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VOL. LXXll GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1946 No. 4
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Stabilization Policy Designed
To Spur Production; Argentine
Military Junta Under U. S. Fire
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these eelamas, they are these ot
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper.)
WAGE-PRICES:
Go Sign
Formulation of the administra
tion's new stabilization policy set
ting a pattern for wage increases of
from 15 to 17 per cent and permit
ting price boosts wherever neces
sary to assure prewar profit mar
gins, represented a victory for the
conservative advisers of President
Truman.
Spearheaded by John Snyder, St.
Louis banker and director of war
mobilization and reconversion, the
conservatives held that price as
well as wage readjustment was nec
essary to spur postwar production.
With goods flowing to market in vol
ume, they held, prices would auto
matically find their right level in a
competitive economy.
In announcing the nevf wage
price policy, which was designed to
settle the major steel, auto and elec
trical strikes, Mr. Truman hoped
that it would result in an early
resumption of mass production that
alone could head off an inflation
ary spiral. In the meantime, he
asked for extension of price control,
subsidies and allocations and priori
ties to temporarily hold living costs
in line and break industrial bottle
necks.
In winning his point of view, Sny
der was permitted to retain his
over-all control over the stabiliza
tion policy, with former OPA chief
tain Chester Bowles put in charge
of administering the new formula.
Bowles had stood firmly for a more
rigid wage-price program, believing
lower costs would lead to greater
purchasing power and volume, but
agreed to co-operate in making the
hew policy work.
GOOD NEIGHBOR:
Not So Good
In issuing its historic "blue book"
condemning the Argentine military
regime and its strong-man leader
ship of Juan Peron, the U. S. state
department raised the whole ques
tion of continued U. S. and Allied
relationship with the South Ameri
can country.
At the same time, the state de
partment's indictment against the
army junta, charging collaboration
during the war and in establishing
a fascist economy in peace, came
"Strong Man" Juan Peron, whose
military junta was under state depart
ment fire.
on the eve of the Argentine presi
dential election, lending possibilities
to a nation-wide swing against
Peron's candidacy. Taking cog
nizance of the U. S. action, Peron
laid blame for the strained rela
tions between the two countries on
Assistant Secretary of State Spruille
Braden, whom he accused of under
mining previous accords.
In charging Argentina with col
laboration with the axis in war, the
state department's "blue book" de
clared that the military regime en
gaged in espionage against the al
lies, sought to undermine govern
ments in neighboring countries
friendly to the united nations, and
protected German economic inter
ests.
Asserting that the military junta
had permitted the establishment of
a fascist economy in Argentina to
serve as a base for reviving Ger
many's imperial ambitions, the
"blue book" stated that Germans
now controlled such key industries
as' chemicals and pharmaceuticals,
construction, electrical equipment,
metallurgy and agriculture.
FOOD SUPPLIES:
World Outlook
While per capita food consump
tion in the U. S. in IMS is expected
to reach a new peak, a surrey of
showed that the average person will
have about 12 per cent lefs to eat
than in prewar years.
. In reporting its findings, however,
the department pointed out that
striking of an "average" balance
did not truly reflect conditions
abroad, what with near starvation
levels persisting in Italy, Germany,
French North Africa, France, Spain,
India and China.
Itemizing individual supplies, the
department said that the world sup
ply of bread will remain tight, with
reduced rations in some countries.
Demand for wheat will exceed sup
plies by 200 million bushels and
stocks of other grains will be lim
ited. From 15 to 20 per cent less
rice will be available than In pre
war years.
A shortage of meat will persist
in Europe and Russia, the depart
ment said, with increased produc
tion retarded by use of feed grains
for human consumption While 1940
supplies of fish will be higher than
last year, cheese and egg stocks will
not meet demands.
The total of fats and oils will ap
proximate only two-thirds of import
needs while sugar consumption will
fall to the lowest level in a decade.
Only half as much butter will be
available for world trade as in pre
war years.
In contrast to the tight world food
situation, the American larder will
stay well stocked, barring poor
crops. Only butter and sugar sup
plies are expected to show no ap
preciable improvement, and while
fewer eggs are predicted, availabil
ity of more meat should cut de
mand for the product.
Butcher Old Dobbin
From the steadily declining horse popu
lation of the U. Sn 77,887 equines went to
the slaughter houses in 1945 to provide
meat for American tables. Lowest on rec
ord, the number of horses in this country
stands at less than half that of a quarter
century ago.
Reflecting the steady increase in horse
slaughter during the war, when overall
meat supplies failed to meet popular de
mand, the butchering of equines in 1945
showed a 49 per cent rise over the 1944
figure of 52,063.
Along with the horse, the old goat has
been sent to the stockyards with increasing
frequency, the slaughter of 13J 50 by fed
erally inspected packers in 1945 represent
ing a 98 per cent boost over the figure for
the previous year.
TIRES:
Good Prospects
With the manpower situation im
proving with the return of many
veterans and new facilities sched
uled to get into production soon, the
tire outlook for 1946 has grown
increasingly promising, though
stocks adequate to meet record de
mand will not be forthcoming be
fore late in the year.
With 24 million cars in operation,
with many running on tires five or
more years old, the government set
a goal of 66 million passenger cords
for 1946. Under present favorable
conditions, manufacturers hope to
even exceed the mark. Because of
the continued scarcity of natural
rubber, substantial proportions of
both tires and tubes will be made of
synthetics.
Since 90 per cent of all tires pro
duced go to the market and only 10
per cent are retained for new auto
mobiles, not many more additional
cords have been made available dur
ing the closedown of auto plants
by the General Motors strike, trade
circles pointed out.
NATIONAL GUARD:
Postwar Increase
In accordance with plans to keep
America strong in the postwar
world, the national guard will be
increased to 622,500 officers and
men, more than double the total of
300.034 in the prewar period.
Of the 622,500 men and officers,
571,000 will be included in the
ground forces, 47,600 in the air wings
and 4,000 m miscellaneous services.
This compares with the prewar
establishment of 295,000 on the
ground and 5,000 in the air.
Twenty-two infantry divisions will
constitute the bulk of the ground
forces, with two armored divisions
and IS regimental combat teams
making up the remainder. The 12
air wings will be composed at 27
groups, 84 squadrons and 12 control
?nd warning units.
With 47,777 men and officers, New
York's national guard win bo the
largest in the country, followed by
Pennsylvania with ?,M0; Califor
nia. mm mi Illinois, mm
CAPITOL HILL:
Dems Row
With Harold L. Ickes having ijuit
the department of the interior after
President Truman
bad questioned the
accuracy of his tes
timony before a
senatorial commit
tee probing Edwin
W. Pauley's nomi
nation as undersec
retary of navy, po
litical sages pon
Harold Ickes dered what effect
the self-styled "Old !
Curmudgeon's" action would have
on Democratic chances in the 1946
congressional and 1948 presidential
elections.
In resigning from the cabinet aft
er 13 years of service as one of the
liberal New Deal stalwarts, "Hon
est Harold," as Ickes la sometimes
known, warned Mr. Truman that po
litical pressure for retention of state
control over underwater oil re
serves could result in a scandal
similar to Teapot Dome. He also
said that pressure to assess admin
istrative personnel for campaign
purposes mig t create a major
scandal.
Although it was long rumored that
Ickes might leave the President's
cabinet, his dramatic departure
grew^put of his charges that Pauley
had suggested to him that $300,000
could be raised for the 1944 presi
dential race if the government
dropped a suit the interior secre
tary instituted to place underwater
oil reserves under federal rather
than state control. When Pauley
denied the allegation and Mr.
Truman declared that Ickes' testi
mony might be inaccurate, the "Old
Curmudgeon" stated that the Pres
ident's lack of confidence in him left
him no alternative but to submit
his resignation.
Ill feelings between Ickes and Mr.
Truman were further pointed up by
the President's order making the
resignation immediately effective
rather than on March 31 as the in
terior secretary had requested so
that he might push through the
Anglo-American oil treaty "which
(he) had nurtured and raised by
bottle from the beginning."
While the liberal Ickes, long a,
prominent figure in reform poli
tics, said he would not oppose the
President's re-election in 1948, he
qualified his statement by pointing
out that he had cast his ballot as a
delegate to the 1944 convention for
Henry A. Wallace for vice presi
dent.
GRAIN MOVEMENTS:
Co-Op Proposals
Holding an emergency meeting in
Chicago, 111., the National Federa
tion of Grain Co-operatives urged
President Truman to speed up
movement of box cars and clarify
the price and tax situation to spur
lagging shipment of grain to mar
ket.
Representing member groups,
which handle approximately 400 mil
lion bushels of grain annually, the
federation said that the acute short
age of box cars has been further
aggravated by delays in movement.
Runs that normally required four
or five days from the northwest to
Minneapolis-St. Paul, now take 30
days or more, officials said.
As long as uncertainty exists over
extension of federal price controls,
the federation declared, farmers will
keep substantial quantities of grain
off the market in the hope of higher
returns. Further, farmers may be
adverse to selling both their car
ryover and the ripened 1946 crop in
the same year unless tax laws are
revised or loans of actual grain
to the government are arranged
and operators are permitted to elect
the time for collection.
AIR PACT:
U. S^ Britain Agree
Resolving differences over the
question of regulating international ,
air travel, the U. S. and Britain
reached agreement after month-;
long discussions in Hamilton, Ber
muda, on a postwar pattern in
clining toward the American con
cept of freest possible flight.
At the same time, the U. S.
agreed to open American military 1
bases on leased British islands in the 1
Atlantic to commercial planes. Ob
tained by the U. S. for 99 years in
the famous over-age destroyer deal j
of 1940, the islands stretch from
Newfoundland to British Guiana in
the Caribbean.
Under the U. S.-British pact, <
planes will be permitted to pick up
passengers in either country; equi
table rates will be determined;
routes will be marked out for travel
by American and British craft over
the two countries; consultations will
be held for resolving civil air prob
lems; the provisional international
aviation organisation will be asked
to settle disputes upon which the
U. 8. and Britain cannot reach
agreement, and no limitation will
be placed upon the number of flights
air Unas may make.
Man About Town:
Champion Joe Louis in the RKO
gateway quietly downing a huge
beaker of milk. . . . Lt. Col. Greg
Boyington says he is called
"Grampa" or "Skipper" by those
who know him, not "Pappy." . . .
The ihuchly decorated war hero at
Reuben's being told by his mother
to "eat all his vegetables." . . .
Reaction of Cliff Mack to the paint
ings of W. Churchill: "Well, at least
they're better than Hitler's."
Von Ribbentrop has requested a
Jewish lawyer (instead of an alien
ist). ... If you see a man's dis
charge button with a ball-and-chain
dangling from it?he was a prisoner
of war. . . . Pat, the popular news
boy at Miami Beach, got off his
best quip the day Churchill arrived
there. "Hide yer money!" he
extra'd. "The British are coming!"
. . . Ho, hum. Everybody on strike
except the tax collectors!
Faces About Midtown: Charles
Coburn, plus his monocle, strolling
along Vth Avenue?and teen-agers
gleefully exclaiming: "Oooh, looka!
There's Jean Arthur's father!" . . .
Joe Cotten, the star, gabbing in the
Stork with Kenneth Friede?the pro
ducer who once paid him $40 per
week in a play. Joseph today gets
$100,000 per film. . . . Victor Moore
of "Nellie Bly" and his bride. Don't
feel sorry for Victor because of the
show's sour notices. He's down to
his last million. . . . Book-writer J.
Gunther and the chomming Marina
Svetlova, the premiere dansoose at
the Met. . . . Cesar Romero, who
used to hoof for coffee-and-cake
coin, spinning Renee DeMarco in a
waltz at the Cotillion Room. . . . ;
Helmut Dantine, the star, thrilled
over becoming an American. ... I
Ex-Mayor LaGuardia, who had it
changed to the Avenue of the Amer
icas, yelling at a friend: "You must
come up to see my new offices on
SIXTH Avenue!"
Sounds In the Night: At the Car
nival: "Judging by the notices on
'Nellie Bly' the critics didn't do
right by Nell." ... At the Ver
sailles: "That much-married play
boy oughta change his name to Girl
ville!" ... At the Boulevard: "Oh,
Heel be around!" ... At the En
duro: "She's playing second fizzle."
. . . Lou Holtz (at the Miami Beach
comber): "I had a very smooth
trip down. Only two wrecks!" . . .
Leon Henderson, former OPA ad
ministrator (to a much criticized
gov't exec): "It took me 2Vi years
to be called the No. One So-and-So.
It took you only 2Vi weeks!" ... In
the Washington Press club: "He
goes around acting so obnoxious be
cause he wants everybody to think
he's syndicated." ... At Reuben's:
"She's very dull. Never knocks any
one!"
Quotations of the Town: P. Scott
Fitzgerald: The silver pepper of the
stars. . . . Roger White: Any one
discriminating against race or re- '
ligion is a disc rim inal. . . . Tom
Reddy: She was wearing a hatroci
ty. . . . Ralph Edwards: As fleet
ing as babyhood to a parent. . . . H.
Carten: A moth leads an awful life. '
He spends the summer in a fur coat
and the winter in a bathing suit. ...
Clare Luce: It's such a scarey feel- '
ing to see wrinkles creeping in?
time's little mice. . . . L. Brown:
You can't draw from sweet memo
ries unless you make regular de
posits. . . . B. D. Gibson: The
beach displayed a wide variety of
feminudity. . . . Anon: A career is !
all right for a woman, but she can't !
run her fingers through its hair.
Quotation Marksmanship: Am
brose Bierce: A scrapbook is edited
by a fool. . . . Jack Elinson: Looks
like America is now the Land of the
Free For All . . . Allen Raymond: I
Editors are 3rd basemen whose
legs have gone. . . . H. Da vies:
Funny, but the ashes of a broken
heart can stir up more heat than the
flare of a new flame. . . . James
Cannon: He talks about himself like
a guy who just left the room. . . . i
Disraeli: Every man has a right
to be conceited until he is success
ful. . . . Rev. R. W. Sockman: The
test of courage comes when we are
in the minority; the test of toler
ance comes when we are in the
majority. . . . John Buchan: Little
towns dumb with snow under the
winter moon. ... J. Conrad: Kisses
are what's left of the language of
Paradise. . . . Damon Runyon: She
has an ice-cream cone where her
heart is supposed to be. . . . Anon:
Naztism is like small-pox. It leaves
permanent scars on its victims. ...
When you see a married couple com
ing down tbe street the one ahead is
the eat that's mad.
L/ou ShouCd Know -
jCcuisiana
By EDWARD EMERINE
WNTS F? At? r?>.
"A good place to visit?a bet
ter place to live."
That is Louisiana's boast. It
is Louisiana's promise, backed
by every square foot of land
from the pine forests of the
northern uplands to the marshes
of the Mississippi delta.
Louisiana is a land of incredible
natural richness, in its swamps and
bayous, its cane and cotton fields,
its lakes and streams, its farms and
cities?and its people. Here the beau
ty and romance of an empire was
formed by the alchemy of time.
It was a miracle of chemical com
binations that brought about the
transmutation of these base metals
into gold. Geologically, the chemist
Nature, with pestle and mortar,
mixed marine and alluvial sedi
ments, added the acids of eons, and
brought forth a wondrous combina
tion to make the Louisiana of today.
The extremely fertile top soils, pro
uutuig agnuuiiurai proaucxs ana
valuable forests, are the state's
basic resources. But beneath the
surface are rich deposits of salt,
sulphur, petroleum and natural gas.
Over all hangs a favorable climate,
with sun and rain proportioned and
balanced to bless the land.
Racially too, Louisiana has had
its minglings and infusions. The
Creole is a descendant of the
French or Spanish settlers. The Is
lenos, in spite of intermixture with
other nationalities, retains much of
the Spanish, The descendant of the
German, almost completely ab
sorbed by his Latin neighbors, still
lives above New Orleans on the ,
"German coast." The great-grand- ,
child of English Royalists resides in
East and West Feliciana parishes. ,
The Russian, as well as the Central
and South American, now makes j
Louisiana his home. The Filipino J
has Manila village, and there is a |
Chinese settlement at Bayou Defon. ,
It is doubtful that a full-blooded ,
Negro can be found In the state.
Two centuries of linguistic inter
course have modified the French ,
dialects of the Creole and Acadian,
with words and inflections borrowed
from the English, German, Negro .
and Indian neighbor. There are (
Negroes who cannot speak English, ,
yet early Anglo-Saxon idioms and t
expressions may be heard in their (
archaic purity in some sections of
the state. Regardless of the dialect, |
words are soft-spoken in Louisiana j
and pleasant to the ear. (
Voder Many Flags. ,
Louisiana has known many gov- i
emments and many flags. Discov- I
ered in 1528 by the Spanish ex- i
plorer Narvaex, in 1682 LaSalle
claimed the territory in the name i
of France. He later attempted |
colonization with 280 men, who per- i
ished with him. The colonial period I
comprises the French domination !
down to 1769, Spanish domination 1
A R K A N S AS
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(LOUISIANA^
2 $!to \4
GUI<* OF ""MEXICO;
In striking distance of New Orleans.
Andrew Jackson, with the Tennes
seans, Kentuckians, Creoles and pi
rates, won a great victory at Chal
mette when they turned back the
tide of Red Coats. Parkenham, the
English general, fell fatally wound
ed on the battlefield.
Out of a colorful past emerges the
Louisiana of today, tranquil, hos
pitable and progressive. The chem
ist is still busy there. The labora
tory of the scientist and the fac
tory of the industrialist are collab
orating in a new field of develop
ment. Louisiana has within its bor
ders the raw materials and facili
ties necessary for the successful
operation of chemical industries.
Its farms supply cotton, sugar cane,
rice, corn and sweet potatoes. Its
Forests provide many kinds of tim
ber. Its deposits of oil, gas, salt,
sulphur, coastal shells, sand, grav
el and other minerals are abundant.
- Wealth From Waste.
Wall board Is made of once use
less sugar cane pulp, rubber from
petroleum and carbon black from
istural gas. Chemical and scien
tific research has opened new fields
For plastic and synthetic manufac
ture, using Louisiana's great re
lources. Seven paper mills manu
facture newsprint from pulpwood,
salt cake and other chemicals. Cook
ing oil, stock feed, rayon, film, cel
lophane, celluloid, felts, surgical
iressings and glycerine are pro
duced from cottonseed. Sugar is
made from sorghum and countless |
Dy-products of rice are being util
ized.
Starch, glue and industrial al
:ohol are manufactured from sweet
potatoes. Oil from the tung tree is
ised in making paints, varnishes,
linoleum and waterproof materials.
5oy beans are converted into plas
tics. Collection of peat moss is
JAMES HOUSTON DAVIS
Governor of Loatitow
"JimmJe" Davis was ban aw a
bill (arm in the Beech Serines com
munity of Jaekson Parish. He is a
(radnate of Louisiana State mtvor
lity. Former school teacher, eoort
clerk, Shreveport police camaois
?ioner and pa bile service eomntio
tioner, he was elected jsrsinoe h
1944. His bobbies are musis, sine
in J, hunting
Louisiana s Famed
Creole Cooking Is
Gourmets* Delight
Mark Twain (poke of the poro
pano cooked in Louisiana as being
"delicious as the less criminal
Forms of sin." William Makepeace
Thackery found New Orleans "the
city of the world where you can eat
and drink the most and suffer the
least." Irvin S. Cobb found New
Orleans bouillabaisse, a fish chow
der, unexcelled.
The people of Louisiana set tables
>f luscious Creole dishes that hare
evolved over a period of more than
two centuries and present a trium
phant synthesis of the French love
[or delicacies and the Spanish taste
[or pungent seasoning. While Creole
cooking today is found at its best
in the vicinity of New Orleans and
In the Teche country, its excellencies
may be enjoyed throughout Louisi
ana wherever the French influence
has penetrated.
In the preparation of sea food
Creole cuisine is at its best Oysters,
with crabs and shrimp, are cooked
in gumbo and it is said that a
Creole puts everything into gumbo
except the Creole! In addition to
sea food, game and domestic fowl,
there are varieties of roasts and
other elaborate dishes.
Rice is used by Louisianans as
Irish potatoes are tiaed elsewhere.
Hominy grits is to breakfast what
rice is to dinner. The perfect com
plement to a Creole meal is Creole
dripped coffee?although a taste for
it has to be acquired since it is
blacker and stronger than that used
in other states.
As one goes farther north in Lou
isiana the cooking more and more
resembles that of the South in gen
eral, but there are few places
where Creole methods have not had
some influence. In the vicinity of
Natchitoches, the Spanish influence
is particularly noticeable. The Mon
roe area is famous for its barbe
cues. Usually 15 or more ingredi
ents are used in preperfog sauces
for barbecued meats. A popular
"country dish;1 of this section to
from 1789 to 1803, when there wee
a brief period of French rule again.
The "Louisiana Purchase" in 1803
brought the region under the Stars
and Stripea. Louiaiana joined the
Confederacy in 1861 with other
southern states, and figured prom
inently in the Civil war.
Statehood was granted Louiaiana
as the War of 1813 began. Not the
least picturesque of those who
fought at the Battle of New Orleans
was Jean Lafltte, the pirate, and
his crew. Lafltte, upon whose head
a price had bean est by Louisiana
authorities, spurned British gold
and offered to guide wishing with-.
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CANAL 8TKEET . . . With modern New Orleans on the left and ancient
Now Orleans on the rljht.
simple and cheap. Lime, both hy
drate and caustic, is made from
oyster and clam shells. Rice hulls
make an excellent insulant. There
are fabulous resources In the
state's Gulf coastal waters, yielding
annual harvests of sea food.
Even with accelerated industriali
zation, the charm of Louisiana and
its people remains unchanged. Mag
nolia trees in the moonlight, soft
voices to speak of romance, gayety
and color in recreations and cele
brations, unparalleled beauty and
serenity ? that is Louisiana. And
that it win remain: a good place
te visit?a better place to live. .
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