davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-11-02

You know me, Joe l always liked to play the
horses little, and figured if this big guy was
bookie or something it wouldn't hurt to get to know
him. Besides like said, he was kind of challenge
So concentrated on him, Joe. remember started
of IN pleasant tone of voice, remarking about the
weather. He just grunted, and said for me to take
little off the top. l discussed the Russian situation
for minute or two, and by then was working
around his ears
l told him he had very distinctive ears, and he
grunted and wanted to know why thought So Well,
you get them to asking questions, and it's just like
you were selling insurance - it means you're in
30 THEN l really went to town. didn't want to
make the guy sore by coming right out and telling
him could see he was natural-born criminal and
that l knew he was in some kind of racket But
thought might kind of lead up to the subject; 50
told him all knew about ears and character All this
time l was going ahead with the clippers automat-
caly, and talking in ow soothing voice - like I'm
using now - and sort of massaging his scalp gently
Maybe could have been hypnotist in some show
The first thing knew, that customer had dropped off
in my chair. That all right, Joe. little nap like
that always refreshes customer, and makes him feel
like maybe slipping you four-bit tip.
Hey, Joe - wake up was telling you about this
guy with the criminal ears. You know what he did?
He got down out of my chair like he was very well
pleased and then he took look in the mirror and
let out a howl that had given him regular prison
haircut
Youknow me, Joe I'm the same old Gabby Jones,
and don't take anything off any cheap crook. So
said yes, and it was because of your ears That kind
of haircut said goes with those kind of ears
He said. Oh, is that so? Where did you learn to
cut hair like that?
In the Army, l said
He said, Army, nuts - you come along to head
quarters with me, and we'll have look in the files.
Well, I've worked in worse shops, and don't mind
so much After you've cut hair this way for ten years,
you sort of get in the habit III see you out in the
yard Joe The End
Evening star., 1947-11-02
There are times when a barber
can talk too much for his own
good - even one like Cabby Jones

CURE, knew you the minute you came in, Joe
- I'D have known you when you got in my chair,
anyway, because of those you've been sporting
ever since your prizefght days. You take ears
they're kind of like faces or hands, or maybe even
fngerprints. There amt any two pairs alike and you
can read character by them
It's kind of nice to be back at the old stand You
want the same as usual? Ha ha! Sure, I'm the same
old Gabby Jones' amt changed. Ever hear that one
about the barber who asked some big Shot - don't
know his name - how he wanted his hair cut? The
big shot said he wanted it cut in silence.
But kidding aside I've worked from coast to coast,
and figure that most of the customers kind of like
to hear barber talk provided he's got pleasant
voice and don't ask too many questions.
Imean it's kind of soothing and helps the customer
relax. I've made study of it, until with me it's
kind of tonsorial skill, you might say Take man
like that big shot who said he wanted his hair cut in
silence. Why, Joe, that would have been kind of
challenge to me, and III bet before he was out of my
chair Id have had him telling me all about himself
Or maybe by the time put the hot towel on his face
he'd have been asleep.
/ HAD customer out in San Francisco who re-
minded me of that story He came in two or three
times month, and every time he'd look at me kind
of hard, and just grunt like he daring me to open
my trap He was big guy, wearing diamond ring
that used to get rise out of the manicure girls
But what noticed right off was his ears They were
fiat and small and extra close to his head The min
ute saw those and that rock on his hand.
said to myself, ohoh, this guy probably big shot
racketeer. mean figured that he was at least some
kind of promoter. Then one day when he hung up his
coat saw copy of the Racing Form sticking out
of his pocket.
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Govt Strikers
Lose Back Wages

Washington (LPA) Strikes
against the government justify not
only the firing Of the strikers but
also the withholding of WAGES al
ready earned, U. S. Controller Gen.
eral Lindsay c. Warren ruled last
week. The decision was made in
case involving three union car
penters employed by the Veterans
Administration in remodeling it's
Waco, Tex. headquarters. The three
men left their jobs on union in
struction when non-union painters
were brought in. VA Chief Omar
Bradley discharged the men and re-
fused to release money owed to
them for work completed before
the strike began, and Warren up
held him.
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STEAMROLLER SMASHES
SCHOOL LUNCH FUNDS

Washington (LPA) - "What g
cheat you are giving the American
people. You have just passed bill
reducing the tax bill of the wealthy
by three billion dollars. Is this the
way you will make it up-by taking
even the lunches away from poor
defenseless urchins ?"
Even the stings from such
charges by Democratic members of
the House of Representatives fail
ed to stop the Republican steam
roller as it cut Agriculture Dept
appropriations by one-third, and
voted the school lunch program
only $45,O0O,C00 instead of the $751;
100000, asked in the Presidents S
budget.
Democrats, led by Rep. Clarence
Cannon (Mo.), fought and lost on
three issues; to increase the school
lunch funds, by a vote of 155 to
139; to put $134, ,3S5,710 back into
the soil conservation service appro-
priation, lost by 156 to ISL; to in
crease the loans permitted to local
cooperatives under the Rural Elec-
trification Act from 1925, coo, ,OO0 to
$3.50, 100000, showed under by sew
eral votes.
Even the drastic cut in funds to
help the states provide nourishing
lunches for school children was not
enough for Reps. John Phillips (R.,
Calf and Ellsworth B. Buck (R.,
N. ". Phillips tried to trim the
fund to $25,COO,O0O; Buck went
even further and argued for a cut
to $11, 100000.
After an impassioned plea for the
full amount asked by the President,
made by veteran Adolph SABBATH
Cd, Ill.,, his colleague Everett
Dirksen (R., Ill., asked his col
leagues to omit "some of the maw-
kish sentiment that has been ex-
pressed here" Sabath's "mawkish"
remarks which hit Dirksen extra
hard included these concluding
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Washington (LPA)- Increasing
evidences of discrimination against
Negro workers in filling federal
jobs last week caused the Natl
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People to repeat its re-
quest to President Truman for a
temporary agency to combat dis
elimination in government employ
ment.
The NAACP, in a letter to the
President, cited recent cases Of Is
veterans who were Disseminated
against in New Orleans by the Post
Office Dept, former weather OBJ
server in the u. S. Army Air For
ces who was denied employment
by the u. S. Weather Bureau, and
an ex-Navy machinist who was
fired from the Railway Mail Serv-
ice in TT. Worth, Tex. All of the
men We're qualified by civil service
examinations for the jobs they
were denied.
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:
Record Set In I
Building Trades

Richmond, Va. QLNS). - The
number of building trades appren-
tices employed in March continued
to increase, again setting an all
time record, William F. Patterson,
director of the Apprentice-Train-
ing Service, U. S. Department of
Labor, told the 51st annual con-
vention of the Virginia State Fed
Grafton of Labor here.
Patterson declared that the APP
prentice-Training Service had listed
95,038 apprentices in those crafts
throughout the country April 1.
This represents an increase Of
1000 over the 93,035, the previous
high, reported March 1. The April
l figure is based on 4,275 reports
from all parts of the country.
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If your family are dessert eat
ers and your time budget doesn't
allow for baking learn to whip
up some fast puddings. The pack
aged puddings are excellent for
this purpose and can be varied for
several uses such as pie filings,
or cream Filings for Boston cream
pie.
A quick chocolate pudding is
made by using one can of sweet
ened condensed milk, 2 squares of
baking chocolate and a little boil
ing water. Cook milk and chocolate
in a double boiler until the desired
consistency by slowly adding a lit
tie boiling water. Chill. Can be
served with whipped cream and
nut meats.
Another version of Syllabub can
be made from left over cake which
takes only few minutes. Fill
bowl partly full of any kind of
left over cake slices and pour over
enough sherry wine or orange or
berry or pineapple juice to moisten.
Combine " cup sugar with graf
ed rind of two lemons and 3 or
4 tblspns. lemon juice. Fold this
into one cup whipping cream whip
ped stiff. Heap over the cake and
place in refrigerator to chill.
An apple crumb pudding is made
by pouring 2 cups scalded milk over
/ cup stale cookie or cake crumbs.
Allow to stand a few minutes and
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THIS BUSINESS s. "a
- BY MARY MOORE ~ tllI1
By MARY MOORE

With the exception of the Wo-
mems and Children's Bureaus of
the U. S. Department of Labor
statistics show that the State De-
partment has greater proportion
of women among the higher-ups
in Washington and in the foreign
service, than any other executive
government office.
1t would seem that the Washing
ton bureau are seeking to gain fav-
or among the women.
The latest conference in women's
honor is to be set up in the State
Dept.'s Liaison office for women's
organizations.
When the State Department set
up a public liaison division in 1914
to handle questions emanating from
civilian organizations about foreign
policy, Mrs. Margaret Carter was
acting chief of that division. Now
Mrs. Carter is sending back to the
department information CLEANED
from the international Trade Or
ganization meeting in Geneva.
During the San Francisco con-
ference the interest expressed by
women's groups was SO great that
the departments special liaison Of
flee for them was buzzing. This de-
partment for women has held
numerous press conferences with
delegates who are generally presi-
dents of national women's organ
izations asking the questions.
Forum discussions to come up at
the June conference will enable the
women to learn about State De-
partment foreign policies, and be-
come better acquainted with the
Unrelated agencies like the In
ternational Labor Office, the Int1.
Trade Office, and the Food and
Agricultural Organization.
For the first time in history the
U. s. Chamber of Commerce rec
ognized the power of women's or
ganizations by inviting their lead
ers from all over the U. S. to come
to the annual meeting of the Cham
Der in Washington. Women's grow
ing participation in public affairs
accounts for the desire of the
Chamber to get the ear of the
women, even the housewives.
The Chamber sent out a thous-
and invitations to women, but they
were not invited as the wives of the
executives merely for entertain
ment at non-business sessions, but
as interested citizens with the pow
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Industridlist Urges Fund To
Promote Unity Through
Mutuul Educational Pldn

Chicago QLNS).-Creation of Round Table Fund.-
for the ont education of tomorows leaders of labor and
management suggested by Charles Luckman presi-
Brothers Co., manufacturers of soap and
products address here at the convention exercises of
the installation of Dr. George Soddad president of the
University of Illinois,
The fact that to-day country is rocked with debate
proposed legislative corrections of the labor problem
ample evidence Luckman sad that our thinking needs
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words; addressed to the Republi-
can majority: "You have done
everything possible to encourage
the high prices which make it hard
er and harder for underpaid par
ents to feed their children, with the
cost of bread and milk nearly
doubled; but you will not do this
little bit to make up for that"
The Agriculture funds bill now
goes to the Senate, where hear
ings will be held. Final decision
must be reached, and PresideF
Truman's signature obtained to tlKsai
bill, before June 80, when the cur
rent fiscal year ends. Supporters
of the school lunch program, the
REA program, and the soil con-
servation program all hope that
some restoration of funds will take
place in the Senate side of the
Capitol,
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Employers Split
On Toff-HorfIey
Slave Labor Law

Washington (LPA) - The AFI
proved conclusively to the natior
last week that many employers anc
industrialists are agreed with or
ganized labor in whole-hearted op-
position to the Taft Hartley union.
wrecking legislation.
The AFL brought to a nationwide
broadcast the president of the Natl
Electrical Contractors Assn, who
assailed the proposed ban on the
closed shop, and Patrick McDon-
ough, California steel producer,
who charged that he was refused
an opportunity to testify against
the slave labor Legislation by Con-
gressional Committees.
Robert w. McChesney, of the
MEGA, declared "As employers
we feel that legislation outlaw
ing the closed shop impairs the en-
ployers' right to contract. If an en-
ployer prefers to deal only with
a group of men who have sold him
their worth and responsibility,
should he not be permitted to do
so To ban the closed shop is mere
ly to restrict further the employ
ers' right to bargain and to con-
tract with persons of his own
choice.
"a law banning the closed shop
in our industry" said McChesney,
might have just the opposite of
the effect desired by the sponsors
of anti-closed shop legislation. Such
bills, if enacted into law, might
well create chaos in industrial re-
lations."
McDonough, who operates two
steel plants in Oakland, Cal, re-
lated that when Congressional
hearings were held on the Taft
Hartley legisltion, 81 read story
after story in the newspapers about
the testimony of certain employ
ers who had complaints against
labor and were demanding legisla-
tion to curb labor and to break
down unions.
Frankly, that did not jibe with
my IDEAS" said McDonough. :" dis
like it. What about the thousands
upon thousands of employers, like
me, who get along well with labor?
Why weren't they given chance to
be heard?
81 felt so strongly about this
that | offered to go to Washing
ton at my own expense to prove
to the Senate and House commit
tees that the NAM, which is plug
ging for anti-labor legislation, does
not speak for all American en-
ployers. The committee said they
had no time to hear me.
"Now l didn't take this as
personal insult" the steel manu-
facturer continued. 81 think it was
an insult to you, the American
people. | think it was deliberate
attempt to build up one-sided
case in favor of this legislation
and to hide the true picture and
the real facts about labor mana
cement relations from you.
81 don't like what's in that Taft
Hartley bill and | don't like the
spirit in which it was drafted.
ion't see how the Taft Hartley bill
IAN do anyone any good except the
of stubborn and diehard
who refuse to deal with
lnions come Hitler or high water"
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moulding by higher education" He
said that he believed in laws, but
that he also believed "that labor
management peace will be created
not by trying to legislate a point
of view--but by more understand
ing among men,"
Luckman emphasized that 1--WE
cannot get mutual understanding
without mutual knowledge" that
"we cannot get mutual knowledge
without mutual education"
Stresses Mutual Understanding
"The need for mutual under
standing" he added, "has been dim
ly sensed by business, which now
annually appropriates millions up
on millions of dollars for that form
of persuasion in a top hat, some
times called public relations Yet,
strangely enough, it has not oc-
Cured to any of US to use educa-
tion on a large scale to help cor
rect our number one public rela-
tions headache-the labor-manage-
ment problem"
Observing that it "has taken US
20 years to get labor and manage
ment to sit down together at the
bargaining table," he said:
$50 far, that table has been a
square one. 1t has side for man
agement and a side for labor. We
need to eliminate the sides from our
national bargaining table. We must
substitute in it's place round
table, around which the unity and
togetherness Of all elements in our
economy can be allowed to function
properly for the benefit of all the
people. Consider then, how Ameri-
can business could justify a real
claim to constructive leadership
by creating an annual Round Table
Fund of $1,000,O00."
Suggests Year In College
He suggests that labor and
management each nominate 500 of
their promising young leaders,"
and that these 1000 young men
and women spend one year in col
lege together, studying the most
enlightened methods of making our
economy produce higher stand
ard of living for all" The fund, he
said, would enable the colleges to
provide the ablest techers and the
best research facilities and would
also defray each students tuition
and expenses"
"The final nomination of all stu
dents, both labor and manage
ment," he said, "would be made
by the Round Table Commission,
composed of the presidents of the
American Council Of Education, the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, the National Association of
Manufacturers, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, the Congress of
Industrial Organizations, and 9TH
er major groups. The Round Table
Commission would have the addi-
tional responsibility of authorizing
the training courses and of select
ing recognized institutions headed
by farsighted academic authorities.
Offers To Contribute 100000
"Since this is a program which |
deeply affects the commerce of our |
nation, it would be highly appro-
pirate for the Secretary of Com
merce, w. Averell Hartman, to
be asked to assume, for the first
formative year, the Craftsmanship
Of the Round Table Commission.
the craftsmanship will
rotate by election among members
IF the commission"
On behalf Of the company which
ne heads, Luckman offered to con-
tribute 100000 "for the imple-
of this Round Table pro-
gram for unity through education"
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La. Sugar Workers Ballot

New Orleans (LPA). - More
than 6O00 workers in sugar refin-
cries who are members of ClO To-
cal industrial unions will know this
week the results Of a vote conduct
ed by the ClO as to whether they
should remain LUIS, or affiliate
with the Brewery Workers, the Re-
tail, Wholesale & Dept. Store En-
ployes, or the Packinghouse Work
ers.
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Comment On
World Events

Until the nations of Europe build
a sound economic basis for their
own sound political life, they will
wobble in chaos. There is the dam
ger that when. free governments
must struggle with poverty so
crushing that it offers no hope for
the future, their people will turn
in despair to any plausible promise
of change.
We dare not forget that Europe
is filled with hungry voters who
may be forced to conclude there is
no democratic way out. If the
United States allows democracy to
lose by default in this postwar test,
we shall have no one to blame but
ourselves.
! Americas strategic position in
the world today is an outgrowth
of her wartime strength. In both
Europe and Asia, political boun-
daries have been drawn on the lines
where armies met in defeat of the
Axis. If we are to keep our posi-
tiOn, we must maintain our
strength.
Americas strength is greater
than that of her army and navy. 1t
exists in the stamina of her peo-
pie, in their devotion to justice and
freedom, and in the trust with
which she is viewed from abroad.
So long as the free nations of Eu-
rope can count on American lead
ership, they will resist the pres
sures of others. But the longer we
permit economic chaos to ravage
those nations, the more likely it is
that their people will repudiate our
leadership and look for relief to the
competitive doctrines of others.
Until order is created out of con-
fusion in Europe, until nations re-
gain an economic footing, until peo-
Piles are guaranteed the right to
govern themselves, the United
States cannot withdraw it's strength
and leadership from the world
without relinquishing the peace to
settlement on terms that might
threaten survival of the democra-
cies.
AS long as nations know that our
strength persists, as long as they
are assured of our determination to
use it against aggression, which
in the end would menace us, the
stronger our hand shall be in writ
ing the treaties of peace. For un-
less we show the capacity and will
ingness to sustain our commitments
with adequate armed strength, we
shall be forced to give up those
commitments in the face of
strength.
To attain our leadership, the
people must also demon
strate that democracy can meet the
offered by any other
ideology. We must show that de-
stands for more than per-
sonal freedom. 1t offers to the in
dividual anywhere in the world
greater opportunity and economic
security than that of any other po- /
litical system.
To meet this world competition,
the United States must insure the
health of it's economy at home. A
serious recession in the United
States would come as the equiva-
lent of a major defeat. 1t could
cause the widespread DETECTION of
European peoples toward the polit-
ical convictions of competitive
states.
If the American people price
themselves into boom and bust,
they are in terrible danger of bust
ing their hopes for an equitable
peace. For our world position is in
escapably tied to the strength of
our economy at home.
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rub thru sieve. Add u cup apple
sauce, Il cup sugar, egg, slightly
beaten, tspn. lemon juice, y tspn.
vanilla and dash of salt.
Pour into individual creased
molds, set in pan of hot water and
bake in moderate oven until firm.
Allow to stand few minutes be-
fore turning out. Serve with whip
ped cream.
When making gravies or cream
sauces better results are achieved
by stirring with a fork. You will
never have a lumpy sauce.
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1t would be interesting to COM
pute the number of men who go
to the office Saturday to escape
ayduous household chores,
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One commonly neglected house.
hold chore is the periodical reno
vation Of combs and hair brushes.
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| doubt that anybody is worried
about my immediate future except
my creditors.
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Because household is silent
doesn't mean it's peaceful.
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SIMPLE SEWING - Easy to
make, this adorable tots dress,
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to years. Send 25c in coin, your
name, address, pattern number and
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WHAT'S COOKIN'?

er of the vote.