UN BEGINS STUDY OF DEPRESSIONS Fourth Session Of Ecosoc Covers Wide Area of 1 Work For The Future By ADELAIDE KERR AP Newsfeatores Writer LAKE SUCCESS, April 5.—i/ft_ Seeking the answers to puzzles mankind has never solved, the United Nations Economic and So cial Council has just completed plans for a midsummer session to come to grips with the causes of depression, unemployment and war. Up to now, whenever man was caught in one of those economic brambles, he made sporadic, iso lated, discouraged attempts to ex tricate himself and generally emerged more scratched and bleeding than before. Now he is trying to work with equipment which will take the brambles apart and let him live in comfort end peace. That equipment is the world-wide organization—the Unit ed Nations Economic andScoail Council which meets three times a year and has a number of com missions working between times to supply it with information. The Economic and Social Coun cil’s long name has been shortened in U. N. secretariat parlance to Ecosoc—pronounced Eckosock. It has just completed its fourth work - packed session in which it covered wide territory, made plans for international conferences and initiated bodies and studies to seek ways and means of keeping the world’s business on an even keel, producing jobs as well as insuring the realization of human rights. When the council recon venes July 19 it will take up re ports on the following activities on which commissions and secretari at are now at work: 1. One of Ecosoc s most impor tant acts in the last session was to establish an Economic commis sion for Europe. At least one of the commission’s formulator’s calls it “a tremendous step toward e United States of Europe.” ■ It was established to help Europe solve her reconstruction problems by concerted action to raise the level of European economic activi ty and strengthen the economic re lations of European countries. Its members will be the European members of the United Nations and the United States. It is main ly a,» consultative and advisory body, but it has power to make direct recommendations to mem ber go\ .'rnments. The commission will meet in Geneva in May and is expected to report to the Coun cil’s next session. (Ecosoc also established an eco nomic commission for Asia and the Far East with the same gen eral mandate for the areas within its scope. Its members are Aus tralia, China, France, India, Neth erlands, Philippine Republic, Si am, USSR, United Kingdom and United States. Research work on this, however, is not so far ad vanced and its first report will not be made until 1948.) 2. The Council asked its eco nomic and employment commis sion to report on what interna tional action should be taken for better utilization of world re sources of labor, materials and capital and what international ac tion should be taken to maintain world full employment and eco nomic stability. It also asked the commission to supply regular re ports on world economic condi tions and trends, giving particular attention to factors that threaten full employment and stability— such as recessions or depressions. 3. The subject of “guarantees for the exercise and development of trade union rights” submitted by the world federation of trade unions for disofcssion was referred to the ILO and the Commission on Human Rights for study and report. 4. The Council insiruciea us newly constituted sub - commis - sion on freedom of information and of the press to prepare and submit a draft agenda for the pro jected international conference on freedom of information, whose date and place Ecosoc will decide next session. 3. The Secretary General was asked to submit a draft conven tion on genocide (efforts to exter minate an entire race) in re sponse to the general assembly’s resolution labelling this a crime enrj asking member states to en act legislation for its prevention and punishment. 6. Ecosoc approved in principle a world-wide appeal for funds to meet emergency relief needs of j children, adolescents, and expect ant. and nursing mothers and fa* vored to meet this the collection of one day’s pay or some alterna tive better adapted to each "oun try. It asked the Secr^.y Gen eral to study and report on the Best way of doing this work. In addition to these steps for consideration at its next session, the Council authorized a number of activities which did not require Immediate report. It called a world shipping con ference later this year an^ gave it latitude—but not a mandate—to consider the desirability of creat ing an international maritime or ganization. It also called a world statistical Congress in Washington in September and a U. N. scien tific conference on the .conserva tion and utilization of resources to be held not sooner than ^lt(48. Moreover, it decided that U. 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Fellowship Bible Class To Celebrate 50th Year By ROBERT MILLER The McClure Fellowship Bible Class of ehe Young Men’s Chris tian association of Wilmington will celebrate its 50th anniversary at Kenan Memorial of St. Andrews Covenant Presbyterian church, 15th and Market streets, Tuesday, at 7 p.m. Wilson J. Smith, interstate sec retary of YMCA in the Carolina’s, will be the principal speaker. The McClure Fellowship Bible Class meets at the YMCA every Monday at 630 p.m. and has for 50 years been an increasingly po tent factor in the religious life of Wilmington. The class was named for the late Dr. A. D. McClure, former pastor of St. Andrews Presbyteri an church and who taught the class until his death. The class started om Sunday morning in the fall of 1897, whenia group of young men went to Thomas C. Diggs, general secretary of the YMCA, and made plans to get together from time to time for a period of Bible study. They arranged to meet every Sunday morning in the club room of the old YMCA building, Front and Grace street, now occupied by the Brunswick hotel, principally to study methods of doing personal Christian work. Charles D u s h a n succeeded Diggs as general secretary and continued the classes the same as his successor, Edwin Kettle. When Kettle became general secretary, the class added a fel lowship supper to its program and became known as the “Fellowship Bible Class,” with the late Dr. Mc Clure as their regular teacher. During the period after the old YMCA building was sold and the new YMCA building was being constructed, the YMCA had offices in the Odd Fellows building and the class met as usual and re sumed supper meetings upon the opening of the present YMCA in 1013. • When J. B. Huntington, present general secretary, came to the city as physical instructor in April, 1910, he found a very ac tive interest in the class and has promoted it continuously since that time. During the years following, with the occupancy of the new building in the fall of 1913, the class be came so popular and interest was manifested so much in the class that at times there were more than 100 men attending the class regularly and all previous attend ance records were broken. Following the death of Dr. Mc Clure, and as tribute to him ,the organization was re-named the “McClure Fell owship Bible Class.” The class changed its poli cy of having one - teacher, and since ministers of various denomi nations of the city have taught the class from time to time, and have current developments in the field of international commodity agree ments pending the establishment of the projected International Trade Organization (ITO), which would eventually become the co ordinating body. Acceding to that request Ecosoc recommended that U. N. members adopt as a guide henceforth the principles include non-discrimination, inclusion of both producer and consumer in - terests, price stabilization and al leviation of problems arising out of slow production adjustments. The Council also instructed the Secretary General to appoint an interim coordinating committee for international commodity ar rangements “to keep informed of and to facilitate” intergovernmen tal consultation or'action on com modity problems. The all-important question of an international bill of human rights was referred to an enlarged draft ing committee , with the request that the council have a prelimi nary draft to present to the Gen eral Assembly in 1948. The battle against narcotic drugs was abetted with a recom mendation that governments ne gotiating Japan's peace treaties include a provision for the strin gent control of all transactions concerning such drugs. Finally, Ecosoc took action on these social problems: It approved the 1947 program of the international children’s emer gency fund under which aid will be provided to children and ado lescents of countries which were victims of aggression and of coun tries receiving UNRRA’s assisi ance. It asked the Secretary Gen eral to arrange studies of the housing problem. The Council also admitted 88 non-governmental organizations to j consultative statu*. To Speak Here WILSON J. SMITH brought religious leaders of note from other cities to teach the class. The class opens first Monday in October, and continues to the mid dle of April, meeting weekly dur ing that period. The collection plate is passed at each meeting and members contribute to defray the expenses of the supper. Any deficit is paid through the associ ation oudget. Normally the collec tions amount to within $50 of the actual expense for the year. The class is self - governing, electing officers each April to serve for the\ ensuing year. These officers have no connection with the management of the association other than to meet with the Re ligious Work committee to formu late policies. For the past four years the class has studied the International Sun day School Lerson and many min isters and teachers of men’s class es attend in preparation for the teaching of the lesson the follow ing Sunday. The class meets at 6:S0 p.m., for the fellowship supper and the study period begins at 7 p.m. The supper and the study period com bined last for a total of one hour, thus releasing the men at 7:30 p. m. for any further engagements they may have for the evening. The class had an average attend ance of 35 men during the past season. One of the things that make this large body of men Unique in their Bible study is found in the fact that from week to week the same men gather with their friends from various churches, at their own expense, to hear the Inter national Sunday School lesson for the following Sunday taught by the ministers of the city. This class is one of the most successful phases of the religious service rendered the men of the city by the Religious Work com mittee of the YMCA, and a cordial invitation is extended to ail of the men of this city to attend the 50th anniversary meeting Tuesday night. 6 Men Held In Bail On Federal Charges GOLDSBORO, N. C., April 5.— i (/P)L- Six men, one of them an army private, have been held in bail for appearance in Federal dis trict court to answer charges of theft of government property and receiving stolen property, accord ing to W. H. Gibson, Kinston, of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion- . , „ The men are: Hubert Rose, Jack Ward, Charles Hinson. Rob ert Cobb, all charged with receiv ing; Pershing Lucas, charged with the alleged larceny, all of Wayne county; and Pvt. Eston Earl Lin kous.” stationed at Seymour John son field. Value of property recovered is set at $1,400 by officials at the field and included typewriters and adding machines. SCHOOL HEAD RESIGNS PINEHURST, April 5 — WP) — J. W. Harbison, superintendent of Pinehurst school fcr the past eight j years, has resigned. He sard he •plans to enter hospital administra j lion work after 20 years in the i | teaching profession. I NEW DRUGS SPEED CURE OF LEPROSY 21 Lepers Discharged As Cured From Marine Hos pital In Louisiana By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor NEW YORK, April 5.— m — Twenty-ore lepers have been dis charged as cured recently from the Carville, La., U. S. Marine hospital. Cured is not the word the phy sicians use. They say arrested cases of leprosy. But these dis charged patients are considered as cured in all respects. All the medical evidence indicates real cures and that evidence now cov ers up to five years. Two of the 21 received diasone and 19 received promin, both new drugs. There is a third, known as promizole, now in use to treat the disease, and there are some rea sons for expecting promizole to do better than the other two. One result is a complete change in the medical plans for fighting leprosy. On the basis of these drugs it appears that early cases are rather readily stopped or cured. Therefore public nealtn aumori ties are trying to institute the same early diagnosis and treat ment for leprosy that is used for tuberculosis and cancer. But to succeed it is necessary to get the public to understand that leprosy is neither horrible nor any of the other things that every child thinks he knows. The bad name of leprosy was started in the scriptures. Whatever the . scriptural disease may have been that was called leprosy, it is not the disease today known to the world. The pnysicians wno nave uc™ treatment it for years oughtto know One of these, Dr. G. H. Faget, medical officer in charge of the Carville hospital says, in the Star, a publication of the nearly 400 pa tients at Carville: There are several types of lepro sy, some of which are not con tagious at all. Some of the patients with the greatest amount of mutilation, are burned-out cases, and of absolute ly no danger to others. Fingers and toes do not drop off. In far-advanced cases, de formities occur. Children are more susceptible than adults. Leprosy is a family disease. It is not hereditary, but the child may contract it from contact with his parents. Leprosy is not a filth disease, it is not an unclean disesse, it is not a curse of God. Those discharged with the dis ease “arrested” are of no further menace to anyone. These patients need the sympathy of the public to return to an honorable and use ful life. Discharged lepers have been re fused jobs, or fired from one job after another as soon as employ ers discovered that they once had the disease. Leprosy is a germ disease, which is never very contagious. The Carville patients are cam paigning to have the name changed to Hansen’s disease, aft er the physician who discovered the germ. But they run into difficulties in reaching the public. Their modest monthly magazine, the Star, car ries this line: “This paper, and all outgoing mail, is sterilized be fore leaving the hospital.’’ Elsewhere in science: A new kind of thermometer has been developed by the General Electric for measu ring the heat of the jet flames of Ger man V-2 and ether rockets. These blasts are so hot that any ma terial substance would melt in a fraction of a second The thermometer is two peri scopes, one looking at the jet as it moves away and the other look ing at the* same stream of fire as it approaches. This is done by placing the periscopes at different positions for looking at the same jet. The periscopes, with aid of spectroscopes, measure the wave lengths of light emitted from the speeding flames. The wave lengths are slightly longer when looking at the flaming gases speeding away from the periscope. The wave lengths are a mite shorteer when looking the other direction, ^he reason is the doppler effect. The light in both cases is moving with its own uniform velocity of 188,000 miles a second with the addition, or the subtraction, of the speed of the fire which emits the light waves. This stream of fire is; moving faster than a mile a second. __ If Stomach Has or Sour Food Taste Robs You of Sloop Here’s How You May Help, Whether You Eat 500 Pounds or 2000 Pounds of Food In a Year Tou can’t feel cheerful, be happy and sleep well, If your stomach Is always up set. As age advances the ’’old stomach" needs more help. The reason Is this; Bverytlma food enters the stomach a vital gastric Juice must flow normally to Ireak-up certain food particles; else the food may ferment. Sour food, acid ibdl Sestlon and see frequently cause a mor ld, touchy, fretfifl, peevish, nervous condition, loss of appetite, underweight, restless sleep, weakness. To get real relief you must Increase the flow of this vital gastric Juice. Medi cal authorities, in Independent labora tory testa on human atomachs, have by positive proof shown that SSS Tonic Is amazingly effective In Increasing this flow when it Is too little or scanty due to a non-organlc stomach disturbance. This is due to the SSS Tonic formula which oontalns very special and potent activating Ingredients. Also, SSS Tonic helps build-up non organlc, weak, watery blood In nutri tional anemia—so with a good flow of this gastric digestive Juice, plus rich red blood you should eat better, sleep better, feel better, work better, play better. Avoid punishing yourself with over doses of soda and other alkallzers to counteract gas and bloating when what you so dearly need Is SSS Tonic to help you digest food for body strength and repair. Don’t wait! Join the host of happy people SSS Tonic has helped. "Ill’Ions of bottles sold. Get a bottle of SSS Tonic from your drug store today. SSS Tonic helps Build Sturdy Health. r Auxiliary Supplements Work Of Legionaires By CARL RHODES Staff Reporter The American Legion Auxiliary —made up of those women who had husbands, sons, or daughters in the wars of the United States, and women veterans who served in the armed services — has grown into a large and worth while organization. The auxiliary was organized after World War I, and since that time has risen in membersnip to 798,926 women. The auxiliary was formed to supplement the strength of t h e American Legion. Mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of the Le gionnaires, those of the war dead, and women veterans wanted to help in the Legion’s work. The auxiliary worked with the Legion, grew with the Legion, and made important contri butions t o Legion accomplish ments. Hospitals were ' obtained for the disabled veterans, laws were enacted granting more gen erous compensations. Protec tion was gained for w'idows and orphans. Preference for veterans was established in public employ ment. Complete disarmament of the U. S. w'as prevented and de termined efforts w'ere made to strengthen t'h e nation's defenses against the dangers ahead. . During World War II, women of the auxiliary saw their loved ones go off to the battlefields. At home, the auxiliary w-orked with the Legion in every war activity, inspiring greater civilian en deavor and helping keep the nation solidly behind the figting forces. Remembering conditions af ter the first world war, when no plans had been made to help those in the service return to ci vilian life, the Legion and auxi liary were determined that this time the nation should have more titan words of welcome to give to the returning veteran. The G. I. Bill of Rights was one of the results. Other national and state legislation was secured. All through the war the auxiliary worked with the Legion to assure a square deal for the returning veteran. Now that the war has been won and men and women who won it have come home, vast new fields of endeavor have opened before the auxiliary. The number of vet erans and veteran’s families needing aid has been multiplied many times. More than one million veterans have returned disabled. All will not receive adequate care. The auxiliary will insist that every thing a grateful government can do shall be done for its disabled defenders. Things which no gov ernmental agency can do, things which require the touch of per sonal interest and human under standing the auxiliary is doing. All women eligible for member ship in the American Legion aux iliary are urged to join and share in the great problem that this organization is carrying on. Mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters of men or women who served in the war, and were kil led or have died since their dis charge, or men or women who are members of the Legion, or women veterans who served yi the two wars are eligible to joi*. Service in the auxiliary offers i © direct benefits to its member!, yet it enriches their lives wi£h lasting friendships, with interest* and activities shared with the Le gion. and the joy of worthwhile achievement. Salesman Filet • flO,000 Smt A suit for $10,000 wai tilett yesterday against Hubert L. Scog gins. restaurant proprietor at 920 Grace street, by Richard Smith, local beer salesman, in the office of August L. 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