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a** s v i r o N s note . r h u neM through tp K in l arrangement with the UNDER THE D O M I If athinglou finraau of U ailarn ,Vnr» W ASHINGTON—Busy Tom Cor paper f ni»n uf Iftlft Eve Street, N. V ., If a.thington. I). C-, is able to bring coran. the ex-bra intruster, has been promoting his law partner. ex-Sena- r n d r n this u t f l i h colum n on prob le m i of tAe veteran and sen iceman tor D. Worth Clark of Idaho, to re and his la m th . Questions may ba ad place Harold Ickes when and If the dressed to tAe aAove Huraau and lArv latter resigns as secretary of the In n iU ba answered in a subsequent col terior. Clark, a former die-hard iso umn. \ o replies can ba made d ir eel Ay lationist, is not likely to get the job. m ail, but onls in lAe column which w ill . . . An off-the-record quote from appear in this nen v,taper regularly. New G.l. Bill of Right* 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 lia r.” . . . Boss of the Bronx Ed Flynn. Cose 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 tional committeeman from New York. . . . Ed Flynn, always more interested in the coveted field of diplomacy, plans to leave for Mos COW th is n-intpr irv „ .» „ E i,,- . . . relation, between tie i K S t a and N ews B ehin » Uni nii: Nn By P aul M allon R tkuH d by Waatorn Newspaper Union WASHINGTON. - The business prophecies tor 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’ m ar ket and a high-level freeflow of money. H 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, The only thing 1 a farm, or for entering business, know for sure about from $2,000 to $4,000; H over It is that always in 2. Elimination of the provision that the past, when the all benefits of the G.l. Bill are to be great business prophets unanimous deducted from any future bonus for ly agreed on the future. It seldom veterans; turned out their way. 3. Increase of subsistence allow When Mr. Hoover was elected, all M AKING HAY WH1I.1. THE SUN SHINES • ■ • Whether it be Miami Beach, Fla., or up In the cold New ance for single men going to school were sure there would be two cars England atates, winter sports are being enjoyed by all. In Miam i, winter sports include beauty contests or taking on-the-job training from In every garage and two chickens and swimming. Children on right modeled the newest in bathing suits. Left to right, bottom row. Patsy Mills- $50 to $65 a month, and for married In every pot; yet within his Presi and Elaine ----------- Brenner. ' Top Cromer. At t ir left. men from $73 to $90 per month; . paugh ---- ---------------------- r row. Joy } Berkstresser ■ - and - - Beverly s-so to c r . n il, Sailor n au or r Fred rci Toms. Hen- C” hav,B« “ “ * * the * veB W e« hta "*<* •< with Pat A r.en .u lt dential span we were at the depths 4. Extends time an educational of all time. course may be initiated from two to the Vatican. , . . Some senators wh< Mr. Roosevelt, we all thought, at four years after end of the war and backed Cordell Hull in ousting Sum first, would surely cure the depres also extends the time for completing ner Welles, have now become stroni sion. but It never a course from seven to nine years; Wellesian rooters since his master got cured. T h e n 5. Removes all age limitations; ful testimony before the Pearl Har later we all thought 6. Permits taking of short courses bor committee. , . . The demagogue It would never get up to $500 with a proportionate re business must be picking up. . . cured, during the duction in the veteran's period of Gerald Winrod. race-baiting editor ol latter part of the eligibility; ‘‘The Defender” and under indict Roosevelt regime, 7. Permits veterans to take corre ment for sedition, has moved from and along came the spondence courses at government a modest dwelling on North Gree.i wur and pushed us expense; street to a pretentious home on so high out of it 8. Permits approval of a loan by Broadview street, the exclusive sec we cannot yet see accredited lending institution and tion of Wichita. Kans. the ground through permits purchase of stock for small • • • the economic strut- F.D.R. businesses. SOL BLOOM SLIPS osphere. Under Public Law 16, which pro Congressman Sol Bloom of New Thereafter, during the war. the vides for education for disabled eet- York, who imported the ' Salome great prophets all agreed there erags, disability pension payments dance” from Egypt to the Chicago would be a terrific crash at the end, are increased from a minimum of World’s fair many years ago. nearly with grent unemployment. Now here $92 to $105 a month for single men got away with a fast one during a we are nt the end. with our Christ and from $105 to $115 for married secret session of the house rules mas sales much higher than last men, plus $10 per month for one committee called to consider the year during the wur, with more child and $7 fqr each additional UNRRA appropriation bill. jobs untaken than men unemployed. child, and $15 for any dependent Bloom, who is chairman of the And we are now thinking of a high parent. house foreign affairs committee, at er plane ahead — unanimously as tended the rules committee meet usual. Public Reaction May Questions and Answers ing as its guest. He was not sup Be Determining Factor Q. I am an honorably discharged posed to vote. Congressman Charles I wonder. veteran who spent three years and Eaton of New Jersey, ranking m i Let us look at the facts we have, three months in the army and was nority member of the foreign affairs -4 atom by atom, and behind the wounded in action. I found a good committee, also was a guest and atoms. They say there will be "hign- farm for sale and borrowed the supported UNRRA generally. How er prices." Prices generally are money from our local bank on the ever, he began to tell the rules com based on the availability of goods. basis that I could repay It with the mittee of his strong conviction that When there are shortages, any $2,000 to which I am entitled under a "freedom of the press” amend amount can be charged for good«, the G.l. bill. How can ( go about ment should be included in the bill. and collected from the people, if getting this loan started through? I Anxious to avoid more argu they have money as they do now. G ENERAL EN D IN G C IV IL WAR IN CHINA . . . Starting immediately upon his arrival In Far East. Gen. have been to see the representative ment over this. Bloom, though George C. Marshall, former U. S. chief of staff and newly-appointed ambassador to China, conferred with I'ut In the next year ahead of the farm security and he keeps not a member of the rules com Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, right, and Mme. Chiang, center. In a short time he had the promise of all we are planning to get back to putting me off and tells me to come mittee, shouted, “ I move the Chinese factions to ceaae firing and sit down with General Marshall to work out sound basis of peace. our peacetime mass production. back In 60 days.—G. W. S., States previous question!” We have more machines and ville, N. C. Rules Committee Chairman men than ever before. War has A. You probably should have com developed manufacturing short pleted your G.l. loan before you Adolph Sabath of Illinois banged his cuts for production. bought the farm, but the first thing gavel and remarked, "The question As production brings goods to to do is to make application to your is called.” Members of the rules committee the market, competition will be nearest veterans' administration re restored. This means not only gional office and they will issue a then prepared to vote. Not so Representative Clarence competition in quality but In certificate of eligibility. Then com price. plete the deal through your local Brown, Ohio Republican. Turning bank. Under the new amendments to Bloom, Brown asked: It is quite clear then that the ex "Söi, how long have you been a you can borrow up to $4,000 instead pectations of expanding production member of the rules committee?” of $2,000. ahead will work against higher Bloom flushed, while other mem Q. My husband has been in the prices. Indeed, this will work bers of the rules committee grinned service 22 months and he is over gradually as production swells in seas about 14 months and we have sheepishly, realizing they had been the latter months of the year' to taken in. five children and he is needed at ward lower prices. ” 1 just thought if 1 could get home. I need him this winter. Will But the unions are wangling great away with it, 1 would,” Bloom he be discharged?—Mrs. E. B. B., —unprecedentedly large—wage in replied. He did get a rule to put Norris, S. D. creases from industry, and this de the UNRRA appropriation be A. Your husband is certainly eli velopment, coupled with the an fore the house, but not without a gible to apply for a discharge, if he nounced intention of the government good deal more discussion. wants it, because all men in serv to maintain a high price level, will ice are eligible for discharge if they surely force prices higher, they say. C APITAL CHAFF have three or more children. Yes, certainly this would G.I.s in India report the U. h. Q. Why have young men in the seem to force an increase of the army, fearing the British may be army air corps been discharged with price of union-made goods; on less than a year of service when faced with revolt, has issued rifles, the other hand people have other men, 18 or 19 years old with bayonets, and ammunition to Amer grown, during the war, to be two years or more, haven't enough ican G.I.s. Many American soldiers satisfied with patches, with old in India never had weapons in their points?—R. 2., Canton, Ohio. things, with repaired machines. A. The war department says they hands during the war, but now get If only the unions get these have no need for more flyers so in weapons after the war. . . . Secre tremendous wage Increases, tary of State Byrnes has offered Ken many instances cadets are being re and the rest of us must plod leased. Under army regulations Galbraith, former OPA executive WHEN NATURE M AD E A SLIP . . . When the wife of an American MAN FROM MARS . . . Suit de along on our same salaries In men may be discharged if they are and editor of Fortune magazine, an soldier gave birth to a two-headed baby in Birmingham, England, vised by army, ' navy and civilian the faee of higher prices for important job to help run peacetime of no further use or if there is no recently, it was revealed that this was not the first time that such agencies to fight any disease con union-made goods, the common place for them, whether they have Germany. . . . American members a phenomenon had been recorded. The above x-ray picture is from the tamination war attempt by Axis, foresight ol the business proph of the Anglo-American Palestine sufficient points or not. files of the Royal college of surgeons. Medical science has a record of has now been converted to peace ets may not prove true. commission will begin hearings in Q. I am a veteran of World War Washington on January 10. . . . As one two-headed individual who lived 30 years. The Birmingham baby time operation for rescue or decon Buyers' Strike May died soon after birth. I and drawing a pension. Am I en sistant Secretary of State Jimmy tamination operations. Be in Offing Soon titled to government dental treat Dunn is leaving for London to help ment regardless of whether the den complete the peace treaties for There has been every other kind tal condition is due to service con Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and of strike in this country, except a nection. Does this alter the case Italy. . . . Floyd B. Olson was a buyers' strike. The conditions being any?—E. L. B., Tamarack, Minn. created may force one. famous governor of Minnesota. But A. The veterans’ administration Congressman Havenner of Califor Therefore, I believe the hu says you are not entitled to dental nia is probing charges that the U. S. man element will determine the treatment unless it is service con ship named for him has been forced course of business for 1946. We nected or unless such treatment is to carry a cargo of sick Japanese know the economic factors. We required for service connected dis from Pacific islands to the Japa do not know how the people will ability. nese mainland. Nearly all the pa react to them. Q. My son went to Japan with 47 tients had communicable diseases, We know the shortages of points. Will he receive any more and two of the 60 tuberculosis pa goods will not be completely points or is that the final count?— tients died during the voyage. Most cured next year, but a plentiful A mother, Martin, 8. D. controversial subject that has hit supply will be restored in many A. He will continue to earn points the Truman cabinet in weeks is the lines. Union wages will be up, so long as he is in the service. Moscow agreement. but how many others? Q. My husband works nights ev • • • The administration wants high ery other week and would like to MERRY-GO-ROUND prices, but how can it move them take a high school course but can higher than now in the face of the Maury Maverick, who had the not because of his present job. Un smaller War Plants corporation coming restoration of competition? der the G.l. Bill of Rights, would It knocked out from under him while Will people pay the prices asked? be possible to take a correspond he was in the Far East, reports that Will labor’s human leadership ence course and would the govern General MacArthur is doing an A-l strike on and hold back production? ment pay the tuition on such a job in Japan. . . . If the Russians Will the human leadership of the course? — Mrs. R. V. B., St. Paul, want to make a hit with G.l. Joes, administration accomplish Its pur Minn. they could loosen up their absurd TAKING TH E C LIM B OUT OF SKUNG . . . The fly In the ointment HERO SINBAD . . . "Sinbad,” coast poses, and to what degree? A. Yes, under the new amendment policy of not permitting Korean coal when It comes to the real enjoyment of skiing is the long, weary trudge guard’s salty globe-trotting mas With a congressional election to the G.l. Bill your husband could from the Russian zone to be shipped up the ski slope, before one can make that exhilarating dash down. cot, who served eight years at sea ahead, how far will the spending take a correspondence course and to the American zone a few miles On Cranmore mountain, near North Conway, N. H „ this trudge is and sailed more than a million faucets of inflation be turned still the government would pay tuition up south. As a result, ships which eliminated by the ski-mobile, a gadget that gives you a ride up. The miles. Is welcomed in New York further? to $500 but he would receive no sub might be used for hauling G.I.s. now pretty skier is one of the first contingent of enthusiasts to visit North with a parade fitting a real hero These are matters no human can sistence allowance. Conway with the resumption of the “ snow train” from Boston. carry coal to Korea. Plans called for a Jeep parade. possibly now know.
