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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
TRAFFIC. AND PARKING
PROBLEMS

Faced with the problem of hand
ling peak postwar traffic which ex-
perts say will be so to 100 per cent
greater than the all-time high in Al,
big cities and most of the sizeable
towns in the country are considering
plans Tor off-street terminal facili-
ties.
Keystone Automobile Club has
been looking into the situation and
in report made public says:
Washington may soon become
the guinea pig in far-reaching exper-
iments with public and privately
owned parking systems. Recently
Keystone's Washington Advisory
Board sponsored a meeting of the
city's businessmen and the Parking
Agency, a body set up by Congress
for the District of Columbia with
wide powers of purchase, construc-
ton and operation of parking facili-
Ties. From the meeting emerged the
very definite thought that private
capital will invest in parking facili-
ties if expert analyses of given stu
ations show the need for such facili-
ties, with assurance of reasonable
profit from their operation.
Detroit is ready to follow the ex-
ample of San Francisco with an UNI
foreground garage designed to accom-
modate up to 1000 vehicles. 1t was
authorized by vote of the citizens re-
Gently and it will be financed by rev
enue bonds which will be paid off in
| IS years from parking fees.
I'm st. Louis, TIE authorities have
| Tentatively approved a plan to con
struct two 1000-car garages in the
| downtown area, and Berkeley and
IRiverdale, California, are planning
off-street parking lots.
Not only big cities but towns OF
modest populations are feeling the
urge to do something about off-street
facilities. Rochester, Mimi, town OF
26,312, recently acquired large
parking area in the business distric!
at cost of $4,000. Dallas, Texas
is considering the lease or purchase
of land for parking. Kansas City
Mo-, has three downtown municipal
parking lots and three more soon tc
be opened.
Pennsylvania S third-class cities
are in a favorable position to tackle
the parking problem. The last ses-
sion of the Legislature passed bill
authorizing such cities to acquire
properly by condemnation for park
ing purposes, with full authority to
operate and regulate the facilities. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
A National Religion

A National Religion and Labor
Conference "to strengthen the bonds
between them and to develop plans
for mutual action" has been called
to meet in Detroit, Mich, February
25 and 26, by the National Religion
and Labor Foundation and by eight
cen national church and labor bodies.
The theme of the Conference is ere
ligion and labor: allies for freedom. :"
Considerations will be freedom
through interfaith action, race equal
ity, respect for minorities, full pro-
duction, full employment, peoples
purchasing power, access to facts, ac-
cess to atomic energy, abolition OF
war, and through worldwide demo-
crazy. The joint chairmen of the
Foundation are Prof. Liston Pope
and Joseph Schlossbegr; DR.. Willard
Uphaus of New Haven, Conn.,, is ex-
ecutive secretary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15

Launching a new adventure in
Christian education" Grace Metho-
dist Church, Jacksonville, Illinois,
has organized junior church which
meets at the same hour as the adult
worship service. The children are
trained specifically in the art and
meaning of worship. Hymns, prayers,
and responses are chosen to meet the
age group. In place of sermon,
sound moving pictures are shown
each Sunday morning, illustrating
Bible and missionary stories. A dis
cussion period follows the presenta-
ton of the film. The theme of the
junior church is Christian Educa-
ton Through Installation. Under
the leadership of the Rev. Frank
Marston. pastor, various persons are
selected each month to lead the SER
vice and direct the discussion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
ROAD CONSTRUCTION DELAYED

Evidently Congress will accept the
advice of it's Appropriation Commit
tee and clamp down on high-scale
road building operations this sum-
mer. One of the reasons for postpon-
ing the large program until 1947 is a
labor problem. There are many UNI
certainties, according to the Govern
ment's Public Roads Administration,
and when Chairman Macdonald was
before a Committee of the House of
Representatives he expressed the
opinion that large and effective
road building program would not be
practical at this time and suggested
waiting another year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
RUSSIA is VERY DISAGREEABLE

There must have been pretty
strong competition tkat led to re-
cent quarrel between the Russians
and British in the United Nations Or
ganization when British Foreign Sec
rotary Bevin said Russia's Mr.. VII
shinsky lied"
At the San Francisco Conference
the Russians maintained disagree
able attitude toward the United
States. But that fuss seemed TO have
blown over while the new one wa
getting under way in London. This
Russians and the British are engag-
ing in hot diplmoatic discussions. Ii
all has the same look as the perform.
ances in the early 1920's when thG
League of Nations was being formed
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
MUCH BUILDING ACTIVITY IN
OXFORD

Wheeler & Greir, Realtors, of Ok
ford, report the following sales of
building sites to people who intend
to erect homes thereon in the near
future: On Fifth St., near the Oxford
High School, four desirable lots on
which Gus Varans and Paul S.
Louisos, who are to operate the res
taurant in the new railways Ter
minal Building, will erect two attrac-
tive dwellings. Also, on the Wheeler
Boulevard, building lots to Sara
Kimble, John r. Schofield and Ches-
ter Beaver, on which will be erected
nice dwellings in the early spring.
Also, to Edgar Ross, two lots at the
corner of N. Third and Park Sts., on
which are to be erected a store and
dwelling.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
DON'T STRIKE, 1T COSTS YOU
TOO MUCH

General Motors strikers lost $685.
$4,000 in the first eight weeks OF
the strike. Had the strike been set
tied at the end of eight weeks ana
the strikers had gone back to work
with a 15 per cent increase in hourly
rates, il would have taken them eight
years working every day, without
lay-off to make up the loss. But as a
matter of fact, regardless of what
they get in the way of wage increases
$85,S52 can never be made up.
The average hourly wage of Cen
eral Motors workers when they went
out on strike was SLIP. The corpol-
alton offered raise of 1875 cents per
hour before the strike was called,
which the union officers turned down.
These 100000 workers could have
been getting S1,255 cents per hour
during those eight weeks. 1t is the
concensus of union and business
leaders as we'll as the Gallup Poll,
that the General Motors strike will
result in Is per cent increase.
If the strike is settled at Is per
cent, it will amount to only cents
more per hour than was originally
offered by the corporation. AT cents
per hour it will take each General
Motors worker 1913 hours to make
up the $4S5.80 lost at the end of
eight weeks on the picket line. That
means 405 weeks or slightly under
eight years.
One must bear in mind that also
during the eight weeks they were out
on strike their living expenses con-
tinued Rent, food and clothing eX-
penses were not stopped by the
strike. Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years came and went during
the eight weeks, therefore, these
10000 workers either spent from
their savings and War Bonds or went
into debt 1t will take them a year or
two to save up the money spent or
pay off the debts incurred.
Incidentally, brothers Thoma S (,
Ruether and Frankensteen continued
to draw down $3.50 to $500 per week
plus expenses during the eight weeks.
AS officers of the UAW-CIO, hey can
afford the strike, but their 100000
members certainly could not.
The strike of the 100000 members
of the Communist dominated United
Steel Workers of America scheduled
to begin January IA, will cost the
members $36,728,600 each week
they are out on the picket line. With
in three weeks after the steel strike
begins it is estimated that 20 million
American workers will be laid off be-
cause of the shortage of steel for pro-
duction. This strike, therefore, will
within three weeks be costing the
American workers Is MILLION
DOLLARS per hour. If the strike
lasts two months it will cause Ameri-
can wage earners to lose $5,077, $685.
500. Read that figure again. 1t is
over FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in
wage losses.
Talk things over man-to-man, u.s.
ing good common sense and reason
ableness and you will get more from
management than your over-paid
selfish, un-American labor leaders
will ever get for you-come on now
wake up and get back on the trail
throw out your irresponsible, com
mwnistic labor leaders and put mer
into your union offices that have in
telligence. YOU can't afford strike
it costs YOU too much
William A. E. Chappelle, Jr.,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
FARM REAL ESTATE

A continued rise in farm land val
ues, and a moderate decline in sales
took place in the farm real estate
market during the past year, accord
ing to report from the United
States Department of Agriculture
The report shows that the average
per acre values for the country as a
whole on March 1, 1916 was IL per
cent greater than for the same period
a year before. The volume of sales
began to decrease few months ago,
indicating that many persons left the
farm during the war period and are
returning to their former homes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15

ter disintegration. The Bishops also
"call upon the Congress to give to
the world decisive demonstration
of faitk in the possibility of achieving
a world unity resting upon goodwill
and mutual respect rather than upon
force and material power. The prac-
tice of the principles of the Christian
religion still remains our ultimate
and most practical SECURITY"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
The Council of Bishops c

The Council of Bishops of the
Methodist Church recently told the
President and the Congress: I'VE be-
lieve that universal military con-
scription in times of peace is denial
of the spirit of the Atlantic Charter,
a betrayal of our historic democra-
tic tradition, a possible step toward
bureaucratic fascism by setting up a
powerful military caste, threat to
the moral life of our youth subjected
in crucial year to an extended per-
iod of unwelcome futility and charac-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
Tie United Nations Organization

Tie United Nations Organization
has practically agreed upon perma-
nent headquarters in the North
Greenwish-Stamford section of Con-
necticut, which includes part of West
chester county, New York But the
people in that section of the country
are opposed TO the location of the
UNO in their bailiwicks.
These particular sections are rich
in agriculture and are bedecked with
beautiful homes. Evidently they have
nothing against the United Nations,
out they object to being pushed
around to make permanent head
quarters for an international organi-
cation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15

During 1945, 354 million persons
in Europe and Asia received relief in
the form of food, fuel, clothing and
medical supplies through UNRRA,
according to recent State Depart-
msnt report
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
The British Loan

Nobody seems to doubt that Great
Britain needs $3.50, 100000, but
there is big difference OF opinion on
Capitol Hill in Washington aboul
having the United States Govern
ment furnish all that money.
In view of the history of World
War l there is only one Government
in Europe that is entitled to further
credit-and that is Finland. All the
rest of them failed to come through.
Now, our friend Britain is heading
the procession with Russia, France,
China and other countries in the At
lantic and Pacific trailing along in
line asking for loans for themselves.
No wonder Washington communist
asked the question: why should
Capitalist America use the borrowed
dollars of its citizen taxpayers to
help Britain socialize her indus
tries?" The correspondent of this
paper from Washington believes it
proper to ask the same question.
Haven't we enough troubles of our
own to keep Uncle Sans head ach-
ing?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15

The Maryland Traffic Safety Slogan
for the week is: Good drivers don't
brag about their ability to get out of
tight spots-they stay out of them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15

Cattle that attacked freight train
in the. West were doing their best to
get themselves, converted into meat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15

First they tell you to save your
money. then to save your savings,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
How Do They Get That Way?

Several million people, with the
President of the United States lead
ing the band, are in fear of infa-
tion" The White House insists on
wage imitation and pegging prices
back to perwar time. But-declare
TIE survivors of the old New Deal
the manufacturers, and producers
have improved their efficiency to such
a degree that they can turn out all
kinds of machinery cheaper than in
the 1889 and 1910 period. That's
worse than wishful thinking.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
Tax Relief Is All Imagination

All this stuff about giving relief to
taxpayers doesn't show up On the
Government blanks which millions of
taxpayers will use to make their re
turns in March. Thousands of bust
ness firms will have losses in bust
ness, rather than gains, and the con-
Germs that had contracts and jobs out
of the war are not getting back tC
normal operation. Meanwhile their
factories and their capital are depre-
ciating. Anyone who wants to st joy
out of the general upset of affairs
throughout the United States needs
to believe in fairies. There isn't any
relief "just around the corner" and
what the OPA Administrator says to
the contrary isn't going to help the
situation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-02-15
IT'S TIME TO GILL OFF STRIKES
BY j. f. Jones

Washington, D. C.,February II,
1946--lncreasing the prices of man
ufactured foods and products to
match increased wages demanded by
labor unions looks to the averac
person like simple problems in SUD
traction and addition. But our mas
terminals in OPA have insisted thai
industry should absorb higher wage
out of profits through imaginary
higher volume of production, without
increasing prices. President Truman,
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach.
Price Administrator Chester Bowles
and flock of brass hats" in the
Administration have insisted on the
above methods of settling strikes.
They have failed.
Elder Stateman Bernard M. Ba
ruch was edged into tie picture early
in February and he arguel that
Bowles should modify pre- mt poll
cies to permit some higher prices to
compensate for payment of higher
wages. That seems to make common
sense-and it didn't take Presiden
tial fact-finding body to prove it.
Argue as people will about the
ways to settle the strikes in which
more than a million men are engaged
and there is but enc answer, that is
square deal for industries and an
equally square deal for wage work
ers. The basis of tie whole matter
! calls for nothing more or less than
establishments that balance the pre-
sent inflationary rates that affect the
cost Of living. The cost of living has
gone up despite the Office of Price
| Administration. 1t is doubtful Wheth-
er it would have gone up faster, OF
| higher without Government Price
Administration.
When tie whole matter is review
| ed, the fact stands out that the CLIO
has scared the dickens cut of tie
politicians. The Democrats know that
they retained control of the National
Government through the labor vote,
even after the farmer vote had gone
back upon Democrat policies.
Actually this long knock-down and
drag-out fight between labor and
management could have been avoid
Cd One of the leading newspapers oil
Washington says that tie Trlman
plan to keep the prices down and
lift wages up docs not make sense"
and it adds the sane philosophy that
wages and prices shouldn't have
separate compartments
There is a statute that has been
on the books for many years and il
is known as collective bargaining. ;"
If politics had been left out of all this
trouble it might have been that these
strikes could have been settled by
collective bargaining.
1t is high time to get down to cases
which means that Fedora! Govern
ment should bring these strikes to an
end, and start the wheels rolling in
the direction of Reconversion.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-12-12
Boris Ziherg.


4 Jugoslovanski narodi so pri-
cakovali leto 1918 kot leto ures-
nieenja svojih stoletnih parod-
nih hotenj.
Ia srbski narod je ustvaritev
Jugoslavije pomenila koncno
zmago njegovih osvobodilnih
hotenj, XII SEIZE zaradi njih dvig-
nil v vstaji leta 1904 in med bal
kanskimi vojnami izgnal Turke
il svoje domovine ter Sc mno-
zicno upiral divjaskemu avstro-
nemskemu navafu leta 1914.
Srbski narod je gledal v Jugo-
slaviji, v mocni .drzavni skupno-
sti enakopraynih jugoslovanskih
narodov, jamstvo svojega last
mega, svobodnega, demokratic-
mega razvoja, varstvo pred zu-
nanjo, predvsem germansko ne
varnostjo. Srbski narod, XII je v
svoji narodni vstaji leta 1904
hkrati tudi prvi ma Balkanu
dvignil zastavo demokraticne
revolucije, nj nikdar pojmoval
Jugoslavije drugace kot drzavo
svobode, enakosti in bratstva
vseh jugoslovanskih narodov.
Ia jugoslovanske narode, XII
so stoletja jeeali pod jarmom
Nemcev in Madzarov, je Jugo-
slavija pomenila:
1. odpravo vseh ostankov ST.
zenjske preteklosti, odpravo tu-
jih tvorov, XII SO neomejeno 60
spodarili z zemljo in delovnimi
mocmi jugoslovanskih narodov;
2. demokraticno udelezbo maj
sirsih ljudskih mnozic v vodstvu
drzave, kar jim je bilo v Avstro-
Ogrski onemogoceno z reakcio-
| narnim volivnim cenzusem in
druginai ukrepi politicnega in
gospodar skega pritiska;
8. enakopravnost vseh naro-
dov pri resevanju notranjih in
zunanjih politifnih1. iXyprasanj, ki
| Jim jo v Avstro-Ogfski MISC >pri-
NAVAL ter so Jim 10 nasilno kra-
till v gospodarskem, kakor v po-
liticnem in kulturnem zivljenju.
Vsi jugoslovanski narodi so
pricakovali, da DO Jugoslavija
postala njihova domovina, XII jo
bodo branili pred vsemi sovraz-
\ niki in XII bodo zanjo pripravlje-
\ nj umreti.
Toda cd vsega tega Sc nj mic
izpolnilo. Hotenja jugoslovan-
| skin ljudskih mnozic so Sc raz-
| hajala hotenji jugoslovanske
reakcije. Zato, ker nj bilo prave
| revolucionarne politicne stran-
Ike, XII bi mogla pod svojim vod,
stvom zdruziti naisirse plasti
/ jugoslovanskih narodov in jih
| povesti boj "a uresnicenje Mi
/ hovih hotenj, Sc je zdruzeni jul
goslovanski reakciji posrecilo
da 81 je S sleparstvom in nasi'
\ 'ljem zagotovila vodilno vlogo ,
novi jugoslovanski drzavi.
4 Ohlastniki stare Jugoslavije
so z nadaljevanjem ter razvija'
| njem politike, XII 10 jev habsbur.
/ Ski monarhiji vodila vladajoca
/ ner1ska in madzarska gospoda
in tenn pripravljala propad Av.
stro-Ogrske leta 1918, storili
/ vse, xkar je bio v njihovih mo-
ceh, da bi ljudstvo zasovrazilo
Il tJugoslavijo, da HI v njej gledale
Hltujo, macehovsko drzavo, a ne
/ Nsvojo domovino, narodno drzavo
Il Trije trhli stebri, ma katerih
Sc je yes cas- svojega obstoja
4 zibala stara Jugoslavija, so bill
brezobzirno izkoriscan;e delov'
mega ljudstva, politicna brez'
i pravnost drzavlianov in narod'
nostna neenakopravnost jugo'
slovanskih narodov.
%@fg III
Il I.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-12-12

ma gorah kosti, dezela socialne
pravicnosti.
| S to vero so Stroke mnozice
delovnega ljudstva vstopile v
!novo drzavo. ceprav MISC imele
nobenega organiziranega vodil-
mega politicnega oddelka, je re-
iakcija vendar v prvem trenutku
Iodstopila pred njihovim borbe-
MIN poletom. Zacasno je pristala
ma nekatere socialno-gospodar-
ske koncesije delovnemu ljud-
,stvu, toda z vsemi silami 81 je
prizadevala, da je njihoyo kon-
emo uresnicenje elm bolj zavle-
,kla.
Delavski razred Jugoslavije
81 je po prvi svetovni vojni izvo-
jeval mnoge .pridobitve, zlasti
glede socialne zakonodaje in
strokovnega organiziranja, toda
zdruzena reakcija je ze v letih
1919-192O presla v odlocni pro-
tinapad.
+ Vso zgodovino stare Jugosla-
vie spremlja vista zlocinov
proti delavskemu razredu.
! z nasilnimi sredstvi so bila
dusena delavska gibanja "a IL
holjsanje zivljenjskih pogojev;
razpuscali so delavske strokov-
ne organizacije; prepovedovali
sodelavska zborovanja in volitve
'delavskih zaupnikov v podjet-
jih; v uprave delavskih iustanov
SO S fasisticninfi metodami
vkljucevali odkrite agente proti-
ljudske reakcije, $topalovicevce,
jugorasovce it'd; postopno, toda
dosledno SO odpravljali delavsko
zakonodajo, XII je bila ,koncno z
zloglasno cvetkovicevsko-kor
scevskimi uredbami povsem od-
pravljena.
Delavski razred start Jugo-
slaviji je bill dejansko snajbolj
bre=praven druzbena plast.
Tudi sirokim mnozicam deloy-
nih knaetov Sc ni.iv starr Jugosla-
VIII godilo .mnogo bo6e. Leta
1918 so pricakovale, da bodo v
Jugoslaviji dobile zemljo, XII so
jo stoletja obdelovale kmeeke
roke in XII je bila po veeini last
tujih grofov, baronov in bancni-
kov, ali pa je bila tako obreme-
njena z oderuskimi hipotekami,
da e bill kmet samo fiktivno
njen lastnik. .,. .ap 81 ~.
Protiljudsltim oblastnikom, XII
SO v prvih letih po letll 1913 IL
igravali ljudstvo obljubami O
"agrarni reformi," nj prislo niti
ma misel, da bi z dosledno 1--WE
demo reformo zlomili gmotno
moe veleposestnikov in oderu.
hov, teh najzanesljivejsih ste
brow sleherne reakcije. Nasprot,
no, stopali so S tujinni velepo.
> eestniki cedalje tesnejse go,
spodarske in roliticne stike
ustanavljali s'Supaj mimi veil.
7 ka bancna podjetja, kartele in
podohne n1onopolisti6ne zveze
"a izkoriscanje kmetov in dru.
> gih delovnih plasti. <~: -.
1 Nanen agrarne reforme v Jul
gos.svi i,@o kateri so v letih Dor.
benega poleta delovnih nnozie
NEST in vasi 1918 do 1921 rnno.
go goyorili, je bill predvsem, da
s romocjo delne razlastitve vele-
posestniske zemlje, seveda oh
"pra"i6ni' odskodnini velepo.
isestnikom, preprecijo .agrarne
. revolucijo, neizogibno razlasti.
te1 vse. veleposestniske zemlje
',rez odskodnine v korist delov.
nih kmetov.
Namen agra1ne reforme je bill
nadalje, da $ praznimi obljuba,
ri locijo kmete od .delavskega
rasreda, HI Sc je tedaj boril "a
lenokracijo in socialno pravic.
most.
rir>o "a ~ coI val IiIldSko horl,e