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13il herein are aio SEWS 41. HI SINES. T4 A Ml IU Collier Arcade. For Mjrra, Florida. the new fuel that takes the plac of gasoline, 10 l2c per gallon, George F.

Ireland Bedroom suites $18 and up at Cox and Reaves' Chairs 45c and up. officials will support straight party ticket Recall campaign ends with two mass meetings Work on Tamiami Trail streets begins cash grocery opens on Hendry street Mrs. John K. Woolslair chaperones Christian Endeavor on hayride to Beach Citizens protest handbills thrown away on streets Curtis M. Davison listens to English station on homemade radio Henry Ford tells plans for Dearborn museum village to house Edison Laboratory.

Ads In today's mad traffic whirl of sudden stops, zipping starts and breathless speeds, use General Tires Five-room furnished house on Nelson Street $25 per month Hart-Schaffner and Marx light flannel suits, $19.45 at Hietman Clothing Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin in "The Man Who Laughs" at the Arcade 50 YEARS AGO Front Page Navy to buy five destroyers at $233,000 each M. S. Gonzalez and Robert Jeffcott are putting stiles around the courthouse yard in place of gates which were always broken down San-ibel residents complain Spanish-American war has done considerable damage by causing hen eggs to rise in price from 20c to 25c per dozen The "boys" got in a good humor Thursday, made up a purse of 75e, hired Staten Johnson to pull a wagon un and down Main Street and Jack Barber to ride in said wagon and play his fiddle: each one acted his part well and there was no end to the amusement derived from the sideshow. Ads Nails $2.25 a keg Pie's Foot Brand, blood and bone fertili-, zer, $17 a ton Lyon and Go's "pick leaf" smoking tobacco does af? not make every mouth as sweet as a rose but comes mighty nigh Confide in a woman, women may write about their troubles to Mrs. Lydia E.

Pinkham and thus avoid the questions of a male physician. 10 YEARS AGO Front page Heitman estate attacks city's assessment of $251,000 on properties including Heitman-, Evans building, Bradford Hotel, and Sears, Bank of Fort Myers and Earnhart buildings; claims annual taxes cut net profits on all properties to $15,000 President Sidney Davis says Chamber of Commerce good-will tour of neighboring towns is success Heit-mans ask two-thirds cut in city taxes Pat LeMoyne's "fishpond" chance game stuck for $305 when players find colors show winning tickets Rotarians say county needs good roads Tice residents favor Townsend plan in poll Michigan destroys early Florida grapefruit as inedible Tampa begins one-year voluntary bolita boycott John M. Dean estate total found only $19,000 French man Maginot line as Hitler talks with Czechs. Society Mrs. Delia Annleyard has returned from Asheville R.

V. Lee, Guy Strayhorn and Pat LeMoyne entertain at Eastern Star annual dinner Mrs. M. M. Til-lis is hack from a visit to her sister in New York.

Ads Tuna Flakes, two cans for 25c Local eggs 35c per dozen Avocados, two for 9c rolls 5c a dozen Underwood Sardines and mustard 7c deviled ham 15c 81 99 sheets fi9c; pillow cases 18c at Sears Shrimo and pompano 25c per pound at. Kelley's Tropical Market first anniversary, roses to every customer, five pounds of sugar free with every $5 order; Churngold margarine 19c Gulf Fishing Dock at San Carlos, captains Johnny Mickle, Travis Cowart and Fred Cordezer, guide boats $10 per dav. Sports Baseball pitchers blame sore arms on new "ra'ohit" ball Pirates lead League E. Remington Nichols wins Angler's Club Tarpon tourney with 128 pounder. major banks is trying to check a $40,000 discrepancy in the estate of a famous man who died recently Ludwig Lewisohn wrote the final 10,000 words of his Goethe biography last Saturday in near-100 temperature, so that he'd complete the manuscript on Goethe's P'Wh birthday.

ROMANCE: Last week Fran-chot Tone and his wife, Jean Wallace, were divorced in California. Two days later they were doing love-scenes for their new picture, "Jigsaw" After the final embrace before the cameras, Tone told his ex-wife: "Somehow your performance is more realistic than it's ever been." MEETING: The decree by the Soviet government this week, giving citizens the right to build and own their own homes, fulfills a wish by Maxim Litvinoff. the former Soviet Ambassador to Washington. At the White House Litvinoff once discussed with Mr. Roosevelt the differences between the two countries.

"Now it's a 75 -25 difference," he said. "Your country had slavery 100 years ago. Now it has Social Security, National Labor Boards, and curbs on banking and brokerage practices. In my country a citizen can own some personal property and soon he'll be able to own his own home. It's 75-25 now; but you'll come down a little and we'll "go up a little and soon I hope e'll be the same.

UNION: Twelve years ago Robert Byrne, head of the Costume Designers Union, approached Count Oleg Cassini and asked him if he planned to design costumes and, in that case, if he would join. "Me join a union?" gasped Count Cassini, now the husband of Gene Tierney. "Never." The Costume Designers Union has just added three new members Salvador Dali, Schiaparelli and Oleg Cassini. MEMORY: George Balanchine, the ballet-director, was at a Hollywood party where a Question Game was played. One of the questions asked was "How many men are on the U.

S. Supreme Court?" A player answered "Seven." and Balanchine corrected him: "Nine. There are nine men on the Supreme Court. I rememher it very well" "You've seen the Supreme Court in session?" he was asked "Oh, no," explained Balanchine. "I remember it from the Supreme Court scene in the Kaufman Hart musical, 'I'd Rather Be Right." MYSTERY: In Hollywood the story is told of a producer of mystery-thrillers who was dissatisfied with the scripts submitted by his many writers.

He assembled them all and complained: "Here you are, 20 high-salaried mystery writers, and not one of you can supply one simple mystery to interest, me. It's a shame." Then he turned and' left, and the writers sat staring at the butcher knife imbedded in his back. SERVICE: When Bernard Baruch was appointed by the President to represent this country at the UN's Atomic Energy Commission, he went to the state department for a conference with one of the top officials. The official started to brief Mr. Baruch, and began: "This will be the policy you must follow" "If that is so, then get someone else," replied Mr.

Baruch. "Even at Western Union I'd be considered too old to be a messenger boy." FOOD: Joe E. Lewis, the nightclub comic, took show-girl Nevada Smith to the Stork Club for dinner. They ordered steak. Miss Smith left some of the steak and told the waiter to wrap it so that she could take it home for her dog "Oh.

don't do that now," said Lewis. "We're going to have supper later" "I know that." replied Miss Smith, "but my dog doesn't happen to like Chinese food." REMINDER: George Jessel, the movie producer, saw a list of the pictures to be made at the 20th Century-Fox studios. He sent a note to Darryl F. Zanuck: "Moviemakers always should remember that this is the audience for whom we make the pictures." He enclosed a photo he had taken from the stage when he worked there last a photo of children, weary housewives and idling salesmen, who comprised the 2 pm audience at Loew's State. LUCK: Eddie Dowling, the producer-actor, was discussing the topsy-turvy fortunes of the Theater.

He told of the St. James Theater which he operated for 16 years. Then, when he no longer could hold on, he surrendered his interests in it. Two days later the Shuberts rented it to the Theater Guild for a musical which seemed shaky in its out-of-town tryout. and made millions out of it out of the six vear run of "Oklahoma." HUNT: Oscar Ewing, the Federal Security Administrator, and his aide, John Thurston, took a hunting trip in Maine last week.

On Thursday they flew their amphibian to a lake, and decided to walk back to their camp. The guide took the wrong trail and they were lost, without fnod, for two days Ewing finally evolved a system: Each member of the party headed in a different direction from the temporary camp. If after an hour, no lake was in view, they were to return ti camp. One. of the men chopped his way to a clearing, found the lake and returned to rescue the others.

CHATTER: CBS has succeeded in raiding one of NBC's oldest and foremost radio shows Ben Bodne, president of the Tournament of Champions which broke Mike Jacobs' prizefight monopoly will have a personal announcement to make in a few days Elmor Davis is being mentioned as Donald M. Nelson's successor in the Hollywood job Artie. Shaw is about to resume his concert-tour career One of the 30 YEARS AGO Front Page The genial countenance of Fred Lanier of Moore Haven was seen on our streets this morning Viennese citizens are paying $375 to $500 for eating horses H. C. Case, now at Hog Island shipyard, thanks Accelerator Club for handsome ring.

Ads Jello 10c a package, sugar 9 l2c per pound at Barden Brothers Butter 55c per pound, Bulk Rio coffee 20c a pound Rub-No-More washing powder 6c box. against Frank Hazelton of Tallahassee, another of the two "doubtfuls" who has at last declared for Truman. He was the only candidate not endorsed by the Wright committee who managed to win in the first primary. There were, however, other factors that entered into this contest. In counties like Lee and Collier where the voting was strictly on the issue, Hazelton trailed.

He lost Lee by 955 to 2.079 for Clarence Guire, his Wright slate opponent and in Collier the vote was Guire 556, Hazelton 90. However, in state totals Hazelton won by a margin of votes compared to a 40,000 majority for the Dixiecrat-sponsored Atkinson. After the primary, four of those on the list with Atkinson Helen Hunt West, John 0. Jackson. W.

L. Coats and A. E. Adamson, the latter nominated without opposition immediately confirmed their campaign pledge not to vote for Truman in the electoral college. Atkinson did not join them though he sat in with them in a conference at Tallahassee and was reported sympathetic to the states rights ticket.

Finally, however, he joined with his fellow Tallahasseean, Hazelton, in a statement saving they would recognize Truman as the party nominee and vote for him if chosen as electors. Their decision makes the split four and four. Of the other two on the Truman side, Louis Anderson, a declared Truman candidate won in a run-off because his name began with and no campaign was waged to show where he stood except in a few counties, like Lee where he lost by 1,000 votes and in Collier where he ran nearly 500 behind. The fourth Trumanite is Owen Abell of W. Palm Beach, a candidate elected without opposition who kept his stand a deep secret until just recently.

This even split on the ballot satisfies neither side and may influence the legislature into passing a bill that will put the names of both Truman and Thurmond on the ballot and letting voters take their choice. That would surely hand the state to Dewey but it has the virtue of giving rank and file democrats a chance to show unmistakably that they reject the Philadelphia convention and all its nefarious works in favor of the South's ticket of Thurmond and Wright. With teamsters, seamen and a lot of others out on strike, looks like tomorrow will be No Labor Day. Henry Wallace says that many people urged' him to make another tour of the South. They're just egging you on, Henry.

The senate spy probers want all communists and fellow travelers kicked out of federal jobs. This should relieve the Washington house shortage. Because of the cigarette shortage, British women have taken up pipe smoking. Another male tobacco habit is safe until there's a chewing gum shortage. THE ELECTORS LINE UP In finally coming out for Truman, one of the two formerly "doubtful" democratic candidates for presidential elector, Clyde W.

Atkinson of Tallahassee, leaves himself open to the charge of being elected under false pretense. While there appears to be no formal record of his pledged fealty to the Dixiecrat cause, Atkinson was found to be sufficiently-satisfactory to be endorsed by the organization which sponsored the Wright delegates and he was put on the "Solid South" list which was published in this and other papers and widely circulated throughout the state. During the course of the campaign he did not protest this support or give any indication that it was not in line with his views. As a result he was nominated along with four other electors who had the same support. Without that endorsement it is almost certain that he would not have won.

In Lee County the vote for Atkinson was 2,388 to 748 for his opponent, W. F. Wilkinson. As neither man was known here the only explanation of the lop-sided count is that the voters understood Atkinson was against Truman, which is the way they marked their ballot right down the line. It.

was the same way all over the state. In every county Atkinson ran right along with the Wright delegates and won by almost 2 to 1 over his opponent. The same case cannot be made out Looking It Over 60 YEARS AGO FrontPage Jacksonville reports 110 cases of yellow fever; 17 deaths New hotel and six houses built at Naples; 90 cottages also to he added to hotel Read- er says Fort Myers gossips make the Christian religion a farce, society a cesspool of slander, and fraternal feeling a damnable cloak to stab the innocent victim of their loathesome friendship Sanihel Island is again open to homesteaders. Ads New p-oods, low prices, no accounts at H. A.

Parker's new store, Miss Verdier in charge of millinery The Florida Agriculturist for parties interested in ag- ricultnre, horticulture, sericulture, apiculture, floriculture and viticulture; subscription price $2, single copies free. 40 YEARS AGO Front Page A political conglomerate consisting of socialists, republicans, reformed democrats and one little prohibitionist met at Edward Parkinson's Alva packing house to launch an independent ticket and recommended Watts Hall for county commission you fail to pay up your subscription and your paper is stopped, don't blame us, we warned you Evetybody should urge the building of a new schoolhouse A tarpon taken out of the Caloosa-hatchee weighing less than 140 pounds is hardly counted. Ads Chase and Sanborn's coffee 5 pounds $1 Engine naptha, 20 YEA ItS AGO Front Pace Despite disagreement on Al Smith, state democratic Man About Manhattan Boyle Tells One Smoke 'em, Gals Unique Apartment in Manhattan BY JOHN McCLAIN Pull Up a Chair Pick Right Safe fo Kill Yovr Wile Entertainment in Country Isn't Quite Perfect BY PAUL GALLICO exhibit the slight shrinkage my friend noticed. The weather in Cava hears no resemblance to that in New York city. The heat of the sun can never get through and so it is apt to be relatively comfortable on the hottest day.

But if the heat spell continues, the premises will eventually assume the temperature of the city. And thus it will remain for two or three days after the BY NEAL O'HARA Should women smoke pipes? One man's opinion is a loud yes! A patriotic British schoolgirl raised the issue by starting a campaign to get the ladies of her troubled isle to take up pipe smoking in order to help relieve Britain's cigarette shortage. There is much to recommend this idea in America as well as where a pack of coffin nails now in Shakespeare's homeland, costs about 75 cents. But why limit gallant womanhood at all? Must freeborn American and British women be restricted merely to a social drag on a fag or a public puff on the pipe that soothes? Is there no Carrie Chapman Catt to restore to the convention-bound female sex of today the equal rights they once enjoyed with men in the whole ide realm of nicotine? which is often. A dog's life is much more unworried and less complex than that of most human beings.

Despite the uncertainties of these jittery clays, the top Miami Beach night spots are already signing their headline floor show talent for the coming winter and offering weekly salaries from to $15,000 to such entertainers as Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle, the Ritz Brothers and Hildegarde Country editor speaking: "These are the kind of days we'll be wishing for when we have the kind of davs we're wishing for tiow." In re the recent Red spy disclosures, it may hearten Governor Dewey to recall that the blunt slogan, "Throw out the rascals!" once helped win the Presidency for Gro-ver Cleveland. And Mr. Dewey has already made a similar promise of "a thorough house-cleaning of the Washington government." An independent survey shows that in the Cleveland area 78 per cent more margarine is being sold than six months ago; that 70 per cent of its families now buy margarine and that the per family consumption of its exceeds butter. One of the disappointing phases of this nation's merchandising has been the fizzling of the frozen foods industry, which had been expected to forge ahead to a smacK success. Fact is.

1946 was its peak vear and it has since dwindled. And of 250 frozen food producers who sold to the retail trade last year, nnlv 110 are in business today When Ralph Edwards brings his "Truth or Consequences" program back in the fall, the going may be tougher for his listenershin ratings, due to the inroads of other huge giveaway shows that are cluttering the air waves this summer, without any letup (and many without any sponsors). The saying that persons have more Juck than they're entitled to when tipsy is borne out by this item in the Lawrence (Mass.) Tribune: "An elderly woman had cause for rejoicing Wednesday noon when her black leather purse containing S1R40, which she lost while doing her sopping Tuesday, was returned to her." (But we still don't know whether this is an instance of an honest bartender or a typographical error.) A Chi-cae'oan admitted to police he had beaten his wife into unconsciousness in their Chicago flat, then when vhp revived drove her to Wis This is in no sense a complaint since I know I'm fortunate to have any apartment these days, especially one located smack dah in the middle of Manhattan, convenient to practically everything. But I think mine is slightly on the unique side, if my landlord will pardon the expression. My landlord named it "La Cava," and so it is ground floor rear, living room, bedroom, kitchen, bath, in an old building surrounded by skyscrapers, virtually a cave chiseled in the brick and granite canyons of the city.

No light ever penetrates the bedroom. You wake up and there is not the slightest hint as to whether it's 4 am or 4 pm. Not even street noises, which might offer some clew, can get through to this inner fastness. Occasionally a cat squawks in the area way to the rear, but that is not infallible proof it's nighttime. We.

have cats here lhat squawl at 4 pm also. The bedroom is black, but the living room is gray. During the hours of daylight a sickly off-white light filters down between the surrounding towers and casts its pattern on a section of the rug near the fireplace. At certain seasons of the year, for about twenty minutes in the morning, a thin ray of sun sneaks in. But this is rare and only has the effect of hurting the eyes of the dweller.

The other day a friend told me he thought my eyes were getting smaller, I was able to explain this very readily. It is a biologic fact, I that organs of the body not used will finally, through the generations, diminish and lisan-pear. Thus fish dw-elling in subterranean lakes have been discovered to have no eyes. I am convinced that residents of La Cava, after several hundred generations would suffer the same fate. Of course I do get out into the riav-light occasionally, so mine only rest of the surroundings are cool, since no breeze can come in to bring relief.

My link with the outside world, my only adviser on what to wear, whether it may rain or not, and kindred subjects which most people settle by looking out the window, is Italian, the maid who appears at noon every day to make the bed. She will say, entering; the stifling living room, "Sure is cool out today." Other times, when La Cava is dank and comfortable she will report, that the streets are sizzling and I'd better wear a thin suit. Only yesterday morning I awoke in the black bedroom and opened one eye enough to read the lime on the luminous dial of my wrist watch. It said 10:30. (Of course, it didn't actually say it; hut those were the numerals the hands seamed to indicate.) I had an appointment for 10:45 that morning far across town, and so I dressed in a frenzy, noticing that I was not feeling very sprightly for a fellow who had carefully gone ti bed at midnight the evening before and slept more than ten hours without, interruption.

Rushing out into the street I was alarmed by the wan light and the lack of traffic. Then I took a good look at my watch and discovered what was the matter. It was ow o'clock. When I awoke I had read what w-as actually ten -mi n-utes-to-six as ten-thirty. But Hon't get me wrong.

I love La Cava! Today's essay is prepared not in any spirit of malice, or with intent to nip the hands that have heen feeding me, hut rather in the nature of a tribute to the inventiveness of the various hostesses and hosts who have heen entertaining the Missus and myself for weekends in the country during the past summer. I am referring to the variety of noises they have heen able to introduce in, around and about the house and in the vicinity of the guest room so as to assure that sleep will be not too prolonged in the morning. We are, of course, all familiar with the gambit of true hospitality which bids the hostess tell you as she guides you to the bedchamber when day is done, ''Now sleep as long as you like in the morning. Everybody gets up when be wants to. Breakfast is served at any time.

This is Liberty Hall." But any guest worth his salt knows like-vise that down in the kitchen in the morning will be waiting a grim, frozen-faced crew watching the clock. It has been on their minds for a long time to give notice anyway, and if that pair up in the Blue Room pound their ears beyond nine o'clock, that will serve for as good an excuse as any. One climbs into the bay all set for a good, long, refreshing sleep in the country, but deep down one knows very well it isn't going to happen. What remains then is a mild interest and curiosity as to just how reveille is going to be sounded. Of all the guest-rousing alarm clocks 1 have encountered, I think I must give the palm to the hostess who takes the precaution to keen a couple of dogs on the premises, particularly when they are permitted to sleep in the house.

This works like a charm. It never fails. For promptly at 7:30 of a Sunday morning when cook arrives in the kitchen to do her preliminary puttering, the first thing she does is let the dogs out. Never yet in all history has there been a pooch who failed to green Aurora with a gladsome yip. Released from confinement, Fido and Towser go reeling about the lawn celebrating vocally.

You wake up. What is so good about dogs is the time bomb element. You look at your watch, sec that the hour is ungodly and roll over again. At eight, the milkman comes. Fido and Towser are committed not to like the milkman and wor themselves up into an enjoyable froth yelling imprecations at him.

You wake up again. By this time yuu know that anything is likely to set them off again, the appearance of the gardener, a canine pal from across the road dropping in to visit, a leaf falling from a tree. You give up and arise. Downstairs your hostess who has been ex-ptcting you for some time, greets you with a look of surprise that Duse might envy and says, "Up so early? Why I wasn't expecting you for hours. I hope the does didn't disturbe you." You say, "Oh, no.

Didn't even bear them. Just slept enough. Wonderful sleep." You avoid looking one another in the eye during this exchange of lies. Second place must go to a special case. I include it because, of its originality and effectiveness.

Our entertainers engaged the insect-men to come and spray the surrounding foliage with DDT. The hour set for this massacre was 6:30 in the morning. Promptly at that time, the men arrived, anchored their gasoline-engine-driven pump beneath our window, started her up with a series of violent explosions and let Vr lip. They conversed about topics of the day while their spray roared like Niagara. We all had a nice early breakfast THAT day.

No smart hostess will plan the location of the guest room anywhere hut overlooking the drive where the tradesmen arrive in the morning. It serves a two-fold purpose. When the cook enters into an altercation with the grocer's boy it gives her a chance to let off steam and infallibly arouses the guests. A small child egged or to play fire engine in the hall outside the door will also work wonders. So did a hostess wl'io at eight A.

suddenly decided to shift all the furniture in the next room and change it about. Cook can do a pretty good job herself of rousing the household, particularly if the kitchen is strategically placed as it should be to permit the sounds of violently running water, the banging of pots and pans and principally the voice of Cook herself singing the songs and laments of her native land to rise to the upper floor. An early departure for church or Sunday school will also work wonders, especially if the hostess is careful to tramp on the starter of the car without switching on the ignition for a while. Nothing is calculated to perpetrate as perfect murder on sleep as the "Whirr-nrr-rrrr-rrrr" of the recalcitrant self-starter, for not only does it awaken, but it at once enirages one's attention. Will the darned thing catch and start, or won't it? And by that time, you're up.

Yon will probably have had some adventures in week-end awakening of your own. These are just a few which have evoked my own fervent admit at ion. So They Say I am speaking of snuff taking cigar smoking, and good old-fashioned plug cut tobacco chewing all now vanished arts. But in the fine heyday of beauty the splendrous ladies of Europe's courts were admired by their beruffled dandies for the dainty skill with which they stuffed snuff up their nostrils amid pretty "kerchoos!" Many a pioneer mother in the settling of the American West forgot her troubles by sucking on a corncob pipe, sometimes known as the "Missouri meerschaum." And many a debutante today has in her family album the nic-ture of a grandmother in old lace who chawed cut plus while she worked over the washboard. Cigar smokincr is still common among the sturdy women of Denmark, which also has a higher rate of literacy than the United States.

It is nonular among the brown-skinned beauties of Burma, who also have the habit of chewing the bet" nut. This nut exhudes a reddish brown juice and is something of a problem to the police. When thev come to a freshly stained sidewalk they are never sure whether a murder was committed there or merely two Burmese mothers paused to chew and chat. funny Business vm iiuii uwi 'AU1. am iMi I I 1 -VV consin and killed her there.

The Wisconsin prosecutor contends the prisoner made up the story to escape the electric chair in Illinois and be sure of no more than life imprisonment in Wisconsin, which has no death penalty. Today's favorite gag: "See here, Richard," said the rich but homely young woman, "you wouldn't by any chance be marrying me for my money, would you?" And Richard replied frankly, "Not if there was any other way to get it." If you think those home permanent wave kits are something new. be advised that a home-wave set was first marketed in this country 15 years ago in 1033. at the depth of the Great Depression. But still it didn't catch on.

Thoughts while shaving: 1. One receives many types of letters in this colunming business, but tops of them all was a recent missive from some New York screwball squawking at our "pro-Soviet attitude" in this space. It went from our hands to the wastehaket in a quick double-play 2. For years we've heard ever so many persons state that John Marshall was the nation's first Chief Justice. Well, he was a truly great Chief Justice, but the fourth, not our fir-t.

The first wits John Hay .1. We always feel like an ostrich, but continue doing it Inning out the broadcast when it's giving the pl.y-by-play account of the hostile teams at hat against the home club we're pulling for. We wish to listen only to our favorites at ha! and save oufelf front stomach ulcers if enemy hats start booming. But, darn it. you can't do that with football broadcasts, when a fumble at time is likely to change the trend of the game 1.

There's the oft repeated saying that "he leads a dog's life." Well, what's so tough about a dog's life in this land? Despite the high cost of Big business and a controlled congress are responsible for zooming prices. Phlip Murray, president, CIO. Chances for world peace are excellent despite the Berlin situation. President Truman. It's too late now to prevent some degree of depression.

We're certainly going to have a bust. As to when. I can't say. You've got to stop the thing before it's happened. You can only moderate it now.

Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve Board. It me warn you that if in the measurable future we don't find some way of eliminating these wars, our grandchildren are going to find this world a most unhappy place in which to live. Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower. The danger is that a party once in power will degenerate as the democratic party has degenerated. The danger is that it will grow fat in office that it will forg't the fundamentals by which a party remains strong and the count) remains free. Gov. Thomas Dewey.

Settlement of the Palestine issue advanced by Count Bernadotte takes the very heart out of Israel independence. Mis proposals undoubtedly reflect British influence. Rep. Emanuel Celler (D) of New York. at It is the nvst disgraceful thing in this country that the teachers are not adequately paid something must be done about it.

There are conditions in nearly all our public schools where a teacher has so many pupils under her care she doesn't have time to learn all their names. President Truman. Some of America's most talented women have enioyed the fraerance of a Havana ch'ar such "Poker Alice," the frontier's Viret fareo deaVr, and Amv Lowell, poetess and sister of a Harvard president. Last year a society lady added to the festive opening of the Metropolitan opera by graciously nuffinT a clear, and a lot of front nates thereby. Regrettably, she failed to revive this robust fernine tradition.

The National Whirligig human to Wage 'Street to Street' fight for Victory BY RAY TlCKLIi BRAWL Editors may have missed it, but a New York reporter who accompanied President Truman on his recent voyage, and who is extremely close to the White House, was the only correspondent to reveal the kind of rough-and-tumble campaign the chief executive intends to watre for reelection. While not exactly new, in view of Mr. Truman's manner on his western trip and in his speech before the Philadelphia convention, the revelation is interesting. This reporter, after an interview with tht president, said that the latter planned to enter almost every state in the union, including the once Solid South and border states, and wage a "street-to-street fight." Ami the principal thesis will be that the recent rcpub- liian congress was responsible for all oiiri domestic oes. It is to be a hi aw l.

EMOTION ALTheie will also be a spec lanilar appeal to every minority group iu the country, a well as to labor and the fanners, with repeated assertions that they will be hi-lory's "wntst ingrates" if they do not, vote the democratic ticket. It will probably he as palpable an appeal to the emotional, mass vote us the United States bus witnessed or experienced since Bryan's "Cross of Gobi" days, and Roosevelt's "We have nothing to fear hut fear" inaugural motif. It is going to be a violent, rabble-rousing and nation-splitting fight. Ah. women were really women in those grand old days.

Let us start womankind back toward the brave times. them first the freedom of the pine. If they smoke one with a red nlastic stem, it won't show the lipstick marks that give gray hairs of anguish to the man whose wife or sweetheart now borrows his cigarettes. Once we get the ladies back on pipes, we ran lead them a puff at a time back to cigars, and perhaps even to (hewing tobacco. It's no worse than bubble (um in technicolor.

'The groceries are so expensive I wear part of them food, must household doggies have ample to eat, receive plenty of kindly attention and sleep long and timiquil hours whenever thev wish before we eat them!.