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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Political Conventions

Any national political convention
is, in at least one way, much like a
session Of congress. There are
many individuals occupying Off
cial delegate seats who are simply
among those present" They do
as they are directed and exert no
real influence. Their vote counts
che, but it is cast more by those Of
the delegation who are doing the
directing than by the unimportant
individual delegate.
The party leaders who sit in the
delegations from each state con-
stitute the directing force of each
convention. II is exceptional for
a convention of either party to get
beyond that party leadership con-
troll. Much the same thing is true
of a session of congress. A COM
paratively small minority of each
party controls party action. A
majority of each party represents
but window dressing.
Most of us appreciate recognition
from our fellows and the bit Of
limelight such recognition brings.
We shoulder the burdens that 90
with offices in the lodges, the serv-
ice clubs, church societies and other
non-paying community jobs because
OF the accord such jobs can bring
to us. We may, and frequently do.
tire of the job when the luster dims.
but there are always others to take
on and replace those who tire, Such
Is the way Of life in our rural COM
munities.
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thing more than
generalities an d
platitudeS. To make
such a campaign
r e lily effective
business - big bus
mess - must lay
the cards on the
t a b ! e, face up,
where both lahor
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and all consumers may see the
hand that management and capital
is holding.
With rare exceptions all business
big business is honest, but il
must so prove its honesty that
Henry Wallace and those of his
kind cannot produce phony figures
out Of a hat and have the American
people, both workers and consum-
ers, willing to accept such phony
figures. The workers and consum-
ers must have direct, definite and
positive evidence that will dispute
and discredit such figures regard
less of who produces them.
Business-big business - must,
If it is to sell the American peO-
pie, take the public into its con-
fidence by a presentation of the
definite costs in the production of
its commodity. The costs of ma
terial, labor, taxes and all the
other items that go to make up
the total. There can be no holes
left for covering up even such
infinitesimal costs as bonuses
paid to management for a Job
well done. There should be moth
ing left for the public to guess at
and magnify.
Business-big business-must ball
ance sales against production costs,
and show to whom, and for what,
those sales dollars were paid.
Business-big business-may not
always feel it desirable to take the
public into its confidence with such
intimate details of its operations.
To do so is more tolerable than to
leave the public, including workers
and all consumers, in the dark and
prey to the false and misleading
statements made by those who seek
personal gain from having the peo-
pie misled.
A few big business concerns
which have taken the people into
their confidence have presented in
factual and easily understood
way the details of their operations.
Such concerns are the exceptions.
They do not prove the rule. For
many, published statements consist
of generalities and platitudes. To
the public, including labor, such
statements but add fuel to the fire
of suspicion. They are but evil
dence Of something to cover up;
evidence that Henry Wallace might
have been right; that out of the sup
posed exorbitant profits the workers
could have been paid the excessive
wage increases they demanded,
without an increase in price to the
consumer.
.Business-big business-can have
the confidence, the sentiment and
the influence of the people of the
nation, including a majority of the
workers, when the people are given
all Of the vital facts Of production
costs and the distribution of the
sales dollar. The support of the
people cannot be purchased with
generalities and platitudes or half
facts. With such public confidence
as backing, big business can re.
fuse the ever increasing demands
for more wages than the price Of
the commodity can carry.
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Veterinary Observations
"OT.Feed" In Cows

Many reasons can be found for
this condition. Most of the time
bloat, constipation or intestinal OBJ
structiOn are the causes. Laxatives
are often beneficial However, if
there is an obstruction, excessive
laxatives can be fatal. One pound
of Epson salts is a sufficient dose
for an SO0-pound COW. 1t can be
given in a drench of a quart of wa
ter.
Off-feed can arise from any phys
ical ailment such as severe masti-
tbs, pneumonia, worms, nerve dis
eases, etc.
Off-feed is signal that the ami
NAL needs corrective measures.
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and foresight that he hired him on the snot
BUSINESS WANTS PRODUCERS

DOHlNEOO WANTS PRODUCERS
One thing employers will find out about Won
Is whether or not you are good producer
IhlS Will be determined by school records
part-tlme work experiences, confidential roc.
concentrations, and So forth You would ha
surprised how easy it is for an exDeriencod
interviewer to size up a fellow who wants -
!oo goldbricking." Time and again. 7 have
heard businessmen say, 1.-THE young person
VINO hasn't learned how to produce isn't worth
plugged nickel to me-"
America is what she is today because of tho
DloOo and sweat of our forefathers ONLY vonr
Willingness and ability to produce to canScitI
VIII Keep her great Hence, such traits nc
responsibility, persistence courage and ON
thuslasm' will go long way to helm Won sct
ana get things done. Adaptabilitv and eov
lDllty, the power to think and reason cloarI|
are also traits much sought by employers ~
IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER
But above everything, the most imnorto,,+
quahncatlOn is character It seems tO mo 49,
without question there is nothing NOR 'ire'' iIa
portant in an employee than strong obnn
acter. The man of character is the man Nh
gives an honest days production. and tbnn.
some some ior MS days wages He is the man u,bn
gets ahead There will always be onnort,,"i1, VIZ
IOr WelI-tralned, seriOus-minded vonnp noo+Is
of character ''une people
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66,565 In State
Get Tax Refunds
CONTINUED from first page)

calling at the Office for assistance
with their amended estimates made
necessary by the Revenue Act of
1948.
A mail increase has been noted
recently in the local office with
many persons filing returns and
making payments by mail.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
By WesGbrOOk PesSer
Released by wNU Features

"eleaseo BY WNU Features
THE anti-Truman Democrats Of
the southern tier have made
jackson their political capital A
political nucleus has been formed,
called the states rights campaign
committee. The chairman of the
states rights campaign committee
Is Wallace Wright, who speaks with
a persuasive magnolia drawl but is
nevertheless a Kansan. This mag
noia drawl may be infectious or a
practical affectation.
o. B. Keller, the Atlanta journ-
alist, who was Bobby Jones' per-
sonal historian Throughout his ca
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G. 0. P. Leaders Are
Arriving In Phila.
Continued from nrst pagey

ApprOpOs of Platforms, Party
historians recall the first Republi-
can Platform, drafted in 1856 for
Col. John c. Fremont who ran
against James Buchanan. 1t op-
posed the extension of slavery; ad-
vocated improvement of rivers and
harbors, anG the construction of a
transcontinental railroad.
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Dogs On Guard

FRANKFURT - (P) - Twenty
dogs have been assigned to the
Hanau Engineering depot as
guards, replacing a number of DIP
guards. The replacement is on this
basis: one man and two dogs to
guard an area formerly guarded by
two men.
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Davis Family
To Hold Reunion

Members of the Davis family.
descendants of Mark Davis 173S-
1889 will hold a reunion on June
30 at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John c. Truitt, corner of Second
and Park avenues, Rehoboth
Beach. Those attending will bring
a box luncheon. A business and
social meeting will follow in the
afternoon.
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Get Along Little Dog
gle" Takes To The Air

RNELL, Ill. - (P) - A
roundup from the sky brought 10
errant cattle home. Fred Green
man, farmer near here, discovered
the cattle missing and suspected
rustlers. He searched, sent a gen.
eral alarm over Cornell rural
phones, and notified the sheriff at
Pontiac.
Meantime, Greenman's son rent
cd an airplane in Streator and flew
over the Cornell area. He spotted
the cattle about three miles from
the Greenman farm.
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Education By Motor

OSLO (B - Norwegian motor
lists are not exactly in love with
the secretary of finance, Erik Bro
foss. Because of his rigid regula-
tiOns he has been called Motor
ism's Public Enemy No. l." 4
Recently a mOtorist suggested
that the bike-riding minister
should be given a car. The sug-
gestion was given spontaneous ap-
prOval, and the motorists already
have started contributing.
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BABSON:-D Discusses GETTING A Job

BABSoN PARK, Mass,
jun At this time of
yeaf housands of young
peOp cave school to look
for ~ Many are
through With school. They
want work by which they
can make a living. others
are looking for summer
debs. They want to use
their vacations prOfitably.
Some of you young people
have written asking for
job-hunting tips.
KNOW WHY YOU WANT
A CERTAIN JOB
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reer at golf, comes
from Kansas City,
Mo-, but he can say
please, mann" 20
telephone girls with
that s W e e etne s s
which is the envy
and despair Of the
Yankee and, in the
movies ffclIa1lv IL
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Union Methodist Church

Children's Day service will be
held at Union Methodist Church ON
Sunday evening, June Goth at 8 D.
IN. All those taking part, please be
present on Sunday, 2 p. m, for re-
hearsal.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Reds Push Little
Water Power Plants

MOSCOW - (P - The newspa-
per Soviet Lithuania" has an
nounced that from the beginning of
the year, 1876 new small hydroe:ec-
trio stations have been built on the
republics collective farms. During
the first quarter of the year 761
collective farms and 116 tractor
stations have been electrified. News
was also given that more than 1000
village hydrOelectric stations are
being built on small rivers in the
country.
Cln cclRnI A IL. ...A -.---n,
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WE DON'T HAVE FAMINES

Every now and then news items appear
to the effect that meat production is declin-
ing. And this, in turn, is picked up by ex-
tremists who dOlefully predict meat "fam-
ines" by given date. AS an example, some
OF the Washington crepe-hangers seemed
sure that such famine would appear by last
May Day.
May Day came and went, and there was
no meat famine-there wasn't even a short
age, In spite of the fact that the packing
industry was plagued by strike. That was
just one more example of the way industry
is geared to meet the nations needs, and to
deal with developments as they occur.
For 1948 as whole, Federally-inspected
meat production will be under 1947. But it
will be about Is per cent above the prewar
average. Production is not and cannot be
constant from month to month During the
third quarter, for instance, there is always
a decrease, for seasonal reasons. The pack
ers handle that by storing meat to release
during periods when receipts are light. It's
like the old story about strawberry jam. The
jam is made in the spring when the crop
comes into bearing. But people eat the jam
all the year round.
Going farther, at the present time it looks
as If there will be decrease in well-fnished
cattle from the corn belt states But cattle of
dlS
available in adequate supply On top of that,
step-up in hog marketings recently occur
red and has helped to improve the meat situ-
alton as a whole.
Meat is complicated business, and some
OF the fears of famine are based on a lack
OF understanding of how it works. But talk
OF serious shortages just doesn't make sense
According to the industry's experts, your
butcher will continue to have plenty to offer
5000
DON'T BLAME PROFITS
short time ago survey was made of
the way families are attempting to meet cur
rent living costs. Heavy majorities reported
that they were buying only necessities, doing
without things, and trying to make food and
clothing go farther. They also reported,
generally speaking, that it was necessary to
spend higher proportion of their income
for food.
This is the inevitable consequence of an
initiation which has not yet spent it's course.
Some groups have managed to increase their
earnings sufficiently to offset price increases.
Some have bettered their positions. Millions
OF people, on the other hand, have been fore
ed to steadily reduce their purchasing, and
there is no relief in sight.
1t is easy and perhaps natural to blame
business for creating this problem. From
various quarters, we hear OminouS talk of
the size of industrial profits. Retail stores
have been picketed by people with angry ban
ners protesting the going prices of food,
clothing and just about everything else.
Business of all kinds is as worried about
nigh prices as any consumer. 1t knows that
mass production and mass distribution can
not survive if people cannot afford to buy.
Prices have gone up in spite of it's efforts to
hold them down.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Greenhouse Vegetables
For R ed Workers

MOSCOW = up - A green
house plant is being built at Kras-
noturinsk in the subarctic which
Will produce about one ton of
fresh vegetables daily the year
round for factory workers in the
North .Urals Aluminium plant.
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associated with contemplate but
enviable cads and bounders. Keeler.
poor devil, is neither a cad nor
bounder. HE IS JUST ANOTHER
OF US INK-STAINED WRETCHES.
Wright'S business is advertis-
ing and public relations. He runs
a firm called Dixie Advertisers,
Be not tOp-lOfty about that, how
ever. All the big political parties
have public relations outfits work
ing for them in and, If possible,
out of season. It was Carl ByOir
and Associates who put over the
big polio campaign for Franklin
ID. Roosevelt, including the birth
day ball hoax which kept the late
Henry L. DOherty, a magnate in
utilities, out of trouble with the
antitrust division of the depart
ment of Justice.
Doherty was Byoir's client in pub
lie relations. Byoir bethought him.
self of an old story by James NJ.
Barrie, of someone who had loaned
his own birthday to a dateless waif
and suggested that it would be
sweet for Mr.. Big to lend his birth
day to the paralyzed children of
the u. S.
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square feet per person as against Ivan's 40.
The basic conflicts between nations TODAY
are theological. That is why totalitarian gov
ernments always take over the press and the
radio as first step in cementing their au-
thority, and eliminate all criticism, no mat
ter how mild The Russians, for instance.
are very proud of the fact that their news
papers have had an astonishing growth in
circulation in the last eight or ten years.
One leading paper actually said that this was
an example of ''real" freedom of the press
which consists of putting Soviet props
ganda into every story!
One of the basic weaknesses in the COM
munist system is, of course this inability to
stand criticism. The Soviet leaders are
afraid that their people will be contaminated
by western ideas and knowledge of western
ways of living. 1t is reliably reported that
returning Russian soldiers who have had
close contact with British and Americans
are forced to take indoctrination training
during which the virtues of communism and
the sins of capitalism are pumped into them
Gd HGNSeun. Then, when the soldiers are re-
leased to go home, they are watched carefully
to make sure they are free of subverSive
ideas.
We live in an age in which thoughts are
weapons no less than guns. Whatever one
may think of the capitalist system, it is the
only one in being which has never made an
effort to stop criticism, and the only one
which lives amicably with free press and a
free radio.
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Bill
Is
$4,000

drinks, and if this makes you won
der whether anything ever will be
on the level you ought to 60 steep
yourself in truth and beauty at the
movie called THE R oosevelt
Story"
Wright is running propaganda
campaign against the Truman civil
rights program and he asserts upon
his word that no sinister interests
are putting up any money for it.
Inasmuch as it appears to me to
have called for only few thousand
dollars, aside from radio time, I
see no reason to doubt him. AS to
the radio time, Of which there has
been much devoted to the states
rights movement, I have to say
that think it was cheap time,
which is to say church-time or
working-time.
Nobody listens to wOrIing-time
propaganda except bartenders
who would be better off dead, any
way, and should have Been long
ago, and the drivers Of those
enormous freighters who are
twitching with unsnuze 20 keep
them out of the canyons. They
and a few weary wisps blowing
hair out Of their eyes over wash
tubs beneath the cOttOnwOOds and
wondering If IL ever does come
true that the handsome stranger
drapes the country girl In Jewels
and furs and introduces her 70
Justice Murphy in the StOrk club.
Now there have been nasty insin-
uations that those American states
which have ocean frontage and on
that frontage have oil offshore have
Joined together in a vicious plot
against the United States Of Amer
lea. Mississippi is a state with
coastal oil. Louisiana is another.
All such states and some with other
potential treasures to defend
against usurpation by the national
government have an interest in the
continuing claim of the submarine
oil states to the value Of, and the
right to regulate, such oil deposits.
But, during the
u. ). A. last years Of Harold
Is Ickes as secretary
Claimant of the interior. he
claimed all these
natural resources for the nation. as
a whole, and by the very vehe-
mence Of his claim Icl1es damned
as thieves and traitors those per-
sons, including the attorney generals
OF sovereign states, who opposed his
view. Thus he put in a bad posi-
tion all who would assert the claims
of states to their own submarine
oil if it be their own, as it might
be.
DOES IT BEGIN TO APPEAR
THAT A QUESTION OF STATES
RIGHTS BECOMES VERY PROM
INENT HERE?
The governor Of Mississippi,
Fielding L. Wright. no relation Of
Wallace Wright, is a states rights
man on this oil proposition. II
he weren't, Mississippi never
would have elected him governor.
The governors of other littOraI oil
states also are states rights men,
including Governor Warren Of
California.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18

But, during the
last years of Harold
Ickes as secretary
of the interior, he
claimed all these
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Doherty picked up
the bill of about $75,-
600 for the promo
tion, advertising and
so forth. including
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-11-19
cIO-PAc Victory S+ofement

Here Is the pOst-electiOn victory state
ment issued Nov. by Jack KrOll, director
of the CIO Political Action Committee:
We of the CIO Political Action Com
mittee share in the pleasure and pride of
the American people at the outcome of
this election.
The people of the country have dem
onstrated their genuine unity in rejecting
the attempt TO wrest control of the gov
ernment from them. They have also dem
onstrated that they were clearly able to
recognize the allies of reaction whether
they wore the label of the Republican
party, the Dixiecrats or the so-called
Progressive Party.
The CI0.PAC is happy to have partici-
pated in this tremendous victory and to
have stood shoulder TO shoulder with the
farmers, small business men, and white
collar and professional workers who stood
UP and were counted for the New Deal.
The battles that we fought in 1914 and
1916 gave us the know-hOw and the organ
ization which were so valuable in 1948.
As early as January OF last year the CIO
executive board and President Philip
Murray demonstrated their wisdom in re-
jecting the iIl-fated third party venture.
We had fighting champions in Harry
Truman and AIben BarkIey and the New
Deal candidates for the House and Senate
and we gave them our fighting support.
The American people have delivered
a genuine mandate TO translate into law
as soon as possible the pledges of the
Democratic platform. The American peo-
pie have, with an unmstakable voice, af-
firmed their desire for control of infla-
tion, decent housing, repeal of the Taft
Hartley Act, strengthening of our civil
Liberties and the other needs which the
Democratic platform promises TO fulfill.
We will continue to fight always for
the candidates who fight for the people.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-11-19
Req. Thomas Indicted

Rem. ]. Parnell Thomas, who "trled"
MANY Americans in the headlines, is 60
ing To have his own trial in court.
He will have full opportunity to ex-
ercise the constitutional rights which he
denied to others.
He will have chance to confront his
accusers and have them cross-questIoned
by an attorney of his own choosing.
That is as it should be.
However, if our judicial system OPP
Grated along the lines of the House Un-
American Activities Committee w n
Thomas heads, he already would be be"
hind bars.
On numerous occasions the CIO News
attacked Thomas and his committee. Our
complaint was against the committees
tactics-not against its stated purpose oil
exposing disloyal Americans.
We. of course, did not know then that
Thomas would be indicated by Federal
grand Jury on charges of receiving salary
.kickbacks" from his congressional en-
polyes and with filing fake pay vouchers
with the House of Representatives.
So our feeling that Thomas was unfit
to head congressional committee did not
result from any new insight with which
we were endowed following his indict-
ment.
The Nov. 2 election paved the way for
Thomas removal as committee chairman
The courts, if he is found guilty, will take
care of his removal from public life.
Our chief concern is over the future
of the House Un-American Activities
Committee, its dsmnable theory of guilt
by association and its habit of trying to
serve as prosecutor, judge and jury.
The new house should either abolish
this committee or see that it is recon-
stituted in such a manner that 1t is a
model of the Americanism ii is supposed
to protect.