Show I 1 DREW PEARSON Europe Needs New Hope WHAT most of us here at home dont don't realize Is that the V V Russians have put over an amazing job of propaganda While we the greatest advertising nation in the world have been both asleep at the switch and hamstrung by the nickel- nickel nursing policy of certain congressmen Russia has been hammering hammering ham ham- mering away ay constantly against the U. U S. S until a lot of people abroad abroad- even the non Communists non Communists believe this propaganda Many have been led to believe for instance that the United States has no social security no old-age old pensions no unemployment insurance is completely controlled by Wall Street keeps labor in virtual enslavement and is helping Europe only as a bribe to keep it from going Communist In order to win hack our lost ground in Europe the United States has to do more than merely cram food down peoples people's throats It also has to engage In friendly missionary and plop propaganda anda work Equally If it not more important It has to give Europe new hope new Ideals new goals to work ork for That is where the Communists have been so much smarter than we Phony as their propaganda is it holds out alleged hope for the future And many of the people of Europe innocently have fallen for it as a drowning man grasps at the last straw I J A 1 J A J J x x X R WALTER WINCHELL Flashes Hashes Off the Express General Eisenhower's book of memoirs got from Doubleday Doubleday Double Double- day confirming a flash which said it would bring Gs Virginia Leigh the newly publicized glammer glam- glam glammer glammer mer gal conducts a gossipy column column column col col- col- col which is ghosted by her socially socially socially so so- registered mater Mrs Frank Delaney France Is beefing about the conditions attached to Uncle Sams Sam's aid gift of million dollars Would they like to try for the million dollar question question ques ques- tion Tee lice Dept The piece on Ben Grauer in a national mag says he wears bow ties exclusively and then a photo shows him wearing a four in The Luce brain trust has selected the name for its Dear Joe DiMaggio Well a few days ago I saw in the papers that the Yanks have decided to pay you to this year and it is too bad that a thing like that has to happen to a nice guy like you 5 For the last couple of years you had a tough time with chipped elbows and heels and just when you got a right to hope you are arc out of pain and worry they ram you up Into them upper income tax brack brack- ets From now on you will know r A 4 opinion n mag due in the spring sprung It Itis Itis I is Quest also the tag for a famed body deodorant A wealthy Texas T as oil man bought A string s of pearls in ill Paris and hid bid it in ill ina illa a secret drawer of 0 his trunk Arriving Ar Ar- riving in New York lork he be was amazed Uh when 11 customs inspectors imm immediately date y Pulled the Ibe necklace from its ils hideout What he be doesn't know is that the U U. S. S officials were tipped liPped by the Ibe Frenchman who built he buill the secret compartment com corn for him He tie lIe now collects collect a reward which comes come from the heavy beaty I fine Imposed on the Ibe amateur smug smug- gler glen I Many restaurants which serve steaks today do so merely as a cour cour- tesy Claim they lose money on them One so-called so night club owner really is working for the real owners O of the joint his his chef and three of the wait walt ers ens WESTBROOK Unionism at Its Worst I T SHALL ever thank Dan Tobin for a perfect purpose all-purpose example of the 1 stupidity of the unionism that was imposed upon the Americans by the late Roosevelt who to do him justice probably did not know the whole meaning of his acts Tobin's union the Teamsters of the bars not only Communists but partial Communists who believe selectively in parts of Communism and all members of all other subversive organizations Tobin yields to none in his reverence for The Memory and few of his brethren would deny that he is qualified to go forth and bumble the masters master's word Ills His finest hour came the night when he stood host to Franklin in the Statler hotel In the rail fall of 44 while cackled about his dog and venerable at the board busted glasses for emphasis The Teamsters' Teamsters Union is an Ideal reservation for the loose confinement jf f a million head of Little People according to Mr Big's ideas He indicated his approval of old Dans Dan's work many times usually In mischievous mischievous mis mis- chievous compliments purposely made extravagant for ludicrous effect It amused him to provoke Tobin's vanity and he was always tossing the old walrus a herring or a mullet to make him flap his flippers on his tub I H H. I. I PHILLIPS A Letter of Sympathy what real suffering Is like Joe and if U I were you I would not let them Yanks do this to me I would see sea a lawyer and make an appeal For years you were one of the most underpaid boys in hi baseball but it was nice and cozy down do there Now you go up where the state and government really start running the vacuum over you and you will find I that none of them Johns Hopkins or Mayo clinic fellers can do a thing I about it no matter how good they may be with heels and elbows I A 4 4 n n n n WALTER SHE SHEAD AD Congress Evades Own O Law C CONGRESS CONGRESS acts something like a policeman Its It's OK for a cop to stop in traffic park in front of a fireplug or run through a red light light but but not for fora a mere civilian Its It's OK for congress to pass laws and the folks are supposed supposed sup sup- posed to obey them them but but congress can disregard the law as witness the legislative reorganization act which congress passed to eliminate obsolete methods and to streamline its working for benefit of everybody Including congress itself The reorganization act lct has been In effect more than a year and anda a survey shows that only about a third of Its provisions are being observed Even those provisions which are being observed are being made ineffective by use of or makeshift or evasive maneuvers For Instance the law directed a streamlined reduction of standing from 48 to 19 in the house and 33 to 15 in hi the senate Congress did that but immediately started setting up dozens of at sub sub committees It might as well weB have continued the practice of naming special committees Congress is supposed to set up a budget deadline February 15 Last session it never did set up a budget figure and this year plans are under underway underway underway way to postpone it as late as mid April It was given authority to hire experts to act as executive assistants and pay them Instead with very few exceptions congressmen just raised salaries of their secretaries to or split it up to give more folks from back home jobs In La Wash Wash- ington Committees were to hold open hearings John Tabers Taber's house appropriations appropriations committee never has held an open hearing There were to be many other changes under provisions of the law I Already there have been vi violations lation of a about out two thirds of these provisions K WRIGHT PATTERSON PA Science Aids Those Over 40 INCE Revolutionary war days SINCE L O science has lowered the di d th ath rate of infants and people under 40 But science has not accomplished as much for those who have passed the milestone At the time of the Revolutionary war those who had reached the age of 40 still had a aS a'S an average 26 more years to live One hundred years ago that average had been increased to 28 years An analysis of old and new mortality tables made by ty Northwestern North North- we western tern National Life Insurance company shows that those of 40 now can expect to live another 30 years Science is promising new and far greater creater wonders in that line I |