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SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1947
Star-News Program
State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with its resources, to in
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses, ship repair facilities, near
by sites for heavy Industry and 35-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re
source? ‘hrough better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the region’s recreation
advantages and improvement of resort
accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina’s farm-to-market and primary
roads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City's In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization of Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina’s health facilities, especially in
counties lacking hospitals, and includ
ing a Negro Health center
Encouragement of the growth of com
mercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and County
governments.
GOOD MORNING
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure
conscience.—1 Timothy 3:9.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that: little
spark of celestial fire, called Conscience.
—George Washington.
President Rejoins CIO-PAC
The Senate of the United States is
split by open revolt because President
Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley labor
control bill, thereby refusing to approve
an honest, majority effort to return
equality in labor-management dealings.
As this is written, the upper house
is engaged in a filibuster and there is
a possibility that the vote may not come
until early next week.
But the American people know their
House of Representatives, in overriding
the veto, did its full share in trying to j
place some responsibility upon organized
labor and curb the damaging abuses it
has inflicted on the nation for many
years.
Mr. Truman said the Taft-Hartley!
bill would be unworkable in practice. But
the present Wagner act, with or with
out the modification of the Smith-Con
nally bill, has already proved so. At
best, Mr. Truman’s veto therefore would
merely return the country from some
thing he says would not work to some
thing that has not worked.
Mr. Truman has lost the votes of
those who want fairness—by abolishing
the Wagner act—in the nation’s labor
dealings.
Labor was looking for a man who
would not only exercise the veto powers
but who could also hold his party in
line. Mr. Truman lost the support of
all voters who hoped he would'sign
the bill and got little in return from
the practical unionists.
His lengthy explanation, actually
politically apologetic in parts, helped
insure the open revolt against the most
important piece of legislation in years.
Because of the pressure from labor, in
the form of 800,000 letters, cards and
telegrams in his mail room, he failed
— —■—■—.—.—<—j—. . ■_
The Merchants' Pledge
The North Carolina Merchants as
sociation, at its recent convention in
Raleigh, unanimously pledged its mem
bers to “continue to throw our full
weight in the effort to hold down
prices.’’
To do this the retailers promised
to “continue to instruct our buyers
to exercise great care in buying, with
an eye to both quality and price, and
refuse to buy from manufacturers and
suppliers when their prices are too high
to enable us to sell at a reasonable
profit.”
They also gave their formal word
to “pass on to our customers the bene
fit of every reduction in the price of
goods at the supply level. We will con
tinue to mark all goods sold by us at
the lowest possible price consistent with
a reasonable profit.”
The resolution, if all merchants live
up to it, should be a material means of
effecting lower prices.
Most are going to maintain the
pledge from the standpoint of good
'business alone.
The days of the “sellers’ market”
are just about over. It is fast re
turning to a “buyers” one. With the
lush prosperity of war-time wages be
coining a thing of the past, consumers
are becoming more and more discrimi
nating. They are demanding better
quality and values. The merchant who
makes them available will be the one
with the noisy cash register. The one
who doesn’t will stand by and watch
only the sunlight stream through his
store s doors.
It is going to require cooperation be
tween the manufacturers and merch
ants, with neither seeking to gain more
than a “reasonable profit” to make this
pledge workable. All should realize,
including the consumer, that to effect a
practical cut in prices at wholesale and
retail outlets there must be similar
reductions at the manufacturing points.
The retailers who keep the resolution
will benefit. So will their customers.
Those who do not are going to suf
fer. But their patrons will not. They’ll
simply take their trade to those estab
lishments doing their best to contribute,
by the most practical means possible,
toward solution of the big problem of
present day high cost of living.
The merchants are to be congratu
lated on their pledge.
And they must not forget that the
buying public is quite determined to en
force it.
to live up to the standards of states
manship required of his high office. He
bowed to the threats of a minority.
But even more serious than the wel
fare of the bill itself is the fact that
his veto placed him back with the CIO
PAC crowd. A few days ago, Chairman
Hartley of the House Labor committee
charged that the one document Mr.
Truman undoubtedly studied for guid
ance—a report on the bill by the Na
tional Labor Relations board—was dis
torted and strikingly similar to an
analysis by the CIO.
So, although Mr. Truman wrote the
blistering condemnation of the bill, the
CIO put the pen in his hand.
If he will look back, he will find
his presidential fortunes were at their
lowpst ebb when he was following the
CIO-PAC line. When he moved over to
the right his favor with the American
people climbed. Now, he has switched
left again and only the Senate can cor
rect the damage in the labor control
bill case.
If he continues to follow the CIO
PAC, he’s going to come upon a former
member of his cabinet—Mr. Wallace—
who embarrassed him so much it was
necessary to fire him. Today he is in
league with Mr. Wallace and others who
seek to impose minority rule upon the
American people.
Mr. Truman has, in the past, called
for labor peace. But without this act,
the government is powerless to act in
dealing with a national strike emer
gency.
Such inconsistencies can mean but
one thing.
Mr. Truman’s chances of being re
elected in the fall of 1948 will even
tually become so small that victory will
be handed the Republicans, as it was
in the congressional voting in the fall
of 1946.
Goodbye To Richard,
We Hope
We thought we’d heard the last about
Richard, the stubborn, most unaccom
modating doorman, but now comes an
item from Los Angeles disclosing that
Mrs. Richard Chason has been granted
a divorce because her Richard locked
himself in his room and wouldn’t open
the door.
There’s no moral to the little story
unless the song put an idea in Mr.
Chason’s head. And if that should catch
on and spread, just think how much
more complicated life is going to be
come under some of today’s tune titles.
But it did net the Chasons 50 words
publicity on the Associated Press wires.
Which is considerably more than many
couples who’ve been married 50 years
ever receive.
Make It An Annual Event
Selection of “Miss North Carolina
Student Nurse of 1947” is progressing
so smoothly that success appears as
sured in fulfilling the event’s double
purpose of formally recognizing Tar
Heelia’s most outstanding student in
this field and stimulating interest in
recruiting more young women for
this fine profession.
Each of the 39 schools of nursing
has or will soon appoint its entry on
the basis of personal appearance, apti
tude for nursing and spirit of service.
They will compete in district con
tests and winners in that round will go
to Raleigh, where they will be guests
of the North Carolina Hospital associa
tion for final judging July
The competition is being conducted
with the dignity it deserves. There is
no doubt that the newspaper stories
and pictures will be highly beneficial in
interesting more young women in nurs
ing as a career. It has given the pro
fession one of the best touches of color
ful, public appeal since the days of the
Cadet Nurses in their pretty gray, red
trimmed uniforms. The student nurse
came in for a lot of glamorous publicity
then and she is worthy of just as
much today.
Like every man, we always pause to
give a lingering look to the pictures of
“Miss St. Louis of 1947“ or “Miss Apple
Blossom of the Year” in their four
ounce bathing suits. But “Miss North
Carolina Student Nurse of 1947“ is go
ing to be just as attractive in her neat,
white and freshly starched uniform and
pert little cap. The photographs are
not going to emphasize sex as much as
those of the other “Misses of 1947”
but they will convey a wonderful sym
bolism of service and encourage greater
admiration and appreciation of the nurs
ing profession.
The contest is good public relations.
But there are also other advantages in
contributing to the spirit and morale
of the young students. So much so, in
fact, that it should be made an annual
event with the*honors and favors so at
tractive that the competition among
those in the various schools will become
comparable to that of vying for other
forms of distinction during their train
ing periods.
—And No Happy Chandler
Though independence is in the offing,
India’s troubles continue on apace. At
the moment India’s Hindus seems to
be having even more trouble with the
Moslem League than America’s base
ball magnates had with the Mexican
League last year.
What Others Say
Most Newspapers Condemn Veto Of Labor Bill
Here is some editorial comment,
collected by the United Press, on
President Truman’s veto of the
Taft-Hartley bill:
NEW YORK TIMES — By the
course which he has pursued
throughout the history of this leg
islation, culminating in yester
day’s violation of his own pro
fessed acceptance of the “verdict
of the voters” last November, the
President has raised an issue and
presented a challenge more im
portant than the merits of the bill
itself. The house is to be applaud
ed. . .The senate cannot do less
and still preserve its self-respect.
THE NEW YORK DAILY
NEWS—If the Taft-Hartley bill be
comes law, the new Truman arro
g;nce will have been rebuked in
one instance. That, however, can
not be expected te cure the great
brain, papa - knows - best state of
mind which now afflicts the Pres
ident.
THE N\ilW YORK HERALD
TRIBUNE — Mr. Truman. . .has
precipitated a wasting, paralyzing
struggle that can only end when
a Republican congress and a Re
publican president can cooperate
to create a coherent administra
tion. .
THE NEW YORK POST-Harry
S. Truman, has demonstrated be
yond cavil that he vetoed the Taft
Kartley labor bill for one compre
hensive, compelling reason — pro
tection of the national welfare His
veto shows it, his radio appeal
confirms it.
PM — Republican congressional
leaders are saying that there v:il>
be no “cooperation or harmony’
with President Truman from now
on *k a result of his heart-warm
ing fight against the Taft-Hartley
bill. All that means a return to
the two-party system. That’s all
to the good . . . Then the people
can know who did what to them
—and do something about it at
the next election.
THE SCRIPPS - HOWARD
NEWSPAPERS — Having studied
the bill, and th» debates on it in
Congress, we think the dangers
Mr. Truman professes to fear are
highly improbable, and most of
them impossible.
THE NEW YORK MIRROR- -
Truman knew he would veto the
Taft-Hartley bill. He vetoed it be
fore it wss passed. He chd not
need to read ..It paragraph bv par
agraph, line by line. He neded
cnly to consult Phii Murray and
Bill Green. He' needed only to dis
cover where Wallace stood, so he
could tremble in his shadow.
RICHMOND TIMES - DIS
PATCH: “Mr. Truman, by a few
palably political paragraphs splic
ed into 5.000 words of legalistic
language. . .encouraged open re
volt against the most important
piece of legislation in a decade,
which he had good reason to sus
pect would be passed over his
vote. . .Mr. Truman has not lived
up to the standards of statesman
ship required of his high office."
RATjUIGH. NEWS AND OB
SERVER: “The Congress should
sustain the veto of the Hartlev
Taft bill and write another bill
that would be directed ag. inst the
abuses of labor, without dest ov
mg any of labor’s rights. . ,any
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Y’DON’T SHOOT SANTA CLAUS
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The Gallup Poll
One-Fifth See Chance Of Unemployment
In United States Within Coming Year
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Fear Of Losing Jobs Great
er In Big Cities Than In
Small Towns
By GEORGE GALLUP
Director. American Institute
of Public Opinion
PRINCETON, N. J„ June
21—One person in every five
in the non-farm population
of thee United States thinks
there is a chance that he or
the breadwinner on whom the
family depends will be unem
ployed within the n£xt year.
That is shown in a coast-to-coast
survey conducted b ythe Institute
as an “index of job optimisms" in
the United States today.
The most optimistic are the busi
ness and professional classes and
the white collar workers. Manual
workers are the leas toptimistic,
the survey shows.
The job optimism index was ar
rived at by questioning a national
cross-section not including farm
ers, on tire following: ,
’ “During the next year, do you
think there is any chance that you
(your husband; will be unemploy
ed'.”’
The vote:
Yes, there is _2l9fc
No, there isn't _ 63
No opinion _ _ _16
The 21 per cent indicating a
fear of becoming' unemployed were
asked:
“How great a chance is there—
very great, fairly great, or only
a slight chance?” . . .
Their vote is:
Very great chance _6%
Fairly great chance _6
Slight chance _ 8
No opinion- 1
21%
It will be observed that of the
21 per cent, about half (.12 per
cent) think there is either a great
or a fairly good chance of un
employment. To put it another
way, 12 per cent of the total
sample of employed people poll
ed by the Institute think there is
a better than slight chance of los
ing their jobs within the next
year.
How many millions of workers
would this be if the percentage
are translated into people%
The most recent report on the
labor force tvas issued by the
Census Bureau, covering tha
week of May 4-10. At that time
there were 49,370,000 persons 14
years of age or over gainfully
employed outside of agriculture
industries, and the number of
unemployed was approximately
2,000,000.
If the worst fears of the 12
per cent mentioned above are
realized, then the number of un
employed would be approximate
ly trebled, assuming that none got
other jobs.
The survey found wide differ
ences in the degree of job optim
ism among various occupa tional
groups. Of the professional and
business people, 'which includes
proprietors, only about one in
ten thinks there is any chance
of being out of work within a
year.
Among manual workers, on the
other hand, more than' one in four
expressed fear of unemployment
in the coming year.
The results of the survey by
occupational growls:
An Chance of Unemployment?
No
Yes No opin
Prof. & Bus. -11% 83% 6%
White Collar ..17 70 13
Manual
Workers _€8 51 21
In general, there is less opti
mism in cities of over 500.000
population than in smaller cibes.
people polled in cities of half a
Twenty-six per cent cf employed
million or mere said there was a
chance of unemployment within
the next year," as compared to 20
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ONE
EMPLOYED PERSON IN FIVE THINKS
THERE IS A CHANCE THAT HE WILL BE
L UNEMPLOYED WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR.
*™V£LTsr,c ,
The Gallup Poll has conducted a survey on job optimism, or the
percentage of employed people who think they will lose their jobs
during the next year. Some of the results are illustrated above.
Around Capitol Square
Unjustified Imprisonment
Payment Act Put Into Use
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH, June 21. Paroles
Commissioner Hathaway Cross
has held two hearings on claims
for compensation for unjustified
imprisonment under terms of a
1947 act, but the case for which
the bill was originaiiy passed is
not scheduled for hearing until
next Friday. That is the case of
Hamp Kendall of Caldwell county,
wrongly imprisoned some years
ago for a crime which it later was
positively proven he did not com
mit. At one stage of legislative
procedure it looked like the bill
might be made to apply only to
Kendall. As finally enacted, how
ever, it opens the way for any
person wrongfully imprisoned to
file claim for compensation. The
two cases previously heard were
those of Gus Langley, sentenced to
death for murder in Buncombe
county and later pardoned upon
conclusive evidence he could not
have committed the crime; and
Victor Fowler, convicted of bank
robbery at Denton, a crime for
which later several others confes
sed.
LIMITED — Amount payable
under the bill is a maximum of
$500 a year for time served and
not to exceed a total of $5,000 to
any one .person. Payment of any
amount is optional with the gover
nor and council of state after in
vestigation and recommendation
by the paroles commissioner.
Cross has recommended that
Langley be paid, but the council
of state has not acted on the mat
ter. Money to meet allowed claims
must come from the contingency
and emergency fund. which
already has more than it can car
ry.
SOVEREIGNTY — The 1947 act
was the first step ever taken to
enable the state to compensate
wrongfully imprisoned citizens.
Traditionally the attitude has been
that the State is sovereign and can
do no wrong. This same attitude
has made it difficult for claimants
to collect for property damage oc
casioned by state agencies,
although every general assembly
in recent years has tentatively ap
proved payment of numerous
claims upon finding of fact that
1Behind_Jhsj^
British Favor
Marshall Pla,
BY DEWITT MACKEXn,
AF Foreign Affairs An?*
This column recent!-- * '
tention to the fact tna?1'581
rent investigation 0f V "E Cl
and control of the b -
England's Sodahsi ^
launched some time a,'e&*l
an outcry amoi t Com
and fellow traveiei
tation of newspaper! V _:e***i
causing uneasy spec "as *
whether this indieate* ,a*
leftist tendency b\ a ;UrH
ment. ' S°ver
We now have a sc , ,
ification of the govt. .^.'„‘a- c!|
icies in British Foreie VlS p!
Ernest Bevin's blir.eri
sleeve” speech in corny , ^
ing Russia blunt a[ th *' ls
of international u-isiii? S'°
Prime Minister A'y»ey ?ni1
anti-Russian speech 'bef?1
miners’ rally in B -. rnslev L
in which he declar'd ••• ’°d».
called democra-r ^vnnmJ1
a travesty” in everal .
of Eastern Europe.” " ri*
Devin—one of hr rmy ....
ken of England’s n orpubli'|
ures - flatly declared
against “one - party •
(Totalitarian). He said he «2
regret a conflict behvee- id?
gies “but if it hs forced 1
we must face it " He didn't b
lietee that in the long ru ‘ ’
western world would be ®
ferers in event of a conflict \
cause the many dictato-,".*
have tried to suppress iibe-v
the world have ' >d.
It was a figh'itier speech wm
was a direct challenge to ‘
sive Communism and to the°t*i
tics which that ism has been J
ploying in Eastern Europe I
would seem to Hue Britain n
squarely with America, The
of battle over this issue has bee
thrown down.
An interesting aspect of ft:
fiery pronouncement is tha* jt w,
delivered while London and Par:
were awaiting Moscow’s reolv *
the joint Anglo-French invitatio
to Russia to ion in drafting
program of aid for Europe j„ „
cordance with U. S. Secretary a
State Marshall's program for (g
nomic rehabiliation. British new
papers deduced from the tone o
Bevin’s speech that France a«
England had made up their mindt
to go ahead wiih the task lij,
down by Marshall irrespective)
whether the Soviet Union decide
to participate. In effect it semi
notice on Moscow to fish or ett
bait.
| Devin made it clear that in in
| augurating this program hi
wouldn’t tolerate any such deity
as those which caused the recer
Moscow conference of the 1
Four foreign ministers to tail;:
efforts to write the all-imporln
German peace treaty. Th» •.«
ern allies charged that Russia
obstruction w as to blame for tk,
failure.
“I fient six weeks in Moscw
■trying to get a settlement.'’ Bevij
told commons in his speech Thurs
day night. “I shall not be a parti
to holding up the economic rec«i
ery of curope. . .”
The British Press generally p
proved of Eevin's call for sped,
an exception being the Comm®
ist Daily Worker which eharaclri
ized it -as an “1111111131110)" Ol
course obstruction to cause delay
has been a favorite Comnunii
weapon in many recent instants
where delays in rehabilitation k
vored the Red ism.
Bevin’s dramatic pronouncfr
ment of policy was accompanitd
by a speech by Anthony Edf:
conservative party spokesmt:
which brought Britain's two tttir
political parties into complete sol
idarity as regards General Mar
shall’s proposal. Eden charged
Russia w-ith flagrant interference
with the right of Eastern Euro
pean nations to govern them
selves. Of the American econoiti!
program the former British fe
eign secretary sat'd:
“This offers the possibility tf
creating a new Europe—it is h
second chance that so ran;
comes. . .When rarely this dB
come, it is in the nature oft
miracle.”
an agent of the state was neg !>
ble. The state board of educate
and the highway commission art
now studying a number of ’hen
claims.
MILK—The commission author
I ized by the last general assembly
to study the miik si. ation r
North Carolina and make recor
mendations for laws to be *.»
legislature has been appointed t
Governor Cherry. The act i'!t
designated some of tiie ex-oftej
members and proscribed select*1
of others within narrow 1®
talions, but the sixteen-:: an c®’
mission is regarded a - capaLe t
doing the job. Properly enough *
entire personnel of ‘he
comes from the middle part °f ,
state where botl: pr idu
consumption of milk is
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Walter Winchell
Some Stories From City Rooms
No newspaperman ever forgets
the zing of getting a story first. . .
An editor has pointed out: Read
ers forget scoops, but it remains
a thrilling event in the memory
of reporters responsible for
them.”
Among our pet tales in the
scoop-happy category is the one
concerning AP photog Karl J.
Eckelund. He photographed the
Jap entry into Canton and then
began hiking toward Hong Kong,
which had facilities for transmit
ting his oix to America. . .On the
way bandits fleeced him of his
money, clothing and camera, but
he managed to salvage the films
. . .Eckelund swam two rivers.
Snipers’ oullets whizzed past his
skull many times. He was forced
to retur" to Canton. Through it
all he preserved his pictures.
They were published in Ameri
can newspapers months later.
Me si gazettes didn't even •credit
urn for taking these exclusives!
Harum-scarum, news lads who
wisecrack their way across the
celluloid usually scoop the town -
by nabbing the murderer single
handed while making monkeys of
the sleuths. . .This is a rare event
in real life. But it has happened
. . .Some years ago a Chicago re
porter followed a fleeing bank rob
ber into Canada, continued on his
trail when he headed for Europe
and finally captured him in Ger
many. . .Another reporter named
Isaac White cracked a murder
mystery with some adroit gum
shoeing. And the only evidence he
had to work with was a button
from the coat of the killer.
Not all “beats.” however, are
flavored with Hollywood’s wow
finish. . Carl C. Magee was the
newspaperman was later pardoned
the spotlight on the politicos in
volved in the Teapot Dome scan
dal. . .But they were so powerful
they managed to railroad Magee
to jail on a charge of libel. The
nehspr perms n was later par *\ned
and turned his editorial guns on
the judge in the libel case. .
One day the judge attacked Magee
(from behind) ip a hotel lobby.
Magee fired several -
judge without hit4..eg ••
And one of the wild - 5
Magee’s best friend.
ing to hi? rescue.
Probably the ni '
scooper-dooper was e . -l!
H. L. Mencken. . Af r,« c‘«*
study of maps and s
he penned an im;.g ! *cc’’r.
of a Russo-Japaia J*®
Two weeks later ti tua‘, ,1.
story of The battle c
most everything Me
ten.
Before the telepbo * 1 ■,.
some New York gaze c'
ed trains for relay:: . '5,jMr:
Washington when <v ltn\ Bit
yarn was scheduled to 1 ea f pJ.
one Big Town newsboy 'nl?3-!
per couldn’t charter a a. ’ Im
aged to beat his rivals
He merely hijacked .otej
tions char.ered train .,;'t
it back to New Yor*.
...
Tiien there * the tale ab ' ^
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