Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1949 — Page 14

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The Indianapolis Times | TTA SORIFFEHOWARD NEWSPAPER <@e

ROY W, HOWARD

wa MR] LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

WORLD TRADE. : By Charles. Licey |

Deep Cuts in |

Tariffs Seen

Hoosier Forum

"1 do not agree with a word that you sey, but |

" President Business Manager wil defend fo the death your right to say. B." Be F . PAGE 14 Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1949 U.S. Schedule May Be re v . mtbr’ gute 2s. Ind Lowest in 50 Years | ‘Taxes and Time Confusing Auto Ve a Foband AR" Post pape Pog a : : ! By James J. Cullings, 107 8. Capitol Ave. Bis wi Howard Newssaper Allance. NEA Bere: WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—-The Administra ; : Of Sale: ana Audit Bureau of Cireulations tion's new Senate victory on the foreign trade | I was one of those Hoosiers who did not be- J Price In | agreements program promised today to clear | come a common law violator by disobeying the = ¥ nir En dof ia ina. BZ Eat | the ny for lowest tariffs this country has had | law on Central Standard Time, and after about ons A SHING o rata aay bo in years. i ? » d ar daily 8 her nonth A se he The likelihood is that the State Department 1 8000 miles of travel, I am again on Central Auto prices Telephone RI ley 5551 | soon will announce a third round of tariff- | Standard Time officially. 2 Jause gales web ; | cutting negotiations to be ‘held in 1950. Ad- | Also I suffered much from nuisance taxes ; n Give Lioht and the Peonla Will Find Their Own Way | ministration people view this prospect as im- | such as the federal transportation tax of 15 British-made gc . . | portant because, in opening U. 8, markets to per cent and the various sales taxes of differ- paid for them a . a greater inflow of overseas goods, it permits ent states. When I left Indianapolis my watch Pp Sheriff Force Inade vate them to earn the dollars they need to stay was on Central Standard Time which caused Getting rebates q | afloat economically, This was one on the key me to be an hour slow .by Central fast time. turers. =u 8 i ' i i _ | points discussed In the recent U. S8.-British Going to Denver, Colo, as we passed through lothing STUDY of the Sheriff office's operation in Marion Coun | “eriala® talks. : Kansas, we were advised to set our watches on English produc ty indicates this branch of law enforcement here has The tariff-cutting under the reciprocal trade Mountain Time. That caused my watch to be fall and early v agreements program, first launched by ex- an hour faster than their time, Then in a few hand-—paid for

been unable to keep up with the expanding population of

suburban areas.

Sheriff Cunningham onplaiig that his department is far short of equipment and men necessary to patrol all

areas effectively.

Secretary of State Cordell Hull, was carried on, | one country at a time, until the Geneva conference of 1947.' But there 23 nations met to reduce Import duties contributing to holding down trade all over the world. More recently the U. 8. met with 10 additional countries at Annecy, France, to negotiate further decreases.

hours we arrived in Denver, and our first ‘sales tax. We remained on Mountain Time until reaching the border line of California but we continued to have the nuisance taxes all the way into San Francisco, Los Angeles and all the cities of California. As we arrived in Oregon,

Same is true w ftems as Blu Doulton and Si Cheaper Briti expected to sh places until nex which will be

This is. not surprising in view of figures showing most few weeks. : ‘oy : y i found the nuisance tax had been discontinof Indianapolis’ growth in the last few years has been con- | Joined by 30 Nations ol in that state. Now going back to a trip Moot” Sut Is

centrated in the “rural” areas which actually have become a, part of the Indianapolis metropolitan district.

Whole new “cities” have grown up in the County.

YET, the Sheriff's office is still being operated on about

THE Annecy agreements probably will be announced soon by President Truman. But even before this announcement, tentative plans are in motion for the new negotiations presumably to be joined in by the 30-odd nations which have participated in the previous talks. The fact that the Administration was able

up Pike's Peak in Colorado, the governmerit took its amusement tax and the state of Colorado took its cut also, and we went through the same program in a trip out to Catalina Island. We were living on Pacific, Standard Time which made my watch on Central Standard Time two hours fast. After suffering ‘several

in recent montt four-months-to-| of credit, Thi Scotch importe: to pay for fmpo prices immedi: prices are lowe!

i 1 3 | to get an unimpaired extension of its tariffthe same basis as it was 50 years ago when Marion County [+ pol ruthoriy last week, over determined weeks of California sales tax, we Yi tn Importers ar was mostly farm lands. The budgets for operation of the | Republican opposition in the Senate. gives it | Bae in Orga. RE el Nya Pagific fin. Britaln on . d : wash herto-lacki fidenc t ' : are..gus office have been increased from time to time but it still is & ™ ReHsJacking Soilence ie is i Thee Daylight Saving Time which caused my watch | prices will be ra including many adherents | now to be only ope hour faster than their time. valuation.

not able to perform with effectiveness the duties of a metropolitan police force on an antiquated Sheriff's office opera-

tion, Traffic accidents have increased due partly to

tack of

sufficient patrol cars and enforcement officers and safety

publican Congress, of the old high-tariff protectionist philosophy, was in power. The Annecy meeting came when a difficult battle for extension of the reciprocal trade program was ahead. Now the grant of authority is clear for two

But here the sales tax really becomes a nuisance because every business house loads you with metal checks. Now leaving Seattle city limits we again go on. Pacific Standard Time and my watel,is again two hours faster than their time, but I still have the nuisance tax

Devaluation; i on Scotch, woul per bottle off by distiller; ik 45 cents-a-bott]

. years. The urgency of tariff-cutting in Britain's | liquor stores. planning on a much larger scile than the department can | case has been emphasized. But the steps in the to contend with. : . handle. process are slow and even ner urgency it ow British Aut i | may be more than a year fore the third- 8. import It means that as Indianapolis continues to grow out | round cuts could become effective. ‘Congress Is Hamstrung' hi ale or into all the rural areas of the County, a one-unit metropoli- | Chance to Be Heard By O. B. Lewis, Brownsburg n, New

tan law enforcement agency should be considered for better

THE first step would be to publicize widely

|" ‘Sen. Horher Capehart is an amusing person but probably he expects us to take him seriously,

lative results commensurate with our needs and

dicts British au streets will incre

service to all residents of the County at lower cost. The | among U. 8. industries the commodities on-| QUR TOWN . . By Arion Scherrer After all, he is & memebr of a very august body He cut prices 2 over-lapping operation of the Sheriff's office and City Police | Which new tariff cuts are to be pro sed. These —the-Congress of the United States. diately on ever) industries would be given opportunity to be.’ ’ , hand. -Standarc ; is becoming more costly every year, ter, de- Apparently the voters accepted Mr. Truman's 7 - NE heard or to file briefs in opposition. After, de nin: = QF. ’s. irst. Aovi e. : was dropped fro Steet ec ma, he ReRL AE Wp o L I cover demuaton-of Abe 80th Congr NOW. ME. 1:1... amger- trom ” to call the nations into a meeting whith pFob- IN 1906, on a day lig , I-{a 2 Trfimph from $ > y between the ‘the axa location” of the new playhouse. Aq | rtainly don’t get legis p! The Pound Socks Its Level ably wodld run several months—Geneva took | gan prancisco earthquake and the murder of is worse, -Maybe 59, We o¢ 3 2 New York /

EVALUATION of the British pound became inevitable the moment it began to sell at cut rates on the inter-

national market, as it did months ago. The rest world had devalued the pound, and Britain had to

of the follow.

Under the old official rate of $4.03, British goods were priced out of the American market—which is one of the

reasons for Britain's present dollar shortage. -The new rate of $2.80 announced by Sir Stafford

Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, more accurately re-

flects the true value of British currency.

Cripps,

The announcement should give a lift to British busi-

ness, since many trading transactions have been

held in

abeyance because of rumors of impending. official devaluation. But this act of itself will not solve Britain's financial

six months, Annecy five, The tariff-cutting authority granted the othes. day permits the administration to trim import duties to one-half of what they were in 1945." Many already have been cut that much, or "Elose to it. But tariffs are still high on many items it's still about 40 per cent, for example, weolens and worsteds ‘on which the British depend substantially for dollar earnings. To some Republican opponents of tariff reductions, the State Department is playing a giveaway game -the U’ concedes almost everything and gets little 8 return. ‘But the department denies this. It insists that trade barriers are lowered only through very tough horse-trading.

Free List AT Geneva, according to. the department, the U. 8. agreed to bind on its free list—no tariffs whatever goods imported in the amount

Stanford White, when it looked as if the world

was heading straight for hell, a dapper young

man dressed in the height of fashion blew into

Indianapolis and registéyed at Hotel English. His signature, when deciphered, spelled Chas. Sutherland. After a shave and a shoeshine, Charlie spent the rest of the day sizing up Indianapolis as a place in which to do business, In the course of his wanderings, he spied a vacant storeroom on the north side of Washington St., just half a block west of Joe Schaub’s much-frequented and famous “Fan Saloon” which at that time occupied the corner of Delaware St. The more Charlie watched the parade of men beating a path to Joe's door the better he liked the location. He leased the vacant

so it came to pass that Charlie Sutherland

christened his theater the “Bijou,” secure in the belief that sooner or later the natives would

what happened. Had Mr. Sutherland been a copy cat and ‘| ‘followed the trend of the times, he would have called his theater a “Nickelodeon” as the New Yorkers did. But Charlie wasn’t that kind of "an entrepreneur. He invested everything he did with a touch of his own, to such an extent, indeed, that it left one wondering whether he

approved of anything that came out of ‘the t

East. Whatever the reason, it remains a historical fact that Charlie: Sutherland gave In-

dianapolis its first nickelodeon without calling |

it that.

Always 5 Cents TO CONVEY the idea that he was running a nickel theater, Charlie had the painters design a second sign, free of all Greek derivatives,

pronounce the word “By Jou.” Which is exactly

costs. The 81st Congress has been somewhat better, but its work is hamstrung by a combination of Southern and Northern reactionaries. Republican tactics consist in slowing down L the legislative 'work by making stupid small ? talk, ,and the’ Senate follows such old-fashioned * rules’ that the leader must accept those. tactics. Mr. Capehart is a prize performer when it comes to making inane remarks, so he deserves much | credit for the poor showing made by this _ Congress.

Every Hoosier "should read an article in a current magazine, entitled “Who Are the Nation’s Best and Worst Senators?” . It is based on a survey of the reporters and commentators who have an opportunity to see the Senators as | they really are. Sen. Capehart tied with Byrd of Virginia for ninth worst Senator. Sen. Capehart | ‘was described as “a jukebox record stuck in the | groove of ‘Long, Long Ago'.”

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maintaining sta “until situation

* China Dealers in fi gay there has bi age. some still orders. Many -s: had no effect lowering of pric move the Briti dealers said th reduction in pr ready on hand. A few said would, be hur losses. Said Wi official of larg porting firm: doubtedly will g take a kick in | .

problem. Increased production at less cost, a reduced gov- | of about $1 billion a year in 10. J agreed BE RE Ae OE inch road iow Open, AIWeYe'S Conte an |= "here 1s an election In 1950, and & Sr. Canis . ernmental overhead, and some adjustment of Britain's $14 » SAID SHAN ow Ap RUN lined the entrance walls with mirrors. On the return for the nickel, Charlie presented pictures | hart wishes to return to Congress, he will have i Clothing 1 ¥ north wall he hung a curtain made of what of prize fighters in action, horse races and, per- | to. produce something better than his story on : ost dealers | billion obligation to members of the stérling blog are other new taryt- outa. on. commodities. which. ran_to looked like & big whites miislin bed sheét:--On.. haps best of all, the New York Fire Department | the 81st Congress. The *fivore fisted Sen, ; profict the low

essential gbjectives, and less easily attainable.

THE cheaper pound should mean cheaper British goods, where prices are permitted to accompany the pound down to _its new figure. - This will mean more sales of British goods in the American market. On some commodities, like Scotch whisky, the pound price may be upped to maintain the

"$800 million % year th imports. 4 In return, the U. 8. was granted reductions on goods it exported to the tune of $500 million a year. It obtained a billion-a-year “bindings” on free lists or in low-tariff brackets of other countries. Cuts made at Annecy on some 400 commodities will _be announced. The tariff now is far below the high Smoot-Hawley levels, and probably about at the level of the old Under-

the south stde, immediately over-the entrance he built an elevated platform which was so private and secluded that it required a stepladder to get into it. And when in the course of reconstruction a moving van arrived and delivered a couple of hundred folding chairs, it convinced everybody that Charlie Sutherland had established a mortuary right in the heart of Indianapolis.

tearing down the street and right into the audience, scaring the spectators so terribly that more often than not, they ducked their heads to escape the collision. “The pictures of the New York fire horses were the first intimation we had that it required three horses to pull a fire engine no bigger than the ones used {in Indianapolis. Moreover, it surprised us to learn that the dogs belonging to the New York fire engine houses,

Jenner ds second “worst.” Hoosier ‘voters had

better wake up.

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What Others Say or

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IT IS only a question of time until they (the British) do produce (atomic) bombs.—Robert F. Bacher, former atomic commissioner,

ments _ hitting early in 1950 wi imports; some & One official es to consumer will garment. Price dropped 31 cent day on Boston priced U. 8. clo

resent dollar . | wood tariff. And any new cuts next year prob- - . bi ee @ for tough comp: p price 0 : Td would take the over-all level to its lowest | New Fangled ‘Machine and-which always accompanied the engines to . That can be done within reason where certain com- | y, this century. NOTHING could have been further from th. the fires, always appeared to be of one breed, i Rubber oditi lativel : gp it Ay r truth. Ticked. away. inthe 1 vised gallery NOW identified as Dalmatians. e few fire wanted to show builders that a house can be i m es are relatively non-competitive. Competitive British | wii Caries big ay Pow pe Jou ga lesy dogs we had ‘in Indianapolis were mongrels | built at a profit in the field I think ‘we have got i Rubber, prices ; : : 23 TRS 8 secret -fan ) . ¢ ! goods, such as woolens and china, will giin a sharp and | “THE TRUTH ABOUT A BUG" | called the ‘kinemetograph." It was so durn Chosen. not because of the aristocratic blood | to reach the $6800 house Housing Expediter at 16.380 cents

immediate price advantage.

At home British devaluation is almost certain to bring

I watched a bug pull at a leaf And thought of house attack by thief.

slick, whispered Charlie, that it could project

photographs in such rapid succession that it

coursing through their veins, but because of an aptitude for the jab.

Tighe Woods, commenting on a low-cost house

{ | [77° MY IDEA was to start a trend, if I can. I } | { he built near Washington.

6 per cent sine sible to tell yet |

y Charlie Sutherland did a whale of a busi- FE ation will affec builds a tower and high a wall fooled the eye into believing that it was a mov- , i d . a demand for. a new round of wage adjustments upward, Man bulls 8 ing panorama. Like what you see when riding {yor Andeed, i Wasa long nd he got started | EZZARD and I are just innocent bystanders and rubber prod presenting political as well as economic complications. Climbs over all that he hath made— on a train, sald Charlie. In case you haven't ale y SOI po = Oo e secon movie | in all that trouble over Lesnevich down at Cine Commerce D The h é packed, the brick he laid, guessed it, Charlie Sutherland's venture was Ouse as Jloca JIL 28 cidental Hotel on | cinnati. In fact, we're so innocent we wouldn't writing U. 8.

Fixing the new value of the pound promptly

toppled

the Australian, South African Indian, Danish and Irish cur-

rencies. Other currencies will fall,

The readjustment will |

The carpet mat, the floor, the rug. And deepest pit that man has dug. This tiny mite is always there;

| | ‘When little bug, without a fall, | |

the first movie theater in Indianapolis, The big sign over the entrance designated the theater as the “Bijou.” Legend has it that

the site where the Strauss people now do business, parently approved of the way they did things in New York. Anyway, Mr. Gillihan called his

It was run by.a Mr. Gillilhan who ap-’

‘even be fightin’ Lesnevich for the title if we weren't forced into it.—Jake Mintz, Charles’

| manager.

formula ‘to low requirements of by 100,000, tons.

; : ’ i | it got its.French name by way of a German. ¢ + © crease natural be pdinful, but it | Down underneath the darkest lair. 1 ! . theat elode : p ’ was inescapable. While man of facts so proudly lives At any rate, there is a well-authenticated story r.a Nitheloteon. NEVER in the history of the world was one ok Sterhing al Es Ce That little bug his all he gives. of the day the painters were putting the finish- people as completely dominated, intellectually . Rubber situs ing touches on. the facade. years ago, ha

Good Hopes Endangered

EN days

ago a batch of cheerful economic news made |

millions of Americans more hopeful for the future.

Employment, after declining for months; had

turned

up. Unemployment had decreased. Non-farm jobs had reached a new 1949 high. The industrial-production index

For food. but shelter, what we sav? | We see him times in rain all day. Tho he has something we may lack; | A life of truth when ours is fact; ! His instinct God hast placed within, When, ours of fact, may be but sin. . ~—LEON CHURCH, Bargersville. * 9

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

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On that morning, Charlie Sutherland was standing in front of his place wondering what in the world to name ft when along came. Capt, (the German):

“Where are you going in such ,a hurry?” *

asked Charlie Sutherland who, by’ this time, knew”a lot of important people in Indianapolis.

Stylish Name

Charles Truemper ’ .

and morally, by another people as the people of the United States by the people of Russia in the four years from 1946 through 1949. Archibald . McLeish, former Assistant Secretary of State. | LE AN i THE fact Is that at present no nation is pre= | pared to surrender its sovereignty completely.— ° i. Herbert Evatt, Australian foreign minister and president of the UN General Assembly, caution-

tight” and U. 8 six months in\ Rubber, men fe new formula American comp 100,000 tons of which just does above current p »

had reversed its downward trend. There were other signs | wiley hSHINGTON - Dried eggs in storage | mean. SO re ered) Chane Truemper | “ng these Wh tayarie world government. Cotton : : p 1 ouse.”) c e r. Schaub’'s saloon at the , ; ’ Still too earl) that the country might have cgme out of recession—that This 1and of ours has funny laws. next corner (as if vou didn't know it without THIS year and next year, more of us, per- on all-importan good times were ahead. my telling you), haps many moré of us, will go broke individu- cotton abroad.

Chairman Nourse of the President's Council of Eco-

nomic Advisers said that he and his colleagues were “very

Too strange for comprehension, Yet storing eggs makes sense because { It staves off apprehension.

A man endowed, with leds imagination might have muffed the phonetic

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significance. of Mr.

ally than in the years just past. Because, in the first place, there are more of us. But, more

ficial: “British a cotton with EC.

. Truemper's answer, but not Charlie Suther- important, customers are back in the saddle see what differ definitely encouraged.” ‘He added, however, that strikes in Though’ politicians can't atone land. To him it was a message sent from where they belong, and they are again making exchange make For all their past defections, heaven, for here was not only .a stylish name ~ distinctions between horses, jackasses - and continue to furr

such basic industries as steel and coal could turn the bright-

ening prospect dark again. ~ ~ . . - .

A WEEK ago hope was further stimulated.

The Pres-

ident’s steel fact-finding board had made recommendations which, though not wholly satisfactory to labor or to man-

agement, seemed at first to provide a basis upon which |

both were willing to avoid a steel strike.

Today the two sides to that controversy appear far

Those powdered eggs cannot be thrown » In forty-nine's elections!

SIDE GLANCES

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for a theater, but also a geographical connotation designed to help those who didn't know’

By Galbraith | NATIONAL POLITICS .... By Ruth Finney

Democrats Seek Party Stronghold i in West

5 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20—The Truman Administration's answer to the Republican-Dixiecrat coalition which has defeated s0 much of its program in Congress will be an attempt to build as a Democratic stronghold,

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up the y West

A scene from city's first movies.

and trying to

such as the South

mules. —Beardsley Ruml, author of the “pay-as- . | you-go” tax plan. :

a sina abl

capture the places held by Wayne Morse of Oregon

and Eugene Millikin of Colorado. \ Though Mr. Morse has received many Democratic votes in

pay for the cott Officials say, | tion will affect 1 exports.” Until « textiles were ur textile in world 25 per cent, 1} British devaluat advantage to B tiles. U. 8. cott ers and manuf forced to cut pr .

. ; : id the past, Oregon Democrats are bitter about his active campaigns apart. The government's wise mediator, ( yrus Ching, is . has ‘heey j in behalf of Sen. Cain of Washington and former Be Oil trying in Washington to help them adjust their differences This became evident as the second Democratic regional of Idaho and Revercomb of West Virginia. before the strike truce ends next Sunday. Many miners conference got under way here. They note that he has not come out for the Columbia Valley Independent p v ’ Emphasis is heavy on election of Western Democrats to the Authority, and that he supported much of Sen. Robert A. Taft's er imports. . Tt

already have begun an undeclared strike. A steel strike and a coal strike would mean less in-

House in 1950. ' Democrats elected from the 11 Western states can be counted -on to support the Truman program preity much

imports for mu

labor program in the Senate. Three Democrats are being groomed mestic producti

to oppose him, State Treasurer Walter Pearson, State Senator

} i as it has been presented, | Richard Neuberger and State Senator Austin Flegel. that increased | dustrial production, fewer jobs, more unemployfent. Long Rep. Michael J. Kirwan. chairman of the Democratic Mav Have Trouble ’ Hng areas ma strikes in these basic industries would hurt everybody more | | Congressional Campaign Committee, is one of the busiest men at Jira ire may. have trouble holding the I producers Sito ‘than they could profit anybody, excep the conference. : Ave HouNE Joiting the J4aho seat now here to meet B y p ybody, except the Communists who | “The West is becoming Increasingly important as a seat of | Occupied by Glen Taylor, once Henry Wallace's running mate. Independents s

want to see America torn by industrial warfare and plunged | They are confident of re-electing Carl Hayden of Arizona, Pat

political strength,” Mr, Kirwan said as he arrived here, “and | have to increa into deep depression. : after the 1950 census, reapportionment of seats will make the | McCarran of Nevada, Elbert D. Thomas of Utah and Warren domestic ofl m an West's voice even stronger in Congress. I'm here to find out Magnuson of Washington. Gravion what the West wants and the Congressional Committee is going | In California, an intra-party contest between Sen, Sheridan Diamonds A Lesson in Lobb [todo ite part in 1980 to see that’ we fet the Kind of CONETESS | jepgern thing the heavy Deamotrotis toons is, Certain but | New York dis that will mocratic registrat ying - | | SHARE SueH 4 program.” them to bold the seat, on don here win *nable sees no effect ol TE, Washifigton Post reports that Chiang Kai-shek ho One Vacancy Pr to a Nona aistntion bas sr Io Ban lating have bee hig a registered lobbyist in Washington sin ce March, : hg 11° Western states represented here have 49 members Agriculture Charles Brannan has been, listening attentively o ] prices no higher . 8. join Lae ilouse. requests for modification of his plan. rate. ©

There is one vacancy of San Francisco. He was a Republican.

the seat of the late Rep. Richard J. Welch

| : { Twenty-four are Democrats and 24 Republicans. | | |

The whole top command of the Interior Department is here Food 1 .

I lia case of “too little and 4 00 lite,” we would say. receiving - delegations who want more... irrigation water, more

It seems certain he will be succeeded

From 1944 down to the 1 industrial water, m Secretary of Commerce Charles ° been teeming with ae oe hdr, Wasingvu hus by i Democrat John F. Shelley, ‘president of the California State | Sawyer ang pride rat Leon ra are talking to . bring British: ’ { businessm noo: marm ment and out, who. have carried the ball for the Chinese oe 2 DtoeTats could Sapture any substantial, .part of the | other en Eki Opie wiidle iw re ad to Jobs and 350 I Balad Communists. A ep Nien: ot 8 it would materially ‘strengthen them in and Joseph B. Keenan of the AFL and Jack Kroll ” y aolluaitle- m, civil rights and power and resources ' among the speakers. ot the co. the time got wise to how we do things the : fasues, | mort ot. Dimost Competitior ® ny and their fe traveler had him written off NSS 1848 AY NEA SERVICE, ING. T. M. REG. U. §. PAT. OFF. The Senate offers less opportunity next year. Eight Senators ba Ngee mestina. o.ou wa, w ince the na Many Amer AT v i "It It in age that's causing your trouble—why, -even | get a The did 1. Yor Pietion 1950. 0 ax of hem | ae Vials. Cobisih bers and Preston: B= “ompetition In your yl 3 : iE . erick in my back when fall sets inl", | = Party leaders bere ‘are talking about Belding 0 these . seats | SSirung on he they, al, Presigest Truman himelt himselt may ome §