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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-02-03

and remodeling homes. Colors
will play a large part In changes
made.
LIGHT HAIR.LIGlIT EYES
The cards warn of III health.
Colds should be watched for they
may be the torerunner Of COM
plications. Avoid risks. Take care
Of all cuts or burns to avoid In
fection.
The weekend Is q good time to
entertain and travel. Many parties
win prosper. especially those cen
tered around good food. Weddings
are under good sign and viii be
rather elaborate.
The fore part Of the week win
be hard On business connected
with retail gales The public win
NOT be too receptive and VIII on
~ be buying necessities. It = .
good time 70 plan sales to clear
out for spring buying. The public
Is looking for bargains.
LIGHT AAIN.DAAx EYES
The cards warn Of temper and
pettish quarells. Gossip and
jealousy win 60 hand In h. d.
It Il q good time not to have frse
hands, for surely the devil will
find work for such hands.
The weekend Is good time for
simple affairs, nothing elaborate.
It Is q good time to tuck your
worries In your hat and sit about
the fire and eat ~les and pop
corn. Many tall stories viii be
born and many more retold.
The fore part Of the week Is
not favorable to meetings. many
will promise to do committee
work, but will only present ex-
cuses for not completing OPERA
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-02-03
N ~ ~N/NNW>NU~~
O B ! 7 VA r Y
LYLE KEITH DAY

LYLE KEITH DAY
Lyle Keith Day was born June
rs, 1909, in Asotin, Washington
and passed away January 80,
i949. He had lived in Kennewick
since childhood and received his
schooling here.
He is survived by his wife Eva:
i've sons, Charles, Torrance,
Bruce, Daniel and Michael; his
father. Charles Day; sister-in-
law, Winona Day; and two neph.
.ws. Funeral services were held
Wednesday morning at 1890 in
he Mueller chapel, with Rev.
Eugene Hawkins officiating. In.
terment was in Riverview HEIGHTS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-02-03

TO START ASSESSING
Ira Hartman, county tax asses-
sor. said yesterday tax assessing
would be started throughout tn
county Monday. February 2.
Evening star., 1949-02-27

Chaplin Bing Crosby and Rex Harrison
Harrison, the girls say, doesn't at all resemble
Henry VIII, his current stage role in "Anne of
the Thousand Days" Crosby is on the soft
side, fluent with lifting baritone reminiscent
of his radio style. Charlie Chaplin likes to
cross his legs, cock his head as he used
to do in cane and -mustache days. Bergen
dictates at brunch, is one of the girls favor
ties. Hes nice as pie, says Miss Lindstedt.
Most memorable of the PAGERS is George
Jessel, who strides up and down with a huge
cigar in hismouth. Henever smokes. just chews
After 10 minutes he throws it away, picks up
another. He likes to dictate after-dinner
speeches in a roomful of people and will
accept suggestions from anybody.
Biggest single job ever tackled by the girls
was $1,000 worth of typing for nationally
known credit firm; smallest was for the young
girl who refused to leave the Office until she
had written to Clark Gable Most painstak-
ing was pension plan for group of large
companies; the client demanded that not one
of the 100 pages must have an erasure. The
girl who began it begged off, so Miss Lindstedt
took over the job herself
A few years ago when Elliott Roosevelt was
beset by tax trouble he hired the entire Lind
stedt staff to transcribe testimony The girls
worked in relays. each typing up her transcript
at the end of a stint. In that way Roosevelt and
his lawyers had an immediate record of every
piece of evidence. P.S.: They won the case.
Rush Jobs
SEvENTY per cent of Lindstedts customers
are men, but neither sex Outside of business
folk has any conception of the time it re-
quires to complete an assignment Warnings
of "Rush!" Give this priority" Il have
cab waiting, My train leaves in fifteen min
utes" are heaped on the stenogaphers.
Despite the pressure, long hours and oc-
casional night work "A am. is no novelty,
the girls dote on their job. Most interesting
ever had" said one To-day learned how
a play is staged, how printing plant is run,
and how to sue warehouse when they ruin
your property" That same day the office
handled, among other chores, promotion
campaign to sell art masterpieces through
Continued on next page
Evening star., 1949-02-27

NoT long after Hollywoods Weekend at
/ Y the Waldorf became hit, Wide-eyed
young man strolled into the public stenoga-
piers office of the famous hotel and inquired,
Does Lana Turner still work here?"
Sorry" replied the tall blonde in charge
''She never did" The young man persisted,
'She did in the movies" Look" the blonde
smiled, they killed Jesse James three times
in the movies"
Theyoung manleft, disillusioned "We'vehad
dozens like him. recalls Elvie Lindstedt, who
during her 10 years as chief public stenogra-
pher at the Waldorf-Astori has learned to
deal with everything from royalty to crack
pots. you can't name type we haven't
handled. Once client was picked up by the
FBI right in the middle of a sentence"
BY ''we," Miss Linstedt means herself
and three assistants - Julia kotz, Julia
Knapp and Beatrice Pellegrino. Park Ave-
nue. beauties hire the girls to put their pri-
vate lives on paper Philanderers drop in to
dictate hasty billets-doux. Promoters who
seek to revolutionize an industry with
stupendous gadget, financial wizards out to
clnch a million-dollar deal call upon Miss
Lindstedt for stenographic service.
a Party Man
ONE persistent client directed huffy missives
to a host of New York public officials demand
ing that her dentist be de-licensed for Chop
ping up my gums" A stage star dictated her
funeral arrangements to make sure she would
be cremated An ex-government official with
delusions of grandeur set up headquarters in
Miss Lindstedt's office to organize magnif-
cent party on the Starlight Roof. He had
gone so far as to invite diplomatic bigwigs and
make arrangements for costly entertainment
before he was taken off to sanitarium.
The Waldorf stenographers were called up
on to list all the fabulous jewels brought here
Evening star., 1949-02-27

by that prince of spenders, the Maharajah of
Baroda. They typed the final draft of one of
Churchills most important u. S. speeches,
and helped load the first gun fired by Harold
Stassen in the 48 primary campaign. Early
one morning Elvie Lindstedts phone rang
and commanding voice spoke: This is
General Walter Bedell Smith. I'm leaving for
Moscow in few hours and would like to
have document drawn up. Here is the in
formation. .." In rapid succession he reeled
off names, places, dates and figures. III call
for it at fifteen hundred hours er, mean
three o'clock" finished the general 1t was
ready without mistake
More Than Speed
l AXE it from the girls, public stenographer
must have far more than speed and accuracy
She must have the patience to serve client
like the businesswoman from Oklahoma who
dictated for half an hour at stretch punctu-
ated by phone calls and fittings Suddenly she
screamed, "Heavens!' I'm late for the hair
dresser" tossed the stenog a chicken-track
script and called, Figure out the rest yourself"
Above ALL the stenographer must inspire
confidence. Deals running into hundreds of
millions of dollars have been closed via the
pad and typewriter of the Waldorf stenogs.
Often they have served opposing bidders on
an important government contract, and once
they were involved in three-way deal with
out any of the parties suspecting that all three
were registered at the same hotel
Celebrities who use the public stenog-
rapher fall into three classes - recliners,
sitters, PAGERS. In the first category is Elsa
Maxwell, who loves to relax in bed while dictat-
ing. Sodoes Leonora Corbett, British film star,
but she's more versatile "She does her nails,
puts up her hair, knits and embroiders between
sentences. She doesn't dictate She emotes.'
Star sitters include Edgar Bergen, Charlie
Evening star., 1949-02-27

She knows much about private lives as any
Broadway columnist. Typing letters for guests
of luxury hotel gets her in everything
from big business deals to society scandals
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
News and Views


Perhaps of the truly significant products of this welfare
which learning derive substantial
ing study Education
and colleges the of commercial than 40
invested enterprises which addition making profits allow large
way financing
the n a amounting to @ Of G % % net @
Why this should be and what grounds the and sale
is fse quote
has the
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value of the plant and the purchasing price paid
hono As % 3 bs sp 5t front Un msn G o & S s ssss holdings M % 3
Stores the nations largest chain Of Among It's
gs in BROOKLYN which explained exp above thus free and clear
Churchill Downs kentucky Derby run
manipuatons added nothing common
with the which agricultural and similar colleges op
lumber goods produced by students experimental farms
fecve help thrown relief BY new
planted news tor lifting blockade last May and the Sub
the 9 3 aed sI m lift se at Large o M
the middle October The city authorities $4,000 actual
s0" now man" the" are working
An article the News from Germany official Social
Berners Che dole af th population
its ground only if materials credits business The
ee G 5 sste a0 Ss .'' charity they want which they
Taking western allies the unwingness
M true the BfEne[s rs are are being allowed send mem
they & sve not been & given es the right M 9 e t" s% directly @ M &
the position of the Social Democrats who with Berlin ncud
ed bound become the strongest party the Bundestag
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Election Roundup

This election returns of 1949 speak language which
the brassiest of editorial big brass will find hard to
twist around Stripped of campaign trappngs and oraor
they show the big party machines of yeseyear bueed by
forces beyond their scope oudstanced by events beyond
their comprehenson in all but few instances the
weight of organized labor and it's political preference which
decided the issue
We wish both major parties take the lesson to heart
1t is important that unonsts everywhere become
of their potential strength They should wisely
and to the full the political power placed in their hands
Results in the urban centers of New York. Massachu-
ed the independent voter asserting himself much to the
days of bosssm past. Whether this will remain de-
pends the determination of the American working to
exercise his Independent judgment whenever the need arises
Just the same labor will be well advised not to read
into the 1949 elections another mandate for the Fair Deal
any other DEAL Too many state and local issues nteven
ed to make it valid nationwide test In Texas and Virginia
proposals to abolish the poll tax cornerstone of the Pres
identS civic rights program defeated In other states
the cleavage between urban and rural vote
ced to render forecasts of the political future meaningless
In Ohio crossroads of the nation, the so-caled Mass
achuses ballot (Which replaces straight ticket votng)
united labor opposition. Popular sentiment the
other hand scored smashing repeal of the states
restrictions margarine object long fought for by all
organized labor This the first statewide voting test
inequalities imposed upon the poor mans butter to the de-
trment of the consuming public We trust Congress- taking
its from Ohio, will speedily repeal the federal anmar
garne tax which, thanks to handful of senatorial dehards
and the butter lobby has become national scandal and
stink in the nostrils of every publc-sprted citizen
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
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great corporations forced concede
steel baron needessy provoked the costly dispute and usual news
editorial writers from coast to coast sided with the
the naton that all major industry grinding stand
@ aad that That @ n all o pb s pg s
industa & L knew that Was On Nov for & TTamp Ba1
thing that the monong teup of the nations most basic industry
has hurt the hardly ALL Which makes clear that for
wash than pig iron.
partment of Hundreds of thousands of dollars
fupag ads ads most which & were % s desgnd
appeared in the Detroit on Oct and signed by the
who had ad inserted sDlad IS name George Fink.
Spokesman srikbound companies, dozens of
determined to take the profits out Of industry Then on Oct Y
scared from $29OOOO6O recordbreang $35OOOOOO Republic
decided settle with the union hurry The next day
broken all records and jumped from 100000 Beth
1d @ also setis ns and a4R Bhsm Pf9s q
stopped making steel and started manufacturing dollar bills
The old line political bosses have passed from the scene first
Pndergas Crump then Curley and Frank Hague But Hagus
the heels
the Hague machines trouncng Hague awwhic banned
the dancing began with less of Hague and of
Haig Hag
From the Cleveland Daily News Nov "Down-to-earh organ
~ methods patterned after labor unions will be adopted by the
chairman said in Cleveland today"
This concusvey that the Republican Party the party
the campaign the COP
ona chairman charged that abos methods would produce th de-
prime onies steel up
against
Ohio officials found that the states from sales taxes
started wondering whether had been good idea in the
couldn't do all its legislative political
it did unwittingy as result of the two strikes
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Thanksgiving Day

AS it's name implies Thanksgiving Day is day for ex-
pressing gratitude publicly and privately for the unpre
cedented advantages enjoy as American citizens
AS we give thanks, stop to realize that while our
system is not awless it has bestowed more
freedoms happiness, privileges and more bene-
fits people than any other system of government IN
history
But Thanksgiving is occasion for more than just
counting blessings More important is time for de-
ter1nnng do everything to and enrich
these blessings There better to our SINGER
ty appreciation of the freedoms enjoy in such boun
tifu measure under American Heritage than by work
ing at being full-time citizens.
The American Heritage Foundation which directed the
nationwide of the Freedom Train has proposed that we
revtaze Thanksgiving and other major holidays by max
ing them occasions for stimulating "actve citizenship
These are the nine duties of good citizen suggested
by the Foundation in its holiday program L. vote in all
eections jury when called; B. respect and
obey the laws pay taxes UNDERSTANDINGS B. work for
peace but accept all duties in time of o. avoid group
preudces T. work for better schools g. work for all com
munty improvements; g. practice and teach good citizen
ship at home.
This that must all work seriously for the con-
tnuance of freedoms The future Webeng OF our ma
the hope of free everywhere in the world de-
pends upon this Let thanks that can thus work
for freedom and for the spiritual and material blessings we
have in such abundance.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Shape Of Things To Come

He's guy with union card in his pocket and picket
sign on his shoulder.
He hit the bricks back Oct after the steel industry
gave final no. to the Steeworkers request for pensions
and social insurance.
He had pretty good idea that the strike wouldn't end
in few days and he knew that month out OF work
would really put the pinch on him and his family.
He knew what he striking for It's not hard to Wis
uaze how it would be to draw nice pension check every
month after reaching retirement age.
But we have a hunch that he undersod the Importance
of the role he playing We have idea he didn't
slider himself as fellow who helping make important
trade union history.
And we're willing to bet he scofed bit the first time
somebody said he fighting for all American labor
Yet that's exactly what the Steelworkers doing
when they shut down the industry
They battling in the only way left open to them to
establish broad concept of industrys responsibility
for the welfare of those it employs Industry in the man
had been shrking that responsibility for years
Bethlehem Steel breaking the ndustry's solid front,
began setting pattern when it accepted the unions
non-contrbuoy pension program Others then began fol-
lowing suit.
And strikers began returning to their jobs it wasn't
hard the shape of things to comebetter things.
The security they'll acheve-and other workers will
achieve toowil many many times the high cost of
a nationwide steel strike.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
WASHINGTON LABOR REPORT
Giunt Electric Firms Denounce Reds
But Love Their Contracts
By BRADFORD v. CARTER

unons everywhere have shocked the
@ but those familiar with the situation the electrical industry
stand taken BY the big Corporations in regard the new nt Union
Of Electrical Radio Machine Workers set at the recent
At convention United Electrical Workers, et-led
eSpesd and the 1E formed take place
SJ S$ 5
also UE union that anlabor employers seemed to
Why did the ndustEials vocalIy
communsm play footsie with the most obviously renged union
may be clearer than ever before they expecting just this
p %es 1d sos contracts wit" ''" they guessed would end
years Ps0 nt that o % a ffs S General a e s n ~ gE %
industry actually Energy
Isna is &c % that % security & reasons ~n the they @ to
1S s ' ss
The year before that when installations first thrown
% S1s so Of % n ans Sh % @
fT aF ne | Tf 4 % e Ct s nex tine m s to % ae
s" Hs VI continue deal with oI 1"s,. ordered DO otherwise by
wansd asaR ] uns for % % Is %ny s2 loaoa a % Bs
''D"S These e Pouheu
aSeson % appGps at snsa s na Of @ Sae the SE N % The is 5
b1 has s for Se pRsHns @ sP @ g e @ The %
elections UE wants elections their only chance Of
be ayS pc Of Pn the company g the basis Of this a5gan a6
f5 Ss %s'
EASILY esf h BE no Fe" Of the fact that could
Sd sa bG5 5 ae DS Y aRe M Am 0a OF
mated local (75l represents dozens of plants mostly in Brooklyn
The UE leaders had not signed Communist affdav
therefore could not participate in NLRB elections The employers
together and offered the terrible contract They UE
alternative however They could either sign the employers
Hs1a s asS Sara sn Che E Out h
such weak position there they
provisions other
Many of weakest UE
the CP a for victory At that the UE
1879 speedup, their contribution to the effort
The first big contract signed after the with
Motors Corp Most Of the GIN workers represented by
WokersCO JAW staged long and bitter throughout
the winter of 19456 actndng board
ing the up E which represented
percentage of GIN workers. had signed backs for
1812c.
Philip Murray repudiated the IN
holy trinity the Communist Party the old UE and
On Nov the Journal of Commerce pointed that
play role in the coming fight with the Communists.
Business Week Nov 2 stated bunty e failure
of ing forces depends which
bargaining and signs the contracts with GE Westinghouse
Chalmers, Int Harvester Pacific shippers and others.
"To pursuing practices
the Hartley
the of the looming
Which way you think they'll throw their weight?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Question

Latest Department Of Labor figures the cost of iv-
ing bear out what most trade unionsts already nowtha
prices again the upturn.
The cost of living index shows that prices hit their peak
in August and September of 948 and then declined slightly
amid much bayhoo from the newspapers-unti February
of 1919.
Between February and August Of this year the cost Of
living held about steady with only minor variations. Then
last August prices started edgng upwards again and the
latest figure released last week. shows that the upward
movement is still continuing.
The question that now comes to mind is this: What
happened all those promises Of lower prices that appeared
in the newspaper ads few months ago? What happened to
the pledge that prices would drop if labor eased up de-
mands for big wage increases?
Wha HOnDen2
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Truth Must Be Told

Good advice for businessmen from Gen. Dwight d.
Eisenhower:
can think of with influence than business
who advertise You have ceaseless and daily impact
upon all
But believe if you going to continue to sell through
the decades YOU must sell also understanding of the Am
erican economic system.
believe that understanding be brought about
by one means telling the truth
Never let anything that say about America be capa-
bic of being stood up aSehood evasion, distortion
because the truth is sufficient.
But this truth must be told and you position to
tell it,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Bankruptcy?

The Fair Deal is leading America into bankruptcy! Big
businessmen repeat that line almost often they say
Industry do no harm"
So let's take a look at this bankruptcy:
More than half of the 50 million families in America to-
day automobiles.
Better than three fourths of the families have life in
policies with annual premiums of at least $100'
Seventy-one per cent have banking accounts Gov
ernment savings bonds.
Nearly half own home farm
All this information is from the Federal Reserve Board
Now let's check that bankruptcy talk in the Union League
clubroomS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Time

In recent speech Dr. A. L. Chapman Chief of the Di-
vision of Chronic Disease of the u S. Public Health Service
raised question of vital interest to trade unionsts.
Noting the tendency of many employers to discriminate
against hiring older workers. DR. Chapman said this requires
to the basic probem What do mean by
aging?
AS physician, DR.. Chapman had answer Chrome
logical he pointed out only rough guide to true
age persons od at 40' while others may be termed
"80-year youngsters"
He suggests the time has come to change thinking
about old and cites the example of big business find
ing jobs for it's aging executives by promoting them less
strenuous advisory positions
Trade unionists will heartily agree with Dr. Chapmans
suggestion that it is time for industry to adopt the
ghened attitude towards employees below the executive
level.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
A Historian Hos His Say

The noted historian, Pulitzerprze winner Arthur NJ
Schesnger Jr of Harvard University explains lot about
politics of today when he says in his recent book
For many decades, businessmen fought almost every
looking to the improvement of conditions of labor
pursuing their quest for economic with caous dis
regard for their weaker competitors or for workers
g. the American business community has not had an
inspiring record in politics. Business fought Jackson it
fought Lincoln fought Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson
and Franklin ID. Roosevelt; and virtually all the issues
of controversy, Americans believe the business
munity to have been wrong
g. American capitalism responded to the depression
by attack of Mysteries 1t responded to the challenge of
NazSm by founding the America First Committee 1t
ponded to the opportunities opened by the second world
by rushing to dismante the instrumenates of Ameri
military and economic Influence in the of tax
duction."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
The Shop Card Lesson

Again and again the lesson the Union Shop Card and
Label has been dinned into the of Organized Labor
Some has been made but not enough There is still
much to be done.
If the people of Labor had learned the lesson they
would today be using their tremendous buying power intel
genty to promote the of the Unions There anti
Union firm in the country that could live if all Union patron
age withdrawn right down the line.
Yet, every time Union man, or member of his fam
lily, makes non-Union purchase, he undemines his
economic welfare When if ever, will we learn?