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Wanted: Qualified Managers A news item in the Wall Street Journal said, “The trend toward bigger stores has led to special college courses to fill the demand for people qualified to manage such operations.” The paper then pointed out that Michi . gan State Is now offering a course in food distribution, with special emphasis on supermarket management. Chains and other retailers are eager for the graduates. This is indicative of the strides that retailing has made in the last generation. Running a successful store isn’t just a matter of buying stock, adding on a profit, and then waiting hopefully for patronage. Retailing is one of the most competitive of all enterprises. It is en tirely dependent on the tastes, desires and the changing whims of the consumer. The customer who is displeased or disappointed goe6 elsewhere next time, and usually his trade is permanently lost. Retailing thus offers almost endless opportunity for men and women .who wish to make it a career and have the necessary training and aptitudes. < > Moreover, retailing, in ail its branches, is a field where there’s always room at the top. The executives of many of our leading chain systems, for example, began as clerks, warehouse people, assistant buyers, arid in other minor capacities. Energy, ambition and intelligence brought them advancement. s Finally, there’s nothing dull or static about present day retailing. The retail store is America’s show window and it is as varied and colorful as America itself. Oil Expects More Attacks The chief executive of one of our leading oil compa nies* recently stated that new attacks on the oil indus try may be expected in the next Congress and that an effort will be made to repeal or reduce oil’s depletion al lowance of 27 Ms per cent. This allowance, which applies against taxes, has been in effect for a great many years and has been approved by one Congress after another. Loss or reduction of the fdlpwancp, in the executive’s phrase, “would be suicidal.” It, would abolish the incen tive to hunt for new oil sources at a time when such sources Are urgently required. More than 80 per cent of all the wildcatwells drilled last year turned out to be worthless. Men will take heavy risks in this kind of pio neering if, and only if, they know that they will be per mitted to keep a fair reward if they are successful. They won’t take the risks udder a “heads I win, tails you lose,” situation. There has been considerable talk about high oil prices. Actually, since 1948 the increase in the cost of petroleum products has been less than five per cent, while the in crease for most other commodities has been more than double that figure. And a very substantial part of -the profits earned by typical oil companies have been plough ed right back into the business for expansion and im provement of physical facilities. Competition sees to it that we get the best oil products that can be made and at B fair price. ma Texas Company Frederick OTHMAN WASHINGTON Strikes me it: was too bad 111’ ole Harry sot so sore 04 the TV the other night that twice he called U. S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., a liar. Bsmlnrinl me a little of the time Harry Truman went after that mu sic critic and hurt nobody but him self. This time Brownell answered back under oath, with page and paragraph documented, and it was obvious to me, at least, that he was tailing the truth and nothing but, exactly aa he’d sworn to do a tew minutes earlier. It this sounds. like I’m writing mi; editorial, or taking aloes, I’m soery. My job is to write amusing pieces about the great and the near-great in this town and I like it One. But occasionally, as of now, -I find the back of my neck getting amttaitned in the floodlight* turn ed on the principal actor, who has nothing funny to say. It’s down right important and U’a my job to he an honest reporter. So let’s get the scene first in the hßtefte caucus room of the Sen ate, where Were focused on the witness chair to TV cameras moun ted on so many tripod* they looked like a forest of saplings with wink ing red lights on top The crowd was ayhiTiri htm almost unnoticed. red pin-stripe, freshly polished black shoes,’and horn-rimmed glas ses which concentrated the glare into his eyes. Nowhere did he call anyone a liar. He denounced no body. Not once did he sound sar castic. All he did was tell the story of Harry Dexter White as it had been furnished to Mr. Truman by the FBI. He listed the names of a number erf others who worked for White at the Treasury, who'alleg edly were Russian spies also, and who likewise received promotions in the government. This surprising story you doubt less have read already in detail; there’s no need for me to go Into it here. By the time Brownell was half way through, his face was moist and his glasses damp from the beat generated by white lights and packed people. The rich red carpets were littered with spent flash-bulbs. The reporters who’d overflowed to the big table of-Sen. William Jeaner, (R. Ind.,) and Co., had worn. their pencils to nub bins. Haring listed the details 0: the two spy rings which operated ta Washington. Brownell said he didn’t think much of the idea of promoting suspicious characters to still bigger jobs with still greater influence, just to make it easier to watch them. Then he came to this line; . “We don’t have to wait until a man is convicted ”df treason before ; we remove him from a position id trust and confidence.’' turned it over to Mr. Truman, but These Days Vi r MV £ckobklf THE FBI AT WORK The attempt to foist responsibili ty in the Harry Dexter White case upon the FBI will faU because of the law, the operations of the FBI and the facts. The FBI got into this particular situation by sending a routine report to the President., Harry Truman, and to the Attorney General, Tom Clark, now a just ice of the Supreme Court. A routine report from the FBI is never a brief, an opinion, an obiter dictum, a decision. It is the product of investigation and eva luation. The FBI is not a police must be remembered that the FBI force, a Gestapo, or an NKVD. It is not the sole Investigative agency ;of limited jurisdiction; the Secret Service, the Narcotics Bureau, the CIA, the Immigration Bureau are similar agencies performing specific investigative duties. Spies, saboteurs, subversives come under the charge of the FBI, A raw file is kept into which go all kinds of data, some of value, some at the moment worthless, some hard fact, some rumor, hearsay and gos sip. Information comes to such an agency as the FBI from many sources: its own operatives; under cover agents who voluntarily risk themselves to serve their country; citizens who write letters; co operating police forces; crackpots who hate individuals, etc., etc. All this materal needs to be evaluated and the evaluation corro borated by skillful perrons wHo know the entire subject matter in to which the particular individual under investigation fits. When a report is sent to a President, an Attorney General, or to the head of some other deportment of govern ment, it is not a formal complaint for indictment such as a local police department might make to a local prosecuting attorney. It merely a statement of fact upon which the President or the Attorney General may or may not decide to act. Such reports are routine. The FBI is not an information bureau to which a citizen can ap ply for information. It is the in vestigative agency, of the Depart ment of Justice. If a citizen desires Information, he should gq in the Department of Justice. In some matters, such as an annual report on crime in the United States, or the rise and fall of junvenile de linquency, or the nature of the Communist conspiracy, J. Edgar Hoover issues reports to the public, makes speeches and writes maga zine articles, but the FBI never opens its files to anyone. Al though some citizens are willing to cooperate with this agency. they find that this does not entitle them to a reward in the form of a reward of a quid‘pro quo. It is important to note that since J. Edgar has been at the head of the FBI, it has not once been in volved in a scandal; it has not once been involved in a leak; no sub versives have been found to have infiltrated it. Attacks on the ,FBI have been few. The worst is a book by Max Lowenthal, entitled “The Federal Bureau of Investigation.” which Lowenthal is a close friend of seems to be a spite book. Max Harry; in fact, he is reputed to have been responsible for maneuv ering Truman into the Vice Presidency. It is known that Harry Truman has been antagonistic to the FBI for several reasons, Includ ing the Kansas City election frauds case in which the ballot boxes were destroyed by an explosion, thus eliminating the principal evidence. Max Lowenthal, Truman’s friend, devotes a 558-page book to an at tack on the FBI and particularly Hoover. He summarizes Truman’s dislike for Hoover in this para graph; “There are some indications, how ever, that the views (praising Ho over) are not universally held by Americans interested in effect coun ter-espionage. President Truman, when he. set up the CIA (central Intelligence Agency) as .a new esp ionage and counter-espionage or ganisation. disregarded suggestions that Mr. Hoover himself should be come the head* of any such super intelligence organization. In 1868, when the President made a new appointment to the post, he again disregarded the suggestions that Mr. Hoover be promoted to that posit- R.R. Indeed, when the President created the CIA he went further and withdrew horn the FBI the authority it had peats usd for seven years in counter-espionage work throughout Central and South America.” The Harry Dexter White case, like the Alger Hiss and the Rosen berg cases, establishes the fact thet has Iwm ahM-t trtuie the cover 19. <Ofl b, vgT** * **** K t'-- . - V * THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. CL MISTER BKEOER a «TL WSBKfW SmUBWr-60-MM i| mt mwi Washington.—Presidential turkeys throughout the years have been strickly non partisan, and usually non sectional. Through accident more than design, the President of the United States usually gets his turkeys from widely separated geo graphical areas. . . . Elsenhower's first Thanksgiving turkey as presi dent comes from near. Lincoln, Neb., a 39-pound, broad-breasted, bronze tom donated by Roscoe Hill, head of the National Turkey Federation Truman usually got his gob blers from Wilton E. Hall, Ander son, S. C., publisher. . . President Roosevelt’s birds came from a fan cier in Rhode Island, who liked to demonstrate that of the six stand ard varieties of demonstrated tur keys—Bronze, Narragansett, Buff, Slate, White and Black—the Bronze and the Narragansett are the lar gest President Taft got his turkeys from Tazewell County, Va„ from where Queen Victoria always received turkeya every year during her reign. . . .Vice President Barkley claimed that the Kentucky birds raised by the late John W. Perry near Frankfort, Ky., were the best. .... Woodrow Wilson got his tur keys ' from Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, who insisted that blue grass-fed turkeys were better than any others. .... Eisenhower Will be the second president to spend his Thanksgiving in Georgia. FDR usually carved his turkey at Warm Springs, Oa., where five birds were necessary to satisfy the appetites of all the polio-stricken youngsters. The late president himself carved the first turkey, surrounded by twelve boys and girls who drew lots to see who would sit next t 6 him. THANKSGIVING IN . WHITE HOUSE Most people have forgotten it, but Thanksgiving began as a purely Republican holiday. For years, the Democrats were opposed, called it a northern holiday that trampled on states’ rights. They were dead set against centralisation of power in Washington—just as Republicans have been in later years—so when George Washington asked Congress in 1789 to set aside a holiday to be observed by the entire country, there was vigorous southern objection. It waa not until about 75 years later that the so-Called “New Eng land Holiday" was made a national holiday, and this was largely be cause merchants along the sleepy Potomac saw the advantage of Thanksgiving as a chance to boom ( trade. Specifically, Washington no- . cers and wine merchants in 1845 woke up to the possibilities of the national holiday and began to ad vertise “60 barrels of white wine, 40 barrels of champagne and new york cider, all by recent packet from New York via Alexandria.” aims s&k ■ ... ■ (Av | : ■tM’A M* I : v\ ~/rjv f i «mmW*Ak &hy. • It’S beautifii!. .. I'll take tfoee/f For a long time, Thanksgiving was no holiday for the president. Because immediately afterward he faced an arduous lame-duck ses sion when members of Congress, re cently defeated in November, came back to wind up their labors before they left office on March 4. These lame-duck sessions were the most heterogeneous and irresponsible of all. Few presidents could keep them in line, and Thanksgiving Day us ually aaw the President of the U nlted States spending all of his holiday working on his coming mes sage on the state of the union. Today, with the lame-duck ses sion of Congress eliminated and the regular session opening in Jan uary, Eisenhower is not quite so hgrried, though even so his advisers are already worried about what will happen When Congress, plus a lot of irate Democrats, comes back to town. FDR’S OLD {BRAIN TRUSTER The redoubtable Colonel McCor mick, publisher of the Chicago Tri bune, not content with being one of the chief supporters of Benator McCarthy, has also undertaken to police the University of Chicago. Specifically, a monitor ‘from the Chicago Tribune showed tip In a class given by Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell, former top member of the Roosevelt brain trust, and sat patiently through a series of lectures. Furthermore he managed to stay awake. Tugwell came to Washington from Columbia University as one of the little group who wrote FDR’s speeches, became undersecretary of agriculture, later governor of Peur to Rico. Since then he has been a top member of the University of Chicago and has lectured for the Chicago institute for Planning. His classes are large and he can’t keep track of every student, so didn’t pay much attention to the out-of-place student from the Chi cago Tribune. At the end of the semester, however, the auditor came bp to him in some diaguat. “I don’t know what the hell you’ ve been talking about,” he remark ed, “but I doh’t think it’s Commu nism or Socialism.” A Tribune editor, asked about the incident, confessed: “I had to tend that man out on the direct order of Colonel McCormick.” Note—The . Newspaper Guild which has been trying to organize the Tribune, argued facetiously that •reporters were required to undergo “cruel and unusual punishment be yond the lin< of duty” in listening to the Tugwell Lectures. “Yes,” countered another reporter, “but that’s not as bad as having to lis ten to Colonel McCormick.” LETTER CARRIERS MARCH . This week, when the U.SA. Is Walter Winchell In New York \ • . Add Thorny Pertaa: Arlene Dahl’s comment *n Lex Berko's (ho ex groom) marriage to Lana* Turner. ,Tm fare they'll be very happy. They am exactly right tor each other” .. Lynda Lynch (a Mesaed-event Item hoe It year* ago) b one of the dancing lead! in Tittle Jeme James,” a Broadway musical, open ing Nov. Mth la Ctoey. Ho lather is F. L. Lynch, preo exec, tor Ra dio City Music Had. Mother was a Rockette there. . Xeaa Horne’s ruesting oa leery makes yon won der why she Imt one ot the network steadies. . .Faye Emerson was at her hot gamuttng to aa ABC drama . . .The happy notices to “The Robe” and “Hew to Marry, etc,” confirm Eanaek’s respect to Cine mascope. It will rescue Movie town. . . .Rhonda Fleming’s huh? “the more a girl* nears the more a man looking at her has U think about” . . .The mevte preview telecasts are cornier than lowa. Despite the satires "Dragnet" stays on top of all the copycats. Its crlme-doesn’t pay stories skip the counterfeit heroics and tne dialog sounds like it is written, not revised from old riles. . .The high price of sex. Italian actresses earn double pay for scenes displaying plunging necklines. . .Add Bargains ! Tony Martin’s platter of “I Love . Paris” . . .Television isn’t every ; body’s Fort Knox. Six firms produc ■ ing films for that medium, have - quit already . . . Pageant mag is in t lore with Alice Kelly, the dimpled : darling. She is on its cover for the : Bth time. . .The crash of Paramount t star Don Taylor's marriage (Phyllis ( Avery of teevy) surprised chums 1 on both coasts. She will many a - coast grid great when the decree is ■ final a year hence . . . The un -5 snapped picture of the week: Harry - Truman breaking his fast (alone) in the Norse Room at the Waldorf - (reading a Wall St. paper) with no 1 one bothering him. . .Why performers have nightmares; 1 A critic complained that RsyOßolger’s J teevy programs “have top much ‘ dancing” . . .That’s what made him 1 a star! . . .Brenda Bruce In “Gently ’ Dues It.” a new drama, has the proper stardust ingredients: Charm plus talent. . . The John Murray ‘ Anderson “Almanac” revue (coming ' to town soon) coot $280,888. One ; backer invested 1124,888 . . .Phote r play offers a refreshing relief from ’ the familiar glamour shots. A picture -of Doris Day highlighting her at ! tractive freckles. . .Quiz emreec | should take a lessen from Groneho’s 1 Marananship. He teases conteut r ants of fc—Mcf thorn. . . . J Janet Gaynor’s artistry Is what tee : vy peeds. Welcome ta the most ex -1 citing part of show business. “Miss Hollywood” . . .The Rita Haworth 1 Jose Ferrer seduction stanza In “Miss ‘ Sadie Thompson” will ho the talk of ! that >-D shew. It fellows “Eternity” ‘ at the Capitol. , ’ ABC’s 11-year-old boy star, Bran r don de Wilde, has to diet to keep , that schoolboy flgger. . .Lillian Ross ' who scalped MOM and John Huston t in her New Yorker series, has one ( coming up on teevy’s top producers, , Goodaon ds Todman. . . Saroyan’s . “Time of Your Life” will get the , Broadway musical treatment a la ; "Wonderful Town. . .Lawyer L. Ni ger will get over 8800,000 for his part • in the Bobo Rockefeller and Eleanor . Holm solltouts. . .The Judge in the John Wayne divorce cam la still deluged with mall from Wayne’s , fans. . . Beverly Mahr, who sings i the exciting “Cresent City Blues” r in Gordon Jenkins’ new album "Se ven Dreams” is Mrs Jenkins . . . 1 One of the prettiest redheads on , Broadway is 8 bus girl at the Broad j way Automat... The Century Thea- J ter*s been a Jinx for its last 3 shows . They didn’t run longer than a week; "Buttrio Square,” Carnival in Flan -1 ders” and Sherlock Holmes” . . . . Flretnightere, weary of S 2nd 4 openings a week can relax. “Esca pade,” due od the itth, is the only entry between now and the 35th.-. . , Dick Powell’s comment In an inter view; “Any star attar who does a regular teevy aeries must either be nuts or hard ujt for the money” . . . Or Very Popular. giving thanks for Its blessings, the National Association of Letter Car riers Will stage a unique contri bution to less fortunate neighbors. At that time the letter chtriers will “walk” to raise money for muscu lar Dystrophy, that dread disease which strikes only at children. * Under the Rational chairmanship of PostmasteK General Summer field, head of the museular Dystro phy drive, the mailman will collect ftrnds to help find a cure tor this mysterious disease. 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