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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1947
Page
10
Cairo reports 49 more deaths today bringing the Egyptian cholera toll to 215. The item also surveys UN Palestine prospects amid U S Soviet accord hopes, Zionist and Arab tensions, and calls for an international force to enforce any UN decision.
Opinion notes the UN public airing of Russia and the United States in a debate over world order. It praises open discussion, warns against war, and questions Russia’s readiness while urging calm and world opinion to decide.
In the tale Billy Rose recalls pitching Elsie Janis a cabaret comeback. He proposes four thousand dollars weekly while Janis weighs the Big Boy's influence and the mobster links before ultimately declining the offer.
George E. Sokolsky argues that the dollar is a receipt for labor, not a direct measure of value. He notes governments withhold earnings, making purchasing power the true criterion, and explains how geographic riches affect what money can buy across nations.
The piece argues that shortages in Britain France and Italy stem from insufficient production rather than lack of dollars. It credits British moneylenders and skilled financiers, including Scottish and German Jewish investors, with understanding money as a receipt for production. It criticizes economists and Keynesian ideas, insisting production is reality and money must be made to work.
A local talker recalls a wife upset by a letter on an envelope. The columnist riffed on Chisel Benton and a lunch box typewriter joke. He recalls a line about a man content except for three things and ends with a summer tractor misadventure about a boy who separated from his pants while sunbathing and hitchhiking home.
F. W. Zimmerman, chairman, says Sunday 2:30 PM meeting at the Courthouse will elect officers and feature out-of-town musicians and fresh news from Washington DC, making the gathering especially notable for members.
Associated Press photo shows Sandy the Eskimo dog and hero of European and Pacific wars arriving in San Francisco aboard the SS Marine Swallow en route to Washington for decoration. Sandy parachuted into France on D-Day plus one and later served in the Pacific, reportedly killing three Japanese soldiers near an American outpost. Mrs. Aliki Luscombe of Athens poses with the dog. People of Eire donate 80 tons of canned meat to Italy. Northern Ireland rations chocolate.
Sunday lesson subject Unreality explored in Christian Science services across all Churches of Christ Scientist. Golden Text from Psalms 97 describes the Lord’s glory and righteousness. Timothy and Eddy text emphasize trusting God over uncertain riches and spiritual reality.
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