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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, March 4, 1948 Seers Silent on Commodity Trend Smiles TS Myth of Current Price Dip: 'Truman Planned That Way' By BAUKHAGE A’eui Analyst and Commentator. 1 WASHINGTON.—It is still open season for economists, financial experts and m arket wizards. It took about a week after the first drop on the commodity m arket to send them into their holes. Up to that time, you could get a prognostica tion anywhere from the Chicago stockvards to Broad and Wall streets or Pennsylvania avenue and 15th street. Good Rule Alice—Do you allow a inun to kiss you while out driving with him? Beatrice — Never. If a ninn | drives safely while kissing me, he’s not giving the kiss the atten tion it deserves. V « Extrem es j Customer—Say, do I hate to trait here all day to he ttr r e d f Itulcher— Yesterday you complained of the short weight, now of the tong wait. Aren't you ever satisfied.* Ä COMMON S IN S I.. t proved thousands upon * 1 ol timst I ALL-VEGETABLE LAXATIVE ’X ' t — ------------------- < In NR (N atu re’s Rrm cdy) Tablets, there are no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. N R Tablets are different— act different. I'nrely yeoe- table— a combination o f 10 vrgetable ingredients formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoaled or randy coaled, their action is drpendable, thorough, yet gentle, as millions ol N K ’s have proved. Get a ¿St Iwix Use a , directed HO M AO W ICM Hi TO-NIGHT TO ALM AlWAVa CkRRf. T t e n s s f A married man is much better QUICK REI IFF But along about the sixth day of the dip, anybody who would tell you informed than a bachelor. What V FOR ACIO whether we were facing a permanent nose-dive or just weathering the he doesn't know Ids wife tells Idin, riN O IO S T U M flutter of a few yards of ticker tape was as rare as a vote against tax reduction (that issue, itself, had changed after the sixth dip). The reason no expert would ta lk ^ —-------------- ----------------' F O R D IS T IN C T IS II E D S E R V I C E . . . M rs. F r a n k lin I». R o o s e v e lt was that all of them had been mak d u c e d to g i v e a to u c h o f v e r is i p r e s e n t s th e n a t io n a l a c h i e v e m e n t a w a r d , o n e o f A m e r ic a 's h ig h e s t ing wrong predic m ilit u d e to a n o t h e r w is e n o t-to o - h o n o r s , to th e D o w a g e r M a r c h io n e s s o f R e a d in g , E n g la n d , for h e r ’ tions ever since c o n v in c in g n a r r a t iv e . T h e so o th " d is t in g u is h e d s e r v i c e s to h e r c o u n tr y w h ic h h a v e b e e n a n in s p ir a foots a job for "Command iff/nty" i C oolidge's per s a y e r s s a y th a t s e v e r a l m e th o d s tio n to th e w o m e n o f o th e r c o u n t r i e s .” ' manent plateau w e r e p u r s u e d , s o m e o f th e m the MENTHOLATUM TWINS of prosperity of s u c c e s s f u ll y . F o r e x a m p le , th e p re - depression P r e s id e n t s la m - b a n g e d a t w h a t Me days or Hoover’s . m ake' h e c a lle d th e “ g a m b l e r s ” in c o rn e r a ro u n d soothe c o m m o d it ie s w h o w e r e d r iv in g you j which prosperity up food p r ic e s b y s p e c u la t in g in \sm a ttin g i s m i/e I was always duck g r a in an d o th e r fu tu r e s . pa in. ing. a g a in /j The most silent That did open a Pandora’s box, man in Washing and some of the plagues released ton was S e c re alighted on the very rooftree of the tary of the Treas- White House. But it also threw a Although it was obvious that his S’— 1 ury Snyder. He scare into the marketeers and the heart wasn’t in it. President Tru- ’ le n t. gently help aootlia tender lip Qtr/ci. MENTHOLATUM skin, quickly revive dried out "th irs ty ” man presented congress with a re IRELAND: knew th a t too markets. B aukhage many people re • W hen biting raw winds ru t lipa, skill culls, help them retain needed Then came the day of a White quest for 570 million dollars to be /Veit) Premier leave them d ry and cracked and so moisture. Boon smarting pain leaves, membered what he and others had House press and radio conference sent to China as a prop for the your Iqw fool softer, sinuotiier you painful it «ven hurts to .m ile - quick) Even to members of the Eire a said two years ago last fall. Snyder, when the President made a remark foundering economy of Chiang Kai- call for M en tiio la tu u i, containing com sinilo again, (le t M e n tlio la tu m today. sembly who had helped defeat hl: at that time reconversion director, —credited at the time by some of shek's Nationalist government. fortin g Cam phor and m in ty M en tho l, ALSO RFIKVES HEAD COLO STUFFINESS. a beau famous M e n tlio la tu m invnxl- had predicted that by the spring of his friends as an unhappy slip — CHEST COLD TIGHTNESS NASAl IRRilAIION White House and state depart it was strange to see Eamon I the next year (1946) eight million when he said that if the cost of liv ment sources admitted that the re Valera, premier of Ireland for 16 people would be unemployed. In ing was not controlled, there would quest was something less than a years, sitting quietly on the opposite fact, so many others believed that be a crash. That got headlines, half-measure and claimed that the side of the house as leader of the that Henry Wallace, already dream frightened a lot of little fellows who President had acted under pressure opposition. Cars, trucks and tractors W hen your car, truck or tractor engin e In his place as premier was John ing of a home with white pillars on pulled out their chips, and, combin from the Republican congress at arts to sm oke and burn o il, it'a a aure Pennsylvania avenue, decided to ing with other evil Jinns released which has insisted that the U. S. A. Costello, former attorney gen aign o f w asted pow er. Seuled P ow er shouldn’t smoke, either make “Sixty Million Jobs” a come- from the economists’ Jinn bottles, must support Chiang against the eral, whom the assembly had voted P isto n R in gs w ill en d th a t w a ste, sa v e hither plank in his platform. He did the trick. od , sa v e gas, restore pow er. T h ere is a Communist revolution in connection into office after a new six-party co alition had taken control of the leg z v wrote a book with that title and it Sealed P ow er R ing Set sp ecifically e n g i There are many others of these with the European recovery plan. islative group as a result of the became a best seller. His book set a neered t o d o th e best possible jo b in At best the 570 million dollars is a goal of 56,500,000 to 57,500,000 civil tales which will grow, such as the token gesture—just a chip in rela previous elections. your en gin e, w h a tev er th e m ake, m odel creating of sun-spots by the admin Costello, in a dignified speech to ians employed by 1950. or cylin d er w rur con d itio n . S ee your istration’s atomic-energy experts. tion to the vast amount of timber the assembly, explained his sudden Sealed P ow er F ran ch ise D ealer I But one is enough for the moment. that would be needed to restore the emergence as premier of Ireland: But somebody must have rotting derelict of Chiang’s govern stolen the idea or else they Anyhow "it was planned that ment. "I consented to this nomination at Send s postal for tttus- tra trtl, informative new way!” wanted to play a mean trick on the request of a number of parties booklet on 7 waywtoMive Theory behind this latest exten Wallace—and on Snyder—any who felt that the interest of the o il. It 's free and may T a f t - H a r t le y Issue sion of aid, w’hich will be used to country required that there should m v c you Iota of money , how there were 57,149,000 per 8ealc<l P ow er C o rp > finance Chinese imports of cereals, be an inter-party government and Losing Its P o te n c y sons employed in this country as D ept. W J, Muskegon. f petroleum, coal, fertilizer and so M ich. of January, 1948 — two years There has been a lot of noise over forth, is that the money will enable that the premier of that govern early, and 10 months before the Taft-Hartley act lately, and on Chiang’s government to free other ment should occupy a position in O IV I YOU» ENOINC THAT “ NIW -CAR F i l l ”1 presidential campaign time. the surface it looks as if the law resources for purchase of arms and political life detached from the con IIA lfO P O # !» A™ might an issue in the presi ammunition to continue the fight troversial bitterness of the past.” SEALED Likewise, in October of 1946, sev dential become POWE R PISTO N RING S — f, '■ campaign. If that should against the Communist guerrillas. The “inter-party government” eral astute Washington inside-stuff B IS T IN NEW E N G IN E S ! happen, it certainly would help the whose choice Costello was is com BEST IN OLO E N G IN S S I letter writers were saying privately But that is more of an idle hope to their thousands of clients, and the prestige of Senator Taft. But the than a valid theory, because the pounded of six political parties of apparently divergent ideals: Re AFL monthly survey was saying in old-timers say it can’t happen. government forces, despite their As you know, last autumn, right American arms and equipment, are publican, United Ireland, Labor, Na public print, that by early 1947 L abor, Independent and prices would come down. One could after the act went into effect, a lot being bested consistently by the tional Farmers. say on January of 1947, with con of people felt its provisions would ' Communists. Just how long a government siderable accuracy, that there was decide the votes in the bye-elections, j made up of so many diverse com a general agreement on recession But those elections came and went, B U D G E T C U T : ponents would last was the subject beginning soon and followed by and it was hard to adduce any sta- ! of much speculation in Ireland. In Indifferent tistics to prove that T-H had figured more a little later. With little discussion and a good their present cooperative mood the Other writers predicted it a little very much, if at all. Later on, animosity against the deal of outright indifference, the parties of the coalition may carry later, and some, by summer, were on for a year or two, but few were insisting that deflation already was law died down. But now both the senate adopted a resolution to cut prepared to give the government a President Truman’s fiscal 1949 CIO and AFL have announced their here. Pipe fans and “ ma kin’* " smokers alike hail crimp cut much longer span of life. preliminary plans for campaigning budget by 2.5 billion dollars. But what happened? In the Prince Albert-the National Joy Smoke against the men who voted for ft; How much significance the sen C A T F E E T : very year of that doleful proph Taft has used it in his campaign ate resolution would have in the ecy, prices started on the up- speeches in Midwest centers where final analysis was questionable, in First a Dream. shoot that took them into their labor is strong; Philip Murray was view of prevailing uncertainties Like the fog that “comes on little all-time high. indicted under its provisions, and which might affect both sides of the cat feet,” Carl Sandburg, honored FOR REAL ledger. and honorable free-verse poet and Many other similar bad guesses both Murray, representing the CIO, The 2.5-billion-dollar reduction and the International Typographers’ voluminous biographer of Lincoln, might be mentioned, all of which PIPE COMFORT, I contributed toward making the union have charged it is unconstitu would leave an estimated 10 billion was creeping into the senatorial tional. But the issue still fails to dollars for tax cuts and debt reduc race in Illinois. prophets reticent, and so when the ALWAYS SMOKE RICH- 1 A hitherto almost imperceptible slide came in February of this year, command any real dramatic in tion. Republicans, therefore, were feeling increasingly confident that drive supporting Sandburg as a pos TASTING, EASY-ON- nobody would even whisper "fox” terest. an income tax slash of up to 5 bil sible candidate for for fear that not even a kit would THE-TONGUE This is another proof of how a lion dollars could be enacted. I appear. They knew that nobody senator picked up controversial issue that calls Brevity of the senate discussion PRINCE ALBERT would believe them after all the considerable impe forth bitter debate and stirs up and its lack of apoplectic oratory tus with the release without-the-wolf-wolflng that had nationwide interest at the mo V was in direct contrast to last year’s been going on. of a public opinion ment, can fade into the back strident contest over the budget pAl indicating that In any case, this dip, drop, de ground as time passes, and by committee's recommendation of a he might become a pression or delusion, whichever it election day have little or no 6-billion-dollar cut in the 1948 popular choice over turns out to be by the time these effect on votes. budget. th e Democratic lines reach print, or later, will have Democrats made no effort to j candidate, Paul H. It is much like a fire that makes its garland of myths and legends block the proposed spending slash I Douglas, and the entwined about it. Page 1 because it breaks out just as Republican candi an edition of an afternoon paper is which had been recommended by The best myth, of course, is SANDBURG date, Sen. C. Way- going to press. It may get a banner the house-senate budget committee. that Mr. Truman “planned it land Brooks. on Page 1 if the news is light, but by It still requires house adoption. Biggest bug in the senate’s budget that way.” 1. "Crimp cut Prince Albert in my pipe means more smoking As far as the question of how a the next edition, it may have shrunk recommendation was the fact that poet can turn into a politician is to a single head on an inside page. pleasure, says Gordon B. Guernsey. "P.A. gives me a rich- The blueprint is simple enough if it probably embodied a number of tasting smoke that is mild -easy on my tongue.” you are good at reading a blueprint Recency expands the importance of inaccurate estimates. Republican concerned, those favoring him say between the lines. Prices were get all events. You may recount excit sponsors of the measure admitted he is a “good man,” he understands B. 1. lUrooMe Tobacco Co., Wlnetoo-flalem, If. O. common people and is educated ting too high. At worst, they might edly at dinner how you almost got that accurate estimates of budget the and well-informed about the coun hit by a truck on the way to work. bring on a real depression before needs were impossible at the time. try’s needs. The opposition claims yessir election; at best, they would bring a But by tomorrow night, you’ll be Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.), he is politically inexperienced and, telling with much more gusto about •series of strikes and work stoppages chairman of the budget committee, since he is a writer, is an impracti CRIMP CUT which might seriously hamper the a fish you caught last summer. compared the estimates with "a cal dreamer and an idealist. • • • Marshall plan on the one hand, and PRINCE ALBERT ROLLS pre-game guess at the final score.” But Sandburg, the poet, once The City of Washington always But Sen. Alben Barkley (Dem., Ky.) add to the discontent of the voters wrote: UP EASY— SHAPES on the other. It would be like any quails before a real snowstorm like called the procedure “a step in the "The republic it a dream. operation, not dangerous from the a pup with the hose turned on i t dark.” UP FAST INTO TASTY Nothing happens unless first a dream.” surgeon’s point of view. Just a little amputation of credit, at least so makin s said doctors who work on the body SM O KES economic, which would let enough blood out of some businesses to cause a little unemployment. Enough to scare off strikes and make busi nessmen a little more cautious about expansion. Relax, ladies. Don’t feel guilty Broadcasting system, based their dom of the wife. This primary There was some evidence that f this may really have been intended about listening to the great and report on a detailed analysis of the theme always triumphs over the because the President did ask in his grievous trials of “John’s Other serialized drama, “Big Sister.” £ ■ second theme which runs counter to i - * " ■ Women being the chief listeners, It—that family ties can be broken November 17 message to congress Schmoe” every day at 11:15 a. m., HB m R h BI for credit controls and increased brought to you through the courtesy It Is they who derive the greatest and a woman's security threatened bank reserves. However, when con of Philbottom’s Ossified Sheep Dip. benefits from these daytime dirges chiefly by the loss of the husband to 2. Cigarettes roll up fast with crimp cut The news is now out that soap by having their egos bolstered and other women, and, quite seconda gress said “humph” to that along Prince Albert, says Frank Matthews, Jr. with the President’s other recom operas, as presented interminably their spirits strengthened by hear rily and obliquely, by death.” P.A. holds in the paper for neat cigarettes mendations, he turned around and on the radio, actually might do you ing stories of fictional women going Moreover, the social scientists that are mild and rich tasting.” some downright good. through problems and experiences demoted the man who is said to said, the program, among other An anthropologist, Prof. W. Lloyd that parallel their own, the scien things, provides its women listeners have written the deflation prescrip tion from the chairmanship of the Warner, and a psychologist, Dr. tists pointed out. with “moral beliefs, values and M o r e m e n . "The basic and primary theme Is techniques for solving emotional federal reserve board (Marriner William E. Henry, tuned in on a daytime radio serial over a long that good and noble women who are Eccles), and put in a man supposed and interpersonal problems — and to have more sympathy with an op period and arrived at the ponderous wives and mothers are Invincible makes them feel they are learning solution that soap operas are "of within their own arena of life, the while they listen.” posite course. considerable value to our society.” American family," said the report. In brief, the report added up to a The two scholars, consultants for However we mustn’t spoil a "Men, who are superordinate clear-cut spiritual and moral vie- a research organization which di elsewhere, are subordinate and de tory of the soap opera over Its hard good story by facts. There are rected the study for Columbia pendent (In the story) on the wis- ened and blase critics. other noints which can be Intro- fcae la Frtnea AMart’i "Grand Ola Oorv" Saturday NlgM t an H.B.C. CfMPPED Í/P S P A’A’ ITS REVIEW Aid for China Asked; Senate OKs Budget Cut J v Juf Both W ags-a favorite ! ' TUNE IN TOMORROW Soap Operas Benefit Society smolct PRINCE ALBERT1. dfian any other tobacco ' '
