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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1949
Governor Carvel Assumes Office
J
The inauguration of a Governor is one
of our great and colorful customs. Politics
and partisanship are, for the moment at
least, forgotten. The Governor is sworn in
as chief magistrate of all the people, and all
the people join in wishing him wisdom and
success in carrying out the sobering tasks
with which he will be confronted during his
term of office. Unfike the war-time inaugural
ceremonies conducted for the induction of
former Governor Walter W. Bacon, our new
Governor, Elbert N. Carvel, was sworn in
amid the most colorful surroundings of re
cent gubernatorial candidates. It was fitting
that the people of Delaware should honor
their new chief executive in this manner.
Inauguration ceremonies should be lively
affairs, the Governor's Ball should be color
ful and the preliminary exercises should be
in keeping with the festive occasion. Dela
ware put on a fine demonstration of real fel
lowship on Tuesday when Mr. Carvel was
sworn in. He, in turn, reacted in fine fettle
and with the great showmanship of which
he is capable. In keeping with the thinking
of all loyal Delawareans, the Chronicle be
speaks cooperation with the new chief exec
utive from persons of all political beliefs so
long as he keeps within the bounds of reason
with his recommendations for a sound pro
gram. The festivities are over, and as Gov
ernor Carvel gets down to the serious con
sideration of matters of state he will need
sober and sound counsel. He will have full
and complete cooperation of this newspaper
when his recommendations are reasonable,
By the same token he will be constructively
„ criticized when he proposes measures which
we believe to be to the detriment of our
peoplç. We wish'for our new Governor
successful and progressive administration—
one of which in 1953 we may write. "Well
. done, you good and faithful servant.
Town Meeting and City Elections
Milford citizens will assemble in the
> Community Building this evening to hear
reports and discuss the affairs of the city. At
the same time they will nominate candi
dates for City Council from the several
wards. On Monday the annual city election
Will be held in the same building. The polls
will be open from noon until 6 o'clock. At
this time it might be well to call to the at
tention Of Milford citizens the plan now pro
posed to tax sewers. Legislation looking
the change of the City Charter which would
give Council this power is now in the pro
cess of presentation to the General Assem
bly. The measure is broad and gives Council
ample power to tax to the limit. This mat
ter should be discussed at tonight's meeting,
If you want this legislation, or if you oppose
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He Russia. It was left to him to bring
it up.
ice "Oh, Russia,"^ said a young
Finne Tonnrp Hneeians Dip to a restaurant here more than (now."
r nil a g , two years ago, a visitors replied, Hours hud passed and the
-- "Does it make any differenced- tor met a lot of Finns and
HELSINKI — (Æ*) — The Finns The Finn smiled. "Food isn't ra- there hadn't been a word about
seem to have found something to tioned anymore, you know."
talk about besides the Russians, was proud and justly so.
There was a time after the war They went to an extremely nice _ .
when Russia and Russians appear- restaurant atop one of Helsinki's gineer. "You Ame>Iqans get
ed to dominate, or at least, weigh i fine buildings. Everything went excited about the Russians. Look,
down, almost every conversation beautifully especially as fine a we live beside them and we
___ I "That." the visitors remarked,
"During the war," said the Finn, i "was quite an observation for
we didn't dance. We're doing it Finn "
I
I pair of lamb chops as you can find to be getting on.
; this side of Paris.
here.
Not so any more.
"Where," asked a Finn, "shall we ;
have dinner?" Recallihg his last
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BABSON PARK, Flori- originate, they could easily be detected. As of so
da, January 21—At War-: the aviator would come to a small area where , State of
ren, Arkansas, a few days the barometer suddenly drops to 28, he would safeguarded
ago occurred a tornado know that this area is a dangerous spot worth
which is reported to have watching. It then might not be more than
killed 59 persons and in- 2000 to 500Q ft. or less than a mile in diameter f
Jured about 250 more, at its birth. Authorities differ as to how they | Every
Every few months some would kill it; but I say that it can be killed, very low
such disaster occurs in : They are most common in the fall months. nant area,
the ü. S. Most of them are tornadoes CAN BE KILLED I
in the southerly center of HOW TORNADOES LAN Bb killed per hour,
the country; but every, originate on the land due to "a station"'
one of the 48 states ba «. de Id warm ^\Zr of^ very low pressure over- should
at some time, one of these f ead ™ rn J U re heavy area held sfenifs
tornadoes. Therefore, «»i» 1with less ! ÎSS? 1
is a subject in which «*- taking and^ at all^times ot the year Often îftories
eryone should be inter- h£ f ve a diam e ter of only a few miies and it shonld
esled. the core "which does the^^ dîmlge" may^^be which
• I only a fraction of a mile Funhcrmore lhev hïü
lïïtt for ^^™h ehoner ii™
1 can ps As tornadoes are more freauent than
BABSON Discusses
Roger W. Babson
WHAT ABOUT HURRICANES?
Before discussing tornadoes, let me say a canes. As tornadoes are more frequent than cloud has
word about hurricanes. These originate on hurricanes, the nation's total ^annual lossfrom given.
the ocean and can be prevented by "killing"
them at their birth. For instance, the hurri-:
canes which hit the South Atlantic States and tornadoes because it takes them such a short resources
Florida, and the Gulf States, start 2,000 miles ; time to develop nearby. Tornadoes appear to however,
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or more away—mostly east of the Leeward j b ® born L a " d d l° h S,!ÎL îhüfffl n!«° S f Hfe ' T ï
Islands and the Caribbean Sea. When they ufe from 1 ' tornados ^aS be urevented Thl
hi# nur «amithpastern states these hurricanes 1Ue , , m " )rnaaoe ® can De prevented The accidents
may hav^a diameter of 100 to 500 miles. This timewith ^ope^w^rnings Tn ^therword? 1 e^c* much
diameter varies with each hurricane, but can ! eYerv^ommunitv in the Southern MiddiJ15 ?' c ;. much
elsUv he measured in each case We have ; T* «ÎÎSLVLi tSî * le T BSt i haS been
y kl . K ahnnt iKft mainr hurricane« «inee sbou d b ®. P rot ected with a tornado siren- ; canes
■ y 0 - h"rri^ ne. .iDcq j niam, system. This cannot prevent the tor- facing
U o,Tr Nav, /ouM patTrae water. wUh ' Suf° i/enn 1 7"^*
amall airplane carriers,'where^there hurricanes There is no excuse tor the deaths and inlui^ something
'# w inure is no excuse tor me deaths and injury something
tornadoes can equal or exceed the total annual much
loss from hurricanes. I any persons
Scientists now ^ee no way of preventing We live
it, now is the time to make your desires'
known. It is certain that the Light and
Water plant will again consume much time
at tonight's meeting. The building of ad
ditional sewers and water mains should be
discussed. If you are interested in the oper
ation of the town, tonight is the time to air
your views. If you have nothing to say, !
don't criticize those in Council for actions)
taken by them later on.
How About Profits?
In one of his recent columns, David Law
rence wrote, "The chief trouble with the ex
cess-profits tax is that it assumes a larger
and larger demand for goods whereas there
are evidences now that supply is catching up
with demand. At the very time when busi
ness needs to be encouraged, it is being dis
couraged."
The whole economy of this country is
now based upon practically full employment,
the maximum production that our factories'
can achieve, and steady and substantial ex
pansion of all industrial resources. This is;
necessary both to protect our living stand
ards and to finance our incredibly large an
nual government budgets. The excess-pro
fits tax is predicated on the theory that bus
iness profits are out of all reason. Yet more
and more of those profits have gone, not to
investors and owners, but into plant expan-,
sion. And the moderate returns which have
gone to investors are necessary if industry
is to be able to obtain new financing when
needed. If the excess-profits or any other
tax deprives industry of adequate revenues,
a general business slump is certain.
Furthermore, there is much misinforma
tion about the size of profits. Mere dollar
figures mean little in these days of inflation..i
As a simple example, it costs two to three
times as much to build an industrial plant
at present as it did before the war.
It is all very well to damn profits and the
profit motive. But, Whether we like it or not,
they keep the economy alive and growing.
They are at the root of high employment,
high wages, opportunity to advance for all.
Destroy them and depression will follow.!
There has already been too much loose po-j
litical talk about cracking down on industry,
which in effect means cracking down on em
No HOLIDAY Turkeys
Amonff the resolutions adopted at the
oAnv.nimn nf tho Amovinm Farm
annual convenuon oi me amenuiirduii
Bureau Federation was one which said that
price controls "won't control inflation." It
further observed that we need to pay more
attention to monetary, fiscal and credit poli
cies if we are to take effective action to
protect the purchasing power of the dollar.
There is nothing hard to understand
the case against price control. Basically,
can be summed up this way: no farmer or
manufacturer could produce goods at a loss,
No retailer could stock and sell those goods
to the public ^t an arbitrary price which was
too low to .permit a profit. Under the free
enterprise system, by contrast, production
and distribution are encouraged, and we get
abundance instead of scarcity. All concern
e d, generally speaking, earn a profit—yet
that profit is kept small by the force of com
petition, and has a relatively unimportant
influence on the family budget.
These theories are fully borne out by the
facts. A late example from England is
interest. The price of holiday turkeys, like
almost everything else, was established
the government. But very few turkeys pass-1
ed through the legal channels of distribution
where price controls were in effect. The great
bulk of them disappeared into the black mar-1
ket—and the price charged the consumer
ranged as high as $2.00 a pound. What this
meant was that most English families
couldnt afford to buy
In the long run, only the black marketeer
profits from price control. He becomes
main source of supply when stocks in legiti
mate stores dwindle and disappear. And
charges every last penny the traffic will bear.
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ployment.
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Dairy Schools In
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j meetings will be the same in both
locations and is as follows;
First Pay
Kent Jan. 26-27
"Economic Factors that Affect
cost of Milk Production," Delmar
J - Youn s: "How to Produce Feed
for a Twent y Cow Herd." Claude E.
Phillips; "Selection of Feeds for
the Dairy Ration" and "Balancing
of a Ration for a Twenty Cow
Herd." Delmar J. Young. |
Second Day
''Herd Management to Meet Mar
^ r He V°wfli
liam A p a i ver t ; "Herd Health and
! Sanitation (Mastitis Control)," E.
S. Biddle, Mastitis Diagnostic Lab-|
i oratory: "Bjing's Disease
^ n r j ust 'ry u0 ° ' ureau 0 mn
A] i dairymen in the county are
cordially invited to attend these
meetings. _
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City Election Will
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® Here un
; Monday, January 24
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(continue* 1 ™ n»t pago
f v on has „. be , e ." „î!^ p( îî! a r ily a .. d !li"!
J{|® va tl ^ a! . wimini
R h Bu ,ke One year remain, ot the
„„expired term ot Mr. Burke.
Under provisions ot the city
; ^ hart ® r * ® ai J d ' datea must ^® P 1,1 ? 1 *
lurn^nSminafed durîng the course
of the annual citizens' meeting,
which will be held on Friday eve
| »«gÿt ^ Community Bunding
| t0 the y dea diine for filing may be
n 0 mi na te d at the citizens' meeting,
In addition to formal nomination
1 of candidates, reports of city offi
hei C ° U " C1 *' a " d ?[ ariou8 1.®, 0ter
in 4
,,,g - _ g. _
/IDX o- V. n
i MIAMI (Jr) bightseers from
two national conventions here shat
j tered all off-season attendance rec-,
en- ords^ at^the Hialeah race track. ^A
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;
;
too single day non-racing total of 15,
000 visitors was set during the Na-,
tional Letter Carriers convention.
i The four days the American Legion
convention was in session a total
a ot 27,700 sightseers visited Hia
Draws Crowd
leah.
many people at Warren. The entire
Arkansas could have been properly
against loss of life from tornadoes.
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HOW TO DETECT TORNADOES
tornado has three features: (1) A
barometer reading within a hot stag
(2) a gradually increasing wind
T?!*! uT"* 5 . to u 300 . to 500 miles
(3) a dark colored column of ram.
Th * e fire ° r P ° H ? e
•? uthw "' e ™ community
Tinnn L " the watch for these three
they Sb ° Uld ' by
T, Ä V surroundin 8 te ^*
rinl îi, y u the ?
wo,oTI.v .Û Gamcwe " alr . c " alar ™'
4 -,S™ .' he proper warnlna the
He'down" Sm/the
°. P _ en _ » nd L.l ie dOW ^* ^ fter the
Tornadoes
passed an ail-out signal should be
Perhaps the tornado will
and opportunities'
we are far too careless* of" human
have done
no case need
a wonderful country. It is rich in
In this country.
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is applies to every community and in
° f life from needless auto
to needless fire losses. For reducing
haa°h!Ï aatomobi,e a f id ents, fires.
. ha8 been done, but almost nothing
done to prevent damage from hurri
ana tornadoes. This is the next step
every city and town. Let us hope that
rradi " e lhis colam " ™ a J- reaUze the
n R a'" c " mm, " ,it y and insist that
be done to prevent it.
property damage, but in
be killed or hurt.
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Former Auto Race Driver
n j
Wants bport lo Become
InfArnaHnnnl Fv^nt In
international uvent in
United States
By Thomas A. Boynton
NEW YORK—Louis (Pep) Mey
er, one of the two American three
time winners of the 500-mile In
dianapolis auto racing classic,
hopes for the day when auto rac
ing in the United States will be a
major International sport.
However, the erstwhile speed
demon who now is in the racing
g^y g" ^ j ff ^fences* ^ n^speed way* ° and
motor car rSaUonoTre keeping
big-time racing in America "pretty ,
much of an American affair."
"Racing rules will have to be
United ' States and Americans
abroad."- he says. "With an inter
national formula of rules there,
Hrsviîo - exchanse of both
ca !f an , r !y ers ' ihr U
'^"pdîanapoite cmwrin 19 28 .i
(ms and 1936. with high-powered
a verages of 99.48, 104.14 and 109.06
miies-per-hour, respectively, on the
^Thenfrmer chamoion savs he has
ino b rit f icism to ma ^ e of European
motors. "Some are wonderful," he
says ' " Look at John R - Cobb 8 rec_
"Flai^mthTam 0 yea"/
| ome enginf there" But! lie »ays'.
most European engines are built
; to the requirements of European
ra Ä s . reeu i at ions hold down
n J.. 1T „m »w« u « phmw
and aa international formula in all'
rule an? -guidons 1 j ; set up
you cant have b,g internat,onal
i ra Jmfg garn e view is shared bv Rob
ert B rayton of the American Auto-!
j mobile Association. "We want in
natlonai drivers in the contests
we sanction. But under present
rules, there is little here to inter
est them except the Indianapolis
; classic. It is unreasonable^ to ex
pect many to come over for just
one lug race,' he says, adding:
; »of course. Just now there is the
fact that few Europeans could af
j orf j to race j n America anyhow,
g u j rules were changed so en
ard there could be more important
events in racing."
Illustrating just how big auto
raclng has become in America,
Brayton says more than 200,000
ti iuwD timilhCU
'sizes"everywhere* vver*e stand
persons watched the Indianapolis
race last year. "That was a bigger
crowd than witnessed any other
single American sports event."
Brayton declares that 537 U.
races in 1948 took in $5.000.000
admissions, and prizes were award
; ed totalling $1,537,000. not counting
individual awards given by indus
j trie s. It is estimated there are now
more than 1.700 American racing
owners, drivers and mechan
ic8
At Indianapolis last vear. 78 cars
tried out } n the qualification tests
j and 33 wer e entered. The race was
on by Maurie Ross of South Bend,
Ind ,
Besides Indianapolis, other big
i races are held each year at Mi,
waukee . Wise.; Arlington Downs.
i Texas: Langhorne. Penna.; Spring
field. III.; and Du Quoin. Ill.
these are on dirt tracks. Another
event is an annual dash up Pike's
i P« alt - a road race ' Last year -
: 01cns palls, N. Y„ a cross country
raCe """UVleamreTTi
ropean cars were featured. In
west. a Northern California
club was formed this year, and
CâT
be i d a n 80-mlle race through moun
j tainous terrain with the fast little
British car.
\ Asked about the future of cross
country racing Brayton says,
like Europe we have very little
space for it in the United States.
Most of our roadways fall under
; police supervision and state law
prohibiting speeding. But interest
is growing."
Brayton also reveals that small
ear racing "Is mushrooming"
; raJoughont t-e country. In 1939,
there were 297 small car races
America, and 444 such events
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Because faster cars are being vis
ed at Indianapolis each year, the
AAA ' which sanctions the race * is
thinking mostly of safety these
days - Before any car wil1 be enter '
ed next year, its vital parts-steer
mg mechanism, wheels, axles and
frame—must pass a Magnatlex test.
This is an electronic test w'hichj
magnetizes flaws in metal. Tiny
b j ts G f i ro n then are moved over
tbe car part tested, and will cling
to any flaws in the material as they
a ppear. These parts must be re
placed with flawless parts before
the car can be qualified.
The AAA is a private organiza-j
!o°^aultomobilf owner*! 'who join Us
c°«b groups throughout theftatiou.]
The association works to promote
highway safely, the manufacture Of
better cars and the Pässage oi eg
ls anon d ' onns ' m
.. . t Madame
chiang getting the cold shoulder in
Washington. This lady is a graduate
» 1 "'"S "ou" Nattonai'
"nuèent has too S"ny irons m
Jj til . e to speculate on remedying
lhe con(iitioas in rhina _ and nobody
knows that bette1 ' tban , Ma a da !î!®
b e r TeoW before Secïeuîîi
SSf in ° w hose home
she has been a guest. The welcome
°." ,he ' loor 1 . mat he i de Tot
■ !!.%!?,L'SutJf
' , . th .t shp is
lh ^°,p ad i n de " ba mDion in China in
11 er efforts to drive the Communists
out of her beloved land. So just be
aml , wa 1 tch her . GR ?^
KTîandÜp"
But don 't overlook the fact that she
is very brilliant—one of the best
politicians in skirts anywhere in
; lhe World - _,
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The Federal Trade Gonuniss on
was established m 1914 as a watch
; dog i n the anti-trust field and given
, be formidable task of preventing
every person engaged in commerce
! except banks, meat packers and car
subject to the various Acts
regulate commerce, from engaging
I i U unfair methods of competition
unfair and deceptive acts and prac
tices.
j
Mme. Chiang
vi
ners
Chairmau Freer of the Commis
; fcion recen tly declared: "I feel very
btrong i y that this problem of pre
serving 0 ur competitive system
the foremost domestic problem
day and tba f the public must soon
dec i de whether we honestly intend
| to try t0 obey the rules of the eco
non ,j c ,. oad we sd f a r have travelled
or whether we are willing to recog
uize that the alternative route
one of u ii- OU t government régula
tion if we continue to give lip serv
! lie to the competitive system and
Lovide only token enforcement
ències under the anti-trust laws;
1 we cont inue to cry against mono
nolics and at the same time refuse
t o provide the means ot curbing
them we w m continue to coast
'|down hill without conscious reso
lution into a valley from which
must be towed because the spark
competition neither exists nor
be r08t0 red to its proper function
in our economic motive power,
at When that point Is reached we
have no cll0 i c e but to acquiesce In
RVS,<,m ° f Permanent peaceUme
ernment controls which will shift
, he responsibility of management
lh e Government."
Preservation of the competitive
; system, as defended by Chairman
j Freer is the basis philosophy of
p edfera i Trade Commission. "The
Fommission is not an egency whicii
is seeking ^ ower or control over
; dustrial decision and discretion,"
bp i ns { s ts because "it has been
, tivated bv the principle that
< omin~ of the day of Government
regulation can be postponed
forestalled hv prevention of those
practieos -Vch^onerate tn
1 The uomnumVe sfstem by depriving
In , h „ indivldua business man of
in freedom."
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Cities Lure Trade
TUrUCH as we appreciate the auto- ^
1 mobile, and all the many op- in
portunities it affords, it can be the ves
instrument that is kiUing the goose
that has provided rural America
with its golden eggs. I the
In the horse and buggy days it V.
was the need of market places that
created and main- ers
tained our rural was
villa- ! has
and
Released by WNU Features.
■ centers, our
I ges„ towns
a small cities. It was
* the patronage of
j the people of their'
■ home town stores
I that made these
I villages, towns and
■ small cities possi
as social and
cultural centers and
sustained property values. In those
days it was not convenient to go
elsewhere to do the family purchas
ing.
t
PATTERSON b i e
THE AUTOMOBILE has changed
all of that. Today the tendency of
the people is to buy almost every -1
thing except food in the larger cen
ers, whether such centers be but a *
few miles or many miles distant. s
With a car in every family, with
hard surfaced roads on which it
can roll, it is all to easy to travel to !
the larger metropolitan centers to
do the family buying, especially for
such things as clothing, home turn-;
ishings ad other items of consider- j
able value.
Automobiles without good
roads would not attract much
business away from the home
town stores, it is the people, in
eluding the merchants, who pro
vide the hard surfaced high
ways through the taxes they
pav . They are largely responsi
We tor the decline of the sales |
|n the home town stores
^ . . ! j
TWO PLACES, both of them
sma ll cities, can serve as illustra
tions. One is located but 35 miles
outside of one of the nations largest
cities. Not only one but several
hard surfaced highways lead from
that small city into the metropoli
tan center. Now these roads are :
be i ng supplemented by a speedway
that will enable the motorist to
er the distance between the home,
?*_*».■"««
S'coTected by an «cel.'S'hart
surfaced highway, paid tor In part
by the people, including the mer
chants, of that smaU city. In that
instance automobiles, operating ov
er good roads, are carrying as
J uch as ?° P-/-; of the commo
1 S? ÂÂ" £
stores of the big city, 400 miles
away.
0NE P0SSIBILIT y of gaving
these rural market places lies in the
merchants, as a group, meeting the
competition of the large city mer
chanta b y offering the variety, the
quantity and the quality of mer
chandise that attract* the people of
^ home community into the cities.
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The people of that home town, in
cluding the merchants, are paying
a considerable portion of the cost
of that speedway which is destined
to take more of the commodity pur- '
chasing dollars of home town citi
zens into the near by city.
Even before that speedway is
completed and open for traffic,
30 per cent and more of the dol
lars the people of that home
town community paid for com
modities, other than food, has
been going to the merchants of
the metropolitan center.
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ANOTHER small city, with which
I am somewhat familiar, is located
about 400 miles from the nearest
It can be done with no one.
two or three merchants carry
ing the load. Together the mer
chants can stock agreed lines of
merchandise such as is found
in the department stores of the
large cities. Collectively the
hometown stores can constitute
a large department store of dif
ferent units, under different
ownerships and, while net un
der one roof, ail in convenient
proximity.
TO MAKE such an idea work
in
calls for close co-operation between
the merchants of the home town.
There can be no ''dog-in-the-man
i ge r" attitude. When Mrs. Jones
is w i s hes something not carried in
one store but to be found in anot her
h , d b told where ghe *
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?J cu J[ e th desired article. Educate
if the home commumt y People to con
:n 8 but one bl 8 department store.
carrying a full and complete line,
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of
a
wou|d stabj , i2e ,
inflation Pres
to B op me i nmwon. Fres
: have the 8old buried a
Time to economize. The federal
government costs $100,000,000 each
4ay,
sider the home stores as constitut
if enacted into law the Hoover
committee recommendations would
save more than three billion dollars
each year. In 84 years that would
pay off the national debt.
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To put our currency on a gold ba
sis at about $40 an ounce for gold.
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COPENHAGEN — (JP) — Den
the j mark will have its first postwar
six-day race next August-not
or, previously in Conpenhagen's For
urn Hall and on bicycles but in the
des.roy'sea around the Island of Funen and
in Kayahs.
his Thu Koldlng Kayak Club of Jut
land is sta 8 ,n S the ,ace -
6-Day Kayak Race
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Released by WNU Features.
ttnfortunately, most of the
clergy who try to take a voice
union relations permit themsel
to be lured into gaseous dis
cusions of economics, and as far
as the haymarkel riots and
mournful sweetness of Eugene
Debs, a durable fraud whose
faults have been painted out by lay
of cosmetic propaganda which
allowed to lie because nobody
a special mission to keep the re
straight.
That takes work, determination
a stout contempt for the propo
sition that we must
give myth a head
start of 10, 20 or 50
j years out of respect
[ for death.
I On the whole,
I the reverends have
been a nuisance be
I cause, like vo'un
I teer firemen, they
& like to act brave
I and get noticed
ii while the profes
sionals. who really
know, have lacked
P
PEGLER
be mora l gumption to tell them to
and back and learn something.
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With this ingratiating nourish
I salute the Most Rev. Russell
J. McVInncy, bishop of Provi
dence, R. I., a cleric who has
kept in mind the fact that lar
ceny is a truly democratic
trait, more often found in poor
than rich because there are
more of them, and will not con
cede that cheating practised by
a group of bricklayers entails
only an academic impersonal
guilt.
I.
Bishop McVinney is a real good
man. He may be enveloped in fog
but he isn't lost. The fog is.
In recent weeks, he has gone be
fore the state convention of the A.
F. of L. ana soon afterward the
state convention of the C. I. O., and
told them to their teeth, shaming
the paltry counterfeits of the na
tional government and the eager
apple-shiners of both parties who
have been telling such bums how
fine they are and how high their
motives. It may be hoped that
among the Catholic clergy, at least,
the mistaken tolerance of personal
cheating as fair conduct in a class
war will now be* lifted.
I herewith lift
''Providenc e—
some text from the
CRITICIZED
THE
SLOWDOWN Brooklyn tablet:
Most Rev. Russell J.
McVinney, bbhop of Providence,
criticized the slowdown in the build
ing trades yesterday and charact
arized its perpetrators as drones
and racketeers."
And the hack of me hand to you,
Carmody, with your whine that
ooh, your back is hur-r-rted.
''Before 300 delegates to the 11th
annual state convention of the
Rhode Island CIO, the prelate char
ged that the man who dogs the job
on a hospital, an orphanage, or an
old folks' home is 'stealing from
the poor, the needy, the sick and
the infirm.'
Tes, and the chair will pul
in that the dirty thief is steal
ing also from the decent citizen
who has the charity to donate a
hundred dollars to the hospital.
That is robbing the tambourine
and it is dune every day all over
the country' under the sign of
the A. F. of L. through the slow
down and featherbedding rules.
T think tnat is an unforgivable
sin,' " he declared.
«0
•Rhode Island bricklayer* (and
Massachusetts and New York
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bricklayers and union bricklayers
all over) are now laying only 400
brick a day in comparison with 1,
500 or 1,000 laid by their predeces
< sors,' he said. 'Meanwhile, the wage
scale ha* largely increased.' "
Recently,
Bishop
GAMBLED McVinney told the A.
F. of L. state conven
tion that some of the
members had shot
crap while being paid $2.50 an hour
while working on church building
projects.
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'This desreputable condition re
flects on all of you, on all labor/
he said. 'They are discrediting or
ganized labor and organized labor
may live to regret it'
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"The speaker stressed that on
diocesan building projects the
slowdown artist wasn't stealing
•from me* but rather from the
hardworking people of Rhode
Island whose contributions to
the church make the construe- ;
tion possible.
The church has a number of pro
jects in view and he would like to
feel that when these are started the
men will give an honest day's work.
T maintain that that is wrong;
very wrong; that is unjust; that is
not being fair I have knowledge of
other faults that are even more gross
but 1 think I will not mention them
now. But we do know that on some
buildings jobs we are being fleeced
by workmen who do not have a cor
rect conscience.'
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Two Tourneys *
AUBURN, Ala. — (/P) — Two
leading tournaments will be enter
ed by Auburn's 1948-49 basketball
squad. Coach Danny Doyle's Tigers
\\'ill seek honors in the Oklahoma
City tourney and participate in the
annual Southeastern Conference
carnival in Louisville, March 3-5.