| Show DREW PEARSON emergency housing aid urged BIG B IG burly sen joe mccarthy of wisconsin has suddenly got religion he has revised his ideas on housing while mile most congressional committees were diaan diagnosing osing Eu ropes needs one group dominated by mccarthy stayed at home to delve into americas no 1 problem the housing shortage their findings will jolt some of the arch conservatives who were in a hurry to turn aarti wartime me economy back to private enterprise without mincing words the joint committee on housing will report to congress that the housing problem has proved too big for private enterprise alone basic causes for the housing shortage the committee found are 1 the population jumped IS 13 million during daring the war and while the population increased war priorities kept almost at a standstill 2 the real estate trade Is not building for the rental market where the most critical need exists but in order to sell yet the average renter has more money to spend and la is bidding for more space 3 construction costs are high caused by shortages of materials and skilled labor the chief bottlenecks boUle necta are cast iron soil oil pipe nalls nails and lumber WALTER r LTER WINCHELL from the late watch publishers of the times and herald tribune met recently up in binn arms bi n n over methods used med on the loyalty check will combat any stare star chamber proceedings the goof who has been sending lana turner those enormous and expensive boxes of candy know the she rarely touches the she gives them to hotel maids item to find out if the proofreaders proof readers and telegraphers are earning their salaries page of the manhattan new york phone tome second listing from bottom of fourth column lists phone subscriber kon we have more world war in should solve the housing problem Tb therell erell be plenty of caves for everybody are buzzing butting that bat a cabnet member and nj hit his are on tin she verge ot of making it icid that put up a front at be urging ot of mr president who fears a divorce divora might hurt the damin dal it d hurt bwl tur fourham mr and mrs meric america A will be mad lad bened to learn that pet pooch fala is 1 not very well harrys harrya plenty miffed at ike who despite his official chief of taff staff capacity keeps bobbing up at affairs having a political tinge happy tinge ikel dee I 1 karen st zahn john Is checking hats at the singapore to pay off debts sponsoring a summer th itter at Creen greenwich last year there are more than divorce cases pending in now new jerseys Jersey 1 chancery court WALTER WALTE ar SHEAD farm blocs wait at trough THE HE marshall plan tot for stopgap stop gap aid id to europe which seems certain of passage in some form in the special session calls lot for peak production ot of almost all agricultural crops so the firm farm commodity blocs are mobilizing as a matter of fact they began work before the special session convened to get a finger in the pie theres there a lot ot of money to be spent on this interim aid to europe and despite the lct fact that the administration is definitely opposed to earmarking any hinds funds lor for special items to in the legislation itself the pressure groups are at the trough waiting for instance the cotton boys want promises ot of enough money tor for possibly a million and a halt half bales ot of this years crop and it if tobacco can be classified as essential aid the tobacco boys want to be in on the take big pressure is on to include canned goods in the aid program then there are the big wheat growers like the montana man who is L holding bushels for a higher price soybean peanut and cotton seed oils oil and many other specific blocs are trying to get airtight promises lor for big money tor for their groups H I 1 PHILLIPS lexicon of global diplomacy aggressor ressor A fellow who thinks three years long enough to wait for or peace unity any man using a mirror to establish a quorum of two necessary for or an agreement on an something satellite A man with a toot foot on his neck trying to act as if he liked it fascist anybody who opposes communism economic imperialist A guy who keeps books knows where he be stands and likes to plan for or tomorrow appeaser any man who before going over niagara falls in a barrel wants to see if it has a top and bottom collaboration the act of almost agreeing on a point at which neither will yield the communists of russia are celebrating the th anniversary of their founding it seems seem to the rest of the world that it has been under denunciation twice that long A yearling trotter brought at a sale in harrisburg recently some fellow Is convinced that gas rationing Is coming back 0 0 a christmas shopping this year is going to bring brine back tender memories me meriea of the days when you could get something for somebody for far less than 25 half those dizzy spells these days may be caused by watching the newsreel photos of football games WESTBROOK it depends on who says it IN N THE general public discussion of communists in the movie industry someone made the mistake n of proposing the repeal of one of the laws of nature this patriot recalled movies in which the american banker had been portrayed as a bleak and bloodless rascal who celebrated christmas by turning the widow and her little brood out into the snow this was held to be a wicked slander on a noble school of americans intended to undermine drie confidence in the holy edifice of liberty actually this Is just a familiar working of t the fatal attral tion of the plug hat for the snowball the same theme written and acted by men and women of respectable motives has haa been applauded for generations horatio alger was no seditionist but in jed the poorhouse poor house boy and many repetitions of the same artless tale he made the banker so downright mean that you were likely to lay down the book and hiss hi we take some things from some people without a bunk blink when others other say them we get red necked and it iset so 0 o much the things themselves that we resent as the nasty way some people say them if a fellow american remarks that we certainly did give the indians an awful deal we shrug and wish it were riot not so but if a captured nazi on trial before americans should say that we set hitler the example of conquest repudiation of treaties and genocide the new gullah tor for extermination of a race we want to hang him for impudence and are ara glad of a more plausible excuse WRIGHT PATTERSON union tactics slow housing als A GI or any other worthy citizen is entitled to the opportunity of buying a home for or his bli family the vast majority cannot pay and up tor for a house which could have been bought in prewar days lor for some it if he attempts to pay today price he be knows be will lose will not be able to pay out A very considerable part of that difference in price Is occasioned by the featherbedding the slow slowdowns downs and the petty jurisdictional rules of the bunding trades unions the people generally are awakening to the fact that the selfish attitude of union labor lj Is causing thousands of families to uv live iu in inadequate housing |
