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•/' - I ' ' St‘3 VOL. XX; NO. 19 CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1950 Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year CAPITAL REPORTER Raleigh, N. C. — Tony Tolar, the ex-Highway Patrol boa*, is reported to be the man who tipped off newsmen about the J. B. Moore case. Moore, as you know, was in dicted by a Wake county grand jury last week, along with A. W. Livengood of Winston-Salem, on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy plus misfeasance of office. Moore is charged with using state materials and prison labor, while., he was prison di rector, to build a garage apart ment. Tolar was seen in deep con ference with a newsman twice on the day the Moore story broke, and on the day the story came to light was seen riding with this same reporter in front of Moore’s house. Two days before the grand jury was scheduled to hear the case, Tolar reportedly visited Moore’s house and tried to get the ex-prisons director to involve others in his difficulties and see how much he (Moore) could smear the administration. One of Moore’s lawyers has withdrawn from the case—which Won’t come fo trial before the October term of court—because the trial is being turned into a political football. Some observ ers report Moore is slated to be j ■ the sacrificial goat in an attempt j to use his trial to strike at the administraion. Incidenally, Tolar, who has cussed the administration since lie lost his patrol job, was the iirst man to apply for Moore's job. Bright and early the morn ing after the Moore story broke. Tolar was reported at the Gov ernor's mansion asking for the poet. Tony »'ros4> tried to get the Civilian Defense job given Easy Jones of Burlington; he had tried for , an inspector’s job with the Utilities Commission; and, he had tried to get a couple of jobs created just for Tolar. , -■ i If you think your; grocery bill is up, you’re right. ’ But you have company, all over the na tion. A check of the national aver ages show that from June 15 to August 16 round steak went up from 98c to $1 a pound, bacon went from 63c to 71c, eggs jumped from 63c to 65c a dozen, coffee hopped from 74c to 82c, and sugar went from 46c to 60c for five pounds. And Congress is thumbing its nose at rationing until after the November election. Paroles Commissioner T. C. John son is getting tjuite a few re quests from prisoners and " their families asking that prisoners be paroled so they can join the armed j services, Johnson says this isn't feasible ' unless draft and service rules change. Col. Tom Upton, State Selec tive Service chief, says no parolee is eligible to enter the service , until he has been out from under supervision for at least six months. A man convicted of a felony wouid not be eligible for enlist ment, Johnson said, until he had a pardon, restoring his citizen ship. During the last war a good many parolees were accepted up on the condition their sentence was commuted and parole waived. Until now, though, the services have not relaxed the six months rule. M. G. Mann, general manager of the Farmers Cooperative Ex change, reported businss as bet ter than ever before in FCX his tory at the cecntuative’s annual meeting here Tuesday. (Septem ber 12). __ Total FCX- business — whole sale and retail marketing and purchasing — reached a record $28,507,439 for the year ending June 30, Mann said. This was more than a million dollars above the previous high of $27,382,000 reported last year. Mann also reported there now are 125,000 members of FCX. FCX started business 16 years ago with just $28,000 in the kit ty. During those 16 years, Mann said, total volume of purchase and marketing has reached a neat $182,088,243. Net saving* for PCX last year; reached $517,742. All but $16, 000 has been returned to FCX patrons and stockholders. In his report at the annual FCX meeting, Mann charged that critics of the farm support pro gram just didn’t have the facts. Actually, he said. It has cost tax payers only $494,000,000 in its 12 years of operation and the government stands a good chance of selling surplus products and wiping out even that cost. Governor Scott, speaking at the FCX meeting, told thousands of farmers present that private power companies have done a good job in keeping up with the needs of the state. But, he said, they can’t handle flood control and' soil conservation problems. | “That’s up to us,” the Gover nor said. Such projects, the Governor added, would bring an abundance of power to the State; ~ DuPont is building a 24-mil liondollar plant near Kinston. And the company is building its own power plant. But neither side in the power conthpversy will have anything to crow about there — it’s a DuPont policy to RULES L Carry or wear something white at night to help drivers see you. 2. C^roes only at crosswalks. Keep to the right in the crosswalk. 3* Before crossing—look both ways. Be sure the way is clear before you cross. 4. Cross only on proper signal 5. Watch for turning cars. 6. Never go into the roadway from be tween parked cars. 7. Where there is no sidewalk, and it is necessary to walk in roadway, walk on left side, facing traffic. erect its own power plants where it builds. AIS9 alojiar the power front, Carl Sink, former assistant di rector of the State Advertising Bureau, is the new public rela tions director for Tidewater Pow er company. In the ad bureau, Sink was number one aide to Bill Sharpe, who now is doing public relations for Carolina Power and Light Company. Speculation is running rife on the old east-west tradition for selection of governors. Seasoned observers are prone to question the wisdom of anyone bucking it, because if it ever is broken the Piedmont section will be able to run the State. The leas popu lated east and far west would be out of luck. D. Hiden Ramsey, Asheville publisher, reportedly has geissnt meet in the pisr natorial shuffling with the poli ticians reaching that decision. From Washington via Raleigh comes the report that Frank Graham will be named chief of the United States' delegation to the United Nations— after the November elections. Lewis W. Douglas will resign as Ambassador to the Court of St. James "(Great Britain), the story goes, and Warren Austin, now chief of our UN delegation, will replace Douglas. Reported reason for the delay until after November is that President Trumap wants to. keep Douglas, a power in far west ern U. S. politics and with whom the presient is at outs, out of the country until after election time. Miss Virginia Perry of Liberty, one of the top members of Frank Graham’s -- staff in Washington, was seen last week on Capitol Hill visiting the Governor’s of* flee and other points of interest. It is definite now that come January the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Highway Safety not v only will recommend a new inspection law but also will lobby for it. Mindful of the school bus wreck last year that killed seven children, the State Highway Commission has ordered cutting of brush along roads traveled by school buses. Chief Highway Engineer W. H. Rogers sent a memorandum to all divisions August 16 telling them to cut brush at bridges, corners and wherever needed to provide good visibility. A month ago Raleigh was bus* sing about the recommened di vorcing of the Highway Com mission and the Prisons Depart ment. The recommendation was made in the much-discussed Mc Cormick report. Then came talk that the sep aration would not be made. All the conversation has calmed down with the appoint ment of John Gold, former police chief of Winson-Salem, as prisons director. And now the Highway Commission has dumped the prob lem in Gold's’ lap. He was told to study the McCormick report and put into effect immediately those recommendations which are feasible. -It will be op to Gold to make recommendation* to the Legisla ture aato whether -or -not- -the prisons department and Highway Commission ahoald be separated. Despite a lot of opposition and advice from close associates. Governor Scott again will name former Lieutenant-Governor El mer Long as his legislative liais-l on man come January 1. Walter Fuller, former Franklins County agent who now is admin-' istrative assistant to George Ross, head of the Conservation and Development Department, is on the way out. C 4 D Boss Rpss is hunting a spot to put Fuller on the shelf. He wants to bring in a hand picked assistant that will ge along with all of his ideas. IV'-sr ts a long time friend and supporter of the Governor. Ross also is looking for an in dustrial engineer to replace Paul Kelly in the Division of Com mence and Industry. This man in time would become head of the new "Hospitality Commit-j PROFIT DROP SHOWS NEED FOR HELPING SMALL BUSINESSMAN Here’s why the Truman Ad- I ministration wants to help small business: The staff of the Joint Con gressional Economic Committee reports that profits have declined j tor the smailest-sized companies. On the other hand, big corpora tions—with $100 million or more in assets—are earning the high est' rate! in history on their stockholders’ investments. The staff says: “In the post war boom, when most goods were scarce there was an unlimited market for everyone’s goods.... The small businesses of this country did well. “Their profit rates rose to levels as high or higher than those of the business giants. Vi nen this exceptional period of scarcity came to an end big bus iness was scarcely affected. The earnings rates of the little com panies started downhill.” CORPORATE DIVIDEND PAYMENTS RISE 12% Here's how members of the1 National Assocation of Manufac turers and the .17. S. Chamber of Commerce are “suffering” under the liberal Fair Deal Administra tion in Washington: The Commerce Department July 14 said publicly-reported cash dividend payments of $210 Wl lion by corporations in May were 12 per cent higher than in May, 1049. It further said the March April-May total of $1.5 billion was 9 per cent above the figure for the same period last year. And dividend payments report ed publiely are ■ only about 95 per cent of all such payments. Register — then vote for the men who will guard your frse iom. English Priest Hits Negative Campaign Against Co IIIII les —^ Asheville CLU Greets Japanese Labor Organizer On Tuesday, August 8, a dele* > gation from the Asheville Central Labor Union went to Montreat and greeted Toyohiko Kagawa, 62-year old Japanese Christian leader and great advocate of Or ganised Labor. He arrived at Montreat. Presbyterian assembly grounds, the day before. The ! president of the Central Labor. Union called him by phone and! asked for the privilege of -meet ing him and sending a message to the wrokers of Japan and all of Asia from Organised Labor in Western North Carolina. The genial Japanese minister and la bor leader seemed to be highly pleased, and urged us to meet lum_at Mon treat at 11 o’clock the next morning. The Message After introductions to the Jap anese leader and his associates, the delegation’s message was read and presented to him. Labor's message' was as followa: “The Reverend Toyohiko Kagawa “Montreat, North Carolina “U. S A. “Dear Sir and Brother: •*The Asheville Central Labor Union, chartered by and repre senting the American Federation of Labor in this jurisdiction, feels highly honored and is made very happy because of your presence and your preaching In this beau- , tiful section of our great coun-! try. We esteem you most highly because of your devoted services to the men and women of tabor everywhere your activities of life have taken you. Tour sincere and effective interest in labor of field and factory, mine and mill, and in all useful labor where men and women work for wages, has endeared you to millions of work ers in America and throughout the world. We wish for you many, many more years of active service to God and man. “Upon your return to Japan, and wherever you may go in Asia and on other continents across the seas, please convey to the workers with whom you come j in contact the fraternal greetings of Labor in Asheville, North Car olina. Express, to them, if you J please, our hope and devout. prayer for the progress and peaceful prosperity of the peoples of all nations of the earth; that we wish for them final and ab solute freedom from the dicta torship of ruthless rulers who deny their subjects the enjoyment of any of the fundamental free doms that we workers in Ameri ca enjoy . “We ask you, Sir, to say to the peoples of other Nations that we do not claim that our go^rnment is perfect, but im press upon them the fact that in our way of life here in America, we are privileged to remedy these imperfections, one by one. is peaceful manner. “We desire very much to retain our advancements and increase our security. This we cannot do unless the peoples of all other Nations are made secure. Our problem is world-wide, as you have so forcefully and eloquently asserted many thousands of times. We wish you God-speed In your continued efforts to bring peace to the world and security and freedom to all the peoples of the world.” Fraternally youra, James F. Barrett, President Central Labor Union A. Liston Sams, Secretary Central Labor Union W. H. Webb, Board Member Central. Labor Union Wade A. Elliott, Chairman CLU Board of Trustees Nat Brown, Business Manager Plumbers and Stearaflttera A1 Warren, Busineess Manager IBEW Local Union Policeman’s Legal Union Capt. J. L. Rail. President Fire Fighters Local Union Mrs. Paul AMieen. V. P. Enka Rayon Workers L. U. L. A. Ow^ns, Merchant Honorary Manner CLU A. E. Brown, Organiser American Federation of Labor Oscar Snyder, President A. F. G. E. Lodge No. 802 —Asheville Labor Advocate, September, 1900. SOCIALISM? Note to tho voters of Harry Byrd’s Virginia: Your state received more than 1183 million in aid from the Federal Government dnring the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949. Is that socialism? . — ■"-.Mwi.iM mm ■fgglf"W-W1 1 UAW-AFL Issues Poster • ;■ , ■’5-- . • ‘ ~ T" j Get Rid of These Headaches! Ml V. V. GET OBT THE LABOR VOTt Milwaukee, Win.—Tfce AFL United Ant* Worker* ft»r to all—Ijto rank'and flk participation in tke 1*50 The following: comment in tha Pittsburgh Catholic of June J speaks for itself: “Rev. John C/ Heenan, noted ‘radio-priest' of England, who re cently visited the United States* says he is convinced that Cath olics here are over-concerned with the communism menace. ‘It was almost impossible to hear a speech from any priest or prel ate in which communism waa not the dominant theme,” he asserts. ‘‘Too much Catholic energy is going into this negative cam paign Father Heenan complains, with the result that the teaching of Catholic doctrine and the spread of Catholic social prin ciples suffer. “I may seem strange that an English priest would be less wor ried about communism than American Catholics are, for Eng land is usually pictured to ns si far dovn t^e road to socialism, with communism lurking just around the corn*?. ' - “But apparenty Father Heen an doesn’t feel as many of our American ‘experts’ do, that Eng land’s adoption of 'socialised medicine’ and the nationalisation of certain industries, etc, are reasons for becoming obsessed with the anti-Communist danger. HATE AUTHOR HAS BEEN WRONG BEFOROE When President Roosevelt asked for 50.000 airplanes to be built yearly, who said: “I* have inquired among e*. perts on the subject and it ia M certain as .anything that «t tw not produce 60,000 planes in a year. Why does the President ask for this fantastic number?” Why it was none other than Jeks V Flynn, tig Bate-rneager who wrote “m Reed Ahead” This book is a diatribe being used against literal candidates t» political campaigns all over the country. Between 1041 and 1044, at average of 62.00fr planes were produced. How wrong can Flynn be? BUSINESS MUST PAT ITS SHARE OF WAR Workjng men and women are willing to do everything possible to win the Korean war—if busi ness men put patriotism before profits too. “I have talked to many labor people," Herbert Lehman (D„ N. V ), told the Senate August 28. “I know of no group in America which is more willing to do its part in the war effort than the representatives of labor and the workers. ... “But I thins: that they want to be assured that capital will alto be doing its full share, and that industry and business and commerce willi be doing their full share too. “The working people of thi* nation will not be satisfied unless we have an excess profits tax." U. S. DEBT SHOWS PAY AS-YOU-GO NEEDED Why is the national debt—now' around $255 billion—so big? Be cause we are stiH paying for two World Wars. Paul Douglas (D., 111.) and Joe O’Mahoney <D., Wyo), point ed up this important fact, so often overlooked by many people, in the Senate August 25. Only one third of the cost of the first W’orld War was paid for by taxation. The rest was financed by borrowing. In the second World War, 45 per cent of the cost was paid for by taxation. The other 55 per cent was financed by bor rowing. As any of yOu who have ever bought a house on time know, you pay and pay for the use of the money you borrow. That's w tie United States is doing now. And it will con tinue to pay for years to coma the interest on money borrowed to fight two wars. This time we’ys got to pay as we go. That’s another reason. for an excess profits tax.
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