SERVICE BUREAU t i l l I OH h \ O l t : I b i t n rn tp ap ar. tbrnugb tpccial a rr a n trn irn l m lb iba H ii'h in g h m Hnranu nf If c tla rn N t i * . im par I ninn .if Ih l6 h a S lia a l, N . 1» , K atbinglnn, IK C... i% able In b ring rru /¡V Jfl b eh in d th e ru m o rs Investigate until you are satisfied But what senators consider impor- P»‘W amusement and bodybuilding activities. ' At ‘ North V onw a^ N T ‘ f . Z « ‘ SlJp ‘.‘" k ! “’" ' yourself. It is better to be sure o c c a sio n a lly p rin t- than sorry.' ” tant is that, with Pauley s friend «»** more than 21.000 ski lessons annually to youngsters who contribute $2 annually and write a school c o n m i ed in some of th e ...» , In the meantime the veterans' con­ Ralph Davies offered the Job of sUluo on »MUn<. At a cabana club pool in Miami. Mary Jane Couccl New York » I«;. he h a s lost M r T ru - ’ *** * K' tact service refers veterans to under secretary of the interior, the Merkle. Washington, and Mary Jane's sister Shirley watch in their "doughnuts ” * ° * nmn’j c o n fid e n c e banks, or to the Better Business bu­ navy's oil lands, no matter where 51. Elsenhower and m ay r e tir e . reau in the city or town where ne they are located — in interior or j Indeed some who plans to invest his noney. They navy—will be partially under Pauley I huve their noses to the White House give him the address of the legal or a friend of his. pane, suspect the old gang is groom­ aid bureau where legal assistance M EXICAN OIL DEAL PARIS . . . Look out ing a successor. Milton Eisenhower, is free to veterans, if they cannot your window in a mod- Relationship between Davies and brother of the chief of staff. Eisen­ afford to hire a lawyer. Contact ad­ Pauley has been extremely close. ern Paris hotel and hower is more of a New Deal politico vice always urges veterans to con­ this is what you will than the general. Certainly it Is dif­ vert their national service life in­ Davies was executive vice president see. Houses of craxy ficult to see how Anderson can sur­ surance. The VA does not tell the of Standard Oil of California. Pauley architecture and mul­ vive His novel price theory is con­ veteran where to invest or in what sold him his own independent oil titu d in o u s c h im n e y trary to what he does in his own to invest his money. There are company. Later Pauley brought pots. George Alexan­ milk producing business In Albu­ too many variable factors, so their Davies to Washington, introduced der, Los Angeles, was him to Ickes. following which querque. only counsel is extreme caution. . i Davies became Ickes' deputy oil so much in love with M INOR OFFICIALS SAID Paris that he repro­ Q u e s tio n s a n d A n s w e rs administrator. He did a good job. TO NOW RUN D EPARTM ENT Q. My brother is 21 and has been However, state department offi- duced it and brought There he sells what milk the mar­ it home in miniature. in the merchant marine since lie- cials say he continued to look out ket will take nt the highest possible E n t ir e s tre e ts and cember 4. 1944. When can he ai.it for Ed Pauley. price, and lets his surplus go for b lo ck s of the p ic ­ the merchant marines and not be When Pauley was trying to lobby whatever It will bring. The idea of drafted in the arm y"—Reader. Elk- his high-octane Mexican gasoline turesque quarters of abandoning the parity notion made the French capital are moot, Ala plant through the government, it the farm bureau federation right A. Your brother, has been de­ had to pass the hurdle of Secretary included in his collec­ mad And the opposing crowd In the ferred from the draft by reason of Ickes’ petroleum administration. tion. He fled Paris in farmers union turned against him his service in the merchant marine Davies okayed it — not only okayed 1936 without his "baby" when he named Lassiter Instead of and he will be eligible to be drafted it, but pushed it vigorously. At which, by underground Hudgins to farm security. until he is 26 unless he <1> has been first Ickes also gave it his blessing. routes, finally caught in the merchant marines for not less The state department, however, was up with him in Los An­ Sic transit clear-minded new geles. than 32 months on or after Mav 1 vigorously opposed. officials. When he was In con­ 1940; <2) at least 75 per cent of his gress. Mr. Anderson knew Just Showdown came in a secret ses­ time has been in active service what to do. The objectivity of sion between Ickes, Davies, a Da­ and (3» he has applied for and re vies aid, and the Assistant Secre­ his post then permitted him clar­ ceived from the War Shipping ad tary of State Dean Acheson. The ity or vision. Hut when he took ministration a certificate certifying full story of this session was never the cabinet seal, Io face the he has completed his wartirrie serv­ really told at the senate hearing. clique which ran his department ice and is eligible to be relieved Acheson opened by giving Ickes a • as cliques of subordinates dom­ from further consideration as a very careful diagnosis of why the inate the top men of all these draftee under the selective service government departments), he Mexican high-octane gasoline plant system. Immediately became Involved, should not be built by Pauley. He and each week plungrd him Into Q. I am the widow of a World took up point after point, his main deeper Involvement. War I veteran and haven't been re­ argument being that the Mexican ceiving a dime of pension since his government would have to pay such Remember how Mr. Truman came death, seven years ago. I've tried a high price to Pauley that it In announcing how closely he would getting a pension at that tii-.e, but would sour U. S.-Mexican relations. work with congress. Now before his was told that we, in Wisconsin, did After Acheson had finished, Ickes first year is out, he is Involved In not get any. Is this true? If I am turned to Pauley’s friend. Ralph such a desperate struggle with Con­ entitled to a pension what must Davies, and asked: gress, he is asking people to propa­ I do to get it?—S. W„ Ellsworth. gandize ngainst them. The loudest “ Why didn't you tell me these Wis. cheer for his recent message came things?” A. If you are the legal widow of not from the chnstised legislators, “ I didn't know them either,” a veteran of World War I, you are but from Sidney Hiilmnn of CIO. The replied the red-faced Davies. entitled to a pension wherever you confidence of business which he en­ Then, turning to his aid. he live. Take your husband's record, joyed at the outset slipped percepti­ alibied: “ Why didn’t you tell me his discharge papers and all avail­ bly also with the rejection of his these things?” able information you have and file wage compromise by both steel and a claim with the nearest office of Ickes immediately, reversed him­ motors. the Veterans' administration. Your self, threw his weight against Paul­ I have rarely seen this proc­ local Red Cross chapter could help ey. That is the real inside of how ess to fail. The human per­ you file this claim. the Pauley octane plant for Mexico sonality rarely Is able to sur­ Q. I would like to know if a boy was stopped. Davies, of course, is mount it. Outside of bureau­ Is eligible for draft deferment who an able, intelligent operator, too in­ cracy, men may see clearly and is the main tractor and truck man telligent not to have known the devise clear cut programs. As on a hundred-acre farm?—J. N.. main points of the Pauley plan. soon as they get In the seats of Fairhope, Pa. Pauley is equally able. He would be power, they fall under the spells A. That would be a question to be a good executive almost anywhere. of bureaucracy, adulation, and determined by the local selective But some senators want to think the politics of the self-perpetuat­ service board. If the board deter­ twice before putting these oil twins ing old gangs — or resisting, be­ mined that the boy was essential in near the head of two departments come Involved in self-thwarting raising food for the community or controlling the oil reserves of the struggles. for the armed services, he could nation. HANDY WRENCH Weighing 265 ABUNDANCE THEORY MEETS be given an agricultural deferment, pounds, this wrench has been de- j MORE POWER TO THE iiirar-nx: dared surplus by the U. S. army at „1,1 i.J V i rH E ,>IV 'GON • • • China is to pump new life into the STRONG FARM OPPOSITION as being of greater use on the farm PRESID EN TIA L HUMOR President Truman has been tak­ the Lordstown (Ohio) ordnance power nlant ever than in the armed services. The secret of Mr. Anderson’s concrc‘e n,c* 1 ,o( k facilities are shown shortages will continue beyond an­ months after he went overseas. I ing with a group of friends « " ---------w - their watches. , y are Capab,e of hoisting a loaded vessel of several thousand other crop. Hs conflicts with the “Apparently, no matter what I do as these—to fix did not receive any allotment on tons displacement capacity. John Lucian Savage Is consulting engineer clique and lobbies are superficial re- our son until he was six months I ’m always in the middle. I say " “ctions of a deeper cause, name- old. My husband is home and has something about Palestine, and the his discharge now. Is there any Jews and the Arabs holler. Labot farmers are afraid of abun- way I could get the allotment now? and capital get in a fight, and I am nce. The farm leaders think they — Wife, Glenwood Springs, Colo. in the middle. The Russians and the n easily produce too much for this A. The navy says the most com­ British have an argument, and I am jntry, know they cannot sell much mon reason for failure to receive in the middle.” road, and hence by nature resist allotments is that the serviceman y abundance theory. Suddenly the President paused, uw *