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Evening star., 1951-05-06
My Little Tailor
By Bruce Barton

dropped in at the shop of my friend
the tailor to ask him to sew button
on my overcoat. While he sewed, he
talked. I listened gladly because was
listening not to single voice. but to
chorus of millions. I was listening
to all the little men in all the cities
and towns and crossroads of the Nation.
My tailor opens his shop around 8
o'clock in the morning. 1t is often
8 at night before he closes He has
been working that way for more than
80 years. During most of those years
he had money in the bank. Some
times he employed two or three assist
ants. Now his savings have dwindled
and his wife is his only assistant.
II am actually in debt" he told me.
"The taxes take everything. work IL
hours day, and still am in debt"
1t will be even worse for him next
year. The President. on top of his
"quickie" tax bill of 10 billions now
the money come from?
The middle class" "white-collar
workers" and small businessmen" al
Ieduy are desperate. HOW muCn more
can they stand without being reduced
to the level of the European peasantry?
why not sales tax?" somebody will
suggest
But to raise 16 billions the sales tax
would have to be 10 per cent. And it
would have to be applied to every single
item of living-rent, food, drugs, doc
tors bills. everything.
There is one suggestion that the
President and Secretary of State never
have considered. That is to cut the
awful waste out Of our civil and military
departments, put an end to the suicidal
delusion that we can feed. police and
manage the world and shape pro-
gram for the future that has some
reasonable relation to our manpower and
our financial capacity.
We shall have no chance for such
program from the present administra-
tion Our only hope is that. if we can
muddle through to 1852 without being
blundered into larger war, my tailor
and all the other millions of tax-ridcen
little people will 60 to the polls and
give the world an overwhelming Demon
stration of democracy at its best-a
long suffering citizenship. goaded to
righteous anger, grirnly but gleefully
tossing its tormentors out.
ecopsrEhs 1851 kinE Features Syndicate INC,
Evening star., 1951-05-06
Letters to The Star
Pen names may be used If letters carry
,Ortters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation,

I imagine Taft's father has not only
turned over in his grave, but is up stalk
ing the earth in anguish of spirit over
his sons carryings-on.
pray to the Creator that we can get
our senses back as Nation, begin to
think clearly. put aside politics and 60
all out to win against this dreaded thing
threatening us. It's triJe but true:
United we stand; divided we fall"
I am not Democrat. I am not
Republican. am just a wife and
mother, who looks out at the beautiful
and magnificent picture of these United
States, and loves it too much to risk
losing it.
Soldiers Mother.
Evening star., 1951-05-06
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain, United States Senate

T O--~~--~-' ~~@-SSo
vealed by the Kefauver report will be
q Herculean task, indeed. And GER
tainly. there is no Hercules in sight to
sweep away the communicating evil, But
the waiting rivers of decency and moral
indignation canaled in purposeful dedi-
cation can do it. These Augean stables
must be cleaned If our America is to
escape the doom of defunct civilizations
which Toynbee depicts as now being
among the systems which had their day
and ceased to be.
y America, thank God, has the rivers!
With the strength of her vast reservoir
OF unstained integrity she has the power
to sweep offending and offensive iniquity
into the sea of oblivion. The present
righteous wrath generated by the as
founding revelations can force legislation
which will tend to spoil industrial ard
political areas as happy hunting grounds
for traitors to all that America stands
for.
No wonder the board Of the National
Council of Churches in this crisis calls
on government, press, public education
dAAA SoRCIln1Ay LAAC 10 cultivate
stricter standards of moral integrity.
However, the final solution is in an
aroused citizenry who. by personal par
ticipation. will make democracy work.
We can deplore until doomsday the awful
corruption, but it is all so much futile
talk unless our fingers grasp the cleans
ing hose. One who daintily holds his
nose and pulls his garments about him
for fear of defilement is himself a
traitor. We need citizens, hosts of them,
not to disgustedly stay out of politics,
but to fling themselves into the midst
of community. State and national af-
fairs.
The Master who drove the racketeers
from the holy temple declared to His
Disciples: "Ye are the salt of the earth.
Ye are the light of the world" This
is the time for all good men and women
to come to the aid-not of the party, -
but-of the present and of the future.
If government Of. by and for the people
is not to perish from the earth.
Wanted: Millions Of Americans who
will swear. God helping them, to do
their individual part in accomplishing
for America Goth century re-enact-
ment of the labor Of Hercules in clean
ing the Augean stables!
Evening star., 1951-05-06

fact is not proved DR.. Coon is serious worker,
and his views are entitled to respect but more
precise presentation of them will be necessary
before they can be discussed with profit.
, 1951-07-11
Noon Concerts For Music-Lovers

The Dayton Public Library is a very fine community
institution dedicated to the intellectual and cultural
needs of those who use it's services. The library's chief
work is centered around the printed word, However, Ii
brary officials have devoted a great deal of time and eff
fort to collecting and lending music on records for some
time. This year, Dayton musiclovers will have a chance
to relax in Library Park and listen to noon-time outdoor
concerts-for the library has gone plain musical. Each
day, Monday through Saturday, We'll be able to hear the
finest classical and semiclassical records while spending
a restful noontime in the shade Of the trees in the park.
Those who find themselves in the downtown area should
take advantage of this wonderful opportunity for cultural
growth. William j. Hamilton, our alert and capable IL
brary director, and his Woodworking co-workers have
gone about to make this innovation possible and it's up
to us to make it a geat success!
, 1951-07-11
We're Not Blind To The Facts!

Two major wire services reported from Columbus
that an official of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics told
Governor Lausche's conference on dope traffic: "
teen-age addiction is on the upswing in Cleveland, Day
ton, Akron, Youngstown and some other Ohio cities"
The Dayton Daily News took the liberty of calling this
official, and in a telephone interview Tuesday, Joseph
Bell, U. S. narcatics agent, denied there was a teen-age
drug addiction problem in Dayton" He said he had told
the conference that addiction had increased in these Ohio
cities, but not among teen-agers respectfully not in
Dayton" It marked the second story in recent days pub
lished in the Daily News which created the idea that
there is no dope addiction among teen-agers in Dayton
in and out Of school. This is not true and a study of the
situation will bear us out. This newspaper certainly is
not blind to the fact that our fine narcotics detail in the
Division of Police has performed a great job in discourage
ing dope addicts, and in bringing to justice dope %peddlers.
We definitely feel the police officials are doing a great
job, but to discount the bare-face fact that there are teen
ayers %(including a few recent high school g%raduates) who
have become or are becoming addicts is a serious problem
in itself. One need only visit the "hang-outs" and observe
the actions and reactions of some of our young people,
and unless they are blind they will Immediately become
aware that there is an ever-mounting problem of dope
addiction among %teen-agers in DAYTON, OHIO!
, 1951-07-11
Club WIZ Hold
Portrait Event
AtAME Church

The Friendly Women's Club of
Wayman AME Church, Fifth and
Bank Sts., will sponsor a Portrait
Tea from At P. M. Sunday, July
Is, in the church Lecture Room.
Features of the unique affair
will be a musical program and a
display of portrait sketches of
prominent Dayton women. The
event is open to the general pub
lie, according to Mrs. Wallace M.
Wright, wife of Wayman's pas
tor and president Of the Friendly
Women's Club.
The publicity committee is com
posed of Mrs. Marie Moragne,
Miss Louise Baker, Mrs. Sedell
Pelt and Miss Anna E. Taylor.
, 1951-07-11
Another Victory For Tu|mudqe

Wire dispatches from Rome, Georgia, report superb
or Court Judge H. E. Nichols has dismissed a suit that
would have produced a ruling on whether the county
unit voting system in the State of Georgia is constitution
al. The judges decision to dismiss the case was a victory
for Herman Talmadge, the race-baiting lily-white govern
or of Georgia, and his ilk-for the unit system of voting
is one of the main reasons Talmadge (and others like
him) gain and keep their power. And as long as these
men are in power, the Ku Klux Khan lives on! ~
, 1951-07-11
Interested In A Good Job?

If you're interested in a permanent job as a trolley
coach operator and think you can qualify Git saws here
in small PRINT the City Railway Co., PIP S. Western Ave.,
will be pleased to talk with you" No previous coach
driving experience is necessary, and you're even paid dur
ing training. So, if you're between approximately 24-48
years of age, dash out on Western Ave. today and file an
application And we haven't gone crazy!
, 1951-07-11

Less than 10 percent of the
money Lausche's boys found
would have meant two years of
decent living for $500 totally
and permanently disabled Ohioans,
whose dreams of an income bet
ter than SO or SO a week were
smashed when the governor We
toed SD. 248. But the finance
director didn't discover the sur
plus until it was too late. So the
governor still feels sorry for these
poor folks.
TEACHERS GET RAISE
After delays, postponements, de-
feats and insults, the states
teachers are finally going to get
a raise. The governor signed the
compromise bill, passed in the dy-
ing hours of the 99th Ohio Gen
eral Assembly and designed to
give teachers more money, plus
a minimum wake and annual
raises.
The 27A million-dollar package
was less than the teachers asked
for, and less than they deserve.
But they are taking it on the half
a-loaf-is- b e t t e r : than-none
theory. The Ohio C.I.O., which
supported the teachers efforts
greeted the news with joy temper
ed with the realization that teach
ers' wages are still far too low
, 1951-07-11
Labor Speaks
By ALBERT JACK

Almost as soon as the Legislature adjourned, Govern.
or Lausche's cabinet members discovered a surplus of 81
million in state funds. To the governor, who had engaged
in a portsmouth demonstration throughout the session,
s tough financial straits publicity lamenting the state
this must have been a big surprise. It's so easy to mislay
81 million these days, you know.
, 1951-07-11

Our youngsters deserve the very
best education and that means
the best teachers. Good salaries
mean better teachers, said CLIO.
in applauding the fight waged by
the states teachers.
In signing the bill, after lots
Of hemming and having, Lausche
switched to the other side Of the
street again. He said he thought
Continued on page 81
, 1951-07-11

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News Se1vCeo
THE TREASURY HAS a new
printing process which will get
fresh currency into u hands
faster, but there will be no change
in the old process of taking it a.
way again That's about as
fast as they can do it.
THEY USED TO HAVE to let
new bills dry for two weeks, but
by adding varnish to the ink they
can rush the stuff through like
wallpaper, which has a little high
er value.
THERE WILL BE NO advance
in prices for the new money ...
1t will continue to be marketed
at the same low prices.
LONG BEFORE THE New
York stores thought of selling
price-fixed items at a discount
the government dollar had been
marked down to SO cents.
OF COURSE, 1T doesn't wear
like the old dollar-value dollar,
but public interest long ago was
steered into focusing on quantity
rather than quality and there is
no indication of change.
ALL | KNOW is MY barber
says if he has his choice of var
nished dollars or varnish he knows
which he'll take.
STILL 1T COULD have been
whitewash or tar, they've been
used on everything else.
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$3.50 RUNS INTO $4,000

The Senate Committee to investigate
organized crime in interstate commerce.
with Senator Estes Kefauver, of Tennes-
in the State of New York, where it inves-
tigated the background of those suspect
ed of tremendous underworld and politi-
cal influence. ......
We are not here concerned with the
main testimony before the committee but
call attention to single incident, related
by George Morton Levy, president of the
Nassau Trucking Association, which oper-
ateS the Roosevelt Raceway. Among other
things, Mr.. Levy testified that he played
golf with Frank Costello, Frank Erickson
a convicted gambler and Joseph Schoen-
baum, formerly an employee of the Internal
Revenue Department
With this introduction, we call atten-
ion to the fact that Mr.. Levy disclosed
that Mr.. Schoenbaum was permitted to
buy one hundred shares of racing associa-
lion stock for 5000 to $3.50 This one-hun-
dred-share block has been increased to
5000 shares and now brings into the
former revenue agent $4,000 a year. This
lis not doing badly on an investment of a
little more thansS200.
Incidents like this, brought to light by
the crime investigation, add to the suspi-
cions of the American people that there
IS considerable amount of such chican-
cry going on We doubt if any jury would
be able to find the evidence to convict Mr..
"Schoenbaum of illegal action. After ALL
those~who make such arrangements have
smart lawyers to make the transaction
legal. The suspicion arises, however
that something else took place to justify
the sale of stock to the revenue agent for
such a small amount.
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Today's
ANNIVERSARIES

1339-Frederick Ward Putnam,
Harvard New York archaeologlst-
naturalist, who played a leading
part in the rise of American ar
chaeology, horn in Salem, Mass.
Died Aug. ID, l945.
1850--!Ierbert B. Adams, Johns
Hopkins University historian,
promoter of historical studies,
born in Shrewsbury, Mass. Died
July 30, 1901
l856-Albert B. Dick, Chicago
mincograph invcntor-manufac-
tuler, BORN near Chicago. Died
Aug. Is. 1884.
l657-Henry S. Piitchett, famed
educator, first president of the
Carnegie Foundation, born in
Fayette Co, Mo. Died Aug. %,
1899.
1365-Grace Livingston Hill,
popular novelist of her day, born
in Wellsville, N. Y. Died in Phila-
delphia, Feb. %. 1947.
Wilbur Wright, COIN
ventor, with his brother Orville,
of the airplane, born in Millville,
Ind. Died May 80, 1912.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-16
MEN FOR SCIENCE

. Those who man the laboratories are
fuliy dis, important to our future as are the
mutations of war, and it is urged by edu-
Gators that in selecting men for the armed
services this fact be taken into account.
~ Among the plans now under con-
idefation by Congress is one which pro-
vides for continuing supply of scientifi-
calfy4 trained men. The Reserve Specialist
Training, Corps, as the projected agency
would be called, would consist of $4,000
me7r selected annually for three-year
traiRing on the basis of competitive exam
inatlbn and by. a board consisting of both
civikaas and the military. They ,would be
educ fedsiH science, engineering, medicine
and@A@ eritica1fields, after completing
basic military training. "a ~
This proposal and other similar ones
have aroused criticism on the ground that
theywould create an intellectual arts
tocr9cy' among men Of draft age, a priv
ileged group who would escape the gen.
eral military service to which their fellows
are subjected, because of scholastic at
tainments. Such an idea is foreign to
American traditions, yet these traditions
would hardly be served better by willy
nilly draft program which failed to take
account of the needs of science.
Our rate of production cannot be in
creased nor even continued at its present
rate without the constant influx of new
developments and improved techniques.
Nor can high standard of public health
be maintained without the laboratory
work which forms its foundation. The
man who draws blueprint or handles a
microscope may be performing as neces-
sary function in time of stress as is the
man behind the gun.
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THE CITIZEN AND NEWsPRlNT

We have every reason to complain
about the increases in the prices of food
stuffs, but we would be yelling, loud and
long, if those advances had been as much
as the ever-soaring prices for newSprint
In 1915, the price of newsprint was $50 a
aton, today. tits s120, but the increase has
mbre than tripled since 1910,
Not only is the price of newsprint faf
higher than ever before, but it is also
scarcer than it has ever been since its use
became general with the invention of
pl hitting Many instances may be cited to
show how the high prices and scarcity of
newsprint are affecting newspapers in all
parts of the world. The Tulsa (Oklahoma)
World, usually a paper of 40 pages, has
announced that it will temporarily reduce
its size to eight pages. A newspaper in
Tallahassee has reduced its eight-column
page to four columns. Many newspapers
are using pages of different sizes in order
70 serve it's readers and advertisers with
as much space as possible in the circum-
stances
The Citizen is aware that it was cri-
ticized when, four years or so ago, it began
to use paper that was smaller than the
others. But it was forced to use paper of
that run if it was to continue publication.
1t was rot question of choice; it was
question of survival
But this country, close to the Cana
dian supply of pulp for paper, is far better
off than any other country in the world
in the use of newsprnt In England for
instance, where, proportionately, are more
newspaper readers than in any other coun-
try, with calculations running as high as
four million, papers, whose pages often
exceeded 100 before the Second World
War, are now coming out in four pages.
In the United States, smaller dailies
are being hit hardest. Many big newspa-
pers, among them the Chicago Tribune,
own vast tracts of trees in Canada from
which newsprint is produced.
The Citizen has scratched its head
many a time, wondering where it would
get-its next supply of newsprint At one
time. unable, to buy from dealers, it would
have had to discontinue publication tenn
lporariyishad NOT the Miami Herald sup
splieds7Thess Gitizenswith newsprint. The
sHeraId's roll of paper is different size
Sfrom The Citizens, and it's use makes The
Citizen run one page smaller than the
others. But the publisher of The Citizen
was delighted even to get the different
size. As readers of The Citizen may recall,
it editorially thanked the Herald for the
supply of newsprint.
Scarcity of newsprint makes the future
shadowy for the smaller dailies. All The
Citizen can say in that regard is to assure
its readers that it will strive to it's utmo ID
20 get hewsprint to continue publication.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-16
LONG TRIP FROM
STANTON TO STANTON

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,--(P).- u
In 1871 John and Priscilla Thurb-
er left Stanton in Lincolnshire,
England, and moved to Rehoboth.
Mass. Eleven generations of their
descendants have lived in the
United States. Now one of The
eleventh generation lives in Stan
ton, Mich,
The story is told by Cha les II.
THU Der, Sr., a World War vet
eran who lives in the soldier
home here. A heart patient, he
has been checking up on his fam-
ily ice as a hobby. His grandson
lives in Stanton. He has Dcen II J.
ing to get in touch with other
members of the Thurber clan To-
check on other aspects Of the II
generation saga.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-16
Todoy's Birthdays

Prof. Howard Mumford Jone:
of Harvard's English Department
a major literary author, born ir
Saginaw, Mich, SO years ago.
DR.. Alfred E. Cohn, longtime
physician with the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research
born in New York, u years ago.
Milton Cross of New York
radio announcer, born in New
York, 81 years ago,
Charles Spencer Chaplin Char
lie Chaplin of Los Angeles, old
time comedian, born in England
62 years ago.
Frieda S. Miller, director of the
U. S. Dept. of Labor's Woman's
Bureau, born in La Crosse, Wis.
81 years ago.
Philip w. Pillsbury, president
of Pillsbury Mills, Minneapolis
born in Minneapolis, 48 years
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-16
SHAW AND THE CURIOUS

George Bernard Shaw would have
been the first to snort at the idea that
his home should be made a shrine for
literary minded visitors, and yet, egotist
that he was, the snort might have con-
cealed shy pleasure at this attribute of
Immortality.
However that may be, a recent day
saw the opening of his house at Ayot ST.
Lawrence with simple ceremonies. His
possessions, from hats and canes to pens
and dictionaries, are still in their accus-
toned places. -
Possibly as famous for his caustie
tongue as for his plays and essays, he was
not one to have his privacy violated by the
incursions of the curious. For some time
visitors are likely to step softly, lest they
earn singing rebuke from tall, bearded
ghost. 49,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-16

Nothing is so encouraging and
heart-warming as cooperation
when it is needed. Too many
folks today miss the JOY and
happiness which are derived from
seeing the needs of others and
coming to their aid. A member of
church gave his pastor a pair Of
trousers. The fit was perfect ex-
cept they were two inches too
long. Being Saturday night. the
preacher needed them for Sun
day. So. he asked his wife if she's
kindly shorten them two inches.
mo. Ralph. / haven't got my
Sunday School lesson prepared
yet >. better get Sarah. She'll do
them for You." Dad went to Sarah
and received the same answer.
That night Dad lay awake. sad
because he couldn't wear his new
trousers in the pulpit next day.
Finally he got up and cut off two
inches. pressed them. went back
to bed. Late that night his wife.
sleepless. got up and did the same
thing. His daughter. sleepless.
too. arose. and cut two inches off.
pressed them and went back TO
sleep. There isn't any need of
going on with this story. You
should have been there next
morning!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-16
PAKISTAN BANK
SEEKS ARABS

KARACHI.- up. --Mohammad
Abu Saud, economic adviser to
the Pakistan State Bank, will visit
Saudi Arabia and Cairo to GtudV
possible improved exchange
methods and recruit Arab bank
employees.
Saud announced that he viii
seek ways to better facilities for
the exchange of special currency.
notes issued to Hal pilgrims from
PakiStan to Saudi Arabia.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-16
WATER PURIFIER WORKS

LOS ANGELES.-(P).-An an.
swer to one of the great hazards
of a major Observation-Disclosures
ton of a city's water supply
may be a portable purifying unit
invented by a California Insti-
tute of Technology professor.
DIR. Alexander Goetz' l2-pound
'sanitizer" has been tested by
county health officials and proven
capable of turning murky water
from the Los Angeles River into
a clear, drinking liquid.
The unit sucks up water like q
small pump and filters it through
powdered earth that renders
dangerous bacteria harmless, DR.
Goetz says. He estimates it can
be produced for from $50 to $50
a unit and can purify so quarts Of
water an hour at a cost of only
few cents per gallon.