Show ©gfatt B’tanbarii-feamt- or EDI TOR IALS OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY EVENING OA DREW PEARSON 1 SEPTEMBER 9 1955 Seizes Mystery Frenchman Nazi Collaborator Dope Smuggler — U S I Lost Art in American Homes: Budgeting Time was when you couldn’t fairly say you were in business as a family man if you didn’t operate by a budget But it seems those days are gone with the chill wind of depression Nowadays most American families are basically just too well off to bother with the r chafing restrictions of the budget strait jacket They don’t exactly trust to luck to make ends meet They keep what is perhaps best called a loose check on expenses' Surveying this trend Time magazine reports that in 1955 only one family in 200 maintains a operating budget with its income deliberately segregated in various envelopes labeled Rent Food etc For one thing they don’t have to rely on such a device to keep some sort of orderly tab on iheir outlays The changing habits of the U S seller of goods have come to serve as a partial substitute If you’re buying a car a TV set household appliances or furniture on the installment plan the seller provides you with a neat little payment booklet which serves as an adequate record of your monthly spending for those items - You don’t have to set aside funds in a special pile for taxes social security health insurance plans and so on Unless you’re well up in the income brackets your em- ployer deducts taxes from your pay check Social security is automatically deducted and he’ll take a slice for health insurance too if you say so day-to-da- Long-Sh- y Gamble ot Sen McCarthy of Wisconsin seems to have elected to take a very considerable gamble on his political future And it calls for total opposition to President Eisenhower Having been slapped down by tle United States Senate' last year McCarthy no longer commands attention as an investigator So he’sbeen developing a new approach and that’s where the gamble comes in His new approach actually is an extension of the old' He hammers hard on the theme that stiff measured ar needed to combat communism in Asia By this means he seeks to renew the public’s portrait of him as the ‘stoutest fighter of all At the same time Jie tries to picture the President’s attitude as soft weak and appeasing Any politician knows that the risk is great when you oppose even a moderately popular president on an issue where he seems reasonably strong To' oppose Mr Eisenhower in these "circumstances is the wildest sort of political wagering For his popularity has remained extraordinarily high throughout his nearly three years in office Furthermore McCarthy is on slippery aground in the Asian field He blames the President for the French defeat in Indochina for the fact that North Korea was not conquered by our limited armies for “knuckling under’’ to the Reds wherever they apply pressure He says too that the free Asian cound tries are in position to launch a attack against Red China He even sees Nationalist Chinese forces moving against the mainland from across the Formosan straits And he advises us to give “at least” material and technical aid to such a move Our top military men undoubtedly will find this astounding reading They have antl-Communi- st -- three-pronge- GALLUP POLL installment plan ie record-of-the-mont- clubs ' Put all these easily tabulated outlays together keep a close eye on your charge accounts and your check stubs and you’ve got a reasonably adequate picture of where the money is going Time found that newlyweds are the chief exception to the new order Often they rely on a budget because they have to skimp and scrape But soon they too discover the magic of credit Probably this whole trend is an inevitable accompaniment of our present prosperity So there’s no use bemoaning it There’s nothing wrong with the new order of things anyway provided that both buyers and sellers exercise sensible caution Americans have got to show sufficient to avoid overextending themselves financially And where they won’t show it the businessman himself ought to act as their budget officerFor the economy could get into serious trouble if somebody doesn’t make it clear that the magic of credit is not limitless self-restrai- 4 Ike-Overwhel- mingly PRINCETON N J — Regardless of "President Eisenhower’s continued silence on politics Republican voters still name him as their No 1 choice for the GOP presidential nomination in 1956 In fact the number of Republicans who list him as their top favorite is higher today than at any time since his inauguration In a survey just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion 85 per cent of GOP voters across the country name Mr Eisenhower as their first choice In January of this year the President was the N6 1 favorite of 74 per cent of GOP voters compared to 79 per cent one year ago in September FAR AHEAD The President also runs far ahead of any other Republican in popularity among the nation’s mosa They know that a move by Chiang against Red China is impossible without major U S naval and air support In other words if we helped in that kind of a war we would be in it To urge war while the popular Mr Eisenhower is urging an honorable just peace calls indeed for the gambling spirit McCarthy must be betting either that the President will not run again — thus opening the GOP( to a new right wing-lef- t that the Comwing battle for control--o- r munists in Peiping and Moscow will take major aggressive steps that will make only the American extremists look good From the response he is getting the senator plainly is not finding many fellow lawmakers who will take a piece ofliis bet Kai-she- k Truman Boomerang Apparently former President Truman has boundless faith in the campaign tactics in 1948 These which won him were already outdated in 1952 and were no help to the new Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson There is no sign they will prove any more suitable in the developing 1956 battle Nevertheless MrTruman is sticking by them He has delivered himself of some remarks in his best whistle-sto- p tradition taking broad swipes at President Eisenhower and his administration What is perhaps saddest is the nott of personal bitterness Mr Truman now allows to supercharge his political blasts Accusations of “misrepresentation and demagoguery” against the President are extreme enough to suggest a real animosity - Public attitudes toward the two men in dicate these comments are more likely to hurt Mr Truman than the man against whom they are aimed re-electi- on hell-for-leath- er and 83 per cent of the men COMMANDS SUPPORT Mr Eisenhower commands the support of 89 per cent of Republican voters in the age group 50 and over 80 per cent among Republicans in the 30 to 49 age group and 81 per cent among presidential candidates in 1956 young GOP voters in the 21 to 29 for the Republican Party Which one would you like to see nom- age group Another considerable source inated as the Republican candi- of General Eisenhower’s strength date for President? The following tkble shows the ' vote today: Independent voters In today’s survey all voters classifying themselves as Republicans were handed a list of names that have been mentioned as GOP nominees and were asked: “Here is a list of men who have been mentioned as possible I GOP VOTERS Eisenhower 85 3 Dewey Dulles Stassen Knowland Nixon Others None on list Mexican border The full story of his arrest cannot be told It can be said however that the fabulous Frenchman did not come here of his own THE DEPRESSION HAS SET IN nt detected no such offensive or strategic capacities in Indochina South Korea or For- - 2 2 2 1 3 political scene According to persuasive reports it was this new argument introduced by Geneva that rather decisively turned the White House debate in favor of a second term All sorts of things can of course happen between now and the Republican convention It is more likely for instance that the ' free half of the world will suffer disastrous defeats in the Far East in the next six to eight months What this may do to the glow is to escape to the Gettysburg life President’s anyone’s guess he loves Again the President’s state of The President was much afhealth obviously magnificent the pleas of his wife Yet no isman fectedly of his years can be and son His response was shown against the absolytely guaranteed to the world so to speak at the kind of little upset which would press conference when he± be""trivial for most men but in publicly repeated their argumeHtj the situation in the White House that a man of his years should give much greater force not seek another four years in would to the pleas of the President’s the White House son For these and other wife and But the faction of the antis reasons Eisenhower’s obvious was tiny while the faction in course forebe cannot absolutely favor of an Eisenhower second cast But on one one may point term was enormous comprising now be certain quite every member of his staff every The President’s of Republican politician of any choice in this matter power has been consequence except Sen Joseph invisibly but rapidly diminished R McCarthy and virtually every no lie longer has the option of one of the President’s circle of he will not run bethat saying close personal friends Moreover cause he does not choose to His the Geneva meeting at the sum- moral commitment to the Repubmit proved to be a heavy blow to lican now too great He is Party the faction of the antis To the legions who have urged cgnnot possibly escape running uhless he is willing to shield himhim to run again the President self has always had a stock response from squarely behind an opinion his doctors that he ought — that the American political sysnot to do so That is the only tem did not recognize the existwhich is not sure to be argument ence of such a creature as “The shouted down indispensable man” But at Geneva the President seemed to prove the contrary RAISED REPUTATION However transitory and even dangerously deceptive the other Geneva results may prove there By W L GORDON is no doubt whatever about one result Single-hande'with no W’ORDS OFTEN MISUSED lever but his smile the President Distinguish between “sanitary” raised the reputation of this “Sanitary” ‘sanatory” country abroad from somewhere and very near the depths to some- means pertaining to health as where very close to the: heights “sanitary drinking means conducive to health In a single week the rest of the world’s opinion of America’s aims curative as “sanatory exercises” and purposes was radically and OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED happily transformed by EisenLame (fabric interwoven with hower alone metallic Pronounce threads) The feat itself quite naturally on second with accent exhilarated the President giving syllable him a sense of achievement that he has not always had in the OFTEN MISSPELLED White House Furthermore the Satire (irony) Satyr (mythvery fact of this feat at once ological divinity) gave a heaven-sen- t argument to SYNONYMS those who wanted him to run Careless thoughtless reckless again In our domestic politics shiftsaid it imprudent improvident be no that they man may is indispensable but it has now less thriftless been proved that at this critical WORD STUDY juncture the President is the in- ' “Use a word three times and it dispensable man on the world is yours” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day Today’s word: DEFILEMENT pollution foulness “The good cannot mix with the bad without danger of defilement” JOSEPH ALSOP Pressure on Ike to Run Enormous Wife Son Lead the Opposition WASHINGTON — In the secret drama that has been unfolding in the White House for many months it is pretty clear that what may be called the faction of the antis has sustained a heavy setback In other w'ords President Eisv enhower is acting much more lUce a candidate to succeed himself than he would be called upon to act if he merely wished7to control the Republican convention and to dictate the choice of his own successor On this head the goings-oin Denver speak for themselves Probably this outcome was always inevitable The most experienced of all observers of the American political scene Frank R Kent has long held that it wfas an immutable law of American politics that first-terpresidents cannot possibly resist the forces driving them to run again But in this case the problem was more interesting than it usually is because of the character of the faction of the antis The leader of the antis of course has been Mrs Eisenhow’er It has often been rumored that the President’s wife disliked the idea of his running again It can now be stated on undoubted d testimony that the rumors the real situation Mrs Eisenhower has not merely disliked the idea of a second term She has strongly and consistently used her very great influence against it Furthermore it can also be revealed that the influence of Mrs Eisenhower has been powerfully seconded by the influence of Maj John Eisenhow’-e- r which is also very great FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION The combination of a man’s wife and only son would be pretty formidable in most families and 'it is especially formidable in the Eisenhower family In addition Mrs Eisenhower and Maj Eisenhower had formidable arguments — that the presidency was too heavy a burden to be taken on a second time at the President’s time of life that the President had done his duty and could gracefully retire and that this was the moment for the President -- m Besides the President the list included Vice President Richard M Nixon former Gov Thomas E Dewey Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Harold E Stassen special assistant to the President Sen William F Knowland Sen John W Bricker Chief UN Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr and Sen Everett M Dirksen e GOP votAmong ers the President is the top choice of 86 per cent of women rank-and-fil- Marionettes Jointed puppets were given the name marionettes in the Middle Ages The name originally was applied to little images of ' the : Virgin Mary a ENGLISH LESSON under-represene- Our narcotics choosing off Mexican authoriagents tipped ties that he was using their country as a base for smuggling dope into the United States and Canada The Mexicans quietly hustled him on a plane bound for San Antonio It is enough to say that the federal narcotics boys knew he was coming D’Agostino got off the plane wailing about being kidMeanwhile a ruthless naped but unpublicized international criminal is cooling his heels in the San Antonio clink Note: Texas Sen Price Daniel chairman of the Senate Narcotics Investigating Committee is working with state and federal authorities on the D’Agostino case Needless to say the French would also like to get their hands on him HATCIIET MAN AXED Congress almost hired a personnel expert to investigate his own alleged personnel abuses This convenient arrangement almost went to Henry Domers who was supposed to direct a special investigation of the Eisenhower administration’s personnel policies Someone discovered however that Domers had been the GOP hatchet man at the Federal Power Commission As such he had scrambled the FPC’s personnel structure to make room for more Republican appointees This might make him a hero to Republicans but the Democrats happen to be running Congress They claim the Republicans have been kicking out ca: reer workers to create vacancies for political appointments By Democratic standards' Domers was one of the worst offenders He had gone so far as to arleave of absence range a from the FPC so he could run the personnel investigation for the House Civil Service CommitSenate But meanwhile tee probers had been investigating Domers own record at FPC With Domers likely to be called as a witness in the Senate investigation he seemed hardly the man to head the House inSo the deal was vestigation off called hastily 90-da- y (Editor’s Note— While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation his column is being written by members of his staff) With the cold war thawing to- day’s forgotten man is the serviceman who is still on guard around the world often neglected by Congress and the taxpayers The Third Marine Division has just been example crammed into barracks that the Army had condemned and abandoned on bleak Okinawa The Marines live in quonset huts that leak when it rains and heat up like bake ovens when the sun shines Some 60 to 80 men are crowded into each hut living in such sticky closeness that the quarters stink like slae ships Housing facilities at some Air Force bases are also so atrocious that pilots have been forced to rent homes as much as two hours away from the fields This has led Gen Nathan Twining Air Force chief to warn: “We could only get about half the fighter planes in the air during the first two hours after an alert” Congressional can be blamed for most inadequate military housing In some cases however the housing contracts have become snarled in red tape For example the Air Force awarded a contract to construct housing at 23 key air warning stations to the William Rouse Co Because of Falls Church Va minor mistakes in the original bid the Beacon Construction So of Boston protested the award This has started a chain of protests and appeals all the way to the Comptroller General’s Office Meanwhile the personnel at these 23 vital warning posts are living either in miserable housing or else off base This leaves holes in our warning system through which enemy planes conceivably could fly FREEDOM SHIP To thousands of hunted and herded refugees the World War II transport General W M Black is regarded as a sort of floating Statue of Liberty It may bring a catch to their throats to learn that the worn old ship has been retired Her humanitarian career wras ended last month when she was towed into Suisun Bay at the mouth of California’s Sacramento River to join the mothball fleet Tha General Black has taken part in every important sea movement of politcial refugees since 1948 Her passengers have included displaced persons from Europe White Russians from Shanghai Dutch soldiers from Java and Poles stranded in Africa Her latest major service was helping to move 310000 anticommunist refugees from northern to southern Vietnam Almost every modern language has been spoken on her decks The Black’s sister ship the General W C Langfitt is sailing in the Black’s wake as the freedom ship of the oppressed She is under charter to the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration for penny-pinchin- g d cups”-“Sanatory- ro 10 YEARS AGO 53336 and employment was given Mr and Mrs George A Saun- to 679 persons according to the ders of Burch Creek who had report from headquarters been assigned to the LDS NorthMrs w W BarrettT 2727Jack-so- n western States Mission were honAve had returned from a ored at a program in the Fourteenth Ward chapel They were six weeks’ vacation trip in the leaving for a two years mission Northwest where she visited her “Only religion can solve our brother and sister Dr and Mrs problems” the Very Rev Herald John R Murdock G Gardner dean of St Mark’s 50 YEARS AGO Cathedral Salt Lake City said in his talk on “The Church a Factor The Boyle Furniture Co had of Freedom” at the Kiwanis started work on the basement of Club their new warehouse at the coro m c m i ssioners ner of 23rd Street and Wall AveOgden City climbed on the nue The excavation was 200 by and collected a brass ring for 64 feet and 10 feet in depth next season’s rides when they took up the option and extended Miss Genet Bingham had rethe contract with R B Young turned from a trip to the fair at granting him the ride concessions Portland Ore and resumed her at Lorin Farr Park for 1946 The duties in the Weber County agreement called for the payment clerk’s office She reported havof $500 to the city ing a glorious time and much benefited by her vacation 20 YEARS AGO Bids received by Weber County Samuel T Corn son of Thompson Corn had entered the Curtiss Commission for the construction bridges in Ogden Wright Technical Institute of of five steel Aeronautics at Glendale Calif Canyon were referred to the They were He enrolled in the engineering county engineer course which he expected to A M Blodgett $3040 Missouri Valley Bridge Iron Co $3116 complete next June Minneapolis Steel and Bridge Co - Weber County FERA payrolls $3214 Wichita Construction Co for the week amounted to $3- - $3660 merry-go-roun- d MAJ THOMAS NIAL Reserve Law Has Little Affect on ” lah-ma- y ! 100 post-Genev- fa-pio- us n y 2 By JACK ANDERSON stVanger-than-fictio- h GOP Voters Still Like N n WASHINGTON A story lies behind the arrest in San Antonio of a mysterious Frenchman who has gone by many names but - is under death sentence in France as Antoine D’Agostino He is an international dope smuggler a key figure in the shadowy underworld organization known as the Mafia During World War II he worked with the Nazis to undermine French health and morale with narcotics He was later tried in absentia and sentenced to death for treason D’Agostino is wanted in half a dozen other countries from Europe to Canada for narcotics violations He was picked up by federal agents in this country the moment he landed in San Antonio after hopping across the The bank gets into the act with things like Christmas Club savings where you plunk down a sum regularly each week to make the holiday burdens seem a little more painless And lately retailers of records have been joining the book merchnants to help put your cultural purchases on a kind of y un-cleane- ss Ex-Service- From O B J Jr of Richmond Va “I enlisted in the U S Navy on July 5 1951 and was honorably discharged July 2 1955 In what way am I affected by the new military Reserve law?” The only way it could affect you would be if you volunteered to take an active part in a Reserve organization of the Navy For example the Reserve law allows you to volunteer for a year of training in a Reserve unit and whereby make yourself less likely for recall in case of a war If you need further details on just how this provision of the law works I suggest you get in touch with the personnel officer of one of the Reserve units near you ' From KFM Jr of Newark J: “One of the questions WE which I haven’t found an answer for in any of the stories on the new Reserve law is: How are men ClMTHS UMEUGHT who are already serving in the Reserve affected? I joined a ‘National Guard unit in December 1950 and have continued to serve since then When can I get out of the Guard feel sure I’ve fulfilled my military obligation and not have to worry about the new Reserve law?” You don’t have to worry about the new Reserve at all You’re not covered by it You will have satisfied your military obligation as long as you continue to sene in the Guard until you reach 26 The law covering you provides that a man who enlisted in an Organized Reserve or National We say that someone is in the Guard unit before Feb 1 1931 and continues to sene without a limelight in comparison with ac- break until age 26 has satisfied tors in the spotlight on the stage At one time lime was used to make the spotlight white A bail of lime was burned on a stream of hydrogen and oxygen Q — When did Newfoundland become a British colony? Weigh! From Gravity A— In 1713 by the Treaty of Things have weight because of Utrecht The the attraction of gravity Q—With what do you associweight of a body is the measureate the name Daniel Beard? ment of mutual attraction that — A The founding of the first exists between the earth and that Boy Scout organization in this body WHY SAY - N man his military obligation As to men who joined the Guard after Feb 1 1951 they are as eligible for the draft as if they had never joined the Guard From I D of Washington DC: “You wrote in a column about burial expenses paid by the Veterans Administration toward the burial of a World Wr I vet Please give me a run-dow- n on that information” A person defraying the burial expenses of a World War I vet who was discharged from service under other than dishonor- able conditions may be reimbursed for up to $150 From Pfc JAD eo Postmaster San Francisco: “Before I was drafted I was working for a large grocery chain I would like to go back to my job I understand I have certain reemployment rights How much time do I have after separation to apply for my old job?” Unless you’re hospitalized you have 90 days to apply From Sirs A V of New York City: “My husband recently left for Korea He’s a sergeant in the Army Is there any chance that I might be able to join him in Korea?” Wives are not allowed with their husbands in Korea (You may write Maj Nial about your Please enclose a problem envelope stamped and 20 cents in coin) Write Maj Thomas M Nial The Associated Press 33Q Star Building Wash1101 Pennsylvania Ave D C ington service-connecte- d self-adresse- d QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS country Q— How did Peruvian fcirk source of quinine get its present name of Cinchona bark? A —The tree is named after Countess Chinchcn who vzs cured of fever in 1C33 by th ilz? cl this bark |