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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
GM Again Uses
Profits Tax To
Show a Profit

Dertiot (FP) General Motors
Corp. again converted on operating
loss for April, May and June into a
net profit by the kindness of congress
in enacting tax laws to favor the big
concerns, it is revealed in the report
to stockholders signed by Chairman
Alfred P. Sloan and Pres. C. f. Will
son.
GIN employees, who also sustained
substantial loss in earning in that
quarter as against year earlier, got
no tax refunds from the government,
the United Auto Workers research de-
partment commented
Operations for the second quar-
ter" Sloan and Wilson explain, ere
suited in loss of $12, APT before
adjustment of $28,466,000 for U. S.
income and excess profit taxes. After
giving effect to this estimated re-
duction in taxes, as described above
Tin their report to stockholders), net
income for the second quarter was
S16,32O,573."
iHO iooo w dM efuplOycco was III
directly disclosed by Sloan and Will
sons report on employment and pay
rolls. They show an average of $685.
356 employees on GIN payrolls in the
second quarter of 1916, compared
with All, 1856 in the second quarter of
1945. Total payrolls in the second
quarter of 1916 were 1924, ,226,072,
compared with 1902, ,O67,0S7 for the
second quarter of 1915.
Those GIN workers fortunate
enough to be employed constituted
81 per cent of those employed in the
second quarter in 1915 but they got
only n per cent of the 1915 second
quarter payroll. That is to say, not
only were there fewer employees but
these fewer averaged lower pay. And
instead of federal tax refunds they
had to pay higher prices for food and
clothing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
THE CHERRY TREE

Now isn't that just simply awful!
Great balls of fire.
Is THAT what's wrong with the
economic order? Come on, let's be
grown up.
What are we going to call the riga
marole of economics by reason of
which John and Jane have NO RE-
SERVES after what we have been
told so often has been the greatest
earning period in all our history when
simply EVERYBODY had money to
burn?
Did they spend it as fast as they
earned it? Well, mostly they did, but
they never earned the fancy figures
so often quoted. They earned about
enough to live on, meeting costs that
rose on every hand, not because of
them and their spending, but in spite
of it.
A fourth of our families have no
reserves whatever; the next fourth a
pitiful dribble, the next fourth fair
ly respectable amount and the fourth
darned near ALL of it. Who found
this out? Why, the very respectable
and very able Bureau of Agriculture
Economics in the Department of
agriculture. You can believe it.
Why not some planning to bring up
the standard of living of those first
and second quarters of our popula
ton? Top authorities are clamoring
for more and more production. We
could use some more clamoring for
more ability to consume.
The union wage population falls
about in the middle of the picture. To
the left of it is standard; to the
right is most of the fat.
Someone has talked of balanced
economy, much as Secretary Wallace
has talked about an ever-normal
granary.
But not many people try to do any
thing sensible about it. 1t might be
an interesting experiment. Remember,
unbalance never stays long within
any set borders.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12

It's funny place, this world is.
Now it turns out that the people
don't have nearly as much money as
the prophets used to say, some eight
or ten months ago, that they had.
Pretty close to rs per cent OF
American families don't have any re-
serves which they can blow in for
new things.
Now that is blow, indeed, for the
mass producers who had visions OF
long lines of people, with great fists
full of green backs, at every store
door.
Don't get excited, though, quite yet.
There are current earnings and out OF
them quite few items can be bought.
And there is credit, such as Install
ment plan buying. But current earn
ings will simply NOT do the miracle
trick of cleaning up the vast output
that is coming.
Moreover, every time it looks as if
installment buying might help turn
the trick, Old Man Federal Reserve
Board comes along and tightens it up.
This is all done in the name of pre-
venting initiation. But all the retail
buying that ever was done, for cash
or credit, never upset the apple cart
of financial stability and it never will
do it.
Somebody is cuckoo.
We have Hungarys initiation held
up as a horrible example, just as pre-
war Germanys initiation was similar
ly held up for US to gaze upon.
But let's not be fooled Hungarian
initiation is under Russian domination
and Russian CONTROL. 1t is not a
natural, if we may use the word, de-
velopment. And the Nazi initiation
was planned to liquidate the German
postwar No. debts for nothing.
We have some initiation and we
may have more. But it is NOT caused
by the people and their buying habits.
1t goes lot higher up than that. The
lingo of economics can be fear
some thing, just like the lingo of
doctors and lawyers.
Professional double talk can fool
US if we let ourselves be fooled. But
we don't have to do that We can do
little thinking of our own and we
jolly well need to.
If credit begets initiation we shall
find it in the BIG credit flood at the
top of the structure and not down
where John and Jane Doe buy their
new reffigerators.
A lot of labor officers have been
fooled too Some heritage of puritani
cal straight-jacket economics, or some
vestige of morality hangover leads
some to look upon debt as a sin, or
something closely akin thereto.
So John and Jane get the very
devil lectured out of them and their
economic sin is so Labelled and held
up as a possible menace to the whole
stability of the country.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
st. Louis Police
Go Underground.
Fiqhf Union Ban

ST. Louis (FP)-Half the St. Louis
police force, faced with ban on their
union membership, have gone under
ground to continue their organizing
activity. Three policemen, officers OF
the union, defied the prohibition to
force a court test of the ban and as a
result face imminent dismissal from
the force.
The three who will be brought up
on charges of violating police manual
rules forbidding union membership
are John r. Judge, union treasurer,
julius Haff and Daniel King. Con-
forming union policy to test the
legality of the police Department.
order, they refused to sign statements
that they had dropped their union
membership. The other members were
instructed to withdraw from Local
549, American Federation of State
County & Municipal Employees by
the unions executive board.
Former Motorcycle Policeman Rich
ard T. Miller, union president who
was fired for helping to organize the
union, isn't worried about the mass
designations.
"The organization is functioning
right now through the Shield Club,
which is the alternate name for Local
549," he said. "The club dues are
$3.50 month, the same as the union
dues. and will be paid by those who
xyara forced hv tho hoard to omit tho
union.
"We would have preferred to carry
on openly, but at any rate We'll con-
tinue to function until there is final
court decision. We already have said
we would disband if the decision holds
that a police union is not legal, but
we're determined to carry this fight
to the U. S. supreme court. if neces-
sary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12

tl0n has not been ATTEMPTED or where
inadequate housing programs have
been approved it would be helpful to
supplement this federal legislation by
calling into extraordinary session the
legislative bodies of those states"
Mead pointed out that, although
the Senate passed the housing bill be-
fore adjournment early in August, it
was blocked in the House Banking
and Currency Committee and held
there until the second session of the
10th Congress closed down.
81 can see no reason for further de-
lay in congressional action on this
measure" he said. Extended hear
ings were held in the Senate over a
period of many, many months, with
all views being fully considered. The
bipartisan approval of the measure
in the Senate has lifted this measure
out of politics.
at is the foundation for the long
range job of eliminating slums and
rebuilding American cities and towns
with good homes, good neighborhoods
and good communities for all fami-
lies"
Present and future housing needs
of war veterans, Mead said, are "com-
pelling reasons behind" the Wagner
Ellender- Taft bill "as an integral part
of the emergency housing program" F"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Virginia Democrats Pick
Robertson For Senate

Richmond, Va. (FP)-Rep. A.
Willis Robertson won the Democratic
nomination to succeed the late Sen.
Carter Glass Sept. 5 in party con-
vention here, after strong competition
from Rep. Howard Smith, well-known
foe Of labor.
Since Democratic nomination is the
same as election in polltax Virginia,
Robertson's Senate seat is assured.
He has record of eight unfavorable
and tfEee favorable votes on the re-
cent CIO voting list breaking down
major issues before the 18th Con-
gress
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Permits Loyoffs.
Blocks Wage Cuts

New York (FP)-The layoff of 4G
Press Wireless employees was ap-
proved here Aug. 20 by Chairman
Arthur S. Meyer of the State Board
of Mediation, who at the same time
ruled against pay cuts through re-
classification of other employees.
The ruling followed arbitration of a
dispute which caused the American
Communications Assn. to conduct a
2-week strike against PW and to en-
barge press messages of other COM
munciations companies to prevent
transmission of struck copy.
Meyer held that reduction of work
made the layoffs valid but upheld the
unions contention that they should
not have been laid off before submit
ting the question to arbitration. He
therefore awarded the men full pay
from date of the strike until they
receive final dismissal notices. On
grounds that the unioin itself should
have pressed for arbitration instead
of striking, he ruled that the other
800 strikers should not receive pay
for the period they were on strike.
Refusing to permit wage reductions
for downgraded workers, Meyer de-
clared: "The real take-home pay of
the workers has been adversely af-
fected both by the sharp decrease in
the number of hours worked and a
sharp increase in the cost of living.
Under such circumstances it would be
tragical for the men affected, and
truly believe unfortunate for all par
ties, to permit a present cut in basic
wages"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
LITTLE TINE LOST BY STRIKES

Washington (FP) Less working
time was lost through strikes in July
than in any month since VI Day, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics said. The
number of strikes, 480, was higher
than in any other month this year,
however, because of a large number
of small wage disputes following the
OPA holiday at the end of June
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Mead Asks Specidl Sessions
Of Congress, Legislatures To
Pass Needed Housing Lows

Washington d. LNS)A special session of Congress to
complete the housing bill
also special sessions of state legislatures to act housing
urged here by Senator James NJ Mead of New York
Emphasizing the growing seriousness of the nations hous
ing problem Senator Mead declared Congress
convened for only short session enable the Wagner
bill it would have sautay effect upon the country
and upon our housing shortage"
Similarly added those states lepisa-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
INCREASED PENSION

Columbus, o. (FP)-Ohio's $4,000
old-age pensioners may now qualify
for up to $50 month benefit insead
Of $40, plus an allowance up to $500
for medical, dental and optical care.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12

Our failure to write more personal
letters is due to embarrassment be-
cause our life is so dull - or so i:
seems at the time.
Evening star., 1946-10-13

I. BOOM TIldES The ayeyaee
per capita income in the United
States in 1910 was s575. What was
tt last year?
81, $50 per capita.
M. F. L.. Little Mech, N. Y.
l. NEW DRUG .. What ne,v chemi-
eel has been discose1ed for treat
me'a Of skin infections?
Furacin "a yellow powder de-
rived from the hulls of oats. 1t not
only checks the growth of germs
but actually kills them.
}. WORLD PAPER What bubli-
cation is being issued BY the United
Nations?
A weekly bulletin which is issued
every Thursday. Price is Is cents
a copy. An annual subscription
costs six dollars.
4 RUDBLE TROUBLE What
has London done sOith the rubble
caused BY bombs during the war?
Nearly 1000, 900 tons of debris
have been dumped into a marsh.
This will eliminate winter foods
and provide 30O-acre recreation
ground.
8. UNCLE SANS ACRES
Where is our government releasing
millions of acres Of public land for
trisate depeiOpment9
In Alaska - 18,64O, 900 acres
have been released under Federal
mining and leasing laws.
8. BUYERS RUSH .. Why ne7e
reterG,,s 50 anxious to buy surplus
ghders at SIS each?
Each glider is packed in five
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Works wonders with
stews and inexpensive
meof dishes

Kitchen Bouquet is a smooth
blend Of IS garden-fresh vegetables,
herbs and spices. Contains no vine
gar. no artificial favorings. Doesn't
smother" the taste of the meat,
but brings out its full Havorful good
ness. Adds rich brown color, too.
Evening star., 1946-10-13

wooden crates which furnish 1000
board feet of hard-to-get lumber.
I. BEAUTIFUL BUSES Why
haze eol0red buses - red, blue,
yelloW and green - been put into
circulation in Paris?
The artistically sensitive Pari-
slams are being asked to decide
which color they prefer!
.. PORK BARREL Government
payments tn Wages amount to
$4,000, DOT. 900 a year. How does
this compare with trivate i,,dust,y's
wages?
Federal, state and local govern
ments are accounting for more
than one out of every six dollars
paid out in wages.
.. CINDERELLAS H0w much
did the American public spend on
jewels and baubles last year.?
$1,000. .OOO,O 900 a new high.
j. p, Greenvich, Conn.
10. NOTHING NEW What Uas
sold in the oldest automatic pending
machine tn the World2
Wine. The machine is in the
British Museum and dates back
1000 years.
H. ". p, Forest Park, Ga.
CONDUCTED '' M M..z
NOTE: We will pay So for a ques-
tion and answer used in this column.
Proof must accompany tie answer.
Address: Tom Henry. THIS WEEK,
42o Lexington Avenue, New York II,
N. Y. Unaocepted contributions cannot
be acknowledged or returned.
Evening star., 1946-08-26
Lewis N. Ans|ey, 81,
Alexandra Assessor,
dies Of Heart Attack

Lewis Middleton Ansley, ST, Alex
andria tax assessor, died last night
of heart attack at his home, Hunt
ing Terrace Apartments. Alexandria
He was a native of Birmingham
Ala, and came to Alexandria as a
boy. His father was treasurer of the
Southern Railway System.
Mr.. Ansley attended Alexandria
public schools and was in the real
estate business in New York for
many years. He was an Army vet
eran of World War I.
Before his return to Alexandria in
1943 to accept the appointment as
assessor he was employed by the
Home Owners Loan Corp, in Bal
timore and Richmond.
Active in civic work, he was a
founder and treasurer of Alexan-
dria Visiting Nurse Service, member
of the Alexandria Rotary Club
member Of Alexandria American
Legion Post, No. "a, and worker fol-
the Alexandria Community Chest.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Hazel King Ansley; three sisters
Mrs. James H. Corbitt, Suffolk, Va;
Mrs. w. A. Smoot and Mrs. Anna
Ansley, both of Richmond, and 6
brother Urquhart Ansley, Philadel.
phia.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Wednesday at ST. Paul's Epis.
copal Church. Alexandria.
Evening star., 1946-08-26
VfW Delegates Support
Request for State Bonus

ROANOKE, Va, Aug. rs tP).-
Three hundred delegates to the
sixth district meeting of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars here yester-
day approved a resolution to sup
port actively and campaign for
adjusted service compensation from
the State of Virginia.
Meeting at the VFW Post 484
home here the delegates from Roam
oke, Vinton, Salem, Radford, Gov
mgton, Lynchburg, Clifton Forge
F1ncastle, New Castle and Blacks
burg heard R. D. Duell of Norfolk
Department of Virginia commander
urge the meeting to contact all
State legislative candidates in their
district and urge adoption of the
model service compensation act
drawn up by the VFW legislative
committee.
In addition, the veterans approved
drive for 100000 members to be-
gin September Is. Mr.. Dueell esti.
mated that 180, 900 men in the State
are eligible for membership in the
organization. l.. H. Mitchell, Junior
vice-commander of the Sixth Dis.
trict, was elected to head the re.
cruiting campaign.
A committee was appointed to cal
on local newspapers and request tn,
omission of the word veteran" ol
"ex-GI" in any accounts published
by them pertaining to police or Law
enforcement actions.
Evening star., 1946-08-26
Defeated Candidates
Back 0'Conor, Lane
BY the Assoeiofed Press

OCEAN CITY, Md, Aug. 90
More than 500 Democrats from all
parts of Maryland gathered here
yesterday at reception sponsored
by the United Democratic Women's
Clubs of Maryland for party candi-
dates and their wives.
Party solidarity was the keynote Of
the affair, at which Gov. O'Conor
and w. Preston Lane, jr., candidates
for the Senate and governorship, re-
spectively, received the backing OF
two Eastern Shoremen they defeated
in the June primary.
Senator Radcliffe, who lost the
senatorial nomination, said Gov
O'Conor could expect a substantial
majority in the general election
State Controller j. Millard Tawes
defeated by Lane, expressed the
hope that the Shore could make a
valuable contribution to Mr.. Lanes
success.
Gov. O'Conor, in a brief address
told women guests that if elected to
the Senate he would support a pro-
posed constitutional amendment to
guarantee equal rights for women.
Other political figures attending
the reception we're Representatives
Roe and D'Alesandro, candidates for
reelection; Hall Hammond, candi-
date for attorney general; James j
Lacy, candidate for State controller
and DR.. H. C. Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland.
Evening star., 1946-08-26
Prince WiIIiamC T.. ofC.
To Study Police Force
Special Dispatch 10 The stor

MANASSAS, Va, Aug. 26.-Es-
tablishing police system for
Prince William County will be dis
cussed at a luncheon meeting OF
the Prince William Chamber OF
Commerce at noon tomorrow. May
or Harry P. Davis, president of the
organization, will preside.
The discussion will be led by DR..
George B. Cooke, chairman of a
committee named by the chamber
to investigate the need for an ade-
quate police system and to draw up
tentative plans.
DR.. Cooke and his committee, COM
posed of Charles w. Alpaugh and
]. Carl Kincheloe, presented a plan
to the Chamber of Commerce at
last weeks meeting, calling for an
initial outlay of $4,000. This amount
would include $5,400 for salaries OF
three policemen; $4,000 for three
police cars; $500 for police uniforms
$500 for one-way radio equipment;
and $1,000 for maintenance of the
cars.
1t was estimated that fines would
bring in approximately $4,000 the
first year and the suggested elimina-
ton of a special officer now en-
ployed would reduce the cost $1,000
leaving a net cost of only $4,000
The cost to the county over period
OF years, the committee calculated
would be about $500 q year.
Evening star., 1946-08-26
School Board 10 GET
Arlington Petition al
Meeting Tomorrow

Signed more than 5000 Arlington
taxpayers, a petition for a school
bond issue amounting to s3,250, ,00C
will be presented to the School
Board by the Citizens Committee
for School Improvement at 8 pm
tomorrow at a meeting in the court
house. .....
The committee was formed as an
aftermath of the county budget
hearings in April, 1945, when School
Supt. Fletcher Kemp submitted q
supplementary budget covering i'm
provements recommended by the
county Parent-Teacher Association
Council. At the hearings, Mr.. Kemp
stated necessary school improve
ments could be obtained only by
a bond issue.
The funds would be used fol
establishment of public kindergar-
tens, full-day sessions for the first
and second grades, reduction oi
class size to an average of 80 pupils
per teacher and more adequate
facilities for the secondary schools
including new junior high schoo
and centrally located colored high
school.
DR.. Oscar LeBeau, committee
president, said a bond issue which
would spread the cost over a 30.
year period is the only solution tt
the problem of raising the capita
necessary.
Evening star., 1946-08-26

terday of injuries received Satur-
day when truck overturned on
Route 224 near Mason Springs, Md.
Police listed the driver as Rich
ard T. Gaynor, colored, Fairmont
Heights, who said his front wheel
struck soft shoulder.
Soldier Is Victim.
Pvt. Cerassari was brought to
Walter Reed Hospital in a Fort
Meade ambulance after having been
in an accident near the Dover Ali
Base, Washington police reported
He died yesterday.
Sylvia King, 8, colored, 1000 bloch
Forty-fourth street NE. received 6
possible skull fracture and unde'
termined internal injuries when sh,
fell out of car in Fairmont Height!
late Saturday. She was admitted
to Gallinger Hospital.
Police said she fell out of a cal
driven by Christopher j. johnson
25, colored, also of the 1000 blocl
of Forty-fourth street.
Meanwhile, Washington police an
nounced charges of speeding have
been placed against 81 drivers since
5 pm. Saturday, bringing the total
to 661 for this offense since August
7. OF those charged during the
week end, 80 were accused of going
more than 40 miles an hour. which
will result in automatic suspension
of their permits if they are con.
victed, police said.
Evening star., 1946-08-26
Campaign | Launched
BY Camp Fire Girls

A campaign to increase the rec
reation and social opportunities fol
girls in the northern part of Mont
gomery County has been launched
by the Camp Fire Girls, Mrs. Rec
Purcell announced today.
Volunteers to serve as group lead
ers will be recruited this week, Mrs
Purcell said. She emphasized that
there sis great need for additional
youth services in the rural areas"
The Camp Fire Girls, an agency
wholly supported by the Mont.
gomery County Community Chest
and Council, is working to provide
recreation and character-b building
activities for 463 girls in the county
A program has been planned which
will emphasize personality develop
ment, vocational guidance, social life
and social services, with girls from
z years Of age through high school
participating.
Miss Josylon Dent, senior camp
unit director during the summer
will be in charge of the program
She succeeds Miss Sue Watts, who
has resigned effective September Is