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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-06-06
skYRANGERs COMING

II, ok new Skyrangers will be de-
rrvered to the Columbia Aircraft
corporation management in Ken
t%swlck on June 26, according to a
Gseram just received. The planes
WI be assembled at the corpora
S1ons new assembly plant in Seat
We. Four of them will be used in
V We fast-expanding operations OF
,sta Field, and two will 60 to
local purchasers. =
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-06-06
Grape Fesfiual Plan
Meets Wide Support

Planned to outstrip the Pendeton Roundup and "the
.-onddaddy Of them alp, the Cheyenne Frontier Days.
Grape Festival is beginning take shape under
ne leadership of Clyde Anderson manager of the Benton
d Roxy theaters who has been designated chairman
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-06-06
ORCHIDS

This weeks boquet goes with
pleasure to Don Doyle, an espec-
Tally active Activian. Don has al
most singlehandedly organized a
N-team soft b all league that
threatens to become Kennewick's
most popular enterprise both from
view. - - :
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-06-06
May Open Naval Air
Hospitul to Civilians

Pasco Naval Air Stations $50 bed hospital may be
made available for civilian The recently organized
Columbia Basin Medical association has worked out plan
seeking to lease the hospital nominal figure in the
the county commissioners of Benton and FRANKLIN counties
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-06-06

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
A Thought For Today
Give Youth a Chance

Today as has been the since our nations birth America confronted with the threat of poisoning from within Subversive again using the American freedoms means to un-American ends The striking fact here that the majority of those involved in subversve activities American-born and Obviously, somewhere in the growth childhood manhood these people soured the ideals and creed of their country
 Why? One doesn't by nature bite the hand that feeds him. Medical science has invented prevent disease before disease start. That's The n- divdual adult join in similar approach to the prevention of un-Americanism.
 Take a leaf from The American Legion's book. The Legion has long followed theory of educating youth in the value and praccabity of good Amercanism. More than 100000 boys have learned to be just winners and just losers through participation in the Legion Junior Baseball leagues More than 8O000 high schooers have prepared and delivered addresses the United States Constitution the Legion national oratorcaI contests Another 100000 have learned and applied the principles of democratic ernment at Boys State programs held annually by the Legion
 The idea simple The youngster exposed to the ce of good citizenship while his mind in the questioning pongy stage develops enthusiasm for his privileges and duties citizen. This enthusiasm is against unAmercansm It is bulwark against the germ of rad casm those opponents the youth will encounter for the first time in college at work It is the light that will show him the evils behind the patriotic front of subverve groups
 Give the youth chance to look before he leaps. The community do this well The American Legion by sponsoring youth activities it's Parents, especially do this by introducing children in the home of the ing of Americanism UnAmercanism thrves ignorance and doubt It dies when meets confident intelligent faith in America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16

of mystery, majesty and ave- where thoughts were elevated.
 can remember my grandmother telling me as youngster how to her, as a small child, Stone Mountain stood out the compelling memory of the migration which took her family, in wagon train, from South Carolina to Alabama, of those move ments of people from worn-out cotton lands to more fertile acres. child would remember forever that
 It hurts to see pictures in the papers of that night scene on the top of the mountain, sheeted figures in the eerie fckering light of torches and burning crosses like something from the blood feasts of the drlidS.
 Perhaps, in every land in every time, there are some who would hide their own inadequacies, their lttleness of souls behind brown shirts or under sheets and do collectively mob the things they would not have the courage or the heart to do as individuals.
 Those people are, in some ways to be pitied.
 But not so those who use them as dupes, who exploit them for personal aggrandizement fnan- cial profit They can only be regarded with scorn by decent folks, and country is full of decent folks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
Not Form, But Substance

Victor Emmanuel III witnessed drastic changes in the institution of monarchy during his 46 years the throne of Italy He succeeded to the the days of fu figures like Victoria, Wilhelm, Franz Josef Nicholas, and of lesser royalty He departed in day when kings had ceased to be significant force in European hs tory And in his inep way he did much to bring the institution of monarchy to it's low estate.
 Now the prediction is that with him. the monarchy has departed from Italy, and that next months plebscite will show that the Italian people unwilling to Victor Emmanuels succeed him. But Italian voters choose
 republic the monarchy it will not necessarily follow that they are choosing democracy fascism.
 In almost every case the monarchies that passed from the during Victor Emmanues reign replaced by Relationships of another The monarchies which remain today offer the clearcut examples of democ racy in Europe
 What the weary confused factionrdden people of Italy must find government which represents the popular will and encourages unity prelude to reconstruction Wheh they find in spite of their bitter partisan feeling is question whose vital to their national existence and to considerable extent world peace. How they find it. through president parliament king, of secondary importance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
Views of the Press

they have refused is that under the State law they are entitled to begin
 collecting on Monday unemployment
 compensation benefits of $2O week for twenty weeks. For the law and
 regulations specifically provide that
 men can collect unemployment ben-
 efits after a five-week waiting pe-
 riod if they are still out of work as
 a result of an industrial dispute.
 The soft coal miners of the coun-
 try, by going on strike, had all but
 crippled the economic life of the country. They were bringing on an industrial tie-up far greater than
 our foreign enemies at the worst point of the war had been able to inflict on us. And under PennSyl- vania's unemployment compensation law their action in tying up the na- tion's industry until their demands are met. is actually subsidized by the taxpayers of the State. They are to be paid to continue on strike, indeed, at the taxpayers expense,
 for anything up to twenty weeks more.
 It was originally argued by those responsible for this type of fantas- tic provision that if unemployment compensation were not paid the men and their families would suffer hardship. But the men are not un- employed because they cannot get jobs. They had jobs which they abandned of their own volition. Those jobs were not low-paid. On the contrary, the soft coal miners, according to Government figures, were receiving in February an aver age of more than $57 a week, as compared with an average of less than $41 week for all manufactur- ing labor. By payin~ these men unemployment insurance for volun- tarily giving up such jobs the State of Pennsylvania has in effect ruled that work at $57 week is not real- ly Suitable employment"
 In view of the national disaster that a sufficiently prolonged strike in a vital industry can bring, there is now talk of illegalizing such strikes. This has been hitherto countered by the belief that such action would infringe 8 basic hu- man right. But what possible ex- cuse can there be for a deliberate governmental policy of encouraging strikes and subsidizing them at the expense of the general taxpayer? Yet that is precisely the policy we have been following in recent years, not only through provisions in State unemployment compensation measures but through provisions in the Snith-C Connally Act, in the Act, and in a score of other measures. By governmental policy we have helped to build up essen- tially private organizations to the point where they can cripple the entire American economy, and by governmental policy we even pay them to do it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
Questioning U. s. Civil Service

The Joint Congressional Committee Reduction of Non- essential Expenditures is heading investigation of the U. S. Civil Service Commission The commission has been topsyurvy for years owing to the wholesale the Roosevelt Administrations plus couple of wars round the world No will question the statement of Senator Byrd chairman of the Joint Committee that the present commission is honeycombed with inefcency and favori- tism-which that it is packed with political and other breeds of human beings who aren't within range of the so-caled theory of efficiency Evidently the task of re- ducon of nonessentia expenditures second place. the explained by the Virginia statesman to weed out the unnecessary and unqualified thousands chair who twddng their thumbs month after month at the expense of the taxpayers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
5 Years Hunger Ahead
By Peter Edson

in London last winter There was some feeling among the 42 TAO member countries that no action should be taken until the l947 crops were harvested But the world food crisis is now believed to be So acute that delaying action for year would be dis aStrons
 No effort will be made by TAO to deal with this years food shortages They are being left en- tirely to UNRRA and CFB The Food and Agri- to husband the stocks of food that will have to carry the world through next winter. From there, TAO will go to consider how the 1947 harvest may be increased in all countries.
 Finally, 1t will consider c tour-or-f -ftve-year food plan to take the world through the present crisis and work out a smooth shift to permanent world food policy. ss
 This last is tremendously important. Under pres ent food shortage conditions all food prices are ab normally high The desire of many countries to buy ahead to contract for 1047 purchases only tends to drive prices higher.
 High prices are q normal stimulus to increase production. But if at the end of fouror five-year period, most countries were back on more or less seh-sustaning basis the danger of over-production and resulting collapse in food price levels would be great It could well lead to worldwide financial depression
 survey of world food requirements, production and distribution. Then 1t can advise individual countries on action that can be taken to avoid disaster.
 The Food and Agriculture Organization itself may prove to be too unwiedly to take over the problems of world food alocations Consideration is being given however, to the idea of setting up commissions or corporations which might do the necessary Inter national trading in fertilizers farm machinery, feed and livestock, and human foodstuffs.
 Such corporations it is believed. could take over the jobs now done by CFB and U.NRRA and carry Proposals for such an organization may come 9tA of this months TAO meeting in Washington Gg leD l5- nation executtve council meeting in June
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16

The earliest relief may be ex- pected is in the harvest of 1947 crops.
 Studies by TAO food experts economists and statisticians who have been working on the problem indicate that Europe and North Africa will be third short on grains next year. It may be three or four years before seed and fertilizer are available in quantities adequate to supply feed for poultry and dairy and meat animals for normal food supplies,
 In the Far East, particularly China and India, 1t may take 10 years of concentrated effort to the threat of famine.
 Alarming as these appraisals are, they are lost sight of in the needs for the immediate present What family is going to eat next year or the year after that is of small concern it doesn't have enough found for today and tonOrrow.
 UNRRA and CFB- the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Combined Food Board-have been grappling with today's prob lems. But both these organizations will go out of business within year. Both agencies to deal with war emergencies There is little likelihood that their authority will be extended.
 In this situation, 1t is essential that somebody go to work on the long-range problem, and TAO is assuming that responsibility At It's forthcoming Wash- ingon meeting This action Is being taken at the re- quest Of the Unit1d Nations Assembly, which met
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
By Thomas Stokes

Upon these exploiters must rest the condenna- ton by all that is best in our national life and our democracy. l
 There was another meeting on Stone Mountain, back in 1915, when the Klan was revived after the long lapse from reconstruction days Little attention was paid to 1t at first It was incorporated as a fraternal insurance society strange man by the of William Joseph Simmons it's first found- er its first wizard. It went along for time with- member the signs posted here and there about Att lanta "1,OOl eyes are watching you" Most people kpew nothing about it.
 Then skllful promoter got hold of it. He organ ized 1t nationally with all those queer titles. and on
 financial basis so that the officials all and down the lne the kleagres and cyclops and kluds and So on got cut from the contributions of the suckers. It had financial motive. What was known as 'the sheet factory" at Buckhead, Atlanta suburb ran day and night turning out paraphernalia There was a rake-on on this, up and down the line
 In the reaction from World War l. 1t began to spread. It entered politics It took state after sate extending into the North and West The political scandals of the K1an are now dark chapter in OUT history Politicians bent the knee In 1924 it got into omous snake-intc the national Democratic con- vention to fight the nomination of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York who happened to be Catholic.
 It has been reported cropping up here and there, far away from the South, in this postwar period. m
 Those who lived through that other terrible era shudder. We can not go through that again. or any, thing like it, and hold up heads to ourselves the world. After all we have been through, VIC don't want any Hitlers in sheets throwing their weight around here.
 Stone Mountain is place for the children, 2 place to lift up the eyes in praise Of God. not bO plot the persecution of any of his creatures made in his own Mkeness-White Black. Yellow. Red, Jew, Gentle, Catholic, Protestant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
A Bad Notion

Despite the fact that the United States doesn't seem be getting along with of it's military partners President Truman another fghfu adventure by calling Congress to authorize complete military collaboration with the Western Hemisphere He would extend the scheme include Canada though that country part of the British Empire. ..,
 All of anxious to have the friendship and coop eron of Central and South America In view of the fact that have not had helpful cooperation from that in time of there to be why should take the chances of improving the methods for fighting Mexico at the north and Argentina the south Let's hope that this is just another gesture of our President -and let it go at that!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
EMAsCULAT1NG THE DRAFT
(The Hartford Courant)

Respect for the integrity and the courage of the Congress of the
 United States is not likely to be en-
 hanced by the sickly extension ot the Selective Service Act that em- erged from the months of debate yesterday with only hours to spare
 Of all the legislative hashes that our Representatives have served us
 recently, this is the least savory. The blame for the sorry mess that
 went into effect at midnight last
 night lies not upon the Senate, which made the best of distressing choice, but upon. the House, whose grandStand play for minimizing popular support rendered the mea- sure impotent.
 The bill to which the upper house reluctantly agreed yesterday in preference to letting the draft lapse entirely is admittedly a stopgap, and an emaSculated one at that. While extending the present Selec- tive Service Act until July l, in or- der to defer decision on all major problems involved, this monstrosity specifically excludes from the draft the two groups that necessarily pro- vide the bulk of the potential ser- vice men, the teen agers and fathers. It limits draft-eligible men to non-parentS between twenty and thirty years old, group already exhaustively combed without pro- ducing many physically fit speci- mems. In short, instead of stren- gthening the Selective Service sys- tenn as responsible military author ities have consistently urged, this measure terminates it in fact, if not in theory, for the next forty five days.
 Before that strange interlude is over, the entire question must be taken up again, as it should have been long before this. In this sorry the Senate at least can take some satisfaction in having preserved the much-needed draft and such other provisions of the or iginal act as veterans employment rights and the Presidents power to seize struck properties. The House can take credit only for virtually sabotaging the act and rendering statesmanlike action on the mea- sure impossible. It would be hard to devise a less constructive mea- sure than the one that has now become law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16

for any foreign country to operate radio transmtter in the United States Receiving sets can be used, but not sending
 when this problem was placed before President Roosevelt he decided to cut red tape-and the law by establishing Russian radio station right inside the War Department. Technically this was still illegal; but when located inside the Pentagon Build ing no one knew about the transmitter except the Army, and it was sworn to military secrecy. Therefore the Russians were given special sec tion of the Pentagon Building which they alone controlled Russian guards poced this section night and day. No American was allowed inside. A total of 70 Russian officers and men staffed this extra territorial area It was as small section of Amer ican soil were set asde subject to Soviet jurisdiction ! and law
 This arrangement has continued since the war up until this week. when the Russian radio transmit ter is supposed to close down
 Probably the President don't know too much about it, but Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret poked finger into the State Department the other day and tried to tell Secretary James Byrnes how They wanted special friend of theirs. Stanley Woodward, appointed Chief of Protocol
 The man who holds this job arbitrates where visiting Dgwigs Cabinet ladies and Supreme Court about the time Dolly Gam and Alice Longworth began wing with each other to which should pre- was not considered important, Jimmy Dmn the first protocol officer proved that it's close social connections could be of value when they eventually hoisted him to Assistant Secretary of State.
 Secretary Byrnes had planned to appoint efficient Allan Dawson Chief of Protocol replacing retiring George T. Summerlin In fact, Byrnes had even drafted message to Montevdeo, where Dawson is serving in the American Embassy telling him of his appointment. But suddenly he got call from the White House.
 Presidential Secretary Matt Connolly was on the phone, saying that President Truman wanted charm ing Stanley Woodward to be Chief of Protocol.
 Irked at being told who should get a relatively routine job Byrnes asked Connolly why the Presi- dent wanted Woodward Connolly finally confessed that Margaret and Mrs. Truman had taken fancy to him. As Assistant Chief of Protocol he had helped out on various White House dinners
 Now Byrnes is on the spot between commit ment he had already made and the ladies of the Truman family.
 A hot fight is brewing inside the National Retail Dry Goods Association, which has been spearhead- ing the Ell-OPA drive. Powerful members, including
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16
suBsIDIZl.JG STRIKES
ONew York Times)

What is happening in Pennsylva- mia today throws flood of light on our whole governmental labor policy in recent years. Even though John L. Lewis himself ordered a twelve-day strike truce, 10000 of the 98,00O miners in western and central Pennsylvania have. refused to return to work. And the reason
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16

meeting of the international Food and Agriculture Organization, con- vening in Washington on May 20. Food ministers of countries ex- pecting to have exportables food surpluses have been summoned to this urgency meeting by Sir John Boyd Orr, TAO director general.
 The prospect which faces this gathering Is dismal.
 The world food shortage will not be ended with the harvesting of this years crops.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16

There lot of politicians serving the Government in top posts receiving $1000O Congress putting the OK the continuance of those high salaries The House of Representatives recently voted give $4OO yearly pay increase each of 98O0O Government employees when bill introduced by Republican Congress- man from Illinois that provided for dropping 100000 Fed eral workers from the payroll That an crepeaed sug gestion Capitol Hill but it goes ly just the same old bluff
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-16

trySide, Ike an afterthOught Of creation to provide variety. It is g place to stand on a fine day and mediate upon the God of all of us in whose eyes we are his crea- lures, equal in his sight-White, Black, Yellow, Red, Jews, Gentle, Catholic, Protestant.
 It was a place where we used to go as children, with our moth- CTS and fathers, with the neigh bors. for a picnic. It was the na- tural wonder of our homeland, AL -~-3..- A..