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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-08
By RICHARD sAsULY

II OR ten years the House
I'm American Activities
committee has been with us.
Through all that time it has fol-
lowed a consistent policy.
The committee has ruined rep
utations. 1t has smeared by in
nuendo. In a series of strikes it
has tried to help the corporation
side by raising the cry of ''red"
against unions. 1t has carried
on un-ending guerrilla warfare
against the Bill of Rights.
Most of us have sometimes
risked smile at the Un-Ameri-
can committee. A little sheep
ishly we try to set it aside as
something ugly which doesn't
really stand for anything in the
country.
THERE is nothing to smile
about any more. The committee
has written a bill. If the bill
passes, the mentality of Martin
Dies, John Rankin and j. Par
nell Thomas. will have become
us. law.
John Rankin stands on the
floor of Congress and cries out
with rage and hatred against
Jews. Negroes. Italians or any
one who does not look as he does.
speak as he does. and think as
he orders. The ideas of John
Rankin are about TO become law.
The bill, actually written by
committee members Mundt and
Nixon, is supposed to wipe out
Communist conspiracy to set
up a foreign controlled dictator
ship in the us. In practice it
would make a mess of the Con-
stitution.
ACCORDING to the Mundt
Bill, "a Communist political or
ganiZation" would have to regis
ter its membership. The vast ma
jority of Americans certainly do
not belong to Communist politi-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-08
BY PETER WILLIAMS

TT ERE'S a laugh on P. K.
III Wrigley! Whenever you
see a Wrigley ad that makes
you simply drool for stick of
chewing gum = remember that
gum-chewing is forbidden in the
Wrigley plant! We have it
from reliable sources that the
Daily News is the only struck
newspaper that's making
profit from its scab vari-type
printing" process. All the other
papers are losing money hand
over-fist. Understand this is the
way it's done: The News uses
fewer vari-type machines. fewer
scab operators, and pays lower
wages. Coupled with longer
working hours and a speedup.
the News scabs are really get
ting it in the neck
POSTER in store window on
Howard Street last week: "This
is National Baby Week-Have
YOU done YOUR part?" A good
question, by gosh! North
western University officials
didn't object when Curtis Mac
Dougan was the Democratic
nominee for Congress from the
North Shore in 1914. Doesn't
leave them much of an excuse
for forcing him to withdraw
from the race as Progressive
candidate for us. Senator last
week !. s. If you've always had
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-08
MUNDT BILL:
cal organizations"

cal organizations"
But how is such an organiza-
ton defined? Basically the def
milton is in the hands of the us.
attorney general. One of the
tests is whether the organization
keeps its membership lists secret.
Can any union organizer remem-
Der an organizing drive in which
he didn't have to keep his union
membership lists secret?
Another test is supposed to be
"alien ideology." On April 26
Rep. Eugene Cox Cd, Ga0 gave
a good example of what the I'M
American committee calls "alien
ideology."
Cox listed al sponsors of the
Natl. Citizens Political Action
Committee at time when Hill
man headeddd NC-PAC. He then
took Atty. Tom Clark's list of IS
Communist front organizations"
He showed that 80 of the 141
sponsors were members of one or
another of the 25 alleged front
organizations.
BY COx'S standards, this spun
out chain of smears proves that
Jack Knoll suffers from "alien
theology" Under the Mundt Bill
"alien theology" could be pun
ished by 10 years in Jail.
The Mundt Bill talks about
Communist activities" also pun
ishable by 10 years imprison-
ment. One of these activities. in
the eyes of the American
committee. is something called
disruption of trade and COM
merce." Look closely at that
phrase and it boils down to five
letters-s-t-r-i-k-e.
Even the Taft-Hartley Act did
not quite make strikes illegal.
The Mundt Bill could be used to
finish the job and wrap the
American people in a fascist
strait-jacket.
If the Mundt Bill passes, it will
put barbed wire around Ameri-
can freedom.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-08
Civic leaders
hit war film.
Iron Curtoin'

Forty-three prominent Chica-
goans, headed by fourteen religi-
Gus leaders, have denounced as
''war propaganda" the Twentieth
Century-Fox film, ''The Iron Cur
tain," which opens May 10 at the
Chicago Theater.
They demanded chat the re-
lease of this film be stopped as
a violation of the United Ma
tons declaration against war
propaganda and asa grave threat
to our security through this in
element to war"
Among those signing the state
ment were Rev. Virgil Z. Low
der, Secretary of the Department
of Social Service, Church FEEDER
alton of Greater Chicago; DIR.
Ernest F. Title, First Methodist
Church, Evanston; DR.. Charles F.
Boss, Jr., National Commission
on World Peace, The Methodist
Church; Rev. Paul R. Reynolds,
Secretary, Division of Christian
Education, Congregational Chris
tan Church; DR.. Joseph M. Ev-
ans, Metropolitan Community
Church; Prof. Sophonisba Brec-
kenridge, Prof. Wayne McMil-
len, Prof. James Luther Adams,
University of Chicago; Prof. S.
Richey Kamm, Chairman, Divi-
sion of Social Science, Wheaton
College; ! Mrs. Irene Mccoy
Gaines, President, Chicago Coun-
Gil of Negro Organizations; 1t.
Comdr. c. S. Seely, U.S.N. Ret0,
editorial director, NAVY News;
William v. Abramchik, Presi-
dent, Midwest Division, Ameri-
can Slav Congress; Mrs. Rheua
Pearce, President, Chicago Area
Division, Congress of American
Women; J. ]. Zmrhal, retired
Asst. Superintendent of Schools.
A Chicago Committee Against
War Propaganda" was formed
Wednesday at meeting attended
by representative of unions, Pro-
gressive Party ward groups, vet,
youth, and fraternal organiza-
tons, and other groups, called to
consider protest action against
the film. The committee will be.
temporary group to coordinate
action against the film, and will
have its headquarters at Room
SO, 68 West Washington ST., tele-
phone ANDover 1878.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-08

coverage If anybody cares,
Bill Doherty of the Sun-Times
has taken up where Jimmy Muir
ply, dean of Chicago police re-
porters, who died recently, left
off writing news for the 'tPolice
Digest" A set of 150-year-
old Irish bagpipes-covered with
green velvet and hand embroid-
cred shamrocks-are on display
at the DePaul University Irish
Library, 2235 Sheffield Don't
forget to make a circle around
May Is on your calendar. It's
the Old Barn Dance, 8 pm,
Rogers Park Masonic Temple,
1716 w. Lunt. Auspices-Rogers
Park Discussion Group; pro-
ceeds-Chicago Star.
INTERNATIONAL Workers
Order, Lodges 2016 and 933,
have children's programs in full
swing. Sister Helen Kurinsky
and Brother Joe Kurinsky are
looking for children's songs and
games, on the order of ring
Around the Rosy" of Slovak
origin, to include in their game
program. DR.. A. Eustace
Hayden speaks on "a Vision
of Tomorrow" at the final Sum
day morning meeting of Chica-
go Ethical Society's 65th season,
May 9, II am, Curtiss Hall, 40
S. Michigan. Sunday meeting
season opens again on the first
Sunday in October
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-08
BARBED WIRE FOR
AMERICAN FREEDOM
We reprint here editorial which appeared Thursday
in
Liberals. Where Are You?

On Tuesday, meeting held in Washington to plan
action against legislation like the Mnd Thought
bill which ostensby Communist Party and
front but which could deny basic rights anyone and
everyone straying slightly left of center.
The meeting liberals 1t was more 1t
was rust for every responsible leader who knows that
ideas with solid democratic performance rather
But the liberals stayed home Why? Among the sponsors
of the meeting Vito Marcantono And "You know
Marcantonio He's fellow traveller from way back"
hortsishedness or stubborn refusal
to enter harborng He'd liberals They
allowed official the
the chief against legislation wipe
Bill of Rights
How frightened stubborn get? More point
how stupid you be?
Are the liberals really by Congressional threats
of purges that they refuse the leadership opposing
police state legislation, that they might be labeled
slightly Red?
If SO, Congressman Mundt and his fellow conpirators on
the Thomas UnAercan Activities Committee already
ing OF Americas small band of Communists although the
Congressman obviously would like this happen along
the way. Dae
It rather, to be the suppression
growing number citizens the economic
privileges the today become through democratic
means, the opportunities of all tomorrow.
In running the skirmish against suppress
on liberal leaders give tact evidence already being
uppresedbY their choice without the
necessity of any Congressional action.
Our liberals may be shyng away because they remember
too wildly the times they tried to form front" with
the Communists only themselves being used by the
Comrades for some obscure and family end
If liberals the fight against Mndt Thomas
and Co. would eventually be by the Commun
lists for their the certainly not to hand
the Party the issue the with praverfl
hope that something will be done.
The answer is to seize the leadership and keep it by
arosg the support of the citizens
ANYBODY whether IN Congress the Communist Party,
push them around.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Germun Music Draws
Criticism From Poles
BY the Associated Press

WARSAW.-The Ministry of Arts
and Culture says Polish philhar-
monic orchestras should avoid play
ing music "of such authors who
proved to have had the same
theology as Hitler. such as Wagner
or actively participated in the Nazi
movement, such as Richard
Strauss"
Newspapers recently criticized the
playing Of German music at Polish
concerts.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
68 Houses Collapse

HONG KONG CP.-House COL
lapses during 1947 killed % per-
sons, according to a survey by the
Hsin Sheng Evening Post. Sixty
eight houses collapsed here.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
ADVERTISEMENT.
WILLIAM,
WHEREVER YOU ARE

Dear, I'm just plain ashamed Of my
. bad temper. Poor you . it must
have been terrible all those months
was so cranky and unreasonable.
Darling. now you'd see big change.
What blessing it's been to find that
there is sensible way to end consti-
patton caused by lack of bulk in the
diet! The answer is to eat right. Now,
every morning, l have a bowlful Of
KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN which
supplies plenty of bulk. And 1 drink
lots of water. Isn't that a delicious
way to escape taking harsh purga-
tives? And. Bill, what lovely mullins
ALL-BRAN makes-I'll have q big
plateful waiting for you when you
open our front doorl ANNE.
Evening star., 1948-06-22

heat and certain engines, just as
it would be digested in the stomach
Methods also have been worked out
the G.. w. U. doctors have expert
mented chiefly on themselves before
trying out their methods with pa
tients-of hyperdermic protein feed
ing by injections under the skin and
in the muscles.
Treatment of more than 200 cases
of lung assesses with less than Il
per cent mortality-the average in
the past has been 80 per cent-was
described in an exhibit before the
association by Drs. Edgar w. Davis
and Roy G. Klepser of Georgetown
University Medical School.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
HoII Execution Postponed
In Case Involving Girl, 8

The execution date for John H.
Hall, 80, who was convicted Of car
nal knowledge involving an 8-year-
old colored girl, yesterday was post
poned by Justice Richmond B.
Keech of District Court from Fri
day to November 5. The postpone
ment was granted pending action
by the Court OF Appeals.
Hall, who also is colored and
lived in the 1900 block of Union
street S.W., was convicted by a Dis
trict Court jury last November.
Evening star., 1948-06-22

Washington doctors by the Army
Institute Of Pathology.
1t now is possible, DR.. Weinstein
said, to provide complete diet
through the veins with the excep-
ton of fat, which is not SO important
in an emergency period. 1t long has
been the practice to give patients
sugar solutions in this way. These
provide the all-important heat and
energy for living, but the person toe
sick to eat is getting none of the
essential proteips.
Cow blood, Dr. Weinstein said, is
almost pure protein. Injected raw
however, it almost certainly woulo
kill the patient. This danger is
overcome by predigesting it with
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Doctor Describe!
New Protein Source
For Surgery Patients
By Thomos R. Henry
.Seisnes Editor of Iha Stor.

CHICAGO, June 22.-Pre-digested
cow blood injected in the veins after
operations is providing surgical pa
tients with the most essential ele-
ment Of diet.
The method, described to the
American Medical Association here
yesterday by DR.. Jacob j. Weinstein
of George Washington University
was derived in part from studies by
Army medical officers of the results
of starvation on prisoners in the
Dachau concentration camp in Ba-
varia who died at about the time
the prison was taken by American
troops. Autopsies were made and
slides Of tissues provided the George
Evening star., 1948-06-22

The art on exhibit Is by Washington
painters and sculptors. The market
is at Fifth and K streets NV.
Russia exhibited airplanes and
military training craft at Poland's
Trade Fair.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Art Show to Continue

The Center Market art show,
which has attracted an estimated
1890 visitors since its opening last
month. viii be continued through
this month, it was announced today.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
"0Idat M,5O,60?"
- Man. You're Crazv

yorret your seel THOUSANDS are peppy at 20. Try
speppans MP" With Ostrex. Contains tonic for weak.
rundown feeling due solely 70 body's lack OF iroa
which many men and women call old" TU
Ostrex Tonic Tablets for pep. younger feeling, thu
yery day New get acquainted pse saiS -
- sAls 1t all drug Scores ev0ywhGe
Montana labor news., 1948-09-09

ton was made suggests that il may be
one OF the many contributing factors
now operating to bring on a future bust.
AT a time when it is vitality important
to keep our tax structure progressive II
is certainly economically unwise to
make a IS per cent cut IN income tax
revenue, the bulk of which goes to those
in the upper income brackets. Econo-
mists generally recognize this and point
Il that during the ,wenties similar tax
cuts led to an accumulation OF idle saw
ings and investment capital that was
one OF the factors that brought on the
depression Of the early thirties.
Support Progressive Tax Measures
What happened before is happen
ing again. Every nov i'll the direction
of shifting the tax burden TO payers OF
excise and sales taxes by relieving IN
come taxpayers is a move toward de-
preston or bust. Before the recent tax
reduction Approximately 10 per cent OF
all X paid-iedcral, state and local
were taxes ON income, based on the
ability to pay. Since the reduction, the
proportion. is much closer to 60 per
cent. Yet plans are ready Tor further
cuts in income taxes at the federal
level, and there is continued emphasis
on additional taxes OH consumers at
the state and local levels.
Consideration Of tax equity as well as
| the need for maintaining a sound econ
omy demand that labor representatives
initiate and support constructive tax
| measures.
Montana labor news., 1948-09-09
LEGAL NOTICES

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE eDcOND
JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF H STATE OF
MONTANA IN AND FOR H COUNTY OF
SILVER BOW
No. 1890.
In the matter Of the estate Of JOSEPH
FRANKov1cH. also known as Joe Frankovich'
Deceased.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR SALE .
OF REAL PROPERTY
Notice 10 hereby given that Nicholas Frankie
Frsnkovich, also known - Joe Frankovtch.
deceased. will sell 1t private sale. In one
parcel. TO the highest bidder, upon the terms
and conditions herinafter mentioned. and
subject TO confirmation BY the said District
Court Of the Second judicial District Of the
State Of Montana In and for the County Of
Silver Bow. on or after Saturday the 23th
day Of September. lels. ct the hour Of 400
p. m. O'Clock. all the right. title. interest and
estate Of the said Joseph Frankovtch also
known ~ Joe Frankovich. deceased. 1t the
time OF his death In and to the real property
hereinafter described. and al the right. title
and interest that the said estate has. by
process Of Law. OF otherwise. required. other
than or In addition to that Of said deceased.
ct the time Of his death. Of in and to that
certain lot; piece. or parcel Of land situate
lying. and being In the County Of Silver Bow
STATE Of Montana. and moro particularly de-
scribed - follows. to-wtt:
An undivided oue-fourth (k) interest In
and 70 lot numbered Seventeen uD In
Block Numbered sevsnty-one (7D Of the
Mcqueen Addition to East Butte. Silver Bow
County. Montana, with the improvements
thereon.
Terms and conditions Of sale: Cash, in law
full money Of the United States: Ten per cent
N0cn) Of purchase money to be paid ct the
time Of sale: balance on confirmation Of sale,
the purchaser TO assume and pay al taxes
and assessments for the yer l04S. and subse
quent years.
All bids must b h writing and be left 81
the office Of p. 3. 0easan. Attorney for said
Administratof It No. 60a Silver Bow Block, 81
West Granite Street. Butte. Montana. or maj
b delivered TO said Administrator personally
In said County Of Silver Bow. or may be filed
In the office Of the Clerk Of the above ca.
titled Court. ct any time after the first pub
lication Of this notice. and before the making
Of the sale.
Dated this ath day Of September. lo4S.
NICHOLAS FRANKOVICH,
Administrator Of the Estate o.
Joseph Frankovich also known q
Joe Frankovich.
FIRST publication Sept. .. lo4S-3t.
Montana labor news., 1948-09-09
larry. any possible tax saving has been

larry, any possible tax saving has been
more than wiped out.
2. How about the much advertised
need for new investment? 1t would be
very difficult for any supporters Of the
tax cuts to prove that any considerable
portion OF the five billion dollars in tax
savings has gone into needed invest
ment. Statistics combine to show that
large-scale capital expansion and i'm
provement are being financed out Of
corporate reserves or with funds taken
out Of high war and postwar earnings.
In other words, major capital expansion
is now financed internally with little or
no demand Tor the investment dollars
of the man-in-the- street.
s.. Finally, OF course, against the ar
gument that tax reduction would slim
ulate production, the cold, hard fact
looms that total production is remain
ing practically constant without any in
crease from month to month. And it
is also generally known that unless and
until there is an increase i'll the supply
OF basic commodities, such as steel,
coal and oil. production in other fields
cannot increase.
Tax Cuts Feed Boom
Organized labor. therefore, should
recognize the tax cuts as political in
their motivation and execution. I'M
mediately. the reductions have contrib
uted considerably to the forces of infla-
ton BY putting additional sums Of
money into the hands Of people. Since
the supply Of goods available to our
people has not been increased. higher
prices were inevitable. Moreover. it
is obvious that such higher prices are
forcing a larger and larger number OF
the lower income groups out OF the
market for many commodities. This
is particularly true OF the millions OF
families who did not benefit at all from
the tax cuts. For those in the upper
income groups, to whom the bulk OF
the tax savings accrue, are in a better
position to out-bid their less fortunate
| fellows for any and all goods that may
be in short supply.
Tax reductions at this time we're like
wise unfortunate from the standpoint OF
the national treasury. In the first place
to the extent a ive-billion-dollar tax
cut contributes to increasing prices, the
federal government must nov pay more
for everything it buys for use here and
abroad. Then again, while it is cleai
that the general economy has not beer
benefited by the tax cut. it is quite
certain the federal treasury will lose
five billion dollars that might otherwise
have been applied to reduction Of tht
national debt, thereby saving at least
one hundred million dollars yearly ir
future interest charges.
Invitation to Bust
So it appears that the tax reductions
contribute Immediately to restimuIatine
the boom. Unfortunately. in certain
aspects the manner in which the reduc.
Montana labor news., 1948-09-09
INVITATION TO
BOOM AND BUST?
Dy ARTHUR A. D

The old saying which in its revised
formed runs to the effect that some
folks learn only what they want to learn
from experience" to appears to fit the
groups responsible for the recent fedora;
tax cuts quite aptly. Tax cuts, they
increase purchasing power. encourage
investment. and stimulate production"
Such statements demanding tax cuts
were made in all seriousness publicly,
in the press and in trade and invest
ment journals last year and early this
year until the tax-cutters had their
way. H. r. 400, which reduced the
tax bill by approximately five billion
dollars, was approved.
And now. several months later, what
are the facts regarding the almost Ger
tain" tonic effects Of the much touted
tax cuts1
Facts ". Argumeat
/. Purchasing power has increased
for some people but prices have also in
creased. They are still increasing, SC
that, for lower income groups particu-
Montana labor news., 1948-09-09
|TTU CONVENTION BACKS
UNION POLICIES; APPROVES
ENTRY INTO NEWS FIELD

MILWAUKEE.-Thc final session OF
the goth convention OF the AFL's Inter
national Typographical union voted to
reafiirm the unions collective bargain
ming policies and those OF its president,
Woodruff Randolph.
Specifically, the delegates approved
resolutions which included the follow
ing:
/. Granting of more liberal author
ity to union officers in the use OF union
defense funds to establish newspapers
to compete with or replace publications
whose printers are striking or threat
ening to strike.
3. Providing means whereby action
may be taken against newspaper chains
when printers of one newspaper in the
chain are on strike.
3. Recommending that the union
start all organization drive among EN-
ployes engaged in substitute printing
processes.
In another development the conven-
~vention enthusiastically received a tele-
gram from President Truman promising
an immediate and thorough investiga-
ton of the TITUS Shocking charge
that Senator Robert A. Taft had sought
to prevail on the general counsel OF
the National Labor Relations board to
start contempt Of court action against
the union.
The spending authority was contained
in a new bylaw section that authorized
expenses including those incurred in
establishing or encouraging the estab-
lishment of enterprises to compete with
or replace any establishment where a
strike or lockout is, or has been in prog
ress, or is threatened"
In a standing vote on final passage,
not more than a dozen out of about $50
delegates rose in opposition.
A defense committees report referred
to the menace" of substitute printing
processes, such as the Varitypcr. and
said it Cannot safely be ignored"
The report continued: so long as
these workers remain unorganized by
our union, they are a threat to our wage
standards. This is one of the gravest
problems we have in the ITU today,
and it will not be solved by belittling
the substitute processes or by under
estimating the people who work in
these processes"
Montana labor news., 1948-09-09

During the day Mrs. Brown dis
charged her old maid and hired 4 new
one, who answered the doorbell when
Mr.. Brown arrived home in the evening.
He carried a bunch OF roses which he
handed to the maid, saying: Present
these to Mrs. Brown and tell her ! want
to see her at once"
New Maid: "All right, but you better
make it snappy, because she expects the
old man any minute now"