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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946
TOP O’ THE MORNING
Blessed are they who know the power of
love;
They dwell in God, for God is love.
Blessed are they that have understand
ing hearts,
To them shall he multiplied kingdoms of
delight.
Blessed are they whose memories we
cherish;
Our thoughts add jewels to their crowns.
—From “Beattitudes for the Home.”
Minorities Call Strikes
The strike of telephone workers,
scheduled for this morning, may or
may not have started. It was set for 6
o’clock this morning, long after this
newspaper went to press. When this
was written there was no indication of
settlement or postponement.
Railroad enginemen and trainmen
have scheduled their walk-out for next
Monday. This, however, may be post
poned for thirty or sixty days, if Presi
dent Truman appoints a fact-finding
board, and the brotherhoods comply .
with the Railway Labor Act’s provision. .
The point to be emphasized in con- j
nection with both these strikes is that .
the number of persons involved is a
small majority of the population but (
has the power to tie up the nation’s (
transportation and a large part of its
communications system.
The case would be the same if all
union labor should strike simultaneous
ly. Industry would be paralyzed, the na
tion’s business be brought to a stand
still, not by the decision of the major
ity of the people but by a small minor
ity_a minority the smaller because
a majority of union workers seldom
take part in a strike vote, with the
strike called by a majority of the work
ers voting.
In light of this fact the United
States cannot properly consider itself
a democracy, where majority rule pre
vails, but a dictatorship controlled by
_•_ _ .*i _
a iiiiiiuiibjr*
How long this condition is to contin
ue can be determined only by the Con
gress. Until Congress awakens to its
plain duty, the people of the country
must remain the victims of uninoism
which has been tragically misled by its
leadership.
Furniture Plant
Ever since Wilmington awakened to
the need for new industries to hold a
fair portion of the population and busi
ness gains it made during the war
there has been talk of a furniture fac
tory as a highly desirable additional
asset. It is true that with commerce
reviving a furniture factory should do
well here, but as Mark Twain said of
the weather, everybody talks of it but
nobody does anything about it.
In the meantime, Los Angeles is go
ing out for furniture, which is the more
remarkable because southern Califor
nia is without timber in any quantity
and lumber must be imported from s
distance since the state barred red
wood.
According to its own estimate anc
combining bedding and furniture Los
Angeles stands third in the volume o:
furniture manufactured, topped only bj
New York and Chicago and itself top
ping Grand Rapids and High Point. In
1941 Los Angeles produced $30,000,000
worth of furniture and $12,000,000
worth of bedding. By 1947 it expects
to reach a total of $60,000,000.
None of its production is high grade.
The trade calls it "borax” furniture,
we don’t know why. The city’s leading
stores still import their furniture stock
from the other producing centers.
When it held its last furniture mart in
January, the cafeteria was fitted out
with beautiful oak chairs flown from
the East. Yet it is doing a thriving
business, and because its people are the
forward-looking type, it will reach the
high goal set for next year.
If Wilmington capital were invested
in a furniture plant there seems no
good reason why it should not be suc
cessful, especially as it would never
be necessary to resort to the "borax”
type of manufacture. There is too much
mahogany within easy sailing distance
for veneer. And markets are avail
able.
Churchill’s Address
Mr. Winston Churchill remains a
world figure. He still exercises tre
mendous influence despite his demotion
to leader of the opposition in Com
mons. It is doubtful if he has lost an
iota of his power to sway public opinion
in the British-speaking world, outside
England’s Labor party inner circle,
that he nossessed as Prime Minister.
What he says, therefore, concerning
great affairs, whatever warning he
may give of possible trouble ahead,
commands the close attention, not only
in the capitals of the great powers, but
among the peoples of the world where
a free press may transpose his spoken
word into type without elision or mis
interpretation.
He issued a warning on Tuesday,
from a platform at Westminster col
lege, in Fulton, Missouri, where he had
traveled with President Truman to re
ceive an honorary degree. "Nobody
mows what Soviet Russia and its com
munist international organization in
;ends to do in the immediate future,”
le declared, "or what are the limits, if
my, to their expansive or proselyting
tendencies.”
However greatly this may appear to
msheath the sword, it is to be admit
ted that Russia’s policy since the fight
ng war ended, and long before, has
)een to expand and proselyte, to the
/ery verge of aggression.
Mr. Churchill’s position is easily un
ierstood when it is noted that Russia is
jffering a definite threat to Britian’s
‘life line” by demanding a voice in the
imposition of the Dodecanese islands,
3y holding troops in northern Iran, by
seeking the trusteeship over Italian
rripolitania, by sedulously cultivating
the friendship, which, by the Russian
interpretation, means support, of the
Arab tribes in Syria and Palestine, not
to mention Moscow’s attitude toward
the Baltic states and in the Balkans.
His call for closer relationship be
tween Britain and the United States is
equally easy to understand. The recent
wai demonstrated more clearly than
ever that British and American inter
ooto nwn 4-aa __1 in «
.—wuociy anieu xo permit any
misunderstanding to separate them.
The United States cannot consent to
some of Britain’s policies, particularly
as they affect word trade and communi
cation, but these things must be settled
by Washington and London, as family
quarrels are settled under the family
1 oof tree, with the two nations standing
shoulder to shoulder, like brothers for
merly at odds, in any emergency cre
ated by outside, particularly by what
Mr. Churchill calls neo-fascist, activi
ties.
In principle, Mr. Churchill’s Fulton
address was on the beam. If it is sub
ject to criticism, it is not in the terms
of Senator Pepper or other members of
the upper house of Congress, in effect
that he proclaimed British imperialism
as the highest objective. It is that he
took occasion to dwell on the possibility
of war, for which no major power, cer
tainly not Russia, is prepared, instead
of preaching the gospel of peace.
His psychology was wrong. Moscow
is all too liable to accept his address as
a threat of war, rather than an appea
for better understanding and coopera
tion in creating world security.
If the (atom) bomb is as powerful and a:
[ cataclysmic as it has been said, I belive yoi
i will lind the soldier more than anyone elsi
, yelling for international machinery to protec
the peace and to make it work.—Genert
' Eisenhower.
Fair Enough
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1946, By King Feature. Syndicate)
Philip Murray, the president of the C.I.O.,
turned out a self-serving publicity release re
cently. boasting that most members of his
unions pay low dues and *e« a“d
that 32 of the 36 unions publish financial re
ports.
“This,” he says, ‘1* a very different pic
ture from that whiclSthe enemies of labor
have loved to convey.
And this, I say, is a fine example of that
deceptive and only somewbattrutafulpropa
ganda for the gullible which the likes of Mur
ray are forever charging to the likes of me.
In the first place, crookedness, although not
unknown in the CIO, being a specialty of
A.F. of L. racketeers, is not a major count
in the indictment of his organization. In the
second place, the revelation of such corruption
and the denunciation and prosecution of nctori
ous scoundrels are services to labor and the
union movement for which anyone professing,
as Murray does, to be an honest labor leader,
should be grateful.
It will be noted that, although he is an old
A.F. of L. man himself, and over all these
years has been in a position to raise a right
eous clamor and drive such vermin out of the
House of Labor, he has confined himself to
negative and side-long criticisms of his former
brethren and has even joined them in attacks
on those who did take the initiative and carry
through a shocking expose. This task and pub
lic service has been made no easier by his
own complacency.
Moreover, Mr. Murray is a former sub
ordinate of John L. Lewis in the United Mine
Workers, which is about as “democratic” as
the communist party and broke with Lewis
only over a matter of money when Lewis
presented a bill to the C.I.O. for money which
Lewis had advanced to the C.I.O. out of the
mine workers’ treasury. That transaction, of
itself, by which the builders of an enorm
ous political machine calmly tapped
tne wages of xne miners ior tne ex
pense of “organizing” several million other
workers, most of them against their will, and
by means of riotous brawls that terrorized
whole communities, is a measure of this man’s
character when he invites applause on the
ground that his pe.vpie keep books and don’t
steal. Incidentally, Murray refused to pay the
miners back.
But it is when Murray boasts of “demo
cratic” procedure that he puts himself into
direct controversy with the truth unless he
does this with a mental reservation which ac
knowledges that “democracy” means majority
rules and the denial of minority rights, which
is its correct meaning. Commonly, however,
the unioneers of the left wing represent
"democracy” as the equivalent of freedom and
the recognition of the dignity of man and of
his civic rights. And, if Murray uses the word
in that sense we can find, on examination of
the facts, that his boast is empty.
Sidney Hillman’s Clothing Workers Union is
one of the pillars of the C.I.O. and David
Dubinsky’s garment workers was another for
a time. Locals of both of these organizations
send notices to their members during political
campaigns requiring them to attend political
rallies disguised as membership meetings and
give attention to left-wing candidates for of
fice under penalty of fine for failure. Unions
under Murray's general jurisdiction have
adopted political resolutions binding on the
dissenting members, which were no proper
business of any group recognized and favored
by federal and state laws solely as agents to
represent workers in collective bargaining
with employers. And, touching on the subject
of assessments, cases are on record in which
workers who undertook to resign from one of
his unions and thought they had resigned ac
cording to their right as American citizens
were required to pay as much as $500 a year
later for the right to work in closed shops,
this being the bill for accumulated dues and
other obligations of membership from which
they derived no benefit during that time.
It is common practice in some of his unions
to “sell” stamps for the legal “defense” of
communists and other individuals dangerous
to the American government, forcing them on
the rank and file by coercive means, although
Mr. Murray doubtless would classify these
shakedowns as voluntary donations. And if Mr.
Murray isn’t aware of the case, I will produce
a copy of the minutes of his National Mari
time Union in which, notwithstanding his state
ment that all individuals may have fair trials,
Joe Curran, president, declared that a racke
teer didn’t need a trial. A racketeer in the
communist ideology which pervades this union
is anyone who condemns communism and in
one conspicuous case a sailor was set on the
beach permanetly for offering a resolution to
that, effect in the Union's national ronvpntion
These are a few imperfections of the many
that Murray never mentions except to con
demn their mention by others as labor baiting.
The whole list sums up to a ruthless imposi
tion on millions of nominally free Americans
political and spiritual regimentation and a de
nial of fundamental American rights through
terroristic methods.
Both Murray’s C.I.O. and the A. F. of L.
have adopted vigilante justice enforced by
men who were loud in denunciation of the
Ku Klux Klan and Hitlerism while they bur
rowed principles and practices from both.
They have tried to suppress criticism where
they couldn’t answer it and in judging Mur
ray’s true attitude toward thievery in its crud
er forms you will search the record in vain
for any courageous move againsi the crimi
nals who were his colleaggues in the A.F. of L.
QUOTATIONS
the American people and' strenghtening the
Our entire national future hinges on our
ability to tap within ourselves the forces of
constructive energy which are the key to the
greatness of any people.—Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek.
We in the United States must use our great
strength and power to advance the national
well-being by raising the living standards of
the Amercan people and strengthening the
basis for lasting peace and prosperity_Presi
dent Truman.
no sec.ret that sloWness of sharing
atomic energy is a major cause for continued
and dangerously increasing tension in the
world today.—J. D. Bernal, vice president
Association of (British) Scientific Workers.
! dj2n h £m-0n ^at built and delivered hun
; billions in armaments be baffled bv
THE ANNUAL SACRIFICE_
WlHAVETO APPEAR
the horrible
occas'omallv,
OR HE’LL.EAT
GALLOP*
^——■* /s:
Russians ’ACS Help Build Body Tissue
But 150- Year Life Report Exaggerated
By HENRY SHAPIRO
MOSCOW, March 6. —(U.R)—Rus
sian scientists have developed a
new serum known as “ACS’’ which
helps build body tissue, but they
say recent press reports that it
might give a life expectancy of
150 years, were exaggerated.
“If you wish a long life, live
simply and in a civilized manner,
don’t overwork, overeat or
worry,” says the discoverer of
ACS, Alexander Alexandrovich Bo
gomoletz.
The exaggerated press reports
grew out of the researches of Dr.
Bogomoletz, 62-year-old Ukrainian
academician, director of the in
stitute of experimental biology and
pathology and president of the
Ukrainian academy of sciences.
He once wrote a booklet entitled
“Extension of The Life-Span” in
which he developed the theory men
might learn to live from 100 to 150
years, instead of 60 to 70 years
and it was thought that might be
the basis of the exaggerated re
ports.
broken bones and all kinds of
wounds.
“We obtained excellent results
by injecting it into children whose
growth was stunted during the
siege of Leningrad. They began
growing again with the serum’s
help.”
Neyman said the serum was
harmless as long as the patient had
normal kidneys. It improves the
general metabolism, acts as a gen
eral tonic and reduces fatigue.
Several prominent Moscow actors
and actresses around the age of
60 take periodic shots. It has im
proved their working capacity and
general fitness.
Dr. Bogomoletz receives pathetic
letters from all parts of the world,
pleading for his “elixir.”
• I
After nearly 20 years of research
into the possibility af achieving
longer life, Dr. Bogomoletz de
veloped the ACS serum and train
ed dozens of student researchers in
that field.
One of his most prominent as
sistants, Prof. Josef Markovitch
Neyman, explained the work to
United Press as follows:
“The body begins to age when
tissue connecting the cells with the
blood vessels wear out or deterio
rate. This deterioration is caused
by bodily abuse, overwork, nervous
exhaustion or improper living.
“The ACS serum preserves the
connective tissue and stimulates
cellular activity, thereby improv
ing the work of all the organs, ul
timately prolonging the life-span.
“The serum is past the experi
mental side and is in clinical use
throughout the Soviet union. It has
proven useful for treatment of
Your Gi Rights
Questions and Answers
On Servicemen’s
Problems
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 6.—
(NEAl — Veterans who are inter
ested in apprentice training and
have other problems have sent in
the following questions:
Q— Because of sickness in my
home a nd several other things
which have come up I don’t see
how I am going to pay the in
come tax I owe. Is there any aid
given a veteran on this, other than
the regular postponements which
are provided veterans by law?
A—You can apply to any Fed
eral Court for the postponement
you seek.
Q—I have contacted the person
nel manager of a small plant in
my home town and he has ad
vised me to start apprentice train
ing and get the money which is
due a veteran who takes such
training. How can I get started?
A—The best thing for you to do
is contact-the veterans’ adviser in
your local office of the United
States Employment Service. He
will give you all the information
necessary and help you make up
your mind about what you want
to do.
Q—Before the war I was a full
fledged carpenter. I think I would
rather be an electrician. Can I
change like this and get the ap
prentice training which is paid for
by the government?
A—Yes.
Q—I am a disabled veteran and
need training. But there is nobody
in my small town to give me in
formation about what to do and
I can’t now afford to travel to the
Veterans Administration regional
office. What can I do?
A—The government will pay
your expenses to the regional of
fice in order that you can get
started on your training.
Q—Are women who were in the
service eligible for vocational re
habilitation?
A—If they are disabled.
'Questions will be answered only
la this space—not by mall.)
McKenney On
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
The play of the hand at dupli
cate and rubber bridge is not the
same. The duplicate bridge player
must attempt to get the normal
result on a hand. If he has a
choice of going down one or two
tricks, or making the hand, it may
pay to play for normal results and
go down one, because if he goes
down two, he knows he will have
a bottom. In rubber bridge, how
ever, the difference between going
down one or two and making a
game is so great that you must
play for the game.
In today’s hand, the opening
Spade lead was won in dummy
with the wing and a club was led.
3ast played the jack and declarer
went up with the wing. The eight
of hearts was played and West
split his honors, the jack being won
in dummy with the king.
At this point declarer cashed
four rounds of diamonds, winning
the last with dummy’s king. Now
all that declarer had to do was
to lead a spade. West could cash
his three good spades, but had to
lead a heart. Declarer was able
to take the finese in dummy and
thus make three-odd.
At duplicate bridge it might
have been wise for declarer sim
ply to cash out his eight tricks
because if West held another club,
the opponents would take the bal
ance of the tricks.
4
Religion
Day By Day
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
IT MAY LAST
Japanese have perfected the art
of impromptu table decoration. I
recall a waiter at Kariuzawa who
would take an ordinary dinner
plate, and go into the garden for
a few minutes and, selecting bits
of moss, twigs, leaves and stones,
would return with a lovely mina
ture landscape.
More than a quarter of a centu
ry ago we attended a dinner at
a Japanese normal school. As
guest favors, the girls had carved
figures from vegetables, mere or
naments for the day. To Milady
fell artistic reproductions of O-Ji
San and O-Ba-San, the familiar
figure of a happy old man and
old woman, carved from sweet po
tatoes.
Milady kept them, and the ma
terial hardened, preserving the
skill of the amateur sculptor. That
Japanese school girl little
dreamed that her handicraft woulii
last for a generation. Even so do
we fail to realize that our acts
meant for a moment may abide
as a permanent influence.
Grant us, O Lord, so to live
and work that our uncounted ac
tions and words may abide in
beauty as memories and influ
ences. Amen,
STAR Dust
Forecast
It is the year 1905. The atomic
bomb has come actively into our
world and laid it waste. Man has
vanished from the face of the
earth. And with him have gone the
creatures great and small.
Throughout the universe, there is
no stirring sign of life. No sign
save one.
From a deep, dark cavern in a
remote corner of the continent of
Africa, two small animals emerge
to stare in blinking awe at the
wreck and ruin. Scratching his
head reflectively, the boy monkey
turned presently to his mate.
“Well,” he says in a tone of deep
resignation, “I guess we’ll have to
start all over again.”—Quote.
toctor Says —
;ancer of larynx
IARD TO DIAGNOSE
By WILLIAM A. O’BRlfcyj M
Cancer of the larynx (voice boxi
isually develops in men bet
10 and 70 years old. It might'd
develop m women. Growth is
preceded by thickening 0f the veil
cal cords. Cancer rearely deveC
in a normal arynx. op‘
Contrary to popular belief k.
nign tumors of the larynx seldom
urn into cancer. This is of inter *
to the large number of patien
who have papillomas in the larvn,
As benign growths are much more
common than cancers, patient
should not fear throat examin,*
tion because of the idea that all
growths in the larynx are can
cerous.
The earliest symptom of cancer
of _ the larynx i* change in th,
voice. This is a huskiness 0
hoarseness which starts as soon as
the growth d velops. Other symp.
toms are easy fatigue of the voice
inability to clear the throat 0i
phlegm, a feeling of rawness, drv
ness, or irritttion as if something
is stuck in the throat. The strong
rough, painless voice of vocal cord
involvement is characteristic 0f
the disease. Patients in the early
stages do not feel sick, and there
fore often delay seeking medical
advice.
Unfortunately in giving the early
signs of cancer In any part of the
body it is necessary to list “warn,
ings. All of these warning signs
can be caused by conditions which
are not cancer. It is only by being
examined when these warning
signs appear that cancer can be
found in the early stages.
There are many things which
cause throat irritation but there
are only a few conditions which
cause permanent change in the
voice in older patients. When real
voice changes occur, cancer
should be suspected. The physician
by examining the throat with a
simple laryngeal mirror is able to
see larynx growths end make the
diagnosis.
Treatment of cancer of the
larynx is usually surgica The
growth must be removed if per.
manent cure is to bs obtained.
Cure is practically certain in
growths which have not extended
beyond the confines of the iaryti
geal box. Use of X-ray snd ra
dium is limited to those patients
in whom its use is recommended
by the attending physician. There
have been important advancei in
the treatment of cancer of the
larynx recently, notably in better
preparation of the patient for
operation.
Cancer of the larynx has »
favorable outcome when taker la
time. When patients come early,
the operation can be more lim
ited in nature. Individuals in
middle and late life with voice
difficulty extending over a period
of two or three weeks, should
consider the possibility of cancer
of the larynx. Following the re
moval of the larynx, the patient
breathes through an opemi.g in
the neck and can often be taught
to speak distinctly and readily by
other means.
The Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
A WALL TO PAINT ON, by
lone Robinson, (Dutton: $3.J5.)
An extraordinary record ci an
alert young American trying in aU
honesty to reach her cwn decision*
about the complex probl mi
have harassed our wor
decades is written do’
autobiography of an ar
When she was still ir '
Miss Robinson came
from the West Coast lud? a
the Pennsylvania Acad
Arts, and quickly rr
New York. Her ability
aided no doubt by tb ‘V
_...L:MA,rnr hart "5 S
career and by letter.'
tion to the right pe
off to a fine start. ,
But even New ;
hold her. After worl ■ .
weU Kent and skir n s
$1,000, she sailed for * t
had no more luck t ' ■ ; (h,
and she went to It ‘ t
old woman, carved ,,
she waned to do was .
whereupon she headed for
City and Rivera. s
While she was no more tnw
child, she met Max Ea ^
Carroll, Jon Corbino, arn
Andree Rue), an, Nop ^ ^ |
O’Flaherty; and befo: .yar |
ends at the outbreak o .,e() |
II, she has become ,ui! |
with Siqueiros, Tan lleI
Fischer, C o n d e ' ley, |
Chrysler, Berle, Bar jpjj j
even Churchill, who eJ I
asked her why she ' .j,en
to Barcelona to be b nJj0j
It could happen to h
If she’d wait a little ^1 j
She finds fault with ^ E
likes many of Com ^pi. |
(ectives; she finds fa-; ,-aj I
talism, too. Her first - j
a T a s s correspondent, - ^
Freeman; her second from j
Avenue. She lived in the ( jr(,
ing poverty to which earne--- . |
ists are too often subjec. > ^
she lived in the lap of lu*L •. rC'j
she kept her pretty head t ^
aardly an opinion in an •• s
and absorbing book w>’h .. aS
iberals will quarrel. It’ ! .
ixcellent account of how a
?!rl grows up