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4 KOKOMO TRIBUNt Soturdoy, July 24, 1948 The Doctor Says: Cozy. What? THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE DDT Helpful In Conirol Of Malaria Published by Kokomo Tribute Mwnber ot Unitad Prau Association Member of Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to ibe for publication ot sll Bews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this psper and slso the local news published Herein. Entered as second cisss matter January 21. IMS. st tbs postofftee at Kokomo.

under Uie act of Coeirresa ot March s. U78. THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE. Founded 1850. THE KOKOMO DISPATCH.

Founded 1170. TRIBUNE AND DISPATCH. Founded 1830. By carrier to city ot Kokomo. par 28 cents By mall IB Howard.

Ttpton. Caas. Carroll. Clinton. Hamilton apj Grant counties.

Including ICIwood. per year payable In advance B-00 Bj mall la Indiana outside above territory, per year payable ID advnace MUM ON RABBLE ROUSERS No sooner had Henry Wallace announced his third party than the Communists had adopted it. with this malarial parasite. Indeed there was considerable fear Now the Dixiecrats of the states rights move- that returnjng servicemen might ment have picked up an equally unsavory pack. bring new dangerous kinds of And like the Wallaceites, the Dixiecrats are go- malaria back to this country and ing to have a tough time shaking their unwel- infect others.

This has not happened to an serious degree, however. Al- By EDWIX P. JORDAN, SL D. For many generations malaria baa been one of the great health problems of the world. It thrives, however, only in those places in which the mosquitoes which can carry the infection are able to thrive.

This keeps it down ia northern sections of this continent, although it has been found as far north as Canada. There are several kinds of malaria. The most serious is now- called Pacific Vivax. This type is hard to get rid of and may be carried by the common anopheles mosquito of North America. Servicemen Had it Many men in sen-ice during the last war encountered serious diffi- come attendants.

though there have been a few Their presidential candidate, Gov. J. Strom cases of imported malaria, there Thurmond of South Carolina, has tried to shoo them off. "We do not invite, nor do we need, the support of Gerald L. K.

Smith," he said, "or any other rabble rousers who use race prejudice and class hatred to inflame the emotions of our people." Governor Thurmond also asserted that the movement which he heads "is not based on racial hate nor racial prejudice." His record bears out that assertion as far as he, personally, is concerned. He' is a foe of lynchings and of poll taxes, however bitterly he may object to federal support of his opposition by law. Some of the governor's fellow Dixiecrats seem to have given the rabble rousers a different idea. Perhaps it was statements like that of Gov. Field- has ved a The effects ing Wright, Governor Thurmond's running mate, of DDT a ainst thc mos(julto at a who told the Negroes of Mississippi in a radio address that if they expected social equality with whites in restaurants and schools they had better leave the state.

Or it might have been some of the rump convention speeches that set the pack of rabble rousers yipping at the Dixiecrats' heels. Speeches like the one by former Gov. Frank M. Dixon of Alabama, who warned that passage of the civil rights proposals would force the intermingling of races and "make Southerners into a mongrel, inferior race." So the Gerald L. K.

Smiths and the rest might be forgiven for inferring from such speeches as these that the states' rights movement had at least a tinge of racial prejudice, and perhaps a trace of racial hate. At any rate, Brother Smith was at the convention, as a delegate. And it was reported that some 20 Kluxers, anti-Semites, anti-Negroes, anti-foreigners and similar ragtag and bobtail were on hand, active both on the floor and behind the scenes. The trouble is that denunciations by a party leader are not enough. Mr.

Wallace tried to reject Communist support in a yes-but sort of way. No one, however, has heard a concerted howl of protest at the Communists' support from the rank and file of the Wallace party. Similarly, we haven't heard the champions of states' rights shouting a thunderous "Amen" to Governor Thurmond's blast at the rabble rousers. The two new parties have further trouble in the vagueness of their stand. Mr.

Wallace says he is a loyal American and a capitalist. Yet he seems to favor appeasement of Russia even if it means that all of Europe is to be conquered by communism. Governor Thurmond seems to favor civil rights pn a sort of segregated basis, but only optional civil rights for the states and not a federal guarantee of those rights implicit in the Constitution. It is not hard to See then, Why the Commun- managed by the American Com- ists and the Antis might think that they had joined party in the interests of the UD With the risht outfits nn mnt.tpr Vinw foreign policy of the Soviet Union. THE TRUE LIBERAL COMMUNITY HISTORY IN THE MAKING Items Culled from the Columns of The Kokomo Tribune of.

Seventy-Five, Fifty and Twenty-Five Years Ago Kecalling People ot Earlier Generations and the Things They Were Doing. 75 Years Ago Worley Leas of the flouring mills advertises No. 1 flour for sale at $3.60 per 100 pounds, corn meal at 60 cents a bushel. The city school trustees announce the engagement of Sheridan Cox of Logansport to be superintendent of the Kokomo schools the coming year. Board members are S.

C. Moore, R. H. Ploughe and E. F.

White. 50 Years Ago Lightning struck a large barn on the Adam Stahl farm southeast of Kokomo and the resulting fire destroyed the structure which was full of hay, grain and implements. The loss is estimated at $2,500. 25 Years Ago Miss Celia Johnson has beer, appointed postmaster at Russiaville. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the grocery store of Howard Eadcs at Hemlock.

seems little likelihood of any widespread difficulty. Malaria in all its forms causes fatigue, usually some fever, and a general below- par feeling. There are several kinds of treatment which are more or less successful but just what should be used de- pends'on the type of malaria involved. One mode of attack on malaria is to destroy the mosquito. In the past mosquitoes have been attacked in their breeding places by spraying with kerosene or other poisons.

Thc extraordinary chemical DDT stages of development nre excellent. Furthermore areas which have been dusted or sprayed with DDT solution? remain deadly to the mosquito for a long time. Perhaps with the help of DDT and other measures, malaria eventually can be entirely eliminated from the world. It ought to be. Note: Dr.

Jordan is unable to answer individual questions from readers. However, each day he will answer one of the most frequently asked questions in his column. The Doctor Answers By EDWIN I 1 JORDAN, M. D. QUESTION: What can be done for a bad body odor? ANSWER: The cause of a bad body odor is not easy to discover.

It is possible that some substances such as onions or garlic should be eliminated as this will sometimes cause an odor. Certain nervous diseases can also cause excessive sweating. Washington Merry-Go-Round Russians Moving Troops Toward Boundary Beiween Czechs, Yanks By Drew Pearson William H. Hill and Mrs. Sarah E.

Leach were married, the Rev. T. Stabler performing the ceremony. After much discussion and not a little objection, the city council has passed an ordinance prohibiting swimming in the city stone quarry. Objections were made on the ground that there is no other place for many men to bathe.

Much damp wheat is being brought to market and farmers are warned more cannot be accepted. There has been a rush to thresh since the recent storms. Loca! dealers are paying $1.25 for old red wheat, $1.15 for dry new wheat. The city council has appointed Simon Stern. Matthew Murden, Thomas Jay, R.

G. Smith and C. E. Hendry as commissioners to assess benefits and damages when new streets are opened. Ora Carver, a carpenter employed on a house owned by Fred Koilmar.

fell from the second story where he was working on s. window, suffering a skull fracture and other serious injuries. Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson and Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Watkinson left Kokomo this week for New York City whence they will sail for a three months' visit in England. A Howard county teachers' normal opened this week in the hiph school building. George Miller, county superintendent, is in charge, assisted by F. F.

Hummell and E. E. Robey. Kokomo's first Dollar day brought a great crowd of shoppers to the city. A feature of the occasion was a wedding at the courthouse with a large number of valuable gifts being presented to tha couple.

Glen Cripe and Miss Nina Keim. The Rev. TV. T. Arnold performed the ceremonv.

Mrs. Sarah J. Jackman, 6S, widow of Taylor Jackman, died July 20 nt the home of her son. Richard. Frank G.

Heller, manager of tlin Victory theater, was elected dent of the Indiana chapter of Motion Picture Theater Owners of America. Little Toes Shrinking Jefferson City, Mo. Americans may have no little toes if the present trend continues, in the opinion of Dr. Frederick A. Pcllct- ier, a local chiropodist.

Pellctier says many little toes already have lost one of three bones because of the shoe styles and disuse. Washington, July dispatches from behind thc Iron Ctr- tain have increased the fear that Hussia may he ready for war now. Hitherto diplomats felt certain that the Soviet did not want war for at least two or three she could develop the A-bomb. But here are some developments which have taken place behind the Iron Curtain. The Communist-controlled government has just received orders from Moscow to empty a large number of army barracks in western Czechoslovakia in preparteion or the early arrival of large Russian troop concentrations.

It's important to remember that Czechoslovakia is adjacent to the American zone of Germany. If this report is accurate, the Red army is moving up units to face U. S. troops in the American zone. Russians have ordered thousands of bilingual signposts erected all the way from the Soviet border to the German border for the use of Red army Word that these signposts are being set up has leaked out through the Czech underground.

They "all point in the direction of Berlin and Paris. has just occupied 15 new air bases in eastern Germany, west of thc Soviet border. Some of triese air bases are staffed with the Russian version of the B-29, copied from B-29s which were forced down in Siberia during the war. has quietly summoned home for. consultation some of the most trusted diplomats in its foreign service, leaving relative sec- Joseph and Stewart Alsop Say Wallace Parley Slage-Managed By American Communisi-Party Philadelphia, July Wallace party convention has not, of course, been a convention at all.

It has been, rather, a dreary and sometimes nauseating spectacle, carefully and quite obviously stage- up with the right outfits, no matter how much the leaders of the new parties shake their fists and yell HsnrV Scat. mous capacity for self-delusion, has not some dim notion of this fact. Before the convention, Wallace was clearly disturbed by the Communist coloration of his "crusade," and even indulged in a little very THE HONORABLE COURSE Winston Churchill believes the British should look forward to the time when Germans and Germany, probably in the form of their ancient states, will take their places in the family of Europe, help rebuild what they had destroyed and help restore his wanderings, by the Europe to its proper place in the world He said- tnat timc waf on his side "There is one simple guide in times of diffi- Hc firmly bclieved that the cully and that is to do what is right and honorable. It is not only the most proper thing to do but also in most casos the safest course to take." That is a splendid principle for man or for nation. It is the one just and sound principle on which to make decisions.

There are times when the honorable course is neither kind nor easy, but it still remains the best. There are times however, when it is hard to know what is the honorable course, what is the its platform committee, cio Pres- Wise course. Such a difficulty Confronts US in re- ident Philip Murray and the other foj-m, Pressman is already probably spect to Russia. We have tried to take the honorable course toward the Germans under our care, and toward Russia, our former ally. Does Russia understand honor? For long the Germans did not.

What, Mr. Churchill, does one do then? We think we hear him answer: We do then, from day to day, the best we can. But we hold fast to honor as the basis of life. And if we follow an honorable purpose, we can look forward to its honorable consummation. cording to those who have followed international crisis deepened, and particularly after Harry Truman was nominated by thc Democrats, the non-Communist liberals and labor leaders would suddenly sec the light.

Then thc men who were once his friends and supporters would rally to his side. Nothing of the sort has, of course, happened. The CIO and the AFL non-Communist CIO leaders are have joined Wallace, nor -even Wallace himself, really has anything to do with the policy and strategy of the Wallace movement. and the Wallace "crusade," are now entirely in the hands of. a small group of astute insiders.

Of these the most influential are C. B. Baldwin, Lee Pressman and John Abt. Baldwin, Wallace's "campaign manager," is not and doubtless never has been a member of the Communist party, although he has joined numerous party fronts, conspicuously the party's legal instrument, the Civil Rights Congress. But Baldwin has not been known to step on any Communist toes.

He is a "united who believes in co-operation with the Communists. Inevitably, either unhappily as in Tugwell's case, or contentedly as in Baldwin's, a united fronter soon finds himself doing all the cooperating. Lee Pressman is in a different cataegory. A heavy-set man with a strong, sardonic face, a powerful personality and an agile mind, Pressman was until recently counsel for the CIO. Until Philip Murray fired him on the Wallace issue, he was the chief friend at court of CIO's minority Communist wing.

The real author of the Wallace plat- Wallace's only labor support derives from such men as the Electrical Workers' Julius Emspak, has re-' msn whose political leanings are wc known an such acknowledged Communists as Ben Gold of the Fur Workers and Donald Henderson of the Tobacco Workers. Wal- lace has attra cted no labor support BEE BOOM Texas bees, increasing to 50 billion population, and every one as busy as possible, are working er. And he must know" it. themselves out of jobs. The price of their sweet Wallace must know too that not product in Lone Star.State markets has dropped to ins New Dealer or Iiberal of a third of the price of last year.

Added to a 62- million-pound national holdover of honey, all this has Texas growers worried. The Department of Agriculture wants to see many more bees raised in other parts of the country. Important though the bees' honey is, it is to work with Communists, he has secondary to the insects' value as crop stimulators forced into a ludricous position. Clover yield, for example, is said to be raised ten He has said that he is has come out in his support, with the possible exception of G. Tugwell.

Tugwell himself is now re- thc most powerful single influence in the Wallace movement. He has frequently been reported a member of the Communist party and he' has not publicly denied it. Abt. former counsel of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, is a kind of cut-rate Pressman, sharing his views, his affiliations and an office at Wallace 'headquarters. There are ftther insiders, like Hannah Dorner, publicist for a number of party-line causes, and Lew Frank, Wallace's ghostwriter, who was chief whip for the pro-Communist faction in the American Veterans committee.

But Baldwin, Pressman and 'Abt are the chief manipulators of the strings which cause Wallace to do his ungainly dance. "One cannot help but wonder what is going on in the mind of ond-stringers in charge of its embassies. has gone out from Moscow for the immediate purge of all dissident and weak elements in the Communist party through Europe. This means any Communist who doesn't toe the Moscow line unflinchingly is to be ousted. This order 'reportedly has the blessing of Premier Stalin.

It is interpreted to mean that the Kremlin is gearing for a final showdown. Secretary for Air Stuart Symington and air force officers are giving serious consideration to the idea of having B-29s drop propaganda messages to the Russian people at the same time the B-29s reinforce our position in Berlin. Purpose of the idea would be to remind the Russian people that the American and Russian armies battled as comrades to win the recent that our right to remain in Berlin was part of that victory, that the American people do not want war with their former comrades-in- arms and that the propaganda fed them by the Moscow radio that we are panting for war is so much poppycock. Back of the idea also would be the fact that the 14 men in the Politburo alone can put Russia into a there is a strong neg- urge among the Russian people not to go to war. And the only way to give them that negative urge is to go over the Kremlin's head to make them understand that the American people do not want war either.

Here is the first-blush reaction of government officials to the idea of getting these peace appeals via weather balloons to the Russian people: Weather perfectly feasible to float small weather balloons from western Europe to Russia. About 7 out of 10 would get there. By gauging the amount of gas in the balloons it would be possible to fix the approximate point for their landing inside Russia. (The Japs measured the distance across the. Pacific during the war to land balloons in the Pacific northwest.) Best -launching place would be Germany or northern France.

They would drift at a speed of from 25 to 50 miles an hour once they reached the upper wind currents. Air think the idea is good. However, past experience shows that balloons released from planes in flight crash against the fuselage and break. Therefore, it's proposed that the balloons be released from the ground. CWeath- er bureau says this is feasible.) State department Unofficially and very cautiously, thinks idea might be all right.

War Assets large supply of balloons on hand but they're now sold out. Army signal corps and weather bureau have a certain number which could be borrowed and replaced later. If it is important to get friendship messages from the American people to the Russian people, then ways and means can be found for doing it. Various patriotic Americans have volunteered to print the messages free, donate candy, wrist watches, to be sent with the messages. The government has plenty of resourcefulness to put across this it wants to.

In wartime we make any and end a war which has already started. But in peacetime we count the pennies when it comes to preventing a war before it gets started. Gen. Omar Bradley, who is a four-star human being as well as a general, has a secretary named Mary Pitcairn. Mary's dad was So They Say The Marshall plan will help make France an American French Communist Leader Jacques Ducles.

Russia has developed a plane that puts practically every United States industrial area of consequence within range of a one-way, no-return mission from Soviet soil. Carl Spaatz, retired commander of the U. S. Air Force. Feet, as we know them today, are on the way out.

At the end of 10,000 years, the little toe will be completely gone. Other toes will be retarded. Shoes arc to Dr. William J. Stickel, executive secretary National Association of Chiropodists.

There is a growing tendency in America for special groups to identify their good with the national good and ask government for subsidy support or special protection rather than for laws which increase competitive S. Lyon, chief executive officer, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Arline Gwinn entertained a party of little friends at her home in honor of Elsie Ault who is visiting here from Indianapolis. The Christian Endeavor society of the Main Street Christian church held its annual election, choosing L. J.

Kirkpatrick as president and Miss Anna B. Ward, vice-president. A. A. Barnhart is here from Montreal.

Canada, to investigate gasoline motors being built by the Haynes Apperson company. He is considering the use of 16 horsepower motors to propel large plows with which to break new ground in the Dominion. Mrs. Caroline Bliss, SO. of Greentown was struck by a Clover Leaf train while walking along the track near Greentown.

She was thrown to one side and seriously but not gravely injured. Miss Dora Strode has gone from this city to Tipton to take a position as clerk in a store there. Miss Lulu Yount entertained a company of young people at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D.

G. Wilkins in honor of Miss Maude Becktel who is visiting here from Jonesboro. Miss Julia Kokomo and of Rochester, Lucilc Hawkins of Maurice M. Slayton X. were married July 19 at Winter Haven, Fla.

All records for Daily Vacation Bible schools were broken when 165 children enrolled at the Neighborhood House school. In the reorganization of Appor- son Bros. Automobile company. Don C. McCord was elected president, N.

H. VanSicklen, first vice-president and general manager and Edgar Apperson, second vice-president. An "Old Fashioned Junta Exhibition" was held nt thc New London school building by former members of the Junta society. With C. V.

Haworth as toastmaster a reminiscent program was given, contributed by Mrs. Lucy Newlin Kenworthy, John A. Morrison and others. J. A.

Norton, J. C. Yager, Lawrence Yager, Presley Yager. A. C.

Touby and Ellis Serig, Howard township farmers, cooperated in wheat harvesting and threshing this year as for three years past. Their combined total this year was 6,300 bushels. The Main Street Christian church has extended an invitation to the P.ev. M. H.

Garrard of lona, to become pastor of thc local church. Clyde E. Musselman of the Painters Decorators union has been elected presider.t of the Kokomo Trades Labor council. Dr. W.

D. Kirk has sold his dental office and equipment to DC;" John T. Cosier and will retire from practice. The office was first opened here by Dr. Kirk's father.

Dr. S. T. Kirk, in 1867. To have accepted the Soviet insistence that Berlin currency is under their sole control would have been an abandonment of our rights in Bevin, British foreign secretary.

Roy Amos, nine-year-old Kokomo boy went on an excursion to Lake Maxinkuckee. On the return trip he went to sleep on the train and was carried through Kokomo, not awakening until he neared Anderson. Kind trainmen took him in charge and sent him back to Kokomo on the midnight train. J. O.

"Heinie" Young has announced plans to erect a new automobile salesroom at 220 West Superior street. Of course it was a disappointment, but I am probably better off personally. I have the best job in the world in the Robert A. Taft (R) of Ohio, after losing GOP nomination. I have no friends in Germany and all my friends in America have deserted Germans are not Kuhn, former German Bund leader in U.

S. Miss Ruth Ruddell entertained with a party at her home in compliment to her houseguest. Miss Lynn Pepper of Frankfort, Ky. Crude Motion Pictures The zoetrope, a toy revolving cylinder with slits through which a series of pictures were seen in apparent motion, was invented 30 years before the motion picture. Miss Gladys Daugherty of Kokomo and Harry A.

Swaynie of Noblesville were married July 22 at the Main Street M. E. church, the Rev. Frank Morris officiating. August C.

Cosand. 65, Taylor township farmer, died suddenly, suffering a stroke of apoplexy while he was operating a binder. A meeting was held at the Masonic temple at which plans wera approved for the organization here of a chapter of the Order of De- Molay. United States must have a "work-or-fight" law immediately upon the occurrence of any future national emergency or war. No one is entitled to a free P.

Patterson, former secretary of war. Next January there will be the finest houseeleaning in Washington ever was. Nobody will have to ask money from Congress to find Communists on the payroll. There won't be any more appointed after January Thomas E. Dewey of New York.

Peter Edson Says: Politics or No, People Could Gain Through Special Session In rearming by deficit financing the American people could spend themselves into of Defense Forrcstal, opposing further spending. Sports Note of 1845 Boston copy of the Boston Almanac for 1845, dug up by William Harrington, contained the following sports note: "Horn Pond House at Woburn, having got a. bad reputation, it being the resort of low people, Mr. Sheriff Choate pounced upon them and arrested seven gamblers, who had 23 fighting cocks, valued at $1,500." Honeymoon Interrupted Fort Worth, Tex. man missed S-41 from his purse, saw a.

shadowy figure on the roof next door and called, police. A 17-year- old youth was jailed. Parents of the embarrassed youth got him out with an explanation: he was not a burglar: he was on the roof playing hide-and-seek with his bride. Raccoons Taken for Bide Richmond, Va. west, young raccoon, says the state game commission.

More than 500 "sur- Henry Wallace, former Vice-Presi- thre straight weeks in Walter Reed hospital. He would like to except for his loyalty to Army-navy brasshats are lathered chairman of the board of the Wa- plus" raccoons are to be moved from bash railroad. Before Bradley went eastern Virginia, where they hava to West Point he worked for tho Wabash cents an hour actor Gene Raymond is learning first hand about the air corps' new supersonic plane. He will star in a picture featuring faster-than-sound Secretary of State Marshall has spent part of become numerous, to the southwestern section of the state whera they are relatively scarce. Barbs I favo Marsha But dent of the United States, as this macabre spectacle draws to a close.

It has not even been entertaining, simply because the well-oiled party machine allowed for no real surprises. The "demonstrations" have had that quality of loudly spuri- By HAL COCHKAX Once there was a tourist who said plished and for which the Demo- Washington, July of the coming special session of Congress alone may decide whether Harry S. Truman or Thomas E. Dewey will be president for the next four years. As governor of New York, Dewey could perhaps be pardoned for keeping his neck in and expressing no opinion on tough questions of domestic policy.

But, in his new role as GOP candidate for the presidency, it is he who is on the spot as well as the Republican Congress. This will give the voters just the opportunity they need to compare the two candidates in action, and not just on campaign promises. The special session may also backfire to make Harry S. Truman and the Democrats the targets instead of the trigger men. Take the Civil Rights issue.

The Republican platform calls for all the reforms President Truman has asked. Republican majorities in Congress plus liberal Northern Democrats should be able to slam through the whole program. The danger comes through the possibility of a filibuster from about a dozen Southern states' rights senators, including w. Lee O'Daniel of Texas, John L. McClellan of Arkansas, Richard B.

Russell of Georgia, John H. Overton of Louisiana, James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina, all Democrats. Ways to Bust Filibuster There are only two ways to break a filibuster.

First is to pass a rule limiting debate. If the senators are sincere about wanting civil rights and wanting to go home, they will vote this through. The alternative is to keep the Senate in continuous session until the filibusterers wear themselves out. So, at the worst, there is the possibility of a two weeks' session in which nothing would be accom- up over the prospect of having Ton Dewey in the White House a ex-brass- become his chief of staff- times when bees are nresent IVTanv fruit ti-aor. HU aukjr ut luumj- ui nrillr.n* -i a 1010 the titular chair- ous enthusiasm which prevails in Hugh Drum.

General Drum Will not bear Successfully Without the aid Of bees, man of the platform committee, eastern Europe. Meanwhile, the P. ass ov General Marshall; fie was going to start out at 5 a. m. the next did.

Which would you rather do, stay for the entire double header or be married? fpu i- nie i Texas bee growers may look askance the Platform roundly condemns the public opinion polls show Wallace "na'Iy retired, has military for parking. at the bees' antics, Women are in luck Since the COS- plan im Perialistic. Tugwell has steadily losing ground, while his eT t0 Governor Dewey since r- th iJ Pr0d UCtl the art of th bees portant" spite all this, there is little doubt snoula nelp tne supply Of cold cream, lipstick and The P' ain fact is that neither that Wallace, now wholly cut off rouge whose base is beeswax. So the hard working Tugwell nor the decorative impor- from reality by the little group Texas bees maV Worry the hive hnr tViei? tations from Hollywood and New which surrounds him, will carry on xew oees may worry uie nive owners, but their Tork nor the fringe groups of fuz-- his dreary "crusade" to its bitter, non-Communists who end. Every "No Parking" place should LU Leahy's place in the next tration, a lot of brasshats would almost the Demo cratic and Republican More illuminated highways would help to cut the traffic toll, says a judge.

And fewer illuminated drivers! no sign, of lor a visit returning to Washington Money in circulation at the start of June amounted to an average of $189.94 per American. It's nice to read anyway. crats would get the blame. Senator Johnston's idea of having Congress vote to adjourn as soon as it convenes would definitely show that the congressmen were afraid to face the issues of unfinished business on which the people have a. right to demand constructive action.

Adjournment of Congress before anything is accomplished would be an excellent cue for the voters to throw all the rascals out and elect a new bunch in the hope it would do better. Of course, it was politics that prompted President Truman to call Congress back. But, if the American people gala something put ot this session in the way of housing or anti-inflation legislation, what difference does it make if the motive was sordid politics? The program on housing 1 be fairly obvious. If it is nothing more than the Taft-Wagner-EI- lender bill, it will be enough. This bill has already passed the Senate but will have to be fought through the House again.

Inflation Fight Complex The problem on inflationary controls is more complex. If the president asks for the unpassed seven points of his original 10-point program, the outlook is doubtful. Desirable as rolled-back prices might be, it is unlikely that the country- is in any frame of mind to accept subsidies or regimentation by rationing controls. There is, however, the possibility of a new anti-inflation program which would call for freezing price and wage ceilings at present levels. This program is now being considered and it makes some sense.

Tha arguments for it run something like this: The country has now been through three rounds of wage increases. Coal, steel, auto, railroad and electrical goods industries have had various price increases which more than offset the wage increases because dividend payments are now higher than when this ratrace began. Inflation has thus far not hurt anyone particularly, since income has kept ahead of expense for every part of the economy, and there is little unemployment. The real danger of inflation would come through fourth or subsequent rounds of wage and price rises. Such climbing up the inflationary sp'iral could only lead to a boom that would make eventual downward adjustment difficult without a crash.

The sensible thing to do is attempt to hold the line on wages and prices at present levels, and not let them go higher. The mechanics of such legislation will be difficult to work out. administer and enforce. Curbs on credit and imposition of the Aiken bill farm price support program, now, instead of 1950, might have to be part of the plan, for they are the keys to the cost of living. More "Tea Parties" The famous Boston Tea Party was not the only uprising of kind.

In addition, the American colonists held five other "tea parties" protesting the Tea Act of 1773, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica..

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