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Protecting The Food Supply

country Gentleman recently published an edi-
torIal dealing with one of the most important yet
least understood problems confronting the Ameri-
can people. The theme of it is found in it's title
and subtitle: Americas advantage must be main.
tanned. Only by protecting our sources of abund-
ant food can we continue to lead the world
Few of us realize the extent to which our
standard Of living is dependent upon food which
is moderately priced in relation to income Over a
long period of time food has taken only about "a
per cent Of spendable personal income The
balance has been left to buy other things-the
things which keep industry going and employment
high AS the Country Gentleman SAID Nowhere
else in the world has much been left Y. to be
used in raising the general standard of living" In
other countries, by contrast, the cost Of food ac
counts for as much as 70 per cent of the average
workers earnings. Little remains for ANYTHING else
so industry lags and living standards are low
The country Gentleman recommends a. two.
faceted program to assure an ample and nerma
nent food supply-first, adequate safeguards for
farmers and, secondly, conservation of soil and
other productive resources The first is being ac-
complished The second DIVERS challeng to farm
rs, and other, to prevent the exhaustion and de-
pletion Of the land by adopting proven farming
processes that make for conservation and soil
maintenance.
To cite a current example the nation needs
more meat animals They furnish food and put
pertIlity back in the soil Meat animals make food
Of grasses fodder and waste products which are
not suitable for the human diet Consumption of
meat has tended to rise while supplies have tend
ed TO decline. 10 achlve greater production we
fust have fair prices to encourage producers Food
is the basis Of the American economy
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Billions For Bureaucracy

According to- d.. Marjorie Shearon, who was
formerly health consultant to the Senate Commit
tee Oh Labor and Public Welfare, the cost to the
taxpayers for compulsory government health in
surance would, in time, reach $15000,00OOO0 a
year and perhaps more. BY 1860, she claims, the
currently proposed plan would require an aver
age charge of 500 every Individual In the
United States-and would cost four times as much
as we spent on all Federal services in 1929.
Theoretically the plan would be financed
through payroll tax of relatively moderate size.
But every thorough study that has BEEN made in
dcates that this tax would be woefully inadequate.
AS result part and perhaps most of the bill would
have to be paid from general revenues--Wh1ch
simply means that income taxes and all other taxes
would keep on going up.
So much for the financial argument One CT
the best for opposing compulsory health
insurance is the remarkable progress made by the
voluntary prepayment plans Tens of millions of
people have poined and the cost is low. The scope
and efficiency OF service has been broadened. AS
time goes on, one more of these plans will be
available t. practically everyone in the country
And that vii be done without creating another
huge and wasteful political bureau-and without
giving the politicians the whip hand over medical
practice in this country
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Economic !, High|ights

If the judgment or represen-
tative business leaders is cor
rect, those who anticipate drop
in the cost O fliving are doomed
to disappointment. The outlook
now is that some PROFESSIONALLY
oods-will probably decline dur
ing the coming year. However,
even if this happens, it will be
offset by higher prices in other
directions, principally in the
field Of manufactured goods.
A recent statement by Henry
FordII indicates the trend of
thinking on the top industrial
levels. According to him, a
folrth-round wage increase Is
Inevitable" Then he said:
Prices, too, must go up. Prices
are high today, maybe too high
but we can't lower them without
lowering wages and material
COSTS When asked for his
views on price control, Nh. Ford
said it would not hold prices
down and would wreck the ma
tion-the auto industry includ-
ed-and ruin the economy
! The attitude of the principal
labor leaders is also indicative
OF things to come. At the recent
CLIO convention in Portland, Ore,
Mr.. Murray, Mr.. Reuthers and
otter high executives in the or
ganization laid most of the en-
phasis on plans for obtaining re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley Act,
which, in their view, would be
favorable to labor. At the same
time, they made it perfectly
clear that they will demand, as
a general thing, substantial
wage increases. The ALL is not
os aggressive in attitude, but
there is little doubt that it will
ollow a similar policy.
1t might be argued, as a theo-
retical proposition, that higher
wages need not constitute any
particular problem to industry
that all it has to do is to raise
it's prices to compensate and
carry on in the same old groove.
But that argument, in many
cases, it simply not workable in
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The Common Defense

report are as follows:
Showers of Blessing"
lently attacks Jews, Negroes,
Catholics, the Federal Council of
Churches, and other chosen en-
emies.
Beacon Light Herald and
America Speaks have printed
vitrolic attacks against Catholics
and Jews.
"The Defender known as
one of the most vicious anti
Semites in the country, his
(Winrod's) attacks against the
Catholic Church have been equal
ly as wicked. =. He expresses
more sympathy for the defeated
NaZi leaders than fDr the vic
tins of Hitler. A personal
friend of most of the anti-Semitic
leaders in the United States.
The Western Voice"-attacks
the usual victims of un-American
bigotry. Beside the Jews and
Catholics. ~. inveighs against
labor unions, Negroes, and i'm
migrants"
The editors of all the hate
| sheets would probably tell you
in stentorian tones that they are
opposed to communism. But
what you have to detect for your
self is that they oppose commun-
ism, not in order to strengthen
ism, but for the sole. purpose
Of attracting a following to
themselves for popularizing a
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native brand Of fascism with all
the usual trimmings of racial and
religious hatred.
The American Legion. we'll
aware of this tricky device en-
ployed by the fascist-m1nded for
fascism while pretending to fight
communism, has reminded it's
memabers and friends, in this
report by the Department Of
Illinois, Of the Legion's opposi-
ton to all kinds Of subversive
activity. .. .-.:',- .> amin.
Citing the Legion's resolution
against intolerance, passed at the
National Convention in Boston
IN 1910, Mr.. Libonati's report
asks, What are you personlly
doing to carry out this resolu-
ton? What are you personally
doing to heal your country Of the
malignant diseases-prejudices
and intolerance?'
These are pointed and timely
questions to be asked Of all
Americans. And with them may
properly go a few suggestion
I. Accept people on their indi-
vidual worth. 2. Don't listen to-
or spread, rumors against race
a religion, or class. 3. Speak up,
wherever you are, at home, in
business, in school, labor, church,
or social groups, AGAINST pre-
judice, FOR understanding
Remember - THAT'S acting
like an American.
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practice, and for variety of
reasons.
First, there is a group Of basic
industries which cannot adjust
their charges without permits
sion of one or more government
al agencies. These are the re-
gulated industries, of which the
railroads are the most conspicu-
Gus example at present. In spite
of the rate increases they have
ben given by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, their retarn
on investment is only about three
per cent. Very heavy demands
for wage increases are being
made on them, and more may
follow. Even if the ICC should
continue to grant higher rates
to compensate for changing con-
ditiOns, the time factor involved
is serious. Wage raises, when
granted, go into effect at once
and are often retroactive. High
er fares and freight charges are
normally granted only after many
months Of investigation and are
not retroactive. Even then, as
a general rule, the rate increases
are never quite sufficient to off
st the wage boosts.
There is another group of in
dustries which must meet for
eign competition. Here shipping
is the best example. According
to the statistics, seamen's pay
has risen 207 per cent since 1889.
The maritime unions want still
higher wages, along with other
expensive concessions. At the
same time, the companies vol
ume of business and their pro-
fits have declined. Foreign lines,
which pay far lower wages and
can operate more cheaply in all
ways, are getting more and more
tonnage.
Finally, there are any num-
Der of industries which are per-
fectly free to raise prices as
high as they like, but which must
keep a worried eye on the con-
sumner. In other words, it is one
thing to price an article at a
give figure, but it is a differet
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thing to get people to buy it at
that figure. Consumer resistance
has become an ominOus factor in
a number. Of fields, and is feared
in others. On top of that, it is
!, not only the individual buyer
that must be considered. The
big industrial consumer often
dominates the picture. For in
stance, coal is a source of en-
ergy which must be sold in COM
petition with other sources Of
energy, such as oil. If coal prices
should get out of line, there
would be a gradual shift to
| other fuels-and then, Of course,
tn employment offered by coal
/ would steadily decline.
Industries serving the demand
for luxuries and semi-luxuries-
things people can do without if
they have tO-are especially con-
cerned as the wage problem
moves to the front again. Mo
ton pictures are a good illustra-
ton of this. Box office receipts
in the United States have been
drifting downward. There has
been a heavy decline in foreign
income, due to currency restric-
t1ons, freezing of funds, and stiff
taxes abrod. The top movie
minds think that current ticket
prices cannot be further raised
without shattering affect on
attendance. Efforts to reduce
the production costs Of pictures
and still keep them attractive to
the potential customer have not
been too successful. So here too
the prospect Of higher wages is
the prospect of higher wages is
the cause Of many a headache.
Labor argues that increases in
living costs have made higher
wages necessary. Industry re-
plies that the trend Of living
costs in inevitably tied to the
trend of wages. There is a great
deal to be said on both sides
The problem is to find a COM
mon meeting ground. Efforts in
that direction will take up a
large share Of the national en-
ergy during the coming months.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-12-11

j PSYcHIATRY
Author: William c. Menninner. MD
Publisher: Cornell Universi+v
Press, Ithaca, New York
Price: $500
Reviewer: William Henry Huff
I'm this volume, DR.. William
G. Menninger draws upon IL
experience and that of others IN
discussing the mechanisms in
volved in mans struggle with
emotional conflicts. He poltravs
the background Of psychiatrv,s.
growth and development IN }
brief history. He discusses ~ .
factors of resistance with whinb
man IS endowed to combat stress
ana ne tells what happens when
resistance either cof1apses or is
overwhelmed-a catastrophe not
unlike that which occurs when
bacteria overwhelms tha hodn
with infection. 0'
If Improvement in orr indivi-
DUAL group, and community rela.
tons can stem from education. If
the many symptoms and chronic
ills OF psychogenic etio1ogv can
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-12-11
,HRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES

The subject of the Lesson-Sermon
n all Churches of Christ, Scientist
n Sunday, December 5, was:
iOD THE ONLY CAUSE AMI
CREATOR
Che Golden Text was:
"Thus saith the Lord that created
the heavens; God himself that
formed the earth and made itj
he hath established it, he created
it not in vain, he formed it to be
inhabited: I am the Lord; and
there is none else" lisa. as: 18),
Among the citations which COM
Arised the sson-Sermon, the fol
owing were from the Bible:
Remember the former things Oh
old: for | am God, and there il
none else; I am God, and there
is none like me, Declaring thu
end from the beginning, and from
ancient times the things that are
not yet done, saving, My counsel
shall stand, and l will do all my
pleasure" lisa. 46: 9,1O).
!he Lesson-Sermcn also included
he following passages from the
christian Science textbook, "Sci.
bee and Health with Key to the
tcriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy
"In the vast forever, in the Sci
ence and truth Of being, the only
facts are Spirit and its innumer.
able creations The creative
Principle-Life, Truth, and Love
is God. The universe reflects
God. There is but one creatol
and one creation The divine
Principle, or Spirit, comprehends
and expresses ALL. and all must
therefore be as perfect as the
divine Principle is perfect" (pp
479, SOP, 518).
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average. Out Of this 10000 had
to come costs of producing the
goods. About AZ per cent, or
$4,41O, went for raw materials,
power, and other necessary ex-
penSe,
What Makes America?
This average worker himself
was paid $4,000. The government
bill was $1,000. There was put
aside $3.50 to replace and mod
ernie tools that wore out. All
these costs came to $1,000, which
taken from $4,000 leaves a pro-
fit Of $1,100, On an investment
of $13,5OO that's about per cent.
That's not bad either.
However, stockholders were
asked to leave $3.50 of this profit
in the business, making 3,78O
for this average worker to use
the following year. Stockholders
We're then paid $500 in dividents,
or about a 6 per cent return on
their money. This is the way
that Du Points annual report
reads in terms Of each worker.
1t represents wonderful coordina
ton of the worker-management
team. When you duplicate this
many times, with big and little
business, you've got what makes
America.
The masure of America, then,
is how we'll all of US cooperate.
We've done a wonderful job in
the past, despite fisunderstand-
ings here and there. This system,
that permits us to use all our
talents and all our resources, is
sometimes called "ree competi-
tive enterpris." But it is also a
wonderful adventure in coOpera-
ton. More than any other land
today, more than cN be found
Of any nation in history-we have
succeeded in bringing "the great
est good to the greatest number
of people,
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THE COLOR OF BLOOD

THE COLOR OF BLOOD
Author: E. Ralph RundefI
Publisher: Thos. Y. CroWeII Co.,
432 Fourth Ave. New York 16
Price: $500
Reviewer: Willia I'm Henri Huff
"On a hot day in 1884 young
Blanco Danderson was riding his
wild white stallion on the dusty
road that led to San Juan. In his
blood were mingled strains of an
English father and a Spanish
mother, in his heart a burning
hate for the Indians who had
made him an orphan at eight.
But despite his yellow hair and
big-boned frame, the boy was a
true gaucho, quick to anger, hard
fighting, his hand free with the
bolas and the knife. s-
"On this hot morning Blanco
was fated to meet the dark and
beautiful Petra. Petra, who
was promised in marriage to the
dirty caudiolo's son; Petra, who
wanted to be more than just a
submissive wife; Petra, young
and ripe, who set the blood rae
ing through Blanco's body as a
wind races over the pampas.
The love these two had for
each other, in the bright heat of
their young ardor, overcame all
obstacles, though Blanco had to
fight, and sometimes kill, to
make Petra his own. And, caught
in the bloody revolution which
was raising cruel Juan Manuel
de Rosas to power, they were Of
ten separted; Blanco fighting for
Rosas, Petra left to watch and
wait and hope for his safe re-
turn.
But as Rosas' despotic rule
grew stronger, his prosecutions
more bloody, Blanco turned
against him and, as the mysteri-
Gus White Gaucho, rescued terri
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SAINT MARK
METHODIST CHURCH
Fiftieth at Wabash Avenue


M. w. Clair, Jr., Pastor
The Saint Mark Methodist
Church Choirs will celebrate
their Tenth Season Of singing
Handels 1.-The Messiah at
Saint Mark Methodist Church at
$50 Sunda afternoon, December
10, it was announced this week
by M. w. Clair, Jr., minister of
the church.
The chairs under the direction
of Walter E. Gossettee, AGO.
have merited place in musical
circles, because Of their roper
toire Of great music Of the mas
tiers from the Bach chorals and
choruses from the Bach oratorios
and cantatas to. those Of our pre-
sent day composers.
The Messiah represents Han
del at his best This has been
kept in mind for the selection Of
soloists for this great work.
Soloists are: Ethelynde Arm
strong Ingram, soprano, is direc-
tor of the 'Loreli Glee Club and
a soloist of national fame, Char
lotta Stevens, contralto, has at
tracted much attention with her
work in the Imperial Opera
Guild. Her lovely contralto voice
will add much to the rendition
of The Messiah this season, Mel
vim Thomas, tenor, a Chicago
Musical College product and now
a student at Fisk University, has
won a name for himself in the
Chicagoland Musical Festival
and the National Opera Guild,
James Walton Benson, basso, has
long been a potent factor in the
development Of musical life in
Chicago as a teacher, accompan-
list and above all an excellent
singer.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed to the public to be present at
this presentation at St. Mark,
located at Wabash and 5Oth st.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-12-11
THE BEST AMERICAN
SHORT STORIES OF 1913


Author: Edited by Martha EoIav
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin CO..
Park St., Boston, Mass.
Price: $3.75
reviewer: William Henry Huff
From the thousands Of short
stories published annually in
magazines throughout the United
states and anada, Martha Foley
MAKES MAKES her selections for THE
BEST american SHORT STOR-
les. Ihey include tales from both
Inc big popular magazines and
from the small literary maya
zines of limited circulation, many
OF which do not reach the public
at large. In this way, the fiction
reader has access to an enormous
range of published material
winch is carefully sifted from
the standpoint Of permanent in
terest.
Not for one hundred years,
not since the writing Of Edgar
Allan Poe, has the short story
IN America revealed the tenden-
cles 1t has shown during the past
year, says Miss Foley Of this 1913
collection, pointing out that the
psychological and fantastic al,
most has replaced the more real
istic writing SO familiar to us for
many years. Both famous and new
writer's are represented in this
book, including John Hersey, E.
B. White, Dorothy anfield. Wal
lace Stegner, M. F. X. Fisher,
Martha Gellhorn, George r. Clay,
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"The American success is the
story of large numbers of people
doing something together. When
an enterprise p-ospers, everybody
connected with it prospers. and
the success legend must be divid-
ed among them" The statement
was made by Mr. Crawford
Greenewalt, president of the Du
Pont Company, who believes
that Americas unique position
was achieved mot because we
have more coal or more gold or
more land, but because we have
more incentive, more venture,
more determinations" Now, when
the rest Of US get out and talk
that way, | believe that we will
begin to see the greatness of
America.
If management thinking at Du
Pone is any key to the attitudes
generally held in industry, I
think we may all be encouraged
to expect greater and greater
things as America goes ahead
year after year.
No More Accident
Indeed, the greatest good to the
greatest number Of people" is a
description that just fits Ameri-
ca. But it is no accident. It in
cludes the ways we cooperate,
capital with labor and labor with
capital-until actually there are
no differences.
When you consider that per-
sons willing to deny themselves
put up their savings to the tune
of $13,500 for each worker at
Du Pone, you see how the stock
holders cooperated. That makes
a good solid investment behind
the average Du Pont worker. It's
wise use of tools and human en-
ergy enabled this average work
er to collect ,$10,600 for his part
of production. That's higher than
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Book Reviews

fled Argentinians from the very
jaws of Rosas's secret police, the
feared MaZorca.
This exciting historical novel
is laid in Argentina's most tur-
bulent revolutionary period, when
the loosely federated provinces
were forcibly being welded into
single state 10y the inexorabIe
hand Of Rosas. 1t is a novel Of
passion and struggle, of battles
and intrigues, OF conflict between
tyrants, Of the peoples desper-
ate fight. for freedom.
1t is also the story of a love
that conquered all hinderances.
and of man who learned to
laugh at death in his fight for
, JUSTICE.
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Over,vorking The Goose

At the recent convention of the United Mine
Workers, great deal of discussion centered
around future demands that the union may make
the soft coal operators The indications were
that these will include still higher wages still
shorter working days, increase in vacation pay
ments and down the line.
The desire Of any working group to get as
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be improved by educational in
situations to lead the way? The
lectures which Dr.. Menninger de-
livered at Cornell University and
which now provide the basis for
this volume, assist in melting that
challenge to higher education
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-12-11

Vincent McHugh, Eudora' Welty
and many others. The short story
long has been Americas favorite
form Of fiction and this book
shows it at it's finest"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-02-27
WEATHTR FORECAST

Marine foreast from the U S. Weather Bureau for the period from Friday morning to tomorrow night is as follows
 Lynn Canal and Taku Inlet, northerIy winds 20 to 8 miles per hour.
 Protected waters Of Southeast Alaska south of Lynn Canal and outside waters from Dixon En- trance to Yakutat. northerly to northeasterly winds 15 to 9 miles per hour becoming easterly to southeasterly winds over the out side waters and the protected wat CTS south of Petersburg by Satur- day afternoon.
 Variable cloudiness with som light snow flurries south Of Pet ersburg and Sitka.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-02-27
PLANE PASSENGERS

Passengers out of Wrangell this week via Alaska Coastal and Ellis Airlines were:
 Saturday, February 2l, to Ket- chikan: Brooks Hanford.
 Sunday, February 22, to Juneau: R. KeTns
 Tuesday, February 24, to Keteh ikan: Don LilRe. To Petersburg: Frances Nore, Glen More, Earl Dinner.
 Wednesday, February 25, to Ret chikan: A c. Prasil. To Peters, burg: Judge William Holzheimer.
 Thursday, February, 26, to Ret chikan: Virginia Layman, H. A. Wells Richard Johansen. To Jun eau: Jack Kepps. To Petersburg Mrs. Dick Moore, Judy Moore, Les ter Loomis.
 Friday, February 27, to Ketchi kan: Cy Wonders, Thomas Duggan To Petersburg: L. F. Blake, Harr. Barger, Knox Marshall.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-02-27
TONY SCHWAMM WINS
 $10,500 INSURANCE SUIT

SEATTLE Superior Judge Chester A. Batchelor has ordered an insurance company to pay $10,- 500 to George S. (Tony) Schwamm veteran Alaskan bush pilot, for damages to his plane when it drop ped from a hoist. The insurance company was the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Com pany, Ltd.
 Testimony presented by Attorney Robert o. Beresford showed the plane had suffered some damage in poor landing, but became a com plete loss when a cable slipped while the plane was being hoisted aboard barge at Point Conclu sion, Alaska. September 13, 1946. Witnesses included Joe Crossen. former famous Alaskan bush pilot and mercy flier.