Illinois Valley News, Thursday, January 24, 1946
SERVICE
BUREAU
MEMlFEO-nouND
KAJ
ElilTOH'S NOTE: Thu newspaper,
through special arrangement uith the
U ashington Hureau o/ II estern News
paper I nion at 1616 Eye Street, N. IF.,
K ashington. I>. C.., it able tn bring
reader» this weekly column on prob
lem» of the veteran and serviceman
and flit family, Questions may be ad
dressed to the above Hureau and they
will be answered in a subsequent col
umn Vo replies can be made direct by
mail, but only tn the column which will
appear in this newspaper regularly.
New G.l. Bill of Rights
Principal provisions of the new
amendments to the G.l. Bill of
Rights which became law over the
Christmas holidays include:
1. Increase in the amount of guar
anteed loans for purchase of a home,
a farm, or for entering business,
from $2,000 to $4.000;
2. Elimination of the provision that
all benefits of the G.l. Bill are to be
deducted from any future bonus for
veterans;
3. Increase of subsistence allow
ance for single men going to school
or taking on-the-job training from
$50 to $65 a month, and for married
men from $75 to $90 per month;
4 Extends time an educational
course may be initiated from two to
four years after end of the war and
also extends the time for completing
a course from seven to nine years;
5. Removes all age limitations;
6. Permits taking of short courses
up to $500 with a proportionate re
duction in the veteran’s period of
eligibility;
7. Permits veterans to take corre
spondence courses at government
expense;
8. Permits approval of a loan by
accredited lending institution and
permits purchase of stock for small
businesses.
Under Public Law 16. which pro- j
vides for education for disabled ret- ;
erans, disability pension payments 1
are increased from a minimum of
$92 to $105 a month for single men
and from $105 to $115 for married .
men, plus $10 per month for one
child and $7 for each additional
child, and $15 for any dependent
parent.
Question» and Answers
<). I am an honorably discharged
veteran who spent three years and
three months in the army and was
wounded in action. I found a good
farm for sale and borrowed the
money from our local bank on the
basis that I could repay it with the
$$,000 to which I am entitled under
the G.L bill. Ilow can I go about
getting this loan started through? I
have been to see the representative
of the farm security and he keeps
putting me off and tells nn* to come
hack in 60 days.—G. W. S.. States
ville. N. C.
A. You probably should have com
pleted your G.l loan before you
bought the farm, but the first thing
to do is to make application to your
nearest veterans' administration re
gional office and they will issue a
certificate of eligibility. Then com
plete the deal through your local
bank
Under the new amendments
you can borrow up to $4.000 instead
of $2.000
Q. My husband has been in the
service 2? months and he is over-
seas about 14 months and we have
five children and he is needed at
home. I need him this winter, IVill
lie he ill . Il li k ’ <1 ' Ml - 1' B It..
Not i la, s. I».
A Your husband is certainly eli
gible to apply for a discharge, if he
wants it. because all men tn serv
ice arc eligible for discharge if they
have three or more children.
Q Why have young men in the
arm» air corps been discharged with
less than a year of service when
oilier men, 18 or 19 years old with
two »ears or more, haven't enough
points'* —It Z., Canton. Ohio
A The war department says they
have no need for more flyers so in
many ini0.lin es cadets are being re-
Under army regulations
leased
men ma;v lie discharged if they are
of no further use or if there is no
place tot them, whether they have
suftlcirnt points or not.
am a velotan of World War
Irawing a pension
Im I en-
?d or
abi lit v
Q My »on went to Japan with 47
points
Will he rr< r ivr any more
point* or 1» that the linai count?—
A mother. Martin. S I).
A He will continue to earn points
so long as he is in th<r service,
Q M» husband works nights ev-
rr> other oruk and Mould like to
i school course but ean-
of hts present Job
I n-
Bill of Rights, would it
Io take a correspond-
' and would the govern-
Ihe tuition on such a
Mrs R V B St Paul.
the new amendment
your husband could
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UNDER THE DOME
WASHINGTON—Busy Tom Cor
coran, the ex-braintruster, has been
promoting his law partner. ex-Sena-
tor D. Worth Clark of Idaho, to re
place Harold Ickes when and if the
latter resigns as secretary of the in
terior. Clark, a former die-hard iso
lationist. is not likely to get the job.
... An off-the-record quote from
President Truman: ‘‘A lot of people
used to accuse President Roosevelt
of being a liar—especially on Capi
tol Hill. But having been in this
job for a few months myself, it’s
hard to know how anyone could be
President of the United States with
out occasionally being a liar." . . .
Boss of the Bronx Ed Flynn, close
friend of FDR and former Demo
cratic chairman, is in for tough
political sledding. Hard-hitting Con
gressman James Roe. leader of
Queens county, who spearheaded
Mayor LaGuardia’s victory, is out
to replace Flynn as Democratic na-
tii nal committeeman from New
York. ... Ed Flynn, always more
interested in the coveted field of
diplomacy, plans to leave for Mos
cow this winter to try patching up
relations between the Kremlin and
the Vatican. . . . Some senators who
backed Cordell Hull in ousting Sum
ner Welles, have now become strong
Wellesian rooters since his master
ful testimony before the Pearl Har
bor committee. . . . The demagogue
business must be picking up. . . .
Gerald Winrod, race-baiting editor of
"The Defender" and under indict
ment for sedition, has moved from
a modest dwelling on North Green
street to a pretentious home an
Broadview street, the exclusive sec
tion of Wichita. Kans.
By P aul M allon
Released bv Western Newspaper Union.
MAKING HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES . . . Whether it be Miami Beach, Fla., or up in the cold New
England states, winter sports are being enjoyed by all. In Miami, winter sports include beauty contests
and swimming. Children on right modeled the newest in bathing suits. Left to right, bottom row, Patsy Mills-
paugh and Elaine Brenner. Top row, Joy Berkstresser and Beverly Cromer. At left, Sailor Fred Toms, Hen
dersonville, N. C., after having sailed the seven seas, tries his luck at skiing with Pat Arsenault.
SOL BLOOM SLIPS
Congressman Sol Bloom of New
York, who- imported the "Salome
dance" from Egypt to the Chicago
World's fair many years ago, nearly
got away with a fast one during a
secret session of the house rules
committee called to consider the
UNRRA appropriation bill
Bloom, who is chairman of the
house foreign affairs committee, at
tended the rules committee meet
ing as its guest. He was not sup
posed to vote. Congressman Charles
Eaton of New Jersey, ranking mi
nority member of the foreign affairs
committee, also was a guest and
supported UNRRA generally. How
ever, he began to tell the rules com
mittee of his strong conviction that
a "freedom of the press" amend-
ment should be included in the bill.
Anxious to avoid more argu-
ment over thls, Bloom, though
not a member of the rules com
mittee, shouted, "I move the
previous question!"
Public Reaction May
Be Determining Factor
GENERAL ENDING CIVIL WAR IN CHINA . . . Starting immediately upon his arrival in Far East. Gen.
George C. Marshall, former U. S. chief of staff and newly-appointed ambassador to China, conferred with
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, right, and Mme. Chiang, center. In a short time he had the promise of all
Chinese factions to cease bring and sit down with General Marshall to work out sound basis of peace.
Rules
Committee
Chairman
Adolph Sabath of Illinois banged his
gavel and remarked, "The question
is called "
Members of the rules committee
then prepared to vote.
Not so Representative Clarence
Brown. Ohio Republican. Turning
to Bloom, Brown asked:
"Sol, how long have you been a
member of the rules committee’”
Bloom flushed, while other mem
bers of the rules committee grinned
sheepishly, realizing they had been
taken in.
I wonder.
Let us look at the facts we have,
atom by atom, and behind the
atoms. They say there will be "hign-
er prices." Prices generally are
based on the availability of goods.
When there are shortages, any
amount can be charged for goods,
and collected from the people, if
they have money as they do now.
But in the next year ahead
we are planning to get back to
our peacetime mass production.
We have more machines and
men than ever before. War has
developed manufacturing short
cuts for production.
As production brings goods to
the market, competition will be
restored. This means not only
competition in quality but in
price.
it is quite clear then that the ex
pectations of expanding production
ahead will work against higher
prices
Indeed,
this
will work
gradually as production swells in
the latter months of the year to
ward lower prices.
"I just thought if I could get
away with it, I would." Bloom
replied. He did get a rule to put
the UNRRA appropriation be
fore the house, but not without a
good deal more discussion.
But the unions are wangling great
—unprecedentedly large—wage in
creases from industry, and this de
velopment. coupled with the an
nounced intention of the government
to maintain a high price level, will
surely force prices higher, they say.
CAPITAL ( IIAFF
G.I.s in India report the U. N
army, fearing the British may be
faced with revolt, has issued rifles,
bayonets, and ammunition to Amer
ican G.l s. Many American soldiers
in India never had weapons in their
hands during the war. but now get
weapons after the war. . . . Secre
tary of State Byrnes has offered Ken
Galbraith, former OPA executive »»Ill N »111 HI. MIDI
When the wife of an American
and editor of Fortune magazine, an soldier gave birth to a two-headed baby in Birmingham, England,
important job to help run peacetime recently, it was revealed that this was not the first time that such
Germany . .
American members a phenomenon had been recorded. The above x-ray picture is from the
of the Anglo-American Palestine tiles of the Royal college of surgeons. Medical science has a record of
commission
ion will begin hearings in one two-headed individual who lived 30 years. The Birmingham baby
Washington on January 10. . . . As- died soon after birth.
sistant Secretary of Si
Jimmy
Dunn is leaving for Lor
to help
complete the peace I
f. >r
Hungary. Bulgaria. Rc
Eli id
Italy. . , . Floyd B 0
a
famous governor of Mir
B it
Congressman Havenner of Califor-
nia is probing charges th iat the U S
ship named for him has been forced
to carry a cargo of sic k Japanese
from Pacific I ands to the Japa-
nese ma ini land
Nearly all th? pa-
tients hi id communicable
romuni
diseases,
and two oi if the 60 tubérculo
tubert
tients di ed I during the voy ,c
cont rove•rsi ial subject that I
the Trurna in cabinet tn werkt I Ul
Moscow grecment.
• • •
M1 II R Y -<• iO-ROl'ND
Maverick, v
had the
War Plants
>rpors tí on
kn
out from under him while
East, reports that
he was in the Far East,
General MacArthur is doing an Al
job in Japan. ... If the Russians
want to make a hit with G.L Joes,
they could loosen up their absurd
policy of not permitting Korean coal
from the Russian zone to be shipped
to the American zone a few miles
south. As a result, ships which
might be used for hauling Qis, now
carry coal to Korea.
WASHINGTON. - The business
prophecies for 1946 are taking a
common line—predicting prices will
go higher, and all
the rest of the busi
ness picture will fit
into that inflation
ary pattern, with
higher general pub
lic earnings, a con
tinued sellers’ mar
ket and a high-level
freeflow of money.
The only thing I
know for sure about
it is that always in
Hoo’er
the past, when the
great business prophets unanimous
ly agreed on the future, it seldom
turned out their way.
When Mr. Hoover was elected, all
were sure there would be two cars
in every garage and two chickens
in every pot; yet within his Presi
dential span we were at the depths
of all time.
Mr. Roosevelt, we all thought, at
first, would surely cure the depres
sion, but it never
got cured. Then
later we all thought
it would never get
cured, during th«
latter part of the
Roosevelt
regime,
and along came the
war and pushed us
so high out of it
we cannot yet see
the ground through
the economic strat
F.D.R.
osphere.
Thereafter, during the war, the
great prophets all agreed there
would be a terrific crash at the end,
with great unemployment. Now here
we are at the end. with our Christ
mas sales much higher than last
year during the war. with more
jobs untaken than men unemployed.
And we are now thinking of a high
er plane ahead — unanimously as
usual.
TAKING THE CLIMB OUT OF SKIING .
. The fly in the ointment
when it comes to the real enjoyment of skiing is the long, weary trudge
up the ski slope, before one can make that exhilarating dash down.
On Cranmore mountain, near North Conway, N, H„ this trudge is
eliminated by the ski-mobile, a gadget that gives you a ride up The
pretty skier is one of the first contingent of enthusiasts to visit North
Conwas with the resumption of the "si'ow train" from Boston.
MAN FROM MARS . . . Suit de
vised by army, navy and civilian
agencies to fight any disease con
tamination war attempt by Axis,
has now been converted to peace-
time operation for rescue or decon-
•
lamination operations.
Yes, certainly
this
would
seem to force an increase of the
price of union-made goods; on
the other hand people have
grown, during the war, to be
satisfied with patches, with old
things, with repaired machines.
If only the unions get these
tremendous
»vage
increases,
and the r< st of us must plod
along on our same salaries in
the face of higher prices for
union-made goods, the common
foresight of the business proph
ets may not prove true.
Buyers’ Strike May
Be in Offing Soon
There has been every other kind
of strike in this country, except a
buyers' strike The conditions being
created may force one.
Therefore, I believe the hu
man element will determine the
course of business for 1946. We
know the economic factors. We
do not know how the people will
react to them.
We know the shortages of
goods will not be completely
cured next year, but a plentiful
supply will be restored in many
lines. Union wages will be up.
but how many others?
HERO 8INBAD . . "Sinbad," coast
guard’s salty globe-trotting mas
cot. who served eight years at sea
and sailed more than a million
miles, is wctiomed in New York
with a parade fitting a real hero
Plans called for a jeep parade.
The administration wants high
prices, but how can it move them
higher than now in the face of the
coming restoration of competition?
Will people pay the prices asked?
Will
labor's
human
leadership
strike on and hold back production?
Will the human leadership of the
administration accomplish its pur
poses. and to what degree’
With a congressional election
ahead, how far will the spending
faucets of inflation be turned still
further?
These are matters no human can
possibly now know.