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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
Bv T EDISON

WASHINGTON, P r d e n t
Truman's 1O-yesr, S. billion flood
control program today seems
headed for the political battle
grounds-to be kicked around be-
tween the two parties and within
his W administration.
The program which The Presi-
dent sent to Congress in a special
message represents a change in
Truman's own policy. He cut back
last years appropriations on flood
control a n d reclamation projects
to reduce his budget expenditures.
Heretofore he has advocated de-
laying public works until housing
and other wartime construction
shortages were relieved, or using
public works to take up the slack
in a possible recession.
In his recent 35th division
speech at Kansas City, however,
he criticized Congress for its cuts
in reclamation funds. And he fol-
lows this up now by proposing
faster aciion-the spending of $3.50
million on top of the $45 million
already. appropriated for this
years flood-control works con-
struction and repair.
The area receiving principal at
tention would be the % states
from the A%lleghenies to the Rock
les and from Canada to the gulf.
1t takes in the Ohio, Missouri and
Mississippi river basins. 1t also
takes in a lot of voters.
The covn belt having just come
through pretty disastrous wash
outs, its people may cheer the
news of greater flood control &C
tivity. But this program runs
head-on into Republican pledges of
economy. A $3.50 million rush ap-
preparation for flood control at this
time would cut the Republicans
real savings on the Truman
budget by IS much as 10 per cent.
If Congress should by some
miracle increase flood control 40
preparations before it goes home,
selection Of projects which get
the money will probably be made
by the usual method of rolling out
the pork barrel. Projects that can
muster the most political support
are the ones that get first
approval, whether there is greater
20 years the Army's Corps of En-
economic need for them Or not.
Today only nalf a dozen princi-
pal U. S. river systems have been
studied with any degree of com
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
The Community Chest

Five years ago today Wilmington's
Community Chest came into existence.
The consolidation of many financial
campaigns which. had plagued both
donors and workers for years into a
single solicitation was started on july
%, 1912.
At the time only six organizations
participated in the plan. In the inter-
vening years the number has doubled.
There is but one major organization
dependent upon public support which
is not a member-the Red Cross. And
this is not because the Red Cross on
poses the Chest but because its needs
and emergency services cannot be fore
cast with accuracy.
Because much of the Chests work
during the war years included war re-
lief in addition to the local appeals it
lis estimated that through it's operation
the people of Wilmington were saved
at least a hundred separate money
campaigns. Only the volunteers who
took part in solicitations under the old
custom of holding drives for every
cause separately can fully appreciate
what this means, although the men ano
women in the professions and business
can also appreciate the relief they ex
perienced by having to write a single
check instead of a hundred.
Suppose the twelve member organ
cations had conducted their own cam
,~-paigns during these last five years. I'M
war re- efforts are dropped iron
conside n for the obvious reason
they no ,er play a part in the Chests
activities. Twelve institutions making
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
The Book OF knowledge
Department.
FAMILIAR THINGS)
BOY SCOUT ACTIVITIES
AND IDEALS

Editors Note:-An earlier arti-
Gle told how the Boy Scout move
ment was started in England in
1903 and has spread through the
world. There are now Scout or
CARNATIONS in more than 70 lands.
At the forthcoming international
Jamboree in France, there will be
81, 900 Scouts from 80 countries.)
During World War II, the Axis
dlctators tried to stamp out the
BOY Scout organizations in the
countries they invaded. They for
babe Scouts to hold meetings, en6
sometimes even shot them. But
Scouting went underground and,
when the wal was over, there
were more Scouts throughout the
world than yer
Boy Scouts, no matter what Ian
guage they speak or in what coun-
try they live, are dedicated to the
same ideals of trustWorthiness
and honor and world friendship.
In the United States, their or
ganization is known as the Boy
Scouts of America. Any boy in
the nation can join. There are
three age groups: Cub Scouts, 9
to II years old; Boy Scouts, IL
years ano older; and Senior
Scouts, Is years and older.
Here are some Of the things
that Cub Scouts learn to do: feats
of skill such as jumping, swim
ming, running or somersaults;
making things, such as whiting,
carving, leather work, pottery or
weaving; collections, such as
stamps, stones, leaves, coins;
making scrapbooks; how to tie
packages, shoe strings and ropes:
Indian craft; and forms Of respect
to the flag.
A Boy Scout hikes through the
woods and camps in the Open. He
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

times; to keep myself physical.
strong, mentally awake ana iDV'
ally straight. c..r,
Copyright, 1947, by the o uo,,
Society Inc, based upon the OWN
Ct KnoWledge)
Distributed by United fe
Syndicate, Inc.( 4
TOMORROW: - Achievements
Bow Scouts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Written for NEA Service
Alexander Weiss Of New YORK.
tn.s years winner of the ratlora
masters individual title. gave M
today's hand. The point IN The
hand is this: When declarer is IN
dummy with the ace OF SPACES
should he take the heart ilne@
or the club finesse? OF course
looking at all Of the cards you
will say that the club tlnesSe \
the correct play. And it ls-M
why?
Weiss reasoning is that L 'h
king of clubs is II. the East nam
he club fines.e IS the correct pis!
whether East's holding is the kING
and one. the king three tines low
times, or even eight times. ba
the heart finesse will accom9N
10 good unless ceclarer Iappt"
t. find East win only Inc AZ"
and one or the king and wv.
lear,s. IN tbs nand East has lou
hearts, SO the heart flnesse Su
nc value even though it "ofh
If the queen of hearts IS l4
from dummy, East covers WIZ.
the king - and d%eclarer ca'An.'
avoid losing a trick in every SUI,
This is a good illustration o.
proper ''percentase' play a,
though it is a fifty-tifty guess ds
the location of tne two kings as
Cub finesse will gain "nene'.
East has the king. regardleSS "
the number of cubs East nolu'
Gunless East has nine cluoS 10 1'
a virtually Impossible s'a. u,
tion). On the other hano' ~
possibilities of winning Win "
heart finesse are limited.
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q u citation

Not only are movies worse than thew use
to be-one might say that now they are no
good at all.-Adolphe Men;ou, film star
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

YOU can never find a lender, if you are no,
ready to state what you yourself can do
Georses Bidault, French foreign minister.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

The United Nations is an organization which
cannot stand still. 1t must either 60 forward
or ACKNOWLEDGMENT .tiee, British prime
minister.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

Let me say to my colleagues that 1 wrote
this speech myself. To this remark l presume
the ghost writer's union will stand I'm ana
declare: We'll say you did!"-Rep. Home
A. Ramey (R) Of Ohio.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

GOOD MORNING
Good will, like a good name, is got by
many actions, and lost by one.-Jeffrey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
College Registration

Because Wilmington college will Of
fer so many advantages not previously
available in this section of North Car
DINA it is reasonably expected that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23

The beloved Minnesota cartoonlst,
Sid Fossum who ruggedly depicts life
and politics as they actually are met
the first blast of anti labor legislation
year or so ago with picture OF a
huge wringer being turned with large
handles at either end by poll-tax
Democrat and an anti labor Republl-
can. Into this great wringer a silk
hated representative of finance capl-
tai was feeding an ordinary worker
who was coming out very flat ana
dropping down into a black pit lab
eled fascism. Just few steps behind
the fat boy stood another ticker-tape
artist with struggling farmer under
one arm and farmer-owned co-opera-
tive under the other ready to squeeze
the farmers and their economic enter
prises to conform to the dimensions
of pancake after the worker was out
of the way.
Fossum's wringer, which first APP
peared in a farm issue of Minnesota
Labor, provoked a deep chuckle as
Congressman Case of Case Bill fame
was shown perched on the top of the
large machine with long-nosed oil
can lubricating the bearings. At that
time not many people seemed to be
alarmed over the possibilities of labor
being trampled down by the rough
shod feet of the large employers with
a Hartley-Taft law, and the farmers
were still being told that all short
ages from corn cribs to cotter keys
were caused by labor organizations
and high wages.
Sid Fossum can now draw another
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
Business-Backed Fascism, Not Commies,
Are Real Enemies of America

Editorializing in the May Railroad
Trainman, Pres. A. F. Whitney en-
phatically told fellow BRIT members
that the "fascism CT powerful and
ruthless business groups" not com
munism is the real enemy of all Amer
leans today.
mo depression is inevitable" Whit
ney said. 1--WE can avoid them And
it's easier to prevent depression
now than it will be to cure one if it
starts. If you don't want depres-
sion, if you are determined to keep
your freedom, protect your standard
of living, and prevent war, the first
step is to KNOW YOUR ENEMY"
The enemies of the American peo-
pie, Whitney said, are high prices,
dangerously high" profits, declining
power, lack of homes, mo-
anti-labor legislation and fas-
cism.
Whitney dashed at the Hartley slave
labor bill as 'the cruelest blow ever
truck at labor by either house of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
BAD FOR SOUTH

eff labor is shackled, southern liv.
ing standards cannot move forward,
declares the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare
That organization, composed of lib
erals in Dixie. published a special
bulletin pointing out the dangers in
the anti-labor legislation now before
1t particularly emphasized
that this legislation would block eco
nomic progress in the south, condemn
ing that region to a standard of living
lower than in the north.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
Democracy For ALI
Only Way To Beat
Communism

Communists at home and abroad
made the most of May Day. In this
country they alarmed a good many
people, and there was much talk about
using strong measures" against the
Reds.
LABOR doesn't think that is the
way to beat communism.
With all it's weaknesses, democracy
is better than anything the Reds
can show anywhere on earth. That
fact must be demonstrated.
In every democracy" the condition
of the masses must be steadily inn
proved. There is grave danger we
are not paying enough attention to the
needs of the plain people in Western
Europe and other lands, where we are
in a position to exercise great influ-
ence.
We seem more anxious to keep
kings on their thrones and to pre-
serve intact vast landed estates than
we are in establishing real democracy
and assuring food and opportunity for
the masses
If we persist in playing that foolish
game, nothing on earth can stop the
advance of communism. But just give
democracy a real chance and it will
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
BRITISH CO-OPS WELCOME
MATIQNALIzED RAILS

London. (CNS) THE cooperative
movement is not affected to any con-
siderable extent by the naturalization
of transport a cooperative official
announced here early in May. Co-ops
will have little loss in income, he said,
for they have only small holdings in
railway stocks.
Pilfering on the railways is a seri-
Gus problem, being ten times as great
as before the war, he pointed out, and
co-ops have suffered acutely. They
hope for improvement in that direc-
ton.
Since the proposed bill does not
apply to local trucking, the co-ops
hope to benefit to the same extent as
the other businesses using long-dis-
lance transportation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
Iaclto,iss anaIa,n,s
The Farmer S Angle
BY HOMER AYRES

cartoon to bring the story up to date.
He might draw the editor of LIFE
magazine telling much flattened
worker: Lets run the farmer through
now, Joe, and then you will fatten up
q little" This is what LIFE implies
in full page editorial on farmers.
May 5, and farmers all over the land
should take heed, because even before
the workers are completely through
the wringer the propaganda is being
prepared to throw two-thirds of the
farmers to the wolves, and ON this
project Big Business is bidding for
labor support. Last summer the peo-
pie were being told that OPA caused
food shortages and if OPA was killed
prices would level Off" But food
prices have levelled off at an altitude
the average man can't near reach.
Now these high food prices are being
blamed to the farmers. But the farm
ers are not to blame-the guilty ones
are the food professors who get SO
cents of every food dollar spent. The
fifty cents the farmer gets goes to pay
Standard Oil and the farm equipment
and fertilizer monopolies. so the farm
er's share is darned little compared
to what he produces.
LIFE magazine makes us believe
that nearly four million farmers out of
the total 100000 are not much ac-
count and have let their acres "go to
hell" through ignorance, bad health
or bad luck. The slick picture maya
zine would have us believe that these
farmers would be better off in the
ranks of the industrial workers and
that everybody would be better off if
commercial farmers" whose operat-
ing costs were generally less than
small farmers, produced our food and
fiber
To the uniformed this would mean
hat agriculture would be carried on
BY corporations and companies, many
If them owned by the food professors
md chain stores. These corporation
arms would produce to make money
md not for their Health as so many
americans have done in the past while
he small farmers who left the land
would be looking for employment that
i'd not exist. in most cases at wages
over than the prevailing scales.
Most farmers remember when both
arge and small farm operators were
n the rocks because workers without
obs couldn't buy necessities of life.
he AAA farm program helped the
mall farmers a little and the large
armers lot. 1t is historic that corp
ration farmers farm all the good out
/ land and then dump it while the
farmer trys to keep his
arm improved and the soil fertile
LIES editorial on farmers shows
agln how Big-Business uses farmer
galnst worker and worker against
lrmer in the process of wringing both
and labor have a real basis
II grabbing the wringer handles
way from the poll-tax Democrats and
NIL labor Republicans by putting the
eat on congress and the President
throw the Hartley-Taft bills into
le ash can
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
Children and Bombs

ing and working together in mutual
respect. This is narrow-minded big
otry on a national scale But when our
leaders tell us that we must kill one
another in order to live, that is crimi-
nal insanity. Unfortunately, we have
no protection against it. Freedom of
opinion and tn ediscussion of ideas
which is safe on a personal level is
not safe on an international level
This, it seems to me, is all the argu-
ment necessary to prove the need for
international law.
Restraint imposed on a child, es-
pecially an unreasoning and severe
restraint, very often defeats itself.
may not, in defiance of Father Tru-
man, espouse communism and Ivan
may not become a capitalist but given
time and opportunity, | think | might
discover Ivan and he might discover
me. 1t is altogether possible that, on
discovery of each other, Ivan and l
might reach mutual agreeemnt about
q few things such as that communism
is no bowling success in Russia and
that capitalism is no bowling success
in America Together and released
from the has-beens who sired us we
might get around to re-Giscovering
democracy and giving the old girl
TRANSMISSION of new blood before it is
too late.
Ivan and l wouldn't be breaking any
avs or turning the world inside out, |
we would simply be welcoming change |
instead of spilling our blood fighting
t. But perhaps this is precisely what |
,ur elders fear. Even in the atomic |
Lge they cling to the letting of blood"
IS the cure-all for sickness
One of the first things children learn
5 that their parents never learn.
history is on the side of the kiddies.
Any child psychologist will tell us
hat imagination in a child is creative
fostered and encouraged and de- +
tructive if repressed. I
Could Create a Better World i
Given encouragement from our par l
ats, Ivan and I might use our imagin-
lions to create a better world for
lrselves and our weaker playmates.
oppressed by ignorance our magma
ons are quite capable of becoming
estructive first to ourselves and then
, society Our personalities turned
ward will develop a complex self r
We needing the constant nourish-
ent of prejudice. against, and hate :
the other. Then having destroyed :
rselves as individuals we would need
set out destroying the world lest :
there might Turk an idea
a person who would be unimpressed
our self-importance.
Mr.. Wallace says wars begin in :
e minds of men" | think he is :
ght. l think war begins in the minds
men who see a chance for personal
aterial gain in encouraging first the ;
preston of imagination in youth
ID then setting it upon it's destructive
urse But what such cunning minds
EN- to be forgetting is that the sling y
OF, beloved of child-welfare, has be-
me the A bomb, and children who p
about destroying other children II
tn this weapon are going to destroy q
@ Svengalis who hope to gain by the
lployment to which they would dedi- Ia
tie youth. ST.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23

the American congress *. The men
who prepared this bill are the same
ones who worked for high prices, who
protected the monopolists, who have
have done nothing to solve the hous-
ing crisis. They beam with pleasure
at huge corporation profits but frown
when the worker asks for an extra
dime the rail union leader charged
that the anti-communist sentiment
of the American people is being de-
liberately inflamed by native Amer
lean fascists to promote their own evil
ends"
Loading a Cannon
There are only $4,000 communists
IN America dept of Justice figures),"
he said. "The hysteria about com
amounts to loading a cannon
to shoot a sparrow If the fascists
can keep the people busy discussing
communism their opportunity to crush
democracy will be strengthened
We need to turn the guns of our
national effort and publicity on elm
mating American fascism which is
responsible for HIGH PRICES-ANTI-
LABOR LEGISLATION HOUSING
SHORTAGES - EXCESSIVE PROF
IT'S = DWINDLING PURCHASING
POWER-WITCH HUNTS! KNOW
YOUR ENEMY! AND FIGHT"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23

There is no policy like politeness,
since good manner often succeeds
where the best tongue has failed
Magoon.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
Bv CAROLINE BRAMMER


If nv neighbor, a Republican, should
forbid his child association with mine
because | do not share his political
oninions. [ think most people would
agree that he is a narrow-mlnded big
o+ who does no credit to his country.
But if my neighbor should persuade
his child to kill my child on the theory
that it is impossible for them both to
live in the same world, think society
would Judge him insane and a menace
IN the community and l expect he
would soon find himself in Mattewan,
New York's home for the criminally
insane.
Actually, although my neighbor and
7 do not agree on politics, economics
and various other subjects, we are
friends and our children are friends.
We may never think of it but we have
a security which makes argument
safe enough pursuit which does much
toward broadening our understanding
of life and of each other. We take it
for granted that should either of us,
in the heat of disagreement become
? physical danger to the other, the
law would step in
Most Americans know now that re-
Iations between Russia and the United
States must be stabilized before there
can be any hope of peace. We also
know that the hope of life in the
atomic age is indivisible from the
need for peace. Most Americans
agree that in relations between states,
rs in relations between individuals,
agreements are never reached which |
totally favor one individual over the |
other. Agreements are arrived at |
through mutual concessions on a basis
Of Justice and fair play. Understand
ing between nations should be no
more difficult of accomplishment than
agreement between states, counties or
Stupid PaternaiIsm
In the case OF Russia and the United
states, however, the way to under
tanding has become very difficult {
because of an attitude OF political {
eaders in both countries. This atti- {
ude can best be described as stupid
aternalism which insists on regard
ng the peoples of both countries as {
dot children who must be protected
rom allen ideas. i
The greatest insult to the intelli-
ence is fear of ideas. 1t is also the
reatest stumbling block in the path of q
rogress and human development.
nd it is as old as man. 1t is the rea- :
IN why each age fails to prepare the
'fspring of that age for the next. All
le mistakes of man can be chalked up
this unpreparedness. No one would
eriously argue that history does not t
low a constant change in the physi r
H. social and spiritual environment 0
man Civilization is the story of II
lis change Likewise no one would r
,riously argue that any amount of d
oodshed to deny change has ever G
ept change from happening. And s.
It, despite the slow pace at which s.
lange occurs, men are always getting G.
emselves into a tizzy which sends 81
her men out to kill still other men. "
he consequences of ignorance are new u
pretty. q
Criminal insanity
Marshall Stain seeks to protect his
ildren from the idea of capitalism.
,ngress and President Truman are
FRYING to emulate this action even
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-23
Criminal insanity

Marshall Stain seeks to protect his
children from the idea of capitalism.
Congress and President Truman are
hurrying to emulate this action even
to the abrogation of civil liberties, SO
dire is the need to protect American
children from the idea of communism.
Neither family is permitted the privi-
lege OF knowing the other or of play
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Sunday Reading

Greece's plight became a
cause celebre almost overnight
in the American press. Indeed.
world politics are whirling so
furiously that those on the
sidelines are puzzled over
some of the issues. BY way
of clarification, Garnett D.
Horner, in Sundays Editorial
Section, retraces the steps
that led up to the Mediter-
ranean dilemma.
On this side of the globe
Argentina is reported dealing
in peso diplomacy"to finance
an ambitious five-year indus
trialization program, while
Brazil is buying the things
she needs from Britain rather
than the United States. Spe-
cial writers explore these sub
jects in the Editorial Section.
Another architectural hint
for home builders is one of a
wide variety of camera stories
in the Pictorial Magazine, and
the usual distinctive treat
ment is given such topics as
books, gardening, amusements,
art, music, society and sports.
This specialized coverage sup
plements the regular thorough
and accurate news content Of
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