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Evening star., 1947-07-15
On the Other Hand
What This Country Needs Today
Is a Fanatic on Flood Control

ton Of Missouri Valley Authority.
He has reminded questioners that he
has long favored this idea. This is
true. In 1914, while still Senator,
speaking in New Orleans, he re-
lated graphically what it would
mean to apply the IVA plan to the
Missouri Valley.
"All this can be accomplished.
he said, "for the lasting benefit OF
every townsman and farmer, big and
little, in the entire valley, If we
have the determination and the
vision to act boldly and fast"
On the record to date, the Presi-
dent has not had the determination
and the vision to act boldly and
fast.
Calling on the Army engineers for
more levees, or whatever they have
to offer, and giving Senator Muir
rays bill a pat on the back isn't
enough. Reckless private interests,
who oppose any plan for an over
all Government authority, and
jealous specialists in the various
phases of the general problem, will
have little to fear unless the Presi-
dent does much more.
Fanatic Needed.
What the President needs to do
if he is willing to act boldly and
fast, is to make himself q national
nuisance on the subject, fanatic
on flood control and land conserva-
ton. With the picture of the latest
devastation before it, the country
could be made to listen to such a
fanatic and eventually to under
stand what must be done. Some day
some President will be remembered
as the one who applied the lesson
of the Tennessee Valley to the other
valleys of America. That Prest-
dents name will rest as large on
the pages of history as the name OF
the President who wrought the
miracle in the valley of the Ten
nesSee.
The Tennessee River once was an
ugly monster in flood season. 1t
has been brought under full control
1t is no longer menace to the
people along the lower Ohio and
the Mississippi. It once was a
muddy stream, much of the year
although not so muddy as Big
Muddy-no other could be. The
Tennessee is blue now, as blue as
the Blue Danube, according to Rep
resentative Jennings, who lives on
its bank.
1t will be a heroic task to trans
form the Big Muddy into the Blue
Missouri, but the man who brings
this to pass will remain hero a
long as the waters flow.
Evening star., 1947-07-15
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. A
Is,

cils. The -duper mixture would
have bits of everything about a
house that wasn't nailed down,
OF course. dogs fed on this sort
Of fare might never get their pic
lures in advertisements, barking
about how crazy they were for pro-
teins, carbohydrates, and the like
but then, they wouldn't be little
liars, either.
Distributed by McNauaht Syndicate. Inco
Evening star., 1947-07-15
DR.. Robinson Appointed
Chaplain OF Civilian Club

DR.. Orris G. Robinson, pastor of
Calvary Methodist Church, has been
appointed chaplain Of the Civitan
Club International. He succeeds
Norman L. Brown.
A graduate of Johns Hopkins Uni
Evening star., 1947-07-15

FcTSlIy, LII. 1OU-
! n so n received
his D. D. from
Western Mary
land College in
1910. He came
to Cal ary
Church in 1888
from the First
M e t h o dis t
Church of West
minister. Md.
H e is vice
president of the
Methodist Con-
ference's board
of child care; 4
-H 49,
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Board of Hospitals and Homes OF
the Methodist Church, and q dele
gate to the coming General Confer
ence Of the Methodist Church. He
has been chaplain Of the Wash
ington Civitan Club since July 1914.
DR.. and Mrs. Robinson live at 1915
Decatur street NV.
Evening star., 1947-07-15

ing placidly at
some seasons and
savagely at 9TH
ers, it is always
muddy in color
and in content.
The content dur
ing the recent
floods, worst in
a hundred years,
was more than
a quarter of a
billion dollars
worth of mud,
according to the
United States
Soil ConSerVa-
tioy, Carvico For
Evening star., 1947-07-15

as nlnted as 10
| how I should
run my business.
| So, it is with
| reluctance, that
I stick my nose
into the busi-
ness Of dog food
m a n ufacturers.
But I must. I
care for dogs
| too much to
stand by any
| ! on 6 er a n d
watch t h e S e
men trick and
| deceive my four
Evening star., 1947-07-15

S o m e meaning
and significance
to several moves
in Congress to
revise the char
ter Of the Unit
ed Nations, with
the purposes OF
strengthening it
and converting
it into a real
weapon against
peace = breakers.
AS m a t t e r S
stand now, the
United Nations
has proved pow
Evening star., 1947-07-15

majority in Con-
gress, composed
of both Republic
cans and Demo-
Gratis, would not
vote billions for
Europe just be-
cause the Ad-
min / S t r a t ion
asked for it. A
repetition of the
situation which
prevailed when
the request for
Greek 50 Turkish
aid of a b ou t
$400, 900, 900 was
made cannot be
Evening star., 1947-07-15
Bv Constantine Brotcn

Widening and deepening of the
gulf which separates the Russian
b,oc in Central and Eastern Europe
from the rest of the world gives
Evening star., 1947-07-15
Bipartisan Support
Seen Lost by Truman
On Marshall Plan
Bv Dapid Laurence

President Truman has lost the BIZ
partisan support he expected to have
for the Marshall Plan.
There is every indication that a
Evening star., 1947-07-15
Bv LoweU MeHen

Missouri, we are told, is an Indian
word meaning Big Muddy. The
Missouri River, since white men first
saw it, has justified the name. Flow
Evening star., 1947-07-15

Dog Food Mixtures
Make Him GrowI
Bv Henry McLem ore

My life has been remarkably free
of interference by manufacturers OF
dog food. To my knowledge, not
one of them has ever even so much
Evening star., 1947-07-15

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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26

THIS is a tale, but not for all
of you! Only for those of you
who love life, and who would live
it as free men. Not for all of you,
but for those of you who hate
injustice and wrong, who find no
good in starvation, misery and
homelesSness. For those of you
who remember when twelve mil,
lion unemployed looked hollow,
eyed into the future.
For those of you who have
heard the whimper of a child
in hunger. or man in pain.
For those Of you who have
heard the guns and listened for
the smack of the torpedo. For
those of you who saw the dead
that fascism made. For those
Of you who made the sinews of
war and were given. as pay
ment. the nightmare threat of
atomic death.
1t is tale for those. For moth,
ers who would rather see their
children live than die. For work,
ers who know that the fascist
breaks unions first. For veterans
who know that those who make
the wars do no fighting. For stu
dents who know that freedom
and knowledge are inseparable.
For intellectuals, who must die
if fascism lives.
For Negroes, who know that
Jim~crow and reaction are two
sides of the same coin. For Jews,
who learned from the gentle Hit
Ter what anti,Semitism really is.
And for children, for all children,
for the children of every color,
every race, every creed - for
them, this tale is written, so that
they may look forward to life and
not to death.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26
Anti-Iabor era

THE STRIKE was finally brok,
en-, but American labor stretched
and breathed with new aware
ness. The birth pains were over,
and the coming of age had begun.
The next decade was a period
of struggle, at first struggle for
survival out of which grew the
struggle for organization. The
government did not easily forget
1877; armories began to be built
in various American cities; main
streets were broadened, so that
gatling guns could o m m n d
them; mass anti>labor private
police organization, the Pinkerton
Agency, came into being; and
measures against labor became
more and more repressive.
The red menace, which had
been used as a propaganda wea>
pom in America since the 1905,
was now built into the fullscale
bogeyman we see today.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26

ism as one of their goals, was
growing rapidly, class,conscious,
militant, and relentless in its de,
mands. A new slogan had come
into being, new demand, clear,
unequivocal:
Eight hours of work. eight
hours of sleep. eight hours of
recreation"
BY 1886, American labor was
young giant, ready to try its
strength. The armories were
built, but the armories were not
enough. The Pinkertons were not
enough, nor were the gatling
guns. Organized labor was on the
march, and its single militant slo,
gan echoed across the land-and
the earth, too:
Eight hours of work day
no more!"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26

They did not tell you in the
histories you studied in school
how May Day began, but there is
much that was noble and brave
in our past that the histories care,
fully blot out. 1t goes that May
Day is foreign importation, but
to the men who made the first
May Day in Chicago in 1886, there
was nothing very foreign about
it. They spun it out of native
yarn; their anger at what the
wage system does to human be,
ings did not have to be imported.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26
Brave men die

AT THE time, in 1886, Chicago
was the center of the militant,
left,wing labor movement. 1t was
in Chicago that the idea was born
for a united workers demonstra,
ton, a day that was theirs and
no others, day when they would
lay down their tools and Shout,
der to shoulder demonstrate their
strength.
The First of May was chosen
as the day of the working class.
the peoples day. Well in adj
vance. an Eight Hour Associa-
tion was formed TO prepare for
the demonstration. This Eight
Hour Association was a united
front. formed out of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. the
Knights of Labor and the So
cialist Labor Party. Also allied
with them was the Central La
Dor Union of Chicago. which
included the most militant left
wing unions.
1t was no small thing that be-
gan there in Chicago. $4,000
workers attended a May Day
mobilization. When May Day it.
self came, the Chicago workers
pourea from the shops by the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26
Workers revolt

The first May Day took place
In Chicago in the year 1856.
There was prelude to it. a
picture worth recalling. For
decade before 1886. the Ameri-
can working class was in proc
ess of birth and growth. and it
was by no means a bloodless
process.
The young nation which had
swept from ocean to ocean in so
short time, built cities, spanned
the plains with railroads., and
laid low the virgin forests, was
now on the way to becoming the
first industrial land. And in do
ing so, it turned upon those who
had done the work, built with
their hands all that was America
and squeezed the very life from
them.
Men, women. and children too,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26

ment as well as the bosses be-
came .aw are. of what. the
strength of labor can m n.
They called out the militia and
the regular army; vigilantes
were deputized. In some places.
pitched battles were fought.
In ST. Louis. civil authorities
abdicaied. handing the city
over 10 the administration of
the working class. No one can
calculate today what the casu-
allies were in that violent out
burst. but that they were enor-
nous no one who has studied
the facts can doubt.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26

were literally worked to death in
the new American factories. The
twelve hour day was common
place, the fourteen hour day not
rare, and in many places even
children worked sixteen and eigh.
teen hours day. Wages were low,
very often well below the basic
subsistence level, and mass I'm,
employment began to come with
the bitter regularity of cyclical
depression. Government by in
junction was the order of the day.
But the American working
class was not docile. II did not
accept this and bear it as its
natural lot; il fought back
and it taught the entire world
a lesson in workers militancY
that has no parallel. even 10
this day.
IN 1877 railroad strike start,
ed in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
The militia was called out, and
after brief battle with the work,
ers, the strike was suppressed
but only locally; the spark ignited
turned into flame.
The Baltimore and Ohio went
out; the Pennsylvania went out,
and then railroad after railroad,
until the tiny local eruption had
turned into the greatest general
rail strike the world knew up to
then. Other industries joined in,
and in many areas the rail strike
became general strike.
For the first time. the govern
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26
Eight hours

BUT THE workers did not take
this supinely. In turn, they or
ganized. The Knights of Labor,
born underground, had, by 1886,
more than 100000 members. The
young American Federation of
Labor, organized as voluntary
association of unions with social
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26
A people, day

THIS is story of the strength
of the people, of their own day,
which they choose, and upon
which they celebrate their unity
and strength. 1t is a day which,
to our lasting pride, was the gift
of the American working class to
he world.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-26
I1|:N:|}; 7:e|I

Noted author and Journalist. Howard
Fast. perhaps more than any other
contemporary writer. has given Amer
'ica's people a voice. Like his own
Citizen Tom Paine. Howard Fast
belongs to the peoples struggle.
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-05
By WALTER HERMAN
One Mans Opinion

THE C. O. and the N. A. M. have filed briefs in the Michigan Pottery Portal case.-Through these portals pass of the most beautiful briefs in the world The briefs filed friends of the court-Soon the court will know what politician means when he says
 T in the hands of my friends" The C. l. O. also has filed brief in the Lewis case taken position Spain and aired it's views the atom bombt has not yet gotten out cook book. Anyhow the Amalgamat ed Meat Cutters Butchers union has decided not to bring any portal suitsThey figure the time it takes butcher to put his straw hat is his But there's good from the department of commerce-This year autos and whiskey will be produced It makes nice combination-Ask the man who owns wreck Moscow says poets did poor job in the war-More and more it becomes obvious needed the atom bomb to turn back the forces of evil The com paint is that which Russian rhymsers energzing with epcs, our boys qubbling with couplets . t. Still the arts heavy contributors to victory-Who forget Toscanini's threat to downbeat his baton again until Fascism had crumped That ges-
 ure alone plus little help from the armed forces pol ished off Mussolin
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-05
Krug Asks For Hawaiian Fish Laboratory

WASHINGTON, (P)-A Hawa- ian laboratory to study resources of the central Pacific, greatest untapped fishery resource in the world" was urged today by sec retary of the interior Krug.
 In his annual report to the Pres ident, the secretary also advocated spending "a few hundred thousand dollars" to clear obstacles from the spawning streams of Alaska. This work, he estimated, will add five million dollars a year to Alaska's fishery revenue.
 Hawaiia's Delegate, Joseph R. Harrington, has introduced into Congress legislation for a $45O,O research project.
 Perhaps the greatest untapped fishery resource in the world is the fish supply of the central pa- cific-particularly the tunas which, pound for pound, are the most val uable of sea fishes" Krug's report said.
 Milton C. James. assistant direc- tor of the Fish and Wildlife Serv- ice, told reporter that nobody knows the possibilities of the cen tral Pacific fisheries" and said the U. S. may discover great food resources in areas such as the Car oline and Marshall Islands, "up to the southwest Pacific and includ- ing the Philippines"
 He added that such development
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-05

units with scanning scopes in the traffic control towers at Chicago LaGuardia and Washington, working with the army and the civil aeronautics administration
 The are experimenting with fog dispersal system If the landing aids experiment station in Arcata Caif md thev will spend nearly half million dollars in the evel )pmen of control and navigationa systems using as ma ny wartime developments may be adaptable to comI lercial use
 Pr operations being made for the installation of the latest safety devices at the Air port at Bow Lake.
 Safety yes Let us insist every safety device pos sibe But let us also remember the facts.
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-05
Seven Tests of Freedom
By Bernard Baruch

cated a simple and effective pro- cess. I present it under the {, tie of the Seven Tests of Freedom" Ap- ply them yourselves to any s.V- ernment, our own or foreign. The answer is final. They tell you au- tomatically if true freedom exists, or if it is delusion created by an artificial vocabulary.
 Remember that is an over-reach- ing propaganda, words are tortur- ed away from the.r true meaning and become symbols of wishes or
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-05

Peace seems beautiful during the savagery of war, but it be- comes almost hateful when war is over. Each disputant demands a peace made in his own image in- stead of peace acceptable to all. But there are some things more precious even than peace, and the greatest of these is freedom.
 There need be no casuistry in defining that word. That great man, whom I am glad to call my friend, Winston Churchill, indi-
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-05

Justification, instead of exp ess.o,, of truth.
 Here are the tests:
 F,rst-Is there the right 10 free expression of opinions and of op. position and criticism of the gov. ernment of the day?
 Second-Have the people the right 10 turn out a government of winch they disapprove. and are constitutional means provided by which they can make their will ap. parent?
 Third-Are there courts of jus tice. free from violence by the ex. ecutive and free of all threats of mob violence and all association win any particular political part ies?
 Fourth-Will these courts ad- minister open and well-established laws which are associated in the human mind with the broad prin- ciples of decencY and justice?
 Fifth-Will there be fair play for poor as we'll as for rich. for private persons as wei las govern ment officials?
 Sixth-Will the rights of the in divIdual. subject to his duties 10 the state. be maintained and as serted and exalted?
 Seventh-Is the ordinary peas ant or workman. earning a living by daily toil and striving 10 bring up a family. free from the fear that some grim police organiza- tion. under inc control of a single party like the Gestapo started by the Nazi and Fascist parties. will tap him on the shoulder and pack him off. without fair or open trial. 10 bondage or i'll treatment?
 l suggest that you ask yourself whether you would like to live, move and have your being under reverse of the standards this great democrat has expressed.
 The measure of values set up in this table are the basic character isticS of the liberal. That is word variously interpreted, but I find no difficulty in understanding it. To me it means one who holds po- litical, social and religious rights to be inalienable, and to whom property rights, though important to our civilization and to the spur of ambition, fall into a category of lesser importance.
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-05
Air Safety Record Speaks For Itself
Seattle Post-Intelligencer)


 A BIG AIRPLANE ACCIDENT is a spectacular and horrible thing with its eyewitness descriptions and pie lures of wreckage it burns into the memory Thus the cumulative effect of the recent accidents has been to alarm the public and to Congress. There is getting away from that But we think is good time to sit back and sur vey just what the is with the air transport indus try. Now is good time to insist the of the most modern safety deViceS-and now is good time also to insist that measures be taken to cripple needlessly young and strong and growing transportation giant.
 Let's take the of the scheduled (certified) air lines of the United States.
 We are not talking please remember of nonsched- uled by chartered planeS of private panes Americannade aircraft in the service of foreign com panies where, incidentally, the more recent crashes have occurred We talking of the big American com panies whose scheduled flights last year carried million passengers all over the United States and abroad We'll what are the facts? We are using statistics SUD- piled by John w. Thompson, director of information of the Air Transport Association of America of which Vice Adm. Emory $. Land is president That is organza- ton with headquarters in Washington that speaks for all the scheduled air lines. The first fact is that in domestic operation in 1946 the air lines established the best safety record in history
 This is measured the basis of passenger fatalities per 100 million passenger miles, which is the standard measurement. In 946 then the fatality rate was g. as against IF in 1945 and 3.05 in 1940.
 It is interesting comparison that the corresponding figure for automobile travel in 1945 was 29.
 For operations in 1946 the rate 368, sderaby higher than the domestic operation rate Yet even here the fatality trend was slightly down from 945 and the safety trend slightly up For 1945 the operation fatality rate 3.75.
 Too many statistics tiring but we would like to give you few more The domestic scheduled air lines had three accidents involving fatalities in 1940 eight in 1945 and nine in 1946 The operators had fatalities in 194O two in 1945 and two in 1946 Yet the number of revenue passenger miles flown was nearly six times great in 1946 in 194O and nearly twice great in 1946 in 1945. In round figures the domestic carriers flew 108 mil lion miles in 94O 214 million miles in 1945 and 328 mil lion miles in 1946 The corresponding totals for the in- ernational lines 10 million miles in 1940 32 mil lion in 1945 and 67 million in 1946
 This it to us, is impressive record Congress already has discovered in it's recent acci dents that the record is unassaable. It is there. What then, is the problem? Essentially it is to sure the public by making good record better
 To this end, the air lines will spend than mil lion dollars in 1947 The lines already have spent 00O at LaGuardia Field their share in developing an a tomatc control system and will spend $2OOOO in sary modfcations.
 They are going to spend $1OO,O0O in installing radar
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-12
NOME BEVERAGE cpMPANY GOING FULL BLAST r9'A

1 The Nome Beverage CanPaY, new concern in Nome, is bpsily edgaged in supplying <soft )dfhks and mixers to the entire Seward Peninsula -Kotzebue 1areay.f
 The company plant owned and operated by Stan Bartlett and Binks Seiffert, is situated on Bel mont Point and is fairly complete with equipment from power-plant, bottle sterilizer and allied ma chinery to the filling and capping machine.
 Stan says the company will put out cola, root beer, orange soda, grape soda, and a lithiated lemon mixer along with regular soda syphon bottle service. He states that the local merchants will han dle the products.
The Nome nugget., 1947-09-12
AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES

Passengers from Fairbanks Wednesday were Bertha Stedje enroute to Teller, l.. E. Vincent for nome and Ann Burke for Kotze- bue.
 On Wednesday Joe Pasquini and w. Farrell were passengers to Hannum Creek.
 Don Stewart was brought in from Casa de Paga yesterday and taken to Deering.
 Clifton Smith was a passenger from Wales yesterday.
 Bill Pinto and Robert Black were taken to Fairbanks on Thurs day.
 D. Holt was a passenger from Teller to Nome yesterday.
 Alfred Adams was taken to Moses Point yesterday.