Show 1 S WALTER W AL TER SHEAD Consumers Pay Lobby Bill THE THE lobby racket in Washington is costing consumers of oi 1 the nation anywhere up to 50 million dollars a year according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to conservative estimates Under the congressional reorganization act lobbyists are required to register with con congress ress To date individual lobbyists lobbyists lobbyists lob lob- representing organizations have registered according to a round up by Congressional Quarterly a reliable source of ot information These organizations are expending approximately five million dollars annually in salaries alone and according to estimates the cost of ot expenses offices clerical help entertainment food and liquor will amount to 10 times the salaries paid There is no doubt but that this sum suni spent to Influence legislation in congress is passed on to the thc voters Here is a box score with approximate salary expenditures Twenty six organizations like the U U. S. S chamber of commerce and National Association of ot M Manufacturers annually 23 building products and real estate organizations 22 financial organizations 51 food and agricultural concerns 35 oil gas am and mining organizations 21 power and communications organizations organizations 79 associations 5 highway associations 57 railway organizations 11 water or shipping concerns concerns concerns con con- cerns 48 miscellaneous companies 49 miscellaneous trade groups 61 citizens' citizens groups 75 employees' employees groups 28 farm groups 9 foreign policy groups 19 professional organizations 26 reclamation groups 28 23 tax groups 21 veterans and military organizations and I 14 women's groups WALTER WINCHELL Doodling on the Typewriter The feds are checking a big New NewYork NewYork NewYork York theater operator for alleged Income tax evasion Insiders hear it looks like a term for sure Doris Duke puke told intimates she was forced to come here from Paree because her orchid farm simply has bas to be put on a paying basis Well times Is tough all over milady Biggest yock of the year When a famed fellows fellow's toupee slid of off his dome into his the other night In a Hollywood spot 4 That decision of Harry Truman to build a porch on the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House has put the Marshall plan global relief peace inflation and even wheat speculation in the back back- ground It may cost him the elec dee tion porch Anti-porch parties are being set up all over America S The Republicans already have ha havea haea a 1948 slogan to capitalize this issue A White House was good enough for Lincoln its it's good enough for Truman With a supplementary one Even en Roosevelt left the White Whit WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House Douse exterior alone A porch may seem a little tiling thing even 40 foot by 10 with iron rails l I I We recently about aboul a pretty prelly I Hungarian waitress working in the V. 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S senate senale snack bar who thought though I shed she'd like being bad baci In Vienna which i is so much more gay gay The item Iem pu put her picture in irs the Ibe gazettes gazelles What Wha followed ap apparently changed her mind An A army lieutenant rom lieu from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York flew to 10 see her and spoke ardent arden Another reader redder phoned her from Scranton Pa She is s now I quite qui awed and bewildered by the way happen hoppen 20 zo 0 qt to 10 a strain strain- cba cho tn in The You can dIscover discover discover dis dIs- dIsI I cover Inner Sanctums Sanctum's spot on the dial where meets This show remains the topper among the spook spots A 4 4 DREW PEARSON Doctors to Study Atomic War WarA A A NAVY VY strategists have estimated that the United States has hasL L until 1951 before Russia produces the atomic bomb In hi quantity even though she probably has the secret now During these next three years therefore the government faces the grim task of quietly briefing its doctors for Cor a possible 4 f atomic war Proper medical know-how know it is estimated will reduce fatalities by from 25 to 40 per per- per cent cent In hi case of an American Hiroshima The special atomic medical course will cover the following high points 1 1 Casualties from an atomic explosion caused by concussion flying I debris or flash burns I. I o 2 Individuals within a mile of the bomb blast are exposed to a lethal d. d dose of radioactivity This is deadly No matter how healthy they may appear it is useless to treat them Casualties one to three miles from the target center are In serious danger but can be saved by prompt medical attention 3 2 3 Most dangerous are the deadly gamma rays These attack the blood J. J cells causing severe internal hemorrhages Only blood transfusions on a massive scale can save life 4 Li A Alpha and beta particles are less dangerous since they cannot pass T. T through the skin But they can enter the body through the nose mouth or a wound L. I t L I L x KH w K H. H I. I PHILLIPS The Washington Porch Issue and tile floors but it represents a astep astep astep step never before taken by an American President and thus becomes becomes becomes be be- comes an event of national cance carice If II we encourage Harry in inthis inthis this this how far will he go One porch may lead to another He can ean develop a porch habit And unchecked he may go on with plans to add a watch tower or a cupola If It it is the Missouri note that he is after what what- is to stop him from sticking a silo just east of the building and tossing in a chicken house and S S IMPOSSIBLE TASKS Interesting ug a man who has just shoveled shove his sidewalk k in a talk Jalk on Ih the beautiful l crystal formations ions in tI every individual snow snowflake flake i v T r WESTBROOK Art of Debate Declines IT TT IS a fact tact deplorable I suppose that the art of debate has declined 1 I not only In our national congress but also In other forums to the extent that clamor and yammer now do the work of ot argument The truth may be that the people always have been Incapable of strong discriminating judgment and have been governed by their emotions rather than their Intelligence In reaching enormous decisions In the time of ot our great congressional orators our press was primitive primi tive and its Us circulation was so small that obviously ly it could reach only a relative few of ot the literate minority Inasmuch as there was no radio It would seem that the influence of the debaters in congress on the opinions of ot the people must have been theoretical The radio by itself seemed to promise mankind a perfect medium of debate But In the hands of people it was exploited and perverted from its beginning and today for all Its marvelous technical Improvement and Its ex extravagance r radio t lo Is simply a means of enlarging the volume and range ranle of Incoherent irrelevant and more and more theatrical outcries This is a Presidential year a strange quadrennial moon which always sets us to howling and twitching like arboreal making voodoo over heads chicken and things unspeakable At the two great conven- conven conventions the orations will be echoes of hundreds of ot past humiliations humiliation of the vaunted American intelligence all absolutely artificial ial L X v K x WRIGHT PATTERSON Wallace Draws All Radicals IT TT IS a very long and road I between announcing a candidacy for tor the presidency on a new party ticket and having that party recognized recognized In the various states and given givena a place on the ballot Futile as as his candidacy may be be Henry Wallace can do the people a real service He can segregate the radical element clement II garnered from both major parties and put them in one pen His group will include the avowed followers of ot the the Moscow party line the pinks and fellow travelers those with socialistic Inclinations the theorists who believe belleve in government planning planning planning plan plan- ning and that greater something for tor nothing class who expect the government to to provide for ther needs S 9 r |