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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-06-06
WHAT

is the only work shoe
leather triple tanned
glove soft by a secret
process - that ever
dries out soft after q
soaking?
Evening star., 1949-09-03

settlement. And there is, obviously, . vast
difference between the two approaches, for
while the parties, technically at least, are
not bound to accept the recommendations,
the companies, to much greater extent
than the union, will be subjected to heavy
pressure to accept whatever proposals are
put forward.
This being SO, it is gratifying that the
chairman of the board has given assurance
that the pleas of the small companies
against uniform recommendations will not
be ignored. After ALL these small concerns
are entitled to some consideration. For
practical purposes the fact-finding process
robs them of any real opportunity to settle
their dispute with their own employees
through collective bargaining. 1t is doubt
full that the union has made any sincere
attempt to bargain with most of the small
concerns and it is doubtful that it intends
to do so. For the real fight is between big
unionism and big industry. But the ad-
ministration which set up the fact-1nding
board, and which occasionally processes
concern for small business, ought not to
be Indifferent to the harmful consequences
which recommendation for an industry
wide settlement of this dispute would have
on the little steel companies.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

regard the morning ride downtown as a
quiet, thought-collecting time during which
they think up ruses to outwit the catas-
trophies that may be awaiting them. Per-
haps they use the interval to framing
requests for raises or smashing rejoinders
to arguments which demolished them
yesterday. Or they may like to read their
papers so that no newsy conversation with
the boss in the up-elevator may catch them
unaware. How can they concentrate on
the 5-percenters with the strains of
Kiss Me Again" wooing them from stern
judgment? Moreover, If they hear the
news on the radio at the same time they
are reading it in the paper, it gives them
an uneasy sense of double vision or split
personality or something else which makes
them doubt the wisdom of having got up
at all.
So let us not Judge them too harshly
Let us say they are not so reactionary as
leery, so unkind as vulnerable. And let
us hope that they do not meet too many
promuSic people at parties
Evening star., 1949-09-03
james G.. Cupt

Born on farm near San Antonio, James
C. Capt came up from obScurity the hard
way He was in turn a railroader, a
soldier, a creamery operator and WPA
supervisor. Appointed an assistant to the
director of the Bureau of the Census in
1899, he succeeded his chief in April, 1941.
But the story of his career is not ade-
quately told in these few words. He did
not become administrative head Of the
greatest statistical service in the world by
accident or by favor. The position was
earned and merited.
Mr.. Capt had natural gifts of which he
made the most constructive use. He was
quiet, earnest. eager to please, easy to get
along with. Strangers found him accom-
modating in his attitude. When he asked,
What can do for you?" he really meant
that he wished to be helpful. His skill IN
dealing with people on equal terms was
one of his outstanding qualities. He was
a co-ordinator of rare capacity. In his
native Texas he governed 254 county Offices,
in Washington he recruited personnel for
the sixteenth decennial census in 1910 and
prepared the base for the seventeenth next
year.
Fact-finding fascinated Mr.. Capt. But
he was no mere counter of 150,621 ,231
noses Under his guidance figures were
compiled and evaluated which provided a
mass picture of the American community
and in that composite picture every digit
was an individual The director viSualized
his task as an inquiry into the activities
and purposes as we'll as the numbers OF
people He was himself representative
citizen. What interested his neighbors
interested him. He gave his assigned task
a devotion which ought not to be forgotten.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Trade and the Senate

After it reassembles next wednesday,
the Senate should lose no time IN renewing
. the Reciprocal. Trade Agreements Act IN
the form advocated by the President ana
already adopted by an overwnelmlng
majority of the House.
. What the President wants and what the
House has approved is a two-year exten-
sion of the law as it existed from the time
of its inception in 1884 until 194S, when
the Republican, dominated 80th Congress
renewed it for only an additional year I'M
stead of the usual three) and amenoeo IL
in a way that has made the measure less
effective. ,,,
The amendment-which Senator Mllli-
kin and some other Republicans still insist
: upon retaining-delegates special powers
to the Federal Tariff Commission in the
sense of making the President justify him.
self to Congress whenever rates In reel
procity pacts are reduced below levels
fixed by the commission. In effect, this
ARRANGEMENT, which tends to set up the
ETC in a position of superior authority
over the rest of the Executive Brancn,
creates a cumbersome and unnecessary
procedure that complicates the negotiatlon
Of reciprocal agreements.
Senator Millikin has made clear that he
and Republicans of like mind are deter
mined to fight for the retention OF this
restrictive provision in order to protect"
American industry against the possibility
of tariff cuts aimed at making 1t less diff
ficult for Britain to sell goods to the United
States His position is hard to understand
for two reasons: IL Because escape clauses
and other devices have amply safeguarded
our domestic business ever since the Trade
Agreements Act first went into effect In
1884; and (2) because the dollar crisis
abroad-whfch endangers our own vital
interests in the long run-will never be
surmounted unless the British and others
have an opportunity to export enough to
us to pay for the things they must buy
from us.
Actually, as far as protection" is con-
cerned, our reciprocity program, without
the 194S Republican amendment, Is all
that Is needed to prevent unfair competi-
ton from overseas, the amendment itself
being little more than complicating
nuisance. The sooner men like Mr.. Milli-
kin stop fighting for it, and the sooner
they realize that our friends abroad have
got to sell to us If the dollar problem is ever
to be solved, the better of our own country
and the whole free world will be. The
simple fact is that there is room for a
greater flow of foreign goods into the
American market, and nothing could be
more shortsighted- terms of our own
self-interest- THAN efforts to block it.
With its own Finance Committee having
approved the administration measure, the
Senate ought to act without further delay
. in following the lead of the House. In the
light Of present world realities and on the
basis of past experience with reciprocal
trade, 1t should do what the President has
! urgently requested it to do. Common sense
and the needs Of the hour clearly demand
as much.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
The (Bus) Music Hoters

Would-be growers OF African violetS,
spouting more theories than their plants
ever do blossoms, seem about to be super
seded as q difficult social bloc by people
who wish to argue the pros and cons OF
music on the streetcars. Until recently,
the worst thing that could happen to a
hostess was to have living room full OF
sunshine and shade advocates glaring and
shouting at each other. Parties, friend
ships and even homes are said to have been
rent asunder on the question OF whether
these Soviets of the plant world should
be watered from the top or from the
bottom. The debate was almost always
purely academic, as most of the disputants
had about as much chance of coaxing
flowers from their plants as they have
Of getting seat in the Senate.
The commuters music row. despite its
comparative youth, threatens to generate
enough heat to wilt the African violet con-
troversy right out Of existence. It is in
many ways more bitter, since people who
feel strongly one way or the other hold
I that the stand taken by their opponents
reveals an attitude so basic as to warrant
complete reappraisal of character. In
the shot and shell that have rocked
Letters to the Editor" columns ever since
"I Can't Give You Anything but Love"
began drowning out the clank of the extra
: coins in the farebox, the antimusic forces
have been getting the worst of it. Before
. the thing goes too far, perhaps some
: mitigating word in their favor should be.
spoken.
1t has been generally, and often unfairly,
assumed by the pro faction that the people
who dislike music on the streetcars don't
like music at all. Further, it is limited that
they are misanthropes who ignore babies,
abuse walters, trample on old ladies and
hate sunshine, Christmas and flowers.
These are more likely the facts: 1t is not
that the antimusic people get up on the
wrong side Of the bed. They may not
even be surly in the morning-but they
are guarded. For who knows what the day
may bring? They feel that it is folly to
greet the morning with whistlings, smiles
. and CHEEKY chatter, when debacle turks
behind every coming hour. Besides they
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Steel Wuqe Pattern

The unwillingnesS of the steel firms to
accept mediation of their wage dispute
except on company basis is amply JUS
titled.
No doubt the Presidents fact-fnding
board was well intentioned in its offer to
mediate. But its offer contemplated medi-
alton on what would amount to an indus
try-wide basis. That is something which
the industry has not accepted and ought
not to accept.
There are sixty or more companies in
volved in the proceedings before the board.
Some are operating profitably, some are on
the borderline and some probably are
operating at loss. At any rate, the ability
to grant wage increases and other benefits
sought by the steel union certainly varies
from company to company, and this fact
makes an equitable industry wide settle
ment virtually impossible.
It is true that in the past the, tendency
has been for United States Steel to set the
pattern for wage increases, and this, in
a sense, has resembled an industry-wide
settlement. But under that practice the
smaller companies generally the ones
least able to pay-have retained a measur-
able freedom of action, and some have
availed themselves of it. Presumably they
would have had to surrender this freedom
under the boards mediatory offer, and
their unwillingness to do so is readily.
understandable.
This same question, of course, will have
to be considered by the board in making
its findings of fact and its recommends
tions. Had the board been appointed
under the Taft-Hartley Act, which the
President evidently preferred to bypass, it
could have made factual findings but could
not have made Recommendations for .
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Questions and Answers

"A reader can get the answer to any question Of
s. e. fnfernssion burssu. s sis Ess St, NJ: WASH:
~ By THE HAsKIN SERVICE
O. In what State was compulsory auto
mobile inspection begun?-W. TX
A. The National Highway Users Confer
ence says that in 1927 the first States to in
spect vehicles were New York, Massachusetts
and Maryland. These examinations were
by proclamation of the Governors. The first
laws requiring Statewide inspection were
passed in 1929 in Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Massachusetts,. The following year all
the six New England States joined in unit
ed program for periodic inspection OF motor
vehicles. In 1880 Pennsylvania Maryland
and Massachusetts, initiated Statewide pro-
grams through officially appointed garages.
@. Who made the die for the Pine Tree
coins?-C. B.
A. The Acting Curator of NumiSmaticS OF
the Smithsonian Institution says that the
name of the engraver of the Pine Tree coins
has never been definitely established. The
character of his work Is not of such nature
as to be prominently recorded, and Crosby in
his monumental work on Colonial coins
makes no mention of the engraver. AS the
coinage was an extensive one and continued
over period Of years, 1t Is quite likely that
more than one silversmith worked on the
dies.
@. When did Omar Khayyam write his
"Rubaiyat"?-L. c. R.
A. Omar Khayyam was born in the latter
half Of the 18th century and died within
the first quarter Of the 18th century AID.
Exactly when "Rubaiyat" was written is not
known.
O What is the legend of the Thunder.
bird?-E. w.
A. Among the northern and northwest
ern tribes Of Indians the Thunderbird is
mythical creature, the Tapping of whose
wings creates thunder and which produces
lightning by opening and closing its eyes,
while it releases rain from lake carried on
its back.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Wheat Fields

Ripping beside the Nile:
And Samson, blinded, CROPPED to feel
Such amber grains the ,ohile
He, captiue, turned the grinding whees.
Still upon the bro,D
OF Aprl hills the ,uorId around
Is traced by man and ploto
The tnrrow's tin,eless ritual:
Still, the dutun1ns grant
Haypest sheapes where earth and man
Keep ancient couenant.
LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Would Have Users of Potomac Bridges
Pay for Improvements in Tolls
To the Editor of The Star:

Would Have Users of Potomac Bridges
Paw for Improvements in Tolls
To the Editor of The Star:
It is to be noted that the authorities have
under consideration long range plans 1or re-
lieying the critical bridge traffic situation
That is commendable. The suggested means
for financing the proposed thsee new bridges,
that is by increasing the tax on gasoline Is
however, very crude to say the least. HAY
ing finally put across the sales tax wnlcn
is q sound means of collecting revenue from
the tramps and transients who enjoy the
privileges of our city, it just appears tnat tne
boys have gone tax mad.
The question that comes to my mmo Is
what are the Virginians who earn their hV-
ing here contributing? To the best OF my
knowledge all of the Potomac bridges ex-
cept the Memorial were constructed from
D. C.. tax funds. All are maintained ana
policed from D. c. funds. AS matter OF
fact the D. c. recently even had to purchase
Virginia land for the approach to the new
Fourteenth Street Bridge.
AS q more direct approach to financing,
why not let those who use the bridges pay for
new construction? Say five-cent toll. One
might take look at the arrangement New
York and New Jersey have. Tolls collected
from the Holland Tunnel made possible the
construction of the Midtown Tunnel and
the George Washington Bridge connecting
the two States. FRANK H. BRlGANIl.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
writer, although 1t is permissible for
,uriter kno1Dn to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

In Kennewick, Washington, an an
nouncer was on the radio for 110 hours
possibly new high for patience with a
quiz contestant who has gone blank,
Evening star., 1949-09-03
New and Fair Deals Denied Credit
For Prosperity Due to War

To the Editor Of The Star:
Representative George H. Christopher Of
Missouri stated in recent letter to The Star
that our present prosperity is directly at
tributable to Democratic, or, in other words,
to New Deal and Fair Deal policies.
Well Represer .ative Christopher may be
entirely correct in his conclusion. However,
here is what a prominent Democratic Sen
ator told his colleagues in the Senate had
been accomplished by New Deal policies up
until few months before we became in
volved in the recent war, and after nearly
eight years of New Deal management: I'VE
have millions of unemployed despite our i'm
mense national defense program. the largest
any country of all the world at any time has
ever undertaken in peacetime. We have mil
lions unemployed, despite the fact that we
have approximately 5000, 900 persons on the
WPA rolls, despite the fact that an esti-
mated 1000, 900 are employed by Federal,
State, county, city, and other local govern
ments, despite the fact that we have SOC, 900
young men in the C.C.C. camps, and despite
the fact that millions are being provided
with direct Federal State, county, city,
group, and individual relief"
# what this Senator told his Senate COL
leagues is true, and the records OF that date
bear him out, then it appears that 1t was our
involvement in the recent war. rather than
the New Deal policies, that started our pros
perity ball rolling. Wendell Willkie, believe,
once warned the people not to mistake the
prosperity that comes as an aftermath OF the
reckless borrowing and spending OF war 1or
the prosperity that comes as result OF
sound. peacetime government
Evening star., 1949-09-03
Comment From Readers
On Gen. Vaughan and Gifts

On Gen. Vaughan and Gifts
To the Editor Of The Star:
It is ridiculous and naive to read in the
arguments in the Gen. Vaughan case and the
deep freezers. the waste of time from the tax
payers and the childish questions from
members of Congress. Congress knows all
that is going around, they know all what
happened does happen and they know all Is
true Why so much delay?
am proud to say that one day l was
going to send a case of champagne to mem
ber of Congress who Is friend of mine, and
he deliberately told me through his secre-
tary that if I sent it he would return 1t right
away; he would not accept 1t.
We all know that If some gift is given. 1t
Is in recompense of something that has
been done; it is form OF friendly payment
for what has been done.
The ARMY is full of that kind Of payment;
let's get over with this waste of time.
A TAXPAYER.
Evening star., 1949-09-03
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
We've criticized Gen. Vaughan on occa-
sions for what we still consider his inability
to examine background, before embarking on
missions to help folks who solicit his aid
However, he has aided hundreds OF veterans
and veterans dependents to get their just
dues from the Government. He is known IN
the trade as a man who will help anyone
seeking his aid, high or low. know OF cases
in my own State OF Kentucky wnere JuS'
ordinary G1's were helped by the a.
We think the Senators will be hearing from
some of these folks as time goes on. Ger
tainiv the Vaughan investigation record
should also contain reports from hundreds
Of insignificant citizens who have been aided
by the General. He is what the CTS call a
good Joe."
IN take Gen. Vaughan with all his faults
'' LARRY DOOLEY.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

In Gods Hands,
Not BEN Exra's or Browning's
TO the Editor Of The Star:
Your editorial of August 80 re: Vice Pres
ident Barkley: Browning did not say our
times" were in Rabbi Ben Ezra's hands
but In Gods
"Our times are IN His hand
who saith a whole planned etc.
MR6 q. B. MATHIOT.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

To the Editor of The Star:
We hear lot about pressure groups
I suggest we the people start one.
A simple statement: Il believe our flesl,
dent should get rid OF Gen. vaughan anu al
like him."
If sent on a postcard to The Star. some
MORE LIGHT.
Evening star., 1949-09-03

reader get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Evening Star Washington,
D. c.. Information Bureau, 81 6 Eye st. NE, Wash
ington 2. D. C. Please inclose three t3) cents for
return postage. -
Evening star., 1949-02-21

A memorable landmark was 1884
In that year a fellow named Rich
ardson patented. a ball bearing
and another fellow named Dono-
van wheeled 1901 miles to win q
six-day roller skate race in New
York. The new craze lasted well
into the 1905.
The current boom began 10 years
ago when the industry was in the
doldrums with q mere 100000
rink followers. It grew quickly
during the war years-thanks
largely to factory workers and SOL
diers. And it kept right on mush-
rooming.
Kinks Cleaned Up.
Rink owners have cleaned up the
sport by getting rid Of hangers-on
and banning rowdyism. Many
Kinks now have dress rules. The
gent must don q nectie. His lassie
must wear a skirt Of proper length
The newer rinks are cathedrals
Of the roller skate. Two Of the
latest-in Staten Island, N. Y. and
Alexandria, Va.-cost $500,00
apiece.
They draw every kind Of people,
from kids to Congressman. The
fans range in age from little Jackie
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Roller Skating Wheel
OF Fortune Up Again
with II Million Fans
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK.-Roller skating is
no longer just child's play. It's big
business.
Skaters In more than 1000 roll
ler skating Kinks across America
now spend $235, 100000 annually
on rink admissions and equipment.
Or so the industry estimates.
And that doesn't include the
millions spent by boys and girls
for the ordinary hit-and-run side
walk skates. Nor does 1t include
other millions spent for skating
sundries-such as short skirts,
special shoes, iodine and gauze
bandages::
Rink owners claim that today
roller skating Is the Nations num-
ber one participation sport-with
17,000,0 900 enthusiasts.
Developed by Accident.
Roller skating developed rather
accidentally. The sport was start
ed early in the 18th century by an
unknown Hollander, q lover Of ice
skating. One summer, unwilling
to wait until the canals froze, he
nailed crude wooden spools to
strips of wood attached to his
shoes. And off he bumped along
the roads of Holland, startling in
nocent peasants.
In the next century the sport
spread slowly through England,
France and Germany. In the late
1860s James L. Plimpton organ
lied the first successful American
rink. Skating became a world
wide health fad. 1t was being done
in the best families.
Wrote one disciple:
"As Howe's sewing machine is
to our industrial wants, or Morse's
telegraph to commercial pursuits,
so Plimpton's system of exercise is
to the social and physical wants
Of society"
Fad Soon Collapsed.
But the fad soon collapsed. The
rinks were run too much on the
level of the poolrooms Of that day.
You know too many leering
moustaches around. A good girl
just didn't feel safe.
Since then the roller skating in
dustry-like the skaters them
selves-has had its ups and downs.
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Cyprus to Be Electrified

Cyprus. third largest island In
the Mediterranean, which during
it's long history has known the
Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians
Persians and Turks, is about to 60
modern. It will have an island
wide up-to-date electricity supply
for the first time when the gov
ernment builds a central power
station of 1000 kilowatt capacity
at Laranaka.
Evening star., 1949-02-21

Bays Of White Plains. N. Y. who
skated at II months, to Pop
Carter. still giving exhibitions in
his 83d year. J
Two skaters famous in other
fields are Joe Di Maggie, who bats
for the New York Yankees, and
Claude Pepper, who pitches in the
Senate for Florida.
Veteran rink operators are a
little dazed by this sudden turn of
fortunes wheel. They hope only
that it'll last.
At present there are 5000 jun
Evening star., 1949-02-21
SoIzburg Music Festival

VIENNA (P.-The 1949 Salz-
burg Music Festival. July 27-Au-
gust 81, will include performances
of six operas, three plays and "a
concerts. Paying its annual trib-
ute to Salzburg's most famous ma
tive son. the festival will feature
two operas by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, 1.-THE Magic Flute" and
Evening star., 1949-02-21
Recipe complete
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it's q combination everybody loves!
Evening star., 1949-02-21

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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1949-04-01
3. Vyrocni Jarni Modni
Prehlidka

Dude Sc konati prfstf stredu,
dine 6. dubna v 8 hodin vecer
We skolnfm Auditorium roh
Pratt a Ellwood SITS. jak ozna-
mule p. Elra M. Palmer, prin-
cipal The Patterson Park E.
vening Center.
Ma teto Modni Prehlfdce bu-
dou pTedvadeny nejnovejsf a
nejposlednejs1 vytvary jarnfch
a letnfch wort odevin zhoto-
vene cleny 3 "sic1ch tTfd" sko-
ly.
Krone toho Dude i zabavny
program narodnfch skupin :
ceskoslovenske, jihoslovanske,
recke, rumunske, bavorske,
hollandske a novo-zelandske.
Take vystoupf a -4O-voice
A Capella Choir a "barbershop
quartet"
Budou tam vystavky praci
student6 We fotografii, psani
strojem. rucnfch praci, stroll
Mich a truhlarskych dilen.
Nase vefejnost je zvana k
1casti ma tonic podniku a
vstup je volny.