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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-06
MASS X-RAY PROGRAM

Within the next few weeks every citizen of this community will be offered free health service The Territorial Department of Health has arranged to provide every man. and child with free chest x-ray without cost obligation whatsoever
 This campaign is part of Territorial wide plan to find every case tuberculosis in order to decrease the incidence of this dreadful disease.
 That prevention is better than cure all will agree In the prevention of tuberculosis mass x-ray surveys have been found to be among the most effective measures It hoped, therefore that everyone will take advantage this excellent opportunity to pro- tect his own health the health of his family and his community.
 The menace of tuberculosis lies largely in the fact that person appear perfectly healthy ana feel fit and yet have the disease Happily when de- tected in its early stage, it can be cleared up fairly quickly and the person may return to his employment The surest way finding whether one has tuber- cuosis is through the x-ray examination, Each person found to have anything suspicious in his lungs can then immediately have the necessary attention.
 The survey has yet another benefit It will greatly arouse public awareness to this insidous disease With this awareness fully aroused, there are good prospects that more beds for the of the ubercuous will be forthcoming
 One of the greatest tasks confronting the Terri tory of Alaska at this time is the control of tuber- culosis Despite the fact that know the cause know how to prevent it and know how to it. it still causes 20 per all deaths each year
 It is to the credit of our legislators who appro- priated a large sum of money for the control of tuberculosis that every resident of Juneau whether man. woman or child may take precautionary steps against this insidous enemy by having free chest examination
 Until apparatus using smaller films developed mass surveys were impractical and costly. Chest
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clinics necessarily confined to known and sus- persons suffering from the disease discovered until it had progressed to serious stages. Now this dangerous situation longer need exist. Found in it's early stage and properly treated at either in the home in a sanatorium, tuberculosis be cured and the possibilities of passing it to others overcome.
 More persons in Alaska die from tuberculosis than from all other communicable diseases combined. This is largely because infected persons go for some time and not at all aware that he has the disease
 Any of us can be attacked by this disease at any time The old belief that those over 30 are no longer susceptible is entirely without foundation Helping in the task of destroying this enemy of man and of Alaska is duty that belongs to us all. The surest way of doing is by having x-ray.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-06
HEALTH MERRY-Go-ROUND

Things you didn't know about the health of your country: The USA now has the lowest death rate in history, In 1946 only ten people died out of every 1000. The baby death rate is also the lowest in cur history-35.1 per 1000 .. Highest birth mortality in the LISA is in New Mexico, where SIP babies die for every 1000 among the Spanish population. Ii you're born in Arkansas you have the best chance of living. Its infant mortality is the lowest-26.4 per 1000 Fifty years ago TB caused the second largest number of deaths in the USA. Today it's only the seventh deadliest dis ease. Heart disease remains the chiei killer of the American peo- pie. Virus diseases are getting worse, though the medics think they have isolated at least one virus which causes the common cold Polio is on the increase and it's cause still remains a myS- tery Typhus is also increas- ing General Eisenhower perfect teeth are attributed to the sodium fluoride in the water where he once lived nl Texas.
 Some areas in the Dakotas and the southwest have too much fluor- ide in the water, which makes the teeth enamel mottled The
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-06
Daily Lessons in English S%y [. GORDON

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MODERN ETIQUETTE Ss ROBERTA LEE

O. Is it good nave forgotten
 
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 While isn't form still the best place Tor the hands at the table in the lap
 e. right employer servant in the pres others?
 A. No; extremely such criticism should be privately
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Public Health Service is experi- menting with means of putting the right amount of sodium fluor-
 idle in city water supplies, in order to preserve teeth. They believe this can be done in areas which have a central water supply . . More and more city water supplies are becoming polluted and danger
 ous. About 1O0,000,0O0 people (U. s. pouluation is but 140,000,000) live in communities which need $8,- 0c0,OOO,0OO spent to improve their water supply and sewage disposal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-06
SHORTAGE OF DENTISTS

The Congressman was flabber- gasted. He wanted to know why the treatment had not been given to the public.
 The number of dentists is too few replied U. s. Public Health Director pr. Thomas Parran, and they are so busy dealing with emergency conditions, especially among adults, that they just do not have the time. We do not have the dental power to do this job for the whole child popula- tion'
 "A dentists assistant would be able to apply this sodium fluoride to the child's teeth" observed Congressman Keefe.
 "Yes,' replied Dr. Parran, but we are terribly short even in the number of dental assistants"
 Tt looks to me" said Keefe, ''as though an advertising program would disseminate this information to the people of the country until there would be an overwhelming demand upon the public-health services to make this available to the children
 You have only a small outfit here in Washington" Keefe con tinued, referring to the central Pulp lie Health Service, only eight peo- pie are asked for under this ap- propriation."
 Dr. Parran explained that he was trying to use a nucleus of dental hygienists who, in turn, would train others, but the Congressman from Wisconsin wasn't satisfied.
 "You are asking here for Sl,500,000 "a very small amount for admin istrative expenses he observed, referring to the entire public health appropriation. Keefe then asked how much of this would be used for dental education.
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TREATMENT SIMPLE,
 INEXPENSIVE

The Public Health officials were not able to give a definite ans wer, but they did explain how simple the sodium fluoride treat ment was.
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virtually forget aoout going to the dentist.
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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Taku pnSf Nh 55rg

Meets first and third Fridays. Post Hall, Sew ard St. Visiting Com rades Welcome.
 H. s. GRUENING Com mander; WILLIAM H. SHERLOCK, Adjutant.
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The Juneau the night and Gu MNaughon Trevor Davis VicePresdent iss Shauck Byaws drafted by Davis M Bradford and H w whitman approved.
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oarncks advertising homemade fish balls n industry started by housewives.
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Moose the previous night all local and visiting Moose C. Thomas Berg
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PERON'S ROW WITH
 BRITAIN

Referring to the current dispute between Great Britain and Argen-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-06
20 YEARS AGO TIT fME EMPIRE
MARCH 5, 1928

elected President of the Martha Society Mrs Cunnar Bomgren Mrs Katherine Hooker Second A. P Clark reelected Secretary
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weather High, 2e; low, 24 partly cloudy.
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The Washington MerrY-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON

Continued from Page One)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
Garment Workers
Continues Drive
Against Hoods

New York (LPA)-Carefully CO.
ordinated organizing campaigns by
the New York Dress Joint Board
of the Int'l Ladies Garment Work
ers Union-AFL and the unions
Northeast Dept, in Pennsylvania,
this week are cutting into the open
shop segment of the dress industry.
The ILGWU is not being slowed
down by the failure of the NY.
police and district attorneys office
to arrest the gangsters who beat up
three of its organizers and num-
Der of pickets last month. Nor is
it intimidated by the same author
tiles arrest of union organizers and
pickets on the complaint of the
open shop employers.
Attacks by armed thugs upon
ILGWU officers and pickets from
the Seafarers Int'l Union-AFL, who
have been assisting in the ILGWU's
organizing drive in an industry
most of whose employees are wo-
men, began when the union threat
ened to wipe out the open shop
segment of the n. Y. dress indus
try. Racketeers, whom the lLGWU
has charged are connected with
truckers who assist anti-union con-
tractors in their schemes to keep
production in sweat-shops, are de-
pendent for their chase" upon de-
feating the organizing drive.
Two hoodlums with criminal re-
cords were indicted for the assault
upon the union men, but the police
have not yet caught up with them,
nor have they apprehended the
anti-union forces behind the thugs.
Meanwhile, however, upon en-
ployer complaints ILGWU and
SUI men have been hauled into
court on charges OF
coercion" in their campaign to
keep criminal elements from estab-
fishing themselves in one of Goth
ANS most important industries.
The ILGWU is pushing its or
ganizing drive in the small Penn
sylvania centers where the metro
polls open shop contractors have
much of their work done, as well
as in the city itself.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
'Non-Ops' Press Demands For Wage
Increase And Shorter Work Week

Chicago (LPA)-Backed by ovel
a 95% majority vote in favor oi
strike as a last resort, 16 rail
road unions pressed their battle fol
a 40-hour week and a 25c-an-houl
wage increase before a President
ial Emergency Board here this
week.
The 16 unions represent 100000
Incorporating" workers on the
"1ron Horse"-that is, practically
all rail workers outside of those
engaged directly in train, engine
and yard service.
Creation of the board under the
Railway Labor Act automatically
deferred the threat of a strike for
at least go days.
Workers represented by the 16
unions constitute one of the few
remaining labor groups in the coun-
try still on 48-hour straight-time
work week. They are, fighting. for a
40-hour week, with no reduction in
present 48-hour earnings, plus a
25-an-hour increase to match the
rise in living costs and to correct
gross wage inequities.
Testimony for the unions was led
off by George E. Leighty, president
of the Railroad Telegraphers and
chairman of the joint conference
committee of the 16 brotherhoods,
and by Lester Schoene, counsel for
the unions. They were followed by
economists for the organizations.
Emergency Board members hear
ing the case are DR.. w. M. Lesser
son, former chairman of the Natl
(Railway) Mediation Board; Geo
rye A. Cook, former member Of the
same board, and David F. Cole,
chairman of the New Jersey State
Board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
NY Busmen Win
Port Payment
On Wage Claim

New York (LPA)-The brief
strike of New York City bus driv-
ers last week won employees of one
of the privately owned lines their
first long-due payment of retro
active pay boost, and appears to
have logged the state Public Ser
vice Commission into speeding. up
its work necessary to payment of
full claims.
President Michael Quill of the
Transport Workers Union last
week called the busmen out for a
protest demonstration against the
failure of PSC to act upon the priv
ate lines request for permanent
&c fare raise. Without this fare
raise, union and company heads
state, the lines are not able to pay
the retroactive wage boost which
TWU has won for its members.
Most of the lines had made par
tial payments on their wage bill.
But not the Third Avenue Surface
Line, which PSC has charged with
having failed "to conserve its
funds"
Third Avenue drivers apparently
did not understand that the strike
was designed as brief demonstra-
ton against PSC slowness, and for
one day disregarded pleas of Presi-
dent Quill and Gotham Mayor Will
lam O'Dwyer that they return to
work.
Austin Hogan, "left-wing" presi-
dent of Local 100 TWU, who is
leading a factional fight against
President Quill, attempted to seize
leadership of the strike and keep
the men out. His efforts collapsed,
however, when the Third Avenue
men realized that other companies
employees had returned to work.
The following day PSC announc-
ed it is permitting Third Avenue
Surface Line to borrow $150,000
Exclusively" for the purpose of
meeting it's employees claims. 1t
also said that it will begin hearings
on the permanent fare hike in
creases this week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
Wagner Honored
For His Record
In The Senate

New York (LPA)-In ceremon-
les highlighted by an extempor-
aneous talk by President Truman
the CIO Community Services Com
mittee last week gave its annual
award to Sen. Robert F. Wagner,
in recognition of his Outstanding
contribution to the health and wei
fare of the nation"
The man whose name is on al
most every piece of basic New Deal
Legislation, including the Natl La
Dor Relations Act which was all
but wiped out by the Taft-Hartley
law, was honored by a $4,000
award. The money will be used for
scholarships in the field of labor
and social service.
Robert F. Wagner Jr. received
the award on behalf of his father,
who was too i'll to attend, but who
heard the speeches over the radio.
President Philip Murray told the
1000 guests at the ceremonies that
"The record shows where Sen.
Wagner stands-and how he all
ways acts on our behalf.
President Truman saved time for
a brief stop at the affair during his
crowded day in New York, devoted
to a last-minute appeal for votes.
"Sen. Wagner along with Presi-
dent Roosevelt stands for the heart
and soul of the New Deal. I'm
proud to have been a part of it,"
Truman told the audience, which
cheered him loudly.
Presidents Jacob Potofsky of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
and Emil Rieve of the Textile
Workers Union also addressed the
guests. Rieve told them that he
feared Gov. Dewey's unity" would
resemble the shotgun wedding.
Potofsky appealed for whole-heart-
ed support of the structure of pro-
labor and social legislation built up
by Wagner and other architects OF
the New Deal.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
Union-Industry
Cooperation Can
End SpiraI--AFL

Washington NPA)-The work
er, as consumer, is paying the high
prices that create today's peak pro-
fits. And because he has to pay
high prices, he needs further wage
increases to meet higher living
costs. In spite Of all wage increases,
the cost to industry Of its total
wage and salary bill today is a
much smaller chunk Of industry's
market value for its products than
before the war.
These are the facts documented
in the current Labor's Monthly
Survey, AFL monthly bulletin.
The Survey goes on to suggest
three ways industry can act:
Ito ask the cooperation of
their unions in reducing costs 50
the price increase can be kept to
the lowest possible minimum. Thus
far not many managements have
made full use Of union-management
cooperation, which has dynamic
possibilities Of benefit for workers
as well as management in the pre-
sent situation.
2-"To raise prices somewhat
more than necessary to cover wage
costs, but keep prices below the
maximum they could get in a time
of shortage. Some arrangements
have shown a commendable sense
of responsibility for good public re-
lations and have exercised restraint
in their price policies, even tho they
have not worked jointly with their
unions to cut costs.
3-"To raise prices as much as the
traffic would bear. To continue
the wage-price spiral, with wage
increases followed by drastic price
increases, is an economic absurdity
which benefits no one"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
Hiring, Separation Rates
Increased In August

Washington.-The hiring rate in
manufacturing establishments in
creased in August because of the
return to school of young summer
workers but remained the lowest
for any August since 1889, the Bur-
eau of Labor Statistics reported.
Reversing the usual trend at this
time of the year, layoffs also rose
from 10 to IL per 1000 employees.
The increase was concentrated in
few of the hard goods industries
and reflected largely the secondary
effects of strikes in parts-produc-
ing plants as well as some season
al curtailment of output. Most in
dustries, however, continued to re-
port relatively low layoff rates.
With increases in both quits and
lay-offs, the total separation rate
rose to 81 per 1000, the highest
rate for nearly a year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
LilienihaI Challenges UE Silence
On Security Checks In Atom Plants

washington (LPA) )--Ihe Atomic
Energy Commission last week put
the heat on UE officers who have
made no effort to meet security
regulations in atom plants.
In q letter to Albert j. Fitzger-
aid, president of United Electrical,
Radio & Machine Workers, Atomic
Commissioner David Il. Lilienthal
repeated the facts he had stated in
a letter to the union chief on Octo-
ber g. At that time he warned that
UE officers would have to undergo
the regular security checks at
atomic installations or else be de-
MED the right to represent the
workers there. To date, Fitzgerald
has not answered the letter.
At the end of September, the
Acc withdrew regulations which
had held up bargaining at the ma
tons atom plants. Officials of
Atomic Trades & Labor Council
AFL and Gas, Coke & Chemical
Workers-CIO have submitted to
the same security requirements as
their members. However, there was
question about Communist afflia-
tions of UE officers and so Lilien-
thai ordered the General Electric
Co. not to bargain with the union.
"In my letter of Oct. g." said
Lilienthal, "the Commission prof
fered to the officers of UE an op-
portunity to participate in resolu-
tion of this matter. Such participa-
tion, as indicated in that letter,
would necessitate the furnishing by
the officers of UE of the same per-
sonal data as has been furnished
by all employees engaged in atomic
energy work and by various officers
of other unions, including full and
complete statements as to their
associations and affiliations.
The Acc head made it clear that
if the UE officers don't want to
take up the offer of the Oct. let
ter, the Commission will promptly
direct General Electric not to re-
cognize UE in its atomic installa-
tions.
"The Commissions action" he
asserted, ''is in furtherance of its
clear duty to the country, imposed
by law, to safeguard the Nations
atomic energy undertaking. In this
we have heretofore received the
full cooperation of the officers of
other unions under similar circum-
stances. We shall either receive CO.
operation from the present officers
of UE, in the manner indicated in
this letter and our previous letter
of Oct. 6, or we shall very prompt
ly take action in the absence of
that cooperation.
''In order that the employees who
will be affected by this action may
be fully advised of the facts and of
the consideration given to this
matter by the Commission, we are
directing the General Electric Co.
to place copy of this letter in the
hands of every employe engaged
in classified atomic energy work at
Schenectady"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
NLRB Reports New Cut
In Large Case Backlog

Washingtoh.-The National La
Dor Relations Board reported it is
gradually catching up with the
heavy backlog of cases filed dur
ing the early days of the Taft
Hartley Act. 1t said that during
August it settled 1912 cases, 1,416
more than were filed. 1t was the
fourth consecutive month the board
was able to cut into its case load.
But it still has long way to go.
On Aug. 81 more than 10,0C0 cases
were awaiting decision.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
|ja5IhlEAHgt''

conveniences, income and cultural
and educational advantages on the
farm as in town.
The girls liked the economic in
dependence of farmer-husband,
the enjoyment of country life and
favorable environment to rearing
children.
The reasons given by girls who
did not want to marry farmers
were: social disadvantages, isola-
ton, hard physical labor and long
hours as well as poorer education
al advantages and smaller income.
A lesser proportion of farm
youth than city youth attend col
lege. Girls on the average leave the
farm about three years earlier than
young men.
Yet opportunities for marriage
for girls are evidently better in
farming communities and rural
areas than in cities.
Why do young women tend to
migrate to places where their
chances Of marriage are less fav-
orable than on the farm?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
Record Ban Nav
Soon Be Lifted

New York (LPA)-Thru the per
sistent efforts of the American Fed
Grafton of Musicians-AFL, the ban
on the making of phonograph re-
cords may soon be lifted, union and
industry spokesmen agreed last
week.
AFL President James C. Petrillo
and General Counsel Milton Dia-
mond insisted upon resumption of
talks that several weeks ago ap-
peared ended. Result has been
agreement between the AIM and
the principal recording firms for
the creation of a "public music
fund" to be financed by royalties
on recordings, administered by a
trustee, and used to provide work
for unemployed musicians, and
good entertainment for the Ameri-
can people.
The union agreed to waive its
previous demand for the payment
of royalties on records sold during
the ban. On the other hand, the en-
ployers have indicated that they are
to pay a higher fee on re-
cords selling at over SLIGO.
AIM and employer representa-
tives this week submitted a tenta-
tive agreement to government Of
ficials in Washington to check its
legality. Both sides wish to resume
record making as quickly as pos
Sible.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-04
Californian Retains
Truck Drivers Crown

Denver (LPA) = Chester w.
Smith, a member of Line Drivers
Local 224, Int'l Brotherhood of
Teamsters-AFL in Los Angeles,
won for a second time last week
the national championship title in
the Observation-Disclosures driving
"roadeo" sponsored by the Ameri-
can Trucking Assn.
A member Of his local since 1947,
Smith scored 31S.28 points out OF
a possible $50 to win by slim
margin over his competitors in the
difficult contest which tests truck
drivers all-around competence.