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Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28

The American people in war
time more OF less philosophically
accepted certain governmental
controls and restrictions that
transformed the operation of the
Nations economic system and way
of life. 1t was difficult to establish
that some of these controls and re-
strictions were necessary to the
winning of the war. But most peO-
pie took them in their stride and
looked forward hopefully to saner,
more sensible days.
Now although the war is over.
there remains in Washington a
Federal agency whose policies and
methods have been described by
Associate Justice Jackson of the
United States Supreme Court as
"delirious," 'capriciOus," II d
fantastic"
If this agency were one that OPP
Grated in a kind of vacuum, so in
sulated as to protect the outside
world against their effects. then
its deliriums. its caprices and its
fanta sizes would remain matters of
merely academic interest.
This agency, the Federal Power
Commission, however. can and
does exert public harm. 1t is the
! one which was singled out for JUS
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28

plan is to place the Isles on yir-
tual subsistence basis, while every
thing possible is exported to build
up an enormous, ever-expanding
volume of trade. The first part of
that plan has been achieved by
edict-the average Briton's stand
ard of living is under war levels
now. The second part has not been
realized. The flow of British crock
cry, woolens, motor cars, Scotch
whiskey and other Empire products
to the markets of the wOrld-with
the dollarspending U. S. market at
the top of the list-haS been far be-
low forecasts. SO many an English
man has come to feel that he is
making the sacrifices that austerity
demands his country is not
getting the projected benefits. Mr..
Churchill. in his present role as
leader of His Majesty's Loyal Oppo-
sition, has aired that point of view
aggressively in Commons on innu-
merable occasions.
The American loan was, of course,
life-saver to England. 1t gave
her dollar credits she had to have.
Our reasons for making the loan
We're manifOld-perhapS the most
important being the hard fact that
England is one of the very few
friends we have abroad in a world
torn between conflicting ideOlOgies
But English economists are great
. ly concerned because much of the
!. loan is being spent for living pur-
poses which do nothing to solve the
, trade and export problem. This. too
has been the subject of much angry
, debate in Commons.
, ! From the point of view of En-
. lpire solidarity. England faces more
, trouble at every turn. ViscOunt
= WavelIs efforts to bring order Ou'
:, of the Indian chaos was in mos
respects failure. Great number.
of British troops are being with
drawn from India now. and it look.
I very much as if the Indians viii
i be left largely alone to work Ou
:, their difficulties. Volumes coult
Dc NdlU nave U0cHD WT1llcn OH Tilt
u Palestine question-but. whateve
/ ones point of view, ii is obvious
IL that peace lies far away. and tn
II Holy Land will remain for lonj
II time country of dissension an
1t blOOdshed.
IS Some observers have forecast th
IL collapse of the Labor government
'l The best authorities do not agree
$ 1t is significant that Mr.. Churchill
IL despite his strong criticisms, ha
l. not introduced a measure of cen
d sure against the government. 1t
lu felt that Labor will continue i
II power at least for the time being
'r that the British people will give
y every chance to solve the problem
Al The British lion. which once proud
ly dominated half the world, fight
sc for survival.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE

More of versus less Of" is the
subject today. And between the 2,
figure it is more Of that ailS
us most And to make my argu-
ment hold water. look at delin
quency as a sample. The more So
cial uplifters on the payroll, the
more delinquents. Freedom. and
more Of same is another sample.
The 4-freedoms caught us Off
guard. and is what we TOUCHDOWN
with first. Sounded great But as
she turns out, say you are pretty
handy with hammer and saw and
think you will be a carpenter. Well.
you wOnt-nOt unless you sign-up
and pay-up over at the Labor Tenn
pie. More freedom. is not for car
penters.
And with all the more Of free
along comes March 10Th
And anybody who can say some
thing good for March 18th. he has
gotta be on Uncle Samuel's pay
roll. some place or other.
And up and down the line-if
you were to get more electric light
for less with the Govt. turning on
the lights. you find out about that
too. on March 18th. And if the
powerhOuse is in Texas or TEN
nessee and you live in Maine OF
Nevada, you dig up just the same.
All in all. we been fooled long
enough. Less Of is what we been
needing, and didn't know it.
Yours with the w-dOwn.
10 SIERRA.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
FOOD AND FEED

Our Nation is great because it
enjoys the highest standard of liv-
ing-and the highest nutritiOnal
level-of any Nation i'll the World.
One of the principal reasons for
the energy, drive, and imagination
of the American people is the rel
atively high quality of their pro-
tein diets. And the proteins on
which we rely most are supplied
largely through meat. milk and
eggs-the products of livestock
and poultry feeding.
A great deal of credit for main
tanning and improving the Ma
tion's high level of nutrition right
ly belongs to the feed manufacture
ing industry which has done much
to bring the age of scientific feed
ing to American farms.
About 80 years ago the hens in
this country laid an average of ITO
eggs a year. Today they are aver
aging $50. Cows now give an av-
erage of 265 quarts more milk a
piece each year than they did in
1925!
! During the past quarter century
the production of livestock has in
creased a. per cent per acre OF
land, and q per cent per unit of
feed available.
These remarkable increases have
been due to improved breeds of
livestock and poultry and to i'm
proceed feeding and management
methods. 1t is vitality important
that we have had these production
increases and that We continue tC
improve livestock raising efficien-
cy, for the population of this coun'
try has been increasing at al
alarming rate.
Scientific feeding, as We know i
today. is based largely on funda
mental knowledge developed dur
ing the past so years at our agri
cultural colleges and experiment
stations. The feed manufacturin:
industry has utilized this basic in
, formation, supplementing it witt
the findings of its own labOrator
les and experimental farms.
Then. through applied research
, the feed industry has converte'
this knowledge into practical
workable form for the benefit o
the greatest number of people il
the shortest possible time. Thu
farmers and feeders. large an
small. have had the full advantag
, of latest research, experiment!
and accurate blending of food in
: gradients. as scientific feeding pre-
gressed during recent years.
: These improved feeds, produce
@ by the feed industry. have great
> promoted efficiency in livestoc
and poultry production. with rt
;. sulting higher profits for the fal
mer and a higher nutritional levt
for Americans.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
BY j. +. Jones

tice JacksOn'S judicial character
ization. The FPC is concerned with
one of the Nations most valuable
natural resources, natural gas.
Natural gas, of which there is an
abundance under ground, is fuel
that many Americans use in their
factories and in their hOmeS-and
many more, because of it's cheap
ness, cleanliness, and convenience,
would like to use.
But huge quantities of natural
gas remain in the ground and many
consumers do without it because
the Federal Power Commission has
imposed upon the naturalgas in
dustry a network of policies and
rulings, which, according to the
late Chief Justice Stone "were un-
authorized by the applicable stat
ute" 1t based it's illegal rulings
on the ridiculous assumption that
Americas economy is shrinking.
Fantastic? Commenting upon
one of the Commission typical
actions, Justice Jackson said: ANY
method of rate-making by which
an identical product from a single
we'll, going to the same consumers
has three prices depending on who
owns it does not make sense tC
me-"
Nor does it make sense to be
wildered industry, eager to serve
the public better. Nor does it make
sense to large segment of the
consuming public which wOult
like to be supplied with natura
gas.
Sanity suggests that the Fedora
statute establishing the FPC be 81
amended that the Commission viii
be compelled to forego excursion
into the fantasma of economic the
DRY as though they were master
and their employers, the people
were their servants, and mind it
own business which is that of al
ministration. AS the publics ser
, wants that's what they were hire
! to do.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
INDUSTRY TAKES TO AIR
FOR MANY BUSINESS TRIPS

Travelling statesmen and business
executives rapidly are taking to the
air in their crOss-cOuntry travels.
according to data released by The
Firestone Tire and Rubber Com
pany through Tom Hanley. local
FirestOne dealer.
A recent review of the extent of
air travel by FirestOne EMPLOYEES
in Akron revealed that one ont of
every six business trips made bv
office and administrative personnel
was made on commercial air line
This travel amounted to more than
l 100000 passenger air miles in the
| United States.
In addition to the $500 scheduled
commercial flights made by Fire.
stone headquarters employees. the
cOmpany's own fleet of transnort
aircraft criss-crossed the nation
many times in carrying executives
of the company. Three planes flew
more than 100000 miles on these
charter flights.
Most OF the cOmpanyS employees
who travel to and from Firestone'c
welve foreign manufacturino
plants. Firestone's Liberian rubbe,
plantations and the Far East rub-
Der purchasing and shipping Offices
save many weeks of travel time nv
flying.
TO expedite deliveries of tires
Firestone frequently charter
planes to make special domesti,
and overseas flights. Air express,
and air mail dispatched bv IN,
company is counted by tons, not h,
pounds.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
FALSE PROPHETS AND
HIGHWAY PROGRAMS

When Congress was considering
the Federal-Aid Highway Act of
1914, certain of the road contract
ors and equipment people empha-
sized that a huge public works
program would be necessary to
cushion the deflatiOn and mass un-
employment which they fOresaw
the moment the shooting stopped.
They brushed aside any sugges-
ton that there might be short
age of materials or equipment to
launch postwar road building
program of the magnitude they ad-
vocated.
Instead of dire unemployment,
labor shortages still plague the
highway construction field. In
stead of a postwar defiation,
critical initiation has made wise ad-
ministratOrs shy away from any
large-scale construction work. In
stead of an abundance of material,
shortages of supplies and equip
ment, as well as of trained person.
mel, have combined with the other
forces which make major highway
construction projects not only un-
feasible but, in many instances,
downright impossible at this time.
Consequently, Congress has seen
fit thus far to. appropriate only
SITS, 100000 of the one billion dol
lars authorized for the first two
postwar years of the Federal-aid
program The American AssOcia-
ton of State Highway Officials, or
iginal sponsor of the Federal-aid
Act. has appealed to Congress to
extend the time for expenditure Of
FederalAid funds. and similar
request was made by President
Truman in his budget message.
But the complete reversal of all
: their predictions has not feezed
: the highway promotiOnal interests
/ in the least. They have shed these
old and discredited arguments as
t neatly as snake sheds its skin.
: Now, instead. they are trying to
/ created an appetite for lush and
lavish highway programs such as
would seem eXtravagant even in the
4 dreams of an opium smoker. They
e have forgotten all their past
4 promises and past predictions.
;. They have ignored present cOndi-
t tions. including the unsurpassed
S prosperity of the State highway
: funds. as they set up cry for
e more and still more money to fl
: nance even more grandiose pro-
: grams.
u The target for all this propagan-
: da-the mOtOriSt-ShOuld be the
very last to listen to it. His long
= accommodating burden OF taxes on
his motor vehicle and motor fuel
= pays not nearly SO much for prac-
"a tical roads of the present and flu
# ture as for past, present and pro-
o. jected blunders in the ALLEGATION
,o of highway funds. He has to pay
- for everybOdy's mistakes in high
;s way planning. for the wrong CUES
70 ses as well as the right. And whel
others are extravagant, the penal
=. ty is his. The highway promotion
- al prophets should be without hon
~ or to him because time and again
:e they have proved themselves t.
- be false prophets.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
Economic HighHghts

Winston Churchill, that past
master of the resounding phrase,
once said that he had not become
the Kings First Minister to preside
at the dissolution of the British
Empire. 1t is too early to say
whether that unenviable task will
fall to conscientious. uninspired
Mr.. Attlee-but it is clear that
England is now in the midst of one
of the bitterest crises of her long
and turbulent history.
The roots of this crisis 80 deep
Before the war, England was hard
put to maintain her dominant posi-
ton in the world. The war placed
an almost uncomfortable strain upon
her resources and energies-and,
of very great Importance, practic-
ally exhausted her American finan-
cial credits. { The people of the
DOminiOns, as i'll India. have long
been dissatisfied and restless. And
/ in the more advanced Dominions,
such as Canada and Australia, the
influence of the United States has
rivalled and in some ways exceeded
that of the Crown.
You can find a dozen opposed rea-
sons for the victory of the Labor
Party over Mr.. Chufchill's Conser-
vatives in the last British elections
The most reasonable is that &
weary people wanted change
and Labor promised that. 1t re-
ceived heavy popular endorsement
of the most sweeping program fOl
socialiZa ton of industry ever ser.
iously proposed in Il democratic
nation. And. at the same time, the
people approved an "austerity'
program, designed to regain an(
, expand England's foreign market.
and to rebuild her world economic
prestige. This program was ais,
urged in most of its essentials b,
: the Conservatives.
First move of Mr.. Attlees gov
ernment was naturalization of tn
, coal mines-lOng one of the sores
+ trouble spots in the British domes
tic economy. During the war, Goa
production was kept up by wha
amounted to draft labor. Since ma
, tionalization, production has bee
: inadequate. and the miners Seel
D no happier than before. Labo
Y spokesman attribute the recer
I emergency. in which coal shortage
resulted i'll temporary shutdOw
j of almost all industry. to some {
the worst weather in English his
tory. However. even if this factC
e is given maximum value. it is ev
V dent that Labor has not found
solution to the coal problem. An
: many authorities think that simils
- i'll effects may result when Lab,
IL sOcializes the electric industr
IS which is scheduled for the nes
V future.
# The basic English long-ran.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
NATIONAL DEMOCRACY
I'M IMPROVING

The Congress. the Courts. the
People and the Press seem to have
taken arms against sea of trOu-
Bile. This involves John l.. Lewis,
but it is not private affair.
The Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States sustained the decision
of Judge Goldsborough in which
the latter fined Lewis $4,000. The
high Court knocked off most of the
$3500.000 fine against the mine
workers union by reducing it to
100000. But. when Lewis started
! "rairin' again" the Supreme Court
declared that in case of another
coal strike that the original Colds
borough fine of 31a millions would
be imposed.
A short post mOrtem reveals the
fact that the beginning of the sit
down strikes were directed
against the automobile industry
with John l.. Lewis as the big boss
President Roosevelt and the whole
New Deal was playing on his side
Over a period of more than a doz
en- years the Washington Govern
ment with its combined powers il
Congress, in the Judiciary and in
the Department of Government,
threw their full support to VIII
coal strikes. and all other strikes
Today. Congress and the Ad
ministration have shown new cour.
age. There is more strength in the
Courts-new determination to stoI
riotous and ruinous upheavals o.
economic affairs in the Nation.
Unless all signs fail the presen
Congress will enact new labor
laws that will be fair to every
body, as we'll as workable and en-
forceable. The old political trick.
of dividing responsibility by shift
ing from labor boards to Other
groups are being discarded.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
WashingtonRe Comments
From Our Nations Capitol

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-The Uni
ted States Supreme Court has up
held the decision of the Court of
Appeals which sustained the Civil
Service Commission in discharg
ing Communists from employment
by the Federal Government. Thus
our Government brands Russia as
an unfriendly Nation.
When President Truman an
nounced a new Foreign Policy in
his address to Congress the Legis-
lative branch of the Government
promptly agreed. 1t was a decla-
ration that our Government had
abandoned the policy of attempt
ing to conciliate Russia" and it
was plain notice that from now on
our Nation would actively resist
the spread of Communism"
1t was also definite notice to
Russia that General Marshall will
not be "let down." pushed around
or humiliated by the Russian
tribes.
MolOtov and his gangsters have
heaped slander and abuse upon the
United States that is as threaten
ing as that of pre-war times. The
United States Government has ser.
we'd notice that it will meet future
challenges of Russia. We have
made every effort to re-establisf
Peace in the World. But Russian
gangsters continue to roar the way
Hitler and Mussolini hOwled il
their time. Do not minimize thu
situation-it Is alarming.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
STAMPS in the NEWS
AP NeWsfeatureS

Outstanding buildings of Mana
qua are pictured on a new COM
set of regular postage
and airmail stamps from Nicara
qua. The set marks the Tooth an
niversary of the founding of the
Central American capital city.
The five regular postage and six
airmail stamps are designed in a
diagonal formal, an innovation in
Nicaraguan stamps but popular
with other Latin-American coun-
tries. A black border bears the in
scription Printer Centenario de
Managua 1S46-1946." The building
used as the subject of the central
design is portrayed in color. Build
ings pictured are: Metropolitan Ca
thedral on four centavOs rose regu-
lar postage; health department
building on five-centavO blue reg
ular postage and 35-c orange air.
mail; city hall on six-centavo light
green regular postage and One-cOr-
doba brown airmail; proposed pro-
vincial seminary on 1O-c fawn reg
ular postage and sc airmail; post
office building OH 75-c light brown
and zoe gray airmail; national
bank OH 90-c airmail, and natiOna
palace OH two-cordOba lilac air.
mail.
Managua. founded in 1916, was
made the capital city of Nicara,
qua in 1851. 1t has population Of
$4,000.
This cancellation is being ap
piled at post offices i'll Chicago, Los
j Angeles, Atlanta. Jacksonville
Fla. Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New
Orleans, Portland. Ore, Salt Lake
City. Omaha, Denver and Buffalo
Post offices of II additional cities
soon will be added to the list, bu
they will use a slightly differen
cancel because their canceling ma
chimes are of a different type. Th'
wording on the second cancellation
will be identical with that of th'
one now in use.
George A. Scot
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
THE ATOM is SAFE

Control of the atom bomb actual
ly remains at the present time in
control of the Army and Navy.
About $443.0O0,000 will be spent
on acknowledgement in the cur
rent fiscal year; principally for
purposes of it's possible military
application. Presumably. the Civil
ian Commission won't cut as much
ice as the politicians who have
quarreled over the confirmation of
David Lilienthal seem to imagine.
1t is comforting to believe that
nothing is going to happen to us
while the atom bomb belongs ex-
clusively to the United States. We
wouldn't use it for any other pur-
pose except for National Defense
but that's more than could be said
about some other United Ma
tions."
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
Cave Man Left
Refrigerator On

MlSSOULA. Mont. -(P)- Dyna-
miters blasting a road OH a west
tern Montana mountain uncovered
ice which may have frozen in a
prehistoric glacial age. c. E. Rem
ington. of the Forest Service, said
a deep bed of clear ice was found
fourteen feet beneath the earth's
surface near the east fork of the
Bitter Root river, He theorized that
the ice might well have been there
for centuries because under
ground temperatures at that high
level probably would not permit
melting in the summer.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
OUR DEcADENT TARIFF POLICY

In olden times the Republicans
protected American interests by
tariff laws that balanced the diff
ferences in costs of production be-
tween foreign countries and the
United States-our Nation being
stabilized on levels because of
higher wages and natural advan-
tages. Cordell Hull eased in trade
treaties" which were in fact twin
sisters to free trade. The Republi-
cans still believe that their old
protective tariff was d better sys-
tenn.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
SUMNER is A-COMIN' IN

Women in town. country and NJ
the beach come summer will be
sporting the smartest array of GOV,
washable dresses that thew bovo
ever been offered, manufactnrore
report. Rayon and other syntbot;o
fabrics will vie with cottons in the
soap and water department. W
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
OLD MAN INITIATION

A big National association swells
out it's chest and declares that il
has mo intention of rocking the
imitation boat-nOw or at any other
time" Who would ever suppose
that the initiation boat would in
crease the present rocking rec
ord?
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28
SOMETHING WORSE THAN
RUSSIANS

Everybody seems to be getting
madder and madder every day at
Russian Communists. Did it ever
occur to you that American Com
munists are several degrees worse
than the foreign breed, who have
Communist heritage?
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28

The American business system
is regaining the support of the
great American public. Reason
and common sense is staging late
comeback. Hasten the day.
Milford chronicle., 1947-03-28


ONE THING is CERTAIN: A new pro-
gram OF Federal labor legislation intended
to create sensible cooperation between labor
and management based on ending strikes,
particularly against the Government and
against public health and safety, as we'll as
jurlsdictional strikes and secondary boycotts
and use of force and violence, will be enacted
by Congress this year. Too much tomfoolery
has been going on for years The turn of
the tide began with those spankings of John
l.. Lewis and the coal miners Congress is
convinced that the wage earners of the coun-
try are about ready to toss over their bosses.
They have learned that useless strikes de-
plete the financial resources of tbs workers
and their families and create losses in wages
that cannot be recovered in months and
years
There are a lot of signs in the skies that
Indicate high improvements in the mentality
OF the American people. And those signs
clearly indicate that employers and employ
ees are ready to abandon strikes, and give
collective bargaining and other programs a
fair trial
Kodiak mirror., 1947-01-04
School Breaks
 Enrolment Record

Total enrolment for all grades and high school for the first sem- ester reached an all time of Bel students. Superintendent s A. Nave announced today Enroll ment is back to normal follow ing the one-day shutdown Mon day because of lack of water at the school.
 The first semester closes with examinations Jan. g and 10 and the new semester starts Monday, Jan. 13.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-01-04
Assault Charge Trial Today

Hollis Mulford, plumber and sheet metal worker, is charged with assault by M A Triple t, taxi orive,, in a complaint filed yesterday at the U. s. Comm;s- sioner's office. Trial is set for 3 pm today, Mulford being releas- ed in the custody of his attorney. Talmage l.. Smith.
 The complaint alleges Mulford threatened Triplett with 8 gun at a local night spot on Jan.