Show WESTBROOK II I Third World War Brews I JT IT TT TAKES no expert to see that President Truman is weakly JL leading the United States into a war fighting-war with Soviet Russia Our first engagements may involve us with Russia's unofficial Communist guerrillas in Greece We may lose a naval ship in the Aegean or Adriatic through more or less covert action by disguised Soviet forces employing a mine for tor the pur pur- pose I We turned the other cheek in the case of ot the Japanese attack on a little vessel of ours called the Panay when Tito THo of ot shot down one of our army transports which was unarmed and murdered five of our young men we kept our indignation under control In the light of later Information It Is not certain as most of 01 ofus ofUS us as believed at the thc time of the Panay attack that we ve were entirely innocent there We were pro-Chinese pro and we were not trying to avoid trouble There was contributory negligence on our part But Butin ButIn ut utIn in the murder of the American fliers by Tito we were entirely Innocent and the attack was inexcusable and an act of war President Truman is hopelessly committed to a political tradition and anda a course toward war with Soviet Russia If It Mr Truman continues to monkey around in Europe we will beback be beback beback back in another world war our third simply for tor lack of ot the courage and integrity to be the American people in the American nation and to mind our own business L L L. L K 7 x H. H I. I PHILLIPS Oh For the Life of I The proposed new budget would cost every person In the United States a year as against 69 a decade ago and five or 10 seeds when popper was a lad These are arc among the things that make us feel more and more that the groundhog leads a happy life lle S SAt At the thc motorboat show v and you TOU wont won't know what inflation bas has done to price levels until you go there there are two white garbed nurses in the stern of each cach cruiser They apply the restoratives after you ask the price of the boat S S S Congress Is determined to see that the Voice of America Is properly heard In Europe It would be nice if it i JI K JIt WALTER WINCHELL From the Main St m Faces About Town Elizabeth EUzabeth Firestone whose pappy poppy Is the veddy rich tire manufacturer Liz goes to Charl Charles Charls s of the Ritz once a week engages engages engages en- en en en- gages a booth and does her own hair Society's new from deb-from- up the-neck-up has tins three society press agents working on editors wangling free space Tojo has been on trial as a war criminal for 18 months ItIs ItIs It ItIs Is taking almost as long to punish punish punish pun pun- ish him as It took to lick Japan Horrors Famed designer Main- Main bocher says he recently spotted the Duchess of ot Windsor wearing a gown he made for her more than eight years ago Dumont Television will revive vaudeville on its network net net- work It will be called Vi de ovill e. e a L. L It could be heard In America too now and then S S Congress should concentrate on the country not on partisan politics President Truman 5 Looka Looks whose whore S S S Lakewood N. N J. J officials i it t breaks our heart are punishing au au- who do not respect school l buses by making them come to the schoolhouse and write I must no not t pass a school bus In Lakewood times If It this doesn't stop reckless driving their lollipops will be taken away S S S Governor Stassen's testimony strikes Democrats as going against the grain WALTER SHEAD War Still Boosts Budget PRESIDENT RESIDENT TRUMAN has submitted his budget totalling billion I dollars the largest peacetime budget In history Had the President been playing politics as charged it would seem the simplest thing to do would woul d have been to slash It to the bone down to where even Congressman JohnI John I Taber couldn't cut it But 79 per cent of this budget or 31 billion dollars dollar s in round figures Is in the the- Presidents President's words the cost of war the effects effect s ss of war var and our efforts to prevent a future war Only 21 per cent or abou eight billion represents the expense of ot running the government Where to cut Taber says the budget must be slashed by three billion dollars Will it be off orr national defense foreign aid public publio debt reduction or will it be at the expense of governmental services here at home The President painted a rosy picture of the state of the union Corporate profits the highest In history 58 million persons working which Is per cent more than In 1940 production 7 per cent over 1946 1940 and 76 per cent over the 39 1935 average consumer Income the greatest ever at 1264 per capita compared to 1074 In 1946 business Investment In plant equipment and Inventories more than 25 billion dollars four tour billion over 1946 The President says the figures are misleading that prices are outstripping wages high income families are losing purchasing power savings accounts are shrinking credit is expanding dangerously The President has set up a program to get the fly out of the ointment No one else has Yet nothing Is done about it L L L. L K S DREW PEARSON Washington Merry Round Merry Go Round A I PRODDED by President Truman's plan for health legislation ans are getting getting- getting busy Senator Tafts Taft's labor committee will hold hearings hearIngs hear hear- ings on two opposing health bills Arkansas friends friends' of ot John Snyder treasury secretary are having a new portrait painted of ot their hero HE H Is the first son of ot Arkansas to hold a place in the pr presidents president's cabinet Venerable Sen Bob Wagner of New York sometimes Is accused of being too ill III to be the on Job However he was able to conduct a most significant housing survey It showed that nine out of every 10 mayors in cities of population or over over believe th that t private enterprise cannot take care of low cost low The government they feel must do it The Bogota conference on Latin-American Latin aid to Europe under the Marshall plan will be postponed until July 1 The state department cant can't ask our good neighbors how much help they will give Europe until congress decides how bow much we will give I. I 5 1 WRIGHT PATTERSON Small Investors Predominate THE THE plants and tools of American I industry and transportation have been supplied by nearly 60 60 million stockholders The money provided by those stockholders has created jobs for almost 60 million workers It built and equipped our mills factories transportation systems mines and utilities and provides the i Warning to Broadway Snakes That pretty brunet counter gal at atthe atthe atthe the Park Central drugstore Is Margie Margie Margie Mar Mar- gie Roberts an ex jiu Instructress Instructress tress of the marines Flattened a on her way home the other middle of the night Heres Here's an eyebrow lifter JItter Washington has almost twice as many newsmen as solons Baron von Cramm the prewar German with Barbara Hutton In Switzerland will return here for the summer competition Her money will win cover expenses Britain's richest draft dodger is living In the Bahamas at atthe atthe the rate of grand per year Gabriel Pascal gave himself top billing billing bill bill- ing over a feller teller named George Bernard Shaw In a trade paper ad adl J L I working capital that makes our present tremendous production pos pos- pos pos- sible By far tar the larger portion of ot those 60 million stockholders are small Investors who have hove saved frugally frugally fru fru- tru- tru gally gaily and Invested as Insurance for tor declining years During 1947 the average return they received on each dollar Invested was 27 cents |