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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
TREND OF STAPLE PRICES

NEW YORK, June 6-The Asso-
ciated Press weighted wholesale
price index of IS commodities to-.
day advanced to 1890.
Previous day 172.48, week ago
I'll "a, month ago 1920, year ago
100. %.
947 1916 1945 1914
High 184.3 1872 1921 108. 70
Low 164.O5 1902 1915 LOG. O3
Q926 average equals 1907.
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CHICAGO, June 6 -U.P- Pro.
duce: Poultry: Seven trucks;
weak; no price change.
Cheese: Twins 1922 IA; single
daisies 1874 IL; Swiss $3.50.
Butter: 1880 pounds; unsettled:
SO score 81; 90 score SO; 80 score
57 IL; 80 score Sc.
Eggs: q, 733 cases; market
steady; extras 1, "A IL As: extras
2, A; 5 and 4; AZ IL: standards l
and 2, Al IL; 8 and 4, 40: current
receipts 80 IL; dirties 81 IL;
checks 81.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07

The English town OF Bideford, in
Devonshire, dates from before the
Norman Conquest. In the 18th cen
fury it was a serious rival of Lon
don and Exeter as a center OF
trade. The town was the birth
place of Sir r. Grerville, one of
the founders of Virginia.
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NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH, Ga, June eIR-
Turpentine, price unchanged a
81 IL cents; offerings and sale.
none; receipts ITO; shipments rs;
stocks 2,743.
Rosin: offerings and sales 1913:
receipts 735; shipments none:
stocks 4,8O5.
Ros1n prices: B and D 700: E
TAI; E, TIL; G H K M N aoc
VIC $50; WV and x 835
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Southeastern Searchlight
News Of Interest In All Neighboring
Counties Told Briefly
Counties Told Briefly

FIRE Swept through the
Market, Whitevill
grocery store early Thursday
morning and caused damage
unofficially estimated at $780,
600. The blaze was discovered
by Willie Hammonds shortly
after 5 o'clock. Fire Chief
Arthur Rushing responded to
the alarm with all of the
Whiteville fire fighting equiv
ment and prevented the blaze
from spreading.
TWO white men, Bruce Hol-
lingsworth, % land Richard
McLemo-e, 20, of near Gin
ton were arrested Wednesday
by Sheriff Perry Lockerman
and charged with the larceny
of $7OO worth of corn from the
Sampson Feed and Hatchery.
DR.. J. S. AYERS, Clinton
physician has been elected
president of the Sampson Coun-
ty Medical Society. Members
of the Duplin County Medical
Society were guests at the
meeting. The principal speak
er of the meeting was DR.. R.
A. Ross of Duke University.
MOVIES were made at
Kenansville and the Miller
community Wednesday and
Thursday for use in a film be-
ing produced by the State
Board of Health, showing the
work being done for better
health in this state.
WARSAW YOUNG LADY,
Miss Frances Jones, daugh-
ter of Duplin county Sheriff
and Mrs. Ralph Jones, was
among the II students to grad
uate from the North Carolina
School for the Deaf at Nor
Canton on May %.
COL. JOHN w. -TILSEY,
who has been in charge of
the soil conservation program
in Columbus county for the
past three years has left White
vile for Fayetteville to take
up his new position a head
of the Cumberland county con-
~servation department.
SUMMER SCHOOL PRO-
GRAMS will get underway in
Whiteville city schools on June
Is, Superintendent w. j. Boyer
has announced. The classes
will be held in the high school
building and will last for thir-
ty school days.
THE WHITEVILLE WOM-
ANS club will hold the June
meeting at the Anchorage at
Lake Waccamaw, on Wednes-
day evening at 6:45 o'clock,
June IL. The special feature
Of the meeting will be the in
stallation Of officers for 1947-48.
OPERATORS of combines
and threshing machines in
Duplin county have been u-g-
ed to obtain permits to oper-
ate their machines in this
state. TIE permits are avail
able at the Register of deeds
office at Kenansville.
FORMER GOVERNOR J..
Melville Broughton will be the
principal speaker at the Home
Coming Day exercise at the
Bear Marsh Baptist church
on June Is. Broughton will
speak at 2:30 o'clock.
HENRY WYCHE, assistant
president of the Whiteville
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POULTRY

RALEIGH, June 6 -(P- (NC.
DA)-Egg and poultry markets
steady. U. S. Grade A large 46;
fryers and broilers 80 to 33.
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CHICAGO

CHICAGO, June 6. -R-US-
DA)- Butter about steady: AA SO
score 61-61.5; A 90 - 59.5-60; B 80
- 1888; c SO SOS. Eggs steady
and unchanged.
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N. eva, HOG ARKET

RALEIGH, June 6 -P)- NC-
markets steady with
tops of 22.5G at Rocky Mount,
Greenville, Smithfie1d and Rich
mond; and $500 at Clinton-W War
saw and Fayetteville.
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ARRANGEMENTS

ARRANGEMENTS h.a We
been made for Duplin county
tobacco growers to visit the
Oxford Experiment station on
the afternoon of July Z, it was
announced in Knansville.
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branch of the WaccamaW
Bank, has been appointed to
serve on the agricultural COM
mittee of the North Carolina
Bankers association for the
coming year, it was announc-
ed by Warren S. Johnson of
Wilmington, president of the
association.
MRS. E. F. HOUSE was
elected president Of the East
ern North Carolina Millers AS
ISOLATION in the annual meet
ing of the organization at
Houses Mill in Sampson coun-
ty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07

HENRY BRANDS, professor
OF Law at the University of
North Carolina an an authori-
ty on World government, will
be the principal speaker at the
regular meeting of the Clinton
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Monday night at 7 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07

TWO CLINTON civic clubs
have agreed to meet in a
softball game, to be played on
bicycles, June Is. The Lions
and Rotary clubs will tangle
with the proceeds going to the
recreation commission.
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WASHINGTON POULTRY

WASHINGTON-U. S. Grade A
large 81 1-2; broilers, fryers and
roasters 33 to "a.
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FORMER

FOhMEk GOtEkNOR j..
Melville Broughton will be the
principal speaker at the Home
Coming Day exercise at the
Bear Marsh Baptist church
on June Is. Broughton will
speak at 2:30 o'clock.
HENRY WYCHE, assistant
president of the Whiteville
Evening star., 1947-09-20
Births Reported

From the D. c. Bureau Of Vital Statistics }
David and Diane Adkins. girl.
william and Mary Albrecht girl.
William and Dorothy Bazzle be
Francis and Helen Beane, boy.
John and Mirion Beeltn. boy.
eari Im and Fl Elsie afSa Backael' he' siri k'['
Leslie and Kathryn Cox. girl
Charles and Helen Dali. boy,
David and Georgia Erck girl.
Ernest and Ruth Erlandson. boy.
David David and Ruth Estrin. girl
Murray and Anne Foss. boy.
James and Emily Frye, boy.
Louis and Pearl Goldberg. girl.
Ralph and Ethel Cue. siri. IVY
Charles and Marie Harbaugh. girl.
William and Claire Hegle. boy
Charles and Eveiyn johnson. boy.
William and Maryeilen Kaiser. ,siri.
Il Ernest e am and Maftha tsnsford' boy.
Lawrence and Mary Mack; girl.
Leslie and Emily Matke, boy.
Irwin and Katherine Mattson, boy.
James and Ruby Milks. boy.
LOUIS LOUIS and anp Elsie Ee'y MOSS. Mllef sill. s'ri
curtiss and iberia Meciuns. girl.
RaIph ane s Harriet Nelson. NSlH.fSfl rirl. sf,
John and Marjorie Parker, girl.
Lewis and Nellie Parker. girl.
Robert and Leslie Portner girl
Thomas and Opha Powers. twins, girl and
Samuel and Charlotte Radow. girl.
Paris and josephine Rizzo. girl.
Salvatore and Blanche Rotondi, girl.
Nathan AND and Rose et sehachter. Gter. boy. SSy'
Robert and BeVa Schellhase, girl.
Evening star., 1947-09-20

the rank Of private in the Capitol
Police Force to lieutenant, 1t was
learned today. He assumes his new
post Monday.
A native of st. Adams, VT, he en-
listed in the National Guard, and
entered active Army service in No
vember, 1910.
He served in the Solomon Islands,
and in this country, rising finally to
the rank of lieutenant colonel, before
leaving the service.
He joined the Capitol Police Force
last spring.
Evening star., 1947-09-20

ssss ana anf Fiors ssaord hSsek soy s,s
Joseph and Antoinette Stanczak girl.
Jack and Jeanne Tourin, boy.
Cornelius and Mary Turner, boy.
Peter and Lucy Valaer, girl.
ames fIank snd ana EansS Wads hov girl
Cecil and Myral Weaver. boy.
Howard and Jane Webb, girl.
Raymond and Phyllis Weir. boy.
Charles and Helen Wilson. girl.
Milford and Virginia Wilson, girl.
John and Dorothy Anthony. girl.
James and Kathleen Arnold, girl.
Joseph and Helen Bower. girl.
Gordon and Lucy Grown, boy.
Leon and Naomi Butler, girl.
RoSsie and Mary Butler. boy.
Ernest and Mary Cephas, girl.
Chester and Mary Clary, girl.
Marold MsId and ana Aaarey AsHa ceFa eFaWey sT ar
william and Eva Cuff, boy.
Cleveland and ophelia Drummond, girl.
Eugene and Marguerite Duckett, girl.
Roy and Marian Farrar. boy.
Walter and Betty Foster, girl.
Clement and Isabel Garnett, girl. =
Eddis Eaa and Al Annie pe,bI Harris, boy;
Booker and Trueolla Henderson, girl.
Albert and Dorothy Jackson, boy.
George and Juanita Jeffries. girl.
Charlie and 1dell johnson. girl.
Roy and Pauline Jones, boy.
ESpy. and Elsie Miller, boy.
Charles and Ginseree Moore, girl.
Lorenzo and Mary Mary Morgan 2r boy
Crede and Helen Sayles, boy.
| Otis and Willie Wicker, girl.
| Lee and Eunice Young. girl
Evening star., 1947-09-20

William Il. Miller. SO. 1920 North Capitol
Sarah R. Pate. 40, 1888 Newton st. NV.
Lowell 2. Herman. 8, 300 Quackenbos
st. NV.
slNa Young. "a. 1904 9th st. NV.
James P. W. Jones, A., SO Florida ave. n W.
Gertrude B. Carter. 43. 1S46 Vernon st.
NV.
Thomas A. Montron. 2s. 1872 Benning I'd.
ne.
Rosetta jackson. 21. 112O N. ]. ave. Sc.
Evening star., 1947-09-20
Deaths Reported

(From the D. c. Bureau of Vital Statistics }
Lucy Deepen. SO, 1884 Nicholson St NV.
Susan H. Wilson, 80. 1880 Park rd. NV.
Samuel Minded, "a. 425 Decatur st. NV.
Arthur J. Morrison. 81. lila East Capitol
Evening star., 1947-09-20
Flanagan Named Officer
In CupitoI Police Force

Bernard Flanagan, %, a veteran
of more than five years service in
the Army, has been promoted from
Evening star., 1947-04-11

In Scorfs of glorious pure silk
In coIors 10 wildly oeeent your word
robe. Sand. Copen Pink, Royol, Dusty
Pink, Sea 6reen, Yellow, Singer, Purple,
Gold, Vine, Emerold. Red or Peocock
Blue. S2.o5
JslIefFs, SesHs-Strset Floor
Evening star., 1947-04-11

In Eannas of muIti-stone dozzle
Gold plated rheels set with rose stones :. s.
Square HnIeqsis colored stone eoTinos SI95
Forgef-mf-not eorHnes SET with rhinestones
and sintiilotinc blue stores
Sfar-forsr eonines set with rhinestones and
rich-looknq siruioted netlBsts------------$3
Plus 2eT tar
JslIeRs-Jswsi1. Street Flsss
Evening star., 1947-04-11

In Gloves clossic-cut and white.
Beautifully tailored, these imported
white gloves in fine double woven cotton
are fashioned in the easy four-butfon
length, washable and wonderful for
SprIno-intoSummer weor. 2.25
Jslsffa clsvss Street Flss
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-07
Russio's Mark Twain
|1|:1!I}: Fast

Mother" He was thirty-nine
years old then, already writer
of international fame and i'm
portance. Young as he was, he
had behind him twenty years
of work and experience in the
Russian revolutionary move
ment.
No ivory tower artist this.
Already, he had served four
Jail sentences; he had been ex-
lied; he had gone through thu
Revolution of 1905 as an active
participant. He had attended
congresses of the Bolshevik
Party and had made a special
trip to America to collect funds
for them. Born and nurtured
by the Russian Working Class,
he never turned his back upon
them.
Nor was his writing some
thing precious, to be Rugged to
his bosom and wrapped in cot
ton batting. He wrote party
leaflets, pamphlets and articles
for the press. On several of
these he worked with Lenin,
a close friend of his and one
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rates and plaYboYs. but OF the
working class and its own splen-
did heroes. the professional
revolutionaries. the organizers
and the agitators and the
feachers-of those who for a
century now have spilled out a
river of their own blood SO
that the hopes and aspirations
Of all men might come to be.
1t made very deep impress
sion upon me then; for then,
as now, the American press was
engaged in a great campaign to
SANDER and distort the truth and
meaning of the Soviet Union.
I READ Mother" and the
word Russia became the en-
bodiment of men and women
rather than an idea. Here were
the Russian workers who had
made the October Revolution,
here was their hope and their
zeal, and it was the hope and
zeal of all human beings.
Here was their unspeakable
misery and shame, and it was
the misery and shame of all
people. Here, for the first time,
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saw the following words:
What queer people you
are!" said the mother to the
Ukrainian one day. "All are your
comrades-the Armenians and
the Jews and the Ausfrians.
You speak about all as of your
friends: you grieve for all and
you rejoice for ALI"
FOR ALL. mother dear, for
all! The world is ours! The
world is for the workers! For
us there is no nation. no race.
For us there are only comrades
and foes :"
And reading the book again,
now, almost generation later,
l do not find it in any way
lessened.
1t remains big, beautiful
book, written by a big and
sanity human being; if any
thing, it grows in size and i'm
portance, a, unique record of
mans hopes and mans poten-
tial.
IT IS exactly forty years ago
that M a kim Gorki wrote
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Why we have breaks in q continuous depression

THAT'S a rough answer to
your question, Andy. It's a
funny system-that has pros
perity" only when machines and
tools and plants are being built,
but has depression" when the
time comes to use these plants
and machines to supply the
people with goods.
It's like spending 3 hours pre-
pairing big meal and then
have someone tell you that you
can't eat il just when it's all
set on the table and you've got
your napkin tucked under your
chin.
There isn't any question that
the profit system can prepare
bigger and better meals than
ever before in history But the
payoff is-why can't it serve
the meals that are prepared.
That's the question the. Ameri-
can people are going to keep
putting until they find an an
swer that works-for them.
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-FRANK-LY SPEAKING 49,
This Freedom Troin'

of Manufacturers, and I'd like
to say.
DO you see what this is?
All right. Now l want you TO
read every page and read ii
carefully. And when you come
to ii. show me exactly where If
is written that this nation is
obliged to maintain our rags
and riches system of free en-
terprise.
You heads of the mighty
corporations tell us in your
bought press and through your
puppets in congress that a
planned economy is against
our way of life Just where
is this statement found? In
what section of the Constitu-
ton, what clause of the Dec
laration of Independence is this
nation committed to the die
tatorship of Wall Street,"
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Frank shall D :Ue

IF THERE is anything which
DEGREES America must have an
economic system which gives Z
its vast wealth to a few gold
grabbers while millions of COM
mon people scramble for
crumbs, let the smart boys of
the NAM and u. S. Chamber
of Commerce show it to me.
For there is nothing in the
documents which have guided
our nation to greatness which
bans either socialism or COM
munism.
To the white supreniists of
the South l should like 10 read
an oddly called the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation. Many in
Dixie would be surprised to
know that Negroes were de-
ciared free 80 years ago and
have the rights of all other
citizens. And / would like to
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some measure of equality with
the powerful trusts are defin-
itely implied in the words of
our founding fathers.
Truman, Tom Clark and ].
Edgar Hoover need to get ac-
quainted with the Bill of
Rights. Then they might learn
that this basic instrument does
not say that freedom of speech
and assembly shall be extended
only to Democrats, Republicans
and Fascists and denied to
Communists. Nor does it say
that only white Protestants of
Western European ancestry
shall be given their choice OF
jobs and housing and full pro-
lection in the courts while
Negroes and Jews and the
Spanish speaking and Japan
ese Americans shall be Jim
crowed and -terrorized and
lynched.
/ think frankly, that our
Declaration of Independence
and Constitution are pretty Won
derful. Their stirring phrases
about freedom and equality
should drive us on to realize
that century of the common
man" sought by Henry Wal
lace. I'm all for a Freedom
Train. Maybe it will awaken
us.
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Of the characters who appears
briefly in Mother
THAT was Cork, most be-
loved of Russian writer's, as
much the soul of Russia as
Mark Twain was the soul of
America. In his hands, litera-
ture became a noble and per-
suasive weapon for the liberia
ton of mankind, and at the
same time-and quite naturally
his books are among the best
novels, artistically speaking,
that have been produced in our
era.
Cork lived TO see the Octo-
Der Revolution and TO witness
and participate in the estab-
lishment of the first Socialist
Republic. AS a man and as a
writer. he never ceased TO
grow. and at the time of his
death. he was the venerable
dean of Russian writing. loved
by the people of the Soviet
Union as perhaps no other
writer in all history has been
rovarod hv fhe r,eoxyIa of = ma
tion.
He died on June 18th, 1896,
murdered by the Trotskyite
Clique who were then seeking
10 overthrow the workers re-
public. He was slain, accord
ing to the testimony of his
murders, because of the place
he had "in the minds and
hearts of the Russian people.
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BY HERMAN scHENDEL

ID rother Andy wants to know
ID why we don't have depfes-
sions all the time. He writes:
Il read your book = WHY
WORK FOR NOTHING?-and
one thing puzzles me. Say /
get $500 a day and l produce
SIG. My So can't buy SIG.
Why isn't there g depression
all the time?"
You raise a very good point,
Andy. Here's the way it goes.
Suppose your SO stands for all
the wages IN all the industries
that make things YOU and l buy:
clothing, radios, food, and so
on.
Now suppose another $8 in
wages stands for all the wages
paid in industries like steel,
heavy good, turbines, etc. And
suppose these workers also pro-
duce SIG day.
NOW it's true that your IS
can't buy all the lood and cloth
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hot, warm, wonderful liquid
for someone who had been
swilling pap. My reading was
not by plan or method; with
out benefit of school or cur
riculun, l took anything and
everything that came my way,
drunk with the magic of what
/ had discovered in books.
And then l came on Mother"
the first of Cork l had ever
seen, and everything l had read
before was thin and bloodless
by comparison. 1t was tapestry
after silk and cotton, living,
breathing people after card
board cutouts.
OF COURSE. l talk as a
writer. Cork had an enormous
influence upon me-more, !
suppose, than any other foreign
writer-and more than any
thing, he made me want to
write.
This giant of man. filled
with courage and love and
hope. and such great. aching
pity. wrote not of princes. pi-
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tell the underpaid workers on
the big plantations and in the
mills that under the Constitu-
ton they have the right both
black and white, to organize
together and chop off the ten
tacle of racism, extending down
from Wall Street, which holds
them in the dirt-floored cabins
and feeds them starvation diets.
THINK Congress itself is
ripe for a visit from Freedom
Train, even though the words
of our cherished documents
may have strange and for
eign sound to Rankin and Taft.
wonder if they and their
cronies ever heard that "all
men are created free and
equal?" The ballot for all with
out payment of poll tax,
formation of trade unions for
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Smoking EN- OUT

ing and radios and cars that
you and the Wo1 kers in these
industries produce. But what
about the So IN wages of those
workers who work in the
heavy goods industries where
the workers doni buy any OF
the product they produce?
These workers don't spend
their wages directly on the
product they produce. Steel
workers don't buy steel. tan
merry workers don't buy that
leather. and so on.
Where do they spend their
wages? They spend it for the
product you produce. They buy
the food and shoes and radios
you produce.
So you can see already how
1t begins to shape up
IF. YOU take the So in wages
of your industries and add it
to the So in wages of the heavy
goods industries, you get SIG
in wages or buying power
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Because of the un-American
witch hunts, the anti-labor leg
islation, the farcical lynching
trials and the $4O0, 900, 900 aid
to the fascists of Greek and
Turkey, it has undoubtedly be-
come necessary to show tang
ible proof that such written in
struments really do exist.
My wish is that l could plan
the itinerary and go along to
tell Americans what these doc
uments are supposed to mean.
From present indications, there
are few people in official Wash
ington who have this under
standing.
I'D LIKE TO cart the whole
works into the next big meet
ing of the National Association
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buying power dries up, and
your industries can't sell what
you're producing-because your
So can't buy SIG.
CAN'T go into all the other
angles here, but this is one
thing to remember: all COM
panies, in all industries, fight
to keep labor cost down. Which
means they try to get you to
produce as much as possible,
for as low a wage as possible.
And it also means that mass
buying power your wages plus
the wages of workers in heavy
goods industries are constantly
shrinking compared to what you
produce.
Sooner or later the market
gets clogged up with goods
and then the layoffs start. No
company will raise wages to
hold UP buying power because
wages are also labor costs;
and profit is made by keep
ing labor cost down.
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just enough to buy the full SIS
you and workers like you have
produced
That's why. when new plants
and machines are being built.
there is prosperity" The
wages paid in those industries
hold up buying power.
And when those heavy in
dustries begin to slow down,
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e m a n ip a
ton Proclama-
ton and other
i u n d amental
a n d historic
material is to
be sent around
our nation by
President Tru-
man and Atty.
G. e n. t o m
Clark.
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teen years, YET
/ still renem-
Der clearly the
r i C h n e S S of
t h a t expert
ence, the taste
of a wine /
h a d n e V e r
known before.
This was a
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TT was a long time ago when
LII first read Mother" by
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A Freedom Train contain
N ing the Declaration of In
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IT IS exactly forty years ago
that M AKIN orki wrote