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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-03-14
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
Where do You Get Off

WASHINGTON, Aug 17-(NEA) )-Those who re- main of the New Deal politicians ard Progressive Republicans are now worried because the people seem to be too prosperous The line is that when voters well off financially they tend to go con- SerVatiVe
 Put it the other way around Voters are not inter- ested in progressive movements liberal reforms when they have money in their pockets and food in their bellies The great reform movements always seem to follow depressions, when things have gone wrong
 If these are political truths, the amount of money in the pay envelope becomes important factor in the November elections. They're four months away. That's not very long, but lot of things can happen in the meantime.
 Bureau of Labor Statistics figures just released put the average earnings of the nearly 12 million factory workers in the U s. for May at SLOT per hour for 40-hour week. That's two cents higher than the wartime peak reached in January l945 ln spite Of the fact that most of the production overtime at premium rates has now been cut off.
 It sounds like lot of money In terms of weekly earnings. the U. S. average for factory workers for May is given as S4267 Compare that with the average weekly earnings of S35.25 in 1889 Compare it with the S22 08 of 1919.
 Factory earnings have practically doubled in the S5 years since the end of World War l. The all- time peak in weekly earnings was the January 1945 average of S47.40
 This l07 hour s4267 week. isn't the top either. Recent increases given coal miners and CTS in few other basic industries don't show in these figures. Averages for June and July will be higher.
 Radicalism can't flourish on earnings like that. No wonder the liberals politically worried and wonder the conservatives cocky.
 If you look ahead little, however there's another angle to this thing which can't be ignored.
 Prosperity can't be measured just by the number of dollars you have 10 jingle ln your pocket, purse, or plggy-bank. It's what they'll buy that counts 50 take good look An terms of the purchasing power of todays dollar, ss compared with that in past
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
A Thought for Today
The Republican Melodrama

The curtain has been run down on the first act of that Republican melodrama "The Adaman Husband, with Gov ernor Raymond E. Baldwin. in the male lead part having rendered faithful and stirring performance Act II should open along about September and 10 when the COP state convention is held at Hartford The play will end cleo Iion day in November with the ending yet unWrten
 For more than year the Governor and COP Party leaders have resored every kind of histoncs except perhaps soulful rendition of Hearts and Flowers The performance has Jagged times but always you knew that the hero would pick up the themes thread and again thrill and chill the hearts of the audience he faty and adaanty turned cold shoulder to the pleas of his spouse the spouse who offered little in times past that the hero capable of inspiration that would him into the realm of prestige he felt his destiny Now the spouse has again offered her all and destiny heckons
 Today must somewhat like political VIE Day plus the majority of the Republican Party leaders That Governor Baldwin has agreed to reconsider his twiceod decision to withdraw from politics, and will be their candidate for U S. Senate undoubtedly the key for the structural makeup of their Fall election slate With Rep Joseph E. Talbot gubernaoria nominee, if such the to be- the ticket will be of the most formidable presented
 This is Governor Baldwn's biggest political gamble of that there little doubt Many political observers have claimed that his voegeting ability is not all it appears to be. Some claim for example, that his defeat two years of former Democratic Governor Rober Hurley (when Bald win the only Republican win that year) the suit of an-Hurley and not proBaldwn votes. His torial endeavors will be the test providing formidable ponent is presented by the Democrats.
 Should the Governor suffer defeat this Fall he is out of national politics toward which he has had many ambitions. At least the enigma of his position is clarified for the first time in years
 Act II should promise some interesting dramatics. With State Chairman Harold E. Mitchell narrator the action should be varied and stimulating gubernatora candidates attempt to steal the We hope however that the acting will be much overpayed as was the case in Act I.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
Merry-G0-ROund

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-Back in 1919, right after the last war, the PhiladelpF Public Ledger hired special correspondent named E. J. Dillon to cover the Peace Conference. MT. Dillon was good newspaperman. He told the truth
 But a youngster living Philadelphia and reading MT. Dillon every morning, wildly recall how and others who had built up high hopes for permanent peace did not like the truth Eventually the Lodger got so many reader protests against MT. Dlons frank and pessimistic reporting that 1t had to run special editorial defending him.
 The trouble with Mr. Dillon was that he was tell ing his readers that the 1919 Paris Peace Conference was going to lead to another war and his readers at that time didn't want to think about war.
 Having returned to the U.sA. few days ago from the present Paris Peace Conference, suspect that some of my readers also have been cussinp me out as pessimist kill joy and belittler of modern diplomacy
 If so, don't particularly blame them The wealth CT is hot. the vacation season beckons, the head lines are playing up the intriguing question of wheth- CT Mrs Lottie Lockman did or did not poison her nelghnors ln Dupont Indiana, and whether Fair field, H., grandmother poisoned her three-year- grandson With sandwich. Congress has gone home Government workers sweat out the humid August sunshine we have just finished celebrating the first anniversary of our great victory Japan and on the surface there seems apparent for wor- ry about more war.
 Beneath the surface, however, certain ominous developments are seething in the Near East which could plunge us into war horrible than any, thing ever envisaged by the mind of man. Behind the scenes the top military of Russia and Eng land and, to some extent the United States are now maneuvering for position for a war which some of them think could come in matter of months-even weeks.
 Here of the secret moves which only one year after a war to end war, make the world Sc laden with dynamite:
 l. Intelligence agencies have learned that Stalin now has three giant airborne armies totaling 10000 men each, poised along the Black Sea. They are alerted and prepared for action-presumbly against Turkey.
 ?. The Soviet Politburo has decided on a show down with Turkey over the Dardanelles-at once Last week all the Russian Field Marshas met with members of the Politburo for three days in Odessa Afterward, Russia sent Turkey demand that the Montreux treaty covering the Dardanelles be revised at once-and be revised only by the Soviet satellites
 3. The Russian Navy is now concentrated in the Black Sea ports of Sevastopol and Feodosiya.
 4. The British Foreign Office and the British General Staff have decided that the time for show down with Russia is at hand. Their intelligence re- ports indicate feverish Soviet experiments with the atomic bomb and the cosnnic ray. The presence of rocket bombs over Sweden is known to be Russian experimentation with radio controlled rockets even
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
by ThOn1as Stokes

This frontier has changed with the years and SC have some of its familiar figures In the primaries thls year two Of them who swept into the Sen ate On the wave of agraraT dscontent in 1922 were deteated-Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota once a rabid farmer-aborite, afterward regular Republican and Burton K Wheeler Mir. Wheeler left the Demo- cratic Party in 1924 Vice Presidential can- didats with the elder LaFollette in an independent campaign.
 Bob LaFollette this year sought refuge under the Republican Party label once again after years as dissenter It of his infrequen resorts to po htlcaI opportunlsm that disappointed of those who had helped to create the once militant and ef- made the choice to continue his political career
 One of his outsta nding achievements in the Sem ate came this year when, just before Congress ad- burned he put through the Confessional reorean- Monroney D.-Okla). despite forecasts of failure
 memory among many, that comes back to one Wlo mas watched his whole national career was the splendid fight he made early in the depression to- getner with Hugo Black Supreme Court justice Tor federal appropriations relief For two days he stood before the Senate with carefully doc unented report on what was happening to human beings In our country, particularly in great cities It was convincing and moving performance
 Bob LaFolette knows the count-y and it's economy intimately and the forces that move it. for good or evil One of his most valuable contributions and part of his education and of the nation was he investigation he directed for many months into inc apuSe of CIVIL liberties by great corporations which used orce violence and intimidation against Vorkers mat was shocking revelation that shook Congress into reforms.
 Ills knowledge. experience and ability should con- tnue to be available in public service
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
Pegging Silver

dozen particularly when Mexico given wide edge silver from states the West Now the United States Treasury to 905 for all newly mined domestic silver from mines There has been temporary silver famine in weeks and
 Industrial have had to melt down silver coins to make silver nitrate.
 There two in earlier times who studied poIti- cal silver. They William Jennings Bryan and Franklin Deano Roosevelt The latter begged the price of silver that the Mexican bullion sold higher price in the United States than the silver from mines Domestic pro- ducton o silver has been stimulated but labor troubles have occurred and silver producers are telling Washington that production is down to prewar levels.
 The bright hope for silver to be for industrial needs The sverware industry photography ewery cleo tcal ues, dental and medical supplies and engine bearings short of silver and the industries are outbddng the United States Treasury prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
by Peter Eds0u

years, and see where you come out
 According to the Bureau of Labor Sta tstics the goods and services that SAP 67 will buy today cnlld have been bought for s23.86 in 1889 Or put it the other way around. It takes s56 35 todd yto buy what s4267 would have bought in 1889
 In other words s23 wage in 1889 was just as good as s42 wage in 1946 and s56 wage today is no better than SAP wage in 1889
 The point of this is that the purchasing power of the dollar high in 1939-higher than in any recent year save l932-for those people who had money to spend If family of four people spent $40 on food In ls39 today that family would have to spend s6o on food. For every SIP spent on clothing in 1889 slooo would have to be spent today
 Here is a simple BIS table that anyone can apply to his own income to show him where he stands in terms of todays purchasing power
 For every slo spent on food in 1889, about s15 has to be spent today
 For every so spent for clothes in 1889, sl55o has ot be spent today
 For every slo spent for furnishings in 1889 sl55o mas [ ooe spent today
 For every slo spent for fuel and light in 1sas Slll4 has to be spent today.
 For every slo spent for rent in 1889, sloss has to be spent today.
 What this adds up to is that for every $50 spent on these main cos-oflivng items in 1939 $6707 has to be spent today.
 For the politician, the importance of these fig ures becomes apparent when they taken into consideration along with what may happen to price levels between now and election
 Now that OPA price controls have been removed sharp increases in the cost of living unavoidable These increases political dynamite. What seems now to be lot of dollars in the pay envelope will become very few dollars in purchasing power. And oday's prosperity-whch isn't prosperity in terms of 1889 purchasir.g power-wil be quickly transformed into depression conditions that could easily reverse the present political trend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
w DreN, Pearson

tually calculated to hit England perhaps the Arctic Circle
 British scientists know that the Russians may wind up with the atomic bomb or even the more deadly cosic ray the Soviet is given another year to experiment The British also know that the United States is not ready to wage joint Anglo American war against Russia; but they are convinced that, If Russia and England should clash, the LISA. would soon come in on the British side.
 5. The British General Staff has moved three crack divisions into Iraq for showdown with Mos Iran. The British fleet is poised in Medi- terranean waters At least nine other British divisions and the entire Royal Air Force ready to support Britains determination to dominate Iran. Baghdad, capital of Iraq, being heavily reinforced by the British.
 6. The U. S. Army is spending increased amounts to fortfy Alaska and is working in close cooperation with Canada on defense of the entire Arctic northwest The Russian spy trials in Canada revealed that Moscow collecting all possible in- formation regarding northwest Canada and Alaska asN that all details of U S. troops reported back to Moscow, even including the movements of regi- ments in the southern United States.
 !. The Russians are heavily fortifying the coast of Albania. This gives them partial control of the entrance of the Adratic and might keep Allied fleet from rescuing U.S-Britisn troops at Trieste Moscow also has been shifting the Red Army in Europe, has replaced war veterans with fresh men In Germany the Red Army is 75O,OOo strong. In Romana, 900OO Red soldiers have been increased to 35000o men. Four Russian divisions in the Czech
 
 Poland and Romania
 8. Twelve factories in Russian occupied Ger many are pouring out munitions of The old Skoda works in C7echoslovakia used by Hitler Is turning out quantities of of an interchange able type for in either the Czech or Red Army Poland and Yugoslavia also manufacturing stand ardi1ed Russian The armament race once more is on.
 These of the omirlous Lndercurrenis which could pull the world into another war even before the wounds of World War II are healed even before peace treaty is signed.
 Some diplomats and military leaders say tha. these currents have gone far that another Is inevitable.
 In the opinion of this observer this is not the case. Another war-either soon or later-can te averted However, it will take the most skillful diplomacy this nation has seen together with our most fortnight saesmanshp. and public under standing of all the facts to avoid tragedy So Re are getting neither the statesnanship the facts
 And though I be accused Of being pessinist ana though lose readers to the sports columns ard the poison mysteries. intend during the next week to outline the backstage cross-crrents which are drag glng us so near catastrophe and if possible, point to some of the ways out
 EDITORS NOTE-Another Drew Pearson col umn the dynamite e-laden situation In Europe follows Monday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
Bad Mathematics

President Truman is father of the thought and pioneer H the current prophecy that the national budget will be balanced the present year nevertheless he admits that the expenditures of the Government will be S1 300 oyer the incoming revenues.
 The public is being informed that all Federal works will Dc deferred wherever possible and there rumor (don consider them serious that the cost running the Gov eenent W1I be lowered with hundreds of thousands of paabuc employees dropped from the Federal payrols
 Bad mathematics and national election troubles are like sudy OGrady and the Coones lady sisters under the s1n Save up your money for the tax colectors-they take most of it, as usual.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
'BOb' La Toilette
WASHINGTON-How much of a loss to the sen

WASHINGTON-How much of a loss to the Sen- ate the defeat of Senator Robert NJ LaFollette in Wisconsin was demonstrated by the sincere expres- sions of regret from both Republicans and Democrats with whom he served
 This is tribute to his character, his integrity his recognized ability legislator his innate ideal ism and his political independence, heritage from his father. the late Fighting Bob LaFollet.e Young Bob" as he known affectionately for SO by those who disagreed with him he came to his judgments on national measures after careful and exhaustive investigation.
 The heart in his approach to national problems was always apparent as it was ln the courageous fight for his convictions His 20-vear in the senate, which began at early age as his fathers successor there, proof of the value and power of political independence It is hoped that this defeat his first-is only interruption and that he will ind other opportunities for public service for which he is so well equipped.
 political independent and irregular Bob La Toilette was never party He wore the label of one of the two major parties the Republican briefly at the beginning of his Senate career and finally TOT few months as candidate TOT re-nomination During the New Deal regime he was advoca Ue of most of the social and economic reforms of Pres dent Roosevelt for he and his father and brother had pioneered for them years before and instituted many of them in their But he never denti- fled a Democrat.
 For good part of his career he wore the label of the Wisconsin Progressive Party which he founded with his brother Philip himself who was three times governor of Wisconsin in the 30's This party had dWindled away in recent years with the lifting of depression and the advent of better times such as had other similar movements on what was once known as the radical frontier"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
We Can't Pay Teachers And Have Booze Too

hyde itself is very irritating to eyes, nose and respiratory passages, but not poisonous Commercial forma- ldehyde sometimes contains con- siderable wood alcohol and inhaling wood alcohol vapor is dangerous may cause blindness.
 Stage Fright
 I used your remedy for stage fright with great success - two grains three times daily for about week before my recital and I was as cool and comfortable as one could wish. But I find a wide dif- ference in the quinine sold by diff ferent stores-one was round and pink pills, another white oval pills and a third chocolate coated tablets.
 GA. G. LO
 Answer - Makes no differences whether red. white or brown. pill. tablet or capsule, it is all the same quinine. To prevent stage fright or examination jitters I suggest taking one grain of quinine sulfate three times daily before or after food) for two weeks before the ordeal. Copyright 1946, by John F. Dille Co.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-17
By WILLIAM BRADY. MD

In one year those of us within the continental United States spend
 CD s5, 2O0,oOo,OO0 for alcoholic beverages
 t2) $2,40O, 900 ,000-for tobacco t3) $2,300 900 ,000-for public ele- mentaly and secondary schools-the schools where teachers serve at low pay.
 There Is something rotten about a way of life that makes 1t not only possible but even respectable" for the defectives. the degenerates, the criminals and the morons to squander more than twice as much for the narcotic as we pay for ele- mentary education.
 It is nothing less than dread ful conspiracy against the health, sanity and happiness of youth and the future welfare and safety of the nation that we. the people. fail to tax alcoholic liquors and bever- ages at rate sufficiently high to provide a fund to pay the wages of teachers in our public schools.
 If We the people had fair sense fof honor, self-respect and decency we would hardly leave the educa- tion of our children to the charity -of whatever teachers may be willing to serve for the nliserab ble pittance we pretend is all we can afford to pay
 It Is time that teachers organized in a national union and staged strike for living wage. What other group, class or category of workers is there in America today that con- tlnues to serve under the Wretched exploitation that teachers endure? what other group, even house. maids, for thanks to the dearth of houSeWorkerS during the war these domestic workers have at last been able to demand at least some re- spect from their employers.
 In my mind the word teacher connotes much more than just in Structor or tutor. I associate it with some of the noblest charac- terS I have ever known, first with the Salnted Miss B. whose profess sional and private life was one of extreme self-denial and poverty so that she could use most of her wages to help others. I associate the word also with MT B., science teacher in high school, whose fine personality and dignity inspired all Of his students. Sometimes I wonder whether teaching today attracts men and women of such calibre.