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The Question of Inflation The most pressing question at \\ ashington these d*ys has to do with currency inflation; and, so far has the tide carried us in the last few months, the chief point at issue now is not whether we are to have inflation, but how the inflation is to be attained. One group is plunking for out-and-out inflation of the traditional type, with the devalued dollar, a flood of printing press money and so on. The other group—which seems to include the ad ministration—evidently prefers to get virtually the same result in a different way. It is banking on vast bond is sues for public works and other projects, on the price raising provisions of the farm bill, on minimum-wage ami ■hort-week regulations. Of the two programs, the latter seems to be the saier. Straight out inflation is generally pretty hard to control. When you start it you run the risk of being unable to stop it—and if that happens yon eventually find yourself in more trouble than you were in in the first place. But the interesting thing is the fact that practically everybody seems to be in one or the other of these two camps. Those voices which, a few months ago, were loud in opposition to inflation of any kind are stilled now. 1 he nation as a whole is about ready to admit that inflation of some kind is inevitable, and that the only problem now is to decide what kind to adopt. Economists have pointed out that the o ly alterna tive to inflation is a continuing deflation of industrial wages and retail prices. Wholesale commodity prices nowadays are down just about where they were at the beginning of the century. It will not do to adopt any inflationary schemes to bring them up, all other prices must get down into line. This would mean dollar-a-day wages for the mass of wage earners. It would mean retail prices such as our fathers and grandfathers knew. It would mean sharp re ductions in city, state and federal budgets that unemploy ment and hunger relief projects could get no more public funds. It would, in short, mean a terrific intensification of the nation's present difficulties. Not even the most hard-boiled deflationist wants that. We have turned our faces in the other direction. Inflation seems to be coming; the only question now is what kind we are going to have. Revenue From Beer When the beer bill was being put through Congress, it was estimated that the taxes accuring from the sale of the beverage would bring the federal treasury approxi mately $150,000,000 a year. It begins to look now as if this estimate were far too low. To yield that much revenue the beer industry would have to sell 30.000.000 harrels a year—an average of slightly more than 82.000 barrels a day. During the first 24 hours of legal beer, reliable estimates put the total sales at between 1,000,000 and 1,500.000 barrels. To be sure sales will not continue in anything like that volume. But even if they go on only at a tenth of that rate—which is surely a conservative estimate—the tax revenue will be far greater than $150,000,000 a year. It looks as if the beer tax will be a far more impor tant revenue producer than anyone had dared to hope. The Once Over THE LOW-DOWN ON INFLATION It is about time somebody ex plained ail about inflation, the de cline of the dollar, etc., in words anybody can understand. So here goes: Briefly, the idea is to do away with the old Model T dollar and bring out one along snappier lines, with less wind resistance, quicker pickup, wizard (F. D. R.) control, free wheeling and a new aluminum body or something. iStop us if we get too technical). • • • The dollar now buys too muen. You take oats, no, one second thought, let us not take oats. When you start talking about oats tiie conversation leads to horses and Use first thing you are bitting two dol lars on the fifth at Harve de Grace. Take wheat. Wheat is so cheap that a man with wheat on his hands Is worse off than a fellow with a pent house. • • • Take spinach. In 1928 a dollar would buy only enough spinach for ; two adults and nine children. To day the same dollar will buy enough spinach for 26 adults and 98 chil dren. and the situation is aggrava* ed by the fact that the adults arc so sick of spinach they are more in sistent than ever that the childun eat it. Do we make ourselves clear? (Voices: -Non • AW Well, lei us speak in terms of yachts. In boom tunes $50,000 w-ou’d buy one yacht, without a tender or set of pil'* rules. Today yachts are selling for $500. three for $2,500. with an extra pair of biue pants thrown In. • • • Now what does this mean? Huh? It means that things are unbalanc ed. We’ve got to get the dollar low' er so it wall send goods such as wheat, spinach, yachts, copper, steel, beer, jig-saw puzzles and oth er essentials hiRher. »Even if this were easier to understand you wouldn't like it—Ed). m • • So what? So we inflate commodi ties. We put 38 pounds in the front i res and forty-five in back. And we deflate the dollar by letting out the air all around. Then what lave we got? Have we got u dollar? No. The dollar is gone What have we got in its place? In its place we have a flat tire. • • • We trust we have made every thing clear. A Real Comedown That the dollar was sinking was known to most people, but only a few realized it would ever sink so low that folks would begin swapping it for common stocks. Ima Dodo says he uncle has .n vested all his money in a riding academy so he can be assured of stable money Very Evasive The difficulty in supporting the dollar doesn’t surprise most people They have had trouble keeping a dime. What America needs, some stat**s mcn seem to think, is a good ten cent dollar. ••Congress Considers Gag Bill.”— headline We hope It extends to radio comedians Those hats the girls are wearing this spring must have been de signed by the fellow who gets up the costumes for the annual carnival at Nice. Quotations In a certain measure I am re markably like St of the Eng lish. First I convince myself that a thing Ls not going to happen and when it does happen I say perhaps something will turn up. — Ruyard Kipling. English author • • • Federal legislation should provide for the careful and rigorous reg ulation of the granting of loans by banks to their own officers and di rectors. —Leonard P Ayres, banker and ec onomist. • • • He did ont fret Himself for things or place or power. - Mrs Pearl S Buck, novelist and missionary. ! Out Our Way.By Williams a' MOMtW- WES, \ f LF VSJHOT 1T LU \ / SOO *rT OP \ FEP A LE.TTuce 1 “TO Thi«» *TA0vJE, • \ SAM \NiCM ** 1 LL 1 VOU PE MOT” \ \outy! vnww, oowmm \ Go^Cx To a*w I WiM G»T \ O-UU 30MME>,OR 1 fER vnhuT Tel cost vleewe Walters A APPtTrZER — GOfeHy \ PUACE.S, \F I / r ME IM OM SOOR y V CAM HE.LP \T. >/ , A*MT OKi MO^>// ^ I-__ WlhW MOTHERS get GP/Y/ 7"* _ New York Letter BV PALL HARRISON NEW YORK—At the Club Rich man : Handsome Russell Patterson, the artist; Johnny Green, the com poser; dainty Mitzi Mayfair; Jim my Durante and his nose; Hal Le Roy, the dancer from Cincin nati; smartly-togged Jean Aubert; stout and beaming Sophie Tuck er ... These and many others ap plauding Gilda Grays return to Broadway. An older, but a new Gilda, singing torch songs instead of shimmying. More than 15 years ago she was discovered by Sohpie Tucker, and started on her career. Until this night the two perennials hadn't met since the “Gaitics of 1919” ... At the new spring revue of the Cotton Club: Carl Van Vechten, the writer; Lupe Velez and, of course. Johnny Weismuller; Lju Holtz; Eddie Cantor; Ethel Mer man; Sophie Tucker ... Every body applauding the singer, Ethel Waters ... Miss Waters recalls gratefully how. many years ago, she was led out of oblivion by Miss Tucker, given several dresses and recommended for a spot on Broawa.v ... At the Hollywood, on the third night: A spotlight, searching out celebrities, has little trouble land ing on Sophie Tucker. She takes ! a bow, then stills the applause with her booming voice: "I'm leav ing Broadway for awhile, folks ... I'm going %o Chicago tome frow, and tonight I want to try out some of my new songs on you ... ” Stopped ’Em at 17 After three numbers she sat down, flushed and triumphant; j “Guess there's life in the old girl yet; they seemed to like 'em. Now tor Chicago; I'm opening at the Two - Twenty - Five Club, very swankj. on the Gold Coast. And think I'll have my own club at the worlds fair. “Chicago likes Sophie Tucker. I’ve been going back there several times a year for—let me see—since 1909. remember that first day; it was at William Morris' American Music Hall, and I was number two on a twenty-act bill. I was Just a kid. 17, ran away from home three years before, and didn't want anybody to guess my age. So I had a black velvet gown, with a train, and my hair up in exactly 125 curls. I came on holding a sheet ot music. The orchestra started that dum-dum-de-dum bit from Faust —and most of the audience made a break for the bar at the back of the hall! ’T stopjied ’em. though. I let out one loud bellow and rooted 'em in their tracks. Then I went into ‘The Lov-m' Rag—the Lov-in’ Rag—’ and they all rushed back and sat down.” • • » Russian l - Birth Noboay would guess It. but So phie Is a Russian instead of a corn belt Amazon. Back in the early nineties, she confided, her parents fled Odessa and went into hiding i near the Italian border, which thev hoped to cross. Their name was Kalish ... Into their retreat one day stumbled an ailing young Ital ian, fleeing military service in his own country. The Kalishes nursed him until he died, then took his passport and adopted the name It bore—Aduza They took ship for America A daughter was born to them on the boat, and they called her Sonia— Sonia Aduza.. They settled In Hart ford. Conn., and there Sonia learn ec to sing and to yearn for the st age. Finally she ran away to New York, where her lusty voice won her small turns on beer garden stages. Made up In blackface, she shouted '’oon songs, later appeared In burlesque. After she had married a man nam ed Tuck, somebody suggested she use the name of Sophie Tucker. The sun will be colder during the next few years, predicts the Smith sonian Institution Yes. and so will the look of bankers asked for loans on suburban allotments. Nobody need be surprised at the way Pres. Roosevelt threw out the first ball to open the season at Washington We've known ever since March 4 that he had plenty of speed. Man reports his canary, silent 13 years, began to sing th; day Rooftr velt was inaugurated. Sure it wasn't | a bluebird. • • • The Italian who invented the post I card has just gone to his reward While we hope he Is having a fine time, we are glad we are not there • • • Easter is one time when a woman may be depended upon to use her head. • • News item says there Is a cave on Manhattan Island that was used by the early Indians as a home. Bet if you'd look It up you'd find it full of bankers. • • • Speaking of deflation, it ought to , bring the bloated bondholder back 1 to normalcy. • • • House of commons passes a bill that fresh drinking water must be available wherever meals are setv ed. Better pass an amendment that it must be labeled, so Englishmen will know what it Is • • • Will Hays says experience has proved that vulgarity in the | movies doesn’t pay Which may ex plain why .so many companies are on the rocks. Movie Sidelights CAPITOL The hum of a propeller, the roai of motors, and Lady Cynthia Darr ington's moth piane ascends into the heavens to hurl a romantic bomb-shell into the orderly life of a staid British statesman, who has been a moral husband for twenty years. RKO-Radio Pictures’ "Christophei Strong,’’ featuring Katharine Hep burn as the adventurous aviatrix and Colm Clive, showing Wednes day and Thursday at the Capitol Theatre, pictures this dramatic, fast-stepping situation. Christopher and Cynthia forget friends, morals, conventions. He | leaves heme. wife, daughter and ! society; she makes him her world I They enjoy supreme happiness for ’ more than a year—and then the i boomerang in the form of a pro spective child. Cynthia doesn't tell Christopher, but formulates a fatal plan to liberate his infatuation and return him to home and ca reer. QUEEN Although the racket, devastating In its scope and often leaving terror in Its wake, has forced itself upon the American economic structure during the past decade, its far reaching effects are realized by comparatively few. How it has spread Us influence to the lives of the men in the street is embraced by the Columbia production. “State Trooper," a story of wilful sabotage in the gigantic oil industry, which comes to the screen of tne Queen Theatre next Thursday and Fri day. According to the major premise of the story, the petty racketeer is unimportant, but *hen great com bines plan viscious attacks upon industries which deal directly with the public, at times they will stop at nothing in an effort to accomplish their ends. DITTMANN Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, platinum blonde charmer of the screen, are seen together for the second time in their careers in “Red Dust", sensuous drama of Indo-China. which heads the pro gram at the Dittmann Theatre Sunday. "Red Dust” is a romantic ad venture story laid amid the rubber plantations of Indo-China. The plantation setting alone occupied an entire sound stage and contained eight separate rooms built around a large compound garden. Porches, , mat roofs, and flooring of rough hewn timber construction were du plicated from photographs of build ings in the little known district which serves as a locale for the plot. RIVOLI-SAN BENITO Which is the Kmg of Beasts—is i it the lion or the tiger? 1 During the filming of "The Big —- i Today’s Radio Features WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 (Central and Eastern Standard Time) Note—All programs to key and basic chains or groups thereof unless speci fied. coast to coast (c to cl designation includes all available stations. Program* subject to change. P M. NBC-WEAF NETWORK BASIC—East: weaf wiw weel wtlc wjar wtag wcah wfl wilt wfbr wrc wiry when wcae wtam wwj weal. Midwest: . wmaq wcfl ksd woe-who wow wdaf NORTHWEST A CANADIAN — wtmj wiba kstp webc wday kfyr ckgw cfcf SOUTH — wrva wptf wwnc wis wjax wfla-wsun wiod sum wmc wsb wapl wjdx wsmb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kpre woat ktbs kths MOUNTAIN — koa kdyl kgir kghl COAST—kgo kfi kgw komo khq kpo kfsd ktar ksu Cent. East. 4:00— 5:00—Al Bernard, the Minstrel 4:15— 5:15—Trio Romartique—also o 4:30— 5:30—Schirmer. Schmitt, Pianos 4:45— 5:45—Paul Wing's Story—cast 6:00— 6:00—Meyer Davie Orch.—to c 5:30— 6:30—Back of News—aiso cst 5:45— 6:45—John Pierce, Tenor—to c • :00— 7:00—Concert Ensemble—to c: Maud A Cousin Bill—wmaq wdaf 6:15— 7:15—To Bo Announced 6:30— 7:30—Elvia Allman, Songstress 6:45— 7:45—Tht Goldbtrgs, Sketch 7:00— 6:00—Fannie Brice, Geo. Oleen 7:30— 1:30—Shadow Mystery Drama 8:00— 9:00—Ranny Weeks end Band 8:15— 9:15—Rocking Chair Memories 8:30— 9:3(^—Josef Lhevinns, Pianist 9:00—10:CO—Cob ’ipe Club—cst to cst 0:30—10:30—Dance Hits of Yesteryear —east. Carveth Wells—midwest 10:00—11:00— Vincent Lopez Orchestra 10:30—11:30—Dance Orcheetra 11:00—12:00—Ralph Kirbery—haste 11:15—12:15— Trank Libuse's Orchestra 11:30—12:30—Mark Fisher's Orchestra CBS WABC NETWORK BASIC—East: wabc w-icc wade woko wcao waab wnac wgr wkbw wkrc whk ckok wdre wcau wtp wjas wean wfhl wsnd wjsv; Midw.st: wbbm wgn wfbm krnbo woco krnox wowo EAST AND CANADIAN — wpg whp wlhw w*hec wlbx wfex wore efrb ckac DIXIE — wgst wsfa wbre wqam wdod wnox Kira wreb wla< wdsu wtoc krld wrr ktrh ktsa waco koma w«1ho wodx wbt wdae wblg whas wtar wdbj wwva tv mbs wsjs MIDWEST — wbcm wsi