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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03

be the subject of the first few days
of hearings.
Then Celler wants to consider
proposals for strengthening our
present antitrust laws by increas-
ing the penalties for violations.
The antitrust division wins almost
all of its cases-but the penalties
often are so mild that they do little
to deter monopolistic practices.
But more important than any
thing else, Celler wants to inquire
into the desirability of enacting
stronger antitrust laws-aimed
more directly at breaking up the
great n du 5 tr al concentrations
which dominate most of American
industry. Little has been done in
this direction since the Standard
Oil trust was dissolved almost 40
years ago. The New York Con-
gressman feels that concentration
has now gone so far that, if pos
sible, we must begin breaking in
dustry up into smaller units.
One of his favorite subjects in
this connection is the insurance in
dustry, which today controls assets
of about $50,000,000,000. The Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company
alone controls assets of about $5,-
900, GOO, ,000-which makes it one of
the biggest concentrations of econ
omic power in all the history of
the world. Celler wants to explore
the possibility suggested many
years ago by Charles Evans
Hughes, later president and chief
justice-of limiting the size of in
surance companies.
This might involve breaking into
smaller units such great aggre-
gates of power as the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Company. Evid-
ence will be presented to show that
smaller insurance companies are
just as safe, just as economical,
and in many ways more efficient.
The evidence will show, too, that
big concentrations like Metropoli-
tan make it difficult for small
business to get the financing they
need.
This is only one Of the investi-
cations currently being launched
by Congress into the insurance
companies-which used their pow
erful lobby to block Celler's pro-
posal for a broad 100000 inyesti-
yation of them. A subcommittee of
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee is investigating the tax
laws to see why the companies,
with earnings of a billion and
half year, pay no income taxes.
The new lobby investigating com
mittee is expected to go into the
operations Of the insurance lobby,
which has obtained such special
favors from Congress. And the
O'Mahoney economic committee is
studying the insurance industry's
tendency to monopolize capital for
expansion of business, which re-
suits in channelng this capital into
the hands Of big, rather than small
enterprise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03
Oregon Evidence
Shows Doctors
Monopoly Works

Portland, Ore. (LPA) = While
the A merican Medical Assn
screams that antitrust investiga-
tions of organized medicine are
purely political, evidence is piling
up before the federal court here
that the Oregon Medical Society
has been discriminating against
doctors who cooperate with con-
sumer-controlled health insurance
plans-a tactic for which the ANA
once before was convicted Of anti
trust violations.
Here are some of the charges
from doctors and other witnesses
as the Antitrust Division of the
Justice Dept developed its case:
1-One doctor told how he was
expelled from the county and state
societies, and the American Medi-
cal Assn because he accepted pay
ment from the Natl Hospital As
sociation for, treating MIA sub
scribers. MIA is one. of several
private prepayment plans which
grew up in the state to meet the
needs of industrial workers and
employers for such a program.
Another doctor told of pres
sure put on him to stop treating
MIA subscribers, on the threat of
expulsion from the medical societ-
les.
3-The ex-director of the Oregon
Medical Service Inc, another pri-
vate prepayment plan, told how
his outfit was forced to close down
in 1910, after physicians resigned
when faced with a choice between
expulsion from the professional
societies and staying with the Ser
vice.
4-Still another doctor testified
that he was forced to resign from
the Portland medical society be-
cause he was president of the In
dustrial Hospital Assn, a prepaid
private medical care plan. Minutes
of the county medical society meet
ing at which this doctor was ex-
PEELED were placed in evidence.
5-The general manager of Natl
Hospital Association quoted doc
tor, whom he named, as explaining
that doctors were ordered to quit
treating MIA subscribers after the
Portland county medical society
had met with DR.. Morris Fishbein
of the American Medical Assn.
6-Letters from four hospitals
to MIA in 1910, stating they'd no
longer accept MIA subscribers as
patients, were placed in the record.
Hereafter, only hospital associa-
tions owned and operated by ply
sicians will be acceptable to us"
the hospitals notified the private
prepaid plan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03
RAYMOND f. holland

Raymond Edward holland, 1O74
Peake St., died Oct. % in City
Hospital, following severa
weeks illness. He was 81.
Mr.. holland was born in st.
Marys, w. Va, and lived in East
Liverpool for 26 years. He was a
warehouseman at Plant of the
Homer Laughlin China Co.
He was member of the First
Free Methodist Church and Local
SO, National Brotherhood of OPP
erative Potters.
He leaves his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Asa holland; two brothers,
Robert D.. holland and Louis b.
holland at home, and four sisters,
Mrs. Earl Doughty of Smiths Fer
ry, Mrs. Arthur Duke and Mrs.
Maxwell Melott of East Liverpool,
and Miss Elinor B. holland at home.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03
Bunche Hits Failure OF Schools
To End Intolerance

Albany, N. Y. LPA)-The Am
erican school system is a failure
in the field of human relations, DIR.
Ralph Bunche declared at the 83rd
convocation of the University Of
the State of New York. The result
is that intolerance is rampant, he
declared. Intergroup strife, he said,
is undermining the very founda-
tion of our American way of life."
DR.. Bunche, director of the United
Nations department of trusteeship
received an honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03
British Government SIdshes Costs;
Food, Medical Programs Affected

London (LPA)-Prlme Minister
Clement Attlee has announced that
the nation would have to cut spend
ing by 700 million dollars.
Disheartening to many was Att
lees disclosure that part of the
slash would have to affect the food
and medical programs to some ex-
tent. Devaluation of the pound
made it certain that some such step
would have to be taken to ward of
a disastrous initiation.
Specifically, Attlee said medical
prescriptions would no longer be
free-except to old-age pensioners
that the cost of school meals would
be increased by a penny, and that
free and cheap transportation OF
school children would be reconsid-
cred later. Cost Of medical pre-
scriptions will be limited to a mod
est shilling, however, and the eff
feet on actual medical service may
be less than at first seems prob
able.
The lot of housewives certainly
will not be improved by the end OF
subsidies on fish, an important item
in British diet, for the price of fish
is expected to rise-but not until
spring when the subsidies actually
end. However, the price of raisins
and dried eggs will rise at once
with the immediate removal of
subsidies on those products.
Attlee announced cut Of near
ly 100 million dollars in public
housing, and a further cut in the
number of licenses allowed for pri-
vate housing. He also hinted that
the rate Of school building will be
cut.
Other cuts will be made i'm the
governments capital investment
program, in the administrative
costs of many government bureaus,
in the defense bill and in the cost
of such specific projects as next
years festival of Britain and the
governments information service.
Attlee said the government had
tried to distribute the economies
fairly, but many thought that
wage-earners would bear the brunt,
Meanwhile, British trade union
leaders, pending Attlee's announce
ment, had made no final statement
on devaluation of the pound. The
General Council of the British
Trades Union Congress had been
urging unionists to remain patient
since the TUGS policy of a wage
showdown, in line with govern
ment requests, still stood. The
Council was scheduled to consider
the governments new austerities
on October 26.
Interest has been centering about
the million and a half British
workers-notably in steel-whose
wages are hitched by contract to
the cost of living, If their wages go
up now in the face of initiation,
pressure from other groups for in
,reases will be tremendous, it is
agreed, The Labor government
may wish to suspend these union
contract provisions.
The idea of minimum wage,
ong opposed by British unions, is
pretty much out the window. So
also, it appears, is the principle of
directed" labor whereby the gov
srnment could order workers to
specific areas.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03
Monopoly Probe Hos Power
To Prevent Growing Evil

Washington (LPA)-What may
turn out to be the most important
Congressional investigation in a
decade is getting under way this
week. 1t is the investigation OF
monopoly by the Celler Committee
of the House-the first investiga-
ting committee in many years that
has had authority to legislate on
the problem of monopoly.
There have been many such in
vestigations in the past 10 years
beginning with the famous TNEC
inquiry under Sen. Joseph c. O'Ma-
honey in 1899. All of these commit
tees reported the same thing-that
monopoly was threatening our Am
erican system of free competitive
enterprise which made our coun-
try the greatest in the world.
Similar warnings were submitted
to the Celler committee in pre-
liminary hearings during the sum-
mer. But despite all these warn
ings-accompanied by similar ones
from several recent presidents and
by regulatory commissions-COn-
gress has failed to act. In fact, it
has disregarded these warnings
and lifted or eased the monopoly
restrictions on such great fields of
enterprise as transportation and
insurance.
But the Celler Committee has
authority-if it reaches the same
conclusions as the other investigat
ing committees-to do something
about it. This commttee--headed
by Rep. Emanuel Celler Cd, N.YD
lis a subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee which handles
monopoly legislation-and has in
past years initiated legislation
easing the restrictions on mono
poly.
The Celler committee is domin-
ated by conservatives. But even
conservatives can sometimes be in
fluenced by overwhelming evidence.
And the evidence on monopoly is
pretty overwhelming-so much so
that no Congressional investigat-
ing committee in many years has
failed to be concerned about it.
Celler is not trying to prove the
danger of monopoly. He feels that
has been proved. He is concerned
with what should be done about it.
He feels strongly that something
must be done, if our children are to
have a chance to go into the kind
of business they want to engage in,
if we want small enterprise to sur
vive, and if we want to avoid an
unbalance in our economy that can
wreck our economic system.
The kind of monopoly Celler is
worrying about is not the kind
most people think Of when they
discuss monopoly--a single com
pany controlling an industry as the
Aluminium Company of America
did before the war. What concerns
him is a more modern form of
monopoly-eurrent today-in which
three or four big companies domi-
nate an industry and have such
economic power that they control
prices and production policies in
that industry.
Celler proposes to investigate
number of possible solutions that
We're suggested by prominent wit
nesses in the preliminary hearings.
One is to change the purchasing
policies Of government so that they
will work in the interests of small,
rather than big, business. This will
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03
YOUTH COMMITTEES FORMED

Washington (LPA)-The White
House Conference on Children and
Youth has urged Governors of the
states and territories to set up
committees dealing with the spec
ial problems of young people.
Labor has urged its members to be
sure they are represented on all
such committees set up.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-03

contribution too. To some, this
seemed to show a weakening on
the part of the industry.
Another sign of activity was the
request by two steel companies
that Presidential fact-finders who
recommended the company paid
10-cent package issue a "clarifi-
cation" of their findings.
To this, DR.. Carroll Daugherty,
who served as chairman of the
fact finders, said "The original re-
port will have to stand as it is.
Our job is done"
The conscience of a people is
their power.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
Assign Maj. Rishel
TO Spokane Base

Maj. George R. Rishel who
attended grade school in Lau-
rel and high school in Billings,
was recently assigned to the
Spokane air force (92nd bonn
bardment wing) it has been an
rounced by Brig. Gen. James E.
Briggs, commanding.
Spokane air force base is the
largest bomber base on the west
coast and is under jurisdiction of
the Fifteenth air force of the
strategic air command. 1t is
also the home of the famous
Ninety-second and Ninety-eighth
bomb groups. Planes and person
nel from this wing may be order
ed to such places as Germany,
and Alaska to further
their optional training.
Major Rishel entered the mil
itary service Sept. %, 1888, at
Missoula. He was commissioned
at camp Lee, Va, in May 1912.
He and Mrs. Rishel, the form
err Helen j. Nelson, Spokane, and
their children, Barbara and Lin
da, will reside at 1921 West
Spokane.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
|. o. O. F. Installs
Complete Corps Of
Officers For Year

Announcement has been made
of the installation of the COM
plete staff of officers of the 1.
o. o. F. for the coming year.
They are l.. w. Armstrong,
noble grand; Clyde Dacker, vice
grand; w. l.. Orndorff, past
noble grand; Harry T. White,
secretary = treasurer; Forrest
Thayer, financial secretary; Har-
cid VanNice, chaplain; Thomas
Everett, warden; F. E. Jacobson,
inside guardian; Peter Thomson,
right supporter to the noble
grand; L.. L. Smith, left sup
porter to the noble grand; Will
liam Wilson, right supporter to
the vice grand; William Higgen-
botham, left supporter to the
vice grand; William Gerke, right
scene supporter and Alex Leis,
left scene supporter.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
Miss KOber Of Park
City At Inauguration

Washington, Jan. 26.-M S S
Rose Kober of Park City was in
Washington Jan. 20 for the in
auguration of Pres. Harry S.
Truman-one of a party of $50
Farmers Union members at the
capital at the time.
Miss Kober, with other men,
bers of the group from the state
called on Senators Ecton and
Murray and Congressman Mans
fled and D'Ewart in the interests
of legislation supported by the
group.
At a meeting with Sen. Elmer
Thomas, chairman of the senate
agriculture committee, they urged
that congress enact legislation
supporting farm prices 100 per
cent of parity for family farm
ers.
The group also urged an REA
type of loan program to build
storage facilities for foods and
fibres (1) on farms, (2) through
cooperatives and (3) by the gov
eminent for lease to farmers
a means for farmers should be
to store their crops and market
them as needed around the cal
endar.
In their calls, the group sup
ported an MVA, United Nations,
international food and agricul-
tural organization, and a world
food board. They urged renego-
tiation and ratification of a
world wheat agreement, rejected
by the last congress. They OPP
posed universal military training.
There were 100 Farmers Union
members from six states in the
group.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
Wesleyan Guild Seats
Its Officers For '49

The Wesleyan Service guild
met Tuesday evening at the
Methodist church, with Elizabeth
Cooke as program chairman and
Rosetta Fritz and Grace Stadal-
man as hostesses.
Officers recently installed
were Alyce Leis, president; Inez
S%turtevant, vice president; Edith
T~'eeters, secretary-treasurer; Eth
ell Shay, spiritual life chairman;
Rosetta Fritz, membership chair
man; Grace Stadalman, publicity
chairman, and Winifred Wilson,
pianist. -.
The guild meets at the church
the last Tuesday of each month.
The next meeting will be Feb.
%, at which Miss Stadalman as
program chairman will present
a program on Hawaii.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
How to Put Out a Fire

When a fire is small, it can be
put out easily. You can stamp it
out with your foot. smother it with
a rug or douse it with a pail of
water. One of the commonest kinds
of fires in a home-food or grease
burning on the stove-can best be
put out by placing a metal cover
ON the pan or vessel containing
the burning food. Such action at
the start of the fire may be more
effective than the work of the en-
tire fire department five minutes
later.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26

Strending, Mrs. Robert Strend-
ing and Mrs. Schmidt.
With Mrs. Alice Fisher, senior
regent, presiding, the Women of
the Moose met last Wednesday
evening in the Moose hall. An
invitation was read from the
Billings chapter to attend a
conference of the college or reg
ents and plans were discussed
for accepting the invitation.
Committee reports were given
and a lunch was served. Host
esses were Mrs. Julia Times
and Mrs. Clara Getz. The next
meeting is to be at the hall
Wednesday, Feb. 9.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
The News
of AUR
It'll \ Mn I'm I'm 4 1000 \ Dn I'M unl \ nM nMnnI

Mrs. Ralph Lumsdon was hos
tess Wednesday of last week to
the Rebekah Thimble club and
served a lunch. Mrs. C. H. An
derson, a former Laurel resident
who is now residing in James
town, N. D., and was visiting
in Billings, was a guest of the
club. Mrs. A. j. Motzko, pres
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26

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Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26

ident, was in charge of the
meeting. Members worked dur
ing the evening on a comfort.
The next meeting is to be at
the home of Mrs. Motzko.
Honoring Mrs. Alex Schmidt,
Mrs. Caron Burt and Mrs. Harry
Defines were hostesses at Mrs.
Defines home Thursday at a
pink and blue shower. Games
were played and a lunch was
served. Guests we're Mrs. Ry-
mold Frank, Mrs. Montell Fox,
Mrs. Roy Sandman, Mrs. H. E.
Hudson, Mrs. A. LaPouse, Mrs.
E. H. Ebersviller, Mrs. Henry
Mrs. Harold Propp, Mrs.
Emil Ebersviller, Mrs. Henry
IICE nITTI nnK A Mt AIS
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
"Artificial Cows" Increasing

Farmer members of artificial
dairy herd dissemination associa-
tions own about 1,750, 600 cows. The
total number of cows owned by
such association members in 1910
was less than 25,000.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
Imagination Prevails

IF the greatest philosopher in he
world" says Pascal, finds himself
upon a plank wider than actually
necessary, but hanging over a
precipice, his imagination will pre-
vail, though his reason convince
him Of his safety"
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
Tn Pixies Peak

Up from summertime at the base
of Pixies peak, passengers ride the
famous cog railway through spring
time temperatures, finally emerg-
ing into winter at the summit.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
Prairie Dog Dinner

Certain Indian tribes consider
prairie dogs a delicacy. These
tribes. however. do not stop at eat
ing plain dog when the occasion de-
mands or the opportunity presents
itself.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
European Timber Shortage

To help alleviate Europe's tim
Der shortage, it is planned to estab-
Gsh plantations highly resistant to
insects and disease and the use of
quick-growing tree varieties.
Laurel outlook., 1949-01-26
NZN
AP0cket.
HOWDY FOLKS:

HOWDY FOLKS:
Thought we might spend a
little time cussing the weather
but are inclined to believe that
the subject is a little sore by
now.
If you see the boss running
around with a new head of
hair, don't be too surprised,
he's about got all he was
horned with pulled out.
Too bad that our weather isn't
made up over Washington, d.
c., instead of the Yukon. Some
of the Congressional commit
tees are making things pretty
hot back there.
Judging from the breezes
from Washington, everything
is going higher except talk.
That is still cheap,
Perhaps the reason talk is
cheap is because the supply ex-
ceeds the demand.
OF course the man who hired
a lawyer didn't think talk
was cheap.
On the other hand, there's a
lot of difference between free
speech and cheap talk.
Also, there's a lot of differ
ence in the work we do. We
are always striving for
finer quality and service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-18
TWO NEW MEMBERS
 FOR LEGION POST HERE

Fred C. Richards of the Fish and Wildlife Service and Robert D. Stevenson of the Internal Revenue Service were initiated to member ship in the American Legion, Ju- neau Post Number 4, at the Dugout last night.
 Post Armistice Day Committee reported that the Taku Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars had of- fered its cooperation in the joint sponsorship of an American Legion V.F.W. Armistice Day dance to be held in the ElkS Hall November II. Details will be announced lat CT, the committee reported.
 Post Commander Bob Druxman announced that membership of the Post Legislative Committee during the coming year would be: Chuck Porter, chairman; Howard D. Stab- Ter and Norman Banfield, mem- bers.
 At the end of the meeting, there was a spaghetti feed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-18
MASS ARRESTS
 IN CZECH PURGE
(By The Associated Press)

An Associated Press correspon- dent in Czechoslovakia has been told this by Prague cab-driver: You know my opinion? The re- public of Czechoslovakia is one big prison That is the drivers re- action to the continuing mass ar- rests.
 The Communist government has arrested thousands of Czechs in the past two weeks. The cab driver says he's taken hundreds of people in his cab to the Pankrac Prison in the past week-people who are looking for missing relatives or friends.
 Everyone is looking for someone else" he says. These are crazy times, impossible days Everyone is frightened"
 The arrests are reported to be for two purposes: to liquidate the mid dle classes, and to purge Commun- ists who are suspected of sympathy for Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. Even athletes are not immune-the government has wrecked the Czech world champion amateur hockey team. Three players have been kicked off the team as politically unreliable"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-18
WINS BLIND DATE TRIP TO NOME
 ON RADIO SHOW
Brooklyn Bachelor Flying North for Date with
 Eskimo Girl

SEATTLE, Oct 18.-lR-A bach elor from Brooklyn flew north to- day to keep a long distance blind date" with an Eskimo girl.
 Morton Tahlor is making the long jaunt because of one of those zany Truth or Consequences" ra- dio program gags.
 AS a consequence of a wrong answer, Tahlor was told to make a date with a girl named Mollie on the other end of a telephone hook up. Afterward, Tahlor was told that the girls full name is Mollie Whitebear and that she was in Nome, Alaska.
 It would have been hard to find northerner any farther from the Hollywood radio studio-or from without crossing to Si- beria.
 Tahlor flew to Fairbanks today with David Tewkesbury. publisher of the Alaska Almanac. From there he will fly west to keep his date.
 He and Mollie are billed for a duet broadcast next week. Their number-you1l never guess Baby, It's old Outside" It was one degree above freezing at Nome yesterday-but getting colder.