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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
Economic Heddliqhts

Happenings That Affect the Din
ner Pals, Divident Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Individual National
and international Problems Insep-
arabic From Local Welfare.
The political battles will be Bit
ter this year, with no quarter
given. A Republican party which
has been on the outside for 16 years
is as unified as it has ever been in
it's history. Mr. Truman, despite
the obvious aura of pessimism that
prevades his party, seems honestly
convinced that he can win, and is
obviously determined to seize upon
every opportunity that might put
the opposition in an unfavorable
light. Some analysts think that his
stock has risen substantially since
his Western tour, fact which may
also be of service to the Repub-
licans, but cutting down the spirit
of over-confidence which has made
many feel that the election is in the
bag.
From certain points of view, the
Progressive Party convention was
the most interesting-and certainly
1t was the most remarkable. 1t was
apparently designed to combine the
best features of a crusade and a
carnival. When vice-presidential
candidate Taylor and his family
crooned before the microphones,
something new in the way of prece-
dents must have been established.
And, while the Republican and
Democratic platforms certainly
went out on a long limb in an at
tempt to offer as much as possi-
BILE to everyone, the Progressives
put them in the shade. Their plat
form assures world peace, promises
specialization of basic industry even
as it endorses progressive" capi-
talism, pledges the immediate eli
mination of any and all injustices
to minority groups, and SO forth.
II was the longest and wordiest of
the three platforms and by far the
most inclusive. 1t was, however,
pretty vague as to just how its
objectives are to be reached, and
at what cost to taxpayers.
1t would be folly to deny the
fact that Mr. Wallace has many
sincere and impassioned supporters.
Other people are amused, and still
others are revolted. 1t is perfect
ly possible that the ticket will re
ceive between 100000 and 10,-
600, 600 votes this fall. In any case,
Mr.. Wallace viii make an aggres-
s,ve and highly vocal campaign,
ana he will capture a great deal of
newspaper space both here and
abroad.
The problem is this: The Pro-
gressive Party is unquestionably
backed to the hilt by the Ameri-
can communists and their fellow
travellers. Correspondent after cor
respondent, including some of the
least hysterical and most respect
ed observers of world affairs, have
said that. Norman Thomas, the
socialist leader who, incidentally,
did an exceptionally interesting job
in reporting al three conventions
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12

for a press service-has charged
categorically that the Communists
have obtained control of the party's
policy committees, and Mr.. Thomas
can hardly be described as a re-
dictionary who sees a red around
every corner. However, Mr.. Thorn
as is a classical socialist who be-
lieves fervently in civil liberties
and democratic processes, and he
hates the Communists and all their
works. He, like Dorthy Thompson
and others, thinks Mr.. Wallace
may do great harm to American
prestige by his policy of appeasing
Russia.
Mr.. Wallace had a simple ans
wer to the Berlin crisis-he would
simply do what the Kremlin wants
and withdraw from the city. He
said nothing about what this might
do to the morale of the small states
which have aligned themselves with
the West-and nothing about what
might happen to legions of Ger
mans who have cooperated with us
in the administration of our inter-
ests in Germany.
Equally important, say those who
fear the Progressives may under
mine our present bipartisan for
eign policy, is the fact that the
party's platform did not say a
single, solitary word in opposition
to Soviet aggression. Even very
mildly worded plank, which would
have put a little of the blame for
current world troubles on Russia,
was defeated. By contrast, this
country was blamed for practical
ly everything that is going on. If
the Progressives are to be believed,
we are wild imperialists, while the
Russians, it seems, are reasonable
men whose only wish is just
peace.
This attitude naturally, is being
gil en- a terrific play in the Rus
sian press. The Kremlin's objective
is to make Europe believe that
neither the Republicans nor the
Democrats represent true American
feeling when it comes to foreign
affairs, and that Mr.. Wallace's
stand has overwhelming public
backing. President Truman and
Governor Dewey are tarred with
the same brush, and Mr.. Wallace
is always presented as hero.
1t remains to be seen how much
capital the Russian leaders can
make of that, and how much dam
age, if any, the Progressive Party
will do to American standing. But
it is topic of very real Importance
today.
On the major party side, moth
ing new has been added. Mr.. Tru-
mans speech to the special session
of Congress followed his past state
ments. 1t has been obvious that
price control will be his biggest
domestic issue, and the speech laid
heaviest emphasison that. The Re
publicans, as was to be expected,
threw the blame for initiation back
into the White House lap. The
whole matter will be hammered
around in an infinity of detail when
the candidates and their seconds
take to the country with their APP
peals for votes.
You can't keep a good man down
nor hold bad man up.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
Hits Foreign Farm Labor

Washington (LPA)- President
H. L. Mitchell of the Natl Farm
Labor Union-AFL last week urged
a congressional committee to tigh-
ten immigration rules covering
Mexican workers who cross the bor-
der illegally to work on farms in
Texas, Arizona and California.
These workers are easily exploit
ed and make up the surplus labor
labor that Finance farm interest"
wants to keep US farm workers
docile, Mitchell asserted.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
IATSE's 39th Meet
To Hear Governor,
VIM. Green, Johnston

Cleveland (LPA)-More than
100 delegates are expected Mt the
39th convention of the Int'l Alli-
ance of Theatrical Stage Employees
& Moving Picture Machine Opera
tors-AFL, opening here Aug. 16
President William Green of the
AFL, Eric A. Johnston, president
of the Motion Picture Assn of Am
erica, and Governor Thomas j.
Herbert of Ohio will address the
delegates. A guest will be Tom
O'Brien, Labor member of the Brit
ish parliament and general secre-
tary of the Natl Association of
Theatrical Employees in Britain. He
is returning the visit of IATSE
President Richard f. Walsh to Eng
land last summer.
This week, closed sessions of the
unions executive board, and IA
district conventions are scheduled
as preliminaries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12

tisk companies have been excluded
from selling their records in the
US, except under conditions de-
signed to prevent them from COM
peting with the American company,
Asst Attorney General Herbert A.
Bergson declared.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National-"An Inspector Calls
2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador-"April Showers; ]
$40, $40, 7:25 and $40 pm.
Capitol-1Three Daring Daugh'
ters";; 10:30 am, 100 and Ais pm
Stage shows: 1885 and $3.50 pm
Invitational Premiere, State Of ths
Union; $50 pm.
Columbia-''The Bride Goes Wild"
11:10 am. lis, 3:20, SIS, 7:25 ane
$50 pm.
Dupont-"Panic":: II am, 12:40
2:30, 4:20, $40, 8 and $50 pm.
Hippodrome-"Volpone"; 2, 3:55
$50, 7:45 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"I Remember Mama;
10:40 am, 1:25, 4:10, $50 and 9:3s
pm.
Little-"The Scarlet Pimpernel"
1920, 800. 6:25 and 9:35 pm.
Observation-Disclosures; 11:2s
am, 1870, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and 9:4s
pm.
Palace - "Gentleman's Agree.
ment";; 1890 am, 1910, 2:55, $40
TBS and 9:40 pm.
Pix-"Golden Boy; $40, $50 and
9:55 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10:15 am.
Warner-"April Showers; 10:45
am, los, 3:15, 5:25, TAO and 9:5t
pm.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

Naturally he will use them first in
his own pictures.
When Veronica Lake finishes
isn't It Romantic" she will retire
from the screen for a year. This
win be Veronica's third baby and
| it means that she has taken around
three years out of her career for
lher babies.
Talking Of babies, the new Betty
Hutton-Ted Briskin infant is due
any day now. But Betty wants to
work in her "Ruggles of Red Gap"
picture within one month OF the
aew baby,s arrival!
Jean Arthur made one of her
rare public appearances the other
night. She was in a big party and
actually seemed to be enjoying her
self. Isn't she supposed to dislike
crowds?
Greta Carlo is still the worst
dressed star in Hollywood. I saw
her the other day and she was in
the same old slacks and foppy
hat.
4 4 4
Claudette Colbert will not be able
to keep her date on the Bing Crosby
Evening star., 1948-04-07

were failures, it still would be worth
the money spent on it"
1t does sound logical. 1t sounds
so logical to Mr.. Capra that he
has, on more than one occasion
tried to convince someone in
authority of the merits of the idea
Some experimenter-who knows?-
might come up with that sure-fire
formula for making every movie
a good movie.
So far, no one has fallen into
agreement with the director, though
He doesn't know why, either.
Il
Ted Tiller, who used to be ar
amateur actor, marionette expert
and budding playwright aroune
here, returns next to his home town
as a member Of the cast of Ferent
Molnar's "The Plays the Thing
The Molnar play, produced BY
Arthur Miller with Louis Calherr
starred, opens at the National Mon.
day night.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

with the bundles bound for the
middle of the row.
4 x*
j Director Frank Capra, a pleasant
and agreeable man, came to town
only because his picture, State OF
the Union was to have a special
lpreview showing at the Capitol to-
night. He found himself turned in
to sort of whipping boy at the Va
riety Club yesterday afternoon
though, being flayed for all of Hol-
lywood's sins and called upon to
answer for alr of its omissions. He
came through It all with ease and
aplomb.
1t was suggested that the past
year was not one of Hollywoods s
better ones, that the good pictures
had been fewer and farther apart
than in some of the golden prewar
years. Mr. Capra was the first to
agree. It was another of the by
products of the war, he thought.
"If you think you're worried he
said, you should see Hollywood.
They're really worried out there
During the war, all a theater
manager had to do was open the
door and get out of the way. Any
picture filled the theater. Now, that
doesn't hold true any more. Any
picture won't fill theater..
THE accent now is on quality
and, believe me, Hollywood people
want to find the answer as much
as you do. If you know how to
make sure that picture Is going
to turn out to be good picture
you'll be welcomed with open arms
Another factor governing the
quality of pictures in the last few
years is the fact that the war took
a lot Of people away from movie
making-top production people and
top stars. About 10 of the leading
directors were away, among them
John Ford, William Wyler and
George Stevens. Since the war;" Mr.
Capra pointed out, Ford has made
The Fugitive Wyler has made The
Best Years of Our Lives and Ste
vens has made I Remember Mama
And those are just three examples.
II ***
The example of Hollywood short
sightedness about which Mr.. Capra
is both saddest and angriest, is its
failure to finance research for its
own advancement.
Some major studio, say Metro,
he said, should set aside a fund
for use on experiments. There isn't
another major industry that doesn't
spend money on research. Suppose
a studio has profits Of $4,000, 900.
Let it set aside $4,000 for use
in developing talent-stars and
directors.
IF a man has a new idea, let him
work on it. Give him $4,000, or
sac, 900 and tell him to 60 ahead
and make a one-reel or two-reel
picture. Leave him completely
alone and see what comes Of it.
I'm convinced 1t would pay off, )"
Mr.. Capra declared. why, they
spend $1,0O0,000 out there to buy
up someone's contract. If this plan
developed one star or one director
in year and all the other projects
Evening star., 1948-04-07

that quite sizable sum will be
taken in to help sustain the SYM
phony.
The Playhouse management is
quite set up over the film it has
obtained as the initial attraction
at the new theater, and properly so.
The new house will get under way
most auspiciously by bringing to
town Metro Goldwyn-Mayer's 1.-THE
Search"
THE Search" is the film that has
set New York by its ears and is
eagerly awaited here. The picture
was made in Europe by Director
Fred zimmerman, who has since be-
come one of Hollywood's new fair
haired boys because If it. It is
the story of a war orphans search
for his mother and lot of people
are already touting 1t as the top film
Of 1948. That is picking a winner
far in advance, of course, but some
people Of discernment are doing it.
\ The Playhouse is located at 727
Fifteenth street NV. a location
which used to be dedicated to the
more frivolous entertainments
offered by the Del Rio and later
DelmonicoS. 1t has been turned
into modern theater by Simon
B. Zelnick, New York architect, and,
as befits the towns newest movie
house, is the ultimate in comfort
and simple beauty" One feature
that is sure to win praise is the
seating. Seats slide back and forth,
so you will neither have to stand
UP nor be trampled by that woman
Evening star., 1948-04-07
ADJUSTMENTS

tsee GRAHAM, Page B-15.)
Evening star., 1948-04-07

radio show on April 81. And Bing
has substituted his four sons, with
Clifton Webb as pseudo baby sitter.
Judy Garland telephoned to
thank me for what she called "the
nice things you said about me on
the air." And that makes Judy
unique. Very few stars acknowledge
the nice things. Judy told me that
she starts her still-untitled musical
with Fred Astaire May /, and for 1t
she gets very modern, snazzy
wardrobe by Irene. "I,l be going
to New York afterward when Vim
Evening star., 1948-04-07
A Gala Premiere Will Open
The Playhouse This Month
By Harry Macarthur

The Playhouse not going to sneak quietly onto the when
1t its
newest art cinema The quite
tive affair according plans currently being heater
to be introduced all which
be turned the National Symphony expected
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-30
SOKOLSKY
By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
WE NEED A LAW
THESE DAYS

Miss Edna Lonigan raises an
interesting point in an article
in Human Events:
1t can't be true says the
pseudo-liberals. The Grand Jury
would have indicted. The FBI
would have proved them guilty
But guilty of what? Most Amer
lean followers of the N. K. V. D.
have committed no crime. They
have violated no law. If every
statement in the testimony of
Miss Bentley and Mr.. Chambers
is proved true, the Grand Jury
will still find it difficult to in
dict. We have no law compelling
Government employees to pro-
pose only ideas that are for the
good of their country"
That is why such committees
as the Thomas, the Ferguson and
the Revercomb committees are
having such a difficult time of
it. Let US take the Hiss case as
an example. 1t has not been es-
tablished that Alger Hiss is a
Communist, a Communist agent,
a Russian spy, an NK,D.V. agent
or even fellow-traveler. All
that has been proved about Hiss
is that he once kept some very
bad company and tried to cover
up and failed. If there is more
evidence on Hiss, the President
refuses to permit Congress to
have it and the American people
to know it. And under the law,
the President has a legal right
to keep those files secret as long
as he chooses. The American
people have no legal rights in
the matter.
We may assume that all those
who decline to answer questions
on the ground that to answer
would incriminate them are gull
ty of some offense. Otherwise,
nothing that they said could in
criminate them. They have been
advised by their lawyers that
they have a legal and constitu-
tional right to silence. We know
from the investigations of the
Dies Committee, the Rapp-Cou-
dert Committee in New York,
the California Legislative Inves-
tigation. the Canadia> report and
other sources that Soviet Russia
has been operating in this coun-
try, as she has in every country,
through natives directed by Eur
opeans. The more native the ma
tive. the better he is for the kind
Of work they need to have done.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-30
SOkolskv Wonders How This Nation
Protects Itself Against Its Own
Sons and Daughters Who Won't Talk
SOk0I SKY

Earl Browder's ancestry goes
back to colonial times-he is OBJ
viously a better man than Jay
Lovestone or Ben Gitlow, who
are of recent immigrant stock.
This pattern is universal. One
meets it in Korea, in Germany,
in China, in Czechoslovakia. 1t
is the American pattern. But it
is not an illegal pattern, Ger
tainly, Louise BernStein-Branst-
en-Berman has right to serve
mankind as she chooses. Cleverly
she places herself on the lofty
pedestal of noble service. Tom
my Manville spends his money
on gals and mink coats; she
spends hers on the underdog. So
does John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Is
anthing wrong? What about Mr..
Adams? She legally refuses to
answer about him to answer
would incriminate her. And that
is her legal right. Was Mr..
Adams an underdog or a spy?
While he was trapesing around
this country, the Hearst press
exposed him as spy and tried
to trace him down, but he was
permitted to leave the United
States with valuable documents.
What is the FBI record on
Adams? That secret has been
guarded by President Truman
and is only now being forced
out And so far there is no re-
cord that Mrs. Bransten did any,
thing contrary to the law, ex-
cept her own acknowledgment
that if she talked it would in
criminate her-and legally the
statement does not raise the pre-
sumption of guilt no matter
what you or l may think about
it.
There is, however, this essen
tial difference between John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., and this lady.
Through his foundations or per-
sonally, he has publicly account
ed for his contributions. The
American people can know how
he spent his money. Mrs. B. B.
B. inherited her money from
fine father who earned it in
canned groceries. She has spent
her money without notifying the
public. That, too, is legally her
right. She can spend it on dogs,
cats, PHILOSOPHERS, artists, men
and women, spies and jewelry,
Communists or Prohibitionists as
she will. 1t is all within the law.
So how does this nation pro-
tect itself against its own sons
and daughters? Ask. Jan Mas
aryk! Maybe now he knows.
Copyright, 1948, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-30
PEGLER
Nv WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright 1913, King Features

Copyright 1913, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
New York, Sept. % When
few pickets and professional
goons, working the cause of the
International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, were scuffed up
slightly in a mysterious fracas,
the mayor, the police commits
sioner and the district attorney
of New York all sprang into the
headlines to avenge the horror.
This was the first time in
years that the tables had been
turned. Ever since 1888, assault,
sabotage, vandalism and riot had
been the exclusive privilege of
the unions, often under police
protection and generally under
immunity, except that in recent
months it has been held to be
bad manners to incite mobs to
throw policemen in the river.
This is now misdemeanor, sub
ject to a $50 fine.
The quick, sharp reaction of
all the public officials who could
crowd their way into the chastity
scene when David Dubinsky's
people were popped is a lesson
in the power of European politi-
cal subtlety in the biggest city
in the United States.
The popping of citizen ordi-
narily is so trivial as to be ig-
nored by the papers and by all
the officials of government ex-
cept, possibly cop and a magis-
trate. The mayor, the police
commissioner and the district at
torney would laugh the citizen
out of the building if he tried to
make them notice such an cpl
sode. They would have him lock-
ed up for disorderly conduct if
he persisted and the mayor, an
ex-cop, but still a cop at heart,
might pop the fellow one for
luck if he thought nobody was
looking.
Dubinsky's union, with its
powerful European political ira
ditions and hereditary feuds, is
a strong political factor in the
city Of New York. In some cir
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-30
Tucker Says American Legion Will
Make No New Demands On Congress
At National Convention In Miami
TUCKER

eral intent of Congress that they
would stand in lieu of an out
right bonus.
Even veterans not benefiting
from these provisions are en-
ployed, although suffering from
high prices. They have not been
subjected to the pressure that
leads to petitions to Congress or
marches on Capitol Hill. But
when and if the U. S. suffers an
other depression and unempoly-
ment becomes general, as in the
early thirtieS, veteran and poll
teal leaders forecast large
scale bonus drive.
CRITICISM The Legion con-
vention would not be typical or
successful mastering of old SOL
diers if they did not grouse and
grumble. There will be COM
plants over high prices, Com
munists in and out of the gov
eminent, the continued shortage
of homes and about alleged laxi-
ties in handling national life in
surance policies.
AS recently noted in this COL
umn, the failure to issue perma-
nent insurance contracts has
been one of the principal gripes
of ex-G.I.'s who have kept their
policies. In several sections of
the country, seemingly POLITICAL
ly minded V. A. officials have
blamed the delay on the Repub-
lican Congress.
Their superiors here say that
they will be fired pronto for
making such excuses, which are
based on alleged failure to APP
propriate sufficient funds for this
purpose.
The fact is that Veterans Ad-
ministrator Carl Gray is now
taking steps to forestall criticism
of the failure to issue permanent
policies to the men who have
converted their wartime agree
ments. 1t is probable that they
will be placed in the mail next
January-the same month when
Congress convenes and a new
President will be inaugurated.
DELIBERATE The delay has
been deliberate, according to v.
A. spokesman. They have wait
ed more than three years, &C.
cording to their explanation, be-
cause Capitol Hill has made so
many amendments of the origin
al law. They did not want to is
sue a basic contract until the
terms had been fixed definitely
by the legislators.
For instance, the original legis.
lation specified that only ext
remedy close relatives could be