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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
High court
TO rule on


The Illinois Supreme Court will
hear arguments on the Progress
sive Party's request for legal rec
ignition as new political party
March 8, it was reported t n s
week
Zal Garfield, director of the
Progressive Party, said that the
early hearing would permit the
party to appear on the ballot in
the April Is primary if the high
court rules in favor of the Wal
lace organization.
The Progressive arguments are
based upon the huge vote rolled
up by the party's candidates in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

Inc county central committee
of the Progressive Party, in a bit
ing statement, accused Douglas,
University of Chicago economics
professor, of advocating a pre-
ventive'' war with Russia.
He has also praised many Sec
tons of the Taft-Hartley law, and
has failed to call for its repeal,
the Progressives pointed out.
THE Truman Doctrine and the
Presidents loyalty purge also
have received Douglas support.
''In all of tn es e things and
more,'' the Progressives declared,
1--WE :. (. do not see liberal Doug
Las, but rather a Douglas who
stands even further advanced on
the road to war and reaction than
many known reactionaries."
On the basis of his public state
ments, the Progressives warned,
Douglas would represent a
threat to peace and abundance
masQuerading as a liberal"
'sIn this manner" it was point
ed out, sit would be Douglas who
splits the liberal vote by false
pretensions.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

American foreign policy 1t is the
surest evidence that the admins
tration's basic policy is protection
of Socony-V Vacuum and Standard
Oil of New Jersey interests in
Iraq petroleum; of Socony, Stand
ard Oil and Texas Co. interests in
Saudi Arabia; of Gulf Oil interests
in Kuwait."
Referring to the embargo, Wal
lace said: II very much fear Tru-
man talks Jewish and acts Arab,
just as he talks Franklin Delano
Roosevelt and acts NAM"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

we shall see in these articles
how this overpowering brain
malady has led Douglas to
team up ON issues with ex-
treme reaction and may yet
make him a very dangerous
man in the government.
DOUGLAS is counting heav-
lily on winning by default in
the November elections. He
knows he is opposing RepubE-
can Sen. Wayland c. CCurly'o
Brooks, admittedly a Tribune
trained seal. And in this kind
of a contest he doesn't see how
he can fail to draw the decisive
independent and progressive
vote - which, added to the
Democratic machine vote, will
give him the margin of victory.
However, there are two bugs
in the Douglas porridge. One
is the fact that the myth of
Douglas, the LIBERAL" will be
completely shattered in the
course of the coming election
campaign. And secondly, the
Progressive Party is definitely
decided ON presenting Illinois
voters with genuine progress
sive alternative to both Doug
las and Brooks.
AT THIS point, however,
there is still strange talk in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
This weeks comics
Demon rum catches
up with Chief I'm

THIEF I'm, the sabo teur
N1who's trying to wreck Steve
Cany on's air line in the Far East,
is in a tight spot-which is the
kind of situation lot of people
get into when they get tight.
John Barleycorn did it. The guy
who's been posing as the sheik
has flown off with Dean Wilder
ness, the lady doctor, to remote
outpost where his co-conspirators
have caused an epidemic to break
out.
But Steve Canyon is getting wise
to Chief Inn now. after the chief
flew off with Canyons girl friend,
Steve Canyon suddenly realized
that there was something phony
about the guy: he was drunk
and Moslems don't drink.
Looks like the chief may just
have to grin and beer it!
ANOTHER wrong guy is headed
for a fall-but not because he's
staggering.
This one is Highbrow, who, with
his girl friend Smoky, has been
listening to the confessions of
wealthy people to psychiatrists,
using the information to blackmail
them.
One of his victims has made a
clay model of him and shown it
to Kerry Drake, that ace sleuth
who gu m s h oes it through the
pages of the Sun, and Drake has
ordered the cops to be on the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

But let's not be foolish"
Wallace added. Tets not try
holding our breath while waiting
for such action"
Royals resignation should be
demanded, he said, because he ere
affirmed the basic policy of segre-
cation" less than a week after
Truman told Congress he had Or
dered the end of discrimination in
the armed forces.
ACCUSING Hartman and For
restal of fronting for U. S. oil in
terestS which are on the Arab
side in the Palestine conflict, Wal
lace said the President should also
order their dismissal as proof of
his sincere devotion to the United
Nations decision on Palestine"
Failure of the administration to
lift the arms embargo on Palestine
is a direct result of the "bank-
rupt and bankrupting" Truman
doctrine, Wallace charged, adding:
at is the surest evidence that a
few fine words from Sec. Marshall
last June did not supplant the
Truman doctrine as the core of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
lookout for the gimbo.


ALL IN ALL. it's a hard life
these comic strip outlaws live.
Take Shoulders, the villa in
who's being purs ued by Dick
Tracy in the Trib.
Hunted, shot, frost bitten, he
finally took refuge in the antique
shop run by Miss Varnish, who
promptly informed the law of his
presence.
Now the cops have surrounded
the building, and it looks like
Shoulders is going to b e m e
Stoop-Shoulders under the weight
of his crimes.
BUT LET US turn from these
thugs to the lovely Goblin Van
Motley, who should be more ap-
propriately nam d Gremlin, it
seems.
The fair lassie has been causing
heart palpitations to Terry (of
land the Pirates'D and his side
kick, Chazz Charles.
But when they flew into the
small village in Indo-China, Miss
Van Motley hastily took small
black box from her distinguished
looking father and hid it among
her lingerie so that the gallant
French customs guards wouldn't
see it.
What's in the box is anybody's
guess, but Goblin may be like
Pandora.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
By CARL HIRSCH

TN 1892, a Chicago college
professor wrote an Opt
mistic book called ''The Com
ing of New Party"
Today, when that new party
is here, one of its most hysteri-
cal opponents is Paul H. Doug
las-the man who wrote the
book in 1882.
Douglas, now the Democratic
candidate for the us. Senate,
would rather forget about the
1882 book.
FE WOULD just as soon not
be re mind ed Of his blast
against the political eorrup-
ton and the dominance of the
capitalistic class in both of the
two old parties"
He would prefer TO forget
some of the nasty things he
said about the Democratic
Party which he has today
adopted with much fervor.
And he would certainly hate
to have anyone recall that he
was positively savage on the
subject of liberals who sell out
to the old parties.
In that book. he pointed out
that one Of the chief barriers
to the new party he envisioned
was the natural tendencies Of
ambitious men to identify them
selves with those political par
ties which alone seem TO be able
to give them offices and emolu-
mems in that immediate future
in which they are so completely
concerned"
THE important thing about
Paul H. Douglas is not that he
was once a liberal but that he
is now renegade.
And to understand w h t
makes him tick, two things
have to be remembered:
One-that he is a man with
violent political, ambitions.
People who know him init
mately say that in the last Is
years, every important step he
took was calculated in terms of
his political fortunes.
Two = that there are few
men in the state of Illinois who
have such a cancerous phobia
against the Soviet Union. And
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
18Th ward PEA to
hear state report

Chester Lach, chairman of the
newly organized 18th ward Pro-
gressive Citizens of America, will
report on the state Pea conven-
ton at the next meeting of the
group, to be held at 7:30 pm.
Sunday, Feb. %, at Gniady Hall,
4058 w. 47th st.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
Paul Doug los
lesser evi?1

gullible circles of Douglas, the
radical reformer, sterling cru
sader, campus messiah and op-
orator of a salvation army for
reformed ward heelers.
1t was some of that kind of
thinking that even went into
an article in New Republic last
week which represented Doug
las AN authentic liberal" who
is really the captive of the
Democratic machine.
In a letter to the Chicago
Daily News recently, Harry
Barnard, longtime intimate
of Douglas and liberal author
of the A1tge biography,
Eagle Forgotten" urged that
Douglas be defeated !, on the
basis of his stand ON foreign
policy.
ACTUALLY. ug1as is
dangerous on both foreign and
domestic policy.
In campaign speech in Lin
coin, Ill.,, last week, he deliv-
cred a bitter TRADE against the
Soviet Union. That is Douglas
keystone.
His anti Soviet mania has
led him to become an outstand-
ing tub-thumper for the Tru-
man Doctrine. the Marshall
Plan and the cold war"
he is one of the most outspoken
politicians in America on The
subject of turning it into a
"hot" war.
IT HAS led him to endorse
the violation of the civil rights
of anyone who disagrees with
that program.
1t has forced him TO subor-
dinate the question of the hv-
ing standards Of the American
people to the needs of gigan
tic war program.
And it has resulted in his
approval of some of the main
provisions of the Taft-Hartley
Act, while giving lip service to
its repeal.
Subsequent articles in this
series will deal with Douglas
and the Democratic Party, his
rise to the position of stand
ard carer of the Demo-
cratic Party in Illinois, and
what he represents to labor.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
Wallace asks custer Of
Royal Horrimon, ForrestoI


his ese
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

last November's judicial election.
The lowest vote for Progressive
candidate in that election totaled
1883, while the highest vote
for a Progressive totaled 313,848.
The total vote was slightly more
than 100000.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

THE DIP in the commodity mar
ket didn't help this Chicago house
wife who still had 10 pay more
than dollar a pound for butter.
To protect her precious purchase.
she asked this police officer TO
escort her home. Housewives are
also demanding police" protec-
ton from Congress against high
prices.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
Progressive Party
blasts Paul Douglas

Douglas Democratic candidate
reacionary position
labor
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

AT THIS point, however,
there is still strange talk in
Evening star., 1948-10-24

Salt Lake City, in the summer of 1947, sent
100 of its teachers to the University of Utah
for training in sex education. 1t hopes even
tually to train all teachers for familylife
education: Numerous other cities across the
country are on the march.
Cincinnati has hung up proud record in
the Middle West, and San Diego and Los
Angeles have pioneered on the Coast.
Rapid Increase
In THE nations colleges, courses in family
life, marriage and parenthood are popping
up like dandelions after a summer rain.
There were only Is such courses in 1920.
There were 165 by 1895. 329 by l941, and
with the opening of the 1948 semester virtu-
ally all of our l,685 colleges have at least one
course in family living Some, unfortunately,
are poor, bungling attempts, but the majority
are good and some excellent.
recently dropped in on a Family Life
class at the Rochester Institute of Tech
nology, Rochester, N. Y. The instructor
was the Rev. Murray~A. Cayley, pastor of
Rochester's First Presbyterian Church. Here,
through lectures and discussions, students
clarified their. thinking of monogamy. on
healthy living, on the true meanings and
values of the sexual relationship.
l also visited 'CoWtship and Mar
riage' course at the University of Virginia,
conducted by DR.. Frank W. Hoffer. At the
opening of each term, students have to be
Continued ON page 2S
Evening star., 1948-10-24
SEX AnD AyHI MINNIE N

FROM shs sevf sSex Edncsfon by Dorothy Csaed
FsSvs sAftsr whlc Aunt Minnie remarked Well, hope
you're telling them the facts, facts heard Of
whom Girls Like facts don't know,
Bf knowing the facts isnt going do them good
than knowing the did, unless they have
taught the And anyhow, don't tell 'e the
truth about II they the sa from that its all there
b 90 living Its not
Evening star., 1948-10-24

the State of Mississippi to perk up in 1914.
The result today is statewide program of
Education for Responsible Pmenthood."
Other state programs are s,rging forward
in Utah, Minnesota, Oklahoma, New Jersey
and Arkansas. But where states have failed
to act, many live-wire city has forged ahead
on its own.
Cleveland, through its Family Health
Association, has launched sex education in
scores of schools, sometimes dovetailing the
subject into home economics, hygiene, biol
ogy, or physical education; sometimes intro
Evening star., 1948-10-24

ducing an entire semester's
course under the title Health
for Teens"
In Denver, the Colorado
Congress of Parents and
Teachers has sponsored hum
dreds of school lectures and
trained scores of teachers to
teach family living. Headed
by DR.. Bradford Muphey,
Denver psychiatrist, a pool
of experts - doctors. pedi-
africans, public health
workers, nurses - stands
ready for calls to any school
which wants to integrate sex
education into its curriculum.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

A~~~sS ~
New York City is virtually arid. Having
fought and lost a battle for old-line sex
education in the late 1905, the city where
one million young Americans are supposed to
be girded for successful living is yet to make
the discovery which tiny Toms River made
seven years ago.
Vast reaches of the Middle West and South
are still aslumber. Diligently teaching the
three RS, they have not yet discovered
the fourth and more important r. which
stands for Responsible Living. One nation
wide survey indicates that 20 per cent of our
schools are still without any sex education
whatever. In some IS per cent, hygiene or
gym teachers occasionally touch on the
subject or give counsel to individual students.
About 40. per cent have one-shot lectures or
fright talks" on V.D. by visiting nurses or
doctors.
Less than five per cent of our schools give
the new up-to-date family-living education,
which properly integates sexuality with the
rest of life.
Oregon stands alone among the 48 states
in making modern and complete sex educa-
ton required subject in public schools. 1t
provides, by law enacted in 1915. gradually
unfolding sex education for all the grades
from first to twelfth - from children's first
simple questions about where babies come
from, all the way to child-rearing and the
many-sided problems of husband-wife rela-
ionships.
A dangerous peak in delinquency caused
Evening star., 1948-10-24

living room" for the study of living, they
organized committees to clean, dust, and
polish it between classes. One girl hit upon
a watchwora for the course, quotation from
Lin Yutang: THE final test of civilization
is the types of husbands and wives and
fathers and mothers it turns out"
Five years later, in 1916, Toms River
looked back over its shoulder. Questionnaires
were sent to 166 young men and women who
had studied Family Relationships in 1912,
'43, and "a. The answers were carefully
tabulated. Seventy-fve of the graduates had
married since leaving high school. With
sigh of relief - and a flush of pride = DR..
Finck discovered that all but two of these
marriages were successful The success ratio
was 81 per cent!
Rocky Years
Or COURSE, these are still young" mar
riages, with many rocky years to 60. But
even so, measured against the ratio of one
in-three marriage failures for the nation as
a whole, the Toms River folks modestly ask,
"Is it too much to say that the low divorce
rate among these former pupils is partially
due to the effect this course has had upon
them?"
Today, though DR.. Finck retired in July,
the family living course continues at full
tilt under the schools new president, Nathan
Clifford.
At Toms River the wishes and points of
view of parents and religious groups are re-
spected in all courses taught relating to
family life Written parental permission is
obtained before any student is given reading
material on any phase of sex education, and
special care is taken to provide only material
which has the approval of parents and
spiritual adviser. Even the most ardent
thumpers for sex education today admit that
biological information is not enough. Their
new concept goes far beyond the old idea of
special courses or lectures on 'the facts of
life" Far more important is the formation
between men and women, the integration of
sexual life into the whole mosaic of family
living.
A guide to this new thinking is contained
in the following passage from Love in Amer
ica" by David L. Cohn. Dismissing the old
definition of sexual intimacy, Mr.. Cohn says:
Intimacy involves an integrating and mesh
ing of personalities; a passionate interest
in the other fellows ideas, hopes, fears,
fancies and aspirations; formulated and un-
formulated interchanges of thoughts; NUT
ual respect for one another's dignity; a time
Evening star., 1948-10-24

to speak, to be silent, to act, to refrain from
acting"
1t is in line with this kind of expanded
thinking about the relations between men and
women that sex education, vintage 1913,
turns up under number of new labels Thus
in Los Angeles the school program is called
Family Life Education" in Kansas City
Human Relations" in Texas and Arkansas
'Homemaking, in Oregon Health and
Physical Education" in Mississippi 'Educa-
ton for Responsible Parenthood."
The stress is on family living The chal-
Evening star., 1948-10-24

0M day in l94l DR.. Edgar M. Finck, high
~ school principal in Toms River, N. J.,
was strolling down the main street of the
quiet coastal town when he chanced upon an
alumnus he hadn't seen in years.
"How's everything?" DR.. Fmck inquired,
wringing the old grads hand.
'Okay," the old grad replied.
He hesitated, then added, g. except my
marriage isn't working out"
DR.. Finck heard his story, typical of thou
sands of stories in this decade of crisis for
American marriage. He went home and
mulled it over. This particular grad had
been fine student, named by his fellows as
one most likely to succeed"
II guess we prepared him for everything -
except life itseE," DR.. Finck mused.
He kept thinking about the incident, met
with his faculty and talked about it. How
could education be hitched more firmly to
the traces of everyday living? How could
Toms River boys and girls be helped toward
success in things which really counted -
happy marriage, thriving families wholesome
community living?
Parents, businessmen, clergy, lawyers were
called in. There was much putting together
of heads. Finally plans were drawn up for
a new and vitally different kind of course
at Toms River High School. 1t was to be
called ''Family Relationships"
The tradesmen and chicken farmers at
Toms River just as concerned as DR.. Fmck
about the nations SO per cent divorce rate,
nodded consent when he set out to spend
some money on the new course. First. he
selected pleasant, spacious room where the
course would be given. 1t was to be course
in lisfng - why not give it in living
room''?, He furnished the room with Venetian
blinds, drapes, lamps, sofas, easy chairs -
even paneled the walls in knotty pine.
Students Flocksd In
In THIS homelike atmosphere Toms River
boys and girls set out to learn all they could
about what goes into making the happy
American family.
Tossing childish notions of glamour" into
the ashcan, they went straight to the real
tiles of human relationships, the problems of
conflicting personalities, the needs and drives
of each individual. the paths to harmony -
not through the absence of problems but
through the solution of problems.
As the course progressed, the young people
went into matters of dating. courtship.
budgeting. baby care, family squabbles, the
role of mother, the role of father.
~ a rN~1- %k,os.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

lenge: can tn1S new klnQ OF
sex education save marriage?
Facts e9 Living
If WE could board a magic
carpet and barnstorm the
U.S.A. we'd find progress
amazingly spotty. While
some cities and some whole
states have excellent pro-
grams, the great majority are
still burbling over the antique
question of whether to teach
children the facts of life" and
in the meantime doing abso-
lutelynothing about either the
facts of1ife or the facts Of If1i,ao
Evening star., 1948-03-15
Carson Probe Aide
To Seek House Seat

Thomas o'Connell, who was chief
investigator for the old Senate War
Investigating Committee, today filed
his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for representative from
Maryland's sixth district. Repre-
sentative Beall. Republican, is the
incumbent.
Mr.. O'Connell lives in Forest
Glen. During the investigat ton Of
the Carson munitions contracts he
testified he had been offered a Sl0,.
900 bribe. He told the committee
the offer came from Benjamin G.
Fields, then a Carson publicity
man. Fields went to Jail last week
to serve q 90-day term for contempt
Of Congress.
One of the planks in Mr..
OConnells platform Is the enact
ment Of law making 1t mandatory
for a member Of Congress to re-
port to the Justice Department the
offer of bribe. ..
Mr.. O'Connell Is q graduate OF
Georgetown University's Foreign
Service School. He was an investi-
gator for congressional committees
for Is years.
In addition TO his plank on brib-
cry he favors: Stockpiling Of ma
tional resources for defense, estab-
lishment of a nonmilitary reserve
corps for q central procurement
agency for the armed forces, a Fed
eral flood control policy for the
western counties Of the district he
seeks to represent, a Federal hous-
ing program for veterans patterned
on the Federal road building pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1948-03-15
First Criticism Of Macarthur
In Press BewiIders japanese

This acceptance Of criticism by
leaders Is one reason why democ.
racy is strong"
Three veteran policemen were
not 80 sure. Their view: II Mac.
Arthur comes under criticism from
abroad. maybe the people here viii
start talking against the occupa.
ton"
A janitor in Gen. MacArthur,s
public information ONCE remarked:
Even II Macarthur Is criticized, I
think he's the best man for the
presidency" ~
A woman office worker said, "ths
japanese think Macarthur IL very
broadminded in permitting criti.
cism and by this he personally 10
teaching Japanese about democ-
racy."
One third of those questioned at
random declined to answer on
grounds they never read political
news"