Editorial
THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL
H. A. Stalls, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor
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WEEKLY BIBLE THOUGHT
“That we henceforth be no more children,
tossed to and fro, and carried about with
every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in
wait to deceive.”—Ephesians.
SELDOM HEARD OP. BUT HIS NAME MEANT
SOMETHING
A man seldom heard of, though his name is upon every
piece of paper currency that we handle, W. A. Julian,
United States Treasurer, met death in an auto accident
some time ago near Bethesda, Md., a suburb of Washing
ton. He had been in office since early in the Roosevelt
administration. Many of our readers do not know that
the Treasurer of the United States, is not the Secretary
of the Treasurer, which is a Cabinet position. The de
ceAsed treasurer was 78 years of age, as showh by a
driver's license, though it is said he kept his age well
covered up. He was drafted by Roosevelt to take the posi
tion he held to overhaul the Nation’s fiscal system in mid
depression. His home was at Rockville, Md., about three
miles from the scene of the accident, and he was driving
alone. He had refused many positions high in the gift of
of the Administration and only accepted the one he held
as a favor to our ex-President. He was a shoe manufac
turer, at one time president of the Queen City Trust Com
pany. of Cincinnati, and a director of other banks. All
of which goes to show that there are some loyal and patri
otic office holders, who do.not hold their jobs for publicity,
or the salary involved, but to be of service to their coun
try, as he only received around $10,000 a year.
TENNESSEE MAKES POLITICS FULL TIME BUSINESS
The AFL trade unionist in Tennessee who contributed
so much to the sensational shattering .of the Crump and
Reese machines last election have wisely decided not to let
the advantage slip out of their hands. To hold and con
solidate their political gains, the State Federation recently
directed State Federation Secretary, Charles Houk. to con
tinue to give full time to his work as Co-ordinator of State
Political Activities.
Last year the Tennessee union people found that elections
can’t be stolen if every member votes and every polling
place has an LLPE poll watcher on election day. They
are determined that never again will the the “court house
gang” stuff the ballot boxes with the votes of long-dead
relatives.
JUST BETWEEN US GIRLS—BY TAFT
Senator Robert Taft went home May 16th to gloat about
his record to a meeting of 1,000 members of Ohio’s Re
publican Women’s Organizations in Columbus, Ohio. What
is his record? Taft said that he had blocked every phase
of the Fair Deal Program except spending: “and we will
check that before we get through with this Congress.’’
He took a crack at Ohio's farmers by sneering at the
Brannan Plan to keep farm income high. He endeared
himself to the ladies assembled by boasting that the Taft
Hartley Act was still on the books.
The farmers and workers of Ohio will remember this
“record” in 1950.
FORRESTAL DEATH A TRAGEDY
The death of James V. Forrestal is a tragedy of an age
in w’hieh event have moved faster than public understand
ing of the problems which beset today's public servants in
high office.
The press and the public have been slow to give credit
kJor accomplishments and quick" to blame public officials for
circumstances they could not control. This has driven able
men from public life, kept some from entering, has broken
the spirits of others whose aims were high
James V. Forrestal was a great and selfless public serv
ant. He placed the welfare of his nation above his own
personal fortunes. He accomplished much in the fact of
almost insurmountable difficulties.
The President spoke for all of hs who knew Jim For
restal when he said: ;
“This able and devoted public servant was as truly a
casualty of the war as if he had died on the firing line.”
—Capitol Comment.
THE MARCH OF LABOH
Onlyabout half the
QUALIFIED VOTERS OF
THE O S. EVER \/oTE.
IN 1920, THE YEAR
U/OaaEM RECEIVED
THE FRANCHISE,OH|Y
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WarIInspircdTEqpmniciits \
Promise New Malaria* Cure
the nation with return of infected servicemen have proven groundless. In*
stead, war inspired research with a 14 day intensive treatment with quinine
and pentaquinc brines hope for cute of recurrent malaria. Among techniques
which reduced the danger was the training of U. S. Navy Scabecs, like those
pictured at Camp Perry, Va* in anti-mosquito warfare.
» Malaria, greatest mam murder*
er of all history, ia one step nearer
eventual defeat as the result of
war inspired research, a recent re*
port by Dr. Lowell Coggeahall,
dean of medicine at the University
of Chicago, and an associate, Dr.
Fred Rice, indicate.
The report in a recent issue of
the American Medical Association
Journal deals with treatment for
recurrent malaria given 185 ex
servicemen of whom 163 responded
to the point where infection of
man was eradicated. This was the
answer of science to war born
fears that service contracted ma
laria in foreign lauds would spread
the disease on a scale unknown
since pioneer days.
After the II day treatment in
volving simultaneous administra
tion of ccntaquine and quinine,
only 10 or the 185 subjects suffered
relapses. Previous to treatments,
all had suffered one to 50 relapses
at four to six week intervals.
The U. S. Public Health Service
in a study of all treatments for
mnlaria published in their “Public
Health Reports” for June 10 lists
only a combination of quinine and
an “8-ami noquinoline" such as
pentaquine as a cure for vivax
(common relapsing) malaria. All
other treatments, including quin
ine without the added ingredient,
are listed only as treatment of
acute attacks or for keeping ma
laria latent.
Announcement of the new treat
ment serves to recall that although
since the isolation of quinine from
cinchona bark in 1820, malaria has
been in constant retreat, the dis
ease still claims 1,000,000 to 5,000,
000 victims annually in the United
States, of whom 1200 die. Mone
tary cost of the illness, including
lost time and such factors have
been estimated by the Rockefeller
Foundation at a half billion dol
lars annually. C
As quinine came into use, the
day had passed when such figures
as Alexander the Great, Lord By
ron, Oliver Cromwell, and King
James I of England, all victims of
malaria, would die of the disease.
The new malaria remedy also made
possible the settlement of our
frontiers along the Mississippi
Valley where immigration was
virtually stopped because as many
as 80 per cent of the settlers in
some areas, such as Pike County,
111., died in one year. _
Yet, despite scientific advances
on all fronts in the anti-malaria
fight and the wide availability of
quinine after war time shortages,
malaria today and probably for
years to come will remain a major
fiublic health problem, particular
y in the lower tier of Southern
States. -
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WONDERFUL. QUIET JUNE
Enveloped by a mood impassioned with the quietude
of a slumbering woods and becalmed faK the drowsi
ness of the warmth of June, Samuel T. Coleridge was
moved to write—
“A noise like a hidden brook.
In the leafy month of June
That to the sleeping woods at night
Singeth a quiet tune.*
Coleridge’s thoughts of peaceful June are immersed
in a 20th Century sea of cataclysmic speed and care
lessness that would have challenged the imagination
of any 18th Century pen.
Yes, the woods may still sing of a brook in June—
but today we speak of man-made brooks that flow
through woods; concrete brooks—flowing not of water,
hut of millions of unnatural devices called automobiles.
For this Is the time that travel soothes the searching
heart.
The softness of a nation’s green pastures will be
pierced; trees, rich with life, will quiver with fear
and the highway will hum to the tune of roaring ve
hicles on vacation-bound jaunts.
This is the beginning of the glorious vacation period
when families will pack limb and belongings to seek
a few fleeting moments away from Life's more tedious
tasks.
It will be a wonderful June and a quiet June. It
will be a wonderful June for those who drive with
care, and an unusually quiet for those *2420 unfor
tunate beings wl\p will die in unnecessary accidents.
MATTHEW WOLL, President,
Union Labor Life Insurance Co.
*The death toll for June, 1948.
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