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Show WALTER SHEAD aesaeMeMeSraialrarararanelTeW New GPO Business Venture WE WONDER how proponents of individual free enterprise will feel about the government printing office going into the chain book store business. For that's exactly what GPO wants to do open up regional book stores in various sections of the country to speed up delivery of some 30,000,000 copies of the 70,000 different booki and pamphlet! which it ha! printed and has on hand. Last year GPO was rated the world's largest publisher and turned ' over to the U. Z. treasury more than three million dollars it obtained from the sale of about 37,000,000 books and pamphlets. Most of these books are sold by mail from a nickel up to possibly a dollar a copy and consequently much of the revenue was in small coins. Thousands of the small coin! attached by glue or tape to letter! had to be washed in gasoline to remove the stickiness. Best seller, according to GPO, was a 15 cent booklet, "Infant Care," put out by the U. S. children's bureau. More than four million copies have been sold, many to physicians. One cosUy item $50 for 37 volumes of the actual record of the trial of the major war criminals at Nuernberg is another good seller and right now In demand is the itate department'! $1 volume of "Nazi-Soviet Relations." It contains captured document! from the German foreign office fllei from 1939-41. H. I. PHILLIPS Special Delivery Letter Mr. Henry Wallace, Dear Hen: In a press interview you said to newsmen, "You'll be amazed at the final outcome of this campaign. vou have no idea how many people are afraid to express their views these days. For example I am constantly surprised by the number of people who see me In elevators and say they will vote for me." . Well, Henry, maybe you have the elevator vote aewed up. I do not blame you for clutching at it, as a lot of voteri ride In elevators. ele-vators. You are the first candidate candi-date for the presidency to appreciate ap-preciate the support of elevator passengers. The rest haven't appreciated ap-preciated what a lift (that's a joke, son) elevator voters can give a man. You have caught them napping, Henry. The elevator vote ia significant, signifi-cant, local or express. There is also the escalator or moving stairway vote. Hank, which you should not overlook. A lot of your supporters are escalator types; they like to sit down while going upstairs. This is a growing trend in America and a man who could promise escalators for all would be a shoo-in. In the meantime, Henry, check the people who are for you going up in elevators, subtract those who are for you going down and multiply by those who walk up. This will give you as good a line on the outcome as any deductions you are making now. Yours truly ' Elmer. WESTBROOK PEGLER Judge Can Wield Power TpHERE is alwaya abdicate question how far a judge should go in running a trial. If he thinks the U. S. attorney ii throwing down the case, deliberately sticking his chin out or neglecting the government's Interests, he has the power to butt in and ask questions. He can call him into his chambers and warn him. He can practically take over and make sure that none of the juror! is under obligation to anybody. But does it ever happen? The U. S. attorney In charge may be doing his best, but the fumble and fix can take place in the preparation of the case or the drawing of the jury. Or he might be an earnest third-rater atuck op against the trickiest criminal lawyers in the country. The department of justice persecuted a whole covey of citizens during the war for thinking disloyal thoughts. The case dissolved after months of disgraceful nonsense. It will be historic, for people were dragged clear across the country and forced to exist in poverty to be present at an outrageous farce poked up by a lot of Roosevelt's idolators merely because some of the defendants said they admired Hitler or hated Roosevelt. Yet a hundred thousand Communists have flaunted their attachment to a power which is held to be a mortal enemy of our government. Not one of them ever has been indicted for sedition or treason and hundreds of them got jobs in the Roosevelt government. .x- a. .1. WALTER WINCH ELL Siqns of the Times Wanna buy a snake? Besides the night club varieties, animal dealers are stuck with dozens of 'em. ... If you don't think times are tough, Alfred G. Vandcrbilt, the zillionaire, Is wearing his seven-year-old polo coatl Wanna House Cheap? A publlo relation! firm offered a castle In England to anyone In the V. S. who would claim It. The offer didn't get one inquiry! Lltree tea talkera hear Marion , Hargrove refused to revise his new novel the reason the Literary guild turned it down and MGM won't film it. The movie deal was based on its being a guild selection. The author's decision, they add, probably will cost him $250,000. Characters in Search of 4 Colytim-ist: Colytim-ist: "Newsreel Sam, the Hissing Man." He haunts the neu sreel temples (in various va-rious parts 0 the city) and uhen applause ap-plause greets some neighborhood favorite fa-vorite (or national pel) be hisses. . . . it is Union square, he hisses Wallace. Wal-lace. ... On su ank Sutton place bt hisses Taft. ...On Broadway he hisses Eisenhower. ... sits in the rear rows and gets his big ticks watching the craned necks. . . . "Jaeger the Waiter." . . . He's the So. 1 dish-jockey at Lin-dy's. Lin-dy's. . . . Takes all orders standing side-u side-u ays ever since a show producer told bim be bad a liarrymore profeel. He always refers to himself in the third person, frinstance: "Jaeger will be right with you." , . . "Please, please, you must relax if you want Jaeger to wait on you." . . . "Jaeger is a very busy man, b patient." . . . "Sow, Jaeger will lake your order." . . . Comics, gag-writers and others of the Broadway set all clamor for the services of Jaeger because be-cause he's such a lovable bam. Hi makes THEM UfJ! sr DREW PEARSON Anti -Truman Feeling Grows A NTI-TRUMAN resentment among the Democrats now is so deep that some actually are talking about trying to dump him. What Mr. Truman has lucceeded In doing is alienating both wing! of the party the southern Democrats and the northern liberals. Thl! was something some-thing that Roosevelt, despite the kicking around he gave to lome leaden, was careful never to do. ' But now Mr. Truman has rubbed northern liberals the wrong way by ousting iuch Roosevelt appointees as Marriner Eccles, James Landls and John Fahey. Simultaneously he has made iouthern leaden boll over with Indignation at hli civil-rights message. In fact, the only people Mr. Truman has pleased are the Republicans. Result of all thli la that some Democrats leaders are even talking among themselves about finding a new candidate. Admittedly Admit-tedly they don't think the chance Is great; for It's almost Impossible to block the rcnominatlon of a lilting president. However. lome of them have been quietly discussing a boom for Justice William O. Douglas, while others talk about a draft-Elsenhower move for the Democratic ticket. After nil. the first and only political speech Ike ever made was at a Jackson D iv rUnncr at the age of 18. WRIGHT PATTERSON Much Talk. No Action THERE has been too much talk and not enough action in regard to national economic! on the part of congress. Individual Republicans are loud In their demand! for less spending but collectively they continue con-tinue to vote for things we could do without. Individual! condemn the maintenance of an army of usclesi bureaucrat!. Collectively they vote the money to continue to pay their salaries. It Is time congress, as a body, provides the economies individual indi-vidual member! insist must be mode. It would be good politics to moke good on promises. That is good advice for politician! at all tlmea, especially In an election year. |