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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
RUTHLESS"
is THE WORD
Hill Achieved Success
BY Making People Angry

"Ruthless!" That is an accurate
one-Word description of 62-year-old
George Washington Hill, president
Of the American Tobacco company,
who died the other day at a fishing
camp in Canada.
The papers all describe him as a
successful business man" There's
no doubt about that, but it is not
very ~flattering to business men.
He was n of the first to draw
down an annual salary of $1,000,-
600. For more than a decade he
had a running fight with minority
stockholders who objected that his
salary and bonuses were shocking
ly large.
On one occasion a New York
court directed Hill and his directors
to return $4,000, 900 which they
were charged with taking illegally.
Hill treated his workers and even
his customers with the same con-
tempt he showed his stockholders.
Until recent years he successfully
resisted efforts to organize his en-
ployes, whose wages were motor
iously low.
Farmers have e a e d | y
charged, in lawsuits and otherwise,
that he rugged" the market against
them to keep down the price of to-
bacco.
Proclaimed to be an "adVertising
genius" Hill is said to have spent
more than $500, 900 900 in 20 years
in ballyhooing Lucky Strike" Gig
arettes. H S methods, especially
those employed in radio, violated
good taste and were a source of
irritation to listeners. He went on
the theory that people would re-
member slogans that made them
mad.
In advertising circles he was re-
garded as the prototype of Evan
Evans" the unlovely and offensive
central character in Frederick
Wakeman's best seller, THE Huck-
%sters," a devastating expose of pro-
feSsional advertising mems role in
radio 49,. -
Hill is said to have discussed
with his lawyers a libel suit against
Wakeman, but evidently was
talked out of the idea.
Some weeks ago a Federal judge
at New York fined Hills company
$347,000 for charging Uncle Sam
more than ceiling prices for Gig
arettes for our fighting men.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
THIS, TOO, is AMERICA
BY LOREN NORMAN

A gang of white lynchers at
Minden, La, cut off the arms of
John c.. Jones, % year old Negro
war veteran, burned his face with
a blow torch and beat him to death
with a whip. They left for dead
another Negro, Albert Harris, IT
who was beaten with whips and
knocked unconscious with a gun.
The Negro had been arrested for
allegedly going into the yard of a
white woman to try to rape her.
That was July 81. The National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People turned over to
the FBI the names of Is of the
lynchers, including three deputy
sheriffs. To date nothing has been
done about il.
Now consider this. Three white
hoodlums in Collins, Miss, were let
off with $40 fines after they plead
ed guilty to attempt to rape two
girls at the point of a gun.
The girls were coIored.
Racine Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
Potino Gets q WAGE Boost

1t was just a little item, but it told an important story. It said that
Reconstruction Finance Corporation had signed a contractw with Bolivian
I'm me by which this country undertook to pay 6213 cents a pound
o all n TIN they could produce in 1946. We would pay the cost of
carrying the tin to this country and we'd boost the price from l to 8
cents II the BoHvians succeeded in producink 5000 tons.
Now here are some of the things the little item didn't explain: Tin
IS controlled by al international trust, n cartel. British and Dutch
fnanclers are in control. They can produce in the East Indies at such
a low figure that they could III the Bolivians out of the world market
instead, they decided to take them in and make them Junior partners
in the tin cartel. ~
In 1889, Bolivian tin was selling for SOL cents a pound fob. New
York. That menas the Bolivians not only mined the ore, but paid the
cost OF shipping it to this country. Now W. ri boosting their price
70 per cent me also taking care of the freight.
The announcement talks of Bolivian tin miners" AS a mater of
fact, Bolivian tin is controlled by a gentleman named Patino, well
known as the Bolivian Tin King" He and his pals recently put over
a revolution in Bolivia, and now our government is enabling him to
recover whatever he expended on that occasion by fixing an exorbitant
price for tin.
Congress has conducted a good many Investigations, but it would
be very interesting if a congressional committee went into this matter
and located those who actually put through this questionable deal
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02

Contrary to a popular notion,
black markets in scarce commodi-
ties + not operated by criminals
of the Al Capone type, but by sup
posedly reputable manufacturers
and business men.
This is pointed out by the Office
of Price Administration, and it
gave emphasis to the statement by
disclosing that Department of JUS
tice agents are investigating more
than 800 corporations and individ-
uals who have diverted millions of
yards of textiles into illegal chan
nels.
The Investigation is headed up
before a special Federal grand jury
in New York, which has already
handed down a number of indict-
ments.
Six corporations have been con-
victed of black market operations,
as well as tax frauds. The two
crimes go hand in hand, the state
ment declared.
A Department of Justice official
revealed that materials which have
been kept out of legal marketing
channels range from the raw state
to finished goods, including shirts,
pajamas and women's dresses.
This illegal market has contri-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
Profits Diverted To FOREIGN Lands

American money is being invested in foreign fields at a rapid
rate, a fact that might mean grief if the flag follows the dollar, as it
has in the past. Investment of over So 1000, 600 have been made in
Australia by Is American firms. American money is helping exploit
South Afrcas gold fields General Tire and Rubber plants to build
planning investments in the British Empire alone, this furnishing an
economic tie which will make it harder for the U. S. to follow an
independent foreign poicy-United Mine Workers Journal.
When the schemes of all the systems, kingdoms and republics fall
Something kindler, higher, holier-all for one and one for all.
All diseases quenched by science, no man halt or deaf or blind;
Stronger ever born of weaker luStier body larger mind.
Earth at last a warless world, a single race, a single tongue
1t have seen it far away-for is not Earth as vet so young?
ROBBED in universal harvest up to either pole she smiles.
Universal ocean softly washing all the warless isles.
Alfred TennysOn.
Families with less than S., 900 a year incomes, comprising
IS per cent of our total population, have less than 7 per cent of
the nations savings.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
|Legitimute" Business Held
Backbone of Black Market

buted materially to the present
shortage OF some types of clothing"
he added.
In addition to diversion, Federal
agents are also running down clues
that manufacturers have engaged
in widespread frauds in connection
with priorities.
Manufacturers who have OBJ
tanned goods by representing they
would be used to manufacture low
price garments are declared to have
used them for other and more
profitable items.
Crooked manufacturers have
adopted elaborate precautions to
avoid detection, and in virtually
every case so far investigated they
r shown to have "ducked" their
income taxes, the Department of
Justice said.
OPA officials said that a syste-
matte drive on the meat black mar
ket is expected to reveal that the
principal culprits r packers and
wholesale and jobbing houses.
Without the cooperation and con-
nivance of so-called legitimate bus
ines, they declared, the black mar
ket evil would be relatively msig-
nificant.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
KILL "COLDEN GOOSE"
Greed of Realtors May
Be Hating Building Boom

1t may be that greedy landlords
and unscrupulous realtors h a e
killed the goose that lays the
golden egg"
The suggestion comes from the
reliable and conservative Wall
Street Journal" which reports that
real estate prices are declining in
many cities and that owners are
hurrying to sell before the bottom
drops out.
Philadelphia, which has an acute
housing problem, is cited as an
example of what is happening
quite generally throughout tn e
country. Recently property has
changed hands in that city at prices
from 10 to Is per cent below those
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
50 BILLIONS

Some Is million students are
enrolled in schools and colleges,
in what is said to be the greatest
educational boom the country has
I'VE known.
This has created a 81 billion
market for supplies-books, buses,
furniture and numerous other art
icles - the Department of Com
merce reveals.
Back in 1912 the market was
worth about So billion, but since
then both pupils and prices have
increased considerably, the De-
partment said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
KEEP COOL

Parents are warned by the
American Journal of Public
Health to keep cool and not be-
come pa~nic-stricken over the "po-
lilo" epidemic. 1t points out that 80
per cent of children recover with
out any Gripping effect. Many
children get such mild attacks the
disease isn't even recognized.
Adults, it says, are rarely stricken
because great numbers are immun-
lied by mild attacks in childhood.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
JOB BACKLOG

A public works program esti-
mated at S4, 1856, 900, 900 has been
charted by states, cities, and coun-
ties and is on the shelf, ready to
start when jobs are needed, it is
disclosed by the Federal Works
Agency. All the projects are to be
financed without Federal funds.
Other billions are added to the
work backlog by whole or par
TALLY federal-built highways, riv-
ers and harbors, flood control prof.
ects, postoffices and buildings and
veterans hospitals,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02

production and keep goods from
the market, in order to raise prices
still further.
. They have used it to expand
their political control, to make
Congress wreck price control and
block social legislation; and to
press for an aggressive foreign pol
icy to corner world. markets.
And through their control of
press and radio, they have tried to
dodge the blame for Initiation; to
breed domestic and international
ill-will and division; and to hide
from the people the real facts of
the smaSh-up toward which they
are heading us.
What are some signs of the COM
ing smash?
While prices and profits continue
to soar, the real wages of Ameri-
can factory workers have been cut
Is per cent in little over a year.
Initiation has also cut the savings
and purchasing power of the peo-
pie generally. A few wealthy fam
lilies have most of the country's
savings, while most of the people
have little nor than a bare living.
Goods have been withheld from
sale, or priced too high to sell, to
a point where manufacturing in
VentorieS have risen to nearly S18
billion-Which means $500 worth
of goods in stock for each Ameri-
can family of four.
So stocks have crashed, as Wall
Street gets jittery about insuffic-
lent mass purchasing power to buy
goods at present prices, and at the
prospects of a real smash when the
domestic market collapses.
This smash will bring depression.
unemployment n lower living
standards to the American people.
1t will also spur big-business de-
mands for a belligerent foreign pol
icy to recoup domestic losses
abroad, or through the still great
er smaSh-up of another war.
1t is therefore of the first i'm
portance to I'll people to check
and reverse the present trends, be-
fore they reach the smash-up stage.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02
THE SIGNS OF DANGER AHEAD
BY Leon De Cuux

AS the Swede said when he saw
two trains in a head-on collision:
That bane hell of a way to run
a railroad" ..,,...
=. Anyone who knows the signals
can see we're heading for a smash
up on the U. S. Railroad.
But let's get wise to the way the
Wall Street monopolists are run
ming our economy-and do some
thing about it-before the crash
occurs.
The trend toward greater mon
opoly has long marked the Ameri-
can economy.
In its early stages, the growth
of big business made a contribu-
ton to industrial efficiency, mass
production and lower prices.
But once effective monopoly is
established, lower prices are no
longer necessary to Stifle com
petition. The monopolist then tends
to restrict production for the pur-
pose of raising prices and increas-
ing profits.
And as he sees limits to profit
making possibilities in his own
country, he looks abroad for new
worlds to conquer and exploit, thus
sowing the seeds of imperialiSt war.
In the United States, big-busi-
ness monopoly extended it's control
enormously during the war.
With eight financial groups con-
trolling 106 of the $50 largest cor
porationS, 81 per cent of all prime
war contracts went to the top SO
corporations.
The monopolists' power was
further swollen by huge war prof
its. Corporate profits jumped from
26 billion dollars in the six peace
time years of 1934-39 to 1T bill
lions in the six war years of 1910
As.
The monopoly trend has in
creased since the war, through a
sharp increase in corporate merg-
ers and acquisition of small firms
by larger ones.
Today 43 billion-dollar corpora
tionS directly monopolize one
fourth of the country's corporate
assets.
How have the big business mon
opolists used their increased power
since the war?
They have used it to squeeze
ever higher profits out of labor
and the public.
They have used it to cut wages
first resisting union demands for
restoration of take-home pay, then
raising prices out of all proportion
to small increases in labor costs.
They have used it to restrict
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-02

Be friendly with the folks you
know. If it weren't for them, you'd
be a total stranger.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Capitol. Drug Store
lst and N. caroIina Ave. Sc.
Is a Star Want.Ad
Branch Agency
Other Branches conveniently
locoted throughout the city
for the acceptance of CIossi-
fled Advertising.
SPECIAL NOTICES.

/ WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for any
debts, , contracted by & any % one ., but ut myself
TAX CENTER, 1907 II ST. NV, RE. 1884.
Income tax returns prepared by experts.
eoE TaA also kEuRSs aa as spn RE- aSs
time by appointment. Why wait? 80
years sxpsrienGs; & spaT, reasopabls Dp 4544 .nv
WILL not BE toF 9or any by
%ysslt: Nv william N. BOWERS. sds sddss55
HEREAFTER will be responsible only for
such debts "a as may nay be idb incurred by myself.
", N. BERKLEY. r. F. D. 2, Rockville,
INCOME TAX RETURNS prepared by ap-
Eointment at your home or office. WA.
Want 70 BUY owner-occupied house un-
Der H . $1,000, IL @ in 10 Maryland. LIT. ccMpR.
4. AFA II. GokDsTFIN. COLL Attorney, sa5,sas
Bond Building g:--Notice is hereby given,
that the partnership heretofore existing
between the undersigned, Harry M. Horton
and Arthur r. Myers, carrying on business
orie6laying aad maS9nrg
under the firm style and name. of Horton
4 Myers, was. on the Sth day OF February, arr
business in the future will be carried on by
Harry M. Horton, alone, who will pay and
discharge all debts and liabilities, and re-
and and pay S able ' to the late partnership Of
AfRTHTF fII6NT r IpY[yEE MYERS avn ESTATE r.x re-
iNCOML, IhCSIs AMI EolalE 1h<h te-
turns prepared; 20 years experience; home
THE ARNOLD RAMBLERs, 5-piece hill
billy music, are open this Friday, Saturday
before Friday evening, HO. 2749, or Elk.
0962, and ask for DONALD STEEN or
REDUCINGs Medark rowing machine
for sale: wonderful for gymnasium.
i WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for any
debts made unless contracted by myself.
JOSEPH E. MARSTELLER. 170S N. Kirk
wood rd., Arlington, Va. 22'
Evening star., 1946-02-20
HELP MEN G. WoMEN
ROOKKEEPER. radio station: knoWIeda

B0OKkEEPER, radio station; knowledge q
Remington Rand billing machine preferred
Excel. salary, pleasant atmosphere, 40-hr
wk: Apply MRS. MoBBERLEY.. 1000 Conn
CAsHIER.capable of handling payroll
airy; ST $50; So, $50. depending upon sx.
perience and ability. Give qualification:
and references. Box S5-L. Star -24
COUPLE, to live in: wife good cook and
houseworker, husband employed else
where; references and health card. Call
DiIsHWAsHER II, IN los: small rsstagranI; goos
JANfToR AND MAID for full-time. steady
JOB; living quarters. day of a wk., good
salary: must have best references. Call
MAN AND WIFE. white, about 80 years
old, who want home with small fam
ily,, no children, to assist with houseworE
and grounds: comfortable quarters, sepa-
rate from house. in country 10 miles from
WASHINGTON. State experience, salary de-
sired, references. religion and address
WILL PAY $500 A MONTH and commission
for educational salesperson who can pro-
duce. Part-time work considered Please
give, phone where you can be reached
Write If You mean business. Box 415-J
Star. -23
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Poundmoster Plans Drive
Against UnIeushed Docs

Poundmaster Frank Marks toda,
will open a drive to force compliance
with District dog leashing regula.
tions.
Mr.. Marks said he was tired of see.
ing dogs running unleashed in the
streets to become traffic victims ol
be picked up by the dog catchers
He said he will try to take owners
OF such dogs into court where they
will face a maximum penalty Of
S25 fine.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
How Edwards Helps
constipated Folks!

For years DR.. Edwards relieved
patients bothered by constipation
with his famous DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets-now sold by all drugstores.
Olive Tablets are mild, gentle but oh
so thorough Olive Tablets act on
BOTH upper and lower bowels to pro
duce more ndturaI-tike movements.
No gripping. Just complete satisfsctson.
Caution: use as directed. l5t. 30t. 60&
Evening star., 1946-02-20
ADVERTISEMENT.
WaY to Relieve
Itchy PiInples

When your skin is irritated with
pimples, red blotches and other skin
blemishes, and you're crazy with itch
ing torture, here's quick relief. Get a
$50 box of Peterson's Ointment at
your druggist and apply this delight
full soothing balm. Itching relieved
promptly. Smarting soothed. Your
skin looks better. feels better. Also
wonderful for itching of feet. cracks
between toes. Try it.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
HELP MEN.

PROMINENT REAL ESTATE FIRM will
consider employing . man who has had
experience in selling business properties
GOOD OPPORTUNITY for veteran, per-
manent position. old-line patent firm.
| Some experience preferred amending speci-
| f1cations or patent searching. but not re-
ouired; electrical or CHEMICAL engineering
NATIONALLY KNOWN company has
openings for men who are looking for q
future; excellent opportunity for advance
ment For appointment call Ma. 7716.
Evening star., 1946-02-20

MEN. experienced, retail store, out. of town
METRoPoLITAN NEWS Agency, SO;
ih + 6iERk Phone snd E1 eass sss5 need 2
with good steady background. exper. no
es sse 50 50 to oz59 e. 1905 good SALARY days
Weekdays wee @ for or appoiptent poa tpUm pm to ? m
NIGHT FOREMAN, duplicating plant; goot
pay & ana opportunity for dependable, sober
duplicating and mailing functions. capa
bility of supervising others required Writ,
anIFslifeatSnaS nFEiGa in detail Boy sI5-M Star
oreanization we are looking '''a" Tor man It t
ator in our fuel oil dept Man selecte
pendable. Conscientious and interested i
learning very important part of our work
ds+i sGu {,1v Gan quality snd are sincere, writ
OFFICE MANAGER for oid-established me
chanlcal and sales organization:. must b
a. competent bookkeeper and know a
real opportunity for the, right man; salar
commensurate with ability. Answer in ow
cLERTcah Ell AN WoRk s5ia full or "a,
time; experience not necessary; trainin
pa paid ID, for; Is to A years of age; learn I
Week si65 oer wprk month aa 'me for dass asshos
week; we need full-time workers; how
ever for part time We. need men abb
am. and 7:3o am am. and dh then VeeMseH work sew
eral hours. or those able to report for wor
, between 2 pm. and pm and work
least 3 hours at time. Apply in persoi
weekday mornings between 9 am and l
noon. CAPITAL TRANSIT CO., employ
ment ofice, 1892 M St. NV, Georgetown
Route No. 90, Cabin John streetcar. I
Route No. 80, Friendship Heights streetca
PACKERS for lamps and small breakab
articles, experience, preferred but not nece.
sary Apply employment office. 4th ioo
pAINTERS. 1st-class mechanics; good pa
Apply 209 Indiana ave. NV. go
F, PAPER HANGER, combination man .pr,
ferred; top wages for right man: 1st-cla.
e mechanic only wanted DU 345S
PATENT SEARCHER, experienced. nice,
work. Replies confidential. Box 122-.
i. PERMANENT POSITION for electric
engineer. must be familiar with electric
construction. For appointment call W.
PHARNIACIST, part time. 6 to 10 M, an
Sundays. Apply STANDARD DRUG &C
4 PHARMACisT, experienced. capable m ms
interested in professional, modern rets
pharmacy; good opportunities. HIGGER
DRUGS, 501z Conn. ave. %:
PHARMACISTS. regtstered: excellent 50
airy, 6-day week, splendid working cond
p. tions, vacation with pay. permanent p
sition with advancement opportunitis
} Apply to Mr.. Aldrich. employment ofne
PEOPLES DRUG STORES, "a st. ne.
Evening star., 1946-02-20
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. C. la,DS, coupres must
apply for q marriage license on
one day, iUait three tuu days and
receiUe the license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
Evening star., 1946-02-20

pay. aEoRdE's REsTxURIAST. ANT iasa ias 81. y.
s soPA SogSTAN GIRL sAs. .sgsEisss.s
PHHlAARMA PHARMACY. 3433 Benninr I'd. ne. Ii.
SODA FOUNTAIN GIRLS. eolored. expert
enced; S22 week to start, meals and uni
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ssS .hs snss sasy Sa1tss g::k 7se ss5, ss
SOLICITOR, %. 8 to o'I i daily, no SATURDAY:
pleasant, dignified: H starting salary s22.
STATISTICAL CLERKS. prefer retail stor.
sonnei once: End fOor. 'f1sI The HzcHsF ass G..
sTENoSEGPPHEE for turn.tur. Isa store,
pleasant working conditions, permanent
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vance. Apply MIR ALExANDER. i lO1
Vssmont N ave. p.w" Room 706. Cali MA.
sTEN6GKHPHER Position in the ss-
counts payable department.: b-dsy week,
moor. THE HEGHT CO.. + st. at 7th. ~
STENOGRAPHER-Im openings for
ss Z 5ANggkz
q BRO. 7th: Sth and sts. NV. -23
manent employment, with an opportunity
nent rsa rssidsns q wsshinstson. ton we m.y have
Just the opening you have been looking
with high school education and nrefer,
ably with some college training, under 3b
years ol age; some one either
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S210 per mo: to start. depending upon your
your age, education, experience, and how
,!{nSs
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lroundings. 39-hour week, one-half day sat.
urday. a34 Earle Bldg, NE. 0160. --22
! Continued on Next Pagal
The Omaha guide., 1946-03-09

from the frying pan into the fire
as both men nave their draw
backs and you are not at all plea
sed with either. Now, if you want
a sparring partner to live with
for the rest Of your life, this
young fellow seems to be the an
swers ut, if you want peace and
a normal life, you had best con-
tinue your search.
c. CT have been married for
some time and 1 have tried and
tried to love my husband but it
seems like I never will 1 stay
at home all the time and Seems
like the children and him will run
me crazy. Tell me something to
do as can't stand this much
longer?
Ans: Yorr far fly will appre-
ciate you just as much if YOU
stop being a slave and take a
little time for personal pleasure
occasionally All work and 20
play makes fife dull, moncIon-
Gus and uninteresting. Your chill
dren are getting old enough to
help shoulder some of your res
ponsib'f,rr-give them definite