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Year After 6PearPs UJS. Finds that Its Army Is Smaller, but Navy Bigger and Air Arm Longer Tfc United Shafts better armed today than it was of the time of the Pearl Harbor ottock six years ago, although some authorities say owr military strength still is pitifully inadequate. In naval categories the moth-boll fleet, not shown in this chart, includes 1,722 ships which would not be ready for ection for some months if new hostilities broke out. Today's combat fleet has 1,867 ships in reserve statu that could be placed hi service in a short time. fwrp i.

i lnM v- ifiimiim i ii VJ- -p 3 a Tmajqr ''i 2 1 Marine Corps I Battleships II Carriers Cruiser (j Destroyers II Submarines II Destroyer 1 1 Navy TJ I Army I Army 1 Sunday, Dec. 7, 1947 DETROIT FREE PRESS SECTION 3 1 m-. THEY BOSS: i 1 rr' G-rvn-r The '48 Issue: "A- -A- ic it i 1 1 Scientific Aid Helps Unwed Mothers Salvage a Future from Disaster 'High Living Costs' FKEE PRESS WASHINGTON BUREAU, 1286 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C. DEAR BOSS: Republican Senators and Representatives, as well as the whole Republican National Committee, are loading up their most powerful campaign guns to meet one Issue the high cost of living.

Both parties are recognizing this now as the main sticker of the Presidential year. The GOP was stung where MISS THE unwed mother. Is a cross-section of Grosse Pointe, middle-class Detroit and "inside the Boulevard." She later may marry happily and securely. Or return to desk, shop or uniform a satisfactory worker. Or rejoin her family without scorn.

For a more tolerant public attitude has given Miss a break. The rehabilitation programs of Florence Crittenton Hospital, Providence Hospital, Woman's Hospital and the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial Hospital must be conceded another big chunk of credit. There Is a yearly average of 950 Misses who receive the friendly care of the four agencies. hav ben referred by a clergyman, a friend, a sitr, hr physician or another agency." IF SHE CANNOT HIDE away from the city in her own environment, she will be taken in at any of the four hospitals. Her case is made more confidential than a private detective's file.

A case worker gives her many hours to tell her stuttered, tortured story. Retreat from the city comes take up highly satisfactory lives it hurt in the recent Kentucky election which the Democrats won hands down by a smart variation of the 1946 Republican Congressional campaign slogan, which asked: "Had enough?" The Kentucky Democrats turned that one on their opponents by tallying Louisville grocery bills of December, 1946, and November, 1947, and asking voters if they'd "had enough" of price increases since the GOP took over control of Congress last January. The Republicans called it wholly unfair and misleading. The real basis for price increases was laid during the Roosevelt and Truman The modern far cry from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter day finds the "second timer" a highly Infrequent case, according to Miss Florence Gray, of the again." The 'four hospitals can point to such community benefits as the throttling of the black market in baby adoptions and a substantial decline in baby if i JSl Council of Social Agencies. "MOST OF THE unfortunate usually at the seventh month of pregnancy.

She helps with hospital -1 Leach unwed mothers win their way back to normal standing in their home environments," Miss Gray ex "Our programs may be relatively expensive, but what makes them so greatly worthwhile is the housekeeping, is offered individual recreation, joins in group entertainments and attends religious the juice later is a job for an expert. At the right, a bird submits to a pedicure. MRS. PAUL MURGAS uses lemon juice in a test. It determines whether the canary has been dyed.

Don't try it yourself removing plains. "The average person would be surprised to find how many devotions. A TRICK OF THE TRADE way our patients' face reality and choose the right way out," says Mrs. Margaret Butler, director of Woman's Hospital Social Service. TID3 AGENCIES OFFER prenatal housing, confinement care Lemon Juice Exposes Fake Canaries and guidance in baby planning.

administrations, going back 10 years, they insisted. But Kentucky was lost. And now that argument is being amplified, explained, charted and illustrated. It will go to the voters by the millions of pamphlets. At least 100 members of both houses of Congress as the- did last year when the Taft-Hartley Act was the Issue will be making speeches by radio.

The staff of 30 field organizers is being expanded to 100. Their job is to sit down with state, county, ward and precinct leaders and explain in ABC language why the Demo- crats are responsible, and what to do about it. Chairman Carroll Reece believes that this sort of campaign will be convincing, and that the Republican nominee, regardless of whom he might be, will be elected along with continued Republican control of both houses of Congress. Says he doubts whether Truman will carry five northern JL such as the. Nor yellow breeds BUT THE CASE WORKER has been at work.

With counsel and guidance, Miss X's emotional conflicts begin to untangle; she is led carefully back to reality. If she keeps her child, will she be able to give it constant motherly care? If she must board it out, won't, the occasional visits foster an untenable mother-child tie that is unfair to the child? Will it be better to release the) child for adoption, giving it its birthright of warm, loving care These questions answered maturely, Miss is a big step nearer a feeling of security for herself. The child's birth is met with But the focus of their attention is assisting the mothers in deciding how they shall shape their lives. Let's take Miss for example BY CURT HASELTINE Free Press Staff Writer THE GROOMING that beauty queens receive before the big contest is well known. (hospitals must have the right names but they sponsor the use of like so many of their human sisters, were strictly of the drugstore variety.

Since then all "Redhead" entries must prove their color is a matter of genetics by taking a lemon test. The lemon juice doesn't hurt the bird but the feather dye Is exposed by the first diop. wich, Yorkshire or English Goldfinch. These crossbreeds are still comparatively rare, however, and carry a lot of weight with judges. More and more began to be entered into contests.

Then one horrifying day the truth came out. Some of the feathered Less well known is that their feathered counterparts receive beautification. It isn't just the cage that's gilded. aliases in building a wall of pro tection). The first step when a canary is She is greeted with no cold when she makes known her plight to an agency.

She may getting1 ready for his role in the spotlight is a bath. Warm, pure suds remove any dust or dirt that Murgas should know after handling the birds 20 years as a dealer. IN ADDITION TO THEIR fragility, birds are excitable. One false movement can easily mean Wall StreeL It Seems a broken leg or wing, he said. states.

Democrats Have Plans, Too MEANWHILE, J. HOWARD McGRATH'S Democrats are working on a follow-up of the Kentucky idea to continue Truman in the White House and give Congress a new look. All of which, with tax reduction and the Marshall Plan, and what the Truman Cabinet members do with the inflatjon controls Congress will give them to administer and take the blame for, promise few dull moments In 1948. Because of their brittleness, techniques have been worked out calm. IF HER EXPERIENCE has been the result of a casual sex relationship, nowhere along the way have there been efforts for arrangement of a marriage.

Entrapments of this nature are discarded in social service practice. The mother, chances ere, must return to work. Is the old job a useful one? Will it give her the Is Going to the Girls to doctor birds. So effective are these methods, Murgas said, that a hapless canary who was occupying the seat of a chair when its owner sat down is alive and well. Others of acceptance of women in finance.

might dull the sheen of his coat. The soap is followed by a lemon rinse, like milady's. The feathers are then brushed smooth and dry and Dickie receives a pedicure. FROM THERE OX IN he's on his own. His length, shape, color, posture, feathers and shape of the head are all points to be considered by the judges.

If Dickie is a roller, however, the contest is judged differently. He then has three teammates and the judges cock an attentive ear to discern if Dickie and his fellows are able to hit the 17 perfect notes in the rollers' repertoire. But to get back to the groom claim that "the girls would have gotten economic security she needs Are In addition to broken bones, That Nasty Man! the environments of the old job proper and pleasant? Does she need training for a new one IMMEDIATE FAMILIES are in many instances the most bitter canaries suffer almost every disease known to mankind. THEY HAVE ASTHMA, rheumatism, arthritis, various alimentary ailments, a host of respiratory diseases and callouses and vngrown toenails. "Canaries have everything except false teeth," Murgas says.

in heaping scorn and shame. May not the case worker seek helpful cooperation by conferences with the family? NEW YORK (JF) Wall Street has not yet hung out "a "Help Wanted Female" sign, but women today have a better chance than ever before to make careers of finance. At last count there were 43 women general partners in Stock Exchange firms. At least four of them Ethel Mercereau, a limited partner in Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fen-ner Beane Muriel A. Bailey, of Belden Lucille Oldacre, of William A Fine and Ruth Hoffman, of Gamwell Co.

arrived at those topflight jobs by coming up through the ranks. THE NUMBER OF women who are registered representatives of financial firms has increased in the past six months from 177 to 210. And at least half a dozen women are investment counsels. The War, some say, accelerated the pace ing, you can take the word of there just as soon, war or no war." But with the war, women broke at least one Wall Street tradition. They appeared on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the first time, taking over as pages and quotation clerks.

IN BANKING, WOMEN employees rose nationally during the war to "not less than 50 per cent" of total personnel. A breakdown of the total covered in a recent survey by the Association of Bank Women, shows the following representation of women in top executive positions: 0wners or partners 9, chairman of the board "directors 41, presidents 117, vice presidents 23, cashiers 474, assistant cashiers 3,867 and treasurers 17. Paul Murgas, 15454 Livernois, that "bathing a canary is like handUng a bundle of toothpicks." Problems one by one meet solution. Contact with the case worker may continue as long in the post-natal period as Miss needs assistance. Post-natal medical care ends Swiss Help Judges In a canary contest aren't unnecessarily suspicious sort of people but they've learned not to take chances under certain circumstances.

FOR INSTANCE, a popular variety in canary circles these days is the color-bred "Redhead." It results from the crossbreeding of a Red Siskin with one of the BERNE, Switzerland (JP) The with a friendly, understanding goodbye. Swiss parliament has appropriated FRAGMENT OF CONVERSATION overheard between two women in the Senate elevator, at the end of debate on the $597,000,000 temporary Europe Relief Bill: "How do you suppose a person like that ever got into the Senate?" "Well, he does come from a thinly settled state!" We didn't find out whom they meant. It might apply to several gentlemen of either party. Work? Wuzzat, Mr. Taber? HERE'S WHY REP.

JOHN TABER of New York, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is so hot for continued reduction of the Federal payroll. An Investigator for Taber visited a Midwest office of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Without disclosing his identity, the sleuth sidled up to an employee and-asked him what he did. The man said. that he hadn't done anything for the last six months.

A few minutes later, the investigator asked the same question of a man in another office. He said he "really had not done much of anything" either. So the investigator, in making his deadpan report, recommended firing one of the two men for duplication of effort. 20,000,000 Swiss francs Miss returns to normal life. 000) for charity activities abroad instilled with courage and new understanding.

up to June 30. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW, JOE? Uncle Sam Will Tell You How to Do Anything hold good posture, the Children's Bureau carries you through your adolescent recreation, your first job and your, first contact with public dance halls. If you want to go into business, the Commerce Department will tell you how to establish and operate a great variety of enterprises a grocery store, service station, beauty shop, year-'round motor court, shoe repair tion, aerodynamics "and other aviation subjects are the second most popular group. They are prepared by the Civil Aeronautics Administration and some have sold more than copies each. The Government has answers for nearly all the problems you meet as you go through life.

After helping your mother teach you how to brush your teeth, sleep properly and En gel Has Neiv Angle BY CLARKE BEACH WASHINGTON (JP) Do you. want to learn how to: Judge a house? Speak aleut? Raise a baby? Cook a beaver? Run a small sawmill business? Your Government will tell you. In fact, it will tell you how to do almost anything. INSTRUCTIONS ON AN astonishing variety of subjects have been prepared by various Government agencies and are sold by the Government Printing Office (GPO) at prices generally ranging from five to 50 cents. Fish and game recipes are by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior Department.

The home economics experts there teach you how to cook beaver, raccoon and possum as well as nearly evervthins: that lives GOVERNMENT BOOK ON CHfU? -RAISING. SAYS TO ALWAYS COUNT TEN BPOfte OOiNG ANYTHING-" THE GOVERN MENT'LC TEiLXXJ HOW TO CATCH BUT THY HAVENT POME MUCH TO 8RU5H THE ANP TO THINK 1 WCOTE TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR -CA BUT AFTER THAT MICHIGAN'S ONE MAN Congressional inquisitor, Rep. Albert J. Engel, only House Republican to protest last year's tax cut which Truman vetoed, is starting anew his drive for tax reduction for poor folks instead of the rich. What Engel wants is a revival of the "householder exemption" of the twenties which lightened the burden on lower incomes.

He thinks his ideas have forced Majority Leader Charles Halleck Ind.) and Chairman Harold Knutson Minn.) of the Ways and Means Committee to alter their views. "They've been hearing from their people back home," Engel says. PAUL R. LEACH. FISH UPONhniN I MY BUSINESS shop, weekly newspaper.

These publications were produced chiefly for veterans who wanted to start small businesses. WHEN THE TDIE comes to buy a home, you can learn for 25 cents "How to Judge a House." For another 20 cents you can learn "Care and Repair of the House." There are pamphlets on financing a home, landscaping it, remodeling it and controlling termites. There are instructions on making things for the home out of castoff boxes and odd pieces of lumber. Farmers and their wives can learn almost anything they want to know about running a farm or a farmhouse. HOBBYISTS CAN get the Government to tell them about postage stamps, basic photography, fishing, leathercraft, woodworking, raising squabs or collecting insects.

The judo instructions (40 cents) were prepared for soldiers by the War Department. The other pamphlets, too, had some such specific purpose, rather than just encouraging hobbies. The biggest investment you can make in a single volume at the GPO is "The Atlas of American Agriculture" $17. For a report of the major Nuremberg trials pay $50. For the 39 volumes of Pearl Harbor hearings the price is $40.

The GPO isn't in business for fun. Last year it cleared a profit of $3,038,377. What if you didn't finish HIGH SCHOOL? Yen can study at hem In spar tim and actually get your Better Jobs Go To School Graduate Low Monthly Payment -AH Texts furnished Many Finish In 2 Years Onr Gradnates Bare Entered More Than CoLlege DIPLOMA 897 in water from trout to' blowfish, not to mention garfish, squid and conch. Babies are the problems that most people ask about. "Infant Care," written by the Children's Bureau of the Labor Department, is the GPO's all-time best seller close to four million copies at 15 cents each.

Second best seller is "Prenatal Care" for five cents more than 24 million copies. Third best is "Your Child from One to Six" for 15 cents approaching two million copies. PUBLICATIONS ON pilot training, naviga sevd rorpoN now for frke bookijct A-i'rrican School, F.P. 7 Balfour Koad. Afe Detroit 24.

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