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The Washington Notebook
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —Behind the coming
fight for control over Pennsylvania’'s 70 delegates
to the 1952 Republican convention in Chicago is an
involved story of state politics, state finances and
conflicting state legislative programs.
Pennsylvania state legislature has been in session
since January, This is the longest session in its his
tory. But the legislature still hasn’t come up with a
tax program 1o solve the state’s financial problems.
Pennsylvania’s state constitution prohibits an
ifndebtedness of over a million dollars, unless it is
approved by the legislature and veferendum. To get
around this, the state has created ‘authorities”—a
general authority, a bridge authority, a highway
authority.
These authorities have the power to issue bonds
and to contract debts for public works. Today the
total of this indebtedness is roughly S6OO million. It
was $Bl million when Governor (now Senator)
Janmres H. Dufi took over from Governor (now U, S.
Senator) Edward Martin. And there’s a big drive on
to blame Governor Duff for building up all this in
debtedness.
It includes $440 million in World War II veterans’
bonug bonds, $95 million in state general authority
bounds, sls million in highway and bridge authority
bonds, SSO million public works bonds,
To this service, Governor John S. Fine, Duff’s
successor and previously considered his man, pro
posed & budget of $1,220 million for 1951-52. To
raise this amount he proposed a flat state income'
tax of $5 on every SI,OOO, plus a 25 percent in
cteased tax on corporate net income.
DUFF OPPOSES FLAT INCOME TAX
The latter tax passed.” The former passed the
House but has been deadlocked in the Senate. Some
of the former Duif lieutenants have had a hand in
this. It is in conformity with his known opposition
to flat income taxes.
There is now a wage tax levied in Philadelphia
county, It applies also to residents of surrounding
counties working in Philadelphia. Duff’s position is
explained as a belief that a state flat wage tax
might easily lose Pennsylvania for the Republicans
in 1952,
In shaping this tax program, the door of Gover
nor Fine was thrown open to G. Mason Owlett. He
is president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’
30ciation and spokesman for the Pennsylvania
,ular Republican machine, long headed by Jos
eph R. Grundy.
In Governor Duff's administration, this door was
closed to Owlett. The story is that Owlett proposed
a state tax on unincorporated businesses. Because
this would hit gmall business, Duff would have
none of it. :
Their fight really narrows down to the issue of
whether the Republican party in Pennsylvania shall
follow the so-called liberal and progressive line, or
whether it shall remain rock-ribbed and conserva
tive,
Senator Duff’'s side of the story is that the
Grundy-Owlett machine has too long represented
special privilege without doing anything for the
state, Before he left the governorship, Duff pointed
, with pride to his record.
He claimed that Pennsylvania led the nation in
highway construction. It planned extension of the
toll turnpike te Ohio and New Jersey, with new
spurs north te go to Erie and the anthracite field.
REFORMS UNDER DUFF ADMINISTRATION
Stréam pollution was attacked to improve public
health. State mental hospitals were cleaned up after
sensational exposure. Educational facilities were
improved and teachers’ salaries raised.
It is claimed the Duff admrinistration levied $133
million in new taxes to pay for $l5O obligations
incurred by the Martin administration. While it
was predicted the Duff administration itself would
end with a S9O million deficit, Duff claims he left
it with a surplus of $lB million in the generai fund
plus & $49 million surplus in the motor fund,
All this and more, the Grundy-Owlett faction of
the party disp“tes most emphatically, The picture
Duff as a completely phony liberal, built up by a
Steve Hannegan press agent. Though he served four
years at state attorney general and was hand
picked by Governor Martin as his successor, it is
mow claimed Duff was a Republican conrpromise.
Grundy-Owlett followers claim Duff thought he
could maintain control of this machine from Wash
ington, through Governor Fine, and so dominate
the state in national as well as local politics.
Financially, it is claimed the Duff administration
left the state sll2 million in the hole.
In all this squabbling, Governor Fine is caught
in the middle, Saddened by the death of his wife
last year, and inexperienced in administration, he
has not made the forceful governor needed for this
situation, Moving in on it, the Grundy-Owlett fac
tion is trying to separate the governor from Duff to
regain control of the state.
The grapeiruit juice is for health, and the gin is
for sin.—Eloise McElhone, of television.
Reds’ ‘Big Lie" Peace Talk
.
Becomes A Boring Chestnut i
Two or there years ago, any kind of peace pro
posal from the Soviet Union sent the free world
into a breathless frenzy. Hope often ran high that
the Cold War was about to end.
Slowly, the world’s nren of good will learned the
bitter truth about the Russians. Tehy learned that
Russian peace offers were simply moves on a chess
board, tactical steps that often were offset by war
like gestures elsewhere at the very same moment.
They discovered, too, that when talk of peace no
longer suited the Kremlin’s strategy, it was drop
ped—to be revived on another convenient occas
ion.
The free peoples digested this lesson painfully
and grudgingly. Their wish for peace is so strong
that they found themselves tantalized again and
again by the thought that “this time maybe the Rus
sians mean it.”
Of course they never have meant it, and so at
length the illusions of the hopeful have been shat
tered. Once aroused, the scorn of the trustful is a
powerful emotion, It is that feeling which the Rus
sians now encounter when they propose anew that
the world sit down and talk peace,
Nikolai Shvernik, Russia’s figurehead president,
wrote a letter to President Truman the other day
suggesting a five-power peace parley with the U. 8.,
Russia, Britain, France and Red China taking part.
He talked of limiting armraments and outlawing the
A-bomb.
Our government promptly responded by label
ing the offer a “propaganda trap” designed to lull
the free peoples to sleep. The State Department
challenged Russia to honor existing obligations be
fore taking on new treaty responsibilities.
The French and the British joined us in deriding
the Soviet maneuver as mere propaganda. No one
anywhere in the non-Communist world saw in it
even a faint glimmer of hope.
Thus, without perhaps realizing it, the Russians
may have come to the end of a road. They may have
reached the point where repeating the same old
tired lies generates not only disbelief but damaging
reaction among sincere peace-loving peoples.
It is an axiom of totalitarian propaganda that if
you tell a big lie often enough it will be widely be
lieved. But it is quite cénceivable that the Rus
sians have squeezed the last possible ounce of ad
vantage from this technique, and now find them
selves relying on a formula which is sterile and
empty.
Is there anyone left in the free world who really
believes that Russian mention of the word “peace”
has any meaning?
Honorable men today attribute no color of truth
to any Soviet statement not issued under the pres
sure of opposition strength. They generally ignore
Russian words and watch Russian deeds. Perhaps
this fact will now begin to sink into the Kremlin’s
consciousness. If it does, we might hope to be
spared henceforth the wearying boredom of mean
ingless peace offensives.
Give Martin A’ For Effort
The Internal Revenue Code allows tax deduc
tions for property losses not covered by insurance,
'if caused by “fires, storms, shipwreck or other cas
ualty.”
When Martin Rosenberg’s house suffered SI,BOO
worth of termite damage in 1947, he decided the
law covered his loss and so deducted the item from
his income tax.
The U. S. Tax Court disallowed the claim. It said
several cases established that “other casualty” had
to be a “sudden casualty.” It added: “We cannot
find under the evidence here that the damage was
done suddenly or even recently.”
We are left with the tantalizing thought that if
the termites were just a little speedier at their
work, Mr. Rosenberg might have made the grade.
Anyway, it was a nice try.
Fourth Grade Arithmetic
Secretary of the Army Frank Pace once came
honre to find his wife and daughter Paula all tied
up over Miss Pace’s homework in arithmetic. Hav
ing been a Director of the U, S. Bureau of the
Budget, Secretary Pace took over, intending to
breeze through the problems.
At the end of an hour, he took his coat off and
at the end of two hours he took off his shirt and
really went to work. Next day he asked how the
teacher had felt about having all those problems
solved.
“Oh! Three of them were wrong,” said Miss
Paula, “but the teacher said not to feel too badly
about it. They were really fourth grade problems,
and not third grade.”
There's something missing from the usual ad
vance stories on American Federation of Labor’s
annual convention. It will be held this year at San
Francisco, opening September 17. Normally, about
now, there would be rumors about President Wil
liam Green reting. There have always been such
rumors for the past ten years or so. But not this
year. The 78-year-old union leader, who has been
A. F. of L.s president for 27 years, still loves his
work and is hanging onto it. And the younger men
behind him have apparently given up hope he will
ever quit.
Painting is not quite as absorbing as teaching
school, but the pay is better, — Harry E. Garner,
Lakewood, Ohio, teacher retiring to take up house
painting.
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WONDERS OF SPACE DO NOT
FAZE BLONDE MOVIE BEAUTY
By ERSKINE JOHNSON |
NEA Staff Correspondent |
HOLLYWOOD —(NEA)— The
Laugh Parade:
The cameras were about to roll.
A gleaming rocketship covered the
entire sound stage and on the side- \
lines the stars of the science-fic
tion opus, dressed in silvery
sponge rubber suits, helmets trim
med with curious antennae and
plexiglass face shields, waited for
the director’s call.
“Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?”
murmured the movie king looking
at the vast spaceship.
“Sure does,” agreed the blonde
beauty encased in her interstellar
costume. “Do you think there’s
MINK on Mars?”
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Julia Faye blushes to tell it even
today, but who is Julia to with
hold an important biographical
fact from the world?
A snappy patent-leather bathing
suit with a daring wool top had
been created for Julia to wear in
a swimming pool scene for Cecil
B. DeMille’s “Saturday Night”
back in 1922.
Julia plunged into the pool and
waited for the camera to grind.
Suddenly a blond, broad-shoul
dered extra rushed down to the
edge of the water and said:
“Duck, Miss Faye. That wool
top of yours has shrunk way down
and you're practically standing
there in your birthday clothes.
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Loretta Young on the age ques
tion:
“l know my age bothers a lot
of people. They say, ‘She must be
kicking 50 around.’ The truth is
that I've been in pictures since I
was 4 years old. I played with
Lon Chaney in ‘Laugh, Clown,
Laugh’ when I was 14. You take
it from there. Actually I'd love
being 50 years old.”
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It won’t be a sequel to “The
Thing from Another World,” but
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bert Lasker, cooked it up around
the breakfast table. |
A scientist, working on a secret
experiment, mysteriously disap
peared.+ The police found his day
to-day diary with these entries:
“Barney is now a foot tall. I'm
keeping him in the well.”
“Today he measures five feet in
height. Amazing.”
“My experiment is getting out of
control. He’s now 11 feet tall.”
“Today Barney is . ..”
The writing in the diary ended
abruptly. Beneath the final entry,
the police found these words in a
childish scrawl:
“I'm Barney. Please send female
monster.” .
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It happened at Ciro’s during So
phie Tucker’s engagement there.
She was hawking her record al
bums at a table and stacking the
greenbacks in a pile for sweet
charity’s sake.
An elderly man introduced him
helf, pressed Sophie’s hand ten
derly and whispered: “Don’t you
remember me, darling? Buffalo,
New York? 1918?
The last of the red-hot mamas
threw the Romeo a withering look
and bellowed: “Honey, at my age,
I don’t remember what happened
last night!”
What A Maid!
It’s Bennett Cerf’s story of the
opening of director Dudley Nich
ols’ Holiday House, located on the
beach north of Malibu. Plagued by
a shortage of trained hotel help,
Nichols prevailed upon an actress
to pinch-hit as a maid on the day
the inn opened. 3
Each weekend thereafter, two
men who signed the register the
first day checked in. Nichols no
ticed that neither seemed happy
upon their departure and finally
asked why.
“We were hoping,” said one, “to
run into that attractive maid who
was here at the opening.”
“I'm sorry, boys,” but she’s gone
on to better things,” Nichols a;fil;
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A London newspaperman writes
that Katherine Hepburn, Hum
phrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
keep singing, Bongo, bongo, I DO
want to leave the Congo” down
Uganda way where they’re co
starring in “The African Queen.”
Each star has a native attendant
whose task is to fan insects off
their faces.
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Comic Willie Shore at Ciro’s:
“Monday night we are having a
new blues-singing quartet. The
owner of this place, Herman Ho
ver, and his three auditors.”
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A Hollywood wag who has seen
some rushes of Jane Russell in
“The Las Vegas Story” said it:
“My, she’s become a fine ac
tress. Why, I remember her in her
HAY day in ‘The Outlaw.’”
NJCHOLSON
NEWS
Rev. and Mrs. T. D. Gibson, of
Union Point, were guests of rela
tives and friends here, Sunday.
Miss Bessie Anne Sailors of
Demorest, was visiting here last
week with Mrs. Bessie G. Sailors.
Rev. Furman Mclntire of Toc
ca, is scheduled to preach at the
Congregational Holiness Church,
Saturday night and Sunday.
The miscellaneous shower given
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for Mrs. Tommy Morgan, Saturday
afternoon, at Mrs. A. C, Smith’s
home, enjoyed by all the attend
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Rev. Pleman Folds of Center
will preach here at the Methodist
Church Sunday morning and
evening.
Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Holz and
daughter, of Waukegan, Illinois,
were guests of relatives here last
week. Mrs. Holz will be remem
bered as Miss Alma Lee Arnold,
formerly of this section, and her
friends made the visit pleasant
for the family.
W. T. Chester and family were
visiting in Atlanta last Sunday,
the guests of,relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Evans, Mr.
and Mrs, Wilson Nix enjoyed a
trip throught the mountain section
of North Carolina, Sunday.
Revival services will continue
through this week at the Fire Bap
tized Holiness Church, Rev. D. E.
Beauchamp in charge.
Mr, and Mrs. T. R. Morgan were
visiting in Toccoa over the week
end, the guests of relatives.
Rev. A. O. Hood and Rev, C. H.
Moncrief, of Jefferson, were a
mong the visitors here, Friday.
Revival services began at the
Baptist Church, Sunday morning,
and continues each evening
through the week. Rev. Ralph
Bowles, of Winder, is in charge
of the preaching, and will assist
in teaching the Bible S¢h¥ol,
which is conducted every morning
at nine o‘clock. i _
The illness of Mrs. Lillie Mat
thews of the Antioch Community
is regretted by friends, who trust
she will speedily recover.
Thomas McConnell has joined
the U. S. Navy, and left during
last week for his designation.
Wednesday of last week, Mas~
ter Dwayne Smith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis Smith, fell out of a
tree, breaking his left arm above
the elbow. He was rushed to an
Athens hospital for treatment,
and it's hoped he will soon re
cover. il
Mrs. Bessie G. Sailors, ac
companied by Earl B. Sailors and
family of, Demorest, were in
Madison last Sunday.
News from Atlanta states Mrs.
Lucy Venable is suffering from
another fall. Her friends regret
this, are in hopes that she will re~
cover speedily.
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Benton High is getting ready so,
the on-conting school year, A new
roof will adorn the main building,
and all other needed preparations
are being taken care of, and we
are looking forward to a grand
opening within the next feyw
weeks,
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