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Show TIIE PAYS0N CIIRONICI-K- - PAYSO' CTA- 1i f.: Communists Await Depression in -- L the Reput- e-e -- Reds See Nations Economy Gravitating Toward Disaster dearest wish, as know, Is a great, big all-oreplica of the depression of 1929 for the United you States. Lets step for a moment into the sanctum sanctorum of the Soviet's No. 1 boy, Josef Vissarionovich DJugashvlll, alias Marshal Stalin. The following is an excerpt from the official transcript of a conversation between Harold Stassen of Minnesota and Josef Stalin of Georgia, U.S.S.R., not Georgia, U.S.A.: Stassen: Our problem now Is to see to It that wo do not have a de- presslon, an economic crisis. Stalin: Do yon expect a cri sis? Stassen: I do not . . . with wise we can policies avoid a crisis .' . . ... Stalin: Do American industries have a lot of orders? Is that true? And that American factories cant keep pace with them and that all factories are running 100 per rent? Is that true? Stassen Yes, substantially, but they are largely domestic orders . . . Stalin: But that Is the most Important . . . maga-sin- e analysts and the American press carry open reports to the effect that an economio crisis will break out. Stassen: The problem is one of . . . stabilizing without having an economio crisis. . . But what about busiStalin: ness men? Will they be prepared to be regulated and res- trained? some will have objections. Stalin: Yes, they do. That is a verbatim record with omissions which do not affect the context They reveal Stalins keen interest in our domestic economy and any prospective depression in Stassen: that No, economy. The conversation took place in the Kremlin on April 9 of this year. A friend of mine, a financial expert met a Communist ance who was bubbling over with wisdom? d, and racing are other program events. NEWS REVIEW boom-and-bust- JFar Again A Striking specimen of a Blue Cochin bantam rooster, bred for Its beauty. bantam is really Just a little chicken, bred down by selecting the small ones in a normal breed and mating them with the ponies" . as A Ioan-nin- a ter, told a press conference at that several of 20 prisoners taken by the defenders were unable to speak Greek and wore the Red Star insignia of the Soviet Union. In the meantime, a war department announcement said that one invading force of 2,000 had been gripped in a pincers nine miles from Albania and that a battle of annihilation was in progress. A sec- ond column was halted in its drive toward Ioannina and surrounded by the government troops. 10-Ye- ar Program Terming the problem one of "desperate urgency, President Truman, in a special message to congress, proposed that a swift start 350 million be made on a dollar program to control floods In the entire Mississippi basin and change the character of the river from a destructive giant to a productive force. He strongly implied that the present congress should undertake the e task before its immense, adjournment. A number of senators immediately threw their support behind the Presidents proposal. In general, the construction program as outlined by Mr. Truman long-rang- would provide a coordinated system of storage reservoirs In all the major tributary basins of the Mississ sippi, coupled with levees, and diversion channels to protect cities, towns and farms In those basins. Also, he proposed that soil conservation measures be put Into effect farther on the tributaries of each major basin in order to retard the flow and run-of- f of waters from heavy rains and reduce topsoil loss. flood-wall- up-riv- cave, explorers andh the cavern lot find his body, last year and one million more than in prospect both in the United had been expected, the spokesmen States and Cuba, assurance that said. the sugar shortage definitely is over Despite this outlook for sugar was given by sugar industry supplies, observers hesitated to prespokesmen. Housewives, now revel- dict that Industrial sugar rationing ing in adequate sugar supplies for would be ended before October 31 as scheduled under existing legislahome use and canning, were adtion They explained that the beet vised that they need not fear a recurrence of wartime and postwar Crop would not be harvested until this falL Meanwhile, the United shortages. Private estimates indicated that States will obtain its sugar from U. S. production of beet and cane traditional suppliers like Cuba, Hasugar this year would exceed last waii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin year's production by more than Islands. The Philippine islands, which for450,000 tons, doubling previous estimates of the anticipated increase. merly sent this country nearly one million tons of sugar annually, will Cuba, sugar capital of the world, will produce a record crop of more send none this year because, their than 6.4 million tons, nearly two sugar production has not recovered million tons larger than the crop from the devastation of the Japa 1' I I, TER News Item: Congress to Adjourn Hmmm. Whoever for Vacation. heard of a vacation after a picnic? The Soviets do not want to wanna change our U. S. They just add their S. R. . . . Most everyone has some ridiculous theory about those flying saucers." Ackchelly. they are the mates to the famous Dish That Ran Away With the Spoon and became a fugitive from tall a charging prices. . . . Best line on the flying Anyone saucers, we think, was: who tells you that he has seen flying saucers must have been in his cups! Nearly every mans home Is no longer his castle since congress made every landlord a king. . . . Heres a freak angle to the housing Despite the desperate problem: need for new homes, there are 25.000 unemployed building workers in New York City. . . . Churchills manuscript (the initial installment) has been insured for a chain-cafeter- Frances Henderson wishes half-millio- n Mayor ODwyers niece, Joan, may shelve taking her bar exams and try for the stage. She is with the troupers of the Clinton Playhouse in Connecticut, on the Straw-Kadcircuit. . y THE At Sounds in the Night: On Broadway, the Riviera: Planned Economy means sticking the other guy with the tab." In the Cub: An isolationist is a guy who didnt think we belonged in the last war but is trying to get us into this one." At Lum Fongs: Id like to see her in something flowring. Like a stream!" to inter- rupt the column to relay the one about of IRISH manfully shod totes bricks ui band build Russian Obstruction Now Open MARSHALL to his friends to have been worried appears is all the state department crowd. The Paris conference confirmed the worst about the Soviets. Not only are they against peace; they are opposed to restoring Ability. They are against the Western powers even aiding Europe further. Officially, they have presented this deliberate position. Consequently nearly everyone now realizes Russia has become bolder in promoting a not very subtle revolution to establish world communism. They will block anything which interferes, and cooperate only with ventures furthering their revolutionary cause. This projects a somewhat new field for diplomatic operations. Marshall seems to want to let things develop to see what is necessary, and then to do it, without any preconceived fastidious or isolated notions that it should be done thus or so, and only he can do it. Consequently new policies like the Ruhr restoration are developing slowly and carefully. No one here really knows anything to do about the open Communist obstructionist revolution, except this. War is unthinkable. You cannot appease a revolution. You cannot even appease a Communist, except by destroying yourself for him. GENERALSo U. I. PHILLIPS 1 GOOD OLD lea's oldest skater" is F( niits to being given exhibits and 15 foreigi been a profess years. Lexicon for Newspaper Readers ... it.. A Ideology gas pain. Aggression plebiscite. ... ... See wrestling match, Parley rodeo, donnybrook. Cooperation . . . The business of working together while facing In all directions and insisting "I was ... Robert Ringling is out as top of the man circus and John Ringling North is back, as a result of a new court decision. Both men, we hear, have that same feeling of uncertainty that is experienced daily by the aerial acrobats. A- - Outlook for Farm Measur es TE BEST GUESS here Washington is that with full pressure ALL IN i dog, even I1" with in :e ar be restored: C6ntknu 11 bat appropriations. that it h 15 Came Irom the house. d,,re,ct It is will be hiked from 45 tarm surplus disposal the full be restored. If the house finally arl1,"re m P6r C6nt cut instead of 40 SOmeUli it was of ffieTcUffi'LThrogSm the sugar, Include corn sugar and sirup, maple sugar and sirup, honey, cane sirup, sorgo sirup, and molasses. theii ... WALTER SHE. W nese military occupation. The estimated Increase In sugar production in the United States would place the 1947 crop at 2.2 million tons, of which about 1.7 million would be beet sugar and the remaining cane. Last year this country produced 1.76 million tons of both beet and cane sugar which was about 200.000 tons below an average crop. With supplies of cane and beet sugar now adequate to supply all demands by housewives, demands for other sweeteners are expected to decline. These sweeteners of which were used in war "time-- - ( MALUM Hit blitzkrieg. As an alternative to universal military training. Bates said the United States should concentrate on a strong striking force, a large air force, strong reserves and a well organized national guard, all backed by adequate scientific and lndustri-a- l research. Di waiting projects to geti fast, Ireland, I ... the two Indians. . . . They were squatting on two different mountain tops holding a conversation by throwing up smoke signals. . . . Their repartee was halted by the first atomic bomb which, as you probably know, sent up a lotta smoke. .. .To which one Injun flipped: "I wish I had said THATP Totalitarian Any state in which everybody is supposed to get three-lette- r along word. Yes.1 Isolation . . . Being astraddle a RACKET: weathervane in a cyclone and inTraining sisting it s nobody's business. Dr. Allan Bates, a Chicago scienA Democracy country with tist, testified before a house armed plenty of shortcomings, none of services that univer- which is made compulsory by sal military training has become a secret police. vicious political racket and will Satellite . . , The be a horrible cancer on the United slander who was allowed to vote as States. ordered. He cited the fate of European nations In the last war, declaring that despite assurances from their top army leaders that universal training would safeguard them from invasion they all fell before the Nazi SWEET LIFE With a record crop So he ,. , , PAUL FLOOD CONTROL: End to Sugar Shortage Seen CHICAGO. 1city. Tennessee WIMIEU, Notes of a New Yorker 1 RIDE EM, COWBOY . . . The rugged Colorado mountains provide Stampede staged a true western setting for the picturesque Skl-ista of the Monte annually at Monte Vista. Colo., under auspices tms Commercial club. The 1947 edition of the stampede is scheduled A para e week-enwith a rodeo (above) as the major attraction. n irS man ., Nashville, If Fanciers Fancy Fancier Bantams I tor to be honest, my wife) have recently acquired three new bantams for our flock. Elmer, the and his two proud tunes," Clementine and Adeline. Bantam raising is a real industry in the United States. Among my acquaintances, most people raise bantams for pets. Elmer, Clementine and Adeline had hardly gotten out of their crate which brought them all the way from Iota to Florida where they are now ensconced, before the ladies were leaping up on my wife's arm and eating a piece of bread right out of her mouth. The industry breeds the birds for exhibition and fancier sale. ca e reclamation and soil conservation, both Touching on the qusU" senate chaplain said that soil erosion leader to dumping into drastically cut by GOP land of alone destroys 300,000 acres "TVes each. the ocean each year l,87o farms Marshall in office would say ya ho put Mr Wonder what GOP leaders WOrds of one aay w senate he should open the august Greek Warfare Flares; Flood Curbs Advocated g -i. . the experts government, industry and labor at that time. The whole country, despite the fact that business was booming, seemed to be aware of the dangers of inflation. Furthermore, people were in the mood to check extravagances (for example, the Newburyport and other experiments). It appeared there would be a slight The United Nations security coun-- i recession, that it would relieve ell, which has yet to meet a tough the labor tension and encourage head-oand overcome it, more efficiency on the part of work- problem an American appeal for an rejected ers and management. Also, it would debate on the Balkan emergency adjust inventories, bring down real despite reports of increasestate prices so that people could situation, ing strife In Greece. buy homes, reduce the cost of livWhen Herschel V. Johnson, deping, and in general, take the wind out of the sails of a boom that uty U. S. delegate, warned that the crisis developing in might be followed by a bust. That Greece may burst was in April. into explosion any Well along about the riddle of Andrei Groday, July, the Communist ran into the myko, Soviet delefinancial expert again. Again the gate, protested Communist was smiling. an emergency that he leered Well," happily, on the issue debate wheres your mild recession unnecessary was that was going to take the wind and France added out of the sails of that the United must not Nations He sniffed the breeze blowing JOHNSON act too hastily. off the Potomac a couple of times and added (as if he had However, the council did schedule two special meetings In recaught the scent of attar of sponse to an American request to roses) : Smells a lot like 1929 to me." speed up the discussion of trouble in southeastern Europe. Russia obThe Communist went on, obviJohn jected to this, too, charging that ously enjoying himself: the U. S. was attempting to prove Lewis got the biggest wage settlement in his history. Didn't you say that an extraordinary situation had wage increases were inflationary? been created in Greece." What are the other labor leaders Main U. S. proposal for working going to do? Didnt I hear some- out the difficulty In Greece calls for thing about an increase in the price of steel as well as coal? And what Yanks Are Coming about the other side more loose The conservative Athens change in people's pockets? Connewspaper Elinikon Aima has gress talked about letting the boys reported on "excellent" authorhave cash for their terminal leave ity that United States troops bonds? That wouldnt do much to will aid Greece halt farther inpull down prices and releasing vasions such as the one governcredit controls on installment buyment forces now are fighting. ing. And the railroads saying they The newspaper quoted an cant pay their coal bills without a as sayAmerican spokesman rate Increase. Congress freight are deUnited States "The ing, tried twice to cut taxes too, right cided to contribute to the safewhere it would do high prices the guard of Greek freedom and inmost good. Where," he asked even with Ameridependence, again, "wheres this recession, and can armed forces." all the serious thought about checking a boom?" With that, the Communist walked establishment of a powerful off, chuckling in his beard. My fiborder patrol with authority to nancial expert admitted he couldnt scout both sides of the borders sepanswer him. arating Greece from the Communist-doIts this way," he said to me minated countries of Yugoafterward, people feel about Infla- slavia, Bulgaria and Albania. tion the way they felt about sin. Everybody is against it but they want to get theirs. As additional troops were sent up to reinforce both the Invading leftist guerrillas and the Greek government forces, the swiftly developing battle In the rugged heights of they call the undersized but healthy northern Greece began to take on a and handsome roosters, the cocky cast reminiscent of the Spanish ones. civil war. The bantam breed is centuries The war ministry disclosed that old. In China they produced miniatures with long and flowing tails to six strong guerrilla units had been concentrated along the Albanian grace the gardens of the Manchus. Great estates in Europe have been and Yugoslav frontiers of Greece decorated for hundreds of years and that all were poised to join the original invasion force of 2,000 with these delectable little creatures kept for no purpose other than which government troops had so the beauty they could impart to the far been able to repel Napoleon Zervas, defense minls- landscape. price-cuttin- ,l conservation M- lab, am not said Mr. unrest lies upon employers, toat where employers are Godcontradiction businesses without any fear of to run their and where they that labor troubles would then them, run as Christ would deep-disher- desire. That pn UI But in recent times one of the best barometers of Washington emos tell me) is the facial andor oral exprestions (some of my sions of the professional Communists who Inhabit the carefree District fresh your memory concerning the K r e m 1 ins most cherished !1 n; with his Rviaibltca sedate clergyman thlneiM WASHINGTON. There are a good many ways to judge the moods of official Washington. Sometimes you can assay them the moment you read the latest statement of the bureau of labor statistics. Sometimes you can interpret them in terms of the number of press and radio conferences that aTe NOT cancelled or the number of presidential or cabinet fishing trips that are scheduled. Sometimes you can read the story in the Congressional Record or the Gallup poll. Joy. The reason for his gayety? The fact that he foresaw a real depression for the United States. Later the financial man again met the Communist, informed him he was sorry to hurt his feelings, but that there was going to be only a mild recession which would serve to check the boom. No bust would follow. That was the opinion of most of pla Harris, and rcplondh;'" Mr. ever, it appears that Sews Analyst and Commentator. f" Frederick Brown H6w- tj.p Rev. Peter Marshall. does not entirely agree labor. For the tall, 8 New a oad.gSuged talk at the Wed the Domoa,,c By BAUKIIAGE of Columbia. To help you understand the above statesomewhat ment, let me re Words of Wisdom elephants Mac," show get that 15 face when bath. n in p'!' per per cent or less 5 0pp(,s'uh beeause of the fact that AY blnce its modification quotas to discretion f dutie the President!etherbif'm---St-0r lmport original objective form more or less its PPuies aid in liquidation of f Ameri man wool and to U. S. woof Itacks0 PC.e tial veto of the act would be an P.iead!rs admission that Mr. say that Presidenexpect to be president Truman does after 1948. lli Clima: of World A WAS in the late summer just of 1913 World on the the close War I, as 'vakmg Strand in L rf! with a member J of the Brffish 'Rbility. Two British Tommies came toward us St?PPed e narrow That," I said to tllusti ative of abau at' I movers' they 'If Jf the fer.se Event n tuture- com' flghting ln de naton, have learned - la r. EUperil)r. Portance to those with titles of no' bility at of a J, .n!f land.' ment is lncident was evidence spir,t 'broad in your present British govern-clma- x the cf such incidents. I1ALL OF ft right-han- 1 land hit ball 17 lean IcaS down his phiIadcIP1,l, grai |