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Evening star., 1946-02-17
Totals is 1545 Totals --1011 8
Eastern Is Kept Hustling.

Eastern took a lead at the start
and remained there throughout in
topping Anacostia, but the Ram
blers never had enough margin to
make a waltz Of it. Scoring was
spread all down the line on the win
ming team, with Ken Burns East
ern's high man with nine points.
Scotty Silver, Anacostia forward,
was the game leader, though, with
10 points.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Gonzaga Five Is Downed
By MI. St. Joe, IS 10 26

BALTIMORE. Feb. 16.-Mt. St
Joseph High today pulled away in
the second half to defeat Gonzaga
Of washington, 1926.
The locals led 1911 at intermis-
sion but, paced by Leo Delcher, who
amassed l6 points, they made late
squirt.
Pat O'Neill was high scorer for
Cpn7ooo uyitl, 1c ,,oi,4e
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Former Olympic Stur Dies

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (P.-
Cornelius Johnson, %, member of
American Olympic games teams in
1882 and 1896 and former Compton
Junior College high Jump star, died
here. He was member OF the mer-
chant crew of the S. S. Santa Clara.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
Clarke Hall of Fame Picker

WICHITA, Kans., Feb. 16 tP.-
Fred c. Clarke, former manager OF
the Pittsburgh Pirates and member
of professional baseball's hall of
fame, today was named to head a
"sandlot hall of fame committee
for the National Baseball Congress
TODAY.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
SEVERN Goes to Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla, Feb. 16 tP,.
Paul Vincent Severin, former star
end at North Carolina, has been
named wing coach at Florida.
Evening star., 1946-02-17
chibeurs Sian Johnson

CHICAGO, Feb. Is (P.-The Chi
cago Bears today announced sign
ing of william Orville (BulD john
son, former Southern Methodist
208-pound guard and blocking back.
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Totals IL IS Totals 10 & 20
Free throws missed-Beck f2), Neville
(2l, Grimm 90, Hetzelberser. Dechard (3),
OKeefe (3), Defrancis, Elsey, Daly
Evening star., 1946-02-17

Totals
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
Saving OPA Pieces

The OPA revival bill is the law of the land again-for another
eleven months Is it a better law than the one President Truman vetoed
ON July /?
The President and some of his advisers say yes, chiefly because
the new law requires the OPA to fix ceilings OF all manufactured goods
which would reflect 1910 average industry wide prices, plus cost in
creaSes which have occurred since that time, instead of the 1941 prices
as specified in the bill Truman vetoed.
A chorus of commentators says no, pointing to the sharp curtal-
ment of OPA power under the new law, first, by the decontrol board
which would have final voice with regard to ceilings and, second, by
the emergency court of appeals which is set up to hear complaints
against OPA regulations.
Most important is the fact that the old ceilings on foodstuffs will
not be restored. Meat prices, it is estimated with certainty, instead Of
being rolled back, will rise by fall and winter to new heights. Only
rents, it appears, have been saved under the new law, being automatic
ally restored to the status prevailing on June 80.
Whether or not the emasculated OPA will succeed in stemming
the infatonary tide, one thing is quite certain: Industry and farm
pressure groups have scored a smashing victory over the common eo-
pie of America, over vast consumer population. Congress has sur.
rendered to the forces of greed,
The President signed the bill on the theory that without any price
CONTROL the situation would be vastly worse. The people, through re
strained and disciplined buying, IN n hand, and by demanding an
accounting from their Congressman as the electoral campaign APP
proaches may yet have the final say OF this momentous issue-Justice.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
NO. 2O29.
Our Foreign Policy

James Clement Dunn is to be or new Ambassador in Rome. We
would have thought he would be more acceptable and more at home
in Madrid, but we are pleased that he is not going there. He has given
inestimable aid and comfort to Generalissimo Franco over the past ten
years and we would not care to SCI him in a position to be of further
service in that quarter. We are still more pleased to have him relieved
as Assistant Secretary of State in Charge of European, Near-Eastern,
Far-EaStern, and African Affais-of the affairs of the world, in short
beyond the Americas. This grandiose title, even though broader thar
the job it covers, was Enthusiastically inappropriate to the man whose
greatest diplomatic triumph remains the decision that q Vice PreSi-
dents half sister is entitled to precede a Speakers wife to the dinner
table Dunns unWarranted power was built on his generally conceded
and on the influential patronage of Cordel Hull, with whom he has
for years been on terms of the most cordial, if incongruous, friendship.
Narrow in his social views, addicted to the society of Europe's decaying
aristocracy, and a consistent reflector of Vatican policy, Dunn waged
a prolonged but successful fight to keep the embargo clamped down
on the Spanish Republic until it suffocated. His subsequent record
included the securing of loans for Franco and a stubborn defense of
promotion which we trust will not be fatal to the infant Italian
Repubic-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
WASTE AND THE FOOD SHORTAGE

Gen. Dwight Z. Eisenhower, acting as Chief of Staff of the Army.
has taken action to halt the waste of food in army kitchens. In addition,
II moved to produce more food by ordering that vegetable gardens be
maintained at disciplinary barracks. The General hopes thereby to help
relieve the present critical food situation.
We think that the action taken by Eisenhower is splendid-so far
as it goes And we hasten to take the edge off our reservation by ad-
hitting that, SO far as w can figure out, the General has gone about
as far as he can.
However, merely to fill fewer garbage cans with edible food and
in the light of the widespread waste of human life and human effort
The army itself is waste. With "a cents out OF every Federal dollar
now going to pay war costs, that cannot be denied. But even in peace
the army is Waste-necessary waste under present circumstances per
haps, but by the yardstck Of productive effort waste just the same.
If food is needed by humanity it would be more to the point to put
every soldier at work to produce it,
Another fact is that there are many jobs which people n paid
to do which add nothing to the general economic good. Take, for in
stance, the great waste of time by those people who write soap operas
and cigarette adVertising-and all advertising for that matter. Under
capitalism it is necessary to advertise. But under a system of planned
production for Use it would not be necessary and the people who are
now doing those jobs could be giving better service to themselves and
to society.
We are not advocating the elimination of the many wastes that
confront Is. in the competitive business of sales and distribution. That
lasts.
different purpose. When the means Of production and distribution are
owned by society, then people an work together for the general well
fare. Then it will be to the advantage of all of IS to eliminate all
waste efforts.
There is also another way in which waste can be minimized
II is by regimentng all of mankind in the service of a master class
That, of course, will be a high price to pay for efficiency. But it may
be the price that mankind will have to pay unless humanity accepts
the cooperative program of democratic Socialism. - Reading Labor.
Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
Family Allowance Plan PAYS Rich Dividends

Australians Child Endowment Acts provides benefit payments
amounting to over eighteen million pounds annually approximately
S1 100000. This money provides better food, clothing and education
for $50, 900 children under Is years of age in $4,000 families.
Because the basic wage in Australia is based o a family of three
persons, the child endoWments apply to families with more than one
child and not to families with only n child. The Act provides pay
ment of seven shiuings, sixpence (close to $2) a week for each child
and does not call for a means test, that is, each family is eligible r.
CARELESS of their means.
That the money is being we'll spent is evident from reports of
better health noted in children and the general improvement of con-
diions as they affect children.
This ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS family allowance system has been In
operation in Australia for many years, and wa more recently estab-
lished in both Canada and the United Kingdom, where it is also prov
ing it's worth. Serious consideration should be given such a plan for
families and children in the United States The need here is is great
if not greater in some sections of our country, a it is in those countries
1t is not "socalism", Or communism, o r any other kind of "isnn"-
Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
Cites Terrific Toll Taken
By Accidents on the JOB

almost solid wooden blanket OF
collins for 81 miles"
Behind would come miles OF
men in wheel chairs, Stretchers or
crutches, each with n or two feet
off. Then more miles of marching
men with hands or arm off, row
upon row of others with eyes out.
and still more with fingers lost and
with permanent facial diSfigure-
mentS.
Bringing up the rear would be
the longest group, those with tenn
porary disabilities. All told, the
disabled and injured marchers,
eight abreast, would extend for
$40 miles, Williams declared.
In recent years, as safety stan
dards have been better observed,
the rate of industrial casualties has
declined, but there is still much
room for improvement, he stressed.
Organized labor, he added, can
play a great role in helping to re-
duce the toll further.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
LABOR SURVEYS PRICES;
FINDS LIVING COSTS
UP 32% IN IS DAYS

In the Is days between the death
of OPA and July Is the cost of
living in Detroit climbed 32.1 % y,
according to joint findings of the
AFL and the UAW-CIO in that
city. The survey covered meat,
fruit, vegetables, and dairy pro-
ducts and its findings may be ap-
piled to all American communities.
While the average jump was
32.1% some increases reached
86.1% in that period, the labor
researchers found.
Cheaper cuts of beef zoomed up
faster than the better cuts.
Typical increases found by the
investigation in five cityWide
chains and eight independent mar
kets were: Butter ranged between
70 and Csc ID. Ceiling 68c); porter
house 73c Ceiling 55c); pork chops
69c Ceiling 31c); ground steak
48c Ceiling 29c).
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14

INDIANA, Pa.-That accidents
on the job take a gruesome toll of
deaths and injuries was dramatic
ally illustrated here recently by
David Williams, deputy secretary
of Pennsylvania Department of
Labor and Industry.
In an address to the district
council of the United Brick and
Clay Workers Union, Williams dis
closed that in this state alone, over
$3.50 workers have been killed
and 4,311,OO0 manned or otherwise
injured during the 80 years since
the state began compiling accident
reports.
Because the figures by them
selves may seem cold, Williams
wildly portrayed the victims lined
up in a single parade.
At the head, he said, would be
52,260 collins, eight abreast and
eight feet between each row.. They
would, he explained, make an
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14

that was resisting the French in
vasion, and gave the invaders a TIE
Deum in the cathedral. On his
way to Mexico, Archduke Maxi
milan was blessed by the Pope in
Rome, who said:
Great are the rights of people
and it is necessary to satisfy them,
but still greater and more sacred
are the rights of the church."
From the Spanish Conquest to
the present time, the Mexican
church has identified its rights
with the rights of privilege.
Rightly or wrongly, it has at
tackled on religious grounds the
governments program to break up
the haciendas and give the land
back to the Mexican Indian. 1t has
opposed the states program of
rural education as a work of the
devil.
Resignation as Role of the Poor
The theological basis of its po-
sition was stated by the Arch
bishop of Guadalajara, who issued
the following pastoral injunction
in 1922:
AS all authority is derived
from God, the Christian workman
should sanctify and make sublime
his obedience by serving God in
the person of his bosses . Only
n thing l ask: of the rich, love.
of the poor, resignation"
Considering the history of the
Mexican church, and the present
Punishment of its clergy from pub.
lie life, certain conclusions can be
drawn.
l. The Catholic church in Me.
xico is unlike the Catholic church
in the United States. 1t has never
tolerated liberalism of the A
Smith variety.
2. When any church under
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
Political History Of the Mexican Church
BY Kenesaw M. Londis II in The CHICAGO Sun

The newspapers have given
great prominence to the Pope's
declaration that the clergy has the
right and duty to participate in
public life.
Mexico is a Catholic country,
and one Of the things hardest for
a stranger to understand is the
represSlVe and sometimes brutally
anti-clerical policy of the Mexican
government
The two great saints of Mexi-
can independence were village
priests, Father Hidalgo and Father
MorelOs, who led the people in
their rebellion against the feudal
tyranny of Spain.
States and cities are now named
for them, and everywhere you 90
there is a Hidalgo street, a More
los plaza. These priests took an
active part in public life.
Yet MeXicans cannot forget that
HIdalgo and Morelos we're both
eXcommunicated by their bishops.
condemned by the Inquisition and
turned over to the Spaniards for
summary execution.
Identified with Rights of Privilege
The independence movement
was officially declared to he anti,
Catholic" The church was afraiC
of losing its feudal privileges.
Even after independence was
achieved, the church continued tc
w more than half of all rea.
estate, and to rightly control al
intellectual life in alliance with
native d~ictators like the unholy
Santa Anna.
When Santa Anna was final,
oVerthroWn in another revolution
the bishops sponsored foreign in
~tervention.
The head of the Puebla dioces,
accommodated the patriot arm,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
Whife Supremacy

Down in Mississippi most people are not worried by war and peace,
initiation and stability, and all the rest of our modern headaches
They know one supreme issue, that of holding down the ringers who
constitute half of the states 10000 600 population.
In the recently held Democratic primaries, Senator Theodore G.
5lbo was renOminated by a majority exceeding the combined vote cast
ior all his opponents. Representative John E. Rankin will be returned
to Congress for the 14th time.
During the primary campaign, the two candidates stated their political
crcdO in no ambiguous terms Said Bilbo:
Whte people will be justified in going to any extreme to keep
the Niger from voting. You and l know what is the best way to keep
Inc niger from voting. 70 do it the night before election-I don't
nave to tell you any more than that. Red blooded men know what
I mean"
n spite OF this overt Indictment to violence, the most sinister
buffoons in the Congress of the United States we're re-eleced," saws
Time Gully 15)-The New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
More And Better SCHOOLING
For Youth Advocated
By British Trade Unions

The British Trade Union Con-
gress is planning to request the
British Government to raise the
age at which children can leave
school from the present limit Of
IA years to Is at the earliest pos
sible date, according to informa-
ton received from Herbert Tracey,
editor of a TUG. weekly news
service.
Tracey reported the TUG. Gen
eral Council is arranging a depu-
tation to the Minister of Education
to discuss the question as a neceS-
sary feature of the educational re
forms which are coming into oper-
alton under Britain's 1914 Educa-
ton Act. A decision to raise to
Is the age at which children can
leave school already been
made and will take effect next
year, but the trade unions want
the limit raised to Is to give youth
continuous education beyond the
turning point of adolescence.
The shortage of trained teachers
and physical equipment u C h as
school buildings will delay the
complete realization of the educa-
tional reforms proposed by t h c
Education Act, but the TUG. in
tends to press for improved gram
mar schools, and the establishment
of technical schools and modern
schools.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
SIC SEMPER
By FLOYD HOKE-MILLER

His fist is mailed, his shoes are
nailed,
His heart is made of stone.
He walks rough shod over the sod
Of human flesh and bone.
The murder mills he plans and
builds
Are part Of his device
To make the mass a servile class
On which he sets the price.
Though you create he holds in
state
Your total power in pawn;
By Opiate he seals the fate
OF you who barter Drawn.
Your pot of gold you're always
told
Is on the Rainbow Trail,
And all the pie is in the sky
For those who do not fail.
The marbled halls, the prison
walls,
The factory land and mine
Are by his grace a penal place
To tax, to try or fine.
Throughout the years OF blood and
tears
The workers plead in vain;
Until they stand as man-to-man
They'll keep their ball and chain.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
Seeing the South
BY TAISTO HAYRINEN

Since it is the privilege of the
soldier to travel extensively, it is
one of his fortunes to observe and
study the people of the land, if he
SO chooses. How then does a north
erner react to the South of this
United States, in terms of the So
cial and economic values set up
by cooperators?
One ride took us across the land
of the Hoosiers, Indiana. Part of
it level, the rest of it rolling, it
was a monotony of large farms,
with trees here and there. But it
was no richer or poorer than our
own central and southern Mime
sofa.
1t was night thru most of Ken
lucky and Tennessee, but we saw
enough of the hillbilly farms to
see that they suffered in contrast
to the farms of the northern cut
over country. So very many de-
serted farms, so little in the way
of electric power, good roads and
schools. And the northernerS have
expended an incompatible amount
of work in wrestling their farms
extent, the spirit of the people is
generally revealed in the pride of
paint and neatness, whether farm
or city. If so, apathy is the word
south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Unfortunately we did not see
enough of IVA to judge its results.
Even up in Hoosier land, the large
farms distribute the population so
thinly, that neighborliness seemed
difficult to maintain, as were fine
modern schools.
Striking south from Chattanooga,
our Choo-choo took us across a
corner of Georgia and into Ala
bama, all hilly or mountainous
country, and the beginning of cot
ton land. By now for a time locat-
ed in central Alabama, we have
yet to see extensive cotton plan
tations. The standing rule has been
what we call 'garden-tract' homes
up North, scattered about the land
scape with no regular order at all.
There's a little plot Of cotton
and corn, a dilapidated farm build
ing or two, and a One-story cottage
setting on wooden OF brick posts.
Not a sign of paint anywhere. No
heat is furnished by a crude fire
place. The standard is a one or
two room affair, and the open
porch is a must. And, thruout the
South, whenever you go by, you
see the large family lolling on the
porch. These are the Sharecrop-
pers, both white and colored. You
do see fine homes occasionally,
with no obvious activity of their
own, but they are the landowners.
But the average home among them
is no better than the home of an
honest workingman up North. Yes,
the economic setup of the South
holds people from rising out of
poverty, but the hot, lazy climate
and the third-grade terrain and
the continuation of paupery. 1t is
now, after the wal industries are
only a memory, both funny and
unfunnny to see a sWank automo-
bile beside a sharecroppers shack,
and a shiny Washing-machine on
the porch, with no electricity in
many cases to operate that wash
ing machine.
There would be many Rochdales
down here.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
LAND OF THE FREE!

America needs an amendment to its famous "America-the land
of the free and the home of the brave"
Home O. the brave is o. K. We've proved that or many a battle
field throughout the world.
Land of the free is wrong. Too many Americans re NOT free
from economic worries in particular.
Consider these facts:
Thirty per cent of Americas housewives have no running water
in their homesl
Forty per cent of American homes have n bathtub o II shower
facilities.
Thirtyfive per cent American homes have no indoor tOiIed
facilities.
Twenty-seven per cent of our American homes have three rooms
or less.
Until these situations are corrected, we shall not be a truly free
and independent people-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14

takes to instruct its faithful in
their political duties, the quality
of that instruction becomes a mat
ter of legitimate public interest.
3. To the extent that any
church becomes a political instru-
ment, nc matter what its authority,
is must be prepared to defend it
self in the political arena, even
from it's parishioners.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14

To write a good love letter, you
ought to begin without knowing
what you mean to say and finish
without knowing what you have
Written.-RouSSeau.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-14
A LIMIT

Elocution is a good thing. But
it doesn't go far enough. 1t mere
ly teaches a man how to speak
. not when or how long.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
DRY GOODS

NEW YORK, May 6.-tP- At
tention of the cotton textile market
focued on the coal trike Monday,
A shutdown of many mills was
foreseen if the strike is prolonged
with some quarters estimating thai
the average mill in the industry
has only about a two weeks supply
in coal to continue operations. Cur.
tailment in output was already
being reported from some mill cen
tiers in the SOUTH.
The wool goods market was quiet
as convertors awaited the start OF
deliveries of fall lines. The Goa.
strike was also a primary concern
in the market.
The rayon goods market was
quiet although c%onvertors were
hopeful that mill will hortly make
some additional ALLEGATIONS for the
second quarter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
CHICAGO

CHICAGO, May 6.-(P)-USDA)
Potatoes: Arrivals 174; on tract
14S; total U. S. shipments Friday
1850; Saturday 1903; Sunday 30.
Old stocks: Supplies moderate
demand fair; market about steady
New stocks: Supplies moderate
demand moderate, market weak
err Idaho Russet Burbanks U. S.
No. l, So. 50-3.90; Colorado Red Mo
Clures U. S. No. l. $3.5O-3.80; Min.
nesota-North Dakota cobblers com
mercial, generally good quality
$3.50; Montana Long White U. S
No. l, $3.15; Alabama 100lb. sacks
Bliss Triumphs u. S. No. l $3.25-
$3.50; Texas 50-lb. sacks Bliss Tri-
umphs U. S. No. l $2.15; Louisiana
100-lb. sacks Bliss Triumphs U. S.
No. l, 1915; California 100-lb sacks
Long Whites U. S. No. 1, $3.754.0O.