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Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
Washington
=. WEEK.
By GEORGE A. BENSON

WASHINGTON, D. c. - Major
issues of this years Presidential
and Congressional campaigns are
taking on definite form. In fact, the
campaigns already have begun. It's
going to be a question of how we'll
Mr.. Truman can bury his blunders.
Barring contingencies in foreign
relations and a possible domestic
Upheaval. such as widespread
strikes, the outlines of the election
campaign are now discrenible.
President Truman has plainly
cast his lot with the radical New
Dealers as evidenced by his mess
age TO the Congress on the State OF
the Union and his $40 billion budg-
let message. This political strategy
is to compete with Wallace for the
Wallace vote.
The two messages are in line
with the spend and spend and tax
and tax philosophy of the New
Deal Democrats.
On the high cost of living issue.
the President warmly embraces the
radicals approach of police state
methods He advocates the reimpo-
sitiOn of economic controls.
Speculation in the commodity
markets by insiders of the Admin
istratiOn while the Government
was buying for export, has aroused
the Nations Indignation.
People Of the Eastern seaboard
and other parts of the country hit
by the fuel oil shortage this winter
also have scores to settle with the
Truman Administration on election
day.
Action of the Administration in
approving transfer of cOastwise oil
tankers to foreign registry, their
consequent withdrawal from the
transportation of oil from southern
ports to the Atlantic seabOard, and
the shipping of steel to other cOun-
tries when it is so urgently needed
by the domestic oil industry to in
crease refining capacity, are con-
sideTed major causes of the oil
shortage.
But it is on the overall loose fis-
Cal policy of the Administration
that the Republican leaders are
basing their predictions of the cleo
ton of a Republican President and
Congress-.
Action by Republican Congress-
iOnaI leaders has been directed to-
ward a blockade of the free-spend-
ing New Deal with it's debt-ridden
record. The taxpayer will soon see
very tangible benefits. The Repub-
lican bill to grant income tax re-
lief has already passed the House,
is ready for Senate action. The
drive by Congress to slash Presi-
dent Truman's recOTd-breaking
peacetime budget expenditures is
exactly what the n-the-street
wants to see. It's his money that's
being spent.
Currently, the Republicans are
insisting that the European RecOv-
cry Program-the so-Called Mar
shall Plan-be brought into the
open. They demand that the people
have all the facts; they want aid to
foreign countries hencefOrth to be
on a business-like basis. They
don't like the nictures of American
supplies rotting on wharves any
better than they like the reports
that Communists are reaping bene-
fits, both direct and indirect.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

growers should Immediately start
active propaganda so that anyone
who now sets out a new grove
would be looked upon as an unde-
sirable citizen.
LESSON TO ALL
1 travel widely throughout the
agricultural sections of our coun-
try. Farmers, ranchers, fruit grow
ers and others in most sections
have been making a lot of money
during the last few years. These
fortunate people have, however
been spending money carelesslv
believing that good times will al
ways continue. AS a result. now
that hard times have come. thew
nave no financial reserves and are
begging for Government helm. Ev-
cry business should expect moor
years and good years, and it is
only reasonable to expect all DrO-
ducers to lay aside a portion of
their profits in good years to make
up losses in poor years.
Therefore, l urge all growers nj
any products, who are still maxi
ing money, to save their money
You who are growing wheat, rails
ing livestock, and are prospering
in other lines, should remembeT
that hard times are coming to Won
the same as they have to the citrus
people. I therefore urge Won IN
now save money for a rainy dav"
or to speak more correctly to
save now for days when it WON'T
rain.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
Australians Prospect
For Housing Relief

CANBERRA - up - Minister
for Housing Nelson Lennon de-
Clared recently the acute housing
shortage in Australia would be re-
lieved within two years.
Lennon said in statement he
based his opinion on "a consider
able improvement in home build
ing in 1947," and confidence there
would be increased production of
building materials.
'In two years it should be posi-
bic for a young married couple to
get a home built without delay, as
in pre-war days" he said.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

during the last few years which
has increased production. Citrus
Is unlike tomato crop or any
other annual crop which can be
cut OFF at any time. 1t takes seven
years before a tree begins to bear,
and then it bears almost forever.
HEALTH VALUE OF
CITRUS FRUITS
I have no citrus fruit to sell. but
/ can honestly tell readers that
citrus fruits should be eaten by all
people who wish to keep well. A
No. 2 can of grapefruit or orange
juice has about $50 milligrams of
vitamin G. Each can has the euuiv-
alent Of about three grapefruit. or
four oranges. Citrus fruit also
has the valuable vitamin P and
certain other important vitamins
and minerals.
Grapefruit juice can be purchas-
ed in NO. 2 cans that sell, as a rule.
two for 25 cents or about half the
pre-War prices. In fact they are
about the only good food which is
selling much below pre-war costs.
Those No. 2 cans can be purchased
in cartons holding "a cans. i ear
nestly advise every family TO buv
now, while the price is low, one or
more of these cartons for winter
use.
REMEDIES" PROPOSED by
GROWERS
The citrus growers of Texas. Cal
ifornia, Arizona, and Florida, are
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

A good pOtted cyclamen will
bloom for several months if kept
at a temperature Of IS to So ds-
srees where it can get morning
light. Never let the soil dry out
completely while it is blooming.
When it starts to lose leaves, allow
soil to dry, then store in a cool
dark damp celler to carry it over
a second season.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

otner position. The Republicans are
two deep for president and four or
i've deep for vice president. For
vice president they have Stassen,
Vandenberg, Saltonstall and War.
rem. They have Macarthur, too, but
only in theory because it would be
incongruous to pick this bedizened
old show-horse for second place on
the ticket, subordinate to a rela-
lively young civilian. We win Just
stick him in a gaudy frame and
hang him up among our stylish an
cestors.
Now, Of course, there is no
law that says a line man can't
ever play baCkfeld. That IS q
custom, not a law. Many q big
dumb guard, combining . strong
back with a weak mind. goes
through three years on the var
sity without ever getting = foot
ball in his hands except by some
miracle when an opposition pass
accidentally pops him and he
keeps on going until he brains
himself against the concrete end
wall and Fevtves to learn that
he is q historic hero who ran SIS
yards to the winning touchdown
after a brilliant interrogation.
Under the laws Of our great re.
public, a guard may be promoted
by the scoach's whirn and the ext
gencies Of the situation. Therefore.
Stassen or Warren or Saltonstall
could be nominated for the head OF
the Republican ticket this year.
A MAJOR CATASTROPHE
But what I am saying is that they,
or one Of them, should be nominated
for president only in case Dewey
should drive Of d bridge into some
deep water in one Of these billiards.
and Taft, in whipping out his hand
kerchief to start a speech, should
flip a gaudy, ruf1ed garter with
rosettes on it smack into the center
Of table No. 1, at which we would
find seated the conventional cast Of
the Abie's Irish Rose political clio,
consisting Of a Methodist minister,
a monsignor named Duty or Breen
and a rabbi, all ex-chaplains Of the
armed forces.
Thus the two regular varsity
hands would be ditched and there
would be a scufie along the bench
for the honor Of being the replace
ment. In that case I guess I would
like Stassen, although I can't give
very good reasons. I think he is still
green. Warren is a good man but he
strikes me as lazy. as lazy as a net
fisherman.
But, whether in New York or
Washington or anywhere else, when
citizens consult my political wis
dom, they Immediately start talking
about some other prospect when
everybody knows the two best can.
didates from any intelligent stand.
point are Taft and Dewey.
What is the matter here, any.
way? Don't we want the best we
have for president? Is our sys-
tenn so intricate that we must
deliberately turn down the two
best men.
I say, either Dewey or Taft would
wallop Mr.. Truman. / say either one
would make a fine president.
Yet people, even ostensible Re.
pubhcans, go around babbling about
the second-best.
What is this. anyway?
Sabotage?
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

consideration at this
time and they are
Dewey and Taft,
not necessarily in
the order named.
Football coache s
who find themselves
rich in manpower
have a way Of say
ing that they are
three deep or four
deep at the ends,
tackles or Some
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

Of living. Dollar
values are deter
mined largely by
the amount Of cur
rency in circula-
ton. Today that
amount is all Of six
times what It was
in the flush days OF
fho f00ne ~, 49,
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LOl The Shrinking Dollar
HE government is directly re-
= sponsible for a considerable por-
ton Of the high cost Of living. Until
government remedies some things
that only government can remedy
living costs viii remain high re-
CARELESS Of what other efforts may
be made to reduce them.
The decreasing value Of the dol
lar is q decided factor in the cost
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

COP Has Only Two Leaders
By WestbUOOk PegIeP
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NEW YORK. - After all these
years and after attending Is Of those
national nominating conventions. /
am still a rube about the presiden-
tial politics Of this our glorious old
United States.
To anyone with an honest, naive
mind, only two Republicans deserve
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
ROGER w. BABsoN

AAADGA We 0AnalN @eAAee'r ANA A4QW@
er can raise fruit
for these prices,
REASONS FOR DROP IN PRICE
During The war the Government
took about one-half the crop. This
was dehydrated to one-seventh its
normal bulk and sent in large cans
to our soldiers In Europe when
the war stopped, the Government
suddenly stopped buying which re-
suited in the citrus people losing
one-half Of their customers an at
one blow.
People up North are not buying
as much citrus as they were. with
the high price Of steaks. fish. and
vegetables, people are economic
Ing on other food items. In addi-
ton to consumers buying less.
many more trees have been sci ouf
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

Although Lake Michigan drains
into Lake Huron, the average wa
ter level Of Lake Michigan is near
~ half an inch lower than that Of
Lake Huron.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

Mustangs, the wild and almost
wild horses Of the praires, are des-
pendants Of horses brought to
America by conquering Spaniards
in the 10th century.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
ABSON:-Discusses Grapefruit and ORANGES

B A b S o N
PARK, Fla, Feb.
81 am sorry
to see my citrus
friends here in
Florida feeling
so low. After
several prosper
o u S We a r S ,
grapefruit are
now selling at
twenty cents a
box, on the
t r e e s. an d
oranges are sell
ing at forty
nnq1fn No mw~u,
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

The plants and tools Of Aneri-
can industry and transportation
have been supplied by nearly 90 mill
lion stockholders. The money pro-
vided by those stockholders has
created jobs for almost so million
workers. It built and equipped our
mills, factories. transportation sys-
TENS, mines and utilities, and pro-
vides the working capital that
makes our present tremendous pro-
duction possible.
BY far the larger portion of
those so million stockholders
are small investors who have
saved frugalIy and invested as
insurance for declining years.
During 1SlT the average return
they received on each dollar In
vested was "a cents, safe on
each 500.
President Truman has called upon
industry for an expansion Of produe-
ton facilities to the extent Of an
additional investment Of so billion
dollars. When making that demand
he also asked congress for tax legis-
lation that would collect from what
ever profits industry may be max
ing S., 200. 0OO, 900 additional revenue
each year for the government.
Should congress comply with that
request, it would mean that the ~
cents the stakeholder received on
each invested dollar, $2.7O on each
hundred, would be reduced by more
than one half. 10 raise 50 billion
dollars Of new industrial capital
would be quite a problem under
such conditions.
AS travel across the continent Z
can see from the train window
beautiful yacht club house on the
shore Of Great Salt lake, q body Of
water that is 20 per cent salt, SO
heavy as to be practically un-
navigable. On the lake there are
not more than a dozen boats, most
Of them Of the row boat variety.
a few Of them fitted with outrigger
propellers. You and and the 9TH
er fellow paid for that club house.
enjoyed BY q dozen owners Of row
boats. It was a typical New Deal
boon-doggling project.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

COlors may be divided into warm
hues-red, orange and yellow
and cool hues, such as green, blue
and violet.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13

SOME COMMENTATORS on military
affairs seem to think that new weapons and
new techniques have made almost all of the
old ones ObSOlete-and that we should COM
pletely junk the traditional in favor of the
experimental. AS an example, naval sur
face ships are cited as next-tO-useless relics
of the past.
Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan
recently answered that by reminding the
country of four past developments which, at
one time, were supposed to drive surface YES
sells from the seas. The first was explosive
shells of great calibre-but improved armOr
plate proved the answer to that Then the
perfection of the torpedo was heralded as the
death knell of ships-until Compartments
ton and other forms of anti-tOrpedO prOtec-
ton solved the problem. The improved SUBJ
marine led to wide belief that shipping had
become too risky and too expensive to at
tempt-a claim which was subsequently dis
proved by such developments as the depth
bomb and other defense measures. Finally,
the aircraft ZealOts said that the high devel-
Opment of the military plane meant that sea
power ceased to exist. And that claim, as
everyone knows, was completely disprOved
by the experience of World War II in which
surface ships-bOth transport and combat
played one of the decisive roles.
No intelligent man minimiZeS the pOten-
tial Importance of new weapons. But, at the
same time, no one can say that further in
ventiOn will not at least partially neutralize
their menace. A irst-class fighting force,
even as it works aggressively to develop the
new, must maintain it's efficiency and
strength in old weapons and ideas whose de-
cisiveness has been proved time and time
again. 1t must, in short, he ready for combat
OF the traditional as well as a revolutionary
character
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13


which was attended by delegates represent
ing $3.50 municipalities, the American Mu-
nlclpal Association passed a lengthy resOlu-
ton advocating that all properties of the
Federal government which are not used
strictly for governmental purposes be made
subject to taxation.
At about the same time, a Joint Commit
tee of the American Bar Association, the Ma
tlOnal Tax Association and the NatiOna
Association of Tax Administrators, issued
a report urging that Federal business enter
prises, such as electric utilities, pay state
income taxes, property taxes, and all other
taxes that are imposed upon similar enter
prlSeS when operated by private business or
by local government. The report said, fur
ther that local government prOfit-making
business enterprises should be made liable
to the Federal income tax in the same degree
as private business.
Recommendations of this nature, coming
from such sources, indicate the tremendous
lnroads taX-free government business has
made into the normal sources of government
tai revenUe-at the direct expense of all re-
naming taxpayers. The American Munich
pal Associations resolution observed that
taxation of Federal business properties
would rescue some communities from the
Drink Of insolvency. The great majority of
local governments are hard-pressed for reve-
nue. today and the continued existence of
soclallzed businesses which are free of taxa
ton cannot be justified.
If government business can't stand on its
own feet, it should be dissOlved-and the
sooner the better. And the American people
should understand that they are spending
billion after billion to support ventures into
socialism that are constant and growing
drain on every public treasury
ONE OF THE STRONGEST arguments
against going all the way with the Marshall
Plan is the fact that it costs too much money.
In any event some of the strongest support
ers OF European relief are in favor of trim
ming down General Marshal'S famous mea-
sure by making necessary appropriations to
cover periods of two or three years, instead
OF gambling on whether the United States
will be able to finance the full Marshall Plan
over long period of time. Of course money
collected from taxes must be used to put the
Marshall Plan across.
The House of Representatives took stems
to insure tax reductions, and surely that put
a crlmp in all plans for 'gOing all the way
on the ERP
This is one time that Congress has been
saving some of its natural resources.
Any and all money that is saved bv Con-
gress will be kept in good place-providing
that place IS at the United States Treasury.
Milford chronicle., 1948-02-13
CITRUS FRUITS

The citrus growers Of Texas, Cal
ifornia, Arizona, and Florida, are
The Arizona post., 1948-02-06
ART SZERLIP
IN BUSINESS

Art Szerlip, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Szerlip, prominent Tue
sonians, has announced the open
ing of his radio and electrical re-
pair shop at 282 S. Stone.
Mr.. Szerlip, who was a commu-
nications officer with the Mer-
chant Marine from 1944-47, is a
graduate of a radio engineering
school in the East, and was a
student radio instructor in high
school.
He also was a member of the
Army Civilian Radio Network
during the war. He holds two
types of government licenses -
telephone and telegraph radio op-
orator.
Mr.. Szerlip, who is single and
21, worked his way thru the
ranks to become an officer. He
is an advisor to AZ.A. and CO.
organizational chairman of BIB.
Y.O. The Szerlips live on Kings
Road They have lived here since
1914.
The name of the new concern is
the Art-Coin Radio Co.
The Arizona post., 1948-02-06
NOTICE!

A reputable member of this
community, formerly of New
York, is interested in forming a
social club-a place where, as he
describes it zone could come and
spend an afternoon or evening
and play gin-rummy, pinOcle, ETC.,
have a cOrned-beef sandwich, or
just sit and read, listen to the
radio or chat with fellow mem
berS."
He feels that there is a great
need for such d club in Tucson.
Those who would be interested in
such an organization are invited
to write Box %, c/O The Arizona
Post, Tucson, Arizona.
The Arizona post., 1948-02-06

Mrs. Myra Miller, N. Thoreau
Rd. spent last weekend visiting
her son, David, who is attending
a military academy in Long
Beach, Calf.
Mrs Rose Maslow, Consolidated
Dwellings, has a S guests until
April, her mother, Mrs. Ida Fields,
sister Beverly Fields and brother
Charles, of New York City.
A shower was held for Mrs.
Lou Stein the evening of Jan. 27,
at the home of Mrs. Aaron Wan
der, E. Third. Guests included
Mines. Chas Luggery, Harry Pas
tel, Geo. Kravis, and Mrs. Stein.
The Arizona post., 1948-02-06
Feb. 6. 1948-THE ARIZONA POST

Recent arrivals at Double U
Ranch are: from New York, Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Malina with
Jane and Richard, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. P. Bader; from Kansas City,
Mr.. and Mrs. William RothSchild,
Mr.. and Mrs. Tim Blond, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. S. Taube; from Chicago,
Mr. and Mrs. Hy Smoler, and
Mrs. A. Shapiro. Expected are
Mr.. and Mrs. M K. Mailer and
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Rosenberg
of Detroit and Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Rosenberg of Minneapolis. Recent
departures were Judge and Mrs.
Jay Schiller, Mr.. and Mrs L. H.
Lowitz, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Tucker and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Kotin, all of Chicago.
Gathering at the home of Clara
Levkowitz, N. Granada, on Jan.
25th, Hamishar Asar Bishevat,
friends contributed at Mrs. Lev
kowitz's inStigation approximate
ly 100 trees to be planted in Pal
estine, overwhelming her with
their generosity. The sum was
given to Irene Rosenzweig, Ha-
dassah Tree chairman who prais-
ed the generous contributions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Katz, E.
Speedway, are expecting their
daughter and two grandchildren
from Chicago who will stay a few
months.
Irving Urdang, an executive of
the Longines Watch Co., of New
York, will soon visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Archie Friedberg.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Gittelman, E.
Third, have as their guests, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Weinstein, and
son, Ronny, 2, and Herb Shenkin,
all of Babylon, N. Y.
On January 19, at the home of
Murray Cohen, E. 9th, a Birth
was held for Stanley Joel Stein
man, infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Steinman, of E. 9th. Out of
town guests included Jacob Stein
man, New Orleans, grandfather;
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Hyman, Phoe-
nix, uncle and aunt; and Mrs.
Louis Blum, cousin. Over SO peo-
pie attended the event. Mrs. VIM.
Steinman, the mother, is a daugh-
ter of the Murray Cohens. This
is the fifth grand-child of the Co.
hens, all of them boys, like Can
tor hoped for" says Murray Co.
hen.
The Arizona post., 1948-02-06

Did you know that both Saul
Deitel and Murray Cohen form
erly lived in Winthrop, Mass?
Entering the U. of A. as a fresh
man in the School of Business is
Bob Salt, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam Salt.