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Onlnlon Robert iff. Lewln frilafelpfria Inquirer tr Basis for Sound Economy TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 195S IS CHICAGO. WHAT do President Eisenhower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, Treasury Secretary Robert B.

Anderson and others mean when they say that "the economy is sound?" Let's let two well-known economists Ernest T. Baughman and Lynn A. Stiles explain it. "A sound economy means that things are going to improve and not keep deteriorating," they say. "Blooming health can be restored." Baughman and Stiles are economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

They continue: "Consumers, though somewhat cautious, are not scared or panicked. "Some weaknesses in retail sales can be attributed to the automobile market. "Foods sales are up. But some consumers say, 'Let's play it a little safe on a new refrigerator or washing machine or Stiles listed the following as "backstops" for a recession and bolsterers of the economy which contribute to soundness: No runs on banks, no money panic which would upset the banking system. Business, workers and farmers, in spite of a substantial increase in their debts, have maintained savings and other liquid assets which are a cushion against hard times.

-Government-sponsored Federal Deposit Insurance which guarantees bank deposits up to $10,000. Government-sponsored Federal Savings Loan Insurance which protects these savings. Securities and Exchange Commission which polices the issuance of stocks and bonds and virtually has elim inated fly-by-night issues that used to fleece millions of investors and promote fake get-rich-quick schemes. Unemployment compensation which covers 60 percent of the Nation's industrial and business employes and helps to tide them over their joblessness with cash benefit payments. Strengthened and liberalized public assistance programs.

Social Security benefits, with payments to retired and disabled workers as a matter of right. Wives of retired employes also benefit. Prepaid medical and hospital care plans financed by employers, easing the cost and worry over bills. The expansion of the Federal Government as a buyer of goods and services 550 billion a year, as compared with a $433 billion value on the Nation's total output of goods and services. At the onset of the depression in 1929, Government purchases were $1.3 billion of the gross national product of $104 billion a little more than 1 percent.

Heavy Government dependence on a graduated income tax rate schedule with persons who have the highest incomes paying the biggest percentage in taxes. Then Baughman and Stiles added: "If all else fails, Government expenditures can keep the economy running in pretty high gear." Cleveland recently decided to do something besides asking Uncle Samuel for a handout. It staged a gigantic campaign to sell more automobiles and to give a spurt to all business. Taking the theme that people who were working and had money in the bank should buy cars if they needed them, the town spent $250,000 on advertising in newspapers, on TV and radio. The result? That week Clevelanders bought nearly 7000 automobiles.

In addition money was pumped into circula- tion and the entire economy got a boost. "It is virtually impossible for the United States to plunge into a 1930-type depression. "Retail sales are holding up well, considering unemployment, the job outlook and short work week. Collie Knox the Spot.aswa: I The Nuclear Age I A Quick Trip Around the World LONDON THE immortal words of TN 1 Durante, everybody is try- I ing to get into the act. It is human to suppose that we can do the other person's job bet- 0 ter than he can do it himself, and that were we allowed to run it our way, the world would be a better place to die in.

With all the current bar- rage of advice being directed at governments, how is it pos- sible for the men responsible to have any time in which to get on with their jobs? A Everyone Is shooting off their mouths about the H-bomb. The fi young "ladies and gentlemen" of Oxford University, in a poll close to the young ruler believe he'd like to abdicate his throne for the life of "a free man" but realizes that there must be no scandal in this important year of the World's Fair. STOCKHOLM At a concert here recently, all members of the visiting Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra changed from evening dress to rags when the concert ended at midnight. HONG KONG Actor Kurt Jurgens, here to start filming location shots for "Inn of the Sixth Happiness," was told he had traveled a few thousand miles in vain. The picture will be done entirely in Wales, which the producers feel is more authentically Chinese.

BON MOT: "For some reason people all over the world have come to believe that the woman of Paris is just a little better than anywhere else. This is wrong. She is just a little more French." Maurice Chevalier. told newsmen on arrival here for a night club engagement: "During the past couple of weeks I wore a lovely white satin dress from the Palace. It had a coffee stain down the front.

But I didn't do it." CANNES Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paule Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Cris-piniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso, the 77-year-old artist who signs his paintings simply "Picasso," has been notified that Oxford University is awarding him a doctorate. Looking up from a canvas he is doing of a pet goat, Picasso commented: "That's nice." PARIS Told that Francoise Sagan was getting married, 12-year-old child poet Minou Drouet said: "I shall pray for her." BRUSSELS King Baudouin of Bel-glum is embarrassed over stories to the effect that he will announce his engagement to a Princess of Bourbon-Parma at the Royal Ball April 19. Those NEW YORK. INTERNATIONAL DATELINES: ATHENS The Archmandarite Constants Valiadis, the Greek Orthodox priest who performed the wedding ceremony which united tobacco heiress Aliki Papastratos and wealthy John Goulan-dris, added credence to rumors that Princess Sophie may wed young George Livanos. He stated he had heard of a possible engagement, but couldn't say whether or not it is true.

ROME Artist Novella Pariginl, noted for her nude paintings, announced she will forsake her career as an artist to become a striptease dancer in Paris. "It is so Bohemian to undress in public," she explained. "I cannot do it in Rome, too many people know me. But it will be fun to do it in Paris." TORONTO Georgina Moore, the 20-year-old showgirl who served as Princess Margaret's stand-in for some stages of the portrait being painted by Annigoni, on nuclear disarmament, show a bias against the bomb. This I By J.

Snider I CHICAGO. WHEN servicing is needed in tomorrow's nuclear power plants, scientists will ride into the radioactive area i in an "armored tank" with a 'mechanical man." The vehicle, dubbed the "beetle," will be shielded with 75,000 pounds of lead and steel. Scientists, riding in the cab, will manipulate the mechanical man, consisting of two 16-foot arms, to reach in and handle wires, bolts, pipes and other components in the "hot" reactor. The two "hands" on the arms will have electrical outlets to operate power tools by remote control. The scientific operator will have an excellent view from the windows of the cab, Dr.

R. F. Morand, an engineer, said at a recent nuclear conference here. "The operator's view is equal to that in a modern automobile," he said. By Emery Hutchison CHICAGO.

A different kind of spring has come, A mad, confusing season. Young lovers all. You must beware Or be bereft of reason. Where once you looked up ot the moon "Well, we can be John Foster Dulles for an hour," says a lead editorial in the prison newspaper, the San Quentin News. The prisoners are aided by experts from across the bay.

"Free world," the editorial continues, "two words much used in San Quentin. A short phrase covering everything, beyond these walls. U. S. means us.

"Maybe you're content to talk about Cadillacs and trips to Vegas; broads, the bad luck that brought you here. Maybe that's enough for you," the editor says to his fellow inmates. Instead he urges them to "identify" themselves with the free world outside, because "almost all of us will, some day, go from here to live in it again." By Ernie mil LONDON. THE turning over of power by King Saud of Saudi Arabia to his brother Feisal is viewed here as a result of manipulations by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nas-sar, aided by anti American members of Saud's own family. Nasser is believed angling to get Saudi Arabia into the United Arab State on the same terms as Syria federation.

That would give Nasser a chance to get his GEORGINA MOORE Margaret to blame? f. Is largely due to the 51.1 peril cent return from the women's colleges. The women gave a 78 percent vote that Britain I should stop testing bombs until If after new negotiations with Russia. Only nine percent dis-'A agreed. Of the men, 57 percent were in favor and 35 percent against.

The total vote was 60 percent to 31, voting forms bell ing sent to the 8000 students of i the university, just over half 0 tlng. Hurt JRojfitr Mike Connolly HOLLYWOOD. THEY'VE got 20 oil wells at 20th-Fox now, pumping-pumping-pumping like Gloria Swanson's in "Sunset Boulevard" 1,000 barrels per day per well. At $3 a barrel, that $21,900,000 a year, enough to keep them in caviar-i-champagne forever, even if they never make an- other movie Kim No vak's NEW YORK. KIRK DOUGLAS moved his Bryna productions over to MCA.

The March 30 Chevy Show payroll reads like this: Ethel Merman $15,000, Polly Bergen $10,000, or fat 1 nit And did what's always done, Leonard Lyons Now you'll look up, and turn hands on some of Saud's oil The playwright novelist, J. B. Priestley, who smokes a pipe incessantly, wears baggy tweeds, and is fairly widely held to interpret the mind of the common people, whatever that may mean, wrote a play specially for TV called "Doomsday for Dyson." Mr. Priestley's latest hobby-horse is, "Scrap H-Bombs and all tests and then the Russians will spare us." He rode the unfortunate animal so hard that I could see it collapsing under him. Dyson is an ordinary man, and his money for the benefit of the and ask, new home in Bel-Air will include a LAVENDER fireplace.

Intrigued over why so many tunesmiths want to board Pat Boone's bandwagon. I inquired and learned it's because his waxing wizards guarantee 750,000 first-pressings of all his records. All of which means more money for the music-makers Marian (ex-Miss America) McKnight, who looms as Pat's future sister-in-law, Nick Todd pops the question, enrolled for some UCLAsses in home economics Bewilderedly, "Which one?" By 9t, Freudenhelm NEW YORK. T70RD that some 20 pris- United Arab State. The banning of royal ad-v i from the cabinet meetings is viewed as indication of the early ouster of the palace guard.

Billions of dollars are involved in the operation of the world's richest oil field by the Arabia-American Oil Co. VV i oners are meeting every week in the San Quentin, prison library to discuss "free world" problems has been received by the 4 Foreign Policy Association. NEW YORK. THEATRE NOTE: Jean Dal-rymple, producer of the City Center shows, was discussing the ups and downs of show business. She cited Earle Hyman, who recently played" leading roles at the Stratford (Conn.) Festival, and in Shaw's "St.

Joan." Miss Dalrymple gave him his start with a good role in "Anna Lucasta." She saw him a few months later at her office. "We're not casting," she told him. "I know," said Hyman. "I'm not here for a role. I came to deliver a package to you.

I'n. working as a messenger boy." Press Views Jack Paar $10,000. That's show biz! A year ago Ethel Merman alone would have commanded five times as much as Polly and Jack combined. A certain TV MC stops laughing when his guest comedians get too funny. If they're a real smash they don't get booked there again.

Judy Garland had a limousine and a station wagon meet her at the train. The station wagon was for the luggage Lou Walters isn't just messing around. Us hired Rod Alexander (for $3500) to choreograph the opening show at his new Cafe de Paris which will adorn Broadway in May. Paramount Pictures is interested in Mike Elaine, the comedy team which clicked on "Omnibus," for a series of movies a la Martin Lewis. They were at Sardi's discussing performers.

Marie Mac-Donald was mentioned. "Oh, no," said a certain columnist's wife, "she's not a performer. She's a publicity stunt!" "Here's Steve Lawrence" a new Coral album, is another move toward the Big Time for the young singer who became known on Steve Allen's original "Tonight" shows. There is no doubt, as you listen, that Steve Lawrence thinks Frank Sinatra wrote the book. The Thin One's influence seems inescapable, although Lawrence adds much A UCLAlumni group gave UCLA football coach Red Sanders a '58 car equipped with a bar at a banquet in his honor.

Toastmaster: "That, Red, is to assure your arriving at all practice sessions in GOOD SPIRITS!" Herb Stein HOLLYWOOD. KEENAN WYNN arrived at Scandia the other noon on his motorcycle, was ibbed about the parking boys not allowing such vehicles on the lot. Posed no problem for Wynn, who took the machine into the dining room, parked it beside his table as he lunch munched. Soft business of "Cowboy," which rated excellent reviews, isn't likely to spur too much enthusiasm for a run of oaters by the town's sagebrush producers. Pic's not doing the business it's entitled to Next Cinerama production was to have been called "Cinerama South Pacific," but was changed to "Cinerama South Seas" for obvious reasons.

Belafonte bells three songs in "End of the World" for Sol Siegcl. He's writing one of 'em himself After "High School Confidential," Mamie Van Dor-en's stock will stack real high. Comes across as a sizzle sex package in a sex-hungry role. Eddie Mannex, master han-dicapper at Hollywood Park and Santa Anita, is in Rome for the start of "Ben-Hur." He'll have no trouble picking the winner of the chariot which can't get an "Official" sign until it matches the script he has with him. Most people think the action of "Ben-Hur" takes place in Rome.

Not so. It's mainly in Jerusalem. Except for the "Ben-Hur" leads, the bulk of the casting will be with British stars. Fate of U-I as a motion picture plant will be decided at the Decca Records board meeting in New York next month. marion Mcknight Learning to cook (See Connolly) family, wife and two daughters, attend an anti-H-bomb meeting.

He dreams. The bomb explodes, his family is killed and there appears a procession of British and American last war generals, and others, including a Russian who gave the order to fire by mistake. They point at Dyson, saying, "This is not our fault. It is yours." He wakes up, finds his wife and family are alive, which seemed to me a pity, has a change of heart and accompanies them to the evening anti-bomb meeting. Message unless we all follow Mr.

advice, we shall all be bombed. For half-baked propaganda, muddled thinking, and the worst-directed TV play I have yet endured, this "Doomsday for Dyson" takes the frozen biscuit. During the inevitable TV discussion afterwards, a Mrs. Castle who is, or was, a Member of Parliament of way-to-the-Left views, said that if she could, she would that very moment ring up Khrushchev on the telephone and "accept his offer" of our scrapping bombs. From to Z.

It was left to Emmanuel Shinwell, Socialist M. P. and Secretary of State for War in the Socialist Government, whom she Insisted on addressing as "Manny," to squash her. Not that the Mrs. Castles of this day and age are squasha-ble.

What I want to know, and perhaps Mrs. Castle, her pals, and the boys and girls of Ox President well may feel themselves committed also. Billboard Boosters Drag UpaNeiu One From The Milwaukee Journal NOW it's the recession that is being used as an excuse for not protecting the new interstate system highways from billboard clutter and distraction. A spokesman of the Outdoor Advertising Association told a Senate committee the other day that the purpose of billboards is to create business. Therefore, he said, "this period of crisis" is no time to clamp down on the roadside signs.

Well, the multibillion-dollar road program is just getting started. Major segments will not be completed for several years. By then, we sincerely hope, the business slump will have been ended in part, perhaps, because of spending on such projects as the interstate highway system. But if business should still be bad then, the value of an uncluttered countryside would be worth more to the Nation than the sales that billboards might produce. Excise Tax Repeal and Auto Industry From The Detroit News rpHE Automobile Manufac-turcrs Association hitherto had remained mum as the agitation for a cut in excise taxes snowballed in and out of Congress.

The talk of a cut in the auto excise was proving a deterrent to sales, even when, as in the bills filed in the Senate, the proposal was to make the cut retroactive. The auto buying public was not to be convinced that the retroactive feature would still be found in the repealing measure, when and if enacted. So the industry held aloof, refraining from adding its own authoritative voice to the hue and cry. It held aloof until a time arrived, apparently, when the tide of events flowed too strongly to be longer resisted. The agitation and its effect on sales had reached a point whence there was no way to go but ahead.

The industry now stands committed to excise tax relief and, insofar as its welfare is a factor in the economic well-being of the Nation, Congress and the Sophie Tucker brought the glitter of crashing cymbals, the shiver of trumpets, to the Cocoanut Grove first time she's ever played the Glitter-ville glitter spot Soph tore the joint apart, pouring everything but EVERYTHING out of that beaded-bag-of-tricks, from "Grizzly Bear" to "They Can't Make an Old Lady Out of Me" Tuckerism: "Jayne Mansfield you call that charm? You see the same thing on a dairy farm!" For a change, the ringsiders including Sheldon Reynolds, the guy who wrote the song-sang her theme song, "Some of These Days," while Soph applauded them. Charles Abuza, Miss Tucker's nephew, spent his last night before careening out to Korea for Uncle Sam, watching his auntie's antics. His date was Sophie's old pal from San Francisco, Dr. Margaret Chung Soph's staunch stand against the Sack Look: "The day women stop looking like women is the day they'll be no excuse for having two sexes!" of his own Ingenuity. The well-selected songs of Cole Porter, Rodgcrs and Hart, Johnny Mercer, are delivered with an emphatic, gusty and most likable style.

-f -e? i 1 ff i 1 r' MOVIES: At the party celebrating the film premiere of "South Pacific," director Joshua Logan told of the party he at-' tended when James Michener won the Pulitzer Prize for his "Tales of the South Pacific." Logan, who co-authored the Broadway adaptation, said: "I had the gall to tell Michener at that party: 'If you think the book is great, wait'll you see bow much better the play Is with one story instead of lots of little Yes, I had the gall to say it. Then, after the show opened, Michener said: You were so DRAMA Logan cur- rently is represented on Broadway with "Blue Denim," the play he directed. Chester Morris portrays the father, a man who spent 18 years in the Army but then was hurt and mustered out just before the war began. "One thing puzzles me," Morris said to Logan this week. "It's never made clear what war am I supposed to have missed, after io years?" Logan replied: "You're a good enough actor to make up any war including the Napoleonic." FINANCE Max Gordon, the veteran Broadway -showman, quoted the late producer, Arthur Tlnnlrln m-hn "If vntl wake up each morning thinking only of money and spend the rest of each day thinking only of money, you'll wind up only with money and nothing else." EMPLOYMENT NOTE: Hugh Griffith was asked how he, an obvious Welshman, hap-, pened to be chojen to play the Southern father in "Look Homeward, Angel." Griffith ex- plained: "They asked me if I could play a man from the:" deep South and I said I could.

Frankly, I thought they meant a a from the south of Wales." ACTING Richard Burton was describing the dif- ficult assignment be had in "Time Remembered," where his costars are Helen Hayes and Susan Strasberg. He said: "Every night I have to go to the Morosco to work with the first lady of the theater and the heir spparent." ford University will tell me, is, if they have their way, are they content to shelter behind the American H-bombs? Why all this wonderful trust in the word of Mr. Let him show us we can trust him. Then, by all means let us turn our swords into ploughshares. Personally, I find much to be said for "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition." JUNE HVOO Duzn't like baths (See Boyar) Cliff Robertson suffers from recurring malaria June Havoc takes showers.

Duzn't like baths Stubby Kaye's waistline is only 52 inches. And he's happy Ralph Bellamy's insomnia cure: Some of Reuben's plain cake. Reminds us of Berle's old routine about Mother Murphy's meatballs. "Take two before retiring. No more tossing, no more turning.

You iust lav there Dead!" Danny Stradella hired three limousines to take pals out to Judy Garland's opening. Executive Roulette: a business exee takes four pals out to dinner "oa the expense account." One of them is an Internal Revenue Agent. Those who've seen sneaks of "Windjammer" in the new Cin-emiracle process rate it above Cinerama in size and effectiveness. The big difference seems to be that it solves the problem of the lines between the three sections of screen I'm glad I'm not a sponsor spending a million dollars to give people time to go to the kitchen for a snack. Anita Ekberg and her Anthony Steeling the show at Morocco Polly Bergen returning from "Jamaica," where she got the news of her Emmy Award nomination for "The Helen Morgan Story." James Jones' newest novel hit the studios in mimeo form last week for bidding.

Like "Eternity," it's about Pearl Harbor but short (150 pages) Look for Diml Tiomkin to enter indie pic pro- I. time in our knowledge a film composer bridges the producer hyphen-combo. Dore Schary lingers in Palm Springs until April 1, then back to new offices in Beverly Hills on which he's signed a five-year lease. He heads for New York late April on the casting of a second and third company of "Sunrise at Campobello" one for London, the other for a U. S.

road tour. Star Ralph Bellamy wants to play London, which has already started a search for his replacement in the Broadway hit. The many friends of Lou (Heart O' Gold) Wertheimer will be glad to know the medics expect him to leave the hospital soon recouped from his slight stroke What happened to Hecht and Lancaster's grandoise plans for "The Way It's been on the boards and their production announcements since 1954. Clark Gable, a newspaper-man in "Teacher's Pet," chucks the chalk i-blackboard bit and for his next picture, United Artists' "Saddle and Ride" Danny Kaye's most frantic frustration is not being a surgeon. I'ue guy averages eight hours a week watching operations, courtesy of his many doctor pals Stewart Granger, after six months away, longdistance dictum'd his wife, Jean Simmons, as follows: "Meet me at the airport in one of those slinky chemise dresses, sweetheart!" Oldtimer Mack Sennett is back on the golf course after three weeks in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital Tab Hunter is taking lessons for his role in Warner's "Damn Yankees" The Duke of Alba's agita-tin' acainst what he considers the anti-Spanish "Naked Maja" (although the producers insist, it isn't anti-any thing!) has Ava Gardner, Tony Frauclosa and director Henry Koster lolling around in Rome with no starting date in sight for the picture and oh, the pains of those up-up-UP-rising daily expenses! XS (ryJ ZcS i Ppr JlfW ttugs Buer YOU can bet a hatful of headaches that colonialism is as dead as anything in the field museum.

Russia clipped that racket such a terrific uppercut it got floor-burns off the ceiling. Moscow adopted the Caesarian operation of whole hog or pork chops. They said of Caesar that he made a desolation and called it peace. The Hungarian massacres are Moscovian infiltration in its finest hour. Its missionary work is continuous and self funding from the cradle to the grave.

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