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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1946
TOP O’ THE MORNING
Cheerfulness and content are great beau
tifiers and are famous preservers of goi.,1
looks. Reflect upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many, not on
your past misfortunes, of which every
man has some.
—Charles Dickens.
Come, General Bradley
It is to be hoped that General Omar
Bradley will be able to accept the Le
gion’s invitation to attend Armistice
Day ceremonies in Wilmington. Not
only the Legion but every citizen of
the community would take extraordi
nary pride in being host to this dis
tinguished soldier who had such an im
portant part in overthrowing the Ger
man war machine.
Furthermore a visit from General
Bradley would afford opportunity to
show him the advantages Wilmington
has as a site for the proposed veterans
hospital which is to be established in
eastern North Carolina.
It is a hundred to one that after
seeing what Wilmington has to offer,
the General would be convinced this
is the right place for it.
While the decision does not rest
with him, his influence would be of
exceptional value in the campaign to
bring the institution to this vicinity.
Delinquency At The Polls
While the democratic candidates ini
New Hanover county were overwhelm
ingly victorious at the polls on Tues
day, the total vote cast was but a
fraction over 27 per cent of the entire
registration. With 9816 names on the
poll lists, 7140 eligible voters did not
take the trouble to cast ballots.
Of course some persons could not
reach the polls, either through illness
or lack of transportation, but then
number could not have made much
difference in the total delinquency.
It has been a grave problem to Wil
mington and New Hanover county citi
zens who recognize the obligation of
voters to visit the polls on election
days, this indifference of so many eligi
bles to the privileges of the franchise.
Tuesday’s slim turnout did not make
the solution easier.
It does not do to claim that as there
were no major issues involved the
need to vote was lacking. Even when
elections particularly concerning local
affairs, are held the total vote in re
cent years has seldom represented a
larger percentage of the registration.
What is to be done to arouse the
citizenship to full recognition to the
right to vote is not apparent, but that
something must be done, lest the right
be cancelled, is obvious.
This movement of Georgia’s Colum
bians is no idle threat however limited
their influence. Unless the free people
of this country exercise the franchise
as an invaluable heritage, sooner or
later Columbians under whatever guise
they operate, or how functioning, will
*qVp. over and freedom be destroyed.
Pendulum Swings
The political pendulum swung back
with so full a sweep in Tuesday's elec
tions that the republicans will organize
both branches of Congress in January.
The prophets had sensed the trend
aright.
What the change portends is clear.
The last remnants of the new deal will
be swept away. The bureaucratic domi
nation under which the country sweat
ed and wept will be wiped out. For the
most part, this will be a blessing if the
power newly acquired by the republi
cans is used not as a political big sticK
but with discretion—for reform, not
revenge.
If the republicans hold the majori
ty in the Senate, Senator Vadenberg
probably will be their selection for
president pro tem. In view of Mr. Van
denberg’s knowledge of the troubled
state of the nation’s relations with
foreign governments, and his eiions
in association with Secretary of State
Byrnes to bring order out of the chaos
existing, there is reason to be grate
ful that the party successful at the
polls has so strong and able a man for
this important post. His leadership
will be invaluable in further strengthen
ing our foreign policy with his sound
judgement he will guide the Senate in
constructive legislation and exert pow
erful influence against such irrecon
eilables as, say, Senator Taft.
Governor Dewey’s re-election in New
York by such a great majority would
seem to set him aside as most likely
to be the republican candidate for the
presidency in 1948. Whether this is an
unmixed blessing can be determined
according to individual bias only. Gov
ernor Warren and former Governor
Stassen will have to be reckoned with,
and each has a large following and is
not without qualifications. But 1948
is still some time ahead. Many things
could happen in the meantime to dis
count the chances of all three.
Coming events cast their shadow be
fore. The attitude of Congress during
the next two years, its ability to deal
constructively with the vital issues
that must be settled, under republi
can control, will be the dominant fac
tor in shaping the outcome of the
presidential election.
In getting what they wanted Tues
day, the republicans accepted a tre
mendous responsibility. They will have
a chance to shape their course to
avoid the pitfalls of sheer party de
cisions and so improve their likeli
hood of success in 1948.
High Cost of Chaos
In a recent series of articles S. Burton
Heath spelled out some of the costs
of our postwar industrial upheaval—
loss of pay by idle workers which wage
increases will not repay for many years;
loss of profit to industry; loss of sore
ly-needed goods to consumers, Now
comes Charles E. Wilson, president of
General Motors, to add another item on
the bill.
In an article in Collier’s magazine
called “You’ve Got to Make a Profit,”
Mr. Wilson computes part of the Gen
eral Motors strike losses in taxes. The
corporation originally estimated that
reconversion would cost about $500,000,
000, and that enough cars and profits
could be made in the first postwar year
to avoid using the “carry-back” provi
sion of the wartime tax law, which was
a credit on the excess profits taxes of
converted industries that might be used
to cushion the cost of reconversion in
the first postwar year.
But, says Mr. Wilson, it cost $100,
000,000 to keep the company going dur
ing the unproductive strike period. That
and subsequent delays have raised the
estimated reconversion cost to $750,000,
000. GM has borrowed $125,000,000 and
will have to use accumulated reconver
sion funds and yet undetermined mil
lions of carry-back credit.
That carry-back is a sum of tax
money that would have been paid if re
conversion had been speedier. Doubtless
other similar sums will be employed by
other companies for similar reasons. It
all adds up to a lot of taxes that haven’t
been paid but will have to be paid some
day by you-know-who.
I’m not afraid of the man who asks
questions because he doesn’t know. I am
afraid of the man who thinks he knows when
he merely is assuming that he knows.—Ned H.
Dearborn, president of National Safety Coun
I cit
As Pegler Sees It
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, By King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 6. — Among the reasons
why the voters turned against the new deal,
even ignoring idolatrous invocations of the
Hyde Park hant, was a dawning realization
that, from Roosevelt himself down to the hon
orary bleeding-hearts of the night-side in New
York and Hollywood, the championship of the
“people” was always a political pose, never a
sincere inner mission. Never, in our country,
at Newport of old or at Palm Beach in the
spectacular nights of the prohibition era, were
more extravagant scenes of indulgence and
luxury enacted than in Harry Hopkins wed
ding party or Marshal Field’s debut at the
Statler in Washington, whereby the little man
who isn’t there introduced himself to the ink
stained wretches of the Fourth Estate. These
were not exceptional, but typical, as Elliott
Roosevelt reveals in. his memoirs, vvhich bear
a certain resemblance to “Ten Nights In A
Barroom.” Merriman Smith, the White House
correspondent of the United Press, in Thank
You, Mr. President,” the frankest and most
informative of the memory-books to date, tells
us that Roosevelt was a regal fellow and gives
us a view of revolting drunkenness among the
mourning members of his official household
on the train returning from his funeral. These
were the selfless anonymities of the palace.
Here are selected quotations from Elliott’s
story of the travels which tore him away from
the war to attend his father at his great con
ference among the potentates:
“Cocktail glasses clinked and the air ouzzea
with heavy talk”; “father remarked that there
had seemed to be 365 toasts—”; “at the prime
minister’s birthday dinner, once more the Rus
sian custom, everyone toasting everyone else,
was observed and I am afraid that accurate
count was lost. I do remember Stalin’s cheer
ful habit of touching the glass of everyone in
whose name we were drinking. And fathei
paid tribute to the huge Red Army that was. .
rolling the Nazi war machine steadily back”;
“there was no conversation without a drink.
The only way we talked was through the medi
um of proposing a toast. If your staying power
is good it develops into quite a lot of fun”;
“Stalin stuck to vodka; once he filled my
glass; if it was anything less than 100 prool
I do not wish to be offered the real thing”;
“by and large, I stuck to champagne, feeling
that American honor was at stake”; “Thanks
giving dinner could not have been more pleas
ant; Tarawa and Makin, with terrible cost
were behind us; over Europe, our air armadas
were daily growing in might, as Berlin was dis
covering”; “father always brought his own
turkeys from home”; “so that night I went to
a Cairo night club”; "when Madame Chiang
left me to go on to another guest, I got my
self a long, stiff drink.”
Hitler was an ascetic, but in this enormous
joviality of gods at play these other masters
of men disposed the world, mankind and the
future, and who knows how good their “stay
ing power” was?
To this young roisterer, who earlier in the
book had criticized Winston Churchill as
a hard-drinker, the President confided the se
cret information that Stalin had agreed to at
tack Japan. From Elliott. General Dwight
Eisenhower first learned of the final decision
to invade Europe through Normandy, although
Eisenhower was to be the commander-in-chief.
Indeed, Elliott insinuates that Eisenhow
er wheedled with him, who had been a civilian
only three years before, to wangle that com
mand when Ike was apprehensive that instead
he might be sent back to a desk job in Wash
ington. Elliott personally lobbied the Legion
of Merit for Eisenhower from his father, ar
ranged delivery of the medal to Cairo for
presentation by the President and flew away
with “Ike” for a sight-seeing tour in Africa.
Yet. of course, his own promotions up to the
rank of brigadier were all deserved.
Later, during an evening of bridge in Lon
don, Eisenhower had to ask Elliott for chatty
information on the Russians.
^ “What was their army like?” he inquired.
“How were their fliers? How was their disci
pline? What did they think of us?”
The President, "Eisenhower's commander-in
chief had reduced him to the gossip of pop’s
precocious pet for his military intelligence.
Merriman Smith’s description of drunken
behavior at the teamsters’ dinner at the Stat
ler in the presidential campaign of 1944 was
not the first intimation to the American work
ing stiff that the unions have their regal
class. The luxuries, privileges and perquisites
of the big brass of the teamsters, including
the winter palace of the high caste on Miami
Beach, were revealed long ago. And only a
few sincere old union fighters, of the type
of Victor Olander of Chicago, remember the
practical humility and devotion of the laie
Andy Furuseth, of the sailors' union, who al
ways flopped in sailors’ crimps on the water
fronts when he went to the great conventions
and ate slum and chili mac at Pittsburgh
Joe’s, only to be disowned and reduced to
the job of porter in a dirty union hall in
his last days on earth. His like was not to
be found anywhere in the new, political union
ism, in partnership with the princes who
patronized “the common man’’ but shared
none of his problems.
The most pretentious and p' ecious devotees
of the new deal were men and women who
loved “the masses’’ at a distance, fed them
with a long, long spoon and never forgot that
poverty and B. O. are concomitants. Thev
dined on filet and plover’s eggs at the Stork
and Twenty-One in New York and at Roman
off s and Chasen’s in Hollywood and. while
these contracts were not mentioned in the
campaign, the forgotten man surely must
have sensed them at last. These were the
Roosevelt literati, the intelligentsia, the bu
reaucracy and the hams of social significance
The fastidious taste of the communists in
the angry deliberations on the brave and
peaceful world of the future, and fragmen
tary news of voluptuous life in Moscow, sure
ly _ brought to mind comparisons with the
omet. timid living of the last Russian czar.
ffj} himself, when he went to war. threw
off the masquerade of blouse and neasant’s
cap and the baggy pants stuffed in his boots
to appear in a marshal’s costume, with
sequins on his collar and stripes two inches
wide on his trousers.
QUOTATIONS
Studies of children living in institutions and
those enjoying normal family life show that
children develop much faster when thev have
the love and interest of someone clos° te
them.—Dr. Douglas A. Thom, director Habit
Clinic for Child Guidance, Inc., Boston, Mass
We no sooner have a man trained than he
goes home.—Maj.-Gen. Ernest N. Harmon, U.
C. Constabulary commander in Germany.
LEST HE FORGET!
You GonA <
<30 TO WORK
TOMORROW
Some Labor Leaders Fear Sentiment
For Strike Control Laws Will Grow
By NORMAN WALKER
Arsoclated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.— (A>) —
Some labor leaders expressed the
view Wednesday'that sentiment for
strike control legislation may be
stronger in the next Congress.
They based this view on the gen
eral trend of the election results
and the personalities of the candi
dates who won and those who were
beaten, and not on the fact that the
Republicans won control of the
Senate and House.
Both AFL and CIO officials said
they expect the GOP leadership
will have the 1948 Presidential year
continuously in mind and will seek
to refrain from antagonizing labor.
“They realize the votes of the
working people and their friends
are a considerable factor in any
election,” said one top AFL ad
visor. "I think they are too smart
to forget that.”
James B. Carey, CIO secretary
treasurer, told a reporter he felt
the Republican leadership would
be “very careful to avoid making
labor angry.”
"After all,” he commented, “the
Republican party is a lot different
now than it was 10 years ago. It
supports a great many things now
that it once opposed.”
But labor officials noted the de
feat of some of their strongest de
fenders in Congress, including
many backed by the CIO Political
Action committee.
They noted, too, that constitution
al amendments to outlaw the closed
shop apparently were adopted in
Nebraska, South Dakota and Ari
zona—the three states where the
proposal was on the ballot. Mass
achusetts voters approved a pro
posal to require unions to make
public financial reports.
No matter which party had won,
new labor legislation was certain
to come up for consideration in the
new Congress.
What it does in the labor field
probably depends more on the
strike situation than on which par
ty is in control. A serious strike
Religion
Day By Day
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
IN A KOREAN TRAIN
Many years ago, before oriental
railways had been fully modern
ized, I had to make, in winter,
the long journey between Seoul
and Pyeng Yang, in an unheated
train. A farm - raised missionary
came to my help, with the sug
gestion that I put a lighted lantern
between my feet, and wrap up in
a blanket. So I made the trip in
reasonable comfort.
That was to me a new appli
cation of the Scripture, “Thy word
is a lamp unto my feet.'’ God's
word is not only for guidance, but
also helps through t h e hard
places.
A little heat, rightly placed, may
provide a great warmth. So the
lowliest life may shed a constant
influence m the most limited en
vironment.
For the woifl that enlightens and
J?™* j*nd sustains, We praise
Thee today, O Lord. May it ever
Arnen'th U* °D liIe’s Juurneyings.
wave this winter would inevitably
bring powerful support for drastic
labor laws.
Roll call votes of the last session
show that, on numerous questions,
Republicans were more ardent
than Democrats in supporting pro
posals to restrict union activities.
Congress passed the Case bill,
which would provide a 60-day cool
ing-off period before strikes and
restrict unions in several ways.
President Truman vetoed it on
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BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
Written for NEA Service
One of Chicago's oldest bridge
clubs, The Bridge Players Club,
operated by Mrs. Lesley Pope
Cooke and Mrs. Madeline Ander
son is doing very well in its new
quarters at the Hamilton Hotel.
Today’s hand was played at the
club, and was sent to me for an
opinion on an argument concern
ing it.
The bidding given is the way it
happened at the club. In my opinion
North should show the heart suit
first, but I do not favor his two
heart bid, as it is apt to crowd
the bidding.
After a free bid by North, South
is practically forced to rebid;
therefore over on heart, South
would bid two clubs; West two
diamonds; and now North should
bid two spades. This shows a new
suit and also a reversal.
Once again South is forced1 to
rebid, and in all probability should
bid two no trump to show no sup
port for either hearts or spades,
which definitely marks him with
five spades and six hearts.
Had the two suits been five each,
the spade bid would have been
the proper overcall on the first
round instead of hearts.
While South has only two hearts,
he does have a fit in spades and
has the valuable queen of hearts.
Therefore South should not just
take a preference; ,he should bid
five hearts, and of course North
will go to six hearts.
* » «
When South bids five hearts.
North shouid know that he does not
have control of the diamond suit.
While South invites a slam, the
biddiing indicates that it can be
made only if North has control
in diamonds. With the void in
diamonds North is justified in bid
ding the small slam.
June 11. A majority of the House
voted to override the veto, 255 to
135, but this was five votes short
of the required two-thirds. There
was no need for the Senate to ex
press itself, and the Case bill was
dead for the session.
CIO leaders are worried over the
possibility that the elections may
have provided those extra five
votes.
In the June 11 rollcall. Repub
licans voted 159-15 to override the
veto and Democrats voted 118-96 to
sustain the President.
Carey, a member of the CIO polit
ical action committee, pledged
along with Jack Kroll, CIO-PAC
national director, that the CIO
political arm will go right ahead
in its work.
“Labor political action is here
to stay,” Carey observed. “It is
elastic enough to fit any set of
circumstances.”
Kroll declared in a statement
from New York that “despite tem
porary setbacks” the election cam
paign showed “that the CIO-PAC
and the other groups with which
it works can be and will be the
decisive political force in our na
t.on. x x we have just begun to
fight.
“Beginning Wednesday _ right
now the CIO Political Action com
mittee will intensify and expand
’.is activity. We will go on fighting
for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s pro
gram.”
Star Dust
Dry Cleaned
A certain Yankee householder
recently laid in his winter’s supply
of coal. When the bill came from
the dealer he noticed that it boast
ed the slogan: “It’s a Black busi
ness, but we treat you White.’’
The householder wept a little
when he noted the amount of the
Doctor Says—
SPINAL T. B. COMES
OFTENEST IN YOUTH
By WILLIAM aTotBrjen, m n
Pott’s disease (tuberculosis
the spine) causes a back defornu !
due to destruction of the -
which collapses from the ’
Spinal tuberculosis has ' "
largely brought under control 'bv
the destruction of tuberculous r j
tie and the greater use of pasteurl
lzed milk. -r
Tuberculosis of the spine is C(n,
monest in children, but it rrav
cur in the aged as well. ' °C'
Tuberculosis g e rms e- .er .,
bone by way of the blood J
lodge in the small arteries w.
they set up the infection and
vade the surrounding structure
When bone is destroyed the ab
scess can break through *0 ,b‘
surrounding tissues and come
at some distance from its piace
origin in a fistulous tract.
Early symptoms of tubercul0s:s
of the spine originate, from snasm
and irritation, in the nerves
muscles. aRa
As a result, the back is h.M
rigid. In picking ur objects from
the floor, the affected child will
not bend down but will instead
assume a squatting position.
The infection may be present
for some time before the parents
are aware of the difficulty.
More than one point m the
spine may be infected bv the tu
bercule bacillus at the same time
and when this happens multiple
deformities result.
_X-ray examination of the spine
will reveal the extent of the ,'ie.
strucnO'.i wrought by the tubt'rctile
bacillus. For this reason the X-ray
is used in every case of suspected
spinal tuberculous.
Proper treatment of tuberculosis
of the spine requires rest, as move
ment interferes with healing. The
patient is usually placed in a
plaster cast or strapped to a metal
frame and kept in bed. A long
period of rest necessarily precedes
healing.
Local splinting of the infected
spine may be accomplished In
putting in bone grafts with pieces
of healthy bone spliced in the in
fected portion.
Patients with spinal tuberculosis
should receive a well - balanced
diet and plenty of sunlight. Expo
sure to the sun is of greater value
in treating tuberculosis of bones
and glands than it is in treating
tuberculosis of the lungs.
Tuberculosis of the spine can be
prevented by protecting children
from tuberculous infection. Chil
dren allowed to live with persons
who have tuberculosis or exposed
to infected animals or food will
contract the disease in a consider
able number of cases.
In spite of the steady decline in
tuberculosis during the past cen
tury, control of tuberculous infec
tion is still a major public health
problem. As any contagious dis
ease declines, the effort in time
and money expended to eradicate
it increases.
QUESTION: I have high blood
pressure and am overweight. I
have been advised to reduce. What
shall I eat to do so?
ANSWER: Moderate reduction
follows the elimination from the
diet of high caloric foods, such as
butter, cream, fat, sugar, and
starch. Fruits vegetables and
lean meats can be eaten without
damage to the weight ■ reduction
program.
incoice, then, wiping away his
tears, he bravely made out the
check. But with it he sent a little
note reading: "May I offer a sug
gestion? I think you should change
your slogan to ‘It’s a Dirty busi
ness, but we Clean you good.’ ”
- $ 1
His Stony Way
Lord Brikenhead proudly an
nounced to his family that he had
obtained a lucrative contract for
a series of articles to be called
"Milestones of My Life." They dis
cussed what incidents he proposed
to use.
"You might put in our marriage
Lady Brikenhead suggested; ”sr^
the birth of your first child.” ^
"I said milestones, my dear
rejoined Brikenhead, "not w*-’
stones.”
WHY WE SAY by STAN J. COLLINS 1 L J SLAWSON j
^WOODEN I
Tobacco, an American product, when •
first sold in Europe was advertised
through the display of a life sized
wooden Indian, symbol of America to *
the European-we adopted this me-*
dium of advertising and used it for*
many years in front of our smoke shops.