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Show WALTER SHE AD Square Deal Proves Evasive BACK in the period of 1909 to 1914 when wheat was 88 cents a bushel and hogs were $7.25 a hundred pounds, farmers thought they were getting a square deal. Today they are getting $2.10 for wheat and $24 for hogs and they're not sure whether they're getting a square deal or not. The difference is that when wheat was 88 centa a bushel, the things the fanners bought cost far less and this period waa fixed as a base for the parity formula, which la the ratio of prices received by the farmers to prices paid by the farmers. The farm bureau likes this parity formula so well today that it Is against changing it much until after the S tea gall law expires in 1948. The Joint agricultural committee of house and senate has been holding hearings to determine this parity formula and other long range farm programs. H. 1. PHILLIPS And He Still Can Grin What Washington needs is a director di-rector of photographs. That group photo of the President and his aides grinning from ear to ear as they launched the great drive to aid starving peoples still is puzzling the public. The White House luncheon menu for eggless and chickenless Thursday Thurs-day is announced as: Corn soup. Peppers stuffed with rice and mushrooms. Lima beans. Glazed Carrots. Baked apple. Well, this will cost Harry Truman the anti-stuffed pepper vote, and it is a tremendous one. The number of voters who hate stuffed peppers is terrific. And the anti-glazed carrot element is not to be sneezed at. New low on Broadway: The por- trayal of Judas Iscariot, the most Infamous traitor, betrayer and couble-crosser in history, in a favorable favor-able light, and really not a bad fellow fel-low at all. P.L.K. thinks those new women's bolt cocked over the starboard ear were designed by Alcoholic Anonymous. Anony-mous. England Is talking of a minister of sports In the cabinet. We would hate to be an athlete in midair in the pole vault at a time when the government was changing its policy frequently, The new United Nations cocktail: One Jigger of bitters, half a tumbler of vinegar, one Jigger of spirits of Vishinsky; tee well. One sip and you're vetoed. WESTBROOK PEGLER Underworld Extends Its Sway JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, director of the FBI,' Joined Governor Warren J and Senator Downey of California in their discovery of a new underworld under-world in the amusement industry. On this special phase of the new problem of criminality In the entertainment enter-tainment trades, Hoover delivered some remarks to a class of 500 of his G-men at the department of Justice in Washington. "Glaring headlines announced the assassination of Bngsy Slegel, but circumstances surrounding hla career In crime tell the atory better than words," aald he. "Here was an Individual whose life waa a constant challenge to common decency. Yet he and hia criminal scum were lionised and their favors sought after In so-called so-called respectable circles." Now let us consider a little night-side paper published in Hollywood called "Hollywood Nite Life. Movies. Radio. Nite clubs. Sports. Music." The masthead names Jimmy Tarantino as the "editor and publisher." Tarantino Is a swipe and hustler who used to hang around Jacobs' Beach, a stretch near Madison Square Garden in New York City where the fighters, managers and racketeers gather. He has a cheap police record in Newark. N. J. One appropriate selection from Tarantino's essays is entitled "A Week-end at the Flamingo." This is ecstatic publicity about Bugsy'i booby trap at Las Vegas, Nev., and personal admiration of "Mr. Benjamin Siegel, a handsomely groomed, tall, handsome, tanned and smiling gent," the man whom Hoover called "a challenge to human decency." WALTER W1NCHELL Silhouettes of New York The new long dress fad forces women who have furs to have them lengthened. Furriers are charging 1100 per Inchl . . . Virginia-bom Lady Astor joins the Duchess of Windsor in being conspicuous by her absence at Princess Elizabeth's wedding. . . . There are more psychiatrists psy-chiatrists per capita In Beverly Hills and H'wood than anywhere else in the land. Belated Columbus Day thawt: It's amaslng how Europe ever managed to aurvlve before Chris discovered America. Don't quote as, but the kids in "Okla" are electing deputies to ask the Theater guild for more money. Their pay is low, living fees are high and that hit never has had a losing week. . . . The Barbison model agency tops the list of cover girls so far this year 78 naUonal mag covers. a. .i. Irving Asber, the film act, is bach after 1 years in England. Hi sold 'hit bouse lor 20JOOO British pounds, but the Bank of England would not accept the check! No British bank will Interferes In-terferes with Britain's new policy they want only V. S. coin. Socialism, bmf. General Kllllan (of that Litchfield trial) is suing Stackpole (the book publishers) for the way he Is "written "writ-ten up" in "Purple Testament" (written by war vets). Suing for $500,000. . . . Mrs. FDR's son-ln-law, John Boettiger (and her daughter, daugh-ter, Anna), now publish six Umes weekly in Phoenix, Ariz. Boettiger Just won an AP franchise because FDR's top critic (CoL R. R. McCor-mick) McCor-mick) gave the go-light on It . . . j The J. Lunccford band (inherited by Eddie Wilcox and Joe Thomas) will see that widow Lunceford shares in the weekly "take." DREW PEARSON The Merry-Go-Round INDIAN ambassador Assf All had a secret talk with President Truman asking aid to India. The Hindu ambassador pointed out that India has flvt billion dollars frozen in London which the British won't let them cash. ... Sir Stafford Crlpps. Britain's new economic czar, says England will need mora help under the Marshall plan soon. However treasury department figures show England's gold reserves now are close to two billion dollars, more than twice what they were before the war in 1939 Washington newsmen covering the stale department are told almost daily that a special sesalon of congress Is absolutely necessary neces-sary because of the world crisis. But when they go a few blocks away to the White House, newsmen are told Just as regularly that there Is no nred for a special session. The army would be happier if some brass haU kept their moutha shut. MaJ. Gen. Lunsford E. Oliver. In chargo of a U. S mission to Turkey, recently made this absurd statement before a Chicago audience-"The audience-"The massacre of the Armenians after World War I really was started by the Armenians." A tew days later. General Oliver was removed from his command . . . The atomic energy commission soon will Issue strict blanket regulations to prevent export of machinery which could be used in producing atom bombs. usru WRIGHT PATTERSON Safeguard Our War Plants WHEN we tntered the war in December of 1941 it wn not only trained manpower that we needed badly. Wt also needed tht equipment with which an army and navy could fight. In addition to commandeering com-mandeering every industrial plant that could produce war equipment, u government spent many billions i in the erecUon and tooling of new Plants Many of those plant art being sold at tht price of Junk or less. Others art being allowed to rot nd I rust awa, If thert ag.m comes timt when wt need soldiers and "Hors. as wt may. wt will need tqulpment for them before tht armed fnc can be of value.' |