Show Personal Mail Exel ts Big ' influence on Congressman f r ' By DAUKIIAGE JVw Analytt end 1811 Ey Street NW Washington D C Thar is a treat mall mystery in Washington which public reaction leutha art try Inf to tolvt Re V cent reactlohi Lof WNU Sfcrvtce congreia pre aents e paraddx In fact a pair cf paradoxea Gradually one like by one maiden pluek ingdaisy petala to learn her fate and fortune con treai haa been the atrlpplnf office of price adminla poor tration of ita powera until aald agency hat little more control over pricer thalF man over a skidding car on an icy pavement And yet according to recent polls 82 per cent of the publlo la In favor of "holding the line" The March survey by that reliable poller -- NORC (National Opinion Research Center of Denver university) among other similar groups points this out Whenjhe house virtually stripped OPA of its powers late in April let ters poured In supporting the agen cy since then Ita head Paul Por ter using the publicity machine built up by bis predecessor Stablli cation Director Bowles baa omit ted no word or act to keep hla aide of the arguments against celling smashing before the consumer Al though congress la not now being needled as heavily as It was at the peak ef the house debate plenty of people are still asking for OPA con tlnuatlon At the same time of course snti control forces are keeping up their pressure both through lobbyists of the Interested groups and through the paid advertising of the National Manufacturers association and other Industrial organisations But as far as qny one can gauge the people themselves stilt want price control Nevertheless hat managed to whittle It down and many observers at this Writing' consider it as among the dead already That ts one'mystcryr Another was provided in the recent move on the part of the President with his strike bill" and ' on the part of congress with the reinforced Case bill ( Up until the unions threatened to tie up the railroads and ignored gov emment orders there was no chance - to get any measure through eongress-Bu- t the people wanted something' and When the President offered it he received a response in the way of letters and telegrams Such as'the White Rouse has not known in the memory of its v present staff some of whom' have served there since the days of I Commentator displease some of his constituency becauio of Ita indifference than to disregard the pressure brought upon him by other forces in or out of congress This particular inquiry by the Quarterly showed legislators rated the various Influences on them as follows: (1) personal Imall (2) visits TO the public (3) newspapers (4) vis Its FROM the public and (S) pub lie opinion polls The bearing which these figures have on the Importance of writing your congressman in my opinion is this: they show that mail 19 Important and that when letters at one end of the spectrum of importance jibe with the poll (at the other end) it certainly puts a burr under the legislator's vote People in Buying Market Afore Recently 1 said over the air that America was eating better and eating more than it had ever eaten before Immediately I received a squall of stormy letters vehement ly denying my statement All of the writers regaled me with the same tale which my wife brings home each day — that the grocer's and the butcher’s shelves are almost bare Nevertheless America is eating better and more food Americans who ate e yearly average of 127 pounds of meat before the war are now gobbling it at the rate of 130 pounds apiece This statement is from Fortune magatlne a periodical nat noted for making false state menta You and I cannot get everything we want but we aren't all of America by a long way You and I have always had meat virtually every day In the week But’ millions of people in this country never had meat more than once or twice a week These mil-- rUBUCiS SPENDABLE IKC0M2 1939 1946 IstimaU based so Isl querist - ' - flTMlMNfuMKtmMNi Perhap if we pay 11 cents more a pound for butter the cows will be stimulated to generate more and competition will force the price down again man falls freely at about 118 tnllcs per hour In a parachute he cornel down at 14 m ph Next time you stumble over the rug be sure you don't exceed the apeed limit A by Baufehage When Mr Gromyko talka he doesn’t remove the bark even if it la e bite too Since our family started rationing scarce bread there baa been considerable complaint Outalde the bedroom window from a mother bird who calls regularly foe cruits Now she’ll probably itart on a meat diet and probably the worms will turn cor' Demobilization Sot for 31st Docombor 1947 WNU er the Feature will continue through and until the last day in 1947 when it will complete its wartime demobilization and reconversion services Decemmber 31 1947 Official announcement that USO will conduct its own campaign next September and October with goal to cover minimum servlet requirements through 1947 was made by President Lindsley F Kimball at USO New York headquarters USO came Into being on Februa ary 4 1041 when six member Joined hands to create one orof needs for the care to ganization the men and Women of the armed forces So far the American public has contributed 200 million dollars to the organization 8UII Needed Says Ike In a message to President Kimball Gen Dwight D Elsenhower stated: "May I earnestly count on your organization and your host of volunteers to stay with us through tho dangerous and difficult period of transition to final peace? "We stlU have a pressing need for the services of USO and will bo deeply grateful for your continued help in the future as In the past" Fleet Adm Chester W Nimltz chief of naval operations also sent a message of congratulation For Wounded Yeterana Tho need for raising a terminal fund In tho fall of 1948 is due to tha fact that the National War fund will finance USO only through 1948 Tentative purely tentative plans for 1947 call for the operation of some 330 to 400 USO clubs In the continental United States largely In connection with 'lospitallzed but convalescent veterans Operation of station lounges for pnen on leave and families of service people must continue Overseas clubs will carry on in Alaska' Canal zone etc Hawaii Philippines Camp shows will still bs seen and heard in 1947 by men In hospitals and men overseas Coincident with the announcement of the U§0 fall campaign President Kimball made publlo his annual report In which bs says: "USO finds that at its peak of activity It was serving 1000000 people a day in one capacity or another running up to more than 1000 tlQQ00Mh-totalserved since the organization was created 3033 Units al Peak "The number of operations such as dubs lounges and similar activities reached a high point back In March of 1944 a total of 3033 As training camps closed and the men went overseas this number declined but ths over-al- l volume of work Increased peak of activity and cost came after peace In Europe and before ths surrender of Japan Redeployment of troops reopened many camps doubled or vastly Increased loads of various seaport cities Expenditures climbed to $3800000 a month New Postwar Problems Referring to ths future of USO Mr Kimball says in his report: "The successful conclusion of the war docs not cannot and will not return ths United States to Its prewar status It Is clear even how that our armed forces In the postwar period must be numbered in the millions "USO will complete Its wartime demobilization and - reconversion services December 31 1947 USO THE Franklin P Adams John Kleraa and Clifton Fadlmaa ef "Information Please” went QI and washed their own mess kits while on a USOCamp Shows tour overseas' AT CIIOW Stage Entrance BonJa'Henle Is the newest of the They Never Learn” parade Racetrack eteers report tha boodles of cold cash she's been plunging on No matter what the Also Rang anyona says tbcrut tha nags they are running true to form at Isolationist (In a field of pw Louis Calhern en) cam in last star of "Magnificent Yankee” recently won an award for "best perNext day he was reformance jected ss narrator for th "Cavalcade of America” program The Marquess of Queensbury’s Is the talk among mid townerg He's expert at It How Tempos Fugits Dept: Victor Borge’apew contract stars him above iLhny Goodman The billing Is tricky" to wit: "The Victor Borge Goodman" Show ' Starring Benny Sugar Chile Roblnaon the baby wonder now gets 33000 a 4- - OF TOMORROW HOPE Future Homemakers of America lion over 200000 Membership are the Future Homemakers of America face the future with warm courage high hope For we are the builders of homes nomes for America's future Domes where living will be the expression of everything That le jgood and fair offered for XITRITTEN by pupil delegates st limited poiiibilltles a meeting of ths national learning and teaching executive council of ths Futurs Designed to stimulate interest in Homemakers of America In Chi- borne economics and integrate high cago in ths summer of 1943 ths school activities with organization Homemakers foregoing creed dramatizes the work ths Future broad objectives of t booming blgh movement evolved from plans school home economics club al- drawn by ths American boms ecoready numbering over 200000 mem- nomics association and the home bers in 43 states sqd Hawaii and economics service of ths U S office of education In 1941 Within Puerto Rico a few months it was accepted by High school home economics clubs ars not a new idea but the Futurs the state departments of education ' Homemakers movement represents and vocational education and the state home economics associations-oa majority of states including Puerto Rico Hawaii and the District of Columbia ' ' Toward When the pupil delegates of the Future Homemakers met In Ws We And pert The Maglo Lanterns: Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer are skylarking tat "Cluny Brown" This Is a Jaunty spoof of the crumbs among the upper crust The guffaws will (and strain girdle pop seams) as ChoDy and Jenny whittle "The Glass Alibi” encapers r ters bullet first with a murder whiz aimed by Paul Kelly "Badman’s Territory” Is a right purty- prairie sega several grades g above the usual sagebrush "The Phantom Thief' turns out a passable felon fable—its tempo won’t break any speed lawa "Perilous Holiday" comes wherein-through with a Pat O’Brien makes a hobby of 'Texas Pancollecting tingles on the handler” la a cowboy "Behind the Mask" range opus should put Its producers on Easy "Tokio Street— selling apples Rose" by any other name would also smell BACK ' e head and other interest that you have been trea ' Victorian times such sun ioth P IjO I wideY deep at the bottom size to hold the quaint f I tNDj of wirTBS: SPOOLS kfi ““"Ski tiillinexpen scat arc conver wearab that take and rei time a: ry of the f the con buseholds t cotton dug SON UPTHWOU6H 9IDI spool? t now strung together with cojonmer cl spools saved from the v print on amount of sewing doned( to s son Today with spools too) from our sewing we msual it w shelves that have all into a charm but are much ejections and substantial get the The spools snd shelve n the rob welded toKcthe practically n U tin types of glue H cord Is then run through uatV U tc so that the shelves may be ama ner ready to hold articles of? Ut but t e fyisterill NOTE— Mr Spears has 'J pattern for these fully curved comer sh£ivee depei graduated In size This patte— altis complete directions for"® one ointng these shelves as wen atop Will or another larger set of it Ask for Pattern No 255 “Jere MRS RUTH WYETH Bedford Hills N V Enclose 19 cents for There making Pi 255 £(2 Com Nsme Address Jf jM S- ’- i f 4 w ( dt to drop 8 eutt ort oi trad pin rrrwf mowing Many doctor rwoirsking tl Ustlns Scott's £ 31CfOU Silhouettes In the Times Squarena mum it's rich la Vitamin and tnrsf rtsbly Mary Livingstone and Portland oil children need at with the growth ntrons Embassy ringside i£)ffa teeth (tardy bodlw f a couple of radio comedians retietance te esk la AAD deficient Ingrid Bergman ' giving the new today All dnwlitM Riviera (across the G Washington Bridge) added class George r Jean Nathan the and (of the gorgeous Jessie at China DoU) causing - Vanderbilt summe£jheywereJully the- - Stork—— prepared for formal organization of Stokowski disguising her glammer their club Besides writing their with slax kerchief and amoked creed and constitution they develFannie Hurst specs on Vth Aye oped policies and procedures drew the novelist carrying her one-l- b a work program for the year deYorkshire terrier into the Little cided upon red and white for their Vienna The pooch Is gray and colors the red rose for their flowMillions Eat blonde streaked which Is the newer and an octagonal emblem Fit- est hair style KELLOGG’S ALL! tingly they chose 'Toward New for Lasting Reli at Horlzont'-ftheir motto Ann RichBroadway National In scope the Futurs ards a actress Harsh laxatives got yotshd the is Hollywood Homemakers are broken down into When she saw Cornelia Otis Skindown? If yours ii the come Avoid regional districts with stats and lo- ner in VThe Searching Wind” on cf constipation caused by ’as the ’ cal chapters sufficient bulk in the diet je Broadway (a little over a year ago) to Presently Myrtle Hilton of Tip- - she sent the first fan letter of her this p leatant way tonvllle Term Is president Anita life- ‘ It was a glowing missive Just eat a serving of Lehman of Baton Rouge La Is in which she reported how she en- Uclous KELLOGG’S AU‘ vice president Emma Jo Lewis of joyed the performance how she and drink pi P“shl every day De Land Fla Is recreation chaircouldn't visualize anyone else In water I Do this regularly- - tnd th men Joan Du Plessls of Swamps-coth role' etc The film version your trouble is due to l&utring tl Mass' Is secretary Barbara of the hit will be seen soon you may never have to $4 of s The other laxative the rest of jfcse it Ann Boggs of Sutton W Vs Is vies Skinner role Is playedby Ann Richis not a pur lhIf president and Marie Bresnan of ards! not a medicine It’s a wb i East Haven Conn is national proj natural laxative food ar ' ect chairman u tallies la Our Alley: The Is KIUOOO'S Other officers Include Irene Trout of a famed movie star was Nwtrltloa than whole of MUwaukle Ore treasurer Bardining at the Mocambo with a beautM from made Because it’s bara Parker of Carson City Nev tiful blonde and a ringsider of wheat td( vice president Margaret Worlton JThat can't bs hla wife can outer layert protective if struct of ” Lehi Utah public' relations an itT” right” explained menta are concentrated Oi tjp o Met star Ezio Pinza "It’s her un- of Phyllis Marshall of Vermont HI provides the j Deanla Burnworth derstudy” Last night in Sardl's parliamentarian needft your daily iron of Independence Kana vice presisomeone recalled the time make good red blood Calc dent end Lois K Mueller of the critic! audibly burp'd st a phosphorus— to help bm )' 01 Seymour Wls historian flop show 'llmmm" ribbed and teeth Vitamins — i Broun "thinking out loud!” guard against deficiencies! Wide Latitude Allowed —to help build body tissrr St e While ths pupil members of tha tial for growth Eat ALL ' Manhattan Murals: The disUlu Future Homemakers ars permitted every day! Made by Kell slve drabness of daytime Swing Battle Creek and Omaha the widest latitude in the formulaStreet (32nd) Th tion and development of their procandy store grams they ere assisted by expert which delivers packages In enced advisers kerridge cop Including Edna Amldon chief of tha home eco- dread seeing It congests Ths war vet nomics service of the U S office traffic of education Mrs Dora 8 Lewis of doing en expert rhumbs at the Ha The manager for the executive board of the AmeriSaks Fifth Avenue shoe dep’l can Romemakera association The Emily Haydock of the National Edu- whose name la Mr Foote f cation association and Dr Hazel realty office on East 17th with th notice "No Apt Available" writ Frost Successful In developing a borne ten in ten languages Including Chi On the marquee of i economics club In Oklahoma several years ago Dr Frost as na- Tremont Avenue (Bronx) movl theater: "A Guy Could Change tional adviser of the Future Homemakers has been largely credited "My Reputation" a cA with the phenomenal growth of tha new movement In assuming her - f Ethel Barrymore met Lionel on jmall her way out of Sardl's one night In position with the Future Homemakers In 1944 Dr Frost applied their the same principles the employed In T just saw John at th bar she i £ Oklahoma In making the new or- said "and b’s behaving very ganization a close working partner strangely” of home economics classes "WhaFa bo atrang about seeing Though mostly composed of girls John with a drink?" asked LloneL the Future Homemakers also ad"Nothing” sighed Ethel "But I mit boys to membership) aaw him without one!" scons QUIT DOSI r Rons' of people have more money today than they'hsvo ever had but you If you art ono of the people Wilson who wrote me probably never were Now 1 know that some of my conscious of that fact ' readers like many of my listeners Tht UtRe graph thowa the facta will see nothing strange in this apTheta figures on which it is based indifference to the popular ere compiled by the department of parent will on the part gress commerce end the most A lot ef letters I receive Indicate banker you know won’t that a great many people think con-- doubt them gress pays no attention to the voter They show at you see that In This is laughably inaccurate The 1839 the public’s spendable income voice of the voter is the one thing wea (8 billion dollars The estimate B congressman obeys In spite of for 1948 4a 139 billion this fact 81 per cent of the people Now your common sente will tell If our old friend NORC is right you that the people who ato meat as it has proved to be on many ocevery day didn’t get all of that 71 casions believe that congress debillion dollar Increase In their pends more on its own judgment spending money The than on public opinion groupe got e large part of it In Of course the reason for this imother words America (as a whole) pression is that the organised U eating more meat (and other voters the ones which some organthings) than It ever did before end ization controls form the because so many MORE people are judgment because they are eating so much MORE meat there the most vocal They make isn't as much left for the people heard in person through who ate ell they wanted before their membership and the people The discussion of how much Whom they influence America Is eating aroit In connecIn the two recent questions I tion with the question as to our abilhave mentioned: labor control and ity to help feed starving Europe and price control you have two powerAsia Sorqe people believed that ful lobbies at work — the unions and causa they buy many the industrial organizations but things at the store a they were pulling inapposite directions accustomed to buying America I am not saying that either is didn't bave enough to spare Tight or wrong in the views they But the people (you and I) who express and the causes they advo- can't get all of what we want are cate I am saying that they are in no danger of starving Wo can active and powerful And also that get things wo may not llko but they naturally promulgate ideas in which will be juat ea good for us their own interest If these inter And also we can be assured that ests happen to be the public's as the people who In Amerlea'a past Well line If not have been near the danger Unea Most ef the congressional see- - efe getting a lot more than they retarlcs I know well enough to talk ever had before And they weren’t With frankly support this view Ex-starving then either cept of course when some strange So don't think that we haven't political deal is involved whereby enough to spare for the Invisible the congressman feels it safer to guest BARBS Tx HESE'fraceful are40 inches ADVISER Dr Ruel Fmt la national adviser ef the Future Homemakers eg America all such ths first effort to activity In a central organization Under the stimulus provided by home ' economics sections in state of education the departments American Home Economics association and home economics schools la colleges' Inand departments dependent units havt thrived for 13 years with recognition of the un- - TTT ltj jTt's f0 J® r SO ns :i wry u MAnV ri a n THOSE SERVED The USO continues to aid wounded vetla Junior Hostess Lacille Masts playing checkers with erans a wounded vet at a Battle Creek Mich club outside Percy Jones stray general hospital WHO Above ' Highlights off USO A brief summary of USO's accomplishments during Its first five years of service to men and women In uniform all over the world Include the following highlights: At peak USO was serving one million mea a day During the five years (Febr ary 4 1941 to February 4 1943) total af 1100000 000 served At peak there were 30833 USO operation Fivo-Yc- ar At tho height of USO shows were Record Peak expenditure were 3V 100008 a month Peak everaeaa anlt totalled 178 Oversea dob to 1913) Daring tho bile service of all 80 million Nine ter a and Individual service (1942 by lit attendance 104119151 mosort totalled sniUioa performed Aid unit activities TOO given dally verses and Is the United States by mem than 4908 entertainers June 1942 was the aumertcat Pyk of volunteers — 739008 of them working that month They worked s total of 183 million hours In th St years American publlo ha gTfn 298 million dollars to service 14 million men and women ta armed forces Maurice Barrymore (Johns talented paw) waa asked th best way to be com a famous actor th first thing on must "What karn?" queried John "How to speskT" "No" was th reply llow to tir — tarv" lUbiflb'ip The Bbowfolkt: Be Ulll one at a Paris ca played slno a hen sh suddenly hiccoughed Th croupier thought b called out JIIT CtSH and psld her 130000 "bsnquol" francsl A IN TT7 T i oC! — i: |