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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03
. Nine sub day

Bernie Persily read about box
seats to the Jackie Robinson game
at Wrigley Field, May Is, in the
Star on Friday-and on Saturday
raced into the Star office with
nine subsl "Now where's my free
ticket" Bernie painted.
Bernie, a printer, has been a
Star booster for a long time-but,
frankly we didn't know he had it
in him. If Bernie can get nine
subs in a day-what could he
do in a week?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

AS office local, Mark is doing {
single-handed sub-getting job III
his department. His score is 6S
points as of April 26.
And here's a tip from Mark.
The people in the shop. Mark
says. are easier TO sell than
the clerks. But once the clerks
discover" the Star-read il
and get to know it-theY hop
on the Star bandwagon. It's
their paper. too. Mark adds
all you gotta do is help them
to find it out!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03
. UE's man

UE Local 1119 is getting behind
it's president, Bernie McDonough,
to win the Stars grand prize. UE
wants Bernie to see how people
live and work in Europe. the
locals executive board has de-
cided to put the whole organiza-
ton to work for the Star {.
and Bernie, of course.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

That from Pop" Lind, presi-
dent of Local 1O1, Farm Equip
ment Workers Union, who leads
the field of contestants for free
trip to Europe in the current Star
sub-drive.
Pops score to date is 353
points.
POP" or Genial Pop" as he is
called by fellow union members,
was so on April IA. He has been
president of his local union since
1912, vice-president before that.
He has worked at the Interna-
tional Harvester plant since 1926,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03
Five subs for one ball
gome--it's a Star deal

waiting you Just at
Wrigley Field
yearly subscriptions to Chicago STAR
will in trots out
field for his first baseball game Chicago
May 10.
Those so seats behind first base been purchased by
Chicago of will to person
brings yearly the
May Is.
And added incentive those subs will count in the
final prizes 10000
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03
Stor gears for oII-out
city renewal drive


Star,
On that day, the Star is out to
get $500 subscription renewals.
1t will be big job. Every Star
reader is needed!
This is what we want to do:
we want to mobilize you-our
readers-for a one-day city-wide
drive to bring hundreds of Star
readers whose subscriptions have
expired back into the field.
RENEWAL subs obtained on
that day will be credited toward
prizes offered in the current sub
contest.
You can report to Star sta
ton in your own community on
May II, between 1890 am. and
g. pm. and get names and adj
dresses of people whose subs have
expired in that neighborhood.
The rest is up to you!
Report to the station in your
neighborhood:
South Side.
Hyde Park: Community Book
Store. l4o4 E. s5th ST.
End Ward: Room 20. 306 E.
43rd ST. and Laws. 1862 Lang
ley.
4.h Ward: Browns. 53s8 Cal
umet Ave.
5th Ward: Hardon's. so4o Cal
umet Ave.
9Th Ward: 6224 Rhodes Ave.
West Side
HaYm Solomon Center. 1881
w. Roosevelt I'd.
Cicero: Masaryk School. $40
w. 22nd Pl.
South West Side
Wins. 3ll6 S. Halsted ST.
4846 S. Ashland Ave.
TerrY's. 60l4 S. Elizabeth ST.
Coop Hall. 9th ST. and Pull
aski Rd.
North Side
Rogers Park Civic Center.
6803 N. Clark ST.
7th Congressional Area
Tom Paine Book Store, $3.50
w. Lawrence Ave.
1923 w. Division ST.. End
floor.
Hirsch LYce m. 2733 w.
Hirsch ST.
Lower West Side
Greek Club. 522 S. Halsted
ST.
South Chicago
Room IL. 1851 S. Commercial
Ave.
I04l3 S. Michigan Ave.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

in the Star sub
drive. He has
his eye on the
finishing line =
a fir e e trip to
Europe, all ex-
penses paid by
the Star!
Financial Sec
rotary of Local
1872, U.F.E.M.W w.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03
Q 500 on nose

Joe Bezenhofer is so confident
he'll win the Star sub drive grand
prize he's putting his own money
into his race.
Joe. president of Armour
Local 347. UPWA. drew 500
from the bank. and put it up
as prizes for those who turn
in subs credited to his candi-
dacY for the Star grand prize
IA trip TO Europe. Joe is
llth in line. with Al points.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

Forty percent of US. counties
have no. fulltime public health
officer to look after preventive
health services.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03
o VFTU yen

A yen to visit and sit in on
meeting of the World Federation
of Trade Unions is the reason why
Mark Sajatovic is running third
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

Six hundred thousand teachers
have quit the nation'S classrooms
in the last seven years for better,
paying jobs, the American FEEDER
alton of Teachers AFD est,
mates.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

There are about 650,000 Ne,
groes among the Is million mem.
bers of the AFL.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

There's no shortage of profits
for newsprint manufacturers. Net
income for Init. Paper Co. in 1916
was $31, 179,048, more than triple
its 1945 profits.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

Only 8 per cent of American
families have the $1,000 annual
income necessary for the sound
purchase of $4,000 home, &C,
cording to Elliott v. Bell, New
York state superintendent of
banks.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

team of stewards are canvassing
sections and departments each
day. On acknowledgements
are brought in. climaxing the
weeks drive.
If he wins, Pop" thinks maybe
he'd like to see what's going on
in Europe. He says, "I want to
see what's going on there"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03
Genial Pop leads field:
Score moves up to 353

why it's
IS
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-03

The sub-drive count by Saturday.
April rs. was 1882 subs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26

have come out entirely for it. This
phalanx embraces:
The New York Daily News Largest
circulation of any in the world), Chi
cago Tribune, Washington Times
Herald, Golfers Weekly, Saturday Eve
ming Post, Harpers, Richmond Times
Dispatch, Denver Post, and all the
leading papers in Seattle and Portland.
The daily press of Montana cannot
keep this big news hidden from us
much longer. The Great Falls Tri-
bune may some morning be running it
all in two inch headlines as a scoop.
There are in these United States
more than 5000 incorporated COM
munities that have no public water
supply at all. Boulder, Montana, is
one of them.
Over so per cent of the mothers of
the United States cannot have hospi-
tai attention in metimes
because there is no hospital where
they live-more often because of pow
erty
Teachers are everywhere underpaid.
Our old economic system is the best
car to ride in yet built. But grind
ing the valves, new tires now and
then, adjusting the brakes, are needed
more, than for us to be buying a new
car for Turks and Greeks.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26
PROFITS OF BIG BUSINESS Z00M .

Washington LPA) = The sky-high
industrial and business profits of the
last six months of 1916 headed even
farther into the stratosphere during
the first six months of this year, gov
eminent figures and corporation re-
ports revealed this week.
Profits ranging up to 300 per cent
and 400 per cent over last years net
earnings were shown by scores of
business and manufacturing firms.
The lush state of U. S. business was
only partly indicated by two studies
released by the U. S. Commerce Dept.
The first disclosed that publicly re-
ported cash dividends paid by corpora
tions during the first three months
totaled $1,04O, 100000, an increase of
II per cent over the 1887, 100000 paid
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26
TIME -. TO REJOIN THE JNTON'

reason, the white South must aid the
black South in it's fight for emancipa-
ton, for only in this way can we rid
the South of its illiteracy, pellagra,
and generally low living standards for
ALL
Judge Warnings decision strikes at
discrimination at the ballot box. This
lis the root of the matter, for it is
an axiom of history that an exploited
group must achieve political freedom
before it can, gain economic equality.
"It is time" wrote Judge Waring,
''for South Carolina to rejoin the un-
ion" And it is time for the entire
South to cast aside the prejudices that
stand in the way of progress.
In the ringing words of this Charles
ton judge the conscience of the South
has found an able spokesman And
the demands of our conscience happen
to coincide with our economic need.
Sincerely,
JAMES A. DOMBROWSKI,
Director.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26

out in the same 1916 period These
figures account for only about 500 of
all cash dividends paid.
Big Jump In Assets
The second showed that the assets
of the nations 10 largest manufacture
ing corporations jumped from $10,230,-
100000 in 1889 to S12,7O5, 100000. Still
third report-this by the Securities
& Exchange Commission-found that
the working capital of us. corpora
tons rose $1,7OO, 100000 to an estimat-
ed total of $4,000, 100000 during the
first quarter OF this year.
The profit story, however, is most
graphically told by the corporations
themselves in their financial reports.
The following are a typical cross Sec
ton:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26
New Orleans IL, Louisiana
August Is, 1947

M August Is, 1947
To the Editor:
Two recent court decisions make in
teresting parallel reading: the United
States Supreme Court decision strik-
| ing down discriminatory freight rates
and the decision of Judge J. Waties
Warning in United States District Court
ruling out discrimination against Ne
groes in South Carolina Democratic
primaries. o Is
In the freight rate case the South
won an important battle in it's fight to
break the chains that have kept it
in the position of colonial depen-
dency of the northeast. But the South
that fights righteously against dis
elimination from without has been
slow to end or even to see discrimina-
ton that is self-imposed
Anticipated prejudices nodded in a
dead past stand today like a brick wall
blocking the road to progress in the
South. Some of the bricks in that
wall are states rights, fear of organ
lied labor and high wages, white SUI
premacy and a shyness of universal
suffrage
A modern industrialized region de- |
mands skilled workers with high pur-
chasing power, able to buy the prod
ucts of its mills, factories and farms
Yet the South still maintains a racial
caste system based on legalized segre-
cation that condemns 10 millions of it's
fourth of the total Southern
population, to an economic straight
Jacket of unskilled labor and domestic
service with commensurate income.
For it's own sake if for no higher
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26
"Best Seller

ashington-FP-Th house docu-
ment Fascism In Action has climbed
near the top of the Govt. Printing
Office best seller list within three and
one half weeks of its appearance.
Outlining the methods by which fas-
cism came to power in Germany, Italy
and Spain, the booklet was the idea
of Rep. Wright Patman Cd, Tex.) to
combat moves toward fascism in the
us.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26

a way that the persons who produce
it are not allowed to enjoy it.
1t is now to the point where the
workers wife is trying to compete
in the grocery and meat shop with the
mighty government of the United
States; this gives fancy prices to the
millers of flour and packers of meat,
and the United States bids against
the poor girl with part of her hus-
bands wages captured by income tax
Her childrens food goes to Italians
and Germans that were trying to kill
her husband little while ago.
We have spent 80 billion dollars
abroad since the war ended The
Marshall-Truman plan calls for 80 bill
lion more in three or four years If
Europeans want to go Communist, we
cannot stop them.
We Are Losing the War of
Ideoogies
Three weeks ago we called off 1850
million dollars that we had donated
to Italy, and this week Italy seems to
in France is Communist; Sweden is
in the Russian sphere with a five year
trade agreement. While we are try
ing to cement Latin America in our
sphere, our lingo press whines bitter
ly at the Soviet's cementing Europe
far, we are playing a losing game.
Russia is building up, trying to dem
to the watching world that
her system is better than ours, i.e.,
provides the greatest good for the
number. The experiment |
bors-Sweden, Finland, Esthonia, Lith-
uania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugo-
slavia, Romania, Bulgaria, with Great
Britain about to be drawn into the |
Soviet trade sphere. We have gained |
only Turkey and southern Greece with /
4 toe-hold.
In many ways the capitalist econ :
omy Cor American economy, as the
world now calls our isolated ideol-
)gy) has proven itself far superior to
others.
Wherein it excels others, we should
expand it; where it lags, we should
speed up; where some have so much
power that they Cypress their neigh
,ors, we should prune
We can spend 80 billion dollars
lere, to dispose of the surplus product
o keep our system going, more bene-
icially than sending it to Europe or
turkey.
Why Not Build Valley Authorities? |
The seven valley authorities planned t
" Mr.. Roosevelt were to cost only |
5 billion. Rising cost of labor and
place that cost now at %
illion. The worth of the Tennessee
alley Authority brings men from all 6
be world to see it's work Locally, y
ur daily press is private power con- r
rolled Our little legislature and f
overnor are still power puppets. But V
10 best public opinion of the nation f
for the immediate diversion of this d
old stream from strangers to us at n
ONE. f
Since Senator Murray's first bill for u
Missouri Valley Authority was intro a
uced, our biggest and ablest papers C
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26
Wasteful Efforts In Our Artificial System
OfEconomy Are Pointed Up
By LOWNDES MAURY

Russian visiting this country before World III COM
mented to reporter that above all the big
electric lighted signs advertising night patent
medicines tooth pases using enough light
whole cities that half of the radio
He said such wasted effort allowed
When the people wastres rulers follow suit In
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26
Pick-Sloan Ignores Soil
Conservation, Etc.

SOIL erosion programs, refOreStatiOn,
shelter belts and wild life refugees
will all go a long way toward flood
prevention and diminish the necessity
for food control. The Yellowstone
valley also has the setting for magni-
ficent recreation areas, and the needed
development of coal beds, chrome
manganese iron ore, bentonite and
forty other mine, mill and quarry
products that will go to make a bal
anced economy. This can be en-
couraged and brought about under an
MVA. 1t does not even rate mention
in the political scheme which you
would sell us.
So Mr.. Congressman a good many
people, out in this region which is
so vitality concerned, do not think the
Pick-Sloan plan is the whole alpha
to omega in development plans In
the Yellowstone Valley it will prob
ably produce about 20%o of the better
ment to which we feel entitled. Nor
are we impressed with your idea that
an MVA is "un-American, un-demo-
cratic and unconstitutional" If this
be so we suggest that you get back
to congress and make preparation to
repeal the Port of New York Authority
Act, which has been on the books for
a half century; the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, another public
act, set up in Hoover's
time and the IVA, now fourteen years
Did and working wonders for it's re-
G. LOCKE, Member
Regional Committee for MVA.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26

the story of our planet, no peo-
pie and no government has ever
squandered manpower, natural
resources, money, goods, cere-
ais, as has been done in this
country since the war ended.
There has never anywhere been such
Indifference about directing our ener-
gies to useful ends. While, of course,
money is not wealth, yet, when do
mated out of tax payers pockets to
foreign nations, it comes quickly back
and seizes in the markets the product
of our labor on farm, in mine, in fac
tory Every dollar we send abroad
for coffee, tin, rubber, ETC., enriches
us Every dollar we give away abroad
makes us that much poorer in cotton
or copper, cars or corn.
We have planted so much wheat,
and given it away, that our agrono-
mists not only complain that our land
is losing it's fertility, but that two
dry years would cause such a dust
bowl in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and
elsewhere, as we have not dreamed
of before.
Sheer Jinaoism and Hypocrisy
Our rulers, by radio and press, de-
ceive us. Some talk of our Christian
duty to feed hungry Europe. That is
subterfuge, and they know it. Others
tell us we, by gifts of bread, will pre-
vent the spread of communism. While
these dread the spread of communism
sincerely enough, they must know
from recent events that our money
cannot change political beliefs. Our
Big Brass demands compulsory serv-
ice and costly armament, pretending |
to fear Russia. This is Jingoism and |
For fifteen years the So |,
viets, in the old League of Nations,
and now in U.N., have offered to COM
pletely disarm if the other nations
would do so.
None of these pressure groups speak
the inward motive of their masters,
the big bankers and manufacturers,
in making them plump for doles to de-
cadent ruling classes abroad, for with
drawing from productive work here a
million of our youth.
The truth is, our system of economy
is artificial. 1t exploits the worker,
the farmer. the miner, the planter,
the stock raiser, the lumber man.
Because of our knowledge and skill,
and still somewhat of a superiority
in natural resources, if the great
forces of production were turned :
loose without a better distribution,
e., higher wages and more for the
rancher less for the packers and rail
roads, there would soon be such a
slut of over-production, lie, under ]
that the outlet for raw 1
PRODUCTS, ie., the factories and proc |
,ssUrs would shut down and we would \
)e in another bust. t
So we keep possibly million use c
ess men on the payrolls of Washing t
on in civil work; another million in g
he armed service. We get rid of t
much of the surplus, not by killing il
title pigs, or dumping ship loads of g
Office in the ocean, or by using corn b
or fuel but by sending our meat,
5heat. corn copper, cotton, leather, g
o Europe all just to get rid of it in d
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-09-26
Consistency, Thou
CONTINUED from Page one)

36,000,000 acre feet of storage capa
city instead of 100000 acre feet now
proposed and our floods, as well as
most of yours will be cared for.
Power production fares no better
than irrigation or flood control The
Reclamation Bureau proposes to de-
velop about one and one-half billion
kilowatt hours of power per year.
Based on the assumption that 100000
acres be irrigated in the Yellowstone
valley, there still remains a potential
power production of two and one-half
to three billion XIV. hours of power
per year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Stock Market Stages
One Of Best Rallies.
OF 1947 in Week
By Victor Eubonk



NEW YORK, May 31.-The stock
market. during the past short week,
enjoying one of its best rallies of the
year and, on balance, held good
net gain for the four sessions.
All securities exchanges suspended
Friday In observance of Memorial
Day and remained closed Saturday.
Through June, July, August and
September no Saturday sessions will
he held. ?
Bullish and bearish sentiment was
pretty evenly split in Wall Street.
Optimists based their arguments
partly on the big short interest
announced the week before which,
many felt, was "overdone";; on the
belief that the recent dive to lows
since. early 1915 called for a sub
stanf-al technical rebound, and on
the idea that a possible economic
letdown later in the year had been
at least partially discounted market
wise.
Skepticism Persists.
On the other hand, dissenting
contingents held aloof or trimmed
accounts due to skepticism over tax
relief, labor legislation and the
murky atmosphere surrounding in
ternational affairs. A big batch of
favorable earnings and dividends
was viewed by these as water over
the dam" and doubts were expressed
regarding the maintenance of corp
crate profits at anywhere near the
1947 top.
Monday the market suffered its
first dip since May II but dealings
tapered to only $4,000 shares, a
minimum for 5-hour stretch since
July 5, 1916. Most leaders slipped
Tuesday with dealings expanded
to $4,000 shares. None too pleasing
was the survey disclosing that COM
mercial failures in the week con-
cluded May % rose to 102, a peak
since March 1913.
Shorts ran to cover Wednesday
and gave the big board its widest
upswing since February 7 but the
days aggregate reached only $780,
600 shares. Advances of / to or
more points, however, were nurner-
Gus, although this was well absorbed
in the majority of cases. Agreement
of House Senate conferees on a tax
cut bill brought a brisk but brief
fourth-hour upswing. The pace then
slowed and extreme plus marks
we're reduced at the close. Volume
of 100000 shares was the largest of
the 4-day week.
For the four sessions the total
dwindled to 2,998,010 shares from
5,657,270 in the previous day week.
The months figure was 20,615, 786
compared with 2o,61o,5 $50 in April.
In the latest week the Associated
Press 60-stock composite was up g
Of a point at 612 but for May was
down Z. 1t was the fourth successive
losing month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Maryland Tobacco

BALTIMORE, May 81 'Pp.-The De-
partment of Agriculture reported today
that average prices for a large number
Of grades sold on the Southern Maryland
tobacco market in the week ended May
80 displayed huctuatton amounting to as
much as SIS" compared with last week
=. AL grades. of tips low dull and primings
drown leaD were affected by losses
Gains were on most grades of bright
crop. dull crop, and better grades of dull.
There was a stronger demand for some
grades Of seconds, with a few more
grades showing increases than decreases -
Most low to fine qualities Of bright
and dull crop advanced ST. to So, or re-
manned steady. with fair and good dull
showing slight increases.
The largest individual gains were for
seconds. with fair dark red advancing So.
The general quality OF tobacco was
slightly better than the previous week
and there. were fewer reflections.
Net sales on the market during the
week totaled 2.222 $40 pounds at an
average Of. 1914 per hundred, or an
increase Of SO cents over the previous
week. Net sales for the season to date
are e,342,464 pounds averagins S46.01.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO. May 81 P,-tUSDA1-Hog
receipts today negllg ble, no estimate; COM
pared week ago all weights hogs generally
steady.
week ago fed steers and yearIings, including
yearling heifers. active, strong to 30,
mostly 25 higher; general demand broad
on both local and outside account; cows
and bulls $500 higher, comparatively
scarce: yeslers 30 to | 90 up; larssly fed
kinds predominating at 24.o0-27 90; top
27.35 on choice weizhty steers, 1918 on
l9nE yeaTinfs s ase,tsFs hstsrs
s stoek cattle. this class strong Il is.7s.
22.00 on medium to low.eholce lignt offef-
VESTS, 90 ,35; preholiday killer trade brisk;
most beef COWS Il 1918 90; strictly good
down: selected vesiers reached $3.50.
Sheep receipts not estimated: compared
week ago.. clipped lambs steady 70 2S
shoIss ! .St. and spTinF lambs sc.E.s
top old crop. lambs $3.50 for load good
and choice 51-pound fed clips with No. /
pelts; other good and choice with No 8
70 No, l pelts 21.5o-22.25. medium
is.s. ,oa sa is 5 ssss fs sgd vsssS
lambs ~ 90; load good 95-pound wool
skins, 21.15: few small lots good and
choice native spring lambs, 1880; good
and choice shorn native ewes 90
No, . pelted us and lis pound medium
and good California ewes with around 20
percent end Of euila and eomnon 7.15 and