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Living Costs And Politics

A gradual, undramatic price rise, diagnosed by the economic doctors as “creeping inflation,” has set in and promises to .keep the consumer in the fixed-income, rising-costs pincers for as far ahead as one can see.

Some of the specialists who .might ordinarily prescribe a stiff dose of. price controls are skittish about such drastic remedies, for reasons known as political. The high cost of living is a potentially explosive issue. The political party that can most effectively attribute the blame to the other will not hesitate to do so in the election campaign that lies ahead. “Creeping inflation” is a statistical ailment, lacking the emotional features of the “boom-and-bust” variety. Prices go up—there is no doubt about that—but not enough to arouse the citizenry to insurrection or buying strikes. Record High In six recent weeks the wholesale price index, a precision instrument developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has risen 2.8 points, or from 164.4 per cent of the 1926 average on May 29 t 0.166.7 per cent on July 3. This is probably not the sort of rise that can swing a political campaign, but it can, and does, add to popular discomfort. Consumer’s prices for retail goods and services bought by “moderate-income families in large cities” rose 0.7 per cent between mid-April and mid-May and brought these prices to a record high of 170.5 per cent of the 1935-39 average. The increase was only half the amount of the rise which had been noted for the previous month. There is no indication that President Truman, and the Administration in general, does not still feel the way he did in December when he asked for a price-control bill from the recalled Congress and got what he described as “feeble steps toward the control of inflation.” Savings Down

Rising prices, however mild, are steady enough eventually to take their toll of living standards. The impact may be delayed, but it is inevitable. Savings are ‘taking the punishment now; when they have become exhausted, it will e necessary to begin cutting back .standards of living.

Little is being done now to control prices, nor was anything done in those earlier periods of inflation. Although there are certain anti-infla-tion dampers, such as a few consumer credit controls, no restrictions are now placed directly on prices. | ‘The Republican anti-inflation bill, enacted last December, did extend some of the export controls to check the pressure on scarce goods, continued the Government’s allocation authority over certain transportation facilities and equipment and empowered the Department.of Agriculture to expand some of its food conservation measures.

Voluntary Saving However, these were only three points of a ten-point program asked by the President, who was seeking the authority to maintain control over certain key prices. : :

The difference of opinion between Mr. Truman and his Republican antagonists is probably as sharp now as it was then: the Chief Executive asked controls —over prices, over allocations, over exports—to prevent -economic dislocations (and nip another wage-increase demand in the bud.) The opposition, on the other hand, called for a free market in which prices would be able to find their own level through the operation of the socalled law of supply and demand. Among the private and Administration economists, these two points of view are still the prevailing ones. But another remedy has recently apeared under the name of a university economist, Prof. Karl W. H. Schloz, a member of the Continued op Page 7

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Thursday, July 15, 1948

I imagine everyone who likes to eat and parry in the culinary arts thinks someday he will write an ‘“Adventures in Eating” masterpiece that will find people from miles around beating a path to his door to buy the book. ‘ I readily confess that I probably fall in that classification even to being the kind of person who TWill never get the book written. Most of us who like to dream have more unwritten master= pieces to our credit anyway than will be written in several generations. But be that as it may, I like those occasional bouts I have with the pots and pans, and some of them don’t turn out half bad, although just to fry potatoes or boil eggs is not in my line for I'm an adventurous soul who likes to concoct. dishes that are not on the normal routine bill of fare. : :

I can’t say that my family share this enthusiasm, but like good sports they sit down to these preparations and do the best they can, even though the rush to the soda bicarb follows immediately afterwards. My wife looks upon my cooking expeditions with varied emotions for I spare not the dishes, utensils or pans, and by some strange phenomonon I never learned the process known as dish washing. L

None the less my whims are born with indulgencé and among my treasure chcst of recipes are such items as beef olives, brown sugar bread, Mexican rice, Chicken with a tomato, chocolate sauce, Italian Spaghetti, and soups of various hues and descriptions. I must modestly admit that of recent date my fame has been spreading as a maker of Pizza (pronounced peet-za) pie, and my gourmet friends have paid me the supreme compliment of eating every smigeon (is there such a word?) of it on the occasions I have made it for public consumption. Frankly, I deserve but partial credit for the recipe was graciously given me by Albin Alberini, our linotype operator, whose Mother is an expert I am- told. Whenever the occasions demands, I don my white apron and cap and set to work. It is not only fun, but good eating, and I pass the recipe on to those whose adventurous spirit calls for new experiences across the coffee cups. : Pizza is really not pie in the accepted sense of the word for you start out by making a bread dough by melting two tablespoons of shortening with threefourths cup of hot water and adding a teaspoon of salt, your yeast cake or ca%es softened in one-fourth cup of waler and one and one-half cups of sifted flour. Beat this until smooth and

then add another one and one-half cups of flour and take out anl kneed on the bread board until the dough bounces back at you when you push your finger into it. Roll your dough oval shape about one-half inch thick and with your hands - form a rim around the entire edge and let it raise. : ! While the dough is raising drain a can of tomatoes and mince a garlic clove (small) into them and work them down with your fork until most of the moisture is gone. When the dough is ready to bake cover it thoroughly with olive oil and sprinkle liberally with Parmesian cheese. Then spread the tomatoes over the cheese and grate a bity cheese over the tomatoes. Cover this with thyme and sprinkle again with Parmesian and then drop more olive oil on the top out of a tablespoon. : Place in a moderately heated oven and bake until the bread is a golden brown. ; Don’t wait when you remove it from the oven but eat it hot by cutting it like an apple pie and eating it from your hands. ! This all brings back an argument in which I've been in the midst for some time about the pronunciation of thyme. I say you pronounce the TH, but my opponent and Mr. Webster say it is pro‘nounced “time.” They may be right but (it still doesn’t make sense. If you followed their rule you'd be in a heck of a mess a 3 the following sentence will PEOWD, oo e g gt ~ “The engineer pulled back the trottle wit-his tumb tat was ticker tan his little finger, altough it got tat way from picking up a tistle.” Lt

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Dandelions for Dinner STUBBY, vocal Congressman Chester Gross of Pennsylvania joined the symphony of Truman accusers

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the other day, denouncing as “dou-ble-talk” the President’s attacks on congress for inaction on farm legislation and the high cost of living. To prove his point, Gross quoted a letter from a Lakeland, Fla., housewife who had received a department of agriculfure cookbook with 150 recipes for plentiful, inexpensive foods. “I have been a housekeeper for 52 years,” she wrote Gross, “but we just cannot eat grass along with soybeans and all the stuff the cook-

book says is so grand and nourishing. Sure, the department of agriculture is a drazy bunch.” “I agree that she is exactly right,” sald Gross. “If that is all that the New Deal has to offer after 16 years of planning, is it any wonder that there is such a 3 wave of righteous indignation rising all over the land?” ,

What the Pennsylvania Republican forgot, however, was that recently he commented as follows on the agriculture department’s campaign for greater consumption of plentiful foods: : “This time of year the body craves greens. This is the time to buy asparagus, no matter what the food experts tell us. But up in York we don’'t have to buy asparagus until _the price is right We go out into the fields and get dandelions, mustard greens and poke. These are weeds, the experts might say, but we know they are good -eating. There’s nothing better for a person in the spring than a nice mess of dandelions.” |

s s : @. I. Loan Frauds FAILURE OF SOME U. S. district attorneys to prosecute cases of fraud against veterans finally has brought some abrupt action from the justice department. Two cases are involved, both in Temple, Tex., and both affecting

so-called “prominent citizens” — Gordon Duncan of Duncan Homes, and R. M. Newton, secretary of the First Federal Savings and Loan association. . Veterans’ administration officlals have reported to the justice deparitment that veterans in Tem- " ple testified they were contacted by a man named Wilson M. Pressley who suggested that he knew how to make some’ easy money. They then were invited to get in touch with Gordon Duncan of the Duncan Home real estate office who in turn offered them $2OO to $250 to sign the proper papers for a 8 G. L loan on a home that Duncan was building. ~ : Veterans’ administration reported to the justice department that through some legalistic sleight-of-hand the title of the house was juggled around so that the veteran got a fee and Duncan got the home. In most cases veterans didn't even see the homes for which they requested G. L loans. : These loans were financed through R. M. Newton who, according to the Veterans’ administration’s report, finagled government guarantees on the basis of false appraisals. E. C. Berry, Veterans’ administration appraiser, stated that he had “completely reviewed the property described in this report inside and out” But in each case, Veterans’ administration officials claim, Berry had signed the reports without even

seeing the property. Believe it or not, but Berry had been in Florida when 17 ‘of the 36 appraisals were reported to have been made. : The justice department now has agreed with Veterans’ administration " about cleaning these fraud cases up. s& o Z - Gag Rules in Congress THE 80TH SESSION of congress ‘won't go down in history for devotion to the common man, but it did set a new high for gagging free and fair debate. 5 Most people have thevfiaea that congress is' a deliberative body which carefully debates the laws of the nation before passing them. This is largely true in the senate. But in the house, the Republican leadership has been imposing a series of gag rules. : A gag rule is an order by the rules eommittee that a bill cannot be changed or amended on the ° floor of congress. It means that a handful of men in committee draft the bill, after which 400 other representatives take the bill as Is. They can only vote yes or no. Some of the most important pieces of legislation passed by congress at the 80th session were put through under a gag rule, including every major bill reported out by the allimportant ways and means commitgag rule on his Wall street-inspired tax “reduetion bill” also’ on his against them as drafted by Knutson

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- Courses of study determined to be avocational or recreational in character are no longer authorized for veterans under the G I. Bill of Rights, the Veterans Administra—ion said today.

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SCRIPTURE: Ruth DEVOTIONAL RBEADING: Psalms 28:6-9.

Noomi, Woman Of Faith Lesson for July 18, 1948

IF we are to understand Ruth, & cherished heroine of the book bearing her name, we must know : Naomi, her motherI FGEEE in-law — woman of o faith in God and suro passing patience and e j§ sacrifice in service 1‘; @l to her day and gene eration. . = It is the Book of 3 B 8 Ruth which we have for Sunday’s lessons, ; _with Psalms 28:6-9 : - as the devotional reading. The golden Dr. Newton text, ‘“Thy people ' g shall be my people, and thy God my God,” Ruth 1:16. £ ® *» IN SEARCH OF BREAD FAMIN‘E in Judah, where Elimelech and his wife, Naomi, and their sons, Mahlon and Chilion, dwelt, drove them to Moab, in search of bread. Elimelech died, and the sons married young women of Moab, Ruth and Orpah. And then the sons died. Naomi, feeling that she must not longer remain in Moab, announced her intention to return to her native land, and bade Ruth and Orpah farewell. In one brief decade Naomi had lost- husband and sons, and now she longed for home. ) T ® B ’ “INTREAT ME NOT TO LEAVE THEE” O RPAH accepted Naomi’'s suggestion, and turned away to her own people; but not so with Ruth, She loved Naomi. She could not give her up. Naomi had done something for Ruth in those years of sorrow and loss. “Intreat me not to leave thee, or sto return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.” = _With these sublime words, Ruth _lashed herself to Naomi, and together they started on the long trek 0 Dethileber.. .

tended to include courses which will contribute to the veteran’s vocational or occupational advance—ment or educational objective. Those for recreation or pleasure were not the intent of the law, the VA added .

The new policy is effective July 1, 1948. Veterans enrolled in schools prior to that time will not be effected, but attempts to enroll in courses of study considered recreational or vocational after that date will be thoroughly re—viewed the VA said.

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WHEN FAITH CONQUERS

HERE we witness conquering faith-—conquering faith in the hearts of Naomi and Ruth. And they come to Bethlehem. It was the harvest season, and Naomi directed Ruth to glean in the field of Boaz a wealthy and generous-hearted citizen of Bethlehem. Fai;h in action! And the world loves the story of Ruth becoming the wife of Boaz, and thus the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David the king in the ancestral line of Jesus Christ, the King of kings. And Naomi, through her conquer: ing faith, held in her arms the little baby, Obed, and dreamed of God’s unfolding purposes to bless the world. In this unsurpassed romance we witness faith in adversity, faith in association, faith in conduet, faith in claim, faith in confidegce. and faith in a glorious climax. s¢ & 3 WHEN FAITH CONQUERS LIFE is always ennobled when faith conquers. It is easy to imagine how history might have missed this beautiful love story, had not Naomi been a woman of conquering faith. She might have given up and over to her great sorrow, and pined away in griel and defeat. But Naomi followed the gleam. And her trust in God shed its gentle glow into the lonely heart of {he Moabite widow, Ruth. Ruth clave unto Naomi. She could not do otherwise. “Truth is stranger than fiction.” And all history was enriched. If is ever so when faith conquers. Thus the poet states the case: "God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform, “He planss bis foossteps om the sea, And vides upon the ssorm.” 4eo o . 3PI et Bris & bk 2 8 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) Faith I cannot conceive that God eould make such a species as the human merely to live and die on this earth. If I did not believe in a future state, I should believe in no God. —John Adams. ‘Where there is no faith, there caa be no endeavor. . » 4 3 : 5 ~ ‘Believe In Life To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to be What is the highest secret ‘of vie tory and peace? To will what God

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IT IS only fitting that the heavyweight championship of the world was decided between two Negroes, since most of the better fighters in the last few years have belonged to the Negro race. I might mention Joe Louis, Joe Walcott, Ray Robinson, Ike Williams, Ezzard Charles, Beati Jack and a few others. The only two white entries I can think of now who belong around the top are Tony Zale and Gus Lesnevich. “Why is this?” I asked a wellknown trainer.

“Here's the trouble,” he said. “Most of the white fighters are lazy or yellow. They won’t train and they can’t take it.” '

. This is a minor detail that the white section might consider. Remember this: “They won’t train and they can’t take it.”

Good white fighters have become about as scarce as the extinct dodo. Zale and Lesnevich are exceptions. So is Willie Pep.

Outside of Zale, Pep and Lesnevich, most of the white fighters that I know are crude, lazy and incompetent. They dislike the training routine or, like Rocky Graziano, they won’t learn their trade —how to box. “A right hand will do it,” was Rocky’s answer. Only it didn’t. -

~ Zale is a professional. Graziano isn’t. He never will be, except on the financial side. Graziano will never be the pro that Zale is. “Strictly a pro,” Francis Albertanti says of Zale. “Graziano? Maybe a semipro. But never a pro.”

Citation’s Goals Unless something of a harsh physical nature happens to Calumet’s Citation, he is almost certain to reach two coveted goals—1. To tinish the high-money winner of all time—above one million dollars in total purses. 2. To be ranked as the top horse of all time—rated definitely above Man o War.

There is little doubt of his passing the one million dollar mark unless he breaks a leg or is badly injured. The Calumet star already has slipped by the $544,000 mark, and he is just warming up with such stakes as the Arlington Classic in Chicago and the $lOO,OOO International Gold Cup race, at Belmont on his list. ‘There is more than $500,000 in big stake purses left on the '4B schedule and Citation is still a young three-year-old. There will be much baying and braying among many members of the old guard in placing any horse above Man o’ War. But don’t forget two things—that Man o’ War ceased firing as a three-year-old and that Man o’ War never won a handicap race. He mnever ran against older horses—except Sir Barton who, at the time, was badly crippled. Man o’ War was a great race horse. But the big test comes in the handicap division where you might give away weight, where you must carry from 130 to 140 pounds to prove your place. There is no reason to believe Man o War couldn't have carried this weight. Citation already has run against older horses and beaten them. Two, of these were Armed and Buzfuz in the Seminole handicap. Citation can finish his three-year-old career on even terms with Man o’ War, gefting none the best of things. But if he goes on from there into the handicap division to meet older horses, he is almost sure to finish as the greatest race horse this country ever has known. - It is always just as well to wait until a competitor has at least reached the stretch of his career before he is finally judged and placed. T & =

Twenty-Game Pitchers How many 20-game pitchers, on the winning side, will there be this season? The crop will be extremely. thin. When the 1948 season opened, the leading probabilities included Blackwell, Newhauser, Feller, Lemon, Reynolds, Dobson, Munger, Marchildon, Trout, Sain, Spahn, Jansen and Branca. I could mention one or two, others. How many of these will make it? Blackwell and Feller,-two of the favored sons, certainly two of the _ best, are out of it, unless they finish like a brace of Citations. Blackwell with a bad arm, has three victories out of eight starts. At this time last year Ewell, the lone pine, was on his way to 18 straight. Feller has been battling to break even. It might also be noted that Feller has been driven from the field of glory seven times, at least, in ' less than two months. : ~ " Hal Newhouser drew the roughest start of the bunch, losing four of his first five games. But the scrappy* and skillful Tiger put on a hot rally and proceeded to win seven in arow. He still has an outside chance to reach the olive crowned circle. _been one of the season’s major disSiiintoents. Fickd & & M ghine most of the year. ~ -