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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
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CONGRESS AND PRICE CONTROL.

Those who think that the last election
was practically unqualified victory for mar
tlSanS OF price control, do not seem to ha
supported by the available facts. For Nv
ample, the Associated Press pOlled the NOM
Ders OF the new Congress in an effort to
! learn Ihelr positions on a number of hi0hIv
Important II and controversial matters. When
II \ came 10 price control, 200 members took
seTIL Tlllilte Stano IN answering this question
e ~ you IaVor giving the President power to
llA price controls and allOcatiOns?" Nino+I1.
seven said yes-while 1O3. including coT-
siderable 5TS number of Democrats. said no
thlS certainly does not mean that q mo-
GOTIty OF congressman are not interested IN
Clie complex control of imitation. But II docs
mean ~ ~ Inat there is widespread realization
OF the Tact that price control wOuId croo+o
worse problems than the one il is snnnoSoJ
70 correct. 1t is perfect examDle of daoIinC-
WIN w "a. symptoms Of a bad condition ins+ooG
u ~ WIN the causes of that condition How in
Ie Ille 19Ce OF unOrldled government spending
+o,t t.I-I income record employment, exhorbi
C+bo. eVeT-SOaflng wages, and all the
Otner lnfiatiOnary forces. can anyone oIy CrI0
P Pect 70 successfully force prices down hv fio+
anu = sun Keep the production machine o0inoS
Ohe particularly good illustration 0f Tho
~. OF effective price control is ro-
tan traoe: Typical stores, INCLUDING bo+b
chalnS cIIS and Independents, which deal in cTcb
staples as food, earn a net profit of oniv one
on two cents out of each dollar spent VIII Giie
.neLn' Stores dealing in other kinds of Goods /
5eLh -:L- TVe to seven cents. Increasing c6mno7
-lon Is forcing shading of even these sn5oiI
9ront margins. In other words room 'lilSslt inS+
Ioesn't Oe: exist to make anything resembling .
cut in prices. Most ffeletS mannfactS7r
rs rs are IN similar position So it's NO Won
o+,.nI .e1 Ina. enthusiasm in Congress for price
~ ~.OnULOl seems to be far from universal o
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

Another danger is to keep trees in the
house after they have dried to the dance,
point. They should be disposed of immeGi- i7,1T-
ately after New Years.
Flammable decorations should never bo
placed where they might burst into flame at
tne touch OF a cigarette. And children shouId
never Oe lett alone in rooms where holiday
hazards exist.
The normal home hazards are present
during the holidays as at every time. and in
some cases they are intensified. Take speciai
care with cast-Off wrapping paper, heating
plants, smoking materials, and electric cords
ana appliances. Remember that it is com
paratlvely easy to prevent fre-but difficult
ana sometimes impossible to stop it once #
starts. --O0 II
There will be no cheer in the homes that
hre strikes this holiday season. Make sure
that yours is not among them.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
MORE PAY FOR LESS WORK AGAIN?

GaE4y IN 1S4S, John l.. Lewis and other
ofnclals OF the United Mine Workers will
meet with representatives of the operators
OF the sort coal industry to negotiate a new
pears tnat major demand to be made bv
the union will be for 3O-hOur work week
ana a slx-hOur working day. The union. of
course wants miners to gain this benefit
Wltnout accepting any cut in their weekly
pay. N'--'
:. 1t is yet too early to evaluate the poten-
tlaI effect of such a demand as this ON +ha
INDUSTRY. But it is worth recording that q
spokesman for the National Coal AssOcia-
tIon SAID that it would be disastrous to
the coal Industry and the country"
In any event, when the time comes for
ueDatlng the problem the public should have
position
First of all, soft coal miners receive the
highest wage of any comparable orOun of
workers IN the world. The average wage is
IN the nelghbOrhOOd of ST. week. A large
percentage earn 500 week and more.
second, the miners have won MANY other
pehehGs' theoretically, they work an eight
hour day. This contains about 11b hours of
HO1-pfOductlVe tlme-made up of travel. time
and the lunch periOd-fOr which thew are
pSld' Thus, the mines pay for eight hours /.
0L work out receive only six and one-half K
AI x1LG 'lle SfuuOusnesS OF coal mining has been
muen reduced by mechanization.
The question that should be uppernoos+
IN the minds of union chiefs now ;S ;,Ist t
now far the miners or any other workers J
can csl go IN demanding more pay for less eff
IOft, tnereby driving up the cost of living v
announcer notch. Labor, after all. could con- c
ceivably price itself into widespread nnenn- /
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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

nave Delaware insignia on theiI
uniforms.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

quantities of sugars. starches and other
vital foodstuffs. Nor should we overlook
the potentialities of atomic energy in terms
of making gardens out of deserts or of
uncovering the secret of photosynthesis-
development that would give man the
key to boundless food supply, no matter
what his numbers.
In the circumstances, though the pessi-
mists are certainly right in calling for
prompt and >far-reaching conservationist
measures on global scale, there is some
reason to feel that the outlook may be less
dark than they say. At any rate, the
scientific possibilities seem real enough to
suggest that the gloomier forecasts should
be taken with a grain of salt If the
promise implicit in current experiments is
only half fulfilled, man is not likely to meet
his doom by failing to keep food resources
in line with population.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
EorIy Nebruskuns

The antiquity of man in the Western
Hemisphere is subject of constantly in
creasing interest to the lay public as we'll
as to professional anthropologists and
ethnographers. Recent excavations in the
Lime Creek region of Southwestern Ne
braska have had the effect of pushing back
the date of settlement of that portion of
what now is the United States. DR.. c.
Bertrand Schultz, director of the museum
at Lincoln, has estimated the era of the
diggings as from 250OO to 10000 years
ago. The sites, he says, were used by
people coming out of Eastern Asia over q
land connection with the continent of
North America. Evidence unearthed in
cludes instruments and weapons inter-
mingled with the bones of twenty different
kinds Of mammals, birds and reptiles vary
ing from modern types found in the area
referred to-
Research in the Lime Greek section was
started IN 1880. 1t is being hastened be-
cause the valley is scheduled to be flooded
permanently as detail in the development
OF the Missouri reclamation and flood con-
troll project. Dynamite and bulldozers are
being used to open the deposits. The arti-
facts extracted represent the culture of
hunting tribes which followed a series of
streams down the eastern slopes of the
Rockies. DR.. Schultz believes that the
primitive NeoraSkans remained in the
neighborhood during IAN extended stay"
Other groups of erstwhile ASians coinci-
dentally were settling as far South as Terra
del Fuego and as far East as the Bahamas
How long the migration continued is any,
body's guess.
The difficulty about being specific and
definite in the circumstances is that the
early inhabitants of this side of the globe
dealt In relatively fragile materials Had
they worked in monumental stone as the
builders of Stonehenge in England did,
there would be little question about their
chronological position. The tremendous
engineering achievements of Peru and
Yucatan are known to belong to compara-
lively late times. Some of them still were
under construction when the pioneer Span
iards arrived. But prior to their COM
mencement there must have been a wide
spread civilization dependent upon wood
bone. leather and perhaps woven cloth. 1t
was q culture which lacked the principle
of the wheel as a transportation device,
wheat as staple crop, the horse and the
dog That means that 1t left Asia before
those possessions were common there.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

lures and still waters-to lakes, mountains and
the sea- The refrain in the song of the moving
hosts, whose cars are bumper to bumper, is
"Good-by, summer, good-by, good-by." and
"Good-by to all thought of labor-all hail to
leisure"
But, surely, amid all the turmoil and shout
ing of the foot-loose multitudes, who are exer-
cising to the full their right to the pursuit Of
happiness and with all speed limits from that
pursuit removed, 1t is in order at least to
pause long enough to make out an lou for
what the toilers of the world owe to the
Carpenter of Nazareth, whose hands were
rough and brown and who declared, MY
Father worketh hitherto and I work" He it
is who puts new halo of glory on the sweating
brow of labor, whether it Is of Drawn or brain.
The very word service" has by Him been lifted
from the slaves quarters to place of verbal
aristocracy as 1t blazes with new incandescence.
Derived from Latin word meaning slave"
time was when service" was associated with
the very lowest of the low in the social scale.
Now it links arms with such noble words as
faith" and "hope," truth" and beauty"
When did the word service" with such an
original stigma, begin to climb up and. finally
blossom into all that labor Day inherently
means? There is but one answer-that ascent
began when on an unforgettable day one named
Jesus said to His disciples, common toiers all,
Il am among you as one who serveth.' Henry
Van Dyke has put it in deathless lines
This is the Gospel of Labor,
Ring it We bells of the kirk.
The Lord of Love left His home above
To GWell with the men who work."
X II 4
The antidote for sinister materialism which
would crush into social chaos both manage
ment and labor is the conception which makes
the architect and the artisan partners in
grand design. Somehow there must be brought
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Far East Contrast on VI Day

Inc tnlrd anniversary OF Imperial
Japan's capitulation, colloquially known as
VI Day, conceded with two sharply anti
thetical pronouncements which dramati-
cally underscore the outstanding contrasts
in the Far Eastern situation. The first of
these was VI Day statement by General
Douglas Macarthur. The second was an
announcement by the Communist regime
in Northern China
MacArthur'S statement is regarded in
Japan as sensationally significant and will
doubtless evoke widespread comment else
where in the Far East. Praising highly the
progress of the japanese people during the
past three years the General described
Japan as IAN oasis of calm in world over
which "the specter of war yet hovers." And
he went on to link defeated Japan with
the Philippines and the new Korean Re-
public as a triangular buttress' of the
democratic concept in the Far East.
Two aspects of MacArthur's address are
especially noted. Opinion in Japan tends
to regard the address as thinly yelled ad-
monition to Moscow that, in case of war
between Soviet Russia and the West, Japan
will be an ally of the United States. The
other point which excites comment is the
fact that China is not mentioned as part
of the "buttress" for the democratic
cause This is widely interpreted as real
iStic appraisal by Macarthur of the dark
ening prospects for the Chinese Nationalist
Government headed by Chang Kai-shek
in what appears to be his losing battle with
the Communists
Such an outcome in China's civil war is
triumphantly forecast by the announce
ment of North China Peoples Govern
ment' as the result of the deliberations of
an elected assembly from all areas in the
northern provinces now under Communist
control This assembly formally set up the
Peoples Government aforesaid, calling it
an experimenting event in the history of
the Chinese Revolution and describing it
as the prelude to a future "All-China
Peoples Government" The present Red
regime claims jurisdiction over "A 1000. 900
people, of whom 100000 are Communist
party members. And it should be under
stood that it does not include the Red re-
glme In Manchuria, to say nothing of the
other Peoples Republic" just proclaimed
in the Russian occupied zone of Northern
Korea.
Those rival pronouncements are certain
ly not happy omens for the Far East. They
indicate further sharpening of the cleav-
age between Communism and democracy
which has rent the Orient, as it has the
rest of the EARTH since the close of World
War II.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

Alice Fletcher. Nearly all Of the persons listed
had read papers before the jubilee assembly.
The centennial celebration of the AAAS now
in progress carries on their work for "the in
crease and the diffusion Of knowledge among
men," .4r
FF y &
when the royal and ancient game OF golf
was first introduced on this side Of the At-y
lantic," explained The Star for,
Golf September 3, 1895. there were
To stoy those who did not hesitate to pro-
claim 1t fad that would soon
die a natural death when the novelty of 1t had
been exhausted. Instead Of this, interest In
the Scottish game has steadily grown stronger
and more universal, a greater number OF peo-
pie are playing golf this summer than played
it last, and when next season comes around 1t
will show a still further increase Coli may,
have been fad to start with but 1t Is now well
passed the fad stage. It has developed into q
permanent fixture among our outdoor Sports.
The extent Of this popularity may be deter.
mined when 1t is stated that over s1500o,ooo.
are expended each season on the game By "
devotees"
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Italian Colonies Issue

Suggestions from Moscow for a meeting
of the Big Four" Foreign Ministers over
disposition of the Italian colonies high
light one of the most complex issues of the
postwar settlement. In addition to the
difficulty of settling the question on it's
merits it has become football of power
politics and propagandist pressures. This
greatly adds to the handicaps against a
constructive solution of the problem
Unable to agree on formula, the Big
-Four sideStepped the issue in the Italian
peace treaty, which simply provides that
Italy is not to get back it's colonies in full
sovereignty. That, however, does not ex-
clude the possibility that Italy might be
accorded truSteeship for one or more of
them from the United Nations. And such
a solution has been proposed by one or
other OF the Big Four as sort of least
common denomination, If only to block
solutions proposed by others.
1t should be understood that for almost
three years Big Four committee of ex-
perts has been meeting to do the SPADE
work preliminary to top-level conference
OF their superiors. These experts have re-
Gently toured the colonies in order to
examine the situations at first hand and
ascertain the wishes of the inhabitants,
But they have been as unable to agree
among themselves as have their govern
ments. And it was provided that. in case
no Big Four recommendation could be ar
rived at the issue should be placed before
the General Assembly of the United Ma
tions when it convenes in mid-September
Moscow's suggestion for an immediate
meeting of the Foreign Ministers Council
Is an obvious move to beat that approach
ing deadline. But the proposal is being
received warily by Washington. London
and Paris. The Western governments see
not profit to them in holding such a con-
ference when the differences of viewpoint
among the Big Four are so wide They
fear that Soviet diplomacy would use the
meeting as a propaganda forum and
would seek to accentuate Emergencies
among the Western Powers, to say moth
ing of inflammatory appeals to Italian
nationalist sentiment for Communist ends
incidentally, it may be remembered that
the issue has had its repercussion on
American presidential campaign politics.
Not long ago, Governor Dewey, the Re-
puUllCdI SdtACu 4oi q 3Ctoth Ol
all the colonies to Italy under a U. NJ
trusteeship. This evoked retort from
President Truman that he did not con-
slider the matter to be one for domestic
political discussion.
Under all these circumstances, the like
lihood of a special Foreign Ministers Con-
ference ahead of the U. N. Assembly meet
Ing Is not great.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Church and Society

The World Council of Churches report
on communism and capitalism is enough
to make one wonder what world its authors
have been living in.
AS originally accepted by one of the
Council sections, the report contained
these sentences:
"The Christian Church should reject the
ideologies of both communism and CAPT.
talism, and should seek to draw men away
from the false assumption that these are
the only alternatives. Each has made
promises which it could not redeem. Com
munist ideology puts the emphasis upon
economic justice and promises that free
dom will come automatically after the
completion of the revolution Capitalism
puts the emphasis on freedom and prom
ises that Justice will follow as by-product
of free enterprise. That, too, is an ideol-
ogy which has been proved false. 1t is
the responsibility of Christians to seek
new creative solutions which never allow
either justice or freedom to destroy the
other"
This is an astonishing plague both
your houses attitude for an important ele-
ment of the church to accept. Yet when
it was put before the section. comprising
125 of the $50 delegates to the Council
meeting, not a voice was raised in protest.
To them evidently there is no choice worth
making between communism and the capi-
talist system
Happily responding to food of pro-
tests from American visitors to the Coun-
Gil meetings, Charles P. Taft, brother OF
the Ohio Senator, was able to secure
some modification of the original Ian
guage In the revised form the indIs
crinninate indictment of capitalism is
dropped and a denunciatton of uncon-
trolled capitalism is substituted. Further
more, the report as of yesterday had
merely been received" by the assembly
for recommendation to the member
churches-some $50 churches in 40 coun-
tries. According to Council officials, there
Is a distinction between this action and
adoption of the report by the Council.
If that is the case it is fine dlStlnctlon,
but it is hoped that it will be maintained.
The paragraph in question was drafted
by DR.. John c. Bennett, professor OF
theology at Union Theological Seminary,
New York When reporter asked what
he had in mind in his reference to the
new creative solutions which should be
sought by Christians, DR.. Bennett said the
closest thing to what he had in MIND is
the democratic socialism of England.
That is an interesting and possibly
revealing comment. For while the 1aults
of our own capitalist system-and that Is
the system to which the dratterS OF the
report primarily were referring - are
numerous and serious, the hard fact re-
mains that the socialism of England would
have collapsed long ago had 1t not been
for the help which it has received from
our capitalist system. The American people
know this and there is at least no I'M
mediate danger that they will follow these
church leaders in their theoretical ven
lures into the realm Of re-ordered society
Evening star., 1948-09-05

back lost sense Of pride in work well done.
Declares Lindbergh-the Lone Eagle-in a
book just published, giving to the world his
mature thought, II have watched men turn
into human cogs In the factories they believed
would enrich their lives I have watched
pride of workmanship leave the human char
acter and decline as efficiency Of production
lines increased"
What are you doing?" asked one of work.
man when a great ediflce was rising. The
reply was, II am working for 50 many dollars
q day" "And what are you doing?" was
asked another toiler nearby. There was 4
Gothic pride in his reply, II am helping to
build cathedral" Partnership is a part Of
gospel Of labor. There can be no industrial
peace or general prosperity so long as one
group or interest tries to devise the most
effective strategy against the opposing group.
Unless the primary concern becomes justice,
equal opportunity for ALL fair play and CO.
operation in promoting the common welfare,
strife will flame with devouring destruction
In the midst Of rights and laws, codes and
paralyzing strikes, the gospel Of labor reminds
us Of lost sense of values and of proportion
An American journalist has penned sentence
which might well be displayed on the wind
shield of every speeding car this week end:
things that money can buy, but it is a good
thing to check up once in awhile and make
sure you have not lost the things that money
cannot buy" Workers of the world beware,
you can lose something besides your chains
You can lose things that wages cannot pur-
chase.
For management and toiers alike there IS
parable of the gospel of labor 1t is the old
fable of an OK and colt that went to spring
to drink. They fell to quarreling as to which
should drink first. There was plenty of water
and plenty Of room for both to drink together,
but bitterly they wrangled on precedence and
their respective rights at the spring. They
were preparing to fight it out, when both looked
up and saw ominous vultures wheeling low
above them. waiting for the battle and its
aftermath, when the colt and the OK would
have destroyed each other. So, says the fable,
the lowering birds of prey brought them to
their senses and they decided to drink together
They fooled and foiled the waiting sharp
beaked creatures.
The black shadows Of greedy vultures, COM
ing out of regmented deserts, are wheeling
over the American scene this Labor Day They
are confidently planning to be present at
post-mortem feast. Their black-winged an
cestors have picked the bones of score of
other civilizations which failed to cooperate
The crucial battle of today Is the vultures
versus the gospel of labor.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Science and the Worlds Food

The news from the scientific front con-
tinues to come as kind OF cheer1ul
counterpart to dirges about the ability OF
the worlds growing population to feeo
itself.
On the face of things, of course, tnat
ability is very much open to question:
There are more than 2,OOO,oo0,ooO human
beings today, and the earths lmmeolateV
arabic land Is not enough to supply them
with adequate quantities OF 1000. YET our
numbers are increasing at the rate OF
20O.00oOOO every decade, and q century
hence there may be we'll over 4.Ooo,oooooo
of us. Accordingly, assuming that tnere
will be no striking gains in agricultural
productivity. the figures must be regarded
as threatening nightmare Of glooal star
vation In the not-too- distant future.
The assumption here, however, ignores
what science may be able to achieve IN
the meantime. And that is something
that should not be ignored, for 1t is
decidedly promising. The latest evidence
in this connection is contained in report
released by the American Chemical Society
The report, covering the work of group
of Army chemists, indicates that with nor
mones or growth-regulating compounds
the earths agricultural yield may be vastly
expanded and abundant productivity re-
stored to arid areas. Laboratory expert
ments on fruits and flowers have already
demonstrated that such a prospect is by
no means inconceivable or necessarily very
remote.
This news, moreover, touches upon only
one aspect of current agricultural expert
mentation. Apart from the work being
dence with hormones or growth regulators,
there have been significant reports from
chemists who have been tinkering with the
atom. Thus, it is worth recalling that not
many weeks ago scientists at the University
of California, employing the radioiSotope
Carbon IA, were reported to have achieved
results raising the very real possibility OF
leading to a new type of farming-a marine
agriculture capable of producing vast
Evening star., 1948-09-05

rights and rewards
that are justly his as
he tolls for the gen.
eral good. But what
originally was set
apart for recognizing
the sanctity of all
honest toll has been
largely reduced to a
hilarious weekend
exodus as the popu-
lation of congested
cities pours out by
every available mode
of transpor t a t / o n
headed for green pas