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BOBBY SOX "y Marly Links o* * I >=> t^-vT LX VI | "Richard, I would like you to meet my cousin?and I'd also like to emphasize that she's leavinf (or home next Monday!" ^ \y CROSS TOWN By Roland Coe sTore +oa P-ENT NANCY OH, LOOK WHAT j SOME MEAN / BOV DID ( THERE ? THAT'S ! jpK. BETTER " "What'il they cut besides whiskers?" By Ernie Bushmiller 1 1 ? CA/I i " 1 : MUTT AND JEFF here'sYyep? here's where) THE tweSTART WORK' J Pt-ACt.C^j y\ (ACTORS MUTT7W-I BOOKING A CENT Q**?i?mem {well, what's Your n specialty?" ^acomeon.comcon! *sj\letfc see YoU ?>> l dance.' rz (that's enough ,\let's hearvou l\\se/r.K WOO GWS V CAN'T r By Bud Fi?her /whosaidywe came^ ( we COULD? up here ^ -v-f to wash / r ?e ^windows') r?"- i? ? LITTLE REGGIE musical imstookemts |[ (to ukz\ Jwn) ^ to see please, something u (bass-viol, i /THIS IS ONE OF \ / OUR FINEST MODELS <.DE?P VELVET TONES I AND NOTICE THE AjSOLD FINISH^y FRY IT OUT FOR AWHILE ? 'certainly, art l ah?ad_ill j \8e8ack ) By Margaril 1 HI iii, , ill/,,/,J JITTER KWU U . \ m w WW By Arthur Pointer ^ r s . II REGTAR^ELLERS LET POP SEC, ^ 3 "THIS IUPOKT CARQ j fv ITS TOO UN66ALmRH. } \ \S I'LL uwt \ Y until He has a HfcU.Be. ^ ( CALLER. AH' I'LL > TOO BOSTT' 1 I RUSH HIM RER. I LOOK. IT OVER. I IHIS S&Vmf&y*S CARERJU.* 'A r .iilIJ ?COLT eNOUG* WAT vwr CVCMM JtMMlrt amtnmt AHOX 0 ( GENTLEMAN A rx? too, J s DUSTER. ) I > ? f?*om\ ( HI/A J ^IN^r. nifclMlfTIH^ X HtRiS \ ?\ ?*Hw* wm^ \ m ) HI6 REJORT J . PWMOPALyvi^^y By Gene Byrnes VIRGIL WE WAVE NT &OT ANP/SALT-M^? . \ SOBfJ SHALL I ^-ip^C use y"w\ MSTEAD Of }] water, m > 0SN6 A LITTLE I MILK. WITH J chocolate TT ^ rrVV | MJJ LtVU (V1C1* ^FUOC<-^??SNT) ^1 ?fl By JtS Hayo SILENT SAM lUJtome ^Jown fiefwdeJi h WASHINGTON Ay Walter Shead WNI/CWTMPMM The Muddle in War Surplus Sales WNU WMMhJmgtom Burtaa, , , If If Irt St.. N W. ' I 'ME whole machinery of Surplus * War Property has broken down and the entire situation surrounding the disposal of more than a hundred billion dollars worth of surplus war materia] is a confused, disorganized mess. This is the conclusion of your Home Town Reporter after an in vestigation, made because we have received scores of letters from vet erans asking how they can obtain surplus war properties. There have been more than 280,000 applications from war veterans during the jiast sis months, all wanting to buy sur plus property, mostly trucks, jeeps and automobiles. Only in rare in stances have they been able to do so. Here's the situation about surplus Property, it is now scattered among eight governmental agencies at 188 different points in the country? Re construction Finance corporation for consumer goods, producers' goods, war plants and aircraft; C. 8. Mart time Commission for marine prop erty; the state department for goods overseas; the department of agri culture for food and agricultural products; the Federal Works admin istration for community facilities such as sewers and utilities; the Federal Housing authority (or hous ing; and the department of the in terior for grazing and mineral lands and all surplus goods in Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Bico. Then there is the Surplus Property administra tion presided over by W. Stuart Symington, who, as administrator makes policy, but who has absolute ly no authority over any of the oth er agencies selling the property. War Ant. Corp. TTrnld And to make the confusion more complete, President Truman, back m mid-October announced the for mation of the War Assets corpora tion to be headed by Lt. Gen. Ed mund B. Gregory, the quartermas ter-general of the army, to take over ?11 surplus property from the other agencies, except the state depart ment, on November 5. Then this was postponed until December 1 then to January 1, and now to Felv ruary 1. The transfer may take place February 1 under the powers the President has under the new governmental reorganization act But still there will be divided au thority, with General Gregory acting as sales manager and Symington as policy head, but with absolutely no authority over what Gregory or any one else does with War Assets cor poration. Reason for much of the confusion and misunderstanding is this divid ed authority, and the fact that no where is there an inventory of the property which is declared surplus. Whenever, in the opinion of the army or the navy, property is no longer needed, it is turned over to various agencies as surplus. Hie then put " UP 'or sale. What happens when a veteran goes to buy surplus war property? ?the PhUa<lelphia area. He travels 50 or 100 miles to Phila buy? *""*? a camera and another gadget. First thing he finds out is that some municipality has priority over him and has taken all the trucks fit to use. Then he tods out that there are a hundred ihere ahead of him .iff ^ V1' ?ame mission, and fur ther that what he expected to buy for ten cents or less on the dollar is much higher and is being sold on a ceiling price fixed by OPA. Central Authority Needed ter he has ***" shunted around between the Smaller War Plants corporation, the RFC Dis posal agency, the department of conunerce, and the navy material Redistribution office. And be comes away sore. Everybody he deal, wttb is mad and dissatisfied. Very likely he returns empty-handed. ,U sales SIT^i ^ V A**eU eorP?ra dLwtnl ? help is a matter at conjecture. Personnel of RFC win ?fl operate the War Assets cor poration, and apparently General Gregory is none too sanguine about the success, for he is merely on loan from the army. What is apparently necessary is a merger of Surplus Property ad mimstration and War Assets corpo ration. Symington, if he stays as administrator, would be policy-mak ing head, and Gregory or someone else would be sales manager, but adth the administrator in complete charge for centralized authority. i*. m,tter ?urPlus prop. m~,?. ! W'r babT th*t 00 f?vern mental agency wants. Remembering the scandals in surplus Drooertv aft. whcT?2d? has been bound up in red tape bv the officials, for nobody wants to go to Jail as a result of "errors'" in surplus property sales this time. It seems to this reporter it is ^?i5L2e ,*esident to make this centralized authority come true, or elae surplus war property will be a ~^7MTiI!mmi|Cheju?r *vmrrb?a' ?o will the veteran. ** *** V OU learn a little as the years < 1 pass hjr. Not much. Just a little. One of the tew things I've learned this season, meaning IMS, is that I the word "greatest" doesn't belong in sport. There is no such word. There never was and never will be a "greatest" football or baseball team? a "greatest" golfer or "greatest" pitch er or "greatest" anything. The word is simply too big GranUand Rice f?T the human race | to handle. The word "good" is different. Even the word j "great" in sport has been overused. 1 took over the list?Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth in baseball?Jim Thorpe, Pudge Heffelfinger, Bronko Nagur ski. Red Grange, and 20 others in . football. Among the pitchers?Cy Young, Mathewson, Johnson, Alexander, on and on. Among the golfers?Bobby Jones, | Walter Hagen, Byron Nelson, Harry , Vardon. Among the fighters or boxers? Dempsey, Jeffries, Louis. I can give you 10 more. Among the greatest college foot ball teams?Army 1945, Notre Dame 1943, Notre Dame 1930, Minnesota, Southern California, Pittsburgh, Al abama 1935, Michigan and Yale in the old days. All good, maybe great. But none of them the greatest. Baseball teams?The Cubs of 1906 1910, the Athletics of 1910-1913. The Yankees at various stages. All good?few great?none the greatest. Who Is FootbalVs Greatest? Is Doc Blanchard greater than Bronko Nagurski? Certainly not. I Not yet. In fact Minnesota and Michigan camp followers will tell ( you that fast 230-pound Bill Daly is a greater offensive back than either (Nagurski or Blanchard. And they can be right. I can name you more than a few backs that might be more valuable to a team than either Nagurski or Blanchard. j The greatest passer or the great est pass receiver? Sammy Baugh or Don Hutson. Maybe. But Greasy Neale says he would rather have Sid Luckman than Baugh and Hut son combined. Maybe Greasy is wrong. Maybe he isn't. Who is going to know? Greasy would rath er have Van Buren than any back he ever saw. Bert Bell of the Steel ers would rather have Bill Dudley for all-around value. I think Clint Frank of Yale is more valuable than either. I put this complicated problem up to Greasy Neale. "Maybe I'd rath er have Clint Frank," he said. "I mean taken every way." As fine as Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis are, I don't think either can do all the things that Clint Frank could do. We can move into other fields to prove there is no such word as I "greatest." Man o' War or Exterminator? Man o' War quit as a 3-year-old. Man o' War is the symbol of rac ing greatness. But Exterminator ran and won for many years?from six furlongs to two miles?from 120 pounds to 140 pounds. As we move along I still say there is no greatest. There is neither an individual star, a team or a home that any one can put above all oth ers in competition. Although Pndge Heffelfinger had one unchallenged football record at least. He was an All-America in 1889 and Just as good 30 years later when he was 53. Who can say whether Bobby f Jones, Harry Vardon, Walter Hagen or Byron Nelson was the greater J golfer? Hagen beat Jones 12 and 11 in a 72-hole match. But Jones beat Hagen 10 straight ye-srs in the U. S. Open, where the ? blue chips were down. 1 Modern Advantages ! Only yesterday I ran across an ! old-timer who had run the 100-yard dash against Arthur Duffy and Ber nie Wefers, in the fast time of 9 6 "Don't forget," he said, "this time was over a slow track with bad j running shoes. Under modern con ditions either Duffy or Wefers could have beaten Jesse Owen, Paddock Ij or any other modem sprinter. So, again, who is the greatest sprinter? The answer is nobody. Games are played under different conditions, where the modem bunch have all the better of the breaks in every way They get the faster backs, the better equipment, the better groomed and easier golf ( courses, ^ the better coaching and training in every form of sport, the better chance to improve. There isn't a man connected with sport for the last 50 years, or a team, that could be called "the greatest " P-re ha, never been a greatest football player, a greatest baseball , player, or a greatest anything else. In other words, sport has known i no superman, and neither has the hn i man race in any ether form of exist ence. Unknown thousands with the same break eonld have surpassed i famous names. This outburst U a part answer to those who keep wrtt ' I ?* h "t*e greatest" . h tsiims Isw. It Is stfll worth ll Just to be goad. Space-Saver Racks For Closet Doors WHY wish for mora and bigger closets if the ones you have are not organized so that all the space is used? Handy racks on the door add readily accessible space for things used every day leaving inside shelves for storage. The racks shown here are careful ly planned to hold the things youl use the most, yet they are less] than three inches deep. Everyday hats are held in perfect shape by a curved front made to fit crowns. Both small and large articles are held conveniently In the lower rack which also has a hanger rod. These racks are also useful for children's togs and tjys. 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