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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-03-31

is called to attend a giver's meet
ing of the Welfare Fund cam
paign. He says he is coming, which
relieves the solicitor of any OBJ
legation to debate the matter.
When the time of the meeting oc-
ours, he is stricken with the NAL
ady and fails to make good his
reservation. His empty chair is
mute testimony of his ill-health.
He just couldn't make it!
The effects of the illness are
not lasting, however. Sufferers
are known to overcome the sick
ness Immediately after the cam
paign activity that induced it and
attend movies, poker parties and
golf club meetings without i'll eff
fects.
Traces of the disease, however,
are difficult to eradicate once en-
trenched. Unless drastically treat
ed, the illness recurs each year at
campaign time.
Suggested treatment: A long,
searching self-scrutiny in the
handiest mirror, and a reading of
Burns poem, ."Would the pow
er the Giftie gle us, to see our
selves as others see us s. :"
The disease has been temporar-
lily labeled STAY-AWAY-ITIS. It
is not restricted to men. Some
very self-important women have
it also.
1T is ALWAYS laughing mat
ter to me to hear one of our peo-
pie complain that the Welfare
Fund goals are too high. Actually
what these disgruntled contribu-
tors mean is that the total amount
of money raised in any year in
this community by all campaigns
is too high, and it may very well
be that they are right.
The cold fact is that campaign
ing in the Jewish community never
stops from one years end to the
other. In the civic community
there is an organization called the
Endorsement Council which has
but one function-to pass on the
validity of the many campaigns
that go on in Phoenix generally.
We, too, in the Jewish Com
munity, should have an endorse
ment council or committee that
will pass on Jewish campaigns. II
may be that many of them can
be eliminated.
Certainly the campaigns can be
spaced out during the year so that
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-03-31

the
Bible, from be-
ginning to end
of the prayer
book, run these
S i G n i f i C a mt
phrases fr o m
out of the past:
"Avodim hoy
inu--Remem-
we were slaves
in Egypt"
"Zaycher le-
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-03-31

compe n alton
from Germany
under the Ger
man indemnifi-
cation program.
Claims must be
filed in Ger
many, prefer
ably in the Ger
man language,
not later than
March 81 of
this year.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-03-31

munity. While
t h e infectious
germ has not as
yet been iso-
lated, it is sus-
pected to be a
f or m of t h e
bad : m anners
germ.
The disease
manifests itself
in the following
waV. A narsOn
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-03-31
By HIRSH KAPLAN
Executive Director, Phoenix Jewish
Community CounciD

DOCTORS OF the community
have been alerted to a new virus
infection that is sweeping the COM
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1950-03-31
By Deborah Jaffa Metz
(The News Own Columnist)

FREEDOMS BIRTH Wher-
ever we turn, it is there - this
major theme of Jewish history.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Union Head Blasts
Decision Banning
Union Hiring Hall

Washington (LPA)-ln crush
ing ruling that threatens the very
existence of maritime unions, the
Supreme Court banned the union
hiring hall by refusing to review a
lower court decision. President Joe
Curran of the Natl Maritime Union
said the courts action sis a men
acing blow to the stability of our
American maritime industry"
The seamen's leader said the
NMU, CONSCIOUS of it's responsible
ity to both it's members and the
general public, was filing immedi-
ately for a re-hearing. Earlier the
NMU and other maritime unions
had indicated a general waterfront
strike would be called if the Sup
RENE Court banned the hiring hall,
but they may wait while to see
what Congress does about it.
The case which the Supreme
Court rejected arose in connection
with the MINUS Great Lakes con-
tract, in which an anti-union de-
cision was handed down by the
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
in New York. 1
The hiring hall-rotary shipping
system Of dispatching men to ships
is the core Of maritime unionism.
Curran said that the Supreme
Courts action would only make
seamen fight the harder for repeal
of the Taft Hartley act and enact
ment of the Magnuson-Lesinski bill
legalizing the hiring hall. 81 am
confident that this grievous error
will be corrected, either in the
courts or in Congress--or on the
waterfronts themselves" he de-
clared.
Curran also pointed out that the
Communists would be swift to take
advantage of any bitterness that
may result among seamen. He said
that the Communists would try to
use the decision "for their own sell
fish and evil purposes" but that
democratic unions on the water
front wouldn't let the Communists
get far He added that the court
ruling proved all labor's predictions
about the Taft Hartley act. Taft
Hartley stands unmasked as pur-
posefully anti-labor legislation, u
he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Report Shows British Medical
Proqrum Costs No More Than Ours

Washington LPA) - Medical
care for the British people under
their national health system is only
four per cent of the nations in
come, or just what our present IN
adequate medical dare costs us,
according to the Committee on Re-
search in Medical Economics, head
ed by DR.. Michael M. Davis. The
report, just published, blasts the
current propaganda in American
medical journals and the. CONNER
cial press about the cost of the Bri-
tish medical system. 5
The report says the total cost
! of medicine i'm Britain today is
about 81, 1,150,0O0,000 year, count
ing everything including some SER
vices not provided under the gov
ernment system. This is an aver
age per capita cost of about $2l a
year for the 48,000,000 people Gov
cred. The average for all the 5O,-
100000 people in Great Britain is
about $23 per capita. The US an
nual medical bill is now about $9,-
O0,000,000, the committee says
This is $62 per capita for our 15O,-
100000 people.
"Thus, in the United States" the
committee says, "we spend pei
capita for medical care over BE
times as much as the British. Oul
national income is much larger
than Britain's, even when figured
on a per capita basis. Our total ex-
penditures for medical care amount
to four per cent of our gross ma
tional income. Britain's medical ex-
penditures come to four per cent of
it's income also"
The report analyzed the mistakes
in estimating the cost of the Bri-
tish program which have led to the
stories i'm this country that it was
too expensive. The cost of family
physicians service, the report says,
had exceeded original estimates by
only seven per cent. The volume of
visits to physicians increased less
than 10 per cent over the past. The
costs of hospital service were 70
per cent higher than estimated orr
ginally, chiefly because of higher
salary and wage rates.
The biggest discrepancies be-
tween original estimates and actual
costs came in the dental services
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
JOHN A. DERENBURGER

John Alfred Derenburger, 66
died Feb. II in his home, 865E
West Eighth St., after a six-montf
illness.
Mr.. Derenburger was born ir
Ripley, w. Va, and resided in East
Liverpool for 46 years. He was EN-
ployed for eight years in the slip
house at the Hall China Co. He was
a member of Local Union 81, Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Potters and attended the Assembly
of God Church.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Anna
Oliver Derenburger; six sons
Clifford Derenburger of Aliquippa
Floyd Derenburger, Edgar Deren'
burger and Harold Derenburger, al
of East Liverpool, and Wilbur Der
enburger and Kenneth Derenburg-
er at home; five daughters, Mrs
Gertrude Clutter of Sebring, Mrs
Wilma Smith of Burgettstown, Mrs
Leona Salyers and Mrs. Bessie
Radcliffe of East Liverpool, anC
Mrs. Lora Sprouse at home; bro
ther, Frank Derenburger, and .
sister, Mrs. Francis Knapp, both OF
Parkersburg, and 20 grandchildren
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
WATCH YOUR SPEECH
BY RUTH TAYLOR

was listening to a speech one
night-a dull, dry-as-dust speech
and my mind was wandering
when suddenly / heard the speaker
say: "For the old adage of No tax
alton without representation one
might we'll substitute the new
slogan of NO criticism without
study"
If we could do that we could re-
volutionize human relations. If we
stopped to study situation, how
seldom would we criticize it? In
stead we would understand it. Pre-
judice always menaces the person
holding it.
None of US would willingly steal.
But he who condemns another un-
Justly or who bears false witness
against his brother is a thief.
Shakespeare said: "He who steals
my purse steals trash; but he that
robs me of my good name, robs
me of that which not enricheth
him, but makes me poor indeed"
How do we do that? By gener-
alizing against man, by attribut-
ing to a group the mistakes of an
individual, by broad characterize
tions, by not taking the trouble to
learn all the facts.
Go over the people whom you
think you dislike. Why don't you
like them? How many do you dis
like with good cause? How many
because you are not considering
them as individuals but are lump
ing them as a group.
Do you speak carelessly of peo-
pie? Do you assume more know
ledge than you really possess? ?
Plutarch said: Gle who reflects on
another mans want of breeding,
shows he wants it as much him
self"
You wouldn't touch one of your
neighbor's possessions =? But what
are you doing to his good name?
A man for whom | have great
admiration said one day, in speak
ing of another man who had done
him harm, "If were small enough
to dislike a man for personal rea-
sons" That is true greatness. He
saw things in their proper light,
He would not be hurting the man
by disliking him, but he would be
injuring himself.
If we have nothing good to say
about our brother-then in Gods
name-let US be still!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Union Meetings
Need More Snup

Chicago LPA)-The first per-
son to think of in labor public re-
lations is the little woman. That S
what Austine Finnessy, public re-
lations chief of the Iowa Fedora
tion of Labor, told 25 union men at
a Labor Supper Club meeting spon-
sored by the Shell School of Social
Studies here.
Don't let your meetings drag
out beyond IL p. m." Finnessy ad-
vised. "People don't like to come
to meetings when they don't know
when they'll be going home. Be
sides, it's not good public relations
with the wife if the husband stays
out too late"
Moreover, there ought to be a
little snap and zip in union meet
ings, Finnessy said, if the idea is
to have the membership show up
and participate. "ls it any wonder
that attendance at meetings is
low?" he asked. "We need to use
more imagination in planning.
Often we don't plan at all, we just
expect meeting to drift along"
First thing is to appoint or elect
a program chairman with a flair
for showmanship, Finnessy declar-
ed. Give him any title you want"
he said, "but have him responsible
for lively program"
One way is to bring in the
enemy. Invite the editorial writer's
of local papers, the anti-union ones.
Let them hear the labor slant on
things and let them defend theirs.
That would liven up any meeting.
Or give the members little en-
tertainment. Maybe somebody's 13-
year-old son is a whiz at the piano,
and perhaps somebody's daughter
can sing. Possibly there's a good
amateur magician around. Why not
show some night? Or why not
movies? =?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Lobor Publications And The Daily
Press Bottle Over News Coveroqe

other Washington newspaperman
with deliberately censoring the
story but contended that "the press
system of the country is built upon
a false measure of news value that
results in this kind of censorship
Barney Mover would not have
missed that story if he knew his
paper wanted it," Robertson COM
mented. "The Associated Press
would not have furnished its clients
with a meaningless story if it felt
the papers wanted real coverage ON
such profits stories"
Robertson then cited other ex-
amples of the same kind of one
sided coverage of Washington news.
Others quoted to back up Robert
sons judgment Of the news in the
ETC report included John Carson,
Federal Trade Commission mem
Der, and a long time correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun and the
Scripps-Howard papers; Wallace
Campbell, editor of the Coopera-
tive News Service and even Sena-
tor Edwin C. johnson Cd, Colo.)
who has been attacked recently by
the Colorado Labor Advocate.
All of them said the ETC story
was news and important news.
Robertson wound up his story by
commenting that even Movers
story had admitted the story was
news. He defined news as what
interests people" and pointing out
that twice in his own story Mover
had admitted the ETC figures were
Interesting"
Newspapermen were watching
for the next developments in what
looks like a significant battle be-
tween the daily and the weekly
labor papers. LPA said the battle
was significant evidence Of why it
fought so hard last year to get into
the Congressional Press Galleries
because much of the Washing
ton news was not being satisfac-
torily covered by the daily press.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Will Consumers
Benefit From
Sales Tax Cuts?

Washington (LPA) - Dou b S
about how much benefit consumers
would get from repeal of the fed
eral excise or sales taxes have been
raised before the House Ways and
Means committee since testimony
by proponents that 90 per cent of
the benefits would be passed on in
lower prices.
Gov. Carlson of Kansas, form
er member of the committee, who
urged repeal of the tax on movies,
indicated that if the federal tax
were repealed the states might
slap on tax. He urged repeal on
the ground that admissions was a
proper field for local taxation.
Rep. John Dingell Cd, Mich. J
flared up, asserting he would never
vote to repeal the federal taxes
just so they could be replaced by
state taxes. He contended the saw
ings should go to consumers. Eric
Johnston, spokesman for the movie
industry, has assured the commit
tee that all benefits Of tax cuts in
movie prices would be passed on
to consumers.
| Members Of the committee also
were afraid that consumers would
not get much benefit from lower
ing taxes on freight or commun-
ications. While Western Union
spokesmen assured the committee
they would try to pass on the saw
ings to consumers, there was no
assurance this would be possible in
view of the company's present fin
ancial condition. And labor spokes-
men have warned the committee
the railroads already are prepar-
ing to ask for authority to absorb
any savings in higher freight rates.
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
DUPONT Has Report
But Not Public

Washington (LPA)-The dupont
Chemical Company has obtained a
copy of a secret report by the Fed
eral Trade Commission on its mon
opolistic activities, but has sue
ceeded in keeping the report away
from the public.
The Trade Commission report
has been bottled up for months.
Chairman Celler, Cd, N.Y. of the
House Monopoly Investigating COM
mittee, was threatening until re-
Gently to subpoena it and thus
force its publication. But attorneys
for the company have persuaded
Celler it would be unfair to make
the report public prior to trial of
antitrust charges against the COM
pany.
The Justice Department now has
a case pending in the courts to re-
quire the DUPONT Company and
family to sell their controlling
stock in other companies such as
General Motors and US Rubber.
The ETC report, which was auth
orized by Congress last year, stud
les the effects of the tie-ups be-
tween dupont and the other big
companies. 1t is reported to show
that the companies have used their
connections to restrain competi-
tion over a wide area of commerce.
Lawyers in the antitrust divis-
ion are burned up" that dupont
has been able to get a copy of the
report before the public is allowed
to see it. Dupont is reported to
have obtained the report through
Senator Williams Or, Del.).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
nourse Erroneous
In Golfers Piece
Hitting Truman

Washington (LPA) - President
Truman read aloud, before his top
economic and political assistants,
as well as the Council of Economic
Advisers, every word of his 1850
economic report to Congress before
he approved the document. This
was revealed by Council member
John ID. Clark, replying to an at
tack on Truman and the Council in
the current issue of Golfers mag
azine, written by DR.. Edwin
Nourse, former Council chairman.
Nourse in his article, besides at
tacking the whole idea Of the EN-
ployment Act, claimed that the
council had never had 80 much as
an hour to talk economic policy
with the President. "The impress
sion he leaves of the attitude of
the President towards the work Of
the Council is so erroneous that |
want to tell of my own personal
experience" Clark said. He added
that the January 1850 session with
Truman lasted pa hours, and that
the President encouraged comments
from his advisers and staff. 81
could see," he observed, "that there
are no yes-men on the White House
staff"
Clark also told a Senate Judici-
ary subcommittee, in reply to
needing questions by Sen. Forrest
Domell OR, MOI that the econ.
omie report, drafted under the re-
quirements' of the Employment Act
of 1916, was the subject of a leng-
thy session of the top assistants to
the President and the two members
of the Council, before it was dis
cussed with Truman. He told of
one such session at the White
House in, December, which lasted
from 3 p. m. to 2:15 a. m. without
any recess. %
mo President will ever give at
ttention more intense and more ex-
tended than President Truman
gives to the work of the Council
and to it's proposals. If Mr.. Nourse
did not know how to exploit that
attitude to have a process set up
under which more adequate atten7
tion to our reports would be given,
of course it's very unfortunate, and
/ can understand the spirit of frus-
tration that developed in him."
Clark insisted that the points of
view represented by Leon Keyser-
ling and himself, as Council MEM
bers, was far too complicated. to
fit the Nourse characterizations in
the Golfers piece.
Originally, Clark had appeared
to answer questions about a bill to
plug the merger loophole in the
antitrust laws, a measure approx
ed by the House, and now in the
Senate Judiciary Committee. Clark
said that closing the loophole
would be a good idea, and insisted
that any attempt to make excep-
tions in re-drafting this section of
the antitrust law would weaken it,
while covering only few legiti-
mate cases of hardship.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
BRUNTON ALLISON

/, Brunton Allison, 55, of Phoenix
Ave, Chester, clayshop foreman at
the Taylor, Smith & Taylor Co.,
died Feb. 16 in West Penn HOspi-
tai, Pittsburgh, where he was a
patient for two weeks. He had been
i'll since Thanksgiving.
Mr.. Allison spent his lifetime in
Chester, where he was born. He
was a member of the Knights of
Pythias and the Presbyterian
Church.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Ida
Allison; a daughter, Donna Jeane
Allison at home; brother, Robert
Allison Of Clarksburg, w. Va, and
a sister, Mrs. Martha Stackhouse
of Chester.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
NEGROES IN CAST,
COLLEGE BARS PLAY

New York (LPA) - Because
neither actress Margaret Webster
nor Actors Equity Ass'n-AFL
would Surrender the principle in
volved" Southern college has can
celled a performance of Shake
speare's Tanning Of the Shrew"
which has two Negroes in the cast.
Northwestern State College in
Nachitoches, La. cancelled when
Miss Webster refused to replace
the two actors OF eliminate their
parts. She said it was the first OBJ
lection of it's kind to come to her
"from anywhere in the South or
anywhere else"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
Vote Fund For Labor Probe

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Rules Committee has approved for
floor action the request of Sen
ate Labor subcommittee headed by
Sen. James Murray ID, Mont.) for
$10S,000 to conduct its investiga-
ton of labor-management rela-
tions, especially as federal laws
like the Hartley act destroy
or aid industrial peace.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
CLEVELAND ILGWU GETS
100000 HEALTH CENTER

Cleveland (LPA)-The Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union has bought the John Carlin
estate for 100000 and will spend
100000 on remodeling, to house
it's headquarters and free health
center for members. The ILGWU
has similar health centers in Chi
cago, Philadelphia, and New York.
Funds for the health center come
from employers, who give 21a per
cent of their payrolls. The reserve
is now $750,O00. The health center
program will include surgery up to
800, an eye conservation plan,
sick benefits of SIS and $40 per
week and $500 life insurance.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
BY DONALD WOODS
For Labor Press Association


Washington (LPA) - The labor
press challenge of the way the
daily newspapers handle the news
about big business, particularly the
profits of big business, is beginn-
ing to get under the skin of the
daily newspaper editors-and they
are trying to fight back, But what
is more important, they are being
forced to carry the news they were
ignoring.
The break came when Labor
Press Association on Jan. Is car
ried a full story on a report issued
by the Federal Trade Commission
showing that in 194S most big
corporations We're making around
20 per cent on their invested cap
ital, or more than twice what most
of them were making before the
war.
Two days later LPA carried a
story exposing the way the daily
newspapers had ignored the FTC
story. The Colorado Labor Advo-
cate, one of the best Of the weekly
labor papers, played both stories
on its front page. The Denver Post,
edited by Palmer Hoyt, was upset
1t checked back on its Washington
Bureau and got the alibi that the
bureau had expected the press as
sociations to carry the story.
Hoyt then checked back and
found the AP had carried the story,
but only five paragraphs written
in such a dull fashion that it had
been overlooked. Nevertheless, to
cover up, he printed the AP story
a week late.
But Barnet Mover, Washington
correspondent Of the Post, was not
satisfied. He wrote long story for
the Post on Feb. II, carried under
a three-column headline charging
the labor press with, i'm effect,
taking" the story. He said it was
not news because it involved 1913
profits and it was now 1850. An
editorial in the Post the same day
charged the labor press with "mis-
informing" its readers.
The Colorado Labor Advocate
appealed to LPA's Washington
bureau for a report on Movers
story-was it news or wasn't it?
LPA replied with a story written
by Nathan Robertson, long consid-
cred an authority among news
papermen on profits and other
economic subjects, quoting we'll
known figures among federal of
ficials and Washington correspond
ents that it was news, and big
news. Robertson reported that
Washington officials and news
papermen were Laughing" at
Movers alibi.
He quoted Richard S. Strout, of
the Christian Science Monitor,
long one of Washington's ablest
and most respected economic writ
ers, as saying:
"This is exactly the kind Of story
that should be big news from
Washington but isn't because most
Washington news) bureaus don't
have manpower or the technical
skill to cover news of that kind.
Furthermore, most Washington cor
respondents are not certain how
sympathetic their editors would be
if they did"
Robertson backed up Strout's
analysis of the situation. He said
he did not charge Mover or any
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-23
PHILADELPHIA FEPC
TERMED A SUCCESS

Philadelphia (LPA)-In its frs
annual report, the Philadelphia
Fair Employment Practices Com
mission announced that job dis
elimination is on the decrease. In.
dustrialists are finding that "em.
ployment on merit and ability Is q
sound basis for profitable business
operation, stated FEPC chairman
Robert j. Callagan. The commission
was established by City Council in
March, l94S, after vigorous cam
paign by organized labor, the ADA
and other civic groups.