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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

Present economic setback has been describ-
ed by CIO President Phil Murray as rolling
recession" - it's been rolling from industry to
industry Thus some are still highly prosper
Gus, others in the doldrums.
Fact was highlighted in two news dispatch
es during one week:
In Detroit, General Motors registered
record profits of $166 million for 81 days
comprising second quarter of 1949. (Thats at
rate of S76,4 ,426 an hour - S1273 minuteD
For fipst half of year. GIN netted over $500
million profits, after taxes.
New England governors told u S. Off
cials that unemployment is reaching critical
stages In Connecticut, one out of three work
ers is either jobless or working parttlme. In
Massachusetts, Governor Dever voiced fears
that one out of five workers in the Bay State
will be iobless by September. Both states are
clamoring for federal public works to carry
them through crisis.
Housing Act, passed month ago. is one of
few - to date major accomplishments of
81st Congress. 1t provides for government aid
in building about $4,000 dwelling units
year - for lowest income families New pro-
gram will make considerable dent on nations
slums during next six years.
Another group which needs housing badly
doesn't qualify under the law already passed.
They're the folks with incomes running from
So, 500 to $4,000 a year; for their benefit,
Congressional liberals are pushing a middle
income housing bill" CIO is giving 1t strong
support.
Bill proposes government aid to cut down
mortgage interest rates from SO to 21s %, and
extension of mortgages to 40 or go years In
that way, monthly costs for $4,000 home
would be vut to from $26 to S32 month. In
addition. bill would give encouragement to
non profit organizations unions, co-ops, etc.
- to build housing projects, and thereby elm
mate speculative profits
Best crack at the housing bill hearings -
from CIO witness: What calls itself the
housing industry has demonstrated brilliant
capacity in its activities on Capitol Hill
but it has manifestly failed to do the needed
job of getting houses built to meet volume de
mand at places where the need really exists"
That's something for the big, reactionary
housing lobby to think about
Phil Murray, whose anger at SNUG steel
barons has been growing in recent months,
really let loose at first day of hearings before
u S. Fact Finding Board which was appointed
by President Truman to examine issues in dis
pute.
Murray, leading off for steel union, was
citing U. S. Steels swollen record-breaking
profits John Stephens, industrial vice presi-
dent for Big Steel was ostentatiously doing
in his chair making an effort to look bored
Look at them" Murray said to the Board,
the anger tearing through his Scotch burr
look at them, the most sanctimonious band of
professional racketeers in the United States
The bored look came off of Stephens face
..txy nI,, Is Aa1p pnnr
suggested it might be well to strike the re-
mark from the record, "Al right" said Muir
ray. Just call them provocateurs and prevari-
Gators"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

'oledo Industrial Union Council
NAL RECORD. The RECORD is
ID not widely read. If one had the
learned from this publication and
tional health-insurance program
to be financed by payroll de-
ductions and other taxes. Many
legitimate arguments may bel
brought against the plan the
shortage of doctors, the tendency
of people to make unwise de-
mands upon public services, the
advantages of voluntary medical
insurance, etc. But the admin
stration proposal is hardly more
socialistic than our present So
cial-security set-up with it's old
age and other benefits.
Propagandists against public
health insurance are partly re-
sponsible for calling this plan
"socialized medicine. Whether
such usage helps their case is
problematical. But they may be
breeding a great danger for the
future.
If at some time public -insur-
ance system is voted in the
United States, the people may
come to accept it as socialized
medicine. That might make
them more easily susceptible to
the truly socialistic projects
which lead so easily to statism.
Let's not say socialized medi-
cine unless that is really what
we mean.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

ENCl SlIlSC SOliSA CSSllldll
House of Representatives The
has received the CONGRESSIO
widely distributed but | am afra
time many good things could be
! have found some very in
teresting and informative arti-
cles in it.
Following is a short article on
a very timely subject entered
into the CONGRESSIONAL RE-
CORD by Hon. Hubert Hum
phrey, United States Senator,
from the State of Minnesota.
"SOcialized Medicine?"
"Socialized medicine" is a
term seldom used by the British,
although that is obviously what
they have got. Medicine services
are paid for from general taxa
ton, private practice is diScour-
aged, and hospitals have been
taken over by the government.
The Labor Party in Britain is
a socialistic party, but it isn't
often called that. Thus British
ers are not likely to apply the
word Socialist" to projects of
the party. They speak of their
health scheme" When they oc-
casionally say "socialized medi-
cine" they have borrowed the
phrase from America.
In this country socialized me-
dicine is applied to many things
which aren't socialistic in the
usual accepted sense. The admi-
nistration has proposed ma
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

the sharpening struggle IN
the Steel Industry where
the million-strong United
Steelworkers, CLIO, are
battling the multi-billion
dollar Steel Trust for pen
sions, improved h e a alth
and social security bene-
fits and for a wage in
crease.
And, of course, we are
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

ton of the Executive Branch
of the Government, more
often called the Hoover
Commission. 1t is the first
step in the implementation
of the Hoover Plan.
The Hoover Commission
has made a real contribution
to the furtherance of effec-
tive government by giving
us a blueprint for thought
full, systematic revision and
reorganization. Each govern
,,,a,o+ Seryico and onnratiOn
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05
The Bottle of Giants
By PETE ZVARA

IT is ALWAYS fascinating to observe
the clashing of powerful antagonists. AND
it is doubly so when we are not only spec
tators, but are actually part of the oppos-
ing forces. OF course we are talking about
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05
BVC Points A Moral
by Bradford v. Carter
LPA Columnist

This is what is known as the silly season in
the nations capital, When temperatures are
in the upper nineties for days on end when
both Houses of Congress are meeting in make
shift halls while their regular chambers are
repaired, and when tempers are frayed and
each mans endurance is taxed to the limit,
this writer can understand that great and
vital decisions aren't to be expected.
However, the steam-heated atmosphere
produces some pretty zany ideas, that are go
ing to make better listening for Radio Mos
cow than for Voice of America Like these
two newspaper stories, both taken from the
same days Washington Daily News Scripps-
Howard sheet.
On the front page, we read:
"No Aid For Socialism, Senators Urge"
1.-TWO Senate Republicans and Democrat
proposed today that the United States Withhold
all Marshall Plan aid to Britain and other
countries which nationalize their basic indus
tries"
Senators James P KEN Or, Mo-. Ken
meth Wherry Or, Neb) and John l., McClel-
Ian ID. Ark.) made the proposal as the Senate
renewed debate on a S5,573 724, 900 foreign
aid bill which carries Marshall Plan funds :"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

| don't know what kind of an envelope
the employee will receive his letter from Tied"
in. Maybe it will be handed to him by his
Foreman on the job do know that these let
ters are sent out by someone calling themselves
the Bureau of Business Practice" located in
Deep River, Conn. and mailed in envelopes
with the insignia of the National Foremen's
Institute
Lest someone gets the idea that this is
the only publication published by this, So
called, Bureau of Business Practice; l hasten
to assure you there are others. There is, for
example, the industrial Newsletter" 'The
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05
Your
Congressman
Reports

Dear Constituent:
A STREAMLINED Federal Government is the
"A purpose of the Federal Property and Ad-
rninistratiye Services Act of 1949 which the
President signed last week. 1t embodies many
of the non partisan Commission on Organlza-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05
As | See 1t
By HOWARD SEREN,
President, Local IL, UAW-CIO

Shades of Herbie Hoover. The workers going
be bombarded again. with Letters to Americans signed
Sincerely Ted don't know who Ted" is who writes these
letters but I'll bet paycheck he doesn't work factory
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

Sweating our way back to page II, we are
confronted with this
Let EN- Eat Bugs If They Want To,
Says Food Exporter" BY United Press
Congress was told today it has no right
to tell people in Africa they can't eat ter
mites if they want to-"
Samuel Fraser of Rochester, N. Y, sec
rotary of the International Apple Association,
said passage of House-approved bill to tight
en export requirements on foods and drugs
would be trying to force u. S. standards and
habits on the rest of the world"
"Mr Fraser, an outspoken old timer with
a walrus mustache, told a Senate Commerce
subcommittee:
I'VE shouldn't undertake to tell people in
Africa they can't eat termites when we know
they are very fine foods for those people if
they want to eat them"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05
steady jobs vote for a strike is a
vote for needless hardship"

EVERY FORD WORKER knows that
strike always means suffering and hard
ship not only for themselves, but for their
families. But, as President Reuther put it
in statement answering Ford's transpar-
ent bait:
Ford workers take no stock i'm the
implied promises of the Company that
If they will forego their demands for
old-age and health security and wage
increases, the Company will provide job
security"
And President Reuther continued;
"The Companys implied offer of job
security is counterfeit and the Company
officials know it, They know they will
not guarantee job security under any
circumstances"
How true these statements ring Es.
pecially in light of past experiences. Ford
workers know all this That is why they
too, are prepared to fight to obtain their
just demands.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

ALL THIS BRINGS US back to those
of us who are merely spectators" in these
impending struggles. For in real sense
we are not spectators, but direct partici-
pants. Very much so. Who can deny that
If these workers who are now locked in
battle with Ford and Big Steel are sue
cessful in winning their demands that
those same gains will not be extended to
cover the nations industry generally?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05
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Congressman Tom Burke took his in the
Representatives The Toledo Industrial Union Council
received the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD The RECORD is
widely distributed afraid widely had the
many good things publication and
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-01
DANIELS -- In The Lions Den

Guests from all the Territory of Alaska, and many Outside will pour into the Valley this weekend visit the ninth annual Matanua Valley Fair Hotels and roomng houses already have booked reservations ody for the teday Fair period
 Your Fair management has made every possible preparation for the reception and of these ouoValey guests We look forward their coming It hope that they will leave Fair and the Matanua Valley with pleasant memories enjoyable and entertaining three days
 coming of these visitors will be impossible for the few members of the Fair board to and them all It's job they ask that you share with them
 It IS their request that every Valley resident the responsibilities of host during the Fair weekend Help make visitors welcome and their stay pleasant
 Greet and talk with the who share Give attention the small problems they will here Give them the and consideration that you extend guest in your home.
 It job make these back and again We do only with the help of The mary purpose of Fair the creation good will which achieve only proportion the of good will into making our guests happy and satisfied
 For this threeday weekend let's all company Both ourselves and our guests will enjoy the result
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-01
PLAN CHURCH SERVICE

Fair guests who wish to attend church on Sunday, Sept. 4, are invited to participate in a union service at the Palmer Gymna- sium at II a. m., Rev. George Gel witz announced today. The serv- ice is sponsored by the Valley Ministerial Association. Chap lain Mars of Fort Richardson will be the guest speaker.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-01
Three Couples Wed Here

U. S. Commissioner Dorothy Saxton averaged a wedding a day for three straight days for a busy weekend's work on Aug. Is, l9 and 20. First to recite their VOWS were Charles Edwards and Josephine Barger of Anchorage on Aug. Is. On Aug. 19, John Kelly and Eugenia Bushwell of Ninilchik were united in marri- age. Joseph Davils and Florence Jordahl of Anchorage were mar ried on Aug. 20.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-01
Investigate Navy Soil

Dr. Myron Babb, horticulturist, and Dr. Alan Mick and Paul Martin of the soils department of Matanuska Experiment Sta tion, were in Kodiak last week to conduct soils testing work for the Navy. They expected to study the soil at the Kodiak Naval Oper- ating Base, classify grasses there, and take soils sample for future study at the local station. They will be gone for about a week.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
ts REMOVING.
Nv Word for 1t
-sy Fnsak co'by

pad in designating . rcocer7 Ii
II because the robber wraps his feet
In cloths 10 avoid making, . noase7
The pad" In footpad b Dutch
word meaning = path. hence. the
act OF highway robbery. hence. .
highway robbery A footpad. then.
is o highway robber who goes on
foot
The same pad Ii found In the
word paddock. which originally
designated lock 10 keep out rob-
bers.
How neat h neats-foct ofi7 And
what Is q meat that produces oil
from ifs feet7 This is q real sur
prise word. for this particular meat
Ia an Anxio-Saxun word rsearang
cattle Eeatss-fnos oil. then. ts an
oil made by boiling the feet and
shin bones of neat cattle. L.. cattle
Of the OK kind.
The word deraitoaan suggests that
the wscker-ccsered bottle b hall
john.~ But the word has no con-
necsion with either the prefx dens-
or the name John. Demi-toazn n .
corruption Of the Fssnch dame
Seaune. meaning literally. Lady
Jana" prunouncsd. dam shahn.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Word Game
Find a or more words In
DUBITATION,

meaning. ''act or state Of doubt
ing" Average is "a: limit. 30
minutes.
RuIss-i. words must be ef feat. af
more sesisrs I. words which seeatrs four
jsttsrs hy the addition Of =" snea a.
ferrn oY A werd 10 used g. Proper nanast
are no, Used. a list VII BE- pastshsd
Evening star., 1949-06-17

One hundred and eighteen years
ago, on q June day, q man OF Q
strange sort performed at the
Kings theater tn London. He is
described as having been "a tall.
haggard figure, with long black hair
falling to his shoulders"
We are told. further. that when
he mounted the stage he slid for
ward like q ghost"
That man was an italian musi-
clan. Nicolo paganini. He had been
winning fame ON the continent OF
Europe during most OF his Lie.
Born In the city OF Genoah, Nicolo
had learned TO play the, violin while
he was q little boy. At the age OF
eight, he was taken on tour Of
the province of Lornbardy TO dis
play his skill.
Hard work on the violin followed,
and when he was young man, he
proved that he was able to compose
beautiful music for his instrument.
He earned money by playing before
the public, but. sad 10 say, he fell
into the bad habit Of gambling. AT
length he pawned his violin so he
could pay gambling debt.
without q violin. how could he
hope to earn money TO get the In
strument "out OF pawn? That Ques-
ton was answered by q kind
hearted Frenchman, vino gave him
q violin.
With his new instrument, Paga-
mini went on tours. He played In
Vienna, and In various parts OF
France.
Many OF the pieces which Paga-
mini composed were too hard for
other violinists. Il pleased him 70
know that he was the only man OF
his time who could play them.
At one time. according 10 legend,
Paganini used music which was up
side down. He never before had
heard the piece or seen the score,
but he was able 10 play u weu.
Whils uGing only two ssxines q
Evening star., 1949-06-17

The origin of the expression. to
sleep like a top" is found In an
erroneous translation Of French
phrase, dorTnir CONNIE une taupe.
which means ito sleep Ike
mole" for taupe Is the French word
for mole" the small burTowinE
animal. The color taupe 90 Is pro-
nounced tope. to rhyme with
'.rope'9 is literally the color OF 0
mole.
The word gooseberry has no con-
nection at all with o goose In
French the word groseiile means -
currant." Groseille entered English
and was corrupted 10 grose. forming
the older word groseberry, and this.
In turn. was corrupted to form the
modern word gooseberry.
When We say. i don't care o
rap" what kind Of rap" do we
means This particular rap ix NOT
q quick. smart blow. rs in rapp.ng
on the door. Early In the 18th CEN
fsary In Ireland. coalaterfeiters
widely circulated spurious half
penny. which was called q rap. o
word OF uncertain origin which
came 20 mean any coin or other
thing Of xfding ralue.
WHY do ~ NJ ths word fcoe-
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Uncle Ruy's Corner
BY Romon coffmon

his violin, Paganini produced pleas
ing music. This caused someone to
suggest that he should try TO make
music with one string. He tried
that, and was able to charm an au-
dience by playing on O single
string for 10 minutes at q stretch.
His success led him to compose the
military sonata, Napoleon" for
which only one string is used.
After meeting further success In
Great Britain. Paganini returned 70
Italy. He died nine years later. at
the age OF So.
10
To obtain Q free copy Of the liastrated
lesfiet on THE STORY OF CHINA send .
self addressed stamped envelope 70 Uncle
Ray In care of The Star.
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Goren on Cunusto
BY ChorIes n. Goren

with cards from his hand, but Is not
legally obligated to do so.
During such a final period-when
the stock Is exhausted-the rule
stated above as to the one-card
hand is Cancelled. That is, player
having only one card not only may,
but must pick up a one-card pack
if able, and go out. OF course he
may be unable to do 50 through the
ironclad rule Of the canasta-no
player may 60 out until his side has
melded canasta.
If a player in turn Is unable or
unwilling (allowably) to take the
discard, after the stock Is gone, or II
the last card Of the stock Is q red
trey, play ends. A deal that termi-
mates In this way is scored in all re-
spects like q deal where someone
goes out, except that the bonus is
omitted. All details of scoring will
be given in the next article.
A small bonus Is earned for going
out with q concealed hand" This
means that the player has previous
" melded not single card. 1t does
not matter whether his partner has
made any meld. But II the partner
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Editors Note: Goren on Bridge
spill be resumed Monday, June 20J

Editors Note: Goren on Bridge
will be resumed Monday. June 20J
A peculiar feature Of the new rum
my game, canasta, is that player is
not permitted to 60 out until his
side has melded at least one can
asta"-a set of seven or more cards
of the same rank with or without
help Of wild cards.. This rule fire.
quently creates the anomaly OF q
discard that the player could other
wise lay OF on previous meld OF
his side. It may even force the dis
card of q wild card-the player hav-
ing two wild cards and nothing else
left in his hand.
During the early play it is good
tactics to keep at least one wild card
in your hand, for possible use IN
completing q canasta. With a sur
plus of wild cards, lay OF one on the
best candidate for q canasta, to in
dicate to your partner the prospects
of completing 1t. Such a lay-on
usually shows that you have at least
one more wild card in reserve.
Going out Is made harder by an
other rule, too. When O player has
only one card left. and the discard
pile consists of only one card, he
may not pick up this card to lay 1t
OF on q previous meld. thus going
out. The rule eases the problem OF
discardig safely for the player at
his right. Suppose this player has
nothing left In his hand but cards
that match meids made by the op-
ponents. He can discard them one
by one, without letting his left-hand
neighbor 60 out However, the play
er left with one card is not debarred
from taking the pack, to lay OH the
top card, If he thereby takes one OF
more additional cards. Often he Is
able to 60 out by laying on these
cards too, or finding that they make
new melds.
It Is not necessary, as In some
fummy games, to make nnal dis
card prior to going out. The player
may meld all his remaining CARDS
or all but one and discard the last
Custom permits q player, when
able to 20 out, to ask his partner
"ShaI 20 out?" II this question
Is asked, It must be answered Yes
or NO." without discussion. and the
asker is bound by the reply. The
player must ask this question before
making any meld in that turn. he
may draw from the stock and ther
ask, but he may not take the discard
pile (pack) and then ask, because
taking the pack constitutes q meld
OF course O player may 60 out on
his own initiative, without asking
permission. The courtesy question
we are told, Is IAN old Spanish GUS
tom. Probably 1t will be eliminated
from the American game, for We
have o prejudice against any kind
Of consultation between partners In
partnership card games.
In canasta, all the cards Of the
stock may be drawn. II none has
gone out by that time. play contin-
ues SO long as each successive dis
card Is taken by the next hand. Max.
ing o discard that the next hant
can use Is called forcing" since tht
player is forced 10 take 1t by rule Y
he can lay 1t Of on Q previous meld
He may take 1t TO form . new meis
Evening star., 1949-06-17
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Evening star., 1949-06-17

has not previously made canasta,
the concealed hand must lay down a
canasta. Furthermore, the hand
counts as concealed only II every
card Is matched in its own melds,
not If any Is laid of on partners
melds.
(copyrisht, Ia4a, by Charles H. dorsno
Evening star., 1949-06-17

4. A pinto should make ore think
primarily OF which rtver7
Columbia 81, Lawrence
Rio Orards Tennessee
Z. The word "papyrs" should
make one think indirectly OF viiith
related term below
Biz Ben Totem Foae
EifIel Tower Sphinx
4. Which Of il,e following Great
ures belongs 20 the feline farniiy7
Hora Elephant
Lion VOL
4. which of the following vfsatnifs
Ia furnished by fruit tsiscesf
vftamtn "A" vItanzin b
vitsratn %" vstanain &C
"a s-1-3 dsfense suggests winch
one Of these sports t~rms7
Quarter Round
Inning Lap
Q. Chemistry would be far mare
interesting 10 students u focused
Evening star., 1949-06-17
Points for Parents -'' t'''' r''"'' w'H's'

child satsaes hH desre 10 direct hisaseu sAeH hs 10
make rhosces Thu er diFdtsdA IN eeoss'
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