The Roaring Presses

Whacky. On its new children's page, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker gave its young readers directions for making "a New Look beanie" from daddy's old felt hat. "With a row of Wallace buttons around the beanie," it exclaimed, "you'll be the best-dressed kid in school . . . Anything goes on a beanie, and the whackier the better!"

Woo. Columnist Drew Pearson, whose Friendship Train sent 700 boxcars of food to Europe and got him named Father of the Year, decided to try it again. Aping Henry Wallace, he got off an open letter to Joseph Stalin: "I propose that we, the American people, again organize a Friendship Train ... to the children of Russia . . . Your acceptance . . . might be a milestone in avoiding the war . . . toward which we seem to be drifting." Pearson made the implications clear to his 30 million readers. If Stalin does not "act on it . . . then we will know exactly where we stand with Russia. We will know--and can tell Europe--that Russia is the real warmonger."

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