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THIS 1§ the seventh day of Leap Year. All °

the signs point to 359 more peaceful and. quiet days. What's wrong with our eight milllon unmarried women? ; Y ; Four years ago, when I was a tender 28 we had some fun around this.stand. Letters came sin by the bulging sack, and words were handied with gay abandon. wie The days were short and the nights were full of schemes to keep the game of ¥ post office” going. This literary titillation was sparked hy numerous warm greetings in pedestrian lanes. Tintinnabulation (ringing of bells) was constant. It was fun. Nothing serious developed. In fact, four years later I'm still paddling the same canoe, strumming the same ukulele, and the vocal cords have not improved one whit, Last Nov. 28, T gave the back of my hand to a gentleman ‘who penned an article entitled “How to Make Him Propose.” He's the one who said theré were eight million “unmarried women between the ages of 18 and 44” straining ‘at the starting line of matrimonial tracks.

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MY NATURE has always led me to think ahead. I knew Leap Year was coming and didn't want to see a wholesale stampede of our unattached males. There is nothing worse than to upset Mother Nature's unwritten laws.. You have to, in the main, let the Ol’ Gal run her course. The small blast created a ripple of disapproval from several directions, commendations from other points on the compass were recorded, and all disappeared into the Christmas whirlpool. When-l.eap Year arrived and mine eyes finally heheld the zlory of a new day and year, 1 said (ont loud, too), “This could be the vear of decision.”

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REFORE the tintinnabulation of the previous evening ended, I was out on the street to observe what Leap Year had wrought ih the shining faces of single, fair damsels, Blank stares, completa unconcern—-that's all I encountered at every turn of the eye and ankle. Every morning in the office the mailbox was eagerly rifled for telltale envelopes. Four years ago they came in decorated with hearts and flowers, and it wasn't uncommon to. receive a scented epistle. : As the days-slipped by, I recalled how a bevy of Butler University girls invaded the office last Leap Year and gave me a bad time. (Not literally.) Those were the days. This dearth of mail, this desert.I occupy, is most disconcerting. You wonder if we all have become too serious with ourselves to the point where three minutes can't be devoted to idle (does it have to be?) high-jinx?

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

C 7 this NEW YORK, Jan. 7 I saw : : and Hollywood story happen—so I ‘know

Broadway it's

ue. - v My 2:30 date with Virginia Mayo was at Toots ae sit beside Virginia?” her

“Do you, want to v hushand, Mike: O'Shea, asked. : No man could ohject to that. Virginia's bathing suit pictures

have been printed ‘round the world. Besides, 2 'n as a fine girl. : a ah Jo of time.” Mike said. “We

- “We've plenty i 't have another date ti 30." do long we got the subject that made

me wince—burlesque. Some readers find the ect offensive. : . gl Mike had acted once in burlesque. And

- “She's Working Virginia had just made a film, h hh Through College,” about Hot Garters rtie,” a burlesque gal. Be wanted a story—but I didn’t want to be an overtoud cheer leader for burlesque. «I IMAGINE you would object to that kind of art,” I said to Virginia. : : a Pio. I always fight for any kind of a musical ’ g. , ey medy part. That's what I'm best a $e ys girls,” I argued, “don’t like to pose in ealing costumes.” Pe foolish. Even women like to see a girl with a pretty figure. The costumes are decent —they’re just short.” z He wor studying his watch. I mustn't keep them from that 4:30 date. ; ; “You forget, Virginia,” I said, that where you and I come from, some people don’t like those costumes.” ; 7 : “You're wrong!” Virginia said. That's evident from the success of Betty Grable’s pictures.

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WELL, I'd tried to be constructive, and I'd failed. I'd also failed to get a story. I put my notebook back in my pocket. “Where's your 4:30 date?” I asked, ready for my getaway. ; I didn't mean to butt fn. I just wondered how far they had to go. ‘ “We have a date with Monsignor - Fulton I Sheen— Bishop Sheen now,” Mike said. “Vir ginia's going to see him about. taking instructions to enter the church.” : 1 took my notebook. back out. I'd seen this

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK. Jan, T—The British press beat us a hit on quick front-page play of the story of tea valiant skipper who was clinging to his, wal1.®ving, half-sunken ship. The British were a little swifter, as a seagoing people, to seize upon the basic elements of drama contained in the decision of Capt. Henrik Carlsen to stick by the foundering freighter, Flying Enterprise. This tells me a little sgmething of what's happened to us in the last few years. This tells me

“that our one-time razor instinct for dramatizing

the ‘plight of everyman, embodied in a single person or happening, has been blunted considerably by time and an overdose of sensation in.the news, We have had’'so much global drama to deal with that for a day or so we plumb forgot that man-against-the-sea is still the biggest story from a standpoint of human receptivity.

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‘ANY STORY of man against an element, instead of man against the machine, is still the greatest eye-catcher.. It is understandable, imme-

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“diately in terms of everybody’'sidaily struggle. A

mah who is trapped by storm or sea or cave-in is basically a more dramatic figure than a poor fellow who is hemmed in by complexes, billion-dollar figures or the threat of an atom. Human interest, I believe it is still called. You may be old enough to remember a poor fellow named Floyd Collins who was trapped in a cave-in, and who finally died,” It was days before they could extract poor Collins from his underground prison. The attempted rescue was covered as dramatically as the progress of a war. Floyd Collins became a household word. Folk songs were written about him, and he was only one man against the earth, an obscure man immortalized by an accident. z

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AWHILE back in New York we had a tre. mendously dramatic story about a man who was trapped in a well, and who died also before rescue. The man in the hole was object of national concern—specifically because everybody has been hopelessly trapped by something at one time. As of the other day Capt. Carlsen became top international news, competing with the fact that . Congress might veto Harry Truman’s plan to shake up the tax department; Soviet Foreign Min- - ister Vishinsky's bleat of possiple war, and a Red rejection of prisoner-of-war deal, with the United Nations asking “further. study.” ., You can understand Capt. Carlsen, sitting for

- six’ days (at that time) in a wallowing, busted-

seam vessel, all by himself afer ordering all hands and the pagsengers over the side to safety. You can understand a ran whose entire life-has been tied to the sea and ships. You can under-

stand the threat of wind and wave to life and “ships you alsd can understand.the fierce pride of

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— » MARRIAGE MIRAGE—Seven Leap Year already, and ''Mr. Inside" is wondering if the parade is past.

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YOU ALSO wonder if the parade is passing you by. Questions keep coming up. Was it wise to write about the appearance. of your first gray hair? Was it, wise to throw yourself so completely in “writing a book, thus isolating yourself evenings? In order to gef sunburned, one must get out and expose oneself, right? Leap Year history is so déeply buried in antiquity that truth and .accuracy are difficult to uncover. During the 13th Century the wily Scots were supposed tn have fined the unmarried man who received a proposal and turned it dawn without sufficient cause. In England the rejected lady, the story goes, was entitled to a silk gown. That was a long time ago and authenticity doesn’t flavor the yellowed information.

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IN NEW ENGLAND someone spread the word around that during Leap Yéar beans grow on the outside of a pod. That bears investigation. Whether beans grow inside or outside of a pod is a small.matter compared to the lassitude displayed thus. far by the weaker sex. on the street, jested with the eligible, whistled at acquaintances. Today this moving finger having writ, I'll sit “back and wait. If this fails, I shall grow a beard, purchase a hair shirt (who makes them these days?) and trade my innerspring for a bed of straw and see 1952 out. : What a rough 3539 days they're going to be. Alas. ;

True Broadway Story Of Hollywood People

Broadway and Hollywood story happen myself and I thought it might be nice to print it now at a time when most of the Hollywood stories have been somewhat different.

THE MIDNIGHT EARIL .. . “Silent” Frank Costello will almost surely refuse to testify at his contempt trial . ., The Sat. Review of Literature is dropping its famous “personal” ads ... Robert Taylor's quick trip to Italy was to see a doll .. . Mitzi Green snuck back into films via an Abbot & Costello pic. Vivien Leigh was out of “Cleo” and understudy Maihri Russell took over two performances. United Artists will announce it's in the > 4 black. . ...James Moran (of the Kefauver hearings) is attending classes at St. John's U. in ethics, law and religion. . . . Mrs. Quentin Reynolds’ dtr. Joan (Mrs. Frank Howard) is expecting in June. . . Pearl Bailey, recovered from her collapse, does a ‘“show-must-go-on’’ the rest of the week at La Vie en Rose. “hob : Franchot Tone, offered a film role, asked $5000-a-week and “Do you have a pare®for Barbara?” ... New Daily Doubles: Robert Merrill and Met's Roberta Peters; actress Cara Williams and David Schulte of the cigar stores; George Ross Jr. and Jerri Higgins; Jackie Kelk and Sherri Windsor. . . . Singer Marti Stevens had a big opening at the Blue Angel.

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Taffy Tuttle found a man who had everything a woman could ask for so she asked for everything."—Robert Q. Lewis. ! .

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FARIL’S PEARLS: Where there's smoke, says Vivian Blaine, there's usually a gang of secretaries. ; : " bh B FOR A MOTHER. says Charley Jones, the son always shines . , . That's Earl, brother.

‘Human Interest’ Stuff Still Best Reading

will never understand billions of dollars, wasted or not, in long marching lines of fat zeroes. I do not understand what the tame economists are talking about any more than they do. Global planning and global politics are nearly 2lways un. ou show me a man who says he fully understands what we are up to in Korea and I will show you either an arrant fool or a conscious liar. There may be a skimpy handful of people -who understand how we cracked the atom and made the bomb—not a single one of those bulging craniums have the, faintest clue as to what we really ought to do. with it now it's got us, Einstein couldn't tell you, and he fathered it. a ha BUT man-in-a-hole we understand, and cat-up-a-tree we understand, and man-against-the-sea we understand. Because, you see, man is still an individual, not a seething, twisting mass of face{ess organisms, to be administered by a - selfchosen few who crown themselves ag all-knowing, and presume to order the lives: of millions in ore dull-gray pattern. That is why I am grateful‘for Capt. Carlsen and the Flving Enterprise so early in the year. As a whole man; an individual, he has shaken his* fist at security which affronts him, and damned be those who try to tell him how to go about his business. It's a trait of rugged individualism we seem to have been lacking, lately.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q--Please advise what variety of strawberry is best. No name, please. A-—Avoid any variety that's catalogue-described as “a good market variety.” For their chief qualifications are tough hides to stand up to shipping and red skin that too often coyers up

the green sourness of the inside of the berry. °

Home grown berries (like every other kind of home garden produce) should be chosen for good flavor. That's one big ¢ount against everbearing strawberries, too. In general they sac- « rifice quality to quantity production. Old standard varieties such as Senator Dunlap and Pre-

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times. -mier hold their own in home gardens year after year. A number of local gardeners have. told me they like the Robinson. One of our awn. favorites that's so old-fashioned you ‘probably can't find it en the market (but worth remembering if you ever de) is the Gandy--an enormous productive sweet berry. The new patented Nectarena is a new one we've found very tasty,

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ANNUAL GUIDE—

Your Income Tax Primer-No.7

New Tax Rule

Gives You a Break

When You Sell Your Home—

By RICHARD A. MULLENS

Times

Special Writer

DID YOU sell your home during 1951? If so, this article is of vital importance to vou because it tells of an important new tax break that can

save you money. This article alzo tells you what to do if you sell or exchange property such as your

car, stocks or bonds, and simi-

lar property not used in a trade or business, In: other words, yon must follow the instructions in this article if you had one or more of the following transactions in 1951:

ONE—Sale of your home, car, househnld furnishings, jewelry, or any other personal ‘property for MORE fhan' you paid for it. TWO—Sale of property von have been renting. THREE—Sale of securities vou bought for investment or speculation, “FOUR ws==Securitiee or nonbusiness Joans .which ‘became worthless in 1951. . Any of the dbove transactions must be reported on the separate Schedule D that comes with the blank returns. If the transaction jpvolves your resi-

dence you may not have to pay-

any tax. In. other cases, vou may be entitled to report a loss that will reduce your tax. The first step in filling out Schedule D is to determine whether your transaction should be shown under the part marked “Short term capital gains and losses” or under the part for long-term gains and losses. Here is the rule: A nonbusiness or personal loan which hecame worthless in 1951 is a short-term capital loss regardless of how long ago vou made the loan. The rest of the transactions will be short-term if you held the property for six months or less and long-term if held for more than six months.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the seventh of 13 authoritative easy-to-follow articles in NEA's 11th annual Income Tax Primer — expert advice for the average taxpayer on handling every item his return with the least effort, greatest accuracy — and mini mum payment. The anthor, Richard A, Mullens, is a ranking Washington tax authority and a graduate of the same training course given federal agents who scan your own return. . :

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If it was your residence that you sold in 1951, read over the special rules on page 10 of the official instructions. Then check sover the following additional information and tips: The term “residence includes a house, houseboat, or house trailer, If the taxpayer lives In more than one place it must be his principal residence. When part of the property is used hy the ‘taxpayer as his principal residence, and part fs used for business purposes or rented out, only the allocated gain on that part of the property used as the principal residence is not taxed. Tha gain on. the business or rented part of the property must he reported. For example, if a taxpaver, renting one-third of his residence, sells it for a $6000 prof-

AMERICA AND RANSOM—

Arms Can End In

By WAI

JE JONES

Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 7—-In 1815 U. S.

Commodore

Stephen Decatur sailed into the Mediterranean with a

show of naval strength and

put an end to an international

shakedown which was costing this country millions of

dollars. Now, nearly a century and a half later, this country has just paid Hungary $120,000 ransom for ‘the release of four American flyers. We paid ransom in another form to the same Red country to free Robert A. Voge- - ler. And, as we learned from the Barbary pirates, the more ransom you pay the more seems to be demanded. For years the Barbary pirates of North Africa had been exacting tributes from other nations by seizing their ships and crews. As the merchant fleet of our fledgling. country grew, the pirates began raiding our vessels, Algiers alone had confiscated numerous American vessels and enslaved hundreds of our seamen prior to 1800,

” » » FROM 1795 to 1802, this country paid out more than $2 million to the Barbary states of Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and * Tripoli. With each concession on our part, the rapacity of the North African governments increased. Thomas Jefferson was in favor of getting tough about it long before we ever did. Jeffer.son said a good ‘navy and 150 ‘guns. on the Barbary Coast would be cheaper in the long run and do us more good than the money we were handing over to the pirates. We ‘had one indecisive scrap with Tripoli but it didn't help matters much. Then in 1815 Decatur went in and talked tough. He forced Algiers to abandon all claims to tribute from us,

and got indemnities from Tunis and Tripoli for illegal seizures. To all intents and purposes that washed up the Barbary pirates. ~ ~ ~ LOOKING back at the Barbary pirates episode, historian James Truslow Adams “says some of our actions then seem “disgraceful.” But he does commend this country for finally leading all other nations in opposing what he terms “international subsidizing of piracy.” If more guidance is rieeded on the handling of such a situation, Americans can look back on the famous “XYZ Affair” of 1797. when France tried to put the big bite on us. France was sore at this country over some treaty negotiations. Three unofficial agents of French . Foreign Minister Talleyrand suggested to this country that we make a $250,000 gift to. Talleyrand, loan a sizable amount to the French government, and pay France an indemnity for criticizing her.

= on on IMPROBABLE as all this sounds, an official American

delegation in France was prepared to give in on, most of the requests when. the American people learned about the whole shady business and got gqod and sore. * . In short order, Congress cancelled certain French treaties; suspended commercial relations with France, authorized seizure of her armed vessels, and strengthened our military. Talleyrand was so upset when

AMERICAN EXODUS—

Nation Heads Back To Country, Taking Jobs Along

Ry ALEXANDER SUMMER TEANECK, N, J, Jan. 7 The human race in the United States ix reversing its migration for the second time. In the beginning our ancestors headed for the open, to stake out and develop farms and homesteads. That went on by diminishing spells and spurts, up into this present century. Fs ; ; ‘The first reversal was the migration from the farm back to the growing city, for better That began far back in the last century; the outgoing and incoming streamg passed and crossed along ‘the way. = The second reversal is the new trend to move out of the city back to the country-—not to go back to farming but to live better, The new out-mi-grants are continuing to work .at city-type jobs. And the brand

:; new angle is- that now they're

taking their jobs along® with them. In other.words, the in_dustries in which they work are . Migrating with them. . ~

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vor i £2) . * . [They're largely one-story and THIS TREND. was starting

greal defense industries huilding their plants aut in former pastures and cornfields, The workers went along, and if's an old story that when the war ended and their defense jobs tapered off they hunted ways and means to stay--not only in fabulous California but in other areas of comfortable living all over the nation,

Case histories can be had in probably scores .of areas of the United States. Naturally I have seen it most in the Metro‘politan New’ York area, which now extends far out on Long Island, up intd Connecticut and New York: State, and into Northern New Jersey. Travel any of y highways “of North Jersey within say 30 miles of New York<City, and amid the” wodds and hills you find today an endless syccession of new industries. They range from small specialized machining plants to huge fac- * tories for manufacturing ‘pharmaceuticals or chemicals’ assembling automobiles,

glass-walled, .a ‘modern “indus--trial version of the ranch design; they please the eye.

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it, he must report one-third of the gain, or $2000, but need not report. $4000 of the profit if he otherwise complies with the special rules on sale of a residence. The ‘selling price of the-old

(WHEN WE SELL THIS WE CAN BUY ANEW TRAILER., AND WE WON'T HAVE TO PAY ANY TAX ON THE PROFIT...

residence” is the amount of

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“cash plus notes or other setur- .

ity. put up by the purchaser plus any mortgage, trust deed or other indebtedness on the property. at the time of the sale. Commissions and other selling expenses are not deducted in order {o arrive at the selling price. . . What is the purchase price of the new residence? Include in purchase price the same jtems as for sale of an old residence, Where any part of the new residence is ac: quired by gift, the value of such part is not included’ in determining the purchasing price of the new residence,. If °vou claim the benefit of special rules on the =zale of vour regidence, he sure to attach 40 Schedula D the information asked for in the nfficial instructions. Even though you haven't purchased a new home ‘hy Dec. 31, 1951, if you think vou may either bhuv or build within the required period, you

ROBERT A. VOGELER—His ransom wasn't cash, but it was ransom just the same.

his bluff was called that he battled desperately to head off what he thought might become war bétween the two countries. The matter was finally ‘settled by the convention of Sept. 30,

1800. Tough policy had halted another shakedown. n n = AS LATE as 1904, Moorish

bandits kidnaped an American

national;"a Mr. Perdicaris, from .

his home near in North Africa, A ransom of $70,000 had to be paid for the release of him and his stepson, a British subject. To strengthen our. stand in the negotia: tions this country sent the warship Brooklyn to ‘Tangier. In centuries past, the ransom was a fixture of war. In the

Tangier,

IT'S AN accelerating process, a contagion, Talk with heads of industries now in New York

City and time and again we hear ‘that when their Jongtearm leases expire, they, ton, will get out. They rationalize it with such. arguments as lower land costs, faster truck and rail shipping away from

the congestion, lower taxes.

But frequently it develops that some of the company executives have been living in ane of the new elbow-room- home ‘areas, or some of the key employees—or both. Thus the labor relations department comes into the picture with the familiar argument of contented workers,

The executives And the em-

‘ployees, since World War II, °

have been « méoving “to the country” at a faster pace than ever before in history. > a." Pow

~. TF THE new “country” dwel-

_lers could not induce their em-

ployers to move the job after ‘them, frequently they tired of -commuiing and:found another Job close to homs, with an industry’ which

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need not report a tax on the profit from the sale of gp r old residence on your 195) return y “If it develops that you don’t buy er. build and oecupy a new residence within the specified time, then you must file an amended 1951 tax return and pay a tax on the profit. Here: are some tips to help

you fill out Schedule ID when reporting other sales besides your residence; ONE -—~After filling in columns

2 and 3 (the date acquired and the date sold) check to make sure all property listed under long-term capital gains “and losses was held for moge than six months, TWO-- Put (depreciation)

in unless

column «nH at some

time you rented aut tha property, You must show depfeciation for anv period during

“which the property was rented, Watch for Aritele R for (instruc tione an how to compute Aspreciation, THREE Remember tn include in Column 6 the cost of any improvements, such as an additional room, front porch or the like. Do not. include.the.cost of repairs and ordinary maintenance, such as painting the house. : Your cost or other basis, which also goes in column 6, is what you paid for the ‘property if you bought it. If it was inherited, it is the fair market value at the time you acquired ®he property. If it, was a gift, include whatever it cost the last person who bought it. * :

Note that if you end up with a capital loss, you cannot show more than £1000 of it on the Form 1040 even though you file If you and vour wife each have capital losses, You may save money hy filing separate returns. Fach would then get to deduct his capital losses up to $1000. Work out Your tax hoth ways and use the cheaper method. The schedule automatically includes only half of any longterm capital gain in taxahla income, This half becomes part '

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PONT SELL THESE UNTIL TOMORROW..1 BOUGHT THEM JUST SIX MONTHS AGO TODAY &

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your income rate- ags_your other i come until vou pass tha 30 per cent hracket, It nccurs when your adjusted grossa income exceeds $16,000 on an individual return or 232,000 on a joint return. Thereafter, no matter how high your income gets, the tax on the reporfed capital gain is limited to 50 per cent. 5

Tax Primer Q. and A.

Q—1 bought a car for personal use in 1947 for $2000. In 1951, I recelved a trade-in allowance of $600 as part payment on. a new car costing $2200. Should I report any of this transaction on my tax retugn? ’ A-—No, While you anly received a trade-in allowance of $600 on a car that cost vou $2000, none of that loss is deductible. Losses on the sale aor

exchange of property for your .

personal use are never deductible. Q—I made a $5000 profit on the sale nf my summer cottage which T then used as part payment of a larger cottage. Da I hava to pay a tax on the profit? A--Yes. You can forget the ‘ax only when you sell your principal residence.

RANSOMED AIRMEN—After 40 days of imprisonment in

Hungary, four American fliers celebrate Germany. Their release cost the Capt. John Swift, T/Sqt. Jess A. and Sgt. James Elam. The Barbary pirates ¢

100 Years Wars, King Edward ITT, of England, improved his administration's shaky financial condition by getting ransom payments of 500,000 pounds for King John, of France, and 100,000 marks for David Bruce, of Scotland. Probably no one knows how many Americans paid ransom to their Mexican. kidnapers in the early part of this ¢ tury when bandits in. our nebo ing country to the south were abducting about everything that moved, 7 ~ ~ SOME: people were kidnaped 4% many as three times. Final-_ ly we got tough about it, The

Quite a few employers have

taken the hint. « Df course there have complications. Take anv township which suddenly finds ita population multiplied bv new home developments. There are sudden and unforseen new needs for more schools, more’ policemen and firemen and other public employees, trunk sew-

heen rural

ers and other utilities —and new tix burdens. : n n »

THAT IN ITSELF has been ome of -thé added encouragements to the outward migra-

tion of industry. It’s not only a case now of bringing the job close to home; it's a matter of acquiring a corporate neighbor who can shoulder much of th&t new tax load. Combine this» with the new eye-appeal of the modern industrial plant, and one after another the localities are taking second ‘thought abouf. ‘keeping out factories.) 0 on "All over the country this

"xeems to. he the story. One

significant. corroboration in my ‘own araa seems to he the long *

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their freedom at Erding, U. S. $120,000. Left to right: Duff, Caph Dave Henderson arged us more.

Pershing Expedition helped put an end tp the era of Mexican kidnaping. Few Americans need or want to be reminded of .the wave of kidnapings for ransom which swept over this country in’ the 30's. The Lindbergh baby, George Weyerhaeuser, Charles

Mattson, Peter Levine, There were six. major ones in 1933 alone. The city of Chicago had 200 in one two-year period— mostly gangsters.

But the tactics were pretty much the same in all cases, whether they took place in Chi. cago, on the Barbary shore or in Budapest, Hungary.

‘tn New York City. But per. haps ‘the most striking side. light i= tha sfory I just heard from a man who grew up in Minneapolis-St. Paul, has lived in North Jersey for years, and recently. -had to make a nighy flight back home. - »

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HIS FIRST astonishment was the apparently never-ending

mass of street, home and industry lights all the-way from Idlewild Airport, well out on Long Island, east, north, south and west until well into the center of New Jersey; the lights portrayed a practically solid metropolitan area a good hundred miles across.

But after that came the goodsized groupings of lighta at place after place across the Appalachians, across Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. When plane was approaching Minneapolis he kept particular watch-.and;, he told me, “the town‘seems to start a good 40 mies east of its old limits; I couldn't believe it.” : That's the story throughout our. country. Wa're moving hack to the country and ta our obs with us. ©

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