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Every afternoon, Monday through Friday
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j* What affect do railroad rate increases have on the
most things that people buy? The answer is,
•“Practically none.”
j Some facts recently made public by William T. Faricy,
{president of the Association of American Railroads, tell the
tetory. The total effect of the rate increases authorized]
Sthis year, applied to all rates on everything and at every j
jjjstep of the way, amounts to no more than one-third of one
Jper c£ut of the wholesale values of commodities at destina
tion,%£ftid a smaller percentage of retail prices. Further
more, he said, the increases in the average revenue re-
JceiveoTby the railroads for hauling such basic items as
livestock and wheat, or wheat and flour, or leather and j
fshoes- in no case amount to more than a small fraction of j
nnp cent, a pound or whatever the ordinary unit of sale;
Sikjrßfe. 'This is true even on combined freight movements
Averaging hundreds of miles.
# As Mr. Faricy pointed out, “Freight rates were among
J[he last prices to start rising, have risen far less than prices
|h general, and are today an even smaller part of prices
oian they were when war began in 1939. Truly, if there!
were nothing in the present economic situation more infla- 1
fionary than the increases in railroad freight rates, wej
Cnlght-ari of us look to the future without misgivings.
Jtt-ls. folly to oppose reasonable increases in railroad
reignT charges which are plainly made necessary by the i
hflation in wages, prices and taxes. The rails are the!
(ackbone of our strength, civilian and military. No indus-1
ry c n .give its best when it is starved for revenues. The!
ailroads ask only for rates which will pay 'the bills, and j
eave a modest profit for the people whose savings make]
rur magnificent railroad plant possible.
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Powell Money Over
pelf Spent In Dunn
■ half of the money due
R Putin from the Powell Bill has
Ren expended for much needed
■uipment, it is shown by the rec
■rdATJffhe City Clerk’s office.
V'Ntffdhase- of this equipment will
do much more toward improving
the city streets and the direct ex
penditure of this money on street
work alone. City Manager O. O.
Manning points out, since one of
the provisions of the bill is for the
purchase rental, operation and
maintenance of such equipment
Higehest priced piece of equip
ment included in the purchases is
» grader and cab which together
. cost *10,112 35. A truck and dump
body cost $2,81080 and a compressor
and the necescsary tools $2,731. All
the purchases totalled $15,654.33.
The amount allotted to the town
of Dunn under the terms of the
bill is $23,496. The money, is how- ]
ever, earmarked exclusively for
atreet maintenance and improve
ment and any number of a govern
ing body or municipal employe can
be held personally liable for any
unauthorized eqpenditures.
Some of the things for which
the funds cannot be used are, street
lighting, sidewalks, payment of
principal pr interest on bonds
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Mrs. Elsie S. Smith of 500 East
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He is presently serving on board
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Receiving and sending radio com
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also the teletype repairman. He is
responsible to see that the radio
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He entered the Naval service in
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THE CASE OF
JOSEPHINE BAKER
I have never seen Josephine
Baker on or off the stage. She is
apparently an actress born in the
United States but is now a French
citizen, which is her privilege. I
also see by the newspapers that
she is a Negress, which seems to
me to be neither here nor there.
A mild furor is being stirred
over the lady’s visit to the Stork
i Club, a restaurant and saloon which
j I have bc°n to four or five times.
The owner of this place is Sher
man Billingsley, wlio is pleatans to
know.
It seems that Miss Baker got into
the Stork Club inner . sanctum,
which is called the Cub Room. Part
j of the Billingsley set-up is to make
it difficult for his customers to
j get into the Cub Room. The snob
i appeal of the place is supposed to
operate so that if you cannot get
in. you will want to and will be a
better customer for the privilege.
Miss Baker got ih the first time
she tried, which must make her the
envy of many who have never been
I able to get in at all. If any dis
i cnmina’icn was shown, it was in
■ favor of Miss Baker.
I am told that she ordered a
| filet mignon and got a sirloin
steak. So they threw a picket line
I about the place. In a restaurant
like that, you always have to w»ait
j long, that being part of the snob
appeal. If a customer is in a hur
ry, he can get served faster at
some hamburger heaven.
So, Mies Baker waited long for
her steak and for her wine and
got sore and made a noise. Nobody
threw her out for making a noise,
although that has happened to
others who made noises, Billings
ley telli-g them never to show
their faces in his joint.
That did not happen to Miss Ba
ker. although it would seem to me
to be Billingsley’s privilege to re
ject customer* who disconcert other
customers and spoil his business.
The fact that Miss Baker got into
• the Cub Room of this restaurtmt
. proves that Billingsley did not keep
- her out because she was' a Negress'-
■ That he did not ask her to leave
after she made a fuss shows that
: he was more polite than usual,
i One world imagine that with all
; I that is going on in the world, peo
j pie would have more on their minds
than whether this French actress
was delayed in getting her steak
I and wine, but immediately a lot of
I self-lntei ested great minds jump
ed into this situation and fixed it
all up with racial prejudice, picket
ed the place, pronounced a boycott,
In which conniving politicians join
; ed. If Eillingsley served me pig’s
! knuckles instead of Hungarian gou
lash, would it be race prejudice?
As I said. I do not go to these
places often, preferring to eat at
home with my wife and children
when I get a chance. Tlie conver
sation at our table is more inter
esting than the by-play in these
1 night spots, particularly as I hate
to see women scared to smile be
cause they fear their rigid make-up
will crack. The problems of my
little daughter at school are more
stirring than overhearing gossip
about who is fixing to marry whom
in order to get some additional ali
mony in due course.
Nevertheless, I once went to a
place with my wife and three Chi
nese friends and we were rejected.
So we went Jo tire Stork Club
where we were made welcoiqe al
though somewhat crowded.
I did not picket the other place.
I simply never went there again.
That is my privilege
The right to stay away is a noble
human one which Eleanor Roose
velt should incorporate in the doc
ument which she Is drawing up for
the United Nations. Also, the right
of a proprietor of a place, where
people go to spend a pleasant eve
ning, to keep cut anyone who dis
turbs the kind of decorum his cus
tomers prefer ought to be Inviol
able.
The whole business looks to me
like something developed to spoil
Walter Winchell’* business. Ap
parently some excited radio com
mentators and columnists. wanted
Winchell to throw Billingsley out
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“Looks like less’n 3,soo—but don’t forget we receive
40% of the television fee ... ”
College football, so wonderful because of the setting ftf Qlragyg
sections and the “I’d die for dear old Rutgers” spirit of
finally has a rival in what might be called the University of ''itSjy
Marciano. -‘“AO9
When Marciano fought Joe Louis, between 7,000 and.B,ooo residtms
of Brockton’s Mass., moved on to New York. Friday is pay day in
Brokcton’s leather factories, but on this occasion, Brockton declared
Friday to be a holiday and leatner craftsmen were paid off on Thursday
night so that they could board buses and trains for Madison Square
Garden.
Notre Dame never had a more loyal following than Marciano.
They don't like him simply because he is a good betting prosposition,
these Brockton fellow townsmen. Though there’s no ivy on the Mar
ciano walls, the spirit he generates is like that inspired by an Alma
Mater.
Marciano once worked in the leather plants of his home town, just
as his dad worked before him.
-‘T had to give it up ,” he said, wryly. It was too much for me.’’
"Is the work that hard?” this reporter asked.
•“No,” he said. ”1 just couldn’t stand the smell of leather." He’s
been throwing it effectively ever since. Apparently Marciano has in
flamed Massachusetts as no other fighter succeeded in doing, since the
halycon days of other redoubtable Bay Stater, John L. Sulivan.
Boston Press Club has a fascinating exhibit of famous page 1
stories. Collected by AP’s Jim Smith, and hung in the clubroom Is a
front page from the first American newspaper published In 1690, Publick
Occurrences, Boston Globe's story on Lizzie Borden trial, Boston Post’s
coverage of sinking of the Maine, Boston American’s story of the
Lindberg flight and the Boston Herald's reporting of the bacco-Yan
zetti jjriat ...: TV Jeebies," penned by WCAU’s Paul Ritts and illus
trated by Dick Strome, now in the bookstalls .... Jamaica hurricane
relief show at Carnegie Hall, Monday nleht .... The Arnold Stangs
named her Deborah jane.
Dear Ed: Betchß didn’t know there's a tree on Riverside Drive
dedicated to President Grant, by the Chinese Government of that era!
it is signed by "La Hung cnang. Guardian oi the Prince, Grand Secre
tary of State, Earl of the First Order, and Yang Yu, Envoy Extraordi
nary, Prime Minister of Plenipotentiary of China., also Vice President
of the Board of Censors.” Best, Dave North .... Fourth annual Com*
munion breakfast of radio and TV Industry Sunday, Nov. 25. at the
Waldorf-Astoria Highlighting the opening of the campaign, Nov.
8, of the N. Y. Ass’n for the Blind will be a documentary film ‘‘l See
The Wind,” with a cast of 18 blind and partially blind children in The
Lighthouse Nursery School.
Dear Ed: Knowing your exceedingly great kindness at all time to
the ASPCA, I feel compelled to give you the correct version of the
Ginger Rogers story which appeared In your column.
In early May, 1949, Miss Rogers reported that a dog could - be
seen from the windows of the Sherry Netherland Hotel on an adjoining
roof. The dog appeared to be without shelter and water. This dog had
been brought to the society’s attention on previous occasions. On eacil
complaint an investigation was made which bore out the information
given to Miss Rogers in a letter dated May 9, 1949. At that time she
was told that the owner had provided a well-built shelter which could
not be seen from neighboring buildings. While the dog had access to
this at all times, he apparently preferred to be at large on the roof
where he had an abundance of room for exercise. He was always found
in good physical condition, and gave every evidence of being highly
regarded by his owner.
I know you will want this information, for you would not wish to
either embarrass the owner or have it appear that the ASPC had
been neglectful. Sincerely, Sydney H. Coleman, ASPCA.
Conrad Hilton trying to reconcile Elizabeth Taylor and his son ..
Ingrid Bergman down with the flu Carmel Myers and Paramount
exec Arthur Schwalberg honeymooning in Florida .... When Sonja
Henie completes her tour, she’ll open in Rotterdam, Holland .... Frank
Sinatra and Ava Gardner to wed in the East, next week Mussolini’s
remains traced to the Cathedral of Pavia, in northern Italy . . K. T.
Stevens expected to inherit at least $1,000,000 from the estate of her
dad, the late Sam Wood. He was one oi Hollywood’s great directors.
for not serving M.'ss Baker faster.
They involved Winchell in race
prejudice because he did not come
to the defense of a French lady,
who also happens to be a Negress,
who was given a sirloin steak in
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stead of a filet mignon. To make
his race prejudice more positive,
Winchell was not around when the
worst happened. How can be pos
sibly explain that? Why is around
when nathfcq; happens?
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BATTLEGROUND. Circum
stances largely beyond control of
North Carolinians may make this
state the battle- ground for a show
down fight for control of the na
tional Democratic party and the
government of the United States
, in 1952 and for several years there
after. That is not a new or unique
position for North Carolina to be
in. From earliest days of national
life, this state has been in key po
sition to determine national policy.
Next to last of the original thir
teen states to ratify the federal
consitution, it was next to last of
the Confederate states to secede
from the union.
INFLUENTIAL North Caro
lina delegates to the national Demo
cratic convention had large part in
no’T'toatlng Woodrow Wilson for
the presidency by invoking the
two-thirds rule at the Baltimore
convention In 1912, and our dele
gates also had major influences In
renominating Franklin Roosevelt by
abolishing the two-thirds require
ment at the 1936 convention. Ada
mant attitude of then Governor
Gregg Cherry in 1948, supported by
former Governor Broughton, sena
tor-nominate, and Joe Blythe, na
tional committeeman and treasurer
of the national Democratic com
mittees, and other state Democra
tic leaders at Philadelphia, is cred
ited with holding North Carolina
primarily, and by indirect influ
ence also holding Virginia and
Tennessee, in the regular Demo
cratic column when Georgia. South
Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi
went overboard for the State Rights
party. So, the role of key position t
Frederick OTHMAN
WASHINGTON—I guess I better
tell you about thr lunch the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue did
n’t enjoy; there was nothing w'rong
with the food, but the poor guy still
could have used a slug of baking
soda afterwards.
Weeks ago Commissioner John
B. Dunlap arranged to speak at
the National Press Club on the
subject: The Average Tax Collec
tor Is an Honest Joe.
When time came for him to
make liis talk, collector Joe Mar
celle of Brooklyn. N. Y., whom he’d
fired the night before, was on the
lam. G-men were looking for him
to serve a Congressional subpoena.
Thatt was bad enough.
But somebody over at the com
missioner’s office had announced
he’d also suspended Theodore
Isaacs and Elias Schulman, tax
agents in New York and Brooklyn.
At 12:37, when Commissioner Dun
lap was plowing into his roast
beef, another mastermind at his
headquarters appealed to the press
to hold up this snnouncement.
At 1 p m., when the commission
er should have been finishing his
apple pie with cheese on top, he
was pondering what to do about
Messrs. Isaacs and Schulman. At
1:11 p. nr. the announcement we.it
out quoting him as saying they d
been bounced for sure. Then he
made his speech *
The b’g, bald Dunlap, a tax
collector all hi* life except while
he was working his way up* <o.
brigadier general during the war,
said there were only a few rascals
in his bureau and he was toesing
them out as quickly as possible.
Os his 52,000 employees, he said,
the big hlaek headlines lately have
concerned on’y 22. Oops! Looked
like he’d lost count. The score now
was 25, Including the one the night
before and the two given the old
heave-ho during his pie and coffee.
Still and all, the commissioner
made a good talk, even though
some of his references sounded
funny to those of the members
who’d been oovering the tax scan
dals for the paper*
‘‘l feel like the boy In the old,
plaintive song, "You’ve get to quit
kicking my dog around,’ ” the com
missioner said. ‘He may have a few
fleas on him, but we’re getting rid
of those.’”
Furthermore said he, if Con
gressmen keep making news about
crooks in the Internal Revenue Bu
reau; the people will lose their re
spect for this agency, and then
where win we be? In the soup, that’s
what. And also bankrupt
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rRiDAYmWOON.KOVWEft2.IOII
is not unusual for North Carolina,
and the state faces the responsi
bility coming up next year with
courage and Intelligence, grounded
in long time experience, and with
full recognition of the high stakes
involved.
FIRST ln addition to the fact
that North Carolina Is recognized
as a leader among the southern
states, our conventions and pri
maries come earlier In the year.
In most states the candidates to
be elected In November are nomi
nated in July, August or Septem
ber. Our nominating primary is in
May. In event a second primary
run-off is required, we know who
will be governor or senator who
have you before July 1, several
weeks ahead of the national con
vention to nominate candidates for
president and vice president. This
early nomination gives North Caro
lina a place of leadership.
TEST More significant under
present conditions is the fact that
our incumbent governor. Kerr
Scott, and national committeeman,
Jonathan Daniels, are admittedly
the most openly avowed protago
nists of the Truman regime to be
found anywhere in the South. That
adds to the status of North Caro
lina as a key state. If they re
tain their prestige through the pri
mary and convention, tha rest of
the nation will be Justified in count
ing North Carolina In the Truman
column. If they are displaced by
more conservative people, there will
be justification for belief that the
South is ready to go back to more
traditional poll, es
“If the people quit paying their
Just taxes on a voluntary basis, we
can’t hire enough men to collect
the money,” he said.
The trouble seems to be that
most of the high-blndery so far
uncovered in hi* bureau has in
volved politicians appointed by tae
President in such far-flung places
as New York* Boston, St. Louis,
and San Francisco. One collector,
newly suspended, seems to have
been a dope addict.
Dunlap wouldn’t agree that tax
collectors should be taken out of
politics; most of the politicos in
’ these jobs have done fine work.
“Well, then,” demanded one of
my irreverent cohorts, “how many
of these suspended collectors were
appointed by President Truman?”
That gave Dunlap his first chance
to smile. “No one,” he roared. “Not
one single one.”
Fair enough. And if the G-men
ever catch up with the fast-travel- i
lng collector from Brooklyn, I’ll
let you know what he has to say
for himself.
(Copyright, 1951, United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
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