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DAILY MEDII ATiONS
Love noi ihe world, neither the things that |
are in the world. If any man love the world, the
love of the Father is not in him.
Ist John 2:15.
Have you a iavome’ Bible verse? Mall to
A. F. Pledger, Holly Heights Chapel.
OPA: Office of Price Advance
BY PETER EDSON 4
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON,—This is old=home week for OPA
lobbyists in Washington. The+#/new pricé control
board—and be sure you don’t make the mistake of
calling it the price recontrol board—is holdingits.
first public hearings. o
The first problem is to decide whether to put
price controls back on grains, lives&’ock, milk, cot
tonseed and soybeans come Aug. 2:l‘, They haye to
think fast. SR
All the old and familiar outfits are hére. The
American Farm Bureau, the millers, the feed manu
facturers, the corn milling industry, the biscuit and
eracker industry, the livestock association, ¢ the
American Meat Institute, the National Restau"iap‘t
Association, the Association of Retail Grocers, the
lamb industry, Advisory Committee of the National
Wool Growers Association. And 60 others. |
They sit at a great long table in the Senate Office
Building majority caucus room and a fine, pros
perous-looking bunch they are, too. At another
long table sits the decontrol board, tall Chairman
Roy L. Thompson, short George Mead, medium sized
Daniel W. Bell. They are flanked by their small
stqfi,' half a dozen economists, advisers, counsel and
administrators, the last remnants of the Bowles Of
fice of Economic Stabilization line-up. They're
rapidly deserting the ship, too.
THE SAME STORY GETS MONOTONOUS
One by one the witnesses come forward. They
have pretty much the same story. They don’t like
price controls. They never did. They don't like
’em any better now that they’ve had a month of
business as usual with the controls off. They throw
endless statistics of billions of bushels and millions
of tons, all to prove controls should not be put back
of these commodities, That’s one side of the picture
and it gets about three-fourths of the time in each
of the four day-long sessions.
The other side is represented by the consumer
lobbies, the A. F. of L., C. 1. 0,, railway brother
hoods, Labor Policy Committee, the Amvets, the
university women, the Women’s Trade Union Lea
gue, the American Home Economics Association,
the Buyers' Strike Committee, Food for Freedom,
Having had a six-weeks taste of rising prices on
bread, meat, poultry and dairy products with the
ceilings off, they want the controls put back on.
Who wins and who loses?
One thing to be said for these hearings is that
they move. Statements are limited to 10 or 20 minu
tes though ~garx‘ulous Ed O’Neal of the Farm Bureau,
fifty pounds lighter than he used to be, took half
an hour to open the proceedings.
It’s all in the best goldfish bowl tradition but
what doesn’t show is the testimony from govern
ment agencies, Agriculture, Commerce, Bureau of
Labor Statistics and OPA itself. They have filed
voluminous reports on this situation ,with recom
mendations not yet made public.
OPA JUST GOES ON ADVANCING PRICES *
When all the testimony is in, the board will have
four days in which to make up its mind whether
the controls stay off or come back on. It will be
worth watching. It's the first test of how this board
is going to function.
. In the meantime, OPA, which has now become
lmown as Office of Price Advances, goes merrily
on its way lifting price ceilings here, taking them
off altogether there, modifying mark-ups all over
the place. Chief Price Advancer Paul Porter goes
on the air for his weekly chat a la Chester Bowles.
Porter does his best to justify the new law but ad
mits “I think we must ‘face the fact that some in
crease in the cost of living is unavoidable”
This wins the prize as the greatest understatement
of the year. It’s not:only‘unavoidable, it's here. When
Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 12 per cent in
creasc in the cost of food and a five per cent in
crease in the whole cost of living, all in one month,
there you have a good start towards inflation.
There isn’t anything anybody can do about it
either, since not even this new price decontrol board
can pass miracles. !
~ The largest and oldest national park in the United
States is the Yellowstone, in Wyoming; the newest
_is Big Bend, in southwestern Texas, _
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~lt's the Little Things
i Some psychiatrists say that we Americans are
suffering from a mass neurosis. Radio announcers
advise assorted nostrums for that tired, nervous
feeling. Various politicians assure us that various
things like more government planning, more free
‘enterprise, white supremacy, socialized medicine or
the Townsend Plan will put us on our feet again.
Obviously, where there is so much diagnostic
smoke there must be some pathological fire. We
seem on the way to becoming a sick, nervous nation,
if we aren’t there already. Some of our symptoms,
of course, are evident and have been thoroughly
explored, though not cured.
~ We are well aware of such things as severe short
age in the midst of bumper production. We under
stand the jumpy feeling that comes from having a
peace conferepce beat the same old diplomatie
bushes while the problem of controlling atomic
energy sits unnoticed in the anteroom. We are alert
to group and class tension and unrest.
All these add up to a state of confusion and con
tradictions.” But there are other little, inexplicable
contradictions and confusions that clutter up our
daily’ lives without our being fully conscious of
them. We are unwise to ignore them—for everybody
knows that it's the little things that drive you
wacky.
What little things? Well, here are some examples
gleaned from one day’s news:
The United States Navy sold two destroyer es
corts to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for sl,
or considerably less than the price of two dozen
eggs.
> Americans spent $1,200,000,000 last year on jewels
}and other baubles. Almost half the families in the
United States have an aggregate annual income of
less than S2OOO.
A scarcity of wild animals in Asia and Africa has
sent prices s 6 high that American zoo officials have
gone on a buyers’ strike.
New automobiles are scarce as pearls in oysters,
New tires aren’t much more plentiful. Old auto
mobiles and tires are wearing out. Getting train o 1
plane reservations is a major achievement. The
Commerce Department thinks that wvacationing
Americans may spend a record $10,000,000,000 this
year.
Flushing, N. Y., site of the New York World's
Fair, is planning a $50,000,000 shopping center with
streets cooled in summer and warmed in winter,
and with moving platforms instead of sidewalks,
to save customers the burden of walking. Near
Flushing, veterans’ families are living in new $9500
houses which have leaky roofs and doors, cracking
walls, sagging floors, and cesspools instead of sew-
age systems.
Little things like these, perhaps, are what have
alottof us turning around suddenly and finding no
body there. We ought to face them frankly and
fearlessly. The only possible drawback is that,
having done so, we might find ourselves a trifle
wackier than we were before,
. “Accounts Payable
The qity of Nuremberg, Germany, has presented
they Allies with a bill for $4.09, same being the fun
i¥expenses of Robert Ley, the Nazi labor leader
who hanged himself while awaiting trial.
For a prize example of two-bit German arrogance,
that would be hard to beat. Equally arrogant is
their reason for the bill—that Ley was the responsi
bility of the Allied military court. -
Apparently the city fathers of Nuremberg have
forgotten whose responsibility the Nazi leaders were,
and who was responsible for the insane continuation
of a lost war that reduced their city and much of
their country to ruin.
Now, undoubtedly, the Nazis and the ruin and the
hunger age, to their forgetful minds, the responsi
bility of the conquerors. The Nurembergers, whose
city was the shrine of Nazidom and whose thousands
heiled its leaders to the echo, feel put upon. And
80, in hurt indignation, they refuse to pay the re
paration—s4.o9 to put away the bull-necked straw
boss whose guilt-crazed mind drove him to suicide.
Until recently it took nearly 25 tons of violets to
make a single ounce of the natural oil for perfume.
Today the violet odor is produced synthetically.\
Water hyacinths grow so thickly in the Clarence
River in Australia that flood time rafts of the‘plant
sometimes 400 yards across float downriver past
Grafton carrying snakes, rabbits and foxes.
The first academy to train Coast Guard officers
was founded abroad the barkentine “Dobbin.” Later,
the academy was established at Curtis Bay, Md., and
finally as its present location, New London, Conn.
In 1897, when the U. 8. whaling fleet’ became ice
bound in the Arctic, the cutter “Bear” staged a dar
ing rescue and reached them in 103 days. Nine
months and 16 days after leaving, the “Bear” re
turned to Seattle on Sept. 13, 1898.
Du;‘ing the period 1797-1801, in an undeclared war
against France, Coast Guard cutters operated with
the Navy for the first time. As “U. S. ships raided
French vessels, Coast Guard cutters accounted for
18 of the 22 total captures, and assisted in the cap
ture of two others.
Before the war, American merchant vessels ann
ually brought to the United States enough pepper
and spices to fill 3,000 trucks and trailers, enough
bananas to provide every person in the nation with
two dozen, enough chocolate and cocoa to make a
bar-candy line to the moon, and enough sugar to
give each person 73 pounds. : :
It is estimated that 1,000,000 children in the U.
S. have some form of defective hearing other than
total deafness.
Broadloom means any carpet wider than 27 inches,
the width of the original looms, and does not refer
to a solid, color.
Crater Lake, in Oregon, is an extinet voleano now
partly filled with water, and is the largest crater
known upon the earth—about seven miles across.
Most animals have seven vertebrae but there
seems to be no definite standard. Swans have 25,
ducks about 16 and the tiny hummingbird 14.
~ The national bird of Guatemala is the quetzal. It
was chosen because it is a bird of freedom . . . it
will die in captivity, retaining the beautiful color
of its plumage even after death. ok
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Cecilly made it official’the next
day that sh, had told Steve they
were not right for each other.
Steve took it hard. That afternoon
he dropped in at the playground
to see Robert.
“Cecily is right,” Robert told
Steve, and Steve’s protests stilled
against the quiet authority of his
words. “She’s still in a state of
flux —and you’ve always had
things too easy Steve. You can't
help her over the next five years.
Val can. He's been through the
mill.”
Steve couldn’t accept defeat.
“It's love Cecily needs. I love
her.’
“Yes,” Robert said gently, “but
she doesn’'t love you, Steve. It
would have been Val from the
beginning if Della hadn’t stymied
it. You know that don’t you?”
Corinna had been in the next
office pretending the file Robert’s
correspondence listening shame
lessly to every word through the
crack in the door that had widen
ed—not by accident=two minutes
‘after Stgve entered.
When he rose to leave, still grim
;and unhappy, Corinna swung the
door back.
“Steve” she halted him. “Wait
a minute. You're coming home
with us to dinner.” . f
He started to refuse But Cor
inna stepped into a slant of late
afternoon sunshine and it sprayed
her long curling bob with gold.
Corinna is earthy and gay ang
sometimes she is beautiful, This
was one of those moments. There
was compassion in th blue eyes
beneath gold-tiped lashes but it
was not that which called to
Steve; it was something else, in
definable, teasing which stirred
him. He glanced sharply at Cor+
inna, seeing in the slimness and
vitality of the that young body
~—what?
~ “Thanks,” he said, and cleared
his throat, “I'm not very hungry
—but guess I'd like to have din
ner at your house, anyhow.
~ Corinna had spent the hour of
waiting for me at home after
Cecily’s wedding re-reading
Steve’s latest letters. There was
no question about it. When Steve
offered his ring again it would not
be because Corinna was second
choice. Robert’s sturdy daughter
' handled her affairs well. It's a
good thing that she has this ta
ient—Mrs. Halston has no use for
ne. 3 suppose\ it will make com
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“Mother,” Corinna said, “Daddy
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to Cecily. I walked down the hall
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for the slight showing of silver
about the temples he looked just
as he had the day I met him; the
agelessness of loving had been his
then as it was nows
“What it it?” I breathed.
His smile tried to reassure me.
“Cecily and Val were just here
for a few minutes. Cecily wanted’
to ask a favor of me.”
“Yes?* I entreated. I
“It sems that she promised |
Della months ago not to ask any
more questions about her mother
—not to try to find out who she
was. Della told Cecily it would
break her heart if she ever
learned.” .
I leaned against th, wall, not
strong -enough to stand alone un
der my load of resentment Della
was playing a new weapon against
me now—~Cecily’s love and her
gratitude to Della If the heart be
ing broken belonged to Della, then
Cecily must be careful of it
Anything belonging to Della
must be protected, especially if
one had acecpted any largesse at
her hands.
“But Cecily wants some remem
brace from her put on her moth
er’s grave,” Robert went on. “She
left money with me—l'm to ask
your assistance in the matter—"
I felt myself turn to chalk.
Robert gave his atention to his
hands as if seeing me were pain
ful to him. , i
“But Ive often thought,” he
said “What a strange story it
would be if Cecily’s mother had
not died after all—if, after sign
ing those adoption papers she un
expectedly recovered—" 2
My lips formed a denial but it
would not pass the stricture in my
throat.
“Undoubtedly”( Robert said ag
if he had not been ware of my
atempt, “that would havy meant
fiomplications. If Della and Thorne
ad cared for the baby at their
own expense during the mother’s
months of convalenscence she
would be bound by gratitude not
to jeopardize. Thorne’s life at a
critical period by demanding that
the adoption be set aside. She
might have made an agreement
with Della to wait hoping for
Therne’s recovery, until she saw.
to late, tifat he would never he
well. And Della of course, consid
ers anything hers which has cost
her money. But th, only logical
conclusion now is that she insists
on witholding the mother’s name
because she is alive. Ccily might
turn to her.” :
The thunder of judgement was
upon me. I struck out*bindly to
find the doorknob. “What differ
ence does it make? Della doesn’t
want it told—she usually has her
way doesn’t she?” i
“She won’t have it this time”,
Robert said.! “Its gone too’ far.
Neither of you can hold it back
much longer. Cecily will know.”
I tried to laugh from his proxi
mity to the truth. “It isn't possi
ble for her to find out. She can’t
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MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1946,
stumble onto anything—"
“Except perhaps the same mir
ror where Corinna is {rying on a
hat,” Robert said.
“Corinna!” I exclaimed, agast.
And then as the full magnitude of
that prophecy swefibver m. 1
moaned, “No!” @B,
(To Be Concluded)
Ae o . e o ety
MOVIE PROGRAMS
FOR THE WEEK
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PALACE—
Mon.-Tue. — “Night in Casa
blanca,” starring Marx Brothers,
Lois Collier. Unusual Occupa
tions. Rocket to Mars. News.
Wed.-Thu.-Fri.-Sat. — “00. S,
S.” starring Alan Ladd, Geral
dine Fitzgerald: News.
GEORGIA—
Mon.-Tue. — “Seventh Veil,”
starring James Mason, Ann Todd.
News.
Wed.-Thu. '— “Dragonwyck,”
starring Gene Tierney, Vincent
Price, News.
Fri.-Sat, — “Cinderella Jones,”
starring Joan Leslie, Robert
Alda. News.
STRAND—
Mon.-Tue. — “Gay Blades,”
starring Allan Lane. Jean Rog
ers. Fashiong for Tomorrow. Hol
iday for Shoestrifgisse Underseas
Spear Fishing., =%" =%
Wed. — “Crime #fithe Centu
ry,” starring Stephanie Bachelor
IMichacl Brown. G%an Mad
ness. Popular Scizanee.
Thu. — “Wajl\k ;imf:jthe Sun,”
staring Dana Andrews, Richard
Coute. Mes Pmdug{g!. ,
Fri-Sat. — “Gentleman From
Texas,” starring: Jehnny - Mack
Brown. T'll Take Milk. Phantom
Rider No. 12, d&idis
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Mon.-Tue. — “Mpy . Repouta
{jon.” starring Barbara = Stan
wyck, George Brenti Hush My
Mouse. R
Wed.-Thu. — “Blue Dahlia,”
starrine Alan Tadd; Varonica
Lazke. Poveye Ala. Made.
Fri.-Sat. — “Ghost of Hidden
Vallev.” starring® Bugte~ Crabbe.
Hot Spots. Lost City No. 10.
In 1916. Coast Guard aviation
was authorized by Congress.