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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
Illinois MINERS
GET WAGE RAISE
,;ons Contract Granting
Y Workers Increase OF
About $500 A Day

mAsHINGToN, July q. - a.
" ~ lewis United Mine Work.
'ool. Toned 1 today contract grant
sn tas 5000 Illinois C. coal miners an
1s asse 'o.e of about 50 day in pay
in.,'4T c, more than Lewis originally
~ .-N.nded unsuccessfully for the
ast;on's astia 100000 miners.
DI rss tvo-year pact with the I'LL
i. t1' Coal Operators Association,
NO.: 3!:.orer still hinges on approval
No@t no War Labor Board and 9TH
.! aaovernment a stabilization agen-
G. - and on an increase in the cell
ire s,s' price Of coal to compensate 1o1
.ts .Es wage increase.
''9 9covepnment sanction of the
.,Deement, effective from April l.,
% s5,s TO March 81, 1945, apparent
l.. t,'g would give Lewis an opening
...55e to line up other operators
g'N9 regional, piecemeal basis.
V' T5e contract provides $1.25 a
a,v Wv for portal-to-portal tunder-
"r3 Wound traveD pay, chief issue in
hitter wage dispute that thrice
'oanI+ed in closing the nations
'VG1 Ia addition. it lengthens the
1,MWs usual seven-hour work day
md 35.hour work week to provide
sn s piabt-hour day and 48-hour
~opt Time and a half will be
nsid for the eighth hour on five
y Gsys and for the full eight hours
M ' fbe sixth day, adding an aver
sso Of s1.5O a day to the miners
pay envelope.
Also included in the contract are
creyious WLB concessions, includ-
iro increased vacation pay allow
.nres which gives the miners an
estimated 25 cents a day.
No increase in the miners basic
rate of s1.00 a hour was provided.
h,t labor circles estimated the
miners pay for siX-day week
would average about S63.50 against
he current $3.50.
Outside workers at the mines
wild receive the $125 day pors
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22

O1L-pLAr1Nc, made possible by the added
synthetic in popular-priced Conoco Nth
oil, seems strongly s'magnetized'' against
all draining down from inner engine sur
faces-for hours-days-and longer.
Now on chromium plating, when rain
drops stay while, you don't fear serious
corrosion. And you needn't fear it when
acid stays while in your o1L-PLATED engine.
The ordinary combustion process mustleave
acid when your engine stops. But you can
lessen the worst risk by o1L-PLAT1NG now
with Nth oil at Your Mileage Merchants
Conoco station. Continental Oil Company
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
New Baptist Church Will
Be Finished In September

Construction of the $25,000 edu-
cational building of Sunset Park
Baptist church, corner of Central
Boulevard and jefferson street, is
expected to be completed about
September is, the Rev. James H
Butler, pastor of the church, saio
Wednesday.
The basement of the three story
building has been completed and
work has started on the first floor
by the contra citing firm of U. A.
Underwood.
The Rev. Mr.. Butler said it is
hoped that the structure will be
completed to such an extent thai
first anniversary services can De
held there on September 5. At any
rate, services will be conducted
in the new building, probably III
the basement.
The new church school building,
which will accommodate approx
mately 400 persons when complet-
ed, is being sponsored by the Bap-
tist State convention, the First
Baptist church of Wilmington
which has allotted $4,000. and oy
gifts from individuals and church
es in the Wilmington Baptist as.
sociation.
While construction of the ne
church school building is in pro-
gress the membership of 100 is
holding services temporarily in a
building at the corner of South
Washington street and Southern
Boulevard.
Built on the Georgian type Ct
architecture, the exterior walls of
the new structure are of brick ana
the interior is frame woodwork.
The pastor said church edifice
may be constructed after the war.
More than $4,000 miles of holes
were drilled by American oilmen
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
3 PERSONS HURT
IN ROAD MISHAP
Seashore Bus And Board
Of Education Truck
Collide

Three persons were injured in
the collision of a Seashore Trans
portation company bus and a Board
OF Education truck at the intersec-
ton of Thirteenth and Market
streets here Wednesday afternoon.
d. c Russ, 26 year old driver of
the bus, was arrested after the ac-
cldent on charges of reckless oper.
alton.
According to investigating police
officers, the bus struck the rear of
the truck in the intersection, over.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22

Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey,
Draft officials have been in.
creasingly concerned over the
large numbers of men turned back
on the ground they probably
would be unable to stand the shift
from civilian to military life and
have been scar ''lg for a more
definitely basis for decisions on
these cases.
Waggoner is N-;pected to work
out a form with which local boards
can gather all pertinent data out
on registrants for forwarding to
induction stations along with the
forms now used to give physical
health history.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
Selectiue Service Calls
In Mental Specialist To
Aid Rejection Condition

WASHINGTON, July 81. -(P)-
Selective Service today called in
specialist on mental maladjust-
ments in move to improve a
condition that has resulted re-
Gently in rejection of % per cent
of all draftees for neuropsy chat
ric reasons.
DR.. Raymond w. Waggoner, di-
rector of the University Of Mich
igan's neuropsychiatric institute,
was brought in as a consultant to
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
Dairy Farmers Suffer
From Shortage Of Help

RALEIGH. July 21.-LP1Dairy
farmers are being hit the hardest
by the farm labor shortage at pres
ent, State Farm Labor Commission
er Harry Caldwell said today.
Caldwell said that he had letters
from Mcdowell county and from
oalrymen in the eastern part of the
state asking help. The commission.
er said that milk price ceilings and
the fact that dairying was a seven
day a week job made it hard for
the dairymen to find labor
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
Southport Man Among
SURVIVORS Of Helena

GUADALCANAL, July 21-LP-
The following are some survivors
of the American light cruiser U. S.
Helena who were taken from a
held island after the ship
was sunk:
Andrew Gaddy, Charlotte, N. c.;
B. c. Kelly, Durham, N. c., R. J.
Dorsey, Woodside, N. c., and F.
L. Potter, Southport, N. c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22

More than $4,000 miles of holes
were drilled by American oilmen
during 1941.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15
Absenteeism

The National Industrial Conference Board estimates that abSenteeism last year cost American industry the equiva- ent of l,S50,000 employees working full lime. That Is almost one-third of the manpower shortage the nation is said to lace. It is exclusive of an even greater loss through industrial accidents. It takes no account of ron-industrial accidents, which exceed those in the plant It does not include time lost on approved leaves of absence. Neither does 1t count time lost through strikes, sitdowns, slowdowns, holidays" and vacations" which are Buphemisms for the now unpopular word "Strike" - or through other effects of labor disputes. AbSenteeism - the Rct of staying away from work without permission or prior notice increased about 20 per cent last year and shows no signs of declining, which probably means that in spite of the urgent war need for workers, the percentage is stay Ing just about constant.
 A large proportion of these absences ere excusable. Many of them are ines capable. But also there arc millions of man days lost for trivial personal req sons. It is not fair to workers to treat absenteeism as though it were entirely their fault -- to lay the blame on la2i- ness, disinterest, selfishnesS Yet if the conference boards estimate Is correct, and 45 per cent of such absences are un- necessary, then the equivalent of more than 500,000 full time workers were lost In i042 because the men and women weren't interested enough to stay on the job. Governmental agencies are aware of the damage which this situation is doing to war production. They are seeking to ascertain the fundamental causes. Some sort of sanctions will have to be provided, by which workers who are not interested enough in American victory to stay on khe fob can be forced to do what they shOuld be happy to do.
 But first, 1t is necessary to study and, 90 far as possible, to eliminate the causes of iustifiable absenteeism in order that no major injustices shall be worked. This is Q job in which individual industries can and must help, but one which the government must sponsor, coordinate and assist When the findings are com plete, they will require cooperation - voluntary or otherwise from many agencies not directly involved from stores now closed at hours when workers must shop, from housing and transpor- tation and amusement and medical and child care and multitude of other services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15
Whsre's lhe CompArison?

Debating the birth control bin in the House at Hartford yesterday Republi- can legislator, Rep. C, William Janson of WeStport, is quoted as saying our present law should be laughed to death. He Is then further quoted as stating that "tlm- idlty and prejudice" hampered medical progress down through the ages. He cit cd vaccination and the use of chloroform as two advancements In medical science that arrived only after long years of hos tility from the medical profession as we'll as the layman.
 Rep. JanSon might have continued this interesting analogy a bit further, He might have stressed the point, for ex- ample, that such things as vaccination or chloroform or other medical develop ments are used Go further the human life not to snuff it out, They make 1t possible for the medical world to bring about what were once regarded as impossible cures in days gone by. But by no stretch of the imagination can the use of contraceptives on the scale that would enSue were the Connecticut birth control law to be in medical science
 Anything that takes away life can hardly be placed in this category which surely must be the alleviation Of all hu- man ills through successful treatment, To kill is not to advance civilization. And regardless of religious creeds there are such things as moral laws binding on all men. We're afraid that efforts to plan parenthood or control birth which are based on the artificial and not the na- tural will never compare very favorably with those great strides made by the medical world down through the ages in determining the cause of human ills and providing means of successfully treating them,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15
'"They Give Their Lives"

We on the home front face one of the most personal challenges of this war to date. That challenge is whether or not we are willing to sacrifice to sufficient extent to lend our government thirteen billion dollars within the next few weeks.
 To do the job, you and l, and everyone we know, are going to have to dig down in our sock -- to dig out some of those dollars we have salted away for rainy day-as well as to take good hunk out of this months pay check.
 This is a job that has to be done. Sure, we on the home front are feeling the pinch of war. We have gasoline ration Ing, food rationing, higher taxes and a lot of other little discomforts. But they are nothing compared with the agonies faced daily by our men-men from this community among them-out there on the fighting fronts of the world.
 Yes, we know that this constant de- mand for more money out of our pockets and out of our paychecks-an increasing amount each month-is mopotonous. But SO is sitting in fox-hole or lying in a slit-trench day after day, slogging through the hell of humid jungle or that of Sahara sand
 Our sons, friends, brothers, husbands and others we know are doing that for Us. They are facing something more ter xEbIe than cutting down on few things that we once thought were essentials to the American standard of living in order to do 1t, too. As Secretary Morgenthau has said: "Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons?"
 The Second War Loan is an order to the home front to go on new offensive Your dollars are the weapons in this at- tack. They will make possible the pas slng of the ammunition to those boys ID there in the front lines. To win this var is going to cost more and more xaoney-and more and more lives. But the price of freedom is high. We can not; we dare not let our fighting men down.
 You can't let George do this for you. You must pitch in with your dollars. dsast keep in mind those boys In the front lines. They give their lives-you lend your noneyI Don't wait for someone
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15

Many a man who has been hOn- ored by cities and empires with a great funeral has died with the sickening realization that in spite of what others thought of him, he knew himself to be a failure.
 The only really successful man Is the o:.e who at the end of his life can look back with the realization that at some place along the way he set up definite ideals and clung to them through thick and thin. James Lane Allen, the American man of letters. wrote toward the end of his life: "I may not boast with the Apostle that 1 have fought good light--but ! can say that I have fought hard one. For be my suc- cess great or small. 1t has been won without inner cOmpromise or other form of Reinforcement"
 Our Lord in one of His parablei described a good man coming to hil Just and final reward and being greeted with these words. "Wel done. good and faithful servant Enter thou Into the Joy of thy Lord.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15

John L. Lewis was on the spot or to be more accurate in the picket line the other day, his first experience as picketee by his former group, the C.IO. The pickets formed near the hotel at which he IS stopping. AS he passed along he got boos and catcalls, and one is reminded on reading of the incident of a scattering of the lyrics from a recent New York review, it isn't Cricket to Picket" which might seem to apply in the case of MT. Lewis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15

We have simply got to come to it, Mir. President" argued the food chief, "ft was unfortunate that pay.as.you.go taxes were given a black eye by the Ruml plan. But pay-aS-you go taxes should go hand in hand with rationlng to prevent corresponding"
 The President didn't commit himself definitely, but indicated that he would favor a pay-go plan fl windfnlls to the wealthy, as pros vided for In the Ruml plan, were completely eliminated,
 Ed O'Ncnl, president Of the Farm Bureau Federation and Ezra T, Benson, executive Secrc- tary of the National Council of Farmer CooperativeS also took up the cuClgcls, O'Neal contending that taxpayers wouldn't be able to meet next years assessments unless the pay-aS-you 70 plan or forced saving were adopted.
 COP WATCHING CHANGES
 "I've made n poll of taxicab drivers and they are all for it," said O'Neal, "The great major ity Of the American people feel the same way. They arc against windfallS but they feel they won't have enough money to pay their income tax payment next year. If the Administration doesn't take some action on this, the Republi- cans will steal thc ball from you"
 "That's right, MT. President chimed in Benson. "Thc farmers in my organization arc overwhelm- ing for a pay -as-you-go tax pros gram. think labor is, too"
 "Maybe you're right" respond cd the President. Chester to Davis), | suggest that you talk this over with Congressional leaders,"
 The conversation then turned to farm distribution and the Presi- dent drew on his own experience as farmer to illustrate the diff ficulty little farmers" arc hav- ing getting their crops to mar ket.
 "I used to raise 100 barrels of apples every year on my Duchess County farm In New
 York;" the President said. ~ also raise some apples on my land ln Georgia"
 APPLE COMPETITION
 The President grinned to AL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15
No 10 Per Cent War

Chester Davis, the new food adminis- trator coined an appealing slogan when he said that "thiS is no 10 per cent war" Unfortunately, like So many apparent aphorisms, Mir, Davis Is less than &C., curate and fair in its implications,
 True, many Of us do feel sanctimoni- ous after we have allocated 10 per cent of wages to war bonds. But 1t is not correct that this makes us 10 percenters. For in addition to the allocation we are paying a minimum of l9 per cent as federal income tax; many are paying state income taxes; all are paying large sums in federal, state and local real estate, excise and luxury taxes, some times direct, but more often hidden in the cost of every commodity we buy.
 We are not, perhaps-even probably doing as much as we must, but we can't be kissed off as 10 percenters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15
Current Comment

The south Pacific story might have been vastly different for the last three or four months had we not established ourselves in the Solomons successfully.
 Navy Secretary Prank Knox think General Giraud is an ex- tremely gallant French soldier. should feel very proud If had his record in fighting Germany.
 British Foreign Secretary An.
 thony Eden.
 Everyone there (North Afrlca) if cooperating. French civil auth0ri. ties are cooperating fully with the Allied forces Just as French troops are fighting alongside ours in Tu. nisia.
 Clement R. Atlee. British deputy prime minister.
 feel certain that the day fol the liberation of my people is mol far away. All of the enslaved na- tons now feel that the hour fcl their redemption has struck.
 Philippines President Manue Queson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15

Hts order shortly thereafter put ting price ceiling on almost every thing was the chief result of the meeting,
 STALE NAVY NEWS
 It looks as if the Navy was up to It's old trick of releasing stale information months late, but jaZzed up to make 1t look as II the battle had just occurred,
 For instance on March l3 many newspapers featured n Navy an- nouncement "U. $, SUB SINKS JAP WARSHlP IN WILD BATTLE" Then followed m account which, although no date was given, looked as If the battle had taken place just few days before. Among other things, 1t listed Herbert A. Calcaterra as killed.
 However, If anyone took the trouble to look up the American Magazine for March, he would have found the same story writ ten by It. Sladc Cutter, former Navy football star, in which he tells about a fight between U. s. sub and n Jap warship, listing the same Calcaterra as killed.
 The impression given by the Navy'S release was that something new was being announced. Yet the March Magazine appears on the newsstands in February and goes to press around late Decem- Der. So the battle, announced by the Navy in March must have taken place around November at the latest.
 MERRY-GO.ROUND
 Ambassador John c. Winant has provided an apartment in London for six Americanssoldier wounded in action with the British Eighth Army in Egypt. Three are Harv- ard men, three from Dartmouth. The six graduated as the top six in British officers training school before going to Egypt with the British Sixtieth Regiment. This is the famous regiment which in Revolutionary times was with drawn from action in America be- cause 1t was too friendly to the colonial cause State Depart ment Advisor Wallace Murray is one of the career men who gripes at the Communist menace from Soviet successes.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15

bert 0oSS, Master or the National Grange who halls from Washing ton, the biggest apple-producing state tn the country: "I'd stack my apples up against those you pro- duce ln Washington any day"
 You're getting out Of your class, Mir. President" smiled GOss. @"IIave you ever eaten a DcliciOuS?"
 You win, Albert chucklcd the President. but the point nm trying to make is this -- little farmers like myself, and the same goes for all other farmers who don't have the advantage Of COG operatives. have encountered lot Of difficulty marketing their crops and getting their money since the war began because of the trans- portatlon problem and other fac- tors.
 Don't you think the g0vern- mcnt should step In and buy up apples and other products that have been running into dlstribu- ton troubles and store them in the warehousesP" the President asked Goss. Tt would take a lot off the market and help many little farmers who are hard up for cash"
 HELPING LITTLE FARMER
 "I don't agree with you, Mir. President" replied GOSS. ~ "T think the way to protect the little farmers lS by continuing the Agriculture Department support price" program. Farm CTS can get along if they are assured that they can get fair prices and . decent break on prlOrities for machinery Co pro- duce their crops. l don't think the government should buy up and sell farm products when there ls no necessity for t."
 The President meditated for a moment and replied: "I guess you're right at that"
 The meteing also thrashed out the question of price ceilings, Ed O'Neal Of the Farm Bureau and Albert Goss of the Grange con- tending that If ratloning were tight enough 1t would be neces- Sary to have price ceilings. that rationing would automatically take care Of prices Justice Byrnes, Chester and Jim Patton Of the Farmers Union argued to the con- trary. The President decided with them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15

While we are pretty well immersed in the second war bond drive perhaps we can snatch a moment or two to think back on the recent book drive, which, by the way, brought in some 100000 books. This campaign began in Janu- ary and will continue since the demand for books for men in the service con tinues. The quality of the books this year, it is said, is better than last year, at that time half those donated unsuit- able. This year the quality of books was so much stressed that most people put a little thought into their selection and collection.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-15

Everything happened quite in the order of the day this week Tuesday when the play, "The Patriots, won the 1942-4S Critics Award The play by Sergeant Sidney Kingsley, U. s, A., has for it's central character Thomas Jefferson whose memory was honored this week on the 2O0th anniversary of his birth. The selection of "The Patriots" defeated Thornton Wilders "The Skin of Our Teeth" which was on the expected list for selection. Right now judges are likely to be patriotic minded and "The Patriots" was a good playing vehicle for the present theatrical season. Also re- ceiving ballots were "The Eve of St. Mark" and Harriet" all substantial plays and worth the notice of the present season theater goerS.