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T SPENT MOST OF MY TIME IN THE GUARD HOUSE / / V I R iG I L , By LEN KLEIS 7 ^ "> 6fcE-OOJT MXI WW WE WERE ' aj? EWOU6+CTO OdTOCfcNCES, / ?? D0KW4A * J NOT'?N fc$?ClAUV) focmxau > uke >< (PANCES? /NO-0AMCIN& ) 1 ?NOT>?N& L BUT MU6CXS4&T 56.T TD V WHAT DON'T J VOL) LIKE, f ^ ABOUT J wt? , ;/the\ (music) ! PRIVATE I = BUCK I i? i CtjfclMK = i CAMP PUCKER 1 ??===I ? MABTd I s=-- OF h Amnc5IA Ci VICTIMS ' -ir u| I ?<*-?>?< was canceled, bat be thinks he caa ret cat ft na?, anyway!" I CROSS | TOWN By = Roland Coc ?-? ? "She's afraid I'U qatt hefere I ret her Uwa mowed. Beery Mm I ?lew dewa she trots eat with a pitcher of lfeaalu ** s?~?I HOME TOWN REPORTER In Wathington By WALTER A. 3HEAD WNV SuH ConttpomdmU Something Is Cooking WNU Washington Burtau 621 Union Trust Building '"THE momentous news of world import which is coming so fast these days pushes into the back ground the day-to-day happenings of Walter Shead me ruu une upei a tion of our govern ment here in Wash ington. The fact, however, is that our governmental agencies must con tinue to function and it is likely that with in the next week or JO days some top flight news may be expected to start popping from the department of commerce. Former vice president Henry A. Wallace, new secretary of com merce, has been ominously quiet since he took over from Jesse Jones. Wallace thrives on action and it's not like him to remain quiet. Clipped of his powers over the vast Reconstruction Finance corporation, the new commerce boss has been quietly combing the multi-num bered bureaus within his depart | ment with the assistance of a com mittee of three outstanding experts, in an effort to find out what makes commerce tick and to draw up a program on what the department needs for revitalization ... re juvenation along the Wallace ideas of government cooperation with business . . . with especial emphasis on small business. The rumpled-haired secretary oc cupies a huge office, walnut paneled, on the fifth floor of the two-block long and block-wide gray stone building. It is a bee-hive of activ ity. Musty, staid, slow-moving of fices which line the maze of corri dors are being given a thorough going-over and house-cleaning. Wal lar-p wants a rianartmant nf rnm merce which can be a real help, of fer a stable program to business, not just an information and re search agency. He is attempting to streamline the department for post war action. One of the first needs of small business, he opines, in the post war era is a return to what be calls character banking . . . that is, loans on a man's record and ability, rather than on his col lateral assets. He declares that, increasingly since 1913, the small banks of the nation have been operating under bank ex amining rales which make it im possible for these small banks to make this type of loan . . . and he further believes that what he terms as equity financing . . . some modification of the govern ment guaranteed loan plan of the FHA. should be provided for , small business in this postwar era. Closest to Wallace's heart, prob ably, is his bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. "I am going to go all-out to get the maximum of usSge from what ever powers may reside in the dif ficult bureau of foreign and domes tic commerce to foster and develop trade here and abroad," he said. "I am going to use those powers to the maximum to get an increased foreign trade." This means that Mr. Wallace will have developed q pro gram based on removal of tariff barriers because he believe. *at when this nation raised the tariffs on our exports after World War I, "that is when the world tailspin really began with a vengeance." Wallace likely will revamp com- 1 pletely the patent office which is I said to be a year and a half behind in its work. Civil Aeronautics ad ministration will play a decidedly I more important role under the Wal lace reeime. So imnnrtant Hooo Wallace believe the air age will be ! come after the war, he himself has learned to fly. Ben Stern, blustery, but efficient public relations di- ! ; rector of CAA, has apparently made a good impression on Wallace and may be stepped-up in the reorgani i zation. Then Hay 1, Wallace took over, lock, stock and barrel, the huge Job of surplus property dis posal, some hundred billion dol lars worth, from treasury pro curement. This will throw him in closer contact with business, and he likely will make some changes, probably setting up state offlees, Instead of the 11 regional branches as operated by treasury. Maritime commis sion is another department which looms important in post war with our need for ship bottoms. Do not let the adverse publicity received by Wallace as a so-called ; "Idealist" and a "dreamer" fool , you. He firmly believes in free en terprise for business. He says: "The key to making this Ameri can bill of rights a part of the ' American way of life is the whole-hearted recognition by all our I people of the simple fact that in America the future of the American worker lies in the- well-being of American private enterprise and the future of American private en. [ terprise lies in the well-being of the j American worker." UAPPY CHANDLER, the new 11 baseball commissioner, was a first-class Kentucky governor and a first-class Kentucky U. S. senator. He has been a good all-around ath lete in many sports, including foot ball, baseball and basketball. He has been a sportsman at heart?a clean, honest shooter. But he may not be as happy as he is today, or has been through the Happy Chandler mont years, when the present and the postwar problems of baseball fall across his neck. For these prob lems will be many and varied and tough.' They will require not only sound judg tMfcu* UII wiiuiussiuiicr uiianaier 9 part but also the ability to (ace more than a few club owners who are go ing to look largely to their side o( the argument. They have the money invested, and that's always a big point in most human debates. It isn't any question of crookedness that Happy will have to face, but now and then a matter of craft and cunning. I can tell Happy that practically ev-ry c'ub n?vncr and ball player had so much respect for Judge Lan dis that it amounted almost to fear. They wanted no part of the llery, aggressive judge. After the war there will be over 4,000 of these ball players shed ding their fighting uniforms for base ball clothes. These men had con tracts before they left, varying in financial amounts up to Hank Greenberg's top of around $5b,P3Q. A majority of these may not be good as they were after two or thret years service in army and navy. Bo those who return?and many won . ?will expect to get what they re ceivea or were guaranteed before moving into war. They won't expect to take any cut, until they have had at least a year to prove their places in the game. It may be that every club owner will fall into line and pay old sal aries. It may be that many won't. But the new commissioner must sup port the ball player to the limit? not the club owner. Cardinal Stars The Cardinals are the leading ex ample. Sam Breadon's Redbirds had more good ball players than any two clubs you can mention, includ ing quality and quantity. If the Jap part of the war is'over within a year the Cardinals will have more good ball players on hand than any two teams can handle. Take the case of the Cooper broth ers. They were asking $30,MO a year from the Cardinals, togeth er, before Walker Cooper was taken into service. Both know that the Yankees, Giants or Tigers woald be extremely pleased to give them 150,000 or $60,0M a year. But St. Louis isn't a good baseball town, so Tar as attendance goes. St. Louis is no New York, Detroit, Brooklyn, Chicago or one of several other major league cities.-- The ' Cooper brothers at $30,000 a year, combined, would have been a tre mendous baseball bargain almost anywhere else. Plenty of Headaches When the war is entirely over, Happy Chandler will have at least 4,000 headaches which he must face, regardless of what the baseball owners think or want. Here is the way I rate baseball's importance? 1. The players who make the game ? including, of course, the stars who help draw the crowds. I. The fans or crowds who make baseball possible as a major spec tacle. They pay the salaries and keep np the ball parks. 3. The owners?who can get in and out at almost any time?and who in the main get into baseball inrongn the motives ol profit and publicity. The latter comes last If they quit, others are more than ready to take their places. With few exceptions, they hardly count in the building of the game. They have contributed less than any other factor. It is for this reason that Happy Chandler must look after the game first ? the players second ? the crowds third ? and refuse to let the owners shove him around. Hap py Chandler has been the best-na tured man I ever met in sport. But to carry out this job he now faces, he will need all the iron a single system can carry. Unless he does, he has traded happiness for $50,000 a year. It isn't worth it. The Black Sox Series It was 26 years ago that the Black Sox scandal developed. Lately we talked that famous series over with Earl Greasy Neale, who played with the Reds. "We had no idea at all this seriee was crooked," Greasy said. "How could we? There had been rumors about Chick Gandil, Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver. But Gondii's hit ting beat us in one game. In fact, the fellows rumored as the crooks atarTed aU through tbe aeries."
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