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Show National Hews Summary Women Drinkers Women alcoholics and habitual habitu-al drunkards in the United States have increased to an all-time high of 800,000, according to Mary B. Ervin, officer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She based her estimate on a projection of the percentage of women alcoholics committed to mental institutions and psychopathic psycho-pathic wards of general hospitals into the 4,000,000 alcoholics and drunkards in this country. "Census Bureau reports issued is-sued last year," she said, "show that one of every four of the 37,303 alcoholics admitted to the institutions were women. Projection Pro-jection of the same ratio into the 4,000,000, plus verifying information, infor-mation, places women alcoholics at 800,000 as compared to 680,-000 680,-000 the year previously." State Payrolls The Census Bureau reports that State governments employed employ-ed 982.000 persons in April and carried a $197,000,000 monthly payroll a record both in numbers num-bers and in pay. State governments govern-ments now have "nearly half as many meployes as the Federal Government, and about one-third as many employes as all local governments combined." Liquor Sales Liquor sales in the first half of this year were larger in volume vol-ume than a year ago, according to the Census Bureau. Loyalty Check With the forecast of further moderate increases In construction construc-tion work In the near future, came the prediction that employment em-ployment will go up by 1.000.000 the rest of this year. The Federal Fed-eral Reserve Board, in a publica tion, noted that contract construction con-struction was providing jobs for more than 2,000,000 workers at mid year. Taxes This year the average American Ameri-can is paying out $1 in federal, state and local taxes for every $4.10 he earns, according to the staff in Senator Harry F. Byrd's office, which had the help of the Treasury, the Budget Bureau Bu-reau and the Commerce Department Depart-ment in working up its statistics. statis-tics. By comparison, the tax bill to Uncle Sam alone was $7,250,-000,000 $7,250,-000,000 in 1941. The year after the war it had jumped to $36,-500,000,000. $36,-500,000,000. Women's Clothes The United States Chamber of Commerce predicts that U. S. women will spend $13,500,- 000. 000 on clothing this year. This would be more than 59 per cent of the nation's $22,650,000,-000 $22,650,000,-000 total clothing bill. Motoring Costs The average motorist in the United States spends $81 in automobile auto-mobile license fees plus fuel taxes, tax-es, according to Tax Digest reports. re-ports. West Point Enlisted men of the National Guard may compete for an estimated es-timated 15 appointments to the U. S. Military academy for the academic year beginning July 1, 1950, according to the National Nation-al Guard announcement. The appointees ap-pointees will be chosen from among approximately 60 competing com-peting national guardsmen from the states, the District of Columbia, Colum-bia, and the territories at the regular West Point examinations examina-tions next March. |