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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-07
Thinking 1t Through
By Ben Dor LPA Columnist

A little competition raises its badly bat
tered head. Maybe you can help the poor little
creature along.
You ought to help, if you can, because this
competition is in place where every dollars
counts. It's between the banks and the insur-
ance companies, each of which wants your dol
lars The insurance companies are getting
these very valuable investment dollars that you
put aside each month, or four times a year.
The banks would like to get them. Since some
of the banks are willing to save you money in
order to get your business, l think that you
should check into the chance of dealing with
the bank instead of the insurance company.
1t wasn't always this way. There was
time when bank was the place where you
saved money, and the insurance companies just
sold you insurance. The insurance boys got
smart, and tied up the insurance policy with
so-called investment account Now, when
you buy a life insurance policy, you at the
same time arrange to save your money with
the insurance company as we'll as to buy your
insurance from it.
One result of this scheme is to put most of
the available savings money into the insurance
companies. Seventy-five years ago. the insur
ance companies held less than third of the
savings available in this country; today they
get about half of the dollars being saved.
MAGIC 5
These dollars are the magic dollars that
run many American industries They are dol
lars by which real profits are earned by the
people who invest them. Therefore, the banks
don't like to see them getting away.
So, if the insurance companies could get
them by going into the savings business, the
banks figure that the way to get them back is
for them to go into the insurance business.
And in three states, that's exactly what has
happened. The state savings banks are selling
life insurance The three states are Massachu-
setts, New York, and Connecticut.
1t took a state law in each case to let the
banks go into the life insurance business OF
course, the insurance companies were against
it. The state savings banks, most of them, were
for it. In each case, some powerful public fig
ure got back of the deal and helped to put it
over. In Massachusetts, it was Louis Brandeis.
In New York, it was Governor Lehman But
in neither case, did the people know much
about it. Nor are they making much use of
the privilege of buying their insurance from
the banks.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-07
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2,B, UAW>ClO

! Director Region Z-B, OAW~CIO I
We have just had the experience of going
through a congressional committee investiga-
ton in Gallon conducted by the reactionary
Rep. Clair Hoffman.
If there was any doubt in anyone's mind
about the necessity for the unions working to
elect the right people to Congress, Mr.. Hoffman
removed that doubt very quickly and COM
pletely.
In reviewing the words and actions of the
Michigan Republican, nobody could miss the
point He was in Gallon for the three-fold pur-
pose of dscrediting the union, breaking the
strike of the employees of the North Electric
Co., and to give comfort and aid to the en-
ployers.
What Hoffman does openly, many other
congressman do secretly or in some less ap-
parent way STILL nobody can say that Con-
gressmen of the same mind as Rep. Hoffman
did not pass the Taft-Hartley law over the
presidents veto, passed a tax reduction to
ease things for the rich and soak the workers
and knocked out price controls so industry
and big business could make the greatest pro-
fits in history.
WATCH THEM
Hoffman makes no bones about his feel
ings. He is openly hostile to labor, opposed to
the interests of the majority of the people
and completely in the corner of big business.
Watch the other Hoffmans of Congress
during the coming special session when they
will play their rotten politics with the lives
and misery of thousands of needy people of
Europe.
Watch the reactionaries as they seek ways
and means of further handicapping the unions.
Watch them as they refuse to restore price
controls in order to give their own people a
break and an opportunity to share the avail
able food at reasonable costs.
These are the men whom we must remove
from office. These are the people who are con-
tributing to the making of the greatest crisis
this nation will ever be called upon to meet
unless we do something about it.
The situation which exists in our Congress
today is as bad if not worse than that which
preceded the 1929-1932 breakdown 1t is steer
ing us for depression the like of which this
country has never before known. 1t is attempt
ing to aid the big business profiteers at the
expense of the workers and plain people.
We must prepare now to keep our date in
'48 and wipe out Hoffman and his kind.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-07
WARNING

The Committee warns that
the most immediate threat to
freedom of expression and
opinion is indirect. 1t comes
from efforts (such as the Un-
American Activities Commit
tee) ito deal with those few
people in our midst who would
destroy democracy" Who are
they? The Committee names
them: Communists and native
Fascists. Neither, says the
Committee, believe in universal
civil rights the paramount
dignity, worth and sacredness
OF the individual human being.
What TO do about them? Ex.
pose them, see that their publi-
cations and sources of funds
arc identified, but don't clip
their civil rights and liberties;
don't make them martyrs.
VINO says all thlSY just OuSi-
nessmen, labor leaders, repre-
sentatives of Catholics, Jews,
Protestants, white, Negroes,
northerners, southerners, Re-
publicans and ID ocrats,
standing together to read the
long roll of shame, dishonor,
division, and weakness, putting
the blame on the President
who appointed them, on the
Congress, on state and local
authorities, on the courts, in
Guiding the Supreme Court IT,
self, and finally, on the Amer
ican people of whom they are
a part; asserting anew the
faith that we can clean up our
own house now for the inspec-
tion Of suspicious but hope
full world.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-07
chaNenae

While considerable interest and con-
Germ are attached to the selection of the
officers who are going to lead the United
Auto Workers for the next year, and
iustifiably So the challenge which COM
petitive shops and other important prob
lens facing the union at present should
not he overlooked or minimized by dele
gates TO the 11th UAW-CIO convention
which opens Sunday in Atlantic City.
A review of the record for the last
eighteen months, since the 1916 cOnven-
tion. reveals the sad but true fact that or
ganization of competitive shops has Jagged
TO the point where it should be a matter
of prime concern for every delegate.
While it is true that Organizational
work is more difficult now than it was
during the early days of the union, there
can be no justification for the organizing
record compiled during the past eighteen
months. The job can and must be done
if the workers in our shops are going to
be given the protection which the union
owes them.
The threat inherent in competitive
shops is so real and its effects so far reach
ing that il should not be necessary to de-
tail them TO any member of the United
Auto Workers. Yes, despite the apparent
seriousness of the problem, so little prog
ress has been made that it has acquired
the status of a major union issue.
Failure to organize competitive shops
not only strikes directly at the jobs and
liyings of thousands of workers who are
members of the union, but strikes at the
very basis upon which the unions justifi-
cation for existance rests. In the face OF
this fact, the results which have been OBJ
tanned, when compared with the cost of
the organizing effort, are out of all pro-
portion.
We do not believe that the cure for
the competitive shop situation rests upon
recriminatiOn and pickering, although
those who have failed to do an effective
Job are definitely open TO criticism. The
lob of organizing the competitive shops is
still major problem for our union and
one that must be met head on with zeal
and enthusiasm and a determination to
solve it once and for all by effective and
consistent effort.
II is our hope, as is must be the hope
of every worker in our union to whom
the competitive shop is a constant and
very real threat, that the competitive shop
issue will get the attention from the dele
gates to the convention which its impOr-
tauce merits and that out of the discus
sion will come better and more effective
plan to remove a serious impediment to
the security, progress and growth of our
union.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-07

Something very serious is
undermining the Am erican
sense of humor and its econ
omy at the same time. Various
Congressional committees are
set to investigate why Com.
munism has been able to in.
wade our public and social life.
In the same newspapers we
learn that Full employment
in a free society is inevitably
inflationary'" according to DR..
William A. Irwin, economist of
the American Bankers Assn.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-07
Are You A
Part Time
Citizen?
BY Ruth Taylor

Being a citizen in a democ-
racy is a full time job. In
other forms of government
the citizenry makes up the
background, appearing only
in mob scenes to Eyes" the
rulers of the nation.
In a democracy there is no
room for part time citizens.
Our government is us--what
we make of it. Ours is the
fault if the wheels of govern
ment do not run smoothly, for
the laws we make are the
roadbed, and the men we
elect are the machine.
Do you fulfill all your du-
ties as a voter? Do you show
up just at election time to
cast your vote without due
consideration of the full quail
fications, record and prin-
ciples of all candidates? Do
you neglect to help select the
proper candidates at the pri-
maries? Are you a part time
citizen?
YOUR INTEREST
Do you obey the laws you
have had a hand in making?
Is your only thought, when
you break what seems like an
inconsequential little law,
how you can get away with
it? Are you a part time citi-
zen?
Do you evince interest in
all issues-or only in those
problems which directly con-
cern you, and then object
when other groups do the
same and infringe on your
prerogatives? Only as citi-
zens work for the common
good of all can democracy
progress. Are you a part time
citizen?
Do you lend an ear to sub
versive elements who tell you
how much better conditions
are or would be for you were
there a different form of gov
ernment? Do you thought
lesSly pass on these tables
without checking on their ac-
curacy or considering their
source? Are you a part time
citizen?
Do you stand up for dem
ocracy or do you condemn its
mistakes without considera-
ton of the good it has to Of
fer? Do you stress only its
shortcomings and never its
long range program which,
slowly but surely, and in spite
of stumblingS, determinations
and detours has made this
country of ours the best in
which to live. Are you a part
time citizen?
Now as never before the
United States needs the full
time allegiance of all of its
people. Don't be a part time
citiZenl
The International Institute
of Artists & Photographers an
nounced in New York that it
had elected Lewis "Mr. Chin
of 1947." He won the election
over such competitors as
President Truman, Gen Omar
Bradley, Actor Edw. C.
Robinson and Singer Jack
Smith.
In announcing the election,
the Institute said, "A mans
chin is the true hallmark of
his character. 1t must be 51s
inches from jaw to jaw or his
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-07
Sitting
TheNeWS
BY Paul SiftOn

people, what a government,
what a Congress, what a fu-
ture we have here in the
U. S. A!
AS a people, we're still
pretty much Helen Kane the
Boop-B -Boop-A-Doop Girl of the
Twenties, and Jack Donohue,
who killed himself dancing for
fun and for free after the show
was over. Button us up one
place and we break out some
where else.
Take the Report of the Pres
ident's Committee on Civil
Rights as an example. 1t
couldn't happen anywhere else
just the way it happened here.
Get the situation:
Chairman j. Parnell Thomas
of the House Un-American Ac-
tivities Committee is using ice
tongs instead of tweezers to
pick out and expose Holly
sing them around in such a
wood Communists and /or fell
low travellers and dupes, in
such a way as to excite the
humane sympathies of the on
lockers.
Eric Johnston, backed by the
motion picture producers, gal
lops on the civil rights field
10 years late to challenge the
inquisitions, proposing tn a t
American citizens have the
same rights before Congress
sional committees as when
they're hauled up in court for
throwing a brick at the neigh
boris dog.
POLITE TERROR
In the Executive Branch
100000 federal employees live
in an atmosphere of polite
terror as employees are dropped
"for security reasons" without
being told the evidence against
them, who supplied it and with
out having an opportunity to
confront their accusers, cross
examine them and present evil
dence and argument directly
and through counsel.
In Atlanta, white men set
fire to a Negro's home and the
flames burned through our
fine words about freedom,
equality and opportunity. The
fire watchers include a billion
of the colored races all the
way from the UN meeting at
Lake Success to the tip of
South America and Indonesia.
In U. S. Employment Serv-
ice offices qualified members
of minority groups are passed
over by employers. so that un-
employment among minorities
runs two to one above the rest.
Into this screaming circus of
fear, frenzy, hate and despera-
tion, all much appreciated and
exploited by our totalitarian
competitors, walks the Presi-
dents Civil Rights Committee
to lay down, end to end, our
civil rights ideals of the Decla-
ration of Independence and
the failures to make good on
the Constitutions Bill of
Rights.
The Committee shows how
in this world crisis we are
knocking ourselves out by dis
elimination, segregation, lynch
terror, denial of voting rights,
schooling, health services, etc.
It proposes a whole set of laws
and appropriations to eliminate
these evils now.
WARNING
FEaa-- -
Evening star., 1947-07-25

sized model, but I intend to keep the
baby" washer in hands reach, too,
because it Is so fine for little jobs.
Evening star., 1947-07-25

caught the turkish towels and
snagged them. My husband filed
the edges off smooth with a small
file that fit into the holes. This
took him about one hour. Now I
even wash my lace collars with no
snags.
Because space is at premium We
keep the washer under the basin In
the bathroom. It is white and
looks like another fixture.
We both work and do all our
laundry at once. This Is pro-
longed operation with small wash
er but should you use 1t daily as
you suggest you might, believe you
will find it handler than a large
washer.
We hone some day to have q full
Evening star., 1947-07-25
By Betty Miles

given to the parents. Nurseries are
usually operated from 10 to IL hours
a day.
A play group helps children to
learn to play together. It Is usually
a halliday program and does not
offer program as complete as that
of the nursery school and the
nursery.
Custedial care offers just what
the name inplies-"guarding' or
Keeping" children during the day.
It doesn't have the health standards
of q nursery nor the education
standards Of a nursery school, nor
the emphasis put upon play by a
play group.
There can really be no good GUS
todial care. Yet some groups In the
District actually offer custodial
care, but call themselves nursery
schools.
Under District law, all groups car
ing for young children must be
licensed. In order to obtain this
license the minimum requirements
for space for outdoor and indoor
play must be met. Proper heating
Evening star., 1947-07-25
What Is a Nursery School?

"r'd like Jimmy to learn to play
with other children" said Mrs.
Jones, and there aren't any three
year-olds in our neighborhood.'
II often feel that I'd handle
Johnny better declared Mrs. Smith.
If I knew more about children In
general. Do you think Q cooperative
nursery school plan would help me'"
Sally needs care and fun while
I'm working" added Mrs. Brown.
where can I find q group that will
meet my needs?"
The ladies are hctional, of course,
but their needs are not. During and
since the war, day care for pre-
school children has grown in prom
inence. In the District today there
are 1900 children receiving day care.
Fifty mine groups, most Of them IN
the northwest. attempt to meet their
needs. Forty Of these groups are In
dependent, some run on a CONNER
cial basis, some comparatively mine
of the groups In the city are CO.
operatives), some by settlement
houses and some by churches. The
nursery schools for children of work.
ing mothers sponsored by the Board
of Public Welfare. and the play
groups run by the D. C. Recreation
Department, make up the total.
All day care groups for children
of pre-school age are definitely not
nursery schools. Some Of the groups
calling themselves nursery schools"
actually offer the children nothing
but roof over their heads and an
occasional broken toy. Children who
should be active, growing personan-
ties sit quietly and lifelessly like
good little girls and boys, with
little to catch their interest from
the time mother brings, them to1
school and the time she calls for
them.
There are really four types Of day
care groups. The nursery school
supplements tho home, Is stated
with trained people, and attempts
to provide the child with experience
that will help in the development OF
his personality. This is the type Of
day school most thoroughly equipped
to care for the child's many needs.
A nursery, a distinguished from
a nursery school, usually cares for
children Of working mothers or for
those who come from homes where
conditions are unsatisfactory. It's
main emphasis Is on the health and
welfare Of the child and the relief
Evening star., 1947-07-25

song 7 have tried to get the words
to is ''Nettie Moore" It starts, I'm
q little white cottage, where the
trees are ever green, where the
honeysuckle blossoms round the
door, How I often sit and listen to
the music of the birds, and the sweet
voice of charming Nettie Moore"
Now If I haven't taken up too
much space I would like to con-
tribute a recipe that we consider
excellent for either company meals
or just an easy one for the family.
It Is particularly good for a buffet
supper or a warm summer day. The
measurements are not too exact
since I always cook by looks and
tastes" but there is no way to be
far of.
Cook about II box Of macaroni.
put in baking dish and add can
grated tuna. Add enough cream
sauce. into which American cheese
has been melted, to 60 through the
macaroni, and turn mixture. Over
this sprinkle grated American cheese
or cheese sliced thin, then sprinkle
literally with bread crumbs. and
bake in moderate oven until brown
on top. Serves 3 to generously
When served with mixed green
salad. hot rolls and finished with a
fresh fruit dessert 1t turns into a
feast Of kings and 1t is, oh, so sim
pile!
will greatly appreciate the words
to the songs and perhaps ir turn
may be able to supply words I'd
some more old ones for others that
like to sing to the little ones.
rls1g .lcaft
RADIO PROGRAM ...,.
(Front Mrs. D. L. X, Alexandria,
Recently I heard over the radio
the first of new series of programs
on child behavior problems. 1t
seems to me that many readers Of
RCH will find it we'll worth their
time. The program deals with prob
lems among normal children and the
participants are parents and experts
in the fields of child psychology and
pediatrics. This Is the sort of radio
presentation that many Of us have
been wanting and hoping for.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
WhyGrow
Old?
By Josephine Lowman


The eyes have always seemed to
me to be the focal point Of q face.
The mouth Is also expressive and
characteristic. but the eyes have first
place with me. There Is 80 much
that can be done to enhance their
attractiyeness and 30 many factors
enter into making them as lovely
as possible.
have often written In this column
about eye makeup. Today I am 60
Ing to make suggestions from . dif-
ferent viewpoint. In the first place,
the way we look out of our eyes Is
most indicative Of the state Of our
health. If we are not well, II we are
tired, II we have lost sleep or II we
suffer from any systemic disorder,
Is is wildly reflected in the eyes.
The eyes are enhanced when they
have an attractive setting or frame.
I am not talking about makeup now
but about circles and lines. The
small lines about the eyes are often
caused or exaggerated by facial
habits. While no one likes . mask
like face, yet there Is no need to
screw our faces up into deep lines
when we talk or laugh. Then, too,
women make a great mistake unless
they use sunglasses in the summer
time In order to avoid squirting.
When 1t comes to eye exercises,
which are done for correction Of
defects in sight. the advice of a
highly trained specialist should be
sought. However, there are many
harmless and restful eye exercises
which can be taken when your eyes
feel tired.
II you wish to have my exercise
routine for the eyes. send a stamped.
self addressed envelope with your
request for leafiet No. 8, Keep
Something in Your Eye-Keep
Beauty" to Josephine Lowman In
care of The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
WASHER;
rUFFY RICE: POEM

fFron, Mrs. r. J. c., Washington
To Mrs. r. z. s., Washington. We
were forced to buy Q small clothes
va9her and looked over all the
models. We chose the one that
"spins" the clothes dry. 1t has
become my best pal and has paid
for itself in six months in savings
On laundry bills. We are very
pleased with the way 1t gets the
clothes clean.
It had one fault which We had to
correct but this was easily done.
The washing cylinder was perforated
% that the water washed In and
out as part Of the operation. These
holes had Jagged edges which often
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Farming Your Wardrobe
By Emily WHkins
Noted Fashion Dssirn.r for YOUNG Juniors.

When I am asked what I consider
the secret of being well dressed !
answer: THE formula car be writ
ten on the inside of your clothes
closet door" For on q single sheet
of paper, ruled in columns and list
ing all your wardrobe possessions
grouped according to type, can be
charted course that will make any
one well, wisely and economically
dressed. The trouble Is that most
girls who aspire to being considered
we'll dressed have the delusion that
the secret" LIS something much
more mysterious, complicated and
costly than the simple fact Of organ
ization.
Organizing and properly utilizing
q wardrobe is like scientific farming
it involves rotation, replacements
and tending of the seasonal crop"
of clothes in constant use. The best
shortcut I know Is the clothes chart
described above, designed to tell
all about your clothes supply at a
glance, to reveal the possibilities
for new combinations-and to give
convincing advance evidence when
new clothes are urgently needed.
This makes for careful shopping
rather than a mad last-minute
scramble. Ny teen age friends who
have clothes charts tell me that
they are also great allies for con-
vincing parents that q new dress is
really q sensible idea.
You can build a wardrobe. plan
ming not for the current season
alone but for the year ahead. Your
coats should At into your needs for
more than one season and each piece
Of clothing you buy should be In
accord with everything else.
Sometimes 1t Is wise to start a
new clothes life" by the process Of
elimination. Lots Of women hang
on doggedly to their mistakes, clut-
terinr lin a closet with things they