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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20
Businessmen Back Truman
Fair Deal Spending Program
BY NATHAN ROBERTSON
For Labor Press Association

WASHINGTON LPA The biggest battle
w In this session Of Congress is between
President Truman and the conservatives over
the Fair Deal spending program. The biggest
news in that battle is that a group of promi-
nent and highly respected businessmen are on
the Presidents side, rather than on the side
Of the Byrds in Congress
The businessmen are those belonging to
the Committee for Economic Development
(CED They are not self-serving propagan-
dists such as the men who are running the
National Association Of Manufacturers They
are serious-mnded and enlightened business
men who have taken the trouble 10 sit down
with experts and study the budget problems Of
the government and try to come up with hon
est answers
The answers they have come UP with are
very close TO the answers reached by the ex-
perts who helped President Truman frame
his budget They call for continued spending
OF the kind recommended by President Tru-
man 10 build and strengthen the country so
that the budget can be balanced, not by cut
ting necessary expenditures, but by increased
revenues from improved and expanded pro-
ducton.
The Presidents budget calls for expendi-
lures OF about S42 billion. The NAM budget
is set at about S33 billion, and the Byrds in
Congress are proposing budget of about SGT
billion The big difference between these
budgets is chiefly the amount TO be spent for
such things as health and education, public
works such as dams and power projects, and
construction of schools and hospitals
The issue between these two schools OF
thought is very clear. The President feels il
is sound TO build for the future even IL IL
means a temporary deficit at a time when
900 people are unemployed The Byrds
and the NAM propagandists believe il is more
important 10 balance the budget than to see
that people have enough TO eat enough houses
or enough medical care The NAM has even
taken the position that the budget should be
balanced In times Of depression
Now the CED has stepped into the middle
OF this controversy with a budget that takes
the ground out from under the ByrdS and the
NAM. Its budget calls for about the same
Kind Of spending Truman has proposed and
totals $40 billion. That $40 billion. however
is based on high level of employment with
no more than 2l2 million unemployed
The CED comedies that in times like these
with BIZ million unemployed il may not be
possible 10 balance President Truman's budget
without too much ultimate cost TO the country
economically. II wants 10 set level of spend
ing and taxing that will balance the budget
when the unemployed have Jobs That's lust
about what President Truman proposed
Most newspaper stories about the CED
report did not sound that way That is be-
cause the CED presented a budget that showed.
instead of deficit a surplus of SIS billion
that would permit tax cut of more than So
billion, and permit paying So billion on the
public debt But study Of the two documents
showed many close parallels between the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20


of General Motors Corp, and director of the
Natl Association of Manufacturers.
We need "a responsible political system
which will reflect the will of the majority and
which will enable the citizens to hold identi-
fable rulers accountable for policy decisions"
the writer maintains. He should know where
of he speaks, after the laborious tracing of the
stratagems whereby the Employment Act of
1916 was fought and defended.
Il fail to see how this can be done" Bailey
warns, except by Strengthening the only two
instruments in our political life which have an
inherent responsibility to the nation as a ma
ton The President and the national political
parties
Many Congressional observers would un-
derscore both points. The lack of clear-cut
party responsibility, the complete inability to
commit either Decomrsts or Republicans to
democratically- -arrived-at caucus decisions, and
the independence of elderly gentlemen who
chair committees solely because they're the
oldest members in point of service all con.
tribute to our irresponsible Congress
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20
Inside America
(written by the staff of The CLIO News)

era of hydro-electric dams and
power projects. So, mans
work creates problems for sal
mons play.
Problem No. /: Baby sal
mon, swimming down stream,
gets sucked into water rush
ing through electric turbines.
About 15% of them don't sur
Vive.
Problem No. 2: Adult sal
mon, swimming u p sire a m,
needs help over or around
the arrangements - whereby
fish can jump upwards in easy
steps,
But CLOS Regional Develop
ment Committee - In hand
some new pamphlet on eva
points out that salmons
plight must be considered
when building more dams.
AS CIO says in pamphlet
entitled "The Magnificent Col
umbia";; "It's true we have the
ladders at Bonneville, and lad
ders will go in at McNary-
but there is limit to the
climbing that even a salmon
can do"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20
This You Ought To Know
By PETE ZyARA

tee and Benjamin Fairless, president These
huge pensions are provided by U. S. Steel on
a -contributary basis
Bethlehem Steel goes even further. A, B.
Homer, president, will receive a pension of
S11O460 in 1861 when he will reach the age
of SIS. In addition to Mr.. Homer, there are IL
other executives of Bethlehem Steel who will
receive-at 65--annual pensions ranging from
$9,122 to $76,802.
Three former officers of this same outfit
now receive pensions in excess of $25,000 per
annum: one S25, ,668, one of S27, 168 and third
of S76,968.
Mr. Ben Morrell. chairman and president
of Jones e. Laughlin Steel - the outfit that
recently purchased the Toledo plant of Ameri-
can Can Co.-will be paid $4,000 annually If
he retires in 1858. However, if he continues to
work just five more years his pension then
will Jump to the neat little sum of $4,000 per
year.
All these pensions, of course are paid by
these firms
In some instances there are additional pen
sion and retirement allowances for these big
shots on the basis of mutual contributions.
This is especially SO in the case of U. S. Steel.
But here, too, the company puts in about Sc %
of the cost with the individual executive re-
quired to make up the remaining 33%.
w cases where the very people who oppose
our pensions and social security programs
most vigorously are the ones who will receive
great pension and retirement allowances them
selves if and when they quit their jobs,
Nice. very nice, if you can get away
with it.
Right here in Toledo where our local Big
Wigs are putting up such violent fuss, about
our Pension and Social Security program are
pretty much in the same boat. The people of
Toledo, for example, would like to know the
pension and retirement benefit plans that Mr.
Paul Block, Jr., publisher of the Blade and
Times, will enjoy some day. But not only Mr..
Block What about Mr.. Robert Stranahan of
Champion Spark Plug Mr. Harris Mcintosh
of Toledo Scales; Mr.. Jules ID. Lippman of
Texileather Corp; Mr., w. w. Knight of The
Toledo Trust Co.; Mr. John d. Biggers of Lib
bey- Owens Ford Glass and few others whom
we could name?
What about it, gentlemen? What kind of
You ought to tell us and save us the trouble
of looking it up so that we may give this bit
of information to the people of Toledo.
Why not? Let everyone know who gets
what. And what the fight is about.
Incidentally, the Mother Queen of England
Is being paid an annual pension of 10000
pounds In dollars and cents, my friends, that
comes to the neat little sum of $l960OO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20
uOW HIGH should a salmon

-
"A climb?
You may think that's a silly
question. But out in the great
Pacific Northwest, it's a real
problem-not only to salmon
themselves but to lots of folks
who've never seen salmon
except as pink meat inside a
can.
For, swimming-and climb
ing-habits of salmon are inn
portant issue in connection
with with plans and programs
for big Columbia Valley Au-
thority, modelled along lines of
highly successful IVA.
eva, like IVA, would be
concerned with electric power,
flood control, navigation, re-
building of tired farm land
But Columbia river, unlike
Tennessee river, is happy
spawning place for salmon.
They go upstream from Pacific
waters; have babies; then, Pa
and Ma and Baby salmon
swim down to ocean again.
It's been goin' on for centuries.
Salmon's mating hab is
were established long before
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20
Employers Meeting
Continued from Page !

In addition to the general Policy Com
mittee two other committees will tunc-
tion at the same time. One, the finance
committee, will have the job of raising
the necessary funds to carry on the kind
of publicity campaign that will bring to
everyone in Toledo the real issues of the
fight. The other subcommittee will de-
vote itself to working out the various and
manifold details of our publicity cam
paign. This is especially important in
city like Toledo where complete news
paper monopoly exists and where the pub
Usher and owner of the newspaper is
bitter and openly biased enemy of every
thing we stand for.
THIS is CERTAINLY not the first fight
il that the working people of Toledo
have been compelled to fight against the
industrialsts and bankers of our city.
Our entire union is the result of those
fights. Yes, the UAW-CIO 49, more than
any other union in this town was born
out of the bitter struggles that our people
had to wage against the privileged and
the wealthy of Toledo.
So it will be again. For we will not
fail Only morons or fools think that they
can divide our ranks on an issue like pen
sions and social security. Their bitter and
hypocritical attacks against Richard Cos
ser will be answered in due course in our
courts In the mean time, however, we
will not let those phoney and false issues
sidetrack us from our main goal 49, our
fight for pensions and medical and hos
pitalization plans.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20

standing in the way of continuing economic
growth.
Nevertheless, it is alarming to see the hap
penstances that mold important legislative de-
cisions. Just few samples from Bailey's sc-
count: the absence of one key Senator at
conference session to comprise the more lib
eral Senate version of the bill with the emas-
culated measure passed by the House; the
snafu-ed strategy which found the White
House and the bills supporters in the House
disagreed on how to vote on the morning the
measure came before the House.
Or, take another example Chairman Car
ter Manasco of the House committee handling
the bill just happened to tell corporation
lawyer of his difficulty in lining up opposition
witnesses. Manasco asked his help This law
yer, who had been carefully brought to Ma
nasco's attention through Los Angeles Cham
ber of Commerce lobbyist just happened" to
have been working for month with an anti
labor economist, DR., Jules Bachman of New
York University, preparing the case against
the law for Donaldson Brown, chairman
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20

the bulk OF the peopIe-I1le
workers and poor farmers. I
was interested to find out
where and under what cir
cumstances vern m ents
started such programs. | dis
covered that the leaders in
this field were New Zealand,
Australia and the Scandi-
navian countries. 1t was way
back around 1898 that New
Zealand took the lead in
adopting laws similar to our
own Old Age and Social Sc
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20

curity Benefit Act In succeeding years other
countries followed their lead until today hard
ly a nation exists that hasn't adopted some
sort of pension and social security legislation.
OF course as far as civil service and other
government employees are cOncerned--lnclud-
ing those in the armed serVices-they have
been on pensions for long time But it is
somewhat of recent innovation that people
other than government employees were cover
ed by pension and social security laws.
AS is well known, in our own country it
was not until around 1885, towards the end of
the first Roosevelt Administration, that our
Old Age and Social Security Act was adopted
DEHTND these laws, of course, we find the
~ age old desire of the common people for
security. The poor people especially have been
suffering from want and consequently inse-
Curity throughout the ages On the other hand
the wealthy have been very generously pro-
Vided for. This situation has been the direct
cause of some of the most violent social up
heavals in human history. Certainly this situa-
tion brough about the Great French Revolu-
tion in 1890 as we'll as the Russian revolution
in 1917 AS matter of fact, we can 60 back
as far as those ancient slave revolts, the most
of which the Spartacus rebellion in
ancient Rome even before the time of Christ
While we freely admit that much improve
ment has been made in this field, especially
during the last twelve years much remains to
be done, The wealthy are still in a highly fa-
vored position, while in most instances the
poor are not provided for at all or their pit
tance is so insufficient that it fails to meet
even their most elementary needs
no ILLUSTRATE my point cite few fig
II ures on the pensions paid-or to be paid
when they retire-to some of the business
leaders in our country The u. S. Steel Corp.
provides pensions of $4,000 annually to
Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board, Enders
M, Voorhees, chairman of the finance commit
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-01-20

A FEW days ago l was engaged in bit OF
"A research about pensions and what is gen.
orally referred to as social security benefits
for those people who seldom make enough to
provide for themselves. This of course, means
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
mo NEWS"

A letter from a country CORES
pondent at Thoeny, Montana, last
week to the editor Of the Glas-
gov Courier reminds one of Whit
tiers great poem "Snowbolnd,"
and gives the outside world a
glimpse of what sort OF winter
they are having in the Rocky
Mountain area. The letter is a
near-clasSic, in spite of the fact
that the fellow thought he had
no news. The letter follows:
Dear Editor:
AS far as news goes, there is
nothing moving in this commun-
ity but snow. Frank Locke, our
mail carrier, keeps US In touch
with the outside world by plane
Santa Claus had a black beard
when he arrived at Pete Larsen's
"Wednesday. Pete had not left his
ranch since Dec. l6, and the plane
bringing his mail, including his
Christmas parcels, was certainly
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09

welcome. 1t also gave him
chance to place an order for gro
ceries, which he needed urgently
and which were delivered Friday.
Jimmie Davenport ventured
down TO visit Lee Jones and
Charles Rogers Monday on a
horse he is breaking for Dan
Thoeny. He stopped at the store
Thursday on his return, with both
feet frozen
He brought us news that Char
lie froze his face badly while
feeding cattle at 81 degrees be-
low zero.
The Tim Stubers, who depend
on bottle gas for both cooking
and heating, have had their sup
ply froze twice, and have bundl-
ed up their daughters to come to
visit us while the supply was
thaWed out
Alex Allie has been riding
down horseback once week for
their mail, but he said Friday
was his last trip because the
snow is too deep
The coolest weather we have
heard about was at Ben Orphus'
where the thermometer read &c
below Monday night. Sorry I
have no news this week.
Yours truly,
HAL ORPHUS,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
TARP.ON

Lorraine Burchett entertained
friends at her home Saturday
night with a birthday party.
Mr.. and Mrs Dave Pickett of
Hamden, Ohio, were visiting
Sydney Pickett here over the
weekend.
Mrs Ted Rose has been taking
treatment at the Dante Hospital .
Rev. and Mrs Fred Taylor at
tended church at Splashdam Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. A D Holbrook,
Charles Sexton and Mrs. Joe
Puckett and son were in st Paul
and Castlewood Monday Mr.. Sex
ton stayed for few days to visit
friends and relatives.
Dave Adkins is very i'll at this
time.
Mr. and Mrs Hurlin Mullins
spent Sunday and Sunday might
in Kentucky.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
LONzA LOCALS

Earl Collins and wife of Clinch
co visited Mrs. Collins parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert MCGOWAN, Sun
day.
Mrs Estus Musick and daugh-
ter visited Orville Frazier and
family Saturday evening.
Mrs. Ocie Madden spent Thurs
day and Friday night with Mr.
and Mrs Hurley Cochran.
Allen Musick visited his son,
Evans Musick, and family Satrr-
day evening.
Vester Cochran and family call
ed on Mr.. and Mrs. Hurley Coch
ran Sunday evenin Fern Coch-
ran and Joyce Faye Musick also
called Sunday.
Mrs. Viola Cochran visited Ed
Hurt and family Saturday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
HOME DEMONSTRATION
SCHEDULE

February is, 1870 p. m Organ
ize Home Demonstration at Nc
Clure
February Is, 100 p. m Birch
leaf, Demonstration on Textile
painting
February II, 100 p M Georges
Fork, with Mrs Earl Owens,
Demonstration planning Nu-
tritious Meals"
February IA, Z p m -Swindal,
Farm and Home Club, Forestry
and Forestry Movie
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
Could q Drunken Driver Be
Arrested Before Pulling
Away From the Curb?

A tipsy gentleman staggered out
of a night club, climbed into his
car. and started the motor. But
before he could shift into low gear,
a policeman rushed up and arrested
aim. Tried on a charge of opera
ting a vehicle while intoxicated,
the man protested that he hadn't
actually driven at all. But the court
held him guilty anyhow. The judge
said that just starting the motor
was enough reason for the law to
step in and prevent further trouble
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
May You Force the City
To Extend q Water Line
TO Your Neiehborhood?

A man bought house in a Sc.
cluded neighborhood just inside
the city limits. To his dismay. he
discovered that the city's wateI
lines didn't run out that far.
Promptly he sued the city. demand
ing that the pipes be extended to
his neighborhood He said that he
was entitled to the same service
as everybody else--no matter how
much it would cost the city. How
ever, the court refused to interfere.
The judge said that, in fairness
to all concerned, such matters must
be left up to the good judgment of
the municipal authorities.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09

See where bank in Denver is
putting in left-handed checkbooks.
They figure their southpaw depos-
itOrs deserve just as much consid-
Grafton as the right handlers.
Time was when it was believed
that left-handed people had no
right to exist at all. If a youngster
showed signs of using his left
hand, his parents were supposed to
break him of the habit-to force
him to use his right.
But today most doctors will tell
you that changing a child's natu-
raj left-handed tendency usually
causes more harm than good.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09

shot himself in the leg! Although
not seriously wounded. he later
brought a damage suit against the
raiiroad-and the court granted his
claim. The Judge figured that. even
though he had shot himself, it was
really the railroad mans negli.
gence that had started the unhappy
chain of events.
A cottage was put up for auction,
and young couple decided to enter
the bidding. However, every time
they called out price the man
sitting next to them went little
higher. Finally the man stopped
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
From where | sit .,..Iy Joe Marsh.
%Left-Handed Compliment"

Stammering and other nervous dis
orders often get their start that
way with children.
From where sit, il a man wants
to use his left hand that's his
business. It's not such a good idea
to make anyone do things our way,
just because pe think It's right.
Personally, / think mellow glass
of beer is the finest beverage on
earth. II you happen to prefer a
Coke-why, go to it.! Only leave me
the same freedom of choice, won't
you?
&e M~4<
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09

The modern 49'er doesn't have to
travel overland to strike it rich. He
ean pile 1t UP right at home--wilh
u. 8. Savings Bonds. You don't have
70 risk your lives, as did our fore.
fathers. You can sign up for Savings
Bonds during the big Opportunity
Drive, May 16-June 80. In ten
short years every 50 you invest now
viii grow into "a. You will thereby
be assuring a sound America and
your own future security. THIS Is
YOUR OPPORTUNITIES now
sAd the future will be yours--your
eAegsshed dreams will come true.
US. 4rssssry Department
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Open The Border

Dickinson is the only border
county in Virginia without high
way connection into another
state. Take any highway map,
examine it, and see if this is not
true. Yet the northwestern boun
Diary, lying against Kentucky all
the way from the Doubles to Gras
sy, is one of the four almost
equal sides of the county. That
border, without, a single outlet,
makes a pocket of this commun-
ity.
With one-fourth of our entire
boundary sealed, it is not strange
that the traffic count ON our
roads is small as compared to the
counts in Wise and Buchanan
counties. Appropriations for con-
struction and maintenance Of
roads is largely based on the vol
uIne OF traffic. Unseal that north
western boundary, and the rate
of traffic would increase one
fourth. This county would not
then be the tag end of creation SO
Tar as the highway department is
concerned.
This county has been neglected
by the highway department We
would all agree on that, but we
might not agree on the reason for
it. However, lack of leadership
and lack Of effort stand out in
our history. The state highway
system had its actr.al beginning
about 1920. Other communities in
this state planned and worked for
highway connections. Take any
major. highway in the state, and
you will find behind it a story
Of cooperative effort between
widely separated communities,
both within and without the
state. Very lately, we have learn
ed the value Of planning and
working with other communities.
We are only thirty years late but
perhaps we are not too late.
In asking for primary high
way from Haysi to the Kentucky
line and for a secondary highway
through the Blowing Rock Gap,
we seek nothing that is beyond
our due. We can follow these re-
quests hopefully, for they have
met with sympathetic considera-
ton from the head of the state
highway commission. This is a
beginning, but it is only a begin
ming. We shall have to keep plug
ging, even when the first fine
blush of enthusiasm fades. Ws
shall have to line up with other
communities, both within and
without the state. That was the
way the trunk line highways In
this country got started.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
Moy a Policeman
Collect Damages if He
Shoots Himself by Mistake?

A policeman went to the depot
one night to board a train. The en-"
trance ramp was not well lighted,
and the officer didn't notice a cart
which had been thoughtlessly left
there by a depot employee. Sure
enough, he tripped over the cart.
As he fell, the impact touched off
the trigger of his pistol and he
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1950-02-09
II q Policemen
Arrests Your Friend,
May You interfere?

A policeman was summoned to a
cafe one night to arrest drunken
customer. AS he was making the
arrest, the mans companion laid
hand on the officers shoulder and
said: LET him go home. I'll take
care Of him." The policeman's
reply was to arrest his friend also
for "obstructing an officer" How
ever, the court decided that the
policeman had been altogether too
touchy and ordered the friend re-
leased. The judge said the man OBJ
viously was Gust trying to be help
full"