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Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT
IS THIS?

James H. McGraw, Jr., president of the
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, has ask
ed a question which every thoughtful Amer
lean should consider. Here it is:
what kind of a government is it which
through its Department of Justice prose
cutes the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Com
pany which it asserts handles about 61z per
cent of the retail food distributing business
as an illegal monopoly in restraint of trade,
and seeks to break up four big meat pack
ing companies and make them into IA COM
panies, charging the four with being mon
Opoly in restraint of trade, but makes no
move whatsoever to apply the Federal anti
trust laws to the exercise of virtually 100
per cent monopoly control of labor in the
coal industry, and the only slightly less COM
plete monopoly control of labor in the steel
Industry" A child can see that no mono
poly exists in retailing. 1t is one of the most
competitive of all enterprises. Any store,
whether it be big chain or small inde-
pendent, can win patronage only by offer
ing lower prices, better services, higher
quality merchandise, or some other induce
ment. Every store must be always on its
toes if it is to keep its business from going
to some aggressive competitor. And the same
thing is true of the packing industry, in
which thousands of concerns are in year
round competition for the available supply
of meat Only in the big labor unions do we
find real monopoly. To quote Mr.. McGraw
again, SIN its power and scope it makes the
alleged business mOnOpOlieS being prOsecut-
ed under the Federal antitrust laws seem
positively piddling. In its manners it makes
the Old-time business mOnOpOlists look like
Lord Fauntleroys. =. The labor monopoly
has become the dominant national force in
our country tOday-a force that is leading
to the loss of freedom of all workers." This
is so clear and logical that it would seem un-
necessary to say it. Yet the government has
stood supinely by while handful of big-shot
labor leaders, using their monopoly powers
ruthlessly, have undermined the strength and
security of the nation, and directly and in
directly thrown millions of people out of
work. The example of the coal industry
alone, where John L. Lewis periodically shuts
all operations down at his whim, should be
sufficient to awaken us to the growing danger.
The next Congress can perform a vital ser
vice for everyone, including the working
man, by destroying a monopoly power which
is intolerable in free nation. Labor should
not be Disseminated against. 1t should SIM
ply be brought under the same laws that ap-
ply to the rest of us.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

ture appOintees to the Moscow post. 1t reads:
Two general ideas should govern what is
brought to the Soviet Union. (1) NOTHING
is obtainable there, and (2) it is cold, both
indoors and out, a good deal Of the year." !"
This same report lists dozens of articles
which are unobtainable in Moscow, including
radios and other electrical equipment; foun-
tain pens, lighter fluid, mothballs, shoeshine
kits, needles, matches, first-aid kits, dark
glasses, ash trays, watch straps, bulbs and
General puts it, Americans with their cor
ner drugstOres, supeTmarkets and five-and-
ten-cent stores can hardly imagine the life
of foreigners in Moscow" The point is, of
course, that Russian consumer industry is
unbelievably small for country of its size
population, and natural resources. The
masses of the Russian people live on a sub
sistence level that would be intOlerable to us.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Thirty Years Ago 81 81 4is Fsia a88a E8P dBo5ss The ss

On Saturday night, November %.
1919, Mary HOllinger and James
Wilson we're united in the holy
bonds of WedlOck by Rev. w. s.
Grant at the parsonage. Mary is
the granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William COverdale and James is
the Oldest son Of Mr. and Mrs
Arland Wilson, both Of this town.
-
Milford Council No. 3, j. O. II
A. NJ, attended church last SUNDAY
in a body. This is one of the great
est orders in the country. and II
has as its principles the upholding
of the American Flag and the pub-
lie schools. The way it has taken
in new members in the last three
weeks is proof of its popularity.
Sity-fiVe new members Joined in
Milford last month and they are
expecting a big night in Milford
next Saturday, when the Eureka
Council Of Wilmington will confer
the degrees on the new class in
ArmOry Hall.
-
Governor Townsend has appoint
ed the following delegates to the
National League Of Compulsory Ed
ucatiOn Oficials, which is being
held at the Bellevue -Stratford.
Philadelphia: Miss Ruth Jones,
Wilmington; Miss Leila Thomas.
Dover; Miss Laura S. Richards,
Georgetown; Messrs. Wilbur H.
Jump, Middletown: E. J. Hardesty.
SeafOrd; H. V. Holloway, Dover.
Governor Townsend also an
nOunced the following appoint
ments: Miss Mary A. Morah, of Will
mingtOn, member of the State
Board of Examiners of Graduate
Nurses, in lieu of Miss Anna NJ
Hook, resigned; Carroll s. Fisher
Of Wyoming and James F. McIvOT
of Wilmington, special collectors OF
state revenue.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09


of the earth be found.
Stimulate Religious Activity
This means that we must go down swiftly to the
very grass-roots of religion and stir the common
people to an awareness of the potency of spiritual
rebirth in combating tOday's multfOld threats We
must build well churches. even the smallest of
them we must find ingenious methods of swelling
attendance and Of creating greater financial support
of all our religious institutions.
Our churches must be made the cornerstone of
our national culture, not merely houses of worship
for a handful of the truly devout. Religion must
be forged into instrument of vializaOn and prog
ress for ourselves and our neghbOrs. Love for in
dividuas and for the intrinsic human soul must be
made so much part of our lives that lust for power
economic greed, and brutal means to an end will
be repulsive to mankind.
No Church Too Small
1t will do us no harm to observe and learn from
the tactics of Pennsylvania minister what can be
achieved by little battle in the big war for religious
revival. Asking for the toughest assignment avail
able, the Reverend Hudson Clements was assigned
by his Lutheran Board of Missions to the Trinity
Lutheran Church at Butler, Pennsylvania. There
we're only 25 persons in the congregation when he
took over. There were 24477 souls in and around
Butler consisting of farmers. steel workers and
merchants Surely, modern business methods would
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Ad Ban eharged

The Democratic national COM
mittee charges that some larger
newspapers have refused 70 accent
the advertising Of the national fed
Grafton Of independent business
which answered the big ads placed
in the newspapers by the A & p
company regarding the antitrust
suit brought by the department Of
justice. OF the four newspapers IN
Washington. only one would accent
the ad, the national committee
charges. although these papers
printed the ad Of the A &P.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
D-AA9NOHu 3ANOe-GSOU Church Members

BABSON PARK, Mass, Dec. 9
If peace is to be achieved in
this most unpredictable world, it
surely must come upon a surg
ing tide of spiritual faith. There
must be a mighty wave of relig-
ious reawakening. 1t has been
proven again and again to the
misery of all people, that mater
ialism is a dangerous founda-
ton. Only upon such concepts
as the Golden Rule. the Ten
Commandments, and the Sacred
ness of the Individual soul, can
ouvr roa1 eOI,,fior e. A. an
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Public Works Plan

The bureau Of community facili-
ties Of the general services admin
istration win administer the public
works program authorized by the
8lst congress with the appropria-
ton Of Is million dollars for the
advance planning program for fiscal
1850. This is in addition to a SIS
million already authorized under
a 1914 law. The plan is for local
municipalities to plan and hold for
reserve a backlog Of public works
readily available.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
TOWARD kEANER HOGS

For many years successful research has
been given to developing hog strains which
produce more lean meat, for which the mar
ket is usually strong and profitable to the
producer, and less lard, which is difficult to
sell and is of small financial value Yet, ac-
cOrding to one student of the problem, 'The
outstanding fact is that, while everybody
talks about it, no widespread changes have
as yet taken place. In years of plenteOus feed
supply farmers pour corn into their butcher
hogs to bring many up to 300 to $50 pounds
Often-timeS these hogs carry quilt of fat
over four inches thick with very little added
growth in the muscular core of the animal"
The solution to the problem lies in raising
more hogs and marketing them at lighter
weights. The simplest way to do this is for
farmers to save more of their little pigs. The
average litter is about 10 pigs-yet last yea",
a government survey found, only 61@ were
alive at weaving time Half of that loss is
caused by the SOW crushing her young when
she rolls or shifts position. 1t has been prov
en-, through actual tests, that this can be
largely avoided by improving hog houses. A
ledge is built, under which the small pigs can
run to safety when the SOW moves. If, in ad-
ditiOn, a covered brOOder heated by lamp is
provided so the pigs can find warmth, sub
stantial part of the remaining loss can be pre-
vented. 1t is estimated that such simple steps
as this would, in time, give the country 49,
100000 more pigs year. The hog supply
could then be marketed at a lower weight and
in a leaner state, there would be no need for
OveTfeeding, and the farmer and all others
concerned would profit greatly.
5000
BIG GOVERNMENT is DANGEROUS
Former Secretary of State Byrnes made
an address to Southern Governors in Biloxi.
Mississippi, few days ago and he laid his
cards on the table in making demand on the
States to demand reduction of wartime
patronage" and he accused the Truman Ad-
ministratiOn of offering excuses for big
spending. Byrnes told Is Governors "that
big Government is more dangerous than big
business" In general analysis of cOndi-
tons in the Government at Washington.
Byrnes endorsed the policy of rendering
financial assistance for the rehabilitation of
Western Europe" He added that he had new
er known a Department or Agency of the
Government that did not ask for more than
it needed. There was nothing morbid in what
Byrnes said, but he certainly did hit the bulls
eye and that's the reason we are quoting him.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
More Sinners Ahead

COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO.
-(H1-WheE Katherine NellesOn
10, won second prize in a soap draw
ing contest, she showed up for the
judging with a black eve. Shed
picked up the sinner In a football
game with neighborhood kids. Her
prize-a football.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

With the General Motors cor
pOratiOn declaring an s. divi-
dend on q $40 par valne stock
this year for its $4,000 stock
holders who split a grand total
Of S5S million dollars IN divi-
dends after taxes, it appears 20
this reporter that all this prop
aganda about our government
hurting the free enterprise sys-
tenn sounds pretty silly.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
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Tax shomdown pua
IN WASHINGTON

FROM ALL INDICATIONS there
4 likely win be a showdown in
the next session Of the sIst con-
gress over the taxing Of patronage
dividends Of farm cooperatives,
now exempt under section i0l Of
the internal revenue code.
The National Tax Equality asso-
citation and the National Association
Of Business Men. a parent and a
subsidiary organization which have
members Of the same law firm as
officers. and which claim to repre-
sent small business. have been
Waging unremitting warfare against
the farm co-ops and other tax eX-
empt organizations. They have
placed reams Of testimony before
the small business and other COM
mittees Of the congress.
There are some three million
small business firms strung
out through the country and
there are only something less
than l0,Ooo farm ce-Ops, 50 this
reporter wonders why. n NTEA
and NAB are really Representa-
tive of small business and have
q real case against the cO-Ops,
they have not won this fight
long ago.
What muddies the waters is the
fact that the reports Of these two
organizations filed with the con-
gress under the lobby law. show that
their main contributors Of $500 or
more consist Of big business firms
and large number Of electric utili-
ties.
And insofar as their case against
the co-ops is concerned, whereas
NTEA claims the government is
losing almost a billion dollars an
nually in taxes. a recent report Of
the internal revenue bureau indi-
Gates the amount lost by the tax
exemption insofar as co-ops are
concerned is only something like
% million dollars.
Fact is that this report shows
that farm co-ops which filed under
the code in 1916 paid nearly q mil
lion in all kinds Of local taxes, plus
2.5 million corporation taxes, 50
/ that they are not actually tax ex.
empt. only as to federal income
taxes. So it would be interesting
to know whether or not the hard.
ware store. the farm implement
store, the feed store, the cannery
or any other small business in Win,
amac, Indiana. or Defiance. Ohio
or New Madrid. Missouri. or Enid,
Oklahoma. or any other home town
in any other state are actually IN
this sll-out fight to impose this tax
on the farm co-ops.
With the General Motors cor
pOratiOn declaring an s. divi-
Evening star., 1949-10-06
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-What
did Brooklyn ever do to
Tommy Heinrich?
Sure Allie Reynolds shut out
the Dodgers yesterday with two
hits, but he would have been
pitching yet If "Old Reliable"
hadn't socked that ninth-in-
ming homer for the 10 edge.
Henrich's hex over Flatbush
started exactly eight years ago
yesterday-October S, 1941.
Those who saw it never will
forget the Sunday afternoon at
Ebbets Field when Hugh
Casey's third strike for the last
out of a Brooklyn victory rolled
past Catcher Mickey Owen.
The Yanks went on to score
four runs and take the ball
game.
Who was the hitter that
Casey struck out? Naturally it
was Heinrich, the Dodger hex.
The very next afternoon
when the Yanks applied the
knockout blow it was Henrich's
f1fth-inning homer off Whit
Wyatt over the Ebbets Field
right-f1eld wall that put the
lock on the game.
Six years later in 1947 the
Yanks and Dodgers met again.
Once again Heinrich was in the
lineup, making things miser-
able for Brooklyn Manager
Evening star., 1949-10-06
KuheI Reported
Slated for Chisox
sp.eIel Dispatch to The s.er

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-Joe
Kuhel. recently deposed as
manager of the Mats, will wind
up in the White Sox organiza-
tion, it was learned here to-
day. It is expected that Vice
President Charles Comiskey
and General Manager Frank
Lane will make an announce
ment In the near future.
It also was learned that the
Sox and Detroit may evolve q
deal which would, according to
the grapevine, send Outfielder
Dick Wakefield, Pitcher Dizzy"
Trout and four other players
to Chicago in exchange for
three men of whom Infielder
Cass Michaels Is the key
figure.
tChicaso Daily News.)
Evening star., 1949-10-06
Notes on the Series

Burt Shotton. Tom was a top
New York slugger with a 1923
series average that included a
leadof homer In the fifth in
ming of the second game
against Vic Lombardi. The
Yanks won that one, 1913.
Now it's Heinrich again,
crushing Don Newcombe's shut
out bid with a leadof clout into
the right-field seats in the last
of the ninth, to win yesterdays
opening game.
THAT Henrich-I ought to
get mad at him." shouted
Manager Casey Stengel as he
prepared to take his shower
after the Yankee victory.
Tommy is stealing my stuff.
Why. I hit two home runs in
the 1923 World Series for the
Giants and they were the only
games the Giants won from
the Yankees that year.
Il was all prepared to 60
on a vaudeville tour with Gus
Van and Joe Schenck. But
along came a fellow named
Babe Ruth. He hit three home
runs in that series. They
thought Ruth would be more
valuable on a tour. so I didn't
get to be an actor"
While Newcombe may have
contributed heavily to Brook
lyn's pennarE winning effort
with II triumphs. the big fell
(See NOTES. Page ca
Evening star., 1949-10-06
Baseball Seen Read y
Ito Retain Chandler
las Commissioner
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

BY the Assoeiotsd Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-All mdi'
cations point today to the re-
appointment of A. B. (HappyI
Chandler to the $50,000-a-yeal
job as high commissioner o!
baseball when his seven-year tern
expires April "a, 1851.
Chandler at one time was under
heavy fire, but baseball men here
for the World Series say that the
following factors weigh heavily ir
his behalf:
| 1. Baseball under Chandler
has prospered as never before
with annual major league attend.
ances of 10000. 900, virtually dou.
BILE former averages.
2. The players pension fund
with its stabilizing influence or
baseball, was started under
Chandler.
3. Under Chandler, radio reve-
nue. from the World Series never
has been less than 100000; under
Judge K. M. Lands. his predeces-
sor, it never was more than
100000.
4. Chandler was instrumental
in setting up the Executive Coun-
Gil of baseball, consisting Of the
commissioner, the presidents OF
the two leagues and two club own
ers to operate like a steering COM
mittee of the United States Senate
Keeps Game Clean.
S. Through the rule Chandler
sponsored forbidding the signing
of high school players. school base.
ball has expanded until now rs, ,00t
high school teams are playing. Al
one time school teams dwindled tc
a few thousand.
6. To police baseball, and its
hangers-on, Chandler hired for.
mer members of the Fedora
Bureau of Investigation on recon-.
mendation OF j. Edgar Hoover anc
these men now do all investigating
for the commissioners Office.
7. And lastly, there is no ap.
parent formidable candidate in the
field against the commissioner.
While. Chandler is not entirely
responsible for the increases ir
baseball revenue or the encourage.
ment OF attendance. his friends
point out he probably would have
been blamed If revenues dropped
and attendance fell off.
There was considerable criticism
of Chandler, both in and out o1
baseball. when he first took over
In the first place he was entirely
unlike the famous old Judge Lam
dis, who ruled with such an iron
hand. Then Chandler had several
unfortunate arguments over being
misquoted.
Baseball Well Run.
The Mexican League, Turing
American stars with hefty bags OF
gold, rose to plague baseball in
1916. In 1947 came Chandler's
suspension of Leo Durocher. man.
ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
/ Recently. however. baseball
affairs have run smoothly. The
threat of the Mexican league has
disappeared. The Jumpers" have
been welcomed back into the fold
Only Danny Gardella's antitrust
suit in Federal court remains as q
cloud on the horizon.
So baseball men think that
Chandler, with the powerful sup
port Of some Of the most infiu-
entail club owners, probably will
be offered a new contract when
! the present one expires.
Evening star., 1949-10-06
Henrich's Homer to Beat Buns
Follows Yonk Victory Pattern

team, but II was a typical Yankee
finish Heinrich gave the customers
yesterday. It was one devastating
blow, a crusher that either takes
the heart out Of the opposition
or prompts extreme cautiousness
in pitching plans.
Newcombe, an inconSolable
figure after the game. made the
mistake Of getting behind on Hen
rich. His first two pitches to
Tommy were balls. His next was
a curve that didn't break. He
had meant to get it high. but it
was waist-high, and on that one
faulty pitch after so many magnif-
icent ones he was belted into
defeat.
Not until late innings did the
crowd perk up. Then it became
evident that Newcombe might
break the World Series strikeout
record for one pitcher set by Phil
adelphia's Howard Ehmke in 1929
when he famed Is Chicago Cubs.
He didn't reach that mark, but 1t
was a thrilling pitching display
nevertheless.
Newcombe struck out the side
in the second. again in the fifth
and added two more in the eighth.
He whitfield Mapes three times and
johnson and Coleman twice each.
The Dodgers weren't without
opportunity. In the second inning
Reynolds walked Gene Hermanski
and Carl Furillo. At that point
Gil Hodges twice tried to sacrifice
and his failure was costly. He
drilled a double-play ball back at
Reynolds. who then got Roy Cam
PAMELA to fly out, leaving Her.
manski stranded on third.
In the eighth Peewee Reese
singled and stole second with one
out, but Reynolds struck out
Johnny Jorgensen and Duke
Snider. Snider was a Reynolds
strikeout victim on three occa-
SionS.
The Dodgers only other hit
came in the first inning when
Lindell broke in on Jorgensen's fly,
only to be embarrassed when the
ball sailed over his head for a
double. That blow came with one
out but created no problem for
Reynolds, who famed Snider and
disposed of Jackie Robinson on
a fly to Mapes.
Reynolds contributed two of the
Yankees four hits in the eight
innings. He doubled in the third
and singled in the sixth, matching
the production of Lindell'sl single
in the second and Coleman's
eighth-inning double. Then along
came Heinrich with the payoff
punch.
BRIEFLY-The, clubs shift to
Ebbets Field. home of the Dodgers,
for the first of three games, If
necessary, tomorrow .. outfielder
Furillo of the Dodgers is limping
badly as the result Of q groin
injury, so badly that most OBJ
servers are surprised Manager
Burt Shotton is playing him.
Reynolds double was Brooklyn
gift -. they overshifted on Allie
and what should have been a
routine out became a double !. i
by tanning 20 batters Newcombe
and Reynolds nearly equalled the
mark Of % set by Mort Cooper
and Danny Galehouse in the 1914
World Series between the st.
Louis Browns and Cardinals.
Evening star., 1949-10-06
Little Series, Hit by Roin.
Is On Again Tonight
BY the Assoeioisd Press

INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 6.-The
Montreal Royals and the Indiana
polls Indians will try again tonight
to get the Indianapolis phase of
the Little World Series started.
Rain last night forced post
ponement Of the fourth game of
the best-of-seven series between
the playoff champions Of the In
ternational League and the Ameri-
can Association. Indianapolis
came home with q al lead after
three games at Montreal.3
Evening star., 1949-10-06
World Series
Focts,Figures
By the Assoeioisd Prssi

W. L. Pct.
New York "a. L)- o 1000
Brooklyn IN. L. --O., 900
First game at Yankee Stadium, New
York:
Brooklyn IN. L. - o 2 0
New York "a. L. ---- l
Newcombe and Campanella; Reynolds
and Berra.
Second game at Yankee Stadium today.
Third and fourth games to be played
at Ebbets' Field. Brooklyn. Friday ana
Saturday.
Fifth game tn necessary to be played
at Ebbets' Field, Sunday.
Sixth and seventh games Gf necessary
to be played at Yankee Stadium. New
York, October 10 and IL.
First game financial figures:
Attendance-66,224.
1850 tnet).
Commissioners share-$47 .059 10.
Clubs and leagues shares-$106, ,667.52.
Players share-$1 0,001.2S.
Evening star., 1949-10-06
Don and Allie Weren't Far From Records

The first clue way which Don Newcombe, large.
Negro pitching struck Joe DMaggo
second inning That last fast ball OF New
combes spanked sharply of Campanea that
DiMag completed only half a swing.
pitch should been the tipof that Newcombe at
yielded single John Lindeu foolish
PITCH famed Billy Johnson and Bruce Mapes
skeouts that fell only two short OF eqaul
World Series record set by Howard Ehmke October
1929, AS pitcher whitfield 13 Cubs
with Reynolds stalng and posing plus little OF
the restless trong foresaw the
possibility best history It wasn't
eighth full appreciation felt BY this
time Newcombe Reynolds who
ticay perfect the FRAME had nine ws This
of the series record for strike
q by opposing pitchers.