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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
CrockdoWn Hits
Third Cold Cure

Washington (LPA)-The FEEDER
al Trade Commission cracked down
ON a third manufacturer of COM
mon cold preventives and cures
March % with issuance of a COM
plant against the Whitehall Phar-
macal Company of New York,
makers of Kriptin.
The complaint follows the pat
tern set in charges against the
makers of Resistabs and Anahist,
and alleges the Kriptin manufac-
turers are using false and mis-
leading statements in advertising.
The ETC charged: "The use of
Kriptin by persons who have a
common cold infection when such
infection first becomes manifest
will not prevent such manifesto
tions from becoming more severe,
prevent development of other man
ifestations, or result in a cure of
all such manifestations"
I" The complaint further attacked
as false the claim that Kriptin has
been tested by the United States
Navy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Seamen's Union
Declare Hot War
On Communists

Washington (LPA)-Chief offic-
ers of seven AFL, CIO and inde-
pendent seamen's unions declared a
"hot war" on European waterfront
Communists trying to hold up the
flow of arms from the US to i'm
plement the Atlantic Pact. The sea-
mems leaders issued their declar-
alton March 81 at the end of a two
day conference here to organize a
campaign to retain the union hir-
ing hall, core of seagoing unionism,
and to consider other common pro-
blems.
Before the "hot war" decision
was reached, the union officers,
who represented upwards of 170,-
900 men, heard a plea for such
action from Omer Becu, executive
secretary of the International
Transportworkers Federation. Becu,
"a Belgian, said European Com
munists in their propaganda con-
tended that American transport
employees We're against both the
Marshall Plan and the Atlantic
Pact.
Unions taking part in the confer
ence were the National Maritime
Union-CIO; Seafarers Internation-
al Union-AFL; Marine Firemen
(unaffiliated); Masters, Mates &
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
S70O Pensions For
Firesfone Group

Akron, Ohio (LPA)-Company-
paid pensions of $1C0 a month at
65 after 25 years service have been
won by the United Rubber Work
ers for its 10000 members in the
eight plants of the Firestone Tire
and Rubber Co. The agreement also
includes company paid life insur-
ance. The contract follows the pat
tern set in the recent agreement
with the Goodyear Tire and Rub
Der Co.
The plants are at Akron, Mobiles
vile and Newcastle, Ind, Los
Angeles, Pottstown, Pa, Falls
River, Mass, Des Moines, and
Memphis, Tenn.
Employees will receive in pensions
l per cent of their total earnings,
but in no case will the pension be
under 500, including social secur-
ity. Group life insurance will be
from $1,000 for those earning under
72 cents an hour to $4,000 for those
earning more than $1.44.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
BARBARA BELL PATTERN
No. 1857

This shortie coat is a must" in
every wcll-dressed woman's ward
robe, Wear it over slacks, shorts
and skirts. 1t is collarless, has a
full, yoked back and two nicely
shaped pockets. Make several in
different colors.
Barbara Bell sew-rite perforated
pattern No. 1857 comes in sizes II,
Ia, 16, Is and 20. Size Ia requires
39s yards of 39-inch fabric.
For this pattern, send 25 cents,
in coins, your name, address, pat
tern number and size wanted to
Barbara Bell, Labor Press Associa-
ton, Box 80, Station G, New York
10, N. Y.
The Spring and Summer STYL-
IST is filled with smart new ideas
for wearable spring-into- summer
wardrobe. Particular emphasis on
fabrics--free gift pattern printed
inside the book. rs cents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30

did feel that some tax revision
might spur investment. 1t there
fore recommended a broad study of
taxes to determine "who actually
pays the taxes under existing and
prospective conditions" and the
question Of tax avoidance through
investments in tax exempt secur-
tiles.
"The frequency with which tax
matters were mentioned as bear
ing upon the problem of invest
ment, and particularly that Of
small business health and growth"
the report said, Suggests to the
subcommittee the desirability of am
early systematic review of present
tax laws by Congress. The present
laws have grown up under special
conditions which differ greatly
from what may be expected to pre-
vail in the immediate future and
particularly when peacetime con-
ditions are reestablished.
"Many provisions of the law
were added for fiscal reasons dur
ing the depression or for fiscal and
control detectives during wartime.
1t seems to the subcommittee that
it is now desirable and appropriate
that provisions Of the law be recon-
sidered from the standpoint Of their
impact on business stability, the
growth of monopoly, and the main
tenance of full employment during
more normal times.
"In any such review this sub
committee would recommend con-
sideration of provisions extending
the principle of progression to
corporations having incomes some
what larger than the present limit
of $4,000. In view of the tremen-
dous size of some of the larger
domestic corporations and the nee
essity for encouraging not only
small but intermediate size corpor-
ations, if the free enterprise sys-
tenn is TO be maintained, it may be
that the progression in corporate
tax rates should be redeSigned to
increase benefits to very small
corporations and to extend benefits
to intermediate size corporations"
The subcommittee also recon-
mended prompt action by Congress
to provide channels through which
risk capital can flow from small
investors into small business enter
prises. 1t listed a number of sug-
geStions which it said should be-
considered by the proper Congress
ional legislative committees.
Backing up its report that big
business has plenty of money, the
committee provided much data on
the funds channeled to big bust
ness through insurance companies
and trusts. 1t said "the preferred
position which large business has
in its access to such insurance com
pany funds is all too obvious"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Senofe Committee Blasts Big
Business Propaganda On Taxes

Washington (LPA) - Big bust
ness propaganda that high taxes
are interfering with investment in
new industries has been blasted in
report by the O'Mahoney sub
committee of the Joint Congress
ional Economic Committee. The
group has been studying the pro-
blem since last summer.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Joseph O'Mahoney Cd,
Wyo.D proposed a number of ideas
for getting investment money for
small business, but flatly, denied
there was a shortage of risk capi-
tai for big business, or that lower
taxes were needed to spur such in
vestments.
The subcommittee said recent ex-
perience indicated big business was
getting all the money it needed,
despite the high taxes, and sug-
gested that any more risk capital
investment by big business in re-
cent years would merely have made
initiation worse, and increased the
tendency toward "boom' and "bust"
economics.
The committee majority was
composed Of O'Mahoney, and the
noted economist Senator Paul
Douglas Cd, lllD, plus Rep. Wright
Patman Cd, TeX). The minority
Senator Taft OR, o.. and Herter
OR, Mass. )-submitted a supple
mental report echoing the tradi-
tional business propaganda about
high taxes interfering with invest
ment.
The minority said the majority
had placed undue emphasis" on
the role of insurance companies in
channeling money into the hands
Of big business and "too little en-
phasiS on the results of heavy tax
alton. Taft and Herter said high
taxes were interfering with invest
ment, using as an illustration the
return investors would get UNDER
present tax rates by investing in a
corporation making 10 per cent re-
turn on investment before taxes.
Their example showed that such
investors would realize, after tax
alton, from LIZ per cent to 4.19 per
cent. But the majority report show
ed this was not typical example,
because industry instead of max
ing 10 per cent before taxes, has
been averaging up to IA per cent
after taxes. Many companies have
been doing far better.
Taft and Herter hit particularly
at what they and business propa-
gandists call the double taxation"
to which corporate profits are sub
jected-first as corporate profits,
and then as individual income in
the hands of the recipients for di- |
vidends.
The Committee majority debunk-
ed this argument also, pointing out
that most corporate profits taxes
are passed on to consumers, and
are not paid by the corporations. |
They quoted a report made two
years ago by Taft to substantiate
this contention. Furthermore thel
committee emphasized that in good
times, despite high taxes, there is
rarely a shortage of investment
capital. Cutting taxes, the major
ity said, would not help get more
capital facilities constructed in
times of depression, because then
business is pcsSimistic and doesn't
want investment money, although
that is precisely the time at which |
acceleration of Investment is most
needed.
While disagrecing that high
corporate and individual tax rates
are seriously interfering with IN
vestment, the committee majority |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
News dnd Views ...
-. By ALEXANDER S. LIPsETT Can ILNs Teaturs)

Of the Fl proposals for govern
ment reorganization submitted to
Congress, labor's interest is likely
to focus on the Presidential request
for abolition of the office of gen.
eral counsel to the National Labor
Relations Board. That move has
been described as exceeding the re-
Communications of the Hoover Com
Imission. If so, organized labor,
which has more than one account
to settle with Mr.. Denham, has no
reason to feel upset.
What the outcome of these pro-
posals will be is too early to say.
Opposition, there is little doubt,
will be strong and more vocal than
ever. Most of it is inspired by vest
ed interests which feel themselves
threatened by every move aiming
at greater government efficiency
and elimination of wasteful eXpen
ditures. Others look upon some
measures as too controversial and
therefore to be Stunned in a year
when the political complexion of
the House of Representatives and
of one-third of the Senate is at
stake. Still others interpret the
Presidents action with regard to
the NLRB as particularly repel-t
lent example of partisan politics
and designed to WOO union affec-t
tions, and will act upon these as.
sumptions.
Nevertheless, labor's interest in
the reorganization of the federal
government along the lines pro-
posed by the Hoover Commission is
so strong that it can afford to look
with equanimity upon such asper-
sions. That does not mean that the
union movement stands four-square
behind every reorganization move.
Indeed, the American Federation of
Labor summarized the controver-
sial character of the program we'll
by stating that probably no indi-
vidual or group can go along COM
pletely with every recommends
tion made by the commission"
Yet with all these reservations,
the Hoover program, again in the
words of the AFL, presents "a
golden opportunity to our Repre-
sentatives in Congress. 1t is now
up to those members who have SO
often used the cry of economy as
their major, and sometimes only,
political stock in trade to put their
votes where their mouth has been,
or forever hold their peace. The
AFL will be watching with
keen and constant interest" Nor
has the CIO been laggard in endor-
sing the program as "a move in
tended to benefit the working
man."
Some months ago this column, in
comment on the presence of the
AFL and CIO national leadership
Pilots-AFL; M ri e Engineers
Beneficial Associations -CIO; Amer
ican Radio Association-CIO; Radio
Officers Union-AFL. They expect
to ask the AFL and CIO to set up
a conference of all American trans
port workers to support their anti
Communist drive.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
BY ALyAINE HAMILTON

Washington (LPA)-The Repub-
lican- Dixiecrat coalition in tn,
House killed the coop housing pro-
gram March %, after voting tc
make it as obnoxious as possible
even to the extent of supporting
what they had previously condem-
ned as discriminatory low interest
rates for housing co-ops. Record
vote on the Wolcott amendment
killing the coop provisions was 21S
to 1856, with SO absent and 81 un-
recorded.
The same coalition then proceed
ed to give the home builders and
mortgage lenders even more gravy
They allowed an additional 5000
million for insuring loans to pri-
vate builders for rental housing.
Then they gave the RFC another
$3.50 million for "bailing out" the
lenders of FHA and VA housing
loans. Franklin d. Roosevelt, Jr.,
(D-L, NY) led the opposition to
this gfavy-train but was out-voted.
Private builders will be enabled,
under another amendment, to sell
or rent their apartments at a
claimed cost of $4,000 a unit instead
of $1,000 a unit-with no change in
size of the unit or improved quail
ity. Wolcott also obtained approval
of an amendment destroying Presi-
dent Truman's authority to tie the
size of the governments housing
program to the general full-em-
ployment, anti-depression program.
"This is the most amazing flip
flop by the Republican members
opposed to the coop housing sec
ton that | have seen in my 22
years in the House." Majority
Leader Mccormack charged in a
last-minute appeal for the coop
program. "They are talking one
way and voting another" He warn
cd that the roll call would be
checked carefully by the voters for
the November election.
The motion to kill the co-opera
tive middle income housing section
was made by Rep. Jesse Wolcott
OR, Mich.) and on the first stand
ing vote passed, ia to 122.
Rep. Patman's bid for support
by placing an interest floor of 4
per cent on coop loans was licked
in a teller vote, lis to 1876. Only
one Republican-Liberal Javits of
New York, voted for Patman's
amendment At least five southern
Democrats went through the tell
ers to kill the Patman amendment
Davis of Georgia, Gathings of
Arkansas, Redden Of North Caro-
lima, Smith of Virginia, Whiting
ton Of Mississippi. But another 100
Democrats ducked the vote.
Even when Patman proposed to
cut the coop program to one-quar-
ter Of the size approved in the COM
mittee bill he was voted down, 157
to l30, on a teller vote. Though
this would have allowed only a
small pilot coop building program,
about % southern Democrats join
ed the solid Republican side to lick
it. Only five Republicans went
through the telIers in support of
the Patman amendment. Again
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
FINANCIAL REPORT FOR 1919
PRINTED IN ILGWU JOURNAL

New York (LPA)-The Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union publishes detailed financial
report in the March Is issue of
Justice, its publication. Assets arc
6,465, ,515.73 and liabilities are
%,9G0, ,002.99. Receipts for 1919
were $5,26d, ,901.27 and disbursc-
mentS $3,777,932.94. OF the latter.
death benefit payments accounted
for $Gl3,593.65.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
'UPHOLSTERERS WIN
PENSIONS AT KROEHLER

Chicago (LPA)-The Upholster-
efs international Union-AFL has
won a company paid pension plan
for 5000 employees of the Kroehler
Manufacturing Co., furniture MAX
ers here. Sal b. Hoffman,, UIU
president, said the union hoped to
obtain similar plans for another
$4,000 workers employed by 5000
firms.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Housing Vote Exposes
Dixieqop Bios On Housing

about 100 Democrats were missing.
The coop section would have
established a Cooperative Housing
Administrator in the federal hous-
ing agency, to encourage and pro-
vide know-how for families in the
$2400 to $4S00-a-y ar income
group. A Natl Mortgage Corpora
tion for Housing Cooperatives
would be authorized to make loans
to cooperatives and non profit
housing corporations to finance
their building.
A letter from President Truman,
messages from William Green and
Philip Murray for AFL and CIO,
and from heads Of the American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Amvets and the American Veterans
Committee, were read to the House
as it started on the final grind of
debate, amendments and votes
March %.
Truman urged retention of the
coop section of the bill, which he
said, in telegram from Key West,
Twill stimulate home ownership
through the use Of cooperative
methods to achieve savings in the
cost of financing and construction
methods which have been success
fully used in other fields of endea-
vor. 1t will be of particular value
to those of our veterans who are
still seeking adequate housing"
Rep. Brent Spence ID, Ky.) led
the floor fight, along with Reps.
Buchanan Cd, Pa), Patman d.,
Tex.), Rains Cd, Ala), WoodhouseI
Cd, Conn.,, O'Hara Cd, Ill.,, and
Multer ID, N.Y.. Spence told the
House co-ops have been singularly|
successful, pleaded for fair consid-
Grafton of the coop section, said it
was anything but socialistic" and
would strengthen American insti-
tutions.
Rep. Jesse Wolcott OR, Mich
fought against the bill backed by
COP leader Martin OR, Mass,
MacKinnon Cd, Calif), Tale Or,
Iowa), Kilburn CIR, N.Y., Cole Or,
Kan.).
Wolcott said the coop homes
plan would cause initiation, endang
er world peace, would lead to low
er interest rates on veterans and
other home mortgages, would be a
rent scheme, and any
way the co-ops could get low-inter-
est loans from states and munich
palities more cheaply than under
the bill.
In an appeal for the widest pos
sble support, Rep. Patman indi-
Gated he would insert two amend
fixing the interest rate
on insured coop mortgages at at
least four per cent, and the other
cutting TO one. quarter the original
sum the amount authorized in loans
by the coop mortgage corporation.
During the last decade Congress
has made available tens of billions
of dollars to private speculative
builders to build homes at enor-
nous prices or which they make
enormous profits" Patman pointed
out. Cant we afford to risk one
tenth of the SIS billions we will give
to private builders in this same bill
for co-ops 2"
Martin, whose Republican policy
committee urged all its members
to vote against the coop section,
called it another brick in the
structure of socialism"
The fight over the measure re-
presented one big step forward.
"This is the first issue on which
all five major veterans organiza-
tions have been united" Jack Will
hanson of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars told Congressman. And work
ing closely with the ex-servicemen's
were the AFL and
CIO.
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-10

The members of the Milford Fire
Company have charged the name
of their organization to "The Car
lisle Fire Company" in honor of
Lieut.. Paris T. Carlisle, 4th son of
Mrs. Paris II. Carlisle, 3rd, Of
Milford, who was killed in action
i'll France Oh October 6, 1918. The
members of the local branch of the
American Legion have named their
post, "The Carlisle-Truitt Post" in
honor of the memory of Lieut.. Car
Isle and Lieut.. Richard s. Truitt,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Saunders M.
Truitt of Milford, who died in
Camp Lee, Virginia, on October 1S
1918.
Changing all car repair work
from Georgetown to Clayton, sixty
miles away, and transferring a
number of n'Rn to that point, where
a central shop is to be established,
was the first important change
made by the Delaware Railroad
Company, under private manag-
ment
The loss will be serious to Ge-
orgetown which is in large de-
gree dependent upon the men who
work in the car shops here. Busin-
ess men are preparing to appear
before the management of the road
and ask that reported further re-
moval of car work to Harrington
shall not be completed. The change
would take away from the town
many families, some of whons have
bought homes there. Several have
also been laid off and it is reported
that a number Of men in the engine
repair shops will also be laid off.
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-10
Coop Tax Talked

Although the house ways and
means committee has some LOO
pages Of testimony, a movement
spearheaded by Congressman Noah
Mason Of Illinois, a member of the
committee, put so much ''heaF'
on, that Chairman Robert L. Dough-
ton Of North Carolina again opened
up the question Of taxation of
farmer cooperatives..
Of course, back Of the spearhead
is the National Tax Equality asso-
citation which is seeking to tax
patronage refunds Of co-ops and
point to this as one Of those loop
holes in the tax law to which the
President referred in his tax mes
sage to congress.
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-10
GOING INTO DEBT

believe that enemy of thrift is "Old Man
Liquor" Not only do I believe that large pro-
portion of the money spent thereon is wasted; but
that liquor is cause of much crime and poverty.
To my mind most foolish part of the liquor prob
lem is the way many young married people spend
money on social drinking" Readers may argue it
does mo HARM" but surely believe it usually is
waste of money with which the family could buy
something more useful. Many such families are
already in debt This in my opinion is crazy fnan-
cling for these families
Enemy No is the installment habit The ex-
ponents of this habit claim at is forcing people to
save" Yet it is far better to develop self-control
and save money first and then buy what you want
and get the 1919 cash discount. Thus, my advice to
young people with ambition is to keep away both
from social drinking and nstallment buying 1t is
easy to become slave to either; but it is hard
later to get free from either Statesmen want you to
buy on the insalment plan because it is so highly
profitable to them. Although your Indebtedness may
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-10
Thirty Years Ago 81 81 Tx E5ia a82a E9 dB4oPss 5s fs

Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce Marine and
little daughter, Clara of East
Orange, N. j., spent the weekend
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Marine.
Friends of Howard J. Cooke, one
of GeOrgetowns widely known
young attorneys are favOring him
for the position of Deputy Attorney
General for Sussex County.
G. r. Buchanan, of Phila., has
purchased the large real estate
holdings of Robert Short, of Oak
Orchard, Delaware's summer resort
on the Indian River, and will build
a pier and pavilion and provide the
place with modern amusements.
For over 100 years, Oak Orchard
has been the picnic grounds of
farmers and their families.
.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Maud Smith Grier of Whining
ton to Mr.. Dewitt Clinton Suplee of
Phila., Miss Grier is the daughter
of the late William G.. Grier of
Wilmington and granddaughter of
the late George S. Grier, and Mar
tindale Collins of Milford. Mr.. Sup
lee is well known in Phila. He is
connected with the Pennsylvania
Lawn Mower Works and is a men,
ber of the Union League and En-
gineers Club. The marriage will
take place in the Church of the New
Jerusalem of Wilmington late in
April. Rev. George Henry Dole Of
flCiating.
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-10

Mrs. Alfred Raughley of Harring-
ton has gone to Philadelphia where
she will visit her son and family
for few days before she proceeds
to Battle Greek, Michigan, where
she will spend some time resting
in the sanitarium.
%
J. B. Warner who recently re-
signed his position as manager of
the Diamond State Telephone Com
pany to connect himself with the
Equitable Life Assurance Society,
has recently been appointed man
ager for the Equitable in charge of
that territory comprising the Eas-
tern Shore Of Maryland the State
of Delaware outside of the city of
Wilmington. He will continue to
make his headquarters in Milford
Just to remind us that there is
near at hand something better in
the weather line than the winter
months served out to Delaware, the
three first days of the present week
have been filled with sunshine and
warm winds, and the ice banks
have began to soften and disappear
from the north side of the streets
and woods roads. Just little pat
lence, and in two weeks the earIv
blooming flowers will be putting
forth their blooms. The yellow jas
mine and little crOcus flowers were
in bloom at this time last year. The
worst part to contemplate is the
awful muddy roads which must fol-
low warm weather, before the
roads are right to travel over with
pleasure.