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The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

business might go on a sitdown
strike, along the pattern of the
1888 recession" rather than
submit to strong controls.
Already there are strong in
dications that the great corpo-
rations will cut production and
employment to keep goods
scarce rather than cut prices to
expand the market. Goods piled
up in inventories totaled some
$53, 800, 100000 in September
$7,000,000,0O0 more than Sep
TENDER of last year. Production
is down in textiles, rubber
goods, leather, radios and scores
of other commodities bought by
average citizens. But virtually
no important price cuts have
been made to stimulate buying.
The entire program of Wall
Street and government SO far as
cOst-Of-living relief is concerned
has been based upon the theory
that controls are not necessary
because Increased production"
dover actual wages per unit
through speed-up) and reduc-
ton in purchasing power (un-
employment and depressiOn)
would bring reduction in prices.
Both increased production per
man and decreased purchasing
power have occurred, but bust
ness spokesman are jittery and
unsold goods pileup.
Shades of the Henry Wallace
declaration hat prices must be
cut and wages raised to save the
nations economy crept over the
headlines this week and the
fight for that program seemed
developing into the major battle
before the 81st Congress next
month.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11
Concert-goers
to meet SINGER

Dorothy Maynor will be pre-
sented in a concert at Orchestra
Hall Saturday, Dec. IL and con-
cert-goers will attend reception
for the noted Negro soprano inn
mediately following. Miss May
nor's appearance in Chicago is
sponsored by DuSable Commu-
nifty Center for the benefit of
its youth program.
The concert artist will be hon
ored with : reception at the
Woodrow Wilson Room, 116 S.
Michigan Ave, beginning a t
1920 p. m. Invitations will be
limited to those attending the
concert at $50 p. m. The wo-
mems division of DuSable Cen
ter will act as hostesses
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

IT'S on again. The long
awaited proof of the plot
to undermine the planet has
been found on microfilm :.
concealed in hollowed-out
pumpkin. T e red-goblin
grins from the mouth of
pumpkin named Chambers,
every day is Halloween, the
witch-hunt rides at night /.
and all's right with the world.
=
AAOVE over Beethoven. Our
~ own Chicago Symphony
Orchestra has offered its
leadership to Wilhelm Furt-
waengler, the wayfaring Nazi.
It's claimed that FurtWaeng-
Ter was "tricked" into sup
porting Hitler and conducting
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

crease for presSers this year.
This was revealed this week
when The Standard obtained a
photostatic copy of a letter sent
to employers by Abraham Heller,
director of the manufacturers
association, dated November "a.
The letter explained ''it was
mutually agreed between the
Chicago Association of Dress
Manufacturers and the Chicago
Joint Board, International Ladies
Garment Workers union :. there
shall be no general demand for
increased piece rates in t h e
pressing craft for the 1948-49
Spring season."
Rank and file union members
said they were told nothing of
the agreement. Union officials
had told psessers to approach
individual employers for in =
creases, the members explained.
They also explained they had
been told nothing of the agree
ment between officials and en-
ployers requiring t h t any
"pressers who desire an adjust
ment of prices must approach
their employers as soon as pos
sible and in no event later than
December TO-"
The Association advised en-
ployers that eff your pressers
approach you, please get in
touch with our office"
Morris Balls, manager of the
Chicago Joint Board of the
union, could not be reached for
a statement.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

living index" of the U. S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics Ibid you no
tice any cut in your bills last
month";, living costs remained
IS per cent above pre-war aver
ages.
Important figures in the Big
Brass-Big Business coter e
which continues to run the Tru-
man administration are reported
to be presuring against any
genuine price control. They cite
the old saw that prices are
finally moving back toward
their normal level" whatever
that is. They also warn that
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

landlord had refused it and de-
handed SIS.
The Adams family was charg-
ed in the eviction with alleged
nuisance, but Judge Campbell
ruled that insufficient evidence
of nuisance had been presented.
On Dec. 10 the Expediter's
office again will appear in Dis
trict Court to ask that the Riley
and Adams families be restored
to their apartments pending a
final decree on the grounds for
eviction.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

Out of the weller of gov
eminent reports and state
ments from business econom-
lists, certain facts were undis-
puted:
Skyrocketing prices have
drained away savings and cut
consumer goods purchases to
the point where retail sales are
dropping. CutbackS in various
consumer goods industries are
reported, and a showdown has
started in housing construction.
With workers unable to buy
back the commodities they turn
out of the factories, unemploy-
ment is spreading.
Staggering cuts in prices paid
by Big Business to farmers for
corn and wheat have resulted
in the almost imperceptible drop
of only Is per cent in food costs
to the consumer while other
home budget prices continue the
inflationary spiral.
Corporation profits, which
reached the all-time high of
S17,000,000,000 in 1947 are ex-
pected to Zoom on up to $780,
400,000,000 this year, according
to the U. S. Department of Com
MERGE
Big Business and Big Brass
joined in pressuring the govern
ment for even greater war ex-
penditures to bolster profits at
the further expense of consum-
ers. Barron's Weekly hopefully
commented that eff an enorm-
ously speeded up defense pro-
gram, or warfare itself, should
come, the problem of excess
inventories would vanish COM
pletely"
No relief without control
Above all, it appeared abso-
Iutely definite that, in spite of
dwindling sales, no genuine
price relief can be expected
unless consumers and workers
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11
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the Berlin philharmonic. Of
course he was sricked! How'd
he know they were going to
lose the war?
THE new Chicago inductees
are marching into Camp
Breckenridge, KY. Announce
ment: "There will be careful
screening of selectees with
Communist influence who are
trying to infiltrate the army"
The kid whose uncle once
contributed quarter to the
Epworth League Con the
Thomas committees subver-
sive list) got his greetings
this week. Look Ma, I'm in
filtratin'r'
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

form the biggest peoples lobby
in history to force the admins
tration to carry through cam
paign pledges for price control
and other anti-inflation meas
ures.
In spite of the tiny dips re-
ported in the sO-called "cost of
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11
Chicago joint Boord, nGWU
makes secret pact; bors hike

Top officials of the ALL Inter-
national Ladies Garment Work
ers union have reached a secret
agreement with the Chicago As
ISOLATION of Dress Manufacturers
barring any general wage in
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

NDUsTRALlsTs CONVENE Earl Bunting (cenieD managing d.
National Association of Manufacturers, chats with
speakers who addressed the NAM in New Yorks Waldorf
Assistant Secretary Of Sote Spuie Boden )
Corporation Administrator PovI G. Hoffman @
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-12-11

Prices still unbridIed,
unemployment going up

Is depression around the corner?
Has initiation reached its peak?
How secure is the job?
These questions made headlines throughout the nation
is week and created fears in budgetbroken homes
Evening star., 1948-12-24

a system that meets first needs first. Never
theless the tens Of thousands of people in
Sweden, Denmark, Holland, France and Eng
land who voted time and again for health
insurance have shown that they know it Ito
be q system under which doctors first serve
those who need medical care and only later
look after the frustrated females. If anything
further is needed to refute Miss Thompson
and prove that health insurance is socially
desirable and economically sound, the most
recent survey conducted by the British In
stitute Of Public Opinion can be cited (the
Institute forecast the election of the Labor
government in 1s45 with an error Of only one
percentage point"
That survey shows that the people of Great
Britain have acclaimed the British govern
ment's national health insurance program as
the most popular of all its activities. Further
more, the survey indicates that "the vast
majority Of those treated said that they were
satisfied with the care they got and had no
criticisms"
In Britain, as in other countries, national
health insurance has been tried has worked
and is approved. Should not America, whose
dollars now help to rebuild devastated Europe,
also have the benefits Of national health in
surance for its people? for one, vote yesl
JOHN w. EDELMAN,
Washington Representative, Textile Work
ers Union Of America-CIO.
Evening star., 1948-12-24

exposed and dangerous. This renders
imperative battening down of loose ends
In Japan, in anticipation Of an impending
storm. Matters which, under happier cir
cumstances, might have been allowed to
work themselves out can no longer await
the slow processes of evolution. Liberal ex-
Fermentation must be modified because
of stern necessity.
From the Japanese government itself,
no difficulty is anticipated. Indeed, the
harried members of that regime seem only
too glad to shift responsibility for unpopu-
lar measures upon the supreme COM
mander's broad shoulders. But opposition,
covert or overt, can be expected from
many quarters. The Communists, espe-
cially, will undoubtedly redouble their
propaganda and resort to wrecking tactics
of every sort. The outlook is troubled
one
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Quentin Roosevelt II

In the death of Quentin Roosevelt II
another tragic chapter has been written
in the saga of the Theodore Roosevelt
branch of the Roosevelt clan News of the
disaster near Hong Kong on Tuesday must
have recalled to many readers the fate of
the gallant soldier of the First World War
for whom this Quentin was named-a
pioneer aviator who was killed in action
over the German lines on July H. 1918.
Quentin II never saw his uncle, but he
grew up in the tradition of his brief yet
glorious career. He also received at the
knee of his father-the second Theodore
the legend of his grandfather, more par
ticularly that portion of 1t which empha-
sized Teddy's achievements as an explorer,
naturalist and hunter.
BY the time Quentin II was nineteen,
he had won his spurs in the field The Star
for November 2, 1889, told how he had
spent six months in the interior OF China
and in Tibet, searching for relics of the
ancient Nashi tribes. Some of the manu-
scripts he saw on that trip impressed him
as being possible missing links" between
Asiatic civilization in TOO BE- and modern
Oriental culture. He found "a place of
great peace" where the natives knew little
of the outside world and cared even less.
But no Shangri-La, however serene, could
hold Quentin II very long. Soon he was
back at Harvard with twenty crates of
souvenirs of his travels for a Cambridge
museum.
In 1912 his fathers outft-the First
Evening star., 1948-12-24

Division-went overseas, and Quentin II
went with it as lieutenant. Wounded,
in North Africa the following February,
he recuperated, saw service in Italy and
France, was with his father, General Theo-
dore, junior, an hour before he died of
heart attack in Normandy in 1914, and
then went out to headquarters at Chung
king for the finish of the war in the East
as major. His lifelong interest in China
kept him there. Now, at twenty mine, he
is gone. What he might have accom-
plished had he been granted length of days
comparable with his distinguished FORE
bears is an academic question. A valiant
scion of great dynasty, he leaves
memory which should endure.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
The First Step

Viewing the Federal pay problem In
proper perspective, Senate Civil Service
subcommittee regards the proposal for
lifting the lid on top Government salaries
as only the first part of program with
several facets" The subcommittee ap-
proves of the Budget Bureaus and the
Hoover Commissions plans for a general
pay raise for the higher ranking execu-
bill for immediate introduction in the new
Congress Such raise will correct an
injustice done high-ranking public serv-
ants when they were excluded from gen.
eral pay increases granted to meet in
creases in the cost of living. The need for
action soon Is urgent, to stem the exodus
of officials lured by attractive offers from
private industry.
The readjustment of the higher salary
levels can be fairly regarded as only the
beginning of general readjustment of
the entire Federal pay structure, however
Cost-of-living increases of the type which
have been handed out to all but few
Federal employees in recent years are but
stopgap measures. Since they have been
of discriminatory type, they have had
the effect of throwing the whole pay
structure out of line. The subcommittee
commented particularly about the in
equities resulting from the pay raise voted
by the Eightieth Congress for everybody
except those in the highest pay brackets.
The members found that in pushing some
salaries up while holding others down,
Congress created serious morale problem
in Offices where some subordinates are
drawing more pay than their chiefs. Hap
hazard pay legislation is bound to produce
unexpected and strange results.
The raising of salaries of those who
have been neglected in the past District
employees and foreign service officers are
in that category should be considered as
an opening move toward the ultimate
goal of general reclassification of civil
service jobs and salaries. Only such q
broad attack on the Federal pay problem
will give promise of just and intelligent
solution of the Governments present
difficulties.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Christmas, lo48

The nrSt christmas OCCuIleo al u "oIAu
that sorely needed it-a world OF spiritual
darkness ignorance and sin. Much OF the
Significance of the message On earth
peace. good will toward men" is missed If
it be not remembered that the Infant in
the manger at Bethlehem was Redeemer.
He came because God loved humanity
enough to wish it to be saved. Such at
least has been the belief OF thousands Of
devout Christians who have looked upon
the Christmas story as revelation of
divine mercy. The angel host which an
nounced the birth of the Saviour to the
shepherds were to them heralds of new
conception of life, and the star which the
Magi followed to the city of David was to
them an index to a new philosophy of
what life means
Certainly, the alternatives of nineteen
centuries ago were nothing to prefer. No
previous religion provided solutions for the
problems Of cruelty and greed. There was
no reward for Righteousness anywhere in
paganism, no blessing for tolerance and
fellow feeling anywhere in the old dogmas
of mans imperfection. The light that
blazed around the Holy Child was a chal-
lenee to the past, a promise for the future.
It's beneficence was shed upon all classes
and conditions. For the first time in
history humble people were encouraged to
hope.
The more the story of the Nativity is
studied the more its power as an inspira-
tional force is realized. No other event in
human experience has been so dynamic.
During nearly two thousand years the
Christmas legend has worked a creative
magic in the minds and the hearts Of
multitudes. No rival conception has tri-
umphed over it, The idea of Christ never
has been defeated by any other affirmation.
Responsible democracy as q principle OF
civilization traces back to His birth. That
is why even those who reject the fine points
of Christian theology still pay homage to
the traditions of Christmas.
This year as much as in any Of the past
the annual celebration of the Nativity is
needed. Our world, too, is dark and sinful.
All that we have learned is little compared
to what we have yet to discover. The
broken atom is a curse unless humanity
can discipline Its use. Our inventive skills
are burden, lacking the development of
ways and means for living together with
out incessant strife and tumult. Great
numbers of people are seeking the solution
OF the vast issues of the times. Many have
faith that it can be found in the teaching
of the Carpenters Son who also was
Prince. So Christmas again is welcomed
as an opportunity for showing charity,
fellowship and will toward harmony in
the world. It is an optimistic gesture
against threatening disaster, a prayerful
yearning for the Kingdom of God here and
now Perhaps, the hope is vain and the
aspiration useless. But If that be true,
where Is mankind to turn in its distress?
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Christmas in Arlington

The mountain boy pho heard the Christ
mas story
In tropic tor-hole he had guarded i1eW
Is chanting NTH the angel hosts in glory
And 1ohile they sing, he is their sentinel.
High up where realms of air had brought
stDitt danger
An airman let an unseen hand lead on
Until he saw the Christ Child In the
nldnger
and Wise Men Eneeling in the Christmas
dd'0n. a
A sailor threp his Hte-belt to anothsr
When hatred ruled the sea and claimed
its toll;
In giuing all he had to saus brother,
He telt the ptsion of the Christ Chads
goal
These three and many thousands 1ho
are sleeping
Betoeen the ioinding paths OF Arlington
Haze placed the ancient Spirit tn pIr
keeping
The dream of liberty for euery one.
EVELYN NoRcRoSS sHERRIIL
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Macarthur Takes Over

General Douglas MacArthur's message
to Premier Yoshida, informing him that
Japan's critical economic situation requires
the supreme command to resume exercise
of its prerogatives, Is a disquieting develop
ment There can be no reasonable doubt
that MacArthurs decision is justified, even
though it is regrettable necessity. Never
theless, the fact remains that, after two
years of experimentation with the outward
forms of democracy, the Occupation Au-
thority will resume the running of Japan
once more.
Despite the large-scale assistance that
we have extended since the beginning OF
the occupation, more than three years
ago, Japan's economic condition is not
good Recovery lags, the food situation
is critical, and prospects are dubious. In
part, this is due to the inevitable after
math of crushing defeat and the loss Of
overseas empire; in part to the absence OF
n peace treaty which would regularize the
country's international status. But large
measure of responsibility rests upon the
japanese government and the people them
selves. In his message, Macarthur points
out some of their shortcomings when he
says that he can no longer allow manage
ment or labor to interfere with increasing
production, that he will not permit poll
ticians to bicker over objectivas, and that
he will not tolerate the theological oppo-
sition" (meaning the Communists) to delay
or Illustrate the accomplishment of pro-
gram of increased austerity. This includes
matters like more vigorous tax collections,
strengthened price controls, and better
Enforcement of food deliveries. Since the
Japanese government has proved unable
to accomplish what is vital to the countrys
security and recovery, Macarthur informs
1t that the japanese must surrender
temporarily "some of the privileges and
immunities inherent in free society"
This drastic action of the supreme COM
mander is undoubtedly due in large
measure to the darkening situation in the
Far East as whole and its ominous reper-
cussions upon our position in Japan. The
impending triumph of communism in
China, plus the ticklish status of Korea,
yenders our position in Japan increasingly
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Health Insurance Defended

To the Editor of The star: I.
Dorothy Thompson's column on health in
surance, published on December 20, struck me
as being utterly SNUG and altogether lacking
In understanding of the basic medical care
problem confronting most American families
today. ... .-.
"All our analyses of the problem Of health
have brought us again and again up against
single stone-wa barrier-the inability Of mil
lions Of the people to meet the costs OF health
services" says the report Of the National
Health Assembly, which met in Washington IN
May, 1948.
In another section of the report this state
ment WAS made: "" at q maximum, only
about half the families in the United States can
afford even a moderately comprehensive health
insurance plan on q voluntary basis. The net
result then would be to leave without adequate
protection the very groups-those with incomes
below s3,0O0-whose plight the Nation needs
most to remedy in order to raise the countrys
level Of health"
Miss Thompson boasts OF the fact that IN
Europe, rather than wait her turn to see
doctor serving people under health insurance,
she chose to pay extra in order to patronlze
what was the equivalent Of q "black market"
physician. Like the propagandists for the
ANA, Miss Thompson infers, but presents no
facts to prove, that the so-called panel pa
tients in England or elsewhere are treated less
capably and with less feeling than the same
individuals would be treated II they came to
the doctors as private patients at higher fee.
Miss Thompsons article reflects the petulant
attitude Of the economically well-padded few
who, being able to pay thousands for an opera
ton or to have their hands held or their neu-
roses pampered, scorn taking their turn under