| Show rv A WALTER SHEAD threat to free enterprise is T WISH someone would explain what kind of free enter enterprise I 1 jl it is that compels a free enterpriser to buy from his competitor or close up shop the speaker was J P president of berling rubber company before a house committees i hearing on sale of government owned rubber plants selbe aling was voicing opposition to the same sort of thing independent steel aluminum glass and other industries dus tries have complained about in the sale of other government owned plants to private industry when the only private industry big edg enough to buy is the already monopolistic powerful competitive big industry As a matter of fact there Is no such thing as free enterprise in this country in the several branches of industry where the big boys have a throttle hold on competition declared first that these government owned synthetic rubber plants which cost the taxpayers a half billion dollars should not be sold until a national emergency rubber stockpile is built nor so long as the government requires mandatory use of synthetic rubber in tires he pointed out that companies ot of moderate size which could not buy the plants would be required to purchase synthetic rubber from their competitors peti tors which would give the big rubber manufacturers a real and possibly decisive competitive advantage WALTER WINCHELL on the ater great description of news by a leader of india news Is anything that is bad Elsen Eisen howers appearance pe arance on the newsreel screens entices the lustiest dustiest lust iest applause the posies vicki cummings gets backstage at love or money are from the of her last four flops headline cadline lI king george out oat quips bob nope 11 is bloody hooper hope presented their majesties with autographed pictures have preferred autographed checks gloria swanson may be the next of the syndicated columnists out of town at first girl talk stuff this department been intrigued by anything in years as much as it has by the case of a new york woman who claiming that her sweetie pie living up to his promise to wed her picketed his home she marched up and down before the house bearing the equivalent of unfair banners the idea opens infinite possibilities in the world of romance it may be difficult to tell from a couples actions whether they are making love or just going through arbitration proceedings who will be able to observe any boy and girl and say tor for certain whether they are going together or just talking over their latest jurisdictional al dispute abway bookies now batcha on the total points two teams score in basketball basket baU the gen bennett me f erf war frauds thing and the way he dragged in a married womans comans name recalls the harry K thaw murder case thaw shot architect stanford white dead on the madison square garden roof for seducing af mrs rs thaw showgirl show girl evelyn nesbit the millionaire killer beat the chair by doing a bit its in the daffy house until the public cooled off the N Y world a respectable newspaper tried the case in the papers by running a contest before thi the trial off offering erins ering for the best letter telling why thaw should die the winning letter any man who to save his own skin would drag the good name of s woman into the case deserve to a live s DREW PEARSON PEARON voluntary price control fails RESERVE board insiders report that more and more of the F FEDERAL count rys big business leaders are coming to the view that voluntary controls on prices will not work and that congress eventually win will have to enact the presidents 10 point program ot of compulsory controls an on prices credits allocations et cetera it if the war on inflation is to be won typical example of the ineffectiveness of voluntary controls or self policing by industry is the wild competitive war that has broken out in the mail order industry since expiration of regulation W under which the government required a one third down payment and a year to pay for goods purchased on the installment pa plan bowing to competition within the industry major mail order houses have nave slashed the down payment to 10 per cent on most merchandise meantime many other installment firms are requiring no down payment at all it was such easy credit buying that led to the last depression and that is why more and more of the nations notions nit ions business leaders reluctantly are coming around to the view that the only realistic way to deal with mounting prices credit expansion and other inflation germs i is by returning to compulsory controls ak H f 1 PHILLIPS love and pickets that action of hollywoods Holly woods top men in firing some dozen reds while generally welcome in the matter ot of known communists was certainly a new development in the slow motion technique 0 0 0 HOT STUFF my mind quite receptive will shortly be filled with gossip the spiciest sp iciest yet yes soon the most colorful news will be spilled its hairdresser day for my pet pier 0 0 new mode all year 2 bedroom 4 room house enjoy the full benefits of this f famous a mom fake site with five miles of shore share front frone advertisement 0 the candor kid again WESTBROOK politics in teamsters union A HOSTILE agent with intent to unmask the boss politicians of the teamsters union and to make them appear ridiculous and mean could not conjure more effective bombast than they proudly publish in their own journals the ignorance expressed in some of the royal and imperial bulls ol of dan tobin the international ar president is stupidly artless dave beck of seattle assigned protector in the northwestern province has the sense to employ professional talent in mixing the hog bog wash published in his washington teamster tobin edits his own international teamster beck is the aspirant to throne the ile old humbler thought beck seemed a little too eager when he be called off the vandal goons boons in the oakland general strike last winter tobin already had bad called called them off and was awaiting acclaim when word came that beck was the man of the hour the old oarmel flannel mouths own message had been held up while beck beat him to the streets with the order to cease and desist then last august the union held in san francisco its great internal in terna lional convention of dukes princes and barons come from near and tar far on lavish expense accounts with old dans blessing beck put through a constitutional amendment creating the special office ol of executive vice president with plenary powers that being done becks only remaining uncertainty lay in the risk that tobin might name someone else to Us this job WRIGHT PLA PATTERSON trained administrators needed S SINCE INCE close of the war we have had some horrifying glimpses of roc reckless klesi and wanton waste aste in the name of national defense we now are re going to provide billions of dollars 15 to 20 such billions for the purpose of rehabilitating europe to gain again put the nations of that conti bent ent on their feet as producers con gress or the president or both will provide an organization a man or a group to administer the money the american taxpayers provide those taxpayers are demanding the best brains the nation can muster for such a purpose they want men possessed essed ot of the know how of production |
