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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07
ALMOST
ABOUT
EVERYTHING
BY Percy Villa
BY Percy Villa

CHICAGO-NOw II this isn't
s0methin' good ] 20 70 the big
city 10 see shows that I missed back
at home. Seeing three movies
In less than "a hours was hardly
enough for US mainly because they
were all that good. The Jimmy
Stewart movie "Tt's q Wonderful
Life" was topnotch. Z. The musical
IT'LL the Clouds Roll BY" the songs
and the east were all terrific. =.
But the very best movie I've en-
joyed In some years the "JOLS0N
STORY" Al Jolson isn't seen on
the movie screen except that he
does the actual singing, and what q
beautiful Job he does. 49,. I'll take
AIS singing and forget the rest
Of 'em.
And now, 10 show you that all
hasn't been play, have taken ad-
vantage Of my little notebook with
some good yarns, newsy bits, gags
and some scoops (only hope the
other services 10 reach you before
Friday like the following one.
Joe Louis and his ex-wife, the
former MRrva Trottsr, will re-
marry very soon In Mexico. . Ae-
cordinR 10 some Of the boys around
the South Side and In the eatsFy
RHUMBoOGIE, Louis Is down
there for his exhibition bout with
ARTURO Godoy. . MarvR followed
him 70 Mexico and Ia there with
him. They were divorced In
March, i946. but continue 10 see
each other regularly. Their
daughter, Jacqueline. il four years
old.
You can hear and see more music
and dancing at the RHUMBOOGIE
than any spot In town. Erskine
Hawkins il loud-but pah.lcnty
good. The prices there are reA-
sonRblo with the best T-bone steak
at $3.50. 9. The heavyweight pros
pect Of the year 10 keep your eyeA
on Ii BOOKER BECKwITH. =.
Can that baby hitl The Twin
Cities are doing OK mean that
most cities like Chicago. Detroit,
Cleveland. New York and Los An
Reles charge y $3.50 top with q
start ut $3.50 for boxing shows.
-. Now the question Is. what main
event Ii worth S6.b0f
Overheard Dept: Jane Russell
IL going 10 be on Kay Kayssr'S
radio program. and sing. tool
MONEY. Jack Dempsey recently
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

A. Ell am a senior in high
school and want very much to grad
uate with my class and my prob
lem is this. would like to know
II I am going TO be promoted this
year. Please solve this for me.
Ans: Your promotion depends
on just how sincere your desire
IL to 20 along with your class and
graduate. II you are deeply in
earnest In this matter, you must
lose no time getting right down
TO business and doing the studyinl
necessary to pass all subjects. YOv
have the ability TO graduate and ]
am sure you can. But-Will you dc
Il?
z. VI have heard so much
about how you have helped other
people that / decided TO write you
and tell you my problem. think
| need a diet list and would like
for you TO make out one for me for
every week Of the year. You see,
Prof, I am a BIG eater and il
I don't have a list to 60 by regular,
! might get sick and don't want
10 do that. Please do this for me.
Ans: II Is not that you are so
in need Of a diet list my friend
your problem Is TO break yourself
Of the habit Of lOOsening your belt
every time you stick your feet
under the table. The good whole.
some food you are accustomed to
eating would 1T 4 kings fancy.
II Is the second and third helpings
that are running your wAist-line.
You must control your appetite
II you hope 10 keep your health and
your figure. Eat mOderately-bet.
.er to get up from the table a little
hungry than TO stuff yourself and
pay the penalty.
Kind Sir-Your Guide Of 1916
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

tfs an old New Hampshire say.
lna that corn should be planted
when the leaves Of The white oak
are 90 large a. . mouss's ear.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

EdtOrS Note: submit problems Tor publication To AObe
Wallace this Give full address and
bhdate private reply send Able stamped envelope and
for Of his and inspiring LESSONS FOR
HAPPIER LIVING will be eOnGdenAy Send
order Address letter The
Able WALLACE Service Of this SlA Third Ave-
s, Minneapolis Minnesota.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

sold the Northern Hotel In midtown
Manhattan for an even one million
dollars. That gave him a 100
per cent profit for he purchased the
hosiery for 100000 three years
ago.
Aside 10 Al Birkeland, Jack Nc
Dowell, Stan Rosen, Mary Shelso,
Ben Eisenstadt, Dave SebOl, Eddie
LANCER, Johnny sokol, Leo Kstroser
and a host Of other new subscribers
to the long list already.
When Goldenblatt, the big Chi
caRo merchant mart. launches its
food sale next week, the Riddles
will be happy 70 learn that among
the commodities available will be
10000 pieces Of that hArd-to-get
bubble gum.
Ooop's: sOlly (sOlgoD GoldStein
hears that all the new cars manu-
featured In Georgia will have "two
governors" on them.
A Line Or Two: Look, the mag
has purchased a book on Joe Louis
and will run IL this summer. q.
A comic was saying the other night
that II prisoners escaped from Jail,
and four returned: They couldn't
find an apartment. =. Frank Sina-
ira IL trying 70 promote a fight be-
tween Ray Robinson and west coast
favorite Jackie Wilson.
The other day when Barney Ross
stopped of in his home city (Chi-
cago) he is said 10 have spoken TO
his friends as follows: II felt
ashamed Of myself. All those
kids who remembered me a. a
champion so ! decided to fight
II like n man. E. Then all
those letters started coming In.
Young kids, old men and women
wrote me they were still In my
corner. 49,. II was the will Of those
people that cured me-. Barney
has loads Of personality and friends
In this town and New York and will
be well taken care Of. His new
work will be labor relations work
for q New York concern.
was up TO the gym the other
day and overheard two fight anna
tours commenting on the fight
game. This Ia q business where
u fellow never worries about max
Ing . liVing-until he makes q
thousand q week. BUT DON'T
GET ME wRoNG--I LOVE THE
BOXING GAME.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07
BY DON GATES

Ali sweet memories Of love. 50
we start our little fiippSr lip flaw
Jaw, with "open the door, Rich
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07
Thursday, Jan. 80.

Halle squad included Louis
White, high point man of the game,
Roscoe Reed, Duke Green, Ray
mond Presley. Otis Skinner and
Larry Riff. In the Loafer lineup
were Frank Schine, Ed Pillows,
high point man, Lloyd Gamble,
Robert Graham, Ralph Graham,
Ernie johnson, Jack Cooper and
George Washington.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

There be turning back from success You must have
yourself ambition to taste the fruits Of
and successful Ivng-and the world is yours
Able Wallace
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07
LOafers Basket
Squad Wins Over
Halle Al In 70

The LoAfers club left Halle Q.
Brown Senior basketball team be-
hind 4I-S0 at Marshall high gym
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

Aful ana hlCH-
ard did open the
door for EDDIE
MILTON ut EN-
MA ROBERTS
party last week.
Boy what n shin
dig. II was called
atrRmpparty,a and
you can take II
from me they all
looked Xix Q
trampE. GEORGE
EaY ~ % 80
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

proved 70 be q success. i uiu Detter
toward progressing last year than
ever in the 20 years Of matrimOny.
had success in every way. will
continue using your Guide. Thank
ing you very much for your help.
Oblige. Mrs. B. j."
S. X. ST. am 16 and q senior
in high school. My problem Is this:
How can | gain the interest Of
boysH / dress nice, dance fair, !
attend c&nteens, League meetings
and many parties given by the
younger set and am really not bad
to look at. Yet no boys seem to
be attracted TO me. have one boy
friend, but he Is so shy that when
we 60 out he never says anything.
Now | am afraid | won't get TO
20 to the Prom next month IL some
thing doesn't happen soon. The
thing that gets on my nerves 30
is that everywhere go my brother
goes along too.
Ans: You're leading the other
fellows to believe that you are
going steady with your bashful
beau. Give the boys some eRcOur-
agement and they'll respond. Your
brother can be q big help to you by
introducing you to new friends and
male acquaintance. He can even
arrange to have them visit In the
home. Why don't you and your
brother invite your friends in for
little social gatherings and natur-
ally you would be the center Of
attraction ON these occasions,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

Overheard Dept: Jane Russell
Is going TO be ON Kay KAyssr's
radio program. and sing, tool
The Valley settler., 1947-01-10

ASSOCIATION Nov that peace has been declared and the Matanuska Valley Agricultural and Industri- al Fair Association hopes to hold the Big gest Fair ever, this coming year.
 For the benefit of the. new corners now in the lhtanusk Valley, this bit of history will let you know what we have on our hand9 how 1t came about, how you can he lp, put it over, and how to become a member of the Fa ir Az soc fat ion.
 The M1tanuska Valley Agricultural and Tn- dustrial Fa ir. Assoc fat ion is :non-profit Cooperative Incorporation, organized by the people Of the lhtonuska Valley, to aid and to further the development d.educa- ionel activities of the community. Life of the Mntonu ska Valley first, end to en- courage young people as well as older people to work toge thor in promoting Agrt- cultural and Industrial development of the Torrit ory of Ala ska are Q inns Of the Assoc l. ation.
 The idea originated and vas sponsored by the Northlond Pioneer Grange when the col ony vos organized. Re sorvot ions of land for tho Fc irground and an Airport for Palm CT vorc provided for, and Hera laid out by tho Tornsite Engineer in 1855, Anton An- der son, under tho employ of the A.R.R.C. Temporary sheds for livestock for the Fir st Annual Fair wos in tho' block just east of tho school play ground, and the auditorium housed farm end garden exhibits and anu se- monts. Tho Great White way under canvass ucs North of tho Audit oriun where ontor- to oimnonts, smokers and dances roro hold for threo days and night s. Baseball and rocos (horso, bicycle, md foot rcces3 worc hold on tho school play ground. , Funds uoro raised by subscriptions, sale of common stock end preferred sto ok. Plans for pormnnont Exhibit Buildings wore prepared and drcyn by tho A.R.R.C. drafting doport- mont. Barns uore built in tho olQoring Ed st of the Church Block, and later moved to the pros sent location rhore tho Association pur- chased Is acres from tho A.R.R.C. Errongo- m3-5s arc nov under Eoy for tho purchase of aldltionol ocroogo South of pro sont ground $ for future development of Ale ska Fairs.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
A Gift From America
From the London Times.

From the LONDON Times
Thomas w. Lamonts munificent gift
of half million dollars to the fund for
the restoration of Canterbury Cathedral
is an act of overfloWing generosity for
which English people will be profoundly
grateful. It is welcome, even beyond its
'wn monetary value. for two reasons
First, it comes from one who has given
other proofs of a warm friendship for
this country; and. secondly, it has not
been asked for. The gift is, in the
donors words, entirely unsolicited"-a
spontaneous recognition by an American
citizen of the pressing need of a shrine
and building which are "the heritage
of the whole Christian world"
On July last year the Archbishop OF
Canterbury estimated that Canterbury
Cathedral was in need of 100000. This
sum was required not only to repair the
damage done on the night of May 81,
1912, when "15 high-explosive bombs fell
within the precincts of the cathedral
and incendiary bcmbs rained upon 1t"
but also to catch up with arrears OF
maintenance work, to subsidize such
work for the next 10 years, and to ex-
pand generally the activities Of the
Not4ACO1 al. 1Coo tAAfkAA q 4OA eAAA6AAS 0So Az
was announced that f82, 900 Of this sum
had been raised-leaving very long
row still to be hoed. Mr.. Lamont's gift,
which in English money is worth some
f124,000, means that more than two
thirds of the amount aimed at has now
been raised, and that the f165, 900
needed for restoration other than re-
pairs for war damage is more than
covered Canterbury Cathedral, even
more than the other great buildings of
which the church is custodian, trans
cends denominations as clearly as it
transcends nationality. There will be
few English people who will not desire
to convey to Mr.. Lamont their own
thanks in addition to those so well ex-
pressed by the archbishop in his letter
of acknowledgment, and they can hardly
do it better than by ensuring the speedy
contribution of the balance still remain
ing to be found.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
FACING the Nurse Crisis

Inc American COlleSe Vi surgeons
is facing forthrightly the hard reali-
ties of the growing shortage of
nurses when it urges hospitals in
Washington and throughout the
country to take immediate" steps
to train practical nurses to help
meet the crisis. The situation has
become so acute locally that no
less than a thousand registered and
auxiliary nurses and aides are ur-
gently needed in Washington's six
teen non-Federal hospitals. Yet
the supply of nurse recruits has
fallen to such low point that only
six would-be registered nurses have
enrolled in the Emergency Hospital
training course for the new term,
despite determined efforts to recruit
forty students from among high
school graduates. Other institutions
report similar results.
One of the realities which the
College of Surgeons and its accred-
tied hospitals are facing is that
nursing no longer holds the attrac-
ton it once did for young women.
Over the years the standards of
the profession have risen steadily,
with consequent raising of entrance
requirements, but the menial and
disagreeable phases of nursing still
remain to discourage applicants.
The average high school girl prefers
to turn to careers envisioned as
more glamorous and more lucrative
and easier to qualify for. She
does not have to be in the top half
of her graduating class or to pass
any psychometric tests or take a
three-year training course to win a
job in some of these other fields.
But hospitals must have more
nurses or close down wards. Hence
the realistic plan for supplementing
the existing supply of graduate
nurses with practical, or auxiliary"
nurses, trained for practical duties
in the sickroom. Such duties re-
quire less education and less train
ing than those of registered nurses,
but they are duties that must be
done if our hospitals are to con-
tinue to render adequate service.
That recruits for this type of service
can be obtained without much diff
Guilty is evidenced by the success
which Doctors Hospital has had in its
recent experiment with one-year
training course for auxiliary nurses.
1t has received more than TOO appli-
cations for practical training
course to begin next week. Less
than forty could be enrolled.
Such classes do not, of course,
solve the basic problem of inducing
more young women to train for
careers as registered nurses. They
do, however, offer a way OF ale
WAITING the nurse shortage until the
!. larger problem can. be met, The
plan thus is worth the wider trial
that the College of Surgeons advo-
Gates for it.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Convent Chimes

Gray minstrel singing In the houertno
dark
Where nuns turn fingered beads In
endless prayer,
You chant of time to ttmelessness NTH
stark
And calm Indifference to times de-
spGtr.
Yet !, this moment, rise and 90 NTH
yo1t,
Without goodbys to all my busy
friends,
To find secluded peace described By ne,0
Images crotoding as your last note
ends,
And go wandering t0here your echoes
fade,
Beyond the lure OF earth, beyond ths
felt
Passion OF crimsoned dawn or purpled
shade
OF dusk. Noto / kneel as the Master
knelt:
Lift me again beyond all toordly potDer.
Minstrel-announceT OF the fading hour.
CULLEN JONES.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
8 SATURDAY, February Is, 1947
Alcoholism in the District

Representative Hebert is to be
congratulated on introducing bill
which has revived thinking on the
problem of alcoholism in the
District.
Mr.. Hebert's bill would tax the
gallonage sale of liquor to rehabili-
tate the drunkard.
The scope of the problem has been
clearly outlined by Mr.. Kennedy of
The Stars reportorial staff in three
articles on this page, the last of
which appears today.
Here are some of the dimensions:
Five thousand chronic alcoholics,
the type now considered to be sick
people; $4,000 problem drinkers in
addition; $4,000 arrests year;
ninety per cent of the misdemeanant
population of the Occoquan Work.
house there on charges of intoxica-
ton at cost approaching $500,00O
a year; scores committed more than
fifty times, some more than $50
times.
No scientific" method has been
developed that will end all this, but
the size can be cut down. The
problem has not been completely
thought through in the Hebert bill.
The sum it would raise is greater
than could be spent in starting the
program. Perhaps it would be well
to give the task of diminishing the
problem to an independent agency
as Connecticut did.
But all this can be brought to
light at hearings on the bill. Rep
resentative Miller, Republican, OF
Nebraska, chairman OF the subcom-
mittee in charge of the bill, has
called meeting Monday to consider
all bills before it. 1t is hoped early
hearings on the Hebert bill will be
scheduled.
In the meantime, other things
brought out in the articles can be
corrected. 1t is silly to arrest man
for intoxication in his own block
unless his conduct is menacmg to
his neighbors. Police should take
him home. It Is silly to sentence
tranSients to the workhouse. They
are not this community's problem
and this community should not have
to pay for their maintenance in
custody. And it is silly for the judges
of Municipal Court to be giving such
disparate sentences as ten days and
ninety days to inebriates brought
before them under similar circum-
stances. The concept CT justice
should be preserved even among
drunks.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
The Differentioi Wage

A recommendation made to the
secretary general of the United Ma
tions by its labor-relations bureau
regarding the method of remuner-
ating it's employees appears to strike
American observers as an entirely
novel concept. New it doubtless Is
here, so far as our general business
and industry are concerned. But
abroad, the method has been applied
even there, while in government
services it has been established more
widely and on larger scale.
The basic concept may be ex-
pressed by the formula, Equal liv-
ing standards for equal work." in
stead of the familiar slogan, Equal
pay for equal work. The theory be-
hind the proposal is that employees
with social and family responsible
ties should receive incomes greater
than those paid to their fellow
workers performing the same jobs
but having no commensurate. re-
sponsibilities. In this way both en-
ployes would enjoy the same stand
ard of living or "real pay"
Revolutionary though the idea
may appear at first sight, it is ap-
piled practically with us in our
armed services, when basic pay is
increased for each dependent. That
was true of most armies during the
late war. The same principle OF
the differential in wages, salaries
and allowances has long been ap-
piled in the civil services of several
European countries, while it has re-
ceived indirect application through
the family allowance systems OF
Australia and New Zealand. The
idea first spread widely after World
War I, when rapidly mounting living
costs had somehow to be compen-
sated by higher wage scales. 1t soon
became evident that what would
suffice an unmarried worker or
childless couple might be totally in
adequate for those with large fani-
lies. Yet, to base higher wage scales
on the needs of even a moderate
sized family might impose prohibi-
tive wage costs on many industries,
to say nothing of the inequalities in
real" wages that would still persist
at the extreme ends of the scale.
The great difficulty in applying
such a concept to ordinary business
and industry is the tendency Of
employers to discriminate against
those with dependents. This was
averted or minimized in countries
like pre- Hitler Germany and Scan
dinavia by the creation of equaliza-
ton funds within specific industries,
which generalized the burden over
the employing group as a whole.
Such a method was facilitated by
the prevalence of cartels, frowned
upon in America as monopolistic in
character.
The impetus to the establishment
of the differential wage in the
United Nations working force is due
to the fact that so many of its en-
ployes come from countries where
the system is in more or less general
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Private Looms to Europe

The successful notation or AUS
tralian loans, both commonwealth
and municipal, upon the American
market brings up the larger question
of private foreign loans elsewhere,
especially in Europe. While the
reconstruction needs of that war
shattered continent are too vast to
be met by private loans, and while
the position of most European coun-
tries is too uncertain to justify such
loans as legitimate investments, Ger
tain countries in Western Europe do
thus qualify, in the opinion of some
investment banking circles. And
there appears to be no doubt that
European financial statesmen prefer
to deal directly with our private cap
ital market. This holds true even
though they admit that the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruction
and Development is the most likely
major means for carrying on inter
national finance over the next
decade.
The most likely candidates for pri-
vate loans in Europe are Belgium,
Denmark, the Netherlands and Nor
way. Belgium's position is the most
favorable. not only because of the
relatively minor damage suffered
during the war but even more be-
cause of the immense resources in
its vast African colony of the Bel
gian Congo. Although the economic
life of the Dutch East Indies has
been badly disrupted. the Neither
lands is still, on balance. a creditor
nation. Denmark came through the
German occupation relatively un-
scathed. Even Norway salvaged its
economic essentials, such as hydro
electric installations and its fishing
and merchant marine.
More important than these mate
rial factors is the intangible yet
financially vital element of credit
records. Nations vary in this respect
much like individuals. Certain gov
ernments and peoples have financial
histories which prove that they have
a high regard for their financial
standing, borrow wisely only when
they must observe scrupulously the
terms of their obligations That has
been notably true of the four Euro-
pean nations most in favor as poten-
tial borrowers in Wall Street today
Of course, as against these specific
favorable instances, there is the gen.
eral drawback of Europe's dubious
outlook, taken as whole. Another
European cataclysm might drag
down every one into a common vor-
tex of ruin and insolvency. Yet, as
against this generalized risk. there