Show 01 P 0 WALTER SHEAD three items consume budget WHENEVER the cost of food rent and clothing consumes all the income of the masses of the people nothing can prevent a depression solid logic because ure people eave have bothin nothing g left to spend pend for anything else the bureau ot of labor clabor statistics says that at the present time these three items food clothing and rent are taking more than two thirds of 0 the averala family fam ilys a income it makes no difference what the amount ot of the income Is whether its 20 or a week the tact fact remains that the consumers dollar Is 13 worth only 51 cents in a grocery and 55 cents in a clothing store and his total dollar for everything else Is worth only 64 cents those who attempt to blame high prices on exports in our efforts to aid starving europe are barking up the wrong tree for instance from may 1946 to may 1947 our exports ol of meat were only 22 per cent ot of total production yet wholesale meat prices increased 83 per cent the organizations which a year ago were heatedly berating OPA are now in noisy argument over who is to blame lor for what has happened since H 1 PHILLIPS the golden touch uncle sam reacting to that proposal to redistribute the fort knox gold might quote from hamlet oh my offense Is rank it smells to bevin 11 maybe ernle ernie on the other hand band has his keats mixed up an and d would put it much much have I 1 traveled in the realms of gold and many goodly forts and metals seen 0 0 0 at los alamos atomic energy has been harnessed to do peaceful work we want to get a little to open a hotel bureau drawer the soviet government has the fullest respect and confidence toward the bulgarian court set up by Justl justice ce from the broscow reply to an american note PAUL y MALLON GOP presidential possibilities M UCH TUCH may happen before the republican presidential convention but ivl iv l as it looks now taft is out in front as most likely candidate with dewey a doubtful second hall half a dozen are bunched tor for third place the somewhat guarded endorsement of governor dewey for the youth draft military training at the legion convention brought him forward on a national subject in response to the grumbling heard beard in republican ranks that he had not taken forthright stands on big issues of the day his washington friends say li he will speak out more nationally and internationally from now on there Is no question of the unanimous support he will get from new york results of tafts speaking tour will largely tell the tale for the ohioan although his candidacy has received stronger private growth within the party than has been advertised last spring the swing was to dewey because of tafts connection with union reform now a reaction has set in attributable to the growth of feeling that the bill may not be unpopular both general eisenhower Elsen hower and governor warren are credited with being sincere in their recent renunciations of incipient campaigns before their public disavowal they let friends circulate the word of their lack of interest and then made it public eisenhower Elsen hower does not think he will be an important figure despite the kansas city campaign for him but the presidency of columbia university Is a good place from which to view efforts in his behalf academically the california delegation discounts current reports of a coalition between dewey and warren WALTER WINCHELL WINCHED notes of a bystander the candidate profiting most from all the eisenhower talk Is stassen the more talk for eisenhower the harder it becomes for dewey and taft to crash through after washington press conference in which he suavely the tall taft hartley bill and said that fur ther aid to britain should be stopped if the english socialize the steel industry du stry one gal reporter wistfully said and he used to be such a nice liberal too all ali that stassen is trying to do is show the GOP big gies that he really belongs to the c lub club and be such a bad guy to nominate A the understatement of the yearl year prices are up now where we ars are compelled to so get gel along with almost everything we dont need ben aines williams has written a book of words this Is more than in gone with the wind A title gone with the second wind is hereby suggested dr kurt v von on once chancellor of austria and who lost all through compromising with alit hitler Is in america he says all he wants is to live a quiet life perhaps in brooklyn it Is our guess that he will just have to keep compromising 0 4 maybe we had better turn over ov er fort knox to the british at that before we w e wake up some day and find somebody has won it is as a prize on a radio quiz quit show remember when bilbo cried poverty and was allowed to stay on the senate payroll at per annum anburn including staffers expenses to pay for his operations now he be bequeaths of your money topic A in south america president Tr visit but what evits evita did when she returned from her 78 day trip and found that peron had installed a beauty contest winner in the presidential palace of olivos in alfred store radio city all the male and female solicitors are compelled to wear gloves DREW W PEARSON PEAR burno our no I 1 enemy rats IT MAY sound hard to believe but the huge shortage ol of this years corn crop could be largely offset if 11 the american people were able to eliminate one factor in their economy rats most people dont realize it but one healthy rat eats or spoils around pounds of grain per year while its impossible to count the rat population interior department experts estimate that rats rat are almost double the human population probably totaling million in the U S entirely aside from the disease which rats spread from privy to pantry and the havoc they wreak upon the waterfronts water fronts of amerlean american seaports their effect upon the food supply of the united states is almost beyond realization between the time a tanner farmer stores his bis corn in the fall and cleans out nut his bis corncrib in the oie summer rats may have eaten the difference between profit and loss tor for the year in addition they spoil as much corn as they eat it if the food destroyed by rats could be shipped overseas this alone would about save europe from its current danger of starvation at present one government agency the fish and wildlife service of the interior department Is working on rat eradication handicapped by lack of funds government rat eradicators are able to do little beyond circulating anti rat propaganda WRIGHT PATTERSON inflation helps debtors who are in debt are the anly alose ones who can profit from i bation iia tion from rom cheap money the united states government as the greatest debtor in the nation stands to profit most from the inflation we so greatly tear fear the government has promised to tai pay some billion dollars to those who hold bold its bonds in that promise there Is no specification as to the value ot of the dollars the creditor Is to receive runaway inflation could make our dollars practically valueless but they still would be dollars the best gamble would be to hold on it if the government does not call the bonds until the value of the dollar comes back |