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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-23
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congressman Vim. M.CoImer
Initiation

History reflects the fact that
in the wake of every war the
ghost spectre of initiation arises
as an enemy to threaten coun-
tries so engaged in war. And this
applies to the victor as well as
the vanqulshed. This war has
been no exception. Throughout
our tour of Europe we found this
enemv-infiation-thriving as
very realistic obstacle to the or
derlv reconversion of every coun-
try visited. For instance. in Paris
we found women's wooden shoes
selling for $4,000, while in Ber-
lin a cent candy bar would
bring from $1,000 to S2000-all
in American money.
Unfortunately, America has
been and is no exception to this
rule. While it is true that under
the OPA and other wartime con-
trolls with all of their inequities
of administration we were able
during the war to hold prices
down reasonably, now that the
war is over and the patriotic
glamor of war is no longer exis-
tent the prospects of being able
to prevent initiation are none too
good. To illustrate, taking the
1889 dollar as a basis with 100
cents purchasing power, we find
that the l94l dollar was worth
only 95 cents; the 1912 dollar
worth 85 cents; in 1943 the dol
lars purchasing power had de-
creased to 81 cents; and then in
1914 it dropped to 70 cents. The
latest figures available for the
value of the 1945 dollar show that
it is worth only 78 cents In
other words, the inroads on the
value of the dollar have succeed
ed in reducing its purchasing
power from 100 cents in 1889 TO
81 cents in l945. The big ques-
ton now is will that progressive
reduction in our purchasing pow
er continue beyond control?
A brief analysis of the pres
ent situation is none too com
forting. Labor, flushed with the
success of continuous increases
in its earning power throughout
the war period, is now taking
most aggressive and warlike
thrust for additional increases.
The dreaded unemployment
which was feared after the war
is not manifested at all On the
contrary, a wave of strikes and
labor-managemeut disputes are
prevalent all over the country.
On the other hand, industry, in
order to meet the increased wagss
demanded of them, are asking
permission for increased prices
of their products. The farmer
who always is the last to receive
increased prices for his products,
IS becoming apprehensive and re-
questing additional increases for
his products. The increases of
one item calls for an increase
in the other There is a real
rather than apparent danger to
our postwar economy in this sit
uation. President Truman real
lied this when he made his ra-
dio appeal recently to rally the
country behind a policy of rails
ing wages without increasing
prices to any substantial extent.
Moreover, there is another
large organized group which is
joining in the demand for in
creased wages and salaries-the
group of Federal employees con.
stitutGg some several million
people. Bills have been intro
duced in the Congress for a flat
increase of 20 percent for all
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-23
Whistler CLUB MEETS

Miss Olive Elkin entertained
the Whistler Club in her home
on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. J. T. Bishop received the
high score prize and Miss Au-
drev Crook the bingo.
Cold drinks were served dur
ing the games and delicious salad
course with hot tea after the
games to Mesdames w. w. Jenk-
ms. Hartwell McCollum, James
Powell, T L. DeLashmet. Jr.,
J. T. Bishop, ]. c. Avent and
Misses Jane Coulson and Audrey
Crook.
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CARD OF THANKs
CARD OF THANKS


We wish to extend our sincere and
heartfelt thanks to relatives, friends
and acquaintances for their sympathy
and kindness shown US during the
illness and death of our beloved hus-
band. father and grandfather, Captain
A. Ouitman Hunt, and special thanks
10 DR.. r. c. Eley and DR.. ]. T. Thomp-
son, Mrs. J r., McNeal and Mrs N
Grantham, nurses of the jackson
County Hospital and Rev. |. c. In
gram. Rev. J. F. Brock and Rev T B.
West. Many thanks for the beautiful
floral offerings and cards of sympathy.
All have our everlasting gratitude.
Wife. daughters. son. sister-in-law,
grandchildren. and sister.
IN MEMORY
In loving memory of our daughter
and sister. Mrs. Edna Bertison who
departed this life November %. 1874
our home Is not the same dear heart.
Since God called you away.
His viii be done.' but hopes remain
To be with you again some day.
10 there II heaven. near HIS throne
Far from iife's care and PAIN.
And We pray to Him. the King Of
Kings
To meet ss85 there again
Sadly missed bv Dad Mother Sister
and Brother. agr and Mrs Robert
Hudson. II Emma Smith of Mc
Point. James Hudson Of pascaRoula
ard MHz Pearl rillman OF 1heodore
Ala
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Housing Problem May Bring
Behind the Scenes Battle

Special to Central Press
Washington.-You can look for
some bitter battles behind the
scenes in Washington on the ex-
plosive housing problem.
Reconversion Chief John w.
Snyder has been holding an al
most endless round of conferences
with other stabilization leaders
in an effort to work out a plan
that will please at least a few.
There has been a frantic tug
of-war between the faction that
wants ceiling prices slapped on
new housing and Snyder. The
latter Iieportedly withheld his
support until he could feel out
Congress on the matter.
The climax came before a SEN
ate small business subcommittee
which gave tacit support to the
ceiling proposal, but Snyder de-
MED flatly he had seen the plans
drawn up by Chester Bowles. the
administrations most outspoken
exponent of the hold-the- line
policy.
Some observers were flabber-
gasted at Snyder's denial. They
felt sure Bowles must have pre-
sented his opinions to Snyder,
who apparently still is pursuing
an "on-the-fence" attitude, more
or less.
AT any rate, the housing prob
lem is moving toward a show
down in high government circles.
1t will be up to Congress to de-
eide on whether prices will be
held down, a move that will
please only the average citizen
who wants to build a modest
| home.
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NsAlAe WASHINGTON
Hannegan Reported Angered
BY Creighton's Appointment

Out Of Washington's whirling
rumor mill has come the report
that Democratic Party Chairman
Bob Hannegan hoped on Ag-
riculture Secretary Clinton An
derson and Unedrsecretsry J. B.
Hutson for appointing an In
diana Republican as chief of the
departments poultry branch.
The appointee was Robert
Creighton, COP speaker of the
Hoosier House of Representa-
tives. 1t is being noised about
the capital that Hannegan blunt
ly informed Anderson and Hut
son they. could have named
Democrat to the post, that Creigh-
toms appointment was not help
ing the party.
OF course, a spokesman for An
derson denied the whole story
His angle was that 1--WE wanted
man to do the job and did not
ask Creighton his politics"
The National Labor Relations
Board is so swamped with strike
vote petitions it is using every
method it can think Of to get
out the ballots and to conduct the
voting. Ordinarily the NLRB
uses polling booths manned by
its own personnel.
Recently, however, the board
started mailing out strike ballots
and trying to get unions and
employers to distribute them
among the workers. In some in
stances the NLRB has even called
on a commercial letter-mailing
firm TO send them out.
In one two-month period the
NLRB received nearly 700 strike
vote petitions involving at least
5000 employers.
The pent-up hunger of Amer
ican women for nylon stockings
to beautify already lovely legs
may have repercussions in .Ja-
pans reconversion to peace
time economy not based on war
production.
The trend is indicated in in
cidents in Washington and 9th
er leading cities of stores being
mobbed by women whenever
they place nylons on sale. In
the nations capital a double line
formed around an entire city
block when nylons were placed
on display.
Before the war japan did a
brisk business in silk, and the
product of many a Japanese worm
encased shapely American legs.
Japan in the postwar years is
supposed to turn again to silk
and Other harmless industries
to keep her people from starving.
Can Silk Challenge Nylon?
| Meanwhile, war forced Amer
! ica's nylon industry to expand,
and industry leaders are going
to make every effort to convince
| American women that their prod
ust is as good or better than
silk.
The next year should tell the
story, and it may be sad one
for Japan's silk industry.
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federal employees within certain
brackets. Then there is another
bill which would increase certain
higher ranking federal employ
ees such as Cabinet members,
Supreme Court justices, heads
of government bureaus, etc, up
to $4,000 to $25,000 per year.
This bill also provides for in
creasing the salaries of Mem
bers of Congress to $4,000. And
all of this at a time when we are
making a desperate effort to get
the country back on a solid peace
time economic basis and tackle
the gargantuan task of reducing
the national debt which is now
in excess of $250,000, 100000 We
make no pretense of a knowledge
of economics but to a country boy
like us this simply does not make
good common horse sense.
Too, the sound economists are
finding il difficult to agree with
that principle. 1t sounds most
reasonable to assume that If a
producer is called upon to in
crease the price of his products
by sharply increasing his wages
that contribute largely to the
cost of his finished article that
he will of necessity have to in
crease the cost of the item pro-
duced. And this IT would seem
would apply to agriculture as well
as industry.
The whole question is a most
perplexing one and is fraughi
with much danger. Certainly
if initiation gets out of hand many
people are going to suffer, and
particularly those who have beer
frugal enough to accumulate q
few dollars.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-23

Olo Roemer, Danish astrono-
mor born in 1914, discovered the
measurement of the finite velo-
city of light, and foresaw nearly
all the modern precision instru-
ments.
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The Germans fouled Allied
mine detectors with nails and
odd scraps of metal.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-25

the bombs to Florida and made some final tests.
Out of his years of research in chemistry,
Midgley made four outstanding contributions
% He discovered the chemical anti-knock
agents. the principal one of which tetraethy lead,
is adding much 10 the performance ana ell
cheney Of all types of gasoline engines.
(2) AS bromine was a necessary complement
10 lead for us in gasoline, he conceived the pos
sibility of extracting bron1ine from sea water
although II is present there in concentrations
measured only in parts per million. 1t now is
being extracted from the sea in huge amounts
(3l With conspicuous courage and imagina-
ton, he utilized ffuortne 10 make new series OF
refrigerating gases which are non-inflammao!e
and so, nontoxic.- Now, in war time, their biggest
use is not for refrigeration at all, but dispensing
agents for insect repellents.
(4) He conducted intensive researches on the
vulcanization and composition Of rubber.
The versatility of Thomas Aiidgley, Jr- is
shown by many other ways. He investigated
engine flames by visual observation through a
window cut into a cylinder and invented two types
Of apparatus for testing the knock of fuels.
IE SERVED as -viee-pfesidcrt of the Onto state
II University Research Foundation, and there
played an important part in the founding Of some
OF the most productive research laboratories IN
the petroleum industry. He had paramount
part in organizing the Centennial Celebration Of
the American Patent System in 1886.
Tom Midgleys contributions TO American
chemistry were many, not only because he con
tributed more than 80 scientific reports 10 the
Journals of The American Chemical Society, but
because he was an active leader in this scientific
body. In the ACS he a director in 1880, chair
man of the board in 1884 and its president in 1914.
Fortunate and grateful was Midglcy for the
America Had Aerial TorpedOes Much Like
Buzz Bombs Far Back World War ]
and Thomas Mdgley Perfected Their Gyro-
scopic Controls Until the Armstice in 1918
Stopped Him, Officially
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-25

not due TO preignition was the common belief,
but caused by a violent pressure rise after
make a better indicator" Never did he say This
doesn't work." but always, How can we overcome
the difficulty and move ahead?"
OUR new knowledge raised another question,
~ Why does the unusual pressure rise occur
after ignition and how can II be stopped?' We
colored red il would absorb more radiant
heat and evaporate faster. This hunch came about
because we both knew the leaves of the trailing
arbutus were red on the hack and yet they
grew and bloomed under the snow
Midge selected elemental iodine as dye 10
color the fuel red. Much to our astonishment, II
reduced the knock. But like IR IRqch research this
only raised another question: WAS II the color or
a property OF iodine that stopped the knock
Midgley found that red anne dyes would not
stop the knock, but colorless ethyl iodine did 1t
lust like iodine SO the anti-knock compound was
the iodine itself and not the color. The unknown
field was getting larger and more exciting.
Should we get a chemist 10 help, or physicist?
Engineer Mideley said mo one knows ANYTHING
: about This problem We must outline a whole
series of experiments and find out if il is physics
or chemistry" And that is how Tom Midgley be-
came both physicist and chemist, unhampered
by the traditions OF either.
The first World War came along and Mdge
began research 10 produce better aviation fuel,
for knock was limiting the power of the new
Liberty engine. One tip was that the Germans
were using cycloheXane as a fuel DR.. Baekeland,
inventor of Bakete, said that we had been unable
10 make this material In this country. So now
Midgley turned physical chemist and started to
hydrogenate benzene.
He was offered a medal If he could produce
one liter OF this material, and set TO work in his
tircless fashion. The solution when he
entrusted the research one night 10 laboratory
assistant while he went home and got some rest.
Next morning the assistant confessed he had fallen
asleep, taken readings and the barrel OF ben
zene had gone through the hydrogenation tube.
But this neglect produced important results,
for in the small research room definite odor Of
mi tIn n
being angry, Midge told the assistant that this
was fine, and he had greatly helped solve the
problem. During the night the small trace of
thiopene had been hydrogenated out of the sup
posedy chemically pure materials. A new catalyst
was hurriedly put into the hydTogenator and the
material rerun with great success.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-25

EROM redcsigned apparatus, many barrels OF this
! material were made, and that mixture of 20
per cent cyclohcXane and 80 per cent benZene was
perhaps the first synthetic high octane fuel pro
duCcd. Out of this work, and the investigation of
other compounds which had preceded it, came the
realization that the molecular structure of a fuel
is more important than its physical properties.
1t was in these experiments that an explosion
Of a hydrogen tank spattcrcd bits OF metal in the
cofnca- -Nffdeiey's- cyr.- Standard treatments
availcd little so in bold fashion ne removed the
PARTICLES himself by bathing his eyes with mercury.
About this same time we were also developing,
in secret war research, the aerial torpedo now
called the Buzz Bomb. Midgc was assigned the
control system, consisting OF gyros, altimeer etc
Our work was quite successful. Production was
starting when the armstce was signed in Novcm.
bCr 1918, and Col. H. II. Arnold (now General
Hap Arnold had already gone to Europe to ar.
range for their use With the ended this
work stopped, but Nlidge took about dozen OF
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many honors which came 10 him, in his lifetime,
for his meritorious endeavors. From 1922 onward
he received from the chemical society its priced
Nichols, Priest!ey and Willard Gibbs medals as
we'll medals from the Franklin Institute and
the Society of Chemical Industry
The National Academy of Sciences made him
an honorary member, and the College of Wooster
and Ohio State University, awarded him degrees
of Doctor of Science. But, with all these honorS,
Midge liked people Of every class and profession
and through his widespread activities i'll many
fields he made host of friends. To me, perso;.-
ally Tom has been all these years. like son or
a brother His passing is a major loss to science.
IN THINKING back over his adult life-in which
we were very Close-I believe that Tom
Midgey's success can be attributed to an unusual
combination of three talents.
First, Tom Midgley had the scientific, research
capacity of primary investigation-the ability we
call pure" research.
But Midgley had two other vital factors. He
that his discoveries reached the stage of practical
application for all humanity, and finally he pos
scssed that element of salesmanship in which he
could educate management-and the public-of
the worth Of his chronological development.
In ordinary research developments which
finally reach the public, these three phases
often the work of separate divisions of an
ganization. The research department discovers the
new process or product The engineering and de
veopment department fashions it for practical
utility And last the sales promotion department
sells il TO the public.
In Tom Mdgleys case these three separate
functions all combined. He could have been
a success in any OF the three; was master in all.
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not due 10 prcigniton as the common belief,
but was caused by a violent pressure rise after
ignition from the sparkplug. So Midge said. Let's
make better indicator" Never did he say This
doesn't work" but always, How can we overcome
the difficulty and move ahead? ?"
Evening star., 1945-01-23
10 THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY, JANUARY
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SITUATIONS MQMeN.

ATTENTION BUSINEssMEN-H you're
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please call MRS. PERLoFF, Columbia s377
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Complete charge full set Of books. Six
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SITUATIONS MEN.
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