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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH Seers Silent on Commodity Trend and Commentator. WASHINGTON. It is still open season for economists, financial experts and market wizards. It took about a week after the first drop on the commodity market to send them into their holes. Up to that time, you could get a prognostication anywhere from the Chicago stockyards to Broad and Wall streets or Pennsylvania avenue and 15th street. e rs 1 slam-bange- ing. The most silent man in Washington was Secretary of the Treas- He ury Snyder, sun-spot- y But somebody must have stolen the Idea or else they wanted to play a mean trick on Wallace and on Snyder anyhow there were 57,149,000 per-aoemployed in this country as two years of January, 1948 early, and 10 months before presidential campaign time. In October of Taft-Hartle- 1946, sev- Insitie-snil- Aid for China Asked; Senate OKs Budget Cut e goal of 58,500,000 to 57,500,000 civilians employed by 1950. Likewise, NEWS REVIEW Kai-shek- er eral astute Washington FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE . . . Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presents the national achievement award, one of America's highest honors, to the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, England, for her distinguished services to her country which have been an Inspiration to the women of other countries. That did open a Pandoras box, and some of the plagues released alighted on the very rooftree of the Although it was obvious that his White House. But it also threw a scare into the marketeers and the heart wasn't in it, President Truman presented congress with a remarkets. for 570 million dollars to be Then came the day of a White quest to sent China as a prop for the House press and radio conference 's economy of Chiang foundering when the President made a remark Nationalist government. credited at the tune by some of White House and state departhis friends as an unhappy slip ment sources admitted that the rewhen he said that if the cost of livwas something less than a quest would not was there controlled, ing and claimed that the be a crash. That got headlines, had acted under pressure President frightened a lot of little fellows who from the congress Republican combinout their and, chips, pulled U. S. the which has insisted that evil released with other Jinns ing the must support Chiang against from the economists' Jinn bottles, Communist revolution in connection did the trick. with the European recovery plan. There are many others of these At best the 570 million dollars is a tales which will grow, such as the token gesture just a chip in relas by the admincreating of to the vast amount of timber tion istration's atomic-energexperts. would be needed to restore the But one is enough for the moment. that rotting derelict of Chiangs governit was planned that ment. Anyhow way!" Theory behind this latest extension of aid, which will be used to Taft-Hartle- y Issue finance Chinese imports of cereals, Losing Its Potency petroleum, coal, fertilizer and so There has been a lot of noise over forth, is that the money will enable the act lately, and on Chiang's government to free other the surface it looks as if the law resources for purchase of arms and might become an issue in the presi- ammunition to continue the fight dential campaign. If that should against the Communist guerrillas. happen, it certainly would help the But that is more of an idle hope prestige of Senator Taft. But the than a valid theory, because the say it can't happen. government forces, despite their As you know, last autumn, right American arms and equipment, are after the act went into effect, a lot being bested consistently by the of people felt its provisions would Communists. decide the votes in the But those elections came and went, BUDGET CUT: and it was hard to adduce any stahad figured Indifferent tistics to prove that With little discussion and a good very much, If at all. of outright indifference, the deal Later on, animosity against the law died down. But now both the senate adopted a resolution to cut 1949 fiscal Truman's CIO and AFL have announced their President 2.5 billion dollars. by budget preliminary plans for campaigning How much significance the senagainst the men who voted for it; ate resolution would have in the his in used has it Taft campaign was questionable, in speeches In Midwest centers where final analysis labor is strong; Philip Murray was view of prevailing uncertainties indicted under its provisions, and which might affect both sides of the both Murray, representing the CIO, ledger. reduction The 2 and the International Typographers 10 billion an would estimated leave It unconstituis union have charged tional. But the issue still fails to dollars for tax cuts and debt reduccommand any real dramatic in- tion. Republicans, therefore, were feeling increasingly confident that terest. an income tax slash of up to 5 billion dollars could be enacted. This Is another proof of how a controversial Issue that calls Brevity of the senate discussion and its lack of apoplectic oratory forth bitter debate and stirs up was in direct contrast to last year's nationwide interest at the mostrident contest over the budget ment, can fade into the backcommittee's recommendation of a ground as time passes, and by cut in the 1948 election day have little or no effect on votes. budget. Democrats made no effort to It is much like a fire that makes block the proposed spending slash Page 1 because it breaks out just as which had been recommended by an edition of an afternoon paper is the house-senatbudget committee. going to press. It may get a banner It still requires house adoption. on Page if the news is light, but by Biggest bug in the senate's budget the next edition, it may have shrunk recommendation was the fact that to a single head on an inside page. it probably embodied a number of Recency expands the importance of inaccurate estimates. Republican all events. You may recount excit- sponsors of the measure admitted edly at dinner how you almost got that accurate estimates of budget hit by a truck on the way to work. needs were impossible at the time. But by tomorrow night, you'll be Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N H.), telling with much more gusto about chairman of the budget committee, a fish you caught last summer. compared the estimates with "a pre game guess at the final score. The City of Washington always But Sen. Alben Barkley (Uem., Ky.) quails before a real snowstorm like called the procedure a step in the a pup with the hose turned on it dark. knew that too Baukhage many people re- membered what he and others had said two years ago last fall. Snyder, at that time reconversion director, had predicted that by the spring of the next year (1946) eight million In people would be unemployed. fact, so many others believed that that Henry Wallace, already dreaming of a home with white pillars on Pennsylvania avenue, decided to make Sixty Million Jobs a come-hilhplank in his platform. He wrote a book with that title and it became a best seller. His book set a l letter writers were saying privately to their thousands of clients, and the AFL monthly survey was saying in public print, that by early 1947 prices would come down. One could say on January of 1947, with considerable accuracy, that there was a general agreement on recession beginning soon and followed by more a little later. Other writers predicted It a little later, and some, by summer, were Insisting that deflation already was here. s T-- But what happened? In the very year of that doleful prophecy, prices started on the that took them Into their e high. ot all-tim- Many other similar bad guesses might be mentioned, all of which contributed toward making the prophets reticent, and so when tho slide came in February of this year, nobody would even whisper fox for fear that not oven a kit would appear. They knew that nobody would believo them after all the that had been going on. In any case, this dip, drop, depression or delusion, whichever it turns out to be by the time these lines reach print, or later, will have its garland of myths and legends entwined about it. g e The best myth, ef ceurse, Is that Mr. Traman that way. planned it The blueprint 1 aimple enough If you aie good at reading a blueprint between the lines. Prices were getting too high. At worst, they might bring on a real depression before election; at best, they would bring a senes of strikes and work stoppages which might seriously hamper the Marshall plan on the one hand, and add to the discontent of the voters on the other. It would be like any operation, not dangerous from the aurgeons point of view. Just a little amputation of credit, at least so said doctors who work on the body economic, which would let enough blood out of some businesses to cause a little unemployment. Enough to scare off strikes and make businessmen a little more cautious about expansion. There was some evidence that this may really have been intended because the President did ask in his November 17 message to congress for credit control and Increased bank reserves. However, when congress said humph to that along with the Presidents other recommendations, he turned around and demoted the man who is said to have written the deflation prescription from the chairmanship of the federal reserve board (Marriner Eccles), and put in a man supposed to have more sympathy with an opposite course. However we mustn't spoil a good atory by facts. There are other points which can be Intro 1 TUNE IV7E WONDER how proponents of individual free enterprise will feel about the government printing office going into the chain book store business. For thats exactly what GPO wants to do open up regional book stores in various sections of the country to speed up delivery of some 30,000,000 copies of on V By BAUKIIAGE But along about the sixth day o t the dip, anybody who would tell you or just weathering the whether we were facing a permanent nose-divCotter of a few yards of ticker tape was as rare as a vote against (that issue, itself, had changed after the sixth dip). The reason no expert would talk was that all of them had been mak- duced to give a touch of verisimilitude to an otherwise ing wrong predictions ever since ing narrative. The aooth-sayeCoolidge's persay that several methods manent plateau were pursued, some of them of prosperity of successfully. For example, the d President at what pre - depression he called the gamblers In days or Hoovers corner around commodities who were driving which prosperity up food prices by speculating in was always duckgrain and other futures. WALTER SHEAD New GPO Business Venture Myfi of Current Price Dip: ' Truman Planned That Way1 AVu'i Analyst Crocheted Pansies On Lovely Chair Set IN TOMORROW IRELAND: New Premier Even to members of the Eire assembly who had helped defeat him it wag strange to see Eamon De Valera, premier of Ireland for 16 years, sitting quietly on the opposite side of the house as leader of the opposition. In his place as premier was John A. Costello, former attorney general, whom the assembly had voted cointo office after a new alition had taken control of the legislative group as a result of the six-part- y previous elections. Costello, in a dignified speech to the assembly, explained his sudden emergence as premier of Ireland: I consented to this nomination at the request of a number of parties who felt that the interest of the country required that there should be an inter-partgovernment and that the premier of that government should occupy a position In political life detached from the controversial bitterness of the past. inter-partThe government whose choice Costello was is compounded of six political parties of apparently divergent ideals: Republican, United Ireland, Labor, National Labor, Independent and y y Farmers. Just how long a government made up of so many diverse components would last was the subject of much speculation in Ireland. In their present cooperative mood the parties of the coalition may carry on for a year or two, but few were prepared to give the government a much longer span of life. CAT FEET: First a Dream Like the fog that "comes on little cat feet," Carl Sandburg, honored and honorable poet and voluminous biographer of Lincoln, was creeping Into the senatorial race in Illinois. A hitherto almost Imperceptible drive supporting Sandburg as a possible candidate for senator picked i)p r considerable impe- I .. I re'ease r C'hA tu wlt of a public opinion ; indicating that I he might become a x popular choice over the Democratic candidate, Paul H. and the Douglas, Republican candi- SANDBURG date, Sen. C. Way-lan- d free-vers- e I I i j I Address and Pattern Number. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly moie time is required in filling orders or a few of the must popular patterns. Send ycur order to: SEWING CIRCI.E NEEDLEWORK Mission St., San Francisco, Calil. Encloia 20 cents for pattern. S2S H. I. PHILLIPS No Nome Delivery Letter Special have caught Mr. Wallace, Henry Dear Hen: In a press Interview you said to newsmen, Youll be amazed at the final outcome of this campaign. vou have no idea how many people are afraid to express their views these days. For example I am constantly surprised by the number of people who see me in elevators and say they will vote for me. Well, Henry, maybe yon have the elevator vote sewed up. I do not blame you for clutching at it, as a lot of voters ride in elevators. You are the first candidate for the presidency to appreciate the support of elevator passengers. The rest havent ap- preciated what a lift (thats a joke, son) elevator voters can give a man. Address them napping, You Henry. The elevator vote is significant, local or express. There is also the escalator or moving stairway vote, Hank, which you should not overlook. A lot of your supporters are escalator types; they like to sit down while going upstairs. This is a HELP WANTED WOMEN growing trend in America and a GIRL for General Work about Doctor's ofroom. Also Medical man who could promise escalators fice. $100 per month androom. Give age, reTechmcian, $175 and for all would be a shoo-in- . nrid references. Q. E. Fortier. M.D. ligion CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT I'lOCHE HOSPITAL, Pioche. Nevada. LIVESTOCK In the meantime, Henry, check the people who are for you going up in elevators, subtract those who are for you going down and multiply by those who walk up. This will give you as good a line on the outcome as any deductions you are making Dai't Takt Chance With Calf Seourt . . , of which art caused by vitamin defiPre vent and te it nutritions scuur ciency. in calves with Dr. LeGeare Calf Vitamins. Easy to give, effective and economical. 8U W POULTRY, CHICKS & EQUIP. 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S. attorney In charge may be doing his best, but the fumble and fix can take place in the preparation of the case or the drawing of the jury. Or he might be an earnest third-rate- r stuck np against the trickiest criminal lawyers in the country. The department of justice persecuted a whole covey of citizens during THERE WANTED TO BUY WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture, Files, Typewi iters. AddMachine5?. Safes. Cash Registers. ing S4F T I ARE DEK EXCHANGE 028 South State St., Sait Lake City. CUS A Safe, Sound Investment-B- uy U. S. Savings Bonds! the war for thinking disloyal thoughts. The case dissolved after months of disgraceful nonsense. It will be historic, for people were dragged clear across the country and forced to exist in poverty to be present at an outrageous farce poked up by a lot of Roosevelts idolators merely because some of the defendants said they admired Hitler or hated Roosevelt. Yet a hundred thousand Communists have flaunted their attachment to a power which is held to be a mortal enemy of our government. Not one of them ever has been indicted for sedition or treason and hundreds of them got jobs in the Roosevelt government. WALTER WINCHELL Signs of the Times Wanna buy a snake? Besides the night club varieties, animal dealers If are stuck with dozens of em. you dont think times are tough, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the zillionaire, is wearing his polo coatl ... seven-year-ol- d Wanna House Cheap? A public relations firm offered a castle in England to anyone in the U. S. who would claim it. The offer didnt get one inquiry! Characters in Search of a Colyum-ist- : ''Newsreel Sam, the Hissing Man." He haunts the newsreel temples (in various parts of the city) and when applause greets some neighborhood favorite (or national pet) he hisses. . . . If it is Union square, he hisses Wallace. . , . On swank Sutton place he hisses Taft. . . . On Broadway he hisses hisenhower. ...He sits in the rear rows and gets his big kicks watching the craned necks. . . . "Jaeger the Waiter." y . . . Hes the No. 1 at Lin-dy. . . Takes all orders standing sideways ever since a show producer told him he had a Barrymore prof eel. hje always refers to himself in the third person, frinstance: "Jaeger will be right with you. . . . "Please, please, you must relax if you want Jaeger to wait on you." . . . "Jaeger is a very busy man, be patient." . . . "Now, Jaeger will take your order." . . . Comics, and others of the Broadway set all clamor for the services of Jaeger because he's such a lovable ham. He makes THEM laf.' SCOTTS EMULSION Helps build stamina help build raiatance to eolds, If youngster don't get enough natural A&D Vitamins f Scotts is a high energy FOOD TONIC -- a gold mine of natural A&D Vitamin and energybuilding natural olL Eaay to take. Many doctor recommend it I Buy today at s. dish-jocke- Lltree tea talkers hear Marion Hargrove refused to revise his new novel the reason the Literary guild turned it down and MGM won't film It. The movie deal was based on its being a guild selection. The authors Brooks. decision, they add, probably will As far as the question of how a cost him $250,000. a into turn can is politician poet concerned, those favoring him say DREW PEARSON he is a "good man, he understands the common people and is educated about the counand -try's needs. The opposition claims is he politically inexperienced and, resentment among the Democrats now is so deep that ANTI-TRUMAsince he is a writer, is an impractiare talking about trying to dump him. actually cal di earner and an idealist. What Mr. Truman has succeeded in doing is alienating both wings of the But Sandburg, the poet, once the southern Democrats and the northern liberals. This was some party wrote: tiling that Roosevelt, despite the kicking around he gave to some leaders, "The republic is a dream. was careful never to do. Nothing happens unless first a dream.' But now Mr. Truman has rubbed northern liberals the wrong way by ousting such Roosevelt appointees as Marriner Eccles, James Landis and John Fahey. Simultaneously he has made southern leaders boil over with s message. indignation at his In fact, the only people Mr. Truman has pleased are the Republicans Result of all this is that some Democratic leaders are even talking among themselves about finding a new candidate. Admittedly they don't think the chance is great; for its almost impossible to block the renomination of a sitting president. However, some of them have been quietly discussing a boom for dom of the wife. This primary theme always triumphs over the Justice William O. Douglas, while others talk about a second theme which runs counter to move for the Democratic ticket. After all. the first and only political it that family tie can be broken speech Ike ever made was at a Jackson D n 'mcr at the age of 18. and a woman's security threatened chiefly by the loss of the husband to WRIGHT PATTERSON other women, and, quite secondarily and obliquely, by death." Moreover, the social scientists said, the program, among other things, provides its women listeners THERE has been too much talk the money to continue to pay their with moral beliefs, values and enough action in regard salaries. It is time congress, as techniques for solving emotional to national economies on the part of body, provides the economies indiard interpersonal problems and congress. Individual Republicans vidual members insist must be makes them feel they are learning are loud in their demands for less made. It would be good politics to e while they listen. spending but collectively they make good on promises. That is In brief, the report added up to a to vote for things we could do advice for politicians at all clear-cu- t spiritual and moral vic- without. Individuals condemn the good times, especially in an election of of an useless of the over maintenance hardarmy tory ita soap opera vote year. ened and blase critics. bureaucrat. Collectively they your drug store. MORE than just a tonic it'l powerful nourishment I gag-writ- Anti Truman Feeling Grows Soap Operas Benefit Society Broadcasting system, based their report on a detailed analysis of the serialized drama, Big Sister " Women bring the chief listeners, it is they who derive the greatest benefits from these daytime dirges by having their egos bolstered and their spirits strengthened by hearing stories of fictional women going through problems and experiences that parallel their own. the scientists pointed out. The basic and primary theme is that good and noble women who are wives and mothers are invincible within their own arena of life, the American family," said the report. Men, who are superordmate elsewhere, are subordinate and de pendent ui the story) nn the wis To obtain complete crocheting Instrua-tlon- s. stitrh illustrations and lull directions for Giant Pansies Set (Pattern No. Si05) send 20 cents in coin. Your Name. Nazi-Sovi- civil-right- Relax, ladies. Dont feel guilty about listening to the great and grievous trials of "John's Other Schmoe" every day at 11:15 a. m., brought to you through the courtesy of Fhilbottom's OsMfied Sheep Dip. The news is now out that soap operas, as presented interminably on the radio, actually might do you some downright good. An anthropologist. Prof. W. Lloyd Dr. Warner, and a psychologist. William E. Henry, tuned in on a daytime radio serial over a hrg period and arrived at the ponderous of solution that soap operas are considerable value to our society." The two scholars, consultants for a research organization which directed the study for Columbia A VERY lovely chair set thats certain to be a piece to treasure. Giant pansies, crocheted in the authentic colorings of the flowers, are done in a heavier-than-usucotton. The set can be quickly and easily made. the 70,000 different book! ana pamphlets which it has printed and has hand. Last year GPO was rated the worlds largest publisher and turned over to the U. S. treasury more than three million dollars it obtained from the sale of about 37,000,000 books and pamphlets. Most of these books are sold by mall from a nickel up to possibly a dollar a copy and consequently much of the revenue was In small coins. Thousands of the small coins attached by glue or tape to letters had to be washed In gasoline to remove the stickiness. Best seller, according to GPO, was a 15 cent booklet, Infant Care, put out by the U. S. children's bureau. More than four million copies have been sold, many to physicians. One costly item $50 for 37 volumes of the actual record of the trial of the major war criminals at Nuernberg is another good seller and right now In demand is the state departments $1 volume of Relations." It contains captured documents from the German foreign office files from 1939-4- Much Talk, No Action con-Unu- FASTER SMOOTHER 5 S SINGH OS DOUBLE EDGE EMBARRASSED ? Driven nearly frantic by itching and burning of eimple piles, that keep you fidgeting in discomfort? Countless sufferers are finding untold relief from such distress by bathing tender parts with the pure, lather of Resinol Soap then applying soothing, skilfully medicated Resinol Ointment. 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