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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
The Cash Budget
Washington Post)

According to presidential budget estimates the Government will end the next fiscal year 194849 with surplus of 48 billion dollars But that does not mean that the Government expects pay out the general public AS billion dollars in actual cash than it collects the public For the receipts and expend ture items of the regular administrative budget include various kinds of ntragovernmental payments that have be excluded from the totals in to determine the actual amount of money that the Gov ernment receives from and pays to the public Certain cash transactions between the Federal Government and the public are also excluded from the regular budget statement.
 An examination of the cash budget estimates prepared by the Bureau of the Budget indicates that total cash receipts from the public during the current and the coming fiscal year will greatly exceed esti- mates of administrative budget receipts Discrepancies are due in large part to the fact that account receipts (notably amounts collected for oldage ins ance and employment taxes collected by the States and deposited in the unemployment trust fund) are not included under administrative budget receipts When allowance is made for such levies as well as for other adjustments, it appears that the public will be called upon to pay the Government 48A billion dollars in the current fiscal year and 4o 1 billion dollars next year whereas estimated administrative budget receipts placed at 452 billion dollars for the current fiscal year and 445 billion ooars TOT the co ing year.
 On the other hand cash payments made by the Government to the public estimated at 405 bil-
 lion dollars and 413 billion dollars respectively. As result the estimated cash surplus for the present fiscal year in dealings between the Federal Government as a whole and the public amounts to about TT bi lion dollars compared with the 75 billion dollar es- innate of the administrative budget For year the cash surplus placed at slightly more than billion dollars compared with the AS billion dollars surplus of the administrative budget, mentioned in the Presi- dents budget message
 Evidence of the importance of the cash budget concept distinguished from the regular admnistra tive budget is afforded by the action of the Committee for Economic Development which framed it's recent budget policy recommendations with reference to the consolidated cash budget The given for that choice is that is shows the Governments financial transactions as they affect the whole economy-the expenditures that absorb goods and services add private incomes, the receipts that subtract from private incomes the deficits surpuses that add to or subtract from the publics holdings of money and Government bonds" It is also significant that the Economic Report of the President recently trans mitted to Congress employs the cash budget concept in estimating Fedearl receipts, expenditures and sur pluses means of gaugng the counterinflationary effect of the Governments financial transactions dur ing 1947
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
MERGER MENACE

Between 1940 and 1946 says the Federal Trade Commission more than 1900 manufacturing and min ing concerns with assets exceeding four billion dollars disappeared because of mergers and acquisitions And the trend continued during l947. This merger move nent taking the form principally of purchases of the assets of smaller concerns by big firms has been facilitated by the neffectveness of the Clayton Act which as interpreted by the courts deprives the Fed eral Trade Commission of power to prevent company from purchasing outright the assets of another com- pany unless the resultant merger creates monopoly Since the ETC does have the power under the Clayton Act to prevent acquisition of companys stock by another company if the purchase would merely lessen competition CT tend to create monopoly the result has been encouragement of industrial concentration by the merger route
 The ETC has long urged Congress to amend the Clayton Act as a means of enabling it to proceed against corporate mergers brought through purchase of assets A biil amending the Act with that purpose in mind-the Kefauver bll-has been reported out by the House Judiciary Committee but is at the moment bottled up in the Rules Committee. The proposal has been the subject of extensive hearings, resulting in revision of the bill originally introduced. The Federal Trade Commission also made an exhaustive study of the merger developments of recent years, emphasizing the threat free enterprise of current trends Congress should certainly be afforded an op- portunty at this session to pass the merits of this
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
FOUR PRESBYTERIANS
 DEBATE

At a recent radio forum, Re- publican Senators Homer Ferguson oi Michigan and Irving Ives of New York supported fruman's civil rights program while Democratic Senators Allen Ellender of Louis jana and John Steenis of MiSsiss- ippi opposed it. Afterward, Ives was ribbino Ellender
 You know, I can't understand how ycu and I can disagree on this question, at least on it's relig ious fundamentals said the New York Senator. We're both Pres byterians."
 Stennis cooked his ear atten lively. ~
 I'm a Presbyterian, too,' ob- served the new Mississippi Sena- tor
 T guess that makes it unani- nous" grinned Ferguson. So am T.
 Well, if we aren't a bunch of dandies," exclaimed Ives. Here we are fighting about something on the radio that we'd probably see eye to eye on in church.
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pear that he had waited for them to ask him to run.
 Turning to Matt Connolly his secretary, who was in the room with McGrath and Sullivan, he asked his advice on the form of the announcement. Connolly sug- gested that McGrath announce It to reporters when they asked him what he had talked to the Presi- dent about.
 Suppose they don't ask me" sug- gested McGrath.
 Even if they don't ask, you go head and announce it. insisted Truman.
 Truman also leyeled a blast at the eno-good columnist Drew Pearson" and congratulated Me Glath for having issued a state ment denying a Pearson report that he, McGrath would like to resign as national chairman.
 Tt was the best thing you ever did encouraged the President, adding that McGrath should issue a second blast against Pearson. 6McGrath did so at 11:l5 that nightJ
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FORGOTTEN VICE PRESIDENT

McGrath had intended talking to Truman about a Vice-Presiden- tial running-mate, and planned to suggest Senator Lister Hill of Alabama. He thought south erner on the ticket would win back the South, and that Hill would also be liberal enough to suit the North.
 Knocked off base by the ve- hemence of the Presidents tirade, however, McGrath forgot all about mentioning Hills name.
 THE ARMYS LOBBY
 At a closed meeting of the House Expenditures Committee the other day, Ohio's Congressman Clarence Brown, power in Republican circles, erupted with indignation
 The military he exploded, has put over a colossal propaganda program on the American people, and caused some people to get unduly excited over universal mili- tary training"
 He urged his colleagues to back up subcommittee report by Con- gressman Forrest Harness, Indiana Republican, condemning the Ar my's propaganda activities. Obviously" charged Brown, these military people are high pressuring universal military train ing in order to keep their jobs. It is not the proper approach to pre- paredness, and they know it. So that they can hang on to their power and authority, they are will ing to have the Government pay for false military security"
 Massachusetts John Mccormick, Democratic whip, took issue with Brown over the necessity of mili- tary training, but kept tongue-in- cheek over the Army's lobbying. The report presented such clear cut case of Army lobbying that expenditures chairman Clare Hoff- man of Michigan wanted to usurp the report from subcommittee chairman Harness and report it to the House himself.
 Harness, who wanted to present the report without submitting it to the full committee. got Congress man James Wadsworth, New York Republican, to offer motion giv- ing him that right. But Hoff- man angrily objected. and the com mittee backed him up.
 So Hoffman now will get the publicity.
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to as the "Crum Report recom- mended trusteeship for Palestine under the United Nations and urg- ed that Britain continue its man. date until the trusteeship could be set up. It opposed any separ- ate Jewish or Arab state, warning that such division would cause worldwide disorders. The report also asked for the immigration of 100000 Jews into Palestine immed- lately, but urged that other coun- tries also open their doors, since Palestine would not be able to hold all Jewish refugees.
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PALESTINE SOLUTION STILL, POSSIBLE

By this time, the President had quieted down somewhat, and Me- Grath had a chance to get i'll a word about Palestine.
 Come ever here, Howard" re- piled the President, motioning to a big globe
 He pointed to a line on the map where the U s. Army had built a railroad north from the Gulf Of Persia and explained that the Russians were out to get this rail line plus all of the Arab oil re- gions and the Eastern Mediter- ranean. At one time, Truman add ed. he thought he had the Pales- tine problem all settled, then things turned out differently.
 While I was in Florida I put a lot of time in on this" the President said, adding that he ex- pected to come up with something right away.
 Reaching into the third drawer Of his desk, the President took out a copy Of the Palestine report pre- pared in part by Bartley Crum of San Francisco who visited the Near East with the Anglo American Commission.
 That's my Bible said MT. Tru- man.
 He explained that he thought he had British Foreign Minister Bey- in persuaded to put the CiEIn ideas on Palestine into effect, but that Beyin had backed out.
 Note-The Anglo American Com mission, which Truman referred
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Cur Service Engineers

Of course when do buy from ton cf knowing that is backed tcn in ScuheastSn Alaska. of O. horne sets would like they such service on the sets they
 Scme you stung past and phcnograph experts and probably when knowing where obtain reliable claim to be the only firm that but know that will phonographs and combinations price that judge be fair all charge
 If have small set that needs check koverbrng it and save the house call charge If have large just call the phone and probably adjust your own home 9Of of all sets be in Al shape that and at nominal charge. call must satisfy consider engineers good will ambassadors!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
JIM CHURCH HAS NOW
 SWITCHED TO KLISTER

With only about seven skiing Sundays left and spring snow conditions prevailing, Ski Club President Jim Church advises a switch in the type Of ski wax used While dry snow takes a hard wax skiers will find that soft Klister wax with parafin rubbed in for speed in spring snow is the clear dope.
 Church advises that there is lot Of good skiing remaining G-- til May.
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LOOK and LEARN A c. GORDON

$ difference eegy epitaph? Who naned the Pacific Ocean? the first the Webster dictionary fame? English Trafalgar? What a "tyro'?
 ANSWERS
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  Admiral A a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
BOY FOR WEIR 5

A baby boy was horn to MT, and Mrs. William Weir at 7:10 o'clock this morning at St. Ann's Hospital and weighed 5 pounds and l2 ounces. The new arrival is the filst child of the Weirs.
 Mrs. Weir is the former Mary Lucille Goetz of Douglas and Weir is from Nevada.
 The parental grandparents are MT. and Mrs. Albert Goetz of Douglas, and Mir and Mrs. Weir of Jarbridge, Nevada.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
What Style Do You Prefer

some folks want large deuxc console combination, prefer small table size combination that they room to room or may prefer combination with any o number of record cabinets that these table combinations will match perfectly with While people want an automatic player that will enable them whole program of records the machine others who want single player change their
 In fact we have terrific portable phonograph that makes these outdoor pcnics Of course you don't have to buy combination" who wish to buy only the photograph those tool So no matter what size what prefer walnut mahogany or natural woods sure
 that if will drop find set that will bring many hours of enjoyment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
Da;!y Lessons in English ". " L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN Either three boxes will be satisfactory THREE EITHER of the TWO"
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Admirable admi-rab1 I in nd syllable, the second.
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: Granary; GRAN, not GRAIN.
 SYNONYMS irresistible
 WORD STUDY: three times it yours Let us mastering word each day Today word with We coe what is guarded; the very thief Ovid
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
REV. JOSEPH M'ELMEEL
 BREACHES AT CATHOLIC
 LENTEN SERVICE SUNDAY

At the Lenten Devotions at the Catholic Church Sunday evening, the Rev. Joseph McElmeel will give the fourth of series of sermons on the Church. Tomor- row evenings sermon will be "The Authority of the Church Through the Centuries.
 The Sunday evening Lenten Ser vices begin at 7:30 o'clock. Non Catholics, as well as Catholics, are welcome.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
MODERN ETIQUETTE FyoRERrA Py LEE

O. When employee necessary duce him to the other employees?
 exactly still courteous thing will associated 
 What the to address formal invitation to two a family?
 Address the "The Misses and Clara Brown necessary ushers formal evening wedding always white gloves? A Yes lwavs
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measure, which aims to protect the interests of small business from unfair competition and monopolistic encroachments.
 The postwar growth of mergers furtherng the concentration of wealth and income in the hands of giant concerns emphasizes the need for plugging those oopholes in the antitrust laws that hamper the FTCs efforts to deal effectively with the merger problem
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
20 YEARS AGO TIT fHE EMPIRE
MARCH ls, 1928

MARCH l3, 1928 Capt replaced Parks command of the mail Margnita
 have their lives when Newha Caf releasing millions of gallons of
 the the noon hour Forget-Me-No cabin Eagle to be discussed
 received that United States asking transportation available trip Mendenha Glacier
 Paul Regal had Survey vessel Seal
 Weather: High 35: partly cloudy
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fully offered their sympathy, help fitness and gifts during our recent bereavement.
 1t) The Hellan Family.
 Wantads pring q1ick results
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our deep gratitude and extend thanks to the Sisters of St. Ann, Knigts of Columbus, Elks Club and to the many indivnduals who so thought
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
Only 1cp Name Brand" Before You Invest = Investigate

When buy phonograph of the most important things look for the name manufacturer That's why will top names" as RIGA VICTOR ZENITH and EMERSON, and many are household All of these brands after department we can back up these
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-13
AN OPEN LETTER
To the amiIy Thai's s Going 10
Buy a New Monograph

We can't help but feel that talk" be interested in You undoubtedly planning new record player for long time You have had oo long due to shortages and still be under the
 impression that you can't immediate delivery the radio combination that you have on We are mighty glad therefore to be able tell you that
 much watedfo radio phonograp better radio praph combination right
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Why Euy froli sys?

That certainly important question you to ask and honestly feel that you equipment from us! And heres why .
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FROM TULSEQUAH

L. St. Laurent is in Juneau and taying at the Gastineau Hotel.
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The Washington kerrY-6O-Round
By DREW PEARSON

Continued from Page one)
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Capt H Peterson replaced Capt Larry Parks command nail boat Margnita.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-08

ly likely he would celebrate SINH
lar occasion SIS years hence.
A little macabre, I thought, but
no one seemed to take it that way
least of all the fellow citizen of
Dante who was enjoying himself
immensely over his cold smoked
turkey and doubtless became lyric
over the Ira and other important
transalpine institutions before we
were through.
On the bearded ones left was
representative of the state depart
ment who gave me disappointing
ly eyewitness and unsensational ac-
count of the recent parliament ses-
sion of one of our South American
neighborS-a session which I had
judged from previous dispatches,
would be punctuated by revolver
shots.
We had heard rumOrS Of mys-
teriOus shootings there which
were supposed to have made up
in political significance what
they lacked in craftsmanship.
Also there had been hints of
cabinet changes due not only to
mistakes in policy, but to hasty
burials. 1 asked my fellow guest
about it.
"Oh, no." he said, "there were no
cabinet changes"
But what about these terrible
rumors of graft and corruption?"
well, the President in his ad-
dress did make particular reference
to the evils of political corruption
and to the importance of selfless
loyalty on the part of the servants
Of the state"
''But was that aIl?" I persisted.
mo names, addresses, or telephone
numberS?"
"That was ALL" he insisted, ''It
was very quiet session. Further
more there was none of the proto-
col we observe at joint session OF
the two houses of the American con-
gress. This parliament was called
to order, the President came in,
spoke his piece. and went out"
At this point, my host broke
in. He insisted that repeat the
story of the opening Of this sum-
mer's special "turnip" session Of
congress which nobody outside
of a few million radio listeners
who happened to be tuned in had
heard before.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-08
PRICE AID:
Sure Thing

One thing is dead sure about the
coming election: No matter who
gets into office, farm price supports
will be continued.
Governor Dewey is on record as
favoring the Hope-Aiken law passed
by congress last June, and Presi-
dent Truman says he is in favor Of
farm price supports and has been
all along.
BOTH SIDES have promised their
help to the nations farmers.
AS result of the growing amount
of light that has been shed upon
the idea of price supports there has
been lot of argument as to wheth-
er they keep up costs of living in
the city and, hence, contribute gen.
orally toward imitation.
The system was started in the
1930s to save farmers from bank
ruptcy caused by surplus production
and lack of consumer buying. 1t
accomplished that end.
1T WAS CHANGED during the
war to make farmers produce more
food than the country needed to feed
less fortunate nations who were
fighting the Axis. It did that.
After the war this incentive sys-
tenn was continued to keep greater
amounts of food flowing into desti-
tute areas abroad. It was success
full in that, also.
Now, however, as a result Of this
artificial stimulation, production is
beginning to pile up in the U. S.
The wartime pattern of price sup
port no longer fits the American
market.
THE POTATO situation is a case
in point. AS the government con-
tinues to stimulate the production
of potatoes the guaranteed prices
keep consumers from getting the
surplus crops at bargain prices. and
at the same time the system keeps
farmers growing too many potatoes.
Congress this year elected to re-
wise the price support program, eff
fective in 1850, by providing new
parity prices based on modern farm
practices and by allowing a fuctu-
alton in support levels to conform
with general economic conditions.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-08
+? Current Events F.?

If you baVent been spending all
your evenings taking THE dog for
WaLk or fixing THE ben bonse,
chances are y0N'Oe been reading
ab0nt some of the eVents on aVbicb
THE foLIotUine fVe questions are
based. Can you ansVer Them?
1. The United Nations general
assembly recently convened in
Paris for a 10 or 12-week fall
session. What is the name of the
elaborate building in. which the
assembly is meeting?
2. The American, British and
French ambassadors who have
been csnferring with Molotov re-
Gently took their leave of Mos
cow. Can you name them?
3. This year, 16 years after he
scared 10 miles into the strato-
sphere in a balloon, a Belgian
scientist-explOrer plans to plunge
two miles under water to investi-
gate the deep sea world. Who is
he?
4. Who is the man who took the
assassinated Count BernadOtte'S
place as U. N. mediator in Pal
eStine?
S. Princess Elizabeth of Eng
land was in the world spotlight
when she got married last No
vember. Now she is in the news
again for different reason.
What is 1t?
ANSWERS
l. Palais de Chaillot.
2. Walter Beden Smith (U. S.),
Frank Roberts (British). Yves Cha.
taigneau (French).
8. Prof. Auguste Picard.
4. Ralph Bunche, an American,
Bernadotte's assistant.
S. She is expecting baby in No.
vember.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-08
HOME OWNERS:
Record High

One of the most maddening Of all
the modern paradoxes is that while
millions of American families are
searching desperately for decent
places to live, at the same time
more American families own their
own homes now than ever before in
history.
About 40 per cent of the nations
non-farm families owned their
homes atfthe beginning of this year,
it has been revealed by a federal
reserve board survey. That comes to
a total of 1875 million city and town
families.
n. Although the survey did not take
UP farm families, the proportion Of
home owners among that group ira
ditionally has been much higher
than among city dwellers. 81
Arizona sun., 1948-10-08

lily, had outlived the japanese oc-
cupatlon, and with his sister, had
participated in the effective Philip
pine underground, memories of
which made this days current trag-
edy of the Philippines-the eruption
of Hibokhibok volcano on Camiquin
island-a decidedly minor concern.
On my left was a prominent Wash
ington lawyer. During lull in the
discussion of international, if not
cosmic affairs, he suddenly asked:
What was your mothers maiden
name?"
"Alice Blood" I replied.
"Yes." he nodded in sa tisfac-
ton, ''My aunt, Clara Brown,
often told me about your moth
er. They were classmates ling
ham university '78), and she was
bridesmaid at your mothers
wedding in La Sale, Illinois"
Skipping your correspondent
around the table, we arrive at a
famous. scientist. We exchanged
"reminiscences too, for he also was
graduate of the same college. AS
we talked, I remembered an anec-
dote about him I had heard from 9
mutual college friend.