andys horses tail to keep the two of them In balance, they tell me. But dont think the horses bind feet are not firmly planted! The one man who tried to move them brought down an avalanche on his head, and gave a President of the United States a real headache. . It happened this way: There is statue of George Washington tucked off on a circle in a neighborhood which has net ther the distinguished past nor the glorious pres ent of Lafayette Square. Back in the regime of HarPresident ding, that statue was taken down for a little repair. A newspaperman, hard up for a feature, sat down and wrote himself quite a piece. His name was John Russell Young, and he is now commissioner (mayor) of the District of Columbia. In his piece, he suggested that when 'Washington was prettied up and returned to public view, he should be placed in the center of Lafayette park. Andy Jackson. Young thought, could be relegated to Washington's former relatively obscure position In Washington Circle. Local officials agreed. Then the deluge. The story was widely printed and it seemed that every Democrat In the United States was person, ally affronted. The presidential secretaries had bales of mail to answer. The climax came when a Andrew Jack-ao- a palrloilo and inarching club, which appeared to he very much alive aad kicking, threatened to descend on Washington In a body. The President had te Issue a public statement saying that Andy was safe. But I didnt intend to run on about $ every time I panted by the statue of Kosclusske, I could bear a faint murmur, I bad no doubt ft waa Koscluazko telling what be would do today If he ceuld Just get down from hie pedestal. A number of people wrote In about that They always do when I mention the statues. People are Interested In statues even though they have gont out of style as monuments. You know, the Du Pont family took the bust of old Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont out of the famous circle named after him, and replaced it with the present beautiful memorial fountain. Some Washingtonians were deeply offended and the national parks service was kept busy for several dayi answering phone calls and letters from indignant citizens. In fact about the only complaints the national park service has been receiving pf late year have been concerned with the upkeep of. the 77 statues entrusted to its care. Some Washingtonians call up to- rebuke the service for the greenish tinge creeping over some of them, like Kosciuszkos. It It bronze and weather turns It green, which most sculptors feel adds to its beauty, so the service doesnt worry too much. There wasnt much money for the oat Waal parks during World War II te pretty op Washington's atatuary. About all the aervico ceuld manage was a yearly washing of each statue (it lakes several men a whole day for the laundering Job). But this year congress gave the aervice $10,000 (or trucking equipment, hoses, masonry repair!, plumbing fixtures for the fountains and other monument. They have another $10,000 to apend on structural repairs to replace missing arms, legs and chunks hacked out by souvenir for . statues have their hunters, Andy. Thpsrlrls'cot,as I satdr too. But most of the finger ghouls, named after him. Its named after that young man you see over there breaking, it is believed, is done by youth. On the whole, peoon the southeast corner looking perverted like statues. ple right across Pennsylvania avenue Into the window of the No. 1 guest chamber of the Whit House. His name la Marquis Marie Joseph Paul Yves Rich Gilbert du Motler de Lafayette. Yes, were In Lafayette park. Over there on the northeast corner is another Frenchman, Field Marshal Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vlmeur, Comte de Rocbambeau. Over there on the northwest, opposite the Decatur House where Commodore Stephen Decatur died after being shot in a duel with a fellow officer (Commodore Barron) out at Bladensburg, is Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich von Steuben, who was as useful to Genera Washington, in his way, aa Lafayette long-forgott- waa in hit Koteiutxko Statu Stirt Reminiscence Bu that brings me to the statue I waa really going to talk about: Tadeusz Andrzeg Bona ventura standing on the fourth cor- ner of the park across from the house which once belonged to Jamea Madison. Dolly lived there after her husband died. The other day, a dispatch came la from Warsaw which said that the minister of education of the Polish Communist-dominate- d government had ordered there would be no more "salacious chattering jokes and significant smiling In Polish schools and universities. 1 got to reminiscing on the air about how I had been told Polish students acted In the days when Poland was divided between Russia, Austria and Germany. Teaching of Polish history was suppressed, and the Ryian secret poUce then were as brutal (If not quit as efficient) as the Communist police In Poland are today. - It teems a Polish teacher in those days occasionally would slip Into his n lecture some subtle or patriotic remark. There wouldn't be the slightest response from the students. The teacher would go right ahead, and then, after a perfectly Innocent sentence of some kind, he'd pause (and probably do a little "significant smiling"). Then the student would fairly raise the rsof with applause and cheeradelayed " action. I mentioned that on the air, aa I said, and commented that anti-Russia- , ' This ts the Washington statue of Koscluszko, Polish patriot, general and statesman, who served a George Washington's adjutant and laid out the fortifications at West Point. There ia another monupient to him at West Point. big-ham- mjs 'Mi' iSt -- FLORIDA OYSTER FLEET . . . Fishermen are busying themselves again along Florida gulf porta bringing In the first of the 1947-4- 8 oyster haul. Here oyaterera secure their craft after a long day hunting In Apalachicola bay. NEWS REVIEW Corn Estimate Lowered; Aid Europe Now, Plea REPEAT: him for nomination. booming Lets Corn The 1947 corn crop, estimates of which have been shrinking like a $10 suit ever since August, waa reduced by another 33 million bushels in the department of agriculture' IN MILWAUKEE . . . Mrs. Lucy Nostrand stepped from a bus at a busy intersection, was knocked to the pavement by a cow, a refugee from a meat company shipment, September report. Total estimate cuts since August URGENT: 1 were 256 million bushels, and the expected outturn this year now has Aid been placed at 2,403,913,000 bushels. Stopgap U. S. secretary Marshall, George There was more potential bad of state, was trying his best to pile news, said the department: In case up pressure for a special session of congress this autumn to finance imMEAT SUPPLY mediate interim aid to keep Europe on its feet until Marshalls Mesfiproductlon can be maine tained at a high level In the next rehabilitation plan begins functioning. year, despite the curtailed corn crop, animal feeding authorities Stymied by Republican leaders declare. Extensive and efficient who were either downright opposed Use of vegetable oil meal and or Indifferent to an emergency sesother products will enable farmsion before January, Marshall was ers to produce pork freely st taking hia case to the people, atless cost than if corn were used tempting to rally public opinion beexclusively In feeding. hind him. Intolerable cold and hunger are an early frost should blanket tha the Immediate threats facing Eu corn belt, another reduction would rope, he said. The crisis calls for be likely. urgent consideration. What would it cost this time? that it board said Crop reporting now seems likely that at least 75 Marshall said that there was as yet needs, but per cent 'of all corn in the 12 corn no estimate of stop-ga- p belt states will have matured by the he didnt deny reports that William average data of tho first killing L. Clayton, undersecretary of atate, frost, but warned that if it were a had cabled from Europe a request week early, it would catch about 40 for a special session of congress to per cent of all corn at an flnmaturc vote 2.5 billion dollars for aid now. The special session was far from stage. If frost came a week later, only a 13 per cent loss would be assured. If it canie to a showdown, GOP leaders probably would oppose registered. it openly, and they could, If they Latest estimates also foretold sharp reduction in the record wheat wished, stifle any economic aid legislation. crop. Output was set at 1,408,602.000 bushels, ar compared with the GOP VICTORY: 1 prediction of 1,435,551,000 bushels. long-rang- Au-gu- st Straw in Wind? Jubilant Republicans were ing much of Franklin H. mat Llchten-walter- 's victory over H. Storch, Democratic candidate, in a special IN NEW YORK . . . Margaret election to fill Pennsylvania's eighth Truman, coloratura soprano, was district seat in congress. unanimously approved by the board The Issue, naturally, was the Taft of governors foe membership in the American Guild of Musical Artists Hartley labor law, and the outcome waa a acceptance by the (AFL) as a junior vocalist in good voters of the law and what It sigstanding. nifies. If Pennsylvania is as much a LN TOKYO . . . Hidekel Tojo, forweathervane aa it ia political mer Japanese premier, now on trial claimed to be, the Llchtenwalter for his life as a war victory forecasts a cold, bleak wind incriminal, peered from the north for Democrats in to the future, chose 1948. an epitaph for his Republican hoop-l- a called the vote tombstone: "By a smashing rebuke to the radical Buddha's grace all labor bosses who chose to make the committed y labor management act wMle living are abthe paramount issue of the elecsolved. tion." IN LONDON . . . Eliiodor M. Libon- ati, visiting Legion- Army Shrinking I from Chi- naire In 10 of No. front cago, paused Downing street, the prime minisAlarmed war department officials ter's residence, wickedly waved a have estimated that the armys handful of dollar bills inthe air, postwar strength has sunk to a new attracted no takers. low of 965.000 officers and men, IN TALLAHASSEE Sen. 105.000 below its authorized quota. Claude Pepper (Dem Fla.) opened The army lost 75,000 officers and his mouth to say that if the Demomen during July and August and cratic party should feel that he gained back only 50,000 through It could render greater service in recruiting campaign, thus suffering some other way. I would be greatly a net loss of 25,000 since July 1, Influenced by that feeling, turned when strength was l0,000 below the around to find that his friends were authorized level. resounding labor-supporte- Phil d two-to-o- lint Taft-Hartle- ... FORECAST The Washington Ticker The administration la split right down the middle into two blocs Take a tip from the coal producers: Unless your furnace burns oil, It will be a good idea to keep a little sunshine in your smile and warmth in your heart this winter. Because, from the standpoint of obtaining coal, it looks like the win-tc- r of 1947-4will be the toughest in at least six years. Producers already are admitting drearily that there is little chance that fuel shortages,1 inconvenience and suffering can be put aside. Reasons for this uninviting outlook are three, in particular: demand in a peace- 1 Unparalleled time period which even record production (600 million tons) will not fully satiate- - Attempts are being made to stockpile, but to little 8 I avail. Industrial stocks are the lowest in years; retail supplies on hand are only fair. , shorfage of rail- 2 Unprecedented road cars. Never, in history of the solid fuels industry, were so few cars available to move so much coal to so many consumers buyer indifference to 3 Domestic pleas that they fill their bins during summer months That apathy is accounted for by higher retail prices of coal, combined with the prolonged heat wave which lulled the householder into a false sense of security At the same time, paradoxical though it may seem, coal production this year will reach a level surpassed only by the ouput in 1944 1 t when the nation was at the height of its war effort. Even if miners dug and machined an average of only 10 million tons a week during the remaining weeks of 1947. production would be 45 million tons higher than the 532 million total m 1946 Because of strikes, idle time' ear shortages and a shorter work week, the mines have lost somewhere between 35 and 50 million tons of production so far this year. Concerning prices, the most likely prospect is for them to go up again. Dealers say that the customer appears ready to take higher charges for his coal as something unavoid-able- , but be doesn't lik it U. S. Ambassador Griffis Is dwelling in a Warsaw hotel because the home provided by the Polish government was taken over by 30 squatters, who resist every effort to shoo them out. liberal and conservative. The conl, servatives ar led by Secretary for whom the President has great respect, and Include Harri-maKrug, Snyder and Clark. The liberals are Bob Hannegan, Gael Sullivan, Schwellenbach and Clark Clifford. . . . The conservative bloc wants to force the ouster of Prime Minister Clement Attlee In Britain by insisting the British will get no relaxation of the loan agreement or other financial aid until Attlee is out, a coalition government is in, and the socialization of industry is (topped. . . . With the elections coming on, Mr. Truman is listening to the liberals on domestic policy. For-resta- 190,414,-40- CLASSIFIED DEPARTMEN TV AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. Dwight Griswold will resign as head of Trumans commission in Greece. Because, he says, Greek monarchists (and our state department) are giving him "the finger. He bitterly adds that he "isnt gonna hold anybodys bag! . . . Another Truman exec will quit and take an offer (at 60 Gs) in private industry, unless he inherits Hanne-gan- 's chairmanship of the Democratic national committee. Now why would any man want a thankless job like that? 6itarantrrSI,4 5 ' USED CARS f Om Wi Swm. 50-5- 0 (m M Bay, ar 1000 (hat-in-han- G.I. TRUCK PARTS Transfer cases, axle shafts and aasys.. motors, etc. Mall orders promptly handled. FELT SALES CO., 4t S. Stats Salt Lake City, Utah. PAUL MALLON Treasury Juggles Its Figures RESIDENT BUSINESS it INVEST. OPPOR. OO IN BUSINESS for yourself. Complete Snow Cone equipment with supplies ready to set up in profitable business Only $65. Blevins Pepcern ., Nashville. Teas. TRUMAN found the lost figures In his fiscal midyear budget review. Although dollar volume of business and income have been Increasing since January, no one around the treasury has been able to find the figures showing how much this would Increase INSTRUCTION receipts, and thus Justify tiie Republican tax reduction. ATTN. SCHOOLS: Teach them to earn while they learn. Popcorn machine made When the June 15 quarterly income taxes came in to the' treasury till, especially for schools, complete fer only $135. For details send this ad to BLEVINB the Democratic actuaries should have been able to estimate immediately POPCORN COMPANY, Nashville. Tens. bow much more money they would take in this present year than they had figured. Bnt the Republican tax reduction bill was then under LIVESTOCK In congress, so the actuaries Just looked dumb, and pointed BOG8 FASTER by stimulating to the dally treasury statement, which Is an nnrevealing generalisation FATTEN their appetites with Dr, LeGears Hog Preof matters fiscal. scription. Also an ideal tonic for brood sows and pigs. Has helped increase profit By June 30, this statement showed receipts were actually down the for millions of hog raisers. Satis, guar. first six months of this year over last. Instead of up above the budget calMISCELLANEOUS culations. Even at the fiscal year end, Treasury Secretary Snyder mereAMERICAN LAUNDRY MAly estimated the surplua larger than expected for the closing year and COMPLETE CHINERY CO. UMT8 Boiler, washer, warned against tax reduction, as you will recall. extractor, tumbler dryer. New In orig. factory crates. Built for the U. S. Navy. ComBy this little fiscal ruse, the Democrats caused the Republicans to pletely wired, piped and engineered with ns the auto, controls. Beady to set up In 1 day- budget estimates of last January, which kept them Price Cost new $4 500 Porter Elec$2,650 on the defensive and forced them to justify any tax reduction by the tric Ce 44S th At. N. E.. SeatUe. Waah. amount of economies they could make. 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"Im sick of meat; uhy have fish once in awhile?" dont we egg- a How to annoy a Republican: Send him a ticket to "The Roosevelt Story. VANISHING AMERICANISMS "Heres a penny for being a very good boy all week." "Whatever you do, dont let the women see you drinking." There Is this to be said of the liberation of India: Lord Mountbat-te- n gave it an air that not even Tyrone Power could have improved on. WALTER SHEAD British Squander Recovery Funds OEN. RAY BALDWIN of Connecticut apoke truly when be chided hi If we are to remain the majority party we Republican colleagues: must act effectively in the interest of a majority of the people, if we act only in the interest of a minority of d Republicans, we shall again quickly become a minority party. The record of the first session of the 80th congress bears out the Connecticut senators charge, but the charge fits equally well the record of the 79th congress which legislated in the interest of a minority of Democrats. Our aystem doesnt contemplate government by coalition, bnt during both the ,79th and 80th congress it was evident the trend toward continued progressive government was halted and the clock turned back by this coalition of aouthern Democrats and Republicans, aided and abetted by the pressure groups of lobbyists. The power of recall held by the voters of the nation is helpless this kind of government and a return to strict party responsibility, against essential in our democracy, will be the best iniuranpq against the evils of communism and fascism spreading dangerously as a result of Tory irresponsibility. V rock-ribbe- a Just DASH , IN Cep-ire- Ft ATHIRS .Nf h Applketer J buck utf 4 UCM ORlSPREADzONtROOSTS d ty WNU W 39 self-intere- st WRIGHT PATTERSON Two-Part- y System Falters American people are greatly in the survival of England. We fully realize her value as a strong and prosperous nation to us and to all free people. We evidenced our desire for her survival by advancuigjiearly four billion dollars to aid filler recovery from the terrific effects of the war on her production,' her economy and her THE leadership. That four billion dollars has been spent tifTruiUess the British political party now in power. While we are willing to aid England, we are not willing to finance the experiments in national socialism which are being made by the British 0 coins, 60 per cent of which were for other countries. WALTER WINCHELL two-par- Coal Shortage Looms for U.S. our mints produced 1947, rock-ribbe- COLD-BLOODE- D Tuesday, September 23, 1947 Laborparty. For You To Feel Well t4 boon mry day. 7 days every stopping, tbs kidneys filter vek, hw waits matter from tha blood. 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