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REMO
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The house measure would author-
ize continued U. S. aid until July
maintain peace with justice and to
take such action as they may deem
him. "I won't
names to make
less than the bill which was voted
by the senate The upper chamber
later
peo-
pact, nevertheless warned that "we
have to keep strung here at home
. . . if we are to help out abroa ! "
Vorys offered an amendment of his
based
theory
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com-
bod
giri
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any
san
been
aggression" by pledging U. S par-
ticipation in the pact.
have
severe
ned bunch
what h a ; ;
diet, and who would face actual
want without them.
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EVERY
---------WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Critics Attack New Farm Program
As Urging Unprecedented Controls;
Extension Seen for Marshall Plan
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quart.
“You’re
Europe’s real needs,
off by the majority.
were n Ca
be tn nurv
up a roastdo coast radio program
"welcome hack, baseball."
PARKING:
Now Automatic
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the
k-
band has been told by VA doctors I
he can live only a year at
belpir t
child It
Charles
the new
T e e
to
•n
Delavfarein^i
Practical Sub J
In Homemake?
lest judges
necessary if the peace is broken."
1
"At the pre sent time,"
ody can tell thecst of
'And its mark
aam«.*’
j pie of the United States and f t our ny as a slip on a banana r
neighbors in the North ii
Mr. El i nr
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age American private business to
invest in recovery projects air i i
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SUCH ACTION, he said,
be a long strp on the
peace."
chimpanzee seems
I ---- m-v , « ’ w*auau prel ( r-
Atlantic rupti n ws the 1931 fek ler to tha
90%
There appeared some hope for
relief in the nation’ll parking di-
lemma in Boston, William A
Such investments would be guar-
anteed against loss by conf hm at toft
of property overseas.
FINAL VOTE on the house bill
came after Majority Leader John
W. McCormack (D., Mass.) pleaded
as f in
Mongolin Ylales E ' appreci lion
Cf Fabulous Co * eutua t whe
h
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id. "no
•nd polish
handkerch ef
its global strategy on
cer. Thia disease had ravaged his
face to a point where an adult told
him that he "looked like the villian
of Frankenstein." Mr. Bierdz was
a patient in the Bronx, N Y . veter-
DEL ”,
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WALLGREN:
He‘s Willing
Like the weak/but insistent jang-
ling "of a Feewn nlarm on a bed-
been riding a roller-coaster of
ups and downs, inflation and
deflation, of booms and busts.
In the past 50 years these ups
er consumers’ goods is now just
about filled, while the vast expendi-
Harding took the big portfolio
in 1924. and Florida began sell-
ing land in the karat You could
build a whole comedy that year
around a joke about the capital-
ist who owned a flower pot in
k
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name I Alf-Landon, who I
unless steps are taken to, head it
Palm Reach Two years
Si
were all
Bing at Bat
sh p It
but we ’
ha l to I
ana Abanlom • hl‘l
«M mighe by rowc
oasty used the 1ve
ters. Andy barely
IB wit them T
ana Dave go to t
dor some mules
mira, hardware
Andy about the
m durinz his »
at a doe and hit
peace is an obtainable goal.
vided 272 million dollars to encour- "This treaty," he said, "makes j pole sitters and m
clear the determination of the peo-
The bill,
house, was
It pro-
one more economic
I
inite depression in
and man?
Other di
petrified
1, 1950, subject to possible later
propriations committees
Eenrrows NOrE: when opinion* are expressed in these columns, .thev are those of
western""Newspaper i nion". analyss and not necessariy of this newspaper.)
sity of Delawn
child "
However, Ci
is not a probles
of the word
practical.
Charles, a bi
The Sitnutioi
«Explainedito
"Whatever I d
anything to do w
Andy argue t • i
Mr. Eliot re
and downs
It was doubtful if the majority of
Americans would work up any vast
regret at the plight of Englishmen
who- faced the horrible possibility
of having to eat American-provided
hominy grits. ------ — —
For, most Americans would real-
ize that there are thousands nt
needy poor right here in the South
in our own United States to whom
hominy grits is • staple item of
at le t live on our
it we had it cata
w here rt w as."
that a lasting
Bing Crosby, whose varied ac-
tivities include the vice-presiden-
cy of the Pittsburgh Pirates, looks
like anything but a crooner as he
takes a turn at-bat. Bing headed
sweater girl is getting pretty mat.
ronly-after ten years but not near-
ly so matronly as the gag itself
car could be parked in a meehani-
cal storage garage. Boston city offi-
cials were showing interest in ths
proposition.
Braun said at such a garage
human hands would not touch the
automobiles,
lay under the program might run wauld have
as high as 10 billion dollars a yer.-— -
p
5i
become more
plications in the military budget. । they were lauzhine at the
depression would wreck the entire
American system
History’s Greatest Boom
Since V J day most Americans
hav been enjoying the greatest 1
wave of prosperity in history—for
two reasons: 1 The public’s un-
satisfied demand for goods they
could not buy during the war: 2
The cold war, which has caused
the government to pour billions
into thy world’s economic stream
However, the council estimates
that the long pent-up demand for
automobiles, refrigerators and oth- ,
The lanrhter got good and gr e.
. me in 1329, with all the punch
to ; liner dealing with the Walt Strert
in the spring when care and
and strife are most easily for-
gotten and put aside, the expres-
sion here of Pandora, Phila-
farmer.
CHARLES F BRANNAN, secre-
tary -of agriculture, conceded that
that the polit- “imponderables" such as weather
buro in Moscow is known to have and improved farm techniques
the made it impossible now to esti-
belly-laurhs And
with thin i
nent n w
in! said
own to term what he called the
“give-away" of American billions.
It, too, was defeated.
SACRIFICE:
Love of Mate
It the name of vanity truly is
“woman" then the sacrifice made
by a Chicago woman for her hus-
band must rank among the “no
greater love" examples which are
contained in the record.
MRS JOAN BIERDZ, 20, had a
husband who was striken with can-
Two sleepers, Maine
n nt, were the comic
of 1936 These two xtate
governor and close friend of the i
President, nd he is “still avail '
—•
men look'd upor
HOME TOWN huntink Knatndn
•ver they c an do
_ ... who are trying
. NO W land and mak.
wlU do."
" A
2Xou‘ye given *
thesekup than I
kjdde ’ into pacing a walk- '
against a GOP-led economy drive
with a warning that the “world "is
looking either to Washington or
the Kremlin."
On the passage vote, 125 Repub-
licans joined 229 Democrats in
favor of the bill.
Rep. John M Vorys (R , Ohio)
backed an amendment to cut off
381) million dollars from the ap-
propriations, which was defeated.
The situation was that congress
might require 15 per cent of nil Braun had invented an automatic
corn shipped under the European Par kin device where
crash The populnr type of york.
In submitting a report, H over
served that the federal govern-
side clock, Mon C Wallgren was
still talking about what might have
been.
A VISITOR to the White House — '
where he did not talk with Mr.
Truman, the former Washington j
your daug < r h
•nt for n
tice, we will I,
numbora well in
"Hope plays t
when she < m 1।
"Well, Fil be .
Io be back ere l
"Be very t.i t
plored. "We nre
- by the N'
•ver trout < y
ers from there w
•gainst D. a • < ■ 1
ment" when he attended a movie,
and that he would never go out
again. \
After receiving the letter from
her 26-year-old husband, Mrs.
Bierdz slashed both her arms She
was arraigned in a Chicago court
on a charge of disorderly conduct..
SHE TOLD the judge: “J did it
because I wanted people to look at |
me, instead of him . . . my hue- i
ALLIANCE:
Things Humming
The administrti n was really
n oving on the north atlantic de-
fer allian e *
President Truman had urged the
Erperenced for
ocre farm in e
teed < iops 1 x ‘
Modein heme •
Alt madern equ
pleyment s-
-orking cond •
2622 Moutom
Pres. Hoover’s party ping
about “two ears in every zar-
age" came back to haunt h Qn,
all during 1932 in the form of
F l
! 1
When it is remembered the gov-
ernment has no money except that
which it gets from the people- in
taxes, objective observers were
wondering who, if anyone, could
benefit ’ by the program, since
farmer and consumer alike wpuld
be paying out added funds to fi-
nance it.
OLD AGE:
No Elixir
Impending old age affects many
people in many ways. But to all
who stand on its threshold, it is a
topic of prime consideration. Of
late, science, medicine and the
psychiatrists all have been con-
cerned with the subject and appar-
ently little loath to be heard upon
it.
LATEST to ponder the problem
of how one should approach old
age and what may be expected in
this period of life was a conference
of 800 physicians from all over the
nation. .
These physicians were all agreed
that one of the biggest problems
facing the medical profession in
the problems of old age is making
those added years healthy, happy
- and useful.
Throughout the conference the
warning was sounded again and
again that something must be done
to give rmen and women not only
long life, but a healthy, happy and
useful old age.
THE SIMPLE and sad fact is
that man's life has been extended
beyond his present capacity to en-
joy it as a useful citizen, the medi-
cal authorities agreed. For in pro-
longing life, science also prolonged
suffering and misery — all the
chronic illnesses and disabilities
which plague mankind in the declin-
ing years.
Dr. Chauncey Leake, of the Uni-
versity of Texas, said that young
people as early as in high school
should be taught how to grow old—
that is, how to cultivate hobbies
and intellectual curiosity and how
to develop a systematic regimen for
physical and mental hygiene.
He declared the country should
have an “old-age program” similar
to the child-care program.
H b-hbe-btet-meressed-re-
search on drugs which may help
the aged by preventing the dis-
orders to which old people are sub-
ject.
But, coming out by the same
door wherein he went, he warned
that all hope for an "elixir of life”
must be dismissed—that there is no
"miracle drug" to restore youth to
the aged.
Wherein he delivered himself of
a truism well known even as Ponce
de Leon was searching for the foun-
tain of eternal youth.
"CORNY" PROPOSAL
rvcMvery plan-te take the form- of
cornmeal or hominy grits, England
was reported aghast at the report
The explosive reaction was; "Now
the yanks ekpect us to eat th«
ruddy stuff.”
tamil»
pave and Granny
wjven Has by the
who wi cultivate
modern homesteac
make trends wi
k l
d
1
found in 1907.
Rudenko na
m >t fave t e l
The la +coinu
body and i»
artistic work
pictures of
Thera s never been n poorer vent
for waga than 1040 Things were no
tough then thatithe pertparagraph.
ers and radio'authors were having
fun with Europe's phony war My '
they -were sarcastic! A year later, I
-when the blitz came and the Nazi 1
big parade, these amusing char. ,
acters .wished they had kept their I
silly traps shut. There were no jok- -
ing rnatters In, 1941. We were 4n.
the scrap ourselves in 1942, and out
of the 19F kits came all the oid •
wheezes about draft exemmtsons
They were pretty beat-up looking
but they helped a lot unti; L in5. .
ers got rid of their glo ’ —
zoo's p r e c o e iou s
AMENDMENT w! ch
reduced the fund, or
Cal Coolidre
passed a measure appropriating
5.58 billion dollars The house bill
called for 5 38 billion.
___
ride, Andy." s
l?"
"Well, n
ack of fl .r. ।
ide meat A
ride, and it's
are of it or t
"Mr. Bir
ul all the tin 1
dm.
"I know it
he cabin, t
e careful
: get to the
"Well, y
till you hit the
- bayou; then >
stream ti 5
bridge. The :
’ ’bout a bur ire
** 1 bridge."
"Thanks Hr
Mr. Wp; loo
let him take a
Mr. Eliot pic}
Of salt and foil
house. “TH be g
he offered "It
were accon pan
favorable witne
war* •• - level
Andy sh k
but I don’t want
- muted up in r
mind fob ale
many dev < lopn
"As you wish,
"Just an idea
1 you were not
was flr«d and'
someone else y
make any accus
general one "
. "I‛ve thought
senate to take early action on the
as approved by the treaty in order to help western
for 200 million dollars Europe ward off "brutality' and
_ DEFENSE:
Excesses Seen
What c uld the people believe
about America’s —defense needs?
! Were the taxpayers being taken for
| a "ride” by a cynical, contemptu-
ous coterie of military brass hats
blond, l» the s
fin. ass star t
management
school of J n.
Griffin brought
FARM PROGRAM:
Pros & Cons
President Truman’s sweeping
new farm program met with mixed
response on Capitol Hill. Critics
claimed it would carry the nation
closer to socialism and would em-
power the government with un-
precendented farm controls and
powers.
PROPONENTS of the measure
contended that consumers would be
benefited because retail food prices
would be allowed to seek their own
level.
No matter which school of thought
was correct, it was inescapable that
the program would use taxpayers’
dollars to guarantee farmers an in-
come equal to that of a recnt 10-
year period.
Some opposition to the plan
termed it as one that might be so
expensive that it would push the
U. S. treasury toward bankruptcy
and would thoroughly regiment the
will begin to taper off, so that de-
pression will come in 1950-51.
Another factor is the psych-
ological effect of swiftly rising
prices followed by dropping
prices. If OPA and, Inflation
controls had not been thrown
overboard by congress and
prices had not shot up so high,
business dislocation might not
be so bad now.
For, while falling prices at the
moment may be healthy, yet a lot
of business—especially small busi-
ness—always gets hurt by falling
prices. And the psychological ef-
fect of falling prices encourages
depression; for people, waiting
for lower prices, don't buy.
President's Advisers
The three members of the Pres-
ident's council of economic advis-
ers are: —
Chairman Dr. Edwin Nourse, a
New Yorker, long-time member
of the Bookings Institute, and gen-
erally considered the most con-
servative counselor.
Leon Keyserling, a native of
South Carolina, former secretary
to Senator Wagner, who has had
a long experience in the govern-
ment, chiefly in the U. S. housing
authority A liberal, Keyserling
frequently disagrees with more
conservative chairman Nourse.
John D. Clark, a native of Color-
ado and former ecomomics profes-
sor at the University of Nebraska
and the University of Denver.
Clark usually lines up with liberal
Keyserling.
However, the council has
composed its differences to
recommend a program to Pres-
ident Truman which it regards
as absolutely essential to
block depression. While all
three agree, Dr. Nourse con-
siders the voluntary phase of
the program more important,
but Keyserling and Clark,
though not disagreeing, would
place more emphasis on the
government phase. ”
The program which Nourse con-
siders most important is:
Farmers—Convince farmers tn
Erowbggercropsandaccept
somewhat lower support prices,
thereby reducing the consumers”
food bill, but continuing a reason-
able return for farmers.
Business—Sell businessmen on
lower profits per item, thereby get-
ting greater volume and continued
reasonable profits.
Labor—Persuade labor leaders
not to seek wage increases that
will throw tbe economy out of
gear.
Government Remedies
The Clark Keyserling group,
while agreeing with the above,
ability to "‘persuade" business,
farmers and labor. Therefore, they
pul more emphasis on hard -and-
fast government incentives which
would prop up the economy regard-
less of persuasion They recom-
mend :
Increased social security bene-
fits tetake care of unemployed and
the aged Present oldeage pensions
are woefully low and unemployment
benefits last only a brief interval
after unemployment tarts
p‛e who believed it. Noel Cow-
ard gave a wordly. internation-
al tone to joke telling in 1923,
his import* being aped in sueh
a wicked way th.it you begin
wondering if your aunt was
really nice The decade reached
It* cockevedest point in 19′6,
and Daddy Browning inspirea-
one rood Joke funprinfable) and
a million variations of a slick
Vorys, saying he favored the Mar-
shall plan and the North Atlantic
or 1951-
P rts. mutt
. .
gages f r
sters In I
American i
ets the e
humtrikte
MERITFGO-OUND
Mo DREW PEARSON
daldal 2l2-----2---l-iiaix ;
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The!
rticular function in the
able" for the chairmanship of the j
National Securities Resc un es
Board ’
Wallgren’s nomination to that
post by President Truman was
tabled by a senate committee.
dealt with the market vietims who
—....... -f the United States were suiciding from high pinces
Harry Truman pointed up anew his And it was grim for the •• erry.
world makers in 1930. ton Their best
sources were. apple cellera. Hag-
mate the cost of the program.
He said of the program that it
probably would mean a heavy drain
on consumers’ dollars.
He added, that the. government
plans soon to undertake a costly
‘new program to keep up the price
of pork. If this program is ap-
proved, Brannan said," farmers
would sell their pork for whatever
it would bring. The government-
meaning the public—then would
pay the farmer the difference be-
tween the support price and the
prieefthe farmer actually received.
REPRESENTATIVE Anderson
(R , Minn ) was not impressed. He
estimated the total government out-
The council, it will be recalled,
was created by congress in 1946 to
advise the White House on how to
ward off depression. And although
the three members differ on a lot
of things, they feel that depress! n
can be stopped—though only by the
concerted cooperation of the admin-
istration, congress, business, farm-
ers and labor
To understand the bark-
ground of the economic coun-
cil’s vitally important business
diagnosis, it should be re-
called that for the past 100
years American economy has
who were using world tension to set
up an artificial basis for huge
grabs from appropriation funds?
THOSE APPEARED to be fair
questions- and here’s why:
Robert Patterson, former secre-
tary of war said: "It is no exag-
i geration to say that the cost in
I duplication, competition and dis-
t jointed eff rt directly traceable to
, the two-headed (army-navy) sys-
• tem ran into billions and billions.
I Much of the public debt is due to
| that division • t authority and re-
l sp on sibility between the war de-
partment and the navy depart-
. ment ”
But what has that to do with de-
fense appropriations?
Herbert Hoover — appointed to
head up a survey committee to
streamline government and cut
costs-said that the army, navy and
air force ar.? padding their money
requests to congress by millions of
dollars.
He also accused them of "start-
ling" waste and extravagance.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT, ap-
pearing bef re the senate armed
forces committee, declared: “Ap-
Two Decades of Jollity
- The Twenties opr ned with every
1 joke writer making almost as r od
a living out of prohibition jokes nn
bootleggers in the Silliest Amend-
ment 1921 fetched the flapper, and
the mouthing* of the fresh young
thing assailed you from the maks
and the vnude stages A year later,
Eugene O’Neill put some language
he had picked up at sea into his
hits, and a crack like "go to hell" j
was getting more attention than
chorus gels with no clothes on, or
anyway, just n few The Prince of
Wales acted like n renl prince all
during 1923, obliging with n fall off
his horse on a dull day to land
right into some sweating gagwrit
er s copy.
t
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Depression Possible
THERE’S BEEN a lot of petty
- bi ring i • tw the P -
ident’s council of ecdnomic advis-
ers, but there’s one unple sant fa. t
they all agree on. They foresee def-
t i)
)
■I
away for FDR . . Th,. WPA w rk-
• ra kept comedy t'nrm ntt th.
tisn tur
studiedly and ll
discomfort
"You "have in
point then he
that vou at-. ;■
rect. Tot it Is v
Newcastle ti 1 k
a group, and i t <
part of that i h
have no land t<
are disliked too
era) year
try, perfec t fi .
moonshiners T
people used .
a g mobste
by shooting
-pen up their
is kind of g
gift bill by a vote
t e
kihe •
s the rn
b gira
so earefree in 1973 that we saw
a hilarious situation in the bank
failnres. For sheer wit von
couldn’t top smthlnc that re-
ported a pal’s loss nt Ms life’s
savings ... An rifts furriner
named Hitler, who ranted like
a Saturday Bowery drunk,
struck n« all as much more
comical than Robhy Clark
While we were bowling at his
1934 comiralities he ducked off
to Austria and assassinatrd
Dollnss and gate some of ns
reason to stop langhing. It mh
belter in 1935, when H wood w is
the patsy, made so by » come ev
rilled "Noy Meets Gir." when
that title became part nt the
• language.
has a! it 27 t .h n dol
1 of personal property.
f r hundreds of millions of dollars
to retool industry should be exam- .
ined with the greatest skepticism."
H over t dd the committee that
what the department of national
defense needs is ‘a good bookkeep-
rofro,mTrocoumwow 71
the ; arty by rep. rting thnt n man "e
leaning ',n n shovel wasn’t n statue ! !
but a WPA toiler The pickings- • ■
were very meagre in the joke pita i jy
in 1938, but along came Wrong ' "g
Way Corrigan to fly West and land K
in Ireland The big nugget in 1939 1 525
' sweater girl. <■ > t2
it a big year for the smirk. ton The ]
and Ver
inspiration
a mob of grat
llin the last
the carefree abandon of spring.
But l’andora is happy for another
reason — she’s clebrating her
second birthday on her gift bi-
cycle. and is she having fun!
MARSHALL PLAN:
To Be Continued
Europe appeared certain of con-
tinued receipt of Marshall plan al
for another 15 months.
. An enthusiastic house of repre-
sentatives, shouting down or beat-
ing off every attempt to reduce ti e
proposed appropriation-Agure, ap-
ed in 197
t "I lo
duties hit f
in the hom,
on the camp
Since then
e urse have
fin in ti • <!
Sait Mrs
“My t n h
of progress
not exrerimi
fact he .fl f
manager er ♦
The stun.
1 • 0
lived in the
t n 2 "
trom many
"Let me RO
egged. "‘You '
"ouaKt er." /
Andy Ives hn 1
aw H, ft' wa
round • ci urst
. flerce prit
n: A man ' a
ad into the w a
ousel No
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Preusser, Theodore A. The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1949, newspaper, April 29, 1949; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1611386/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.