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OIL FROM 1 OHt BOTTLR KMLE / k ?tOU'RE AT IT! y/ . (jr^r VIRGIL By Len Kle'u I lUftMCQ.Tmg iC W TMT L I I ^ I I -M I I T~T*l Vlft&tL - I'VE &OT 1 S0METWN6 VEttV J msr&g ??tw \ou) tT'ai MEET MEAT \ TW MUSEUM- ) > ROOM 1213 I ^jRl&UT AIM) / NOW - ABOUT I ( TVU5T TIM CENTS ) ME f SILENT SAM By Jeff H?yc? MUSEUM B OF ART Ti taCTR/kNC^I Released by Western Newspaper Union. OVEBSUPPLY OF CURRENCY MAY CAUSE INFLATION 1 MORE THAN 100 MILLION of our 140 million Americans have a direct interest in one or more of the fol lowing forms of investment: stocks and bonds of corporations, savings deposits in banks, holdings in build ing and loan companies, insurance policies, government securities. Such things represent a large portion of the wealth of the na tion. All of them would be wiped ont, or seriously affected, by a runaway inflation. The causes leading to such an Inflation are: An insufficient commodity production to meet the buying demand; a conttnu ing upward spiraling of wages and prices; an oversupply of i circulating currency; an unbal anced federal budget, with con tinued borrowings from the banks. Strikes, decreased working hours, slowdowns encouraged by union leaders, have prevented that maxi mum peacetime production of com modities needed to meet the unusu al demand, created by four years of war. Labor has demanded and, in | practically all cases, received high f?r wapps That with wnrkintf hours, and a lowered per man hour production, has heavily increased production costs. To maintain a pos sibility of any production means higher prices for commodities. That marks but another step in the vi cious circle of higher wages and higher prices. Nothing has been settled on a permanent basis. With in a year there will be another de mand for wage increases to be followed by another boost in prices, and so on to the end. The circulating currency is In creasing with each passing day. It Is now several times what it was as late as 1930. Backed by no standard of value it can continue to depreciate until it has no buying power. When we have reached that point we will have utter financial chaos, and be nationally broke. Such a con dition not only can, bnt may, , come unless something is done to check the present tendency. No real effort is being made to ward that economy of operation in the federal government that can produce a balanced budget. We have a larger number of bureau cratic civilian employees than were on federal payrolls during the war. We are proposing the expenditure of billions in new social experiments, and the construction of new ven tures. The budget is not balanced, and we are continuing the methods of deficit financing that can lead only to national bankruptcy. While all of these things happen a Nero congress continues to fiddle away on a partisan tune, more in terested in securing a political ad vantage than in saving the nation from that dire disaster?inflation. Congress can do the saving job if it will but act quickly and honestly. Next November the people can act if congress has not done something more than play politics. ? ? ? WHAT A FARCE from oar viewpoint was that not-so long-ago election In Russia. There was one ticket only. The citiaen voted that ticket or none. All candidates on the one ticket were picked by IS men, of which Joseph Stalin is the leader. The elee ? tion could not be other than unanimous. In Russia they call that democracy. It was about as democratic as the elections in the racketeer controlled father unions in this country. We hare no objections to the Russians ha Tins such a system so lon( as it is what they want. ? ? ? IN A SPEECH in South Caro lina Federal Controller General Lindsay C. Warren named pos sible avenues out of the present financial morass of the nation. As the second of these he said: "Should we not have an apprais al of the never-endinf succes sion of ney programs propos ing large drains upon the fed eral treasury? While some of these programs may be promot ed from Washington, too often does congress mistake as the 'voice of the people' the urg tngs of special pleaders, blocs, privilege seekers and treasury raiders. Business, agriculture and labor have a tremendous stake in a balanced budget, for, after all, they are the ones who must pay on the barrel head." ? ? ? PUBLIC OPINION can be molded much more effectively by factual in formation, presented as such, than by rabid denunciation of the cause to which you are opposed. Rabidly atpiused opinions do not change votes. ? ? ? FRIENDSHIP is a give and take proposition, with special emphasis on give. ? ? ? IT IS the exceptional Individual Sweet Bound-House Those designs (or living in the world of tomorrow keep coining. Every day some fellow who must have studied architecture while riding in Mardi Gras parades springs something newer and screw I ier in housing. a ? The brass ring in this month's Caronssel Ride with Blueprints goes to a Kansas man who has produced a round bungalow. m It looks like a butter dish with ventilation arrangements, a super mousetrap with roof, a derby hat with windows. ? It is made of aluminum and Is suspended on cables from a steel shaft. The rooms, six of 'em, are cut in like slices in a pie. It is the ideal home for a six day bicycle racer who has married the winner of a marathon waits and who is raising a family of hysterical roller skaters. ? It takes a heap of living to make a place seem home, as Edgar Guest said. And Edgar never lived in a home where the tenants had to steal three lane nn themselves to deter mine where the front door was. ? A window runs all around the house. No matter where 70a sit yon get a choice of views. Life in a house like this must make you feel like a cross between a roulette ball, the needle in a compass and breast of chicken under glass. ? In such a home you are really a chocolate eclair with ears and a cream puff with plumbing troubles. ? Viewed from a distance the place looks like half a watermelon with curtains qver the wormholes. ? In it there is the spirit of a Sal vadore Daii dream sequence, a night-club designer's nightmare and a pinwheel maker's lost week end. * We are ordering one for summer occupancy. But we will shoot the first neighbor who sticks his head into our living room and yells "Fifty dollars for a sprintI" ? ? ? Spring Signs Gentle spring Is here I know? The thrush sings in the tree,. The turtle dove is singing low, (We'll soon bomb Bikini) . . . The frogs are croaking on the pond, The kids play mumble-peg, Lambs gambol in the fields beyond ... (Will peace now lay an egg!). The vernal season, yes, is here, And I have ample proof: Much gayer Is the chanticleer, The squirrels romp my roof; I saw an oriole today. The buds burst near my door? And everywhere the people say, "Looks like another war!" The bluebird soon will be along. The dew is on the grass. The woodland now is full of song And congress full of gas; The hurdy-gurdies grind it out . . . (The little states get knocked about As ultimatums fly!). - The waterfall Is foaming white, The trout are sCen to break, I heard a nightingale last night . . . (Joe Stalin's on the make); Along the wall, the chipmunks ran, We soon will have bock beer, (Onr army has a rocket gun To pierce the stratosphere!). ? ? ? Have yon heard about the UNO delegate who was disturbed in a New York hotel and phoned down, "I demand a little peace here!"T ? ? ? There may be tome good reason why no notion ever lends any money to Uncle Sam, but there can't be any why none ever offers him a cigar. a a a Use for Old Street Cars The papers are devoting much space to the "discovery that old street cars can be converted into pretty comfortable dwellings." Dis- 1 covery my eyel Years ago we were a surface-car tenant, a two-surface car dweller to be exact. Two were hauled down to the beach of a Con necticut shore resort and a small living room built between them, I with a porch added front and rear. Each car was used as a bedroom. We occupied a set-up with a bunch of boys back home. There was only one drawback. Jim Finnegan used to get in after midnight and enjoy ringing up fares. ? ? a SHORT STORY I matched my ready wit with men And new I'm an atone again. ? ? ? With the Want Ads "1937 Plymouth, 4-room sedan, celling price $390. John Muail, MS W. N. Y. Times. ? With guest room between the car buretor and the battery? ? ? ? We trust that if then h a free batch at ?to imp bar than tsiU ha Am S YOU probably know, it isn't an easy job to get baseball managers to give out personal inter views concerning the comparative strength ot certain stars or certain po sitions. It so hap pens that one of the most important sectors in baseball, especially winning baseball, is that spot of the diamond guarded by the shortstop and the second baseman. While no direct! Joe Gordon quotes were avail-1 able we have run across seven managers and scouts quite willing to giv% out their pri vate opinions. Here is the way the concensus came out? No. 1. Rlzzuto and Gordon, Yankees. No. 2. Pesky and Doerr, Red Sox. No. S. Reese and Rojek, Dodgers. No. 4. Boudreau and Mack, Indians. No. 5. Marion and Verban, uarainais. This ranking or rating included all-around quality, hitting, fielding and double-play results. There was a close finish between the Rizzuto Gordon and the Pesky-Doerr com binations. It was generally agreed that the Red Sox pair carried the higher-hitting average, but the de fensive play of Rizzuto and Gordon gave the Yankees a slight lead. In the work they have shown be fore and what they have turned out this spring, it would be difficult to find a more brilliant pair of infield workmen than Rizzuto and Gordon. Both are all over the lot. And both can get the ball away quicker than you can discard a burning package of paper matches. They keep you dizzy attempting to follow their dou ble-play actions or their work on some slow grounder that has to be handled in split-second time. Pesky and Doerr are good and they are likely to rate higher on the hitting side. But certainly on dgfense the Yankees have the edge over any other combination in ei ther league. The Dodger Ranking I was surprised to see Pewee Reese and Stan Rojek rated over some of the others. But these votes came from scouts who had talked with National League managers. They figured that Reese would be good enough to give either Marion or Miller a stretch run at shortstop and that Rojek would be a big sur prise. Oddly enough they figured that while Marion and Boudreau were two of baseball's best short stops, their second-base support couldn't match Gordon or Doerr. And Rojek, with all his bright pos sibilties, is still something of a guess when planted in this able company. This shortstop-second base com bination means a lot to any winning club. Suppose we look back a few years?there were the old Cubs, winner of four championships in five years?and their entry was Tinker and Evers. How about the Athletics from 1910 through 1914 when they also won four pennants? Their an swer is Jack Barry and Eddie Col lins. Cleveland once had Tuck Tur ner and Larry Lajoie. One of Mc Graw's greatest teams had Dave Bancroft and Frank Frisch. They were factors in winning four pen nants in a row. It might be noted that the clubs more favorably mentioned in the two pennant races are strong at this essential fortress. They are the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Car dinals. ? ? ? Two-Sport Stars A while ago we attempted a rat ing of the best baseball-football combinations such as Frank Frisch, Snuffy Stirnweiss, Lou Gehrig, .Ma thewson, Overall, etc. Ray Famham from Philadelphia writes that we have left out the star bet of the lot. "His name is Mickey Cochrane," says Ray. "Cochrane is still re mumuerea as one oi tne great catch ers of all time?one of the best hit ters?a winning manager. But few remember that at Boston university in the early twenties, Mickey was also one of the best backs of many seasons. He was a star triple threater?one who could pass, run and kick with any All-America named that season. He was also a magnificent tackier and blocker. Cochrane was also the strongest part of the offense used by the Providence Steam Rollers." In addition to this baseball-foot ball argument we have already lo cated the best combined tennis and golf player known to sport. His name Is Ellsworth Vtaer. b his day tennis never knew a harder hitter. He waa one at the best. Vines is new to be listed among the better pros, good enongh to break 7* here and there, and usually la the low 71s. The tall and willowy Ellsworth can belt the ban a long way, is a first class iron player mid a pretty good putter. His long game is good aU the way. Vines has always been a fine cmnpeUh*.
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