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VOL. LXXII % GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1946 No. 3*
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Meat Slump Vexes Housewives,
Puts Policy-Makers on Spot;
U.S. Opposes High Reparations
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed la these celestas, they are these el
Western Newspaper Union's news analyst* and net aecesshrUy ?! this newspaper.)
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His fame but little tarnished by charges that he had bungled the
British drive in northern France, Field Marshal Montgomery re
ceived a hero's welcome npon his visit to the D. S. Be is shown here
with Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor inspecting the guard at West Point.
MEAT:
New Crisis
As housewives scoured their
neighborhoods for scarce meat and
exercised their culinary arts for put
ting up more meatless meals, men
folk were left to tussle with the dif
ficult task of overcoming the dis
tressing shortage.
[ It was hard to tell which job
' was harder, the women's or the
men's, for the heavy shipments
of livestock to market during
the recent suspension of OPA
1 and reluctance of feeders to fat
ten np the small supply of range
cattle under OPA ceilings com
plicated the policy-makers'
problems.
As the crisis sharpened, depart
ment of agriculture had the only
word of encouragement, stating that
late fall runs of grass-feds would
partially relieve the stringent short
age. But their predictions were
tempered somewhat by livestock
experts' statements that the high
prices for range cattle would make
feeders' purchases less profitable
and further cut the supply of fin
ished animals in late winter and
spring.
With packers laying off thou
' sands of workers in the face of
diminished receipts of livestock,
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cut
lers and Butcher Workmen
called for restoration of free
markets to stimulate shipments.
President Truman was asked
to recognize the "futility of OPA
and chuck it out the window."
Leather and pharmaceutical in
dustries also felt repercussions of
the livestock situation, with short
ages of hides and animal organs
affecting their production.
With supplies of hides approx
imating only 35 per cent of
needs, tanneries have been
forced to lay off numerous
workers, it was reported. And
with supplies for October and
November estimated at even
less, more employees will have
to be laid off.
- Previously affected by black mar
ket waste of animal organs because
of lack of processing facilities, phar
maceutical producers were faced
with further diminution of supplies
for insulin, liver extract, pituitary
extract, adrenal cortex, hormones,
ovarian solutions and other med
icinals by the drop in slaughter
ing.
REPARATIONS:
V. S. Stand
The U. S. does not contemplate
priming the reparations pump for
European nations.
Willard Thorp, state department
representative in charge of econom
ic affairs, clearly enunciated this
country's policy after Italy's war
time enemies had put in claims for
7 billion dollars in reparations
against it. He declared that the U.
S was averse to seeing money ad
vanced Italy for reconstruction si
phoned out in reparations, leaving
it in further need of aid.
Thorp indirectly slapped at the
various claimants' moving cries for
reparations to compensate for war
damages and expenditures for fight
ing the allied battle by pointing out
that the U. S. had spent 33S billion
dollars in battling the axis and con
suming valuable resources but did
not intend to assess Italy for part
of the cost. Since the armistice,
this country has advanced Italy
1 billion dollars and paid out more
than 100 million dollars for cost of
troop occupation.
Against the claims at 7 billion.
Italy asked that the sum be pared
to approximately 250 million dol
lars. With 11 billion dollars. Great
Britain id the largest claimant.
CANADA:
Farmers Strike
Following the technique of "di
rect action," 20,000 members of the
Alberta Farmers' union in the
western Canadian province with
held all produce except milk from
market in their drive for a read
justment of parity prices.
Pickets appeared at many points
but concentrated their strength at
grain elevators. Some operators
were warned that they would lose
striking farmers business if they ac
cepted deliveries from non
strikers.
With the strike in full swing and
union members of neighboring Sas
katchewan joining the movement,
government officials promised
thorough consideration of the parity
question. Farmers demanded an in
crease in the parity level to com
pensate for the higher cost of com
modities they must purchase.
GREECE:
Reconstruction Plan
Long-range plans for the recon
struction of Greece, serving as a
postwar pattern for recasting the
economy of other backward nations,
were formulated by a special United
Nations commission headed by F.
S. Harris, president of Utah Agri
cultural college.
Presented at the conference of
U. N.'s food and agriculture or
ganization in Copenhagen, Den
mark, the plan envisaged:
Irrigation of one-fifth the total
area and erection of hydro-electric
projects with capacity equal to
Boulder dam's.
Revitalization of the soil
through fertilization and expansion
of the fruit industry.
.?Increase non-profit merchan
dising of co-operatives and take
the co-ops from politics.
Aid small industries like spin
ning, weaving, clothing, shoes and
harnesses and olive oil refining.
Reconstruction would be started
with a 100 million dollar loan. Cred
its would be advanced upon agree
ment to carry out reforms in gov
ernment, shifting of the tax burden
from the peasants and develop
ment of educational facilities.
BLACK MARKET:
OP A Gets Tough
A woman photographer's picture
of a burly Los Angeles OPA agent
gripping an automobile salesman by
the throat and wielding a black
jack graphically revealed the agen
cy's toughened enforcement policies
in the drive to stamp out the black
market menace.
While the salesman pictured later
was freed, six other salesmen were
arrested on charges of selling cars
over ceiling prices and arraigned
with 65 more before a U. S. com
missioner for OPA violations. Act
ing on complaints of purchasers, the
OPA drive was pointed toward
stamping out an alleged multi-mil
lion dollar black market in new and
used automobiles.
As OPA critics decried the em
ployment of armed agents in track
ing down OPA violations, agency of
ficials in Washington snapped: "En
forcement of price ceilings is not
a cream puff affair and sometimes
we have to use a blackjack in self
defense or to apprehend a reluctant
suspect. We're not dealing with
nice people but with . , . law break
CTte
LABOR:
Teamsters Revolt
With union officials branding tha
strike of 25,000 members of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters in New York City "the worst
rank and file revolt in history,"
IBT Pres. Dan Tobin stepped into
the picture at the request of Mayor
O'Dwyer to help settle the walk
out. I
Tobin acted after O'Dwyer had
cited the union's refusal to permit t
the transport of essential food and c
medicines and warned him that the 1
IBT would have to accept responsi- t
bility for "bloodshed and injury." |
Tobin ordered 10,000 sympathy :
strikers of 23 locals in New York i
and New Jersey to return to work i
and suggested that employer ap- 1
proval of an 1814 cent an hour raise I
for 15,000 strikers would serve as t
a basis for negotiation. I
Besides curtailing the supply of <
food, the walkout threatened to seri- 1
ously affect many industries. Na- I
tional Sugar Refining company was
forced to suspend operations,
more than 25 soft drink bottlers
closed, and bakers ran low on sugar (
stocks. In all, some 1,270,000 work- |
ers were faced with lay-offs as a
result of the trucking and maritime
strikes.
POLITICS:
Taft Leads
Mother of Republican presidents,
Ohio witnessed another native GOP
aspirant to the White House hoist his
standard at the party's state conven
tion in Columbus. Taking the con
servative lead, Bob Taft served
warning that a Republican congres
sional victory this fall would mean
formulation of a program along tra
ditional GOP lines, including:
? Removal of price and wage con
trols by April 1, 1947, except for
rents.
? Expiration of the second war
powers act.
? Termination of conscription un
less war threatens.
After enunciating the program,
Taft then ominously added that the
GOP intended to put it into effect
in 1949 if President Truman disap
proved before then.
Meanwhile, politicos attempted to
read a meaning into the sweeping
GOP victory in Maine, with Demo
crats finding some comfort in the
fact that Republican congressional
majorities were below the 1944 lev
el.
U. S. Aids Rid Bloc
Evidence of D. 8. efforts to
promote food will with Russia
and the soviet bloe in eastern
Europe despite reeurrlnf dif
ficulties is emphasized by its
substantial postwar relief and
reconstruction contributions to
these countries. Since the end
of hostilities, Russia alone has
received $290,(00,000 in lend
lease credits and $175,000,000 in
VNRRA funds for a total of
$406,000,000. Poland has ob
tained $367,000,000 in D. S.
foods; Yufoslavia, $267,000,000;
and Romania, Hunfary and Al
bania $20,000,000.
GREAT BRITAIN:
Squatter Trouble
Staid John Bull, renowned for his
reverence for law and order, fidget
ed uneasily over the communist-led
squatter drive in Britain which saw
hundreds of homeless families take
over swanky vacant apartments and
mansions without permission.
Although put into power by the lib
eral and working man vote, the La
bor party showed no stomach for the
radical movement and Prime Min
ister Attlee's own spacious estate
was guarded by troops against the
squatters. Charging that both civil
and criminal law was being violat
ed by the unauthorized invasion of
buildings, the government warned
that "anarchy may result unless
lawless measures of this sort are
stamped out."
First starting out as an independ
ent influx of individuals into vacant
army huts, abandoned public build
ings, etc., the movement developed
into formidable proportions under
skilled communist direction. As the
government moved to oust the
squatters, rabid reds exhorted them
to hold fast and called upon all
organized workers to fight the evic
tions. ?
Vote< of a Newspaper Man:
The Justice Dep't members (who
ire planning to ashcan the sedition
?ase) are as spineless as spaghetti,
rhe defendants aped nazi tactics
ind still are echoing nazi propa
janda. ... It provides a galling
contrast: Thousands of American
loldiers lost their lives fighting
taziism. Others lost their eyes,
sands and limbs. But some defeat
sts in our justice dep't refuse to
ake Hitler's stooges into court for
ear of losing a case! . . . And re
nember that any American soldier
vho refused to fight when it seemed
ike the nazis would' be victorious
?could have been shot.
Vignette: Laura LaPlante, the
movie star, who is still a looker,
tells it herself. . . . She drove up
to a gas station recently where the
attendant did a double-take and
said: "Say, did anybody ever telf
you that you look like Laura La
Plante?" ... A bit cagily, Laura
replied: "Why, yes. As a matter of
(act several people have." ... To
which he hastily added: "Oh, don't
get me wrong, lady. I don't mean
the way she looks NOW!"
An American newspaper man
and a Russian scribe got chum
my' at the peace conference. "I
can't understand your Stalin,"
uU the Tank. "It took a world
war to get as American report-"*'
ers into Russia." ' _ .
"What are too complaining
about?" chuckled the Russian.
"It took a world war to get us
Russian newspaper men out!"
Another newsman, recently back
from the Balkans, explained the
Tito regime's arrogance with this
yarn. ... He asked a Yugoslav
leader vAy his tiny nation insisted
on alienating a powerful friend such
as the U. S. . . . The Yugoaf
sneered: "Tiny nation? We and the
Russians number more than 200
million!"
New York Novelette: Not too long
ago a pretty newcomer chorine
phoned a newspaper man she
knows. . . . She said she had a
weighty problem for him to help
solve. She said her chief ambition
was to wed a millionaire, but she
didn't know any. . . . Could he in
troduce her to some? . . . Nothing
came of it. ... A few weeks ago ?
that girl married a multi-million- *
aire, who settled nine million dol
lars on his ex-wife for the divorce.
The newlys are still honeymoon
ing. . . . She is Marianne O'Brien. ,
. . . He is the Camel ciggie heir,
R. J. Reynolds. s
Broadway Torch Song: (By Don
Wahn): The mob is back ? the
nights take on a tang. . . . New
shows, new gals, new blood is in
the veins. . . . Yet I remember all 1
the songs we sang. . . . When wine I
was king and glamour held the
reins. . . . That was an autumn tine- t
tured with delight. . . . When life
was ltifth and all the rhina were
down. . . . And we would watt like 3
culprits (or the night. ... To steal j t
the gold that drifted on the town. !
. . . But we were ripe (or all the i
pranks ot Fate . . . And so we r
came to terms with discontent. ... (
And suddenly we (ound the hour c
was late. . . . The wine was low?
the gold was strangely spent. ... I
turned to you as solace (or a FooL j
. . . But you and autumn both turned ,
very cool! ,
i
Many of the mtsiinderstand
tngs between natioas can be
traced to a lack ot knowledge.
Some newspaper men hi an en
lightened city such as Paris
know very little a boot the
United States. . . . Several
months age a gasette In Paris
reterred to "a village of 2M
souls In the halt savage state
ef Texas."
Sounds in the Ntgbt: At Leon h
Eddie's: "Tommy Manville must
be getting old. He took a vacation
this summer instead of a honey
moon" ... In the Cub room: "Oh,
stop giving yourself 4 stars!" . . .
At the Singapore: "He's a typical
Broadway success Doesn't know
anybody any more." ... In Village
Vanguard: "Her tongue's an ex
press train, and rumors are Its only
passengers." ... At the 400: "Ev
cry time one of those guys at the
United Nations conference shakes
a threatening (1st he's taking your
life in his bands." ... At the
Copa: "He took me to breakfast
last night." ... At the Stork: "Be
careful! She looks like the plaintiff
:alt> M>ves Mwtalis
Boychoir School Rated Unique
Youth and Educational Project '
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r aim smi muves uiuuniains, provided u nas as lis mouvai
ng force a person who refuses to recognize obstacles which to
nost people would seem insurmountable.
Down in Columbus, Ohio, the unbounded faith of one man
las proved the major factor in formation and development of
he Columbus Boychoir School, which in the short span of six
rears has been accorded national and international acclaim in
he realm of youth projects and educational enterprises.
The idea of a boy school choir*
vas conceived oy naroen nun man,
nusical director of the achool, who
or several years had been minister
>f music in a Columbus church.
Founded on Faith.
When the school opened its doors
n September, 1940, its chief assets
vere Huffman's faith and the enthu
tiasm of Harry C. Marshall, head
master.
Althoafh books, blackboards
and teachers' salaries were
amonf the mlssinf Hems, the
lack of these nsnal essentials in
the school was a minor factor.
The men and boys worked to
gether for the development of
their ideal until their own en
thusiasm began to pay divi
dends.
In launching the unique education
al project, the founders termed it a
'venture into choral training using
music as the means, not the end?
s motivation, not a goal." The di
rectors decided that choral train
ing held untold possibilities for the
educational and moral development
of each boy.
Actually, the choir had existed
two years prior to founding of the
school. The boys had rehearsed
after their own schools let out, but
time did not permit sufficient
personal contact between teacher
and boys.
Form tJniqae School.
The solution was the Columbus
Boychoir School of four grades,
using the standard scholastic cur
riculum with emphasis placed on
choral training. Admission to the
school?then and now?had two
requisites, musical aptitude and the
possibility of a good voice. Forty
eight boys attended the opening ses
sion, the enrollment increasing con
sistently to reach the present total
of 97.
A non-profit, interdenominational
institution, the school relies on re
turns from its own concerts and
public subscriptions for support
Although the teachers in the ear
ly days of the struggling school
were given no assurance of a salary,
they came anyway as a result oi
their faith in the genius of Huffman
and the conviction that their ideal
eventually would be realized.
Maka Town Hall Debut.
In the third year of its existence,
the unique, tuition-free organization
got its long-awaited opportunity
Siegfried Hearst, representative oi
the National Concerts and Artisti
corporation, attended a rehearsal oi
the Boychoir in Columbus. Capti
vated by the group, he advised i
Town Hall debut in New York. Ig
noting the financial drain, the choii
went to New York to score its firsi
j outstanding success. Reviewer!
were lavish in their praise.
Only disappointment following th<
Town Hall debut was that th<
anticipated request from N.C.A.C
to manage the Boychoir failed t<
materialize. Now, however, tlx
N.C.A.C. has full management a
the choir's affairs.
Second major opportunity for the
choir came three years ago wham
the choir appeared in concert at the
Radio institute's annual convention
at Ohio State university. Leading
radio executives arranged to pre
sent the Boychoir in a six-month
series ot broadcasts. *
Radio appearances and con
certs brought the work at the .
choir to the attention at mmatm ?
lovers throoghoat the nation, >.
with subscriptions guaraateetag >
future at the school begtaateg *
to pour la. Two-thirds at the f
back salaries now have been 1
paid. Huffman, who had re- f
eeived nothing for Us labors for I
the first Ave years, has started (
to draw his well-earned wages. [
The school, which started wMh
faith and a M.SM budget, has 1
set its goal at $25,Md next year
Lack of housing and boarding fa
cilities for out-of-town applicants
, has prevented many deserving boys
from taking advantage of tha
unique opportunities offered by tha
school. To remedy this situation,
more than $100,000 of a $150,00*
quota has been raised in an intea-^
sive building campaign. ,1
Plan Major Tours.
For the past six years, the Bop
f choir confined its choral activitioa
i to Columbus and its environs. E?
t panding its activities, the choir con
. ducted its first organized tour
, through the East last spring.
In response to requests from par
' ents in all parts of the country, tha
t Columbus Boychoir summer camp
I at Chautauqua, N. Y? was estab
lished to make the unique training
> of the school available to boys from
) other communities.
Supported at first by nothing bat
> an abounding faith, Columbus Boy
s choir School today rank* as ana at
f the nation's major achievements ha
the artistic and educational woridj
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