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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
JUNGLE SAP" IS Y
A LOSING GAME

To hear the give-American-aWay
boys, Washington politicians and
~burrocrats tell it, the United Sta
ties is a rich country and the rest
Of the world is busted.
Actually the per capita debt of
the American people is now far
higher than the per capita debt of
the British Empire.
From December, 1889, to Deem
Der, 1945, despite the billions of
dollars worth of goods the United
States sent to other nations, the
value of American investments in
other countries rose only $780,
600 1000, from Sill 400, OOO, 900 to
S13,000,0 0O, 900. This increase is
all we now have to show for all
our outpouring of money, men,
natural resources and materials.
In that same time the value of
foreign investments in the United
States rose from SO, 800, 00O, 900 to
SIS, 100, 900, 000-a gain of SIS, $780,
600 If this same relative rate
of foreign gain and domestic loss
in investments is maintained for
the 50-year life period of the pro-
posed British loan, then foreigners
would about all of the United
States. = United Mine Workers
Journal.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
Some Odds and Ends

A man wants to know what he
should read to improve his mind
No one should attempt to improve
his mind. All any man can hope fol-
in 1916 is not to lose what sense he
now has-The lola (Kan.) Register
1t is beginning to look like ou1
congressman have forgotten about
representing the people and are
now representing the bunch that
Scares them the most.-The Mack
vile (Kan.) Enterprise.
Secretary of Commerce Wallace
has just been added to the list of
Subversives kept by the Wood-Ran-
kin un-American Committee. Very
inefficient. They could have nab
bed him when he was Vice-Presi-
dent.-John Paine for Federated
Press.
We heard a yarn this week about
two CTS in the South Pacific who
were out walking and met a lush
native girl wearing only the tradi-
tiolIal Sarong and smile. Needless
of their wolf whistles, she glided
past them. Her sarong, they noted,
was fastened security with eight
Good Conduct ribbons.-The Army
Times.
A man doesn't have to build a
better mousetrap in order to rake
in the shekels. Any kind of a suck
er trap will secure the same results.
The Cincinnati Enquirer.
A mild-mannered resident of
Kansas City offered to lead police
to the hiding place of a criminal
who fitted a description in a de-
tective story magazine. Police
crashed into a rooming house and
me- a volley of shots. Two police
men ere wounded and the quarry
killed. Later at the headquarters
the dead man could not be identi-
fled, the man sought turned out to
have been in Sing Sing all the time,
and the "informer'' couldn't be
found.-Virginia Fortiner in the
New York Times Magazine.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
UNION CONTRACTS
Ia Million
WORKERS

Stop to think about the tremen-
dous strides organized labor has
made during the past five years.
Over $4,000, 900 workers are now
protected by union pacts. This is
an increase of approximately 81
per cent since 1941.
In manufacturing industries
about 70 per cent of the produc-
ton workers were covered by
agreements last year.
There has been a particularly
impressive increase in the number
of industries that now are practi-
cally 100 per cent under the trade
union banner.-Labor World, AL
ton, III.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

Hitler and Mussolini apparently
always managed to have ample
shirts for their stooges. We Ameri-
cans, however, under the stumble
bum burrocrats, have become
nearly-a shirtless Nation, and the
prospects hold promise of our
being without a shirt"
However, under O.P.A., you can
buy a sport shirt most anywhere
from $3.50 up to S25-mostly up.
The sport shirt is the shirt on
which the O.P.A. forgot to put a
ceiling.-UMWJ.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
Free Enterprise in the U~norgonized South

d yN hINOW.
That As states have a higher per capita income than Alabama
average income in Alabama, $47O; in nation $1,041D
That SO per cent of AIabamas people live on farms and receive
an annual average income of $685. .'
1858 per cent of all Alabama farmers receive an average of $278
a year; 81 per cent.large operators, average $1,794. a Year,.
That the average public school expenditure in the nation is $10349
pr pupil per year; in Alabama it is S41.97-
That of Alabama's 4,061 public schools, 1,4O9 are one-teacher
schools
That in Alabama sc per cent of the dwelling units have no running
water. 81 per cent have n inside toilet, and rs per cent have no bath
tubs n showers
That in Alabama in 1914 19 per cent of the adult citizens voted,
compared to 619 per cent in non-pol tax states-Mobil Labor Journal
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
How to Help The KIon

Much of the emphasis of the American Federation of Labor, in its
conflict with the CLIO. in the South, appears to be placed on charges
that the CLIO. is "communistic" Neither labor nor the South will bene-
fit from such a tactic.
There re some Communists in the CLO-more than in the A F.
of L. But in neither federation is Communist influence controlling, or
anything approaching it. The quarrel between the two rival declarations
is largely between two parallel union bureaucracies, not between the
rank and file groups. The issue in the South is not one Of Communism
but of low wages.
Organized labor will have plenty of trouble dealing with Southern
induStry6 anti-uniOn hostility, the strained race relations Of Negro and
white workers, and the desperate effort of reactionary politicians to
hold their power. Only the Ku Kux Khan will be helped, in it's renewed
drive for power, by appeals to prejudice and passion in a union civil
Wharf.-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
Preview Of One Kind OF Post-Atomic World
By KENESAW Nj. LA.

One hundred monkeys got loose
in New York City the other day,
let each other out of cages, and
SWarmed over the buildings of
lower Manhattan.
They slid down poles in a fire
station, sampled beer in a tavern.
broke into a grocery store, stopped
traffic and had themselves a gay
old time.
Nothing like it had been seen in
New York since the last preWar
American Legion convention.
Possibly this is a previeW of
what will happen if the world is
depopulated Of our particular
branch of the simian family in the
next war.
One monkey, swinging from
ledge to ledge among the skyscrap-
ers, lost his hold and fell IL stories
to his death. But that only goes to
show that New York is more dan
gerOuS than the jungle.
x
There is no reason to suppose
that the monkeys are any more
irresponsible and reckless than we
are in the midst of the civilization
we have built.
Already the casualty toll on our
highways has increased so per cent
since the end of gasoline rationing,
a circumstance which has led Presi-
dent Truman to denounce the
nuts and "morons'' and "crazy
people" who are allowed to drive
automobiles.
But this is just a symptom. Mr..
Truman said nothing about the
people who are allowed to run our
government.
If the monkeys had got loose in
washington, the chances are they
could have gone absolutely unde-
tected in the U. S. Congress, along
with the Rankins and Bilbos.
find it difficult to put much
faith in any safety program when
L read about the German w
rocket that was fired rs miles in
the sky, as part of the War De-
partment's l~ong-range missile pro-
gram.
The Germans were far ahead of
everybody in this enterprise, and
when the war ended there was a
race between Russia and the Unit
ed States to get as many German
scientists and rockets as possible.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
After the "ButtIe Of AIcotroz"
What?

Take Hope Out of the Heart of a Human Being and He Is
Apt to Act Like a Beast
The Battle of AlcatraZ" has ended. Some of the ringleaders of the
revolt are dead; others will probably be executed. The prison which
was supposed to be impregnable, but wasn't, will be changed, here and
there. There will be Investigations and the usual reports. Soon the
tragedy will be forgotten-that is, until another explosion occurs.
That isn't a good way to deal with the matter. We should try to 60
much deeper, and, if possible, ascertain why this shocking affair
occurred.
Father Flanagan of Boystown assures us there are no bad boys"
Tie IS confident that given the right environment, training, opportunity,
boys will develop into decent adults and become the defenders. not
the enemies, Of society.
Perhaps Father Flanagan is not altogether right PERHAPS some
boys are born with twisted mentalites, but few of u.s. who have had
ment that-with the possible exception noted-there are no bad boys"
qualities which would enable them to do tn. job, were to make a pain
in the revolt at Alcatraz, what a mass of material would be uncovered!
mothers breasts There wasn't anything criminal about them Their.
When and were, and how did they get off the track? Were they en-
trely responsible, n was society partially to blame?
The investigators might get surprising answers to those questions
answers which would perhaps shock and shame those of US who are
so eminenuy respectable that we never spent a day in jail.
4
And, then, there is the question of the way Alcatraz has been run
When you take hope out of the heart of a human being, he is apt to
act like a beast. To a outsider it would seem that even the most hard
cned of criminals should be given a chance to make his peace viii
society. If the proper authorities agree he is not worthy of a further
chance, then his earthly career should be brought O a close. Death, or
at least a ray of hope!
The Battle of Alcatraz" has ended. Can w e afford to stop there?
- Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

will be new taste treats" for the
American people.
Some of them bear such names
as "cherimoya, o a, carissa,
cattlee, pomegranates, lemon
guavas, loquats, limequats and
kumquats."
If you ask for most of these now,
however, your grocer may look at
you rather strangely.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

All three are seemingly fully con-
scious Of what an atomic war could
do to mankind and our planet. Yet
all three are readying for war.
And the street cleaners have
scarcely swept the VI Day confetti
off the Main Street.-The Cooper
atiVe Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

The army released $40, 900, 900
worth of surplus clothing and tex
tiles for sale to the public. In
cluded are 10000 trousers, 275, 900
pairs of shoes, nearly a million
wool socks, $1,000 sweaters and
5000, 900 yards of wool and cot
ton cloth.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

The Washington Post" arguing
that teachers in the Nations Capt.
tai are miserably paid, makes this
point:
II a young man has a college
degree, has gone through normal
school and can stand up under
other tests, he may get a job as
school teacher at $1,000 a year.
II he doesn't like school teach
ing, he may have a job as police
man or fireman and the District
government will start him off at
S2,386.00 per annum.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
BANK PROFITS SET A
NEW RECORD IN 1915
Rose to S911, 600, 900; More Than
Billion Received in Interest
On L. S. Bonds

met profits of banks reached a
new high in 1945," the Federal De-
post Insurance Corporation report
ed recently.
Their SOL, 600, 900 profits after
taxes we're 81 per cent above the
previous year"
The report also shows that Uncle
Sam paid the banks 81, 1884, 600, 900
interest on their $81, 600, O00, 900
holdings of government bonds and
notes, at an average interest rate
of 1877 per cent.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22
GOING up.

Many a union has continued to
grow since the end of the war,
despite heavy layoffs following
VI Day. Latest example is the
Transfers. President Daniel j.
Tobin revealed that membership
in his organization has hit an all
time peak of 1850.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

But we r experimenting so the
rocket a be aimed directly on
enemy cities. And some 80 miles
away is the testing ground for
new and better atom bombs.
When these weapons are suffi-
GENTLY developed ten idea is to put
them together in M package so VIC
can blow things up in any part OF
the world at a moments notice.
1t is a brilliant idea, but the
monkey may be interested to know
that plans are already being made
to abandon our cities when the pay
off comes. The War Department is
investigating accommodations al
Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad
Caverns.
find it significant that the mon
keys made their escape on the very
day that President Truman came
to New York City to accept an hon
orary degree from Fordham Uni
Versity.
In his speech, the President Of
Tered as the solution for our trou-
bles the Sermon on the Mount.
which says that the meek shall in
herit the earth.
He must have meant the mon
keys; he couldn't have been refer
ring to the human race. - From
The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

Apologies only account for that
which they do not alter.-Disraeli
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

Elaborate precautions were taken
in launching the rocket, and the
proving ground in New Mexico
was considered too small for COM
fort because it was only 1875 miles
long by Al miles wide.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-22

Take Hope Out of the Heart of a Human Being and He Is
Apt to Act Like a Beast
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12

Three Wilmington students at
Queens college in Charlotte
have been pledged as new
members by national sorori-
ties accoring to word received
here yesterday. Thtey are Miss
Katherine Marlowe by Alpha
Delta ri, and Miss Elizabeth
Evans and Miss Bettina Mar
able, both of whom were
pledged by Alpha Gamma
Delta.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12
SWEENEY FUNERAL.
RITES SET TODAY.
World War | Veteran
Found Dead In Bed Sum
day Morning

The flag at the Wilmington lsn'
Infantry armory is at h~f mast
in of Hugh J. Swee-
ney, 40, a veteran OF "or1o
War l and an active member OF
the Reserve Corps OF the Whining
ton Light Infantry, who died as
> result of a heart attack in his
sleep some time Saturday night
in his apartment. 15-1-2 North
Fifth avenue.
Comrades of ''Dawg" Sweeney,
as he was affectionately known
by hundreds of citizens, became
concerned over his absence from
the VIII Sunday morning. They
called at his apartment, which IS
located back of the WILL armory,
and found him dead in bed.
Acting coroner E. L. Strickland
Monday reported that he had IN
vestigated Sweeney's death, and
had come to the conclusion that
he had died in his sleep around
midnight Saturday. Comrades said
they we're alarmed over Swee-
ney's failure to show up at the
armory, as he had every Sunday
morning for years. They added
that thew had climbed in the WIN
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12
RESTAURANT GROUP
TO NAME OFFICERS
AT MEETING FRIDAY

Election of permanent officers
of a Wilmington N Hanover
restaurant association is expected
Friday when local restaurant pro-
-rietors assemble in the Woodrow
wilson hut at 3 o'clock to complete
heir groups formal organization.
Representatives of the county's
l31 eating places have been invited
to the meeting, according to E. W.
Stacy, chairman of the groups Or
ganizating committee.
A board of directors will be
elected and committee chairmen
appointed next Friday.
Members of the temporary steer
ing committee which is directing
organization include: Miss Anna
Koutroulias, Chris Rongates, R. S..
Horrell, William J. Blackwell. and
Stacy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12
HERRING TO TALK
AT DUKE MEETING
Vice President To Address
Alumni Session Here
Friday Night

DR.. Robert J. Herring, dean
Of Trinity college and vice presi-
dent of Duke university, will
be the chief speaker at the annual
tall meeting Of the Duke alumni
Association OF Perder, New Han
over and Onslow counties at the
St. Johns Tavern at 7:15 o'clock
Friday evening.
Miss Elizabeth Clarke, secretary
of the group, has charge of ar
engagements.
Otter officers of the association
are: Miss Dorothy Forbes, presi-
dent; the Rev. Edgar B. Fisher,
first vice PRESIDENT; DR.. S. E
Koonce, second vice president;
Tom Davis, treasurer; Mrs Arch
Carr, historian, Mrs. Louis Fon-
Veille, alumnae representative
Herbert Slack, alumni representa-
tive and Mrs. Doris Hancock Moss
chairman of nominations COM
mittee.
Alumni moving into one of the
three counties recently are urged
by the association to contact the
president, Miss Forbes at telephone
number 1888 Cor reservations be-
fore Nov. IS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12
CHANG PUTS OFF
ASSEMBLY CALL
Opening Session Date Set
Forward To November
IS After Conferences

NANKING, Nov. II - up ~
Caina's ~off-delayed National assem-
bly,, which is to lay the frame
work for a coalition government,
was postponed again Monday on the
eve of its convocstion as the Chin
csc Communists steadfastly refused
to participate under present condi-
tons.
The governments decision for a
further delay until Nov. IS was
reached after daylong conferences.
A government spokesman said it
met the request of minority parties
for more time in which to submit
the lists of their delegates.
Spokesman for the Communists
and other parties, however. feiter-
ated their determination not to
participate until the assembly was
convened through all parties.
Communist leaders took the posi-
ton that a formal c%onvocation OF
the assembly now would signalize
the end of peace negotiations. They
have insisted that a prior condition
must be a return 10 the military
status quota of last Jan. Is.
While this is unacceptable to the
government, it was generally
agreed that the government would
make some sort of offer in order to
avoid holding a one-party consti-
tutional convention without partic-
ipation of the Communists or
other minorities.
Communist spokesman Wang
Ping-nan said the governments
cease fire order, effective at moor
Monday. already had cen violat-
ed by the grouping of nationalist
forces along the Shensi border re-
gion for a possible assault on Yen
an, Communist headquarters.
Government warplanes demon
strated over Yenan and the border
region Sunday, Wang charged,
while ground forces moved into po-
sitions from which they could jump
off for an attack on Yenan.
The committee Of three, repre-
senting the government, the Com
munists and the United States, dis
cussed the cease-fire order without
result, Wang said. Communist
troops were ignoring the order, he
added, because Of past exper-
fences.
Another Communist spokesman,
Mei-yi, told a press conference
strong government columns under
Gen. HUI Chung-nan were converg-
ing on the Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia
border region and "our fate will
be decided in II hours" Yenan is
in Shensi province.
Government authorities claim
ed a victorious end to their cam
paign of nearly two and a halt
months to recapture the northern
section of the Peiping-Hankow rail-
road. They said the final operation,
clearing the Communists from be-
tween Paoting and Shihchia chuang.
was completed Sunday night, bare
ly IL hours before the governments
c%ease-fire deadline.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12
Your GIRights
Questions and Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems
BY JOSEPH M. STACK
Former Commander . in = Chief,
Veterans of Foreign Wars

~ Va
One of the major decisions
facing the veterans of World War
II is whether or not to exercise
his home-loan-guarantee right
during these times when real estate
and housing initiation has debated
the dollar value of his loan privi-
lege.
General Omar Bradley, Veterans
administrator. has advised veter-
ans against buying in the present
market. He asks that they wait
for at least two years.
The V. F. W ; been forced
into advising against the purchase
of houses produced in whatever
quantity and low. on quality.
We fear that long before the
house is paid for the real vale
of it will have shrunk. We fear
also that Dy the time the mort
cages and loans are repaid, too
many of the present-day jerry
built houses will be crumbling,
deserted wrecks.
From a national economic stand
point. we feel that the country
will spiral downward into a low
economic pitch if the millions of
veterans and other citizens who
need homes nov are forced to
default on high mortgages and
loans against low valued homes
in the future.
The better solution would seem
to be the construction of more
rental units, both temporary and
permanent. Every effort under
taken so far by the Army, by the
Census bureau, by thew. W., and
by others, indicates that a rela-
lively small percentage Of veterans
feel they can afford a home or
want to buy a new one.
1t is particularly unfortunate
that adequate, decent housing is
not available and will not be avail
able for some time for all those
whose wartime dreams were of
their "own home. The human
side of the national housing emer.
gency is tragic.
Unless the housing emergency is
met and conquered by the nation
as a whole, what is the veterans
loss today will be the entire ma
tons loss tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12
MEETINNG

The Negro division of the New
Hanover County Seal Sale cam
paign will meet at 7:30 o'clock
this evening at the Presbyterian
Hospitality center, H. Carl Moul-
trie, its chairman, has announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12

dow to gain entrance to the apart
ment.
He was storemanager for the
Hyman Supply company, with
which concern he had been as
ISOLATED for the past quarter OF a
century. He was active in WILL
affairs for many years, having
been a charter member OF the
WILL Beach club at Wrightsville
Beach.
He served overseas during
World War l as a member OF
Battery A. 54th Coast Artillery
Regiment.
He was a son of the late John
H. Sweeney, Sr., former superin-
tendent of the city waterworks
pumping station, and the late Mary
McGovern Sweeney. He is also sur
vived BY two brothers, John H.
(Jack) Sweeney, Jr., and Frank c..
Sweeney; n sister, Miss Eliza
beth Sweeney; and an aunt, Miss
Mary Sweeney, all of Wilmington.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed this morning at i" o'clock
by the Rev. Michael O'Keefe from
St. Mary's Catholic church, when
requiem mass will be chanted.
Interment will follow in Oakdale
cemetery.
The active pallbearers will be
Furman Galloway, Martin Flana-
gan, Joseph Brinkley, Charles Ber-
gen, James Crutn and c. R..
Morse.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12
RESORT SELECTED
AS PAGEANT site
Chamber OF Com.
merce Beauty Contest
Set For Wrightsville

The first renewal of the North
Carolina Junior Chamber Of Com
merce Beauty contest will be held
at Wrightsville Beach sometimes
next August, Jesse Sellers, presi-
dent of the Wilmington junior
chamber, announced yesterday.
Wrightsville was chosen as the
1947 pageant site at a meeting of
state junior chamber representa-
tives at Asheville last weekend,
Sellers said.
The Wilmington J.. C.'s whose
sponsorship of a city beauty con-
test began last year, will conduct
their parade of local beauties early
next July, Sellers said.
l. The state junior chamber meet
ing in Asheville was attended by
Hal Love, Robert Howard. Edward
Gilmore. Aubrey Thompson, and
Sellers as representatives of the
local club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12

Sameul B. Keilholtz of Delaware,
Ohio. -Four grandchildren also
survive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12

MRS. LILLIAN G.. LEONARD

LAKE WACCAMAW, Nov. II -
Mrs Lillian Gertrude Leonard, "a,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. E. E. Ulrich, here Saturday
at 8 o'clock after a long illness.
Final rites will be held Tuesday
at 4 p. m. from the First Baptist
church here, and interment viii
follow in the church cemetery.
A native of New York. Mrs.
Leonard was the widow of the late
Rev. Friedrich Leonard of Lilion,
N. Y. In addition to her daughter.
she is survived by a step-son,
Russell j. Leonard Of Washington,
D. c., and a step-daughter, Mrs
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-12

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