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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Aid Programs Supported

at was stressed that the confer
ence supported the basic purposes
of the Marshall Plan and the Ad-
ministration's ECA program as a
vital weapon in the war against
Communism in the world today.
However, it was further stress
ed that factual surveys and search
ing Investigations should be con-
Quoted in all affected industries so
that the President and the State
Department would have the pertin-
ent and relevant data on the basis
of which foreign trade policy pro-
visions could be equitably deter
mined.
1T was further stated that sub
stantial alleviation of many cur
rent crises in domestic industries
could and must be accomplished
within the framework of the exist
ing American foreign trade policy
designed to destroy the threat of
encroaching Communism in Europe
and elsewhere"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Ewing Sells Washington Writers
On NufionuI Health Insurance

might be free to stay out, who
would feed them? ?"
81 don't know that we have any
obligation to feed doctors who want
to stay out" Ewing replied. The
audience roared.
Asked how American doctors had
become so ill-informed on the Brl-
tish and the American programs,
Ewing ducked the obvious reply
that the ANA was responsible, but
merely commented that less than
10 per cent of American doctors
understood the Presidents proposal
and smaller percentage than that
knew the facts on the British plan
The British Medical Association,
Ewing replied to a questionner, Is
supporting the British medical pro-
gram in contrast with the attitude
of the ANA here.
Asked how far we could go
"without bankrupting the country,
Ewing replied that sounded like an
NAM question. But he added that
the American proposal was nothing
but a plan for forced savings to
pay for medical care, which had
nothing to do with bankruptcy.
The club roared as Ewing was
asked if he was interested in the
Democratic nomination for Cover
nor of New York, a charge made
by his political foes. Ewing replied
that he was mot a candidate for
anything, that he had his hands
full already.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
labor, Management Form Natl Group
TO Fight Destructive Tariff SIashes
wosbino+on n G ULNS).

Washington, ID. Z. tlLNo).
! Representative of labor and man
|hgement in II industries, meeting
at the Mayflower Hotel here,
launched a nationwide mobiliza-
tion against destructive tariff cuts
on products competing with some
American industries.
The meeting also decided to con-
duct a study of the effects of the
ECA import program and recipro-
cal trade agreements on U. ). IN
dustry, with the aim of obtaining
facts on which a fair and just for
eign trade policy can be based. At
the same time, the conference en-
phasized that it supported the
Marshall Plan and ECA program.
To put its decisions into effect,
the delegates formed the National
Labor Management Committee on
Foreign Trade Policy. Sixteen
trade unions were represented.
They were brought together by
Americas Wage Earners' Protec-
tive Conference, of which Matthew
Woll is president. The conference
is composed of AFL unions.
All Sections Represented
Among the industries and labor
groups at the meeting were repre-
sentatives from the fisheries, glass
ware, glove, aluminium, pottery,
wallpaper, match, photoengraving,
kaolin, hats and millinery, glass
container r, scientific apparatus,
book manufacturers, cedar shingle,
hothouse vegetable, and fish can
ming industries. Among the labor
representatives attending were
presidents of national and interna-
tional unions speaking for well
over LOCO local unions throughout
the country.
A large number of representa-
tives of companies and industrial
associations in the above indus
tries were also present. Delegates
came from all sections of the coun-
try including the Atlantic and Pac-
ific Coasts.
Following the meeting, 0. R.
Strackbein, executive secretary of
the protective conference, issued
a statement in which he said:
"The meeting was sponsored and
called by labor and management
interests who are adversely affect
ed by the rising tide of imports
from foreign countries in Europe
and other parts of the world. 1t
was pointed out that such threats
would be increased as a result of
the contemplated further decrease
in import duties.
"a steering committee was tC
be designated consisting Of repre-
sentatives of management and
labor in all participating industries
1t was announced that invitations
to participate would be extended to
all labor and management groups
in all of the various industries ad-
versely affected by the mounting
competition from foreign importa
. tionS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Green, Murray, Other
Top Labor Leaders Back
Dinners For Roosevelt

Washington LPA)- Eight top
union leaders-AFL, CIO and indie
pendent - head labor's participa-
tion in the second annual Roose-
welt Day Dinners in Is cities. The
first dinner was held Jan. 21 in
Chattanooga, Tenn. The last two
were scheduled for Jan. 30, FDR's
birthday, in Columbus, Ohio, and
Baltimore, Md.
Philip Murray, president of the
CIO, and William Green, president
Of the AFL, are vice-chairmen of
the Natl Committee for Roosevelt
Day. Co-chairman of the national
labor committee supporting FDR
Day are David Dubinsky, president
of the Int'l Ladies Garment Work
ers Union-AFL; Hugo Ernst, pre-
sident of the Hotel & Restaurant
Workers-AFL; AL Hayes, president
of the Int'l Assn of Machinists;
w. P. Kennedy, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen;
Walter Reuther, president of the
United Auto Workers-CIO; and
Emil Rieve, president of the Textile
Workers-C -CIO.
Co-chairmen of the Natl Com
mittee for Roosevelt Day are Gov.
Chester Bowles of Connecticut,
Sen. Herbert Lehman of New York
and playwright Robert K. Sher-
wood. Dinners are sponsored by
Americans for Democratic Action.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02

True, less than one-fifth of the
national economy is affected by
naturalization measures, but the
industries 50 far include the prin-
cipal industrial and financial bas-
tions of Great Britain. To be spec
ific; banking and credit, coal, cleo
trio power, gas, inland transport
alton, and communications, with
steel and iron to follow if Labor
is returned to power. Nominally 80
percent Of British business remain
in private hands, but they depend
on government for services, ma
terials, even the capital they need.
Or has been said elsewhere: Theo-
retically the little businessman will
not be socialized, but he might as
well be.
4 =. 4
Labor's campaign offers the Con-
servatives great opportunities, but
it handicaps them "a well. The Con-
servative party may draw hope and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Green Helps Open London Hospital

London-AFL President William Green found participation
Capham Park RehabIlan enter e
the pleasant of his recent visit to London TOT e
Confederation
u;on The FL and CIO for the purchase OF
the site ohopedic instructor
minister to Oneo
kingdom Harry Martin president the CO American Newspaper
labor information
tion Administration i'm Europe, and Mr.. Green
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Strikebound Paper Hires Scabs

Little Rock, Ark. UPA)-The
Arkansas Gazette held out against
striking members of the American
Newspaper Guild from Dec. 20 to
Jan. 16 and then began hiring
scabs, ANG spokesman revealed
in their strike paper. They said
the Gazette was Sacrificing its
spirit on the altar of the Almighty
Dollar"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
BY DONALD WOODS

Washington (LPA) - In the
greatest selling job ever done for
national health insurance, Federal
Security Administrator 0 S c r
Ewing educated and convinced
many Washington correspondents
about the Presidents program and
the differences between it and the
socialist program in Great Britain,
before the National Press Club
Jan. 26.
Press club officers agreed Ewing
had done a great educational job.
Whether it will show up in the
future press treatment of the Pres
ident's program depends primarily,
of course, upon the attitude OF
newspaper publishers. But there is
no question Ewing answered many
of the questions and the doubts OF
the Washington writer's.
He discussed medical, education
al and social security programs
throughout western Europe and
Israel, as he had observed them on
his trip abroad.
Ewing reported his observations
in Britain and Sweden had left him
with no doubt that their health
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02

his trip abroad.
Ewing reported his observations
in Britain and Sweden had left him
with no doubt that their health
PRECEDING SPEAKER GIVES
SERMON FOR EWING TALK
Washington (LPA) - Oscar
Ewing got a big break in his
appearance before the Nation
al Press Club to sell President
Truman's health in surance
plan. The club put on ahead OF
him, Robert M. Averill,
speaker for the March OF
Dimes, who told a dramatic
story of his own experience
when his wife was stricken
with polio and had to be put
into an iron lung.
>AverilI said the cost of car
ing for his wife had run be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 a month
for years, and pointed out that
the March of Dimes had taken
care of all the expense he could
not afford, after paying what
he could above the cost of sup
porting his family.
Ewing took advantage of
that opportunity. He comment
ed that Averill's story was one
Of the best arguments for ma
tional health insurance he had
ever heard.
programs were part of their social
ization programs. In England the
government pays eight-ninths of
the cost from general taxes, and
the health program was "all part
of the planning for new economy
and a new social structure"
"But that is not true in Switzer-
land or what President Truman has
in mind" Ewing added. "There are
65,O00,000 people in this country
who have incomes of less than
$4,000 year and another 45,OOO,-
600 with incomes between. $1,000
and $4,000. The first group cannot
pay for regular medical care, the
second can't afford to pay for
catastrophe illness"
He said the Presidents program
was merely another way of financ-
ing our medical care through insur-
ance, and not new cost. Differ
entiating between our plan and the
British, Ewing noted the British
took over all the hospitals and
they pay for all medicines. He said
he saw no point in the first, and
felt that on the second, all the
plan should do is to remove "the
dollar barrier" so that doctors can
scribe expensive medicines
when they are called for.
Ewing demolished the American
Medical Associations argument
that the quality of medical care has
deteriorated in Great Britain. He
quoted DR.. Charles Hill, secretary
of the British Medical Association,
which corresponds to the ANA
here as saying there had been no
such deterioration. He quoted doc
tors to the same effect.
The questioning of Ewing was
pertinent and sharp. He
conceded nearly all British doctors
had gripes about the way the pro-
gram there was working, but said
in talking to doctors selected for
him by the British Medical Asso-
citation he had found none who
didn't think it was a good thing,
and only one who would turn back
if he could. That one, he said,
agreed that his objections to the
British plan were not present in
Evening star., 1950-04-24
Absentee Landl0rdism
Oil, Utility Interests Pick Alabama
AS Dixiecrat Movement Headouarter

manites) is able to seize control
Of our State Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, the first order of
business when the new State
COMMITTEE meets in January, will
be to pass a resolution requiring
each and every candidate for
Presidential Elector to sign a
pledge agreeing that If he is
elected he will cast Alabama's S
vote for whoever is nominated by
the Democratic National Conven-
tion.
Even Nomination of Negro
This would include the nom
ination Of Harry Truman for
President and even the nomina-
tion of Bill Dawson, the Negro
Congressman from Illinois, who is
e-chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, and also a
member of the Policy Committee
Of the Democratic National Com
mittee for Vice President, if he is
nominated by the Democratic Ma
tional Convention"
Also interesting, for an insight
into the psychology of hackers of
the Dixiecrat movement, was Mr.
McCorvey'S explanation of how he
is distributing campaign cards, -
one of which he enclosed.
For example," he said, last
night I arranged with the super
intendent of the 18-story Mer-
chants National Bank Building
where my Offices are located, to
have the night watchman put one
Of these cards on every desk in
every Office. from the 18th floor
to the basement, in this office
building. including every desk In
the bank, a $90-million institu-
tion."
Later he said:
Il forgot to mention that Sam
Johnston is having such cards
put on all the desks-not just one
in each Office but one on every
desk-throughout the First Ma
tional Bank Building and the
First National Annex. Ed Thorn
ton is doing the same with the
Waterman Steamship Corps 49,
story building. Jim Van Antwerp
one OF the committee, told me that
he would see that these cards
were placed on every desk in the
10-story Van Antwerp Building. >
Evening star., 1950-04-24
This Changing World
COP to Move to Require Confirmation
Of All State Department Policy.Makers

| the matter. Yet, when the Secre-
tary promotes a vice consul in
Tegucigalpa to be consul in Haifa
he must send his name to the
Senate.
Before World War II President
Roosevelt occasionally employed
persons for special. temporary as
signments. One of these was the
late Norman Davis, who was sent
to London to. represent the
United States at the 1885 naval
conference and to a number of
arms conferences in Geneva. Mr..
Davis was accompanied by State
or Navy Department officials and
he reported directly to the Chief
Executive.
In the same way Mr.. Roosevelt
sent Myron c. Taylor as his per-
sonal representative to the Vati-
can. In order to give him the
necessary. prestige he was called
ambassador at large.
Neither of these men drew a
regular salary, but all of their ex-
penses were paid. Their names
never appeared in the list of
State Department officials.
Jessup on Roster.
The name of DR.. JesSup ap-
pears, however, in the State De-
partment roster, Immediately
after that of Undersecretary of
State Webb. He has Offices in
the State Department building as
we'll as the usual quota of secre-
taries and assistants, like all high
ranking permanent officials who
have been confirmed by the Sen
ate and have taken an oath Of
Office.
What positions Mr.. Dulles and
Mr.. Cooper will receive in the
State Department list is unknown
for the present, since they have
just joined its ranks. Their re-
sponsibility as advisers, that is to
say responsible policy-making Of
ficials, has already been estab-
liShed.
The Senate Republicans do not
intend to cast any suspicion or
doubt on the ability of the "spe-
cials" in the State Department,
but they feel that since these
men are policy-makers they
should have the same legal re-
sponsibilities as vice consuls and
young diplomatic attaches, who
cannot exercise their modest
functions without Senate con-
firmation.
The mere announcement that
the President or the Secretary of
State has decided to appoint Mr..
So-and-So special adviser or
ambassador at large is not suffi-
cient in these days when such ap-
pointments. instead of being an
exception, have become a regular
habit.
Evening star., 1950-04-24

powerful East Ihomas l.. stoAes'
ern interests. a type of absentee
landlordism SO familiar in the
South, a knowledge Of which is
necessary to an understanding OF
its politics and economics-and
Dixiecrat movements.
Such as, for example. Frank
Dixon of Birmingham, the coal
and iron capital Of the South. He
is a former governor and has the
Du Pont interests among his
clients. Also, Gessner T. McCorvey
of Mobile, counsel for Standard Oh
and Gulf Oil among others, who
is State Democratic chairman.
Took Over in 194S.
This gilt-edged industrial and
financial fraternity, under Mr..
McCorvey's able direction, took
over the regular Democratic
Party completely in 1948. Harry
Truman's name was not even on
the ballot. You couldn't vote for
him in Alabama. The State was
one of the four in the South that
cast it's electoral vote for Gov
ernor j. Strom Thurmond OF
South Carolina, candidate of the
States Rights Party, as it was
known.
Now MIR. McCorvey and his
associates are facing revolt in
the effort Of Truman supporters
in the State, led by Senators Lis
ter Hill and John Sparkman and
Governor big Jim" Folsom, to
regain control Of the party in
the May 2 primary through elec-
ton of a majority of the 70 Demo-
cratic Executive Committee men,
bers. It appears that this revolt
will be successful, and that Sena-
tor Hill likewise will be renomi-
mated.
Racial prejudice was widely ex-
plotted in the 1948 Dixiecrat
movement. Interesting in this
connection in the present cam
paign is part Of personal and
confidential letter" Mr.. McCor-
vey wrote recently to Dixiecrat
leaders which he asked the recip-
tents to destroy after reading so
it would not fall into the hands
Of the enemy" He said:
Just as certain as I am writ
ing this letter to you, If the Her.
bert Meighan group (the Tru-
Evening star., 1950-04-24

awkward places. No one ever saw
a fish in a hotel. No one ever saw
fish sit down with an architect
and say, This is where I want
to live and I want you to draw
me house that faces east so that
I may enjoy the rising SUM-"
No one has ever seen a fish
reach into his pockets and pull
out money to buy an El Greco
or a Norman Rockwell. Has any,
one ever seen a fish walk into
store and buy an oriental rug?
Did a fish ever write a book? Not
to my knowledge.
Costs $50 q Day.
To catch a fish you've got to
60 where fish live. And that en-
tails discomfort.
In the first place 1t costs you
about $50 a day to be uncom-
Portable, which is not my idea Of
spending money the right way.
There are several other ways that
I would rather spend my money
than creating unhappiness for
myself-namely. a hot-rod car
with my name painted on the
door, one semester of study at
the Davey Tree Surgeon Hospital,
and several other things.
So went fishing yesterday.
To go fishing you have to get
up at $50 am, which is an
untimely hour.
Then you have to carry a box
lunch with you.
And you have to eat the box
lunch in a rowboat, which is un-
doubtedly the last place that any
sane man would eat box lunch.
On your right is Mama. on your
left is Junior, in your lap is
Sister.
Box Lunches All Alike.
1t is not the way that rich
people go fishing because they
have a yacht, a captain, and two
members of the crew.
But I'm not rich so I have to
fish from a rowboat, all the while
wondering where the nearest tele-
phone is so I can call Stanley
Taylor at my bank and ask him to
do me the slight favor Of taking
care Of checks that far surpass
my account.
|. Let me ask you-and I ask you
because ! don't know the answer
myself-why do they always put
the same things in box lunches?
Have you ever reached into a
box lunch and dirtied your hands
on caviar? Has anybody ever
been thoughtful enough to put
filet mignon in a box lunch?
When I reach into the box I will
tell you exactly what pull out.
Two dry peanut butter sand
wiches, a couple Of deviled eggs
to which the wax paper has ad-
hered, one tired dill pickle, one
little piece Of screwed up paper
holding salt and pepper and, in
the far corner, a quite serious
case of Indigestion.
That's what you'll have to put
| up with to catch a fish.
Evening star., 1950-04-24

provides for Di'n'
confirmation of State Department
officers from the level of Secretary
of State down to the modest
grade Of vice consul. special am
bassadors and advisers are ap-
pointed without this formality.
Only recently John Foster
Dulles and John Sherman Cooper
were appointed advisers to the
Secretary of State while DR.. Philip
C. Jessup, who for some time has
held the rank of ambassador at
large, was given additional i'm
portant duties at the State De-
partment. None Of these advisers
were confirmed by the Senate.
Permanent officials have to be
confirmed by the Senate so that
the upper house of Congress can
determine whether the Admin
istration's appointees are quail
fed for the job.
Could Appoint Maragon.
When a y-making official
is nominated for the State De-
partment. hearings are held by the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee. He Is interrogated by
members of that committee about
his experience and when the COM
mittee is satisfied as to his COM
petence his name is sent to the
Senate for confirmation. There
have been cases in which the
Senate or its Foreign Relations
Committee has turned down
nominees for important positions
in Washington or abroad.
At present special ambassadors
and advisers who draw full yearly
pay require no Senate conf1rma-
tion and do not have to take even
the usual oath of Office. Thus, If
the Secretary of State wanted to
appoint John Maragon as a spe-
cial adviser on Greek affairs or
as an ambassador at large in the
Near East he could do so without
the Senate's having any voice In
Evening star., 1950-04-24
Regaining the Offensive
Acheson Seen as Winning His Audience
In Reply to Mccarthy Before Editors

the dignified Joseph Pulitzer, pub
Usher Of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, heard himself crying out
Pour it on. Mr.. Secretary"
The Secretary did. And he cor
daily acceded to demands for its
publication. But he remains the
intellectual. Having brought his
listeners to their feet with final
moving challenge and warning
that the bell tolls for thee" Mr.
Acheson still had some important
Unconditional things to say off the
record about the cold war. So he
said them for another Is minutes
Foreign Service Hurt.
Conversations within the State
Department support the Secre-
tary's statement that morale there
is excellent. The reorganization
suggested by the Hoover Commits
sion, of which Mr.. Acheson was a
member, has been carried out and
experienced people are in COM
mand. There has never been q
time when fewer top jobs were
held by the fat cats of politics
the heavy campaign contributors
The truth is that the State De-
partment's work is now so difficult
and time consuming, only people
who will work hard care to be
there.
The Secretary dealt with the
place where the goings-on at home
do hurt-the Foreign Service. The
room was very quiet as he de.
scribed the present lives of what
actually are our cold-war troops
the men. women and children ir
difficult and dangerous parts o1
the world. Explain these attack.
to them. he challenged.
The department is presently en-
gagged in widespread meet-the
press operation to show principa.
correspondents what has been done
and acquaint them with the people
doing 1t. It admits. no doubt, that
the final verdict will be complete
and utter vindication.
Evening star., 1950-04-24

0P w I11C 40oCS
the Secretary's advisers were dif-
fering about whether he should
reply at ali. In hand was the
dignified total diplomacy
speech, all true, all important,
but wholly lacking in the adren-
alin appeal.
Friendly editors had sent over
a warning: In his appearance be-
fore the editors, so fortuitously
occurring after the Budenz testi-
mony created new confuSions,
Senator Mccarthy had seized the
offensive. Unless Mr.. Acheson
regained it Saturday night, the
Budenz- Mccarthy teams impress
sion would remain.
Politicians and editors know
that when matters of this kind
reach a certain point, the only
answer that will serve is the fight
of the person under attack. It is
often good politics to duck and
weave while time gets in some
licks but when the controversy
persists, it must be dealt with by
the injured party. - >.
Wins His Audience.
1t was difficult for Secretary
Acheson to raise Senator Nc
Carthy to the level of his public
contempt. The Secretary has re-
peatedly demonstrated his cour-
age; he is a skilled advocate who
can command huge fees. But he
is also an intellectual who gen.
timely loathes the spectacle
staged by the Senator from Wis
consin and hates to play a part
in it.
He had not spoken long before
he knew he had his audience
Probably to his own astonishment