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Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16
By DOROTHY THOMPSON


Last week the most spontane-
ously revolutionary mass demon
tration of postwar Europe occur
red in Berlin. Spurred by TIL
violent dissolution of the city's
elected representative Assem-
bly, by Russian soldiers and Ger
man police under their conf
mand, a quarter of million
people unarmed except tor
stones-surged against the Rus
sian occupation forces. T o
young men Drawing almost GER
tain death climed to the top of
the Brandenburg gate and pull
led down the Red flag.
This riot had nothing of the
nature Of the organized demon
STATIONS, which are a feature of
the new peoples" totalitariani-
SINS. In these the forces of the
state command the assemblage
of crowd. Schools and fac
tories are emptied while patty
commissars keep check that all
march dutifully to the appoint
ed place, there to chant I'VE
thank Our Leader on pain of
being dismissed or arrested for
failing to do so. These "reyo-
lutionary" demonstrations are
as unrevolutionary as an army
drill. Where passions are excit-
ed it is by the external stimula-
ton of chanted slogans-similat
ed fervor as part of a compul-
sorry regime,
What happened in Berlin, how
ever, was that a tense cord
have sung the Communist Inter
national against their Com
munist oppressors:
Arise, we prisoners of star
walton
Arise, We wretched of the
earth"
Their rage had nothing to do
with capitalism" versus $50
cialism." 1t was an outburst
of the most primitive resistance
to inhuman degradation. For
weeks these Berliners, 80 per
cent of them fitting the most
precise definition of a "prole-
tariat," have faced being starv-
ed to death by the sef-styled
liberators of the proletariat
While the German Communists
chanted the legend of National
Unity" their masters have di-
vided the city in two. They have
split the police department and
every civil administration, and
insisted on two currencies unless
they could control the one. At
the moment when they "nego-
tate" to restore Four Power con
troll, they overthrow democratic
control.
Since the war ended, the Ber-
liners have been watching, like
apathetic spectators, the drama
of their own fate. But last week
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16
BY Ray Tucker

Washington, Sept. is - AL
though the War Departments
publicity agents have banged
out columns of newspaper copy
on the need for foot soldiers, ar
tillery men, technical specialists
and filters, they have been cour-
iously silent on the shortages of
"sky pilots" for the expanding
Army and Air Force. They may
be fairly good church-goer
themselves, but they seem to
have neglected the spiritual side
of the military services.
The fact is that Major General
Luther D. Miller, Chief of the
Chaplains' corps of the United
States Army, needs men-good
men as badly as Chief Of Staff
Omar N. Bradley needs fighters
especially for the post war draft
force that will consist largely
OF young, impressionable youngs
tiers torn from the influences of
home, church and school.
He rarely meets Cardinal Spell
man or the Right Reverend Hen
ry Knox Sheriff., Presiding BIZ
shop of the Episcopal Church. of
the leaders Of all the other de-
nominations, that he doesn't
buttonhole them and beg them
to issue special calls to their
Bishop shops, requesting them to
exhort young priests and minis
tiers and rabbis to join the colo..s.
cHAPLAINS The Army has
a total of 8.l7l chaplains during
the peak of World War II. This
spiritual group, however, was
demobilized as quickly and sum
marily as were the other branch
es, until now there are only a.
bout l.180 religious leaders for
our skeleton force.
Although this seems like an ex
tremely small number, General
Miller quickly corrects that i'm
preston. He now has one cha.
plain for approximately every
100 men, whereas the average in
the lay world is understood TO
De about one minister, priest or
rabbi for every 1850 civilians
Moreover. an Army chaplain
can Keep in closer contact with
his flock, than the ordinary pas.
tor or curate. Whereas the LAT.
ter rarely sees his sheep save
on Sunday. or must do a lot of
doorbell-ringing to visit the IA
miles in his charge, a chaplain
lives with his boys. And il ne
Is the kind General Miller
wants, he is more than a minis
ter to their transcendental needs
He is an adviser, a friend, a
teacher. sometimes an athletic
coach or dramatic instructor
in short, al things to all men
n the Christian sense. No 9th.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16
THE READERS COURTROOM
BY VIII Bernard LIB.
90 MAY A MAN HIT A WO-
MAN IF SHE HITS HIM FIRST?

CAY A man and a woman we're
neigAbors, but had always hated
each other, One day, seeing
her on the sidewalk. the man
began to upbraid her at the top
of his voice. The woman sud-
denly slapped him in the mouth.
Enraged, the man punched her
so hard that she slumped to the
ground unconscious. When the
Woamn later sued him for as
sault and battery, the man re-
tored that "she hit me first"
But, when the Judge saw that
the man was tail and husky
while the woman was thin md
weak, he gave Judgment in her
favor. The Judge said the mans
brutality went far beyond his
legitimate rights of self. defense.
Estate laws vary. For personal
guidance, see your local at
torney.)
COPYRIGHT 1913, GENE
RAJ FEATURES CORP.)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16
Tucker Says War Department Has
Neglected Calling ''Sky Pilots"
TUCKER

ers, even though they can quote
the Bible from Adams Fall to
the Last Supper, need apply.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16
(Q) HOW SOON MUST YOU
COMPANY OF AN ACCIDENT!

AZ A widow suffered serious
head injuries when she fell off
a kitchen ladder. After lying in
a coma for several months, she
died. She had once taken out
an accident insurance policy
naming her sister as beneficiary
However the policy provided
that notice of an accident must
be given within 81 days or as
soon as reasonably possible. -
Shortly after the widows death.
the sister discovered the policy
and demanded the insurance
The company turned her down,
saying that notice of the accident
had come too late. but court
made the company pay anyhow.
The judge said that the notice,
although very late, was "rea-
sonable" because of the unus-
ual circumstances.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16
Thompson Calls Berlin Mass Demonstration Spontaneous 0ubea
100000 People Surged Against
Russian Soldiers In Out Break
THOMPSON

the coma broke in a mass cry.
That mass cry would issue in
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugos-
lavia, Hungary, and Roumaina
and from the slave camps east
of the Urals, if there were amy
hope. 1t sounded in Berlin be-
cause there are Western troops,
in the city, and because the
states Of Western civilization
have broken the siege by the air
lift. They are not wholly aban-
doned, and not yet slaves. ..,
That this happened in Berlin
has special interest. Berlin al
ways was the most anti-Na7 4
city in the Reich. Before Hit
Ter it was the most Communist
city in the world, called by Ger,
mans themselves, Red Berlin,
But anti-Nazi Germans havs.
learned about the reality of com
munism, in concentration camps
where Communists displayed soe
lidarity only with other Com ;
munists, and on no human basic
in Soviet POW. camps, from.
which they returned broken sh,A
doWs.
These Germans learned about,
communism while fighting in,
Russia, seeing the novels in
which the village people live, sell
dom with bed, never with the,
slightest sanitary facilities, and
swarming with bugs and lice :
They learned from the shocking,
excuses of Soviet troops, flush,
ed with triumph. They saw ms
Russia the parallel of the Naaa
System at home. And it way
not surrender to the Western
armies which Mortified them
but surrender to another master, /
with a whip, uttering friendly
words and practicing unconsci-
enable brutalities, under a sys-
tenn in which not a leak is al |
lowed for humane and generous
instincts. 4 /
>
The Russians and the cors
munists have lost the revolu-
ton, A revolution imposed by
alien arms, through conspirat
lal intrigues and studied "tac! |
tics" has no more REVOLUTIONARY |
elan than any other imperia !! !
lism and cabal. Ugly, cruel,
Goddess, loveless, it offers no
more to the poor than to the
rich. ~ g,
But the human heart cries for.
human recognition. The Be0
lin barricades are thrown up for
liberty and humanity. The Red
flag is torn from the triumphai |
arch. Its color does not Symbol
lie the dawn, but terror, and
blood. I
(Released by The Bell Syn.
dictate, Inc.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16
Pegler J
Industry
PEGlER
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

By WESl bhOUh fEGLEh
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY KING
FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC)
New York, Sept. l5-Whi,e the
leading characters of the fur
and leather Industry are on the
subject of communist union CO.
ercion and eXtortion, a little
frankness from an observer who
does not pretend to be particu-
larly friendly might contribute
to good result. The reason why
l am not particularly friendly
to the Fur Industry is thatthe
railroads, utilities and banks get
good tanning each in turn and
the public opinion was that it ser
we'd them right and did them
good. l wasn't particularly
friendly to them.
The Fur Industry, which has
turnover of about one billion
dollars year in the city of New
York alone, has never !een
stood in the lineup as it deserve
ed be on the basis of a sordid
brutality. This was published
in the volumes of the old
record of corruption, greed and
dies committee and never went
any further but the leaders of
the industry do not need to be
told about it. They know. And
to anyone who offers the old pla
tltude that the methods Of the
dies committee were no. JUDI
icial, l have to reply that the
head men of the fur industry
would rather let the testimony
go unchallenged than take it to
a formal trial where it would be
proved beyond doubt. Another
Another thing that l would say
that the hearing of the
time parallel with the lift of the
dies committee were outra geous
kangaroo courts in which the
judges were not only prosecu-
tors but complaining parties as
well. l never heard a souawk
from Eleanor The Great or anv
OF her cult about the injustice
of that.
Without preliminary, we can
concede that the fur industry
Is more or less a unit politi-
cally and very much more 50
than less. 1t is. in all but the
most formal sense, a lodge of
the new deal as you might pic
ture post in the American Lee
sion organized to contain vete-
rams IN given locality and with
a common daily interest.
For years and years, since Ar
mold Rothstein rented out goons
to beat up the adversaries of
MS clients in the fur industry
with a detached, professional ci
gor worthy of attorneys at law.
this district has been plaou.
ed by the communists.
Everybody knows that.
Ben Gold, the boss of the un-
ion and of the industry itself, is
a member of the executive com
mittee of the communist party.
Irving Potash, the manager of
the New York joint council of
the furriers' union, now up for
deportation, was identified by the
daily worker as a member OF
politburo of the communist party
Some of the employers have
complained before recent ses-
sions of the house committee on
labor that the workers have
been absolute slaves to a few
communists in the higher posi-
tons. am not sure about the
fewness of the rank and file com
'munists in this union, only In
the city of New York and only
n areas heavily inhabited by CO.
: iiilfl
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-16

ers, even though they can quote
the Bible from Adams Fall to
the Last Supper, need apply.
INFLUENCES Members Of
the cloth, however, are suscep-
tible to the same worldly i'm
fluences which tend to prevent
other men from devoting they
lives to the service of Uncle
Sam. Among them. too, the
spirit may be patriotic, but the
flesh may be disinclined.
Churches, like industries, are
paying higher salaries than they
did in prewar times. A young
man from the theological Sc
minary can walk into a $4,000
assignment in the Episcopal
Church, if he is lucky. Rabbi q
aides can make equally as much
Even those denominations not
able for poor pay in other days
now afford $500 $500 a year
sometimes with house thrown
in, not to mention the cakes,
pies and roasts that ladies' Of
the parish may contribute.
AS against these incomes, a
Major merits only about $443 a
month as chaplain, a Captain
draws 1868 and a First Lieut&
ant gets 1882, which includes
quarters and other perquisites.
PROMOTION There is the
matter Of promotion. While sup
posed to retain their technical
seniority, actually a chaplain Of
ten losses out. His Bishop may
fear that Army service does not
qualify him for routine duties on
the home front. A.
Nor has the absentee kept -
touch with clergymen and pro-
minena lay figures who can put
in a good word for him when
there is vacancy in New York,
Philadelphia or Chicago. Or
quitting the flag, he may find
himself in a poorly paid, rural
partorate. -'
There is also the fact that all
denominations are finding diff
Guilty in filling their pulpits now,
and are reluctant to lose tt.r
newcomers.
Despite the destruction Of for
eign missions and the increased
number of backsliders in these
materialistic, disillusioning, post
war days, there has been noted
a growing need for preachers
of the gospel to the fearful, the
doubtful and the worshipful.
The desire for a new kind Of
chaplain limits the field. Re-
Gently, General Miller sent Ut
a general call for prospects. He
recrived applications from 1000
willing men, but upon screen
ing he accepted only $50. Now
he is doing his own picking and
(continued On page tvelvO
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01

bent on some tran so red-hot that h
would not heed the whistle.
There Iron Belle was now, mid
stream, her noble, foot-long head
making its v of riples. Dan brought
his sights down on it Pull! That
was Dams terror-giving orders.
Hey, said Dams heart, who the heck's
boss around here anyhow?
They sat in silence in the cave,
the man and dog, and waited for the
other hounds to come straining,
dragging the men along. They
waited for an hour, and then Dams
fingers, rubbing beneath Bellies col
lar, found two small brass capsules
hanging.
Two! The first one yielded the
usual G-Dog Identification scroll.
With trembling fingers Dan I'M
screwed the extra one. The writing
on the tightly rolled tissue in it was
in a hand he trusted-the G-Dog
owners hand. 1t said:
"Old Sleuth made it to the shallow
eddy back of Two Hump Rock.
Three ribs cracked and both hind
legs broken. But he'll pull through.
The state patrolman knows a shot
up tire when he sees one So we
think we've got it figured. You GER
tainly stopped him plenty. Didn't
you know, Dan, that a blown-out
rear on the outside of a curve at
crazy speed is worse than a blowout
on a steering tire? You might as
well come in, Dan. Belle got on you
easy. We're letting her find you
alone. That driver, by the way, was
Mariana. He broke out last night.
The radio has been spreading it al
the morning. Reward five thou
sand it's been saying. Dead on
alive"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01
Farm Fire Drills Can
Prevent, Reduce Loss

EACH YEAR FARM fires destroy
500, 000, 900 worth of farm buildings
and livestock. That's money enough
to build $4,000 new barns or buy
$4,000 new tractors.
Much of this loss could be pre-
vented if a fire drill and prevention
program such as outlined here were
adopted on farms and ranches.
1. Install emergency fire-fighting
equipment.
a. Fire extinguisher in every
building.
b. Water buckets and barrels.
C. Ladders to reach roof fires.
d. Axes, spades, rakes and rope.
2. Give every person on the farm a
specific fire-fighting job.
a. Children-refill water buck
cts.
b. Wife-notify fire department
and neighbors.
C. Farm help-fight blaze with
fire extinguisher equipment.
8. Hold monthly fire drills on
imaginary fires.
4. Minimize fire hazards.
a. Eliminate or correct all fire
hazards in and adjacent to
buildings.
b. Correct hazardous practices.
S. Improve farm fire-fighting IA
c~ilities.
a. Keep lane and driveway
open.
b. Post someone at road end to
direct. firemen to fire, and
water supply.
C. Clear yard of cars, trucks
and farm machinery to give fire
company room to work.
6. Establish a fire reporting sys-
tenn.
a. Know which fire company
to call and the quickest, surest
way of notifying them
b.. Be able to report fire quick
ly and intelligently.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Thinking Il Through
WILL WE USE WISELY
OUR FOOD ABUNDANCE?

The have gotten and the rich have gotten richer
the rich that I'm talking about this time
by you look goes with the people you
read about in the mink coats big etc But
about in their and three squares day, fat
to fry NGre your bsn sggi @ and eggs te to fry r M r 9 m would
farm land being ruined had farming
b Re %a are R oo & ver aad before e most But GSe @
world as whole with 10 per cent more people than before the
Maybe you've gotten used to hearing
in Europe that food shortages don't sqe you If that's
but they're terrible enough to be how
ouon the a R y M hf b s1r eas o nsT y G
and that want to tell you about, too.
war Agriculture was beginning to machine in big way The
same story as in the factories in hour with the right machine
but with and vital twist his
o% ne 5 3 @ s are growing rasoe bfs @ ad h
the farmer his time and his land food And the
Add the machines the output
reasons put
fore The wider use of electricity the farms fifth powerful
Add them up and why put per
stuff than before the with 10 cent less people working
The Agriculture Dept gives of the credit to the weather.
during the had better labor
rand well treated labor productive labor.
After ALL only per help
these 20 per cent twots of the product Even
What's going to happen to all this food IS big question in the
because prices high What's all for ask the
down What's i t all for they ask, if can sell it? 90
And abroad there the starving and hungry who WONDER
That the @ boom keeps on will we We use all the food ourselves % @ and
production and add American hunger the world misery?
meanwhile, the world Amercarich in food getting
by day looked up people enjoy
being nved can't believe that American labor will enjoy the feeling
off and too busy to remember the forgotten man.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
ECONOMICS OF DEPRESSION
81 MARxoN H. HE0crs

The fe the grain exchanges brought SOLDERING reflections
of millions this t?" all
Of those had professional interest the
markets However, the downward be only
quake But the thoughtful to illustrate
the arne today and how lives
restless Whatever the blessings of free enterprise
complacency does not seem to be one of them
Not the experts to what happened gram
market school believe
demand prosperity will hold international
school who believe long hold out witness the
technique under the Marshall Pan) prosperity will
smile America Then there is the school
contend that long purchasing high enough
nothing break the golden dream gogeng America Most
believes that offers enduring
prosperity America Indeed this writer believes that purchasing
the forward against aggravated symptoms of decline
Market heorist: 't really has been favorable market
An almost unlimited market due delayed supply and after
penup need.
Purchasing good goods
the market if there is to buy them"
Market theos "Bu there is As long goods
Purchasing heorist Bu enough necessarily There
right relation between purchasing and
ducon and it that nice relation which is being destroyed Prices
areto high. Have been too high too long,"
Market theorist: "Why don't we bust, them"
people using
their savings to meet When savings then
look OUT 4
the goes the purchasing power right
using their buy goods Incomes have
risen rapidly mostly the bracket savings have fallen off,
mostly in the lower bracetsthere nutshell the explanation
of the situation
There was time America business men themselves were
of high least leaders the automobile industry
they The truth
they undermining their markets.
modern economists believe much the purchasing
power theory that they have erected whole of
called neatly the consumption theory They believe
in the orderly, systematic subsdzaion of
rate watch the barometer of purchasing If
chasing power holds up, there will be no real slump.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
NEWS und VIEWS



Hail Samuel Godwyn, the sage Hollywood did
believe
of his movie take so salary The idea
be the quality
salaries in the industry.
Bravo again, This of thing should been said and
Moviedoms fabulous
with conditions They have created which
afford The breaking
seems to been reached. -.
1t also that eXtravagant salaries Goldwyn
down values which essential
Whether the policy will have effect
ceyed of the industry Frankly
am doubtful.
Movie confined the United From
Britain reports of crisis affecting the jobs of 100000
studio workers and film theatrical employees The deadlock brought
imposition
American films shut 60 of all theaer thus
sealing off the only of entertainment available to
BritisherS
British movie and entertainment union officials favor changes
prohbive tax rule Domestic studios they unable to
supply the needs OF 33 million nstene additional
pound of tax flesh would the nduy So far
ment reaction has not been encouraging.
Another matter public education readers
this column that all education
blind facts and it disturbing questions raised by
Father Cannon president of Fodham University that would like
o refer.
Father Cannon does not like the views of the Presidents Com
Higher Education college education He the
proposed dizzy expansion of college facilities will produce tides
of medocry ncompeents spread
perilously thn
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
AFL Knows The Score

Proof that the American Federation of Labor knows
and understands the in the long and bitter
versy between government and the representatives of
connie Russia is shown by the recent statement of the
executive council There isn't the slightest doubt that Rus
sa is laying the groundwork for war; its ultimate aim being
world conquest
With these facts clearly in mind, the AFL demands
that country be adequately prepared that take what
steps be to the liberated peoples
of Europe from the advancing hord of commes The AFL
statement remarkable because voiced the sentiment
of millions of American working and women who
hate
Yes, Labor hates war Labor knows more about
than other segment Of society," because the and
daughters Of working people always do the shooting and the
dying Yet American Labor is willing to fight always,
to defend American way of life. The future would be
black indeed had nothing better to look forward to
than domination and control from Moscow.