davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1950-12-10

places it exists as national policy,
in other places it stems from ira
ditional Indifference, in other
places still it is imposed by eco
nomic reasons.
This isolation is ordinarily and
negatively manifest by the alb
sence of currently distributed bib
biographical apparatus. For ac-
quisitions purposes a photography
should appear periodically and
regularly, and, for every item en-
Evening star., 1950-12-10
By Som Eastman

are unable to create a world of
their own, as did Dickens and
Thackeray, and the public has got
ten tired of it,"
There is somewhat the same
feeling at Kann's bookshop, where
the swing toward non-f fiction in
the last few years is laid mainly
to the poor crop of novels" pub
lished during that period. An
additional factor is that, as Mrs.
Esther Phelps observed, people
prefer to put their money into a
reference book rather than a
book which they may read only
once"
Kann's did a very brisk business
with their juvenile books this year,
as they were one of the highest
selling categories in the store.
History, science, philosophy and
cooking were the four non fiction
subjects which got the most calls.
Known authors got the lions
share of the fiction trade, Miss
Norma Blazer reported. AS = in
most stores, the sale of crime
and mystery books varies little
from year to year.
The majority of shoppers at
Kann's are workers from nearby
Government offices. Customers,
many of whom are known by their
reading preference. are encour-
aged to browse. Unmolested,
some customers read through books
on the shelves by installments
during their lunch hours, leaving
bookmarkS for the next day.
However. according to Miss
Blazer, they do not eat their
lunches while they are reading,
as the browsers do in Foyle's of
London. the largest bookshop in
the world.
With the exception of the lend
ing library trade. televiSion had
no appreciable effect on Wash
ington reading habits, as far as
the bookshops were concerned.
after watching their television
sets for about six months, our
lending library customers came
back and started borrowing books
again" said Miss Margaret Specht,
manager of Brentano'S.
Books on World Affairs
Hold High Interest Here
During 1850, while setting up
higher sales in fiction than
in any of the last five years, shop
pers at Brentano'S favored books
on world affairs and politics in
particular. There has been
trend toward these types of
books Miss Specht believes, "be-
cause these days people have
greater awareness of and are more
and more interested in. what is
going on around them"
AS in all the bookstores sur
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veyed, Brentano's had increased
sales in religious and juvenile
books, many of the former of 1949
vintage. Fiction sales, as was the
case elsewhere, were not remark
able. There was little agreement
in fiction selections, so that
runaway beSt-seller was more of
rarity than before.
Sale of Religious Books
Has Greatly Increased
At Ballantyne' two outstand-
ing features of 1850, observed Mr..
S. j. Rowland, were the disinterest
of customers toward fiction in
general and the continued interest
toward religion in particular.
"This was the poorest year for
fiction can remember" said Mr..
Rowland. Religious books" he
added. "have remained in great
demand here for the last 18
months or two years."
The works on religion which
sold well at Ballantynes were
mostly the recounting of personal
spiritual experiences. Also popular
were photographed stories deal
ing with the adventures of minor
figure in the war. These &C
counts, in general, outsold war
books by the high-ranking mill
tary. Biographies. political gossip
and science made up the balance
of non-fiction requests. Demands
for fiction ran mainly to science
fiction and the lighter historical
novels.
With religious books their spe-
cialty, there was an understand
able air of prosperity and general
well-being at Pursell's. THE best
year we have ever had in our
religious books" said Mrs. Gladys
Bowling happily. The store also
had rapid turnover in books
on gardening and cooking, and in
juvenile stories of a religious
nature.
Although not displayed as
prominently at Pursell's. fiction
I'VE had an unusual number of
special orders this year." Mrs.
Bowling said, "such as a recent
call for the works of Remarque."
Most Washington booksellers
believe that the reading tastes
here are as divergent as those
found in any other city. What
ever the case ordinarily. WASH
ington shoppers have found a
great deal of common ground this
year in their decided preference
for non-flction reading over most
of the 1850 novels. How long this
trend will continue is anybody's
guess. but as one bookseller put
it: "The urge to write fiction is
apparently an irresistible force.
but it has been meeting an i'm
movable object in sales resistance
in this town"
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49, bookstores bought nom
fiction in 1850. and all down the
line. in all other stores. the non-
fiction shelves showed the liveliest
sales.
This was revealed in a local sur
vey just completed which points
to a city wide trend in reading
preferences.
At Woodward & Lothrop's, Mr..
R. E. Rapp, whose records yielded
the IS per cent figure, stated: 1--WE
sold more non-fiction items this
year than in any of the last five
years"
And Washington booksellers in
general reported that interest in
their non-fiction shelves acceler-
ated steadily during the years
since the war. Fiction sales dur
ing this period. they pointed out.
remained at a static and uninSpir-
ing level.
The most popular types of f1c-
ton and non-fiction varied with
individual stores, as did bookSell-
ers' theories on what lay behind
these choices. At Woodward 81
Lothrop'S, where about four out of
five customers are women, cook
books were strong favorite. Juve-
nile books sold almost equally
well. with religious works the third
choice.
What Keeps Juvenile
Books on Top?
''The favorable comparison be-
tween children's books and toys as
to price" says Mr.. Rapp. "plus the
high birth rate since the war
helped keep juvenile books at the
top" He believes that people
turned to religious works. as well
as those on logic and philosophy.
in an attempt to solve some of the
problems brought about by world
affairs. Books on international is
sues continued to hold high in
terest in all the bookstores.
With the exception of the few
novels which were best-sellers
throughout Washington, sales of
fiction at Woodward g. Lothrop's
were spread out evenly over the
field. "Television had not 5 cents
worth of effect on sales" Mr..
Rapp commented, "either in the
adult or children's departments.
Some booksellers felt that their
customers were not drawn to the
non-f1ction shelves, but were
driven there by the inferior quail
ity of current novels. One seller,
who prefers to remain anonymous.
said: Fiction writer's have forgot
ten how to spin yarns: they are
instead advancing causes, arguing
the merits Of political philoso-
phies. or retailing thinly disguised.
neurotic autobiographies. They
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A Legion of American Ennissories Bound
To Promote the Cause of World Peace
By Luther H. Evans
Librarian of CONGRESS

lords have mattered mat
tered the foundation of
to freedom
They have matered profoundly
now
%
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What Washington Is Reading

- IGHTY-FIVE per cent of
L. the customers in one of
II. WaShington'S large st
49, bookstores bought non
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Continued on Page g.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-05-04

Blanche Fowler, Bobby Parsons,
Carol Ann Parson, Rita Smith,
Barbara Nayes and Oscar Ha-
ger. r. &@ 49, A@*@E - ~ IL
Mrs. George Black, Miss Julia
Brand and Mrs. Lizzie Gilbert
left Monday morning for
Glasgow, Mont, where they
will attend a three-day meet
ing of Northern Baptist con-
Vention.
A. w. Johnson, state director
of vocational agriculture, and A.
B. Ward, assistant director,
both of Helena, Prof. Rhode
berg of Bozeman, and Bill Till
man of Chinook visited Jerry
Osgard, vocational agricultural
teacher for this area, on Sat-
urday. Tillman is the winner of
the F. F. A. state oratorical con-
test. The group will accompany
him to Denver to compete in
the regional contest. He is a
nephew of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Hopper of Wyola.
The pre-school spring and
summer roundup will be con-
Quoted and sponsored by the
Wyola community P-TA We'd
nesday, May 10, in the morning
only, at, the Wyola Baptist
church basement. All children,
six or under, are invited to re-
ceive a health check-up at this
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Colstrip.
Refreshments of ice cream,
cake, and coffee were served
by the hostess and co-hostess,
Mrs. Paul Siegfried. i
Mrs. Clay Rowland submitted
to a major operation at the
Crow hospital on Tuesday.
The grade school play, High
links at HOLSTER, under the
direction of Mrs. Carl Newlin,
has been postponed to an in
definite date due to a siege of
scarletina among the students.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Pearson,
Mrs. Chauncey Bement and
daughter, Camille, were in Bill
ingS on business on Friday.
The Homer McCleary family
of ColStrip visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fay McCleary, on
Sunday.
Mary Ellen Styles, Barbara
Orelup and Lloyd L. Dewitt, SUI
perintendent of Colsrip high
school, had the honor of at
tending High School Week in
Bozeman April - to 20. On
Thursday, ColSrip alumni stu
dents attending Bozeman State
college had a special dinner
with the three.
Miss styles will receive a
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scholarship from the University
of Montana. She is the yaledic-
torian with an average of "a"
in her class. ~
Miss Orelup will receive a
scholarship from the Concordia
College or the Custer County
Junior college, of Miles CITY.
She has the honor of saluta-
torian with a 'B" average.
Miss Camille Bement, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey
Bement, took up her duties as
a clerk at the Billings area Of
flee of the Indian service. Miss
Bement had been employed as
clerk in the extension division
under the Northern Cheyenne
Agency tribal Office.
Beginning May Is, we will
close at Il noon SATURDAYS.
Aldrich & Co., Crow Agency.
ADV.
Miss Lillian Cook, R. NJ, &C
companied Frieda Standingelk
of Birney to Billings on Monday
to have a check-up for Erie
da's ankle, which is in a cast.
Three children of James Fish
er and Leland Pittman have
been i'll with s%carletina at their
homes. -.~ .... F..
Mrs. Rodolphe Peter and
James King were Billings shop
perS on Monday. f'-|f
Mrs. John Littlehead is re-
ceiving treatment at the Crow
hospital. She was admitted to
the hospital on Friday. ~,
Floyd Billings went by plane
to Detroit, Mich, last week to
purchase a touring car for the
extension division of the Nor
them Cheyenne Agency.
Carol, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Stephens, has been i'll
at her home. ..
The Colstrip Woman's club
sponsored a food sale at the
Colstrip Community store on
Saturday. The proceeds of the
sale will 60 to the cancer drive.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Blackwell
are the parents of a baby girl
born at the Crow hospital on
Sunday, April %.
A free movie was shown on
Wednesday at the Community
hall. The film, big Horn Can
yon'', was sponsored by Ed
Stephens and David Robinson.
Mrs. Margaret Morris of Ia
coma, Wash, is visiting her
daughters, Mrs. Richard Wilsey
of Colstrip and Mrs. Frank
Farr.
Mrs. Edgar Ravens has been
confined with illness at her
home for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beaulieu
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. James
King at Sunday supper.
Harold Horn has been visit
ing his father, Miles Horn, at
Denver, Colo. Harold has re-
Gently enlisted in the Army Air
Corps in Denver.
Acting superintendent Carl
Pearson ordered that the Nor
thern Cheyenne Agency office
days be changed to Monday for
the outlying districts of Birney,
Ashland, and Busby, and Tues
day for Lame Deer. This rul-
ing took effect April II.
The Northern Cheyenne Ag-
ency office has posted a notice
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Wyold News

Pupils of grades 5, g., 7 and 8
in Wyola school will present,
THE Toymaker", an operetta in
three acts, on Friday, May 5,
at the school auditorium at 8
%. m. Mrs. Harold McGovern
and Mrs. August Starina have
been directing the operetta.
The cast is as follows:
Toymaker, Scotty Curry;
princess, Margaret Ellen Far
man; prince, Bobby Redman;
best doll, Donna Endicott; rag
doll, Bonnie Wham; old Wom-
an, Barbara Greenough; a
clown, Dale Hopper; a herald,
Karen Lanier; toy soldier, Geo.
Peters. >s '&'.
Members of the chorus are
Joan Laverdure, Freddy LAYER
dure, Billy Greenough, Dallas
Nellins, Skee Redwing, LaJuana
Dillon, Donna Knows the Gun,
Charles Murdoch, Mary Fowler,
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Lorne Deer

The Lame Deer woman,s
Ituo met at the home of Mrs
Mast, who is the local
CHAIRMAN for the American
Na.lcer society, on Wednesday.
movies were shown of cancer
Eng a talk was given by Mrs,
&c. L. DorSett of Colstrip. who
10 the Rosebud county comman-
DER of the cancer society.
twenty : two were present,
Iour OF whom were guests from
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of a grazing privilege sale.
Sealed proposals will be received
at the office of Supt. Pearson
until 200 p. M, May H. These
privileges are for a two year
term, beginning May l to APP
ril 30. 1852. =
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Hurdin Tribune Heruld. Thursday. May 4. 1865

time. DR.. Yeats will be pres
ent to examine, the children.
Mrs. Judy Ingersoll and Mrs.
Kenneth Me- aughn will assist
him. q =, g - .
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Type used by colonial printers
was badly worn and papers
were hard to read.
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Shop in Hardinl
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28

"They're using the race issue,
the religious issue, the Red issue.
They're trying to pit one labor
group against another. They will
stop at nothing"
Labor can't hope to get its mess
age into the daily newspapers, and
will have to rely largely on the
trade union press, keenan, said.
Lets really play politics from
now to November T." he urged.
"Then We'll elect a congress that
will repeal the TaftHartley Act,
support our A. F. of l.. program
and save democracy for the world"
keenan, pointed out that the Am
erican Medical Association PRO
paganda team of Whitaker & Bax-
ter has turned out to be one of the
most vicious influences in the cam
paign this year."
eve are faced by a powerful
combine including utilities, big fin
.ancial interests, manufacturers
groups and the American Medical
Association" Keenan, declared.
Nonetheless, the labor and liber-
al forces of this nation can win a
great victory if the workers regist-
er and vote, he stressed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Woodworkers Reject Move
To Invulidute Election

Minneapolis (LPA)-The Inter
national Woodworkers have emerg-
ed strong and united despite a year
of Communist disruption and bitter
employer antagonism, reports to
the law 18th annual convention
here disclosed.
Adolph Germer, director of or
ganization, reported the union had
won 62 out of 68 labor elections
since the last convention.
Early in the convention, the 900
delegates voted 5 to / to reject an
attempt to invalidate the rank-and-
file referendum which reelected
the slate of officers headed by j.
E. Fading, international president.
Fading, former vice-president,
was in the navy in 1915 when
Worth Lowery, then international
president, died. Lowery was sue
ceeded by Claude Ballard, IVA or
ganization director. Fading de-
feated Ballard for the post in 1947
and won reelection in 1949 over
Ballard by 800 votes. Ballard sup
porters appealed the result, charg-
ing vote-counting irregularities.
The officers report commended
President Truman for his prompt
action in Korea as "the only hope
of preserving peace in the world"
However, it charged the Korean
conflict "is being used to boost
prices, encourage boarding and
start another inflationary spiral"
The unions membership, chiefly
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Welfare Sfufe'
With TRIMMINGS
Down Under
(By N. B. o. p. Delegates)

Houston, Tex. (LPA)-Achieve
ments and setbacks of labor "dowr
|under"-in the lands of Australia
and New Zealand-were described
to the AFL convention by frater-
nal delegates from those nations.
The three are Tom Daugherty
general secretary of the Austral-
ian Workers Union; Reginald
Jones, national counselor, New Zea-
land Federation of Labor, and Law
renee C. Hair, general secretary Cd
that Federation. They travelled
over 5000 miles to reach the con-
vention and plan to tour the United
States for study of labor condi-
tions.
Daugherty declared that labor's
advances in, Australia were won, as
in America, after bitter struggles
with employers. There was a time
he said, when unions were hound
ed, terrorized and shot down by
gatling guns.
Today, he said, Australian work
ers are thoroughly organized, and
as a result of long reign by the
Labor party-recently displaced
far-reaching social reforms were
instituted.
"We have all the old-age pen
sions, security payments, free
drugs, free hospitalization-every-
thing that goes with good living
standards of the people and pro-
lection of their health"
Hair and Jones gave a similar
account of New Zealand. "We are
particularly proud of our social
security" Hair said.
"We have pensions for aged over
go years, widows pensions, in
valids' pensions, family benefits
for all children, miners benefits,
sickness benefits, emergency bene-
fits, war pensions, war veterans
allowances, free medical and health
services, and maternity benefits"
Recent victories of the Tories in
New Zealand and Australia did not
prove that the people had turned
against the so-called welfare
state" the fraternal delegates said.
On the contrary, the Tories promis-
ed to maintain all the social re-
forms, land do it better at reduced
cost"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28

in the timber and lumber mill in
dustries, is more than $4,000, with
almost $4,000 (including 16,500 in
British Columbia, Canada) concen-
trated in the Pacific Northwest
However, the union has more than
$4,000 members in the hitherto un-
assailable south.
In 1948 Canadian Communists
attempted to secede from the in
ternational but failed to carry the
ranksand-file with them. The Com
munists in British Columbia again
entered the picture in 1949 when
they sought to obstruct negotia-
tions but apparently were without
influence.
The negotiations, handicapped by
Canada's version of the Taft-Hart-
ley act, finally were concluded
with a 121-cent hourly wage in
crease and a union security clause
after more than 70 per cent of the
workers authorized strike.
In the Pacific Northwest, the
giant Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.
refused to go along with other en-
ployers in granting social secur-
ity program based on a 712 cent
hourly wage increase. After a 10
week strike, Weyerhaeuser was
brought into line. Except for Wey-
erhaeuser, the social security pro-
gram covers union m e m b S
throughout the region, allowing
workers to move from job to job
without losing pension benefits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Tories Wage The Dirtiest Political
Campaign In History LlPE Rally Hears
(By N. B. o. p. Delegates)

Houston, Tex. .(LPA)-Organiz-
ed labor is up against the vilest
and dirtiest political campaign ever
staged by reactionaries in this
country.
Chiefs of Labor's League for
Political Education so reported at
the leagues annual meeting here.
The AFL convention was recessed
on the morning of Sept. 23 to allow
time for the League session.
George Meany, in his capacity as
secretary-treasurer of the League,
flayed the American Medical Asso-
ciation-which, he said, "has been
picked out by all the reactionary
forces of the country to spearhead
vicious, anti-labor campaign"
These anti-labor forces are
spending millions upon millions,
while labor must rely on voluntary
contributions to finance its poll
tical campaign, Meany said.
He revealed, however, that about
$400,000 had been received in such
contributions so far, almost twice
as much as during the same period
in the 1948 campaign. He declared
contributions are now coming in
more rapidly and the total raised
may reach a million dollars.
Meany described an all-out labor
campaign being conducted to get
workers to register and vote. In
the Cleveland area, he disclosed,
registration has gone up so fast
that it is likely to be "the highest
in history"
Labor will do better job than
the old political machines to get
out the vote" Meany asserted.
Joseph keenan,, LLPE director,
gave an account of the POLITICAL
battles under way, state by state,
and the issues in each.
Nearly everywhere, he said,
Tories are resorting to the worst|
kind of smears in a desperate eff
fort to win.
'There has never been a cam
paign like this" keenan, declared.
"This is the last dying gasp of the
reactionaries in their effort to buy
their way into control Of govern
ment and set up some kind of Fas-
cist state.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28

pliances have not declined because
of the new installment credit terms
that call for larger down payments
and shorter periods to pay. A re-
port from the Gas Appliance Manu-
facturers Assn showed that ship
ments of gas ranges continue to be
larger than ever.
Doubt that the new inventory
controls would prevent boarding by
storekeepers, wholesalers and man.
ufacturers was expressed by labor
economists.
The big business newspaper,
Journal of Commerce said that
"the inventory order in its present
form is not much more than an
urgent appeal to industry to alb
stain from boarding. 1t is a call to
voluntary inventory control rather
than a mandatory breakdown" j
of c like that.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Price Controls Needed On
Key G Commodities AL Sdys

Houston, Tex. (LPA) - Prices
should be controlled Immediately
and rolled back to June levels
where possible. Wages need not
yet be put under controls.
That's the position voiced by the
AFL convention in an important
policy declaration approved on
Sept. 22.
"Price controls should be inn
posed as soon as possible" the
statement said. ITO the extent
practicable, prices should be fixed
at a level not higher than prevail
ing during June"
However, the AFL declared that
price controls are not needed not
on every commodity, but only on
key commodities. 1t urged Pres
ident Truman to use authority
given him under an exception
clause" in the Defense Production
Act to order such selective price
controls.
Also, the statement pointed out
that while prices have risen sharp
ly since the Korean invasion,
wages have remained relatively
stable" and have fallen behind
prices
Although some form of wage
stabilization may we'll be newt
able" the convention said, "it
would be contrary to sound econ
omic policies as we'll as extremely
unjust to freeze wages at this time.
Before any wage stabilization
measures are undertaken collective
bargaining must be allower to
bring wages to a pre-invasion par
ity with prices.
"The form Of wage stabilization
is particularly important. We en-
phatically reject any rigid formulas
which would tie in wages with the
changes in cost of living. There
must always be room for wage
changes to correct inter-plant and
inter-industry inequities and for
wage increases based on increased
productivity"