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Mfhifigtm MERftY-GO-ROUND M^rrrr * tla *"■ m.m.m.' M. ■■■ »r.l SIXTY MILLION JOBS One of the most significant dis cussions affecting the postwar world and the 60,000,000 jobs promised by Roosevelt is now taking place bo hind the scenes among top admin istrntionites. It involves the price wlvi"h manufacturers can charge for peacetime consumer goods when they begin making them, as some companies will shortly. A certain amount of peacetime production already has been author ized by the War Production board, and to prevent Inflation, the OPA will set the price 'I these goods. This is where the backst.mc debute has waxed hot and vehement. On one side have b. en Economic Stabilizer Judge Vins n. War Mobi lizer Jimmy Byrnes ami fur a while, OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, all arguing that prices of civilian articles produced now must not rise alove the prices paid for the same ar'.icles in 1942. On the other side are industry members of OPA, led by James Bruwnlee, formerly of Frankfort Distilleries, who argue that prices must be above 1042 in order to al low for increased wages and the higher cost of raw materials. Thej have worked out a substitute for mula based upon 1041 prices plus wage increases, plus the increased cost of raw materials, and they have now sold this formula to Bowles, despite his former speeches for the 1042 price base. Judge Vinson, however, points out that increased wage and raw ma terial costs in many cases have been nullified by labor-saving de vices. Most striking example of this was in the OPA study of the steel industry, showing that, despite Increased wages, the cost of pro ducing steel had decreased 9 per cent per unit since 1042. Another factor influencing Eco nomic Stabilizer Vinson is the fact that 85 per cent of tiie goods in volved are produced by only 13 com panies. Incidentally, Vinson is supported by General Hlectric's Charley Wil son, formerly of the War Produc tion board, who says that GE will sell rts refrigerators and washing ■nachines af pre-war prices. To do otherwise, he says, is "shallow, pas sive thinking." Finally. Vinson. Byrnes and other administration leaders are begin ning to lay the economic ground work for the 60.000.000 jobs which Roosevelt promised alter the war. And they are absolutely convinci d that, in order to have a big con sumer demand, there must be low prices, which in turn will keep fac tory wheels turning and men em ployed. The principle of high prices and scarcity, they argue, will mean fewer jobs and depression. • • • GOP PLANS FOR '4B Despite discouragement over Dew ey's defeat, GOP leaders already are laying plans for 1948. First step will be further rcvitalization of Re publican headquarters, enlistment of a cracker-jack staff to pep up party machinery. Republican Chairman Herbert Brownell. who has been resting in Arizona, wants to resign, will call a national committee meeting short ly after the first of the year which promises to be turbulent. Several factions will be gunning for Dewey, may try to seize control of the party machinery, set the stage for "Stas *en in '48." One key man in the post-election GOP set-up is shrewd, popular pub- Heist Lee Chesley, who joined the campaign late, is now in charge of national committee publicity. Ches ley, one of the brightest press agents on the Washington scene, is anxious to slug it out toe to toe with Demo cratic publicist Paul Porter. Ches ley's Washington predecessor, Car lisle Bargeron. handled publicity for the powerful Pennsylvania GOP ma chine (luring the campaign, and plans to continue working for Boss Joe Pew now that the balloting is over. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF «. The treasury department had two war films ready to show the public in the war bond drive, calculated to bring the war really horn® to the American people. One shov/ed a sailor on a stricken vessel, his clothes aflame, desperately trying to put the flames out. The Other was a close-up film of a soldier on the bat tlefield —dying. When the films were shown to OWI, it not only ordered that they not be shown to the public, but that the films be destroyed. C. Newly elected Sen. "Cowboy" Glen Taylor of Idaho is first cousin to sphinxlike Harold Dixon Young, who steers Vice President Wallace's political fortunes. fL The White House got a terrific barrage from the senate when word leaked out thrt two Jesse Jones henchmen, plus one disciple of Dem ocratic treasurer Ed Pauley, were to be appointed to the three-man Surplus War Property board. Sena tor Murray of Montana wired the President that he was shocked at the proposed appointments and would do his best to block them. | 4L Biggest crowds in the halls of the Pentagon building these days are officers hanging around vending ma chines, waiting for them to be filled with eigarettes. TMI-" nW'KIMIV KKI'OIJTFR nW'IM'RV. N f\. THURSDAY. DGCGMHER 7, 1911 Chinese Evacuate as Japanese Annies Advance ■jffftjT i^*^ ' ji Refugee trains are filled and covered (lower), with Chinese civilians being evacuated from the theater of war in eastern China. Hungry, disease-ridden Chinese fill the inside of the train. l T pper left—Entire family riding the roils, shoeless, ill and homeless. I'pper right—the stoic Chinese drape themselves inside, on top and even on the very front of the engines as they lice from the Japs. Japan Training Young Boys for New Wars While still in the grade school, Japanese youngsters are being trfcinid in the rudiments of flying. Each boy is given tests and training on the manirfulation of controls. The blindfolded boy has been whirled about in a spinning chair. When t':e chair stops revolving the boy is supposed to place his pointer on a specified spot on a chart. The accuracy he displays indicates his coordination, powers of recuperation and sense of balance—his fitness to become part of the future air force of Japan. First German Snow of Campaign jjjj^ Snow falling on the Siegfried line for the first time this winter has not prevented the Allied armies from making rapid advances into Ger man territory. Insert—Sgt. Sam C. INlcNeely, Morgantown, N. C., stands watch by his machine gun during the first snowfall to visit the First army at Monschau, Germany. Exercise Girl to Be Trainer $ H Her mind full of horses and the ambition to become a licensed race horse trainer, Shirleye Stanley, Baltimore, Md., Is an exercise "boy" at the track. She spends her days putting thoroughbreds through their paces to put them in top shape for their racing engagements. Right She mn1.93 "?tcel Ship" take a low hurdle. Greek Boy Veteran P •;*« ** Born in Cleveland, Ohio, 15-year old Louis Petropoulagos, went to Greece in 1936. Louis has partici pated in 14 battles and conducted himself as a seasoned veteran. Heroine Has Faith Seven-year-old Judith Ann Koch of Cleveland, lost her sight when sho ran into a street to save a dog im periled by an oncoming auto. Sho believes she will see again. She la shown with Ler new pet dog. Musicians Are the Funniest People: Adelina Patti asked $lOO,OOO for > certain three-month tour. 'But," ob jected an impresario, "that's more than the President gets!" . . . "Well," shrugged the diva, "then Ret the President." . . . Liszt was a character who wore the same kind of clothes whether the weather was rainy or fair. ... "1 never," he declared, "take notice of that which takes no notice of me." . . Handel composed so fast, they say, that the ink on the tup of the page of his manuscript had nnt dried by the time he reached the bottom. . . . Another gag of the d:iy: "Do you like Brahms?" ... "I don't know. What are they?" . . . "After Strauss—what?" an jour nalist once queried. "For one thing," music oraele Leonard Leib ling noted, "the critics." A journalist objected to the 7 a. m. piano playing in the room next to his in a Milan hotel. "Do you 1 always allow that?" he asked. . . . | "Not as a rule." they told him, "but we make an exception with : Mr. Verdi." ... It was the late ■ Alexander Woollcott who deflated a ! famous soprano boasting of her ex ecution of an aria she described as "difficult." . . . "Difficult!" groaned Woollcott. "I wish it had been im oossihle!" . . . At a Peabody con cert President Grant once observed: "I know only two tunes. One is "Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't." When Rossini heard Wagner's "Lohengrin" for the first time, he said: "One cannot judge a work upon a single hearing— and I have no intention of hear ing this a second time." . . . A German critic once wrote that "Wagner was a good musician, hut he left behind the Wagncr ites, which was most unkind of him." . . . "In order to com pose," said Schumann, "it is just enough to remember a tune which nobody else has thought of." . . . When Albert Snaulding toured through the Went one Winter, he told a theater man ager that his violin was 200 years old. . . . "Don't say any thing about it." replied the im presario, "and maybe the audi ence won't know the difference." Paderewski, when still quite un known, went to London armed with letters of introduction to influential Britishers. "Dear Prince," one said, "the bearer, Ignaee Paderewski. is a fiery young Pole and rathei charming when he doesn't play the piano, for which he has little tal ent." . . . Paderewski, unless a press agent of the day is fooling us, once accosted n polo player with the question: "What is the differ ence between us?" The other shrugged. "You," grinned Ignace, "are a good soul who plays polo. I am a good Pole who plays so' 3." . . . Grunfeld was caught by the father of one of his pupils kissing the girl. "Is this," stormed tne par ent, "what I am paying for?" . . . "No," replied the famous tutor, "1 do this free." A young man approached Mo zart and asked him how to write a symphony. "You're a very young fellow," the composer told him, "why not begin with a ballad?" . . , "But," pouted the youth, "you composed sympho nies when yon were ten," . , . "Yes," smiled Mozart, "but I didn't ask how." . . . Dr. Samuel Johnson admitted once he did not care for music. "But of all noises," he added, "I think mu sic is the least disagreeable." ... A young lady auditioned on the piano for Rubinstein. "What," she asked him at the end of the selection, "should I do now?" Snanped Rubinstein: "Get married!" Chopin, whose life Columbia brings to the screen in "A Song to Remember," could give more than the piano "the finger." He was a dinner guest in a Parisian home one night and, after the meal, was asked by the hostess to play some of his compositions. "But, madame," said Chopin, "I have eaten so lit tle!" . . . He once cracked to Liszt: "I prefer not to play in pub lic; it unnerves me. You, if you cannot charm the audience, can at least astonish them." . . . When DePachman mislaid his false teeth someone appropriately observed: "His Bach is better than his bite." . . To a young pianist, Nellie Melba remarked: "You have talent, presence, charm. All you need now to make a success is a nice hot scandal." Maseagni heard an organ grinder murdering an aria from his famous "Cavalleria Rusticana" and ran out of his house to show him the proper speed to crank out the melody. Next day the organ grinder carried a sign on the organ: "Pupil of Mas cagni" . . . Liszt paid women 25 francs to faint at an appointed time (a swoonsterl). He would prompt ly and gallantly dash from his key board and pick up the swoonee. Once, a hired fainter forgot her cue | and Liszt, very upset, swooned him self. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT _HELP_W ANTED • Persons now engned in essential industry will not apply without state went of availability from their local United States Employment Service. Rerlnterrd rharmacittts—Good workln* ri% duTons. Attractive proposition to one whs qualifies. Madison Drug Co., 600 Franklin, Tampa, Fin. USES referral card required, SALESMAN WANTED COLLECTION SALESMAN listing deltn quent accounts for collection by national ore nidation. Should earn STsO er more weekly. No nqe limit. CLEAHINO BII KEAU, 1514 Prospect Ave., Cleveland. O HEARING AID HEARING? no(^T' 9 CLKARLV DISCOVERT Vaco Ear Oil, n prescription to treat head noises. clogKcd-up feeling, ringing, hissing, dizziness, roaring in the he.id. Dry scan Itch e.irs •» mctimes a forerunner if drat* ness. It i l wonderful to hear eie.irly after obstruction is removed. Relieves severe earache. Send $2 today for applications delivered. VACO EAR OIL CO. tlOOdd Fellows Hide., Ilcpt. lft.Kalelgh.N.G* PHOTO FILMS FlLM—Guaranteed Ulimm Reloaded Cart ridges with Duoont Film 3fi Exp. f»Oc each. Credit 10c each for C rtrid-cs sent with order. ALLAN FILM SERVICE. Re* II JO. Station 11, CLEVELAND, OHIO. REMEDY PIMPLE FACE! Do they call you Chat? ACNEX will help. Your fare cleared or your money hack. Write NOW. EIIVIN Dltl'G CO.. Middleiovra. Okl*. USED TRUCKS USED TRUCK lIEADQI' ARTERS We have them, practically all makes, medcfci snd sizes. K-ROY MOTOR SALES. lUft Lee Street. Pbonc 5-ltMtf. Jacksonville, Flo. Beethoven's First Compositina Beethoven's first published mu sical compositions appeared in 1783, when he was 13. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT b) RUBBER m Tho lize of the country's •ynlhetic rubber production may depend not only upon technical progress, but also upon policies adopted lor dis posal of government-owned plants, in the opinion of John L. Collyer, president of Tha B. F. Goodrich Company and a pioneer in synthetic devel opment. Authorities expect that about 32,500 tons of natural rubber will reach the U. S. from the Amazon lan region this year. Our synthetic program Is now geared to pro duce 836,000 long tons a year •f this substitute for crude. ■jl I .Ckl ■■ I'■ •J I 1,1 DON'T JUST SUFFER COLD MISERIES GET MULTIPLE RELIEF RELIEF ONE-Red«e fever. RELIEF TWO-Ease stuffy note. RELIEF THREE-Reduce body aches. RELIEF FOUR-Eose muscle pains. RELIEF FIVE-Lessen headache. Grove's Cold Tablets, like many * doctor's prescription, are a multiple medicine. A combination of eight ac tive medicinal Ingredients especially designed for relief of usual cold mis* srles. Insist on genuine. 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