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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-03-31
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ground; that is, after they had
become trash. 1t is easily under
standable that a manufacturer
does not like to see that aspect
of his product emphasized.
Upon investigation said the
Lily-Tulip Cup Corporations s
counsel, I'VE are certain that
you will find that the criticisms
leveled at paper cups in your
article are either without foun-
dation in fact or should more
properly be directed toward the
misuse of paper cups by the
public in putting particular types
of such cups to uses for which
they were not intended lie,
using for hot beverages cups de-
signed for cold beverages) or in
carelessly disposing of them
after use"
This is reasonable enough.
Any article, of however fine
quality, may become objection
able when thrown down upon the
street to be rained on and dirt
led and kicked around. This
would be just as true of silk
shirt or piece of tapestry or a
lady's hat as it is of a paper
cup. The New York Times is
one Of the worlds best news
papers, some people think the
very best of all, but the Times
makes a sorry sight after it has
been dropped on the street and
run over by cars and had its
pages scattered by the wind.
To publish the name Lily cup
in an unpleasant connection is
like what it would be to censure
cigarettes and, instead of calling
them cigarettes, call them
Chesterfelds or CameIs or
Luckies. If ! did that I'd have
admonitions coming down on me
like ton O. brick, and not from
far away New York but from
right here in my home state.
Since receiving the letter
from New York | have exam
ined the Lily cup carefully, and
] have tested it by use, and /
declare my conviction that it is
an excellent product. 1t is no
fault of the Lily cup that it is
to use the phrase in the coun-
sells letter. carelessly disposed
after USE" So are countless other
products. For my part, am
willing to give the accolade to
paper cups in general. ! have a
special esteem for them when /
stop by the roadside to get a
drink. A filling station attend
ant, after giving me a bottle of
Coca-Cola or Orange Crush or
something else, complies gladly
when ! say, please give me a
paper cup" (Observe the capital
letters in the foregoing sentence.
! don't know if they're neces-
sary, but I'm not taking any
chances. don't want to get into
trouble by mishandling a trade
mark.)
There are three dormitories
for women across Battle lane
from me, and it is the co-eds and
their male companions who do
most of the littering of the street
by throwing down paper cups
and other things. This form OF
extra-curricular activity is q
familiar spectacle to residents
of the neighborhood.
Sometimes / clean up after the
litterers in my own yard as vel
as on the street. A week or sc
ago ! picked up, Under our holly
tree, a cluster of beer cans that
had been tossed over the rock
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Evening star., 1950-10-27

one with a seat on the aisle. >.
That's my opinion, anyway.
Are you as weary of seeing Ezio
Pinza's picture in newspapers and
magazines as I am? Won't
somebody stand up and say yes?
+. Aren't you tired of seeing
Grandpa Ezio tell you what beer
to drink, what cigarette to smoke?
Will somebody tell me what my
taste in cigarettes has to do with
a man in his fitties suddenly oe-
coming matinee idol overnight?
i was smoking cigarettes before
he ever had an Enchanted Eve
ming. I was drinking beer before
Ezio ever was a Wonderful Guy.
Here's thought that goes right
along with the Pima complaint:
Why doesn't some merchandiser
stop having stars indorse things
and get the fellow next door to
say how he feels? For every per-
son VINO buns a cigarette off a
famous person, or who is served
Ia beer by a celebrity, millions
bum cigarettes their friends are
smoking, and drink the ueer
served by their friends in the
kitchen.
Starting my own advertising
agency tomorrow.
Counting on social security, day
after tomorrow.
distributed by McNauGht Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1950-10-27

Democrats have any permanence,
or was that merely one-shot
phenomenon? Farmers in the
Midwestern farm belt have been
predominantly and traditionally
Republican, except in times of
dire economic distress as, for ex-
ample, when they trooped over
wholesale to Franklin D. Roose-
velt in 1882, only to draw back
to Republicanism again when
they got back on their feet.
'48 Election Recalled.
But something out of order
happened two years ago. To re-
fresh your memory, you may re-
call election night in 1948 and
remember how, as President Tru-
man continued to build up his
popular vote lead to astound most
everybody, you were reminded by
the experts to wait for the farm
vote to come in. But, in the early
morning hours, when it did come
in, Harry Truman still was ahead
surprisingly in key Midwestern
States with large farm popula-
tions, including Ohio. The farm
vote had tipped the balance and
saved the President, more than
ofsetting his loss of four States
in the traditionally solid South
to the DixiecratS.
Democratic managers saw in
Evening star., 1950-10-27
This Changing World
Germans Satisfied by French Stand
Against Organization of New Army

If the French want it that way
it is all right with us. But if their
estimates should prove wrong, and
an aggression from the East de-
velopS sooner than they expect,
then the burden of defending
Europe - like Korea = will fall
mainly on the American people,
who must reply to the Red chal-
lenge wherever it is delivered.
Fear Understandable.
1t is difficult for us to under
stand why the European nations,
with some $50 million people,
should be so panicky over the
limited rearmament of Western
Germany, which has a population
of only about At million. The fear
in France and the Benelux coun-
tries over Germany is understand
able as the result of history. But
today. when Germany has not yet
recovered from the devastations
of the last war, when Eastern Ger
many is under the Soviets and
particularly when the United
States is formally pledged to de-
fend France and the other West
ern nations against aggression,
regardless of whence it comes,
there can be no real reason why
the French people and their gov
ernment should tremble in their
boots when we mention that we
would like to have about 10 Ger
man divisions to share the burden
of the defense of Western civiliza-
ton.
A similar obstacle has been
placed in our way on the inclu-
sion of Spain in the overall de-
fense scheme The principal op-
position to helping reorganize
Spanish manpower does not stem
from the American Government
as much as from the French and
the British. The State Depart
ment is merely playing second
fiddle to the British and French
foreign offices.
But while there is some logic in
the arguments of the Big Three
dlplomats-that in the event of an
conflict Spain will have to
side with the Western nations
because of her long anti-Commu-
mist record-the same thing does
not apply to Germany.
The German people lean ide-
ologically toward the Western
democracies. But that does not
mean that they will support their
defenders - the relatively small
Allied force of occupation-if ag-
gression occurs on the Elbe River
while the Germans are still
The practical result of Frances
veto is that America will have to-
supply the men we had expected
to get from Germany.
Evening star., 1950-10-27

81 cSS1OIl y III
the East. 1t was understood that
a police force, armed with tanks
and artillery from the United
States, would be organized to
stand the brunt of attack from
the East with the aid of Allied
forces of occupation.
In Direct Path.
But when the French govern
ment went on record as definitely
opposing any such military organ
ization-limited as it was to not
more than 10000 men-the Ger
mans heaved a sigh of relief.
Their country is in the direct path
of the Russians and their East
German satellites.
The defense of France and the
Benelux countries is predicated
on resistance between the Elbe
and Rhine Rivers. The Germans,
henceforth, will be relieved of any
responsibility for that defense and
expect to be protected by Western
GEOGRAPHICALLY American SOL
diers-Who are due to arrive in
Germany within the next few
The American numbers will
have to be sufficient to make up
for the 10000 men the Germans
now will not provide for the de-
fenSe of their own homeland. 1t
suits the German people perfectly
to be-from military point of
view-the wards of the nations
which are beneficiaries of the
Military Aid Program.
The responsible authorities in
Washington do not cherish the
idea. If the threat of a Soviet ag-
gression in Western Europe is as
distant as some of the French
and British military men believe,
there can be no harm, of course,
in keeping the Germans busy on
economically profitable enterprises,
while the other Western powers
spend their energies on war pre-
parationS.
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Unknown Factor
Ohio's Farm Vote to Be Watched
AS Key to National Election Trend

this situation the possibility Of a
new political alignment of labor
and Midwestern farmers that
would lessen the reliance on the
South for the balance in close
elections. Quickly they laid plans
to capitalize upon it. The Bran
nan Farm Plan, with a boon for
consumers to attract labor along
with its lure for farmers, was in
vented, publicized and formally
launched politically at a Demo-
cratic Midwest conference at Des
Moines in the following June. At
tending this cleverly State-man-
aged meeting were not only Dem
ocratic national leaders from
Washington, State party leaders
from the Midwest and farm lead
ers, but also labor leaders.
This attempted new coalition
was aimed, first. at this Novem-
ber's congressional elections with
the objective of picking up addi-
tional seats in Congress in the
farm belt to offset Southern de-
fections in Congress on the Tru-
man domestic program in order
to make more progress on that
program for the 1852 record.
Whether any headway is being
made on this bold and somewhat
visionary project won't be known
until the balloting in November
For the politicians. here in Ohio
and elsewhere, apparently have
not been able to get a real line
on the farm vote. The farmers arr
not too communicative and in the
polls an unusually high percentage
of them are recorded as "unde-
cided," which means in many
cases they are just not telling how
they're going to vote.
FOrecasterS Cautious.
So the farm vote is an unknown
factor here, as elsewhere, which
makes political managers jittery
and forecasters cautious. 1t coulC
very well be the decisive factor
in the admittedly close race in thi.
State between Senator Robert A
Taft and his Democratic chal.
lenger, State Auditor Joseph T
Ferguson, which is attracting chic
interest locally and perhaps NOR,
than any other congressional con
test nationally.
There appears to be a lack o
interest, too, among farmers il
this off-year election, which il
attributed to the general pros
perity and the absence of an.
major complaints that would pro
woke protest" vote against on,
party or the other for one reasol
or another.
Both Republican and Demo
cratic campaign managers ar
working hard consequently to sti
up interest among farmers ant
bring them to the polls. In thi
State everything will count, for ;
record off-year election vote is il
prospect. It may reach 3 million
Evening star., 1950-10-27

F.. AS a man who considers
Hemingway the, greatest living
novelist, and White as far and
away the greatest American es-
sayist, I wish the two would get
together and write something
named-now, wouldn't I be a
heckuva showoff if I tried to tell
those two gentlemen the title of
the book they'll never write
together.
Let's stay On books for a min
ute or two more. The best
mystery I have read in a long
while tthanks to SRL's "The
Criminal Record is "Smallbones
Deceased" Still on books, if
you read newspapers and wonder
why playWrights go crazy when
they read reviews of their shows,
then go buy yourself the Ora
matte Opinions and Essays of
Bernard Shaw" Having read
what Shaw wrote after opening
nights, you will probably ask
yourself if there is really a
talented drama critic in America.
The ones we have now out
line the plot, tell who danced and
sang well. and give good or bad
marks to the director and the
scene designer. :. They probe no
deeper than that. ;. The old man
with the beard and the shattered
hip took care of those matters,
too, but the foundation of his re-
views was What is the man try
ing to say?" He wanted to know
if the production meant anything
to the human race. If it didn't
well. if you haven't read Shaw
on the theater, when he was
young and galloping. you have
missed the best ever written by
Evening star., 1950-10-27

you how to vote?" The Taft camp
can't be sure he won't blurt out
something like people eat too
much or an attack on Gen. Mar
shall; they can only hope he won't.
Democrats wish Gov. Lausche
would talk up for State Auditor
Joseph Ferguson, their candidate
against the Senator. Vice Presi-
dent Barkley is in the State now,
spreading charm, fraternalism and
old-school-tie spirit. So far, the
net is a pixie smile from the
Governor. though he joins be-
nignly in the Barkley meetings.
Since newspapermen and polls
predict that the Senator and Gov
ernor will fish victory for them
selves out of the situation, they
may be able to withstand the
emotional tides that beset all tight
campaigns. Still, politics is full of
surprises. as New York's Gov.
Dewey seems destined so often to
discover.
Not Quite Enough.
President Truman had prom
iSed Mr.. Ferguson to come here
and spread the mantle of the
Party and the Fair Deal about
him; the Weep is his stand-in. 1t
is not quite enough. however, to
blanket the Taft drive against the
associated labor unions which have
spent SO much and worked so hard
to put over the nominee they never
really wanted.
Democrats protest that their
party is harmonious and their re-
lations with labor good. They say
lit is by agreement that they are
more concerned with Gov. Lausche
while labor carries the ball for
Mr.. Ferguson. Their lone cabinet
member, Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer, who has not come to the
State at all. is described as having
little prestige here to lend them.
| Admittedly Senator Taft will
get conservative Democratic sup
port while Mr.. Ferguson has little
appeal to Republicans.
Helter- Shelter Campaign.
A certain reluctance exists in
many quarters to write off the
State Auditor even in the face
Of so much Taft-trend talk. A
chip off the old county court
house. Mr.. Ferguson is running
his campaign in what seems, in
contrast to Taft. a helter-skelter
manner. No releases, no press
conferences, no orderly examina-
tion of the issues, not even q
timetable for the next day, csn
be had from him. But he is busy
as bird dog among those people
and places where he has been
successful in the past. Maybe his
own votes will be too few in
number for national office but he
is cultivating them hard, in his
own way.
The Youngstown Vindicator, an
independent Democratic news
paper which is supporting Sena-
tor Taft, is taking a poll keyed
to the actual registration lists and
weighted according to the vote
cast for President in 1948. 1t
shows that Senator Taft is
stronger here in this industrial
area than President Truman was
in 1948. If this is correct, the
Senator has been successful in
Evening star., 1950-10-27

MI. AllcQ is -"'Hehore'
clown, as he has so often been
described, then 8 this country
wouldn't be too badly off if it
turned itself into a circus and let
the clowns play their important
roles.
Speaking of books, no matter
whether you liked or didn't like
Ernest Hemingway's Across the
River and Into the Tree" it was
worth reading just to be able to
enjoy E. B. Whites parody of it in
the New Yorker. Mr.. White
titled his story Across the Street
and Into the Grill" and in few
hundred words he tore apart and
put together Hemingway's novel.
Evening star., 1950-10-27

S W ] n g S a t
George E. Allen
I'm sorry
now that I have
read his book,
P I e S i d e ntS
w ho H a v e
Known Me "
1t is one of the
most entertain
ing and, at the
S a m e tim e =,
shreWdest books
I have com e
across in many
a year. II
NM, AIIa -;
Evening star., 1950-10-27

mas produced a
good d e al of
salts f a C t i o n
a m o n g h e
German people.
Th e Bon n.
COVE IN m e n t
had some diff
Guilty convinc-
ing the other
Western Ger
man states that
Germany must
be in a position
to defend her.
self against ag-
Evening star., 1950-10-27

crat--could still
turn the scale
of Ohio voting.
S e n a t O r
Taft'S manag-
ers breathe a
high of relief as
each day ends
with their man
sticking to his
most successful
line: "The CIO-
PAC t lis my
opponent what
to do and where
to go: will you
let them tell
Evening star., 1950-10-27

closely to try
to find an an
swer to a ques-
ton posed dra-
matically in the
1948 Truman
national vic
tory.
1t relates to
the political at
titudes of far
mers, to wit.
does the shift
| of balance in
| the farm vote
| in that election
| t OW ard l. IA q
Evening star., 1950-10-27
By Constantine Broagn

The decision of the French gov
ernment not to permit the organ
ization of limited West Germany
army to assist Europe's defense
Evening star., 1950-10-27
McLemore
Reviews Few Books
In Own Manner
By Henry McLemoye

A few private opinions made
public: When he was running hog
wild and hog fat in Washington
I took a few unkind typewriter
Evening star., 1950-10-27
By Thomas L. Stokes

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 27.-
Ohio's November election returns,
along with those of other Mid
western States, will be analyzed
Evening star., 1950-10-27
By Doris FIeeson

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 27.
Two unpredictable men-Sena-
tor Robert A. Taft, Republican,
and Gov. Frank Lausche, Demo-
Evening star., 1950-10-27
Ohio Scales Could Tip
Politics, Always Capable of Surprises
Might Yet Upset Taft and Lausche

his continuing effort to come be-
tween the union member and his
leaders and should win without
real difficulty.
released by the Bell Syndicate. IncD
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
REHIND THE HEADLINES
More Power For President To Fight
Depressions Proposed
By NATHAN ROBERTSON
For Iabo Pres Association

washngqn Pone Of the most important recent develop % tE
Congressional Economic Committee is toward more flexible
S tax ght shf bpo% bpenana and Gmr bus .'a' "o give ~ more
its ea y hS P Douglas d. m
and strongly endorsed hearings the report by some
Under such plan the President might be given authority to raise
c conditions @ and to rasG or % lower the rate of spending for such
Such authority would mark sharp departure from tradition be-
spending policies But the need for such xby has because
growing recognition that economists yet
economic conditions in advance with certainty
policies should be keyed to economic conditions and subject to
Many economists are an economic dGwnsng % for the
quits might impossible to necessary changes govern
men taxing and spending policies under present laws in time to avert
authority from Congress
He could for lower tax rates that under
almost overnight AT the time had authority from Con-
he the public buy Togeer might
rsn ss% SSyns eoer'e ea and
& MeT w even mp aF CONGRESS- months o S to
act Revnug bills even those cutting taxes among the sGwest to
the initiation the President found impossible them ap
The only ssbity Of this kind d. Congress has the
the rate of home construction according economic conditions But
provisions in other laws are needed and needed badly similar
last headed Professor srayer Princeton
recommended such flexible power for the President
Douglas subcomme recommending more flexible legisla
ton emphasized the mreabliy forecaSng
conditions decline
benefits
said this enough initiation
The of these for flexible
all the possible
employment without waiting for naon deaions
velop These line with the philosophy
they likely without
from labor and other which supported that legislation
Congress not only jealous of its preogatives
bloc will strongly legislative proposals that would let the
President unbaance the budgetven fight
economists and many businessmen agreed that this
Congress convinced There still members
who think the important thing the world balanced
Professor Harris of Harvard told the
such suffering from public debt neuros"
dangerous for country takes long
time to 1t would be quicker to elect
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
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Boston, erudite Review proposed the
poyer Wants tie president Of
should the union leaders daughter enrolled in
fashionable dancing school"
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worker didn't have to to work jan 49, the JOB came to h
freight jumped the tracks and crashed into his
that has place
in strike
fired his girl friend with his
skill operator the habit of sticking love note hook
then wheeling
the shop drop the note decaey his
sweethearts lap.
In Brussels Belgium the owner of small shoe manufacturing
his strike An leader
borrowed 70 pdometer from hiking club and attached them to the
ing negotiate the union tofaed up number
walked the picket line and announced that settle
would free shoes
to who walked the picket line.