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 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 1111 o*ew PEARSON THEN e WS j ) Ai.., Xl . - - - - - - - * * , * A . .. 1 X a , 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.