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nhone in New Henry McLemore.
York City and dialed WE 6-1212.
This is the number you dial when
you want to find out what the
weather is. After only split-secono
delay, this is exactly what was told
me by the icicle voice at the other
end:
81 PM. temperature 10 degrees
Humidity Al per cent. Barometer
3025 steady. Today sunny and cold
Highest temperature near Is. To-
night mostly clear and colder. Low
est temperature zero to 5 above in
city. Zero to 10 below in suburbs
Saturday increasing cloudiness and
increasing cold. Highest tempera-
ture near co."
AS 7 said before, the voice was
that of a cultured icicle. It was a
voice that could read will to man
In which he'd been left 5000, 00C
and still make him feel as if he had
been cut OF without q cent. 1t had
all the human texture, that voice
that the wheels of a locomotive have
when they bite into the rails to leave
the station. It had all the warmth
and softness Of diamond cutters
drill It packed just about as much
sympathy as the bark Of pistol
and, as for endearment, it had just
as much of that stuff as the Borgias
showed their friends.
SCOTS at Barometer Reading.
What the United States Weather
Bureau needs is some one who has
a feeling for humanity and vii
read the forecast not only In . tone
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This Changing World
Congress Members Who Toured Reich
Held Critical of Plant Dismantling

tary-that either the Western Euro.
peans must get together politically
or they might as well face the fact
that they are doomed. The pressure
from the east is so great thai
nothing but their uniflcation car
save Western civilization from COM
plete destruction.
Unless full political harmony Il
established west Of the Iron Curtain
the economic sacrifices the Ameri-
can people are called on to make
will be nothing more than a tempo
rary stimulant without lasting ef-
feet. Political harmony cannot be
established as long as the policy Of
making Germany pay continues ir
effect.
ALL the Western governments are
aware that Moscow is making big
play for the friendship Of the Ger
man people. The present economic
distress in the Western occupied
zones of Germany Is boon to the
U. S. S. r. and is being skillfully
exploited by their thousands Of
agents who are inflltrating the
Western zones.
Eastern Bloc Organized.
BY placing puppets at the head Of
governments in Central and Eastern
Europe, and by establishing close
alliances with those puppets, Russia
has already organized q powerful
Eastern bloc which is as subservient
to the Kremlin as any one Of the
republics which forms the Soviet
Union. In the West there Is talk
only about a federation based or
democratic principles of individual
freedom.
II the present policy of transfer
ring German factories as repara.
tons is permitted to continue, II
will leave a vacuum in the fedora
ton when and If it is created. That
vacuum necessarily will be filled by
a Russian-sponsored German gov
eminent.
It is true that the World War
reparations helped prevent estab
lishment Of permanent peace, a
Gen. Marshall pointed out in hi
letter to Senator Vandenberg. Blu
closely linked with this question wa.
the matter Of the European wa
debts to the United States.
Some Congress members who hav'
studied European problems believ'
that, If the situation were properl!
discussed with the Western Euro
pean governments, a method coult
be devised to put an end to thu
removal of 80 many German fac
! tories.
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but in a language, understandable
to those who ask for 1t. When I
am told that the humidity is II
per cent, I might just as well be
told that the ring-tailed owl has
ruffled feathers during the mating
season but sheds these ruffied
feathers for long-distance fight. To
tell the average American that the
barometer is "30.25 steady" is to
tell him the Gregorian calendar
is in fault when computing on which
date Of the month the first Tuesday
In June, 1926, fell.
If I am elected President and
thus am placed in charge OF the
United States Weather Bureau, I
am going to spend my leisure time
making up reports for the American
people. Instead Of playing golf as
Mr.. Harding did, or swimming in
swimming pool as MIR. Roosevelt did,
or pitching horseshoes as MIR. Tru-
man does, I am going down to the
Weather Bureau and write news OF
the weather that makes sense. II
YOU will bear with me, before I am
President, 7 would like to give you
a sample of the kind of report I
will send out.
ut Is colder than Billy-be damned
today. If you don't wrap your neck
up In a muf1ier before you leave the
house, it's your own fault If you
get cold and spend two days In
bed with laryngitis. As for the
humidity, there will be no report
on same. So far there has been no
means of combating humidity in
the way of wearing apparel, so
we'll just skip the humidity.
Gives Picnic Advice.
"As for barometer readings, DO
not want to address these remarks
to those people who 60 out and buy
Ibarometers. They are nuts to start
with. Now for the sensible low
down on today's weather: It Is no
day for picnics, unless somewhere
lin your family there is seal. 1t
l. is no day for tramps through the
woods unless you happen to be a
tramp and have nowhere else to
60. My advice is that you use the
cold as an excuse for not going to
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gress members Constantine Brown.
who Investigated the situation on
the spot last year wonder whether
further dismantling Of German
plants will help the nations which
are expected to receive the benefits
of the European Recovery Program.
The Western European problem,
as it is put today, transcends mere
economic assistance as proposed by
Gen. Marshall last summer. British
Foreign Secretary Bevin has gone
on record with a proposal for a
federation Of Western European
states. Although he did not include
Germany in his plan, 1t is certain
that no such federation could be
fully successful unless at least
Western Germany were included In
it.
Should this ambitious project
come to fruition-and all those VINO
are familiar with European condi-
tons agree that Western Euro
pean union Is the only real solution
to the Old Worlds ills-it will be
Iimmaterial whether industrial plants
are left in Germany or move else
where in Western Europe.
Unification Vital.
The location of industrial centers
should follow not a political, but an
economic pattern. Thus, If certain
natural resources require the estab-
lishment of factories in certain
section of Europe-such as the
Ruhr, for instance-it would be
more to the advantage OF the
European people to leave them there
rather than move them to the
Netherlands, France or Britain.
Many American legislators feel
as does the British foreign secre.
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Tor the feSLOra- 1o"ea mshess'
ton of the excess profits levy.
1t was not possible to do much on
the subject in the House. Chairman
Knutson and the majority In the
Ways and Means Committee simply
agreed on the terms of their $780,
600 900 tax reduction bill, got rule
that enabled them to railroad the
bill through the House, and that
was that. There was no discussion
in any real sense Of the word. The
case for an excess profits tax re-
ceived no serious consideration.
It promises to be different when
unlimited debate begins In the
Senate, even though the Senate
leaders may succeed In shortening
the debate somewhat by keeping the
subject in storage as long as posi-
BILE. They are counting on the COM
ing national conventions and the
campaign that follows to bring
pressure for early adjournment.
Cites Report ON Textile Industry.
Many Senators, however. share
the Presidents belief that any loss
of revenues through income tax re-
duction should be recaptured by
taxing excess corporation profits,
some Of them the most excessive in
the history of American industry.
Remarkable examples Of these
profits are being gathered for use
when the time comes.
One such study, made for a diff
ferent purpose, is now on the Sena-
tors desks. It is compilation OF
Government statistics on the textile
industry prepared by the research
department Of the Textile Workers
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On the Other Hand
Senators Gather Facts for Fight
To Restore Excess Profits Tax
Hurry Honon

| Union, designed primarily to but
tress the workers demand for better
wages. While it is likely to be at
tackled by spokesman for the in
dustry as a biased report, the
unions economists are prepared to
defend every figure in it. They will
defend likewise their assertion that
the textile industry Is now the
most highly profitable industry in
the United States, In contrast to
Its prewar position near the bot
tom of the scale. They say this is
true, no matter what measure Of
profits is used-total profits, ratio
of profits to investment or total
sales and whether before or after
taxes. The report itself is entitled,
THE Nations Most Prosperous
Industry"
The profits of the industry before
taxes, says the report, reached the
81, 1000, 00O, 900 mark in 1947 and that
equalled the total profits earned by
the industry In the IA years from
1929 through 1912. This, says the
repr TT, was SO per cent above 1916,
14S per cent above the wartime
average d941-1945) and 1,442 per
cent above the prewar (1936-1939)
average.
49, Profits Before Taxes.
Profits Of the industry after taxes
are given as $1,130, 000, 900, or "a per
cent above 1916. 278 per cent above
the 1941-1945 average and 1889 per
cent above the 1936-1939 average.
Some further statements In the
report:
Earnings in the last year were
so high that corporate profits before
taxes represented At per cent Of the
net worth of all textile corporations
and % per cent of their net worth
after taxes. Thus the 1947 profits
before taxes constituted return In
one year Of almost one half Of the
value of the stockholders claims on
the business"
"A complete tabulation Of finan-
cial data on corporate profits after
taxes indicates that the corpo-
rate excess profits tax was effective
in maintaining normal profits ratios
during the war"
"By every economic yardstick-
current profits in relation to past
profits, profits on net worth, profits
in relation to wages, profits on sales
profits per nan-hour and worker
year-current textile profits are
fabulous. They are unreasonable
by any standard for a healthy eco
nomic system"
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believe that the
United S t a t e S
Weather Bureau
goes out of its
way to hire men
and women who
have small mo-
tors where their
hearts should be
and are, gen.
orally speaking,
robots.
l W q B never
more convinced
of this than to-
ay W h e n I
picked up a tele-
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Taft Off to Sell New Look
Midwest Tour Seen as Attempt
To Prove He Is True Liberal

Secretary of Defense Forrestal ant
exchanged opinions. And so on.
Last Tour Unfruitful.
Last fall Mr.. Taft devoted long
and expensive tour to selling the Re-
publican record to the country. He
was warmly applauded by the part!
for his altruism but the results tx
himself, as evidenced by polls o.
public opinion, have not been sc
happy.
Enthusiastically, the Senator
faced and then acted upon the
harsh fact that he was making q
poor showing and that 1t was hurt.
ing him in his attempts to get the
nomination. Experts were called ir
to analyze, check and interpret the
polls. Presumably his present toul
reflects their approach to the prob.
lem.
Mr.. Taft's vital role In Congress
regardless of polls and the fate Of
his presidential aspirations, was re.
hected again in the large encourage
that accompanied him on his jour-
ney. It's ~ reporters include three
foreign correspondents, two British
and one Swiss, who apparently fee
that while Senator Vandenberg will
lead the fight for the Marshall Plan
Senator Taft may play a crucia.
part in modifying it.
Told to Humanize' Himself.
To one and all, the Senator hopes
to present the picture Of moder-
ate man and true liberal.
One piece of advice from the pol
experts has given the Senator pause
They solemnly assured him he wa
too much the great brain, the
master intellect, that he mus
"humanize" himself.
Mr.. Taft is willing to work hare
to attain the White House; he i!
inclined to concede that the Love
that Senator" technique is beyonc
him
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this Government would, II agree
able to both parties, gladly exteno
its good offices"
Stain Unlesshes Attack.
Finland welcomed our offer but
Russia felt there was no occasion fo'
good Offices. On the following day
Stain unleashed his attack on Fin
land, including the bombing Of sew
eral cities.
We were bitterly disappointed OF
this further outbreak of hostilities
The President, after we had talked
1t over, made q strong press state
nnent the day after war began.
Ambassador steinhardt In Mos
COW cabled me that, when he pre-
sented this appeal to Foreign Com
missar Molotov, the latter categori-
cally denied that Soviet air forces
had bombed civilian populations OF
unfortified cities or had any inten-
ton of doing 50. (Our Legation In
Helsinki had cabled us q number Of
instances of Soviet bombings o,
open cities)
We now decided to extend to Rus
STA our moral embargo on the ex.
port Of airplanes, already In eject
with regard to Japan.
The President and I early de-
cided to apply the Neutrality Act tc
the Russo-Finnish conflict. AS q
government we could not send arms
to Finland, but we did not wish tc
prevent the sale Of arms by private
exporters, If they desired. Further
more, our shipping was already pre-
vented from entering the Baltic
by the combat zone proclaimed fol
the European war.
Finally, we still wanted to refrain
from making Russia q legal belliger-
ent. I could not but feel that the
basic antagonisms between Commu-
mist Russia and Nazi Germany were
50 deep, and Hitler's ambitions SC
boundless, that eventually Russia
would come over to the side OF the
Allies. We had to be careful not K
push her in the other direction.
Incident In December.
The state OF our own unhappy re-
lations with the Soviet Union wa
exemplified by an incident at thu
beginning Of December. Ever sine
we had established relations witt
Russia in 1888, our consular official
there had been subjected to mum
erous restrictions which we woult
not have thought of applying t.
similar foreign officials In thi
country. Their movements were re-
stricted, they were kept under sur
veillance, and their baggage wa
searched as they arrived or departed
Finally we decided to see whether
an instance Of the same Treatment
applied on this side might not cal
the attention of the Russians morl
emphatically than diplomatic pro-
tests, to their neglect Of the usua
courtesies.
When the Soviet Foreign Once re.
uuested q "laissez-passes" "a docu.
ment that would exempt the bearer
from customs examination for q
new vice counsul going to New York
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prOnCS tndt nave
been piling up
In some Ameri-
can industries
since the war.
First in Finance
G O m m ! t t e e
h e a rim 6 S and
then In the floor
fight on the bill
certain Demo-
cratic Senators
will be armed
with inforn1a-
ton to support
President Tru-
mans demand
FIR the reSt0ra-
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it does tickle, and your overshoes,
even If they cover up a very trim
ankle. That Is all for the moment,
but If there's any abrupt change
in the weather you may be sure
that I will give it to you in q Ian
guage that you can understand. "
That's my advice to the United
States Weather Bureau. It can take
it or leave it. I am too cold to
care.
Distributed by McNausht syndicate, Inc)
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work, and stay close to the hearth
side as possible.
Tomorrow figures to be worse, 50
it looks as if you will get two days
off from work. AS for the tempera-
ture in the suburbs, please tune IN
on your nearest suburban weather
editor and let him tell you what's
happening out there.
If you must go out in today's
weather, I would advise that you
wear your wooden underwear even II
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mdI0Iidu D lcttCI
to CHI a ir m a n
Vandenberg OF
the Senate For
eign Relations
Committee on
continued dis
m a n IL g of
German facto-
ries for repara-
tons.
While no one
denies That Gen.
Marshall stated
the case correct
ly in its juridical
aspe C is, Con-
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kickoff, he has Doris Fleeson.
high-powered speech ready for
delivery entitled What Is a Lib
eral?" which assertedly puts the
liberals on the defensive and him.
self in the role of defender OF
the true faith. His own program
of social legislation will receive adj
miring mention.
The isolationist label attached to
Taft as a result of his pre-Pearl
Harbor voting record and general
skepticism about administration
foreign policy will be vanished over
with several speeches. In one, he
will discuss the Marshall Plan and
pledge adherence to what he regards
as a sensible compromise minus
large commitments and extravagant
expenditures. In another, he will
attack universal military training
as a horse-and-buggy approach and
call for a strong national defense
program featuring air power. The
finishing touches were put to that
one after the Senator dined with
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By Doris FIeeson

Senator Taft has headed for the
Midwest to sell a new Taft look to
the country.
In 10 days of intensive, avowed
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.McLemore
Tells How WE 6-l212
Should Report Weather
Rp Henry McLem0re

I may be wrong, but I do not be-
lieve that the United States Weather
Bureau ever accepts an application
for a lob from a human being. I
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Rv T.o,neH MelIeff

ny LUUbEE w 6EEEFE
When the Senate takes the House
tax bill out of the cooler a month or
two from now, the country is due
to learn something concerning the
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ny 0VWSEUHFFHO OFUUW
Members Of the Foreign Relations
and Appropriations Committees in
both houses of Congress reacted
lukewarmly to Secretary Of State
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campaigning Tor
the Presidency,
he will do his
utmost to dispel
the generally
accepted legend
that he Is a
on S e r v alive,
even reaction
airy, isolationist.
The Senator
stoutly denies
CQe VauQlty u
that impression
and will attack
it from every
a n 6 ! e. AS a
kickaH he has
Evening star., 1948-01-18

Distributed by the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1948-01-18

NEW YoRK-one day. New York physician dropped
buy worthless stock with
which to his
fully printed bonds of a defunct company for $34.
The doctor
them The time 1885, the stock previous
year was at least worth a macabre laugh
Six months later the doctor received q broker
of the offer aroused the doctors suspicious He that the
supposedly had revived and had placed
in trust to pay OF its bonds
Wallpaper Was Worth $4,000
But the bonds of the den The problem
solved when official of the trust and stamped
paid in fu mark each the bends the walls Then he
handed the astounded doctor $4,000
This story
stocks and bonds Magazine Digest will its February issue
asserting that the greatest in the world lies unclaimed
here in America in the form of forgotten securities.
Approximately in according estimates
Nations Business lying public vaults salvaged
from defunct waiting for ighu claimants Most
these people and their heirs of their title.
Even the United States Treasury has unclaimed waiting to
worthless At time Of them but they've since gained
real value Sometimes metal find made property which
claim the shares suddenly val
liable Sometimes legal euts discover that foreclosure which put
business before invalid Or there
may old patent needed in
company extinct really
another company which later changed its and
with third Down the the surviving
altered its form several times and have
panded into big concern
The original regardless of change
ownership of the modern hrm and worth
Known to Trade Cats and Dogs
securities to the trade "cas and
dogs and they nhabit vast financial underground ayrynh OF
blind alleys far removed from the recognized securities
the New York Stock Exchange and other leading
Few brokerage their through forgot
ten mergers which smythe
Co.. 1880 by fabulous character named Roland NJ
smythe.
Exchange His employer
handed him II usted bonds Of South Carolina and asked him 70
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smythe called broker who bid 50 each for
the bonds He this bid It,
broker who offered to try for higher price smye
him have of the bonds the understanding
each take so per cent of the returns
Even Roosevelt Saved Old Stocks
month later Smyhe this
the selling price of South Carolina bond
smythe wrote the State South
that the State decided make
issue and had paid the broker 1900 the bond
Smythe figured
you've gained worth syhe
New Yorks largest dealer in inactive securities accmuaing such
information bygone companies that overowed his office
O. schwarzchd present head of the sythe Co. that
fortunately the throws anything which
valuable
Even Roosevelt
boarding Among stocks and bonds
in scores of longforgotten companies.
Sometimes security which worthless have
considerable value Recently new YORK woman nneteo LOU
of mining company which had been formed
shortly after the Civil War.
She asked they worth
He said: Nothing -N&
Unclaimed Treasure Keeps Mounting
As afterthought she inquired of sythe Co. After check
old this found evidence Of value and
notified the woman accordingly.
that broker had burned the stock there
anything they could do about 1t now?
months Smyhe workers sed through ancient records un-
covering which had absorbed the original mining concern
itself The original records listed the
sockhodr and the present accepted her
burned The holdings redeemed
for $500
Experience that likely be vau-
number of different kinds almost
surpasses Of railroad bonds have
1885, others long before that date water
works next best Telephone and street railway company
bonds rarely recoverable.
In spite Of all efforts Of old
tiles the unclaimed mounting In cases. sum
deposit to on these ca ana
for half century Il has drawing interest
old securities therefore, are often worth s"'ce more
oDstssus.a ~ n. Mort s.~-sD~ Anias's'
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LSdI HlIlS CCil'T1CNuiIcu GU
He began to do q lot of serious
research on economics after Jones 81
Lamson was badly hurt by the de-
preston. His economics, like most
of his learning, has been self
acquired. He had only eight years
Of formal schooling.
The philosopher John Dewey, an
other Vermonter, called him "the