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18 THE EVENING NEWS, Harrisburg, Wednesday, April 3, 1946 New York CAVALCADE "These Days" BRASS AND BULL By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY (Copyright. 1946. King Feature Syndicate. Inc.) By LOUIS SOBOL King Feature! Syndicate, Inc.

EW YORK, April 3. Well, As lone as soldiers complain THE PATRIOT COMPANY. 11 North Market Square. Harrisburg, Pa. Established February 15.

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against the Articles of War, they the grades must be certain that he are within their rights and they of gents are going to toss me the Entered as second class matter at Harrisburg. P. Under the Act of March 3. 1879 is not translateing envy into a have the support of all citizens. scowl and drag the mickeys off When soldiers call attention to WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1946 the dusty shelves.

gripe; he must be sure that he is not permitting personal pride to courts-martial in which line offi Briefly, I've decided smut in our ENFORCEMENT FAILURES affect his judgment regarding the defense of his Country. He may cers require law officers to give excessive punishment to soldiers ELLENBOGEN of Pittsburgh, in a charge to the be certain that he is a better man night club and on the stage isn't funny. The current dribble or torrent of gags dealing with gents' rooms and anatomical defi Allegheny County Grand Jury, severely criticized the State beyond the requirements of law, reason or justice, they are fully within their rights and citizens than his captain, but his personal opinion of himself is not sufficiently objective to be convincing 'Liquor Control Board for failure to enforce laws prohibiting should back them to the end. ciencies or prodigalities is not my idea of hilarious entertainment. DOES BETTER JlXffiissff 1 Ji i I HE DID For Jm3mM fe- sales of liquor to minors and to persons already drunk.

to others. I suppose many ser But when envy, jealousy, annoy A large number of young men have come before him, the ance at discipline are evident in THERE is a tendency among geants would have preferred to be generals, but such preferences go the complaints, then the motives judge said, charged with serious crimes, and in most instances aumc ui uux vuiiiia iu uip ueep into cesspools for their dubious about as far in the Army as in of the complainants must be scru drinking was directly responsible. civilian life. material although in all fairness tinized and analyzed and the cm The Army and Navy, if they are zens must be certain that nothing I must admit the lads and gals "Though charged by law with the duty of enforcing the liquor laws, the Board has failed to do so adequately," said to be efficient in time of war and is being done to destroy the Na of the filth crew are encouraged peace, have to offer incentives to tional defense. by the yaks of the paying cus the judge.

One of the main complaints tomers. Nevertheless, I think the The Court's criticism is justified. Although the Liquor seems to be that oiiicers nave competent men so that those men are willing to serve in responsible positions involving not only high administrative skills but personal privileges which the soldiers lack up and coming lunny men are making a serious mistake by spreading sewage so recklessly. Board may reply that enforcement is often handicapped by reversal of Board decisions by Pennsylvania judges, including By privilege 13 meant that offr cers wear better uniforms, live in Consider the outstanding mem some in Pittsburgh, the Board cannot evade responsibility better quarters, sometimes eat bet' risk. This is as important in peace as in war or the military establishment of the Nation will bog down and be unready and unfit ter food, travel in better equip what Judge ETlenbogen calls "open and notorious sales ment, are provided with club of liquor to minors and persons already intoxicated." should the time come when it is again needed.

houses, etc. The theory of the complainant seems to be that the of The Board has failed, for example, to reduce the number Washington Evening Star The pay, comparable for men of ficer is only a soldier who happens of licensed places in the State, although the law and condi furnishing of texts of documents equal qualification in private in to have a different job. and other information to our own dustry, is small. In war, pomp, Nothing could be more false bers of the comedy fraternity, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, Danny Thomas, Joe E. Lewis, Jack Benny, George Jessel, Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle.

Not that you can give them all a clean bill of health but on the whole, I think you will find and they should know that their greatest laughs have not been inspired by dirty material but by simon-pure wit or jokes. EWIS in his earlier days was an offender but of late he has tions demand a reduction. There are still as many licensed taprooms and clubs and other drinking places as when the WASHINGTON SLANT OF DAVID LAWRENCE embassies and legations abroad. glamour, heroics are compensatory; The officer is a soldier who by in peace much of this is lacking. some specific achievement reached But he is jeopardizing the entire program by his controversy with Legislature passed the quota law.

Military and naval officers are higher authority and therefore 3. If propaganda machine is a curious WASHINGTON, April Time and again the Board passes up opportunities to the two press associations. greater reward as in any other constantly being weaned away by private industry because of their William Benton, assistant Sec THE experience of the press as-j i xL- i 1 skills and experience. The Army walk of life. It is true that creating, with excessive speed, the citizens' army during the war, too retary of State, had tried to find a way to disqualify himself as the sequel to the Nazi operations in foreign lands.

'T'HERE is pending before Congress an appropriation bill bring the number down to what the quota law prescribes. 'Violations sufficient to command revocation of licenses are and proved, yet the guilty liquor sellers are let off suspensions. The Board's enforcement officers are continually making and Navy cannot offer them equal compensation in money, but it does offer them social advantages, pres head of the information service of many were made officers who by in dealing with foreign countries extends over many years and they know from past controversies how important it is for them not to al the Department of State, he could temperament and education were which would give funds to the De have chosen no better means of unsuited for that particular respon tige of position, privileges of rank which some men find compensatory accomplishing that objective than sibility, and most of the complaints partment of state to carry on worldwide propaganda. When it is argued that propaganda ought not raids and arrests, and piling up charges at Board hearings low their products to be mingled with Government propaganda. The for poor pay.

by making the speech he delivered are probably against such indi been getting away, more and more, from the mudpile and scoring with winning satires. Yessiree this lovable buffoon has discarded his cerulean material as obsolete and unnecessary. Milton Berle, now. achieving his greatest triumph as an entertainer, employs only a modicum of censorable quips although he still inclines too heavily I recall Gen. George Marshall It is a shame that the Board's zeal has not matched that of its to be used by the Government of specious argument is made that in New York City 'ast Sunday before the Newspaperwomen's Club viduals, although the tendency among adrenaloid sergeants is to the United States, scripts of radio they sell their material to other when he was colonel of the '15th Infantry in Tientsin, China.

That agents, and that enforcement efforts too frequently end with and over a Nation-wide radio net generalize from the particular. broadcasts or articles to be dis governments which send out their the raids. was a very dull job for a man of work. news. But these other govern Generally' speaking, officer opportunities were open to practi his talents.

He had to have some Mr. Benton, having been thwarted Governor Martin, who now and then calls for strict seminated are usually submitted to the critic, who is asked to find a single piece of improper phrase thing to look forward to or he in a minor part of his plan to dis cally all soldiers and sailors, I hey enforcement and more severe penalties, cannot escape a share could not have stuck it out. Cer could have joined the OCS, the tribute information to foreign ology. But the fact of the matter ments know that the integrity of the Associated Press and the United Press is unblemished, because both of these organizations have steadfastly refused to allow tainlv, it was not money. In the is that the innocuous words issued V-12, or other courses; they could have applied for various examin trading companies, Americans with of the responsibility for the failure which the Pittsburgh judge criticizes.

The Governor appoints the Liquor Board, and in recent weeks he has shown he can fire an appointee countries, now attacks the motives of the Associated Press America's largest news-gathering agency and accuses the directors of that by press associations or newspapers take on an entirely different signi smaller jobs and lesser responsi on a swish routine with which he could dispense very easily. He's much too clever a chap to have to resort to the dated aping of the horticultural tribe. "VVER at the 18 Club, Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom are at their hilarious best, whether they the Government of the United States, either directly or indirectly, ations, if they were qualitied. Thousands of Army and Navy officers were the graduates of such ficance when issued by the Govern ment of the United States. who clashes with Administration policy.

It did not take organization of being "against the to influence them in their presen Government," just because they him long to replace a highway secretary. The whole world is suspicious of tation of the news. bilities were making fortunes in salaries and bonuses. The General's compensation at that time had to be in other values. It will seriously imperil our National defense if we forget that.

propaganda, and when the great schools. Thousands of others tried and failed. They lacked the mental and physical qualifications. Some boys were mentally qualified, but Liquor laws of the State will not be enforced without There is no reason why the De don't want to sell their news service to be used by our Government government of the United States partment of State shoujd not issue propaganda stations abroad, goes into the propaganda business strong and positive action. Judge Ellenbogen is right.

The Liquor Board has failed. texts of its own or statements on liberals everywhere must recognize realize it or not, when they indulge in their more purified horseplay and Noal Coward colloquys but when they decide they must be earthy, they succeed only in being dirty. One of their fellow con MR. DENTON ridicules the idea xL-x xi its own authority. But if it attempts, through subterfuge, to put that the clock is being turned back.

mat, a press association lattes POLITICAL GLEANINGS By CHARLES G. MILLER rURING the war, the OWI car out information with editorial ex- money from the Government, it pressions of its own and interlace could be corrupted. He says that ried on propaganda and ex A SIGNIFICANT thing about the this with news that it gets from pressed editorial opinions of its sidered by many Republicans as an opening chapter of the presidential the Associated Press and United Press could prove their disinterest- spirators is a veteran harlequin, Roy Sedley. Roy could be as comical a babe as you'd want to hear news agencies, it would be putting: own. much oi it wouic not De toi Republican anti-organization contest of 1948.

Its speakers have edness and incorruptibility in other You can tell what prolongs a strike when each side, commenting on the settlement, childishly boasts: "We licked 'em." A sucker is a person who thinks Congress will pass any law that will really spoil the super-government of Petrillo and other union bosses. So our paratroopers wouldn't jump to entertain a Mexican minister. Well, why should men be asked to risk serious injury to entertain visitors out a service for which Congress erated in peacetime, and yet some campaign of John U. Shroyer, who and laugh with and over but he's ought not to appropriate one cent. of the very statements issued by pointed out that the Republican party at one time was not content is running for the nomination for Reproduction Rights Reserved the OWI during the war which to elect sheriffs and control county Governor, is that, while he has succumbed to the temptation, too, to wrest a laugh any kind of a laugh by the corny device of re had a bearing on domestic politics ways.

But what Mr. Benton does not know is that he is dealing with a condition and not a theory. Whenever news other than its own announcements is disseminated by a government, such news is viewed In the gizzard of a chicken she rapped the Grundy-Owlett-Taylor were the subject of criticism, and was dressing for dinner, a woman ferring to psychopathological ec- the usual denial was made that no control of the GOP in Pennsylvania he has not included Joseph N. Pew, in Osceola, found 21 pieces of commissions but was intent on carrying the State for the party's candidate for President, something the GOP has not done in Pennsylvania since 1932. ntention to influenoe political entricities and bathroom vagaries.

Jokes of this type were daring hardware, including a tire valve with suspicion abroad. in his summary of what is wrong with the party. cap, a shingle nail, four screws thought in this Country was in the minds of the writers of the scripts Somehow or another, there are three curtain fasteners, a tack, two It isn't shyness that makes her look away as you talk. Somebody has told her she has a beautiful profile. The human mind has limits.

Our imaginations have been strained so much, we can read that or articles. But tne eiiect was rivets and a battery terminal. and exciting in the days when we kids wrote forbidden words in chalk on the sidewalks but it seems to me, most of us have grown up and I think an honest poll of there just the same. CHROYER'S three-point program for the revitalization of the party the State wa set forth in his Honesdale speech. It includes: Mr.

Benton has a big job and a good many Americans who, while denying vehemently that the Nazis did anything worthwhile, are in-i advertently imitating the Nazis.j The effort here to establish a bigl Greatest loss of life in any one catastrophe in 1S45 was in the tor there are many parts of his pro Whether this might mean that the Pew influence is back of the independent fight or merely that the New Guard is hopeful that kind treatment of the Pew faction may bring results at the May 21 primary is not known. Pew at one time favored the nado that swept through parts of gram that are notable, such as the public opinion will reveal that the average citizen would prefer the millions are starving to death and feel no shock or interest. Why is Russia behind a wall The people must not learn that their Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas "The Republican party must be humanized and the dead hand of during April, resulting in the deaths of 119 persons. comedy clean enough so that he doesn't have to blush for the nice ideal system denies them comforts while the "persecuted workers in capitalist countries enjoy luxuries. Grundyism must be removed from What Do You Know? THE KNOWLEDGE TEST eirl at his side who may be his its policies and legislation.

"Dictator politics in the Repub candidacy of Lieutenant Governor John C. Bell, the original New Guard choice for the gubernator daughter, sweetheart or wife. Please, Mr. Truman, follow your hunches. You go wrong only In maneuvers conducted at Camp Dix, N.

Army troops, transported in trucks, covered 200 miles in eight days, a distahce that would require 20 days by foot. By SABINA H. CONNOLLY Reg. S. Pat OH.

lican party must be replaced by rank-and-file control of its policies ial nomination, but the Grundy COMEONE at this point will poke a finger at my vulnerable spot and scream: "Why, Sobol, I heard you laugh your fool head off at Owlett-Taylor combination was op when you tollow the advice of those around you. Dust bowl: Land that is dry for want of the water that ran off in flash floods because man destroyed the grass and trees that once held rains in storage. and management Score yourself on each question: a. Dallas. b.

Temple. c. San Antonio. One for each of the first five "The Republican party must be posed to Bell. Grundy and Pew have been the Republican party's angels in time of financial stress questions and five for the last financed on a broader basis and must no longer be subject to the that story about the man who was doing his Christmas shopping.

Bet 6. If you know the zodiac, you question. The maile prairie chicken courts his mate by erecting his feather headdress, inflating orange-colored balloons on his neck, and dancing to the tune of his booming drums. and long before Pew entered the charge that it is bought and paid political arena former Senator Joseph R. Grundy was the man who for by a few selfish interests." THE ONCE OVER Movies at the Race Course By H.

I. PHILLIPS Released by the Associated Newspapers Score 9-10 Brilliant. Score 7- 8 Bright. Score 4- 6 Average. Score 0- 3 Dull.

1. The most famous Paris land Pew may agree with some of these suggestions, but he has never ter take out the glass panes before you throw those rocks at us." How right he would be! I'm a sucker for a smoking room gag but only when it's pulled among a few of us. That same story told from a public night club floor would chill me give me saw the campaigns were properly financed. G. Mason Owlett now is president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, which Aunt Het By ROBERT QUILLEN fought to make any of them realities.

From the time he launched forth as a State leade.r in the Lan- mark is: can match these columns easily: a. Libra. b. c. Capricornus.

d. Aquarius. e. Pisces. v.

The Archer, w. The Fishes, x. The Water-bearer, y. The Goat, z. The Balance.

Answers to Today's Test had long been headed by Grundy. don campaign just ten years ago a. Montmartre. b. Versailles.

c. Eiffel Tower. CTATE CHAIRMAN M. HAR- to the present he has opposed the nomination of liberal candidates Every inch of a horse race at New York tracks this season will be photographed by movie cameras. Machines will be stationed all around the track and a complete picture of each race made available for screening seven minutes after the contest.

The idea is to have photographic proof of any foul play by man or beast. Uppermost in the mind of any jockey contemplating skullduggery will be the thought "The camera doesn't lie, worse luck!" Nothing a jockey can do in a race can now be kept from the photographic record. It will now be possible to determine the exact the most uncomfortable feeling. It just doesn't belong there. 2.

A constellation is made up of: for the presidential nomination. At the Willkie convention in 1940 he Let's clean up, fellow workers a. Planets. b. Stars.

c. Satellites. and be really funny! missed the bandwagon. Grundy then took a seat on the sidelines and 3. One of these is a bird of The chief food of the fisher is b.

a. watched the convention activities VEY TAYLOR is the particular target of Shroyer and the latter is said to be, counting upon Pew dislike of the chairman, to keep Taylor from being reelected as State chairman next June by the new State committee to be selected in May. However, scrutiny of the candidates for State committee members, indicates there are more Grundy Republicans on the list than Pew men and women. prey: rabbit meat, which the animal pro point at which ne turned honest, or vice-versa. of Pew and is said to have got a cures either by running the rabbits a.

Condor. b. Toucan. c. (The mission San Antonio de Valero was in a grove lot of satisfaction in his faiiure to hold the Pennsylvania delegates to Personally, we welcome the "play oy screening of horse nr.

xi. down, or by stalking them cat-fashion. Even the bristling porcu- hb line uie movies as wen as tne races, cut we win ngnt the race track photographers the minute they announce double features. gether by urging the nomination of Governor James as a means of pine is not sate irom mis mu killer, which seems to be immune to the ill effects of porcupine quills. helping Taft and blocking Willkie.

Newsreels? Yes. Flashed between races they would calm the c. Grosbeak. 4. The most famous ruined city Jn Italy is: a.

Catania. b. Pompeii. c. Palermo.

5. What city in Texas is named 3 trees). 6. a. The Balance, b.

The Archer. The- Goat. d. The Water-bearer. e.

The Fishes. Copyright, 1946. King Feature Syndicate. Inc. Much of the area of Holland is 15 feet below sea level.

For this Anyway, the selection of a State chairman is usually left to the State candidates nominated, the State Committee ratifying their choice. There have been excep reason, the windmills must be kept after the Alamo? The United States Army Air Corps assisted in development of a new fuel system for gasoline engines requiring no carburetor and affording a 10 per cent, increase in economy and a 12 per cent, gain in power. going almost continuously to prevent the land from flooding. "It's too bad Jennie learned to read at her age. Now she reads the medicine ads; and whatever ailment they describe, she thinks she's got it." Publisher's Syndicate tions as in the case of Governor! J.

D. Jouison-Craufurd, baird of Piunchot who used to set up his Braehead, pays annually to the British crown a basin and an ewer of JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST Protected by The Ginrge Matthew Adams Service CHARM PERPETUAL State committee after his nomina tion. clean water as rent for his lands. 'THE regular Republican slate Modern astronomical discovery is accomplished almost entirely by photography.

The photographic plate shows a clear glass, covered has the endorsement of all of Not far away the tulips wait; The clustered hyacinths stand here ard there with tiny black the State leaders, it has been said, and thev include Pew. How active Are crocuses and daffodils. How good it is some things re main Offi Uearsdao he will be in the primary fight is specks, which are stars, planets, or other ceiestian objects. Some new discoveries are made on plates which were made years ago. a matter of speculation among the Beyond man's cruel lust for hi HamsJmrgO New Guard members.

On the surface there is nothing to indicate nearby With gaily-tinted, scented freight To match the color of the sky. Once more the robin hops about And to his fair companion trills. Now, from the cold earth peeping out imuriaien loser oi a photo finish and delay the mad rush to the mutuels for the next heat. If this movie idea is carried to a logical conclusion the race tracks may yet give away free dishes. After losing eight straight races a racing addict will get some satisfaction if he can return home with a handsome china water pitcher, a sugar bowl or six soup plates.

Automobile associations and educators are now starting a program in high school to teach young people how to drive an auto and particularly how to do so with a decent respect for others. "A main objective will be the development of a sportsmanlike attitude toward fellow drivers," it is announced. We hope no instructor' will get into battle with another motorist en route to and from the classroom, i The idea is good, but there will be no change In the situation on American streets until somebody educates our police chiefs, traffic heads and cops as a whole so that they will give the pedestrian an occasional break. Plays for UNO Delegates Mr. Gromyko.

"Are You With It?" Hussein Ala. "I Like It Here." i Secretary Byrnes. "The Magnificent Yankee." 1 Sure-fire hit parade number: Irving Berlin's "They Say It's Wonderful." Jt "Ticker tape ain't spaghetti." Mr. LaGuardia. No, but we have had a lot of spaghetti lately that tasted like ticker tape.

As Private Purkey observed quite some1 time tgo, "It is okay for the Russian bear to walk like a man, but there is no reason why he should walk like three men." Carrots were seldom eaten in the United States before 1920, but by that Pew will not go along with the entire State ticket. power, And every year return again Unchanging both singing bird and flower 1 Major Nesbitt, of Oakdale, super 1941, 18,000,000 bushels a year were The New Guard campaign is con- produced. intendent of the State Arsenal, was making a canvass for re-election as candidate of the Quay faction of of Cottage Hill, were about to move to a home on North Front street. Miss Myrtle Millhouse, 23, who was severely burned at her home, 1207 Apple street, in February, died By MATT CCRZON SHADDO Allegheny County. Lieutenant Rich of the burns.

ardson was directing affairs at the State Arsenal during Major Nes- Walter White, son of T. Kirk White, of this city, was appointed bitt's absence. J. Henry Crosman, secretary- chief of police by Mayor-Elect Brant, of York. He was formerly chief of the York Fire Department.

treasurer of the Pennsylvania Telephone Company, leased one of the PJ Miss Ida Bower, night matron at Pennsylvania Steel Company double cottages on Cottage Hill, Steel- Harrisburg station, was assigned to ton. day duty to take the place of Mrs. Mr. John H. Weiss issued invi Emma Gardner, who had left for Philadelphia to take a position in tations to a tea to be given at her residence in honor of Mrs.

L. Web ster Fox, of Philadelphia. the Moyamensing prison. Mrs. Charles Sparver was appointed night matron.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard T. Martin,.