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Evening star., 1947-08-06
announcement

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel A. Fine an
nounce. the engagement OF their
daughter, Miss Evelyn Fine, to Mr..
Sheldon Mensh. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Shea Mensh Both families
are Washingtonian. No date has
been set for the wedding.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
Frank avis

educating" America on the
democratic rights of labor and
minorities. And Stelle.
former national commander,
wants 10 atom bomb Russia
now"
As presently constituted and
planned, these I'M American com
mittees are of prime service to
Wall Street and reaction. They
focus attention on side issues,
throttle liberals and progressives,
and act as a smokescreen to cover
the maneuvers of our warmongers
and Big Business interests.
BUT the Thomas Rankin mon
ster is not alone. The bulk of the
Both Congress is like a magician
who suavely directs attention to
his left hand while performing
slick tricks with his right. With
a stage magician, however, the
audience knows it has been fooled.
Unfortunately, the percentage of
open-mouthed believers in the
show currently going on in Wash
ington is considerably higher.
Are the billion dollar. corp
orations growing fatter from
unbelievablY high profits in
1916 and from gobbling up
smaller rivals? Then. says
Congress in the top hat and
tails of the magaician. let's
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
SPEAKING
SPEAKING
| cost my lot with history

the majority of Congress supports
them. They practice the doctrine
of immunity for fascists, Jail for
anti-fascists.
California has its own I'M
American activities committee TAX
ing theological leadership from
the Thomas-Rankih incubus. Gov.
Sigler of Michigan undoubtedly
wants to follow suit.
Last week the executive COM
mittee of the Illinois American
Legion adopted resolution de-
handing immediate creation of
similar committee by the state
legislature.
THE Legion position should sur
prise no one. Many of the boys
who fought in World War l have
grown fat and powerful in middle
age. Some are bankers, big en-
ployers and wealthy realtors.
These leaders helped the real es-
tate lobby murder the veterans
housing program. AS guiding
lights in NAM and the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce, they took
OPA for a ride and throttled
FEPC.
The NAM has spent millions
through the Legion for ''edu-
cational programs" but have
yet TO hear of the Legion
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
STATE OF THE NATION
No man can be silent
[1|:2:|2: 7;Ea1

stand my country and TO serve
her. have never put pen TO
paper except with that pur-
pose in mind. and sometimes
have succeeded poorly and
sometimes well. / think I can
say that.
This is no time for modesty, but
a time for courage and greatness.
Many men will speak out, and it
is fitting that they should speak
out with all their hearts and all
their strength.
I HAVE LIVED through the
history of this land, roamed
through it, and had the good for
tune to understand some very
great men who are dead these
many years.
Also / came to know some of
the living, SO that l can tell my
children some day how / took the
hand of Franklin Delano Roose-
welt, and talked with him and ate
with hin-and the hands of others
too.
And this I know: that never
in all its time and history was
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

when he picks up the black earth
and crumbles it in his fingers; it
was respect born out of under
standing, and though ! value many
things he gave me, ! think ! value
that most.
PEOPLE have asked me, too
often perhaps, why l write the
kind of books l do; they ask me
where my ideas come from, and
if l were to say that my writing
and all in it comes from the land
that bore me and nurtured me, it
would be pat and evident, but the
truth nevertheless.
1t is a hard thing to say; even
as, in this day and this situation,
we are being robbed of our ideals
and our principles, SO are we be-
ing robbed of the ability to say
basic thing simply and straight
forwardly and unashamedly.
Whatever I am. America
made me: / say that proudly
and will. I trust. continue TO
say if until die. For decade
and a half I have tried. in
every way know. to under
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

which at one stroke would wipe
out all our rights, all our hard
won freedom.
And there are men who stay
silent.
A member of the Cabinet calls
for the suppression of political
party which has worked tireIessIy
and increasingly for civil rights
and for the cause of labor and the
people.
And some men say: after all it
is not my party, and / will stay
silent; perhaps they will forget me
and leave me alone.
A President of this land calls
for a world empire, for forcible
intervention in any land which
strikes our fancy, and implicit in
his words is the threat of war
which could wipe out a hundred
million or five hundred million
human souls, war against
former ally of ours-and the Con-
gress listens to him and applauds
him.
WHAT have we come to? Did
Germany teach us no lessons?
Do we still believe the insane
illusion that by silence men can
make their peace with fascism?
Are we to become so like in
sects, SO like beetles and reaches
that we believe in the security of
the. crevices into which frightened
men crawl?
This is no time for complicated
preachments. The simple fact is
this: that all we believe in and
all we value is at stake.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

You see, one percent of 214
billion is 25 million-and that
isn't peanuts. And when you
remember that SO of the stock
holders own more than half Of
that 212 billion, you get an idea
of who runs America. I'm short.
the directors have done an
heroic job of maintaining divi-
dends and interest" is the way
the report sums up this ques-
ton of who gets the gravy.
* + =
YES. SIR; IT & T has been
tried and found wanting. But
it will take the united efforts
of every American to make the
verdict stick.
If you want lower telephone
rates and better service, you
better get out there and help
those telephone workers lick
this trust. It's your fight, too.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

our land in such peril. such
terrible. mortal peril. What
craven. miserable creature
man must be TO remain silent
at time like this! What a
poor thing if is TO sell ones
birthright for mess of pottage
and less!
T liberty, democracy, hum a n
Irights-these are words we
wrote across the sky in starry let
tiers.
1t was our tiny revolutionary
army that taught the world an
eternal lesson in freedom.
1t was in, our land that the dig
nifty of the individual was exalted.
1t was our Bill of Rights that
sanctified the security of the citi-
zen, and it was our Civil War that
taught the world lesson in the
price that freedom requires.
AND WHAT do we see now? A
congressman whose-very name has
become a shameful and inter
national badge of iniquity and
hatred proposes in Congress bill
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

cago and Atlanta? Then let's give
$500, 900, 900 to Greece and Turkey.
SUCH is the picture in April,
l947.' This is the talk coming from
our officials in Washington. BY
their own admission, they are
good democratic Americans. Do
you agree? Or are you opposed
to their ideas and therefore Sub
versive" like me?
But the truth is that the only
genuinely democratic Americans
are those who fit some part of
the Thomas-Rankin definition of
subversive, and if our homeland
is saved from the destruction and
chaos to which we are rushing
headlong, it will be us subversives
who do it.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

a flag away: 1t was more than Old
clothes, more than shirt whose
destiny was to become a dustrag.
MY BROTHER still. has the
flags.
My father, many years since,
was laid away in the good earth
of this country which he loved
so well, so deeply, so unreservedly,
so simply and SO lastingly.
His love for America was not
the cheap thing that Rotarians call
patriotism; it was the attachment
of the child to the mother; it had
some of what the farmer feels
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
lot Of nickeIs go a long way for A7&T

This is what the government
not the union, says.
1T HAS MORE to say. You
NOW these tear-jerking stories
about how the widows and or
ohans are the ones who own
he stock in Americas corpor-
atoms? The report says:
These THE stockholders
are represented as. elder
lY women with beatific
faces knitting sweaters for
their grandchildren. exist
ing on a small dividend
from the company. No one
of them. ii is said. owns as
much as one per cent. a
truly noteworthy fact even
though one per cent own
ership of a $2.500.00o.00
corporation amounts TO an
investment of nearly S25.-
100000"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

&C.. The introduction of the
dial telephone =. supplanted
not the highly skilled and
highly paid workers, but pre-
cisely the lowest paid among
the employees of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, that is, the telephone
girls, large proportion get
ting less than $1,000 a year.
That's what the government
report says and it adds, These
have been compelled to go else
where and in the absence of
job opportunities now crowd
the relief rolls and the Works
Project Administration
MORE AND MORE of what
this giant collects from the
public goes to dividends and
profits; less and less goes to
wages and mass buying power.
The company acts as
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

out came the best
of the three flags
to be draped over
a window sill or
tied onto a pole.
l a S Ike d him
once why he kept
the old flags and
he said that they
were entitled to
it, he thought;
YOU didn't throw
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
break up the unions.

Is there national housing
crisis? Then let's end federal rent
control. Are the Ku Klux Khan,
Columbians and other fascist or
carnations spreading? Then let's
outlaw the Communist party. Are
Negroes aroused over Jim crow
and the rape of democracy in Chi
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

TN box in a cupboard my
father kept three somewhat
old, somewhat ragged American
flags.
We were poor people with few
possessions, but wherever we went
the flags went too.
One of them, the best of the
three, came out for holidays. 1t
didn't matter what the Importance
of the holiday was; whether it was
Decoration Day or Columbus Day
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

eAie FL oSAO VI -
Except for the
fact that we are
mortal men and
native to t h e S e
shores, we have
absolutely moth
ing in common.
Ola dly do l
cast my lot with
such other dam
gerous S u b v err
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
By HERMAN SCHENDEL
THE TELEPHONE worker.

THE TELEPHONE workers
are appealing to the public for
support. Yet American Tele-
phone and Telegraph, one of
the giants of the world, long
ago was tried and found want
ing.
This giant is one of the big
trusts that FDR's Temporary
Economic Committee took a
good look at-and the decision
was guilty"
GUILTY" of what?
Guilty of robbing the pub
lie. Guilty of robbing the
workers. Guilty of operating
a giant machine that steadily
siphons more and more
money out of the public in
return for less and less serv-
ice.
This giant has thrown thou
sands of workers into the I'M
employed.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

a funnel or channel dis
bursting larger proportions
tof what it collects) TO those
whose income is already
high. namely those who
own stock.
1T is steadily disbursing
relatively less to those who de-
pend for an income upon sell
ing their labor"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

IF John Rankin, Parnell Thorn
L as, J. Edgar and Herbert
Johnston are good democratic
Americans" then I'm subversive
,,l ,,ro,,J Of - y
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

sives as that bloody revolutionist,
George Washington; with that
terrorist who used force and vio-
lence to overthrow a government,
Abraham Lincoln; with such apos-
ties of social change as Franklin
d. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace,
and with such radical agitators
as Tom Paine and Thomas Jeffer-
son. They all fought the Rankins
and Hoovers of our history.
It is obvious that if Rankin.
who hates Jews. Negroes.
Communists and labor. is
good American. then I cannot
be. 1t is as necessary TO me
as air TO be the bitter foe of
any group or individual that
seeks TO deny the democratic
rights of freedom. peace and
security TO the plain people
of this or any other nation.
That is the exact opposite of
what Rankin and Thomas are
peddling as "Americanism."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

YET what Rankin, Thomas and
the Hoovers believe is rapidly be-
coming the law of the land, for
Evening star., 1947-05-15
Driver Convictions
Cited BY keneipp IS
Major Achievement

Many convictions Of incompetent
and reckiess drivers in the District
lconstitute the outstanding traflc
Idevelcpment Of the year, according
Ito Traf1c Director George z. Ke-
lneipp, who today is starting his
second year In that capacity.
He said the cooperation Of thu
police has been one Of the big tac-
Itors In achieving that end.
Mr.. Keneipp IN reviewing the
work Of his FIRST year in Office said
Ihe had learned . lot about trafiic
problems In the District. but still
had / great deal to learn. Although
some Of his recommendations were
turned down by the Commissioners,
most Of them were approved, he
lpointed out.
Regulations Revised.
Most of his time during the past
year has been spent in revision OF
1.-THE traffic regulations to bring
them in line with the recommended
tions advanced by the Presidents
Highway Safety Conference, he
said. Many provisions OF the traffic
regulations here, which were put
into effect In 1925, are obsolete, he
believes.
The Commissioners TRAFFIC ADJ
visory Board has been working on
1.-The revision since last summer. He
believes the revisions will be ready
in about three months.
During the year. the drivers IL
Icense provisions have been tight
ened, he recalled, but there is still
| need Of an overhauling. The Traf-
fic Advisory Act Of 1925 regulates
ver-licensing procedure, and it
may be necessary to 60 to Congress
/ to get the necessary authority to
make some Of the changes. he said.
Signals Being Studied.
The trafiic sign and signal sys-
TENS are being studied and several
moves already have been made to
make trafIic markings less confus-
ing, he said. He has begun gradual
reduction of the number OF signs
dotting the streets, which gradually
reached the total Of 5000. He al
ready has cut the number to 10000
but this stiu is far too many signs
he believes.
He is still strong for underpasses
and subways to help speed trafiie
land said he is going to pay special
Evening star., 1947-05-15
World federalisis 10 Hold
Panel Discussion tomorrow

4 A panel 0f authorities on world
affairs from the newly organized
United World Federalists viii hold
an informal discussion at $50 pm.
tomorrow, on steps that must be
taken to prevent third world war.
Raymond Swing, radio news
analyst and national vice chairman,
win preside. Speakers will include
Evening star., 1947-05-15

Mark van Doren and Edgar ANGEL
Atowrer.
The organization, formed Ia
February BY the merger of fiye
srnaller groups, favoFs strengthening
the United Nations and establish
ing world government with such4
Evening star., 1947-05-15

limited powers Is are believed nee
sessary TO prevent any uations from
preparing for var q
The meeting viii - held i1l the
Phillips Gallery. 100 Twenty -flrSt
street NV. n VIII II dpen u the
nuhlic
Evening star., 1947-05-15

lattention To motorists who do not
fEive pedestrians the right-of-way
| It street crossings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-24

satisfactory legislation. I'm sure Ii you wait until then, we can work out something satisfactory to both of us"
 However, alter the labor hearings were over, Lewis and Hutcheson got nowhere with Taft. This caused John L. to hit the ceiling. And at the next AFL council meeting he told AFL colleagues that they must destroy Taft.
 Several weeks later when it be- came clear that the Taft Hartley Bill had a fair chance Of passing, Lewis and Hutcheson sent word to Dewey urging him to stay on the fence regarding the Taft-Hartley Bill. Lewis warned that if Dewey supported the bill he could be cut ting his own throat with labor, and the implication was that if he kept quiet Dewey might have good chance of gathering labor aupport.
 Note - Lewis aCyice may have been superfluous, since Dewey has made it a general point not to issue statements regarding Washington controversies. Only recent exception was his support of the Truman Doctrine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-24
Kansas City Scandals
Washington Post)

Washington Post)
 The unwisdom of Presidential intervention in loca political is emphasized by the unsavory after math of the barren primary victory won by Enos Axell the Presidents candidate in the Fifth Mssour Congressional District The defeat of Representative Slaughter for the Democratic nomination widely hailed at the time tribute to the Presidents influence calculated to raise his then waning political prestige As matter of fact it was the Pendergast Kansas City machine that provided the needed support for the Truman candidate To say the least it showed poor political judgment for the President to advertise his former connections with corrupt local organlza- tion by teaming up with to compass the downfall of Congressman who had consistently opposed Ad- mnisraton policies Having done so it was inevitable that the Presidents reputation would suffer Il the local machine resorted to fraud to insure the success of his candidate.
 When evidence of such frauds brought to light last year the Administration should have pursued the inquiry vigorously the best possible defense against partisan attacks. Instead the testimony of the FBl head J Edgar Hoover before Senator Fergusons Judiciary Subcommittee shows that the Department of Justice was content with limited inquiry that resulted in decision that Federal statutes had been violated The belated promise of Attorney General Clark to undertake new and full investigation of fraud charges follows wholesale indictments of Kansas City election officials and workers by county grand iurv needing by Senator Ferguson and charges of "whitewashing Those charges are strongly support ed by evidence accumulated without the aid of the Department of Justice and by the recent stealing of mpounded primary ballot boxes from the Kansas Clty Election Board.
 The Administrations only reasonable course is searching investigation and courageous prosecution of the wrongdoers. President Truman has apparently decided follow that course since he declares that the investigation should be carried through to it's logical conclusion, athough he does not know whether the case calls for Federal grand jury Investigation This declaration and the Presidents general denunca tion of fraudulent voting one of the worst things that can happen in democracy" would be much more impressive however, if they had been uttered months ago before the heat turned on his lieutenants.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-24

broken by the law for the good of all concerned and the unions will longer be in position to dictate to the employer whom he hire.
 To take advantage of the union shop clause of the new law unions will have to make accounting for the spending of their funds and state the method of electing officers Moreover, the union must avoid discrimination among employees and fix reasonable initiation fees that would not amount to large tax upon the right to work
 The law will correct numerous abuses and take from a couple of ruthless labor bosses the power to deprive men of the right to work.
 The law also makes an attempt to take the control of unions from professed and undercover members of the Communist Party. labor union would be barred from cerfcation if of its officers is member of the Communist Party "by reason of active and consistent promotion or support Of the policies and doctrines of the Communist Party can be regarded as being a member of or affiliated with such party"
 There will be good many diving for cover now
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-24
BLOCKS FILIBUsTER

Gael Sullivan, Democratic execu tive director, automatically man. aged to nip a threatened filibuster during the recent conference of Southern Democratic leaders with President Truman.
 Joe Blythe, North Carolina's na- tional committeeman, had come to Washington bristling with various gripes against the Administration, on labor and other matters. AS Sul- livan presented Blythe to Truman, he remarked:
 Joe here, had a lot of things on his chest today, Mir President, but think you'll be glad to know that ke got them all off at meeting before we came here"
 Blythe looked daggers at Sulli- van for moment, but his face slowly creased into an ear-to-ear grin.
 Well, now" he draWled, you've gone and messed up a good speech I was about to deliver"
 (coPYRIoHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. INc)
 Sell it with an Empire Want-ad!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-24
THE LABOR BILL

great majority of citizens are thankful that the United States Senate yesterday voted to override the Presidents veto of the Taft-Hartley labor bill
 In vetoing the measure President Truman yielded to the campaign carried by those in control of the union who spent million dollars in an attempt to hold their control of the American laborer.
 The opponents of the bill generally singled out the closed shop ban in an to tag the measure as reactonary They also referred to it as the slave labor" bill when it actually means more freedom for the working man and insures his right to work at iob regardless of whether he is already merl- Der of union
 It is true that the closed shop, as it has been known in the past is outlawed by the bill because it is a weapon of monopoly. But something better is put in it's place.
 Workers may still have union shop by simply getting 30 per cent of their number to sign petition requesting free election on the subject, and then delivering majority of the votes at the election. This gives the rank and file of working men chance to make their own choice instead of having union shop thrust upon them.
 Under this system the unions will not have to carry free riders" or not belonging to the union since the employer, where the workers have voted for union shop. would have to fire workers not paying their dues
 But the union cannot, as they have sometimes done in the past deprive man of his right to work because of mere dislike dsapproval of something he has done
 A bunch of tight little union monopolies will be
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-24

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN :: That Olaf H. Aase, administrator of the estate of Harold C. AaSe, deceased, has filed his final account and report of his administration of said estate, and his petition for dis tribution thereof, il the United States Commissioner Court for Ju- neau Precinct, at Juneau, Alaska {, that 10 o'clock A. M, August 9th, 1947, has been fixed as the time and said court the place for hearing same and that all persons con- cerned therein are hereby notified to appear at said time and place and file their objections, if any, to said final account and petition for settlement and distribution thereof |; and that the court at such hearing will adjudicate and decree who the heirs and distributes of the de- ceased person are.
 Dated: Juneau, Alaska, June 3rd, 1947.
 OLAF II. AASE, Administrator First publication, June 3, l947. Last publication, June 24, 1947.