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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
Sees Other Tasks
Lyinq Ahead Here

There are other tasks ahead,
many Of them here at home.
President Truman listed the
biggest among these jobs in his
message to this convention. the
priority jobs in making America
still stronger. ever more healthy.
How we'll we meet these prob
lens together will depend upon
these things:
First. that we understand each
other.
Second, that we exercise our
powers always with firm self
restraint.
Third, that we hold fast to the
conviction that only people are
important.
The understanding which
flows between the party for
which I speak and the group
you represent requires no de-
failing here. To remember the
loneliness, the fear and the in
security Of men who once had
to walk alone in huge factories.
beside huge machines-to real
lie that labor unions have
meant new dignity and pride to
millions Of our countrymen, hui
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
laundering Silence
Of Much Unsoid

It is proposed now apparently
to change the Taft-Hartley Act
in just two respects: BY remov-
ing what the speaker called the
union-busting clauses and by
making employees, like union
leaders, swear they are not
Communists. The tinkling sound
Of these little words was I'M
fortunately smothered by the
laundering silence Of all that
was left unsaid.
On only one point was there
anything even approaching q
joining of the issues.
It was charged that had
embraced" the principle Of
"compulsion" by asking for the
power as President to compel"
arbitration of disputes which
threaten the national safety.
Now, after the great reunion on
the. loveseat at Columbia Uni
versity, I respect the generals
authority on the subject Of en-
braces. But II he wrote what he
said. he had not read what I
said.
My proposal was. and is. that
If Congress sees 1T to direct the
President to intervene in a labor
dispute it should give him the
authority to try. among other
things, to have that dispute re-
ferred to arbitration. I did not
say that he should be given the
power to compel arbitration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
Praises Acceptance
Of Public Interest

You have expressed your
willingness to accept procedures
which recognize the priority of
the public interest in national
emergency disputes. You today
accept the fact that. in the
private free enterprise system
which we all recognize as basic
to our liberty and our prosperity,
employees can prosper only as
their employers do, and that ir-
responsible demands are only
self-defeating.
Yet American labor, like the
Democratic Party. faces new and
uncharted tomorrows. You, as
we. will be challenged anew to
measure up to the demands of
both freedom and power. The
future Of democracy. perhaps
the future Of the world, de-
ponds upon the exercise of
power. by Americas private and
public bodies alike, with that
self-restraint which separates
power from tyranny, and order
from chaos.
The fullest guarantee against
responsibility lies in the con-
slant reminder that people, and
only people, are important.
American labor's whole pur-
pose has been to restore to
people the status and dignity
they lost when the SPRAYING
factories reached out and en-
quilted them. Hence, for example.
your insistence that there be
q community law Of job rights
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
by the Assoeioisd Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Fol-
loWing is the prepared tert OF
Coz. Adlai E. SteDenSon's Gd-
dress before the ALL national
contention today:
/ appreciate very much your
invitation to speek here today.
This convention has followed the
American tradition of giving a
hearing to both parties to an
argument. I am glad to take my
turn.
You have been transacting
your business here for eight
days. This makes it high time
for a little humor. But I fear
that some people may be
listening who don't like the light
touch, although they don't
seem to mind the heavy one,
provided it is made by a Re,
publican and not a Democrat.
But there is business before
your house and I propose to get
right to it. obeying, so far as I
can, what is coming to be known
as the new Republican law of
gravity.
I have been told that I should
try to make you roar with
enthusiasm. I would not do that
even if I could. After all, you
are responsible leaders Of Or
ganized labor, which, if it does
not act responsibility. could do
the Nation and. therefore, the
labor movement infinite harm.
And I. in turn, am a candidate
for the most important in
dividual responsibility on earth.
If I were more comforted by
your cheers than your thought
I would hardly merit the con-
fidence of responsible men. I
would rather make you think
than make you roar. So you
will, I hope, understand that
what little I have to say, or
rather to add. to the many
speeches you have already
dutifully listened to, is intended
for your heads. not your hands.
And If I don't start any cheers
I hope at least I shall not stop
any minds.
First, I want to dispose Of this
matter Of the Taft-Hartley Act.
The Democratic platform says
that the Taft-Hartley Act is
inadequate. unavoidable. and
unfair" and should be replaced
by a new law. I developed, on
Labor Day. the five basic re-
spects in which the present law
seems to me defective, and I
outlined five principles to guide
the writing of a new one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
Lists Possible Steps
Toward Progress

We can start, because the OPP
portunity is so obvious. by max
ing the Department of Labor a
more effective service agency.
To mention a few specific posi-
bilities here is to suggest many
others:
l. Given sufficient funds, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics could
better perform it's essential serv-
ice as keeper of the peoples
budget, and serve a much
broader function than 1t now
can.
2. We should consider a labor
counterpart Of the Agricultural
Extension Service, to help train
the men who make democracy
work in the labor unions and
around the bargaining tables.
3. Retaining men who are
replaced by machines and di-
recting them to new Jobs, where
now we simply pay them unem-
pioyment compensation, could
save both manpower and money.
4. The National Labor Rela-
tons Board, operating outside
the Labor Department. but in
this same field. must be stated
to process cases in half the time
it now takes, for in this field
particularly Justice delayed is
justice denied"
S. The problem of the mi
grant farm laborerS. over /
million Americans who move
with the sun and the Lessons,
their lives often bleak cycles of
exploitation and rejection, Ger
tainly invites compassionate at
tention.
Strengthening the Labor De-
partment is an old subject.
Advocacy is easier than action.
But lay what I hope is not
immodest claim here to at
least at journeyman's qualifica-
tons. My apprenticeship was
served in getting at least a par
tial labor program-over so
bills - through a Republican
Legislature.
It will also be an important
development in democracy that
men and women will come in
ever-increasing numbers from
your ranks to positions of key
responsibility In government.
What you have to offer. in all
Of our essential governmental
programs, has been perhaps best
proven by the contributions you
have already made on the in
ternational front.
Your effective fight against
communism goes clear back to
the time it was called boil
shevism. You have licked it to
a fragile in your own houses,
and you have gone after the
roots from which it grows.
I join with my distinguished
opponent in saluting you for
these accomplishments. One
wonders why his party forgot
them when, in 1916. they sim
gled you out as peculiarly sus-
picious characters and required
your taking q special oath Of
loyalty.
I am not counting or embrace
ing when I acknowledge and
applaud the job you have done.
not only through the nterna-
tional Labor Organization. the
Economic Cooperation Admin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
Cites 'CompuIsion'
In 8O-Doy Injunction

What my distinguished OPP
ponent would do I cannot de-
termine. If that was his purpose
he succeeded. He says he is
against .compulsion. Yet he
seems to support the present
law. which compels men to work
under court Injunction for 80
days on terms they have reject
ed. There can be no greater
compulsion than this. If read
what he says as fairly as I can,
gather that in fact he recog-
nizes this, and agrees with me,
and with you, that the labor in
junction is not a fair or effec-
tive dispute-settling device.
Norris-La Guardia Act which
was passed, so he said, under
his party's administration in
1882. This will seem like a
pretty broad claim to those who
remember that the House of
Representatives in the I'D
Congress was safely Democratic
in it's majority. and who can't
see much resemblance between
Republicans like George Norris
and Fiorello LaGuardia, on the
one hand, and Senator Taft and
Representative Hartley. on the
@other. He didn't mention the
fact that that act virtually out
lawed the labor Injunction in
the Federal courts or that it had
been seriously cut down by the
Taft-Hartley Act.
But the Republican candidate
in his talk to you did recognize
squarely that issuing injunctions
will not settle the underlying
fundamental problems which
cause a strike" That Is one
statement we can all agree with.
The trouble is that the Taft
Hartley Act was written by
those who don't.
But enough of the labor rela-
tons law. There are other prob
lens Of equal concern to Amer
lean labor.
When many of you first came
into this business, the only job
Of American labor-and it was
a tough one-was to organize
workers and to bargain with
employers. This Is still perhaps
your main job. But you have
also greatly expanded your in
terests. and broadened your
horizons.
One Of the most significant
developments in our national
life is that American labor is
today much more than an in
strument for collective bargain
ing. It has become a vital agency
Of a working democracy.
Your purposes extend to max
ing America strong in a free
and peaceful world, and to seek
ing all the democratic goals to
which the Government of this
country is dedicated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
Reiterotes Proposal
For Complete Repeal

How to get new one? The
method, whether by amendment
of the existing law or replace
ment with a new one, has,
frankly, seemed to me less i'm
portant than the objective. But
because the required changes
are major changes, because the
present law is spiteful, and be-
cause it has become a symbol
of dlssension and bitterness, I
urge, therefore, as I did on Labor
Day, that the Taft-Hartley Act
be repealed.
The Republican platform
commendS the Taft-Hartley Act
because among other things it
guarantees to the working man
the right to quit his job at
any time"
To this deceit they add the
insistence that the real issue
here is whether the present law
should be amended" or ire
pealed." That is not the real
issue. The real issue is what
changes should be made in the
law. But If repeal were in itself
the issue I would remind Sena-
tor Taft that he himself has
publicly recognized % mistakes
in his favorite law. It seems not
unreasonable to recommend that
a tire with % punctures and s
blowouts needs junking and not
q recap job with reclaimed Re-
publican rubber.
There has been. too, the usual
barrage Of Incorporate name
calling. Why is it that when po-
lltical ammunition runs low the
rusty artillery of abuse is always
wheeled into action? To face the
facts on labor relations is to be
accused Of captivity" and of
turning left" These are words
without roots. weeds which grow
in darkness and wither in the
sun. But the sun is sometimes
slow to rise-especially in cam
psign years. And I am reminded
OF the saying that q lie can
travel around the world while
the truth is putting on its boots.
The final Republican maneu-
verS were executed on this plat
form last Wednesday. I am
grateful that it was a Republic
can. Senator Morse, who re-
vealed so masterfully how all of
those explosions we heard were
only blank cartridges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
Stress Importance
Wise Use OF Power

Now, as to the exercise Of our
powers.
The Democratic Party has
been entrusted for 20 years with
the awesome responsibility Of
leadership in governing the
United States. During these
years, the labor unions have be-
come strong and vigorous. Amer
lean labor too. has enormous
power today-and enormous red
sponsibilities.
To responsible men, power is
no source Of satisfaction. It is
rather cause for very real humil-
ity. It is the whole history of
mankind that power lacking the
inner strength of self-restraint
will be eventually cast down.
It is the history of the Re-
publican Party that it supported.
and was supported by, those
interests which believed that
freedom meant the right to
exercise economic power with
out, restraint. And that party
was cast down.
It has been the basic belief Of
the Democratic Party that only
human freedoms are basic, and
that economic power must be
exercised so as not to curtail
them. We hold, too, that the
power of government must be
restricted to the point that gov
eminent stands never as master,
always as servant.
It Is no less essential to the
future Of democracy that Amer
lean labor walk wisely with its
power. Your awareneSs of this
has been shown in many prac-
tical ways. There is, most re-
Gently perhaps. the fortnight
and heartening manner in
which you have attacked the
problem Of jurisdictional strikes.
Your joint board procedure in
the building trades and your
prohibitions upon picketing in
support Of jurisdictional claims
are examples of sound self
regulation directed against the
abuse, and therefore the cor
ruption. of power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22

man companionship on the job
and music in the home. to be
able to see what larger pay
checks mean not to a man as
an employee but as a husband
and a father-to know these
things is to understand what
American labor means.
Franklin Roosevelt knew these
things. Harry Truman knows
these things. They are the i'm
ponderable human elements that
some among us, unhappily, have
never understood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22

different, even If partially over
tapping, groups. The Demo-
cratic Party is the party of all
the people. Were it otherwise
we should be false to democracy
itself.
We seek then a pattern for
full cooperation. but one which
recognizes our mutual indie
pendence.
What are the specific things
we can do in moving together
toward the human goals we hold
in common?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-22
seniority rules-to stand be-
side the law Of property rights.
Says Party Draws
Strength From, People

Equally has the Democratic
Party drawn its strength from
the people. We have built our
program on their hopes, stood
by them in adversely and found
the measure of our accomplish
ment in their welfare. We have
written the laws of 20 years
from pictures in our minds Of
men and women who are tired
after a full day. who are de-
feated if a weeks wages won't
buy a weeks food, who are out
of a job. or are sick or have
finished a LIES work. We be-
lieve in a Government with a
heart.
Yet we are told-you of
American labor, and we Of the
Democratic Party-that we have
gone too far.
What do they mean? Are
they saying that our people are
too well fed. too well clothed,
too well housed? Do they say
that our children are getting
Evening star., 1952-04-12

sion" appointed by the Govern
ment did much to prod the medi-
cal department into action in
various fields.
DR.. Adams, in his book, lays
much of the blame tor deficiencies
at the door of the people of the
North as a whole-and the ma
tional genius for wishful think
ing"
Not wanting the war;" he says,
"the Northern people and their
public officers did nothing to pre-
pare for it; not wanting heavy
casualties, they provided no suit
able hospitals until the arrival of
scores of thousands of sick and
wounded :"
At some stages of the war, the
wounded were even denied the
solace of a pretty nurses face.
Dorothea Dix, superintendent OF
the first female nurses authorized
Iby Congress, stipulated that can
didates must be over 80, "plair
almost to repulsion in dress anC
devoid of personal attractions.
Evening star., 1952-04-12
By Frank Carey

The Battle of Gettysburg was
raging, and a field hospital sur
geon of the Union Army helped
"a wounded man get on a crude
operating table.
The surgeons apron was
smeared with blood from previ-
Gus operations; so were his arms
barred to the elbows. AS he helped
the man onto the table, he held
his surgical scalpel between his
teeth.
The operating table-a wooden
door hastily torn from its hinges
was placed in the open outside
a field hospital a few miles behind
the lines. The light was better
outside.
Blankets were stretched on
poles above the table to protect it
partially from the rain.
Knife Wiped On Apron.
The surgeon examined the
mans bloodied leg, decided an
amputation was necessary, Or
Idered ether administered. Then
he snatched his knife from be-
tween his teeth, wiped it a couple
of times across his bloOd-Stained
apron and performed the opera
ton.
Next" said the doctor, wearily
when it was over.
Such was battle surgery during
the Civil War as described in a
new book, Doctors in Blue"-a
medical history of the Union Army
during the conflict-written by DR.
George Worthington Adams, his
tory professor at Colorado College
and published by Henry Schuman
Inc.
No boiling of surgical instru-
ments. No sterile gowns or masks
for the surgeons. No use of an
tiseptics.
Sins Against Cleanliness.
Though crude by modern stand.
ards, the surgery itself wasn't toe
bad as a rule, but 1t was the un.
conscious sins against surgica
Evening star., 1952-04-12
New Book Describes Crude Aid
Given Wounded in CWiW

cleanliness which resulted in a
harvest of death and suffering" "
The reason was that the doc
tors of that day knew very little
about infection.
Caught frightfully unprepared
at the start of the conflict and be-
deviled by internal stupidity.
inefficiency and jealousy" the de-
partment eventually came up with
a military hospital system and a
field ambulance set-up which be-
came models for armies the
world over. The Civil War also
saw the beginnings of the Army
Nurse Corps.
Of the 100000 Union fatalities
in the war. about 100000 died Of
wounds.
Almost Incredible Anarchy.
! At Bull Run, for the lack of an
organized ambulance system, "al-
most incredible anarchy" pre-
vailed.
Whole divisions were without
ambulances as some of the hired
civilian drivers, scared by battle
sounds, took fight. And Hundreds
of wounded men were left to drag
themselves to Washington (2T
miles away as best they could.
One man did it with bullet
holes through both calves; an.
other, with "a hole through both
cheeks, a broken jaw and his
tongue nearly off,"
In the early days Of the war
the Army had few general hos
pitals of its own. The relatively
few civilian hospitals available
were overcrowded.
A civilian sanitary commits.
Evening star., 1952-04-12
Beirut Leads World
In nHigh-Priced Autos
Serving as Taxis

BEIRUT. Lebanon, April /:
(CDN This capital of Lebanon
has more new high-priced Amer
lean automobiles serving as taxi
than any city of comparable sizt
IN the world.
They line the streets outside ot
hotels and in the main busines.
district. Sometimes as many a.
20 will be standing waiting for 6
customer.
The rate is 40 cents for any
place in Beirut and Is cents fol
short hops in the business areas
If you want to put on the dog, vol
give the driver so cents and he il
ecstatically happy.
More American Cars.
Beirut has more new American
cars in it's taxi feet than all o.
the rest of the Middle East pu
together. The city is jumping
with big automobiles.
Across the street from tn.
American information office
Alfred C. Khoury runs a pins
needles and ribbon shop. In tht
morning, he is brought to his shol
by a chauffer driving a nev
Cadillac.
In the evening, another chat
feur calls for him in a new Buick
MyStif1ed at Mr.. Khoury'
opulence. an American asked hin
how he could afford such auto
mobiles out here where each sci
for, more than $4,000.
Well" said Mr.. Khoury, "Thi
is nothing unusual. All of m.
friends have a Chrysler and a D
Soto or a Mercury and a Buick
It is nice to have big cars and
is a good investment.
How System Works.
You see, when he driver drop
me at work in the morning, Ii
then goes down and gets in tn
taxi rank and operates Until
pm. while my other chauifeu
who has been operating as a taH
since six in the morning. picks nj
up and he is through for the day
I'm that way, the cars are pay
ing for themselves and I will oWl
them outright in three years.
Even the president of the ban
Evening star., 1952-04-12
Esouenuzi to Give Tulk

Roberto Esquenazi of the Pan
American Union will speak on
The Hope of South America in
the Light of International Co.
operation" at 8 o'clock tonight in
the Bahaf Center, 1911 Connect
icut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1952-04-12
Szyk Paintings on Exhibit

A collection of paintings by the
late Arthur Szyk, Polish artist,
will be placed on exhibition at the
Pan American Union Building on
Monday. Mr.. SZyk has pictured
the life of Simon Bolivar in a Sc
ries of 81 paintings.
Evening star., 1952-04-12

lets his car be used as a taxi all
day and I know one cabinet min
lister who has three new cars. All
of them are part-time taxis. Once
"a visiting businessman was taking
the minister to lunch. He called
a taxi which happened to be the
minister's own car. The drive.
never let on "
Evening star., 1952-04-12
Observance Of Do Vinci 50Oth Birthday Asked

President Truman yesterday
called on American institutions of
art, science and learning to OBJ
serve next Tuesday as the 500th
birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.
The President said, in a state
Evening star., 1952-04-12

ment, that italy and France are
observing the occasion, and that
American people have a common
interest in the heritage of Western
civilization. which owes so much
to da Vinci."
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-19
s.. joins
Mrs. Laurence Kitchens
Phone Georgetown 2a98

The. MYF of ST. Johns Church
held their evening service on Sun
day. Kenneth Dodd and Vernon
Kitchens were the leaders. Guest
speaker was Mr.. Carl Steininger
Of Millsboro. Guest singers were
Mrs. Ronald James and Mr.. Ray
mond Rust Of MillsborO, Mrs. Nor
ma Evans and Mrs. Mae Truitt Of
Selbyville The Beth sisters also
sang. Mrs. Helen Steele read the
scripture and Francis Wilson read
a selection. The next meeting will
BE on Sunday, December 18th.
Anna and Edna Moore will be the
leaders for that service. There will
also be a Christmas candlelight
service. Everyone is invited
The annual Christmas enter-
tainment will be held on Tuesday
evening, December 23rd. Follow
ing that the MYF win have their
Christmas party in the Community
Building and on Christmas Eve
they viii go out Christmas CAROL
ing. They will also give baskets Of
fruit, candy and clothing to the
shut-ins and the needy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Dolby of
Ocean View, spent Tuesday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Justice.
Mrs. Myrtle Calhoun OF Greer
wood, Mr.. James Truitt, Mrs. Sal
lie Truitt spent Tuesday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Hitch
ems.
Mrs. Laurence Kitchens, Mrs.
Marie Wilson, Mrs. Sallie Truitt
and Vernon Kitchens spent Satur-
day in Milford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Steele and
children spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Emory FOskey near
Laurel.
Mrs. William Ingram of Lewes
Mrs. S. B. Scott, Mrs. Addie Quill
len. of Millville and Mrs. Joseph
Thompson visited Mrs. Norman
Stanley, who is a patient in the
Memorial Hospital in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. ElWood Franklin
and children, Donald and Joan and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Franklin OF
MillsborO, called on Mr.. and Mrs
Laurence Kitchens and son On
Sunday afternoon.
OeS
Shop And SSYe In Milford
Bargains Galore In Every Store