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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
McLemore-
Doubts Telephone
Is Way to- Success
By Henry McLemore

Until I read a recent magazine
article, I labored under the i'm
preston that the telephone was
a device which you used to sum-
mon the cops or the f1remen, or
which awakened you at all hours
of the morning with fellow at
the other end saying, Were hav-
ing a party, boy, and what a
party! Say. I want you to meet
old Joe and Jim and Harriet and
- =" so on and on and on.
Now, thanks to that article. I
know different. The telephone
Is an invention by which a man
may sell his personality and there
fore determine his success or fail
ure in this world. Use the wrong
word over the telephone and a
man is likely to wind up in a
rocker on the cold side of the
poorhouse porch or have to hang
around loan banks until he is mis-
taken for a picket.
JUST hcCp 1dlklHS.
But let man use the right
voice-a charming voice, a per-
sonality voice, over the telephone
and there are no heights he
cannot scale. All he has to do
is keep talking over the telephone
until a great industrial organiza-
ton snatches him from his flop
house and installs him as presi-
dent at $125,000 a year. plus ex-
pense account.
The article said that no errors
must be made over the phone
and urged that. words be spelled
out If there were any possible
chance of mistake. So if a
man was ordering a shipment of
chipmunks. he mus talk some
thing like this.
please send me one hundred
G as in Charles, H as in Harry, I
as in Ida, P as in Peter, M as in
Mary. U as in Utah, N as in Mel
lie, K as in Kate and s as in
Samuel"
This list. which includes A as in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
By Constantine Brown

Soviet Russia now is gaining
the fruits of its attempt to black
mail the Western powers into rec
ignition of the Chinese Commu-
nists.
The reported appeal by United
Nations Secretary General Trygve
Lie to the Big Four Four and sew
eral other nations to break the
deadlock in the U. N. over the
Chinese Communists may be a
well-inspired effort by the U. N.
chief to get the organization
working again, but certainly the
result of it would be to force the
Western powers to back down
from their refusal to deal with the
Chinese Reds.
In the effort to get its Chinese
puppets established in the Ma
tionalists' seats at the U. N. Rus
STA sometime ago started a cam
paign of boycotting all U. N. Or
CARNATIONS in which the Chinese
Nationalist were represented.
The result has been unusual har-
mony and strange quiet in all
those organizations where the
Red voice used to thunder it's
ISLANDERS against the Western
democracies.
F0resees Danger.
However, Mr.. Lie correctly fore
sees the danger that the work of
the United Nations without Rus
STA and its satellites will lack that
universally which the organiza-
ton requires if it is to function eff
fectively as a world peace agency.
Mr.. Lie repeatedly has carried
to the Western nations a plan for
settlement Of the controversy.
The fact that he has so ap-
preached the United States. Brit
ain and it's associates carries the
implication that the West is TO
blame for stymying the U. N.
work. This is not true. of course,
and 1t is doubtful that Mr.. Lie
intended such an implication.
He knows, however, that as
practical matter 1t would be futile
to carry any plea to the Russians
while an appeal. supported by
some legal reasoning, might pro-
vide a basis for modification of
the attitude of the Western
powers.
Therein lies the success Of the
Russian blackmailing tactic. The
Soviet masters, by creating an
impossible situation, have Sue
ceeded in putting up to the West
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
By LoweH MeHen

Sudden and sharp are the
changes on the American scene.
One day John L. Lewis doesn't
know where his next million dol
lars is coming from. Next day he
is returning, un-caShed, a half
million dollar check to the steel
workers union and offering to
lend a million dollars to the
auto workers.
In the doghouse one day. sit
ting on top of the world the
next. But, be it said. not unmind-
full of the fact that the world goes
round and round and that his
seat is none too secure. That was
a close call. his brush with the
Taft Hartley Act; this time last
week he had no way Of knowing
his union treasury would still
have a dollar. However, when
you are sitting on top of the
world you have to act the part.
So, his remarkable proposal to
Philip Murray, head Of the steel
workers union.
To Mr.. Murray he offers the
suggestion that their two unions
set up a huge defense or mutual
aid fund against the day when
either should find itself again
battling with the financial in
tereSts" of America. THE idea
seems increasingly prevalent in
industrial and financial circles, +"
he says. that our great industrial
unions should be attacked and
crippled one by one. This idea
should be knocked in the head"
Not Ready to Return.
Note that the proposal was not
made to Mr.. Murray as head Of
the CLIO, which he also happens
to be. Mr.. Lewis is not ready to
return to the fold of the overall
organization which he helped to
found. Last fall when he made a
somewhat similar proposal to VIII
liam Green, head of the AFL, it
was for cooperation between the
Mine Workers Union and nine
separate AFL unions, not for CO.
operation with the AFL itself.
Just what Mr.. Lewis has in
mind with regard to the organi-
cation of American labor gen.
orally, is now a subject Of renewed
speculation. One notion is that,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
This Changing World
Soviet Seen Gaining Fruits in Attempt
To Blackmail West Over Red China

ern powers the urgent necessity
of yielding to the Soviet demands.
We are the ones who are supposed
to give in. in order to save what
is left Of the United Nations.
The validity of the legal rea-
soning advanced by Mr.. Lies ex-
perts is beside the point. We
probably could. If we perform
sufficient mental gymnastics. deal
with the Chinese Reds In the
United Nations and with the
Chinese Nationalist on every
thing outside the U. N. 1t may
be true, as the U. N. experts con-
tend. that there is no vital con-
nection between acceptance for
purposes Of U. N. representation
and governmental recognition.
However, there is certainly an in
consistency in such a situation
which would make us hesitate a
long time before accepting it.
Factor In Reasoning.
One factor which operates
against such reasoning is that &C
ceptance for purposes of represen-
tation in the U. N. implies legal
recognition to which we are more
opposed than we are to de facto
recognition. Because the Chinese
Communists actually control the
mainland of China we might well
be justified in granting de facto
recognition. We would have to
withhold legal (de jure) recogni-
ton until we are satisfied that
the Communists are the duly con-
stituted authority in China, that
is that they govern as the repre-
sentatives Of the people and not
as the agents of a foreign power
which has conquered the country.
What we can do about Russia's
continuing use of gangster meth
DDS in imposing it's will on the
world is one Of the great prob
lens of the day. There is one
way to meet the situation, and
that Is to ostraciZe the Com
munists from all contact with the
Western world. But that is ex-
actly what Mr.. Lie Is trying now
and all Of us heretofore have
tried-to avoid. It is felt that
we cannot ostracize Russia and its
satellites until all hope has passed
for winning their cooperation.
The question before the West
ern powers now Is whether it
would not be wiser to let Russia
and its puppets ostracize them
selves than to yield again to
blackmail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
Acheson Big Target
GO. Leaders Panied as Mccarthy
Skids on Docket of Communists

praised this same man as a mar
tyr who was fired by the State
Department because he was too
tough on the Communists. SEN
ator Mccarthy now asserts he
does not know the name of the
man in Case IA.
Case 40 Is the Democrats IA
vorite. In it Senator Mccarthy
had only this to say: Il do not
have much information on this
Can individual in Research in the
State Department. except the
general statement by the agency
that there Is nothing in the files
to disprove his Communist con-
nections."
Acheson Major Target.
Nonetheless, such hearings are
a tricky matter and the climate
they tend to create does not al
ways vanish with later evidence.
The Democrats have begun with
an effort to protect each indi-
vidual cited by fully exploring all
the company that individual kept.
More fair to the individual, this
gave a little the impression that
they were harassing Senator Nc
Carthy and preventing him from
putting In his case.
The major target of all this is,
Of course, Secretary Of State
Acheson in whom Republicans
think they have found the ad-
ministration's Achilles heel. Many
Democrats, including Harry S.
Truman, share the opinion that
the Secretary compounded the
damage done by Alger Hiss con-
viction by his II will not turn
my back on Alger Hiss" state
ment. incidentally, a grapevine
charge that Mrs. Acheson con-
tributed to the Hiss defense is not
true.
Mrs. Acheson was mentioned
piously by Senator Mccarthy as
having been duped into joining
q subversive organization. Her
husband took that in his stride in
an easy. humorous explanation
that she once put 81 into group
that later was merged into Sen
ator McCarthy's target. But he
was plainly not amused.
He can be sure Of one thing:
The President says Dean Acheson
is on top Of his Job. he will stand
by him and the Democrats will
follow suit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. A-1s


Kate. c as in Charles, H as in
Harry, o as In Oliver. P as in
Peter. S as in Samuel, r as in
right away"
Another little hint that the YOU
know-what company gives you Is
this:
Answer the telephone promptly
and speak directly into the re-
ceiver. Enunciate clearly and
mold the words in your mouth"
Wonder who thought the idea
up? That's no fun. In our house
we keep the telephone smothered
with a pillow so we can't hear it.
distributed by Mcknight Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09

Alice. B as in Bertha, D as in
David, z as in Zebra and v as in
Victor, is issued by the Bell Tele-
phone System.
Won't Use Fool List.
I hate to fly in the face of such
a mighty. far-flung organiza-
ton as the B as in Bertha tele-
phone system, but I am not going
to use such a fool list over my
phone just for the sake of clarity.
When I call up the grocery store
I would much prefer getting veal
chops than have to say, send me
a pound of P as in Peter, o as in
Oliver, R as in Robert, K as in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
By Dorothy THOMPSON

Within the past week have
received a 14-page letter, by
extraordinary roundabout means
it is dated in mid-January-
from a German in the Russian
zone. Although I know him. he
is the last person from whom I
would expect to hear. for he has
been a convinced Communist. The
following excerpts are from this
letter. + have suppressed whatever
might give a clue to his identity.
which is clear from the signature
and the letter itself.
1.-THE economic situation goes
from bad to worse. More and
more people-and always the
most conscientious and compe-
tent-are being dismissed. The
socialized and half-socialized in
dustries are occupied by Com
munists or scoundrels. (There are
not enough Communists and some
of these are no longer considered
reliable) Just as under the Nazis.
we have block and factory cells
TO check on everybody.
people who are not 'activist
Communists cannot get into hos
pitfalls. even when seriously Ill.
Glorification Of Russia.
1.-THE Qualification of Russia has
taken fantastic forms. Last fall
when a Russian marshal died.
column-long articles appeared in
the press praising his immeasur-
able services to the German peo-
Pile. Then there was mourning
demonstration staged with ter
rifle organization. An immense
procession Of representatives of
industry, the city administration,
and workers marched through the
middle OF town with wreaths.
some Of them so enormous that
it took four men to carry them.
The Leipzig newspapers head
lined Leipzig honors great Soviet
patriot
Every block in that town had
to send representatives. This was
the opening act of an incredible
canonization of Stain in honor
Of his 10th birthday. Beating the
drums began weeks ahead and
feverish preparations filled all
papers.
Finally. q great initiative was
taken. The workers could not
better honor the great protector
of Germany than to give a free
hour of work for him. Pressure
for such extra hours was irresist-
ible. The Zeiss works were Or
dered to create a planetarium to
be paid out of the fund thus
created. Whole trains full of gifts
were set under way.
School children were compelled
to sign an address Of loyalty and
congratulations to Stain. Time
after time people entered the class
rooms with these lists. At first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
By Doris FIeeSOn

Senator Joseph Mccarthy of
Wisconsin has brashly trans
formed the long Republican f1irta-
ton with the Communist issue
against the Democrats into a seri-
Gus proposal of marriage.
Senior Republicans, who were
not consulted in advance by the
young man. fondly hope that the
intended bride is worthy of their
great party. With some pain they
watched the Senator skid rapidly
from his original docket of 207
cases to 81 and then admit that
in at least one Of the 81 he can't
call the name.
Yet despite the Senator's con-
fusions, they figure that if he can
make stick only one Alger Hiss
case or a reasonable facsimile
thereof, they will have much
needed ammunition for the fall
elections. Right now they don't
know what he's got or the weight
of it but they will stick with him
as long as possible.
Millikin at Hearings.
1t was noted that Senator Mill
kin, Republican, of Colorado, an
able lawyer whose Judgment is
greatly respected by his colleagues.
was an attentive guest at the
hearings.
1t is firmly emphasized by party
leaders that there is no Republic
can policy-yet-on the Senator's
project.
Democrats call the Mccarthy
tempest another five per cent
probe. What Senator Mccarthy,
a former Judge, has produced so
far does not seem to them EVIL
dence at all and they charge that
he is trying only to swing that
five per cent Of the voters who
vote their passions and prejudices.
Even that much. they know, may
harm them and when they prom
Use a complete investigation, they
mean 1t.
1t is not going to be easy to
trap Senator Mccarthy whose
hometown newspaper. The Mil
waukee Journal. has labelled him
Jumping joe"
When Chairman Tydings re-
peatedly challenged him to name
the offender cited in his Case II.
Senator Tydings knew that In
Case a.. Senator Mccarthy had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
On the Other Hand
Some Fear That Lewis May Turn
His Victory to Advantage of Taft

pressing his luck. he Is endeavor-
ing to bring about a new affilia-
ton of all American labor. with
himself. naturally, as it's head. If
so, nobody gives him much chance
for success. Within labor he is
regarded as trouble-maker.
Having busted with the AFL and
then with the CLIO and then with
the AFL again, he is not con-
sidered the harmonizing force
that labor may need. And those
responsible for labor's developing
political power are not forgetful
of his efforts to break the solid
labor lineup for Roosevelt in two
national campaigns. z
Want Lewis Muzzled.
Labor generally was behind Mr..
Lewis and the miners In the battle
with the operators-and the Taft
Hartley Act. The financial aid
offered by the steel workers was
not an idle gesture. But now that
that battle has been won, there
are those who do not conceal
their desire for a long period Of
silence on Mr.. Lewis part. Spe-
officially. they don't want him to
start making votes for Robert A.
Taft in Ohio.
Settlement of the coal strike in
the manner in which 1t was set
tied was blow to Senator Taft.
1t reflected no credit on himself
or the act that bears his name.
His own querulous complaint
against the Government the day
| 1t was announced made that clear.
And that's the way the situa-
ton will remain. according to
some Of the labor political lead
ers, II John Lewis can be muzzled
until after the Ohio election. By
the same reasoning. it will not
remain that way If any such
grandiose scheme as that he has
proposed to Phil Murray is al
lowed to engage the public's at
tention. No issue that good has
yet been given Senator Taft. The
rights of the miners are one
thing. The same can be said OF
the wisdom or unwisdom of the
Taft Hartley Act. But the char
acter Of political power that
would seem to be contemplated
by the new Lewis proposal could
serve to scare all manner Of votes
into the Taft column next fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-09
On the Record
Plight of Germans in Russian Zone
Revealed by Letter From Communist

few children would sign; but final
ly all signed, because they had
been informed that a negative
attitude would bar them from high
school. 1t is already hard for
children from former middle
class homes to expect high school.
Children Of independent business
men are automatically barred.
Intelligentsia Coddled.
"A few years ago an association
was formed for the study Of Soviet
culture. Now it has changed its
name to the society for German
Soviet friendship and everybody
is morally compelled. to join. Com
pulsion is shameless. Whoever
refuses is threatened and dis
missed from his Job.
1.-THE press is exclusively an Or
gan for putting through these
measures, and staging competi-
tons to attain various goals. HUI
man exploitation reaches greater
and greater lengths. Ever new
production norms are set, and old
norms abolished. People think
this cannot go further, but it does.
The workers are compelled to
call on their comrades to speed
up, while in the background the
servile Communist bankers raise
their cries, and behind them stand
the Russians, pressing the last
drop of blood out of the work.
ers. The bitterness through the
whole working class is terrific, but
futile.
"Over against the workers the
'intelligentsia' on whom the Rus
slams depend for influencing pub
lie opinion are coddled. In jan
uary. 1913, we got the first news
Of special extra rations for them.
At Christmas. 1949, 1856 professors
and others Of the new elite re-
ceived special food gifts-luxur-
ious by existing standards. The
workers are furious about this.
by the tax system, firm after
firm is going bankrupt. and those
that function are held up for
money for the collapsing state.
But money cannot be extracted
from stone.
"The Russians are still export
ing the major part of industrial
production.
Under such conditions the So
called planned economy totally
breaks down.
Pronunciation has become al
major activity requiring immense
bureaus to check and control. The
worst human qualities are system
atically encouraged"
released By the Ben syndicats, Incl
Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24
PUBLIC SALE
or VALUABLE
Personal Property

As have purchased a smaller
farm, will offer by way of Public
auction, my herd of Dairy Cattle
and Equipment plus my unneeded
farming implements. To he sold where
now live, namely the r. w. Dodd
Iarm, located about 2 miles north of
Rehoboth and one mile east of the
Milford-Rehoboth Highway, on
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5th. 1850
AT TEN O'CLOCK A. NJ.
Rain OR SHINE
II day is stormy there are build
lngs enough to accommodate the
crowd.
The following:
Live Stock
THIRTEEN MILK COWS. three
fresh now, three to freshen i'm De-
cember, four heifers to freshen in
January and February that are from
artlhclal breeding. Three non-bred
helIers, one pure bred Holstein bull
These cattle consist of grade
Guernseys and Pure Bred Holsteins
with breeding as follows:
Sussex WOodmaster Sensation -
Female, born October 28, 1948, whose
dam herd test record at rs months
OF age was 391-lbs. fat and I1,5f7 lbs
average for 365 days was $40 lbs of
fat and 22,779.9 lbs. of milk.
sussex Inka FObes-Female, born
July Z, l94S, purchased from Tull Bro
thers herd from a first calf heifer
producing % lbs. of milk per day.
Sussex Inka Walker-Male, pur-
chased from Tull Brothers whose dam
at time was their show COW at fair.
Hls present age is 2 years and nine
months.
Norine Ormbay Posch, End, age i
year. whose dam at 8 years of age
produced ,56O.9 lbs. of fat and Is, 7S4
IDS: OF milk and her sire is H14 of the
Delaware Artificial Breeders Corp.
Papers will be furnished for all pure
breds All heifers under three wears
OF age are calfhood Vaccinated and
nerd is I. B. and Bangs accredited
under Certificate No. 1872 1872 and sos.
Farming Implements
One Ford tractor and Implements
consisting of two 14-inch bottom
pioWs, eultivators, weeder, dirt SCOOP,
Delt pulley power take-off. extension
box, one set of cultivator stablizing
Dars, one screen and bum per- -cornbi- !
nation. Tractor just rebuilt and
painted, one Oliver. side delivery rake,
one good corn picker, Allis- Chalmers
combine, IT.; one fertilizer drill g. !
IT,; one Oliver fertilizer and grain
uiiA, l1-SpOuLs Two fuDDer tire WaW- |
ons, cultipacker, two sections, 8-feet /
one New Idea tractor mower, 7-ft. |
two riding cultivators, international: /
two sets l6-iTch bottom Raydex plews. /
one elevator, 24-ft. long with Timkin !
roller bearings and an elevation from /
6-tt. to 1872 IT,, in height: one 500 |
gallon tank, suitable for kerosene orl
gasoline; two 11a h. p. engines, one 4
set OF Anderson Mixers one I.yVac |
mixer washer, one milk bucket, |
strainer, - milk cans, one Wilson
milk box, 4-can size, single row
one bull staff, one set of Stewart
electric COW clippers, six COW chains.
live COW staunchions, one double tub
washing vat, two bushels old-fash-
iohed~ clover seed, two brooder stoves
one set of platform scales, some odd
household goods, plus other things
too numerous to mention,
TERMS: CASH day OF sale. mol
goods to be removed until paid for
NOAH 3. SMITH
DIcKERSON BROTHERS. Auctioneers
Hot lunch to be served by Ladies' Of
Midway Presbyterian Church.
Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24
CARD OF THANKS

I wish to take this means to- ex-
press appreciation to my many
friends and relatives for their
thoughtfulness, by sending me such
lovely caFds-fiOwers, both cut and
potted-while I was in the Mil
ford Hospital. Especially the ones
from the Delmarva Poultry Corr,
Virgie Kitchens and girls; L. d.
Caulk Office girls, Mildred War
rem, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Galloway,
the Loyal Workers Sunday School
Glass; also to the doctors, nurses
and ministers for their kindness.
Mrs. Anna (Jennie) Warren, Lin
coin. 11-24-1t
Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24
EXECUTORS NOTICE

All persons indebted to the es-
tate of Sarah D. Rogers, deceased
are hereby notified to settle the
same on or before November IA,
1851, and all those having claims
against the estate to present the
same, duly attested, on or before
November 14th, 1861.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
Of Milford Delaware
11-24-3t Executor
Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

All persons indebted to the es-
tate of Emmaline G. Jester, de-
ceased, are hereby notified to settle
the same on or before the sixth
day of November 1851, and all
those having claims against the
estate to present the same, duly
attested, on or before November
9Th, 1851.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
of Milford, Delaware
lI-l1-3t Administrator
Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our relatives,
neighbOrs and friends for their
kindness, flowers and cards receiv-
ed during the death of my hus-
band and our father, Peter T. Co
vatos. We also wish to thank DR..
], B. Homan for his services, Rev.
George Kalpaxis and Rev. Joseph
5. Kinks for their comforting words
and good deeds. Wife and Children.
11-24-1t
Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24
WAN ED

WANTED: TIMBER CUTTERS.
ALSO MILL HANDS-H. c.. PriestIev
Phone Bridgeville 3246. 11-3-ff
Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24
YOU BREAK AND BEND
We Weld and ATnnR

oxy-Aetylene Welding, Cutting
and Brazing. We specialize in
Electrical Repairing Batteries
Generators MagnetOs.
MILFORD BATTERY SERVICE
Stanley Hunter, Proprietor
Phone 5513
One block east Of First National
Bank. 9-23-tf